12-11-24 FULL SHOW - Weather Wednesday and Uplifting News!

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shall we, because that's where you're gonna find all the
information about what's going on today. And just by reading
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just today. Normally it's thirteen percent.

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Smarter, thirty three point three a third.

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Smarter, perfect, a third smarter just by going to the blog.
Find it at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.
Look for the headline that says twelve eleven twenty four
blog Weather Wednesday, Fitness for vets and uplifting news. Click
on that and here are the headlines you will find within.

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Any miss in office.

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Half of American all with ships and clipas say that's
going to press plant today on the blog.

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Get your weather questions ready. This book will uplift you
when you need it. No, Dave Williams did nothing to
help Republicans. Well when you put it like that, Democrats
are regulating our economy to death. Small town police forces
are dropping like flies. Dems break laws. Ethics Committee shrugs.
It wasn't tainted drugs at a CU frat house. The

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Secret Service is doing too much. Why Denver's light rail
doesn't work? Old news beats bias, NEWSS Gateway Pundits strikes again.
Second prize, Greek ambassadorship. The UK says no more puberty
blockers for kids. Obamacare failed miserably. Liberals in La La
Land when it comes to their riot. Oh, Liberals in

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La La Land, when it comes to their riots. Why
don't people reciprocate anymore? Searching for the Rocky Mountain Oysters
CNN shows why no one is watching the tolerant left
the Grinches to do list In twenty twenty four, A
Way to really connect with people. One more from her
about ambiverts. Those are the headlines on the blog at
mandy'sblog dot com. So lots of stuff from the blog

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did I got a lot of good videos. I was
very excited. Do you regularly have you ever listened or
watched a whole episode of Diary of a CEO? The
podcast No Flippin' out Standing?

Speaker 6 (02:51):
Is this what this is from?

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yes, that's what the woman that you sent me two
videos at the bottom. The guy who does it, I
can't remember his name right now, great interviewer. He has
the most incredible guest. This is one podcast that I
listened to with great regularity because he just has such
interesting topics and they're all different. They're all over the place.

Speaker 6 (03:12):
These ones outside of the amber verts.

Speaker 8 (03:14):
One I kind of flippantly give gave you because the
first one I love the first No, I love.

Speaker 6 (03:21):
The first one.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Oh, it's us. We're going to talk talk about that. No,
there's what she said is so valid in art, you know,
in other societies.

Speaker 8 (03:29):
To stay away from coworkers that do those things. Wait
a minute, but here's the point.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
The point is, and what we're talking about is a
video with this woman Vanessa van Edwards. She is a
body language and a language expert. She helps people learn
how to connect better, whether it's in the workforce or
it's in their personal relationships. And she talks about the fact,
and this is true in the United States, we ask
people what do you do for a living? Okay, because
we want to know what box to put them in

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in terms of what they do, what category they go in.
They don't do that around the world. Be good. What
are your goals or are you working on anything exciting.
I've started asking kids that instead of Oh, you're in school,
which are your favorite subjects or something like that, I'm like,
are you doing anything cool in school right now?

Speaker 6 (04:12):
But I think she goes too far to the extreme.

Speaker 8 (04:14):
I think there's a better balance to not being an overbearing,
in your face kind of too nosy of a coworker
or a colleague or someone that's interested in what you do.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
I watched this whole video, I watched her whole interview
with him okay, and they kind of clipped this together
in such a way that they left out some very
important stuff in that she talks about the fact that
this is so you can develop deeper relationships with people
that you have a relationship with, like we're co workers,
you know, co workers, Like I see people every day,

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some people I have a more personal relationship outside work,
some of them I don't. The question about which movie
character would you be? I love that question question, but
you're not going to ask a stranger, like you're not
going to meet someone at you know for the first
of all, movie character are you?

Speaker 8 (04:58):
What she misses, though, is if you already have established
connection with someone, to start diving in all of a
sudden more so than you ever have, could kind of
ruin a relationship because then you get kind of weird
where it's like, why are you diving in more than
you ever have? It's strange you have you have to
do this off the jump with new coworkers, right from
the start of a connection.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Oh, I don't think so. I think there's a way
to do. You need to watch her the.

Speaker 6 (05:18):
Whole the whole interview.

Speaker 8 (05:19):
You and I mean you and I talked pretty frequently
off air about about things are going on both in
work and personal life. But if we both just died
diving way more deeper than we ever have because of
these videos and be like.

Speaker 6 (05:31):
What's going on? What do you want to know?

Speaker 7 (05:32):
Why?

Speaker 6 (05:32):
Do you want to know what's going on?

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Well, the whole point of this is that if you
want to establish a deeper relationship with someone, that that's
the whole premise of this entire podcast.

Speaker 5 (05:40):
It's super good.

Speaker 6 (05:42):
Did you talk?

Speaker 8 (05:42):
See the part because I think I send it to
a video for tomorrow. The fingers like this the stance
where with fingers not to drum, she said, not to drum,
but like this, like I don't, don't do that.

Speaker 5 (05:57):
Now, And what we're doing right now is putting all
the tips of our fingers.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
But further expanded, Yes, figuring out what to do with
your hands is often challenging for people.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
They don't know what to I talk with my hands.
I remember worrying about it. My hands are going all
the time.

Speaker 8 (06:12):
I love watching people struggle with what to do with
their hands. Meanwhile, I'm just like either crossed arms or down.
No one can closed off. She's a language expert. Watch
my personality counters crossing arms.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
One of the things that I love about the second
video from the same podcast that you.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
Set me in one the ambivert.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
I've never heard that term, and she says eighty percent
of people are ambiverts, meaning that they are a mix
of both introvert and extrovert.

Speaker 5 (06:39):
And for an ambivert, they.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Are energized by the right people but trained by the
wrong people. And I think that is a vast majority
of people. And she says, it's like eighty percent of
us are ambiverts because I tell people all the time.
People think I'm a natural extrovert because of what I
do for a living, But when you really think about
what this job actually is, I am sitting in a
studio talking to myself or a rod that's it.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
I'm not an extrovert.

Speaker 6 (07:05):
Ambervert is good.

Speaker 8 (07:06):
But I like the two alternate versions of the other ones,
whereas you're an introverted extrovert or an extroverted introvert. Like
I'm an extrovert extrovert, but you you are, You're an
extroverted introvert.

Speaker 5 (07:17):
But now I know I'm an ambivert. That's a better
word for it.

Speaker 6 (07:19):
Yes it is.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah, so yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
A lot of people are making suggestions.

Speaker 9 (07:24):
I like this.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
I love to ask people that I don't know that
I don't know work, So how's work.

Speaker 8 (07:32):
I like taking advantage of the awkwardness when you go
in like Dragon, I just happened to us. You're going
for a high five or handshake, and they give you
the fist pump and then you do the alternate. Well,
I just, I just I think I just went to
high five Dragon, he fist pumped, and then afterwards I said,
it gets better. I went, so we did it wrong
the first time, and I said, oh, we got to
fix that. So I changed the other one, and then

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he changes the opisode one, so I twice perfect and
that made it even better.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
Uh, this text said, I asked, what's keeping you busy?

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Now?

Speaker 4 (08:03):
That would be life.

Speaker 6 (08:04):
That is so pompous. Don't ever ask that.

Speaker 8 (08:07):
That just seems so no iw if you ask me that,
I might just walk away and say.

Speaker 6 (08:12):
Nothing to you.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
I like to ask people those conversations anymore. Are you
doing anything cool right now? You're working on anything cool?
I mean anything going on.

Speaker 6 (08:20):
I'm not working on this conversation anymore. Peace weirdo.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
That's why young people have no friends.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
Oh that's you're not.

Speaker 6 (08:27):
Wrong, but that ain't me. I love I love connecting.

Speaker 8 (08:29):
But if you ask me way too of off putting, intrusive,
awkward questions.

Speaker 5 (08:34):
Oh you just want surface level conversation.

Speaker 8 (08:36):
No no, no, no, no no no. I I despise
surface level. I want I want to dig in. But
with the right questions. So far all of these are
not that So.

Speaker 5 (08:44):
What are the right questions?

Speaker 7 (08:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
Whatever comes natural, man, d some people don't.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
Nothing comes natural. That's kind of what she's working for.

Speaker 6 (08:51):
Yeah, for ninety percent of people, but I'm not.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
Yeah, that's that's that's what she's working on.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
I thrive on someone that feels uncomfortable.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
That that is.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
I also linked to the Diary of a CEO YouTube
page because that's where I watch it. I watch him
on YouTube and a great, great, great podcast series. He
has asked great questions. His guests are fascinating.

Speaker 8 (09:12):
Joh, really really good coach out of uncomfortability. I commend
you for trying. But I was born did you know?
I was actually born on a stage, So you.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
Know, I think I would love to hear that, like
how that happened?

Speaker 6 (09:24):
Everyone was like.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
Singing in the choir and just was like uh oh
and just squatted down.

Speaker 6 (09:27):
There's a rod Bam stage, right, what's that?

Speaker 7 (09:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yeah, yep, yep. Anyway, that's on the blog today. Obviously
you need to watch that.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
But we've got a couple of things.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
We had a guest have to reschedule, so we're not
going to do the thing about that are in fitness today.
But we do have Weather Wednesday coming up at twelve
thirty with our guy Dave Frasier from Box thirty one.
So you can hit the Common Spirit Health text line
right now and find out exactly or ask your questions
rather at five six six nine ozh text at five

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six six nine oh, So go ahead and do that now.
Although I have a fascinating story, I can't wait to
ask him about about AI weather AI Ralph listener.

Speaker 5 (10:09):
Ralph sent it to me.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
They now have an AI that is more accurate at
predicting the path of hurricanes and major weather events, and
more accurate at a ten day forecast than any meteorological
system that exists right now, and I want to know.
Look when if I'm a meteorologist, I am adopting that
right now. There's two things for AI that I want
to come into effect right this second.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
One of them is weather AI.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
If it's that accurate, then let's get it at Fox
thirty one. Right now, you bring in the AI, let's
get the weather forecast as accurate as possible. The second
is they are now developing medical AI where you can
put you can sit at the computer, you can put
in a list of symptoms right like a.

Speaker 5 (10:51):
List of everything that's going on.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
Say you have a series of symptoms that go like this,
like all of a sudden, your neck and your and
your you know, your neck is very itchy, and you've
got some swelling under one arm. I'm making these up,
by the way, I'm not giving out actual symptoms for
a disease.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
I don't know, but you got like a lump on
your arm that's a little swollen.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
Your stomach's been really upset, You're kind of your lower
legs are aching. So you put all of these different
things into the medical AI and it is more accurate
in diagnosing what's wrong with you than a medical doctor
because medical AI has access to all of the medical information.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
In the world right there. And I want that now,
I want it right now.

Speaker 4 (11:33):
I want that to be a thing that is rolled
out and just adopted by everyone, because that would be
amazing to be able to go and get at least
a more accurate starting point. And they're very clear the
medical AI developers are very clear. They're like, look, this
is not designed to replace doctors. This is designed to
assist doctors. Because you've been to the doctor when you

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have something going on and it goes like this, it's
like the doctor's like, Okay, there you go. We're gonna
go ahead and do this test first to rule out
this thing. Then we're going to do this test to
rule out this thing. And then we're going to do
this test to roll out this thing. And I know
of people that that it took years for them to
get a diagnosis of something because the testing.

Speaker 5 (12:17):
Just went on and on and on and on.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
So those are the two ais that I'm ready for
right now. Anyone, are you using AI at all? Do
you use it? Because like my brother in law uses
it all the time, I just don't feel like I
don't have a handle.

Speaker 6 (12:32):
On it yet.

Speaker 8 (12:34):
Really did it on a regular basis when we still
were kind of in the flow of the YouTube channel
like chat GBT rarely helped and not necessarily scripting stuff,
but helping us get on the right path of different
topics and different angles on stuff. Right now, not really,
but I I mean I try to if that makes
any sense, and just kind of keeping the rhythm of
the flow of what's you.

