12-05-25 FULL SHOW - CHSAA Settles, Bubbles For the Holiday, And Get Ready To Sign

CHSAA settles on boy in girls sports, The Wine Yogi pops in to talk bubbles, and you need to sign these petitions!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:26):
Welcome Local, Welcome to a Friday edition of the show altogether. Now,

(00:47):
all right, my friends, I'm Mandy Connell. You're gonna be
with me until three pm. If you know what's good
for you. I mean that sounds vaguely threatening, but is
also just a really strong suggestion. If you know what's
good for you, you should listen to the next three hours.
Anthony Rodriguez is here with me. We call him ay Rod,
and he as well. We'll be here until three pm.

(01:08):
So we got a lot of stuff going on, a
lot of things happening. It is fry Day, and that
means it's I forgot to put it on the blog,
but it'sn't asked me anything kind of Friday.

Speaker 5 (01:19):
And I'm curious.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
I need a favor for those of you who listen
and know how to operate the text line, and you
usually see my blog posts on Facebook or x I'm
trying a new thing. Now, Anthony, did you see today?
Did you see today on my Facebook page. We probably didn't.
So now I'm trying to beat the algorithms, you guys.
And so I did a video this morning about the blog,

(01:43):
well about working on the blog, and I.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
Just want to know is it it is? Oh? Thank god?

Speaker 6 (01:51):
A comment?

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Okay, good, because I'm just I'm tapped out trying to
negotiate this.

Speaker 6 (01:56):
If you're going to keep doing videos, keep doing it
better early the algorithm has enough time to pick it
up and give it some love. Well, have you ready
to do the video like an hour before the show?
Who do you know? Good?

Speaker 5 (02:06):
So three hours like you did today?

Speaker 7 (02:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:07):
Perfect, Well that doesn't always work out sometimes I'm not
done with the blog in three hours, you know. So
we're we're trying new things. Don't tell people my secrets,
branching out, We're doing what we need to do. Let's
do the blog because I got a lot of stuff
on the blog. We got a lot of guests. It's
gonna be a whizbang Friday.

Speaker 5 (02:24):
Mancy's are ready.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Find mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for
the latest post section, and then look for the headline
that says twelve five twenty five. Blog Chassa settles bubbles
for the holiday and get ready to sign click on that.
Here are the headlines you will find within Oh God
office half.

Speaker 6 (02:45):
Of American all with ships and clipmas, and say that's
going to press.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Today.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
The Blood Chassa settles on boys and girls' sports. You
need to sign these petitions. The wein Yogi pops in
to talk bubbles speaking.

Speaker 5 (02:59):
Of normal see you and shoot.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
School of Medicine will pony up ten million bucks. The
great Colorado slowdown is happening. Colorado teachers can get some
union dues back. Another downtown building is foreclosed on. The
City of Denver was warned about buying the Denver Post Building.
Cole will continue to keep the lights on. Bongino isn't
paid for opinions. Now are you wait? Let me make

(03:24):
sure I say this right. Are you looking for love?
The job market is in a holding pattern. A new
Chick fil A opens at DIA, Netflix buys Warner Brothers
and HBO. Our Olympic athletes are the best dress by far.
No words are not violent? Great question MSNBC. Now Google's
Year in Review is out. Stephen A Smith for President.

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I may murder someone back when I was young. Lemon
versus highlighter, super weird but also very cool.

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Art exhibit need to Destroy.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Your diet halle Berry Riffscavin Newsom the most bonic thing
ever to come out of the pro abortion movement. Panton
has just given up. Those are the oh, just forget
about it. Those are the headlines on the blog at
Mandy's blog.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Dot com tick tech. I know Nancy, I know.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Oh is she gonna? Is she gonna throw me a bone?
Or just drag out the disappointment? What am I gonna
get here? The tension is building?

Speaker 5 (04:25):
What?

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (04:27):
You know what expected? Desserve?

Speaker 7 (04:30):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (04:31):
Stop? It does that mean like second prize? What does
that mean?

Speaker 6 (04:38):
Participation trophy? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (04:42):
I got a green reverdence. When I got this. Texter said,
what's up? Mandy? What is not down?

Speaker 6 (04:51):
Get out?

Speaker 4 (04:52):
I'm just saying get out. I'm just saying that. Am
I wrong?

Speaker 5 (04:58):
Stop? How did I know that guy?

Speaker 2 (05:02):
So?

Speaker 4 (05:03):
I and I I can't remember if this guy was
a regular customer when I waited tables in college. I
don't know how I knew this man. But you'd say
what's up, man? And he would go, what's he's not down?
And he was Nepalese or something. I don't remember the details,
but I always remembered him saying, what's up?

Speaker 5 (05:21):
What he's not down? So there you go, Mandy, it's
wooking' putting up?

Speaker 2 (05:26):
What is that?

Speaker 5 (05:27):
What language is that?

Speaker 4 (05:28):
Did I just curse in some weird language? What just
happened here? He's talking about the story I have on
the blog today about another dating show, A Rod.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
Did you see this?

Speaker 6 (05:39):
No?

Speaker 5 (05:39):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (05:42):
After the what has been called disastrous season of Love
is Blind that was filmed here in Denver, A Rod,
I believe vouches for the fact that it was a
disastrous season. Yes, okay, someone came up with a different
idea called wooking for love walking w n gene of
if you like me, I had no idea what woking was.

(06:03):
I really thought it was a Star Wars thing. Like,
I really thought it was gonna be a bunch of
people dressed like Chewbacca and you had to walk from
furry costume person to furry costume person and find your
true love. Now I would watch that, but no, that's
not what it is. From the Denver Gazette, The Denver
show have contestants arrive at the Morrison Villa in Dusty

(06:25):
Subarus to a festival like setting where couples and thripples
will navigate festival theme challenges such as flow art, choreography
for poi, hoops and fans, stage production and performance, dancing
on the rail until sunrise, and more. Y'all, I don't
even know what most of that stuff even is, have

(06:47):
no clue, never heard of What are they doing at
music festivals?

Speaker 6 (06:51):
Now?

Speaker 5 (06:52):
What is happening? It continues.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
The show will involve common electronic dance music festival activities
like car camping, vibing under the Colorado sky, and.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
Visiting local iconic.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Places like Red Rocks, Pod and Amphitheater and Casabanita. If
we were trying to think of a way to only
attract the douchiest people to Colorado, this might be it.
I don't know if there's a better way than this. AnyWho,
I don't have to watch that. We've got a bunch

(07:28):
of guests coming up today and we are going to
talk about serious stuff. There has been a lawsuit going
on for some time and it continues, as far as
I understand. D forty nine as School District in Colorado
Springs sued chassa over chassa's rules that require them to
allow biological boys into girls' locker rooms and into girls spaces,

(07:54):
and D forty nine and multiple other districts around the state,
most of them near Colorado or Colorado Springs or El
Paso County, but not all. CHESS has settled the lawsuit
and has agreed to maintain separate sports teams for boys
and girls, to keep locker rooms in overnight travel accommodations

(08:15):
separated by biological sex to avoid CHESS impost penalties for
upholding the policies, and they will comply with Title nine
and the US Constitution while rejecting mandates that put student
privacy at risk. Now we're going to find out the
rest of the story and find out all the details
when D forty nine Superintendent Peter Hills joins us in

(08:36):
about fifteen minutes, so we'll talk about that.

Speaker 6 (08:39):
That is good.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
News, but it does not in any way, shape or
form dampen the need for you to take some time
on Saturday. If you are in any of the following
areas Woodland Park, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins or Windsor Greeley, Denver, Montrose.
If you're in any of these areas. There is a

(09:00):
petition signing event being put on by Protect Kids Colorado
and Protect Kids Colorado has three talking three petitions that
I would love for you to sign about three different
very important issues.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
For some reason, my.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
Hang on one second, my link did not load, and
I want to make sure I'm getting the language right
on all of these. We're going to talk to Aaron
Lee about all this at one thirty. But they've got
a ballot initiative protecting children from sex trafficking. They've got
a ballot initiative protecting children from irreversible sex change procedures,
and a ballot measure protecting girls in single sex sports

(09:43):
and locker rooms. So they are all you know, this
is an all volunteer effort, and there's a chance you
can stop by between nine and noon.

Speaker 5 (09:52):
There's addresses.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
I've got all of this stuff on the blog today,
so you can go there and find it out. But
Aaron's going to join at one thirty to talk about that,
and then the wine Oge's popping in at two thirty.
Both a Rod and I are super strict on our
diets right now, taking off the Thanksgiving weight, so she's
coming in empty handed. But full of knowledge about holiday bubbles.

(10:13):
Mandy wooking pinub was from an old SNL skitch with
Eddie Murphy. Huh huh, yeah, this person, said Mandy. The
Wooking for Love may be based on Eddie Murphy's take
on playing buckwheat during his comedy act Wooking for weve
in all the wrong places. Yes, I'm familiar, but these

(10:35):
young whipper snappers are far too young to even care
that Eddie Murphy was even on SNL. Right, but I
guess the the wookies are people who frequent music festivals,
mostly EDM, and Denver is considered a mecca for EDM music.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
So can I ask a question?

Speaker 4 (10:59):
I mean, I want to any of you are out
here are in the DM scene. But back in the day,
in the nineties, when I got my first real radio job,
one of my responsibilities was we hooked up with this
nightclub on Friday and Saturday night, so this is like
ninety seven, and we did an electronic dance. We did

(11:20):
a show where we brought in all these DJs, and
I was completely uninterested in this music. It wasn't my
style of music, but I you know whatever, it was
a gig and I'm just gonna say it because when
I did go to these shows, because these DJs were
always like, hey, I got a show coming up, got
a big show, everybody was on drugs, like everyone was

(11:42):
on something. Is that still the same for electronic dance
music or has it gone more mainstream because back in
the nineties when it was not mainstream, I'm talking, everybody
was on drugs at those shows. I'm just curious. If
you know the answer, you can text it to the
Common Spirit Health text line six six nine zero.

Speaker 6 (12:02):
So I want to.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Start today by reading verbatim an entire column. And I
know what you're thinking, Wow, Mandy, that sounds fascinating.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
But please please stick around.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
The reason that I want to read it verbatim is
I cannot do it justice to paraphrase.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
And it's so.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
Important because you know, I've said it a few times,
not in the not distant you know past. Here on
the show, it feels like we are living in crazy times,
you know, like we're just on a bus to crazy town.
We can't get off. We're all gonna have to move
all our stuff to crazy town.

Speaker 5 (12:37):
Oh wait, we're already there.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
And this column came from a subseet called State of
the Day, and the headline is State of Thursday, steady
plod of the Abnormal, written by a guy named Jeffrey Ingersol,
and I'm just going to read it because it's that good,

(13:00):
The steady plot of the Abnormal. The current debate see
controversy in national politics right now is whether or not
it's okay to kill terrorists.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
First, is it okay to shoot at them? Second?

Speaker 4 (13:12):
Is it okay to shoot them again when you miss
them the first time? The details of the case are
not complicated. The administration believed it identified a cartail drug
vote headed to the US border.

Speaker 5 (13:23):
Rather than risk a dangerous.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
Stop and board with a Coastguard or the Navy, they
simply conducted air strikes. Their justification for those strikes was
the State Department's recent designation of these cartels as terrorist organizations,
which opens up a whole host of additional intradiction tools.
We can debate the designation. We can also debate the
accuracy of the intelligence, but there are a few things

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that are beyond debate.

Speaker 5 (13:48):
Number One, these were not just lowly.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
Fishermen out for a little fun in the sun, as
I've seen some media types attempt to allege number two.
It's well within norms to use lethal force to event
designated terrorist groups from delivering a payload of basically anything, drugs, bombs, guns.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
Across our borders illegally.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
Right now, there's an attempt to render abnormal so called
double taps.

Speaker 5 (14:13):
A double tap is.

Speaker 4 (14:14):
When your first strike fails to neutralize the threat and
officers in charge deema second strike as necessary. Now, I
can't tell you how many hours of air combat footage
there are of the military doing double and triple taps
on terrorist targets. They don't care if the dudes are
fleeing and hiding. The object of the game is to
kill all the terrorists. Even GOP representative Dan Crenshaw, who's

(14:38):
got absolutely no reason to defend Trump, said, I can't
recall any time in my history of doing counter terrorism
operations where we strike a group, whether that's a building
or a boat or a vehicle, and then we were like, oh, well,
there're survivors, we have to go.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
We can't kill them. Of course we killed them. Of
course we did.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
And of course Democrats and their liber media allies are
attempting to make something perfectly normal killing all the terrorists
into something abnormal. Remember when Chief Skicker Harrison Butker referred
to being a wife and mother as a vocation in
a speech to graduating seniors at at Benedictine College, the
political left went absolutely ballistic. The NFL waffled and issued

(15:22):
a statement distancing and self from Butker. Marriage and parenting
as a vocation is milk toast Christian doctrine, and Butcker
received a standing ovation from the Catholic College's crowd. In
other words, it's perfectly normal. Getting married young and having
children is normal. Going to church is normal. Obeying laws

(15:44):
is normal. Being a healthy, productive member of your community
is normal. Being a masculine man and a feminine woman
is perfectly normal. It's not normal to dare active duty
members of the military to devise civilian leadership, as Senate
Democrats Mark Kelly and Alyssa Slotkin did recently.

