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Speaker 5: I'm your host for the next three hours. Mandy Connell, joined,
Speaker 5: of course by my right hand man. As a matter
Speaker 5: of fact, if you look at the end of my
Speaker 5: right arm, you'll just see Anthony Rodriguez. He is a
Speaker 5: rod too. How a rod or the airhorn mockery that
Speaker 5: started it all. We have a lot of stuff to
Speaker 5: talk about it and I just added another guest to
Speaker 5: the show, so listen. Well you'll understand in just a second.
Speaker 5: It was a late edition. I got to come in
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Speaker 5: A late addition to the blog story. Let me tell
Speaker 5: you about the blog. You can find it by going
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Speaker 7: Okay, can you explain what that?
Speaker 5: Here are the headlines you will find in.
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Speaker 7: That's hil, I was stupid. Did you hear what you said?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 5: I didn't because the first line in the blog is
Speaker 5: we must codify school to in school. Wow, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 5: That was what was I telling you about brain fog
Speaker 5: a rod. I'll tell here are the headlines you will
Speaker 5: find in school.
Speaker 7: Okay, you're gonna find them in school.
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Speaker 5: We should send that to Agnes to use for her
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Speaker 7: That's not bad.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like it. Here the headlines you will find
Speaker 5: in school. Anyway, We're going to talk to Christy Burton
Speaker 5: Brown in about twenty minutes because she not only is
Speaker 5: running her own race for the Board of Education, she
Speaker 5: is also running in support of Amendment eighty. And Amendment
Speaker 5: eighty is the amendment to our constitution that would codify
Speaker 5: meaning it would protect school choice going forward in Colorado. Now,
Speaker 5: a few years ago, I would have said to you
Speaker 5: this is not needed. We have a robust school choice system.
Speaker 5: Some of our charter schools are some of the best
Speaker 5: schools in the state. Right, but the tide has turned.
Speaker 5: As here's the thing about teachers unions. People think, Okay,
Speaker 5: we voted in school choice, now we have charter schools.
Speaker 5: Everything's fine, nothing's going to change. I can take my
Speaker 5: eye off the ball, right because I got other things
Speaker 5: to worry about. I got stuff, I got family, I
Speaker 5: got work, I got other things I have to worry about.
Speaker 5: But the teachers unions never have anything else to worry
Speaker 5: about except trying to regain power over charter schools and
Speaker 5: eventually private and religious schools. That is the endgame of
Speaker 5: the teachers unions is to have control over every single
Speaker 5: educational opportunity in the world. That is the end because
Speaker 5: they view all of those people as potential dues payers. Now,
Speaker 5: when you look at who is going and we're going
Speaker 5: to talk more about this with Christy Burton Brown, when
Speaker 5: you look at who is against Amendment eighty, you begin
Speaker 5: to realize how important it is because this is them
Speaker 5: playing the long game. And if you care about school choice,
Speaker 5: if you care about the thousands and thousands and thousands
Speaker 5: of Colorado students whose parents make other decisions for them
Speaker 5: based on what's right for their kids, then you must
Speaker 5: vote for Amendment eighty. It is not a perfect amendment,
Speaker 5: but it is better than nothing. And if it goes down,
Speaker 5: it not only goes down, it emboldens all of the
Speaker 5: teachers' unions and their lackeys on the boards of education
Speaker 5: across the state to go after charter schools and try
Speaker 5: to shut them down or bring them under state and
Speaker 5: therefore union control. That is the endgame here. So we're
Speaker 5: gonna talk to Christy Burton Brown about that in just
Speaker 5: a few minutes. There is a debate tonight at DU
Speaker 5: about ranked choice voting, and I realized that a lot
Speaker 5: of you are not for this amendment, but I am.
Speaker 5: This changes the way. It's not an amendment. I don't
Speaker 5: think it's just a proposition. This would change the way
Speaker 5: we cast our ballots. We've gone over at numerous times.
Speaker 5: I am an enthusiastic yes for this initiative. And now
Speaker 5: we know that Aurora mayor Mike Kaufman is an enthusiastic
Speaker 5: yes on this amendment. What makes the column that he
Speaker 5: put in the Denver Gazette especially interesting is that Mike
Speaker 5: Kaufman was Secretary of State in two thousand and six.
Speaker 5: He was succeeded by Bernie Buscher. I think that's how
Speaker 5: you say his last name. He was appointed. I believe
Speaker 5: when Mike won office to go to Congress. I think
Speaker 5: I don't have that for sure. I wasn't here then.
Speaker 5: I'm just doing my best to think of what could
Speaker 5: have happened there, and together these two former secretaries of
Speaker 5: state are advocating for this position. I think that's very interesting.
Speaker 5: So I'd urge you to read his column. If you
Speaker 5: want to learn more about it, you can go to
Speaker 5: the debate tonight at DU I believe tickets are still available.
Speaker 5: Jason Lupo is the founder of First Choice Counts. He
Speaker 5: will be there on the no side with Candace Stuts
Speaker 5: rim stuts rhyme. Sorry, Candace, I might be slaughtering your
Speaker 5: last name. Candace Stutt's rhyme of the Truth and Liberty Coalition.
Speaker 5: They're going to argue against it, and in favor of
Speaker 5: it will be Kent Theory and Nick Troiano of United America.
Speaker 5: We're going to talk to Nick at about one point
Speaker 5: thirty to get a preview of what that will look like.
Speaker 5: So that is what's coming up. And then so today
Speaker 5: I got here a little bit early because I was
Speaker 5: recording some commercials with the Gravinas, and then we got
Speaker 5: done with that, and so I was perusing the web
Speaker 5: getting ready to come and do the show, and I
Speaker 5: saw Danielle Drinsky, the Aurora City Councilwoman's Twitter feed, and
Speaker 5: she has started releasing documents to back up the things
Speaker 5: that she has been saying the things that she's been saying,
Speaker 5: and trying to get help with help for trying to
Speaker 5: organize some response to while not only dealing with a
Speaker 5: non responsive government that she ostensibly as a city council
Speaker 5: member is supposed to work with. But disparaging remarks from
Speaker 5: our governor, disparaging remarks from so many other people. The
Speaker 5: governor even said this was a figment of her imagination.
Speaker 5: And now she's releasing emails that clearly show the Aurora
Speaker 5: Police Department knew that the Venezuelan gang that walked off
Speaker 5: over our porous Biden Harris Southern border, that gang is
Speaker 5: operating in Aurora, and the Aurora Police Department knew it.
Speaker 5: In twenty twenty three, they were sending out memos that
Speaker 5: police officers should not respond to those apartment complexes alone.
Speaker 5: They were sending out memos on this gang. There's video
Speaker 5: that is in the Daily Mail yesterday showing a woman,
Speaker 5: a Guatemalan immigrant, telling police that this gang through boiling
Speaker 5: water on her and her husband while she was pregnant
Speaker 5: as they were extorting money from her. And you know what,
Speaker 5: I have Danielle Duranski's back a thousand times on this.
Speaker 5: I cannot imagine how frustrating it has been to know
Speaker 5: that you are telling the truth, to know that what
Speaker 5: you are saying is accurate, to know that citizens in
Speaker 5: your district were suffering because of it. And to have
Speaker 5: everybody react like you're some kind of crazy person. I mean,
Speaker 5: come on, this has been the ultimate gas light. It
Speaker 5: really has. This has been a masterclass in gaslighting. But
Speaker 5: now she's bringing she's showing the evidence on her twitter
Speaker 5: feed if you want to follow her, I put a
Speaker 5: link on my blog to her twitter feeds, so you
Speaker 5: could do that as well. So let's get right into
Speaker 5: something that most of you did not watch last night.
Speaker 5: So last night, last night, Kamala Harris was on CNN.
Speaker 5: And now Kamala Harris has been the assumed candidate for
Speaker 5: to a little over two months, right, she should have
Speaker 5: answers to pretty much every question, except she hasn't done
Speaker 5: challenging interviews. She hasn't done enough interviews. She hasn't put
Speaker 5: her in a position where she's had to, you know,
Speaker 5: really work out or formulate these answers. But last night
Speaker 5: it was on display and it was really shocking. Just
Speaker 5: when I think maybe maybe there's a chance I'm wrong,
Speaker 5: maybe she's not a complete empty suit, completely devoid of substance,
Speaker 5: and then and exchange like this, what happens?
Speaker 6: Ay?
Speaker 9: Rod?
Speaker 5: Can I have my computer please?
Speaker 8: Sir?
Speaker 5: I just want you to put on your listening ears
Speaker 5: and listen to this.
Speaker 10: Some voters, though, might ask, you've been in the White
Speaker 10: House for four years, you were vice president, not the president,
Speaker 10: but why wasn't any of that done.
Speaker 11: In the last four years?
Speaker 12: Well there was a lot that was done, but there's
Speaker 12: more to do, Anderson, and I'm pointing out things that
Speaker 12: need to be done that haven't been done but need
Speaker 12: to be done.
Speaker 10: Some voters, though, might ask you again, for four years,
Speaker 10: your vice president, not the president, but why wasn't any
Speaker 10: of that done for the last four years?
Speaker 12: Well, there was a lot that was done, but there's
Speaker 12: more to do. Anderson, and I'm pointing out things that
Speaker 12: need to be done, that haven't been done but need
Speaker 12: to be done.
Speaker 5: Some voters, though, you do you understand she's pointing out
Speaker 5: things that haven't been done but need to be done,
Speaker 5: while also recognizing that some things have been done. So
Speaker 5: we need to focus on what's been done rather than
Speaker 5: thinking about the things that need to be done that
Speaker 5: she's pointing out that haven't been done yet. This person,
Speaker 5: I would not vote for them to be the president
Speaker 5: of the PTO. At my daughter school, if someone got
Speaker 5: up and gave that kind of nonsensical garbage answer. I
Speaker 5: would start laughing. I don't know how Anderson Cooper didn't laugh.
Speaker 5: But that's not all They give you. Another high point.
Speaker 10: Is there something you can point to in your life,
Speaker 10: political life, or in your life in the last four
Speaker 10: years that you think is a mistake that you have
Speaker 10: learned from.
Speaker 12: I mean, I've made many mistakes, and they range from
Speaker 12: you know, if you've ever parented a child, you know
Speaker 12: you make lots of mistakes too. In my role as
Speaker 12: vice president, I mean, I've probably worked very hard at
Speaker 12: making sure that I am well versed on issues, and
Speaker 12: I think that.
Speaker 5: Is very important.
Speaker 12: It's a mistake not to be well versed on an
Speaker 12: issue and feel compelled to answer a question.
Speaker 5: Does anybody understand what she just said? He asked, have
Speaker 5: you made any mistakes in the past few years? Have
Speaker 5: you made any mistakes? If a rod asked me that
Speaker 5: question right now, just right off the time, I haven't
Speaker 5: even thought about it. Ask me the question? Ay right,
Speaker 5: ay roight ay. Roch asked me the question, have you
Speaker 5: made any mistakes in the last few years?
Speaker 7: Have you made any mistakes in the last few years?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 5: I let Anthony Rodriguez talk me into interviewing Mike Lindell.
Speaker 5: That is my mistake from the last few years.
Speaker 7: It's not a mistake. It was great. We gave him
Speaker 7: a platform here.
Speaker 8: We had to say we didn't attack him, because not
Speaker 8: everything has to be attack journalism.
Speaker 5: Yep, you're right, you're right. It's it's not over though,
Speaker 5: the Kamala, the Kamala town hall, it's not over. We
Speaker 5: got more because any minute it's gonna be good. It's
Speaker 5: gonna it's gonna uh. I'll just I'll just let her talk.
Speaker 10: Under Donald Trump, you criticized the wall more than fifty times.
Speaker 10: You called it stupid, useless and a medieval vanity project.
Speaker 11: Is a border wall stupid?
Speaker 12: Well, let's talk about Donald Trump in that border wall.
Speaker 12: You remember Donald Trump said Mexico would pay for it.
Speaker 5: Come on, no, wait a minute, you guys. She appears
Speaker 5: to be looking at a crowd. Was there a crowd
Speaker 5: there last night, because if so, all of her laughing
Speaker 5: and jokes landed completely flattening floor director.
Speaker 8: The amount of eye contact that maybe that floor director
Speaker 8: made with her at that at that juncture there, maybe
Speaker 8: it wasn't a live audience because it's probably, like we
Speaker 8: can keep.
Speaker 5: At this point You're like, do you I have a booger? Like,
Speaker 5: what's going on? Do you have something on my face?
Speaker 5: At Okay, but let's I'll let her continue to go
Speaker 5: on about the border wall.
Speaker 12: Well, let's talk about Donald Trump and that border wall.
Speaker 12: So remember Donald Trump said Mexico would pay for it.
Speaker 12: Come on, they didn't. How much of that wall did
Speaker 12: he build? I think the last number I saw was
Speaker 12: about two percent. And then when it came from time
Speaker 12: for him to do a photo op, you know where
Speaker 12: he did it in the part of the wall that
Speaker 12: President Obama built.
Speaker 10: But you were agreed to a bill that would hear
Speaker 10: MOREK six hundred and fifty million dollars to continue building
Speaker 10: that way, I pledge that I.
Speaker 12: Am going to bring forward that bipartisan bill to further
Speaker 12: strengthen and secure our border. Yes I am, and I'm
Speaker 12: going to work across the aisle to pass a comprehensive
Speaker 12: bill that deals with a broken immigration system. I think
Speaker 12: Jackson's question part of it was acknowledge that America has
Speaker 12: always had migration, but there needs to be a legal
Speaker 12: process for it.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, there is.
Speaker 11: You have to earn it.
Speaker 12: And that's the point that I think is the most
Speaker 12: important point that can be made, which is we need
Speaker 12: a president always grounded in common sense and practical outcomes.
Speaker 5: Like, let's count fix this thing. I can't. Let's just
Speaker 5: fix it.
Speaker 12: Why is there any ideological perspective.
Speaker 5: Problem?
Speaker 10: Yeah, to fix the problem, you're doing this compromise bill.
Speaker 10: It does call for six hundred and fifty million dollars
Speaker 10: that was her marked under Trump to actually still go
Speaker 10: to build a wall.
