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Speaker 4: I'm your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell
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Speaker 4: We will get you through the snow and the gloom
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Speaker 4: so we're gonna do that quickly. But we also have
Speaker 4: a couple of really interesting guests that I'm excited about.
Speaker 4: So let's do this. Let's jump in. We'll get to
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Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 4: I have one video on the blog. Normally, when I
Speaker 4: put a video on the blog, I try not to
Speaker 4: put videos with a lot of potty mouth and stuff
Speaker 4: like that, because you cannot, you know, generally speaking. But
Speaker 4: the one that I did put on the blog today
Speaker 4: is a woman named Kelly Mano who has made a
Speaker 4: fortune on gen X content, and she answers the question
Speaker 4: why have we never had a gen X president? And
Speaker 4: I laughed and laughed and laughed. But there's a lot
Speaker 4: of pottymouth in it. So you've been warned if you
Speaker 4: play that at work, play it quietly. And at the
Speaker 4: very bottom of the blog today, how are you, ay, Rod?
Speaker 4: You're a little bit younger than me, so you did
Speaker 4: not really live through Ted Danson's glory years. Did you
Speaker 4: ever watch The Good Place, which is the most recent
Speaker 4: show he's been on.
Speaker 7: No, it never really grabbed me.
Speaker 4: It was kind of a well once I got rolling,
Speaker 4: it's very funny. But he's got a new show out.
Speaker 4: And the reason I'm even bringing this up is because
Speaker 4: you know, Hollywood is youth obsessed, right They everything is
Speaker 4: geared towards, you know, teenagers. All the movies that are
Speaker 4: being made they want teenagers in the theaters and all
Speaker 4: that stuff. But now that we have a lot of celebrities,
Speaker 4: like big stars like Ted Danson that are getting older,
Speaker 4: Hollywood is starting to respond. And this show, it's called
Speaker 4: A Man on the Inside, it looks absolutely hilarious. I
Speaker 4: mean absolutely hilarious. But the whole premise is he's been widowed,
Speaker 4: his daughter's worried about him. She tells it to do
Speaker 4: something that excites him, so he signs up to work
Speaker 4: as an investigative assistant and he goes into a nursing
Speaker 4: home undercover, and it's hilarious. And you don't necessarily think
Speaker 4: about nursing homes or elderly people being hilarious, but this
Speaker 4: looks hilarious. So I don't know, maybe I'm just getting
Speaker 4: that age. I just I'm tired of of, you know,
Speaker 4: watching people. By the way, Ayrod, did you know this
Speaker 4: is going to happen to you at some point? And
Speaker 4: I don't know what the cutoff age is. Maybe one
Speaker 4: of our texters on the Common Spirit Health text line
Speaker 4: at five sixty six nine Ohero could answer, at what
Speaker 4: age what's the rubicon age of when you no longer
Speaker 4: know who any of the young famous people are? Because
Speaker 4: I'm there, I'm there I pick up a People magazine
Speaker 4: or a US Weekly at my hairdressers when I'm waiting,
Speaker 4: and I got nothing. I have never heard of any
Speaker 4: of these people.
Speaker 7: Connected. So I'm not the guy to ask because I
Speaker 7: never know.
Speaker 4: I'm saying, I'm just letting you know.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 4: You will will trust me. You know you will, because
Speaker 4: you'll get to a point where I am. Now where
Speaker 4: you go watch some of these movies that come out
Speaker 4: with these young people, and they're freaking terrible. They have
Speaker 4: plot holes so big you could drive a truck through them.
Speaker 4: They're they're the same sappy kind of stories that are
Speaker 4: just god awful for many reasons. And you just stop caring.
Speaker 4: Right You're busy, you got other stuff to go, you
Speaker 4: got other stuff to do. You just don't have the time.
Speaker 4: Like my daughter, Okay, my daughter's fifteen. My daughter could
Speaker 4: probably tell you every single celebrity right now because she
Speaker 4: doesn't have as much other plate as I do. And
Speaker 4: she gets really mad when she's like, oh, so and
Speaker 4: so was in this, and I'm like, remind me who's
Speaker 4: so and so was? Well? He was in this, this
Speaker 4: and this? Three things. I've never started on Disney. How
Speaker 4: do you not know who they are exactly Yeah, that's yeah,
Speaker 4: kind of like that, yea. So I kind of rely
Speaker 4: on her, right, especially for new music. My daughter has
Speaker 4: very good taste in.
Speaker 8: Well, all music and television and movies are totally different
Speaker 8: now music when it comes to terrible up and coming
Speaker 8: music and music, I mean, must be real.
Speaker 7: Music's been dead for a while anyway, But bad, bad,
Speaker 7: young music is totally different.
Speaker 4: Do you know what you just did? That is that?
Speaker 4: That's how it starts. That's the beginning of Oh no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: this is no this yes, this is just reality.
Speaker 7: This has nothing to do with age.
Speaker 8: Music has not been as good as the good old
Speaker 8: days for a long time.
Speaker 4: That is not. That is not. That's the same thing
Speaker 4: today is a good game. Music was the absolute best.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 4: Eighties music was the best music.
Speaker 7: Seventies.
Speaker 4: That is the best music seventies. Seventies. I love disco
Speaker 4: and all of that, and there was some amazing rock
Speaker 4: and roll like rock music in the seventies. Man, But
Speaker 4: for me, I came of age.
Speaker 8: In the eight Even smart young people would admit that
Speaker 8: young music is terrible.
Speaker 4: That's how.
Speaker 8: That's actually a good gauge of whether you have a
Speaker 8: smart young person is what do you think about today's music,
Speaker 8: your music, and how does it compare to our music?
Speaker 7: And if they have the right answer, they're gonna say
Speaker 7: our music today sucks.
Speaker 4: See this is what I do with Q, right, And
Speaker 4: I promise guys, we're gonna get to some serious stuff.
Speaker 4: But my goodness, we've been so heavy all week. Give
Speaker 4: us a break, right, just give us a second. So
Speaker 4: my my daughter, she'll play somebody for me, and I
Speaker 4: will say, wow, that artist is evocative of like, for instance,
Speaker 4: Chapel Roone. Are you familiar with Chapel Roone? The worst
Speaker 4: song she has? That is her worst song. It's catchy,
Speaker 4: but it's the worst song she has. I'm telling you
Speaker 4: she's incredibly talented. But no, oh, stop with that please,
Speaker 4: or a Kamala nomina or whatever. But she's got great music.
Speaker 4: And I say, oh, this is very evocative of Stevie Nicks.
Speaker 4: Write her voice just the vocal.
Speaker 7: Sample exactly like Good Times.
Speaker 4: No no, no, she doesn't sample. She just has her
Speaker 4: voice in some songs. Is very uh, it has Stevie nicksound.
Speaker 4: So my daughter knows, yes it and she I love her.
Speaker 4: I think she's very, very talented. But my daughter has
Speaker 4: turned me onto a lot of music I would have
Speaker 4: never listened to some of it. I say, I never
Speaker 4: want to hear that again. But like, I've been a
Speaker 4: little bit on this tip about this chick from New
Speaker 4: Zealand who opened for a band called The Wallows that
Speaker 4: I'd never heard of till my daughter's like, can we
Speaker 4: go see the Wallows at Redrox? So we did and
Speaker 4: Benny opened up for her, and now I'm like obsessed
Speaker 4: with this young artist from New Zealand. Having a kid
Speaker 4: helps you stay on top of things and even dare
Speaker 4: I say ahead of things just letting you know this? Yeah,
Speaker 4: oh you just wait. There comes a time when you
Speaker 4: beg for anything to make you feel young again. People
Speaker 4: on the text line have weighed in. I think the
Speaker 4: most common answer about forty you still have you just stop?
Speaker 4: You still have no idea?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: No players about forty. You can watch ted Dance's new
Speaker 4: show on Netflix. You can watch the trailer today on
Speaker 4: the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Mandy, I've been traveling
Speaker 4: and I'm having trouble seeing Colorado and how Senate Rais
Speaker 4: Did the Republicans get a majority in either or? Are
Speaker 4: we still in the I don't know what PRC means
Speaker 4: are Also, we are not in a supermajority in the Senate.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, no is the answer. No, no is
Speaker 4: the answer. We did not gain I think maybe we
Speaker 4: gained one House seat. It was not a great year
Speaker 4: for Republicans in Colorado, but with the incompetence of the
Speaker 4: Republican Party right now under its current leadership, that's not
Speaker 4: altogether surprising, especially with the leftward lurch that we've experienced
Speaker 4: here in Colorado. That being said, the Senate does not
Speaker 4: have a supermajority for the Democrats, which allows Jared Pelist
Speaker 4: to veto the worst instincts of the left wing legislature,
Speaker 4: and they can't overwrite a veto. So we did stop that.
Speaker 4: And it's so it's such a small thing, but it
Speaker 4: is a very important thing. The good news about the
Speaker 4: legislature this year is that the most extreme members of
Speaker 4: the legend got bounced in their primaries. So maybe we'll
Speaker 4: have a little more pro business, you know, semblance to
Speaker 4: the Colorado legislature. I'm not holding my breath on that
Speaker 4: because I just I don't think that, you know, I
Speaker 4: think we're really screwed until we have a functioning Republican Party. Now,
Speaker 4: let me ask you guys, or rather, yesterday someone asked
Speaker 4: me on x dot com. They asked me, Mandy, you said,
Speaker 4: we need other than new leadership, what do you think
Speaker 4: the Republican Party needs to do in Colorado? And I
Speaker 4: thought about it for like a second and this is
Speaker 4: what I came up with. But I think this is
Speaker 4: a very very good idea. Number One, they have to
Speaker 4: have new leadership. That's just flat out. Dave Williams is toxic.
Speaker 4: He's a toxic brand. He is toxic to independence, he
Speaker 4: is toxic to the gay community, he is toxic to
Speaker 4: everyone except his little cabal of supporters in the upper
Speaker 4: echelons of the Republican Party. Totally toxic. He has to go.
Speaker 4: Then the Republican Party in Colorado needs to look at
Speaker 4: the results of the abortion issue. They need to look
Speaker 4: at the results of repealing the limitations on marriage that
Speaker 4: just happened in our constitution because the kind of got
Speaker 4: made null and void at the Supreme Court. And then
Speaker 4: they need to recognize that they have to get out
Speaker 4: of the business of social issues. It's not a winning
Speaker 4: formula formula for the Republicans now. Now all of you
Speaker 4: pro life Republicans out there, I want to I have
Speaker 4: a conversation for you too, so just hang on because
Speaker 4: I can hear you freaking out at me right now.
Speaker 4: The Republican Party needs to focus on everything that has
Speaker 4: happened since the Democrats took over. Okay, They need to
Speaker 4: focus on the rioting that was allowed in downtown. They
Speaker 4: need to focus on the das who chose not to
Speaker 4: prosecute any of those people. They need to focus on
Speaker 4: the cities who settled with all of these protesters, some
Speaker 4: of them rightfully so, but others just because they sued.
Speaker 4: They need to talk about crime and how the defund
Speaker 4: the police Moved movement has negatively affected morale across Colorado,
Speaker 4: making it harder for them to hire cops. They need
Speaker 4: to talk about Democrats passing a repeal of qualified immunity,
Speaker 4: which makes police more reluctant to actively police and are
Speaker 4: only reactively policing, and who can blame them. We need
Speaker 4: to talk about real estate prices and the fact that
Speaker 4: Democrats across the state are continuing to add building codes
Speaker 4: to our already large set of building codes in chase
Speaker 4: of a green dream that does nothing except making building
Speaker 4: a house more expensive. They need to talk about how
Speaker 4: if they really want to make housing more affordable, which
Speaker 4: Governor Jared Polis said he did, then we need to
Speaker 4: go through with a fine tooth comb and find out
Speaker 4: where government is creating barriers to getting more affordable housing
Speaker 4: built in a timely fashion. We need to be talking
Speaker 4: about the hit to oil and gas that has happened
Speaker 4: in Colorado, what that means for tax bases, what that
Speaker 4: means for employment, what that means for lost revenue to
Speaker 4: the state. We need to be talking about things that
Speaker 4: matter to Colorado's We don't need to be talking about
Speaker 4: you know, God hates flags. We don't need that. And
Speaker 4: I want to address the pro life movement in Colorado.
Speaker 4: It should be a parent to every person in the
Speaker 4: pro life community in Colorado that we are not a
Speaker 4: pro life state. We just codified abortion rights into our
Speaker 4: constitution and force taxpayers to pay for them. We have
Speaker 4: no limitations on abortion. We can't even get a late
Speaker 4: term abortion ban past. So shift your energies. You are
Speaker 4: not going to be able to do it at the
Speaker 4: ballot box, You're not going to be able to do
Speaker 4: it at the legislature. So it's time to buckle down,
Speaker 4: create great alternatives for women and support them and create
Speaker 4: a vibrant, vibrant pro life community here in Colorado dedicated
Speaker 4: to helping women who decide to keep their babies. Then
Speaker 4: we need to talk about it. We need to talk
Speaker 4: about it all the time. We need to talk about options.
