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Speaker 3: And uh, can I ask you a question? Ay, Rod,
Speaker 3: you walk? You regularly walk?
Speaker 4: Do you do other exercise?
Speaker 7: Absolutely? Actually, Right now we're ramping up a bit.
Speaker 6: We alternate between the elliptical and then the treadmont treadmill
Speaker 6: with an incline.
Speaker 4: Okay, do you lift weights or anything like that? No,
Speaker 4: you need to add that in.
Speaker 7: I don't want to, I don't need to. I feel good.
Speaker 4: Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 3: This is just me telling you at thirty something that
Speaker 3: everyone at thirty should be listening to from person who's
Speaker 3: now fifty five. Okay, the better you are when it
Speaker 3: comes to muscle mass in your body from this point forward,
Speaker 3: because from this point forward, your muscle mass is decreasing
Speaker 3: unless you are actively working to maintain.
Speaker 4: And even gain muscle mass.
Speaker 3: And as you get older, that whole process of just
Speaker 3: gaining muscle mass faster than you're losing muscle mass.
Speaker 4: It's really hard.
Speaker 6: Well, the lower half of my body has permanent muscle
Speaker 6: mass right from all the hockey that I played. No
Speaker 6: matter what I do, my calf muscles are always wicked
Speaker 6: cool and I want very strong now, but they could.
Speaker 4: Be stronger or whatever.
Speaker 3: And all of that stuff is all about keeping your
Speaker 3: knees healthy, keeping your back.
Speaker 6: Healthy, the elliptical, and definitely, I mean really in the treadmill.
Speaker 6: I always keep wanting to say, tread cliinb treadmill with
Speaker 6: the incline seems to keep my leg muscles like in
Speaker 6: good shape.
Speaker 7: But you know, yeah, I probably could use.
Speaker 6: A little extra something on the arms, maybe a little bit,
Speaker 6: you know, And even I'm on the treadmill.
Speaker 3: Just it's not it's not about like being you know,
Speaker 3: like mister World or something. I will tell you like
Speaker 3: what I know now at fifty five, if I had
Speaker 3: known it when I was thirty, probably would have done
Speaker 3: things differently, is all I'm saying, Yeah, you know so.
Speaker 4: But I was thinking today when.
Speaker 3: I was driving in, like, do you have exercises that
Speaker 3: you just despise, like you hate them?
Speaker 4: Because that is how I feel about push ups. We
Speaker 4: also just got a rower, really cool. We had to
Speaker 4: get rid of our rower to make room for our
Speaker 4: treadmilk one machine R.
Speaker 7: Three, So are three machines, elliptical, treadmill and the rower.
Speaker 5: All.
Speaker 4: I mean it's a cardio room hardcore, right, And.
Speaker 6: That's honestly, and that comes from plug Sta weight loss
Speaker 6: dot Com.
Speaker 7: That's where it kind of stemmed from.
Speaker 6: Because with their diet plan plus these exercises like they
Speaker 6: they they really press on that you don't lose muscle
Speaker 6: mass and I didn't and I still haven't. But keeping
Speaker 6: it going, is you Age is a different conversations.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like laying the groundwork because the stronger
Speaker 3: your muscles are, the better your joints are, the better
Speaker 3: your back is, the.
Speaker 4: Better your neck is. All of these things, all of
Speaker 4: these foundational things have the wicked mass weights. You could
Speaker 4: even do just body weight stuff.
Speaker 3: I mean there there are calistenic workouts that will kick
Speaker 3: your behind that are just you and your body.
Speaker 4: You don't need weights for them. Yeah, red Beard work
Speaker 4: exactly that I was trying to figure out. I've been
Speaker 4: trying to overcome my dislike of push ups, and I
Speaker 4: was wondering if anybody had tips on that.
Speaker 7: Oh I like push ups. I also like that.
Speaker 4: Crunches, crunches. Yeah, I ad work and for me.
Speaker 7: Is like leg leg leg up album.
Speaker 4: You're talking about like doing a bicycle.
Speaker 6: Uh, well, you're laying on your back and your elbowing.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, that's a that's a bicycle. Okay, I stand
Speaker 4: the other leg out while you're bringing this leg in.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know what, you know what I might I
Speaker 7: might do that in the next work out. That feels good,
Speaker 7: I tell you.
Speaker 4: And core is incredibly important, incredibly.
Speaker 6: If you do it right and you're like, oh, so good,
Speaker 6: you do right. But I you know, I used to
Speaker 6: hate working out.
Speaker 4: I truly did. I hated I hated the whole thing.
Speaker 4: I dreaded it the whole time I was doing it.
Speaker 4: I was like, when is this going to be over?
Speaker 4: And then I just kept doing it, and I kept
Speaker 4: doing it, and I kept doing it. And now if
Speaker 4: I don't have some kind of exercise, I'm crabby or I.
Speaker 7: Have like a weird like anxiety.
Speaker 6: Now if I don't have my morning work, I just
Speaker 6: feel like there's like a lot of excess energy that
Speaker 6: just hasn't been like let go. Its like, ah, no,
Speaker 6: I need to go on run or something. Yeah, that's
Speaker 6: that's that's a good feeling when you like you need
Speaker 6: to work out that you have to do.
Speaker 3: Oh, this person, Mandy, I despise side planks. Not a fan,
Speaker 3: but I don't hate them.
Speaker 4: Wide plank and then holding out side planks you.
Speaker 6: Know, yeah, I know those are never doing, but regular planks,
Speaker 6: like you feel it, you start to feel the burn.
Speaker 6: You're like sixty seconds in the one hundred and twenty
Speaker 6: seconds and you're like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, let me give the text line out. We've
Speaker 4: got to give that.
Speaker 3: You can text us what exercises you hate to the
Speaker 3: koa common spirit to help text line. And the only
Speaker 3: reason I'm bringing this up is because I think everyone
Speaker 3: has the exercise you hate, right, And I've been trying.
Speaker 3: I've been trying to go at it like g Gordon
Speaker 3: Liddy style, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: You know the story about G.
Speaker 3: Gordon Liddy, you know, Okay, so g Gordon Liddy, who
Speaker 3: was all part of the Watergate situation. Shady dude worked
Speaker 3: in you know, just Cia stuff, just like a real
Speaker 3: spooky dude. And he was afraid of rats like he
Speaker 3: did not he did not like ratsy, you know. And
Speaker 3: he went into the sewer, caught a rat, killed it,
Speaker 3: cooked it, and ate it to overcome his fear of rats. Now,
Speaker 3: that could be an apocryphal story, like, but I've heard
Speaker 3: it a million times, so I'll you know, we'll see.
Speaker 3: I should probably look it on the internet. But I've
Speaker 3: been trying to do push up something and they're gonna
Speaker 3: get easier, right, They're gonna get easy.
Speaker 6: They don't get easier, They're pretty easy. I don't think
Speaker 6: there's any workout I hate. I mean, I prefer to
Speaker 6: not run.
Speaker 7: I like to run, but I'm not.
Speaker 5: I can't.
Speaker 4: I just physically cannot run it anymore. It's just not
Speaker 4: something I'm doing. Mandy. I hate push ups too.
Speaker 3: Once warmed up, I do those first to get it
Speaker 3: over with. That's kind of where I am now. So, uh, Mandy,
Speaker 3: I'm a physical therapist, and you are absolutely correct about
Speaker 3: resistance training critical for sustaining mobility and uh strength for
Speaker 3: a long quality of life.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm talking.
Speaker 6: Does the incline on the treadmill and the elliptical kind
Speaker 6: of count that at all?
Speaker 3: It feels like it you're you're getting some resistance, but
Speaker 3: you need uh what's called a closed circuit kind of exercise.
Speaker 4: How do I explain this where you're kind of where
Speaker 4: your feet are always on the ground.
Speaker 3: Even if you're just doing body weight squats and stuff
Speaker 3: like that, because it fires different muscles than when you're
Speaker 3: actively moving and taking one foot off the floria to.
Speaker 6: Tell well, my feet aren't moving on the elliptical like
Speaker 6: you're locked into those pedals.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I forgot what im That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: Sohy elliptical feels like that, like your feet are locked
Speaker 6: in and you're you're definitely getting that resistance like every
Speaker 6: single because.
Speaker 4: Your feet go with the I don't know, I don't
Speaker 4: know if how that how that feels damn good? So
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I hate ungees, says this texter. I used to eight lunges,
Speaker 3: but they've gotten easier for me.
Speaker 7: Wunders are kind of dumb.
Speaker 4: Why no, they're not.
Speaker 7: They don't feel like they do anything for me. Anyone
Speaker 7: and add some weight.
Speaker 3: Put thirty pounds in each hand and then do lunges
Speaker 3: and trust me, you'll feel it. Mandy, I have these
Speaker 3: handle things that I use when doing push ups so
Speaker 3: my palms.
Speaker 4: Don't have to be flat on the floor. I have these.
Speaker 3: Uh, you'll never want to do push ups again without that.
Speaker 3: We've tried them. Are they the spinny things? The perfect
Speaker 3: push up thing?
Speaker 5: We have?
Speaker 8: Though?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I can't.
Speaker 4: I can't know. It's not working for me.
Speaker 3: Exercises. I hate any involved movement. Okay, you're funny there, Texter.
Speaker 3: Eight count bodybuilders from my military day?
Speaker 4: Is that from here? I don't know what those are? Eric, Oh,
Speaker 4: this one.
Speaker 3: My favorite is the twelve ounce curl. I also enjoy that.
Speaker 6: Our our sinness groom, Michelle Zelner, has weighed in any incline.
Speaker 6: The trimble does not count way overused on quadrust ups,
Speaker 6: leaving a major imbalance with your hamstrings.
Speaker 4: Okay, I like it anyway, Michellete.
Speaker 7: Damn good. Okay.
Speaker 4: A lot of people saying burpies, and I'm with you.
Speaker 4: I refuse. I just got a burpie. It's not a
Speaker 4: thing that I do.
Speaker 3: I'll do an inch worm, which is a much slower
Speaker 3: version of a burpie, but.
Speaker 4: That burpie is not a thing that I do. They're
Speaker 4: too easy to hurt yourself. I mean, unless you have
Speaker 4: really incredibly good.
Speaker 3: Knowledge of having all of the muscles in your body
Speaker 3: tight when you kick those legs back, it's a recipe
Speaker 3: for disaster. I absolutely hate push ups. Yes, I started
Speaker 3: with twelve push ups a day, says this texter. I'm
Speaker 3: up to one thirty, So a rod, should we start
Speaker 3: doing pushups? Like right before the show, we'll start doing
Speaker 3: push ups. We'll start with like ten, Can you do
Speaker 3: ten push ups?
Speaker 7: Can I do ten? They can be like fifty?
Speaker 4: Well, okay, you cannot do fifty push ups?
Speaker 7: Again, I think, didn't we have the fitness test, remember.
Speaker 4: But I don't remember how many push ups?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no for that, No, for the mobility test, there
Speaker 4: was like tenships in that there was ten.
Speaker 7: It was not ten.
Speaker 4: It was ten.
Speaker 7: It was more than ten, definitely more than ten.
Speaker 9: It was ten.
Speaker 7: I was more than ten.
Speaker 6: I can confidently say I could firm perfect form thirty
Speaker 6: thirty five. I get stretched to fifty. But those last
Speaker 6: fifteen are probably little arched, a little, not great.
Speaker 3: I like, over the course of my workout today, I
Speaker 3: probably did fifty, but not at one time.
Speaker 4: And I just hate them, just hate them.
Speaker 3: Burpies suck. That is like all over the text line
Speaker 3: because they do Mandy.
Speaker 4: I hate pull ups.
Speaker 3: I have shoulder issues, but even after Regen rev, I
Speaker 3: don't do them or can't do them. Only weights I
Speaker 3: use or adjustable dumbbells. Everything else's body weight. It works,
Speaker 3: it does work.
Speaker 7: How much weight you have to use in the weights
Speaker 7: for it to be effective, And I never know the
Speaker 7: answer to this is one of.
Speaker 3: Those things where you start light and then you work
Speaker 3: up every every workout, you could add five pounds, okay,
Speaker 3: and then when you hit a place where you can't
Speaker 3: cant you to do ten reps at whatever weight that is,
Speaker 3: maybe you can only do six reps.
Speaker 4: You keep that weight until you can do ten reps
Speaker 4: and then you move to the next problem.
Speaker 7: I'm a way too frequent of a wayer.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And water weight, I.
Speaker 6: Mean, especially when you're having those little baby muscle terrors
Speaker 6: when you're doing two money weights, it like throws off
Speaker 6: my weigh ins and then I hate it and I'm
Speaker 6: like Oh no.
Speaker 10: I'm gaining too much.
Speaker 4: Wait, no, that's just me being sore. Right, It's a problem.
Speaker 4: It's a problem, It's a real problem.
Speaker 6: Eh.
Speaker 4: I love this text, Mandy. My favorite g Gordon Liddy stories.
Speaker 3: He used to hold his hand over a lit candle
Speaker 3: as a party trick and people would ask him what
Speaker 3: the trick to do that was. His response was not
Speaker 3: caring about the pain. That is a very g Gordon
Speaker 3: Lyddy answer. No, Mandy, I like reverse lunches.
Speaker 4: Also follow Caroline Gervin's YouTube workouts. Never heard of her.
Speaker 3: I'm a triathlete and these are perfect along with yoga.
Speaker 3: You try athlete people, you're all just showing off. Look
Speaker 3: at how super athletic I am. I don't just do
Speaker 3: one sport three on the same day.
Speaker 11: Are you really living if you're not running up red
Speaker 11: rocks every single boarding here in Colorado? Oh you know,
Speaker 11: I did a fourteen or yesterday? So why don't you
Speaker 11: just pound the sand?
Speaker 5: Guy?
Speaker 11: You don't get in before you em and going to run?
Speaker 11: Are you really a colorading exactly?
Speaker 4: I don't know one has to be.
