12-09-24 FULL SHOW - I'm BACK So What Did I Miss?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell and Don on KOAM ninety one FM.

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Speaker 3 (00:40):
Sorry, Ross is talking to me. Everybody. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.
I'm Mandy Connell, the host of the show for the
next three hours. Back from vacation. Here with Anthony Rodriguez.
Hang on, I'm my headphone amateur, and together we will
be taking you right through three p m. When KOA
Sports takes over. And uh so it's gone for a week.

(01:01):
We left on the thirtieth of November, got back yesterday
after twenty hours of travel. Do not recommend, but that's
the price you pay for going to Europe and that's
where we were and it was absolutely extraordinary. But I
have to tell you guys, there are things that have
happened in my career that are so cool, I mean

(01:22):
absolutely so cool that when they happen, I just think
to myself, this is a perk of the job no
one could have ever imagined. And I experienced one of
those things last week. So we are at the airport.
We are getting ready to go to fly to Frankfurt
where we then catch a plane to Vienna, and we're

(01:44):
having a nice time. You're getting ready to go on vacation,
and you feeling lucy goosey. I was not drunk. I
was not drinking because when I fly overnight, I don't
drink because I want to sleep a little bit on
the plane, which.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
I was able to do, Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
And so let me give a little backtrack on this
about three trips away, three flights ago, we were at
the airport and we wanted to know if there was
a priority lounge in concourse A. So we walk over
the information desk and we said, excuse me, sir, is
there a priority lounge in concourse A? And he goes,

(02:16):
are you Mandy Connell? And I went, yes, I am.
And his name is John. And John works in the
information desks at the Denver International Airport. And so now
the last two times we've gone to the airport we
have seen John. He's not always at the same information
desk where I'd tell you to go by and say hello,
but you could ask nice look and fella, you know,
so you could stop by and say hey, you John,

(02:38):
And then it got me to think, in a rod,
we need some kind of secret handshake for the show,
you know what I mean, Like people could walk up
and you know, do the secret handshake. So John, we
happen to see him at the information desk. As we're
walking towards our gate. We stop and say hello, how
you doing? Okay, great, we're going here and we leave
and then I board the plane and before they have
closed the door, I realize I don't have my cell

(03:00):
phone and so I'm thinking in my head like where
could it be? And I really thought it was in
the waiting area. I thought I had had it in
my lap and then it fell off and I didn't
know where it was. So I ask I'll go up
to the front of the cabin. I say, hey, can
I run off and see if I can find my phone.
They're like, we'll send somebody out. It's Luftanza too, so
they're German, we'll send someone out to vide it. Well,

(03:21):
they didn't find it, and I'm like, I'm literally so
angry at myself. I am. I furious with myself, just
furious with it. So uh, I get on the plane.
We fly to Frankfurt, I videotape, I make a video
of myself with my iPad that uh, the iPad video

(03:43):
is Then I posted online when I when I get
it was just a big mess, but I posted so
you guys would know I'm not going to be posting
any pictures because I don't have my phone because I
left it at the Denver International Airport. So by the
time we land in Frankfurt, Chuck has a text message
from Rob Dawson. Okay, stay with me. So robbed us
in our crack newsman. He sends Chuck a message that

(04:04):
says your phone was found and has been put at
the Lost and Found by John.

Speaker 5 (04:10):
John has taken care of this.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
And I'm like, oh, cause I had gone to Google Wallet,
pulled my cards off. I was worried about people getting
into my banking and stuff like that, which is all
password protected. But you know how that goes. So we
get to Frankfort, I find out my phone is safe,
it's been lost and found, it's been taken care of,
and that was a huge weight off my mind. And
because Chuck was there, I didn't really need to be

(04:31):
in contact with anyone directly. I talked to, you know,
my daughter who was here, So I was fine communication wise,
But the fact that he went to the links to
get found, somebody turned my phone in, He didn't know
it was my phone, and then he is trained to
look for the emergency contact information on the phone, and

(04:51):
he recognized that it was me. So the fact that
he went above and beyond to call the newsroom here
at KOA to see if they could get me message
via Chuck was like above and beyond. And I would
have been so stressed out on my vacation if he
had not done all that. And I just thought to myself,
this is one of those times when this job is
so unbelievably cool, and you never know who who is,

(05:17):
who is going to be listening, and who's going to
be able to assist you in a disaster situation. I
got back yesterday, went to the lost and found and
lo and behold there my phone was, So there you go.
I just got a text message from Chuck. Highway eighty
six going to Elizabeth is a sheet of ice. They're

(05:37):
getting some damp snow and it's making it difficult to drive.
Multiple car accidents on this road if you were off,
if you're on eighty six and Elizabeth stay off if
you don't have to be there from from the trash center. Yes, Chuck,
he is now our cub traffic reporter. So I just
wanted to say thanks on the air to John, because

(05:58):
I'm not saying he saved my vacation.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
Because uh, he found my phone.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
But I will say he saved my vacation because I
didn't have to worry about it, right, it was taken
care of. So John, big ups appreciates you. And if
you are India and you see a handsome gentleman maybe
fifty five sixty in there back there, just say here
are you John? Yeah? Great, I'm a listener too. So
let's let's start it out. Let's let's just do it again.

(06:24):
So that was pretty much how the trip went wrong,
but so much of the trip went right. We'll get
into that in a little bit, but first time, want
to tell you what's in the blog. I just wanted
to make sure that I talked to or told you
about John, because I can't even begin to tell you
how much I appreciated that and just how grateful I
am for that sort of connection there. It was.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
It was really special.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
So this morning and now I can't well, i'd you
break apparently everything because this morning my computer crapped the
bed at home and it's not old. I was super
mad about that. I'm having a rough re entry a.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
Rod having a rough just a little.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
I'm just just having a rough re entry getting back.

Speaker 6 (07:07):
In you like eight minutes in. Everything's yes, not working
for I am.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
I'm I'm struggling a little bit, but it's okay. Mandy.
Let the traffic people know that they closed I twenty
five Castle Walk to the Springs.

Speaker 5 (07:18):
Too from the Kyleie Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
That text somebody just said John is my buddy at
the at Den.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Uh yeah, so that is that is my story. Let's
do the blog. Shall we go to mandy'sblog dot com.
That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says
twelve nine twenty four blog I'm back, So what did
I miss? Click on that and here are the headlines
you will find within tick tech to a winner. I
think all ships and clipmas and say that's going to

(07:48):
press plats today on the blog. You really should go
see the Christmas markets in Europe. Laura Thomas has packed
it in. I'm cool with Biden pardoning Hunter Paulus hates
dry Andy hates ranchers to Mayor Mike is bitten off
more than he can handle. Mistreatment of AIDS has one
dem on the Ounce See Something, Say Something Secret Service edition.

(08:11):
Mayor Yemi says he was the victim Denver's flavor tobacco
ban is stupid. The new film The Order recounts the
death of Alan Berg. A desperate deputy makes a bad choice.
Lindsay Vaughan is the forty year old hero we need.
Asad is out of Syria. Pamela Anderson gets a Golden
Globe nomination. The RFK Junior effect is taking shape. I

(08:32):
hope this is a joke, but I fear it's not.
Your love language tells you something about your toxic traits.
Truth in sports advertising, millennials are getting old. The crampest
March in Norway is a thing. The best use of
present seal. Ever, those are the headlines on the blog
at mandy'sblog dot com. So one thing that's not on

(08:55):
the blog because it literally just happened, is they have
arrested a suspect in the murder of the health executive
that was gunned down in the streets of New York
and his name is Luis Gimanngione and we cannot we
cannot prosecute him because he's too hot. I saw that

(09:17):
on Twitter already. He's an attractive young man and now
he's twenty six years old. And if all this info
went X is right, and I don't know if it is,
although Luigim Mangioni does have a profile on X. Still,
he is very smart. He was a he's a computer guy.

(09:38):
He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's
and a master's and for some reason he decided to
throw his life way to murder a health executive. But
I'm guessing since he was found with a manifesto, we're
going to be able to find out why he did
what he did. He's probably gonna want to talk about it.
Just a thought, how do you? How do you? Here's

(10:01):
a question, and I'm sort of asking this cheekily, but
I am not being cheeky altogether. When does just writing
something down become a manifesto? I mean, does it have
a title like here's my manifesto? How does that become?
I mean, is it just him writing things, rambling about
the healthcare industry?

Speaker 5 (10:23):
What's interesting?

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Is that on his Twitter profile he has at the
top of his Twitter profile, he pulls this up in
front of me. Well, so I can look at it
as I'm telling you, so I can get great accuracy
in my There we go. So the top of his
profile has some kind of mushroom kangaroo creature. I don't

(10:45):
really know what that is. And then it has him
hiking on the top of a mountain without a shirt on.
He has quite the abs, if I do say so myself.
But then the center photo is a side X ray
where looks like there has been a spinal fusion in
it's you know, so you can see the the bolts

(11:07):
in his lower lower in someone's lower lumbar, and you
have to wonder if there's more to that now than
there was before. Mushrooms are prominent in his link tree account.
I mean, what do you let me see here? He's

(11:27):
got hang on, I can't see this because I'm blind
and old. Okay, So I'm looking at his emojis. Do
you know what the emojis mean? A rod?

Speaker 6 (11:37):
Do you?

Speaker 5 (11:37):
Are you good at emoji stuff? Yes?

Speaker 3 (11:39):
Okay, So he's got one that is a mushroom and
a brain next to each other.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
I mean, what would that be mushroom kind of brain?

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Okay, so here's what we've got. We've got computer, and
then the smiley faced emoji with the glasses kind of
implying that he's a nerd, right, and.

Speaker 6 (11:56):
Then I'll be mushroom brain, Like the one emoji is
a mushroom and one is a brain.

Speaker 5 (12:01):
Two emogis next each other.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
I would say that that to me looks like he
is a user of psychedelics. This is just me ferreting
out some stuff here. Yes, And then he's got one
with books and a smiley face to nerd glasses, so
obviously academic. Then he has one with a bunch of
weight plates and and weightlifting, and based on his abs,
I'd say that's also And then gorilla brain. Do we

(12:25):
know what that could mean? Gorilla and a brain? Do
we know what that is? Do we have any idea?
And then and then he has one that looks like
a cow and a judge, a cow judge? What is that?
What is a cow judge?

Speaker 5 (12:37):
I never had anything made me feel more old.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
Yeah, I have no idea what we're looking at it
right now? Yeah, I mean it looks like a judge.
It looks like someone sitting in judgment on someone else.
And then he just his name is Luigi Mangione, l
U I G I M A N G I O
N E Louis G. Mandear. And when you click on
his link tree profile, Now when you see all of

(13:00):
these emojis, which I don't know.

Speaker 5 (13:04):
What they are.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Oh, let's see he's got a Facebook profile too, let's
do a little deep digging.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
Nope, I was sharing that.

Speaker 6 (13:11):
Oh well, first of all, that top left, that picture,
that's a Pokemon?

Speaker 5 (13:15):
What the top that that?

Speaker 6 (13:16):
That picture on his cover photo on Twitter left, that's
a Pokemon.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
I don't know what the name of the pokemon is
about one hundred percent of pokemon.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Okay, Now click on the link tree link and then
you'll get to the other emojis.

Speaker 6 (13:26):
PEP Mangione's this guy's handle going to link this? Oh
my goodness, do.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
You see what I mean? And and blow them up
so I could see what.

Speaker 5 (13:37):
We're Obviously I know what that is.

Speaker 6 (13:40):
That's a computer nerd ninja that runs and weight lives.
He's a nerd.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Yeah, I mean brain and mushroom brain.

Speaker 5 (13:49):
Unless it's something like related. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
Corow judge you see the cowju see cow.