Speaker 6 (12:54):
Know, going to be.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
It's going to be inevitable right that that at some point,
I feel like AI is going to become as ubiquitous
in the workplaces as computers are now, you know. I mean,
they're just going to be there. It's going to be
a part of your life. And younger people are using
AI at a very high level, whereas someone like me,
you know, who grew up having to go to the

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library and look up the Periodic Guide to Literature to
find out information flow to adopt it. But also I'm
kind of a control freak, and like, for my blog, somebody,
my brother in law said, My brother in law's a
tech guy. He said, Amanda, you should use AI to
do your blog. And I was like, but no, because
how would I get my sassy voice if if I

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used AI to do my blog. But then I'm thinking
to myself, why don't I use AI to do my blog?
Why don't even try it? I don't know, I have
no idea. I'm just kind of like, I want to learn,
but don't. I don't want to learn that. So we'll see.
With Chelsea, I'd love to know if any of you
are using AI on a regular basis at your job.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
What I find fascinating is like the videos.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
Have you seen the videos of people who have AI
up in their computer during a job interview and they've
uploaded their resume, so AI has their resume and they
ask AI to respond to the questions appropriately from what's
in their resume. So as the questions are being asked,
it's being fed into the AI program and they are
just reading the answer off the screen.

Speaker 6 (14:21):
And many man gets deeper than that.

Speaker 8 (14:24):
There's a technology that when you're looking at your screen,
because when you have when you have a webcam on
the top of your computer, you can very clearly tell
when you're not looking at the camera. AI technology that
moves your eyes so keeps it lots on the camera
even though you're reading from the screen. YEP, that reliance
I'm not okay with because that is just establishing a
generation and generations of generations to come that just heavily

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rely in that vein and can't do things off the cuff,
can't can't just everyday activities like do things on their
own and things like that. Like that, that reliance, that's
where I draw the line.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
I think that you're going to see a lot more
a lot more industries going back to more in person
interviews for that second or before they get to like
the fourth or fifth interview, because you're not going to be.

Speaker 8 (15:09):
Able to cheat like that in an in person Otherwise,
if you go full virtual all the way through an
interview process or most of it, and then you bring
someone on the job and go through all the HR
process and put them in front of the ringer of
whatever the job.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
Is, and oh they can't do it correct. Oh, now
what have you done?

Speaker 6 (15:23):
That's a lot of loss money.

Speaker 5 (15:24):
Now what have you done?

Speaker 6 (15:26):
You move?

Speaker 8 (15:27):
You spend all the money and moving someone across the country,
invested heavily in them, and realize they can't do it
because the job interview process was flawed for many reasons.

Speaker 4 (15:35):
For radio interviews are often multiple days for a talk
show at this level. Okay, so when you get to
a major market denverse market number nineteen, we're a major market.
And when you get to like by market number fifty,
they're flying you in for like three days of interviews.
So you have to do a show for three days
and then you have interviews all day with you. There's

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no way to bluff your way through that. So I
am I'm going to have to see all that. I'm
fascinated by it. I'm just I don't know, learning a
new thing just feels I don't know. I understand why
older people don't want to learn new things, because I'm
becoming that person.

Speaker 5 (16:12):
But I also don't want to be the.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
Older person who is not capable of keeping up with
what's going on. So I don't know. I did not
mean to go off on that tangent at all, So
I got a lot of stuff on the blog today.
We are going to talk to Fox thirty Wednesday Frasier
at twelve thirty for Weather Wednesday. I'll ask him about
that weather AI. We're also going to talk to a

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couple of folks from Upworthy. Now are you follow Upworthy online?

Speaker 9 (16:39):
Right?

Speaker 5 (16:39):
Do you follow them online?

Speaker 6 (16:41):
I think so.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
They always have stories of just like great human interest
stories or positive stories. So I follow Upworthy because it's
almost like a timeline cleanser, you know what I mean.
They have a new book out, and I'm very excited
to have them coming on the show a little bit later.

Speaker 5 (16:58):
Sounds like the perfect for Christmas. I'm just saying, if.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
You're the sorts to give books for Christmas. I occasionally
give books for Christmas. I like getting a book for Christmas.
I like giving a book for Christmas. So we're gonna
talk to them a little bit later in the show. Now,
I'm going to spend three minutes on this column right now. No,
I'm not, because I don't have that much time. When
we get back after Dave, I will spend a few
minutes on a column that I feel like we are

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at almost at the point of beating this topic to death,
but we need to beat the topic to death about
the Colorado GOP and their lack of support for winning
candidates in this last election cycle, because Dave Williams is
still running around taking credit and I'm just not going
to let that happen. Absolutely not going to let that happen.

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We've got a couple of stories on the blog today
about sort of the direction that we're going in Colorado
right now. And I don't know if you guys are
paying attention to this stuff, but there is a report
put out at the beginning of this week our economic
ranking in the country. We've been in the top five
for oh gosh, I don't know about before two thousand

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and eight, but since two thousand and eight, Colorado's economy
has been very strong compared to the rest of the
world until twenty nineteen. It was still strong in twenty nineteen.
I say until twenty nineteen, because that is when Democrats
took control of everything in the state and began to
destroy our economic competitiveness.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
And it's not cool.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
And elections have consequences, and if you are interested, we'll
get into that a little bit later on the show.
There's an editorial in the Denver Gazette that is an
absolute scorcher, and I got to tell you I read
it and it made me depressed because I moved to
Colorado because.

Speaker 5 (18:55):
I loved this state.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
It was clean, the people were wonderful, it was chill,
and in the eleven years I've been here, things have
just gone off the rails. We'll do that a little
bit later in the show, but we got weather Wednesday
coming up next. Dave Fraser up to answer your questions
right after this. Hello, Dave, it's a nice day to
day after yesterday's poopy weather.

Speaker 7 (19:18):
Monday and Tuesday. We're tough that that storm really hit
the roads hard. But yes, today it's nice I'm enjoying
the sunshine, very very nice.

Speaker 4 (19:26):
What do we have coming up here as we head
to the actual You know, we've got fourteen days until Christmas,
and I know we're not predicting the weather out that far,
but is there anything like out in the out on
the Pacific or the Pacific Northwest that is going to
give us a chance for snowy Christmas even though we
don't normally get that.

Speaker 7 (19:43):
No, And I knew we would get to that question.
So I looked at our long range computer models while
I was waiting, and I can't actually see out ten
to fourteen days. And yesterday when I was looking, there
was one of the long range computer models was really
robust on a storm on the twenty fourth, and I
was like, oh, all right, keep an eye on this.
Well today when I looked at that same long range outlook,

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it's not there anymore. So for right now, like you said,
we're fourteen days out. The seven to ten day is dry.
We might get a rain or snow shalloer come Monday.
Mountains will get another inch to three inches of snow
late Thursday Friday, But the overall pattern, there's just nothing
out there that gets me excited about getting some snow
in here at time for Christmas.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
How are we doing with the snow in the mountains,
because I know they've been getting a lot more snow
than we've been getting on the Front Range, but I mean,
how are we doing a set of snowpack goes.

Speaker 7 (20:34):
We're fantastic. We're over one hundred percent. Most of the
basins are at more than one hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (20:41):
The deepest snow basins we have is in the southern
mountains and southeast Colorado is doing really well. Where they're
below average a little bit like eighty five to ninety
percent is the northwest corner of the state. They could
use a little more. But the Front Range is doing well,
and the total state. I think the last time I
look last Thursday, we were at about one hundred and
thirteen percent of average, which is good this early in

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the scenes. Remember what, we really front load the snow
right the water usage come the spring, So to be
a half early and the scenes is fantastic.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
That's what I was about to say. You know, we
have so many new people because I remember when I
first got here and people were talking about snowpack levels,
and I'm like, why do we care. Why is that important,
especially if you're not a skier, But it is all
about our water, So that is why we talk about
that specifically. Now dat I got a question for you.
So a listener said, in this super cool story, like

(21:31):
super cool story about gen cast, which is a new
AI model that they say predicts weather, delivering faster, more
accurate forecasts up to fifteen days ahead. Plus it's more
accurate on determining the path of hurricanes, which is huge.
I mean, that's huge. Is this the kind of stuff?

(21:52):
I mean in your industry? How much are you talking
about adopting these AI tools and how long do you
think it will be where something like this becomes a
part of Fox thirty ones weather forecasting.

Speaker 7 (22:05):
Well, it already is, and really, if you think about
it forecasting as a whole, as more and more computer
models were being folded into the process going back decades,
that is really AI at its beginning, because we were
using computer models mathematical algorithms to kind of predict what

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the atmosphere would look like in the future. So kind
of if you think about it, all of the computer
models that we've been using for decades are in fact AI,
and currently all of the broadcasters in town and across
the country, for the most part, use the same set
of the same company. It's called the Weather Company, and
it's owned by IBM, and they have their own AI

(22:51):
computer model do we actually show on the air every night.
It's beyond some of the other ones. I'm sure if
you're a weather geep you've heard us use terms like
the euromodels, as her the nam. We look at all
of these models which are futuristic, they are AI. They're
trying to tell you what the future is going to
look like, and we kind of we know some of

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them have biases. Some of them are two pasts too slow,
too cold, too warm, and so we know what those
biases are, and that's where our understanding of the atmosphere
and making a forecast comes in to be able to
weed out those biases. So we have one it's called
the graph, and that's actually what you see me used
on the air when I'm doing future casts and showing
you where the snow is, what time it arrives, how

(23:33):
much it might get. It's all of that kind of
blended the gen cast. It's interesting gen tast is looking
more at bigger events, so that emergency managers and states
can brace and kind of hopefully reduce the risks and
the costs of destructive weather. However, here's the funny thing.
Gencast is run off of the European model. Without the

(23:56):
European model, gen casts can't stand alone learning. It's learning,
but it's not there yet.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
I just find all of this super fascinating, and it's
like you know, I was talking about, I would love
for this to be you know, adopted in if we
if we just get more weather forecasts, and especially for hurricanes,
because to your point that you just made, if you
could direct all of your resources to exactly the right space,
right so you don't have people all up and down
the coast of Florida buying plywood and supplies, and if

(24:25):
you had, if you could clarify that with some you know,
instead of the cone of uncertainty that you get.

Speaker 5 (24:30):
Now, that could be game changing.

Speaker 7 (24:34):
That's one hundred percent, one hundred percent. And I even
look at it more so in the day to day forecasting,
so you're looking at something there that's a larger event.
If you will something where let's just use your home
state uploida for instance, where where the governor and the
emergency managers and all the task forces are sitting down
and they're looking at these updated, high resolution AI generated

(24:56):
images to say, Okay, this is where we need to
put our resources and be prepared because it looks like
this is the bullseye. I would love to see it
go even further and be able to be used on
a day to day, more localized level for forecasting. Say
here along the front range, I mean that storm the
other night. We always mandy get two or three snowstorms

(25:16):
a season that either overperform or underperform. That storm we
had Monday night at Tuesday overperformed in the amount of
snow it's delivered, especially on the southwest side where places
like ken Perol got six inches of snow. If we
can get AI to kind of be more pinpointed in
that direction, that may help us a little bit in
getting those more finite details out. You're never going to

(25:37):
get a perfect snow forecast because I've said before, it's
a painting. Right you stand back and you look at it.
You can see, oh, that shade of blue is this
much snow, This deeper blue is this much snow. But
when you zoom in, it's a mosaic, and there's going
to be little squares and little communities that are always
going to be a little higher a little lower. But
if we can get that extra help, they two brains

(25:57):
are better than one.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
Yep, speaking of two brains, A lot of people on
the text line are asking if you have any thoughts
about Mike Nelson retiring tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (26:04):
I mean, you're part of the same fraternity.

Speaker 7 (26:07):
I do, Mike and I and I'm glad you brought
that up. His last day is tomorrow. His last show
will be his late evening show, the ten o'clock over
on Denver seven. They had a nice going away celebration
for Mike last Wednesday. I attended the log with a
lot of the other broadcast meteorologists and of course all
the anchors and the behind the scenes folks that have

(26:28):
worked with him. A very nice presentation. Governor gave him
a proclamation for twelve twelve. He picked twelve twelve four
twenty four. I'll tell you the story he picked twelve
twelve twenty four because if you have that up, it's
forty eight. That's how long Mike has been a broadcaster
on TV.

Speaker 8 (26:43):
Thirty eight.

Speaker 7 (26:44):
Yeah, thirty eight of those years have been here in Denver,
split between Channel nine and Channel seven, and I'll just
tell you something. Mike has been a leader in our industry.
He was out there selling the first colored graphics computers
on TV. Prior to that, it was all the magnets
and the dry boards. Mike was exactly the beginning. Yeah,

(27:04):
you should see go watch, Go watch seven tomorrow night
because they'll have some great video. I've seen it over
the years. And Mike was the first one to call
me when I rolled into town almost twenty five years ago.
Within the first week I was here, he picked up
the phone, introduced himself. He said, listen, I think you
do a fantastic job and I'm happy to have you
in town so that we as a collective group, even
though we're competitors and on different stations, can get the

(27:27):
message out about what the forecast is going to be.
So I I've known Mike for a long time. His
wife Cindy will see each other after he retires. But
best wishes to Mic and it's been a long, stellar career.
He's well deserved his time off.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
I got one last weather question for you, and that
is from Noko Dan for Dave frasier. Our lenticular spaceship
clouds more common along the Front Range recently. I don't
remember even seeing them until the last five years or so.

