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Speaker 3: Today? On the blog Israel is fighting to save Western
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Speaker 3: How Denver got immigration wrong? Hurricane Milton is going to
Speaker 3: be a banger. Kamala gives word salad on Israel conflict
Speaker 3: for the fun. When Kamala's teleprompter went out. Tom Cotton
Speaker 3: is a verbal ninja. Those are the headlines on the
Speaker 3: blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And as you can see,
Speaker 3: you've got a lot of political stuff today. But today
Speaker 3: is October seventh, and that means that today is the
Speaker 3: day that a year ago Hamas began what I believe
Speaker 3: will be the last war with Israel, and today marks
Speaker 3: the anniversary. One hundred and one hostages are still unaccounted for.
Speaker 3: I would love to believe that they are all alive,
Speaker 3: but I don't. I don't know how many of them
Speaker 3: are alive, and I don't want Israel to stop trying
Speaker 3: to get them back. But I think Hamas is full
Speaker 3: of evil. Bastards, and the last year in captivity has
Speaker 3: probably been horrific for these people in captivity, if they
Speaker 3: are indeed still alive now. Over the weekend, I was
Speaker 3: connected with someone who lives in Israel through a friend
Speaker 3: of mine, and this person is currently in the military.
Speaker 3: They were in the military when October seventh happened, and
Speaker 3: I got to speak with them with the agreement that
Speaker 3: I would not share any identifying information about them at
Speaker 3: all with you, but I wanted to talk to someone
Speaker 3: who is in the fight to find out what's different
Speaker 3: this time than all of the other times. And first
Speaker 3: of all, it was a very very illuminating phone call,
Speaker 3: a very illuminated phone call, not surprising in any way,
Speaker 3: shape or form. But I am more convinced than ever
Speaker 3: that Israel will not stop until there is some kind
Speaker 3: of regime change in Iran because they know that everyone
Speaker 3: they're fighting is just doing it because Iran is supplying
Speaker 3: them with weapons and rockets and inspiring them and paying
Speaker 3: them to go and attack Israel. They know that Hamas
Speaker 3: and Hezbola and the Huthis are nothing without Iran. And
Speaker 3: I asked this person, I said, Okay, you've been through
Speaker 3: multiple this individual is about let me do the math
Speaker 3: here in my head, probably roughly forty roughly, and they've
Speaker 3: been in the IDF since they were eighteen years old.
Speaker 3: They are a lifer, they are an officer, they are
Speaker 3: a career soldier. And this person in that time has
Speaker 3: been in six different wars of differing lengths, right. I mean,
Speaker 3: there was the first Lebanon War where Lebanon fired a
Speaker 3: bunch of rockets and din a hostile attack but not
Speaker 3: nearly as effectively, and Israel crushed it. And the United
Speaker 3: Nations came in and said, we're going to fix this
Speaker 3: by creating and I didn't know about this, by the way,
Speaker 3: I was not hip to this particular conversation with the
Speaker 3: UN until this weekend. So the United Nations came in,
Speaker 3: This was in two thousand and six, and they said,
Speaker 3: we are going to clear out a zone in Lebanon
Speaker 3: that gives enough buffer between the Lebanese people and the
Speaker 3: Israeli border that Israel will never have to worried about
Speaker 3: an attack like this again except you and didn't follow
Speaker 3: through with any of it. And now Lebanon has built
Speaker 3: right up to the border with Israel, and Israel is
Speaker 3: in the process now of destroying everything within fifteen to
Speaker 3: twenty kilometers of the Israeli border with the sole purpose,
Speaker 3: not of killing Lebanese people, not even of killing Hesbela.
Speaker 3: Because here's the thing. The Israelis don't care about Hesbela
Speaker 3: if it exists. They don't care if Islamis want to
Speaker 3: create organizations that believe anyone who is not Muslim should
Speaker 3: be killed or die right, or convert, be forced to convert.
Speaker 3: They don't care that those groups exist. The only thing
Speaker 3: they care about is that they keep attacking Israel. So
Speaker 3: it's not about destroying Hamas or destroying Hesbelah or destroying
Speaker 3: the Houthis. It is about destroying their ability to attack Israel.
Speaker 3: And I'm talking to this person and they have children,
Speaker 3: they have multiple children. They have some that are in
Speaker 3: their teens, they have some that are very very little.
Speaker 3: And this person said, look, when I got into the IDF,
Speaker 3: when I was eighteen years old and I signed up,
Speaker 3: and here I am, we would have these wars, right,
Speaker 3: We called them wars. We called them wars because we
Speaker 3: were attacked and we were forced to use a lot
Speaker 3: of force against the people attacking us, whether it was Syria,
Speaker 3: whether it was Lebanon, whether it was Hamas, those were
Speaker 3: our wars, but they were wars of containment, right they
Speaker 3: were just Israel saying we're not going to let you
Speaker 3: attack us anymore, and if you attack us, there will
Speaker 3: be a price to pay. But up until this point,
Speaker 3: up until this attack, they had always sort of managed
Speaker 3: to wrangle Hezbola back into Lebanon or or tamp down
Speaker 3: Hamas enough to where Israelis could go about their day
Speaker 3: and Israelis could live knowing knowing that at any minute
Speaker 3: they could be attacked, but it would have just been
Speaker 3: another five or six days, and then Israel would take
Speaker 3: care and they would push them back. And he said,
Speaker 3: now it's not good enough. And the people that he
Speaker 3: is fighting with now, they are fighting so their children
Speaker 3: don't have to fight, because they have been fighting for
Speaker 3: twenty something years and they don't want their children to
Speaker 3: have to have those same fights. And the only way
Speaker 3: to do that is by forcing or a regime change
Speaker 3: in Iran. And by the way, the person that I
Speaker 3: was talking to never said those words, never once said
Speaker 3: we have to have regime change in Iran. But during
Speaker 3: the course of the conversation, the notion that Iran can
Speaker 3: continue to exist as it does now, and Israel will
Speaker 3: have any sense of safety or security. Those two things
Speaker 3: cannot exist at the same time. And so Iran they're
Speaker 3: ready to go. And when I asked this person, I said, well,
Speaker 3: are you going to be sent into Lebanon? He said,
Speaker 3: not so far, but I sure hope. So he said, look,
Speaker 3: I don't want to be in this, but I want
Speaker 3: to end it. Every member of the service is tired
Speaker 3: of these wars of containment, of these wars of We're
Speaker 3: going to push you back and you're going to be intimidated,
Speaker 3: and then you're going to stop for a little while
Speaker 3: until Iran re arms you and gives you more rockets
Speaker 3: and you build more tunnels, and then we're going to
Speaker 3: do all this again, over and over and over again. Infinity,
Speaker 3: That is not the attitude of the people in Israel anymore.
Speaker 3: They're done. He actually told me a really funny story
Speaker 3: that was very illuminating when it came to understanding the
Speaker 3: Israeli mindset versus the American mindset. Like we're all horrified
Speaker 3: right now about all the anti Semitism that has risen up.
Speaker 3: There were people in Cherry Creek yesterday, people in Cherry
Speaker 3: Creek that were walking around blocking traffic in Cherry Creek,
Speaker 3: which I'm sure convinced everyone in Cherry Creek to come
Speaker 3: to their position when they were making traffic worse on
Speaker 3: shopping Sunday. But he said there was a person of
Speaker 3: a relative of theirs from the United States that had
Speaker 3: come to visit, and they walked into a shop in
Speaker 3: Israel and the shop owner, a Jew, was playing Kanye West.
Speaker 3: And this visitor from America, said, how can you play
Speaker 3: Kanye West? He's so anti Semitic And the shop owner said,
Speaker 3: it's a bumping song. Like, what do you want me
Speaker 3: to do? He said, if we stopped playing the music
Speaker 3: and enjoying the artwork of everybody who hated Jews, there
Speaker 3: would be no music. Their view of anti Semitism in
Speaker 3: Israel is not, oh my god, look at this horror.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 3: Of course, people hate the Jews. Of course, people want
Speaker 3: us to die. Of course they wish us death. Of
Speaker 3: course they do. What else is new? It doesn't even
Speaker 3: phase them. They're so used to it. They live under
Speaker 3: a cloud every single day of someone coming to kill them,
Speaker 3: and they're kind of done with it right now. And
Speaker 3: I asked him I said, well, what about the citizens
Speaker 3: of Israel. He said, let me tell you something. In
Speaker 3: the last few days, they've had street attacks in Israel.
Speaker 3: And I talked about this a little bit last week,
Speaker 3: where people are like getting off of a bus and
Speaker 3: opening fire, or a young Israeli female soldier was stabbed
Speaker 3: to death on the street. The first a street attack,
Speaker 3: many people were killed. The second and third street attacks,
Speaker 3: as soon as the attacker starts to attack, multiple people
Speaker 3: jump in and kill the attacker. So they're literally doing
Speaker 3: hand to hand combat on the streets in Israel. And
Speaker 3: can you imagine if we were here in the United
Speaker 3: States and street attacks started happening in Denver or even worse,
Speaker 3: in downtown Lyttleton in Old Town Arvada. How about downtown
Speaker 3: Castle Rock where people are just randomly being attacked on
Speaker 3: the streets. It would be the biggest story in the world.
Speaker 3: And yet in Israel, you know what they do. They're like, well,
Speaker 3: I gotta be packing, I can't walk around without protection.
Speaker 3: I gotta have my eyes on a swivel, and if
Speaker 3: I see anybody attacking anybody else, I'm taking them out.
Speaker 3: It's amazing the mental fortitude that the people of Israel
Speaker 3: are displaying right now on the anniversary of these attacks.
Speaker 3: They're done, They're finished. They're so over Iran right now,
Speaker 3: they're absolutely ready to take it to the mat. And
Speaker 3: I said, you know, the anti Semitism thing came up
Speaker 3: because I said, well, look, do you feel this way
Speaker 3: because you're not getting any security or you're not getting
Speaker 3: a sense of security from the world, Like you're getting
Speaker 3: this pushback from the world. And he started laughing when
Speaker 3: he talked about Macron from France holding back weapons. He's like, seriously,
Speaker 3: like Macron has ever ever fought in anything? They just
Speaker 3: laugh at it. What they don't laugh at is American support,
Speaker 3: because American support is what's giving them the rockets to
Speaker 3: arm the Iron Dome. The American support is what's giving
Speaker 3: them the money to do the intelligence that they're doing.
Speaker 3: That led to the pager thing. By the way, he
Speaker 3: would not talk about the pager thing. It's like, do
Speaker 3: you know anything about the pager thing? Because I find
Speaker 3: that fascinating. He's like, I don't know anything about the
Speaker 3: pager thing. And I kind of felt like he did
Speaker 3: know something about the Pajer thing, but he didn't tell
Speaker 3: me anything about the pager thing, so it was. It
Speaker 3: was a very interesting conversation. And today on the blog
Speaker 3: I have, by the way, on the anniversary, today Hamas
Speaker 3: shot rockets into Tel Aviv. Hamas is on its last legs.
Speaker 3: They have almost nothing left. So today they shot rockets
Speaker 3: into Tel Aviv, and Israel immediately put planes in the
Speaker 3: sky and bomb the ever living crap out of where
Speaker 3: the rockets came from. It's like, oh, oh, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: did we miss that one? Did we miss you? We'll
Speaker 3: be back in a second. They just don't care. They
Speaker 3: don't care what the world thinks. They don't care about
Speaker 3: the world's opinion, they don't care about these piss ant
Speaker 3: students on college campuses. They don't care about any of it.
Speaker 3: They are fighting this to win it. And the headline
Speaker 3: of the blog on one of the stories is this
Speaker 3: quote which appeared on social media. Israel is fighting to
Speaker 3: save Western civilization before Western civilization can stop it, because
Speaker 3: the reality of what's happening in Israel right now is
Speaker 3: that Israel is the last stop before the garbage and
Speaker 3: the Islamic supremacy crap leaks out of the Middle East
Speaker 3: and starts taking over the world. That is the endgame
Speaker 3: of the Iranian mullus to create an Islamic caliphate throughout
Speaker 3: the Middle East so they can then use the Middle
Speaker 3: East to spread it to the world. That is what
Speaker 3: the Iranians want. And for Americans who don't understand that,
Speaker 3: I had a very respectful back and forth with an
Speaker 3: emailer last week who said, what why are we funding Israel?
Speaker 3: And I said, do you really think they just chant
Speaker 3: death to America alone or death to Israel alone? We
Speaker 3: are the same. We represent Western culture, We represent free will,
Speaker 3: which apparently these Islamis don't believe in. We represent forward
Speaker 3: thinking in terms of rights for people who may want
Speaker 3: to live in a way that we disagree with. Our
Speaker 3: tradition of religious freedom is completely unknown in the modern
Speaker 3: day Middle East. Israel is the only place that really
Speaker 3: allows other faiths, and after the creation of Israel, most
Speaker 3: of the Middle Eastern nations shoved out every other faith
Speaker 3: that was not Islam. Who used to divide in Lebanon. Lebanon
Speaker 3: used to be over fifty percent Christian over fifty percent
Speaker 3: And what are they now? They're a hellhole where the
Speaker 3: entire south of the country is being run by Hesblo, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, the people in the north of Lebanon.