Speaker 12: I'm not afraid of good ideas where they occurred.
Speaker 11: Say, you don't think it's stupid anymore.
Speaker 12: I think what he did and how he did it
Speaker 12: it was did not make much sense because he actually
Speaker 12: didn't do much of anything. I just talked about that wall, right,
Speaker 12: we just talked about it. He didn't actually do much
Speaker 12: of anything.
Speaker 11: But you do want to build some wall? Weird?
Speaker 12: Did I want to strengthen our border?
Speaker 5: You guys? You guys. This was an absolute disaster for
Speaker 5: Kamala Harris disaster, not that anybody saw it, but clips
Speaker 5: like this one are flying around social media today like crazy.
Speaker 8: I think the Beastie Boys are even face palming at
Speaker 8: this sabotage.
Speaker 5: Lord have mercy, really, honestly, though, my favorite one may
Speaker 5: always be This is almost as good as you know
Speaker 5: the passage of time, A rod.
Speaker 10: Might as you've been in the White House for four years,
Speaker 10: your vice president, not the president's But why wasn't any
Speaker 10: of that done?
Speaker 5: This clip?
Speaker 12: Well, there was a lot that was done, but there's
Speaker 12: more to do, Anderson, and I'm pointing out things that
Speaker 12: need to be done that haven't been done but need
Speaker 12: to be done.
Speaker 5: I mean, you, guys, that's passage of time, exactly, exactly saving.
Speaker 5: I actually did not put the whole thing on the
Speaker 5: blog last night. I usually I usually embed it, but
Speaker 5: you guys, you're gonna get dumber if you watch it.
Speaker 5: If you watch the whole thing, you are guaranteed to
Speaker 5: be stupider than you were at the beginning of your
Speaker 5: viewing session. As a matter of fact, like forget lead pipes.
Speaker 5: Last night's CNN town hall with Kamala Harris is surely
Speaker 5: going to drop your IQ more than anything else in
Speaker 5: the entire world. We'll be right back with Christy Burton Brown.
Speaker 12: Yes, okay, I'm pointing out things that need to be
Speaker 12: done that haven't been done but need to be done.
Speaker 5: Last night the CNN debate, there's a zero percent chance
Speaker 5: I'd show up if I was Donald Trump on CNN?
Speaker 5: Why Why are Republicans always supposed to capitulate? When was
Speaker 5: the last Fox News debate? You know, I'm tired of that.
Speaker 5: Why didn't you show up on another left wing network
Speaker 5: that's going to make it as easy as possible to
Speaker 5: make the other candidate look good? Why would he? There's
Speaker 5: no reason for that anyway. So that's the first thing.
Speaker 5: And by the way, he has already said he wasn't
Speaker 5: doing another debate on CNN or anywhere else, So I
Speaker 5: don't have an issue with that. Now the take on
Speaker 5: John Kelly's and Jeffrey Goldberg from The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg has,
Speaker 5: according to the people that he allegedly got the background
Speaker 5: for the story on, has made up this story out
Speaker 5: of whole cloth. And I have a question about John Kelly.
Speaker 5: We're supposed to believe right now today, John Kelly, former
Speaker 5: general former chiefs of staff for Donald J.
Speaker 7: Trump.
Speaker 11: We're supposed to.
Speaker 5: Believe that John Kelly is a beyond reproach. He is
Speaker 5: as upstanding a citizen as there has ever been in
Speaker 5: the history of citizenry. And yet I'm also supposed to
Speaker 5: believe that he listened to his boss talk about admiring Hitler,
Speaker 5: but he didn't quit. He didn't say, you know what,
Speaker 5: maybe I don't want to work for this guy. And
Speaker 5: stayed with him for a good bit of time after that.
Speaker 5: And then and then after he got out of office,
Speaker 5: he waited. He didn't tell anybody, even though Donald Trump
Speaker 5: has been running for office how long now over a year?
Speaker 5: And John Kelly just now, right this very second, John
Speaker 5: Kelly just remembered, Oh my god, how could I have
Speaker 5: forgotten Donald Trump loves Hitler? Oh my god, it slipped
Speaker 5: my mind until now. I mean, if you can't see
Speaker 5: how absurd that is. And here's the other part about
Speaker 5: this whole thing, you guys. The Democrats have called in
Speaker 5: my lifetime George Herbert Walker Bush Hitler, George W. Bush Hitler,
Speaker 5: ntt Romney, who's literally the nicest man you're ever gonna
Speaker 5: meet in your life, Hitler, John McCain Hitler. Everybody can't
Speaker 5: be Hitler, you guys. Everybody can't be special. Everybody doesn't
Speaker 5: get a medal, everybody doesn't get to say hi, how
Speaker 5: me nobody? We can't all be Hitler. So at this point,
Speaker 5: and when the Democrats start yelling Hitler Hitler, Hitler, Hitler,
Speaker 5: It's comical. Do you not see how funny and absurd
Speaker 5: it is? It's just guess what you know? Who wasn't Hitler?
Speaker 5: George Herbert Roker Bush. Do you know who else was
Speaker 5: in Hitler? George W. Bush? Do you know super not Hitler,
Speaker 5: Mitt Romney, Jean McCain isn't even Hitler. And by the way,
Speaker 5: in his first term in office, are we are we
Speaker 5: living under a Hilarian scenario right now? Because Donald Trump
Speaker 5: was already in office for four years. He didn't he
Speaker 5: didn't put Jewish people in camps. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 5: he might be the worst Hitler ever because he actually
Speaker 5: moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, something all these other
Speaker 5: presidents who were not Hitler said they were gonna do,
Speaker 5: but they didn't do. He did it, and he sent
Speaker 5: his son in law over to to fall relations between
Speaker 5: Saudi Arabia and Israel, which I actually think is now
Speaker 5: paying dividends in the Middle East. We're not necessarily seeing it.
Speaker 5: But guess what Saudi Arabia is like, sit back, going, yeah,
Speaker 5: if you want to take out Aroun, that's okay with us.
Speaker 5: That's what happens under Donald Trump administration, and only now
Speaker 5: he's hitler. Now, just now he's hitler. I mean, you guys,
Speaker 5: come on. It's as absurd as the story that came
Speaker 5: out over on social media a couple days ago where
Speaker 5: a guy said that he was a student of Tim
Speaker 5: walls is in high school and Tim Walls touched him inappropriately.
Speaker 5: When I saw that, I was like, oh, yeah, okay, sure,
Speaker 5: I believe that.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 5: What I do believe is that Doug m Hoff, the
Speaker 5: want to be first gentleman, is now or his longtime
Speaker 5: ex who The story came out several weeks ago that
Speaker 5: at an event in con France, Doug m Hoff slapped
Speaker 5: his date across the face before getting into a car
Speaker 5: and driving away in front of a bunch of people
Speaker 5: at a valet line. So now she has come out
Speaker 5: and is talking to the Daily Mail with a lot
Speaker 5: of receipts. But that story has been poop pooed by
Speaker 5: the left wing media as not important, just a distraction,
Speaker 5: just a distraction, and it's a distraction from the new
Speaker 5: line that Trump is hitler, even though all evidence to
Speaker 5: the contrary, all evidence by the way other people hang,
Speaker 5: let me just do this. I should have pulled all
Speaker 5: this stuff on the brake, but it didn't. But I
Speaker 5: can find it very very quickly. A lot of people
Speaker 5: that worked in that administration are coming out to say
Speaker 5: that they never heard that kind of talk from Donald Trump,
Speaker 5: even though they don't like him now, and they're basically
Speaker 5: denying that what did any of that actually happen? So
Speaker 5: it is, by the way, the family of the soldier
Speaker 5: that was exploited by Jeffrey Goldberg in that article has
Speaker 5: now come out to say the part he made up
Speaker 5: about him complaining about funerals and everything else was completely
Speaker 5: fabricated and they just voted for Donald Trump. So that's
Speaker 5: what I think of John Kelly. I think John Kelly
Speaker 5: is mad because his reputation was damaged when he was fired,
Speaker 5: and this is his best chance of revenge. And if
Speaker 5: it was really true, then what does it say about
Speaker 5: John Kelly that he waits until right now to tell us?
Speaker 5: And I think that is a legitimate question that should
Speaker 5: be asked. Why did you keep it to yourself? Why?
Speaker 5: I mean you guys, I have been in situations where
Speaker 5: I really needed a job, but if I walked in
Speaker 5: my boss and I'm gonna use black people as an example, right,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna use black people here. If I walked in
Speaker 5: and heard my boss going on a racist tear against
Speaker 5: black people, I would immediately find another job because I
Speaker 5: don't want to be associated with that. I don't want
Speaker 5: my name attached to that. And if someone is truly hitler,
Speaker 5: I mean it's only a matter of time before it
Speaker 5: truly comes out. So the whole John Kelly thing, I
Speaker 5: think is a political bit of hackery, just like I
Speaker 5: think the Tim Wall sing was a bit of political hackery,
Speaker 5: but it is designed to obfuscape from the real stories
Speaker 5: like the one about Kamala Harris's husband slapping his wife
Speaker 5: that he has never responded to other than to say
Speaker 5: nuh nuh. So that's where we're going with that. So
Speaker 5: any other conversation about John Kelly will be ignored because
Speaker 5: it's just not something that I give any credence to.
Speaker 5: It's the worst October surprise ever. And I will tell
Speaker 5: you the collective eye roll that this trip Trump is
Speaker 5: a Nazi thing that's been met with not by hardcore
Speaker 5: partisans on the left because they can't say it enough.
Speaker 5: They can't run around and scream hitler enough when it
Speaker 5: comes to Donald Trump, because that's all they have. They
Speaker 5: cannot advocate for their candidate because she's terrible, because she
Speaker 5: was appointed undemocratically, and they sure as hell shouldn't be
Speaker 5: running around talking about saving democracy when none of them
Speaker 5: even voted for her. Give me a break, Mandy. If
Speaker 5: Trump is hitler, then Barack, Joe and Kamala are Stalin,
Speaker 5: Lenin and Mao. You know, even I don't think they
Speaker 5: are that bad. I think we can all agree as Americans,
Speaker 5: no matter what your political viewpoints are, that we are
Speaker 5: lucky to live in a nation that has not ever
Speaker 5: had to worry about a despot. We've never had to
Speaker 5: worry about overthrowing a regime that is out of control
Speaker 5: because our systems work, they work well, and you have
Speaker 5: to trust him until they fall apart completely, which gond
Speaker 5: happen at any minute, any minute. All right, when we
Speaker 5: get back, I do have some other stuff on the
Speaker 5: text line. It's very interesting you guys texting me today
Speaker 5: because they're all over the place, very very all over
Speaker 5: the place. We'll be right back. We've got a whole
Speaker 5: bunch of cool stories on the blog, none better than
Speaker 5: this one. Anthony cotsin Durango got called there was some
Speaker 5: mischief in the streets of Durrango. Something was hopping around
Speaker 5: causing trouble. Nope, even better, a kangaroo.
Speaker 7: Oh, it's probably from Denver.
Speaker 5: Nope, No, it's actually a family kangaroo. So this family
Speaker 5: has a kangaroo pet and they apparently maybe hopped over
Speaker 5: the fence. I don't know, but kangaroo got out. He's
Speaker 5: gotten away from his family. Durrango police did manage to
Speaker 5: track it down. They sat after a hopping speed chase.
Speaker 5: They were able to capture the little guy or turn
Speaker 5: him to his family. Here's my question, if you had
Speaker 5: a kangaroo, is there any other name that you could
Speaker 5: give a kangaroo other than captain?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 7: Yes, what would you name your kangaroo movie with Anthony Anderson?
Speaker 8: Oh, my gosh, Anthony Anderson kangaroo movie Kangaroo Jack, Kangaroo Jack.
Speaker 5: The No, No, okay, now there's an age schism here.
Speaker 5: Captain you name him captain Kangaroos.
Speaker 7: What you're saying is we combined both and you got
Speaker 7: Captain Jack.
Speaker 5: Oh, I maybe.
Speaker 7: If I will, if I may for a moment, I
Speaker 7: boot the zoo.
Speaker 8: The other day, we're walking along with passing enclosure and
Speaker 8: looks like nothing back there.
Speaker 7: I turned back around. Boom.
Speaker 8: I don't know if you call it a herd or
Speaker 8: a group or a dollop, I don't know whatever of
Speaker 8: kangaroo just run through their enclosure and just pop right there.
Speaker 7: Into the into eye line and we're like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 7: kangaroo's are deanver Zoo. I hadn't gone since they got him.
Speaker 7: And the new enclosure is awesome looking.
Speaker 5: Kangaroos look so cute and like you're like, oh, and
Speaker 5: the headline. I actually did this story just so I
Speaker 5: could use the headline. Remove your pause from your pocket,
Speaker 5: slowly get it like the cops were anyway. So I
Speaker 5: didn't say it was a good joke. I just said
Speaker 5: that's why I did the story. Yeah, but I do
Speaker 5: think that if you ask people my age, they would
Speaker 5: say name the kangaroo captain, whereas you're making a good
Speaker 5: case for King Jack. But that was from two thousand
Speaker 5: and three. Yeah, so I need texters five six six,
Speaker 5: N I know, what do you wait? What do you
Speaker 5: name your kangaroo? If you got one? You know, our
Speaker 5: friend Kelly Mayer has a wallaby.
Speaker 7: What's the difference.
Speaker 8: Well, I think most of them at the Zoom might
Speaker 8: be wallabies. That I mean, I think they said kangaroo,
Speaker 8: but they're all small enough.
Speaker 7: I think they're wallaby.
Speaker 5: No, they're different. Okay, we might have to get Kelly
Speaker 5: on the phone a little bit later in the show
Speaker 5: to find out. But if I had a kangaroo for me,
Speaker 5: it would be Captain. I'd be like, yeah, captain.
Speaker 13: What's up?
Speaker 5: But have you ever seen like a really full grown
Speaker 5: male kangaroo? Have you ever seen these photos? They are
Speaker 5: scary as hell. They're jacked. They are jacked, very scary.