Speaker 7 (27:55):
Yeah, it just depends on the weather pattern. We do
better with lenticular clouds, and you too ingredients. You need
a westerly wind coming up and over the mountains so
that the air is kind of curling like the curvature
of a lens, and you need moisture. Right. Sometimes we
can have wind events, but it's dry and you're not
going to see the lenticular. So what you need is
the right ingredients, the perfect souffle of the right speed,

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the right curvature of those that wind coming from west
to east over the mountains, and then a nice moisture
flow in there to kind of condense the cloud to
get the lenticulars. We haven't had a lot of those
this year.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
You know.

Speaker 7 (28:27):
One of the things that we've been talking about is,
I don't know if you've noticed it, the leaves hung
on the trees all longer this year. They sure did think, Yeah,
I'm no arborous, but we think it's because we just
haven't had a lot of wind so far this fall.
In right winter. So I think that's been part of
the component, and that's probably why we haven't seen a
lot of articulars so far this year either.

Speaker 5 (28:49):
That's Dave Frasier Fox thirty one. You can always see him.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
That is incredibly stunningly accurate forecast over there. We'll talk
to you next week, my friend.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Thanks Mandy, all right, thank Dave.

Speaker 5 (29:00):
We shall return right after this.

Speaker 4 (29:02):
The Department of Government Efficiency that is being headed up
by the Vake Ramaswami and Elon Musk. All they have
to do is look to the south for an example.
Because Argentina, who elected Javier miliuay Me, the man with
a little wild hair but big ideas, listen to this.

(29:24):
Argentina ends a deficit for the first time in one
hundred and twenty three years. The president said, the deficit
was the root of all our evils. Without it, there's
no debt, no admission, no inflation. Today we have a
sustained fiscal surplus, free of default for the first time
in one hundred and twenty three years. This historic achievement

(29:45):
came from the greatest adjustment in history and reducing monetary
emission to zero.

Speaker 5 (29:50):
A year ago, a degenerate printed.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
Thirteen percent of GDP to win an election fueling inflation. Today,
monetary mission is a thing of the past. He eliminated
entire departments of the Argentinian government, just fired everybody and
sent them home. And you know what happened. Inflation plummeted,
absolutely plummeted. And what's happening in Argentina is absolutely astounding.

(30:18):
They're at two point four percent inflation right now. They
were at like seven thousand percent inflation not that long ago.
Here's what I'm hoping about Argentina. I'm hoping that Argentina's
economy booms in such a way that it does two things.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
Number One, it sucks up all of.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
The people who are trying to immigrate to the United States,
because if Argentina's economy is booming, they don't need to
come to the US. They can go from Venezuela to Argentina.
But they're gonna have to work, right. I mean, he
slashed all of these government programs and now their economy
is moving in the right direction. It's really incredible what

(30:59):
is happening down and it is the role it is,
it should be the role model for what we need
to do in the United States. And what I find
fascinating is we have people and I'm just gonna use
Paul Krugman as an example because I have long believed
that Paul Krugman is the perfect example of the Peter
principle that the more incompetent you are, the higher you

(31:19):
are elevated in our society. Because he is an idiot,
an economic idiot, mindingly an idiot, and he's a big government,
social government.

Speaker 5 (31:29):
He's all of those things.

Speaker 4 (31:30):
He will ignore what's happening in Argentina versus what's happening
in Venezuela and continue to advocate for the same kind
of spending nonsense that they that drove those economies into
the ground.

Speaker 5 (31:45):
He'll continue to advocate for it.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Here.

Speaker 5 (31:47):
It's gonna get really hard to ignore the tale of two.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
Countries in South America, because if Argentina can pull this off,
and right now it looks like he is going to
be pulled off, that economy is just going to explode.
And the Argentinian people who were not relying on the
government team, who wanted the opportunity to create and invest
and open businesses and probably have great ideas that they

(32:13):
could develop without government interference, Now they are going to
They're going to be in like the perfect situation in
the catbird seat, as they say. So this is really
really interesting to watch because I started watching Venezuela back
in two thousand and five when I got my first
show in Florida, and I would talk about Venezuela and
everybody's like, Mandy, what are you talking about Venezuela for

(32:34):
I'm like, no, no, you just watch what's going to happen.
Watch what's going to happen. This is going to be
the perfect example of what happens when you run out
of other people's money, and that is exactly what's gone
on in Argentina. They freaking ate zoo animals in Argentina
because people were starving. So watch what's happening in Argentina,
or excuse me, in Venezuela. They ate zoo animals. Got

(32:56):
that backwards, My bad. But this guy man and now
the politicians who have been trying to stand in his way,
the people of Argentina are super, super happy.

Speaker 6 (33:07):
They're all excited.

Speaker 5 (33:08):
So now the politicians are like, oh yeah, I've always sided.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
It's great. Oh yeah, he's super love him. As a
matter of fact, he's awesome.

Speaker 5 (33:15):
Can't wait for him to do more of it.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
Can't wait. So watch Argentinea's economy. Watch and I'll be
bringing it to you because I want it to work
so badly. You know, when you believe in something and
you believe in it in a country where too many
people don't believe in it anymore, and that is small government.
Get out of the way, Let people do their own thing,
Let people be responsible for their own lives, because when

(33:40):
you get right down to it, a free society is
not an easy society. It's difficult to.

Speaker 5 (33:45):
Live in freedom.

Speaker 4 (33:46):
It's difficult to be.

Speaker 5 (33:47):
Responsible for yourself.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
It's very easy to fall into that jealousy and envy
trap of I should have what they have even though
I didn't do what they did well much Argentina together
and enjoy it.

Speaker 5 (34:01):
When we get back, We're gonna one time.

Speaker 4 (34:04):
I'm just briefly. I'm not going to beat this dead horse,
but I'm going to share a column with you by
Daniel Bellefontaine from the Adams County GOP. I'm not going
to share the whole thing, but I am not going
to let the chairman of the Colorado GOP, Dave Williams,
who did nothing to help people get elected in this
last election cycle, take any credit for it, and neither

(34:25):
is this column by Daniel Bellefontaine. We'll do that next.

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Speaker 4 (34:54):
Welcome, well, wellcoding to the second hour of the show Man.
The first hour went really really fast, but that's okay.
We've got two hours left and I'm going to start
out this hour with part of a column by the
chair of the Adams County Republican Party.

Speaker 5 (35:10):
To be clear, Daniel Bellefonteine.

Speaker 4 (35:13):
Is very clear about the fact he is not speaking
for the Adams County Republican Party, but he is speaking
about the self aggrandizement going on since the election, when
Republicans finally gained some ground in Colorado, stripping the Democrats
of their supermajority in the Senate, gaining some seats in
the House, and of course winning some congressional seats, including

(35:36):
the eighth Congressional district. I'm not going to let Dave
Williams take credit, and neither is Daniel Bellefontaine. I'm going
to read this one little part here, he says. Let's
see here, Colorado GOP share Dave Williams has taken credit
for the victory's Republican candidates and joined in the recent election,

(35:56):
especially in the eighth Congressional District.

Speaker 5 (35:58):
But nothing could be further from the truth.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
If anything, mister Williams and the state party actively worked
against many of our winning GOP candidates. As the chairman
of the Adams County Republicans, I've been privy to many
of the machinations and political workings within the party.

Speaker 5 (36:14):
Over the past several years.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
I've stayed silent until now because I like to think
of myself as being a problem solver, not an instigator.
But after what I experienced in the November election, I
feel I must speak out. The eighth Congressional District was
one of the most contentious races in Colorado. Right from
the start, Scott James from Weld County stepped up to
run for the seat against Democrat and commit yader A Caraveo.

(36:39):
Then Gabe Evans stepped up to run, followed by Joe
and Duju and Dujou. I'm sorry, Joe, I'm gonna get
that last name wrong. Each of these candidates spoke with
me at great lengths soliciting advice about running for office.
I told each of them that I could not endorse
any of them against the other in their primary. James
stepped out when it became apparent to him that Gave

(36:59):
Evans would be able to raise more money and elicit
more support for his campaign. Then Janet Joshi announced his candidacy,
claiming to be a political activist in Thornton. I had
never heard of mister Joshi's involvement in Thornton politics, and
I've lived in this area for nearly eighteen years. It
turns out that mister Joshi moved to Thornton from the
Colorado Springs area just to run for ced eight. It

(37:22):
appears to me the Chairwin Williams wanted mister Joshi, it's
Yoshi I know, to enter the race because he believed
Gave Evans was not sufficiently MAGA and thus unqualified to serve.
Even though Evans received the endorsement of Donald Trump over Joshi.
This is indicative of an attitude that continues to vide
Republicans half our party believes if you're not fully MAGA,

(37:45):
then you're not a Republican. The other half believes that
MAGA movement is too extreme and therefore does not represent
the Republican Party. In the spring of this year, Dave
Williams entered the race for the fifth Congressional district against
Jeff Craik. He put out several statements after the State
GOP Assembly against child groomers, homosexuals, and transgender ideology that

(38:05):
many considered extremely offensive and what I would consider to
become unbecoming of an officer of the state party.

Speaker 5 (38:12):
He claims he made.

Speaker 4 (38:13):
These statements at the behest of the delegates at the assembly.
These comments led many of our Adams County delegate candidates
for state and county offices to distance themselves from mister
Williams and the State GOP. Several refused to accept state
party endorsements. He also released at least two mailers utilizing
the State GOP nonprofit discounted postage program. One of these

(38:35):
mailers was a direct assault on Gave Evans in favor
of Janet Joshie. Mister Williams not only lost the primary
against Crank, he got his ass kicked by the way.
He also repeatedly worked to undermine several of our GOP candidates,
including Gave Evans, Dave Archiletta, Jeff Crank, and Christy Burton Brown.
He did this by endorsing others in their respective races

(38:57):
or by putting out messaging disparaging the care Now he
goes on to talk about the things that Dave has done.
But let me just share one more part with you.
Dave Williams now claims that the state GOP worked to
get all of the Republican candidates elected and that we
and he puts we in air quotes, we had some

(39:20):
success and we did enjoy some victories. We retained three
of our congressional seats in CD three, CD four, and
CD five, as well as flipping CD eight into the
GOP column. We also flipped or retained several seats for
local and state offices within CD eight and in Adam's
Weld and several other counties. I believe Dave Williams and
the State GOP can take no credit for any of

(39:41):
these victories. All of the credit for these wins goes
entirely to the great candidates who stepped up to run
for office, their campaign teams, and especially to all the
volunteers who gave countless hours to walking and knocking doors
in their precincts, making thousands of phone calls, attending rallies
and festivals, writing postcards, wave signs, and donating money, time

(40:02):
and talent. So he ends by saying, look, we have
another set of very important elections come up. And he says,
I submit that we either need a change in state
party leadership now or in March at our next state
GOP reorganization meeting. He's absolutely right. And I know I've
talked about this. I know I know you're like, Mandy,

(40:23):
let it go. I'm not gonna let it go. I'm
not gonna let it go until the party writes the
ship and just scrapes off this divisive, horrible, awful leadership.
Dave Williams was actually a candidate from the Independence Institute's
Californian of the Year. And if I were a left wing,

(40:44):
you know, activist, I couldn't imagine a better person to
put in charge of the chairman or to be the
chairman of the GOP to help Democrats than Dave Williams.
So I just want to remind you of that and
let you know that we're not gonna we're we're not
going to buy that. We're not doing that. That's not
a thing that we're going to do anymore. Okay, So

(41:06):
moving on from that, because I don't want to beat
that dead horse.

Speaker 5 (41:10):
I'm just not going to let it go.

Speaker 4 (41:12):
Not gonna let it go. I want to talk about
the House Task Force report. They were investigating the assassination
attempts against President elect Donald Trump. They released their final
report yesterday. They've presented a series of recommendations to combat
future security failures, and they were very critical of the
culture of the Secret Service overall. Now, this particular House

(41:37):
panel was made up of seven Republicans and six Democrats,
and yesterday on Twitter, I saw people who were trying
to say that somehow the Democrats had unfairly influenced this investigation.

Speaker 5 (41:56):
You guys, not everything is a conspiracy.

