Speaker 1: Tuesday edition of the show. I'm your host for the
Speaker 1: next three hours, Mandy Coddle. I'm joined today in the
Speaker 1: control room by Zach Seegers in for A Rod, who
Speaker 1: is at the super Bowl right now. Now you can
Speaker 1: hit that air horn. Yeah, I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 1: Thanks again. Yes, A Rod will be on the show
Speaker 1: a little bit later. But we've had a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff to talk about. Oh crime, Andy, hang on, my
Speaker 1: computer just did something weird. We've got a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff to talk about, so let's jump to the blog,
Speaker 1: which you can easily find by going to mandy'sblog dot com.
Speaker 1: That's mandy'sblog dot com. Once you get to the AAA page,
Speaker 1: you can look for latest posts. If you go later
Speaker 1: in the day to look at the blog, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to scroll over a little bit because we also
Speaker 1: upload all the podcasts on the latest post scroll which
Speaker 1: I hate, but they didn't ask me. So you got
Speaker 1: to go to the latest posts and look for the
Speaker 1: headline that says two four twenty four blog AI avatars
Speaker 1: and Canada and Mexico Cave. Click on that, and here
Speaker 1: are the headlines you will find within as.
Speaker 2: Listening office atlin ergon all with ships and climmas and
Speaker 2: say that's a press plan.
Speaker 1: Today on the blog, our Futurist is talking avatars about
Speaker 1: that swastika window? Can you sure of the music down
Speaker 1: to say here? Yeah? Both Canada and Mexico crumble? What
Speaker 1: are the values of Colorado? Representative Crow Denversity Council didn't
Speaker 1: override Johnston's veto this King super strike already feels different.
Speaker 1: Adam Frisch is deied out of the DNC race. A
Speaker 1: challenger has declared for the eighth Congressional district. Senator Faith
Speaker 1: Winters apologizes. Joe Biden gets an agent financial advice from
Speaker 1: people who made mistakes. Johnston supporters madd he's not fixing homelessness.
Speaker 1: This washbark shooter doesn't seem very stable. Democrats lose their
Speaker 1: minds over USA and El Paso. Democratic ad Vice chair
Speaker 1: urges violence. Jimmy Sangenberger beats the dead horse. Wikipedia bands
Speaker 1: conservative sources one of my guilty pleasure Internet things. Time
Speaker 1: to play for the Greeley Stampede, y'all, Buffy is coming back.
Speaker 1: The Fantastic Four is back. That time Robin Williams was
Speaker 1: on Whose line is it anyway? And just like that
Speaker 1: the first transaction actress gets shoved aside is the Department
Speaker 1: of Education on the way out, pets doing dumb stuff
Speaker 1: people tweet about, and now British kids try American serial
Speaker 1: one more. AOC says Elon Musk is stupid. Those are
Speaker 1: the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And
Speaker 1: yes indeed, my friends, Yes indeed. And I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: start the show by playing this snippet. Can I have
Speaker 1: my audio please zact for my computer. I just want
Speaker 1: you to hear Representative Alexandria Acossio Cortes, who before getting
Speaker 1: elected to Congress was a bartender. Now there's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with bartending. I paid my way through college as a bartender.
Speaker 1: But it's not like she had some great career doing
Speaker 1: important things before she got into Congress. But listen to
Speaker 1: what she has to say about Elon Musk.
Speaker 3: The suit is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires
Speaker 3: I have ever met or seen our witness, which you know,
Speaker 3: you can probably even glean that from watching these people
Speaker 3: on TV.
Speaker 1: Anyways, all anyways, she says, which is grammatically incorrect. After
Speaker 1: she talks about Elon Musk being an unintelligent millionaire. But
Speaker 1: I'll let her finish.
Speaker 3: That is to say, is that they don't do their homework.
Speaker 3: Clearly like they're putting nineteen year olds in at the Treasury.
Speaker 4: This suit is not smart, and.
Speaker 3: The danger is not in the lack of intelligence and
Speaker 3: the lack of expertise that Elon has. I mean, the
Speaker 3: skuy is one of the most morally vacant but also.
Speaker 5: Just least knowledgeable about.
Speaker 3: These systems that we really know of.
Speaker 1: Now. My question is isn't that what we signed up for?
Speaker 1: By the way, one of the nineteen year olds that
Speaker 1: she's disparaging created an AI computer program that was able
Speaker 1: to take severely burned ancient scrolls from Pompeii. You remember
Speaker 1: the volcano and Pompey. You've heard about this. So they
Speaker 1: had they found these ancient scrolls and they were burned
Speaker 1: so badly that they could not in any way, shape
Speaker 1: or form unroll them. So using an AI program, this
Speaker 1: nineteen year old that she says is not intelligent enough
Speaker 1: to manage the federal government stuff that he's doing now,
Speaker 1: actually came up with a computer program that, using a
Speaker 1: CT scan of the scrolls, used an AI program that
Speaker 1: actually sort of digitally unrolled them so they could be
Speaker 1: read for the first time. And former bartender Alexandria Acossio
Speaker 1: Cortes is disparaging this young man's intelligence because he is
Speaker 1: only nineteen. Kind of rich from someone who got into
Speaker 1: Congress when she was barely out of college. Just mearely,
Speaker 1: you guys, what's happening right now watching the left wing
Speaker 1: meltdown over USAAID. USAID is an organization that was supposed
Speaker 1: to fund programs in developing nations around the world to
Speaker 1: help them become more than a developing nation. Right in theory.
Speaker 1: In theory, it sounds great, right, it sounds like, you
Speaker 1: know what, what if we went into these African countries
Speaker 1: and we set up clean water systems and we help
Speaker 1: people have access to a decent amount of medical care
Speaker 1: and things like that. USAID, if it was just doing that,
Speaker 1: nobody would talking about getting rid of it. But what
Speaker 1: they've done instead is become a basically a slush fund
Speaker 1: for mostly left wing causes, not all left wing causes,
Speaker 1: but mostly left wing causes. And some of the stuff
Speaker 1: that our tech, my tax dollars, Zach's tax dollars went
Speaker 1: for is insane. I'm sure you've heard about the Peruvian
Speaker 1: trans comic book that we paid for, or the thirty
Speaker 1: nine thousand dollars we invested in an opera about gay
Speaker 1: people in some other country. I mean, the lists that
Speaker 1: we're starting to see of the things that they have
Speaker 1: funded has gone well beyond anything that any American would go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think my money should go for that, But because
Speaker 1: it is a slush fund for left wing causes and
Speaker 1: left wing people. By the way USAID's budget, a vast
Speaker 1: majority of it is just salaries and entertainment, not a
Speaker 1: vast majority of about fifty five sixty percent. That was
Speaker 1: the last number I saw yesterday. We can absolutely do
Speaker 1: without this organization with no problem. It's Zach, are you
Speaker 1: gonna be up to find out that we're not funding
Speaker 1: any more comic books for trans people?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: That seems Uh, that doesn't seem it seems absurd, doesn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems absurd, And yet we've been we've been doing that,
Speaker 1: but they're freaking the blank out. I did not. I
Speaker 1: almost say it. I I almost started, but I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't. So, Uh, it's been it's been fascinating to
Speaker 1: see just how reliant on the federal government all of
Speaker 1: these left wingers are Now I've already known this, You've
Speaker 1: already known this, but the fact that so many people
Speaker 1: at the local level are freaking out about this, of
Speaker 1: all things, you guys, I just want to make sure
Speaker 1: everybody in this listening audience understands. Inflation occurs because the
Speaker 1: Federal Reserve, in an effort to allow the federal government
Speaker 1: to keep barring way more money and spending way more
Speaker 1: money than they're bringing in, they just flood the market
Speaker 1: with new currency, and in doing so, they dilute the
Speaker 1: value of your dollar. Right, I saw I had I
Speaker 1: actually I retweeted it on x Thomas Massey explaining the
Speaker 1: concept of dilution, and he took a glass of iced tea,
Speaker 1: and then he took a picture of water, and he
Speaker 1: poured the water into the half glass of iced tea
Speaker 1: and he said, look, you can now see it's diluted.
Speaker 1: When you add more money to the circulation of money,
Speaker 1: every dollar has less value. So we are seeing prices
Speaker 1: still twenty percent higher than they were a few years ago.
Speaker 1: So we could pay for a comic book for trans
Speaker 1: people in Peru.
Speaker 4: That's how I.
Speaker 1: Want you to think about this stuff. This isn't an
Speaker 1: abstract number. This is not an abstract bit of spending.
Speaker 1: This isn't some kind of you know, hard to understand thing.
Speaker 1: We have a crisis with our budget. We have a
Speaker 1: crisis with our debt, We have a crisis with our
Speaker 1: ongoing massive spending that we have no business making. And
Speaker 1: for everybody who says it, ll EUS eight is less
Speaker 1: than one percent of the total federal budget. It's such
Speaker 1: a drop in the bucket situation. You know what, one
Speaker 1: percent plus one percent plus one percent and pretty soon
Speaker 1: you're talking serious money. So don't give me the l
Speaker 1: It's so small. We should be worried about it. We
Speaker 1: should be worried about all of it. And the fact
Speaker 1: that there are a bunch of young guys who are
Speaker 1: some of the best programmers in the world who are
Speaker 1: trying to make the federal government more efficient and more effective.
Speaker 1: I am down with it, Mark me down. And Alexandria A.
Speaker 1: Cassio Cortes has has a lot of cojones to talk
Speaker 1: about how they don't have enough experience. She's in freaking Congress,
Speaker 1: and she's an idiot talk about lack of experience for
Speaker 1: the job. But shit, doesn't this tell you everything you
Speaker 1: need to know about these organizations. Doesn't it tell you
Speaker 1: that we can absolutely live without it? Doesn't it tell you?
Speaker 1: And you, guys, we haven't begun to see the effect
Speaker 1: of these sort of slash and burn tactics. I just
Speaker 1: saw on x that a thousand people at the EPA
Speaker 1: were told that they were being let go, But I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's fact or not. I just saw
Speaker 1: one tweet, and I don't know if that's accurate because
Speaker 1: the show started and I couldn't look it up. So
Speaker 1: all of these cuts, everything that's happening right now signals
Speaker 1: to the rest of the world that the United States
Speaker 1: of America is finally serious about spending and that here's
Speaker 1: what happens after that. People look at our debt, the
Speaker 1: debt that we still have to buy because we've still
Speaker 1: got this massive budget deficit. We look at that, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, people investors say, well, maybe their
Speaker 1: debt is okay, maybe their treasury bonds are all right.
Speaker 1: And as soon as treasury brond yields dip, that means
Speaker 1: mortgage rates dip. And I'm telling you right now, the
Speaker 1: housing market is primed for an explosion because everybody's sitting
Speaker 1: on the sidelines waiting for interest rates to go down.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say it again, if you are ready
Speaker 1: to buy a house, do not wait until interest rates
Speaker 1: go down, because it's gonna be a feeding frenzy out
Speaker 1: there and you're gonna end up getting into bidding wars
Speaker 1: for houses that you could have bought for seventy five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars less if you had just bought them. Now,
Speaker 1: buy the house, marry the house, date the rate. It's
Speaker 1: an old adage, but it's very true. I fully believe
Speaker 1: that when these things happen, when the market starts to
Speaker 1: respond to the kind of cuts that we are seeing now,
Speaker 1: And granted they're insignificant in the total picture, but they
Speaker 1: are cuts. They're real, live government cuts, which is something
Speaker 1: I've never seen in my lifetime. Whenever they talk about quote,
Speaker 1: cutting the budget, they don't cut the budget. They may
Speaker 1: cut the amount that the budget increases, they don't ever
Speaker 1: cut the budget. They never have a smaller number the
Speaker 1: next year than they had the year before. And all
Speaker 1: the politicians like to walk around and go, oh, we
Speaker 1: had to and we're seeing it in Colorado right now.
Speaker 1: Colorado is poor, mouthing everywhere right now. Oh, because of tabor,
Speaker 1: and because of this, we're gonna have to cut We're
Speaker 1: slashing the budget. We have to save six hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty five million dollars. We don't know what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: You know what? They in Colorado at least effectively dropped
Speaker 1: our oil and gas production thirty percent. That means the
Speaker 1: tax revenues from oil and gas, one of our most
Speaker 1: productive industries when it comes to tax revenue, is cut
Speaker 1: by thirty percent. Now you're gonna turn around, tell me
Speaker 1: it's my fault and I have to make it the difference.
Speaker 1: No thank you, no thank you. Are borrowing along with
Speaker 1: the inflation is a tax on the poor. It's a
Speaker 1: tax on everyone. Inflation is the hidden tax. That's the reality.
Speaker 1: So when you see all of these people apoplectic about
Speaker 1: cutting aid for people around the world that none of
Speaker 1: us would think was worthy. And by the way, don't
Speaker 1: even get me started on the corruption. Okay, there is
Speaker 1: a woman on x and I've got to find her
Speaker 1: page really quickly because I want to give you her name.
Speaker 1: I just started following her and all she does is
Speaker 1: crunch spreadsheets and go through all of these pseudo government organizations.
Speaker 1: It's called data Republican, meaning data data Republican all one word,
Speaker 1: and all she does is crunch the numbers of federal
Speaker 1: government spending. I just saw one about grants to night
Speaker 1: Roby that went through right before Biden left office. Do
Speaker 1: we even know where that money is going? No offense
Speaker 1: is to the African continent. But if you want to
Speaker 1: see where they're as a general rule has so much
Speaker 1: corruption in it and we're just shoveling money at them.
