11-21-25 FULL SHOW - Hospitals Are Driving Health Care Costs Up, And Ask Us Stuff

Hospitals are driving healthcare costs way up, Germany has killed its industry, and Ask Me Anything because we've got short timers bad. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Bill and Pollock
Accident and Injury Lawyers.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell. Mayna koam ninety one.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
M got you to stay the nice because.

Speaker 4 (00:20):
The Ray by Connell keeping your sadding.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Friday edition of the show.

Speaker 5 (00:30):
All together now, all right, my.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Friends, I am Mandy Connell. That guy is a Rod.
You can call him Anthony rodriyy Lourians.

Speaker 6 (00:51):
And short timers you.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Because both a Rod and I are off next week.
He is jetting off to a fabuls liss cruise with
his wife. Is it just you and Jocelyn or other us?
You know, just us? Oh that's so fun. Where are
you going? Tell us all about it?

Speaker 6 (01:07):
Going to Miami, wasting no time whatsoever, a red eye
tonight to take in the great city of Miami all weekend,
because I'm going to give it a fair shake because
the first time around I was not impressed. But we
didn't do it right, I believe. So we're going to
South Beach tomorrow night. So we're going to Little Havan
on Sunday and then shipping out to the Bahamas on Monday,

(01:27):
going to a couple of different Islands in the Bahamas
all next week back the week after.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
So when you're in South Beach, I know you're not
Or when you're in Little Havana, I know you're not
a coffee guy.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Oh, I'm doing the little things. Washington Coffee is I
do like coffee. Oh I didn't know you those little
those little shooters.

Speaker 6 (01:46):
Yeah, yeah, sugar, yes, yes, they're that small, but they're
so strong, I hear.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah. Oh they're delightful. Oh. Those are going to be
wired for sound.

Speaker 6 (01:55):
Our friend John from Miami made sure I was doing
those little things. I was like, yes, sir, it's fascinating.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
If you go to Little Havana at the right time,
Sunday afternoon might be the whole day. Okay, So Sunday
through the night afternoon you'll walk around little and I
haven't been there in a really everything i'm telling you
could be completely wrong at this point. I haven't been
there in twenty five years. I've done my research. But
you walk around. There's like little restaurants and people are
out on the streets, and then they'd have these tables

(02:20):
where old men would be playing dominoes. Right, yes, yes,
domino park, dominoes. Blood sport. Yeah, a little Havana and
it is so much fun to watch them, and they
get so animated and they're slamming dominoes on the table.

Speaker 6 (02:32):
It's fantastic Domino Park right across from Azukar, the amazing
ice cream place all along Kaye Yo Cho, going to
ball and Chain, the legendary musical little mini venue they
got going on, going to be there all day long.
Little Havana will be coming for you all right ready,
And the.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Member street cspaniel so she'll be able to understand stuff.

Speaker 6 (02:51):
Yeah, so if anyone talks trash about me, I'll be
excuse me, sir.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Oh, let me do the blog very no, you know what.
I want to tell a story very quickly. Did you
know our boss, our boss Jojo, he has the Meta glasses?
He does? Yeah? Yes? Are you aware of what these
things can do?

Speaker 6 (03:08):
I'm more aware of what they can't do, which isn't
much exactly.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Do you know why I'm going to be buying them
as soon as humanly possible? Because they have a live
translate feature. You're wearing the glasses, you say Meta Live Translate,
and someone can speak to you in a foreign language
and you can translate it translates it for you in
your head. The speakers are incredible. I have earbuds that
I do that, but it's cool that they have glass
they do it. Oh, it is amazing. I was like, well,

(03:33):
I'm buying them just for a vacation. Now, I wouldn't
wear them around the house, but I will wear them
to the nail salon, just saying, ladies, look out, I'm
gonna be listening. I know what you're saying. I probably
don't want to know. It's part of the allure. No, no,
part of the allure that you're paying someone to do
your nails and probably talk about you behind your back.

Speaker 6 (03:54):
The nails really good, Yes they are. I just got
a Manni petty in preparation for the crew. Oh you
have to when you're going on a cruise to Everyone does,
but not all does like it because what oh guys,
I rarely find other men that like to do many things.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Oh no, no, no, call my husband. I'm gonna believe you.
I'm gonna believe my husband loves a spa day. That
man loves to be pampered. And we've had friends that
sort of you know, we're like, oh my god, I
can't believe you get pedicures, And Chuck says, and I quote,
what's exactly wrong with sitting there soaking your feet in

(04:33):
warm water while a hot woman whose shirt you can
probably see down rubs your feet.

Speaker 6 (04:37):
My answer always to someone a male that says I
would never get one, I let him in den the
eye and to go, you never had one, have you?

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Nope?

Speaker 6 (04:45):
No, every man who doesn't like Manny Petties hasn't gotten
a Manny Petty. Correct And I will gladly exclamation point
my man card any guy out there, the ones that
challenge me on that, because they are incredible.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
They are awesome.

Speaker 6 (05:01):
Your feet in your hands, feet specifically, will never feel more.
And the phrase I use is at ease. After that,
you feel so unbelievably relaxed. We passed out the other
night on the couch after.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
It's absolutely And like I said, if I said to
Chuck right now, hey for Christmas, let's just buy each
other like a full day at the spa, he would
be like, yes, mark me down.

Speaker 6 (05:24):
I would do it on the cruise if wasn't a
kajillion dollars. I know it's so stupid, so expensive on
a cruise.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Because well it's and it's not just that you go
in there and as soon as you go in they
start trying to sell your product. So now when I
do get a treatment on the cruise, because like usually
when we buy our cruises, we get some kind of
ship credit because of the cabin that we buy. Yes,
I will go in there. I'm like, okay, I've got
a sixty minute massage. Whatever I walk in, first thing
I say is please don't sell me any product. I'm

(05:49):
not buying anything from you. And that just you say
that at the beginning. I bet they give you a
worse massage. No they don't. I bet they do it
because I also say it after that. But I tip, well,
so the money's going back in their pocket and I
just save a lot of unnecessary chit chat. When I'm
paying for a massage, I'm not paying for a sales pitch,
you know what. I'm not giving me those or timeshare.

(06:09):
There are certain things that you recognize. Okay, you're gonna
watch network television. You got to watch the pitch, right,
you got to watch the advertisements. I mean you used to,
but not anymore. But anyway, so I mean there's but
not when not when I'm there to relax. Nobody touches
my toenails, says this texter. I I will say, uh,

(06:30):
you had one one of the things. What you know,
I'm sure that if everybody in a relationship is honest,
there is something about their partner that they don't love right,
that they're like that could be better. I'd be okay
with it. And it's not like a deal breaker obviously,
because you still love that person. But uh, yeah, my
husband's feet not good? Not good?

Speaker 6 (06:52):
Yeah, I uh, I pick my hands my fingers way
too much. So a manny for me is like, yeah,
toally new set of hands, yep. And then the petty oh,
and then the wax. Oh, the wax bag. I get
the bare minimum, cheapest one that has the wax bag. Well, yeah,
the paraffin.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's a waxham God, it feels so good. Mandy with
the metaglasses, you'll be able to understand what Jinx is saying. Well,
I've got news for you guys. First of all, let's
do the blog, because all this goes to the blog.
We have some dog news. We have the final reveal
on Poppy and I've made my dog a human. More
on that in a moment. Find the blog by going

(07:29):
to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for
the headline that says eleven five blog hospitals are driving
healthcare costs up and ask us stuff. Click on that
and here are the headlines you will find within. I
think office half American, all with ships and clipmas and
say that's going to press plach.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
Today.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
On the blog, A Rod and I are off next week.
Hospitals are driving healthcare costs? Just how much of healthcare
costs gone up since Obamacare? That zero is the job's kill.
Want to feel happier, Try gratitude. Controversial Thanksgiving issues will
be solved today. Medicaid is crushing our budget. Voters were
lied to about prop LL and MM Representative Jason Crogt

(08:13):
we wanted France calls foul on brox Holocaust denial. I
don't think Tina Peters is going anywhere. Ready to cut
down your own Christmas tree? Another brewery is going belly up.
The Chris Kendall market is open. A judge says, no
church for you. Venezuela is facilitating the drug trade, scrolling
ah the cousin walk. Joe Rogan is the official King

(08:35):
of podcasting, The case for eating like old people, ready
for Black Friday sales, Puppies official results. My dog thinks
she's a person. Now these kids today. This is why
spanking is not a great choice for punishment. What's your debt?
This cowboy can hold his liquor. This is why Islam
isn't compatible with free speech recycling, made fun at Ballerina

(09:00):
for showing up. Here's ten grand. The Rockies will be
calling him soon. And this Minnesota fraud case is insane.
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
Tick tech two a winner. The drama now the drama

(09:28):
of trying to find what it is Mandy. The cartoon
for the blog is fantastic. That from Jason on the
Common Spirit health text line. You can always text us
at five sixty six nine zero. And if you don't
follow me on social media, either on X or Facebook,
then you are missing out on one of my favorite
things that I do every day now, and that is

(09:49):
use an AI illustrator to create a cartoon for the day.
Because I've been told that that is supposed to boost engagement,
which works on Facebook, does not work on X Because
I just downgraded my membership on X. I downgraded significantly
because X has no value for me.

Speaker 6 (10:09):
Emailed me this morning and say, you would like me
to pass on to have a word severe disappointment.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Well, he can be disappointed. I tweeted to him as
well about it. It's just like what am I paying for?
I don't mind paying for stuff, but I have to
feel like I'm getting value. I don't mind on occasion
paying a lot of money, like a very expensive amount
of money for a fabulous meal, as long as I
feel like I'm getting the value right. And I am
no longer getting the value. I had Grock do an analysis.

(10:37):
Since I became a Premium Plus member, my viewers have
been cut in half. Told you that, yes, Rock did
the analysis. What am I doing? What is the point here?

Speaker 6 (10:48):
And you don't make you make that art with the
I'm gonna call it Blart blog art. Do you make
it with Grock or with Chat?

Speaker 3 (10:53):
I make it with Chat. I use Chat for everything.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
It has become my new favorite hobby. Which thing in
these pictures do not belong? Where's the extra finger? Where's
the misspelled word?

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Today?

Speaker 3 (11:03):
It was two things for me? Do you know what
the two are what.

Speaker 6 (11:06):
Number one, it doesn't know me clearly could not get
my hang loose.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Correct. I do hang loose in all my pictures.

Speaker 6 (11:12):
I do it for a reason, by the way, a
lot of Hawaiian ties with my family that's lived there
a long time.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
And number two, why do I have two microphones?

Speaker 4 (11:21):
What?

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Wait? Two microphones? You gotta go check. I didn't even
notice that, And I told a Rod earlier I could
not get chat. Oh you had set with a microphone? Yeah, yeah,
I got two mics. You have none. I have two.
That makes sense. But if you follow me on ex
at Mandy Connell on Twitter and at Mandy Connell on Facebook,

(11:44):
you can see my daily cartoon and today the cartoon
stars a rod and a Rod. Dowith's point is doing
the like the metal horns, right, No, that's also it's
metal you know anyway, So I tried to get Chat
to fix that, and it could not put that thing down.
And I even said, you know, like without I even
said without the index finger up right. I gave it

(12:06):
specific and it would not get rid of the extra thing.

