12-15-25 FULL SHOW - The Intifada Comes To Australia, And Rob Reiner Is Murdered

Another mass killing of Jews, Rob Reiner and his wife are found murdered, and what is going on in this world??? 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Welcome, Uncle, Welcome to a Monday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next three hours. Mandy Connell
joined by Anthony Rodriguez, you can call him a rod.

Speaker 5 (00:35):
The Brothers haven't lost since September twenty.

Speaker 6 (00:37):
First, and the Chiefs were out of the playoffs and
bad news.

Speaker 7 (00:49):
And I do mean this genuinely.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Pat Holmes towards Aco, that's not a You don't get
air horn for that, of course not. You want to
beat your opponents. You don't want to see them get
knocked out of the game. That is Saturday. Sunday was
devastating for injuries. Okay, I'm just gonna let you guys
know right now. I normally walk down I get up
this morning. I got up early because I had some
extra things I needed to attend to this morning.

Speaker 7 (01:12):
And I got up early, at like five o'clock.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
And I go downstairs and I and I always have
this moment right before I open my computer to begin
consuming the news of the day and I have this
moment where I'm like, Okay, let's see what's Let's see
what's out there. And during political season, I every day
I right before I open my window on my computer,

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I go, oh, what fresh hell awaits me? But I
do not remember a Monday quite like today. Just one
piling steaming crap of bad news after another. So we're
going to this today is as Charles Dickinson once said,
Charles Dickens, it was the best of times, it was

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the worst of times, depending on what you're paying attention to.
Life is great in Broncos Country, but around the world.

Speaker 7 (02:04):
It's like crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
It's like we're all insane, absolutely insane. Let's do the blog,
shall we, Because I've got a lot of stuff on
here that you need to know about. Let's find that
at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for
the headline that says twelve to fifteen twenty five blog
the Intafada comes to Australia and Rob Ryder is murdered.

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Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within. Oh god, I didn't do what's listening?

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Office?

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Half of American all.

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With ships and clipments of say that's going to press play.

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Today on the blog. I do have some good stuff today.
How to enter our theme song contest? Don't forget to
nominate your hero. There's a GOP governor's debate in January.
What happens when you let people chant kill the Jews?

Speaker 7 (02:51):
Scrolling?

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Perhaps we need to ban people from immigrating from countries
who hate us scrolling? Why this will still keep happening
isis kills Americans in Syria and students shot at Brown University.
Rob Ryder and his wife are murdered. There is some
good news thanks to the broncos. Metro State is a
bastion of left wing clap trap. The DOJ is suing

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Jennick Griswold. Government is destroying our business climate. So how
will our top industry spare next year? Paulus Stack's Park
and Wildlife with Cooks and wacos. Dick Wadhams is here
for the Hick Challenger. We all need this story today.
We are the overdogs. The Christmas seesaws are cute. I've
seen stranger things in Loveland. I have an answer for

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this gluted doctor review of a one week old baby.
But this baby sings Thunderstruck. Iopie suffered greatly for this prank.
This family is insane, nineties bullies are out of work.
Watching the NFL has gotten stupid. Those are the headlines
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com Tech two All Winner.

(04:00):
I knew that was good, Nancy, that was off without
a hitch, a Rod. My favorite video that you sent
me today was the video of the guy talking about
how to watch the NFL, because Chuck and I just
had this conversation, our conversation. No when something like this,
I'm like, Okay, where's where's today's game?

Speaker 7 (04:16):
I don't know?

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Is it on? Is it on Fox? No, CBS, no Prime?
Maybe YouTube? Yeah, we can't watch that one. So if you, oh,
Paramount Plus, Oh now wait, huh, this is so dumb.
Do you think a Rod this isn't this is They're
just trying to force us into the NFL ticket to
be able to see the games that we want to watch.

Speaker 8 (04:38):
No, every network is just very money grubby.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
But what I'm so is the NFL. Yeah, you know,
they're obviously a better deal for the NFL. I think
the NFL is trying to force us all into the
NFL ticket and you know what, I am perilously close.
I am so close to make it that happen. My
father was a huge Jags fan from their inception, I
mean massive Jags fan.

Speaker 8 (05:00):
The next team to take a big fat L.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well, they're still having a good year the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
Of course, so I know I'm gonna take L this week.
I know they're playing real good though, I know scary, but.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
I'd like to be able to watch them, and they're never.
They're they're never. I'll be able to see them this week,
but they're never on national TV. No, so yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway,
that video is a guy ferreting out where to watch
the NFL games, and I agree with him.

Speaker 7 (05:29):
It's just gotten way too complicated.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Exactly exactly, Okay, so let's just jump into the bad
news first. We'll talk Broncos talk a little bit later
because it is. It was such a good game and
so much fun to watch, and a Rod proving once
again they play to.

Speaker 7 (05:46):
The level of their competition.

Speaker 8 (05:47):
Yes they do.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
When they play a really good team like Green Bay.
Guess what, they're really good Denver Broncos show up.

Speaker 5 (05:52):
Can I tell you what I felt for the first time?
What'd you feel all season long. But because I thought
they were really good, really good yesterday. I had thought
for the first time this this team can win the
Super Bowl.

Speaker 7 (06:02):
Yep, you allowed it to peek in.

Speaker 8 (06:04):
This team can win. They're good enough the Super Bowl.

Speaker 5 (06:07):
I thought they were really good, really good, one of
the top teams.

Speaker 8 (06:11):
Did I think before yesterday they could win the Super Bowl?
I don't. I don't think so. I had that thought yesterday.
This team can do it.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (06:17):
That's how we yesterday win.

Speaker 9 (06:18):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Oh it was so good. But let's jump into all
the bad news that I was confronted with this morning.
And I got to tell you, guys, So if you
haven't heard you, just if you just missed the news
at the top of the hour, you may not know
that Rob Reiner is not only dead, he and his
wife were murdered by his son, allegedly, I honestly as

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a parrot. Other than losing a child yourself, which for me,
that would be the ultimate that is, I just the
worst that feels like punishment, worse than death. This second
worst thing would be to be killed by your own child.
And that's what happened. And then I went back this

(07:03):
morning and I was looking when it became obvious and
people started saying he was a suspect, and then he
was arrested for their murder.

Speaker 7 (07:10):
I started look into.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
This kid and talk about a classic self absorbed, rich
brat who probably never had enough restriction on his life
and what he did and managed to blame his father's
fame for everything that was wrong in his life. And
I bet you it is really hard to be the

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kid of a famous person. I bet it is super hard.
This is why I've tried to shield my daughter from
what I do for a living. Not that I'm a
famous person, but you would be surprised how people act
when they find out I'm on the radio. A lot
of people are perfectly normal. Don't get me wrong, right,
it's fine. I'm not saying everybody's like, oh my god, no,
but there are these outlier people. And I never wanted

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her to be in a situation where I looked at
it and said, I think that they are being friends
with her for somehow to get to me. And do
not laugh. Do not laugh. It has already happened, okay,
not here when she was very young. Not going to
do it again anyway. So I get that growing up

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the child of a famous person is very, very difficult,
but it's also very very for lack of a better word, privileged.
You have access to means you have access to opportunities
that you would not have if your parents were not famous.
And I have a really hard time feeling sorry for
someone who decided to become a drug addict and you

(08:36):
know now suffers from the throes of addiction. You know
what this guy needed years ago instead of eighteen rehab,
he needed step Denver. That's what he needed. He needed
somebody to say, take responsibility for your life. You know,
at some point, at some point as an adult, the
most successful people I've ever met in my life were

(08:57):
people who had really challenging childhoods. I mean Tom Monaghan,
the founder of Domino's Pizza. He grew up in a
Catholic orphanage as still incredibly Catholic to this day, super Guy.
I met another billionaire who faced significant abuse and ended

(09:19):
up leaving home volunteerily at the age of twelve. But
at some point in their young lives young adult lives,
and the one who left his home at twelve said,
at ten years old, I knew that I was not
going to live this way for the rest of my life.
I made that decision, and then they go on to
have these incredible successful careers because of those challenging upbringings,

(09:41):
and then you have this guy. But here's the thing
about Rob Reiner. I loved his films. His filmography is
one of the greatest filmographies by any director of the
modern era, full stop.

Speaker 7 (09:57):
He has a catalog that is just.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
A doubtingly good for me. Late to the game. Spinal
Tap was that for me, spinal I had.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Been watching spinal Okay, back in the day, Anthony, I'm
gonna go on a tangent for a moment, because this
will take me back to a happy place. Back in
the day before streaming, we had video stores, and if
you didn't get to the video store on like fast
enough on Friday, by the time you got there, everything
you wanted to watch.

Speaker 7 (10:20):
Was gone, So you ended up watching in this order.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
This is spinal Tap, which I don't think anyone in
my hometown rented except US Blues Brothers, which I still.

Speaker 7 (10:29):
Know every word to and a movie.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
From Australia call the Gods Must Be Crazy Again. We
were the only ones in our homes in my hometown
to rent these movies because they were always there right
on Friday, and Spinal Tap was just absolutely brilliant. I
still haven't seen Spinal Tap two because I know it's
not gonna live up to Spinal Tap one, and I
don't want to tarnish it.

Speaker 8 (10:49):
I still want to watch it.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
And that being said, Rob Reiner politically only crap that guy.
I mean, he was wrong about every thing in politics, everything,
and he was a loud leftist voice. But holy cow,
I don't care. This is a terrible, terrible thing. I

(11:13):
can't even imagine the horror. And here's the guys. This
is one guy. There was two of them, So either
his mother watched him stab his father first or his
father saw him stab his mother first. This is like
the most horrifying thing I have ever in my life.
I mean, maybe this is the year of the horrifying murders.

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I don't know, because on the one hand, you know,
Charlie Kirk's kids are always gonna know that on the Internet,
they're gonna be.

Speaker 7 (11:42):
Able to watch their dad get murdered.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Golly. And then and then we moved u Bondi Beach
in Australia, which forever until now has been a place
where people go and gather and community events happen, and
it's a place for families to go and hang out.
And now it's the scene of another Jewish mass murder
perpetuated by two Muslim men. And I hate to be

(12:11):
blunt about it, but it's time for us to take
seriously the threats of globalizing the Intafada. And that is
how those chants have to be viewed from now on,
because when we allow people in the United States to
say globalize the into Fada, it must be viewed as

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an incitement to violence, because that is what it is.
It is not free speech to incite others to violence.
And we can do it one way or another. We
can do it the way where we just pretend this
isn't going to happen in the United States, except it
already is. It happened in Boulder, Colorado, where elderly Jewish

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people were set on fire. It happened to two young
people outside a Jewish museum in DC. And yet we're
supposed to make room for people to chant globalize the
Intafata from the river to the sea. This is what
those words read. And I think we are so incredibly

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foolish to think that right now in the United States,
there are not people Muslim people who are Islamist who
are scheduling and planning attacks in the United States to
do the very same things that they're doing around the world.
And I don't think it's an organized network. I think
it is individuals who believe that they will be celebrated

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in America for killing the infidels the same way they
would have been celebrated in their garbage countries that they
came from. I mean, that's I'm done, gloves are off,
I'm finished. And for all of you people talking about
Palestinian statehood, it's not about the state.

Speaker 7 (14:01):
Do you get that now?

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Do you really think murdering people at a Honka celebration,
shooting a Jewish rabbi, killing a man who survived the
Holocaust only to be murdered in Australia where he probably
thought he was safe. Holy cow, you guys. I'm over
it time over it in a big way. Anyway. How

(14:26):
about those broncos, Hey, Rod, this is what we're gonna do. See,
this is how we're gonna handle it. Today.

