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Speaker 4: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Wednesday edition of the show.
Speaker 4: I am your host for the next three hours. Mandy
Speaker 4: Connell joined by not Anthony Rodriguez who's working in the
Speaker 4: morning show this week, but Grant Smith and we'll take him.
Speaker 5: Happy Wednesday, Happy Wednesday to you. I have to say
Speaker 5: before we get rolling, I love your outfit, thank you
Speaker 5: very much.
Speaker 4: Is that from Japan? No, it's from Walmart, from the
Speaker 4: neighbor China. But through our fans, Walmart has up their
Speaker 4: fashion game. I was talking to one of our coworkers
Speaker 4: here about this because she complimented something I was wearing.
Speaker 4: I was like, Walmart, Highland's Ranch Walmart, and she was like,
Speaker 4: what pointed to her own outfit? Walmart? I mean, well,
Speaker 4: Walmart hired a fashion guy away from Target apparently a
Speaker 4: few years ago, and they've up their fashion. Yeah. I
Speaker 4: like it. It's fun. It's just you know, it's kind
Speaker 4: of flowing, kind of nice and can itch you ah,
Speaker 4: just reflecting back on that. Let's jump into the blog,
Speaker 4: because guys, we have so much stuff going on today.
Speaker 4: I went down a rabbit hole yesterday on Syria, and
Speaker 4: I don't understand for a guy who does not seem
Speaker 4: to worry at all about smashing historical norms, and some
Speaker 4: historical norms need to be smashed. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 4: We're going to get to one historical norm here in
Speaker 4: a minute that needs to be smashed, which is kind
Speaker 4: of the whole point of this rabbit hole that I
Speaker 4: went down yesterday. But it seems that Trump's foreign policy,
Speaker 4: which so much of I have agreed with. I have
Speaker 4: so agreed with his manhandling of NATO. All of those
Speaker 4: NATO nations needed to step up a long time ago,
Speaker 4: and lots of presidents have complained about it, but he
Speaker 4: was the first one to actually shove it down their
Speaker 4: throat and make them step up, and they are now.
Speaker 4: So things like that I love. I love that that
Speaker 4: he just crept all over historical norms when it comes
Speaker 4: to letting NATO off the hook when it comes to
Speaker 4: meeting their defense responsibilities. I love that about Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: But I think we're getting sucked in or at least
Speaker 4: pursuing similar strategies in the Middle East with Syria that
Speaker 4: have been pursued before, and I don't see them working.
Speaker 4: Let's do this. Let's get into the blog, and I'm
Speaker 4: gonna suck you down this rabbit hole with me. Fascinating, horrifying.
Speaker 4: You're gonna be like, what are we doing again? But anyway,
Speaker 4: find the blog by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's
Speaker 4: mandy'sblog dot com. When you get there, go to the
Speaker 4: latest post section and look for seven sixteen to twenty
Speaker 4: five blog why is it only genocide when Israel does it?
Speaker 4: Click on that and here are the headlines you will
Speaker 4: find within. I think it was the.
Speaker 6: Office half American, all with ships and clipmans and state
Speaker 6: that's going to press plant today.
Speaker 4: On the blug Weather Wednesday at twelve thirty, Syria is
Speaker 4: committing genocide and no one cares. Scrolling scrolling. Should we
Speaker 4: really be giving meth and fentanyl smoking tips? Scrolling scrolling?
Speaker 4: Today's listener question, Phil Wiser chooses virtue signaling over common sense.
Speaker 4: Andy's wrong on ice masking too. The Anti Wolf group
Speaker 4: isn't raising much money. Big fires are burning on the
Speaker 4: Western slope. The governor wants your opinion about his ugly
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Speaker 4: is recognized as the best. Some cuts are coming to
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Speaker 4: is raising decent money. Colorado cities are unhappy with Polus's
Speaker 4: land use takeover. Broadcast television hits a new low about
Speaker 4: the Federal Reserve's ostentatious remodel. The end of weaponized empathy. Dude,
Speaker 4: Grandma's gaming again. This looks like a food challenge to me.
Speaker 4: Want to make some keyboard music. Douglas Murray is having
Speaker 4: none of the lgbtqia plus nonsense, the right way to
Speaker 4: say no, we don't deserve dogs? And how did Japan
Speaker 4: get rich and not fat? Those are the headlines on
Speaker 4: the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. I did notice something
Speaker 4: in Japan, and that is literally no one is fat.
Speaker 4: I don't think I saw an overweight Japanese person. Now,
Speaker 4: I did see over white, overweight white people. I did
Speaker 4: see over white or or overweight people of other ethnicities
Speaker 4: that were not necessarily Japanese. But there were no fat
Speaker 4: Japanese people. Part of it is their diet and the food, yes, yes,
Speaker 4: because they eat what's the word. I'm looking for real
Speaker 4: food with ingredients that you've actually heard of, and I
Speaker 4: don't have you know, multi syllabic names. Anyway, that this
Speaker 4: video is really really good though, because it talks about
Speaker 4: what kids eat in school and back in the day,
Speaker 4: back in the way back machine, back in the back
Speaker 4: in the twentieth century, Grant, we had what was your
Speaker 4: school cafeteria? Like at school, Grant when and let's start
Speaker 4: high school, because like, I didn't have a cafeteria. I
Speaker 4: went to Catholic school in elementary school, so we did
Speaker 4: have like a cafeteria. We all had to bring our lunch.
Speaker 4: Really yeah, it was a private school, so they didn't
Speaker 4: have a kitchen. You just had to bring your lunch
Speaker 4: and then you all went to the lunch room and
Speaker 4: ate it. But anyway, that's a story for another time.
Speaker 4: What was your high school cafeteria?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 4: Did they make all the food there?
Speaker 5: Eat all the food there every day? It was not
Speaker 5: the greatest food, but it was deep.
Speaker 4: So wait a minute, wait a minute, you know what
Speaker 4: we all like to complain about it, but I am
Speaker 4: not gonna lie. I would I would like I would
Speaker 4: pay ten dollars for a slice of octagon pizza. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: ten dollars I would pay. I would pay ten dollars
Speaker 4: for that. For that mashed potato with the meat gravy Sonic,
Speaker 4: that was my favorite. I always got an extra patty.
Speaker 4: I was in tight with the lunch lady.
Speaker 5: I thought it was so good and they would give
Speaker 5: me whenever it was something I really loved.
Speaker 4: We didn't actually have the patties. They just ground up
Speaker 4: the beasts and then put it in brown gravy and
Speaker 4: then scooped it over mashed potatoes. Oh, I can taste
Speaker 4: it right now. It's making my mouth water. It just
Speaker 4: made me think we had exactly like we all like
Speaker 4: to complain about it, but that food and those big
Speaker 4: fluffy rolls we had get about it everything. And see
Speaker 4: we all complained about it, but it's real food. And
Speaker 4: the lunch ladies, bless every one of their hearts. They
Speaker 4: were back there starting at six o'clock in the morning
Speaker 4: every morning making sure we had good food. They all
Speaker 4: weighed like three hundred pounds and had boobs the size
Speaker 4: of Massachusetts, right, I mean, they all just massive boobs.
Speaker 5: These lunches, and you know where I grew up, so like,
Speaker 5: oh yeah, seventy five percent. I would say, of the
Speaker 5: kids that went to my school relied on breakfast, that's
Speaker 5: every day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what they ate. Well. Well, now at my
Speaker 4: daughter's high school in an affluent suburb, they have pizza
Speaker 4: Hut or Dominoes or something like that. They basically bring
Speaker 4: in prepackaged foods, so they're basically just shoving ultra process
Speaker 4: foods down these kids' throat. Okay, that video is something
Speaker 4: you should watch. I did not mean to go down
Speaker 4: the lunch room, you know, reminiscent Panwagon there for a second.
Speaker 4: Shout out to all the lunch ladies out there. I
Speaker 4: mean it, they were amazing, so amazing. Anyway, anyway, sorry
Speaker 4: about that. I do want to go up. We've got
Speaker 4: Dave Phraser coming up at twelve thirty, and I do
Speaker 4: not want to start this conversation about Syria and the
Speaker 4: Druze until I can go deep into it, because boy,
Speaker 4: howdy did I go deep into it? Why did I
Speaker 4: go deep into it? Well, I got this message yesterday
Speaker 4: from my nephew in Israel, and I should say that
Speaker 4: when we went to my my nephew's wedding in Israel.
Speaker 4: He took us on a tour of well, lots of
Speaker 4: lots of Israel. We went to the border of Syria
Speaker 4: and Israel. Okay, I've actually seen the border of Syria
Speaker 4: and Israel. And as we were driving up there, we
Speaker 4: stopped and had lunch at this restaurant that was run
Speaker 4: by a Druze family. Okay, the Drews people d r
Speaker 4: O d r u Ze. Drews is a religion and
Speaker 4: it is a very insular religion. Pretty Much every Druze
Speaker 4: is related to every other Drus. They don't proselytize. You
Speaker 4: cannot convert and become a Druz, you will marry another Drus.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, they take their civic responsibilities
Speaker 4: wherever they are very very very seriously. They make up
Speaker 4: a large part of the Israel, Israeli Army, the police force.
Speaker 4: They're the most highly educated ethnic group in Israel. They
Speaker 4: integrate everywhere. They're in the the Israeli government. They are
Speaker 4: they are woven into the fabric and known to be upstanding, kind, familial,
Speaker 4: just good people, the kind of people you want in
Speaker 4: your lives. Well, there are five hundred thousand drus in Syria.
Speaker 4: And I got this message yesterday from my nephew in Israel,
Speaker 4: and he said, the Drews are the best ethnic group
Speaker 4: I have ever encountered. They're polite, familial, hard working, loyal,
Speaker 4: and make some of the finest soldiers in the Israeli
Speaker 4: Special Forces. This is an actual ethnic cleansing that is
Speaker 4: about to happen. Isis is selling Drew's women as sex
Speaker 4: slaves in public markets and in line with their interpretation
Speaker 4: of Islam. Now that's what started me down this rabbit hole,
Speaker 4: and it is bad. And as I kept reading, every
Speaker 4: so often there would be some mention of the fact
Speaker 4: that the United States and Israel are trying to bring
Speaker 4: the quote President of Syria into the fold. Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: You know, I think that we can all understand a
Speaker 4: little bit better why Donald Trump appears to suck up
Speaker 4: to dictators, Because he did it with Kim Jong un
Speaker 4: until he realized that Kim Jong un is a psychopath
Speaker 4: and there was no dealing with him. And now he
Speaker 4: doesn't speak of him at all. It's like he's just
Speaker 4: doesn't exist. Right. He did it with Putin, and when
Speaker 4: Putin did not do what Trump wanted, him to do.
Speaker 4: Now Trump is issuing threats. I don't think he was
Speaker 4: ever truly enamored with Putin. I think he was blowing
Speaker 4: smoke up his skirt in order to see if he
Speaker 4: could bring him to the table. Well, now the smoke
Speaker 4: blowing is over. But now we have Trump saying, you know,
Speaker 4: this guy in Syria, we think he's going to be good.
Speaker 4: This guy in Syria is an Islamist. He is a
Speaker 4: former al Qaeda leader. Now I'm not saying that he
Speaker 4: can't have a change of heart, and I'm not saying
Speaker 4: that we should work to achieve some sort of solution
Speaker 4: that doesn't involve war, Not at all. I would love
Speaker 4: to see all of this happen. Israel believes in it
Speaker 4: so strongly that they are allegedly in backroom communications with
Speaker 4: them with Siria trying to cut some kind of deal
Speaker 4: to bring Syria into the Abraham Accords. But here's where
Speaker 4: the problem lies. The problem lies is that they've already
Speaker 4: gone into an Alloyite vision village. Alo Whites are another
Speaker 4: subset of Islam, and they believe in kind of a
Speaker 4: mystical version of Islam. And please don't use me as
Speaker 4: as your theology teacher. On this, I'm giving you such
Speaker 4: a macro description that you can go look up more
Speaker 4: information about the Alo Whites or the Druz or any
Speaker 4: of that stuff. You can do any of that. But
Speaker 4: the Alo Whites are a subset of Islam, and they
Speaker 4: practice what's considered a more mystical version of Islam, and
Speaker 4: therefore it's blasphemous to some other Muslims, specifically Sunni Muslims,
Speaker 4: of which the new leader of Syria is he is
Speaker 4: a Sunni Muslim. So this guy went in in April
Speaker 4: and went into an Alo White village. Under the guise
Speaker 4: of this, they'll they'll allow the bed Ones to attack.
Speaker 4: This is the strategy in Syria right now. So the
Speaker 4: Syrian forces as they are. By the way, a lot
Speaker 4: of the president's army is from around the world. It's
Speaker 4: not from Syria. His army comes from Pakistan, his army
Speaker 4: comes from Chechnia, his army comes from a whole bunch
Speaker 4: of different Muslim strongholds. And we'll get to why that
Speaker 4: is in just a minute. But he allows the Bedouins
Speaker 4: because you know, there's always been sectarian violence in the
Speaker 4: Middle East, because we have all of these different tribes
Speaker 4: and clans and things like this, and they're constantly clashing
Speaker 4: with one another. The Drus and the Bedouins have been
Speaker 4: at it for years, just years about dumb crap. It's
Speaker 4: all about dumb crap. But nonetheless, they send the Bedouins
Speaker 4: in to the Alloyhites to attack, and then they come
Speaker 4: in and say, the governmental forces will come in and
Speaker 4: say we're repelling the Bedouins. We've saved you, we can
Speaker 4: keep you safe. We just need you to disband your
Speaker 4: militias and turn over your weapons. And guess what, after
Speaker 4: being in a civil war for very, very very long
Speaker 4: time again an incredibly violent and repressive regime in Bashi
Speaker 4: al Asad, they're not really looking to give up their weapons.
Speaker 4: And so in response, the Syrian military slaughtered twelve hundred
Speaker 4: Ala Whites in April. This happened in April. That doesn't
Speaker 4: seem that the rhetoric of the President of Syria is
Speaker 4: going to match the actions of the President of Syria,
Speaker 4: because he talks a great game about tolerance and oh,
Speaker 4: everything's going to be great in Syrian We are going
Speaker 4: to create this great, wonderful Syria moving forward, which everybody
Speaker 4: would like to see by the way, but deeds not words.