Speaker 5: The name should be kanga kana kangaroo just sounds like
Speaker 5: a bad stutter. A mob of kangaroos, that's what this
Speaker 5: person says. I have no idea if that's right or not.
Speaker 5: Kanga or roo Winnie the Pooh books, Yeah, boo at
Speaker 5: the zoo. I didn't know a rod has a kid?
Speaker 5: You borrowed a kid?
Speaker 14: Right?
Speaker 7: Nephews every year yearly tradition? Boo zoo.
Speaker 5: You know what how old are your nephews now?
Speaker 7: Oh? God, fifteen and ten eleven?
Speaker 5: What are you gonna do when they age out?
Speaker 7: Do you mean an age out?
Speaker 5: Your your nephews will age out of stuff. Yeah they will.
Speaker 9: Oh.
Speaker 8: I even made the point while on the way and
Speaker 8: on the way back. You just tell you guys know
Speaker 8: you're never gonna get too old for both the zoo.
Speaker 8: We're always gonna go together. Okay, And they agreed, Okay,
Speaker 8: So let me.
Speaker 7: Be the older one.
Speaker 8: I'm starting to get a little worried about from him. No, no, no,
Speaker 8: he still loves hanging out with us. But eventually it's
Speaker 8: gonna be like a I'm good or we're gonna hit
Speaker 8: him up. Hey, it's a yearly tradition when they go
Speaker 8: up the younger one, the younger one.
Speaker 5: I got my girlfriend. My girlfriend's Kevin.
Speaker 7: He's he's a ladies man too, doesn't he.
Speaker 5: So here are the names we've gotten this person, says
Speaker 5: Captain for sure. Yeah, how about just we got Joey,
Speaker 5: You got Captain. I do not like kangaroos. They freak
Speaker 5: me out, says this Texter. Skippy Skippy would be a
Speaker 5: good name for a kangaroo. Hoppy that from Gael Skippy. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's the kind of a skip. Look, Skippy's hopping. Kangaroos
Speaker 5: are like rats and pests to the assis. Yeah, there
Speaker 5: are a lot of them, I would I would more
Speaker 5: liken them to alligators in Florida, Like people do not
Speaker 5: realize how many alligators are in Florida, And I mean
Speaker 5: from the very top of Florida, the very bottom of Florida.
Speaker 8: Their alligators everywhere. I could easily google it, but it's
Speaker 8: not as fun. Do only the female ones have the pouch?
Speaker 5: Hmmm this I don't know the answer to kangaroos.
Speaker 7: Oh wait, now I gouts ask the right question.
Speaker 5: Fyi. Kangaroo's evolved in South America, says this text. Are
Speaker 5: crossing the land bridges from Antarctica to Australia. Do male
Speaker 5: kangaroos have the pouch? Let's see that's serious. Okay, let's see.
Speaker 5: The name should be kannga Joey. That's a good one.
Speaker 5: That's a baby kangaroo, Joey. Let's see a lot of kanga,
Speaker 5: a lot of roo hoppy, punchy.
Speaker 8: She wants to call it kangus khan, which is the
Speaker 8: pokemon version of a kangaroo.
Speaker 5: That would be pretty funny. Tengus gone kengus as in
Speaker 5: k A n g a s kengis khan.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Kanamala, that's.
Speaker 5: That sounds like a weird dinosaur kangaroos are terrifying. The
Speaker 5: name should be Stephen. Is Stephen terrifying? Who is Stephen?
Speaker 7: Why is Steven?
Speaker 8: But I'd rather go with like if we're going like
Speaker 8: human names, like Chad, Chad could be a jer Kevin
Speaker 8: chaddosure last night that Chad exactly is the Isn't that
Speaker 8: the longa from the point dynamite?
Speaker 7: No, that's Tina. Excuse me, excuse me. That's all right.
Speaker 5: Uh, somebody's gotta explain the the Stephen thing to me.
Speaker 5: I need to know gingis Khan, gingis kang Us? Gone,
Speaker 5: I know Kengus. For anyway, Well, we're gonna be back,
Speaker 5: and this time for real. Christy Burton Brown is joining
Speaker 5: us one clock to talk about Amendment eighty. That's coming
Speaker 5: up next.
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Speaker 5: Right now we're going to talk about some ignorance lying
Speaker 5: around about the proposed Amendment number eighty. Joining me now
Speaker 5: is Christy Burton Brown with Advanced Colorado. Also side note,
Speaker 5: she's also running for the Board of Education in the
Speaker 5: fourth district and I already voted for her or her
Speaker 5: So there you go. My secret ballot is out now Christy,
Speaker 5: welcome to the show.
Speaker 9: First of all, thank you, Mandy, I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Andrew vote, Well, we're going to talk first about the
Speaker 5: Amendment eighty, which is a school choice amendment and Advanced
Speaker 5: Colorado and what other organization put this forth? It just
Speaker 5: went out of my head.
Speaker 9: Actually, we are the organization at Putts Okay, so we
Speaker 9: have a good coalition supporting it.
Speaker 5: Okay, great, So Advanced Colorado puts this forth. It is
Speaker 5: a very simply worded amendment and that I think is
Speaker 5: part of its beauty, but also part of the issues
Speaker 5: that have arisen, or at least issues that have been
Speaker 5: seized on by people who don't want this to pass.
Speaker 5: And I want to start by talking about where are
Speaker 5: the money's coming from on the anti side, Kelly, because now, no, no,
Speaker 5: let's not start there. Tell people what Amendment eighty does
Speaker 5: and why it's important that it passes. First, let's start there.
Speaker 9: Sure you're right, Mandy, that is actually completely simple. Out
Speaker 9: of all the fourteen measures on your ballot, Amendment eighty
Speaker 9: is basic. It is putting the right to school choice
Speaker 9: we've enjoyed in Colorado for decades in our constitution so
Speaker 9: that it's no longer at the mercy of politicians who
Speaker 9: can change it whenever they want.
Speaker 5: So the purpose of this is to push back against
Speaker 5: the sort of shifting tides in Colorado because Colorado, and
Speaker 5: I talked to my listeners about this earlier, Christy, Colorado
Speaker 5: was really at the forefront of the school choice movement
Speaker 5: many years ago, and because of that, we have a
Speaker 5: vibrant charter school community. We have a vibrant home school
Speaker 5: community with great supports, but they are outside the control
Speaker 5: of the teachers union. And that's what brings us to
Speaker 5: who's spending against Amendment eighty. Is it all coming from
Speaker 5: teachers unions or there are other people trying to get
Speaker 5: this defeated.
Speaker 9: So it is almost entirely coming from the teachers Union.
Speaker 9: And what I think people really need to know is
Speaker 9: that it's the National Teachers Union who's funding the majority
Speaker 9: of the campaign putting those ads on your TV and
Speaker 9: lying about an amendment eighty.
Speaker 6: As of a few.
Speaker 9: Days ago, the National Teachers Union had put in over
Speaker 9: four million dollars, and the other roughly million dollars that
Speaker 9: they have has come from in a state, the Colorado
Speaker 9: Teachers Union and a couple other organizations that smaller amounts.
Speaker 6: But it really is National Teachers.
Speaker 9: Union doesn't understand our system here in Colorado, doesn't know
Speaker 9: how popular it is, aligned to voters telling them this
Speaker 9: is threatening public school funding when the Colorado Fiscal note
Speaker 9: by a non partisan government agency, so this is zero
Speaker 9: dollar fiscal impact.
Speaker 6: This is not a funding amendment.
Speaker 5: So one of the things I want to take a
Speaker 5: little bit of a different tact than you just did.
Speaker 5: I do believe that the teachers unions know how popular
Speaker 5: this is. I do believe that they understand that we
Speaker 5: have a vibrant charter school system and they absolutely hate it.
Speaker 5: And even though all of the people who voted for
Speaker 5: school choice and all of the people who have supported
Speaker 5: charter schools in Colorado over the years, they've all moved
Speaker 5: on right because they have jobs and families and they
Speaker 5: figure it's done so we don't have to worry about
Speaker 5: it anymore. Whereas the teachers' unions never stop thinking about
Speaker 5: how to undermine and destroy a parent's option to choose
Speaker 5: the educational opportunity for their kid that best fits that kid,
Speaker 5: which is at the heart of this amendment. I do
Speaker 5: want to ask them, Yeah, oh go ahead, I'm.
Speaker 9: Just going to say, and I agree with you that
Speaker 9: their motives are very interfarious when you look at what
Speaker 9: they do. They like to come in from any you know,
Speaker 9: from their national high place, and come into any state
Speaker 9: and say, doesn't matter what you guys think of your system, right,
Speaker 9: hate it, and so we're going to fight it.
Speaker 5: So let me ask you about some of the criticisms
Speaker 5: that have been levied against Amendment eighty. And the biggest,
Speaker 5: most common one that I have heard from kind of
Speaker 5: a surprising place is from homeschoolers or charter school parents
Speaker 5: who say, wait a minute, does this give the government
Speaker 5: any way to sort of finagle their way in under
Speaker 5: the guise of quote ensuring equality education.
Speaker 9: Sure, and I've heard that concerned as well, and I
Speaker 9: think it comes from a good motive, but it's misplaced.
Speaker 9: When you look at at Amendment eighty, it is like
Speaker 9: the fact is the legislature could meet tomorrow in their
Speaker 9: next session and put any restriction on our rights to
Speaker 9: school choice that they want to.
Speaker 6: They don't need our permission to do that. And that,
Speaker 6: in fact, is the exact.
Speaker 9: Reason we need Amendment eighty is because you tell politicians
Speaker 9: to get their hands off your rights when you put
Speaker 9: them in the constitution. Because only the voters in Colorado
Speaker 9: can change the constitution, not the legislature.
Speaker 6: So you know the language, the operative language, This is
Speaker 6: very simple.
Speaker 9: It is the right to school choice. And parents always
Speaker 9: exercise rights in Colorado on behalf of their children, so
Speaker 9: that's also very clear. Even though the right to school
Speaker 9: choice is being given to every case through twelve child,
Speaker 9: the purpose language also says every parent has the right
Speaker 9: to direct the education of their child. That's an general
Speaker 9: precedent Colorado can't violate. So this means parental rights and
Speaker 9: school choice rights in our constitutions.
Speaker 5: This to me should be a no brainer, I mean, honestly,
Speaker 5: but is it enough of an issue to get people
Speaker 5: to say, yeah, we need to put this in our constitution.
Speaker 5: I mean, I know that we have a large chunk
Speaker 5: of our children. For any state, we have a pretty
Speaker 5: good chunk of our children in charter schools. I know
Speaker 5: that out of the top ten most successful schools in
Speaker 5: the state, a good chunk of those are charter schools
Speaker 5: or private schools. I think there's only one public high
Speaker 5: school in the top ten. So I mean, I'm just
Speaker 5: afraid there's complacency and people saying, look, why do we
Speaker 5: need this, Why do we need this now? After we
Speaker 5: have this vibrant system already.
Speaker 9: Sure and India, I actually think you're right that people
Speaker 9: tend to get complacent when you have rights that are
Speaker 9: currently protected.
Speaker 6: And you're not seeing the attacks coming on the horizon.
Speaker 9: Where we work in the education issue every day and
Speaker 9: we see what the legislature is proposing and that they're
Speaker 9: trying to, in their own words, attempts to create the
Speaker 9: beginning of the end for charter schools.
Speaker 6: In Colorado, we have the second highest population in the nation.
Speaker 9: Of charter school students. But I think a good relation
Speaker 9: that people can.
Speaker 6: See is the property taxes. Before our property.
Speaker 9: Tax spikes that happened last year. There was actually an
Speaker 9: amendment on the ballot that would have stopped whose spikes
Speaker 9: from happening and replaced Gallan with something effective, and voters
Speaker 9: voted it down because they weren't feeling the effect of
Speaker 9: high property taxes, and now then this year you saw
Speaker 9: everyone in the really said about it and wanted to
Speaker 9: fix right.
Speaker 6: I hope the same thing doesn't.
Speaker 9: Happen to school choice. That people are like, well, we
Speaker 9: have the rights, we like them, why.
Speaker 6: Put them in the constitution.
Speaker 9: And then two years from now we see major attacks
Speaker 9: succeed against school choice rights, and then people are like, oh, shoot,
Speaker 9: we should.
Speaker 6: Have passed it. Like we're basically saying, be proactive.
Speaker 9: If you like the rights you have on school choice,
Speaker 9: get ahead of the politicians, put them in the constitution.
Speaker 6: Don't leave yourself at their mercy.
Speaker 5: And what are the things that I think people don't
Speaker 5: necessarily pay attention to is the Board of Education in Colorado,
Speaker 5: And people may not realize that if you are in
Speaker 5: the Boulder Valley School District, your chances of getting a
Speaker 5: charter school approved are very very low. So the option
Speaker 5: to go and become a charter school under the Board
Speaker 5: of Education to get around from anti charter union controlled
Speaker 5: school boards is a huge thing that has to remain.
Speaker 5: But it's my understanding, and maybe you can correct me
Speaker 5: if you're wrong, since you're running for the board of Education.
Speaker 5: The makeup of the Board of Education has changed in
Speaker 5: such a way that puts those new approvals through the
Speaker 5: state perhaps at risk. Is that accurate?
Speaker 9: Yesitely, actually all going to depend on the election this November,
Speaker 9: because right now, even though it's a six ' to
Speaker 9: three Democrat majority on the board, it's full of five
Speaker 9: to four pro charter majority. But because what happened in
Speaker 9: one of the Democrat primaries this year, it's set up
Speaker 9: to be an anti charter board unless Yasmin Navarro and
Speaker 9: CD eight wins.
Speaker 6: The Board of EDC. If she wins, there's still one
Speaker 6: Democrat on the board who's.
Speaker 9: Pro school choice, in pro charter, who could still have
Speaker 9: a pro charter majority if Yasmin wins.
Speaker 5: You know, Christy, it's kind of crazy to me that
Speaker 5: this has become so politicized on the Republican and Democrat side,
Speaker 5: because there's an organization called Democrats for School Choice. So
Speaker 5: this didn't used to be a highly politicized issue. When
Speaker 5: did that happen? When did we go from everybody saying, look,
Speaker 5: we want every kid to succeed, and we want parents
Speaker 5: who know their kids better than anybody else to help
Speaker 5: them succeed, and yet here we are still having this conversation.
