12-02-25 FULL SHOW - What Will The World Be Like For the Next Generation?

Our futurist looks at the destruction of systems we all relied on, Douglas County Schools is a new soap opera, and immigrants on the dole is just bad, and it's time for real talk on climate.

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the show.
You know the drill we barrel on Tuesday. So let's
start big. I'm Mandy Connell. I'm your host for the
next three hours. That guy right over there is Anthony Rodriguez,
you can call him a rod Together. We'll take you
right up until three p m. When the sports guys
will take over. Let's do the blog, shall we? Because

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it's awesome today, as it is every day, some days
better than others. Today's is good. I feel like Nancy's
gonna give it a good score if I don't screw
up the reading of the headlines.

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But we'll see.

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Let's find out. Look for the blog by going to
mandy'sblog dot com. That's Mandy's blog dot com, No apostrophes
and that's with a why Mandy with a y. Then
when you get there, look for the latest post section
and look for the headline that says twelve to two
twenty five blog what will the world be like for
the next generation? Click on that and here are the

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headlines you will find within anybe.

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The Office South America all with ships and clipments, and
that's going to press flinch.

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Today. I'm the blog our futurist Thomas Frye talks about
the destruction of systems. Immigrants should not get welfare, It's
time to change the convo on climate change. New Dougco's
school drama and Guy Toon could be the Denver Public
School Board president again. And Elizabeth Schools faces a new lawsuit.
The Feds are targeting trucking schools. Broncos set another record.

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Europe did what Colorado wants to do and ruined its economy.
This as our energy affordability becomes a problem, the White
House throws an ad roll under the bus. Is California
sober a thing? We just aren't drinking as much these days?
Oh look, no one wants cvs without tax credits. Seventy
five is old hot competition for anti semit of the Year.

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Why I don't have cameras inside my house? The Olympics
are coming, Epic Christmas lights, rage tree decorating lessons. This
Broncos team is something bo sorcery a special moment in
the Seahawks' locker room, gift wrappings, sorcery, A Rod did this?
Biden failed immigrant children, parchment paper for idiots. Those are

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the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Tick
Tech tot oh Winner see Nancy. The dramatic pauses are
getting me. You're killing me, lady, You're killing me. We've
got a lot of stuff on the blog today, but
I got to start out. I just went on another
tour of Step Tenver and Steps to be on the

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show next week on Colorado Gives Day, and I learned
some new stuff about Step Denver that makes the fact
that they have been helping men overcome the consequences of
their addiction for over forty two years now. Thousands of
men have gone through a program that has a success
rate that is defined not just by getting people off

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the streets, but by having a house, not buying, but
having a place to live, having a job, and being sober.
That is what is measured as success at Step Denver.
I sat with Megan Sha, she's the executive director. I
adore her. She's going to be in next week and
I learned something about the lore of step Denver that

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I did not know now I for those of you
who don't know, Mike Rosen was a staunch supporter of
step Denver the entire time he was on the radio,
and when I took over his show slot, it was
kind of like, Hey, do you want to keep doing this?
And I went on my first tour of step Dedenv
and that was eleven years ago, and it just blew

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my mind. The entire operation. It's not that the facility is.
The facility is kind of mind blowing for a variety
of reasons, but the program is mind blowing. And there
was a gentleman named Bob Ktay And if you guys
are longtime Michael listeners, you've heard Bob Kota has now
since passed away. But Bob became the face and the

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executive director of step Denver after being a resident of
what was the original step Denver facility. Listen to this
and dang, and I can't remember the guy's name. I'm
gonna get it from Megan next week. There was a
guy who was kind of sitting around looking for something
to do, and he decided he wanted to do something
to help and he got a room behind a bar

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and said, any man that wants to live sober will
have a place to stay in this room. And he
put a bunch of mattresses in there. And that's how
step Denver started. Bob Ktay one of their first residents.
And it was Bob and the vision of other people
that made it into the powerhouse successful program that it
is today, so successful that they just opened up STEP Springs.

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So they have STEP Colorado Springs now and they are
already serving men in that program. They have thirteen beds
available right now in step Denver. And if you've not
heard me talk about Stepdenver, if you not you know
are you're not familiar. Step Dever is the antithesis to
housing first though they do provide housing when a man,

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and they only deal with men because seventy percent of
the homeless population is male, and they focus on the
largest number of people that they can help, and women
tend to have deep, deep, deep levels of trauma when
they are homeless because they are further traumatized by being
on the streets. This is a program for men, but
when men come through that door, they have everything they need,

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but they also have responsibilities and accountability. They have things
they have to accomplish, They have things they have to do.
They have boxes they have to check at every box,
behind every box that the men have to check. And
when you go into step Denver first, when you enter
the program, you spend five days in orientation where they

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give you all the rules of the program, and there
are significant rules to the program, but every one of
those rules is designed with the goal of having everything
you accomplish. Every step that you take in that program
is designed to help build men back up, to help
remind them of what life can be, to help them

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regain their humanity. Living on the streets is an extremely
dehumanizing experience, especially when you're in the throes of addiction.
Many of these men come straight out of detox because
they were found on the streets in various states of
hypothermia in the winter and or unconscious and in a
moment of variety, in a moment of clarity when they

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were sober, they made the choice to go into the program.
They have helped thousands and thousands of men. The program
starts in the building right there at twentieth and was
that twentieth and Laramer I can't remember what the cross
streets are. You stay in that building for six to
eight months, and then they have sober living because they've
realized over many years of doing this that men need

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an off ramp, right you can't just throw them back
out into the world. And the men that do the
whole program, they go through the off ramp, they spend
time in sober living. Their continued success in employment, housing
and sobriety is staggeringly high compared to other programs. And
here's the kicker, you guys, the kicker. I just want

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you to think for a second, how much money the
city of Denver alone is spending per homeless person. When
you add it all up. I mean we're talking fifty
sixty seventy one thousand dollars a year per homeless person
for an entire year of the program for one man.

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Step Denver does it for fifty two hundred dollars a man,
and every bit of it is donated money. They don't
take any money from the government. I just finished reading
a book and I'm trying to get the authors of
the book. They're from a public policy think tank in California.
Try to get them on the show right now, because
they wrote an amazing book about the failure of Housing

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First and why it has failed, and they feature other
programs like step Denver in this book. But the reality
is is that what we're doing right now in Denver especially,
it does solve one significant problem, and that is the
inconvenience of unsheltered homelessness for those of us that are
not addicted and living on the streets. Right Like, you

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go to downtown Denver and you don't have to walk
over human feces or needles in a lot of the
places anymore. We don't have disgusting encampments, you know, popping
up all over the city. We don't have that anymore.
So that problem has quote unquote pin solved for me,
for you, for a rod. We are now unfettered and
unbothered by drug addicts and mentally ill people who were

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previously living on the streets because they've been shoved into
hotel rooms. But it doesn't solve the underlying problem, and
that is the problem of addiction and mental illness and
people who have suffered so dramatically that they have forgotten
how to be part of society. They've forgotten how to

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take care of themselves. They've forgotten that they have value
and that they matter and that they have worth. And
step Dever solves those problems. And by the way, when
I say step Deenver solves those problems, it's not Step Denver.
The men who are in the program solve these problems.
All step Denver does is set them up for success.
And success starts very, very small. It starts with learning

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how to make your bed properly. It starts with getting
a job in the first forty five days. It starts
with learning how to feed yourself nutritious food on a budget.
It starts with learning how to budget. It starts with
learning how to do banking again, getting an ID again,
becoming part of society again. It is just it is
such an incredible, amazing program. And the reason I'm going

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through all of this is because you guys that listen
to this show. You are the reason that it succeeds.
Because you donate a ton of your hard earned money,
your vehicles that you're not using anymore. You are a
huge part of funding that program. And I am so
incredibly grateful to.

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All of you.

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Whether you give five dollars or five hundred, or five
thousand or fifty thousand, it doesn't matter, whatever you give
out of your heart is helping rebuild human beings and
giving them their lives back. It is the most powerful,
incredible thing to be a part of someone else's humanity

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without ever meeting them. Right, I'm not going to meet
a vast majority, You're not going to meet probably any
of the guys who have gone through this program. But
knowing that your donation is going to truly rebuild lives
in a way that is so efficient fiscally and financially,
it is just I love it. I absolutely love it.

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And they're going to be on the show next week
for Colorado Gives Day. And I know that today is
the national whatever day of giving whatever, it's fine. Colorado
Gives Day is our version in Colorado, and if you're
not familiar, it is a day that you can give
to your favorite charities that are connected to Colorado Gives.
And there are hundreds, if not thousands, step numbers. One

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of them, Step Springs is now one of them. So
if you really want to make a difference, please, I mean,
I hate to say it. And one of the wonderful
women that I met with today said that she is
in recovery herself. She is a recovering alcoholic. She actually

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I was very open about that, and she said, you know,
before I came to work at step Denver, I used
to be one of those people that on New Year's Day,
I would make a big pot of chili and I
would portion it out, and then I would try to
go and take it to people living on the streets
around downtown. And now I look back and I know
that I was not helping. I was part of the problem.
I was enabling behaviors that are going to kill people.

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And that's exactly what you do. Bob Kota, the late
executive director, said, giving money to people living on the streets,
where most of them are dealing with addiction or mental illness,
you're merely buying their death. On the installment plan. Everything
we're doing to enable people living on the streets is
paying eventually for their death. Their death from addiction, they're

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death from exposure, They're death from whatever takes the people
that live on the streets. It's not humane, it's not compassionate.
It may feel good to do a coat drive or
a blanket dry for the homeless, but the reality is
is that you are allowing people to continue to make
a choice that is going to lead to their death
and is already leading to their destruction. But the good

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news is we have organizations like step Denver out there
who are offering an alternative path, a hard path, but
a path that works, right, that's the thing. It's a
path that works. So anyway, that's my little soapbox about
step Denver. I would love if you give on Colorado
Gives Day. I would love you to consider step Denver.