Speaker 5: Like that here.
Speaker 3: Oh well, Mandy, I started last April with five push ups.
Speaker 3: Now I'm up to three sets of thirty push ups
Speaker 3: in the morning and three sets of thirty push ups.
Speaker 7: At night, like thirty seconds of resting in between each set.
Speaker 3: I won't skip a day because I do feel off.
Speaker 3: I also lost twenty pounds from April till now.
Speaker 4: All right, that's were all good, really.
Speaker 7: Good, well done, keep it going.
Speaker 2: Umm.
Speaker 3: I can't think if there's anything else, Mandy, lightweight high
Speaker 3: reps is good for toning, for cutting heavyweights, low reps
Speaker 3: for bulking.
Speaker 4: That's right, But you don't want to hurt you wanna
Speaker 4: You're not looking to bulk, You're just looking to you know.
Speaker 3: Uh, you can do lightweight with high repetitions or you
Speaker 3: could do heavyweight with low repetitions.
Speaker 7: For Okay, now, so I want to go more weight,
Speaker 7: more more reps, less weights.
Speaker 6: No, I will tell you the other for you. Well,
Speaker 6: the bulky you just said is heavier weight less reps, heavier.
Speaker 4: Weight less rep That's what I would tell you to
Speaker 4: do because you want to build strength.
Speaker 7: But you said that, I said you said that said bulks. No,
Speaker 7: you said that bulks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're not going to get You're not going
Speaker 3: to get huge. You're not going to get huge huge anyway, Now,
Speaker 3: am I able to send you a picture of those?
Speaker 4: I don't know what those is, but.
Speaker 3: You can email it to Mandy at Kway NewsRadio dot
Speaker 3: com or Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm trying
Speaker 3: to use that address now. I have like thirty email addresses.
Speaker 3: You do Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com.
Speaker 7: I just have Mandy which everyone comes up, I send
Speaker 7: you stuff to.
Speaker 5: There you go.
Speaker 3: It all comes to the same email address. Do one
Speaker 3: more push up than the day before. Six days a week,
Speaker 3: take Sundays off. In a couple months, you're doing one
Speaker 3: hundred a day.
Speaker 6: That applies a lot in for me any kind of workout,
Speaker 6: like do a smidge more than the day before.
Speaker 4: Yep, in the day before. That's my life model.
Speaker 6: When do you peak then? Whendn't you say you know no?
Speaker 6: I think I don't need to add more. You know
Speaker 6: I've done enough.
Speaker 7: When do you say that? I When do you max out?
Speaker 6: I think that?
Speaker 3: Don't you set like a goal? I mean, don't you
Speaker 3: say I'm going to do fifty push ups? I think
Speaker 3: whatever number you set right out of the shoot is
Speaker 3: going to indicate kind of your level of commitment. Because
Speaker 3: if you say, like this person, I'm going to get
Speaker 3: up to do one hundred push ups a day, that's
Speaker 3: my goal. You're going to get to one hundred push.
Speaker 4: Ups a day, yep.
Speaker 3: But if you set your goal with fifty push ups
Speaker 3: a day, you're going to get to fifty push ups today.
Speaker 3: So set your goal, make it a lofty one. I
Speaker 3: don't want to do one hundred push ups today because
Speaker 3: I hate them.
Speaker 4: No, it brings us back to the beginning of this
Speaker 4: story for whatever reason. I mean, I can do anything else.
Speaker 3: I don't like some other exercise. I don't like tricep dips.
Speaker 3: All got big triceps. Now it's kind of cool.
Speaker 7: I kind of want to take my headphones off and
Speaker 7: do do a plank right now?
Speaker 5: How long?
Speaker 4: Okay, we've got how many time? How long until we
Speaker 4: have to bring?
Speaker 7: Oh well, I'm not gonna do for four minutes.
Speaker 4: Well that's why I asked you. How long we had
Speaker 4: until we had to bring Yeah, we have three and
Speaker 4: a half minutes.
Speaker 3: Okay, you're get a plank for two minutes.
Speaker 7: Well, just tell me how long I want a plank
Speaker 7: grind out?
Speaker 4: You want to do it?
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll tell you when to go here, go ahead,
Speaker 3: assume the position. He's gonna have to figure that out.
Speaker 3: Turn your mic off so you can hear me. Are
Speaker 3: you ready? Okay, and go okay. He's down now, and
Speaker 3: we'll just let him do that for two minutes while
Speaker 3: I talk. My favorite exercise is flip flopping love Kamala Harris.
Speaker 4: That's very funny. Text her, Mandy.
Speaker 3: I'm a runner who's had several injuries and starting a
Speaker 3: twenty minute yoga flow every day. My injuries have disappeared.
Speaker 3: Hips and knees are thriving now. Yoga is a miracle drug.
Speaker 3: I do believe that Mandy doing one hundred pushups is
Speaker 3: not good for your joints. Twelve to twenty five is
Speaker 3: doable if done properly. Mandy can't run trying to avoid
Speaker 3: the knee replacement, trying to do the peloton two to
Speaker 3: three times a week, six to ten miles a ride.
Speaker 4: Okay. I don't like riding a bike either. I don't
Speaker 4: love it. I never have. Even when I was a kid,
Speaker 4: kids were like, hey, let's go ride bikes. I'm like,
Speaker 4: you know, I'll just grab a skateboard. It'll be fine, Uh, Mandy.
Speaker 3: People who never skip a day of exercise are mentally off.
Speaker 3: What would the purpose be of going for a job
Speaker 3: when it's six inches of and six degrees and snowing outside,
Speaker 3: other than being able to tell people that you did it?
Speaker 4: Now, I used to believe that text, but.
Speaker 3: Now I have to have some kind of movement in
Speaker 3: my day or I'm just kind of cranky, A little
Speaker 3: bit cranky over there, that's all. So now I get it,
Speaker 3: Mandy even better than the lunges Genufleck to borrow a
Speaker 3: religious term, we call those curtsy lunges. And currently I
Speaker 3: am reh having a knee injury, so I cannot Curtsey lunch.
Speaker 3: Somebody said, now I know why neither of you were
Speaker 3: in the military. No willpower. Yeah, that's probably why I
Speaker 3: didn't join the military voluntarily, because you know what, you
Speaker 3: were so close?
Speaker 4: You made one forty five one?
Speaker 7: No, I looked up, it was twenty three thirty was
Speaker 7: my car?
Speaker 4: Twenty three forty five is when you went down?
Speaker 7: No, I felt like two minutes.
Speaker 6: No, it was no.
Speaker 4: I felt good. I'm glad you did that. I already
Speaker 4: did my workout today. I'm good.
Speaker 7: Fine, I just did it too.
Speaker 4: Fer Oh, listen to this off topic text.
Speaker 3: My wife counted twenty two expired license plates on our
Speaker 3: way home from work last night. One was dated twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two. Well, hopefully some of those people are going
Speaker 3: to get some tickets.
Speaker 7: Man the core, the core oohoo sounds good.
Speaker 4: Uh, Mandy, try a rower. I love a rower, but
Speaker 4: my husband does not.
Speaker 3: So we had a rower, and I hope the people
Speaker 3: who bought it from you are enjoying it. But we
Speaker 3: gotta have treadmill, which I actually love having a treadmill,
Speaker 3: especially when winter is coming up, and it's a really
Speaker 3: good treadmill.
Speaker 4: So I'm kind of excited about that. Anyway. So when
Speaker 4: we get back, we're gonna actually do some stuff on
Speaker 4: the show today.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I just squandered the entire first segment, but this
Speaker 3: is what's on my mind. And now seeing the text line,
Speaker 3: everyone hates some kind of exercise, so there you go. Uh,
Speaker 3: this is funny, Mandy. I don't really, I really just
Speaker 3: don't like working out in the morning. I get no
Speaker 3: value from it. I can work out in the evening
Speaker 3: and then I'll sleep like a baby. That's hilarious because
Speaker 3: by the evening time, zero percent chance that's happening in
Speaker 3: my household. I am an early riser, Get up, work out,
Speaker 3: get it out of my day and be done with it. Hey,
Speaker 3: but you know what, this is what makes the world
Speaker 3: go round. Viva a different my friends. We'll be right back,
Speaker 3: joined by our friend and a smart weather guy, Dave
Speaker 3: Frasier from Box thirty one.
Speaker 5: Hello Dave, Hey, good afternoon.
Speaker 8: I really enjoyed the Richard Simmons segment at.
Speaker 5: The top of the show.
Speaker 4: But you know what exercise do you? A, Dave? Everybody
Speaker 4: has one.
Speaker 8: Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard
Speaker 8: of the comedian Johnannette, Like you said, guy talks all
Speaker 8: about food and exercise.
Speaker 5: I have not.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to go look him up.
Speaker 8: Check out Jumping at He's fantastic and he first life
Speaker 8: tried to lose weight and he hider trainer and the
Speaker 8: trainer said we're going to start with some push ups
Speaker 8: and some sit ups. And he stopped and he said, listen,
Speaker 8: I don't do ups, I.
Speaker 5: Do down.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 5: Then there's my exercise routine.
Speaker 4: Okay, no problem then, So I just want to say
Speaker 4: a big fat thank you. This weather right now is spectacular.
Speaker 4: How long do we get to keep this.
Speaker 8: For the next week. The seven day forecast, even I
Speaker 8: could extend that out to ten days, shows us staying dry.
Speaker 8: We just don't see any pattern shifts coming. It is
Speaker 8: a little warm. We're running about ten degrees above normal,
Speaker 8: and it is still possible that tomorrow and maybe on Sunday,
Speaker 8: we could reach ninety again, which isn't the latest we've
Speaker 8: seen a ninety degree temperature, but it's certainly something most
Speaker 8: people don't want to deal with. But I've been stressing
Speaker 8: the last few days. While those temperatures are very warm
Speaker 8: for this time of the year and it has been dry,
Speaker 8: the reality is it's not like summer heat, right because
Speaker 8: you're loving it because you go into the evenings and
Speaker 8: it just cools down so quickly, and the organizer are
Speaker 8: so refreshing. So that's the benefit of September, all right.
Speaker 3: I have a question from a listener that texts in
Speaker 3: a little bit, Mandy. Can you ask Dave Frasier about
Speaker 3: weather conditions that create jet contrails. Some days there are
Speaker 3: lots of them, other days not so much.
Speaker 8: It just has to do with the moisture in the
Speaker 8: high upper atmosphere. So when we have a day, let's
Speaker 8: take today for instance, if you have a day like
Speaker 8: today and it's completely sunning outside and you're looking up,
Speaker 8: I mean there's nothing but blue skies overhead. The air
Speaker 8: over us right now is extremely dry. So the number
Speaker 8: of jets going in and out of DIA flying over
Speaker 8: Colorado the same today as they were yesterday. If you
Speaker 8: add in moisture at higher levels, then the contrails will
Speaker 8: become more visual and evidence. So it's just a matter
Speaker 8: of moisture in the atmosphere, and right now we're just
Speaker 8: too dry for that. So I mean, look up at
Speaker 8: the sky. You know there's planes out there, no evidence
Speaker 8: that they're flying around. But if we seed a little
Speaker 8: higher humidity into the higher atmosphere, the contrails, the pressurization
Speaker 8: of the jet kind of condensing the moisture in the air,
Speaker 8: then you can see the streets in the sky. So
Speaker 8: just not the setup we have mass. It's all about moisture, Okay.
Speaker 4: So I wanted to ask you.
Speaker 3: We've got Hurricane Helene barreling towards the Gulf coast of Florida,
Speaker 3: and you know it's going to hit my friends in
Speaker 3: my hometown, not directly, but they're going to have a
Speaker 3: lot of rain and wind. This hurricane season has been
Speaker 3: far quieter than was anticipated, far quieter.
Speaker 5: Yep, yep.
Speaker 8: Yeah. As a matter of fact, I mean only the
Speaker 8: sixth hurricane, and it's going to be the second one
Speaker 8: for that area. I don't know if you'll remember Debbie
Speaker 8: hit back there in the Big Bend area of Florida
Speaker 8: on August fifth of this year, so they haven't had
Speaker 8: much of a break there in the Panhandle. Debbie was
Speaker 8: only a Category one when it came ashore near Tallahassee,
Speaker 8: and it caused a lot of damage related to flooding,
Speaker 8: and then it kind of went kind across Georgia and
Speaker 8: went back into the Atlantic before turning back into the Carolinas.
Speaker 8: This one's going to be stronger. We're talking about potentially
Speaker 8: a Category three hurricane. So the wines are going to
Speaker 8: be you know, up past one hundred and ten to
Speaker 8: maybe one hundred and thirty, so you're going to have
Speaker 8: more wind component, you are going to have a low
Speaker 8: line flying from heavy rain, but also from the storm
Speaker 8: surge that rise in water that comes ashore. They're also
Speaker 8: warning of rip currents, dangerous rip currents because the storm's
Speaker 8: coming in perpendicular to the coast. And so the waves
Speaker 8: will be curling away from the coast. Of course, that's
Speaker 8: only an issue if people go into the water, and
Speaker 8: they will Gridians, Yeah, they will.
Speaker 4: There will be people that will go into the water.
Speaker 4: I can tell you that now.
Speaker 9: I know.
Speaker 8: It's just amazing. You see these waves in its category
Speaker 8: two or three, and there they are. I was just
Speaker 8: kind of taking advantage of the syrup. So category three.
Speaker 4: Can can do is extremely destructive.
Speaker 3: I moved to Southwest Florida right after Hurricane Charlie, which
Speaker 3: was a Category three when it made landfall at Puntagoda, Florida.
Speaker 3: And when you drove down I seventy five, the eye
Speaker 3: of the storm had tracked directly over I seventy five
Speaker 3: after it came in off of the coastline, and on
Speaker 3: one side of I seventy five, all of the you
Speaker 3: know those giant light poles they have on an interstate,
Speaker 3: they're massive. All of the trees on the on the
Speaker 3: one side were flattened in one direction, and all of
Speaker 3: the trees and light poles on the other side were
Speaker 3: flattened in the opposite direction.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 4: I mean it was like what just happened here? Because
Speaker 4: you know it was. It was really it destroyed that
Speaker 4: entire part of Florida.
