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Speaker 5: To a Thursday feels like Monday edition of the show,
Speaker 5: which makes tomorrow a Friday, which feels like Tuesday. And
Speaker 5: it doesn't get any better than that. Anyway. I am
Speaker 5: here your host for the next three hours. Mandy Connell
Speaker 5: and that guy over there back from vacation. Also Anthony Rodriguez,
Speaker 5: Ay Rod. When Chuck and Q we're in here the
Speaker 5: other day, I meant to have him to do an
Speaker 5: airhorn and I totally forgot. Way to go. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: have all record it at home. I'll just record it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll retort that at home them aware they will
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Speaker 5: Well, you know, I have figured we're under utilizing this
Speaker 5: air horn impersonation thing, because I feel like we should
Speaker 5: make every guest do an air horn, like we play
Speaker 5: it for them and then ask them to do it.
Speaker 5: Maybe not the super serious guests, but maybe like the
Speaker 5: dumb guess, like the fluffy guests. You know, we should
Speaker 5: make them do that, and then we could have a
Speaker 5: whole we'd.
Speaker 6: Have a library. They just go, you're listening to the
Speaker 6: Andy Condall Show. And exactly similarly, how you hear like
Speaker 6: you know the Broncos players say, you're listening to the Broncos.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well you're listening to Mandy Conda. That's fantastic. I
Speaker 5: need to think about this more self promotion in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five. That's one of my show. That's the wine Yogi.
Speaker 5: What's funny is I know the people that I know,
Speaker 5: I know exactly who is or who are doing them?
Speaker 5: You get the wine Yogi? You Susan Wickin, that would
Speaker 5: be that. I thought it was the wine Yogi too. No,
Speaker 5: this was that one that was sent in or no,
Speaker 5: that's Daily May. Yes it is. Oh and then these
Speaker 5: are children, now that this is a child. Yeah, this
Speaker 5: is a child that's beyond adorable. And you yeah, I haven't.
Speaker 5: I don't even have one. Why did you do? Why
Speaker 5: do was?
Speaker 6: We create it on a fly? I don't have to
Speaker 6: record it. Minds are always different.
Speaker 5: All right, let's do this. Let's talk about the blog,
Speaker 5: because oh my goodness, we got a lot of stuff
Speaker 5: to talk about, and I mean a lot of stuff
Speaker 5: to talk about. So if you want to find the blog,
Speaker 5: go to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Then
Speaker 5: look for the headline that says one two twenty five blog.
Speaker 5: By the way, I type that date correctly. On the
Speaker 5: second of January, I type twenty twenty five instead of
Speaker 5: twenty twenty four. That has got to be some kind
Speaker 5: of new personal record. It's my new pr because I
Speaker 5: always write the last year. You know, when we used
Speaker 5: to write checks, that was always you were constantly writing
Speaker 5: at check you Oh crap, I wrote the wrong year
Speaker 5: till like February, you know. And now I look at
Speaker 5: me one two twenty five blog, Terror attacks rock the
Speaker 5: New Year. Click on that and here are the headlines
Speaker 5: you will find within. Are you being with some list
Speaker 5: in office?
Speaker 6: Half American allarships and clipments of say that's gonna press plach.
Speaker 5: Today? On the blog? Two separate attacks to start the
Speaker 5: new year? Can we make Denver great again? Psychedelics have
Speaker 5: entered the chat. Let's talk about when law enforcement calls
Speaker 5: out bad behavior. Neighborhoods change, Get over it. Colorado ranchers
Speaker 5: want their money. Till Wiser is running for governor. Comedian
Speaker 5: Whitney Cummings took out the Dems on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 5: Lots of egg stories in Colorado this year. How do
Speaker 5: you know if you're exercising hard enough, make your resolution stick?
Speaker 5: And these? Add these to your list to do this year.
Speaker 5: Everybody's going to red rocks. Broccoli is bad now. An
Speaker 5: avalanche is a real possibility right now. AI makes this
Speaker 5: so we can't trust anything here Today, Gone Tomorrow portrait
Speaker 5: The Smoke Break Injustice from Russia with love, achieve Piece
Speaker 5: through acceptance. The Cubs should have done this years ago.
Speaker 5: A Jeffco school's mystery ends in death. Those are the
Speaker 5: headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And yesterday
Speaker 5: Chuck and I were watching something I don't even know.
Speaker 5: We were just kind of fussing around yesterday, you know,
Speaker 5: doing a little of this, a little of that. On
Speaker 5: New Year's Day, when you don't go out and party
Speaker 5: and when you're not really a drinker anymore, New Year's
Speaker 5: Day is like a whole It's like a it's like
Speaker 5: a revelation where you feel like great when you wake
Speaker 5: up in the morning, AND's so It's so refreshing and nice. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I know you didn't have that day.
Speaker 6: Yeah, now, well you know I already had a bug
Speaker 6: going plus New Year's East.
Speaker 5: Yeah, as you would expect from me.
Speaker 6: Yeah, just instead watching her mid Wicked.
Speaker 5: Uh oh wow, I saw your review of Wicked. We'll
Speaker 5: get into that a little bit later. Well, Mandy hated
Speaker 5: the airhorn. Now she loves it. You know what. It
Speaker 5: wore me down. It wore me down with its sweet,
Speaker 5: sweet embrace. That's what happened.
Speaker 6: Children, Yeah, listen to that.
Speaker 5: Listen to that little girl. Oh my gosh, how adorable.
Speaker 5: I can't stand it. Anyway, And Chuck and I are
Speaker 5: sitting around there by the way for the person who said,
Speaker 5: where's the damn audio? Chuck, he's working on it. Trust me,
Speaker 5: now that he's on the job, it will happen. Anyway.
Speaker 5: You don't know what I'm talking about. You need to
Speaker 5: listen to the show on the thirty first. Anyway, And
Speaker 5: Chuck says, I found out that the Sugar Bowl was postponed.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, what, why is the Sugar Bowl postponed?
Speaker 5: And he said, oh, you didn't hear. There's a guy
Speaker 5: who he said, shot a bunch of people, and I'm
Speaker 5: like what, So of course I go to the interwebsit
Speaker 5: I look it up and I was like, no, he
Speaker 5: didn't shoot anybody. He just ran over a bunch of
Speaker 5: people with a truck, which is now I guess the
Speaker 5: new thing, the new weapon of mass destruct is an
Speaker 5: F one fifty rented from Toro. And then yesterday afternoon,
Speaker 5: as I was sort of following that story because a
Speaker 5: lot became known about the guy who perpetrated that attack
Speaker 5: right away, so I start following that, and then I
Speaker 5: see what happened at the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. Now,
Speaker 5: in Las Vegas, I have family, right, so that one
Speaker 5: You're like, wait, what's happening. Interestingly enough, another guy suicide bomber.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna call him a suicide bomber because that's what
Speaker 5: he was. Decided to rent a cyber truck, a Tesla
Speaker 5: cyber truck, and fill it full of fireworks and gas
Speaker 5: canisters and gasoline and ignited it in the front of
Speaker 5: the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. But to its credit,
Speaker 5: the cyber truck contained the blast and so it didn't
Speaker 5: even break the windows of the Trump Hotel, but it
Speaker 5: killed the perpetrator of that of that incident as well,
Speaker 5: and both of these men. This is what we know
Speaker 5: so far, and I've been trying very closely to follow
Speaker 5: what we know about these individuals. The guy in New Orleans,
Speaker 5: and this is a thumbnail sketch, was in the military
Speaker 5: for over a decade and apparently in the last few
Speaker 5: months had sort of fallen off. He converted to Islam.
Speaker 5: I believe what he was a young man, not recently.
Speaker 5: I believe he was a young man. His brother said,
Speaker 5: you know, a very very long time ago. They were
Speaker 5: raised Christian. But he converted to Islam, and he had
Speaker 5: been in the military, came out of the military. Seemed
Speaker 5: like he might have had a bit of a rough transition,
Speaker 5: although at one point it was reported he had a
Speaker 5: very well paying job. But in the last six to
Speaker 5: eight nine months a year whatever, I don't have the
Speaker 5: exact timeline. He's been living in a rather downtrodden trailer
Speaker 5: park with a whole bunch of other rather poor Muslim immigrants.
Speaker 5: And it has been reported that he was going to
Speaker 5: kill his family. He was going to get them all
Speaker 5: together in one place and you know, kill them all.
Speaker 5: But he decided that wouldn't make enough of a statement,
Speaker 5: so instead he rented a truck. He strapped an ice
Speaker 5: this flag to the back of the truck and he
Speaker 5: drove through Bourbon Street, which if you heard us talking
Speaker 5: about Marti Gras last or earlier this week, actually the
Speaker 5: Sugar Bowl is the same vibe as Marti Gras. Not
Speaker 5: as many people, but a lot. I've been to the
Speaker 5: Sugar Bowl. I've been to Marti Gras. I know what
Speaker 5: I'm talking about. It is a massive celebration in the
Speaker 5: streets are full. They are full of college students who
Speaker 5: don't go to bed before five o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 6: And mind you, where he entered, and I kid you not,
Speaker 6: we were stunned when we saw this on the video,
Speaker 6: exactly next to where our hotel was. And so we
Speaker 6: know for a fact that this is the prime entrance
Speaker 6: to Bourbon Street from Royal Street. This is the prime
Speaker 6: entrance to Bourbon Street, like it is the place to
Speaker 6: be the most people. You're going right through the flow
Speaker 6: of the most people. I mean, it's crazy.
Speaker 5: The concrete barricades or seal barricades they use during big
Speaker 5: events to keep people off of Bourbon Street were either
Speaker 5: being replaced, but they were not there. There were two
Speaker 5: police cars that were kind of blocking the road. And
Speaker 5: this is maybe one of those circumstances where this guy
Speaker 5: got lucky on the perfect day to show up that
Speaker 5: day because the barricades were not in place. Somebody just
Speaker 5: said on the text line the Common Spirit Health text line,
Speaker 5: look again at the details. In New Orleans shooting was
Speaker 5: involved only after he crashed the truck into a crane,
Speaker 5: he got out and started firing, and he fired at
Speaker 5: police who fired back and left him dead right there.
Speaker 5: So that's the New Orleans situation. One Army veteran, fifteen
Speaker 5: people dead. Hopefully no one else passes away. We have
Speaker 5: a lot of people in the hospital that are injured.
Speaker 5: But hopefully that is the death toll, that it does
Speaker 5: not get worse, because that's quite bad enough. Incident number
Speaker 5: two a guy who I believe has been reported as
Speaker 5: active duty. I don't know if it's been reported that
Speaker 5: he's active duty at for A Carson. I think I
Speaker 5: put that on the blog when I assumed that, but
Speaker 5: I have not seen that specifically that he is active
Speaker 5: duty at for A Carson. But he was an active
Speaker 5: duty member of the Army who rented a truck off Toro,
Speaker 5: drove it to Las Vegas with all this stuff in it.
Speaker 5: And I don't know if he meant to set it
Speaker 5: off with himself inside, although I think he probably did,
Speaker 5: or if something went wrong, I don't know. But you
Speaker 5: have two men obviously suicidal, both of them. You'll plan
Speaker 5: either of these incidents and think you're going to get
Speaker 5: away with it, right, I mean, that's not how this works.
Speaker 5: The end result is going to be your death, and
Speaker 5: you have And I really started thinking about this today
Speaker 5: because in situations like this, and I don't want anything
Speaker 5: I'm about to say to sound like I am excusing
Speaker 5: what these men chose to do, because I'm not not
Speaker 5: at all. But if we cannot figure out what happens
Speaker 5: to someone who, at a bare minimum, at one point
Speaker 5: in their lives, these two men were driven by a
Speaker 5: sense of duty, by a sense of probably wanting to
Speaker 5: be part of something bigger than themselves, of wanting maybe
Speaker 5: even to serve their nation, that they joined the military.
Speaker 5: Now I know that people think, you know, at this
Speaker 5: stage there's the sort of snobbery, belief that only idiots
Speaker 5: joined the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Speaker 5: Some of the finest young people I know are in
Speaker 5: the military or have been in the military, And they volunteered,
Speaker 5: and they signed up, and they did it because they
Speaker 5: wanted to serve this country. They wanted to be part
Speaker 5: of something that mattered. They have a servant's heart, as
Speaker 5: they say so. At some point in their lives, these
Speaker 5: gentlemen fit that mold or some combination of those things.
Speaker 5: What makes a person who is born with a servant's heart,
Speaker 5: who signs up to be part of something bigger than themselves,
Speaker 5: has a sense of duty to country? What makes them
Speaker 5: turn into a person who drives a pickup truck through
Speaker 5: a crowded street in order to make some kind of
Speaker 5: statement about isis aligning yourself with an organization that you
Speaker 5: actively fought against. This guy went to Afghanistan as a soldier,
Speaker 5: you could argue maybe got radicalized there. I don't think.
Speaker 5: I think the radicalization is just a cover for the
Speaker 5: bigger issue that these men, for some reason decided that
Speaker 5: they no longer mattered what they had chosen, what they
Speaker 5: were doing. It didn't matter enough. It wasn't going to
Speaker 5: be enough to make the kind of impression on the
Speaker 5: world that they believe they should make and so in
Speaker 5: order to make that kind of impression, as the guy
Speaker 5: in New Orleans actually said, I was going to kill
Speaker 5: my family, but I decided it wouldn't make enough of
Speaker 5: a splash. Oh yeah, because just murdering your families, you know,
Speaker 5: you'll probably end up the subject of a podcast at
Speaker 5: some point. He was right, of course. I mean, if
Speaker 5: he had just killed his family, we certainly wouldn't be
Speaker 5: having this conversation now. And this guy, I mean, we
Speaker 5: have an active duty soldier. I don't know as much
Speaker 5: about his background because I haven't released as much about
Speaker 5: his background, but he's currently in the military according to reports,
Speaker 5: and again according to reports, we have not confirmed that.