Speaker 4 (42:00):
Not everything is.

Speaker 5 (42:01):
It has some kind of hidden school duggery in the background.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
And the Republicans and the Democrats on this panel have
a vested interest in making sure that the Secret Service
is functioning properly. So I found it kind of comical
when people were trying to cast dispersions like, oh, they're
covering up to the Secret Service. It was not a
very flattering report. In it they clearly state that the

(42:30):
events of Butler Pennsylvania were absolutely preventable and should have never, ever,
ever happened.

Speaker 5 (42:38):
But this was not a single mistake.

Speaker 4 (42:42):
This was not one person making a choice that put
the president's life in danger. It was a series of
shoddy mistakes, stupid behavior. The culture of silence that we
talked about the other day, where Secret Service agents who
saw something that was not right, meaning they knew that
there were sightline issues. They knew the guy who had

(43:03):
the drone, the guy who was supposed to bring the
drone to cover the entire event, the drone wouldn't work.
So instead of getting another drone, they just were like, well,
we won't have a drone today. Could you imagine if
they'd had a drone in the sky, they absolutely would
have seen this guy crawling over the roof well before
he had a chance to shoot at the president. So
it was a series of failures, of missteps, of bad training.

(43:26):
I'm gonna say it. They didn't say this. It was
a series of diversity hires and elevating people who were
unqualified into positions that they were not trained properly to do.

Speaker 5 (43:39):
This is not a whitewash of what happened.

Speaker 4 (43:42):
Now, some of the media reports have been kind of
a whitewash of the of the complete report. The reports
one undred eighty pages, but you can skim through it
and get to the good parts. One of the things
that I thought was super interesting because I did not
know this. I did not know that the Secrets Service
not only protects American politicians, it also protects foreign politicians

(44:06):
that are here for the UN. And the UN has
their big meeting in September. So right in the midst
of this massive presidential campaign where all of these candidates
were supposed to get Secret Service protection, all of a
sudden we have the UN flooding into New York and
the Secret Service having to stop to provide protection.

Speaker 8 (44:24):
For the UN.

Speaker 4 (44:26):
I let them provide their own security. I mean, my god,
we give them enough money every year. The UN needs
to provide security for its own diplomats, or they need
to provide security for themselves, and they can do that
by contracting with private security in the United States. A
million different ways they can do that. That was actually

(44:46):
one of the criticisms that. I hope that the Secret
Service goes it takes care of immediately. If the Secret
Service just says we are no longer covering foreign dignitaries
in the United States, We're no longer doing that, start
with that, because a big part of the problem was
it was a staffing issue. They simply didn't have enough

(45:07):
bodies to go around and do all of the things
that they needed them to do. And one of the
failures was, hello, July thirteenth, you don't have enough experienced
people doing side analysis ahead of the event. You have
inexperienced agents that were supposed to act as body men

(45:27):
for the president. I mean, will anyone ever forget the
video of the two women that were significantly shorter than
the president standing there waving their guns around, looking completely confused.
Every time I see that, I just think to myself,
those two women, because they were put in a position
they were not able or prepared to do, have set

(45:48):
women back in that department for decades, absolute decades.

Speaker 5 (45:55):
They should have never been covering the president.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
Never, and yet there they were on video looking honestly confused.
Not good, not good at all. So the taskboard has
made about three dozen recommendations to the Secret Service, including
doing away with the protection of foreign dignitaries for the UN.
But also they say, look, why is the Secret Service

(46:20):
involved in investigating fraud and financial crimes at this point?
That is a redundant mission that the FBI could easily
take over, easily take over. So the Secret Service needs
to have one job, and that job should be protecting
the President or other politicians deemed worthy of having Secret

(46:40):
Service protection. And we'll see if that happens. I mean,
we'll see. It also recommended that the Secret Service consolidate
the plans of all law enforcement entities working at an event.
I cannot believe this is not how they do it
already because one of the the big criticisms from the

(47:01):
local police in Butler was we didn't have any communication
with Secret Service at all.

Speaker 5 (47:07):
We had no communication whatsoever. That cannot stand.

Speaker 4 (47:11):
There has to be someone in charge, right, someone in
charge of making sure that everybody is on the same page,
everybody has the ability to communicate with each other.

Speaker 5 (47:28):
You have to be able to do this.

Speaker 4 (47:31):
So they are trying to fill gaps, They're trying to
make a better plan, and it remains to be seen
if the Secret Service can pull this off. But if
there's ever been an organization that is needed at this
point in time, I mean, come on. Somebody asked me
when we were on our trip. We do a Q
and A on these trips where we talk about all
kinds of stuff, and somebody asked, what would be the

(47:53):
most surprising thing to happen before Trump got inaugurated? And
I said, I don't I don't want to say it
would be surprising. But is everybody out there as worried
as I am that somebody else is going to take
a shot at Trump because we had two people that
were willing to do it during the election cycle. Now, granted,

(48:14):
the world hasn't ended, we haven't been thrust back into
the dark ages as of yet. So maybe just maybe
the rhetoric on the left, which has considerably cooled since
the election, and by considerably cooled, I mean cooled completely.
Maybe since they're not calling him hitler every day, maybe
they're not saying that democracy will be over if he

(48:36):
gets elected. Maybe we won't inspire crazy people to do
crazy things.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
We'll see.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
The panel also ask Congress to review the agency's financial
and personnel resources, recommending that it take a look at
reducing the pace of travel, ensuring overtime is properly compensated,
and giving incentives for veteran agents to stay with Secret
Service beyond the minimum retirement age.

Speaker 5 (49:02):
So we shall see.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
Before wrapping up the investigation, The task Force held its
final hearing last week with testimony from Secret Service Acting
Director Ronald Rowe. He acknowledges, at least he acknowledged the
agency's abject failure in the July shooting. He also outlined
a series of changes he's already made. We'll see if
this is enough. But this is incredibly important. But please don't,

(49:26):
please don't be that person on Twitter that is trying
to poo poo the uh you know the results of
this investigation, because I feel like he was probably done
very fairly, because, as I said, there are times when
the Secret Service is also protecting members of Congress, when
threats come in, when when I don't know if I

(49:49):
should say this, uh okay, let me let me couch
this in hidden terms so I don't give too much away.
I was at an event not too long ago, not
too recently, but not too long ago, and we had
a former member of Congress that was speaking at the event. Well,
fairly recently, his family and he had been the subject

(50:12):
of some pretty significant death threats, so there was Secret
Service protecting him. So these members of Congress, they have
a vested interest in making sure that the Secret Service
does a very very good job. Mandy, if the Secret
Services from the text line, you can text me on
the Common Spirit Health text line at five sixty six

(50:34):
nine to zero. So if the Secret Service doesn't communicate
with the local authorities, they have someone to blame stuff on.
I agree, But you know, people don't go into the
Secret Service because they want a president to be assassinated
on their watch. And as crappy as the leadership has been,
I think the rank and file Secret Service members are

(50:54):
people that are called to service. They take their job
incredibly seriously, and if anything happens to their protectee while
they are on duty, they don't get over it. They
don't forgive themselves because it's just it's They take the
job very seriously. Mandy Whoopee says we should try and
relax until January twenty first, what does that mean, like

(51:18):
relax before the world falls apart. I can't even watch that.
I can't even hate watch the view anymore. I used
to hate watch The View, but now it's like Joy
Behar's voice goes through my skull like a dagger, and
I just I can't because the View.

Speaker 5 (51:38):
I realized this the last time I tried to hate
watch it after the election.

Speaker 4 (51:42):
The View is a group of stereotypical women sitting around
and talking in a very stereotypical female way, and I
can't stand it.

Speaker 5 (51:55):
I just cannot.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
I think the View is worse for women in terms
of image than even the Real Housewives series. And the
Real Housewives series is a bunch of incredibly rich women
fighting with each other and demanding apologies that never come.

Speaker 5 (52:08):
And I'm just like, ah, what, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (52:14):
What about the secret Service agent that was hiding behind
mister Trump. Hey, you don't know if more shots are
going to come from behind the president. I'm being sarcastic, Mandy.
The UN is worthless. Just get the whole organization out
of the country. I've been asking for the dissolution or
at least the removal of the United Nations for the
last twenty years. They serve no purpose none. Well I

(52:39):
take that back. They put the most vile nations on
the Human Rights Campaign panel. Vile countries that mistreat their people,
don't treat women like equal citizens. They pass resolutions against Israel,

(53:00):
and I mean, what else do they do? Nothing? They're
the most useless organization in the world. And if we
got rid of them, you know what would change Nothing?
Oh wait, I forgot. They also provide the UNRWA for
the refugees in Gaza, but only a few of their
employees were actually working with Hamas on October seventh, Just

(53:21):
a few, crazy Mandy, did you see what we say
Jill Biden should be surgeon general? That was during the
twenty twenty campaign. Yes, some of her best work.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Hey man, you you what?

Speaker 4 (53:36):
Uh hey, Mandy. One of the biggest complications of sharing
different bandwidth when going between different organizations, especially with security,
is encryption and the ability to not be taken over
by someone else's jamming stuff. So that could be one
of the major functions of why the communication failed, because
it's not everyone has the same radios on the same
channel except local law enforcement. Said they were never even

(54:00):
contacted by the Secret Service. Many of them were not
even communicated with on a basic level. They had no
central command where everybody could go into the same room
and find out what was going on. There was none
of that in Butler. It wasn't just a matter of radios,
which I understand that would be that would be a problem.
Sounds like the Secret Service needs to buy some new radios,

(54:23):
make sure that every local law enforcement agency has one.

Speaker 5 (54:26):
When they do this stuff, then collect them and take
them with you when you go.

Speaker 4 (54:31):
I mean, if I was Trump, or any president, but
especially a president who was controversial, I would never trust
the Secret Service. I would get my own security. The
Secret Service has a long history of getting its protectorates
killed and always afterwards. Gee, I don't know how this happened.
It was just a bunch of little mistakes. No one's fault.

Speaker 5 (54:47):
Really.

Speaker 4 (54:48):
Here's the thing, you guys. The Secret Service has to
be right one hundred percent of the time. The bad
guys only have to be right one time. It's not
a perfect science.

Speaker 6 (55:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (55:00):
Did you know that the Secretary of the ZA is
the only cabinet position not protected by the Secret Service.

Speaker 5 (55:05):
He or she is protected by veterans.

Speaker 4 (55:07):
I would prefer that.

Speaker 6 (55:08):
Oh, so you're saying nostalgia is the only reason why
you put it above it.

Speaker 4 (55:11):
No, because it was the first and it was the best,
The other ones have bur Ravenswood singing You're a mean one.

Speaker 6 (55:17):
Other ones have one of the best acting jobs ever done.

Speaker 8 (55:21):
Ever.

Speaker 4 (55:22):
Come on, please on, Jim Carrey's wait.

Speaker 5 (55:26):
While the original Grinch, he would have had no idea
where to go?

Speaker 7 (55:29):
What yep?

Speaker 6 (55:30):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (55:31):
Without the original Grinch to playoff of, you would have.

Speaker 8 (55:33):
Had right, Except Jim Carrey took that character and made
it a million times better.

Speaker 4 (55:38):
No clue? All right, this I want to respond to
a text message because I think it's a really good
text message. Mandy, What has happened to Americans? Number One,
people are feeling joy about a CEO being murdered. Number two,
Penny acquitted should have never been trialed. New York's are threatening.
New Yorkers are threatening his life. Number three, anti Semitism
across campuses, some vile people out there, And uh, yes,

(56:02):
you are correct, you are correct. But I'd like to
point out something about this. The people feeling joy about
a CEO being murdered are people on the left who
hate gun violence unless it's used against someone that they
believe deserved it. And I am going to put the
blame for the way people feel about health care coverage.

Speaker 5 (56:25):
And we're not talking about healthcare.

Speaker 4 (56:27):
We're talking about health insurance squarely at the feet of Obamacare,
because we were sold a bill of goods, even though
it was a lie, and I said on my radio
show at the time, Obamacare was going to do nothing,
nothing to control health care costs.

Speaker 5 (56:43):
Nothing. There was nothing in that bill to control health
care costs.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
Nothing.

Speaker 4 (56:50):
So now people were sold to bill of goods. It's
going to make everything cheaper, except the cost of health
insurance has outpaced inflation, and now we're paying huge premiums
with huge deductibles. And a big part of that is
because the government has mandated we cover so much crap
that we're not going to need. I'm a fifty five
year old woman. I don't need maternity coverage, and yet

(57:13):
the government says I have to have it. If we
went back to the way of saying, look, you know what,
if you need it, you can buy a thing called
a rider. If you're a twenty five year old woman,
if you're a rod and his wife and you know
you want to be having a baby in the next
few years, you buy the maternity rider. The rest of
us don't pay for that. But now government mandates so

(57:35):
much stuff be covered health insurance is so oh, thank
you thorough ravens Croft. I appreciate your correction.