Speaker 5: When did that shift take place?
Speaker 9: You know, I think, honestly, Manby, it has been a
Speaker 9: shift among to your point, elected Democrats, not Democrats on
Speaker 9: the ground. We've been pulling this issue their support for
Speaker 9: school choice and keeping those rights in the constitution, you know,
Speaker 9: a majority among all political parties. And that's true across
Speaker 9: the nation because parents belong to all political parties and
Speaker 9: want their kids to succeed. But I'd say about the
Speaker 9: last ten years in Colorado, the Democrat Party has elected
Speaker 9: more people who are anti charter school, anti choice, and
Speaker 9: you know, want to In my opinion, they're leaving minority
Speaker 9: students economically disavantaged students in sailing schools and saying you're
Speaker 9: stuck there. Too bad for you, this is the only
Speaker 9: system you can choose, and studies actually show that's.
Speaker 6: What's going on.
Speaker 9: You know, when people like that get elect to office,
Speaker 9: and so Amendment eighty gives people on the ground, like
Speaker 9: Democrats on the street, who don't feel that way, who
Speaker 9: want to make sure kids from those kind of families
Speaker 9: are most vulnerable kids have the option to go to
Speaker 9: a better and different school. That's what Amendment eighty would
Speaker 9: cement and kind of push back on these politicians that
Speaker 9: just aren't representing what people in their party actually think.
Speaker 5: Well, let me read this text message I just got
Speaker 5: and people can text the Common Spirit Health text line
Speaker 5: at five to sixty six. And I know if you
Speaker 5: have questions for Christy Mandy, the commercials against ad have
Speaker 5: said that it may take money away from public education.
Speaker 5: I know my wife voted against it for that reason.
Speaker 5: Can you go through that?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 6: And you know that is what the ads are saying.
Speaker 9: They're telling people this is going to put public school
Speaker 9: funding at risk. The problem is that's a lie. And
Speaker 9: the way you can know that if you're like I
Speaker 9: don't know which campaign to believe, read the Colorado blue
Speaker 9: Book that is put together by nonpartisan analysts that always
Speaker 9: do a fiscal impact statement, which says basically, how much
Speaker 9: is this.
Speaker 6: Measure going to cost us?
Speaker 9: Zero dollars. That's not from our campaign. That's a hunty
Speaker 9: union that is from non parts and analysts who works
Speaker 9: at the State of Colorado, and they say there is
Speaker 9: no cost associated with this amendment. So I think people
Speaker 9: need to get to get the facts for themselves, because again,
Speaker 9: these ads on TV are being funded by the National
Speaker 9: Teachers Union.
Speaker 6: That's straight up line to voters, and the union.
Speaker 9: At debates have debated them a couple times they acknowledge
Speaker 9: at the debates, well, no, it's true, this isn't a voucher.
Speaker 9: There is actually no funding, but maybe one day there
Speaker 9: could be. So they actually acknowledge in person that the
Speaker 9: suggestion this causes or sorry, cost money to voters is
Speaker 9: a lie.
Speaker 5: Well, they have now done a really good job just
Speaker 5: conflating school choice with vouchers, right, They've demonized vouchers. So
Speaker 5: now the move is to tie those two things together
Speaker 5: as if they are the same when they are not. Now,
Speaker 5: I personally am pro voucher, but I think that's going
Speaker 5: to be one of those things that you are going
Speaker 5: to have to get a lot of buy in from
Speaker 5: a lot of different people before you can even attempt
Speaker 5: it in a state. It can't be done at the
Speaker 5: district level. It's got to be down at the state level,
Speaker 5: and it's going to require a lot of conversation and talking.
Speaker 5: And you cannot inflict that on people and expect it
Speaker 5: not to just end up in the courts for decades,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. It's like vouchers. I love
Speaker 5: the idea, but the practicality of it, I have it
Speaker 5: on the back burner. I just want to make sure
Speaker 5: that parents can choose the best option for their kids.
Speaker 5: That's all I want.
Speaker 9: Add this entire thing exactly Mandy and I think, and
Speaker 9: that's what we're doing in Amendment eighty. You know, I
Speaker 9: think if you're realistic about where we are in Colorado
Speaker 9: right now, and where we are in Colorado right now
Speaker 9: is a system that has been enjoyed and celebrated protected
Speaker 9: on a biperson basis for decades, that you get to.
Speaker 6: Pick the best school for your kids.
Speaker 9: And in Colorado, if you want to put them in
Speaker 9: private school or homeschool, then like my husband and I do, you've.
Speaker 6: Got to pay for that yourself.
Speaker 9: And then the eighty wouldn't change that. But what it
Speaker 9: does say is the government can't interfere with those rights.
Speaker 9: The government can't say, oh, sorry, we're going to close
Speaker 9: down the charter school in your districts because we don't
Speaker 9: like the enrollment numbers. That as a local school doesn't
Speaker 9: matter the charter school succeeding close.
Speaker 6: It down right now.
Speaker 9: They can do that in Colorado, you know, they could
Speaker 9: ban open enrollment if they want to, which is actually
Speaker 9: used by a lot of families in Colorado to cross
Speaker 9: district lines.
Speaker 6: Go to a better school for their kids.
Speaker 9: Then the legislature could ban that next session if they
Speaker 9: want to. The only way to stop that is to
Speaker 9: put those rights in the constitution, which is very simply
Speaker 9: what Amnemin eighty does without impacting funding.
Speaker 5: A lot of textures asking a variation of this question,
Speaker 5: Mandy I heard this would allow funding of private schools
Speaker 5: by using tax money. Does it do that?
Speaker 9: Absolutely not, absolutely not, And that is what the union
Speaker 9: is spending millions of dollars saying on TV to people,
Speaker 9: And it is an absolute why.
Speaker 6: And again people can look at.
Speaker 9: The blue books take take nonpartisan analysts from the state's
Speaker 9: word for it. I mean the state is no, the
Speaker 9: current state is no fan of any conservative issue. If
Speaker 9: this were going to cost money to public schools, they
Speaker 9: would say so. They put fiscal impacts on every measure,
Speaker 9: and they have said the fiscal impact is zero dollars.
Speaker 9: You cannot get less fun than a zero dollar fiscal impact.
Speaker 9: To know, this is not a voucher, it's not a
Speaker 9: funding program, would not take money from public schools and
Speaker 9: put them into private.
Speaker 5: This person said, Mandy. The concerns I'm reading from homeschoolers
Speaker 5: is that the amendment says quality education. The concern is
Speaker 5: who determines what is a quality education. They're afraid that
Speaker 5: the government will decide exactly what that means. Can you
Speaker 5: ask Christy if there's a possibility that the government can
Speaker 5: decide how homeschoolers are taught?
Speaker 9: Great question, and I would say right now, the government
Speaker 9: could meet in next legislative session and put any restriction
Speaker 9: it wanted to on homeschooling families. It doesn't need anyone's
Speaker 9: permission or a new law to do that. That puts
Speaker 9: us you know, if you are a homeschooler, and I
Speaker 9: am a homeschooler and a homeschool grad.
Speaker 6: Actually that puts us.
Speaker 9: In a very scary situation where it's the mercy of
Speaker 9: politicians who can restrict us tomorrow if.
Speaker 6: They want to so. And then an ady, on the
Speaker 6: other hand.
Speaker 9: Would actually put the right to homeschool your kids as
Speaker 9: a school choice option in the Colorado Constitution.
Speaker 6: You cannot have.
Speaker 9: Greater protection from the winds of politicians than putting that
Speaker 9: right in the Colorado Constitution. The quality language that some
Speaker 9: homeschoolers are getting a little bit hung up on, which
Speaker 9: I understand is actually in the purpose language, and it's
Speaker 9: really really important that people understand the difference in purpose
Speaker 9: language and operative language. Operative language is the law that's
Speaker 9: good language that establishes the right to school choice in
Speaker 9: our constitution.
Speaker 6: The purpose language basically answers, why are we doing this,
Speaker 6: or we're doing this because every.
Speaker 9: Kid should have access to quality education. But that is
Speaker 9: not part of the actual law here, and so no,
Speaker 9: it does not give the government any extra permission to
Speaker 9: mess with education standards in Colorado.
Speaker 5: I guess when I just heard you say that this
Speaker 5: legislative session, the legislature could simply pass law banning homeschooling.
Speaker 5: That never occurred to me until right now.
Speaker 6: I think the home schools.
Speaker 9: Which are missing that hugely, which you know, I'm a homeschooler,
Speaker 9: so that that bothers me.
Speaker 6: They're completely ignoring that. I saw an email from them saying.
Speaker 9: Let's just be vigilant and defend the rights we currently
Speaker 9: have at the legislature. The religius sature doesn't listen to homeschoolers.
Speaker 6: They don't care what we say.
Speaker 9: They could absolutely restrict and bhand whatever they want next session,
Speaker 9: and the only way.
Speaker 6: To protect that is to put our right to homeschool
Speaker 6: in the constitution.
Speaker 5: All right, we're talking about Amendment eighty with Christy Burton Brown,
Speaker 5: also a candidate for the fourth District for the Board
Speaker 5: of Education. This is a critically important amendment to do
Speaker 5: exactly what Christy just said. This is going and let's
Speaker 5: be clear, Christy, there's no and people don't often understand this.
Speaker 5: We will pass let's see Amendment eighty passes. What we've
Speaker 5: passed is essentially the skeleton framework of what this is
Speaker 5: actually going to mean. And then they're going to pass laws,
Speaker 5: and then there's going to be lawsuits, and then they're
Speaker 5: going to put the meat on the bones of this amendment.
Speaker 5: So if we're worried about things like quality education, there
Speaker 5: are ways to address that going forward. As the meat
Speaker 5: gets put on the bones of this entire situation.
Speaker 9: Sure, and you know it's not what people are worried about,
Speaker 9: they can certainly involve themselves in any discussions later that
Speaker 9: may happen. I do think that people do need to understand,
Speaker 9: like this is a cot institutional right. Likes the freedom
Speaker 9: to speech, like the freedom of religion that we have
Speaker 9: in the US Constitution.
Speaker 6: Are there lawsuits that go on about those rights all
Speaker 6: the time? Sure there are.
Speaker 9: You know, people sue over rights to make sure they're protected.
Speaker 9: But that doesn't change the fact that we should have
Speaker 9: those fundamental rights present in our constitution.
Speaker 6: So that we're putting the government on notice.
Speaker 9: You can no longer interfere with our right to school choice.
Speaker 9: Here in Colorado. Every family gets to make the best
Speaker 9: choice for their child. You can't block access.
Speaker 5: Christy Burton Brown is my guest, Christy Burton. I know
Speaker 5: we're talking about the amendment. Well, why don't you give
Speaker 5: your sales pitch of why people should vote for you
Speaker 5: for the fourth Congressional District Board of Education seat.
Speaker 6: Oh thanks, Mandy.
Speaker 9: I am running to give parents a voice, to empower parents.
Speaker 9: You should be able to pick any kind of school
Speaker 9: that you want for your child, and I don't think
Speaker 9: the state Board of Education should block.
Speaker 6: Your access to doing that.
Speaker 9: So that's one of the fights I'll engage with on
Speaker 9: the state Board. I'll support charter schools and people's choice,
Speaker 9: so that's the kind of voice we need. Also, I
Speaker 9: have school age kids and no one who's going to
Speaker 9: be on the board next year.
Speaker 5: Right now has.
Speaker 6: School age kids, and I think that's also an important
Speaker 6: voice we need on the board.
Speaker 5: I agree, Christy, thank you so much for making time
Speaker 5: for us today.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Mandy.
Speaker 5: All right, that is Christy Burton Brown. I would love
Speaker 5: for you to vote yes on Amendment eighty, and I
Speaker 5: would love for you to vote for KBB if she
Speaker 5: is on your ballot for the Board of Education. We've
Speaker 5: got to make sure that the Board of Education remains
Speaker 5: with some sort of balance on it, because it is
Speaker 5: incredibly it's an important board. I honestly don't know why
Speaker 5: we have it, the State Board of Education perfectly, Frank,
Speaker 5: I don't understand why we have it. If we're going
Speaker 5: to do education at the local level, then do education at.
Speaker 7: The local level.
Speaker 5: Mandy, I'm sad that people have not realized yet that
Speaker 5: you cannot believe everything you see in the television ads
Speaker 5: and here on radio ads that from northern Colorado. Dan,
Speaker 5: let me just say this about that. Guys, if I
Speaker 5: sat on the radio and I said to you, if
Speaker 5: you go buy an Max bed, you are going to
Speaker 5: get laid more, you are going to sleep like the dead,
Speaker 5: and you are going to have the best life you're
Speaker 5: ever going to have. The Federal Trade Commission would come
Speaker 5: down and they would find me, and it would be
Speaker 5: ugly because I cannot back up any of those claims, right,
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know. Maybe you don't have any game,
Speaker 5: Maybe you're never gonna get lady.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 5: But when I do my commercials, and we have to
Speaker 5: do training about this every single year about what we
Speaker 5: can and cannot say in our commercials, we can't make
Speaker 5: claims that we can't back up, right, And yet political
Speaker 5: advertising is exempt from all of that, And I genuinely
Speaker 5: don't understand that. If I were to be president, the
Speaker 5: first thing I would do was tell the FTC to
Speaker 5: pass a rule that says, if you are caught lying
Speaker 5: in your campaign ads, you have to make a donation
Speaker 5: equal to the buy that you made and the reach
Speaker 5: of any viral social media posts you put out there
Speaker 5: to the campaign of your opponent. That would stop it,
Speaker 5: real quick, real real quick, because the level of absolute
Speaker 5: lying that goes on in political ads is shameful. And
Speaker 5: if I'm a candidate, I don't know, I would rather
Speaker 5: lose than get out there and make up stuff about
Speaker 5: my opponent. I'm just that's not Maybe that's why I'll
Speaker 5: never be a politician, but it should not be. Okay,
Speaker 5: we as the American voters should not accept this. We
Speaker 5: should punish candidates who lie, but they work. That's why
Speaker 5: they do it. Because like that nice man who sent
Speaker 5: the text in and said, my wife heard a radio
Speaker 5: commercial that said it was going to take money away
Speaker 5: from education, so she voted. No, that nice lady got
Speaker 5: lied to, and she casts a ballot based on a lie,
Speaker 5: and that should not be allowed. Or they should just
Speaker 5: let me lie about everything. I mean, come on, that'd
Speaker 5: be awesome. Not really, I still wouldn't do it. Nick
Speaker 5: Treano with Unit America is going to be at a
Speaker 5: debate tonight at DU I believe I looked earlier and
Speaker 5: there was still some tickets left. Nick Troyano's joining me now,
Speaker 5: but I've got information about it on the blog today. Nick,
Speaker 5: can we do a rapid speed round of question and
Speaker 5: answer about Prop one thirty one?
