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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell Mann.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
On KOAM ninety more one FM, God Study Thenty's through Frey.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Andy Connal keeping sadda. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Friday
edition of the show altogether. Now that's right, all right,
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my friends, we are going to take you right through
this Friday so you can cruise into the weekend the
next to the last weekend before Christmas. Have you done
your Christmas shopping?
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Anthony, No, we went over this.
Speaker 6 (00:59):
I'm fine going to keep asking you because I don't
think we're ever going to You're never going to do
christ because collectively we're going as a group to Mexico.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
If everybody's in.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
That, yeah, my my side of the family isn't going,
so I could probably get them a little sumthing. Sure,
we're getting my mom a big, awesome, beautiful, probably really
fast foody meal on the day before we go to
Mexico because she's taking us to the airport like two
in the morning, So probably should be an additional something.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I'm considering. Your mom listens to the show, Yes, you're
going to get your mom a gift ye and your dad?
Yeah props. Okay, probably should do that. Yeah, do that
just make that happen to you, Uh somewhat. Yeah, we
did some shopping in the Europe. Well, we did some
shopping in Europe, and then we also we don't have
you know, the problem with having a teenager these days
is they don't want a lot of stuff that isn't
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seven million dollars. Oh well, yeah, you know what I mean.
It's like I'd love a new iPad or a new
whatever or a new other thing that costs seven thousand.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Do like one gifts and then a bunch of little ones.
That's what we we.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
We kind of do. But my daughter, I bought my
daughter's a lot like me. I remember being a kid.
My mom would be like, what do you want for Christmas? Like, eh,
I don't know. Still the same way, I don't know something.
She does have stuff on her wish list from Amazon,
so and I have stuff on my wish list. But
somebody looked at my wishless and was like, this is
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the most boring, awful wish list ever. I'm like, but
this is what I want sucks? No new tea kettle.
I want a new tea kettle, an electric tea kettle
to make hot water quickly. Yes, because the one I
got now is look at a little you know, little grungie.
I want these pull out shells for underneath my kitchen
sink area. You know, want that.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
You need a big shelving unit on the back of
our pantry door.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
We go, see there you go? When kettle adult, you
ask for adult gifts, like not like adult gifts, I mean,
that's that would be weird, you know, but no things
that you have as an adult. That's that's what you get.
So that's kind of where I am right now, and
hoping to get everything in the mail for the kids
this weekend because we're not going to see them. My
mom is coming for Christmas now, so don't have to
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worry about shipping her gift. It's all. It's all good.
The older I've gotten, it feels like I have less
people to buy for because I have less people to
buy for ants. I mean, you know, like parents and
grandparents have passed away now, so.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Oh, you did all the way down the line gifts
because I I mean really it's like immediate family and
that's it.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Always well, I.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Always gifts to my grandparents when they were alive.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Them.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yes, I live near them.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
See that's the thing.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Yeah, if we did, maybe, but all of them, most
my family's ever lived here.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
In all honesty, every year for Christmas, I would buy
my grandmother gift cards to our favorite restaurant because she
was impossible to buy four, so I'd buy it.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
No.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
No, here's the thing. Once she died, I found in
her desk drawer seventy thousand gift cards. She never used one.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Of them because she said, Wow, what a terrible Christmas gift.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
And I'm going to spend protest of this terrible Christmas.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
This is my grandmother's vanity thinking. She she equated gift
card with some kind of like coupon. Uh huh, And
she didn't want to be seen as seeming cheap.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
So if something equates with a coupon, do you think
it's a good Christmas gift?
Speaker 5 (04:12):
No, I don't like to get gift cards. Well, you
don't like to give I don't like.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
To give gift cards. But just okay, when your grandparents
have everything they could possibly need, and yet my grandmother's
going to bob Evans three or four times a week
to eat a Bob Evans gift certificate makes a ton
of sense. At least I thought it did, only to
find out later it did not. Yeah, you were lied to.
Those just told me it was a terrible gift, and
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I would have gone in a different direction.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
You should have just known Nope, what a terrible gift.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I know. Well, when you're buying for like, buying for
me and Chuck is impossible because we just if we
want it, we just we just go buy it.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Someone should be more thoughtful and know you better as
to know what you would want, or craft you something beautiful.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Well, I can't wait to see what you've crafted me
this year.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Oh yeah, I put myself in a corner there.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah you did.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Oh you did the way that's easy.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Yeah, there you go. Just bring me one of those
weird frog statue things. You know, it's so weird.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Mexican market, you have those things.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Let me tell you what we bought in the Uh.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
That's funny, you nailed that on the nose.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
The Nuremberg Christmas Market. They have this family that makes
prune people. And unless you think I'm saying something that's
it's truth in advertising. They're little people made out of prunes,
and of course I had to buy one. How do
I not buy a prune person? Well, that that brought
that back, you know what? You know what, you know
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they say they last forever. You know what just occurred
to me though I did not declare that coming back
through customs that I bet I broke the law and
on the air across I didn't mean to bring my
prune person back.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Every one and this blowtorch just heard you.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
In my mind, it wasn't food at that point, it
was a sculpture.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Oh look the place now, huh yeah, right here.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Yeah, it'll be like that time I had to get
lectured at TSA for like nine hours because I had
a yogurt in my bag. Nine I'm being a slightly savura.
It was so bad. It's like, yeah, I'm blow up
a plane with a yogurt. That's gonna happen anyway. It's
gonna be that kind of Friday people, because it's two
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Fridays before Christmas and we've all mentally checked out. But
it's okay, it's perfectly okay to get.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Through this, to get through the studio out of whatever
was scurrying what However, the rest of that goes.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Give cards for the win, says this texter right after
gift cards are lazy gifts? No thought, my mom thinks
are both sides are represented on this uh nandy. My
wife decided that we buy ourselves what we want, taking
her skiing for Christmas. There you go, there you go,
clean your kettle with barkeeper's friend. It'll be good as new.
And now I'm talking about an electric kettle. And when
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I bought it, I wasn't sure I was gonna like
having an electric kettle, so I bought a super cheap one.
And I have really hard water at my house. We
do have a water softener, but we still have hard water,
so the heating coil inside. It's not pretty. And I
want a nice clear one so I can see when
the water boils as well. So there's a whole strategy there, aandy, Yeah,
what do you give a ninety six year old granny
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has everything and won't go out to eat? I don't
know your time, probably did you know what? In all honesty,
that is exactly right, bait to bend your ear, give
her your ear, commit to having lunch once a week,
once a month, whatever you can spare, and and go
and have lunch with your granny. That's the best thing
you can do. Give them time. Every time I would
go visit my grandmother in the last few years of
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her life. She was living in a nursing home. But
I was in sales outside sales, so I could stop
by all the time. And I did stop. I had lunch,
visited for a while, and every time when I go
to leave, she'd say, come back when you can stay longer.
That was my grandmother's pass of a guilt, aggressive guilt,
you know right there.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
The accent too.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah, No, hers wasn't as bad as mine, but she
was from Georgia, so it's as penance for breaking the law.
Released the accent. Okay, I got to explain something if
you're just joining me. So Ross asked a question which
I thought was a really good question, and I immediately
knew my answer. And his question was what class did
you take that changed your life the most? For me?
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It was voice addiction classes in college that got rid
of my extremely deep southern accent. And Ross was demanding
that I do the accent on the air. I will
not do the accent on the air. I wouldn't do
it on his show without doing it on this show. First,
first time you try, no, I because no.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Do you think honestly, do you believe that you'll get
in some mental rut where like you'll start to think
about your overeating.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
No, here's the thing. Here's the thing. There's a couple
of things. There are serious reasons behind this. Okay, Number one,
there is still a tremendous bias against people with a
Southern accent. You are assumed to be stupid, full stop,
at risk. This is all psychological. I'm explaining the psychological
backstory of this whole thing. And second, it was a
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really big effort on my part to get rid of it.
It was not a hey, I'm just going to decide
not to talk that way anymore and it was gone.
It was like a multi year process to get rid
of the accent. So, you know, I kind of wanna
do you think I could if I picked up if
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I called my old hairdresser right now. Her name is
Sherry Robert. She has the quintessential accent, and I could
slide back into it very very quickly. But it also
feels in a weird way like I'm making fun of
it at this point because I don't ever want to
seem like I'm making fun of people who talk like that.
And I still know a ton of people who talk
like that, so you know, it's it's a weird thing.
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A Southern accent can be very charming, but people do
judge you negatively. They assume that you are stupid. So
you know, I don't know. I guess I have a
mental resistance to stepping back into that person because I
am not that person anymore. I mean, there's much in
my life it seems like it was a different person completely,
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and at some point maybe you'll get to this point
a rod where you look back at sections of your life.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
No, you're kidding, I do that now.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I well imagine having more of them and then having
such dramatic changes where I left home, moved to a
completely different part of the country, uh did a job
where I flew all over the world. So I had
all of these different experiences, and I look back at
that person, that seventeen year old person, and and I
just they're sore. They're like a baby compared to where
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I am now sparentually, emotionally, growth wise, the whole nine years.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
So it's not just the accident. You connect the accent
with way more than just voice one hundred percent. It
is a whole big psychological thing there. So at some point,
at some.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Point, yea, I hear you, great points.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
But but here's the thing. I have a video of
me from a beauty pageant called the miss A Lusty Festival.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
That right there solves it.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
That's kind of but I you know, please, I don't know.
We'll see, we shall see, Mandy. Growing up in Minnesota,
we call it the we call it NS for Northern Superiority.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
No, I mean I'm from an area of the country
where when I was young, like in the seventies and eighties,
they still referred to the Civil War as the War
of Northern Aggression, still one of the grand masters. Okay,
in my right, outside my hometown, there is a little
tiny town called Olusty. That's the Olusty Festival is named
after it. The Battle of Olusty is a Civil War
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battle that the rebels won. So they have a reenactment
every single year in February, and it's really really cool,
really cool. I mean they have a whole whole camp
set up where people are in costume and they're doing
the whole reenactment thing. It is really really top notch.
And then there is a festival that goes along with that,
and I was the Miss Olusty Festival nineteen eighty seven.
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So there you go, Mandy. For me, the Southern accent
and a female doesn't sound too stupid and a man
most definitely. However, think of the southern lawyer that uses
this to his advantage. I have used it to my
advantage in the past, especially in New York City. If
I needed something in New York City, Oh, I would
lay it on so thick. You are so kind, I mean,
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just oh, that's a baby version.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Version.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
What you're saying is what your listeners are hearing when
I'm hearing. And She'll do it for a stranger, but
not for your dear listeners and producer.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I will do it. That's offensive when when it is
when it is advantageous from you know what? Okay, So
on July, on January January, on December thirty first, are
you working New Year's Eve Day?
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Potentially, I will play it all that day.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
I will play here, I will play it, I'll send
it to you, okay, but I'll play it on that day,
all right, So there you go. Monday, I'm not working
that day. So there you go, Mandy, Yeah, did you
win the Okay? Yes and no? Or should I say
no and yes? So I came in first runner up,
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which was my goal because I didn't really want to
go to the Miss Florida pageant. No wait, hear me out,
there's a whole story here. No, and then yes, I
mean something. So I went into the pageant wanting to
be first runnerup because youve got scholarship money, but you
didn't have to do Miss Florida, which I didn't want
to do. And then and then the pageant queen was
stripped of her crown because in a small town, when
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you have a pageant queen, when you have a title
like that, you have all of these obligations. You go
to nursing homes, you go to rotary club, luncheons, you
go to the Lions Club, you go to all of
these different civic organizations, You give speeches, you meet people,
you do all this stuff things correct, and she didn't
want to do any of it, so they stripped her crown,
and all of a sudden, I'm Miss O'lesti Festival and
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I had to go to Miss Florida, which is what
I did not want to do.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
We're looking for the words. Are you won by default?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Correct? That's why I said no, and then yes, because
that's what it is.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
So then you had to.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Do the things. Yeah, yeah, I still had to do
the thing wasn't It wasn't my That's not my fort,
not my cup of tea. As they say pageant business.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Forte forth, it's fort It's definitely forte.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
No, Forte is an Italian musical direction. Fort is your strength. Yes,
you're so wrong, look it out. I'm doing it. Charles
Harringon Elster and I went over this many, many, many
many times. Forte is the Italian musical thing. Fort is
your strength. It is not my forte or it is
my fort It is fort And I believe it because
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Charles Harringon Elster knew more about language than either of us.
We haven't even done the blog yet. What are we
doing today Friday? Fore?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
What is the definition?
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Miriam Webster?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Definition? Wait?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Okay, so for this one for it a part of
a sword or foil blade number one one's strong.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Point forte or for it.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Both acceptable, says Mariam Webster.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
But you said for it was wrong, and I said
it was right. So we're both wrong and right. No,
I said mine was right. I was correct. I would
uh huh for it. Everything I said was correct, say both.
You said fort was wrong.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
It is not because fort means for only that which
is a sword, a part of a sword, or foil blade.
So when this only means for it like that, then
you have to choose the other one for one strong point. No, no,
that's not. It is also no one knows for it
whether you mean a strong point or a part of
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a sword or foil.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Blade for it. Nobody's ever talking about a part of
a forest. It's fort. Charles Harington Elsker said it was fort.
It will always be forced, even though he is no
longer with us. Anyway, Mandy, do a fundraiser for a
good cause, and when you raise your set amount, agree
to do the accent? Oh my, oh my, yeah, maybe, Mandy,
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did you lose your Southern accent before or after you
moved to Kentucky? I lost my southern before I became
a flight attendant, which is where I met the man
who got me into radio. I don't believe he would
have got me into radio if I'd still have that
accent at all. Okay, here we go. Let's do the blog.
Go to mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that
says twelve thirteen twenty four blog the Winyoki pops in
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and Theveke falls for a polist stunt. Click on that
and here are the headlines. You will find me within, sorry,
within an.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Office half of American all with ships and clipments and
say that's a press plant.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Today on the blog, it's an ask me anything sort
of Friday. Let's talk holiday celebrations. Polist does a stunt.
Viveke falls for it. This as DC is betting against doge,
the worldwide potential of Doge. The lightweight investigation of Jenna
Griswold recycling is garbage protecting free speech from both sides.
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Another apartment complex is being shut down. Dave Williams, please
the victim. More regulations in Colorado. I'm shocked. Is any
using the bike lanes route neighbors have roots sign Fort
Collins and Loveland. Your water rates are going up. Things
to do in Denver This weekend, Google studied successful teams.
Time names Man Trump of the Year again. The US
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lifespan health span gap is the biggest in the world.
How deep sleep makes memories. Are Tesla drivers the worst drivers?
Now see us. Travis Hunter is winning all the things
tgif everybody a fun alternative to Christmas dinner. Mike Tyson
doesn't remember the Jake Paul fight. I have no sympathy
for Jim Carrey. Why I don't do botox? Valdemar Archiletta
(17:35):
has a mayor Mike recall update, this is incorrect. What
happens when lightning strikes an airplane? Those are the headlines
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com, and as you
can see, it is a barn burner of a blog.
Great videos, especially the one the speaking of my upbringing.
Especially we're the one where rising star rookie receiver Xavier
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Lagett admitted that for Thanksgiving he and his family enjoyed
some delicious raccoon. You heard me right, raccoon I have?
Oh lord, I grew up in the South in a
rural area. Don't judge, judging, don't judge. Also eaten squirrel,
Also eaten possum. Also eaten rabbit.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Nothing else available?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Huh No, but you know sometimes people make squirrel for dinner.
It's a thing.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Yeah, totally normal.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Well, this guy, he's in the NFL and he ate
Raccoon for Thanksgiving what I love were the reactions of
the other two guys in the in the video. It's
it's very, very funny. Their faces are like, what what,
I'm sorry? What?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Yeah? Any normal person, what I'm sorry? Come again Raccoon.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
By the way, Linda, who is a PhD, has weighed
in on the text line. Mandy is absolutely right about
the pronunciation of fort.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
That's so weird because Marion Webster says that.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Now ask me anything except to speak with my own
old accent lol. Correct.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Yeah, correct to Shaye, yep.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
That is pronounced correctly, Amandy, you lost your southern accent.
But did you lose the different bless your heart meanings?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
No?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I did not, because that phrase is so magical that
everyone should adopt it. It can be used as an
expression of warmth and compassion or complete disdain. It just
depends on how you say it. We'll be right back.
Governor Jared Poulis had a little campaign stunt yesterday, and
I call it a campaign stunt because it was one
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hundred percent a campaign stunt. What did he do well?
He took a table saw to a big old pile
of paper, to show that he was cutting outdated and
wasteful executive orders, cutting away at bureaucracy to make our
government more efficient. This is such a steaming pile of crap, y'all.
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I got super angry when I saw this today. I
was like, that man must have stones the size of cantalopes.
Don't even know why he walks down the street this as.
I have a story on the blog today, a perfect
Colorado story on the blog today about how there is
one of the things that the environmental movement is trying
to do is they are trying to use technologies like
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carbon capture that takes carbon and nothinge out of the
air and then they shove it down into the ground,
like a thousands of feet down and I guess the
earth is just supposed to hold it down there for us.
It's just seems really stupid to me, but whatever, it's
their thing. They want to do it. So you think
the Colorado as we're destined for net zero, the impossible standard,
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which is absolutely absurd to even try and pursue. You'd
think that that would be open arms, like, hey, come
use this carbon capture technology. We just come on in.
No Colorado is about to make rules that are so
strict that it will essentially prevent any carbon capture technology
from coming to Colorado because other states are are allowing
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people to come in and do it with very few regulations.
But here we have the governor putting on this performative show.
All he needed was a kabuki theater mask to really
make it, you know, sing. But that's not the part
that upset me. The part that upset me was that
the vike Ramaswami fell for it. Oh the vake. This
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from the Hill dot com. The vike Ramaswami, the co
head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, commended
Colorado Governor Jared Polis for shredding two hundred and eight
executive orders after repealing them Thursday. He said on X
nice work, Governor of Colorado's then that shredder over to
DOGE next month. Do not fall for this, vike, do not.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
So.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
I took two x dot com to respond, thusly hoping
that the Veke will see my text mess and it
just says, please don't fall for this stunt. At paviak Ramaswami.
Under Polis's quote leadership, we've had an explosion in the
regulatory state that is crushing our once fibrant economy. We're
now the sixth most regulated state in the US. This
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is nothing more than a campaign stunt. And who boy,
is this thing getting some traction on the interwebs. A
lot of people are retweeting it, a lot of people
making comments on it, a lot of people pointing out
that this is absolute garbage. And again, Jared Pulis is
one of the most skilled politicians I've ever seen. He
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is so good at reading the political wins, and right
now the wins are, hey, let's cut government now. I
would never say that Jared Polis is not very, very,
very intelligent, because he is. But he's also a political opportunist.
Have you noticed how many times in the national media
he has not actually taken credit for, but kind of
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taken credit for the fact that there have been two
income tax cuts in the state or in Colorado in
the past few years, neither of which he was instrumental
in putting on the ballot. That was all the Independence
Institute that did that. Oh he is now wherever the
wind blows, that's where he's gonna position himself. And for
him to try and act like some anti regulation guy.
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When we've seen thousands, thousands of new regulations while he's
been governor thousands, I mean, my god, he wants to
prevent you from seeking help if your child tells you
that they are of another gender. He wants to prevent
you from maybe trying to talk them out of that belief.
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He wants your six year olds in kindergarten or first
grade to learn the phrase sex work. I mean, augh,
this guy is so far away. All he's done is
make government bigger. That would be the question I'd love
to have, vivaik ask Garrett Jared Poulis, and what have
you done to shrink the size of government? Because you
surely cannot say I have done a single thing. We
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have added more workers to the state coffers since he's
been governor than than any self respecting libertarian whatever tolerate.
Oh god, just chat my hide made me mad mad.
If we could carbon, if we could capture carbon, then
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we can't complain about it anymore. You know what, I know,
I know, I know. Okay. It has also asked me
anything today, so you can text in your questions to
five six six nine zero, and some of you have
already done that. Mandy since you got back, you've not
mentioned the goings on with the Colorado Springs mayor. I
did on Monday, because on Monday I shared the news
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article that Jemmy Mobilati says he was the victim and
that any dealings or conversations he had with the gentleman
in question were simply because he was immedia personality and
not any kind of conspiring. He has been one hundred percent,
one hundred percent cooperative with police in the investigation. He
turned over his phone for text messages and everything. I
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have to believe him. We'll see, and I haven't checked
the later this week, but he said he was going
to get some kind of documentation that said he was
not a target of the investigation, that he was indeed
a victim. So right now, that's what we know so far.
If you know anything else, let me know. The VIK
usually knows what he's talking about. He failed with Polis yep, yep,
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no text or. I did not realize that in my
blog summer you said man gets Trump of the Year award.
I did not. Did I say that? Is that what
it says on the blog. I don't not believe you,
because that would be kind of typical of me to
do things. Time names Trump Man of the Year again,
so I might have just read it wrong when I
was going there. No, our text message system does not
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receive pictures, so keep your dirty pictures to yourself. No
need to see that. Mandy. I've once heard you refer
to Civic Center Park downtown as the crown jewel of Denver,
and I cannot agree more. But I'm absolutely horrified by
what Mayor Johnson is proposing to do to the once
beautiful in Great Park. Are you aware that he's planning
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to dismantle the Greek Amphitheater and completely reconfigure that whole area.
This really saddens me. I think it's perfect just the
way it is, and if it's not broke, don't fix it.
Anyone else is anyone else's bothered by this as I am.
Do you know of any people or groups that are
opposing this? It really infuriates me that we don't even
get a chance to vote on this. Every one of
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the Mayor's plans for as he calls it, improvements and investments,
it's ruining the city I grew up and love. Not
to mention the price tag. Nothing he has done has
made the city any better. When I was a kid,
this used to be a safe, clean city with good schools.
Now I feel like I'm living in a filthy, disgusting,
bombed out third world wasteland. So that's a lot. First
of all, I'm not sure Mayor Mike is the one
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who is driving this design change. I want to offer
that defense for Mayor Mike Johnston. I believe that these
changes to Civic Center Park have been sort of being
planned and underway for some time now. Whether or not
they're needed is a valid question, But it's my understanding
that they're going to be putting in an amphitheater so
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they can do more like concerts and things of that
nature and try to make the park a little more functional,
because in all honesty, I don't know of a lot
of stuff that goes down at the Greek Theater. So,
you know, I'm not sure that you're blaming the right person,
but it might be worth a call to see if
it's too late to weigh in. I'm just going to
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say this about about stuff like this. If the meetings
haven't happened yet, then find out where they're going to
happen and show up. But my guess is the meetings
have already happened and people didn't pay attention to those
postings or the notices, or they don't necessarily catch that.