Speaker 6 (13:55):
Judge, is this saying like, is this an emoji way
to like basically give his resume?

Speaker 5 (14:02):
I mean I don't.

Speaker 6 (14:04):
Maybe that's what I'm seeing here, that's what visually it
looks back, but also nothing else is on his link tree.

Speaker 5 (14:08):
What happened? You douys have a really wicked uh six pack?

Speaker 3 (14:13):
There?

Speaker 5 (14:13):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 6 (14:14):
So the middle the middle is an X ray of
him having something injected into his spinal that looks.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Like a fusion to me. Okay, that looks like a
spinal fusion to me.

Speaker 5 (14:23):
A guy that young.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Oh yeah, I mean if you break your back, you
break your back. I mean, you know you don't have
an option to.

Speaker 6 (14:29):
Not going to identify this Pokemon for you using Google lens.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (14:34):
We have to know what poke happened is? I'm really
into Pokemon right now.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
I'm going to LinkedIn and I'm pulling up stuff on LinkedIn.
By the way, if you guys want to know how
the news people in the world loom pree Loom.

Speaker 5 (14:48):
What's bree Loom's deal?

Speaker 6 (14:49):
Bre Loom is a grass and fighting type Pokemon Jen
three hmm, Yeah, that's pretty much the uh the gist
a bree Loom.

Speaker 5 (15:02):
He's just a cool gress.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
He's a data guy at truecr Incorporated. He's done a
lot with artificial intelligence. So I'm just looking at his
LinkedIn page. Yet nothing to indicate why he would be now.
He was an activities volunteer at Lorient Health Systems back
in twenty fourteen. But he's done a lot. I mean,

(15:28):
he's a smart dude. What the heck happened?

Speaker 5 (15:32):
He was a PI cap Phi capa PSI fraternity.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Who knows, I mean, who knows why someone does something
like this? But he's alive, and uh, maybe we'll get
to feel or get a you know, a sense from
him twenty six years old. Why are you gonna throw
your life away like this? I don't understand it. I'm
always my default position on stuff like this is he

(16:01):
wasn't in his right mind. But that's my default position
for most people who murder other people, because I can't
even imagine doing that unless it was in self defense,
you know.

Speaker 5 (16:11):
I mean, that is oh wow. So apparently.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
We'll see. We'll see what his manifesto says. And again,
what makes a manifesto? Maybe Judges Beef shows that the
county fairs, this texter said. Maybe spinal infusion not covered
by insurance, says this texter.

Speaker 5 (16:31):
No, they are one hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Mandy welcome home. Maybe he's in f FA or four
h and he's in livestock judging.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
I don't get I don't.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
I don't really get that.

Speaker 5 (16:42):
Vibe from him. I don't know Mandy.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Only straight white guy's manifesto gets published, trans school shooters
get classified.

Speaker 5 (16:48):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
If he's trands will never find the motive, says another texter.
Louis Luis Luigi's X profile has exploded in followers, so
they're you go and yes, I am in super blond mode.
So there you go on that one. Anyway, just curious,
says this texter. If this guy had nothing to do

(17:12):
with the murder and the media is letting out all
this information about him, can he sue anyone? No, because
he was named by police. He was named as a
suspect that was apprehended in Altuna, Pennsylvania, in a McDonald's.
He had a weapon on him that was the same
kind of weapon, which is not a common weapon. It's

(17:33):
the kind of weapon that you use on a farm
to kill livestock. It comes with a built in suppressor
so you don't scare all the other animals. And it
is not commonly used because you have to expel each
spent round yourself. You have to pull the chamber and
expel the spent rounds. It does not automatically expel, so

(17:54):
it's not a you know, an automatic sort of situation. Andy,
aren't you innocent until proven guilty? One hundred percent one
innocent until proven guilty. But this is kind of a
big story and you have to talk about it, and
you know you have to, So he is innocent until
proven guilty. We will obviously hear more about this. Luigi's

(18:18):
gen z makes Patrick Bateman? What is who is Patrick Bateman?
Do I know who that is? Somebody else just affered
who he was following.

Speaker 5 (18:27):
Let's see who he's following.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
This is interesting, as recline, he's following a lot of
conservative people, Sam Altman, Edward Snowden. Oh, but then he's
following AOC.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
No, I'm sorry, I am so sorry. I'm looking at
the wrong thing. I'm trying to There we go seventy
six following verified followers.

Speaker 5 (18:49):
Uh, nope, those are followers following.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah, I mean he's hired he's following as recline not conservative.

Speaker 5 (18:59):
Uh, looking through all of these.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
John Spencer, the Chair of Urban Warfare, said Edward Snowden,
Alexandria Acossio Cortes, Jonathan Hate, who wrote he's been writing
a lot about his new book, The Anxious Generation is out.
Robert Kennedy Junior. He's following Brett Weinstein. I'm skipping through these.
He was following John mcavee until he died. That guy

(19:24):
was crazy, follows Joe.

Speaker 6 (19:26):
I apologize if you said this, Sorry, but you see
The New York Post said, regarding the situation, No that
Manngioni had a particularly personal reason to hate the medical
community treatment of an ailing relative. Onlinebituary show he lost
a grandmother in twenty thirteen and a grandfather in twenty seventeen.

Speaker 5 (19:44):
Here's LinkedIn time to sit on a brudg.

Speaker 6 (19:46):
LinkedIn page indicates he once worked in an assisted living
facility for the elderly for a few months in twenty
fourteen while still in high school.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
That was a volunteer position. I looked at that one.
So people are asking me, where does the amazing John
work at Denver International Airport. He moves around. He works
in the information booths like the information things that are
on every concourse, so he could be anywhere.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
He could be anywhere.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
So yeah, we'll obviously find out more about this guy,
and as.

Speaker 5 (20:16):
We do, we will let you know what's going on.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
So there you go. I do want to take a
quick time out because I'm running late. When we get back,
let's jump into some of the stuff that I missed,
or we're going to start with Joe Biden partnering partnering
Hunter Biden because honestly, well just turnny after this. So
last week when I didn't have my phone, and if
you miss that story, as soon as they Rod publishes

(20:40):
the blog, you can go back and earth the podcast,
you can go back and listen to it. But I
didn't have my phone with me, so I was completely
disconnected from the news, which I was perfectly okay with.
It was actually a delightful, delightful break. And normally when
I come back, it's the same crap, different day, right,
so nothing has really changed what I think. Friday, someone said, hey,

(21:02):
do you hear Joe Biden pardon Hunter? And I was like, eh,
you know, and if we're all honest, and I'm gonna
ask you guys this question. You can text us at
five six six, And I know if you want to
weigh in on this, if it's your kid, even an
adult kid, and they haven't murdered someone, they haven't stolen

(21:22):
millions of dollars from people's retirement funds, and all of
the stuff that Hunter Biden.

Speaker 5 (21:27):
Is being accused of, most of it.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
I mean, he's got tax fraud and tax evasion and
stuff like that, but most of this stuff is directly
related to the fact that he was an addict. Now
he's a recovering addict, but at the time he was
in actively in his addiction. And if it was my kid,
I pardon him too. So the whole thing about people

(21:52):
being upset about this, and now there's all these people
coming out, we should we should roll back the president's
pardoning powers and all of this stuff. Being the president
of the United States has a lot of good perks,
but one of them is being able to pardon people.
And I don't have a problem with that most of
the time. Most of the time you don't have to

(22:14):
worry about to Most of the time it's people that
have committed financial crimes, or even people that committed a
crime served their time, but then got a presidential pardon
to basically take everything off their record. Right, So that's
kind of having that situation. But and now everybody is

(22:35):
coming out and talking about how Joe Biden should have
done this. He said he wasn't going to do Oh wait,
a politician lied about doing something unpopular. Color me confused.
Not really, I would absolutely pardon my own kid now
if they murdered someone, I don't think I would. So
I wasn't particularly shocked by this. And there's a story

(22:56):
that is out there today. I didn't put it on
the blog today. I was most of the through the
blog and my computer at home has completely crapped the bed,
so I'm not super happy about that. But nonetheless I
saw the story before my computer died, and the story
was about how Joe Biden has now seated decision making

(23:19):
to Donald Trump, essentially saying, look, you know what you're
coming in here? What do you want me to do?
And Democrats are super super mad about this, like super
mad about this.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
They are not happy at all that this.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
Is happening, but you know what, it's He's going to
be the president, so why not. And I still believe
that Joe Biden is doing all of this stuff because
he wants to give a giant middle finger to the
Democrats who stabbed him in the back. No, we have
more breaking news. I think. Hang on one second, when did

(23:52):
the Daniel Penny verdict come down? Did that just happen today? Okay,
So Daniel Penny is the former marine.

Speaker 5 (23:59):
I don't know if he was active duty or not.
I can't remember. Now.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
So Daniel Penny was in New York City and a
homeless guy was acting crazy and out of control on
a subway car and threatening everybody, and Daniel Penny locked
him up in a headlock or in a choke hold
and held him until police could get there. And the
guy died, and Daniel Penny was charged by the City
of New York.

Speaker 5 (24:24):
He was just acquitted. Now, what's interesting about this.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
One of my very best friends lives in New York
City and she was on the subway not too long ago,
and there was a similar situation where on the subway
a man was harassing a woman on the subway, and
she said other women got up and intervened, but none
of them men would And I said, why in the
world would a man in New York City come to
anyone's defense when then he was going to be charged

(24:50):
with a crime. She didn't have an answer for that.
This is great news, though, I mean thankfully this jury
in New York City said, yeah, by the way, what
did mister Neely say? This is a quote from the trial.
The question was, so, what did mister Neely say to
make you think he might be a threat? Daniel Penny said,

(25:11):
I'll hurt everyone here, I'll kill you, and I don't
care if I go to prison. Pretty clear. Now, what's
interesting is they decided to press charges in New York City,
where a vast majority of people ride the subway every day,
so they know exactly what happens in the subway. When
I go to New York. When I stand in the subway,
I stand with my back either against a column or

(25:35):
I stand with my back against the wall, away from
where the train's coming in, because crazy homeless people just push.

Speaker 5 (25:40):
People onto the tracks.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
It doesn't happen every day, but it happens with enough
frequency that it makes me very nervous when I'm there
because I don't do it every day, so it makes
me nervous when i'm there. So Daniel Penny being acquitted
is the best thing that can happen for residents in
New York City. But I don't blame men for not
doing anything when someone is hurting someone else. I really

(26:03):
can't believe how the fact that this has happened at all,
that we live in a society where we have more
compassion for the criminals than we do for the people
who stand up and do the right thing. So, yeah,

(26:24):
Daniel Penny was a hero. He should have never been
charged with a crime. And Hunter Biden being pardoned by
his dad. First of all, did anybody really believe that
Joe Biden wasn't gonna pardon Hunter Biden on the way out? Really? Really,
did you really believe that? And I want to point
out that every single time presidential pardons come down, there's
a big kerfuffle about presidential pardons. But tough, tough, the

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president has the right to issue these pardons. Now, when
we get back, I'm going to do a short list
of people that members of Congress are asking to be pardoned.
And guess what, the only one that I find truly
objectionable came from wait for it, Alexandria Acossio Cortes. Will
do that next A lot of you make a point

(27:09):
on the text line, Mandy, I would agree to a
presidential pardon powers only on crimes that have been completely charged,
and they've already been convicted. I don't believe they should
be allowed to pardon for crimes that have not been charged.
The preemptive pardon I do have an issue with I
do now A lot of you are pointing out this, Mandy.
I don't think Joe Biden gives a flying leap about

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his son. I think he gave the pardon not to
his son, but to himself. There is definitely part of
that in this situation, because if they continue to investigate
Hunter Biden, then who knows where that will lead if
it will lead back to the big guy and his
cut of whatever was going on.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Now.