Speaker 5: So you know, anything you hear yesterday today, don't commit
Speaker 5: it to don't write it in stone. Okay, just keep
Speaker 5: paying attention to the updates. But I found myself just going, man,
Speaker 5: what is happening with these people? And before people say, oh,
Speaker 5: the military is the problem and it breaks people down, no,
Speaker 5: we have had men and women serve in the military
Speaker 5: for hundreds of years without these issues. And maybe it's
Speaker 5: just because now we have national news and we hear
Speaker 5: about all of these things. I get it. I mean,
Speaker 5: I just we have to figure out what the problem was, Mandy.
Speaker 5: He was on leave from the tenth to Strikeforce Group
Speaker 5: in Germany as per X. I'm reading from the text
Speaker 5: line right now. Molly Heningway just posted that the Vegas
Speaker 5: sheriff said the guy shot himself before he blew up
Speaker 5: the Tesla. Well, that would make sense. But okay, yeah, Mandy,
Speaker 5: I think using the truck was pl and B because
Speaker 5: the IEDs didn't go off.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think that now. We just saw this at a
Speaker 5: Christmas market in Germany. It's a very effective way to
Speaker 5: kill a lot of people, you know, like it not.
Speaker 5: Driving a truck through a crowd is a great way
Speaker 5: to kill a bunch of people easily and without having
Speaker 5: to look them in the eye, you know. So, uh, Mandy,
Speaker 5: I find it hard to believe that a special Ops
Speaker 5: trained Army soldier would use fireworks and gas tanks stored
Speaker 5: in the bed of a tank of a truck as
Speaker 5: a bomb to cause mass destruction. Maybe you didn't mean
Speaker 5: to cause mass destruction. Maybe he just went to make
Speaker 5: a statement. Here's what I think he thought. I think
Speaker 5: he thought that if he could set the Tesla truck
Speaker 5: on fire, they would never be able to get it out.
Speaker 5: And you see, I don't know if you've seen the
Speaker 5: pictures of what they actually did. They put one of
Speaker 5: those blankets on it to smother the fire because you
Speaker 5: can't use water on an electric fire because it causes arcs,
Speaker 5: and arcs just reignite the fire over and over and over.
Speaker 5: That's why some of these electric carfires will burn for days.
Speaker 5: So now they use the giant blankets to smother the
Speaker 5: fire and put it out. But I'm not sure that
Speaker 5: he meant to blow up Trump, you know, the Trump Hotel.
Speaker 5: I don't know if that was what the intention was.
Speaker 5: Like I said, we don't know a lot about that
Speaker 5: dude and what he was doing. In my opinion, there
Speaker 5: are a lot more angry males just walking around than
Speaker 5: in the past. I agree one hundred percent, and I
Speaker 5: think there's multiple reasons for that. Number one, the breakdown
Speaker 5: of the family, that's a big one. Number Two, people
Speaker 5: are moving away from God. There was a great story
Speaker 5: and I put it on the blog on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 5: I may go back and revisit it in the next
Speaker 5: week or so because it was so good about how
Speaker 5: now intellectuals are finding God, and intellectuals are turning back
Speaker 5: in there, and they're committing themselves to various religions and faiths.
Speaker 5: You know, too many people are out there wandering around
Speaker 5: looking for meaning. They're looking to fill that God's size
Speaker 5: hole with something else.
Speaker 7: They want it.
Speaker 5: They want politics to fill it, they want climate change
Speaker 5: to fill it, they want animal rights to fill it,
Speaker 5: they want all of these things. They want somebody else
Speaker 5: to fill that void that is God shaped for a reason,
Speaker 5: I think. And when you have people who've lost all hopes,
Speaker 5: I mean all hope, that seems like a reasonable assertion
Speaker 5: that they just thought this was their way to make
Speaker 5: their mark, and unfortunately they didn't have anybody else to
Speaker 5: intervene and say that's not a great idea. I guess, Mandy,
Speaker 5: you heard there was another shooting in New York last night,
Speaker 5: ten wounded, being outside of an event building. I understood
Speaker 5: that that was either gang related in some measure. And
Speaker 5: I hate to be cavalier about gang shootings, but when
Speaker 5: one gang shoots up another gang, I don't count it
Speaker 5: as a mass shooting. And I count it as a
Speaker 5: gang shooting. Even if a mass number of people dihide.
Speaker 5: That's like a different category of crime in my mind,
Speaker 5: right or wrong, that's just how I view it. We
Speaker 5: will be back momentarily at one o'clock. We've got a guy.
Speaker 5: I happened to be scrolling x this morning and I
Speaker 5: saw this guy post a letter to his landlord about
Speaker 5: why he and his family must leave their home in
Speaker 5: the Highlands. We're gonna talk to him at one o'clock
Speaker 5: and I'm I wait till I share this letter with you,
Speaker 5: and it's stunning. And the reason I'm having him on
Speaker 5: is we need more Denver rights to get loud about
Speaker 5: what they're dealing with. We're gonna talk to him at one,
Speaker 5: but I got more stuff coming back at Jeffco. Mystery
Speaker 5: gets even worse ends with a death. What is happening
Speaker 5: to the person who at the text line to say, Mandy,
Speaker 5: isn't it time for common sense electric truck control? I
Speaker 5: laughed out loud because when I did realize and this
Speaker 5: is how sick my mind is, You guys, this is
Speaker 5: not how normal people think. So two things happened over
Speaker 5: the last few days that maybe go God, I'm just
Speaker 5: not a normal person. One of them was when I
Speaker 5: found out that a truck was used in this attack
Speaker 5: in New Orleans. I immediately thought to myself, Well, what
Speaker 5: are what are the pundit's gonna say they can't call
Speaker 5: for truck control. They can't do that. My guess is
Speaker 5: they're going to pivot to the angry veteran and how
Speaker 5: dangerous veterans are. That's That's what I'm guessing is we're
Speaker 5: going to see in the next few days. So this
Speaker 5: texter said serving with the military was an amazing experience.
Speaker 5: The problem for me and transitioning was reality at this
Speaker 5: blank show we call life is a huge puppet show.
Speaker 5: Everybody is pulling somebody's strings, and everybody is an a hole.
Speaker 5: I wish that I could tell you that that was
Speaker 5: a misguided perception, but it's really not. I feel like
Speaker 5: we have more a holes walking around than we used to.
Speaker 5: I'd like to thank the texter who sent me this, Mandy.
Speaker 5: Bible sales increased dramatically in twenty twenty four and has
Speaker 5: been increasing for several years. Well, I'd never trusted texture
Speaker 5: with statistics, so I used the Google and let me
Speaker 5: share with you from a Fox News story, print Bible
Speaker 5: sales had a five year low of just under eight
Speaker 5: point nine million in twenty twenty that, according to data Now,
Speaker 5: sales surpassed thirteen points seven million in the first ten
Speaker 5: months of this year. Now, the increase in Bible sales
Speaker 5: comes even as polling shows a decline in religiosity across
Speaker 5: the country. Now as Fox does, they went and found
Speaker 5: a first time Bible buyer, and Brianna Fitzpatrick said she
Speaker 5: decided to buy a Bible because she's looking for purpose,
Speaker 5: exactly what I said. You know, there are things in
Speaker 5: life that logic cannot explain. There are things about us
Speaker 5: that brain power and science cannot explain. There's so many
Speaker 5: times that I'm watching a nature documentary, and we watch
Speaker 5: a lot in nature documentaries. First of all, we got
Speaker 5: this great new TV for Christmas. Holy crap, the picture
Speaker 5: it's like you're in the ocean. It's incredible. But nonetheless,
Speaker 5: we're watching these things and you start to see how
Speaker 5: animals have these very very unique things about them, like
Speaker 5: specific to them that maybe they're the only animal that
Speaker 5: has that particular thing, and it's critical to their survival,
Speaker 5: and sometimes it's critical to their place in the food
Speaker 5: chain that helps another animal survive because they are slow,
Speaker 5: or they have bad eyesight or whatever. Makes it easy
Speaker 5: for something else to eat. And I think to myself,
Speaker 5: the perfection of the balance of nature for you to
Speaker 5: think that all of that happened because of billions and
Speaker 5: billions and billions of most perfect mutations ever, because that's
Speaker 5: what it would take for evolution to happen, as they say.
Speaker 5: And don't get me wrong, I think that people can
Speaker 5: change and evolve. But you know, I'm one of those
Speaker 5: people that believes in intelligent design. I don't believe the
Speaker 5: word earled Earth is six thousand years old. I'm not
Speaker 5: in that camp. But it's too perfectly mathematically put together
Speaker 5: to just be random crap that happened because the mutation
Speaker 5: went here or mutation went there. It's just too perfect.
Speaker 5: And I think as we've leaned into science and we've
Speaker 5: seen how science has let us down, maybe people are
Speaker 5: starting to question that whole trust the experts. This is
Speaker 5: one of the reasons that the Trump idle worship bothers me.
Speaker 5: And it has nothing to do with Trump the man,
Speaker 5: it really doesn't. It has to do with the fact
Speaker 5: that there is a segment of the population that I
Speaker 5: honestly believe if Donald Trump went and told them to
Speaker 5: go kill their neighbor, they would do it. I don't
Speaker 5: know how large that part of the population is, but
Speaker 5: I think they exist. I think there are people who
Speaker 5: are so enamored and so wedded to the concept of
Speaker 5: the man Donald Trump, that they have lost their mind
Speaker 5: and they've lost the ability to say, He's just a man.
Speaker 5: He is as fallible as I am, as you are,
Speaker 5: as a rod is. We are all fallible beings. There
Speaker 5: are no perfect people. There are people who are better
Speaker 5: at being good people than others, but there are no
Speaker 5: perfect people. If you believe that earth is a classroom
Speaker 5: like I do, we're all here to learn. We all
Speaker 5: have something to learn, right, So it concerns me when
Speaker 5: I see people put their faith in a human being
Speaker 5: because a human being will eventually let them down. I
Speaker 5: would much rather those people put their faith in a
Speaker 5: higher power that is never going to let them down,
Speaker 5: then waste their time elevating any human being to that standard.
Speaker 5: I realized something the other day. I've been thinking a lot.
Speaker 5: I did a lot of thinking on this holiday. It
Speaker 5: was lovely. Just a lot of thinking, a lot of cooking,
Speaker 5: too much, eating, a lot of this, a lot of that.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying? So I did a lot
Speaker 5: of thinking on this holiday, and I realized that, you know,
Speaker 5: we in society, we put all of these artificial constructs
Speaker 5: in our society where we are supposed to bow down
Speaker 5: in some not physical manner. We don't do that in
Speaker 5: the United States, but we are supposed to give deference
Speaker 5: to people because we perceive that they have higher status
Speaker 5: than we do. And you see this a lot in
Speaker 5: political circles. You have people in political circles especially, and
Speaker 5: I'm sure it happens in other circles, but this is
Speaker 5: where I have seen it most clearingly. You have all
Speaker 5: of the sort of minions in political circles, and then
Speaker 5: you have kind of the seekers in political circles who
Speaker 5: are trying to get ahead, and everybody's trying to figure
Speaker 5: out how they can leverage this relationship with this person
Speaker 5: or that relationship with that person to get where they
Speaker 5: want to be. So when you see it happen so blatantly,
Speaker 5: and you see the level of like I don't want
Speaker 5: to say respect is the wrong word, because respect, in
Speaker 5: my mind, is earned, and sometimes this is given though
Speaker 5: it is not earned or deserved. In my opinion, the
Speaker 5: level of difference given to people in politics by people
Speaker 5: who want them to do something on their behalf is ridiculous.
Speaker 5: I called a member of Congress by his first name
Speaker 5: one time in an interview and he corrected me. He
Speaker 5: was like, that's Congressman so and so, and I was like, okay,
Speaker 5: And I called him by his first name again, just
Speaker 5: honestly to be a jerk, because I didn't like that.
Speaker 5: First of all, don't correct me on my show. Your
Speaker 5: people should have told me that you were sensitive about that,
Speaker 5: and they didn't, and it was just an a whole
Speaker 5: thing to do. But in my mind, that guy, that
Speaker 5: guy rode that title. By the way, he was only
Speaker 5: in Congress for one more term after that. It was terrible.
Speaker 5: But I just thought, that's that kind of difference. I'm
Speaker 5: not down with that. What we have now though, we
Speaker 5: have two people serving in the military at one point
Speaker 5: or currently who decided that their lives had gone so
Speaker 5: amiss that they were going to murder people in order
Speaker 5: to make the impact that they feel like they could
Speaker 5: not make otherwise. And I realized, I'm projecting and I'm speculating,
Speaker 5: But do you guys have a better idea, Because if
Speaker 5: we don't understand the underlying portion of it. It's going
Speaker 5: to happen again and again and again and again. So yeah, yeah, Oh,
Speaker 5: someone just called me an ignorant stupid bitch on the
Speaker 5: text line and I don't even know why. I have
Speaker 5: no idea. Yeah, clarify. If you're gonna hurl it insult,
Speaker 5: just let me know what what word is, what what
Speaker 5: I'm what I'm an ignorant stupid bitch about. That would
Speaker 5: clear up I'm too stupid to understand from just the text.
Speaker 5: That'd be fantastic. Help a sister out. If you have
Speaker 5: an idea of what what we could do here, of
Speaker 5: what we need to do, let me know. I'd love
Speaker 5: to know, Mandy. I know a chiropractor who insists on
Speaker 5: being called doctor, So I just say, okay, thanks Joe.