Speaker 6 (12:09):
Really, it must think it's satanic because it's really hard
to get to do hanglose.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
I've tried before. I guess I don't know. I have
no idea. Now we got to have some dog updates.
For those of you who just listened to the beginning
of the show, we've been wondering for twenty four hours.
What is Poppy. We had a lot of fun with
that yesterday, lots of fun. That was a good, good,
good effort by you guys. She is border colleague Corgy
German Shepherd, am golden retriever. You can see those on

(12:34):
the blog. And now my problem. So I have a
Saint Bernard. Her name is Jinx. She's the biggest cuddle
bear you've ever experienced in your entire existence. She thinks
the sun rises and sets with me. I am her human.
She loves Chuck and Q as well, but I am
her human, and we joke. Sometimes she's looking at you

(12:56):
and she'll bark at me and I won't understand what
she's saying, and she gets really mad, like what is
wrong with you? You can feel that vibe coming from her.
And she's big, you guys, She's like a human size.
She weighs one hundred and fifty pounds, so she's like
having another person in the house. It's always joke. You know,
she can totally talk right, And I know a lot
of dog owners probably think this. You look at your
dogs sometimes you're like, I know you can speak, and

(13:18):
you've just taken the dog promise, right, you took the
dog oath and you can't speak to me? Are they
gonna take your dog card away? But something happened last week.
Jinkie's had to have some surgery and she's got multiple
sets of sutures around her body. She had to have
some stuff removed, and so to protect her sutures, we
got one of Chuck's old T shirts and we put

(13:39):
it on her, and she's been wearing a T shirt
for the last week. Guys, we had to change the
T shirt yesterday. She got mad when we took the
T shirt off her. She was like, what are we doing?
I'm naked here, and we had to put another T
shirt on her. We were going to anyway, because she
still has the sutures. But I have a picture of
her now, her in her clothing. I know for sure

(14:01):
she's not my house self anymore. A rod. I've given
her clothing, but now I'm wondering I'm gonna have to
keep my dog dressed the whole time. She loves it.
You can tell she feels good today. She's in ted eye.
She looks good. I don't know. I mean I used
to make fun of people that sort of talked about

(14:23):
their dogs like their children, But dang, this dog she
is something. Everybody has that dog in their life, right,
and I've already had one of those dogs. I had
a super special dog to me, Reno, dog of evil.
She wasn't really evil. She was half chow, half shepherd,
prettiest dog you've ever seen in your life. But she
had no use for any other human other than me.

(14:45):
But this dog, she chinkies. She's the best. Mandy and
a rod. What kind of vodka is Nancy drinking in
between Tic tac Toe and a Winner? Isn't her own
advertising for Tic tac Toe vodka asking for a friend?
That joke was not appreciated. Just now you say what
I just did? What asked that question again? What kind

(15:06):
of vodka is Nancy drinking between Tic Tactoe and a
Winner house?

Speaker 4 (15:11):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (15:14):
Anthony, yess am deeply sorry that I wait, I'm standing
up and I'm giving you around the best part is
this guy as my witness that was accident. Just came
up with it on the fly.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
Damn.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
Thank you. It's not representative of your usual comedy anyway, Mandy.
Dogs get a lot of security with clothing.

Speaker 6 (15:34):
Huh, well, the weighted ones for sure, like during thunderstorms.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
Mandy and a rod. When Nancy Pelosi goes away in
twenty twenty four, I nominate Jason Crow to the Year
sound bite to replace Nancy. I think Nancy may live forever.
I mean that that sound bite is just magical, and
I remember what it's from. Too many times I hear
a sound bite and I forget where it's from. This
one totally know where this came from. So in ten years,
when we're still playing it, we can and somebody goes,

(16:01):
where did that sound by, and I'll be like, oh, yeah,
Nancy Pelosi talking about the TikTok Man tic tech two Ye,
thank you, thank you. Mandy. I'm a man who gets
a pedicure for vaccinations. What what oh for vacations, Mandy.
I'm going now that it literally says vaccinations, so I

(16:25):
read it correctly. Mandy. I'm a man who gets a
pedicure for vacations because it makes my feet look nice.
For the beach and pool. But it is not enjoyable.
Absolute torture. But were't the results. I've never understood how
people find it enjoyable. It's going to the dentist. That's
exactly right. Yeah, he's exactly what I was gonna say. Yeah,
that's why. Yep, we know we're on to you. Yep,

(16:49):
yep this text. Are I one hundred percent agree with?
Why you get one like Chuck? Yes, I bite my toenails,
y'all get out? First of all, how are you still
that flexible in our enough to listen to the show?
How is that even possible? I mean, don't get me wrong.
At fifty six, I am still fairly flexible, but not

(17:09):
like I could not do that. I mean, I'm gonna
see how far now I could get it? Like I'm
about what do you say about a foot away? Like
I can't see what I did there? A foot away? Okay,
yeah no, that was totally accidentals I know, caught my mouth.
I could never get my foot up to my mouth.
I'm actually I'm both repulsed and impressed. I don't think

(17:31):
that person does it. I don't believe them. No one,
what do you want him to come in? And demon Street.

Speaker 6 (17:35):
No one doesn't know I want proof. No Mandy Connell
at iHeartMedia dot com pictures, please stop it, send Mandy
your feet picks.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
Stop it for the texture. Was confused when I said
for the cabins we buy, we actually go on a
lot of cruises that we pay for. So yeah, the
cabins we.

Speaker 6 (17:54):
Buy, mine might get more expensive if this upgrade pays off.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
Blue collar mail here love pedicures. Yes, yep, yep. Anyway,
we've got a lot on our plate. And actually not really.
I mean, I just told you about my dog thinking
she's a human. It's just going to be that kind
of Friday. We do have a couple of topics that
we're going to get into doing a deep dive. I
am working to bring several people on the show to

(18:21):
have a bigger conversation about healthcare cost and yesterday or
Wednesday rather, I'm sorry, the Senate Finance Committee had testimony
on the topic of the rise and cost of health care,
considering Meaningful Solutions for All America, all Americans, and I've
got one of the participants, Peter Pitts. He is the
former Associate FDA Commissioner and president for the Center for

(18:43):
medicine in the public interest, and we're going to talk
to him about that testimony. And something that I have
known for a long time, and I don't know if
any of you have recently experienced this. Have you been
going to a doctor's office for a very long time
and all of a sudden the doctor's office got by
by a hospital system. There's a reason for it. And

(19:04):
because it's happening and there's so much consolidation, hospitals now
have an outsize impact on how much healthcare actually costs.
And we're going to get into that at one o'clock.
I also did some investigating this morning, just out of curiosity,
and I asked the question, how much have healthcare costs

(19:26):
gone up since the passage? And you know, since Obamacare
became law. We're going to talk about that later as well.
But when we get back it is ask us anything
you can text us on the Common Spirit Health text
line at five sixty six nine.

Speaker 6 (19:41):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
But when we get back, I have a big announcement
so big it's not even on the blog because well,
we're looking to put some AI out of work. I'll
explain after this. Behind the scenes, I ourmedia has been
talking about this for some time now, and they have
decided to sort of plant a flag when it comes
to the use of AI because radio companies are starting

(20:03):
to test out you know, AI DJs and things of
that nature. And there was a country song that became
one of the most purchased country songs that was completely
created by AI, and iHeart has decided we're not doing that.
And I am incredibly happy to hear this. I mean,
this is like a policy position. When you listen to
an iHeartMedia station, you are going to hear real people.

(20:25):
You're not ever going to hear something that is created
by AI and it's being presented as a real person.
That's just not what we're going to do, which I
think is fantastic, But it created a conundrum for me
because you know that our fantastic listener, Tie Tie Shade,
he created the phenomenal theme song to the Mandy Connell
Show that you hear every day. Try to figure out

(20:45):
the words too and sing along spectacularly wrong rules the day.
But here's what we're gonna do. So we are going
to have a contest to find a person, a band,
a group of people that wants to come in and
re record the Mandy Connell theme song. We're not looking
for a new theme song. We're not doing that and

(21:08):
a rod. We need to make it available somewhere so
people can just have you know what I will How
can we put that on the blog or some of
so people can have the music. I mean, I can
give you the lyrics very easily. We'll figure it out.
We'll figure it out. We'll get it up in its
own blog posting, so you guys can pull the lyrics
down and we hear the music. But we want you
to submit an entry and then we are we're going

(21:31):
to figure out a way to bring you guys in
and we have a beautiful recording studio on the third
floor called Studio C from KBCO, and we're gonna have
you record the song here and we're gonna put at
least one AI job out of work with a real person.
And by the way, the pay will be exactly zero
zero dollars for this, just to let you know what
it's like to really work in radio. Zero dollars. But

(21:55):
it would be really cool because then you would get
to hear yourself sing the song every time. I'm we
come back at the top of the hour, so it
would be just like a cool thing, I think, And
I'm open to subtle interpretations, right, But I don't want
you to come in and make it a slow jam. No, no,
we don't need to hear you trill for half an

(22:16):
hour like. This has got to be tight. It can't be,
you know, dragged out. It's got to be it's got
to be. The pacing has to be kind of the same.
But I welcome interpretations of this now. I just sent
Tie an email to see if we can get him
on the show and and and have him come on.
And I just want to make sure it's okay with him.

(22:37):
He's already given us, he said a long time ago.
You guys, do whatever you want with the thing. But
I feel bad because it's almost like the end of
an era. Well, we're going to kick this off as
soon as humanly possible now, Aron and I are both
off next week, so that's going to take a little
bit longer, but it's going to be really fast. So
if you want to work on this in the next week,
please do. But we are going to replace our AI

(22:58):
singing song with an act person. And hey, Rod, what
did you tell me after I just did the long
run up to our guest today at one o'clock, would
you tell me.

Speaker 6 (23:05):
On the break, I told you, Mandy, did you check
your email? And no, And I said, Mandy, guess what what?
Our guest has been rescheduled?

