12-03-25 FULL SHOW - Weather Wednesday, More On MN Fraud, And Let's Move To Boca?

A perfect day for Weather Wednesday, Boca Raton is coming for our business, and more on the massive fraud in Minnesota

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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No, it's Mandy Connell and.

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On KOA.

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Mandy Connell, Keith sad Thing. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a
Wednesday edition of the show. I'm your host for the
next three hours. Mandy Connall's n A and d Y
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through my day by my right man. Let me try
that again. Right hand man, I call him Anthony Rodriguez,

(00:44):
you can call him a rod And on this snowy day,
I am broadcasting live from Southern Command. How much snow
do you guys have in the Denver Metro right now, Anthony,
look out the window.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
It's not too bad. A couple of inches.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah, we've got like four inches here. But honestly, I
spent a lot of money to get this studio in
my basement. So what am I doing driving into snow
when I don't have to?

Speaker 6 (01:09):
Well, Mandy, I trash him often, so I gotta give
him love when I can. Yeah, se Dot thumbs up
today big time breaches up the road is perfection on
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Speaker 3 (01:20):
Five excellent, Well done, seed dot well done, keep it up.
Super glad to hear about that. We got a lot
of stuff on the blog today, and I guess it's
just gonna be it's gonna be a busy, whiz bang
kind of show. So let's jump in by going to
the find the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog
dot com. When you go to the latest post section,
look for the headline that says twelve three twenty five

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blog weather Wednesday, more on Minnesota fraud and let's move
to PoCA. Click on that and here are the headlines
you will find within Office half of.

Speaker 7 (01:52):
American, all with ships and clippas say that's going to
press plat.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
Today.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
On the blog, Fox thirty one's Dave Frasier is gonna
be busy to book a ratone. What's your business? John
Justice talks to Minnesota. Why are we paying more for
fewer students? Colorado is coming for your gas appliances? About
the Pete Hegseth war crime at Denver Public Schools is
stuck with Guyton again. Kids don't need cell phones? Can

(02:19):
Jim Mora change things up at CSU? Home prices are
correcting Can we stop with the stories about Trump's health?
No doubt George Soros funded the release of Dangerous Criminals.
Oh my, this ai loneliness is getting worse. Eggnog lels rejoice?
What's on your Spotify wrapped list? How old is too old?

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Dishovel snow? Removing food dies doesn't remove the taste. Twenty
vintage appetizer recipes. Fishheads time to move to the sphere.
The Broncos keep getting it done, get paid to reproduce?
Uh oh SeeU football is beyond broke. Who hasn't been
where this raccoon has? Another day? Another Trump insult? Knows

(03:00):
What's up? A cooler version of K Pop's Golden We've
all done this, mom, This is a dumb message from Trump.
Those are the headlines on the blog at Mandy's blog
dot com tech Toe.

Speaker 7 (03:18):
A winner.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
I mean, I think we're maybe drawing this out a
little too long. Mance, you know, commit although she is getting.

Speaker 5 (03:27):
Older, It's exactly what I was gonna say.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, maybe it needs she just needs that long to
get you know, to you know, the winner part, which
is really the important part of the entire blog. Nothing
else really matters. Nothing else matters We got a lot
of guests on the show coming up. Right at twelve thirty,
we are going to talk to Fox thirty one's chief meteorologist,
Dave Fraser. He is busy today because we have snow

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across the metro. We'll find out. I think it's gonna
be what is it supposed to be? Like done by
five is or.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
Something sooner than that?

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (03:59):
Okay, good, who knows what I know?

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Okay, Well, we're gonna find out at twelve thirty because
we've got our own meteorologists that pops in for one
weather Wednesday.

Speaker 5 (04:07):
Always perfect timing every single time with this yes, every time.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Except that one week he was off and there was
a weather thing and I was like, come on, man,
come on, We're gonna have a guest today and I'm
gonna tell you guys why I took this pitch. Right, So,
I get this pitch on Denver office vacancies, and I
don't read the whole pitch because I was like, hey, yeall,
I want to talk about that. Find out what's going on.

Speaker 6 (04:28):
Well.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
The pitch was actually from the economic development manager for
the city at Boca Ratone. Now Boca Ratone is a
city in southeast Florida, north of Fort Lauderdale, south of
Palm Beach and Boca, and I'm just gonna be Boca
in Florida is known as the place where your grandparents,

(04:52):
grandparents live, Okay, like it used to be. Maybe it's different,
but there's like a running joke between me and all
of my friends like, oh, we're gonna get old and
we're gonna move to Boca. It's and that's Boca, Like
that's the Boca I remember. So here we are, we're
gonna be having a conversation because here's what's happening. They're

(05:12):
trying to woo business away from Denver, and I think
this is I think this is a fascinating play. And
I want to talk to her about whether they're getting
any bites because Florida has there's the downside to Florida.
It is so flipping hot and humid. But Boca's on
the coast, so all right, now you're a little better

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because you have sea breezes most of the time. So
but they're on the coast. That means you have to
deal with hurricanes, and that means you have to deal
with home owners insurance rates, and that means that if
you're gonna buy a condo down there, you better know
that Florida passed a law that is going to absolutely
crush condo owners when it comes to making sure condo

(05:55):
buildings are not gonna fall down, which seems like a
noble goal, but I condo people, there's so many condominiums
on the market in Florida right now. It's it's insane, insane,
and some of them are going for you know nothing,
But do your due diligence on about on the why
that's happening, because that's a significant issue. And then a

(06:19):
longtime friend of mine who does the mornings on kt OLK,
they are Twin Cities news talk in Minnesota, John Justice,
is going to join us at two thirty. You know,
the story is now coming out of Minnesota. As a
matter of fact, on Monday, John was on a show saying, hey,
over the weekend, I tweeted out that Minnesota was about

(06:39):
to be the epicenter of all news and it's happening,
and it is and the reason we're to keep talking
about this, there's multiple reasons. We have to help people
understand why it is necessary to deport people that came
in during the Biden wave completely unvetted, and the only

(07:02):
way to do that is to focus on immigrants doing
bad things. And I hate to break it. I mean,
that's there's no other way to do it. You have
to sway because right now the people on the left,
the Democrats, are showing these horrible stories, and they are horrible.
They're all sad, you guys. I don't want to see
anybody separated from their family. But at the same time,

(07:22):
like I just watched my a dear, dear friend of
mine work through the immigration process over the last ten
years legally, and it is absolutely just insane to me
that people from third world countries are allowed to come
in here and do and get all of these things

(07:43):
that legal immigrants who are spending thousands and thousands of
dollars to come to this country the right way are
not being they can't do. It's just it's it's so
beyond the pale for me right now, and we have
some truly bad people that have been let in this
country who are doing the wrong thing and putting people's
lives in danger. And I feel terrible because I'm pro immigration.

(08:08):
I'm pro legal immigration. Heck, guy, sponsored someone to come
to this country I'm pro legal I'm so pro legal immigration.
But if the rule of law matters for one group
of people who want to come here and it doesn't
at all for another group of people who want to
come here, what world do we live in? And why
do we give moral superiority to people who are coming

(08:31):
from grinding poverty with no opportunity, which I totally get.
But why do they have moral superiority because their own
countries are so jacked up? I don't understand when you
have like good, hardworking, tax paying people who want to
come here and support themselves and it takes them ten years,

(08:51):
ten years and we've got to do something, and it's awful.
But we're going to talk to John about how long
this has been simmering under the surface in Minnesota. There's
more stuff from Christopher Ruffo, who broke the story in
the first place. It is outrageous. And here's the thing.

(09:12):
I don't want to see people expressing hatred towards immigrants.
I don't want to see people expressing hatred towards any
class or group of people. I just want people who
are not supposed to be here, who are using the
system and breaking the law to be sent back home.
That's what I want. And it's awful that this is

(09:32):
where we are. It's awful that our government abdicated its
responsibility when it came to enforcing the laws that we
have in the country. But that's exactly what happened. You
want to know who to blame in this situation. Blame
every level of government that has allowed this failure to happen.
Allow the Biden administration to simply open the gates. Blame

(09:56):
Mike Johnston and the city of Denver and the state
of Colorado for throw money as an enticement for people
to break the law. I mean, what in the world,
you guys. We talked yesterday with Thomas Frye about systems collapse,
and systems collapse is one of the first big signs

(10:16):
that you are collapsing as a society. And I'm not
trying to scare you. I'm just telling you what the
facts are. Right, that is a big, big, big flashing
red light that your society is collapsing. That coupled with
our debt, and I mean, you guys want to know why.
I'm okay, my daughter has decided she wants to go
to school in Europe and I've told people this, and

(10:37):
we're working with a company to actually get her into
a European university to go to college, not just for
a semester, for the whole thing, the whole kit and kaboodle.
And people are shocked. And I've had several people say, wait,
you're going to send her to Europe And I'm like, look, guys,
do you feel good about the next fifty years in
the United States of America. I want my kid to

(10:57):
be able to be mobile. I want her to have
the ability to go where life will be good for her,
wherever that is. And one of the easiest ways to
do that is to just say, hey, we're gonna experience
you know, you're gonna experience the world in a different
from a different worldview. But it's shocking to me how
many people are just confident that we're just gonna come

(11:17):
through this, even though we're doing everything, every single thing
that has brought down so many empires before us, we're
doing the exact same thing. I'm not trying to be
a negative Nelly, but what do I do here? And
this is what I don't understand about some of the pundits,
the talking heads, these people that are just so far

(11:38):
up the president's rear end that they can't be real
about the some of the significant things that are happening.

Speaker 5 (11:45):
I have a.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
Video on the blog today at the very bottom of
the blog, and it's Donald Trump, the President of the
United States, saying that affordability is a hoax, Like, well,
affordability is just a word, what are you even talking about?

Speaker 4 (12:02):
That?

Speaker 3 (12:03):
That alone immediately takes him so far away from so
many of the people that voted for him, who are
barely getting by and just moveing paycheck to paycheck. Every
time I go to the grocery store, I look down
at my pathetic little cart with whatever I have for
the one hundred and fifty dollars that I've just spent,

(12:23):
and I say a gratitude prayer that we don't still
have teenage boys at home, Like I don't know how
you feed teenage boys this with these kind of prices.
So it's super frustrating. But am I just supposed to
pretend like other people are pretending that somehow we're gonna
do the exact same thing, but we're gonna get a
different result. You know, whenever I talk about the energy

(12:47):
prices in the UK or in Europe, and we did
it yesterday where we talked about every European country has
just gone full bore into renewable energy has ended up
destroying their economy, and when we look at how much
things cost, when we look at the way things are going,
we have to be able to have a realistic conversation
if we're gonna pull this thing out of the ditch.