So I don't know, I do not know. I'm not
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common Spirit Health techt sign Mandy. The civic Center plan
is polus. He envisions a bridge over the street to
the park from the Capitol. Bye bye parade floats ludicrous idea.
Mandy asked me, anything curious if you're familiar with doctor
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Jordan Peterson. Of course, of course I have been a
doctor Jordan Peterson fan for some time now. Well, but
I think I was on the Jordan Peterson bandwagon before
he really took off. I started watching his videos that
he used to post from his class when he was teaching,
and super fascinating guy. And when I found fascinating about
doctor Peterson and the growth of his brand and how
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many people have started listening to him is because instead
of so many other self help guru types, and all
you have to do is think about like the Oprah
Show back in the day, she had all these guru
types that would come on her show, and they don't
always kind of say things like care truth, and you know,
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it used to frustrate me when they would talk to
these sad women who were in bad marriages but they
had kids, and they'd be like, you know what, you
have to do what's right for you. They encourage selfishness
and that goes back to the ME generation. You know,
I'm a child of the seventies and eighties. I was
as gen X. My parents divorce when I was in
fifth grade, and that was sort of at the beginning
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of the divorce epidemic of the seventies and eighties. And
you know, I'm not mad at my parents. They did
the best they could. They had valid reasons for not
staying married, but there was this sort of pervasive feeling
that you should not ever have to sacrifice for your children.
You shouldn't have to sacrifice, you shouldn't have to work
harder to make things work, and that was very frustrating.
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Jordan Peterson is preaching the exact opposite. He's preaching personal responsibility,
taking care of yourself, you know, doing the right thing
when no one's looking. And it has been like this way,
especially young men that have been attracted to that message.
I think that is spectacular, just spectacular, and I hope
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he continues to do his work. Mandy, A lot of
celebrities passed away this year. Who's passing affected you the most?
Generally speaking, I don't really get sucked into that. I
don't get bummed out. I will tell you though, when
Terry Garr died, I was like, dang, I love her
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and she died. I can't remember who else died this year,
But I don't really get affected by that. When someone
I love dies, obviously that's a much different situation. But
I've always felt extremely detached from celebrity culture in a
big way. And I understand you if you're fond of people, right,
But as far as like being bummed out, Terry Garr
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was bummed out about. But I can't remember who else
I was bummed out about against it. Maybe there's probably
other people, to be perfectly frank, I don't remember. If
we elect an official, asks texterter and they immediately go
to work undermining the constitution, shouldn't they be impeached? I'm
assuming you're talking about Mayor Johnston. I don't know. I'm
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not big on impeachment, you guys. I'd rather sort of,
you know, unless it's really egregious. I'd rather spend my
time and energy finding a candidate and successfully helping them
run against them in the next election cycle. I think
impeachment has been abused. Impeachment went from this person did
some kind of gross malfeasance to we don't like what
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you did, and I get it. I do get it,
but I don't know how you can impeach Mayor Mike
Johnston for what he's done because he's doing exactly what
he said he was going to do when he ran
for office. I mean exactly. So there you go, there
you go. All right. I got a good question at
the top of the blog, and I'm gonna screenshot it
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so I have it when I get back, because when
I get back from this break, I've got Jimmy Segeberger
on the show. We have not talked a lot about
the investigation, and I'm almost ready to put that in
air quotes of the office of Jenneck Griswold, because talk
about a fluff piece. I mean, my goodness, just my goodness.
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But Jimmy wrote a great column about it about the
many ways it was lacking. We will talk to him next,
and then after that, I'm going to answer this question
because I love this question. The question is, Mandy, with
your international vacations, which country was your favorite and which
country will you never visit again? That is a tough question,
the second one, because there are places I went that
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I loved, but I don't ever need to go there again.
But I don't want to say you shouldn't go there,
because I don't ever want to go there again. But
I have a lot of places in the world to see,
and I figure, Okay, I'm fifty five. If I'm lucky,
I've got another twenty five years of good travel. And
that's if I'm lucky and in good health. I got
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a lot of places to go. Some places don't make
the cut for this second visit, but I'll tell you
those after we talk to Jimmy right after this.
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To the second hour of the show. And if there's
a harmonica, that means Jimmy singing. Murger can't be that
far behind. He's got a great column in the Denver
Gazette today about the Patty Cake investigation of Jenny Griswold.
My words, not his, Jimmy, Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 9 (34:53):
Hey, Mandy, Yeah, it's it's quite a doozy when they say, oh,
we're doing an investigation, and there are a lot of
qui ess that weren't even considered.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Or even asked. I mean, I well, let's get into it.
Let's give it because I haven't even really talked about this,
because honestly, when I saw the kind of news coverage
it was getting, we're essentially it was yeah, mistakes were made,
but nobody meant to make them. It was just all
by accident, and so we all just need to move on.
I mean, that was kind of the coverage. I was
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so disgusted, not surprised, but disgusted. So do a quick
breakdown of what they did find or and then we'll
get to what they didn't do.
Speaker 9 (35:33):
So Baird Quinn LLC is a law firm that was
hired to dive in, supposedly and look into the origins
of this bios computer password leak. That while they were
most of the counties, the vast majority of the counties
were involved in the lake, it was thirty four counties
that had vulnerabilities as a result of these passwords getting
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out there. And in essence, what the report cancled is
that a former employee in May of twenty twenty two
had created an Excel spreadsheet which included listings for all
the different equipment in the various counties across the state,
and had some hidden tabs where those worksheets in the
tabs which you can hide in an Excel spreadsheet, included
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passwords for a number of these machines across the state.
And in May of twenty twenty three, she left. This
former employee left the position, but did not let anybody
else in the staff know that she had hidden tabs
in this Excel spreadsheet. And so eventually a while later,
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they had been putting up PDF versions. You know, when
you open up PDF file, they don't have these hidden fields,
so nobody had any clue that these were going to
be in there. So they've been putting up these PDFs
files and eventually decided, you know what, for transparency, it's
June of twenty twenty four, let's put up this Succel
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spreadsheet instead, And without reviewing the spreadsheet, they put the
raw thing up with these hidden fields, and lo and behold,
the league happened.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Yep. And instead of taking any kind of responsibility for it,
Jennat Griswold was essentially like, oh, it wasn't that big
a deal. It wasn't that big a deal at all.
Let me ask you this, Where did they not do
enough in this investigation?
Speaker 9 (37:33):
Oh? Where to begin? Well? Number one is interviewing the
Secretary of State herself, Jenna Griswold. Number two is interviewing
the Deputy Secretary of State himself, Christopher Beale. Number three
is looking at the fallout. What happened once they learned
of this breach? What did they do? What didn't they do?
Why did they not notify clerks, county clerks, or the
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public of what they had discovered? Those are some basic questions, Mandy,
that you would expect any investigation to consider. And they
didn't even do that, let alone sit down Jenna for
an interview.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
That is absurd to me. I mean, how do you
have an interview about what's happening with this department and
not interview the head of the department to find out? Really,
and I don't want to say the blame the culpability,
but but what what part did she have? Where did
where did her office fail? In her eyes, She's never
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answered those questions. She's never taken an iota of responsibility
for this. That's the part that frustrates me the most.
Because you know, if you screw up something, you say oh,
I'm sure you say, oh, I screwed that up, And
I'm not asking her to fall on her sword. I'm
just saying it would be nice if instead of oh,
this problem isn't a big deal, somebody said, wow, we
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really screwed up and we regret this happening. And that
has not happened at all exactly.
Speaker 9 (38:56):
And a few things can be true at the same time.
One can be an inadvertent accident. This former employee was
using these hidden tabs as like a sort of piece
of scratch paper to just keep notes. Now you shouldn't
do that, but that was the way that she approached things,
and it was accidental on the part of people. That
can be true. But at the same time, it can
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also be the case that it is a serious vulnerability. Yes,
they can mitigate the vulnerabilities through a lot of security checks.
That's why we can take confidence in the election results
and they should have been certified. But there still were
serious risks when if somebody had a password, a bio's password,
they could go in and change settings, critical settings to
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the computers. And one other thing can be true at
the same time too, Mandy, and that is that even
if Jenna Griswold wasn't involved, didn't know that this was
going on, her leadership failures and the systemic issues that
the department going back to when she took over in
twenty nine nineteen need to be investigated as part of
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what happened, because you can't separate them.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Right, exactly, exactly right, And you know this department should
be if it was operating properly and the way it
operated for so many years here in Colorado, we shouldn't
be giving this a second thought, right, This should be
so unquestionably sound in the way it's run. And this
is my big frustration is that this isn't the first
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time we've had a major incident with Jenna Griswold. It's
not the first time her office has made a significant mistake.
And so, in a vacuum, this one incident, as you
laid it out, it could be easily explained away. But
when you factor in the fact that twice she sent
postcards to people who are not in the or not citizens,
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telling them to register to vote, I mean that's a
pretty big deal, and she blew it off both times.
Speaker 9 (40:55):
Yes, and in another instance, where the county clerks had
to do what they could systemly have to do, which
is clean up her messages. Ballad reminders also went out
to people who'd already voted, and then Johnny clerks had
to scrambled would figure out what they were going to do.
And so I make the point in my column that
now cleaning up Griswold's messes might as well be a
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part of a clerk's shout description, which is absolutely the case.
And here's the thing, the rumor mill, and I think
it's more than the rumor mill. It's pretty clear that
she's on the precipice of announcing a run for governor
as soon as next.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
I'm sorry that's so comically it is.
Speaker 9 (41:33):
A third but this is the kind of thing that
needs to be addressed. And you got to wonder how
the State Legislative Audit Committee passes on looking into this
in a party line vote, Democrats sweeping this under the rug.
There this investigation is a is a sham in terms
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of the things that they didn't consider that they needed
to look into. And she's running for governor. Is that
a coincident? Maybe? But is it surprising? I think not.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
I gotta tell you if she ends up being the
candidate from the Democratic side, surely there's somebody else that's
going to step up on the left and run for governor. Surely,
I mean, I'm guessing Phil Wiser is going to throw
his name into the hat as well, don't you think absolutely?
Speaker 9 (42:20):
There's a question as to whether Congressman Jonah Goose might
decide to run. But without question, you're going to have
a Wiser and Griswold both among the list of candidates,
no matter who else is added in. But I want
to add something else absurd to your attention, Mandy. You
might not be aware of this, but I reported on
it as far back as twenty twenty one. In twenty nineteen,
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the Colorado Democrats named Jenna Griswold their rising star. Democrat
rising star. The following year, in twenty twenty, their rising
star was none other than a former Denver school board
member named Kay andrews oh Ye, great Taley Anderson. And
doesn't that fit and show at least a little bit
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of consistency.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
Consistency is the right word, Jimmy, It is the right word.
If you want to hear more from Jimmy, you can
hear him Monday as he's filling in for Ross from
nine to noon. You can always read his columns on
the Denver Gazette. And I know he fills in for
me as well when I'm off. So Jimmy, good to
talk to you, my friend. I'll see you Monday. All right.
That's fantastic, I mean, so nice he gets his own
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out to you now, very very nice. No, I haven't
talked about this investigation because I was like, well, of
course they just said, oh, well, they didn't mean isn't
it funny when a Democrat does something, their excuse is, well,
they didn't mean to do that. When Hillary Clinton destroyed
a hard drive to the point where it could not
be recovered, we were told, well, she didn't mean to
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set up a national security risk by having a server
in her kitchen closet. She didn't mean to do that.
So therefore, you know, though she broke the laws technically,
she didn't mean to do that same thing. Well, they
didn't mean to do it. So when a Democrat does
something and it truly sounds like incompetence to me, I
don't want to say that I think there was any
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sort of nefariousness to this password league I really do
think it was just in competence, but no one takes
responsibility what happened to the buck stops here. And don't
get me wrong, I think Jenna Griswold should step down
for a whole bunch of reasons, not just this, but
even if she had just stepped up and said, you
know what, this is my office, this is my responsibility.
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I should have made sure and put in measures to
make sure this can never happen. We've done that now,
and I'm deeply sorry that we didn't notify the clerks
right away. She didn't notify the clerks because she didn't
want to look bad, which is exactly why she needs
to step down. But I don't think she has the
character to step down. You have to feel remorse in
order to, you know, have the kind of character that
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would make you take responsibility for what you've done. She
doesn't have any of that. It's just it's kind of
sad and pathetic because Secretary of State should be in
office that we don't even think about as being remotely political,
and yet here we are all right back to our
ask us anything questions. What's your opinion on boneless wings?
They are not wings? Can I go a day without
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things come without bones?
Speaker 9 (45:23):
Not?
Speaker 6 (45:23):
Every restaurant owner in the United States is a liar.
They put boneless wings.
Speaker 4 (45:29):
Strips on their chicken strips.
Speaker 5 (45:32):
That's not what they call in their menus.
Speaker 4 (45:33):
Ah, then they're lying. Every restaurant owner that boneless wings
are calling a liar. Those are not wings. First of all,
they're pieces of breast meat. They're not wings, boneless wings,
but they're not wings. They're not wings.
Speaker 5 (45:49):
Will I ever go a day without this question?
Speaker 4 (45:50):
I'm just saying wings they are. And here's the question
I wanted to get to in the last segment, Mandy
with your international vacations, which country was your favorite? And
which country but you never visit again?
Speaker 5 (46:02):
Oh, I'm curious about the last.
Speaker 4 (46:03):
So my first favorite is Switzerland. I'm dead serious when
I say I could live there. It's magical. Why you
ever let outside after you retire. I would absolutely consider it,
But I want to be near my kids and my grandkids.
That's the problem. It's not that I'm afraid to leave
the US, but I want to be near my family.
So those are two different things. So Switzerland, absolutely going
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back there as soon as possible, But I've got to
squeeze it in because we've got a bunch of other
trips planned for the next We're already mapped out till
twenty twenty six with our travel plans. So country I
would not go back to again. Norway, but not because
it was bad, but because I've seen Norway. Czech Country
I would not go back to because I don't like it.
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I don't know if there's any countries that I've been to.
There are states that I've been to that I don't
care if I go to again. Oh yeah, I mean
half of them. Yeah, I mean not half, but some.
Speaker 9 (46:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (46:58):
I like to try Michigan.
Speaker 6 (46:59):
I never want to putting Dedroit again. I had you
gotta go, no cop out. What's the least favorite country
you've been to outside the US? So now we'll go
really Mexico?
Speaker 5 (47:10):
Yeah, how dare you?
Speaker 4 (47:11):
I know?
Speaker 5 (47:12):
I know to go again?
Speaker 4 (47:13):
You just no, I still go to Mexico.
Speaker 5 (47:15):
Well you need to go my.
Speaker 4 (47:18):
Least favorite country. Yeah, you haven't been that many places
a rod. You really haven't world out there amazing. Did
you need to expand your horizons?
Speaker 6 (47:27):
No, no, no, no, you need to right your wrongs of
the way. The way you've done Mexico. Man, how many
countries have.
Speaker 5 (47:32):
You been to?
Speaker 2 (47:33):
You've been?
Speaker 4 (47:34):
Don't have you ever been to Canada? No?
Speaker 5 (47:36):
Okay, then amazing.
Speaker 4 (47:38):
I don't even know how many countries I've been to.
Probably you were going to say that forty or fifty
countries easily. And out of all of those, Mexico's I've
gotten very violently ill in Mexico twice.
Speaker 6 (47:50):
Okay, So because you got Montezuma's revenge, it's Mexico's fault.
Speaker 4 (47:53):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 5 (47:54):
No, it's not because the water sucks. No, that's why.
Speaker 6 (47:57):
Fault for drinking the water that is so foul that
Mandy Connall, Mandy Conna, No, it's not my god, I
walk into a restaurant, don't eat that.
Speaker 5 (48:08):
It's typically not great. Well, but we told you.
Speaker 4 (48:11):
Then you say, why are you eating that? Why are you?
Why are you going to that restaurant?
Speaker 5 (48:14):
Mandy?
Speaker 6 (48:15):
I'm just you travel to Mexico. What is the one
thing everyone tells you to not?
Speaker 4 (48:20):
I did drink the water in either place, did not
drink the water and got violently in You can get
it from anything, vegetables. I'm aware.
Speaker 5 (48:28):
I'm aware of a month you asked.
Speaker 4 (48:30):
Me the country, the worst country I've ever been to.
Now I still travel to Mexico for a long weekend,
but it's not my first choice. It's not my first choice.
Speaker 6 (48:37):
You need to write your million other places I'd rather
go than Mexico.
Speaker 5 (48:41):
Insane.
Speaker 4 (48:42):
There are some Caribbean islands that I probably wouldn't go
back to because they were particularly dirty. Jamaica is really
dirty when you get off the resorts. The resorts are
super nice, but the country of Jamaica is really dirty.
Speaker 5 (48:59):
Malee con Oh, they're beautiful.
Speaker 4 (49:01):
It's beautiful. But do you ask my least favorite country,
and it's Mexico. I know I'm about it wrong. Favorite
countries Switzerland, I loved Greece. Greece was amazing. I love
Costa Rica, where I could drink the water, even though
it's basically kind of a developing nation. I love all
the European countries that I've been to. I really do
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love them all. And we're going to Japan this year,
so I haven't done a lot of traveling in Asia,
so looking forward to that. I hate this country because
I was told what to avoid, but I did it anyway.
Did I say I hated it? I did not. You
said least favorite out of all the countries that I
want to go to.
Speaker 6 (49:37):
Basically said the words I hate Mexico, Mandy, I'm.
Speaker 4 (49:40):
With you, Mexico sucks to Italy. And please turn off
your sidekicks microphone because he doesn't know what he's talking about.
Speaker 5 (49:47):
That's cute. Yeah, it's Okayrandy.
Speaker 4 (49:52):
No Norway again? Did you get spends revenge? No? But
Norway is one of those places where it's not that big,
so I've I've seen a lot of the high parts.
I would go back to go to the very northernest
part of Norway, the part that's in the Arctic Circle.
I'd like to see that, but it's kind of like
I've been there and I don't. Now I have to
go to Iceland, though Iceland's on the list. Haven't been
to Iceland yet. But I mean, there's so much There's
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so many magical places in this world that I haven't
seen yet, So going back to some place that I've
already been to seems like a waste of time in
a way, if that makes sense. I want to see everything.
I don't understand people who always go the same place
on vacation.
Speaker 6 (50:30):
I can tell you exactly why, exactly Why Why Because
after you go somewhere and sort out all the where
to go and whatnot's, next time you go. Second time
is always the best time because the second time you
don't have to question about how to get to certain places,
You don't have to go through the ringer of the
things that you wish you would have known before kind
of stuff, and then that second time you just go
and enjoyed the stuff that you know you love.
Speaker 5 (50:51):
From that place.
Speaker 6 (50:52):
The second time anywhere is almost almost always outside of
a couple outliers where like for us like our first cruise,
like there's outliers. But the second time, when you know
a lot of the things, you have to worry about
some certain stuff. I love second visits to places always.
Speaker 4 (51:06):
See that to me, I've already seen it, I've already
done it. I'm ready to have a new adventure.
Speaker 6 (51:09):
No more so you avoid. It's all about the stuff
that you now know what to avoid. You'll do some
different things to now love. But you know what to
not do again, or what to avoid or places to
not go.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
Travel you really do?
Speaker 5 (51:22):
Yeah, you know what else? So I need to do?
Speaker 4 (51:24):
Were are money to do it? Exactly?
Speaker 1 (51:26):
No?
Speaker 4 (51:26):
I traveled when I was broke. It's just you don't
get to travel as nicely as I do.
Speaker 5 (51:30):
Now we're traveling a whole lot more in the last
couple of.
Speaker 4 (51:32):
Years, because traveling with money is a lot better than
traveling without money. I will tell you that.
Speaker 6 (51:36):
Credit card points are making it happen the last couple years.
So we're there, you go, We're getting there.
Speaker 4 (51:39):
There, you go, We're there. Yeah, you need to go
more places and then you'll understand what I'm taking.
Speaker 6 (51:43):
And then every year still go to Mexico because you're
insane and having done Mexico right, and none of our
texts that are ripping on Mexico I have done it right. Either.
Speaker 4 (51:50):
It's okay, you're wrong. You've a bunch of Mexico.
Speaker 6 (51:52):
Tourists who haven't done Mexico correctly. Is one of the
best places on Earth if you do it right. Yeah,
which I kind of get spoiled because Hispanic family shows
me how to do Mexico right.
Speaker 4 (52:03):
Right. So I'd rather go to Spain, That's okay, Yeah,
I want to go. I'd rather go to any I'm
just saying you asked me my last favorite country. Missus
Texter said, I've been over eighty countries and agree with you, Mandy,
I'd rather go somewhere new still, and that's how I feel.
So did you get a chance to see the amazing
oldwood churches in Norway? I did, and they were beautiful.
Norway's gorgeous. Highly recommend it, absolutely recommend Norway as a
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destination at Austria rank but have been there. Vienna is
one of the most magical cities I've ever been to
in my life. I haven't spent any time outside of
Vienna in Austria though. So what I'd like to do,
and I told Chuck this, like for a for a
for a summer trip, I'd like to go to fly
into Geneva, Switzerland, and then do southern Switzerland again, and
then do Austria and then part of France, that part
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of France, like do that whole little section of Europe
right there, because I just I love that part of
the country. It's so beautiful and so old.
Speaker 6 (52:56):
I can see myself the first visit to Europe doing
a real big like World War two history tour. Yeah,
that'd be great. I would really love that, seriously, especially
after going in the World War Two Museum in New Orleans, Man.
Speaker 4 (53:09):
There you go. I want to do it over there,
all right, So more questions that I just got off
of the text line from from earlier. One of them,
hang on, I gotta pull my picture up that I took,
because I took a picture of it so I wouldn't
lose it all.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
M Mandy.
Speaker 4 (53:24):
If a president elect becomes incapacitated before he she is
sworn into office, does the vice president elect take his
or her place? What does happen? I don't know the
answer to that question. I would think that they would
be elevated because they were the next on the ticket.
Or would it be decided by the House of Representatives?
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I guess, And in this case, obviously God forbid, something
happened to Donald Trump before he was inaugurated, I'm guessing
that the Republican House of Representatives would just say go ahead,
President advance. That would be no. I don't want to
make it sound like I want anything to happen to
Donald Trump, because I don't. I think that would be terrible.