Speaker 6 (57:41):
Texter, wait a budger, it.

Speaker 4 (57:45):
Really did you know Thurle? Did you know his first name?
Of course you did not too. You don't even know
which grinch is the best. Anyway, let me continue. So
people are angry about having to pay so much for
health insurance that they feel doesn't do anything, and frankly
it doesn't. So back in, let me think of what
year this was. Two thousand and two, I was selling

(58:05):
health insurance. I left radio because it got to be
a hobby I could no longer afford in terms of
how much money I was making. I'm selling health insurance.
I had a healthcare plan for young people that got
it had a twenty percent copay, It had a one
thousand dollars deductible, and for people in their early twenties,
it cost about seventy eight bucks a month. Do you
know what it covered? It covered if they got really sick.

(58:28):
It covered a couple visits to the doctor every year.
But for people in that age group, that's all they needed.
That's it, that's all they needed. And it was like
to seventy eight bucks a month. I sold the crap
out of that thing. But you cannot buy that policy now.
It is not allowed to exist because Obamacare made everything federalized.
And so now people are super angry about their health

(58:49):
insurance coverage. They're angry about having things denied by insurance companies.
And yes, that is very frustrating, but it wasn't that
dude's fault. That health coverage has gotten so oh insane.
So you know, people are angry at the wrong person.
But I don't know if you saw the video this,
I don't even know why this woman keeps getting on TV.

(59:11):
This Taylor Laurens idiot. She used to work for the
Washington Post. She is a perpetual victim on social media
that she won't feel. She feels nothing about doxing someone
else and releasing their personal information on x Well, she
whinds about people being mean to her. Well, she was
on with Piers Morgan. I don't even know what channel
Peers Morgan shows on to be perfectly honest, but she

(59:33):
said she felt joy at the death of a CEO
of a man with a family being murdered in the street.
She felt joy. Where's her political situation? She is firmly
on the left, and then let's move on to the
next one. Penny was acquitted. Daniel Penny is the man

(59:56):
the marine in New York who was afraid that a
crazy man on the subway in New York was going
to hurt someone else, so rather than let that happen,
he actually put the guy in a hold, and the
guy eventually died. We still don't know if that hold
was what killed him. The guy was crazy, he was
a drug addict with a long criminal history. Daniel Penny
protected the people on that train car and the jackass

(01:00:19):
Alvin Bragg decided to punish him.

Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
Now, this is the same district attorney in New York
who has.

Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
Seen crime rise dramatically on his watch because he doesn't
go after actual criminals.

Speaker 5 (01:00:32):
He goes after people like Daniel Penny.

Speaker 4 (01:00:35):
When he first was charged, I said to a friend
of mine who lives in New York, I said, I
need your opinion on this. I need to know you
ride the subway all the time. She goes, no, I don't,
it's too dangerous. Okay. That kind of answers my question.
She does ride the subway, just not at night anymore.
She needs to ride it all the time. But I said,
do you think that these New Yorkers who are going

(01:00:56):
to sit on this jury, who are on that subway
every single day.

Speaker 5 (01:01:00):
They see these crazy people.

Speaker 4 (01:01:01):
They've probably had an experience with a whacked out homeless
person on the train. They've probably all thought to themselves,
that could have been me being threatened and this guy
stepped up. Do you think he's gonna get convicted? And
she said no, not when you put it like that.
But he should have never had to defend himself. And
now you have these dumbass New Yorkers that are like,

(01:01:22):
no justice, no peace. Well, the justice system worked, didn't it,
Just like it worked for OJ. I don't know what's
wrong with people. Everybody is walking around looking for something
to hate. They're looking for somebody to blame, and they're
generally speaking, going about it in the most simplistic way
possible because we've lost the ability to do any kind

(01:01:42):
of deep thinking about any big issue.

Speaker 5 (01:01:44):
Do you think Taylor Lawrence, as.

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
She feels joy at the death of a CEO, thinks
about the fact that her team passed a bill that
made health insurance so much more expensive for everyone that
now everyone hates health insurance companies. No isn't. She really doesn't,
because man, it's too difficult to think critically, it's too

(01:02:08):
difficult to think. Maybe, just maybe my team had something
to do with this, just maybe health insurance has been
screwing people way before Obamacare, says this text Sorr, Yes.

Speaker 8 (01:02:21):
And d D.

Speaker 5 (01:02:22):
They have on occasion.

Speaker 4 (01:02:26):
Oh what, I'm sorry, Oh gosh, Okay, we're moving our
Upworthry interview up just a little bit. We're gonna be
right back with that. I think you're scrolling through your
Instagram feeds and then you see a post from upworthy
and you know it's gonna be good, it's gonna be positive,
it's gonna be uplifting. Well, now, Upworthy has a new
book coming out, and I'm pleased to have two of
the people behind Upworthy.

Speaker 5 (01:02:46):
In the new book.

Speaker 4 (01:02:47):
We've got Gabriel Raylik and Luci Hadnell on the show today,
And first of all, welcome, And second of all, how
lucky are you that you get to make your living
sharing fun and happy, uplifting stories with people's awesome.

Speaker 6 (01:03:03):
Yeah, it's a pretty good gig.

Speaker 4 (01:03:04):
No complaints on our part, So thanks for having us. Well,
you guys are now branching out into the printed word
and tell me a little bit about the book and
what you guys, how you chose the stories that are
going in the book.

Speaker 9 (01:03:22):
Yeah, you know, this book came about you know, we,
Lucy and I built a really large following on Instagram
on at up worthy, there's about five million folks who
follow us there now and which is amazing. And one
thing that we started seeing happening on that channel is
when we would share a post, you know, about you know,
an act of kindness or decency that was going on,

(01:03:45):
other people would be inspired to start sharing their own stories.
And we thought that was really neat, and Lucy and
I would kind of like screencap these comments and stories
that people were sharing, text them to each other and
be like, oh, did you read this?

Speaker 6 (01:03:57):
This is great? And it was like the best part
of our job.

Speaker 9 (01:04:01):
So we decided, you know what, let's see how many
of these stories that we can get and get to
know our audience and the people who follow up were
the well, and so we started asking questions like, who's
the kindest stranger that you've ever met, who's a teacher
that you'll never forget, what's a small thing someone did
for you that had an outsized impact on your life,
and we would just get thousands and thousands and thousands

(01:04:23):
of responses and we read through them all where we
decided that they deserved kind of, you know, to be
preserved forever because they made us feel so good to
read them, and we thought a book would be the
best way to kind of pay homage to the gravitas
and empower that these stories hold.

Speaker 6 (01:04:42):
So, you know, we reached out and we.

Speaker 9 (01:04:44):
Interviewed hundreds of people in our audience and worked with
them hand in hand and with writers to turn them
into the stories that are featured in this book. And
that is what makes up good people, stories from the
best of humanity. And you know, we're really proud of it.

Speaker 6 (01:04:56):
It's a it's a good feeling read.

Speaker 4 (01:05:00):
Are you some of your favorite stories that you remember
that are in the book that you were especially touched by?

Speaker 11 (01:05:10):
Yeah, you know, there's so many, and I genuinely mean
that every single story in this book is wonderful in
its own way. I really enjoyed the ones that are
about a small thing, a seemingly innocuous thing that actually
had a huge impact on someone. There's a story that
comes to mind called Good Hair Day, which is about
a woman who had gone through radiation treatment for cancer

(01:05:32):
and lost her hair and it had just started to
grow back and looked like this, like pixie cut. She
was rocking, and she felt very self conscious, and she
was out and about with her family and this group
of girls looked at her and said, cute haircut, something
super simple.

Speaker 7 (01:05:47):
But they had no idea that that actually meant a
great deal to this woman.

Speaker 11 (01:05:52):
She had been debating whether or not she was going
to wear a wig to her son's wedding, and because
of that moment, she was able to say, you know what,
I'm not gone with the wig. And she set us
a photo of her looking radiant and gorgeous at this wedding,
rocking her short hair cut, And it just goes to
show you have no idea what people are going through,
and a tiny, small thing can actually have a huge

(01:06:14):
impact on someone.

Speaker 4 (01:06:16):
What about you, Gabriel, Is there anything that stands out?
Oh you're muted, You're you're muted.

Speaker 9 (01:06:27):
I'm sorry about that. Yeah, nothing stands out, just total silence. No,
I mean, look, they all work together. Every story builds
on the last to kind of create a wonderful you know,
breadth and depth of the human experience that speaks to
this what it means to be alive. And I really
that's the power behind it, and so many stick out

(01:06:49):
to me. There's, you know, one about a guy who
takes a different route and when a stranger suggests it
to him in a diner in Texas and he's returning
back from being on leave in the military, and he's
going through a hard time, and this simple act of
driving down a different road, you know, leads him to
have a completely different outlook on his life and leads
to a well of support and good memories that he

(01:07:13):
really needed at that time and in difficult times. I
would follow in the future. And so I find myself
thinking about that one a lot. It's actually called Curly
Fries and it closes out the book. It's one of
my favorites.

Speaker 12 (01:07:25):
How many stories are in the book overall, one hundred
and one wow, short stories plus comments you know, taken
directly from the comment section and sort of interest first throughout.

Speaker 4 (01:07:38):
Oh, that's very cool. So this is the kind of
book that you can pick up, you can put down.
You don't have to read it in order, You could
just kind of go through at your pace, or if
you're having a rotten day, you could pick it up,
open it up and get something out of that.

Speaker 5 (01:07:51):
I love what you guys do.

Speaker 4 (01:07:53):
I so appreciate what you guys do, because, like I said,
the Internet is a cesspool, right, and part of it
is self inflicted.

Speaker 5 (01:08:00):
Like I'm on X.

Speaker 4 (01:08:01):
You know, I'm on Instagram. I'm Instagram is actually the
best of all of them to me. But seeing what
you're doing and reminding people that even when we're reading
all of these terrible things that politicians are doing, seeing
these small acts of kindness and the impact that they
can have can really change your perspective and remind you
that no matter how bad the big bad is, the

(01:08:22):
small things and the people in this country are really
the best of everything. And that's what I'm kind of
taking away from it. I put a link on the
blog so people could buy the book. I feel like
this if you're the sort to buy a book for Christmas.
I do buy books for Christmas. I was telling them
that I send out Larry Read's book on Character often,
but now I'm going to have to add the Upworthy

(01:08:42):
book because you never know who's going to need a
great little story that day, I do have to ask
you this, out of thousands of people, how did you
what was it about these stories that made you say
that needs to go on the book. When you're talking
to thousands of stories that you were shifting through, you know, the.

Speaker 9 (01:09:00):
Truth is, uh, there's probably enough material in people that
we talked to to fill a dozen books. And so
it was hard to decide, Okay, like these are the
ones that make it. But the common thread I think
with and this is true with any good stories, it's
stuff that we wanted to hear more about when we
first had someone reach out with like, hey, this is

(01:09:22):
something that I want to talk about, and that we
wanted to share it with other people and thought that
folks could benefit from it either because it's a life
lesson or because it's a reminder of you know, a
profound goodness or a simple thing. But that's what ties
it together. It's all stuff that deserves to be heard
and can be uplifting, you know. Upworthy. It's where the

(01:09:43):
name comes from.

Speaker 4 (01:09:44):
The book is called Upworthy And I put a link
on the blog today so you can just zip right
over and buy it for all your friends. Gabriel Rayleik
and Lucia Nelle, thank you so much for making time
for us today.

Speaker 7 (01:09:57):
Thank you so much, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (01:09:58):
All right, thanks guys.

Speaker 4 (01:10:00):
Yeah, if you're looking for the perfect gift for this
hour puss in your life, this might be it. We'll
be right back. I got a lot of stuff on
the blog we haven't even sniffed at yet. And I
have a question that I just saw on exit I
think is really good about what phrases make your skin
crawl as soon as you hear them. I've got mine
effort yep.

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Speaker 4 (01:10:46):
I'm your host, Mandy Connell. That guy right over there
is Anthony Rodriguez.

Speaker 5 (01:10:50):
We call him.

Speaker 11 (01:10:51):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:10:53):
I love that one. It's a favorite, my absolute favorite.
So I got a bunch of stuff I want to
get to in this hour, but I want to start
with a story that I only did for one specific reason,
and I'll get to that in just a moment.