Speaker 3: But it's rebuilds even better, So there you go. You
Speaker 3: never know, Pudza Borda wasn't exactly nice before this.
Speaker 8: This area's been hard hit. I mean Adelia back in
Speaker 8: August of twenty twenty three, and then you had hurricanes
Speaker 8: hit that same area in twenty sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen.
Speaker 8: So that part of the country, as you're well aware,
Speaker 8: it just doesn't get a break. And so this one
Speaker 8: will also bring heavy rain. Some of the heaviest rain
Speaker 8: will be on the northwest side of the storm, which
Speaker 8: is typical, and that's going to drive heavy rain as
Speaker 8: much as a foot up towards Atlanta not even have
Speaker 8: urbanized flooding. Yeah, it can be just a huge problem
Speaker 8: for those folks as well. So and you know, I
Speaker 8: did you mentioned that it's been a little quiet. I'm
Speaker 8: no hurricane expert, having you know, forecast most of my
Speaker 8: career inland, but I've been reading some published papers and stuff,
Speaker 8: and one of the compounding factors they believe is Saharan dust.
Speaker 8: There's a lot more of it in the upper atmosphere
Speaker 8: drifting over the Atlantic and not allowing the war to
Speaker 8: warm to the levels that they had expected. So the
Speaker 8: forecast for the hurricane season has been reduced a couple
Speaker 8: of times because of that. The number of hurricanes and
Speaker 8: the number of main storms, and the number of major storms.
Speaker 8: A Category three would be a major storm.
Speaker 4: Oh that's a major storm.
Speaker 3: That's a I would not I'll stick around through a
Speaker 3: Cat too, but I will not stick around through a
Speaker 3: Cat three because it's it's incredibly destructive and it's going
Speaker 3: to be incredibly destructive when it lands. So I got
Speaker 3: one more question from a listener. I want to get
Speaker 3: in before we go here. Can the direction of the
Speaker 3: wind preceding a thunderstorm predict the direction the storm is moving?
Speaker 3: And this is like, okay, so I am south of here,
Speaker 3: and when the storms are coming from the north, the wind.
Speaker 4: Is whipping up from the south. So does that mean
Speaker 4: that the wind is what pulling it? How does that work?
Speaker 8: So no, it's not going to tell you the direction
Speaker 8: it's moving. The direction the storms are going to move
Speaker 8: is based on the mid level winds that are pushing
Speaker 8: them along. They can also form on a cold punch,
Speaker 8: so they'll line up along the could front and march.
Speaker 6: As a team.
Speaker 8: But generally what you have is you have a giant vacuum.
Speaker 8: So the wind ahead of the storm is being sucked in.
Speaker 8: So as the storm is approaching you, the wind is
Speaker 8: probably going to come from you to the storm, so
Speaker 8: it's drawing the wind up. So depending on your location,
Speaker 8: that wind could be coming in from an easterly direction
Speaker 8: or a southeasterly direction. As the storm passes, you can
Speaker 8: get a cold outflow and the wind will go in
Speaker 8: the opposite direction. We track out clothed boundaries all the time,
Speaker 8: so the wind within the individual thunderstorm is going to
Speaker 8: be erratic. It's going to be sucking in ahead of
Speaker 8: it and potentially blowing out behind it, and those directions
Speaker 8: are going to change. But the overall movement of the
Speaker 8: thunderstorms is going to be driven by generally a southwesterly wind,
Speaker 8: So storms will migrate from southwest to northeast in most instances,
Speaker 8: not always the case, and can always get what we
Speaker 8: call a backdoor cold front, so it's not always indicative
Speaker 8: of which way the storm is going to move, all right.
Speaker 3: Dave Rasier, another informative we need to announced what our
Speaker 3: weather is going to be like, I guess we kind
Speaker 3: of brushed on a little bit talking about how nice
Speaker 3: it is, so no big one coming up, is what
Speaker 3: you're saying.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, you know, a rob was asking me about Halloween.
Speaker 8: Any chance it's going to be nasty?
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 8: The outlook for October still looks warm and drier than normal.
Speaker 8: That's been the pattern through September. Our first breeze is
Speaker 8: usually the seventh of the month of October. We just
Speaker 8: don't see that happening. Our first know is the eighteenth.
Speaker 8: I think that's a stretch this year, so you just
Speaker 8: may have to wait for a little more of the fault.
Speaker 8: Whether we enjoyed this past weekend.
Speaker 4: All right, Dave Fraser, we'll talk to you next week,
Speaker 4: my friend.
Speaker 8: Thanks Manny, No, thank you.
Speaker 4: We will be right back.
Speaker 3: California Governor Gavin Newsom is making a fool of himself
Speaker 3: by trying to limit political speech. I'll explain. In California,
Speaker 3: a new law has been signed into being. It is
Speaker 3: set to take effect immediately. This new law makes it
Speaker 3: illegal to create and publish deep fakes related to elections.
Speaker 4: Hang on, one second, got to pop up there? That
Speaker 4: just popped up.
Speaker 3: It is illegal to create and publish deep fakes related
Speaker 3: to elections one hundred and twenty days before election day and.
Speaker 4: Sixty days thereafter.
Speaker 3: It also allows courts to stop distribution of the materials
Speaker 3: and impose civil penalties.
Speaker 4: This is comical.
Speaker 3: The First Amendment doesn't exist to protect your right to
Speaker 3: watch pornography.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's been interpreted that way, but.
Speaker 3: That's not why the founding fathers thought that it was
Speaker 3: important to let everybody know you had the right to
Speaker 3: free speech in the United States of America when they
Speaker 3: drafted up the Bill of Rights.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's right there in the first one. Like
Speaker 4: that to me says we think this one's kind of important.
Speaker 3: But the speech they were protecting was political speech, and
Speaker 3: like it or not, deep fakes and the production thereof
Speaker 3: is political speech. So any limits that are trying to
Speaker 3: keep it out, well, that would be like saying, you
Speaker 3: know what, you can't air any commercials for one hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty days before an election. Nope, you can't do it.
Speaker 3: It's as nine. This will be struck down one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: And I would imagine that there's probably organizations that are
Speaker 3: trying to be the first that faces penalties so they
Speaker 3: can be the one to take the Supreme Court and
Speaker 3: have it struck down. Now, if California wants to say
Speaker 3: something along the lines of deep fakes must be identified
Speaker 3: as deep fakes during this time of the election or whatever,
Speaker 3: you know, you could make an argument there, just like
Speaker 3: you have to disclose who pays for political advertising. You
Speaker 3: could make those same kind of declarations necessary. But when
Speaker 3: I saw this, I was like, what the Democrats are
Speaker 3: becoming increasingly hostile to free speech because they want to
Speaker 3: control it all and never have to answer for anything
Speaker 3: that they might find unpleasant. And rather than just doing
Speaker 3: what everybody is supposed to do, which is answer bad
Speaker 3: speech with good speech, they.
Speaker 4: Want to shut it all down.
Speaker 3: And as you recall, they want to shut down things
Speaker 3: like the origins of COVID, they want to shut down
Speaker 3: the Hunter by the laptop.
Speaker 4: I wonder why.
Speaker 3: It's very specific the things they want to shut down.
Speaker 3: And now we have more and more Democrats. AOC has
Speaker 3: come out and said something to the effect of this
Speaker 3: free speech business has to be rained in.
Speaker 4: She didn't say it like that, but she's done it.
Speaker 4: Kind of life.
Speaker 1: You know that.
Speaker 3: Nancy Pelosi has aired now said we have to do
Speaker 3: something about misinformation and disinformation. The problem is is that
Speaker 3: we don't get to know who's deciding what is misinformation
Speaker 3: or disinformation. As we saw on the last election cycle
Speaker 3: when it's partisans, the information that its censored is very
Speaker 3: specifically helpful to one side of the aisle. So no, no,
Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom. And by the way, Elon Musk, it must be.
Speaker 3: The only reason I would ever want to be like
Speaker 3: Elon Musk rich is because I actually, how rich do
Speaker 3: you think you have.
Speaker 4: To be before?
Speaker 3: You just have what you view as few money and
Speaker 3: you're basically like, oh, yeah, Gavin Newsom, here's what I'm
Speaker 3: gonna do. I'm gonna encourage people to post deep fake
Speaker 3: videos of you on x come and get me like,
Speaker 3: how rich do you have to be? Because that's few
Speaker 3: money right there? Jk Rowling in her stance against the
Speaker 3: transiting of our children, she has few money. She doesn't
Speaker 3: need another dime, and she'll be just fine for the
Speaker 3: rest of her life and the rest of her children's lives.
Speaker 4: Right So, Elon Musk has few money. That's the only
Speaker 4: reason I would want to be that rich.
Speaker 3: Seems like there's a lot of annoying pressure that comes
Speaker 3: along with that kind of money and you can't just
Speaker 3: kind of live, well, you could live under the radar.
Speaker 3: The Walton's kind of live under the radar, I guess. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So that's gonna be fun to watch, and we'll see
Speaker 3: exactly when they try to bring it to Colorado, because yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm sure that'll happen sooner or later when we get back.
Speaker 3: Public comment has gotten out of control and now Aurora
Speaker 3: is taking steps to rein it back in.
Speaker 4: I'll explain after this.
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Speaker 4: Well, welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
Speaker 3: You know, at some points in your future a ride.
Speaker 3: We need to dip our toe into this Diddy story.
Speaker 4: Because I just saw a Twitter thread.
Speaker 3: I don't want to get into it now because I
Speaker 3: got a bunch of other stuff I want to talk about.
Speaker 4: But some of has gathered up a bunch of photographs
Speaker 4: of which celebrities were at did these parties, and it
Speaker 4: is a who's who.
Speaker 7: It's starting to seem like no one's safe.
Speaker 4: Well, this certainly goes.
Speaker 3: A long way towards, in my mind, validating the stories
Speaker 3: that have been told by people like Corey Feldman and
Speaker 3: about being abused as children in the industry, and you know,
Speaker 3: the sort of salaciousness that we all expect. I have
Speaker 3: long said that I think if you're a parent who
Speaker 3: is moving your kid to Hollywood to pursue a career
Speaker 3: in Hollywood when they are children.
Speaker 4: You are not a good parent for variety of reasons.
Speaker 4: You're just not.
Speaker 3: Famous, so corrupting, so corrupting, especially for kids that don't
Speaker 3: understand otherwise.
Speaker 4: Anyway, let me get back to what's local.
Speaker 3: The Aurora City Council has been dealing with a few
Speaker 3: issues when it comes to public comment, and I am
Speaker 3: of the mindset about public comment where I think it
Speaker 3: is incredibly important. And yet I've now watched enough and
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about Aurora. I'm just talking about in
Speaker 3: general city council, county commission meetings to know that a
Speaker 3: vast majority of the time, the people who need to
Speaker 3: hear what is.
Speaker 4: Being said are generally not paying attention.
Speaker 3: Anyway, not to say that it shouldn't happen, but there
Speaker 3: has to be a level of decorum that is observed.
Speaker 4: Otherwise the meetings go on forever.
Speaker 3: And nobody was ever convinced by having a bunch of
Speaker 3: people standing in a room yelling at them. You know,
Speaker 3: maybe they capitulate, but they're not convinced. And yet in Aurra,
Speaker 3: two things have been happening. Number One, they have allowed
Speaker 3: comment when they are because they stream all the meetings,
Speaker 3: so they've allowed comment to come in via phone or
Speaker 3: online as part of the meetings. And now people hiding
Speaker 3: behind handsets are calling in and making disparaging race and
Speaker 3: anti LGBTQ comments during the meetings. And so in order
Speaker 3: to prevent that, they are no longer going to allow
Speaker 3: remote commentary.
Speaker 4: And if people have trouble.
Speaker 3: Making it to the meeting, then they could ask someone
Speaker 3: else if they would go make a statement on their behalf.
Speaker 3: The second thing is that they are no longer going
Speaker 3: to allow people to sign up for the meetings like
Speaker 3: three hours in advance. Why is that Because Taitae Anderson
Speaker 3: has been leading protests over the death death of Killing
Speaker 3: Lewis at pretty much every meeting.
Speaker 4: They're yelling they're carrying on killing Lewis's mother, Ronda.
Speaker 3: James has been making public comment during every public comment
Speaker 3: period from.
Speaker 4: Her home in Georgia. She will no longer be allowed
Speaker 4: to do that.
Speaker 3: So they're trying to they're trying to allow public comment,
Speaker 3: but they're trying to make it less easy for bad
Speaker 3: actors to hog the entire period by signing up early
Speaker 3: when other people can't get there. So it's sad, really
Speaker 3: that it's come to this. And you can make the
Speaker 3: argument that if you know, if we have a truly
Speaker 3: free society, then the white supremacist guy should be able
Speaker 3: to yell whatever he wants in a city council meeting,
Speaker 3: but that's not generally how it's worked. And as far
Speaker 3: as the protests go, I mean, you know, again, no
Speaker 3: one has ever been swayed by people standing and yelling
Speaker 3: in your face.
Speaker 4: That's just not an effective strategy in my mind. So
Speaker 4: that's what's happening in Aurora.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 3: Another thing update in Aurora. I am actually seeing this
Speaker 3: in the New York Post. I didn't look to see
Speaker 3: if they covered it locally here on any of the networks.
Speaker 4: From the New York Post.
Speaker 3: Police and Aurora, Colorado have charged three suspects from a
Speaker 3: viral video that showed heavily armed men breaking into an apartment,
Speaker 3: a clip that made the Denver suburb a byword for
Speaker 3: the spread of migrant crime.
Speaker 4: One of the men has now admitted that.
