12-01-25 FULL SHOW - I'm Back And Boy Did I Miss Some Stuff

Lots happened while I was gone, from the death of State Senator Faith Winters, to the escalation of our undeclared war with Venezuela, to Mayor Johnston's legal bills revealed. We'll dive in today. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy connellyn on KOA n FM.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
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Speaker 4 (00:18):
And then through Freynald you're sad thing.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Welcome books what just welcome? Welcome?

Speaker 5 (00:29):
What is going on over here?

Speaker 6 (00:31):
Something's weird happening.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
One week, something is strange with my No, now okay,
now it's all settled. Nah, it's my headphone cord and
it's not even that old.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Dang it.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Mandy Condle here, Anthony Rodriguez. There, I'm Andy Laurence. And
today we are going to take you up through three
pm when KOA Sports is going to take over inevitably
to talk about the fact that it is a miracle
that the Broncos team is tenant.

Speaker 5 (01:01):
Two collective ex Hail God, bless America.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
I want to know how many people died of a
heart attack last night, That's what I want to know.

Speaker 5 (01:09):
I mean, it's been like two two and a half
months of this. Yeah, we just can't Yeah, we just
can't have an easy one. No, what the hell, man,
Some people have hearts and heart health is important, and
of course went overtimes.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
We extended the pain.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yep, yep, God bless and I'd love to say, wow,
what a great game. It wasn't guess what we went?

Speaker 7 (01:30):
Mean?

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Well, well, well it was. It was a pretty good game.
There was like four incredible plays in that game last night,
not all by the Broncos.

Speaker 6 (01:40):
The one hand catch in the end zone. Forget about it.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
It's very obvious, OPI. But yeah, sure, I'm just saying.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
It was.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
It was just it was a game.

Speaker 6 (01:50):
But now we're ahead of We're atop the AFC.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, well see if that continues tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
The Patriots, I know, are also tending too, but they
have one game to play tonight. They could be eleven
and two. But yeah, we have no room for error.
We clearly need the one seed. And so all collectively,
ladies and gentlemen, go Giants tonight. Yes, big time, all together, now.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Go Giants, go New York. Shill our little brains out there,
you go. Let's jump in and do the blog. We
got a lot of stuff. I missed a lot of
things last week when I was off, and I regret nothing.
I just want to say this. My mom's birthday is
December fourth, and she is going to be eighty two.
Years old, and I have a real problem with my

(02:35):
mom being eighty two. Only in this sense, my mom
looks amazing. If you follow me on my Facebook page,
on my Instagram, you saw our wreath sweatshirt craft project
that we did that was so good. But my mom
looks amazing, And I forget she's eighty eighty one, right,
so she just needs a little more, a little more
downtime then she needed when she was young. But I

(02:57):
you know, I woke up on Thanksgiving, the day after
Thanksgiving actually, and I was so overcome with gratitude for
the things in my life. I mean, and even I
even thank God for people I don't really like that much,
just because we live in a world that is incredible
living at this moment in time. Okay, I'm gonna tell

(03:22):
you what started me down this rabbit hole, and then
we're gonna get to the blog, because I got a
ton of stuff on the blog. But I really want
to make this point. So I wake up. It's cold,
you know, and I like to sleep in the cold.
So my bedroom is really cold at night, and I
will walk into the bathroom as you do when you
first wake up, and I'm in there and it's a
little chilly, but it's not cold cold. And I thought

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to myself, what how miserable must it have been to
live back in like medieval times when you got up
in the morning and unless you had some servant that
came in and stoked the fire when it was you know,
thirty degrees in the room that you were sleeping in,
and then you went over and did your business in
a pot in the freezing cold room. And then it's

(04:03):
eventually you or someone else had to take that pot out.
And we don't have to do that anymore. We press
a lever and that takes care of all of our business,
and it is like, it's honestly kind of a miracle
some of the stuff that we take for granted every
single day. I had a conversation with my nephew and Israel,
and I was just kind of saying, how are things going,
How are things going? And he said, you know what,

(04:25):
everybody's good. Kids are going to kindergarten again. You know,
everybody's got their lives back, people are their their careers
are going. And I said, what kind of hope do
you have for peace? And he said, peace is a
fake concept. It just means that you can't see the
war at the moment because it's too far or you

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are too uninformed. And that's life in Israel, right Like,
I can't even wrap my head around that. It's not
they're not they're not you know, dreading, or they're not
lose things. How to say that, they're not so naive
as to think that the other shoe will not drop.
They just enjoy the time in between the shoe drops. Right,

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And we over here in the United States of America,
we get bound up in all this political nonsense, in chicanery.
We get bound up in the fake fights that that
shouldn't be fights anymore, but they still are because people
have chosen sides, and by God, they are going to
make sure their side wins. I've got that coming up
today on the blog. But the reality is we live

(05:33):
in a golden era.

Speaker 7 (05:35):
You know.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
The worst thing that most people are worried about, the
biggest thing that most people are worried about right now
is you know, not being able to buy a house,
which is a big deal, and I don't want to
downplay that in terms of how important it is to
move forward in life and society. A lot of people
that's a big deal. For a lot of people. And

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I understand that it's super frustrating for people who can't
buy house, But when you realize how many people around
the world don't even have houses, they don't have a
place to live, you have to look at it from
a position of Wow, we really are lucky. So I
took my Thanksgiving extremely seriously last week and did a
lot of thinking. And don't think for a second that

(06:18):
I didn't thank God for all of you out there
who listened to this show. I thank God for Anthony
Rodriguez because he somehow manages to keep me in the
twenty first century when I would happily still be in
the twentieth century if he wasn't dragging me along. I challenge,
I humbly accept day out. People don't know it sounds

(06:40):
so simple that, oh, you don't want to do it.
I just have a tremendous amount of gratitude for eaching
every one of you who listened to this show and
appreciate it for whatever, or maybe those of you who
hate listen, I if you're here, because you just I
drive you crazy and.

Speaker 6 (06:56):
I make your head explode every single day.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
I appreciate you. I truly do I don't know why
you do it, but I appreciate you anyway. Let's do
the blog that was my moment of gratitude for the day.
Find the blog by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's
mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says twelve
one twenty five blog I'm back and boyd and I
miss some stuff. Click on that and here are the

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headlines you will find within. I think you're in.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
Office half of American all the ships and clipments and
say that's going to press Flint.

Speaker 6 (07:28):
Today on the blog I'm back, fat and happy.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Go see this show Good Grief Broncos rip State Senator
Faith Winters about Tina Peters, scrolling Samalian fraud exposed, scrolling
headseth is being accused of a war crime.

Speaker 6 (07:47):
Leave or We're coming in.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Paulus wants to rate Parah. Be careful shopping online this
holiday season. ADU grants for more subsidies for the rich.
Galdera understands the worst kind of loss. So illegal immigrants
did get Medicaid services, some illegal immigrants will lose their
free healthcare. Boulder restaurant named one of the best of
the century. Yes, we keep our Christmas lights up until

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the end of January. Of course, social Security runs out
of money. Shelby Harris says what he thinks the real
use of the vent hole. What does this guy? Why
does this guy have any clout? Weird al on Thanksgiving?
Kangaroo yoga is a thing?

Speaker 5 (08:27):
Now?

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Is Denver the epicenter of the new housing crash? I
am against pajamas on airplanes? Those are the headlines on
the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Tick tech too a winner?
Come on, Nancy, a winner? Thank you she was holding
out there on me. I do want to take a
one moment to say a big, fat happy anniversary to

(08:50):
my husband, Chuck. We are on eighteen years of marriage. Hey,
those of you took the over congratulations m yep and
uh he's my He's my I don't have enough words.
I thank god. I was so grateful for Chuck. And
those of you know Chuck well know that he can

(09:13):
be a colossal pain in the ass. Colossal, like the biggest,
the most excellent pain in the ass that you've ever
met in your life. But man, he is my person,
my human, the end of my yang, the bungee to
my jump. He is the guy that I am teamed
up with for life and I could not be happier.
So happy anniversary, Chuck. He's by the way, he's totally

(09:35):
not listening to the show. No, he isn't listen to
the show. Yeah, why bother he has to hear me
at home. Anyway, We've got a couple of things on
the blog today. Anthony and I are both back on
the Soto weight loss plan because we enjoyed our Thanksgiving
week and I hope that if you did too, just
jump back in, just jump on it. And uh, you know,

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I just I do.

Speaker 6 (09:58):
I feel like a stuffed turkey today.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
But what a glorious week of eating we had was fantastic.
I saw the best show at a place called miners Ali.
I've mentioned miners Alley Performing Arts Center in Golden once before,
because I just saw another fabulous show there recently. This
show radio fans, you have got to go see their
radio version of Its Wonderful Life. So it's a play

(10:23):
that is a play about a nineteen forties radio cast
doing performing It's a Wonderful Life. Now, I'm gonna be
perfectly honest. Where are you on Its Wonderful Life? Anthety
does it make your top five top ten? Uh just
made the list. It's I don't love it. No, I've
never loved it. I think George is a whiner. I'm
not gonna lie, I really do. I think George is

(10:43):
a whiner. But nonetheless, this was watching people on stage
as if they were performing it on radio. So there
are occasions when one actor is on stage and they're
talking into the microphone because they're doing the play, but
they're playing two characters. So you watch them change their
voices and have a conversation with you.

Speaker 5 (11:04):
It is.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
They do the sound effects with the old school sound effects,
you guys. I loved it. It was so good, and
I loved it because radio, you know, I just so
we sit down in the theater and my daughter who
went with us. It was my mom and my daughter
and I my daughter goes. I leaned over, I said,

(11:24):
you know, but in the beginning of radio, this is
what they did. They had a studio audience. They had
people actually perform shows and plays. They had bands that
came in and played music. They didn't really play a
lot of records. They had like in house bands because
the record quality just wasn't that good.

Speaker 6 (11:40):
So I go through this whole thing.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Explaining how radio got started, and there were you know,
the studio audience and all this stuff, and a group
of people sit down behind us, and I think they
were family. I believe they were all family related. But
it was multi generational. The youngest in their twenties, the
oldest probably in their sixties, and the guy who I
guessed to be in the sixties is right behind me.
And when it was one of the younger people leans

(12:03):
over and says, hey, is this what it was like
in old time radio? And he's like no, no, no, no, no,
she's a guy sitting in it. And I was like, no, sir, no,
it is not. You're literally everything he said was wrong.
Everything he said was wrong. And my daughter later was like,
did you hear that guy get every single thing wrong?
And I was like I did. I did, But I'm
not going to turn around and change that. That is

(12:26):
not going to be a thing that happens now. Big
news and not good news. Over the weekend, when State
Senator Faith Winter died in an I twenty five multi
car crash, she was only forty five years old. And
I'm going to be perfectly frank, there is not a
single issue that I think I would have in common

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politically with Faith Winter.