Speaker 4: We need to talk about how to help women not
Speaker 4: have to make that choice in the first place. So
Speaker 4: you have to change hearts and minds here before you
Speaker 4: can do anything about abortion. And I know it's frustrating,
Speaker 4: and I know that people in the pro life movement genuinely,
Speaker 4: with their whole hearts, believe that they are saving a
Speaker 4: baby's life, which I also believe they are trying to do.
Speaker 4: But the reality is much different on the ground, and
Speaker 4: what we're doing now is not going to work. So
Speaker 4: instead of spending thousands and thousands of dollars getting petitions
Speaker 4: to get something else on the ballot that's gonna lose,
Speaker 4: let's just go ahead and address the problem at the
Speaker 4: local level in a focused way and create an environment
Speaker 4: in Colorado where women really have options. I hate to
Speaker 4: say it, but create an environment in Colorado where the
Speaker 4: only women who are getting abortions are coming here from
Speaker 4: out of state. That would be a perfect world. So yeah,
Speaker 4: it is definitely a different environment here in Colorado, and
Speaker 4: we have to have Republicans get their act together. We
Speaker 4: need strong I got to tell you, and I said
Speaker 4: this to a couple really connected political people the other day,
Speaker 4: if the Republicans are not actively seeking another candidate to
Speaker 4: replace Jannet Griswold now she is term limited out after this,
Speaker 4: but we need a Secretary of State that will address
Speaker 4: the concerns and issues of voters in Colorado who are
Speaker 4: not quite sold that we are the gold standard of elections.
Speaker 4: I have an update on the mesa county stolen ballot
Speaker 4: story that is quite alarming. We're going to get into
Speaker 4: in just a few minutes. So that is what we
Speaker 4: need to have happened in Colorado. We're going to go
Speaker 4: through a few election related things a little bit later,
Speaker 4: but first coming up. Oh no, we got our first
Speaker 4: guest at one. I got two guests today and they're
Speaker 4: both I'm very much looking forward to them. One of
Speaker 4: them is a man named Riley Rhodes. He's seventy two
Speaker 4: years old and a lifelong cu buff fan, and he
Speaker 4: is having a wish granted this week because of Jeremy
Speaker 4: Bloom's Wish of a Lifetime that's the charitable affiliate of AARP,
Speaker 4: the grant's life changing Wishes to older adults, and Riley
Speaker 4: was nominated. He's got a great story. He's super excited.
Speaker 4: He gets to go to the game, he gets to
Speaker 4: meet the team, he gets to meet the coach, and
Speaker 4: he's super excited. We're going to talk to him a
Speaker 4: little bit about that later and then we're going to
Speaker 4: talk to the CEO of the American Culture Project. What
Speaker 4: is the American Culture Project. It is a I don't
Speaker 4: know if they call themselves a think tank or a
Speaker 4: policy tank, I don't know, designed to help move undecided
Speaker 4: voters in swing states to vote for liberty and freedom
Speaker 4: over bigger government bureaucracy. So we're going to talk to
Speaker 4: John Tillman at two thirty today about that. So it's
Speaker 4: going to be a little bit of election stuff and
Speaker 4: a little bit not of election stuff. And I'm guessing
Speaker 4: at this point you guys are probably okay with this.
Speaker 4: Now I want to ask you guys about the last
Speaker 4: twenty four hours on social media because but have you
Speaker 4: seen the unfettered vitriol from the sore losers who are
Speaker 4: mad about Trump getting reelected. It's making it hard for
Speaker 4: me to live by my promise to be a uniting
Speaker 4: force and to extend grace and be a gracious winner.
Speaker 4: When I see someone saying Trump supporters should all die,
Speaker 4: I'm having trouble with that. Have you seen it? Are
Speaker 4: you seeing it as well?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 4: I've seen it.
Speaker 7: You know my age age thirty.
Speaker 8: Yes, you know it's probably being seen by me by
Speaker 8: the people my age.
Speaker 4: Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Mandy,
Speaker 4: I just want you to know you're always welcome north
Speaker 4: of the border to buy Ammo cheap gas and fireworks.
Speaker 4: Please stay for a meal while you're here the free
Speaker 4: State of Wyoming. Let's race. The State of Wyoming just
Speaker 4: sent me an invite. You don't get that every day?
Speaker 4: They just don't, Mandy from Republican state chairman. I would
Speaker 4: be a terrible state chairman. I am not good at
Speaker 4: glad handing. Do you know what glad handing is? It's
Speaker 4: like where you go and you schmooze and you ask
Speaker 4: people for money. I'm just it's not my skill set.
Speaker 4: I'm not good at small talk. I've never been good
Speaker 4: at small talk. Is anybody really good at small talk?
Speaker 4: If you are, give me the give me the clue.
Speaker 4: I try. I try, But I'd much rather have a
Speaker 4: meaningful conversation, even if I just met you. Sometimes I'll
Speaker 4: have really deep conversations with people in line at target
Speaker 4: or something, and I find that more gratifying than small talk.
Speaker 4: But a lot of raising money and going out to
Speaker 4: be the chairman is predicated on small talk, and I'm
Speaker 4: just not good at it. Okay, let me take a
Speaker 4: quick time out. Just realize what time it was. Wait
Speaker 4: a minute, I've got yeah, I got two clocks, two
Speaker 4: clocks with different times on them. Be right back after this. Mandy,
Speaker 4: have you attended a caucus meeting. If you have, you've
Speaker 4: seen the problem. In most districts, the only people attending
Speaker 4: are the old school conservatives entrenched in there. Thinking I
Speaker 4: have been a delegate to county and state assemblies. Your
Speaker 4: goals won't be met unless you get more grassroots participation
Speaker 4: by younger members. Remember we at KBB and she couldn't
Speaker 4: move things exactly. The caucus system sucks. I'm just going
Speaker 4: to say it. I have gone to caucus meetings. I
Speaker 4: was one of three people in my area that showed up,
Speaker 4: and they're too incredibly time consuming at a time where
Speaker 4: people do not have the time or desire to spend
Speaker 4: an entire day sitting around with a bunch of other
Speaker 4: people talking about politics. So you're absolutely right, Texter, that
Speaker 4: is one hundred percent the problem, which is why I
Speaker 4: supported rank choice voting because it would have completely undermined
Speaker 4: the caucus system. I do think that more and more
Speaker 4: candidates are just going to skip the caucus and it
Speaker 4: is going to become a completely just afterthought. Whoever the
Speaker 4: caucus chooses is just going to be an afterthought because
Speaker 4: they're going to be too extreme to be elected in
Speaker 4: the general election. That's what I predict is going to happen,
Speaker 4: this person said Mandy. Small talk is an opportunity to
Speaker 4: find out what motivates the person you're talking to, then
Speaker 4: use that to persuade them in some way. Example, ask
Speaker 4: about the new Broncos QB and it may lead to nothing,
Speaker 4: but they mentioned their sign. Then ask about the sign
Speaker 4: and they light up and talk about their school's football
Speaker 4: team for ten minutes. Find an angle with the Sun's
Speaker 4: football team by listening and asking probing but general questions.
Speaker 4: Then attempt to lightly persuade them or at least leave
Speaker 4: your contact. But don't just switch from listen to persuade,
Speaker 4: get a like comment that wraps into a question they
Speaker 4: wouldn't want to answer. That's my thought. But you have
Speaker 4: a purpose behind your small talk. I'm talking about true
Speaker 4: small talk. You're at a party, You're talking to people
Speaker 4: you're never going to see again, and they could be
Speaker 4: very nice people, but you're pretty sure you're never going
Speaker 4: to see these people again. But you're expected to stand
Speaker 4: and be entertaining. So I like this strategy if my
Speaker 4: goal is ultimately to influence them in some way. But
Speaker 4: the reality is much different. Mandy, my husband and I
Speaker 4: moved to Indiana in January. I found out today that
Speaker 4: on Veterans Day, elementary school children host lunches and appreciation
Speaker 4: events for veterans proud to be back in Indiana. Guess what,
Speaker 4: So do schools in Douglas County, Colorado. So do other
Speaker 4: schools around in the Denver metro. They invite anyone who's
Speaker 4: a veteran to come in that. Lots of schools do that.
Speaker 4: The challenge is to find a follow up in Colorado.
Speaker 4: How long have you lived here? Is good? What brought
Speaker 4: you here? Et cetera. I love that you guys are
Speaker 4: giving me tips. I mean, I absolutely love this. Love love,
Speaker 4: love it. People get a lot of happiness from connections.
Speaker 4: Try to find something in common? How much? Oh dang,
Speaker 4: hang on you guys. Let me change my update here
Speaker 4: to a longer period of time because you're updating so much.
Speaker 4: This one says, please. People get enjoy a jolt of
Speaker 4: happiness from connections. Try to find something in common. How
Speaker 4: much snow at your place? Where did you get your
Speaker 4: que shoes? You lived in Florida too. I don't worry
Speaker 4: about saying stupid and name things because someone out there
Speaker 4: is lonely or dealing with something serious and appreciate someone
Speaker 4: taking an interest in them. That is a great way
Speaker 4: to look at it. I think I'm gonna change my
Speaker 4: view on that, so we shall see. We shall see. Now,
Speaker 4: I got a couple of things I want to touch on.
Speaker 4: I was asking a rod what he was seeing on
Speaker 4: social media. But I have this on the blog today
Speaker 4: and I'm you know what, I'm just gonna read you
Speaker 4: what I said because I The headline on the blog
Speaker 4: says I just can't with these crying videos. And then
Speaker 4: I say, oh my goodness, there are a lot of
Speaker 4: left wing people crying on the internet. I don't mean
Speaker 4: whining crying. I mean turning the camera on themselves to
Speaker 4: film themselves crying and then putting it on the internet.
Speaker 4: I just can't. You guys, when did crying in public
Speaker 4: become a desirable thing? When did showing yourself being upset
Speaker 4: become content creation? I freaking hate this. So I'm gonna
Speaker 4: tell you why. I'm doing my best to be kind,
Speaker 4: but someone needs to tell these people the truth. If
Speaker 4: you don't know what I'm talking about, this is a
Speaker 4: good example. And oh my gosh, you guys, there's a
Speaker 4: woman I'm just gonna describe what is on this Twitter video.
Speaker 4: And she of course has a giant nose ring in
Speaker 4: those big glasses and an olive oil haircut, you know,
Speaker 4: and she is talking about seeing another woman on the
Speaker 4: street and they just they just looked at each other
Speaker 4: and they knew it was so awful, And so she
Speaker 4: made all these assumptions that because she saw another woman,
Speaker 4: the other woman was also as upset. But the kicker
Speaker 4: is this, when you go to the beginning of the video. Okay,
Speaker 4: you go to the beginning of the video. She looks
Speaker 4: down at the camera to make sure it's on, and
Speaker 4: then she starts talking, What is this?
Speaker 2: Why is it?
Speaker 4: Why is portraying weakness a positive thing? Now? Why is that?
Speaker 4: Because ultimately, I'm not saying all crying is weakness, but
Speaker 4: being so mentally weak that you cannot handle your candidate
Speaker 4: losing is It's not something I would amplify. Here's the thing.
Speaker 4: Am I going to hire that person now if they
Speaker 4: walk through the door of my business for a job interview?
Speaker 4: Not a chance in hell. Because the first time I
Speaker 4: say to them, you know, this project that you're working
Speaker 4: on needs a little improvement. What are the waterworks gonna
Speaker 4: come out? And yet there's a whole genre of this
Speaker 4: people crying. People will set up a camera, they will
Speaker 4: then walk, you know, to a different place in the
Speaker 4: room that's in the camera shot, and then they'll kind
Speaker 4: of crumple on the floor so they can cry, but
Speaker 4: they do it on film. What is this? We have
Speaker 4: elevated victimhood to a status that people are seeking. Now,
Speaker 4: this is one of those things I do not understand.
Speaker 4: I do gen X when we got you know, down
Speaker 4: on ourselves and started feeling sorry for ourselves. Our parents
Speaker 4: were right there to tell us that somebody around the
Speaker 4: world had it way worse than we did. Remember all
Speaker 4: those starving children in Africa that we had to eat
Speaker 4: all of our food, no matter how much we felt
Speaker 4: about it, because they were starving in Africa. Our parents
Speaker 4: always had a reality check. And now we have people
Speaker 4: openly weeping on the internet because they didn't get their way,
Speaker 4: and their parents are not calling them and going, what
Speaker 4: is wrong with you? Stop it, just stop it. I
Speaker 4: love this text message. By the way, Mandy, I'm a
Speaker 4: mom to one of those young girls crying on social
Speaker 4: media videos. I also voted for Trump. It breaks my
Speaker 4: heart that these young people do not have the mental
Speaker 4: stability or capacity to stand back from this election and
Speaker 4: separate what happens in Washington from what happens in their
Speaker 4: own homes. Well said, mom, very very well said. And
Speaker 4: here's the deal. I think, and I've thought about this
Speaker 4: a lot. I think the reason that these people are
Speaker 4: getting so upset about their team losing this is a
Speaker 4: different kind of upset that occurred in twenty twenty on
Speaker 4: the right, though there were people just as angry on
Speaker 4: the right, as these people are upset the people on
Speaker 4: the right like they got robbed. I understand being angry
Speaker 4: about that, But this overwhelming sadness and feeling of doom
Speaker 4: and gloom is only possible if you believe that government
Speaker 4: should control your life. If Kamala Harris was president elect today,
Speaker 4: do you know exactly you know how? I feel exactly
Speaker 4: the same way I feel now. I'm a little happier
Speaker 4: because think policy wise is going to be better. But
Speaker 4: I don't think Donald Trump is going to change my life.