Speaker 5 (27:49):
I do want to point this out.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
I don't think that anything is going to happen to.

Speaker 5 (27:54):
Joe Biden after he leaves office.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
I just we've already heard from one prosecutor that he's
an elder man with a bad memory and very sympathetic
to the jury, very sympathetic, So they're not.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
Going to charge him with anything.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
And after running in twenty sixteen on a campaign of
lock her up, what did Donald Trump do about Hillary Clinton? Nothing.
Politicians are loath to go after one another unless they
are Donald Trump. Democrats have kind of opened the door
on that with all of the nonsense that happened during

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the first Trump administration, with the ridiculous Moeller investigation and
Russian collusion nonsense and all that crap. They really open
the door in a way that I think they are
going to regret going forward. But I don't think Donald
Trump is going to be the guy to call anyone
to the carpet. I just don't Maybe maybe he's still embittered.
I don't know. I wouldn't blame if he if he was,

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I mean, I really wouldn't. But that being said, I
want to point out some of the other people now
that Joe Biden has pardoned Hunter, by the way, he
has had far fewer pardons then prior presidents farviewer. Now
people are asking all kinds of people to be pardoned.

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One of them is Stephen Donzinger, an environmental lawyer accused
of using fraudulent evidence to win a lawsuit against Chevron.
I have an issue with that because if you abuse
the legal system for your own gain, that's in my
mind a huge crime, huge crime. Representative Jim McGovern who's

(29:32):
asking for that pardon of Donzinger. He's also urging Biden
in a separate letter to posthumously exonerate Ethel Rosenberg, citing
significant evidence that she did not engage in the Soviet
spying for which he was executed in nineteen fifty three.
Thomas Massey is asking Biden to pardon Juliana Sange, and

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not only that, he wants pardons for Edward Snowden and
drug trafficker Ross Olbrook, the guy who set up these
Folk Road website where massive amounts of drugs were sold
over the Internet. Now Massey is a libertarian and so
he wants them pardoned. Representative Pressley from Massachusetts is asking

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Billy Allen, a death row inmate who says he was
wrongly convicted a murder, as well as Michelle West and
ismil Lera who are serving life sentences for drug related offenses.
Now here's the one that gets me. And guess who
did it. It's your favorite and mine, Alexandria Cossio Cortez.
He wants a pardon for indigenous activist Leonard Peltier. Now

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you may remember he was convicted of killing two FBI agents.

Speaker 5 (30:42):
No no, no, o.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
No.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Several lawmakers verged Biden to pardon President elect Donald Trump.
I you know, I I don't know. I just don't know.
He don't forget the thousands of people he just pardoned
for marijuana used. So he's given a lot of pardons.
His wife guided Joe's hand on Hunter's pardon.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
YO.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
I can say this one thing I do believe about
Joe Biden. I'm not a fan of the guy overall,
but there's no doubt he loves his children, no doubt,
and so I don't think he needed to be guided.
I think he watched his entire fifty something year political
career crumble because of the actions of the Democrats, and

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the last thing he can do is give his son
the opportunity to not have to deal with this crap
and protect himself at the same time. I would do it.
I'm just telling you right now, this person says, Joe
Biden heard that Luigi Mangione was arrested at McDonald's in Pennsylvania.
Joe thought it was the same McDonald's that Trump worked at.

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Joe thinks that Luigi was looking to shoot Trump. Therefore,
Joe will pardon Luigi. I don't think so. Yeah, I
do not think so. I do not think that's going
to happen at all. So I say, uh, this happens
every time there's pardons, and I am not going to.

Speaker 5 (32:17):
Get caught up in the kerfuffle.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
By the way, when we get back, I'm going to
talk about a few things local here. The long suffering
Laura Thomas is finally resigned from the Douglas County Commission,
and I have a message for my fellow Douglas Countians
when we get back, because the new County Commission. I
don't want to cast dispersions against Kevin van Winkle, but

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if he turns into a rubber stamp for the other
two clowns that are on that commission, Douglas County's in trouble,
really really big in trouble. And I also want to
talk a little bit in the next hour about our
Christmas markets. I learned some things, I observe some stuff
about Europe that I I want to talk to you,
and we're going to do that after this.

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Speaker 3 (33:29):
Welcome Baha, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
We are back. I am back from vacation, and as
I do every time I travel, I put on my
observation eyeballs for you, and going to another country is
always an interesting experience to find out what they've got
going on it's better than us, and what we've got

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going on, it's better than them. And we started in Vienna,
which if you've never been to Vienna, Austria, it is
an absolutely magical city.

Speaker 5 (34:02):
Even when it's not Christmas time.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
It is just a stunning city, really really beautiful, and
it's very walkable. And the one thing I always forget
about Europe until I get there is that a lot
of people still smoke, so you're pretty much smells like
cigarette smoke all the time. And as an American where
we've pretty much alienated everyone who smokes from you know,

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polite society, it's very odd and jarring to walk around
and okay, imagine the Christmas markets are these booths, they're large.
They none of the Christmas markets have like just tents,
set up. They have these little houses that everybody has
their stuff inside the little house, and people are walking
by and you'll be shoulder to shoulder, person right in

(34:47):
front of you, person right behind you, very very crowded,
and someone will just light up a cigarette, like right
in your face. And that is so in the States,
I think people are much more considerate.

Speaker 5 (35:00):
Smokers are much more considerate than that.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
So that part, I'm always like, dang, Europe, you got
to get it together with the smoking thing, because it's gross.
Learned a vape, you know, I'll walk through your cloud
of cotton candy.

Speaker 5 (35:12):
Whatever that is. I don't care, but it's just it's
a lot of people still smoke.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
Thing Number two about Europe that you should know very
few people are fat.

Speaker 5 (35:23):
And it's because everybody walks everywhere.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
And I really paid attention to this when I was there,
because here we have our governor, Governor Jared Polis, trying
to get us all out of our cars and in
a mass transit, and I realized something is we're at
the last Christmas market we went to was in Nuremberg, Germany,
which is beautiful, beautiful little town, really nice. They got
the crap bombed out of them in World War two.

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And Old Nuremberg, which is inside the fortification.

Speaker 5 (35:51):
Gates of medieval Nuremberg.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
It got completely flattened in World War two, really destroyed
in World War two, and instead of just rebuilding with
post war construction, which is all ugly, it's all just
block building. Those You can tell post war from pretty
war very very easily in Europe. Across Europe, it's very similar.
But in Nuremberg they said, we want our medieval village back,

(36:16):
so they built rebuilt the houses in the style of
the medieval houses that were there before it was bombed.

Speaker 5 (36:22):
So it has a lot of charm to it.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
But we're at the Christmas market in Nuremberg and it
is like thirty degrees and raining. So I gotta tell
you guys, I do not like humidity period, and I really.

Speaker 5 (36:39):
Don't like humidity. When it's cold and it's.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Raining, it is that to me, is the most miserable
weather you can get. Like snow, I'm good, Like Okay,
it's snowing, I'm fine, I can brush. Nope, I'm just
soaked to the bone. I have my raincoat on. If
you're going to if you're going to Germany, to go
to the Christmas markets in December. Take a giant rain hat,
take your raincoat, take warm clothes because you're gonna freeze,
or took us off because it's not.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
Cold like it is here. It's freezing.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
But we're walking around and the Christmas market is still
packed with people. Okay, absolutely packed. It's cold, it's raining,
and I realized something about the Germans, and then I
thought about Americans. We're not tough like those people when
it comes to bad weather. We're just not as tough
as the German people. You see them out there. Okay,

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so it's raining, right, it's cold, it's like thirty degrees.
People are all pushing strollers. They got their babies wrapped
up in these like little baby sleeping bag things, and
they got the babies out. They got covers over them.
They got babies out in this weather. They're out in
this weather. They're not concerned at all. They don't have
an umbrella. They have a hat on, but they don't
have an umbrella. And I thought that the Americans are

(37:49):
not tough like this. We're just not. We're spoiled. We
don't like to be outside in bad weather. Can do
you think we could relearn that I don't know. I
just don't think gonna I don't think it's gonna.

Speaker 5 (38:01):
Work the same.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
We are too dissuaded by any sort of bump in
the road when it comes to dealing with the uh,
the atmosphere outside.

Speaker 5 (38:11):
So that those were the two things.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
Everybody walks. No one's fat. Everybody smokes, uh, not everybody.
Thirty percent of the people smoke. That's part of the
reason they're still saying, you guys. Nobody wants to say this,
but I'm gonna say it. Once they started pushing everyone
to quit smoking, that's part of the reason we all
got fat, because whether you like it or not, smoking

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kills your appetite.

Speaker 5 (38:36):
It is a stimulant.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
Now that is not a reason to start smoking, because
then it also destroys your lungs. Right. So, but everyone's
thin every and everyone in Germany looks dehydrated to me.
A friend of mine went to a conference in Berlin
not too long ago, maybe a month and a half ago,
and she said, God, German men are not attractive and

(38:58):
they all look dehydrated. And I thought that's a weird
thing to say. But then I started looking around. I
was like, they all do look dehydrated. They need water.
All they drink is beer and schnapps. Oh boy, oh
by the way, oh never.

Speaker 5 (39:12):
Mind, I won't say todays I'm paying attention.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
Mandy, tough or stupid? Why the hell are we supposed
to go out in crappy weather? That's the thing in
in a lot of these German cities, the weather is
crappy for the entire month of December. So you gotta
suck it up, like if you need to go, you
got up.

Speaker 5 (39:33):
You gotta live.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
You can't just stay home.

Speaker 5 (39:36):
You gotta go out in this crappy weather.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
Mandy. It's all about motivation. Look at Broncos fans or
Packer fans. We take on the cold. I would do
the cold in Denver. I would not do the cold
in Green Bay because that is wet cold. Those people
in Green.

Speaker 5 (39:51):
Bay are crazy.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
But I'm not even talking about that kind of severe weather.
I'm just talking about a miserable rain in the cold.
So the other thing I found out and that a
lot of serbians on this trip, a lot of Serbians
doing various things. I bought a bunch of cheese from
a Serbian guy one of the Christmas markets, and they're like, oh,
where are you from? In they're broken English, and I

(40:14):
was like, oh, Colorado. First you say the United States.
First you say the US, the United States, and then
they go where in the US, and you go Colorado
and they go joker. Nikola Jokick is a national.

Speaker 5 (40:27):
Hero to Serbians.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
They adore our basketball player and they are so proud
that he is Serbian. I mean it is. I talked
to a cab driver, my massage therapist on the on
the ship Goren from Serbia. They're all so excited. He
it was. It was really kind of special to hear
how excited they were about Nikola Jokik. Mandy, they're not

(40:53):
fat because they smoke. Yes, exactly exactly, Mandy. I'm a
simple solution to people getting out side in the crappy weather.
Become a delivery person also helps with losing weight. I'm
just saying we would not go out in this, Mandy.
Curious about lung cancer rates there. If it's not higher,
that's weird, Okay. I thought about this very thing, texture

(41:16):
and here's what I've come up with. First of all,
I didn't have my phone to look up the lung
cancer rates in Germany. Let's do that very quickly. But
I already have a theory. Cancer rates in Germany versus
the world. Let's see if it's any higher. Oh wow.
Lung cancer rates in Germany are considered relatively high compared

(41:38):
to the global average, ranking around the middle of the pack,
with an EH standard rate of roughly twenty eight point
one cases per one hundred thousand people. The global average
twenty two point five per one hundred thousand slightly lower.
So yeah, they do have but in Europe, Germany's lung

(41:58):
cancer rate is considered to be middle range. Now what's
interesting about that is, you know, we think of cigarettes
give you lung cancer. Not everybody who smokes is going
to end up with lung cancer. Not everybody who smokes
is gonna end up with COPD or emphysema or any
of the other horrible illnesses that you get when you smoke.
But you don't know that until after you've smoked for

(42:19):
many decades, and then you find out if you're the
lucky one to get the disease. But a co morbidity
or a co cofactor for cancer is obesity. Obesity is
a huge cofactor for cancer. So maybe because they're all thin,
and maybe it's all the shnopps. I don't know, but

(42:41):
it was. It was disconcerting to be around that much smoke. Anyway, Mandy,
So Europe is like Vegas. I just got back from
National Finals rodeo and I feel like I need to
burn my clothes because I smell like cigarette smell and
a casino. Go darn Towton was the final there go

(43:03):
darn tutin, Mandy. I can picture Mandy looking like the
Gordonman fisherman with a bratwers. I would have loved that
giant hat that the Gordon's fisherman has. That would have
been fantastic. Oh, because here's the other thing. If you
have an umbrella, imagine walking with one hundred thousand other
people with an umbrella, and the Asian visitors to the

(43:25):
Christmas markets are exactly the same height with their umbrella
as my eyeballs. So I got stabbed in the eyeball
multiple times by umbrellas. Anyway, the cigarettes are different in
Europe than they are here. Some of them are, some
of them aren't. They're still cigarettes. You're still getting cancer
and nicteen and all that stuff from the cigarettes.

