WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:03.240 The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock 2 00:00:03.319 --> 00:00:04.799 Accident and injury Lawyers. 3 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:12.240 No, it's Mandy Connell, Andy Conall, koa. 4 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:16.920 M God. 5 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:18.480 You wanna say you can? 6 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:28.239 Then three, Andy Connall, Keith sad Day, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. 7 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:31.359 To a Thursday feels like Monday edition of the show, 8 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:34.280 which makes tomorrow a Friday, which feels like Tuesday. And 9 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:37.840 it doesn't get any better than that. Anyway. I am 10 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:40.280 here your host for the next three hours. Mandy Connell 11 00:00:40.359 --> 00:00:45.280 and that guy over there back from vacation. Also Anthony Rodriguez, 12 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:52.640 Ay Rod. When Chuck and Q we're in here the 13 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:53.799 other day, I meant to have him to do an 14 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:56.359 airhorn and I totally forgot. Way to go. I'm gonna 15 00:00:56.399 --> 00:00:58.560 have all record it at home. I'll just record it. 16 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:00.920 Yeah, I'll retort that at home them aware they will 17 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:01.840 be forever used. 18 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:05.400 Well, you know, I have figured we're under utilizing this 19 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:08.680 air horn impersonation thing, because I feel like we should 20 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:11.640 make every guest do an air horn, like we play 21 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:13.280 it for them and then ask them to do it. 22 00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:16.879 Maybe not the super serious guests, but maybe like the 23 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:20.519 dumb guess, like the fluffy guests. You know, we should 24 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:22.680 make them do that, and then we could have a 25 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:23.400 whole we'd. 26 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:26.079 Have a library. They just go, you're listening to the 27 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:31.000 Andy Condall Show. And exactly similarly, how you hear like 28 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:33.120 you know the Broncos players say, you're listening to the Broncos. 29 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:38.959 Yeah, well you're listening to Mandy Conda. That's fantastic. I 30 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:41.159 need to think about this more self promotion in twenty 31 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:44.719 twenty five. That's one of my show. That's the wine Yogi. 32 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:48.599 What's funny is I know the people that I know, 33 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:50.959 I know exactly who is or who are doing them? 34 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:55.480 You get the wine Yogi? You Susan Wickin, that would 35 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:58.000 be that. I thought it was the wine Yogi too. No, 36 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:03.280 this was that one that was sent in or no, 37 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:06.879 that's Daily May. Yes it is. Oh and then these 38 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:10.560 are children, now that this is a child. Yeah, this 39 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:15.680 is a child that's beyond adorable. And you yeah, I haven't. 40 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:17.759 I don't even have one. Why did you do? Why 41 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:17.879 do was? 42 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:21.159 We create it on a fly? I don't have to 43 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:22.560 record it. Minds are always different. 44 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:24.800 All right, let's do this. Let's talk about the blog, 45 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:27.159 because oh my goodness, we got a lot of stuff 46 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:29.199 to talk about, and I mean a lot of stuff 47 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:31.479 to talk about. So if you want to find the blog, 48 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:36.400 go to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Then 49 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:39.680 look for the headline that says one two twenty five blog. 50 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:43.919 By the way, I type that date correctly. On the 51 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:47.120 second of January, I type twenty twenty five instead of 52 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:48.840 twenty twenty four. That has got to be some kind 53 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:52.159 of new personal record. It's my new pr because I 54 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:54.080 always write the last year. You know, when we used 55 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:56.439 to write checks, that was always you were constantly writing 56 00:02:56.439 --> 00:02:58.680 at check you Oh crap, I wrote the wrong year 57 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:03.439 till like February, you know. And now I look at 58 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:06.919 me one two twenty five blog, Terror attacks rock the 59 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:09.639 New Year. Click on that and here are the headlines 60 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:12.599 you will find within. Are you being with some list 61 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:13.000 in office? 62 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:16.159 Half American allarships and clipments of say that's gonna press plach. 63 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:20.400 Today? On the blog? Two separate attacks to start the 64 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:24.599 new year? Can we make Denver great again? Psychedelics have 65 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:27.719 entered the chat. Let's talk about when law enforcement calls 66 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:32.360 out bad behavior. Neighborhoods change, Get over it. Colorado ranchers 67 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:36.159 want their money. Till Wiser is running for governor. Comedian 68 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:39.039 Whitney Cummings took out the Dems on New Year's Eve. 69 00:03:39.960 --> 00:03:43.479 Lots of egg stories in Colorado this year. How do 70 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:47.919 you know if you're exercising hard enough, make your resolution stick? 