Speaker 2: Happy to Mandy.
Speaker 5: First of all, tell my listeners briefly what it does.
Speaker 14: This makes two changes to our elections that will give
Speaker 14: voters a lot more choice and power in their elections.
Speaker 14: The first is in the primary instead of you're an
Speaker 14: independent choosing between a Democratic or Republican primary, everybody gets
Speaker 14: one ballot, and you can vote for the person, not
Speaker 14: the party. You can vote for anyone of any party
Speaker 14: for any office. And then the second change is that
Speaker 14: the top four finishers go to the general election, where
Speaker 14: you have the option of ranking them, not just choosing one,
Speaker 14: and this ensures that whoever wins does so with majority
Speaker 14: support through an instant runoff process. The combination of these
Speaker 14: reforms mean that no longer will just five percent of
Speaker 14: the electorate to determine the outcome of most races and
Speaker 14: low turnout primaries. But our elections will be decided in
Speaker 14: a November election when most voters cast their ballots, and
Speaker 14: we'll get leaders who actually represent a majority of.
Speaker 5: Us because we have districts in Colorado, both Democrat and Republican,
Speaker 5: that are considered so called safe districts, so they are
Speaker 5: essentially decided in the primary. Correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 14: The sad reality is I can go through the list
Speaker 14: of all of our legislative seats and with one hundred
Speaker 14: percent accuracy for eighty percent of them, tell you who
Speaker 14: will win today, a week more than a week out
Speaker 14: from when any votes will be tallied. That's because most
Speaker 14: of these legislative seats are locked for one party or another,
Speaker 14: and the low turnout primary determines those outcomes back in June.
Speaker 5: So in this system, if you did not want to
Speaker 5: rank your candidates, say you've got candidate ABC and D
Speaker 5: A is your candidate BC and D or communist, you
Speaker 5: don't want to vote for the those people. If you
Speaker 5: don't vote for two, three, and four, what happens to
Speaker 5: your ballot? Does it still get counted?
Speaker 14: Your ballot absolutely gets counted. And in this scenario that
Speaker 14: none of the four candidates get an outright majority of support,
Speaker 14: it's the candidate with the least amount of votes that
Speaker 14: get eliminated, and then you look to that candidate's second choice,
Speaker 14: their supporters second choice vote and redistribute an until someone
Speaker 14: emerges with a majority. So it's to your advantage to
Speaker 14: rank more because if it goes into this runoff period
Speaker 14: of time, your vote will still be in the running,
Speaker 14: but you don't have to.
Speaker 5: So one of the things that I get asked about
Speaker 5: a lot, and I'm just going to read this text
Speaker 5: message that I just got, because this really encapsulates it
Speaker 5: personally perfectly. One moment please, Manny, if one thirty one passes,
Speaker 5: Colorado will be one party rule within five years. How
Speaker 5: do you respond to that?
Speaker 14: It's actually the opposite. This is going to create more
Speaker 14: healthy competition between both political parties and may even level
Speaker 14: the playing field for candidates to compete from outside the
Speaker 14: two major political parties. And that's because we have something
Speaker 14: called the spoiler effect in our current system, where those
Speaker 14: who want to vote for an independent or a third
Speaker 14: party candidate fear that if they do, they'll take away
Speaker 14: a vote from their second preferred candidate and wind up
Speaker 14: helping to elect their least preferred Under this system, you
Speaker 14: actually get to vote your values and your views and
Speaker 14: express a fuller preference.
Speaker 2: Of your vote.
Speaker 5: That seems to be the biggest concern is that people
Speaker 5: say in Denver, they always use Denver as an example.
Speaker 5: In Denver, a Republican will never be on the ballot,
Speaker 5: to which I respond, is there a chance of Republicans
Speaker 5: going to get elected in Denver? Right now? So let's
Speaker 5: be real. I mean, I'm not trying to be flippant,
Speaker 5: but is there no? There isn't. What I see happening
Speaker 5: here is this? If it works, Nick, and God, I
Speaker 5: want this to work, okay, because I've really tossed this
Speaker 5: around in my brain trying to look at all the
Speaker 5: potential outcomes, all the potential positives, all the potential negatives.
Speaker 5: I belie believe that if candidates get it, and if
Speaker 5: candidates campaign in the right way, meaning they try to
Speaker 5: cast a broad net, right, they try to campaign to everyone,
Speaker 5: this could fundamentally change the way elections are in this country.
Speaker 5: Is that the only reason, like, why did you guys
Speaker 5: launch this in the first place. What are the underlying
Speaker 5: motives here?
Speaker 14: Well, one motive is to give voters a ballot that
Speaker 14: truly matters. You know, I've looked at my ballot today,
Speaker 14: I got in the mail. I live in Denver. Most
Speaker 14: of these races, virtually all of them have already been
Speaker 14: decided in the Democratic primary. So this reform is really
Speaker 14: about making sure that when you vote in November, you
Speaker 14: have more choices on your ballot, and your ballot actually matters.
Speaker 14: The second reason why we're proposing this reform is because
Speaker 14: it changes the incentives of candidates and elected leaders to
Speaker 14: your point, to incentivize them to reach out to a
Speaker 14: broader coalition of voters to get elected, so that when
Speaker 14: they're in office, they're actually trying to represent a true
Speaker 14: majority of us, not just pandered to the five percent
Speaker 14: of the base of their party that they need to
Speaker 14: stay in the good graces with to stay in office.
Speaker 14: So it's good for voters and it's good for governance,
Speaker 14: and that's why we think this is a pro democracy,
Speaker 14: nonpartisan reform.
Speaker 2: You can tell a.
Speaker 14: Lot by an idea, a boy who opposes it, and
Speaker 14: both major parties oppose it, Ndor Bennett Lauren Bobert.
Speaker 2: What do they have in common?
Speaker 14: Not much. They want to protect their own power. This
Speaker 14: is a pro voter, pro people reform.
Speaker 5: Why shouldn't the two parties continue to decide how we
Speaker 5: do our primaries?
Speaker 2: Well, we have.
Speaker 14: To disentangle the role that parties play from the role
Speaker 14: that our elections should play. Right now, to use the
Speaker 14: sort of sports analogy, we have two teams that are
Speaker 14: also deciding the rules of the league and are trying
Speaker 14: to be the umpires and enforcing those rules. We have
Speaker 14: to separate this out so that the parties are participating
Speaker 14: in our democracy, but they don't control our elections. Our
Speaker 14: elections belong to voters, and under this system, a government
Speaker 14: run toaxpayer funded process. This will give voters a lot
Speaker 14: more choice and power in their elections. Parties, by the way,
Speaker 14: can still continue their core function. They can recruit, support
Speaker 14: and endorse candidates.
Speaker 9: As they do today.
Speaker 5: The last question I have, and then we'll talk about
Speaker 5: tonight's event real quick. How could rank choice voting be
Speaker 5: manipulated by someone? And this is a common theory that
Speaker 5: I hear from listeners that they're worried somebody is going
Speaker 5: to run as a conservative and then take away a
Speaker 5: bunch of votes from an actual conservative. How do you
Speaker 5: see or how could this be manipulated? Have you guys
Speaker 5: thought about any of that.
Speaker 14: There's no perfect system, but ranked choice voting in general
Speaker 14: elections will reduce a lot of the gamesmanship that we
Speaker 14: see today. Republicans sometimes run and support Green Party candidates,
Speaker 14: and Democrats do the same with libertarians to peel off
Speaker 14: some votes and advantage themselves in the general election. That
Speaker 14: won't be possible or much less likely under this current system,
Speaker 14: because voters can still rank.
Speaker 6: A second preference.
Speaker 14: Likewise, there's been plenty of stories about how Democrats have
Speaker 14: spent millions of dollars within Republican primaries to support the
Speaker 14: most extreme Republican advantage themselves in general elections, That too,
Speaker 14: is greatly mitigated under this new system, because four candidates
Speaker 14: will get to the general election. So again, no perfect system,
Speaker 14: but this proposal actually reduces a lot of the gamesmanship
Speaker 14: that we see today.
Speaker 5: All right, Nick Freano with United America on the show.
Speaker 5: Right now, I lied, I have one work because this
Speaker 5: text just came in. Another common thing not true. Once
Speaker 5: your candidate is eliminated, if you haven't ranked either candidates
Speaker 5: on your ballot, your ballot is exhausted and your vote
Speaker 5: is not counted towards the final vote tabulation. Is that accurate?
Speaker 2: That is, and that's what.
Speaker 14: I did say earlier, which is why we encourage people
Speaker 14: to fill out their full ballot.
Speaker 2: But you have to.
Speaker 14: Compare it again to the current system. If you vote
Speaker 14: for saying independent, our a third party candidate, you don't
Speaker 14: have the ability to put a second choice if that
Speaker 14: candidate doesn't win and your current vote is exhausted. So
Speaker 14: relative to the current system, this allows people to have
Speaker 14: a much fuller and much more powerful say and who
Speaker 14: represents them.
Speaker 5: Let me make sure that I am clear on this.
Speaker 5: So your first initial vote doesn't count towards the tabulation.
Speaker 5: If you don't rank the other candidates, No, No, your first.
Speaker 14: Choice absolutely does, so your vote counts.
Speaker 7: You just don't.
Speaker 5: You don't weigh in on anything else. If you choose
Speaker 5: not to correct.
Speaker 14: If that race goes to a runoff, and if you
Speaker 14: choose not to rank any of the candidates that are
Speaker 14: in that runoff, then of course your other preferences don't count.
Speaker 2: It's almost like.
Speaker 14: You're voting here in Denver in the mayor's race, and
Speaker 14: the race goes to runoff. If you don't show up
Speaker 14: the second time, your vote doesn't count. So we would
Speaker 14: encourage you to do that. Under this system. The only
Speaker 14: difference is instead of asking you to come back to
Speaker 14: the polls again, we allow you to rank your backup
Speaker 14: preferences at that time.
Speaker 5: Nick Treono is my guest. Nick, we're almost out a time.
Speaker 5: Let's talk about what's happening tonight to you.
Speaker 14: Yeah, So we're squaring off against some opponents of Prop
Speaker 14: thirty one.
Speaker 2: We're looking forward to a good.
Speaker 14: Conversation and debate about this topic. And I think the
Speaker 14: biggest difference between proponents and opponents of the system is
Speaker 14: how much we trust voters. Do we trust them with
Speaker 14: more power in our system. Do we trust them that
Speaker 14: they are capable of ranking candidates one, two, three on
Speaker 14: their ballot? Proponents say yes, and that this is going
Speaker 14: to be good for voters and good for the state
Speaker 14: of Colorado.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: Nick Treilano, I appreciate what you guys are doing. I
Speaker 5: am a solid yes on Prop One thirty one, and
Speaker 5: I'm trying to encourage others to do the same. What
Speaker 5: we've got now. For the person who said we'll have
Speaker 5: one party rule in five years, yeah, look around. That's
Speaker 5: what we have now in Colorado, and the incompetence of
Speaker 5: the Republican Party is not going to change that anytime soon. Nick,
Speaker 5: I hope the debate goes well tonight, and hopefully we'll
Speaker 5: talk after this passes about what it's going to look like.
Speaker 5: Since the Democratic and Republican legislature decided to ban this
Speaker 5: before the voters even had a chance to vote on it,
Speaker 5: we'll talk about that later. That's NICKTORYJ. Howe with Unit America.
Speaker 5: We got that going for us. We'll be right back. Lately,
Speaker 5: a couple of things have been happening to be on
Speaker 5: the roadways. A rod my efforts and yours to bring
Speaker 5: back the wave. Courtesy wave seems to be catching on.
Speaker 5: I've got a lot of Yes, I've got a lot
Speaker 5: of courtesy waves. As of late, I'm giving the courtesy
Speaker 5: wave every chance I get.
Speaker 8: Thanks guy, Yeah, I have to hit you with the
Speaker 8: polar opposite.
Speaker 7: I have had no one giving me nobody, nil, no one.
Speaker 5: That's awful.
Speaker 8: And you know what I'm doing now, not let this
Speaker 8: cast a wave. Oh you're welcome, Yeah you will.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I f als okay, I think that's okay to
Speaker 5: give give the wave, teach them what they don't know.
Speaker 7: That's the way You're I'm gonna do it more and
Speaker 7: more obvious, got it?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Okay, Hey, I have a nice.
Speaker 8: Your dumb ant wave or excuse me, dumb and don't wave.
Speaker 8: You're getting honked at too, stop it. But I'm not
Speaker 8: just the waving thing. It's to be doing something dumb
Speaker 8: and not waving.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, then that's it perfectly acceptable. Yes, the both
Speaker 5: of those things. Now, I haven't jerked. I have a
Speaker 5: story on the blog today though, about a man who
Speaker 5: just got sentenced to ten years in prison for road
Speaker 5: rage assault. And they have the video of this. This
Speaker 5: guy's in a truck, and he said he just made
Speaker 5: an error and he accidentally went into the lane with
Speaker 5: a motorcyclist. But you watch this video and it is
Speaker 5: undeniable that he ran into a guy on a motorcycle.
Speaker 5: The guy survived luckily, but dang, it's scary to watch.