Speaker 1: I did see a very interesting response video on x
Speaker 1: as well from a young African woman who said, you
Speaker 1: guys say you want to break the shackles of colonialism,
Speaker 1: then why are you freaking out when the white man
Speaker 1: isn't giving us more money? And I was like, that's
Speaker 1: kind of a good point there, young lady. She pointed
Speaker 1: out that the money rarely goes to the services that
Speaker 1: it's promised to. It gets caught up in the bureaucracy
Speaker 1: and the corruption and skimmed off the top, and it
Speaker 1: never actually gets to the people that it's supposed to
Speaker 1: get to. And do you think the USAID organization is
Speaker 1: checking that? No? No, Once they give the money away,
Speaker 1: it's gone because they get to be Santa Claus. I mean,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you love a job where your job was to
Speaker 1: give away money? Sign me up. Oh wait, even better,
Speaker 1: I'm giving away somebody else's money. Heck yeah, I'm in
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. So it is Uh, it is just
Speaker 1: fascinating to watch everybody lose their minds. I guess a
Speaker 1: bunch of Democrats showed up at the USAID office, where
Speaker 1: they are not allowed to be because they were told
Speaker 1: to stay out of the office, and decided to storm
Speaker 1: the building. I've got it now. Yeah, they broke into
Speaker 1: the building without permission. Yeah, they're breaking in It looks
Speaker 1: very insurrection y, extremely insurrectiony. I sure hope these people
Speaker 1: get two to five years in jail for breaking into
Speaker 1: a building that they didn't have permission to be in.
Speaker 1: Super insurrection me. I mean, I understand people fighting for
Speaker 1: their jobs, I get it. But if I were a
Speaker 1: federal employee working with one of these agencies, I'd already
Speaker 1: be looking for another job because if it doesn't happen today,
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen and they're gonna starve you to death. Now,
Speaker 1: one thing I will say, the Republicans in the House
Speaker 1: of Representatives better get moving because all of this stuff
Speaker 1: that Trump is doing, if it's not codified into law,
Speaker 1: it will all be undone in the next you know,
Speaker 1: a non Republican presidential cycle, all of it. And so
Speaker 1: Congress has a lot of work to do, and Congress
Speaker 1: has a lot of things to get working on. It's
Speaker 1: going to be challenging to get some of them done.
Speaker 1: There's some scuttle butt on the street because you know,
Speaker 1: I love scuttle butt. Scuttle butt on the street about
Speaker 1: Trump having an executive order that would require the Department
Speaker 1: of Education head who has not been confirmed yet. He
Speaker 1: has nominated Linda McMahon and she has not had a
Speaker 1: confirmation hearing. He is going to order her to come
Speaker 1: up with a plan to unwind the Department of Education entirely.
Speaker 1: Everything of value in the Department of Education can be
Speaker 1: moved to another department. But most of what the Department
Speaker 1: of Education has done is oversee a massive collapse of
Speaker 1: our educational system throughout the country where our kids cannot
Speaker 1: read on grade level, like we're in a third world country.
Speaker 1: You know, Back when I was a kid in the seventies,
Speaker 1: we used to have these reports because there was a
Speaker 1: whole plan called RIFF Reading is Fundamental? Was that gone
Speaker 1: before you were a kid, Zach, you've ever heard of
Speaker 1: rith The Reading is Fundamental? So that was the seventies,
Speaker 1: and we used to get these reports from around the
Speaker 1: world and you get a report and I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 1: One of them was like Bolivia. In Bolivia, only twenty
Speaker 1: percent of Bolivian's are literate. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: that stat is exactly correct, but it was, you know,
Speaker 1: it was along those and we would all be like, oh,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, that's terrible. Now we are giving Bolivia
Speaker 1: a run for its money. We're graduating kids from high
Speaker 1: school that don't even have a basic level of reading comprehension.
Speaker 1: And that, my friends, is what the Department of Education
Speaker 1: is overseen. Has there ever been a bigger failure of
Speaker 1: a department than the Department of Education? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: So all of this, I get up every morning and
Speaker 1: I sit down at the computer and I'm like, Okay, Trump,
Speaker 1: what you do now? And not in a bad way.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, what do I have to wrap my
Speaker 1: head around before noon? Because everything is happening so fast.
Speaker 1: I'm actually okay with it when we get back. First
Speaker 1: of all, we have a big day to day. We've
Speaker 1: got Thomas Frye coming up. He is our futurist. I
Speaker 1: want you to go to our website though, before Thomas
Speaker 1: comes on, and check out his two videos. One of
Speaker 1: them is about the founders of Silicon Valley, Super interesting
Speaker 1: run the way. I didn't know anything about it at
Speaker 1: all until I watch this video, and then one about
Speaker 1: whether robots have the right to defend themselves. But what
Speaker 1: you're watching in this video is Thomas himself or should
Speaker 1: I say Thomas not himself. I'll explain when Thomas comes
Speaker 1: on at one o'clock. When we get back. I have
Speaker 1: an update from the swastika Windows situation. I got a
Speaker 1: message back, Zach from the property manager. I will give
Speaker 1: you an update on that, but it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: as easy as you think it's going to be. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that after this. EPA tells one thousand employees
Speaker 1: that they may or may not be retained. They may
Speaker 1: be subject to immediate firing. That email was sent by
Speaker 1: EPA Mission support official Kimberly Patrick. Notifies impacted employees that
Speaker 1: they are likely on a probationary or trial period. As
Speaker 1: a probationary trial period employee, the agency has the right
Speaker 1: to immediately terminate you. There are fifteen thousand employees in
Speaker 1: the EPA, and the EPA folks are screaming already, or
Speaker 1: at least the union leadership is screaming already, and they're
Speaker 1: basically saying, if you fire these people, we're all going
Speaker 1: to drink out of lead filled pipes and things of
Speaker 1: that nature. See. The problem with that argument is that
Speaker 1: is a legitimate function of the EPA, right to monitor
Speaker 1: drinking water, legitimate function, and yet they failed at it
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. And in the meantime,
Speaker 1: they have over extended their own power so far that
Speaker 1: they want to come and have say over the puddles
Speaker 1: that form in your yard. Thankfully that was overturned by
Speaker 1: the courts, but they have overreached. And this is what
Speaker 1: all of this is about. I want to read this
Speaker 1: text message, and I promise I'm gonna give you an
Speaker 1: update on the Swaska thing. But I got a really
Speaker 1: good text that I want to respond to. It says Mandy,
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with getting rid of USA,
Speaker 1: the Department of Education, etc. I'm good with cutting most
Speaker 1: of the federal budgetment, However, what is your take on
Speaker 1: how it's being done? Seems like a reach for executive
Speaker 1: branch to go about it in the way they are authoritarian,
Speaker 1: which I don't want either side to have this much power.
Speaker 1: This would have been better if they simply did their
Speaker 1: assessments of the spending now and then tell Congress what
Speaker 1: bill Trump would be willing to sign, and if they
Speaker 1: don't listen, he just vetos the spending bill. Would like
Speaker 1: your analysis on this things. How has that worked out
Speaker 1: in prior years? And I'm being genuine because I've been
Speaker 1: alive for fifty five years, and since Ronald Reagan took
Speaker 1: over in the nineteen eighties, after the period of terrible
Speaker 1: inflation and gas price and just a real mess of
Speaker 1: an economy, the debt has been growing at a very
Speaker 1: quick rate. Well, it really started when Richard Nixon took
Speaker 1: us off the gold standard, because then once we have
Speaker 1: fiat currency, we can say it's worth whatever we want, right,
Speaker 1: so we can spend s Ben's Ben's men's spend and
Speaker 1: not have to worry about that pesky gold standard. There
Speaker 1: was really raining us in before that. So since then
Speaker 1: the debt has exploded, and I've heard Republicans, I've heard
Speaker 1: them talking for years about we're really going to go
Speaker 1: at it nuke Kingrich had a little bit of success
Speaker 1: with Bill Clinton with a Republican Congress where they managed
Speaker 1: to balance the budget in seven years, and then what
Speaker 1: happened right after that, We went right back to the
Speaker 1: drunken monkey spending because the size of government is so
Speaker 1: large that it's just going to continue feeding itself. One
Speaker 1: thing I think Donald Trump learned last time is that
Speaker 1: government per normal is ineffective for what he's trying to do. Now.
Speaker 1: I've said over and over again, all of this stuff
Speaker 1: can be undone in the next administration very easily. And
Speaker 1: the real kicker here about Trump and everybody on the
Speaker 1: left saying things like he doesn't have the power to
Speaker 1: do this. Congress over the last forty years has abdicated
Speaker 1: more or abdicated more and more of their responsibilities to
Speaker 1: the president. They've given the president's much more power, mostly
Speaker 1: when the Democratic presidents were in power. Well, guess what,
Speaker 1: you don't get to pick all the time who's president.
Speaker 1: And guess what, Now there's a guy you don't like
Speaker 1: wielding all of that power that Congress ceded to the
Speaker 1: office of the President of the United States, and he's
Speaker 1: damn sure going to use it. I think that he
Speaker 1: looked at the landscape of DC and how business is done,
Speaker 1: and decided that the best play was shock and awe
Speaker 1: to do as much as he could and then see
Speaker 1: what sticks, see what Congress has the stones to get passed.
Speaker 1: So I wish there was another way. I wish, like you,
Speaker 1: that we could have had a slow and normal conversation
Speaker 1: like you know you have about your budget at home.
Speaker 1: I wish we could have done all of that. I
Speaker 1: wish we could have been doing that all along. But unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the members of Congress are so invested in making sure
Speaker 1: that their districts get the gravy and that their donors
Speaker 1: get paybacks that there's no real will in Congress to
Speaker 1: reign and spending. And the only way to do it
Speaker 1: significantly is to slash and burn the size of government,
Speaker 1: and that's what Trump is doing.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: There's going to be a florry of lawsuits at some point.
Speaker 1: There's going to be all kinds of you know, courts
Speaker 1: are going to be hearing stuff left and right. But
Speaker 1: at least some of it is going to get through.
Speaker 1: I think that's why he's doing so much so fast,
Speaker 1: because there's too many there's too many like front lines
Speaker 1: to defend right now if you're the Democratic Party, which
Speaker 1: is why I find it fascinating that they have chosen
Speaker 1: us eight as they're hill to die on. That's out
Speaker 1: of everything that's been passed, out of every executive order
Speaker 1: that's gone down, that's the one they're the most salty about.
Speaker 1: Doesn't that strike you as odd? Struck me as odd?
Speaker 1: So yeah, I like you text her. I wish there
Speaker 1: was a better way to do it, but I don't
Speaker 1: see one, So we shall see, Mandy. Ideally the results
Speaker 1: will be indisputable, so it won't all get undone, Mandy.
Speaker 1: Executive orders now, then have Congress codify it. That's what
Speaker 1: has to happen. All of this, and I'll call an
Speaker 1: executive order. It's like a pie crest promise, easily made,
Speaker 1: easily broken. That's what executive orders are. They're four years.
Speaker 1: They have a four year shelf life, or if they
Speaker 1: pass them in the middle of their administry, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, they have an end date. So yeah, Mandy,
Speaker 1: you really think Trump is behind any of this. You
Speaker 1: give him way too much credit. He just wants the office,
Speaker 1: so it's fine he lied about Project twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: You text her are about as bright as Alexandria Cossio
Speaker 1: Cortez right now, because Alexandria Cossio Cortez calling Elon Musk
Speaker 1: the most unintelligent billionaire she's ever seen is patently absurd.
Speaker 1: When you look at the track record, and I think
Speaker 1: people like you, Texter, you underestimate how smart Donald Trump is.
Speaker 1: He did not become Donald Trump by not being incredibly smart,
Speaker 1: being able to read the room, and I think that
Speaker 1: a lot of these things he has.
Speaker 4: Talked about for years.
Speaker 1: So yeah, sorry about that. But if usingk Trump is
Speaker 1: stupid or just in there to be in the office,
Speaker 1: you're mistaking him with Joe Biden, who literally was just
Speaker 1: like a paperweight in the Oval office right didn't even
Speaker 1: know half the time where he was. But Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: I mean, you can say you don't like him, You
Speaker 1: can say that he has has many, many moral failings,
Speaker 1: and that would be fine. But to say he's not
Speaker 1: bright enough to drive these policies directives forward, you're doing
Speaker 1: yourself a disservice, and it just goes to show that.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if this person who's texting as
Speaker 1: a Democrat, I don't know, but this is what Democrats
Speaker 1: say about every Republican who's beating them.
Speaker 4: They said it.
Speaker 1: About George W. Bush, they said it about Ronald Reagan,
Speaker 1: they said it about Donald J. Trump, who came back
Speaker 1: and whooped their asses in twenty twenty four, didn't He
Speaker 1: sucks to lose to a dumb guy. But here we are.
Speaker 1: Do not underestimate the intelligence of Donald Trump. Do not
Speaker 1: underestimate the intelligence of Elon must That's for AOC to
Speaker 1: say that he's on intelligence. It's just so stupid and
Speaker 1: patently absurd. I mean, come on, the guy has started
Speaker 1: how many companies that have been literally game changing for
Speaker 1: the world. But whatever, AOC, I'm sure you're right. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me get into this Swasta windows story that we
Speaker 1: talked about yesterday. So there's a building at Congress Park.
Speaker 1: It's at Colfax and Josephine, And if few weeks ago
Speaker 1: there was a news story because so many a tenant
Speaker 1: had put a swastika in one of the windows in
Speaker 1: the upstairs apartment, and someone throw a rock through the
Speaker 1: window and before he can even fix that window, Homewood
Speaker 1: puts a swastika up in a window right next to it. Now,
Speaker 1: yesterday we were talking about this and I asked a
Speaker 1: very simple question. I was like, who owns the window,
Speaker 1: because seems to me that they would be able to
Speaker 1: do something about it. Well, excellent producer Zach got onto it.