Speaker 1 (54:04):
But the.
Speaker 4 (54:10):
Whole notion that it would kind of reset and we'd
all go back to the beginning, I just don't think
that's correct. And if it did happen, if something horrible.
Did happen again? God forbid? This would usher in a
new generation of politicians. This is one of the things
I was talking about earlier in the show was that
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all of these new appointees that are in their forties
that Donald Trump is trying to appoint to various positions,
this represents the changing of the guard in Washington, d C.
That is significant, I mean, really really significant. So it's
I'm ready for new blood. I'm ready for people like
Mitch McConnell to go I'm ready for the older generations
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that have led us into massive debt and war after
war after war to go ahead and take their leave
because frankly, and I don't mean to be morbid here,
they're not going to be around to live with the
repercussions of their actions. We are, our kids are going
to be the ones. So that's kind of how I
feel about that. Man. The only problem with Norway is
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the only thing that's flat is the water correct? Correct? Anyway.
I also have this question I have to go back to.
You know, when you take a picture of a computer screen,
it's rather challenging to read after you do it. Do
you know anything this Texter said, hang on one second
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about e savor watt it's supposed to reduce your electricity
usage by fifty percent. No, I do not, but if
someone else does, I'd love to know. Text five sixty
six N I O Mandy. I'm a professional driver, and
I haven't noticed that the Tesla drivers are particularly any
worse than anybody else. I have noticed that the Subaru
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drivers are the most entitled drivers I've ever seen. More
on that in a moment Twitter account of Donald J. Trump.
Uh oh, the Republican Party will use its best efforts
to eliminate daylight saving time, which has a small but
strong constituency. But shouldn't. Daylight saving time is inconvenient and
very costly to our nation. That's music to my ears. Anyway,
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a lot of you were asking questions about the drones,
but we got to talk about this first. So in
the last two days I have, because of post work commitments,
had to be in rush hour traffic. First of all,
all y'all who are in rush hour traffic every day,
bless your little hearts. I could not do this. It
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is just so frustrating. So I'm on I twenty five
going I don't know seven whatever you know, coming down
twenty five to look around to see who are the
troublemakers on I twenty five. So we're going honestly between
seven and fifteen miles per hour, so nobody's speeding, nobody's
doing any of that. But then there's a guy in
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a Tesla. Okay, so he's in the left hand lane,
and I did pull up so I could make sure
it was a guy before I told this story. Guy
in a Tesla left hand lane. First of all, he's
going so slow that he's leaving a thirteen car gap
in between him and the person in front of him.
But if somebody got in front of him, he would
speed up temporarily, just get right on their butt, and
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then he would slow that down the whole time. He's
touching his brakes now. And is my understanding in tesla
drivers are electric car drivers? Please clarify for me, But
I've understood that a tesla is kind of like a
golf cart, and that when you take your foot off
the gas, the car stops. You don't have the momentum
that you have in a combustion engine that keeps you going.
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So my question is if your car basically stops when
you take your foot off the gas and we're going
seven miles an hour. Why are you tapping your brakes?
Because then everybody behind you taps their brakes. It creates
a chain reaction. So now for no reason, people two
hundred yards behind you were coming to a full stop.
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So then I was like, okay, tesla whatever. So the
next day, the next day, I'm back on I twenty five.
Much to my Chagarin, we're going fifteen miles an hour.
Maybe stop and go, stop and go. And I look
to my right, who do I see a tesla? Only
this guy is now trying to get in and out
of lanes. But you know what, if you're gonna be
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a lane jumper in traffic, I get it. Some people
are not satisfied to stay in a lane. You gotta
move because you feel like you're gonna make better progress.
I understand that. But those lane jumpers go fast, right,
they're fast. They're in the little space. Not this dude, Nope,
not him. And I don't know if this was a dude,
it could be due sir or madam, I don't know.
They were like creeping into the other lane and then
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creeping back into the oh, and I thought, this is it?
This is proof. This is now Tesla has the worst
drivers used to be Superheo drivers. No offense to you,
Suberroo drivers who listen to the show. I'm sure you're
all great, But is there anything more annoying than a
Superhoo driver with a coexist bumper sticker in the left
hand lane going below the speed limit, and man, that'll
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make you drink right there? That that is not good news?
And now has Tesla taken over?
Speaker 9 (59:26):
Have they?
Speaker 4 (59:27):
Somebody said correct regenerative breaking?
Speaker 6 (59:30):
There you go?
Speaker 4 (59:30):
So why this is happening of the brakes? And then
I figured maybe they were just one of those people.
The right foot is on the gas, the left foot
is on the break. Have you ever written one of
those people? No, I'm completely serious. This is how my
stepmother drives. One on the gas, one on the brake.
How do you even go through life? How do you
do that? How has no one said that's not how
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you do that? Same foot works, both of them comes
off of one, goes to the other, goes back to
the other, go back to the other. So that hard anyway,
Harley riders are the same speed up, slow down, speed
up and slow down. No consistent speed. I don't know,
you know, I think I put motorcycle drivers in another category.
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Although yesterday during my nightmare drive home, I'm going to
go on four to seventy because I had to stop
by the Black Eyed Pea to get some food, and
so I'm going to go on four seventy. So I'm
in the lane that goes off of four seventy, the
lane that can either go straight or it can go
to the right to go off four seventy. And this
guy in a motorcycle as I'm going right, whips around
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me from the right hand lane to cut across in
front of me to go back on I twenty five,
And I was like, dude, see, if I had hit him,
it would have been my fault. It would have been
his fault, but it would have been my fault. In
my mind. I would have felt terrible. Some motorcycle drivers
are like, dude, when you get splattered all over the road,
You're not gonna have anyone to blame but yourself, and
it makes it hard for the rest of the motorcycle
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riders who are responsible. Motorcycle writers super super crazy. Hey
Mandy for ask me anything I wanted to ask about
Regen Revolution treatments lots of great anecdotal stories. Appreciative that
folks get relief, but are any of their procedures FDA approved?
Not that the FDA is the be all and final word.
Yet as a scientist, I always appreciate studies that reveal
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the efficacy of treatments. Your thoughts, ma'am. There are more
and more and more and more and more and more
studies going on. As a matter of fact, google regenerative
medicine studies. There are thousands of studies on all kinds
of different ways that they're using regenerative medicine. But I
think the best indicator that this is effective is that
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insurance companies are beginning to pay for parts of it.
So right now they're paying for the PRP portion, which
is plate leriche plasma. And in my vocal cord surgery,
the last thing doctor Opperman did was inject my vocal
cords with PRP. What's happening now with the next step,
which is the Wharton's jelly, the stem cell stuff that
is starting to be accepted, and now they're experimenting with
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that in significant ways. If you talk to people doing
medical research when it comes to things like stem cell treatments,
they are all extremely hopeful that this is going to
be the wave of the future in terms of being
able to treat very specific conditions with stem cells from
your own body. Right, So there's a lot of really
cool stuff. But if you just google stem cell studies
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or regenerative medicine studies, you can see the stuff happening
all over the world. So there is a lot of
science behind it. But the FDA is a lagging adopter,
as I'm sure you know if you're a scientist. So
they're the ones kind of bringing up the rear being
extremely cautious because they know once they put their stamp
of approval on it, then Medicare has to pay for it,
and so on and so forth. So I do think
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that you were going to see more and more traditional
medical practices begin to adopt this. They already have, they
started to adopt this now as doctors are especially surgeons,
are beginning to realize, wait, we can put off surgery completely,
which would put them out of business. But they just
want to help their patients get better. So it's very
very interesting, very very interesting. Mandy. The brake lights on
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a tesla come on once you take your foot off
the gas as part of that breaking This is without
touching the brake. That is so annoying. Well that explains it,
good lord. That is super super irritating. Man, if you're
from the South, you know they're driving NASCAR style. Embrace
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your heritage, true true, Mandy, I sign Tesla drivers will
out accelerate or overtake you due to their ePower. I
do like taking a Tesla off the line. I have
like a total mom car. I have a you know,
a ten year old Mercedes Yeal four fifty. I love
my car so much, but it has a turbo so
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I can take a Tesla off the line for short distances,
very short distances. Mandy, Tesla drivers are the new Porsche drivers.
Remember the joke, what's the difference between a Portia and
a porcupine? With a porcupine the pricks are on the outside,
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So there you go. Yes, yes, indeedy yes. Anyway, I
got a lot of stuff on the blog today that
we have not gotten to, including a very interesting study
that Google did over a ten year period, and the
study was called Project Aristotle. And I grabbed this from
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a Twitter thread I saw earlier today, but then I
went investigated to see if this guy was telling the
truth and he got it right. So I just used
a Twitter thread because it was better than any of
the stories I saw on it. So, after ten years
of studying what works with groups, I'm going to tell
you what they found about the most successful groups working
at Google. Right after this, Google was trying to figure
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out what makes a team successful because obviously they want
to be able to replicate that as much as possible,
because Google especially works in project teams. So they thought
they knew what was going they were going to find.
They thought that the smartest people or the most gifted
people were going to be on the teams that performed
the most. But what they found what it wasn't the
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teams with the highest IQs or the most experienced or
the biggest perks. None of that stuff actually mattered at all.
What they found was that the teams with the highest
psychological safety were the most productive. Now, what does that
even mean? Psychological safety sounds like gobbledegook, right, It's really not.
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In these teams, the team members felt that they had
the ability to put forth an idea and not be
judged harshly. They could argue about different viewpoints about how
to hand or a problem without worrying about repercussions or
getting out of hand. They felt that they had dependability,
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that they could rely on the people in their group.
They had structure within the group and clarity about the
roles that everybody played in that group. They felt like
what they were doing had meaning and that it also
had to impact. Now, they were trying to figure out
what makes the leaders of these teams help these teams
develop this way, So specific behaviors that helped create safety
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within their working groups were these leaders that admit mistakes first,
encouraging questions over statements, active listening to each other, showing
curiosity when someone disagrees. But the game changer is this.
The best teams were not always harmonious. They actually had
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more conflicts than average teams, but they immediately addressed the
conflict in a constructive way with direct communication and quick resolution.
They didn't allow anything to fester, to get out of control,
to become a problem that it didn't need to be.
Google found these teams outperformed in every single metric innovation
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problem solving, speed, customer satisfaction, employee retention. But the most
surprising finding that Google found was the teams that implemented
simple practices like starting meetings by sharing personal updates, using
phrases like I might be wrong but and acknowledging other
people's contributions saw twenty three percent improvement and team effectiveness
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within weeks. The long and short of this entire thing
is simply that when you empower people to feel like
they can make a contribution safely without being shouted down,
without having someone steal the credit, without having someone not
follow through, you get employees that are engaged and happy,
they are productive, they problem solve, and they can handle
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conflict easily and quickly. So the practical blueprint that Google
discovered was number one, make it safe to fail. Number two,
show vulnerability as a leader. Number three, encourage equal speaking time.
In those meetings where everybody is kind of throwing stuff out,
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you've got to go to that person that isn't necessarily
a natural extrovert and say, hey, Bob, what are your
thoughts on this? Number four welcome disagreement, and number five
focus on learning over blaming. So this is what Google
is trying to instill in their high performing teams, and
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they spent a lot of money on this survey. It
took them about ten years. I mean I spent like
ten million dollars on this thing, eighty million dollars excuse me,
eighty million dollars over ten years, just trying to figure
out how to make their teams work most effectively. And
what it comes down to is are you willing to listen?
Are you willing to let people come out and do
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the things that they need to do and feel like
they're not going to be ridiculed because it I've had
I'm not really a team player in the sense that
I've never really had a job where I had to
kind of had that team attitude because I've always kind
of been an individ like this is an individual job. Hey,
Rod and I are kind of a team, but you know,
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this is an individual job. But I do know that
I've had bosses who have made it very easy for
me to come up with a variety of kakammy ideas
that sometimes were brilliant, and even when they weren't, they
made me feel like they welcomed my input, even with
my crazy ideas. I think that's the best way to
go through life. Just make people feel welcome and safe,
and you're going to get the best out of them.
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When we get back. I've got a two minute drill.
I've got a thousand things on the blog. I've got
more silly questions for ask me anything. It's all coming
up in the next hour, plus the wine Yogi. We're
talking bubbles for the holidays. We're all going to do
that in the next hour.
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All right, my friends, if you're in Fort Collins or
Loveland Water District, expect your water bills to go up significantly.
The water district just decided to charge an additional thirty
bucks a month. I mean, come on, and if you're
in a new development, it's gonna be even more. The
only reason I share this story is because I think
this is going to be the wave of the future.
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As two things are happening. Water systems are getting older,
like the one in Fort Collins and Loveland, and stuff
needs to be replaced. But also water managers are trying
to figure out how to incentivize us to use less water.
And the best way to get people to not use
as much water is to charge them more for it.
So if you're in that water district, sorry about your luck,
but I'm sure the rest of us will be joining
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you there soon.
Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
Drill it too.
Speaker 4 (01:11:18):
Donald Trump is name Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
But lest you think this is gonna be a fawning
love story, it is not. I read the entire article
and they spend a lot of time talking about how
mare Lago is just a vanity project, a museum to
the man, and how casually he skates in while we're
listening to his two thousand song playlist. You know, the
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Man of the Year award of the person of the
Person of the Year award, they've given it to some
really shady people in the past, including Adolf Hitler. So
the person who sent me the email saying, isn't it
funny the Time gave Donald Trump Man of the year
when they called him Hitler. Well, it's kind of on
brand for them, they've done it before. It's actually there's
some good stuff in this article. I'm not gonna tell
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you that it's worth reading the whole thing, but there's
no doubt that after the year he had, Donald Trump
is the man of the year, the man of the moment,
maybe the man of the century so far, and certainly
one of the most influential people in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
It too.
Speaker 4 (01:12:16):
Speaking of Trump, there is a sign in downtown Denver
from a Denver condominium building. Now, I have lived in
a condominium building as a renter, and one thing I
know about condominium buildings is they love their HOA rules.
I find it hard to believe that hanging a ginormous
sign off your balcony that says bleep Trump is somehow
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not a violation of the HOA rules. But maybe the
HOA agrees with this guy, you know, doesn't agree with
this guy. Near nineteenth and Grant Street. All of the
people walking by who have to look at the sign
that says bleep Trump and I'm bleeping, but they don't bleep. Now,
this to me is a story about the coarsening of society.
When did it become okay to walk around or throw
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out the F bomb where everybody can see it. I
don't like that part of society. Even as a cursor,
I curse in an appropriate time and place to the
appropriate people. I don't walk around with a shirt that
says f u u fing f That's not me, and
I wish more people would adopt that standard. But unfortunately,
I think it's too late to put the genie back
in the bottle. So if you're offended of your eyes,
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drill it too. Want to know why I don't do
botox and I go to Regen Revolution instead. Meghan Trainer
said nobody warned her before she got botox in her
lips that she would no longer be able to smile. Now,
as the botox is wearing off, she is regaining her
ability to smile. But I'm thinking to myself, Megan, botox
is actually bachelism, which paralyzes your muscles. That's literally how
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it works. How did you not figure that would affect
your ability to smile? I'm just curious how you miss that?
But hey, you do you, Meghan?
Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
You do you?
Speaker 4 (01:13:59):
I will go to Regen Revolution instead too. You know
when I married Chuck and the boys were in their
early teens. I told them there are two things that
I will never give you sympathy for. One, if you
get super drunk and hurt yourself, don't look to me
for sympathy. Number two, if you get a really bad sunburn,
that's always preventable unless you're on a desert island, So
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don't look for sympathy for me. And let me add
number three. If you're a famous celebrity who has made
so many movies that have made gobs and gobs and
gobs of money over the years and then announce you're
emerging from retirement because you need the money, I have
no sympathy for you, because you obviously can't manage your money.
That's something you should have looked into a long time ago.
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That is what Jim Carrey is saying as he says
he's coming out of retirement to do What's doctor? What's
the non? Doctor? Nephario is indespicable?
Speaker 7 (01:14:51):
Me?
Speaker 4 (01:14:51):
Who's the doctor? Who does he play? In Sonic? What's
are really cute movies? Bide Away?
Speaker 5 (01:14:56):
Doctor Robot? Doctor Robot?
Speaker 4 (01:14:58):
All I could think of was Nefario from Despicable to Me,
So he's really good and those movies are great. He's
back out to make more money because apparently he doesn't
have any money, and I don't do a lot of Yeah, no,
I don't care about that. I don't care about a
Grand Tree boo because it's better now, because it's awful and.
Speaker 9 (01:15:18):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (01:15:18):
Mike Tyson says he doesn't remember much of the Jake
Paul fight. He said, I kind of blanked out, He said,
I don't remember the fight that much. I kind of
blanked out with the Daily Mail.
Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
Do you know what?
Speaker 4 (01:15:30):
I remember coming back from the first round, and Jake
was doing some sort of bow. That's the last thing
I remember. Well, i'd love to tell you that he's
missing something, but I watched that fight, and I too
don't remember the Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight because it
was so bad talk about Patty Cake absolutely not worth
my time or yours, And I hopefully we never have
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to watch that again. That, my friends, is your two
minute trill. All right, all right, Man of the Year
is about who had the greatest impact, good or bad,
says this text, are exactly right, and there's nobody who's
had a bigger impact, a bigger splash more oxygen directed
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in his direction this year than Donald Trump, even the dictators,
you know, falling and invading and doing all of those things,
because what happens in the United States matters so much
to the rest of the world. I have a really
interesting story. I don't know if that was on yesterday's
blog or if it's on today's blog. They all start
to run together after a while. Oh, it's on today's blog.
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There's a column called the Potential Power of DOGE, and
they're talking about the Department of Government Efficiency and not
only what it could do in the United States of America,
but if the Department of Government Efficiency, which by the way,
in DC is already being poo pooed, they're not going
to give up their little treasure very easily without a fight.
Oh no, that's not going to happen. But if the
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Department of Government Efficiency can severely rein in government spending
and actually shrink the size of government, the point that
this author makes is it will embolden other European especially
governments who are deep in a really bad shape because
of their massive social welfare states and incredibly high taxes.
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It will give them permission to do the same. So
the Department of Government Efficiency could be one of the
most important initiatives, not just for the United States of America,
but for the entire world. I love it. I absolutely
love it. Mandy, look up who built mar A Lago?
Was it was an heiress. I've actually been to marro
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A Lago, not connected to Donald Trump before he bought it.
Not okay, I should walk this back. A friend of
mine that I know in West Palm Beach, his dad
was doing work at mar A Lago. So we went
to marrow A Lago, went in the front door where
he was there. We left again. I don't want to
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make it sound like I was invited or I went
to dinner there. That's completely inaccurate. But mar A Lago
was built by Marge's what's the I know who it
is Post Marjorie post Is who built mar Alago. I'm
almost positive, I almost said Marjorie Taylor Posts. I'm like, no,
I think I'm putting two people together there that don't
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go together. So, yeah, our vas water rates are going
up eleven bucks a month, says this text. I think
it's gonna happen everywhere. It's gonna happen. Absolutely everywhere when
we get back quit things from the blog recycling his garbage.
It still is, it will be, And another apartment complex
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is being shut down, but not for Venezuelan gang. But
oh wait, maybe it is the common Spirit health text
line at five sixty six nine. Oh thank you to
the texter who sent Marjorie Meriweather post. That is who
built mar A Lago. Back in the days when famous
people built houses and name them after themselves, Like what
is the Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks? Is that pick?
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What is that? What is their house?
Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
Paint?
Speaker 4 (01:19:10):
Pickfair pickfair is the name of the house they built together.
I think it got torn down fairly recently. I do
want to talk very quickly about one of the stories
that annoyed the crap out of me today. So the
Colorado gop x account is run by four people, and
these four people cannot resist the opportunity to get into
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it on Twitter with whoever comes at them. And then
when somebody makes a threatening comment or a comment that
can be perceived as being threatening, they then are like,
oh my god, look somebody was threatening. Using somebody investigates
someone threatening us, they throw so much smack on x
it's not even funny. And let me just say this,
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don't engage with people like that. How about not doing that?
How about not trying to be an a hole on
tw Twitter so people get jacked up and make dumb choices,
which is what happened. But now Dave William's like, we
need this investigated. We're in danger because of course the
victim card blah blah blah whatever. It's on the blog
if you want to see it. I didn't link to
(01:20:13):
the story, actually linked to the Twitter thread, so you
can just read it yourself and see exactly their side
of things. What they contributed to the conversation. Great editorial
in the Denver Gazette about whether or not anybody is
using bike lanes, and I have I have questions about this.
(01:20:35):
You know, before they do any kind of update to
the to the roadways or whatever, they have to do
what's called it a traffic study, and it usually is
involved they put those those things on the road that
measure how many cars go over or during a certain timeframe,
or they sometimes they'll put a camera up so they
can see exactly what's going on. Do you think they
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ever do traffic studies to see how many people actually
use the bike lanes. I just I don't. The Denver
Gasette makes the point, like the bike lanes, no one
uses them, and yet we're trying to add more. This
if we build them, people will get on bicycles is
just absurd. It's crazy. Don't get me wrong. I know bicyclists.
(01:21:17):
For the tiny fraction of the audience or of the
entire population that is an active daily commuter on a bicycle,
good for you, But I don't want you taking up
any more road space. So yeah, Mandy, this is an
interesting question. Does regenerative therapy work on stretch marks after pregnancy?
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I don't know the answer to that question. But I
don't know. I mean, I don't know the answer to
that question. I'm trying to think of how it would
work on stretch marks, because stretch marks are literally your
skin has stretched and there's a little bit of scarring
there when it stretches back. Stretch marks are God's that
you made a human. That's the way I have just
(01:22:04):
dealt with stretch marks in my entire life. They're just
a reminder of what your body is capable of, and
you made a person with your body. I just think
that's pretty impressive anyway you slice it, pretty impressive. And
if stretch marks are the end result, you could call
Regen Revolution and ask them about that, because I honestly
don't know. I really don't, Mandy. If you listened to
(01:22:26):
a sleep at the wheelband I have, I have. I
think I saw them when I was in college. They've
been around for a long time. I'm pretty sure I
did see them when I was in college. Mandy, I'm
wondering about a proper etiquette answer to this question. Do
you say, excuse me if you pass gas in a
public bathroom with other people present. Let me tell you
a little something about women in the restroom. Okay, First
(01:22:50):
of all, there are women that will go to great
lengths to disguise any kind of noise that comes out
of their stall. They will cough, they'll rattle the toilet paper,
they'll do a courtesy flush in the middle of whatever's
going on. Women go through like the most ridiculous machinations
so no one hears them doing what we all went
(01:23:10):
into the bathroom to do. So whatever men do, I understand,
men are a different species in the bathroom and a
little more free wheeling about things like this. Women are
horrified that they have to do their bodily functions in public.