Speaker 7 (14:31):
When I start to get super mad.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
How about those broncos?

Speaker 5 (14:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Can we get a broncos sound or something, we could
just throw it in there today. We'll cut through, just
cut through. If we could there, we go have that
if they're ready, Okay, make sure we have that.

Speaker 8 (14:51):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Uh Mandy, how is it possible? This from the Common
Spirit health text line. You can always text us at
five sixty six nine. Oh Andy, how is it possible
that a mass shooting happened in Australia where guns are banned? Hmm,
good point, sir or madam. Excellent point. Australia quote solved
the gun problem years ago with a massive, massive gun

(15:15):
buy back, and Australia then patted itself on the back
and pretended like gun crime wouldn't be a problem. By
the way, One thing I do have to mention about
Bondi Beach, where I think is incredibly important. One of
the big heroes of Bondai Beach was an Arab, a
man of Arab descent who owned a fruit store, who
saw one of the men shooting, went up behind him,

(15:37):
tackled him, took the gun away from him. So that
guy is a hero, and he is a Muslim. And
I'm not saying that because I'm worried about Islamophobia. I'm
saying that because I want every single Muslim in this
listening audience in this country to know that I welcome

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them their help in this. They have to lead, but
I'm here, I'm here to walk right next to you.
But you have to lead. You have to fix the
hate and rot that exists in Islam. And you can
stop telling me that's not the that's that's the wrong
kind of Islam. I mean that there's a lot of
people that believe the wrong kind of Islam now, isn't there.

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We've got to figure this out. And if it means
deporting every single person from one of the countries that
I'm going to share with you on the other side
of the break, the countries that either ban Christianity or
uh ban murder people who convert, Yeah, I'm ready with
just kicking everybody out if they haven't already demonstrated their

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fact that they want to be here and become a
full fledged American, which believes in freedom, freedom of religion,
freedom to practice your religion as you see fit. Too
much of Islam is incompatible with free Western societies. We
cannot have a religious form of govern and that is
what Islam is we have to stop pretending that it

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is in any way compatible with the freedoms that we
enjoy and the government we enjoy here in the United
States of America. It's incompatible with democracy. It truly is.

Speaker 8 (17:15):
Man.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
I'm so I'm fired up, Mandy. You can't be super
mad until you put on a cape. Point taken. When
I get back from vacation, I will have a cape
and I will just keep it all hang it in
the studio with a Scotch hook so I don't mess
up the paint. I'm gonna hang in the studio, and
when I get super mad'm I gonna put that bad
boy on. Hey, Mandy, this is Cortes Mike. How about

(17:38):
the Broncos Mike? Who's Mike? Anyway? Mandy, Why isn't murders
of obvious anti anti Semites considered a hate crime? You
know what I believe it is. I believe it is
all right. We have a lot to talk about. As

(18:00):
a matter of fact, let me say I got it
like a minute here, I went and asked chat GPT,
my assistant. I said, look, I want to know where
Christianity is banned. If there are places where it is
banned and in Muslim majority countries, what is their take
on other religion? Like, what do they do? Just ask

(18:21):
the question. Saudi Arabia, it is illegal to have a
Christian church illegal. This is our ally, Saudi Arabia. They're
the only ones where it's flat out illegal. But when
I tell you the other countries where it's practically banned,
you'll begin to understand why we need to incredibly quickly

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figure out an immigration policy that severely restricts people's ability
to come here from countries where this is going on.
First of all, this hey man, there's Catholic churches in Dubai.
I just looked that up. The United Arab Emirates is
not on the list I'm about to share with you.
These are majority Muslim nations where there are severe restrictions

(19:02):
on other faiths. Now, there are other majority Muslim nations
that are not on this list, UAE being one of them,
Indonesia being one of them. So I certainly hope, and
it's hard not to say that we should be concerned
about all Muslims. I'm concerned about Muslims specifically from these countries.
Our ally, Saudi Arabia is the only nation that outright

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bans other faiths, No public churches, private worship only for foreigners.
How generous if they would let you worship in your
own home without askling you as long as you keep
it quiet, Just keep it quiet, this texture said to
that point, Mandy, my uncle lived in Saudi for a

(19:48):
few years working as a consultant. My aunt told me
they would meet at one house or another for Christian services,
but they had to park in surrounding streets, not directly
at the home of that person, so it wasn't obvious
they were meeting for services.

Speaker 7 (20:01):
She would bring previously.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Blessed hosts from the US in a pringles can. She said.
It was tolerated as long as they weren't obvious about it.

Speaker 7 (20:10):
Okay, think you about that for a second.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
If you want to worship your God the way you
want to, if you believe that Jesus is the son
of Man, you are forced to park on surrounding streets
smuggle in the Eucharist in a pringles can. But that's tolerant.

Speaker 7 (20:29):
Anyway. Let's go to Afghanistan, shall we.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Oh? No, let's not, but in this case we will.
You are allowed to, you know, be a Christian, but
if you convert to Christianity, you can be put to death,
and if you do convert, you must worship completely in secret.
Let's go to Somalia, everybody's favorite garbage, garbage nation. Right now,

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it's practically banned in Somalia, all churches in so all
we're closed posts the conflict that that never really has
been resolved. In Libya, it's practically banned. Churches have been
closed as well. Oh no, I'm sorry. In Somalia, there's
just no functioning public churches. In Libya, churches were all

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closed post conflict. Yemen, conversion is illegal, worship is dangerous.
In Iran, recognized minority churches exist, but they are not
allowed to talk about their faith in public lest they
be put to death. In Brunei, faith sharing is prohibited.

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You may not talk about your faith in Brunei. In Pakistan,
proselytizing to Muslims is illegal. So if you say to
someone bless your heart, oh Jesus finds you someday, you
are in big fat trouble. And Mekistan Turkmenistan, Turkmenistan, you

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have to register as a Christian if you want to
practice your faith in private. In Turkmenistan also Algeria, there
are no closures and Christians are prosecuted. I mean, these
are the countries where I look and say, I don't
want these people here. I don't want people because all
of that is so antithetical to this great American experiment

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that was honest to God. The reason we're all here
right now is because there were people of faith that
said we want to be able to practice our faith freely.
One of the things that I think is a bigger
problem than people recognize right now is that in the
United States of America, we've lost our common identity. And

(22:44):
this doesn't mean white people, okay, It means that we
were a nation that was created by people of faith.
We were founded on a Judeo Christian philosophy. We're not
a ReLU We've never been a religious state. We've never
been out of theocracy. And I don't care what wackos
on the left say. We're not a theocracy ever, we've
under Republican rule. We're not a theocracy. We never have been.

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But those ideals that underpin Christianity have underpinned our nation
for a very long time, and as people have fallen
away from faith, whether it is Christianity, or Judaism, we've
lost that big thread that kind of held us together.
I mean, honestly, back when I was a kid, the
biggest controversy we had about religion was whether Baptists thought

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Catholics went to Hell because we prayed to Mary. Spoiler
alert The answer is yes. But that being said, all
of that being said, I think that we have to
start looking and recognizing that when people come here from
another place and they don't assimilate, when they create these
little enclaves where only people in that enclave are people

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that are from where they are from, they bring an
entire set of values with them, and some of those
values are crap.

Speaker 10 (24:00):
You know.

Speaker 7 (24:00):
I everyone's while I look at.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
The Daily Mail on the BBC every day just to
see what's going on in Europe and kind of follow along.
When I bring you the stuff that I think is
worth your time and interesting, I don't bring you a
bunch of the crime stories that are coming out of
Europe right now, where you have gangs of young Muslim
men who are attacking women and then they're getting let

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off by these idiotic judges because they say, well, culturally,
that's okay in our culture. What the judges should be
doing is saying, well, welcome to our culture. Well, that's
illegal and we're going to put you in jail for it.
That's what should be happening, and it's not. Everyone is
scared to death to say bad things about people who

(24:44):
are Muslim because of to your reasons. Number one, they're
afraid they're going to get called a bigot, and they're
afraid they're going to get murdered. And I wish that
second part wasn't something to be concerned about, but it is.
To think that it's not is you're just not paying attention.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Now.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
I'll say it the end of every single segment. I
welcome all of the Muslims in this country who love
this country and integrated into this country and are not
trying to institute Sharia law and are not trying to
force other people to submit to Islam. I welcome you,
and I'll stand beside you as you fight to get
this other branch of your religion under control, because something's

(25:22):
got to give, because right now, the way we're headed,
the way Europe is headed right now, do you know
that in Paris they just canceled the New Year's Eve
celebration in Paris because they're afraid of Muslim attacks. Instead
of aggressively going after the people that they perpetrate the attacks,
they are canceling the event. They just arrested a bunch

(25:45):
of Muslim men in Germany. They were plotting an attack
where they were going to drive a car into a
Christmas market to kill as many people as.

Speaker 7 (25:52):
They could at a Christian celebration.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Like, I feel like we're on a tipping point, and
I don't know how to express enough.

Speaker 7 (26:01):
If you're a Muslim and you want to beat all
of this back, and you want.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
To embrace all that America has to offer, including your
freedom to practice your religion, but everybody else's freedom to
practice theirs as well. I'll stand beside you all day long.
I'll welcome you on this program all day long. But
we've got to stop pretending that Muslims from certain countries

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that don't share any of our value system would come
here and adopt it. We don't teach our children this
value system anymore. We teach our children that America is bad.
America was founded on racism. Do you know how many
young people think that white people invented racism?

Speaker 3 (26:43):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (26:43):
My goodness. Unfortunately, racism has been a scourge across the
world until white people stopped it.

Speaker 7 (26:51):
No offense if you didn't know that, but it's true.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Hey, ron how about those broncos Man, how about Thoseroncos.

Speaker 7 (27:02):
Anyway, we'll be right now.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
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couple things. One, I got this text message that said, Hi, Mandy.
The Koran emphasizes justice and the protection of individual rights,

(27:52):
and they listen, let there be no compulsion in religion.
That from a Koran two point two five six I
don't know how to read.

Speaker 7 (27:59):
I don't know if it's ters verse. And this is
when I responded, I don't care.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
I don't care because what's happening right now our people
are taking the Quran that absolutely, I'm gonna believe you
that it says that, and they're choosing to ignore that,
and they're trying to exterminate Jews because they are Jewish.
Can we finally put the genocide shoe on the right foot,
because for everybody who says Israel has been trying to
commit genocide, they suck at genocide. But let me tell

(28:28):
you something. If theseus lam has had the opportunity, they
would kill every single Jew in the world, in Israel
or without. That is the genocidal heart that they like
to accuse Israel of having. Please, child, Please, what I'd
like is and this is what I sent back to them. Great,
tell all the people who are doing it wrong until
you can tell the people who are doing it wrong

(28:50):
that they're doing it wrong. And if not, why not?
Why aren't you standing up within your own faiths to
stand up force leak prop Are you afraid to get murdered?

Speaker 7 (29:01):
I mean that in and whatever what is giving you pause.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
What is Let me just say this, I do not
subscribe to a faith, but I grew up Catholic. If
this was Catholics that were perpetuating these crimes, I would
be saying the same thing to every single Catholic that
sent me a list of reasons why this goes against
Catholic dogma. It happens that this is this is Islam.

(29:30):
These are Muslims. They are not Catholics or Presbyterians or Baptists.
But I can assure you if these attacks were coming
from any other faith, I would be having the exact
same conversation about why that faith needs to check itself
and rain itself in.

Speaker 8 (29:48):
So it's it is what it is.