71 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:50.879 And these? Add these to your list to do this year. 72 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:54.840 Everybody's going to red rocks. Broccoli is bad now. An 73 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:58.360 avalanche is a real possibility right now. AI makes this 74 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:02.840 so we can't trust anything here Today, Gone Tomorrow portrait 75 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:07.759 The Smoke Break Injustice from Russia with love, achieve Piece 76 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:10.919 through acceptance. The Cubs should have done this years ago. 77 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:14.599 A Jeffco school's mystery ends in death. Those are the 78 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:21.399 headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And yesterday 79 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:25.319 Chuck and I were watching something I don't even know. 80 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:28.079 We were just kind of fussing around yesterday, you know, 81 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:29.519 doing a little of this, a little of that. On 82 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:33.279 New Year's Day, when you don't go out and party 83 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:36.600 and when you're not really a drinker anymore, New Year's 84 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:38.639 Day is like a whole It's like a it's like 85 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:41.639 a revelation where you feel like great when you wake 86 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:45.680 up in the morning, AND's so It's so refreshing and nice. Yeah, 87 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:46.839 I know you didn't have that day. 88 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:49.720 Yeah, now, well you know I already had a bug 89 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:51.319 going plus New Year's East. 90 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:53.160 Yeah, as you would expect from me. 91 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:57.639 Yeah, just instead watching her mid Wicked. 92 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:01.639 Uh oh wow, I saw your review of Wicked. We'll 93 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:04.720 get into that a little bit later. Well, Mandy hated 94 00:05:04.759 --> 00:05:06.800 the airhorn. Now she loves it. You know what. It 95 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:10.240 wore me down. It wore me down with its sweet, 96 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:12.759 sweet embrace. That's what happened. 97 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:17.040 Children, Yeah, listen to that. 98 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:20.920 Listen to that little girl. Oh my gosh, how adorable. 99 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:23.959 I can't stand it. Anyway, And Chuck and I are 100 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:26.560 sitting around there by the way for the person who said, 101 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:28.959 where's the damn audio? Chuck, he's working on it. Trust me, 102 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:32.439 now that he's on the job, it will happen. Anyway. 103 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:35.120 You don't know what I'm talking about. You need to 104 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:38.360 listen to the show on the thirty first. Anyway, And 105 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:42.199 Chuck says, I found out that the Sugar Bowl was postponed. 106 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:44.439 And I'm like, what, why is the Sugar Bowl postponed? 107 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:47.399 And he said, oh, you didn't hear. There's a guy 108 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:50.240 who he said, shot a bunch of people, and I'm 109 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:52.319 like what, So of course I go to the interwebsit 110 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:53.439 I look it up and I was like, no, he 111 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:56.399 didn't shoot anybody. He just ran over a bunch of 112 00:05:56.439 --> 00:05:57.959 people with a truck, which is now I guess the 113 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:00.879 new thing, the new weapon of mass destruct is an 114 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:06.519 F one fifty rented from Toro. And then yesterday afternoon, 115 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:09.720 as I was sort of following that story because a 116 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:12.639 lot became known about the guy who perpetrated that attack 117 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:16.240 right away, so I start following that, and then I 118 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:19.800 see what happened at the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. Now, 119 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:24.199 in Las Vegas, I have family, right, so that one 120 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:32.279 You're like, wait, what's happening. Interestingly enough, another guy suicide bomber. 121 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:34.560 I'm gonna call him a suicide bomber because that's what 122 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:38.639 he was. Decided to rent a cyber truck, a Tesla 123 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:42.199 cyber truck, and fill it full of fireworks and gas 124 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:46.959 canisters and gasoline and ignited it in the front of 125 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:50.199 the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. But to its credit, 126 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:55.240 the cyber truck contained the blast and so it didn't 127 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:58.639 even break the windows of the Trump Hotel, but it 128 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:02.160 killed the perpetrator of that of that incident as well, 129 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:05.759 and both of these men. This is what we know 130 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:12.399 so far, and I've been trying very closely to follow 131 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:16.040 what we know about these individuals. The guy in New Orleans, 132 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:19.720 and this is a thumbnail sketch, was in the military 133 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:24.800 for over a decade and apparently in the last few 134 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:28.879 months had sort of fallen off. He converted to Islam. 