Speaker 3: He's a member of the violent Venezuelan gang Arragua, federal
Speaker 3: law enforcement sources told the Post. Despite local cops saying
Speaker 3: none of the men were connected to the gang, Dee
Speaker 3: Freit surpa Acosta, twenty years old, fessed up during an
Speaker 3: interview with immigration authorities that he was asked if he
Speaker 3: had any gang affiliation by immigration officers and has trend
Speaker 3: to Agua's signature crown tattoos to prove it.
Speaker 4: So weird, so weird. Now, all three of these criminals
Speaker 4: have lengthy rap sheets. They've been in and.
Speaker 3: Out of the country multiple times, and so we'll see
Speaker 3: what happens. I'm sure they're going to be deported and
Speaker 3: I'm sure are gonna come right back over the southern
Speaker 3: border again. So that's just a fun.
Speaker 4: Story about a gang member. What we know is a
Speaker 4: gang member, and the.
Speaker 3: Fact that he was in those apartments that some people
Speaker 3: said had been taken over by gang members, I'm sure
Speaker 3: it's not connected. Sure it's completely a coincidence, and that
Speaker 3: no other gang members were in that apartment.
Speaker 12: Gun.
Speaker 3: None, none of those other guys with guns. Nope, not
Speaker 3: gang members, just people you know, going dove hunting or something.
Speaker 3: A couple more local stories that I want to get
Speaker 3: to that are just kind of things that I thought
Speaker 3: were interesting but not worthy of spending a ton of
Speaker 3: time on. One of them is that Douglas County has
Speaker 3: now approved a camping dand with a fine of up
Speaker 3: to one thousand dollars for each violation. Now, as a
Speaker 3: Douglas County resident, I can tell you I do not
Speaker 3: believe we have a single encampment in Douglas County. Maybe
Speaker 3: there are some somewhere, I'm not sure, but I'm happy
Speaker 3: that Douglas County is being proactive in this and creating
Speaker 3: penalties and dissweding people. And the program that they have
Speaker 3: in Douglas County called handouts don't help urge people not
Speaker 3: to give handouts at intersections, but to donate to the
Speaker 3: organizations that do the outreach programs in Douglas County to
Speaker 3: help people who are on the fringes or even living
Speaker 3: on the streets.
Speaker 4: So there you go.
Speaker 3: Douglas County now has a camping van, just like Denver does.
Speaker 3: By the way, just like Denver does, and we all
Speaker 3: know how.
Speaker 4: Successful that has been in Denver.
Speaker 3: Well, last story, and I wanted to throw this in
Speaker 3: here because when I go to Cherry Creek, do you
Speaker 3: ever go to Cherry Creek anymore times?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 4: Every so often I will go to Cherry Creek because.
Speaker 3: There's restaurants down there that I really like, and sometimes
Speaker 3: I want to go to the fancy mall on occasion.
Speaker 3: I never buy anything in the fancy mall, but sometimes
Speaker 3: I like to look and see what people who do
Speaker 3: buy things that.
Speaker 4: The fancy mall are buying.
Speaker 3: And the reason I don't go more is because traffic sucks.
Speaker 3: And now you've got to pay for parking at the mall.
Speaker 4: You can valet at a lot of the restaurants, which
Speaker 4: is extremely convenient, but a lot.
Speaker 3: Of those side street places they've got no parking and
Speaker 3: it's just not fun to go down there and try
Speaker 3: and find parking. Well, it is about to get really
Speaker 3: interesting in Cherry Creek for the time being because Denver
Speaker 3: City Council unanimously approved rezoning the west side of the
Speaker 3: Cherry Creek Shopping Center and it is gonna have a thirteen.
Speaker 4: Acre mixed use community known as Cherry Creek West.
Speaker 3: So the projected build out could take a decade, and
Speaker 3: the development as it's presented right now would deliver one
Speaker 3: point six million square feet of offices and apartments on
Speaker 3: the site. And obviously housing would be great, and the
Speaker 3: project would be entirely served with underground parking.
Speaker 4: That is the only upside here, underground parking.
Speaker 3: So residents obviously not happy about this, and it's very
Speaker 3: high density, which is not you know, what Cherry Creek
Speaker 3: normally does. But Cherry Creek, unlike Downtown Denver, a lot
Speaker 3: of the businesses that left Downtown Denver moved to Cherry Creek,
Speaker 3: so they don't have a ton of vacancies for office
Speaker 3: space and things of that nature in Cherry Creek.
Speaker 4: So it makes sense that they'd want to build something
Speaker 4: like this.
Speaker 3: But I feel like this is going to fundamentally change
Speaker 3: But I you know, I don't know, maybe Cherry Creek
Speaker 3: has had these big swings that I mean, when the
Speaker 3: Cherry Creek Mall was built, any of you guys that
Speaker 3: were living here when the Cherry Creek Mall was built,
Speaker 3: that probably was incredibly disruptive as well. So I'm just wondering.
Speaker 3: I'd love to know five six, six nine. Oh, if
Speaker 3: you live in Cherry Creek, love to know how you
Speaker 3: feel about it. But if you go to Cherry Creek,
Speaker 3: is this a positive or you know?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Hey, Mandy, if you want to learn Spanish, you should
Speaker 3: go to the flat Urns Mall and Broomfield on the weekends.
Speaker 4: Broomfield is so far from me.
Speaker 3: Broomfield is like you should just say, Mandy, you should
Speaker 3: drive Awayoming. That's how it feels to drive to Broomfield
Speaker 3: so far. Elways is closing there because of that. Yes,
Speaker 3: indeedy they are, they are. There was a Fox News story.
Speaker 4: About Douglas County and the lack of homelessness. Well, Douglas County,
Speaker 4: we've had a few here and there, you know that
Speaker 4: stand by the roadways and beg for money. I just
Speaker 4: I don't think people give them money. So yeah, who decides?
Speaker 4: Who decides? Well, jeeves? Shootoot, shoot shoot. That's not what
Speaker 4: I wanted to read at all.
Speaker 3: This person about the city council meetings, similar to a
Speaker 3: Worris City council meetings. Council Colorado Springs courtrooms have had
Speaker 3: a rash of recent video conference hearings that were interrupted
Speaker 3: by some bad actors hacking into the meeting and showing porn.
Speaker 3: Oh that's fantastic. That's that's not good.
Speaker 4: We've all gotten a little too comfortable with these online meetings.
Speaker 4: I actually like it.
Speaker 10: I love it.
Speaker 3: I love an online meeting. I still don't have a
Speaker 3: nice background when I'm at home.
Speaker 4: My background is still terrible. Maybe I should just get
Speaker 4: like a curtain, a rod, just like a curtain and
Speaker 4: then draw some stuff on it. Or I could steal old.
Speaker 3: Thing from Woody page and just do a chalkboard behind me,
Speaker 3: you know what, different drawings every time I'm doing.
Speaker 4: Anyway, we have a couple of things on the ballot.
Speaker 3: That we're gonna be talking about. By the way, Ross
Speaker 3: and I were talking this morning, I think we're gonna
Speaker 3: do a voter Guy collapse this year, so you can
Speaker 3: see what both of us think in one place. Now,
Speaker 3: for the most part, Ross and I completely agree on
Speaker 3: a vast majority of our selections, but our rationale to
Speaker 3: get there could be a little bit different. So I
Speaker 3: think we're going to do a collaboration on our voter guide.
Speaker 3: But hopefully we'll have that out like Monday, because ballot
Speaker 3: drop at the beginning of October. Mandy, I won't go
Speaker 3: north of Landmark living in Parker. Have moved everything to
Speaker 3: the Springs Support Air Force Sports, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.
Speaker 4: Et cetera.
Speaker 3: It just feels much safer and then Denver and the
Speaker 3: drive is easier. So yeah, I'm kind of with you,
Speaker 3: kind of with you on Matt. I live in Cherry Creek.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of construction going on, but we figured
Speaker 3: it out. Still like living here. This project's going to
Speaker 3: be pretty big and pretty disruptive, although I'm guessing much
Speaker 3: like when they do downtown, they can confine it to
Speaker 3: that area.
Speaker 4: I don't know, Mandy.
Speaker 3: I feel like I need to take my passport to
Speaker 3: the outlet mall off I twenty five and one hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty sixth Avenue. I just had an experience in
Speaker 3: a Walmart where I could not find a single Walmart
Speaker 3: employee that spoke English, and I was like, you know,
Speaker 3: not for nothing. I'm now not going to buy anything
Speaker 3: that I came in here to get because no one
Speaker 3: can help me find it.
Speaker 4: No one are you learning any Spanish being married to
Speaker 4: your Spanish speaking wife.
Speaker 6: I'm always trying yeah, always attempting poquito, poquito, pekito.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because that would have been nice because I had
Speaker 3: nothing and they felt bad. But I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I need help and no one can help me. That's fine,
Speaker 3: Absolutely fine. One more story about Denver Real Quick Denver's
Speaker 3: median home price and how it compares internationally now or
Speaker 3: not internationally, that's silly. Nationally, the annual income buyers needed
Speaker 3: to afford a house fell for the first time since
Speaker 3: twenty twenty, driven by the first annual decline and mortgage
Speaker 3: rates in three years. Now, in order to afford a
Speaker 3: typical home nationwide, you would have to earn one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifteen four hundred and fifty four per year. That's
Speaker 3: down one point four percent since last year. But what
Speaker 3: does it look like in Denver. Well, the report ranked
Speaker 3: Denver twelfth among the fifty most populous metro areas in
Speaker 3: the country. When it comes to housing affordability. The median
Speaker 3: home price is five hundred and eighty six thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: That means the median is different than the average. Okay,
Speaker 3: the median is half the houses sold.
Speaker 4: In Denver are more than that.
Speaker 3: Half the houses sold in the metro are less than that,
Speaker 3: So that's the middle price, the median home price. The
Speaker 3: income here to afford a median priced home is one
Speaker 3: fifty two five thirty seven. The median household income in
Speaker 3: Denver is one oh nine seven to seventy one. And
Speaker 3: that's why Denver feels unaffordable for a lot of people.
Speaker 3: Mandy can't shop at the Walmart? Why can't I shop
Speaker 3: at the Walmart?
Speaker 4: What's wrong with the Walmart?
Speaker 3: Don't go hating on Walmart, Mandy, A great background is
Speaker 3: one of the folding Asian style screens.
Speaker 4: Oh, that would be good. That'd be really good.
Speaker 3: Do you know if Douglas County can compel a homeless
Speaker 3: person to pay the one thousand dollars fine if they're
Speaker 3: only income is social Security? I'm guessing that they can
Speaker 3: compel them. But whether or not you can get blood
Speaker 3: from a stone, I don't know. Let's see underground parking
Speaker 3: next to Cherry Creek prone to flooding. Also believe some
Speaker 3: of that area used to be a dump, like an
Speaker 3: actual dump. A Rod, Google, did Cherry Creek in Denver
Speaker 3: used to be a dump? Look that up for me,
Speaker 3: Mandy A Rod not to worry. Then married to my
Speaker 3: wife for fifteen years, and she knows zero Spanish. I
Speaker 3: am fluently bilingual.
Speaker 4: Here we go.
Speaker 6: Make sure this is Cherry Creek in Colorado on second,
Speaker 6: because it looks like that's true. Because of flooding, the
Speaker 6: area around the creek, Cherry Creek was unsuitable for most
Speaker 6: uses and became the city dump shut on. The original
Speaker 6: Cherry Creek Shopping Center was built on the former dump
Speaker 6: by Denver architect developer Temple hoin Buell in nineteen forty nine.
Speaker 6: This from Cherry Creek East dot org.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's fantastic. That's so ironic. In the mall is
Speaker 4: built on a dump.
Speaker 6: Yeah, in nineteen eighty four, the Cherry Creek Steering Community
Speaker 6: blah bla, Oh that's nothing related, never mind.
Speaker 7: But yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 6: The redevelopment of the Cherry Creek Shopping Center into the
Speaker 6: Cherry Creek Mall that you see today was completed in
Speaker 6: nineteen ninety.
Speaker 7: Wow, built on the built on the former dump in
Speaker 7: forty nine.
Speaker 4: That's actually really cool.
Speaker 6: Like like I said, because they had no choice because
Speaker 6: like with the flooding, it was unsuitable for really anything
Speaker 6: else other than being a dump.
Speaker 4: That's fantastic. I don't know why I like that so much.
Speaker 3: It's almost like it's almost like a Cinderella story, this
Speaker 3: crappy piece of land, nothing could go there except a dump.
Speaker 4: And then after the dump gets fulled up with everybody's garbage,
Speaker 4: what can we do with it?
Speaker 3: We can make it into a beautiful, sparkling shopping center
Speaker 3: with all the fence and clothing and brands in it.
Speaker 4: It's the Cinderella Story of the ages. Yes, it was
Speaker 4: a dump.
Speaker 3: We're getting a lot of confirmation on the text line
Speaker 3: that you didn't know. The original Cherry Creek shopping center
Speaker 3: of late nineteen forties was considered to be the most
Speaker 3: innovative design.
Speaker 4: Ever, how do you guys know this?
Speaker 3: The Walmart near me has closed all the self checkout
Speaker 3: lanes and usually only have two or three checkout lanes
Speaker 3: open with a real live persons working in them.
Speaker 4: Maybe they can build that big landfill east of town there, lol, Haha.
Speaker 4: Let's see here. Apparently you can use the Walmart app
Speaker 4: and find stuff in the.
Speaker 7: Store one hundred percent actual.
Speaker 4: Well, what if I don't know exactly what it's called.
Speaker 6: Uh, you can roughly type in like the the thing
Speaker 6: you're looking for, not specifically like the brand name right like,
Speaker 6: it'll give you a rough idea of where things are.
Speaker 7: Use it all, right, here.
Speaker 4: We go anyway.