Speaker 1: He found the property manager. He reached out to them yesterday.
Speaker 1: They emailed me a response this morning, and I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what they said when I get back. Talking about
Speaker 1: the building in Congress Park where someone put a swastika
Speaker 1: looks like it's made out of tape on one of
Speaker 1: the windows upstairs, Well, the neighbors did not take too
Speaker 1: kindly to that. And lo and behold, somebody bust to
Speaker 1: maicate it said window with a rock or a brick
Speaker 1: or something. Window remains broken, covered up with a plywood board,
Speaker 1: and uh, Saint Tenant's throws up another swastika on one
Speaker 1: of the windows. So I had Zach trucked down the
Speaker 1: property manager of the building, and this is what they
Speaker 1: had to say. We are aware of a resident displaying
Speaker 1: a hateful symbol in their window, which violates our least agreement.
Speaker 1: This symbol is unacceptable and has no place in our community.
Speaker 1: We are working with law enforcement to address this situation
Speaker 1: and remove the resident from the property. We do not
Speaker 1: tolerate any form of discrimination or hate speech. We are
Speaker 1: doing all we can legally to address this matter and
Speaker 1: appreciate your patience and understanding during this time. So the
Speaker 1: problem here, and I've reached out to a law firm
Speaker 1: that handles addctions in Colorado. Them here as I see
Speaker 1: it is that it is exceedingly hard to evict someone
Speaker 1: for being an a hole. I mean, Colorado's made it
Speaker 1: really challenging. So we're going to try and get this
Speaker 1: law firm on tomorrow to get more information. But if
Speaker 1: you live in that neighborhood, the property manager is ware
Speaker 1: and they are trying to take care of it, but
Speaker 1: of course they have to work through the Colorado eviction process,
Speaker 1: which can take up to six months. So yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the fun of being a landlord. Your renter can just
Speaker 1: stop paying and it takes forever to get them out,
Speaker 1: forever in a day to get them out. So that
Speaker 1: is the latest on that. But you know, here's the thing,
Speaker 1: Like what somebody emailed me and said, look on Reddit
Speaker 1: or next door. I can't remember which one. Somebody said,
Speaker 1: this guy is crazy. He's like I want to be Nazi.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, and he's nuts. But when you rent
Speaker 1: you you better like check yourself. Zach, you're still in
Speaker 1: the renter phase of life. I'm guessing right, you're a
Speaker 1: young man. Yes, let me give you a little piece
Speaker 1: of advice.
Speaker 4: Don't get a.
Speaker 1: Dog on the aggressive breed list. Number one, because it
Speaker 1: is impossible to find. I had a chow shepherd mix.
Speaker 1: Do you have any idea what a bad choice that
Speaker 1: was when I got the dog before the aggressive breed
Speaker 1: list started being added to Lisa's and it became an
Speaker 1: unmitigated nightmare just to find a place to live with
Speaker 1: my dog. So, uh yeah, it was. It was because
Speaker 1: the chow and a shepherd both on the aggressive dog breedlist,
Speaker 1: And so number two like, if you find a good landlord,
Speaker 1: do everything you can to stay there. Be the best
Speaker 1: tenant ever. We relandscaped a house one time because our
Speaker 1: landlords were so good. We're like, you know, this kind
Speaker 1: of looks like crap. Would you mind if we fixed
Speaker 1: it up? We fixed up the whole front of the house.
Speaker 1: We'd stay there for like three years. It was great.
Speaker 1: If you have a good landlord, that's where you want
Speaker 1: to stay, because there's nothing worse than a bad landlord.
Speaker 1: And I've had those who, Boy have I had those
Speaker 1: in various areas over my lifetime. Mandy, good for ross
Speaker 1: involved responding and promising action. That's the property manager. But
Speaker 1: are they afraid to name the offense and say the
Speaker 1: word swastika in their statement? I, you know, I don't think.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't read too much into that. I really won't, Mandy.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they can have a trans flag in
Speaker 1: the window. That flag represents the mutilation of children, not
Speaker 1: to everyone. And by the way, lots of trans people
Speaker 1: are adults, and I want to be clear because there's
Speaker 1: some stuff happening right now where I'm getting increasingly uncomfortable
Speaker 1: for adult trans people. If you turn eighteen and you
Speaker 1: want to, you know, have thirty five plastic surgeries to
Speaker 1: look like a lizard, that is entirely your choice as
Speaker 1: an adult. I support you in that freedom. I think
Speaker 1: those are all dumb decisions, but I support you in
Speaker 1: the freedom to make bad decisions.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: A free society requires that we have to decide that
Speaker 1: at some point people have to be responsible for their
Speaker 1: own actions.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 1: My concern with trans kids is that children do not
Speaker 1: have the ability to make good choices. That's why we
Speaker 1: don't let him sign contracts or get face tattoos. Anyway, Mandy,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to go after everyone who has anything
Speaker 1: in their window or its discrimination. I don't know how
Speaker 1: their lease is written.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: This is one of the reasons I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: the eviction attorneys on the show, Mandy. People who have
Speaker 1: believed it's all stacked in favor of landlords. Has never
Speaker 1: been one. Oh no, no no, in Colorado. I'm a
Speaker 1: landlord in Colorado. It's it is. It's so stupid, you guys.
Speaker 1: If I decide to evict my tenant, and thank god,
Speaker 1: I have an amazing tenant right now, a young man.
Speaker 1: I hope he stays there till he dies. Just great kid,
Speaker 1: perfect tenant, Just great. But if I decide to a victim,
Speaker 1: I have to pay into a fund so he can
Speaker 1: tap into that fund to pay for his defense. So
Speaker 1: now I have to pay for both sides of an eviction.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys, what the hell, what the absolute hell? Anyway, Mandy,
Speaker 1: don't let bad renters know it can take six months
Speaker 1: to a victim. Oh, trust me, they know one hundred
Speaker 1: trust me, they absolutely know that. When we get back
Speaker 1: our futureist, Thomas Frye joins us, and I want you
Speaker 1: to take a second in the next break, if you
Speaker 1: have it already, to go to mandy'sblog dot com and
Speaker 1: right at the front top of the video there are
Speaker 1: two videos at the top of the blog. There're Thomas
Speaker 1: Frye videos. I want you to just start them and
Speaker 1: then look at Thomas Frye, because that's not really Thomas Frye.
Speaker 1: It's an ar avatar that just happens to look exactly
Speaker 1: like Thomas Frye. Like, I'm thinking about, how could I
Speaker 1: make this avatar situation work for me so I could
Speaker 1: just do less at my job. I'm just kidding. I'm
Speaker 1: never gonna do less. Maybe the guys a Native American,
Speaker 1: the swastaka has a lot of differ meanings. The swaska
Speaker 1: in the Native American culture is reversed. This is not
Speaker 1: that swastika. And if it was a symbol of peace,
Speaker 1: why would you put up another one when someone broke
Speaker 1: your window for the first one. That's not very peaceful.
Speaker 1: I like your willing to give him the benefit of
Speaker 1: the doubt. But yeah, no, no, we'll be right back
Speaker 1: with Thomas Frye, said Mandy, just letting you know. The
Speaker 1: deficit is thirty three to thirty six trillion. No, that's
Speaker 1: the national debt. The deficit is what we overspend every year,
Speaker 1: and in twenty twenty four we overspent one point eight
Speaker 1: trillion dollars. Currently, as of this moment, our national our
Speaker 1: deficit for this year is eight hundred and thirty six
Speaker 1: billion dollars. So I mean that's progress, I guess. But
Speaker 1: the debt is the total number. The deficit is the
Speaker 1: annual number. So that is where that I just want
Speaker 1: to clear up in confusion there. And speaking of confusion,
Speaker 1: if you go to the blog today and you look
Speaker 1: at either of the extremely interesting videos that my friend
Speaker 1: Thomas fry put together, you may be confused thinking you're
Speaker 1: seeing the man in those videos. But it is not
Speaker 1: the man. It is an avatar of Thomas Frye. And
Speaker 1: now the real Thomas fry or is it Are you
Speaker 1: the real Thomas Frye? Am I just talking to an avatar?
Speaker 1: I can't tell. Thomas. Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 5: This today to change the topics that you've been.
Speaker 2: Talking about, and we're going to talk about AI avatars.
Speaker 5: Wow, this is a fun topic.
Speaker 1: What is the explain Let's start at the very beginning,
Speaker 1: because you know, there's a lot of people in my
Speaker 1: listening audience like me who are basically Luddites, right, So
Speaker 1: what is an AI avatar and why would one have one?
Speaker 5: Well, an AI.
Speaker 2: Avatar you can create one of yourself, and you can
Speaker 2: use other ones that are already made that are in
Speaker 2: the system, but you can actually create one of yourself
Speaker 2: so it looks like you, it'll talk like you.
Speaker 5: Same manners and gestures and things.
Speaker 2: And then and then you can use this to create
Speaker 2: your own videos. So then if this eliminates the need
Speaker 2: for doing lots of fancy lighting and getting camera guys
Speaker 2: and editing people up every.
Speaker 5: Time you want to create a video, you can create
Speaker 5: a video just.
Speaker 2: On your own using your avatar, and all you have
Speaker 2: to do is feed in the text and the scene
Speaker 2: changes and stuff, and you can actually produce some pretty
Speaker 2: interesting videos that way.
Speaker 1: Now, Thomas, you did this with a program called Synthesia,
Speaker 1: and you told me how much did you spend on this?
Speaker 1: Because I'm going to make this point here in just
Speaker 1: a second. How much did you spend on creating your
Speaker 1: own avatar that you can use to do these videos?
Speaker 2: Two hundred and sixteen dollars and it enables you to
Speaker 2: create actually three personal avatars if you.
Speaker 1: I was selling Thomas off here that I have a
Speaker 1: friend who does training courses and she paid a company
Speaker 1: like four years ago about fifteen thousand dollars to do
Speaker 1: this very thing, and your avatar is better than hers.
Speaker 1: I know I shouldn't say that, but if I didn't
Speaker 1: know you and I, you know, you and I were
Speaker 1: face to face for these interviews that we do, I
Speaker 1: could tell it was not you. But if I didn't
Speaker 1: know you, I'm not sure I would have been able
Speaker 1: to tell how you. I mean, you have to be
Speaker 1: pleased with the way it came out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought it. I thought it.
Speaker 2: It's kind of funny because the avatar actually sounds to
Speaker 2: me more like me than like my kids.
Speaker 5: They'll say it doesn't sound like you at all.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I think it sounds like you very much.
Speaker 1: I think it very well. Hang on, let's just do
Speaker 1: this right now. So let me just let me have
Speaker 1: my audio there. Zach Real quick on my computer.
Speaker 6: I'm a creator is eight the eight people who were
Speaker 6: the behind the scenes founders of Silicon The story of
Speaker 6: Silicon Valley starts with the invention of the transistor in
Speaker 6: nineteen forty.
Speaker 1: I mean, it sounds like you're reading, but it does
Speaker 1: sound like you, I think, and that was Theari avatar.
Speaker 1: So what are you using this for? What would a
Speaker 1: normal person use this for?
Speaker 2: You can use this for training videos, you can use
Speaker 2: this for promotions. There's just a thousands of things you
Speaker 2: can do. I mean, if you want to become an
Speaker 2: influencer on social media, this is a perfect tool to
Speaker 2: us to do to.
Speaker 1: That well, And that's kind of what I'm looking at.
Speaker 1: Ask okay here, I'm a personality I hate doing social
Speaker 1: media videos just I hate it. I don't enjoy being
Speaker 1: on camera. I never have. And so this for me
Speaker 1: would be perfect to be able to upload my content
Speaker 1: which I'd love to share, but not actually have to
Speaker 1: do hair, makeup and all those other things. I might
Speaker 1: create an a I'm handy this afternoon. I don't know
Speaker 1: how long did this process take.
Speaker 2: So it'll have you when you're going to create your
Speaker 2: own avatar, it'll have you get on camera and then
Speaker 2: read through a script. You want to make sure you're
Speaker 2: well lit and you have a good background and everything,
Speaker 2: or you can just have a green screen behind you
Speaker 2: if you want, But then it'll have have you read
Speaker 2: through this script, which is about, I don't know, two
Speaker 2: and a half three minutes long, and then and then
Speaker 2: you'll send it in and it takes like a day.
Speaker 5: For them to get it back to you.
Speaker 2: But you can also use your avatar to speak in
Speaker 2: something like eighty different languages.
Speaker 5: That's hilarious.
Speaker 1: Actually, wait a minute, so your avatar could actually be
Speaker 1: smarter than you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot smarter and well much more well versed
Speaker 2: in other languages.
Speaker 1: That actually, I mean, so basically, what you're telling me
Speaker 1: is that I could take over the entire world, is
Speaker 1: what you're telling me, because I could translate my thoughts
Speaker 1: into languages that could be seen and heard all over
Speaker 1: the world. I mean, why not? Why wouldn't I do that?
Speaker 5: I think you should.
Speaker 1: One thing I will, I will say, Thomas, when I
Speaker 1: saw this this morning, the entire Hollywood strike that had
Speaker 1: that happened fairly recently royally became understandable watching this video.
Speaker 1: Because if Hollywood had the opportunity or the rights to
Speaker 1: use someone's voice and image in perpetuity like they were
Speaker 1: asking for, they could create entire masterpieces. I mean, I
Speaker 1: feel like we'really a few years away before our first
Speaker 1: AI movie becomes a thing, right, I mean pure AI
Speaker 1: movie where Thomas Frye is starring in this movie with
Speaker 1: Mandy Connell, and they'll have us in all these action
Speaker 1: scenes and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's actually some pretty tight security on this
Speaker 2: to make sure that you're using your avatar yourself and
Speaker 2: not somebody else's using it. So there, I think they're
Speaker 2: pretty cautious about that that thing actually happening. But I mean,
Speaker 2: this is just one company. There's other companies doing the
Speaker 2: same thing. I don't know how this ranks. There might
Speaker 2: be some better ones out there. I tried this one.