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I am on Colorado Gives Day going to have a
list of the charities that I believe in that I
think are doing a good job with your money. And
for me, that's really important. I think it's bad to
throw money at a charity that does not use it
response right, and it doesn't. It doesn't expect results, it
doesn't have metrics to measure or not whether it's successful.

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So I will have a lot of those next Tuesday.
But again step Denver is coming in to talk about it.
So this text for Mandy. We've donated two vehicles to
step Denver, and one of the best parts of it
was getting a letter from them letting us know that
each vehicle paid for a man to complete the program.
I'm twenty six years sober from meth addiction. This place

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does God's work. No, Chad, you're helping them, so that
makes you an angel, It really does. Mandy worked across
from step Denver for a number of years, more than
a decade ago. There was a lot of hustle and
bustle going on there, made a substantial donation to them
and received a nice thank you card from signed by
all their residents. I mean, it's it's just wonderful. It's wonderful, Mandy.

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What's this about a new Dulles Airport? Those of us
that fly United instead of Cattle Call are excited about
this possible addition to the Star Alliance network, and of
course the possibility of Trump International World Airport. Yeah. Yeah,
given that you're doing the history, you might want to

(15:14):
mention it used to be called step thirteen. Yes, yes,
indeedy Step thirteen is the question can you a to
you Texter? Can you a Mandy? I thought I heard
was one hundred percent human? You are correct, except my
theme song, and we are working on that, hopefully by
I don't know, by the end of this week. We'll

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have a plan hammered out. We are going to have
a contest. We're going to allow people to redo our
theme song. Now, I don't want you to change it.
I love the theme song. I love everything about it
except it is sung and played by AI. And we've
been open about that. I mean, you guys know that.
But we want to put AI out of work. So

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we're gonna be having a contest. So if you are
musical at all, then and you will be invited in
to record the theme song. Now, I'm just gonna say this,
we don't have a band to back you, so we
may have to, you know, figure it out. Mandy, Please
don't drag down other organizations. Everything works together for good

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and not everyone that gets a blanket or this or
that or the other will go to Step twelve. So
just no, don't drag down and say other things are
not good because they are except they aren't. I'm just
gonna be honest. The I'm trying to think of the
best way to say this. Since I've been involved with

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organizations like Step tenver and I was involved with an
organization like this in louisvill called Haven for Hope, I
have now had the opportunity to talk to former addicts,
recovering addicts, people who've been sober for six months, ten months,
ten years, you know, and consistently. One of the things
that they have said to me is, as long as

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being an addict was easy, I had no desire to change.
And I'm not saying living on the streets is easy.
But the other thing they told me, especially homeless addicts, said, look,
you get to a level where you understand the game
on the streets, and it seems easier when you're in
the throes of addiction to manage that game, right, to
manage that game on the streets because you're addicted to

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drugs or alcohol and you don't have a rational thought
in your head. And whenever we would have people come
down and they'd feed us, like I was sold by
an addict here in Denver that they could easily find
three meals a day, coats, blankets, whatever they needed, and
they turned around and sold them off for drug money.
So I know that you want to think you're helping

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by preventing a person from freezing to death. I do.
I get it, one hundred percent. But the reality of
what you're doing is you're making yourself feel better. You're
not helping them. So is it wrong? And I'm not saying,
drag other organizations, but why why not put that effort
into supporting programs that actually work, that work in the
sense that they're getting people off the streets, they're getting

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people into jobs, they're getting people into housing, and more importantly,
they're getting people into sobriety. So I'm sorry if it
sounds like I'm quote dragging other organizations, But if what
you're doing is enabling an addiction that is going to
kill someone, I mean, guys, at what point do you

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have to reevaluate your thinking instead of telling me to
reevaluate mine, Because clearly what we're doing now is not working.
Shoving homeless people into hotel rooms only means that they'll
get to die alone in their hotel room. And there
was a pretty significant study on homelessness that said people
in supportive housing with no barriers to entry were more

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likely to die of an overdose than people living on
the streets. Does that sound like it's helping? Sorry, but
if Jesus Christ looked by, he wouldn't tell him to
go to step thirteen. You're gonna tell me that. Jesus
would just say I accept and love you, and you
shouldn't change anything that's not compassion, you guys, It's not.

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It just isn't. Mandy. We've donated four vehicles to Step.
My cousin went through the program and became a counselor there,
and that, my friends, is what makes a successful program.
And by the way, if your heart tells you to
do this, if you feel like you are guided by
God to do this, then do it. Absolutely do it.
But don't delude yourself that you're part of the solution.

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Do it because you feel pulled by God to do it,
and that is a noble calling. But do not convince
yourself that you're helping. You're putting a band aid on
a gaping wound and hoping it will get better. We
do have a guest coming up at one o'clock, our futurist,
Thomas Fry. I don't know a rod. I'm worried about
Thomas because he's always like so upbeat about what the

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future holds. But today he's got a whole column on
the great systems collapse. And this is concerning for a
multitude of reasons. And what am I talking about we'll
get into at one o'clock. I don't want to get
into it too much right now. But it's like all
the things that I did now don't matter for my

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kids and my grandkids because we've lost so much faith
and the systems frankly have failed us. We'll get into
that at one o'clock.

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Now.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
I have a bunch of stuff on the blog today,
but none better than some of the stories coming out
of lawsuit or coming out of school systems right now.
Why and I have a theory about this. Why is
there so much drama at school boards? I really do
have a theory about this. Part of it is that

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they're involved with a lot of educators, and educators are
overwhelmingly women, and for whatever reason, women love drama. That's
my theory. But nonetheless, I've got three different school board
stories today, one out of Elizabeth. Now, I have not
had Superintendent Dan Snowberger on the show, but I should
because what they're doing in Elizabeth when it comes to

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book selection for their school libraries is exactly the way
I think it should be handled. When Elizabeth decided to
review the books in their school libraries to make sure
that their age appropriate and did not contain content that
they believe could be harmful to children, I refuse to
call it a book ban because it is not. No
one is throwing books into a pile in the street

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and setting them on fire. Elizabeth created a committee. There's
an entire process that they went through with community involvement,
teacher involvement. I mean, everybody was involved. Everybody kind of
got in the pool and said what are we going.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
To do here?

Speaker 3 (21:51):
And they chose books to be included, and they chose
books to be excluded from their libraries in schools. None
of these books are banned at the public library. You
can go right on down, trot right on down to
the publize, check them out yourself. Feel free, do whatever
you want. But it's time that we had a conversation
about appropriateness for school libraries that was not based on politics,

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but based on is this age appropriate for children. I'm
one of those people. I'm so crazy. I don't think
that children should have graphic novels describing how to perform
oral sex in their school libraries. I just don't. I
don't think that's an appropriate book for a school library,
especially in an elementary school library. And Elizabeth set up
a whole system where people could give their opinions and

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then they made a decision collectively and that's not good
enough for the ACLU. The ACLU has already sued them,
and now they're suing them again. How are they suing
them again? Well, in November of excuse me. In twenty
twenty four, a woman named Lee Ellen Condrey was hired

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as an academic advisor and dean of students at the
Elizabeth Middle School in Elbert County. She signed a one
year contract with a salary of sixty five thousand dollars.
She relocated from another state to accept the position. She
claims that prior to accepting the job offer, she was
unaware the school district was planning on implementing a book

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fan that she says was quote explicitly racist, sexist, homophobic,
and transphobic, beginning in the twenty twenty four to twenty
twenty five school year. Now, guys, I'm just gonna say this,
if you googled the Elizabeth Public School District last year
before she got hired, you would have seen all this.

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So the fact she didn't do at all any due
diligence is not my fault. It is her fault indeed.
But she then gets disgruntled books that she likes, books
like the Bluest Eye by Tony Morrison, which has scenes
of incest and raping it The Kite Runner by Khalid Hasani, which,

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by the way, I made my husband go see a
stage version of The Kite Runner. And let me just
tell you something about Chuck my husband. He is a
dude who likes the bad guy to get it in
the end and the good guy to get the girl.
That's like whatever media he's conferred. He wants the good
guy to get it, but bad guy and the Kite
Runner is it's a lot. It is a heavy show,

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and it's a heavy book, and it features the rape
of a young boy. Well, this woman not only was
unhappy about this, she wrote to the school board criticizing
the book band, calling it unethical and racist. What she
didn't hold back, she called the board racist in and

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of itself. She told administrators that as a black woman,
she was uncomfortable attending a district barbecue because of the
book band. You know what, I don't care about your discomfort.
I am so tired of people telling me that they're
uncomfortable or unhappy or sad or nervous because of X,
Y or Z. Here's the thing, nobody else is responsible

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for your emotional response. I don't care if you were
too upset to go to a barbecue. I don't give
a ratsass. I don't want you anyway. You would have
been a wet blanket the entire time anyway. Snowberger, the superintendent,
sent an email to Miss Condria after getting her email

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that called the board racist and by the way, they
had asked everyone for feedback. The school board asked the
people in the district to give some kind of feedback
on the books that they were selecting. Her feedback called
the board racist. Snowberger specifically called out Yellen Condre's remark,

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stating that her feedback she had called the boards action racist,
crossed the lines of professional and ethical behavior, and that
her remarks would lead to further disciplinary action. She was
terminated on October first, of last of twenty twenty four.
Snowberger said, for budgetary reasons, but also she did not
get the licensing that she needed to do the job

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she was in. So the ACOU is now suing again.
What's funny is that they hate. They hate when school
districts try to protect kids. Now, as a parent, you
if you make a decision that you want your children

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to read Tony Morrison's The Bluest Eye. I am not
a Tony Morrison fan, not because she's black, because I
don't like a writing. I mean, there are black authors
that I do like. I'm a huge Alice Walker fan.
She writes incredible, incredible books like Tony Morrison. But there
was so much opportunity for people to make the case.
And if your middle schooler is advanced enough in their

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reading that you think they can read things like The
Bluest Eye or read The Kite Runner and be able
to understand those concepts, great take in the library, you
have your own book club. But the reality is is
that not every book in the world is in a
school library, period, full stop. And it's okay. It's okay

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to say that as a school district, we don't want
this content in our libraries. It's fine, it really is.
But the ACOU will not stop sewing. By the way,
if you want to support the Elizabeth School District in
their fight, they actually have a link on their website.
Because Elizabeth is not a big school district in the
ACOUS really deep pockets, so they're like, look, you know

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we need to If you want to help out, you
can and please do if you can, because they're fighting
a battle that is ridiculous and shouldn't be happening. And
yet the ACLU is determined that your children need to
see pornography in their school library or they will not
stop until they make that happen. Just think about that.