Speaker 3: Oh, here's a question totally unrelated, but I'm gonna read it. Hey, Mandy,
Speaker 3: this is an email. We're headed to Denver for our
Speaker 3: first time from Louisville. Can you give me an area
Speaker 3: to stay in a few moss places to see? I've
Speaker 3: been given recommendations to stay away from downtown the Dairy
Speaker 3: Block and oh, the Dairy Block and helseyon where two
Speaker 3: we're highly recommended. Ideally I'd like to see Myleheigh Stadium
Speaker 3: red rocks and capture a snapshot of the vibe. We'll
Speaker 3: be driving from Crested Butte and we'll be staying in
Speaker 3: Denver for two nights. Miss you on whas here And
Speaker 3: I know her mom too, Lorie Elkins. So if we're
Speaker 3: not going to stay in downtown, where do you stay?
Speaker 3: I don't know hotels? I know the hotels downtown.
Speaker 7: Hmmm, I don't have.
Speaker 6: Like specific like hotel, but in terms of location, no pressure.
Speaker 6: Probably just north out.
Speaker 4: Of Denver, like more like around like just a little
Speaker 4: like south of Thornton. There's some nice.
Speaker 7: Places you can probably stay.
Speaker 6: I would suggest, you know, really every other suburb really
Speaker 6: isn't somewhere to write home about terms to stay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking if they want to go to Red Rocks,
Speaker 3: maybe something out west there. We got to get that together.
Speaker 3: Got to get it together for LORI help her come
Speaker 3: out and have a great time. Isn't it sad that
Speaker 3: people are like, yeah, void downtown. Isn't that just sad
Speaker 3: because we have some great hotels downtown. I love, love,
Speaker 3: love the hotel Tautro. It is great hotel, she said,
Speaker 3: the stadium. So we'll find we'll figure it out.
Speaker 4: What world it is?
Speaker 7: Probably not somewhere you want to go.
Speaker 4: No, we're not going to send it to Broto. Okay,
Speaker 4: let's take a time out. When we get back.
Speaker 3: We have a story about Tell You Ride Ski Resort
Speaker 3: and if I could give them the mom look right
Speaker 3: now and be like, I am so disappointed in you
Speaker 3: when you hear what they did, and honestly, oh, this
Speaker 3: is such a dumb pr move. I'll share with that
Speaker 3: next Tell Your Ride Ski Resort. You guys talk about
Speaker 3: a self inflicted wound. First of all, I had no
Speaker 3: idea Tell your Ride is one of the ski towns.
Speaker 3: I have not been to Tell Your Ride yet. Have
Speaker 3: you ever been there a rod Tell You Ride Colorado?
Speaker 7: I haven't been since I was a child.
Speaker 3: It's part of the state that I have not made
Speaker 3: it to yet. I haven't gone to, like Paonia and
Speaker 3: Montrose and like the whole area. I've been to Crested
Speaker 3: Butte haven't been to the Four Corners either. So I've
Speaker 3: got places to go in Colorado still. But Tell Your
Speaker 3: Ride just gave themselves a black eye over something that
Speaker 3: I have to believe could not have been costing them
Speaker 3: very much money. For as long as any of the
Speaker 3: locals can remember, the Tell Your Ride Ski Resort.
Speaker 4: Has been giving.
Speaker 3: People local citizens who turn eighty or older free ski passes.
Speaker 4: So this has been like something that people.
Speaker 3: Who live and Tell Your Ride get all excited about
Speaker 3: because they're like, Oh, when I turn eighty, I can
Speaker 3: get my free ski pass a to Tell You Ride
Speaker 3: Ski Resort. And then the Tell You Ride Ski Resort
Speaker 3: just said we're not doing it anymore, And I'm thinking
Speaker 3: to myself, how many people on a daily basis. First
Speaker 3: of all, you know they're probably skiing in the middle
Speaker 3: of the week, right, So how many people over eighty
Speaker 3: actually even live in Tell Your Ride And out of
Speaker 3: those eighty, how many of them actually ski on a
Speaker 3: regular enough basis to create a burden for the Tell
Speaker 3: your Ride Ski resort to not want to give out
Speaker 3: these free passes anymore.
Speaker 4: Now. The only thing, and this is I thought about
Speaker 4: this this morning. I was like, what, who decided to
Speaker 4: make this change? And why in the world?
Speaker 3: Why would they make this change when I just laid
Speaker 3: out the reasons why it cannot be costing them. It's
Speaker 3: not like the slopes are overrun with eighty five year
Speaker 3: olds from Tell Your Ride that are skiing free, right,
Speaker 3: That's not happening.
Speaker 4: The only thing I can think of, and I bet
Speaker 4: you this is it.
Speaker 3: By the way, Fox thirty one reached out to the
Speaker 3: scale Tell your Ride Ski Resort to ask why the
Speaker 3: change was made.
Speaker 4: They have not heard back yet. My guess is because
Speaker 4: a lawyer got involved, and I just have this feeling
Speaker 4: that it went something like this.
Speaker 3: You know, I mean, people over eighty are far more
Speaker 3: likely to break something if they fall on the mountain,
Speaker 3: and here we are encouraging them to continue skiing after
Speaker 3: they are an age where many people of that age
Speaker 3: start to deal with, you know, bones that aren't as strong,
Speaker 3: bodies that aren't as strong.
Speaker 4: I bet you as a lawyer, and I'm not one
Speaker 4: of those. We bot hate lawyers. My dad used to
Speaker 4: be a lawyer.
Speaker 7: I get it.
Speaker 4: But why in the world, Oh, tell your ride was
Speaker 4: bought by Veil Corp. What do you expect? Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 3: Somebody took umbrage a rod with our conversation about people
Speaker 3: driving around without their license plates. Oh, somebody said, I
Speaker 3: don't know, the text is long gone, but it said something.
Speaker 4: The effect of why don't you use just mind your
Speaker 4: own business?
Speaker 3: And I was like, well, see, it's it's about being
Speaker 3: a good citizen. And when you are a good citizen
Speaker 3: and you're paying the dumb ass taxes that we have
Speaker 3: to pay to get our cars registered, and then you
Speaker 3: see all these other people that are not being good
Speaker 3: citizens and not paying their dumb ass taxes to get
Speaker 3: their car registered.
Speaker 4: It's annoying.
Speaker 3: Because it details a disrespect of their civic responsibility.
Speaker 4: And I hate it. I hate gigantic registration fees.
Speaker 3: I think it's stupid, especially because se dot is squandering
Speaker 3: all that money on dumbass ways to get us out
Speaker 3: of our cars.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, I don't care.
Speaker 3: And so I said back, it's about being a good citizen,
Speaker 3: and this person said, minding your.
Speaker 4: Own business is being a good citizen.
Speaker 3: Except whose role is it to encourage others by shaming
Speaker 3: them on the radio to do the right thing and
Speaker 3: be a good citizen.
Speaker 4: I'm just asking, Mandy, have you been to the Swiss
Speaker 4: Alps of Colorado? You r ridge? Yodel a he who
Speaker 4: I knew exactly exactly what you were doing there, yodeler Uh, Mandy.
Speaker 3: They're probably worried about being sued for injuries. Exactly right, exactly, Mandy.
Speaker 3: I think everyone and Tell You're Right is rich. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but people can be house rich and cash poor. If
Speaker 3: you've lived in tel You're right for forty years in
Speaker 3: the same house, you are house.
Speaker 4: Rich, and you could be cash poor. You could be
Speaker 4: cash rich too. I don't know, Mandy.
Speaker 3: I don't think Tell your Right has been bought by
Speaker 3: Veil Resorts. They do have a marketing agreement with them
Speaker 3: on the full epic pass, because otherwise Fox would have
Speaker 3: just reached out to Veil Resorts. You're right, Texter, Thank
Speaker 3: you for the clarification, Mandy, what do you think the
Speaker 3: percentage of those expired.
Speaker 4: Plates are that do not have insurance? Well, it's my.
Speaker 3: Understanding that if you don't have an up to date registration,
Speaker 3: you cannot buy auto insurance. It's our business if you
Speaker 3: don't have valid plates on you're on the roadway, fair Point, Texter,
Speaker 3: fair Point, Mandy. Does the state DMV charge the a
Speaker 3: fee if they register their vehicle after the prescribed date? Yes,
Speaker 3: you were supposed to pay the difference from whenever you
Speaker 3: are supposed to register the car to the point where
Speaker 3: you register the car. So if you waited a year
Speaker 3: or two years, you have to pay the registration fees
Speaker 3: for those two years. But I think and I don't
Speaker 3: know who told me this, but I think they are
Speaker 3: they're able to waive those fees.
Speaker 4: But I don't know what the I don't know what
Speaker 4: the situation is there, Mandy.
Speaker 3: Why are there so many postal trucks without license plates?
Speaker 3: My guess is is maybe they were stolen, because if
Speaker 3: I'm looking to steal a license plate to slap on
Speaker 3: another car, well, they should have fleet vehicle for license plates.
Speaker 4: Though I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know the answer to that question. I got
Speaker 3: a bunch of postal workers though. Is that a postal
Speaker 3: thing or is that just where are the license plates going?
Speaker 5: Five?
Speaker 4: Six six nine oh? Text me the answer, Mandy.
Speaker 3: I wish there was a monthly penalty after your plates expire.
Speaker 3: Problem solved there is You're one hundred percent?
Speaker 4: Is true, Mandy? Not true of the on the plates.
Speaker 3: The worst ones are the exotic car owners. I call
Speaker 3: my friends out all the time, like they're just not
Speaker 3: getting their plates. What not true on the plates? Which part?
Speaker 4: What are you talking about? Clarify?
Speaker 3: If I see a car with no license plate, I
Speaker 3: assume they have no insurance. I stay far away. I
Speaker 3: will never park to somebody with an unregistered plate or
Speaker 3: no plate. That's from the Texter.
Speaker 4: I live in a Uror. I see twenty five or
Speaker 4: thirty unregistered cars every day. UM wow, you guys, the
Speaker 4: license plate thing is now going off on the text line.
Speaker 4: Obviously we hit a nerve.
Speaker 3: And I'm right when you see people not doing their
Speaker 3: civic responsibility and you start to feel like a sucker, right,
Speaker 3: you're like, what hey, Rod said it the other day,
Speaker 3: Why am I doing this? Why am I doing the
Speaker 3: right thing? When everybody else is doing the wrong thing. Well,
Speaker 3: I'll tell you why, because you're a person of good character. Anyway,
Speaker 3: Fees are twenty five bucks a month, says this texture
Speaker 3: until one hundred dollars max.
Speaker 4: Don't ask me how I know there will be no
Speaker 4: follow up questions.
Speaker 3: SEETA just gave the town of Frasiery two hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty thousand dollars grant for a bike park.
Speaker 4: As Highway forty through town disintegrates. Yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 3: I see a lot of fancy new BMW's or Lexus
Speaker 3: with expired plates.
Speaker 4: Well they should be pulled over and given a ticket.
Speaker 3: Perfectly fine with that. I don't think anybody gets you know,
Speaker 3: come on, so yeah, oh boy, yeah, a lot of
Speaker 3: you unhappy, Mandy. Are they enforcing expired tags, etc. To
Speaker 3: clean the place up before Trump gets here, like cleaning
Speaker 3: San Francisco.
Speaker 4: I can assure you.
Speaker 3: That a vast majority of the government here in the
Speaker 3: Colorado Denver metro area does not give a rats.
Speaker 4: Ask what Donald Trump sees when he comes here.
Speaker 3: If he comes here, Mandy, I watched a person remove
Speaker 3: a temporary plate and replace it with another temporary plate.
Speaker 4: Hey, in their.
Speaker 3: Defense, when I got my car. It took so long
Speaker 3: for the Department of Motor Vehicles to send me my
Speaker 3: new plate. I had to get a new temporary plate.
Speaker 3: So there are reasons for that are that are not
Speaker 3: the driver's fault. Mandy Aspen Highlands and snowmass used to
Speaker 3: have a free pass for eighty year olds. My father
Speaker 3: in law kept skiing until he got his pass.
Speaker 4: He didn't ski one more day. All he wanted was
Speaker 4: his pass. Oh, that's kind of cute, kind of sad.
Speaker 3: I pay more for uninsured motorists in six months than
Speaker 3: I used to pay for total.
Speaker 4: Liability in a year. Sad, But for true, if you don't.
Speaker 3: Have uninsured motorists coverage, you could find yourself screwed.
Speaker 4: So get it today. We'll be right back.
Speaker 3: We were looking for Mark Zuckerberg to lead the way
Speaker 3: when it came to politics. Well, after doing something and
Speaker 3: you know, Mark Zuckerberg seems like a decent egg, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean.
Speaker 4: He seems like he would be a decent human.
Speaker 3: He's a nerd who has made billions of dollars with
Speaker 3: Facebook and Meta and everything else. But last election cycle
Speaker 3: he stepped up with his Zuckerbucks. I can't remember the
Speaker 3: name of the actual organization. It was part of his
Speaker 3: foundation where they gave UH grants and the purpose was
Speaker 3: to give grants to any voting district that needed it
Speaker 3: to help mitigate the effects of COVID and ensure that
Speaker 3: people could come and vote safely. A bunch of Democrat
Speaker 3: cities took him up on it. No Republicans took him
Speaker 3: up on it, and a.
Speaker 4: Lot of people said, look, those Zuckerbucks they were used
Speaker 4: to cheat.
Speaker 3: Well, I think this is just wild speculation on my
Speaker 3: part because I can't read into his mind or has sold.
Speaker 3: But he strikes me as the sort there was, Like, dude,
Speaker 3: I was trying to help, and now I'm being accused
Speaker 3: of all of these things because none of the Republican
Speaker 3: cities took me up on it.
Speaker 4: So he has now said he's done, He's out no more.
Speaker 3: He's been complaining to fellow billionaires.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they all have meetings. Did you guys know this.
Speaker 3: The Allen and Company conference? They call it summer camp
Speaker 3: for billionaires? Aer Did you get your invitation to the
Speaker 3: Allen and Company conference?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: I haven't. I haven't yet. Did mine get lost? Did
Speaker 4: you see it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Wellingess to this year.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll just hold our fingers crossed for next year.