Speaker 3: They really hate Hesbla. I really hate Hesbela. So the
Speaker 3: other portion of the Lebanon thing that I asked about
Speaker 3: was specific, to be clear, from this man's perspective as
Speaker 3: a member of the IDEA for a very long time.
Speaker 3: He said, Israel has no desire to in any way,
Speaker 3: shape or form capture any of Lebanon. They don't want
Speaker 3: any of it except a buffer zone at the southern
Speaker 3: port of Lebanon where they can rest assured that they're
Speaker 3: not going to have people sneaking across the border. They're
Speaker 3: not gonna have people firing rockets to them. They're not
Speaker 3: gonna have all of the stupidity that they have dealt
Speaker 3: with from Lebanon for the last year since October seventh.
Speaker 3: They started firing rockets October seventh in support of AMAS.
Speaker 3: So they just want to They just want to be
Speaker 3: left alone. But unfortunately, in order to be left alone,
Speaker 3: I think they're going to have to take out a
Speaker 3: Ron and I think it's going to happen very something
Speaker 3: is going to happen in the next two days, based
Speaker 3: on the conversation that I had with him yesterday, And
Speaker 3: I want to say a huge thank you to all
Speaker 3: of you keep asking about my nephew. I only talk
Speaker 3: to him via text message maybe once a month because
Speaker 3: he's doing things and fighting battles and everything else. And
Speaker 3: I really appreciate you guys asking about him and keeping
Speaker 3: him and his family and your prayers. I still work
Speaker 3: on him every single time I talk to him. I'm like,
Speaker 3: you know, your wife and two kids could come here.
Speaker 3: But the Israeli people, they're not ready to give up
Speaker 3: on their land. They're not ready to give up on
Speaker 3: their homeland, on the holiest land that they have, and
Speaker 3: they're just gonna fight, and they're gonna take the fight
Speaker 3: wherever it needs to go. And I think that this
Speaker 3: may turn out to be the biggest strategic error by
Speaker 3: any minor terrorist organization. And I'm sure that Hamas thought
Speaker 3: Iran was absolutely going to have their backs. Well we
Speaker 3: see what's happened to Moss. Do you think that they've
Speaker 3: had their backs? Because no, no, indeedy they have not.
Speaker 3: And I love it, absolutely love it. Mandy. What do
Speaker 3: you think of the coach of the New York Jets
Speaker 3: wearing a Lebanese flag on his sleeve during their game
Speaker 3: in London? On Sunday. I did not know about that.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he has Lebanese family. I have
Speaker 3: friends who have Lebanese family in Lebanon. They all hate Hesbelah,
Speaker 3: but they're worried about having their lives destroyed because of Hesbela.
Speaker 3: So there you go, There you go, Mandy. I get
Speaker 3: this question all the time. How do you know the
Speaker 3: Islamis aren't in the right? Are they serious when they
Speaker 3: ask it? When we get back, I've got a completely
Speaker 3: different guest coming up, I believe. Wait a minute, let
Speaker 3: me check my calendar. No, I don't. I'll tell you
Speaker 3: why the Islamis are wrong and why Western culture is
Speaker 3: inherently superior. I'm going there when we get back. That said,
Speaker 3: the question I get all the time is how do
Speaker 3: you know the Islamis aren't in the right and they
Speaker 3: are serious when they ask it? Now, I want to
Speaker 3: start off this conversation by saying that there are a
Speaker 3: lot of Muslims who have found a way to follow
Speaker 3: their faith and still be compatible with the United States
Speaker 3: of America and Western culture. They can separate their faith
Speaker 3: from our system of government, from our system of economy,
Speaker 3: but Islamist can't Islamis want an Islamic caliphate. They want
Speaker 3: anyone who is not Islamic to either have to pay
Speaker 3: a tax or to submit to convert or be killed.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's just the Islamist way of thinking. But
Speaker 3: this is the same group of people. And I'll use
Speaker 3: the Taliban as a perfect example of Islamis. Remember when
Speaker 3: our president decided to precipitously pull everything and everyone out
Speaker 3: of Afghanistan. The Taliban took over and took all the
Speaker 3: military hardware that we left there while promising to be
Speaker 3: a softer, gentler side of Islam. Now, I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: say this. Our culture allows women to do pretty much
Speaker 3: everything that a man can do, other than walk into
Speaker 3: a men's room, which I'm sure they could now because
Speaker 3: if they just told people they were identifying as a man.
Speaker 3: Although I don't know why you'd want to walk into
Speaker 3: a men's room when you could walk into a lady's
Speaker 3: room because it's so much nicer and cleaner. Guys, it is.
Speaker 3: It's true, it really is. But Islamus believed that women,
Speaker 3: because men are unable to control themselves, need to cover
Speaker 3: themselves head to toe with essentially a burlap sack. So
Speaker 3: men would not be tempted by women as they walked
Speaker 3: by on the streets if God forbid, they had on
Speaker 3: a pair of pants or just a long skirt, or
Speaker 3: their hair was showing, or their face was showing. The
Speaker 3: Taliban just passed rules that says women cannot speak in
Speaker 3: public because their voices could be like the voice of
Speaker 3: a siren and could lead men astray. So already the
Speaker 3: Islamists have admitted that in their version of the world,
Speaker 3: men are completely incapable of taking care of their own
Speaker 3: inappropriate urges. They are animals who can't control any aspect
Speaker 3: of how they react to women wherever they are. Certain
Speaker 3: Islamist cultures ban music, they ban joy, they ban laughter.
Speaker 3: There is no concept of free will. You must submit
Speaker 3: or you know, be killed. You don't get to choose.
Speaker 3: That enough right there, That alone, to me says Western
Speaker 3: culture is superior to what the Islamists want. I want
Speaker 3: everyone to be able to go to school, including women.
Speaker 3: I want women to be able to drive. I want
Speaker 3: women to be able to what is the word I'm
Speaker 3: looking for, live a normal life. And for those reasons alone,
Speaker 3: the Islamists are wrong. Now, if you look at what
Speaker 3: happened on October seventh, those we Rislamis who had dehumanized
Speaker 3: Jews so much. And I have I have a story
Speaker 3: on the blog today and I put a warning on it.
Speaker 3: I'm just letting you know. It is really, really hard
Speaker 3: to read. It is very very hard to read. And
Speaker 3: it is memories of survivors, not the people who were
Speaker 3: attacked necessarily, but the people who were involved in October
Speaker 3: seventh reaction and the aftermath and the young women that
Speaker 3: they were trying to identify. The young women that were
Speaker 3: attacked at the Nova Music Festival were so viciously raped
Speaker 3: and then they would be shot through the heart to
Speaker 3: kill them, but then they would be shot multiple times
Speaker 3: in the face to make sure that they were disfigured,
Speaker 3: so it made it difficult for them to be identified
Speaker 3: by their parents. There was a young woman that came
Speaker 3: in who still had a knife sticking out of her mouth.
Speaker 3: There were people that had been beheaded, there were people
Speaker 3: that were missing body parts, there were people that had
Speaker 3: obviously been brutally brutally raped. And if that's part of
Speaker 3: being an Islamist, our culture is better because at least
Speaker 3: we have the decency to condemn that, whereas in their culture.
Speaker 3: They live streamed it so everyone could watch what they
Speaker 3: were doing. Even the Germans had the decency to be
Speaker 3: ashamed of what was happening at their concentration camps. Hamas
Speaker 3: isn't ashamed. They're proud of it. They replay that video
Speaker 3: and people stand in the streets and cheer, And in
Speaker 3: that respect, Western civilization is superior. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 3: I don't know of any way that Islamist culture is
Speaker 3: better than Western culture. And again, Islamists are the wack
Speaker 3: of noodles who want to inflict their brand of Islam
Speaker 3: on the rest of the world. We're not talking about Muslims,
Speaker 3: because there are a lot of Muslims. You are perfectly
Speaker 3: fine living in the United States. They cast their ballots
Speaker 3: in the elections, they wait to find out if they're
Speaker 3: candidate won as they take their daughters and their children
Speaker 3: to school where they can wear a scarf over their
Speaker 3: head if they want to. But if they don't want to,
Speaker 3: they don't have to. But if they want to, they
Speaker 3: can because we live in a country that believes in
Speaker 3: freedom of religion. So in that respect, Western culture is superior.
Speaker 3: Islamis believe that if your family member quote dishonors the
Speaker 3: family by having the nerve to be I don't know, gay,
Speaker 3: or by being seen in a car with a member
Speaker 3: of the opposite sex that they were not married to.
Speaker 3: Then an honor killing is okay, still happens all the
Speaker 3: time all over Islamis cultures. In that respect, Western culture
Speaker 3: is superior. I mean, man, you guys, I don't know,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure the Islamis will tell well, I'm a
Speaker 3: woman would never have this job if Islamis were in charge.
Speaker 3: I would be at home, right, you know, That's where
Speaker 3: I would be wrapped in a potato sack so no
Speaker 3: one could see me because I'm so attractive that just
Speaker 3: my mere presence throws men into a tizzy. Andandy, you
Speaker 3: should never encourage more women drivers from this text. Haha,
Speaker 3: smarty pants. Oh another one here, thank you, Texter. Don't
Speaker 3: forget about female circumcision. Female circumcision is where a woman's
Speaker 3: clitteress is removed from her body so she can never
Speaker 3: feel sexual joy of any kind. That is the sole
Speaker 3: purpose a female circumcision, to make sure that they can
Speaker 3: never have sexual satisfaction. That's the only reason they do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: they did put a baby in the oven. To be clear, text,
Speaker 3: This text says they were putting babies in ovens. Remember
Speaker 3: right after October seventh, when the story of the Baby
Speaker 3: in the Oven came out, it became a big fact
Speaker 3: check for the Western media to say they didn't put
Speaker 3: babies in the oven. It was just one Oh my bad, sorry, sorry, yep, Mandy.
Speaker 3: To not promote further hatred of any religious group, please
Speaker 3: be sure to qualify your description to include radical or extremist.
Speaker 3: All religions have bad actors, like the Christians, KKK, radical Muslims, etc.
Speaker 3: That's why I said we're talking about Islamis. We're not
Speaker 3: talking about Muslims who have managed to find a way
Speaker 3: to live with Western civilization perfectly, happily, where they get
Speaker 3: to go to the mosque, they get to live their
Speaker 3: life the way they want to, but they don't try
Speaker 3: to inflict it on everyone else. I've been very clear
Speaker 3: about that this entire conversation. I am talking about the
Speaker 3: people in the Middle East who try to murder everyone
Speaker 3: who disagrees with them, who think it's okay to throw
Speaker 3: gay people off of roofs because they've dishonored their family.
Speaker 3: Those are the people I'm talking about, and I would
Speaker 3: hope that the Muslims that I also talked about as
Speaker 3: being here and getting to live in our free society
Speaker 3: and go to the mosque and practice their faith and
Speaker 3: participate in elections and be Americans. I certainly hope they
Speaker 3: would share my disgust and disdain for the Islamists that
Speaker 3: continue to stain their religion on a regular basis. So
Speaker 3: the notion that somehow the Presbyterians right now are as
Speaker 3: bad as the Islamists, or even comparable in any way,
Speaker 3: shape or form, is absurd. Christianity has had its moments
Speaker 3: in the sun, and by that I mean not the
Speaker 3: attractive moments in the sun, but the bad, bad choices
Speaker 3: made by some Christians in the name of God. But
Speaker 3: nothing comes close to what's happening now in the Middle
Speaker 3: East with islamis So yeah, this person funny how the
Speaker 3: leftists who are so afraid of losing their right to
Speaker 3: abortion protests for a culture that blames the woman for
Speaker 3: rape will not let women work and push his homosexuals
Speaker 3: off rooftops. Yep, yep, yep, We'll be right back. The
Speaker 3: head coach of the New York Jets has been wearing
Speaker 3: a Lebanese flag on his uniform this entire year. Because
Speaker 3: the NFL changed the ruling on wearing flags in a uniform.
Speaker 3: They're allowing players to wear an additional flag on top
Speaker 3: of the American will not like literally on top, but
Speaker 3: in addition to the American flag on one element. The
Speaker 3: same policy applies to coaches. He is the child the
Speaker 3: coach of the Jets is the child of Lebanese immigrants.
Speaker 3: He has worn the Lebanese flag this entire time because
Speaker 3: apparently he's been part of this movement in Michigan specifically
Speaker 3: to try and bring Arab young men into the game
Speaker 3: of football. So he is like an ambassador to the
Speaker 3: Arab American community, many of us who are from Lebanon
Speaker 3: in Michigan, to try and bring these kids into football.