Speaker 7 (29:50):
So I appreciate that that is in the Quran, but
I don't need to know that.

Speaker 10 (29:55):
You're not.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
You shouldn't be telling me. There's a whole bunch of
other people. And by the way I end this, already
this text had already fallen off. There was a text
message to this said, look, I asked Chaps Gpt, what
percentage of any group is a fanatic?

Speaker 9 (30:11):
Right?

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Every group has fanatics, they just do. The larger you get,
the more fanatics you're going to have. At the current
rates based on a five to ten percent fanaticism rate,
that's ninety million Muslims who are doing it wrong, and
that needs to be fixed. It truly, truly needs to
be fixed. By the way. Several people are asking about

(30:32):
Donald Trump's truth social post about Rob Reiner's death. There
are not words for me to express how much posts
like this one make me hate Donald Trump the man.

(30:52):
If you want to know why, I don't like the guy,
and I am getting all kinds. One day I'm called
maga by one guy on social media. The next day
I'm told I have Trump derangement syndrome. But I'm going
to be clear about this one. He posted this ridiculous, idiotic,
stupid political post about Rob Reiner. Did we not just

(31:15):
go through this with Charlie Kirk. I know it's too
much to demand of him to show some class, I
really do. I For a lot of people, this might
be and this might be the breaking point. This might
be the thing that gets the Republican's asses kicked even
harder in the midterms. At the rate we're going, it's
going to be ugly with Elsey. Okay, Now, when we

(31:38):
get back, we're changing complete direction. Because my blood pressure
cannot cannot handle this sort of all day. I have
excellent blood pressure. By the way, We've got a wonderful
woman coming on. She's got an event coming up the
Lickwood Cultural Center. Then my friend in yours, Ryan Shuling,
who's got some big career in news to announce, and

(32:00):
he and I are moderating a debate for the Republican
governor's race next January January tenth. We're gonna tell you
all about it and tell you which front runner isn't
gonna be there and why. That's all coming up for
the next hour.

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you can call him Anthony Rodriguez, God Brad Goes. We
are intermittently celebrating last night's decisive over the Green Bay Packers.
Wasn't decided on a last minute field goal. It was glorious.

Speaker 8 (33:04):
No, and it was a tight one, but it didn't feel.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
The same now gat it felt like a bar murder
of a game, my favorite game, Old season. That was
fantastic and Broncos come out on top. So after the
last hour, and if you missed it, I'm just gonna
say you should probably download the first hour of the
podcast as soon as it's up, because I am worn
out from that and now I'm moving into something so
fun and I have to give our guest Brit Steven

(33:26):
a little of my background.

Speaker 7 (33:28):
I love it when anyone comes to me.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
And says, I have this crazy idea and then you
get to help bring it to fruition and it sounds
like your we'll call it a show, a variety show.
Not Till Now has a little bit of that YT's
but on a show kind of feel to it. What
is happening It's happening at the Lakewood Cultural Center in

(33:52):
January January twenty eighth. And what is not Till Now?
Let's start with what that is. Then we're going to
work backwards because the story of how we got to
not Till that's very interesting.

Speaker 11 (34:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 12 (34:02):
So it's basically a live event where firsts take the
stage and people do the thing that they've always wanted
to do and it's.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Just wide open as to what people are doing. Well,
is it a variety show? You feel a little bit okay?

Speaker 12 (34:16):
Yes, So this first debut show will have a mix
of storytelling in stand up comedy.

Speaker 11 (34:21):
One gal will be singing.

Speaker 12 (34:23):
I was kind of hoping that there would be someone
you know, doing a clarinet solo, or someone juggling or
you know, but those those folks didn't come through.

Speaker 11 (34:31):
But maybe in the next one they will.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Well, you need to reach out to music schools that
cater to adults and see if you could get some
you know, cellists that are coming up there for the
first time. Yeah, dancers. Do you have any tap dancers?

Speaker 11 (34:44):
No, but I want one.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
I have never tap danced in public before, mostly because
I don't know how, so maybe that could be my thing.

Speaker 11 (34:51):
Oh my gosh, Yeah, that would be so fun. And
that's what it is.

Speaker 12 (34:54):
I want to give the first timers, basically, the feeling
of being the headliner.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Oh that's cool.

Speaker 12 (35:00):
I mean I've never gone to an auditorium, you know,
where there's a big red curtain in the spotlights and
seeing people do something for the very first time, or
seeing a more experienced speaker maybe talk about something they
never have, Like, for example, my pastor, I asked him
to come into the show and I was like, will
you please tell that story about the time that you

(35:21):
found God on the bathroom floor? And he's like, no,
that's not a not till now story for me. That's
not a first time thing. He's like, you know what
would be is telling a story from the soul without
mentioning God and without mentioning the divide.

Speaker 11 (35:35):
I'm like, okay, let's do.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
That, sousmanda out. Okay, So let's this sounds like a
wacky idea that probably sprung into your head at some point.
What made you go, wait, this could be amazing. And
it started with a dinner party for a book launch
with one hundred women, right.

Speaker 12 (35:53):
Well, it actually goes back a little bit more in
twenty fifteen, when I was living in Germany, I was
attending startup events and watching people pitch business ideas and
would attend the you know, the final events of that event,
and I would be like, oh my gosh, you know
what I want to do Some days?

Speaker 11 (36:08):
I want to have a talent show of sorts where
people do.

Speaker 12 (36:11):
The thing they've always wanted to do, even if it is,
you know, doing a dance routine with everyone in astronauts
suit like. And then we moved back to the States,
and I like, my my business kind of evolved a
little bit.

Speaker 11 (36:24):
And then yeah, so I launched a book in twenty
twenty three called Mama Be Present.

Speaker 12 (36:29):
And at the book launch, it was a dinner party
for one hundred women and I was up there, you know,
reading from the book and sharing some of my story.
And after that, I was like, you know, I want
other moms to get up here and do that because
that was so fun. And so four or five months later,
I held Moms on the Mic with one hundred women
getting on the mic. And it's what's really fun about

(36:51):
it is it kind of feels like you're at the
Golden Globes, but it's you.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Know, everybody city at tables. Yeah, there's people getting drunk,
people throwing salad. Yeah, thing, I mean, that's really the
crowd you want when you're doing anything a little bit lubricated.

Speaker 11 (37:03):
Yes, exactly.

Speaker 8 (37:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (37:05):
So it's uh yeah, but together there's not the pressure.

Speaker 12 (37:08):
And so some of the best moments from these moms
on the mic events, which I've done three of now,
are when I just draw a name from the ball
and have a woman come up and speak for the
first time or tell a story for the first time,
or you know, speak in that moment, not even knowing
they were going to, and have them completely grip the

(37:29):
room and do just as well, if not better than
the polished people, because they were probably the most relatable
and the most real. And I just think there's so
much magic in that. And I don't think there's enough
of the like spur of the moment, first time, beginner,
vulnerable thing.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
For how many of the people. And you can speculate
if you don't have any real, you know, clarity on this,
but I'm guessing that at least a few of these
people decided to do one of these things to get
over those feelings of anxiety. And I can't do this.
I mean, it's still true the public speaking is number
one by far of the things people fear most, which

(38:09):
is crazy to me. Right for me, it is like
I can't even remember not being able to speak in
front of people, even as like a young kid, I
could get up in front. So for me, it's like
I don't understand that, but I also have been around
enough people to know this has to be just terrifying
for some people. Is that part of it for them?

Speaker 11 (38:26):
Well, what's really cool?

Speaker 12 (38:28):
So a lot of the people who've gotten up, well
the women so far, they come to the event. So
last year, for example, there are a few women who
were like, I could never do this, you know, and
then at the end of the event, at the end
of the night, after watching everyone else go up and
seeing them basically give them permission, they're like, I can
do this. And then of course they're still super nervous

(38:52):
going into it, because that's normal and it means that
you care. And I mean I was so nervous coming here,
but I'm like, I'm just so excited.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Yeah, nobody listens to this show you're friend. So so
this event, to be clear, is not women only. I'm
super excited. My favorite realtor, Ed Prather is going to
speak and tell his story. Yes that I don't even know. Yeah,
so I am very excited to hear about that. What
are some of the people going to talk about or do?
What are what are we looking at here in our

(39:19):
list of talent for not till now.

Speaker 12 (39:22):
Well, yeah, So speaking of Ed, I was telling his wife,
because our sons go to school together, about this event,
and she and how I want to have people do
stand up for the very first time, like very first,
like I haven't even done open mic or anything like.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
This is the moment.

Speaker 11 (39:38):
And she was like, oh my gosh.

Speaker 12 (39:40):
Ed has always wanted to do stand up and he's
got a whole thing, and I'm like, we got to
have him, man, So he didn't even volunteer himself. He
got volunteered, yes, yes, yes, And so he you know,
he'll be doing yeah, a whole routine as I don't
know if you know, but he was born with one
e yes and so he'll be doing stand up about
his life from that perspective, which I'm so excited to

(40:02):
hear about.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (40:04):
So I have a mom and a teacher. She's starting
the show with her very first time stand up talking
about life with ADHD and how she just started taking
adderall and how everything has literally.

Speaker 11 (40:16):
Changed for her and how she has this new life.
We have Debbie Shear.

Speaker 12 (40:21):
She's a you know, very established comedian and auctioneer and
MC but she'll be you know, speaking about mental health
and surprising us with a certain way that she does
the stand up.

Speaker 11 (40:33):
That she's always wanted to do.

Speaker 12 (40:35):
So we have, you know, some experienced people doing things
for the first time, but we also have you know,
I have a mom who's going to be singing. She's
never sung in front of people ever. I mean the
people she's telling about this event, she's They're like, wait.

Speaker 8 (40:48):
You sing?

Speaker 11 (40:49):
She's like, yes, Like I'm gonna do this, So I
just I can't wait.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
This just sounds super fun. And I have people asking
do you have to audition? How do you get to
be a part of this? So I'm guessing this show
a set, But how can they get in the loop
so they know when Britt Steuven is looking for the
next group of people?

Speaker 7 (41:07):
How do they make that happen.

Speaker 12 (41:09):
People are already saying they want to audition, They're like
writing in they just asks.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
How do you need? Oh do you need to other
asking if I need to always I don't need to
audition for this show. But I honestly have had so
many first already that I don't know if there's a
first left in front of an audience other than stripping,
and I'm not doing that. So shot me a look
like no, that will not be happening.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
I can assure you.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
Yeah, so no, I would, I would love to do.
I love stuff like this though, because I love I'm
always rooting for people that are doing hard things, right,
I'm always rooting for them to succeed. And when you
see somebody. I just watched my daughter's classmates get ready
to go to Festcon, which is a big theater convention,
and they were practicing, and oh my gosh, I was

(42:00):
rooting so hard for those kids, like and you get
they get done, and you're just like, oh, that was
so good. I have a feeling there's going.

Speaker 12 (42:06):
To be a lot of that in this Yes, yes, yeah,
and so but yeah, if anyone is interested in applying
for the next one, I actually just set up the
website not till now dot com.

Speaker 11 (42:17):
They can go there.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
I will add that to the blog as well as
when we finish talking, because I have a link to
the actual event. It's Wednesday, January twenty eighth, and it's
at seven pm at the Lakewood Cultural Center in Lakewood.
And I'll remind you guys, like a week before if
you if there's tickets left, you guys have had some
pretty brisk ticket sales. I understand.

Speaker 11 (42:36):
Yep, eighty tickets sold so far.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Nice, very nice. Somebody just pointed this out and we
need to have this discussion. Were your House Hunters International?