Speaker 3: But apparently Mark Zuckerberg has been complaining to people about
Speaker 3: the blowback that came from him doing things with his philanthropy,
Speaker 3: and he has now admitted that he is He's got
Speaker 3: a bunch of employees that are trying to push him
Speaker 3: further to the left, and he's done. He now has
Speaker 3: decided he's like, look, I'm a classical liberal.
Speaker 4: And he's just not going to participate anymore. So what
Speaker 4: does this mean for Facebook?
Speaker 3: Because Facebook was very active in censoring information during the
Speaker 3: last election cycle, and it is uh, I just want
Speaker 3: to know what that means for Facebook.
Speaker 4: Listen to this from this New York Times article.
Speaker 3: Privately, mister Zuckerberg now considers his personal politics to be
Speaker 3: more like libertarianism or classical liberalism, according to people who
Speaker 3: have spoken.
Speaker 4: With him recently.
Speaker 3: That includes a hostility to regulation that restricts business and
Speaker 3: embrace the free markets and globalism, and an openness to
Speaker 3: social justice reforms, but only if it stops short of
Speaker 3: what he considers far left progressivism. And mister Zuckerberg and
Speaker 3: his wife, doctor Priscilla Chan have been privately aghast about
Speaker 3: what they see as the rise of anti Semitism on
Speaker 3: college campuses, including their alma mater, Harvard.
Speaker 4: Does that to you? Does anybody else like hear that?
Speaker 4: And go?
Speaker 3: Did Mark Zuckerberg get red pilled? Because it kind of
Speaker 3: seems like maybe he did. Now he hasn't changed sides. Okay,
Speaker 3: we're not gonna go crazy here, but he's this. This
Speaker 3: is significant when you've got one of the richest guys
Speaker 3: in the world saying I'm out. You know, that's a
Speaker 3: big deal for politicians. Kamala Harris's campaign just got a
Speaker 3: big fat cash infusion from Silicon Valley and the tech bros. Now,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you, I think there's a lot of
Speaker 3: these guys that just march lockstep with whatever the prevailing
Speaker 3: wind is. And if the prevailing wind shifts and people
Speaker 3: start to see the big dogs Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg
Speaker 3: dipping out and saying no man or even better, and
Speaker 3: I mean this even better in a political sense, not
Speaker 3: good for the country sense, because sometimes those things aren't
Speaker 3: necessarily immediately the same. If Kamala Harris gets re elected
Speaker 3: and she manages to raise taxes on everyone rich, those
Speaker 3: tech pros, they're gonna have a much different perspective in.
Speaker 4: The next election cycle about Democrats. So fingers crossed Kammally can.
Speaker 3: Get it done if she gets elected, not fingers.
Speaker 4: That she gets elected. To be clear, I just want
Speaker 4: to make sure that no one thinks I said that.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 3: Coming up at the next hour, I have a bunch
Speaker 3: of stories for the two minute blog two minute drill rather,
Speaker 3: and then I've got a bunch of stories for us
Speaker 3: to talk about after that. If you have not looked
Speaker 3: at the blog today, I have some really good videos.
Speaker 3: One is an old video by Milton Friedman that I
Speaker 3: put on the blog today because he did this at
Speaker 3: the end of the nineteen seventies when inflation was much
Speaker 3: higher than.
Speaker 4: It is now.
Speaker 3: But he explains where where inflation comes from. And if
Speaker 3: you have anyone in your life who's like one of
Speaker 3: those people who's like the inflation is because of corpet greed.
Speaker 3: This is really written at like a fifth grade level.
Speaker 3: So you should watch that video with your friends. And
Speaker 3: in this next hour we're going to get into a
Speaker 3: piece by doctor Thomas Krana Winner, who is on Ross's
Speaker 3: show with some regularity. This is on the blog, and
Speaker 3: if you have to try and explain why people like
Speaker 3: Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, you need to go click through on
Speaker 4: this thread and read it. Today. We're going to do
Speaker 4: the two minute trill when we get back.
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Speaker 3: You may have heard or seen the breathless headlines shots
Speaker 3: fired into Kamala Harris campaign headquarters, but then you read
Speaker 3: this story and don't get me wrong, I think this
Speaker 3: is stupid.
Speaker 4: Whoever did it?
Speaker 3: It's just an AS nine thing to do and there's
Speaker 3: no place for any of this. But the shots fired
Speaker 3: were from a baby gun. It was like the middle
Speaker 3: of the night when no one.
Speaker 4: Was there, and it just left little holes in the
Speaker 4: plate glass window.
Speaker 3: So can we stop acting like she has now survived
Speaker 3: her own assassination attempt because someone idiot shot at her building.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not saying that someone didn't do it.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, let's put it in its proper perspective,
Speaker 4: which is not important at all. I guess that's really
Speaker 4: all I have to say about that.
Speaker 5: Drill it too.
Speaker 3: So consumer confidence is a survey of how people think
Speaker 3: the economy is actually doing, and the Conference Sports Consumer
Speaker 3: Confidence Index fell almost seven points in September, the biggest
Speaker 3: monthly droped since September of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 4: Now why does this matter?
Speaker 1: It is?
Speaker 3: It matters because these are consumers that are surveyed, and
Speaker 3: consumers are feeling like things are not going quite as well.
Speaker 3: About thirty one percent of consumers said jobs were plentiful.
Speaker 3: That's down two points from August. The share who said
Speaker 3: jobs were hard to get jumped up one point five
Speaker 3: points to eighteen point three percent in August as well.
Speaker 3: Concerns about inflation haven't really totally supplanted by job market worries,
Speaker 3: yet consumers pointing out that inflation had receded, So that's good,
Speaker 3: the Conference Sport said, write in responses about election concerns
Speaker 3: remain below those seen ahead of the twenty twenty and
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen elections. So people are worried about the economy,
Speaker 3: which is not good news because people often vote on
Speaker 3: their own personal economy in the elections. Well, it's not
Speaker 3: good if you're the incumbent, which is Vice President Harris
Speaker 3: Drill it too. He is bringing sexy back, and I
Speaker 3: guess his arrest in the Hampton will not ruin the tour,
Speaker 3: as he told police. Justin Timberlake will be performing at
Speaker 3: Paul Arena on January twenty eighth, and I am going
Speaker 3: to this show because I want to see Justin Timberlake.
Speaker 4: I bet he's great in concert. You go see JT,
Speaker 4: would you?
Speaker 6: I'm pretty sour from that super Bowl performance years back?
Speaker 7: Not great?
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, wait a minute, the Janet Jackson super
Speaker 3: Bowl performance.
Speaker 7: No, no, he had the he had the next one.
Speaker 7: Didn't he perform? Hang on one second, Timberlake super Bowl?
Speaker 4: I mean the one that came Jackson is the one
Speaker 4: that I read No.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, twenty eighteen, twenty eighteen, and he
Speaker 6: was not good, not good, not good.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, maybe I'll go see Justin Timberlake. Whatever, never mind,
Speaker 3: forget I did the whole story. Fine, I'm sorry, you
Speaker 3: can bring right down.
Speaker 4: Fine, drill it too bad news. Retired NFL quarterback Brett Farve.
Speaker 3: Says he has Parkinson's disease and doesn't take a big
Speaker 3: leap to think that Parkinson's disease, which is a disease
Speaker 3: that affects your brain and is kind of a in
Speaker 3: the variety of wasting diseases. We just lost a friend
Speaker 3: to this disease fairly recently, and it's not a fun
Speaker 3: way to go out.
Speaker 4: It is a very challenging.
Speaker 3: Disease, and for a guy like Brett Farr, who has
Speaker 3: spent his whole life as an athlete, I'm guessing this
Speaker 3: could be really miserable. I'm hoping that he does as
Speaker 3: well as Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, he was
Speaker 3: in Back to the Future Marty McFly.
Speaker 7: Oh uh, oh god, I go to a fox.
Speaker 3: Yes, Oh wow, that was the sweating thing right there.
Speaker 3: I couldn't get that. But best wishes to Brett Farr.
Speaker 3: You know the girl that he was involved with, well,
Speaker 3: he wasn't involved with. He was sending the unwanted messages
Speaker 3: to that was working for the Jets sideline. She sent
Speaker 3: out some really nasty commentary about this, like basically, isn't
Speaker 3: karma bitch? And I thought, that is not a flattering look, lady,
Speaker 3: not a flattering look at all.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, Jen, Yeah whatever.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just thought, you know what, Sometimes I grew up
Speaker 3: in the South, where if you can't say anything nice,
Speaker 3: don't say anything at all.
Speaker 4: Maybe she should have done that instead.
Speaker 3: It too really good story in the Westwood Westward right
Speaker 3: now about downtown businesses who are struggling to stay open
Speaker 3: under endless construction, who are now being hassled by the
Speaker 3: City of Denver's Community Planning and Development Office for their signage.
Speaker 3: This is just another example of why government sucks. If
Speaker 3: you can't give these businesses a break, well, their entire
Speaker 3: lives are being disrupted by all the crap you're doing
Speaker 3: to downtown. This is why people hate government. In one
Speaker 3: fell swoop and one last story for veterans right now,
Speaker 3: if you get a text message saying, hey, this is
Speaker 3: the VA, you may qualify from benefits. It is not
Speaker 3: a scam now, just to be sure, you can hang
Speaker 3: up and call the VA. But they're actually doing outreach
Speaker 3: to veterans, you may qualify for benefits.
Speaker 4: That they are not getting. This is new for the VA,
Speaker 4: which usually does all in its power to keep people
Speaker 4: from getting the benefits their own. Check it out.
Speaker 3: I've got that link to the story in the Denver
Speaker 3: Post as well. And have you heard about the Dubai
Speaker 3: Chocolate Bar. It is a chocolate bar with this dessert
Speaker 3: that they have in the Middle East that is made
Speaker 3: up of shredded filo dough and pistachio cream and then
Speaker 3: it's covered with chocolate and I want this so bad.
Speaker 3: And now there are three places in Colorado that are
Speaker 3: doing a knockoff version. So if you like me, if
Speaker 3: you like me have wanted to try this thing since
Speaker 3: you saw it on social media, absolutely now you can
Speaker 3: find it at Reem's Bakery I know where that one is,
Speaker 3: Colorado Cocoa Pod, which is an online bakery, and then
Speaker 3: Conw's Corner Cafe on twenty ninth Avenue in Denver. So
Speaker 3: these are expensive. Don't be thinking that you're gonna just
Speaker 3: go get one and it's going to be like, you know,
Speaker 3: a five bucks or whatever.
Speaker 4: They're like twenty bucks. But they are really, really, really
Speaker 4: challenging to make thank you, ay Rod.
Speaker 3: According to some users on social media, some Rocky Mountain
Speaker 3: Chocolate Factory locations are said to carry the Dubai chocolate bar,
Speaker 3: but the Denver Gazette could not find it. A representative
Speaker 3: of Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory explained that the businesses are
Speaker 3: individually operated franchisees, so call ahead and check to see
Speaker 3: if location near you has it. I will have a
Speaker 3: full report after I have it. We're gonna take a
Speaker 3: quick time out. Okay, now I can take a break.
Speaker 4: He used to be a former.
Speaker 3: White House while he is a former White House OMB
Speaker 3: Chief Economists, that's the Office of Management and Budget Chief Economists.
Speaker 3: Doctor Van Skin joining me at two thirty. We haven't
Speaker 3: talked about the fact that Congress just passed a continuing
Speaker 3: resolution because they refuse to do what their job is
Speaker 3: and that has pass.
Speaker 4: Different budgets for different departments.
Speaker 3: So we get another continuous resolution that keeps spending going
Speaker 3: until the end of December.
Speaker 4: Does anybody really think.
Speaker 3: They're going to pass twelve budget bills by the end
Speaker 3: of December. No, they're not, which means we'll get another
Speaker 3: omnibus spending bill which is going to be chock full
Speaker 3: of pork and deficits spending. So we're going to talk
Speaker 3: to him in just a few minutes. I want to
Speaker 3: dip into this Gallop.
Speaker 4: Poll real quick. We see a lot of polls like, Oh, you're.
Speaker 3: Gonna vote for Kamala Harris, You're gonna vote for Donald Trump,
Speaker 3: and people are not necessarily looking at the underlying sort
Speaker 3: of mood of the country. And Gallup has so Gallup
Speaker 3: measures the president. They call it the presidential election environment.
Speaker 4: Now lately they're looking at things.
Speaker 3: That are in relationship to past presidential election outcomes, and
Speaker 3: they have a whole list of things, things like party
Speaker 3: identification and leaning, prey better able to handle most important problems,
Speaker 3: US satisfaction, economic confidence, party better able to keep America prosperous,
Speaker 3: presidential job approval, party favorable ratings, party better able to
Speaker 3: keep America safe from international threats, preference for government activity,
Speaker 3: and in all of those categories, Republicans are leading Democrats
Speaker 3: according to Gallup. So when it comes to party identification
Speaker 3: and leaning, forty eight percent currently lean Republican and are
Speaker 3: Republican forty five percent Democratic are lean Democratic party better
Speaker 3: able to handle the most important problem. The Republican party
Speaker 3: is viewed at forty six percent, the Democratic Party forty.
Speaker 4: One percent.
Speaker 3: US satisfaction twenty two percent satisfied.
Speaker 4: That's not a good number.
Speaker 3: Economic confidence a minus twenty eight index score. Party better
Speaker 3: able to keep America prosperous Democrats forty four percent, Republicans
Speaker 3: fifty percent. Presidential job approval thirty nine percent. That modes
Speaker 3: well for Republicans party favorable ratings.
Speaker 4: I was kind of shocked by this, you guys. The
Speaker 4: Republican Party is at forty three percent approval, Democratic Party
Speaker 4: forty two percent approval.