Speaker 4: So when the Bedouins came in to mix it up
Speaker 4: with the Drews, well here come the security forces. Only
Speaker 4: this time they fought with the Bedouins against the Drews
Speaker 4: and killed I don't know, like two hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: people in a village. Twenty one of them were men
Speaker 4: who were extra extra judiciously executed, which means the government
Speaker 4: took them into the center square and shot them in
Speaker 4: the head. And here we are trying to bring the
Speaker 4: president of this into the fold.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: I posted something about this on x yesterday and a
Speaker 4: lot of people were like, well, let them sort it out.
Speaker 4: It doesn't really matter. I don't care, we shouldn't. I
Speaker 4: don't even want us to be involved. But Israel needed
Speaker 4: to do something. Israel had to act because in Israel,
Speaker 4: and I don't know how many Drews there are in Israel,
Speaker 4: but there's a good chunk of Drews in Israel. But
Speaker 4: they're involved in every aspect of Israeli life. They are
Speaker 4: the residents you want in your community, and they cannot
Speaker 4: Israel cannot leave the Syrian Drews out to dry. They
Speaker 4: can't do it. And right now, there's a whole bunch
Speaker 4: of Syrian drus and I have to say, Drew's really
Speaker 4: hard like that. So you know, I'm not saying Jews,
Speaker 4: but the Syrian Jews have been right now a long
Speaker 4: time ago. So drus. They're in the southern part of Syria,
Speaker 4: which is in the sort of demilitarized zone that Israel
Speaker 4: has essentially said we are going to enforce because it
Speaker 4: borders Israel. And if they allow tanks and stuff like
Speaker 4: that to come into that area of the Goal On
Speaker 4: Heights area, then there's a good chance that they're going
Speaker 4: to keep rolling over into Israel. So Israel yesterday bombs
Speaker 4: Syrian military headquarters in Damascus. Now, the reason I'm telling
Speaker 4: you all of this is I want you to watch
Speaker 4: any news coverage you might see of this, because I
Speaker 4: have some stuff from CNN and other stuff that is
Speaker 4: just so insane, so insane. So this is really fantastic.
Speaker 4: So Israel bombs the headquarters of Damascus to make them
Speaker 4: stop attacking the Drews. That is why Israel bombed the
Speaker 4: HQ of Military HQ and Damascus, And CNN says this,
Speaker 4: CNN has reached out to the Israeli Defense forces for
Speaker 4: comment regarding civilian deaths. You guys, they already admitted that
Speaker 4: people were killed by Syrian forces. Do you think they
Speaker 4: reached out to the president of Syria to answer for that.
Speaker 4: Even when Israel is doing the right thing for good people,
Speaker 4: they are blamed in a way that no other nation
Speaker 4: is and certainly Syria is not being held to account
Speaker 4: on this stuff. And what do I want Donald Trump
Speaker 4: to do? I want Donald Trump to use his leverage
Speaker 4: to explain to this guy that one more incursion against
Speaker 4: an ethnic minority in Syria means that we will make
Speaker 4: sure that Israel has all the bombs it needs to
Speaker 4: do what needs to be done in Syria to protect
Speaker 4: those people. That's what I want to have happen. You know,
Speaker 4: I'd love for Donald Trump to call him and do
Speaker 4: the old Hey, man, we really want you to come
Speaker 4: to this party, like man, cannot wait to have you,
Speaker 4: so looking forward to having you as part of the team.
Speaker 4: But with this kind of behavior, I don't think we
Speaker 4: can be friends. You know, do the old make him
Speaker 4: an offer he can't refuse type thing. But even then,
Speaker 4: I'm not certain that this guy can be stopped in
Speaker 4: any significant way. As long as you have people in
Speaker 4: charge trying to build a new Islamic caliphate. You were
Speaker 4: never going to have them, you know, be a part
Speaker 4: of polite society. And that is what this guy's devoted to.
Speaker 4: That's why you have so many foreign fighters from around
Speaker 4: the world. Why in the world, from someone in Czechhni
Speaker 4: or or Indonesia, why would you go Why would you
Speaker 4: go to fight in Syria? I mean for money, sure,
Speaker 4: but it's about ideology, because they too believe that the
Speaker 4: Islamic Caliphate shall rise again and the world will kneel
Speaker 4: at their feet. How do you reason with somebody whose
Speaker 4: goal is that? How do you realize with someone whose
Speaker 4: goal is that and is willing to do whatever it
Speaker 4: takes in terms of violence to bring it to fruition.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm aggravated. I'm frustrated because I am
Speaker 4: old enough to remember when we've propped up dictators around
Speaker 4: the world, and I'm old enough to know how it
Speaker 4: inevitably always ends with an entire new group of people
Speaker 4: who hate us for meddling in their affairs. This is
Speaker 4: what I want from Syria. Leave the ethnic minorities alone
Speaker 4: and then go about your business. Leave them alone. If
Speaker 4: you did that you could have whatever you wanted, but
Speaker 4: that doesn't meet their end goal. And the United States
Speaker 4: of America is going to give them the legitimacy that
Speaker 4: they need along with Israel to do the things that
Speaker 4: they are inevitably going to do. And it's like, when
Speaker 4: in the world are we going to see that this
Speaker 4: is just untenable. I don't know what the answer is.
Speaker 4: I think the Middle East is a permanent disaster because
Speaker 4: of ideology, culture. There's so many different things that need
Speaker 4: to be dragged into modernity in the Middle East before
Speaker 4: it's ever going to be anything other than a sandpit
Speaker 4: where people are fighting over land so ugly that we
Speaker 4: wouldn't even pay for it here in America anyway. So
Speaker 4: that's the start of my rant. We're not even deep
Speaker 4: into it. Oh yeah, oh yeah. AnyWho got some text
Speaker 4: messages Mandy. Theocrats speak with a forked tongue because they
Speaker 4: try to straddle the fence between God's law and man's law.
Speaker 4: The problem is is Islama see that as the same
Speaker 4: law right? That's the issue. Mandy Tyrants and leaders share
Speaker 4: similar qualities, which makes it hard to tell the difference
Speaker 4: at times until you get to know them and to
Speaker 4: the text, who ask what religion are Drus they're a
Speaker 4: mix of Islam, of Christianity, of Judaism. They are a
Speaker 4: large mishmash. But they've been around a very very long time,
Speaker 4: very long time. But I don't think they would say
Speaker 4: they were any of those three religions. Even though there
Speaker 4: are lots of things that overlap. Fox thirty one's chief meteorologist,
Speaker 4: Day Fraser, ain't Day Fraser. What about this dug and
Speaker 4: bloomy skies today? What's happening?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that NICs re freshing change. Thanks for a cool
Speaker 6: front last night. So instead of baking at ninety five
Speaker 6: like we did yesterday, we'll only pop out in the
Speaker 6: in the mid eighties today. So that's that's the benefit
Speaker 6: of the dark and gloomy skies out there. But the
Speaker 6: price that comes with it is a chance for showers
Speaker 6: and thunderstorms, some of which we'll have lightning and wind
Speaker 6: and hail typical threats, and so we'll watch for that
Speaker 6: this afternoon. But the humidity level is higher today, I'm
Speaker 6: sure everybody by Colorado standards just about that, and that
Speaker 6: can lead to heavy rain but hopefully beneficial range. So
Speaker 6: there's a there's a trade out right, maybe keep the
Speaker 6: hail on the small side. We don't get any damage,
Speaker 6: but we can ring out some rain this with this
Speaker 6: higher humidity, and that's what I'm hoping for.
Speaker 4: Well, let me give out the text number if people
Speaker 4: have weather questions. Now's the time, five sixty six nine.
Speaker 4: Oh is who you text? Yesterday? I was driving home
Speaker 4: and I was all excited because I was driving to
Speaker 4: really like healthy rain, right, good rain, And then drove
Speaker 4: into my neighborhood and not a drop and I was like,
Speaker 4: dang it, Now I got to water on my plants.
Speaker 4: So how scattered are these showers? When are we I mean,
Speaker 4: when are we going to see like a solid line
Speaker 4: where I know I'm going to get rain? When am
Speaker 4: I going to get that?
Speaker 6: You know, when we're dealing with storms of convective nature,
Speaker 6: you know, it just depends where the first ones go up.
Speaker 6: And then we always talk about outflow boundaries. When the
Speaker 6: thunderstorms are kind of dying, they can throw a gush
Speaker 6: of wind across the ground and that can be a
Speaker 6: focal point for additional development. Those things, even the highest
Speaker 6: resolution models don't do a good job picking up on,
Speaker 6: so you kind of have to watch the radar real time.
Speaker 6: I will tell you if you're going to get your
Speaker 6: rain up and down the front range. As I'm looking
Speaker 6: at our high resolution models, it's going to start. The
Speaker 6: clouds are going to delay the start because they're delayed
Speaker 6: the heating, So obviously heating is a component to get
Speaker 6: the storms going. I'm thinking we're going to be somewhere
Speaker 6: in the to the three o'clock start. I think the
Speaker 6: best window goes till about five o'clock, and by five
Speaker 6: to six they're starting to push past the airport and
Speaker 6: go onto the eastern planes. So if you're going to
Speaker 6: get the rain, you're gonna have to see it by
Speaker 6: five to six. If you haven't seen it by five
Speaker 6: to six, your only hope would be that an outflow
Speaker 6: boundary comes back in your direction. But chances for that
Speaker 6: in this type of environment are going to be on
Speaker 6: the very low side. So that's your window coverage is
Speaker 6: about sixty percent Mandy. So I know a lot of
Speaker 6: people think that that means though there's a pretty good
Speaker 6: chance you know that you'll get rain, it's decent. It
Speaker 6: means a lot more of us have a better chance
Speaker 6: of seeing it, But it's not one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: All right, So we got a couple of questions, and funny,
Speaker 4: I have three different questions from three different textures, and
Speaker 4: they are all about the use of the word land spout.
Speaker 4: Let me read them all to you in one one,
Speaker 4: little fellow swoop here, Hi, Mandy, can you ask Dave
Speaker 4: what a land spout is? Mandy? For Dave, difference between
Speaker 4: a land spout and a dust devil May Wednesday question.
Speaker 4: Please ask Dave when and why did they start calling
Speaker 4: tornadoes land falts. So let's clear the air on landsfalts,
Speaker 4: shall we yep?
Speaker 6: So let me start with the lower end, the dust devil.
Speaker 6: The dust devil is exactly that. As the ground heats,
Speaker 6: the air rises, and if it heats in a finite area,
Speaker 6: you can get the air to rise and kind of
Speaker 6: swirl a little bit. Generally, a dust devil doesn't do much,
Speaker 6: and it doesn't connect to the upper atmosphere, and it
Speaker 6: only lasts as long as it's over that heated source
Speaker 6: and then it dies away. So if a dust devil
Speaker 6: comes up and it moves over an area that's cooler,
Speaker 6: it's just going to die out. The next one would
Speaker 6: be the land spout and land spout. Tornadoes and that's
Speaker 6: the frase you'll hear us use are defined as tornadoes.
Speaker 6: It's just that they form in a different way. So
Speaker 6: a tornado is generally associated with a large thunderstorm or
Speaker 6: a cumulomid. This cloud, the whole storm is rotating, and
Speaker 6: the tornado drops from the center of the storm down
Speaker 6: to the ground, and that rotating column of air can
Speaker 6: be violent, and as we know, we have categories for
Speaker 6: them or a zero one two through the EP scale
Speaker 6: that we talked about all the time. And the stronger
Speaker 6: the wind, the more damage you're going to have. The
Speaker 6: storms can be very large. We don't tend to see them.
Speaker 6: Most of colorado deals with the F zero EF one.
Speaker 6: They don't last all that long. A land spout is
Speaker 6: in essence, a dust devil that starts on the ground
Speaker 6: because of heating or swirling wind, and as a thunderstorm
Speaker 6: is growing, just starting to develop, it acts like a
Speaker 6: suction or a vacuum, and it stucks that rotation up
Speaker 6: and connects it with the cloud and gives it a
Speaker 6: little more spin up, and so it grows from a
Speaker 6: different direction. Now, the lamp spout that did the damage
Speaker 6: in Franktown yesterday. Most lamp spouts do not do damage.
Speaker 6: They last very they don't last very long, and their
Speaker 6: steeds are very very low. But I mean you don't
Speaker 6: want to be in one. I mean you feeling you've
Speaker 6: been stung by bees. The one that hit frank Down
Speaker 6: came up and hit the corner of a building. It
Speaker 6: looks like it took a roof off of a commercial property.
Speaker 6: That one only lasted ninety seconds, But ninety seconds enough.
Speaker 6: Here's the problem when it comes to land spouts. The
Speaker 6: radar the start at the ground. The radar cannot point
Speaker 6: directly to the ground radar right, so the radar is
Speaker 6: pointing over the horizon. So the farther out you get
Speaker 6: from the radar, the beam is getting higher and higher
Speaker 6: and higher off the ground because of the curvature of Burey.
Speaker 6: So because the radar is not pointed at the ground,
Speaker 6: it's pointed more in the middle aspect of the storms,
Speaker 6: where we can see the rotation. You don't get the
Speaker 6: notification of anything happening until it grows tall enough that
Speaker 6: it might be able to be seen by radar. So,
Speaker 6: in essence, we can be blind in those respects. When
Speaker 6: it comes to the technology, once it connects, it can
Speaker 6: grow tall, and generally the base of the thunderstorm is
Speaker 6: way up high, and sometimes you'll be able to see
Speaker 6: it growing up, and it does visually look like a tornado.
Speaker 6: It's just a different formation.
Speaker 4: But does it ever be come a tornado or is
Speaker 4: it always a land spout and it's always a tornado
Speaker 4: based on how they start?
Speaker 6: Now, it's because of the way it started. It's not
Speaker 6: going to the storm that's generating. It is not the
Speaker 6: typical formation of a classic rotating comberstorm. It's basically the
Speaker 6: thunderstorm is growing and the air going into the thunderstorm
Speaker 6: is kind of drawing up that land spout, if you will.
Speaker 6: The cloud itself is not generating the rotation and the spent.
Speaker 4: Okay, so it sounds to me as a Floridian. A
Speaker 4: land spout is the same as a water spout on
Speaker 4: the water, So.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it can be. But sometimes water stocks can be
Speaker 6: tornadoes that form over water, and they define them as
Speaker 6: water stops because they're over water.