Speaker 5 (42:47):
Were you?

Speaker 2 (42:48):
I was to stop it? Okay, No, you don't understand.
I was HGTV's biggest fan in the whole world that
they have canceled every show that I love, scept House
Hunters International. Okay, So where were you looking? Because now
I'm going to go back there. What I'm writing it down?
When you leave there, I'm gonna go back and watch
her episode. Oh no, So, where where were you looking?

Speaker 12 (43:10):
We were a Duseldorf. Oh I love yes, so and
I I'm probably gonna get in big trouble for this.
But I thought that they actually help you find a
place to live.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
But yeah, they work backwards. Now you've got to have
found your place before. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (43:24):
I knew that that jig was up heres ago.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
So now it's now. My husband and I play a
game like which one are they faking about it? Like
when you're like I have to have this place, We're like, oh,
that's not it. Yeah, we just make it a complete
game on that. How did you even get into that?

Speaker 12 (43:40):
I emailed them and just said, hey, can you guys
help us find a place to live? And they never
responded until we lived there and then and then I'm like, oh, shoot,
well now we have a spot. They're like no, no, no,
but yeah, and then we were like should we even
do this?

Speaker 2 (43:54):
Still? But did you feel like a faker?

Speaker 9 (43:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (43:57):
Well yeah yeah, but it was actually really fun to
see how they do it.

Speaker 9 (44:01):
Right.

Speaker 11 (44:01):
There's like three people, yeah, you know, and then you have.

Speaker 12 (44:04):
To film everything. You say something naturally once and then
you have to say it four more times so that
they can get all the angles.

Speaker 11 (44:11):
And then that you form like four days of content.

Speaker 12 (44:14):
You film four days and then they only use like
twenty two minutes. So all the good stuff is actually
not even all the really funny things.

Speaker 8 (44:23):
We're yet inapprogrimate.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
You have serious because you have to look serious as
people think you're really considered.

Speaker 7 (44:28):
No, my brother's real realtor in.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Las Vegas and he's like, no, you have to have
already sold the house before they even show up. So
not till now is a wonderful idea. Break what is
it that I mean? You have a website, You've got
the not till Now website, but you have all kinds
of irons in the fire. Yes, what is you know?

Speaker 12 (44:48):
What do you do.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
That is your actual thing?

Speaker 12 (44:52):
I know, I I don't really know I have Yeah,
so I've just so this is my debut event of
of the thing that actually is the umbrella of everything
I've been doing for a while now. So I just
love to help people do the things they've always wanted
to do, whether it is to start writing or to
write a book. I have a fun writing group which

(45:14):
I now changed the name to the not Till Now
Writing Group. I YEA also do yes the annual Moms
on the Mic event, which I will be changing the
name to.

Speaker 11 (45:24):
Not till Now Focus Writing.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
And Yeah, very cool, niche, extremely cool, Niche, Britt, I
like it. Okay, So the Texter who just said okay,
just like when the wine Yogi is on the show,
just became exclusively for chicks only, I'm out. I'm sorry,
Please don't take offense, but there's just nothing in this

(45:49):
segment that's remotely appealing or interesting for the blue collar
men of your listening audience. Oh wow, with respect, Literally
ninety nine point five percent of this show is designed
specifically for you and mind suck it up, Buttercup, you'll
live through the point five. Maybe you'll become a more
compassionate to human in the meantime.

Speaker 11 (46:07):
Good lord, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 (46:09):
We no.

Speaker 12 (46:10):
So that's what's so fun about untill now is that
I'm men are welcome to well loved that guy.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Yeah, thats gro pal sand anyway, Sorry about that. It
just sometimes people sometimes send things without recognizing exactly the
rest of the picture. Actually, Britt and I were talking
about this before the break and for the first time
in my hosting life, when we were having a conversation,
I was like, oh, Britt, you need to watch this
video on Instagram, and I said, honestly, never done that before.

(46:38):
But the notion that getting out of your comfort zone
and doing something for the first time. I think when
you reach a certain age, especially, you kind of feel
like I mean, I know I have because I lead
one of those yes lives where I say yes to
a lot of stuff. I may only say yes once, yeah,
but I do say yes at least once. I think
a lot of people think, oh, I've accomplished a lot.

(46:59):
I've checked a lot of boxes, I've done the things right,
I've done the things that when I was younger, I
was certain these were the things that I needed to do,
and once you achieve them.

Speaker 7 (47:09):
There's always that okay, what now, right?

Speaker 4 (47:14):
You know what?

Speaker 7 (47:15):
That wasn't as great as I thought it was going
to be, right? So is that part of what this
is about?

Speaker 4 (47:20):
Kind?

Speaker 12 (47:21):
I mean, it's it's really I just I want to
give a space to people who can be the person
that they've maybe always wanted to be, right, maybe they
did check certain boxes, but there's a certain part of them,
a certain piece of them that wants to be creative
or to share a certain story, and this is the

(47:42):
arena for them to do it, to share it. And
I also want people in the audience to know that
it's not all about performing on a stage, right, Like
if you don't if you don't have a hidden talent,
if you don't have something that would be on a
stage like I Also, I don't want them to feel
like they.

Speaker 11 (48:00):
Don't have anything to offer.

Speaker 12 (48:01):
I want them to feel something in their own lives
that could possibly change another is something they could share
with someone, something they could do personally, you know, I
start that's.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
Exactly what I'm talking about. It's about I mean, and
maybe it's I don't know how old you are, bright,
I've got to be older than you are. And I
look at where I am now, very content with my life,
right I have I mean people who saying how you
do it? I'm like, I have nothing to complain about, Like, yes,
I could complain about dumb things, but I have nothing
to complain about. I am living through a season of
my life that I am enjoying every second of. And

(48:32):
that's not how it is, That's not how it's been
my whole life. But I got to say I love
in my fifties so far for that reason. But I
am now also actively thinking about things that I would
like to do right that are different than what I'm
doing now, that have different outcomes.

Speaker 7 (48:48):
And I think it's like once you sort of.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
Get to where you are. I love my job, I
love my career. I've been working for it for a
long time. But now I'm like, Okay, this is good.
You know what else is there?

Speaker 9 (48:58):
Right?

Speaker 12 (48:59):
Yeah, this is this is totally what it's about, is
to do the thing that you're curious about that you
don't even have to be a professional, right, You don't
have to change your whole life to like you talked
about doing tap dancing, you know.

Speaker 11 (49:12):
Yeah, that's all my life.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
By the way, it's on my life list of things
to do before I die. That's on there, learn to
tap dance.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
You know.

Speaker 11 (49:18):
And that's the thing.

Speaker 12 (49:19):
And that's what I was thinking about when I was
driving down listening to you know, with the like crazy
everything world. Like as things get crazier, I get more
and more motivated to do things like this.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
I love it. I think it's fantastic. And for the record,
more text messages different blue collar worker here, love the
show today. Good. Maybe that guy is so wrong. I'm
picturing how hot you and Brent are. Okay, that's weird.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
Why did I read that?

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Why I was committed?

Speaker 13 (49:47):
Dang it.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Anyway, careful not till now dot com. I just added
it to the blog. I also have tickets there for
the show coming up on January twentieth. I'm super excited
about this, Like I already put it on my calendar.
I'm gonna buy my tickets this afternoon and go see
this because again, there's something and I love this about
my personality and I've realized through the years that not

(50:11):
everyone shares this trait. I love rooting for other.

Speaker 7 (50:14):
People especially people I don't know.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
I love it. It gives me so much joy to
see them succeed. And I feel like this is gonna
be a whole night of that. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 12 (50:21):
I and I'm gonna just be emailing everyone being like, okay,
come on, we got to just cheer everyone on.

Speaker 11 (50:26):
Like I just cannot wait to fill.

Speaker 12 (50:28):
This thing with three hundred people and have them watch
people do the thing that scares them, but like they're
doing it bravely and they're doing it and they're being
cheered on.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
I love it. Fritz Steuven, thank you so much for
making time all of this. I'll put her website on
the blog in just a moment. But the ticket, the
ticket link is already on the blog and we'll try
and doo it it up a little more in.

Speaker 7 (50:49):
The next segment.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
Sir, if you're still listening, your wider my friend Ryan Schuling.
I don't normally do guests back to back, but Ryan
this is of course, because he's got a show to
worry about. We're doing a Republican governor's debate in Greeley.
I have to thank big, big, big time Sheriff Steve
Reems for setting it up. And Steve Wells for paying

(51:10):
for it. But we invited the six front runners of
the Republican Kurt Republican lineup to the debate. Five of
them said yes, And when we get back, I will
tell you what the last one said and the reasoning
behind his absence. With Ryan, We're going to do that.
Oh and Ryan has some big career news we're going
to talk about. No, he's not leaving. Don't worry about that,

(51:31):
Or I'd be kind of I'd be like, Ryan has
career news. If that if that was how I say,
it would be bad. But Ryan has career news. We'll
be back in just a few minutes. Keep it on
Koa the host on our brother station six point thirty
k hell Brother two to four. I just can't call
it a sister station. There's literally no chicks on the
station right here. Well you, but I'm the station in January.

(51:54):
Big changes coming in. They're positive changes. Or I would
be like big changes are coming in, but they're not
so they big jes are coming. Where are you moving to?

Speaker 10 (52:03):
Well, a little bit of real estate has been shifting
around thanks to one of Michael Brown coming over here
between nine am and noon as a prelude to your program,
so something had to fill the.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
A ten am was that you?

Speaker 9 (52:19):
That was me.

Speaker 7 (52:21):
I'm trying to do what a Rod asked me to do.

Speaker 10 (52:23):
But it's weird. I was hearing like two different Mandy voices.
I thought it was in my brain. But anyway, six
am to ten am over there had been vacant for
some time and it made.

Speaker 14 (52:34):
Sense to.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
Yes, well to the morning drive.

Speaker 14 (52:40):
Well, and we're moving the furniture and that's what's happening.

Speaker 10 (52:43):
And so, you know, very appreciative of that opportunity to
you know, try to pick up where Brownie left off.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
And you're there was a And here's the thing. Every
single person that was in contention for that job is
a friend of mine, a single one of them. And
I Dave Tepper, I was like, first of all, I'm out, like,
I have no opinion, but there was no way that
we weren't going to win in that. But you made
absolutely the most sense. You're a known quantity there. People

(53:12):
love you on k they love you here too when
you do your feeling work. But I'm super excited for you,
even though I don't want that. I don't want that
schedule you used to have it.

Speaker 10 (53:20):
You know, following in the lineage of khow Mornings would
be Mandy Connell, Ross Kamenska, Michael Brown.

Speaker 14 (53:27):
What do all three of them have in common?

Speaker 2 (53:28):
And now they're all on CAMPI that's the thing, right,
living the dream, buddy. Now let's let's we got to
talk about this other thing before it went out of time.

Speaker 14 (53:35):
And there's another thing.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
Yeah, there's another thing. We are going to be moderating
a gooberlatorial debate in January, January tenth up in Greeley.
Big thanks to both share Steve Reems and our buddy
Steve Wells.

Speaker 7 (53:48):
Steve is underwriting this whole thing.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
It is designed to be a debate for the top
six GOP gubernatorial candidates, and it will be a debate
between the top five gubernatory candidates. And I didn't ask
Sheriff Steve Riams how much of the back and forth
that I could share, because you and I were both
privy to the series of text messages that were exchanged

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with the candidates, and every candidate except one immediately jumped
in to confirm the one candidate, Victor Marx.

Speaker 14 (54:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (54:19):
I might add too that Representative Scott Bottoms had just
lost his father, like two days before we passed away
and he committed to it.