Speaker 3: Party better able to keep America safe from international threats,
Speaker 3: and this is not even close. Republican Party fifty four percent,
Speaker 3: Democratic Party forty percent preference for government activity fifty five
Speaker 3: percent say do less, only forty one percent say do more.
Speaker 3: And that, of course is good for Republicans. Congressional job
Speaker 3: approval twenty percent approval. Obviously, no one is going to
Speaker 3: find that helpful at all. So these numbers are kind
Speaker 3: of and this is from September third to the fifteenth,
Speaker 3: so you're seeing polls about the election, but then you're
Speaker 3: seeing what people really believe, and one has to wonder
Speaker 3: will people's visceral hatred of Donald Trump overwhelm the things
Speaker 3: that they normally vote on. If that answer is yes,
Speaker 3: then Kamala Harris wins. But if that answer is no,
Speaker 3: then Donald Trump, I think, gets another term. But of
Speaker 3: course I'm a terrible prognosticator, so don't ask me who's.
Speaker 4: Going to win.
Speaker 3: When we get back, we are going to talk about
Speaker 3: something that I believe should be at the center of
Speaker 3: every campaign and yet it isn't, and that is the
Speaker 3: national debt.
Speaker 4: We'll do that next.
Speaker 3: Doctor Van skin he's an economist and a smart guy,
Speaker 3: and he's as annoyed as I am that once again
Speaker 3: Congress has completely abdicated their responsibility to pass budget bills
Speaker 3: and have just passed another continuing resolution.
Speaker 4: Fans, welcome to the show.
Speaker 7: Hi many, it's a pleasure with you.
Speaker 10: Thank you for having me on. And I am just
Speaker 10: as upset about the deficit spending as you.
Speaker 3: Now, what is your background? Give my listeners a little
Speaker 3: bit of window of who you are.
Speaker 10: Vance Yeah, so I worked at the Trump White House.
Speaker 12: I was the chief economist for the Office of Management
Speaker 12: and Budget for about a year from June twenty nineteen
Speaker 12: and May of twenty twenty. I've also worked with a
Speaker 12: lot of state think tanks and national think tanks across
Speaker 12: the country, and do a lot.
Speaker 10: Of other work.
Speaker 12: I also have a podcast called let pul Prosper where
Speaker 12: I talk a lot about these key important issues about
Speaker 12: fiscal budgeting and monetary policy and a whole bunch of
Speaker 12: other issues.
Speaker 3: So, vance if you were part of the Trump administration,
Speaker 3: then I'm gonna ask you a pointed question, because for me,
Speaker 3: that was a big area of disappointment, and COVID threw
Speaker 3: everything into chaos, so we don't know what would have
Speaker 3: happened had his economic policies been allowed to unfold.
Speaker 4: In a natural way. So I'm gonna concede that point.
Speaker 3: But spending in the Trump administration, even before COVID was
Speaker 3: well beyond what I thought it should have been. Is
Speaker 3: there any hope that in another Trump administration we're going
Speaker 3: to see And I'm not asking to speak for the
Speaker 3: Trump campaign, by the way, I'm not doing that, But
Speaker 3: what are your thoughts about the level of seriousness that
Speaker 3: debt and deficit spending are seen in that administration?
Speaker 12: Well, I also share your concern about how much was
Speaker 12: being spent during the Trump of years. Of course, it
Speaker 12: was Congress that spent passes the budgets, but the president
Speaker 12: could have vetoed.
Speaker 10: Them and done more to do that, and we were
Speaker 10: trying to behind the scenes.
Speaker 12: We were trying to push it to have lower spending
Speaker 12: at the end of the day, and you're right, COVID
Speaker 12: blew that out of the water even more with trillions
Speaker 12: of dollars, and then Biden administration came in and put
Speaker 12: that spending on steroids. So we've run up of another
Speaker 12: twelve trillion dollars or so the last four plus years
Speaker 12: as massive, and we're spending at trillion dollars just on
Speaker 12: that interest payments on the debt alone.
Speaker 10: It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 12: And so one of the things that I'm still concerned about, though,
Speaker 12: to your point, Mandy, is that the president hasn't taught
Speaker 12: much about the budget. I mean, during that last presidential
Speaker 12: debate or even the first one, I don't even think
Speaker 12: spending was mentioned at all.
Speaker 10: Nor the depsits were mentioned.
Speaker 5: It at all.
Speaker 12: And this is a huge concern for me that I
Speaker 12: talk a lot about and I know you do too
Speaker 12: as well. So this is something we've got to get
Speaker 12: control over, and it's both parties. I mean, this is
Speaker 12: a bipartisan spending crisis is the way I like to
Speaker 12: put it. That's been happening for decades now, and we've
Speaker 12: got to get under control. There are a few, you know,
Speaker 12: that are out there that will talk a good game,
Speaker 12: and I think are trying to do good things. Center
Speaker 12: Rand Paul had his six penny plan, which is basically
Speaker 12: cut six percent over the next few years and balance
Speaker 12: the budget, but that was rejected today. At the same time,
Speaker 12: they're spending in the cr bill more and more. So
Speaker 12: it's a massive spending problem.
Speaker 3: Ran Paul I lived in Kentucky for three years and
Speaker 3: I'm a huge Rand Paul fan, along with Congressman Thomas Massey,
Speaker 3: who has been very vocally opposed to the continuing resolutions
Speaker 3: that we're seeing.
Speaker 8: Why.
Speaker 4: I mean, we're just going to have.
Speaker 3: To get to a debt crisis situation before anybody in
Speaker 3: Congress takes so seriously. That's what I'm afraid of. And
Speaker 3: what does that look for look like for the American people.
Speaker 12: Well, unfortunately, I think we're seeing a lot of that now.
Speaker 12: We saw higher interest rates, right, the interest rates soward.
Speaker 12: That's a big part of what you see during a
Speaker 12: debt crisis. We saw inflation soar because the Federal Reserve
Speaker 12: printed a lot of that money. I mean their balance.
Speaker 12: She went from four trillion to nine trillion. It's still
Speaker 12: seven trillion. It's way too high. You know, the Federal
Speaker 12: Reserve cut interest rates by fifty basis points last week,
Speaker 12: and I think that.
Speaker 10: Was a mistake.
Speaker 12: I think we're going to fall into the same traps
Speaker 12: we did during the nineteen seventies whenever they cut interest
Speaker 12: rates too fast and inflation shot up again. And now
Speaker 12: we have even a worse situation because you know, Congress
Speaker 12: is overspending more than they were back then, and so
Speaker 12: this is going to lead more to increases and ammunition
Speaker 12: for the Federal Reserve to print money, increase inflation in
Speaker 12: the economy. And so I'm very concerned about a debt crisis.
Speaker 12: And the spending crisis is happening now. A lot of
Speaker 12: people will blame it on the Trump tax cuts and
Speaker 12: other revenue issues, but it's not a revenue problem. This
Speaker 12: is clearly a spending problem. And I think what we've
Speaker 12: got to do is cut spending today and then strain
Speaker 12: the growth of spending over time. If we do that,
Speaker 12: we could find a better path forward.
Speaker 10: Not only for the spending situation, but for the economy.
Speaker 12: Because all this deficits and debt really matters also to
Speaker 12: main street and on the economy because interest rates are
Speaker 12: soaring and people can't afford homes and things that nature.
Speaker 12: This is a major problem that's driven by Washington DC.
Speaker 3: I have the video on the blog today by Milton
Speaker 3: Friedman from like the late seventies, maybe nineteen eighty. I'm
Speaker 3: not sure exactly what the ear is, but he does
Speaker 3: this kind of like walk through on inflation, and it's
Speaker 3: really at a fifth grade level.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's why I put it on the blog.
Speaker 3: I'm like, if you have somebody who doesn't understand this,
Speaker 3: But what it comes down to what we're seeing right
Speaker 3: now and we've seen since, especially since COVID, is that
Speaker 3: the Federal Reserve is enabling the federal government's spending by
Speaker 3: continuing to print money and buying treasury bonds. So they
Speaker 3: are if the Fed doesn't keep printing money, then no
Speaker 3: one's going to buy those treasury bonds, and the federal
Speaker 3: government cannot continue spending.
Speaker 4: Even though the Federal Reserve is supposed to be a
Speaker 4: non you know.
Speaker 3: It's supposed to be a non political entity. So people
Speaker 3: need to understand that we flooded the money supply. We
Speaker 3: flooded the country with money. We flooded all the markets
Speaker 3: with money from the FED, and that's why we are
Speaker 3: now paying the invisible tax that is inflation.
Speaker 4: And too many people do not make that connection.
Speaker 3: And it's super frustrating when I hear people say it's
Speaker 3: corporate greed, it's you know, it's whatever. And Milton Friedman
Speaker 3: actually uses the example of it's not union wages, you know,
Speaker 3: because people will blame it on union wages driving Those
Speaker 3: are a lagging indicator instead of leaking and e leading indicator.
Speaker 3: So in your in your podcast one are the kind
Speaker 3: of things that you explain when it comes to because
Speaker 3: my big thing is this, somebody texts me. We have
Speaker 3: a text line and they say things like, you know,
Speaker 3: back in the nineteen fifties, we had the highest tax
Speaker 3: rates on the one percent and we had prosperity. But
Speaker 3: what really happened in the nineteen fifties is the government
Speaker 3: contracted all that spending from World War Two and the
Speaker 3: economy roared. Why is that lesson loss?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's a great point.
Speaker 10: And Milton Freeman is my favorite economist.
Speaker 12: So I watch a lot of his youtubes and I
Speaker 12: talk a lot about these things on my podcast like
Speaker 12: you Will Prosper Show and try to break it down
Speaker 12: as simply as possible, because you're right. I mean, the
Speaker 12: inflation is an inflation tax.
Speaker 10: We all feel it.
Speaker 12: That the crisis that's out there on spending, we're all
Speaker 12: feeling it through higher interest rates today and everything else.
Speaker 10: And so when people I think we've lost.
Speaker 12: Sight of how good we have it in some sense today,
Speaker 12: and some people want to go back to the nineteen
Speaker 12: fifties or something else. But there's a lot of things
Speaker 12: that I think America gets right today. The problem is
Speaker 12: is in Washington, DC, they don't understand that's definicit spending
Speaker 12: really matters, and it grows the size of government, which
Speaker 12: which removes our liberty.
Speaker 10: The government has no money. Nothing is free, and so
Speaker 10: they take it from.
Speaker 12: Us, out of the productive private sector, to redistribute it
Speaker 12: to someone else. That's all the government spending is. It's
Speaker 12: not some candy and sort of logic to where the
Speaker 12: government can stimulate the economy and grow in a certain
Speaker 12: area is no. What they do is they take it
Speaker 12: from person a and give it to person B and
Speaker 12: there's no growth in the economy. In fact, it reduces
Speaker 12: the economy because it reduces the productive purposes that are
Speaker 12: happening before they tried to redistribute that money. So I think,
Speaker 12: you know, Milton Freema was exactly right. Too much money
Speaker 12: chasing too few goods is what inflation is. And what
Speaker 12: we see in the last especially four years, is a
Speaker 12: lot of increasing the money supply driving demand, and then
Speaker 12: high regulations at high tax and high spending that have
Speaker 12: stifled the supply side of the economy and contributed to
Speaker 12: massive amount of inflation. And this is why I think
Speaker 12: we have an issue to where whether it's Harris or
Speaker 12: Trump right now, there could be more inflationary pressures because
Speaker 12: neither one of them were talking about spending.
Speaker 3: No, no, and both of them, you know, I hesitate
Speaker 3: to call them dumb ass ideas, but they've figed out
Speaker 3: some real dumb ass ideas, both of them. I mean,
Speaker 3: the Trump Terriff situation is not good for consumers. Harris
Speaker 3: is trying to give away more money, but only the
Speaker 3: people she chooses, and she, I guess, announced another no
Speaker 3: interest small business loan program that if you've never if
Speaker 3: you've ever dealt with government loan programs like the SBA.
Speaker 3: You already know how cumbersome they are. Neither of these
Speaker 3: people are blazing a trail on economics. So what does
Speaker 3: what does an average citizen do?
Speaker 12: What do you do if you're worried about this, like
Speaker 12: I am, yeah, oh man, I've been kind of pulling
Speaker 12: my hair out because you know, one day with Trump
Speaker 12: will talk about, well, we're gonna exempt taxes and Social Security.
Speaker 10: Then we're gonna exempt taxes on tips.
Speaker 12: And the more that you narrow the tax base, the
Speaker 12: higher that the rates are otherwise going to be, or
Speaker 12: we're gonna's gonna run massive deficits. Instead, we should have
Speaker 12: the broadest base possible with the lowest rates, and hopefully
Speaker 12: a flat income tax rate is ultimately what we need
Speaker 12: and cut government spending in the process. But until then,
Speaker 12: I think, you know, there's gonna be a lot more
Speaker 12: economic uncertainty. I've been writing a lot about this at
Speaker 12: American's for Tax Reform and American Institute for Economic Research,
Speaker 12: saying that the economic concertainty that's being brought forth by
Speaker 12: both of these campaigns, Even though I do think that
Speaker 12: the Trump campaign is having a little bit more pro
Speaker 12: growth policies course than the Harris administration.
Speaker 10: They're both leading to more economic uncertainty. And I'm a
Speaker 10: free trade guy. I debated this a lot with Peter
Speaker 10: Navarro and others within the White House. They didn't see
Speaker 10: it my way.
Speaker 12: The presidents didn't see my way. But I really think
Speaker 12: that free trade is the way that we will pressure
Speaker 12: China to change their habits. By putting tariffs on them
Speaker 12: and everything else, it doesn't change their ways because they're
Speaker 12: a communist country.
Speaker 5: They don't care.
Speaker 7: About their people.
Speaker 12: But if you start, if you start changing the dynamics
Speaker 12: of other trading partners, now, that influences them because that
Speaker 12: reduces their power. And I'm hopeful that would be the
Speaker 12: way we go. But unfortunately we're talking about tariffs all
Speaker 12: the time.