The only person I've ever known in my entire life
that was female that did not have this. I worked
with this woman. I don't even remember her name because
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she scarred me for life. She was a bodybuilder and
looked very male. She just she was a big bodybuilder,
like big muscles, big square manjaw kind of thing. And
I walked in the restroom one day and she was
sitting on the toilet with the door of her stall open,
and I was like, ah, I mean I didn't use
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the bathroom at work for like five years after that.
You think I'm kidding. I am not. So No, we're
all covering up various ways. But if you do, if
you do make a noise, you know that is to
be expected in the bathroom. We all just pretend it
didn't happen. Don't ask, don't tell. No one wants it noted,
and no one goes that was a good one. Like occasionally,
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men in my life have done Christmas is in twelve days,
and this is the this is the busy season at
least if you're celebrating the holidays and you want some
sparkly bubbles. The wine Yogi is here to walk us
through a little course on bubbles, and we've already had
a little sample of several delicious Colorado wines that you
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can find on the blog post that the wine Yogi
always does. So you don't have to make notes as
you're driving. You can just go to my blog or
just go to her website. I am the Winyogi dot com,
or just go to mandy'slog dot com and you can
click over through there. Win Yogi. Good to see you, hey,
and you brought me brie. I did.
Speaker 7 (01:24:52):
I love brie riasan to be specific, it's so good
type of breath.
Speaker 4 (01:24:57):
I love it. It's my favorites, I know, cause popcorn and
sparkling wine are like a match made in heaven. Not all.
I mean, what about the sweeter wines that you never
bring me because you know I don't like them.
Speaker 7 (01:25:07):
I think they would work even with that, just simply
because you have salt content in popcorn that in the
butter is the fat. So what it does is it
plays off of the carbonation that these sparkling wines have.
And if you've ever had like a kettle corn which
has a sweetness to it. I think it would also
be a lovely pairing with a mescato to Austi, for example,
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with your just having a nice kind of popcorn that's.
Speaker 4 (01:25:31):
Your traditional I wish you had. I should have thought
about it and asked you to make your Gee popcorn
because I would have too. We could a chowed down
on that.
Speaker 9 (01:25:38):
I would.
Speaker 4 (01:25:38):
Although Gee has now become like liquid gold in terms
of pricing, I might have to start making my own.
But I know that I'm so lazy. I know, I mean,
I'm just I'm legit. I'm just I'm just lazy about it.
Like do I have to stand in the stove for
a whole five minutes? You can do in the microwave.
You know, I'm even too lazy for that. So let's
talk about wine making overall, because a couple of things
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are happening right now. Talked so much about the Colorado
wine scene, and there's some phenomenal winemakers now, some of
them that have never done a sparkling wine before dipping
their toe in. Yes, we tried an amazing I mean
she said, storm Cellar just made the first sparkling wine
they've ever made. Talk about like beginner's luck or whatever
you want to call it. It is outstanding.
Speaker 7 (01:26:19):
I think it's part in part that you know, they're
just perfectionists too, and so I don't think if if
it hadn't met their standards, they wouldn't have released it.
Speaker 4 (01:26:27):
And it is the one that I brought.
Speaker 7 (01:26:28):
In today is specific to club members only, but it's
super easy to join their club and then get access
to it so that you can pick up a bottle
and they're great at shipping and bringing their wine over
to the front range for those club members when they
have their club releases.
Speaker 4 (01:26:42):
But the yeah, so cloudburst is their.
Speaker 7 (01:26:46):
Method chimpinwas or traditional method sparkling reestling, and so it
is not sweet.
Speaker 4 (01:26:51):
It doesn't have a lot of residual sugar.
Speaker 7 (01:26:53):
What it has is bright acidity, like really poppies acidity,
really kind of fun when you think of bubbles, these
are bubbles at last. They're the ones that are going
to keep kind of churning in your champagne flute. And
then so yeah, and then pairs just so beautifully with
those heavy fat things like a bree cheese, which is
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salty and a little funky, creamy, creamy and rich in
its fatness and sparkling wine is meant to.
Speaker 4 (01:27:19):
Go with rich, decadent food.
Speaker 7 (01:27:22):
So your fois gras, your caviar, oysters on the halfshell,
lobster dipped in butter, everything that you can imagine that
when you think about it, immediately puts five pounds on
your hips.
Speaker 4 (01:27:32):
It's that kind of food, and it just that's not
necessarily high sugar food.
Speaker 7 (01:27:36):
You know you want to avoid that sugar because these
are dry wines unless you're getting anything that is in
kind of that extra dry or demi sec.
Speaker 4 (01:27:45):
Let's go through that because this is one of the biggest,
I think, most confusing things for people to understand. Included
a list. Yes, this is all on the blog. That's
actually why I brought it up because it's on the blog.
If you've ever been standing at the store trying to
figure out whether something is going to be sweet or
something is going to be on the dryer side, there's
a very easy way to do it. Explain to people
extra brute brute.
Speaker 7 (01:28:06):
What comes after brute, so it actually goes when you're
talking about I always start from brute.
Speaker 4 (01:28:12):
Brute is what the one you're going to find the
most right.
Speaker 7 (01:28:14):
Brute means dry When you see the phrase extra dry,
that's where people kind of get messed up at because
you think, oh, that's going to be even drier than brute, right,
it's actually not. It's often used with prosecco, and it
will indicate there is some residual sugar on it.
Speaker 4 (01:28:29):
It's a step below your brute. Okay, So you want
to look for brute extra.
Speaker 7 (01:28:32):
Brute, brute a tour and has that's how as they
move up, less and less sugar, okay, and the brute.
Speaker 4 (01:28:38):
A tour is going to suck the water out of
your mouth a little bit. Okay, it's going to be
super super dry.
Speaker 7 (01:28:43):
And when you are going and we see things like
demi sick so sec means dry and so or seco
means dry in Italian. So if you see demi, they're
telling you it's half dry, which means that's going to
be even sweeter than say you're extra dry.
Speaker 4 (01:28:57):
So you're telling me that dry in the sense of
wine actually means sweet. Yes, yes, okayry it means sweet well.
Speaker 7 (01:29:05):
But when tied in with demi, because demi is the
word half, so when you're saying half dry, it means.
Speaker 4 (01:29:13):
The other thing half sweet. You're saying half sweet, so
extra sec not as dry, seck a little sweeter than
the extra sack and demisex sweeter still, so.
Speaker 7 (01:29:23):
Extra dry is the is going to be the first
start of your sweetness?
Speaker 4 (01:29:27):
So yeah, okay, we want to if you like.
Speaker 7 (01:29:29):
Your your wine dry stick with brute and anything that
has brute in the name.
Speaker 4 (01:29:33):
Okay. And I've never even seen anything that is due
which is fifty plus Graham's per liter of sugar. Where
is that? Is that like cough syrup.
Speaker 7 (01:29:41):
They're out there and they're they're they're definitely getting into
your very very sweet dessert wine options.
Speaker 4 (01:29:47):
So I can't do that. We did a progressive dinner
on the ship, which was amazing on our vacation, but
they tried to get me to drink desert wine or
I was like, no, I'm not doing that. Crystal is
getting ready to go on the same cruise line we
went on You the World, which I there's not enough
good words to say about this cruise line. If you've
never been on a cruise I almost don't want you
to go on that one first, because everything else will
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pale in comparison. And when we booked, I said, I
heard about you from Mandy Connell.
Speaker 9 (01:30:12):
She was like what.
Speaker 4 (01:30:15):
I was like, sorry, that's the video host.
Speaker 7 (01:30:16):
But I heard about you guys from so if I
can get her anything, and and then you were.
Speaker 4 (01:30:20):
Supposed to go find out I got my booking number.
Let's we go that perfect is it? Does she ever
drink good wine or just Colorado wines? Hilaria, that's really funny.
Speaker 7 (01:30:31):
Texter, you're you're a riot at My wine collection would
probably floor you if you came into my house.
Speaker 4 (01:30:37):
Fast Dances includes everything. But do not do not demonstrate
your snobbery about Colorado wine because, and I've said this before,
when I got here eleven years ago and people gave
me bottles of Colorado wine, I found them to be undrinkable.
Crystal has introduced me to so many Colorado wines that
are doing incredible things. And these these bubbles that we tried,
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because it wasn't just the bubbles from Storm Cellar. We
also tried a bubbles from Carboy tried another way. The
wine industry is like it's been leaps and bounds of
advancement over the past decade.
Speaker 7 (01:31:12):
And it's mainly because you know, you have folks that
are coming in that have it's a younger generation, and
we have this turnover happening across around the world in
the wine industry, and more and more wine makers that
you're seeing they're my age or younger, and they are
really starting to kind of because the reality is there's
so much wine out there. They have to figure out
(01:31:33):
how to compete with everything that's out there.
Speaker 4 (01:31:35):
They don't have the brand.
Speaker 7 (01:31:37):
The regional association with Champagna or Bordeaux, or the Loire
River valley, you know where you talk about sin or
you know paif Fume.
Speaker 4 (01:31:48):
These these names that people will naturally.
Speaker 7 (01:31:51):
Associate when you think about, say a Grand Crew out
of Burgundy, which to that texture. I have a lot
of that in my collection as well. I have very
expensive bottles of wine from places other than Colorado. But
they what we're seeing here in Colorado is they're influenced
by that traditional Old World style and so instead of
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trying to be Napa here in Colorado, they're trying to
bring a little bit of Italy.
Speaker 4 (01:32:17):
And when you're.
Speaker 7 (01:32:17):
Talking about like whether it's Valde Asta or the Piedmont,
or they're trying to bring in Burgundian wine making style here.
Speaker 4 (01:32:25):
To produce classically.
Speaker 7 (01:32:29):
Old world style wines with the grapes that grow best
here in Colorado, and I want to I want to
emphasize that because guess what, they don't have a marketing budget,
right and they don't they don't have the ability, they
don't have that name recognition because people think that Colorado
is bad wine, and you know, makes bad wine, and
so it's I've become just like I've tried to convince people.
Speaker 4 (01:32:49):
That rose is not white z infandel. Yes, I am
trying to convince.
Speaker 7 (01:32:52):
People that Colorado does produce quality, beautiful, balanced, classic wines.
Speaker 4 (01:32:59):
You know, the wine that we get here, especially from
like Germany. I had some phenomenal gourge Remeiner and Reestling
that are not the Reestlings or gortz remeanors I tried
when I was young, because those are the ones that
are full of sugar that we get here. Over in
Germany and Switzerland in the Austrian areas, they produce these beautiful,
(01:33:19):
very mineral white wines, and it seems to me like
some of those.
Speaker 7 (01:33:22):
Grapes should be able to work here, and they are
the sparkling wine we have from storm Cellar. Reesling and
Govertz does extremely well Alberina, which is the Spanish grape,
also does extremely well here in Colorado, simply because we
are that drier climate, more of it desert climate. The
grapes that don't do well here are the ones that
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are going to grow and do really well in northern California.
So when you're kind of looking at, you know, Cabernet savignan,
the cap fronk does better, which is a little bit
heartier of a grape Merleau that doesn't do that well
here because Marleau likes its feet wet. And so that's
why it's a right bank Bordeaux grape, because that's a
clay soil which has a little bit more water in it,
(01:34:04):
so the roots like to have a little bit more
water content. Whereas we struggle with our water here in Colorado,
some of your your newer wine makers are realizing, we
got to get those grapes that are a little bit
more hardy.
Speaker 4 (01:34:17):
When it comes to drought. They have to be hardier
for cold, you know, for the cold.
Speaker 7 (01:34:25):
Yeah, And so you're starting to see a lot of
movement towards those hybrids, and as the wine world changes,
as certain regions are warming up. Now where you can
start seeing grapes being grown in places that have never
seen it before, such as Brittany and Normandy, which A
Rod mentioned world War two tour.
Speaker 4 (01:34:43):
That's what we're doing with the Antima. Excited about Normandy.
Speaker 7 (01:34:46):
But yeah, so you're starting to see some introduction of
wine growing there versus what has traditionally been more of
a cider stone fruit based brandy type schnops in Germany.
Speaker 4 (01:35:02):
Ops they make shnops out of everything. Yes, I mean
like stuff that should not have schnops made out of it,
they make shops out of it. Somebody asked this question
on the text line what about Texas wines? But I
think that goes to a bigger question in the sort
of section of the country that we're in, I'll call
it the left of center Midwest. Okay, that's the only
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way I can think about what I'm New Mexico, Upper Texas,
those areas are we seeing new wine making and is
it any good? I mean, especially in New Mexico where
you have a much more arid climate. Lots of Texas
is a very arid climate. Are they also having this
kind of wine renaissance that we're having here?
Speaker 1 (01:35:40):
So?
Speaker 4 (01:35:40):
Really, so I can speak.
Speaker 7 (01:35:42):
To New Mexico's just simply because when we're talking about bubbles,
Grue is one of my favorite go to sparkling wines
that is out of the most unlikely place in the world,
and that's this small little micro climate right outside of Albuquerque,
New Mexico. And it is Grue is a family house
out of Champagna and two of the suns of the
patriarch of this Champagne house. This came and they were researching,
(01:36:04):
trying to look for a place where they could really
produce quality wine without paying Champagne land prices, and so
they discovered there outside of Albuquerque this perfect microclimate that
it was the right level of moisture, it was the
right temperature swings, and so they are producing quality sparkling
(01:36:25):
wine right there outside of Albuquerque. Is called grew Age
and it's on I listed it on the blog post
as well, that you can get for under twenty bucks.
And they also make still wines, but their bubbles are
sensational and it's a great example of Old World influenced
wine makers bringing those techniques and approaches and taking advantage
(01:36:48):
of what is around them instead of trying to force feed.
Oh well, this is really popular and sells really well
right now, So we're going to grow it here even
if that climate is not meant for it, the soil
is wrong for it. And so that's what you typically
can see as these wine industries mature, people realizing, Okay,
if we don't want to only produce sweet wine, we're
(01:37:10):
going to have to start looking at other types of
grapes versus these you know, native American grapes that grow
really well here wherever you are in But if they're
trying to go more into that dry wine and compete
more with traditional table wine type, you know, old world wine,
then that's where you're kind of seeing that evolution take place.
Speaker 4 (01:37:30):
I can't speak to Texas. I'm interested in that.
Speaker 7 (01:37:32):
Everybody always asks me about Texas wine.
Speaker 4 (01:37:36):
But there is a lot of influence down.
Speaker 7 (01:37:37):
It from Mexican influence of Mexican winemakers coming up from
the Baja Peninsula that are coming into parts of Texas
that are again bringing more of that Old World influence
and wine making techniques. So it will be interesting to
see what we start, you know, coming out of Texas.
Speaker 4 (01:37:54):
And when Crystal says old World, she's talking about European. Yes,
that is European wine making obviously is far older. Everything
in Europe as far older than we are here. But
what's interesting is that over in Europe, and this goes
for beer, it goes for wine making, there are such
strict rules that you have to follow in order to
be considered a champagne or a beer by those individual governments.
(01:38:16):
So I feel like one of the benefits that we
have here in the United States is we're not afraid
to throw the rules out the window and try something
new and do something different. And I think that's where
some of these wines are differentiating them in that and
that's where.
Speaker 7 (01:38:29):
You have these winemakers coming in even if they are European,
and they are coming in here a because they can
afford to purchase the land that they need if they
want to have it basically be a state grown. So
they want to grow the grapes, take care of everything
on the vine, so from rootstock to the finished product
that goes into your glass.
Speaker 4 (01:38:47):
They want control over over that, and they.
Speaker 7 (01:38:49):
Want to manipulate things that they couldn't do necessarily back
in whatever country they maybe have come from.
Speaker 4 (01:38:55):
So you are starting to see a lot of that.
I will tell you if you have no idea what
we're talking about. Is one of the Texters just said
and said, I have no idea what you're talking about.
This is why the Wino he does a blog post,
so if you do want to educate yourself, she's got
a really good blog posting that goes through a lot
of details about the different kinds of sparkling wines, so
you can kind of act like you know what you're
talking about. And she also has suggestions and explanations of
(01:39:19):
all the wines that we've tasted today. Where can people
get these wines? I know that you can get the
Carboy wine at Carboy and the Coseco. You guys, if
you're looking for a great bottle of holiday bubbles, the
Carboy Coseco is a delight, absolutely a delight, and you
can get it at their winery. They have, of course
the place on Santa Fe. They've got another one downtown. Yeah,
(01:39:39):
so they got another one to But where can we
get some of this other stuff?
Speaker 7 (01:39:43):
The Carboy is available at most Whole Foods and Trader
Doughs as well in the front range. Storm Cellar has
limited availability in certain you know, more of your boutique
wine shops so for them though they ship as well,
so a lot of your smaller Colorado winemakers, if they
don't have the distribution opportunity, they will ship to you
and they'll get it to you pretty fast. So if
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you order the.
Speaker 4 (01:40:08):
Cloud Burst today from storm Seller, you could probably have
it by New Year's.
Speaker 7 (01:40:12):
Well, you'd have to be a club member though, that
is one of those things. But they do have another
sparkling wine that I don't think is that is restricted.
Speaker 4 (01:40:18):
To club This Cloudburst.
Speaker 7 (01:40:20):
To me, it's worth just becoming a club member and
then you can pose it or cancel it whenever you
need to.
Speaker 4 (01:40:25):
Just become a club member and pick up this Cloudburst.
It's gorgeous. So she's got all of these things on
the blog post today which I linked to on my blog,
and I would urge you if you want to just
have a better idea of what you're talking about and
be able to make a more educated decision when you're
standing in a wine store looking at all the bubbles
trying to figure out what you want. It's really a
great primmer, as they say, to the kind of sparkling wines.
Speaker 7 (01:40:48):
And then I did I will mention I did bring
in Pitsilado, which is an.
Speaker 4 (01:40:52):
Italian organic vegan wine. Delicious.
Speaker 7 (01:40:55):
So those are the twenty dollars range sparkling wines in
that twenty range. And yes, their prosecco's are just off
the hook, really approachable party type wines. They make a
great mescotta austy that I'm sitting home with a rod
for he and his lovely wife to enjoy this evening.
Speaker 4 (01:41:11):
Excellent, excellent, all right, because now it's time for the
most exciting segment all the radio of its kind in.
Speaker 7 (01:41:19):
The world of the day.
Speaker 4 (01:41:23):
All right, what is our dad joke of the day, please, Anthony?
Speaker 5 (01:41:27):
Where do penguins go to vote?
Speaker 4 (01:41:30):
Penguins go to vote the South Pole, the North Pole,
the North Pole, but penguins live in the South Pole. Okay,
I'm just throwing that out there. Do you make it
more accurate? I know, but dadda where penguins live. I'm
just throwing that out there.
Speaker 6 (01:41:51):
What is our word of the day, please? It's a noun.
It's not the r h y m E. It's the
noun of rhyme r I M E.
Speaker 4 (01:41:59):
Are I know that rhyme ice is?
Speaker 7 (01:42:02):
It's a It forms that little ledge on.
Speaker 4 (01:42:05):
An aircraft foil.
Speaker 7 (01:42:06):
So I would say it's probably like a like kind
of a condensing of something I don't.
Speaker 4 (01:42:11):
Know, she said.
Speaker 6 (01:42:13):
She sounded like she knew what she was talking about,
in coating of ice caused by rapid Yeah, that's why I.
Speaker 4 (01:42:19):
Went with her. She said. It was such authority that
I was like, I'm going with that. That's the answer
today's trivia question. I feel like I should know this,
but I absolutely do not. What does the coding acronym
H T M L stand for? How do we know?
How do I know? No, it's not hot to computer
something something hypertext markup language. Yeah, that's what I don't
(01:42:45):
feel like. I really do feel like I should know
what that is, and I did not. I'm disappointing. Wait
a minute, I gotta get a piece. Oh you're gonna win.
You don't kind to keep score?
Speaker 2 (01:42:59):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (01:43:00):
What o dag nab it? Okay, all right.
Speaker 5 (01:43:03):
Now, I'm really actually going to play.
Speaker 4 (01:43:04):
This for you. What is our jeopardy category?
Speaker 5 (01:43:07):
What is play that game?
Speaker 4 (01:43:09):
Okay, play that game? Just turn my microphone off it.
Speaker 6 (01:43:13):
It's gotta be hard to catch them all when new
video games keep coming out. But in twenty twenty two
folks gave it a shot with this legends rchaus.
Speaker 5 (01:43:24):
I should know how to pronounce that game, but I don't.
Speaker 6 (01:43:25):
RCUs legends, r cs catch them all, you gotta catch
them all. Oh my god, I have no clue. What
what is Pokemon?
Speaker 9 (01:43:34):
That's what I.
Speaker 4 (01:43:38):
Get? Please tell me they're not all video game questions,
because I will get a.
Speaker 6 (01:43:41):
Single card in this game offers a ride on the
reading with a possibility.
Speaker 4 (01:43:46):
What is Monopoly? Correct? Now?
Speaker 6 (01:43:50):
This casino game with numbers on a ticket from one
to eighty?
Speaker 4 (01:43:53):
What is ke correct?
Speaker 6 (01:43:56):
If the five dice you roll show the same number? Well,
that's the name of this cas bro?
Speaker 4 (01:44:01):
What is Yatze?
Speaker 2 (01:44:03):
Love? Yet?
Speaker 6 (01:44:03):
Finally, this five letter This five letter card game of
English origin helped construct some bridges, Auction Bridge and contract Bridge.
Speaker 5 (01:44:13):
I've never heard of this.
Speaker 4 (01:44:14):
Game five letters, never contract bridge. I have no idea
A W starts with a W? What is the idea? Whist?
Whist whist? I've heard of it? But yes, I Mary Christmas, everybody,
Mary Christmas, all that stuff. We will be back on
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Monday for our final week of shows until January thirty first,
when on the thirty first I will have my entire
family in the studio with me, and I will play
the audio of me in miss Olesti Festival nineteen eighty seven.
That is my that is my promise to you, and
we're not going to put it on the podcast a rod.
We're going to make people have to listen that day
(01:44:58):
or they're not going to hear it. You're not gonna
be here, You're not even gonna be here, mister man.