Speaker 14 (54:26):
Barb Kirkmeyer, Greg Lopez.

Speaker 10 (54:27):
I'll offer this part of the exchange because I think
it's relevant to discussion and for our listeners to know.
Both Barb and Greg offered to move the date yep
immediately to accommodate Victor. Victor just has an event apparently
scheduled this January tenth, I believe Saturday coming up, so
about a month from now, and kind of gave a
blanket response that he's looking forward to debate, but not

(54:50):
that one, and it was a conflict in his schedule.
He's going to be appearing with me actually tomorrow morning,
Victor Marx eight am over there on six point thirty
k ow.

Speaker 14 (54:57):
It'll be the first question that I asked him is
why not this debate? Why not now? Why wait? Why punt?

Speaker 10 (55:04):
Why can't the event you have on January tenth be moved?
I mean, isn't that important? What's more important than an
open debate for the voters to consider the candidate correct
and for Victor to have opportunity to interact with these
other candidates and prove himself to be the best candidate.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
When he came back with.

Speaker 7 (55:19):
The I have a conflict.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
I get it. You got a conflict. Maybe it's a
big fundraiser, maybe whatever, you got to go. There's a
lot of but when you know immediately the offer was made,
we'll move this to accommodate you. And then it just
got fel dodgy. I felt like his response was vague
and hey, you guys have a good time. I'll promote
it among my channels. It's almost utterly what he said
there at the event. I know that's why I chose

(55:41):
those that So basically, I'll let I'll let all of
my people see you guys rip each other to shreds,
and then I'll prote that. But I won't Actually, I
gotta tell you, I don't I don't understand the fascination
with this guy.

Speaker 10 (55:53):
I'm gonna be perfectly honest. It's almost like he's trying
to pull a Trump. Remember it's the primary where Ronda
Santis and Nikki and all the other Republican candidates.

Speaker 14 (56:02):
It felt like a junior varsity debate.

Speaker 10 (56:03):
And you know, well Trump had been president of the
United States, so exactly kind of get that.

Speaker 14 (56:07):
I don't know that Victor Marx is on.

Speaker 10 (56:09):
That level, especially, there are so many listeners in my audience, Mandy,
and maybe you've gotten the same response that they don't
even know who this guy is or are aware of him.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
Now.

Speaker 8 (56:17):
He's done a lot, He's written a couple of books.

Speaker 10 (56:19):
Apparently he had some ties to Turning Point USA and
Charlie Kirk There's a lot of interesting aspects to his story.
I just think that he needs to he owes it
to listeners and to potential voters to really get into
the nitty gritty and the devil of the details of
exactly you know. There are questions about some things about
his past. There are questions about his political acumen. Does

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he have policy stance issues that can be well articulated.

Speaker 14 (56:43):
I think this might be some of the.

Speaker 10 (56:45):
Concern that he gets up there on a debate with
a very well versed Barb kirklar and I'm just telling
you that that's the difference is going to be noticeable.
So I'm looking forward to moderating to debate with the
candidates that we have, Mandy. But to your point, I agree.
I am disapo pointed that Victor Marx is not choosing
to be part of it. Maybe he'll change his mind
after he talks to me to Mark, you know what,
from your lips to God's erers.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
I hope so, because it also feels disrespectful right in
a way of all of the other candidates that are running. Here,
you have a forum and by the way, to the
texture said Mandy, I live in Greeley.

Speaker 7 (57:19):
Can I come to the debate?

Speaker 2 (57:19):
You absolutely can, But tickets are going very very quickly.
They're free, packed, they're free. But you better get him soon.
I put a link on the blog today. If you
want to know more about that, you have the thing.

Speaker 10 (57:29):
This is just my upbringing. My background is be a
question I have for victors. I'm not going to say
anything here that I won't say directly to him. It's like,
what makes your time more valuable than Barb kirk Kharmer's
or Greg Lopez or Sheriff Mike SEL's.

Speaker 14 (57:41):
You know, they have events.

Speaker 10 (57:43):
I'm sure that may have been scheduled for that date
as well. Sheriff Rames floats it out. And that's another thing.
Cher Steve Reames is one of the most respected people
in the Colorado Republican Party statewide, not just in Weld County.
So it makes sense to me that once he extended
this offer, five of those candidate dates go yeah, yes,
I'm there.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Immediately you guys wait, Ryan and I were on the
text arenda. It was immediate it yes.

Speaker 10 (58:06):
So that's the thing, is like, why is your time
more valuable and you can't spare it? But you guys
go play amongst yourselves in the sandbox. We'll see maybe
I'll come down the line and participate in a debate
at some point.

Speaker 14 (58:16):
That's a bad look. It's a bad look.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
I think it's a really bad luck.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
And it was.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
I just and I have been watching and I've been
watching the videos that people are sharing on social media,
and they're very well produced, you know, they're very well packaged.
But until I see and hear from the guy myself,
and it shouldn't be that I have to say, well,
I got to get him on my radio show. I
think every voter, and I say this all the time,

(58:40):
I think voters should go see these people in person.
Any opportunity you can, you should go see them in person,
and could be at a fundraiser, right because you will see,
you will get a feel for someone in ten minutes
in person that you cannot get from internet videos. That
are carefully packaged or you know, other commercials that you
might see. And so I feel like every opportunity for

(59:02):
someone who is well known in Olpaso County but not
well known in Weld County, right, not at all.

Speaker 10 (59:08):
Well And further along those lines, when we saw let's
say Donald Trump in twenty sixteen, he was a known quantity,
So that part's different, but the part that would be
the same circumstances, he was a newcomer to politics, and
people like myself for like, does this guy really have
what it takes to get into the political arena and
affect the change that he's talking about? What are his
policy positions? Where did Donald Trump shine the most? Where

(59:30):
did he separate himself the most from those other candidates.
It was on the debate stage where he called Jeb
Bush low energy. You're over there in the end of
the stage, you're pulling, numbers have fallen through.

Speaker 14 (59:40):
You're a real tough guy, Jeb.

Speaker 10 (59:42):
And that's how he kind of, like I said, separated
himself from the field. And you would think of Victor
Marx's campaign, we have to participate in a debate like that,
That's how we kind of get our foot in the
door and show these other establishment candidates who are you know,
political political muckety MUCKs that.

Speaker 14 (59:59):
We can come into this arena win.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
That is, that's exactly right. If you believe you're good
enough to be governor, you should believe you're good enough
to win the debate.

Speaker 14 (01:00:09):
Exactly. Well, the final thing, I know we got to
wrap up here, but props to a Rod.

Speaker 10 (01:00:13):
I'm not sure if he did this intentionally or was
just a spin of the wheel, but he came into
this segment with gimme shelter by the Rolling Stones.

Speaker 14 (01:00:19):
That's my ring tone on my.

Speaker 10 (01:00:20):
Phone and that's because my last name, Schuling translates from
Dutch to shelter in English.

Speaker 14 (01:00:26):
And he nailed it with the song there.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
Wow, that was a lot from TMI right. There lot
of stuff going on there about that. So do you
know how the top six were chosen? That is a
question I.

Speaker 7 (01:00:39):
Wanted to ask and I forgot to ask Steven.

Speaker 10 (01:00:41):
I just popped into my head what he told me,
I think was just going on whatever internal polling data,
and was Okay, you're comparing these among the candidates and
you think they're going to be let's say, massage.

Speaker 14 (01:00:52):
We're on the margins to make it look as good
for each candidate as possible.

Speaker 10 (01:00:55):
But I think with the numbers and the comparisons across
the tabs of each candidate, it became clear. I think
to the sheriff that there were six candidates in particular
that were highering level of awareness or support, perhaps in
dollars earned, that'd be a question better for him. I'll
text them after this segment as a matter of factor.
Maybe you can as well, But I think that's how
he came to this.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
For the record, I don't disagree that these are the
top six.

Speaker 7 (01:01:18):
I want to be clear about that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
I think that these are the clear name I d
well recognized, you know, candidates for the GUP nomination, and
I think they made the right choice.

Speaker 10 (01:01:32):
Yeah, and again, if you had all six candidates participating,
this is going to be like a WWE battle. Royale
and Mandy and yours truly being the referees. It's gonna
be a lot of fun and it should be. And
you know, the candidates get in there and they mix
it up. This is what American politics is all about,
and it gives the people a chance to make up
their own minds. Bet these candidates for themselves and put
them through the ring because you know, darn well, Mandy

(01:01:54):
and I cleaned up my language just for you that
whether it's Kyle Clark at nine News or the rest
the ministry media statewide, or Michael Bidett, there is going
to be a reckoning for our Republican nominee. And I
say that myself a Republican. I know you may not
be at this point, but that you got to be
able to prove your merit and your metal in that

(01:02:15):
kind of atmosphere and surroundings. And I think the best
candidate that have emerges for that debate could get a
leg up in the race.

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
Amen to that. You can see Ryan and I there
January tenth. I put a link on the blog today
at mandy'sblog dot com to get your tickets, but get
them soon. They are actually selling very very quickly and
they are free. Ryan Schooling, good to see you, man.

Speaker 8 (01:02:34):
See you doctor later.

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
We'll be right back. Hey, Rod, you got to look
at Chuck's Facebook page, did you see? Okay, so we
didn't hang up all of our Christmas decorations this year
because we're going to be with our kids and we're
not going to be here mylesitter doesn't care, so it
doesn't matter.

Speaker 7 (01:02:48):
But I missed my tree.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
So this weekend we set up the tree and we
had I just got out bear bones, ornaments and whatnot,
and we didn't get out our tree topper. We didn't
get out Father Christmas. And Chuck wait for so, okay,
we actually own a picture of my head on a stick.
Don't ask, long story. My friends did that a long
time ago, but we have it. So Chuck then put

(01:03:13):
my head on the top of our Christmas tree and
I was like, so I feel not good about saying
that I should replace an angel or Father Christmas with
a picture of my head. He won't take it down.

Speaker 5 (01:03:27):
Now this begs a very important question. What very crucial?
What if we had a fat head made of you?
How many of our lesteners would buy it? Can do
the same thing? Textures five six six ninety zero common
spirit hell text line Just a simple yes or no?
Would you buy a Mandy Connell fat hat and put

(01:03:47):
it on your tree?

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
What is a fat head?

Speaker 7 (01:03:48):
Is that one of the giant heads?

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
What would they even do with it? What would you
do with a Mandy I would buy one? I would
just I would buy one I should get one going.

Speaker 14 (01:04:00):
So there you go.

Speaker 8 (01:04:01):
There is a Christmas gift.

Speaker 7 (01:04:03):
Are you done with your Christmas shopping? No, we're done
with ours.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
No, we just ordered the last little bits of this
and that the other day. We're good. It helps when
your kids get older and everything they want is expensive,
so you just buy one thing, like there you go, Mandy.
Is there a good petition going around to get this
natural gas man reversed. I escaped Portland, Oregon, six years ago,
thinking I was moving to a more purple state that

(01:04:28):
had a chance to flip back to a more conservative state.
I'm thirty three, I have two under two, and I'm
the sole breadwinner. Maybe it's time to move to Idaho.
Let me just see this.

Speaker 7 (01:04:39):
The only poll that matters is the.