Speaker 5: Chiropractors are called doctor. Others are like, Hi, I'm Dave,
Speaker 5: you know, but if you do it in a manner
Speaker 5: that's not rude, I'll completely acquiesce that. If you're rude,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be rude back. I asked them, what did
Speaker 5: I say that that you off? They have not responded.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I really don't but I really appreciate these
Speaker 5: text messages Mandy brad here. I'm actually I actually have
Speaker 5: degrees in physics and chemistry. Many physicists astronomers believe the same.
Speaker 5: The statistical breakdown of our universe galaxy's world is so complex,
Speaker 5: so beautifully mathematically perfect, the odds of this being random
Speaker 5: isn't really considered anymore that talking about intelligent design. A
Speaker 5: lot of you weighing in at maybe they were a
Speaker 5: mad Trump supporter, and you, guys, I don't think I
Speaker 5: said anything bad about Trump supporters. I said there is
Speaker 5: a section of the population that is so over like,
Speaker 5: insanely passionate about Donald Trump that I think they would
Speaker 5: go kill somebody if he told him to. If you're
Speaker 5: part of that group and you know it, then that's
Speaker 5: really not healthy, especially to lash out at a talk shows.
Speaker 5: You just pointed it out, and I'm not even mad
Speaker 5: at you. I'm just saying, when you put your faith
Speaker 5: in a human being, if you put your faith in
Speaker 5: a religious leader, if you put your faith in a politician,
Speaker 5: if you put your faith in pretty much anyone long term,
Speaker 5: if you put all of your marvels in that basket,
Speaker 5: they are going to disappoint you. Think about how many
Speaker 5: church leaders now fall into scandal. And I actually think
Speaker 5: that they fall to scandal because when you lead a
Speaker 5: megachurch or you have a brand of a church, right,
Speaker 5: I think you become a celebrity in a way. I
Speaker 5: think that people start to look up to you with
Speaker 5: stars in their eyes, and they start to when you
Speaker 5: look at them and smile, they oh, gosh, she's so amazing,
Speaker 5: And it is corrupting. Celebrity is probably, in my mind,
Speaker 5: one of the most corrupting things that can happen. That's
Speaker 5: why I don't like politicians as celebrities. I don't like
Speaker 5: that mix because being in power is already corrupting enough.
Speaker 5: You really don't need to had celebrity into it to
Speaker 5: be even more corrupting. This is why when people I
Speaker 5: cannot believe that there are still child actors in Hollywood
Speaker 5: after everything we know about child actors and what has
Speaker 5: happened to them in the past and how they turn out,
Speaker 5: because it's the celebrity where people are just telling you
Speaker 5: you're great all the time is incredibly corrupting, and yet
Speaker 5: people still you get sucked into it. I mean, you
Speaker 5: really do. And trust me, I'm not mad at you
Speaker 5: for being a Trump supporter. All I'm saying is use
Speaker 5: your brain. Please please, Mandy, I applied your encouragement for
Speaker 5: intelligent design. I praise God for your boldness and speaking
Speaker 5: the truth and love. Thank you. You encourage me greatly.
Speaker 5: Wishing you a joyful new year for you and your family.
Speaker 5: I will say this, I will tell you that on
Speaker 5: the blog, on the New Year's Eve blog, and I
Speaker 5: might go back and pull it because there's an article
Speaker 5: in the Free about intellectuals finding God. It's very, very good.
Speaker 5: But what I find fascinating is every single one of
Speaker 5: them said some version of you know, I did all
Speaker 5: these things. I was smart, I was educated, and yet
Speaker 5: I still felt this void. The void was there even
Speaker 5: the way it accomplished all these other things. And I
Speaker 5: really do believe that we have a God shaped holl
Speaker 5: I really tree. It's such a silly way to say it,
Speaker 5: but it is true. And in my personal life. Statistically
Speaker 5: it's been born out that people of strong faith are
Speaker 5: some of the happiest people in the country, and conversely,
Speaker 5: young liberal women are the most miserable. They are the
Speaker 5: least likely to have religion because too many religions. And
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna sort of put upon religions right now.
Speaker 5: Too many religions have been very patriarchal forever, sometimes written
Speaker 5: into their doctrines, sometimes not, and young women are rejecting that.
Speaker 5: But instead of rejecting you know, religion and not God,
Speaker 5: which I personally believe you can do. I know lots
Speaker 5: of people who are very godly and they walk with God,
Speaker 5: but they don't necessarily go to church, and so they're
Speaker 5: miserable over there, whereas the people of deep faith they're happy.
Speaker 5: And you know who is turning to faith more than
Speaker 5: any other demographic right now, young men. Young men are
Speaker 5: showing up at church. Young men are looking for a
Speaker 5: purpose greater than themselves and they're going. So I'm encouraged.
Speaker 5: I you know, the whole thing. And I can never
Speaker 5: remember the name of the Scottish guy who did the
Speaker 5: seven steps from you know, slavery to I used to
Speaker 5: know them all by heart, and I've just let them
Speaker 5: go out of my brain. But we've been in the
Speaker 5: apathy portion for a long time, and lately we've realized
Speaker 5: and I think if you looked at the last election cycle,
Speaker 5: you see people are tired of feeling like someone else
Speaker 5: is calling the shots for them and I'm not in
Speaker 5: any way, shape or form comparing what we went through
Speaker 5: with COVID with actual slavery human you know, shadow, I'm
Speaker 5: not comparing those things. But we got a tiny taste
Speaker 5: of that totalitarianism and people were like, you know what,
Speaker 5: don't like it, not going to vote for it again.
Speaker 5: That's that's all part of the cycle of the seven
Speaker 5: stages of a democracy. Maybe we're gonna skip through or
Speaker 5: skip past actual slavery and totalitarianism. That would be lovely.
Speaker 5: I'd love to say we can do it, but we
Speaker 5: all have to be pretty pretty certain about it. And
Speaker 5: one thing that is required is people of faith. Not
Speaker 5: everybody has to be a person of faith, but enough do.
Speaker 5: Here's the thing I talk about God, and I'm talking
Speaker 5: about this not because I'm trying to proselytize. You know,
Speaker 5: everybody has to make their own decision. You have to
Speaker 5: find your own way, You gotta you gotta follow your
Speaker 5: own path. But what I want to do is make
Speaker 5: it okay for you out there listener who does believe
Speaker 5: in God and has a strong faith, to talk about
Speaker 5: it and talk about it however you want. Because for
Speaker 5: a very long time, people of faith have been cowed
Speaker 5: into silence. And it should be okay for you to
Speaker 5: say my faith in God helped me get through a
Speaker 5: really bad time, or being grateful to God gives me
Speaker 5: a great outlook every single day. You should be able
Speaker 5: to do that and nobody should cringe. And we're seeing
Speaker 5: more of it, I think, and that, my friends, gives
Speaker 5: me hope.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: I have a guest coming on next. He's a man
Speaker 5: who has lived and loved living in the Highlands in
Speaker 5: Denver for a long time. But this morning on x
Speaker 5: he posted the letter he sent to his landlord telling
Speaker 5: him that they had to move. We're going to talk
Speaker 5: to him next. Keep it right here on KOA.
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Speaker 5: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
Speaker 5: And this morning, as I was making my coffee, I
Speaker 5: was perusingex dot com, as I often do as I'm
Speaker 5: making my coffee, and I saw a post by a
Speaker 5: guy named Taylor Romero, and it is an email that
Speaker 5: he sent to his landlord yesterday said I live in
Speaker 5: the Highlands and I'm going to encapsulate it for you,
Speaker 5: though I did put it on the blog today, so
Speaker 5: you can go over to the blog and read it there.
Speaker 5: But the long and short of it is, and I'll
Speaker 5: read this one paragraph to get you started. Homeless and
Speaker 5: druggies are now a common occurrence in the back alley,
Speaker 5: one even going so far as urinating in the small
Speaker 5: space between the house and the neighbors. I confronted in
Speaker 5: mid act, and he hasn't been back. I could hear
Speaker 5: the girls laugh, playing with a friend just feet away,
Speaker 5: but inside, so they had no idea what was happening.
Speaker 5: Then he goes on to talk about the last sixty
Speaker 5: days that he and his family have had to endure,
Speaker 5: watching a young woman be chased, watching little girls get
Speaker 5: her scooters stolen in broad daylight, watching drug activity and
Speaker 5: things of that nature. And I reached out and Taylor
Speaker 5: has agreed to join me on the show. He says,
Speaker 5: he's just an average dad and husband living in the
Speaker 5: Highlands who's hoping things changed before they end up being
Speaker 5: forced to leave the state. Taylor, welcome to the show.
Speaker 7: First of all, yeah, Mandy, thank you so much for
Speaker 7: having me.
Speaker 5: So how long have you lived in the Highlands?
Speaker 4: Uh, cheesy, less than ten years, more than seven.
Speaker 7: And it's been a while now.
Speaker 4: My two daughters are kind of now comfortable to the
Speaker 4: area of their friends in the area, and so those
Speaker 4: kind of those commitments make it really hard for us
Speaker 4: to mobile or to move.
Speaker 7: But it's it's been maybe near a decade now.
Speaker 5: You talked about your wife being chased by someone while
Speaker 5: she was walking around Slumslake and you having to leave
Speaker 5: work and go pick her up. That has to be
Speaker 5: very very unnerving. Was was that Was there one particular
Speaker 5: incident and everything you laid out in this in this
Speaker 5: letter to your email or landlord, Was there any one
Speaker 5: particular incident or was it really an accumulation?
Speaker 7: Gosh that that is such a good question. It's been
Speaker 7: an accumulation.
Speaker 4: And I don't know how much time we have, but
Speaker 4: I can I can walk through the progression, yeah, and
Speaker 4: share that. So the first kind of experience that comes
Speaker 4: to mind was maybe like four years ago. I'm on
Speaker 4: thirty second in Federal heading West. I'm up next at
Speaker 4: the red light light turn screen. I start to pull forward.
Speaker 4: I'm halfway two thirds of the way through the intersection
Speaker 4: and I get t boned.
Speaker 7: I get t boned hard.
Speaker 4: The car that hits me, it's big suburban, hits me
Speaker 4: kind of banks to the to their right. So now
Speaker 4: they're in front of me, and I start to do
Speaker 4: what I think is kind of Carmen Harlance at this
Speaker 4: point when you get hit is to pull over. And
Speaker 4: I started to see they were accelerating and I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: oh no, and so I think I'm going to take
Speaker 4: out my phone and I'm going to take a picture
Speaker 4: of the license plate.
Speaker 7: They don't have a license plate.
Speaker 4: So they start to accelerate. I am like, well, I'm
Speaker 4: just gonna call the police and I'm going to follow them.
Speaker 4: And I start to press on the accelerator and my
Speaker 4: car's like nah and splutters. So I call the police.
Speaker 4: A bunch of witnesses come around. They're like, hey, we'll
Speaker 4: hang out for the police. I call the police and
Speaker 4: the dispatch says asked me, did you get a license plate?
Speaker 7: And I was like no, they actually didn't have one.
Speaker 4: And the person online goes, oh, well, there's nothing we
Speaker 4: can do.
Speaker 7: Sha, Well, are you going to send you need to
Speaker 7: send someone out or it's like, Nope, there's nothing we
Speaker 7: can do. Fill out a report online. Ah, okay, So
Speaker 7: I thought about this.
Speaker 4: What do you call getting t boned by somebody, having
Speaker 4: your property damaged by somebody who is driving illegally, and
Speaker 4: the police being called but putting in zero effort.
Speaker 7: I call it foreshadowing.
Speaker 4: So then the next I didn't know at the time, right,
Speaker 4: I had no idea at the time. I just thought
Speaker 4: that this is really, this is not awesome, and I
Speaker 4: fill out a report online so I can deal with
Speaker 4: my car insurance.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: Sometime passes in the measure of months, and I am
Speaker 4: walking on thirty second and Lowell in the little of
Speaker 4: the shopping district, Love that area.
Speaker 7: And I am I.
Speaker 4: I'm confronted by a really nice young lady who I've
Speaker 4: helped describe as say, clipboard warrior.
Speaker 7: You've seen them out there.
Speaker 4: They've got their clipboards and they're trying to get you
Speaker 4: to sign something or to fill something out.
Speaker 7: So I'm talking with her. There's a whole story about
Speaker 7: my conversation with her.
Speaker 4: But about fifteen minutes into our conversation or I think,
Speaker 4: she starts to realize, oh my gosh, maybe I'm on
Speaker 4: the wrong side of the clipboard. Here she I hear, help, Help, Help,
Speaker 4: And I look up and I see two homeless people
Speaker 4: grappling on the sidewalk in front of one of the
Speaker 4: coffee shops that I don't think. I think just went
Speaker 4: out of business in the past week. And he's screaming help.
Speaker 4: So I say, all right, it was awesome talking. Excuse
Speaker 4: me for a minute. Someone's calling for help. It's my
Speaker 4: wife hates it, like it's my instinct if someone's in
Speaker 4: an emergency and asking for.
Speaker 7: Help to go investigate. So I go.
Speaker 4: I walk up, and I see these two homeless guys
Speaker 4: on the ground, one on top of the other, someone
Speaker 4: calling for help, and I'll never forget.
Speaker 7: I set my backpack down.
Speaker 4: I start to walk over and one of the shop
Speaker 4: owners steps in front of me, puts her hand on
Speaker 4: my chest.
Speaker 7: Says, no, stop, just just stay out of it, let.
