12-10-25 FULL SHOW - Weather Wednesday, Ask the Attorneys, And Salvation Army

We're hearing about weather, solving legal problems, and checking in with the Salvation Army's Red Kettle drive, plus DPS goes after innovation schools.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Bell and Pollock
Accident and Injury Lawyers.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell and on KOA ninety one, m.

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Speaker 4 (00:25):
Bab Well the Local. Welcome to a What day is
an a rod Wednesday edition of the show. I knew
it was Wednesday because today's weather Wednesday. I'm Mandy Connell.
That guy over there, he's Anthony Rodriguez, you can call
him a rod Ball. And today we will take you
right up until three p m. When we will hand

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the station over to the kids. On KOA Sports. Got
a lot of stuff on the blog today, got guests
coming in. It's going to be an in and out
kind of day. So let's jump in. Go find the
blog at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look
for the latest post section, then look for the headline
that says twelve ten twenty five blog Weather Wednesday, Ask

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the Attorneys and Salvation Army. Click on that and here
are the headlines you will find within.

Speaker 5 (01:11):
Oh God, South American all with ships and clipments have
seen that's going to press.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Plant today on the blog nominate your hero for a
Hero's thanks Weather. Wednesday at twelve thirty, The Salvation Army's
Red Kettle Drive is underway. Do you have a legal question?
Is this revenge at Denver Public schools? Doug Coo wants
to know about shoplifting? Did police actually break our sanctuary laws?

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What did polis? Why did police boost a racist?

Speaker 1 (01:42):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Why did police boost a racist and a dude promoting vcality? Scrolling?
Social media's nuking kids' brains? Who wants a four billion
dollar tax increase? Is saturated? Fat back? Trump v the
EU is something scrolling? Why are call one who prisons
being investigated? The kids ruin everything? Aurora has nabbed over

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twelve hundred cars, and they used car chases to nab
some of them. Reality is winning the gender debate. Aurora
has money for home doown payments. The fraud in Obamacare
is pretty staggering. Humans are between meerkats and beavers. Why
December is a great time to buy a car? The
least shocking to Nick Fuente's story, ever, gifts for that

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don't get me something set? Why healthy habits are so hard?
Trump forgot the internet exists? The Jordan fans, never forget Broncos,
getting no respect, Santa Santa Panthers to the kids, plectical
white people, the cutest trash dog ever. Those are the
headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com tech.

Speaker 6 (02:48):
I know, I know NaNs, I.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Know they can't all be winners. I've cut my coffee
and take back a rod. I think that's the problem
I'm trying to get down to. I used to drink
one cup of coffee per day, and I found myself
that's all I really needed, right or I was just
one cup of coffee, no big deal. And lately I've
been kind of hoovering it up, you know what I mean,

(03:14):
like having like three cups of coffee in the morning,
and that's not good for anybody.

Speaker 6 (03:18):
No good lord, Yeah plenty now mine from zero to one.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
I'm having my one cup of coffee now because I'm
trying not to drink it first thing in the morning anymore.
It's just it's a whole new world out here, whole
new world. We've got a lot of stuff on the
blog today. We've got three guests coming on the blog today.
We've got Gary and Brad coming back in from Bell
and Pollock to answer your legal questions. I've got some
legal questions. They're not I have. We want personal injury

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questions because that's their specialty, of course, but I've also
got some questions about other things legal and whatnot. So
we also have the Salvation Army coming in. The Salvation
Army Red Kettle campaign is a critical part of their fundraising,
and I'm just gonna be the first to say it.
Salvation Army gets a bad rap sometimes. A lot of

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people out there think that because they are a Christian
and faith based organization that somehow they shun helping people
because of you know, their their homosexuality or their lifestyle choices.
But the opposite is true. The Salvation Army is a
Christian organization and they do run on Christian values. But

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they help anyone who needs it without any kind of
you know, judgment or or you know, we're gonna choose
you out because we disagree with your choices in life. No,
that's not it at all. I'm a huge fan of
the Salvation Army. I support their thrift store. I support
by donating and buying, and I always drop a little

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something something in the red Kettle. I actually carry small
bills with me, so I spread my little red kettle
love around. I just wanted to. I just want the
people that are out there ringing the bell to open
up the kettle at the end of their ship. I
don't even think they get to open it up, but
someone to open up and go. Thank that was a
good day. That was a good day. So we're gonna

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talk to the Salvation Army. We're also gonna have weather
Wednesday here at twelve thirty. Anyone in Wyoming's still there, Wyoming?
Did you make it through the wind yesterday? Did you
hello Wyoming? Anyway? Mandy? One last try. It's Mandy. Been
trying to find out about this with no luck. Last night,

(05:29):
eight pm or so, Kawai's news guy had a story
on some climber illegally on a monument in the Denver
Tech Center. The fire department had the ladder up, but
he refused to use it seventy feet high, forested twenty
five to close the lane. He had lost a shoe
and was only wearing a tank top. What happened? I

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can't find the story anywhere. Well, Aroon, did you ever
get down from that?

Speaker 7 (05:54):
Well?

Speaker 4 (05:54):
You know, I might be broadcasting wine from up there.
I don't know the answer to that question. I have
no idea. I didn't hear a word about it. That's
pretty funny, actually, and I'm just gonna say, I'm guessing
that man had taken some illegal substances at some point mayby.
I read an article the other day saying coffee is

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good for us if we drink up to four cups.
The positive effect doesn't happen if more than four cups
are consumed. You know, I'm good. I just am trying
to ratchet back my caffeine and honestly, I haven't needed
it very much. I'm sleeping a lot better, so it's
been It's been kind of nice. I want to remind
everybody it's time to nominate someone for a Heroes Thank you.

(06:34):
We do this annually. Broncos Country Tonight really spearheads this
entire operation, and it is such a cool thing. If
you know an active duty military member, a veteran, a
first responder, that you're like, you know what, they deserve
to be recognized. They deserve a little extra something. We're
going to be given out twenty five hundred dollars checks

(06:55):
in February, but we need your nominations now link on
today's blog at mandy'sblog dot com, or you can just
go to Kowa Colorado dot com forward Slash Contests and
look for the A Heroes. Thank you, so please do
that and thanks big, big, big thanks to Common Spirit
Health and to fix At twenty four to seven for

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sponsoring A Heroes. Thank you, we really appreciate you. Now.
I got a bunch of stories on the blog, but
I kind of want to start talking about social media
because this story has just taken off this morning. This
has been like one of the big topics of conversation.
Got two stories about social media on the blog today.

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I have one about a new study that is found
that according to new research from the Karolinska Institute in
Sweden and the Oregon Health and Science University, they found
a significant link between screen time and diagnoses of attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD. This suggests that exposing young grains

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to social media could have a major mental health implication.
As detailed in a new paper in the Pediatric's Open
Science Journal, the researchers followed eighty three hundred and twenty
four children age nine and ten in the US for
four years, The children reported how much time they spent
on social media, watching TV, or playing video games. Their

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parents also assess their ability to pay attention and any
signs of hyperactivity. There was a clear link between social
media use and an attention deficit. This raises the possibility
of the constant sensory assault by online services like TikTok
and snapchat could be robbing kids of their ability to focus.

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That is in contrast to TV or video game use,
which showed no clear association with symptoms of ADHD. I
find that fascinating. I thought for sure they would find
some association between video game playing and ADHD. I thought
for sure, But no, the opposite. And this is actually

(09:12):
one of the things. We were having a family member
assessed for ADHD in my standard family and one of
the therapists who was doing the assessment looked at my relative,
this was my relative's kid, and said, can your kids
sit and play a video game for a long period
of time? And she said, oh, God, of course he can't.

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If I let him, he would play for eight hours
a day. And the therapist said, he doesn't have ADHD,
he just isn't good at paying attention. And I was like,
oh okay, there you go. There you go. Now through,
one of the co authors of the first study I
mentioned said, our study suggest that it's specifically social media

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that affects children's ability to concentrate. Researchers found then over
the four years, children went from spending an average of
thirty minutes a day to two and a half hours
a day on social media. Meanwhile, inattention symptoms also increased
social media emails. The researcher said, constant distractions in the

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form of messages and notifications and the mere thought of
whether a message has arrived can act as a mental distraction.
This affects the ability to stay focused and could explain
the association. Now second story, Australia is the first country
to ban social media for kids under sixteen. Australia. Man,

(10:40):
they've got some totalitary in tendencies, they really do. And
I say this as a parent who there years ago
there was a pledge that went around and it was
called wait till eight and the pledge was that as
a parent, you weren't going to give your child a
smartphone until at least eighth grade, right, And we were like,

(11:02):
that sounds like a good idea. You would be floored
at how many times we had to defend our decision
to not get a smartphone, not to our daughter's friends,
no to other parents. They were genuinely baffled as to
how my kid could go at, you know, sixth grade

(11:23):
without a smartphone. And I was like, amazingly, she's perfectly fine.
Callus crazy. We did it, by the way, you as
soon as the end of the seventh grade. It also
coincided with her thirteenth birthday, and we got our smartphone.
And if I could do it all over again, I
would have gotten her dumb phone. Because social media once

(11:45):
the kids get into it. She has one social media account,
and it's like they're just you lose it to the phone,
and it is a constant struggle, in a constant battle.
But if I'm honest, I'm no better. I'm not looking
at social media. But at night, when I'm sitting in
my chair, I'm scrolling through the news, I'm reading stories.
I guess I should look at it. I think maybe

(12:08):
if I shifted my mindset and said, why are you
working for free? Right, like anything beyond eight hours, you're
working for free? Really based on an eight hour workday,
maybe I should look at it like that. But as
I was driving in Clay and Buck was on in
my car and they were talking about it, and I
don't know. I can never tell those guys apart. I

(12:29):
don't know who is who. Can you tell their voices apart?
Do you ever listen to their show? Have you ever
heard their show? I can't tell their voices apart, and
I don't listen that much, so you know, I was
listening to some Jesse Kelly last night and then it
was on when I got in the car and they
were endorsing a government ban on social media under the
age of sixteen. I'm fundamentally opposed in most areas to

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making blanket decisions for parents. There are some areas abuse,
permanent disfigurement, things along those things, things that cannot be reversed.
But the point that they were making was it would
be so much easier for parents if everybody was facing
the same restrictions. And there's always going to be kids

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who get through the cracks. There's always going to be
kids who you get a fake ide it's going to happen,
but that's not most kids. And I get that line
of thinking, But it would also be easier for parents.
If every other parent was like, you know what, this
is just a bad idea. I would much rather see
a public service campaign on social media targeted at parents

(13:39):
of kids, explaining to them why this is a really
horrible idea, a really horrible idea, And let me just
give you the reasons it's a horrible idea for kids
to have social media. And this is outside the scope
of the new studies. We have more and more research
that's showing that aside from the attention span thing, kids
are far more likely to report anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation,

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all of these negatives are just spiked dramatically with kids
using social media. But the reality is is this, It's
very simple. Kids do not have fully developed brains. And
whenever we're feeding them at this age, especially in the
teen years, the toddler years and the teen years are
the are two times of explosive brain development. Right. That's

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why toddlers and teenagers are really a complete pain in that.
You know what, So during this period of explosive growth,
we're doing a couple of things. Number one, we're taking
their attention span down to that of a sand nat
and that's huge and difficult and horrible and doesn't bode
well for education overall. Can you imagine being a teacher