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
Poll that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Returns some measure of sanity to the governor's office. Because
the governor hates two things. Number one, he hates oil
and gas because many years ago, you may remember, when
he was a congressman outside his vacation, oh out in
the country, they had the nerve to freck for oil

(01:05:06):
and gas just down the road a piece. Now you
know that after they do the initial fracking, then they
just set up a pump and it goes about his business.
But he was outraged, and he hates soil and gas
for it, now hates it. So if you want to
keep your gas stove, you've got to get rid of
not only Jared Polus, You've got to get rid of
any Democrat that would assume the mantle of governor. And

(01:05:27):
Michael Bennett and Phil Wiser will just continue this exact
same program. The second thing Jared Polus hates. Hey, oh nope,
only one, only the cowboy hat and mustache version. Put
me down for a dozen, says this texter, What are
you gonna do with a dozen Mandy fat heads?

Speaker 13 (01:05:45):
What is it?

Speaker 8 (01:05:46):
What are you gonna in the law and stare at people?

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
Stop it?

Speaker 8 (01:05:50):
Stop it, gas station, bus stops, put.

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
Him everywhere, Mandy, I would totally love to have a
picture of your face on a stick. We could put
that on merchandise page along with the Mandylorian shirts. Guys,
I am struggling with the Mandylorian shirts because they're so close.

Speaker 7 (01:06:07):
I think Disney would cease and assist.

Speaker 5 (01:06:09):
Us, because any padge of honor kind of that. Well,
here's the problem.

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
I tried to upload it to two different drop ship
t shirt sites and they would not accept it, so
I have to get something else done for that.

Speaker 7 (01:06:23):
Yes, I've always wanted.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Mandy's hat on a pike. It's a stick, not a pike.
Mandy a rod. Yes, the grill of my SUV because
you imagine driving down I twenty five and you're just like,
all of a sudden, Mandy coddles like in your rearview mirror.
That would be amazing.

Speaker 5 (01:06:38):
They passed by and someone goes, another Mandy, look dad,
another Mandy Laurian.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
It would be fantastic.

Speaker 8 (01:06:48):
I'm telling you, I knew people will be behind it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
Absolutely fantastic. Mandy. You might have covered this earlier in
the show, But did you talk about the Heisman? We
did not. I told you it would be Mendoza from Indiana.
My daughter is a freshman at Indiana and is on
top of the world with their football team.

Speaker 7 (01:07:05):
We casually referred to Fernando as her boyfriend.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
Of course you do, no But is Heisman speech just
another burner man, just the greatest kid, a wonderful human being,
just so good, so so good. Anyway, congratulations to him
for winning the Heisman. Apparently one of the other candidates
didn't take it as well.

Speaker 8 (01:07:27):
No he did not. Yeah, he had a sign at
like a club or a bar or something after and
it did. It was not nice to well.

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
He also posted on social media as well.

Speaker 8 (01:07:37):
Yeah, you don't do that. You don't think NFL teams
going to look at it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
I just don't. Yeah, don't do that.

Speaker 14 (01:07:44):
Yeah, don't do it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:45):
Apparently a rod love Mandy, but no, sensible, very sensible Mandy.
Christmas lawn declarations with your face on a stick. Okay,
that would be hilarious. Now I might have to do this.

Speaker 7 (01:08:02):
Okay, we're gonna come back.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
Last hour of the show. I got a ton of
stuff we're gonna cover, So keep your pants on people,
we're doing that next.

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Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
The third hour of the show. A couple of things.
I want to remind you that it is time to
nominate your favorite veteran service member, active duty service member,
or first responder for our Hero's Thank You program. Bronco's
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to nominate somebody, maybe they're just having a rough year,
maybe you're just like you know what, that guy or
gal doesn't get enough attention for what they do. You
can nominate them. You nominate yourself, we don't care.

Speaker 7 (01:09:16):
It's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
Just go to Kowacolorado dot com forward Slash Contests and
you will find a heroes thank you there. And I
realize that many of you are are tuning in for
the first moment right now, but if you want to
hear about the attacks at Bondai Beach and the murder
of Rob Reiner, we did all that in the first
hour and it was fiery and I cannot do it again.

(01:09:40):
So as soon as the you Know podcast is up,
go check it out because I can't I.

Speaker 8 (01:09:47):
Yeah, yeah, Or there's a great video on our social
channel right now.

Speaker 7 (01:09:51):
As a matter of fact, check it out on Instagram x.

Speaker 8 (01:09:55):
Where else is it Facebook?

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
Now, we got a bunch of other stuff on the
blog I want to get to, including this story. Oh
a Rod, your alma mater has made themselves look foolish.

Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
What's the problem with Metropolitan State University. We call it
Metro State as most people do well.

Speaker 4 (01:10:19):
In their.

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
Well at the school's writing center, they have declared standard
American English as a concern for anti racist initiatives on
a web page dedicated to linguistic white supremacy. Yeah, consider

(01:10:44):
how you can design assignments pedagogy response creating practices that
acknowledge that racism exists in our assignments pedagogy and is
pedagogy response creating practices. So essentially, consider how you can
design assignments that acknowledge that the assignments that you've created

(01:11:07):
are racist. Okay, so that's part number one, and this
is where it gets really good. The university also warns
against Standard American English. Now, I just want to point
out where this is coming from. It's coming from the
MSU Denver Writing Center. Now, when I went to college

(01:11:27):
and I realized it was ancient times, back in the
last century, college was supposed to prepare you for life.
And prepare you for a career in the workplace. Now,
I don't know about your workplace, but my workplace operates
on a set of standard rules that proper English is
the way to go. I mean, I'm in talk radio.
Could you imagine if I got up here and was like,

(01:11:49):
I've seen something the other day that gave me pause.
If you say I've seen something, I'm going to assume
the rest of it is not inside the book, because
it's not. It's anyway. But instead of encouraging people to
understand how to use Standard American English, which is the
language that binds us all together, they've declared it's a

(01:12:12):
social construct that privileges white communities and maintain social and
racial hierarchies. You know why that's wrong, because no one
is prohibited from speaking Standard American English when they need to.
No one, not a single person, is prohibited from learning

(01:12:34):
standard American English, just like if I move to Brazil.
If I move to Brazil, they should expect me to
learn standard Brazilian Portuguese because that's what they speak.

Speaker 7 (01:12:48):
It's not unreasonable.

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
And this is a limiting belief because if you graduate
kids who believe that talking and slang and not responding
to text messages with actual words. If you tell them
that that passes for communication and then send them into
the workplace where all of a sudden their bosses are
like they can't even form a sentence, you've now limited
them from succeeding in society by deciding that something that

(01:13:13):
is standard.

Speaker 7 (01:13:16):
Is somehow racist.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
Now the amazing part about this, I know this is
going to shock some of you, but I know, dare
I say, I know a lot of black people that
successfully speaks Standard American English. Yeah, I know, right, shocking,
so amazing. I also know a lot of people who

(01:13:38):
are of Hispanic or Latin descent who not only speak
Standard American English, they also speak another whole language successfully.
And then I know people that have come from other
countries who also I know people that speak five or
six or even seven languages and they still manage to
grasp Standard American English as one of those. But MSU

(01:14:02):
is not done. The MSU Denver Writing Center rejects the
notion that Standard American English exists for many reasons. We
fully support students in their English, whatever that may be,
in communicating their thoughts and ideas. And you know what,
there's something to that. If you want to sit down
and write a whole book and you want to write

(01:14:24):
it only as text messages that are abbreviated, you are
free to do that.

Speaker 7 (01:14:28):
Knock yourself out.

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
But if you're trying to communicate with the most people possible,
that's the dumbest thing you could possibly do. The website
also recommends that professors ask about assignments. Is this anti racist?
How does this prompt fight white supremacy? And does this
prompt exploit the students in any way? Oh my god,

(01:15:00):
oh Metro State, Oh, Metro State.

Speaker 5 (01:15:05):
A rod.

Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
Were you required to use proper English when you matriculated
at Metro State University?

Speaker 1 (01:15:11):
I mean you?

Speaker 7 (01:15:14):
And how were you harmed by that?

Speaker 8 (01:15:16):
I still haven't recovered.

Speaker 2 (01:15:18):
Did you?

Speaker 10 (01:15:18):
Did you?

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
Were you? Was it confirmed that white supremacy is everywhere
when you had to use standard American English?

Speaker 9 (01:15:24):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:15:24):
Yeah, of course, Yeah, yep, that's all that Metro wants
to learn.

Speaker 9 (01:15:28):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
When we get back, I got to talk about this story,
or rather an editorial. You guys, I don't know what
is happening at Colorado Parks and Wildlife, but things have
gone sideways in a big way, and it doesn't help
the Jared Police keeps assigning or appointing left wing radical
wack of noodles to oversee our parks and wildlife.

Speaker 7 (01:15:50):
It's only going to get worse because there's a new.

Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
There's a new vacancy on the Parks and Wildlife Board Commission,
and I'm sure he's going to fill it with some
idiot that his husband wants. We'll talk about that next
great editorial in the Denver Gazette, and it's about the
fact that Murphy Robinson, who was appointed to the Colorado
Parks and Wildlife Commission a very short time ago, maybe

(01:16:18):
a couple of years ago, he was chosen to be
the hunter Angler Advocate on the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission.
He stepped down because he's got some commitments in the
private sector and he says he wants to focus on that.
When it comes at the very moment that we find
out that the director of Colorado Parks and Wildlife resigned

(01:16:42):
before he could be fired, which comes on the heels
of our wolf free introduction being an unmitigated disaster, blowing
through money way faster than expected on reimbursing ranchers for
lost stock because amazingly enough the wolves keep killing stuff.

Speaker 9 (01:17:02):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:17:03):
This editorial goes to great lengths to demonstrate how awful
some of the governor's appointments have been. The thirteen member
commissioned by design, is supposed to reflect a diverse representation.
Some of its seats are statutorily reserved to represent key
stakeholders in wildlife management and conservation, including hunters and others

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engaged in outdoor recreation, as well as farmers and ranches.
Some of the governor's other appointments have fallen well short,
says the Denver Gazette. They weren't just poorly vetted, as
sometimes happened. It was because the police administration's well known
relationship with a fringe of the animal rights and environmental movements.
Mostly I believe through his husband Marlin, that fringe also

(01:17:51):
includes advocates of Colorado's divisive reintroduction of wolves. Here are
some of the administration's appointments you should pay at. Two.
Last year, the governor appointed Jaye Touchton, a former attorney
for environmental litigation, machine wild Earth Guardians. The appointment was
rejected by the state Senate, but later upheld by Democrats

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in the state Senate. A year later, he appointed Jessica
Boulier will you, a Denver animal rights and environmental lawyer,
to represent the state park system on the Commission, despite
her confession she didn't even have a state parks pass
and could only name a few front range parks she'd visited.

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She too, made it onto the Commission only after a
vote by the full Senate because the Agriculture Committee rejected her.

Speaker 7 (01:18:43):
The same year, the governor.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
Appointed Gary Skiba, a wildlife biologist credited with authoring the
state's wolferee introduction plan. He was nominated to represent wait
for it, hunters and anglers on the Commission. He did
not get a pointed, and that seat eventually went to
Murphy Robinson. Two more of his latest appointments were well.

(01:19:10):
Both are closely associated with the environmental movements ring leader,
the Sierra Club. Now, if you don't understand that it
is the hard left that is writing both our parks
policy and our oil and gas policy, what else do
you need? The Sierra Club is running things in Colorado

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when it comes to oil and gas and when it
comes to wildlife management. We'll see if the governor can
actually choose someone that doesn't suck. I doubt it, though,
I really doubt it, Mandy, before you get on your
proper English soapbox and just spends rhetoric about the proper use,
listen closely to yourself and clean up your own room.

(01:19:54):
Case in point, in the last segment, you use I
instead of me. Otherwise it's an informat show and you're
well versed in any topics or paid to speak to thousands.
Own it.