Speaker 4: Them finish, And I was like, uh no, so I
Speaker 4: lightly just kind of push her hand aside.
Speaker 7: I straddled both of them.
Speaker 4: I did like the weapons inspection, like, okay, I'm seeing knives,
Speaker 4: I'm see anything. I grabbed the guy on top, got
Speaker 4: him into a hole to kind of secure him, and
Speaker 4: it was like a glass wall was broken, because at
Speaker 4: that moment, three or four other.
Speaker 7: Guys jumped into help.
Speaker 4: Me, right right, And so we pull him apart, we
Speaker 4: extract them, we de escalate.
Speaker 7: We one of the ladies there says, I've called the police.
Speaker 7: They're on their way.
Speaker 4: Five minutes past, ten minutes past, the guy who was
Speaker 4: the attacker just gets up walks away. Yeah, another five
Speaker 4: minutes past, another ten minutes past, the guy who was
Speaker 4: being attacked.
Speaker 7: I just turned.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't think they're coming, dude, And so
Speaker 4: we're all looking at each other like we don't think
Speaker 4: the police aren't The police aren't coming, and so we
Speaker 4: all just leave.
Speaker 6: Taylor.
Speaker 5: This is what Paul, This is. This is I want
Speaker 5: to a couple of things about that story that I
Speaker 5: want to just interrupt really quickly. You first of all,
Speaker 5: running towards danger. Congrats and hats off to you. And
Speaker 5: I think that a lot of your neighbors needed you
Speaker 5: to break that that that glass, right, because they don't
Speaker 5: want to be the first one in, but they will
Speaker 5: help if someone else jumps in. Secondarily, that instinct will
Speaker 5: be beaten out of you when nothing ever happens at
Speaker 5: the end of it. You know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 5: the police not bothering to respond. And I know Denver
Speaker 5: police has been undermanned, understaffed for a long time now,
Speaker 5: but but to your point, when it feels like they're
Speaker 5: not even trying what it beats the instincts in citizens
Speaker 5: like you to try and help. That's very frustrating to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it changes like we were like kind of focused
Speaker 4: on what's the light at the end of the tunnel.
Speaker 4: It does not involve law enforcement, And I think that's
Speaker 4: good to know, at least in my experience back to back,
Speaker 4: which is why we get into my email all of
Speaker 4: these things that I'm seeing. We've stopped calling the police,
Speaker 4: and in fact, after some of this stuff has happened,
Speaker 4: my wife and I spoke, we said, well, shall we
Speaker 4: call the police, Like what would be the point? Like, yeah,
Speaker 4: file report online, like they're not going to do anything,
Speaker 4: not going to show. Well, I was at Walmart in
Speaker 4: Lakewood and they have a fully like clothed, vested armed
Speaker 4: police officer that is on duty there, and so I
Speaker 4: had overheard him talking to one of the guys that
Speaker 4: worked there about something with the holidays and his wife,
Speaker 4: and so after he was done talking, I approached him.
Speaker 4: I said, hey, man, I had a question as like
Speaker 4: a husband, and I.
Speaker 7: Don't know if you have kids.
Speaker 4: Is me talking out or if you have kids, but
Speaker 4: it's like a husband and as a father, like here
Speaker 4: some things that are happening.
Speaker 7: What what do I do? Like if i'm if, i'm.
Speaker 4: If one of my responsibilities is the safety and the protection.
Speaker 7: Of my of my family and property. What do I do?
Speaker 4: And he says, well, you could, and he talks about
Speaker 4: calling and reporting, and I responded, I said, man, none
Speaker 4: of that, none of your answers. Did I hear any
Speaker 4: confidence in what you were saying? Yeah, I like, give
Speaker 4: me an answer, you're confident and no joke.
Speaker 7: He looks me up and down.
Speaker 4: He goes, well, I think given what you're wearing, you
Speaker 4: could probably have a concealed fire arm. You should probably
Speaker 4: go that route because and this is a quote unquote
Speaker 4: unfortunately that's where we are.
Speaker 6: Dang.
Speaker 5: So you know, so how did you You sent this
Speaker 5: to your landlord? The letter? And again I linked to
Speaker 5: it on the blog, so people want to go read
Speaker 5: the whole thing. But I think anybody who lives in
Speaker 5: Denver who has been continually gas lit about what is
Speaker 5: actually happening in neighborhoods. And that's one of the reasons
Speaker 5: I wanted to have you on. I need more Denver
Speaker 5: Rights to come forward with their story because what I
Speaker 5: think is happening is that a lot of people feel
Speaker 5: very isolated when they are experiencing some of these things.
Speaker 5: They don't want to be the neighbor to call the police,
Speaker 5: or they don't want to be that neighbor that seems
Speaker 5: judgmental or whatever. There's a whole bunch of like social
Speaker 5: pressures that go into this. But I think that Denver
Speaker 5: Rights have to stand up and say this is enough.
Speaker 5: We're not going to put up with us anymore. What
Speaker 5: did your landlord say when he read the letter or
Speaker 5: she read the letter?
Speaker 4: Well, no joke, I got their response just before we
Speaker 4: start our call, so I have not read it yet.
Speaker 5: Oh God, surely they know. I mean, surely, if they
Speaker 5: own the properties, they know what's going on in the neighborhood,
Speaker 5: you know, and it's got to be incredibly infuriating for
Speaker 5: the landlords, who are probably understanding of your position, will
Speaker 5: also need to, you know, keep keep people in their
Speaker 5: in their property. So it's you know, it's a very
Speaker 5: difficult situation. And where are you looking to move to?
Speaker 5: Have you even thought about it?
Speaker 4: We want to get some more closer to golden yea.
Speaker 4: So one of the things, and I have got so much,
Speaker 4: there's so much to share here, but I've one of
Speaker 4: the things I've seen is that wealth disparity is a
Speaker 4: precursor to violence. And when the people who run your
Speaker 4: city import an immense amount of people in a different
Speaker 4: socioeconomic bracket, violence is inevitable. And for the for the
Speaker 4: first time ever, And I and just like young me,
Speaker 4: can't even believe I'm saying anything like this is I
Speaker 4: need my family and my family we need to be
Speaker 4: at a place with there is not wealth disparity, because
Speaker 4: what ends up happening is when you bring in poverty,
Speaker 4: you import poverty, it makes for a good justification for violence.
Speaker 4: Oh they stole your jacket, yeah, but they couldn't afford one. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they hurt and broke into your house, Yeah, but that's
Speaker 4: because they don't have one. So once you end up
Speaker 4: in a situation where you have really good reasons for
Speaker 4: really bad things, it gets really hard because and we've
Speaker 4: I think felt this just more generally over the past
Speaker 4: at least four or or more years, where it's like
Speaker 4: just saying common sense things can get you attacked, like hey,
Speaker 4: maybe we shouldn't be like stealing things from little girls.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But then when the response is, yeah, but those people
Speaker 4: have nothing, you start this debate of justifying aggression, violence
Speaker 4: and theft.
Speaker 7: And and so I actually think I might.
Speaker 4: I kind of think the situation Denver is in is
Speaker 4: really interesting because the people that run Denver, no doubt
Speaker 4: have a good reason, noble purpose for everything they're doing. Unfortunately,
Speaker 4: my family and my family safety is the sacrifice, and
Speaker 4: I believe they believe it is a worthy sacrifice. It's
Speaker 4: okay if a middle income, middle American family has to
Speaker 4: run because we were able to house x amount of
Speaker 4: people or feed y amount of people. And there's this
Speaker 4: false dichotomy that I think a lot of people, especially
Speaker 4: I would describe as the political class, get themselves in
Speaker 4: where they think that the sacrifice of the average citizen
Speaker 4: is a worthy sacrifice. So it's like, I don't even know.
Speaker 4: I don't think that they don't know. Well, I think
Speaker 4: they just see it and go, yeah, but you've had
Speaker 4: a great life, so let me give someone who needs
Speaker 4: it more.
Speaker 5: Let me give you a little more perspective from perhaps
Speaker 5: further down the right side of the aisle, just to
Speaker 5: give you a little bit of this. I think you're
Speaker 5: absolutely right that people are justifying criminal behavior because of
Speaker 5: the circumstances of the people that are committing it. However,
Speaker 5: most of the time those people are not being impacted
Speaker 5: on a daily basis they themselves, and I would say
Speaker 5: that my frustration with the City of Denver. First of all,
Speaker 5: I think they're pursuing some measures that are short term
Speaker 5: effective at one thing, long term failures and others when
Speaker 5: we're talking about housing, people living on the streets and
Speaker 5: things of that nature, I would do all this differently,
Speaker 5: just to get that out there. But that being said,
Speaker 5: you're right, their intentions are very very good. Their intentions
Speaker 5: are that they want to prove that we are a
Speaker 5: welcoming city, we are a welcoming country. But they do
Speaker 5: so because they're not living with the daily impacts that
Speaker 5: you and your family are living with. And that's the
Speaker 5: frustration and the disconnect, and that is what Denver rights
Speaker 5: across the spectrum who are dealing with this need to
Speaker 5: be emboldened and say we too are compassionate. Nobody wants
Speaker 5: a family to starve, nobody wants a family to suffer.
Speaker 5: You can look at some of these people coming across
Speaker 5: the border with little children and your heart breaks. But
Speaker 5: you also have to enforce the rule of law because
Speaker 5: those people are being victimized too. Right, it's not just
Speaker 5: white middle class Americans. We've seen what's happened in these
Speaker 5: apartment complexes. We're the same people that we're supposed to
Speaker 5: feel sorry for are the ones being victimized. So we
Speaker 5: have to get back to establishing the rule of law
Speaker 5: and order so we can have a society that is
Speaker 5: capable of supporting the people that need our help. Because
Speaker 5: what happens is the schism starts to happen, where normally
Speaker 5: people who wo at one hundred percent say this is great,
Speaker 5: we're compassionate, we want these people here. Then go, but
Speaker 5: wait a minute, my daughter's scooter just got stolen. So
Speaker 5: your heart starts to turn, your heart starts to harden,
Speaker 5: and that in the long run becomes a huge problem
Speaker 5: for the very people that we're here to help. So
Speaker 5: to your point, I think you're totally right. You're absolutely
Speaker 5: right that there are justifications being made for this criminal activity,
Speaker 5: whether it is they're addicted, its mental illness, so they
Speaker 5: can't help it, great, then we need to help them.
Speaker 5: We need to help these people. We need to do this,
Speaker 5: but we need to do it in a way that
Speaker 5: doesn't sacrifice our own safety as a community. And I
Speaker 5: think that's kind of what you just said in a
Speaker 5: different perspective. So you know, so what are you what
Speaker 5: are you looking to do now? You said you want
Speaker 5: to move closer to golden but that ultimately doesn't necessarily
Speaker 5: solve the problem. Did you put this why did you
Speaker 5: put this letter out? Let me ask that question.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think well so, I think there's a part
Speaker 4: of me that is hopelessly optimistic, and I've seen that
Speaker 4: in the process of solving a problem, it has to
Speaker 4: start with discussions, and.
Speaker 7: So let's talk. And I think the problem is a
Speaker 7: major problem, is that.
Speaker 4: There's no way to talk about this without being embroiled
Speaker 4: in the ideological battle of our time. Agree And so
Speaker 4: what happens is I am I would say if anybody
Speaker 4: very apolitical, I actually haven't even voted since Obama the
Speaker 4: first time.
Speaker 7: I have a lot of reasons for why that was
Speaker 7: my I'm out of this moment.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of people feel that way sometimes. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but you know, does this inspire you to pay more
Speaker 5: attention at least at the local level. And this is
Speaker 5: something I talk about on the show, Like I could
Speaker 5: talk about federal elections all day every day, But the
Speaker 5: reality is the people we put on the city council,
Speaker 5: the people we put on the school board, the people
Speaker 5: we put in these boards and commissions at the local
Speaker 5: level have far more impact on your day to day
Speaker 5: life than anybody at the federal level. You know. It's
Speaker 5: like the people whoever's president is going to have way
Speaker 5: less impact on you as a citizen of Denver than
Speaker 5: the Denver City Council or or the Denver Police Department,
Speaker 5: like finding out what's going on there. So I'm really
Speaker 5: glad and I hope that this inspires you to be
Speaker 5: a little more engaged because you're great at presenting what's
Speaker 5: going on in a way that I think a lot
Speaker 5: of people would go, Yeah, that's pretty damn accurate. That's
Speaker 5: what's happening in our communities and we don't know what
Speaker 5: to do about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I will say we give a little like
Speaker 4: a little framing as a thought experiment because it'll really
Speaker 4: capture what I'm facing when I talk when I speak
Speaker 4: about this stuff.
Speaker 7: So, okay, imagine this.
Speaker 4: Imagine we went to a time machine, we jump back
Speaker 4: three four hundred years into the UK, and the ideological
Speaker 4: battle the time was Protestants and Catholics. So imagine we
Speaker 4: go and we talked to someone and and they ask us, well,
Speaker 4: do you think that a married couple.
Speaker 7: Should be allowed to get a divorce? And we would
Speaker 7: say yeah, and they would respond.
Speaker 5: With what are you Protestant?
Speaker 4: And It's like, well, no, no, no, I'm a time traveler
Speaker 4: from the future who's not captured by the ideological battle
Speaker 4: of your time. Okay, so fast forward to today. I
Speaker 4: say things and someone says, what are you a Republican
Speaker 4: or what are you a Democrat? And I go, no,
Speaker 4: it might be best to think of me as a
Speaker 4: time traveler from the future who is not captured by
Speaker 4: the ideological battle of our times.
Speaker 7: I do not care what your belief system is.