Speaker 3 (23:13):
Oh and then and then I went and checked my
email and oh, there it is. Our guests has been
hours ago. Yeah. Well, I mean, I have a way
of doing things in the morning, Anthony, I have a system.
I'm very rigid in the morning. I'm very scheduled in
the morning getting ready for the program. So we have
rescheduled that. We'll come back to that conversation. I'd love
to tell you it's going to change dramatically between now

(23:34):
and then, but it's not. It's not now. I do
want to talk about a story out of Germany. Occasionally
I get a little bit obsessed with a nation around
the world. Since two thousand and five, when I got
my first show, it was Venezuela. For the longest time,
and I've had bosses say I don't understand why, what's
the fascination with Venezuela? And I'm like, we are going
to watch socialism collapse again in real time, And that's

(23:59):
exactly what happened. Because that's exactly what happens every time.
The only thing left now is for Maduro or whoever
to be overturned. And some of the things that are
happening with the Trump administration. I'm gonna go off on
a tangent here for just a minute, and then I'll
talk about Germany. But some of the things that are

(24:19):
happening in the Trump administration, and something that's been going
on specifically that I've expressed concerns about because I don't
like the idea of extra judicious killings, is the blowing
up of these Venezuelan drug boats. Now from the video
that I have seen, any any notion that this particular
kind of boat is being used for fishing is absurd

(24:42):
and only made by people who have ever who've never
been on an actual fishing boat. Right, people, If you
look at the video of how these boats are set
up there, they are clearly either smuggling drugs or people.
One of those two things is being smuggled on those boats.
There's no other purpose for those boats other th and drugs,
people or sight seeing, and they're in the middle of

(25:03):
the night, so there's no sight seeing going on. One
of the reasons that that is happening right now is
to destabilize the Maduro regime, which is currently being funded
in large parts by the drug dealers that they protect
their products so they can get it from Colombia and
off to the eastern United States. It's all connected. But

(25:24):
I've been watching Venezuela waiting for the collapse since two
thousand and five, and now now I've turned my attention
because Venezuela is coming to its foregone conclusion to Germany.
Many of you may not realize that Germany was by
far the largest economy on the European Union, especially in
Western Europe. Massive economy, huge industrial economy in Germany. Well,

(25:48):
it used to be so. Germany's industrial workforce has collapsed
over the last few years, I mean collapsed. At the
end of the third quarter of twenty twenty five, the
automotive industry employed more than forty eight thousand, seven hundred people,

(26:10):
less than they did a year earlier, fewer people than
a year earlier. That's a decline of six point three percent.
All of the industrial sectors lost more than two hundred
thousand employees. Oh wait, excuse me, I just read that wrong.
That is the steepest drop among all major industrial sectors

(26:30):
with more than two hundred thousand employees. Why is this
happening across the manufacturing sector as a whole. In Germany
around five point four to three million people were employed,
and that was a decrease of two point two percent.
All of this, every bit of this, is tied to
Germany's commitment to net zero. Net zero has been an absolute,

(26:56):
abject failure and has destroyed the big economy in Europe.
Don't believe me. This stat blew my mind. Do you
know how much Germany's economy has grown since twenty nineteen overall,
let me just give you something to compare it to.
In the UK and France, the economy since two thousand

(27:18):
and nine grew five percent. It was a fifteen percent
increase in the United States since twenty nineteen, fifteen percent increase.
Germany's GDP has grown by zero percent. Zero donut, not
a zilch zero And it's all because they have gone

(27:40):
entirely in on completely unreliable renewable power. They were net
zero before net zero was cool. So Germany, by the way,
where a power generation from fossil fuels has climbed to
its highest level in almost nine months, a spell of
cold weather and weak wad wind is strained electricity supply.

(28:02):
Prices for late Friday afternoon delivery jumped to three hundred
and thirteen point twenty seven euros per megawatt hour in
the EPEX. Now I have to translate that, but they
have shut down all of their nuclear power plants, they
have shut down most of their natural gas plants. They're
still buying gas from Russia, and now they have to
buy power from neighboring countries. By the way, that increase.

(28:26):
Late Friday afternoon, the increase in energy prices was fifty
eight percent. This is where Colorado is headed. This is
exactly what Jared Polis wants. He doesn't want the outcome,
but he wants to be able to say he's all
in on green energy while completely ignoring this significantly growing

(28:47):
body of evidence that that will spell absolute economic disaster
for Colorado. I did some analysis on the break for you.
I told you that because they have shut down all
of their life liable energy sources, when the wind doesn't
blow and it gets extra cold, this is what happens.
Prices for late Friday afternoon delivery for electricity went jumped

(29:09):
to three hundred and thirteen point twenty seven per megawat
hour euros, up fifty eight percent from Thursday's level. What
does that mean compared to what we pay? The average
load weighted wholesale electricity price in the US is around
forty seven dollars per megawat hour. In your home retail,

(29:33):
you're paying one hundred and seventy six dollars and twenty
cents per megawat hour. And they're paying far more than that,
far more than that. And this is where we're headed
to the text I will reminded me it is ask
us anything today? What are we having for Thanksgiving? I
don't know yet. Here's what I'm having so far. We're

(29:55):
having turkey, and I'm actually really looking forward to that,
which I normally don't. It's not my favorite, but I'm
looking forward to it. I got a hankerd for turkey
hardly ever, hanker? Do you have a hanker for turkey?
Like time? I'm not like so roasted turkey is? What
is that your favorite meat? Give me all the turkey?
Great kind. Maybe it's because you're born at Thanksgiving, That's

(30:17):
exactly right, it's just in your jeene pool. No we're
gonna have turkey, and then I'm gonna make oyster dressing
because my mom's coming. I'm gonna do like a corn pudding,
which is super good. It's like a corn sew flet.
It's really really good. And then some kind of Brussels sprouts,
may be a Brussels spout salad, and then some sweet
potatoes stuff, and then mashed potatoes because my husband loves

(30:37):
him some mashed potatoes. Of course. I mean, no, he's
not a gravy guy. He's not a gravy guy. He's
butter on the mashed potatoes. He's a man of simple tastes.
He likes to taste the beea. I'm sorry, No, he
likes to taste the potatoes. He'll put it on his turkey,
but not the potatoes, chuck. And then I think maybe

(30:58):
I might do broccoli caw chuck. Hat's broccoli castrole, but
my mom likes it so not green bean castle, Oh,
green bean castle, Yep, that'll be the green thing on
the table. It'll be fine, you go. So that's pretty much,
I mean, very traditional. And then for dessert, I'm gonna
do a pumpkin pie. Have you tried scalloted potatoes. I
love scalop potatoes. Chuck is not a fan.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
Chuck, I know, I know, he's just not a fan
in my honor, will you please Lord.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Well, if you guys are ever coming over for Thanksgiving,
I will absolutely make scaloped potatoes. But I'm doing a
lot of work for you know, people who don't enjoy that.
So it's like I got to cut my losses on that.
Shuck can just suck it, very very traditional, not his toes. No, no,
I need you guys when I talk about Germany, I

(31:46):
just need you to go, oh yeah, I should pay attention.
Should absolutely you know they're expecting a surge of cold air.
As a matter of fact, I had it on the
blog yesterday, the polar vortex is coming to kill us again.
Remember the last time the polar vortex came, we were all
gonna die. Oddly, we did not die, just got really cold.
And now that's happening to Germany and they don't have

(32:09):
enough power. And because the weather's been so dodgy, Germany
is gray all winter long, so solar is not really
doesn't do that much during the winter, so they have
to rely on wind power, and the wind just isn't blowing.
At the same time, it's super super super cold. And
this is what they want to bring to Colorado for

(32:31):
next week. Average wind generation is forecast about twelve point
twelve gigawatts. It's normally supposed to be at eighteen gigawatts.
That's a lot of gigawatts to make up for with
fossil fuels. Mandy, I loves me some Brussels sprouts, the Mobetta,
the mo Beta, Mandy lime jello with pineapple chunks. I

(32:53):
miss that from my nineteen seventies Grandma's Thanksgiving table so much.
I brought it back number one. I am not gonna
eat pineapple. It's not a thing. And I have been
anti jello since I was a kid. I don't like it. Yeah,
I can kind of forget where it comes from. Yeah. No,
I'm good. I don't. I don't need anything that feels

(33:13):
like that in my mouth. Nope, I'm good. Hard pass,
We'll be back.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock,
Accident and injury Lawyers.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
No, it's Mandy Connell and FM god.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
Connell. No real sad bab local local.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
Welcome to the second hour of the show. If you
missed me talking about it earlier. Details to come on
our new contest for someone to replace our AI singer
with a real voice for our theme song. I our
media is going all in on human beings. It's now
a company policy, and I like it. It's gonna mean
the jobs are saved, So I'm happy. Maybe fine, you

(34:07):
never know, but we'll be having more details about that.
But if you sing or you have a band, this
is your chance. We'll have more information about that upcoming.
So a rod, I had an idea today, because you
know what I know about myself, I give out the
most amazing advice I do. I give great advice, I
really do. And I thought, we're going into Thanksgiving next week.

(34:29):
You and I are going to be off, so we're
not gonna be able to do this right before the day.
And I thought, there's there are people in this listening
audience who are having a feeling of dread about their
holiday plans, and I think maybe we could help. What
do you think about having people send in any kind
of random Thanksgiving question? Don't know how to cook the turkey,
don't know how to deal with your crazy aunt? Got

(34:51):
a liberal lease that you know is going to drive
you crazy. This is your chance to ask those questions.

Speaker 6 (34:56):
And if you have no gripes whatsoever in life is great,
then why Mandy have people as an alternative tell.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
Us what you're thinkingful for? Well, that's an excellent alternative,
thank you, excellent why yogi text it in. She's bringing
wine and wine glasses. She's making a fantastic sweet potato
castroll with maple glazed spicy pecans as the topper. I'm sorry,
where is it right now?

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Wait?

Speaker 3 (35:19):
Just wait. Those are for her family celebration. She also
makes amazing green chili sausage balls. I love sausage balls.
But she will be bringing scalloped potatoes on December ninth,
when she is on our show next to see if
a Rod can appreciate those understanding that no one can
make something better than mama. She actually put that on
the text message. I saw that. I would love that.

(35:42):
A lot of people are suggesting the Rick Lewis project.
I'm totally reaching out to Rick to see if they
would record it. So yeah, yeah, Mandy, I didn't already
port green chili as a side for your Thanksgiving dinner
goes great with mashed potatoes, turkey, and ham green chili
has been a staple in my family holiday dinners that
from Trail Runner twenty four never had that that sounds

(36:03):
so good. I am just gonna say this, guys. Being
from east of the Mississippi, I had never, not once
in my entire existence, heard of green chili until I
moved here. The best ever anything that can go on anything.
I was forty four years old before I knew was
a thing. And when I got out here, we went
out to eat a few times, especially for breakfast when

(36:24):
you get a breakfast rado and they smothered it and
I was like, why is everything smothered in green chili
all the time? And Chuck still doesn't care for it.
But I have acquired a taste for it. I've acquired
a taste for green chili. I really love. Like you
know what I love, which is more of a New
Mexico thing than a Colorado thing, is when you do
it up Christmas, when you got the red chili and
the green chili and you got you a hatch, you're

(36:46):
a hatcher. Well no, no, I'm just saying like, I don't
care if you slow or hatch. I have to pick. Yeah,
I cannot make an informed decisions.

Speaker 6 (36:53):
You must right now. No ipot, don't actual really good
green chili? Or do you like well is basically tomatiosa?

Speaker 4 (37:01):
What is this?

Speaker 3 (37:02):
What is the difference? That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (37:04):
Pueblo green chili the superior that is like all over everything,
it's like just it's so much more beefier and pork
and great.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
And then there's hats where it's basically tomatio sauce with
no meat. No meat, Okay, I want them to think
so I want the meat, So that's what I want.
Ralph says, I can't sing if I try outside the shower.
The un says my singing is a war crime. Well,
then perhaps this is not the contest for you, Ralph Mandy,
is there a restaurant out there that serves Thanksgiving dinner?