135 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:33.279 I believe what he was a young man, not recently. 136 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:35.160 I believe he was a young man. His brother said, 137 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:37.360 you know, a very very long time ago. They were 138 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:41.319 raised Christian. But he converted to Islam, and he had 139 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:44.360 been in the military, came out of the military. Seemed 140 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:46.199 like he might have had a bit of a rough transition, 141 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:48.240 although at one point it was reported he had a 142 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:52.360 very well paying job. But in the last six to 143 00:07:52.439 --> 00:07:54.839 eight nine months a year whatever, I don't have the 144 00:07:54.839 --> 00:07:59.279 exact timeline. He's been living in a rather downtrodden trailer 145 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:06.560 park with a whole bunch of other rather poor Muslim immigrants. 146 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:11.120 And it has been reported that he was going to 147 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:13.199 kill his family. He was going to get them all 148 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:17.120 together in one place and you know, kill them all. 149 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:20.279 But he decided that wouldn't make enough of a statement, 150 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:24.720 so instead he rented a truck. He strapped an ice 151 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:27.720 this flag to the back of the truck and he 152 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:30.839 drove through Bourbon Street, which if you heard us talking 153 00:08:30.839 --> 00:08:36.360 about Marti Gras last or earlier this week, actually the 154 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:41.360 Sugar Bowl is the same vibe as Marti Gras. Not 155 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:44.159 as many people, but a lot. I've been to the 156 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:45.759 Sugar Bowl. I've been to Marti Gras. I know what 157 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:48.480 I'm talking about. It is a massive celebration in the 158 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:51.639 streets are full. They are full of college students who 159 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:54.080 don't go to bed before five o'clock in the morning. 160 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:57.440 And mind you, where he entered, and I kid you not, 161 00:08:57.559 --> 00:08:59.320 we were stunned when we saw this on the video, 162 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:02.240 exactly next to where our hotel was. And so we 163 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:04.519 know for a fact that this is the prime entrance 164 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:07.440 to Bourbon Street from Royal Street. This is the prime 165 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:10.399 entrance to Bourbon Street, like it is the place to 166 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:13.279 be the most people. You're going right through the flow 167 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:16.000 of the most people. I mean, it's crazy. 168 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:20.679 The concrete barricades or seal barricades they use during big 169 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:23.519 events to keep people off of Bourbon Street were either 170 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:26.799 being replaced, but they were not there. There were two 171 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:29.759 police cars that were kind of blocking the road. And 172 00:09:29.799 --> 00:09:32.879 this is maybe one of those circumstances where this guy 173 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:36.799 got lucky on the perfect day to show up that 174 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:40.399 day because the barricades were not in place. Somebody just 175 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:43.200 said on the text line the Common Spirit Health text line, 176 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:45.279 look again at the details. In New Orleans shooting was 177 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:48.320 involved only after he crashed the truck into a crane, 178 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:51.159 he got out and started firing, and he fired at 179 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:54.159 police who fired back and left him dead right there. 180 00:09:54.799 --> 00:10:00.320 So that's the New Orleans situation. One Army veteran, fifteen 181 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:02.639 people dead. Hopefully no one else passes away. We have 182 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:04.399 a lot of people in the hospital that are injured. 183 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:06.879 But hopefully that is the death toll, that it does 184 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:11.080 not get worse, because that's quite bad enough. Incident number 185 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:15.919 two a guy who I believe has been reported as 186 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:18.159 active duty. I don't know if it's been reported that 187 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:20.279 he's active duty at for A Carson. I think I 188 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:23.039 put that on the blog when I assumed that, but 189 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:25.960 I have not seen that specifically that he is active 190 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:27.879 duty at for A Carson. But he was an active 191 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:31.919 duty member of the Army who rented a truck off Toro, 192 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:35.279 drove it to Las Vegas with all this stuff in it. 193 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:37.759 And I don't know if he meant to set it 194 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:41.879 off with himself inside, although I think he probably did, 195 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:47.440 or if something went wrong, I don't know. But you 196 00:10:47.559 --> 00:10:52.440 have two men obviously suicidal, both of them. You'll plan 197 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:55.120 either of these incidents and think you're going to get 198 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:57.200 away with it, right, I mean, that's not how this works. 