Speaker 6 (12:51):
I truly don't.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
She was as progressive, but a tireless advocate for her
progressive positions. And I've always said that if you come
to your viewpoints after careful thought and consideration and consuming
you know, information, and then your life view and you
decide that you are going to be a progressive for

(13:12):
whatever reason, all of those things. And I believe faith
Winter was one of those people. I don't think she
was doing it because she thought it would somehow benefit her.
She was what I would call a true believer. And
she has two children and a fiance, and it's just sad.
And I always feel like whenever anybody dies around the holidays,

(13:33):
it's just it makes it so much worse because then
every year, what should be a joyful and joyous time
is a reminder of a horrible thing that has you know, eh. Anyway, Mandy,
my grandfather drove a coal truck to the mines in Craig,
Colorado area. My mom lived in a house that allowed

(13:56):
the wind through the walls and floor. My grandmother said
my mom was lucky to have survived. Happy anniversary, Thank you,
lots of you saying happy anniversary and God blessed Chuck. Yes,
indeed he God blessed Chuck. Mandy put up? He puts
up with you because of his hearing loss. No, he
only has hearing loss badly in one ear, and then

(14:18):
the other year he has tonight. So's you know, he
has his wife ear and that's the one that he
doesn't hear will Mandy. Did they happen to play your
old time radio blog.

Speaker 6 (14:26):
Intro during this play?

Speaker 3 (14:27):
They did? Not that it was so good, so so good.
Gratitude is when you don't have to say the crapper's
full only they use the other word.

Speaker 6 (14:40):
Do you know the other word, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
We're grateful for you, Anthony and Ross Michael Brown not
so much. Oh well, we all have our our foibles,
our foolbles. Mandy. Not sure what games the non native
Mandy is watching, but the Broncos are doing awesome. The
Broncos are doing awesome in the sense that they they
are finding ways to win, and you have to give
them credit for that. But you know what, I'm starting

(15:03):
to be reminded of the Baltimore Ravens team that Trent
Dilford played for that won the Super Bowl because they
had a ridiculous defense. But watching Trent Dilford try to
run that offense, and I'm not comparing Bonnicks to Trent
bil Ford talent wise, because I don't think there's any comparison.
I think that Bonnicks is a much better natural quarterback

(15:23):
than Trent. Del forever was that being said, he still
doesn't look comfortable in this system. I'll do it.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
I've said it before, I'll say it again. I'll go
fourteen years ago here in Denver, the magic of the
Tebo season.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
We're experiencing that again.

Speaker 5 (15:37):
But the entire team, the entire team will be the
first to admit they know they have to play better.
Otherwise the great teams will make them pay for the
way they played yesterday.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
And they know it. Yep.

Speaker 5 (15:47):
But they're ten and two and I said it yesterday
to Broncos game day. I'll say it again. It's better
to correct these mistakes coming off of wins. And the
Broncos are ten and two. The man, we need that,
buy yes, we need that by one less playoff game. Yep,
got played better against the great teams because the Commanders
ain't good.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Nope, but thank.

Speaker 6 (16:06):
God they're not good.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Because they would have never gone for two if they
weren't they if there was a if that game was
on the line to put to get in the playoffs
or whatever, they would have kicked the field goal and
taken the tie. Ye, there's no way they would have
put themselves up for a two point line. I will
say that last play of the game was spectacular. That
that kind of play and heart at the end of over,

(16:29):
you know, in overtime is why the Broncos are ten
and two.

Speaker 5 (16:32):
Yeah, and the Commander's played out of their minds, like
Mariota played insane, dan Quinn coached his butt off.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
But the Commanders aren't good and we made them look great,
and you know, you know you gotta play better. But yeah,
Benito saved the game. Literally, the guy was wide open
for the two point conversion.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Correct, Hell yeah, Anyway, I do want to I was
talking about faith winter and now we moved to Broncos,
which is unfortunate. But I just want to say this.
I know that a lot of you were people of faith,
and a lot of you are people who say prayers.
And when I asked, say hey, if you want to
say a prayer, say a prayer, for anyone who's lost

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someone over Thanksgiving weekend, because unfortunately, people died in car accidents,
people died of drug overdoses. You know, people died from
all kinds of things. But I just I wanted to say,
say a prayer for Faith Winters. She has two teenage children,
a fiance, and pray that they get some kind of
peace going forward. So it's just a terrible thing, a

(17:31):
terrible thing. And I'm trying to not make this snotty,
but I'm going to make it snotty. I think fundamentally
for most people, most people on the right and the left,
when you hear of the death of someone on the
other side of the political spectrum, even if like, don't

(17:52):
get me wrong, you guys. I mean my husband asked
me today, he goes, did Dick Cheney have a funeral?
And I was like, oh, yeah, he goes, you didn't
talk about it. I'm like, I don't have a lot
nice to say about Dick Cheney's so why would I
comment on it.

Speaker 6 (18:05):
He's passed away. Why would I comment on it?

Speaker 3 (18:08):
If? I think most people feel kind of the same way.
And when I heard the Faith Winter died, my first
reaction was, oh, my gosh, that's terrible, terrible. It just
makes the people who are out there celebrating when someone
dies look even worse, because I think the natural inclination

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of people is to recognize that, sure there are people,
nobody's gonna cry when Hitler dies. Right after you oversee
the extermination of seven million people, nobody really mourns your death.
But if you're celebrating the death of Faith Winter or
you're celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, I mean you
you have a dark, dark, dark mark on your soul

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that you probably need to address.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
When we get back.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
We've got so much stuff to talk about. We're gonna
start with Thenezuela. Big things going on, and I've got questions.
Some interesting things are happening with our stance and Venezuela.
And Venezuela has a couple of issues right now. Number One,

(19:16):
they are part of the Bricks Plan Brazil and Russia
and China, and they're trying to find another port in
the storm, meaning another world, you know, similarly oriented country
that can continue to fund them, because now that Cuba
is pretty much completely broke and Russia's at war, they're

(19:37):
really running out of money. So how are they making money. Well,
according to the Trump administration, they are making money because
they are, essentially their government, their president is acting as
a cartel. They've named the cartel the Cartel de la Souls,
which is the organization that is made up of This

(19:58):
was all not just succording, I should say, not just
according to American intelligence, but also Colombian intelligence. They make
up a essentially a cartel and they are funding their
lifestyle and you know, basic government needs with drug money
from the cartels who are making the drugs elsewhere and

(20:19):
then paying for transit through Venezuela and from Venezuela's coast
to Europe or to the United States. And they're using
these drug boats. And now I've seen enough videos of
these quote supposed fishing boats to know that they're absolutely
drug boats. Guys. These drugs are I mean, these boats
have one purpose, and that is to move large quantities

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of drugs or people under the cover of night from
Venezuela through a series of island stops until they hook
up with a larger vessel in open water and move
the drugs and then they go off to Europe or
they come to the United States. Although most drugs are
trafficked from Colombia to the United States on the Pacific side,

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so we are now at war with the Cartel de
los Souls. Now, part of me is super okay with
people that are trafficking large quantities of poison into the

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United States getting blown up in the ocean, like I
my most you know, in a visceral way, I'm okay
with that. I feel like, you know what you get,
you reap what you sew, you get.

Speaker 6 (21:37):
What you deserve. But then there's a law and order
part of me.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
Well, the law and order part of me is genuinely
concerned that we're just going to go blazing into another
country when if you look at our history to date,
we're not super good at regime change. It's not a
strength of the United States of America. I'm not sure
how many instances of regime change have ended well for

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the United States. And I'm being genuine and maybe some
of you with a more clear memory of our recent
history would be able to help me out here. Whenever
we get involved, things go may go well. For a while,
I was watching something online and they were showing the video.

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Do you guys remember when George W. Bush, someone hurled
a shoe at him at a press conference, and he
was standing up there talking about the day when a
rock would be led a democracy, and a rock would
be led with the freedom of the people first, and
I'm just thinking, yeah, except in Afghanistan, the Taliban has

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taken all of our We basically armed the Taliban. Part
of the reason that we have the Iranian regime which
is funding all the terror in the Middle East and
funding all the anti Israel sentiment is because we backed
the Shaw. And guess what, the Shaw he wasn't doing
a great job for everybody, and the people that weren't

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getting the preferential treatment decided to overthrow the Shaw. We
suck at choosing leadership, however, And you can tell I'm
not going to be that talk show host who tells
you exactly, firmly what exactly is right and wrong, because
I don't know. Last Thursday, Trump said maritime operations had

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already destroyed more than twenty vessels and resulted in more
than eighty deaths since September first, complaining the United States
had halted eighty five percent of maritime flow Venezuelan groups.
He said, we're sending poison northward that kills thousands of
people a year, which is accurate at the same time,
and this is where it gets important. Washington. By the way,

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this is all from the Miami Herald.

Speaker 6 (23:52):
Washington has moved to expand.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
Its legal authority. On Monday, the State Department formally designated
the Cartel DLA SOULS as a foreign terrorist organization, placing
Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, Interior Minister Diastado Cabello, and Defense
Minister Vladimir Patrino Lopez in the same legal category as
leaders of al Qaeda and ISIS. The designation was published

(24:18):
in the Federal Register. Is seen as a tool that
grants the administration new latitude to undertake military action without
additional congressional approval. This is where why do we have
Congress then? And don't get me wrong, I'm not an idiot.
I know we haven't declared war since World War Two.

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Amazing how many non war conflicts looked exactly like war,
didn't they? But Congress isn't rushing to take back its
authority because they don't want to be held responsible. They
don't want to have to answer for their decisions about
going to war. Well, here's the problem. Now the problem
now is that apparently there was a situation where one

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of these strikes on these alleged drug votes was very successful.
It blew up the boat and uh, pretty much everyone
on it except a couple of guys. And then there
was a second strike that took out those two guys.