(13:09):
I'm out of outrage, you know, I'm I don't have
any left, Like the tank is dry. And I really
think the death of Charlie Kirk for me, just just
tapped every bit of outrage. After that, I just there
was none left. So can we get to a point
where we can have real conversations about the real things

(13:30):
that are happening and the real ways that we need
to be making adjustments lest we go the same way
as every other empire before us? Or are we going
to sit here and continue to play politics because I'm
just I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in figuring
out how to fix it. It would be amazing if
the United States of America was the first empire to

(13:52):
pull itself back from the brink and actually remain a
powerhouse for positive and good and light. But you know
a lot of things, A lot of things have been changing.
Let's let me answer this text message because it dovetails
perfectly with something I have on the blog today. Mandy,
did you watch all the videos of Trump sleeping or

(14:14):
nodding off during meetings? Joe was sleepy? Textter, let me
be perfectly clear. The news media that for four years, actually, no,
let's go five years, because that's how long he was
running for president. The same news media that could not
be bothered to notice that Joe Biden was nine hundred

(14:34):
years old mentally and was stumbling around not knowing where
he was. The same media that called everybody who pointed
it out Agis I am now supposed to believe that
because they went through a two and a half hour
meeting and found some instances where Trump had his eyes closed.
I don't know if he was asleep or not. But
if you think for a second I'm gonna trust that

(14:54):
group of clowns to talk to me about the president's
age that just no, no, I'm not doing that. I'm
not playing that game, y'all. He could have been asleep,
He seriously could have been asleep, but this news media
making an issue out of it. Now, no pipe down,

(15:15):
shut up, sit down. You should have done your job
years ago and you didn't, so you have zero credibility
on age criticisms at this point. Eh, Mandy, what country
is your daughter wanting to study in?

Speaker 5 (15:30):
Well?

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Right now? I okay, does she want to study in
or do I want her to study in? I really
want her to go to Switzerland. I love it the French.
She's taking French. She's doing really well in French. And
if she could be in the French speaking part of Switzerland,
that would make her mama extremely happy, extremely happy. So

(15:51):
we'll see. Like I said, she's working with someone to
make that a reality. Yes, says this text for My
grandson wants to go out of country as well for college.
He is over the top on the educational level. Kids
here know, and he doesn't want to hang out with him.
He says. The kids in his grade are really bad.

(16:13):
I don't help that for a second. I really don't, Mandy.
Definitely lots of problems here, but as Europe that much better.
This is another reason I want her to go to Switzerland.
Because Switzerland is not allowed mass migration of Muslim men.
I'm genuinely that concerns me. Is you read the stories
of French women who are literally buying pet pigs so

(16:36):
they can walk on the streets unfettered because they have
a pet pig. I mean, come on, I want her
to have a worldview. I want her to have a you,
not just of the United States, because she knows and
I've tried to impart to her the many reasons that
I think this is the most exceptional country in the

(16:56):
world right now. And I say right now, because we
can't always assume it will be that way. But at
the same time, the world is getting smaller, the world
is shrinking, you know, And I would love for her
to have a perspective that she can't get being in
the United States of America. And I say that because

(17:17):
before I became a flight attendant, I didn't have it
at all. I thought maybe I had some No, until
you go places and do things and see other people
and meet other people and learn other customs and learn
other cultures, it's really hard. It can be done, I'm sure,
but it's really hard to truly understand how it all
goes together. And the more you do that, the harder

(17:39):
it gets to just take the government line about everything.
I'm gonna tell you, Mandy, can you find a right wing,
non socialist country to send your daughter to? I mean hungry,
but if you ever tried to learn the Hungarian language,
it's brutal, absolutely brutal. All right, we're gonna take a
time out. When we get back, we are gonna find
out the very latest on all the snow because we've

(18:01):
had our own chef meteorologist Dave Fraser, Fox thirty one
coming up next. Keep it right here on KOA Dave Fraser, Hi, Dave,
how's your day?

Speaker 8 (18:11):
Good?

Speaker 7 (18:11):
Good snow afternoon to you? Love seeing this, big smiles
on my face and yeah.

Speaker 5 (18:17):
Storm doing what we thought it would do, and glad
to see it.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Well, how much longer are we going to get this?
Are we going to be? Is it going to be
snowing in the five o'clock traffic?

Speaker 7 (18:27):
Yeah? I think so, especially from Denver I seventy to
the south. But I think what you're seeing, if you've
noticed the transition of the intensity of the snow from
early this morning to now, it's a very light, more
faint snow. With you know, we'll get some additional light accumulation.
So if you've gone out and shoveled and say, the
last couple of hours you're probably going to get another coating.

(18:49):
I can see southern Metro areas kind of where you
are in the bunker and parts of Douglas County maybe
getting another inch or a little more out of this. Well,
we're already seeing dryer air punching in. The wind has
gone to the north instead of northeast. Northeast is our
classic upslope. That's what this storm was always predicted to be,
and it performed just right now. We're getting a northerly

(19:10):
wind that's starting to punch in dryer air, and so
we'll see snow ending from north to south. But the
travel advisories for Metro Denver, the winter weather advisories don't
expire till six. So anybody listening maybe that's thinking of
running out or the evening drive, watch out for some
slick spots, bridges overpasses. My understanding, and I was not
up at the crack of dawn, is that overall the

(19:33):
main roads did well. I heard a rud thro awout
a tip of his hat to see dot, which I'm
with him. Tend to be a little tough on them,
but I think pavement temperatures may have helped us in
this situation. Plus this storm didn't really bring a crash
of Arctic air. Temperatures have been right around, you know,
twenty five twenty eight degrees all day long.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
So what are we looking at for the next few
days this weekend?

Speaker 7 (19:55):
Then, well, so I have a small ten percent chance
the mountains are going to get another round of robust
snow Friday into Saturday. We're looking at another six to
twelve inches. I'm sure they're just elated this storm and
the next one coming because they've been craving Mother Nature's
helping hand.

Speaker 5 (20:15):
So that's good news.

Speaker 7 (20:16):
But keep that in mind if you're planning on going
up to the mountains to ski, it may.

Speaker 8 (20:19):
Be a little bit challenging.

Speaker 7 (20:21):
We may get a stray rain or snowshower out of
that on Saturday. But I will tell you the reason
I'm loving seeing this is after tonight's storm wraps up,
I can't find anything through the fifteenth of the month.
And of course, you know it's December. Holidays are in sight,
and everybody wants to see.

Speaker 8 (20:38):
More of this.

Speaker 7 (20:39):
But for right now, this will have to do.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
What are our temperatures gonna do I mean, are we
gonna get enough of a warm up that this is
gonna melt off pretty fast or we stuck with it?

Speaker 5 (20:47):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (20:47):
Yeah, yeah, unfortunately, Yeah, I mean December snow is a
little tough, not this early in the month. Christmas snow,
late December snows, those tend to hang around a long time.
Deal with a very low sung and angle. We don't
have a great sun angle. But unfortunately, our forecast calls
for us to get back into the low to mid
and upper fifties starting next week. So while it may

(21:11):
not go away in a couple of days, next week,
you'll probably watch it disappear.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
I live for the upper fifties like that. If I could,
if I could dial up a temperature range, do you
know what it would be? It would be like fifty
two to sixty seven. That if I could create a
climate zone with fifty two to sixty seven and sunshine,
I forgot to say that and sunshine, Yeah, I would
that would be amazing.

Speaker 7 (21:34):
Forty five degrees at night to cool off and right
around sixty five during the day. But as long as
the sun is out at our altitude, I'm with you
in that ballgame.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah, man, I mean that's like the perfect perfect weather. Okay,
let me see if we got I forgot to open
up my finger. If you have weather questions, now's the
time that you should text them. At five six six
nine oh five six six nine oh somebody from Ohio.
I was chatting with a friend from Ohio and there
the dead Ohio sky has already set in. That's what

(22:04):
we call it in our family. And you worked in Ohio.
What is it about the weather patterns in the Midwest?
The clouds just hang around versus what we have here
in Colorado, which is like a few crappy days and
then we get another gorgeous, you know, blue sky.

Speaker 7 (22:22):
Mainly two things.

Speaker 5 (22:23):
One is elevation.

Speaker 7 (22:25):
Obviously at our elevation, the sun coming out it's a
little stronger.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
It's easy for it.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
To road clouds.

Speaker 7 (22:31):
Tomorrow morning, we're going to have thick, dense fog north
and east of downtown in the wake of this storm,
but it will burn off, so we benefit from the
higher altitude. And the other thing is we were a
semi arid climate, so the Midwest you're dealing with higher humidity,
higher do points, more moisture in play. You know, you're
feeding up from the Gulf of Mexico, the eastern you know,

(22:51):
the United States is feeding off the Atlantic. You got
the Great Lakes, and so just the higher humidity can
lead to you know, these gray, kind of ugly days,
and it once they set in, unless there's a storm
that comes along with a wind event to stir that
kind of low gray cloud deck, it just kind of hovers.
And I think I've told you the story here with

(23:11):
you on KOA. Many times I worked in Des Moines
and we hadn't seen the sunshine. I think it was
eighty hours or one hundred hours or something like that.
So some guy who owned his own company put his
employees on a plane and flew them up above the
cloud deck just so they could bast in the sun
for about an hour and then landed back in the Moine.

Speaker 5 (23:32):
That's how bad.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
That is fantastic? Oh, I love that.

Speaker 7 (23:36):
I think it was like five it was like five
days without sunshine and the gloom had just set in
and it was cold and just dreary, and so he's
just like, both we're going up above the clouds.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
That is boss of the year right there. Somebody just
said this, Dave, would you ask Dave how many snowflakes
it would take to create Frosty the Snowman. Now, I'm
going to take this as they're asking how much more
snow do we need before the kids can build a snowman?
But if you want to expound on the actual amount
of snow in the actual Frosty the Snowman, you can
feel free to do that as well.

Speaker 5 (24:10):
It takes.

Speaker 7 (24:11):
I would say that it depends what you're going for.
You're going for a miniature one that you build on
the table on the deck, or are you trying to
go for a full size I will say that the
top of this snow is light. This isn't a heavy, wet, concrete.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
Dicky yet in March and April.

Speaker 7 (24:25):
But the bottom layer because pavement temperatures were just warm enough,
certainly the weekend cold cool temperatures so that it's stuck.
But the bottom does have a little more moisture in it,
so if you reach down deep into the snow, you
can make a pretty good snowball with.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
This stuff, all right, Dave Frasier, Fox thirty one's chief maybe,
oh wait, hang on, maybe last winter it seemed that
Weather Wednesday, Dave was often on your show on the
biggest snow days of the week. And now we get
our first big snowstorm on Weather Wednesday with Dave. Coincidence
that from Andy. Well, no everybody knows Dave actually controls

(24:59):
the weather, so I asked him to make a big
weather event for Weather Wednesday. It's simple.