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in front of a room of thirty kids with the
attention span that goes about forty five to sixty seconds.
Not cool, Not cool at all, but more importantly, during
those years. And I'm fifty six, but I still remember
what it was like being a like a teenager and
having all of those feelings of not fitting in, of

(15:07):
being sure that you're the only person who feels this way,
and that you're the only one who has these issues,
and that nobody else feels like you do, and that
you're the I mean, I think these are such common
feelings at this age. And then you're going to throw
social media, where people are putting up the very best
of their lives, and only the best of their lives,

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so these kids can now compare themselves. Not to mention,
you are giving access to your children to predators who
are very, very skilled at tricking children into doing things
they should not be doing. And now with AI, it's
going to be even harder to convince your child that

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the person asking them to send naked pictures is another
twelve year old child. You know, it's it's just gotten crazy.
But I want parents to step up. And I know
that this is a poly inna viewpoint that pairarents are
all going to parent. Well they're not. But let me
just say this, not having a cell phone until eighth
grade did not damage my daughter any more than my

(16:11):
normal parenting. Right. So I'm curious about you guys. Would
you like to see a blanket ban like Australia did
or do you say it's up to the parents and
the parents should do a better job knowing. And you
have to know this that all of these shorter attention spans,
all of these anxious and depressed and you know, a

(16:33):
miserable children are the next generation of our society and
they're being spoon fed content that you may not realize
is telling them that this country's horrible, that their parents
can't be trusted. I mean, there's a lot going on
out there in social media. So I'm curious. Do you
want to just say, look, we need to ban social

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media for kids under sixteen? Is that a thing? Do
we need to do that? I'd love to know. You
can text me on the Common Spirit Health text line
five sixty six nine zero. Is that number? That's five
six six nine Oh Mandy, I wonder if this is
a causation does not equal wait, correlation does not equal causation.

(17:14):
I myself was diagnosed with ADHD in the eighties, way
before social media or really computer gaming. My son was
diagnosed before we allowed any screen time. We do get
drawn to things that provide that little endorphin kick aka
computer gaming, social media, et cetera. Because most things do
not provide that. We severely limit the screen time my

(17:36):
son has, and I restrict myself. I think that there
is two things at work here. Number one is you
probably have as one of the earlier diagnoses of ADHD.
You probably clearly have ADHD. That is how your brain
is wired, right. You then pass that down to your kid.
And by the way, there's no there's no accusations or

(17:57):
blame here. When I say that it is what it is,
I gave my at migraines. Just color me in from
mother of the year. We don't only pass down our
best genetics, right, But now we have this incredible increase
in the number of kids that are being diagnosed, and
I think we have to look at what's different to
separate what we can immediately control, which is get your

(18:18):
kid off social media versus what we cannot meaning someone
has a the way their brain is wired, this is
the end result. Does that make sense? I hope so, Mandy,
I have seven boys and have done a damn good job.
If I do say so myself, I don't need the
government getting involved. Go darn tutin and you may be right.
Text her, I got more text messages and more opinions.

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We'll do that next text me at five sixty six nine. Oh,
I just lied. We'll do that after we talk to
Dave Fraser for Weather Wednesday. Coming up next, our weather guru.
He is Fox thirty one's chief meteorlogist, Dave Fraser. Dave,
did Wyoming actually get blown off the map yesterday?

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (18:59):
That's always a tough state, one of the windiest in
the country, and boy was it howling yesterday.

Speaker 5 (19:04):
Especially along the I eighty corridor, so.

Speaker 9 (19:07):
They got the brunt of it.

Speaker 8 (19:08):
Although impressive wind gusts up high in the foothills west
of Denver with some eighty eighty fives.

Speaker 5 (19:14):
I think there was even a peak at ninety out
there spots.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
That's like beyond a tropical storm.

Speaker 8 (19:21):
Yeah, it's beyond hurricane force, which is at a minimum
seventy five.

Speaker 5 (19:26):
Miles per hour.

Speaker 9 (19:27):
So you know, the good thing.

Speaker 8 (19:28):
Is it's generally a lot of those gusts are over
the pass. Is not good if you're traveling, you know,
think of like Bertha Pass trying to get.

Speaker 7 (19:35):
Up to Winter Park.

Speaker 9 (19:36):
So it can be a challenge for travelers.

Speaker 8 (19:38):
There's not a lot of people that live up at
that ten thousand foot level, and the gusts are occasional.
So you know, when we talk about wind, there's the
constant wind, the movement, and then the guts the occasional burst.
But if you're out and about and all of a
sudden boom, somebody hitch it in the back, you know,
gus to wind thirty forty five miles proud, There's.

Speaker 9 (19:55):
Nothing more annoying.

Speaker 8 (19:56):
And I think when it comes to weather fact, wind
is by far the most annoying.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
That is A Rod made the exact same point yesterday.
He is in complete agreement with you about that. I
want to know about this polar vortex, and so does
one of our Texters, Mandy. Does Dave foresee a polar
blast coming around Christmas time to New Year's that from
Tom and Loveland, what are we looking at this polar vortex,
because I'm actually going to be in Ohio, so I'm
afraid I'm driving into the polar vortex.

Speaker 7 (20:26):
You are you are?

Speaker 8 (20:27):
And again that's a that's a cute name, if you will.
It's an attention grab or it's basically a giant area.

Speaker 9 (20:34):
Of low pressure.

Speaker 8 (20:35):
We see these spinning up near Hudson Bay in Canada,
and there they're deep low pressures, and they can whip
up cold, and they can whip up wind. And right now,
the next shot of very very cold air is going
to slip east of Colorado. The northeast corner of the
state may get a little bit of that, meaning their temperatures.

Speaker 9 (20:52):
May be a little lower than ours.

Speaker 8 (20:54):
Here along the front range, we're looking very warm and dry.

Speaker 9 (20:57):
But I, yes, I agree with you.

Speaker 8 (20:59):
I think if you are heading east in the next
ten days, at least you're heading into the colder, the wind,
eer and the higher probabilities of running into snow in
those areas where we're on the flip side of that.
I got nothing the next chance, I see. I just
told Ayrod, maybe keep your fingers crossed, keep your toes crossed.

(21:20):
The twenty third we might get a little something, but
between now and then run in twenty degrees above average
and dry.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
Okay, so this one, this text message, This is all
it says, Mandy, exclamation point. Please tell Dave that my
daffodils are coming up. We've got weather confused plants out there.

Speaker 5 (21:41):
No way to send me a picture to the station.

Speaker 8 (21:44):
I would love to get some type of a gardener
or somebody with a green thumb to be able to
explain if that is in fact true.

Speaker 9 (21:50):
Do they think it's a second spring?

Speaker 8 (21:52):
I don't know. I'm not the biggest when it comes
to green thumb. I mean, I'm how to take care
of my lawn and my trees and my shrubs. When
it comes to plant like that, That's not my forte.
But I would love to see that picture if in
fact that is Troy. But wouldn't that be a sign
of coming changes.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
I have some daffodils in my yard, and they were
there when I moved in. I've just never gotten rid
of them. They just randomly come up. I mean sometimes
if we have like three warm days in January, my
daffodils will come up. So it's always like a mystery
as to when the daffodils will decide to make it appearance,
and where they are they get no suns, so they
literally grow to be like three inches high. They're the saddest, little,

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cutest little daffodils you ever saw in your life day.
They're just like the little daffodils that could and I
probably should like dig them up and transplant them. It's
kind of become like a fun thing for me to note.
When you know when this was going to happen, you know.

Speaker 8 (22:42):
I'll bet, I'll bet just on our little conversation, your
text line is going to be flooded with daffodil experts
telling you exactly that maybe they are maybe they are
sensitive to just temperature alone, and they just aren't smart
enough to realize it's December. They're just like, hey, it's
warm enough, let's pop our heads up.

Speaker 10 (22:58):
I know.

Speaker 4 (22:59):
Yeah, there you go. I just got this text message.
It says, Mandy, I don't plan on murdering someone, but
if I did, it would be on a windy day.
So there you go. Yeah, this this text has this question, Mandy,
what happened last night? At nine forty five last night,
the temperature was fifty nine degrees with wind out of
the west. By ten thirty wind shifted out of the

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east and the temperature was thirty seven degrees.

Speaker 8 (23:22):
What went on there, That was our cold front that
came in last night. So remember here along the Front Range,
if you have a west, northwest, even southwesterly wind, you're
coming up and over the foothills the mountains to the
west and then downsloping, and that heats the air coming
into Denver in the Front Range.

Speaker 5 (23:40):
So think of it as a hair dryer.

Speaker 9 (23:42):
Being turned on.

Speaker 8 (23:43):
The air drives out the air temperatures go up. So
while we were in the fifties late last night, we
had a little bit of a westerly component to the wind,
and the cold front came in. And the reason you'll
know a cold front has gone by is the wind
will generally turn to an east, northeast or even a
straight northerly direction. And when that happens, now we're tapping
into much colder air sitting north of Colorado, across the

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Great Plains and into our Canada.

Speaker 9 (24:07):
And that's what happened last night.

Speaker 8 (24:08):
Temperatures today are down a little bit from where we
were yesterday, not dramatically, but down a few degrees. So
temperatures today will be in the fifties, but tomorrow we
race right back to about sixty four sixty five, which
is twenty degrees above normal, ten away from the record, thankfully.

Speaker 9 (24:24):
But yeah, we eve and flow with the wind.

Speaker 11 (24:27):
Whin is king?

Speaker 8 (24:27):
In Colorado?

Speaker 4 (24:28):
I have a very specific question. Can you explain the
mechanism of why when the wind comes out of the
south it gets colder? It seems like it should be
the opposite.

Speaker 8 (24:39):
It depends on what time of the year it is.
You know, when I say wind is king, wind is
king as it relates to topography and how it moves
around those graphical features that we have foothills, palmer divide, mountains, hogback,
all those terms you hear us use when is king
when it comes to differences in elevation and how storms

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transported and wind is king depending on direction. And sometimes
you can move a wind across a snowfield that can
transport colder temperatures to you.

Speaker 7 (25:13):
So if you have a.

Speaker 8 (25:15):
Southerly wind, generally, if you're down here on the south
side of town, you're going to get a downsloping component
as it comes up over Monument Hill and he heats
a little bit. But if there's a ton of snow
to the.

Speaker 9 (25:25):
South and east out near say Elbert or Lineman, or
over the eastern plains.

Speaker 8 (25:29):
And you have a subtherly wind, you can transport colder
air towards you. And so those are factors that we
have to take it. But generally a southerly wind will
be on the warm.

Speaker 9 (25:38):
Side for most of the front range.

Speaker 8 (25:41):
Barring any snowfields or cold pockets. Sometimes Lineman is one
of the fastest places to fall off on the eastern
plants because they're on the very end of the Palmer divide,
so their elevation drops off and all the cold air
pours right into Linemen, just like it doesn't Gunnison. The
high mountain valleys are prone to cold air because once
that cole therefores in, it's trapped down in the lower

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high valley locations and you can't scour it out line
in factor, you know, I never.