Speaker 7 (01:20:04):
You know what, You're absolutely right.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
So therefore I reject standard American English as sexist because
when I use the wrong word, it's obviously not my fault.
I mean, do you see what you did there. I'd
love to tell you that in fifteen hours of speaking extemporaneously,
I never make a mistake. But I do, and I'm
fine with it. When you speak fifteen hours of recorded

(01:20:29):
words that are then played back so people can point
out every grammatical error that you make when you're speaking
on the fly, then I will accept your criticism to
my heart. Right now, I was just accepted, but I
will not accept it to my heart, Mandy. When an
unqualified minority graduates and he's given a degree and cannot
get a job or is fired because they have none
of the skills, the degree implies they will blame racism.

(01:20:53):
That's a fair point, Mandy. I'm an r N who
has to take care of these people who don't speak English.
My kids say I'm racist because I expect my patients
to be able to communicate with me. I don't expect
them to be able to speak college level. Just let
me know what I can do to care for you.
That was a kickback to our last segment about the
English language. When we get back, hey, Ron, I have

(01:21:15):
a challenge for you, and I want you to get
on it. After the first of the year. I want
CBS News. As Steve Hartman on the show, that guy
has the best job in the media. He just gets
to go around and tell positive stories. I've got one.
When we get back that around the holidays, I think
hits even harder.

Speaker 7 (01:21:36):
We'll do that next the attacks at Bondi.

Speaker 2 (01:21:38):
Beach, and I just saw video on X of the
Palestinian supporters in Manchester, England celebrating the murder of Jews yesterday.
That's going to help their cause. I'm sure I needed to, like,
I need a palate cleanser, right, and there's no better
palate cleanser than on the road with Steve Hartman from CBS.

(01:21:59):
Can I have my audio please? I want you to
just listen. It's two minutes and forty five seconds for long.
If you just need to be reminded of humanity, here
you go. We end the week with a story about
the healing power of gumbo when paired with a heaping
portion of kindness.

Speaker 8 (01:22:17):
Here's Steve Hartman on the road.

Speaker 9 (01:22:21):
At the Shrimp Basket restaurant in Pensacola, Florida. One customer
has been a constant.

Speaker 2 (01:22:27):
For lunch.

Speaker 9 (01:22:28):
He always ordered a cup of gumbo, light on the rice,
hold the cracker, and again at dinner, cup of gumbo,
light rice, no cracker.

Speaker 2 (01:22:37):
It was that every day, twice a day for ten years.
Appreciate you.

Speaker 9 (01:22:42):
Chef Danell Stalworth says you can set your clock by
this guy.

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
Holds no miss no day we opened Adah's O.

Speaker 14 (01:22:50):
Mister Higsyonda greet us.

Speaker 9 (01:22:52):
Seventy eight year old Charlie Hicks was omnipresent until last
September when he wasn't didn't show up for several days.

Speaker 2 (01:23:02):
I no, Dan something was wrong.

Speaker 9 (01:23:05):
Fearing the worst, Dannelle left work in the middle of
his shift and drove to Charlie's apartment.

Speaker 2 (01:23:11):
He knocked on the door repeatedly, but no answer.

Speaker 7 (01:23:15):
And right when I was going to turn our hers
a voice just like h And then I opened the door.

Speaker 12 (01:23:22):
He was slaying on the ground and I didn't know
what his conditions was was That was the scariest part.

Speaker 9 (01:23:27):
Right now, we don't know how long Charlie had been
lying there, maybe a few days. He was severely dehydrated
and had two broken ribs, but thanks to the knell,
he would survive, and thanks to the staff at the
Shrimp Basket, he would never be alone again. They started
by bringing his gumbo to the hospital. Then they went

(01:23:49):
out and got him a new apartment right next to
the restaurant so the employees could always keep a watchful eye.
They got Charlie new appliances, fixed up the place just right. Also,
that this week, three months after the accident, you're late,
Charlie could pick up with his routine right where he

(01:24:10):
left off. Here we know he sat back at his
favorite table and ordered his favorite dish.

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
Nothing had changed except their bond. I'm glad to have
you back.

Speaker 14 (01:24:21):
Nobody.

Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
We made a connection.

Speaker 14 (01:24:26):
We made a connection.

Speaker 2 (01:24:27):
He's that uncle, he's their grandfather, he's their best friend.

Speaker 14 (01:24:31):
He all in one.

Speaker 2 (01:24:32):
Is it nice having him right next door?

Speaker 1 (01:24:34):
Though?

Speaker 2 (01:24:34):
Oh man, that's the best thing going. That's the best
thing going.

Speaker 9 (01:24:40):
Vanell Stalworth chef at a family restaurant, emphasis on family.
I'll be over more with Steve Hartman more often than
you like on the road, very Florida.

Speaker 2 (01:24:53):
Is that the best story? And I think anybody who's
worked at a restaurant long term, you always have those
You always have those old men. They're usually widowed, they
don't really have anybody else, and they come into your
restaurant all the time. I thought, after all the other
stuff today, maybe that would be something that would be
a little nice. Hey, hey, Ron, how about those brocos?

(01:25:16):
I want to play one.

Speaker 7 (01:25:18):
I want to play one more SoundBite, So let me
just play this very quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:25:22):
Well, thanks a lot, both. Congratulations what a game.

Speaker 11 (01:25:25):
You guys came in winners of ten street now eleven,
but you.

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
Were the underdogs.

Speaker 11 (01:25:30):
What did this team show against a really difficult.

Speaker 8 (01:25:33):
Packers team that were the overdogs?

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
That was the biggest difference today. And then as the
standard you know sports interview, we are the overdogs. I
love that so very much, so so so very much.
We have a bunch of videos on the blog today.
One of them is of a doctor in Norfolk, Virginia
who's saying, you know what, what does it matter if

(01:25:58):
someone wants to change their and you know, become a woman.
And I want to respond, and I'd love for you
to go read This entire thing is quite long, but
being able to respond to that question, what does it matter?
It doesn't matter unless they're asking me to believe something
that I don't believe to be true, unless they're asking

(01:26:21):
me to change my reality to make them feel better.
And a woman on x I have no idea who
this is. I've never read anything by her before, but
this struck home. Imagine a scenario in which large numbers
of white people start saying that they feel black, and
that because of this feeling their enjoyment of stereotypically black behavior,

(01:26:44):
they're now not just black themselves, but the most marginalized
and vulnerable type of black person. Imagine them insisting that
they should be the main focus of all actimism meant
to help people of color. Imagine them having operations to
darken their skin and mimic stereotypically black features. Imagine them

(01:27:05):
walking around in blackface and saying it's the exact same
thing as actually being black. Imagine them being honored as
black citizens by the White House, being summoned to talk
to the President about issues facing the black community, being
supported by celebrities, and having laws passed to make white
people who identify as black a protected class. Imagine these

(01:27:25):
people demanding membership and black organizations insisting that they receive
a share of the reparations that California is about to pay,
and demanding that they be given awards specifically to honor
black achievement. Then imagine them getting their way, and you're
getting this. That's exactly the position that women are in

(01:27:47):
right now. With a few extras like being locked in
cells with dangerous men, the sexual predation of lesbians, veh coercion,
and the increased risk of sexual assault in what used
to be female only spaces, Our oppressors are now claiming
not only the right to oppress us in whole new ways,
but the right to erase our identities as women and
rewrite the meaning of womanhood in ways that suit and

(01:28:10):
include them. If you wouldn't support this kind of behavior
towards black people, you have no business supporting this kind
of behavior. Towards women. I agree aheartedly, and maybe I
just have like way fewer craps do you give right now?
I don't know, but I am just from now on,
I am going to speak reality the best I can,
and we'll see what happens. I'm sure it'll go well.

(01:28:32):
It always goes well, right, isn't it? Isn't it? Hey?

Speaker 8 (01:28:37):
Rod?

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
How about those broncos? Sorry, recept a recept on that?
Oh my gosh, Hey Rod, I completely forgot. I have
the rules to how to end our theme song contest,
and a lot of them involve you. Oh oh yeah,
So I made four rules to our theme song contest.
You ready. Number one, there is no prize. The prize

(01:29:00):
is you get to hear your version of the theme
song multiple times a day. You and anyone who played
on the song will need to sign a release saying
we can use it forever with no compensation to you.
Rule number one. I think that's pretty clear, don't you
think should be? Yeah? Number two, you can request that
the song and lyrics be sent to you via email
by sending an email to a Rod at iHeartMedia dot
com with the subject line send the Mandy theme. Now

(01:29:23):
here's the thing. About these rules. There's only four, so
you have to follow them exactly. So a Rod can
go to his email and search send the Mandy theme
and then boom boo boom.

Speaker 5 (01:29:33):
Boo boom, and then once you actually send me the lyrics,
I'll be able to do that because we already have.

Speaker 8 (01:29:36):
One person and I don't have them yet.

Speaker 2 (01:29:37):
Oh I got them. Hang on, yeah, submit your entirely create,
human created version to a Rod again with the email
address with the subject line Mandy Theme Contest. That's it.
We're gonna take entries until the end of this month.
We will have the winner in to record Studio ce
after the first of the year. But a Rod is
going on vacation, so you better ask him. I will

(01:29:59):
send you those x right now. And by the way,
you don't have to redo the whole song. You can,
but if you just want to redo the part where
that we use on the show, that would be fine
as well. So we got that going forks and somebody
already said it right yep, amazing, amazing. Hang on, I'm
setting up to you. I'm doing this on the show
right now. I'm gonna send all the words for the

(01:30:22):
whole song. But then you only need that one part.

Speaker 8 (01:30:26):
No, no rule, So you're not sending me the right lyrics,
then I am.

Speaker 2 (01:30:31):
I can't hope it. If people can't understand it, I'm
hoping they're clear when we have a human do it.
It's all part of iHeartMedia's commitment to only having real
voices on which I like.

Speaker 7 (01:30:44):
As a person.

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
I like that a lot. I had a story and
I guess I did not put it on the blog,
and I thought I did because it was really interesting.

Speaker 5 (01:30:54):
It was a story about what what there's not this
many lyrics? Is that for the whole song, there's.

Speaker 2 (01:31:01):
Only one paragraph that we use. But I figured no,
I just said, you don't have to redo the whole song.
You just have to do the part that we use
on the show.

Speaker 8 (01:31:10):
You have to do the whole thing. So it's just
a second paragraph.

Speaker 2 (01:31:14):
Then, yes, I use it when I send it out.
When I send it out a highlight, I just highlight that.

Speaker 8 (01:31:19):
Send the whole thing or just a second paragraph.

Speaker 2 (01:31:21):
I don't know. It depends on what they want. Okay,
so now you have to ask about that. That's not
the rules. Shit, I don't want to add another rule.
I wanted to have four rules. I was like I
wanted to keep it simple, just four rules. Any more
rules than that just seem wasteful. I have a really
good story on the blog today. I can't I don't
want to get into the a I'm gonna find the
AI story because I don't want to mess it up.
I don't want to get the details wrong on that.