Speaker 4: Okay, I've actually been in the Gulf. Yeah, I've been
Speaker 4: in the Gulf of Mexico on a small boat when
Speaker 4: I watched the land spout form and It was one
Speaker 4: of the coolest things I've ever seen in my life
Speaker 4: and also super terrifying. So I didn't enjoy the as
Speaker 4: we were running away from it as fast as we could,
Speaker 4: but it was really fascinating to see it happen in
Speaker 4: real time. It was really super cool. Here's one's for you, Dave.
Speaker 4: Ask Dave if a dust devil is related to the
Speaker 4: Tasmanian devil?
Speaker 6: Yea or the vice versa. Yes, the Tasmanian devil is
Speaker 6: related to the dust level. Yeah, because dust devils. We
Speaker 6: all know the cartoon, right, Yes, swirled the dust devil
Speaker 6: in the cartoon, you know, bugs Bunny and the Tasmanian Devil,
Speaker 6: a swirling pile of dust creating chaos. And so yeah,
Speaker 6: I think it's interchangeable. Which came first the chicken of
Speaker 6: the egg? I can't tell you.
Speaker 4: This is a serious question.
Speaker 2: They need.
Speaker 4: The smoke here on the western slope is awful. Please
Speaker 4: ask Dave if there's any relief coming dust in the
Speaker 4: next week. We've got some big fire fires burning on
Speaker 4: the western slope the border of Utah. Is there any
Speaker 4: rain coming to give any relief from that?
Speaker 6: You know? Unfortunately, the long range outlook for the next
Speaker 6: six to ten days. Does keep the western slope dry.
Speaker 6: They struggle at this time of the year. We're benefiting
Speaker 6: from a cold front that came in from the gas
Speaker 6: last night. They did not make it up and over
Speaker 6: the mountains to the west. So while there will be
Speaker 6: spotty storms over the west, for instance, the San Juans tomorrow,
Speaker 6: the San Juan Mountains in the southwest, we'll get some
Speaker 6: small storms out there, I don't see a huge relief coming.
Speaker 6: I don't see a widespread rain event enough to you know,
Speaker 6: put the fires out. The hope with the smoke might
Speaker 6: be that if we can get a little wind to
Speaker 6: stir it and get it up in the way. They
Speaker 6: do have their quality alerts right now for the west
Speaker 6: and southwest part of the state because of the smoke.
Speaker 6: It's unfortunate, but that part of the state we've talked
Speaker 6: about it for months and months and months, is the
Speaker 6: part of the state. The eastern half of the state
Speaker 6: has no drought. The western half of the state is
Speaker 6: still druggling in drought. And the trade off for rain
Speaker 6: chances may come with lightning, and that of course can
Speaker 6: spark additional fires. I mean, we've seen the news you
Speaker 6: know what's happening down in the Grand Canyon area in Arizona.
Speaker 6: You know, unfortunate to see that the lodge was lost
Speaker 6: and stuff. So the West is struggling a little bit.
Speaker 6: I just don't see a big enough storm right now
Speaker 6: to help. But any wind can help disperse the smoke,
Speaker 6: and that would be my hope, is that maybe we
Speaker 6: get the smoke up in a way so that they
Speaker 6: don't have to deal with the poor air quality and smell.
Speaker 4: Uh. Dave Frasier, Joy as always, my friend. We'll talk
Speaker 4: to you next week.
Speaker 6: Yep. Have a great rest of your week. You do.
Speaker 4: That is Dave Fraser from Box thirty one, and we'll
Speaker 4: be right back. Several of you are pointing out in
Speaker 4: certain ways something similar to this, Mandy, it's the Gulf
Speaker 4: of America, not the Gulf of Mexico. Trumpy Trump is
Speaker 4: gonna get mad at you. I would like to point
Speaker 4: out that not only do I still call it the
Speaker 4: Gulf of Mexico, I still refer to Mount Evans as
Speaker 4: Mount Evans. When people change names of something I already
Speaker 4: know the name of in a fit of peak, I'm
Speaker 4: not going to be bothered to learn the new one. Okay,
Speaker 4: I said this when he changed the name, and it's
Speaker 4: not in any way, shape or form a commentary or
Speaker 4: any sort of judgment on Trump deciding to do that.
Speaker 4: I'm just letting you know I'm not going to change
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. Okay, That's just how it is. I
Speaker 4: don't have time to learn something new about something I
Speaker 4: don't really care about, so it will always be Mount Evans.
Speaker 4: To me, it will always be the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 4: Have you ever had to learn all of the countries
Speaker 4: in Africa? And I'm very specific about using the African
Speaker 4: continent as an example, because they are the most guilty
Speaker 4: of this, although it does happen in other places. When
Speaker 4: I was a kid, I had to learn a map
Speaker 4: of Africa, right, I had to learn the countries in Africa.
Speaker 4: I knew them all, and like fast forward seven years
Speaker 4: later in my academic journey, I am somehow responsible for
Speaker 4: knowing countries in Africa again, and I'm like, I got this,
Speaker 4: except like half the names had changed, and I just thought,
Speaker 4: I can't be bothered. And to this day, I may
Speaker 4: know that a country has two different names, but I
Speaker 4: won't know which one it is. Currently No clue, you
Speaker 4: know why, because I don't live in Africa. Like if
Speaker 4: the states started changing their names, I would probably try
Speaker 4: to keep up. Like if all all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: Alabama was like, you know what, we're tired of being first,
Speaker 4: We're going to be Salabama from now on. Probably not,
Speaker 4: I mean I would do my best to remember Zalabama.
Speaker 4: That would be kind of cool, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: Like a little zip zip bang for Alabama. We've been
Speaker 4: first all these years. We're going to see how the
Speaker 4: other end of the alphabet feels. Salabama, hire me for
Speaker 4: more marketing strategies. Okay, there you go. Anyway. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: not doing it to be uh obnoxious. I'm really not.
Speaker 4: It's just that's uh no. I know, when my grandmother
Speaker 4: was alive, my grandmother was a wonderful woman, not my
Speaker 4: crazy one, my other normal one. And she would give directions.
Speaker 4: And when my ex husband and I moved closer to
Speaker 4: my hometown, he didn't know where anything was, so we wouldn't.
Speaker 4: I tried to spend a lot of time with my grandmother,
Speaker 4: and uh we'd go over to my grand mother's house
Speaker 4: and my ex husband would ask her where something was,
Speaker 4: you know, like oh that sounds good. Where we should go?
Speaker 6: Try that?
Speaker 4: Where is that? And she would give directions. It would
Speaker 4: be like, okay, go down pass where the old kmart was,
Speaker 4: Like that Camart hadn't been a kmart in like eighteen years,
Speaker 4: and she's selling my husband, who just moved there, Go
Speaker 4: down where pass where the old kmart was. And then
Speaker 4: when you get down to where morel Salvage used to be,
Speaker 4: like everything was landmarks that didn't exist anymore. And to
Speaker 4: my ex husband's credit, he would listen very attentively, and
Speaker 4: then when we left, he's like, where is she talking about?
Speaker 4: And I would explain to him what was there now? Oh, okay,
Speaker 4: you know where this is now? Okay, yes, right there,
Speaker 4: that's what that used to be. So he had to
Speaker 4: learn where things were and where they used to be,
Speaker 4: just so we could get directions from my grandmother. And
Speaker 4: that's kind of how I feel now. I am my
Speaker 4: grandmother and I don't care that that old kmart has
Speaker 4: been a government office for the last, you know, thirty
Speaker 4: five years. It will always be the old kmart to me.
Speaker 4: Gulf of Mexico. It's just a thing, you guys. I
Speaker 4: can't help it. It's been the Gulf of Mexico since
Speaker 4: fifteen fifty, says this text, way before the US was
Speaker 4: even a thing. Yeah, I don't care. I just I
Speaker 4: don't care. I really don't. I still call Stapleton Stapleton,
Speaker 4: not whatever it's been renamed. I still call it Stapleton.
Speaker 4: And I'm a transplant. I don't even know what is
Speaker 4: that area called now, Grant? Do you know what do
Speaker 4: they rename it? Is that like Central Park? But isn't
Speaker 4: there a Central Park in the eastern part. I drove
Speaker 4: through an area kind of in the Littleton area that
Speaker 4: I thought it was called Central Park two, and I'm like,
Speaker 4: don't we have two of these generically renamed things.
Speaker 5: The Stapleton neighborhood is now officially called Central Park. The
Speaker 5: name change was the result of a vote by residents
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and a bunch of do gooders, stupid do gooders,
Speaker 4: not that we had anything else to be focused out
Speaker 4: to this texture. Mandy, it's k Martz plural. You are correct,
Speaker 4: what Dawn by the old K marts. I've never heard
Speaker 4: it called k Martz. Well that's because you're not from
Speaker 4: the south. The kts what. Oh, yeah, for sure A
Speaker 4: coke is always whatever cola beverage comes out of the spout.
Speaker 4: You just call it a coke.
Speaker 5: But it's not really called k Marts. It's k Mart, right,
Speaker 5: it is Kmarts. Okay, now I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4: Uh this textter said Zalabama could trade with Ioming. See
Speaker 4: now we're cooking with gas, folks. It's getting good right
Speaker 4: up and here.
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Speaker 4: Welcome the second hour of the show. I'm your host,
Speaker 4: Mandy Connell, and joining me today for Anthony Rodriguez, who
Speaker 4: is being he's been sentenced to working the morning show
Speaker 4: for the next day or so. Now Grant's been sentenced
Speaker 4: on Friday. Yes, community service or you have to get
Speaker 4: up at three o'clock in the morning. And by the way,
Speaker 4: that is no disrespect to Colorado's morning news. This is
Speaker 4: just about the time slot. Yes, all about the time
Speaker 4: slot morning radio. You have to have a certain kind
Speaker 4: of constitution to be able to enjoy the morning radio schedule.
Speaker 4: And I have friends who love it.
Speaker 5: I did it for about six months, and I about
Speaker 5: month four I really started to enjoy it, and then
Speaker 5: of course my schedule change correct.
Speaker 4: So don't get too comfortable, no way, no how, anyway.
Speaker 4: So we're happy to have you, Grant forever, however long
Speaker 4: it is happy to be here multiple people. Mandy, please
Speaker 4: just do what you're told and call it the Golf
Speaker 4: of America. Thank you. I will not. I think one
Speaker 4: thing you should know about your talk show host is
Speaker 4: that I can be incredibly stubborn. Mandy. I agree with
Speaker 4: your sticking to the original names of places, but I
Speaker 4: have to admit that Gulf of America shrimp costs more
Speaker 4: and taste much better than the old Gulf of Mexico shrimp.
Speaker 4: Just asked Bubba gump ps. If I were red lobster
Speaker 4: going bankrupt, I would definitely change the name to red, white,
Speaker 4: and blue Gulf of America shrimp all you can eat,
Speaker 4: except if you're a Democrat. It's a little wordy, you know.
Speaker 4: I don't know how you fit all that on the sign,
Speaker 4: but I hear what you're saying. Anyway, Let's talk about
Speaker 4: some other stuff that's on the blog. No I want
Speaker 4: to talk about. I started the show with this and
Speaker 4: now I'm going to kind of expand on this just
Speaker 4: a little bit more because there's an update yesterday. After
Speaker 4: getting a message from my nephew that the Druze people
Speaker 4: in Syria were on the verge of being ethnically cleansed
Speaker 4: by the quote president of Syria, who is a former
Speaker 4: Al Kaedi leader and a devowed Islamist. I started digging
Speaker 4: into it, and I want to start with what the
Speaker 4: Druze religion is, because we don't really have Druz people here,
Speaker 4: and there are a lot in the Middle East. They
Speaker 4: live primarily in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel and have for forever,
Speaker 4: just forever. And the Druze faith is an Abrahamic, monotheistic,
Speaker 4: and syncretic religion whose main tenants assert the unity of God, reincarnation,
Speaker 4: and the eternity of the soul. This is from Wikipedia.
Speaker 4: Although the Druze faith develop from Islamism, they don't identify
Speaker 4: as Muslims. They maintain an Arabic language. They do not intermarry.
Speaker 4: Interfaith marriages are strongly discouraged. You cannot convert to become
Speaker 4: a Druze. It is a very insular religion, but they're
Speaker 4: also very good citizens. They've been a wonderful part of Israel.
Speaker 4: They are the most highly educated ethnic group in the
Speaker 4: Middle East, and they play important roles in Israel, and
Speaker 4: they play important roles in Syria. Because the Druz people
Speaker 4: are loyal to where they are. It doesn't mean that
Speaker 4: they're loyal to bad people or they're loyal to dictators.
Speaker 4: But if they're somewhere, if they're going to be in Lebanon,
Speaker 4: they're going to be good Lebanese citizens. If they're in Syria,
Speaker 4: they're gonna be good Syrian citizens. If they're in Israel,
Speaker 4: they're gonna be good Israeli citizens. And that is not
Speaker 4: enough for this new leadership in Syria, who in the
Speaker 4: last couple of weeks have gone into Druze areas and
Speaker 4: worked with the Bedouin tribes to just massacre people. And
Speaker 4: we have stories of Dru's women being sold into sex
Speaker 4: slavery by Isis. I'm a story and I don't know
Speaker 4: if I put it on the blog or not. I
Speaker 4: don't think I did. I think I put it on
Speaker 4: X and I didn't put it on my blog. A
Speaker 4: story of a young yazide women. Yazdi is another religious
Speaker 4: faction in the Middle East. When she was eleven years old,
Speaker 4: she was kidnapped and she was sold into sex slavery
Speaker 4: in Gaza. Ten years later, she was just rescued from
Speaker 4: Gaza after being held in Gaza as a sex slave
Speaker 4: since she was eleven. She was just reunited with her
Speaker 4: family in Iraq. Do you know how she got free?
Speaker 4: Her captor got killed. Any guesses on who killed him?
Speaker 4: I'm going to bet Israel. And by the way, Israel
Speaker 4: and Iraq have no diplomatic relations at all. So Israel
Speaker 4: retrieved this young woman who's now twenty one years old
Speaker 4: in Gaza. They then delivered her, I think, to the
Speaker 4: United States, but I'm not absolutely positive. And in the
Speaker 4: United States delivered her to Iraq. What Israel facilitated getting
Speaker 4: this young woman home after ten years? And these are
Speaker 4: the same people who are allied with the new president
Speaker 4: of Syria. Why in the world would we think that
Speaker 4: they would treat minorities fairly? You know, for all the
Speaker 4: big talk over here in the United States about how
Speaker 4: unfair our society is, and it is far from perfect.