Speaker 4: I don't think he's going to do anything that is
Speaker 4: going to have an immediate, lasting impact on my children
Speaker 4: or my family. I don't believe that. But if you
Speaker 4: believe that government is your daddy, when daddy isn't the
Speaker 4: daddy you want it to be. That is when you
Speaker 4: film yourself crying on the internet. We're going to take
Speaker 4: a quick time out. We'll be back right after this.
Speaker 4: How can't wait to get Kamala in that office in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty eight? And their comments are just lit up
Speaker 4: by fellow Democrats who are like, are you insane? Have
Speaker 4: you lost your mind? Now? Let me give you some
Speaker 4: good news. Jeff Heard has kept the third Congressional district.
Speaker 4: In the R category, he defeated Adam Frisch, but it
Speaker 4: was a lot closer than it should have been, and
Speaker 4: part of that is because Frish got so much money
Speaker 4: when he was running against Lauren Bobert that he had
Speaker 4: a huge pot. But Jeff Heard pulls it out and
Speaker 4: that will remain in the R category. Another interesting election
Speaker 4: result comes out of Colorado Springs. Now you may not
Speaker 4: have known or paid attention, but recreational marijuana sales were
Speaker 4: on the ballot in the Springs not just once, but twice.
Speaker 4: So one ballot measure, Question two D prohibits retail marijuana
Speaker 4: establishments within city limits. Now, that would have amended the
Speaker 4: charter of the City of Colorado Springs to prevent those
Speaker 4: stores from opening in the city limits. The other question,
Speaker 4: question three hundred A, mend's the ordinance to allow existing
Speaker 4: medical marijuana licensees to apply to become licensed as retail
Speaker 4: or recreational marijuana businesses. They both passed, which is rather
Speaker 4: schizophrenic in a way because they passed with nearly identical results.
Speaker 4: I mean so close it's not even funny. So Colorado
Speaker 4: Springs says, first of all, we do not want recreational
Speaker 4: pot in the city limits. Oh but unless you already
Speaker 4: have medical pot, then yeah, we do want you or
Speaker 4: to have medical No, I don't know what this means. Now,
Speaker 4: smarter minds of mind have come out and said that
Speaker 4: this likely means that the amendment to the city Charter
Speaker 4: preventing retail marijuana establishments from being in the city limits
Speaker 4: will over override the other one that would have allowed
Speaker 4: retail marijuana establishments in the city limits. But what a
Speaker 4: bizarre result that is. And this is why sometimes voters
Speaker 4: are are what's sort I'm looking for dumb? I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna I'm trying to think of another way
Speaker 4: to say it, but yeah, it's it's just dumb, just
Speaker 4: really really dumb. So let me give you the numbers
Speaker 4: on two D. Two D pass that was the one
Speaker 4: to amend the city Charter. It passed fifty two point
Speaker 4: four percent yes to ban those stores in the city
Speaker 4: limits to forty seven point six percent. But then ballot
Speaker 4: Question three hundred, which would allow medical marijuana stores to
Speaker 4: sell recreational pot, also passed fifty three percent fifty three
Speaker 4: point six percent to forty six point four percent, So
Speaker 4: it passed with a little more of the vote. I
Speaker 4: don't understand this Colorado Springs. I'm genuinely confused by this.
Speaker 4: That is the most schizophrenic result I've ever seen. I've
Speaker 4: never seen anything quite like that, Mandy. The language was
Speaker 4: very confusing. I'm sure people didn't understand what they were
Speaker 4: voting for down here. That is probably accurate. I think
Speaker 4: that's the best and most reasonable answer, and it goes
Speaker 4: to show how bad our title board is doing in
Speaker 4: their clarifications on these descriptions. Mandy, you are one hundred
Speaker 4: percent right on the GOP staying away from social issues
Speaker 4: that a supermajority don't support. Thank you, Thank you very much, Mandy.
Speaker 4: Elections do make a difference in my personal farming business.
Speaker 4: The month Biden declared war on fossil fuels, costs went
Speaker 4: up thirty to forty percent. Yeah, yeah, I guess so,
Speaker 4: guess so, Mandy, when does Prop KK take effect? That
Speaker 4: is the new tax on guns and AMMO, and it's
Speaker 4: just an attack on legal gun owners. They're trying to
Speaker 4: make it so poor people will not be able to
Speaker 4: afford guns or AMMO. So if they feel like they
Speaker 4: need to protect themselves, they are going to have to
Speaker 4: get a gun and MO in a different way, which
Speaker 4: is unfortunate because then that puts them forth. I'm talking
Speaker 4: about normally law abiding citizens. If they need to protect themselves,
Speaker 4: if they live in a tough neighborhood, if they want
Speaker 4: to be able to protect their family, they're determined to
Speaker 4: make these guns and AMMO just too expensive for people
Speaker 4: to buy. All right, So I've got a little clarification
Speaker 4: here from a text on the Common Spirit Health text
Speaker 4: line Mandy's Springs. Pop three hundred, allowing currently licensed medical
Speaker 4: pot shops to apply for recreational license to sell was
Speaker 4: a complicated bill and use deceptive language. When researching the bill,
Speaker 4: I had to reread it several times and was looking like, huh,
Speaker 4: same tactic you Several years ago when EPCO El Paso
Speaker 4: County commissioners used deceptive language to extend county commissioner terms.
Speaker 4: Once voters found out, there was a backlash and the
Speaker 4: term extension was later voted on to reverse it. Because
Speaker 4: that wrote op ed piece on Prop three high hundred's
Speaker 4: deceptive language, some voters were confused by Prop three hundred
Speaker 4: language equals contradictory vote results. Spring City Council voted oppose
Speaker 4: it poison pills statute preemptively if either prop passed. So
Speaker 4: there you go, There you go. Your last segment is
Speaker 4: great verification that Prop one thirty one is a pipe dream,
Speaker 4: that of course ranked choice voting and voter you may
Speaker 4: be right. One of the saddest things I've had to
Speaker 4: do this election cycle is realized that I give voters
Speaker 4: too much credit. We will be back with a great
Speaker 4: story about a CU buff superfan who's getting a dream
Speaker 4: come true. We'll tell you about that after this.
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Speaker 4: torontaldef you sad babe. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second
Speaker 4: hour of the show. Quick note from the last hour,
Speaker 4: a Texter sent this Mandy the despicable KK. That is
Speaker 4: the tax on AMMO and firearms goes into effect April first,
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five. What an appropriate day they add. Now,
Speaker 4: my next guest is a man who has been a
Speaker 4: life long UCU buffs fan, dedicated fan. He was a
Speaker 4: ticket holder season ticket holder from nineteen seventy seven to
Speaker 4: two thousand and four. Now Riley Rhodes needs a little
Speaker 4: bit more help. So he is in a long term
Speaker 4: care facility and he has just been granted a Wish
Speaker 4: of a lifetime. Now we interview Jerry Bloom Jeremy Bloom
Speaker 4: here fairly recently about Wish of a Lifetime. What is
Speaker 4: now a charitable affiliate of AARP. What they do is
Speaker 4: grant life changing wishes to older adults and they want
Speaker 4: to inspire people to redefine aging in America. Riley joins
Speaker 4: us now to talk about his big adventure coming up
Speaker 4: very soon. At see you, Riley. It's great to see you.
Speaker 5: That's great to see you too, Mandy.
Speaker 4: So tell me a little bit about how you became
Speaker 4: a cu Buffs fan. What happened there?
Speaker 5: Well, I just grew up to junior high school in
Speaker 5: high school and just all them all they could you know,
Speaker 5: they're games on TV and their Bowl games and all that.
Speaker 9: So I was just.
Speaker 5: I was a lifetime fan of them.
Speaker 4: So when you found out that Coach Prime was coming
Speaker 4: to see you, because they had some rough years there, Riley,
Speaker 4: I don't need to tell you they had some rough years.
Speaker 4: When you found out coach Prime was coming to say,
Speaker 4: what did you think?
Speaker 2: I was so excited.
Speaker 5: I just started watching the videos of him on there
Speaker 5: from the very.
Speaker 7: Beginning I hired.
Speaker 5: He was actually a so I'm riding his bike around
Speaker 5: the Champions Center there.
Speaker 4: So yeah, now you're going to get to You're going
Speaker 4: to get to meet him as part of this adventure,
Speaker 4: are you not?
Speaker 9: I would hope so, I think, So, what are you most.
Speaker 4: Looking forward to as a as a season ticket holder?
Speaker 4: You've probably seen a lot of football games, but now
Speaker 4: you're going to get it kind of an inside view.
Speaker 4: You're supposed to meet some players and a coach the
Speaker 4: day before and then get to go to the game.
Speaker 4: Have you ever had the opportunity to go behind the
Speaker 4: scenes before?
Speaker 5: Not really, No, I've been kind of there at the
Speaker 5: game Ball Center when they march. The band marched through
Speaker 5: to see them, you know, but they have me going
Speaker 5: to meet the band on Friday afternoon, so I'll give
Speaker 5: you that. When they march down Pearl Street.
Speaker 4: Are you going to get to march down with him?
Speaker 2: Well more or less?
Speaker 7: I think you know.
Speaker 4: You carry the big drum marching band, so I like that.
Speaker 4: What did you play in marching band.
Speaker 5: Well, I played the French arm but in the marching
Speaker 5: band I played the altonium is like a small baritone?
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, what is that again? What is it
Speaker 4: a small baritone? Of what.
Speaker 5: Altonium is a smaller size baritone?
Speaker 4: I don't know what a baritone is, Riley. I'm not
Speaker 4: a musical person, and I certainly can't play an instrument.
Speaker 4: So you've lost me at that. Is it a saxophone
Speaker 4: or is it its own instrument? What is it?
Speaker 9: There's a brass instment, you know.
Speaker 4: All right? So, Riley, what are you looking forward to
Speaker 4: the most out of this adventure?
Speaker 5: Well, just the whole experience really, you know, I just
Speaker 5: meet the team everything, watch him play in person now,
Speaker 5: So yeah, that'd be really exciting.
Speaker 4: I'd like to ask Tammy a question because she is
Speaker 4: one of the administrators at the senior living facility where
Speaker 4: you are. She's the one that nominated you. Tammy, what
Speaker 4: made Riley stand out that you would nominate him for
Speaker 4: the wish of a Lifetime with AARP. Well, I've been here.
Speaker 6: At Loveland Village for about two and a half years,
Speaker 6: and over that time I just got to know Riley
Speaker 6: and we kind of each mutually figured out that we
Speaker 6: had a big heart for the CU Buffaloes and football
Speaker 6: in general.
Speaker 9: So they kind of started off.
Speaker 10: With, you know, Riley would kind of come to my
Speaker 10: office and share news articles about CU Boffs and also
Speaker 10: other football teams. And then, you know, especially during a
Speaker 10: football season, you know, then usually every Monday we had
Speaker 10: to catch up on the game and all the great
Speaker 10: stuff that happened. And it became even more so when
Speaker 10: Dion Sanders came to coach the Buffs. And so, you know,
Speaker 10: over this course of time, I've just gotten to know
Speaker 10: Riley better and I kind of discovered a few things.
Speaker 10: You know, that he was almost a thirty year season
Speaker 10: ticket holder for the Buffs, that it had been twenty
Speaker 10: years since he's been able to be at a football
Speaker 10: game in person at Folsom Field, and so I just
Speaker 10: kind of thought, you know, boy, would I be able
Speaker 10: to love to figure out a way to get him
Speaker 10: to go to a game. And it was right about
Speaker 10: that same time that I found out about Wish of
Speaker 10: a Lifetime and so I thought, you know what, maybe
Speaker 10: I'm going to submit Riley for a wish And so
Speaker 10: I did that over the summer and.
Speaker 9: We found out.
Speaker 10: I think it was in August, hey, Riley that his
Speaker 10: wish was being granted, so so yeah, so it's been
Speaker 10: pretty exciting since then. And I'm so excited for Riley
Speaker 10: for the experience that he's going to have.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm excited for you too. I'm gonna let you
Speaker 4: get rested up. You got your Buffs Jersey. Are you
Speaker 4: ready to get your Buffs gear on to go to
Speaker 4: the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I bet they're going to give you some new
Speaker 4: gear to wear as well too. Riley and Tammy, thank
Speaker 4: you so much for making time for us today. I
Speaker 4: love Wish of a Lifetime and I really am happy
Speaker 4: to bring some more awareness of what that actually does.