Speaker 7 (25:05):
Yeah, I do remember last year it seemed like every Wednesday.
We were in a pattern of about every three to
four days, and the timing was like Wednesday, Saturday, Wednesday, Saturday, Wednesday, Saturday,
and that's when we got the storms. And this one,
you know, we're late, and I know you got to
get going. You know, we didn't get our first measurable
snow two tenths of an.

Speaker 5 (25:22):
Inch on Saturday this past Saturday.

Speaker 7 (25:24):
It's the only measurable snow we've had. December usually brings
us eight inches. We're running way behind. I think the
airport this morning reported a little over two. By the
time it's done, I'm hoping they're.

Speaker 5 (25:35):
Three to four.

Speaker 7 (25:36):
Gets us halfway to where we should be for the month.
But we got a lot of work to do when
it comes to snow. So enjoy this one. I think
it played well, it cooperated. It was a good first
snow legs of the season. Get used to it, get ready,
and we hopefully can find you more in the coming days,
especially as we get closer to Christmas.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
All Right, Dave, get crack in over there at Fox
thirty one, That is Dave Frasier. All right, man, we'll
talk to you soon. Taking a time out, we'll be
right back. Keep it on, KOA. I was talking about
the fact that my daughters decided she wants to go
to school in Europe. And many of you are like,
oh my god, you're going to send your kid to
Europe and she's going to come back to liberal Guess what,
you guys, I'm I could send her anywhere in the

(26:14):
United States and she could come back to a liberal
And here's the dirty little secret about your kids. You
don't get to control their thoughts as they get older.
You know, my son and my oldest son is a
registered Democrat, And guess what, it doesn't bother me a
bit because he is going to have to live in

(26:36):
the world that he is creating. You know, you have
to let your kids grow up. I'm hoping that we've
you know, established enough of a firm foundation because when
I went to college, my dad made me listen to
Rush Limbaugh. And you know, when I was young, and
then I went to college and became a full on,
dirty foot hippie liberal. I mean full on. But when

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you lay the foundation, when you lay down the principles
that underpin all of this, it's those principles that will
make her a good person. And you know what, if
she ends up being a liberal, I hope she uses
these principles to guide her as she makes decisions that
I disagree with. It's it's the way it is. But
somebody sent in and said, Mandy, you know, someone saw

(27:20):
not me, would say that you are a globalist. So
it wasn't quite sure what globalist meant. So I looked
it up and like an idiot, I just closed the window.
So I'm going to close the uh one second. A globalist,
according to a co pilot, is a person who advocates
the administering or planning of a political strategy, economic system

(27:40):
on a global rather than national basis. Understanding and having
a world perspective does not mean that you don't believe
that the United States of America doesn't deserve and should
operate as an independent nation. So I reject that completely
because Ultimately, one of the things I love about the
United States of America. Heck, this is one of the

(28:02):
things I love about home rule in Colorado is that
we have all of these laboratories right in the United States.
We have fifty laboratories and then some extra laboratories where
people are choosing other forms of governance, where we get
to see what works. And if you don't like how
things are going in Colorado, you can change it, or
you can move somewhere else that is working the way

(28:22):
you want it to work. It's genius. I absolutely believe
in the sovereignty of the United States of America. I
actively advocate for the disillusion of the UN. I think
the United Nations is an absolute garbage organization. I think
the European Union is one of the dumbest things that

(28:43):
European nations could have gotten themselves into. So I think
I'm the opposite of a globalist. But the reason I
want my daughter to have a worldview and to understand
the viewpoints of people that live in other Western societies
is because if you understand the way they think, you
can beat them better. That's just a reality. And I

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also want her to have the ability to feel comfortable
picking up and moving to a foreign country, Because let
me tell you something. If I say to you right now,
you're gonna have to pick up and move to a
country where you don't know the language, and you're gonna
have to start over, and you're gonna have to go
through the process to become naturalized there and get work
permit and all this stuff. Are you gonna do it?

(29:25):
A vast majority of people would be like, absolutely not
if the entire process is incredibly intimidating. And y'all, if
she can do that, if she can pick up and
go to college in a foreign country, what can't she do?
And I will have a fabulous place to visit her.
I mean not saying that I wouldn't like to go
to see you and hang out and boulder, but if

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I could go to Geneva, Switzerland, that would be way better,
way better. So I appreciate the sentence, but I reject
the globalist seems more elitist globalist?

Speaker 8 (30:01):
Huh?

Speaker 3 (30:02):
How is the uh? How is that elitist? Guys? I
got a news flash for you. Do you know how
much the University of Geneva costs for a semester? About
thirteen hundred Bucks just seems smart to me, really really smart, Mandy.
The world is shrinking. I thought the flat earthers were

(30:23):
wack adoodle. I mean metaphorically, we're all so interconnected. But
it does not mean I would ever want to give
my sovereignty over to any other nation in any way,
shape or form. As jacked up as we are politically,
I mean, as ridiculous as the times we are living
through right now when it comes to our governance are.

(30:44):
We're still the best country in the world. I believe
that in my soul. But it doesn't hurt to get
some perspective. I gotta tell you. One of the things
that happened to me when I was a flight attendant.
One of the first things that happened to me. I
you know, in my hometown, we had poor people who
lived in poverty, and they a lot of them had
homes that didn't have any insulation. You could kind of

(31:05):
see through the walls of the house. But they had
a tin roof, and they mostly had a car and
stuff like that. They had amenities. The first time I
flew into Mexico City and we drove from the airport
into the city, and I saw people living in shacks
made out of corrugated tin, those kind of things. When

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you realize what poverty in Mexico looks like compared to
poverty in the United States, it's pretty illuminating and really important,
at least to me. Anyway, when we get back, we're
going to talk a little bit of downtown Denver office
vacancy rates, and a nice lady from Boca Ratona is
coming on to woo your business away. We'll do all

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that next. Keep it on KOA.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
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Speaker 2 (31:57):
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Speaker 6 (32:09):
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Speaker 3 (32:12):
Three Many Connell, Keith, you real, sad Bab Welcome, well
of Welcome to the second hour of the show. I'm
your host for the next two hours, Mandy Colin. All joined,
of course, by my right hand man, Anthony Rodriguez. On
this snowy day just call him a rod And in
this half hour I am super fascinated and Jessica, I

(32:35):
sort of told my audience that you were coming on
today and I said, look, I got this pitch that
I thought was just about downtown Denver vacancies, and I
was like, hey, yeah, let's do it. Like I mean,
because we talk about this all the time, the commercial
real estate situation is dire in downtown Denver. But then
I after I booked the interview, I kept reading and
I was like, oh my gosh, I just invited the

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economic development manager for the city at Boca Raton On
so she could steal our businesses. But welcome to the show,
Jessica del Vecchio. I appreciate making time for us today.

Speaker 9 (33:07):
Yeah, absolutely, thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
We're not here to steal any businesses for sure, But
I think it's an interesting thing that you guys are
doing this kind of outreach to come on radio shows
like mine in different cities around the country. Did you
target Denver specifically or was Denver a number of cities
that you said, hey, there might be opportunity here.

Speaker 9 (33:28):
There are a few key cities that we're targeting. Obviously
you mentioned, you know, Denver, you're doing more research on
a downtown vacancy rates, and you know that to us
is an opportunity, or for any place to be an opportunity.
If people are not you know, occupying the space, why
not and what can we offer to make them, you know,
come here to relocate their corporate headquarters here.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
Well, in the initial email, you guys cited a number
for like Denver, the metro area commercial vacancy rates and
commercial vacancy rates for is a great measure of how
your economic environment is going, or it used to be
before the pandemic. One of the things we've seen here

(34:09):
in Denver is that we have so much tech heavy
industry that you don't have to go to the office anymore,
So we don't need an office anymore, right, I mean,
that was so disruptive here where in other communities it
wasn't necessarily as disruptive, But Jessica, I checked the numbers
for just downtown because I was in downtown Denver this

(34:30):
past weekend and was really shocked at how many vacancies,
like street level vacancies, right, so you have to figure
the rest of the building is really empty as well.
Right now, our office vacancy rate is just under forty
percent in downtown Denver. That's pretty devastating. I'm guessing things
are a little different in Boca.

Speaker 8 (34:51):
Yeah, so definitely different in Boca.

Speaker 9 (34:53):
We are seeing, like you mentioned, the remote work right,
So we all tested that through the pandemic and we
realized those companies have a tech heavy presence, or if
they didn't, they have to. Now that was the only
game in town when the pandemic came through, so everyone
had to go remote and everyone has now they're doing
the hybrid workforce thing. But yeah, we're seeing a big
influx of companies coming down to Boca Ratone. You know,

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we have twelve minis square feet of office space and
we're at about nine percent vacancy rate on office space
right now. So we're seeing a lot of people coming
out of these types of areas where they're having a
hard time. People want amenities to come back to the office.
You know, the game, as you mentioned, has changed the
work no longer just going to the office. People want
to be called to their office, and even if it's
only twice, two or three times a week, they want

(35:37):
to purpose there, not just for the workforce, you know,
they want to be able to do other things.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
So I want to ask you this question because I'm
a native Floridian and I told my audience this earlier
when I was and still there's a joke like like
with among my friends where We're like, oh, we're going
to retire and go to Boca and that is like
that and it's where your grandparents grandparents live. But I'm
going to be I'm going to be honest. I haven't
been there twenty five years, right, yea, So how has

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Boca changed?

Speaker 6 (36:04):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (36:04):
My gosh. So you're absolutely right. You know, we always
blamed Seinfeld. He didn't del Visca exactly.

Speaker 9 (36:09):
I mean that guy really he brands in our city,
not you know, I mean, he's right. So we do
have a large demographic of sixty five and over retirees,
but they are a different type of executive that are
retiring here. So they're actually giving back to the community.
They're mentoring companies, they're mentoring businesses. We have research and
development here that they're actually ex IBM rs, which we
were the main hub for IBM in the eighties, Like

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you're talking about twenty five to thirty five years ago,
one point seven square feet of space they occupied. Now
that's all corporate headquarters in there, you know, canons in there,
modernized medicine, mobile help. All these companies have taken over
that area. But we used to be because of Seinfeld.
Your grandparents' grandparents. But that has shifted drastically, and not
just through COVID. We've seen a huge influx of younger

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families coming down to the area or staying in the
area even before COVID.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
Yeah, you been getting a lot of interest from businesses
in Colorado because I got to tell you, I have
a steady stream of emails from people who said, I'll
listen to you on the stream or on the podcast,
but I'm out. I'm leaving because of mostly because government
has made things so prohibitively expensive here. Yep, it's expensive.

(37:19):
It's hard to do business.

Speaker 9 (37:20):
You know, Florida, I forget Boca Ratone, but Florida is
a very pro business state. You know, we were open
through COVID. That's why we saw a lot of influx,
not just Boga. We're South Florida, but Floria's a big
state and we had companies and people just you know,
especially for Boca Ratone. We have a lot of executives,
like we mentioned, that have second homes here or third
homes here, so they're coming to the area anyway, or

(37:41):
have a presence here, but they never thought to have
their business here, right, But through COVID, they're like we'll
open a small little shop. How long could this possibly take?
COVID could only last a couple of weeks, a couple
of months, you know, and then here we are. They
decided to put you know, a little toe in the
water in Boca ratone and then they've grown.