(01:31:43):
But I do have a couple of stories on the blog.
The Denver Gazette has been doing a really really good
series on sort of the state of the state of Colorado,
specifically things like business climate and stuff like that, and
they're doing a pretty deep dive and every single one
of the stories so far has essentially come down to, Yeah,

(01:32:03):
government regulations are pretty much killing everything good about the
Colorado business environment, and of course it is. Of course
there are because we have a bunch of people in
the legislature who have never run a business, who art
I think that there are some people in the legislature
who view business as a necessary evil, and the only

(01:32:24):
reason it's necessary is they plan on soaking it for
more tax dollars. But when you start to look at
how the state of Colorado especially has meddled in how
business is done, right, in my mind. Business should be
regulated the least amount possible, but give anyone wronged by
said business an opportunity to aggressively go after them if

(01:32:49):
they do something wrong, a nice litigation system for that
kind of stuff. But ultimately, you should not be micromanaging
how people do business. You just shouldn't. And what we've
done in Colorado is we're micromanaging so many industries that
they're choosing to go somewhere else. Now, this from the
Denver Gazette. Some industries have seen much more regulation in

(01:33:12):
the past several years, such as personal services and pipeline transportation,
which saw a one hundred percent increase in regulations between
twenty twenty and twenty twenty three. The report added that
there are nearly two hundred thousand regulations in the state, and,
coupled with federal rules, about one point three million total

(01:33:35):
for businesses to follow. Now, obviously, no one business is
going to have to follow one point three million regulations.
But how do you even find out which regulations among
one point three million are you supposed to follow?

Speaker 7 (01:33:50):
They continue in Colorado.

Speaker 2 (01:33:51):
Almost forty five percent of those rules can be classified
as duplicative or redundant.

Speaker 7 (01:33:57):
According to the Chambers report.

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
The Chamber said that every ten percent increase in regulations
leads to an estimated loss of thirty six.

Speaker 7 (01:34:05):
Thousand jobs and nine thousand firms.

Speaker 2 (01:34:07):
Statewide. Regulations slow economic growth by at least two percent annually,
and industries with the most excessive regulations include non oil
and gas mining at sixty five percent, utilities at sixty
five percent, printing and related support at seventy one percent,
health and personal care stores at eighty five percent, and

(01:34:30):
non metallic mineral product manufacturing at eighty seven percent. What
are we even doing now? Of course, legislators and people
who have spent years trying to figure out ways to
screw businesses over while assuming that they will not choose differently.
And that's key because California and New York State are
finding out that when you decide that businesses or billionaires

(01:34:54):
or millionaires are your cash cow, do you know what
they do? They vote with their feet, They move their
headquarters to Texas or Florida. They move their personal wealth
and fortunes to states with.

Speaker 7 (01:35:06):
No income tax. So maybe it's not happening yet.

Speaker 2 (01:35:10):
Maybe we are still working under the illusion that Colorado's
natural beauty will be enough to allow someone to sit
here and allow their business to be crushed when it
can flourish elsewhere. Natural beauty only goes too far, you know,
it only goes so far. Rather if my grammar is

(01:35:32):
to still listening. So it's kind of ridiculous that government
complains about two things. Democrats are going to run on
making Colorado more affordable, while ignoring the fact that they've
been the ones that have made it more expensive. Democrats
are going to run and restoring our business competitiveness while

(01:35:52):
ignoring the fact that Democrats have ruined our business competitiveness
by the way our business climate now has fallen dramatic,
and it's easy to fix. That's the kicker. This is
not a hard problem to solve. This is this is
actually very easy. You have government that says, you know what,
we're gonna ask every single department, every single set of

(01:36:15):
regulations is going to have a set of eyes that
goes through or even better loaded into chat GPT where
are these duplicative Start there, then verify the work, and
then cut them all out. Wouldn't it be nice if
somebody was like, you know what, we are slashing regulations.
We're gonna get rid of all this nonsense. We're gonna

(01:36:35):
streamline processes, We're gonna make the permitting system work. But
instead they tell us that tabor is the problem. The
tabor the thing that limits the size of government and
growth of government. That's the problem, that's the thing holding
us back. When they start that nonsense, be sure and
respond with I know you are, but what am I?

(01:36:59):
Oh no, that's the wrong thing. I'm rubber your gluten. No, No,
how about it's your fault. I want we just start
with it's your fault. The good news is again they
could fix it. People keep asking me, like, what petition
do we need to sign to make Your petition should
be your ballot. Your petition should be your your actual

(01:37:23):
talking to your friends and neighbors about why policy matters,
about why it's important that we elect people who understand
that they're crushing our business climate, which is going to
slow the growth in our economy.

Speaker 7 (01:37:35):
We've already seen it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:36):
And they're ruining our state. I mean, you don't have
to say it like that, but I mean that's what's happening.
Grant Smith is Sasheed into the studio. I mean, as
Grant sachets, you're not much of a sash are U
Sachet sometimes when you have the bolo tie on. Yeah,
Philip Rivers, Philip Rivers, I love that story. This is

(01:37:57):
the feel good story of the NFL year.

Speaker 14 (01:38:00):
If only they could have pulled out that win. I
thought they were going to hold on.

Speaker 2 (01:38:04):
So we're watching the Chief's game. I think lose out
on the same time as the Chief kids chief. So's
the Chiefs game and they cut in to talk about
Philip Rivers throwing his first NFL football touchdown as.

Speaker 14 (01:38:17):
A grandfather in five years, five years away from the game.

Speaker 5 (01:38:21):
The best sentiments of that game is that he walked
off as a winner because he was winning, ruining a
Disney story.

Speaker 13 (01:38:28):
Oh, they were two touchdown underdogs, so yeah, they were
expected to lose, but good story nonetheless.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
Yeah, and he needs that NFL healthcare. He's got ten
kids well and grandkids now and one grandkid. I need
more power to the dude. I realized we hated him
when he played for San Diego.

Speaker 13 (01:38:46):
I get it, people, I've never hated me neither, because
he rocks that Bulow tie and he's.

Speaker 2 (01:38:51):
Too funny in interviews. I mean, he's a.

Speaker 5 (01:38:54):
Lyricous NFL and all of us need a Philip Rivers
versus Denver Bronco's playoff game in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (01:39:01):
Guys, this is hilarious. The text message it's so expensive
to live here.

Speaker 7 (01:39:05):
Even the snow got up and relocated. That's funny.

Speaker 2 (01:39:10):
Yeah, Mandy, are you going to be able to keep
using chat GPT?

Speaker 7 (01:39:14):
If I heart move?

Speaker 2 (01:39:14):
It is moving to all human all the time. I
don't play chat GPT on the air, Gary, I just
use them for research research. Although tomorrow I am going
to play on the air a video on it that
I got from Instagram and it's a guy asking chat
GPT what question he should ask after he dies? And

(01:39:35):
I am not I'm not kidding you when I tell
you that chat went deep and chat went deep hard,
and it hit me like a ton of bricks.

Speaker 7 (01:39:42):
So it's like, is chat GPT my spiritual advisor?

Speaker 3 (01:39:45):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:39:45):
I don't know? No, not really No. I love AI
learned to use it because if you don't, you're gonna
get left behind.

Speaker 14 (01:39:52):
How's your theme song coming?

Speaker 7 (01:39:53):
We are having a contest to replace it. That's what
we just did the rules for.

Speaker 14 (01:39:57):
That's not r LP RLP.

Speaker 2 (01:39:59):
What's RLP?

Speaker 4 (01:40:00):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:40:01):
Rick Lewis he's talking to his people, but I also
want to offer listeners a chance to do it as well.

Speaker 8 (01:40:06):
Toolie's joined the ensemble. Yea, you know we let.

Speaker 2 (01:40:11):
Michael Brown come over here. And the desk is disgusting. No,
not gum, I don't know it could be, but I
just put my finger in it.

Speaker 14 (01:40:19):
Oh what a dirty human being.

Speaker 9 (01:40:21):
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:40:21):
I'm disgusting anyway. Now it's time for the most exciting
segment on the radio of Its Guy and the World.
Fine job, Grant of the day. What is our dad
joke of the day? Please?

Speaker 5 (01:40:37):
My inflatable house got a puncture yesterday.

Speaker 8 (01:40:41):
Now I'm living in a flat.

Speaker 2 (01:40:44):
Okay, that was funny.

Speaker 7 (01:40:45):
What's our word of the day please?

Speaker 2 (01:40:46):
It is a noun anachronism. Anachronism is something out of date,
something that is no longer a thing.

Speaker 8 (01:40:55):
Grant is she right? Is an error in chronology?

Speaker 14 (01:40:58):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:40:59):
Wow?

Speaker 8 (01:40:59):
Yeah, okay pretty much.

Speaker 2 (01:41:02):
What is someone with glossophobia afraid of g l o ssophobia?

Speaker 8 (01:41:08):
Something shiny thing, not Matt They lose their minds?

Speaker 2 (01:41:13):
Oh golly, public speaking speaking of our guests earlier. Glossophobia
is considered to be a subcategory of social phobia. Studies
suggest it's quite common you had a.

Speaker 14 (01:41:23):
Guess that was scared of publishing.

Speaker 2 (01:41:25):
She's actually, Oh.

Speaker 7 (01:41:25):
You would love this, Grant.

Speaker 2 (01:41:26):
She's doing a thing at the Lakewood Cultural Events Center
where she's invited people to come on to stage to
do something they've never done before. Could be stand up,
could talk about something, could be singing.

Speaker 14 (01:41:37):
Yeah, I gotta get I'm gonna get her information.

Speaker 3 (01:41:39):
I got it.

Speaker 2 (01:41:40):
Oh she super guests. You're gonna love her all right?
What is our jeopardy category? It's great to see you,
see you, let her see see you. I think I
know where this is going.

Speaker 14 (01:41:51):
No joke.

Speaker 5 (01:41:51):
Whoopy Goldberg considered using the stage name Whoopy this, which
is really my mind went somewhere, Manny.

Speaker 2 (01:41:58):
What is cushion.

Speaker 8 (01:42:02):
Meaning with distinction? It follows suma?

Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
And what's cub laudie direct cublaud however you say loudy loudy.

Speaker 8 (01:42:10):
Yeah, the room for this sport grant grant.

Speaker 14 (01:42:14):
What is curling?

Speaker 2 (01:42:16):
How did I not get that curling is coming in February?

Speaker 5 (01:42:18):
Again from the French? From the French, It's a quiet
dead end.

Speaker 2 (01:42:23):
Street, Manny. What's a cult? Asad correct?

Speaker 5 (01:42:26):
And finally, Sue Marian and Akkadian were two of the
main languages to be written in this ancient wedge shaped script.

Speaker 7 (01:42:34):
Mandy, what is cuneiform?

Speaker 1 (01:42:36):
That is?

Speaker 8 (01:42:36):
Wow? Yeah, I was like, please someone get.

Speaker 2 (01:42:39):
It on to pronounce it.

Speaker 9 (01:42:41):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:42:42):
I imagine it's going to be kind of a fun
day today on KOA Sports.

Speaker 7 (01:42:46):
Grant you know what the boys that plan.

Speaker 4 (01:42:50):
We got.

Speaker 2 (01:42:51):
We have so many heavy topics today that I asked
a Rod to have that ready for you know, like
when things got too heavy, We're like, how about those Brocos?
Oh come on, Mandy, it is going.

Speaker 14 (01:43:01):
To be a great day on KOA Sports.

Speaker 13 (01:43:02):
We've got Ian Rappaport see if the national media has
finally hopped on the bandwagon of.

Speaker 8 (01:43:07):
The Broncos the overdogs.

Speaker 14 (01:43:09):
I heard you play in that cli from Bone Nix.

Speaker 13 (01:43:11):
We also have some fun sound from Chris Jones talking
about how he didn't know that the Chiefs were officially
eliminated from the playoffs yesterday, buried his postgame press conference, saying, yeah,
so big day on KOA Sports.

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
That's all coming up next. We'll be back tomorrow with
another big show. We'll be back.

Speaker 7 (01:43:26):
Keep it on KOA