Speaker 5 (43:43):
They're still getting those things.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
Mandy. I've seen plenty of fat people who smoke. Yes, indeed,
you are correct. It won't keep you thin, but it
does keep some people thin. That's why all supermodels.

Speaker 5 (43:54):
Used to smoke.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
All they did was smoke cigarettes, drink coffee and take Okay,
why they were supermodels, this person said, and they're happier.
I don't feel that way. Part of it is because
Germans can be very abrupt. We ate in a German
restaurant the last day that we were in Nuremberg, and

(44:19):
our waiter, every time I asked him for something, first
he would roll his eyes and then he would do it.
But it was a very German experience for sure. So, Mandy,
are the nicotine rates different in Europe than here? I
don't know which one you are saying. I don't know

(44:39):
which part that is nicotine rates?

Speaker 5 (44:42):
What does that mean?

Speaker 3 (44:45):
Mandy? Thank you for the advice for longevity. Going out
to stock up on schnapps right now. So we did
a schnapps tasting at a Schnapp's store. First of all,
I had no idea how many different kinds of schnops
there were. There's god, there's I had. You would be
forty or fifty in this one store. And I finally
asked the guy behind the counter and said, so you

(45:06):
pretty much just make schnops out of whatever, right, because
some of them are horrible. Some of them taste like
the worst medicine you had to take as a kid.
That's what some of these schnops taste like. But some
of them are quite delicious. And it's like, oh, you're
not feeling well, have some schnops. Oh, you're feeling good,
Have some schnopps. Hello, have some schnapps, Oh, goodbye, have

(45:27):
some shopspy schnapp shop shops.

Speaker 5 (45:30):
It was fantastic.

Speaker 3 (45:33):
Mandy. The French and British seemed woefully unhappy. So, yeah, Mandy,
you're really selling Germany in December. And I'm glad you
said that text her because the weather's horrible. But it's
still something that I loved. I loved this trip. First
of all. I love learning about history. So like in
the morning, we would go on a walking tour with

(45:54):
a guide. And if you travel, I always recommend this
to people.

Speaker 5 (45:59):
The first day that you're wherever you are.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
There are companies called find There's like find your Guide
is one of them. Find your Guide is an app.
Via Tour is another one vi a t o r
is another app where you can book these tours yourself.
Take a tour of the city that you're in if
you've never been there. Now I know people are like, oh,
we like to discover on our own. It's not about
seeing everything, it's about getting the lay of the land.

(46:23):
And then you can also ask the tour guide where
did you and your friends eat? I asked our tour
guides which Christmas markets do you go to?

Speaker 5 (46:31):
So it's it's a very instructive way to do it.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
So Mandy Twitter versus Europeans are thin because their food
doesn't have the chemicals et cetera ours does. And Maha
red Man gives all the benefits of nicotine. Uh oh
red Man, No, No, chewing tobacco is so bad. It's
way worse than cigarettes are. And cigarettes are bad, But
chewing tobacco and dip snuff no. When I was in

(46:57):
high school, I went to I grew up in a
rural area and when I was a kid, one of
our largest cash crops in my area was tobacco, So
the state tobacco market was in my hometown. So tobacco
was a part of my life growing up and most.

Speaker 5 (47:11):
Of the boys that I went to high school with
used to.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
Dip Copenhagen stuff, and then they made us go to
the VA hospital and visit veterans who had lost their
entire frontal jaw, like they had to remove their front
jawbone because they had oral cancer so bad. From that
it was it was very illuminating, and it's very hard.

(47:33):
It's harder to stop dipping or chewing than it is
to stop smoking. Mandy lived in Germany for four years
while in the army. Loved pretty much every day of
it in all seasons. Mandy, did you have a donor kebab?
It's still a great street food. They actually have it
at the Denver Christmas Market. No, but let's see what
we did eat. Chuck and I took this strategy. We

(47:54):
were like, you know what, We're just going to go
through the Christmas market. We'll buy one of whatever we're
going to eat and then we'll split it. We had
amazing potato pancakes. We had lots of sausages, because the
sausages here in the United States they don't I don't
know what they do over there. They're so delicious, they're
not greasy, they're just so good, lots of sausages. We

(48:17):
had pastries, we had fried dough, we had an Austrian flatbread.
We had all of these different foods, which is why
I'm going back on.

Speaker 5 (48:23):
Soda next week.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
So there you go, Mandy. A friend of mine in
Germany smokes non filtered cigarettes, and I think the only
oxygen he gets is through a cigarette. Yes, he's just
dehydrated in weighs like ninety pounds. So there you go, Mandy.
I just love the taste of tuna schnapps. Hey, do
not suggest that to the Germans. They'll figure it out

(48:49):
this one. Did you let Q try schnapps? What was
your and Q's faith? You know, the shops we were drinking.
We're fifty percent alcohol at the minimum, going up to
sixty percent alcohol. And Q did not go with us
on this trip. A dear family friend of ours flew
in from Louisville and they spent the week together, and
so she did not go with us on this trip.

(49:10):
But I probably would not let her try schnapps. Actually maybe,
because then she wouldn't be tempted to do, you know,
dumb stuff when she was a teenager.

Speaker 5 (49:19):
Here try this, have about some absence a Rod.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
Some of these the first schnops that they made us taste,
it was I'm not saying my gag reflex almost kicked in,
but it almost did. And then you have like this
dragon breath of this medicinal schnapps, this herbal medicinal whatever
it was. It was awful. But then, but then we

(49:44):
tried different varieties and some of them were outstanding, really
outstanding chocolate chili schnapps. That one was my favorite. That
one was the one that I was like, Okay, that
is something I could drink again. It was.

Speaker 5 (49:57):
It was quite tasty.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
Mandy, I've heard that smoking dolls your sense of taste.

Speaker 6 (50:02):
It does.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
And all of you who are now saying, we're all
gonna say darn tutin to Mandy, Yeah you can, I'll
read it out. I don't care, do not care. Some
other stuff that we talked about in Vienna. They talked
about the fact that colleges are free, universities are free,
and our tour guide was talking about the healthcare system

(50:25):
and things of that nature. The healthcare system there is
very expensive and it is on a sliding scale, so
it's income based with a sliding scale. So if you
make a decent living. Your healthcare cost will be about
twenty grand a year just for the insurance.

Speaker 5 (50:40):
What you have free university if.

Speaker 3 (50:42):
You can get in. And then she was quick to say,
but oh boy, do we pay for it? Their taxes
are outrageously high, outrageously high.

Speaker 6 (50:52):
I'm curious, because I've told you before, we have great
new friends that just moved here in Austria this year.
I'm curious if you had the similar converse with anyone
else there about country pride and the difference of them
not understanding whatsoever what it is to be proud to
be in America your country, and or to serve and

(51:13):
toorch just have that pride because obviously, you know, you know,
the history of Austria is not something they even understand
or ever have.

Speaker 5 (51:20):
I think part of that is because Europe is.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
Europe is obviously they're all connected, right, but they're individual nations.
But there's no the borders are very loose among certain countries.
There's a lot of people that move from country to
country very easily because you can immigrate within the EU
very very easily, and a lot of the countries are
distinct in different regions, so they don't have the sort

(51:47):
of national pride that we have, and I think part
of it is because we're basically I mean, obviously Canada
is above us, Mexico's below us, but because we have
oceans on both sides, we're a little more isolated than
everybody in Europe is.

Speaker 5 (51:58):
Yeah. And then the mandatory service for those of Austria.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
For the men, yeah, six months, six months, six months.

Speaker 5 (52:03):
It was done and be done and then they move
on with their way. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (52:06):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
The last thing I want to talk about real quick
is Oh, my gosh, it just went right out of
my head and it was really good. Shoot, got the smoking,
we got the thin, we got the dehydration. I can't
remember what the last thing was, and it was very clever.
It was going to be my punctuation mark, but I I, oh,
dag nab it. You guys, oh oh, this is perfect.

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Do you know what they call city hall in German?

Speaker 6 (52:31):
A rod?

Speaker 5 (52:32):
Do you know what they call city hall?

Speaker 3 (52:34):
What you're going to know it because from now on
I will be referring to Denver City Hall as the
Denver rat House rat house r A t h o
U S rat House. So I'm going to be referring
to our city halls from now on houses.

Speaker 5 (52:49):
Did anyone help you how to pronounce Austria German?

Speaker 4 (52:52):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (52:53):
No, because well Germany is Deutsch, Deutschland, you know Deutsch.
So I learned a lot of stuff. It was a
lot of fun, absolutely a.

Speaker 5 (53:04):
Blast beautiful, beautiful too.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
And for this text through who said, Mandy, don't get
drump on, don't get drunk on rumplements, you won't be
able to brush your teeth for a week without gagging.

Speaker 6 (53:14):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (53:16):
Correct.

Speaker 5 (53:17):
We're going to take a quick time out.

Speaker 3 (53:19):
When we get back, we're going to get into some
of the stories that happened locally. And I got a
message from my Doug Co friends right after this, as
the Douglas County turns right. I do live in Douglas County.
And I got back and saw that Laura Thomas, a
county commissioner who has was term limited out in this
last election. So she is going to be leaving office

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January seventeenth, and she will be that district will be
represented by Kevin van Winkle. And I don't know Kevin.
I don't know anything about Kevin. I don't want to
cast dispersions against Kevin. But what I do know is this,
I don't trust those other two clowns on the County Commission,
and they like Kevin. So I am already a little
bit nervous about this.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
Now.

Speaker 5 (54:02):
Why am I even bringing this up now?

Speaker 3 (54:04):
Because, in typical perfect punctuation mark fashion, the two clowns
that I'm talking about, Abe Layden and George Teele, they
could not wait to get Laura, who they absolutely hated
because she asked questions like is this good for the taxpayers?
And do we need to spend that money? And other
questions that I liked. They evicted her from her office

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like today, told Staph to go ahead and move her
out of her office to make room for Kevin, who
is not in office yet.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
Now.

Speaker 3 (54:35):
I realize that there is a turnover, but I've also
worked at the state Senate in Florida when this happened,
and guess what, they didn't give the offices to the
new people until after they were sworn in.

Speaker 5 (54:47):
Here's what I fear.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
I fear that George Teele and Abe Layden think they
have a yes man, another rubber stamp for all of
their dumb ass ideas that will cost Douglas County, and
somehow haven't figured out how I'm pretty sure it's going
to enrich the two of them. Don't know how they're
going to do it yet, but I feel like that's
definitely the vibe there. I also believe that the reason
that they were willing to assist Democrat Barb Marshall in

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keeping his seat in the House from Highland's Ranchaball places
was that George or a one of them is probably
going to run for that seat at some point. They
both have higher political aspirations.

