11-20-25 FULL SHOW - Let's Talk Turkey, And Vote To Make Fentanyl Possession Pay

Let's get into some Thanksgiving talk, we can vote to make fentanyl possession a real crime again, and a former lawmaker gets hit with new felony charges. Plus: What breed is AROD's dog Poppy? The DNA results are in!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
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Speaker 4 (00:26):
Welcome all, Welcome to a Thursday edition of the show.
It is twelve o five and I am your host,
Mandy Connell. And that guy over there in the other
room that's Anthony short times Fredriguez. We can call him
a Rod.

Speaker 5 (00:41):
Hello, Mandy Laurians and him my little paupers b Rod.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Anthony's mom was just in the parking lot picking up Poppy,
who makes an appearance on the blog today. Let's do it.
Let's let's just jump to the blog so we can
get bright to the story about Poppy, which is the
big story of the day. Really find the blog going
to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. There's a
headline in the latest post section that says eleven twenty

(01:07):
twenty five blog let's talk Turkey and vote to make
fentanyl possession pay. Click on that and here are the
headlines you will find within.

Speaker 5 (01:16):
I think you're in.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Office, half American, all with ships and clipmans and say
that's going to press plant today on the blog, we
are one week away from the best holiday. We can
make fentanyl really illegal again, Sonia joke. Jacques Lewis faces
new charges. Now we're all in the trades. An economic
warning sign rich folks buying art. Mayor Mike says women

(01:38):
sucker will be in Denver. Whooping cough is making a comeback.
The bars to racket, claims a victim about the city
inspector pouring bleach into food. What to do with your
stuff when you die? See you Denver? Love some moss.
Gene editing fixes high cholesterol? What makes up poppy? No
automatic water for you? Ge Apply continues to invest in America.

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I seventy has its own webpage. Now the Polar Void
Texas coming to kill us. Hamas is plotting attacks in Europe.
Really what the internet was invented for? A rod talkin' Turkey?
What a crappy beginning. I have no idea what's happening here?
Great tips for young folks on getting rich? Have we
all been raking wrong all these years? Those are the

(02:24):
headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com tech Toe
A winner that's right, Nancy, talk about that seriously. So
A Rod's dog Poppy, who is so cute, and she's
cute to look at, and she also has a very
cute personality. She's a really cute dog, little blonde mutt

(02:48):
with cute, floppy ears, expressive eyes. Yes, and now we
know a golden Well, we don't know anything A Rod does.
Why so you guys have the dog DNA tested. Tell
me about this journey.

Speaker 6 (03:01):
Yes, well, it's a test that's been sitting our utility
closet for hmmm, probably a little over a year since
my mom, thank you got it for us, as I
believe last year's Christmas pressure huh. And we finally were
all sitting on the college we're like, oh, you know,
we should probably do this thing and just get over with.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
So it did take a bit.

Speaker 6 (03:18):
We sent this thing in about two months ago, mind
you again, for those that don't know, so a full
on rescue. She was a foster dog. We took her
in at I don't know, two and a half months old.
She's four now and we've had our guesses. You can't
tell at all what the heck she is. I mean,
she is literally one of the most unique dogs he

(03:38):
doesn't look any She looks like a muppet.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
It's weird.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
She looks like a muppet. She doesn't look like a
real dog.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
An.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yes, she could have been a character on the Muppet
Show and you would have been put her in a
little bow tie and you can see her telling jokes.

Speaker 6 (03:49):
Yeah, you can't tell really whatsoever? What right she possibly
could be? Which makes her so unique. Everyone that comes
across her says what is she? And we go like,
here's our guesses. Well, now we don't have to guess anymore.
We know and it's amazing. And no, we're not gonna
tell you yet, listener, because you're gonna guess.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
So I want you, guys to go to the blog
at mandy'sblog dot com and if you want to make
a guess for what is our prize that we have
to offer Anthony absolutely exactly a hearty Oh that's so
on the money. Good, yeah, well well done. What kind
of we Now? This photograph only shows Poppy's front end.

(04:24):
What does the back end look like? Long tail? Short tail?
Describe that a little.

Speaker 6 (04:27):
Bit stubby littletail. It's about the length of average hand.
I would say, from from top of the middle finger
to the.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
Base of the not a big long waggy tail, just
a little stumpy dear.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
You know.

Speaker 6 (04:38):
In the picture there she is relatively recently groomed. In
that picture, it gets pretty long. I will tell you.
I'll give you a hint. We thought for the longest
time that she was as are the foster family told
us because her mom looks so much like because she
got rescued with her actual mother, right that should we
thought she was a wheaten terrier. Oh, wheaten carrier, which

(05:00):
we go, may we look at wheaten terrier kind of listen,
I'll tell you right now for not wheatened terrier. And shockingly,
I will also tell you not terrier at all, which
really threw us for a for a loop for a second.
We had we had to scroll through like a couple
extra times. We're like zero terrier, zero terrier.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
So there you go.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
So she gets really long hair like a wheaten zero terrier.
That is your hit us, that is your only hit,
zero terrier. Go check it out on the blog, and
then while you're there you could read all of the
other stories that we did today. Because I got a
bunch of stuff on there. It's kind of a big deal. Now,
I love to look at recipes online. I love to
look at recipes. I have a whole bunch of cookbooks,

(05:42):
many of which I've never cooked out of, but I
just like to look at the recipes. I don't know,
it's a thing. What is your hobby, Mandy. My hobby
is reading recipes. That is I mean a lot of
truth to that. So I found this article online and
it caught my eye because it says, here's every single

(06:02):
Thanksgiving recipe you could ever need, all in one place.
That is the title of this article. And I was like, eh,
I'll be the judge of that. Anthony with God is
my witness. Every single Thanksgiving recipe you could ever need
is all in this one single story on the internet.
Like fifteen or twenty different ways to cook turkey, including

(06:25):
how to cook a frozen turkey. I mean it is
like nine different ways to make mashed potatoes. It has
vegetarian food, I mean, there's always that one, and some
of the vegetarian food I am not gonna lie looks
really good.

Speaker 5 (06:42):
It has scalp potatoes on there.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
So I am I'm telling you it this morning when
I don't I don't have time to leisurely scroll in
the morning because I'm getting ready for the show, and
I found my I had to make myself look away,
and I was like, I'm going back to this this
afternoon and looking at everything because it is I've never
seen a more completely in my life. It's amazing. If
you're a recipe nerd, I mean I you know.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Uh So we.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
Have a guest. We have a guest, a guest for
Poppy a Rod. Is she a German dober Wiener bagel bagel?
I love that, a German dober Wiener bagel. We do
have to come up with her actual face, like her
breed name. We got to work on that after we
announce what she actually is. Again, you're looking for four

(07:33):
four main breeds mentioned.

Speaker 5 (07:36):
There are a lot.

Speaker 6 (07:37):
I mean, she's a mutt, so there's a lot of
other percentages of a lot of other random ones, but
the four main ones mentioned.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
Okay, four main ones mentioned. But I want to talk
Turkey a little bit today because obviously Thanksgiving is next week.
I and a Rod will not be here next week,
and we regrete nothing and none of your mean messages
to the Common Spirit Health text line at five six
six nine, oh will change our minds I'm I'm having
a staycation. My mom is coming to visit. I'm super

(08:03):
super excited. Is the dressing you make fishy talking about
the oyster dressing? No, but it does taste like oysters,
which are not fish. They are mollusks.

Speaker 6 (08:13):
By the way, for the upcoming vacations, I need to
give a shout out to John who we met at
the food drive yesterday and Avid, and I mean Avid,
Mandy conn will.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
Show listen the Dubai guy. I don't remember if.

Speaker 6 (08:25):
He was the Dubai guy. John, if you're listening, let
us know if you're the Dubai guy. I really can't remember.
But he did confirm for me because he's originally from Miami,
where we're going to pour it out of him and
spend a whole weekend. And I let him know our
our itinerary. He said, you're doing Miami right. No, yes,
confirmation from my Miami. Miami in Miami, in Miami in.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
I mean trust me and Miami. And that's like when
you go to South Florida and you're like, where do
you live? I live in Miami, mane. That's how they
say it. Miami.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
My I love it.

Speaker 6 (08:51):
Well again, I gotta give a special shout out to
John because not only did he confirm that for me,
but he also was so complimentary of our show, says,
we bring joy, we really inform people, we are entertaining
for people. He was so emphatic about his fandom. So John,
to you, I say, goods are we appreciate you? He

(09:12):
was so cool, such a great great p one listener.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Is she a Dutch schmoosh round?

Speaker 3 (09:19):
What you know?

Speaker 4 (09:21):
We just make it up words?

Speaker 6 (09:24):
Someone said, Irish wolfound yorkey poodle mix. A lot of
people are pretty off. There's been a few inns we've got.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
We've got a couple that are that have you know,
various things. Anyway, to the person who said, how do
you avoid the ads on recipes websites, this is why
I don't. I generally don't go to like blogs side.

Speaker 5 (09:44):
Currently getting an ad as we speak on that recipe website.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
Well, but not all the way down. Some of the
blog sites you can't scroll down without hitting popins from
the side.

Speaker 6 (09:52):
Yeah, there's a reason why, Like on the top, here's
the top one hundred rock songs of all time. Yeah,
there's a reason why one's at the bottom. They want
you to scroll, Yeah, through each and every possible ada.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
They don't even have to do this on this best
thinking Thanksgiving recipes, because I would have done it anyway.
Pumpkin risotto, forget about it, people, was that? Oh do
you know what rosdo is? Ris soto is a kind
of Italian rice. It is so delicious. You use a
boreo rice and you start out you saute some shallots
in a pan with some butter olive oil, and then

(10:24):
you put the rice in there. The aarboreo rice is
like little fat white rice, and you put that in
you toast it for a little bit. And then after
the rice is toasted for a little bit, then you
start adding heated chicken stock to the rice and you
stir and you stir and you stir because stir you're
breaking down the starch in the rice. And it makes
this creamy deliciousness that you throw in some parmesan at

(10:44):
the end.

Speaker 6 (10:45):
Oh, basically, if corn rice and mashed potatoes had a baby.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
What, No, that's what this looks like.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
No, there's not corn rice and mashed potatoes had a baby. No,
creamy and satisfying, savory and with just the rice, Pumpkin
risotto can and should be made and served like they
do in Italy at home cheers anyway, and no.