Speaker 4 (26:07):
Really thought about like how much that you know, And
I'll use the word valley even though like I live
in a hilly neighborhood and you go down a hill
and go back up, like in the morning, I can
feel myself walking into that cold sink. You know what
I mean, don't You don't realize how significant that is.
But it's it's it's a degree change that is significant

(26:28):
enough that I can feel it as I'm walking. And
I always I just think that's like really cool. I
don't know, I'm proplored. Everything's flat right.

Speaker 5 (26:36):
Right right, No, And and like I said, you know, the.

Speaker 8 (26:39):
Topography elevation changes, the little I call them nooks and crannies, Ye, Calado,
because that's basically what it is. And you know, I
live south of Colorado, towards Castle Rock, and I'm a
thousand feet up in elevation, as are you. Then downtown Denver,
and yet everybody in the country thinks of Denver's the
mile high city. Yet Denver is surrounded to the east,

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the south, and the west by higher terrain, and that's
where a good chunk of people live. And so those
variations and in the weather center I bought twenty five
years ago when I moved here, I bought a three
dimensional map of Colorado to be able.

Speaker 9 (27:15):
To study the features here.

Speaker 8 (27:17):
The mountain ranges, the different names for the ranges, how
they sit, where they are.

Speaker 9 (27:21):
And stuff.

Speaker 8 (27:22):
And every time we hire a new employee onto the
Pinpoint Weather Team, I show them that map and I say,
study this and understand how those features and different wind
directions play into upslope, downslope where there can be cold pockets,
where there can be warmer, where there can be more snow.
And it's really a great visual When you look at it,
you can see, oh yeah, now I know why that's cold,

(27:44):
and look how low it is compared to the terrain
around it.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
And that's why I thought thirty one's weather is the
best weather, and that's why Dave Frasier is our favorite meteorologist.

Speaker 12 (27:52):
Dave.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
Good to talk to you, my friend. I'll talk to
you next week. Sounds good.

Speaker 8 (27:56):
Enjoying the warm weather heading your way?

Speaker 4 (27:57):
Sure well, thank you, day bringer, and let's say a
quick time out, you know what to the text who said, Mandy,
I'd like to know more about that topographical map of
Colorado that Dave was just talking about. Can you find
out who makes it and where Dave bought it? Well,
Dave's already gone, but I bet the Google will have it.
The Google has everything. I do want to talk about
the story we kind of started the show with, and

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that is the banning of social media in Australia, and
now we have an even larger body of evidence that
is starting to show significant impacts on a few things
for children when it comes specifically to the use of
social media. A recent study of social media use and
just general screen time watching TV or playing video games
showed a clear correlation between social media use and reduced

(28:44):
attention spans. Higher levels of anxiety and depression in kids.
TV and video games did not higher levels of ADHD
in kids. Now, I've remembered this after I started, after
I talked about the topic. When my daughter was really young,
one of the first things we bought was a DVD
player that went in the car. Now back this was

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back before streaming. She was born in nine, right, and
so we bought her this DVD player, and one of
the first things we bought her was the first two
seasons of Scooby Doo on DVD from nineteen sixty four.
By the way, and if you're wondering, they all still
stand the test of time. They're all still magic. And

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the reason we went back and bought the old Scooby
doos is because when she would watch newer cartoons. Now
she's little, she's like four, and the only reason we
got to the DVD players for for long car rides right.
We noticed that when she would watch cartoons, especially like
even the Scooby Doo cartoons from today, the number of

(29:48):
jump cuts that were in there, and the sort of
like flashing graphics that are all part of a lot
of modern cartoons are they were just They would jack
her up, They would overstimulate her. But when she watched
the old cartoons, she was perfectly fine. She's still, by
the way, still watches the old cartoons on occasion, and

(30:08):
I will thank Scooby Doo for letting her love kiss
as well. If you don't know about Scooby Doo meets Kiss,
you're missing out on fine, fine entertainment. A lot of
you responded on the text line with some variations of this.
There's one side of it, Mandy. Yes, if social media
is banned or excuse me that just updated? Um, let

(30:34):
me find this one second. Sorry about that. Yes, baned
social media access until they're sixteen. I substitute teach in
the Aurora School District, and social media has turned the
students' brains or has taken the students' brains hostage. This
textor said, it seems that social media maybe is bad
or even worse than tobacco or alcohol for teens. I
can see making social media illegal in the face. Oh sure, Dot, anyway,

(31:02):
they were in favor. Jeremy was in favor. But then
there's this, Mandy. If social media was banned for kids
under sixteen, just like anything else, when you tell someone
they can't do something, they will find a way to
get around it. They'll find a way because banning it,
there's no real consequences for breaking the rule. The consequences
would most likely fall on social media companies, and social

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media companies kind of suck at these sort of things, right,
no ban, says this text, odds are our parents will
screw them up enough on their own. Yes, But then Mandy, yes,
we should ban social media to kids until sixteen. So
it's very mixed. But I think as a parrot, you

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have the power to make these choices for your kids,
and sometimes it's gonna make you unpopular. Like this text,
let me see here. I just had this, and I
want to make sure I get this because it's actually
very funny. Oh, my seventeen year old keeps sending me

(32:06):
pictures of herself out with her friends while they're all
on Instagram, saying she's the only one that's not allowed
to have any social media. You're welcome is always my response.
You're welcome, indeed, Mom and Dad, You're welcome indeed, Mandy.
When you cite study results, please tell us which study
and who did it. We need to see and judge
the results for ourselves. Well, Luckily, I'm linked to the

(32:28):
story about it, and in that story you can link
to the actual study and all of that information is
available at mandy'sblog dot com. That's one of the reasons
I do the blog to make it easy for you.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
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Speaker 4 (33:07):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the program.
I am in studio with two of my favorite personal
injury attorneys, Gary and Brad. My first personal injury attorney
favorite is my late father. No offense, guys, the word
playing ask the lawyer. We've also got Justin in with
us and we are going to answer your legal questions.
If you've got personal injury questions, especially we'd love to

(33:30):
hear them text them to five six. Oh, no, you
got a call. We We've determined that we have to
call here because the texts are not complete enough. So
call us with your questions. Three oh three seven one
three eighty five eighty five. That's three oh three seven
one three eighty five eighty five. Give us a call
with questions.

Speaker 6 (33:47):
Guys.

Speaker 13 (33:47):
Good to see you all, nicat to see you, Glad
to be here, Happy holidays.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
Well, so, I have a question that's not personal injury
of lated, but I'm so annoyed I need to get
some kind of advice on this. All right, justin, I
be ready, Okay, justin. I have a question for you
because I at a prior radio station that I worked
at where I took this little ragtag radio station, and
I took it from no ratings in the market to
number one in the market with absolutely no marketing budget,

(34:14):
with no support or help from the company that I
actually worked for. And that's all well and good. I
look back at as a point of pride for me,
and as part of that, my husband and I put
together in two thousand and nine, a massive tea party
event in Fort Myers, Florida, We had about four or
five thousand people come out. It was spectacular. It was
absolutely spectacular. Fast forward to today, one of the owners

(34:38):
of that company is now running for Congress, and it
is video announcing his run for Congress. He says, and
we brought you the tea party in two thousand and nine.
Now here's what I'm annoyed. They did nothing to support
it except allow me to talk about it on the radio.
We did everything, we have, all the signed contracts, we
fundraised with listeners. We did not get any any material

(35:01):
support from this radio station at all. I don't think
he can do that.

Speaker 6 (35:05):
Can he do that?

Speaker 13 (35:06):
Well, Justin's going to answer you, But I got to
tell you. Were you an employee, Yes, And I.

Speaker 4 (35:11):
Knew you were going to say that, ding ding ding.

Speaker 14 (35:14):
There's even if.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
We used a separate our own entity, our own marketing
company to put the thing on.

Speaker 15 (35:23):
Well, did you have a contract with a written contract.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
With our entity. Everything that was involved in that was
contracted with our entity, not theirs. So all of the
stage we rented, all of the vendors that we had, all
the T shirts we made, that was all contracted with
our marketing company. When I say zero material support. They
didn't even want to send somebody from our TV station
off to cover it. So it was one of those

(35:46):
things where we did it anyway in spite of them
not with supportive that justin, do I have any.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
So you're saying that there was a contract between you
and the ones that helps award it, but not with
the radio station.

Speaker 4 (36:02):
Is that how I'm understanding correct? The only quote support
that was given was I talked about it on my
show and they didn't interfere with.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
That, and then they wanted to say. Now they're saying
that they.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
Brought the tea party, and I know this is petty
and small. Justin I realized that this is petty and
small on my part. But I'm not particularly fond of
this person, and I don't like it that he's using
that event to run for office because it implies that
I support him, I think, because the event was all
done by me and my people. So do you see
what I'm saying? I'm just annoyed.

Speaker 3 (36:38):
Yeah, I mean, send a cease and desist.

Speaker 7 (36:41):
That's what I'd say. I'd say, cease and desist. How
to go out?

Speaker 4 (36:44):
Do I need to have that formally written? Or can
I send a letter that says to avoid a formal
cease and assist.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
I'd like you to take care of this send a
formal letter, Okay, yeah, all right, and I'll tell you
what The general rule is.

Speaker 14 (36:58):
The general rule, and this is in Florida, but is
if you're an.

Speaker 13 (37:01):
Employee and you create content and you're while you're being
paid as an employee, then it is usually owned by
the employer. However, there's numerous exceptions, and uh, this was
a little bit different. It's got a couple of different twists.
I agree with Justin. You sent him a desist.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
Yeah, I'm gonna do it. I'd be doing I'm super
annoyed by this. Okay, let's get to real phone calls,
people with real problems. Call three three seven one, three
eighty five eighty five John in the Springs. You're on
with Bell and Pollock, Gary Brad and Justin.

Speaker 10 (37:31):
Well, thanks, Amanda, I'm a first thing caller. And twenty
August at twenty twenty four, Uh, I basically take a
long story, short contract in sepsis, and so now I'm
above the knee amputee on my left leg and everybody has.

Speaker 16 (37:57):
Well.

Speaker 10 (37:57):
I think six months before that, I had the miniscus
surgery on my left knee, and uh, through my family,
we talked to the doctors because I was in an
induced coma for two months and then a care center
for seven months. I know it was it was quite right.
My heart stopped, essentially I died and but they got

(38:21):
it restarted. But the the the mniskus surgery that I
had six months before, seemed to have a hell of
excuse me half the time healing. And there's a few
people said, you know, John, you got to talk to somebody.

(38:42):
So I did talk to the other attorney that advertises
with you guys and on TV the doctor and attorney right,
and we're dealing with I can say the name Common Spirit,

(39:03):
and they said there's some conflict of interests and refer
to a few others. But I've heard your shows before
on Sundays, So uh, everyone's you know, should I pursue
it or should I just let it go?

Speaker 14 (39:21):
I'm so sorry that you're living through this.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
Horrible Yeah.

Speaker 13 (39:26):
Really, So the the bottom line legal question is causation
is infection, and so you start with your can informed
consent form. Uh, and I'll promise you the word is infection.
Is you consent that you have the risk of infection,
but that's not the end of the game. That doesn't
mean they have the right, absolutely right, just because you
consented to it. It's like consenting to stomach surgery, and

(39:49):
you might cut you might cut your spinal cord, but
that doesn't give them the right to do so. It
doesn't the right to give you infection.

Speaker 10 (39:55):
So the question is, I was already I was already
in a coma.

Speaker 14 (40:00):
You're already you couldn't consent, Okay, I.