Speaker 3: So he started wearing the flag both to honor his
Speaker 3: parents who are immigrants. He's a first generation American, but
Speaker 3: he's been wearing it this entire football season. So I'm
Speaker 3: not the least bit bothered by any of that. And
Speaker 3: if you see something and you feel a little reactionary,
Speaker 3: like I get it, but take a minute to use
Speaker 3: the Google. Right, take a minute to use the Google
Speaker 3: and just do a little digging into your into your stuff,
Speaker 3: whatever you see, because now it's not the time to
Speaker 3: go around spreading stuff that's not very accurate anyway. How
Speaker 3: about those dang Muslims raping, stealing and just taking over
Speaker 3: some European towns. The super government, dumbass liberals made that happen.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of nations in Europe that allowed
Speaker 3: mass migration, not the least of which is Sweden. Sweden
Speaker 3: went from being a completely homogeneous society with honestly the
Speaker 3: most beautiful population in the world. Okay, like you want
Speaker 3: to see beautiful people, go to Sweden, go to Amsterdam,
Speaker 3: go to Iceland. There are some beautiful people, and they
Speaker 3: allow a bunch of Middle Eastern young men, not Middle
Speaker 3: Eastern women, middle Eastern young men to move into Sweden,
Speaker 3: and there have been major problems with assimilation, so much
Speaker 3: so that a right leaning government just took over with
Speaker 3: the promise of we're done doing this, We're not doing
Speaker 3: this anymore.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 3: Culturally, there are a lot of issues. I'd say the
Speaker 3: treatment of women is right at the top. We're seeing
Speaker 3: some of that happen with some of the immigrants from
Speaker 3: South America, where culturally it is a different culture. They
Speaker 3: bring their culture with their hopes and dreams, and that's
Speaker 3: something a lot of people don't realize. Now. I'm not
Speaker 3: saying that every person coming up from South America or
Speaker 3: Central America culturally believe that women are ready to be
Speaker 3: taken sexually. That's not what I'm saying. But we have
Speaker 3: to recognize when you bring someone from a culture that
Speaker 3: is wildly different than yours, you have to expect them
Speaker 3: to bring those expectations and cultural beliefs with them. Mandy,
Speaker 3: what will happen in the states that were hit by
Speaker 3: the hurricane in the voting block, especially as it affects Trump.
Speaker 3: I got to tell you, guys, I would think that
Speaker 3: in North Carolina, the Secretary of State is working very
Speaker 3: diligently to figure that out now, and I have to
Speaker 3: hope and expect that they will have something set up,
Speaker 3: even if it is just temporary voting spaces. I mean,
Speaker 3: they've got to do something. They cannot allow the people
Speaker 3: who have been damaged by this hurricane to be disenfranchised
Speaker 3: by this hurricane. And now, even who talked about Hurricane
Speaker 3: Milton that is barreling towards Sarasota, Florida, I have a
Speaker 3: very good friend who moved to Sarasota last year, and
Speaker 3: I literally I am a text thread with her from
Speaker 3: this morning that is like fifty text messages long, where
Speaker 3: I relentlessly tried to scare the hell out of her
Speaker 3: to leave. And when she said, oh, my husband says,
Speaker 3: it's only supposed to be a category three when it lands,
Speaker 3: I started sending her photograph after photograph of what only
Speaker 3: a category three looks like. So now you're going to
Speaker 3: have another swath of Florida that is going to be
Speaker 3: knocked out. Sarasota, clear Water, all of those areas, they
Speaker 3: are going to be severely damaged. And the problem with
Speaker 3: those specific areas that's where all the transplants live. Like
Speaker 3: nobody that lives in Sarasota is from Sarasota. So I
Speaker 3: just have this vision. It's a lot of retirees, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, look, it's a lot of these old men.
Speaker 3: They're like, we could handle it because they don't have
Speaker 3: any sense of adventure in their life anymore. And somehow
Speaker 3: they think this is going to be like a fun
Speaker 3: camping trip. It's not. It's awful. And so that is
Speaker 3: going to have to be worked out. I don't know
Speaker 3: what what you know situation we're going to be looking at,
Speaker 3: but I do know that those states have Secretary of
Speaker 3: States that are very invested in making sure that those
Speaker 3: people can vote. Mandy just heard from a Florida friend
Speaker 3: now singing the news. Milton is a Cat five. It
Speaker 3: was raised to a four to a five within the
Speaker 3: last hour or two. It is supposed to weaken back
Speaker 3: down to a category three before it hits Florida because
Speaker 3: it's coming up into slightly cooler waters against Tampa Bay.
Speaker 3: So we shall see, we shall see. Does it bother
Speaker 3: you at all that you are directly involved in scapegoating
Speaker 3: and dehumanizing people. If I dehumanize the Islamist who wish that,
Speaker 3: I would shut my mouth and wear a you know,
Speaker 3: a bag over my head, I'm fine with that. If
Speaker 3: they want to behave as human beings, then we can
Speaker 3: have a conversation. But until that point I have no interest.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm okay with that.
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Speaker 3: Got through this, got it, and the nicey guts through
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Speaker 3: Welcome to the second hour of the show. If you'd
Speaker 3: like to hear my thoughts on the first anniversary of
Speaker 3: the October seven of the text, please go back and
Speaker 3: listen to the podcast when it's available and share it
Speaker 3: with your friends if you want to hear about it.
Speaker 3: I got it all out of the way so I
Speaker 3: wouldn't spend the whole day aggravated. And then I have
Speaker 3: my friend and Michelle Zelner, our fitness and health guru.
Speaker 3: She has been a personal trainer, a lifestyle coach, so
Speaker 3: much of just helping people be their happiest, healthiest humans.
Speaker 3: And last week she was listening when A Rod and I.
Speaker 3: I asked a Rod if he worked out with weights,
Speaker 3: and he was like, nope, I do my cardio and
Speaker 3: I love it, and he does you as cardio and
Speaker 3: he does love it. And I was like, no, bro,
Speaker 3: you got to start lifting weights. Because one of the
Speaker 3: things that I've realized at fifty five, that twenty five
Speaker 3: year old me who would go to gold shym and
Speaker 3: work out because I had to, right, I hated every
Speaker 3: single minute of it, is how important muscle mass is
Speaker 3: as you get older. And I'm gonna throw my mom
Speaker 3: under the bus for just a second. And I love
Speaker 3: my mom, but my mom has never been what's called
Speaker 3: an athlete in any way, shape or form. And she's
Speaker 3: now eighty years old and she had a problem with
Speaker 3: her hip, and she had to use a walker as
Speaker 3: they were sorting out what's going on with her hip.
Speaker 3: Just using the walker, she sprained her left arm just
Speaker 3: using the walker, and I'm like, Mom, the walker weighs
Speaker 3: like a pound, and it was too much for her
Speaker 3: because she has no muscle mass whatsoever. So I start
Speaker 3: looking around. By eighty those people have lost half their
Speaker 3: muscle mass, men and women because they're not weight training.
Speaker 3: And Michelle, by the way, when I was talking to
Speaker 3: a Rod, is lighting up my phone like, oh my.
Speaker 8: God, I gotta get on.
Speaker 3: I gotta get a lot to talk about this. So
Speaker 3: here she is to talk about it.
Speaker 8: Hello, my friend, Well hello Mandy.
Speaker 7: And I'm so sad that Aerod's not here, but I
Speaker 7: know he's going to listen to the podcast because it
Speaker 7: is my mission to convince him and everybody strength training
Speaker 7: is literally required for everybody. And you know, a Rod's
Speaker 7: in that YbI right, young, beautiful and in people.
Speaker 8: I don't look at me. I don't need to do anything.
Speaker 7: And that's the thing is we don't appreciate what. Yes,
Speaker 7: if you want to be healthy, happy and high functioning independent,
Speaker 7: it's like a car, you have to do preventive maintenance
Speaker 7: on it.
Speaker 8: And I see strength training a lot like that.
Speaker 7: Right. If you want to be functional later on, well
Speaker 7: you got to do what you need to do to
Speaker 7: be able to be.
Speaker 8: Functional later on.
Speaker 7: I'm surprised that that statistic that by eighty we've only
Speaker 7: lost half our muscle, and.
Speaker 3: They do say some people, and I think it's probably
Speaker 3: most people. Realistically, I think most people have lost And
Speaker 3: I'll never forget my now long decease gram. When I
Speaker 3: went to help her up, she was eighty two years old,
Speaker 3: and it was like helping up a bag of bones
Speaker 3: and goo. There was no muscle mass whatsoever. And the
Speaker 3: reason I was helping her up is she could no
Speaker 3: longer get out of a chair without assistance. And you know,
Speaker 3: I have these things, and one of the things that
Speaker 3: I'm very proud of myself, I don't have to learn
Speaker 3: by doing the same mistakes that my parents and grandparents did.
Speaker 3: I look at them and go, what I'm not doing that.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to put myself in a position where
Speaker 3: I can no longer get out of a chair on assisted.
Speaker 3: That's not how I'm going to live my life. And
Speaker 3: it's one of the reasons that I started exercising, one
Speaker 3: of the reasons that I wait train now, and one
Speaker 3: of the reasons that we're talking about this today because
Speaker 3: I think that for women. Let's talk about women for
Speaker 3: a second. Women and have my age and older this
Speaker 3: concept that I don't want to get big, like they're
Speaker 3: gonna go lift a five pound weight, They're gonna look
Speaker 3: like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Let's talk about the reality of what
Speaker 3: that does and doesn't look like.
Speaker 7: Right, Well, there is zero percent chance. And I get
Speaker 7: that all the time. I just want a tone. I
Speaker 7: don't want to build muscle, and let's talk about what
Speaker 7: it is.
Speaker 8: Tone.
Speaker 7: Tone is muscle that you can see because there's no
Speaker 7: body fat covering it. Right, you do want muscle, you
Speaker 7: need muscle.
Speaker 8: I have to I I.
Speaker 7: Did a lot of things early on in my life
Speaker 7: that weren't great for me. Right, I have to say,
Speaker 7: I'm really grateful that fitness and string training specifically was
Speaker 7: introduced to me at a very young age through gymnastics.
Speaker 8: I did it all through college and then when I decided.
Speaker 7: To get into the industry, that's when I actually really
Speaker 7: got serious about string training. And I need to give
Speaker 7: a huge shout out to Kathy Green, who owned the
Speaker 7: JIM that I worked at, because I was a cardio queen.
Speaker 8: Right, cardio got your cart.
Speaker 3: But this was the eighties and nineties, right, It was
Speaker 3: the eighties and nineties when everybody you walk into a
Speaker 3: gym and there would be a tiny little weight area
Speaker 3: and there would be seventy thousand stairsteppers and treadmills and
Speaker 3: ellipticals and all of this cardio and then the just
Speaker 3: the muscleheads went over to the corner with the weight.
Speaker 7: Well, Kathy owned this gym, and Kathy was a trailblazer.
Speaker 7: And this this is back in nineteen ninety six seven.
Speaker 7: She was lifting weight. She was a personal trans to Michelle,
Speaker 7: you really need to do this more seriously. I dabbled, right,
Speaker 7: but it was I got to do cardio.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, when I decided to take her up on this idea,
Speaker 7: I never looked back because your muscle is magical for
Speaker 7: so many reasons.
Speaker 8: Obviously the strength to.
Speaker 3: Just do life right.
Speaker 7: When I see people struggling with something, my heart is like, ugh,
Speaker 7: if you only were strengthening your muscles, your life would
Speaker 7: be so much easier.
Speaker 3: Let me talk about that. For some of our older
Speaker 3: audience members, My personal trainer loves senior fitness. It's one
Speaker 3: of her passions. She has taught senior fitness for a
Speaker 3: very long time, and her thing is by doing this
Speaker 3: motion when you're we've got a small weight in your
Speaker 3: hand and you're lifting it over your head, you're able
Speaker 3: to put your groceries away. And she attaches all of
Speaker 3: these things to real life, like these are why we're
Speaker 3: doing it. Do you want to live independently? Do you
Speaker 3: want to be able to take care and stay in
Speaker 3: your home? Do you want to be able to get
Speaker 3: up off the ground if you fall? Right? Isn't that
Speaker 3: the fear that someone older is going to fall and
Speaker 3: you're not going to know it, they're going to be
Speaker 3: on the ground. That happens more often than we care
Speaker 3: to think about, because people simply don't have the physical
Speaker 3: strength to get up. Okay, so this is why it's important.
Speaker 3: But is it ever too late to start, And that's
Speaker 3: my nextever too late to start.
Speaker 7: The longer you wait, the harder you need to work
Speaker 7: to just maintain and slow down the rate to decline.
Speaker 7: The thing is, we are losing muscle mass at a
Speaker 7: rate of anywhere from one to ten percent year, and
Speaker 7: you are losing it if you don't use it. So
Speaker 7: if you don't do anything to actively work and build
Speaker 7: your muscles, and yes, a rod climbing on your incline, great,
Speaker 7: awesome for your quads.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's pretty much the only muscle you're working.
Speaker 7: There a whole bunch of muscles and the rest of
Speaker 7: our lower lower body, our upper body, they all need
Speaker 7: to be worked because you can't get through life just
Speaker 7: with strong quads. You're also going to create imbalances that
Speaker 7: could lead to some other issues free issues.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So let me ask this because this is a
Speaker 3: big question, and I've been seeing a lot of stuff
Speaker 3: lately like calisthenics are kind of having a comeback where
Speaker 3: you're essentially using body weight and you're doing exercises that
Speaker 3: you don't even need weights for. What are your thoughts
Speaker 3: on calistenics versus weight training and if it is if
Speaker 3: we do need weight training specifically, what are we looking
Speaker 3: at in terms of how much weight do we need
Speaker 3: to lift?
Speaker 7: So it really depends on the overall goal. Am I
Speaker 7: trying to slow down the rate of decline? Am I
Speaker 7: trying to maintain? Or am I trying to build? So
Speaker 7: calisthenics can help you slow.
Speaker 8: Down the rate of decline? Okay for sure.