Speaker 5 (11:07):
Text her she is not parked leg Humber whatsoever.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Ah.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
No, somebody said a web browser called Brave will eliminate
a lot of those pop up ads. Mandy, when your
mom is in town, do you have her listen to
KOA show where the studio or driver by the darntutin
Kayoa tower.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
We do.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
We will drive by the darntutin Koa tower. But no,
I don't trot my mom around the radio station. I
mean she wanted to. That would be fine.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Now.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
Also on the blog today, we've got some kind of
big news, I think, and I'm going to reach out
and get Michael Fields from Advanced Colorado on the show
to talk about this. But Initiative eighty five is going
to be on the ballot because it is. They have
over two hundred thousand signatures on this petition for Initiative

(11:56):
eighty five. And what Initiative eighty five does is what
the legious later legislature should have done already, and that
is make possession of and sale of ventanyl a serious crime.
And I don't care how much Ventyl's in it. I
really don't, and I'm not heartless. I'm not advocating that

(12:16):
we throw everyone in jail because I know that people
who are addicted to drugs don't make good choices. However,
and then an eighty five allows them an out if
they complete drug treatment, they will not have a felony
on their record. So there's an out here. But when
I saw this, I read through it today and I

(12:38):
put a link to the final text of the actual initiative,
and I would really recommend that you read it. But
because it's a citizen's initiative, it was put forth by
Advanced Colorado, but they have collected over two hundred thousand
signatures on this petition. I mean, that's pretty overwhelming for
signature gathering, and it demonstrates that a lot of people

(13:00):
in this state are not only fed up with people
dying of drug overdoses. Our drug overdose rate has gone
down slightly, but compared to other parts around the country,
we've had a tiny drop off. Other places have seen
dramatic drop offs. And one of the things that we

(13:21):
have done is we have allowed people to possess fentanel
and get a ticket and not show up for court
if this drug wasn't so dangerous. And I can't even
believe I'm a small l libertarian in my heart. And
I'm just gonna say this. Libertarianism is like every other ism.

(13:44):
It requires a certain amount of belief in humanity that
is not always well placed. Socialism does it. You know,
Socialism requires that no one's gonna want to hoard power
or possessions or money. And we all know that people
do right and they usually in that kind of system,
claw their way to the top, so then they can
become hoarding people themselves. Even capitalism has people that want

(14:08):
to exploit the system in order to have their own
self personal gains. So why would it be any different.
But we have got to do something when people are
in a position where they are not capable of making
rational decisions. And this is where I get stuck on
my libertarianism because in theory, if you're a pure libertarian,

(14:31):
then your attitude is let people who are out of
their minds on drugs or out of their mind with
mental illness, that's their life, their choice. They can do
what they want to do. They have to live with it,
a pure libertarian would say, and I'm not paying for it, right,
those people would have to suffer the consequences of their actions.
In our society now, addicts do not have to suffer

(14:52):
the consequences of their of their actions in the most
fundamental way, which is getting to a point where they
can no longer meet their own needs and they starve
to death or they die of an overdose. I mean,
it's terrible ends for people with that kind of addiction.
But we give people money, We have organizations that feed
them and clothe them and house them and protect them

(15:15):
from the worst aspects of the consequences of their addiction. Now,
I'm not saying there's not some humanity in that, right.
I mean that there's You can understand why someone would
say I don't think someone deserves to die that way.
I get it. But then here's the small libertarian to
me that goes, wait a minute, how can we assign

(15:35):
rights or recognize the rights of someone who is so
detached from reality because of addiction or mental illness that
they can't even understand the basic fundamentals of how to
protect themselves and how to care for themselves. I mean,
there's there's a disconnect there, And this is something I've
struggled with for a really long time. So it's it's

(15:58):
I don't know, but we've got to pass this initiative.
We've got to pass this initiative because Democrats are finally
realizing that being soft on crime is not helping them.
And I gotta tell you, guys, who's gonna come out
and say the arguments against this so far, so far
are coming from the criminal justice advocates, I mean, the

(16:22):
criminal justice reform advocates. One thing I know about criminal
justice reform advocates is that they are our big advocates
on restrictions on other people, but less restrictions on the
people who actually commit the crimes. So we've got to
pass this to send a message to the legislature because

(16:42):
the Democrats have finally realized, Wow, people really want to
feel safe.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
They really do.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
They don't want to be scared to walk in their downtown.
And so I think now's the time, because what are
Democrats gonna come out and demagogue against this for what reasons?
One thing they're gonna say is, you know what, addicts
who may not be in the best position to, you know,
make good choices are going to get caught with Fenconel
And then they're going to get a felony. Well, they're

(17:08):
not going to get a felony if they go to
drug treatment. And this morning I spent a solid like
forty five minutes looking at studies about the efficacy of
forced or mandated drug treatment versus the efficacy of voluntary treatment.
There is a study for everything on this, and I

(17:29):
read studies that said there's no you know, no correlations.
It is always better when it's voluntary. And then I
have studies that were a little clearer in the terms
of what they were looking for as to a definition
of success, and that is continued sobriety. You know, you
can look at finishing the program as a benchmark, but

(17:50):
if they don't stay sober after that, how effective was it.
So when you look at studies about people who remain
sober and in the criminal justice arena, people who committed
other mandated drug treatment was very effective at reducing recidivism,
and it was very successful in terms of completion. The

(18:10):
big caveat here is that you have to have programs
that allow people to be housed in the program for
a longer period of time. You can't do a thirty
day program and think it's going to stick. So we've
got a lot of data out there. Well, we've got
to send a message to the legislature stop making crime
easy in Colorado and let's get serious and do something

(18:35):
about addiction, or we're never going to have a vibrant
city again, no matter how bond, how many bonds we pass.
What fall breeds are the predominant breeds in a Rod's
newly DNA tested dog, Poppy. You can find her photograph
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. She's super cute.

Speaker 5 (18:53):
That time we find out four years later.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
Yeah, a lot of people are texting with like, you'll
have one of the four dogs. Yes, but we don't
want to tell you that you have one of the
four dogs because we're afraid you're all talk and then
figure it out.

Speaker 5 (19:04):
You know what We're gonna, We're gonna, We're gonna do
this right now. I'm gonna.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
I'm gonna should we wait a minute, should we be
at the top at one o'clock?

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Breed?

Speaker 6 (19:10):
I don't even do this now. I come up with
a really good prize. Actually, okay, for our next tournament
of the day. If you guessed all four breeds, you
are one of our three contestants.

Speaker 4 (19:19):
Oh gosh, that's that's a tall order and I would
have never guessed all four breeds.

Speaker 6 (19:23):
We'll be watching just never no if you do, I'm watching.
We're watching the text line, and we're going to announce
today right before of the day. Have I forty five
to day. If you are the first person to guess
all four breeds of my dog, you are locked in
as one of our contestants for our next tournament of
the day in person, all right, which that will then
be probably for a prize TVD.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
But you can email a ride at iheardmedia dot com
with your guests for popping hoopy in the subject line.
Please you can do that right now. So I want
to I just saw something on X and oh dagnabit,
I went away and it went away one moment. The governor,

(20:04):
our governor, you know, Chared Polis. I want to play
this because I read the audio. But he's got a
big plan on automobile insurance and I'm kind of interested
to hear what he has to say. But based on
what I'm seeing, I want to see if you guys
knowe what's missing from this announcement about auto insurance costs.

(20:26):
Just listen and let's see the governor has to say.

Speaker 7 (20:32):
He says, has been hail damage the last decade, and
that's really, unfortunately, rocketed us to the fifth most expensive
state for automobile insurance.

Speaker 8 (20:40):
The average Coloradan is saying, I just want to stop
right there.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
He is correct that hail damage is a huge problem.
It's a huge problem with property insurance. It's one of
the reasons that our homeowners insurance rates have gone up
so high. But do you know what he did not
mention that being number one in the country in auto
theft has been a huge reason that our auto insurance
bills have gone up. And then coupled with the fact

(21:06):
that twenty percent of drivers in Colorado don't have auto insurance,
so we got a bunch of uninsured motorists out there.
I mean, but I'll just okay, let's hear the plan.
I'll just it's gotta be good. Because he made a.

Speaker 8 (21:19):
Video into eight hundred and one dollars for a year
of full auto coverage, which bankrate dot Com says is
thirty percent higher than the national average. Governor Jared Poulis
says that's not acceptable.

Speaker 7 (21:31):
I'd love to see us in the lower half estates
because Obviously, your insurance is also relative to the value
of your automobile.

Speaker 8 (21:37):
In so he came up with a roadmap to reduce
auto insurance premiums. He says, the key to tackling the
high costs is reducing car crashes and damage.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
So just let me clarify. The key to bringing insurance
rates down is not to get in car accidents. Got it.
The more we can do to reduce haildown much sure,
reduce collision damage? How do you even reduce hail damage?

Speaker 1 (22:04):
What do we all? Just?

Speaker 4 (22:05):
Are you going to put garages over every road? I
don't even know this. Are you planning to control mother nature?
I'll let him continue. It's safe driving, including through physical
improvements that we're making in the roads, physical improvements making
where where? Where's that happening? The physical improvements being made
in the roads? Anyone anyone's seen that out on the roads. Uh,

(22:27):
the more rates will come down for everybody, no matter.
So wait a minute. So what he's saying is his
plan to lower insurance includes everybody learning how to drive
properly and then executing on that, and then stopping the
hail and then when we do get into an accident,

(22:48):
we're not going to do a lot of damage these
Is it April Fool's Day today? I mean, I feel
like I feel like somebody's pulling a fast one here.
Check no, no, wait, it's not even over there. Three
more seconds or how much your pain or what your
risk factors are one of the biggest uh huh, yeah,
that is that's just not what.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Is this?

Speaker 4 (23:12):
Honestly, what passes for a plan?

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Now?

Speaker 4 (23:14):
Is this what is I'm truly I am actually impressed.
I'm impressed. I'm impressed that the governor believes that the
electorate of Colorado is so incredibly stupid that they will
just go yeah, yeah, that's a plan. That sounds fantastic,

(23:38):
that's excellent. So wow, Okay, so that's the thing that's
not even on the blog today. I just thought i'd
throw that out there. Part of the initiative, This is
from a related Fox twenty one news story. Part of
the initiative involves cracking down on auto theft. Huh, auto theft.

(23:59):
The plan supports prosecutors and pursuing auto theft crimes and
increases criminal penalties to deter such activities. Additionally, the state's
Division of Insurance is launching an auto insurance toolkit to
help presidents compare options, find savings, and better understand their coverage.
Oh okay, he's gonna improve road safety as well and

(24:19):
addressing factors like hail damage and auto I mean auto theft. Yes,
you put teeth in your auto theft laws like Aurora did,
and auto theft goes down. I am baffled that this
is what passes for a plan and now, but you
know what it is now when he's out on the
campaign trail doing whatever he's gonna be, I have a plan.
I've got a plan on the website. Knowing that none

(24:40):
of the people he's talking to are gonna go to
the website and look at the actual plan. None of
them are gonna go do it. I this guy is
such a consummant politician. He's so good at the art
of politicking. I am I sit in amazement at his abilities.
I still believe there's a really good chance that Jared

(25:00):
Poulis is going to end up president someday because he
checks so many of the boxes. What remains to be
seen is if he's Here's my theory on what's happening.
I have a whole theory about how Jared Polis's presidential
campaign is going to roll out right now. He's watching
Gavin Newsom, because Gavin Newsom has installed himself as the

(25:21):
front runner. And I got to tell you, guys, Democratic voters,
they would love another charismatic, good looking guy sort of
along the same vein as Bill Clinton to vote for.
He's from California, so there's a certain panache. He has
a lot of deep pockets when it comes to fundraising.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Right.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
I think Jared Polis is sizing this up and he's
waiting because the front runner in the beginning never wins. Ever,
they never win, so he's just letting him setting him up.
Here you go, Gavin, here's the front runner, and then
Jared Polis is just waiting. Now, if they size things
up and it looks like Michael Bennett is going to

(25:59):
win the governor's race, then perhaps we could be talking
about Senator Jared Polis. So at that point, by the
time he ran for president again, he would have a governorship,
he be a member of Congress, he'd be a member
of the Senate, and then he would probably run for
president as an outsider businessman, which would be you know,
hilarious based on what I just said, but this is
my prediction. He's gonna run as an openly gay man

(26:22):
with a with a family. He's just like you. It is.
I'm telling you everything he does is looking forward at
that race. Every decision being made, every green energy clap
trap nonsense being forced upon us is so Jared Polis
can run for president. It's really and it's gonna work.