Speaker 4: I certainly don't want to put a Pollyanna spin on
Speaker 4: some of the issues that we do have in this country.
Speaker 4: But overall, and it's demonstrated by the men yiminy successful
Speaker 4: black people and brown people in this country. When you
Speaker 4: do the right thing, when you make good decisions and
Speaker 4: you don't do dumb crap, you can become very, very
Speaker 4: successful in this country no matter what color you are.
Speaker 2: No one.
Speaker 4: I shouldn't say no one, but it is no longer
Speaker 4: acceptable in polite society to discriminate against someone because of
Speaker 4: their ethnicity or their color, or unless they're Jewish on
Speaker 4: andronic college campus. It's just not socially acceptable for most people.
Speaker 4: And yet that's exactly what's going on in the Middle East.
Speaker 4: So I just got this update and I want to
Speaker 4: share it with you because now the Syrian government and
Speaker 4: the Drew's minority have agreed to a ceasefire. And what
Speaker 4: happened to inspire that ceasefire is Israel dropped a bunch
Speaker 4: of bombs on Cereal. The announcement this is from the
Speaker 4: AP came after Israel launched rare airstrikes in the heart
Speaker 4: of Damascus, an escalation and a campaign that it said
Speaker 4: was intended to defend the DRUS and push Islamic militants
Speaker 4: away from its border. The Drews are a substantial community
Speaker 4: in Israel as well as in Syria, and are seen
Speaker 4: in Israel as a loyal minority, often serving in the military.
Speaker 4: So now we have a ceasefire between the Drews and
Speaker 4: the Syrians, but the UK by based war monitor Syrian
Speaker 4: Observatory for Human Rights said more than three hundred people
Speaker 4: had been killed as of Wednesday morning, including four children,
Speaker 4: eight women, and one hundred and sixty five soldiers and
Speaker 4: security forces. Notice how they don't distinguish who killed who right,
Speaker 4: who was killed and who did the killing, because what
Speaker 4: they're leaving out is that Syrian soldiers were involved in
Speaker 4: the killing. The strike in Damascus, by the way, killed
Speaker 4: three people and injured thirty four. Another Israeli strike it
Speaker 4: near the presidential palace in the hills outside Damascus, and
Speaker 4: Israel has basically said leave them alone or we will continue.
Speaker 4: So they're planning to leave them alone at least for now.
Speaker 4: So I mean, it's just it's a never ending mess.
Speaker 4: And again I don't want us involved in this other
Speaker 4: than to have President Donald Trump, who is giving legitimacy
Speaker 4: to the president of Syria right now, and I understand
Speaker 4: why he's doing it, right, Like I totally get it.
Speaker 4: Donald Trump wants to make a deal, and he's still
Speaker 4: laboring under the illusion that these people are going to
Speaker 4: honor the terms of the deal even when it's made.
Speaker 4: I don't believe them. I didn't believe Iran when they
Speaker 4: signed on to the nuclear deal because they wouldn't let
Speaker 4: us come in and check or even other countries, not
Speaker 4: even the United States. So I don't have as much faith.
Speaker 4: But I do understand if he can get as many
Speaker 4: countries in the Middle East as possible to just recognize
Speaker 4: that Israel has a right to exist, that is a
Speaker 4: sea change now, whether or not as genuine, whether or
Speaker 4: not at last, I don't know. I mean, put another
Speaker 4: weak sauce president in the White House, and who knows
Speaker 4: what will happen. There's always a dictator waiting to act
Speaker 4: when they feel like the United States is rudderless when
Speaker 4: it comes to foreign policy. And if rudderless doesn't describe
Speaker 4: the foreign policy of the Biden administry, I do not
Speaker 4: know what does. Because it accomplished nothing, zero zip. They
Speaker 4: couldn't even secure our own borders, let alone expect to
Speaker 4: help secure other people's borders. It's crazy, really, So that
Speaker 4: is what's going on, and I'd love for you to
Speaker 4: just keep your eyes peeled for information on what's going
Speaker 4: on in Syria. And I said this on Ross's show.
Speaker 4: My frustration about all of this comes down to one
Speaker 4: very simple thing. If we elevate this guy, if we
Speaker 4: somehow prop him up, if we decide that the devil
Speaker 4: we know in Syria is better than the devil we don't,
Speaker 4: and make this guy the guy we're hanging our hopes on,
Speaker 4: it just shows that we have learned nothing from a
Speaker 4: series of stunningly bad foreign policy disappointments that played out
Speaker 4: over a period of decades in the Middle East, in
Speaker 4: other places in Central America. I mean, at what point
Speaker 4: are we going to realize we suck at picking winners
Speaker 4: and losers? And a better strategy would be to look
Speaker 4: at the massive five hundred thousand drus live in Syria.
Speaker 4: What can we do to ensure that they will not
Speaker 4: turn on us? And the easiest thing would be to
Speaker 4: exert influence and pressure on the Syrian president, who, by
Speaker 4: the way, would love to have status in the world right,
Speaker 4: He would love to be considered a normal part of society.
Speaker 4: So why not use that pressure to try and bring
Speaker 4: him under some kind of realization that the easiest way
Speaker 4: for him to remain in power is to leave the
Speaker 4: drus alone, leave the Alowhites alone, let them do their
Speaker 4: own thing, let them practice their faith freely, let them
Speaker 4: have their lives. But that's only if the only goal
Speaker 4: that he has is to be a part of normal society.
Speaker 4: And I don't think that's what his goal is. I
Speaker 4: think his goal is the rise of an Islamic caliphate,
Speaker 4: and anybody he believes as a blasphemer is in the way,
Speaker 4: which is why we in the United States have to
Speaker 4: be concerned about it because guess what, you guys, do
Speaker 4: you think they just want the Islamic Caliphate to be
Speaker 4: in the Middle East. No, they wanted to be in Europe,
Speaker 4: where over the last few years, Europe has allowed an
Speaker 4: unfettered influx of military age Middle Eastern men into their countries.
Speaker 4: It's not going well, by the way, They're not assimilating.
Speaker 4: They're attacking young women at public pools in Germany. There
Speaker 4: are costing women on the streets in France. So much
Speaker 4: so and I read this and I thought it was
Speaker 4: a joke, and then I crossed reference to it and
Speaker 4: it was real. There are women in Paris who have
Speaker 4: now gotten pet pigs to walk through the streets of Paris,
Speaker 4: so no Muslim men will bother them. I mean, this
Speaker 4: is a culture clash of massive proportions. Only the problem
Speaker 4: is is that we live in the tolerant West. If
Speaker 4: somebody wants to practice the faith, I don't agree with
Speaker 4: more power. I mean more power to you. I want
Speaker 4: you to practice your faith as.
Speaker 2: Much you want.
Speaker 4: I want it to bring you great joy until it
Speaker 4: starts affecting my ability to live freely and my ability
Speaker 4: to practice my faith the way I want it practice.
Speaker 4: That's the West. When you're an Islamist, none of that happens.
Speaker 4: You're either gonna subjugate, You're gonna find or you're gonna
Speaker 4: kill people who don't share the same belief system that
Speaker 4: you have. And that's what's happening now. So I'd love
Speaker 4: to tell you, I'd love to just operate in a vacuum.
Speaker 4: And again, I'm not looking for boots on the ground.
Speaker 4: I'm not looking for direct military action. But I am
Speaker 4: looking for us to begin the process. And I think
Speaker 4: Donald Trump is established his credibility as willing to follow
Speaker 4: through on threats. I think he's pretty much I don't
Speaker 4: think anybody's gonna doubt him at this stage in the game.
Speaker 4: So it'll use him as a tool, and when the
Speaker 4: tool doesn't work, it'll blow up your nuclear facilities or
Speaker 4: whatever else you have. And I realize this makes Maga
Speaker 4: super upset and very unhappy. I get it. I don't
Speaker 4: love it. I wish Congress had the stones to come
Speaker 4: in and do some of the stuff that needs to
Speaker 4: be done, but they don't. They're the most cowardly group
Speaker 4: of people in the entire world, who would rather give
Speaker 4: their powers to someone else than have to answer at
Speaker 4: the ballot box for making a choice. It's just, it's incredible.
Speaker 4: It's absolutely incredible. Every time I do one of these
Speaker 4: like deep dives into one aspect of Middle Eastern politics,
Speaker 4: I come away even more horrified and honestly more confident.
Speaker 4: The Western culture is a superior culture to what they
Speaker 4: have in Syria, in Lebanon, in any of these Islamist nations.
Speaker 4: Their culture is not as good as ours. Ours is
Speaker 4: not perfect, but at least in hours you have the
Speaker 4: freedom to do dumb things. They're dumb things will possibly
Speaker 4: get you killed or excommunicated or even your family killed.
Speaker 4: It's absolutely nuts, but I do wish that you would share.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I do have the ZD woman's story on
Speaker 4: the blog today. Let me just share the details of
Speaker 4: this because the next time some young idiotic girl is
Speaker 4: wearing a cafea and telling you that Israel is the problem,
Speaker 4: I want you to share this with her, because these
Speaker 4: people are on the same side as the people she's
Speaker 4: supposedly supporting. A twenty one year old woman kidnapped by
Speaker 4: ISIS fighters in Iraq in twenty fourteen was freed from
Speaker 4: Gaza this week in a secret operation that involved Iraq, Israel, Jordan,
Speaker 4: and the United States. The Yazidis, whose faith is rooted
Speaker 4: in zoro Astrianism, mostly live in Iraq and Syria. They
Speaker 4: were targeted by ISIS in Iraq Sinjar District in a
Speaker 4: campaign that killed nearly ten thousand people in a matter
Speaker 4: of days and saw thousands of women kidnapped, raped, or
Speaker 4: abused as sex slaves. This woman was taken at the
Speaker 4: age of eleven and then trafficked to Gaza. She was
Speaker 4: freed after more than four months of efforts that involved
Speaker 4: several attempts that failed due to the difficulty difficult security
Speaker 4: situation resulting from Israel's war in Gaza. The Iraqi Ministry
Speaker 4: of Foreign Affairs praise the cooperation between the US and
Speaker 4: Jordan and said the girl was handed over to her
Speaker 4: family this evening after returning to Iraq, and that again
Speaker 4: went through the US because Israel and I Rock do
Speaker 4: not share diplomatic ties. I mean, ten years, how does
Speaker 4: a sex slave in Gaza? And that's the culture that
Speaker 4: young women on college campuses who will freak out if
Speaker 4: a guy asks them out more than once and call
Speaker 4: it stalking and sexual assault. That's the team they're rooting
Speaker 4: for now, is the team that sells women into sex
Speaker 4: slavery and lets them sit there for ten years in Gaza.
Speaker 4: I mean ugh.
Speaker 1: Ugh.
Speaker 4: Anyway, speaking of culture problems, let me share this story
Speaker 4: with you. Hey, Grant, did you know that when you're
Speaker 4: smoking your mess or fentanyl in your glass pipe, it
Speaker 4: is best to keep the flame moving around the bowl
Speaker 4: so you melt the drugs instead of burning them. This
Speaker 4: helps prevent the pipes from cracking and waste less drugs.
Speaker 4: Did you know that? I think that is something I
Speaker 4: did not need to know well at all? You know
Speaker 4: what that is what's being given out to drug addicts
Speaker 4: by harm reduction specialists who are also handing out foil
Speaker 4: and pipes for people to continue smoking the unregulated and
Speaker 4: untested drugs that will probably kill a good number of them.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm glad they're doing it safeer now. I et
Speaker 5: not wasting any that's important.
Speaker 4: I hate the concept of harm reduction because I don't
Speaker 4: think it does it. I don't think it. I don't
Speaker 4: think it is. I don't think harm reduction in other
Speaker 4: circumstances would be this. Would you say if you knew
Speaker 4: you had a friend who was a severe alcoholic severe alcoholic,
Speaker 4: would you call them up and say, you know what,
Speaker 4: I know that you're going to do this anyway, So
Speaker 4: I don't want you to get into a car accident.
Speaker 4: So I am going to come drive you to the
Speaker 4: bar you can get blackout drunk, and then I'll drive
Speaker 4: you home at the end of the night so you
Speaker 4: don't get into a car accident on the way home.
Speaker 4: That's harm reduction for an alcoholic. Doesn't it sound absurd?
Speaker 4: I do that for all my friends, of course. What
Speaker 4: about for your friend who obviously has an eating issue
Speaker 4: and is morbidly obese? Do you pick them up and
Speaker 4: take them to the Golden Corral buffet every day, because
Speaker 4: you know what, They're gonna do it anyway, and at
Speaker 4: least I'll be there to make sure they don't chuck
Speaker 4: to death on a chicken wing if I take them there.
Speaker 4: Is But you say it like that, and it really
Speaker 4: does sound like the dumbest thing that anybody could ever do.
Speaker 4: And here's the thing, you, guys. I totally understand that
Speaker 4: the thinking behind harm reduction is that a dead drug
Speaker 4: addict will never have the chance to get clean. And
Speaker 4: that's true, that's absolutely true. But that is why we
Speaker 4: cannot allow people to wallow in their addiction. I've now
Speaker 4: spent too much time talking to people who are who
Speaker 4: are either on I say, on the other side of addiction.