(25:25):
And now Republicans and Democrats in Congress are asking questions
about whether or not that second strike was a war crime.
There's a question about whether Defense secretary. Isn't that interesting
the New York Times didn't they change that department to
the Department of War. I'm just curious that War Secretary

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Pete Hegseth, I'll fix that for them, had given a
verbal order to kill everyone aboard boats suspected of smuggling drugs,
and that led a military commander to carry out a
second strike to kill those who had initially survived an attack.
In early September, Representative Mike Turner, who is a Republican, said, obviously,
if that occurred, that would be very serious, and I

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agree that would be an illegal act. Of course, the
Democrats are saying it rises to the level of a
war crime. Mark Kelly, who by the way, was one
of the people in the video talking about fake orders,
he also says war crime. But Republicans are interested as well,

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and they're finally showing some kind of interest in what
exactly we're doing, especially because Donald Trump is now saying, hey,
we could be on the ground in Venezuela this week.
I'm like, what are we doing? What is the endgame?
What is the objective of all of this?

Speaker 6 (26:47):
Is it regime change? Is that what we're doing now.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Venezuela, unlike Afghanistan, unlike a Rock, does have opposition which
is both.

Speaker 6 (26:56):
Reasonable and rational.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
And I believe probably won the last election in Venezuela
until it was fixed by Nicholas Madora. So maybe maybe
they're trying to get Maduro out. By the way, President
Trump in a phone call told Nicholas Maduro it was
time to go and that he could go to He
and his top advisors could go somewhere else, but they
couldn't stay in Venezuela.

Speaker 6 (27:18):
And Meduro was like, nah, I'm gonna.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
We'll see. Hey, Mandy, we went to Declear, We went
to Declear and Venezuela. We pretty much are just giving
a major okay that that text message is a disaster.
Mandy Venezuela is elected a president, Madua is a dictator
and refuses to leave office. It's not regime changed, well,

(27:43):
but it is.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
It is.

Speaker 6 (27:45):
I mean, can you can put lipstick on that pig,
but it's still a pig.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Here's the issue. Donald Trump has declared the leadership of
Venezuela to be part of a drug cartel called Cartel
de Lussul, and he essentially is using this terrorist designation
to go after what he and not just American intelligence,

(28:10):
but Colombian intelligence are saying, are drug boats coming out
of Venezuela. And the issue today is that now Republican
and Democratic congressmen are concerned about a strike in September
that initially a drug boat was fired upon. Boat blows up.

(28:30):
There are two survivors clinging to what's left of the boat.
Second strike kills them both. And somebody asked this question, Mandy,
can you explain why the first strike on the boat
wasn't an active war but the second follow up strike is.
And it's not that it's an active war, it's that
one of them is considered to be against international law.

(28:50):
It is against and can we just have a moment
about how stupid it is that we have some kind
of rule book around war. I mean, get me wrong,
I get it, I get it. We've decided that using
certain gases widespread on troops that causes tremendous, horrible pain
is somehow beyond the pale. But shooting people, you know,

(29:10):
that's fine. Bombing ma'am that say, okay, But I just
it's so dumb when you get right down to it, right.
We've created these little fake rules for war, and one
of those rules is that you cannot kill a combatant
who has either been rendered unable to fight or has
essentially been captured or whatever.

Speaker 6 (29:30):
And that's what this would be.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
If somebody's clinging to a boat in the middle of
the ocean, you know, the pieces of a raft in
the middle of the ocean, you have a responsibility to
go get them, not blow them up, according to the
Geneva Convention and the Hague regulations in multiple different ways.
So that's the issue. And then somebody else asked this Mandy,

(29:51):
regarding the drug boat in comparison, how is it different
from attacks back in Iraq and Afghanistan when buildings are
convoys were taken out by our forces runners referenced as
squatters people running from the attack location were taken out
in second and even third strikes on location.

Speaker 6 (30:08):
Why would this scenario be any different?

Speaker 3 (30:10):
And welcome back. Well, this is Pete Hegseth. He's now
the Secretary of War. And I cannot recall a more
concerted effort to go after a cabinet member in my
life than we have seen about going after Pete Hegseth.
I have a lot of theories about this. I don't

(30:30):
know Pete has a I've never met the guy, have nothing,
no clue about his personality or anything. I think men
dislike him because he's inherently manly. He's just he's a
manly guy. He's a manly guy. Democrats hate him because
he has not only promised to but is now successfully

(30:52):
d deiing the military. He is trying to instill the
warrior ethos that was a part of winning wars for many,
many years.

Speaker 6 (31:02):
He is trying to toughen up the military.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
He's trying to clean out the dead weight who kept
getting promoted because they checked the right boxes without getting
the job done. And that Democrats hate a meritocracy, and
the military is the ultimate meritocracy. And I'm not saying
that promotions are given to people based on favar. Of course,
that happens, of course, But in theory, if you perform

(31:24):
at a high level in the military, it doesn't matter
your race, your gender, you get to go and move
forward in the military.

Speaker 6 (31:30):
And that just has to be stopped. And then he's pretty.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
He's a pretty boy. He can still do pull ups.

Speaker 6 (31:37):
It works out with the troops.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
It comes across as one of them. Of course, he
has to be destroyed. So in my mind, that's a
great analogy, Texter, But it does concern me that we're
talking about boots in the ground on Venezuela. Now, I'm
trying to give Trump a little credit here, and I'm
trying to look at different ways of looking at what's
happening in Venezuela and how it benefits the United States
of America. Umber One, too many Venezuelans are fleeing the

(32:02):
country because of the rule of Nicholas Maduro, and many
of them are fleeing here, and they're not all nice people.
Some of them are, but some of them are not. Secondarily,
I do honestly believe that for Trumpet's about the drugs,
it is one hundred percent about the drugs. But third,
you cannot underestimate having a more friendly regime to the

(32:24):
United States in Venezuela. How really really important that is
as China continues to make inroads in South America, We've
got to peel these countries away from China. And one
way to do that would be deposed the old guy,
so the new regime can come in, one that would
then be indebted to us. Anyway, We're gonna take a

(32:48):
quick time out when we get back. Oh my gosh,
I got so much stuff to talk about. We're gonna
talk now, and this is such a random thing. I
think we're gonna talk about Tina Peters. First, we gotta
have a conversation. We got to have the Teena Peters Conversation.
It's coming up next.

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Speaker 6 (33:32):
I'm Mandy Connell. That guy's Anthony Rodriguez.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
You can call him a You can call him a Rod,
and back from a week off A Rod had a
big cruising adventure all over the Caribbean. He's tanned and rested.
I on the other end, stayed home and it was glorious,
cooked a lot last week.

Speaker 6 (33:53):
It was, Uh, it was fantastic.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
I will tell you the first day of my vacation
when we were traveling and I didn't have anywhere to go,
I didn't know what to do with myself. It's like,
what do we do? What do you do when you
don't have anything to do. I'm not super good at relaxing.
I've realized I am not great at the turning it
off type thing, just not at all. Anyway, really really

(34:21):
really good questions about the Venezuela thing. Obviously, as that
continues to develop, we're going to continue talking about it. Mandy. Seriously,
I just heard your little snippet about for Trump it
being about drugs last week and he said he's going
to pardon the former president of Ecuador, who has stated
his main goal was to put cocaine up. Every Americans

(34:42):
knows if he was tried and convicted of masterminding the
import o over four hundred tons of cocaine and use it,
and Trump is pardoning him. Don't you see the hypocrisy there?
As for Pete Hegsath being a man's man, that's why
everybody hates him. I guess if your definition of manly
is sexually assaulting your mistress while you're married to your
second wife, if you think tweeting about classified battle plans

(35:04):
are if those are manly to you, then oh well,
you're usually really smart on this point, but this time
you have fumbled. I'm gonna be perfectly honest. I don't
understand the pardon of the guy from Honduras. I straight up, what.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
What?

Speaker 3 (35:18):
Except he was our guy. He was the United States's
ally in Central America. And there is some, you know,
some belief in some circles that the prosecution of the
president was based on some malicious prosecution by the Biden administration.

(35:41):
I don't agree with that flatly. I just I don't
agree with that. I think the guy's a bad dude.
I think every leader in Central America unfortunately has to
be viewed as potentially corrupted by the cartels. But and
this is a big butt. If you just listened to
the last segment, we've got appeal. Some of these Central

(36:03):
American countries away from China, So maybe that is what
he's doing. I genuinely cannot explain what this president does.
I've given up trying. I try to look for rational
America first reasons for the stuff that we're doing. I
genuinely try to, like, Okay, let's look at it through

(36:23):
this lens. But for people to come to me and say,
why is Trump? I have no effing clue. Okay, the
man just does the things that he wants to do.
I have no idea. I cannot be responsible. I cannot
explain it. The best I can help for is to
look at it through the prism of how does this
help America? And if it doesn't, then why are we

(36:46):
even talking about it? I mean, that's that's genuinely how
I feel right now. And the things that I think
would help America are not even on the radar. We're
not talking about cutting the size of government, We're not
talking about any of that stuff. As a matter of fact,
I have a story on the blog today about Social
Security is really truly going to run out of money
in twenty thirty three, and all I could think of was, hey.

Speaker 6 (37:05):
Isn't that right?

Speaker 3 (37:06):
When jen x is supposed to get Social Security benefits.
Of course we're gonna get screwed. Of course. Anyway, let's
talk about Tina Peters for a moment. The Tina Peters
situation is one of two massive elephants in the room
right now in the Republican Party. And they're not even

(37:27):
like hidden massive elephants in the Republican Party. This is
an extremely divisive issue. I do not feel conflicted about
this at all. Tina Peters was indicted in a Republican county.
She was tried by a Republican prosecutor, as she was
convicted by more than likely a Republican jury because no

(37:51):
matter what her intentions were, she actively worked to break
the law to prove something she suspected to be true
and still didn't even prove that it was true. I
think nine years is ridiculous in terms of the sentence,
but that's what she got. The judge wanted to make

(38:13):
an example. She was a public servant elected to ensure
the integrity of elections in Mason County and she did
the exact opposite. Why is this such a divisive issue?
Because we have the Tina must be freed, and every
Republican candidate for governor has to make a statement about

(38:34):
whether or not they will pardon Tina Peters case in
point Aron, have we heard back from the Victor Marks people? Negative? No, No,
Well crap, now, my this is I'm just gonna I
could complain about social media quite quite significantly right now,

(38:56):
but I won't because now Facebook won't connect. Let me
go this way. I want to read you a statement
by Commissioner Cody Davis here we go about his meeting
with Victor Marx. Victor Marx has burst onto the scene.
Lots of people that I really like and respect love

(39:18):
this guy like they're all in for Victor Marx.