(26:43):
That's the thing. Look, we're all gonna see it. And
when it works, you guys are gonna go. You know
what member pack in twenty twenty five when Mandy said
this was what was gonna happen. Yeah, tell your friends
how smart I am. We'll be right back. An article
with the best Thanksgiving recipes you ever wanted, all in
one page, and I'm just gonna bring you a little sip.
I am making no money from this, but how good

(27:04):
does baked feta with honey sound? Baked feta cheese top
with fig jam and honey, glaize, pecans, yum, gloss, social good.
Arod's making a face.

Speaker 5 (27:15):
Eh, Eh, I'm a minimalist.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
I am okay with you not loving the things that
I think sound delicious.

Speaker 5 (27:23):
I mean, I keep trying. We're gonna We're gonna find
something on this list that I like a ue.

Speaker 4 (27:27):
We get a lot of people guessing what a Rod's
dog Poppy is they just had a DNA test. Many
are getting close, sir, but still not getting it right.
We already gave away that there is no terrier getting Poppy,
So go to the mandy'sblog dot com, look at Poppy
and send your guests our way. And nobody's gotten it.

Speaker 6 (27:46):
I will give because people aren't getting close. Because again,
the first person to guess the four breeds will get
to complay Tournament of the Day. I will tell everyone
you can have multiple chances. There is one breed of
the four no one has.

Speaker 4 (27:59):
Mentioned, Well, there's one breathe of four because you're looking
at the wrong end of the dog. Is that the
breed that we're talking about?

Speaker 3 (28:04):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (28:04):
Maybe yeah, because that's what I was trying to say,
without seeing the back of the dog. No one's going
to get that last one. Are you going to give
that one out?

Speaker 3 (28:12):
No?

Speaker 6 (28:12):
Okay, no, because I think the rest of her can
kind of maybe look like that one without the back end.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
Okay, we'll see that's called a Hynes. But no terrier,
none Poppy at all. None, shocking, Mandy. I once heard
Jared Polis respond to questions about his future as a
proposed presidential candidate. He dismissed it with something along the
lines of a gauge you are you kidding? And that
was before the new resurgence of anti Semitism, not a chance.

(28:40):
There is a lot of truth in that right now,
And I'm sad to say that should not be a
disqualifying factor for anyone. I mean, his policies should be
the disqualifying factor for Jared Polis. Hey, Mandy, did you
hear that Governor DeSantis in Florida is trying to get
rid of property taxes for Florida homeowners do not apply

(29:00):
to people who own rentals, just permanent homes. Cool, right,
you guys. I you know I'm all for lower taxes,
and I hate property taxes. I want property taxes to
be as low as humanly possible. But Florida is taking
on more and more debt in an effort to show
how they can get rid of all these taxes. And
the debt worries me as much as everything else. So

(29:22):
if they're not willing to cut spending to make that happen,
and Florida runs a pretty lean budget for the size
of the state and the population. I have concerns about that.
I mean, I trust me. I'm for the lowest taxes ever,
but if you want a lower taxes, you better lower spending.
And I haven't seen a good plan for that. Just saying, Mandy,
can you give a quick opinion on Victor Marx for governor?

(29:44):
I cannot. I know very little about Victor Marx. I've
seen the videos. I have questions. We have reached out,
Ay Ride, you sent an email to Victor Marx's campaign people,
so we've reached out to have him on the show,
and at that point I'll have a better idea of
what to tell you about Victor Marx. I know very
little about the man. I know that people who are

(30:05):
supporting him are passionate about him. But I'm gonna be
perfectly honest you guys. I do not think a person
who leads with their faith in any way, shape or
form is electable in this state statewide. I might be wrong.

Speaker 5 (30:23):
I would love to be wrong.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
As a matter of fact, nothing would be happier than
to be wrong about that. But we are one of
the most secular states in the nation. We have some
of the lowest levels of church attendants, you know, things
like that. And I worry about that because I would
love to say we just put out the best candidate
and then people are gonna see it. But they don't.

(30:45):
This state hates Donald Trump with every fiber of its being,
unless you're Republican. They do not like the man. And
we already have this kind of uphill battle that has
nothing to do with a candidate, right, I mean, thing
to do with the Canada is running. Could be Barb Kirkmyer,
could be Victor Marx, could be Scott Bonhams, could be
a multitude of people. But they're already fighting a losing

(31:08):
battle in this state. So it's like, we have to
look at what is going to create more roadblocks for
people to come along now Again, people that I respect
a ton are super enthusiastic Victor Marx supporters, But I
just don't have enough information to determine how I feel

(31:30):
about Victor Marx. I will will We'll find out when
we when we have them on the show. Hopefully that
will be very very soon. Mandy. No tax on commercial
real estate leases right now in Florida down from six
percent to five point five to two percent to zero
on October twenty fifth. No, Poppy is not a great

(31:50):
Pyrenees Schnauzer poodle. No, she's small, very small.

Speaker 5 (31:57):
And No, Poppy is not that mix of the two dogs,
the bulldog the other one.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
No.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
No, I was waiting for that comments. And I appreciate it.
That's hilarious.

Speaker 4 (32:05):
Richard Marks for governor. Awesome. No, that's not at all
who we're talking about at all. We're talking never mind
when we get back remember former state Senator Sonya Jacques Lewis.
She is back in the news. And I love it,
absolutely love it when you get to see carmen action

(32:27):
and we are seeing an unfold.

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Speaker 4 (32:37):
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Speaker 4 (32:46):
Say the nice many donald keeping No sad bab Welcome, Welcome,
Welcome to the second hour of the show. I'm your host,
Mandy Connall. That guy over there, he's Anthony Rodriguez, and
today will take you right up until three o'clock when
we ham the reins of the station over to KOA

(33:08):
Sports and hope they don't break it now in the meantime,
do you guys remember Oh, first of all, we got
to say we've got more guesses on what is Poppy.
Poppy of course being a Rod's adorable little dog and
some of you guys are so cute. Poppy is part
copper dog, lab pitbull and good girl. You got one

(33:28):
of them, right, you did, good girl?

Speaker 5 (33:31):
Just one? Yeah.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
Sanya Jaquez Lewis used to be a state senator from
District seventeen, and I thank you to the texture reason
Sonya Hakez Lewis. But I'm white, so I will say Joquez, Okay,
I'm a honky. I don't speak of the Espanol, no

(33:55):
hobbley Espaniol from me. I know how to say I
don't speak multiple languages. You know, I'm very talented at
telling you I don't speak your language in your language,
which I realize is a bit of an oxymoron. So
I want to get back to Sonia Jacques Lewis. She

(34:17):
was facing accusations that she was a horrible person and
a terrible boss. She was accused of just really gnarly behavior,
and as a result of that, she was forced to
resign from the state Senate facing an ethics investigation. Well,
now it's gone one step further. She had already been

(34:40):
charged with attempting to influence a public servant for allegedly
misleading five of her then legislative colleagues earlier this year. However,
last week, prosecutors from the Denver District Attorney's office added
the new charges.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
What did she do?

Speaker 4 (34:57):
She submitted letters from former employees that were allegedly there
to vouch for her high character and they were all fake.
So now she faces felony charges of forgery. Each carries
the potential for one to three years in prison. The

(35:17):
influenced charge carries a maximum of six years. So that
is fascinating. And when I say, you get to see
karma in real time. Whenever I hear stuff like this,
you hear somebody just being a I I can't stand
people who are just lousy, mean bosses, and it feels

(35:39):
like it's just for the sake of being a lousy,
mean boss when there's no reason to be a lousy
mean boss. I mean, is there ever really a reason
to be a lousy mean boss? Now that I said that,
I'm like, I don't think there's I don't think you
could make the argument that there's really every an excuse
to be a lousy, mean boss. But there are people
that just seem to go through life that way, and
she apparently was one of them. But the cover up

(36:03):
is always worse than the crime. This is the part
that makes it so great. When do you think politicians
will ever ever learn that if you just step up
cop to it, hopefully you can survive it. But when
you engage in an elaborate cover up where you're actually
committing a crime, committing a crime, you've gone too far.

(36:25):
And now she could go to prison. Although I'll believe
it when I see it, I just I don't believe
political people go to prison. Mandy, I think you're a
cracker or another honky. I am, thank you, I'm a
cracker American JK. I'm not really psa Mandy and a Rod.
As soon as the show is over, you got to

(36:45):
get to your local grocery proprietor and pick up fudge
covered ritz crackers. You'll thank me after your mouth has
an orgasm. Where are you on ritz crackers? A Rod?

Speaker 5 (36:55):
I feel them?

Speaker 4 (36:56):
Well, I mean, who doesn't. What's not to love about
ritz crackers? I don't know if I need them dipped
in chocolate, unless it's a.

Speaker 6 (37:02):
Dark chocolate cheese or peanut butter. Yes, and yes also
yes are good for both. But which do you prefer?

Speaker 4 (37:12):
It depends on my mood. Like, am I just having
a little snacky snack before I go to bed? That's
peanut butter? But am I am I having, like, you know,
a little a heartier snack during the day, that's cheese
and crackers. I'm just saying it's situation.

Speaker 5 (37:26):
You are odd.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
Sometimes I just eat the crackers plane a lot of
the times. Most of the time. Uh oh, hey, Rod,
We've got a few guesses here. Okay, Poppy is Corgi,
chow beagle, Pomeranian.

Speaker 6 (37:42):
Okay, still haven't gotten all four in one person. No, no, no,
but no, but I believe all four have now been guessed.
I've now been mentioned separate answers. Poppy is adorbs.

Speaker 4 (37:57):
Let's see here. My guess is a border Collie poodle
and have an ease. I like the introduction of the
have anes. That's a bold choice. No pitbull, old English
sheep dog in Shihua wat No, No, Mandy, do you
really want to see Jared Polis lose if he runs
for president. Why personal We don't live in a bad place,

(38:18):
do we. We live in one of the best places
in the world when we've had both Democratic and Republican leadership.
And as far as his business skills go, at least,
he's somewhat honest, not like that crook in the White
House who filed a business bankruptcy six times in twenty
five years. Honestly, that's almost incredible. But the apple doesn't
fall far from the tree, right, He's just like his
father and just like Roy Kahan, I mean code Okay,

(38:42):
I have no personal animis towards Jared Polis. When I
say I look at I actually admire the naked political
acumen that Jared Polis embodies. I also am impressed by
his business acumen. But just like John Kerry, just like

(39:03):
Ted Cruz. Okay, I have an instinctive dislike for people
that early on mapped out their plans so they could
be president. John Kerry taking video of himself storming a
beach in Vietnam, it was completely faked. Why do you
think he did that? Ted Cruz has been gunning to

(39:24):
be president since he first burst on the national scene,
and I inherently distrust those people, and Jared Polis is
one of them. Not to mention I think his policies
are bad. I just think his policies in Colorado are terrible,
not the least of which I had a story on
the blog yesterday from Complete Colorado. They did an analysis

(39:45):
of the scheduled closure of our our reliable power plants
in Colorado because we're gonna shut down all of the
reliable power plants, most of them, not all of them.
The ones that run on coal, the ones that run
on natural we're gonna shut them all down. We're gonna
replace them when renewables, which don't work a lot of
the done.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
So.