You guys have a safe weekend. K WA Sports coming
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell Mann.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
On KOAM ninety more one FM, God Study Thenty's through Frey.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Andy Connal keeping sadda. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Friday
edition of the show altogether. Now that's right, all right,
(00:47):
my friends, we are going to take you right through
this Friday so you can cruise into the weekend the
next to the last weekend before Christmas. Have you done
your Christmas shopping?
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Anthony, No, we went over this.
Speaker 6 (00:59):
I'm fine going to keep asking you because I don't
think we're ever going to You're never going to do
christ because collectively we're going as a group to Mexico.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
If everybody's in.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
That, yeah, my my side of the family isn't going,
so I could probably get them a little sumthing. Sure,
we're getting my mom a big, awesome, beautiful, probably really
fast foody meal on the day before we go to
Mexico because she's taking us to the airport like two
in the morning, So probably should be an additional something.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I'm considering. Your mom listens to the show, Yes, you're
going to get your mom a gift ye and your dad?
Yeah props. Okay, probably should do that. Yeah, do that
just make that happen to you, Uh somewhat. Yeah, we
did some shopping in the Europe. Well, we did some
shopping in Europe, and then we also we don't have
you know, the problem with having a teenager these days
is they don't want a lot of stuff that isn't
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seven million dollars. Oh well, yeah, you know what I mean.
It's like I'd love a new iPad or a new
whatever or a new other thing that costs seven thousand.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Do like one gifts and then a bunch of little ones.
That's what we we.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
We kind of do. But my daughter, I bought my
daughter's a lot like me. I remember being a kid.
My mom would be like, what do you want for Christmas? Like, eh,
I don't know. Still the same way, I don't know something.
She does have stuff on her wish list from Amazon,
so and I have stuff on my wish list. But
somebody looked at my wishless and was like, this is
(02:23):
the most boring, awful wish list ever. I'm like, but
this is what I want sucks? No new tea kettle.
I want a new tea kettle, an electric tea kettle
to make hot water quickly. Yes, because the one I
got now is look at a little you know, little grungie.
I want these pull out shells for underneath my kitchen
sink area. You know, want that.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
You need a big shelving unit on the back of
our pantry door.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
We go, see there you go? When kettle adult, you
ask for adult gifts, like not like adult gifts, I mean,
that's that would be weird, you know, but no things
that you have as an adult. That's that's what you get.
So that's kind of where I am right now, and
hoping to get everything in the mail for the kids
this weekend because we're not going to see them. My
mom is coming for Christmas now, so don't have to
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worry about shipping her gift. It's all. It's all good.
The older I've gotten, it feels like I have less
people to buy for because I have less people to
buy for ants. I mean, you know, like parents and
grandparents have passed away now, so.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Oh, you did all the way down the line gifts
because I I mean really it's like immediate family and
that's it.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Always well, I.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Always gifts to my grandparents when they were alive.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Them.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yes, I live near them.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
See that's the thing.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Yeah, if we did, maybe, but all of them, most
my family's ever lived here.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
In all honesty, every year for Christmas, I would buy
my grandmother gift cards to our favorite restaurant because she
was impossible to buy four, so I'd buy it.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
No.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
No, here's the thing. Once she died, I found in
her desk drawer seventy thousand gift cards. She never used one.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Of them because she said, Wow, what a terrible Christmas gift.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
And I'm going to spend protest of this terrible Christmas.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
This is my grandmother's vanity thinking. She she equated gift
card with some kind of like coupon. Uh huh, And
she didn't want to be seen as seeming cheap.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
So if something equates with a coupon, do you think
it's a good Christmas gift?
Speaker 5 (04:12):
No, I don't like to get gift cards. Well, you
don't like to give I don't like.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
To give gift cards. But just okay, when your grandparents
have everything they could possibly need, and yet my grandmother's
going to bob Evans three or four times a week
to eat a Bob Evans gift certificate makes a ton
of sense. At least I thought it did, only to
find out later it did not. Yeah, you were lied to.
Those just told me it was a terrible gift, and
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I would have gone in a different direction.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
You should have just known Nope, what a terrible gift.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I know. Well, when you're buying for like, buying for
me and Chuck is impossible because we just if we
want it, we just we just go buy it.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Someone should be more thoughtful and know you better as
to know what you would want, or craft you something beautiful.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Well, I can't wait to see what you've crafted me
this year.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Oh yeah, I put myself in a corner there.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah you did.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Oh you did the way that's easy.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Yeah, there you go. Just bring me one of those
weird frog statue things. You know, it's so weird.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Mexican market, you have those things.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Let me tell you what we bought in the Uh.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
That's funny, you nailed that on the nose.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
The Nuremberg Christmas Market. They have this family that makes
prune people. And unless you think I'm saying something that's
it's truth in advertising. They're little people made out of prunes,
and of course I had to buy one. How do
I not buy a prune person? Well, that that brought
that back, you know what? You know what, you know
(05:37):
they say they last forever. You know what just occurred
to me though I did not declare that coming back
through customs that I bet I broke the law and
on the air across I didn't mean to bring my
prune person back.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Every one and this blowtorch just heard you.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
In my mind, it wasn't food at that point, it
was a sculpture.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Oh look the place now, huh yeah, right here.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Yeah, it'll be like that time I had to get
lectured at TSA for like nine hours because I had
a yogurt in my bag. Nine I'm being a slightly savura.
It was so bad. It's like, yeah, I'm blow up
a plane with a yogurt. That's gonna happen anyway. It's
gonna be that kind of Friday people, because it's two
(06:19):
Fridays before Christmas and we've all mentally checked out. But
it's okay, it's perfectly okay to get.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Through this, to get through the studio out of whatever
was scurrying what However, the rest of that goes.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Give cards for the win, says this texter right after
gift cards are lazy gifts? No thought, my mom thinks
are both sides are represented on this uh nandy. My
wife decided that we buy ourselves what we want, taking
her skiing for Christmas. There you go, there you go,
clean your kettle with barkeeper's friend. It'll be good as new.
And now I'm talking about an electric kettle. And when
(06:54):
I bought it, I wasn't sure I was gonna like
having an electric kettle, so I bought a super cheap one.
And I have really hard water at my house. We
do have a water softener, but we still have hard water,
so the heating coil inside. It's not pretty. And I
want a nice clear one so I can see when
the water boils as well. So there's a whole strategy there, aandy, Yeah,
what do you give a ninety six year old granny
(07:15):
has everything and won't go out to eat? I don't
know your time, probably did you know what? In all honesty,
that is exactly right, bait to bend your ear, give
her your ear, commit to having lunch once a week,
once a month, whatever you can spare, and and go
and have lunch with your granny. That's the best thing
you can do. Give them time. Every time I would
go visit my grandmother in the last few years of
(07:36):
her life. She was living in a nursing home. But
I was in sales outside sales, so I could stop
by all the time. And I did stop. I had lunch,
visited for a while, and every time when I go
to leave, she'd say, come back when you can stay longer.
That was my grandmother's pass of a guilt, aggressive guilt,
you know right there.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
The accent too.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah, No, hers wasn't as bad as mine, but she
was from Georgia, so it's as penance for breaking the law.
Released the accent. Okay, I got to explain something if
you're just joining me. So Ross asked a question which
I thought was a really good question, and I immediately
knew my answer. And his question was what class did
you take that changed your life the most? For me?
(08:15):
It was voice addiction classes in college that got rid
of my extremely deep southern accent. And Ross was demanding
that I do the accent on the air. I will
not do the accent on the air. I wouldn't do
it on his show without doing it on this show. First,
first time you try, no, I because no.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Do you think honestly, do you believe that you'll get
in some mental rut where like you'll start to think
about your overeating.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
No, here's the thing. Here's the thing. There's a couple
of things. There are serious reasons behind this. Okay, Number one,
there is still a tremendous bias against people with a
Southern accent. You are assumed to be stupid, full stop,
at risk. This is all psychological. I'm explaining the psychological
backstory of this whole thing. And second, it was a
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really big effort on my part to get rid of it.
It was not a hey, I'm just going to decide
not to talk that way anymore and it was gone.
It was like a multi year process to get rid
of the accent. So, you know, I kind of wanna
do you think I could if I picked up if
(09:19):
I called my old hairdresser right now. Her name is
Sherry Robert. She has the quintessential accent, and I could
slide back into it very very quickly. But it also
feels in a weird way like I'm making fun of
it at this point because I don't ever want to
seem like I'm making fun of people who talk like that.
And I still know a ton of people who talk
like that, so you know, it's it's a weird thing.
(09:42):
A Southern accent can be very charming, but people do
judge you negatively. They assume that you are stupid. So
you know, I don't know. I guess I have a
mental resistance to stepping back into that person because I
am not that person anymore. I mean, there's much in
my life it seems like it was a different person completely,
(10:03):
and at some point maybe you'll get to this point
a rod where you look back at sections of your life.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
No, you're kidding, I do that now.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I well imagine having more of them and then having
such dramatic changes where I left home, moved to a
completely different part of the country, uh did a job
where I flew all over the world. So I had
all of these different experiences, and I look back at
that person, that seventeen year old person, and and I
just they're sore. They're like a baby compared to where
(10:30):
I am now sparentually, emotionally, growth wise, the whole nine years.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
So it's not just the accident. You connect the accent
with way more than just voice one hundred percent. It
is a whole big psychological thing there. So at some point,
at some.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Point, yea, I hear you, great points.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
But but here's the thing. I have a video of
me from a beauty pageant called the miss A Lusty Festival.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
That right there solves it.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
That's kind of but I you know, please, I don't know.
We'll see, we shall see, Mandy. Growing up in Minnesota,
we call it the we call it NS for Northern Superiority.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
No, I mean I'm from an area of the country
where when I was young, like in the seventies and eighties,
they still referred to the Civil War as the War
of Northern Aggression, still one of the grand masters. Okay,
in my right, outside my hometown, there is a little
tiny town called Olusty. That's the Olusty Festival is named
after it. The Battle of Olusty is a Civil War
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battle that the rebels won. So they have a reenactment
every single year in February, and it's really really cool,
really cool. I mean they have a whole whole camp
set up where people are in costume and they're doing
the whole reenactment thing. It is really really top notch.
And then there is a festival that goes along with that,
and I was the Miss Olusty Festival nineteen eighty seven.
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So there you go, Mandy. For me, the Southern accent
and a female doesn't sound too stupid and a man
most definitely. However, think of the southern lawyer that uses
this to his advantage. I have used it to my
advantage in the past, especially in New York City. If
I needed something in New York City, Oh, I would
lay it on so thick. You are so kind, I mean,
(12:19):
just oh, that's a baby version.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Version.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
What you're saying is what your listeners are hearing when
I'm hearing. And She'll do it for a stranger, but
not for your dear listeners and producer.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I will do it. That's offensive when when it is
when it is advantageous from you know what? Okay, So
on July, on January January, on December thirty first, are
you working New Year's Eve Day?
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Potentially, I will play it all that day.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
I will play here, I will play it, I'll send
it to you, okay, but I'll play it on that day,
all right, So there you go. Monday, I'm not working
that day. So there you go, Mandy, Yeah, did you
win the Okay? Yes and no? Or should I say
no and yes? So I came in first runner up,
(13:05):
which was my goal because I didn't really want to
go to the Miss Florida pageant. No wait, hear me out,
there's a whole story here. No, and then yes, I
mean something. So I went into the pageant wanting to
be first runnerup because youve got scholarship money, but you
didn't have to do Miss Florida, which I didn't want
to do. And then and then the pageant queen was
stripped of her crown because in a small town, when
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you have a pageant queen, when you have a title
like that, you have all of these obligations. You go
to nursing homes, you go to rotary club, luncheons, you
go to the Lions Club, you go to all of
these different civic organizations, You give speeches, you meet people,
you do all this stuff things correct, and she didn't
want to do any of it, so they stripped her crown,
and all of a sudden, I'm Miss O'lesti Festival and
(13:47):
I had to go to Miss Florida, which is what
I did not want to do.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
We're looking for the words. Are you won by default?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Correct? That's why I said no, and then yes, because
that's what it is.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
So then you had to.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Do the things. Yeah, yeah, I still had to do
the thing wasn't It wasn't my That's not my fort,
not my cup of tea. As they say pageant business.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Forte forth, it's fort It's definitely forte.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
No, Forte is an Italian musical direction. Fort is your strength. Yes,
you're so wrong, look it out. I'm doing it. Charles
Harringon Elster and I went over this many, many, many
many times. Forte is the Italian musical thing. Fort is
your strength. It is not my forte or it is
my fort It is fort And I believe it because
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Charles Harringon Elster knew more about language than either of us.
We haven't even done the blog yet. What are we
doing today Friday? Fore?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
What is the definition?
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Miriam Webster?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Definition? Wait?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Okay, so for this one for it a part of
a sword or foil blade number one one's strong.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Point forte or for it.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Both acceptable, says Mariam Webster.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
But you said for it was wrong, and I said
it was right. So we're both wrong and right. No,
I said mine was right. I was correct. I would
uh huh for it. Everything I said was correct, say both.
You said fort was wrong.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
It is not because fort means for only that which
is a sword, a part of a sword, or foil blade.
So when this only means for it like that, then
you have to choose the other one for one strong point. No, no,
that's not. It is also no one knows for it
whether you mean a strong point or a part of
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a sword or foil.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Blade for it. Nobody's ever talking about a part of
a forest. It's fort. Charles Harington Elsker said it was fort.
It will always be forced, even though he is no
longer with us. Anyway, Mandy, do a fundraiser for a
good cause, and when you raise your set amount, agree
to do the accent? Oh my, oh my, yeah, maybe, Mandy,
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did you lose your Southern accent before or after you
moved to Kentucky? I lost my southern before I became
a flight attendant, which is where I met the man
who got me into radio. I don't believe he would
have got me into radio if I'd still have that
accent at all. Okay, here we go. Let's do the blog.
Go to mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that
says twelve thirteen twenty four blog the Winyoki pops in
(16:17):
and Theveke falls for a polist stunt. Click on that
and here are the headlines. You will find me within, sorry,
within an.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Office half of American all with ships and clipments and
say that's a press plant.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Today on the blog, it's an ask me anything sort
of Friday. Let's talk holiday celebrations. Polist does a stunt.
Viveke falls for it. This as DC is betting against doge,
the worldwide potential of Doge. The lightweight investigation of Jenna
Griswold recycling is garbage protecting free speech from both sides.
(16:52):
Another apartment complex is being shut down. Dave Williams, please
the victim. More regulations in Colorado. I'm shocked. Is any
using the bike lanes route neighbors have roots sign Fort
Collins and Loveland. Your water rates are going up. Things
to do in Denver This weekend, Google studied successful teams.
Time names Man Trump of the Year again. The US
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lifespan health span gap is the biggest in the world.
How deep sleep makes memories. Are Tesla drivers the worst drivers?
Now see us. Travis Hunter is winning all the things
tgif everybody a fun alternative to Christmas dinner. Mike Tyson
doesn't remember the Jake Paul fight. I have no sympathy
for Jim Carrey. Why I don't do botox? Valdemar Archiletta
(17:35):
has a mayor Mike recall update, this is incorrect. What
happens when lightning strikes an airplane? Those are the headlines
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com, and as you
can see, it is a barn burner of a blog.
Great videos, especially the one the speaking of my upbringing.
Especially we're the one where rising star rookie receiver Xavier
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Lagett admitted that for Thanksgiving he and his family enjoyed
some delicious raccoon. You heard me right, raccoon I have?
Oh lord, I grew up in the South in a
rural area. Don't judge, judging, don't judge. Also eaten squirrel,
Also eaten possum. Also eaten rabbit.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Nothing else available?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Huh No, but you know sometimes people make squirrel for dinner.
It's a thing.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Yeah, totally normal.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Well, this guy, he's in the NFL and he ate
Raccoon for Thanksgiving what I love were the reactions of
the other two guys in the in the video. It's
it's very, very funny. Their faces are like, what what,
I'm sorry? What?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Yeah? Any normal person, what I'm sorry? Come again Raccoon.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
By the way, Linda, who is a PhD, has weighed
in on the text line. Mandy is absolutely right about
the pronunciation of fort.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
That's so weird because Marion Webster says that.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Now ask me anything except to speak with my own
old accent lol. Correct.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Yeah, correct to Shaye, yep.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
That is pronounced correctly, Amandy, you lost your southern accent.
But did you lose the different bless your heart meanings?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
No?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I did not, because that phrase is so magical that
everyone should adopt it. It can be used as an
expression of warmth and compassion or complete disdain. It just
depends on how you say it. We'll be right back.
Governor Jared Poulis had a little campaign stunt yesterday, and
I call it a campaign stunt because it was one
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hundred percent a campaign stunt. What did he do well?
He took a table saw to a big old pile
of paper, to show that he was cutting outdated and
wasteful executive orders, cutting away at bureaucracy to make our
government more efficient. This is such a steaming pile of crap, y'all.
(19:54):
I got super angry when I saw this today. I
was like, that man must have stones the size of cantalopes.
Don't even know why he walks down the street this as.
I have a story on the blog today, a perfect
Colorado story on the blog today about how there is
one of the things that the environmental movement is trying
to do is they are trying to use technologies like
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carbon capture that takes carbon and nothinge out of the
air and then they shove it down into the ground,
like a thousands of feet down and I guess the
earth is just supposed to hold it down there for us.
It's just seems really stupid to me, but whatever, it's
their thing. They want to do it. So you think
the Colorado as we're destined for net zero, the impossible standard,
(20:38):
which is absolutely absurd to even try and pursue. You'd
think that that would be open arms, like, hey, come
use this carbon capture technology. We just come on in.
No Colorado is about to make rules that are so
strict that it will essentially prevent any carbon capture technology
from coming to Colorado because other states are are allowing
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people to come in and do it with very few regulations.
But here we have the governor putting on this performative show.
All he needed was a kabuki theater mask to really
make it, you know, sing. But that's not the part
that upset me. The part that upset me was that
the vike Ramaswami fell for it. Oh the vake. This
(21:24):
from the Hill dot com. The vike Ramaswami, the co
head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, commended
Colorado Governor Jared Polis for shredding two hundred and eight
executive orders after repealing them Thursday. He said on X
nice work, Governor of Colorado's then that shredder over to
DOGE next month. Do not fall for this, vike, do not.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
So.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
I took two x dot com to respond, thusly hoping
that the Veke will see my text mess and it
just says, please don't fall for this stunt. At paviak Ramaswami.
Under Polis's quote leadership, we've had an explosion in the
regulatory state that is crushing our once fibrant economy. We're
now the sixth most regulated state in the US. This
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is nothing more than a campaign stunt. And who boy,
is this thing getting some traction on the interwebs. A
lot of people are retweeting it, a lot of people
making comments on it, a lot of people pointing out
that this is absolute garbage. And again, Jared Pulis is
one of the most skilled politicians I've ever seen. He
(22:35):
is so good at reading the political wins, and right
now the wins are, hey, let's cut government now. I
would never say that Jared Polis is not very, very,
very intelligent, because he is. But he's also a political opportunist.
Have you noticed how many times in the national media
he has not actually taken credit for, but kind of
(22:56):
taken credit for the fact that there have been two
income tax cuts in the state or in Colorado in
the past few years, neither of which he was instrumental
in putting on the ballot. That was all the Independence
Institute that did that. Oh he is now wherever the
wind blows, that's where he's gonna position himself. And for
him to try and act like some anti regulation guy.
(23:20):
When we've seen thousands, thousands of new regulations while he's
been governor thousands, I mean, my god, he wants to
prevent you from seeking help if your child tells you
that they are of another gender. He wants to prevent
you from maybe trying to talk them out of that belief.
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He wants your six year olds in kindergarten or first
grade to learn the phrase sex work. I mean, augh,
this guy is so far away. All he's done is
make government bigger. That would be the question I'd love
to have, vivaik ask Garrett Jared Poulis, and what have
you done to shrink the size of government? Because you
surely cannot say I have done a single thing. We
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have added more workers to the state coffers since he's
been governor than than any self respecting libertarian whatever tolerate.
Oh god, just chat my hide made me mad mad.
If we could carbon, if we could capture carbon, then
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we can't complain about it anymore. You know what, I know,
I know, I know. Okay. It has also asked me
anything today, so you can text in your questions to
five six six nine zero, and some of you have
already done that. Mandy since you got back, you've not
mentioned the goings on with the Colorado Springs mayor. I
did on Monday, because on Monday I shared the news
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article that Jemmy Mobilati says he was the victim and
that any dealings or conversations he had with the gentleman
in question were simply because he was immedia personality and
not any kind of conspiring. He has been one hundred percent,
one hundred percent cooperative with police in the investigation. He
turned over his phone for text messages and everything. I
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have to believe him. We'll see, and I haven't checked
the later this week, but he said he was going
to get some kind of documentation that said he was
not a target of the investigation, that he was indeed
a victim. So right now, that's what we know so far.
If you know anything else, let me know. The VIK
usually knows what he's talking about. He failed with Polis yep, yep,
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no text or. I did not realize that in my
blog summer you said man gets Trump of the Year award.
I did not. Did I say that? Is that what
it says on the blog. I don't not believe you,
because that would be kind of typical of me to
do things. Time names Trump Man of the Year again,
so I might have just read it wrong when I
was going there. No, our text message system does not
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receive pictures, so keep your dirty pictures to yourself. No
need to see that. Mandy. I've once heard you refer
to Civic Center Park downtown as the crown jewel of Denver,
and I cannot agree more. But I'm absolutely horrified by
what Mayor Johnson is proposing to do to the once
beautiful in Great Park. Are you aware that he's planning
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to dismantle the Greek Amphitheater and completely reconfigure that whole area.
This really saddens me. I think it's perfect just the
way it is, and if it's not broke, don't fix it.
Anyone else is anyone else's bothered by this as I am.
Do you know of any people or groups that are
opposing this? It really infuriates me that we don't even
get a chance to vote on this. Every one of
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the Mayor's plans for as he calls it, improvements and investments,
it's ruining the city I grew up and love. Not
to mention the price tag. Nothing he has done has
made the city any better. When I was a kid,
this used to be a safe, clean city with good schools.