199 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:02.600 The end result is going to be your death, and 200 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:06.559 you have And I really started thinking about this today 201 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:11.200 because in situations like this, and I don't want anything 202 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:13.519 I'm about to say to sound like I am excusing 203 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:16.840 what these men chose to do, because I'm not not 204 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:21.679 at all. But if we cannot figure out what happens 205 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:26.279 to someone who, at a bare minimum, at one point 206 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:30.000 in their lives, these two men were driven by a 207 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:33.679 sense of duty, by a sense of probably wanting to 208 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:36.840 be part of something bigger than themselves, of wanting maybe 209 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:40.399 even to serve their nation, that they joined the military. 210 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:43.840 Now I know that people think, you know, at this 211 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:47.679 stage there's the sort of snobbery, belief that only idiots 212 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:50.159 joined the military. Nothing could be further from the truth. 213 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:54.000 Some of the finest young people I know are in 214 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:57.159 the military or have been in the military, And they volunteered, 215 00:11:57.200 --> 00:11:59.480 and they signed up, and they did it because they 216 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:02.519 wanted to serve this country. They wanted to be part 217 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:06.039 of something that mattered. They have a servant's heart, as 218 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:10.639 they say so. At some point in their lives, these 219 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:14.879 gentlemen fit that mold or some combination of those things. 220 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:19.320 What makes a person who is born with a servant's heart, 221 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:21.799 who signs up to be part of something bigger than themselves, 222 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:24.360 has a sense of duty to country? What makes them 223 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:28.120 turn into a person who drives a pickup truck through 224 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:32.960 a crowded street in order to make some kind of 225 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:37.639 statement about isis aligning yourself with an organization that you 226 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:41.399 actively fought against. This guy went to Afghanistan as a soldier, 227 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:44.320 you could argue maybe got radicalized there. I don't think. 228 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:48.240 I think the radicalization is just a cover for the 229 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:52.799 bigger issue that these men, for some reason decided that 230 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:56.720 they no longer mattered what they had chosen, what they 231 00:12:56.720 --> 00:13:01.240 were doing. It didn't matter enough. It wasn't going to 232 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:04.799 be enough to make the kind of impression on the 233 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:08.799 world that they believe they should make and so in 234 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:11.679 order to make that kind of impression, as the guy 235 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:13.799 in New Orleans actually said, I was going to kill 236 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:15.840 my family, but I decided it wouldn't make enough of 237 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:20.000 a splash. Oh yeah, because just murdering your families, you know, 238 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:22.279 you'll probably end up the subject of a podcast at 239 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:26.440 some point. He was right, of course. I mean, if 240 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:28.320 he had just killed his family, we certainly wouldn't be 241 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:33.279 having this conversation now. And this guy, I mean, we 242 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:36.120 have an active duty soldier. I don't know as much 243 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:38.279 about his background because I haven't released as much about 244 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:41.919 his background, but he's currently in the military according to reports, 245 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:46.519 and again according to reports, we have not confirmed that. 246 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:51.960 So you know, anything you hear yesterday today, don't commit 247 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:55.440 it to don't write it in stone. Okay, just keep 248 00:13:55.480 --> 00:14:00.000 paying attention to the updates. But I found myself just going, man, 249 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:04.320 what is happening with these people? And before people say, oh, 250 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:07.200 the military is the problem and it breaks people down, no, 251 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:10.679 we have had men and women serve in the military 252 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:17.200 for hundreds of years without these issues. And maybe it's 253 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:19.200 just because now we have national news and we hear 254 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:20.960 about all of these things. I get it. I mean, 255 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:24.799 I just we have to figure out what the problem was, Mandy. 256 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:27.200 He was on leave from the tenth to Strikeforce Group 257 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:33.159 in Germany as per X. I'm reading from the text 258 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:35.759 line right now. Molly Heningway just posted that the Vegas 259 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:38.919 sheriff said the guy shot himself before he blew up 260 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:45.200 the Tesla. Well, that would make sense. But okay, yeah, Mandy, 261 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:47.440 I think using the truck was pl and B because 262 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:49.080 the IEDs didn't go off. 263 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:50.080 I don't know. 264 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:52.000 I think that now. We just saw this at a 265 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:55.879 Christmas market in Germany. It's a very effective way to 266 00:14:56.039 --> 00:15:00.120 kill a lot of people, you know, like it not. 267 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:03.600 