Speaker 10 (40:02):
Already to call them up when the surgery happened, and
so you know, I personally didn't sign anything, but I
did consent to They said as your leg or your life,
and you know, I said my leg kind of like
a question mark. And then I woke up seven Oh
the way, I woke up almost two months later.

Speaker 13 (40:24):
It's a matter of it's a matter of causation. Where
did you get the infection, How did you get the infection?
Was it was it reasonable? Did they have a reasonably
controlled or not? And those going you look in the
medical records.

Speaker 15 (40:39):
Did you talked to the other law firm and they didn't.
They didn't get your medical records because they have.

Speaker 10 (40:44):
A conflict right, that's what I was sold.

Speaker 15 (40:48):
Okay, at a minimum, you should contact us to get
your medical records to be able to look and see
why you contracted sepsis. It's a surgical sepsis, is what
I'm understanding, and I'd like to see what it is
that caused the sepsis, what the medical records say because
you may very well have some cause of action here

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that this isn't a normal outcome. And when it's not
a normal outcome that they would expect, then something happened.
And the question is why did had happen and what
caused it and what was the situation.

Speaker 14 (41:25):
I'll tell you one other thing to make you feel a.

Speaker 13 (41:27):
Little bit better or not better, I guess, but do
you get your eyes right open and let's pull the
curtain back, because that's what we do in the show,
our show, this show. I'm not saying this. I know
this law from you talking about it. I'm not saying
they did this. But I've seen numerous lawyers in my
career say I have a conflict when they just don't
want to take the case. They could, but I have

(41:49):
a conflict, so I can't take the case.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
This seems like it would be a very complex operation. Yeah,
I mean, this is a lot of moving, not moving,
I guess part if I'm going to be accurate. I mean,
and this sounds like a big deal.

Speaker 10 (42:02):
It is when they did the surgery, I had seven
surgeries over a course of a week, and so they
wanted to leave enough of the left leg to do.

Speaker 12 (42:12):
You know, I have.

Speaker 10 (42:13):
A seventy thousand dollars bionic leg now on my left leg.
But it is you mean, there's things that I need. Yeah,
you know, and you know I'm not you know, I'm
not you know, I don't want to go for the world.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
But just a little vil.

Speaker 13 (42:32):
You see what the records say, just like Brad Pollig said,
you need to see what the records say.

Speaker 10 (42:37):
So I can call you guys.

Speaker 14 (42:40):
Yeah, of course.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
Okay, give them a call and make an appointment in
the office. And just for my own edification, keep me
posted on this because now I'm interested. You don't have to,
I mean, as you work your way through. But what
a what a I mean, I'm just going to say it, John,
I'm grateful you're still with us. It sounds like it
sounds like that was a real possibility of not happening.

Speaker 10 (43:00):
Well, the uh how would say this? The big guy's
not done with me.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
Yeah, you have our number, Handy three oh three seven
nine five fifty nine hundred is the number three oh
three seven nine five. Give him a call. Make an appointment. John,
you have a call, talk to Gary or Brow and
let us.

Speaker 10 (43:23):
Closing comment is I did not see red during that
whole time, So that's a good thing.

Speaker 4 (43:30):
There you go, John. I appreciate the phone call, man,
I appreciate it so much. I can't even imagine, you know,
waking up from a coma and oh yeah, by the way,
we took your leg while you were what all right?
So let's find out who's that three O three seven
one three eighty five eighty five. If you've got a question,
Dana in Denver, what do you got for Gary? Brad

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and justin.

Speaker 17 (43:52):
So.

Speaker 16 (43:52):
I have a small business and sometimes I get paid
via automatic deposit into my bank account. Well, for some reason,
when I signed up with a certain firm, a wrong
bank account was entered in the state of Utah instead
of Colorado. And I don't know if my computer was

(44:17):
hacked into or what happened. I don't think it was
the company who was paid me that did this. But anyway,
several payments went into that account and now I'm out
about twenty five hundred dollars. Is there a way that
that money can be retrieved? I've asked the company and
they said no. Once it's a positive, they can't do anything.

Speaker 14 (44:39):
How did it get deposited in the wrong account again?

Speaker 16 (44:43):
Well, this wrong bank account information was entered on their website,
which apparently, you know, when I set up my profile
on their website, I set up the information myself, right,
I No, I didn't put the wrong bank account. So
I don't know if my computer was hacked into and

(45:06):
somebody input this different bank so they could receive my money.

Speaker 4 (45:11):
Is it a completely different number or did two numbers
get transposed or what kind of error is it? Because
I think if it's a totally different number, then that
that would be a concern in my mind. But if
it's just one, you go, oh yeah, those two numbers
should have been the other way.

Speaker 16 (45:25):
Which is it now it's completely different number?

Speaker 4 (45:29):
Oh well, it sounds like her.

Speaker 15 (45:33):
It sounds like a company received your money it wasn't
supposed to receive it, and now won't give it back.

Speaker 7 (45:39):
Right?

Speaker 4 (45:41):
Is that the basics of it.

Speaker 16 (45:43):
How do but yeah, that's correct. How do I go
about if it's possible to get this money which is
owed to me the company that was supposed to send
me the money. I don't think they're in error. They're
just doing what was input in to right, right.

Speaker 4 (46:03):
I mean, does this sound like if it's a totally
different number, maybe as a point, it could be fraud.
Does he need to report it as possible fraud? What's
the first step here?

Speaker 13 (46:12):
Yeah, I mean report it as possible fraud. You report
the mistake and this company you make demand on them.
I don't care how they got the money, they didn't
deserve the money whatever. It might be innocent, it may
not be. They got the money, you demand the money back. Well,
there's a cause of action had for you know, couge
called money hadn't received. There's another one for civil theft.

(46:33):
There's another one conversion, and there's ways to do it.
It's a long way around the ranch. It's not an
easy solution, but that's the solution.

Speaker 15 (46:42):
Well, you're talking twenty five hundred dollars. These people knew
they were receiving money, they weren't titled exactly.

Speaker 4 (46:47):
Yeah, I mean, I'd love to tell you that. I
think that they would just be like, please let us
get but we know how society works these days, right,
But to give it back?

Speaker 7 (46:55):
You know, yeah, you have a right.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
How does he find out who got the money? That's
the other thing he's got. I mean, do you have
the bank account numbers and the routing numbers?

Speaker 16 (47:06):
No, I don't have that. I only have like the
less or digits, and so I don't know if I contact,
would it be the FBI? Contact?

Speaker 13 (47:17):
Well, where where is this other entity located? Or do
you even know out of state in Utah?

Speaker 16 (47:23):
The bank account is in Utah?

Speaker 13 (47:25):
I would I would contact the FBI, I would contact
I would contact the Colord Bureau of Investigation as well, and
and we'll be glad to help you. But point number one,
it has to be identified where the mistake occurred and
exactly what the mistake is. Number number two, there has
to be some kind of demand for return of the money.

Speaker 7 (47:48):
Period.

Speaker 14 (47:49):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
That's the answer, because you can guarantee that if a
bank accidentally put money into your account, they're going to
want that money back. Yes, yes, so you know, contact
both both banks, find out who.

Speaker 4 (48:06):
The bank is that sent it.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
I'm assuming you know, and then find out who the
bank is that received it. Every routing every bank has
routing numbers, and you could look that up and.

Speaker 13 (48:16):
You make a demand on everybody. Trial banks, you make
a demand on all of them.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
It's your money. You have the right to know where
your money exactly.

Speaker 15 (48:23):
You know that if they put it into the wrong account,
you have the right to tell them to get give
it back or get into the correct account. And the
company that received the money, they know they're receiving money
they're not entitled to.

Speaker 13 (48:35):
Well, let's use an analogy here. Look, when you have
a regular business, you're going if somebody steals your checks
and forges your checks, business or personal whatever, it doesn't matter.
The bank that you cash the check pays you, and
they pay it automatically because they know they're liable. So
it's their close analogy. Oh, you get your money back.
I've done it for people before and they can't say no,

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it was a forgery. They have to check this mistake
was made, has to be identified ware and a man
who made on everything.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
How long does this happen?

Speaker 16 (49:06):
It happened was in the past six months.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
I would take mediate action. Yeah, media action, you can
give us a call.

Speaker 14 (49:13):
Will Well, we'll be glad to help you. That's what
we do. Okay, all right, Data.

Speaker 4 (49:17):
Did we get you moving in the right direction?

Speaker 16 (49:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (49:20):
Thank you, all right, Data, Thanks, have a great day.
You know, my brother is a real estate broker, and
one of his agents added an extra zero to an
escrow payment, an escrow account payment, and it went from
twelve five hundred dollars to one hundred and twenty thousand
and one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. And by

(49:41):
the time they caught it and went to the guy
that had gotten the money, he had already blown all
of it. And when they came knocking on the door,
he's like, sue me, I got nothing. And literally he
had nothing. He was judgment proof, and he went to
the casino and blew it all in like forty five minutes.
And so they never got their money back.

Speaker 7 (50:00):
That's the problem you have.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (50:01):
They got the money, they're not entitled to it, and
they go blow it.

Speaker 4 (50:04):
Exactly. Kim in Strasburg, you're on with Gary Brad and
Justin from Mellan Pollock.

Speaker 17 (50:11):
I'm Andy, first time caller.

Speaker 4 (50:13):
Welcome.

Speaker 17 (50:17):
Oh can you hear me?

Speaker 10 (50:18):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (50:18):
Go ahead, Kim, what's your what's your question?

Speaker 17 (50:21):
My question is is that I recently went online or
contacted Helter's Colorado Medicaid to redetermine my son's Medicaid status.
And I had received a document in the mail that
is an alternative form of applying for Medicaid, And so

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as I was talking through with an agent that works
for Helter's Colorado, it was discovered that there was a
bunch of incorrect information entered about my son's case. One
piece of information that had been entered that I don't

(51:07):
know who entered it how it got entered, was that
he was employed by an irrigation company and my son
is severely disabled, has never worked in his life, has
never earned a paycheck in his life. And I was

(51:29):
told by the agent that worked to redetermine Medicaid benefit
that they didn't know how it got there and that
I should contact the Colorado Division of Labor and Employment
to figure out how that got there. So what kind
of recourse is there for having assistance with people in

(51:53):
putting information on a disabled person, adult person's behalf that's
incorrect that determines his Medicaid status.

Speaker 4 (52:06):
So this is like a big mistake that is costing
him in terms of the benefits he's going to be
able to get.

Speaker 17 (52:14):
Yes, if he earns too much income, then that can
kick him out of his of his medicaid.

Speaker 4 (52:23):
So you're asking how you get that fixed?

Speaker 9 (52:26):
Okay, how do you.

Speaker 17 (52:28):
Get that fixed? And how do you know that there
isn't somebody somewhere getting into his case file and changing
information that can affect his benefit?

Speaker 14 (52:41):
Well point number one.

Speaker 13 (52:42):
Usually those notices give you a limited time to appeal,
like sixty days.

Speaker 14 (52:46):
When did you get this?

Speaker 7 (52:47):
What happened?

Speaker 14 (52:48):
What's the timing?

Speaker 17 (52:51):
We received the information in the mail probably two months ago,
and I just spoke with an agent yesterday that helped
me to complete his redetermination over the phone. So it
was edited yesterday. And the agent said that he could

(53:12):
not tell me who or when that information was changed,
because last year it was not there when we did
is redetermination, and this year it was there as well
as my husband and I. It was changed that we
weren't Colorado residents when we've been Colorado residence our entire lives.