Now I feel like I'm living in a filthy, disgusting,
bombed out third world wasteland. So that's a lot. First
of all, I'm not sure Mayor Mike is the one
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who is driving this design change. I want to offer
that defense for Mayor Mike Johnston. I believe that these
changes to Civic Center Park have been sort of being
planned and underway for some time now. Whether or not
they're needed is a valid question, But it's my understanding
that they're going to be putting in an amphitheater so
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they can do more like concerts and things of that
nature and try to make the park a little more functional,
because in all honesty, I don't know of a lot
of stuff that goes down at the Greek Theater. So,
you know, I'm not sure that you're blaming the right person,
but it might be worth a call to see if
it's too late to weigh in. I'm just going to
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say this about about stuff like this. If the meetings
haven't happened yet, then find out where they're going to
happen and show up. But my guess is the meetings
have already happened and people didn't pay attention to those
postings or the notices, or they don't necessarily catch that.
So I don't know, I do not know. I'm not
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common Spirit Health techt sign Mandy. The civic Center plan
is polus. He envisions a bridge over the street to
the park from the Capitol. Bye bye parade floats ludicrous idea.
Mandy asked me, anything curious if you're familiar with doctor
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Jordan Peterson. Of course, of course I have been a
doctor Jordan Peterson fan for some time now. Well, but
I think I was on the Jordan Peterson bandwagon before
he really took off. I started watching his videos that
he used to post from his class when he was teaching,
and super fascinating guy. And when I found fascinating about
doctor Peterson and the growth of his brand and how
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many people have started listening to him is because instead
of so many other self help guru types, and all
you have to do is think about like the Oprah
Show back in the day, she had all these guru
types that would come on her show, and they don't
always kind of say things like care truth, and you know,
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it used to frustrate me when they would talk to
these sad women who were in bad marriages but they
had kids, and they'd be like, you know what, you
have to do what's right for you. They encourage selfishness
and that goes back to the ME generation. You know,
I'm a child of the seventies and eighties. I was
as gen X. My parents divorce when I was in
fifth grade, and that was sort of at the beginning
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of the divorce epidemic of the seventies and eighties. And
you know, I'm not mad at my parents. They did
the best they could. They had valid reasons for not
staying married, but there was this sort of pervasive feeling
that you should not ever have to sacrifice for your children.
You shouldn't have to sacrifice, you shouldn't have to work
harder to make things work, and that was very frustrating.
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Jordan Peterson is preaching the exact opposite. He's preaching personal responsibility,
taking care of yourself, you know, doing the right thing
when no one's looking. And it has been like this way,
especially young men that have been attracted to that message.
I think that is spectacular, just spectacular, and I hope
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he continues to do his work. Mandy, A lot of
celebrities passed away this year. Who's passing affected you the most?
Generally speaking, I don't really get sucked into that. I
don't get bummed out. I will tell you though, when
Terry Garr died, I was like, dang, I love her
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and she died. I can't remember who else died this year,
But I don't really get affected by that. When someone
I love dies, obviously that's a much different situation. But
I've always felt extremely detached from celebrity culture in a
big way. And I understand you if you're fond of people, right,
But as far as like being bummed out, Terry Garr
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was bummed out about. But I can't remember who else
I was bummed out about against it. Maybe there's probably
other people, to be perfectly frank, I don't remember. If
we elect an official, asks texterter and they immediately go
to work undermining the constitution, shouldn't they be impeached? I'm
assuming you're talking about Mayor Johnston. I don't know. I'm
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not big on impeachment, you guys. I'd rather sort of,
you know, unless it's really egregious. I'd rather spend my
time and energy finding a candidate and successfully helping them
run against them in the next election cycle. I think
impeachment has been abused. Impeachment went from this person did
some kind of gross malfeasance to we don't like what
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you did, and I get it. I do get it,
but I don't know how you can impeach Mayor Mike
Johnston for what he's done because he's doing exactly what
he said he was going to do when he ran
for office. I mean exactly. So there you go, there
you go. All right. I got a good question at
the top of the blog, and I'm gonna screenshot it
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so I have it when I get back, because when
I get back from this break, I've got Jimmy Segeberger
on the show. We have not talked a lot about
the investigation, and I'm almost ready to put that in
air quotes of the office of Jenneck Griswold, because talk
about a fluff piece. I mean, my goodness, just my goodness.
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But Jimmy wrote a great column about it about the
many ways it was lacking. We will talk to him next,
and then after that, I'm going to answer this question
because I love this question. The question is, Mandy, with
your international vacations, which country was your favorite and which
country will you never visit again? That is a tough question,
the second one, because there are places I went that
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I loved, but I don't ever need to go there again.
But I don't want to say you shouldn't go there,
because I don't ever want to go there again. But
I have a lot of places in the world to see,
and I figure, Okay, I'm fifty five. If I'm lucky,
I've got another twenty five years of good travel. And
that's if I'm lucky and in good health. I got
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a lot of places to go. Some places don't make
the cut for this second visit, but I'll tell you
those after we talk to Jimmy right after this.
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To the second hour of the show. And if there's
a harmonica, that means Jimmy singing. Murger can't be that
far behind. He's got a great column in the Denver
Gazette today about the Patty Cake investigation of Jenny Griswold.
My words, not his, Jimmy, Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 9 (34:53):
Hey, Mandy, Yeah, it's it's quite a doozy when they say, oh,
we're doing an investigation, and there are a lot of
qui ess that weren't even considered.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Or even asked. I mean, I well, let's get into it.
Let's give it because I haven't even really talked about this,
because honestly, when I saw the kind of news coverage
it was getting, we're essentially it was yeah, mistakes were made,
but nobody meant to make them. It was just all
by accident, and so we all just need to move on.
I mean, that was kind of the coverage. I was
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so disgusted, not surprised, but disgusted. So do a quick
breakdown of what they did find or and then we'll
get to what they didn't do.
Speaker 9 (35:33):
So Baird Quinn LLC is a law firm that was
hired to dive in, supposedly and look into the origins
of this bios computer password leak. That while they were
most of the counties, the vast majority of the counties
were involved in the lake, it was thirty four counties
that had vulnerabilities as a result of these passwords getting
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out there. And in essence, what the report cancled is
that a former employee in May of twenty twenty two
had created an Excel spreadsheet which included listings for all
the different equipment in the various counties across the state,
and had some hidden tabs where those worksheets in the
tabs which you can hide in an Excel spreadsheet, included
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passwords for a number of these machines across the state.
And in May of twenty twenty three, she left. This
former employee left the position, but did not let anybody
else in the staff know that she had hidden tabs
in this Excel spreadsheet. And so eventually a while later,
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they had been putting up PDF versions. You know, when
you open up PDF file, they don't have these hidden fields,
so nobody had any clue that these were going to
be in there. So they've been putting up these PDFs
files and eventually decided, you know what, for transparency, it's
June of twenty twenty four, let's put up this Succel
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spreadsheet instead, And without reviewing the spreadsheet, they put the
raw thing up with these hidden fields, and lo and behold,
the league happened.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Yep. And instead of taking any kind of responsibility for it,
Jennat Griswold was essentially like, oh, it wasn't that big
a deal. It wasn't that big a deal at all.
Let me ask you this, Where did they not do
enough in this investigation?
Speaker 9 (37:33):
Oh? Where to begin? Well? Number one is interviewing the
Secretary of State herself, Jenna Griswold. Number two is interviewing
the Deputy Secretary of State himself, Christopher Beale. Number three
is looking at the fallout. What happened once they learned
of this breach? What did they do? What didn't they do?
Why did they not notify clerks, county clerks, or the
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public of what they had discovered? Those are some basic questions, Mandy,
that you would expect any investigation to consider. And they
didn't even do that, let alone sit down Jenna for
an interview.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
That is absurd to me. I mean, how do you
have an interview about what's happening with this department and
not interview the head of the department to find out? Really,
and I don't want to say the blame the culpability,
but but what what part did she have? Where did
where did her office fail? In her eyes, She's never
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answered those questions. She's never taken an iota of responsibility
for this. That's the part that frustrates me the most.
Because you know, if you screw up something, you say oh,
I'm sure you say, oh, I screwed that up, And
I'm not asking her to fall on her sword. I'm
just saying it would be nice if instead of oh,
this problem isn't a big deal, somebody said, wow, we
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really screwed up and we regret this happening. And that
has not happened at all exactly.
Speaker 9 (38:56):
And a few things can be true at the same time.
One can be an inadvertent accident. This former employee was
using these hidden tabs as like a sort of piece
of scratch paper to just keep notes. Now you shouldn't
do that, but that was the way that she approached things,
and it was accidental on the part of people. That
can be true. But at the same time, it can
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also be the case that it is a serious vulnerability. Yes,
they can mitigate the vulnerabilities through a lot of security checks.
That's why we can take confidence in the election results
and they should have been certified. But there still were
serious risks when if somebody had a password, a bio's password,
they could go in and change settings, critical settings to
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the computers. And one other thing can be true at
the same time too, Mandy, and that is that even
if Jenna Griswold wasn't involved, didn't know that this was
going on, her leadership failures and the systemic issues that
the department going back to when she took over in
twenty nine nineteen need to be investigated as part of
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what happened, because you can't separate them.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Right, exactly, exactly right, And you know this department should
be if it was operating properly and the way it
operated for so many years here in Colorado, we shouldn't
be giving this a second thought, right, This should be
so unquestionably sound in the way it's run. And this
is my big frustration is that this isn't the first
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time we've had a major incident with Jenna Griswold. It's
not the first time her office has made a significant mistake.
And so, in a vacuum, this one incident, as you
laid it out, it could be easily explained away. But
when you factor in the fact that twice she sent
postcards to people who are not in the or not citizens,
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telling them to register to vote, I mean that's a
pretty big deal, and she blew it off both times.
Speaker 9 (40:55):
Yes, and in another instance, where the county clerks had
to do what they could systemly have to do, which
is clean up her messages. Ballad reminders also went out
to people who'd already voted, and then Johnny clerks had
to scrambled would figure out what they were going to do.
And so I make the point in my column that
now cleaning up Griswold's messes might as well be a
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part of a clerk's shout description, which is absolutely the case.
And here's the thing, the rumor mill, and I think
it's more than the rumor mill. It's pretty clear that
she's on the precipice of announcing a run for governor
as soon as next.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
I'm sorry that's so comically it is.
Speaker 9 (41:33):
A third but this is the kind of thing that
needs to be addressed. And you got to wonder how
the State Legislative Audit Committee passes on looking into this
in a party line vote, Democrats sweeping this under the rug.
There this investigation is a is a sham in terms
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of the things that they didn't consider that they needed
to look into. And she's running for governor. Is that
a coincident? Maybe? But is it surprising? I think not.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
I gotta tell you if she ends up being the
candidate from the Democratic side, surely there's somebody else that's
going to step up on the left and run for governor. Surely,
I mean, I'm guessing Phil Wiser is going to throw
his name into the hat as well, don't you think absolutely?
Speaker 9 (42:20):
There's a question as to whether Congressman Jonah Goose might
decide to run. But without question, you're going to have
a Wiser and Griswold both among the list of candidates,
no matter who else is added in. But I want
to add something else absurd to your attention, Mandy. You
might not be aware of this, but I reported on
it as far back as twenty twenty one. In twenty nineteen,
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the Colorado Democrats named Jenna Griswold their rising star. Democrat
rising star. The following year, in twenty twenty, their rising
star was none other than a former Denver school board
member named Kay andrews oh Ye, great Taley Anderson. And
doesn't that fit and show at least a little bit
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of consistency.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
Consistency is the right word, Jimmy, It is the right word.
If you want to hear more from Jimmy, you can
hear him Monday as he's filling in for Ross from
nine to noon. You can always read his columns on
the Denver Gazette. And I know he fills in for
me as well when I'm off. So Jimmy, good to
talk to you, my friend. I'll see you Monday. All right.
That's fantastic, I mean, so nice he gets his own
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out to you now, very very nice. No, I haven't
talked about this investigation because I was like, well, of
course they just said, oh, well, they didn't mean isn't
it funny when a Democrat does something, their excuse is, well,
they didn't mean to do that. When Hillary Clinton destroyed
a hard drive to the point where it could not
be recovered, we were told, well, she didn't mean to
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set up a national security risk by having a server
in her kitchen closet. She didn't mean to do that.
So therefore, you know, though she broke the laws technically,
she didn't mean to do that same thing. Well, they
didn't mean to do it. So when a Democrat does
something and it truly sounds like incompetence to me, I
don't want to say that I think there was any
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sort of nefariousness to this password league I really do
think it was just in competence, but no one takes
responsibility what happened to the buck stops here. And don't
get me wrong, I think Jenna Griswold should step down
for a whole bunch of reasons, not just this, but
even if she had just stepped up and said, you
know what, this is my office, this is my responsibility.
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I should have made sure and put in measures to
make sure this can never happen. We've done that now,
and I'm deeply sorry that we didn't notify the clerks
right away. She didn't notify the clerks because she didn't
want to look bad, which is exactly why she needs
to step down. But I don't think she has the
character to step down. You have to feel remorse in
order to, you know, have the kind of character that
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would make you take responsibility for what you've done. She
doesn't have any of that. It's just it's kind of
sad and pathetic because Secretary of State should be in
office that we don't even think about as being remotely political,
and yet here we are all right back to our
ask us anything questions. What's your opinion on boneless wings?
They are not wings? Can I go a day without
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things come without bones?
Speaker 9 (45:23):
Not?
Speaker 6 (45:23):
Every restaurant owner in the United States is a liar.
They put boneless wings.
Speaker 4 (45:29):
Strips on their chicken strips.
Speaker 5 (45:32):
That's not what they call in their menus.
Speaker 4 (45:33):
Ah, then they're lying. Every restaurant owner that boneless wings
are calling a liar. Those are not wings. First of all,
they're pieces of breast meat. They're not wings, boneless wings,
but they're not wings. They're not wings.
Speaker 5 (45:49):
Will I ever go a day without this question?
Speaker 4 (45:50):
I'm just saying wings they are. And here's the question
I wanted to get to in the last segment, Mandy
with your international vacations, which country was your favorite? And
which country but you never visit again?
Speaker 5 (46:02):
Oh, I'm curious about the last.
Speaker 4 (46:03):
So my first favorite is Switzerland. I'm dead serious when
I say I could live there. It's magical. Why you
ever let outside after you retire. I would absolutely consider it,
But I want to be near my kids and my grandkids.
That's the problem. It's not that I'm afraid to leave
the US, but I want to be near my family.
So those are two different things. So Switzerland, absolutely going
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back there as soon as possible, But I've got to
squeeze it in because we've got a bunch of other
trips planned for the next We're already mapped out till
twenty twenty six with our travel plans. So country I
would not go back to again. Norway, but not because
it was bad, but because I've seen Norway. Czech Country
I would not go back to because I don't like it.
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I don't know if there's any countries that I've been to.
There are states that I've been to that I don't
care if I go to again. Oh yeah, I mean
half of them. Yeah, I mean not half, but some.
Speaker 9 (46:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (46:58):
I like to try Michigan.
Speaker 6 (46:59):
I never want to putting Dedroit again. I had you
gotta go, no cop out. What's the least favorite country
you've been to outside the US? So now we'll go
really Mexico?
Speaker 5 (47:10):
Yeah, how dare you?
Speaker 4 (47:11):
I know?
Speaker 5 (47:12):
I know to go again?
Speaker 4 (47:13):
You just no, I still go to Mexico.
Speaker 5 (47:15):
Well you need to go my.
Speaker 4 (47:18):
Least favorite country. Yeah, you haven't been that many places
a rod. You really haven't world out there amazing. Did
you need to expand your horizons?
Speaker 6 (47:27):
No, no, no, no, you need to right your wrongs of
the way. The way you've done Mexico. Man, how many
countries have.
Speaker 5 (47:32):
You been to?
Speaker 2 (47:33):
You've been?
Speaker 4 (47:34):
Don't have you ever been to Canada? No?
Speaker 5 (47:36):
Okay, then amazing.
Speaker 4 (47:38):
I don't even know how many countries I've been to.
Probably you were going to say that forty or fifty
countries easily. And out of all of those, Mexico's I've
gotten very violently ill in Mexico twice.
Speaker 6 (47:50):
Okay, So because you got Montezuma's revenge, it's Mexico's fault.
Speaker 4 (47:53):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 5 (47:54):
No, it's not because the water sucks. No, that's why.
Speaker 6 (47:57):
Fault for drinking the water that is so foul that
Mandy Connall, Mandy Conna, No, it's not my god, I
walk into a restaurant, don't eat that.
Speaker 5 (48:08):
It's typically not great. Well, but we told you.
Speaker 4 (48:11):
Then you say, why are you eating that? Why are you?
Why are you going to that restaurant?
Speaker 5 (48:14):
Mandy?
Speaker 6 (48:15):
I'm just you travel to Mexico. What is the one
thing everyone tells you to not?
Speaker 4 (48:20):
I did drink the water in either place, did not
drink the water and got violently in You can get
it from anything, vegetables. I'm aware.
Speaker 5 (48:28):
I'm aware of a month you asked.
Speaker 4 (48:30):
Me the country, the worst country I've ever been to.
Now I still travel to Mexico for a long weekend,
but it's not my first choice. It's not my first choice.
Speaker 6 (48:37):
You need to write your million other places I'd rather
go than Mexico.
Speaker 5 (48:41):
Insane.
Speaker 4 (48:42):
There are some Caribbean islands that I probably wouldn't go
back to because they were particularly dirty. Jamaica is really
dirty when you get off the resorts. The resorts are
super nice, but the country of Jamaica is really dirty.
Speaker 5 (48:59):
Malee con Oh, they're beautiful.
Speaker 4 (49:01):
It's beautiful. But do you ask my least favorite country,
and it's Mexico. I know I'm about it wrong. Favorite
countries Switzerland, I loved Greece. Greece was amazing. I love
Costa Rica, where I could drink the water, even though
it's basically kind of a developing nation. I love all
the European countries that I've been to. I really do
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love them all. And we're going to Japan this year,
so I haven't done a lot of traveling in Asia,
so looking forward to that. I hate this country because
I was told what to avoid, but I did it anyway.
Did I say I hated it? I did not. You
said least favorite out of all the countries that I
want to go to.
Speaker 6 (49:37):
Basically said the words I hate Mexico, Mandy, I'm.
Speaker 4 (49:40):
With you, Mexico sucks to Italy. And please turn off
your sidekicks microphone because he doesn't know what he's talking about.
Speaker 5 (49:47):
That's cute. Yeah, it's Okayrandy.
Speaker 4 (49:52):
No Norway again? Did you get spends revenge? No? But
Norway is one of those places where it's not that big,
so I've I've seen a lot of the high parts.
I would go back to go to the very northernest
part of Norway, the part that's in the Arctic Circle.
I'd like to see that, but it's kind of like
I've been there and I don't. Now I have to
go to Iceland, though Iceland's on the list. Haven't been
to Iceland yet. But I mean, there's so much There's
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so many magical places in this world that I haven't
seen yet, So going back to some place that I've
already been to seems like a waste of time in
a way, if that makes sense. I want to see everything.
I don't understand people who always go the same place
on vacation.
Speaker 6 (50:30):
I can tell you exactly why, exactly Why Why Because
after you go somewhere and sort out all the where
to go and whatnot's, next time you go. Second time
is always the best time because the second time you
don't have to question about how to get to certain places,
You don't have to go through the ringer of the
things that you wish you would have known before kind
of stuff, and then that second time you just go
and enjoyed the stuff that you know you love.
Speaker 5 (50:51):
From that place.
Speaker 6 (50:52):
The second time anywhere is almost almost always outside of
a couple outliers where like for us like our first cruise,
like there's outliers. But the second time, when you know
a lot of the things, you have to worry about
some certain stuff. I love second visits to places always.
Speaker 4 (51:06):
See that to me, I've already seen it, I've already
done it. I'm ready to have a new adventure.
Speaker 6 (51:09):
No more so you avoid. It's all about the stuff
that you now know what to avoid. You'll do some
different things to now love. But you know what to
not do again, or what to avoid or places to
not go.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
Travel you really do?
Speaker 5 (51:22):
Yeah, you know what else? So I need to do?
Speaker 4 (51:24):
Were are money to do it? Exactly?
Speaker 1 (51:26):
No?
Speaker 4 (51:26):
I traveled when I was broke. It's just you don't
get to travel as nicely as I do.
Speaker 5 (51:30):
Now we're traveling a whole lot more in the last
couple of.
Speaker 4 (51:32):
Years, because traveling with money is a lot better than
traveling without money. I will tell you that.
Speaker 6 (51:36):
Credit card points are making it happen the last couple years.
So we're there, you go, We're getting there.
Speaker 4 (51:39):
There, you go, We're there. Yeah, you need to go
more places and then you'll understand what I'm taking.
Speaker 6 (51:43):
And then every year still go to Mexico because you're
insane and having done Mexico right, and none of our
texts that are ripping on Mexico I have done it right. Either.
Speaker 4 (51:50):
It's okay, you're wrong. You've a bunch of Mexico.
Speaker 6 (51:52):
Tourists who haven't done Mexico correctly. Is one of the
best places on Earth if you do it right. Yeah,
which I kind of get spoiled because Hispanic family shows
me how to do Mexico right.
Speaker 4 (52:03):
Right. So I'd rather go to Spain, That's okay, Yeah,
I want to go. I'd rather go to any I'm
just saying you asked me my last favorite country. Missus
Texter said, I've been over eighty countries and agree with you, Mandy,
I'd rather go somewhere new still, and that's how I feel.
So did you get a chance to see the amazing
oldwood churches in Norway? I did, and they were beautiful.
Norway's gorgeous. Highly recommend it, absolutely recommend Norway as a
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destination at Austria rank but have been there. Vienna is
one of the most magical cities I've ever been to
in my life. I haven't spent any time outside of
Vienna in Austria though. So what I'd like to do,
and I told Chuck this, like for a for a
for a summer trip, I'd like to go to fly
into Geneva, Switzerland, and then do southern Switzerland again, and
then do Austria and then part of France, that part
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of France, like do that whole little section of Europe
right there, because I just I love that part of
the country. It's so beautiful and so old.
Speaker 6 (52:56):
I can see myself the first visit to Europe doing
a real big like World War two history tour. Yeah,
that'd be great. I would really love that, seriously, especially
after going in the World War Two Museum in New Orleans, Man.
Speaker 4 (53:09):
There you go. I want to do it over there,
all right, So more questions that I just got off
of the text line from from earlier. One of them,
hang on, I gotta pull my picture up that I took,
because I took a picture of it so I wouldn't
lose it all.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
M Mandy.
Speaker 4 (53:24):
If a president elect becomes incapacitated before he she is
sworn into office, does the vice president elect take his
or her place? What does happen? I don't know the
answer to that question. I would think that they would
be elevated because they were the next on the ticket.
Or would it be decided by the House of Representatives?