Speaker 3: Now, well, our friend Hazel, she still does push up.
Speaker 3: She's ninety three years old. She does push up, she
Speaker 3: does crunches, she does squats, she does all of but
Speaker 3: as far as I know, she OSes no weight. But
Speaker 3: she has just she's in great shape.
Speaker 7: Well, And that goes to the overload principle. So it
Speaker 7: depends on how many are you doing right to what
Speaker 7: point fatigue or failure. So if you do calisthenics, let's
Speaker 7: say you're gonna do body weight squats.
Speaker 8: If you keep doing.
Speaker 7: Those squats until you literally can't do one more squat, right,
Speaker 7: then you're gonna maintain and probably build. Most people don't
Speaker 7: do squats until they literally can't do one more.
Speaker 3: Squat, right.
Speaker 7: So when it comes to how heavy or how often,
Speaker 7: it's really about the overload principle, and that is to
Speaker 7: the point of fatigu or failure. Can I do one
Speaker 7: more with good form? If you can, you kind of
Speaker 7: need to right right now. If you choose not to,
Speaker 7: then you have slowed down the rate of line because
Speaker 7: you've used your muscles, but you didn't use them to
Speaker 7: the degree that's that's going to build.
Speaker 8: You may have used.
Speaker 7: It to degree where we're going to maintain, right, So
Speaker 7: it really depends on what you're trying to achieve.
Speaker 8: And then you know what.
Speaker 7: Exercises, weights, resistance fans, you know, body weight, exercise, whatever. Again,
Speaker 7: that really just I don't ever want to tell somebody
Speaker 7: you need to do it this way because if they
Speaker 7: can't or won't do it that way, then they'll do
Speaker 7: nothing right right. They always like to look at what
Speaker 7: are you willing and able to do right? What is
Speaker 7: realistic for you? And I tell I just had this
Speaker 7: conversation with dear friend yesterday. You know when she used
Speaker 7: to work out, she used to train with me, and
Speaker 7: I said, look, do push ups and squats in your
Speaker 7: house right because she's like, oh, I could join this
Speaker 7: gym and I could get this equipment. I'm like, get
Speaker 7: some fifteen pound dumbells, hold them, do squats, do bicy curls,
Speaker 7: do push ups, do that three times a week. You
Speaker 7: are leaps and bounds ahead of where you are.
Speaker 3: Today, right right, And I think that's the all or
Speaker 3: nothing thinking about this kind of stuff is Okay, I
Speaker 3: have to join a gym, I have to go in there,
Speaker 3: have to lift heavy weights, and that's just not necessarily accurate.
Speaker 3: It's more about just consistency.
Speaker 8: Consistency is so critical.
Speaker 7: We start to decondition within seventy two hours after you've
Speaker 7: stopped using that muscle.
Speaker 3: Really, so it takes that well, I can. I can
Speaker 3: tell you that just from going on vacation, right, I
Speaker 3: mean when you go in if and now I've started
Speaker 3: working out on vacation just because I don't want to
Speaker 3: have the drop off when I get back, But even
Speaker 3: ten days off, you can feel the difference.
Speaker 7: So when I am out of my normal structure, my
Speaker 7: workouts are to prevent the rate of decline.
Speaker 8: Right, That's how I manage.
Speaker 7: When I'm not in my normal routine here at home,
Speaker 7: I'm traveling, or people are in town or whatever, the
Speaker 7: schedule is really really full. Okay, Well, I'm going to
Speaker 7: do as much as I can to prevent decline.
Speaker 8: That's my goal. At that time when.
Speaker 7: I'm kind of in a more regular schedule, I'm going
Speaker 7: to do everything I can to either maintain or build
Speaker 7: depending on where I happen to be in my own
Speaker 7: health at the point, right, And so that consistency is
Speaker 7: so critical. And I've I worked with so many people like, yeah,
Speaker 7: I used to strength train, I really liked it, and
Speaker 7: then just stopped. Well that's the thing is once you
Speaker 7: stop it, I mean at some point, it's almost like you're.
Speaker 3: Back to zero.
Speaker 8: Yeah, not totally right.
Speaker 3: This is what I tell people all the time. What's
Speaker 3: been amazing for me is how quickly you can build strength.
Speaker 3: It's not like you're going to be lifting five pound
Speaker 3: weights for the next six weeks. You do five pound
Speaker 3: weights for a couple of weeks, then you're like, you
Speaker 3: know what, I can go up to those eight pound
Speaker 3: weights this time, and you can go up incrementally like
Speaker 3: that so fast.
Speaker 7: Yes, And you have to writ if you are doing
Speaker 7: the same thing forever again, you're probably just slowing down
Speaker 7: the rate of decline. Which great, that's totally fine, right,
Speaker 7: if that's your goal and that's all you want to
Speaker 7: put into it, all you're willing or able to put
Speaker 7: into it.
Speaker 8: That's great.
Speaker 7: If you want to maintain where you are today, or
Speaker 7: you want to get better from where you are today
Speaker 7: for next week, next year, ten years, thirty years from now,
Speaker 7: then that's a little more effort, that's a little more time,
Speaker 7: it's probably more weight, it's different exercises, but consistency is
Speaker 7: always part of the mix.
Speaker 3: I want to give some of the stats. I actually
Speaker 3: retweeted this this thread from a doctor named doctor Patty Barrett,
Speaker 3: and I did look up because I was like, Patty
Speaker 3: Barrett is not a real doctor's name, but it is.
Speaker 3: And one of the things he put on here, Cardiovascular
Speaker 3: disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. High levels
Speaker 3: of muscle mass achieved by regular resistance training are associated
Speaker 3: with lower coronary artery calcification scores, which is a marker
Speaker 3: of plaque and an indicator of increased risks. So that
Speaker 3: is about your heart health well.
Speaker 7: And so here's the thing. This is what is so critical.
Speaker 7: Muscle is metabolically active, right, Muscle is utilizing your fuel.
Speaker 7: I eat glucose every single second of your life. That
Speaker 7: kind of sits around and doesn't do anything. You know,
Speaker 7: my food issues early on in my life yes, I
Speaker 7: hesitate to think what my health would have been if.
Speaker 8: I didn't have muscle.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because that muscle was burning up all the sugar
Speaker 7: I was eating, not all of it, but a lot
Speaker 7: of it. And if I you know, I'm all about, oh,
Speaker 7: burn it off through cardio, right. No, it's the muscle
Speaker 7: that saved me.
Speaker 8: I know that.
Speaker 7: And as I took strength training more seriously and built
Speaker 7: muscle mass and really have worked hard to maintain and
Speaker 7: continue to build that, I know that's the reason that
Speaker 7: my weight has been able to be stable. Well, well,
Speaker 7: I'm going to be fifty two next month, So I
Speaker 7: know it's because of muscle because I've had it and
Speaker 7: I've never lost it, and I've only continued to choose
Speaker 7: to build it over the course of time. So this
Speaker 7: is why I'm so passionate about it. And everybody, man, woman,
Speaker 7: I don't care how old you are, I don't care
Speaker 7: what your goals are. Skeletal muscle is the thing that's
Speaker 7: going to allow you to stay high functioning.
Speaker 3: And that's what I want to impart. And it's easier
Speaker 3: to put yourself into a situation where you're not playing
Speaker 3: ketchup by just making weight training a regular part of
Speaker 3: your life. And I want to give a few more
Speaker 3: stats here. Training is associated with a range of benefits.
Speaker 3: A fifteen percent decrease in all cause mortality, a car
Speaker 3: nineteen percent decrease in cardiovascular death, fourteen percent decrease in
Speaker 3: cancer deaths, and with greater than sixty minutes per week,
Speaker 3: all cause mortality drops by twenty seven percent. That's just
Speaker 3: from lifting weights.
Speaker 8: Well, and let's talk about it.
Speaker 7: As you get older and we're unstable, right, Muscle around
Speaker 7: your joints keeps your joints stable, yep, And you want
Speaker 7: to not fall down, well, then let's have some stability.
Speaker 3: And core strength is incredibly important for balance going forward.
Speaker 3: It is like the key the whole. Your core is
Speaker 3: the key of everything when you get older.
Speaker 7: Well, in bone density, I mean I talk to a
Speaker 7: lot of people and there are a lot of very
Speaker 7: small framed males and females, and they are at very
Speaker 7: high risk for osteoporosis. We don't think about osteoporosis when
Speaker 7: we're thirty, but we should. Yeah, because by the age
Speaker 7: of twenty eight, you have achieved peak bone massy. After that,
Speaker 7: your rate of withdrawal out of your bone bank is
Speaker 7: much more aggressive than your rate of deposit. And so
Speaker 7: you know, strength training is one of the best ways
Speaker 7: to help continue to build the bone bank because of
Speaker 7: the constant contraction of the two muscles around the bone
Speaker 7: helping to stimulate that bone growth.
Speaker 3: So for me, you know, like I always hated to
Speaker 3: work out, it's only been within you know, the last
Speaker 3: like maybe five six years, I found a trainer I
Speaker 3: absolutely love and have made it a habit. And now
Speaker 3: I'm one of those people that's like, hi, I didn't
Speaker 3: get to do any exercise today because ultimately it helps
Speaker 3: me sleep better, it helps with my mood. I call
Speaker 3: it the anti murder drug. Like you know, if you're
Speaker 3: a high stress individual, there is nothing more satisfying than
Speaker 3: working your body to the point of failure when you
Speaker 3: are super stressed. It almost seems counterintuitive, but I think
Speaker 3: that we all hold this stress in our body all
Speaker 3: the time, and lifting heavy things is the easiest way
Speaker 3: to just take that physical part of stress away. So
Speaker 3: let me ask you this. If somebodys are a listing
Speaker 3: audience right now and they don't have any weights, they
Speaker 3: don't want to join a gym, what is the best way,
Speaker 3: like baby steps to do this.
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm always going to be concerned about proper
Speaker 7: form and alignment. So if you really don't know what
Speaker 7: you're doing, I am going to encourage you to invest
Speaker 7: some time and money to work with a professional who
Speaker 7: can at least evaluate your biomechanics, evaluate your form. The
Speaker 7: worst thing to do is to get hurt. The second
Speaker 7: worst thing to do is to waste your time. Right,
Speaker 7: And so you know, if you really have never gone
Speaker 7: down this road before, then why not just make sure
Speaker 7: you're going to do it right? And there's plenty of
Speaker 7: people you can find who can even do these things. Virtually,
Speaker 7: you can find a gym and just do a couple
Speaker 7: of these things if you have a decent sense of
Speaker 7: body awareness. There's plenty things online, right, lots of apps,
Speaker 7: lots of things on YouTube. But keep it simple, you know,
Speaker 7: figure out what are you willing and able to devote,
Speaker 7: how much time and what kind of equipment. Right, maybe
Speaker 7: we're gonna start with body weight. We're gonna do push ups,
Speaker 7: We're gonna do body weight squats. Awesome, your leaps and
Speaker 7: bounds ahead of what you were doing yesterday.
Speaker 3: And let me just say this, when I first started
Speaker 3: working out with my trainer like six seven years ago.
Speaker 3: Now I can only do three pushups, and now I
Speaker 3: don't even know how many push ups I do want
Speaker 3: a workout. It's that many that I'm not counting. So
Speaker 3: don't be discouraged if you can't do a push up
Speaker 3: or you have trouble doing a crunch, or you have
Speaker 3: trouble doing these things, because, like I said, the strength
Speaker 3: that you build so fast is so shocking. It's so
Speaker 3: and then when you feel strong like that is the
Speaker 3: very best way to feel.
Speaker 7: And it's really hard to help somebody wrap their head
Speaker 7: around what that feels like when you've never felt it
Speaker 7: right right, you get used to just feeling the way
Speaker 7: you feel and you're like, oh, that can't be that
Speaker 7: big of a deal, and then you feel you're like, WHOA,
Speaker 7: I never not want to feel this way.
Speaker 3: Exactly, which is why I now work on work out
Speaker 3: on and make because that Monday, getting back from vacation,
Speaker 3: it's like, well here, I feel like a giant tabagou
Speaker 3: because all I did was eat everything for the last
Speaker 3: ten days, and I'm going to come back and exercise. Michelle,
Speaker 3: how can people get in touch with you if they would?
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if you still are, if
Speaker 3: you're still doing that or you just doing the corporate stuff.
Speaker 3: What are you doing?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 7: I do a little bit of one on one guidance coaching.
Speaker 7: I don't do any personal training anymore, but I can
Speaker 7: certainly help somebody sort things out, and they could just
Speaker 7: go to my website Better Being staton Net.
Speaker 8: Contact me. It's very easy to find me.
Speaker 3: This is just one of those things that seems really
Speaker 3: really intimidating until you know how to do it, and
Speaker 3: then you're like wow. Part of me is feeling kind
Speaker 3: of stupid thinking that this is.
Speaker 7: You know, it's normal to feel intimidated about something you
Speaker 7: have no idea. R. Yeah, I grew up in a gym,
Speaker 7: so it's like no big deal. But I get it
Speaker 7: when someone that's a foreign world to them and they
Speaker 7: think everybody's looking at them and they don't know what
Speaker 7: they're doing and they're self conscious, and you know what,
Speaker 7: we just.
Speaker 8: Got to get over that fear.