(37:32):
On Thanksgiving? I don't want to cook her clean up afterwards. Yes, ma'am. Indeed,
that would be the Black Eyepea. They are open for
Thanksgiving and delicious Black Eyepea dot com find the real
location near you. I don't think they're open all day.
I do think that they either open late or open
or close early. I'm not positive. Just go check ou

(37:53):
out on the website and give them a call, and
they do a great job. Mandy, I'd like to take
a box of jello and throw a couple of handfuls
of special recipe Colorado gummy bears into it. I call
it mellow Jello. Okay, that is fantastic text. I have
a story on the blog today that I started laughing
when I read this story. I am not kidding. It's

(38:15):
down near. Wait hang on, I'm scrolling, still scrolling. I
do the scrolling at the same time you guys do.
By the way, hang on, let me find it. It's
about the cousin walk. What is the cousin walk? If
you have to ask, then you never had the kind
of the same kind of bad habits that friends of
mine had. The cousin walk is like right before the meal,

(38:37):
all the cousins of a certain age, you're like, you
know what, let's go for a walk, or let's go
we'll go get more ice. What else do you need?
We're gonna run to seven eleven. And then when they
come back, they're in such a better mood and ready
to eat. That's because they're all stoned. And now in
the Wall Street Freaking Journal, there is a story about

(38:58):
the cousin walk, and now what used to be subversive
is now become de rigor. Everybody's doing it. I laughed
out loud. And I can't be the only one, of
course now I'm too busy making everything perfect. Just kidding.
I'm not that. I'm not like that. My Thanksgiving question

(39:19):
is Texter said, because they've texted the Common Spirit health
text line at five six six nine. Oh, my Thanksgiving question?
How can we eliminate all sweet potatoes from the face
of the earth. That is hate speech, Texter, don't make
me block you. I love sweet potatoes, and when you're
from the South, we don't do that. The marshmallow topping
that is too sweet for me. You do that, and

(39:40):
then you do the pecan tapping like the one that
win Nyoki was talking about. Woof, so good, so good. Anyway, No,
I'm gonna pretend that ugly question did not happen. Thanksgiving awkward.
My sister who lives in Wyoming, who missed both my
kids' weddings this year year and posted on Facebook she

(40:02):
went to a Broncos game and didn't call or visit
while here. Wow, so that is a big one. And
are you text her having so you're all gonna be
together for Thanksgiving and I'm assuming that you're so you
have kids that got married, she posted to a Broncos game.
This is what I would do, And you can do
whatever you want. By the way, I make no guarantees

(40:23):
about what happens if you do this advice. And if
you do this advice and it doesn't go well, I'm
just gonna say, well, you probably did it wrong. Okay,
so don't come back at me. But what I would
do is I would. I would. I would literally like
nip it right out of the chute, Like as soon
as you see her walk up, give her a hug
and say, saw you were a Broncos game. What's up
with that? You didn't even call me? There you go,

(40:46):
there you go. Just drop the bomb and let her explain.
Maybe it was because she got a ride with someone else,
or maybe it's because your breath is bad. I don't know.
I don't know. There's nothing wrong with just saying, hey,
you know what a kind of hurt my feelings when
you blow off my kids wedding. Kind of hurt my
feelings when you didn't even call us to say have

(41:06):
you ever had to do that a rod where you
were going to a place where you knew people, but
you knew you weren't going to have enough time to
see them, Like I when we go on a cruise,
for instance, I have friends who live in the Fort
Lauderdale area, and when we fly in the night before
and then we leave the next day, I'm not gonna
have time to see them. We don't get to the
hotel till midnight, right. So I always call them in
advance and say, Hey, I just wondered you to know

(41:27):
I'm gonna be in your hood, but I don't have
time to get together. I think that's a nice way
to do it, but some people they don't think about that.

Speaker 6 (41:34):
By the way, texture, I know that Hatch and Pueblo
are the types of chili's. It's the meat that is
put in it. After the fact, Yeah, it's that Pueblo.
Green chili typically is more meteor and has more meat.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
I want the Pueblo, Yes, Mary. Green chili gets ruined
when they include the stems that would just automatically make
my I've never made it. I can't I can't do it.
My kids and grandkids will all be gone this Christmas.
Any suggestions of fun things to do Christmas Eve or
Christmas Day for my spouse and I, you know what,
here's the thing. Why not do something completely weird and

(42:12):
and you know, find a like I don't know what's
open on Christmas Eve, but there's a place called Upstairs
Circus where you make crafts and you can have cocktails
and it's fun. Do something completely bizarre. I need suggestions
for this woman for her and her husband Mandy. For Thanksgiving?
Whose house do I go to? Mom and Dad are
in laws. It's so tiresome to go to two houses

(42:33):
for dinner. This one is easy. One year you go
with your parents. The next year you go with the
in laws, and you tell the parents that you say, look,
this year we're going to the in laws. Do you
want to have dinner with us on Friday or Saturday
after Thanksgiving? That person's trying to do both in one day.
Oh a rod. When my parents got divorced, okay, so
my parents got divorced in the seventies, No one in

(42:54):
my town, nobody's parents were divorced. So it was like
we were these these these explorers children trying to navigate
this entirely new world. And for like three or four years,
we went to Thanksgiving at my dad's house and my
mom's house all the same day, Christmas at my mom's
house at my dad's house, and finally my mom was like,
this is terrible. So we started doing Thanksgiving at my

(43:17):
mom's house the Sunday before of Thanksgiving, which actually worked
out really well when we became adults because we all
chose careers that we didn't have Thanksgiving off. I was
a flight attendant, my brother was working in the restaurant industry,
so we always got together the Saturday before. But it's like,
I was like, so let's see how old as I
am thinking. I was like twelve when I just said,

(43:38):
I'm not doing this anymore. This isn't happening. So you
just have to negotiate. You just talk to everybody in
advance so we're done feeling like, you know, stuffed as
pigs when we get through the day. So we're gonna
make it better. And if they don't understand, then point
out they're not being very helpful. I find people really
respond to you just saying you're not being very help helpful. Anyway, Mandy,

(44:03):
I was blessed today. I donated in person one hundred
dollars to the food Bank during your show, and I
received one hundred dollars today unexpectedly. That's fantastic. I love that.
So you have to come back and donate one thousand
dollars next year. Just saying, Mandy, did you hear that
good old Kentucky Mitch in the Senate slid in a
sneaky bill that takes away the legality of HEMP? No

(44:25):
more THHC and CBD, bye bye, good night's sleep, Mandy.
That is not at all what happened. He did screw
over a bunch of growers in Kentucky, but it has anyway,
we'll get into that. I wanted to make sure I
read the entire bill first, and I did. I'll have
more on that when I get back from vacation. Will

(44:47):
you ever get Dave or Mike back on to do
a fun segment? And I make the best green chili
in town, y'all. That's funny that you mentioned Dave. I
called him today on the way to work. It went
to voicemail, but I called him today just to check.
He has turned me down every single time I asked
him to come on the show. Every single time. He
just is he's retired. He's happy, he's living his best life,

(45:10):
and he feels like that part of his life is done.
And if you knew Dave, you would understand like, once
he makes up his mind, he just makes up his mind.
How long was he here?

Speaker 6 (45:19):
Oh god, thirty years? Yeah, whole time with you at
KOA were you?

Speaker 3 (45:25):
Was he with you? He was with Mike Rosen? Yeah,
I mean he was with Mike Rosen for twenty three
of those years, and then he was with me, I
think for seven and so yeah, I just think and
I will always adore Dave and he is always welcome
on this show back all day.

Speaker 6 (45:40):
It was a producer sat in the studio and there
was another.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
Person who ran the board. Ah h, do I invite
a family member who is a devoted Antifa member and
the rest of the family is pretty middle to right
of center. Fireworks would be huge. Here's the thing. I
always think that you should extend the invitation, but the
invitation absolutely should go like this, Hey person, we'll call

(46:08):
him Andy Antifa. Andy Antifa get it, Hey, Andy, we
would love to have you come for Thanksgiving. But I
have to be honest, I am not at all interested
in any kind of political fireworks. And you know, you
don't share the same politics as the rest of the family.
So we'd love to have you come and be a
part of the family and enjoy family stuff, but we're
not interested in any kind of political fireworks. And let

(46:31):
him decide. Let him decide, and then if he comes
and acts the pool and shows his rear end, then
you can say, and this is what I wanted to avoid.
It was great seeing you, but you can go now.
I just think people are too afraid to address the
elephant in the room before it even happens. And awesome,
it would be awesome just to see what happened. So
you're gonna have to let me know a text her

(46:52):
what happens there, Mandy. I make the best pie cruss.
I've been told once per year it's pumpkin custard pie.
The custard makes the difference, best variation on pumpkin pie.
No whipped cream required or desired. I too make excellent
pie crust thanks to the Pie Academy cookbook series, The
Pie Academy Pie Academy. It's phenomenal. It's one of the

(47:14):
best cookbooks. Oh you know what I forgot to put
on my So I'm working on a blog post you
guys for my Christmas gifts and my Christmas Gifts suggestions.
I'm going to put those up next week when I
am on vacation. I'm going to do it this weekend
because I have a list of stuff that I think
would make really good Christmas gifts. And I have like
four cookbooks that I got this year that are all.

(47:34):
I didn't get Pie Academy this year, but if you
have a cook in your life, like some of these
cookbooks are just beautiful and phenomenal and very informative. So
I would put my pie crusts up against cinnebat Has. Now, Hey, Mandy,
I have family and old friends in Saint Louis and
always make it a point to tell the other when
I'm coming in to see the other group of people,

(47:55):
so they don't see it on social media or hear
about it from a third party. That's just a kindness
that says, look, guys, even though I'm not going to
be able to see you this time, I value your
friendship and I never want you to feel left out.
It's so simple.

Speaker 6 (48:09):
So they reach out and say, hey, I'm coming but
not to see you.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's what it's like. Hey, I've
got I'm coming for a specific reason. I'm coming in
town for a wedding. This is not as much of
a problem for you because you're from this area and
you don't It's like when I go back to Florida,
there are people all over the state that are like,
when can we see you?

Speaker 6 (48:29):
Yeah, but that sounds exhausting, Like to go out of
your way and let people know, Hey, I'm not going
to see you, but I'll be in town.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
Don't get mad at me. It is exhausting that have
to dealing with drama later in her Oh my, hey, Ron,
these are people that are important to me. These aren't
my casual Facebook friends. These are people that are important
and matter, and their friendship is important to me. I'm
not calling everybody on my Facebook page every time I
go home. They should know if you have time, you

(48:54):
would make time. So don't assume the worst.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
Away.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
I would never get behind it. I would.