Speaker 5 (01:11:08):
I don't know if you guys knew this, but Donald J.

Speaker 4 (01:11:12):
Trump or Junior has ended his relationship with his fiancee,
Kimberly gilfoil. He has been canoodling with socialite Bettina Anderson
in Palm Beach. And now you know the reason I
did the story. I just wanted to use the word cannodling.
That's a great word, slightly naughty, like can you cannoodle

(01:11:35):
with someone that you're married to or is it just
illicit cannoodling that goes on. I need a little cannodle clarification.
And do you cannoodle or is it always they were cannondling?
Can you connodle by yourself? I don't know the answer
to these questions. But this is why I did the story.
But it's two reasons actually.

Speaker 2 (01:11:53):
So Donald J.

Speaker 4 (01:11:54):
Trump Junior is apparently, like his father, unable to have
a long term relationship without step out on his woman.
And that's fine, you know whatever, do what you got
to do. I'm not married to him. But and what
can only be described as a big, big, you know,
like help for Donald Trump Junior. Donald Trump Senior has

(01:12:16):
now nominated Kimberly Gilfoyle.

Speaker 5 (01:12:18):
To be the ambassador to Greece.

Speaker 4 (01:12:21):
So hey, I know you guys just broke up, but
let me ship your ex fiance off to Greece for you.
You don't have to worry about running into her now.
It won't be awkward, won't be awkward at all. I'd
love to be an ambassador. I found out from a
friend that I met in Louisville, Kentucky, who was the
ambassador to Latvia.

Speaker 5 (01:12:40):
And I said, how do you get to be an ambassador?

Speaker 4 (01:12:42):
She said, you raise a crapload of money for the president,
whoever that is, and then they reward you with it
an ambassadorship, and depending on how much money or how
close you are, you get the really good ones. She
went to Latvia, which was fine. She loved it, absolutely
loved it. She said it was a very hard job,
much harder than she thought it was going to be.
But now Donald Trump, Jude, you could move on and

(01:13:06):
cannoodle more with his cannodling partner. But Tina Anderson and
Tom Beach and Kimberly Gilfoyle will have to just go
quietly into the night to Greece. So there you go,
got that going for you. I just again really only
did the story because I mean, how often do you

(01:13:26):
get to use the word cannodle. I'd like to use
it more, but I generally speaking, don't talk about, you know, gossip,
and that's just gossip right there. But canodle ist you
was too tempting. Mandy Kimberly Guilfoyle.

Speaker 5 (01:13:42):
Is awful, says this texter.

Speaker 4 (01:13:44):
I gotta tell you. Having her yell at us at
the RNC for her speech was not great. And I
was genuinely surprised because she is a media person, so
I was kind of surprised by that that she was
screaming at everyone.

Speaker 7 (01:14:02):
But now.

Speaker 4 (01:14:04):
DJ T Junior has moved on to something he says
is perfect. I don't understand women who date serial cheaters.
I mean, I guess you look at it, Neil Well,
he's really wealthy. I mean, maybe it's worth it. I
don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:14:20):
I just I don't. And then when they're.

Speaker 4 (01:14:22):
Surprised, there's a there's a guy, David Foster. He is
a music producer, a musician. He has worked with so
many people. He's been married like seven times or so.
I mean, honestly, I think it's like seven times. And
as far as I know, he's cheated on every single
wife that he's had for a younger woman, right, so

(01:14:42):
he just keeps he gets older, but they keep getting younger.
And I think to myself, why would you, why would
you enter into a relationship with someone like that? I
don't understand that about people. I really don't. But then again,
I've never been willing to just date someone because they
were healthier, had money or whatever. I'm just not going
to be that person. What does Kimberly Gilfoyle know about Greece?

(01:15:05):
I have no idea. But really, you guys, if you
think the ambassadors that we send around the world know
anything about the countries they're going to, a vast majority
of the time, the answer is no. And some ambassadorships
have been disastrous, absolutely disastrous. But you know, generally speaking,
you send a smart person there. It's the diplomat core

(01:15:25):
once you get there, that is going to give you
all the information that you need. And there are far
worse places to be ambassador than Greece. I would take
that in a New York minute. Ooh, right now, TMZ's
talking about this right now. I wonder if they said
cannodle on TMZ. I wonder if that's why they're doing
the story canodling love the word, So Kimberly.

Speaker 5 (01:15:46):
Will be gone.

Speaker 4 (01:15:47):
She'll be out of the hair of Donald Trump Junior
and never have to worry about that again. One last story,
real quick. This hour is going to be really fast
because I got a bunch of stories I want to
get to listen to this. You guys, CNN is so
close to going under, so close. CNN's audience is so small,

(01:16:11):
ay rid, This is when you're supposed to say, how
small is it?

Speaker 5 (01:16:13):
Wait a minute, let me back that up. CNN's audience
is so small.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
How small is it?

Speaker 4 (01:16:19):
They're getting beaten by the Food Network, Oh and the
History Channel, Oh and TNT, Denovery, Hallmark Mysteries, TLC, TBS History, HGTV, USA,
MSNBC and the Hallmark Channel and ESPN Fox News. Uh
oh yeah, we're getting their asses kicked by Fox News.
But that's been a long time, long long time. In

(01:16:41):
the twenty five to fifty four year old demographic, which
is very important advertisers, even though they have the least
amount of money.

Speaker 5 (01:16:46):
I've never understood this CEM in our industry.

Speaker 4 (01:16:49):
They're like, we want the twenty five fifty five year
olds and I'm like, but they don't have any money,
Like I want the thirty five to sixty four year olds.
They have all the money.

Speaker 5 (01:16:58):
But nonetheless, I'll go on here.

Speaker 4 (01:17:01):
CNN had a measly sixty seven thousand viewers in that category,
finishing behind networks like TV Land, MTV.

Speaker 5 (01:17:09):
And Comedy Central.

Speaker 4 (01:17:11):
The problem is is that running a network like CNN
is so expensive because it is a staff intensive operation.
And now they don't even show CNN in the airports anymore.
That's how bad it's gotten. I noticed that about a
year ago. It was like, wait a minute. Used to
be there were CNN on all these screens, not anymore.
Now it's all CNNA like airport advertising. So yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway,

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if you love CNN, No, I'm kidding, No one loves CNN.

Speaker 5 (01:17:45):
Never mind, never mind.

Speaker 4 (01:17:47):
I'll be right back. I've got a couple of stories
that I want to get to before and then at
the bottom of the hour, I'm going to ask the
question of which phrases just make your you know when
you hear, because people are already texting about that. But
I want to get a couple things in here. There's
an editorial today in the Denver Gazette. And if you've

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lived in Denver for any length of time, especially you
natives who have been here for decades, I don't need
to tell you that things have not gone super well
in the past. There are five to ten years, right,
I got here eleven years ago, and it's not the
same city that I moved to. It just isn't why well.
We can place the blame a lot later, but in

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this Denver Gazette editorial they lay out, I mean, let
me just listen to this, okay. Mounting problems include working
parents cannot afford the childcare services that enable them to provide,
As documented by a Gazette news report. Care professionals blame
increasing overhead, waning government assistance, and excessive state regulation. Homeless

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veterans and single parents lack the social services they need
after years of inflation has.

Speaker 5 (01:18:54):
Them in turmoil.

Speaker 4 (01:18:56):
Colorado's roads and highways rank as the country's eighth Worstntal
health services cannot meet demand as drug problems, depression, and
suicide rise across the state. Colorado's economy last year slipped
from a long run in the country's top ten to
the bottom ten for GDP as the state's personal income
and unemployment fell to the bottom. Twenty foreign gangs have invaded,

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perpetuating crimes against minorities, the poor, and other innocent victims.
Denver will close seven public schools because revenue shortfalls caused
by falling enrollment. And then it goes on from there,
and honestly, like it makes Denver sound like a total hellhole,
and it's not. I mean, we don't live in a hellhole,
but it certainly is not the place that I moved to.

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It lays out several other issues that we're having when
it comes to government having issues. The Caring for Denver
program Colorado Public Radio just had a very big expose
about it. I linked to it yesterday on the blog.
They've been just given out money for these mental health programs, and.

Speaker 5 (01:20:02):
They're giving it out to money. They're giving out money
to people.

Speaker 4 (01:20:04):
Who have no expertise in these areas at all, no
track record of success in these areas at all, and
then they're refusing to show us the receipts, Like show
us where you sent the money. No, we don't believe
we have to do that. Yeah, you kind of do,
kind of do. So It's like when you read this
and you think to yourself, like, what is going to
have to change? I would argue that what's going to

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have to change is we need a class of politician
that doesn't listen to the consultants, that actually goes out
and talks about the things that people in Colorado and
people in Denver care about, but makes the case that
the direction that we're heading right now with a growing
regulatory state that is choking out businesses, a declining economic

(01:20:51):
situation because it part in part of those increasing regulatory issues.
I want to read this one thing Colorado's wait a minute,
hang on one second, let me go back and find
the right one. Oh, dang it, it wasn't something else.
It's in a different article. Essentially, there's a lot of

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things that can be fixed, not easily. I don't want
to make it like, oh, we can just you know,
elect a new person, everything's going to be fine. That's
not how things work. To start fixing the problem, we
have to name the problem. And right now we have
a mayor who doesn't believe, or doesn't seem to believe

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through the words that he's used, that we have an
addiction and mental illness problem on the streets of Denver.
Whenever anybody says, oh, it's it's houselessness. It's houselessness. They
just don't have a house. Well, they don't have a
house for a reason. They don't have a house because
they are in the depths of their addiction and they
can no longer hold a job. They don't have a

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house because they're mentally ill and.

Speaker 5 (01:21:59):
Can no longer hold a job. Sure, you know what,
there are people who are homeless right now, who are homeless.

Speaker 4 (01:22:04):
Because they got into a bad financial situation and they
lost their home. But they're not the people that are
going to be living on the streets for the next
fifteen or twenty years. There are the people that are
going to find a way back because they're not mentally
ill and they're not addicted. They're going to find a
way out of it. It's going to be really hard.
But we don't even have people in charge right now
that are willing to say what the problems are. And

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that concerns me, and it concerns me greatly. It's a
great editorial in the sense that we got to have
these conversations, but at the same time, if you read it,
you'll be like, oh, this is not good, not good
at all. When we get back, let's do something a
little fluffier, a little lighter.

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
I saw this on.

Speaker 4 (01:22:49):
X earlier and I thought it was a great question.
And it's a simple question. What statement or phrase immediately
makes you like your skin crawl?

Speaker 10 (01:23:02):
What is it?

Speaker 4 (01:23:04):
My nephew Patrick just responded on X trust me, I'm
from the government exactly, Patrick. We're going to do that
after this. What word or phrase annoys you the second
you hear it? Mine was easy, speak my truth or alternatively,
speak truth to power. I hate both of those, hate
both of them.

Speaker 8 (01:23:26):
Rod, I'm efforting. Oh stop, I'm efforting. Speak my truth
is good. There's different variations of that that also get
on my nerves.

Speaker 7 (01:23:36):
HM.

Speaker 4 (01:23:38):
As as if truth is you know, as as if
truth is not a thing like.

Speaker 6 (01:23:42):
There is.

Speaker 4 (01:23:44):
The truth?

Speaker 6 (01:23:49):
My feelings are valid.

Speaker 5 (01:23:51):
Oh yeah, okay, okay, yep ye, people are like.

Speaker 6 (01:23:57):
You watch the snowflakes come down from the sky. As
I said that, I'll okay.

Speaker 5 (01:24:03):
The text line is already lit up with things.

Speaker 4 (01:24:05):
So if you want to text us on the Common
Spirit Health text line, that's five six six nine.

Speaker 5 (01:24:09):
Now here's one. Are you working hard or hardly working?

Speaker 8 (01:24:14):
Ah?

Speaker 6 (01:24:15):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
This one cringe.

Speaker 5 (01:24:17):
I am, I'm done with cringe.

Speaker 6 (01:24:18):
Just saying cringe, just cringe.

Speaker 5 (01:24:20):
That's so crimra, that cringe is cringe.

Speaker 3 (01:24:23):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:24:23):
That's a great way to put it.

Speaker 8 (01:24:25):
For those that have kids. If you've heard your kids yet,
say we bring the boom. The Costco guys. They're viral
on TikTok and they're phenomenal and I will never stop
saying it, you know, bring the boom.

Speaker 6 (01:24:35):
Have you the Costco guys? Oh I haven't.