Speaker 5 (55:23):
So we'll see.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
But the only reason I say this is if you
are a fellow Douglas County resident like I am, it
is time to start paying attention now. I would never
say this normally because I don't want you to suffer.
I love you listening audience, but we need to start
watching county commission meetings. We need to start attending County
commission meetings in force to keep these aforementioned clowns in check.

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So Laura is gone. She's resigned from the office because
she got sick of it and tired of it and
decided if they were going to kick her out of
her office, what's the point in showing up. So as
Douglas County turns just a little soap opera into the world.
It's you know what, I shouldn't call it as Douglas
County charts. It's more like.

Speaker 5 (56:04):
Like a bad version of Not's Landing.

Speaker 3 (56:06):
Remember that Soaproperate It was a spin off with not
Standing was a spinoff of Dallas and then Falcon Crest.

Speaker 5 (56:14):
Where did Falcon Crest come from? I can't remember.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
It's to love those shows and the shoulder pads and
all of their costumes. They're so good. But hopefully your
county works better than ours does. We'll find out. We'll
keep an eye eyeball on that. I also have a
couple of stories. Jared Police, our governor is in full
running for president mode.

Speaker 5 (56:37):
We already know this if you've listened to the show.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
We knew this was coming. So he's doing things that,
in my mind, are terrible for Colorado. But he doesn't
care because he's not really concerned about Colorado anymore, because
he knows that because we're such a blue state, he'll
win Colorado regardless of what else happens, So he doesn't
care about what happens from here on out. We have

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a budget shortfall in our budget this year because a
crap ton of federal money ran out, and they've been
spending like drunken sailors at the legislature, even as they
have taken more and more and more of our tax dollars.
The budget, by the way, has grown exponentially over the
last twenty years. Exponentially. It's absurd how much our budget

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has grown. So now they're all, poor mouthing we have
to cut six hundred million dollars, we just do No,
we're gonna do it. Well, why don't you cancel the
stupid offices that you've created. But that's neither here nor there. Well,
Jerry Poulis wants to balance the budget on the backs
of drivers.

Speaker 5 (57:38):
I didn't know this.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
Apparently Colorado has the eighth worst roads in the United
States of America, the eighth worst. We are a relatively
wealthy state, you guys. There's no reason that we should
have the worst roads except we have a governor who
installed a director of Sea dot who doesn't believe in driving.

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So if you want to get people out of their cars,
make being in their cars so miserable that they will
beg for an alternative.

Speaker 5 (58:09):
That's the thinking here.

Speaker 3 (58:11):
So what's happened is that this is according to a
Denver Gazette editorial which is really good linked on the
blog today at mandy'sblog dot com falcon Cress. It's been
off from Dynasty. I think, thank you Texters. This is
why I love you guys, because you give me the
right information. So, the state's medicaid budget has grown by

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four hundred and thirty percent in twenty years. Transportation funding
has not. We have had a state population increase of
nearly sixteen percent in the last twenty years, and now
the governor wants to cut one hundred and ten million
dollars out of the transportation budget. Now from where I'm sitting,
and I totally agree with this. This is in the

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in the gazette editorial. Paying for people's health insurance and
healthcare cost is not a function of government, full stop.
I realize that we have medicaid because people need it.
They're destitutely poor. We don't want them to die in
the streets, but that is not a core function of
government and should only be for the poorest of the poor.

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But instead we have people at one hundred and twenty
percent of the poverty level that are maybe not that
high now, that are accessing medicaid.

Speaker 5 (59:26):
Those people need to be pushed into.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
The Obamacare system so they can still get supplements, but
you know, subsidized. But they don't need to be on
the Medicaid system. The Medicaid system was designed for the
poorest of the poor, and we've expanded it to include
people that have no business being on Medicaid.

Speaker 5 (59:44):
Now.

Speaker 3 (59:45):
Transportation is a core function of government, and now they
want to cut one hundred million dollars as we have
the eighth worst roads in the country. I guess the
roads between Denver and Boulder, where the governor drives, are
just fine. Those roads are great, Mandy. Our roads are
totally sick. Oh, no, suck.

Speaker 5 (01:00:06):
Sorry, read that wrong. Well they were kind and put a.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
Little asterisk where the U goes because they didn't want
to curse on the text line.

Speaker 5 (01:00:13):
But I know what you mean.

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
Our roads totally suck. Was in upstate New York and
all the roads were awesome. We made the comment about
what you just brought up. This dexter said, Mandy, you
think it's stuff riding around in a car, Try wheeling
a semi around this blank hole of a state. Well,
at first I was mad about potentially cutting one hundred
million dollars out of the transportation budget. But then I thought,

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they're not spending it on roads in the first place.
What do I care if they cut more money out
of the transportation budget for bike lanes and road diets
where they actually make it smaller instead.

Speaker 5 (01:00:48):
Of making it bigger.

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
It was just really uh oh oh, thank you Texters. No,
Mandy falcon Crest was a standalonees came from Dynasty.

Speaker 5 (01:01:03):
All right, now, let me figure this out.

Speaker 3 (01:01:07):
Now, I'm gonna have to go back and find out
if I can. I watched an old episode of Dynasty,
like six years ago because it was on one of
those channels that only play old things.

Speaker 6 (01:01:17):
Y'all.

Speaker 5 (01:01:17):
That show was terrible. It was awful.

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
The acting was awful, the plot lines were ridiculous. It
was awful, and I loved it so good. By the way,
they continue the governor's trying to find six hundred and
thirty eight million dollars and cuts in revenue enhancements to
contend with the rising costs of medicaid and reduced revenues
as inflation declines. Can we can we have that just

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for a moment. Prices are still high. Inflation has declined,
but prices are still high. So how are we having
reductions in revenue when prices are still high. We're not
taking in less money. That's not why we need six
hundred and thirty eight million dollars in cuts. We need

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six hundred thirty eight million dollars in cuts because the
drunken monkeys at the legislature have been spending out of control.

Speaker 5 (01:02:13):
Now it gets better.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
Listen to this. Oh, I don't know if I read
this here, if I read it somewhere else. Oh, here
we go. Shoshan Alu, executive director of sea DOT, said
the cuts may force her department to transition programs into
enterprises that would allow the state to enact more fees
on consumers, meaning more taxes, meaning more tabor violations, meaning

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we are so screwed in this state. Mandy, I had
to have my windshield repaired because of a rock in
the roads, and the Safelight Auto person, which is a
nationwide company, said they were repairing more windshields in Colorado
than any other state in the nation because the roads
are so bad.

Speaker 5 (01:02:56):
Yes, literally, Safe Flight was at my house this morning.
There you got Safely repairs replace.

Speaker 6 (01:03:04):
I love that.

Speaker 5 (01:03:05):
Deductible.

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
Last comment on this, Mandy, the roads in Colorado are crap.
But what appeals to me is how much trash is
along the roads in Colorado. Twenty years ago, the sides
of the roads were pristine, y'all. Eleven years ago when
I moved here, I told people how clean Denver and
Colorado were. That was eleven years ago. Certainly can't say
that now.

Speaker 5 (01:03:26):
It's not. Well, We're just not the place we were
eleven years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 5 (01:03:31):
A lot of you are weighing in on the road situation.

Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
This person said, speaking of roads, Mandy, what did you
think of the roads on your recent trip to Austria
and Germany? I assume their high taxes support both mass
transit and well maintained roads.

Speaker 5 (01:03:46):
Yes, they do.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
They continue. In the late eighties, visited Switzerland, Germany and Austria,
and I thought the roads were in really good shape.
I don't support higher taxes on the wealthy, nor do
I support mass transit in Colorado. We're getting crappy mass
transit and crap the roads for our money. Oh wait,
I figured it out. They still don't collect enough of
our money to do it right. Love your show.

Speaker 5 (01:04:05):
The roads they're amazing. We went on the Audubon too.
Now we're in a bus, right, So.

Speaker 3 (01:04:10):
We're in a bus, and the bus has a governor
on it, so it can only go a certain you know,
miles per hour or kill it kilometers per hour. And
while we were on the Audubon, like three porsches went zing,
I mean, just flying by us. And they've talked about
doing some kind of speed limit on the Audubon and.

Speaker 5 (01:04:29):
Everybody's like, no, we're not doing it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
They clocked a guy going the equivalent of two hundred
and twenty miles per hour on the Audubon, and there
was this kind of hue and cry that there should
be some kind of charges because this man went so
fast on the Audubon.

Speaker 5 (01:04:45):
And this is one of the things I love.

Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
They took it before a judge, and the judge was like,
I am not going to backdoor a speed limit on
the Audubon. Take your issue somewhere else. She's like, I'm
not going to do it. So you want to change it,
do it legislatively, We're not going to do it here.
So there's still no speed limit on the Autumn and
it's The roads are in great shape, I mean really
great shape, and mass transit is fantastic, Mandy. We definitely

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agree on s DOT. We've been waiting for an extra
lane in C four seventy since at least nineteen ninety five.
They finally started working on it in twenty twenty, but
they only gave us a toll lane and they kept
the highway bottlenecks that were always there. It's a congestion generator,
which is frustrating and dangerous.

Speaker 5 (01:05:27):
Correct correct, And you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
Know what's funny, Like a lot of people don't like
to drive on E four seventy because it's a toll road.
But E four seventy was like, you know what, we
don't have enough lanes. So they got cracking and like
two years later the lanes open up and there you go.
I love E four seventy. Love it, Mandy. I wish
you would do a deep dive on the amount of
fees we pay, since polist makes everything a fee instead

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of a tax. I bet, Colorado is one of the
highest states in fees. Remember Walls Harris's VP had the
highest taxes in his state. He brags about having low taxes,
low property taxes, YadA, YadA, YadA. But the last time
I went to register my car was unbelievable how many
fees are tacked on. Now, I want to do a
little primer real quick, because we have a lot of

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new people to the state of Colorado, and they may
not realize what the magic of Tabor was for many,
many years. If you're new and you've heard about Tabor,
it is the taxpayer's bill of rights. That's what TABOR
stands for, taxpayer's bill of rights. And in Colorado, if
they want to raise taxes on the citizens, they have
to ask for our permission via the ballot box. They

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can't just raise taxes. They have to come to us
and say, we need more money, would you please raise
taxes on yourself? But not enough people, amazingly enough, voted
to raise taxes on themselves. So our legislators got really cute,
really clever. They started passing taxes but calling them fees
or you know, some kind of whatever. But they weren't taxes,

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but they they worked exactly the same way as taxes.

Speaker 5 (01:07:02):
But now they're called fees.

Speaker 3 (01:07:04):
And our Colorado Supreme Court has affirmed this, which means
our Colorado Supreme Court is full of left wing idiots
in my opinion, But you're right, and now Shoshana louis
talking about needing more fees to pay. But see, here's
the thing. I would almost be okay with paying. I

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drive on E four seventy, right, I know I'm gonna
have to pay for it. I drive on E four seventy.
I agree to those conditions when I get on it.
But if I could only pay for roads and not
have any of my tax dollars go to any of
the other clap trap the Department of Transportation is doing,
I would pay on a per use basis.

Speaker 5 (01:07:47):
But I am not going to pay more money.