Speaker 3: No one's looking at it exactly. And if they are
Speaker 3: looking at you, they're thinking about themselves as they're looking
Speaker 3: at you. They're they're not.
Speaker 7: Looking at you, or they're looking at you and they're thinking,
Speaker 7: good job you. Yeah, so happy that you're here in
Speaker 7: this gym doing that.
Speaker 3: Can we talk about gyms for just a second, because
Speaker 3: gyms are not a one is right for everybody kind
Speaker 3: of situation. You should go in and look around, like
Speaker 3: the time of day you want to go work out,
Speaker 3: like say, okay, I'm gonna go at seven am. Go
Speaker 3: to that gym at seven am. Look who else is there.
Speaker 3: For a long time, I worked out at a rec
Speaker 3: center in Douglas County and when I went to the gym,
Speaker 3: I was the only person under seventy years old that
Speaker 3: was there. But I loved it because everybody's like, young lady,
Speaker 3: are you dead?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 3: Go ahead and take that. I'm finished, Sarah. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Figure out where you want to be. And if you
Speaker 3: make an appointment with a trainer and you don't like them,
Speaker 3: make it a point with a different trainer. It's like
Speaker 3: anything else, it's not one size fits all, no.
Speaker 7: And I think that's you know, part of like oh
Speaker 7: everybody wants like this cookie cutter, just do this now.
Speaker 8: We got to get over the idea that that exists
Speaker 8: and just.
Speaker 7: Recognize you unique individual, You have unique individual needs. Take
Speaker 7: the time to invest in yourself so that your future
Speaker 7: self can live that life.
Speaker 3: And this is an investment that will pay off over
Speaker 3: and over and over and over again as you continue
Speaker 3: to age and be strong and be healthy and be
Speaker 3: able to get up out of a chair and be
Speaker 3: able to get up off the floor if you fall,
Speaker 3: and you not fall in the first place.
Speaker 7: Well, and I know, especially the YDI, they think, well,
Speaker 7: that will.
Speaker 8: Never be me. I'll never have a pass manning off
Speaker 8: the foot right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sneaks up on you a lot faster than you
Speaker 3: think it does.
Speaker 7: And that's the thing is, it doesn't have to be you,
Speaker 7: but you need to do things to make sure that
Speaker 7: it isn't you.
Speaker 3: Yep, yep. Michelle Zelner a joy as always. I put
Speaker 3: a link? Did I put a link? Did I forget today?
Speaker 3: I always put a link? Hang on if I didn't
Speaker 3: put a link, I will add a link to Michelle's website,
Speaker 3: Betterbeings dot Net. I actually just got a friend of
Speaker 3: mine to buy her book, The U Revolution, because I
Speaker 3: think that if you are at a point where you
Speaker 3: want to change your healthy life, the U Revolution book
Speaker 3: that she has is phenomenal and it doesn't give you
Speaker 3: the just eat this for three days and you'll lose fifty.
Speaker 3: But it's very realistic, but it will help you cut
Speaker 3: through the crap and create new habits for yourself. I
Speaker 3: will add that link right now.
Speaker 8: Thank you man.
Speaker 3: All right, good to see Michelle Zelener. We'll be right back.
Speaker 3: I'm going to get Michelle back soon and we're going
Speaker 3: to have just a Q and A with just listeners
Speaker 3: on how to start weight training. A lot of you
Speaker 3: are like, Okay, how do I get started? I will
Speaker 3: say this. For me, it was joining a gym. And
Speaker 3: I went into my gym that I joined, and I
Speaker 3: went to a rec center so it was very family friendly.
Speaker 3: And I went to the calendar and I said, I
Speaker 3: need a trainer who's female, over fifty and who will
Speaker 3: listen to me when I say something hurts. And they
Speaker 3: hooked me up with my trainer and she's incredible and
Speaker 3: I love her. And she's over fifty and she listens
Speaker 3: when I say something hurts. Because you really can't hurt
Speaker 3: yourself weight training. You really can, so don't just go
Speaker 3: throw yourself into it. A lot of you sending things
Speaker 3: like this. Mandy, my one hundred year old mom has
Speaker 3: been going to weightlifting class for twenty years. She only
Speaker 3: lifts a pound at this stage, but she's still going.
Speaker 3: That is who I want to be. I want to
Speaker 3: be the one hundred year old woman in the weightlifting class.
Speaker 3: Some of you very specific questions whether you are doing
Speaker 3: jobs that are very active and intense, but maybe you
Speaker 3: realize you're only working with certain muscle groups. I would
Speaker 3: recommend that you reach out to Michelle directly. I put
Speaker 3: her website on the blog today at Betterbeings dot net
Speaker 3: and just ask her these questions. She's absolutely wonderful and
Speaker 3: she loves loves helping people live their just best lives period.
Speaker 3: I do have a bunch of other stuff on the
Speaker 3: blog today that I want to talk about. Coming up
Speaker 3: at two o'clock, we've got Aaron Kine, she's the superintendent
Speaker 3: of Douglas County Schools. For just a few minutes, we're
Speaker 3: going to talk about their bond issue, what it is,
Speaker 3: how it's going to work, and things of that nature.
Speaker 3: Did anybody else see Have you ever listened to the
Speaker 3: Call Her Daddy podcast?
Speaker 10: Cooper? Have you ever?
Speaker 3: Okay? So, Call Her Daddy is a podcast that started
Speaker 3: about one young woman talking about her sexual escapades as
Speaker 3: a single woman. That's how it started, and they regularly
Speaker 3: talk about extremely sexual topics. It is a very graphically
Speaker 3: sexual show. It's very funny. The thing is, it's like,
Speaker 3: it's a very funny podcast, but it is definitely a
Speaker 3: very specific kind of podcast. And that's the interview that
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris decided to give. She went on the Call
Speaker 3: Her Daddy podcast, and she is about to appear on
Speaker 3: the Howard Stern Show. She is going to be on
Speaker 3: the view and she's going to be on with Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 3: And honestly, when I saw this, I was like, and
Speaker 3: this woman wants me to think she can stare down VLADIMR.
Speaker 10: Putin.
Speaker 3: She can't even sit for an interview on Fox News.
Speaker 3: An absolute disaster, I mean a disaster. I want to
Speaker 3: play for you. Let me have my audio coover. This
Speaker 3: is Kamala Harris at a rally, giving the exact same
Speaker 3: speech she has given at every rally. When the teleprompter breaks,
Speaker 3: you're gonna be able to know. Just listen to what
Speaker 3: happens now. Granted you, guys, she has done this speech
Speaker 3: dozens of times. Now, if I do something dozens of
Speaker 3: times verbatim, I will remember it as a matter of fact,
Speaker 3: when I was an actor in theater school, all I
Speaker 3: had to do to learn my lines was rock around
Speaker 3: my apartment saying them out loud, because when you hear
Speaker 3: the words going into your ears, it makes memorizing them very,
Speaker 3: very easy. She's done the same speech over and over again.
Speaker 3: But yet this is what happened. I'member his number thirty two.
Speaker 10: Today.
Speaker 5: We got thirty two days until.
Speaker 3: The election, thirty two and now the tele prompter's out.
Speaker 3: She's a thirty two days, literally, just thirty two days,
Speaker 3: like a deer the head. I got some business to do.
Speaker 9: We got some business to do, all right, thirty two,
Speaker 9: thirty two.
Speaker 3: Days, and we know we will do it. The thirty
Speaker 3: two days totally lost.
Speaker 9: And this is gonna be a very tight race until
Speaker 9: the very end.
Speaker 11: This is gonna be a very tight race until the
Speaker 11: very end.
Speaker 9: We are the underdog, and we know we have some
Speaker 9: hard work ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I guess it came back on thirty
Speaker 3: two days. Thirty two days, Mandy. I'm a personal trainer
Speaker 3: for thirty years. I also a physical therapy degree, and
Speaker 3: I've worked with previous injuries, chronic pain, and people with disabilities.
Speaker 3: I emphasized strength training and worked with all ages, especially
Speaker 3: the older adult population. I love my job. There you go,
Speaker 3: There you go, Mandy. The Stephen Colbert interview is for
Speaker 3: the unit vote. Yeah maybe maybe, Emo Phillips. I started
Speaker 3: weight training, but the first day I threw my back out,
Speaker 3: so I put down the pamphlet. There you go, and
Speaker 3: this person this makes me really happy, Mandy. Thank you
Speaker 3: for having Michelle on regularly. She motivates me to keep going.
Speaker 3: So there you go. Anyway, also on the blog today,
Speaker 3: apparently last night on sixty Minutes, Kamala Harris sat down
Speaker 3: for a long interview with sixty minutes and they asked
Speaker 3: her about the Israeli Gaza conflict. And this SoundBite makes
Speaker 3: me not want to watch the rest of the year interview,
Speaker 3: but I will. I'll watch it so you don't have to.
Speaker 3: This is what she had to say about the Israeli
Speaker 3: and Gaza conflict. But it seems that Prime Minister NETANYAHUO
Speaker 3: is not listening well.
Speaker 9: Built the work that we have done has resulted in
Speaker 9: a number of movements in that region by Israel that
Speaker 9: were very much prompted by or a result of many things,
Speaker 9: including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.
Speaker 3: Now, I'll just run that back for you so you
Speaker 3: can hear that entire answer in its glory just one
Speaker 3: more time. Well built.
Speaker 9: The work that we have done has resulted in a
Speaker 9: number of movements in that region by Israel that were
Speaker 9: very much prompted by or a result of many things,
Speaker 9: including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.
Speaker 3: So is she saying that Israel attacked Moss because we
Speaker 3: wanted them to? Or what is what? I I don't
Speaker 3: I don't know what she's talking about. I don't think
Speaker 3: she knows what she's talking about. I'm gonna wrap up
Speaker 3: this segment with a fun that Tom Cotton has now
Speaker 3: taken to going on the Sunday shows and absolutely scorching
Speaker 3: the people that he's talking to. This is a question
Speaker 3: about the twenty twenty election. Did Trump win it? Why
Speaker 3: can't did just say Trump won it? Or Trump didn't win?
Speaker 3: Listen to this exchange for Meet the Press.
Speaker 12: It has been stated that this was one of the
Speaker 12: most secure elections in US history. But do you just
Speaker 12: not want to say that Trump lost?
Speaker 8: Why not just say the same question?
Speaker 3: Biden is president?
Speaker 8: Can you just simply say.
Speaker 6: Trump lost, Joe Biden was elected president in twenty twenty.
Speaker 6: That's why we have runaway inflation. That's why we have
Speaker 6: more than ten millionaire legals in this country. And to
Speaker 6: go back to the point about the twenty twenty election,
Speaker 6: it was very irregular. You had networks to include this,
Speaker 6: networks conspire a big tech to suppress evidence of Biden
Speaker 6: family corruption. You've had democratic states and cities like Pennsylvania,
Speaker 6: like Philadelphia changing their election practices on the fly. That's
Speaker 6: one reason why President Trump and the Republican National Committee
Speaker 6: is so focused on election integrity in this election, to
Speaker 6: make sure that Democrats aren't doing things like they're trying
Speaker 6: to do in Pennsylvania, counting absentee and mail in ballots
Speaker 6: that don't have dates.
Speaker 3: Well, and there's no proof that that happened.
Speaker 12: And again, just to be clear, that is that initially
Speaker 12: Trump did take his case to court more than sixty times,
Speaker 12: didn't win those cases. Let me move on and ask
Speaker 12: you about January sixth, though this new evidence unsealed this week.
Speaker 3: Jack, and that is what passes for Sunday talk shows.
Speaker 3: Now Rob Dawson is on the scene. Rob, what is
Speaker 3: going on.
Speaker 13: So right now we've got a protest. I think you
Speaker 13: could just almost hear me there. We're at the sixteen
Speaker 13: street milland Lois and they're walking towards the northwest on
Speaker 13: Lazzi Street. I say, about three hundred protesters here. And
Speaker 13: it's the similar case that we've seen in the spray.
Speaker 13: They want to end the USA to Israel, and they
Speaker 13: want and they believe that the inconvenience that everyone is
Speaker 13: facing right now is a fraction of what the Palestinians
Speaker 13: are suffer. So they're okay with this. And the theme
Speaker 13: that their parade or mark is shut it down, and
Speaker 13: they keep saying that shut it down, shut it down.
Speaker 3: So if you have a chance, Rob, could you ask
Speaker 3: them if they believe that they are behaving in the
Speaker 3: same way, that is that the Palestinians are being inconvenience.
Speaker 3: Does that mean I can come down there and fire
Speaker 3: rockets of them?
Speaker 13: I mean, not ask them that, but I did ask.
Speaker 13: I wanted to ask Pakan this last lesson. I was
Speaker 13: running out of time, but I did ask something along
Speaker 13: the line to Paul Nelson. You remember him. He is
Speaker 13: the student leader of the a Area protest. He is
Speaker 13: not serially in charge of this one, but he is
Speaker 13: doing traffic control. They have a team of rock and
Speaker 13: talking to the STAF in the part that I asked him,
Speaker 13: I said, is this the best way?
Speaker 5: Is this the best way.
Speaker 13: To call the Paulsenians because they have they would like
Speaker 13: to know tighter overseas And he said, no, this is
Speaker 13: the best way. This is the best thing that we
Speaker 13: could do right to this in the US.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Well, Rob, I mean, do you know what
Speaker 3: the plan is? Do you know where they're marching to?