Speaker 2: It seemed easy enough to use, and so.
Speaker 5: I went with it. Each one of these will have.
Speaker 2: A learning curve, and once you learn it, then you
Speaker 2: want to stick with that company.
Speaker 1: Now, are you able to do videos through this company's synthesia,
Speaker 1: because I'm thinking, like, imagine if you were a small
Speaker 1: business owner and you were trying to scale your business,
Speaker 1: but you want to make sure that your values are
Speaker 1: being shared with new employees.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: One of the hardest parts of scalability is making sure
Speaker 1: that new employees know what your vision and your values
Speaker 1: are all about. If I'm the owner of the company,
Speaker 1: I don't have time to talk to each individual employee.
Speaker 1: But if I could go and create a current like today,
Speaker 1: you know, some sort of current situation that I could
Speaker 1: bring home to drive home those values, I think there's
Speaker 1: real there could be a real value in that. So
Speaker 1: trying to think outside the box on who could use
Speaker 1: this technology? Now, are you aware, like you mentioned before,
Speaker 1: it's using for training and stuff like that. Are you
Speaker 1: aware of people using it for other purposes that maybe
Speaker 1: seem off the beaten path.
Speaker 5: I'm not aware at the moment.
Speaker 2: But they do have a provision for uploading a PowerPoint
Speaker 2: presentation into it, so you have that capability. I think
Speaker 2: you can add your own video in the background. In fact,
Speaker 2: you can take your avatar off and just have the
Speaker 2: video playing if you want, And you can have your
Speaker 2: own narration in the background too.
Speaker 5: So there's lots of capabilities here.
Speaker 2: Now, if you racked up too many minutes, then there's
Speaker 2: an up.
Speaker 5: Charge for that.
Speaker 2: Okay, you probably have to move to another level, But
Speaker 2: I'm still kind of new finding out all the ways
Speaker 2: to use this. Well.
Speaker 1: I think it's super cool. And by the way, the
Speaker 1: videos that you made with it, one about the traitors
Speaker 1: eight the founders of Silicon Valley. I knew absolutely nothing
Speaker 1: about the founding of Silicon Valley until this morning when
Speaker 1: I watched this video and the other one. Should robots
Speaker 1: have the right to defend themselves? They're great videos? And
Speaker 1: is this just an opportunity to reach a bigger market
Speaker 1: for you or a bigger audience that maybe you're not
Speaker 1: reaching without putting in as much work? Because how long
Speaker 1: does this kind of video take you versus filming yourself,
Speaker 1: editing yourself, all of that stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, video like this probably take a couple hours to
Speaker 2: put together. Now there's a limit. You can't do a
Speaker 2: video longer than five minutes. I think that's the limit. Anyway,
Speaker 2: the columns that are right, I've written over five hundred
Speaker 2: columns throughout the years.
Speaker 5: I can take any one of those columns.
Speaker 2: I can just shrink it down to roughly six hundred
Speaker 2: words or something like that, and then feed it into
Speaker 2: this and then I can create a video pretty quick.
Speaker 1: Well, I have to tell you. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff is super cool but also super
Speaker 1: dangerous because when I see this, I'm thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: how far away are we from having a major election
Speaker 1: up ended by a video that is completely fabricated of
Speaker 1: one candidate where they are saying awful things or they
Speaker 1: appear to be doing something that's illegal or something along
Speaker 1: those lines. I mean, how close are we to that
Speaker 1: kind of a already? It's ai, do you.
Speaker 5: Think, well, we're I think we're already there.
Speaker 2: Uh, you can't do it with this program, but with
Speaker 2: some of the other ones I've seen. I've seen quite
Speaker 2: a few videos that have been fabricated, and uh, at
Speaker 2: this point, it's fairly easy to spot the one set
Speaker 2: of the bad ones. But that's we're going to across
Speaker 2: the line where you can't tell me are.
Speaker 1: There any cheap Are there something that we as consumers
Speaker 1: can look for? They're just going to be so sophisticated,
Speaker 1: we're not going to be able to tell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I don't know. Maybe it comes down to
Speaker 2: the smell test. I guess, Uh, with a person like that,
Speaker 2: with that character, or actually say something like that or
Speaker 2: do something like that.
Speaker 5: I mean push comes.
Speaker 2: To show people will do a lot of really strange things.
Speaker 5: If somebody's trained.
Speaker 2: To harm your family, you're likely to take out a
Speaker 2: gun and shoot somebody. You would not normally do that.
Speaker 2: So so what's don't I don't know how to how
Speaker 2: to actually protect us from something like this.
Speaker 5: I think that's going to be.
Speaker 2: That's going to be a tough issue coming up over
Speaker 2: the coming years.
Speaker 1: Well, especially because whatever rules you put in place, bad
Speaker 1: actors are going to ignore them, right, I mean that's
Speaker 1: pretty much how it goes with anything that you limit.
Speaker 1: So it's going to be fascinating to watch. And this
Speaker 1: is happening so fast, Thomas, that you know my point.
Speaker 1: Four years ago it was fifteen thousand dollars for a
Speaker 1: mediocre avatar, and now it's two hundred and sixteen dollars
Speaker 1: for an avatar that looks pretty dang good. So well played,
Speaker 1: by the way, wording to the Internet, Synthesia is the
Speaker 1: best best site for AI avatar digital editing. So you
Speaker 1: are you're starting at the top and going from there, Amandy,
Speaker 1: this textter said, do you think I would be able
Speaker 1: to loan my avatar for a movie and get paid
Speaker 1: for it? That was one of the things that they
Speaker 1: were trying to sort out in this last Hollywood contract situation.
Speaker 1: So I don't know the answer to it. I don't
Speaker 1: know the answer to that at all. We shall see.
Speaker 2: Let me see here, right, go ahead situation where companies
Speaker 2: will buy.
Speaker 5: Buy an avatar or.
Speaker 2: Partner with you to do presentration training videos, that sort
Speaker 2: of thing. Oh yeah, that I think would be more
Speaker 2: likely than Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Instead of I mean, but you know, I guess, oh,
Speaker 1: that would be great. I would rent out my avatar
Speaker 1: for training videos. I don't know if you know this, Thomas,
Speaker 1: and I don't know why you would. My very first
Speaker 1: paid acting gig, ever, I played a computer chip for
Speaker 1: IBM in a in an inside instructional video for IBM employees,
Speaker 1: some of my proudest moments. I made two hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: which was a lot of money for me at that moment,
Speaker 1: and I just had to stand and read as if
Speaker 1: I were a computer chip. So obviously it was the
Speaker 1: role I was meant to play. Thomas rye uh. One
Speaker 1: more question. Did you hear about the AI mayor who
Speaker 1: ran in Cheyenne, Wyoming? Did you hear about this? I
Speaker 1: did not hear about this.
Speaker 5: Oh, I haven't heard about that one.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pull it up right now first aid.
Speaker 5: Yeah, on all the news.
Speaker 1: Of it, trust me, Thomas, I know no. Cyanne Wyoming
Speaker 1: rejected the AI mayor and and actually elected a real
Speaker 1: uh person. There was a guy, Victor Miller, who said
Speaker 1: he planned to ride run Cheyenne using chat GPT. So
Speaker 1: not quite the AI mayor that we're talking about, but
Speaker 1: definitely something that is probably already happening. I mean chat GPT,
Speaker 1: These chat clients, they're changing everything. What do you think
Speaker 1: about this new Chinese chat client? Have you looked at
Speaker 1: that at all?
Speaker 5: Veep seek?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I've been watching that quite closely.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's ready to take over just yet.
Speaker 2: There's there's a few few flaws in some of the
Speaker 2: programming on it, and it's it's biased quite a bit
Speaker 2: towards China.
Speaker 1: No way some of the answers, Yeah, no way, just
Speaker 1: asking about Tanneman Square anyway, We shall see.
Speaker 5: Yeah, huh.
Speaker 1: Thomas Fry can be found at futureist speaker dot com.
Speaker 1: You really should watch these videos, Thomas. Now you've given
Speaker 1: me something else to try and learn that I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be able to some thanks for that.
Speaker 2: I think you'll have it down by the next time
Speaker 2: we meet. You'll have a down perfect.
Speaker 1: I like your confidence in me, Thomas, for I like
Speaker 1: your confidence. All right, my friend, I'll see you next month,
Speaker 1: all right, thank you? All right, thanks Thomas. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe i'll see him next month. Maybe he'll
Speaker 1: just send his avatar. Did you look at these videos?
Speaker 1: Did you look at him shot? I'm not kidding. I
Speaker 1: mean I talked to the man once a month, I
Speaker 1: see him face to face, and these avatars are amazing.
Speaker 1: I seriously am going, what should my ar avatar do?
Speaker 1: Like what I mean? Because here's the thing. I would
Speaker 1: do more social media video, but I just don't like
Speaker 1: being on camera. I don't like having to film myself
Speaker 1: because the lighting sucks and I look, you know, my age,
Speaker 1: which is never good. So if I got an AI
Speaker 1: avatar and I could just upload AI Mandy stuff, do
Speaker 1: you think people would think that was cool or dorky
Speaker 1: or both. By the way, I'd like to think my
Speaker 1: one cameo client that I got before the Holidays, I
Speaker 1: wish a gentleman. I'm Mary Christmas on my cameo feed,
Speaker 1: so I am officially a paid cameo artist. If you'd
Speaker 1: like me to, I wish you a just go to
Speaker 1: camp and look at Mandy Connell. Mandy, it's reassuring that
Speaker 1: a dog can get elected as mayor, but an AI can't. Technically, technically,
Speaker 1: he wasn't actually an AI mayor. That would be like
Speaker 1: Max Headroom running for mayor. Now, Zach, did you even
Speaker 1: get my Max Headroom reference? Do you even know who
Speaker 1: Max Headroom is?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, And then I'm familiar with him also from the
Speaker 7: famous like Chicago TV takeover a thing that.
Speaker 4: Happened in the eighties or nineties.
Speaker 1: Wow, I'm impressed. Max Headroom was probably the original avatar,
Speaker 1: although he wasn't a high tech like these Mandy. So,
Speaker 1: in other words, cutting the annual deficit isn't going to
Speaker 1: pay off the national debt. I guess eventually it will.
Speaker 1: Eventually it will because as spending goes down, we are
Speaker 1: continuing to grow. Our economy is still growing, right, So
Speaker 1: we're not looking at a static piece of pie. We're
Speaker 1: not looking at a pie where we have the same
Speaker 1: number every single year that we're gonna deal with. Here's
Speaker 1: what I think will happen if you can get spending
Speaker 1: under control. If you can significantly reduce the amount of
Speaker 1: money that's fed has pumped into the economy, then then
Speaker 1: you can start to see deficits come down. But it's
Speaker 1: going to be a long haul before anything happens with
Speaker 1: our national debt. And by the way, I don't mean
Speaker 1: to be a negative Nelly. I currently have zero confidence
Speaker 1: in US not coming to a debt crisis at some point.
Speaker 1: Zero zero confidence because every massive empire before us has
Speaker 1: done the exact same thing that we are doing right now,
Speaker 1: and none of them have been able to avoid the
Speaker 1: negative repercussions, none of them. Mandy, your AI avatar should
Speaker 1: chug a bottle of wine after every news story. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't wanna. I don't wanna. I decided a long
Speaker 1: time ago that I would never endorse alcohol products because
Speaker 1: alcohol is very destructive to so many people's lives. So yeah,
Speaker 1: they won't. Maybe chug some nice fizzy water with a
Speaker 1: giant bilch at the end of it. Hey, Mandy, I
Speaker 1: don't know if your avatar would be dorky or not,
Speaker 1: but it would be not real. I should have missus
Speaker 1: roper as my avatar says this to No, It's got
Speaker 1: to be me it's gotta be me. If you keep
Speaker 1: saying aar avatar, the Colorado Dems will make sure it
Speaker 1: gets banned. Okay, that's funny, very very funny. AI avatar
Speaker 1: a I avatar. So we'll see. Maybe I'll make myself
Speaker 1: an avatar. That seems like a lot of work. Mandy
Speaker 1: Vanity over fifty is the first sign of sinility. Aged
Speaker 1: with grace sixty five toll toils listener, I don't believe
Speaker 1: in aging with grace. I think aging with grace reminds
Speaker 1: me of old ladies and moo moos with their hairs
Speaker 1: in a bun. At my age, when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: fifty five year old women in my hometown all had
Speaker 1: gray hair, and they all wore it up in the
Speaker 1: same bun, and they all had sensible shoes in flax. No, Nah,
Speaker 1: I'm not going out without a fight. I'm just not.
Speaker 1: I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not rushing to
Speaker 1: have plastic surgery or anything like that. But a lot
Speaker 1: of the stuff I do at downtowns or redn Revolution
Speaker 1: has to do with keeping my face looking good. Seriously,
Speaker 1: when you're in the media, it all feels a little
Speaker 1: bit different. Trust me, Trust me on that. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take a quick time out. When we get back.
Speaker 1: We got to talk about Canada's capitulation and Donald Trump
Speaker 1: using tariffs as a bludgeon. We'll do that next. Holy macaroni,
Speaker 1: what has happened with tariffs? We've got tariffs threatened and
Speaker 1: everyone fightd out. Did you guys see on Sunday the
Speaker 1: markets were all like, oh my god, all the futures
Speaker 1: were way down. It was a disaster. But then my
Speaker 1: Monday morning, when Mexico was like, oh yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: work with you, the markets were like, eh, eh, it's fine.