Speaker 3 (01:07:49):
To drive on the road when they are siphening off
road money into all of this other mass transit garbage.
By the way, even as police wants to cut one
hundred million dollar he is he is shoveling over six
million dollars to Bustang, which less than one percent of
Colorado's ever ride Bustang, which is the express bus service

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between Colorado Springs and uh, I don't even know Boulder,
Maybe I don't even know where Bustang goes. Now, he
loves to cater to the tiny percentage of people that
actually use mass transit while ignoring the rest of us
who have places to go in a timely fashion and
don't have an hour and a half to get wherever
we want to go. Oh, thank you Texter. Like the

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twenty nine dollars fee for Amazon deliveries exactly, that's a tax.
Maybe we need autobonds. I even have the German vehicle
for it. But can't hit more than one hundred and
thirty or one hundred and fifty miles per hour. Well,
you can go to Montana and open it up. I
don't know that Montana still has roads without a uh.

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I don't know if they still have roads without I
think they passed speed limits in Montana.

Speaker 5 (01:09:03):
I'll look that up on the brink. I'll be right back.

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of you texted. There is a speed limit in Montana
now daytime speed limit eighty miles per hour as of
twenty nineteen, So you have to go to the autumn
if you want.

Speaker 5 (01:09:50):
To just open it up.

Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
But apparently Audubon tourism is a thing. According to one
of our guides, people will fly to Germany, rent a
like a really really hopped up BMW or whatever, and
then they will just drive.

Speaker 5 (01:10:03):
On the Audubon. They'll come just to do that.

Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
So you got a reason to go to Germany. Now
many of you are irritable on the text line about
things like this. My son left the Army and joined
the Colorado National Guard. After a year, he still doesn't
have a uniform. He was told that all the money
used for uniforms was spent. There are several others without uniforms.

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So you know what, you know what I would do
if I was your son, and I'm I'm passive, aggressive
and would have been kicked out of the military a
long time ago. So he may not want to do this,
but if I was him, I would show up for
any kind of training, exercise, whatever, with a shirt that
just said uniform T shirt just have one printed uniform
saying I made my own uniform because you guys can't

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get me one because we've already spent the money. There
you go. Now. So there's a story today about State
Senator Sonya Jacks Lewis, who uh. The only thing I
know about her is she loves gun control, cannot get
enough of gun control. She is a reliable progressive. But
she must have ticked off the wrong people at the
Capitol because they are all coming after her with knives out.

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Two legislative aids have now complained that she did things
like have them bartend at a function in her house
and mow her lawn. Now, to her credit, she paid
them both, but she paid them out of campaign funds
and did not make their required declarations in.

Speaker 5 (01:11:31):
Her campaign reporting.

Speaker 3 (01:11:34):
I got an email from someone today that said, would
you consider having her on your show to get her
side of the story. I absolutely would, ay, rod let's
reach out to her office. I did tell the emailer
most Democrats will not come on the show.

Speaker 5 (01:11:50):
So yeah, there you go. We shall see.

Speaker 3 (01:11:54):
But she has been stripped of the ability to use
state money to pay for legislative aids, so she has
no legislative aids now, and she's been stripped of her
committee assignments so I gotta tell you, whenever I see this,
the natural instinct of politicians is to protect each other.
That is just what they do. They know that at
any minute the fire could be coming their way, so

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they naturally protect each other. Generally speaking, when someone is
on the outs like this, they have ticked off somebody
in power badly, right, they have just ticked them off.

Speaker 5 (01:12:28):
And so I have to wonder. I'd love to hear
her side of the story.

Speaker 3 (01:12:34):
Because apparently this isn't the first set of legislative aids
that have complained about stuff. And I will I'll never
get tired of telling the story. There is a very
famous now she's a television host on Fox News. Her
name rhymes with Maura. And I met one of her

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interns many years ago, a former intern who said, yeah,
I worked for her when she had a radio show.
I worked for her for about six weeks and then
I quit. I said, why did you quit? She said,
on a Friday one day she said, Okay, I'll see
you guys at my townhouse in Georgetown tomorrow at nine am.
And they were like, what are we doing at your
townhouse in Georgetown tomorrow at nine am? She said, painting?

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It and she wasn't kidding. And this particular intern said,
no offense. But I didn't sign up to be an
intern to go paint your house. And she said, if
you want to keep working here, you will, And so
this woman quit her internship rather than go paint someone's house.
So abuse of legislative aids and interns is.

Speaker 5 (01:13:37):
A story as old as time.

Speaker 3 (01:13:40):
But what's happening now is that now you have all
these young people gen Z's, because legislative aids are all
very young, not all of them, I mean you have
the experienced aids to kind of run everything. The legislative
aids are usually young because it is a hard job.
You work really long hours, especially during the session. But

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it can also be a entry level stepping stone position
to working in politics. So a lot of people kind
of start off in the legislative offices and it's a
really hard job. Now we've got i'm guessing gen Z
coming in, and let me tell you something about gen Z.
You're not going to push them around without pushback, and

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they don't have the same desire to work their asses
off to prove themselves. They're just not going to do it.
And it's significant. I have a thing on the blog
today and I posted it and it's really funny. A
Rod sent it to me this morning, actually, a rod.
Let me let me play hang on, let me let
me turn this off and start it over real quick.

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This is allegedly a day in the office conversation between
a millennial and let me turn that up and gen z.
What's Oh you really shouldn't gender people like that. Okay,
what is a human? Honestly, that's problematic too.

Speaker 5 (01:14:57):
My friend identifies as a cat.

Speaker 3 (01:14:59):
Okay, what is a period?

Speaker 1 (01:15:02):
My windshield wipers are broken, so I don't feel safe
driving your windshield wipers?

Speaker 3 (01:15:07):
Okay, well, it's a it's a sunny day today. I
don't think it's supposed to rain or snow all week. Yeah,
but the risk gives me anxiety.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
Like my luck.

Speaker 3 (01:15:14):
It would start corn ripe the second I laughed.

Speaker 1 (01:15:18):
Oh, well, I'm looking at the weather right now and
it looks solid, like one hundred percent chance of sun
all day.

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
You know, like, I just can't, Jamie, I'm not a daredevil. Hello, Leonora, Jamie,
I can't come in today. There was a huge car
accident and I'm freaking out. Oh my god, are you okay? Lenora,
what happened? No, it was horrible. These two cars just
hit each other straight on. There was so much smoke
and it was so loud, which is everyone. Okay, were

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you in the front seat? Oh no, I was in
my apartment, but I could, like I could see it
happening from the street, like I actually watched it happen. Okay,
that is scary. Where people hurt. Everyone walked away. It
looks like it was very very strong, cold to think about, like.

Speaker 5 (01:16:01):
I definitely can't work today.

Speaker 3 (01:16:03):
Okay, Okay, I'm very sorry you're feeling that way. That
is not fun. Just to confirm you were not in
the car accident and you were not hurt. Yeah, but
I'm a witness, like I'm a third degree victim here.
I know that.

Speaker 5 (01:16:17):
That's a joke, Like I know, I know that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:21):
But then aroon. I read a story fairly recently that
said that gen Z takes the average of one day
per week as a mental health day. Now, my question is, like,
if you're on salary and you have sick time, you
only get a certain amount of sick days before they're
what docking your pay. I don't know how people are

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managing with this. I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:16:45):
I don't know how people are managing with this whole situation.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
It's it's it's interesting, but it's also kind of super
sad at the same time, super sad. So maybe these
I'd love to know the age of these legislative aids,
not for any reason other than I'm wondering if they're
gen Z, because y'all, gen Z's not gonna take our crap.
I say this about radio all the time. When I

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started a radio, it was expected that you were going
to do an internship for free, and if they needed
you to work for free for eighty hours a week,
you were gonna do it. And guess what we did
because that was the only way to get in the door.
That was the only way to get into the business.
But it also taught you all kinds of stuff because
you did everything. At one point, you guys, this is

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a true story. I had to hand wash the station vaned,
I picked up dry cleaning. I babysat someone's kid in
the office one day. I did everything they asked. But
this generation coming up now, they're going to be like,
I don't think so go pound sand.

Speaker 5 (01:17:46):
That's not my job description.

Speaker 3 (01:17:48):
Have a nice day, A lot of you weigh in.
My daughter is twenty, that sounds exactly like her. What
have we done to these kids? And how do we
fix it? Can you imagine if we literally, if we
if we actually go into World War three and we're
gonna send these kids that can't even come to work

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because there when shield wipers don't work.

Speaker 5 (01:18:10):
I wish I'd thought of that, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
Monica Lewinsky had to leave the country after her internship.
That is true. That is absolutely true. My wife, who
is fifty five, has unlimited time off and she rarely
takes a day off. She works in the finance world,
so it's definitely not stress free. You guys, can we
just talk about the fact that unlimited PTO is a
complete racket because they know you don't want to seem

(01:18:37):
like that person that's going to overuse their their their
time off, and so they just say you can have
But nobody ever says, Okay, I'm taking every Friday off,
which is what I would do. Like I'm the reason
unlimited PTO probably doesn't exist, Mandy. Unfortunately, that was not
a joke. My wife manages a team in hospitality and

(01:18:57):
the last three employees have called off over twenty times
within the first few months, all which have similar excuses.
Mostly it's I'm not mentally prepared to work today and
I need to take the day off. Several times one
individual called to say, I'm sorry, I just don't feel
like driving today. I'm very stressed and don't feel like
I'll make it safe. These are actual employees, one of

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which is thirty four years old, taking one college class
per semester and lives with his uncle. Excuse to take
off work stressed from school, he's got one class. However,
they all demanded raises and promotions. It's hard to find
anyone under thirty five that wants to work hard and
earn their position. You know what's funny about this is

(01:19:41):
that there are certain companies that just don't put up
with it, and somehow like X. When Elon Musk came
into X, the first thing he said was, Okay, everybody
working from home, you're.

Speaker 5 (01:19:53):
Coming back to the office.

Speaker 3 (01:19:54):
And when people were like, I can't come back to
the office, He's like, find another job. I think. What's
going to happen and we're moving there at a relatively
I think pretty quick clip. At this point is that
you're going to get you have to come back into
the office or you're gonna have to go work somewhere else.

Speaker 5 (01:20:11):
Because the labor market has changed.

Speaker 3 (01:20:13):
There are far more people looking for jobs now than
there were two years ago, when you could quit your
job and immediately find another job. To this text, gen
Z equals gen X job security. Yes, indeed, millennial here
no excuses for laziness. But the newer generations are realizing
that we work to live, not live to work. Time
is extremely more valuable to me than money, especially since

(01:20:36):
I have small children. I've always felt this way, but
the reality is, if you want to move ahead in
any company, you've got to be the person that shows up.
You've got to be the person that says, I can
take on that extra project, I can do a little more.

Speaker 5 (01:20:51):
And what's going to happen is.

Speaker 3 (01:20:52):
These people who can't be bothered to show up to
work are going to figure out at forty that they're
well behind their peer group who will show up to work,
and they're going to be mad about it, and they're
going to think it's unfair and they're going to demand
some kind of compensation for not working as hard, which
is just stupid in life. Whatever it is, if you

(01:21:12):
want something and you're willing to work harder for it
than anybody else's, chances are you're going to get it.
Hard work beats natural talent all day long, every day
of the week. My brother specializes in his real estate
firm in finding real estate agents. Who are the agents
that after they close a huge deal, huge deal, they

(01:21:33):
get a big commission. They're the agents that are back
in the office at eight o'clock in the next morning
making all those phone calls talking to people trying to
sell another house. The last thing he wants is somebody
who says, I can't come in today because I'm having
a mental health day. He would absolutely say you can
have a mental health day with someone else's real estate group.
And guess what. Guess who works for him, Top producers

(01:21:54):
in Nevada, and people are clamoring to work for him
because he set these high stay and demands that people
do their very best to meet them, and people grow
and make a ton of money and learn a lot.

Speaker 5 (01:22:08):
I just think too many companies are I don't want
to use I'll use.

Speaker 3 (01:22:15):
The word infected instead of infested because it sounds a
little bit better. With people who have the mentality of
we can't make them so unhappy that they leave.