Speaker 6 (49:06):
Well, I'm thinking about you a little different. I like that,
but not like, Hey, just so you know, don't.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
Get mad at me.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
You're gonna see it in town, but I can't see you.
I am solving Thanksgiving problems, just send them to the
text line at five sixty six nine. Oh, this one's
a good one, Mandy. Is the Irish goodbye appropriate at
the Thanksgiving dinner at a relative's house. No, you can
Irish goodbye everyone except the actual host and hostess. You
have to go to them. And if you want to

(49:33):
go quietly, just say, look, I have got to go.
I've got a place to be, blah blah blah, whatever
your thing is, or I just need to go, and
I don't want to have a big thing, So thank
you so much for your kindness. I'm gonna sneak out
the back door. You cannot Irish goodbye the hosts at Thanksgiving,
and like if you got your grandma there, you can't
disrespect the elders, so be careful with that one. I

(49:55):
would not recommend it. I come from the land of
Southern goodbyes, where you say, hey, y'all, I'm fixing to go,
and then like half an hour later you walk to
the door, you start putting on your coat or your jacket,
and somebody's like, wait, did you get enough leftovers? And
then like twenty minutes later and three country croc containers
in your hands, you're finally walking to the car. You

(50:18):
make it to the car, you put the country crock
containers in the back, and then you turn around. There's
like eight people there who are just there to hug
your neck. I mean, I just want to hug your
neck one more time. I don't know what I'm gonna
see you again. Then you get in the car, you
roll down the window and you see in there and
continue the conversation for like another twenty minutes until you
finally start backing up and everybody waves and it's seven

(50:41):
hours since you started saying goodbye. So I'm not opposed
to the concept of the Irish goodbye. You just need
to deploy it very very carefully and expect them blowback later,
especially if you have like cousins same age. They're the
ones that are like, dude, not cool, not cool at all,
And now I have to take your country crock container,

(51:03):
just saying it's hey, do you people Do people out
here use the country crock container the way that Southerners do.
It's like you will literally go into someone's house and
they will have a refrigerator full of country crock containers
because they're big country, the big butter, the fake butter croc. Yeah,

(51:25):
Country Croc, it's a fake butter. Oh well what about it? Yeah?
We have that. But do you reuse the containers sometimes?

Speaker 6 (51:33):
I maybe when I was younger. I don't see it
used anymore. Were used.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
I guarantee you right now, if I could fly into Florida,
into my hometown and walk into one of my friend's
houses there, I would open up their refrigerator and there
would be like six country crock containers. Most common use
just leftovers. So then you have to put them all
out and look, pull it out, look, pull it out,
look total house. Those go in the trash. No, that's

(51:58):
just wasteful. Mandy, who's filling in for you next week?
That would be a missus Debrah Flora Monday through Wednesday, Mandy,
I thought the guy who wrote your theme song sang
it too didn't knowse Ai. Guys, we have been so
open about that being AI. I don't want you to
think we were trying to pull a fast one. Please
have the next person who sings it pronounce the lu

(52:20):
In ruling the day. That is the reason no one
can understand that word that ever rrects. I got to
continue ruins.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
Why Yogi, I need your green chili. Oh wait, is
your green chili meatball recipe on your blog posting? That's
that's what this texture needs. We need that divorce parents
and then add in a spouse who does two sides
of family. It's awful, yep, correct, Mandy. When I was
a kid, I had three houses to split my divorce
parents and girl girlfriend's parents. We had three wonderful turkey dinners.

(52:53):
That's just cruel. It's awful, horrible, just awful, Mandy. I
should have clarified about the stems in the green chili.
When a restaurant uses mass produced green chili, it's not
uncommon for stems to be in it. You can tell
when it's homemade. I better not be no stem ever
my green chili. I'm get angry, gross, Mandy. I keep

(53:18):
all of my recipes in one and a half inch
free ring binders. I have six of them full, approximately
sixty pages each in plastic slipcovers. Each slipcover colds two
recipes digities. My son has requested a copy of all
my books for his Christmas gift. I've copied three so far,
and I'm still working. But let me tell you it
made my heart warm to know he wanted all of

(53:38):
the family recipes. Didn't know I had started such a
great tradition. I hope they get passed down me too.
I have a similar cookbook, and that is my goal.
When I feel like I have the recipes that I love,
I'm actually gonna have a cookbook made for my family
and then be able to have them have and maybe
I'll let you guys have a copy. I don't know,
just a small diversion, and I'd just like to say
I look forward to listening to your show, so every day.

(54:00):
You're an amazing, witty lady, and a rod is fantastic.
Go to miss you guys next week, but do enjoy
your vacations and stay safe out there. Happy Thanksgiving to
you and your families, and you and yours too as well. Mandy,
your description of the Southern goodbye is so spot on.
My whole family is from Kentucky in every gathering involved
the Southern goodbye for the person who said real butter only.

(54:24):
Of course, I don't eat the country croc I just
tell you that they're all in the fridge with leftovers
in them. I can't believe it. I'm from Gainesville, which
is right near my hometown. This texter said, I'm from Gainesville,
and I laughed when you said the country croc container story.
And you are so correct about the Southern goodbyes. This
texter said, Thanksgiving wasn't family like for me and my parents,

(54:46):
as my father was adopted, but then my grandparents had
their own birthed children, and then my dad and another
adopted son fell out of favor, and then so did
their families. So we just don't celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas
as seriously as others may. And I just don't feel
bad about it. And I don't think that makes me
a bad person either. And here's the thing, Texter, I

(55:09):
didn't love Christmas when I was a kid. I mean
I did because it was Christmas, but I didn't have
like those Hallmark family Christmases, especially after my parents got
divorced when I was nine, So I didn't have good,
warm and fuzzies about Christmas. As I became an adult,
I was like, you know what, I'm a grown up.
I can make Christmas whatever I want to make Christmas,
and so I have. I have the things that I enjoy.

(55:31):
I have my Christmas decorations that I love As a
matter of fact, I'm decorating this weekend for Christmas because
I don't have to do it next weekend. So I'm
decorating this week for Christmas. And one of my favorite
things to do all year is just stand there and
take We have two trees. We have the family ornaments,
the heirloom ornaments on one tree, and then we just
have a tree for travel ornaments. Because everywhere we go

(55:53):
we get an ornament that became challenging in Japan, not
a Christian country. We need to rethink this. But anyway,
I stand there and I unwrap my ornaments and I
get I think about where we got him. I just
I love it. So do whatever makes your heart happy.
That's your tradition. You know. I hope you don't spend
a lot of time reflecting on why it's your tradition.

(56:14):
But you're a grown up. You can do whatever you want.

Speaker 6 (56:17):
And encourage to try maybe one more time, to give
it an honest try at the traditional you know, Thanksgiving
and Christmas. See how it makes you feel there, you
makes your warmond fuzzy. Yep, you don't make your own thing,
like many said.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
Whatever you want it to be. I mean it's that's
the thing. There's no I've I've long held there's no
right or way. I mean, there's some better ways to
do the holidays full of joy in your heart. But
you still can look at Thanksgiving and be grateful for
the things that you do have. And that's another thing.
I have a great column on the blog from the
Rocky Mountain Voice today about gratitude and gratitude is the
great mental game changer, because there's so many times in

(56:54):
life when things are just not going well and that
things are happening out of your control and you just
are trying to manage everything, trying to keep all the
plates spinning, as they say, and the only thing you
can control sometimes is your perspective and how you look
at it and how you are addressing that as an issue.

(57:16):
Hey am stoicism correct. But also when you are having
a really rotten time and you start thinking about and
even if you're having a great time, you start thinking
about things you're grateful for, it really you start ticking
things off. And sometimes it is when I turn on
the faucet, clean water comes out. We don't spend a
lot of time being grateful for the things that we

(57:36):
take for granted every day in this country. But when
you start listing things that you're grateful for, it gives
you a different thing that you start to see. You know,
my friend father Mike says, you find what you seek
in this world. And if you are looking for things
to be grateful for, that is what you will find.

(57:57):
If you're looking for reasons to be miserable, hundred percent,
you will find things to be miserable about. Mandy. These
Midwesterners don't know what country croc is. It's in the
fridge next to the Sunny's Barbecue styrofoam clamshell container. Who
has leftovers from Sonny's. Although Sunny's Barbecue as Southeastern chain

(58:18):
that is outstanding, love it. But when I moved to Kentucky,
I found out that Congressman John Yarmouth thankfully retired now
was part owner of Sonny's Barbecue. And I will just
say this, there was not a snowballs chance in hell
I was ever given that man another dollar of my money.
And I have not eaten there, sense never had it.

(58:40):
That's all along. Hold a grudge. Oh they're baked beans.
Oh they're so good, Like I can taste them right now,
I can taste Sonny's baked beans in my mouth right now,
big chunks of meat in there. Anyway, let me see
this why you, he says, make your standard sauce balls,

(59:00):
but use Polydori's Green Chili breakfast sausage instead of regular.
So that's something I'm gonna try. Restaurants open on Thanksgiving
with reservations are Seasons fifty two, Yard House and Ruth
Chris and Please. When you walk in and the hostess says,
do you have a reservation, just look at our dead
in the eye and say, we had some reservations, but

(59:22):
we came here anyway. It's one of my favorite jokes. Yep,
I say it every time every time. Hey, Mandy in
the spirit have asked me anything Friday? Do you send
out Christmas cards? I think there's nothing better than to
receive a Christmas card during the Christmas season. I have
not for the last few years, but I wrote down
everybody who sent me a Christmas card last year and bye, Gosh,

(59:43):
by Golly, I'm sending them a Christmas card back this year.
I like Christmas cards. I wish that tradition would revive.
Of course, now it's like ninety seven dollars to send
out Christmas cards. Wa are stamps eight to fifty now
thirty seven dollars, but they last forever, Mandy. In the past,

(01:00:04):
we had dinner with one side of the family, then
dessert with the other half. It was a pain in
the families used to fight over who had us for
what half. Now we switch off between the two families.
That's just the only way to do it, and everybody
should work together on that, Mandy. Instead of using Country
crock containers, I usually go to the Dollar Store and
buy a couple of containers for guests to take home.
This is why I save my Chinese food containers, those

(01:00:27):
clear Chinese food containers that you like soup in. You
know what I'm talking about. Do you ever order Chinese food? Yeah?
Those are fantastic for sending food home with people, Mandy.
Did we ever get Dave Lowers cheesecake recipe?

Speaker 6 (01:00:39):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
We did. And if you want Dave Lowers cheesecake recipe
l A U E R apostrophe s. All you have
to do is use the Google machine and type in
Dave Lowers cheesecake recipe and you will get a link
to an old log with that recipe on it. The
best cheesecakes on Earth. It's so good. God, it weighs

(01:01:00):
like ninety pounds. It's so good, worth every pound, Mandy.
We made a family cookbook with recipes and little anecdotes
for each recipe, and we've made over fifty copies for
family and their extended family and friends. It's being passed along.
I love that, love it, Mandy. After listening to you
and a Rod drone on, I just want to let

(01:01:21):
you know I'm going to be in town next week,
but I won't have time to listen to your show.
I think we should just enjoy our break, catch you
on the rebound. Keep up the good work.