Speaker 3: Are they just trying to disrupt as much traffic down
Speaker 3: down as they can the plan I'm.
Speaker 13: Not familiar with the planned. Every police consistently moves away,
Speaker 13: so there there there's like a one block radius, uh,
Speaker 13: assisting the protest.
Speaker 5: He's rich.
Speaker 13: So every time they advance the block, every police pushes
Speaker 13: back a block to give them a space to part.
Speaker 13: I don't know where their marching to. It might be
Speaker 13: the Araria campus for marching in that direction, so we'll
Speaker 13: see what happens.
Speaker 3: So I'm guessing the Araria campus are they ready for
Speaker 3: this or they're not going to allow another setup like
Speaker 3: they did last time. Have you had a chance to
Speaker 3: ask anybody over there.
Speaker 13: I'm not sure. I'm not sure about that. They did
Speaker 13: have about they protest their leaders that about eighty to
Speaker 13: one hundred college students were marching this way at the start,
Speaker 13: but they came from the area campus. They don't know
Speaker 13: what their plans are. One thing, I would say, there
Speaker 13: are plenty of people parked on these streets that there
Speaker 13: marching to. There was a woman who was conking at
Speaker 13: the horns, trying to get out of her part space,
Speaker 13: and then she flipped the finger and kirk at the
Speaker 13: media that we're taking a picture of him. So I
Speaker 13: don't know if she supports the cause at all or
Speaker 13: enough to just not rank now she's just mad. But
Speaker 13: but she was quite angry about the situation there because
Speaker 13: you wanted to get out of her spot, just as
Speaker 13: the protester is coming career.
Speaker 2: You know, do they.
Speaker 3: Really think they're having an impact on anyone's actual feelings
Speaker 3: about this?
Speaker 13: I mean it's hard to say. I mean, they're convince
Speaker 13: that they they're convinced that they are because they believe
Speaker 13: that the inconvenience will get people to notice. But I
Speaker 13: have the protest, Well, what happens the next day? It's like, oh, well,
Speaker 13: we'll probably forget that they were in traffic, Like they'll
Speaker 13: probably forget that they're in traffic probably by next week.
Speaker 13: But you know, that's just.
Speaker 3: Import so stupid.
Speaker 5: Rob.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you're there so I don't have to be.
Speaker 3: And I guess we should tell people to stay at
Speaker 3: a downtown.
Speaker 13: For now, the rolling and the rolling closure right now,
Speaker 13: we just we're at fifty That wazi that we keep
Speaker 13: marching towards the west.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all right, Rob, have fun, march your little
Speaker 3: feet off. We'll get the update when you get done. Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, that's Rob Dawson with the idiot protesters. When
Speaker 3: we get back, Douco Superintendent Aaron Kin is stopping by
Speaker 3: for a few minutes to talk about a bond issue.
Speaker 3: We're doing that next.
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Speaker 3: Welcome, local Welcome. It's the third hour and Rob Dawson
Speaker 3: is downtown with the protesters. Have found a place to
Speaker 3: park themselves.
Speaker 13: Rob, where are they Okay? They are at marketing sphere
Speaker 13: and they have blocked the road. Now this is the
Speaker 13: heer and market direction. We've got cars starting to haunt
Speaker 13: and people that they have the safety came like the
Speaker 13: saying before the burner of this, and they're saying, no, no, no,
Speaker 13: you gotta stat They got a stack. So they're in
Speaker 13: the middle of the intersection right now doing their familiar chance.
Speaker 3: So they keep telling them to stop, but they keep
Speaker 3: not stopping.
Speaker 13: Well, they're telling the cars, yeah, cars, they're honking got it.
Speaker 13: In my life report, there was one guy that said, hey,
Speaker 13: I got to go. He's puting to his wrist and
Speaker 13: supposed it's like sorry chance.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, a lot winning hearts and minds at Market
Speaker 3: and Spear right now.
Speaker 13: Yeah, well was that I'm sorry?
Speaker 3: I said there? They avoid Market and Spear at this
Speaker 3: air at this time, correct.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, all right? Rob By the way traffic going
Speaker 13: onto a area parkway right now, so instead of coming
Speaker 13: south on here, they're being headed off and there's quite
Speaker 13: a back up here. Remember this, you all to a
Speaker 13: turn where people uh make a right to go onto
Speaker 13: the market street. Yeah, so that it's all backed up
Speaker 13: right now?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Thanks Rob Dawson. You'll keep us posted and our traffic
Speaker 3: guy will keep you posted as well. I've got Aaron Kane,
Speaker 3: Douglas County School Superintendent in the studio with me now,
Speaker 3: and we got to talk about this bond issue, because
Speaker 3: there's bond issues for a lot of different school districts.
Speaker 3: And if I thought Denver Public schools would come on
Speaker 3: the show, I'd invite them too. But I am a
Speaker 3: doug Co resident who is actually supporting this bond issue,
Speaker 3: and Aaron is coming on for the next few minutes
Speaker 3: to talk about a few things.
Speaker 11: What are you for having me?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What is different about this time than the last time?
Speaker 14: In your view, Well, you know, last time, we were
Speaker 14: trying to run two initiatives at the same time during
Speaker 14: an incredibly challenging tax year, and we are so so
Speaker 14: grateful to our taxpayers that we were able to get
Speaker 14: last year's five a R mill levy overt across the
Speaker 14: finish line and it has made a tremendous difference for
Speaker 14: our teachers. But we do still struggle with our capital needs,
Speaker 14: and so the bond on this year's ballot is a
Speaker 14: little bit different than last time, primarily because inflation so much.
Speaker 14: We just can't afford as much as we could have
Speaker 14: with last year's bond, and we couldn't afford as much
Speaker 14: with the previous either, some inflation.
Speaker 3: One thing people need to understand is that Douglas County
Speaker 3: is growing by leaps and bounds, but it's not necessarily
Speaker 3: growing in the areas where we already have schools.
Speaker 14: Yeah, that's absolutely correct. We call it growth and decline
Speaker 14: in Douglas County. So eight hundred and fifty square miles
Speaker 14: two thirds the size of Rhode Island, we have lots
Speaker 14: and lots of very different communities, and our older communities,
Speaker 14: such as Highland's Ranch are aging in place, which means
Speaker 14: people like my family moved here twenty five years ago,
Speaker 14: kids went through the system and we're still in our houses.
Speaker 14: So those schools haven't had a lot of enrollment of
Speaker 14: new young kids because the empty nesters are still in
Speaker 14: their homes. Whereas we have massive construction underway on both
Speaker 14: sides of Highland's Ranch and Sterling Ranch which is west
Speaker 14: of Highland's Ranch west of Santa Fe, and in Bridgegate
Speaker 14: which is in Lone Tree east of Islands Ranch, as
Speaker 14: well as in Castle Pines east of I twenty five
Speaker 14: Crystal Valley.
Speaker 3: Crowfoot Corridor, and I think right now, Parker's nuts everywhere.
Speaker 3: There's not a place in Douglas County where there is
Speaker 3: not construction happening. I feel like that's an accurate sty
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 11: An accurate statement.
Speaker 14: And the homes are going up so fast it's absolutely crazy.
Speaker 3: So tell me about what you're doing right now with
Speaker 3: these areas where you have too many students and not
Speaker 3: enough schools. What's where are these kids going and what
Speaker 3: is that like?
Speaker 10: Sure?
Speaker 14: Well, Sterling Ranch is the most extreme example. We have
Speaker 14: enough kids in Sterling Ranch, which again is east of
Speaker 14: Santa Fe. We have enough kids in Sterling Ranch to
Speaker 14: fill two elementary schools and we only not have single
Speaker 14: school out there. So we are bussing all those kids,
Speaker 14: some to Roxboro and some across Santa Fe into the
Speaker 14: edge of Highlands Ranch, into Coyote Creek or Trailblazer.
Speaker 11: Coyote Creek is completely overwhelmed.
Speaker 14: And certainly, as you look at projections over the next
Speaker 14: few years, it will be an untenable solution. So we
Speaker 14: will have to continue to try to reboundary. But you
Speaker 14: can't reboundary your way out of this right And of
Speaker 14: course I can't pick up an elementary school from the
Speaker 14: middle of Highland's Ranch and PLoP it into the middle
Speaker 14: of Sterling Ranch.
Speaker 3: Are we at a point where we're going to be
Speaker 3: closing some schools to open new schools? What's I mean?
Speaker 3: Obviously that's way down the pike, but is that potentially
Speaker 3: in the future.
Speaker 14: Well, we have to deal with both growth and decline,
Speaker 14: and actually this bond assumes we're dealing with both, So
Speaker 14: we do need to build a school in Sterling Ranch.
Speaker 14: Regardless of whether the bond passes or not, we will
Speaker 14: need to consolidate a few schools in Highlands Ranch. That
Speaker 14: absolutely has to happen because our kids are losing out
Speaker 14: on opportunities. When you are in a system that is
Speaker 14: all really small schools, which Island's Ranch is it's really
Speaker 14: hard to get full time art teachers and key teachers,
Speaker 14: let alone be able to offer things like STEM and
Speaker 14: foreign language and so thriving schools are schools that have
Speaker 14: more students and they have thereby there are more opportunities
Speaker 14: for kids. So it's something we have to look at both.
Speaker 14: That's why we call it growth and decline.
Speaker 3: How has the bond been structured? What is woman is
Speaker 3: just asked the question, I want to ask, sure, how
Speaker 3: do we know the money's going to be spent the
Speaker 3: way you say it's going to be spent?
Speaker 14: Terrific? Thank you for the question. So we have a website.
Speaker 14: If you go to the Douglas County School District website
Speaker 14: DCSDK twelve dot org, there is funding Challenges button on
Speaker 14: the top, and it lays out the bond planned in detail,
Speaker 14: so you can see for each one of our ninety
Speaker 14: two schools exactly what changes are going to be made
Speaker 14: as part of the bond, because a huge part of
Speaker 14: it is just capital investment.
Speaker 8: We need new.
Speaker 14: Boilers and chillers and carpet and roofs, and you know
Speaker 14: all of those things.
Speaker 11: We built most of our schools.
Speaker 14: Between nineteen eighty four and the early two thousands. In fact,
Speaker 14: in Douglas County, we passed a bond every three to
Speaker 14: four years from nineteen eighty four all the way to
Speaker 14: two thousand and six, like clockwork, and those bonds passed
Speaker 14: during those years were used to build new schools. So
Speaker 14: about half of our new schools were built during that
Speaker 14: time period, which means half of our schools arning are
Speaker 14: turning forty to thirty years old.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and need have significant needs.
Speaker 3: Tell me about the oversight board.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you bet.
Speaker 14: There's a mill bond oversite committee, a citizens committee that
Speaker 14: anyone is welcome to join, Apply to join.
Speaker 11: It's also on our website.
Speaker 14: They look at monthly, they consider every single expenditure and
Speaker 14: they're able to map it to our bond plan. Our
Speaker 14: bond plan is incredibly specific. So you know, if we
Speaker 14: said we're going to fix a chiller at Chaparral High
Speaker 14: School or replace it or whatever, they've got the bond plan,
Speaker 14: they've got the expenditure and they can make that connection.
Speaker 11: And that's true for the entirety of the bond.
Speaker 14: The detailed expenditure, anticipated expenditures are all laid out on
Speaker 14: our website to make it as transparent as possible for
Speaker 14: our textpairs.
Speaker 3: This is not a giant slush fund. I love it
Speaker 3: when somebody's they just want a slush fund. This is
Speaker 3: already so clearly documented that it would shock me if
Speaker 3: we could not just say, Okay, we need this money,
Speaker 3: and it's already been managed in such a way that
Speaker 3: is so transparent. I have to say, erin, I realize
Speaker 3: that we have a challenging demographic in Douglas County when
Speaker 3: it comes to asking for tax increases, because you have
Speaker 3: a very conservative population who sees the excesses of other
Speaker 3: school districts and assigns those same excesses to Douglas County.
Speaker 3: And the way that you guys have gone about this
Speaker 3: to provide absolute transparency should be the gold standard for
Speaker 3: every school district. You know, every school district should do
Speaker 3: it this way, and it would make it so much easier,
Speaker 3: I think, to make people trust that the money that
Speaker 3: they're giving is being spent in the right way.
Speaker 14: Yeah, And you know, I'd love to our voters to
Speaker 14: know that the money that they gave us through the
Speaker 14: mill ofvey over I had last year five A we
Speaker 14: promised that we would give nine percent increases.
Speaker 11: To teachers and support staff.
Speaker 14: The ballot initiative passed in November, and in January we
Speaker 14: did it. We made it happen retroactive to the beginning
Speaker 14: of the school year, spent exactly as the taxpayers anticipated.
Speaker 8: Are darting.
Speaker 14: Teacher pay went from forty five thousand a year to
Speaker 14: fifty two thousand a year. So those changes, and then
Speaker 14: on the school security side, we had six million for
Speaker 14: school security. We hired campus security specialists at all of
Speaker 14: our elementary schools.
Speaker 11: They are all in place.