Speaker 4: I know that addicts can go a very long time
Speaker 4: being sober and then fall off the wagon and start
Speaker 4: the whole process again. I understand this, But I also
Speaker 4: know addicts who are addicts for a very long time,
Speaker 4: but then now they've been sober for so long that
Speaker 4: they don't have the same temptations and impulses that they
Speaker 4: had when they first got clean. And I know some
Speaker 4: people like this personally. I mean, I know someone who
Speaker 4: was like a heroin addict for twenty five years and
Speaker 4: now has been cleaned for thirty years, and they're not
Speaker 4: in the mindset of an addict anymore. I think that
Speaker 4: anyone who expects people in the throes of addiction when
Speaker 4: the brain has stopped making sense and only cares about
Speaker 4: getting more drugs, and that's what addiction is right. Addiction
Speaker 4: makes drug addicts choose drugs over their children, over the
Speaker 4: people they love, over their parents, over everything. That's what
Speaker 4: addiction can do. And expecting to just keep giving them
Speaker 4: the stuff they need to keep making a choice that
Speaker 4: can kill them at any time with a drug supply
Speaker 4: that is completely untested. We just had a story that
Speaker 4: there was a bad batch of fentanyl in Baltimore and
Speaker 4: like thirty people died in a day. Thirty people in
Speaker 4: a day, and you're handing out pipes and foil to
Speaker 4: make it easier for them to smoke their drugs. This
Speaker 4: is completely lost on me, absolutely lost. I think it
Speaker 4: is well intended and an absolute disaster. And unless you
Speaker 4: think I'm wrong, I want to share a tweet that
Speaker 4: was texted out by someone called gen x Genden a
Speaker 4: few times a month. She says I check in the
Speaker 4: Denver County Medical Examines fatal OD data twenty twenty five
Speaker 4: is looking grim. From January to May, we've hit two
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty five fatal ods, nearly three times the
Speaker 4: same or for the same period in twenty eighteen, and
Speaker 4: a seven percent increase from the twenty twenty three peak.
Speaker 4: And you, guys, drug addiction is often a lagging cause
Speaker 4: of death because the toxicology reports take so long, so
Speaker 4: that number will likely go up. So you're gonna tell
Speaker 4: me that telling people on little cards how to more
Speaker 4: efficiently smoke their drugs is helping solve the problem. I
Speaker 4: would say, no, it doesn't seem to be, not at all.
Speaker 4: We'll be right back in this segment. I want to
Speaker 4: do something completely different. I have what I'm just calling
Speaker 4: my silly listener question of the day, and I keep
Speaker 4: seeing those on the Internet and I love them, and
Speaker 4: I thought I would just bring them to you. So
Speaker 4: get ready, get ready to text in your answers to
Speaker 4: five six six. N I know, but first I want
Speaker 4: to ask this question respectfully. Mandy is your nephew and Israel.
Speaker 4: You're a prepper, as you talk Israel more than anything
Speaker 4: else that support Israel but still think the United States
Speaker 4: are upon for Israel. They say jump, We ask how Hi? Thanks?
Speaker 6: You know what?
Speaker 4: Can't help you? Just can't help you with that. It
Speaker 4: matters to me because eventually it will be in our
Speaker 4: laps anyway, that's the thing. Okay. Today's silly listener question
Speaker 4: is simple. This from a post on x dot com. Okay, algorithm,
Speaker 4: don't steer me wrong. What was your favorite non traditional
Speaker 4: gift that you asked for and received as a wedding gift?
Speaker 4: Building this wedding registry has me stressed, and I have one.
Speaker 4: When Chuck and I got married, we did not register
Speaker 4: for gifts we had we did not need gifts, so
Speaker 4: we didn't have a proper registry. But I have one
Speaker 4: from my first marriage that is very funny and I'm
Speaker 4: not gonna say yet because I want to hear what
Speaker 4: you guys have to say. So the question is this,
Speaker 4: what is the best non traditional wedding gift you asked
Speaker 4: for and then got? I actually have another one. One
Speaker 4: Valentine's Day, Chuck hands me a gift for Valentine's Day
Speaker 4: and as he's handing me this large box, he hands
Speaker 4: it to me and says, this is either the best
Speaker 4: Valentine's Day gift or the worst Valentine's Day gift in history. Intrigued,
Speaker 4: I opened it and it was a crossbow. Best Valentine's
Speaker 4: Day gift ever. Seriously, I mean, how cool is that?
Speaker 4: How cool is that?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 4: Uh, we're asking for non traditional and this first person said,
Speaker 4: Dinnerware said, that's a very traditional wedding gift. Brant, what
Speaker 4: are some of the wedding gifts that you and Olivia got,
Speaker 4: because you guys got married fairly recently. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: just the usual stuff.
Speaker 5: One of them that was really cool was we got
Speaker 5: a really really nice air mattress that we asked for
Speaker 5: and got.
Speaker 4: Well, I and what's funny is so I have wedding
Speaker 4: gifts for my first wedding that I still use. I
Speaker 4: had this amazing lasagna pan that my my friend who
Speaker 4: I worked at the radio station with, Simon, he gave
Speaker 4: me this lasagna pan and this really killers callander. So
Speaker 4: it was like a little pasta set, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean. I still have that thing and I use
Speaker 4: it all the time, and every time I pull it out,
Speaker 4: I think of him.
Speaker 5: We got a gravy boat that we did not ask for.
Speaker 5: But then it had one hundred bucks in it, so
Speaker 5: o gravy. That was just a delivery system for a
Speaker 5: little grand One other really cool thing that we did
Speaker 5: not ask for. I know this isn't the question, but
Speaker 5: one of Olivia's dad's friends made a He took like
Speaker 5: a huge chunk of wood and made this massive coat
Speaker 5: rack and that like burn it in certain ways to
Speaker 5: design it the old railroad ties.
Speaker 4: Is that that? Yeah, that's really cool. A crylic toilet
Speaker 4: seat with miniature rubber duckies in Boston in it. Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: That that is a unique and special thing. None of
Speaker 4: you guys got practical gifts a wedding gifts like non
Speaker 4: traditional weird things. So here is my story from my
Speaker 4: first husband. And if you guys don't bring me something else,
Speaker 4: I'm never gonna do these questions again. I thought you
Speaker 4: guys would really bring it. I was excited. This is
Speaker 4: yet another one of those examples where the talk show
Speaker 4: host thought something was very interesting and the audience is like, Nay, whatever,
Speaker 4: it's fine. So when my husband, my first husband, and
Speaker 4: I got married, so this was like nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 4: the stores has just started giving you the gun. You
Speaker 4: know what I mean, the little zapper gun. So they
Speaker 4: give us this gun. We're mad with power. We're going
Speaker 4: to do our list. It's like Target or something. And
Speaker 4: my ex husband zap's a nose hair trimmer. So how
Speaker 4: many knows harea trimmers do you think we got as
Speaker 4: wedding gifts. We even got a better nose Haarah trimmer
Speaker 4: than the one we asked for from someone who was like,
Speaker 4: you don't want that brand, that's like the amateur brand.
Speaker 4: So he got a no Zera trimmer. I got a
Speaker 4: no Zera trimmer. We all got nos hair trimmers. It
Speaker 4: was fantastic and we had no one to blame but
Speaker 4: ourselves because, oh, by the way, we forgot to ask him,
Speaker 4: how do you take something off after you zap it?
Speaker 4: A Incidentally, we could have asked, but we did not.
Speaker 4: So we got noshair trimmers as our wedding gift. That
Speaker 4: was pretty awesome. Someone gave us pre filled out divorce
Speaker 4: papers as a gag gift. I don't know if I
Speaker 4: would take that kindly. I really don't know. My oldest
Speaker 4: son and his wife, they have an ex friend who
Speaker 4: is an ex friend because when he called to tell
Speaker 4: him he wasn't coming to the wedding. They said, I'll
Speaker 4: come to you guys's next wedding, and they were like, yeah,
Speaker 4: we don't need you in our life. Mandy, we got
Speaker 4: a condom dispenser. We now have seven boys. Apparently somebody
Speaker 4: poked some holes in your condoms before they gave them
Speaker 4: to you. I'm just saying. My best wedding gift didn't
Speaker 4: come until two years later a divorce. Well, that is
Speaker 4: non traditional, Mandy. For a wedding gift, I gave a
Speaker 4: good friend a worm farm set up. She loved it.
Speaker 4: I mean, but if you know your friend's gonna love it,
Speaker 4: but what about her spouse? Hey, you married someone who's
Speaker 4: excited about a worm There's always time to reconsider.
Speaker 2: Mandy.
Speaker 4: We got married just to get a knife. Nice knife set, you, guys.
Speaker 4: I forgot to talk about my knife I got in Japan.
Speaker 4: Oh it is it is next level knife. It is
Speaker 4: so good, so so so good. I am anti knife sets.
Speaker 4: Just to give you an idea. When I was like twenty,
Speaker 4: I think maybe twenty one or twenty two. One year
Speaker 4: for Christmas, my dad gave me my first really good
Speaker 4: ten inch chef's knife, a Hinkle. I still have it.
Speaker 4: I still use it all the time. And he said,
Speaker 4: always buy good knives, even if you can only buy
Speaker 4: them one at a time. And that's what I did,
Speaker 4: and I built my knife set based on that and
Speaker 4: it's pretty dang good and it just got better thanks
Speaker 4: to Japan Mandy. We gave our friends a partswasher. What
Speaker 4: is a parts swasher?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 4: Who's parts? What are you washing? Which parts? You? We
Speaker 4: need more information about that, like private parts, That's what
Speaker 4: I'm asking, Like car parts, personal private parts parts, your
Speaker 4: bathing suit covers? What are we talking about here? I'm
Speaker 4: thinking suit cover maybe, But what does that even look like?
Speaker 4: Because that seems like that would need to be gender specific,
Speaker 4: if you know what I mean. That's what we were.
Speaker 4: There need to be two if there was, you know,
Speaker 4: unless it was the same sex couple. And not that
Speaker 4: there's anything wrong with that. I recently gifted a vacuum
Speaker 4: cleaner to some friends with the note attached this gift
Speaker 4: sucks well done. That was one of the best gifts
Speaker 4: we got. Oh you got to love a good vacuum cleaner.
Speaker 4: Are you really really exactly and vacuum cleaner and you're
Speaker 4: excited about both of them. Like the first day with
Speaker 4: the new vacuum. This is what happens. By the way,
Speaker 4: you're young, you just got your new vacuum, not that
Speaker 4: long ago, Grant. At some point that new vacuum is
Speaker 4: gonna need to be replaced, and you guys are gonna
Speaker 4: go out, you're gonna find you're gonna go buy a
Speaker 4: new vacuum, and you're gonna bring it home and one
Speaker 4: of you is going to put it all together, and
Speaker 4: then you're gonna go, I'm just gonna vacuum and see,
Speaker 4: and you're gonna suck up so much dirt. You're gonna
Speaker 4: be horrified, and you're gonna take the canister and you're
Speaker 4: gonna show your wife, Oh my god, that old vacuum
Speaker 4: wasn't doing this at all. I've I've had that exact
Speaker 4: same experience at least six times, because I have bought
Speaker 4: six new vacuums, and every time, oh my god, we're savages.
Speaker 4: Look at this, We're living in filth. Should have replace this.
Speaker 4: Years ago. My husband's first gift to me after we
Speaker 4: were married was a down sleeping bag, the best ever.
Speaker 4: We were campers, hikers, hunters, so this was valuable to
Speaker 4: me perfect gift, best gift for my first marriage, the
Speaker 4: number do an outstanding divorce attorney. All these pessimists given gifts.
Speaker 4: Uh oh, Mandy, I gave a shot back twice. It
Speaker 4: wasn't asked for, but well received. Who doesn't love a
Speaker 4: shot back? I mean, come on, a shot back is
Speaker 4: one of the most versatile tools in every garage. Mandy.
Speaker 4: We registered at ARII thirty five years ago, got tents, camping, cookware,
Speaker 4: and doggy bag packs for our two Golden Retrievers. Doesn't
Speaker 4: apply to me, but once I get a friend, I wait.
Speaker 4: I gave a friend couple a bicycle built for two. Oh,
Speaker 4: that's really sweet. That's very sweet. We didn't ask for this,
Speaker 4: but some friends gave us a Coleman cooler for our
Speaker 4: wedding forty years ago. Our twenty nine year old daughter
Speaker 4: now uses it for camping. They don't build him like
Speaker 4: they used to. Okay, I got a bunch of good stuff.
Speaker 4: Now we'll be back with a few more of these
Speaker 4: are right after this. You're killing my text line though.
Speaker 4: This guy is literally just texting every stream of thought
Speaker 4: coming into his head, and I'm trying to get back
Speaker 4: to the comments that you guys made off the topic
Speaker 4: at hand, and he is literally just filling up my
Speaker 4: text thread and he's not even talking about this show anyway.
Speaker 4: First of all, Grant, we have clarification. A parts cleaner
Speaker 4: is for car parts. Oh so our minds were just
Speaker 4: in the shutter. Yeah, well I didn't know that that's
Speaker 4: a thing. I've never cleaned car parts before, just left
Speaker 4: them dirty, or assume someone else cleaned them. I don't know. Mandy.
Speaker 4: I'm from Kansas. My wife and I received a homemade
Speaker 4: quote with our name on it and the date we
Speaker 4: were married. Now that's a very touching wedding gift. I'm
Speaker 4: talking about practical, non traditional, like wow, you open this
Speaker 4: up and you're like, well, I did not expect that
Speaker 4: kind of gift. Just you know, Mandy, a friend of
Speaker 4: mine gives toasters but has them engraved with the newlyweds
Speaker 4: name so they can't take it back. That is the
Speaker 4: most passive aggressive gift giving I have ever heard. Mandy.
Speaker 4: I bought a new Speed Queen washer and dryer last year,
Speaker 4: and I washed clothes for the next week. This washer
Speaker 4: and dryer is so much better than the old front load. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we all do it. We all do it, guys. I'm
Speaker 4: asking the question about your non traditional wedding gifts. You
Speaker 4: can text it to five six six nine. Oh. This one.
Speaker 4: We gave our oldest niece and her husband some bland
Speaker 4: wedding gift for public assumption and a secret gift with
Speaker 4: the administ to open it up in private. The joy
Speaker 4: of sex and more joy of sex. They were both
Speaker 4: very religious and innocent souls. They told us privately later
Speaker 4: that was one of their best gifts, as they knew
Speaker 4: some of the mechanics but not the details. They have
Speaker 4: four children now, sometimes they need a little help. I
Speaker 4: think they figured it out. Yep, seems like they got
Speaker 4: The books were probably very helpful. Best wedding gift I
Speaker 4: gave was a six foot step ladder. I'm not sure why,
Speaker 4: but I don't I wouldn't complain. Here's one, Mandy. I've
Speaker 4: never had any complaints about the envelope with the Benjamins.