Speaker 5 (16:03):
It's not normal to call.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
Openly for military coups, as Senator Mark Warner did on MSDNC.
It's not normal to support organizations that explicitly call for
an end to the nuclear family or for riots in
the streets, as Dems did with Black Lives Matter. It's
not normal to expect everyone to have the exact same
outcomes in life. It's not normal for men and women's

(16:27):
lingerie to read books to kindergarteners.

Speaker 5 (16:30):
It's not normal for adults.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
To parade themselves completely nude in public in front of children.
It's not normal for subways, streets, and parks to be
owned and dominated by the most violent criminals in the country.
It's not normal to have seventy two arrests and still
be allowed to walk among the general public. People getting
set on fire and murdered on the metro is not normal.

(16:53):
It's not normal for places of businesses just blocks from
the White House to require magnetic locks on doors. What
we've been witnessing from liberal elites over the past decade
is a deeply energized attempt to push the abnormal and
marginalized into normal territory and the normal people and things
out in the abnormal territory. It's why Catholic masses were

(17:15):
subject to FBI surveillance for extremism. It's also why pastors
who prayed outside abortion clinics got rated at home during
a family meal. It's why so called polycules, or people
married to multiple people, got prime profile space in the
New York times. We've got how many genders now more

(17:36):
than seventy? When did it become normal for elite universities
to matriculate and credential kids who haven't read.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
A single book.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
In the last decade, there hasn't been an anti social,
destructive cause or person on the margins of healthy society
that the political left has.

Speaker 5 (17:53):
Been unwilling to boost.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
They platform Jacob Blake, who attempted to kidnap his children
at knife point, treated George Floyd like the next coming
of Christ. They went to the mat to defend Abrago Garcia,
an illegal immigrant who most likely trafficked people for MS thirteen.
They'd ruin you for objecting to literal pornography being taught
in grammar school. They'd call you racist for pushing back

(18:16):
against race based policies, and so help you God. If
you protested against abortion outside of abortion clinic, the FBI
would be at.

Speaker 5 (18:25):
Your house tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
Of Course, men in dresses with sex crimes on their
records should be allowed in the girls' locker room during
you eight swim classes. Of Course we need fewer police.
Of course, killing terrorists is a war crime. Of Course,
all of this is meant to terrorize and marginalize the
normal people to sap them of morale. Well, not me,

(18:48):
dear reader, I can tell you that much, not us.
We won't be cowed by the crowing of those who
would make the abnormal and destructive normal elements of our society.
The good guys will win, mark my words, the normals
will always outnumber the abnormals. And I gotta tell you, guys,
he says it, probably a lot more harshly than I would.

(19:12):
But the reality is is that when we are in
the end and we have sort of hit like the
peak postmodernism. In postmodernism, there is no right or wrong.
There is no you know, there's no heart and fast anything.
There is no morality. It is all your belief, your
lived experience, your truth.

Speaker 5 (19:33):
There is no such thing.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
We have to start being real about things like biological reality.
We have to start being real about the fact that
human beings cannot be furry animals and stop indulging the
fantasies that have taken over in such a way that
the rest of us are supposed to change the everything
to cater to a tiny fraction of people who want

(19:58):
to be incredibly different but want to be upheld as
super special for being different. I can't do it anymore,
so we're just not I thought it was fantastic. It's
on the blog if you want to read it for yourself.
We have some good news, at least for D forty
nine and the other districts that decided to stand up
to Chassa about rules that would allow biological boys to

(20:19):
both compete and share locker rooms with girls. And joining
me now to talk about this and what happened yesterday
is the D forty nine Superintendent Peter Hilts.

Speaker 5 (20:29):
Peter, welcome back to the show.

Speaker 8 (20:32):
Thank you, Mandie. I appreciate the chance to be back.
And this is a day of celebration. We are really
gratified to see protections for our student athletes and for
the people that coach them.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
So give my audience, it may not have been following
this story a little history. What happened and how did
we get to now a settlement? Give me that timeline,
well back in the.

Speaker 7 (20:51):
Spring springtime frame. This is really made June.

Speaker 8 (20:55):
We asked CHASSA first, just in a letter, we said, look,
can you clarify that you these contradictory bylaws. One says
essentially districts must allow students who are transgender to compete,
and then you have another by law that says, but
you must also make sure you protect opportunities for girls
who are student athletes. And those two directives in the
bylaws were irreconcilable.

Speaker 7 (21:17):
So we asked them first to.

Speaker 8 (21:19):
Reconcile or to bring some coherence, and they said, we're
not going to be the ones to do that. If
that's going to happen, that's going to happen at the
federal court level. So we brought a reinforcement legal action
named CHASSA, along with the Attorney General and the Colorado
Civil Rights Division and said, we want to be protected
when we protect athletes, girls who are trying to have

(21:41):
the opportunity that they deserve. So we've gone forward with
this lawsuit. We reached a settlement with CHASSA that where
they agreed that they will not penalize our students and
they won't penalize our coaches. They will not find us
to be unsportsmanlike when we assert that girls sports are
for or girls. And we think this is a tremendous victory.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
So I have some questions about the practical execution of this. Okay,
So if you have a girls volleyball team that shows
up to play a different school and they have a
male biological mail on their team. What does that mean
in terms of I mean if you forfeit the match?
Do you see what I'm saying? Like, how does this
work practically?

Speaker 7 (22:24):
Sure? Yeah, we needn't see this play out nationally. Right.

Speaker 8 (22:29):
Prior to this settlement, CHASA could have determined that our
decision to forfeit our choice not to engage in an
unfair competition. They could have determined that that was unsportsmanlike
or that that constituted gross misconduct.

Speaker 7 (22:44):
They could have even put the coach's coaching license in play.

Speaker 8 (22:48):
So we have secure protection for our athletes and our
coaches that a forfeit would simply be a forfeit, a
loss on our record. It wouldn't disqualify our students from
postseason play, and it wouldn't disqualify our coaches from further
coaching opportunities. So that's why we characterize this as a
big win for our students, our student athletes, and for

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the people that coach them.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
So you guys have clarity, you have there's how many
districts we're in this I have the list right here.

Speaker 8 (23:17):
Well, so there are four school districts and four individual
schools that participated as plaintiffs, But we genuinely believe this
applies across the state to one hundred and seventy eight
districts and all of the schools that they that they operate.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
Now, I wouldn't ask this, Peter, because I'm a little
unclear about So Chassis said, essentially, you have to let
transgender students play, but you also have to accommodate girls sports.
But they did not offer any kind of framework of
how that would practically work. So if you had come
up and said, okay, we're expecting transgender students to play

(23:52):
in a new open category that you haven't created yet,
so they literally just said, you guys, fix it, and
then we'll just sit up over here and not do anything.

Speaker 8 (24:03):
Right, So, they both wanted to pass the buck to
districts and schools to take responsibility, but they also wanted
to reserve the right to sanction us if we came
up with a solution that they didn't approve, and so
they I mean, really, this is a lack of responsibility
on Chassis part in two directions. On the one hand,

(24:24):
they didn't want to set the standards themselves. They wanted
to leave that on us, And on the other hand,
they wanted to retain the right to second guess our
decisions and sanction our students and their coaches in case
they disagreed with our solution. So that's why this settlement
was so important and it was worth driving hard because
this protects teams that are competing right now, and this

(24:48):
obviously will protect student athletes and coaches into the future.

Speaker 4 (24:52):
The thing that still kind of stinks, and I realized
there's no perfect solutions, and maybe we'll get there eventually
with some of the lawsuits that are currently going to
be heard by the Supreme about similar issues. But ultimately,
if you are playing against multiple teams that have and
this is so unlikely to happen, to be clear, okay,
this is so unlikely to happen multiple teams with biological

(25:12):
mails on there, then your student athletes do suffer because
they get a series of losses.

Speaker 8 (25:18):
That is a correct possible outcome, but we think it's
a low probability outcome because just as we're seeing even
in other jurisdictions, we're seeing this in Droup of Valley, California,
and in other places as well.

Speaker 7 (25:30):
As common sense is ascendant, we.

Speaker 8 (25:35):
Will see not only would our athletes be impacted, but
the teammates of that transgender athlete.

Speaker 7 (25:42):
Would also be impacted. They would lose the opportunity to compete.

Speaker 8 (25:45):
And we know that participation in athletics, this is one
of the great principles of Title nine. Participation in athletics
is meaningful in practice and in competition, and in competing
for championships and in competing for scholarships. So the whole
opportunity is comprehensive. And when our student athletes take the

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court or take the field, we don't want them to
be worried about how they might be mischaracterized.

Speaker 7 (26:14):
We want them to compete and win and earn scholarships
and learn the.

Speaker 8 (26:18):
Leadership lessons that both victory and defeat have to offer,
or if it doesn't really teach you any lessons. So
we want our students to be able to compete, and
we think we have preserved that opportunity through this settlement.

Speaker 5 (26:30):
Well, I'm hoping to.

Speaker 4 (26:31):
Your point, I do hope that Chassa sort of just
extends this to all of the schools in Colorado. What's
interesting to me is that CHASSA has put themselves in
direct opposition to the Trump administration. Actually, I think they
haven't put themselves because they basically tried to punt it.
If they had taken a strong stand one way or
the other, if it was the other, they would have

(26:52):
really been at odds and they may have been sued
and forced to explain themselves in a Title nine situation.

Speaker 5 (26:57):
Maybe that's why they punted it to you, guys.

Speaker 7 (27:01):
I think that's possible.

Speaker 8 (27:02):
CHASSA is a membership organization, which means that they're not
directly accountable to the state legislature.

Speaker 7 (27:08):
They're not really accountable.

Speaker 8 (27:11):
To the Colorado Department of Education or the state Board
of Education.

Speaker 7 (27:14):
They're really accountable to their members.

Speaker 8 (27:16):
And we know that lots of CHASSA member districts appreciate
and affirm the position that we have taken. But if
you're a smaller, especially a small rural district, you might
not have the resources to take on CHASSA or take
on the Attorney General.

Speaker 7 (27:31):
And so we are honored to have been able to
carry this banner. We appreciate our fellow districts.

Speaker 8 (27:37):
Academy District twenty here in ol Paso County, Colorado, Spring
School District eleven, the Montezuma Cortes School District. They stood
with us, as did individual schools, some charter schools, an
association schools called the Boss. We stood together not just
on behalf of our student athletes and our coaches, but
really on behalf. We hope that this is inspirational and

(27:59):
so is a template across Colorado and across the country.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
So one last question, the lawsuit against Phil Wiser and
Jared Poulus continue.

Speaker 5 (28:07):
I'm not Jared Pulis.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
The Attorney General's office and the Civil Rights Commission continues,
though correct.

Speaker 8 (28:14):
We continue to hold the Colorado Attorney General and the
Colorado Civil Rights Division as plaintiffs.

Speaker 7 (28:20):
We will proceed because we really need our day in
federal court.

Speaker 6 (28:25):
Chasse.

Speaker 8 (28:25):
It either invited us or pushed us to pursue a
federal court solution, and we took them up on their invitation.

Speaker 7 (28:34):
I don't think they were bluffing.

Speaker 8 (28:35):
I think they were genuinely in a bind as well,
and so we want this to We want to seek
clarity not just for District forty nine and the other
plaintiff districts. We really want to seek clarity for Colorado
and for the country D.

Speaker 5 (28:49):
Forty nine, Superintendent.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
I appreciate your making time for me and explaining everything
for us. Keep up the good fight and we'll check
in after you win the next round.

Speaker 7 (28:57):
Thanks, Mandy, we appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Be back right after this. Oh geez, you know you
ever have that well, you probably don't a rodger. Your
hair is too short. On occasion, you get that one
hair that somehow gets pulled out of your head that
still sticks around your face and it's.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
Just yeah, sure I get better right now, and.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
My ear is really fine, and it's just like that,
just really, I know, I know to the texture said Mandy,
you're gonna put that information about the furnace and the
PUC on the.

Speaker 5 (29:28):
Blog, and you are correct. You forgot at the top
of the hour break. I know, I know.

Speaker 6 (29:36):
Nancy over here, Nancy car I'll put that on the
blog at the top of the hour, so check back.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
I'm gonna put it the very bottom now, I'm gonna
do it. We'll see check right at the bottom after
the top of the hour break. I'll take care of
that for you.