Speaker 8 (37:59):
Into second in HQ's which is pretty pretty.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
Uncommon for us. Like you said, pre COVID, it was
in HQ or not.

Speaker 9 (38:07):
And now people are taking over more and more space
in their same buildings.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
How has your business community grown over the last few years?
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 9 (38:16):
So right now we're working five projects, five incentive projects.
A lot of them are onder nondisclosure NDA, so I
can't really mention much about them. But five in the
last quarter where not too long ago?

Speaker 3 (38:28):
It was one or two a year, right, so people
were actively but in and all honesty, like Boca is
how far are you from Palm Beach And how far
are you from Fort Lauderdale? Like, what's the spread there?
It's crazy? We are thirty we're equidistance.

Speaker 9 (38:41):
So thirty minutes south is of US is Fuloadadale which
has the airport right, and then thirty minutes north of
US is West Palm beach, which also has an airport,
so kind of equidistance.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
We're you know, we're right on the beach like they are. Yeah,
but Boca even, I mean, Boca's beautiful, it really really is.
I admire your hutzba as they say, Jessica, your town
in other cities. And you know what I always tell people.
People ask me all the time because I'm a Neda Floridian.
I'm from northern Florida, though I'm from Lake City, Florida,
right by the Georgia border, so whole whole different world.

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But they always say, I'm thinking about moving to Florida,
And they say, Okay, book a VRBO for a month
in August and then decide whether you're going to move
to Florida, because that's like the make or break month.
And it really is, you know right now, you guys,
it's what is the temperature right now? Because it's snowing
outside here in Denver.

Speaker 9 (39:30):
I don't want to tell you come on seventy three
and sunny.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
Ah, there you go. Why don't we leave it on
that Jessica August stage.

Speaker 9 (39:37):
You're right now, Let's be honest, August isn't the best month.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
It is hot.

Speaker 9 (39:40):
You know, we do have the storms, but most of
the of the businesses here have like the original IBM
campus I mentioned to you, you know, one point seven
million SCREPUTI office spased has a thirteen day redundancy program
behind them, so you can run through your office and
you can s do your operations. Nowadays, again, it's very
tech savvy down here. Nowadays you can really run business
all year round, but it is pretty hot in the summer.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
It is Jessica del Vecchio. She is the Economic developm
Manager for the City of Boca Ratone. Thank you so
much for making time for me today.

Speaker 9 (40:11):
Thank you so much, Mandy, appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
All right, that's Jessica, and uh, you know, I I
find it interesting that other states are like, you know what,
We're going to take advantage of this. We're going to
take advantage of Colorado's flagging business climate. And that's the truth.
I mean, you ask any business owner you. I mean,

(40:33):
we've seen more than one story of especially chef saying
I will never do business in Denver or Colorado again.
They make it too hard and they're just making it harder.
They're not doing anything to make it easier. Governor Poulos
has been tweeting out and I didn't put this on
the blog today because I, you know what, I'll save

(40:54):
that for tomorrow's complaining. I just think that that's there's
a little there's it's what sort of looking for balls?
That's the move, but very very smart. Let me share
with you one way that Colorado is not making it better.
I have this on the blog today, and the headline
that I have on the blog is Colorado is coming

(41:16):
for your gas appliances. And people are gonna go, oh, Mandy,
that's hyperbole. No, it's not, it is not. The PUC
the Public Utilities Commission has now finalized plans to push
natural gas out of Colorado home heating so they can
hit their one hundred percent decarbonization goal by twenty fifty.

(41:41):
Now what does that mean? Let me read from the
Colorado Sun. The Public Utilities Commission on Monday finalized a
state Clean Heat framework requiring Excel and other utilities supplying
natural gas for home and building heating to cut the
carbon emissions from their systems by forty one percent in
ten years. The utilities are expected to reach one hundred

(42:04):
percent decarbonization of building heating by twenty fifty. An ambitious
goal celebrated by the environmental and clean energy groups who
had pushed for an even faster schedule to meet the goals,
utilities regulators and policymakers. And this is this is where
you need to pay attention. This is the part of
the story that it has your name on it, even

(42:27):
if it doesn't have your name on it. To meet
the goals, they must help hundreds of thousands of homeowners
and landlords in Colorado switch from gas fired heating systems
to electric heat pumps and cooking appliances powered by clean, renewable,
solar and wind technology. Now that certainly sounds like they

(42:51):
are coming after your gas stove, after your gas furnace
that runs by the way, even when there's no electricity.
It's time to talk about what this all really means.
They are about to absolutely destroy accessible, reliable energy in

(43:14):
the state of Colorado, and in the process, we the consumers,
the residents of Colorado, are going to have to spend
a small fortune in order to comply. So it's time
to start paying attention. Listen to this little nugget. The
majority of cups cuts will need to come from more

(43:37):
effective overhauls of home and building heating systems, replacing natural
gas burning furnaces with electric driven heat pumps and other
clean heating devices. There are also plenty of gains to
be had from accelerating installation of more efficient appliances and
home insulation. Advocates say meeting this goal will require water

(44:00):
customer adoption of electrification and advancements in heating technologies within
the decade. Excel Energy remains committed to a balanced, dual
fuel clean heat transition that prioritizes affordability and reliability. We're
already reducing emissions while keeping costs low. Now, I just

(44:20):
want to ask this. This is from an spokesperson Excel customers.
Do you feel like your costs are low now? If
you look around the world, they are, But if you
compare them what they were just a few years ago,
they sure are not. But I'll let her continue. We're
already reducing emissions while keeping cost low. Our Clean Heat

(44:41):
plan gives customers a portfolio of options conservation, electrification, new technologies,
and cleaner fuels so they can choose solutions that fit
their needs and deliver deeper, cost effective reductions. Are they
paying for that? Are they going to pay to come
in and put a heat in my house. Are they
going to pay for a new electric stove of my

(45:04):
choosing that matches my kitchen? We're about to get absolutely clabbered, clabbered.
And you know what, how many people are actually running
the show right now? How many people are there in
the Sierra Club, how many environmentalists that have the governor's ear,
How many people are actually involved in the destruction of

(45:28):
Colorado's economy going forward? Because let me tell you what's
gonna happen. You know, Jared Poulis, to his credit, loves
to woo high tech industry to Colorado. Here, We've got
this great come to Boulder. It's beautiful, We've got a
beautiful tech center. We have all of this great stuff
to woo technology. Do you know what technology hoover's up.
It hoovers up electricity. And they're about to move us

(45:52):
from reliable on demand energy in the form of coal
and natural gas and move us over to un liable
renewable energy that cannot deliver a solid, even base load
without being backed up by something else, which is going
to be power that they buy from surrounding states at

(46:13):
inflated prices. So how is any of this gonna save
us money. It is almost insulting. No, it is insulting.
They're counting on your ignorance. They're counting on you to
be excited about there where is it portfolio of options
while not asking why you can't have the one thing
that you want, which is natural gas. Guys, this is

(46:35):
gonna be a nightmare for kitchens. I'm talking about commercial kitchens.
Do you, guys realize that most like a Chinese restaurant
that has a walk setup where they're cooking and walks
side by side. They're blowing fifty thousand BTUs of natural
gas under those walks. What are they gonna do? I mean,

(46:58):
this is and Jared Paul is going to be moved
on to the next office, and he's rich, so he
doesn't care how much it costs you. This is just
and this is this is exactly what Germany did. And
Germany killed their economy and has the highest electric rates

(47:19):
in the world, and we're doing the exact same thing
and expecting a different result. And they're congratulating each other.
Oh my god, you know who this great? And I
didn't even share this part of the article with you
because it's just beyond the pail because they don't want
you to notice that they are about to jack up
your energy rates, that they are going to cut off
your reliable energy. And I'm just going to say it now,

(47:40):
if you don't own a generator, a whole house generator,
you are going to be left sitting in the cold
or the heat on more than one occasion. Listen to this.
This is this is the part of the article in
the Colorado Sun that is supposed to make us go, ah, well,
it's all for good then, ad because groups note that

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lower income families often live in areas historically overburdened with
pollution from fossil fuel power plants, industry, and vehicles, and
that reducing emissions will improve local health in addition to
slowing global warming impacts on urban neighborhoods. They also want
regulators to ensure average consumers do not suffer from stacks

(48:23):
of rate increases that subsidize electrification for others.

Speaker 5 (48:28):
What I mean, what.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
It's like, what are we even talking about? So now
we're supposed to just destroy our economy, jack up our
energy prices because low income families historically have lived next
to nasty coal fired power plants, which is accurate. But
do they anymore? Some do, some don't. But our pollution

(48:56):
standards are tight enough that they're not living in the
same disgusting type of stuff that they live back in
in nineteen hundred. Oh, it's so frustrating, you guys, It
is so incredibly frustrating. Just remember you're gonna have to
do your part, replace your natural gas burning furnace with

(49:17):
electric driven heat pumps and other clean eating devices. Ugh
just threw up into my mouth. Mandy just heard about
this asinine foolishness. How do we protest and who should
we complain to? You know what, I'm just gonna say it.
You can send an email to the Public Utilities Commission.
You can send an email to Jared Polis. You can

(49:37):
send an email to the Sierra Club. They don't care.
They don't care because number one, they're rich. I've never
met a poor person at the Sierra Club meeting. Okay,
straight up, So rich people have decided because rich people
believe the experts. Oh, by the way, in the next segment,

(49:59):
we're gonna to get into experts for a moment. They
believe the experts who have told us that we're all
going to die from sea level rise in Colorado, and
we're gonna be that. Our cuts here in Colorado are
gonna save the world. At the same time that China
has tripled its fossil fuel burning capacity since twenty seventeen. Yep,

(50:21):
little Colorado is gonna be the one that saves it.
It's just so dumb, you know what it is. Once
committed to a plan of action, politicians and right leaning
politicians do the exact same thing. Politicians, Once committed to
a plan of action, we'll never say, holy crap, we

(50:42):
got some new intel and maybe we're moving in the
wrong direction. They can't do it. They simply it's it's
like And part of it is because once you commit
to a plan of action, you surround yourself with sycophants
and people that are gonna grift off whatever that plan
of action is. And they're on either side of you, going,

(51:02):
great idea, you're the best. Great idea, you're the best.
Here's some money, Great idea, you're the best. So we
keep following these idiotic plans even though we can clearly see,
as demonstrated by European nations, that they are a recipe
for disaster. So you can send your email you can
do whatever you want. I unless something cataclysmic happens in

(51:24):
the next two election cycles, and some like common sense
minded people. And at this point, I don't even care
if they're Democrats, if they just have a brain, right,
give me someone who can really think critically. We're just
we're headed down a path. I tell people all the time.
I love Colorado. I don't know if you guys saw

(51:45):
the sun rise yesterday morning. It was It took my
breath away, it was so beautiful. I get in my
car and I look out on the front range and
I am just awe struck by God's glory and beauty.
And I am not going to be able to retire here,
and probably a lot of you aren't either, And it's
because of dumbass stuff like this. When we get back,

(52:05):
let's talk about experts for a second. Should we even
listen to experts? Well, I mean about half the time.
I'll explain after this. Keep it on KOA apparently starting
January first, twenty twenty six, Colorado, where we require all
new gas fired water heaters sold in the state to
meet the ultra low nitrogen oxide emission standards. This established

(52:29):
by House Built twenty three eleven sixty one. This new
rule applies to all water heaters that are sold, are
or installed. Hmmm, hmmm, that sounds expensive. If you need
a water heater, you may want to jump on that, Mandy.
Everybody is so worried about where we're going to find
enough electricity for an AI data center. How does that

(52:51):
work while you're shifting public energy supplies away from oil
and glass to all electric. That is exactly the point.
It won't work, Mandy. I rented a place with a
heat pump years ago, and it was horrible. I had
to switch it to full electric heat to get any warmth,
and the meter world like a dradal, hated it. Mandy.