Speaker 6 (39:21):
So we're trying to get him on the show.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
We have not heard back from his campaign, and I
am now reading things coming from other Republicans saying, you
know what, let's just slow our role on Victor Marx
until we get more information. And I think that's a
very wise thing to do, because he has come out
of nowhere, and if anything, this state needs to remember
two words for you, Dan Mays. Okay, I wasn't even

(39:46):
here then, and I know the story of Dan Mays.
So before we go all in, let's make sure we
know what we're getting and Commissioner Cody Davis, who's a
Republican guy, he wrote a very long post on Facebook,
and I'm going to skip through it. I'm not going
to read all of it. He goes in the first
time that he heard Victor, in the fact that he

(40:06):
initially loved what Victor was having to say. He said,
Victor Mark said he would give Tina Peters an unconditional pardon,
and then he said My first thought was that surely
he did not know what actually happened and was just
listening to the national hype. I met with Victor on Monday,
November twenty fourth, with a handful of other Republicans, and

(40:29):
I found him spot on with nearly all my concerns
local control, energy production, unfunded mandates, law enforcement, wolves, and
much more. Then I gave him some perspective on the
Tina Peters debacle. I explained that in January of twenty
twenty one, I personally asked Tina Peters to hand count

(40:49):
the ballots from the twenty twenty election and that the
commissioners would cover the cost. He's a Mason County commissioner.
I should say that I felt we had to bring
clarity to a situation it was growing progressively out of
control as trust in elections was spiraling. Tina refused to
handcount the twenty twenty ballots and told me you can
trust your elections. Victor seemed surprised by that fact. After

(41:13):
she refused to handcount, Tina lied to a local cybersecurity expert,
Jerry Wood, stole his identity, used it to break into
a secure room she was not allowed to be in,
turned off security cameras to avoid detection, brought an authorized
hacker into a highly secured room, and used stolen passwords

(41:34):
to illegally access election computers. She violated the very system
she swore to protect all in the name of uncovering
election fraud. What did she find through all of this? Nothing?
Not a single instance of fraud, zero hacking, and zero
vote flipping. From the stolen information. She had three reports

(41:54):
drafted that she claimed would uncover vast amounts of fraud.
The first two identified weaknesses in the system but showed
zero fraud. The third claimed massive fraud, but after a
full investigation by our local district attorney, it was determined
to be nothing more than a data entry error made
by her own office. The only thing she exposed was

(42:16):
her own incompetence, and thanks to check and balances in
the system, the error was caught and corrected before the
vote totals were calculated. Victor seemed shocked by this information
and responded, and I paraphrase, I believe Tina Peters is
guilty in her conviction was just. He then expressed frustration
with the length of the sentence and said that by

(42:36):
the time he became governor, she would have served two
and a half years, and that was long enough. I
have no issue with that sentiment. It would be as
prerogative as governor to commute her sentence. He then committed
to clarifying his position publicly so people would understand that
Tina is guilty. But then he goes on to talk
about how the Monday night Tuesday morning he clarified that

(43:00):
he will get and she will get an unconditional pardon. Now,
don't get me wrong, you guys. And then he goes
on to talk more about this. I've been lied to
by the best politicians. The only politicians that have never
lied to me were Rampaul and Thomas Massey. Let's see,
Jeff Hurd has never lied to me. Jeff Craik has

(43:21):
never lied to me that I know of, and I'm
just saying the rest of the politicians I've talked to
in some egregious way have found to be complete liars.
So I get it, you're campaigning. You say what you
need to say to the people in front of you.
But if he continues with this Tina Peters unconditional pardon,
he's putting all of the other congressional congressional gubernatorial candidates

(43:43):
for the Republican side in a very difficult spot. They
now have to take a position on Tina Peters and
Tina Peters to the unaffiliated voter, to the center left
person that may be persuadable after the years of skyrocketing
costs in Colorado because of Democrat plans, they may be persuadable.
I don't know if they are actually, but we'll find
they only know Tina Peters as someone who believes the

(44:06):
twenty twenty election was stolen. So instead of continuing to
talk and I've seen videos of Victor Marx talking about
the future that he wants for Colorado, and I love it.
I love the aspirational nature of the conversations that he has.
But this, this is an unforced error in an election

(44:29):
that should be about two things. It should be about
asking Coloradin's are you better off than you were four
years ago? Are you are you better off today under
full democratic running the state than you were four years ago?
That's question number one question or thing number two should be.

Speaker 6 (44:48):
And here's how we're.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
Gonna fix it. This is how we're going to fix
That's what I want to hear from Republican gubernatorial candidates.
But the problem is is that there is a sizable
and active, active part of the Republican Party that wants
to keep looking backwards. They are focused like a laser
on twenty twenty. And for every person that's going to

(45:11):
tell me, is an election integrity important? Of course it is.
That's why I want a Republican secretary of State. And
they can't get elected if you keep talking about twenty twenty,
if you keep talking about Tina Peters, y'all, I have
no ill will towards Tina Peters. She made her bed
and now she has to lie in it. And unfortunately

(45:33):
she is elderly, she is sick, she's having a terrible
time in prison. I don't know who has a great
time in prison, but she's really struggling in prison, and
I get it. People have a lot of sympathy for
that because they agree with the sentiment of what she did.
But what she did in service of that sentiment was
commit a crime. And if she were a Democrat, I

(45:54):
guarantee you the same people that are out there screaming
the loudest for her to be let out would be
the ones screaming the loudest to keep them in. So
this issue is just a loser. It is a loser,
and it is going to keep more people from being
able to focus on what's important, and that is are

(46:16):
you better off than you were under When the Democrats
weren't running everything? Colorado was more affordable, our inflation was lower,
our economy was better. We had in migration because everybody
wanted to move here. Now nobody wants to move here.
I have a story on the blog today about our
housing market that is not good. And we have too

(46:38):
many people that are active and invested that are going
to make this an issue because they don't care about winning.
They'd rather sit and pretend that their rightness means more
than winning elections. We cannot ensure election integrity as long
as we cannot get a Republican elected in that office. Now,
I'm not saying that they are not Democrats, that would

(46:59):
not be the phenomenal secretaries of state. I really don't
want that to be the takeaway from this. But the
one we have now is Hot Garbage, the most partisan
secretary of State that I have ever seen in any
state currently holding the office. And she is a Democrat.
And the Democrats that I see coming up the pipeline
are no better than Jenner Griswold. Jenner Grillswold views the

(47:22):
secretary of State's office as a stepping stone to the
next office. She is a political climber and that's why
she's on MSNBC all the time. You think, what does
that do for the people in the state of Colorado.

Speaker 6 (47:35):
Nothing.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
All it does is raise her national profile, which is
really all she cares about. So I don't know how
to deal with this. I really don't.

Speaker 6 (47:44):
I don't want to hear about Tina Peters. I truly don't.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
I really don't want to hear about Tina Peters because
if she is a large part of this next election cycle,
we have made it even more impossible for a Republican
to get elected in this state. I'd love to believe
that Colorado was the wonderful, you know, great like red,

(48:09):
purple state it was when I moved here.

Speaker 5 (48:11):
It is not.

Speaker 6 (48:12):
It's solidly blue.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
And the Republican Party is not doing a good job
helping people understand that the things that the partisans that
are very involved in the party care about are not
the things that are going to win elections. Election integrity
not going to win an election. Abortion not going to
win an election. But if you want to talk about
roads that work, if you want to talk about redirecting

(48:37):
all of this money that's been wasted trying to force
us into multi modal systems of transportation that none of
us want, those are the issues that people are going
to pay attention to. You want to talk about people
like why is it so expensive to build a house
in Colorado.

Speaker 6 (48:51):
Let's talk about rolling back the.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
Regulations that have just made a new home out of
reach for many many people. Let's talk about how to
fix it. But yeah, Mandy, it's really confusing to hear
you talk about a unified Colorado Republican Party. But you
love this guy, but hate one thing he said and
use your platform to bash him. He corrected, his statement.

(49:12):
I think anyone can agree that nine years is disgusting.
You have one party Democrat rule, and you think your
elections are fair. But here's my point, you guys, you
didn't listen to anything. I just said, that's why Republicans lose.
That what you heard in me saying that this man
went to great links to explain to Victor Markson that
he came out after that conversation and leaned in on

(49:34):
the full pardon for Tina Peters.

Speaker 6 (49:35):
Has he clarified that point again.

Speaker 3 (49:39):
Has he come out and said, Okay, I'm not going
to partner but all commuter sentence, because I don't think
that's happened. That's not me trashing the guy, but because
that's how you hear it. That's why we lose elections.
Because the ability within the Republican Party to have an
intellectual conversation that includes things like value systems, principles and electability,

(50:02):
that's why we lose elections. The nastiness going on right
now already on the Republican facecript book groups between people.
Why have we already solidified behind a candidate when we
really don't know anything about those candidates. I love Barb Kirkmeyer.
I think she would be an amazing governor. But if
you heard me come out and say she is my choice, absolutely,

(50:26):
I want to make sure that the candidate has a chance.
They barely have a chance right now. I mean barely.
It's so it is going to be so hard for
Republican to win this race as long as Donald Trump
is president in this state, it is going to be very,
very hard. So if you care about election integrity, then

(50:49):
we should make it easier for Republicans to get elected
by not talking about things that no one else cares about,
that represent things that for most people. Two twenty is
like fifty years ago. Since then, we've had COVID. Since then,
the entire world has changed. Come on, cheez, Louise. If

(51:10):
you want to win elections, you've got to play the game.
And the game isn't just about principle or the person
who says the right things. It's about people who don't
have skeletons in their closet that can be dragged out
by the opposition at the last minute to get whatever
chance you have completely cratered. I mean, come on, Mandy,

(51:34):
it's really annoying that the Democrats are going to look
like the normal party. Yeah, yeah, Mandy, lest you forget
Jenna Griswold will likely be the next attorney general. Look
up Kyle Clark's videos on why Jenna Griswold will be
hard to be Let me just say this please, It's
going to be really hard for Republicans to get elected.