Speaker 5 (29:47):
You know, when I know, shut up, shut up with
her shutting up over there, Anthony.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
Wait, so that means to not shut up. Shut up
with my shutting up, So don't shut up. It's kind
of like a nuggle double nugga. There you know, when
you get older, words are hard.

Speaker 5 (30:04):
Shut up, anthony.

Speaker 7 (30:06):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (30:07):
That's clear, very very clear.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
Cunsued School of Medicine is about to pay out ten
million dollars to I believe eighteen plaintiffs who sued after
the School of Medicine required a COVID vaccination and they
asked for an exemption and were denied a religious exemption.
And the problem with this is that CEU and CHUSES

(30:33):
Medical School decided to allow some religious exemptions to move
forward and disallowed others. They said, look, if you want
a medical exemption, then you have to be in a
religion that traditionally askews vaccination. And the other part of
the problem was, and I say was because they now,

(30:55):
I mean, they're they're settling the case, and you know,
and they set it up so you could get an
exemption easier that was non religious, and they got sued
and now they're settling and are paying out ten point
three million dollars.

Speaker 5 (31:11):
But this statement got me.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
As part of Monday's settlement, the university agreed to allow
students to request religious accommodations on equal terms as employees
and equally consider religious exemptions and medical exemptions.

Speaker 5 (31:25):
They also had this to say.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
While some chose to challenge the policy, the evidence remains
clear vaccination was essential to protecting the vulnerable, keeping hospitals open,
and sustaining education and research.

Speaker 5 (31:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
Yeah, I don't know, text line, would Chuck buy you
a vacuum for a present like that rotten guy?

Speaker 6 (31:50):
Did?

Speaker 4 (31:50):
Did Ross by his wife a vacuum cleaner? Did he
buy the Lovely Christian a vacuum cleaner.

Speaker 6 (31:57):
Specifically for Christmas?

Speaker 5 (31:59):
Or I didn't call Ross get him on the phone.

Speaker 6 (32:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (32:03):
Well well yeah, I got time in the next segment
if you have time right now, see if can get
him on the phone right now. I have to castigate Ross.
I Misross so much, you guys, I feel like my
my buddy moved away. If my next door neighbor left,
I don't see him anymore. Mandy, what are your thoughts
on Shador Sanders Jersey retirement. I thought it was ridiculous
when it happened. I think it was premature, although fascinating story. Texter,

(32:27):
I have this on the blog today. Every year Google
releases the most googled terms in various categories. And you know,
the number one athlete that was googled over the last.

Speaker 5 (32:37):
Year was Shadar Sanders.

Speaker 4 (32:39):
That's pretty impressive just the name recognition alone.

Speaker 5 (32:43):
Is he not there?

Speaker 7 (32:44):
He would?

Speaker 5 (32:44):
He sent you to voicemail? Does he know who you are?

Speaker 4 (32:47):
You didn't answer, ah Ross anyway, No, if I wanted
a vacuum cleaner, Chuck would most assuredly buy me a
vacuum cleaner.

Speaker 5 (32:56):
I'm gonna tell you.

Speaker 4 (32:57):
If I didn't want a vacuum cleaner, Chuck would most
assured not buy me a vacuum cleaner. But if I
wanted one, that man goes to the ends of the
earth to make me happy, you make sure I had
exactly the vacuum cleaner I wanted. Mandy, look up looney tunes.
Shut up, shutting up. I'm gonna need you to look
that up on YouTube. Looney tunes. Shut up, you're shutting up.

Speaker 6 (33:20):
Mum huh.

Speaker 9 (33:21):
Hang on, let's see if we can yell tunes shut okay,
hang on.

Speaker 5 (33:32):
Let's see.

Speaker 6 (33:33):
Give me this is risky.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
No, it's bugs, bunny, There's no nothing, no reason.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
On a lovely spring day.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
There's nothing like a motor ride to relax, one through
winding roads, past the green meadows and down shandy lanes.

Speaker 6 (33:47):
Shut up? Why so you don't think the kind that
would people blabing?

Speaker 5 (33:51):
Some people never know when to stop.

Speaker 7 (33:52):
When I told the.

Speaker 6 (33:53):
Sht up, shut up, shut up?

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Shedding up?

Speaker 5 (33:57):
There you go?

Speaker 6 (33:58):
All right, still makes no sense.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
I didn't say it made sense. I mean, where do
you think I learned most stuff as a kid? From
bugs Bunny? Anyway, it's also classic three stooges as well.
Please confiscate a Rod's Man card from that texter Ross
and his wife requested, said vacuum. Then there you go.
Oh that's a okay. I didn't think Ross was going
to be that guy. When we get back, I've got

(34:23):
two questions from one text message, and they're both interesting.
It has to do with Fauci and the COVID jab.
We'll do that next.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
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Speaker 3 (34:47):
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Speaker 4 (35:00):
Came Welcome to a Friday edition of the show I'm Mandy,
He's a ride. Oh that guy wants to be Foghorn
Leghorn singing a miss. Anyway, We're gonna take you right
up until three p m. And we've got text messages
open because it is asked us anything. Some of these

(35:20):
are really good, and I'm gonna get to the questions
about Fauci and the vaccine. Lots of people are starting
to ask questions like this. You can text me, by
the way at five six six N I O Mandy.
Two things. One can the American people sue Fauci.

Speaker 7 (35:35):
No.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
I have a story about a little girl who was
born to a young teacher who was forced to get
every COVID JAB, and the doctors at children's hospital all
said that the severity of the problems with that infant,
who had to be rushed into surgery upon birth.

Speaker 5 (35:47):
Was due to the COVID JAB. I would you would have.

Speaker 4 (35:51):
An almost impossible time getting those doctors to testify in
a medical round practice suit, doctor FATCHI. Fauci can't be sued.
You remember the vaccine manufacturers given immunity before they even
dropped off the drug to market. And I don't know
why that didn't ring more alarm bells for me, but
it did not. But more and more people are starting
to ask these questions. What we are going to see is,

(36:14):
like the case I just talked about is See You
and Shoots Medical School that specifically ended up being a
violation of religious rights because SEU and Shoots decided to
be choosy about which religions could get an exemption. That
wasn't even about the like whether or not the vaccine
was good. I mean, none of that was taken into consideration, right,

(36:35):
So I think these cases where people tried to make
it more difficult for people to get an exemption, Like
I think that's what they did at CEU and shoots
Is Medical School, and they got a little too cute
by half, and now they have to pay out ten.

Speaker 5 (36:50):
Point eight million dollars.

Speaker 4 (36:52):
But we've really just begun to be able to have
any sort of perspective, and it's I mean, the very
big of the perspective on any vaccine damages. I think,
and I've talked to very openly with many many people
about this, Like I think that the virus itself probably
did stuff to us that we're not aware of that

(37:12):
that could have long term impacts, and I think that
the vaccine probably had effects that we will not see
in totality until much, much much later, when we're able
to look at the really big picture lens.

Speaker 5 (37:24):
Right now, we're.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
Also talking about gifts to give. Somebody mentioned Ross. Ross
bought his wife a vacuum cleaner because his wife requested
a vacuum cleaner. Mandy, my husband got me a Central
vac for my fiftieth best birthday gift ever.

Speaker 5 (37:42):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
I bought a robot vacuum for my wife last year,
but felt bad and made it a family gift.

Speaker 5 (37:47):
Last minute. Okay, if your last.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
Minute shopping for your wife, just get her a Bouvisage
gift certificate. Crime people, get her a half day at
the spa. You could do that for the price of
a robot vacuum cleaner.

Speaker 5 (38:01):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (38:01):
I bought a Ninja creamy for myself as my man's
gift to me, and you made a good choice. The
ninja creamy is dope. And if you don't know what
the ninja creamy is, it's an ice cream maker. You
get little pints. You make your ice cream maker. You
put the pints in the freezer for twenty four hours.
Then you put them in the Ninja Creamy machine and
hit spin. Oh it makes the best ice cream. And

(38:23):
now if you're oh a rod, you should look into
this because now I found all there's all these Facebook
groups where you can make high protein loast sugar ice cream.

Speaker 5 (38:33):
That is actually very very good.

Speaker 6 (38:35):
All right, so.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
That's actually a thing. Now, Ninja creamy, look it up.
It's fantastic.

Speaker 6 (38:39):
How much is it?

Speaker 5 (38:42):
I don't know how much it is.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
Now let me see Ninja creamme priest one hundred and
forty nine bucks. That's what I paid for it anyway,
I mean as it stayed the same. And they have
fancier versions, but you don't need the fancy version. Oh
but those ones look cool, I know, but you don't
need the fancy. But they look like your own personal
soft serve machine. Oh no, I don't see. I don't

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really love soft ser And this actually.

Speaker 5 (39:06):
When you when you take when you after you spin
the ice cream, it's pretty creamy.

Speaker 6 (39:10):
I'm gonna ask you a question that no one else
cares about. Yep. Norwegian cruises, Yes they have the soft serve.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
I believe they do, but it's in the case. It's
in like the buffet.

Speaker 6 (39:22):
Oh that's perfect.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
Yeah, so that's I believe they do. I'm pretty sure
they're perfect. So yeah, A Rod's going on his first
Norwegian cruise, which I really enjoyed.

Speaker 7 (39:32):
Confirmed.

Speaker 5 (39:33):
Did any of you get the vaccine?

Speaker 6 (39:35):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (39:35):
And ddy I got the first and second nose. And
that's it.

Speaker 4 (39:39):
Mandy, what do you think about Netflix buying HBO.

Speaker 5 (39:42):
And Warner Brothers. That's actually a huge story. That's what
a bill.

Speaker 4 (39:46):
Yeah, but remember you guys, I thought about this today.
It's almost like our little Netflix that used to send
us movies in the mail and read envelopes. They're all
grown up now they have an m B A rip redbox,
take it over the world. But it's kind of cool.

Speaker 5 (40:04):
I mean, it really depends on what happens now. Right.

Speaker 4 (40:08):
The reason that these studios are for sale is because
they're not making money, and that is why they are
for sale. So what does Netflix do to either trim
costs or change cultures or whatever?

Speaker 7 (40:21):
Like?

Speaker 4 (40:21):
What has to happen before they start making movies. I
actually saw a preview for a movie that I thought
I might actually go to the theater because that looks
like a movie which one I can't.

Speaker 5 (40:30):
Remember the name of it.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
It's it's a chick flick, it is, and I can't
remember who's in it. There's two out right now, one
with Kate Hudson and you Jackman about a Neil Diamond impersonator.

Speaker 6 (40:40):
I really want to see that, really good.

Speaker 5 (40:41):
And then there's another.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
One what Margaret Gray something I don't know, but it
was different and it was interesting and it looked like
a good story, and you know, we just don't have
enough movies with that kind of combination.

Speaker 6 (40:53):
Well, Netflix now changed Warner Bros's name to Netflix Pros.

Speaker 5 (40:58):
Netflix Pros. No, doesn't doesn't doesn't know that that just
invokes an image of a bunch.

Speaker 6 (41:04):
Of guys being bros.

Speaker 5 (41:06):
Yeah, and not in a good way.

Speaker 6 (41:08):
Why do we not think that Warner Brothers, I don't know,
just has a has aflication.

Speaker 4 (41:12):
But it'll probably be Netflix Warner, That's what it will
be Netflix Warner or Warner Netflix Warner Netflix definitely, or
it'll just say Netflix.

Speaker 6 (41:21):
I think I read they'll keep HBO Max yep, still
being an app, still being a thing.

Speaker 5 (41:24):
So yep, oh yeah, they bought HBO and HBO Max.
One thing it will.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
Do is we will now have a way bigger selection
of movies on.

Speaker 5 (41:31):
Netflix all the time.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
Right, well, well, although, why why do you think they
limit the number of movies. Do you think it's just
the payment of royalties or do you think it's they
only want to have X amount of bandwidth that.

Speaker 5 (41:45):
They have to be responsible?

Speaker 6 (41:46):
Do you see any limits? I see a bunch of
movies on Netflix.

Speaker 4 (41:48):
There's a bunch of movies. But you can get to
the end of the categories. Trust me, I've done it
multiple times, multiple times. The movies at the end of
the categories. That's where I like to play. Someone paid
money for this meeting. Someone actually said I will give
you money to make that movie. I mean, some of
them are just like, you've got to be kidding me.

Speaker 5 (42:10):
You just do.

Speaker 4 (42:11):
Mandy, Norwegian does have at least four ice cream machines
in their buffets.

Speaker 5 (42:15):
A Rod, you are solid, golden. You are golden.

Speaker 6 (42:20):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (42:20):
You need to interview someone about if drug prices have
increased over the past year with the border being shut
down and the exploding coke votes.

Speaker 5 (42:28):
You know, I wouldn't even know where to go.

Speaker 4 (42:31):
Well, you know what, I guarantee you there's somebody in
this listening audience right now that knows. So if you
know how illegal drug prices remain stable?

Speaker 5 (42:40):
Gone up?