Speaker 4 (53:36):
That sounds like somebody's fraud somewhere.

Speaker 13 (53:39):
I mean, there's okay, you meet the terms of the appeal,
looks like you might have done that under the wire yesterday.
There's some government services I'm looking at it right now.
You need to look it up online. One's called County
Human Services Officers Office, the local County Human Service Office,
and Health First Colorado for Medicaid health Colorado. And if

(54:01):
you can't remember those, just look them up and contact
them right away.

Speaker 12 (54:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (54:07):
I just spoke with an agent from Help First Colorado
yesterday to go over all of my son's.

Speaker 9 (54:14):
Invitation and did they fix it?

Speaker 4 (54:17):
Did they fix all of the stuff though? Did it
did it get removed? And did did it get updated?

Speaker 17 (54:23):
Yes? I was able to edit and change that, but
because it was even there, he told me to look
into that my son's bank account information because he has
to have under two thousand dollars to his name. Okay,
And so I have to get that and send that
to Adams County Health. Let's see social Let's see Adams

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County Health and Human Service.

Speaker 4 (54:52):
I have got to take a break. Can you hold
on or do you want or have you have you
gotten an answer that you want?

Speaker 11 (54:58):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (54:58):
Sure, I can hold on on.

Speaker 4 (55:00):
One second, because I have a couple more questions. It
just sounds like Medicaid needs to investigate this. We'll be
back with Gary and Bradd in just a second. Perhaps
there is a reason to uh make sure that your
son's Social Security number has not been stolen, and that that,
to me, would be the thing to worry about.

Speaker 17 (55:16):
Okay, Yeah, I was just wondering what recourse does a
person have when Medicaid handles all this private information from
one year to the next, and then suddenly it's all
changed and different, and then they throw it back at
you to investigate it, Like, shouldn't they be investigating it

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to be like, oh, yeah, we don't know how this
got changed. We don't know where it's coming from. We'll
look into that.

Speaker 4 (55:44):
I mean, have you met the government. It's like, I
mean we're talking about a governmental agency, right, So, yeah,
that's not what their concern is. Guys, you want to
give ready final comments?

Speaker 14 (55:54):
My yeah, I mean I think you said you got it,
you got it corrected.

Speaker 13 (55:57):
I would put a freeze on his credit credit for
the for future, and you're I don't think you're going
to get any satisfaction from the government agency. Just keep
an eye on it, but a freeze on the credit
and be thankful that it got changed.

Speaker 15 (56:11):
I think in staying close contact with your case manager.
You know who that is, and they know there's problem
on this account, and you know the minute anything looks
out of the ordinary or looks like it's not right,
get to hold that case manager, explain what you what
you're seeing, and make sure the case manager protects your
son's income.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
The other thing I would mention is if the tech
you know the text whoever texted the message about your
social Security being stolen your sons, I would even go
to Annual Credit Report dot com and run a credit
report and see if there's any fraudulently loans that have
been taken out under game with his credit report.

Speaker 17 (56:47):
Okay, so annual credit report, Yeah, Annual credit report dot
com and you'll want to run his credit and get
his credit reports the top three.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
Experience, Equifax, TransUnion and see if there's any fraudulent loans
that are being taken out.

Speaker 4 (57:04):
I mean, there shouldn't be any action on it at all.
You'd be surprised that shouldn't be You're right, seriously, there
should be nothing on his credit report. There should literally
be nothing to see there if he's so severely disabled.
I hope that you get this, you know, permanently straight now, Kim,
keep me posted.

Speaker 17 (57:22):
Okay, thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 4 (57:24):
Thanks Kim. You know, with everything that we now know
about the SMALLI fraud in Minnesota, you'd think you'd hope
that our medicaid system would be more than like you
should check that out. Yeah, you'd perhaps think there'd be
a little more intellectual curiosity there. But no, but no,
Craig in Longmont, you were on with Gary brad and

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Justin from.

Speaker 9 (57:45):
Bell and Pollock had good afternoon.

Speaker 11 (57:48):
This has to do with car dealerships. I used to
be a manager at a car dealership from twenty twenty three.
So all deformations approaching the statute of limitations when it
comes to employment law, however, if one can actually do
anything in my case, I wanted to ask this question.

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When I worked at this dealership, I was unexpectedly terminated
in January twenty twenty three. And it's a long story,
a lot of details, but we're talking about breach of
contracts and I'm not going to go into all the details.
But one of the things that did happen also is
I bought a vehicle from them, and one of the

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sort of the unwritten roles in the car dealership world
is the kind of want you to buy a car
from them versus going to another dealership. And I get it,
but there's nothing legally that allows them to you, for ship,
buy a vehicle from them. But I didn't know that
at the time, so I pleaded ignorance on that. However,

(58:50):
I've got text message proof from the general manager that
he wanted me to buy a vehicle from them, so
it was kind of like implied. And then right after
I bought the vehicle from them, I was unexpectedly terminated
sixteen days after that happened. And at that point, up
to that point, I had no unexpected or I had

(59:10):
no reasonable thoughts that I would be terminated from that dealership.
And then they suddenly dropped that bomb on me at
the end of January twenty twenty three, so and I
know Colorado's in that well employment state. And after the
separate discussion, however, the rub is, here's the legal question.
If they drop a performance improvement plan the day of

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my termination and never gave me for a warning about
a performance improvement plan that they backdated six weeks prior
to my termination, is there any legalities there.

Speaker 13 (59:43):
Okay, what I'm going to say to you already know
Colorado's an employee at Will State. Okay, so they can
fire you for no reason or any reason. Now there's exceptions.
He just kind of almost fit into the case of
Keenan versus cottonent Airlines. Keenan was a pilot. He sued
Continental or firing him. They said we didn't have a contract.
He said, ah, did have a contract, because it's your

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personnel manual. And the car of the Supreme Court said
the personal manual can become a contract that day forward,
all the entity's businesses say this is not a contract
express or implied all that. But if you can prove
and it looks like you might have a shot at it.
The procedures for them to terminate you were not followed,

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including backdating an application, and that you relied on those procedures,
and they were supposed to follow them to terminate you,
even though it's.

Speaker 14 (01:00:34):
An employment of Will.

Speaker 13 (01:00:36):
You got a leg in the door, Okay, And that's
what I think you ought to do. Use their procedures
and their fraud backdating the document against them. Make demand.
And if you make demand, then they're going to say
rather going to say, what do you want?

Speaker 15 (01:00:51):
Well, exactly, I'm just sitting here thinking the backdating the
document is a problem for them. Yeah, and it's in
your corner, and that's good for you. But I'm sitting
here thinking, Okay, how do we start calculating your damages?
Are we calculating saying you had to buy a car
that you didn't want to buy, or that you got
an interest rate you didn't like it was too high,
or you know, did you go out and get reemployed

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right away? Did you find another job? How long were
you unemployed? And how long did you miss out on
wages or income? There's got to be some damages associated
with it, and that'd be the question that we'd have
to sit.

Speaker 7 (01:01:26):
Down and go over in some detail.

Speaker 13 (01:01:27):
Yeah, but and there's not our area in works, so
you got to take what I say. It was a
grain of salt. But I'm worried. Were December twenty five?
You said January twenty three? I think, what did you say?

Speaker 11 (01:01:38):
I know it's a three year statue on the three
year I asked you. Yeah. So the general question though,
is if they had actually written it on the day
of when it was six weeks backdated, So if actually
wrote it the day that it was actually written, but
then they withheld it from me. Then is there something
there versus what if they wrote it and then they

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just suddenly backdated it to make it looked like they
actually wrote it when it actually supposedly was written. Either way,
if I'd known about that when whenever it was supposedly written,
if I would have seen that a performance improvement plan,
everybody knows that that's a precursor to being terminated, and
that's like the queue to oky start looking for another job.

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And it's also the queue to not to stop looking
for a vehicle if I was in the market for
a vehicle and that my employer at that dealership knew it,
So you know, it's like a double whammy in a sense.

Speaker 13 (01:02:28):
So I'm still worried about your statuementation statue notations for
frauds two years? Okay, But it's what's called a discovery statue.

Speaker 14 (01:02:37):
What does that mean?

Speaker 13 (01:02:38):
It's the time period starts when you discover or reasonably
should have discovered the fraud.

Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
Oh that's interesting. I didn't know that. Yeah, hey, can
you hang on for one second. We got to take
a quick break, all right, hang on, we'll be right
back to answer this question because I have another question
about this next. Get on it, dude. Whatever you're going
to do, you better do it soon because you're up
against the statute of limitations.

Speaker 11 (01:03:03):
Well, if it's only two years, I know, I went
through a lot of this with lawyers already trying to
present it, and it's like they blew me off and
even well within the statute of limitations. So yeah, it's
just I'm just trying to get a general answer whether
it would have happened or not.

Speaker 13 (01:03:20):
Well, there's a two year statute of limitation for fraud.
There's a longer one for breach your contract, so it's
kind of fact driven.

Speaker 14 (01:03:27):
So I don't want you to just relied totally on
the two years. But you've already talked to lawyers before,
so well.

Speaker 11 (01:03:33):
I mean I emailed them, I call them, and then
they don't call you back, or oh we're not taking cases,
or I can't take your case, they give you some,
they give you something, or they just ignore you. I went, yeah,
it's like, you know, I only talked to one lawyer
and then I sat with them for two hours at
almost five hundred bucks an hour, only for him to
tell me well, I can't help you, but I can't

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take your case the way out there.

Speaker 15 (01:03:57):
Before you give entirely up, give me a call and
let's just talk on the phone and see if there's
a cause of action a way to help you out.

Speaker 4 (01:04:06):
All right, Craig three or three seven, call and make
your appointment. Bud, Thank you, all right, thank you. We're
gonna see if we get Pam. And we've only got
a few minutes. Pam. We've got a couple of minutes
left with Gary Brad and Justin from Bell and Pollock.
What's your question?

Speaker 18 (01:04:21):
My question is I was school bus drivers, so I
worked in the school district and I had a student
attack me severely, quite severely. The steris played. I called
nine one, became files to retort. But now the school

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district is just sunning me. They want to bring me
for a situation which I have done nothing wrong, and
then they terminated me. They wanted me to quit and
sign off on a form as I wouldn't come back

(01:05:03):
or speak of the incident. I refused to do that,
so they terminated me. And now the only way I
can go is through workers comp because it was on
the job injury with the third party in fall. So
the school district they're saying, well, we didn't do anything.

Speaker 5 (01:05:21):
It was you know, the students.

Speaker 18 (01:05:24):
And so I'm just very confused. Now I'm going the
route of workers comp. Of course workers comp. He's the
school district, right, and I'm finding that they they're not
caring for me.

Speaker 16 (01:05:39):
You know.

Speaker 18 (01:05:40):
So I did get a worker's comp lawyer, but his
take on it was well, you know, you're not going
to be put back hole. I ended up with a
big scar on my face.

Speaker 4 (01:05:56):
There's more.

Speaker 18 (01:05:56):
It's a mess.

Speaker 12 (01:05:58):
It's just a mess.