Speaker 4: Because Tammy, what a great thing for you to be
Speaker 4: able to give Riley a great wish and he's going
Speaker 4: to have the opportunity to go watch his beloved Buffs
Speaker 4: play and meet some players because of Wish of a Lifetime.
Speaker 4: If you have an older person in your life that
Speaker 4: has a wish to be granted, I would urge you
Speaker 4: to look up Wish of a Lifetime and nominate them
Speaker 4: as well. Riley, thank you so much for your time today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4: Go Buffs, Go Bobs. Thanks Riley and Dammy. Appreciate you
Speaker 4: guys making time for us today. All right, that is
Speaker 4: just a sweet story. And if you know anybody who
Speaker 4: is older and would like to fulfill a wish, they've
Speaker 4: done some really amazing stuff, like super amazing stuff, So
Speaker 4: definitely check that out. And I love the concept of
Speaker 4: helping older people experience things that maybe they wouldn't be
Speaker 4: able to experience anymore, because older people have dreams too
Speaker 4: that never never get fulfilled, you know, And what a
Speaker 4: great way to do that. And Jeremy did sell the
Speaker 4: whole thing to AARP but they are continuing in the
Speaker 4: tradition in which he started it. I love all of you.
Speaker 4: A baritone is a small tuba, not a salsophone, a
Speaker 4: tuba a small tuba. A baritone is like a smaller
Speaker 4: version of a tuba. Also, my son, a baritone player,
Speaker 4: says he can't listen to you anymore. Well, that's disappointing,
Speaker 4: is it? Because I can't play an instrument or know
Speaker 4: what a baritone is. And if you've listened to the
Speaker 4: show for any length of time, I have tried. I
Speaker 4: have tried. Flying waitress doesn't know what a baritone is,
Speaker 4: why would a flight attendant know what a baritone is.
Speaker 4: That doesn't make any sense unless you just wanted to
Speaker 4: get what you think is a shot in at me,
Speaker 4: because trust me, I don't care. I've heard all of
Speaker 4: those so many times before. It's kind of tired as
Speaker 4: an attack point. You can't march with a true french horn.
Speaker 4: So what he's saying is it looks like a big,
Speaker 4: fat trumpet, so to speak. Why can't you march with
Speaker 4: a true french horn? What's the problem with that? I
Speaker 4: love asking people that play the french horn how they
Speaker 4: ended up playing the french horn, and ninety eight percent
Speaker 4: of the time, maybe ninety eight point five percent of
Speaker 4: the time, they say some variation of well I showed
Speaker 4: up for band and that was all that was left.
Speaker 4: I'm not even kidding. Ask somebody who plays the french
Speaker 4: horn how they ended up playing the french horn. You
Speaker 4: will be shocked and delighted to find out that I
Speaker 4: am correct, absolutely correct. So we've got a lot of
Speaker 4: other stuff that we're going to talk about today, and
Speaker 4: I want to get some of it in. I want
Speaker 4: to talk about a story that is just a story,
Speaker 4: that is one where you think to yourself, well, that's
Speaker 4: gross and you move on. But these stories seem to
Speaker 4: be more and more prevalent around the country, not just here.
Speaker 4: Ours is one about a twenty eight year old woman
Speaker 4: who is named Chloe Castro. Chloe Castro was employed by
Speaker 4: Jeffco Public Schools and she was working at several schools
Speaker 4: as a social worker. She had been working at Manning
Speaker 4: Middle School, Drake Middle School, and Wheat Ridge High School
Speaker 4: since August as a social worker. She is now being
Speaker 4: accused of having a sexual relationship with one of the students. Now,
Speaker 4: when I was young, I knew of and one of
Speaker 4: them I knew for sure. The other one was just speculative.
Speaker 4: In my high school there was a teacher, a male teacher,
Speaker 4: that had multiple relationships with female students. Now, this was
Speaker 4: back in the seventies and eighties, you guys. I mean,
Speaker 4: it just was a different time. And I'm definitely not
Speaker 4: saying it's better, but it was not a big issue
Speaker 4: at that time. I'm sure to the girls who were
Speaker 4: victimized by this, it was a big issue going forward.
Speaker 4: But in the last two years, when was the last
Speaker 4: time you saw an article about a man being arrested
Speaker 4: for having sex with a child. In their care a
Speaker 4: teenager whatever, I haven't seen any and I went back
Speaker 4: and did a quick look. I found one guy in
Speaker 4: Michigan or Minnesota, I can't remember which one was one
Speaker 4: of the m states and not Montana though, And the
Speaker 4: one guy like three years ago who had an inappropriate
Speaker 4: relationship with a female student. But these women keep getting arrested,
Speaker 4: and they keep getting arrested for having inappropriate relationships with children.
Speaker 4: I can't I tell you how gross this feels to me.
Speaker 4: It just feels so disgusting. I don't understand it. And
Speaker 4: before any of you guys say, well, was she hot?
Speaker 4: I mean, I wish my teacher hooked up with me
Speaker 4: when I was in high school. Before you say that,
Speaker 4: you really need to think about the fact that these
Speaker 4: people are in a position of power, first of all,
Speaker 4: and these are children. They're under the age of eighteen.
Speaker 4: They are children. They might be teenage children, but they
Speaker 4: are children. I just got a text. Bet she's hot. Honestly,
Speaker 4: maybe when she's all dulled up, she's attractive, but wearing
Speaker 4: the orange jumpsuit and the tiny breed she has in
Speaker 4: you know, she's not hideous, but she's certainly not like
Speaker 4: you know, a fem fatale again. She might look better
Speaker 4: with makeup. I don't know, But does it matter? This
Speaker 4: is this is an issue that we need to be
Speaker 4: clear about, and that is this, when someone is in
Speaker 4: any sort of power position over another person and they
Speaker 4: engage in a sexual relationship with that person, that sexual
Speaker 4: relationship can never ever be truly equal ever. And it
Speaker 4: doesn't matter whether if it's in the office and you
Speaker 4: have a relationship with someone who is a subordinate to
Speaker 4: you or the other way around. If you're in that
Speaker 4: position right now and you are in a relationship with
Speaker 4: someone who is higher on the food chain than you are,
Speaker 4: I will give you a piece of advice. And I
Speaker 4: learned this the hard way. Find another job. Unless you
Speaker 4: are going to get married and you are engaged with
Speaker 4: a date and a ring, find another job because ultimately,
Speaker 4: if something happens, the person in the power position almost
Speaker 4: always will keep their job and you will be moved
Speaker 4: along to something else. Mandy. Recently, a male teacher was
Speaker 4: arrested in Adams County for the same thing. That's usually
Speaker 4: it's a male coach, right. The male coaches are the
Speaker 4: ones that keep getting in trouble. So oh yeah, yeah, Mandy,
Speaker 4: I think you underestimate these teenage girls and these teenage boys.
Speaker 4: They're still children. I mean you, guys. I see girls
Speaker 4: at my daughter's high school that look like they are
Speaker 4: twenty five years old, but ultimately they are still inhabiting
Speaker 4: the body of a fifteen or sixteen year old girl
Speaker 4: with a fifteen or sixteen year old girl mind. And boys,
Speaker 4: don't even get me started. Some of them look like
Speaker 4: they're twenty years old, but their brains are probably twelve
Speaker 4: years old. And to say that, well, it's the students
Speaker 4: who are seducing. The teachers. We are the grown ups.
Speaker 4: We are the people that have to say nope, that
Speaker 4: is inappropriate and that's not going to happen. And here's
Speaker 4: the kicker. I have talked to so many male teachers,
Speaker 4: especially young male teachers. You know, they're not quite thirty,
Speaker 4: they're out of high school. They come to teach, They
Speaker 4: go out of their way to avoid any any sort
Speaker 4: of inappropriate contact. They don't they if they are talking
Speaker 4: to a female student in their classroom, the door is open.
Speaker 4: One teacher at a high school once told me that
Speaker 4: if he has to have a conversation, a serious conversation
Speaker 4: with a female student. He will ask one of his
Speaker 4: female colleagues to come into the room so they can
Speaker 4: have the conversation with witnesses, because he said, it's so
Speaker 4: bad that I don't want any parent to ever think
Speaker 4: I have ever done anything inappropriate to their child with
Speaker 4: their child about their child. So I have to go
Speaker 4: to great links. But what about these female teachers. What
Speaker 4: is going on? Why would a grown ass woman risk everything?
Speaker 4: And so many of these women are married. I mean, really,
Speaker 4: would you trust a fourteen year old with the most
Speaker 4: important secret of your life? Honestly, you know, this is
Speaker 4: one of those things where if you're the sort of
Speaker 4: person who's going to have an affair, I mean, are
Speaker 4: you choosing about who you're going to have an affair
Speaker 4: with in terms of do you think that they're going
Speaker 4: to keep their yap and a fourteen year old boy
Speaker 4: getting laid. No, he is not going to keep his
Speaker 4: yapper shut. And I don't know how old this kid was.
Speaker 4: They have not released how old this kid was, so
Speaker 4: you know, I'm fourteen, fifteen, sixteen thirteen, she's working at
Speaker 4: a middle school. We don't know. But nonetheless, this is
Speaker 4: just a terrible choice. And I don't understand what is
Speaker 4: happening with women that they have decided this is okay?
Speaker 4: Can someone explain that to me? Now? Men, And I'm
Speaker 4: not giving men a pass on this, but men are
Speaker 4: much different animals in terms of how their brains work.
Speaker 4: They are visual animals, right, They're visually attracted to pretty things,
Speaker 4: and at their most base biological levels, they are trying
Speaker 4: to reproduce with the prettiest and most attractive things. So
Speaker 4: that's what they're drawn to. For most women, you're looking
Speaker 4: in a situation where you're looking in a sexual situation.
Speaker 4: You're looking for someone who could be a good providers,
Speaker 4: someone's strong. I'm talking about your basic biological urges. I'm
Speaker 4: not talking about women on tender who are just looking
Speaker 4: for a good time. And I don't understand why someone
Speaker 4: would say, yes, a fourteen year old boy, that's a
Speaker 4: good choice, super good choice. I'm just baffled by this stuff.
Speaker 4: It seems like they are more and more frequent, and
Speaker 4: I just think that's incredibly gross. And I'm glad my
Speaker 4: sons are grown and I'm glad my grandsons are homeschooled. Mayday,
Speaker 4: you should track both cases and watch which one gets
Speaker 4: the harsher sentence. Want to guess, I don't know. I've
Speaker 4: seen some of these women get really like a significant
Speaker 4: amount of jail time. My dad met my mom at
Speaker 4: a party when my mom was seventeen and my dad
Speaker 4: was college age twenty three. She was in high school. Today,
Speaker 4: you would have gone to prison for that relationship. Both
Speaker 4: they were married over fifty years. So I'm watching this
Speaker 4: documentary on Elizabeth Taylor on Netflix. It's really really good,
Speaker 4: really good. It's all based on these audio tapes that
Speaker 4: the author of her life story was putting together. So
Speaker 4: they play the audio and then they add in you know,
Speaker 4: old home movies and old movie clips and things like
Speaker 4: that as she talks about all of her relationships. She
Speaker 4: had two marriages, very very quickly, to men that were
Speaker 4: twenty five years older than she was, and one of them,
Speaker 4: she says was the love of her life. But he died.
Speaker 4: And I think to myself, like now, now when I
Speaker 4: see a Hollywood celebrity, and I'm just going to use
Speaker 4: Leo DiCaprio for this, because he's really the worst defender.
Speaker 4: Leonardo DiCaprio is almost as old as I am. I'm
Speaker 4: fifty five years old, and he only dates women that
Speaker 4: are like in their early twenties. At what point does
Speaker 4: that just get gross? At what point do you're like,
Speaker 4: grow up, manchild, grow up? But you know what, he's
Speaker 4: Leonardo DiCaprio and do whatever you want. Mandy. A former
Speaker 4: colleague of mine lost his teaching job because several girls
Speaker 4: conspired and made up stories about him later proved false,
Speaker 4: but it was too late. And that is exactly what
Speaker 4: I'm talking about with these male teachers who know to
Speaker 4: the greatest lengths to ensure that nobody can ever say
Speaker 4: I was alone with him and this is what happened.
Speaker 4: It's sad but true. But I'll tell you what. If
Speaker 4: we really want to viciously prosecute a war, put middle
Speaker 4: school and teenage girls in charge of it, because they
Speaker 4: are horrible when it comes to the machinations that they
Speaker 4: can come up to come up with. Rather, Mandy, we
Speaker 4: need to figure out why it's attractive women. I don't know, Mandy.
Speaker 4: Perhaps you get to a point. Maybe the older women
Speaker 4: are just trying to manipulate the younger men because they
Speaker 4: can't handle a strong and independent male. I always feel
Speaker 4: sorry because a lot of these women are married. God,
Speaker 4: what an embarrassing thing as the husband, really really embarrassing. Mandy,
Speaker 4: my number two daughters started teaching geometry at a high
Speaker 4: school in Tucson at twenty one. She said, these kids
Speaker 4: are so aggressive, and it's more the girls than the boys.