Speaker 5: But he got ten years in prison. Now, if i'm
Speaker 5: se Dot, you know what I put on those signs
Speaker 5: on the road You know, the big signs overhead. I
Speaker 5: put Albert Moda is spending ten years in jail for
Speaker 5: road rage on every sign for like a couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: And then every time someone gets convicted of doing something
Speaker 5: like that on the roadways, you put their name Albert
Speaker 5: Moda going to jail for ten years for road rage.
Speaker 5: Don't be like Albert. I think that it's a really
Speaker 5: compelling way to go after road rage because now we
Speaker 5: have these signs now like slow down, you're not in
Speaker 5: a hurry or whatever. They're all nice and everything. It's fine,
Speaker 5: but the people that need it the most are gonna
Speaker 5: ignore all the nice signs. Why don't you show them
Speaker 5: the consequences of their action. The other day, I was
Speaker 5: driving down twenty five and a kid goes flying past
Speaker 5: me auto motorcycle lane splitting and this is my least
Speaker 5: favorite thing, and it's happening more and more often. And
Speaker 5: a guy in a car about five cars up on
Speaker 5: my right, so I'm going the left lane, he's in
Speaker 5: the right lane. Did one of those like jog the
Speaker 5: wheel because we're going about We're going like ten miles
Speaker 5: an hour. You know, we're not going very fast on
Speaker 5: twenty five And I almost had a heart attack because
Speaker 5: I thought I was gonna watch this kid die because
Speaker 5: he jerked over. It was I mean, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 5: I hate the lane splitting thing. Horrible. It's not legal
Speaker 5: in the state of Colorado. Lane filtering is not lane splitting.
Speaker 5: And if you are lane splitting, you are probably gonna
Speaker 5: die because of that guy. The other guy. And this
Speaker 5: is an other thing like motorcycles. This is what scares
Speaker 5: me about riding a motorcycle, not the motorcyclist, the dumbass
Speaker 5: in the truck. Now, the most interesting thing about this
Speaker 5: and why I'm actually bringing this story up, I'm thinking
Speaker 5: about getting a dash cam because it was dash cam
Speaker 5: video from someone else's camera that that caught this guy,
Speaker 5: that caught him in the act lying about what he did.
Speaker 8: I keep needing, keep thinking about the need to get
Speaker 8: a dash can.
Speaker 5: I'm surprised at how many people have them. First of all,
Speaker 5: they're super cheap. Now they're like nothing now to have
Speaker 5: a dash cam. But I've talked to multiple people and
Speaker 5: they all have kind of different reasons for having a
Speaker 5: dash cam. One of them is, look, I I drive
Speaker 5: at night a lot. He had already hit a deer.
Speaker 5: He's like, I want evidence that I hit a deer
Speaker 5: and not another car.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I'm like, well, the dead deer would probably be evidence
Speaker 5: for that, but do what you got to do.
Speaker 7: I wouldache.
Speaker 5: An accident and it was there was multi cars and
Speaker 5: and just really got the shaft. I not go my way,
Speaker 5: and it would have if you had a dash dash can. Yep,
Speaker 5: let's put it like that right there. Kind of makes
Speaker 5: me want to get one.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: Maybe I'll ask for one for Christmas. Get one, get
Speaker 5: each other one. Oh that's a good idea. No, I
Speaker 5: like that. I like it a lot. Then I don't
Speaker 5: have to think at all about your Christmas present.
Speaker 7: I don't know how much are they.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I'll look on this break one more thing.
Speaker 5: I got a new windshield yesterday. It was I got it.
Speaker 5: I drove today and at one point I was facing
Speaker 5: the sun and I could see through my windshield. My
Speaker 5: old windshield was so pitted, you know, and had all
Speaker 5: the little chips and stuff in it. I did not
Speaker 5: realize how bad it was, y'all. I've probably been a
Speaker 5: minute to society. I couldn't see a damn thing through
Speaker 5: that windshield.
Speaker 7: No, probably about it.
Speaker 5: All good now, All good now, we'll be right back.
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Speaker 17: All right, my.
Speaker 5: Friends, mooting centers and drop boxes are open, and they
Speaker 5: open last Monday, and thousands of people have already turned
Speaker 5: in their ballots. In compared to twenty twenty, we are
Speaker 5: dramatically lower. Only six hundred and thirty seven five hundred
Speaker 5: ninety seven ballots have been cast in Colorado as of Wednesday.
Speaker 5: In twenty twenty, a little over one point two six
Speaker 5: million had been returned out, double the number now. Right now,
Speaker 5: Democrats hold the lead for dropping off their ballots, and
Speaker 5: I'm urging everyone turn your ballots in. It makes to
Speaker 5: get out the vote operations so much easier, and Republicans
Speaker 5: need to get their voices heard early. To drill it too,
Speaker 5: Mike Rosen did an excellent column about the Democrat big
Speaker 5: lie on taxation and got some responses about how much
Speaker 5: the top fifty percent of income earners make as a
Speaker 5: portion of the income in the country. So he decided
Speaker 5: to take on that lie and breaks it down to
Speaker 5: show you exactly what's not counted in those statistics. If
Speaker 5: you want to know more about basic economics and how
Speaker 5: to push back on these numbers, this call is a
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Speaker 11: This is a.
Speaker 5: Very interesting study. Now we all know that sleep is important,
Speaker 5: but it is really important for your brain. People with
Speaker 5: poor quality sleep have more signs of poor brain health
Speaker 5: in late middle age, and this study studied five hundred
Speaker 5: and eighty nine participants. Those who reported two or three
Speaker 5: poor sleep characteristics had an average brain age that was
Speaker 5: one point six years older than those with no more
Speaker 5: than one poor sleep characteristic, and those with more than
Speaker 5: three poor sleep characteristics had an average brain of two
Speaker 5: point six years older. It's kind of scary because they
Speaker 5: can actually show that if you don't sleep well, your
Speaker 5: brain already starts to shrink. Now here's the interesting question.
Speaker 5: Does your brain shrink because you're not sleeping well or
Speaker 5: are you not sleeping well because your brain is shrinking. Hmmm,
Speaker 5: we'll have to have another study on that.
Speaker 2: Drill it too.
Speaker 5: I love, love, love this story on Fox thirty one
Speaker 5: because I've only been here to ten years, so whenever
Speaker 5: my friends come to visit, we stand and look at
Speaker 5: this beautiful view of the Front Range, and inevitably one
Speaker 5: of them says, what is that mountain called? And if
Speaker 5: it's not Pike's Peak, I got no idea. So I'm
Speaker 5: thrilled with the story from Fox thirty one. This shows
Speaker 5: you the entire Front Range with all of the names
Speaker 5: of the mountains. So if you're new, or maybe you're
Speaker 5: not new, but you want to know a little bit
Speaker 5: more about our beautiful view. Go click on that link
Speaker 5: and check it out for yourself. I'm going to print
Speaker 5: it out and memorize them all just to say I
Speaker 5: did go to drill it too. Really interesting story about
Speaker 5: male athletes who compete as women. The United Nations did
Speaker 5: a study and the findings were compiled by the UN's
Speaker 5: Rappertoire on Violence against Women. This report was titled Violence
Speaker 5: against Women and Girls in Sports. It found that nearly
Speaker 5: nine hundred biological females have fallen short of the podium
Speaker 5: because they were beaten out by a man competing as
Speaker 5: a woman. The report said that more than six hundred
Speaker 5: athletes did not meddle in more than four hundred competitions
Speaker 5: in twenty nine different sports, totaling over eight hundred and
Speaker 5: ninety medals that according to information obtained to March thirtieth.
Speaker 5: The report says the replacement of the female sports category
Speaker 5: with a mixed sext category has resulted in an increasing
Speaker 5: number of female athletes losing opportunities, including medals, when competing
Speaker 5: against males. It's not just about medals right now. There
Speaker 5: are athletes who have college scholarships because they are men.
Speaker 5: Who say they are women and they have decided to
Speaker 5: compete as women. This is not fair. It's got to
Speaker 5: be stopped. I feel like the tide is shifting, and
Speaker 5: this is not an anti transtance. This is a pro
Speaker 5: woman stance. And what I find super frustrating about this
Speaker 5: entire argument is that the same people who for years
Speaker 5: said we had to believe all women, believe all women,
Speaker 5: believe all women, Well, they don't want to believe the
Speaker 5: women who say I don't want to get dressed next
Speaker 5: to a man in my locker room. I don't want
Speaker 5: to deal with a man in my children's locker room.
Speaker 5: I'd like to be able to compete against people who
Speaker 5: have the same bodily makeup that I have without having
Speaker 5: a worry about competing against someone who is naturally far
Speaker 5: stronger than I am. Thank you, thank you, thank you
Speaker 5: for the un We'll see if this actually does anything.
Speaker 5: As of late, we've got a trans golfer teeing up
Speaker 5: at the second stage of qualifying for the LPGA Tour card,
Speaker 5: although a group of two hundred and seventy five female
Speaker 5: golfers have signed up to say not, uh, no way.
Speaker 5: Women are finally starting to fight back, and it's about time.
Speaker 11: It too.
Speaker 5: And last story of the day. If you love those
Speaker 5: cheesy little goldfish crackers, but you're classy now because you're
Speaker 5: a little bit older. Never fear. Goldfish has been rebranded.
Speaker 5: They will officially be named Chilean sea bass from now
Speaker 5: on in order to bring in a bougie or crowd
Speaker 5: fun fact a rod. Did you know that Chilean sea
Speaker 5: bass is actually just a marketing name given to the
Speaker 5: Patagonian mantooth fish because nobody wants to buy the patagony
Speaker 5: and mantooth fish, but everybody wants to buy Chilean sea bass.
Speaker 7: Well, this is temporary, right, I believe it's just marketing.
Speaker 5: It's a marketing gimmick. Yes, and I actually love this.
Speaker 5: I love little things like this where companies try to
Speaker 5: do something creative to get a little free pub Well done, goldfish.
Speaker 5: What was the last time you ate a goldfish or
Speaker 5: talked about goldfish? I love goldfish on chili? Do you
Speaker 5: know what people put like cheese and crackers in chili? No,
Speaker 5: I just cut to the chase. I put cheese crackers
Speaker 5: in there in the form of goldfish.
Speaker 7: Can't say I've done it, but I'm intrigued. It's delicious,
Speaker 7: like the normal flavor.
Speaker 5: I do the jlipino chaddar, but they're not very spicy
Speaker 5: or the regular either, or you could do either, or
Speaker 5: they're deltion intreg Yeah, I do that. Some candy kilipinos
Speaker 5: and a dollup of sour cream. In my show, it
Speaker 5: was so good, so good. Well, the gross dollop of
Speaker 5: sour cream takes away the sting of the candy kilipinos
Speaker 5: because the last.
Speaker 6: Batch of kellie oh no, no, the last.
Speaker 5: Batch of candy jlipinos. I like spicy food, but candy
Speaker 5: calipino should be sweet and spicy. Right, These almost my
Speaker 5: face off, the last batch.
Speaker 7: Of alipinos that I made.
Speaker 5: I'll bring you some next time. Next time I make
Speaker 5: a big batch of well they normally they are because
Speaker 5: the sugar kind of you know, takes away the heat.
Speaker 5: But this last batch, I don't know what happened. Burn
Speaker 5: my face off with that. They were hot halipinos. Somebody
Speaker 5: told me once how to pick the hot jilipinos versus
Speaker 5: the not so hot jlipinos, and I'll be darned if
Speaker 5: I can remember what that was. I mean, I cannot
Speaker 5: remember what.
Speaker 7: The tip was give me the hot ones.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I usually try to do a mix right, so you
Speaker 5: get like a hot one, then you get a mild
Speaker 5: when it kind of balances everything out. I'd love to
Speaker 5: know what that tip is. If you know how to
Speaker 5: choose those, please let me know, cause it's been kind
Speaker 5: of driving me crazy for a while. Now, when we
Speaker 5: get back, I have an incredibly important question to ask,
Speaker 5: and I mean it. You can go ahead and start
Speaker 5: texting us your answer five six six nine. Oh, And
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna ask it the easiest way possible. What
Speaker 5: is the worst Halloween candy? And why is it circus
Speaker 5: peanuts or candy corn? Go ahead text me five six
Speaker 5: six nine.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 8: There you go.
Speaker 5: Mandy, you should one day interview Sam Ponder formally at
Speaker 5: ESPN just lost her job for defending women's only sports.
Speaker 5: She'd be another great interview. Yes, she was Mandy Goldfish
Speaker 5: on Chili. I'm gonna marry a woman like you. Chuck
Speaker 5: thinks it's weird. It kind of gives me crap about it.
Speaker 7: I haven't even had it yet, and I'm intrigued.
Speaker 5: I'm telling you it's delish, and they're prepped. They're like
Speaker 5: bite size. You don't even have to bust them up
Speaker 5: like you do, like a normal crap.
Speaker 7: I would probably bust them.
Speaker 5: No, you don't need to. They're small, they're little, they're
Speaker 5: itty bitty. I know they're made for tiny hands. No,
Speaker 5: you don't even have to do that. Don't even have
Speaker 5: to do it. Anyway, We're gonna take a quick time out.
Speaker 5: What is the worst Halloween candy? Why is it candy
Speaker 5: corn or Circus peanuts? We will be back right after this.
Speaker 5: We have some common ground on the text line. We asked,
Speaker 5: what is the worst candy ever? And why is it?
Speaker 5: Circus peanuts and candy corn?
Speaker 7: Nope?
Speaker 5: And you guys came through a lot of people Circus
Speaker 5: Peanuts hands down.
Speaker 7: But I forgot.
Speaker 5: I forgot about this and this texture reminded me. Worst candy,
Speaker 5: those peanut buttered taffy choes wrapped in black and orange
Speaker 5: wax paper.
Speaker 7: Black. Still not worse than the worst one?
Speaker 5: What is the worst one?
Speaker 2: Liquer?
Speaker 17: Black?
Speaker 7: Licorice will represent me? Licorice any well? The cherry liquors like, nope, nope?
Speaker 5: What are the vines?
Speaker 6: Those are?
Speaker 15: You know?
Speaker 7: Licorice red vines?