Speaker 4 (40:08):
Jared Polus is pushing a green agenda not because it's
going to be good for us, because it is absolutely,
one hundred percent going to jack up our power prices
incredibly And we don't even have to speculate about this,
because this is what's happened in every country that's tried
to go net zero. Look at Germany's power rates compared
to the rest of Europe, and then look at Europe's

(40:29):
power rates compared to ours. Ours are incredibly low because
we have incredible resources here and Jared Polis wants to
put all of those incredible resources to the wayside and
force us to rely on energy production, which is not reliable.
His policies are bad, not all of them, I mean,

(40:50):
not all of them are bad. But for me, it's
those two things. I inherently distrust anyone who is nakedly
ambitious when it comes to trying to be president. Hillary Clinton,
same thing, absolutely turned off. So I you know, this
is why I don't want another Bush. There's another Bush

(41:10):
by the way. He's gonna be running for governor in Maine.
He just launched his campaign there. I don't even know
his name, somebody Bush. I don't want any more Obama's.
I don't want any more Clinton's. I don't want any
more dynasty politician family crap on either side of the aisle.
I don't want any more of that none. Mandy Tune

(41:31):
a packet on ritz best backpacking lunch. Yeah yeah, she
rits cheese and barbecue sauce. What hmm? Anyway, fascinating Mandy.

(41:51):
I own a copper dog and he has six different breeds.

Speaker 5 (41:55):
What is a dog?

Speaker 4 (41:57):
I don't know. Maybe it's just cobble together.

Speaker 5 (42:00):
Oh cute.

Speaker 4 (42:02):
I've never heard of that Australian cobber dog.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
Is it cute?

Speaker 6 (42:06):
Very very cute? Oh my goodness, there you go. You
gotta have to look this one up. That is adorable dog.

Speaker 4 (42:13):
Has anybody noticed the King's supersad that's been running this
morning is advertising Christmas. It states that in five days
you'll be setting a perfect table for Christmas, not Thanksgiving. Well,
that sounds like an error. I'm gonna have somebody to
look into that. Thank you. I didn't hear the commercial
or I would have done something about it. Ha Mandy.
The text who said we don't live in such a
bad place must be independently wealthy. That is the other

(42:37):
part of this whole thing. Jared Pulue governs like a
man with a ton of money, and he talks about,
you know, making things more affordable. But when Democrats talking
about making things more affordable, what they're talking about is
taking money away from people that they view as quote
having it and giving it to those at the other
end of the financial spectrum. And then they want thanks

(43:00):
for that, like, oh, look, we're gonna make it more
affordable by giving you someone else's money. I just I
don't trust it, Mandy, Please don't say police and naked
in the same sentence. Y did I do that? Please? Naked?

Speaker 1 (43:14):
What?

Speaker 4 (43:16):
How about how Jared Polus treated us during COVID, threatening
and yelling at us, telling us the Grim Reaper would
get us for not wearing a damn mask. Screw him? Yeah,
he leaned into that hard the Wember we were wear
the damn mask. Mandy, did you hear about California's new
child booster seat law for children the States? Children eight

(43:38):
to sixteen may have to sit in a child's booster seat.
What that is insane? That's nuts. I mean, that's just dumb.

Speaker 6 (43:52):
What is that for?

Speaker 4 (43:53):
Like small children? What about tiny adults? What if you're
a woman who's five to one you should have to
sit in a car two? That's just ridiculous, completely ridiculous.
Good lord, people, what are we doing? All right? I
got a bunch of stuff on the blogs that I
want to get to. This is very interesting to me,
and it's something I noticed during the two thousand and

(44:15):
eight and two thousand and nine recession. So we were
in deep recession. Mandy Cromwell for President twenty twenty eight.
I'm busy, okay, So when we were in deepercession, in
two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine, I
started noticing stories about record sales in the art world,
and I started looking around, and I actually interviewed an

(44:38):
art dealer in New York, this very pretentious man who
was unintentionally hilarious on my radio show because he was
so he was like a caricature of what you would
think a pretentious art guy from New York would be like.
But we had a very interesting conversation, and he said, look,
when the economy is in a shambles, when there's a
lot of uncertainty in the market, very very very rich

(44:59):
peace And I'm talking your billionaire level people, the people
that fly beneath the radar, right, the people that unless
you are also a billionaire, they don't even know they're billionaires.
They start buying art, and they're not buying like new
emerging artists. They're not buying mid level stuff that market
dries up. It just absolutely dries up. They're buying the masters.

(45:22):
They're buying pieces that everyone is familiar with, from artists
that everyone is familiar with. And this past week, we've
had two stories that caught my eye. One of them
is of Austrian artists Gustav Klimped. I must say I
don't love Gustav Klimpt.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
I've been to the.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
Gustav Klimpt Museum in Austria and I've seen some of
his most famous works, and I don't love his art.
But someone does, because this week, a portrait by the
Austrian artist Gustav klim was sold for two hundred and
thirty six point four million dollars, making it the second

(46:07):
most expensive piece ever sold at auction. Six people took
place in a twenty minute bidding battle for the portrait
of Elizabeth Later, painted between nineteen fourteen and nineteen sixteen.
This is one of the paintings that was looted by
the Nazis. It was recovered later and now it's been sold.

(46:31):
The other story is there's a free to Kalo self
portrait going to auction this week and it is expected
to blow through all records of a painting sold by
a woman or painted by a woman. It's expected now
to go between forty and sixty million. But the Gustaf
the Gustav painting was supposed to sell for one hundred

(46:54):
and fifty million, and it went up to two sixty three.
So what what do I'm seeing about the economy. So
super rich people, when they're looking for a haven, they
will buy art because art doesn't lose value. You may
not be able to sell it at that moment for

(47:16):
what you bought it for, but if you hang on
to it, there's always going to be someone looking to
buy something that no one else can have. When you
reach a certain point of rich And this is something
that the a very snooty art dealer told me. He said,
when you reach what I can't remember the exact phrasing,
but it was something like, when you reach a certain
level of financial security. Yeah, basically like when you're so

(47:40):
rich you can buy and sell anything you want. Then
it becomes like a little what what can no one
else have? Sort of thing? And artwork is that it is.
It is Once this man paid for this painting, no
one else can have it, and when the markets are uncertain,
it's even better. He said, It's an even better hedge

(48:02):
than gold. So super rich people are buying art at
very very high levels. So it's just it's a fascinating thing.
And now watch there will be a few more stories.
There will be stories that pop up over the next
few weeks of other pieces that are being sold, and
they're going to be sold for exorbitant prices, and that
should make us worry about the economy. You know, there

(48:24):
was good jobs news today, one hundred and nineteen thousand
jobs created. Economists were predicting a little over fifty thousand,
But I am skeptical of jobs numbers right now. So
there's two ways to get jobs numbers. One is from
the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which I believe the BLS
has been corrupted for a long, long long time, and

(48:47):
I'm not at all certain that it's not still corrupted.
Corrupted meaning it is it is creating numbers and putting
out numbers designed to look the make an administration look good.
But the ADP numbers. The the ADP is of course
a large payroll company. I wonder what percentage of the
overall payroll market ADP has, but it's significant. And they

(49:08):
actually use the data of onboarding new jobs, right of
onboarding new people, of how many people are in their
payroll system. So those are that's actually hard data. But
it may not capture mom and pop businesses and things
of that nature. People that have smaller companies that are
not necessarily using an ADP to do their payroll. So

(49:30):
it is it's very very interesting. We shall see, we
shall see which is more accurate. I asked Chad Gpt
today to do an analysis for me, to create a
table for me of the ADP job numbers versus the
BLS numbers, and then I said, and add a column
for revisions, because you may remember in June of this year,

(49:54):
maybe I don't know if it was May or June,
the BLS did a massive revision downward for the prior
twelve months and basically said nine hundred thousand jobs that
we told you were created do not exist. So it's
a very interesting time. It's I've been waiting for a recession,
honestly for five years, and I've been wrong every year
and really happy about being wrong. Super happy. Oh great,

(50:16):
I was wrong again. Fantastic. But there's so many things
that are running a little too hot. The only thing
that gives me any kind of hope is I have
a story today on the blog about ge appliances. But
here's a fun fact. When I worked for Whas in
louis Oo, Kentucky, our offices at the time were in

(50:39):
an old ge appliance factory, complete with an auditorium where
back in the nineteen fifties Beautiful Housewives would demonstrate how
to use these new appliances for the showroom menu. We're
going to go out and sell them to families across
the country. Well Ge had offshore a lot of stuff
and a lot of jobs and a lot of manufacture

(51:00):
to China, and they have been bringing it back, not
just because of the tariffs. They started bringing it back
before that, but they have accelerated the amount of stuff
is that they are buying from American companies. They're unshoring
a lot of stuff. And one of the things I
worry about for the midterms is that the economy is

(51:22):
not going to have improved enough to make people feel it,
to make people really feel and really get relief from
some of the worst parts of our economy. I'm worried
about that. So when I read stories like that, I'm thinking, Okay,
we're in a very perilous situation. I feel like it
could go either way. I mean, I know which way.
I hope it goes the best way. Mandy, there was

(51:44):
technically a recession in the Biden administration, two negative quarters
of growth and road, but they just decided to redefine
what a recession is. You are correct, Freda Hollow again,
I am gringo. Okay, el gringo, mandylurian gringo. I am

(52:06):
chief gringo. So however I destroy how other things are pronounced.
My apologies to miss Hallow. That's not any better. I
don't know why you people try to correct me. Poppy
looks like a mix between a Schnauzer poodle, Labrador retriever
and Australian shepherd.

Speaker 5 (52:25):
Solid guesses, yep, I'm wrong.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
Not only do the ultra rich by expensive paint things,
they store them in tax free warehouses in Switzerland. You know,
when you're talking about one of the Masters, most of
the time they're going in somebody's office. That was what
the art dealer said. He said, Look, if people are
buying a Master's, they're going to have somebody come in,
They're going to build a museum security system, and they're
going to hang that in their office. Because what's the

(52:49):
point in owning a painting if you can't lord it
over everyone else? Guess what a Rod's dog Poppy is
made of. We've got a lot of you still guessing
terriers of some kind h terrier If you want to
get in on this, you can go to mandy'slog dot
com and scroll down and see the cute little face
that you'll see. That's Poppy. She's really cute, super cute, and.

Speaker 6 (53:10):
We will announce it and then a little over an
hour at two forty five, should we give one.

Speaker 5 (53:14):
Of the four to help people out?

Speaker 4 (53:15):
Right? Not the one that is the most least guest,
I want that the one to stay. Okay, mission, I mean,
do you want to give like what I think is
really probably the most obvious after you know it, uh huh.
And that's the one where she gets her snout, the
one that's the pure part.