Speaker 4: She had to be so purposeful and intentional in setting down. Yep, Mandy,
Speaker 4: I'm a thirty seven year old male and still have
Speaker 4: the mind of a twelve year old. This is only
Speaker 4: this is only a partial joke, ask my wife. And
Speaker 4: just part of your charm. Just part of your charm, Mandy.
Speaker 4: When I was in school, all the teachers look like
Speaker 4: undercover agent and monsters. Inc gross. Yep, Mandy. Male teachers
Speaker 4: won't even meet with a female student anymore for fear
Speaker 4: of being blackmailed or false accusations. I would think that
Speaker 4: teachers all over would be concerned about the same. We're
Speaker 4: gonna take a quick time out. When we get back.
Speaker 4: I've got another fantastic, absolutely fantastic idea. Let's make twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five the year of men. Okay, it wasn't my idea,
Speaker 4: but I'm gonna steal Shawn Duffy's idea. We're going to
Speaker 4: talk about that next. I want to share a part
Speaker 4: of a column by Shan Duffy in Today's Denver Gazette,
Speaker 4: because this is something that is kind of a growing,
Speaker 4: growing problem that we have to fix and in it well, no,
Speaker 4: let me just share part of it with you. American
Speaker 4: society needs to man up. And the election just concluded.
Speaker 4: The yawning chasm between the candidate choices of men and women,
Speaker 4: particularly younger Americans, received overdue attention. Poles taking this fall
Speaker 4: showed a fifty three percent gap between young men and women,
Speaker 4: with the men supporting Donald Trump and women flocking to
Speaker 4: Kamala Harris. This isn't a gender gap, it's a gender canyon.
Speaker 4: It's been customary over the decades to look at differing
Speaker 4: political attitudes among the sexes from the perspective of female voters,
Speaker 4: but this year, as young men found a home in
Speaker 4: Trump world, we saw a focus on the political attitudes
Speaker 4: and frustrations of young American men. Legacy media have been
Speaker 4: curiously studying what they believe is a new phenomenon, when
Speaker 4: in facts, it's been brewing for decades. The reporting was
Speaker 4: like a nature show studying exotic species in the rainforest.
Speaker 4: Yet young men haven't been hidden in a canopy of trees.
Speaker 4: They've been among us and are reacting to decades of derision,
Speaker 4: a feeling rightly or wrongly, unwelcome, unneeded, and a nuisance
Speaker 4: to society's progress. One of the most important chronicles of
Speaker 4: this serious problem is the writer and scholar Richard Reeves.
Speaker 4: No conservative, he worked for many years at the Bookings Institution,
Speaker 4: a respected center left think tank, before launching the American
Speaker 4: Institute for Boys and Men. Throughout the campaign, Reefs stress
Speaker 4: dress that despite the shallow accusations about toxic masculinity from
Speaker 4: callous progressives, men have not migrated right word on issues,
Speaker 4: continuing to be socially moderate to liberal. The issue is
Speaker 4: not their political attitudes, but the attitudes of the political
Speaker 4: system toward them. They're feeling left behind. In the real world,
Speaker 4: the interests of men and women are not pitted against
Speaker 4: each other, however much our culture warriors tell us differently.
Speaker 4: It is hard to create a society of flourishing women
Speaker 4: if men are floundering, Reeves writes. Yet they are floundering
Speaker 4: and worse. The statistics are sobering, stagnant wages, a significant
Speaker 4: decline in male college enrollment, an epidemic of loneliness a
Speaker 4: spike in suicide. We need to cut a new path
Speaker 4: with purpose for men, pointing them towards what Center rights
Speaker 4: scholar and Arthur and author Arthur Brooks called earned success.
Speaker 4: Earned success reassures us that what we do in life
Speaker 4: is of significance and value for ourselves and those around us.
Speaker 4: To truly flourish, we need to know the ways in
Speaker 4: which we occupy our waking hours or not based on
Speaker 4: the mere pursuit of pleasure or money or any other
Speaker 4: superficial goal. But that's not how society treats boys. From
Speaker 4: the earliest years. Schools seek orderly, compliant behavior that is
Speaker 4: far easier for girls than boys. The message too often
Speaker 4: sent to boys is they're an irritant to be dealt
Speaker 4: with with, so they're diagnosed, medicated, and constantly disciplined. Boys
Speaker 4: who grew up into young men don't wish to be sidelined.
Speaker 4: They yearn to be celebrated as people of purpose and
Speaker 4: value and skill despite the ruckus and rambunctiousness. As the
Speaker 4: author John Eldred points out in a seminal work Wild
Speaker 4: at Heart about the masculine journey, boys want to know
Speaker 4: that they have what it takes. They'll spend a lifetime
Speaker 4: seeking the answer to this question, often with meandering, frustrating,
Speaker 4: and destructive results. There's nothing wrong with society intentionally encouraging
Speaker 4: men to aspire to a life that is good and
Speaker 4: noble and praiseworthy. Yearning to provide for a spouse and
Speaker 4: children is not selfish patriarchy. It's servant leadership, filled with
Speaker 4: a profound meaning and value. Let's help them find fulfilling work,
Speaker 4: no matter the salary attached. Let's honor the trades and
Speaker 4: men who get dirty at family sustaining jobs. Let's stop
Speaker 4: the coddling of men living on the public dole and
Speaker 4: show that there's purpose and dignity in all way, and
Speaker 4: that there's dissipation and despair in useless idle idolation, isolation.
Speaker 4: Eight decades ago, C. S. Lewis diagnosed the decline in
Speaker 4: society's respect for and demands of it's men, calling these
Speaker 4: shadowy people men without chess. We make men without chess
Speaker 4: and expect them of virtue and enterprise. We laugh at
Speaker 4: honor and are shocked to find traders in our mist.
Speaker 4: We castrate and bid bid the geldings be fruitful. Let's
Speaker 4: make twenty twenty five, the Year of the American Man.
Speaker 4: I could not agree more with this sentiment. I am
Speaker 4: so tired of us blaming everything on men on this
Speaker 4: so called toxic masculinity. I'm so tired of telling young
Speaker 4: men that they are incapable of doing anything without a
Speaker 4: woman's permission. It's so incredibly destructive, and we see it
Speaker 4: in the number of men who have just kind of
Speaker 4: not launched, who are still living with their parents, or
Speaker 4: are wildly underemployed with no real means to move forward.
Speaker 4: We have told them time and time and time again,
Speaker 4: you're the problem, You're the issue. And to the point
Speaker 4: of in this column, when Sean says, look, we expect
Speaker 4: little boys to behave like little girls in school. He
Speaker 4: doesn't say it like that, but that's what he means.
Speaker 4: I will never forget volunteering in the queue's kindergarten classroom. Now.
Speaker 4: I am not a person who seeks out other people's children.
Speaker 4: Most of the time, I just like my own children.
Speaker 4: But being in that classroom taught me one very valuable thing.
Speaker 4: Little boys need to have time to mature before we
Speaker 4: force them into this kind of artificial construct of behavior.
Speaker 4: Because little little boys sometimes are physically unable to sit still,
Speaker 4: and we ask them, we put them in these situation
Speaker 4: where they are forced to sit still when they're physically
Speaker 4: unable to because they are too full of energy, they're
Speaker 4: too active. And I just always thought that was absolutely terrible.
Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, I talked to the principle
Speaker 4: of the school and I said, you know, and of
Speaker 4: course this is how I talk to the principle of
Speaker 4: the school. I said, you know, in Finland, where they
Speaker 4: have some of the greatest education in the world, children
Speaker 4: don't even learn to read at all until they are
Speaker 4: seven years old. They don't learn any they don't do math,
Speaker 4: they don't learn how to read, they don't learn how
Speaker 4: to write, they don't do any of that. They don't
Speaker 4: even start it until they're seven years old. Do you
Speaker 4: know what they do in school before that? They play,
Speaker 4: They experience things outside, They dig in the dirt, They
Speaker 4: negotiate with each other to create a strong social contract
Speaker 4: with their friends that don't involve adults. You know, now,
Speaker 4: we micromanage children. We don't allow them to just freely play.
Speaker 4: We have play dates and structure and we're going to
Speaker 4: go do this and we're gonna do this craft, and
Speaker 4: we're going to do this thing. And when I was
Speaker 4: a kid, we ran wild, and if we had an
Speaker 4: issue in the group, we worked it out in the group.
Speaker 4: If we made up a new game, we made up
Speaker 4: the game together, and we all knew the rules. Sometimes
Speaker 4: our conversations ended in fisticuffs, not recommended, but you know what,
Speaker 4: nobody really got hurt and the situation got settled. And
Speaker 4: we don't allow kids to do any of that, especially
Speaker 4: little boys. I genuinely think that little boys and little
Speaker 4: girls should be in separate, gender separated classrooms. And before
Speaker 4: anybody yells at me about separate but equal and all that,
Speaker 4: it's very effective. There was a school in elementary school
Speaker 4: in Florida, in Lee County, Florida, where the principal advocated
Speaker 4: for gender specific classrooms for her elementary students, and she said, look,
Speaker 4: let us just do this experiment. Let us just divide
Speaker 4: it up, because little boys and little girls they're different
Speaker 4: in the way they learn. So the little girls would
Speaker 4: sit there quietly and do their work. And every half
Speaker 4: hour in the little boy classroom, the little boys went
Speaker 4: outside for five minutes to run around, get some energy out,
Speaker 4: and come back in maybe every hour. I think every
Speaker 4: half hours too much. Every hour. I can't remember exactly.
Speaker 4: It's been a long, long time ago. So they manage
Speaker 4: those classrooms differently, and both classrooms excelled. Now, lest you think,
Speaker 4: what if the boys get a bad teacher and the
Speaker 4: girls get a good teacher, they swapped for subjects. They swapped,
Speaker 4: so everybody got a great science teacher, everybody got a
Speaker 4: great English teacher. They just treated the kids differently based
Speaker 4: on their energy levels. So, yes, Sean Duffy, I am
Speaker 4: down with this. Twenty twenty five should be the year
Speaker 4: of the American man. And I don't mean one of
Speaker 4: these men who are crying on social media right now.
Speaker 4: I mean manly men doing manly things and not be
Speaker 4: ashamed of it. Don't be ashamed of it. Some of
Speaker 4: us appreciate you very very much. We'll be back right
Speaker 4: after this. Got a lot of text messages on this
Speaker 4: on the Common Spirit Health text line, so let's dip
Speaker 4: into some of those. Mandy, you hit your last topic,
Speaker 4: hit a nerve. I have two sons, thirties, successful and
Speaker 4: yes tall, both single because, as my youngest says, I
Speaker 4: can't find a girl that doesn't have an OnlyFans account
Speaker 4: or a kid by some loser. He shared me with
Speaker 4: crazy stories of girls expecting him to start buying well,
Speaker 4: hang on to start buying them presents after one date.
Speaker 4: We strategized where to find a potential wife that wasn't
Speaker 4: online or in a bar, church, animal shelter, et cetera.
Speaker 4: With no luck. He's emblematic of a broken culture and
Speaker 4: that's why birth rates are crashing and we are in
Speaker 4: trouble as a society. That complaint added in with how
Speaker 4: about the girls that don't want to date you if
Speaker 4: you voted for Trump or you're not politically active. What's
Speaker 4: funny is I saw a story about a woman in
Speaker 4: New York, New York City who had given up dating
Speaker 4: liberal men though she herself was liberal, because she found
Speaker 4: them to be basically dormats. And women we don't want
Speaker 4: a dormat.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 4: Granted, there are some women who love a doormat because
Speaker 4: they want somebody to dominate, right. They want somebody to hendpeck.
Speaker 4: They want somebody to to say and tell them how
Speaker 4: to do everything. And guys, there are certain men who
Speaker 4: need that. And I know you're out there shaking your heads,
Speaker 4: but I bet every single one of you has a
Speaker 4: buddy that has an overbearing wife, but he's perfectly happy.
Speaker 4: He might grumble a little bit, you know, he might
Speaker 4: complain a little bit, but that wife has probably made
Speaker 4: him a much better man than he was before. Some
Speaker 4: guys just need that, but some women also need a
Speaker 4: strong man to push back on them. I am one
Speaker 4: of those women. My husband is an incredibly special and
Speaker 4: I don't mean that in a bad way. I mean
Speaker 4: that in the good way. He's a special dude because
Speaker 4: he is perfectly happy to not only let me do
Speaker 4: a job that puts me in the public eye, he
Speaker 4: encourages me, he supports me, and he has no ego
Speaker 4: about it whatsoever. Do you ever wonder why it's so
Speaker 4: hard for people like j Lo to stay married. I mean,
Speaker 4: you probably haven't spent a ton of time thinking about this,
Speaker 4: but part of it is is that a lot of
Speaker 4: men cannot be in a relationship where they perceive their
Speaker 4: wife to be the star of the show. It's too
Speaker 4: damaging to their egos. Or they're the kind of guys
Speaker 4: that have no ego, and I don't want to be
Speaker 4: around those people anyway. My husband is the perfect mix
Speaker 4: of manliness at the same time also being incredibly supportive.
Speaker 4: I count my blessings every day. Now. Don't get me wrong,
Speaker 4: he is not perfect. He can be a bit of
Speaker 4: a pain in that, you know what, just as I can.