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Just think about that. The ACLU has lost its mission
so long ago, it's not even funny. They don't care
about free speech. They care about progressive speech, and that's it.
I just got a text message that I have to
bring to you guys, because I want to know what
you would do in this situation, Anthony, what would you
do this? Texter? Said Mandy. I am training a new

(28:34):
employee today. During our initial conversation, he picked his nose twice,
looked at it, and dropped it on the floor. Gen
Z is great. What do you do in that situation?

Speaker 2 (28:45):
I mean, I have follow up questions.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
How many flicks did it take to get the boogie
off the finger to the foot floor?

Speaker 3 (28:51):
What if it was just like a crusty because I
get those on the outside of my nose.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Did that tempt to hide it?

Speaker 3 (28:58):
And was it a dig? Was it a dig? Was
mining for gold up there? Or was it just like, oh,
I've got a he's a dry skin or whatever on
the outside.

Speaker 5 (29:06):
Of my neck.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
I feel it kind of in the way. They want
to get out of the way real quick, right like
because you think you maybe you got a hanger or something.
You know, you don't want to you don't want to
have that.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
If they attempted to hide it and you just caught them,
then nothing you have to do, just an unfortunate situation.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
You also don't say anything, period.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
I totally say something.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
No, you no way in hell you do.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
I would say you can't do that. Here, go blow
your nose. You were them, I would mom, then so incompetent.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
Okay, Well, we don't know if it's we don't know
if it's a kid, could be a full grown man.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
He says at the end of his text, gen z
is great. So it's a young person, a young adult.
A lot of these kids. I don't know who raised them.
I really don't. It's shocking to me. The good news
is it was a dig and no hiding it.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
Follow up for sure? Now for sure you still say nothing. No,
it's so awkward.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
But if it's a full word position, what is it
a ford facing position. What if they're going to be
working the counter at your store and somebody he's a
guy digging for that.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
To catch them doing it in front of customers. No, No,
because you.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Get it in front of you in a job intake,
they're gonna do it in front of customers.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
It's awkward. You don't do it. No, that relationship will
never word. That relationship will never be the same. If
you say something, I don't care. We all see people
do it.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
An I got to tell you something. I guarantee it
right now.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
I guarantee right now.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
If we asked the text line, I guarantee ninety percent
of people would say, you say nothing.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Okay, well that's what I'm asking.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
Yeah, they won't say nothing.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
What would you do at five six six nine er.
I'm gonna tell you why. I say.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
It's not talking about a stranger. I'm talking about someone
you not have to work with. That is awkward from
the starts.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Ay Rod, I had to sit down when I was
a twenty two year old restaurant manager. I had to
sit down in the office with an employee and hand
him sticks of deodorant and tell him that he had
to shower before he came to work because his body
odorant was so bad that they walk through the restaurant
and you would smell him for like three minutes after
we walk through.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
That's awful.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
That is like apples and nuclear bombs. That is that
is not the same thing.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
It is the same thing. It's about a personal hygiene
issue that should be done in private. It's the same thing.
And obviously this kid does not know this information, and
you're sending them into the world being horrible.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
I wonder what the line of work is. Did he
say I.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Don't know, I'm okay text or another follow up question
since you're still listening, Uh, is it a forward facing
position working with the public, or even worse, food service
at the very food service position.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
At the very most, you have to wait for it
to happen one more time.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
I agree, you've already missed your window to do it.
This time, I would have full on said dude, you
can't do that. You can't do that. You just can't
do it.

Speaker 5 (31:45):
You will.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
You're doing them a favor.

Speaker 6 (31:46):
He run.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
Some of the people in my life that did me
the biggest favors were the ones that just gave me
the straight talk, Like when I went in when I'm
nineteen years old, I go in to ask my boss
for a raise, and I have all these reasons that
I need and deserve more mine right, that I need
and deserve more money. And I went through my whole
spiel first time I ever asked for a raise, and
he looked at me and said, those are all you reasons.

(32:08):
What are the me reasons that you deserve a raise?
And I didn't have an answer for him. That was
the greatest gift that anybody could have ever given me.
And I went in my car and cried after that
conversation because I was just so taken aback at two things.
Number one that he was so blunt with me, and
number two that I was so ill prepared to answer
the question. So I'm doing this kit a favor. I

(32:31):
am not in Bear's eye, and if it's just me
and him one hundred percent, I'm saying, dude, you you
just can't do that. You just I'm not gonna be
a jerk about it. I'm not going to go, oh
my god, that's so gross. I'm just curious, Mandy. I
would get a tissue, pick it up and give it
back to him.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
Oh that's so gross. Don't touch it. What the hell
is it's.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
Worse sarcastic, that's worse. Definitely say something or hand in
mcleanex and say do you need this? Yeah? Ew, I'm
trying to eat my lunch. I'm sorry, text, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
I want how many flicks did it take it?

Speaker 3 (33:01):
It is a print operator position. He's late twenties with
a man bun print operator position. You know, at least yeah,
there you go, not on the floor, there you go.
Mandy's one thousand percent right. Unacceptable rudeness has to be
called on the carpet or our society will be down
the toilet. Say did you pick a winner? That's always

(33:22):
a good one. This topic is making me want to
pick my nose, says this texter. We'll leave it on that.
Then our only futurist, I might add, but he is
the best. He is Thomas Frye. And every month Thomas
comes in here and he gives us this bright and
shiny and rosy version of the future where robots are
going to do all of our work, and they're going
to clean our houses and toilets, and it's going to

(33:43):
be amazing. And then today I open up the column
that Thomas has sent me to talk about for the
show today, and it says, the great systems collapse. What
we're passing to our kids. This is the most pessimistic
future article you have ever written, but it's completely accurate.
So let's talk about systems collapse. What does that even mean?

Speaker 7 (34:07):
Well, if you start going into systems thinking, you look
at the world in light of the systems that are
surrounding us, everything from our healthcare system, to our education system,
to the social security to our prison system, to insurance,
just everything that we have surrounding us. All of these

(34:29):
systems were designed for a different era. Now we're shifting
gears here, and these systems are designed to help people
that are in the older age groups. So the systems
collapse will actually be engineered by the gen Z people

(34:49):
that are in the thirteen to twenty eight year old
category right now.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
But they're going to be growing up and they're going to.

Speaker 7 (34:56):
Want to make things work for them. They're currently being
left out of virtually everything, So as a system start
to teeter on the edge here, the gen Z people
will be pushing hard to make sure there's a new
system in place on the backside that favors them, or

(35:21):
at least as an even system rather than one setter
kind of blatantly.

Speaker 5 (35:28):
Working against them. Right now, you mentioned.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
Them specifically, and you mentioned the college education racket, and
that's what it's become. I mean, let's be real back,
even when I went to college in the late eighties
and the early nineties, you could go through four years
of college and not rack up thirty fifty one hundred
thousand dollars in debt. The cost, the ROI on a
college education has collapsed because the marketplace has changed and

(35:57):
it's simply not worth it to spend one hundred thousand
doll to prove to an employer that you can complete
a task. And that's kind of what college has become.

Speaker 7 (36:06):
Yeah, the half life of valide, the half life of
value of a college education is getting shorter every year.
So the value of that education is now much shorter
than the time it takes to pay for it. And
that's a tragedy right there. So we're going to have

(36:30):
alternative systems coming into play. As an example, I work
as an advisor for our company called Cogniate, and Cogniate
is developing a rapid course for a builder where you
can actually build an entire course in less than an hour,
something that would take hundreds of hours in the past

(36:52):
to create. Now, with the help of AI, you can
actually turn out a brand new course really quickly. And
so we're going to have alternative education systems cropping up
all over the place, and that that's going to challenge
your way of thinking.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
This has been something that I've been advocating for for
twenty years on my show. I don't understand well, I
do understand right, and to your point about the current
systems being created to benefit the last generation, I understand
why the university and college systems have not been more
responsive to the changes that are happening in society. Like

(37:29):
if I've got a kid that excels in computer technology
or has a knack for mathematics and engineering, and they
don't have any interest in classical humanities or even taking
an English course, which I think would be a mistake.
They should be allowed to take those highly specialized courses
if they can do the coursework. And yet universities and

(37:49):
colleges still demand that you have a more liberal arts
education because they believe that that's what's necessary in society,
and for a long time it probably was but that
ship is kind of sailed at this point. Like you
don't hear people talking about the fact that you need
to read the Iliad, or you need to read Shakespeare,

(38:10):
or you need to take some sociology class that is
going to be full of clap trap that you're never
going to retain or need. Why haven't the university systems
in colleges adapted and said, you know what, maybe we
shouldn't be charging one hundred thousand dollars or two hundred
thousand dollars for for year education.

Speaker 7 (38:27):
Yeah, well, things that are still working to a point
and then all of a sudden it'll collapse on them
and they won't be able.

Speaker 5 (38:37):
To adjust quickly enough.

Speaker 7 (38:38):
This is turning a battleship, and you can't turn the
battleship quickly. Yeah, this is just one perfect example that's
really in the public public view.

Speaker 5 (38:50):
The government has actually reinforced.