Speaker 4 (42:41):
Or is this just this is another example of Trump's
tariffs ben passed down to the people.

Speaker 5 (42:48):
Guys blowing up by supply guy five six six. I
know Warner flicks, but that bro flicks.

Speaker 7 (42:55):
No.

Speaker 4 (42:58):
Yeah, so if anybody knows about the illegal drug prices,
please let me know. Just I mean, we're a full
service show here, Mandy get it from Cole's Oh talking
about the Ninja Creamy a Rod discounts and Coles Cash
got the Deluxe for one hundred and seventy ish after savings.

Speaker 10 (43:15):
A round.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
Are you old enough to remember Sizzlers soft serve best
soft serve ever?

Speaker 6 (43:20):
No?

Speaker 4 (43:21):
I see, here's the thing with soft serve. It's so inconsistent. No,
it's not, no, because sometimes you get it and it's real.

Speaker 6 (43:27):
Icy, one thing that you can then like now because
Carnival Cruise Line, man, their soft serve is great.

Speaker 5 (43:34):
They're just not a soft serve person. It's so good.
I get it.

Speaker 4 (43:39):
Norwegian, the bar is high, I get it, Mandy. I
have so many socks over the years, two full drawers,
mostly new. Well, it's time for you to make some donations.
Take into the Salvation Army, thrift store, the Arc thrift store,
or even Goodwill.

Speaker 5 (43:55):
Just say it, do it, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (43:58):
Just because Ross is not here to defend itself, you
need to find him special leg cleanser for Christmas. That's
been going back since the Leland Conway days.

Speaker 6 (44:06):
Yes, I use it.

Speaker 5 (44:07):
I know of the horror show that is Ross's legs.

Speaker 6 (44:09):
He wouldn't use it. What's the point of buying it? Yeah,
he would look at it, not use it. Probably flush
it down toilet. Yeah, that's Ross is gross legs.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
U For those who don't listen between nine and noon
anymore and can't listen during morning drive, Mandy should bring
in Ross for a few minutes a week or monthly.

Speaker 5 (44:26):
We've already talked about it. We've already talked about.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
More regular rossovers into the Mandy verse, so we're working
on those.

Speaker 5 (44:34):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
Update on my mom's birthday presence. I got her jewelry
and other things like a raccoon decorated bird feeder that
she didn't ask for, because she got me an electric
toothbrush that I didn't ask for, and she liked all
her gifts.

Speaker 6 (44:49):
I love the idea of giving gifts that no one
asked for. That's hilarious.

Speaker 5 (44:54):
Oh that was my dad's m O.

Speaker 6 (44:56):
That's awesome.

Speaker 5 (44:56):
My Dad's like, hey, look I got you a grill
that run on newspaper. That's the real thing that happening.

Speaker 6 (45:02):
Favor like back and forth, keeping that going is hilarious.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
D I with some of my female friends in Fort
Myers there was this handmade purse that someone had bought
because it was a charitable type thing, like they'd had
the people that were involved in the charity had made
these little patchwork bags that were hideous.

Speaker 5 (45:21):
They were awful.

Speaker 4 (45:23):
And then one day I get a gift from my
friend and it is the bag, and I was like, well,
I am not going to use this. So then at
my first opportunity, I gifted it to another friend in
the friend group, and that purse went from person to
person to person to person for.

Speaker 5 (45:39):
Like two years. How I'm fantastic.

Speaker 6 (45:41):
How messed up?

Speaker 7 (45:41):
I am?

Speaker 3 (45:42):
Am?

Speaker 6 (45:42):
I The first gift that just came to mind would
be getting someone in a box of kitty litter that
doesn't have cats.

Speaker 5 (45:49):
That's me, Oh kitty. I want to tell you and a.

Speaker 4 (45:53):
Rod thank you for all you do to inform and entertaining.
I look forward to listening to your podcast on iHeart
since most days I don't get to here it live
after Also, after a few years back, your three hours
a day help me remain sane through some pretty dark
times with a family member in psychosis. Sending love and
blessings to you both, and that is why.

Speaker 5 (46:12):
We do what we do.

Speaker 4 (46:13):
Yeah, to help those of you who are not having
a great times is making a dany diny bit better.

Speaker 5 (46:18):
This just for you, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
Should a man ever give his wife, girlfriend or lady
friend money instead of a gift so that she can
go out and buy the gift she wants? Now, I'm
just gonna say no, but there's always a butt. I
think a better way to do it is to say, sweetie,
I want you to have exactly what your heart wants.

(46:43):
So can we have a day where I'm going to
go shopping with you. I'm your wallet. Let's go crazy,
pick out whatever you want. We're doing it.

Speaker 6 (46:51):
That's I'm just that's some quality lipstick on a pig.

Speaker 5 (46:54):
Ah, I'm trying. I'm trying.

Speaker 6 (46:56):
But also maybe just know what they want?

Speaker 5 (46:58):
Well? Yeah, and but pay ten people. I got to
tell you I have friends it's don't pay off attention.

Speaker 4 (47:04):
I feel the same way about women who want to
go out and pick out their engagement rings, Like I get.

Speaker 5 (47:09):
Why do you want to different?

Speaker 4 (47:10):
Well, but I get why they want to do it right,
but it's still uh, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (47:15):
Then, at the very least, what you don't do is
not that is heartfelt as it sounds, you know where
they like to shop. At the very least, get the
gift card. Gift card is okay.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
A gift card does feel slightly more personal, but only
the way that getting padded down by the TSA feels personal.

Speaker 6 (47:32):
Also with something like with chocolate with flowers, never just
the gift card.

Speaker 5 (47:36):
Yeah, put a little effort into it.

Speaker 6 (47:37):
Yes, with something insane back into it, and sure you
can say I will go shopping with you at blank store.
That is okay.

Speaker 4 (47:45):
This texture, Mandy, My sister Ruth is the queen of
bad gifts. Well you can't just text that and not
follow up with a list of the bad gifts that
Ruth has given.

Speaker 6 (47:54):
Well, I'll be the Kings, I'll do the k litter one.
It sounds really awesome, really funny. Yeah, we also have
a friend that guy doesn't want the cat and the
girl does so getting kidder litter would be hilarious because
he would just hate me.

Speaker 4 (48:07):
Yeah, Mandy, what's your favorite Christmas movie?

Speaker 5 (48:11):
That is now?

Speaker 4 (48:12):
And now we have a tie, and I know that
you're all going to be shocked because it's been white
Christmas for forever and I still adore White Christmas.

Speaker 5 (48:19):
The singing, the dancing, the cast. Oh it's so good.
But now a tide with that is.

Speaker 4 (48:26):
A movie called Arthur Christmas, which is it flew under
the Radar. It's an animated film. It is absolutely endearing
and lovely.

Speaker 6 (48:34):
Every time ring shoe me do be Elf always?

Speaker 4 (48:39):
And Elf is ELF's Top five, O Elf ELF's top five.

Speaker 6 (48:43):
You're without a Santa Claus.

Speaker 5 (48:45):
I'm trying to think what other movies.

Speaker 6 (48:47):
I don't know I had a ranking. See I can
pull it up.

Speaker 5 (48:50):
Of course you had a rank.

Speaker 6 (48:51):
No, we both did. We did this on the show.
You know, when you get older, you forget things.

Speaker 5 (48:55):
Mandy. I literally just dropped off a guy at Goodwill.
I mean you drop people off, now, what Mandy?

Speaker 4 (49:03):
How does Mandy and a Rod get through the long
winter days and the winter depression? Blah feeling? First of all,
short winter days is what you mean, very very short.
I'm gonna be frank and tell you that in the
winter I adopt bear like lifestyle choices. Essentially by the
time the sun goes down at like what three point thirty. Now,
when the sun goes down, I want jammy pants, I

(49:26):
want to fire my fireplace, and I want to be
left alone so I can nap.

Speaker 6 (49:30):
And I am the psychopath that likes the sun going
down early.

Speaker 5 (49:34):
Well, I don't hate it. I don't hate it. It
does make me feel more cozy.

Speaker 6 (49:38):
I love it long, nice long nights. It makes the
uh what do I call it? What do people call
the angry procrastination? That much more enjoyable?

Speaker 5 (49:47):
Yeah, Mandy, can.

Speaker 4 (49:49):
You post Dave's cheesecake recipe?

Speaker 5 (49:51):
All you have to do.

Speaker 4 (49:53):
Is google Mandy Connell Dave Lower's cheesecake recipe and it
will come up on the internet.

Speaker 6 (50:00):
Okay, I don't want to think about that right now.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
By the way, I told you I talked to Dave
the other day. Right, it is doing great. I'm gonna
get him on the show very very soon. Sure you are, no,
he really is. He said he would come on the show.

Speaker 5 (50:11):
Really.

Speaker 6 (50:12):
Yes, I wore him down. He has to bring the cheesecake,
and he has to wait a couple months. We can
have the cheesecake. I know, exactly, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (50:20):
My wife has become an avid book reader and has
just requested an Amazon gift card. That is always an
appreciate gift if she requested it, exactly. Uh, Mandy, give
your wife money, your girlfriend jewelry, and don't mix the
gifts around.

Speaker 5 (50:35):
Stop it, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (50:37):
I bought my mom a car for Christmas in ninety
three Ford Tempo. She didn't like it because it's a
Ford that it had all the options she wanted none,
Like now you bought her a ninety three Ford Tempo,
Like now a car.

Speaker 6 (50:50):
Is a gift? Is so dumb, so dumb, unless it's
a kid's first card. It's the only exception. Yeah, ever otherwise,
like people want to get the car they want, it's
so dumb.

Speaker 4 (51:00):
One of my friends at her sixteenth birthday party, great girl.
She was not at all a spoiled, rotten brat, but
her parents managed to find and I am not exaggerating
when I say this, So this was eighty seven and
they found the nineteen eighty seven like nineteen eighty four
equivalent of the basically the AMC Gremlin, and I don't

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know what the car was.

Speaker 5 (51:23):
It was a Chevy something, but it.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
Was reminiscent of the Gremlin and it was like Doodoo Brown.
It was, honest to god, the ugliest car I've ever
seen in my entire life. And I had an ugly
car at the time. I had a nineteen eighty Chavette,
so I know ugly cars. I'm not judging. I wasn't
driving around some fancy ride. But she burst into tears
when she saw that, and then she felt terrible because,

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like I said, was she's a nice person.

Speaker 5 (51:49):
Her parents got her a different card because it really
was bad. Mandy.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
I once gave my wife a gift certificate to Freebird
shoe store and Boulder. It was a three hundred dollars
gift because you know, those shoes are really expensive, and
she loved it. See that is you in indicating I
listen to you when you say, man, I love.

Speaker 5 (52:05):
Those boots, man.

Speaker 4 (52:10):
A Rod, are you up for an arm wrestling challenge
with Dragon? We have a texture who says he can't
decide which one of you is better, which is already
high praise.

Speaker 5 (52:19):
I suggesting an arm wrestling.

Speaker 4 (52:22):
Match, so it will settle his view of whether or
not you know, producer wise, you guys are the same,
So he needs to have some kind.

Speaker 5 (52:29):
Of way to fully rank.

Speaker 6 (52:30):
You encourage this unsure listener to go to at Dragon
Redbeard on any platform, look at the workouts he's been
doing for years, and then think that I would have
a chance. I'm gonna be real. As much as I
want to say I don't want to do Dragon, I
don't want it, would be embarrassed. He has muscles for days.

Speaker 4 (52:46):
This texter said, shout out to Sun Harvest and Fort
Myers for their key Lime chocolate soft serve.

Speaker 5 (52:51):
That is correct, Sonheart. Are they still open? Oh?

Speaker 6 (52:56):
Speaking of random things? Well, yeah, Mike, A text listener
DMD me. By the way, they said the dmdu and
you haven't responded. Chris today, hit me up, listener. Chris
wife went to the coffee shop today that we talked
about yesterday with Jerry after hearing the show yesterday and
got the tour and had a great talk with Joe,
bought a necklace that was made, and took cinnamon rolls

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back to the office. Oh. I love that I experience.

Speaker 5 (53:19):
I love that. That's fantastic.

Speaker 4 (53:21):
I got some nice messages from Jerry, and they had
several of our listeners come in and say that they
heard about it on the show. We're talking about Best
Day Ministries. They got a little coffee shop up in
Long Lot that is staffed by people living with disabilities,
developmental disabilities. So I was happy to help with that. Amandy,
White Christmas for me. My grandfather would sing bing Crosby

(53:42):
songs and was a veteran. Somehow his memory is transferred
to being and White Christmas. As a veteran myself, this
always gets to me, even after watching the movie many
many times. Let me just tell you, and if you've
never seen the movie White Christmas, spoiler alert, but you've
had a few years, okay. I think he came out
like nineteen forty four. There's a scene in White Christmas
at the very end when all of the former general's

(54:05):
soldiers show up to support him, and I still cry
every single time. It's just crazy.