Speaker 5 (01:22:24):
Well, if they're not showing up, are they really that
valuable in the first place?

Speaker 3 (01:22:30):
The first job, The first thing I tell any Like,
we used to have interns, and the first thing I
would tell the interns, They're like, you know, what do
I need to know?

Speaker 5 (01:22:36):
What you need to know is your most.

Speaker 3 (01:22:38):
Important job is being here and being here on time period,
Because when you don't show up, there's no one to
do the things that you do. There's no one to
do that, Mandy, hard work beats talent. Where talent doesn't
work hard, Amen, try that in a machine shop, says Jimbo,
you'll fight your toolbox in the parking lot the next morning.

(01:22:59):
Most trades are the same, but let's be real, kids,
Most trades are made up of men and manly men
doing manly jobs. Tend to be manly men.

Speaker 5 (01:23:09):
Period. End of story. We'll be right back.

Speaker 3 (01:23:13):
Talked about a couple of things about my trip, and
then I also shared the story of how I lost
my phone, but then my hero John of the information
calendar at Denver International Airport saved me and found my
phone and I got it back when I got home.
All that's going to be in the podcast that you
can listen to by probably four thirty today. Well, there
is a condensed, little two minute version of all of
our socials right now, oh natural, right there at Koa, Colorado,

(01:23:36):
on all of our social media channels. The other thing,
Germans love to wear those round glasses and a rod.
You probably don't remember sprockets from SNL. No, oh my god,
it's okay, you gotta. I want you to look it up,
because it was. It was Mike Myers. It's just go
SNL sprockets and it was a fake German show and

(01:24:00):
it was Mike Myers.

Speaker 5 (01:24:01):
And yes, familiar.

Speaker 3 (01:24:03):
And that is like every time one of these guys
with the round glasses would walk past me, I would go, no,
it's that much Brook, It's when we donees in my
head over and over and over again. I bought a hat,
actually about two hats. German hat culture is on point.
Wait till I wear it. I have to get the
right outfit. I told Chuck.

Speaker 5 (01:24:21):
I said, I'm now buying outfits for this hat. It
is amazing, posting man Colin then off to beer Fest.

Speaker 3 (01:24:28):
No, No, not like that, not like a door key.
I mean, I really stylish cool hat, got it? Their
their hat culture is amazing. We need hat culture in
the United States, Like now those big flat wide brim
kind of like I was on Ponderosa, but now I'm
a Red Rocks kind of hats or a thing. I
want like stylish hats to come back. So I need
you guys as help everybody buy a hat. We're gonna

(01:24:49):
bring hats back. Okay, great, perfect, everybody agrees. Fantastic.

Speaker 5 (01:24:53):
Let's move on. All right.

Speaker 3 (01:24:54):
A couple of things on the blog today. There's a
new film out. Is it in mass release right now?
A rod, I'm in to look this up before the show?

Speaker 5 (01:25:02):
Is what the order? Is it in mass release? Where
can I see the order? I believe it's just in theaters. Okay?
The Order is a new movie?

Speaker 3 (01:25:10):
Hang on order movie.

Speaker 5 (01:25:13):
Okay, A new movie just came out on Friday.

Speaker 3 (01:25:17):
It is an action thriller and if you watch it,
first of all, you were going to see that Jude
Law is somehow getting more handsome as he gets older,
and that's just not fair.

Speaker 5 (01:25:27):
Okay, as is Nicholas Holt.

Speaker 3 (01:25:30):
Stop it. They both look so good in this, but
it is actually about the white supremacist white nationalist organization
that killed Alan Berg, who was a talk show host
here at KOA at the time. And KOA makes an
appearance and KOA gave permission to the filmmaker to use
our old jingle. So KOA has a new movie out

(01:25:53):
the order Jude Law looks amazing and I am going
to go see that hopefully this week. So did did
a gene r see it? Gina Gondeck? I think she
already saw it, and she said it was really, really,
really good. So that is something to look out for.
There are finally movies coming out again that I actually
want to see. There was a dearth for a really

(01:26:13):
long time there, And can we talk about the biggest
story of the Golden Globes just for a second. Golden
Globe nominations came out. Pamela Anderson got a Golden Globe
nomination for the Last show Girl, and I'm rooting for
I don't know why. I mean, Pamela Anderson was like
the quintessential late eighties early nineties bimbo, right. She was

(01:26:37):
huge boobs, big lips, big hair, playboy the whole nine yards.
And in the last few years she has reinvented herself.
First of all, she goes on the red carpet not
wearing makeup. I mean that in Hollywood, that is bravery
right there. I mean big time bravery. But I looked

(01:26:57):
at the Golden Globe nominees and I put a link
on the black if you want to go look out
of yourself.

Speaker 5 (01:27:02):
I haven't seen any.

Speaker 3 (01:27:03):
Of these movies. I have seen any of these shows.
I haven't seen any of anything. But now I'm rooting
for Pam and I'm gonna have to see that movie
and all. You know, regular I don't care about this stuff.
I wish I did. I try to care. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:27:21):
I used to care when I was younger, but I'm
not anymore. You know what I care about right now?

Speaker 3 (01:27:26):
Lindsay Vaughn is the forty year old hero we all need.
Lindsay Vaughn, world class skier for many, many years. She's
decided she's.

Speaker 5 (01:27:35):
Going to return to competitive skiing. She's forty.

Speaker 3 (01:27:39):
She's forty years old. She just had a series of
lower level downhill and super Ta races at Copper Mountain
and she was two seconds off the leaderboard right two seconds,
which is in skiing time, is like five hours two
seconds is a huge amount of But man, I'm rooting

(01:28:02):
for Lindsay too because if she's forty and she can
do this. Not that I think I'm gonna pick up
a sport right now, but I think you want to
I do anyway. I wanna. I want to see people
challenge what's possible. And as much as I hate, absolutely
hate Tom Brady because he's so good, how do you
not look at that and go wow?

Speaker 1 (01:28:22):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:28:22):
The Texter, said Mandy Indiana Jones style stetson. That is
a fedora, not a stetson. And the hat that I
got also a fedora. You'll see it in a picture
coming up soon. My dad gets me a hat every
time he goes to England.

Speaker 6 (01:28:38):
I was with.

Speaker 3 (01:28:39):
Boyles this weekend and forgot to ask him about this.
You know, if he is in that new movie about Alan,
I know, and this is not a documentary, this is
an actual movie. It was based on the book written
by Kevin Flynn and oh no, who is his co author?

(01:29:01):
I know it, I can't remember it. It was a
book that has been rebranded the order It has now
been re released, so if you want to go that
and check that out, Mandy, unless the economy tanks and
unemployment rate rises.

Speaker 5 (01:29:12):
Gen Z will remain pampered and feel entitled.

Speaker 3 (01:29:15):
Us gen X kids had to bust our ass because
we wanted to succeed and not go hungry. Correct correct, Mandy.
When I think of Germans and round glasses, I think
of that small guy with a German helmet hiding in
the bushes on the show. Laugh in correct, Mandy. Did
you bring home any ornaments?

Speaker 5 (01:29:36):
Did I? Ever?

Speaker 3 (01:29:40):
I think I probably came back from the Christmas markets
with probably fifty ornaments, not all for me. A lot
of them are gifts. So yeah, yeah, Mandy, when do
you wait? Do you win? Ritz Carlton's Saturday?

Speaker 1 (01:29:58):
Is?

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
What is Ritz carlton Saturday? That sounds fancy? I would
go to Ritz Carlton fancy Mandy. What was the old
k how jingle? I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:30:11):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:30:12):
We all used to have killer jingles, Like for radio.
We all have like the singing kay yeah see you
know it?

Speaker 5 (01:30:18):
Hey in the next week and we're hearing some fun
stuff here? Well, did we cross? Did we talk about
the fact that we were actually.

Speaker 6 (01:30:24):
On Sunday one hundred on Sunday this Sunday, this Sunday,
the fifteenth, this Sunday, this Sunday, undred Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:30:31):
And we don't look a day over ninety two. And
when Dave Logan comes in, we look seventy four easily.

Speaker 6 (01:30:39):
If I may subtle tease, if you are a listener,
a longtime listener of KOA, start to get those wheels.
Turn in about memories you have of the station over
the past, however many years you've been listening. Get them ready,
keep them fresh. We're gonna want them fresh in all capacity.
If you have old photos, if you have old videos,
if you have a personal story you'd like to tell, well,

(01:31:00):
start to think about that.

Speaker 5 (01:31:02):
Have it ready.

Speaker 3 (01:31:03):
Shortly one of the things Kathy Walker and I had
talked about, and we talked about it and then it
kind of got dropped again.

Speaker 5 (01:31:08):
But I think we're gonna do it.

Speaker 3 (01:31:09):
We're gonna have like a like a recipe challenge because
I have some of the KOA cookbooks that were put
out when they had like the Homemaker show on KOA,
they would put out a KOA cookbook. So we're going
to cook some of the recipes from the nineteen sixty
cookbook that I have. So I think I'm leaning right
now towards some sort of jello mold, because in the sixties,

(01:31:30):
when you went anywhere, you had some kind of jello mold,
and I had jello molds with like tuna in them.

Speaker 5 (01:31:38):
I don't know why they thought that was a good idea.

Speaker 3 (01:31:42):
But we're excited about Koa's hundredth birthday, and we hope
you are too, so we're gonna have some fun with it.
Triple digits, yep Umandy, Chris Gringle, Chris Kendall.

Speaker 5 (01:31:52):
Markets in Germany are legendary.

Speaker 3 (01:31:54):
They are. By the way, I want to say this.

Speaker 5 (01:31:58):
The Christmas market in Nurember.

Speaker 3 (01:32:00):
Is spectacular, by far the best one.

Speaker 5 (01:32:03):
We went to.

Speaker 3 (01:32:03):
The Christmas market in Regensburg is beautiful. It is on
the grounds of this palace. Listen to this.

Speaker 5 (01:32:09):
This is like cool stuff I learned.

Speaker 3 (01:32:10):
So Princess Gloria was plucked out of obscurity when her much, much,
much older prince of a husband, I think he was
forty seven or forty eight and she was twenty. He
comes back married to this girl. She has pink hair.
She's a rebel.

Speaker 5 (01:32:28):
She is out of control.

Speaker 3 (01:32:29):
She sings with a rock band and sings badly with
a rock band, But when you're a princess, people will
come see you sing badly with a rock band. And
she opens up the palace grounds for this Christmas market
and it is just stunning. And I would have spent
much more time there had it not been miserably raining.
I'm telling you, warm clothes, really great rain jacket with
a thick, thick lining, and a rain hat.

Speaker 5 (01:32:50):
You're good to go.

Speaker 3 (01:32:52):
I had none of those things. I had warm clothes,
but that was it. Mandy. I'm only thirty six, but
started driving a track when I was eight. Only station
I could pick up on the tractor was eight fifty.
I've listened ever since, and you, sir or madam, are
exactly the kind of listener that we love.

Speaker 6 (01:33:10):
By the way, have you been to because we're trying
and you've been to the Chris Kendle market here?

Speaker 3 (01:33:14):
And is it worth it?

Speaker 5 (01:33:14):
Is it cool?

Speaker 3 (01:33:15):
Go at night?

Speaker 6 (01:33:16):
Well, we try to, but during the week they're done
at seven, so it's like by the time we yeah,
we can make it, but the night is just dark.

Speaker 5 (01:33:23):
No, I know, so you could go at five? No
we can't. I mean the closing at seven.

Speaker 6 (01:33:28):
I kind of put yeah contention to go on the
weekend still ten at least till like nine, way past seven.

Speaker 3 (01:33:33):
I know that these that's what.