Speaker 7 (38:53):
This whole system with the loan system that they have
in place, providing these government loans and say you can't
bankrupt on and that that has made it real easy
for colleges to actually recruit new students because.

Speaker 5 (39:11):
All you have to do is sign here and all
your dreams will come true.

Speaker 7 (39:13):
Yeah, that's that's the line that they're using, and nothing
could be further from the truth. So it becomes an
asymmetrical economics situation because they know much more about the
transaction than the other person does than the eighteen nineteen
year old kid does on the other end, And so

(39:34):
you have you have no clue as to how difficult
it will be to repay that loan that you're taking out.

Speaker 5 (39:41):
So it's it's still working to a point.

Speaker 7 (39:45):
But then all of a sudden, this is just going
to collapse, and it'll happen within the next couple of
years here very soon.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
Well, Thomas, when I saw the headline on this column,
if you know anything about the fall of the Roman
Empire or fall of empires around the world, because empires
have fallen, you know, throughout our entire history. One of
the main signs of collapse is the loss of faith
in the systems right, and the collapse of the systems

(40:15):
that make our entire country run. So are we looking
at that kind of collapse? And if so, is the
next generation going to be able to build something out
of the ashes that is going to be more effective,
more efficient? To your point about education, I mean, is
that what comes next, I'd like to think so, I'd

(40:35):
like to think that ingenuity and technology will help us
bridge the gap to whatever's coming next.

Speaker 7 (40:42):
Yeah, I think possibly what will happen is we're going
to create parallel systems that the new system starts taking
off before the old system collapses.

Speaker 5 (40:53):
Okay, that's kind of what it looks like to me.

Speaker 7 (40:59):
So one of the main occupations moving forward in the
twenty thirties and twenty.

Speaker 5 (41:05):
Forties is going to be entrepreneur.

Speaker 7 (41:09):
So we're going to be teaching people entrepreneurship and lots
of different ways. Yeah, unique in different ways. Running a
stable of AI agents from your desktop in your bedrooms,
that's going to be a lot of people's career choice.
And that's that actually gets you away from the W

(41:31):
two payroll system. So so you're not paying taxes the
way you normally would. So the whole tax system is
going to be really struggling to deal with all of
these changes.

Speaker 5 (41:46):
So there's a lot of talk right now about.

Speaker 7 (41:49):
Doing away with the income tax system. I think it
can't happen quick enough. Yeah, I'd love.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
To get rid of the income tax system. I hate
anything that tax is something productive, right, I just do.
And I think our tax system is created and utilized
by politicians to dole out favors to favored industries that
support them in such a way that prevents other competitors
from getting into those industries. The tax code is used

(42:18):
as a political tool at this poet point, it's not
a productive tool, and it's stupid the way it's written.
So let's do that first, Thomas, you and I we're
going to get rid of the income tax system first.

Speaker 5 (42:30):
If we could wave our hands and do that, I
will truly do it. Right now, what.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
Do you think is the most likely system to go
belly up first? Out of the major systems that you
list here, you list healthcare, you list education, you list
the income tax system, the prison system, which I find fascinating.

Speaker 5 (42:48):
Yeah. Yeah, well, it looks like.

Speaker 7 (42:56):
Healthcare is going to go through some major challenges right here,
real quick.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
I hope.

Speaker 7 (43:02):
The insurance companies have far too much say in what's
going on. That's that's one that needs to be adjusted
real quick.

Speaker 5 (43:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (43:16):
In fact, the amount of money we paid just for
insurance is just staggering.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
It's absurd, it's absurd, It's reached absurd levels.

Speaker 7 (43:24):
Yeah, and then the amount of coverage they're providing is
just ridiculous. It is virtually nothing. So if you if
you go to a pharmacy and you want this medicine
the doctor prescribed this, and say you want to buy
it for a cash price, they'll give it to you
for less than the copay price that you with your insurance.

(43:49):
And so there's lots of examples like that of reasons
why that system is going to go down quickly. But
the education system is going to be facing huge challenges
real soon. The prison system will be perhaps a little
bit longer, and that the robots have to be trained.

(44:14):
If you if you imagine a prisoner, rather than having
an ankle bracelet, they have a robot with them the
whole time, and the robot is actually guiding them, telling
them what they can do and can do. That's a
very specialized kind of robot. So the robot replaces the

(44:38):
ankle ankle bracelet.

Speaker 5 (44:41):
I don't know how well that will work, but we're
going to see that fairly soon.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
Some of the things are are kind of exciting, but
I do have concerns that what we've been doing so far.
I mean, I just had this conversation with my son
because when I was young, my dad drilled into me,
don't ever quit a job before you have another one,
and you got to stay at the job for two
years to prove to everyone that you're responsible, that you
can own a job. Now, young people, my son's age,

(45:08):
he's in his early thirties. He's changed jobs three times
last year because he kept getting hut hunted by another company.
He kept getting poached by a different company. And I,
you know, my husband and I are talking about it.
It's like, this to me is crazy. But in those
three job changes, he doubled his salary. So who am

(45:32):
I to say, you got to stay at your job
for two years. It's just like things like that are
so fundamentally different from this generation to our generation.

Speaker 5 (45:41):
That's absolutely true.

Speaker 7 (45:43):
My oldest son has just accepted a new job, and
he was switching jobs almost every year and just kind
of working his way up.

Speaker 5 (45:53):
In the payscale. Now he's got a really, really good job.

Speaker 7 (45:58):
He's going to be starting next year with Sunny Activision,
and that I'm really looking forward to hearing all of
the things he's started working on then. But yeah, virtually
every system we see, our postal system is on a

(46:19):
verg of collapse or so that's that's one that probably
should have gone downhill a long time ago. But if
we're we're going to be seeing this new zip line
drone system that is delivering goods from Walmart to people's houses,

(46:41):
and it's working with a lot of different companies, not
just Walmart, but having something delivered directly from your from
the factory to your home within I don't know, forty
five minutes. You order something and you have it in
forty five minutes, that's pretty darn good. That's that's a
whole new kind of delivery system that we haven't really

(47:03):
opened the door on yet. I don't know where how
it works with people living in apartments or kind of
building rights, but we'll figure that on as we go.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
We shall see. But I want to get to the
second article that you sent me before we start going,
because there's a few things happening. And this article is
called the Vitalist How gen Z women decided to populate
the universe, And this is just kind of a fantasy situation,
but you start out by saying that Ashley was twenty six,

(47:34):
unmarried and had no intention of ever getting married, but
had four children that were primarily being raised by AI
powered robotic caregivers in communal housing complex specifically designed for
people that are essentially repopulating the earth. Thomas, I hate
this idea so much, so much, because that's the gene pool.

(47:56):
We get people without motivation, people without you know, all
of those things. And I'm not sold on robots raising
children yet, I really am not.

Speaker 7 (48:07):
Yeah, well that's I write a lot of these things
to be controversial, so they're designed to challenge assumptions. Is
there a group of women that likely to do something
like this? I think possibly, And I think having children
is actually a woman's superpower. I agree, our ability to

(48:32):
have kids, raise kids, and having the help of a
robot to actually make it so it's easier. That takes
a lot of the mess out of it, and it
takes a lot of the expense out of it as well.
So some governments, I'm inclined to think that some governments

(48:54):
are going to push this idea because every every person
that's a citizen of that country is going to be
have a certain value to that country. So they will
then create colonies of these type of women that can

(49:15):
actually regenerate the population of some of the low birth
rate countries.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
I mean, this kind of sounds like like a factory farm,
and it kind of sounds like, you know, a puppy mill,
for lack of a better way to put it. And
I think that the for me, we've already seen what
happens to kids whose parents have abdicated their parenting responsibilities
to a tablet or a cell phone, and they're not

(49:43):
doing well. Thomas, So I shudder to think, who is
going to program the robot caregivers? You know, Are they
going to be programmed to recite Shakespearean's sonnets to these
children when they're very little, to read them stories every
three to four hours, to provide a stimulating environment. Maybe
they'd be better parents. Maybe I'm just looking at this
all wrong, because if you could program the perfect parent,

(50:05):
you know, that sounds great. But I still believe that
there's an incredibly powerful connection between mother and child and
that kids do best when that connection is established, maintained
and sort of nurtured, not just when the kids little
bit throughout life, and I wonder how that robot nanny,

(50:26):
for lack of a better way to put it, is
going to sever that relationship. Those are the things I'm
concerned about.

Speaker 7 (50:35):
And you're you're very justified at having those concerns. Yeah,
there's all kinds of things that can go wrong. Is
there a way that this could actually work? Could they
actually set it up with a group of parents actually
working together to help raise these kids, where the grandmothers

(50:55):
come in and help out, so the robots play a
less role than the dominant role that I that I
talked about. There might be some way that this slactually work.
I know that people are going to start trying things
like this. Oh yeah, because right around the corner.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
Well, they've already they've successfully grown a lamb in an
artificial embryo, like basically on a table. They grew a
lamb from a fertilized egg, and they grew it into
a full grown ram and then they just, I guess,
unzip the bag. I don't know. That kind of stuff
really bothers me, because there's more and more research coming

(51:37):
out now. When I was talking to Thomas about this
before he came on the air, there's a researcher who
studies breast milk, and what she has found is that
depending on what the child is going through as a
child is sick, the mother's body will actually produce antibodies
for whatever that child is dealing with, because they're finding
out that the saliva of the baby actually informs the

(51:58):
woman's body on what kind of breast milk that baby
needs at that moment. It's things like that, like, we
just don't know enough of that stuff, Thomas for me
to be comfortable with robots raising my babies. You got
to read both of the articles, by the way, they're fantastic.
They're on the blog today, Thomas. A joy of seeing
you again as usual, and gave me a lot of

(52:19):
stuff to think about. Some of it freaked me out,
but it's okay. I'll survive.