Speaker 4: I like to give a thoughtful wedding gift that represents
Speaker 4: my relationship with the people getting married in some way,
Speaker 4: shape or form, because I'm not kidding everything I have
Speaker 4: For my first marriage, which was in nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 4: I remember who gave it to me. I also remember
Speaker 4: when Chuck buys me things where we were when he
Speaker 4: bought them, like a gift, or if we're on vacation.
Speaker 4: What vacation I bought something on and I you know,
Speaker 4: I don't know why my brain works like that, but
Speaker 4: I can't remember my daughter's cell phone number. No idea, Mandy.
Speaker 4: I gave a set of congas to a couple that
Speaker 4: did a lot of percussion. We brought them in wrapped,
Speaker 4: but they were pretty easy to identify. Some said that
Speaker 4: we raised the bar, and that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: You knew the couple and you bought something highly personal.
Speaker 4: I just I think that's really good, Mandy. Years ago,
Speaker 4: the wind blew my trash can away, and as a
Speaker 4: single mom, I didn't have the money to replace it.
Speaker 4: My neighbors bought one for me and gave it to
Speaker 4: me from a birthday. I took the lid, jumped in
Speaker 4: and said, it's a perfect fit. That's the way you go.
Speaker 4: Who knew trash cans were so expensive? Gully, They're ridiculous,
Speaker 4: It's so dumb.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I actually have a friend who lives in a
Speaker 4: different city. She doesn't live here, and you have to
Speaker 4: buy like the super expensive seventy gallon heavy duty lid ones,
Speaker 4: but you have to pay for them, and her neighbor
Speaker 4: kept stealing hers. Not only this, so this was like
Speaker 4: an older lady, but she had it on ring camera footage.
Speaker 4: So she went over to tell the lady she was
Speaker 4: taking her trash cans back. Lady had already spray painted
Speaker 4: her name on the top of them and said, those
Speaker 4: are clearly not yours, those are mine. She shows her
Speaker 4: the ring camera footage and she's like, oh, well, I
Speaker 4: didn't know those were yours, Like they just occurred, like
Speaker 4: the trash can fairy had just dropped them off. But
Speaker 4: it was a huge kerfuffle, a big kerfuffle. Mandy. We
Speaker 4: got a really nice luggage set for four and eighteen
Speaker 4: years later we're a family of four. There you go. Um,
Speaker 4: let me see here, Mandy. We had Waterford glasses on
Speaker 4: our registry, including champagne flutes that we received early to
Speaker 4: use for our toast at the reception. I have a
Speaker 4: pair of waterfor why did they didn't make it through
Speaker 4: the twenties? Just letting you know. By the way, if
Speaker 4: you ever come to my house, you'll notice my beautiful
Speaker 4: wineglasses are often from the dollar store. Not gonna lie.
Speaker 4: I have a whole set of party wine glasses that
Speaker 4: I got at the dollar store. Guess how much they cost?
Speaker 4: Grant a dollar? Correct direct, There you go. Let me
Speaker 4: see here, I'm trying to go the um. Did you
Speaker 4: mention the cool hummingbird feeders one that came in yet?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: I didn't see that one at all. Is it the
Speaker 4: top one? Oh, cool hummingbird feeders? Yes, except hummingbird feeders
Speaker 4: attract bears where I live, so it's kind of like
Speaker 4: put them out at your own risk kind of thing. Mandy,
Speaker 4: we got a cheap framed poster of both Jesus and
Speaker 4: the Blessed Virgin from Aunt Aggie. She wrote a note
Speaker 4: saying these are for the bedroom. They're in the pole barn. Now, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm not putting Jesus at the Mother and Mary in
Speaker 4: my bedroom. They don't need to see any sort of
Speaker 4: business that's going on in there. That's the last thing
Speaker 4: I need to have to explain to Saint Peter when
Speaker 4: I hit the pearly gates. Mandy, We gave our son
Speaker 4: and daughter in law a female calf. It's a gift
Speaker 4: that keeps on giving what let me see the end
Speaker 4: of that. To date they now have fought cows. Yes
Speaker 4: it is, and we gave our hang on Mandy. For
Speaker 4: my wedding gift, we got some baby clothes yep. Shotgun wedding,
Speaker 4: still married after fifty five years. Last one, Mandy. For
Speaker 4: my first wedding in nineteen seventy, I received a General
Speaker 4: Electric electric skillet. My husband polished the lid and we
Speaker 4: still use it in our RV today, fifty plus years later.
Speaker 4: That's when they do how to make compliances by gosh,
Speaker 4: by gully. Now they're practically disposable by back in my day.
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Speaker 4: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the third hour of the show.
Speaker 4: I'm your host, the afore mentioned Mandy Connell. Anthony Rodriguez
Speaker 4: not here with us today. He did the morning shift.
Speaker 4: Grant Smith is here doing this until Friday when he
Speaker 4: has to do the morning shift. What is who did
Speaker 4: Zach pay off? That he doesn't have to do the
Speaker 4: morning shift. Well, there's a little more to it, yeah
Speaker 4: than most shows.
Speaker 5: So not to throw Zach under the bus, but he's
Speaker 5: relatively new and our boss is so nice now that
Speaker 5: people don't get thrown into the fire like when a
Speaker 5: Rod and I started to stop it.
Speaker 4: He's not that nice.
Speaker 5: I'll talk to him about that thro the fire he is.
Speaker 5: He's not there yet, but he will get there. And
Speaker 5: by the way, yeah, on your last topic, I forgot.
Speaker 5: We got a kayak as a wedding gift. That's fantastic
Speaker 5: inflatable kayak which I thought was going to be a nightmare,
Speaker 5: and we took it out and it was the easiest
Speaker 5: thing to pump up in the world and we've used
Speaker 5: it so many times.
Speaker 4: It was a great gift, excellent, and we asked for
Speaker 4: it and we got excellent. I'm on, have bought you
Speaker 4: that grant? You might have I'm thinking about her, like,
Speaker 4: wait a minut, how I vollue that grant And we
Speaker 4: gotta talked about it and I was like, no, that's
Speaker 4: an awesome gift. This is my favorite, uh non traditional
Speaker 4: wedding gift. This one said. We got a sex swing
Speaker 4: and we're still rocking it. You have to know somebody
Speaker 4: to give that as a gift, you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 4: you just don't randomly give a sex swing to someone
Speaker 4: without without understanding. Oh yeah, yeah. Anyway, I got a
Speaker 4: couple of Colorado stories I want to jump into. You know,
Speaker 4: Phil Wiser is running for governor and he's trying to
Speaker 4: find ways to give himself an edge. Michael Bennett is
Speaker 4: crushing the fundraising, I mean crushing the fundraising and really
Speaker 4: sucking up all the oxygen and the Democratic primaries for governor.
Speaker 4: So he's kind of doing some stuff that part of
Speaker 4: it is a panda and part of it is to
Speaker 4: signal that he's going to fight Trump. So what are
Speaker 4: we talking about here? First of all, you, I mean
Speaker 4: I kind of went through this stuff with Wanda James,
Speaker 4: the CU regent who also owns retail marijuana establishments, who
Speaker 4: actually aggressively attacked CU's high on THHC program because it
Speaker 4: wouldn't Darry hurt her business. She didn't say that, but
Speaker 4: that's the real reason, and the other board members censured her,
Speaker 4: which really means nothing. I mean, you have to have
Speaker 4: an honorable society before CenTra actually means anything. But nonetheless
Speaker 4: she was censured by the other board members, and Phil
Speaker 4: Weiser has come out to say that's wrong. Dang it.
Speaker 4: That is the direct pander to the African American community,
Speaker 4: of which wanted James is a member. The second thing
Speaker 4: that Pilweiser has done. And part of me actually feels
Speaker 4: sorry for Phil because he's done all the right things
Speaker 4: that you're supposed to do. I mean, let's be real,
Speaker 4: AG stands for aspiring governor, right, So he's done all
Speaker 4: the right things. And now you know, Michael Bennett comes in.
Speaker 4: And Michael Bennett, though a very nice fella, I can't
Speaker 4: tell you a single accomplishment of Michael Bennett in the
Speaker 4: US Senate. I'm not saying there's not any, but what
Speaker 4: I'm saying is I can't tell you what any of
Speaker 4: them are. And now Phil Wiser's probably gonna lose the
Speaker 4: Democratic primary to Michael Bennett because he's a senator and
Speaker 4: name recognition and blah blah blah. So in order to
Speaker 4: raise his profile, he's signing on to all these lawsuits
Speaker 4: against the Trump administration. And the latest one is a
Speaker 4: coalition of twenty one state attorney generals who are calling
Speaker 4: on Congress to prohibit federal immigration agents from wearing masks
Speaker 4: and plain clothes. Now, guys, if ICE agents hadn't just
Speaker 4: been shot at at at a pot farm in California,
Speaker 4: if an ICE agent hadn't recently been shot through the
Speaker 4: throat just going to work, if Democrats weren't out there
Speaker 4: calling for violence against size agents, I probably would be like,
Speaker 4: you know, they kind of have a point. But I
Speaker 4: did go back. I looked on the internet for any
Speaker 4: indication that Phil Wiser was calling for protesters in Denver
Speaker 4: to remove their masks, or maybe a mask ban in
Speaker 4: public spaces like New York City is pursuing. Now do
Speaker 4: you know they're doing that? New York City is like,
Speaker 4: no more masks because now criminals are using them to
Speaker 4: hide what their faces are. And that's absolutely true. Same
Speaker 4: with the protesters. If you're so proud to come out
Speaker 4: and protest, show your face. Now, of course you could say, Mandy,
Speaker 4: if they're so proud to work for the government, show
Speaker 4: your face. There's a big difference. And let me tell
Speaker 4: you what it is. If you have fifty protesters out
Speaker 4: there and ten of them go rogue and start doing
Speaker 4: terrible things in burning down buildings or whatever. Do you
Speaker 4: now you find out how or who those protesters were,
Speaker 4: so maybe you could arrest the guilty. I don't know either,
Speaker 4: because protesters to show up, right, there's just a group
Speaker 4: of people who got together to be mad about something
Speaker 4: or because they want to riot or loot or whatever
Speaker 4: their end game is. If I watch fifty ICE agents
Speaker 4: go in and arrest people and ten of them do
Speaker 4: things that are wrong, do you know what recourse I have.
Speaker 4: I can go to ICE and say, you've got to
Speaker 4: find out out of your fifty agents, which ten we're
Speaker 4: doing the bad things? Because all fifty we know exactly
Speaker 4: who those fifty people are. Someone does they can be
Speaker 4: held accountable, and I grab this story. This is fun,
Speaker 4: you guys, this is super fun. A San Antonio City
Speaker 4: Council candidate publicly urged violence against federal agents, echoing a
Speaker 4: recent terrorist ambush by far leftist Matthew Ghana. Sounds a
Speaker 4: lot like guano, which is batpoop. I'll make that joke.
Speaker 4: A self described Democrat and candidate for San Antonio City
Speaker 4: Council is facing backlash after posting a now deleted post
Speaker 4: on x calling for the deaths of ICE agents. He said,
Speaker 4: I want to see a few dead ICE agents, Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: Don't let me down now. This is after a group
Speaker 4: of terrorists and far left US ambushed the Prairie Land
Speaker 4: Detention Center in Alphado, Texas. During a July fourth assault,
Speaker 4: armed suspects and tactical gear, open fire on law enforcement,
Speaker 4: and shot a police officer in the neck. Those ten
Speaker 4: people have been charge with attempted murder. Democratic leaders like
Speaker 4: Representative Jiapaul labeled ICE a terrorist force and praised those
Speaker 4: obstructing its operations. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons and DHS
Speaker 4: warned that such rhetoric correlates with spikes and violence against ICE,
Speaker 4: including a five one hundred to seven hundred percent increase
Speaker 4: in assaults on ICE officers. DHS Assistant Secretary McLaughlin said
Speaker 4: demographic data showed a four hundred and thirteen percent increase
Speaker 4: in assaults against ICE officers in twenty twenty five, and
Speaker 4: warned that comparison to Hitler's gestapo or encouragement of writers
Speaker 4: is beyond the pale. But other Democrats have also come
Speaker 4: out to say their constituencies are demanding bloodshed and that's
Speaker 4: why I'm okay with ICE agents being able to wear
Speaker 4: masks right now because with the Internet, people can find
Speaker 4: out who they are, and they can tell people where
Speaker 4: they live. And now you're going to put their families
Speaker 4: and everyone else in danger. And before you give me
Speaker 4: any kind of crap about where they're ripping families apart,
Speaker 4: the people that they're arresting overwhelmingly are people who have
Speaker 4: broken the law in the United States of America. They
Speaker 4: have some kind of deportation order for something. These are
Speaker 4: agents of the government. I don't love the government, but
Speaker 4: these are agents of the government, not rogue people who
Speaker 4: are just walking around snapping people up and throwing them
Speaker 4: in vans. So stop it, just stop it. When we
Speaker 4: get back, guys, gals, I need you to take about
Speaker 4: two minutes of your time and fill out a survey.
Speaker 4: The guver's heard that we all hate his ugly ass bridge,
Speaker 4: and now it's time to make sure he hears that
Speaker 4: loud and clear. I need you to do Colorado a solid.
Speaker 4: Okay do people still use that phrase? Grant do me
Speaker 4: a solid? I still like it. I'm bringing it back, Okay.
Speaker 4: I'm not hip anymore, though. Well, you know the best thing.
Speaker 4: The best thing about being old is that you don't
Speaker 4: care about being cool anymore, which actually makes you cooler, right,
Speaker 4: it's the geezer paradox well known. There's a survey now.
Speaker 4: Apparently word has gotten back to the governor that not
Speaker 4: only does Kyle Clark hate his walkway, everyone else in
Speaker 4: Colorado hates the walkway idea. If you've not seen this,
Speaker 4: he wants to build this twisting, meandering, multi million dollar,
Speaker 4: useless bit of walkway in front of the capitol, but
Speaker 4: only on one side of the front of the Capitol.
Speaker 4: It completely disrupts the balance of the entire thing. He
Speaker 4: envisions it being full of artwork or something like that,
Speaker 4: but we in reality know it will be full of
Speaker 4: homeless people. And you're in. So this is our chance, Colorado,
Speaker 4: this is our big chance to stop the madness.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: I have put a link in multiple places. There's a
Speaker 4: link on my x account, there's a link on the
Speaker 4: blog today, but you can also just go, okay, listen
Speaker 4: to the url. Okay, it's of course the three ws.