Speaker 4: I care that like I'm having to get a concealed
Speaker 4: carry license now, and that I'm not the only dad
Speaker 4: in a group of fathers that I hang out with
Speaker 4: now and again, talking about the armed defense of our family. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and so I can't speak about this without being called
Speaker 4: the amount of times that's something a Republican would say, What.
Speaker 7: What does it have to do with anything?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, go ahead.
Speaker 4: I would say, it just kills the conversation because once
Speaker 4: I'm an out group, I can be branded and villainized,
Speaker 4: and then there is no conversation to be at.
Speaker 5: Taylor's Yeah, Taylor Romero is my guest. I would strongly
Speaker 5: urge you to go look at his letter to his
Speaker 5: landlord about why he wants to move out of the
Speaker 5: Highlands after living there for almost a decade. Taylor, I
Speaker 5: think you are great at this conversation. I'm so happy
Speaker 5: I reached out to you, because again, I just want
Speaker 5: to empower people to feel like they can say things
Speaker 5: are not okay and we need to fix it. Things
Speaker 5: are not okay, and this is you know, we need
Speaker 5: to make Denver great again. That's what I said on
Speaker 5: the blog. Let's make Denver great again, because I think
Speaker 5: the health of Denver is so critical to the overall
Speaker 5: health of the state of Colorado that no matter where
Speaker 5: you live, you should be rooting for Denver. You really,
Speaker 5: truly should be rooting for Denver and Taylor, I appreciate
Speaker 5: you coming on the show, and as a conceal carry
Speaker 5: permit holder myself, two pieces of advice. Inside the house.
Speaker 5: You want a shotgun for home defense, very forgiving. Won't
Speaker 5: go through the walls, won't hurt anybody. You don't intend,
Speaker 5: and it's hard to miss. But practice practice practice. If
Speaker 5: you get your concealed carry permit, do not be one
Speaker 5: of those people well that gets it and never goes
Speaker 5: to the range. Again, just practice, practice, practice, Taylor, I
Speaker 5: appreciate your time today.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Mandy, thank you so much. It just does give
Speaker 7: me hope. We'll see.
Speaker 4: I'll know we're on a good path when any of
Speaker 4: the mainstream media and Denvers having this conversation.
Speaker 5: We shall see. Hopefully they'll call you soon, Taylor, Taylor Ramiro,
Speaker 5: thanks for your time, man, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 7: Mandy talks soon, all right.
Speaker 5: That is just saw that today on the interwebs. The
Speaker 5: responses on the blog are very funny to me. Many
Speaker 5: of you are saying, Hey, this guy's great, and then
Speaker 5: other guys are saying, this guy's more on, And that's
Speaker 5: kind of what he was actually just talking about there
Speaker 5: at the end the man who blew up a Tesla
Speaker 5: cybertruck in Las Vegas. And he is an Army green beret,
Speaker 5: And the Army says that he had served in the
Speaker 5: Army since two thousand and six, rising through the ranks
Speaker 5: with a long career of overseas assignments, deploying twice to Afghanistan,
Speaker 5: serving in Ukraine, Tajikistan, Georgia, and the Congo. Not exactly
Speaker 5: your prime stations to be stationed, if you know, if
Speaker 5: you want a cushy military life. He was awarded two
Speaker 5: Bronze Stars, including one with a Valor device for Courage
Speaker 5: under fire, a Combat Infantry Badge, and an Army Commendation
Speaker 5: Medaled with Valor. He was on approved leave. Now it's
Speaker 5: the way this is written, and this is on nine News,
Speaker 5: and I don't know if it is I'm seeing. Oh, okay,
Speaker 5: it's an ap article. That's why listen to the way
Speaker 5: this is written. He was on approved leave when he died.
Speaker 5: According to the statement. When he died, it makes it
Speaker 5: sound like he just, you know, had a heart attack
Speaker 5: and dropped to no he blew First of all, he
Speaker 5: shot himself. They believe he shot himself before he tried
Speaker 5: to blow up the test cyber truck. But here you
Speaker 5: got a guy who's a Green Beret and he fills
Speaker 5: the truck with fireworks and gas canisters. I'm doesn't that
Speaker 5: seem odd? I mean, wouldn't it be able to put
Speaker 5: something a little more sophisticated together. And it's not like
Speaker 5: you didn't have time to think about it. He drove
Speaker 5: from Colorado from Denver to Las Vegas. They know this
Speaker 5: because of where he stopped on charging stations to recharge
Speaker 5: the cyber truck. Just that's weird. That's really weird. Maybe
Speaker 5: we'll have some more clarity about his state of mind.
Speaker 5: I don't know, I do not know. We also have
Speaker 5: another story on the blog today that is not great news.
Speaker 5: This story broke over the holiday period, so it kind
Speaker 5: of got swept to the side for a moment. But
Speaker 5: chief of staff, former chief of schools, excuse me, David
Speaker 5: Weiss for Jeff Co's Schools is now apparently committed suicide
Speaker 5: in Maryland. He was fired in early December because he
Speaker 5: was being investigated in first do youf CO Public Schools
Speaker 5: was being very tight lipped, But then I don't know
Speaker 5: where this came out. I don't know if it's been confirmed,
Speaker 5: but he was being investigated for the purchase of child
Speaker 5: pornography and on Christmas break he was visiting family and
Speaker 5: his body has been found. They're investigating, they don't know,
Speaker 5: they're guessing. I guess so far that it's suicide, but
Speaker 5: we don't know for sure. This is a really scary story.
Speaker 5: Anytime you have someone who works in the school district
Speaker 5: who is a pedophile, that's really frightening. Where else did
Speaker 5: this guy work? I mean, he was an administration so
Speaker 5: it's not like he had daily access to children, But
Speaker 5: did he before? Did he just drop out of the
Speaker 5: sky and work in central Command or did he have
Speaker 5: access to kids before. That's really really scary for parents
Speaker 5: who may have had kids who went to those schools.
Speaker 5: So that story has come to a partial conclusion. There
Speaker 5: will be no trial, but jeff Co is continuing to investigate.
Speaker 5: The Jeff Co Sheriff's Office says they are continuing to
Speaker 5: investigate these allegations. I'm assuming that they too have the
Speaker 5: same concerns that I do, that there may be victims
Speaker 5: out there who have not been identified yet, and this
Speaker 5: is just ugh. The more we talk about pedophiles, it
Speaker 5: seems like, the more there are. And I'm not saying
Speaker 5: or you know, planting seeds, because that's ridiculous. But dang,
Speaker 5: I'm glad that my daughter is fifteen and mouthy as
Speaker 5: hell and that you know, I don't think someone could
Speaker 5: convince her to keep that kind of secret anymore. And
Speaker 5: then when the little kids are little kids and relatively
Speaker 5: easy to manipul late, But dang, that story is is
Speaker 5: not not good news, Mandy. He was with kids for
Speaker 5: eight years for as a principal. That is exactly what
Speaker 5: I'm talking about, Mandy. Someone needs to check the bank
Speaker 5: account of this Green Beret and then follow the money.
Speaker 5: We'll find out more or we won't. You know, when
Speaker 5: the FBI came out yesterday, the FBI was a disaster. Yesterday,
Speaker 5: the FBI comes out first in New Orleans. We don't
Speaker 5: think this guy worked alone. Well crap, now everybody's like what.
Speaker 5: Then they're getting out No, no, no, we were just kidding.
Speaker 5: We were just kidding. We were kidding. We're totally kidding.
Speaker 5: And then they're like, we don't think it was an
Speaker 5: active terror. The dude had an ISIS flag hanging off
Speaker 5: the back of his truck. Now, whether or not he
Speaker 5: was motivated by that, or he had been thrown or
Speaker 5: continued a deep depression and mental break because of a
Speaker 5: divorce he went through. Apparently, someone said on X, I
Speaker 5: don't know if it's true or not. I mean, apparently
Speaker 5: he was a divorced man as well, and someone commented
Speaker 5: on X, well, let's talk about what divorce does to men.
Speaker 5: Divorce is devastating, even if you're the one who wants
Speaker 5: the divorce, it's a devastating thing to go through. But
Speaker 5: if the reason you got divorced was because you were
Speaker 5: not doing well mentally, it's only going to be exacerbating
Speaker 5: what's already going on. So I don't know that that
Speaker 5: is going to make difference and make a difference, Mandy.
Speaker 5: Perhaps he use those explosive devices to avoid attracting attention.
Speaker 5: Anything is possible, Mandy. This is why you need to
Speaker 5: go to your school board meetings and pay attention. Pedophiles
Speaker 5: have been in the schools forever. They don't share information
Speaker 5: from district to district, and that's why we can't get
Speaker 5: rid of it. You know, a lot of people like
Speaker 5: to point at clergy as being the main perpetrators of
Speaker 5: preying on children, but the reality is is that school
Speaker 5: districts across country, to this texture's point, deal with more
Speaker 5: accusations of sexual impropriety than you would even possibly imagine.
Speaker 5: And they range from inappropriate text messages to inappropriate comments
Speaker 5: to sexual relationships with students. So it's all over the place,
Speaker 5: completely all over the place. But I agree, I don't
Speaker 5: know if going to the school board meetings is going
Speaker 5: to change that. But if enough parents advocated for some
Speaker 5: kind of nationwide reporting system like we have for police police,
Speaker 5: if police get fired from for cause, if police get
Speaker 5: fired for cause, they should go into a national database
Speaker 5: that says this is a bad cop. They should be
Speaker 5: prevented from working in law enforcement after that period. And
Speaker 5: I don't mean, I don't know why someone would get fired,
Speaker 5: but if it was speeding tickets or something stupid like that,
Speaker 5: I mean, that's one thing. But if you have felonious
Speaker 5: police office or people suspected of criminal activity or any
Speaker 5: of those things, you should just be blackballed. Teachers is
Speaker 5: the same way.
Speaker 2: Lol.
Speaker 5: That's because the clergy got caught. Yes, indeedy they did
Speaker 5: get caught Mandy. I'm surprised the AP didn't start the
Speaker 5: article thanking him for his service. Yeah, yeah, maybe he
Speaker 5: used fireworks and gas because the C four store was closed.
Speaker 5: You guys, no offense. But my brother, when he was
Speaker 5: like ten years old, figured out how to build a bomb,
Speaker 5: not like a nuclear weapon, but an explosive device large
Speaker 5: enough to blow a massive hole in our backyard. Surely
Speaker 5: a Green Beret can cobble together some stuff himself, just saying. Maybe.
Speaker 5: The point, says this text in Las Vegas was to
Speaker 5: make the cyber truck burn so as to damage Tesla's
Speaker 5: reputation and therefore also injure Elon Musk's reputation. The location
Speaker 5: at the Trump Hotel was not coincidental. In my opinion,
Speaker 5: I think you are one hundred percent right. I think
Speaker 5: if you were going to make assumptions about this and
Speaker 5: the motivation here, this is definitely feels politically motivated. And
Speaker 5: it definitely felt to me like this guy wasn't looking
Speaker 5: to kill a bunch of people. He was just looking
Speaker 5: to make a statement as he took himself out, which
Speaker 5: is so sad. It's so sad that he decided that
Speaker 5: life was not worth living anymore, and it's even sadder
Speaker 5: that he decided to do something so dramatic that could
Speaker 5: have really hurt other people. And as for damaging Elon
Speaker 5: Musk's reputation, authorities are now saying that because of the
Speaker 5: design of the cyber truck, it contained the explosion and
Speaker 5: drove any explosion up instead of out, and it didn't
Speaker 5: even break the windows on the Trump hotel. But I
Speaker 5: think assuming there is a political motive here is pretty
Speaker 5: I mean, it's logical, right, A cyber truck in front
Speaker 5: of the Trump Hotel, Yeah, that's pretty logical. And this
Speaker 5: textor said Mandy, the Vegas cyber truck guy obviously didn't
Speaker 5: want to cause much damage. He didn't like Trump or
Speaker 5: Elon and wanted to go out with a bang. Maybe,
Speaker 5: so I guess you're right. So yeah, just making the
Speaker 5: point about that this text, this kind of text breaks
Speaker 5: my heart about what we were just talking about about
Speaker 5: the Jeffco School's Chief of Schools. This texter said, Mandy,
Speaker 5: I was abused by a teacher for six years because
Speaker 5: he showed me attention. And I wish I could tell
Speaker 5: you I didn't know anybody that was in that same situation,
Speaker 5: but I have three female friends that were abused by
Speaker 5: teachers when they were in high school, and I say abused,
Speaker 5: and don't give me that they knew what they were doing. No,
Speaker 5: they didn't. When a person in a physician of authority
Speaker 5: comes on to you sexually when you are a child,
Speaker 5: it is not the child's responsibility. And the three women
Speaker 5: that I know have had varying degrees of difficulty with
Speaker 5: that going forward. Not my story to tell, so I'm
Speaker 5: not going to go on about that.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: Got a bunch of other stuff on the blog today,
Speaker 5: and we've got to talk about psychedelics. We'll do this
Speaker 5: on the other side of this break. Psychedelics in Colorado
Speaker 5: are now legal in certain circumstances, and one of those
Speaker 5: circumstances is therapeutic. As a matter of fact, A rod
Speaker 5: I got a list of people we got to get
Speaker 5: on the show about this. We've got to get people
Speaker 5: on the show that know what they're doing. I think
Speaker 5: I sent you an email, didn't I did I send
Speaker 5: you an email? No, Man, you didn't look back when
Speaker 5: you're on vacation. I check emails on wait what No,
Speaker 5: Because there is a Center for Psychedelics Study at CU Boulder,
Speaker 5: I believe or CSU. I can't remember which one, but
Speaker 5: it's already kind of creating a little bit of a kerfuffle.