Speaker 4: But I would prefer to hear about men like that
Speaker 4: Texter just sent me about her sons. Then only have
Speaker 4: men who were raised by those kind of single cat
Speaker 4: women who right now are telling their boys that they
Speaker 4: should be incredibly afraid because Trump got elected. Right. I
Speaker 4: don't want a bunch of those kids. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 4: I'm sure they're gonna be lovely adults. Man, Mandy, I
Speaker 4: agree with you on your last segment. Did you see
Speaker 4: Jimmy Kimmel's monologue last night where he's tearing up about
Speaker 4: the election results. I voted Harris, but was laughing so hard.
Speaker 4: You got to see it. Yeah, yeah, Oh, you just
Speaker 4: reminded me text sir. I haven't seen any text messages
Speaker 4: from the obnoxious jerk who texted me multiple times this
Speaker 4: past week to tell me that Harris was gonna win,
Speaker 4: and I would be I should just shut my mouth. Oddly,
Speaker 4: nothing so weird, so so weird? Huh, Mandy, we're raising
Speaker 4: a five year old gen X squared. He's a boy.
Speaker 4: He's in the garage with dad. He loves working on
Speaker 4: snowmobiles with me, catches snakes, and plays in the mud.
Speaker 4: He is wild. We were told at conferences that he
Speaker 4: is a model kindergartener. I say all that to say
Speaker 4: I believe it's possible to raise good children many ways,
Speaker 4: but it has to start with morals and responsibilities at home. Absolutely,
Speaker 4: one mandate gender specific classes would be great, But how
Speaker 4: does that happen with thirty two different genders? Now that
Speaker 4: is a legitimate question right there. Yeah, I think I'm
Speaker 4: just gonna leave it on that note. Just leave it
Speaker 4: on that note. When do we get back? I got
Speaker 4: so let's do a two minute drill. Now, let's not
Speaker 4: do a two minute drill because I got stuff. Okay,
Speaker 4: when we get back, this is what we're talking about.
Speaker 4: So last night I'm watching CNN. I'm now watching cnnn MSNBC,
Speaker 4: just for this week, just to let you know I
Speaker 4: haven't lost my mind. But I'm watching CNN and the
Speaker 4: panel is sitting there talking and Upper asks the question,
Speaker 4: should Joe Biden pardon Hunter Biden? Wait until you hear
Speaker 4: what Chris Wallace said about it. We're going to talk
Speaker 4: about that next news traffick and weather coming now keep
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Speaker 4: half an hour, we are going to talk to a
Speaker 4: guy named John Tillman who runs a think tank that
Speaker 4: works to get people to vote for freedom and liberty.
Speaker 4: Imagine that. Imagine that. But right now, I want to
Speaker 4: start with a little bit of stuff, kind of fallout
Speaker 4: I guess from the election. There are growing calls from
Speaker 4: right wing sources, and this one is National Review. So
Speaker 4: National Review says, and this is at least start their column.
Speaker 4: The first thing Joe Biden should do this morning is
Speaker 4: invite Donald Trump to the traditional visit in the Oval
Speaker 4: Office between the outgoing and incoming president. Biden should extend
Speaker 4: all the traditional and lawful assistance to Trump that is
Speaker 4: appropriate in anticipation of his forming a new administration. Biden
Speaker 4: should then move to use this constitutional authority to pardon
Speaker 4: Donald Trump of all pending federal charges and relieve Special
Speaker 4: Counsel Jacksmith of his duties. He should then ask New
Speaker 4: York Governor Kathy Hocheld to use her authority to pardon
Speaker 4: Trump for the crimes he was convicted of in New York.
Speaker 4: Now they go on to talk about it, but this
Speaker 4: is Paywaald, and I could open it earlier, can't open
Speaker 4: it now, but I know what it says. So let
Speaker 4: me just tell you, do not remember this if you're
Speaker 4: the same age I am. But back in the day
Speaker 4: after Watergate, when Richard Nixon was caught flat footed when
Speaker 4: he sent some people into the Watergate hotel to spy
Speaker 4: on the Democratic Party, he stepped down, but there was
Speaker 4: issues whether or not charges should be filed for his
Speaker 4: role in that. When Gerald Ford took over as president,
Speaker 4: one of the first things, if not the first thing,
Speaker 4: he did, was to pardon Richard Nixon. He didn't do
Speaker 4: it as an act of political partisanship. And I truly
Speaker 4: believe this if you go back and look at gerald
Speaker 4: Ford's comments at the time. He did it because he
Speaker 4: wanted the country to move forward. He didn't want to
Speaker 4: have the spectacle of having a former president of the
Speaker 4: United States being purp walked and dragged through court for
Speaker 4: his role in the Watergate. He figured Richard Nixon had
Speaker 4: been had been, you know, chastised enough by having to
Speaker 4: step down for the presidency, and then he wanted the
Speaker 4: country to move forward, and he wanted them to move on.
Speaker 4: It's the same argument to be made for pardoning Donald
Speaker 4: Trump and a lot of the left wing meltdowns. Yesterday,
Speaker 4: he was convicted at forty five felonies. Now, let's be real.
Speaker 4: He was convicted in a court full of Democrats by
Speaker 4: a democratically appointed judge in a city or at least Manhattan,
Speaker 4: that overwhelmingly voted for Joe Biden. It was as low
Speaker 4: hanging fruit as you could possibly get. He was convicted
Speaker 4: for documentation issues, business documentation issues, and it had to
Speaker 4: do with him paying off Stormy Daniels. The whole purpose
Speaker 4: of that prosecution was to embarrass him because they wanted
Speaker 4: Stormy Daniels to take the stand and talk about Trump's unit.
Speaker 4: I guess you know, I could have gotten a conviction
Speaker 4: in that situation. To be perfectly honest, the Jack Smith
Speaker 4: Duff stuff is not even decided how they're going to
Speaker 4: get a rin on the Supreme Court's immunity ruling, and
Speaker 4: what is going to happen. Jack Smith says, we're winding
Speaker 4: down our investigation because once Trump goes into office, they
Speaker 4: can't prosecute him then. Now, I don't think Joe Biden
Speaker 4: will do this, although he might. I does anybody else
Speaker 4: think that Joe Biden was probably super happy about the
Speaker 4: election results the other night because he always thought he
Speaker 4: could win. I mean, he couldn't. He clearly could not
Speaker 4: win after that first debate. There's no way Joe Biden
Speaker 4: would have won this race, No way, no how. But
Speaker 4: at least he could have gone out with dignity. The
Speaker 4: Democrats took dignity away from him. And yeah, all that
Speaker 4: stuff about Joe dropping out, he's practically George Washington practically.
Speaker 4: He's not, but practically George Washington practically. So the other
Speaker 4: pardon question that needs to be answered was the one
Speaker 4: that I saw on CNN last night. To the person
Speaker 4: who sent me this, Mandy, who is punishing you by
Speaker 4: making you watch CNN and MSND? I wanted to see
Speaker 4: over the last couple of days if the left media
Speaker 4: was taking any culpability for their role in getting Donald
Speaker 4: Trump elected, because I honestly believe in their fervor to
Speaker 4: make sure he didn't get elected. They ended up pushing
Speaker 4: people into Trump's camp because they said so many things
Speaker 4: that were just outright lies, outright lies, just fabricated crap
Speaker 4: out of whole cloth, the Liz Cheney firing squad being
Speaker 4: right at the top of that list, right. They fabricated
Speaker 4: all these things counting on the American people being too
Speaker 4: dumb to fact check them, and we weren't because we
Speaker 4: all have a little fact checking machine in our pocket
Speaker 4: called our cell phones. And by the way, they have not.
Speaker 4: They have not. So watching CNN last night and Jake
Speaker 4: Tapper asked the panel should Joe Biden pardon Hunter Biden,
Speaker 4: and Chris Wallace did not miss a beat when he
Speaker 4: just said, I would. If it were my kid, I would,
Speaker 4: and I had to be honest, if it were my cad,
Speaker 4: I would. Because Joe Biden's legacy is completely destroyed, completely
Speaker 4: and utterly destroyed. He has no future, He really has
Speaker 4: no significant income options going forward, and since the Biden,
Speaker 4: entire Biden family has been living off the grift of
Speaker 4: Joe Biden's name, I don't know how they're gonna make money.
Speaker 4: Who thinks that another Hunter Biden painting is gonna sell
Speaker 4: for one hundred thousand dollars anyone, any And I don't
Speaker 4: see anyone raising their anyone raising their hand, No, no
Speaker 4: hands went up. So weird, so so weird. So I'm
Speaker 4: asking you, should Joe Biden pardon Hunter Biden? Would you
Speaker 4: pardon your kid if you had the chance, Because I'm
Speaker 4: gonna be absolutely honest, yeah I would. But I think
Speaker 4: I'd like to think anyway that I would be magnanimous
Speaker 4: enough to reach the point where I recognized that pardoning
Speaker 4: my greatest uh you know, a political foe, is also
Speaker 4: the right thing to do. I don't think Joe Biden's
Speaker 4: going to pardon Trump. He has been known to have
Speaker 4: a very vindictive streak. That's not me, that's not a newsflash.
Speaker 4: He's got a fifty plus year career in the Senate
Speaker 4: and Congress for us to look at. He can be very,
Speaker 4: very spiteful and vindictive. But then he might pardon Trump
Speaker 4: to be spiteful and vindictive to the Democratic Party. I
Speaker 4: think that we do not understand the depths of Joe
Speaker 4: Biden's rage about the way he was stabbed in the
Speaker 4: back by the Democratic Party, and I think that's again
Speaker 4: I've said it before. I think that's why he immediately
Speaker 4: endorsed Kamala Harris. And then this texter says that Mandy,
Speaker 4: I think Jill and Joe did everything to sabotage Kamala
Speaker 4: and force him out. YEP, I agree. I agree. After nude, Mandy,
Speaker 4: now is the second Secretary of State? Sure of those numbers?
Speaker 4: Or is that adjusted for password leagues?
Speaker 6: Ha?
Speaker 4: Ha, that's very funny, very funny. Hi, Mandy. We know
Speaker 4: that Joe Biden is brother and Hunter. We're all involved
Speaker 4: with shell corporations and hiding money they receive from Ukraine
Speaker 4: and China. Who's gonna go after Joe Biden? No one.
Speaker 4: I'm just yeah, no one, Mandy. I watched the view
Speaker 4: yesterday just to see the meltdown. Mandy. I'm a huge Trumper,
Speaker 4: but yes, Biden should pardon Hunter. He is blood. Joe
Speaker 4: voted for Trump. Oh my god, you guys, that's hilarious.
Speaker 4: Can someone photoshop a picture of Joe voting for Trump
Speaker 4: on his ballot? Please? Can we make that happen. I
Speaker 4: don't have a single person saying they wouldn't pardon their kid.
Speaker 4: I would one hundred percent. That's what parents do, It's
Speaker 4: who we are. He said he wouldn't pardon, but he will.
Speaker 4: That Texter is making a great point. Jone has already
Speaker 4: said if he got re elected he would not pardon Hunter.
Speaker 4: Well guess what. He didn't get reelected. He was shamed
Speaker 4: and embarrassed. He is now crawling out of office instead
Speaker 4: of walking out of office. The man has nothing to
Speaker 4: lose by getting his kid off the hook. Something I
Speaker 4: think we can all understand. Let's take a quick time out.
Speaker 4: We'll be right back. You can text us your answer
Speaker 4: five six six nine ozero when we get back. This
Speaker 4: is Texters on the whether or not Joe Biden should
Speaker 4: pardon Hunter, and you guys are bringing some more thoughtful responses. Mandy.
Speaker 4: If I were responsible for turning my kids into a
Speaker 4: waste of skin as Biden is, I would pardon him.
Speaker 4: If I wasn't, I wouldn't, but I would kiss the
Speaker 4: next president's but to get him to do it. The
Speaker 4: right set of events I think is this, Biden pardons
Speaker 4: Trump of everything federal and convince his states to drop
Speaker 4: all the other law fair in exchange for Trump pardoning
Speaker 4: Hunter and insulating the Biden crime family from investment mitigation
Speaker 4: on the corruption the evidence says they are guilty of.
Speaker 4: That is the most politically palatable solution. Text her very
Speaker 4: well done. As far as pardoning my son or daughter
Speaker 4: if I was the president, it would depend on the
Speaker 4: crime they had committed. You know, that's a good point.
Speaker 4: We're talking about financial crimes and tax crimes and lying
Speaker 4: on gun purchase forms. Nobody died that we know of
Speaker 4: from Hunter Biden's actions, So I get that's an excellent point.
Speaker 4: Would I pardon the cue if she killed someone, like
Speaker 4: if she just got mad and killed someone, Probably not.
Speaker 4: If I thought it was really self defense and maybe
Speaker 4: she was a charged, you know, convicted of manslaughter. I
Speaker 4: don't know. I don't know. Always have and always will
Speaker 4: love my children, but never pardon them for wrongdoing. If
Speaker 4: you did the crime, you do the time. I get it,
Speaker 4: I get it. But if I'm eighty something years old
Speaker 4: and on my way out of politics, I'm doing it.