Speaker 5 (52:27):
Yeah, that's my goal.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
Yeah, thanks Thomas. All right, Thomas Fry, thanks so much, buddy.
I'll see you soon. You gotta read these articles. It's crazy,
Mandy Nazi's tried the robot nanny's strategy, except robots did
not raise the children and the government did. Nobody is
going to take as good a care as your kids
as you are. That is true for a vast majority
of parents. Some parents suck, regardless of whatever. For a

(52:53):
vast majority of us. I just can't imagine having a
baby and then just saying, robot, you take over. We
talked yesterday about the situation in Minnesota with the massive
billion dollar fraud, more than a billion dollar in fraud
that has been perpetrated overwhelmingly by Somali immigrants in Minnesota. Now,

(53:15):
the scandal is massive. It is massive because now the
Health and Human Services employees are coming out to throw
Governor Tim Walls under the bus and not only say that,
not only did he not address the fraud when they
tried to bring it to his attention, he retaliated against
whistleblowers who tried to kind of force him to pay

(53:36):
attention to the fact that the taxpayers were being defrauded massively.
Now I started to do a little deep digging into
what exactly we're dealing with here in the United States
of America when it comes to immigrants on welfare. For
the longest time, I mean for decades and decades and
decades and decades and decades, immigrant ledhouseholds were less likely

(53:59):
to use welfare benefits than native born households. Right, here's
the problem. Now that we've had a massive influx of
illegal immigrants, they've been given some kind of shady status
by the Biden administration. That data has been thrown out
the door. Now I know for a fact that when
you come to the country and immigrate through the legal process,

(54:23):
they make you sign a document that says you will
not be on the welfare in any way, shape or
form any government programs. If you want to come to
this country, you have to promise and affirm that you
will not take any welfare from the United States of America.
It's part of the process of legal immigration. But that's
not what we've had. We've had a mass influx of
people from third world countries that are horribly corrupted. I'm

(54:45):
talking about the countries themselves, not necessarily the people. But again,
when you have a corrupt country, there are corrupt people,
and that is exactly who has been bilking Minnesota. Now,
before you get all like smug, don't think that this
is happening all over the country. All over the country,
there are NGOs. There are people that are ostensibly helping

(55:08):
other people that are not delivering on any kind of services.
Because one thing that I have really seen with crystal clarity,
not that I didn't already know this, but watching the
city of Denver that shovel money at all of these
NGOs who are making big promises wrap around services. We're
gonna none of that. Craft's getting done. None of it is.

(55:30):
And the City of Denver is not asking for any
kind any kind of metrics that demonstrate these people are
doing any of the stuff that they're saying. Now, I'm
not saying every charitable organization that is in on the
grift from Denver, you know, is not trying to do
the right thing. There are great people trying to do
nice things to help other people, but they're also rip

(55:50):
off artists. And there are also people who have manipulated
the system because where they come from. The system is
so corrupt that everybody does it. So why not that
attitude to the United States of America. So I looked
up a couple of numbers, looked from a bunch of
different sources. It's amazing what different organizations can pull out

(56:10):
of the same data. The Center for Immigration Studies, they
believe in limited legal immigration. Just to give you their background,
they found the following statistics from the government. They're all
government statistics. Fifty four percent of households headed by immigrants
used one major welfare program in the United States. Thirty

(56:33):
nine percent of households headed in the United States born
individuals do so, so fifty four percent of households headed
by immigrants versus thirty nine percent of households headed by
US born individuals. So among non citizen headed households, the
share was about fifty nine percent. This is unacceptable. This

(56:56):
is the antithesis of bringing are people here to live
the American dream. The American dream is not being on welfare.
The American dream is coming here, working hard, making good decisions,
and building something for you and your family. That's the
American dream. But now, though we have so many people
on welfare, guys, here's the thing we cannot forget. Many, many,

(57:21):
many people in the welfare system get on welfare, they
get in these programs and then guess what they find.
They're trapped there because of the welfare cliff. They're trapped
there because they will lose all of their benefits if
they slightly improve their condition. So we're trapping a good
percentage of these immigrant families in a system that will

(57:42):
keep them just out of poverty. Which, hey, you know
what poverty in the United States compared to poverty in
Somali Somalia. I'll take it all day. Long, right, when
you're used to garbage, that's you know, anything better than
garbage is going to be a step up. But none
of this is okay. Did you sign up for a

(58:03):
bunch of new dependents? I didn't, and yet we're paying
for them. And we've been talking about Minnesota. But do
you guys realize so many of this, so much of
that grift came from federal taxpayer dollars. That's your money,
that's my money. And when everybody talks about Medicare and
Medicaid waste, fraud and abuse, holy cow, this is what
we're talking about. But it's led me to a really

(58:26):
hard position and a position I think is defensible, and
that is, if you want to immigrate to the United
States of America, you are not going to get any
kind of welfare programs at all. Period.

Speaker 6 (58:39):
Now.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
If you want to come here legally and are immediately
given the ability to work, which is what a legal
immigrant should be able to do. Someone who's really immigrating,
not just visiting, you should be able to work and
pay your freight back. In the big waves of immigration
in the twenty first century, there were so many people
that came from all over the world and when they

(59:00):
got here, they either lived with family until they could
get established, they got jobs and paid their own way,
or they went home. A lot of people don't realize
a lot of that first wave of immigrants back in
the nineteen tens, twenties, and thirties they went home because
they couldn't make it in the United States of America.
Which is fine, perfectly fine. But right now we're paying

(59:24):
people who are here, most of them did not follow
the legal immigration process, and we're expecting them to what
figure out a way off welfare when for them, their
standard of living has improved so dramatically that it seems
like they hit the lottery. They don't have to work

(59:44):
as hard, they just get free stuff. I know it
sounds heartless and horrible, but if you want to come here,
I welcome you. If you want to come here and
work and take advantage of the American dream. But if
you're coming here to take advantage of them American taxpayers,
you can stay home figure out your own mess in

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your own garbage country. And yes, y'ah, Somalia is a
garbage country. You can disagree with me all you want,
but my husband got shot at by children in Somalia,
So I don't have a good, warm and fuzzy about
the whole nation, Mandy. They're also supporting Somali terrorist with

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taxpayer money is the kind of grift I can get behind.
I too can be a Ukrainian oligarch with this type
of scam. You are correct, Mandy. Didn't you know it's
racist to criticize Somalia the Minnesota scams and ilhan omar
wink wink. Let me just say this, if there was
a lily white country that was as corrupt and as

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crappy as Somalia, I would say the exact same thing
about them. And if there is one, please let me know.
All right now, Somalia is a garb garbage country, doesn't
mean it always has to be a garbage country. They
have natural resources, they can be exploiting that beautiful coastline,

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coastline that's currently full of nothing but smallly pirates, but whatever,
you know what I mean. It's sort of like whenever
a Caribbean island and I'm gonna look at Haiti, Haiti,
I'm looking right at you. Why is it that other
Caribbean nations can develop thriving tourist economies on their beautiful beaches,

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and yet some nations can't. Well, it's corruption, it's a
corrupt people, and it's the inability to get past the
corruption to create something significant. And that's our racist to
point out that's just it is what it is, this scandal.
It is a scandal. And what's frustrating to me is

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that there's what we've allowed so many people in at once.
That's the other part of this as similarly, is challenging
enough when you move to a new place and you've
are kind of forced into the culture and the language
and all of that stuff. And I have a deep,
deep sense of admiration for people who take the initiative

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and make that choice and move to a place, you know,
legally where they don't. They're not similar. But the reality
is this, we have we have imported masses of people
from third world countries, and with them, we've imported their values.
We've imported people from countries that don't share Western values,
and now we're reaping the result because what mass immigration

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at one time allows them to do is to stay separate.
They create neighborhoods, and New York City is a great
example of this. Although now what used to be a
Little Italy where all the Italians moved to when they
moved to New York has completely been eaten by Chinatown.
There's like one street left for Little Italy. But they
were these sort of insular communities where you had grocery stores,

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you know, dry cleaners, mark places where you didn't have
to leave your block, and you didn't have to learn
the language and you didn't have to assimilate to the culture. Now,
I've met so many immigrants over the last twenty five
years who were so excited to be American, right. They
didn't want to be from wherever they were from. They

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wanted to be American, and they assimilated, no problem. But
when you make it too easy for people to stay
in those insular places and not have to assimilate, you
create situations like what they've been doing in Europe for
years now, where in certain parts of Sweden you have
Muslim communities where the cops won't even go because they're

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not welcome because they're not Muslim. So it's just it's
crazy what we've allowed to happen, and we have to
fix it. I mean, as much as I get how
people look at the way that Trump is aggressively going
after people who are in the country illegally, even though
some of them are super nice people who really haven't
done much wrong except break into the country or oversee

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a visa illegally. I get why he's doing it. The
problem is so bad, it's so overwhelming that to nubble
around the edges just isn't gonna get it done anymore. Mandy,
those stats on immigrants receiving at least one major welfare
program are bs. Cato Institute's numbers are way more believable,

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and they show much lower welfare recipients among illegal immigration.
The Cato Institute's numbers are from twenty twenty. That's important.
You've got to look at where the numbers come from.
I looked at those same numbers today. I looked at
numbers from a variety of sources this morning, and I
think over the last few years of this mass influx
of illegal immigration, the switch has flipped. So the Center

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for Immigration Studies is a racist organization that makes up
their stats. No, they're not. There's just people who want
legal immigration. And by the way, guys, you can go
read the underlying studies yourself. They're all linked on their websites.
You don't have to take their word for it. You
can go read the studies yourself. The fact of the
matter is no, no immigrant should come to this country

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and expect to be supported by the taxpayers. That's it. Mandy.
You say Somalia is a garbage country, Well, it's your
segment on the subject that's garbage. Nope, I stand by that.
You know why because during this segment on the radio,
there weren't children shooting in other people. There weren't warlords

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running this segment. They get their soldiers addicted to drugs
and then tell them to murder their families. That, my friends,
is an actual story that I learned from a Somali
immigrant in Switzerland. When he was nine years old. He
was taken away, kidnapped from his family and made a
member of a war lord's army in Somalia at nine
years old. And how they kept the soldiers there. They

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got them all addicted to methamphetamy, and then at one
point the leader of the warlord, the warlord himself, would
say to a soldier, you have to go kill your family.
Do you know why they did it, because that way
the soldier would have no one to go home to
and you know what, these soldiers are jacked up on drugs.