Speaker 5 (53:32):
Sure we can give that one away.

Speaker 4 (53:33):
Okay. I think that she is part Golden Retriever, but
it was a purebred Golden Retriever that mixed in there.

Speaker 5 (53:41):
That is one of the four.

Speaker 4 (53:43):
A lot of you are saying Labrador Retriever, it's Golden Retriever,
so you're very very close.

Speaker 6 (53:48):
Yes, and Golden Retriever while a lower percentage of her
DNA is actually yes, like Mandy said.

Speaker 4 (53:53):
The only pure bread breed in there. The other three
are in there.

Speaker 6 (53:58):
For sure, they're money, but they're a little uddy Golden
Retriever is the most pure lower percentage, but the most pure,
which is really cool.

Speaker 4 (54:05):
Yep. Anyway, on that line, there's other three.

Speaker 5 (54:08):
Along with Golden Retriever.

Speaker 6 (54:09):
Still, the first person to guess it will be one
of our contestants for our next Tournament of the Day.

Speaker 4 (54:13):
I also on the blog today, have a link to
the best recipe site I have ever seen for Thanksgiving.
Every thing you could possibly want for Thanksgiving is on
this recipe. How about this? I know a Rod's gonna
be like when I tell him this one shaved Brussels
sprout salad with apples, hazel nuts and brown butter dressing.
I'm I'm making that barf, a'making lie. That sounds freaking delicious. God,

(54:37):
it's I'm telling you. Brown butter vinigrette. Yes, please, Apples,
hazel nuts, Yes, it's happening. Poppy is not an e walk,
but thank you for that. Guest. On the Common Spirit Helps,
text line five six six nine zero is the text
line if you want to participate. Mayor Mike Johnston says
it'll be over his dead body that sum at FCS

(54:59):
Soccer Stadium will be built in another place. Now, if
you've not been following this saga, the professional women's soccer
team that is coming to Denver, which is very exciting,
And I don't want my sort of snarkiness about this
situation to come off as not being excited for those
of you who love soccer. This is a big deal
for me. You know, I like it for you. How

(55:20):
about that I love it for you. But nonetheless, the
city of Denver initially had made a pretty big commitment
to build a new stadium in the Santa Fe Yards
old railroad yards that have just been sitting there vacant.
It's pretty nice real estate, so the city was supposed
to buy the land. The city is going to invest

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about seventy million dollars or that's what they had committed
to until a zoning change allowing the stadium to be
built was passed no problem. After the rezoning cleared, the
committee council members postponed four major bills that were tied
to the actual financing and infrastructure, including the stadium property

(56:07):
agreement in multiple intergovernmental agreements. All are connected to how
the city stalled on a vote regarding the release of
public funds for this project, and they're valid questions being
asked by the City Council. I want to be clear,
I'm not mad at the city council for this at all.
They have valid questions, but I have to say the
FC Summit Football Club played it perfectly when they announced

(56:31):
that due to challenges with the Denver City Council, they
were looking outside the metro, well not the metro, but
outside the city limits to perhaps other potential locations for
their soccer stadium. Because their point is like, look, we
got to start playing there in twenty twenty seven, basically
like we got to get a crack, and we don't
have any time to waste here. So Mayor Miike Johnston

(56:56):
has come out swinging over my dead body. Well, I
let the Broncos Stadium leave Denver, over my dead body,
am I gonna let the Summit Stadium leave Denver. We
want that site to be here. We want to see
both of these be successful. We think the city is
hungry for both, and we think we can deliver both.

(57:21):
So I mean, if that moves things along, good for
Summit FC.

Speaker 6 (57:27):
Good for you.

Speaker 4 (57:27):
Get in your little stadium built. It's gonna be a
nice stadium, though.

Speaker 2 (57:32):
Not too big.

Speaker 4 (57:33):
Might be a good I might I might go back
on my no more stadium shows. If this stadium was
the stadium that was being played in you know what
I mean. I'm done with shows in in in Mile
High Stadium. It would have to be something super special,

(57:54):
super super special to make me go back to a
stadium show. It's just too many people, it's too far away,
there's too many places where the sound sucks. I know,
I'm old, I get it. I don't need your judgment
on that too. Mandy could have sworn that we just
built a new soccer stadium in Commerce City not that
long ago. But that's for dude's soccer. Okay, we're talking

(58:16):
about chick soccer now. The dudes have been taken care
of and now the chicks want their own stuff. So
way it goes. Mandy, Do I win Golden Retriever lab
Jack Russell Terrier Rhodesian ridgeback on my way back from
the car, No, you did not. Yeah, a lot of
people coming in still with whait and terriers. No terrier none,

(58:39):
no terrier none terrier.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
Man.

Speaker 4 (58:43):
I hate to circle back on the other day, but
what was the name of the skincare line you use
and where do you purchase it? Thank you from an
old lady that wants to feel beautiful. It is from
a company called Freyer Organics f r y A Freuer
Organics and buy the Mature Skin four pack. If you subscribe,

(59:04):
it's one hundred and nineteen dollars and that sounds like
a lot of money. But y'all, I am still using
the first set of products that I bought in September,
and now I've still got a lot left. It's the
weirdest skincare line I've ever experienced. I love it. I
love it. I can't believe I didn't know about it
until now. Mandy, I thought you did not like fruit,
But the last couple of things you've talked about from

(59:25):
the Thanksgiving list has fruit. Haha. This is where it
gets interesting. I like apples. I know they have to
be crunchy apples. They can't be mushy apples like this.
This looks like it uses a Macintosh apple. That will
not happen. I will be using a honey crisp apple,
something with a little snap to it. Mandy. A Rod's

(59:45):
dog is number one, Standard Poodle number two, whip It
number four, Golden Retriever number oh and number three Gold
Retriever number four Schnauzer No. One to four yep, yep,
So that is not a thing that happening anyway. I'm
just curious about whether or not, and I'd love to know.

(01:00:06):
And if anybody has any inside intel on this, you
can let me know and I'll keep it to myself.
I'm very good at keeping secrets. I'm like a vault.
But if anybody knows if other municipalities have already reached out,
and I honestly I think this is something that Douglas
County should have done. When that story broke the other
day about the you know, soccer team going we know

(01:00:27):
we're gonna look around. If I'm Douglas County, I'm picking
up the phone and being like, yo, not only do
we have a million families that will fill your games,
we also have space and transportation to get here. So
I wonder if any other municipalities seriously took a swing
at that. Mandy Shitsu Qujo Schnauzer chihuah wah No, no, Mandy.

(01:00:50):
Couldn't the stadium be gender neutral? Of course it could,
But chicks want their own stuff, you know, Dames, I mean,
you know Broad's you know how it is. They're all
like equal rights, EQUALOI stadium, whatever, It's fine. Here's my thing.
If they can afford to build it, and they can
afford to you know, they fill it up, they're gonna
get all these More power to them, More power to them, Mandy,

(01:01:12):
I win it some mutt boom ah. She prefers multinational dog,
Golden Retriever, Schnauzer, poodle, cocker spaniel. Yeah, I know, not
gonna happen. Got a lot of other stuff on the
blog today and I want to get through some of it.
One of them is a story about the return of

(01:01:35):
Purtessis this is hooping cough? We gotta talk about that
scenes for a minute. And you might be surprised by
what I'm about to say. Mandy'sblog dot com and checked
out the picture of the adorable little Poppy, a Rod's dog.
We like to call her a multinational animal. And they
just did a DNA test and got the results back

(01:01:57):
and just say they were surprising is an understatement. To
be clear, what we have given up so far. She
is at least part Golden Retriever. She is no part terrier.

Speaker 5 (01:02:08):
Yep. Looking for four primaries.

Speaker 4 (01:02:10):
Some of these guesses Mandy, Poppy looks like a mix
between a poodle, border collie, Australian Shepherd and golden retriever.

Speaker 6 (01:02:17):
Nope, by the way, we had someone ask the name Poppy.
She already had it, and we stuck with it because
we thought it was adorable. She was reacting to it
already and we fell in love with it.

Speaker 4 (01:02:26):
So how big is Poppy? Another texture just asked how
much does she weigh?

Speaker 5 (01:02:29):
Forty five?

Speaker 4 (01:02:30):
Ish pad? That's so cute ish medium sized dog.

Speaker 5 (01:02:33):
Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 4 (01:02:34):
Yeah, wrestler best Personality, Golden Retriever, Rottweiler, cattle dog, German,
short hair pointer. Now you guys are just making up
names and throwing it out there, just throwing stuff out there. Okay,
here it is, says this Texter, Siberian Husky, Golden doodle,
great Dane in Chihuahuah. I mean, I like the creativity,

(01:02:54):
but not at all remotely.

Speaker 6 (01:02:56):
Close way down the list in the percentages. Yeah, there
is some way down there, but like way down there, not.

Speaker 5 (01:03:03):
In the top four.

Speaker 4 (01:03:04):
She has not poodle, Golden retriever, Collie, and Irish wolf
found although fair gifts, fair gifts. Remember when I told
you the other day about the Starbucks bar Resta cups.
Did we talk about it? I might have just put
it on the blog and I didn't talk about it.
So every year around Christmas, there is some something that

(01:03:28):
becomes the it thing to have because the company that
made it only made forty five of them or some
insanely low number, and then everybody's like, oh my god,
I have to have that thing that's not even that cool,
but I want to have it because nobody else has it.
Going right back to the same attitude that I was
talking about with really really rich people buying the masters
when it comes to buying artwork, because then nobody else

(01:03:49):
can have it. Well, Starbucks, geniuses of marketing that they are,
came out with their little bar Resta cups. These were
clear cups that looked like Teddy Bears and you could
get a drink in them. Okay, the Berriasta cups sold
out in a hot minute. We have our first bar

(01:04:09):
East of Crime Anthony. And this is exactly what I
was talking about. I said, there are going to be
people who spend way too much money on the secondary
market buying these things. Well, a Colorado woman just wanted
to get her done or something special for Christmas. She
agreed to buy three of the rist cold cups for

(01:04:29):
How much do you think she was going to spend
on three cups? Anthony, take a guess how much he's
doing something else not paying attention? Three cups? How many cups?
How much do you think she was born?

Speaker 5 (01:04:43):
Or were they like thirty dollars each?

Speaker 6 (01:04:44):
Normally?

Speaker 4 (01:04:45):
I don't even think they were that much. Let's go
with Oh no, not that high. Thank god, it was
just two hundred dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:04:51):
Oh, that's not bad.

Speaker 4 (01:04:53):
She made a terrible mistake. She sent the money before
meeting the person with the cups, and what happened after
she sent the money, ah Rod, just take a wild
guests didn't get them correct, got ghosted by the fake
seller of the Barrista cups. Let me just say this.

(01:05:14):
If you are trying to get your child a toy
that is completely sold out, and you're thinking about buying
the sold out toy for a ridiculous sum of money
on the secondary market, I want to just say something
really important to you. This is an opportunity for you
to gently teach your kid about the concept of disappointment.