Speaker 4 (01:24:38):
I'll have to Costco.

Speaker 6 (01:24:40):
I'm sure some of our listeners kids.

Speaker 5 (01:24:41):
Costco is near and dear to my heart.

Speaker 6 (01:24:43):
Yeah, it's the Costco guys.

Speaker 8 (01:24:44):
It's two guys, a dad and his son that got
famous by notoriously taste testing the chicken bake, oh and
the double chunk chocolate cookie.

Speaker 6 (01:24:53):
Well they have.

Speaker 8 (01:24:55):
They have, they have songs, now the partnerships. They're the
Costco guys, and they bring the boom.

Speaker 4 (01:25:01):
I wish I had thought of all that, because I
need I have to go open up a different window
because so many people are texting us.

Speaker 2 (01:25:07):
We've hit a nerve.

Speaker 5 (01:25:08):
We've hit a big.

Speaker 4 (01:25:09):
Nerve here on the Mandy Connell Show right now with
this let me, let me get more messages showing we'll
go to one hundred and then we'll go there. Okay,
here we go.

Speaker 5 (01:25:19):
Let's see here. Hated phrase.

Speaker 4 (01:25:22):
These ones, yep, that one, these ones, these ones right here,
these ones. Yeah, but it has to be, it has
to be whenever anybody says, I seen I first of all,
I'm judging.

Speaker 6 (01:25:39):
Yeah, I'm judging.

Speaker 4 (01:25:40):
It was so hard.

Speaker 8 (01:25:41):
What's being overused in sports nowadays? When someone like has
a really good game, or like has a string of
really good games, he is him?

Speaker 6 (01:25:48):
He's him? You say, he is him? That's just like
he's the guy, like he's the man. He is him.

Speaker 4 (01:25:55):
No, okay, let's see here. Let me skip up a
bunch of kiddos, and now I like kids.

Speaker 8 (01:26:02):
You know why?

Speaker 4 (01:26:03):
No, I don't use kiddos a lot, do I? Yeah,
I've been brainwashed. Teachers are always like, your children are
not goats. Does anybody really think when you say kids,
you're thinking about goats? No, you're not, you're talking about kids.

Speaker 8 (01:26:14):
Well, goats is a new thing with young'ins though, because
like you're goaded, yeah, which means you're like you're the greatest,
you're the fast, You're goaded hang on, Yeah, So it
doesn't taught me a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:26:25):
I don't know if that's good. I think their nephews
have taught you a lot. Okay, here we go. Uh wow,
they're really coming in. Now you will need to download
the app.

Speaker 2 (01:26:33):
Correct.

Speaker 5 (01:26:34):
That's annoying. That being said, I know.

Speaker 4 (01:26:36):
I say that a lot. It is a good one,
but I say it a lot because it's kind of
like you put a punctuation mark on what you just said,
and now you're going to give a kind of countervailing
opinion about what.

Speaker 5 (01:26:46):
You just said.

Speaker 4 (01:26:46):
So it's like, here, I'm going to say the sky
is blue, but that being said, it does have a
purplish tinge today kind of you're adding something there. My body,
my choice. Yeah, okay, unless you don't want to get
a vaccine.

Speaker 8 (01:26:57):
You know what some people have told me they don't like.
I've had it more frequently recently than not. I'm always
and neither my parents are military. That's initially what people
ask me. But I'm a big sur and man guy.
I've had a lot of people say, oh, don't call
me that. I'm like, that's just ingrained to me. You're
gonna have to.

Speaker 10 (01:27:11):
Deal with it.

Speaker 4 (01:27:11):
I'm from the South, so we call everybody sir and mam, even.

Speaker 6 (01:27:13):
People that are forgot it just happened.

Speaker 4 (01:27:15):
I'm not at the age where people are surtin mamming
me right, and and I'm like, well, I'm not old
enough to be a certain but respectful and it's ingrained
in me.

Speaker 6 (01:27:24):
Like if someone asked me that, I don't stop sorry, don't.

Speaker 4 (01:27:26):
Stop doing that. Nope, don't apologize for being polite ever.
Mandy Top of Mind makes my skin crawl. That's interesting.
I would have never found that one of fun so
resilience c when all you need is resilience, I'm not
I can't think of a good example. What a weather
person says, bundle up about you, they care about they

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want you to be warm. Texter, it's going to be
a cold one. Curated what a weasel word? A carefully
curated you know, outfit or curated page. I just think
it's it's pretentious.

Speaker 6 (01:28:00):
Someone, these are nice community.

Speaker 4 (01:28:02):
I don't know why community makes you upset anything with misogyny.

Speaker 5 (01:28:06):
Why does no one talk about.

Speaker 4 (01:28:07):
Misandrist behavior and the high level of its prevalence, Because
most people don't know what missandrasts means, but they know
what misogyny means because.

Speaker 5 (01:28:16):
Of the women's movement.

Speaker 8 (01:28:18):
So there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:28:19):
Nonpartisan, usually uttered by a group that is obviously liberal.

Speaker 5 (01:28:23):
Correct, absolutely correct?

Speaker 4 (01:28:27):
Ah by hang on, I just did a wow, Mandy,
our democracy.

Speaker 9 (01:28:35):
This one.

Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
I hate to say this, but then don't say it.
Don't say it.

Speaker 4 (01:28:41):
I hate proactive, like who's against active? Phrases that are
annoying me When people say right after every comment, right.

Speaker 10 (01:28:50):
Is?

Speaker 4 (01:28:51):
I mean you know what he means, right?

Speaker 6 (01:28:52):
Yep?

Speaker 5 (01:28:53):
I hate hearing it's all good? But what if it
is all good?

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
What if that's the only which is.

Speaker 4 (01:28:58):
I it's all good?

Speaker 5 (01:29:00):
The new normal?

Speaker 4 (01:29:00):
I hate that too. You know what I'm saying. That's
just an affirmation. You're looking for affirmation?

Speaker 6 (01:29:06):
Circle back?

Speaker 5 (01:29:07):
Oh yeah, this person says I hate col beans.

Speaker 1 (01:29:10):
Aw.

Speaker 5 (01:29:10):
That's like it's such a retro eighties thing.

Speaker 6 (01:29:12):
What's wrong with you?

Speaker 2 (01:29:13):
Mandy?

Speaker 4 (01:29:14):
Unhoused when they mean homeless, it's like fingernails on a blackboard.
To my ear, Steve, you and I are in complete
agreement there. I hate unhoused, houseless.

Speaker 8 (01:29:23):
That's the new one's Would you like to talk about
your car's extended warranty?

Speaker 2 (01:29:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:29:28):
No, Mandy. I won't name the company because they're an advertiser,
but they accept donated cars with benefits going to kids.
Whenever I hear their jingle, I turn the volume down
for two minutes or so. John and Pueblo wes. Guess what, John,
we do too?

Speaker 7 (01:29:42):
We do do.

Speaker 6 (01:29:44):
Uh the most.

Speaker 4 (01:29:45):
Colorado thing we saw today. I actually think that's kind
of cute.

Speaker 2 (01:29:48):
Cheers?

Speaker 4 (01:29:48):
What's wrong with cheers?

Speaker 6 (01:29:50):
Hit cheers? I need you to think outside the box.

Speaker 4 (01:29:53):
Oh that's pretty cliche. You know what I'm saying? That's
on here?

Speaker 6 (01:29:57):
Can to give you my two cents?

Speaker 5 (01:29:58):
Yes, it is what it is, says this person.

Speaker 4 (01:30:01):
I actually use that because it's a completely dismissive sentence.

Speaker 5 (01:30:05):
It's just a conversation ender.

Speaker 6 (01:30:07):
How about the overuse and very often misuse of the
word literally.

Speaker 5 (01:30:11):
Oh yeah, for sure. I do that all the time.

Speaker 6 (01:30:13):
Literally, I do it all the time, Synergy.

Speaker 4 (01:30:15):
I just want to point out that on our wild
text line where things come in crazy free in a row,
it is what it is, Mandy, it is what it is.

Speaker 5 (01:30:23):
Drives me crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
It is what it is.

Speaker 4 (01:30:25):
Wtf could it possibly be more?

Speaker 5 (01:30:29):
Something?

Speaker 4 (01:30:29):
It just updated. I lost that skin in the game. Girl.
I hate the Wait a minute, I hate the word
unput downable referring to a great book. I'm not even
sure that's the word, Pam. I don't think it is either.
Broncos control our own destiny, but they are.

Speaker 6 (01:30:46):
Stop it nine.

Speaker 7 (01:30:50):
You know what.

Speaker 4 (01:30:50):
This is one that is going to upset some people
because I agree with it. Mandy hate when people refer
to animals as fur babies. Okay, well you know, am bad.
I know, I kind of get yourself at baby and
you'll you know why because mine is the size of
an actual child, not a baby.

Speaker 6 (01:31:08):
It's Ferbie.

Speaker 5 (01:31:09):
She's my giant.

Speaker 4 (01:31:10):
Fluof of love.

Speaker 6 (01:31:11):
Just another way to say it.

Speaker 4 (01:31:13):
Now in the morning sometimes when she's just being fussy
and I just say, do you just need cuddles?

Speaker 5 (01:31:17):
We say, then I give her a big, big hug.

Speaker 6 (01:31:19):
You got fur daughter.

Speaker 4 (01:31:20):
That's what flex makes this person want a puke?

Speaker 6 (01:31:23):
Oh yeah, bring the boom flex.

Speaker 5 (01:31:25):
Yeah, Mandy, I'm not feeling it today. What the blank
are we doing here?

Speaker 3 (01:31:29):
Then?

Speaker 4 (01:31:30):
Jen X says, okay, boomer, I hate that too, hate it.

Speaker 5 (01:31:34):
Mandy and efforting we all hate that.

Speaker 6 (01:31:37):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (01:31:37):
Skimbitty yeah, skimmedy skibbity. I'm not a fan, says this
text her. Well, I'm not a fan of that. It
is what it is makes me want to punch someone.
So so far we've learned it is what it is
is very unpopular, but there's no other way to say that. Yeah,
this person says the two words you know when people talk.
You know, you know you know I mean right?

Speaker 1 (01:32:00):
You know?

Speaker 6 (01:32:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:32:01):
Like you know, yeah, I mean you know what I mean?

Speaker 7 (01:32:03):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:32:03):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:32:04):
Should this should work? It should be better? But should
is a word. It's basically a criticism word. Should you
should have done it this way?

Speaker 7 (01:32:13):
You know?

Speaker 6 (01:32:13):
What has gone out of the Uh often used is live, laugh, love?
Oh oh does that anymore?

Speaker 4 (01:32:20):
You know why? Because we've all lived, laughed and loved
and we're out of lives and laughs and loves. We're
just out of it.

Speaker 5 (01:32:26):
Nandy, I can't be my authentic self.

Speaker 6 (01:32:28):
Oh I got one? Yeah, what good vibes?

Speaker 4 (01:32:31):
Ooh, good vibes. That's like a retro thing, though, because
that's very seventies. And when I was a kid, I
had a T shirt that said good vibes and I
loved it. It was one of my favorite T shirts.
So I can't agree with you people now, just on
that one. I like the vibes Andandy, how about You're
often said, I'm just saying, which says nothing. Again, it's
a punctuation mark. It is a verbal crutch to get

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me to the next topic. Colorado, Oh wait cold doerrado
It's it's okay. I've never heard that. I hate it when,
especially young people over use the word like every other word,
like when they're trying to explain something.

Speaker 6 (01:33:10):
I agree twenty twenty four people use riz the riz.
I love rizcause I have it.

Speaker 10 (01:33:17):
I have it.

Speaker 4 (01:33:17):
I have Mandy. That dog won't hunt? What is wrong
with that dog won't hunt? That's one of my favorite
Southern sayings.

Speaker 8 (01:33:25):
Oh, here's a good one. At the end of the day,
at the end of the day. You know, at the
end of the day, Mandy, at the end of the day.

Speaker 5 (01:33:32):
It is what it is, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:33:34):
I hate I'm not gonna lie what you lie all
the time. Rob Dawson has entered the chat. Yeah, how
about that entered the chat?

Speaker 13 (01:33:41):
I don't know the chat?

Speaker 4 (01:33:43):
Yeah, Rob, what what phrases her words?

Speaker 5 (01:33:45):
Annoy You.

Speaker 6 (01:33:47):
Used annoying?

Speaker 13 (01:33:48):
Adulting?

Speaker 4 (01:33:49):
Oh that one.