Speaker 4: Then co Colorado one fifty walkway dot com CO one
Speaker 4: fifty one five zero CO one fifty walkway dot com.
Speaker 4: And there's a survey there, and I'm gonna walk you
Speaker 4: through the survey just to tell you which answers you
Speaker 4: should complete. Now you get to this big once you
Speaker 4: take the survey, you get this big one hundred Colorado,
Speaker 4: one hundred and fiftieth birthdays coming. What do you think
Speaker 4: of the proposed one hundred and fiftieth walkway at the
Speaker 4: state Capitol? And they ask, where's your zip code? Okay, perfect,
Speaker 4: put in a zip code. There you go submitting, and
Speaker 4: now there's a bunch of blah blah blah, a bunch
Speaker 4: of how cool it's going to be, a bunch of
Speaker 4: wouldn't it be amazing? A bunch of what people are saying.
Speaker 4: And then then we get to the questions and they
Speaker 4: are this voting closes on the twenty first. By the way,
Speaker 4: should Colorado proceed with the proposed one hundred and fiftieth
Speaker 4: anniversary walkway at the State Capital Complex? The answer is no.
Speaker 4: If Colorado does not proceed with the one hundred and
Speaker 4: fiftieth anniversary walkway, would you like to see and these
Speaker 4: are a multiple choice question, a major one hundred and
Speaker 4: fiftieth anniversary project in our state's capital city of Denver,
Speaker 4: or several smaller scale anniversary projects in other parts of
Speaker 4: the state that reflect our rich history and diverse culture,
Speaker 4: or no anniversary projects at all.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 4: I voted for the second one because I think it
Speaker 4: would be really interesting to go to important places in
Speaker 4: Colorado and have a celebration to kind of spread the
Speaker 4: wealth about the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary to other
Speaker 4: parts of the state, not just Denver. If Colorado does
Speaker 4: proceed with the one hundred and fiftieth Anniversary walkway, would
Speaker 4: you like to see the full one hundred and fiftieth
Speaker 4: anniversary walkway built as planned, or the one hundred and
Speaker 4: fiftieth Anniversary Walkway scale back to a smaller project. I
Speaker 4: left that blank. You're not gonna trick me, mister governor.
Speaker 4: And then the last one, twenty twenty six is just
Speaker 4: around the corner. Are you more excited about Colorado's one
Speaker 4: hundred and fiftieth anniversary the United States two hundred and
Speaker 4: fiftieth anniversary or both equally, And I'll let you do
Speaker 4: what you pick them on that for you. For me,
Speaker 4: it's about the US anniversary, but that's just me. And
Speaker 4: then you can join the Governor's propaganda I mean mailing list.
Speaker 4: You can do that there. So CO one fifty walkway
Speaker 4: dot com. Just scroll through all the crap to get
Speaker 4: down to the survey at the bottom. We have to
Speaker 4: bury this pedestrian walkway before it even gets off the ground. People,
Speaker 4: this vanity project, this legacy nonsense. We have to make
Speaker 4: it go away. And the only way to do that
Speaker 4: is to resoundingly reject this in this survey, so the
Speaker 4: governor starts to understand how much we just don't want
Speaker 4: this just don't. So there you go, people, I just
Speaker 4: it literally. You saw how long and I read them
Speaker 4: out loud. You don't even need to read them out loud,
Speaker 4: so you could probably do the whole thing in about
Speaker 4: thirty seconds. Just remember, don't fall for the trick question
Speaker 4: about if we do build this monstrosity. That's not what
Speaker 4: they say, it's what I say, So don't fall for it,
Speaker 4: because they're kind of sneaky that way, all right, you guys.
Speaker 4: I got a bunch of other stories on the blog today,
Speaker 4: including oh I embedded an X thread just because it
Speaker 4: is an X thread, babies doing the cutest thing ever,
Speaker 4: and if you're having a bad day, I don't care
Speaker 4: who you are.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: A baby discovering that they have control over their own
Speaker 4: foot is fascinating. A baby hearing a violin for the
Speaker 4: first time and being entranced by it fascinating and it'll
Speaker 4: make you feel good. I got a little misty. I
Speaker 4: did a couple of them. I did. It's true. Baby's
Speaker 4: doing cute things. You just can't go wrong with that.
Speaker 4: When we get back, I want to talk about the
Speaker 4: cuts that are coming to the federal budget. The recision
Speaker 4: process has started in DC and it looks like, at
Speaker 4: least out of the Senate, the cuts to PBS and
Speaker 4: NPR are going to go through. Not sad about that,
Speaker 4: but the Senate passed eight billion dollars worth of cuts
Speaker 4: and we're supposed to be excited about it. Yay, we'll
Speaker 4: talk about it next. When you send us a text,
Speaker 4: send all the thoughts in one. The text messages do
Speaker 4: not come in in order, okay, And if you send
Speaker 4: fifteen or twenty texts in a row, there's no guarantee
Speaker 4: they're gonna be in order. So now I don't even
Speaker 4: look at them, and it annoys the ever living crap
Speaker 4: out of me. Probably shouldn't mnit that, because now you guys,
Speaker 4: you're bad actors. Anyway, I got a couple stories on
Speaker 4: the bar on the blog that I want to talk
Speaker 4: to you. Great, let me ask you a question as
Speaker 4: a uh, you're like a younger excuse me, Yeah, you're
Speaker 4: a younger, younger millennial. Right, you're like at the end, yes, okay,
Speaker 4: as a younger millennial. How much network television broadcast network
Speaker 4: television do you watch, like on actual TV channels? Yeah? None?
Speaker 5: Okay, And well, I mean I watched shows, right, but
Speaker 5: like that's after like, like I said, I think I
Speaker 5: said yesterday, we just watched The Bear.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we didn't watch it when it was airing on FX.
Speaker 4: I watched it on Hulu. Network is not a broadcast network.
Speaker 4: We're talking NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox News. You're ones you
Speaker 4: can get over the air on an antenna. Yeah. The
Speaker 4: only thing I'm watching on those networks as sports. For
Speaker 4: the first time since Neilsen began tracking TV use by
Speaker 4: platform four years ago, and probably the first time ever,
Speaker 4: over the air networks accounted for less than twenty percent
Speaker 4: of viewing in June. That is insane to me.
Speaker 5: It's crazy just from the way I grew up, because
Speaker 5: that's what everything was on Bret back.
Speaker 4: When I was a kid. We already had three channels,
Speaker 4: and we had this giant Antetna that was by our
Speaker 4: house that went up like forty feet. It might have
Speaker 4: been a little too close to the house because we
Speaker 4: could use it to climb onto the roof. Someone did
Speaker 4: not think that through, okay at all. So now you
Speaker 4: got cable, you got all that stuff, You got everything
Speaker 4: going on. To the Texters who are now texting one words,
Speaker 4: I'm going to block you from now on and you
Speaker 4: will not be able to tech any shows.
Speaker 5: Well, and it's just like, if you really do want
Speaker 5: to get your point across, it's important. There's so many
Speaker 5: texts coming in you're not gonna go to.
Speaker 4: Jumble of nonsense and it is so irritating. That's crazy
Speaker 4: and they'll never get rid of Yeah, and I'm just
Speaker 4: not reading now, just because we also see the phone numbers,
Speaker 4: you guys, so I know who's doing it. That's the thing.
Speaker 4: Please stop. Just put everything in one sole im asking.
Speaker 4: So now you've got a broadcast television under twenty percent
Speaker 4: for the first time. Now, part of the problem is
Speaker 4: that broadcast television is still using a broadcast television calendar. Right,
Speaker 4: you got new shows coming up in the fall. Did
Speaker 4: you watch any new shows that you're like, yeah, I
Speaker 4: kind of want to see that come back. In the fall.
Speaker 4: We watched one called Oh no, this is part of
Speaker 4: the problem. Oh, it's it's a show I really like
Speaker 4: to leave character she was always in It's Always Sunny
Speaker 4: in Philadelphia. The chick from that show, The Blonde Chick.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, where she's like a lawyer or something. No,
Speaker 4: she's actually a super genius single mom who helps the
Speaker 4: solve crimes. I love crime procedurals, like I just enjoy them.
Speaker 4: I have seen a couple of episodes. I loved that show,
Speaker 4: and I'm excited for it to come back. But broadcast
Speaker 4: television is like, oh, we're going to give you new
Speaker 4: shows in the fall. In the spring, and then the summer,
Speaker 4: you're supposed to watch repeats. Guess what, we're not watching
Speaker 4: the repeats. I can't remember any is Abbott Elementary? Is
Speaker 4: that that's still on? Yeah, that's that's a broadcast shots.
Speaker 4: That's a good one. Yeah there was another one. But
Speaker 4: now High Potential, that's the show. I'm trying to think, Yes,
Speaker 4: High Potential, I have some very entertaining They're very entertaining.
Speaker 4: So ghosts that's funny too. That's a very funny concept.
Speaker 4: That's a good show. Back in the seventies and the sixties,
Speaker 4: you had all these wack a doodle concepts that got
Speaker 4: made into shows. I would like to see us go
Speaker 4: back to wack a doodle concepts for shows like ghosts,
Speaker 4: which is that what did she move into a house?
Speaker 4: And the ghosts of many many different generations still live
Speaker 4: in the in the house and it works. And that
Speaker 4: I mean, the costume budget's got to be nothing because
Speaker 4: they wear the same costumes all the time, every time.
Speaker 4: The guy with the arrow yea on through his head exactly.
Speaker 4: So there you go, Mandy, none of them. I wouldn't
Speaker 4: even know how. At this point, everything is streaming. Well,
Speaker 4: that's the other thing. A lot of people gave up
Speaker 4: their regular cable because streaming was gonna be so much cheaper,
Speaker 4: And now streaming costs as much where if not more.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like Airbnb hotels, yes, yes, or Uber
Speaker 5: and Lyft and cabs.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 4: In New York City, a cab is almost always cheaper.
Speaker 4: I check. I have the taxi ab, I have the
Speaker 4: taxi app, and I have Uber and Lyft, and I
Speaker 4: will check to see how much it's going to cost
Speaker 4: me to get somewhere on all three platforms, and the
Speaker 4: taxi cab in New York City is almost always cheaper always.
Speaker 4: You can find my blog this text are asked by
Speaker 4: going to mandy'sblog dot com or Randy Cromwell dot com.
Speaker 4: I know that direct is never gonna not I'm always
Speaker 4: gonna enjoy that always. And you can look for the
Speaker 4: latest posts and look for the headline that usually says
Speaker 4: today's date and blog that's going to be a blog.
Speaker 4: You might have to scroll over because we do post
Speaker 4: interviews there as well. Mandy, Nobody wants this great show
Speaker 4: but on Netflix, I already watched that. Nobody wants this
Speaker 4: so good. Adam Brody plays a young rabbi who falls
Speaker 4: in love with the Shiksa Kristin Bell, and they are
Speaker 4: delightful together. I never watched it, but my wife obsessed
Speaker 4: so good. It's so so good. And I think Kristen
Speaker 4: Bell and Adam Brody are nominated for an Emmy, so
Speaker 4: the any awards, Like I was gonna put him on
Speaker 4: the blog today, but they did not nominate.
Speaker 5: Gutfeld for talk show and that's ridiculous. I mean, I
Speaker 5: don't watch it, but I know that it has a
Speaker 5: huge following.
Speaker 4: It's not just that it's so funny. It's so much
Speaker 4: funnier than Stephen Colbert. At this point, it really is.
Speaker 4: It just goes to show. Like everything else in Hollywood,
Speaker 4: there is a serious anti right bias dy. Back in
Speaker 4: my day, nineteen seventy, there were five stations in Denver.
Speaker 4: Well weren't too lucky. We had PBS, CBS, and ABC.
Speaker 4: We did not have NBC, and I missed the entire
Speaker 4: Cosby Show. Thing. Did not see the Cosby Show until
Speaker 4: I went to college. Yep, I do watch broadcast channels
Speaker 4: quite a bit. NCIS is my favorite show, and I
Speaker 4: always watch Jeopardy. I gotta tell you, guys, I've been
Speaker 4: watching NCIS since the beginning, and now I just watch
Speaker 4: it because I'm committed. Right. It's like, I'm not going
Speaker 4: to be a quitter. If this show is going to
Speaker 4: be on fifty years, by god, I'm gonna watch it
Speaker 4: for fifty flipp in years, even the years that it's
Speaker 4: just not very good. I think the cast they have
Speaker 4: now is pretty good. We'll see what happens. Mandy. I
Speaker 4: watched Mysteries on PBS Channel six. They had many series
Speaker 4: that are really good in a little edgy you just
Speaker 4: want to keep watching. PBS has always had quality programming,
Speaker 4: and when that was one of the few channels that
Speaker 4: we had, I grew up watching Masterpiece Theater with Alistair?
Speaker 4: Was it Alistair Cook? Welcome to Misterpiece Theater. Tonight's on,
Speaker 4: I Claudius and you'd give you the little synopsis of
Speaker 4: what happened in the last few episodes, Mandy. Point number one,
Speaker 4: viewership percentage goes down for so many reasons, more competition
Speaker 4: and sources. Point number two, it's too expensive. Wages haven't
Speaker 4: increased at the same rate as inflation and expenses. YouTube
Speaker 4: has tons of free stuff and can go on any TV.
Speaker 4: Xbox has YouTube, Huluu all these apps. You don't even
Speaker 4: need a smart TV and Samsung point three? Are all
Speaker 4: my rants like this at every station? Am I a buffoon?
Speaker 4: Do they come in in weird orders? All my efforts
Speaker 4: defending Kobe the game's only started. I don't care about Kobe.
Speaker 4: I don't mean to be a jerk, but I there's
Speaker 4: not even enough words to tell you how little I
Speaker 4: care about Kobe. I do uber and lyft for the
Speaker 4: law for the life of me, I don't know how
Speaker 4: people afford it as their daily transportation. I only get
Speaker 4: seventy percent of the fare, and I feel like I'm
Speaker 4: robbing them. You know what, You're just engaged in a
Speaker 4: capitalist exchange, that's all. Mandy, I live in southeast Wyoming,
Speaker 4: eight miles from the Colorado border, picked up a thirty
Speaker 4: dollars digital antenna pointed at south and get all the
Speaker 4: Denver stations no charge. And that's what a lot of
Speaker 4: people who rely on streaming do now for the network stations.