Speaker 5: And the reason I'm bringing it up is twofold number one.
Speaker 5: I believe that there are people who can be tremendously
Speaker 5: helped with a combination of psychedelic therapy and actual behavioral therapy.
Speaker 5: Combination of there are certain things that should go together.
Speaker 5: I read a bunch of studies over the break about
Speaker 5: this about psychedelic therapy. Where we are what we know
Speaker 5: about it, what we don't know about it, what studies
Speaker 5: to date have shown, and what studies to date have
Speaker 5: not shown. And one of the things that studies of
Speaker 5: using psychedelics like mushrooms in order to help and assist
Speaker 5: people struggling with post traumatic stress or some other difficulty
Speaker 5: is that there is instant or immediate relief for many
Speaker 5: people after the quote treatment session or the trip. I mean,
Speaker 5: let's call it what it is. It's a trip, right,
Speaker 5: and there is immediate relief after that. But if they
Speaker 5: do not engage in some kind of behavioral therapy at
Speaker 5: that point going forward, that relief it ebbs over time.
Speaker 5: So what we're looking at this is as a tool
Speaker 5: to be used with therapy and with therapeutic actions and
Speaker 5: not just say, you know what, I'm gonna go trip
Speaker 5: and get over my stuff. That's not how it works.
Speaker 5: It may work on the short term, but if you
Speaker 5: want it to work long term, you've got to combine
Speaker 5: all of these things. And so therefore I am very
Speaker 5: pro adults having access to this stuff in order to
Speaker 5: get relief from their post traumatic stress. However, and he
Speaker 5: had to know there was a how over there. As
Speaker 5: the mom of a teenager, we've already seen one young
Speaker 5: man in Boulder get a hold of psilocybin mushrooms and
Speaker 5: decide to climb up a construction crane, where he fell
Speaker 5: to his death while he was tripping. We have to
Speaker 5: do a better job talking to our kids about the
Speaker 5: damage perceived or otherwise of psychedelics on developing brains. One
Speaker 5: of the issue I have with our pharmacological culture that
Speaker 5: we have is that we've taught young people that there's
Speaker 5: a pill for everything, right, and we're giving kids too
Speaker 5: much psychotropic medication in my view. Now, there are kids
Speaker 5: who have such severe ADHD and severe add that they
Speaker 5: really can't function without some kind of medication. But then
Speaker 5: we have a whole bunch of other kids who are
Speaker 5: medicated for those things when frankly, a change in diet,
Speaker 5: better exercise, and better sleep could probably solve the problem
Speaker 5: just as well. And we're teaching kids that if you
Speaker 5: have a problem, there's a drug for it, without knowing
Speaker 5: what exactly we're doing by interfering with the development of
Speaker 5: those brain patterns. During that time from like fourteen to
Speaker 5: twenty four, there's a tremendous amount of brain development that
Speaker 5: goes on, and I'm just concerned that we don't know
Speaker 5: the long term effects of what we're doing to these
Speaker 5: kids now. So much as I'm against childhood, you know,
Speaker 5: physical transitioning, I am also against over medication of kids.
Speaker 5: But we'll see how this psychedelic business works. It's already
Speaker 5: created a bit of a kerfuffle in the springs. I'm
Speaker 5: willing to hopefully allow the therapeutic aspects to be explored
Speaker 5: while really making sure that we're doing a great job
Speaker 5: talking to kids about the downside and not using it recreationally.
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Speaker 5: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the third hour of the show.
Speaker 5: If you've missed any of the show, including our interview
Speaker 5: with a guy named Taylor Romero, who I saw on
Speaker 5: X this morning writing a very interesting letter to his
Speaker 5: landlord to leave the house he has lived in for
Speaker 5: almost a decade in the Highlands because of the amount
Speaker 5: of crime and drug addicts and then the fact that
Speaker 5: it's just not safe anymore. You may want to check
Speaker 5: that interview out by going to the iHeartRadio app because
Speaker 5: it's on there. A Rod does a great job getting
Speaker 5: these interviews up, and if you ever miss anything on
Speaker 5: the show, you can get the podcast there, and you
Speaker 5: can even get the individual interviews kind of chopped up
Speaker 5: so you can share them. And that was a very
Speaker 5: interesting one because I don't think Taylor and I he
Speaker 5: said he was not a political person, but I think
Speaker 5: the politics that he does have probably lean left, and
Speaker 5: it was a good conversation. I was very happy about that,
Speaker 5: speaking about a Democrat's leaning left. Phil Wiser has jumped
Speaker 5: in the governor's race officially. Now, was it right before
Speaker 5: break that poll came out of Democratic contenders. I think
Speaker 5: it was right before and maybe it was while I
Speaker 5: was on break and Phil Wiser was like in fourth
Speaker 5: place behind Jenna Griswold. What a nightmare that would be,
Speaker 5: Joe no Goose And Ken Salazar was in the mix
Speaker 5: there too, so he was not polling very high. And
Speaker 5: you know AG stands for aspiring governor, right, I mean,
Speaker 5: you know that, right, that's why you become attorney general,
Speaker 5: because you're gonna run for governor. We can have worse
Speaker 5: Democrats than Phil Wiser as governor of the state of Colorado.
Speaker 5: I don't know who on the Republican side could win
Speaker 5: a statewide race right this second. I don't know. My
Speaker 5: fear is that the current leadership of the Republican Party
Speaker 5: will try to elevate Dave Williams into that role, and
Speaker 5: we're gonna have to remind him he couldn't even win
Speaker 5: a primary in a very Republican area, let alone the
Speaker 5: whole state. I don't know. I mean, I wonder, do
Speaker 5: you guys know somebody in the Republican side that you'd
Speaker 5: like to see run for governor. I'd like to know.
Speaker 5: I'm very curious about that. I mean, what I'm hoping
Speaker 5: for right now is that a top notch independent shows
Speaker 5: up and talks about safety, and talks about housing affordability
Speaker 5: in a way that makes sense to people, and talks
Speaker 5: about crime and drug addiction in a way that makes
Speaker 5: sense to people who are, like our guest tailor in
Speaker 5: the last hour, kind of overwhelmed by what's happened to
Speaker 5: the city of Denver. Because if you don't win the
Speaker 5: Front Range, if you don't win Denver and Boulder and
Speaker 5: the Springs, you're not gonna win the governorship. And I'm
Speaker 5: just not sure that the Republican brand is at a
Speaker 5: point in Colorado where they would stand remotely a chance
Speaker 5: of winning the governor's race. So I don't know. The
Speaker 5: North Side Highlands have always been like that. It's not
Speaker 5: something new. Well, they've lived there for almost a decade.
Speaker 5: So here's the thing. It's like when you live in
Speaker 5: any big city, right, when you live in any big city,
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna use New York City as an example.
Speaker 5: New York City, they have these shifts in neighborhoods. Just
Speaker 5: a little bit. Now they have firm grid systems, so
Speaker 5: you know which neighborhood you're in when you're there. But
Speaker 5: what I mean is sometimes a neighborhood that used to
Speaker 5: be good can start to turn and get sucked into
Speaker 5: a bad part of the neighborhood. Crime spreads or shifts
Speaker 5: as police do crackdown somewhere else. And the point of
Speaker 5: Taylor's letter to his landlord was that it's gotten so
Speaker 5: much worse. So it might have been bad for a while,
Speaker 5: but it's got worse, which is really terrible. Mandy, I
Speaker 5: just posted the ex post about crime in Denver on Reddit.
Speaker 5: The amount of people that just said deal with it
Speaker 5: is sad. I'm afraid our age that doesn't believe in
Speaker 5: enforcing the laws will be our next governor. Let me
Speaker 5: just tell you this about politicians. And this is not
Speaker 5: a statement about Philweiser at all. This has nothing to
Speaker 5: do with the man Phil Wiser. It is about politicians.
Speaker 5: If enough Denver Rights come forward and say we are
Speaker 5: done with the crime, we are done and making excuses
Speaker 5: for people who are committing the crimes, we are done.
Speaker 5: We want to be able to walk down the street safely.
Speaker 5: We want to be able to park our car without
Speaker 5: the possibility of it being broken into or even stolen.
Speaker 5: If enough Denver Rights stand up and say that, you
Speaker 5: will see Phil Wiser get tough on crime because politicians
Speaker 5: are not stupid. They may act stupidly on occasion, but
Speaker 5: their goal. Never forget. The politician's goal is to get
Speaker 5: re elected or to get elected to the next office
Speaker 5: in their little chain of political career. That's their goal.
Speaker 5: So if people start saying, look, we're not mad at them,
Speaker 5: but we're tired of being victimized. We're not mad at
Speaker 5: the drug addicts, but we don't want them in our
Speaker 5: yard anymore. We need something to be taken care of
Speaker 5: here because we're sick of it and we don't want
Speaker 5: our children at parks with needles, then all of a
Speaker 5: sudden you will see the Democratic Party get tough on crime.
Speaker 5: All he takes is an uprising from the people. It's
Speaker 5: one of the reasons I had Taylor on the show.
Speaker 5: I went in bolden other people who are thinking, oh
Speaker 5: my god, I'm gonna have to move, I'm gonna have
Speaker 5: to sell my property. So Mandy, I would love to
Speaker 5: see John Suthers run for governor. I don't know, I mean, maybe, hey, Mandy,
Speaker 5: you should try getting former Bronco QB and ASU Jake Plummer,
Speaker 5: as he's a mushroom farmer in northern Colorado Jake was
Speaker 5: also a teammate of Pat Tillman. Thanks that from Kevin.
Speaker 5: But he's a purveyor of like food mushrooms. He doesn't
Speaker 5: grow psychedelic mushrooms. To my knowledge, I still love to
Speaker 5: have him on the show. Let's get him on talking
Speaker 5: about you Lewis all the time. Well, I would love
Speaker 5: to tell him to bring in some mushrooms because I
Speaker 5: love mushrooms and I would love to take some of
Speaker 5: his fancy mushrooms and cook with them. Corey Gardner, I
Speaker 5: you know, I don't know that Corey is particularly interested
Speaker 5: in jumping back into political realm until his kids are
Speaker 5: a little older. I don't know, Mandy. George Brockler would
Speaker 5: make a perfect governor. I think I would love to
Speaker 5: see George run for governor again. I would love But
Speaker 5: he just got the new twenty third DA district, so
Speaker 5: I don't know if he's I don't know. I love George.
Speaker 5: I think he's a great communicator of good solutions. The
Speaker 5: only knock I have on George as a candidate is
Speaker 5: that he's so laser focused on crime and that situation
Speaker 5: that sometimes I feel like that is too much Like
Speaker 5: if you understand that I think that the right kind
Speaker 5: of candidate has to be able to talk about everything
Speaker 5: with everybody, and with George's just huge depth of experience
Speaker 5: when it comes to crime and stuff like that, I
Speaker 5: think he gets kind of pigeonholed into that, and he's
Speaker 5: not great at unpigeonholding himself. So we'll see. But I
Speaker 5: would be on board with with George Brockler for sure.
Speaker 5: Mandy Tina Peters for governor. I don't think she's gonna
Speaker 5: be able to do as many campaign events as she
Speaker 5: would need to from prison. So yeah, yeah, A lot
Speaker 5: of you are saying George Brockler Joe Oday. I really
Speaker 5: like Joe too. I think Joe's a great, great option.
Speaker 5: So this Texter kind of funny. Hearing the Liberals say,
Speaker 5: get these poor people out of my neighborhood made my day.
Speaker 5: Son exactly what he said, not exactly, not even a
Speaker 5: little bit. When we get back, ranchers want their money.
Speaker 5: Comedian Whitney Cummings took out the Democratic Party on New
Speaker 5: Year's Eve and a different kind of egg story. All
Speaker 5: of that coming up in the next few minutes. No
Speaker 5: not me for governor, No, no Texter, no, no, no
Speaker 5: Mandy for Governor Mandy. How about Mike Coffin, that would
Speaker 5: be another great choice. Oh well, he did. Somebody said
Speaker 5: Jake Plumber does grow medicinal shrooms. Grant interviewed him. Great,
Speaker 5: have him bring some of those two. We'll test him
Speaker 5: out on the show. It'll be fun. Colorado ranchers are
Speaker 5: gonna bankrupt the wolf Depredation Fund. Now. I'm not mad
Speaker 5: at Colorado ranchers. As a matter of fact, I'm glad
Speaker 5: they're doing it. Colorado gave the Wolf Depredation Compensation Fund,
Speaker 5: which is the fund that Colorado ranchers can tap into
Speaker 5: when a wolf eats one of their livestock at the
Speaker 5: end of last year's end of last year before the
Speaker 5: end of the year deadline, three producers have submitted claims
Speaker 5: with a price tag totaling five hundred and eighty two
Speaker 5: thousand dollars. The problem is that the Wolf Depredation Compensation
Speaker 5: Fund only received three hundred and fifty thousand dollars in
Speaker 5: the twenty twenty four twenty t twenty five budget. Since
Speaker 5: wolves were reintroduced in Colorado and December of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 5: there have been seventeen confirmed cases of wolf depredations across Jackson,
Speaker 5: Route and Grand Counties. In Only four of those cases
Speaker 5: were claims submitted through the state's Wolf Depredation Compensation Fund,
Speaker 5: and those claims were small. I don't know why these
Speaker 5: claims are so big. I'm assuming that they include payment
Speaker 5: for non lethal means of protecting their flock. I mean
Speaker 5: I would pass those along to the state, wouldn't you.