(01:05:37):
But at the same time, you can also help explain
to them economics and you can set your kid down
and say, you know what, I'm really sorry. I tried
really hard, but that toy is sold out, so you're
gonna have to wait until your birthday to get it.
You know, it won't be sold out again on your birthday.
But here's why I don't want to buy it. And

(01:05:59):
you know what, but here's the thing. Your kid will
not die, your kid will not become a criminal. Your
kid is not going to spiral into a life of
death and destruction if they don't get that toy for Christmas.
And if your kid will do any of those things
because they're not getting that toy, you are raising Verruk
assault and you need to rain them in right now.

(01:06:22):
And if you don't get the Varuk assault reference, I
can't even help you. You've had so many opportunities to
get that reference with good movies, so just keep that
in mind.

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:06:32):
I didn't get into the vaccination story. I'm gonna do
that next. Ah does Poppy's dog heritage include Airdell Airdale
and Belgian MALINOI no, she's not crazy enough to be
a Belgian Malinoa. Those dogs are nuts. I mean in
a good way. Oh No, they're just nuts.

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Speaker 4 (01:07:21):
But we's the third hour of the show. It is
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super large turkey, this is your warning. Go ahead and
put it in the refrigerator to fall. Otherwise you're gonna
have to go to one of the stories I linked
to you on the blog today and find out how
to cook a frozen turkey. Yes, it can be done,

(01:07:41):
it just can't be fried.

Speaker 3 (01:07:44):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:07:44):
All day today we've been playing a really dumb game,
and I gotta tell you I've been enjoying back out
of it. Anthony Anthony's dog Poppy is on the blog
today as well, and they just got back a DNA test.
We're asking people to guess what four breede make up Poppy.
One of them we've already given up is go retriever.
She has no terrier in her whatsoever, and your guesses

(01:08:08):
have been wildly entertaining. Poppy looks like a Shetland pony,
a stand up comedian, a model, and a respected ceow
that from Kevin and Salida like that, well done. Maybe
she's a poodle Golden Retriever lab Great Pyrenees. She's only
forty five pounds. I don't think I've seen anyone get
more than two of the four and one single lea. Yeah, yeah, Mandy.

(01:08:29):
We have a German Shepherd Belgian Malanoi mix. He certainly
is nuts and in a good way for the right family.
You talk about a high energy dog. If you ever
go buy someone's house and see a dog that kind
of looks like a German Shepherd but he's hanging from
a rope by his mouth, that's a Belgian malinwah. Because
once they lock on, they're like, I'm just gonna be here.

(01:08:52):
I'm just getting out, Yeah, just hanging out.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
Just sang it out right now.

Speaker 4 (01:08:57):
So I got to talk about whooping cough also known
as whooping cough. We are now seeing cases of whooping
cough in Texas, Florida, California, Oregon, and other places around
the country. And one of the things about whooping cough
is it can be deadly for babies and small children
and the elderly. I mean, let's be real, guys, there's

(01:09:19):
so many diseases for the vast majority of us. If
we get them, we're going to recover. But when you're
talking about babies, little children, the elderly, it's an entirely
different story. And vaccination rates for Protessis, along with other
vaccination rates have been dropping.

Speaker 2 (01:09:37):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:09:38):
The reason I wanted to bring this up is because
I am one of those parents that when I had
Q had my daughter sixteen years ago, I asked questions
about the vaccination schedule. I came in. Actually, I went
to one practice when we moved to Louisville. Had a
phenomenal pediatrician in Florida. She was amazing. Then we move
up to Louisville and I asked people that I work with.

(01:10:00):
I was like, look, I need a pediatrician. What do
you recommend? They recommended this practice, So everybody goes here.
So I go into this pediatrician's office and the pediatrician
walks in and I said, hey, I have some questions
about the vaccine schedule. And she goes, oh, she puts
her finger up. Oh. She goes over, opens a drawer,
pulls out a piece of paper and hands me a
piece of paper that says, this is our practice's vaccine policy.

(01:10:23):
And essentially the paper said, we vaccine on a schedule
that we create. We vaccinated on a schedule we create,
and if you don't want to follow that schedule, we
don't want you as a patient. Literally said that. So
I left this Frankly, I don't want to go to
a doctor that doesn't want to have a conversation with
me if I have questions, why would I do that?
So I did find a pediatrician and I went into
her and I said, Hey, I have questions. She said,

(01:10:45):
what are your questions?

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
And you know what she did.

Speaker 4 (01:10:48):
She sat down, We had a conversation. We addressed my concerns.
My big concerns are we give so many vaccines at
one time to babies, we little teddy baby. So she
worked with me and we stretched out the Just to
make me feel better, my daughter's fully vaccinated. The goodwill

(01:11:08):
about vaccines was completely destroyed by the COVID situation. That
and the study done by a now disbarred doctor named
doctor Andrew Wakefield where he showed a definitive connection between
specifically the MMR vaccine and autism now no other scientist

(01:11:29):
has been able to replicate his results, and that's a
huge problem. So we still don't know what causes autism,
and the notion that we absolutely know what doesn't cause
autism is a lie. Until we know what causes autism, right,
I mean, he is like, until you can tell me
what it is, then you can't tell me what it
isn't So nonetheless, I believe in vaccinations, especially ones that

(01:11:54):
have been around for over one hundred years. But now
now we have so many people who are skeptical of
all vaccinations that you have too many people that are unvaccinated.
And whooping cough is one of those things that if
you're going to be around babies and you are not vaccinated,
you probably just need to be aware, right, You need

(01:12:14):
to be aware. And I love it when new parents
are like, oh, are you coming to visit the baby,
We're going to need to see your vaccination records. Okay,
it's your baby, Mandy. After the government led us to
allie to us about the clot shot, it's going to
take people a while to trust vaccines again. No, and
I don't wish what I'm about to say happens. I
do not, but it's going to take the death of

(01:12:34):
a lot of children in a community before people go,
wait a minute, maybe we do need to make sure
that polio doesn't make a comeback.

Speaker 1 (01:12:42):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:12:42):
It's like, unfortunately, that is probably what it's going to take.
It's going to have to be demonstrable, you know, cause
and effect type thing. So again, the government has no
one to blame but themselves. They truly don't. By withholding information,
by allowing Pfizer to move forward without releasing all of

(01:13:03):
the information about contrary effects, they really screwed us the
world themselves, and now we have an outbreak of whooping
cough because of it. So listen to this bit of
stats from CBS News. Until recently, eight and ten toddlers
had received four doses of the DETAP vaccine that is

(01:13:26):
for protestas and tetanus, and case rates were controlled. But
vaccine coverage has declined since the COVID pandemic and increases
in state non medical exemptions have widened. Immunity gaps, which
is the proportion of individuals who are immune falls below
the level needed to contain spread. So Texas had nineteen

(01:13:50):
hundred and twenty eight protestas cases in twenty twenty four.
By October of this year they had exceeded thirty five hundred.
In the first three months of twenty twenty five, we
had sixty six cases. That's four times last year's pace.
So you see what's happening. And unfortunately, I do think
it is going to have to be something horrible, like

(01:14:11):
a lot of children dying. Mandy, a pediatric practice here
in Parker wanted to force us to immunize our children
on their schedule, which caused us to seek out another
practice still looking. And that's the thing. Even if you're
a parent who says like me, I was like, Okay,
we're gonna vaccinate, but can we just spread these things out?

(01:14:33):
That to me is a reasonable thing to ask and
it shouldn't be that hard. And the doctor that I
worked with clearly explained how we had to do things,
and that's how we did it, and it was fine.
It's disappointing that doctors are unwilling to have a conversation,
that they're so unsure of the rightness of their position
that they just have to shut down conversation overall, and

(01:14:55):
certainly that's not a practice I would want my kid
to be in a Rod's dog just had a DNA test.
Not to find out who the father was that was
long that ship long sailed, but to find out what
breeze she was comprised of A rod. We have we
have a leader. I'm not standing there in the clubhouse,
but I'm saying we have a leader on this. And
since it's two nineteen, I'm gonna read this text message.

(01:15:17):
Oh is Poppy a Corgie Golden Retriever, German Shepherd and
Cocker Spaniel mix.

Speaker 5 (01:15:24):
Three of the four? Well, which one's the wrong one?

Speaker 4 (01:15:28):
Exactly exactly, That's what I said. Yep, yep, Okay. We
got a bunch of stuff on the blog today. Did
you guys see the video of the city inspector pouring
bleach into the food of a of a street vendor.
People are losing their minds over this. They're so angry,

(01:15:50):
and I want to just ask everybody who's angry about this,
does this mean that you're okay with doing away with
health inspectors and restaurants overall? Why do we have that
entire bureaucracy? If anybody can just set up some tables
with no licensing and no proper cooling and no proper
heating and just sell food that could potentially make people

(01:16:13):
extremely sick. Because if that's what we want to do,
I'm okay with it. I just wanted you to know
if we're ready to do away with all health inspection
standards for all food outlets, I am here for it
because I have an iron gut. I can eat out
of the nastiest roach coach you have ever seen in

(01:16:34):
your life and be perfectly fine. My husband, on the
other side, he's like, I'm not eating there. But the
notion that somehow this woman is wrong because you have
a vendor. And by the way, the city of Denver
has come out and come out really forcefully in her defense.
Apparently this particular vendor has been chased around the city

(01:16:55):
and chased around multiple counties because they don't have food
at proper temperature, they have no refrigeration, they have no licensing.
They've been told repeatedly not to do this anymore, and
they keep just moving and setting up shop again. And
the only way they can prevent them from wrapping things
up where they were and taking it to another county
and selling the food that's now been out of proper

(01:17:17):
refrigeration and temperature for hours to someone else is to
pour bleach in the food. It is wasteful. It's incredibly wasteful.
But if we have a system where we are relying
on the government to protect us from bossulism or other
nasty illnesses that you can get from eating bad food,
have you ever had real food poisoning a rod? I mean,

(01:17:38):
I'm talking about food poisoning that is so violent, yes,
that you literally sit on the toilet doing you know
what and vomit your brains out for hours. Yep, you
only have to do that once to think food safety
is important, because let me tell you, if you've and
people are like, oh, I got something, I ate something
that I don't feel like, that's not food poisoning is

(01:18:00):
like your body is like, get this out.

Speaker 5 (01:18:04):
Montezumas drip again.

Speaker 4 (01:18:06):
I mean, it is horrific. But if you guys are
cool with that, I mean, if you're cool with just
getting rid of all the health inspectors, we can do
that too. But no, we will not. Okay, now, ay,
rid We've got guesses still all over the place. The
pouring of bleach into the food was just to show
a big government force. They could have just tossed it

(01:18:28):
out except this vendor has been already known to pack
everything up, take it to a different county, set everything
up again, and try to resell the food. When the
health inspector got there, they literally took pans of meat
that were not being held at proper temperature and locked
them in a vehicle so they couldn't be destroyed. So

(01:18:49):
they were gonna go resell that meat. I mean again,
decide where the standards are, because there's a lot of
restaurants who would love to never have to worry about
health codes again, a lot of them.

Speaker 6 (01:18:59):
Why not Okay, the one that they locked up, they
obviously couldn't get to, But the one that they poured
bleach into, why not just take that food and throw
in the trash.

Speaker 4 (01:19:07):
I don't know. I'm assuming there wasn't trash there. This
is like the side of the road type stuff, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:19:12):
Or why couldn't they just take it?