Speaker 4: But I don't know how they would get credit for that,
Speaker 4: and maybe that's why it seems like their numbers are
Speaker 4: dipping so much. That's a good point. I didn't even
Speaker 4: think about that because I know a lot of people
Speaker 4: that have the over the air and digital antennas and
Speaker 4: they work really really well. I mean, they're digital quality.
Speaker 4: So you know, I'm not willing to put a fork
Speaker 4: in network television's stomach just yet and say they're done.
Speaker 4: But it is definitely not the world it used to
Speaker 4: be where they kind of ran everything. Now I want
Speaker 4: to switch gears for just a second. You know, Trump
Speaker 4: has been at Jerome Powell in the FED for some
Speaker 4: time now, But wouldn't it be interesting if the thing
Speaker 4: that leads to Jerome Powell being axed or quitting is
Speaker 4: the insane renovation that they are doing at the Federal
Speaker 4: Reserves headquarters in Washington, d C. The Federal Reserve is renovating,
Speaker 4: and I think that's important, renovating two massive buildings, but
Speaker 4: not that massive, two big buildings in Washington, D C.
Speaker 4: And the price tag, Grant, take a guess on how
Speaker 4: much it's costing to renovate the Federal Reserve buildings. Give
Speaker 4: me a guess, Grant, Grant, give me a guess. I
Speaker 4: just want you to guess to see how wrong you are.
Speaker 4: They're renovating the Federal Reserve buildings in Washington, d C.
Speaker 4: Two buildings. How much is the price tag right now?
Speaker 4: Seventy four million dollars? That is adorable, Grant, right now,
Speaker 4: the price tag is you're sitting down two point five
Speaker 4: billion dollars billion. I almost have like a Brewster's Millions moment.
Speaker 4: Have you ever seen millions with priory? Yes, where he
Speaker 4: gets like ten million dollars and he gets to keep
Speaker 4: more if he spends the ten million in thirty days
Speaker 4: or something like that. I mean, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 4: I have amazing taste. I can walk into a furniture
Speaker 4: store and the only thing that I like is the
Speaker 4: most expensive thing in the furniture store, and I find
Speaker 4: that out before I look at any of the prices.
Speaker 4: I have incredibly expensive taste. I think I would struggle
Speaker 4: to spend two point five billion dollars on a renovation.
Speaker 4: They just built a new Universal Studios for five hundred
Speaker 4: million from scratch.
Speaker 3: Two.
Speaker 4: I mean I can't even what and think how many
Speaker 4: things are in Universal Studios?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, all the electronics and everything else. The President is
Speaker 4: extremely concerned or excuse me, extremely troubled by your management
Speaker 4: of the Federal Reserve system. Instead of attempting to write
Speaker 4: the Fed's fiscal ship, you have plowed ahead with an
Speaker 4: ostentatious overhaul of your Washington, DC headquarters. That from a letter,
Speaker 4: and that was from Russell Vaught, the Office of Management
Speaker 4: and Budget Director, a letter to Jerome Powell. It would
Speaker 4: be fascinating if this is the thing that got Jerome
Speaker 4: Powell kicked out. Jerome Powell's being blamed for something that
Speaker 4: is not his fault, and that is mortgage rates. Because
Speaker 4: though lower mortgage rates are often correlated with lower mortgage rates,
Speaker 4: they are not necessarily connected. It's the ten year treasury
Speaker 4: that mortgage rates are more indexed to for a variety
Speaker 4: of reasons, mostly having to do with the fact that
Speaker 4: a mortgages a long term investment, not a short term investment.
Speaker 4: And the reason that those two things are correlated most
Speaker 4: of the time low interest rates and good mortage rates
Speaker 4: is because that's when our economy is getting ready. It
Speaker 4: booms with low interest rates. We've got low inflation, we're
Speaker 4: employment is good, so interest rates can be low, and
Speaker 4: the economy is usually roaring, which means that investors will
Speaker 4: buy our bonds. When they won't buy our bonds, then
Speaker 4: the price of a ten year bond yield goes up.
Speaker 4: And that's where we've been. And I think until we
Speaker 4: show some seriousness to really cut spending, not just nine
Speaker 4: million dollars that they're probably gonna cut through recisions, those
Speaker 4: investors are going to be a little more cautious. And
Speaker 4: that's going to keep that ten year treasury wheeled up
Speaker 4: where it is now, and that's going to keep the
Speaker 4: housing market locked up until one of two things happen.
Speaker 4: People just decide screw it. I'm going to take the
Speaker 4: mortgage at six point seven and figure it out later.
Speaker 4: But you know, we're in a tough situation. I don't
Speaker 4: think Jerome Powell has done a good job, to be clear.
Speaker 4: I think he's slept on what he said was transitory inflation,
Speaker 4: which clearly wasn't clearly was never transitory oriinflation. And he's
Speaker 4: just he's not done a great job managing things. Mandy,
Speaker 4: that's about what Ross is spending on trees, not bad.
Speaker 4: Wait is he building the Ross Mahaja? When Susan Witkin
Speaker 4: was renovating her house, I called it the Susan the
Speaker 4: Susan mahal as in the Taj Mahal. Right, I'm just
Speaker 4: gonna start calling Ross's the Ross Mahal.
Speaker 6: I like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, every commercial I hear he does for construction companies
Speaker 5: and more rooms exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: Mandy got to pay the union workers. Yeah, probably so anyway, Mandy.
Speaker 4: Media and Communications Networks. Reagan's FCC eliminated regulations like the
Speaker 4: Fairness Doctrine in nineteen eighty seven, enabling the growth of
Speaker 4: conservative media networks such as talk radio and cable news.
Speaker 4: Democrats generally supported maintaining regulations to ensure balanced media coverage,
Speaker 4: which could be seen as an effort to contain media expansion. Oddly, though,
Speaker 4: the Democrats are not demanding that the publicly funded networks
Speaker 4: do a better job at presenting both sides. If they
Speaker 4: really believed in it, they could absolutely enforce the fairness
Speaker 4: doctrine on public radio. But I don't hear them calling
Speaker 4: for that. It's so weird. We're either about to have
Speaker 4: rain or an alien invasion. That's what it looks like outside.
Speaker 4: I'm hoping for aliens. Well, I didn't bring my umbrella in,
Speaker 4: so I am too. I certainly don't need rain like this. No,
Speaker 4: I do need rain, I just need it at my house.
Speaker 4: It looks a little green, doesn't it. That's scary because
Speaker 4: that's the really tornado stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it looks sketchy out there. We'll see. I'm hoping
Speaker 4: I can get done and like race to my car
Speaker 4: and at least grab my umbrella. Mandy, Well, what you've
Speaker 4: got to say? Billion, like doctor Evil, two point five
Speaker 4: billion dollars hand too, of course you can. I mean,
Speaker 4: if you're going to do an impre commit dude, I
Speaker 4: think the Cowboys Stadium costs two point five billion Mandy.
Speaker 4: I still have an old school big antenna on the
Speaker 4: house and never miss an episode of This Old House
Speaker 4: on PBS. I still miss Bob Bob Bob. What was
Speaker 4: Bob fila? Yes, Bob vila from this Old House. We
Speaker 4: used to watch This Old House when I was a kid.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's my love for you know what, I might
Speaker 4: do a whole hour tomorrow on what the blank is
Speaker 4: happening at HGTV? Okay, because I have one favorite network
Speaker 4: and it is HGTV, and they are canceling shows left
Speaker 4: and right, and they canceled two of my favorites. Did
Speaker 4: you post something about it recently? I'm so mad I
Speaker 4: right now. I was like, what are we doing now?
Speaker 4: They have like dumb eighties movies on there, not even
Speaker 4: good ones, like dumb ones. Don't mess with my channel.
Speaker 4: People don't mess with it. Do you think they're gonna
Speaker 4: have Pacburrow racing on the OA Show? Ryan Edwards? Since
Speaker 4: you're in here, I'd like to get your thoughts good. Yeah,
Speaker 4: fit my way. HGTV is so funny because my parents
Speaker 4: love this channel. I love it. They just no stop
Speaker 4: watching them, Like, are you guys gonna do renovations? Like no, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: I was just like watching it. I was like, well,
Speaker 4: are you saying it like getting some ideas? No, no, no,
Speaker 4: we just we just really enjoy it. I like to
Speaker 4: keep on trend, so when I do go to sell
Speaker 4: my house, I'll know quickly how to make it work
Speaker 4: for this when we we've remodeled our entire house over
Speaker 4: the last ten years, Like at every room in our
Speaker 4: house has been completely redone, but some of them, like
Speaker 4: generally speaking, I go just classic. I don't want anything
Speaker 4: that's going to be trendy. I don't want any of
Speaker 4: that crap. I'm just like something easily adaptable with a
Speaker 4: different backslash kind of stuff. And HGTV helps me, first
Speaker 4: of all, know I am never doing that my house
Speaker 4: because some of these trends they come out and they're
Speaker 4: just you're like, well, you're going to regret the crap
Speaker 4: out of that in two years. Like that's gonna be
Speaker 4: everyone painting their brick. Oh I don't mind painted brick,
Speaker 4: but be judicious about it. Okay, that's all I'm saying. No,
Speaker 4: I guess my parents have that things. They did the tiles,
Speaker 4: subway tile stuff in the kitchen. Yeah, I played out
Speaker 4: now they'll feel figure that out. They keep watching its
Speaker 4: classic though it really is, it's classic. I mean yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean you watch the you know the things,
Speaker 4: you know the things. And now it's time for the
Speaker 4: most exciting segment on the radio on its guy World
Speaker 4: of the Day. I see it, I see it here.
Speaker 4: I can't do it without the pen. What's the dad
Speaker 4: joke of the day? Please, the dad joke of the day.
Speaker 4: And I like this one once I pull it back up.
Speaker 5: I took my eight year old daughter to the office
Speaker 5: with me on take your kid to work Day. We
Speaker 5: were walking around the office and she started crying. As
Speaker 5: my co workers gathered around, she sobbed. She said, Daddy,
Speaker 5: where are all the clowns you said.
Speaker 2: You worked with?
Speaker 4: Yes, that came from somebody's real life one thing. That
Speaker 4: is like a real life story. Because kids, they will
Speaker 4: say the things you do not want them to say
Speaker 4: at the wrong moment, wrong moment. All right, what's our
Speaker 4: word of today? Please? Word of the day today? Object
Speaker 4: A B J E C T. Complete and total abject failure,
Speaker 4: abject disaster.
Speaker 5: I would say that is wrong, okay, extremely bad or severe?
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: You can also be described as something that feels or
Speaker 5: shows shame or someone lacking courage or strength.
Speaker 4: Oh that's a whole new world right there for me
Speaker 4: to object. Obviously, didn't know what that meant before I
Speaker 4: started using it regular Well, here we go. Who invented
Speaker 4: the recipe for green bean casserole? I suspect it was
Speaker 4: the onion people.
Speaker 5: I think it's onion, big French fried onion.
Speaker 4: Hey, you got to play with us here, we're going
Speaker 4: to do We're not to be ready to do jeopardy. No,
Speaker 4: of course, it was invented by the ever famous Dorcas
Speaker 4: Riley back in nineteen fifty five working at the Campbell's
Speaker 4: Soup Company test kitchen. So it was the soup people.
Speaker 4: It's big soup, not big onions.
Speaker 5: You got to have that cream of mushrooms, of course,
Speaker 5: and I make it like a bechamel with mushrooms, and
Speaker 5: it's delightful.
Speaker 4: But it's not as good as the dang can just saying, you.
Speaker 5: Know, that's also my nickname for Ryan Bechamel. Dorcas, Oh,
Speaker 5: Dorcas great.
Speaker 4: There we go. All right, let's do category one. The
Speaker 4: nicest things people are gonna say about you today, So
Speaker 4: don't rate the text slide Sports Jeffardy category for today.
Speaker 4: Ray me r a y me. Okay, they're all going
Speaker 4: to be raised.
Speaker 5: The twenty sixteen film The Founder starred Michael Keaton as
Speaker 5: a man It was Ray Crock.
Speaker 4: Wow. I did not know that was a good movie.
Speaker 4: That was a really good movie. Yeah, next one.
Speaker 5: He and his younger brother Dave both picked up the
Speaker 5: guitar and formed the band The Kinks.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, oh my god. Ross is screaming at
Speaker 4: the radio, and it's a name that everybody says the
Speaker 4: wrong way. What is their name? O god? And I
Speaker 4: believe it's pronounced Davis. Terrible. Yeah, I believe it is.
Speaker 4: Ross interviewed him and asked, but I have to remember
Speaker 4: I'm so disported in both of us. That's terrible. Ryans,
Speaker 4: we just stop right now and not Okay, go ahead,
Speaker 4: what's the next?
Speaker 6: Thank you?
Speaker 4: Guys will get this one. Okay. After a sitcom on
Speaker 4: which everybody loved Ryan, what is everybody loves Raymond? Incorrect?
Speaker 4: Who is ray Romano? Correct? That's a big swing right there,
Speaker 4: that's yeah.
Speaker 5: One of his less intense rolls was as shoeless Joe Jackson.
Speaker 4: In front of Dreams. Correct back to zero.
Speaker 5: Last one he had a number one hit with the
Speaker 5: title song from Ghostbusters.
Speaker 4: Oh God, uh Ryan, Ryan, who is Ray Parkers? Correct?
Speaker 4: I was like raised something Junior, But I can two
Speaker 4: to one Ryan swinging a miss on everybody loves Raymond
Speaker 4: costin big Yeah, hold on no that that was a
Speaker 4: minus one and then you had to fight back over
Speaker 4: the next two to get back to.
Speaker 6: I had to.
Speaker 4: I had to. I thought you got one that you
Speaker 4: got wrong. That would be Kraft and Ray Croe. Yeah,
Speaker 4: was in the It was in KO Sports today, which
Speaker 4: you got Harris, So it would be a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: We'll be reacting to the game last night. The Broncos
Speaker 4: signed their first round pick, which is also very exciting.
Speaker 4: Rookies report today, So all sorts of fun stuff coming up.
Speaker 4: The busy, busy busy gets coming back coming up next.
Speaker 4: We got another full show tomorrow. Keep it right here
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