Speaker 4: I'm doing it. Mandy. The other question is, if Biden
Speaker 4: doesn't pardon Hunter, should Trump pardon Hunter? If Biden pardons Trump,
Speaker 4: then yeah, but why would you do a favor? Why
Speaker 4: would you do a solid for Joe Biden if he
Speaker 4: didn't do anything for you? I mean, God, the one
Speaker 4: thing I know with certainty about politics is it is
Speaker 4: definitely a quid pro quo all the time. Everybody's looking
Speaker 4: for what they're getting out of it. Hey, Mandy, I
Speaker 4: wouldn't cry too much for Joe and Jill falling down
Speaker 4: the hill. I'm sure the Chinese will find some use
Speaker 4: for them. No, that's the thing, you guys. They have
Speaker 4: nothing to sell anymore because they've been selling access to
Speaker 4: Joe Biden for decades decades. But who wants access to
Speaker 4: a guy who his own party threw him out? Man?
Speaker 4: Just man, always wait wait, hang on, let me squirrel here.
Speaker 4: Uh hi, Mandy is Kama been considered as the front
Speaker 4: runner for twenty twenty eight? No? No, she acts like
Speaker 4: she doesn't want to get out of politics. But does
Speaker 4: anybody remember where dan Quayle was after he is vice president?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 4: Hmm, weird me either, me either? Mandy Hunter will be
Speaker 4: pardoned Joe's last laugh at Trump and the Democratic Party
Speaker 4: wanted to be Potus. But at a price, Mandy, that
Speaker 4: was part of Pelosi's deal. Drop out and you get
Speaker 4: to pardon Hunter. That makes sense. I mean, that genuinely
Speaker 4: makes sense, Mandy. I hope they do a good sweep
Speaker 4: of the White House looking for incriminating bags of white
Speaker 4: powder and illegal firearms left behind by Hunter. Maybe maybe
Speaker 4: we shall see, Mandy. Check out this way. I can't
Speaker 4: already saw that. I already saw that. Somebody sent me
Speaker 4: the unhinged employee of the University of Oregon. He's actually
Speaker 4: the assistant director for a fraternity and sorority life at
Speaker 4: the University of Oregon, and he recommended in this video
Speaker 4: that he himself created and then put on the internet
Speaker 4: that Trump supporters should kill themselves. That's the one that
Speaker 4: made me kind of hard for me to be gracious
Speaker 4: about this. I'm trying really hard, you guys, Mandy. Someone
Speaker 4: else pointed out that Jill wore a red dress to
Speaker 4: vote on Tuesday. Okay, that's pretty funny. That's very funny, Mandy.
Speaker 4: The part of your own children is shows what oh
Speaker 4: the pardon of your own children shows the cultural rottenness
Speaker 4: country at one. Okay, no, I can't that. Please check
Speaker 4: if your voice to texting, just give it a glance.
Speaker 4: Because none of that made sense, not a single bit
Speaker 4: of it made sense, all right, Mandy. The Dems promised
Speaker 4: him money or something big if he got out. Curious
Speaker 4: to know if they will still stick to it since
Speaker 4: they subtenly sabotaged the Harris campaign. I actually think it
Speaker 4: was more vicious than that. I think Nancy Pelosi called
Speaker 4: and said, if you don't drop out, we're going to
Speaker 4: invoke the twenty fifth Amendment to get you out. That
Speaker 4: is what I think she did, because that woman would
Speaker 4: stick a shive in your heart. She'd stick a shive
Speaker 4: in the heart of her mother if it worked for
Speaker 4: her politically. We'll be right back, keep it on KOA.
Speaker 4: One guy who has been working to move things in
Speaker 4: the right direction at the American Culture Project is John Tilman,
Speaker 4: and he joins us now to talk about the election
Speaker 4: and the results that I just mentioned. Hi, John, Welcome
Speaker 4: to the show.
Speaker 9: Mandy. Great to be with you and your audience. Thank you.
Speaker 4: So let's start with what you see in this election
Speaker 4: because the American Culture Project. For first of all, we'll
Speaker 4: let you explain what the American Culture Project does, because
Speaker 4: I think that's an interesting mission that you guys are on,
Speaker 4: and then we'll talk about your view based on that
Speaker 4: framework of what happened in the election, So what does
Speaker 4: the American Culture Project actually do.
Speaker 9: Well this election cycle?
Speaker 11: We were very involved in Georgia in voter engagement, helping
Speaker 11: people learn how to vote by mail, request their ballot,
Speaker 11: turn in their ballot, early voting, and then day of voting,
Speaker 11: so very much get out the vote effort, and there
Speaker 11: was a lot of other people working in Georgia. This
Speaker 11: is one of the elections where we really saw all
Speaker 11: kinds of people from the conservative infrastructure, if you will,
Speaker 11: working really well together to.
Speaker 9: Get voters out and educate voters.
Speaker 11: And I think what's interesting, going back to your premise,
Speaker 11: is what American Culture does is educate voters. And in particular,
Speaker 11: what we're focused on is what the left puts into
Speaker 11: group identity Blacks, Hispanics, single women, younger voters.
Speaker 9: LGGTQ, all those voters.
Speaker 11: The question of what the left wants them to think
Speaker 11: is that their identity is the most important part of
Speaker 11: their life. What we want to say to them, and
Speaker 11: what President Trump successfully said to significant portions of those audiences,
Speaker 11: is your life situation is the most important thing. Who
Speaker 11: you are overall is very important, and your identity is
Speaker 11: a crucial part of that. It helps you define who
Speaker 11: you are, but it shouldn't trump your life situation, the
Speaker 11: opportunities you seek, the dreams that you have, how you
Speaker 11: want to build your family and community. And I think
Speaker 11: that's the story of this election. I'm hoping it is
Speaker 11: the beginning of the depth and group identity politics which
Speaker 11: is divisive. Instead, we should all be talking about our
Speaker 11: common journey in America to build our individual lives as
Speaker 11: part of a common American dream.
Speaker 4: One of the things the analyzes I've seen coming from
Speaker 4: the right side of the aisle is that this election
Speaker 4: was as much a repudiation of identity politics and out
Speaker 4: of control wokism as an election on the two candidates.
Speaker 4: What are your thoughts on that.
Speaker 11: I totally agree with that, but with an additive. So
Speaker 11: I've long said that elections are usually one of two things,
Speaker 11: whether either repudiation elections or validation elections. So sixteen was
Speaker 11: actually a repudiation of the Obama administration. In Hillary twenty
Speaker 11: twenty was repudiation of Trump. Whatever you may think about
Speaker 11: that election, that's essentially what it was. And this was
Speaker 11: a repudiation of bignomics in the last four years, which
Speaker 11: was a continuation of Obama. But I would add that
Speaker 11: there's a significant which unusual is there was a significant
Speaker 11: portion of this electorate that is validating Trump's policies. Part
Speaker 11: of the reason he won is because he presented an
Speaker 11: alternative policy agenda, lowering crime, lowering inflation, secure the border,
Speaker 11: stopped the unnecessary wars, and American security first, working with
Speaker 11: allies well, but put American security first. It was very
Speaker 11: clear what his policy agenda was. And in addition to that, frankly,
Speaker 11: the social loocism from transgender with issues with children, gender
Speaker 11: dysphoria among children, whatever people do as adults, I think
Speaker 11: we all agree adults should have complete control of their
Speaker 11: lives and do as they wish. But this idea of
Speaker 11: introducing these subjects among our children is crazy.
Speaker 9: And Trump certainly spoke to that.
Speaker 11: No more men playing in sports those sort of things
Speaker 11: I think played as well. So this was a little
Speaker 11: bit unusual in that it was a little bit of
Speaker 11: a combination repudiation and validation.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you this, and I'm going to use
Speaker 4: the men and women's sports as an example because it's
Speaker 4: such a great example of what I'm about to say.
Speaker 4: I think that the Democrats overshot there or got out
Speaker 4: in front of their skis by telling anyone who said, look,
Speaker 4: you know what, maybe we shouldn't be giving life altering
Speaker 4: drugs to children when they're four and five, because that's
Speaker 4: not a good And immediately their response was not to
Speaker 4: have a discussion about the rightness or the wrongness, or
Speaker 4: the science or the not but to turn around and say,
Speaker 4: you're transphobe. You hate it was so absurd on the
Speaker 4: face of it, and I think for a lot of
Speaker 4: people that issue in particular, it made so much sense
Speaker 4: to say, we wouldn't let a five year old get
Speaker 4: a face tattoo, Why are we going to let them
Speaker 4: make permanently life altering decisions at five? How much do
Speaker 4: you think that played into it, where people just said,
Speaker 4: I've had enough, I'm not going to participate that in
Speaker 4: this anymore, and I'm voting in a different way to
Speaker 4: show that.
Speaker 9: I think that's spot on.
Speaker 11: I think what's really interesting is when all this crazy
Speaker 11: stuff started WOCUSM.
Speaker 9: In general, people who were not super political.
Speaker 11: You know, people listen to your show are probably much
Speaker 11: more political than the average person, but most people kind
Speaker 11: of just live their lives. They skim politics and dipping
Speaker 11: and out every two years as elections roll up. What
Speaker 11: they suddenly discovered is they're being drawn into these issues
Speaker 11: no matter what. And people were koutout and scared to
Speaker 11: even bring up their disagreement with some of the insanity. Well,
Speaker 11: what you've seen over the last several years, and really
Speaker 11: peaking during this election cycle, is people are tired of
Speaker 11: being cooutout. They're speaking up, they're standing up, they're going
Speaker 11: to the school board meetings, they're speaking.
Speaker 9: Up online, and they're rebelling.
Speaker 11: And I think this Trump was, this election with Trump
Speaker 11: was a bit of a rebellion on these particular topics.
Speaker 9: People know that the idea of.
Speaker 11: Having meant biological men play in women's sports is insanity.
Speaker 11: People know that gender mutilation of children that is permanent
Speaker 11: for gender dysphoria is insanity. There are alternative ways to
Speaker 11: try to address the mental health issues that somebody is
Speaker 11: going through. We had union empty in this country across
Speaker 11: our entire spectrum of politics, left right, middle, that the
Speaker 11: gender mutilation going on in young women in Africa. We
Speaker 11: all agreed that was a bad idea, And suddenly we're
Speaker 11: doing these things now. It shows you how crazy the
Speaker 11: radicals on this have become. They are the radicals, they
Speaker 11: are the intolerant ones, and as you pointed out, they
Speaker 11: are actually the bigots against people who stand up against them.
Speaker 4: So I'd like to ask you. I've spent the last
Speaker 4: two days consuming CNN and MSNBC, not because I want to,
Speaker 4: but because I wanted to see if there was any
Speaker 4: self awareness coming from the left media. I wanted to
Speaker 4: see if there was any light bulb moments where they
Speaker 4: went the same conversation we're having now. Maybe we went
Speaker 4: too far, but boy, they are doubling down. They're blaming
Speaker 4: uneducated women, misogynistic Latino men, self hating black men. I mean,
Speaker 4: it is ill. Are they capable of moving beyond identity politics?
Speaker 4: Because I'm increasingly believing that they're so married to it,
Speaker 4: and it's so enmeshed in who the party is and
Speaker 4: honestly who the how their social structures are built. I
Speaker 4: don't know if they can turn it off. And if
Speaker 4: they can't, do they ever win an election again?
Speaker 9: Well?
Speaker 11: I think if if President Trump and the Republicans do
Speaker 11: a good job during this term, they will have a
Speaker 11: hard time winning again because the electora is being reformed
Speaker 11: middle class and working class people, the people that feel disempowered,
Speaker 11: not from an elite university, not from the east or
Speaker 11: west coast or a major city. Those people are all
Speaker 11: coming together. Whether they're black, white, or brown, whether they're urban,
Speaker 11: they're coming there.
Speaker 4: You're hang on one second. You are super garbled right now,
Speaker 4: so maybe turn off your camera and see if we
Speaker 4: can get that again. You might not have enough bandwidth
Speaker 4: their so just turn your camera off and try again. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: see if that works. How about ooh no, no, I
Speaker 4: don't no, what is happening? Yeah, I don't know what's
Speaker 4: going on? John, you are super super garbled. A Rod
Speaker 4: are you hearing that too?
Speaker 9: Ok?
Speaker 4: A Rod's going to call him. Something is going on
Speaker 4: here with our zoom, So he's going to give him
Speaker 4: a call because I want to continue this conversation. You
Speaker 4: would think they would learn, right, You would think that
Speaker 4: there would be some kind of learning curve, but apparently
Speaker 4: there's not. Absolutely not. A friend of mine just text
Speaker 4: me and said Joe Biden showed up in Oh perfect,
Speaker 4: Let me get John Tillman. Let me go back. I
Speaker 4: was just vamping right there. So John, go ahead and
Speaker 4: answer that question. If the media learns or if they
Speaker 4: haven't learned. Do they ever get elected again? Go ahead
Speaker 4: and give me that answer.