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I guess, And in this case, obviously God forbid, something
happened to Donald Trump before he was inaugurated, I'm guessing
that the Republican House of Representatives would just say go ahead,
President advance. That would be no. I don't want to
make it sound like I want anything to happen to
Donald Trump, because I don't. I think that would be terrible.
Speaker 1 (54:04):
But the.
Speaker 4 (54:10):
Whole notion that it would kind of reset and we'd
all go back to the beginning, I just don't think
that's correct. And if it did happen, if something horrible.
Did happen again? God forbid? This would usher in a
new generation of politicians. This is one of the things
I was talking about earlier in the show was that
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all of these new appointees that are in their forties
that Donald Trump is trying to appoint to various positions,
this represents the changing of the guard in Washington, d C.
That is significant, I mean, really really significant. So it's
I'm ready for new blood. I'm ready for people like
Mitch McConnell to go I'm ready for the older generations
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that have led us into massive debt and war after
war after war to go ahead and take their leave
because frankly, and I don't mean to be morbid here,
they're not going to be around to live with the
repercussions of their actions. We are, our kids are going
to be the ones. So that's kind of how I
feel about that. Man. The only problem with Norway is
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the only thing that's flat is the water correct? Correct? Anyway.
I also have this question I have to go back to.
You know, when you take a picture of a computer screen,
it's rather challenging to read after you do it. Do
you know anything this Texter said, hang on one second
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about e savor watt it's supposed to reduce your electricity
usage by fifty percent. No, I do not, but if
someone else does, I'd love to know. Text five sixty
six N I O Mandy. I'm a professional driver, and
I haven't noticed that the Tesla drivers are particularly any
worse than anybody else. I have noticed that the Subaru
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drivers are the most entitled drivers I've ever seen. More
on that in a moment Twitter account of Donald J. Trump.
Uh oh, the Republican Party will use its best efforts
to eliminate daylight saving time, which has a small but
strong constituency. But shouldn't. Daylight saving time is inconvenient and
very costly to our nation. That's music to my ears. Anyway,
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a lot of you were asking questions about the drones,
but we got to talk about this first. So in
the last two days I have, because of post work commitments,
had to be in rush hour traffic. First of all,
all y'all who are in rush hour traffic every day,
bless your little hearts. I could not do this. It
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is just so frustrating. So I'm on I twenty five
going I don't know seven whatever you know, coming down
twenty five to look around to see who are the
troublemakers on I twenty five. So we're going honestly between
seven and fifteen miles per hour, so nobody's speeding, nobody's
doing any of that. But then there's a guy in
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a Tesla. Okay, so he's in the left hand lane,
and I did pull up so I could make sure
it was a guy before I told this story. Guy
in a Tesla left hand lane. First of all, he's
going so slow that he's leaving a thirteen car gap
in between him and the person in front of him.
But if somebody got in front of him, he would
speed up temporarily, just get right on their butt, and
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then he would slow that down the whole time. He's
touching his brakes now. And is my understanding in tesla
drivers are electric car drivers? Please clarify for me, But
I've understood that a tesla is kind of like a
golf cart, and that when you take your foot off
the gas, the car stops. You don't have the momentum
that you have in a combustion engine that keeps you going.
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So my question is if your car basically stops when
you take your foot off the gas and we're going
seven miles an hour. Why are you tapping your brakes?
Because then everybody behind you taps their brakes. It creates
a chain reaction. So now for no reason, people two
hundred yards behind you were coming to a full stop.
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So then I was like, okay, tesla whatever. So the
next day, the next day, I'm back on I twenty five.
Much to my Chagarin, we're going fifteen miles an hour.
Maybe stop and go, stop and go. And I look
to my right, who do I see a tesla? Only
this guy is now trying to get in and out
of lanes. But you know what, if you're gonna be
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a lane jumper in traffic, I get it. Some people
are not satisfied to stay in a lane. You gotta
move because you feel like you're gonna make better progress.
I understand that. But those lane jumpers go fast, right,
they're fast. They're in the little space. Not this dude, Nope,
not him. And I don't know if this was a dude,
it could be due sir or madam, I don't know.
They were like creeping into the other lane and then
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creeping back into the oh, and I thought, this is it?
This is proof. This is now Tesla has the worst
drivers used to be Superheo drivers. No offense to you,
Suberroo drivers who listen to the show. I'm sure you're
all great, But is there anything more annoying than a
Superhoo driver with a coexist bumper sticker in the left
hand lane going below the speed limit, and man, that'll
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make you drink right there? That that is not good news?
And now has Tesla taken over?
Speaker 9 (59:26):
Have they?
Speaker 4 (59:27):
Somebody said correct regenerative breaking?
Speaker 6 (59:30):
There you go?
Speaker 4 (59:30):
So why this is happening of the brakes? And then
I figured maybe they were just one of those people.
The right foot is on the gas, the left foot
is on the break. Have you ever written one of
those people? No, I'm completely serious. This is how my
stepmother drives. One on the gas, one on the brake.
How do you even go through life? How do you
do that? How has no one said that's not how
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you do that? Same foot works, both of them comes
off of one, goes to the other, goes back to
the other, go back to the other. So that hard anyway,
Harley riders are the same speed up, slow down, speed
up and slow down. No consistent speed. I don't know,
you know, I think I put motorcycle drivers in another category.
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Although yesterday during my nightmare drive home, I'm going to
go on four to seventy because I had to stop
by the Black Eyed Pea to get some food, and
so I'm going to go on four seventy. So I'm
in the lane that goes off of four seventy, the
lane that can either go straight or it can go
to the right to go off four seventy. And this
guy in a motorcycle as I'm going right, whips around
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me from the right hand lane to cut across in
front of me to go back on I twenty five,
And I was like, dude, see, if I had hit him,
it would have been my fault. It would have been
his fault, but it would have been my fault. In
my mind. I would have felt terrible. Some motorcycle drivers
are like, dude, when you get splattered all over the road,
You're not gonna have anyone to blame but yourself, and
it makes it hard for the rest of the motorcycle
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riders who are responsible. Motorcycle writers super super crazy. Hey
Mandy for ask me anything I wanted to ask about
Regen Revolution treatments lots of great anecdotal stories. Appreciative that
folks get relief, but are any of their procedures FDA approved?
Not that the FDA is the be all and final word.
Yet as a scientist, I always appreciate studies that reveal
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the efficacy of treatments. Your thoughts, ma'am. There are more
and more and more and more and more and more
studies going on. As a matter of fact, google regenerative
medicine studies. There are thousands of studies on all kinds
of different ways that they're using regenerative medicine. But I
think the best indicator that this is effective is that
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insurance companies are beginning to pay for parts of it.
So right now they're paying for the PRP portion, which
is plate leriche plasma. And in my vocal cord surgery,
the last thing doctor Opperman did was inject my vocal
cords with PRP. What's happening now with the next step,
which is the Wharton's jelly, the stem cell stuff that
is starting to be accepted, and now they're experimenting with
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that in significant ways. If you talk to people doing
medical research when it comes to things like stem cell treatments,
they are all extremely hopeful that this is going to
be the wave of the future in terms of being
able to treat very specific conditions with stem cells from
your own body. Right, So there's a lot of really
cool stuff. But if you just google stem cell studies
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or regenerative medicine studies, you can see the stuff happening
all over the world. So there is a lot of
science behind it. But the FDA is a lagging adopter,
as I'm sure you know if you're a scientist. So
they're the ones kind of bringing up the rear being
extremely cautious because they know once they put their stamp
of approval on it, then Medicare has to pay for it,
and so on and so forth. So I do think
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that you were going to see more and more traditional
medical practices begin to adopt this. They already have, they
started to adopt this now as doctors are especially surgeons,
are beginning to realize, wait, we can put off surgery completely,
which would put them out of business. But they just
want to help their patients get better. So it's very
very interesting, very very interesting. Mandy. The brake lights on
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a tesla come on once you take your foot off
the gas as part of that breaking This is without
touching the brake. That is so annoying. Well that explains it,
good lord. That is super super irritating. Man, if you're
from the South, you know they're driving NASCAR style. Embrace
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your heritage, true true, Mandy, I sign Tesla drivers will
out accelerate or overtake you due to their ePower. I
do like taking a Tesla off the line. I have
like a total mom car. I have a you know,
a ten year old Mercedes Yeal four fifty. I love
my car so much, but it has a turbo so
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I can take a Tesla off the line for short distances,
very short distances. Mandy, Tesla drivers are the new Porsche drivers.
Remember the joke, what's the difference between a Portia and
a porcupine? With a porcupine the pricks are on the outside,
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So there you go. Yes, yes, indeedy yes. Anyway, I
got a lot of stuff on the blog today that
we have not gotten to, including a very interesting study
that Google did over a ten year period, and the
study was called Project Aristotle. And I grabbed this from
(01:04:32):
a Twitter thread I saw earlier today, but then I
went investigated to see if this guy was telling the
truth and he got it right. So I just used
a Twitter thread because it was better than any of
the stories I saw on it. So, after ten years
of studying what works with groups, I'm going to tell
you what they found about the most successful groups working
at Google. Right after this, Google was trying to figure
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out what makes a team successful because obviously they want
to be able to replicate that as much as possible,
because Google especially works in project teams. So they thought
they knew what was going they were going to find.
They thought that the smartest people or the most gifted
people were going to be on the teams that performed
the most. But what they found what it wasn't the
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teams with the highest IQs or the most experienced or
the biggest perks. None of that stuff actually mattered at all.
What they found was that the teams with the highest
psychological safety were the most productive. Now, what does that
even mean? Psychological safety sounds like gobbledegook, right, It's really not.
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In these teams, the team members felt that they had
the ability to put forth an idea and not be
judged harshly. They could argue about different viewpoints about how
to hand or a problem without worrying about repercussions or
getting out of hand. They felt that they had dependability,
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that they could rely on the people in their group.
They had structure within the group and clarity about the
roles that everybody played in that group. They felt like
what they were doing had meaning and that it also
had to impact. Now, they were trying to figure out
what makes the leaders of these teams help these teams
develop this way, So specific behaviors that helped create safety
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within their working groups were these leaders that admit mistakes first,
encouraging questions over statements, active listening to each other, showing
curiosity when someone disagrees. But the game changer is this.
The best teams were not always harmonious. They actually had
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more conflicts than average teams, but they immediately addressed the
conflict in a constructive way with direct communication and quick resolution.
They didn't allow anything to fester, to get out of control,
to become a problem that it didn't need to be.
Google found these teams outperformed in every single metric innovation
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problem solving, speed, customer satisfaction, employee retention. But the most
surprising finding that Google found was the teams that implemented
simple practices like starting meetings by sharing personal updates, using
phrases like I might be wrong but and acknowledging other
people's contributions saw twenty three percent improvement and team effectiveness
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within weeks. The long and short of this entire thing
is simply that when you empower people to feel like
they can make a contribution safely without being shouted down,
without having someone steal the credit, without having someone not
follow through, you get employees that are engaged and happy,
they are productive, they problem solve, and they can handle
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conflict easily and quickly. So the practical blueprint that Google
discovered was number one, make it safe to fail. Number two,
show vulnerability as a leader. Number three, encourage equal speaking time.
In those meetings where everybody is kind of throwing stuff out,
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you've got to go to that person that isn't necessarily
a natural extrovert and say, hey, Bob, what are your
thoughts on this? Number four welcome disagreement, and number five
focus on learning over blaming. So this is what Google
is trying to instill in their high performing teams, and
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they spent a lot of money on this survey. It
took them about ten years. I mean I spent like
ten million dollars on this thing, eighty million dollars excuse me,
eighty million dollars over ten years, just trying to figure
out how to make their teams work most effectively. And
what it comes down to is are you willing to listen?
Are you willing to let people come out and do
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the things that they need to do and feel like
they're not going to be ridiculed because it I've had
I'm not really a team player in the sense that
I've never really had a job where I had to
kind of had that team attitude because I've always kind
of been an individ like this is an individual job. Hey,
Rod and I are kind of a team, but you know,
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this is an individual job. But I do know that
I've had bosses who have made it very easy for
me to come up with a variety of kakammy ideas
that sometimes were brilliant, and even when they weren't, they
made me feel like they welcomed my input, even with
my crazy ideas. I think that's the best way to
go through life. Just make people feel welcome and safe,
and you're going to get the best out of them.
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When we get back. I've got a two minute drill.
I've got a thousand things on the blog. I've got
more silly questions for ask me anything. It's all coming
up in the next hour, plus the wine Yogi. We're
talking bubbles for the holidays. We're all going to do
that in the next hour.
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All right, my friends, if you're in Fort Collins or
Loveland Water District, expect your water bills to go up significantly.
The water district just decided to charge an additional thirty
bucks a month. I mean, come on, and if you're
in a new development, it's gonna be even more. The
only reason I share this story is because I think
this is going to be the wave of the future.
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As two things are happening. Water systems are getting older,
like the one in Fort Collins and Loveland, and stuff
needs to be replaced. But also water managers are trying
to figure out how to incentivize us to use less water.
And the best way to get people to not use
as much water is to charge them more for it.
So if you're in that water district, sorry about your luck,
but I'm sure the rest of us will be joining
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you there soon.
Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
Drill it too.
Speaker 4 (01:11:18):
Donald Trump is name Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
But lest you think this is gonna be a fawning
love story, it is not. I read the entire article
and they spend a lot of time talking about how
mare Lago is just a vanity project, a museum to
the man, and how casually he skates in while we're
listening to his two thousand song playlist. You know, the
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Man of the Year award of the person of the
Person of the Year award, they've given it to some
really shady people in the past, including Adolf Hitler. So
the person who sent me the email saying, isn't it
funny the Time gave Donald Trump Man of the year
when they called him Hitler. Well, it's kind of on
brand for them, they've done it before. It's actually there's
some good stuff in this article. I'm not gonna tell
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you that it's worth reading the whole thing, but there's
no doubt that after the year he had, Donald Trump
is the man of the year, the man of the moment,
maybe the man of the century so far, and certainly
one of the most influential people in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
It too.
Speaker 4 (01:12:16):
Speaking of Trump, there is a sign in downtown Denver
from a Denver condominium building. Now, I have lived in
a condominium building as a renter, and one thing I
know about condominium buildings is they love their HOA rules.
I find it hard to believe that hanging a ginormous
sign off your balcony that says bleep Trump is somehow
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not a violation of the HOA rules. But maybe the
HOA agrees with this guy, you know, doesn't agree with
this guy. Near nineteenth and Grant Street. All of the
people walking by who have to look at the sign
that says bleep Trump and I'm bleeping, but they don't bleep. Now,
this to me is a story about the coarsening of society.
When did it become okay to walk around or throw
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out the F bomb where everybody can see it. I
don't like that part of society. Even as a cursor,
I curse in an appropriate time and place to the
appropriate people. I don't walk around with a shirt that
says f u u fing f That's not me, and
I wish more people would adopt that standard. But unfortunately,
I think it's too late to put the genie back
in the bottle. So if you're offended of your eyes,
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drill it too. Want to know why I don't do
botox and I go to Regen Revolution instead. Meghan Trainer
said nobody warned her before she got botox in her
lips that she would no longer be able to smile. Now,
as the botox is wearing off, she is regaining her
ability to smile. But I'm thinking to myself, Megan, botox
is actually bachelism, which paralyzes your muscles. That's literally how
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it works. How did you not figure that would affect
your ability to smile? I'm just curious how you miss that?
But hey, you do you, Meghan?
Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
You do you?
Speaker 4 (01:13:59):
I will go to Regen Revolution instead too. You know
when I married Chuck and the boys were in their
early teens. I told them there are two things that
I will never give you sympathy for. One, if you
get super drunk and hurt yourself, don't look to me
for sympathy. Number two, if you get a really bad sunburn,
that's always preventable unless you're on a desert island, So
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don't look for sympathy for me. And let me add
number three. If you're a famous celebrity who has made
so many movies that have made gobs and gobs and
gobs of money over the years and then announce you're
emerging from retirement because you need the money, I have
no sympathy for you, because you obviously can't manage your money.
That's something you should have looked into a long time ago.
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That is what Jim Carrey is saying as he says
he's coming out of retirement to do What's doctor? What's
the non? Doctor? Nephario is indespicable?
Speaker 7 (01:14:51):
Me?
Speaker 4 (01:14:51):
Who's the doctor? Who does he play? In Sonic? What's
are really cute movies? Bide Away?
Speaker 5 (01:14:56):
Doctor Robot? Doctor Robot?
Speaker 4 (01:14:58):
All I could think of was Nefario from Despicable to Me,
So he's really good and those movies are great. He's
back out to make more money because apparently he doesn't
have any money, and I don't do a lot of Yeah, no,
I don't care about that. I don't care about a
Grand Tree boo because it's better now, because it's awful and.
Speaker 9 (01:15:18):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (01:15:18):
Mike Tyson says he doesn't remember much of the Jake
Paul fight. He said, I kind of blanked out, He said,
I don't remember the fight that much. I kind of
blanked out with the Daily Mail.
Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
Do you know what?
Speaker 4 (01:15:30):
I remember coming back from the first round, and Jake
was doing some sort of bow. That's the last thing
I remember. Well, i'd love to tell you that he's
missing something, but I watched that fight, and I too
don't remember the Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight because it
was so bad talk about Patty Cake absolutely not worth
my time or yours, And I hopefully we never have
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to watch that again. That, my friends, is your two
minute trill. All right, all right, Man of the Year
is about who had the greatest impact, good or bad,
says this text, are exactly right, and there's nobody who's
had a bigger impact, a bigger splash more oxygen directed
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in his direction this year than Donald Trump, even the dictators,
you know, falling and invading and doing all of those things,
because what happens in the United States matters so much
to the rest of the world. I have a really
interesting story. I don't know if that was on yesterday's
blog or if it's on today's blog. They all start
to run together after a while. Oh, it's on today's blog.
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There's a column called the Potential Power of DOGE, and
they're talking about the Department of Government Efficiency and not
only what it could do in the United States of America,
but if the Department of Government Efficiency, which by the way,
in DC is already being poo pooed, they're not going
to give up their little treasure very easily without a fight.
Oh no, that's not going to happen. But if the
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Department of Government Efficiency can severely rein in government spending
and actually shrink the size of government, the point that
this author makes is it will embolden other European especially
governments who are deep in a really bad shape because
of their massive social welfare states and incredibly high taxes.
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It will give them permission to do the same. So
the Department of Government Efficiency could be one of the
most important initiatives, not just for the United States of America,
but for the entire world. I love it. I absolutely
love it. Mandy, look up who built mar A Lago?
Was it was an heiress. I've actually been to marro
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A Lago, not connected to Donald Trump before he bought it.
Not okay, I should walk this back. A friend of
mine that I know in West Palm Beach, his dad
was doing work at mar A Lago. So we went
to marrow A Lago, went in the front door where
he was there. We left again. I don't want to
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make it sound like I was invited or I went
to dinner there. That's completely inaccurate. But mar A Lago
was built by Marge's what's the I know who it
is Post Marjorie post Is who built mar Alago. I'm
almost positive, I almost said Marjorie Taylor Posts. I'm like, no,
I think I'm putting two people together there that don't
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go together. So, yeah, our vas water rates are going
up eleven bucks a month, says this text. I think
it's gonna happen everywhere. It's gonna happen. Absolutely everywhere when
we get back quit things from the blog recycling his garbage.
It still is, it will be, And another apartment complex
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is being shut down, but not for Venezuelan gang. But
oh wait, maybe it is the common Spirit health text
line at five sixty six nine. Oh thank you to
the texter who sent Marjorie Meriweather post. That is who
built mar A Lago. Back in the days when famous
people built houses and name them after themselves, Like what
is the Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks? Is that pick?
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What is that? What is their house?
Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
Paint?
Speaker 4 (01:19:10):
Pickfair pickfair is the name of the house they built together.
I think it got torn down fairly recently. I do
want to talk very quickly about one of the stories
that annoyed the crap out of me today. So the
Colorado gop x account is run by four people, and
these four people cannot resist the opportunity to get into
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it on Twitter with whoever comes at them. And then
when somebody makes a threatening comment or a comment that
can be perceived as being threatening, they then are like,
oh my god, look somebody was threatening. Using somebody investigates
someone threatening us, they throw so much smack on x
it's not even funny. And let me just say this,
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don't engage with people like that. How about not doing that?
How about not trying to be an a hole on
tw Twitter so people get jacked up and make dumb choices,
which is what happened. But now Dave William's like, we
need this investigated. We're in danger because of course the
victim card blah blah blah whatever. It's on the blog
if you want to see it. I didn't link to
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the story, actually linked to the Twitter thread, so you
can just read it yourself and see exactly their side
of things. What they contributed to the conversation. Great editorial
in the Denver Gazette about whether or not anybody is
using bike lanes, and I have I have questions about this.
(01:20:35):
You know, before they do any kind of update to
the to the roadways or whatever, they have to do
what's called it a traffic study, and it usually is
involved they put those those things on the road that
measure how many cars go over or during a certain timeframe,
or they sometimes they'll put a camera up so they
can see exactly what's going on. Do you think they
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ever do traffic studies to see how many people actually
use the bike lanes. I just I don't. The Denver
Gasette makes the point, like the bike lanes, no one
uses them, and yet we're trying to add more. This
if we build them, people will get on bicycles is
just absurd. It's crazy. Don't get me wrong. I know bicyclists.
(01:21:17):
For the tiny fraction of the audience or of the
entire population that is an active daily commuter on a bicycle,
good for you, But I don't want you taking up
any more road space. So yeah, Mandy, this is an
interesting question. Does regenerative therapy work on stretch marks after pregnancy?
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I don't know the answer to that question. But I
don't know. I mean, I don't know the answer to
that question. I'm trying to think of how it would
work on stretch marks, because stretch marks are literally your
skin has stretched and there's a little bit of scarring
there when it stretches back. Stretch marks are God's that
you made a human. That's the way I have just
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dealt with stretch marks in my entire life. They're just
a reminder of what your body is capable of, and
you made a person with your body. I just think
that's pretty impressive anyway you slice it, pretty impressive. And
if stretch marks are the end result, you could call
Regen Revolution and ask them about that, because I honestly
don't know. I really don't, Mandy. If you listened to
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a sleep at the wheelband I have, I have. I
think I saw them when I was in college. They've
been around for a long time. I'm pretty sure I
did see them when I was in college. Mandy, I'm
wondering about a proper etiquette answer to this question. Do
you say, excuse me if you pass gas in a
public bathroom with other people present. Let me tell you
a little something about women in the restroom. Okay, First
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of all, there are women that will go to great
lengths to disguise any kind of noise that comes out
of their stall. They will cough, they'll rattle the toilet paper,
they'll do a courtesy flush in the middle of whatever's
going on. Women go through like the most ridiculous machinations
so no one hears them doing what we all went
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into the bathroom to do. So whatever men do, I understand,
men are a different species in the bathroom and a
little more free wheeling about things like this. Women are
horrified that they have to do their bodily functions in public.