(53:13):
Does mister Chuck sit and watch Mandy when she hosts
the program from Home and think to himself, Wow, that's
my wife and she's on the radio from home. Let
me ask him he's sitting right here. No he's not, No,
he's not. No anyway, Let me share this expert It's
written by Mitzi Perdue. Missy Purdue fascinates me, like, I

(53:35):
want to interview this woman so bad. She is not
only the heiress to the Purdue Chicken for fortune, she
married the patriarch of the Purdue Chicken fortune. She was
already the heiress from the Sheraton Hotel's fortune. So this
woman is loaded for bear, but she's not. She's kind

(53:56):
of awesome. She lives very modestly for someone that has
two fortunes coming her way. And she wrote this really
good column on Real Clear Science today, and I'm gonna
share a part of it with you here because it's
about experts, and the question is trust the experts. It's
a bad bet. And she starts out by talking about
Paul Krugman's most famous line, When Paul Krugman still had

(54:20):
a column, and anybody would say anything to me about
Paul Krugman, he was an economist, an absolute Oh just well,
let me read you the quote that I would always
go back to. When someone would send me a Paul
Krugman's column or whatever, say Mandy, you should read this.
I would send them back this Paul Krugman quote. The
internet will have no more economic impact than the facts machine.

(54:43):
And this guy is an economist. Yeah. She also talks
about other things that experts said would come true. The
Afghan government would hold for months after the American withdrawal.
We all know how that went that Kiev would fall
within seventy two hours, and it never did. The media
lined up. Experts said Harry Potter would flop because kids

(55:05):
don't read anymore. They never thought that Harry Potter would
make kids read more. So she goes on to talk
about how the answer comes from ancient Greek poet arche Locus,
whose wisdom still matters today. The quote is the fox
knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

(55:25):
Hedgehogs are deep specialists. They master one domain, seeing the
world through a narrow lens. Their training encourages a single
track that says, double down, go deep, defend your turf.
Foxes are integrators, generalists who pull ideas from different fields
and adapt as reality demands. Foxes don't just tolerate ambiguity,

(55:45):
they thrive in it. So what does this have to
do with experts? Psychologist Philip Tetlalk spent twenty years tracking
expert predictions about world events. In the two decades study,
Tetlock catalog more than twenty eight thousand expert predictions and
found that experts were slightly less accurate than a random

(56:08):
coin toss. The questions he posed were simple ones with
yes or no answers. For example, with the Soviet Union
collapse in five years, what a major war breakout? Again
and again? The hedgehogs the deep experts failed dramatically. The generalists, however,
did substantially better than chance. Their secret was a breadth

(56:29):
of perspective and adaptability, the classic traits of foxes. She
goes on to talk about explain more about how the
hedgehogs and people that are specialists in their field can't
see the forest for the trees, and more importantly, they
can't see how their area of expertise fits into a
bigger patchwork of information. This is a fantastic way to

(56:51):
explain what I do for a living. I always tell people, Okay,
so I got to tell you guys. Paul Coroli from
Citycast was on the show, and I was like, when
you can have me on your show, and he said, well,
i'll think about stuff, we can talk about it. And
I said, I can talk about anything, literally anything, I
can talk about it. And it's true because I have
this broad base of shallow knowledge. Some subjects it's deeper

(57:14):
than others, but I know a little bit about most stuff, right,
So I feel like I'm a fox and not just
because I'm foxy. Okay, going back to the nineteen eighties
with that compliment, she says, one place to find foxes
is journalists. The best journalists are forced to be foxes
every day. They deal with conflicting accounts, unexpected outcomes, and

(57:37):
situations where things that they were sure of turn out.

Speaker 6 (57:41):
Not to be so.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
Now, I used to agree with that sentiment, but I
agree with it a lot less after the COVID coverage,
after the Biden administration coverage. It's just gotten hard to
trust people who blindly justl go along with whatever people
in power are telling them simply because they agree with him. So,

(58:06):
you know, it's a really good column. I didn't actually
read very much of it, so you can go read
that on the blog today. Mandy, my wife and I
moved into this house five and a half years ago.
Last year we had to put in a new heater
and air conditioner. They forgot to hook the thing up
that monitors the air conditioner. The guy who installed it
said it's up to Excel to hook that up. He
also said, don't let them know. Wink wink, Hey, you

(58:29):
know what, your secret's safe with me? Sir or madam
that I cannot identify from a lineup. Mandy, there are
data centers out east to whose approvals are contingent on
the data centers getting sourcing producing their own electrical power,
your small modular reactor investment that from the Illinois farm Boy.

(58:50):
We'll be back g in a moment right after this, Mandy.
From the text line the Common Spirit Health text line.
Have you ever considered trying out for Jeopardy? I have,
but after talking to Pat Woodard who was on Jeopardy,
and I have another friend from radio who was also
on Jeopardy, I don't know if I would do well.
And the other thing is the other night, Chuck and

(59:12):
I are watching Jeopardy and there's two guys and then
there's this woman between them, and visually it was kind
of setting because they were like normal size and she
was tiny, so it was already like and those guys
wiped the floor with her. And I'm just like, ah,
I don't know if I want to get my butt
beaten that bad. And I'm afraid that it would be

(59:32):
like my categories would be like Czechoslovakian poetry, how to
burn down a building? You know, like all this stuff
that I would know about. I don't know. I don't
know enough about geography, world like country names, river names.
I don't know enough about that, and I don't have
time to study it. Maybe when I'm old, maybe that'll

(59:54):
be my project, one of my projects in retirement. I mean,
you don't know. I've got a video. Did you watch
the video on the blog today?

Speaker 8 (01:00:01):
Ron?

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Did you watch it? The AI video art? No oh
man Man. First of all, thanks to Alex for sending
this to me. And the reason I put it on
the blog is this, like, we are at the very
beginning of the AI revolution, and I know that one
of the areas that is being hit right now by

(01:00:22):
AI is the world of graphic design and art and
people are using AI to create artwork, and people who
work in those fields as real people are getting kind
of crowded out. Well, this is a person on YouTube
that is creating this incredible artwork using AI, and regardless

(01:00:48):
of what your your medium is, the talent still has
to be there. But I put this thing on the
blog today because it is stunning. I mean it is
so stunning, absolutely remarkable, incredible and very very very realistic.

(01:01:11):
I'm wondering how when that video drops that shows the
presidential candidate in a compromising position, you know, two weeks
before an election cycle. It's gonna have to happen at
the beginning of October now because we have states with
so much early voting. But it is, I mean, it
is so real, you guys, it'll blow your mind. And

(01:01:31):
my husband said it to me the other day. He goes,
I'm already tired of not knowing what's real and what's not.
And there's a lot to that, a lot to that.
I also have an article that is extremely important for today.
I mean, let's be real, folks. Even though I feel
much younger, I am fifty six. So I read articles

(01:01:52):
with the headlines that say, how old is too old
to shovel snow? Here's what heart experts say. So if
you want to believe experts after what I just told you,
but you know, we'll go through it. The real thing
here is that a lot of people actually die around,
you know, shoveling snow. Because what happens is we get

(01:02:13):
out of bed, we're first thing in the morning, we
look outside, we see all the snow, and you're like, well, crap,
I gotta get out and take care of that. So
you go out and you're shoveling the snow first thing
in the morning, no warming up. It's when a lot
of heart attacks happen anyway, is first thing in the morning. So,
between nineteen ninety and two thousand and six, nearly two

(01:02:34):
hundred thousand adults were treated in emergency rooms for snow
shovel related accidents. Now, I'm guessing a lot of those
are probably a slip and fall. More than sixteen hundred
deaths reported in that same timeframe. So what is the age?
Of course, they go on to say, well, experts if

(01:02:54):
not pinned down in exact age, but adults sixty five
and older should be more where of snow shoveling, and
individuals with risk factors heart disease, tobacco used IBS, OBEs,
and the hypertension, you really need to watch it could
related debts. By the way, are roughly double the rate
of heat related cardiovascular events sixty five percent to thirty

(01:03:17):
five percent, especially in male patients over sixty five. Now,
one expert said, look, anyone over forty five should not
be shoveling snow. What this was not realistic? I say,
if you can get it get a snowblower. It's been fantastic, fantastic.

(01:03:42):
But if you can't find a teenager in your neighborhood,
pay the money have them do your stuff. Mandy from
the Common Spirit health text line, graphic artists have been
being pushed out for almost twenty years. Those jobs once
paid seventy to one hundred thousand per year. Now there
aren't any jobs exactly, Mandy. I work from it. Even

(01:04:02):
I work for an evil power producer. We've been asked
to supply gigawatts to future data centers in eastern Colorado
and central Wyoming. They have literally billions of dollars to
build these sites. There's a cotillion of data collection entities
that are accusing us of stalling technology because we can't.
We want guarantees that our normal customer's power needs will

(01:04:25):
come first, and cars for kids, commercials still suck. Completely
agree about that whole sentiment, the whole thing, Mandy. Can
I ask what are some of your projects you want
to work on when you retire. I have a bunch
of stuff on my I didn't call it a bucket list,
but stuff I'm want to do before I die, And

(01:04:47):
now I know that I have to try and be
on Jeopardy. That's now on the list. Teaching in aerobics
classes on the risks on the list. Don't I don't
know why I don't take aerobics classes. I'm you know
when and the teachers like and arms up whatever arm
is supposed to go up. I am the opposite, so
I you know, but it's on the list. Becoming a

(01:05:11):
private detective is on the list. Why, I don't know.
These are just things on the list. And now trying
to get on Jeopardy is on the list, which is
going to require a lot of study about things, but
it'll probably be good because all the African countries have
changed their names since I learned them in school.