Speaker 14: Parents can see them plain as day when they're outside
Speaker 14: helping with traffic and doing all those things. And our
Speaker 14: law enforcement partners increased our school resource officer account also
Speaker 14: very visible, so that money has been spent exactly as promised,
Speaker 14: which I think helps, like you said, build that trust
Speaker 14: in the system. And the last thing I would say
Speaker 14: to something you said is we do have a master
Speaker 14: Capital Plan published on our website. Our Master Capital Plan
Speaker 14: is one hundred plus pages. It goes through all of
Speaker 14: our ninety two schools in detail with every single capital
Speaker 14: need that it currently has, along with that it will
Speaker 14: have in the next five years. So every expenditure that
Speaker 14: we're making in the bond is also those needs are
Speaker 14: documented in our Master Capital Plant calls for eight hundred
Speaker 14: and five million dollars over the next five years, which
Speaker 14: of course is not what we're.
Speaker 11: Asking for, but we'll put a big den with this bond.
Speaker 3: Can you stick around because I want to talk about
Speaker 3: something totally unrelated to the bond issue. Aaron brought in
Speaker 3: some crazy statistic about kids that don't want to jump
Speaker 3: into you. So if you can stick around for one
Speaker 3: more segment, that'll be you get all right, We'll be
Speaker 3: right back. I want to talk about these statistics first,
Speaker 3: because you brought in statistics today that are shocking.
Speaker 10: Yeah, what is this?
Speaker 3: Where did you get these?
Speaker 14: Well, first of all, they come from our strategic planning process.
Speaker 14: So in Douglas County School District, we are entering into
Speaker 14: a strategic planning process because the workforce that our kids
Speaker 14: are going to enter is going to look nothing like
Speaker 14: what we've seen. And then I believe that in the
Speaker 14: next decade we are going to see more change than
Speaker 14: we saw in the last century, and so our kids
Speaker 14: need to be ready to lead that change, not just
Speaker 14: adapt to it, but lead it. So we're entering into
Speaker 14: this strategic planning process. But the other factor is that
Speaker 14: our kids have changed. So not only has a workforce changed,
Speaker 14: our kids have changed. And these are some of the
Speaker 14: statistics I was sharing with you on the way in.
Speaker 11: How many of us.
Speaker 14: Remember standing in line for a driver's license center day?
Speaker 11: Say, yeah, like I was, I remember.
Speaker 14: I still remember camping out early in the morning so
Speaker 14: I could be first, you know, at.
Speaker 11: The little DMB on One County line road.
Speaker 5: That was me.
Speaker 11: So in the year two thousand, eighty.
Speaker 14: Seven percent of kids had a driver's license by the
Speaker 14: time they were seniors.
Speaker 11: Today that that percentage is fifty six percent.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 14: And it gets more shocking into In the year two
Speaker 14: thousand and seventy eight percent of our high school seniors
Speaker 14: had part time jobs, and today that is forty three percent.
Speaker 14: And then finally seventy nine percent. In the year two
Speaker 14: thousand of high school seniors had been on at least
Speaker 14: one date, and today that number is forty two percent.
Speaker 14: So our kids are our kids have fundamentally different skills.
Speaker 11: I mean, imagine all the skills.
Speaker 14: You picked up or I picked up driving a car
Speaker 14: as a.
Speaker 3: Sixteen year old job when I was fourteen years old.
Speaker 5: Me too.
Speaker 3: I used to drive. I taught gymnastics because I had
Speaker 3: taken gymnastics before I got really tall, and I rode
Speaker 3: the gym. Owner came and picked me up from middle
Speaker 3: school and took me to my job, and then my
Speaker 3: parents had to pick me up. But I've literally had
Speaker 3: a job NonStop since I was fourteen years old. Same same.
Speaker 11: I had a job when I was fourteen as well.
Speaker 3: I worked.
Speaker 11: I worked at McDonald's. Everyone should have to work.
Speaker 8: At mcdethink so too.
Speaker 3: I'm in their lives really become the gold standard for
Speaker 3: teaching kids about urgencies and manner. So, I mean some
Speaker 3: of this is in high school especially. I think that
Speaker 3: when I was in high school and I was looking
Speaker 3: at getting into college, I didn't have to worry about
Speaker 3: volunteer and doing you know, extracurriculars and all of the
Speaker 3: things that we now have put on kids as a
Speaker 3: requirement where I think they get more out of a
Speaker 3: work experience than anything else.
Speaker 14: Yeah, we've kind of created this our generation gen X.
Speaker 14: We've created this incredibly structured busy plan plan for our
Speaker 14: kids where everything is planned and everything is supervised. And
Speaker 14: because so one of the ways to think about it
Speaker 14: is we've converted from a play based childhood to more
Speaker 14: of a screen based childhood. Right, So they're either supervised,
Speaker 14: are on their phones, right or and when we were young, right.
Speaker 11: We were out just playing and figuring it out.
Speaker 14: And that means that their brains have actually developed significantly
Speaker 14: differently than our brains developed at the same age.
Speaker 11: And so in our district, we're.
Speaker 14: Thinking about how do we how do we meet these
Speaker 14: kids where they are and make sure they're ready to
Speaker 14: lead the future workforce. And how do we work with
Speaker 14: our families starting at a young age to really encourage
Speaker 14: things like a play based childhood, a little less structure
Speaker 14: in that day, a little a little less supervision actually,
Speaker 14: and more time for kids to interact with each other
Speaker 14: in person, not on screens, you know, teach them about
Speaker 14: social media and the dangers of device use at younger
Speaker 14: in younger ages. So there's so much to engage in
Speaker 14: our community with so that we can partner with our
Speaker 14: families to make sure that our kids get a lot
Speaker 14: of the skills that they are missing out on because
Speaker 14: of statistics like the ones I just shared with you.
Speaker 3: Aaron Kane, thank you so much for sticking around because
Speaker 3: I find that incredibly fascinating. And I bet there's a
Speaker 3: lot of parents out there like my My daughter's fifteen.
Speaker 3: She has no interest in getting her learners permit, and
Speaker 3: I finally told her, look, if you want to go places,
Speaker 3: you better learn how to drive because the taxi service
Speaker 3: is almost over.
Speaker 11: Same I made my kids get their licenses. They weren't
Speaker 11: that excited.
Speaker 3: I bet they're happy about it now.
Speaker 11: And Mandy, thank you so much for having me before
Speaker 11: I go.
Speaker 14: I just want to mention one thing I forgot to
Speaker 14: say before, which is that our our bond in Douglas
Speaker 14: County is a no tax increase bond, so it is
Speaker 14: there will be no change in the current mill levey rate,
Speaker 14: so it is a zero tax impact. It's permission to
Speaker 14: borrow some money and to continue attacks a little bit longer.
Speaker 3: All right, Aaron Kane, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back. If you've ever wanted to go
Speaker 3: to the Great American Beer Festival, and I have, I've
Speaker 3: always wanted to go. Uh, this may be the best
Speaker 3: year to go, because it's getting harder and harder as
Speaker 3: younger Jenners are just not they're not drinking wine, they're
Speaker 3: not drinking beer. They're just little puritanical people who don't
Speaker 3: have any bad habits, and they're going to ruin it
Speaker 3: for the rest of us. I'm just I'm just saying.
Speaker 3: They are like a little Victorians, aren't they. They're not
Speaker 3: having sex, they're not drinking, they don't want their driver's license.
Speaker 3: As news to.
Speaker 10: Me, what is this?
Speaker 3: Oh, that's so common, so common. Tons of the q'es
Speaker 3: friends do not want to get their driver's license. I'm like,
Speaker 3: I don't understand that at all. Maybe it's because we
Speaker 3: grew up in a rural area. You had to drive.
Speaker 3: You had to drive if you wanted to go anywhere.
Speaker 3: And now they're honestly like, I'll just call an uber.
Speaker 3: I'm like, how are you gonna pay for an uber?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 3: You don't have a job. I mean, it's it's crazy.
Speaker 5: Well, they're saving all their allowance money because they're not
Speaker 5: spending it on beer.
Speaker 7: Like I.
Speaker 3: I didn't spend money on beer when I was in
Speaker 3: high school. I made a foreign college, but I did
Speaker 3: not in high school spend money on beer.
Speaker 5: But one creepy guy that was always around the gas
Speaker 5: station and we could just go give him our ten
Speaker 5: dollars that was for a thirty pack at Natty Light,
Speaker 5: and he'd get it for us every time.
Speaker 3: Okay, Grant, I got to tell you about the convenience
Speaker 3: store in my hometown owned by an Indian gentleman, and
Speaker 3: you walk in. I'm fifteen, sixteen years old, right, I'd
Speaker 3: walk in. Actually I didn't do this because I knew
Speaker 3: my dad would murder me if I did. But my
Speaker 3: friends would walk into the story they'd go back, they'd
Speaker 3: get a six pack of beer. They'd put it on
Speaker 3: the on the counter and he go, no hidie, no
Speaker 3: PEC six. So they would take out their ID that
Speaker 3: said they were sixteen years old and show it to him,
Speaker 3: and he would sell them beer as long as he
Speaker 3: had no hid no pac six, didn't matter what the
Speaker 3: date on it was, no hidee, no pack six, grant,
Speaker 3: no hide no pac six. So that's where we we
Speaker 3: had our suppliers that way. And now when I see
Speaker 3: a store about like I see a story about at
Speaker 3: marijuana shop getting fine for selling to an underage string
Speaker 3: of us, I'm like, who does that? And all he
Speaker 3: had to say was no hidi nol fact six. That's
Speaker 3: the way you go there. So a couple of things
Speaker 3: on the blog that I want to get to. Oh shoot,
Speaker 3: I forgot that. I mentioned the tickets and then I
Speaker 3: didn't give him away. How about we do this, We
Speaker 3: just have one paragrant. Why don't we just look at
Speaker 3: an easy like caller number seven. How about that love
Speaker 3: it at three O three seven one three eighty five
Speaker 3: eighty five. That's three oh three seven one three eighty
Speaker 3: five eighty five. Lucky seven is going to win those
Speaker 3: passes to Thursday Nights session of the Beer Festival this
Speaker 3: Thursday coming up. So there you go. Uh, we are
Speaker 3: definitely in the season where bears are trying to fatten
Speaker 3: up before they hibernate. And this story has me, it
Speaker 3: has me sad, you guys, really sad. So a man
Speaker 3: in Lake City, Colorado, was surprised when he came home
Speaker 3: because there were four bears in his house, a mama
Speaker 3: and three babies. Mama attacked him and he ran into
Speaker 3: his bedroom after being clawed, and he had injuries on
Speaker 3: his head, neck, arms, shoulder, abdomen, and calf. Before he
Speaker 3: escaped to the bedroom, A sheriff deputy came and chased
Speaker 3: the bears out. They treated the man at his house.
Speaker 3: He was not taken to the hospital, but all of
Speaker 3: the bears had to be destroyed. And I just want
Speaker 3: to say this, if you are in an area that
Speaker 3: has any kind of bear activity, you have to be aware.
Speaker 3: You have to be bear aware. You have to take
Speaker 3: care of your trash cans. You have to make sure
Speaker 3: that bears are not getting into your trash cans. Because
Speaker 3: when I got to go with Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Speaker 3: and do that super cool thing where we put those
Speaker 3: two baby bears, Boris and Marge into an artificial den
Speaker 3: so they could hibernate the rest of the winter. I
Speaker 3: learned a lot about what happens to bears when they
Speaker 3: are identified as nuisance. Bears first to get relocated, right,
Speaker 3: and they get tagged. So if they have a tag,
Speaker 3: if you see a bear with a tag in its ear,
Speaker 3: that bear has already been relocated and its next stop
Speaker 3: is being destroyed mean being killed. If it comes back
Speaker 3: and it starts being a nuisance somewhere else, then it
Speaker 3: gets tagged and it gets killed. So if you allow
Speaker 3: by not securing your garbage cans, and you have a
Speaker 3: bear in your neighborhood and the bears start to get
Speaker 3: into your trash cans, then you are potentially setting up
Speaker 3: the death warrant for that bear. As sad as it is,
Speaker 3: this is how I feel about people idiots who feed
Speaker 3: alligators in Florida. I'm like, well, why don't you just
Speaker 3: shoot it instead of feeding, because that's where it's headed.
Speaker 3: Once alligators lose their fear of humans, then they're dangerous
Speaker 3: and then they have to be killed. Once bears get
Speaker 3: into these trash cans too often then they end up
Speaker 3: getting killed. So I love bears. I think they're the
Speaker 3: cutest things. And those little bear cubs. I never did
Speaker 3: find out what happened to the bear cubs. I don't
Speaker 3: know if they even made it out alive. The Colorado
Speaker 3: parks in wild Life, well called them one twenty one
Speaker 3: and one twenty two. I think are one twenty two.
Speaker 3: In one I named the Boris and March, which to
Speaker 3: me seemed very very reasonable. We also have on the
Speaker 3: blog today. Remember Lourie Smith, the web designer who refused
Speaker 3: to make a website for a gay couple who were
Speaker 3: getting married. She makes wedding websites, and she just said, no,
Speaker 3: thank you. I am a Christian, I don't believe in
Speaker 3: gaming marriage, and so I'm not going to make that
Speaker 3: for you. The Supreme Court found in her favor. After
Speaker 3: the Colorado Civil Rights Commission ordered her to make this website.