Speaker 18 (01:05:59):
And it just seems like am I just wasting my time?
Because the school district has very long reaching arms, and
it seems like, you know, nobody wants to go up
against them.

Speaker 4 (01:06:15):
Well, can I ask you a question here on Pam,
what is what did they fire you for?

Speaker 18 (01:06:23):
You know, they still haven't said it.

Speaker 12 (01:06:25):
They won't.

Speaker 18 (01:06:26):
I even had my workers' comp lawyer, you know, of
what's the issue. I want to know why I was terminated?
And the worker comp lawyers said, well, they can't fire
you for anything.

Speaker 13 (01:06:37):
Oh my goodness, So that they can't fire you for
filing a workers' comp claim.

Speaker 14 (01:06:41):
They cannot do that. I want you to call. I
want you to call our law firm.

Speaker 13 (01:06:47):
We do workers comp We also have a great employment
lawyers we work with UH and it might solve all
put all eggs in one basket. But I want you
to get a second opinion. We'll be glad to give
it to you. This does not sound right to me.
Needs to be looked at. Another another set of eyes
legalized on.

Speaker 4 (01:07:05):
It would be to do is there video of the attack?
Do you have a camera on your bus?

Speaker 5 (01:07:10):
Yes, but they won't allow anyone.

Speaker 18 (01:07:14):
They wouldn't even give the video to the police. What
the police were involved in? May you know, we're investigating.
So they needed the video and the school district said no, no,
there's miners involved. It took two months to get Oh god.

Speaker 15 (01:07:31):
I'd like to know if the school knew about this
student violence.

Speaker 18 (01:07:37):
If they did know about because it was I was
just a fill in.

Speaker 12 (01:07:42):
Bus driver and.

Speaker 19 (01:07:44):
The one who actually did the route permanently before she
said she's written a book to management about the violence,
the tendencies of that particular bus.

Speaker 4 (01:07:58):
Okay, yeah, you've got a call. Call them off the air.
Call Gary and Brad at three O three seven fifty
nine hundred, schedule an appointment, and I want you to
update me as well. Now I need to know how
this story turns out. Okay, Okay, thanks Pam, give him
a call. That sounds fascinating. See, this is when I
want to be a lawyer because I want to dig
into this.

Speaker 7 (01:08:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:08:19):
That that just doesn't doesn't stop me.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
If they knew the kid was violent and didn't do anything,
then they have a liability here. Yeah, something was really
wrong right anyway, Gary Brad justin a joy to see
you all as well. Thanks for playing along with her,
asked the attorney today.

Speaker 13 (01:08:32):
Thank you for having us happy holidays. Ready to go
back gat you.

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
We'll see you in twenty twenty six. Guys, we'll be
right back.

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We're gonna whip through this hour like we got somewhere
to be, because well I've got somewhere to be. I
don't know about Anthony Rodriguez, you can call him a rod.
What I do know is that we're gonna take you

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right up until three pm. Then we're gonna hand the
station over to the guys of KAA Sports. I believe
when mister Rick Lewis is joining us that's today at
the end of the show to well, he doesn't know why? Really,
what did you tell him, Anthony to rope a dope
him into this?

Speaker 5 (01:09:36):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (01:09:36):
Something with him? His band maybe need them TBD no
details though, just kind of loosey. Good's done because we
need to remake the theme song. And many of you
were very quick to suggest Rick bandon. Don't get me wrong,
if Rick Band would do it, that would be amazing
because Rix Band is good, really really good. All right,

(01:10:01):
Mandy's school districts don't care about violence students, My wife
is a pair of professional and Noco could tell some stories.
Shaking my head, this is one thing I don't understand.
Why are teachers suing the school districts for not keeping
them safe? Genuinely, what is the downside other than you're
the teacher who's sowed the school district because the school

(01:10:23):
district is not keeping teachers safe. Where's the union on this?
Why isn't the union out there screaming about the discipline
matrix that is so bad in Denver public schools that
kids accused of murder are allowed to go back to
regular school? How is that even possible? Anyway, did not
mean to go down that line. Here's an interesting story

(01:10:45):
out of my home county of Douglas County. Douglas Counties
commissioners and the sheriff and district attorney announced on Tuesday
that they are supporting strict penalties for theft for people
who are stealing from businesses in Douglas County. But they
went one step further. They proposed an ordinance that would

(01:11:07):
find local businesses for not reporting theft. The goal is
to get big corporations, your walmarts, your targets, to start
reporting theft so they can really start cracking down because
what we've learned over the past few years is that
when laws are not enforced, criminals are emboldened, and as

(01:11:29):
schools are excuse me, schools stores are taking multi billion
dollar losses every year. They're just shoving all that onto
the other consumers, right, I mean, there's cost shifting. We
are paying the price for people stealing from large stores. Now,
I'm going to be frank. I live in Douglas County

(01:11:51):
and there have been more than one occasion lately where
I'll roll up to my local Walmart and there will
be six cop cars outside the local wad Amart with
four people with a car full of detergent that they
didn't pay for, and the cops are most certainly prosecuting
those crimes. In Douglas County, convictions for shoplifting have gone

(01:12:12):
up thirty percent. That from da George Brockler, So I
love this. As a resident of Douglas County, I realized
that it's kind of like one county going at climate change,
right like you, You're such a tiny fraction of the
overall sales of these big corporations. But but if this

(01:12:34):
can help send the message that Douglas County is not
a place that you want to come and break the law,
I'm perfectly fine with it. I want people to be
afraid to come down to Douglas County and break the law. Lately.
You know, I love nextdoor. I swear to you. I
get a lot of my local news from nextdoor, and
I get the local news there on nextdoor before it
even hits the actual news. But there have been you know,

(01:12:57):
when I first moved to Douglas County, next door was
full of people saying, did anybody else see a bobcat
near this road? And now it's things like, hey, I'm
an idiot. I left my car unlock last night my
driveway and someone rifled through it and stole everything of value.
So be aware lock your doors. So crime is coming
to Douglas County in a way that has not previously.

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People have all this doorbell camera of people in the
middle of the night walking down the street trying car handles.
If you are parking your car outside because you don't
have a garage or a garage is full, please lock
your car, lock your car, ay ride. You're a car locker,
aren't you.

Speaker 6 (01:13:35):
You're a deadie notorious And I love that my key
fob helps my OCD.

Speaker 4 (01:13:39):
I have to worry about it. Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 7 (01:13:41):
Auto.

Speaker 4 (01:13:43):
The greatest thing ever in my life was the day
that we got cameras on my garage doors. So I
know what if it's so I don't have to driveway go?
Did I close the garage? Did I I think? Did
I wait? Nope? And by the way, I always close
the garage, never left the You got me right now? Yeah,

(01:14:03):
worry about that either. Yeah, but people are used to
in Douglas County, especially in more rural areas, not locking
their car doors. You can't do that anymore. By the way, Mandy.
George Brockler also pointed out eighty percent of crimes committed
in Douglas County are committed by non residents. Shocker, Shocker, Mandy,

(01:14:25):
did I hear they might redo your song? Please please
redo it? Well, we're redoing it, but we're not changing
the words. I'll have a full entry. I talked to
our promotions person about whether or not we had to
have a whole complicated set of rules for that contest,
and found out because there is no actual cash prize,
and you will be signing over the rights to that

(01:14:46):
theme song to us forever for no compensation, there's no
need for rules other than what I just said. But
I'll tell you on Friday how to enter and listen
up at the end of the show with our conversation
with Rick Lewis about what that might look like. Mandy.
I've been in retail loss prevention for forty years. The
reason retailers don't report theft is because the cops don't

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show up. That is true. But Douglas County has been
very and I'm not talking about just like the Douglas
County Sheriff's Office. I'm talking about the Castle Rock Police Department,
the Parker Police Department, the Monument Police Department. All of
the local police departments are in lockstep and tried to
get some message to businesses to say, look, call us,

(01:15:29):
we will show up. Call us. It's true, Mandy, if
everyone is afraid of Douglas County, then why does Walmart
and other stores have everything locked up in a cage?
At my Walmart, the only thing that's locked up is no.

Speaker 9 (01:15:44):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:15:44):
As a matter of fact, it's not I don't know
about the Walmart. I don't know. No nothing is locked
up in the Walmart that I go to in Parker. Nothing.
How about one of the rules being no AI. That's
actually the number one rule. You're right, I guess I
should say. And when I say there will be no rules,
there will be like five rules because we've got to

(01:16:05):
tell you how to enter the contest. But rule number
one will be no AI because that is what we're
doing we're putting AI out of work with a real person.
I Heart's committed to real people, and as a real
person who works at iHeart, I'm perfectly fine with that.
We're going to take a quick time out. We'll be back.
I got more stuff on the blog. Keep it on, KOA.
We're going to speak to someone from the Salvation Army
about the work they're doing with the Food Bank of

(01:16:27):
the Rockies and how you can contribute to their Red
Kettle campaign. I got good news, guys. Saturated fat is back, baby.
So we've talked so much about nutrition on this show
it's ridiculous. But one thing I hope you've taken away
is that nutrition science for the past fifty years hasn't

(01:16:49):
been great quality. Really, as a ben, it's very hard
to get people to stay on a specific diet for
a long period of time without cheating. I mean, we
are human and when someone brings a cheesecake, we're gonna
have cheesecake. Except hey, Rod, and nutrition science is just hard.

(01:17:10):
And what happens in nutrition science is that a scientist
comes up with a hypothesis, right, They're like, you know what,
I bet you that saturated fat is that same fat
that's clogging your arteries that can lead to a cardiovascular incident.
And everybody else goes, oh, that's pretty logical. Yeah, it
sounds good. So they start doing studies, and you'll find

(01:17:31):
a study here and there that back set up. But
the reality is the science that has demonized saturated fat
is not great quality. Saturated fats, by the way, are
fats from animal products. You got your butters, your cheese, beef, pork,
and then it also includes certain oils like coconut oil
and palm oil. Unsaturated fats are the fats that are

(01:17:54):
abundant in fish and foods like avocado, nuts, seeds, and
cooking oils like all of oil and soybean oil. Now,
those those kinds, those types of fat stay liquid at
room temperature, whereas most saturated fats will harden at room temperature.
And this is I'm reading this from the New York Times.
Since the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties, studies have consistently

(01:18:18):
found cardiovascular benefits from limiting saturated fats, except there's not
a there's not a whole lot of like recent science
that's backing this up. Clinical trials from the nineteen fifties
found that when adults replaced saturated fats from foods like
butter or coconut oil with unsaturated fats from sources like

(01:18:41):
sunflower oil or corn oil, their blood cholesterol levels decreased.
Other studies published around the same time found that those
who consumed less saturated fat tended to have lower rates
of coronary heart disease than those who consumed more. But
since nineteen eighty there has been more and more studies

(01:19:02):
that have been, you know, kind of examining things like
what you replace the saturated fats with matters a lot.
I mean, it matters a whole bunch. And one of
the things that we know with great certainty is that
trans fats trans hydrogenated oils. Those are fats that have
hydrogen injected into them to make them a solid that

(01:19:24):
stays solid until you melt them. Those are terrible for you.
And they're terrible for you because they increase inflation in
your body. Not inflation, inflammation in your body. And now, guys,
we're starting to see more and more science, not just
when it comes to cardiovascular disease, but science when it
comes to things like Alzheimer's disease that is demonstrating a

(01:19:47):
significant link between inflammation and many, many, many diseases of aging.
So this is where it gets good in the New
York Times. The results of longer term trials, while mixed,
have largely shown that the more people reduce how much
saturated fat they eat, and they lower the risk of
having a cardiovascular event like a heart attack or a stroke.