(51:55):
It really is, and we need a really strong candidate
for Attorney General in order to make that happen. But
stop listening to news media who say there's no chance.
I'm going to tell you there's a small chance. I'm
going to tell you that every campaign has to be perfect.
That is not as standard Democrats have to have to
live by. Their campaigns don't have to be perfect. Our

(52:18):
campaigns have to be perfect. There can be no no
bumps in the road, no surprises down the none of
that can be. None of that can happen. So, yeah,
I want to know everything about Victor Marx. We've invited
him on the show. We've not heard back from his people.
If you know his people, I'm actually going to reach
out to Heidi because Heidi is a strong supporter of

(52:40):
Victors and say can you make this happen? Because I
have questions. I really do, Mandy, here's a bad analogy.
You're going to the dance with the only boy that
will go with you, and you spend your time dreaming
of the quarterback. Maybe maybe not, maybe not. But what

(53:02):
if the average voter wants Colorado to be more of
you blue? I hope not, though, guys, they've demonstrated that
over and over and over again by voting for Democrats.
So when I say we need candidates to run a
perfect campaign, that's why Colorado is a blue state, not

(53:25):
as blue as in Minneapolis and Minnesota. We got to
talk about what's happening in Minnesota. And the only reason
I'm talking about what's happening in Minnesota is that I
think that we have imported enough immigrants without our value
system that is going to be a problem in the
immediate future. Unlike Minneapolis, Minnesota, who just ignored the fraud,

(53:48):
but the same exact thing can happen here. We'll get
to that next. First of all, the City Journal is
an outstanding publication. It the magazine version comes out quarterly,
but City Journal does is let me make sure I
got that and a Cityjournal dot org, City hyphen Journal
dot org. It is a publication of the Manhattan Institute,

(54:09):
which is a public policy think tank in New York.

Speaker 6 (54:12):
They just do incredible, incredible stuff.

Speaker 3 (54:16):
And now they've hired Christopher Ruffo, who started out talking
about homelessness in Seattle and now is just morphed into
going after all of this progressive sort of sacred cows
that are out there.

Speaker 6 (54:30):
And his latest story came out November nineteenth.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
And I say that because the New York Times is
getting all the credit, but City Journal they broke the story,
and the New York Times kind of brought up the rear.
The story is shocking in terms of the scale of
the fraud. But the reason I'm talking about this is
that it is time that we get over being afraid

(54:54):
of being accused of racism when it comes to dealing
with crime of any mind.

Speaker 6 (55:01):
The crimes that have occurred.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
The fraud that has occurred in Minnesota is gobsmacking.

Speaker 6 (55:09):
I mean gobsmacking.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
They talk about Minnesota's Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services Program. So
it was launched a couple of years ago with a
noble goal. The goal was to help seniors, addicts, the disabled,
and the mentally ill secure housing. It was designed with
low barriers to entry, and minimal requirements for reimbursement. If

(55:34):
those aren't too just invitations to fraud, I don't know
what there is. Before the program went live in twenty twenty,
officials said it would take about two point six million dollars.
In twenty twenty one, the program paid out more than
twenty one million in claims. In the following years, annual

(55:54):
cost shot up to forty two million, then seventy four million,
then one hundred and four million. During the first six
months of twenty twenty five, payouts totaled sixty one million dollars.
So what happened in the second half of this year. Well,
August first, Minnesota's Department of Human Services scrapped the HSS program,

(56:17):
noting that payment to seventy seven housing stabilization providers had
been terminated this year due to credible allegations of fraud.
The vast majority of the HSS program was fraudulent. That
coming from Joe Thompson, the acting US Attorney for the
District of Minnesota.

Speaker 6 (56:38):
On September eighteenth, he announced criminal.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
Indictments for HSS fraud against a list of names that
I cannot pronounce because they are all from Somalia. No
maybe not all of them. Most of them are members
of Minnesota's Somali community. By the way, when he filed
these charges, he said, oh, this is just a first

(57:01):
round of charges. Listen to this. Most of these cases,
unlike a lot of medicare fraud and medicaid fraud cases nationally,
aren't just over billing. These are often just purely fictitious
companies solely created to defraud the system. And it's unique
to the extent that we have it here in Minnesota.

(57:25):
Enrolled firms that were supposed to be providing housing assistants
operated out of dilapidated storefronts or rundown office buildings. The
perpetrators often targeted people recently released from rehab, signing them
up for Medicaid services they had no intention of providing.
He noted many owners of companies engaged in HSS fraud
had other companies through they built, through which they built

(57:47):
other Medicaid programs, such as the Autism Program, the Adult
Rehabilitative Mental Health Services Program, the Integrated Community Support Program,
the Community Access for Disability Inclusion Program PCA services, and
other Medicaid waivers services. They signed people up for them
and never delivered and no one bothered to check it

(58:10):
gets better. There was an organization called Feeding our Future.
Feeding our Future was a small Minnesota nonprofit that sponsored
daycares and after school programs to enroll in the federal
child nutrition program Feeding our Future Well. The people they
sponsored were primarily owned and operated by members of Minnesota

(58:33):
Somali community. In twenty nineteen, they received three point four
million in federal funding dispersed by.

Speaker 6 (58:39):
The state after COVID nineteen hit.

Speaker 3 (58:43):
They blew up using fake meal counts, doctorate attendance records,
and fabricated invoices. The perpetrators of the fraud ring claimed
to be serving thousands of meals a day, seven days
a week to underprivileged children. In twenty twenty one, they
got nearly two two one hundred million dollars in funding,
except they didn't feed anybody. The money was used to

(59:07):
fund lavish lifestyles, purchase luxury vehicles, and by real estate
in the United States, Turkey, and Kenya. Now Here's where
it gets good back. In twenty twenty, Minnesota officials raised
concerns about the nonprofits rapid expansion. In response, the group
filed a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination related to outstanding site applications,

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noting that feeding our future's caters to foreign nationals.

Speaker 6 (59:35):
That's what they do.

Speaker 3 (59:37):
They set up these fraud schemes and when someone comes knocking,
they scream racism. It's time to just go No, it's
not racism. It's fraud. That's what it is. Fraud. The
depth of this is staggering. But it's not just the
fact that they've defrauded Minnesota taxpayers, federal taxpayers. You know

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what they're doing with the money. This is where it
really gets good.

Speaker 6 (01:00:03):
They're sending it back.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
To the warlords in Somalia. The number one funder of
al Shabab, the Islamic terror group that runs Samalia like
the broken nation that it is, are the Minnesota taxpayers.
But it gets better. There's more. Oh wait, there's more.
I'm skipping through so many of the details, you guys,

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you really should go read on the blog today. The
link stories that I've got it is so massive that
it's almost hard to understand how the state.

Speaker 6 (01:00:36):
Of Minnesota didn't know this.

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
Oh but wait, they did, and they tried to bring
it to the attention of none other than Tim Walls.
You know how we know Minnesota staff fraud reporting commentary
says we tried to tell him this is from an

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ex post that they made. We let Tim Walls know
of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership and stopping fraud,
but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walls systematically
retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring threats, repression, and it is
best to discredit fraud reports instead of partnership. Instead of partnership,

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we got the full weight of retaliation by Tim Walls,
certain DFL members. That's the Democratic What is DFL?

Speaker 6 (01:01:27):
Democrat farmer?

Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
I can't remember. The Democratic Party goes as DFL in
Minnesota and an indifferent mainstream media. In addition to retaliating
against a whistleblower, Tim Walls disempowered the office in the
Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and guidance.
Media and politicians supporting Tim Walls or the DFL agenda
attacked whistleblowers who are trying to raise red flags on

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fraudulent activities.

Speaker 6 (01:01:52):
But this account gets even better, you guys.

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
They say that Minnesota's DHS wrote a letter to Kamala
Harris and the DNC multiple Times warning them about Tim
Watson his incompetence, fraud, scandals, and retaliation, and they just
blew it off. So not only is Tim Wall's an idiot.

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And by the way, the big story today isn't that
we have billions of dollars being ripped off by immigrants
who have no business being on welfare programs in the
first place. The big story is today Donald Trump called
Tim Walls, he said he was retarded. Is that what
you want to do? We really only have a president

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who called someone retarded.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
I don't use that word because I think it's disparaging
to people with developmental disabilities. But if there's a word
that's a majorative that we're gonna use, that one might
be accurate for Tim Walls. The story is not that
Donald Trump said a mean thing, because I don't know

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if you guys have noticed, Donald Trump says mean things
all the time. I truly don't care. I just don't care.
But the distraction of like Donald Trump said, a mean
thing is just designed you, is designed so you don't
look at the incompetence that is going on in the
state of Minnesota, one of the most democratic places in

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the country. They just want you to look over here.
It's fine when we get back. I have questions and
they are all related to why are there so many
immigrants on welfare programs? And here in Colorado after we've
been told they're not, they don't get medicaid.

Speaker 6 (01:03:42):
There's no medicaid money.

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
Guess what.

Speaker 6 (01:03:45):
There's apparently a program we.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
Already knew about it, Omni Salute, that has been giving
free health care to illegal immigrants, but now it's going
to be cut because of the big beautiful bill. But
I don't understand how those things go together all that
next time. I've said this before on the show, so
I'm not breaking new ground with this comment.

Speaker 5 (01:04:03):
But when you.

Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
Import a bunch of people from failed nations that are
rife with corruption and have no moral compass and don't
share Western values, what do you expect to happen? Because we,
as Americans, we have a real, real weakness, and that
is we are we have a tendency to project our

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value system onto other cultures. I am here to tell
you that is a dumb, dumb mistake from I and
this dumb dumb mistake manifests itself over and over and
over again. And the latest greatest example when Trump says, oh,
we have peace in the Middle East, No we don't.

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We have peace for now in the Middle East because
we project our value system on and say, look, you
know what, we kind of beat the crap out of you, Like,
do you want more of that? You probably don't. So
we're gonna have peace in the Middle East. But the
reality is none of the underlying situations have been resolved,
and an Arab's their sense of pride will prevent them

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from stopping until Israel is destroyed. So right now, Ron
is just rearming has blood, they're rearming the hooties, they're
rearming up you know, everybody to have them attack Israel again.
Right And in this case, we assume, because we all
understand the opportunities and things that are available in the

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United States of America, we assume that people are still
coming for the American dream. Like our grandparents came for
the American dream. Our great grandparents came for the American dream, right.
They wanted to come here and make a better life
because when they came from wherever they lived, it was
horrible there, and they wanted to come here and take
advantage of the opportunities that were available, not take advantage

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of the country. And back when our grandparents and their
grandparents immigrated here, guess what if they didn't work, they
didn't neet. All of those people that came through Ellis Island,
they came through and they had to hit the ground running,
and they hit the ground running at a time when
there was no Irish need apply, no Italian need apply
in the windows. They either made it or they starved.

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But because we have now created this massive welfare infrastructure,
and in Minnesota, their welfare infrastructure is way bigger than
our welfare infrastructure here in Colorado. But because we have
chosen to create a welfare infrastructure that allows people to
come here and immediately get on the dole, we are
not attracting the best of the best. And when you

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bring over people from a culture that is completely destroyed,
as Somalia is. What's been hilarious over the last few
days is to watch people on the internet try to
convince me that Somalia is some kind of paradise on Earth.
That is absurd. Somalia is run by warlords who are awful, horrible,

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horrible human beings that get young men addicted to drugs
and then have them go kill their families, so they
don't have anywhere to go, so they become this army
for these warlords. They're all addicted to some form of methamphetamine.
They've destroyed what should be a beautiful country. They've destroyed it.