Speaker 6 (01:01:34):
Fantastic, Hi, Well, won't be droning anywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
I love that comment. If you didn't hear the earlier
conversation we had about letting people know anyway, I will
be right back. Sometimes you guys just text me stuff
that makes me laugh out loud, like actually burst out laughing.
And this one, Mandy, Country Crock is a pinnacle of butterwear.
I burst out laughing, and then it was following me

(01:02:00):
dely by. I had a tub of butter for lunch
when I grabbed the wrong container exactly exactly Mandy empty
nester is looking for something to do on Christmas in
New Year's Whoopsie, Sorry, that's a updated writer. As I
was looking at it looking for something to do on
Christmas and New Year's. Nuggets play at home on Christmas

(01:02:22):
night and Avs play at home on New Year's Eve.
That's from Karen.

Speaker 5 (01:02:27):
A.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
Rod.

Speaker 3 (01:02:27):
We've got some fighting words on the blog or on
the text line. We go, Mandy. Country crock containers are
used to store Pueblo chili before tossing in the trash.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
Hatch.

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
Oh wait, that's I had that backwards. Sorry, wait are
you prop Are we probe Pueblo or are we pro
hatch Pueblo?

Speaker 7 (01:02:45):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:02:45):
Okay, all day fighting words then, yes, Mandy. I tried
to Google search Poppy's image and AI told me this
was a very good dog named Poppy. M A right, Mandy.
When my daughter moved into apartment in college, my mom
put together a family recipe cookbook for her. Every once
in a while, I'll get a call or text that
she made something from the cookbook. This is my new

(01:03:06):
favorite suggestion, Anthony. When we go to a restaurant, says
this text, and we have to put our name on
a waitlist. We use Awesome as our name, so when
they call out Awesome Party of two, I stand up
and say I'm Awesome. I love it when at Disney.
If you ever have to make reservations at Disney, I
always use the last name Disney for my reservation. They

(01:03:26):
don't know Walt Party of two. Walt. Yes anyway, Mandy.
Do people still do the early morning Black Friday shopping
thing at stores or malls. I don't think that's even
a thing anymore. More and more stores are staying closed later,

(01:03:47):
meaning they're not opening up at five o'clock in the morning,
so you can get a three hundred dollars television for
twenty five dollars.

Speaker 6 (01:03:52):
Those they do like a week long thing. It's a
lot of cyber deals.

Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
I have a story on the blog today that kind
of gives you some advice if you're Black Friday's shopping.
But I don't think there's gonna be super deep discounts.
I don't know. Thirty percent is basically what they're saying.
If you can find thirty percent off, you're doing good.
Here's a dad joke. The chat GBT just sent me
says this texter I used to be addicted to the
hokey pokey, but then I turned myself around. Thank you

(01:04:21):
Kokomo was my niece's favorite song. She just died of
cancer at forty. Well, thanks for that text. I'm terribly
sorry for your loss. Mandy debate. Does mac and cheese
belong at the Thanksgiving table?

Speaker 4 (01:04:33):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
It does. No, not at my table. No, oh gosh.
In the South, it's at everybody's table. Mac and cheese
is a staple. But we're just not really. I gotta
tell you, I raised the one kid who doesn't like
mac and cheese anymore, doesn't really enjoy it. Ruh. She
didn't like it. She did when she was a kid,

(01:04:54):
when she was What happened, I don't know how old
she was, she was maybe four, and she learned the
word spicy. And I give her mact craft mac and cheese.
Actually we use the Annie's Organic because we're bougie. And
I give her the Annie's Organic, you know, mac and cheese,
and she's like, it's too spicy, Mama, too spicy. I'm like,
there is not a bit of spice in that macaroni
and cheese. Mandy, can you please tell us the craft

(01:05:18):
you're doing with your mom? Nope, but if you follow
me on Instagram you'll see it. Next week. I bought
the things to do a craft with my mom and
my daughter and I cannot wait. Hi, Mandy, please tell
us no, I'd already read that. Yeah, I'm not going
anywhere next week on vacation. My mom is coming to visit.
We have a full schedule of events. We're gonna go
see the last dress rehearsal of the nineteen forty radio

(01:05:41):
version of It's a Wonderful Life that they're putting together
at Minor Sally. We're gonna go to the Chris Kindle Market.
We're gonna go have really good dim sum, and then
we're gonna have Thanksgiving and then we're gonna make a
craft and then uh, she's gonna go home. So busy day,
Mandy for ask me anything Friday. You probably heard this
comment before, But when you say it the top of
each hour, say welcome, welcome, welcome, I'm thrown back to

(01:06:03):
the days of Fuzzy Bear on The Muppet Show. You
know what's funny is I started doing that without even
realizing that that is totally fuzzy Bear Fozzy Bear, not
Fuzzy Fozzy Bear, and you're probably the first person that's
ever made that connection. I'm not kidding. My name is Pat,
so I always use Pat Man at restaurants. That way

(01:06:25):
I can walk up and say I'm Pat Man in
a deep voice. No, I like it, No, Manny, I
use the name Donner when setting reservations Donner Party. Wait,
never mind, Mandy, what's your favorite gun to shoot at
the range? I have a nice little three eighty that
works perfect for me. I mean we're talking handguns, long guns.

(01:06:46):
What are we doing? I need more specificity. I myself
have a fantastic thirty eight revolver that I can shoot
lights out. I have a nine millimeter that's pretty good,
if that's what you're asking. Man.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Connell's show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock Accident and
injury Lawyers.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
No, it's Mandy Connell and Condall.

Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
Koa ninem got Sady and the nicety.

Speaker 4 (01:07:21):
Andy tronal keying, No sad thing.

Speaker 3 (01:07:25):
Welcome, Local, Welcome, Give a third hour of the show.
Stay tuned for your chance to re record the AI
version of the Mandy Connell song as my Company. No,
I mean I don't own the company. I do own
stock in the company, but I don't anyway. I heart
media is going all in on real human beings and
making a commitment that when you hear music and stuff

(01:07:45):
like that and people talking, it's real humans, not AI.
So we are looking to put our AI out of business.
More details on that coming up soon. Let's talk for
a minute about the latest bit of stupidity that we
in the United States of America are all supposed to
be super mad about. Because I I've now had my

(01:08:06):
own show since two thousand and five, so I have
lived through so many manufactured outrages, and I'll admit it.
I will admit it. At some points in my career,
I too have gotten sucked into the manufactured outrage, but
I am far too cynical for that anymore. It all
started with this video, May I have my audio, please, Anthony?

(01:08:29):
Put up by a bunch of Democrats who used to
serve in the military. And I'm not even to play
the whole thing, but I'm gonna play enough so you
get the vibe. Oh, come on.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
Representative Chris Stluzio.

Speaker 3 (01:08:42):
Good Lander, Representative Chrissy Hulahn, Congressman Jason Crowe. I was
a captain in the United States Navy, former CIA officer,
former Navy, former paratrooper and Army ranger, former intelligence officer,
former Air Force. We want to speak directly to members
of the military.

Speaker 6 (01:08:57):
And the intelligence community to take risks each day keep
Americans safe.

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now.
Americans trust their military, but that trust.

Speaker 7 (01:09:07):
Is at risk.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
This administration is pitting our uniform, military.

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
And intelligence community professionals against American citizens like us.

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
You all swore an oath to protect and defend this constitution.

Speaker 3 (01:09:18):
Right now, the threats to our constitution aren't just coming
from a broad from right here at home. Our laws
are clear.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
You can refuse illegal orders.

Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
No one has to carry out orders that violate the
law or our constitution.

Speaker 4 (01:09:36):
We know this is hard and that it's a difficult
time to be a public.

Speaker 3 (01:09:39):
Servant, but whether you're serving in the CIA.

Speaker 7 (01:09:41):
The Army, or Navy, Air Force, your vigilance is critical
and know that we.

Speaker 6 (01:09:46):
Have your back.

Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
I just want to stop right there, because I don't
remember any of these people standing up and telling people
in the media that they or people in the military
that they should defy an a legal order that force
them to get a vaccine they didn't want, although in
the military you sign away your rights to do any
of that. Notice what's missing from this video, any specific accusations,

(01:10:09):
any specific instance where illegal orders were given. Anything. There's
no substance to this. But this is not the point
of this. The point of this is exactly what Trump did.
Trump doesn't just come back, he comes back with this.
It's called seditious behavior at the highest level. Each one

(01:10:31):
of these traders to our country should be arrested and
put on trial. Their words cannot be allowed to stand.
We won't have a country anymore. An example must be
set President DJT via social media. And now the Democrats
are running around telling everyone the president is calling for

(01:10:53):
our murder. No, no, he's not, he's not. But good lord,
can Trump just not bite on everything? Can you just
let anything go? He's back given Jimmy Kimmel oxygen, demanding
Jimmy kim will be fine because Jimmy said mean things
about Trump. How here's one. Here's when mister president turn

(01:11:15):
off the television. How about you just ignore him? This
is there. There's literally nothing of substance in any of this,
Nothing of substance. And yet I realize this is where
I'm about talk show host. I'm supposed to be a perplective.
I'm supposed to be super bad. In the meantime, Congress

(01:11:40):
still isn't passing the budgets that it needs to pass.
Do you really think Congress is gonna come up with
twelve budgets between now and the end of January when
they just punted another continuum resolution full of Biden era.
By the way, when I say the budget is full
of Biden Ira spending, it's still full of Obama era spending.
Oh yeah, it's still full of Bush era spending. They've

(01:12:04):
just been adding more money to it this whole time.
I just I cannot this, Texter said Mandy. I left
Jason Crow a message expressing my disgust with his video.
I encourage everyone else to do the same. And if
he is your remember of Congress, that is absolutely your right,
and you absolutely that's a perfect way to handle it.
Put the back and forth. Give me a break. The

(01:12:27):
Democrats are desperate still to this day, to prove that
the right is the party of violence. The problem is
is that right now on their ledger they've got way
more red than we do way more red. The death
of Charlie Kirk is still out there, and as much
as candas Owen's in her batpoof crazy Way is trying

(01:12:48):
to tell you that it was some big conspiracy, that
was a leftist Mandy Kimmel told Trump, quiet, piggy, excellent.
I'm just weary of Frankly, I'm weary of Trump acting
like a spoiled child. I'm weary of the lack of
dignity in the office. Now, it's one thing to go

(01:13:10):
after wrongs, and I do believe that he is going
after some wrongs, and the left hates that. The left
wants to tell you that he's weaponized the DJ to
go after political enemies, while completely ignoring the way that
so many prior administrations weaponize the DJ to go after
their political enemies. So I don't have a lot of
tolerance with that kind of nonsense. But this kind of stupidity,

(01:13:31):
and you know what it is the Democrats. This is
just the Democrats, is what they did. The Democrats are like, yeah,
you know what, Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna take down
that guy by just making comments that are just disparaging
things that haven't happened yet, And then in response, Trump's like,
oh yeah, why don't I make comments about things that
aren't gonna happen. It's just so stupid and petty and

(01:13:52):
small by everyone. I do think it's interesting that they're
calling for, you know, military members to sacrifice their careers.
I think it would be very interesting if somebody did
ask them, did you support the force vaccinations with COVID vaccines?
Did you support the military members who were kicked out

(01:14:13):
because they didn't want to take that? Because it's funny
whether they're telling people to resist now when they were
telling them that all resistance was feudal during that situation.
A super cute picture of my dog Jinks wearing her
second shirt that has convinced her she is a human.
And of course, the results of Poppy's big DNA test
also on the blog as well. So I got a

(01:14:34):
lot of stuff on the blog that I haven't gotten
to today, and one of them is if you want
to cut down your own Christmas tree? Did you guys
do this when you were a kid? Were you that family,
not like up.