Speaker 5 (54:13):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (54:13):
My sister in law has gifted me clothing literally from
our closet.

Speaker 5 (54:17):
We are not the same size. How do you even do?
I mean, I mean, are you.

Speaker 6 (54:25):
Did you recognize that it was clothes? It is sworn
because that is so funny.

Speaker 4 (54:30):
Yeah, yeah, Mandy, my favorite Christmas movie is die Hard.
And yes it is a Christmas movie.

Speaker 6 (54:41):
I mean, I appreciate that this took until December fifth
for the first time.

Speaker 5 (54:45):
It is not a Christmas movie.

Speaker 4 (54:48):
It is a movie out that takes place at Christmas.
Although I did see this argument the other day and
I think it's a pretty good one. It's a Christmas
movie because it's a movie about a guy being forced
to hang out with a bunch of people but he
doesn't really want to, with lots of explosions, and you.

Speaker 6 (55:05):
Know, whether it be a cop out or not, the
reason is simple. A Christmas movie is a movie that
feels like Christmas. Die Hard does not. It is not
Get Out. There's the Door. It is not a Christmas movie.
I'll die on that hill. I'll die hard on that hill.
Thank you very much, Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (55:26):
Mandy.

Speaker 5 (55:26):
Did you just call women female? Eh?

Speaker 4 (55:28):
Red flag much it? You'll never get a girlfriend talking
like that. If I wanted a girlfriend, I would have
a girlfriend. Let me tell you something. I have been
hit on by some mighty fine lesbians in my lifetime.

Speaker 5 (55:43):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (55:44):
If I ever wanted to dip dow In the ladypool.
I have lots of opportunities, but you know what I like, dudes. Yeah,
just dudes joining me now to talk about three potential
ballad initiatives. They will be on the ballad if they
can collect enough signatures. And as an all volunteer army,
they got organized and said we need to do something

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big this Saturday, and now Aaron Lee from Protect Kids
Colorado has joining me to talk about it high erin. Well,
first of all, let's talk about what we're signing petitions for. Okay,
so there's nothing like being aggressive.

Speaker 5 (56:21):
We're going to run one petition.

Speaker 4 (56:22):
Let's just run three petitions at the same time. So
let's start with what these petitions are about.

Speaker 11 (56:29):
Yeah, so we have three initiatives.

Speaker 10 (56:31):
They're all super common sense, really simple, one pager language,
and they're really eighty twenty even ninety ten issues. It's
protecting girl sports, so making sports male female co ed,
prohibiting these sex change surgeries on kids, so you cannot
chop off the healthy body parts of children seventeen and younger,
which is absolutely happening in here in Colorado. We ranked

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number ten on the list of hospitals doing this and
then punishing child sex traffickers, because right now in Colorado,
you can rape three children three times and you are
guaranteed probation, no accountability. So just giving DA's the ability
to crossecute I like in prison if you buy or
sell a child.

Speaker 4 (57:10):
What did you just say, give me that statistic one
more time.

Speaker 10 (57:14):
Yeah, Actually, my friend Rett Brandy Bradley has run a
bipartisan bill multiple years and all Democrats have voted no
on it for mandatory jail time for raping children.

Speaker 5 (57:24):
So you can rape three.

Speaker 10 (57:25):
Children on three separate occasions and you are guaranteed one
hundred percent of the time probation.

Speaker 5 (57:30):
A slap on the wrist. That just made me cool,
that's all. That's awful.

Speaker 4 (57:36):
Okay, So you've got these three vallid initiatives, all of
which I've already signed a petition for. So I'm I'm
in the system, ready to go. But this is like
we said, you guys are what halfway there?

Speaker 10 (57:49):
You said, yeah, we're about halfway through the timeline and
we estimate we've got about half of the signatures and
we know we grow as we go, so that's huge.
We have over fifteen hundred volunteers, over three hundred churches
that are fully activated in all sixty four counties. But
we still have half the signatures to get. So our
goal is two hundred thousand, and we're at about one
hundred thousand now, okay, really good push in the next

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nine weeks.

Speaker 5 (58:11):
Are you looking at like one? What is it?

Speaker 7 (58:13):
One?

Speaker 5 (58:13):
Seventy is what you need? Is that right?

Speaker 10 (58:16):
It's about one hundred and twenty five valid But Jenni
Griswold loves to invalidate for every reason she can, and
so we want to account for up to a thirty
percent in validation rate.

Speaker 11 (58:25):
So our goal is two hundred per issue.

Speaker 4 (58:27):
Okay, So tomorrow in the morning, nine am to noon, what.

Speaker 5 (58:32):
Are you doing?

Speaker 4 (58:33):
You got drive ups all over the place. What can
people expect?

Speaker 10 (58:37):
Yes, so we'll be in Woodland Park, Colorado Springs Cease
to Colorado Christian University in Denver, Fort Collins, and Greeley
and Montrose as well out on the western slope where
people can just drive up.

Speaker 11 (58:50):
It takes three minutes to sign the petitions.

Speaker 10 (58:52):
They don't even have to leave the warmth of their car,
and you know it's three minutes, but it's potentially huge
impact for protecting kids in this state.

Speaker 4 (59:00):
Aaron I, obviously I signed the petitions. I want to
get them in there. What reasons were you given, if
at all, did you get any kind of reason? I'm
still blown away by the statistic about you can rape
three children three times and you get probation. Why have
you ever been given a reason on why people would
vote against anything to stop that.

Speaker 6 (59:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (59:22):
I had the misfortune of sitting in on those legislative
hearings when every single Democrat voted against it, and for
example Rep. Lorana Garcia said, we are not an eye
for an ice state. If you put rapists away, they
will get raped.

Speaker 11 (59:36):
Well, yes, they will in prison. That's the point.

Speaker 5 (59:39):
Don't do it.

Speaker 11 (59:40):
We're trying to deter it from ever even happening.

Speaker 4 (59:43):
I don't, I don't even I'm just going to sit
here quietly for a second.

Speaker 5 (59:48):
Aaron, I am. I don't know why I'm shocked anymore.

Speaker 4 (59:50):
I really don't, because Colorado has just gone berserk when
it comes to coddling criminals, and Colorado has gone insane
on so many levels.

Speaker 5 (59:59):
Let me asks you a question.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
We had the superintendent of D forty nine on school
District D forty nine in the Springs. They just settled
with CHASSA over keeping boys out of girls sports, and
CHASA has essentially said, Okay, we're gonna let you guys
do what you want and keep boys out of girl sports,
but they haven't really addressed how it's going to go
with the rest of the state.

Speaker 5 (01:00:21):
You're built or your.

Speaker 4 (01:00:22):
Initiative would pretty much take that.

Speaker 5 (01:00:24):
Out of chassa's hands, right right.

Speaker 10 (01:00:27):
And so there are one hundred and seventy nine school
districts in Colorado. Four of them now have this safeguard
against retribution from CHASSA for their common sense policies that
just designate facilities in sports male and female according to
your biological sex. That means one hundred and seventy five
school districts are still not doing the right thing. And
by the right thing, I mean basic common sense measures

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to safeguard Title nine protected which have been protected for
decades single sex spaces for young girls. And so this
would just ensure that every minor league, not just K
through twelve education, but any league that takes public funds,
will be held to that standard.

Speaker 11 (01:01:03):
That your leagues will be male female co ed.

Speaker 4 (01:01:06):
This text said any locations near erie. But that leads
me to my next question, which is, how can people
who are maybe not going to be able to go
to this drive tomorrow. How can people find out where
they can sign a petition, get a petition to share
with their friends and family.

Speaker 5 (01:01:20):
How do they go through that process?

Speaker 10 (01:01:22):
Great question, So protect Kids Colorado dot org on our
events page, it's just slash events. We have all kinds
of signing opportunities all over the state and Eerie.

Speaker 11 (01:01:31):
We're actually at all of the.

Speaker 10 (01:01:33):
Flathills church campuses, all five of them, every weekend through
the end of the year, so people can go to
any one of the Flat Irons church campuses after any
services and sign There is one location there near Erie,
but I really encourage people. If you know twenty people,
you can take a petition packet and be a massive
part of this change. You know, we are an all
volunteer effort. We're not the people you see outside of

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the post office who get paid to get signatures. We
are just moms and dads and concerned citizens who are
trying to do the right thing.

Speaker 11 (01:02:02):
And everyone can be.

Speaker 10 (01:02:04):
Involved by taking a petition packet and you'll just email
me at info at protect Kids Colorado dot org to
get connected to the materials.

Speaker 4 (01:02:12):
That's info at Protect Kids Colorado dot org. Aaronlee, thanks
for all you do. Erin was just a mom going
about our business and got activated, and oh boy, I
wish they had.

Speaker 5 (01:02:22):
I bet. I bet those those.

Speaker 4 (01:02:24):
That you go up against regularly think, wow, we probably
should have just let her be okay, and you know,
like not mess with her kid, because now you've you've
become a real warrior for kids in the state.

Speaker 10 (01:02:35):
I hope, so yeah, they messed with the wrong kid
this time and again. These initiatives are so easy and
so simple and so common sense and will make such
a massive impact on the insane trajectory that we're seeing
here in Colorado.

Speaker 5 (01:02:48):
I hope so too. Erin, thanks for making time for
us today. Thanks Manny, all right, by bye.

Speaker 4 (01:02:52):
You know, the list of all of the drive up
signing locations is on the blog today at mandy'sblog dot com.

Speaker 5 (01:02:58):
It's got his own graphics.

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
You can just zip over the air and find out
Woodland Park, Colorado, Springs, Fort Collins, Windsor, Greeley, Denver, and Montrose.
That is nine a to noon at various places.

Speaker 5 (01:03:11):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:03:11):
I just went to the Protect Kids website and it's
not at all clear the address where to sign. I
will reach out to Aaron and make sure this blow
this flyer goes up and make sure that's happening Mandy.

Speaker 5 (01:03:24):
The raping three.

Speaker 4 (01:03:25):
Children statistic is disgusting. Part of me thinks that it
should not have been shared because you potentially have tens
of thousands of listeners, statistically one of them rapes children.
The other part of me wanted to hear that statistic
and reinforces my belief that it should be a capital
crime sentenced to death.

Speaker 5 (01:03:42):
You know, I wonder when we're going to.

Speaker 4 (01:03:46):
Start taking human trafficking and what happens to children seriously,
because that all lays the foundation and do not take
what I'm about to say as if you've been a
victim of this kind of c then you too are
going to turn around and do that crime. That's not true,
but statistically, some of those people are going to turn
onund to be abusers themselves. This is such a long term,

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damaging crime, and it's a crime against the most innocent.

Speaker 5 (01:04:15):
And I'm going to be the grossest thing.

Speaker 4 (01:04:18):
About that is that a lot of people are trafficked
by their own families.

Speaker 5 (01:04:24):
It's just disgusting. I kind of agree.

Speaker 4 (01:04:28):
I can't believe that anyone would say we can't send
them a prison because they'll be raped. I mean I
would have looked at her and gone and you can
always text us five sixty six nine. Now, Mandy, I
have a question I need you to answer if you can.
I just got a speeding ticket, and when I looked
at the ticket, they have my name and information, but
they have the wrong vehicle and wrong vehicle owner. I

(01:04:50):
think that invalidates the ticket. What do you think?

Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
I have no idea. Anybody you want to take a
shot at this.

Speaker 4 (01:05:02):
If you know the answer? Five to six six n
I now is the where to text it?

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
Too?

Speaker 5 (01:05:05):
So apparently they've got the right name on the ticket.

Speaker 6 (01:05:09):
Yeah, that probably does it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:10):
But they have the wrong vehicle and the wrong vehicle owner.

Speaker 6 (01:05:14):
You might only get out of it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:15):
So did they pull.

Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
Over the wrong car? I need to know more about this.
Do they pull over?

Speaker 5 (01:05:21):
I mean? Is it?

Speaker 6 (01:05:23):
Is it the same color? Does this person think they
were speeding?

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:05:27):
Yeah, were you speeding?

Speaker 6 (01:05:28):
Like if you were speeding? I just yeah, especially if
your name is on it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:35):
I mean, sorry, Mandy, I do not believe the three
child right people's probation assertion. Seventy percent of child sex
offenders in Colorado get probation.

Speaker 5 (01:05:45):
How many kids do they have to rate before?

Speaker 4 (01:05:47):
That's not okay, and I'm not trying to be a
smart ass, but I'm just saying, just question, Mandy. I
know you have a teter totter on your stance on
the death penalty. Rape of an adult is questionable because
while I don't like to throw the victim under the bus,
too many non victims have thrown the accused under the bus.

Speaker 5 (01:06:10):
If it comes to.

Speaker 4 (01:06:11):
A child castrated in the murder by a thousand cuts,
you guys have any idea how many people we'd be?
I mean, seventy percent the probation, just probation, Mandy. I
literally picked up a new customer the moment you read
my message, so I couldn't respond. I do uber and lyft.
That's why I was dropping someone off.