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But here's the kicker. A vast majority of studies have
shown no difference in all cause mortality, no difference in
mortality after a cardiovascular event. And many of these studies
have shown no difference significantly enough significant enough to recommend

(01:20:30):
that people take saturated fats out of their diet. There's
all of these other things that are going into this now.
Back in the nineteen fifties and sixties, everybody still smoked.
Everyone did, so did we have more cardiovascular events because
people were still smoking? I mean, you've seen Mad Men.
Everybody smokes on that show. I just find this fascinating.

(01:20:51):
But now the FDA, the CDC is removing saturated fat
from its knotty list, and there's trying to force people.
Here's the interesting thing. If you believe, like I believe,
that we were created by God or some intelligent design.
It stands to reason that God put everything we need

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on this planet for our health going forward period. Everything
we need is naturally existing. So when you start talking
about transpats so you start getting oils out of corn,
is that what God was intending? And if you believe
in evolution, we've evolved over all of these millions of
years or whatever how long man has been walking this
planet as we are now. If you believe in evolution,

(01:21:35):
it would stand to reason as well that we started.
We don't need to make up food, eat real food.
Just eat real food. Unless you think we're not meant
to eat meat. We are meat eaters because not only
do we have molars, we also have canines. We have
canines because that's how you rip into meat. We are

(01:21:57):
predator's eyes in the front of our head, ray cow's
eyes on the side of their head. I mean, it's
really perfect if you just eat the way you were
intended to eat. You have seen some wonderful volunteer outside
ringing the bell for the Red Cattle Campaign for the
Salvation Army and joining us now to talk about that
and more is Major Nurse and Kiston. He is the

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divisional commander of the inter Mountain Division of the Salvation
Army based in Denver. First of all, Major Kiston, welcome
to the show manby what.

Speaker 12 (01:22:28):
A pleasure to be on your show. I'm so glad
that we get to talk.

Speaker 2 (01:22:32):
Well, i am too.

Speaker 4 (01:22:33):
I have to start by asking you where your accent
is from.

Speaker 12 (01:22:37):
Well, maybe it's from the South, I say to my friends,
but it's far south, and people realize I'm gonna go.

Speaker 4 (01:22:44):
Oh, Australia. Excellent, excellent. Well, we're glad you're here in Denver,
and we're glad that the Salvation Army is doing what
they do. Let's talk for a minute about the Red
Cattle Campaign. If we could do you what exactly are
you guys? This is probably is it the biggest fundraiser
of the year for you?

Speaker 12 (01:23:00):
It is, It's probably one of our biggest fundraisers. And
the red kettles are so iconic to most families. They
will see it, they will hear the sounds of the
bells ringing, and they will see as you just described,
enjoy introduction, some great volunteers standing at our kettles bringing
Christmas ship, but all the reminding people that they need

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their support to help others.

Speaker 4 (01:23:25):
A lot of people I think don't quite understand the
breadth of the services that are offered by the Salvation Army.
You guys help a lot of people every single year.

Speaker 12 (01:23:38):
Oh, Mandy, you are so right in what you're saying.
The Salvation Army just in Denver alone serves literally hundreds
of thousands of people which knife of shelter. We're helping
them with food and security, Helping families with children without
the school support. There is so much that we do.

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Our addiction treatment centers, Women's Refuge are women who are
coming out of incarceration, support teams. The breath is enormous, Mandy,
it is enormous.

Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
You guys also have a great partnership with Food Bank
of the Rockies. What does that look like?

Speaker 16 (01:24:16):
We do?

Speaker 12 (01:24:17):
We do? We have a great partnership. Well, you know,
food and security is a major issue for all of us,
and one of the fundamental challenges that every American needs
is to have the security and stability to know that
there will be a meal available to them. And so
we use our partners with the Food Bank of the
Rockies in order to ensure that every family gets accessibility

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to food. No child should be hungry going to school.
No family should be wondering where their next meal is
coming from. We do live in the best country in
the world, America, and so we in partnership ensure that
most of our families just have the confidence to know
that they basically need to being met.

Speaker 4 (01:24:58):
And you guys are swinging big this year with hope
served here. Tell me about Christmas Dinner that you're doing
this year for just a few people A handful listening.

Speaker 12 (01:25:06):
Mandy, I hope you and your family can join us.
We're hoping you know, one of the major challenges we
face in society is not just homelessness or food insecurity.

Speaker 16 (01:25:17):
So many people face loneliness.

Speaker 12 (01:25:21):
And we're providing a community.

Speaker 20 (01:25:23):
Dinner where every single person will be welcome to sit
at my table. It's going to be a banquet table
like nothing else. We're hoping hoping to serve thousands of
people at the Colorado Convention Center on December twenty feet
from four pm to six pm.

Speaker 2 (01:25:40):
Everyone's welcome.

Speaker 12 (01:25:41):
We're gonna have balloon sculptures with sculpturers, We're gonna have
face painting. There's gonna be a multitude of entertainment. We're
gonna even have our last band play Christmas carols. So
we want people to feel the Christmas spirit, and the
Christmas Chair is the available for all of them, irrespective

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of their current circumstances and current challenges.

Speaker 4 (01:26:06):
So how do you have to sign up for that?
Is that I just show up at the Colorado Convention
Center on Sunday, Deceummer twenty first at four or or
how do people get involved with that?

Speaker 12 (01:26:16):
Well, there's a multitude of ways. So basically you can
just show up. If you don't sign up and you
forget to sign up, or you've run out of tunnel,
whatever the issue may be, just turn up. There will
be a meal available for you. But if you want
to be a little bit more organized, which will help
us immensely, Denver Metro Salvation Army, just google it Denver

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Metro Salvation Army dot org. There will be opportunity for
you to hit the sign up button, or there's a
donate button if you want to support us that way
you can do so. If you want to provide a
toy for a child, you know what our motto this
Christmas is that no child should wake up on Christmas

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morning without a present sitting at the tree waiting for them.
And so We have multitude of ways where people can engage,
can connect. They can even turn up as a volunteer.
If you want to volunteer with your kids and show
them how to give and support others in need, then
that opportunity is also available for you.

Speaker 4 (01:27:19):
I wanted to ask specifically because occasionally people will reach
out to me and I did not have the answer
to this. A lot of people would love to participate
with the Angel Tree program. How do they do that locally?
Is there a place that they can go and get
a toy or is that all on the website or
what does that look like.

Speaker 12 (01:27:35):
It's absolutely still on the website. You can get a toy,
or you can go to your local Salvation Army and
you can just tip up, you know, whatever your zip
code is, the Salvation Army is there and you can
get an Angel tag and say, you know what, I
want to be really intentional, I want to buy a
toy for this particular family. They may have three kids,
a boy, two girls, seven, nine, and ten, and they

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can buy specific gifts for that family and someone will
know that there's a family just not so dissimilar to
themselves that has purchased the toy. Just for them.

Speaker 4 (01:28:10):
So can I do that at that at a thrift
store in my area? Or do I need to go
to a community center? Where do I do that?

Speaker 12 (01:28:18):
Anywhere that the Salvation Army shield is on, Okay, you
can turn up and say I want to help a
family the angle tray and so there we'll be able
to point them in the right direction. Or we find
that a lot of people love jumping on the website,
and the website dever Metro Salvation Army is easy to
find and it will give you plenty of specific instructions

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and details, so you can do that. But every where
you see a Salvation Army shield, go and say I
want to help someone this Christmas with a toy or
with a gift or something, and we'll happily point in
the right direction.

Speaker 4 (01:28:52):
Major Nurse and Kiston, I appreciate all you do for
the Salvation Army. What do you want to leave our
audience with today about the Salvation Army.

Speaker 12 (01:29:00):
Well, listen, I want to say this to every one
of your listeners, Mandy, the Salvationami wants to wish them
a very merry Christmas. I made the peace and the
love of Christ be days today and we just want
to say, Americans are so so generous. Thank you for
supporting the work of the Salvationami. We really appreciate your
partnership and without you, we can't help our friends in need.

Speaker 4 (01:29:24):
Major Nurse and Kiston, thank you so much for your
time today.

Speaker 9 (01:29:28):
God bless you.

Speaker 5 (01:29:29):
Mandy.

Speaker 9 (01:29:29):
Merry Christmas to you.

Speaker 4 (01:29:30):
Merry Christmas to you, sir. And I would urge all
of our listeners to go ahead, and I'm going to
say something this might be controversial, and it has to
do with buying toys for an Angel Tree kid. If
you and by the way, if you've never done the
Angel Tree, it works like this. You go and you
get a little angel and it has a kid's name

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on it. It has the toys that the kid wants. And
there's nothing wrong with not being able to spend a
lot of money on a toy for or a kid
you don't know. But if that's the case and you
can't buy that kid what they're asking for, please don't
take that angel. Please don't give the kids some like
generic version of whatever. I mean. Just if you're gonna
do it, do it right, do it big, get them

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what they want. I love the Angel Tree. It's super fun.
My siblings and I used to do that as gifts
for each other, but then it got really hard to
find them. It's like they used to be everywhere. But
coordinating the angel tree thing is a lot of work.
I have been involved in that, and the Salvation Army
is probably better prepared than anybody else's to get that

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stuff done. So keep that in mind now, right, find
this interesting. There's a headline that I of course had
to read the story for after I saw the headline.
Humans rank between meerkats and beavers in monogamy. Yeah. Yeah.
Researchers got together at the University of Cambridge and they

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were like, you know what, how do we test to
see which animals are the most monogamous versus the animals
that are the least monogamous? And what they ended up
doing is fascinating. Species and societies with higher level of
mooy monogamy blah blah blah are likely to produce more

(01:31:19):
siblings that are full siblings. With species and societies with
less monogamy or more promiscuous mating patterns, they're more likely
to have a bunch of half siblings because you've got
different parents. Right, So this researcher devised a computational model

(01:31:40):
that maps sibling data collected from recent genetic studies into
known reproductive strategies. So they calculated an estimated monogamy rating.
Oh yeah, yeah. He went on to say, there is
a premier league of monogamy in which humans sit comfortably
while the vast majority of other mammals take a far

(01:32:02):
more promiscuous approach to dating. So where are we in
the monogamy you know, hierarchy? Good news, friends, good news.
We are right between the meer cat and the beaver.
Meer cats come in at sixty percent full sibling rate.
Beavers just beating humans for monogamy with a seventy three

(01:32:24):
percent rate, sixty six percent. Rick Lewis, that is not
a surprise, the beavers. Yeah, No, beavers and meer cats.
That's where we are on the monogy scale. Not surprisingly apparently, monkeys, dolphins,
and mountain gorillas full hoarse like, there's no monogamy in

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those areas.

Speaker 7 (01:32:47):
You know, all you have to do is go to
the zoo and you can find that out.

Speaker 4 (01:32:51):
Well, you know that dolphins it How can I say
this dolphins? If you are swimming in water and dolphins
are around you and if you are a female and
you are menstruating, the male dolphins can become very sexually aggressive.

Speaker 7 (01:33:06):
I know that too, Yes, very horny, horrified. I don't
know that firsthand, but I do.