Speaker 4 (01:19:13):
The worst part of this story is yesterday, Nick, my
super fan. I love you, Nick. Thank you for bringing
all of your donations to the food drive yesterday. You're awesome.
He works for the city. He said the city has
now had to basically confine this particular health inspector to
her home because of the death threats that they have
gotten for her at the City of Denver. This is ridiculous, ridiculous.

Speaker 6 (01:19:37):
I just think it comes to a point of optics.
There's people clearly recording, well the ISA. This guy has
a reputation, this guy.

Speaker 4 (01:19:48):
If this guy's just gonna move around, he keeps doing
the same thing over and over and over and over again.
Desperate times, desperate measures. Right, everything else they've already done
with him has not worked. So the only way they
can prevent him from selling this food is to completion
in it. Because he's proven over and over and over again,
that he's going to continue doing the same thing.

Speaker 5 (01:20:09):
Is our health code violation type stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:20:13):
When it gets into repeat offence, they can sit down
your restaurant.

Speaker 4 (01:20:17):
I was gonna say, so, why haven't they done that
with this person. He doesn't have a license, he doesn't
have a restaurant.

Speaker 6 (01:20:22):
He just sets up, So how can he not be
put in I mean heavy finds and eventually jail.

Speaker 4 (01:20:26):
I have no idea, but here we are. But really,
death threats come on people mandy'sblog dot com to look
at the picture of Poppy to guess what four dog
breeds Poppy is you're missing out the texture? Who got three?

Speaker 5 (01:20:38):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
Said?

Speaker 4 (01:20:40):
Okay, last try, I was the first to get three
out of four, which is seventy five percent. It's a
c yuck. Is Poppy a Corgy gold Retriever German Shepherd
and Schnauzer mix. Oh so close, so close, but no,
so close?

Speaker 6 (01:20:57):
And by the way, with that adorable picture, if you
would like more of Poppy, she us have her own
Instagram at are you ready for this?

Speaker 4 (01:21:05):
Yep, your friendly neighborhood Poppy, Your friendly neighborhood Poppy on Instagram.
Him Mandy not mentioning about your absence next week, But boy,
how do you tah host get a lot of PTO? Yes,
we do, And I've talked about this pretty openly on
the air for many years. I never got a raise,
and so I would just say, okay, just give me
another week of vacation. It a cruise. I regret nothing.

(01:21:30):
I got a couple of stories I want to get to.
By the way, I keep reminding people of this because
I'm so impressed with this story from the Kitchen dot Com.
It says the headline, wait, let me go all the
way back up to the top, because I'm gonna saw
take kill. That's not happening. Here's every single Thanksgiving recipe
you could ever need, all in one place. And you're like,
bold statement, but holy crap, you guys, it's every single thing,

(01:21:55):
Like nine different ways took a turkey. They if you
have vegetarian options, you want to make carrot soufle, they
got you covered. They've got everything on this list, including
things that just don't look good to me. I don't
look at it at all. The autumn sheet pan salad,
roasted butternut, squashed chickpeas and croutons, looks like that's kale too.

(01:22:21):
Anything with kale. I'm just moving along moving. Roasted cauliflower
salad that sounds delicious. Probably not to ear ride, but
check it out well, the roasted it looks quite tasty. Yes, yeah, anyway,
that's on the blog today as well. Now we are
going to see something the end of a long tradition

(01:22:44):
in restaurants, and it's one that I have never understood.
And I waited tables a ton. I paid my way
through college waiting tables. I paid my way through the
first four years of radio waiting tables. So I have
a lot of extensive, you know, industry experience, and for many,
many many years back in the day when ed was like, okay,
when you walk up to the table, you greet the
customer and you put their water on the table. Okay,

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how much of that water was actually consumed? Not a
whole bunch. Now, of course there are people who just
drink water. I get it, one hundred percent. But what
is the harm in walking up to the table and saying,
welcome in, so nice to see you. What can I
bring you guys to drink it? Which time the water
person can say I'd like some water, Well, of course
I'll bring you a water. But then other people who

(01:23:30):
don't want to drink water don't have water sitting on
the table, just sweating and getting in the way, and
they can have what they want to drink.

Speaker 3 (01:23:37):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:23:37):
Now, Aurora, which has been super aggressive when it comes
to water usage in the city, and I you know,
I don't like the government telling me what I can
and can't do. But Aurora, I think did this the
right way. They passed a resolution asking restaurants to only
give out a glass of water when a customer asks
for it. All they're trying to do is save water

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and from a restaurants perspective, what a perfect opportunity. Perfect
opportunity to save money because every time you get a
glass of water, you're paying for the water. Then you
have to take the glass back, you dump the water out,
then it has to go through the dishwasher. That costs
you dishwashing, it costs you electricity, and it costs you
more water. So this is a really simple cost saving measure.

(01:24:20):
And now you have cover Aurora. And when someone says,
why didn't you bring me some water? Although I bet
like no people are gonna say that, maybe you could
count them on one hand. When somebody says why didn't
you bring me some water, you could look at them
and say, we're trying to work with the city of
Aurora to reduce unnecessary water usage. And then the person
at the table is like, that's actually a really good idea.

(01:24:42):
And then you've saved money and we don't waste a
bunch of water. And I like the fact that it
is just a resolution. Now, if they go into a drought,
it could become an order. But why not change the
dynamics now, ay Ron, how often do you just drink water?
The water that they bring in you're like, nope, I'm
just gonna have water.

Speaker 5 (01:25:00):
I only drink water.

Speaker 4 (01:25:01):
You don't ever drink any You don't ever drink like
iced tea.

Speaker 5 (01:25:03):
Coke zero sometimes an iced ty. Hell no, you don't
like wait?

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
How can you wait?

Speaker 5 (01:25:07):
Because it's gross?

Speaker 2 (01:25:08):
What gross?

Speaker 6 (01:25:11):
If not water, which is like ninety percent of time
ten percent of the time coke zero?

Speaker 4 (01:25:15):
Okay, yep, I'm wondering, like I generally speaking, if I
want water, I'm gonna order a club soda anyway, because
I want fizzy water, Mandy. I don't mess around with
restaurant water.

Speaker 3 (01:25:26):
One.

Speaker 4 (01:25:27):
The ice is disgusting and has more bacteria than probably
anywhere else in the kitchen. There have been studies look
it up. To top it off, the water is tap
what tap water in Colorado is good? First of all,
you are absolutely right about the ice machine. Not only
did I wait tables, I was also a restaurant manager,
and in Florida you have to go through and get
a certification to become a restaurant manager. What did somebody

(01:25:47):
get it? Did somebody get poppy?

Speaker 5 (01:25:50):
Somebody just got it. We'll reveal it in about seven minutes.
But we do have a winter.

Speaker 4 (01:25:54):
We have a winter. Yes, okay, but yeah, ice machines
are disgusting. They're cesspools. They have so much mild and
crap in them. And I think that's one of the
reasons that I have such an iron gut, because I
worked in restaurants for so long. When I was a
restaurant manager, I went to a new I went to
a different restaurant, same company, but I went to a

(01:26:15):
different location and the first thing I did was stuck
my head up in the ice machine. And I was like, well,
you guys don't clean very well. And everybody's like, what
are you talking about? And I just made them all
shove their head and look up in the ice machine. Yeah,
restaurant ice is disgusting. I hate to break it to you.
Most places, says this texter I've been to lately ask

(01:26:38):
you if you want water, or they ask if you
want water yes, and which is perfectly reasonable. Mandy. I
take three to four shours a day. I'd down a
few glasses of water. Does anything? Hey, you know, Mandy?
Where are you going next week? A Rod is going
on a fabulous cruise. Fabulous. I am staying home. My
mom is coming to visit. Really looking forward to that

(01:27:00):
we're gonna hang out, We're gonna do some crafting. My
mom is super crafty. I am not, but I came
up with a craft for us. And when it's done,
I will put a picture on my Instagram page because
I'm excited about this craft I saw on the internet.
Super excited. Mandy's zero percent of the time I drink water,
diet coke or iced tea. And by the way, who

(01:27:23):
takes three to four showers a day? What are you
doing that you need three to four showers a day?
What are you work in the coal mines? What is
happening with that? A rod is now called the Winner?
Do they have pumpkin pie cheese? Where? What on that list?

Speaker 5 (01:27:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:27:43):
Hang on, I'm gonna find out. I didn't know if
they had desserts. I don't know if they have that,
so hang on, let me double check and do here.
I'm now on the page control f pumpkin cheese.

Speaker 2 (01:27:59):
Cake.

Speaker 4 (01:28:01):
They have the ultimate Thanksgiving pie bars that have a
buttery ginger snap crust and a creamy pumpkin cheesecake filling.
So maybe, Oh, and they have pumpkin cheesecake. I'm telling you, Mandy,
have you ever seen the pink slime and ice machines,
Oh I have. I've seen some nasty stuff in restaurants,

(01:28:22):
you guys. I'm not gonna lie. And these are restaurants
that passed health inspections. I have seen some scary, scary
food storage and I'm not down with that. Like even
in my home refrigerator right now, I don't put chicken
on a shelf above anything. Chicken always goes on the
bottom shelf. Any kind of poultry goes on the bottom
shelf because that way, if anything leaks, it's not getting

(01:28:44):
on other food. I still do all of the stuff
I had to do as a restaurant manager. Some restaurants
are truly disgusting, and you know what I eat there anyway,
I don't care. Here's one little pro tip for you.
If you walk in a restaurant and the front of
the house is dirty, I don't mean like the menus
aren't stacked up, I mean dirty. You know the difference

(01:29:05):
between slightly, you know, a sque and dirty. If the
front of the house is dirty, the back of the
house is even more disgusting. So eat at your own risk. Mandy,
three to four showers a day equals Colfax Hooker, I,
you know, possibly possibly Mandy. He's from the South. He

(01:29:30):
does not understand good iced tea. Exactly, Jason, exactly, Mandy.
What's the worst thing you've seen in a restaurant? This
is one of my favorite stories because it happened. This
restaurant is no longer around. I worked at the coolest,
most fun restaurant in college. It was called the Flamingo
Cafe in Tallahassee. Absolute flippin' blast Friday and Saturday nights.

(01:29:51):
We had bands, we had music every night. It was tiny,
the food was amazing, and it was disgusting. So we
had this out on the back and it just had
screen on the back right, so it was hotter than
hell most of the time that people would sit out there. Well,
there's a wall that was kind of eye level when
you were sitting at a table, and the wall came

(01:30:12):
it was like to the right, maybe twenty feet was
our dumpster. So one day I'm sitting and I'm taking
orders at a table, like an entire family of giant
rats goes. Trump's like just just walking down the wall.
I'm trying to keep everybody at the table's attention, so
they don't see the giant rats who then take a

(01:30:34):
left turn and come directly into the building. Oh they've
been there before. They knew exactly where they were going.
Those rats were in that place.