The only person I've ever known in my entire life
that was female that did not have this. I worked
with this woman. I don't even remember her name because
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she scarred me for life. She was a bodybuilder and
looked very male. She just she was a big bodybuilder,
like big muscles, big square manjaw kind of thing. And
I walked in the restroom one day and she was
sitting on the toilet with the door of her stall open,
and I was like, ah, I mean I didn't use
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the bathroom at work for like five years after that.
You think I'm kidding. I am not. So No, we're
all covering up various ways. But if you do, if
you do make a noise, you know that is to
be expected in the bathroom. We all just pretend it
didn't happen. Don't ask, don't tell. No one wants it noted,
and no one goes that was a good one. Like occasionally,
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men in my life have done Christmas is in twelve days,
and this is the this is the busy season at
least if you're celebrating the holidays and you want some
sparkly bubbles. The wine Yogi is here to walk us
through a little course on bubbles, and we've already had
a little sample of several delicious Colorado wines that you
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can find on the blog post that the wine Yogi
always does. So you don't have to make notes as
you're driving. You can just go to my blog or
just go to her website. I am the Winyogi dot com,
or just go to mandy'slog dot com and you can
click over through there. Win Yogi. Good to see you, hey,
and you brought me brie. I did.
Speaker 7 (01:24:52):
I love brie riasan to be specific, it's so good
type of breath.
Speaker 4 (01:24:57):
I love it. It's my favorites, I know, cause popcorn and
sparkling wine are like a match made in heaven. Not all.
I mean, what about the sweeter wines that you never
bring me because you know I don't like them.
Speaker 7 (01:25:07):
I think they would work even with that, just simply
because you have salt content in popcorn that in the
butter is the fat. So what it does is it
plays off of the carbonation that these sparkling wines have.
And if you've ever had like a kettle corn which
has a sweetness to it. I think it would also
be a lovely pairing with a mescato to Austi, for example,
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with your just having a nice kind of popcorn that's.
Speaker 4 (01:25:31):
Your traditional I wish you had. I should have thought
about it and asked you to make your Gee popcorn
because I would have too. We could a chowed down
on that.
Speaker 9 (01:25:38):
I would.
Speaker 4 (01:25:38):
Although Gee has now become like liquid gold in terms
of pricing, I might have to start making my own.
But I know that I'm so lazy. I know, I mean,
I'm just I'm legit. I'm just I'm just lazy about it.
Like do I have to stand in the stove for
a whole five minutes? You can do in the microwave.
You know, I'm even too lazy for that. So let's
talk about wine making overall, because a couple of things
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are happening right now. Talked so much about the Colorado
wine scene, and there's some phenomenal winemakers now, some of
them that have never done a sparkling wine before dipping
their toe in. Yes, we tried an amazing I mean
she said, storm Cellar just made the first sparkling wine
they've ever made. Talk about like beginner's luck or whatever
you want to call it. It is outstanding.
Speaker 7 (01:26:19):
I think it's part in part that you know, they're
just perfectionists too, and so I don't think if if
it hadn't met their standards, they wouldn't have released it.
Speaker 4 (01:26:27):
And it is the one that I brought.
Speaker 7 (01:26:28):
In today is specific to club members only, but it's
super easy to join their club and then get access
to it so that you can pick up a bottle
and they're great at shipping and bringing their wine over
to the front range for those club members when they
have their club releases.
Speaker 4 (01:26:42):
But the yeah, so cloudburst is their.
Speaker 7 (01:26:46):
Method chimpinwas or traditional method sparkling reestling, and so it
is not sweet.
Speaker 4 (01:26:51):
It doesn't have a lot of residual sugar.
Speaker 7 (01:26:53):
What it has is bright acidity, like really poppies acidity,
really kind of fun when you think of bubbles, these
are bubbles at last. They're the ones that are going
to keep kind of churning in your champagne flute. And
then so yeah, and then pairs just so beautifully with
those heavy fat things like a bree cheese, which is
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salty and a little funky, creamy, creamy and rich in
its fatness and sparkling wine is meant to.
Speaker 4 (01:27:19):
Go with rich, decadent food.
Speaker 7 (01:27:22):
So your fois gras, your caviar, oysters on the halfshell,
lobster dipped in butter, everything that you can imagine that
when you think about it, immediately puts five pounds on
your hips.
Speaker 4 (01:27:32):
It's that kind of food, and it just that's not
necessarily high sugar food.
Speaker 7 (01:27:36):
You know you want to avoid that sugar because these
are dry wines unless you're getting anything that is in
kind of that extra dry or demi sec.
Speaker 4 (01:27:45):
Let's go through that because this is one of the biggest,
I think, most confusing things for people to understand. Included
a list. Yes, this is all on the blog. That's
actually why I brought it up because it's on the blog.
If you've ever been standing at the store trying to
figure out whether something is going to be sweet or
something is going to be on the dryer side, there's
a very easy way to do it. Explain to people
extra brute brute.
Speaker 7 (01:28:06):
What comes after brute, so it actually goes when you're
talking about I always start from brute.
Speaker 4 (01:28:12):
Brute is what the one you're going to find the
most right.
Speaker 7 (01:28:14):
Brute means dry When you see the phrase extra dry,
that's where people kind of get messed up at because
you think, oh, that's going to be even drier than brute, right,
it's actually not. It's often used with prosecco, and it
will indicate there is some residual sugar on it.
Speaker 4 (01:28:29):
It's a step below your brute. Okay, So you want
to look for brute extra.
Speaker 7 (01:28:32):
Brute, brute a tour and has that's how as they
move up, less and less sugar, okay, and the brute.
Speaker 4 (01:28:38):
A tour is going to suck the water out of
your mouth a little bit. Okay, it's going to be
super super dry.
Speaker 7 (01:28:43):
And when you are going and we see things like
demi sick so sec means dry and so or seco
means dry in Italian. So if you see demi, they're
telling you it's half dry, which means that's going to
be even sweeter than say you're extra dry.
Speaker 4 (01:28:57):
So you're telling me that dry in the sense of
wine actually means sweet. Yes, yes, okayry it means sweet well.
Speaker 7 (01:29:05):
But when tied in with demi, because demi is the
word half, so when you're saying half dry, it means.
Speaker 4 (01:29:13):
The other thing half sweet. You're saying half sweet, so
extra sec not as dry, seck a little sweeter than
the extra sack and demisex sweeter still, so.
Speaker 7 (01:29:23):
Extra dry is the is going to be the first
start of your sweetness?
Speaker 4 (01:29:27):
So yeah, okay, we want to if you like.
Speaker 7 (01:29:29):
Your your wine dry stick with brute and anything that
has brute in the name.
Speaker 4 (01:29:33):
Okay. And I've never even seen anything that is due
which is fifty plus Graham's per liter of sugar. Where
is that? Is that like cough syrup.
Speaker 7 (01:29:41):
They're out there and they're they're they're definitely getting into
your very very sweet dessert wine options.
Speaker 4 (01:29:47):
So I can't do that. We did a progressive dinner
on the ship, which was amazing on our vacation, but
they tried to get me to drink desert wine or
I was like, no, I'm not doing that. Crystal is
getting ready to go on the same cruise line we
went on You the World, which I there's not enough
good words to say about this cruise line. If you've
never been on a cruise I almost don't want you
to go on that one first, because everything else will
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pale in comparison. And when we booked, I said, I
heard about you from Mandy Connell.
Speaker 9 (01:30:12):
She was like what.
Speaker 4 (01:30:15):
I was like, sorry, that's the video host.
Speaker 7 (01:30:16):
But I heard about you guys from so if I
can get her anything, and and then you were.
Speaker 4 (01:30:20):
Supposed to go find out I got my booking number.
Let's we go that perfect is it? Does she ever
drink good wine or just Colorado wines? Hilaria, that's really funny.
Speaker 7 (01:30:31):
Texter, you're you're a riot at My wine collection would
probably floor you if you came into my house.
Speaker 4 (01:30:37):
Fast Dances includes everything. But do not do not demonstrate
your snobbery about Colorado wine because, and I've said this before,
when I got here eleven years ago and people gave
me bottles of Colorado wine, I found them to be undrinkable.
Crystal has introduced me to so many Colorado wines that
are doing incredible things. And these these bubbles that we tried,
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because it wasn't just the bubbles from Storm Cellar. We
also tried a bubbles from Carboy tried another way. The
wine industry is like it's been leaps and bounds of
advancement over the past decade.
Speaker 7 (01:31:12):
And it's mainly because you know, you have folks that
are coming in that have it's a younger generation, and
we have this turnover happening across around the world in
the wine industry, and more and more wine makers that
you're seeing they're my age or younger, and they are
really starting to kind of because the reality is there's
so much wine out there. They have to figure out
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how to compete with everything that's out there.
Speaker 4 (01:31:35):
They don't have the brand.
Speaker 7 (01:31:37):
The regional association with Champagna or Bordeaux, or the Loire
River valley, you know where you talk about sin or
you know paif Fume.
Speaker 4 (01:31:48):
These these names that people will naturally.
Speaker 7 (01:31:51):
Associate when you think about, say a Grand Crew out
of Burgundy, which to that texture. I have a lot
of that in my collection as well. I have very
expensive bottles of wine from places other than Colorado. But
they what we're seeing here in Colorado is they're influenced
by that traditional Old World style and so instead of
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trying to be Napa here in Colorado, they're trying to
bring a little bit of Italy.
Speaker 4 (01:32:17):
And when you're.
Speaker 7 (01:32:17):
Talking about like whether it's Valde Asta or the Piedmont,
or they're trying to bring in Burgundian wine making style here.
Speaker 4 (01:32:25):
To produce classically.
Speaker 7 (01:32:29):
Old world style wines with the grapes that grow best
here in Colorado, and I want to I want to
emphasize that because guess what, they don't have a marketing budget,
right and they don't they don't have the ability, they
don't have that name recognition because people think that Colorado
is bad wine, and you know, makes bad wine, and
so it's I've become just like I've tried to convince people.
Speaker 4 (01:32:49):
That rose is not white z infandel. Yes, I am
trying to convince.
Speaker 7 (01:32:52):
People that Colorado does produce quality, beautiful, balanced, classic wines.
Speaker 4 (01:32:59):
You know, the wine that we get here, especially from
like Germany. I had some phenomenal gourge Remeiner and Reestling
that are not the Reestlings or gortz remeanors I tried
when I was young, because those are the ones that
are full of sugar that we get here. Over in
Germany and Switzerland in the Austrian areas, they produce these beautiful,
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very mineral white wines, and it seems to me like
some of those.
Speaker 7 (01:33:22):
Grapes should be able to work here, and they are
the sparkling wine we have from storm Cellar. Reesling and
Govertz does extremely well Alberina, which is the Spanish grape,
also does extremely well here in Colorado, simply because we
are that drier climate, more of it desert climate. The
grapes that don't do well here are the ones that
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are going to grow and do really well in northern California.
So when you're kind of looking at, you know, Cabernet savignan,
the cap fronk does better, which is a little bit
heartier of a grape Merleau that doesn't do that well
here because Marleau likes its feet wet. And so that's
why it's a right bank Bordeaux grape, because that's a
clay soil which has a little bit more water in it,
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so the roots like to have a little bit more
water content. Whereas we struggle with our water here in Colorado,
some of your your newer wine makers are realizing, we
got to get those grapes that are a little bit
more hardy.
Speaker 4 (01:34:17):
When it comes to drought. They have to be hardier
for cold, you know, for the cold.
Speaker 7 (01:34:25):
Yeah, And so you're starting to see a lot of
movement towards those hybrids, and as the wine world changes,
as certain regions are warming up. Now where you can
start seeing grapes being grown in places that have never
seen it before, such as Brittany and Normandy, which A
Rod mentioned world War two tour.
Speaker 4 (01:34:43):
That's what we're doing with the Antima. Excited about Normandy.
Speaker 7 (01:34:46):
But yeah, so you're starting to see some introduction of
wine growing there versus what has traditionally been more of
a cider stone fruit based brandy type schnops in Germany.
Speaker 4 (01:35:02):
Ops they make shnops out of everything. Yes, I mean
like stuff that should not have schnops made out of it,
they make shops out of it. Somebody asked this question
on the text line what about Texas wines? But I
think that goes to a bigger question in the sort
of section of the country that we're in, I'll call
it the left of center Midwest. Okay, that's the only
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way I can think about what I'm New Mexico, Upper Texas,
those areas are we seeing new wine making and is
it any good? I mean, especially in New Mexico where
you have a much more arid climate. Lots of Texas
is a very arid climate. Are they also having this
kind of wine renaissance that we're having here?
Speaker 1 (01:35:40):
So?
Speaker 4 (01:35:40):
Really, so I can speak.
Speaker 7 (01:35:42):
To New Mexico's just simply because when we're talking about bubbles,
Grue is one of my favorite go to sparkling wines
that is out of the most unlikely place in the world,
and that's this small little micro climate right outside of Albuquerque,
New Mexico. And it is Grue is a family house
out of Champagna and two of the suns of the
patriarch of this Champagne house. This came and they were researching,
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trying to look for a place where they could really
produce quality wine without paying Champagne land prices, and so
they discovered there outside of Albuquerque this perfect microclimate that
it was the right level of moisture, it was the
right temperature swings, and so they are producing quality sparkling
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wine right there outside of Albuquerque. Is called grew Age
and it's on I listed it on the blog post
as well, that you can get for under twenty bucks.
And they also make still wines, but their bubbles are
sensational and it's a great example of Old World influenced
wine makers bringing those techniques and approaches and taking advantage
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of what is around them instead of trying to force feed.
Oh well, this is really popular and sells really well
right now, So we're going to grow it here even
if that climate is not meant for it, the soil
is wrong for it. And so that's what you typically
can see as these wine industries mature, people realizing, Okay,
if we don't want to only produce sweet wine, we're
(01:37:10):
going to have to start looking at other types of
grapes versus these you know, native American grapes that grow
really well here wherever you are in But if they're
trying to go more into that dry wine and compete
more with traditional table wine type, you know, old world wine,
then that's where you're kind of seeing that evolution take place.
Speaker 4 (01:37:30):
I can't speak to Texas. I'm interested in that.
Speaker 7 (01:37:32):
Everybody always asks me about Texas wine.
Speaker 4 (01:37:36):
But there is a lot of influence down.
Speaker 7 (01:37:37):
It from Mexican influence of Mexican winemakers coming up from
the Baja Peninsula that are coming into parts of Texas
that are again bringing more of that Old World influence
and wine making techniques. So it will be interesting to
see what we start, you know, coming out of Texas.
Speaker 4 (01:37:54):
And when Crystal says old World, she's talking about European. Yes,
that is European wine making obviously is far older. Everything
in Europe as far older than we are here. But
what's interesting is that over in Europe, and this goes
for beer, it goes for wine making, there are such
strict rules that you have to follow in order to
be considered a champagne or a beer by those individual governments.
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So I feel like one of the benefits that we
have here in the United States is we're not afraid
to throw the rules out the window and try something
new and do something different. And I think that's where
some of these wines are differentiating them in that and
that's where.
Speaker 7 (01:38:29):
You have these winemakers coming in even if they are European,
and they are coming in here a because they can
afford to purchase the land that they need if they
want to have it basically be a state grown. So
they want to grow the grapes, take care of everything
on the vine, so from rootstock to the finished product
that goes into your glass.
Speaker 4 (01:38:47):
They want control over over that, and they.
Speaker 7 (01:38:49):
Want to manipulate things that they couldn't do necessarily back
in whatever country they maybe have come from.
Speaker 4 (01:38:55):
So you are starting to see a lot of that.
I will tell you if you have no idea what
we're talking about. Is one of the Texters just said
and said, I have no idea what you're talking about.
This is why the Wino he does a blog post,
so if you do want to educate yourself, she's got
a really good blog posting that goes through a lot
of details about the different kinds of sparkling wines, so
you can kind of act like you know what you're
talking about. And she also has suggestions and explanations of
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all the wines that we've tasted today. Where can people
get these wines? I know that you can get the
Carboy wine at Carboy and the Coseco. You guys, if
you're looking for a great bottle of holiday bubbles, the
Carboy Coseco is a delight, absolutely a delight, and you
can get it at their winery. They have, of course
the place on Santa Fe. They've got another one downtown. Yeah,
(01:39:39):
so they got another one to But where can we
get some of this other stuff?
Speaker 7 (01:39:43):
The Carboy is available at most Whole Foods and Trader
Doughs as well in the front range. Storm Cellar has
limited availability in certain you know, more of your boutique
wine shops so for them though they ship as well,
so a lot of your smaller Colorado winemakers, if they
don't have the distribution opportunity, they will ship to you
and they'll get it to you pretty fast. So if
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you order the.
Speaker 4 (01:40:08):
Cloud Burst today from storm Seller, you could probably have
it by New Year's.
Speaker 7 (01:40:12):
Well, you'd have to be a club member though, that
is one of those things. But they do have another
sparkling wine that I don't think is that is restricted.
Speaker 4 (01:40:18):
To club This Cloudburst.
Speaker 7 (01:40:20):
To me, it's worth just becoming a club member and
then you can pose it or cancel it whenever you
need to.
Speaker 4 (01:40:25):
Just become a club member and pick up this Cloudburst.
It's gorgeous. So she's got all of these things on
the blog post today which I linked to on my blog,
and I would urge you if you want to just
have a better idea of what you're talking about and
be able to make a more educated decision when you're
standing in a wine store looking at all the bubbles
trying to figure out what you want. It's really a
great primmer, as they say, to the kind of sparkling wines.
Speaker 7 (01:40:48):
And then I did I will mention I did bring
in Pitsilado, which is an.
Speaker 4 (01:40:52):
Italian organic vegan wine. Delicious.
Speaker 7 (01:40:55):
So those are the twenty dollars range sparkling wines in
that twenty range. And yes, their prosecco's are just off
the hook, really approachable party type wines. They make a
great mescotta austy that I'm sitting home with a rod
for he and his lovely wife to enjoy this evening.
Speaker 4 (01:41:11):
Excellent, excellent, all right, because now it's time for the
most exciting segment all the radio of its kind in.
Speaker 7 (01:41:19):
The world of the day.
Speaker 4 (01:41:23):
All right, what is our dad joke of the day, please, Anthony?
Speaker 5 (01:41:27):
Where do penguins go to vote?
Speaker 4 (01:41:30):
Penguins go to vote the South Pole, the North Pole,
the North Pole, but penguins live in the South Pole. Okay,
I'm just throwing that out there. Do you make it
more accurate? I know, but dadda where penguins live. I'm
just throwing that out there.
Speaker 6 (01:41:51):
What is our word of the day, please? It's a noun.
It's not the r h y m E. It's the
noun of rhyme r I M E.
Speaker 4 (01:41:59):
Are I know that rhyme ice is?
Speaker 7 (01:42:02):
It's a It forms that little ledge on.
Speaker 4 (01:42:05):
An aircraft foil.
Speaker 7 (01:42:06):
So I would say it's probably like a like kind
of a condensing of something I don't.
Speaker 4 (01:42:11):
Know, she said.
Speaker 6 (01:42:13):
She sounded like she knew what she was talking about,
in coating of ice caused by rapid Yeah, that's why I.
Speaker 4 (01:42:19):
Went with her. She said. It was such authority that
I was like, I'm going with that. That's the answer
today's trivia question. I feel like I should know this,
but I absolutely do not. What does the coding acronym
H T M L stand for? How do we know?
How do I know? No, it's not hot to computer
something something hypertext markup language. Yeah, that's what I don't
(01:42:45):
feel like. I really do feel like I should know
what that is, and I did not. I'm disappointing. Wait
a minute, I gotta get a piece. Oh you're gonna win.
You don't kind to keep score?
Speaker 2 (01:42:59):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (01:43:00):
What o dag nab it? Okay, all right.
Speaker 5 (01:43:03):
Now, I'm really actually going to play.
Speaker 4 (01:43:04):
This for you. What is our jeopardy category?
Speaker 5 (01:43:07):
What is play that game?
Speaker 4 (01:43:09):
Okay, play that game? Just turn my microphone off it.
Speaker 6 (01:43:13):
It's gotta be hard to catch them all when new
video games keep coming out. But in twenty twenty two
folks gave it a shot with this legends rchaus.
Speaker 5 (01:43:24):
I should know how to pronounce that game, but I don't.
Speaker 6 (01:43:25):
RCUs legends, r cs catch them all, you gotta catch
them all. Oh my god, I have no clue. What
what is Pokemon?
Speaker 9 (01:43:34):
That's what I.
Speaker 4 (01:43:38):
Get? Please tell me they're not all video game questions,
because I will get a.
Speaker 6 (01:43:41):
Single card in this game offers a ride on the
reading with a possibility.
Speaker 4 (01:43:46):
What is Monopoly? Correct? Now?
Speaker 6 (01:43:50):
This casino game with numbers on a ticket from one
to eighty?
Speaker 4 (01:43:53):
What is ke correct?
Speaker 6 (01:43:56):
If the five dice you roll show the same number? Well,
that's the name of this cas bro?
Speaker 4 (01:44:01):
What is Yatze?
Speaker 2 (01:44:03):
Love? Yet?
Speaker 6 (01:44:03):
Finally, this five letter This five letter card game of
English origin helped construct some bridges, Auction Bridge and contract Bridge.
Speaker 5 (01:44:13):
I've never heard of this.
Speaker 4 (01:44:14):
Game five letters, never contract bridge. I have no idea
A W starts with a W? What is the idea? Whist?
Whist whist? I've heard of it? But yes, I Mary Christmas, everybody,
Mary Christmas, all that stuff. We will be back on
(01:44:38):
Monday for our final week of shows until January thirty first,
when on the thirty first I will have my entire
family in the studio with me, and I will play
the audio of me in miss Olesti Festival nineteen eighty seven.
That is my that is my promise to you, and
we're not going to put it on the podcast a rod.
We're going to make people have to listen that day
(01:44:58):
or they're not going to hear it. You're not gonna
be here, You're not even gonna be here, mister man.
You guys have a safe weekend. K WA Sports coming
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