Speaker 1: That being said, I want to share with you what
Speaker 1: was posted by lame duck Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get tired of saying those words lame
Speaker 1: duck Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. This is what he posted
Speaker 1: on his X feed. I just had a good call
Speaker 1: with President Trump. Canada is implementing our one point three
Speaker 1: billion dollar border plan, reinforcing the border with new shoppers,
Speaker 1: technology and personnel, enhance coordination with our American partners, and
Speaker 1: increased resources to stop the flow of Fentinel Nearly ten
Speaker 1: thousand frontline PEP personnel are and we'll be working on
Speaker 1: protecting the border. In addition, Canada is making new commitments
Speaker 1: to a point a fentanyl zar. We will list cartels
Speaker 1: as terrorists, ensure twenty four to seven eyes on the border,
Speaker 1: launch a Canada US Joint Strike Task Force to combat
Speaker 1: organize crime, fentanyl and money laundering. I have also signed
Speaker 1: a new intelligence directive on organized crime and fentanel and
Speaker 1: we will be backing it with two hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1: Proposed tariffs will be paused for at least thirty days
Speaker 1: while we work together. That is what's known as a capitulation.
Speaker 1: That is what's known as justin Trudeau recognizing that he
Speaker 1: had way more to lose than the United States does.
Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, I love Canada. It's I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been to all of the provinces in Canada at
Speaker 1: this point in my life, all of them, and it's
Speaker 1: a beautiful country that people are lovely. The leadership is awful,
Speaker 1: absolutely awful. But that being said, I don't want to
Speaker 1: punish the Canadians just like I don't want to punish Americans.
Speaker 1: Uh does that? Get ready to vamp for a minute.
Speaker 2: I go.
Speaker 1: That means you're supposed to turn on the mic and
Speaker 1: start talking because I had to sneeze. Never mind, you
Speaker 1: miss it. I sneeze already, it's over. That's okay. I
Speaker 1: mean very sneezy lately, and I don't know why. And
Speaker 1: multiple sneeze is in a row. I've never been a
Speaker 1: multiple sneezeer in a row. My husband, on the other hand,
Speaker 1: he can sneeze like fifteen twenty times. I'm not even kidding,
Speaker 1: like fifteen or twenty times in a row, so much
Speaker 1: so that I don't say God bless you on the
Speaker 1: first one. And when we're out in public and he sneezes,
Speaker 1: in inevitably somebody says God bless you. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: just wait, just wait till the end of the sneeze
Speaker 1: parade that is about to happen. But lately I've been
Speaker 1: doing the multiple sneeze thing too. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: up with that. In any case, let's review. Mexico has
Speaker 1: already announced they're sending ten thousand troops to the border.
Speaker 1: They are also going to be working closely with the
Speaker 1: US government to keep both people who are trying to
Speaker 1: migrate and cross the border illegally out of the United
Speaker 1: States and also aggressively combat drug trafficking over the border.
Speaker 1: At the same time, they have asked the US to
Speaker 1: work on making sure our guns don't end up in
Speaker 1: the hands of a cartel as well. I mean, aside
Speaker 1: from Eric holders, you know, giving them guns during Operation
Speaker 1: Fast and Furious. Oh wait, was that hurricane crossfire? I
Speaker 1: can't remember the name. I think it was a hurricane
Speaker 1: crossfire where we gave a bunch of guns to cartels
Speaker 1: to see what would happen. Hey, news slash they use
Speaker 1: them to kill people, super smart. That was awesome. Another
Speaker 1: big hit by the federal government. I am now back
Speaker 1: to giving Trump more latitude completely because I believe that
Speaker 1: these tariffs are all about leverage. They are all about bludgeoning.
Speaker 1: They are all about the threats of force in order
Speaker 1: to extract an outcome that you would like to see.
Speaker 1: And all of these people on the left, all the
Speaker 1: people on the text lines talking about how you know
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's you really think he's doing any of this now?
Speaker 1: Just because we came through four years of a pet
Speaker 1: rock president doesn't mean that we have one.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is watch him talk to
Speaker 1: people the press. Imagine that we have a president who
Speaker 1: actually talks to the press. Right now, I'm watching a
Speaker 1: snippet on Fox News. He's talking about a ron cannot
Speaker 1: have a nuclear weapon, and reporters are asking him questions.
Speaker 1: And instead of his team shoving all the reporters out
Speaker 1: the door, like Biden's team, remember them, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: you can go, and they walk through their arms.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you, you can go, you can thank you.
Speaker 1: It's how are no questions? As Joe Biden stared vacantly
Speaker 1: off into the distance, trying to remember what he was
Speaker 1: doing in the first place, or why he was even there.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's happening back and forth with the press. So
Speaker 1: so save all that because it's not going to work.
Speaker 1: I said earlier in the show. If your big slam
Speaker 1: as you think Donald Trump is stupid, it's the same
Speaker 1: slam that has been levied against every Republican president in
Speaker 1: my lifetime. And it's just it's tired. It's just tired.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: I got the local stories that I want to get to.
Speaker 1: I want to say good job to the Denver City Council.
Speaker 1: Yes you heard me right, well, good job, and that
Speaker 1: they decided not to try and override Mike Johnston's veto
Speaker 1: on expanded paraphernalia distribution. I've decided I'm not going to
Speaker 1: call it needle safe needle exchanges. I'm gonna call it
Speaker 1: paraphernalia distribution because that's what it is. We are handing
Speaker 1: out drug paraphernalia so drug addicts they don't have to
Speaker 1: find it anymore, they don't have to reuse needles. Bless
Speaker 1: their hearts, So we are no longer. We're not gonna
Speaker 1: have unfettered drug paraphernalia. We're not going to have that.
Speaker 1: We're still going to have drug paraphernalia give out locations,
Speaker 1: but they're not going to be everywhere. And for all
Speaker 1: of the people on the Denver City Council who voted
Speaker 1: knowing that in the first place, the reason they didn't
Speaker 1: try to override the veto is they didn't have the votes,
Speaker 1: but they just decided to just let it ride. And
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that now. I also have a story
Speaker 1: on the blog today about Mayor Johnston. You guys, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of feeling sorry for him right now, not completely,
Speaker 1: but he volunteered to take on this incredibly difficult job,
Speaker 1: ran hard for it on a platform of distributing homeless
Speaker 1: people throughout the city. So we's got to feel kind
Speaker 1: of shocked when people take to the news media to
Speaker 1: complain that there are homeless people throughout the city. Case
Speaker 1: in point, there is a story today on Denver seven
Speaker 1: and the headline, I'll just read the headline to you,
Speaker 1: Denver leaders respond to businesses, neighbors along South Broadway fed
Speaker 1: up with homeless uptick. Let may we do this one
Speaker 1: little part from the story. It's pretty dismaying sometimes that
Speaker 1: we have really rallied and been very open and transparent
Speaker 1: about what it is that we need, the support that
Speaker 1: we need, and still maintaining a very clear agenda of sympathy.
Speaker 1: We really are empathetic people and we want to help,
Speaker 1: but we also want to feel safe. So I don't
Speaker 1: understand where the disconnect is. She continued, I know Mike Johnston.
Speaker 1: Mike's been in my house for dinner, and I would
Speaker 1: tell Mike that he has not cleaned up our streets.
Speaker 1: It has not gotten better, and we need to do better. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me break this down, let me unpack this. As
Speaker 1: they say, it's one of my least favorite jargon phrases.
Speaker 1: That's out right now, let's unpack this. Let's not because
Speaker 1: I didn't pack it in there, I'm not unpacking it. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is another example. We've had multiple examples of people
Speaker 1: who first of all, want to let you know that
Speaker 1: even as they are sick to death of drug addicts
Speaker 1: crapping literally on the doorstep of their business, they also
Speaker 1: want you to know that they have compassion and empathy
Speaker 1: and that they want to compassionately lose these people somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Their compassion ends with the poop in the in the
Speaker 1: doorstep of their business. When when are they going to
Speaker 1: make a different choice. When are they going to elect
Speaker 1: a different person or party that promises to actually get
Speaker 1: tough on crime, that actually says we're going to prosecute
Speaker 1: all of these crimes. My guess is never, Because it's
Speaker 1: so important to them to be seen as empathetic that
Speaker 1: they're really not that invested in solving the problem, which
Speaker 1: is going to require tough love and a lot of it.
Speaker 1: But is that empathetic? I don't know, and I certainly
Speaker 1: don't know if she thinks it thinks it's empathetic, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure you know, well, I'll tell you about it
Speaker 1: in the next segment. I want to give kudos to
Speaker 1: a member of the Colorado Legislature that politically I think
Speaker 1: is wrong on pretty much everything. Could not be more
Speaker 1: diametrically opposed to me politically, ever, But there is something
Speaker 1: that happened in the in the capital the other day
Speaker 1: that I think is important and I hope this member
Speaker 1: of the Colorado Legislature keeps moving forward in this one way.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you all about that next positive vibes.
Speaker 1: That's the best I'm gonna do. And congratulations to a
Speaker 1: member of the Colorado Legislature that I generally think is
Speaker 1: wrong about literally every single thing she does. However, Senator
Speaker 1: Faith Winters has had.
Speaker 4: A rough year. Last year, she.
Speaker 1: Was accused of showing up at a meeting with citizens
Speaker 1: drunk and it led to an ethics investigation. It is
Speaker 1: my understanding for multiple people at the Capitol this was
Speaker 1: not the first time she had appeared drunk at an
Speaker 1: official event, and she, because of all of that, entered
Speaker 1: rehab and just took to the of the State Senate
Speaker 1: to apologize to the Senate and her constituents for her
Speaker 1: past behavior. And I think this is something that, first
Speaker 1: of all, I've known enough people going through the program,
Speaker 1: as they call it, that making amends is a very
Speaker 1: important part, and part of making amends is admitting what
Speaker 1: you've done right, and admitting what you've done on the
Speaker 1: floor of the Colorado Senate and making a public statement
Speaker 1: like this must have been very difficult for her, but
Speaker 1: I commend her for making her ongoing journey of sobriety
Speaker 1: a public issue of discussion, because I think that there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people out there who think, because of
Speaker 1: their job or whatever they have going on, that now
Speaker 1: is not the time to go to rehab. And I
Speaker 1: can't take the break for my job. You guys, there's
Speaker 1: a million reasons not to get sober if you have
Speaker 1: an alcohol or drug problem, but none of them are
Speaker 1: valid in the grand scheme of your life. None of
Speaker 1: them matter. And I'm just going to use this as
Speaker 1: an example. The Great Rush Limbaugh, after becoming addicted to
Speaker 1: painkillers after a back surgery, admitted on the radio he
Speaker 1: was an addict and went to rehab for six weeks.
Speaker 1: And for six weeks, I, along with many of you,
Speaker 1: listened to fill in hosts, some that were good, some
Speaker 1: that were not good. Well, he went and took care
Speaker 1: of that problem, and what's interesting is yours. Truly. I
Speaker 1: had to take an entire month off work. It was
Speaker 1: the longest time that I had off work since I
Speaker 1: was fourteen years old after I had vocal cord surgery.
Speaker 1: And it was not something that I could not do.
Speaker 1: It wasn't an option. And for me, having her stand
Speaker 1: up and take this take responsibility for her choices is
Speaker 1: a very positive thing. And though I'm probably going to
Speaker 1: continue to think she's wrong about every single thing that
Speaker 1: she wants to do politically, I wish her very much
Speaker 1: continued success in her journey of sobriety, and I hope
Speaker 1: that she as long as her as long as her
Speaker 1: constituency wants her in that position, or she's not termin
Speaker 1: limited out, she can continue to serve her district. And
Speaker 1: just wanted to let you know, Mandy, did you take
Speaker 1: a COVID test? I didn't hear and wonder no. I forgot.
Speaker 1: I was so tired yesterday and so somebody else sent
Speaker 1: me a text message yesterday that said, you know, one
Speaker 1: of the biggest symptoms of my leukemia was exhaustion that
Speaker 1: never went away. I'm like, okay, let's slow that roll. Okay.
Speaker 1: I don't think I have leukemia. I think I have
Speaker 1: some kind of bug. No, I forgot, and today I
Speaker 1: feel fine, and I took the dog for a walk
Speaker 1: and everything this morning. So I don't know what it's like.
Speaker 1: A little eh, it was a bug. It was a bug, Mandy.
Speaker 1: My boss sneezed in threes. Coworker sneezed like a horse naehing,
Speaker 1: and another coworker always sneezed at three decibels. Me I
Speaker 1: seize one set one hundred and forty decibels, and my
Speaker 1: chest always hurts after.
Speaker 2: U.
Speaker 1: Okay, So guns to Mexico underholder was Operation fast and
Speaker 1: thank you. Text her thank you very much. This text.
Speaker 1: Are very upset. They were hoping for a free bong
Speaker 1: handout as part of the free paraphernalia situation there. My
Speaker 1: husband told me, bless you for the rest of your life,
Speaker 1: like two years ago, high five to you, Chuck.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 1: I like saying God bless you. It's one of those
Speaker 1: little social contract things that I enjoy, like saying hello
Speaker 1: to people, Hello, how you doing, good morning, have a
Speaker 1: good day. Little things like that. I enjoy that and
Speaker 1: saying God bless you when someone sneezes. Even though really,
Speaker 1: the basis of it is pretty idiotic. I don't care
Speaker 1: I'm blessing someone. I'm basically the Pope at that moment.
Speaker 1: I'm just dispensing blessings left and roh, seize bless you,
Speaker 1: seize over your bless you. I'm like Oprah given out cars,
Speaker 1: only I'm given out blessings because they can't afford cars.
Speaker 1: I once had a friend and this is how she sneezes.