Speaker 5 (01:30:43):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:30:43):
It was just once a year we had to And
this is when you could still smoke in restaurants, and
so once a year they shut down the restaurant. We
spent two days cleaning this thing, and for a week
after that it was clean. But the other fifty one
weeks of the year, no, it was just gross. I've

(01:31:05):
seen people clean chicken wings that were past their prime
with a combination of bleach water and then cook them
and serve them. Oh yeah, oh yeah, Mandy, not just
on a bottom shelf, but in a bucket on bottom
shelf for chicken. And I do put it in something
so it doesn't leak in my in my refrigerator. I

(01:31:27):
hate cleaning my refrigerator when it gets really dirty. Mandy
preemptively banned long watering. That will do a lot more
than cutting out restaurant water. They are actually now limiting
what you can do in new construction. When it comes
to common areas. You can't do a bunch of you know, landscaping,
and grass and stuff like that.

Speaker 5 (01:31:45):
I mean, they've been.

Speaker 4 (01:31:46):
Pretty aggressive in Aurora about water use issues. Mandy. When
I read gas meters, restaurant basements are the worst. Yep, Mandy,
how much is your water build with that many? I
don't take four showers a day? Ben, how many showers
do you take?

Speaker 1 (01:32:01):
It?

Speaker 2 (01:32:01):
Ay?

Speaker 4 (01:32:01):
Three?

Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:32:02):
But Ben, he's at least he has a rational reason.
We still haven't heard back from the three to four
a day shower person. We don't know. It's better about restaurants, guys.
It's better to not know, Okay, It's just better to
live in ignorance about what's going on. I'm just telling you.

(01:32:24):
If it's really dirty in the front of the house,
just turn on walk out. Otherwise, just take your When
you travel a rod, do you eat street food? Do
you just go from like cart to cart, vendor to vendor.

Speaker 5 (01:32:33):
Absolutely?

Speaker 4 (01:32:33):
I do too, and it has only hurt me once.
I got struck in Israel on our last day in
Israel with the Revenge of the Jerusalem street food. It's
not my favorite experience while I was in Israel, and
I don't ever want to do that again. But I
will not give up street food because it's always the best.

Speaker 5 (01:32:55):
I've always heard to avoid ice.

Speaker 4 (01:32:58):
Just like no no ice, no no, And not only that,
you don't want any beverage that you have not popped
the top off and poured yourself. Although Israel I think
we drank the water in Israel. Israel is I mean
they're pretty, they're extremely civilized. What oh, we gotta do
a reveal of what Poppy is? What is Poppy? Poppy

(01:33:19):
of course being Anthony's dog who's on the blog today.
She's super cute. But he just got her DNA tested
And what makes up Poppy?

Speaker 5 (01:33:26):
Got Jase got it correct after a couple of tries.

Speaker 6 (01:33:28):
I appreciate all the adorable comments and guesses all show long.
Little miss Poppy is Border Collie, Corgie, German Shepherd and
Golden Retrievers.

Speaker 4 (01:33:42):
Yeah, Poppy, well done. Multinational dog Spreeaking of multinational dogs.
Ben Albright's made it into the room. Gotta watch out
for the Shard'll get you every time. You know what's funny?
It was shwarma. I knew it was, but honestly it
could have been a multiple. It was a multiple kind

(01:34:03):
of thing. We were just like walking through the city,
kind of stopping at this cart. Stopping at that cart could.

Speaker 7 (01:34:07):
Have been anything, having been in that world, that part
of the world, many different countries, many different times.

Speaker 4 (01:34:11):
I will tell you do not eat open air shawarma.
Could you know.

Speaker 1 (01:34:17):
That?

Speaker 3 (01:34:17):
For you know?

Speaker 4 (01:34:19):
Uh, the shower person is probably a stripper and asks
to wash the glitter off their body.

Speaker 1 (01:34:23):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:34:24):
Fun fact, glitter doesn't wash off your body. We prefer
to be called answers. Glitter is the herpes of arts
and craft. You get it. It never goes away. And guys,
here's a pro tip for you. You come home with
glitter on your face, just tell your wife you were
at Michael's. It's fine. She'll never know, never know the
difference you had your boyfriend, Mandy. Many years ago, I

(01:34:46):
worked for a restaurant in the Denver area where the
cooks would scrape the mice droppings off the potato salad
from the night before in the walk in cooler and
then serve it to the customers. That, my friends, is
what restaurant work is all about. Yeah, yeah, anyway, now
you guys were telling me all the horrible things Mandy.

(01:35:07):
My family has always said I haven't asked best of stomach.
I proved it in the navy wall ate in Asia
eating from street vendors. Now in Asia, for some reason,
they seem to be a little safer. I don't know why. Like,
we ate a ton of street food in Japan and Korea,
and it was all of it, like half of it.
I didn't know what I was eating.

Speaker 7 (01:35:25):
Well, yeah, I like when you're in Asia most of
the time you don't know what it is. But I
think I think there's two because there's so much seafood
over there.

Speaker 4 (01:35:31):
It's so good.

Speaker 5 (01:35:32):
I mean, but had pufferfish.

Speaker 4 (01:35:35):
I know I'm not eating pupperfish or not stupid, Why
would I do that? So when we were in Japan,
we watched a massive tuna be delivered to a booth
in the market, and then we walked up and Homeboy
sliced it off and put it on rice and it
was could.

Speaker 3 (01:35:52):
It was just like.

Speaker 4 (01:35:53):
Dissolved in your mouth. It was so good, I mean
so good. Anyway, what do you do for Thanksgiving? Then?

Speaker 1 (01:36:02):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:36:03):
Song and cry about how much I make my own
turkey I brought. I have my thing.

Speaker 7 (01:36:09):
I bribed my own turkey every year, and everyone whoever
has it says it's the juiciest turkey they've ever.

Speaker 4 (01:36:13):
Had, Uh do you spatchcock or leave it hole? Uh?

Speaker 7 (01:36:16):
Well I spatchcock, but I so I brine upside down
in a brown sugar, salt and citrus solution.

Speaker 4 (01:36:23):
Of course, does for about seventy two.

Speaker 7 (01:36:25):
Hours, and then you turn it around and you're gonna
You're gonna start it off cooking it upside down and
then you know, and there's obviously stuff you do between,
but you gotta flip it back over and then cook
and let the juice go back through the breast on
the on the second half.

Speaker 4 (01:36:37):
I've been there, I've done that. Actually, Chuck cooks the
turkey and he does a fine, fine job, although I
have made him change some of the stuff that he
does because I'm better at it than No. No, no,
He'll tell you, okay, there's no This is one of
those where it's like there's not a competition because it
And when we first got married and we were moving
in together and he says to me, hey, you know what,

(01:36:57):
you can have the rest of the house. I just
want the kitchen in the garage. I said, do you
have a garlic peeler? And he way, oh what? And
I was like, the kitchen's mine. Okay, you don't even
know what I what I own. You're not even ready
for this. Because he had had two prior ex wives,
neither of which could cook.

Speaker 7 (01:37:13):
He was the cook, and I was like, no, it's
now I've I've always most of the time, I've been
the cook when I was married. She learned to cook
as we were married. But yeah, when we started off,
like when I first the first time I met her,
I went to her place. She had an empty fridge
with with one pizza box in there and some del
taco sitting on top of it.

Speaker 5 (01:37:32):
You know this is going to be a button.

Speaker 4 (01:37:33):
And that's actually a dude refrigerator right there. You don't
even know how he refrigerator like that I've seen in
some guys above. Anyway, now it's time for the most
exciting segment on the radio of its kine.

Speaker 2 (01:37:48):
Of that day.

Speaker 4 (01:37:49):
Very good, Ben, very good. We're getting there. I'm already
did this here. Okay, what is our dad joke of
the day.

Speaker 6 (01:37:57):
Please saw an old TV for sale for five dollars
but had a broken volume knob.

Speaker 4 (01:38:04):
I hadn't heard it down.

Speaker 5 (01:38:05):
I couldn't turn it down.

Speaker 4 (01:38:06):
I knew that that was going somewhere with turning it down.

Speaker 1 (01:38:08):
But here we go.

Speaker 4 (01:38:09):
All right, what is today's word of the day.

Speaker 5 (01:38:11):
You've heard this, but do you know what it means.
It's an adjective ghost.

Speaker 4 (01:38:16):
Oh, it means tacky tacky ghost is not fashionable.

Speaker 6 (01:38:22):
It says awareness about the proper way to behave Yep,
tacky tay today.

Speaker 4 (01:38:29):
Well, no, I can't read that one because it's the
wrong day. What Disney film is set in fictional world
called Kumandra, which is home to an ancient civilization Disney,
I'm gonna say the rings chun chih No, totally wrong.
Raya in the Last Dragon. I don't know the story

(01:38:50):
of a warrior princess in Kumandra trying to find the
world's last remaining dragon, hence the name.

Speaker 5 (01:38:55):
You never heard of it?

Speaker 4 (01:39:01):
Okay, what is our Jeopardy category? Please?

Speaker 6 (01:39:04):
It is, of course Thanksgiving, not Turkey like yesterday, the
country Thanksgiving that was terrible.

Speaker 4 (01:39:13):
He knows anything about Turkey. It's a country we kind
of vaguely know what, dude, that's got to get the
rest of the turf up top, That's true.

Speaker 6 (01:39:23):
Pre dating Plymouths by over forty years, the first Thanksgiving
held by Europeans in North America was in this country.

Speaker 4 (01:39:30):
I did not know this? What Manny? What's Canada?

Speaker 5 (01:39:33):
Correct?

Speaker 4 (01:39:34):
In Nova Scotia, if I am correct.

Speaker 5 (01:39:36):
A show of gratitude for workers.

Speaker 6 (01:39:38):
Japan's modern tradition of labor Thanksgiving Day began in nineteen
forty eight, three years after this conflict ended.

Speaker 4 (01:39:44):
Mandy, what is World War two?

Speaker 5 (01:39:46):
That is correct?

Speaker 6 (01:39:48):
In Puerto Rico, a Thanksgiving turkey might be stopped with
mafungo Mannys That is correct. Crushing today Paul is the
season of earned to dank Fest, which means harvest, festival
of thanks In countries that speak this language, can you.

Speaker 4 (01:40:06):
Spell it the word they can pronounce?

Speaker 2 (01:40:08):
Just give me yes, spell it real quick?

Speaker 5 (01:40:09):
We are n t e d a n k fest hmm.

Speaker 6 (01:40:15):
Countries that speak German, that is correct, and for this
week found it in the eighteen hundreds by freed slaves.
It's one of the few African countries to recognize Thanksgiving
as an official holiday.

Speaker 4 (01:40:29):
Wrong, that is correct. The o l like I'm sitting there,
like I honestly like African countries change their names like
every five minutes. I can't really do. I wonder if
truck knows I'm finishing a show. Hang on one second, Hey,
you know I'm not done with the show yet. Right,
you said the kitchen is my domain. That's what he's
doing right now. He was listening. He totally just hung

(01:40:49):
up on me, said the kitchen.

Speaker 2 (01:40:51):
Is my domain.

Speaker 5 (01:40:52):
I'll see what you get hold.

Speaker 4 (01:40:53):
Yeah, no, I'm telling you there's no there's no conflicts
you know what? Household over that all right? Ko Sports
coming up next. We'll be back tomorrow for a Rod
and I's last show until after the Thanksgiving holiday. You
don't want to miss that because it's going to be
an epic. Ask me anything if if you guys actually
asked me stuff, So get your questions ready. We'll see
you tomorrow