Speaker 8 (01:05:27):
Mandy.

Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
There was a South Park episode about AI and what
is reel or fake? And jd Vance and Trump hook
up in the episode. Yeah, I heard about that. There
was some talk about that here and there. How about
a law that if you use AI for anything, it
has to be revealed. Eventually, I think we will get
to something like that, like you're gonna have to water
market and like Soora watermarks all of it stuff, which

(01:05:48):
I think is good, but we're not there yet. And
usually what happens is technology leapfrogs past our regulatory structure,
because our regulatory structure is designed to regulate things that
already exist, and then we have to catch up. So
in the meantime, we could elect a despot. I don't know,
we could have an election swung by a fake video.

(01:06:12):
We should have to, you know, we may have to
deal with all of that stuff. Mandy. I'm ninety six
years old and shoveled my patio this morning, sir or madam,
hats off to you. I'll be shoveling my deck later,
and I hate it, Just hate it. Mandy, get a
snowblower before Polis makes them illegal, damn straight. But see

(01:06:33):
that's the thing you can drive right across the border
to Wyoming and pick up for a song and a prayer,
along with fireworks, ammunition, and high capacity magazines. I'm just saying, Mandy,
let's see here, you are the hedgehog about our empire falling.
If you miss my dissertation on the things that are happening,

(01:06:54):
then make me worry. They just make me worry, and
I'm not happy about it. I think I'm going to
be right. I don't want to be right, but you
can't be a hedgehog. If you just joined the show,
you don't understand the hedgehog reference. But you should go
back and read the article about experts that's on the
blog today at mandy'sblog dot com, and you'll understand the
hedgehog comment. You can't be a hedgehog and still see

(01:07:15):
that we are in danger in the United States of
America of becoming another Fauld empire. So you you have
to be able to see a big picture if you're
going to make that kind of assumption. And again, I
hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm totally wrong. Oh geez,
I'm late. Let's go, We'll be right back. Keep it
on KOA.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
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Well, no, it's.

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Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
You're welcome, Welcome to the third hour of the show.
Coming up at about half an hour, we're going to
talk to my friend John Justice. He is a talk
show host in Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Minnesota, And obviously we're
gonna get the latest on the big scandal that is
engulfed Tim Waltz, and I got to tell you, I
am enjoying this a little too much? Is that bad?
Is that Sheldon Frauda, or however you say it. I

(01:08:22):
got a couple of questions from the Common Spirit Health
text line Number one. Mandy, can that ninety six year
old show snow shoveler come help me move? I don't know.
We'll have to ask, Mandy. Since you're a self proclaimed
jack of all trades, do you have a surface level
understanding of quantum computing? If so, please share.

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
So.

Speaker 3 (01:08:43):
This is all I know about quantum computing, and honestly
all I know about regular computing. I know that when
you program regular computers you use bits that are either
ones or zeros. Now how that all works together? I
have no even not even a rudimentary understanding of ones
in euros been to come. In quantum computing, your ones

(01:09:04):
or zeros could be either, and they're called something else
that I can't remember. It's like bit something something bit,
and quantum computing, because of the way the ones and
zeros behave, can solve way harder problems than normal computers.

Speaker 5 (01:09:20):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
That's all I know. Hole, that's it. That is the
shallow kiddie pool version of my knowledge on quantum computing.
And I fully expect someone to correct me on something
that I just said wrong, Mandy, experts say that old
people die from over exertion. Shut the front door. Next
thing you know, the experts will be telling us they

(01:09:43):
die from sex to Oh, come on, old people don't
have sex. Just kidding. I mean, I don't want to
know any more about that, just talk. Does Mandy wear
pants when she broadcasts from home? Does I hear media
pay for her use of her electric and internet? Also?
Does a Rod have a radio station control room at
his house? He wishes he did, I can say, because

(01:10:06):
like today, I'm sure a Rod would be happy not
driving here. Yes, please, Yeah, we'll make that happen. No,
we won't. We can't.

Speaker 5 (01:10:14):
We can't.

Speaker 3 (01:10:14):
Really, you got it. That's one of those jobs you
got to be in the building. Sorry about that. Yes,
I do wear pants. Also, I should say that as well.
Uh No, I paid for everything in my studio, so
I don't charge them because honestly, I mean, this is like,
it's kind of a it's like a I don't want
to say privilege, but it is a privilege to be

(01:10:36):
able to say it's snowing, I don't want to drive
in the snow. I'm gonna work from home. That is
that is kind of a privilege, So I don't take
that for granted. Anyway, got a couple of things. I
got a lot of stuff on the blog today. We
have not talked about peak hegsets quote unquote war crime.
But a funny thing happened. The New York Times dipped
into the story, and their sources painted a much different

(01:10:57):
picture than the sources that we're talking to. The washer
Rington post shocker from the New York Times. According to
five US officials who spoke separately and on the condition
of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter that is under investigation,
mister Hegseth, ahead of the September second attack, ordered a
strike that would kill the people on the boat and

(01:11:20):
destroy the vessel and its purported cargo of drugs, But
each official said mister Hegseth's directive did not specifically address
what should happen if a first missile turned out to
not fully accomplish all of those things, and the official
said his order was not a response to surveillance footage

(01:11:42):
showing that at least two people on the boat survived
the first blast. Admiral Bradley ordered the initial missile strike
and then several follow up strikes that killed the initial
survivors and sank the disabled vote. As that operation unfolded,
they said, mister Hegseth did not give any further order
to him. So there you go that story, which conveniently

(01:12:07):
coincided with the flak that the six members of Congress
who did a video about illegal orders. Certainly seems like
we're trying to find some illegal orders now, isn't it,
doesn't it? Really?

Speaker 8 (01:12:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:12:22):
Yeah, Mandy Keith Richards outlived Richard Simmons. Fair point. But
I'm not going to recommend that people do a bunch
of heroin, get clean, and then continue playing rock and
roll music. I mean, that just doesn't seem like a
sustainable plan. Hey, Mandy, does it bother you when people
challenge you or kick your ass on the text line,
especially when you're at home? Oh, I don't care, you guys.

(01:12:44):
I mean when I say I don't care, it's not
like when you ask your wife, who's obviously mad, what
she wants for dinner and she goes, I don't care.
That's not that I mean, I truly don't care, partly
because though I love each and every one of you,
I don't I don't know you. And though you hear
me on the radio and you have an impression of me,

(01:13:04):
and you probably have some sort of view on who
I am as a person, you really don't know me either. Right,
So the people that are important to me, their opinion
matters way more than a Rando on the text line
typing his little heart out in anger and rage, Ralph
in black Forest. I'll try to find a simple quantum
computing lesson for you, but don't hold your breath. Wait

(01:13:25):
a minute, Ralph, did I get it close? Am I
remotely close? In my quantum computing explanation, which is it
can do way harder stuff than normal computers? But I
have no idea how Mandy, you should join me as
my guest a yoga sculpt class. Now, wait a minute,
yoga sculpt class. Does that mean we are sculpting people

(01:13:47):
doing yoga or we are doing yoga and sculpting like
with our hands in the clay. Oh geez, I bet
she's talking about sculpting muscles. Hmm, that one did not
occur to me, right, away. I think my way sounds cooler. Hey, Mandy,
it's shouden fraud pronounced shaden freude. See, I knew I

(01:14:10):
got it wrong. Schadenfreude. I know what it means, but
have you seen the way it's spelled. I mean, have
you seen it? Come on, please anyway, I've got a
lot of stuff that I did not get to you
on the blog, including Denver Public Schools. Guess what, We've
got a new president of the school board, new boss,

(01:14:32):
same as the old boss. I'll explain why your kids
are screwed again. After this, I've got a story today
on the blog. And the headline on the story is
this how George Soros changed criminal justice in America. I
changed it for him, I fixed it, and now it
says how George Soros made prime pay in America. George Soros.
And there's no doubt about this. This is not like

(01:14:53):
one of those you're just a conspiracy theorist for you
saying everything is George Soros's fault. It is absolutely factual
that George Soros, to the Open Society Foundation, has donated
a super packs to elect district attorneys that he believes
will be soft on crime. That is what George Soros
has been up to now. He does it under the

(01:15:15):
guise of wanting to make sure that people who have
traditionally faced harsher punishment, meaning African Americans and minorities, that
they get more fair treatment. But we all know how
this has gone right, We all know exactly how this
played out. It's just made crime more open. I have

(01:15:39):
a story today, another one. This out of conveniently Minnesota.
A convicted rapist has been charged with kidnapping and sexually
assaulting a woman over several days in a hotel room,
just months after being let off with no prison time
for two other attacks, including the rape of a fifth

(01:16:00):
teen year old girl at gunpoint. Let me see if
I can give you his name. Bi ab De Mahat
Billet Mohammed, twenty eight, of Minneapolis, held his victim captive
in a Bloomington, Minnesota hotel and repeatedly assaulted her after
taking her cell phone. Despite two previous convictions for rape,

(01:16:23):
one including an underage girl, he served no time in
prison after copying a plea deal in Minnesota. This is
what you get with George Soros das So, if you
have a a if you want to point a finger.
If you want to find the person to blame, just
look at George Soros. Guys, I have a this is
so apropos of nothing. This next story, Oh, I forgot

(01:16:44):
to tell you then Republic schools, while you're so screwed.
They had their elections last night and Latina Indigenous something something. However,
she introduces herself, so she got Tan is your president again,
Soshi guy Tan who wants to slabberl we all over
incompetence Superintendent Alex Marrero. So you're stuck with that duo

(01:17:05):
for the time being. Forget student achievement, pishposh student achievement,
my foot, Mandy, there is Tom Selikat on your show?
Does that mean he could be a guest on your show?
Don't even tease me, don't even stop it, Mandy, before

(01:17:26):
the Black Forest guy truly corrects me. With quantum computing,
they use sub atomic particles superpositions either up or down.
Think of the magnetic field of the Earth. You have
a north pole and a south pole. And really, I
don't even want to know that. I know everything I
need to know about quantum computing. I already do. It's
already in my head. I shared it with you earlier,

(01:17:47):
because here's the deal, I would neither program a quantum
computer know how to use a quantum computer. Ending of
the apocalypse, quantum computers won't be a thing. So I'm
not going to worry my pretty little head with any
more information about quantum computing. And yes, the yoga instructor
did clarify its sculpting tony muscles lots of reps, lightweights,

(01:18:09):
and I'm a he just saying I would love to
email me Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com. I would
love to come up to one of your your yoga
class things. Mandy. Those stories seriously put hate in my
heart for Democrats. Please don't let that be the thing.
Let it gird your loins to fight whatever is coming

(01:18:32):
next in any way you can or not, whatever you
feel good about. We're going to take a quick time out.
When we get back. My friend John Justice from Minnesota
joins us to hear the latest from mister Governor Tim
Walls and the disaster that is Minnesota welfare. We'll do
that next. Keep it on KOA.