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It's an absolute garbage jump of a place. And the
notion that somehow and ilhan Omar is out there saying
that the Somali people are the real fabric of this country.
No thank you, no offense to anyone, but the fabric
of this country was woven before the first Somali.

Speaker 6 (01:07:36):
Set foot on this planet, on this earth.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
You know, it's so stupid. Yes, immigrants have made this
country a wonderful, great thing, but do not underestimate what
the native born have created here in the United States
of America and are now watching slip away. That's a
whole other population for another time. My concern is is
that we've now imported a bunch of Venezuelans, some of
which are fine people just looking for another a better

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opportunity for their families. But we've also imported Venezuelan gang members.
And when someone Danielle Drenski tried to bring attention to
the Venezuelan gang members. She was shouted down, and she
was shouted down for the same reason. That is, because
our quote leadership in this state didn't want to be
called racist.

Speaker 6 (01:08:21):
We're pointing it out.

Speaker 3 (01:08:23):
I don't care what color you are. I don't care
if you're white. I don't care if you're black. I
don't care if you're rich. I don't care if you're poor.
If you break the law, you deserve to be charged
and pay the price for it, full stop. If we
just had one system of justice for everybody, we wouldn't
even have to have these conversations.

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Speaker 6 (01:09:16):
We'll get you right up until three pm. And I
have a feeling there's.

Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
Gonna be some conversation at three o'clock about last night's
stressful win. Another stressful win. We should find out if
heart attacks have gone up this season. Okay, we should
just look into that. Somebody pulled the data because holy
macaroni last night. Another one, another one. I have a
video of Shelby.

Speaker 6 (01:09:40):
Harris on the blog today.

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
I can I just I might be the KOA President
of the KOA Shelby Harris fan clie. I declared myself president,
Therefore I am president your vice president. Has anybody else
openly declared their president's you know they have not in
a count I take over, but they have never officially

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announced themselves as the president of the KOA Shelby Harris
fan Club. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 6 (01:10:10):
It does not matter.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
By the way, Ben Albright wrong again with his ninety
nine to four prediction exactly. But Shelby was asked about
forty nine ers wide receiver Jwan Jennings, who apparently loves
to flap his gums during the game. And I can't
even play this sound bite because Shelby tells you exactly

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what he thinks. That is on the blog today. I
love him. He's my favorite. Anyway.

Speaker 6 (01:10:39):
I have a story that is extremely.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
Important that we need to get to because all y'all
who are new to the metro area need to understand something.
Here in Colorado, we keep our lights up, not through Christmas,
not through New Year's if we keep them up until

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the end of January.

Speaker 6 (01:11:05):
Now I've noticed something. You're not on next Door?

Speaker 5 (01:11:07):
Are you?

Speaker 6 (01:11:07):
You don't like I'm in the urbs.

Speaker 3 (01:11:09):
So next story is a source of constant and just entertainment, right, Okay,
So in Nextdoor, starting like December twenty seventh, you'll see
the first postub Guys, I don't want to be a crench,
but don't you think it's time to take your Christmas
lights down?

Speaker 6 (01:11:28):
And that person gets absolutely.

Speaker 3 (01:11:31):
Roasted in the comments. And I love the comments to
start like this, Hey transplant, let us tell you how
we do things here in Colorado. And out of all
the cool stuff that I love about Colorado, this is
literally number one.

Speaker 6 (01:11:45):
Why do we do it? This from our friends at
Fox thirty one.

Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
In Colorado. New Year's Day is not the day the
lights come down. Instead, people living in Colorado will leave
their holiday lights and decorations up through January a help
celebrate the state's largest Western trade show, the National Western
Stock Show. The tradition dates back to the nineteen twenties,
according to the National Western Stock Show, which first started

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in Denver in nineteen o six. This year's stock show
runs from January through the twenty fifth. The City and
County of Denver say on its websites that lights will
be on until January twenty sixth, which means the city's
lights are lit for sixty days. So take note, Colorado residents.

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Rushing to take down your holiday lights in January could
be the snub of an over one hundred year old tradition.
Have you what is the light situation in your neighborhood?
A ron, good, lots of lights.

Speaker 5 (01:12:45):
So many see they have a competition this year. Oh no, way,
that's awesome. Yeah, we're definitely not partaking.

Speaker 3 (01:12:50):
But you know, well, I know that I know that
there are really good reasons for people not to put
up Christmas lights. Some people are not Christian, they don't
celebrate Christmas. Other people maybe having health issues, are physical
issues that prevent them from putting up lights. Then you
call for lightscapes dot Com, and you know there's reasons.
But when we first moved into our neighborhood thirteen years ago,

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the neighborhood was still inhabited by a lot of residents
who had been there for a very long time. So
we had a lot of older folks in our neighborhood
and lovely people. I'm in no way of knocking them,
but at a certain point, getting up on a ladder
when you're eighty not a great idea, right. So, there
wasn't a lot of Christmas lights in my neighborhood and

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it was kind of boring, you know, kind of like
my next door neighbor always does a beautiful job with
her lights. She beautiful job with her lights. But this year,
I was driving through last night and I was like,
look around, this is fantastic. Looks like more people are
getting to the Christmas lights game. And I wanted to

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know from you guys, you listeners out there, are you
all in on the Christmas lights? Because I am. I
love them. I hate it when the Christmas lights still
come down or start to come down because it's dark
so dang early, so early, And I'm wondering if you

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guys are back in the Christmas lights gamer you've always
done them?

Speaker 6 (01:14:17):
Or what's your situation is Mandy.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
Lights used to be kept up to the last day
of the Stalk Show. Oh they still do? They still
do Mandy? How come Et fifty doesn't cover the Northern
Front range. Now I have a question, text, or do
you mean our signal or do you mean our coverage
of what's going on in Northern Colorado. Part of the
reason is that Northern Colorado has its own radio market.

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I aren't actually has radio stations up there, and so
when we've got coverage in a local level, then we're
not probably gonna spend as much time as we would.
That's the main reason. And in all honesty, like it
just seems far I know that's anyway, Mandy. I give
it five years max before Liberal Colorado loses the stock show.

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You know, they're investing a whole bunch of money into
the complex and they're looking to make it and all
year things. So I think I could see that happening
someday because all of the people that are like, oh
my god, you have cows running down the street. It's
so sad.

Speaker 6 (01:15:21):
Look how upset the are you?

Speaker 3 (01:15:22):
Are you kidding me? It's the best date ever for
those steer Mandy. I leave my Christmas tree in outdoor
lights through my birthday, which is January seventeenth. It's my
way to celebrate Mandy. No no no lights on it.
Thanksgiving off after the first weekend after the new year. No, no,
no text her wrong, Mandy not into Christmas or Christmas lights.

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I would either do it myself or not do it
at all. Well that's fine, that's fine, but your house
is boring and everyone's judging. I'm just kidding. They're not
They're not, really, Mandy. Next store is top tier for interment.
Let me try that again. Nancy would not have agreed

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that that was a winner when I just tried to
read there, Mandy, let's see, uh, next door is top
tier internet entertainment. I live outside of fair Play and
it is never dull, Mandy. I find it so strange
when the woman is putting up lights. Definitely a man's job.
And if you have kids, put the damn lights up.

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Minor spectacular this year, Mandy. I live in Wellington and
usually the signal is really good. However, today, at around
one point thirty.

Speaker 6 (01:16:39):
The signal was very poor.

Speaker 3 (01:16:41):
Lots of static. Guys. We as an AM band are
are affected greatly by changes in the weather.

Speaker 6 (01:16:48):
So weather changes, all of.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
That stuff affects our signal in the ways that the
FM band does not. It has to do with the
way the radio waves go. And right now you can't
see me. I'm doing the I'm doing the wave thing.
With my arm is very effective. Mandy. I'm a single
mail and have never put up lights, and only three
times in my forty five plus years ever put up
a tree, and that was a small plastic tree with lights.

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But normally you would never put them up. Not that
they don't love Christmas or love tree lights. I just
don't personally do it. Yeah, yeah, Mandy. I went to
the Botanical Gardens last night, took a million picks and
didn't want to leave. I love lights Denver Botanic Gardens.
Chef's kiss next level. If you love lights, go to

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the Botanic Gardens outstanding, but I would recommend that you
uber there because parking there sucks. Mandy, lights up twelve
twenty three and down twelve twenty six would be ideal.

Speaker 6 (01:17:46):
That's why they call it boxing day.

Speaker 3 (01:17:48):
Time to box up all the Christmas stuff. Christmas being
four to five months long every year is to looted
the holiday and taken away everything special about it.

Speaker 6 (01:17:56):
Bless for me, you cranky, cranky person.

Speaker 3 (01:18:00):
If you're celebrating Christmas for the right reason, it doesn't
matter how long the lights are up. I can't even
imagine putting the lights up for three days. That's not
even worth the effort, Mandy. It's estimated that Clark Griswold
put up his famous twenty five thousand imported Italian twinkle
lights around December seventh to the tenth, since the movie
ended on Christmas Eve with a chaotic dinner and house explosion.

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It's unknown when Clark took them down, but he probably
left them much longer than Ellen wanted, almost assuredly, Mandy.

Speaker 6 (01:18:31):
Word of mouth for a great business.

Speaker 3 (01:18:35):
Well, I'm not going to advertise for free a person
offering the same service as preferred lightscapes dot Com my customer.
I'm sure he's lovely, but no, sorry I have I
have a great deal of loyalty to the people who
work with me, so I apologize. I'm sure he's lovely though,
sure he's a fantastic, fantastic person. I've got a lot

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of stuff on the blog today, and one of them
is about I see if I can find it really quick.
Over the holiday, for some reason, Nick Flentes kept showing
up on my Twitter feed, and so now Nick foint is,

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of course being the white supremacist who Republicans are kind
of I don't know warming to. He's an awful like
weasel of a person. I don't understand how anybody could
watch him and think he's compelling. He's got like this
nervous tick way of talking that makes you think maybe
has some kind of palsy about him that you know,

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I just and this stuff, he says, it's so dumb.
And the only reason I bring this up is I
heard a phenomenal example. And I cannot remember where or
who I like heard this story from. Read it on
the internet. I don't know where this story came. I
know it is not my story, though. Worry relayed was

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simply that a guy was in a bar having a drink,
sitting at the bar mid afternoon, and a guy comes
in and sits down, you know, a few seats down
from him at the bar, and the bartender gets him
a beer, and then the guy kind of rolls up
his sleeves and he's got some Nazi type imagery on
his forearms, and the bartender picked up a bat, walked over,

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picked up the drink, took it away and said, I
don't know what you're kind in here, get out, And
it was so abrupt that the guy observing this was
kind of shocked. And when the guy left he said
to the bartender that seemed a little harsh, and the
bartender said, you don't understand you Let that guy stay.
He comes back with a buddy next week, and then

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in two weeks they come back with all their buddies,
and all of a sudden, you got a Nazi bar
and there's nothing you can do about it.