Speaker 6 (01:14:46):
On the mountain, but like in the lot at any
place where?

Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
Were you just go pick it out? I'm talking about
going and cutting it down, you know, like actually saw
it taking a saw ourselves. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:14:56):
No, no, we would go like to a lot and
we would have them do the thing and trim it
and all that.

Speaker 3 (01:15:02):
And I got to tell you it's like normally I think, oh,
that sounds horrible because you got to shoal up through
the snow, you got to find the right tree, you
got to schlepp some more. And I said this to
Chuck last and I said, this would be the ear
that I want to go cut down a Christmas tree
because there's no snow yet. And he goes, oh God,
then you got to drag it through the mud. And
I was like, ah, I hadn't thought about that. But

(01:15:23):
there's a lot of ways and places that you can
get a tree on Bureau of Land Management land, but
you have to have a permit. Of course, the government
has to have their cut always. The government always has
to have their cut. There's a couple of stories near
the bottom of the blog, but I want to get
into this one right now. You know the bombing of

(01:15:50):
drug boats that's been going on by the Trump administration,
and I've expressed some concern about it. I don't like
the notion of extra judicious killing, and in response, the
Trump administration declared the Narco cartel's terrorist organizations, therefore opening
up a different kind of legality, I guess, but I

(01:16:10):
was truly like, why are we so focused on Venezuela
and Venezuelan drug dealers when in reality, most of, if
not all, of the drugs that are coming through Venezuela
are coming from a different country, namely Colombia. That I
read this article from the Wall Street Journal and theadline
the web of Venezuelan general is accused of fueling the

(01:16:32):
cocaine trade. And there's nothing surprising in this at all.
Nicholas Maduro, who has overseen the destruction of his nation's economy,
he's still living high on the hog. How's he doing it? Well,
he's doing it because drug cartels in Colombia are paying
a kind of a loose network of people in Venezuela,
many of them generals in the Venezuelan Army, for safe

(01:16:56):
passage through parts of Venezuela, so they can then put
the drugs on drug boats in Venezuela and zip bang,
they come right up to the eastern coast of the
United States. So in order to agitate for or support
regime change in Venezuela in such a way that there
is hope for anything more than absolute chaos, would require

(01:17:22):
those generals to turn on Nicholas Maduro. Now, Nicholas Maduro,
according to not just our intelligence agencies, but the Colombian
intelligence agencies, Nicholas Maduro knows everything that's going on. He
knows exactly who's moving drugs through his country. He's getting
tons of kickbacks from that process. So the only way

(01:17:42):
to undermine that, and because not just he is getting rich,
but also the generals are getting rich, the only way
to undermine that is to cut off the money. And
if you blow up enough drug boats, the cartels will
look elsewhere to get their drugs to the United States
of America, and then you have a real shot at
overturning the Maduro regime, which, by the way, you know,

(01:18:05):
we suck at overturning other regimes. I don't know if
you've noticed this. We're terrible at this. We backed the
wrong horse so many times it's not even funny. But
we're big enough that we could push them over the
finish line. So regime change, I'm already skeptical, although I
welcome it. If the people of Venezuela actually did regime change,
that'd be fantastic. I would be like, Yes, Venezuela, do it.

(01:18:27):
But this is all part of the process of destabilizing
Venezuela and the hopes that regime change can take place,
because if we go in and depose this guy, absolute
chaos would break out. There'd be such a vacuum of leadership.
So I think this is all part of a bigger move.
But my question is, don't get me wrong, Venezuela's a
hot mess. Socialism is a disaster. We've gotten eight million

(01:18:50):
Venezuelans leaving that country, many of them coming here. But
why just Venezuela for the Trump administration? Does anybody have
any good guesses on that?

Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
Five?

Speaker 3 (01:19:00):
Six, six, nine, Oh, we'll be right back. Just got
this text message Mandy Denver Public Schools director of Finance
and Operations to Marcus Brookins was just put on leave
for his twenty one felony counts of investment from his
previous job with a woman's shelter in New Mexico. So
that's an interesting development. Does Black Eyed pe ask does

(01:19:22):
Texter have pumpkin pie for sale. Villagin used to have
the best. I like Whole Foods too. I don't know
what their pie sales situation is now. I asked the
question before the break, why is Trump so obsessed with Venezuela. Now,
I kind of pulled a fast one by telling you, guys,
I just don't understand it, because I wanted to see
what you would come up with. And this is once

(01:19:44):
again the smartest audience around. First of all, the first
Texter said, don't forget the alliance of Venezuela, China, Russia
and North Korea and Iran. They have an al Qaeda
training camp on an island and off of Venezuela. Winter
Winter Chicken Dinner number one. And then the very next

(01:20:05):
text message is Winter Winter Chicken Dinner number two with
it's all about oil. It's about those two things in
my view, But I think the first Texter got it
more right. When you want to disrupt that relationship, you
have to go after the weakest link in Venezuela is
by far the weakest link in all of that. I

(01:20:28):
think this is more about sending a message to Russia
and especially right Ran and also China that we're We're
not just gonna sit here and take it. We're not
let you establishing basis of operations on our continent. Even
though it's second link. You know we're connected. Though. It's fine, Mandy.

(01:20:51):
There's a privately owned lot up in northern Colorado that
we had taken a Rod and his brother to his kids,
where you can cut your own tree. Not for but
it was super cool. We almost cut one that had
a big owl in it, though can't remember the name.
That from b Rod, a Rod's mom. Offshore resources discovery
in the territory of Guyana most definitely two things for Venezuela.

(01:21:15):
Lots of passive oil and a passive site for a
US military base in South America. You guys are smart,
smart smart, Mandy. Don't like it when you guys are gone. However,
whoever fills in is always excellent and I don't miss
the show. I think Ben is my favorite. Though, then
stop texting caw so embarrassing. Okay, I gotta talk about

(01:21:38):
something serious for just a minute. Here, did you guys
see the video of the now former teacher beating her
kid under the guise of spanking. Now, I try not
to interfere in other people's discipline choices, right, everybody kind
of has to go their own way. But if you
want to know why people say you shouldn't spank your kids,

(01:22:01):
this video is case in point, and I'll describe it
for you. It's on the blog. I can't recommend you watching.
It's horrible. There's a woman, her name is Nicole Steeples.
She was teacher of the Year at Cottage, his Christian
academy at Mobile, Alabama, and she was quote disciplining her
young son who was being yelled at for not picking

(01:22:23):
up after himself and doing his chores. And she beats
the ever living crap out of this kid with a belt.
She just is out of control. She is screaming in
a space as she's picking him up by the hair.
She is awful. I cannot imagine treating another human being

(01:22:45):
like this, let alone my kid. Well, she's now been fired,
she's been arrested for child abuse. And the only reason
I bring this up is is like when we have
conversations about and we halreadly ever talk about child rearing
on this show, we just, I mean, most of us
are kind of done with our child rearing. And now
we get to see if we did a good job
or not our As our kids are adults, and even

(01:23:08):
better if they have their own kids, you get to
see what kind of job you did as a parent.

Speaker 7 (01:23:11):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:23:12):
But man, I I just and when I see this,
and I know that there are a lot of parents
who still discipline this way, I just think it's terrible.
And the fact that it was videotaped by the older
brother and then put on the internet for me says
this is not the first time this has happened in
that household. It just isn't. And now that the father

(01:23:34):
was out of town, but I don't think this is
the first time she's done this. She certainly looked like
she knew what she was doing. And the kid, and
I'm not blaming the kid in any way, shape or
form when I say this, the kid looked like he
knew how to take it in a way. He's not
fighting back, he's not doing any of that stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:23:54):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:23:54):
I grew up in the seventies and there was like
one time in my life when my mom was like,
wait until you're day gets home. And I don't even
I don't remember ever being spanked my entire childhood. And
when we add Q, we collectively decided that we were
Here's the thing. There's a difference between when you're trying
to get the attention of a toddler smacking him on
the butt. I mean literally like you know, hey, like that,

(01:24:18):
and what this woman is doing. But I think that
for many people, the line of what is potentially appropriate
and what is not appropriate is too shifty, and the
more people get out of control like this woman did,
she is out of control, completely out of control. So

(01:24:39):
when people talk about spanking and they're saying it's bad
and should never happen, this is what they're thinking about.
This is what they're referring to. What's been fascinating is
to watch people on social media defend her, And I
was like, dang man. I mean, don't get me wrong,
I grew up in an era where whoopings were a

(01:25:01):
part of the lives of many of my classmates, right,
especially the boys. We still have paddling in schools when
I was a kid, and the paddling went like this.
You had to go in, you got one, two or
three licks, depending on what you were doing. You put
your hands on the desk, and the vice principal would
get his wooden paddle and he'd whack, whack, whack, and

(01:25:22):
that was it. Controlled environment, no emotion, no nothing. Was
that the best way to handle things? Maybe not, but
I will tell you this, we didn't have the kind
of discipline issues that teachers have to deal with.

Speaker 5 (01:25:34):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:25:36):
Maybe there's a better way, Maybe just enforcing any kind
of discipline would have been better. But this is beyond
the pail, really beyond the pail. And the only reason
I put it down on the blog today is because
if you're wondering if you need to worry, look at

(01:25:58):
this and see if you go, yeah, that's about right,
And if you do, you need to worry. Mandy, I
don't understand why we would tell the kids to use
their words then turn around and hit them, truly discussing.
I'm telling you, this woman was just out of control.
You know, there's a whole psychological aspect when kids go
to school, and this happened when the queue was really little,

(01:26:19):
and that's why I had to look this up. I'm
laughing now. So I would take Q to preschool when
she started preschool at three, and I would the first
day we go to preschool, I'm all stressed and worried
driving over there, we get to preschool, she hits the door,
does not even say goodbye. She is off like a shot.
And I was like, Okay, I guess that's nice. And

(01:26:40):
when I picked her up at school, I would get
to school and she would be genuinely disappointed to see me.
She just wanted to live at the school. School was
the best thing ever. And I would get her in
the car and she would come unglued. So I was like,
what is happening right now? And what it is is
when you put kids in a new environment like that,
they understand that they have to behave a certain way right,

(01:27:03):
they have to maintain control, they have to you know,
keep themselves under because they don't know these people and
they don't want these people to reject them. So there's
all these psychological things. And when kids get in your
car and they know they're with you and they know
that they're absolutely safe, they can finally let their guard
down and just cry or be upset or whatever. And
once I understood that, I was better at kind of,

(01:27:24):
you know, managing that. But this lady, she's at school
all day, she's being teacher of the year, she's telling kids,
use your words. And then when she gets home. She
just can't with her own kids anymore. I hope she
gets help. I truly do. I do know people that

(01:27:48):
I know people that were violent people. There's spend a
lot of time and energy and effort to become non
violent people, and they were successful. I think that out
of all of the character flaws that people have, for
many people, the propensity for violence against your children is
probably one of the easiest ones to break. Mandy grew

(01:28:09):
up with the same abuse. Work every day to be
better and change the dynamic. Unfortunately, most of us don't
have support, therapy, self reflection and strength to work a
different path. Life is hard. Most won't Yep, Mandy, I
can still hear the sound of my dad's belt clearing
the belt loops. See everybody knows that and this texture.