Speaker 10 (01:18:50):
Governors don't get to just talk theoretically. We have to
solve problems. And I will note it's not just Somali's.
Minnesota is a generous state. Minnesota's a prosperous days, a
well run state or triple A bond rated. But that
attracts criminals.

Speaker 8 (01:19:03):
Those people are going to jail.

Speaker 10 (01:19:05):
We're doing everything we can, but to demonize an entire
community on the actions of a few, it's lazy. And
as you heard Senator Kelly say, this president has cut
a lot of inspector generals. He's cut programs that could
help us tackle us on.

Speaker 8 (01:19:19):
So we are we'll take it on.

Speaker 10 (01:19:21):
We'll put folks in jail. I don't care what your
nationality is, I don't care who your religion is, your color,
if you're committing crimes.

Speaker 5 (01:19:27):
These are programs that were meant.

Speaker 10 (01:19:29):
To serve students with autism, to housing, and to making
sure people had enough to eat. There's a reason Minnesota
ranks as the top lowest childhood poverty, best place for
children to live. People are taking advantage that they're going
to prison. That is totally disconnected with demonizing an entire
group of people who came here fleeing civil war and
created a vibrant community that makes Minnesota in this country better.

(01:19:52):
But that's Donald Trump deflect demonized, come up with no solutions.
He's not going to help fix anything on fraud. My god,
there's a big difference between fraud and corruption, and corruption
is something he knows about.

Speaker 3 (01:20:04):
Those are the dulcet tones of Governor Tim Walls from Minnesota.
And my next guest, who I'm looking at right now
on our zoom call is openly shaking his head and
just you're making a face, John Justice of uh, what
is it twin City's news Talk. I want to make
sure I get that out. Kat Oka is the station,
an iHeart station. You can listen online if you want. John.

(01:20:24):
First of all, welcome to the show.

Speaker 8 (01:20:26):
Thank you so much for having me. That clip you
played has gotten quite the workout on my show this week.

Speaker 3 (01:20:31):
So I laughed out loud when he said that the
reason this was happening is because Trump fired inspector generals.
As if Tim Walls is going to let Trump administration
inspector generals into the state of Minnesota, it is comically stupid.

Speaker 8 (01:20:47):
Yeah, well that's our governor. You actually summed him up perfectly.
He is comically stupid. The country saw that firsthand last year.
Oh yeah, and we were all giddy when he was
tapped to be Kamala Harris's VP because the rest of
the country got to see.

Speaker 5 (01:21:04):
What a buffoon this guy is.

Speaker 8 (01:21:07):
Unfortunately, what we're dealing with now with the exposure of
fraud that we've known about for a long time that
just didn't make it out. We all thought it was
going to We all thought this was going to become
sort of a centerpiece of a talking point of walls
and he just completely escaped scrutiny last year up until
these past couple of weeks when the dam has just

(01:21:27):
broken loose in Minnesota is now the epicenter of the
news cycle.

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
So I asked John off the air, how long people
in Minnesota in media have known about the depth of
this corruption with the welfare system. And we're talking billion
with a B dollars stolen fraudulently, a lot of which
went back to fund Somali warlords. How long have you

(01:21:52):
guys known about this?

Speaker 8 (01:21:53):
Well, if you go back to if you start with
feeding our Future, you've got to go back at least
four years now. Along with Feeding our Future, we've had
fraud within the daycare center system and then more recently
the autism centers, health and human services. But we've known
about this fraud being perpetuated for the for the better

(01:22:16):
part of four years. It really has just been the
dollar amount that's been growing and changing. And then of
course the reporting by City Journal about a week and
a half ago that went, you know, in depth with
those multiple credible sources saying that Minnesota taxpayers are basically
one of the biggest funders of Al Shabab in Somalia.
But we've known for We've known for years.

Speaker 3 (01:22:35):
So what's fascinating to me about this story. There's a
couple of things. Number One, a lot of this money
is actual federal taxpayer dollars. Let's be real, this is
not isolated. The Minnesota taxpayer is not the only one
footing the bill for this, because a lot of these
were ARPA dollars that were being thrown out, you know,
like like candy at our parade. And one of the
other things that I find fascinating is the employees of

(01:22:57):
Minnesota's HHS took Twitter to throw everybody under the bus.
They were like, we're not taking the hit on this.
We tried to tell the Walls administration, and not only
did he not help us root out the fraud, he
retaliated against the whistleblowers. Tell me about that part.

Speaker 8 (01:23:14):
Of this, Well, what's really interesting about that. There's the
one account that's associated with they say about four hundred
and eighty different DHS employees. It's a fraction of the
number of employees within DHS here in Minnesota. They've been
blowing the whistle on this for a long time, but again,
just like what we're talking about now, it just simply
has not gained national attention and barely uplip when it

(01:23:36):
comes to local news coverage. What's interesting about that, though,
is I've been receiving phone calls for the past year
and a half from DHS employees anonymously telling me what
those DHS employees are now getting the attention for when
I talk about the fraud within the autism centers and
the other services that mostly passed under the DFL when

(01:23:59):
they had complete between twenty three and twenty four here
in Minnesota.

Speaker 3 (01:24:02):
DFL is your Democratic Party, to be clear, because we
don't have DFL here. What does DFL actually stand for?
I couldn't remember.

Speaker 8 (01:24:08):
So Democrat, Farmer Labor.

Speaker 3 (01:24:10):
Okay, So DFL is the Democratic Party in Minnesota.

Speaker 8 (01:24:13):
Continue right, So, and they're not associated with the farmers
at all anymore. Why did they just carry that moniker
as a badge of honor. So I've had employees, as
we talked about the fraud on the show, tried to
further expose it. I've had those employees telling me John,
I work in DHS. We see the red flags. We
saw the massive increase in the requests of funding that

(01:24:33):
just simply is unnatural. We take it to our bosses
and we get ignored. We say it's being looked at,
we'll take care of it, or they just say, you
know what, it's too big for us to deal with,
don't worry about it, thanks for giving us the heads up.
Continue doing a great job. And that's why this whole
thing has been allowed to perpetuate, because there was simply
a lack of concern coming from the Walls administration and

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those employees being told ignore what it is you're seeing
until the problem grew so big that he simply couldn't
be ignored anymore. And by the way, you got an
add as to that billion, it's billions. We're talking confirmed
two billion, but we're looking at upwards of six billion dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:25:11):
How much is your total budget Oh it's Oh, we're wed.

Speaker 8 (01:25:15):
We've blown, We've blown, We've blown plat all about. So
let me and let me share something with you that
I just found out today, just a little quick nugget.
I was just doing prep for tomorrow's show, so I
haven't had a chance to talk about this on my show.
We had a twelve billion dollar surplus, going back to
the past couple of years now, Walls had said that

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he was going to give that money back to the taxpayer.
By the tune of thousands. We all got like two
hundred and fifty bucks.

Speaker 3 (01:25:40):
And you should be grateful for it.

Speaker 8 (01:25:43):
That money is gone. It's been completely wiped out. Like
we're looking at deficits now for years to come.

Speaker 5 (01:25:51):
And now what we're.

Speaker 8 (01:25:52):
Hearing is that these deficits that we're dealing with are
actually potentially directly tied to the fraud that you and
I are talking about, because we are just at the
tip of the iceberg of what has been exposed with
the fraud that has been taking place in here in Minnesota.
So it turns out that this fraud may have actually
wiped out that surplus single handedly, which is why that

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money's not there anymore. And we're looking at economic disaster
in the next couple of years.

Speaker 3 (01:26:18):
No, we're runn by Democrats too, and we're in the
same position. So it's not just the fraud, it's also
the incompetence. John Justice, my guest from Twin City News
Talk in Minneapolis. So the other part of this story
that I find just absolutely incredible is that apparently the
Harris campaign was warned before they chose Tim Walls and

(01:26:39):
went with him anyway. What a stunning lack of judgment.
But you know, we've all seen what Kamala is all about,
so it's not that surprising. How did that happen in
your estimation.

Speaker 8 (01:26:50):
Here's my hot take on that. That is indicative of
the number of individuals that did not want to join
Kamala Harris's team. I think Walls was the last resource.
I don't think they had a choice.

Speaker 3 (01:27:01):
She was the only one in the room because he
stopped to get a snack, and they're like, you're it.

Speaker 8 (01:27:07):
When you go down the list of the potential picks
as she could have had. Yeah, you know, Shapiro and
knew some None of those guys, they all knew. They
all knew it was going to be a disaster. Yeah, Walls.
I mean, he was the equivalent of the kid on
Christmas Morning bouncing down the stairs to the Christmas tree
where he was asked.

Speaker 3 (01:27:26):
Wearing a bundy costume. He was wearing a bunny costume
at the same time.

Speaker 8 (01:27:32):
And I think that he was I think he was
excited because he was eager at the possibility, for as
slim as it might be, that they would actually win
and he wouldn't have to be governor of the state
of Minnesota anymore, because he knew that this was coming
down the road, the very thing that we're talking about today.

Speaker 3 (01:27:50):
Well, you know, to my point about how did this happen?
And I think if you go back and watch the
entire interview with Kristin Welker from Meet the Press, which
is where that SoundBite I played at the beginning of
this interview, her first question was not about billions of
dollars of fraud. Her first question was Trump called you
a mean name. How does that make you feel? How
does it make you feel? And if that doesn't clearly

(01:28:12):
demonstrate what the media is all about, they will never
admit that they got behind a whack a doodle presidential
ticket that was thrust upon the world by some cabal
of democratic leadership. We still don't know, but I just
got a text message on our text line from this
said Mandy asked him about the controversy about the Somali
that raped the twelve year old girl in Minnesota. And

(01:28:34):
I think this is a two part question because I
just shared the story of a guy who raped two women,
pleaded out, and then raped and kidnapped another woman who
appears to be of Somali ethnicity perhaps or definitely not
from here. But what are the DA situation, the judge situation.
I mean, you guys have a Soros DA as well.

Speaker 8 (01:28:56):
Oh yeah, no, Hannah pen County attorney Mary Moriarty's thrue
social justice religious zealot. I mean this is her religion
for her, and she has perpetuated this revolving door of
criminality through these social justice policies. Now she's not running
for reelection now and she's doubling She's now doubling down
on these policies which keeps putting these criminals back on

(01:29:19):
the street. You know, you mentioned this individual getting off.
We just had a judge who had let me back
up for just one second. You could just if you
could just bear with me, want to back up for
one day. So in the clip you played, Walls makes
the comment of well, you know what, I'll take credit
for putting people behind bars. He has not put anybody
regarding the fraud behind bars. This was all done by

(01:29:40):
the former US Attorney Joe Thompson. As a matter of fact,
the one individual that was convicted under Attorney General Keith
Ellison here in Minnesota was just released by an activist
judge after a jury convicted them. And so now people
are running an investigation, an investigation of this judge because
the jury and the jury have been interviewed, and they're going,

(01:30:01):
I have no idea why this judge would have gone
and let these fraudsters off. We convicted them.