Speaker 6 (01:33:35):
Everyone says, go during the week. Was like, well, they're
only open until seven during the week, so I can't
really do it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:38):
Chris Kendle. It's obviously a lot smaller, but at night
it's very festive and has kind of the same vibe
and stuff like that. So they do a nice job
for not being a European Christmas Mark yet, Mandy, is
it true? Tom Martine was kowa's first host.

Speaker 5 (01:33:55):
No nice meets him on that one.

Speaker 3 (01:33:58):
Exactly. Yeah, my grandpa had a radio show in the
nineteen sixties and seventies and Fort Collins k k col
His jingle was amazing.

Speaker 5 (01:34:07):
I'll tell you this.

Speaker 6 (01:34:08):
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bit to share something right now. A rod at iHeartMedia
dot com give a cool photo or video or story.
I'll take it right now. I'll take it right now.
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send something exactly your memory.

Speaker 3 (01:34:26):
Jady, you mentioned what KOA stands for King of agriculture
for now, until you know, the aliens take over.

Speaker 5 (01:34:32):
Then we're at the King of aliens again. Whatever, it's fine, Yeah,
it'll be fine. King of anything, Oh, king of anything.
There you go, there's no one. I just got distracted
from everything else.

Speaker 3 (01:34:42):
Eighty five koa eighty four Well that was when. Okay,
So this is a fun story because every station did it.
I used to work at eight forty whas in Louisville,
and at one point they branded as eighty four WHS
because they wanted to compete with the FM band, So
instead of just getting an FM signal, which it wasn't
as easy then as it is now, and it's still
not easy. It's not the fact that we have ninety

(01:35:04):
four point one FM and eight fifty AM is wonderful,
but back in the day it was not easy. So
we tried to compete with FM and just make it
the que call letters eighty five koa.

Speaker 6 (01:35:16):
And many in addition to eight fifty AM and ninety
four one FM. Did you know you can listen Crystal
Clear on the iHeartRadio app, free to use from around
the world. Did you know you can use a little
red button, a talkback feature on the app to send
us a message. We can also share your memories in
thirty second voice format correct right here at KOA.

Speaker 3 (01:35:34):
One more thing I wanted to say about our Christmas
market trip. If you're ever in Charlotte, North Carolina, Brett
Winterbowl at WBT. We had the best time with that guy.
He was an absolute blast and a great talk show host.
So I meant to say that earlier and I forgot.

Speaker 2 (01:35:51):
Now let me.

Speaker 3 (01:35:52):
I got one more story that I want to get into,
but it's so it's a salacious story. And a Rapahoe
County Sheriff's deputy has resigned from her position of twenty
one years because it was found out that she had
moonlighted doing some adult work. And by adult work, I

(01:36:17):
mean in the adult industry, if you know what I mean.
And one of the things I kind of like about
this chick is that she came out and said, look,
I know I violated policy because I didn't ask for
permission to do outside work. And that as a very
strict policy in any police department because they don't want
you going and working in a unsavory environment or doing

(01:36:41):
anything like that. But she was about to lose her
house and she needed to make money, and so she
did what it seems like so many people have done
as of late, especially women, and that is she performed
in some adult films. And the sad part about this

(01:37:03):
whole thing is really sad part is that in a
month she made enough money to get her house current,
whereas working for the Sheriff's department for twenty one years,
that was an impossibility. Now, the department did not say
how they learned about the videos, but I can only imagine.

(01:37:24):
Lawson admitted she'd probably broken internal regulations that require advanced authorization.
But this is my question. If you're the Aurora Sheriff's
Department and someone comes to you and says, look, I'm
about to lose my house, so I am about to
start an OnlyFans page where I will not identify myself
as a Sheriff's deputy of any And by the way,

(01:37:45):
she was not an officer in the field. She was
a training officer, so it's not like she was going
to be encounter and criminals who were like, have I
seen you somewhere before?

Speaker 1 (01:37:54):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:37:56):
It's sad to me that women are turning to this
in a fit of desperation, and I think a lot
of women. Who's the chick from the Sopranos that started
an OnlyFans page? She played Meadow soprano on The Sopranos.
Or no, she played Michael's girlfriend, Drea. Drea Demeyo, that's
her name. She started an OnlyFans page because she has

(01:38:19):
MS and could not get an acting job, and she's like,
this saved me. It saved me from starving to death
and being homeless. So it's sad to me that this
is where we are. But you notice it's only the
women that get fired for this stuff. I don't see
a lot of a lot of dudes getting fired for

(01:38:40):
this same stuff. Just a point of order, Just thought
i'd point that out. Uh, Mandy's from the text line
when you when it's time for of the day, you
should say and now we're done. No, it's time much Brook.
It's when we're done, Mandy. I remember when Rosen was
competing with Harry Tessler for the job that from Rick Mandy.

(01:39:04):
The ninety four point one FM signal is horrible unless
you're right in the middle of Denver, so sure one
can stream iHeart on the app. There are many spots
where cell phone service is bad. What does an eight
to fifty KOA do an HD two FM signal over
the long range AM signal? It doesn't work that way.
It's two completely different systems. So you can't use the

(01:39:24):
AM signal to extend the FM signal because they are
two completely different forms of radio wave. They are completely different,
not connected at all, cannot be connected. So yeah, sorry
about that. Old KOA members says this. Texter Dan Hopkins
and I have ton of them from the seventies. We're
both former KOA newsies. I've talked to Kathy Walker about this,

(01:39:47):
but we'd be willing to talk to you that from Pete. Pete,
send an email right now to A Rod A Rod
at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 5 (01:39:56):
Please a R O.

Speaker 3 (01:39:58):
D A Rod at iHeart media dot com and we'll
get you in there. Dude, don't get paid very much
for doing porn. These women on OnlyFans are making millions
of No, not every woman, Like, let's be real, it's
just like YouTube, you know, mister beasts makes fifty million
dollars a year or every five minutes or whatever it is. Right,
there are there are women who are going to make

(01:40:19):
a lot of money doing this, and there are women
who are gonna do it and not make any money,
which is even sadder, completely sadder. Mandy. Uh, that's it
because I just realized what time it is. I meant
to bring Mitzi on at two forty five, and then
I got distracted. And now it's time for the most
exciting segment on the Radio of Its Guy.

Speaker 5 (01:40:40):
Now you yell in the World of the day.

Speaker 3 (01:40:43):
No, No in the world. Wait does she yell at No?
You yell in the world. You yell in the world
day Rone, And now it's time for the most exciting
segment all the Radio of Its Guy in the World
of the Day.

Speaker 5 (01:40:57):
I had to stop yelling it because my voice.

Speaker 3 (01:40:59):
Nisy is my longtime friend from Louisville who came here
to watch the queue while Chuck and I were in
Europe because the Q loves her and Mitzy gets to
spoil her because Mitsy just has a stupid bully. So
she got her girl fixed and we are eternally grateful
for you for that. Mitsy's also from Louisville. She is
here of the day when I did it on WHS,

(01:41:19):
so she knows the deal. I think, I think, so
you may have to refresh my memory. That's Okay, let's
do word of the day. Oh dad, joke, because we
don't have to do anything here.

Speaker 6 (01:41:27):
But lastly, yeah ahead, the Egyptians, you know they were
great builders up to a point.

Speaker 3 (01:41:35):
Oh yeah, she's Louis. Okay, what is our word of
the day.

Speaker 6 (01:41:43):
Word of the day.

Speaker 5 (01:41:44):
It is a verb. Do you know what it means? Drub?

Speaker 3 (01:41:48):
Drub needs to beat handily, like beat badly?

Speaker 5 (01:41:53):
Is she right?

Speaker 3 (01:41:54):
Am? I?

Speaker 5 (01:41:55):
Are you?

Speaker 6 (01:41:56):
You are to drub an individual or a team as
in a game or kind is to defeat them decisively?

Speaker 3 (01:42:02):
All right, trivia question of the day is coming out
of the bag right now. Queen Victoria's first name wasn't
actually Victoria? What was it?

Speaker 5 (01:42:12):
Vicky VI? I'm gonna say Mary. Okay, oh god, no, you.

Speaker 3 (01:42:19):
Don't know this.

Speaker 5 (01:42:19):
You're not going to guess it? Do you have a guess?
Mitz I do not.

Speaker 3 (01:42:23):
It is Alexandrina. She was named after her godfather's are Alexander,
but preferred to go by her second name, Victoria. So
she was Alexander Alexander, Alexandrina Victoria Alexandrina Victoria.

Speaker 5 (01:42:36):
Okay, that's a mouthful little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:42:38):
Okay, this is jeopardy. If you want to answer the question.
You shot Mitzi and then you say what is? Who is? Whatever?

Speaker 5 (01:42:43):
And because it's Mitzi's first time, you have to wait
for the completion.

Speaker 3 (01:42:46):
I do you can answer any time any time?

Speaker 5 (01:42:48):
Okay, Okay, go ahead? Who done it is? The category?
Who've done it?

Speaker 3 (01:42:53):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (01:42:54):
Invented the lightning rod around seventeen fifty, Mitzy Mitsy.

Speaker 5 (01:43:00):
Benjamin Frank Ye, who is? But I'm gonna give you that,
all right, dang it?

Speaker 6 (01:43:04):
Okay beat Bobby Riggs in nineteen seventy three's tennis Battle
of the Sexes.

Speaker 5 (01:43:10):
May Who is Billy jen Kids? That is also correct?

Speaker 6 (01:43:14):
Wrote her autobiography Lady Sings the Blues?

Speaker 5 (01:43:19):
Mity Diana Ross Wrong?

Speaker 3 (01:43:24):
Mandy?

Speaker 5 (01:43:25):
Who is Billy Holliday?

Speaker 4 (01:43:26):
That is?

Speaker 3 (01:43:28):
First?

Speaker 6 (01:43:29):
Propose a temperature scale that begins at absolute zero?

Speaker 3 (01:43:33):
Mitsy Bye?

Speaker 2 (01:43:38):
For what is?

Speaker 3 (01:43:43):
Who is?

Speaker 5 (01:43:44):
Who is Lord Kelvin?

Speaker 3 (01:43:46):
Can I have Kelvin? Do you want to have to
make him a lord? I mean it says Lord Kelvin.
Alex would give me that point half point?

Speaker 5 (01:43:54):
What's score?

Speaker 3 (01:43:55):
It is?

Speaker 5 (01:43:56):
Minus one to two point five? Okay?

Speaker 6 (01:43:58):
Design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial When she was twenty one?

Speaker 5 (01:44:03):
What's her last name. It's it's a two letter last name.
Is it now?

Speaker 3 (01:44:08):
Oh my god, I can picture her perfectly? Is it
to Ohio University?

Speaker 4 (01:44:11):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:44:12):
He's yelling at me right now.

Speaker 6 (01:44:14):
Probaly's gonna yell if you say what you're saying, because
you're gonna be wrong because it's not too part.

Speaker 5 (01:44:18):
What is her first name?

Speaker 3 (01:44:19):
But then it was Lee?

Speaker 2 (01:44:21):
What is?

Speaker 5 (01:44:22):
Who is?

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
Maya?

Speaker 5 (01:44:24):
Lynn?

Speaker 3 (01:44:24):
Violin Daalen?

Speaker 5 (01:44:26):
Chuck come out?

Speaker 3 (01:44:27):
Chuck is super mad right now because he knows it.

Speaker 5 (01:44:30):
Dang it a valiant efforts.

Speaker 3 (01:44:32):
All right, Yeah, Missy's like, I'm ready to go it
after that, well.

Speaker 6 (01:44:36):
Ready to go?

Speaker 3 (01:44:36):
All right, kids, we'll be back tomorrow with another excellent
program or mediocre because the jet leg may set in.

Speaker 5 (01:44:41):
You're just gonna to tune in to find out. We'll
see then