Speaker 13 (01:33:52):
I kind of use it because I get the I
get Yes, it's of why it's used.

Speaker 5 (01:33:56):
Well, you know, the other part on a similar.

Speaker 4 (01:33:58):
The other side of that coin, Yeah, when people are
like I did a thing, you know, they bought a car,
or the young as they do something really good slay
okay boy. I use that ironically with my daughter because
every time I try to use the lingo, she gives

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me the eyeball, like, what are you doing? What is
happening here?

Speaker 6 (01:34:22):
You are not risking right now exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:34:24):
Oh. I went home and I tried to do all
the all the kid words, and she just looked at
me and said, no, no, stop it.

Speaker 6 (01:34:31):
I'm obsessed.

Speaker 4 (01:34:32):
I ate it when people say low key, but again,
what if it something.

Speaker 5 (01:34:36):
Is like we're just gonna hang out low key loki.

Speaker 6 (01:34:38):
I kind of like that.

Speaker 4 (01:34:40):
If you know you know, I like, if you know
you know, I understand why that would that's what they did,
they did Beth.

Speaker 13 (01:34:45):
Yeah, but you feel bad if you don't know, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:34:48):
And then you're left out.

Speaker 13 (01:34:49):
It's very exclusively, it's very traumatic.

Speaker 4 (01:34:53):
Yeah, Mandy, I literally want to choke some out when
they say and elongated, I mean, I'm just living my
best life, so lame.

Speaker 5 (01:35:03):
What if you are living your best life.

Speaker 6 (01:35:05):
About let's hammer this out and you really discuss something, yeah,
or you need to give one.

Speaker 4 (01:35:11):
Ah, what do you suppose they did with all the
souvenirs from the Mount Evans gift store. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:35:17):
Mandy ruined the day with this.

Speaker 5 (01:35:19):
When did children become kiddos?

Speaker 4 (01:35:21):
At some point, especially preschool teachers, kindergarten teachers, they were like,
your children are not baby goats. We should not call
them kids, so that they call them kiddos, which is
how is that better?

Speaker 5 (01:35:32):
It's goats with an O at the end. It's basically gods.

Speaker 6 (01:35:37):
Go It's goaded. I'd be goaded, irregardless.

Speaker 5 (01:35:41):
Drives me nuts.

Speaker 4 (01:35:41):
That is like fingernails down a shockboard. To me, that's
right up there with I scene and I always in
my mind though you didn't see the inside of.

Speaker 6 (01:35:49):
A book or you're scene, I see you, You're seen,
I see you.

Speaker 4 (01:35:54):
You got to say it like that, though, way Roy
do you have to say it with a very gentle tone.
I see you, I see you.

Speaker 8 (01:36:01):
Our boss, Dave Tepper says he hates the phrase we'll see,
we'll see, we'll see.

Speaker 4 (01:36:05):
That was my dad's specialty. My dad was captain will
see everything.

Speaker 5 (01:36:10):
We'll see. Yeah, that was I mean, they just got
to do it. Meant no I mean, why don't you
just say no?

Speaker 4 (01:36:16):
Honestly, in my family, I have an older sister and
a younger brother, and they're a lot like me in
the sense that we're not going down without a fight, right,
So if we get to know that begins the conversation,
the long debate towards the yes.

Speaker 6 (01:36:29):
Here's one.

Speaker 8 (01:36:30):
It isn't necessarily annoying, but it's overused when you say
anything like I have a hack for this, or here's
a hack.

Speaker 4 (01:36:36):
Oh so when my daughter first got access to the
YouTube kids and they would have these life hacks, they
were all forty more steps than if you just did
it the normal way.

Speaker 13 (01:36:51):
Are these are these hacks such as eating this oat
meal or or writing in my journal whatever?

Speaker 4 (01:37:02):
I've seen that affirmation journal is when you just write
down positive things and read them back to yourself every day.

Speaker 5 (01:37:07):
I'm good enough, you're enough, I'm smart enough. You can
do it and dog on it.

Speaker 13 (01:37:11):
People like day.

Speaker 5 (01:37:13):
It could be I mean, depending on what your day is.

Speaker 4 (01:37:15):
Hey, don't laugh, I'm a big personal affirmation person. Okay,
big time, But you have to say them out loud
to yourself. Do you feel like a jerk and doing
it in the mirror. You have to say them because
your brain processes that noise and it processed and it
changes your I'm a big believer in affirmation.

Speaker 5 (01:37:31):
I'll make you an affirmation journal if he wants.

Speaker 13 (01:37:33):
I probably I'll do that.

Speaker 6 (01:37:36):
And I'm enough h this person.

Speaker 4 (01:37:39):
He she goes instead of she said, I say that
a lot.

Speaker 5 (01:37:43):
You know what I realized I said in front of
someone and they went what.

Speaker 6 (01:37:46):
Then they went and then they go.

Speaker 4 (01:37:48):
Yeah, and then they went and yeah exactly. I said,
I'm fixing to get something out of the refrigerator and
they went what, And I said, I'm fixing to do that.

Speaker 5 (01:37:57):
In the South, when you're.

Speaker 4 (01:37:58):
You're fixing to go, you're fixing to get ready, you're
fixing a drive, you're fixing to go see your friends.
Seven fix in, not fix it, fixing f I x I.
In apostrophe, there's no ga.

Speaker 5 (01:38:11):
Fixing and go do this, fix and go do that.

Speaker 4 (01:38:13):
Mandy, Uh, I hate heart hands. Let's all do heart
person right now.

Speaker 6 (01:38:19):
Jeff Goldbloom this way?

Speaker 4 (01:38:21):
Oh wait what you like?

Speaker 6 (01:38:23):
Oh ups?

Speaker 4 (01:38:24):
Oh oh how clever.

Speaker 5 (01:38:25):
So I'm going to triangle the other way.

Speaker 6 (01:38:27):
Yeah, Illuminati.

Speaker 5 (01:38:30):
Mandy radio ads with.

Speaker 4 (01:38:31):
The rectile dysfunction I know, I know. You should listen
to Snoop Dogg's affirmation song that he did for kids. Okay,
it's so good and you sing along with it, and
it's adorable.

Speaker 13 (01:38:42):
All right, I'm sleeping so adorable you are?

Speaker 4 (01:38:44):
You gotta look up Snoop Dogg's affirmation song and I
want you to learn all the words because I know
you can sing from karaoke, and I want you to
perform it on the show before the Christmas Holidays. Yes,
I want to make that happen, Mandy. I can't stand
what someone says, by the way, but what if, by
the way, they got to add something at the last minute,
what is it?

Speaker 5 (01:39:04):
I hate it when they use migrant instead of a
legal immigrant.

Speaker 4 (01:39:07):
I hate, as many do on the text line right now,
when Mayor Mike Johnston calls them newcomers. Yeah a newcomers, newcomersgrants.

Speaker 13 (01:39:19):
Are newsroom uses migrants? I know, yeah, I know.

Speaker 4 (01:39:24):
I also hate it when people say acts like I'm
going to ask you a question.

Speaker 5 (01:39:28):
Correct.

Speaker 4 (01:39:30):
Correct. My fourteen year old loves to say the word
hamburger out of nowhere. I guess it's from SpongeBob. My
daughter walks around and we'll look at you and go potato,
to which I respond potato, to which she responds tomato,
to which I respond tomato.

Speaker 5 (01:39:44):
And then she goes carrot and I go karate.

Speaker 4 (01:39:47):
She's like, no, karroot. I'm like, there's not two o's there.
And that's pretty much a conversation with my teenager right there.

Speaker 13 (01:39:53):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (01:39:53):
I don't know what it is, you, guys, Even for women,
I do that all the time. Hey, you guys, I
don't have a problem with that at all. Now, Rob,
I'm assuming you're in here. You're weekly whooping as I
was going, and I'm just kidding. You might win any day.

Speaker 9 (01:40:08):
You never know.

Speaker 4 (01:40:08):
This game is so unpredictable, and after you learn the
Snoop affirmation song, you're gonna get way better at it.

Speaker 5 (01:40:15):
Okay, way way better at it. Anyway. Now it's time for.

Speaker 4 (01:40:20):
The most exciting segment all the radio.

Speaker 5 (01:40:22):
Of its kind in the world.

Speaker 8 (01:40:26):
Of the day.

Speaker 4 (01:40:28):
All Right, we are ready to go favorite Southern phrase
now in a minute. I also use this give me
two seconds, and when you was little, you would stand
there and go one two, like, no, two seconds means
two seconds or maybe five minutes, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:40:45):
Yeah, anyway, go ahead, what is our uh?

Speaker 4 (01:40:48):
What is our dad? Joke of the day?

Speaker 8 (01:40:49):
Play this beauty sent from my mother? Why does Santa
use GPS?

Speaker 2 (01:40:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:40:58):
He doesn't want something with her there. He doesn't want
to be a lost clause?

Speaker 2 (01:41:02):
Wow?

Speaker 14 (01:41:03):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (01:41:05):
What website and the social platform was launched by Steve
Huffin and Alexis o'hanian in two thousand and five.

Speaker 13 (01:41:13):
I actually know the oh come on a platform in
two thousand and five.

Speaker 4 (01:41:18):
Correct, but the reddit?

Speaker 10 (01:41:25):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (01:41:26):
Yeah, yep, it is our jeopardy category.

Speaker 6 (01:41:28):
First skip it.

Speaker 14 (01:41:31):
It is a it doesn't tler days well, it's exhort
e x h r t exhort needs to forcefully talk
about something or say good things about something. You exhort something.

Speaker 13 (01:41:43):
Some exportations rid of something quickly, thoroughly encourage philip encouragement.

Speaker 4 (01:41:51):
Exhortations anyway, Today's Jeopardy category.

Speaker 8 (01:41:55):
Please General food general food, general food a term for
grain from grass. It follows breakfast in your morning retaining
what a cereal general term for their edible kernel of
a one seated nut fruit?

Speaker 6 (01:42:14):
Excuse me?

Speaker 8 (01:42:15):
One seeded fruit general term for the edible kernel of
a one seated fruit.

Speaker 4 (01:42:19):
The edible kernel fruit.

Speaker 6 (01:42:22):
I don't know nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:42:24):
I give.

Speaker 13 (01:42:26):
Rob, I'm gonna get this strong because it's not a fruit.

Speaker 2 (01:42:30):
What is corn?

Speaker 6 (01:42:31):
Wrong? What is a nut?

Speaker 3 (01:42:33):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:42:34):
And you said it just in by accident. We didn't
hear it all.

Speaker 1 (01:42:39):
Ye.

Speaker 8 (01:42:39):
Food in the Old West, perhaps from the wagon of
the same.

Speaker 5 (01:42:43):
Name, Mandy, what is the chuck wagon?

Speaker 6 (01:42:47):
Correct?

Speaker 8 (01:42:50):
Despite its name, this storeroom, similar to a pandry, is
not specifically for keeping hog fat?

Speaker 5 (01:42:59):
Mandy, what's the yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:43:01):
And finally, all those years watching Little House on the
Prairie just paid off with that question.

Speaker 8 (01:43:05):
Sometimes k or C their food supplies for soldiers.

Speaker 5 (01:43:11):
Mandy, what are rations? That's correct?

Speaker 13 (01:43:15):
I think like fotassium bananas.

Speaker 4 (01:43:18):
Now, Rob, when are you going to? What date are
you going to come in and seeing the snoop dogg affirmations?

Speaker 13 (01:43:23):
Are you going to have vacation again?

Speaker 4 (01:43:24):
Or are am going to be off from twenty third,
twenty second, twenty third somewhere around there and then through
I'm actually working.

Speaker 13 (01:43:30):
At thirty first this year, and I'm working through the
entire holidays because I took my break already. I don't
know whenever you want? And then the other thing I
was asking is can we do a home alone two
press conference? We did a home Alone press conference where
I was a Pio do it. Let's do it, Pio
let's We're ready, We're doing it.

Speaker 4 (01:43:49):
The Home Alone press conference coming up because honestly, I
love those movies, but how are those parents not in jail?
I'm just that's I always want to know, like how
did cps never show up? And how many criminal charges
for Harriet Marsh exactly exactly Anyway, the press conference, Snoop
Dogg's affirmation song.

Speaker 5 (01:44:06):
It's all coming up in the next couple of weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:44:09):
When let's be real people, we've all mentally checked out, Okay,
so nothing serious is going to happen here. What will
happen right now is that Koe Sports is going to
come in and take over, and we'll be back tomorrow
with another amazing show, probably better than today, I'm just guessing,
but keep it right here on Kowa