Speaker 5: If the state changes the rules against your will and
Speaker 5: puts your stock at risk, then yeah, I think you
Speaker 5: should be able to do this. I got to tell you,
Speaker 5: this is the least surprising story of the year. Did
Speaker 5: I mean, did they really think that that ranchers were
Speaker 5: just going to be like, you know what, it's fine,
Speaker 5: it's fine, eat all of my sheep, or are my
Speaker 5: cows or it's fine. No, that's not what they're gonna do.
Speaker 5: And they're working diligently to bring more wolves to Colorado.
Speaker 5: Something has been rankling me about that for the last
Speaker 5: few days. I saw and I looked forward this morning
Speaker 5: and I could not find it. So maybe I'm misremembering.
Speaker 5: If I'm misremembering, feel free to correct me by texting
Speaker 5: the Common Spirit Health text line at five sixty six
Speaker 5: nine zero. But I saw a quote where Governor Polis
Speaker 5: and I'm pretty sure it was when he was speaking
Speaker 5: to the group of the counties, the county whatever, where
Speaker 5: all the county leaders were there, and he said something
Speaker 5: along the lines of, Hey, it's the will of the people, right,
Speaker 5: we just got to follow the will of the people.
Speaker 5: And I've been here long enough to remember that time
Speaker 5: when the people voted down all of these ballot initiatives
Speaker 5: they had to do with a whole bunch of stuff,
Speaker 5: from oil and gas setbacks to a bunch of other
Speaker 5: things that we just said, no, we don't want to
Speaker 5: do that, and then the Democratic legislature passed them all anyway.
Speaker 5: And you know who did give a rats ass about
Speaker 5: the will of the people when he signed all those
Speaker 5: bills into law. That would be the same governor who's
Speaker 5: married to the animal rights activists, who is now hiding
Speaker 5: behind the will of the people instead of doing what's
Speaker 5: right for the people of Colorado. The only time I
Speaker 5: want him, you know, to actually go against the will
Speaker 5: of the people, he's like, nope, sorry, nope, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, Mandy, do you think the current Colorado
Speaker 5: GOP will allow anyone with common sense to run. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 5: this Texter, Hi, Mandy. Next up, grizzly bears. Okay, I
Speaker 5: just saw something on Twitter that had the map of
Speaker 5: traditional grizzly bear territory and it's all of Colorado apparently
Speaker 5: used to have grizzly bears here. I don't need those back.
Speaker 5: I'm good. Isn't it funny that the only sorts of
Speaker 5: predator animals that we want to support our animals, we
Speaker 5: don't ever say, you know what, we need to protect
Speaker 5: human predators. You know what, there's a town over there
Speaker 5: with not one criminal predator in it. We need to
Speaker 5: reintroduce a criminal predator back into balance of nature. I
Speaker 5: know I'm being sarcastic. I know, completely sarcastic, Mandy. Those
Speaker 5: counties border Wyoming shot the damn wolves, dumped them north
Speaker 5: of the border. Trust me. I have spoken to people
Speaker 5: who are ranching, who have suggested such a thing, although
Speaker 5: I don't know if any of them have actually done
Speaker 5: such a thing. One more law that went into effect
Speaker 5: today that I want to get to right now. Starting yesterday,
Speaker 5: if you make a donation of an egg or sperm,
Speaker 5: you are no longer guaranteed anonymity in Colorado, bill takes
Speaker 5: effect in January first, it took effect yesterday. According to
Speaker 5: the law, the interests of someone conceived from a donor
Speaker 5: must be considered and they should have access to personal
Speaker 5: and family medical history of the donor. However, the donor's
Speaker 5: name and identifying information will be kept private until the
Speaker 5: donor conceived person turns eighteen. According to the law. The
Speaker 5: law also places a limit on the number of families
Speaker 5: a donor can give to to make it easier for
Speaker 5: the donor conceived person to get in touch with any
Speaker 5: siblings as well. Does anybody else feel like this could
Speaker 5: be a recipe before disaster? I mean, I cannot tell
Speaker 5: you in the last like ten years, how many people
Speaker 5: that I personally know who have either had a child
Speaker 5: pop up out of nowhere that they didn't know they had,
Speaker 5: not from sperm or egg donation, just from a wild
Speaker 5: night out, if you know what I mean. Or I
Speaker 5: now know several people who have given a child up
Speaker 5: for adoption for very good reasons, only to have that
Speaker 5: child find them later when they are grown. And some
Speaker 5: people are overjoyed to have that opportunity to reconnect and
Speaker 5: have a relationship, but not everyone is. Not everyone is
Speaker 5: This is a very sticky wicket, and Colorado was the
Speaker 5: first state in the country to pass the law taking
Speaker 5: away the anonymity of donors, which makes me wonder, is
Speaker 5: it going to get harder for people who need this
Speaker 5: in order to have a child. We shall find out.
Speaker 5: Let me see here, Mandy, I have seven boys and
Speaker 5: was living happily ever after, and a few years ago
Speaker 5: found out I also had at the time sixteen year
Speaker 5: old twin boys in Montana. I'm telling you, guys, that
Speaker 5: stuff happens more than you can possibly imagine, tons and
Speaker 5: tons of stuff. Okay, I got some stuff on the
Speaker 5: blog today that is directly related to the start of
Speaker 5: the new year. Did you make any resolutions? Did you
Speaker 5: do any goals setting? Did you do any of that stuff?
Speaker 5: You can do a vision board this.
Speaker 6: Year, not not visually on a vision board, but I
Speaker 6: always have a cop out.
Speaker 5: Just continue to lose weight and keep it off, which
Speaker 5: is great. And then the other one.
Speaker 6: I told Devra Flora on this show the other day,
Speaker 6: what the hell was it?
Speaker 5: Because travel was last year. I don't remember. There was
Speaker 5: a second one. I don't remember what it is. Dang
Speaker 5: it save money? I think maybe I don't know maybe yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't do resolutions. They feel too dictatorial, if that
Speaker 5: makes sense, Like I resolved to do this thing, and
Speaker 5: then when you fail, it almost feels like a bigger failure.
Speaker 5: So have I just set goals? Like, Okay, I set
Speaker 5: goals last year, I achieved one of my goals. I
Speaker 5: did not achieve the other four. So those who have
Speaker 5: been rolled over, But I have an article on the
Speaker 5: blog today about if you do make resolutions or you
Speaker 5: want to make changes, there's a way to do that,
Speaker 5: and it's it's very simple, and it's so simple it
Speaker 5: seems stupid. Instead of saying I want to stay in
Speaker 5: shape and lose weight, although I'm not knocking yours, I'm
Speaker 5: just using because that is by far the most common,
Speaker 5: is to get in shape, you know, exercise more. Instead
Speaker 5: of making kind of a nebulous I resolve to exercise
Speaker 5: or get in better shape. You have to focus on
Speaker 5: the little pieces of that. And this is one of
Speaker 5: the things Michelle Zelner always talks about. Instead of saying
Speaker 5: I want to get down to be a size too,
Speaker 5: she says, I'm going to focus on adding healthy foods
Speaker 5: to my diet. I'm going to focus on getting a
Speaker 5: thirty minute walk every day. You make it something very specific,
Speaker 5: something attainable, And let me just say this, if you're
Speaker 5: not exercising at all right now, I've also got a
Speaker 5: video on the blog about how doctors are now starting
Speaker 5: to believe that exercise is the medication that we're not
Speaker 5: using right and that exercise is the most critical part
Speaker 5: of aging in a healthy way. Just truly, it really
Speaker 5: truly is. So if you don't exercise at all, don't say,
Speaker 5: you know what, I'm going to go to the gym
Speaker 5: five days a week. That's stupid and setting yourself up
Speaker 5: for failure. I have a friend who started working out
Speaker 5: by doing the following. She did not say I was
Speaker 5: going to work out every day. Her goal was I
Speaker 5: am going to put on my workout clothes every single day,
Speaker 5: because once she put on her workout clothes, it was
Speaker 5: kind of stupid to then go sit on the couch,
Speaker 5: although I think we've all sat on the couch and
Speaker 5: yoga pants a little too long. But that was her goal.
Speaker 5: She said, I'm just going to get into my exercise
Speaker 5: clothes every single day, and that helped her start going
Speaker 5: to the gym on a regular basis because she focused
Speaker 5: on the habit, not the goal. So Mandy Clack is
Speaker 5: ticking a rod. When are you having kids? Trust me,
Speaker 5: they will be populating the earth as soon as possible.
Speaker 5: They got plans, they got stuff. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to okay. Guys, when you just send a
Speaker 5: random comment, I have no idea what you're talking about. Mandy.
Speaker 5: A friend found half brother and half sister through ancestry
Speaker 5: dot com. Apparently his dad sold lots of wild oats
Speaker 5: while he was a traveling salesman. That would be weird.
Speaker 5: That's one of those things that forces you to recognize
Speaker 5: that your parents are just human. Right. We started off
Speaker 5: the show talking about when you put your faith one
Speaker 5: hundred percent in a human being, you are inevitably going
Speaker 5: to be let down because human beings are fallible. We
Speaker 5: do dumb stuff, We make bad choices, we make bad decisions,
Speaker 5: and that would be one where you'd have to be
Speaker 5: like what I guess dad wasn't quite the guy I
Speaker 5: thought he was, Or maybe he was, Mandy. I feel
Speaker 5: a little like George Costanza. I'm doing the opposite for
Speaker 5: my resolutions. I'm gonna smoke more, drink more, eat more,
Speaker 5: and sit on my ass and by the end of
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five, you're gonna be like, I have got
Speaker 5: to lose some weight because I don't have a chair
Speaker 5: big enough after doing all that stuff, Mandy, what do
Speaker 5: you mean I'm not in shape? Pairs shape that from
Speaker 5: the Illinois farm boy. Mandy made reservations for my wife
Speaker 5: and I to hike the West Highland Way in Scotland
Speaker 5: one hundred miles in eight days. Now that is a goal.
Speaker 5: You better be. You better be walking. Your little took
Speaker 5: us off before you get there. You better train, Mandy.
Speaker 5: After my congestive heart failure diagnosis, I started swimming again
Speaker 5: two miles a day and I've lost twenty pounds. My
Speaker 5: blood sugar A one C is below pre diabetic levels,
Speaker 5: and they lowered my blood pressure medications. So yes, exercise
Speaker 5: is so important and it truly truly is, and I
Speaker 5: think it's never too late to start. It's just you
Speaker 5: have to you know, you have to be committed and
Speaker 5: you have to decide it's okay. This person said Mom
Speaker 5: never exercised and hated that's but had strong genetics. All
Speaker 5: siblings lived into the nineties and Mom lived to be
Speaker 5: ninety eight. I wish that I was that lucky, Mandy.
Speaker 5: I resolved to not change my behavior based on a
Speaker 5: date in the Gregorian calendar. I get that, I really do.
Speaker 5: But there's something nice about the end of the year,
Speaker 5: and you can say, you know what, all that cheese
Speaker 5: and potatoes and stuff I ate over the holidays, we're
Speaker 5: gonna leave that in twenty twenty four. We're gonna go
Speaker 5: back to our healthy eating. In January, We're we're gonna
Speaker 5: set new intentions because it's the beginning of the year.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's in natural and natural beginning, Mandy. Our
Speaker 5: goal for twenty twenty five is to have our house
Speaker 5: built in South Carolina and get out of Colorado. Thanks Mike, Well, Mike,
Speaker 5: you know you can listen on the delightful iHeartRadio app,
Speaker 5: which has been completely revamped. By the way, it's so
Speaker 5: much now. See, I think younger people are not gonna
Speaker 5: get why it's so much better, because it is. The
Speaker 5: functionality of it now functions much like a radio in
Speaker 5: your car. Like you can set your presets and you
Speaker 5: can just go right to those things without a bunch
Speaker 5: of rigger role. You can set your preset to the
Speaker 5: Mandy Connell Show, and you don't have to go through
Speaker 5: a bunch of riga role to find me. So when
Speaker 5: you get to South Carolina you can go ahead and
Speaker 5: keep listening. Mandy Howbey got contacted by a sibling in
Speaker 5: England from World War Two. Wow. Can you even imagine
Speaker 5: thirty years ago, shortly after my dad died, I was
Speaker 5: contacted by my quote half sister, who in fact turned
Speaker 5: out not to be What an emotional roller coaster that
Speaker 5: must have been, Mandy, I only listen on and off. Well,
Speaker 5: what's wrong with you, Texter? But I just heard the
Speaker 5: comment about finding relatives on ancestry dot com. I just
Speaker 5: found out that all my siblings are only half ziblings
Speaker 5: and of my daughter and of my daughter is not
Speaker 5: my daughter? What of my daughter is not? You gotta
Speaker 5: clarify that, Texter. Andy. Just glad to have you back
Speaker 5: on the air for the hot takes on current events
Speaker 5: Love the Family Show on December thirty first. By the way,
Speaker 5: this was the first time I ever had the whole
Speaker 5: family on the show. Last year's goal was to eat
Speaker 5: less halapinos. This year is to eat more of them.
Speaker 5: You know what consistency is key, That's consistency, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I try not to. Just I've got
Speaker 5: some things I want to accomplish this year. That's the
Speaker 5: way I look at it, and it's time to pooper,
Speaker 5: get off the pot. That's kind of where I am
Speaker 5: at this stage in life. I've always been really good
Speaker 5: at setting a goal and then pursuing it pretty relentlessly.
Speaker 5: But I'm not gonna lie. I'm very happy in my
Speaker 5: life right now. I love doing the show, I love
Speaker 5: the people I work with, I'm having fun, I'm married
Speaker 5: to someone. I genuinely have the best time in my
Speaker 5: life with my daughter's doing great. Like life is so
Speaker 5: good that I'm kind of complacent. I'm not lazy, but
Speaker 5: I'm definitely happy.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's better to struggle to think of the
Speaker 6: New Year's resolutions because you're like, well, why did I
Speaker 6: wait to do these things I really want to do?