Speaker 11: I think they're going to be challenged to be elected
Speaker 11: again if the Trump administration in this Congress does a
Speaker 11: good job of passing the legislative agenda that helps working
Speaker 11: class people and middle class people and the disaffected people
Speaker 11: that elected them live better lies, if they bring down inflation,
Speaker 11: bring down crime, secure the border. I think we're seeing
Speaker 11: a generational change in the way people vote, because what
Speaker 11: the cola is is middle class, working class people, black, brown,
Speaker 11: and white alike. As I alluded to earlier, is the destruction.
Speaker 11: It can be the destruction of group identity politics, and
Speaker 11: those numbers aggregate bigger than the elite educated East Coast,
Speaker 11: West Coast high income, and some degree those still voting
Speaker 11: based on group identity politics. So I think this could
Speaker 11: be a seminal restructuring of the electorate, which I think
Speaker 11: is very exciting for the country because it's actually unifying
Speaker 11: to see each other as individuals. Yes, your group identity
Speaker 11: and what make sure unique, yes, but it's your life situation,
Speaker 11: living your life here in America with your family and
Speaker 11: your community that actually trumps them.
Speaker 4: I was going to ask you specifically about that. What
Speaker 4: is the messaging the Republicans or people need to adopt
Speaker 4: and believe in to break through? And my hope is
Speaker 4: this election is the beginning of the end of woke
Speaker 4: identity politics, because if it's not working, one thing I
Speaker 4: know about politicians and political classes, if something isn't working,
Speaker 4: they're willing to throw it overboard in a New York comute,
Speaker 4: they won't even give it a second thought. So I'm
Speaker 4: hoping this is the end of wokeness. So what messaging
Speaker 4: needs to happen to break through that, and so we
Speaker 4: can get more and more people to fully reject the
Speaker 4: notion that your immutable characteristics that you had nothing to
Speaker 4: do with are the most important thing about you.
Speaker 11: I think what has to happen is that the conservative
Speaker 11: right has to continue to build tools of communication into
Speaker 11: those communities and express what we believe. The conservative community
Speaker 11: is a loving community. It believes in individual empowerment. It
Speaker 11: believes in persuasion and collaboration on a voluntary basis to
Speaker 11: build communities, build businesses, build families, and come together. It
Speaker 11: doesn't care how rich you are, how poor you are,
Speaker 11: whether you're black, brown, or white, whether you just got
Speaker 11: here legally, or you're just senate from the Mayflower. We
Speaker 11: all love to work together and build That's who we
Speaker 11: are as a community. And that goes for people who
Speaker 11: are African American, Hispanic A descended from the Mayflowers, I said,
Speaker 11: or Southeastern Europe like I was. That's who we are.
Speaker 11: The problem has been that we've not been very good
Speaker 11: at making that argument. And Trump has broken through. And
Speaker 11: I think Elon Musk, Tulca, Gabbard and RFK all coming
Speaker 11: out and Joe Rogan show all coming out those channels
Speaker 11: of communication to these audiences because those audiences are listening
Speaker 11: to them. One of the most common things you hear
Speaker 11: African Americans say is they're totally different than I thought
Speaker 11: they were. I didn't realize Trump actually cared about me.
Speaker 11: I went to a rally and people were so nice
Speaker 11: to me because they've been propagandized. And you know, if
Speaker 11: we were who as conservatives that the left says we are,
Speaker 11: I wouldn't want to hang out with me either. But
Speaker 11: we're not who they are. We are actually loving, kind
Speaker 11: and generous people, and people are finally finding that out
Speaker 11: because they don't have monopoly control over the communications anymore.
Speaker 11: We have these memes now through shows like yours, through podcasts,
Speaker 11: through the X platform, X platform, thank god he brought it.
Speaker 11: All of them is breaking down their builds to control
Speaker 11: the narrative. And that's what American Culture Project is all about,
Speaker 11: by the way, is we want to break down these
Speaker 11: channels that they control and build new channels to communicate
Speaker 11: with all people about what we have in common and
Speaker 11: how we love one another.
Speaker 4: Elon Musk posted something on X the day after the
Speaker 4: election that just said, you are the media to followers
Speaker 4: or you know, people participating on X because X was
Speaker 4: a better reflection of what the electorate was thinking and
Speaker 4: was going to do than any of the polling than
Speaker 4: any of the punitry that happened on television, because it
Speaker 4: was real people having real conversations with other people. So
Speaker 4: what do you want us to do from this point forward?
Speaker 4: What do we need to do to continue to bring
Speaker 4: these people around? I mean, do we need to just
Speaker 4: check off all of the insane things that some of
Speaker 4: these poor brainwashed people on the left really think are
Speaker 4: going to happen.
Speaker 11: I think the most important way we have found to
Speaker 11: engage with people who maybe are not well versed on
Speaker 11: the issues have a surface. Giving knowledge is to ask questions.
Speaker 11: The best way to help people come to see the
Speaker 11: world differently is not to lecture them and tell them
Speaker 11: why you're right about your ideas. The best way to
Speaker 11: simply ask questions will tell me. Who do you think
Speaker 11: should be in charge of the children. Do you think
Speaker 11: the schools should be in charge of how the children
Speaker 11: live their lives? Do you think the government should be
Speaker 11: in charge or do you think the parents are best qualified?
Speaker 11: Almost anybody that's a reasonable person, even if they're from
Speaker 11: the political left, is going to see the parents. They
Speaker 11: should be properly in that role. And those are the
Speaker 11: kind of questions that we want. Who do you think
Speaker 11: should be in charge of making the decisions and where
Speaker 11: to invest tax payer money or to people's money. Should
Speaker 11: the government be in charge of which businesses should be
Speaker 11: invested in? Or do you think individuals coming together should
Speaker 11: be in charge of how to invest to build businesses?
Speaker 11: Look at for example, SpaceX and those private investments and
Speaker 11: how it's absolutely transformed space The government invested in bullying
Speaker 11: and they stranded astronauts on the space station and SpaceX
Speaker 11: how to Go Rescue one was privately run with private
Speaker 11: investments with an entrepreneurial approach. One was completely government subsidized
Speaker 11: in a dominating way and directed by the government. So
Speaker 11: asking questions is the best way I think to help
Speaker 11: people find the truth because we are we do live
Speaker 11: in a propaganda war environment.
Speaker 4: The American Culture Project can be found at amamculture dot org.
Speaker 4: I put a link on my blog today. John. I'd
Speaker 4: love to continue this conversation with you in the future,
Speaker 4: so let's make that happen.
Speaker 11: I love it, I love being with you. Thanks so
Speaker 11: much for the opportunity.
Speaker 4: All right, that's John Tilman with the American Culture Project
Speaker 4: and fascinating stuff. You should go. They have great information
Speaker 4: on their website, so you can go get education, you
Speaker 4: can talk, join a community. There's a lot of stuff
Speaker 4: you can do there. But this is the kind of
Speaker 4: organizational structure. And I don't know anything about John Tilman
Speaker 4: other than he's working with this. I'm sure he has
Speaker 4: a history I could look up. But this kind of
Speaker 4: organization is what has been missing on the right, and
Speaker 4: the left has been really good creating organizations similar to
Speaker 4: this to educate their people or how they want to
Speaker 4: educate them. So please, when I talk to you, guys
Speaker 4: about this stuff. Support the things that we're talking about.
Speaker 4: It makes a huge difference in the long run. We
Speaker 4: got Nick Ferguson in today and Little of the Day. Nick,
Speaker 4: have you ever played of the Day with me? You
Speaker 4: know I have, and you've won every single time? Whatever
Speaker 4: I mean, I wasn't asking for that. I was just
Speaker 4: I can't remember. I've I've defeated so many people. Do
Speaker 4: you want to play with you? Against you?
Speaker 7: Come on, man, you're making it tough.
Speaker 4: You do that teasing, just teasing. Well, now I'm off
Speaker 4: site today, so you're gonna have a distinct advantage. Now
Speaker 4: it's time. Yeah, you're gonna have an advantage. Now it's
Speaker 4: time for the most exciting segment on the radio of
Speaker 4: its guide And.
Speaker 2: Whoa yeah, all right.
Speaker 4: What is our dad joke of the day please, Anthony.
Speaker 8: You know, of all the vengeance over the last one
Speaker 8: hundred years, the dry erase board has to be the
Speaker 8: most remarkable.
Speaker 4: Oh that's funny. I like that one. Yeah, these have
Speaker 4: been really good the last days. What is our word
Speaker 4: of the day please? It is a verb can noodle,
Speaker 4: I mean to snuggle, like to to you know, no
Speaker 4: nickodle nod canoodle.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It means the same thing, like you are spooning or.
Speaker 7: Something to caress or pet amorously.
Speaker 4: That's that's what you do with That's what That's what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. The bark i'm giving, I'm giving Nick and
Speaker 4: I both credits, so you get a full point. You
Speaker 4: know what. Nick probably canoodles his wife. I can noodle
Speaker 4: with Chuck. And we know what canonling is. We know
Speaker 4: what we see it. Okay, Yes, today's trivia question. I
Speaker 4: hope you all get this. Well, ay, Rod might not,
Speaker 4: but yeah, I don't know, we'll see. The fifteenth anniversary
Speaker 4: issue of Penthouse Magazine, released July twenty third, nineteen eighty four,
Speaker 4: became the best selling issue ever when controversial photos of
Speaker 4: the first black Miss America were released. Who was she?
Speaker 4: Oh my god? If you also know this nothing, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna be so mad at you right now. Something Kennedy,
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, no v Vanessa Williams. Oh man, but
Speaker 4: Vanessa Williams lost her crown over that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I didn't see that issue.
Speaker 4: Yeah where you were not even born yet? But whatever,
Speaker 4: it's fine, all right? What is our jeopardy category?
Speaker 8: Please?
Speaker 4: Now, Nick, you do have an advantage because I'm offsite today,
Speaker 4: so you're gonna be able to get this. Let's do it.
Speaker 7: Two word alliteration. Okay, two word illiteration.
Speaker 4: I love alliteration.
Speaker 8: To have this, I have no idea what this word is.
Speaker 8: Guffa gu ffa aw Okay. To have this is to
Speaker 8: gain satisfaction and final vindication.
Speaker 4: Manny, what's the last.
Speaker 2: Laugh forrect.
Speaker 3: A revenge?
Speaker 7: To word alliteration to word this start with the same letter.
Speaker 8: Yes, this fish can pack quite a punch, stunning its
Speaker 8: prey with up to six hundred volts.
Speaker 4: Mandy. What's an electric geel?
Speaker 8: Oh, Mandy, correct, it's something that personally annoys you, not
Speaker 8: Fluffy or Fido.
Speaker 4: Manny, what's pet pee? That's correct?
Speaker 8: Powerful influence from your equals to act in a way
Speaker 8: acceptable to them.
Speaker 4: Mandy? What is peer pressure?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Boy?
Speaker 8: Going for the sweep reliterative phrase for a situation that
Speaker 8: seems okay but is inclined to gradually lead to a
Speaker 8: bad outcome.
Speaker 4: It seems okay, you're ready.
Speaker 8: I don't know it's going to help you get it.
Speaker 8: You are riding on a blankety blank.
Speaker 7: You're riding on a blankety blank. Uh huh, You're you're
Speaker 7: playing on a blankety blank.
Speaker 8: Even playing field literation, no idea slippery slope.
Speaker 4: Oh slippery slope that Nick? Yeah right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: You try to butter me up a r like. Oh,
Speaker 7: She's like, I gotta make sure you come on next time.
Speaker 7: I'm like, man, I'm trying to get you to come back.
Speaker 4: No, in all honesty, Nick, the more you play, the
Speaker 4: better at it you get. And I'm right about that,
Speaker 4: a rod, aren't. I I mean right, Edwards wins on
Speaker 4: a regular basis. Now it's a regular basis it is.
Speaker 4: I'm just telling you, the more you do it, it's
Speaker 4: like anything, you'll have her in speed walking, not even closed.
Speaker 4: So it's fine, gosh, until I can get this stupid
Speaker 4: knee fixed all the way things happened. No, I'm trying
Speaker 4: to I don't know. I just I don't want to
Speaker 4: have surgery, but might be the only option. So we'll
Speaker 4: see what is coming up on KAO Sports. Does anyone
Speaker 4: know anyone?
Speaker 9: Anyone?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm in the studio.
Speaker 4: With Ryan Edwards.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk about the exciting Nuggets game last
Speaker 3: night to throw them the Oklahoma City Thunder who were
Speaker 3: undefeated heading into the Nuggets game, last night.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you see Ronny Bronnie's out of the league
Speaker 4: now for a while, well we.
Speaker 7: Knew that was gonna happen. You're gonna go down to
Speaker 7: the G League.
Speaker 3: But his dad is lebron James, so they're promote him
Speaker 3: at some point during the season.
Speaker 4: You think you think he'll be okay, He's gonna do
Speaker 4: all right? Yeah, all right, Well, Kaway Sports is coming
Speaker 4: up next. We'll be back for a big Friday show tomorrow.
Speaker 4: In the meantime, Keith it right here on KOA