(01:28:32):
I kind of wish I hadn't watched that video. That's
a wow. Yeah, And the only reason I want to
put it on here is because it is that bad.
And I'm proud of us for recognizing that that kid's
not going to get anything out of that except a
healthy dislike and fear of his mom. Okay, guys, I
got other stuff on the blog that I want to
get to keute picture of my dog and his shirt,

(01:28:53):
a ridiculous video about chicken tenders, and then this story.
We have reached brewing. Yep, we've got another local brewery,
this one with locations in Inglewood, Boulder, and Lafayette. It's
set to close its doors at all three locations before
the end of the year. Sanita's Brewing Company made the

(01:29:15):
announcement last Friday, inviting customers to celebrate over a decade
of brewing before the tenet of closing date of December twentieth.
The company center a press release It's face challenges that
many of the craft beer industry in general economy face,
and it explored options but ultimately decided to close the company,
aligning with what's best for the company and its people.

(01:29:38):
And I don't blame them. I mean, I'm not mad
at them. I'm just saying this is yet another example
we have officially hit peak brewing and we're now going
down the other side. And I would imagine that there
will be quite a few other breweries that choose to
close their doors before everything kind of settles down at
a level where there is enough customer base to go around.

(01:30:01):
Mandy the Number one tell that there will be abuses
in the home as having a step parent in the home.
That is true. Unfortunately, I think this is her child though,
isn't it? I mean, isn't I think this is her kid,
her biological kid. There was no indication in anything I
saw that she was a step parent. But that is accurate.
That statistic is accurate. Mandy got one swat in seventh

(01:30:24):
grade and that was the last time I ever needed it.
The same year, I had the principal give me the
glancing slap on the side of the head when I
was loudly doing Italian jokes to the groups of friends
for his benefit. His name was Chuck Luciano and he
was a great guy who I knew later as an adult.
Those are the best teachers. Hey, what are you doing, Mandy?

(01:30:45):
We grew up with a belt hanging from inside of
the water heater closet that sat in the kitchen. First
warning was the door opened and the belt was visible.
There was no second warning. Ari woopin, Mandy. My wife says,
the first is for the kid, second is for the parents.
Every other is abuse. That's an excellent way to look

(01:31:07):
at it. But I found when I became the parents
of teen boys that it's much better to find their
weakness and then exploit it. Your kid doesn't like being
outside yard work for you. Your kid doesn't like sit still,
sit in that chair and do not move. You gotta

(01:31:28):
make them suffer, but you know, suffer humanly. By the way,
ay Rod, I have a story on the blog today
that I need you to recognize because you're always talking
about how I'm an old person. Well, you know, and
I kind of am. If the shoe fits. I now
have an entire scientific defense for old people's eating schedules.
When do you usually eat dinner? Six at the latest?

Speaker 2 (01:31:51):
See you?

Speaker 3 (01:31:51):
But you also weird? No, you're not. You're doing it right.
In the new field of CRAO nutrition, when we eat
maybe nearly as important as what we eat prono nutrition
exam is how meal timing interacts with our internal body
clock and what affects short days like in winter might

(01:32:12):
have on mood, metabolism, and health. In one study, healthy
adults who ate dinner at ten pm. Who does that?
What can a MANIAX do that at ten pm? Experienced
twenty percent higher blood sugar peaks and burn ten percent
less fat compared to those who ate dinner at six pm.
Broader analysis supports the same trends. Earlier eating windows, fewer meals,

(01:32:36):
and eating the bulk of one's calories earlier in the
day were linked to greater weight loss and improved metabolic
markers such as better blood pressure and lower blood sugar
and cholesterol. So you early bird eaters, you're doing it right.
You are doing it every single ride. By the way,
Andy just sent this. Mandy, the mother beating her son

(01:32:58):
was horrifying. I suggest that every want to watch the
video of the father teaching his son to hit a baseball.
That from Andy. It's at the bottom of the blog,
and it is adorable. Adorable, Mandy. We had a cabin
on Grand Lake, and when we misbehaved we had to
go to the wood porch to pick our own stick.
After spending about thirty minutes on the wood porch wondering

(01:33:21):
which stick would hurt the least, my parents figured out
that was enough punishment. I never got the stick. That
from Marty in Lovelin. I'm telling you got to find
the things. You got to find your kids' soft spots.
Back me up on this, Ryan Edwards, and that's how
you punish you don't need corporal punishment when you know
the things that are dear to them that you can
take away. I actouldly agree with you.

Speaker 7 (01:33:43):
We haven't used corporal punishment, but I don't know, and
I don't know. It's so different than when I grew
up a lot of corporal punishment when I grew up.
Oh yeah, yeah, And I don't know. I guess we
sort of made that decision. But that's kind of in vogue,
like almost everybody's trying.

Speaker 3 (01:33:59):
There's a difference between not spanking and some of the
ridiculous gentle parenting that is not parenting at all that
is happening now where people are literally raising little tyrants.
They really are there. Here's the thing. You can have
consequences without violence, right and that that's the sweet spot.
Figure out the consequences. And every kid is different. You

(01:34:19):
cannot punish the same way because kids have different soft spots.
It's like anything else. You got my husband the other day.
So my daughters long wanted to go into psychology when
she goes to college, and that's why my husband, out
of the blue goes you know what, I think he
would be amazing at psychological warfare.

Speaker 8 (01:34:39):
What he goes no, no, no, no no, because psychological warfare
is really about analyzing what makes other people tick right
and then going in with what's going to be the
biggest kind of swing.

Speaker 3 (01:34:51):
And he's like, she's super good at that. I was like, Okay,
made you sound like I was raising like a psychopath
or something that.

Speaker 7 (01:35:00):
You could also use that skill set for. But yeah,
hey sure, yeah, yeah, you psychological warfare as your daughter
do psychological warfare.

Speaker 3 (01:35:10):
She learned it in middle school, that's been at it
since then. Anyway, No, wait, let me say one thing
before we go. Everybody, I'm not going to be your
next week. Eight Rod's not going to be your next week.
I want to wish everyone a safe and happy Thanksgiving.
Take a minute to just make your gratitude list. It
could be the dumbest stuff you've ever seen, Like I
didn't murder someone today, I have running water, I have

(01:35:32):
shoes on my feet, and I got a brain in
my head. Sometimes it's that simple, happy Thanksgiving. Yes, grateful
for nothing other than well, I mean I was born
on that day. So oh gosh, here we go. And
now it's time for the most exciting segment all the
radio of it's kind.

Speaker 4 (01:35:47):
In the world.

Speaker 3 (01:35:50):
Oh the day. Ben did a really good one yesterday.
But if you just blew it out of the water, I'm.

Speaker 7 (01:35:56):
Just saying, well, I probably job which is a little
bit different than Ben.

Speaker 3 (01:36:00):
But yep, all right, charm.

Speaker 6 (01:36:04):
Here is something I once visited mc Hammer's house. Wasn't
allowed to touch anything. Oh wow, that's yeah, I dig that.

Speaker 3 (01:36:16):
Yeah, yep. What is our word of today? Please? It
is an adjective. Adjective lemonal, not subliminal. That means top
of mind. Yeah. I was gonna say under the mine,
underneath the Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:36:31):
Yeah, I like the guesses, but no relating to a
transitional state, stage or period liminal.

Speaker 3 (01:36:38):
Okay, I'll never use that word in my whole life.
And what year on November ninth did the Berlin wall fall?
Wasn't it like eighty nine? I was gonna six, I
am correct, eighty nine? Eighty nine, the Cold Warrior Bill
built in nineteen sixty one. Blah blah blah, you know

(01:36:58):
how it worked. I'm not to read the rest of
us kind of long. What is the jeopardy category today?
Artificial intelligence? On film? Oh? Okay?

Speaker 6 (01:37:08):
In her she voiced the supportive Ryan was scarlet Johanson.

Speaker 3 (01:37:12):
Correct.

Speaker 6 (01:37:14):
This term is used for the androids that Rick Deckard
de Card is tasked with tracking down and retiring in
Blade Runner.

Speaker 3 (01:37:23):
What are the androids called? I can't remember? What are replicants?
It's been a while since.

Speaker 6 (01:37:29):
In Terminator two, really good, by the way, really good one,
the Resistance fights against this six letter AI, which becomes
self aware in ninety seven Judgment Day.

Speaker 3 (01:37:41):
Come on now, I know now, I have no idea.
Come on now, no clue. I know it's something that
I can't remember. What is Sky New Skys?

Speaker 5 (01:37:50):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:37:51):
Okay, that's killing me. If that isn't gonna kill you, Ryan,
You're gonna be killed if you don't get this one.
In a twenty fifteen film, It's the Age of Blank.
This hostile AI program bent on humanity's destruction, and it's
up to the Avengers to stop it.

Speaker 3 (01:38:05):
Ryan, Ryan, what is Ultron?

Speaker 2 (01:38:07):
Thank you?

Speaker 3 (01:38:08):
Correct? What's the care to zero zero zero? I've answered
no questions? Oh you're all.

Speaker 6 (01:38:15):
A powerful robot named Gort helps an alien warren Earth
about its possible destruction in nineteen fifty.

Speaker 3 (01:38:21):
One, What is the Day of the Earth? But does
it matter?

Speaker 6 (01:38:26):
Ryan? Good?

Speaker 3 (01:38:27):
A good win? Ryan a good win. My nerdiness helped
kills me. That's for the name of the robot. In
that question, I got confused about what the actually something
like that. I was like, I didn't know what that
was with the long scary blades. What's coming up with
k WAG sports? I have so much for so much fun.
We have a Nate Jackson in studio.

Speaker 7 (01:38:48):
It is a bye week, but we still have a
lot to cover when it comes to the Broncos in
this upcoming stretch, I.

Speaker 3 (01:38:54):
Am, did you see the Texans uniforms and helmets? Yes,
it did, are to not like they were ugly. I
don't like the helmets. You couldn't see the logo. I
didn't let that whole look. I turned it on last
I was like, what is this? No stop that Texan?
Stop that anyway, We'll be back a week from Monday.

(01:39:17):
Have a happy Thanksgiving everybody, be safe and talk to
you soon.