Speaker 1: I'm not even exaggerating. It sounds exactly like this, so
Speaker 1: much so that with the first time she sneezed, I
Speaker 1: was like, what what was that? She it was a sneeze.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, no, that's not how anyone in the
Speaker 1: world sneezes. She snees like this, and this is exactly
Speaker 1: what it sounded like. Tee two, tee two, tee two.
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. And I was like, how does anything move?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: When I sneeze? I want action, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I want to I want to come out of that
Speaker 1: sneeze on the other side, being able to breathe a
Speaker 1: little bit better, maybe getting some some stuff going so
Speaker 1: I can blow my nose and you know, clear things out.
Speaker 1: But what does that do tee two. Yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: doing anything. I want to feel like I've expelled something
Speaker 1: to you exactly, knock out the evil spirits, that's what
Speaker 1: you want to do, all right? Coming up in the
Speaker 1: next hour. First of all, we're gonna talk to a
Speaker 1: Rod later in the hour. He is going to join
Speaker 1: us from New Orleans. He asked Travis Kelcey a great question,
Speaker 1: and I loved Travis Kelcey's answer, y'all. I just I
Speaker 1: think Travis and Taylor are going to go the distance.
Speaker 1: And that's the much does I care about that? Also, guests,
Speaker 1: who has an agent?
Speaker 5: Yeah, not me.
Speaker 1: But when I tell you, I bet you're gonna laugh
Speaker 1: out loud like I did. Going on, we've now reached
Speaker 1: a place in our society where a washed up shell
Speaker 1: of a man who used to be president has now
Speaker 1: signed with one of the biggest talent agencies in the country.
Speaker 1: That's right, Joe Biden has signed with Creative Artist Agency
Speaker 1: for representation. This is what the co chairman of CAA said.
Speaker 1: I don't think he giggled while he said it, but
Speaker 1: he may have had to do like Free takes to
Speaker 1: get it all out. President Biden is one of America's
Speaker 1: most respected and influential voices in national and global affairs.
Speaker 1: His lifelong commitment to public service is of unity, optimism, dignity,
Speaker 1: and possibility. We are profoundly honored to partner with him again. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what they're going to be trying, you know,
Speaker 1: getting him to do. I mean, obviously, whatever he does
Speaker 1: is going to have to do it between ten am
Speaker 1: and four pm, right when he's actually functioning. So yeah, wow, yeah, So,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to hire the president a
Speaker 1: former president, he's available. By the way, the same agency
Speaker 1: reps Barack and Michelle's Obama's Higher Ground productions, as well
Speaker 1: as Joe Manson, Susan Rice, Beto O'Rourkes. Wow, whatever happened
Speaker 1: to Beto O'Rourke. Dude lost like four elections in a
Speaker 1: row and he just fell off the map. Didn't he fake? Hispanic?
Speaker 4: Dude?
Speaker 1: I know, I'm Medallion and Irish, but I'm gonna name
Speaker 1: myself Beato to bring in the Hispanic vote. They won't know.
Speaker 1: Those Browns aren't that bright. I'm just kidding. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he actually said that last part. What I mean,
Speaker 1: really trying to trick people with your name. Come on,
Speaker 1: come on now, better and bigger news out of Hollywood.
Speaker 1: This story, you guys, I might have squealed with excitement
Speaker 1: last night about this, and this is gonna give you
Speaker 1: a little window into the world of former Mandy. Buffy
Speaker 1: the Vampire Slayer is very close to getting a reboot done,
Speaker 1: and I am so excited. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was
Speaker 1: the show that I watched every episode start to finish.
Speaker 1: As soon as they made the DVD set available, I
Speaker 1: bought it. I loved that show. It was perfect for
Speaker 1: that moment in time. It was, of course ridiculous because
Speaker 1: you have a teenage girl who's fighting demons and monsters
Speaker 1: and vampires and everything else until she falls in love
Speaker 1: with a torture vampire and angel. It was just such
Speaker 1: a good show. It was like half soap opera, half
Speaker 1: fighting monsters. So how could you not love that. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, Supernatural has totally just stolen that
Speaker 1: whole gig, right, the show Supernatural, same thing they stole
Speaker 1: it from Buffy. For years, people have been asking Sarah
Speaker 1: Michelle Geller as she would consider a reprise of Buffy. Now, obviously,
Speaker 1: she's like forty seven I think she's in her late forties,
Speaker 1: so she will not be playing the fresh faced slayer.
Speaker 1: And that was the genius of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Speaker 1: because part of the story was that you could have
Speaker 1: more than one slayer, right, you could have multiple teenage slayers,
Speaker 1: and that was kind of a great way of perhaps
Speaker 1: spinning off whatever. But she will pay a character who
Speaker 1: will become a regular sort of back and forth, but
Speaker 1: maybe not in all the time. Described as the next
Speaker 1: chapter in the Buffy Verse. The new incarnation is executive
Speaker 1: produced by gellerw and it's all female because the other
Speaker 1: part about Buffy the Vampire Slayer that was so ugly
Speaker 1: is that the creator, Joss Whedon, was accused of creating
Speaker 1: a hostile environment on the set by many women who
Speaker 1: worked in that cast. Many He is in no way
Speaker 1: connected to this. Here's something I didn't know though. Executive
Speaker 1: producing the pilot is Dolly Parton, whose company sand Dollar
Speaker 1: was a producer on the original. I'm super excited about this,
Speaker 1: and it just got me to thinking, what show that
Speaker 1: you loved in the past would you like to see
Speaker 1: comeback in some form or fashion, assuming they're not going
Speaker 1: to ruin it and that's altogether possible. They could totally
Speaker 1: ruin it, and that would make me incredibly sad.
Speaker 6: But what show?
Speaker 1: I mean, are there shows that you would like to
Speaker 1: see come back? And would you watch them? Because I
Speaker 1: was super excited for a hot minute about the Dallas reboot,
Speaker 1: and then when I started watching it and I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't really like this anymore. There was nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with the show, It's just that Dallas was such an
Speaker 1: eighties moment and it was so perfectly eighties that to
Speaker 1: go back to that same kind of show just felt
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm just extremely excited about this, extremely
Speaker 1: excited about this. Mandy. You know the character will be
Speaker 1: a black trainny. I don't know that, but we'll see Mandy.
Speaker 1: At first, I was thinking of Christy Swanson instead of
Speaker 1: Sarah Michelle. Christy Swanson of course in the movie, and
Speaker 1: the movie was kind of schlocky and a little bit silly,
Speaker 1: but I loved it. But the character is so good
Speaker 1: Green Acres, Yo, we could make a Green Acres reboot.
Speaker 1: But who would play the role of Jejacques bor right now,
Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney? Okay, work with me, go with me right now? Okay,
Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney is a fancy socialite who somehow falls in
Speaker 1: love with a farmer and moves to the country. Chaos
Speaker 1: and shenanigans in Sue. That would be fantastic tears if
Speaker 1: they didn't ruin it. I don't know, though, Cheers feels
Speaker 1: like a moment where that cast was so perfect. Buffy
Speaker 1: had a great cast like the Scooby Gang, and Buffy
Speaker 1: was so good. Some of them have gone on to
Speaker 1: struggle mightily, some of them have done really well. But
Speaker 1: the Cheers, there was so much perfect chemistry in that cast.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they could redo that justified then
Speaker 1: they destroyed it. We got a new dog, the name
Speaker 1: she came with as Buffy. We kept it. We call
Speaker 1: her Buffy the Cushions Slayer. That's funny, Mandy. I'm watching
Speaker 1: the og Buffy series for the first time. I love it.
Speaker 1: I always wanted to watch it when I was in
Speaker 1: college before DVRs, so I always missed it. We need
Speaker 1: Grim to come back. I love Grim. Grim was sort
Speaker 1: of in the same vein. Did you ever watch Grim, Zach,
Speaker 1: I'm familiar with it. He was fighting monsters and everything,
Speaker 1: but not as cool as Buffy was. Because Buffy wasn't
Speaker 1: just about fighting monsters or soap operas with vampires. It
Speaker 1: was also like all of these different sort of pop
Speaker 1: culture references throughout the entire show. And as a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, Texter that's watching it for the first time,
Speaker 1: how do those things up?
Speaker 2: Mandy?
Speaker 1: Bring back wild on E with Jules Asner or Brick Burke.
Speaker 1: I've never watched that, Mandy. They should continue Bones. They
Speaker 1: I've read that Emily, Emily d Chanel and David Brianis,
Speaker 1: who also coincidentally played Angel in Buffy, they are open
Speaker 1: to a Bones reboot and I would love that. I
Speaker 1: love that show too, Mandy. I don't know how they
Speaker 1: would pull it off. But a reboot of Married with Children, updated,
Speaker 1: updated for today's time. Can you imagine you, guys? Instead
Speaker 1: of having Christina Applegate's character be like kind of the
Speaker 1: slutty girl of the family, she would be the uptight
Speaker 1: Jen Alpha who would be correcting everyone else for misgendering
Speaker 1: people and not using the right pronouns. It would be insufferable.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: No, retired Joe Biden could not play Arnold the Pig.
Speaker 1: I don't think he can remember lines. Mandy Three's Company
Speaker 1: another one that I don't think you could make today
Speaker 1: because that was all about Susanne Summer's jiggling boobs. That
Speaker 1: was Jiggle TV, the original and let's be real, y'all.
Speaker 1: The entire premise of that show was that Jack Tripper
Speaker 1: needed a place to live, but the landlords would not
Speaker 1: let him live with two women unless he was gay,
Speaker 1: so we had to pretend to be gay around his landlords.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't see how that would fly. Not
Speaker 1: at this point, No way, Mandy. I heard they were
Speaker 1: going to reboot the Goonies. Don't mess it up. Do
Speaker 1: not mess it up.
Speaker 2: Do not.
Speaker 1: Buffy's special effects are terrible. Yes, there's not a lot
Speaker 1: special about their special effects. Imagine what they can do now.
Speaker 1: Several people wish they would bring back Firefly. That show
Speaker 1: was gone too soon. Quantum Leap was a reboot that
Speaker 1: I liked, but it was it's gone, I think. Ooh, Mandy,
Speaker 1: Xenia Warrior Princess. Yes, now we're cooking with gas. First
Speaker 1: of all, the Jeffersons and Archie Bunker would never get
Speaker 1: made today. All in the Family was a scandal when
Speaker 1: it happened in the seventies. It would never, ever, ever,
Speaker 1: ever get made today, here's one. What about that show
Speaker 1: with the chick with the boobs that talks to ghosts? Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I know you're talking about Jennifer love Hewitt, but I
Speaker 1: don't know the name of the show. That's before my time,
Speaker 1: and I was so lost. No, no, I mean Jennifer
Speaker 1: love Hewitt. In that timeframe, in the nineties, she was
Speaker 1: renowned for her rack among many of my male friends.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say it. I mean, I could be classy,
Speaker 1: but they weren't. Anyway, Get Smart. I would love to
Speaker 1: see a reboot of Get Smart. I love that show.
Speaker 1: You know another show I loved when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: Wild Wild West and Wild Wild West. You've got to see.
Speaker 1: I'll see if I can find it and put it
Speaker 1: onto tomorrow's blog. Director Kevin Smith has a story about
Speaker 1: Wild Wild West, but it's more about Superman. He's a
Speaker 1: huge Superman fan. He got the chance to pitch a
Speaker 1: script for Superman and he had to go to this
Speaker 1: producer's house and it is literally one of the funniest
Speaker 1: things I've ever seen in my life. But that movie
Speaker 1: was pretty terrible. But I loved Wild Wild West and
Speaker 1: Get Smart. I like anything with gadgets. That's one of
Speaker 1: the reasons I love Bond movies so much. It's gadget,
Speaker 1: you know. Anyway, let me see, Oh, I wanted to
Speaker 1: get one down here, and I don't know where it went.
Speaker 1: Northern Exposure. That was another great, great show, really great show.
Speaker 1: Mandy Soap Soap was an interesting show. It was a
Speaker 1: soap opera, an evening soap opera that was meant to
Speaker 1: be a soap opera, but they also dealt with a
Speaker 1: lot of really serious issues. Fun fact, I think that's
Speaker 1: where Billy Crystal got his start, was on soap, but
Speaker 1: I don't remember exactly. And thank you to the Texters
Speaker 1: who corrected me. It was not Jajah Gabor in Green Acres.
Speaker 1: It was Ave a Good Bore her sister, So I
Speaker 1: got that backwards. Um, Mandy in Green Acres. Lisa once
Speaker 1: said her two talents were speaking Hungarian and imitating Jajah Gabor.
Speaker 1: That was a great show. That would have been funny.
Speaker 1: Dukes of Hazard. Could you imagine any network putting a
Speaker 1: General Lee type vehicle on television with the big Confederate
Speaker 1: flag on the roof right now? Ah? Yeah, yeah. The
Speaker 1: Ghosts with Burr starred the chick with the boobs. There
Speaker 1: you go, there you go. Um, Joe Biden is mister magoo.
Speaker 1: Stop it, stop it right now. The nineteen seventies had
Speaker 1: an entire catalog of shows you could never do today.
Speaker 1: Samson and Sons are definitely not happening. Sanford and Son,
Speaker 1: not Samson, Sandford and Son probably right. Tales of the
Speaker 1: Gold Monkey. Oh, I love that show. That was a
Speaker 1: total Indiana Jones ripoff. Who starred in that show? Look
Speaker 1: up Tales of the Gold Monkey. For me, it was good.
Speaker 1: It was like an adventure show. Totally again, a ripoff
Speaker 1: of Indiana Jones. But it was so good, so so good.
Speaker 1: Uh Mandy, remember how if you don't fire your taxes
Speaker 1: on time you can get penalized. Shouldn't that apply? What's
Speaker 1: his name?