Speaker 10: Well.
Speaker 3: I do think that in some ways Trump has a
Speaker 3: very sort of nineteen fifties view of American manufacturing, right,
Speaker 3: and I genuinely think he believes we can be the
Speaker 3: leader in the world in manufacturing. But the reality is
Speaker 3: is that our standard of living is very high now, right,
Speaker 3: And that's good, that's great.
Speaker 4: That we have a high standard of living.
Speaker 3: So it makes it very difficult, difficult to compete with
Speaker 3: places that don't like China, like Mexico, like developing economies
Speaker 3: where they can make things much cheaper than they can
Speaker 3: make them here because they pay people forty bucks a month.
Speaker 4: So I mean, how is there a way?
Speaker 5: Though?
Speaker 3: I mean, this is something that I think is something
Speaker 3: that needs to be addressed, and that is, how do
Speaker 3: you ensure that the United States in an emergency situation
Speaker 3: can get things done?
Speaker 4: How do we build new aircraft carriers? How do we
Speaker 4: make steal how do we.
Speaker 3: Protect those things that protect our ability to defend ourselves?
Speaker 4: This is totally off the beaten track.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm asking you stuff outside your
Speaker 3: wheelhouse here.
Speaker 7: No, No, it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 12: These are all national security type threats, right, and that
Speaker 12: I think are legitimate concerns that should be addressed. And
Speaker 12: one of the things that I like to point out
Speaker 12: is that when we point our fingers at someone else
Speaker 12: like China, we've got three more fingers pointing back at ourselves.
Speaker 10: There's more that we should be doing in America to.
Speaker 12: Reduce the cost of business instead of just blaming other countries,
Speaker 12: like reducing the corporate income tax rate. Trump has talked
Speaker 12: about reducing it to fifteen percent. I would like for
Speaker 12: it to be zero percent, because businesses don't play pay taxes.
Speaker 12: People do through the form of higher prices, lower wages,
Speaker 12: and fewer jobs. We also should be reducing regulations.
Speaker 10: There's a lot of.
Speaker 12: Hoops that we've got to jump jump through in order
Speaker 12: to get stilled to the market. There's a lot of
Speaker 12: jump hoops that were going to jump through to get
Speaker 12: food to the market, and so much more that if
Speaker 12: we remove those obstacles, we may to be much more
Speaker 12: competitive and wouldn't have to blame other countries. And one
Speaker 12: thing I like to note too about manufacturing is that
Speaker 12: where we're reaching manufacturing highs and output, it's just that
Speaker 12: the employment has declined over time. And that's not just
Speaker 12: because of China and other countries through trade. A lot
Speaker 12: of it was through automation, which has made our lives
Speaker 12: better along the way. Not to say if there wasn't
Speaker 12: a cost to those people losing their jobs, but there
Speaker 12: were other jobs that were created in the process, and
Speaker 12: we had cheaper products that we should you know, consumers
Speaker 12: really like as well.
Speaker 10: So there's a lot of factors that go into this.
Speaker 3: One of the things I think people forget is that
Speaker 3: trade free trade. It increases the buying power of people
Speaker 3: on the lower ends of the socioeconomic spectrum a lot,
Speaker 3: not a little, a lot. So when you're talking about
Speaker 3: the sad part, that is, people are going to lose jobs, right,
Speaker 3: but there are other people, a larger group of people
Speaker 3: that are going to benefit quite a bit by having
Speaker 3: that ability to buy something that.
Speaker 4: They want at a very low price.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it sounds like we're not making progress,
Speaker 3: but it feel like more people are talking about the
Speaker 3: debt and deficit.
Speaker 4: But honestly, and I hate to say.
Speaker 3: This, vance I don't trust Republicans to care about it
Speaker 3: after the election anymore. I feel like all the grown
Speaker 3: ups in the room have left on this issue. Am
Speaker 3: I too pessimistic?
Speaker 10: I don't think so. I'm concerned about it as well.
Speaker 12: You know, I'm hoping hopefully they will see the writing
Speaker 12: on the wall and say, hey, you know what, we've
Speaker 12: got to start doing something different.
Speaker 10: But we've seen we I mean, this problem has been
Speaker 10: around for a long time.
Speaker 12: We've had Republics in Congress where they had the majority
Speaker 12: in the House and the Senate, and a Republican president
Speaker 12: and the deficit continue to go up or at least
Speaker 12: running a deficit overall.
Speaker 10: And you know, part of it is is that I
Speaker 10: you know, one of the concerns I have.
Speaker 12: With some Republicans is that they'll say, well, the tax
Speaker 12: cuts will pay for themselves over time. And there's some
Speaker 12: truth to that in the sense that I believe in incentives.
Speaker 10: And that people work more and will get more output
Speaker 10: and everything else. That's good.
Speaker 12: But in the short run, there will be deficits if
Speaker 12: you continue to spend like drunken sailors.
Speaker 10: And that's what they end up doing.
Speaker 12: And this populism is really a problem from the new
Speaker 12: Right to where they want to give a lot of
Speaker 12: handouts and spending and tax cuts.
Speaker 10: Some of them even want to raise taxes. And the
Speaker 10: number one thing you don't want to do.
Speaker 12: To bring down a deficit is to raise taxes, because
Speaker 12: then you slow economic growth. What we really need is
Speaker 12: more economic growth, about a full percentage point more than
Speaker 12: what we're having now two and a half percent. Get
Speaker 12: it up to three and a half percent, and let's
Speaker 12: rein in government spending. If you did that and had
Speaker 12: spending one percent, we could balance the budget.
Speaker 4: In eight years.
Speaker 5: That's too long. In my view, i'd love.
Speaker 10: To see the budget cut. We don't have to cut anything,
Speaker 10: just slow the growth and you can have it balanced
Speaker 10: with eight ears.
Speaker 4: The sad thing is viance.
Speaker 3: You mentioned Rand Paul's sixpenny plan. It was the one
Speaker 3: penny plan the first time he put it up. If
Speaker 3: they had just passed it, then we would be having
Speaker 3: balanced budgets and we'd be working our way through the
Speaker 3: national debt. And now it's the sixpenny plan.
Speaker 5: Amen.
Speaker 4: Vance Gin is my guest.
Speaker 3: You can find him at vance skin dot com. I
Speaker 3: put a link on the blog today. He has a newsletter,
Speaker 3: he has a podcast. If you're a free market type,
Speaker 3: you should check it out.
Speaker 4: Vice. I really appreciate it. Hoping to talk again in
Speaker 4: the future.
Speaker 10: That was good, Mandy, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you, sir, Nerdy egghead talk Bryan Edwards
Speaker 3: before you're in.
Speaker 7: I love that stuff.
Speaker 3: I do too, although it's so and you know, someday
Speaker 3: I'm going to be proven absolutely one hundred percent right,
Speaker 3: and I don't want to be when it comes to
Speaker 3: the national debt.
Speaker 4: It is going to destroy this country.
Speaker 3: It's going to destroy like all the little crappy pissant
Speaker 3: stuff we're worried about right now is going to seem
Speaker 3: like it's gonna we're gonna look back on it fondly
Speaker 3: when the debt crisis comes, because when the debt crisis comes,
Speaker 3: it's not just the United States the old adage when
Speaker 3: we catch a cold, the world catches it too, and
Speaker 3: it's going.
Speaker 4: To be very, very bad, and no one in power
Speaker 4: seems to care. And that's what's so depressing. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: again not to derail extend we got of to day,
Speaker 4: but it's.
Speaker 9: Just, yeah, it's one of those deals where it feels
Speaker 9: like there's a lot of distraction. Right there's a lot
Speaker 9: of like shell game stuff where it's like we don't
Speaker 9: even end up talking about things that are actually very important.
Speaker 9: We're talking about the latest sort of TMZ ish kind
Speaker 9: of controversy.
Speaker 4: And it's frustrating.
Speaker 9: I think there's a lot of people out there, whatever
Speaker 9: way you lean, they just want to know, Okay, what's
Speaker 9: the facts and what are we what are your policies,
Speaker 9: what are your policies? How are you going to help me?
Speaker 9: How are you going to help me?
Speaker 7: And that's we can just borrow more, right.
Speaker 3: Right, I'm sure a trillion dollars on interest payments a trillion.
Speaker 4: That's where we are.
Speaker 3: We're now spending more on interest payments that we're spending
Speaker 3: on defense and education.
Speaker 4: Combine, what's the number when you get to four quadrillion quadrillian? Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm sure you guys are gonna be talking about Alex
Speaker 4: Singleton out.
Speaker 6: For the year.
Speaker 3: But dude, what a stone called baller that guy is.
Speaker 3: He gets hurt in the first quarter, plays the entire
Speaker 3: game and gets ten tackles with a blown out ACL.
Speaker 9: It's remarkable, dude, Yeah, dude, And listening to Sean Payton
Speaker 9: talk about it, I mean he was just like, I've
Speaker 9: never seen anything like it, Like I've never seen and
Speaker 9: I've seen guys finished games, but it's like the very
Speaker 9: end of it, and you're like, you know, yeah, oh man,
Speaker 9: in fact that you have not I mean because especially
Speaker 9: that position, you're you got to hurt the ball back
Speaker 9: your most side to side. I mean, it's not one
Speaker 9: of those like hey, I'm only going downhill. It's an
Speaker 9: offensive lineman. If you're you know, I saw that today
Speaker 9: and that's just that's nuts.
Speaker 7: It is.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's it's a huge loss to for the defense,
Speaker 3: but it is what else is coming up on your
Speaker 3: on your show there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean we'll obviously talk about that.
Speaker 9: Talked this controversy with this quarterback at UNLV. I don't
Speaker 9: know if you saw.
Speaker 4: I did not see that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So he was promised, he was he's.
Speaker 9: The quarterback, right, So he promised about one hundred thousand
Speaker 9: dollars at least according to him, in nil money, and
Speaker 9: there was a verbal agreement and they decided, well.
Speaker 4: We'll give you three thousand, and so he's like, well,
Speaker 4: that's just yeah.
Speaker 9: So they get so, they get off to a hot start,
Speaker 9: they're off three and oh, and he's just like he
Speaker 9: was asking, he's asking, and they keep delaying, delaying, and
Speaker 9: finally they say, all right, take it or leave at
Speaker 9: three thousand, that's all we can give you. And he's
Speaker 9: like that, I'm just gonna red shirt and I'm not playing.
Speaker 9: And it's remarkable because un lv's off to this incredible start.
Speaker 9: They're they're winning meaningful games like there they might have
Speaker 9: a chance.
Speaker 3: To be They've never never heard about how Alabama's done
Speaker 3: it for years, and that's what's so weird.
Speaker 4: I don't kid kidding me.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And some people were like, oh, This isn't what
Speaker 9: the system designed for where we don't have no system
Speaker 9: in place.
Speaker 4: This is all new.
Speaker 3: We're putting the meat on the bones. Yeah yeah, all right,
Speaker 3: let's do this real quick.
Speaker 4: And now it's uh for the most exciting segment all
Speaker 4: the radio. And it's kindly all right? When is our
Speaker 4: dad joke of the day, please, Anthony?
Speaker 6: My anatomy class had to assemble a human skeleton. I
Speaker 6: hid one of the arm bones as a joke. No
Speaker 6: one found that humorous.
Speaker 4: Yeah, today's I saw that one coming a mile away.
Speaker 4: By By the way, what's the word of the day.
Speaker 7: It's a meliorism.
Speaker 4: Meliorism e l io.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I recognize it because we've had this word before
Speaker 3: and I cannot remember.
Speaker 4: It is something that causes a problem or disruption, ran No,
Speaker 4: I have nothing.
Speaker 6: Refers to the belief that the world tends to improve
Speaker 6: and that humans can aid in its betterment.
Speaker 4: All right, tamiliarism.
Speaker 3: Where in Europe can you find a statue of musician
Speaker 3: Bob Marley sculpted by Devor Dookie.
Speaker 4: In Europe?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Oh, you're not going to get this, so I'm just
Speaker 4: going to give you the answer.
Speaker 3: In the tiny Serbian village of Banatski Sokolok. Well, Marley
Speaker 3: never traveled to Serbia. His fans off then visit to
Speaker 3: take a picture with a statue. Because when I think
Speaker 3: reggae music, I think Serbia. It's like a hand in glove.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know right there? What is their category?
Speaker 7: The gig economy?
Speaker 4: Okay? Does it have the word gig in it? No? Okay,
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Speaker 6: The shuffle model of this music player IDRE in ninety five,
Speaker 6: this type of disc debuted.
Speaker 4: It looked like a CD.
Speaker 5: But could.
Speaker 7: I said my name on?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 4: What is a laser disc?
Speaker 6: Now's the question what it has? Laser disc in parentheses?
Speaker 6: I don't know if that counts as If it's in parentheses,
Speaker 6: that'll take that. I was looking for a DVD, but
Speaker 6: a laser Oh, okay, there you go.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 6: One common looky one commandment that applies to its Galaxy
Speaker 6: S two tablet, thou canst upgrade to one hundred and
Speaker 6: twenty six gigs with a micro SD expansion.
Speaker 7: Man who makes the Galaxy man O?
Speaker 4: Is Samsung? Correct?
Speaker 7: That's ridiculous.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: The Bolt DVR from this video recording Pioneer unifies your
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Speaker 4: No clue.
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Speaker 4: G fours GTX titan Z.
Speaker 6: One of these has twelve gigs of memory and is
Speaker 6: billed as a gaming monster.
Speaker 4: Mandy, what's a desktop computer?
Speaker 6: Wrong?
Speaker 4: Dang it? What is it?
Speaker 7: What is a graphics card?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: And you've gotten right words?
Speaker 6: That's right?
Speaker 3: Yes, because I still believe that I still won that
Speaker 3: other one because you didn't know Guy Smiley was anyway.
Speaker 3: Kae Sports coming up next. We will be back tomorrow
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