Speaker 5: Well? I really need to change. I think that when
Speaker 5: you are in terms of pursuing a goal, when you're hungry,
Speaker 5: and I don't mean physically hungry, I mean hungry when
Speaker 5: you want when you have a set of things that
Speaker 5: you want to accomplish. When you set out with a
Speaker 5: set of you know, ideas that you want to push forward.
Speaker 5: It's easy to stay on task and to grind and
Speaker 5: to get all those things done because you have a
Speaker 5: goal and you want to get you you want to
Speaker 5: elevate your life. My life is really great. Same, so
Speaker 5: it's kind of like, eh, you know, I'm not as
Speaker 5: hungry as I once was. When I was a fledgling
Speaker 5: talk show host trying to prove myself. I was talking
Speaker 5: to a friend of mine about dressing for radio and
Speaker 5: she the comment she was kidding. She was like, oh
Speaker 5: my god, that must be great to just be able
Speaker 5: to wear whatever you want to work. And I was like,
Speaker 5: you know what, some people in radio that I've worked
Speaker 5: with throughout my career, they will come to work dress
Speaker 5: like a homeless person. I have never been that person,
Speaker 5: because as a woman in talk radio, I always felt
Speaker 5: like I had to prove myself. I had to be
Speaker 5: more professional, I had to be more serious. I had
Speaker 5: to be better than the guys showing up wearing shorts
Speaker 5: with a giant hole in the side. And I often
Speaker 5: have cameras in here. Well. Now, back when I started,
Speaker 5: that was not even the thing. We didn't have to
Speaker 5: worry about it. But even when it didn't matter. I've
Speaker 5: always tried to come to work looking nice, looking professional,
Speaker 5: and looking better than everybody else because I think that,
Speaker 5: you know, when you're in a highly competitive field and
Speaker 5: you need to differentiate yourself, you've got to do all
Speaker 5: the things, and dressing nicely and looking professional is is
Speaker 5: all the things.
Speaker 6: I completely agree, and that's what I definitely found the
Speaker 6: most professional yet most comfortable joggers that I could find.
Speaker 5: Bad Ayrod when I say, I have worked with a
Speaker 5: man who used to come to work with a giant
Speaker 5: hole like like there was he was. They were cargo shorts,
Speaker 5: but then the pocket just got ripped off, so imagine
Speaker 5: the size of a cargo pocket size hole. And he
Speaker 5: would come to work wearing those. And he wasn't like
Speaker 5: to start the trend. He was, but he was not
Speaker 5: like a He was not a maiden talk show host.
Speaker 5: He was kind of like a guy who did a
Speaker 5: lot of fill in work. And I'm thinking to myself,
Speaker 5: you're trying to get your own show, and you can't
Speaker 5: even wear pants without a giant And he had pants
Speaker 5: without a giant hole in him because they wore those
Speaker 5: on occasion. That's baffling to me, and I think part
Speaker 5: of it is people are like, this is just who
Speaker 5: I am, and I'm just gonna be who I am,
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna make it anyway. You're just making it
Speaker 5: a million times harder on yourself than it needs to be.
Speaker 5: Uh this textter said Mandy. A long while back, I
Speaker 5: had a girl contact me on Facebook stating that she
Speaker 5: was my daughter from when I was stationed in Germany.
Speaker 5: Her birthday was approximately ten and a half months after
Speaker 5: I left Germany, which made it impossible, but her mother
Speaker 5: kept pushing the issue. Kind of broke my heart to
Speaker 5: have her have to let her down like that. But
Speaker 5: the truth is the truth. Amen, Amen to that, Mandy.
Speaker 5: My new year's resolution is to read more and learn more, exercise,
Speaker 5: be more social, and be more compassionate. Ultimately be a
Speaker 5: better version of myself than last year. Those are all
Speaker 5: fantastic lofty goals, and I want you to succeed, So
Speaker 5: I'm going to ask you to put those into actionable things.
Speaker 5: How are you going to be more compassionate? What does
Speaker 5: that look like? What is that measurable metric for you?
Speaker 5: Because lofty goals are great, but if you don't have
Speaker 5: an idea of how that's going to be in practice,
Speaker 5: then you're really setting yourself up to fail. I mean,
Speaker 5: I've been working for three years now and being less
Speaker 5: judgmental when I started thinking about and we talked about
Speaker 5: this in the first hour, so if you missed it,
Speaker 5: please go check out the podcast. We talked about the
Speaker 5: attacks in Las Vegas and New Orleans, and I really
Speaker 5: tried to look at it from the perspective of I
Speaker 5: cannot judge these men. That's not my job or my responsibility.
Speaker 5: My role here is to try and figure out what
Speaker 5: in the world would have made two men who at
Speaker 5: some point had a servant's heart to the level that
Speaker 5: they joined the military, what would make them turn into
Speaker 5: people who would kill themselves and blow a truck up
Speaker 5: at Trump Hotel in Vegas or race a truck through
Speaker 5: a crowded street in order to kill people. And you
Speaker 5: can judge the action, I guess, although I try to
Speaker 5: just remain agnostic on all that stuff. Obviously the action
Speaker 5: is horrific. It's a horrible thing. People lost their lives.
Speaker 5: We shall see, we shall see. Hey, Mandy good Show
Speaker 5: Today says this text to disagree with one thing you said,
Speaker 5: What makes you think that a Trump supporter would go
Speaker 5: out and shoot someone if Trump asked them to. That's
Speaker 5: so wrong for you to say that. I know a
Speaker 5: lot of Trump supporters and none of them would do
Speaker 5: such a thing or enthusiastic Excuse me, we're enthusiastic about Trump,
Speaker 5: but no one thinks he's a god or a perfect man.
Speaker 5: It seems that people didn't vote for Trump say really
Speaker 5: stupid stuff about his supporters. You're spreading lies and fear needlessly.
Speaker 5: Please don't do that again. That from Leah. That is
Speaker 5: not what I said. What I said is there is
Speaker 5: a certain segment of Trump supporters that are that crazy,
Speaker 5: and I stand by that. I also said I don't
Speaker 5: know how many Trump supporters are like that, but I
Speaker 5: also stand by that, I truly do. You had people
Speaker 5: who made a terrible choice to storm the Capitol on
Speaker 5: January sixth, walking around saying they were gonna hang Mike Pence.
Speaker 5: You don't think those people could be convinced to go
Speaker 5: further and to go into violence. Now, not all the
Speaker 5: people that walk to the Capitol, of course, just like
Speaker 5: I never said all Trump supporter never said anything remotely
Speaker 5: like that. The problem is is that avid Trump supporters
Speaker 5: are so hyper sensitive to any criticism of part of
Speaker 5: their flock that they interpret it to me and as
Speaker 5: I'm talking about them, and that's not at all what
Speaker 5: I was saying, and that's not at all what I said.
Speaker 5: So if it struck you that way and you felt
Speaker 5: personally attacked, I'm sorry, that was not my intention at all.
Speaker 5: But there is fringe in every movement, and generally speaking,
Speaker 5: the fringe is crazy. The fringe is the guy at
Speaker 5: the Trump golf course laying in wait behind a bush
Speaker 5: to try and shoot the president. That's the fringe on
Speaker 5: that side. And the fringe on the other side are
Speaker 5: the people that smashed doors, not the people that just
Speaker 5: walked into the Capitol, the people that smashed doors and
Speaker 5: windows because they were so jacked up over Donald Trump. So, yeah,
Speaker 5: I did not say that anyway, Mandy. Anyway, Candy just
Speaker 5: trying to suck less than yesterday. That has been my
Speaker 5: show motto since I got my show. Somebody said, what
Speaker 5: do you felt? Ryan Edwards just walked in, right, somebody
Speaker 5: early in my career. I'm doing an interview. You know,
Speaker 5: they're interviewing me because I'm new in town or whatever.
Speaker 5: They're like, how do you what's your philosophy behind your program?
Speaker 5: And I said, suck less than yesterday? And they were
Speaker 5: they were really yeah, I mean this is this is
Speaker 5: happy fun time. We're not curing cancer. We're not gonna
Speaker 5: fly a rocket ship to the moon, We're not doing
Speaker 5: any of that. We're doing radio. I think it's a
Speaker 5: it's a good mindset and nothing else.
Speaker 8: If you don't have that mindset in this industry, make
Speaker 8: that a new US resolution.
Speaker 5: There you go, there you go, that's yesterday that always
Speaker 5: have that cardboard box right next to your grass just
Speaker 5: in case. About it's time for the most exciting segment
Speaker 5: on the radio of its guy the world of the day.
Speaker 5: I told shock he was a pale imitation everyone. Oh
Speaker 5: sure he did great. Where is our dad joke?
Speaker 6: He's got deeper pipes, yes, and looks like the Dan
Speaker 6: Campbell we found out today.
Speaker 5: Oh I love Dan Campbell. He's so dreamy.
Speaker 8: He's yeah, I am seriously like Roy.
Speaker 5: Arms. Yes, dreamy. Anyway, only go found fourth ten.
Speaker 6: I've decided from January first, I'll only be watching videos
Speaker 6: in ten eighty p or higher.
Speaker 5: That's my new year's resolution. God, that's terrible, bad, that
Speaker 5: is awful. Thank you awful for anyway? Okay, what is
Speaker 5: our word of the day.
Speaker 6: Please?
Speaker 5: It is a verb verb preponderate. Preponderate, Yeah, doesn't think
Speaker 5: about something like really, mull something over in your head.
Speaker 6: Two weeks, seed in weight, influence, importance or amount. I
Speaker 6: need to ponder rate.
Speaker 5: There you go. A terrible does not give a sentence.
Speaker 5: All right, here we go. What is a mel drop?
Speaker 5: What is a mel drop? N E L D R
Speaker 5: O P. I have no idea. I mean it sounds
Speaker 5: like some kind of cough drop, but obviously.
Speaker 4: That's too.
Speaker 5: Need to know this. Oh yeah, a drop of mucus
Speaker 5: hanging from someone's nose. Well, when we were at the
Speaker 5: Christmas markets, it was super cold and it's raining, and
Speaker 5: somehow I got in the same crowd movement as this
Speaker 5: elderly gentleman and he had a mel drop, like, honestly,
Speaker 5: it was a half inch, but it appeared to be frozen.
Speaker 5: It was so awful, It was so awful. I would, honestly,
Speaker 5: I want to flick, you know, just like it off,
Speaker 5: But I didn't. I did, all right. Today's Jeopardy category
Speaker 5: Happy New Year. Every answer has the word happy.
Speaker 6: From the mind of a McDonald's ad exect this selection
Speaker 6: a happy name summertime counselors who know wait who Okay,
Speaker 6: summertime counselors know who is and who Isn't this a
Speaker 6: phrase popularized?
Speaker 5: What is a happy camper? Correct?
Speaker 6: Oh, my gosh, Ryan's killing tap dancing is cool, very cool?
Speaker 6: In this two thousand and six Oscar, what is happy fee?
Speaker 5: Correct? Great movie? Great movie.
Speaker 6: This common three word wish literally means I hope you
Speaker 6: have many more joyous such events.
Speaker 5: Manny, what is have a happy birthday?
Speaker 6: Wrong? Dang it?
Speaker 5: Many happy returns?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: Actually what I was thinking of, but totally different words
Speaker 5: came out of my mouth.
Speaker 6: Definitely, yeah. A good balance or the ghost summoning Madam
Speaker 6: r R Katie in life spirits. I just go with
Speaker 6: a good balance and has the way happy in it.
Speaker 6: A good balance means you.
Speaker 5: Have, Manny, what is a happy meeting? Corect you still lose?
Speaker 6: I think?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well played. R. Ryan's nearing territory really really good
Speaker 5: to see what it is, though, the more you play,
Speaker 5: the better off you get. It's just it's very easy
Speaker 5: to I'll get it done in next week. But we
Speaker 5: say that and then all of a sudden, look at you.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you. What is coming up on the
Speaker 5: old sports? Coming up?
Speaker 2: We have a lot of fun.
Speaker 8: It's it's Thursday, right before a massive game for the
Speaker 8: Broncos coming up on Sunday, so we'll obviously get do that.
Speaker 5: We have college football. We got the game going on
Speaker 5: right now. I know it's not playing. It's too distracting
Speaker 5: when I'm doing the show. So it is, yeah, I can't.
Speaker 5: I can't watch a live sport the show. It's not yours.
Speaker 5: My eyes are drawn to it, like it's like you
Speaker 5: just you're trying to do something and it's like, oh,
Speaker 5: look I can't do it.
Speaker 8: I give you a out actually on Tuesday, because well, no,
Speaker 8: it was it is a positive thing. Oh assume the worst, no,
Speaker 8: I said. You know, Georgia missing their starting quarterback. FSU
Speaker 8: was in a similar situation last year and they missed
Speaker 8: out on the College Football playoff.
Speaker 5: And here's Georgia.
Speaker 8: They sort of strung along the possibility that Carson Beck
Speaker 8: have even though everybody knew there's no way he was
Speaker 8: going to play. And then right right after everything was announced,
Speaker 8: oh Carson Beck is out. Yeah, And I was like,
Speaker 8: you know what, f S you should be kind of
Speaker 8: grumpy about this one.
Speaker 5: FSU, Well, that's why they took the year off this
Speaker 5: year and just why Yeah, they just didn't play this year.
Speaker 5: It's been fine. I haven't missed it that much. It's
Speaker 5: been fine, all right. KOA Sports coming up next