Speaker 7: Jeff McKay, Jeff McKay. It also had Stephen Collins. Stephen
Speaker 7: Collins as the guy was trying to remember he played the.
Speaker 4: Star John Calvin.
Speaker 1: No clue who that is, no clue at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me find that text. Hey man, do you remember
Speaker 1: how if you don't fire your taxes on time you
Speaker 1: can get penalized. Shouldn't that apply to the state of Colorado,
Speaker 1: since we can't even file our taxes with the state
Speaker 1: yet because they don't know what they're doing. That would
Speaker 1: be adorable if we held them to account, But it's
Speaker 1: not really going to happen, Mandy. A reboot of my
Speaker 1: favorite Martian with today's special effects would be cool and
Speaker 1: the little Antanna's A lot of you were saying, mister
Speaker 1: Ed and I'm just gonna say it, do we really
Speaker 1: think a talking horse is gonna sell right now? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know if I've ever seen an
Speaker 1: episode of mister Ed. It predates me, so yeah, perfect
Speaker 1: casting for a Get Smart reboot. Steve Carell from the
Speaker 1: Office who played there was a Get Smart movie. Hang on,
Speaker 1: Gets Smart movie. Oh, so there you go. You're you're
Speaker 1: absolutely right. It was such good casting that he already
Speaker 1: did it, So there you go. X Files, Yes, on
Speaker 1: the X Files bring it back. Although they did and
Speaker 1: it wasn't as good. I think one of the things
Speaker 1: that made the X Files so good was it was
Speaker 1: so original and so surprising. The creativity that they had
Speaker 1: in the writer's room at the X Files was just
Speaker 1: next level. It was so so good, so so good.
Speaker 1: Mandy in Today's Hollywood, A revised Dukes of Hazzard would
Speaker 1: be an electric car with a big old gay Pride
Speaker 1: flag on the roof.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, Netflix is going to do Little House on the Prairie.
Speaker 1: Holy cow, Please don't screw that up. That's like a
Speaker 1: secret program, and y'all one of my biggest disappointments as
Speaker 1: a parent. I tried to show it to Q and
Speaker 1: she was just like, eh, so uninterested and for some
Speaker 1: reason that hurt my feelings. I don't know. Ooh, the
Speaker 1: love Boat. They did bring that back for a while.
Speaker 1: When we get back a little more Hollywood. Before a
Speaker 1: rod gets on. In a stunning reversal, the first trans
Speaker 1: woman nominated for Best Supporting Actress seems to have already
Speaker 1: admitted she will not be getting the award. I'll explain
Speaker 1: it after this. Welcome Anthony Rodriguez to the show live
Speaker 1: from New Orleans. First of all, to the person who
Speaker 1: said a modern version of Hogan's Heroes or McHale's Navy
Speaker 1: could be made to be pretty funny. Did you guys
Speaker 1: ever wonder what that pitch meeting was like for Hogan's Heroes?
Speaker 1: It was like, hear me out a comedy set in
Speaker 1: a concentration camp. And then I was watching the movie
Speaker 1: I cannot remember what the name of the movie is
Speaker 1: with Miles Teller about the making of The Godfather.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: It was so good. It was a really good short series.
Speaker 1: But in that series, Miles Teller plays Robert Evans, who
Speaker 1: was the producer of Hogan's Heroes, and they wanted to
Speaker 1: pitch something else and the studio hated it. So Miles Teller,
Speaker 1: just his character Bob Evans, was like, let me just
Speaker 1: tell you, I got this other idea and they were like,
Speaker 1: love it. And the sixties were wild because of that.
Speaker 1: Amelia Perez is a very well nominated movie. I still
Speaker 1: have a watch the rest of it. But it was
Speaker 1: sort of controversial when they nominated a trans woman in
Speaker 1: the Supporting Actress category. And now we don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about a person born as a boy winning a
Speaker 1: female category because unfortunately, text messages have appeared, not text messages, tweets,
Speaker 1: and there might have been some anti Islam stuff and
Speaker 1: maybe some racist type stuff in the actress's Twitter account.
Speaker 1: And now she is expected to fly. She is no
Speaker 1: longer expected to fly from her home in Spain, but
Speaker 1: she has basically realized she's not going to win. And
Speaker 1: something you guys have to realize about this Oscar stuff
Speaker 1: is Oscar nominations, Oscar campaigns. Oh, it's the offer, Thank you,
Speaker 1: Miles Teller. The offer such a good show. These Oscar
Speaker 1: campaigns that are back by the studios. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of money involved, and there's a lot of backbiting and
Speaker 1: backstabbing as people try to torpedo the nominations of other people.
Speaker 1: And I feel like, you know, but if you've got
Speaker 1: racist stuff, like my Twitter feed has some stuff that
Speaker 1: is out of context, looks ridiculous. Like one of my
Speaker 1: tweets from way back in the day was one of
Speaker 1: my callers had just called me a member of the
Speaker 1: KKK first something I don't even know what, and I
Speaker 1: just said, can I wear my white sheet after Labor Day?
Speaker 1: Obviously funny joke, right, But if people go back and
Speaker 1: see that and think that makes me a racist, I
Speaker 1: would burst out laughing at this point. But if you
Speaker 1: do have actual racist stuff, you probably need to scrub
Speaker 1: it out before this. But now she will not Mandy.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't call Hogan's hero as a concentration camp. It
Speaker 1: was a pow camp. My bad, My bad, Hey, hear
Speaker 1: me out. Comedy based in a pow camp still sounds ridiculous,
Speaker 1: completely ridiculous. Laverne and Shirley. Yes, yes, Laverne and Shirley.
Speaker 1: And where did you get to do it?
Speaker 6: All?
Speaker 1: Right now? Our man covering the Super Bowl live from
Speaker 1: New Orleans, one mister Anthony Rodriguez joining us now, So
Speaker 1: a rod are you already tired?
Speaker 4: Exhausted?
Speaker 8: Is probably a better explanation, So like times a thousand,
Speaker 8: but yes, long answer, yes, So tell me.
Speaker 1: Your day right now? What has happened? Uh since you
Speaker 1: got there? Like walk me you got off the plane
Speaker 1: and tell me what you've done since then?
Speaker 8: Well I am I'm still reeling with a big giant grin,
Speaker 8: but reeling in exhaustion. Nonetheless, from opening a night last night,
Speaker 8: it was just just insane. First of all, this is
Speaker 8: my first media week. I've covered the NBA Finals, I've
Speaker 8: covered the Standing Cup Final, covered March Madness. Right from
Speaker 8: the jump, I immediately knew this is a totally different ballgame.
Speaker 8: I intended because this is football, this these are super known.
Speaker 8: Opening night was just a mad house. I mean I've
Speaker 8: heard tails obviously, people not just countrywide but across the
Speaker 8: entire globe come to this event. I mean hundreds of
Speaker 8: people at each podium for these star players.
Speaker 4: In the opening night, I mean to give you an.
Speaker 8: Example, I spent about an hour, give or take, getting
Speaker 8: one question into Eagle's superstar running back Saquon Barkley. I
Speaker 8: think I probably yelled Saquon's name at least one.
Speaker 4: Hundred times trying to get his attention.
Speaker 8: And you know, it didn't help that they didn't have
Speaker 8: the greatest set up in the world at each podium
Speaker 8: with the Molt box for audio right there at the front,
Speaker 8: with all the cameras in the front, So the reporters
Speaker 8: had to like try to peek their heads through all
Speaker 8: the tripods, including my own, to try to get in
Speaker 8: there and get a question. But Opening night was just
Speaker 8: a whirlwind. I did get a chance to ask the
Speaker 8: question into Pat Mahomes. I pissed off all the Swifties
Speaker 8: yesterday with my question that Travis Kelsey your question.
Speaker 1: I thought he knocked it out of the bark I thought.
Speaker 8: Well, here's the thing Ross asked me earlier in terms
Speaker 8: of how NFL players typically are kind of top of
Speaker 8: the list of getting getting coach speak and players, Oh yeah.
Speaker 8: And then when I asked Travis Kelsey, you know, hey,
Speaker 8: give me your pitch for NFL fans that are non Swifties.
Speaker 8: I was expecting the full can you know response that
Speaker 8: you would hear from a boyfriend of a Taylor swift
Speaker 8: And instead of getting that canned response that I had
Speaker 8: that I was anticipating and going to be a good
Speaker 8: social bit, he just hits me with, who's not a Swiftie?
Speaker 4: And I mean I was a techno.
Speaker 1: It was a perfect boyfriend response, it really was. It
Speaker 1: was so good and he looked at you like you
Speaker 1: were an idiot, which made it even better.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, bringing on, I just want a little bit more,
Speaker 8: but you know that's perfect.
Speaker 4: I'll take it. Well.
Speaker 1: Tuesday night is the big media day. That's what a
Speaker 1: Rod's talking about right now, and that's the media kickoff.
Speaker 1: And now what have you been up to today though?
Speaker 1: Because are you going to be able to make it
Speaker 1: to any of the parties that are happening because there
Speaker 1: are parties every night.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so yeah, so Monday night last night was the
Speaker 8: big was really the only big thing at Caesars Superdome
Speaker 8: when the game is actually going to be played which
Speaker 8: is obviously the opening night with all the podiums. Like
Speaker 8: I mentioned, the rest of the week kind of varies
Speaker 8: from different spots.
Speaker 4: So most of today I have been here at.
Speaker 8: The Convention Center, which is about five or ten minutes
Speaker 8: away from Caesar Superdome. Kind of it's really ten minutes
Speaker 8: away from everything, and this is just where it is.
Speaker 8: The whirlwind inside of Convention Center. I mean, it's an
Speaker 8: endless hall of monster setups. I'm looking right now, FanDuel
Speaker 8: from NBC Sports, Sirius XM. I mean, just everybody is here,
Speaker 8: the who's who. I've been walking around different athletes, differ celebrities.
Speaker 8: As the week rams up, I've been hearing that, you know,
Speaker 8: the celebrity level will increase, at professional athlete level will increase.
Speaker 8: But today it's for me, it's kind of walking around
Speaker 8: Radio Row. I already got a chance to do a
Speaker 8: one on one with longtime NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf. I
Speaker 8: chalk to talk to legend legendary Titans running back, you know,
Speaker 8: one on one CJ two K about about elite running backs.
Speaker 4: In the NFL. And so I've been doing a lot
Speaker 4: of different stuff.
Speaker 8: But yes, to answer your question tonight is the big
Speaker 8: massive media part that I've got it that I've got
Speaker 8: a ticket to, so I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go
Speaker 8: check it out. Bro Bronco's Super Bowl champ Todd Davis,
Speaker 8: who's here with DNVR and he's been on with us
Speaker 8: as well.
Speaker 4: He told me no cameras, so I think he.
Speaker 8: Kind of teased that he knew that I was probably
Speaker 8: thinking of, you know, bringing something and chatting with people.
Speaker 4: But I'll probably just go there.
Speaker 8: I'm able to have my phone in hand if someone
Speaker 8: wants to chat with me, you know, do my job
Speaker 8: instead of just party hardy. But I will say this
Speaker 8: in terms of the whirlwind that I've been a part of,
Speaker 8: Todd Davis and Ryan Koenisberger do a good job of DMVR.
Speaker 4: They had to remind me.
Speaker 8: Because I said, oh, well, I'm gonna go to the party,
Speaker 8: but you know, dry January, and they both look at
Speaker 8: me to go it's February. I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 8: you are right. That is how much I've been caught
Speaker 8: up in the whirlwind.
Speaker 1: Well, and what's interesting is how close are you staying
Speaker 1: to Bourbon Street? Like how close do you do the stadium?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 8: From Bourbon Street? On maybe like a five to seven minute.
Speaker 1: Well that's fantastic because because I've covered multiple Super Bowls
Speaker 1: doing the same thing that a Rod has done when
Speaker 1: I worked in sports radio and always be ready, like
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you know, like we were at
Speaker 1: the DNC and the RNC because I caught so many
Speaker 1: people walking to and fro right just walking down the
Speaker 1: street and I would just sigle up to him and say, hey,
Speaker 1: you got a second, I'm ready to go. And that's
Speaker 1: where we got some of our best interviews, just like
Speaker 1: off the cuff, because the media events are cool, but
Speaker 1: you get a lot of those canned answers, right, And
Speaker 1: I love talking to the guys that were not playing anymore,
Speaker 1: the veterans who were in for the game, because they're
Speaker 1: just there to have fun and they're there to talk
Speaker 1: sports and football and see their buddies. So it's lucy
Speaker 1: goosey and super fun. So tonight you're not going to
Speaker 1: see any of those people at the media party, have
Speaker 1: you Like tonight? This is your job, a Rod. Your
Speaker 1: job is to say, okay, so where are the good
Speaker 1: parties this week? Because used to be back in the day,
Speaker 1: Aea sports had a massive party like massive Playboy had
Speaker 1: a massive party. Obviously that's not happening now. But like
Speaker 1: every night, there's a different good party, and you just
Speaker 1: got to figure out who to ask to get into
Speaker 1: those parties because that is where the athletes are, that's
Speaker 1: where they all are.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna give it a go.
Speaker 8: Like I said, I'm I'm taking dry January and kind
Speaker 8: of making a bit of a dry February as well.
Speaker 8: And so I think a lot of the people that
Speaker 8: are gonna be a little more loosey goosey at those
Speaker 8: parties probably would encourage to to indulge a little. But
Speaker 8: but but man, I was I've been telling everyone obviously,
Speaker 8: you know, I was just here in New Orleans in November.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm I'm I'm business tripping this thing. I
Speaker 4: barely need.