Speaker 5 (01:06:31):
Guys.

Speaker 4 (01:06:31):
Then I just dropped a guy off a good will
and I'm like, you even drop people off.

Speaker 5 (01:06:35):
I mean, trust me, if.

Speaker 4 (01:06:36):
I'd known that few years ago, when I was still
in the dating pool, I would have been like, I
can't just break up with you, I need to donate you.
They gave the officer the wrong registration I don't know,
and correct vehicle info would invalidate the ticket, but the driver.

Speaker 5 (01:06:54):
Will still have to prove it somehow.

Speaker 4 (01:06:57):
And this person said wrong date or court date or
any information the ticket has avoided.

Speaker 5 (01:07:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:07:03):
Mandy new rule suggestion for Of the Day Jeopardy, the
honest effort rule. You can't win with a zero if
you don't make any guesses.

Speaker 5 (01:07:11):
You can't just.

Speaker 4 (01:07:12):
Sit quiet and let your opponent Mandy get answers wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:07:16):
See here's the thing, you guys.

Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
I already have a built in advantage because I have
been playing this game for over twenty years. I have
been playing of the Day for over twenty years. It
used to be way bigger than it is now, so
I have to I'm not gonna say that I have
to handicap myself in order to help other people win.

(01:07:38):
But I mean, Ryan's getting super good yesterday, notwithstanding because
Ryan plays a lot, so I don't really feel like
I need to give Ryan any kind of, you know, cushion.
Some of the other people. Did the car owner give
the wrong registration? I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:07:54):
I do not know. We'll find out. We'll see if.

Speaker 4 (01:08:00):
You decide to fight it and the officer shows up
in court to testify, you will lose.

Speaker 5 (01:08:04):
If the cop does not show up to testify, you
will win.

Speaker 4 (01:08:09):
Incorrect in a vehicle info would invalidate the ticket, but
the driver will already read that one. Sorry about that, Mandy.
I think the cop is giving the driver a brake.
Should be thrown out if you go to the court.
If you go to court wrong vehicle owner, doesn't matter,
needs plate and vehicle ID. If the officer catches that
he can amend it. How's he going to amend it

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if he doesn't have the right information. Just curious, Mandy.
Good luck with the ticket.

Speaker 5 (01:08:34):
Not my ticket.

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
Mine had the wrong location and I challenged it in
Aurora of Traffic court. During the trial. The judge let
the cop amend the ticket on the spot. Totally rigged,
but the cop has to show up. You know, had
something similar happen with sent information saying I could pay
it all at the police station, which of course I
did not since I had the choice. I don't know,

(01:08:56):
we'll fight. And by the way, if this text a
is still listening, idea, if any of these people have
any clue what they're talking about, let's keep that in
mind as well. Okay, they could just be making.

Speaker 5 (01:09:06):
Stuff up when we come back. I've got so much stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:09:11):
If you or someone you love as a Colorado teacher, you,
if you're listening to the show, may want to know
that you can get the political portion of your union
dues back. Plus, the city of Denver was worn before
they bought the Denver Post Building.

Speaker 5 (01:09:25):
Say it ain't so all that? Coming up in the
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Speaker 5 (01:09:57):
To the third hour of the show.

Speaker 4 (01:09:59):
I'm your host, Mandy, and coming up in this hour,
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Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
You join us.

Speaker 4 (01:10:06):
We're talking bubbles and it's a holiday season. She has
done a great blog post. If you ever wondered the
history and how they make Bubbly wine, it's very informative.
She's coming up in about half an hour, but in
the meantime, I've got a couple of things. I'm gonna
answer this question first, Mandy, have you ever done derma
planing on your face? If so, does the hair grow
back thicker. I want smoother hair, but not a beard.

(01:10:29):
All derma planing is, when you get right down to it,
is shaving. Shaving does not make your hair grow back thicker.
What it does is make the end of the hair
flat instead of tapered, so it feels rougher and thicker.
If you have dark hair, I would look into just
getting a little handheld ipl machine that you can use

(01:10:51):
on your face and it won't take get rid of
your hair forever. If it's blonde, that go with the
derma planing, it's gonna be fine.

Speaker 5 (01:10:59):
Now, Colorado tres if you know a teacher.

Speaker 4 (01:11:01):
If you are a teacher and you know in certain counties,
you go ahead and join the union because well it's required.
If you have joined a union, you have it until
December fifteenth to apply for a forty nine dollars partial
refund of your dues. No, I know what you're thinking, Mandy,
forty nine bucks? Really is it even worth my time?

Speaker 5 (01:11:23):
I'm going to ask you, nay.

Speaker 4 (01:11:25):
I will beg you if you disagree with the political
bent of the candidates and issues that the teachers Union supports.
I am begging you to please ask for your forty
nine dollars back because that is the only way to
send a message right. Just go, I disagree with what
you're doing. I want my money back. Get your forty
nine dollars back from our friends that complete Colorado. They're

(01:11:49):
like members of the Colorado Statewides Teachers Union, which, by
the way, you automatically join. You join the National Education
Association as well as the colorad Education Association. The statewide
union is then organized into approximately two hundred local affiliated
groups that are governed by member elected officials, and they

(01:12:12):
take forty nine bucks from each individual teacher's dues to
support its small donor committee. Those are the political committees
that accept individual donations or no more than fifty bucks
and are used to funnel money two union preferred candidates
and various political activities. Please, for the love of all

(01:12:32):
that is wholly asked for your money back. They even
have in the story that I linked to Complete Colorado
Bias Savannah kazakh Is. They actually have the link so
you can apply by mid December. It's really easy and
you should do it. I'm just saying I'd love for
you too. Now, this is my favorite story that I

(01:12:55):
saw today, just updated yesterday, a story by Brian Moss
from CBS News here in Denver.

Speaker 5 (01:13:00):
He always does a nice job.

Speaker 4 (01:13:03):
A veteran Denver commercial real estate broker warned elective Denver
officials in December of twenty twenty three to scrap their
plans to buy the Denver Post Building for eighty eight
point five million dollars. The broker in question is a
guy named William Lucas. He's the managing director with Cushman Wakefield.

(01:13:25):
They're an international real estate company. He sent a letter
to not just the mayor but also every member of
the city Council, and in it he first of all
laid out his credentials, which are significant.

Speaker 5 (01:13:39):
I mean, he sounds like a real slacker.

Speaker 8 (01:13:42):
Is that?

Speaker 5 (01:13:42):
I hope this email finds you well.

Speaker 4 (01:13:44):
My name is Bill Lucas, and I'm a seasoned commercial
real estate broker with thirty five years of experience, specializing
in downtown Denver. I'm writing to express my concern regarding
the proposed purchase of the property at one Oho one
West Callfax for eighty eight million dollars, which equates to
two hundred and ninety of ninety dollars per square foot,

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and to offer my assistance in thoroughly understanding the current
office market. According to Business Denver, the city does not
need the vacant office space in this place, but anticipates
a need for approximately two hundred and twenty thousand square
feet by twenty thirty as part of the Court strategic Plan.
Considering the significant investment for this property, I'd like to

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draw your attention to significantly better economical options available today
and also recommend the city will wait, as there will
be more attractive economical options in the next few years,
which most likely will include this building, but at a
better price point. And then he goes on to talk
about how he cannot fathom and this is the word

(01:14:50):
he uses. I cannot fathom a strategy that supports paying
two hundred and ninety dollars per square foot for the
Denver Post building. This municipalities Denver has significant needs that
exceed the budget, and you and the mayor are tasked
with evaluating each prioritizing them and making the difficult decision
as to what expenditure to approve. And then he goes

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on from there, just literally like horrible idea why are
you doing it? Now we know what's happened. They bought
this building after the Denver Post had already moved out.
They were still paying rent, but they were not using
the space anymore. So now we know by the way,
one city council member responded, one at all, One city

(01:15:36):
council member, come on on Thursday, this is my favorite
part of the story. Lauras Schwartz, communications director for Denver's
Department of Finance, issued a written statement critical of his
twenty twenty three letter. Now, anything that happens after that
statement makes me know that this woman has absolutely no

(01:15:56):
idea what.

Speaker 5 (01:15:57):
She's talking about. She says, private sector.

Speaker 4 (01:16:01):
Real estate and public sector real.

Speaker 5 (01:16:03):
Estate are very different.

Speaker 4 (01:16:06):
The city received favorable financing terms to buy the Post building,
which was the city's primary consideration.

Speaker 5 (01:16:12):
So what she's saying is they.

Speaker 4 (01:16:14):
Offered them a good mortgage rate, and so it didn't
matter that they were overpaying for a building by millions
and millions of dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:16:23):
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

Speaker 4 (01:16:25):
Come on, just come on, and now the taxpayers are
on the hook because the largest tenant, the Denver Post,
is not paying their rent. It's magical absolutely magical. Anyway, Mandy,
you cannot have joined the union. It's only applical of

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applicable if you are required to pay. I did it
for fifteen years, Mandy. I'm convinced that Nia Bender doesn't sleep.

Speaker 5 (01:16:56):
I swear.

Speaker 4 (01:16:57):
I hear her doing the news reports in the overnight
before Colorado's more.

Speaker 5 (01:17:00):
News and rotten, and now she's doing afternoons. She doesn't sleep.

Speaker 4 (01:17:03):
As a matter of fact, Nia begs us to allow
her to sleep, and we simply say no, Nia, You're
gonna work all the time, all of it, every single bit.

Speaker 5 (01:17:14):
Anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:17:15):
We also have a bunch of stuff on the blog today.
I got kind of snorky today with Dan Bongino and
Canvas Owens all in.

Speaker 5 (01:17:21):
One blog post. You know, Dan Bongino, Nia's coming in. Nia.
You're not allowed to sleep ever. No sleeping for you. None.

Speaker 4 (01:17:30):
As a matter of fact, she's mainlining caffeine right now.
She's snorting it.

Speaker 5 (01:17:34):
No, she's not. I'm just kidding.

Speaker 4 (01:17:37):
Yeah, She's like, no, I'm shooting up. It's fine, I'm
shooting up the caffeine. Dan Bongino used to be a podcaster,
and when he was a podcaster, on his show, he
said that he thought Charlie Kirk's murder, no excuse me,
was the j six pipe mom was an inside government job.
Well now we know the guy who plant out the

(01:17:59):
pipe has been arrested, a young guy from Virginia allegedly
an anarchist. And now that Dan Bongino works for the FBI,
people are like, hey, Dan, remember when you said that
thing about being an inside job. And his response was
I used to be paid for my opinion, and now

(01:18:20):
I get paid for facts. That rankled me. And that's
the word I want to use, rankled. I was irritated
as hell. You guys want to know why sometimes I
sound like I don't know what I'm talking about. It's
because I don't want to be a dumbass like that.

Speaker 5 (01:18:35):
I don't want to come out here with some big scheme.

Speaker 4 (01:18:37):
I mean, that's I feel like I should get paid
for facts. And don't even get me started on candas Owans.
If you're still watching or listening to candas Owans, please stop.
Please don't give her any of your oxygen, your time,
your effort, your money.

Speaker 5 (01:18:50):
God forbid.

Speaker 4 (01:18:52):
She's just turned into an awful person and now she
challenged turning point us say, hey, you guys want to
talk about Charlie Cook and.

Speaker 5 (01:19:00):
It's tad anywhere.

Speaker 4 (01:19:01):
You picked the place and turning fort USA was like, okay,
let's do a livestream this time.

Speaker 6 (01:19:07):
And this date.

Speaker 5 (01:19:07):
And she was like, not there. She's just getting roasted online.
She deserves it.

Speaker 4 (01:19:12):
I'm tired of people making my industry look bad. Nine
in ten college students think words can be violence.

Speaker 5 (01:19:20):
You guys. I saw that headline and I was like,
holy crap, have we raised a wad of I don't
even know which word to use.

Speaker 4 (01:19:30):
I hate the word snowflakes because snowflakes are so pretty
and they're all individual and I hate that we've now
made snowflake like a bad thing because I do so
enjoy them.

Speaker 5 (01:19:41):
I just wooses they're just woozes.

Speaker 4 (01:19:45):
You know, gen X grew up with sticks and stones
may hurt your bones, but words can never hurt you.
And I just want to go to these kids and say, Okay,
I'm going to stand in front of you. I'll even
put my arms out like I'm you know, they're patting
me down. Now come up and break my arm with
your words. Come up and flap me in the face
with your words. Leave a Mark, it's just so stupid.

(01:20:08):
A significant majority this from the College Fix of undergraduate
students believe in the concept that words can be violence,
with forty seven percent agreeing strongly with his sentiment. There's
becoming an increasing ideological divide on campus, with moderate and
conservative students becoming more accepting of controversial speakers, while liberal

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students show greater opposition. The assassination of Charlie Kirk has
impacted students' willingness to engage with controversial events, affecting half
the respondent's desire to attend or host such events. Nine
out of ten undergraduate students say that words can be violence.