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
They would go and.

Speaker 3 (01:06:11):
Kill their families. If that doesn't sound like a garbage
country to you, please tell me how that's not a
garbage country. Please? When do we get back. I've got
so much stuff to talk about, but this next story
about trucking schools. You guys, wait until you hear who

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is driving these twenty thousand pounds missiles down the road.
It's not good.

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did you see the Giants kick last night? A rod?
I just I forgot to mention this earlier. Did you

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see it?

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
What kick?

Speaker 6 (01:07:26):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
No, I mean that sarcastic kick, you guys, it wasn't.
I have embarrassed myself on the radio before you know,
sometimes things come out in an inartful way, or you
say something that sounded good in your head and you
realize when it comes out, you're just like, oh my god.
Never is a kicker been more embarrassed than last night's game,

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And I forgot to put it on the blog this morning.
There was no kick. He went to kick the ball
for a field goal? Corrector was that after that? It
was at a point after that. I didn't watch the
game last night. Actually I watched part of the game
last night, but when I got out of hand, I
was like, I don't need to watch the Patriots win.
He hits the ground and never makes contact with the ball. Dude,

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you got one job. You literally have one job. Anyway,
you should look that up. So I want to talk
about this federal review of trucking schools. Now, we have
seen some pretty spectacular bad situations in the last couple
of years. We had one here with a guy I
never did find out if he was an illegal immigrant

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or an immigrant or what the situation was. The guy
that killed a bunch of people on I seventy after
driving past the out of control truck lanes multiple times.
And of course, by the way, that guy was pardoned,
remember that by Jared Poles. Was he pardoned or did
he have a sentence anyway, I'll check on that. The Transportation,

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the Department of Transportation, the US Department of Transportation. How
many times can I say that in a row SAT
on Monday, that it plans to revoke the accreditation of
nearly three thousand schools for truck drivers. Now, I have
friends who are truck drivers. There are lots of very
professional truck drivers who take their safety and your safety

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incredibly seriously. Oh, we're not talking about now. Apparently there
are three thousand truck driving schools that do not comply
with the basic stuff that they are supposed to be
teaching to the people who are driving trucks. Now, I
said twenty thousand pound missile. That's an empty semi. A

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full semi, as the text line has told me, is
about eighty thousand pounds. Targeted schools must notify students that
their accreditation is in jeopardy. Another four thousand schools are
being worn they face similar action. They're also auditing trucking firms.
That's actually the Department of Homeland Security. They're auditing trucking

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firms in California owned by immigrants to verify the status
of their drivers and whether they are qualified to hold
a commercial driver's license. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says that
a truck driver who was not authorized to be in
the US made an illegal U turn and caused a
crash in Florida that killed three people. He's threatened to

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pull federal funding from California and Pennsylvania over the issue,
and he's proposing significant new restrictions on which immigrants can
get a commercial driver's license. But a court put those
new rules on hold. How about this, Can you speak English?

Speaker 6 (01:10:28):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:10:29):
Sorry, you don't get to drive a truck? Why would
that even matter? Well, have you guys ever been driving
down the road, and now we have all these signs
over the highway in Colorado that tell you exactly what's
going on. If you can't read or speak English, how
are you supposed to follow those signs? How are you
supposed to have a basic understanding of what's going on? So,

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the Transportation Department says the schools that it is taking
action against failed to meet training standards and didn't maintain
accurate and complete records. The schools are also accused and
this is the one that really scares me of falsifying
or manipulating training data. Now, trucking industry groups are saying,

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thank goodness, thank you for doing this. Groups representing immigrant
truck drivers, however, say they believe many qualified drivers and
companies are being targeted simply because of their citizenship status. Well,
if it's just their citizenship status, then they should be
able to demonstrate that they're following all the rules and

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teaching people how to drive trucks safely, shouldn't they. Truck
drivers of the Seek faith have been caught in the
crossfire and are now being harassed because the drivers in
the Florida crash and another deadly crash in California were
both Sikhs. The North American Punjabi Truckers Association estimates that

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the SEA workforce makes up about forty percent of truck
driving on the West Coast and twenty percentwide. Now, if
you are part of the North American Punjabi Truckers Association,
you should also welcome this. You should welcome an investigation
about whether or not SEAP truck drivers are being trained properly.

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Because another disastrous accent accident with a SEAP truck driver,
You're just gonna have more trouble. This kind of stuff
freaks me out. And by the way, trucking is in
a bind right now. They're in a bind because there
is less commerce, partially because of the impact of tariffs,

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and if they're being replaced by poorly trained truck drivers
who are here illegally, my guess is they're not being
paid the same. Do you know what I thought of
the other day, and I wonder if this is feasible.
I wonder if this is just a thing we could do.
Because there's a lot of conversations about H one B
visas and eight companies outsourcing stuff that could be done

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by Americans to immigrants. What if what if there was
a law that said you cannot pay a visa holder
an H one visa holder any less, then you pay
citizen workers. Would that solve the problem? Would that take

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care of the issue, because I'm wondering, I really really wonder,
because if we're bringing in people to pay them less,
if we're poorly training truck drivers and then paying them less,
that should be easy to solve. That's the labor rules
that could be done right now. Sorry, you can't pay
them any less, just because they're working in India or

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wherever they're answering your phones from. So you know, I
thought about that the other day. So now I'm going
to be even more nervous. I tried desperately not to
pull in front of trucks when I'm on I twenty five.
I was in this situation yesterday. I mean, I'm on
I twenty five, I'm barely moving, all barely moving, and
there's a truck with a bunch of space in front

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of it. I could have dipped in there, but I
didn't because I don't want to get killed by a
truck driver who doesn't know how to drive a truck.
I mean, this seems pretty basic, This is a pretty
significant issue. Doesn't seem like this should be controversial at all,
and yet here we are. When we get back, the
Wall Street Journal has an amazing story that we here

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in Colorado better pay attention to because it's about Europe
and Europe going all in on green energy. They are
in on green energy, and guess what's happened to their economy.
We've kind of talked about it a little bit, but
now the Wall Street Journal has made it really easy
to see exactly how critical this stuff is. We'll do

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that next from the Wall Street Journal is because it
confirms something I've already told you, and that is, it
is folly to think that bigger investments in renewal energy
are going to keep our energy costs low. And we
don't have to speculate, because there are countries all over
the world that rush to prove their moral superiority by

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doing away with those nasty fossil fuels. Except many of
them don't have enough sunshine or enough wind. And what
they've done is they've created a situation where their electricity
charges or prices are the highest in the world. Let
me just share with you some of the Wall Street
Journal story. Europe has succeeded in slashing carbon emissions more

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than any other region, by thirty percent from two thousand
and five levels, compared with a seventeen percent drop for
the US, but along the way, the rush to renewables
has helped drive up electricity prices in much of the continent.
Germany now has the highest domestic electricity prices in the
developed world, while the UK has the highest industrial electricity rates.

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According to a basket of twenty eight major economies analyzed
by the International Energy Agency, Italy isn't far behind. Average
electricity prices for heavy industries in the European Union remain
roughly twice those in the US and fifty percent above China.
Energy prices have also grown more volatile as the share

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of renewables has increased. Guess what's happening now that they
have their moral superiory, Look at us. We're lowering our
emissions and they've crippled industry. They've hobbled Europe's ability to
attract key economic drivers like artificial intelligence. Now here's the

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thing that you need to understand about artificial intelligence. The
data centers that are required to make artificial intelligence work
are massive in scale and hoover up energy at such
a rate that it's almost mind blowing. Energy analysts say
it makes strategic sense for a continent that lacks the
abundant oil and gas riches enjoyed by the US and

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some other regions to diversify its energy sources. In some cases,
like Spain blessed with lots of sunshine, or Nordic countries
with abundant hydropower, to provide energy when its wind farms
fall silent. The transition looks promising. France's reliance on nuclear
energy is helping it keep costs down, but most of

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the other continent, yeah, it's not going well. British chemical
company Ineos says in October it would close two plants
in western Germany because of high energy costs. In recent days,
Exxon Mobiles said it would close its chemical plant in
Scotland and threaten to exit Europe's chemicals industry, saying green

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polity policies made it uncompetitive. Now, before you get on
your grandiose green high horse and be like, oh that's good,
we don't need chemicals. Okay, Hey, let's see how that
works out. Across the continent. Demand for electricity has fallen
over the past fifteen years, in part because energy is
so expensive, with production also declining somewhat in infrastructure lagging,

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companies that are looking for more power are hitting roadblocks.
Listen to this. This is a comparison in fossil fuel
electricity rate a use by region between two thousand and
five and twenty twenty four. Okay, Europe used seven hundred
and ninety two trillion watt hours in two thousand and

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five of fossil fuel electricity generated I can't break these
numbers down. You need to go look at the article,
because the big takeaway is that China has what tripled
the amount of fossil fuel electricity they're producing tripled since

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two thousand and five. Now the green folks will tell
you that China is developing more renewable energy than any
other country in the world, but they're also developing more
fossil fuel electricity than any other place in the world.
Oh yeah, yeah. Ireland has been forced to oppose a
more impose a moratorium on new data centers until twenty

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twenty eight. You know what, Existing data centers drained over
a fifth of the country's electricity supply. Last year, the
CEO of a German data center operator sought to expand
as two data centers in Frankfurt, Germany. The local power
provider told him he'd have to wait until twenty thirty
five for the energy to power them. These are all

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the same things we are trying to do right now
in Colorado at the best of our governor who only
cares only cares about increasing the rate of renewable energy
because he's rich. He doesn't care how much power costs.
How about you, what do you think about it. Are

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you okay with paying the same rates as Germany? I'm not.
What we're doing is idiocy. What we're doing is cutting
off our nose despite our face, and even Bill Gates,
even Bill Gates has said this is a bad idea.
When we get back, let's talk about changing the climate conversation,
because I got stuff on that too. All right, kids,

(01:20:26):
one more thing I want to talk about, really really
really quickly. Got a lot of people. This text message
has distracted me, though, Mandy, I just got a speeding
ticket in Cheyenne for twenty three over on I eighty
and had you on and the cop called you a
maga clown. His exact quote, of course you're also listening
to that mega clown. And I told him that obviously

(01:20:47):
he doesn't listen to you enough. Because this is so
this is hilarious to me because I get criticized by
Trump supporters for being anti Trump. I get accused of
having Trump derangement syndrome. I get accused of all this stuff,
and then I get accused by left wing ers who
are not capable of listening for more than two seconds,
of being some kind of maga clown. So I kind

(01:21:09):
of feel like I'm doing it right.