Speaker 3 (01:30:07):
I saw an interview with some of the people on
that jury and they said, this wasn't even close. It
wasn't even like it was like a three hour deliberation,
and everybody was like, guilty, guilty, guilty, And they're stunned
about this. And I do think that those questions need
to be asked because it certainly looks hinky. As they
say on Scooby Doo. Now, how much of this is

(01:30:29):
based on the successful deployment of the race card by
Somali immigrants who are being charged for these crimes.

Speaker 8 (01:30:39):
Well, this has been it's a really difficult topic to navigate,
right when you look at the amount of seventy six
percent of the fraud that we have caught and prosecuted
has been perpetuated by the Somali community. But it also
is just a fraction of the Somali community. That being said,
when it comes to stay like autism sent you have

(01:31:00):
families being bought off in order to have their names,
the names of their children enrolled in these programs so
they can commit the fraud. So you have this happening
within the community as well. So the fear has always
been that and I think the Walls administration and Democrats
here in Minnesota may have been afraid to actually go
after these fraudsters when this started to erupt, when the

(01:31:23):
funding you know increased, requests you know increased, because they
were worried that they were going to be called racist
and fraud and racist. So they figured, in my estimation,
the gamble was when and if this gets exposed, it'll
be other people that will process it then and we
won't have to take the heat for being called racists,
those other people will be And this is where we're

(01:31:45):
at right now. Thankfully with the comments, you know, the
really open and honest comments of Trump even yesterday talking
about Ihan Omar and the Somali community here in Minnesota.
Whether you like what he said or not, it has
opened up the conversation to continue to be able to
be frank and allow the conversation being honest about this

(01:32:07):
is being perpetuated by a majority of individuals from the
Somali community, and people have been very, very afraid to
talk openly about that. And you know, as a host,
and I'm a host, these are difficult waters to go
and navigate because you want to talk factually about these issues.

Speaker 3 (01:32:21):
You know, in Colorado, we've imported forty thousand Venezuelans. They
just walked over the southern border during the Biden administration.
And though many of them are here because their country
sucks and they want to support their family and they
want to work and do the right thing, we also
imported a good chunk of nice criminals who have taken
over apartment buildings and murdered people and broken you know,
all kinds of stuff. But it does I'm so tired

(01:32:44):
of saying, Okay, it's not everyone. But when you import
people from a third world failed society, right, And that's
why Trump says it's a garbage country, it is a
garbage country. There's nothing that works in Somalia. Gay people
are still murdered, there's no functioning government, don't have rights
they I mean, there's all of these things that make
Somalia a garbage society. But ultimately you're also importing some

(01:33:07):
of those cultural issues. How much of that are you
seeing in Minnesota, that clash of cultures.

Speaker 8 (01:33:14):
Oh, one hundred and that class of cultures actually is
embedded within the Somali community itself. There are different factions
within the Somali community. And it maybe one of the
reasons why the Somali candidate Omar Fat lost the mayoral
election because after now that the election is over and
Mayor Jacob Fry won re election, the word is now

(01:33:35):
that there were there were factions within the Somali community
that were that were against each other. This oh really
they could they could not agree. So you're absolutely right,
And let me add something to this, and you make
a great point with the situation that you're dealing with
in Colorado. With regard to the Venezuelans, we have, you know,
a large, you know, immigrant population here of different you know, humthanicities, Yeah,

(01:34:00):
of ethnicities. And we're not dealing with this with other
groups of Intans.

Speaker 3 (01:34:07):
We're not dealing with this.

Speaker 8 (01:34:08):
You're not seeing this to be a systemic problem among
all immigrants. We're seeing this being a systemic problem within
one particular group, which speaks to exactly what you were
talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:34:18):
Well, it's fascinating and I don't know if you saw it,
and I don't know if it's true, but holy cow,
from a talk show host perspective, please let it be
true that Mike Lindell jumped into the governor's race in Minnesota.
Is it true? Is it true?

Speaker 7 (01:34:33):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (01:34:33):
We have like fifteen candidates now that have announced their will.

Speaker 3 (01:34:36):
Let me just say this, so and I'm leaning in
so I could tell John this and so no one
else can hear it, even though I've already talked about
it on the air, John, I had Mike Lindell on
my show because my producer Anthony, who just dropped off
the zoom call, I might add, forced me to do
the interview. Dude's breath. It was like he ate dead
bodies before he sat down with me. I don't know.

(01:34:59):
He has some serious dental issues. So if you're interviewing,
maybe off him a mint right when he comes on, Like, hey,
would you like a mint? Here's a ticktack? Would you
like a ticktack.

Speaker 8 (01:35:08):
I don't think Mike's coming on the show any times.
So I had the opportunity to talk to him in
the past, and you know, listen, he's had a very
you know his background, Oh yeah, his.

Speaker 3 (01:35:18):
His life story is fascinating, fascinating.

Speaker 8 (01:35:22):
He's an incredibly eager guy. That being said, he has
no business running for office, and it's unfortunate because people
actually go and get behind him, and they really really
they really really shouldn't. They really shouldn't. You know, the
guy's had his time and he should stick with his pillows.
I'm wearing his slippers right now, actually, so he should
stick to making his slippers and his pillows and get

(01:35:42):
out of politics. But unfortunately, yes, he did say that
he was running to them.

Speaker 3 (01:35:45):
One of my Twitter followers did quote, and I did say,
and I quote, don't sleep on Mike Lindell anyway, John
justin Twin Cities News Talk, I appreciate your time, man.
I just this story's fascinating and I think that this
is probably being replicated in different parts of the country
by immigrants who are not here to do the right

(01:36:06):
thing and build a better life and take advantage of
the American dream. And we got to get him out.

Speaker 6 (01:36:10):
John.

Speaker 3 (01:36:10):
I appreciate your time today. And I still I was
thinking about your former co hosts yesterday. I still miss
that guy. Man, still miss him. All right, man, John,
I'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 8 (01:36:20):
Thanks.

Speaker 3 (01:36:22):
That is John Justice and you can find his podcast
on the iHeartMedia app in the meantime though, anyway, I
just I think that story is so interesting. One more
thing on the blog today. If you're looking for something
for a Christmas party or someone you're going to a party,
you gotta bring something. I found an article about twenty
vintage appetizer recipes. I make luck half of these things

(01:36:46):
still and they're all so good. So that's on the
blog today. Who's joining me today for up Today and
the whole oh millennial grants? You know what time it
is now, It's time for the most exciting segment on
the radio. I'm it's gone the world of the day,
all right, What is our dad joke of the day? Please?

Speaker 6 (01:37:11):
What happens if someone slaps you at a high frequency?

Speaker 5 (01:37:16):
I don't know, it hurts.

Speaker 3 (01:37:21):
That's a good one. What is our word of the day?
Please answer?

Speaker 5 (01:37:24):
It is an Okay, curio? Your io? O?

Speaker 3 (01:37:29):
Isn't it like a little a do dad or trinket
that you have, like a keepsakes item of some sort.

Speaker 8 (01:37:36):
I'm gonna say it's a cheerio's evil cousin.

Speaker 6 (01:37:39):
Oh nice, something unusual that is collected. Should have agreed
with Mandy.

Speaker 3 (01:37:44):
Yep. That's why they call them curio cabinets. That's the
thing that people used to have in their homes.

Speaker 1 (01:37:50):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:37:50):
Here's a trivia question. I have no idea the answer to.
What does the popular Tibetan drink known as po chop
consist of?

Speaker 5 (01:37:58):
Poo?

Speaker 3 (01:37:59):
Is the name?

Speaker 7 (01:38:00):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (01:38:01):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:38:01):
Oh oh wow? No, I'm black tea, butter, milk, and salt.
The butter and milk typically come from yaks instead of cows.

Speaker 5 (01:38:11):
I bet that's actually really good. You know all you.

Speaker 3 (01:38:15):
Branton give us a full report back with the yak milk.
I don't know if I'm down with the yak milk. Okay,
what is our Jeopardy category. Please, what's the use is
use in every answer?

Speaker 1 (01:38:27):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:38:28):
Okay, no actual things like what's the use of these?
A geiger counter is used primarily what.

Speaker 3 (01:38:34):
Is uh earth? Tremors? Earthquakes?

Speaker 2 (01:38:38):
Wrong?

Speaker 3 (01:38:39):
Tremoring earth?

Speaker 5 (01:38:40):
A Geiger counter is used primarily to measure this. I'm
gonna stay silent? What is radiation?

Speaker 1 (01:38:48):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:38:49):
Bandy, you dumb ass?

Speaker 6 (01:38:51):
A cop atasto or coppo is attached to the fingerboard
of a guitar to raise this for all the strings
at once.

Speaker 3 (01:38:59):
I should know this, Mandy, what's the tension?

Speaker 6 (01:39:01):
Wrong?

Speaker 8 (01:39:02):
Saying? Quiet?

Speaker 5 (01:39:03):
Again? What is the pitch?

Speaker 2 (01:39:05):
Ah?

Speaker 5 (01:39:05):
I'm glad I stayed quiet? This named for a tenth
see Danish king.

Speaker 6 (01:39:09):
Enables short range wireless communication between electronic devices.

Speaker 5 (01:39:17):
Mandy, what do you got?

Speaker 3 (01:39:18):
I have minus too, grant, so I'll be sitting this
wild thing?

Speaker 5 (01:39:22):
Is bluetooth.

Speaker 6 (01:39:25):
At b pen delivers a dose of finephrine to treat
this type of severity allergic?

Speaker 3 (01:39:30):
What is anaphylactic shock?

Speaker 5 (01:39:32):
Correct?

Speaker 3 (01:39:33):
And I'm back to minus one?

Speaker 6 (01:39:34):
And this is used for fastening ropes in mountaineering ropes Mandy, mountaineering?

Speaker 3 (01:39:40):
What's a cara beener?

Speaker 5 (01:39:41):
That is correct? Only zero?

Speaker 3 (01:39:43):
Back to zero.

Speaker 5 (01:39:44):
Wait, no, great, I thought I was gonna with a zero.
Let's go with I'm melting. I'm melting.

Speaker 6 (01:39:59):
Instructions for doing this remove food, insert pan of hot water,
wipe out melt, return.

Speaker 3 (01:40:04):
Food, Mandy, what is defrost your freezer? That is correctsh
jesus this and this is why I would never do Jeopardy,
because I would look like a dumbass on national TV
instead of just on my radio show where it's fine. Anyway,
Thanks Grant, and we'll be back tomorrow. KIOE Sports coming
up next. Keep it righty here on KOA