Speaker 2: Whatever?
Speaker 7: They are all gross? The worst.
Speaker 5: A lot of texts like this candy corn was made
Speaker 5: by someone who neither had candy nor corn. Do you
Speaker 5: know where they're called candy corn?
Speaker 7: They look like corn when you.
Speaker 5: Stack them on their sides. You can make a corn
Speaker 5: cob out of candy corn.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because they look like a little corn.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I like them.
Speaker 7: They're okay, not great.
Speaker 6: I don't like them. Uh.
Speaker 5: Mandy anxiously awaiting the method of understanding which jalapenos are
Speaker 5: hot and which are mild. My friend Cindy, who is
Speaker 5: the person who told me, She texted me the round
Speaker 5: bottoms when you look, they got the stem side and
Speaker 5: then they got the bottom side. The rounder bottoms are
Speaker 5: more mild. The pointier bottoms are more height. Oh no,
Speaker 5: we're trying this tomorrow on the show. Are you gonna
Speaker 5: be here tomorrow?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 5: Okay, within Monday on the show, I'm bringing in halipenios.
Speaker 5: So I committed to making a cake for Ross. Uh
Speaker 5: in there, No, no, no, no, no, it's it's a
Speaker 5: honey cake. It's called a beasting cake.
Speaker 11: And I saw it.
Speaker 5: You know, Ross was making honey now and I was like, hey,
Speaker 5: you bring me some money on again. Yeah, he has bees,
Speaker 5: And I said, you make me. You bring me some money,
Speaker 5: I'll make you this beasting cake. I looked to the
Speaker 5: recipe last night. Oh my god, it's like a project.
Speaker 5: Not a lot of honey, like maybe a little over
Speaker 5: half a cup of honey. But it's like a like
Speaker 5: a twenty five step cake situation. I might have bitten
Speaker 5: off more than I.
Speaker 7: Could chew on the candy.
Speaker 8: We need to see if the textures are as crazy
Speaker 8: or if split Gina Colorado.
Speaker 7: Morning News, Yeah five to nine here on KOA hates
Speaker 7: Totsie rolls.
Speaker 5: I could see it because really, tootsy rolls are like
Speaker 5: the h No, they're like the you Who of chocolate. Though,
Speaker 5: like you Who is a chocolate favorite flavored beverage, right,
Speaker 5: it's not real chocolate milk, it's watery chocolate. It's gross,
Speaker 5: but it is in the chocolate category. Tootsi rolls are
Speaker 5: basically chocolate and wax put together, so they're in the
Speaker 5: chocolate category. But they are so far down in the
Speaker 5: chocolate category. I mean, I'll eat them. I like it
Speaker 5: as I go to when was the last time you
Speaker 5: was like, dang, I gotta have a Tutsi roll? When
Speaker 5: did I see him? I'll have that yeah, no, never
Speaker 5: my choice. A lot of you weighing in black licorice
Speaker 5: is the worst candy. Corn is the worst Halloween candy
Speaker 5: because it tastes gross and you can easily chip a tooth.
Speaker 5: What this is an accurate statement. The worst Halloween candy
Speaker 5: is anything fund sized. Whoever fun sized candy has no
Speaker 5: idea what.
Speaker 7: Fun is fun size? Smaller bit yeah, small, like the little.
Speaker 5: And now they used to be like like you know,
Speaker 5: cup inches when I was a kid, like the fun size.
Speaker 5: Now they're they're like a tiny square.
Speaker 7: I'm not against it.
Speaker 8: When you want to dabble, but don't want to have
Speaker 8: a big, full size fun size, but it's.
Speaker 5: So unsatisfying you end up having five fun size, which
Speaker 5: is less than a regular candy bar.
Speaker 7: No, you limit yourself to one, maybe two.
Speaker 5: I don't really eat that kind of candy anymore. I'm
Speaker 5: too fancy for that now. Necho wafer candy correct. Necho
Speaker 5: wafers are like those disks of dust, like somebody was like, hey,
Speaker 5: I know, let's take some chalk and put some coloring
Speaker 5: and just the hint. They're basically the siltzer water of candy,
Speaker 5: right Like, they don't taste like anything. They taste like
Speaker 5: somebody farted that smell near the candy and that's why
Speaker 5: it tastes that way. They are terrible and they suck
Speaker 5: all the moisture out of your mouth. A lot of
Speaker 5: you circus peanuts man, Yeah, yeah, Mandy, give me three
Speaker 5: milk duds in a box of gold ten. That's not funniest.
Speaker 8: One was dangerously close to some blasphemy against Marzapan, which
Speaker 8: those little Marzapan candies are delicious.
Speaker 5: Which mars a pan oh I don't know. I've never
Speaker 5: had that is just almond paste.
Speaker 7: For me.
Speaker 5: That's one of those things that's not worth the calories. Ever,
Speaker 5: they're beautiful. They're beautiful to look out, like the pretty
Speaker 5: mars and pans that look like, you know, fruit and
Speaker 5: stuff like that. They're really really pretty, but not worth
Speaker 5: eating for me. Mounds an almond joy Bay.
Speaker 7: Get out, Get Out, one of my favorites.
Speaker 5: I have your back.
Speaker 7: No are you're wrong, Almond Joys are divine, You're wrong.
Speaker 7: Get out.
Speaker 5: This texture says make the makes the cake for ross
Speaker 5: in the shape of a hairy leg. It has to
Speaker 5: be a hairy, dirty leg and.
Speaker 7: Then you have to wash the cake before you're allowed
Speaker 7: to eat the cake somehow.
Speaker 5: No, he doesn't wash his cake. Mandy. I don't eat
Speaker 5: Halloween candy anymore, but I do indulge in Chilean sea bass.
Speaker 7: I do too.
Speaker 5: Texture, I do too, Mandy. I love candy corn and
Speaker 5: the Harvest mix. It has little pumpkins. Don't like sweet tarts?
Speaker 5: What sweet tarts are like that candy that everybody likes?
Speaker 13: Right?
Speaker 5: Does anybody not like SweeTarts?
Speaker 7: Except this?
Speaker 5: Go to I'm nice sweethearts? The chewy sweethearts were my
Speaker 5: favorite when I.
Speaker 7: Was a kid.
Speaker 5: Jalapinio heat can be measured by the stretch marks on
Speaker 5: the pepper. A nice smooth skin is less hot. There
Speaker 5: you go.
Speaker 7: That seems to be accurate.
Speaker 5: Yes, yep, yep, Okay, we're gonna take a quick time out.
Speaker 5: When we get back, we're going to talk to Aura
Speaker 5: City Councilwoman Danielle Drinsky. She is releasing receipts to back
Speaker 5: up pretty much everything she said was going on in
Speaker 5: Aurora this whole time. We'll talk to her next. Working
Speaker 5: to get Danielle Drinsky on the show. If you don't
Speaker 5: follow her on x dot com, you may have missed
Speaker 5: the last few days. As she started to put out
Speaker 5: some of the supporting documents that everyone keeps saying, well,
Speaker 5: if you have some documentation, you should probably release it.
Speaker 5: She is now releasing it on her Twitter page, and
Speaker 5: some of it is is quite interesting. Did I I am?
Speaker 5: I am, I am just clicking on the wrong things
Speaker 5: randomly ignore me while I get to the right thing.
Speaker 13: Here.
Speaker 5: She's got a documentation in the form of emails within
Speaker 5: the Aurora Police Department, and they say things like, hey, yeah,
Speaker 5: we know. Let me just let me just read read
Speaker 5: some of these emails to you. They were sent by
Speaker 5: a sergeant in the Major Crimes Homicide Unit and one
Speaker 5: of them, let me get to the other page here.
Speaker 5: One of them says that I'm just gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 5: read it to you so you can understand what is
Speaker 5: going on. So one sergeant in the Major Crimes Homicide
Speaker 5: Unit said, I'm advising that officers don't respond to these
Speaker 5: locations without an armored vehicle, talking about the apartment complexes
Speaker 5: that were taken over by Trende Aragua, the Venezuelan gang
Speaker 5: that walked across the southern border from Venezuela under the
Speaker 5: Biden hair policy positions that left the border open the
Speaker 5: cop continues that narrative is clearly debunked after this murder.
Speaker 5: I would be happy to go over this case with
Speaker 5: anyone that still denies that this is a major problem.
Speaker 5: I am being told that different people have different CIS
Speaker 5: into this organization, but cis of course confidential informants. But
Speaker 5: I don't know who those people are. I don't know
Speaker 5: if the information being provided by the CIS is getting
Speaker 5: disseminated amongst the involved units. As far as I can tell,
Speaker 5: there is an HSI FBI Task Force raven Grit. These
Speaker 5: are various departments by the way, they're gun violence, their
Speaker 5: gang violence, and so they say, an HSI FBI Task
Speaker 5: Force raven Grit GVST the gang unit, and a three
Speaker 5: detective APD Venezuela task Force, all doing lots or little
Speaker 5: with this issue, and nobody seems to be able to
Speaker 5: work with each other. My only interest in these politics
Speaker 5: is whether it assists or hinders my detectives investigat and
Speaker 5: the future investigations that are sure to come. This particular
Speaker 5: email thread was sent in.
Speaker 11: Di Di Di.
Speaker 5: Looking for the June thirtieth of twenty twenty four. June thirtieth,
Speaker 5: well before daniel Dorensky started sounding the alarm well before.
Speaker 5: She also linked to a Daily Mail story. Daily Mail
Speaker 5: has video. This is some of the video that Danielle
Speaker 5: Dorensky was talking about when she asked the governor to
Speaker 5: call her. And it is video of an encounter with
Speaker 5: police in Aurora. And there was a woman who had
Speaker 5: just given birth telling police officers she's a Guatemalan migrant.
Speaker 5: She was a resident of Whispering Pine's apartments, one of
Speaker 5: three Aurora properties that were taken over by Trende Aragua.
Speaker 5: Now for what I can tell about this video. This
Speaker 5: video is timestamped in in twenty twenty three, and this
Speaker 5: woman tells the police that the gang members came to
Speaker 5: her apartment while she was pregnant and through boiling water
Speaker 5: on her and her husband while extorting them for money.
Speaker 5: She said, they kicked the door in, they tried to
Speaker 5: find a way, they came in and threw hot water
Speaker 5: on us. The victim explained that Venezuelan criminals first came
Speaker 5: to them months ago, demanding they abandoned their apartments so
Speaker 5: TDA could take it over. So all of this stuff
Speaker 5: happened well before Danielle Dreinsky sounded the alarm well before,
Speaker 5: and we're waiting for her to call. I don't know,
Speaker 5: I just saw I sent her a text. I have
Speaker 5: no idea where she is, what she's doing. But you
Speaker 5: have to remember, and I know she was on with
Speaker 5: Ross earlier and people were texting Ross saying, you know,
Speaker 5: why doesn't she work the back channels? Why is she
Speaker 5: making this public? She has tried over again. Her comments
Speaker 5: in the Aurora City Council asking the governor to call
Speaker 5: her accomplished one thing from the governor's office. He called
Speaker 5: the police to say if she had evidence of a crime,
Speaker 5: she should give it to the Aurora Police Department. Well,
Speaker 5: we know now from seeing this video the Aurora Police
Speaker 5: Department absolutely has this information because it's their police officers
Speaker 5: on this videotape taking a report from this woman. This
Speaker 5: is just so incredibly infuriating, so incredibly infuriating, and honestly,
Speaker 5: if I'm Daniel Jurinsky, I'm like, where's my apology Governor
Speaker 5: Poulis who said that these gangs were a figment of
Speaker 5: her imagination? Where's the apology from Kyle Clark, who, once again,
Speaker 5: once again anything a conservative woman has to say, obviously
Speaker 5: is coming from a crazy person. By the way, I've
Speaker 5: been having a back and forth on Twitter from what
Speaker 5: I believe to be the people from CBC management. I
Speaker 5: have no reason to think it's not them. We'll find
Speaker 5: out on Monday. We have a call scheduled. They told
Speaker 5: me they talked to Kyle Clark for a half hour
Speaker 5: about what they had been through with the City of
Speaker 5: Aurora not helping them when they asked for it, and
Speaker 5: Kyle basically blew it off because it doesn't go with
Speaker 5: his narrative. Right, he can't make a conservative woman look
Speaker 5: stupid if he presents the fact says they actually might be.
Speaker 5: So I don't know what else Danielle has. Hopefully we'll
Speaker 5: talk to her by the end of the show, but
Speaker 5: if you follow her on X, you should. If you
Speaker 5: don't follow her on X, you should, so go ahead
Speaker 5: and check that out now if you missed. Earlier in
Speaker 5: the show, we talked about Kamala Harris, a CNN event
Speaker 5: which was an absolute disaster. I mean an absolute disaster.
Speaker 5: But I want to talk about something that is so frustrating.
Speaker 5: I touched on it yesterday, but I read the whole
Speaker 5: article yesterday afternoon, and it has to do with what
Speaker 5: we're doing to kids. And one of the biggest differences
Speaker 5: between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party is their
Speaker 5: stance on children, whether or not to have them, you know,
Speaker 5: whether or not to eliminate their lives before they even
Speaker 5: have a chance to be born, and what happens to
Speaker 5: them when they get you know, when they are actually
Speaker 5: a child.
Speaker 11: And one of the.