Speaker 4 (01:33:11):
Know about to be. It not happened to me, but
I watched it happen to a stranger in a dolphin
swim situation. It was horrifying, absolutely horrifying. Would I know?
And and on top of it, everybody then knows you're
having your period. It's not only lady Dolphin, it's like, yeah,
you're also Is that okay? Rick Lewis, I'm glad you're

(01:33:32):
here for two reasons. Number one, that game you're co
hosting on KOI Sports Today, which is always a good time.
But also more importantly, we have a situation on The
Mandy Connell Show. The situation is that now with Iheart's
new one hundred percent Human All the Time, I have
a theme song that is created by AI. A listener
of mine wrote the song and then used AI to

(01:33:53):
sing it and play the music. So we want to
put that AI out of work. So we're gonna have
a contest where people can actually submit their version of
my theme song to replace the AI version of the
theme song. But I got to tell you, when we
started talking about this, everybody in my audience was like, well,
why don't you have the Rick Lewis project re recorded.
I'm like, I can't commit rick Lewis's professional musicians to

(01:34:15):
recording my theme song. But I did think I would
come in here and put you on the spot and
just say, hey, Rick, how about it? Or what would
you suggest the best way for us to do that?

Speaker 7 (01:34:23):
So we would do you have a current theter?

Speaker 4 (01:34:27):
Yes, we have a current theme song, so you just
want a live version of that, just a little, a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:34:33):
Let him know.

Speaker 4 (01:34:34):
It's the lyrics like it's already to just would need
a human to redo the song. We need human beings
to redo the song. Here we go.

Speaker 1 (01:34:42):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored.

Speaker 2 (01:34:47):
Because any would die?

Speaker 4 (01:34:48):
Now what time it is?

Speaker 2 (01:34:56):
FM?

Speaker 18 (01:34:57):
God?

Speaker 4 (01:35:00):
Nice, sad and that's it. That's all. That's it. Well,
there's a whole song, but we grabbed that one section
to use the whole so I don't know the whole song.
I just need it for that.

Speaker 7 (01:35:17):
You know that's easy to do.

Speaker 4 (01:35:19):
Well, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (01:35:20):
But you just wanted just that basic you don't want
any just there. You you could, he.

Speaker 4 (01:35:27):
Would probably cut it out. So he's the one that
makes her. If you have like seven alternates, how soon.

Speaker 7 (01:35:32):
Do you need it?

Speaker 4 (01:35:33):
Well, I mean I was sorry. You know, it's to
get a little dispensation from the higher ups to keep
using it until now those things and Toto said that
he would figure out a way to let's use studio
see to record it. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So
we take that off the plate. Do you want to
hear some of the other options. We got a lot
of these from Texters and they're fantastic.

Speaker 11 (01:35:54):
Is this.

Speaker 4 (01:36:10):
Wait here we go?

Speaker 12 (01:36:12):
Oh yeah, you've been coming up right now the Magic
Car Show.

Speaker 2 (01:36:16):
Session as you saw it takes time.

Speaker 11 (01:36:18):
But you didn't love that?

Speaker 2 (01:36:19):
Okay, right out?

Speaker 7 (01:36:20):
What we can do in any style we want?

Speaker 4 (01:36:22):
You can do what I don't know? Okay, I love
the stall one.

Speaker 5 (01:36:26):
Yeah gone.

Speaker 4 (01:36:30):
Also I'm gonna love this.

Speaker 12 (01:36:32):
Your lookout that from dude in the many Shell.

Speaker 10 (01:36:38):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:36:40):
We're all made by a I by a listener in
the by the boy band version, right, Okay, and then
this is this little conversion wait Rick, watch me.

Speaker 21 (01:36:54):
I'm like I walk into all these they all have
to go.

Speaker 4 (01:37:06):
They can't be used anymore. But obviously we're not going
to remake.

Speaker 10 (01:37:09):
All of that.

Speaker 7 (01:37:10):
If we could use the studio, we certainly could do it.

Speaker 4 (01:37:13):
Maybe I'd love to have listeners. Listeners are going to submit,
So listeners are going to submit this stuff, and maybe
the winning listener could come in and maybe do it
with you guys, like sing with you guys or something.

Speaker 7 (01:37:23):
Oh you want somebody to sing with them?

Speaker 2 (01:37:25):
I have to sing.

Speaker 6 (01:37:26):
Maybe they do an accompanying instrument that we're kind of.

Speaker 4 (01:37:32):
You know, with anchor it, and then we have listeners
help with.

Speaker 7 (01:37:36):
The holidays coming up, you know a little.

Speaker 4 (01:37:39):
But moving forward, Here's.

Speaker 7 (01:37:41):
What I'm thinking. If we do this, we go in
the studio here, record it during your show where you
could kind of go back and forth and see what
you think.

Speaker 4 (01:37:50):
That would be fantastic, and they just send us up
the versions as you're as you're doing the a little bit.
Oh my gosh, that would be fantastic.

Speaker 7 (01:37:57):
All right, think about that.

Speaker 4 (01:37:58):
I love that.

Speaker 7 (01:37:59):
Think about it, timeline, because it's a little.

Speaker 4 (01:38:01):
Tricky with yeah, holidays, we'll figure that out. Well, my people,
your people will make it happen. It was fascinating to me, though,
how many people in my listening audience were like, you
got to have Rick to it, that's their default.

Speaker 7 (01:38:13):
Oh that's so cool.

Speaker 4 (01:38:14):
Your band is fantastic. It's not like a hack radio
show band. And trust me, I've been around hack radio
show bands before.

Speaker 7 (01:38:21):
We all have.

Speaker 4 (01:38:22):
You are not a hack radio show band. You you
have some really stellar musicians in your band, and you.

Speaker 7 (01:38:27):
The best, the best musicians in town.

Speaker 4 (01:38:32):
I agree with you.

Speaker 6 (01:38:32):
And you're it's a Blackmore's mission accomplished.

Speaker 4 (01:38:36):
Oh yeah, kind of, You've like, I mean, when are
you gonna drop the project?

Speaker 7 (01:38:39):
The Rick Lewis thing Lewis part and calling the project.

Speaker 4 (01:38:43):
Yeah. One of my favorite band names in college was
a band that kept losing members and gaining members Lane,
and they kept changing their band name, and then they
finally just stuck with the former Leies because they were like, yeah,
rapid fire for really this whatever? All right, Rick, you
know what time it is?

Speaker 7 (01:38:58):
I this is when you rad Yeah, it's time.

Speaker 4 (01:39:03):
For the most exciting segment all the radio guy in
world day. All right, what is our dad joke of
the day?

Speaker 6 (01:39:14):
What do you call Santo without a GPS? Sing it
without a lost lost clause?

Speaker 19 (01:39:23):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:39:24):
God?

Speaker 4 (01:39:25):
Great, Dad, one out.

Speaker 6 (01:39:26):
Of five, one out of five at two. Sorry, I'm
gonna think a different category might be nice to You know,
what is our word of the day.

Speaker 4 (01:39:36):
It's an adjective adjective club susk? What what s u
b f u s c club fusk.

Speaker 7 (01:39:46):
That sounds like a word Joe Biden would make up. Wait, soubus.

Speaker 4 (01:39:52):
That's jub fus. I I don't I don't even know
where to guess. I know it's below something. No, no, dark,
dull or dingy.

Speaker 7 (01:40:05):
Man, that's way out of my big SI.

Speaker 4 (01:40:08):
By the way, when did diamonds We're just skipping over
that horrible word. We're never going to use it again.
Today's trivia question. When did diamonds first begin appearing on
engagement rings?

Speaker 7 (01:40:19):
Are you looking for like a period or a decade
or I.

Speaker 4 (01:40:21):
Would say, I'll just ad would be good. A decade.
I'll take a decade, going to say eighteen ninety, I'm
going to say nineteen tens, I'm going to say eighteen fifties,
and the go go years after the Civil War. Let's
get it, Okay, Oh my gosh, we're all wrong. The
diamond engagement ring is believed to have originated in fourteen
seventy seven, when Archduke Maximilian of Austria proposed to marry

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a Burgundy with a ring featuring diamonds arranged in an
M shape.

Speaker 7 (01:40:48):
But when did it become a common thing?

Speaker 4 (01:40:51):
I don't know. That's not why they asked, as when
did it first?

Speaker 7 (01:40:54):
Early nineteen hundreds when it became more of a traditional.

Speaker 4 (01:40:57):
Because like my great grandmother's diamond was pearl. It was
a pearl engagement, right, it was not diamonds. But also
they were not wealthy people, right, so you know, I
guess you take what you can get. Okay, all right?
What is our jeopardy category?

Speaker 10 (01:41:10):
All right?

Speaker 11 (01:41:11):
Rack?

Speaker 6 (01:41:11):
You were just in the sin city. You have an
advantage category? Is it's a gamble? God, it's a gamble.
An opening dice throw of two, three or twelve is
a loser in this game?

Speaker 4 (01:41:20):
Many What is crops?

Speaker 6 (01:41:22):
Aresh okay, a joker is added to the fifty two
card deck in this Asian version of poker where you
make both five and two card hands.

Speaker 7 (01:41:33):
No, no, no.

Speaker 4 (01:41:35):
That's tiles. It's not even a card game.

Speaker 7 (01:41:37):
I don't know. I'm just throwing it up. I wanted
to get an answer in.

Speaker 4 (01:41:40):
That is pie Gow. Oh okay, I had no idea
what that was.

Speaker 6 (01:41:47):
You've never heard of pie Gow? No, Rick, I have
what the games afoot? Mister Bond? Nine is the magic
number in this card game that features a banker?

Speaker 4 (01:41:56):
Manny? What is the back cock backrupt.

Speaker 6 (01:42:00):
By the way, Craig, Yes, it's the bet in which
you select just the first and second place horses in
specific finishing order.

Speaker 4 (01:42:07):
I've never heard of this, Greg Daily double now, no,
it's it's such a trifecta because that's three horses. What
is the exact Oh, come on, I know do that too.
What's the score? It's two to minus two. Rick's throwing
it out there, but he's not doing well.

Speaker 6 (01:42:25):
The wager on the jersey number of the player and
to score the first touchdown in the Super Bowl?

Speaker 4 (01:42:29):
And is what the prop bet that is?

Speaker 9 (01:42:33):
Figured out?

Speaker 4 (01:42:33):
Gamble that? Do you know what's coming up on the
show today? Since you're going to be in.

Speaker 7 (01:42:39):
Sports, we are looking forward to this game coming up
to Sunday, Packers and Broncos.

Speaker 4 (01:42:44):
What in the world we are the underdogs home are
hard to believe, no respect. We are the Robbie Dangerfield
of this league.

Speaker 12 (01:42:50):
Right are?

Speaker 7 (01:42:51):
But this Packers team. This will be the toughest team
we played all year.

Speaker 4 (01:42:54):
They played strong last week.

Speaker 7 (01:42:56):
They have really come on the last four or five weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:42:59):
And my or house divided right now. My former brother,
my late brother in law, huge Packers fan.

Speaker 7 (01:43:05):
So I see you're wearing green.

Speaker 4 (01:43:07):
Well, not because of the pack I know that's why
I wore it anyway. Rick Lewis and the guys coming
up on Koy Sports next. We'll see tomorrow.