Speaker 6 (01:20:50):
That is the best analogy that I can feel.

Speaker 3 (01:20:52):
And express about the flirtation that is happening between this
vile little troll, Nick Fuentes and the Republican Party. For
a party that struggles with accusations of racism, accurate or not,
it would seem to me that we need to air
on the side of caution and in all honesty the
notion that somehow we can't afford to tick off the

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Nick Fuente's crowd. Who else is he going to vote for?
Where else there is loser follower is going to vote for?
And if you're one of his loser followers, I don't
understand how that could be and still be a listener
of this show. But whatever, you're still making a bad choice.
I mean to listen to him, not to listen to me.
We went to see The Most Charming Christmas show. As

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a matter of fact, ay Rod, reach out to minors
alley performing arts and see if we can get somebody
from the It's a Wonderful Life show on the show,
because it's so good. And if you love radio, when
you're listening to radio right now, it's a play about
a nineteen forties radio performance of It's a Wonderful Life
and the actors are fantastic and they do the sound

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effects in front of you. Oh, it's just so good.
It's so so good, So go see that. I put
a link on the blog today about that. Now, I
have a question that is going to be very random,
but I noticed this the other day. Oh no, I'm
gonna ask this question. Then I'm gonna get on the
last topic we need to talk about, and that is
pajamas on airplanes. We'll do that in a second. Guys,

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I'm here for you. I'm looking through all of the
sales material that I'm getting Black Friday and everything, and
they have like, oh, women's gift suggestions, and there's like
a thousand things, right, and they're all different. I mean,
there's all kinds of driven you a million different women's
gift suggestions. Then you go to the men's gift suggestions.

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They're all directly connected to drinking, barbecuing, or playing golf.
There's literally if like, if dudes have any other hobbies,
well then you're you're you just don't get a gift,
no gift for you. And I thought it would be
interesting to just ask the then in this audience two
questions and you can answer both of them or one

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of them.

Speaker 6 (01:23:03):
I don't care.

Speaker 3 (01:23:06):
What do you want for Christmas? What kind of gifts
do men who have everything? And I'm assuming most of
you are in that category at this point in your life.
You kind of if you want it, you go out
and buy it. What do you want for Christmas? Or conversely,
what is the best Christmas gift you, as a dude
ever got. Because we have to do better by our menfolk,

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we are not doing them any favors in our household.
We stopped playing golf years ago because two time consuming.
Although when Q is gone, I plan on picking golf
up again. And I don't mean dead, I mean you know,
in college, I used to love playing golf. It's just like,
who has time to commit five hours on the golf course? Anyway?

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I handle all of the barbecuing in our household. I'm
the grill master and he's not a drinker. Now I
know what I'm getting Chuck. A whole bunch of stuff.
I mean, I've been making a list for Chuck on
year long. Whenever he says something or I see something,
Oh yeah, I'm writing then on the list. And now
I'm just executing the list. And some of it is

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like the weirdest stuff. Like again, for anybody else, worse
gift ever, but for him, really good gift. Text me
at five six six, and I know, I want to
know what you got, because guys, you just get the
short end of the stick on this gift giving business. Now.
So this article came out November twenty fourth, and it's

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an interview with Secretary of the excuse Me of Transportation,
Sean Duffy. Duffy said he had noticed a degradation in
civility among air travelers and launched what he called a
civility campaign to encourage courtesy and patience during the crush
of holiday travel. He encouraged travelers to say please and

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thank you to our pilots and to our flight attendants,
and to dress with some respect. You know, whether it's
a pair of jeans and a decent shirt. I would
encourage people to maybe dress a little bit better, which
encourages us to maybe behave a little better. Let's try
not to wear slippers and pajamas as we come to
the airport. I think that's positive.

Speaker 2 (01:25:15):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:25:15):
A Rod was like, what because I said, I agree
with Sean Duffy, and I do. And here's why. Back
in the early nineties, I was a flight attendant. You
may not remember, and I don't remember if it was
like ninety two or ninety three, but one of those
summers was the first summer the airlines really had.

Speaker 6 (01:25:34):
A big price war, right, They had a huge price
war for the.

Speaker 3 (01:25:38):
Summer, and all of a sudden, people who not only
had never been on an airplane. And there's nothing wrong
with never having been on an airplane. I had never
been on a commercial airline until I went to fly
to Atlanta for my interview with Delta. There's no shame
in that, right. The people who bought ninety nine dollars

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tickets back there in ninety three or ninety four, whenever
it was, they were just a different crowd altogether. And
from that moment on, that whole summer was absolute misery
because we went from prior to that, you had to
have a little, you know, a little wherewithal a little

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walking around money. And most of the people with walking
around money were people who are decent human beings. And
all of a sudden we opened it up and people
were getting on the plane. They didn't have any luggage.
They just got on with their black garbage bags. I
will never forget the guy who walked up, walked up
to the gate holding a window shaker air conditioner, you

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know what I'm talking about, like a window unit, And
I said, sir, you can't take that on the plane.
Do you know what he did with it?

Speaker 6 (01:26:50):
He put it down, gave me his ticket and walked
on the.

Speaker 3 (01:26:53):
Plane, left the air conditioner behind, as if the airport
was somehow his dump. Now, when I fly, and we
fly quite a bit, you guys know, we're always on
the move, always lying here and there. I can tell
you that when I see someone on a flight in
the middle of the day wearing their pajamas, I judge

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you so harshly. I judge the crap out of you. Now,
if you're getting on a red eye, you get to
the airport at ten PM and you're getting on a
plane at midnight. I'm not judging you. First of all,
I think you're crazy. I don't do red eyes. I
hate them. Unless I'm coming from or to Europe. I
don't want to I'm not doing that. But that being said,

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there is something to be said for dressing a little
nicer when you go do things. I had a couple
on a flight one time in first class. This was
in the nineties. They had gotten married, either right out
World War Two or I don't remember the whole backstory,
but he promised her he was going to take her

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on an airline flight for their honeymoon. Okay, it's nineteen
ninety one. They were getting on the plane for their
first flight.

Speaker 5 (01:28:06):
Ever.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
It took him fifty years to be able to pay
off this promise to his wife. Y'all, they got on
the plane. He was wearing a suit, a full suit,
a hat, shined shoes. She was wearing a very smart
sort of suit dress. She had gloves on a hat.
They look like they stepped out of a pan am

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Ad from nineteen sixty one. We immediately upgraded them to
first class because how could you not, But it just
brought home how awful we have gotten about air travel. Now,
I am all for comfortable clothes. Okay, I am all
for comfort because frankly, the airlines have created this mess.

Speaker 6 (01:28:49):
And this is the other side of the coin.

Speaker 3 (01:28:52):
The airlines are now packing so many people into the
back that you have no room for any kind of comfort.
So to sit in those seats in jeans for any
length of time is like an exercise and misery.

Speaker 6 (01:29:05):
They stop serving food forever ago.

Speaker 3 (01:29:07):
And you guys, when I was a flight attendant in
the nineties, we had a hot meal on any flight
over an hour and a half. Think about that for
a second. We served real and it wasn't great food,
but it wasn't horrible. I lived on it for five
and a half years. I didn't die, but we had
hot food on every single plane. We did a service

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between Atlanta and Orlando in the back of an L
ten eleven that hold two hundred and seventy people in
the back that was hot soup and sandwiches. That flight
is just under seventy five minutes long, but on paper
it's ninety minutes, right, So oh, you gotta have food.
So airlines have stripped away everything that makes us want

(01:29:51):
to be better people in the process of trying to
make more money. And I get it. I mean there's
a lot of pressures. Everybody has to make money a profit,
and I get it one hundred percent. But the reality
is is that when you are dressed better, you are
more likely to act well. This is the theory behind
uniforms in school, This is a theory, but behind dressing

(01:30:11):
well in the workplace, no offense. But when you have
a workplace full of people wearing casual clothing, you're gonna
get a casual clothing attitude. And I love it. I
work in radio. I wear jeans every day to work.
Every single day, I'm wearing jeans to work and I
love it. But if you want a professional workplace business,

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casual has destroyed more professional workplaces more than anybody else.

Speaker 6 (01:30:38):
Mandy, the airlines.

Speaker 3 (01:30:41):
Mostly treat you like crap and are lucky to give
you pretzels wear pajamas. And that's kind of the other
side of the coin that I was just making. What
about furries on flights, Well, unless they have a service
animal certification. By the way, airlines are finally cracking down
on that. Thank God. Let me give some of these
these gifts for men Ammo, Ammo, and more, Ammo, Mandy.

(01:31:06):
I want a good meal and good company for Christmas.
I can get all the material things I want myself.
Hang on, I gotta go back and make more and
give me longer to read them because there are so many. Okay,
and we see here, Mandy. I appreciate you adopting the
traditions of being a Colorado by leaving lights up into

(01:31:26):
the stock show rolls to town. But it's time to
address how you say Colorado. Native Colorado's most commonly pronounced
the state name as Colorado, stressing the rad syllable with
a short a sound similar to kat, while newcomers say Colorado.
Do you know what I do? I do both just
to try.

Speaker 6 (01:31:44):
People like you, crazy, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (01:31:48):
If you want to understand why Nick Fwantes is gaining traction,
listen to Tucker Crawlson's podcast when he interviewed NICKI Haley's son.
It's not so much about Nick as it is the
feeling that the younger generation feels about America the boomers
left to them. Well, don't follow an idiot like Nick
fuents because you're disgruntled.

Speaker 6 (01:32:07):
Use your thinking cap, people, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (01:32:10):
Can we talk about how ugly. The women in ads
are now I mean, yeah, I guess maybe.

Speaker 1 (01:32:21):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:32:21):
Mandy just bought myself a Ruger three point fifty seven.
I expect to be a grandpa ride around Christmas. I'm
guessing the twenty third. Just my guest Jim. So Jim
needs Ammo A very expensive bottle of Scotch, says this man.
A couple of nice bottles of wine. I wouldn't buy
for myself a waffle iron or air fryero. I love
my air fryer and my waffle iron, two separate appliances.