Speaker 5 (01:20:46):
At least somewhat the poll Ugh just eh.

Speaker 8 (01:20:53):
Ugh.

Speaker 4 (01:20:54):
Additionally, in this one is even better. Fifty nine percent
of students said silence is violence. Okay, same exercise. I
got my arms out, I'm doing the spread eagle like
TSA is gonna pat me down like I'm a you know,
I got a bomb in my bag, and then you
come up and say, okay, now.

Speaker 5 (01:21:15):
Now break my arm with your silence.

Speaker 4 (01:21:19):
I kind of want to do this because I want
to see him try, you know what I mean, Like
I want to see how silence is going to you
know anyway, Mandy, was it you that had the guy
on years ago that built a flamethrower kind of snow
melting device for his driveway. I'm watching my apartment maintenance
guys chip away at the ice.

Speaker 1 (01:21:39):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:21:39):
But all you have to do is go buy a
weed torch. It's basically a flame thrower. It's something that
you used to burn weeds in your yard in Colorado.
You can only burn the weeds in the spring because
you'll set everything on fire if you do it later
in the summer. But you bring out the weed torch
and you just use that on your driveway. The word
you're looking for is Woosy'll be happy to know if

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you continued listening that I did arrive on that word,
probably about the same time you've sent that text message.

Speaker 5 (01:22:09):
The other parts of this poll are not any better.
It's just it's really not. It's really not.

Speaker 4 (01:22:16):
The poll also showed that moderate and conservative students have
grown less supportive of disruptive or violent tactics to stop
campus speakers, while liberal students has stayed the same or
risen slightly. At the same time, moderate and conservative students
have been more open to allowing controversial speakers, while liberal
students have maintained or increased their opposition to those speakers.

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In particular, opposition among liberal students increased considerably to a
speaker who previously said the police are just as racist
as the KKK. Children should be allowed to transition without
parental consent.

Speaker 5 (01:22:55):
So, yeah, you know what.

Speaker 4 (01:22:59):
I understand that we're trying to get kids not to
bully and all of that stuff, But she's.

Speaker 5 (01:23:05):
Louise, toughen up kids. Toughen up. Words are not violent.

Speaker 4 (01:23:13):
They can be nasty, they can be awful, they can
be designed to make you feel horrible about yourself and
destroy your self esteem and your self confidence, but they're
not violence. And by saying you are, you kind of
devalue the word violence. I'm not down with this. When
we get back, it is bubbles season, and when I
think bubbles, I think of the wine Yoki she's popping in.

Speaker 6 (01:23:33):
Next.

Speaker 4 (01:23:34):
First of all, we have to get big food news finally.
Now there is a Chick fil A in concourse at
the Denver International Airport.

Speaker 5 (01:23:44):
Can we all just have a moment.

Speaker 4 (01:23:47):
In golf clap There always was one. No, it's been
in b No, yeah, there's always been one in b
and now there's one n C in the center core.
I mean you eat there every day but Sunday, right,
Why are you not a Chick fil A person? Not really,
I don't made the obsession with Chick fil A.

Speaker 5 (01:24:05):
Like I get it.

Speaker 12 (01:24:06):
It's a good chicken sandwich. I used to I used
to enjoy it, but I don't really eat fast food.

Speaker 5 (01:24:10):
I don't really eat fast food. But it doesn't even
make the cut.

Speaker 4 (01:24:13):
Like if I decide, you know, every once in a
while you get a craving, right, you're like, oh, you
really need some French frieser, Oh, you know, they're never
in my I don't ever think about Chick fil A.

Speaker 12 (01:24:23):
Yeah, I just we just don't. We really just don't
too fast food anymore, hardly at all. And part of
it is because my husband has U foods and stuties.
It's like, eh, it's just not even worth it. I
make it better exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:24:36):
Speaking of making it better, let's talk about the French
and wine for a moment, shall we.

Speaker 5 (01:24:41):
It is bubble season. I mean, do you have any
want to go ahead, I'm gonna correct you. We were
going to say that, but for many people, it's bubble season.
We're celebratory.

Speaker 4 (01:24:51):
There's nothing more celebratory than a wine of sparkle, a
bottle of sparkling wine. And today on our blog, if
you've ever wondered about how bubbles became bubbles and why
it's only a champagne if it's from the Champagne Real
region of France, you can check it out on the
blog today. So let's start with a little bit of that. Yeah,

(01:25:12):
when we talk about how we make wine, it's pretty basic, right.
I mean, you've got the grapes, you've got a little fermentation,
you got a little sugar, you got a little whatever.
But what makes it bubble? When it is what makes
one wine bubble and another wine not so.

Speaker 12 (01:25:27):
When yeast consumes sugar, it releases two things, alcohol and
carbon dioxide CO two. And so that's why when we
are making if you've ever taken yeast and added it
to some warm water and some sugar because you're going
to make some bread, it's going to start bubbling. So
that's a good thing because that's what triggers the rise

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in yeast bread. So same thing happens when we're making wine.
The question is are we going to trap that CO two?
That's produced from the fermentation process, or are we just
going to let it breathe off naturally, And so if
you're just if you're just taking grape must, so that's
the grape juice from crushing grapes and either allowing natural
yeast that's kind of floating around the vineyard, or you're

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injecting a commercialized yeast for wine making that yeast once
it starts consuming the sugars from the grape must, it's
going to produce.

Speaker 5 (01:26:18):
Alcohol and carbon dioxide.

Speaker 4 (01:26:20):
So in theory, you could make any wine a sparkling
wine totally, you just have to capture it.

Speaker 12 (01:26:26):
So typically, so like champagne, a secondary fermentation is going
to take place in the bottle. And the reason why
champagne is as expensive as it is and why it
has kind of this rich brioche bread biscuit yeast flavor
to it is because they allow the wine then to
remain in contact with the expended ye cell. So after

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they've done their hard work and they've consumed all the
sugar that they can, they've produced the alcohol, and they've
produced that carbon dioxide which has been captured because they've
they've put it in this bottle with a beer cap
on it. Then it's going to sit there and it's
just going to hang out. The wine's gonna hang out,
intermingling with the lees or the expended e cells. That's
known as surely and a lot of wines do that,

(01:27:09):
whether they've if they're trapping it to kind of capture
that the bubbles, or even if they're not doing that.
Chardonnay often or you'll see descriptions of its spent six
months on the lees. That's what they're saying. They're they're
leaving that expended e cell uh in contact with the
wine to give it a different flavor profile.

Speaker 5 (01:27:29):
Is that what you see in the bottle, like the
silt in the bottle of the wine.

Speaker 12 (01:27:32):
It can be especially if they are sometimes that is
just that natural process if they have not fined and
filtered the wine. Finding it helps remove some of the
proteins out of the wine that can occur from harvest
and everything that's going into the wine itself. But also
sometimes that sediment can be from the grapes themselves if

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they have not filtered it off right.

Speaker 5 (01:27:57):
But you'll you'll hear terms like you.

Speaker 12 (01:27:58):
Know, then you're racky the wine off of the expended
ye cells. So I kind of described the difference between
method champ and wiss. So that's the method used to
make champagne, crimonkava, all of these sparkling wines that are
in that Champagne fashion versus the Italian sparkling wine called Prosecco,
which most people kind of know about. Prosecco was made

(01:28:22):
in a It was actually a French wine maker with
the last named Charmont who came up with the charmont
or tank method. And so what happens with that is
after fermentation, they rack that wine off. It takes place
in the stainless steel tank, but they'll rack the wine
off of the expended EE cells.

Speaker 5 (01:28:38):
What does that mean rack in the wine?

Speaker 12 (01:28:40):
It's getting that wine off of your expended YE cells. Okay, Okay,
they want to get rid of them.

Speaker 4 (01:28:45):
So I'm just using an example here, like your gravy separator.
You're going to put it into a gravy separator and
you're going to run the wine off and put the.

Speaker 12 (01:28:51):
Rest of the waste off and you're going to put
it some You want to get rid of these because
you don't want that You want to clean crisp flavor
profile for prosecco versus having that discady, briosh, bready kind
of flavor profile that you have with those wines that
are made and more of that traditional method. You also
can find if you are doing more of the natural method,

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which is the ancient method of producing sparkling wine. It's
what method champ and Waw stems from. They also they
don't remove it at all, So you will find bubbly
wines that will have a little bit of that cloudiness
and sediment in it.

Speaker 5 (01:29:27):
But it was are they the wheat beer of wine making?
Is that what we're sort of?

Speaker 12 (01:29:32):
You know a lot of those also naturally petulant wines,
their pet nats or what they're known of, they do
tend to take on I wouldn't say wheat beer. I'd
say it's more of kind of like almost that sour beer.
It almost has kind of that kind of tangy taste profile,
which I if you have beer drinkers who at the
first thing I asked, do you like sour beers?

Speaker 5 (01:29:53):
Well, yes, I do.

Speaker 12 (01:29:53):
Well I'm going to point you over here to these
petro you know, naturally petulant wines, because they, to me,
have a lot more of that kind of close proximity
to those sour beers.

Speaker 4 (01:30:02):
I had some interesting questions on the Common Spirit Health
chext line at five sixty six nine. Oh so is
sparkling wine and cider technically the same thing?

Speaker 5 (01:30:13):
First of all, wine is made from Vitus vonifera and
or some type of you're.

Speaker 4 (01:30:18):
Talking about sparkling smarty pants. They know it's made with
two different things. So yeah, I mean sparkling cider.

Speaker 5 (01:30:24):
It's okay. First of all, if it's the l.

Speaker 12 (01:30:27):
Cheapo ones that you're going to get at the cap
end in your grocery store, that are made to look
like champagne, no, those have probably had CO two injected
into apple juice right to make them bubbly.

Speaker 4 (01:30:38):
Are you talking about my Martin Nellie's? Is that what
you're talking about right now? Because I love the Martinelli's.
When I want to feel fancy without any alcohol, I
am going for the Martinelli's cranberry apple and I regret nothing.

Speaker 5 (01:30:49):
And I'm not judging.

Speaker 12 (01:30:50):
I'm just saying it's it's just injected with CO two.
And if I'm going to do that, I'm probably going
to do something with all that sugar. I'll be doing
sparkling water.

Speaker 5 (01:30:58):
So this, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:31:00):
What does your guests think about champagne from New Mexico.
First of all, we cannot have champagne from New Mexico.

Speaker 12 (01:31:05):
It is Grue. And I know what you're talking about.
It's right outside of Albuquerque, and I love Gruet. Greue
is actually a champagne house in Champagna. The two sons
came over found a little micro climate right outside of Albuquerque.

Speaker 5 (01:31:18):
I've brought in Grue. I love it.

Speaker 12 (01:31:21):
You've had it before with me, okay, But these they
send back every vintage. They send back wine that is
certified by the champagne house in Champagna, but you cannot
call it champagne because it's not made in Champagna.

Speaker 5 (01:31:34):
In the that's like a law. I mean things you
have to know about Europe.

Speaker 4 (01:31:38):
There are certain places, like in Germany, they exactly prescribe
what you can put in beer, right and you have
to follow. And the rules for beer go back to
the fourteen hundreds. What are they for wine in front?

Speaker 5 (01:31:49):
So it really just depends on the region.

Speaker 12 (01:31:52):
You know, Champagna itself, it's relatively new in terms of
wine making, but like especially when you look at like
Burgundy and Bordeaux, a lot of these wine making regions
that have that rich history. Yeah, you are dating back
to Middle Ages of when they're starting there, starting to
establish some kind of the rules that they now still

(01:32:12):
will adhere to. Thanks to technology, some things have been improved,
but there are certain requirements, like it has to be
grapes grown within this certain.

Speaker 4 (01:32:21):
You know, specific village for it to be called whatever.
You I mean, that's right, it's kind of crazy, but
I also kind of like it. And I always think
that the Commonwealth of Kentucky should have passed some kind
of rules about bourbon because now people are making bourbon
all over the place, and I'm like, y'all, it's not
real bourbon unless it comes from Kentucky. And I don't
even drink bourbon. I'm just a snob about it. Mandy,

(01:32:41):
Why is the wine Yogi sounding kind of sad? Is
it because you and a Rod are eating and drinking?
You need to make her happy next time and eat
and drink just saying No, the wine Jogi totally respects
the fact that a Rod and I are trying to
take off our thanksgivting weight. I don't think you're bothered
by that.

Speaker 5 (01:32:56):
No, No, not at all. No, trust me, it's the weather. Me,
it's the weather. I'm trying to be serious.

Speaker 12 (01:33:01):
I just watched the NPR on Saturday Night Live with
Alec Baldwin.

Speaker 5 (01:33:04):
So trying to do trying to do this.