Driving a truck through a crowd is a great way 268 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:08.039 to kill a bunch of people easily and without having 269 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:14.480 to look them in the eye, you know. So, uh, Mandy, 270 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:16.399 I find it hard to believe that a special Ops 271 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:20.200 trained Army soldier would use fireworks and gas tanks stored 272 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:21.639 in the bed of a tank of a truck as 273 00:15:21.639 --> 00:15:24.480 a bomb to cause mass destruction. Maybe you didn't mean 274 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:26.720 to cause mass destruction. Maybe he just went to make 275 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:30.919 a statement. Here's what I think he thought. I think 276 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:33.720 he thought that if he could set the Tesla truck 277 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:36.639 on fire, they would never be able to get it out. 278 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:38.759 And you see, I don't know if you've seen the 279 00:15:38.759 --> 00:15:40.559 pictures of what they actually did. They put one of 280 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:43.840 those blankets on it to smother the fire because you 281 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:46.720 can't use water on an electric fire because it causes arcs, 282 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:49.639 and arcs just reignite the fire over and over and over. 283 00:15:49.679 --> 00:15:52.720 That's why some of these electric carfires will burn for days. 284 00:15:53.679 --> 00:15:56.480 So now they use the giant blankets to smother the 285 00:15:56.519 --> 00:16:00.200 fire and put it out. But I'm not sure that 286 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:02.639 he meant to blow up Trump, you know, the Trump Hotel. 287 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:04.960 I don't know if that was what the intention was. 288 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:07.440 Like I said, we don't know a lot about that 289 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:11.720 dude and what he was doing. In my opinion, there 290 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:13.799 are a lot more angry males just walking around than 291 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:16.559 in the past. I agree one hundred percent, and I 292 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:20.039 think there's multiple reasons for that. Number one, the breakdown 293 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:24.039 of the family, that's a big one. Number Two, people 294 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:27.200 are moving away from God. There was a great story 295 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:28.960 and I put it on the blog on New Year's Eve. 296 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:30.559 I may go back and revisit it in the next 297 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:33.000 week or so because it was so good about how 298 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:38.559 now intellectuals are finding God, and intellectuals are turning back 299 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:42.080 in there, and they're committing themselves to various religions and faiths. 300 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:45.200 You know, too many people are out there wandering around 301 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:48.159 looking for meaning. They're looking to fill that God's size 302 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:49.360 hole with something else. 303 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:51.159 They want it. 304 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:54.000 They want politics to fill it, they want climate change 305 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:55.799 to fill it, they want animal rights to fill it, 306 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:58.759 they want all of these things. They want somebody else 307 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:02.120 to fill that void that is God shaped for a reason, 308 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:05.880 I think. And when you have people who've lost all hopes, 309 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:12.599 I mean all hope, that seems like a reasonable assertion 310 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:16.240 that they just thought this was their way to make 311 00:17:16.279 --> 00:17:22.519 their mark, and unfortunately they didn't have anybody else to 312 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:27.480 intervene and say that's not a great idea. I guess, Mandy, 313 00:17:27.519 --> 00:17:29.559 you heard there was another shooting in New York last night, 314 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:33.119 ten wounded, being outside of an event building. I understood 315 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:36.839 that that was either gang related in some measure. And 316 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:39.799 I hate to be cavalier about gang shootings, but when 317 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:42.200 one gang shoots up another gang, I don't count it 318 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:43.640 as a mass shooting. And I count it as a 319 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:46.000 gang shooting. Even if a mass number of people dihide. 320 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:49.440 That's like a different category of crime in my mind, 321 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:52.240 right or wrong, that's just how I view it. We 322 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:55.759 will be back momentarily at one o'clock. We've got a guy. 323 00:17:55.880 --> 00:17:58.480 I happened to be scrolling x this morning and I 324 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:01.799 saw this guy post a letter to his landlord about 325 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:04.880 why he and his family must leave their home in 326 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:07.200 the Highlands. We're gonna talk to him at one o'clock 327 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:09.519 and I'm I wait till I share this letter with you, 328 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:12.000 and it's stunning. And the reason I'm having him on 329 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:17.200 is we need more Denver rights to get loud about 330 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:19.079 what they're dealing with. We're gonna talk to him at one, 331 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:21.680 but I got more stuff coming back at Jeffco. Mystery 332 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:25.279 gets even worse ends with a death. What is happening 333 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:27.599 to the person who at the text line to say, Mandy, 334 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:31.920 isn't it time for common