Speaker 6 (01:21:11):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:21:12):
If everybody's mad about something, I'm like, Okay, then I'm
being fair. I'm telling the truth. I'm giving you all opinion.
When Trump does something good, I tell you. When Trump
does something that I don't, always the crap out of me,
I tell you. There you go. Maybe so much negativity
on the show today, Please do something different tomorrow. Okay, doke,

(01:21:33):
I'll leave my climate convo conversation for another day. Let
me see. Let me just look on the blog here,
let's find Oh, here's an interesting story. Have you guys
ever anybody have you ever heard of California sober?

Speaker 6 (01:21:46):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:21:47):
Okay, California sober is when you stop drinking and start
smoking pot instead. Okay, So California sober is a real thing.
Like celebrities will be like, oh no, I'm sober. I'm
California sober. But what's happening with alcohol use is it's
dropping in the United States. It's not dropping because they

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made it more expensive where they put these syntaxes on it.
The percentage of US adults who say they consume alcohol
has fallen to fifty four percent, the lowest by one
percentage point in Gallup's nearly ninety year trend. Think about
that for a second, you guys, Gallup was asking these questions. Well,

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it was after prohibition, but I mean back in the day.
This coincides with, says Gallup, with a growing belief among
Americans that modern alcohol consumption is bad for one's health.
Now the majority of you, for the first time, now,
I pretty much stopped drinking all the Chuck and I
went out for an anniversary meal last night. If you

(01:22:50):
guys are in the Parker area and you want a phenomenal,
incredible dinner, you gotta go to Wolf Peach. Teach so good.
It is so so good. It's like my favorite. And
we went to the dinner there last night and we
had a little glass of champagne to celebrate and toast

(01:23:12):
our anniversary, which was yesterday. But other than that, I
drink on vacation. But even on vacation, I don't drink
every day because it destroys my sleep. I mean destroys it.
But what's what's interesting is that more and more people
are going, you know, what what does it do for me?

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I think alcohol out of I won't say it's the
it's the most destructive addiction, but it's the most socially
acceptable addiction that is also incredibly destructive. I know a
lot of people who have had their marriages destroyed by
alcohol and the decisions that were made by a drunk person,

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whether in terms of violence or cheating or whatever. But
we still kind of accept it, right, We still kind
of as like alcohol. And I've talked about this before,
the whole like mommy wine culture I find profoundly disturbing
because the last thing you need to be when you
have children at home is drunk, because man, those little boogers,

(01:24:17):
they'll get into everything. Well you're not paying attention. So
I find this kind of encouraging that people are going,
you know, for my health, I'm just not going to
drink anymore. But if you're immediately turning around and picking
up weed, I'm not sure in the long run that's
gonna be a better health decision. But and maybe maybe
some of you in this audience have a different perspective,

(01:24:39):
And I'm curious about this. I had a cop tell me.
I was in my twenties when a cop told me
this guy I'd been on a cop for like twenty years.
He said, look, this was well before marijuana was legalized anywhere, right,
it was still very much you know, you had to
have a guy and all that stuff. And we were
talking about the legalization of marijuana, something I've been favor

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for a really long time until I saw how it
was executed here in Colorado. But that's the story for
another time. And he said to me, Mandy, I've put
a lot of people in the back of a cop
car in my career, and I have had a lot
of drunk people fight me as I tried to put
them in the back of a cop car. I've been
punched in the face. I've been stabbed by drunk people.

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I've had more drunk people swing on me and missed
because they were so drunk than you could possibly imagine.
And you know what happens when I put somebody who's
clearly high in the back of my cop car. As
I'm putting them in telling them to watch their heads
so they don't hit it, They're going, man, I'm just
really sorry about this, sorry about this man. That was
just like so, you know, And he said, the difference

(01:25:44):
for me and a law enforcement perspective is I'd much
rather deal with an idiot who's high than an idiot
who's drunk, because you know, alcohol for some people is
courage juice that they don't need. So now we have
this study about being California sober, which is I've given
up alcohol and now I've taken up pot instead. And

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the reason I say that in the long term this
might not be a good health decision is we've barely
begun to scratch the surface when it comes to cannabis research.
Long term effects, short term effects, mental effects, all of
that stuff. And I'm not telling you that because I'm
telling you how to live your life and that you
shouldn't smoke pot. I'm just saying, we don't know, right,
It's just we don't know. So California Sober became a thing,

(01:26:31):
and so somebody decided to study whether or not California
Summer or a California sober is effective in reducing the
amount of alcohol that people were drinking. So a bunch
of researchers at Brown University did a randomized, placebo controlled
trial to test whether cannabis use directly changes alcohol consumption.

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So previous research had relied on surveys or self reported associations,
this trial act actually allowed research to figure it out.
So what they found This is by Jane metric Of,
Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences and of psychiatry and
human behavior at Brown University. They said, instead of seeing
cannabis use increase craving and drinking, we saw the opposite.

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Cannabis reduced the urge for alcohol in the moment, and
it lowered how much alcohol people consumed over a two
hour period and even delayed when they started drinking once
the alcohol was available. And the study work like this,
they got one hundred and fifty seven adults who drink
heavily and used cannabis at least twice a week. So

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these are people who already double fisted. They got pot
in one hand, alcohol on the other. Over three separate
lab visits, each participant smoked cannabis cigarettes containing lower or
higher levels of THHC. Then they let's see after smoking.
They took part in what researchers called the alcohol choice task,

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and this is a well established sub task of drinking
behavior that they conducted in a room that was designed
to resemble a bar. They were offered servings of their
preferred alcoholic beverage on a tray and could choose to
either drink or to earn small cash payments for each drink.
They declined. The payments were very small in order to

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provide just like barely a choice to drinking without really meaningful,
meaningfully swaying their decision making right. The researchers found that
when the participants smoked the cannabis with the THHC, they
drank less alcohol than when they smoked the placebo, and
it was significant, it was like twenty percent less when

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they had the placebo. So researchers were like, you know what,
this California sober thing, there might be something to it,
and if it helps people avoid alcohol, which we have
just a wealth of knowledge about the horrific physical effects
of alcohol, right, And the thing about alcohol addiction that

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no one talks about is that long term alcohol abuse,
even if you're a functional alcoholic, even if you're not
like a bomb on the streets kind of alcoholic, you're
the kind of alcoholic that can get through your day,
get through your work day, you know, get get from
point A to point B, and then you drink yourself

(01:29:31):
blind every night. The damage that you're doing to your
brain cumulatively over that time is significant, significant, and irreversible
so the CBD thha thhc seltzer products is another reason

(01:29:52):
why less alcohol is being consumed. Your big friend Mitch
McConnell put the caabache on that with a budget extension
that ended the shut down. So, Mandy, is four or
five double vodka soders considered a heavy drinking asking for
a friend over a week? No, in one night? Yes? Yes,
indeedy So yeah, Mandy. A cop friend told me once

(01:30:17):
that no one ever got stoned and beat their wife. Yep.
And this Texter reminds us don't overlook the Denver man
who killed his wife while high on edibles. I will
never forget that story. I mean ever, because that story
for me. And if you don't remember this and I

(01:30:38):
cannot remember the victim's name, dude, this is right at
the beginning of legalization and du got some edibles. I
don't know how many edibles he took, had a psychotic break,
starts freaking out and attacking his wife. She gets on
the phone with nine to one one, and eleven minutes later,

(01:30:59):
when the cops not there, the nine one one operator
gets to hear her get murdered by her husband. They're
always gonna be those situations. You're absolutely right, But I
think that smoking a joint to not drink alcohol is
far different than taking I don't even know how many edibles.
Remember when pot was still legal or was just legalized

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here and all the tourists would come in and they
would eat like nine edibles and then they'd have to
go to the hospital because no one knew what they
were doing. I do think we're past that, and I'm
I'm sure there's idiots. Oh, Richard Kirk, thank you. That's
the gentleman's name, Mandy. I've been California sober for ten years.

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I was a heavy drinker in cold turkeyed alcohol using weed.
I gotta tell you, guys, man, if you were a
everyday heavy drinker and you are going to quit drinking,
please go to a medical detox. I don't think people realize,
and I'm not saying this to dissuade anyone and from
stopping alcohol. People die all the time because if you

(01:32:06):
drink hard enough, and you drink hard enough long enough,
your body cannot go without alcohol. It is your entire
body is physically dependent on alcohol. And if you just
quit cold turkey, it can create an organ collapse situation.
That kills people. I know of two people that died
in detox there. I mean, not to be morose, but

(01:32:27):
at the rate they were going, they're going to die anyway.
So be aware. Be there's only one kind of alcoholic.
And I get what you're saying text he and I
totally understand with that sentiment. But there are people that
are our secret alcoholics in that they hide it so well.