(01:32:45):
Love them, use them all the time. Here's a pro
tip for the waffles. Make a bunch of waffles, eat
what you want, put the wrist in the freezer. You're welcome, Mandy.
A new recliner. Ooh, that's good, Mandy. I want to
a sauce stop table, saw and AR fifteen and accessories
associated with both. Noted did you let the people in
your life know this text? Mandy? I collect Star Wars

(01:33:09):
and Star Trek Keepsake ornaments. So that's what I want, Mandy.
I don't want presents. I buy what I want when
I want or need it. Told my friends and family
to make donations in my name to one of the
charities on a list that I gave out.

Speaker 6 (01:33:23):
Very smart, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (01:33:24):
My husband cried when I gave him a drawing I
had done of his dog who had just passed aw Mandy.
I like experiences, preferably either people I want to be with,
like maybe a trip to spring training in Phoenix. So
maybe just a ticket to one of the games for example. Yes,
there you go, Ralph says. I always dress business casual

(01:33:45):
when flying, especially first our business class. You get treated
a lot better when you dress well, dress like a peasant,
you will be treated like one. Usually one hundred percent,
oh one thousand percent on that. It always cracks me
up when somebody looks like crap and it goes into
a store and it's like they treated me poorly. I'm like,
you look like you're there to rob the place. Good gravy, Mandy.

(01:34:07):
If they were going to spend ten to one hundred
dollars on a gift, they should donate that amount to charity, Mandy.
So you don't recommend me wearing my speedo on my
next flight. I don't care what kind of underpants you wear,
sir or madam. I do not Mandy. When I first
married my wife, I had to wear a coat and
tied and non ref Back when I was a flight attendant,
you had to wear a coat like a dress, or

(01:34:28):
a coat and tie when you were flying non revenue status. Mandy.
I don't know if you're talking talking text right now,
but when I was young in the seventies, my mom
would take me shopping for travel outfits, and it always
included gloves exactly. I asked for kitchen knives and butt stuff.
What the best thing I've ever gotten was a bouquet

(01:34:49):
of lobster tails. What is butt stuff?

Speaker 6 (01:34:52):
I mean, do I want to know?

Speaker 3 (01:34:54):
I don't want to know, but I feel like I
need to know. I just want cash. But my wife
surprised me one year and we stayed in the Kaboo's
cabin near Colorado Springs and it was amazing.

Speaker 6 (01:35:05):
I like trains.

Speaker 3 (01:35:06):
Yes, hey, Mandy, can airlines mandate dress codes, Yes they can,
but no one will follow them. And then you put
the gate agents in the uncomfortable position of having to
tell someone that their attire is inappropriate. They can pull
you off an airplane or not let you board if
you are dressed like a skank. And I say that
because it's never men who get pulled off airplanes for

(01:35:26):
dressing like a skank. It is always women, because the
women are the ones who will come to the airport
dressed like a skank.

Speaker 6 (01:35:33):
You want to weigh in, Nick Ferguson, Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:35:35):
I do.

Speaker 3 (01:35:35):
Uh what is men's skank wear? For five hundred there's
no men's skak where That's what I'm saying now. If
the guy showed up with a speedo, they would be like, no, sir,
of course you. Or if you have profanity on your shirt, yes,
they'll make you turn it inside out or something like that.
So that for men, they'll just be like, you have
to turn your shirt inside out and we have to
not be able to see what's on your shirt. So

(01:35:56):
what's inappropriate dress? What is that exactly? I in my
experience as a flight attendant, I have had women, especially
flying out of spring break destinations, who will try to
get on the plane in their bikinis. And I always
said the same thing. I'm like, number one, you're super sunburned.
So as soon as that air conditioning hits in the plane,

(01:36:16):
I don't want to hear you complaining about being cold.
That's thing number one, we have no blanket, so you're
just gonna freeze. And number two, what are you even doing?
Do you have any idea how discussing those seats are
and you want to put your bare butt on it? Well,
we know in those cases what she is trying to do. Oh,
of course we do, yes. And actually I got stricter
on that when a woman took her clothes off leaving

(01:36:37):
a spring break destination and walked up and down the aisle.
I'm sorry what took her clothes off? Walked up and
down the aisle? Total butt naked, Because you're not naked
at that point, you are naked, you know what I'm saying.
There's nothing good going on in that. Was she attractive? Yes,
she was hot? Okay, that was That was honestly, that

(01:36:59):
was one of the few times where I really thought
we were gonna have like a bar fight situation, yes,
on an airplane, because when we corralled her into the
first class galley area so we could get some clothes
on her, there was like seventeen guys that lost their
minds because we were trying to put clothes on her,
and I thought we were gonna have to land the

(01:37:20):
plane and then the pilot had to come back and say,
let me explain what's about to happen. I'm about to
turn this plane back around and you're gonna have to
pay for it, and they all sit her down. Then Wow.
I always wonder what happened when she left the plane.
Do you know what I'm saying? Like, what was she
was closed when she while she was she was met
by police officers when we landed at our destination. I

(01:37:43):
don't know, That's what I'm saying. I don't know what
happened when she left the plane, you know, I don't know.
You know what we're going to, Yes, only it's federal
because you're in you're an airplane. So there's like a
series of charges and it has to do with like
what's it called. It's not disruption of a flight crew.
It's something like that. It's like disruption of flight crew

(01:38:06):
activity is something something? It's some weirdly same thing. Yeah,
I don't know what kind of waffle maker I'll have.
I'll look it up and tell you tomorrow. Text her
just said, I just got a new and fairly recently
Santa laingerie strip teas to Santa Baby on Christmas Eve,
I like your attitude to ask Nick, what's like the
best thing you've ever gotten as a guy for Christmas?

(01:38:30):
For Christmas? Yeah, because all this stuff, like the man gifts,
it's like booze, barbecue or golf. If my husband doesn't
do any of those things, you know, with regularity, so
it's like, God, you guys get janked on that stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:38:47):
Yeah, we do, like we get kind of run over
on Father's Day in Christmas, right, you know. But for me,
my wife purchased me. It was it was I think
it's three hundred and fifty of these. My number was
I believe one hundred and fifty. It was a Dartvader
helmet that you can actually put on, and it was

(01:39:09):
signed by both Hayden Christiansen.

Speaker 3 (01:39:11):
Oh that's no cool. Yes, And why am I drawing
blank on his name? God me rest in please James
or Jones? Oh wow, Oh that's super cool. That was
one of my best gifts. That is super cool. So't
give me a tie or something like that.

Speaker 7 (01:39:27):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:39:28):
I got my husband a gift a couple of years ago,
and as I gave it to him, I just said,
this is either why your hands are so small? Give
me I said, the best gift ever or the worst
gift ever. You can let me know when you open it.
And it was a Navage nasal rint. And to this
day he will tell you best gift ever. Really loved it.

(01:39:50):
His horrible horrible allergies, I mean, just brutal knows could
be the best gift ever, best gift ever. I'll tell
you interesting, that's because you know anyway, how it's time
for the most exciting segment on the radio of its gode.

Speaker 4 (01:40:05):
The world.

Speaker 3 (01:40:09):
Believe it's nick change, that's changing. All right? What is
our dad joke of the day?

Speaker 2 (01:40:14):
Please?

Speaker 5 (01:40:15):
I asked the librarian if I had any books on decibels.

Speaker 3 (01:40:20):
They said, sure, what volume would you like?

Speaker 2 (01:40:22):
Oh yeah, wow, boom you.

Speaker 3 (01:40:29):
All right?

Speaker 7 (01:40:29):
What is there?

Speaker 3 (01:40:30):
Word of the day please? It is a noun. Now
get ready for this mouth consanguinity.

Speaker 7 (01:40:36):
Consanguinity noun that sounds like an act that has been
prohibited since the eighteen hundred.

Speaker 3 (01:40:44):
I think it means like being mellow or Conseguinity is calmness.
It's calmness and acceptance.

Speaker 5 (01:40:53):
No on both accounts. It is a close relationship or connection.

Speaker 3 (01:40:57):
Oh there you go. Fancy word to say that like
some one. Yeah, exactly what popular carbonated drink was once
known as BIB label lithated lemon lipst No, it's got
to be seven up, but you don't know what the
BIB labeled lithated lemon lime, so it is that would
be seven up. Created by Charles leiper Grig in nineteen

(01:41:20):
twenty nine, the drink originally contained the compound lithium citrate help,
hence the lithiated After the FDA banned the use of
lithium and soft drinks, seven up was reformulated. So there
you go. Between that and doctor Pell's. Well they had
cocaine in coke, you know what I mean? Yeah? Well
your car yep, there you go. What is our Jeopardy

(01:41:44):
category HD?

Speaker 5 (01:41:46):
HD?

Speaker 3 (01:41:46):
Every answer is.

Speaker 7 (01:41:51):
HD.

Speaker 5 (01:41:51):
Yeah, it's HD. Okay. Appetizers served before correct adjective for.

Speaker 6 (01:42:00):
A carriage pulled by a team manny, what is horse drawn?

Speaker 3 (01:42:04):
I would have also accepted horse driven? Correct? Okay. Some
believe this nursery rhyme fella.

Speaker 5 (01:42:09):
Was based on a cannon that crashed on the ground
during the English Civil War, which I did?

Speaker 3 (01:42:16):
Is this, Doctor Seuss? No, it all starts with h
G manny h what is humpty dumpy?

Speaker 5 (01:42:22):
That is correct, a residential area in which the dwellings
have all been planned and built around the same time.

Speaker 3 (01:42:31):
Don't overthink this, Mandy. What is a housing development that
is correctez?

Speaker 5 (01:42:35):
And for the sweep two word term meaning to take
shelter in a defensive position, perhaps from a storm, Nick Hiddough, No, essentially, Oh, Mandy,
what is hunker.

Speaker 3 (01:42:48):
Down is correct? Florida? You should know that from hurricane coverage.
When there's a hurricane in Florida, the meteorologist must say
hunker down a billion and a half times in the
lead up to a hurricane. We're going to hunker down,
stay in place, but it's hunker down.

Speaker 7 (01:43:05):
Down.

Speaker 3 (01:43:06):
Let's have a quick twenty second conversation about last night's game, Nick, Yes,
I don't know how much longer I can do this.
The stress, your heart racing, Oh my god, to have
a heart attack. Are you going to edge your seat?

Speaker 4 (01:43:21):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:43:23):
I'm worried about the playoffs at this rate. I'm just
saying I'm interested that you guys are going to say
on k Sports, would I say that's all coming up next?
Keep it right here on k Away