sense electric truck control? I 335 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:34.960 laughed out loud because when I did realize and this 336 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:37.279 is how sick my mind is, You guys, this is 337 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:41.359 not how normal people think. So two things happened over 338 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:43.279 the last few days that maybe go God, I'm just 339 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:46.039 not a normal person. One of them was when I 340 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:48.119 found out that a truck was used in this attack 341 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:50.160 in New Orleans. I immediately thought to myself, Well, what 342 00:18:50.200 --> 00:18:53.319 are what are the pundit's gonna say they can't call 343 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:58.519 for truck control. They can't do that. My guess is 344 00:18:58.559 --> 00:19:01.160 they're going to pivot to the angry veteran and how 345 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:04.640 dangerous veterans are. That's That's what I'm guessing is we're 346 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:08.359 going to see in the next few days. So this 347 00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:12.000 texter said serving with the military was an amazing experience. 348 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:15.880 The problem for me and transitioning was reality at this 349 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:19.079 blank show we call life is a huge puppet show. 350 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:23.319 Everybody is pulling somebody's strings, and everybody is an a hole. 351 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:26.240 I wish that I could tell you that that was 352 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:29.880 a misguided perception, but it's really not. I feel like 353 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:31.880 we have more a holes walking around than we used to. 354 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:35.960 I'd like to thank the texter who sent me this, Mandy. 355 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:40.000 Bible sales increased dramatically in twenty twenty four and has 356 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:43.799 been increasing for several years. Well, I'd never trusted texture 357 00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:47.599 with statistics, so I used the Google and let me 358 00:19:47.640 --> 00:19:50.680 share with you from a Fox News story, print Bible 359 00:19:50.759 --> 00:19:53.119 sales had a five year low of just under eight 360 00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:57.480 point nine million in twenty twenty that, according to data Now, 361 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:03.079 sales surpassed thirteen points seven million in the first ten 362 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:06.400 months of this year. Now, the increase in Bible sales 363 00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:10.240 comes even as polling shows a decline in religiosity across 364 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:13.640 the country. Now as Fox does, they went and found 365 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:22.039 a first time Bible buyer, and Brianna Fitzpatrick said she 366 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:24.599 decided to buy a Bible because she's looking for purpose, 367 00:20:26.039 --> 00:20:30.079 exactly what I said. You know, there are things in 368 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:34.200 life that logic cannot explain. There are things about us 369 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:39.000 that brain power and science cannot explain. There's so many 370 00:20:39.039 --> 00:20:41.680 times that I'm watching a nature documentary, and we watch 371 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:44.200 a lot in nature documentaries. First of all, we got 372 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:47.519 this great new TV for Christmas. Holy crap, the picture 373 00:20:47.559 --> 00:20:50.759 it's like you're in the ocean. It's incredible. But nonetheless, 374 00:20:50.759 --> 00:20:53.559 we're watching these things and you start to see how 375 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:58.359 animals have these very very unique things about them, like 376 00:20:58.480 --> 00:21:03.400 specific to them that maybe they're the only animal that 377 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:07.960 has that particular thing, and it's critical to their survival, 378 00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:11.039 and sometimes it's critical to their place in the food 379 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:14.200 chain that helps another animal survive because they are slow, 380 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:17.240 or they have bad eyesight or whatever. Makes it easy 381 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:20.079 for something else to eat. And I think to myself, 382 00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:25.640 the perfection of the balance of nature for you to 383 00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:30.519 think that all of that happened because of billions and 384 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:34.440 billions and billions of most perfect mutations ever, because that's 385 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:37.279 what it would take for evolution to happen, as they say. 386 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:40.480 And don't get me wrong, I think that people can 387 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:43.960 change and evolve. But you know, I'm one of those 388 00:21:43.960 --> 00:21:46.279 people that believes in intelligent design. I don't believe the 389 00:21:46.279 --> 00:21:48.839 word earled Earth is six thousand years old. I'm not 390 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:53.680 in that camp. But it's too perfectly mathematically put together 391 00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:57.160 to just be random crap that happened because the mutation 392 00:21:57.240 --> 00:22:01.279 went here or mutation went there. It's just too perfect. 393 00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:04.279 And I think as we've leaned into science and we've 394 00:22:04.319 --> 00:22:08.200 seen how science has let us down, maybe people are 395 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:12.240 starting to question that whole trust the experts. This is 396 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:16.720 one of the reasons that the Trump idle worship bothers me. 397 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:19.359 And it has nothing to do with Trump the man, 398 00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:22.000 it really doesn't. It has to do with the fact 399 00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:26.160 that there is a segment of the population that I 400 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:28.839 honestly believe if Donald Trump went and told them to 401 00:22:28.839 --> 00:22:30.400