(01:32:48):
I would say, my father, for many years was what
I would consider a functional alcoholic. And I've told the
story many times. I mean, it was the seventies, so
the statute of limitations is over and he's dead anyway.
But my dad would come home from work and he
would make himself a scotch on the rocks, like a
full rocks glass, you know what I mean. And we'd
get in the car and drive around and visit people,

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and everywhere we stopped, he would make another scotch on
the rocks with their scotch, and we just go visit people.
And my dad would drink all night like that. But
he was never drunk. Never saw my dad intoxicated, not once. Mandy,
there you go again, calling the guy who killed his
wife on edibles a gentleman. You know what, I don't

(01:33:32):
know why I do that. I guess I'm trying to
give him the benefit of the doubt in some way.
I don't know. He obviously doesn't deserve it. Texter, It's
just a habit. Mandy, your story remind me of doctor
Johnny Fever on WKRP becoming more sober while drinking for
their test. Loll, California sober. Isn't trading one bad habit

(01:33:55):
for the next. Yeah, it is, it is, And I
guess you have to sort of look at the situation
and figure out how to do the least harm until
you can get to a point where sobriety feels doable.
I guess, just throwing that out, my twenty seven year

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old cousin died after he stopped drinking. I'm very sorry
to hear that, and I wish I was surprised. One
of the people that I knowed who died in Detox
was thirty two years old and just sad, just really sad.
I guess the reason I bring this story up is
I'm glad, like my daughter now is super judgy when

(01:34:37):
I have a cocktail, like super Judges, why are you
drinking that we have friends and over on Saturday night
we had chili. What goes with chili?

Speaker 5 (01:34:45):
Beer?

Speaker 3 (01:34:47):
It was venice and chili. It was so good, But
I had a beer with my chili minders. What are
you doing huh? At her age? You guys, Come on,
I look back at sixteen year old me, and I
look at my sixteen year old daughter. What a different
world that kid is coming up with. I mean, my

(01:35:08):
teenage years were spent driving from field to field looking
for the party by the cattle gap. Legitimately, y'all, there
was a party area in my hometown that we just
referred to as the cattle gap. You know what a
cattle gap? I mean, I don't know what they call it.
Here those parts of the road where the fence ends
for the cows and they have just bars on the

(01:35:29):
road when and the cows won't walk across it because
their feet will go through it. We call those a
cattle gap. I don't know what they're actually called. But
there was a part of my hometown and you'd be
like Friday afternoon, they'd like party at the cattle gap,
and somebody would have a keg and we'd all go
out there and hang out in the woods with our cars,
radio's blasted and live the dream. Mandy AA is always available.

(01:35:53):
It is always available, but it doesn't work for everyone.
But the good news is there are so many different
programs that if you're looking to stop drinking, keep trying
until you find a program that works for you. Mandy,
when you're buzzing, the evil subconscious comes out. Amen to that,
And doesn't everybody have that one friend or or I

(01:36:15):
At this point, I can say I had that one
friend who has just enough cocktails to turn in them
Tasmanian devil and be a horrible person and vomit all
over the backseat of your car. And then the next
day when you're like, dude, you're paying to get my
car detailed, they're like, dude, I was just drunk. No,
that's not an excuse.

Speaker 2 (01:36:33):
Why did you do that? When I walk in the room, Well, there.

Speaker 3 (01:36:35):
Wasn't you, Ryan, but I did. That was my lived experience.
As they like to say, there's always that one friend.

Speaker 8 (01:36:41):
There is always that one friend. I did do that
one time. I felt really bad about it. This is
like twenties, you know, and you're an idiot. Yeah, yeah,
I would do.

Speaker 3 (01:36:49):
Before your dumb ass birthday. Do you know what your
dumb ass birthday is?

Speaker 1 (01:36:52):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:36:52):
What is my dumbas the age of twenty five? Okay,
before twenty five, if you do something idiotic, you're like, ah,
it's just a dumb kid. After twenty you're a dumb ass.

Speaker 2 (01:37:01):
This was this was right out. This might have been
twenty five. I might have been right on.

Speaker 8 (01:37:06):
You're on the cusps on the cuss all right there
as a musician. So here's a little bit of an understanding.
It's it's the culture, you know, where we're all idiots
at that point. Yeah, and I'm surprised my wife I
threw up at her car.

Speaker 3 (01:37:18):
Oh my god, she's still married. She still married me, Lord,
have mercy.

Speaker 2 (01:37:22):
I can't believe it.

Speaker 3 (01:37:22):
By the way, thanks for all of you are calling
you telling me they're called cattle guards. We called them
cattle gaps. I don't I didn't know what they were
out in the west anyway. Ryan Edwards has joined us
because now it's time for the most exciting segment on
the radio on this guy the world of the day.
All right, well done, what is our dad joke of

(01:37:45):
the day? Please?

Speaker 4 (01:37:46):
My local movie theater is cracking down on people sneaking
in outside candy and snacks.

Speaker 3 (01:37:51):
But it's okay. I have a few twigs up nicely.
That one's good. I like, I'm gonna use that with
the grandsons. That's a really good one. All right. What
is our word of the day please? It is a verb, okay.
It means to talk something in, talk somebody into it, like,
urge them to do something you want them to do. Yeah,
pretty much, all right, Today's word of the day, please, okay, Joel.

(01:38:14):
What today's frigot question? What is the longest official NASCAR race?
Is that the Daytona five hundred?

Speaker 2 (01:38:19):
Probably? I would think, no Nascar?

Speaker 3 (01:38:22):
Yeah, Oh, the Coca Cola is six hundred speedway in
North Carolina? Six stop it six hundred mile race. Isn't
that the Canniball run.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
Don't you mean laps?

Speaker 3 (01:38:37):
No? Six hundred mile? Well, depending on how long the
track is, And I think North Carolina is like a
mile and a quarter, so five hundred laps something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:38:46):
As that's all.

Speaker 3 (01:38:47):
Yeah, left turn, left turn left hern left turns yeah,
left turn yeah, go ahead?

Speaker 4 (01:38:52):
Much better racing up at CNS eighties hits Oh, today's category?

Speaker 3 (01:38:57):
Oh wait, can I stop for a minute. Last night,
We're at dinner a Wolf Peach and Parker phenomenal restaurant,
so so good. Yeah. And the soundtrack that they were
playing was all of the songs that I loved from
the old wave era, like new wave songs, but they've
been re recorded. It was like kids bop for adults.
So they were all covers. Enjoy that I do it.

(01:39:19):
But I was like, now they're playing my music is
like music, and it hurt my soul.

Speaker 4 (01:39:23):
But go ahead, go ahead, let's talk about good music.
Eighties hits. Okay, okay, another brick in the wall from
Pink Floyd. Correct, We're halfway there, right, Ryan, who's bon Jovie?

Speaker 3 (01:39:35):
Correct?

Speaker 4 (01:39:36):
This comic rapped? I was an ugly kid. I never
had fun, no respect, no respect. It was Rodney Dangerfield,
That is correct? Oh nice, Rolling Stone's twenty biggest Songs
of the summer had the power of love by this crime.

Speaker 2 (01:39:50):
Ryan, Who's Huey Lewis? And that too too?

Speaker 4 (01:39:53):
Yeah, Hey, Taco had a top five hit covering this.

Speaker 3 (01:39:57):
Maybe what is putting on the writs is correct? A
Taco win Thank you Dy had one hit? There was
literally one.

Speaker 2 (01:40:08):
Guess I putting on the writs yeah, the band. So
it's a great song.

Speaker 5 (01:40:14):
That's a song.

Speaker 4 (01:40:14):
I just know she said weird, weird.

Speaker 3 (01:40:18):
It is a weird song. I mean, come on, it's
a weird song. And didn't that guy like go crazy
because that was his only hit or something or was
that a different one hit? Wonder? Come on, I'll get
it when I'm terrible. Anyway, what's coming up on K Sports?

Speaker 5 (01:40:30):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:40:30):
We got Also it's fun.

Speaker 8 (01:40:31):
It's Tuesday, So we have Garret Boles right off the
top of the show.

Speaker 3 (01:40:34):
Can I tell you, out of all the players that
you guys interview that I've heard you interview for a
very long time, Garrett Bulls interviews are like top three.
He is so interesting and he gives the most interesting
answers and it's just it's so not a normal sports interview.

Speaker 8 (01:40:52):
Yeah, yeah, very thought I love him on the field,
but sure, yeah, very thoughtful.

Speaker 2 (01:40:58):
You know he's been he's seen the ups and downs.

Speaker 8 (01:40:59):
Yes, team, So there's just there's so much like especially
as they're good now, like to imagine going through the
worst of this franchise for the last.

Speaker 3 (01:41:08):
Decade year and not only that, I mean he had
a rough rookie year with all the holding calls and
now it's just like the boss. I mean, he's just
so good, and he's so good on the field, and
I love his interviews, Like I get in my car
fast so I can hear the interviews because they're right
off the top of the end.

Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
I appreciate that. Yeah, so we have that off the
top Shelby Harris. I don't know if you saw his.

Speaker 3 (01:41:27):
Can you tell the principle that I have his back?
And I love him even more called out?

Speaker 2 (01:41:34):
Oh, I mean it was amazing. Yeah, So we're gonna
what I want.

Speaker 3 (01:41:38):
To know what he's saying, though, I want to find
out what you want. I want to see what he's saying.

Speaker 8 (01:41:41):
I do too, So we're gonna do that at four thirty,
and then Rod Smith and Studio five.

Speaker 3 (01:41:46):
It's Today Arty, Today's Taoy Sports. Already done, fantastic, completely fantastic.
All right, kids, we'll be back tomorrow. Don't drive like
an idiot in the snow tomorrow. Please, let's all get
to work safely. I'm not I'm working from home anyway.
Talk to you later, kids,