Speaker 8: I'm not even doing any of the food scene that
Speaker 8: I did November. Probably not gonna, you know, enjoy a
Speaker 8: beverage or two.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean, I'm down to hit the
Speaker 4: party scene.
Speaker 8: Like I said, we'll see, we'll see what the media
Speaker 8: party kind of stems into for the rest of the
Speaker 8: week with who I chat with and what they're up to.
Speaker 8: But I'm all business. I mean, you see in the
Speaker 8: work I'm putting out on social media, I'm worgan, I know, and.
Speaker 1: You're doing a great job. You need to follow kaa
Speaker 1: social media on Twitter, on Facebook, on TikTok if you've
Speaker 1: given your soul to the Chinese government, because A Rod's
Speaker 1: got all kinds of stuff that he is putting out
Speaker 1: up there. So a Rod, let me ask you this, like, well,
Speaker 1: there's no storylines right now out of the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: There's no like board material, there's no you know, anybody's
Speaker 1: talking out of there, you know, out of their behind.
Speaker 1: Are there any stories in New Orleans that we're not
Speaker 1: hearing about?
Speaker 4: In terms of what you're not hearing about?
Speaker 8: Well, I will say this, the only event, like I
Speaker 8: mentioned that was that Caesar Superdome though that at least
Speaker 8: that I'm aware of, and I'm pretty aware of it
Speaker 8: is the is the last night was the opening night.
Speaker 8: But I gotta tell you mentioned the rn C and
Speaker 8: the DNC. I've been chatting with other folks about how
Speaker 8: that uh, that experience around the Superdome and how long
Speaker 8: it took me to walk out. That reminds me of
Speaker 8: the security perimeter, not as vast really so reminded me
Speaker 8: of the security perimeter that we saw in Milwaukee and Chicago.
Speaker 4: I mean, the they are not messing around. It's very, very.
Speaker 8: Evident that New Orleans is now tied with Miami for
Speaker 8: hosting the most of these bad boys with eleven and
Speaker 8: they clearly are experienced in doing so. So I don't
Speaker 8: know about in terms of the storylines we're not hearing
Speaker 8: because that that's that's really notable. And and then like
Speaker 8: you said, with the with the game, I think you know,
Speaker 8: on the field, the one thing I know, like Travis
Speaker 8: Kelsey said yesterday, someone asked him what would be the
Speaker 8: question you would ask in the media, and he said,
Speaker 8: why are you guys leaning in so much to this
Speaker 8: referee stuff that we're getting the calls and whatnot? So
Speaker 8: I think, well, it is, it is, and it isn't
Speaker 8: because there's some numbers out there that suggests they maybe
Speaker 8: don't get as many calls you think, but they kind
Speaker 8: of get him into the bigger moments, which is I
Speaker 8: think what makes people more talk about that more. But honestly,
Speaker 8: I'll say this. Andy Reid, head coach of the of
Speaker 8: the Chiefs, last night was talking about how you know,
Speaker 8: this team really hasn't leaned in to the talk of
Speaker 8: three p talked it lean into the talk of a dynasty.
Speaker 4: Even Pat Mahomes.
Speaker 8: Has said that that Andy Reid doesn't even say threep
Speaker 8: unless he's talking about it in reference to a question
Speaker 8: from a reporter, and at any rate said that they
Speaker 8: respect the Eagles. So I think there's a lot of
Speaker 8: probably stretched enforced storylines when it comes to making the
Speaker 8: Chiefs the bad guy. And I know in Bronco's country,
Speaker 8: we've already discussed how I've already gotten a bunch of
Speaker 8: flak from my preciation of the greatness that is Pat
Speaker 8: Mahomes and the Chiefs. But but honestly, they're they're leaning
Speaker 8: in the right way. They are not taking any chances
Speaker 8: of giving the Eagles bullets and bore material and anything
Speaker 8: they said last night. I will say this though, Manny,
Speaker 8: in terms of storyline, I know we hear in the
Speaker 8: last few minutes storylines for the for the Denver Broncos
Speaker 8: talk about good bolts and barred material.
Speaker 4: Because I made it.
Speaker 8: A point to ask Andy Reid, to ask Pat Mahomes,
Speaker 8: to ask star defensive tackle Chris Jones to ask Isaiah
Speaker 8: pa Checko running back for the Chiefs, all about the
Speaker 8: Broncos and all about Pat Mahomes, and you want to
Speaker 8: talk about the opposite of that stock answer. They all
Speaker 8: had glowing remarks about bow knicks and what the what
Speaker 8: the Broncos were able to do. They all said the
Speaker 8: Broncos were an incredibly talented team essentially with the bright future.
Speaker 8: Steve spag No, the DC of the Chiefs, couldn't even
Speaker 8: really hold back his appreciation, said that how much bo
Speaker 8: Nix impressed him, especially from matchup one to matchup two.
Speaker 8: So if there's anything to glean from the current team
Speaker 8: that's in this big game that's you know, could potentially
Speaker 8: win the third in a row, is that they think
Speaker 8: the Broncos have what it takes is to maybe be here.
Speaker 8: I mean Ian Rappaport our NFL network inside or even
Speaker 8: said the same thing to me, said he doesn't think
Speaker 8: they're that far off. I mean, you add some playmakers
Speaker 8: to this squad. So I think there's a there's a
Speaker 8: good chance the next couple of years that we're covering
Speaker 8: this bad boy and our Denver Broncos are in that thing.
Speaker 8: So talk about bolts and bor Matlia for the Broncos
Speaker 8: in a positive way.
Speaker 1: Well, I loved your little interview with Sama jp Ryd
Speaker 1: where he said, I'm so sorry we couldn't get a
Speaker 1: championship for Broncos fans. But now, of course he's playing
Speaker 1: for the Kansas City Chiefs, so he has a chance
Speaker 1: to get a ring right now. You know what's interesting,
Speaker 1: by the way, a Rod, when you're reporting on the
Speaker 1: super Bowl, you can call it the super Bowl. We
Speaker 1: just can't call it the super Bowl when we're not
Speaker 1: reporting on the super Bowl.
Speaker 4: When you're reporting, it's newsworthy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, oh, you guys wouldn't believe. And I don't
Speaker 1: want to go into it all, but there's you cannot
Speaker 1: use the word super Bowl in a commercial. You can't
Speaker 1: use them in a promo. It's it's all copyrighted and
Speaker 1: the NFL is.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, let me just check.
Speaker 8: Actually, I just got an email and there is my
Speaker 8: invoice for saying three p thanks to pat Riley.
Speaker 4: So I'll make sure to send that to Dave Tepper
Speaker 4: program driver. There you go.
Speaker 1: Just it just expensive, Just put it on the expension.
Speaker 1: It'll be fine.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I know you're on your your diet, but I mean,
Speaker 1: are you gonna have any kind of indulgences, you know,
Speaker 1: like a nice platter of steamed oysters have almost no calories.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that would that would that would suggest that I
Speaker 8: would ever want steam oysters, and that would be a
Speaker 8: hard never. There is one, uh, the wife told me,
Speaker 8: I am, I have the ability to indulge once, and
Speaker 8: that would be at Molly's Rise and Shine, which is
Speaker 8: an amazing breakfast restaurant that puts Brennan's to shame. That
Speaker 8: is a sister restaurant of Turkey and the Wolf, which
Speaker 8: Dave Tepper put me onto back in my first trip
Speaker 8: in November. So probably tomorrow morning I'm gonna indulge there.
Speaker 8: But other than that, I've had it all here in
Speaker 8: New Orleans back in November. So that lets me have
Speaker 8: the ability to, uh to not have to indulge this
Speaker 8: time around. But I feel good. Am I getting up
Speaker 8: at six in the morning working around? Yes, I am
Speaker 8: the hotel and I'm not indulgent and I feel a good.
Speaker 1: Well there you go, Nerd. Anyway, now I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. I do want to hear, like like
Speaker 1: get some intel about any good parties, even if you
Speaker 1: can't get in. I want to know because I was
Speaker 1: actually at the nightclub where Ray Lewis did not kill
Speaker 1: those people the night that that all that happened. I
Speaker 1: left right before that, No, actually the night before, but
Speaker 1: in that bar a rod I saw, I walked directly
Speaker 1: into Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky, they were together. I
Speaker 1: talked to Jerome Bettis, I hung out with Sean Salisbury
Speaker 1: and Dan Patrick from ESPN. So it's just like a
Speaker 1: great cool way to run.
Speaker 4: Those are important people well.
Speaker 1: Back in the day too, Like you know, Jerome Bettis
Speaker 1: was still playing. So yeah, anyway, and Michael Jordan and
Speaker 1: Wayne Redsky will always be anyway. Here we go, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. Now it's time for the most exciting segment
Speaker 1: on the radio of its kind in the world. You
Speaker 1: went out on me because you're in public in New
Speaker 1: Orleans and you didn't walk the stream. What is your
Speaker 1: dad joke of the day, please, Zach Dad joke of
Speaker 1: the day? Another a groner for you here. How do
Speaker 1: you make an egg roll? How do you make an
Speaker 1: egg roll? I don't know? You push it? What?
Speaker 5: Oh? Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that goes right along with how do you make
Speaker 1: a clean nex dance, Zach. You put a little boogie
Speaker 1: in it. See there you go?
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: What is our word of the day please?
Speaker 7: Word of the day much tougher than yesterday's. Zaftig is
Speaker 7: the word of the day.
Speaker 1: That is, someone who is large and beautiful zaftig like rubenesque.
Speaker 7: I think it is. Yeah, that's that's pretty perfect. Someone
Speaker 7: described as zaftig has a full rounded figure, or in
Speaker 7: other words, is pleasingly plump.
Speaker 1: There you go, yeah, raft dig all right. What is
Speaker 1: our trivia question? It is this how who rather was
Speaker 1: the first woman selected to run as vice president on
Speaker 1: a major party ticket in US politics? I believe I
Speaker 1: know it?
Speaker 7: Unless a good back even further, No, is it Madeline Albright?
Speaker 4: Nope?
Speaker 1: It is Geraldine Ferraro, who ran with Walter Monbridle back
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty four against Ronald Reagan. It was a
Speaker 1: herculean effort to beat that man at that It was yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and well I actually remember it. So there you go.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, dinosaurs, you know, watch.
Speaker 1: Yourself many Okay, what is our category please, Zach? I
Speaker 1: think I got a better one for you, thank you?
Speaker 7: All right, we're looking at twenty first century movie moments.
Speaker 1: Okay, but a remote so you have to not on switchblade?
Speaker 1: There's no delay? Yeah no, there's not.
Speaker 4: Just said go ahead.
Speaker 7: A street brawl between rival news teams was to be
Speaker 7: cut from the rod.
Speaker 4: Yes, what is Anchorman?
Speaker 1: That is correct?
Speaker 7: There we go right somehow Javier Bardem is Anton Shagor
Speaker 7: made tossing to coin seem malevolent in this.
Speaker 1: Film, Manny, what is no Country for Old Men?
Speaker 4: That is?
Speaker 1: He was such a great villain in the ending of
Speaker 1: that movie, the first ending ever. Go ahead.
Speaker 7: Melissa McCarthy's memorable moments in this twenty eleven film include
Speaker 7: hitting on an.
Speaker 8: Air Yo, no, no, I don't got it out.
Speaker 4: What is spy? Even though that's wrong?
Speaker 1: I have no idea? Ooh, no clue.
Speaker 7: A Grant is upset with you guys in the production booth.
Speaker 7: Here the answer is Bridesmaids.
Speaker 1: Oh a rock? It's is zero donut?
Speaker 5: Wait all right?
Speaker 1: So what nothing Mandy to lead here?
Speaker 7: Another Day of Sun was a song and dance number
Speaker 7: on a ramp from the one oh five to one
Speaker 7: ten freeway.
Speaker 1: What is Oh my god? What is la story? Ooh
Speaker 1: what is it? It's not it's not La Confident do
Speaker 1: you want.
Speaker 5: To go or you know?
Speaker 4: I want to know. I'm hold tight.
Speaker 1: La la, lamps close?
Speaker 4: Okay, were zero to zero now HEREO.
Speaker 7: What does I drink your milkshake have to do with
Speaker 7: oil drainage? We learned from Daniel day Lewis in this
Speaker 7: two thousand and seven film.
Speaker 4: Sorry, that one was punk waited wear?
Speaker 7: What does I drink your milkshake have to do with
Speaker 7: oil drainage? We learn from Daniel day Lewis in this
Speaker 7: two thousand and seven film.
Speaker 1: You can picture it perfectly. I can't remember the name
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 4: I got nothing. What is it?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: It was a low ass movie?
Speaker 4: What was No?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: There will be blood, yes, tybreaker?
Speaker 5: All right, this was not great? Okay?
Speaker 1: This morse visiting Germany?
Speaker 7: Remember there's no there actually are speed limits on about
Speaker 7: what is the autumn?
Speaker 5: That is correct?
Speaker 2: Nay?
Speaker 1: Another overtime?
Speaker 4: What was that category?
Speaker 5: Food?
Speaker 1: We who knows categories? Mandy can win with anyway, Anthony,
Speaker 1: We will talk to you tomorrow. Get all the details
Speaker 1: about the party scene there and BC me in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Eyes on a swivel, my friend, eyes on a swivel.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, we will.
Speaker 1: Be back Tomorrow, we got weather. Wednesday, we're going to
Speaker 1: talk to Mary Rook from the Daily Caller about her
Speaker 1: scorcher of a column on people freaking out about USA
Speaker 1: being cut. We'll do all that and more, But right now,
Speaker 1: I got the team from KOA Sports practically breathing down
Speaker 1: my neck trying to get in the studio, ready to
Speaker 1: talk about the game coming up this weekend and so
Speaker 1: much more so. In the meantime, keep it right here
Speaker 1: on KOA