Speaker 4 (01:33:09):
Ask your guest about chocolate wine. Is it really wine?

Speaker 8 (01:33:12):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:33:12):
What is?

Speaker 5 (01:33:13):
I've seen it?

Speaker 4 (01:33:14):
I've just not because I love dark chocolate with like
a bold red like a timbornello or just what you
should do?

Speaker 5 (01:33:20):
Oh mall back? What is this chocolate wine? Doesn't it is?

Speaker 12 (01:33:24):
Basically they're taking cheap wine and it's usually going to
be a sweet based red, cheap wine that they're adding
in probably cheap chocolate into.

Speaker 5 (01:33:33):
And yes, it is a thing, and it's not my thing.
And but what does it even taste like? It tastes
like like chocolate. Are you who with wine in it?

Speaker 6 (01:33:41):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:33:42):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:33:42):
I mean is it as bad as the diet red wine?
I don't know. I just smelled that.

Speaker 7 (01:33:47):
Now I was.

Speaker 5 (01:33:47):
I had to had to. You made a good choice
to I couldn't do that, not consume that. I'm just
I'm just saying some people love the chocolate wine. It's
not my thing.

Speaker 12 (01:33:57):
I would much rather have chocolate fondue and a beautiful
Chammi Sarrah that I'm gonna enjoy them together.

Speaker 5 (01:34:04):
On my palette with and keep the two separate.

Speaker 4 (01:34:07):
Mandy, I thought you were against mommy wine culture. Look,
we're not talking about knocking back a box of phrensia
every single night, which to me is much much different.

Speaker 5 (01:34:16):
I love wine.

Speaker 4 (01:34:18):
I love having a beautiful glass of wine with a
really incredible meal. Unfortunately it doesn't like me. But I
do think that you can have and appreciate wine and
not be in the mommy wine culture where everything you
have is like mommy drinks because of you.

Speaker 5 (01:34:33):
I mean, you know, it's like there's a.

Speaker 4 (01:34:34):
Difference there, truly is, and I think that the nuance
of it is important.

Speaker 1 (01:34:39):
It just is.

Speaker 5 (01:34:40):
So I'm glad you asked the question. I hope I
answered it.

Speaker 8 (01:34:43):
So.

Speaker 4 (01:34:43):
According to her explanation, someone was asking for clarification. Technically,
sparkling wine is healthier because the yeast is eating the sugar,
which means there's less sugar and sparkling wine compared to
others that are probably just injected with CO two.

Speaker 1 (01:34:57):
No.

Speaker 12 (01:34:58):
So all wine when it is made goes through the
same fermentation process. Yeas is going to consume the sugar,
and it will it's going to release two things, alcohol
and carbon dioxide. Sparkling wine just captures both red wine
white wine. Oh, it's still going to consume the sugar. Now,
the question is when do they stop the fermentation process?

(01:35:21):
How much sugar was in? How many bricks of sugar?
And they measure it by bricks brix.

Speaker 5 (01:35:26):
How many bricks of.

Speaker 12 (01:35:26):
Sugar was in the grape must to begin with, some
grape varietals are going to have higher levels. Sure your
be slings for example, those muscato. There are grapes that
are going to be naturally higher in sugar when they
begin the fermentation process than others, say a Cabernet fronc
or Serrah or Merlow.

Speaker 5 (01:35:46):
They're going to have those higher bricks of sugar.

Speaker 12 (01:35:48):
So when they stop the fermentation process, that level of
sugar that's left. The residual sugar is a term you'll
often hear wine folks use rs. Residual sugar will determine
how sweet that wine is. In fact, I go through
a breakdown in the black post your different terminology, and
when you're looking at sparkling.

Speaker 5 (01:36:07):
Wine, what does this mean? When I see brute extra
brute let's talk about that.

Speaker 6 (01:36:12):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:36:12):
Let's talk about that for a minute, because I think
that is the most confusing labeling in the history of labeling.
But she actually doesn't just break down what it is.
It tells you how much sugar per leader is in
these and it's visually the way you have it written
super helpful. But let's start at the very bottom. When
you're talking about sweet wines. You know, your lambruscos, whatever

(01:36:34):
you got there, that's.

Speaker 5 (01:36:35):
Gonna be do. I don't even know if I've ever
seen a DoD o at ux.

Speaker 12 (01:36:39):
Oh they're out there. Yeah, they're out there, and uh
they those are going to be definite. That's your sugar water,
as my nephew calls it, and yeah, that's your it's
definitely it's going to be in that chocolate wine.

Speaker 5 (01:36:51):
Right, Okay, they're out yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:36:53):
So and then they're just gonna step them up where
it really gets confusing. And I think on English labels
is extra dry yep, because extra dry it's lost in translation.
So instead of it being demi sec which is half dry,
or demi do which is half sweet, they decided to

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put in their extra dry and that you are still
going to have some residual sugar and extra dry. If
you like dry wine and you don't want residual sugar
and you don't want a sweet wine, you want to
look for brute or anything above brute. So that's when
you get extra bruite, Brute, not tour. That's what you're
looking for. Is the term brute, and that is the
French term for dry.

Speaker 4 (01:37:34):
To be clear, brute in a tour will suck the
moisture out of your mouth and it is like fabulous.
You better be ready because it is. I bought that
one time and I, you know me, I like dry wine.
It was too like the I felt the water evaporating
out of my mouth with every bubble that popped.

Speaker 5 (01:37:53):
That's why you need to have immediately right next to it.

Speaker 12 (01:37:57):
On a slice of back yet that also has butter
on it, and then that you've replaced the moisture and
with fat.

Speaker 4 (01:38:03):
Here's the question, wine Yogi. I bought prosecco from Costco
a few years ago. Is it okay to store upright
heated basement on a shelf?

Speaker 12 (01:38:12):
So with sparkling wines, the whole laying down of a
sparkling wine isn't necessary per se because eventually what's going
to happen is if you store it for too long,
you're gonna lose your bubbles. If it's too warm, you
can actually trigger more. If there's any residual yeast leftover,
it can actually trigger another fermentation and it'll explode your

(01:38:32):
bottle if it gets too hot. So you have to
be really careful with storing wines. I typically do not
store my sparkling wines laying down just because they're they're
already under pressure I think about it. That doesn't really
the gas itself is also creating that seal. The whole
reason why we lay wines down in a wine cellar

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and a cold wine cellar, not hot next to the furnace.
The reason why you do that is because you want
that wine to stay in contact with the quark so
that the cork doesn't dry out and then allow air
to seep in and begin to oxidize that wine. When
you already have something under pressure, that's not going to happen.
What's going to happen before that is you're going to

(01:39:16):
lose all that pressure, and that bubbly wine is going
to be flat, and then it's not sparkling wine, and
you need to pour it out.

Speaker 5 (01:39:22):
This is a good question.

Speaker 4 (01:39:23):
What's the best kind of wine to give as a
gift when you don't know if the person prefers red
or white.

Speaker 5 (01:39:27):
You can always go rose.

Speaker 12 (01:39:29):
Always go right down the middle with a beautiful rose.
And honestly, I personally think that if you are around
the holiday season and if you're not really sure what
kind of wine that they drink, going with kind of
something that is very middle of the road, So.

Speaker 5 (01:39:44):
A sparkling rose that way.

Speaker 12 (01:39:46):
Yeah, if it is for the New Years or you know,
the holidays, Christmas or whatever that they want to enjoy
some bubbles, they can if you're not sure, if you're
even more nervous about that, I personally I would always
show up with just one of each. Here's a red,
here's a white, and then let them kind of you

(01:40:06):
can't go wrong, and then that's way exactly if they
can enjoy what they want, and then they can regift
whatever wine that they didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:40:13):
I am a queen regifter. I'm just gonna say this, guys.

Speaker 4 (01:40:18):
When I do drink wine, I cannot drink red wine
at all anymore. And I know most people drink red
wine because it has lower calories and a lower blood
sugar hit. I cannot drink red wine at all, and
everybody brings me red wine and.

Speaker 5 (01:40:31):
I'm just like, no gifts.

Speaker 4 (01:40:32):
It's fine, I don't need anything. It's it's good, So
be aware. That's a great question.

Speaker 5 (01:40:36):
Text her.

Speaker 4 (01:40:36):
I appreciate that, and as Crystal does so well when
she is here the wine Yogi. By the way, she
got a great blog post about all of this stuff,
plus some suggestions and a bunch on shark huterie that
we didn't even get to that. I love a good
shark couchy board. I mean, come on, snacks, meat, cheese.

Speaker 5 (01:40:53):
There's nothing better. Anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:40:56):
Now it's time for the most exciting segment.

Speaker 5 (01:40:58):
All the radio of it's got in the world of
the day. All what is our dad joke of the day, please, Anthony.

Speaker 6 (01:41:09):
I don't think I'll ever find a stable job because honestly,
I'm not that comfortable around horses. That was bad.

Speaker 5 (01:41:17):
I knew where that was going as soon as you
said I did, I really did.

Speaker 4 (01:41:23):
I was thinking about it, you know, being a whrround horses,
et cetera, et cetera. Anyway, Today's word of the day, please,
it is a noun parsimony.

Speaker 5 (01:41:32):
Oh, this is one of those words that I always
have to look up when I see it. When you're
splitting hairs, you're parsing something. Maybe that sounds kind of
right when you're parson. It's a parsimony is being.

Speaker 4 (01:41:44):
It's snobbery, it's looking down your nose at someone, extreme
frugality or stingyness.

Speaker 5 (01:41:50):
Parsimony.

Speaker 6 (01:41:52):
I'm not.

Speaker 5 (01:41:52):
I'm not parsimonia. So I'm just thrifty. Mercury is the
closest planet to the Sun on average. How close is
it in miles? I'm a seven thousand I'm gonna say
one hundred thousand miles. I have absolutely no idea. Come on, guess,

(01:42:13):
guess thirty six million miles and you'd be right. Oh my, yeah,
we're a little under.

Speaker 4 (01:42:17):
I'm assuming if we were right there, right, it would
have already burned to a crisp by now. Yeah, I'm
not good at space stuff. I freely admit that, all right.
What is our jeopardy category?

Speaker 5 (01:42:28):
What other than Christmas?

Speaker 6 (01:42:29):
Movie?

Speaker 5 (01:42:31):
Course?

Speaker 6 (01:42:32):
In twenty eighteen Bendedict cumberbatchy?

Speaker 5 (01:42:37):
What is Grinch correct alistair? Sim is among those? What
is a Christmas carol?

Speaker 1 (01:42:45):
No? Dang it.

Speaker 5 (01:42:47):
Among those who have played this, Dickensy and Mayn.

Speaker 6 (01:42:52):
Crystal Crystal, who has Ebenezer screwed? Correct it? Basically his
heartwarming Frank Kapra classic.

Speaker 5 (01:43:00):
Is It's a Wonderful Life?

Speaker 2 (01:43:02):
Correct?

Speaker 8 (01:43:02):
What is.

Speaker 6 (01:43:05):
In this film? Santa Tell's buddy? There are thirty dang it?

Speaker 5 (01:43:09):
What is elf? Correct? What's his two to one? Here
we go.

Speaker 6 (01:43:13):
Two memorable bits from this nineteen eighty three classic, the
leg lamp, Crystal Mandy.

Speaker 5 (01:43:20):
What is a Christmas store?

Speaker 10 (01:43:21):
A tie?

Speaker 6 (01:43:22):
That's a tie to two?

Speaker 5 (01:43:27):
Good?

Speaker 6 (01:43:28):
Let's go to wearable Techugh Friendship bracelets inspired Kim Shoey's
designs for this rhyming brand of high tech trackers.

Speaker 5 (01:43:41):
Crystal Crystal, what is it that is?

Speaker 6 (01:43:43):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:43:44):
Dang it?

Speaker 5 (01:43:45):
Crystal winds and a tight and you had one? You
always talked about your I know now I'm on.

Speaker 4 (01:43:52):
I've moved on my garment and I will say my
garment is a far superior brand I have.

Speaker 5 (01:43:57):
I have the Samsung the same.

Speaker 4 (01:43:59):
I'm I might switch over. Google's got a watch now
and I love my Google Phone.

Speaker 5 (01:44:03):
I just got a new pixel and I gotta tell
you Samsung phone. Yeah and I together, how they get
your Crystal. They get you in the family and then
you're like, oh, gee, I might get something else and
they're like, no, no, no, that won't wrap with us.
And now I'm gonna need to like, I gotta Samsung fridge.

Speaker 2 (01:44:18):
I just saw a.

Speaker 5 (01:44:21):
Post on X that said.

Speaker 6 (01:44:25):
No nuts.

Speaker 4 (01:44:25):
I can't remember what I was gonna say, but I'm
out of time anyway, Crystal, I'll see you next time.
Merry Christmas, Mary Chris Lady. We'll be back on Monday.
Have a happy and safe weekend. Keep it on Koa