Speaker 3: The Supreme Court saw it differently. They believed that it
Speaker 3: was a government compelled speech, and I agree with them.
Speaker 3: And now the state of Colorado is going to be
Speaker 3: paying one point five million bucks in her lawyer's fees.
Speaker 3: So talk about insult to injury. First of all, we
Speaker 3: have to recognize that our Colorado's Supreme Court has not
Speaker 3: gotten one right so far. They've been overturned at the
Speaker 3: highest level multiple times. Now you think they would do
Speaker 3: some navel gazing, or conversely, our legislature would look at
Speaker 3: these garbage laws that they have on the books and go,
Speaker 3: why does this keep getting overturned at the federal at
Speaker 3: the US Supreme Court and maybe make some adjustments. Maybe
Speaker 3: recognize that free speech is ensconced in the Constitution, whereas
Speaker 3: other things like gay wedding cakes or gay websites are not.
Speaker 3: And so when you have a Supreme Court that is
Speaker 3: more than willing to look at what's actually in the
Speaker 3: Constitution before ruling, you have big problems there, really really
Speaker 3: big problems there. So that is on the blog. Jimmy
Speaker 3: Singenberger wrote a great scorching column about Tina Peters and
Speaker 3: the headline is Tina Peters got what she deserved. And
Speaker 3: if you didn't watch the entire trial as Jimmy did,
Speaker 3: and you didn't watch the sentencing hearing like Jimmy and
Speaker 3: I did, then you really should just read this column
Speaker 3: to see exactly why she is facing nine years behind
Speaker 3: bars and she earned it one hundred percent, and I
Speaker 3: mean that one hundred percent. So, by the way, Grant,
Speaker 3: what are you doing for Cabrini Day today? You know
Speaker 3: Madame Cabrini, Sister Cabrino, different kind of Cabrini comple I
Speaker 3: didn't even know there was a Madame Cabrini, Sister Cabrini.
Speaker 3: She was the first American saint. She worked here in Colorado.
Speaker 3: And that's a shrine, right, yes, Rather than celebrate Christopher Columbus,
Speaker 3: we now celebrate Francis Cabrini on Cabrini Day.
Speaker 5: Do you have a plan?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: I mean, did Columbus Day ever get us a day
Speaker 3: off work? Did you ever have enough? I've never had
Speaker 3: it off. I don't think I've ever had it off.
Speaker 3: Let's be real Columbus Day? Does anybody?
Speaker 1: I mean?
Speaker 3: And here's what of course, Chuck, my husband found out
Speaker 3: about this today because cabrin What the hell is that
Speaker 3: I go? That is because apparently the Catholics have a
Speaker 3: much better lobby here than the Italians do. Because the
Speaker 3: only people that get mad about Christopher Columbus, and I
Speaker 3: mean mad enough to be out in front like arguing
Speaker 3: about it in front of TV cameras. The only ones
Speaker 3: that get mad enough to about Columbus Day are Italians
Speaker 3: because they take it very seriously that they're Italian brethren.
Speaker 3: Who is part of the apocryphal story of who actually
Speaker 3: discovered this nation that we now know probably isn't accurate.
Speaker 3: There were many people here before he was, but he
Speaker 3: was the first one to like Clay. So now we
Speaker 3: have Cabrini Day, and and there you go. That's a
Speaker 3: thing that you know. Now, I don't know how we're
Speaker 3: supposed to celebrate Cabrini Day. Hike up the up to
Speaker 3: the shrine. That's a lot like a Pilgrimage's a lot
Speaker 3: of walking. It's a lot of uphill walking.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 3: I went hiking yesterday in Kota, PAXI I went uphill,
Speaker 3: I went downhill, went uphill, went downhill.
Speaker 9: Did that.
Speaker 3: Multiple times up in the downhill, back and forth.
Speaker 10: So there we go.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know how you I mean, do
Speaker 3: you do you just spend the day feeling extra Catholic guilty?
Speaker 7: What do you do? Well?
Speaker 3: How did you celebrate Columbus Day? Probably not at all? Right,
Speaker 3: So I'm trying to start a new tradition here. Grant
Speaker 3: don't point out where I failed at the old traditions. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm looking for new traditions here, Like what do we
Speaker 3: do to celebrate Francis Cabrini. She helped children? It's nice,
Speaker 3: But do I have to help other people's children because
Speaker 3: I don't like other people's children.
Speaker 5: Maybe you just drink a glass of red wine the
Speaker 5: Blood of Christ. I like it with your kids. Well,
Speaker 5: you know who don't drink.
Speaker 3: Well, those things used it.
Speaker 10: Well.
Speaker 3: When I was a kid, my crazy Hungarian grandmother gave
Speaker 3: us wine with dinner. Oh, my friend Michelle, my super
Speaker 3: Catholic friend, Michelle is weighing in here now, and I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go to her.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: But Saint Francis Cabrini was also Italian, so an Italian
Speaker 3: Catholic watched the Cabrini movie to celebrate. It's so good.
Speaker 3: It's on Prime. So there you go, Grant, there you go.
Speaker 3: There's our celebration right there.
Speaker 1: There we go.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna watch Little Francis Cabrini tonight.
Speaker 10: So there you go.
Speaker 3: It's not we don't have to worry about that troublesome
Speaker 3: Columbus day anymore. That's gone. So I guess my whole
Speaker 3: thing about the Catholics having a better lobby than the Italians,
Speaker 3: that's out the window. They just joined forces. But maybe,
Speaker 3: but see what this is a good way to keep
Speaker 3: the Italians from freaking out though. They're like, hey, we're
Speaker 3: gonna replace Columbus, and all the Italians like, you don't
Speaker 3: just say you're going.
Speaker 5: To do that.
Speaker 3: That's how they all sound in my mind. No, I'm
Speaker 3: just kidding. They don't know they do, but they don't.
Speaker 3: And then they're like, but wait, but wait, there's more.
Speaker 3: We're gonna replace your Italian with another Italian. And all
Speaker 3: the Italians are like, ooh, Oki doki. I don't know why.
Speaker 3: They just kind of went Irish there. But it's fine.
Speaker 3: My accent through, you know, not what they used to be.
Speaker 3: You missed your call in here.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: When I was in college, I specialized in accents. I
Speaker 3: took classes in accents and it was so much fun.
Speaker 3: So my fake persona when I would go out, she
Speaker 3: was not from Soviet Union. I did even drunk, I
Speaker 3: could do Natasha from Soviet Union and people are like, oh,
Speaker 3: did you immigrate here? No, we traveled across Siberia and
Speaker 3: thenneath the love wind to escape from Soviet Union because
Speaker 3: it was the only way out. None of this, none
Speaker 3: of these just getting on an airplane, No one does that,
Speaker 3: none of us real people do that. So yeah, but
Speaker 3: I don't do a lot of accents and I don't
Speaker 3: really have the need. Just don't now coming up on
Speaker 3: tomorrow's program, let me go back to hang On, let
Speaker 3: me do that, let me do this. I love it
Speaker 3: when my calendar is reminding me of everything that I
Speaker 3: have going on. It's like, I don't care about that
Speaker 3: right now?
Speaker 5: Do not?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 3: Uh, We've got a guy coming on and I want
Speaker 3: to see I don't know what. I have no idea
Speaker 3: what movie I'm talking to him about, but we're gonna
Speaker 3: talk about it tomorrow. So who's gonna play up the
Speaker 3: day with us today? Grant Ryan Edwards from The Sporty Pickle. Ooh,
Speaker 3: the Sporty Pickle. You know what's funny? Every time we
Speaker 3: say sporty pickle, I'm like, dang, I could have a
Speaker 3: pickle right now and be real happy. I bet there's
Speaker 3: a pickle beer at Did they have good pickles at
Speaker 3: the Sporty Pickle? And if not, you need to rectify
Speaker 3: that before I come there.
Speaker 4: Ryan, I have not tried the pickles, but I've heard
Speaker 4: great things about the pickles. Because again, if you're a
Speaker 4: place called the Sporty Pickle, you really have to have pickles,
Speaker 4: not just pickleball exactly.
Speaker 3: You got to You gotta lean all the way in,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. You can't like halfway lean in.
Speaker 3: You gotta lean in, all right.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's why the place is painted green. No, I'm
Speaker 10: just kiding.
Speaker 3: It smells vaguely of dill when you walk in, like
Speaker 3: that dill, that smithy.
Speaker 10: It's a pickled all right.
Speaker 3: Okay, so it is about that time, because now it's
Speaker 3: time for the most exciting segment all the radio of
Speaker 3: its kinde who the world of the day? All right, Ryan,
Speaker 3: it sounds like you have a significant delay there, mister,
Speaker 3: So this is going to be challenging for you. What
Speaker 3: is our dad joke of the day? Please grant? What
Speaker 3: did the baby corn say to the mama corn.
Speaker 5: Shucks?
Speaker 2: Drive?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 3: That's funny but wrong? What is it? Where's popcorn? Oh?
Speaker 5: Wow? Wow?
Speaker 3: Okay, today's tribut delay here.
Speaker 2: That's what you do.
Speaker 3: That is a very strong delay right now, because I
Speaker 3: can hear myself in the background, on the on the
Speaker 3: on the speakers there. So what is our word of
Speaker 3: the day?
Speaker 10: Word of the day?
Speaker 3: I think you will both gett That means to yell
Speaker 3: at someone, tell them they're stupid.
Speaker 5: Put them down, yes, angrily, scold or criticize someone.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Who?
Speaker 3: Ryan is the only US president to have never lived
Speaker 3: in the White House. I'm gonna say, George w I
Speaker 3: mean yeah, because he was early on right, early adopter
Speaker 3: of the presidency.
Speaker 10: Ye, I mean yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 3: I don't know, and that is correct. Although Washington e
Speaker 3: selected the building's architect and location, John Adams was the
Speaker 3: first president to live in the White House. Now, Ryan,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna wait until the end of the question. Okay,
Speaker 3: So that's as long as I can give you, And
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's going to be enough.
Speaker 10: Very generous, very generous of you.
Speaker 5: Okay, here we go, all right, Jeopardy Category four today
Speaker 5: from sports book to film.
Speaker 3: As in the book Shoeless Joe by W. P.
Speaker 5: Kinsella, farmer Ray Kinsella hears voices in this filmy Ryan Mandy.
Speaker 3: What is Field of Dreams? Correct?
Speaker 10: Ryan?
Speaker 3: I no, no, I heard you, but I said it like, no, Okay,
Speaker 3: you really didn't.
Speaker 10: That's possible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is going to be a positive typical fashion.
Speaker 3: You'll get to lose like you always.
Speaker 10: How about this. By the way, I'm having a breakup
Speaker 10: out here. I can't hear anything.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, Ryan, I will if it's close,
Speaker 3: I will give it to you. Okay, So there you go.
Speaker 5: Rope Burns became this Oscar winning film that some called
Speaker 5: Rocky in a Brawl.
Speaker 3: Rock Oh, No, it's it was a Clint Eastwood movie.
Speaker 10: It's yes, it was Ryan Ryan. What is Million Dollar Baby?
Speaker 3: Heay, I knew it had baby in it. I could
Speaker 3: not remember the actual name of the stupid movie.
Speaker 10: Go ahead, all right, one one? Yeah.
Speaker 3: Odessa, Texas was the home field for this HG.
Speaker 5: Blazinger book turned film, Mandy, Mandy, What is Friday Night Lights?
Speaker 10: Correct?
Speaker 5: Will Smith played a mystical caddy in the adaptation of
Speaker 5: the Stephen Ryan.
Speaker 10: What Is the Legend of Agrivance?
Speaker 3: Correct? When we're talking too coming down to the wire.
Speaker 5: This Mark Harris novel about baseball and Death became a
Speaker 5: Robert de Niro film, Baseball Death.
Speaker 3: I did not know this one. I have no idea.
Speaker 3: Did Robert DeNiro ever do a baseball film. Apparently he
Speaker 3: did this. I have no idea.
Speaker 5: No one bang the drums slowly, all right, So we
Speaker 5: need a tie here, something to break the tie? All right?
Speaker 3: How about this? There is a season?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: Japanese tradition says this form of poetry may should.
Speaker 3: I'm supposed to wait till the end haiku? Correct? Yeah, sorry, Ryan, you.
Speaker 10: Can't even help it.
Speaker 3: No, I can't because it's just wait, it's just who
Speaker 3: I am. It's just who I am what I do.
Speaker 3: So I'm guessing I.
Speaker 10: Lost, just like I normally do, right, Grant, Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Ryan.
Speaker 3: Do you know if there are already jerseys that say
Speaker 3: Bueler on the because I'm buying one after yesterday's presser
Speaker 3: with Sean.
Speaker 10: Payton, it would be tremendous.
Speaker 4: If there are, they're not here just yet, but gosh,
Speaker 4: it's got to happen, right, I mean, it's absolutely got
Speaker 4: to have a Bdueler with the number ten underneath it.
Speaker 4: It's just too perfect. I wonder if there's some kind
Speaker 4: of marketing thing underneath this thing. You know, Sean Payton
Speaker 4: doesn't usually say things by accident, But that being said,
Speaker 4: maybe he's just a big John Hughes fan.
Speaker 10: Like we all are.
Speaker 4: And obviously we'll talk about that, the big win, snapping
Speaker 4: the streak, all that down here at the Sporty Pickle.
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