Speaker 5: Biggest issues I think is the left's dogged determination to
Speaker 5: keep using medical interventions on children who are struggling with
Speaker 5: gender dysphoria. They are so wedded to that they are,
Speaker 5: so that is who they are. They want to mutilate
Speaker 5: little children who decide that they are right now a
Speaker 5: boy now on the blog today, I have a very
Speaker 5: interesting Twitter thread and in twenty seventeen, and I'm not
Speaker 5: going to read the whole Twitter thread, but I'm gonna
Speaker 5: give you a general feeling for what it is. In
Speaker 5: twenty seventeen, nine year old Avery Jackson became the poster
Speaker 5: child for trans kids after being featured on the cover
Speaker 5: of National Geographic. Avery is now seventeen years old. After
Speaker 5: Avery was on the cover of National Geographic as a
Speaker 5: little boy who decided very early that he was a
Speaker 5: little girl, and his mom jumped right in and started
Speaker 5: affirming him as a girl, decided to raise him as
Speaker 5: a girl. They participated in a documentary called trans Hood
Speaker 5: along with his family and three other transgender children. During
Speaker 5: the filming of that movie, Avery told his mom that
Speaker 5: he did not want to continue his life of transactivism
Speaker 5: and his book tour, saying it had ruined his life,
Speaker 5: and his mom was shocked and then continued to dismiss
Speaker 5: those concerns. Now, by the time Avery was fifteen fourteen,
Speaker 5: fifteen years old, he had already been on a regimen
Speaker 5: of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones that had sterilized
Speaker 5: him for the rest of his life. When he decided
Speaker 5: that he was not a girl, he's just non binary. Well,
Speaker 5: he has no choice to be non binary now he
Speaker 5: doesn't have You know, he's been sterilized by a medical
Speaker 5: community who continues to do this. And I know they
Speaker 5: continue to do it because, as I said yesterday, Joanna
Speaker 5: Olsen Kennedy is part of a group of doctors that
Speaker 5: believe strongly in medically affirming children who say they are trance.
Speaker 5: And in twenty fifteen, she did a massive study that
Speaker 5: was supposed to show that puberty blockers helped with mental health,
Speaker 5: only they've never released the study because guess what, it
Speaker 5: showed nothing of the sort. And yet she defends not
Speaker 5: releasing the study that shows that puberty blockers don't improve
Speaker 5: mental health because she doesn't want to be politicized by
Speaker 5: people that don't want her to mutilate children, and they
Speaker 5: would use the information that shows mutilating children doesn't help
Speaker 5: against her. It's terrible, It's absolutely terrible. All right, we
Speaker 5: finally have Danielle Drensky. Good more, Good afternoon, Danielle. How
Speaker 5: are you try me?
Speaker 9: Andy?
Speaker 6: I am so sorry. I'm running late.
Speaker 5: That's okay. You're busy right now outing everybody posting documents,
Speaker 5: bring in the receipts about what's been happening in Aurora.
Speaker 5: And I was just telling my listeners some of the
Speaker 5: stuff that you've posted over the last couple of days.
Speaker 5: And I want to start with this, Why do you
Speaker 5: feel like you have to go to social media to
Speaker 5: get this out?
Speaker 6: Because I still cannot get the city itself, anyone at
Speaker 6: the state level, a lot of local media to tell
Speaker 6: the truth. And you know, these emails tell the truth,
Speaker 6: the videos tell the truth. You know, the woman saying
Speaker 6: that when she was nine months pregnant. You know, we're
Speaker 6: struggling to pay the gang rent. They threw boiling water
Speaker 6: on her. You know, the truth has to come out
Speaker 6: because no help is coming to rid our city in
Speaker 6: quite frankly, the state of this gang of Trendia Ragua
Speaker 6: until anyone first admits that there's an actual problem.
Speaker 5: Exactly exactly right now. Let me ask you this. You
Speaker 5: at a city council meeting asked the governor to call you.
Speaker 5: What happened?
Speaker 6: He turned around the very next morning and he called
Speaker 6: the police on me.
Speaker 5: Did did the police actually come to you after the
Speaker 5: governor made that call? Because the SNATI statement from the
Speaker 5: SNATTI spokesperson was like, you know what if the city
Speaker 5: council and then has evidence of a crime, she should
Speaker 5: turn it over to police. But police already had all
Speaker 5: this information, did they not?
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, you saw in the video the police officers
Speaker 6: in the video.
Speaker 5: Why do you think the Aurora PD has been gas
Speaker 5: lighting on this issue? Because that's the only word I
Speaker 5: can think of. They've been gaslighting on this issue. What
Speaker 5: is happening at the Aurora PD? And do you think
Speaker 5: the new chief can get this stuff strained out.
Speaker 11: I don't know.
Speaker 6: You know, you look at the dates of some of
Speaker 6: these emails and it goes back to when interim Chief
Speaker 6: art Os of Veto was here. So I don't know,
Speaker 6: I don't know what the narrative was at that time
Speaker 6: or what the plan was at that time. That that
Speaker 6: obviously carried over to interim police Chief Heather Morris. They
Speaker 6: kept up the same song and dance. You will see
Speaker 6: that many of the current division chiefs are.
Speaker 18: Included involved sending some of these emails, and the new
Speaker 18: permanent chief had kept every single person in the chief
Speaker 18: office in the same position, so obviously.
Speaker 6: He's he's listening to them. So nick narrative has now
Speaker 6: run through three police chiefs.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the.
Speaker 5: Thing about the new police chief. I'm going to give
Speaker 5: him a hot minute, right, I'm going to give him
Speaker 5: a hot minute to get his feet under him, and
Speaker 5: then you know, a few weeks a month, if everybody
Speaker 5: is still left in place, then yeah, there's there's got
Speaker 5: to be big questions and he needs to come before
Speaker 5: the city council and talk about this. I want to
Speaker 5: ask you specifically though about the city manager, because people
Speaker 5: don't realize that Aurora has a weak mayor form of governance.
Speaker 5: It's why the city manager makes a crap ton more
Speaker 5: money than the mayor makes because ostensibly the city manager
Speaker 5: oversees the Aurora Police Department and public safety. I have
Speaker 5: heard not one word from the city manager of Aurora.
Speaker 5: Where has he been? What is he doing well?
Speaker 6: And he won't because his stance is that the problem
Speaker 6: with the apartment complex is is code enforcement violations, and
Speaker 6: solely code enforce violations. So you won't hear from him.
Speaker 6: He's made his stance very clear.
Speaker 5: How is that allowed to continue?
Speaker 6: I take that question meaning that that's why I'm exposing
Speaker 6: everything that I'm exposing. How is this allowed to continue?
Speaker 6: How are people still still suffering at the hand of
Speaker 6: this transnational gang and we're still denying it? How is
Speaker 6: this okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I'm right there with you. I'm right there with you.
Speaker 5: Do you have more documentation that you're going to be
Speaker 5: putting out on X as it comes forward?
Speaker 6: I have money, and as it comes forward, I will
Speaker 6: be putting it out.
Speaker 5: Somebody just said, don't scare Danielle, but I hope she
Speaker 5: has bodyguards. TDA surely will make her a target. Do
Speaker 5: you worry about that.
Speaker 7: I worry about a lot.
Speaker 6: I worry about it a lot. I worry about myself.
Speaker 6: I worry about a lot of people in my life.
Speaker 6: I have thought about all of these things. Quite frankly,
Speaker 6: it haunts me. And that's another reason, Mandy, why the
Speaker 6: truth has to come out.
Speaker 9: The truth has to come out.
Speaker 5: It has to What would what could happen today if
Speaker 5: you get off the phone with me, What could happen
Speaker 5: today behind the scenes that would make you back down
Speaker 5: from releasing all this because this is more negative press
Speaker 5: for Aurora, right, And I know that, and Ross and
Speaker 5: I were talking about this today. You love Aurora, and
Speaker 5: every time I talk to you, that is one of
Speaker 5: the takeaways that I have. You're not doing this to grandstand.
Speaker 5: You're not doing this to get attention. You're doing it
Speaker 5: because you love Aurora and you want it to be better.
Speaker 5: But what needs to happen for you to say, look,
Speaker 5: we can handle this behind the scenes.
Speaker 6: Well, first, somebody could come and tell me that King,
Speaker 6: anybody from the police chief office, or a federal agent
Speaker 6: or a Colorado State patrol After first, somebody could pull
Speaker 6: me aside and say, hey, Danielle, here's a plan but
Speaker 6: we have to keep it somewhat quiet. But there is
Speaker 6: a plan, there is a plan. We acknowledge this, and
Speaker 6: there is a plan. So if somebody could could come
Speaker 6: to me first and say that and fill me in
Speaker 6: that nobody has. Nobody has. Everybody just continues to deny this.
Speaker 6: So the first thing that can happen after we hang
Speaker 6: up the phone is somebody acknowledges this. The Batter's office,
Speaker 6: the City of Aurora, the Aurora Police Department, somebody could
Speaker 6: acknowledge this. Because once it is acknowledged that we have
Speaker 6: this problem, help.
Speaker 7: Has to come.
Speaker 6: Americans will not sit by and tolerate this.
Speaker 13: Not Democrats, not Republicans, not anyone. Americans will not sit
Speaker 13: idly buy and accept this human suffering. So once it
Speaker 13: is actually acknowledged that this is in fact the truth,
Speaker 13: this is the truth, well, then help has to come.
Speaker 5: It has to well, Danielle, I'm glad, I'm glad you're
Speaker 5: doing this, and I have a lot of a lot
Speaker 5: of sympathy for you, because it's got to be incredibly
Speaker 5: frustrating to keep sounding the alarm and then have everybody
Speaker 5: around you tell you to sit down and shut up.
Speaker 5: And that's what it feels like has happened so far.
Speaker 5: So you keep doing what you're doing. We're going to
Speaker 5: keep pressing. If I could get any of the governor
Speaker 5: or Attorney general on the show, I would ask him
Speaker 5: about it. But keep doing what you're doing because the loud,
Speaker 5: you know, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, keep squeaking.
Speaker 5: Keep doing it and we will talk again. Hopefully the
Speaker 5: next time we talk we talk about the great plan
Speaker 5: that Aurora has to address this issue now and going forward.
Speaker 6: I hope so Wellmandy, thank you so much.
Speaker 5: All right, Danielle Drinsky of the Aurora City Council. A
Speaker 5: rod turned into a pumpkin. Name Grant. Hello, It's Grant everybody.
Speaker 5: Do I have somebody to play up the day against you?
Speaker 4: Do?
Speaker 7: Ryan Edwards?
Speaker 11: Yes?
Speaker 7: From Sam's Number three.
Speaker 5: Do it because now it's time for the most exciting
Speaker 5: segment on the radio of its kind in the world
Speaker 5: of the day. All right, Ryan Edwards at Sam's Number two.
Speaker 7: I'm in a crowded restaurant. That's okay.
Speaker 5: I'm proud of you for doing it that well. I
Speaker 5: had a Sam's Number three burrito for breakfast this morning
Speaker 5: and it was DELISHO so good.
Speaker 15: So good.
Speaker 5: All right, what is there?
Speaker 7: What is our delay?
Speaker 2: I imagine though, right a little bit.
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna wait till the end of the question.
Speaker 5: I'll give you a fair shake. That sportsmanship, Well, there
Speaker 5: is enough of a delay that it's not fun. What
Speaker 5: I mean, it's like I don't want to beat somebody
Speaker 5: like that. I just want to beat it normally.
Speaker 17: Well, that joke is fun for everybody. Okay, what are
Speaker 17: your dog's names? I say, Calvin and Kline. They say,
Speaker 17: isn't that a brand of underwear? He said, exactly, they're boxers.
Speaker 5: Oh god, wow, that's a long way he gets a joke.
Speaker 7: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 5: What is our word of the day, please?
Speaker 17: Word of the day. Doggedly. Maybe something was on a
Speaker 17: Rod's mind today.
Speaker 5: Doggedly is like when you're really working at something and
Speaker 5: you're working, it's like a you're really going after it
Speaker 5: kind of thing.
Speaker 7: Continuing to go athlete, Yeah, dog yes, assistant man.
Speaker 6: There you go.
Speaker 5: Today's trivia question. What is a famulous famulous f A
Speaker 5: m U L s.
Speaker 2: No idea?
Speaker 5: A famulus is no idea. The genetic profile you share
Speaker 5: with your relatives, you're famulus. That's wrong.
Speaker 6: I just made that up.
Speaker 5: A famulus is actually an assistant servants, secretarial intendent. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I made that up.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Historically the word was commonly referred he used to the
Speaker 5: assistant of a magician. There you go, here's my family. Yeah,
Speaker 5: there you go. Okay, Ryan, I'll wait till the end
Speaker 5: of the question, but you better get in.
Speaker 7: I'll do what I can.
Speaker 17: It seems like that's not a good sign Jeopardy category
Speaker 17: for today. Some choice words.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 17: The spread of those inherited traits that help creatures produce
Speaker 17: more creatures is natural this, Hanny.
Speaker 5: What is selection right?
Speaker 7: Correct? Ryan?
Speaker 14: Well?
Speaker 17: Delayed next one to unsubscerbed delayed to unsubscribe from an
Speaker 17: email list.
Speaker 5: You can this out, Mandy. What is opt out?
Speaker 7: Ryan?
Speaker 8: How bad is the delay?
Speaker 5: Seems like a couple so, yeah, it's really bad.
Speaker 7: Do we want to count to three afterwards?
Speaker 11: I'll do one.
Speaker 5: I'll do my fingers. Okay, there we go.
Speaker 4: Ryan.
Speaker 5: You're gonna have to trust me.
Speaker 17: I'm doing this a court or boxing judgment, Hanny, what's
Speaker 17: the ruling?
Speaker 7: Incorrect?
Speaker 5: Dam it's oh, I know what it is.
Speaker 7: I sud a quarter or boxing judgment.
Speaker 2: Ryan.
Speaker 5: If you don't know this, Ryan, I'm gonna be really
Speaker 5: mad at you. Yeah, what is a decision? A decision?
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, okay, come on, Ryan, I know you're a
Speaker 7: huge boxing fan.
Speaker 14: Here we go.
Speaker 17: Twelve legend, twelve letter adjective for excellent treatment.
Speaker 5: Twelve letter adjective for excellent treatments. I don't know.
Speaker 7: Ryan's got nothing as well?
Speaker 5: Ye got nothing?
Speaker 7: Preferential?
Speaker 17: Oh one, what a parent does to a better love child,
Speaker 17: or what a person limping is doing to the bad leg?
Speaker 5: Lanny?
Speaker 7: What his favor correct?
Speaker 17: All right, it wasn't the best performance for Ryan, but
Speaker 17: we'll get You know, it's a really bad I knew
Speaker 17: the first two.
Speaker 7: I knew I knew the first two, and then I
Speaker 7: just yeah, whatever is what's coming up on ESS Remote?
Speaker 2: It is hard?
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