WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:03.279 The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Bill and Pollock 2 00:00:03.359 --> 00:00:04.799 Accident and injury Lawyers. 3 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:15.800 No, it's Mandy Connell, Manna KA n FM. 4 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:21.359 God stay the nicey Ray. 5 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:25.559 Many Connell key sad thing. 6 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:31.280 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, q A Thursday edition of the show. 7 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:33.719 I'm your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell 8 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:36.799 joined by my right hand man to quaring sweat. I 9 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:39.520 love a Anthony Rodriguez, you can call him a rock. 10 00:00:45.159 --> 00:00:47.840 We will get you through the snow and the gloom 11 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:50.320 and the bad roads and all of that good stuff today. 12 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:53.119 And I have a bunch of stuff that is not 13 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:58.200 related to the election. I know, I know, I've got 14 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:00.560 it for you today. So I'm super exciting that we 15 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:09.079 are dut dun du dut dun dun dun dun. Oh 16 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:13.079 don dun dun. Not quite yeah, not quite, thank you, 17 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:17.159 Vice President Harris. Not quite. We do have some election stuff, 18 00:01:17.159 --> 00:01:19.319 so we're gonna do that quickly. But we also have 19 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:22.200 a couple of really interesting guests that I'm excited about. 20 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:25.079 So let's do this. Let's jump in. We'll get to 21 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:26.799 the weird stuff and then we'll get to the cool 22 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:29.760 stuff first. But if you want to read the blog, 23 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:32.040 and you know what, let's just let's talk for a minute. 24 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:36.159 If you're not reading the blog, here's what's happening. The 25 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:38.959 people that are reading the blog are every day getting 26 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.439 thirteen percent smarter than you are, So imagine how that 27 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:45.120 adds up as the year goes on. If you too 28 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:47.640 would like to be thirteen percent smarter, which is a 29 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:51.280 completely unscientific number that I plucked from just thin air, 30 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:54.239 you need to go to Mandy's blog dot com. That's 31 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:58.000 Mandy's blog dot com, no apostrophe because they won't let 32 00:01:58.040 --> 00:01:59.680 you have an apostrophe in the URL, even though it's 33 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:02.319 gommat correct. And then when you get there, go to 34 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:04.519 the latest post section. Look for the headline that says 35 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:08.159 eleven seven twenty four blog A buffs Fan gets a 36 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:10.680 Dream come true. Click on that, and here are the 37 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:12.759 headlines you will find within I think. 38 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:14.560 Noone's listening office, half of American, all the ships and 39 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:16.439 clipments and seen that's called a press flint. 40 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:22.280 Today on the blog A Buffs Fan gets a dream fulfilled. 41 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:24.879 Let's get people to vote for freedom and liberty. So 42 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:28.080 more stolen ballots may have been counted in Mason County. 43 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:32.199 The Colorado legislature remains largely the same heard keeps the 44 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:36.319 third recreational pot both passed and failed in the Springs. 45 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:40.120 I just can't with these crying videos. No, it's not 46 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:43.199 an ism that kept Kamala out. We finally know why 47 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:46.520 the RTD CHAF was fired. Why are so many women 48 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:51.000 hooking up with teen boys? Scott Jennings explains Trump's victory perfectly. 49 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:54.599 Michael Schellenberger goes even further, Twenty twenty five should be 50 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:57.800 the year of men. This made me belly laugh really 51 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:02.199 hard today. Who should Biden? George Clooney is to blame? 52 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:06.120 A new breath wiser can detect lung cancer, porsia ditches, 53 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:09.599 it's ev plans. The botanic gardens is all lit up. 54 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:13.560 Near death experiences lead to big changes the post election 55 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:18.000 content we need. We feel you, sir, and reading too 56 00:03:18.039 --> 00:03:22.080 much into dumb kids and dangerous TikTok challenges. Someone checked 57 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:26.120 on Kamala, So why we don't want a gen x president? 58 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:29.719 And a new show with Ted Danson looks delightful. Those 59 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:33.759 are the headlines on the blog at Mandy's blog dot com. 60 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:35.360 Check it out for yourself. 61 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:36.400 Now. 62 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:38.479 I have one video on the blog. Normally, when I 63 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:40.039 put a video on the blog, I try not to 64 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:42.360 put videos with a lot of potty mouth and stuff 65 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:47.120 like that, because you cannot, you know, generally speaking. But 66 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:49.000 the one that I did put on the blog today 67 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:52.000 is a woman named Kelly Mano who has made a 68 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:57.039 fortune on gen X content, and she answers the question 69 00:03:57.159 --> 00:03:59.439 why have we never had a gen X president? And 70 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:03.439 I laughed and laughed and laughed. But there's a lot 71 00:04:03.479 --> 00:04:05.520 of pottymouth in it. So you've been warned if you 72 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:08.000 play that at work, play it quietly. And at the 73 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:10.560 very bottom of the blog today, how are you, ay, Rod? 74 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:12.319 You're a little bit younger than me, so you did 75 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:15.479 not really live through Ted Danson's glory years. Did you 76 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:17.360 ever watch The Good Place, which is the most recent 77 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:18.120 show he's been on. 78 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:19.959 No, it never really grabbed me. 79 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:23.680 It was kind of a well once I got rolling, 80 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:25.920 it's very funny. But he's got a new show out. 81 00:04:25.959 --> 00:04:28.879 And the reason I'm even bringing this up is because 82 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:32.399 you know, Hollywood is youth obsessed, right They everything is 83 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:35.720 geared towards, you know, teenagers. All the movies that are 84 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:38.279 being made they want teenagers in the theaters and all 85 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:42.120 that stuff. But now that we have a lot of celebrities, 86 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:45.480 like big stars like Ted Danson that are getting older, 87 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:49.639 Hollywood is starting to respond. And this show, it's called 88 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:53.399 A Man on the Inside, it looks absolutely hilarious. I 89 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:58.040 mean absolutely hilarious. But the whole premise is he's been widowed, 90 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:00.319 his daughter's worried about him. She tells it to do 91 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:03.079 something that excites him, so he signs up to work 92 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:06.800 as an investigative assistant and he goes into a nursing 93 00:05:06.839 --> 00:05:11.160 home undercover, and it's hilarious. And you don't necessarily think 94 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:15.199 about nursing homes or elderly people being hilarious, but this 95 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:18.160 looks hilarious. So I don't know, maybe I'm just getting 96 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:22.279 that age. I just I'm tired of of, you know, 97 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:26.160 watching people. By the way, Ayrod, did you know this 98 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:27.639 is going to happen to you at some point? And 99 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:29.360 I don't know what the cutoff age is. Maybe one 100 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:31.920 of our texters on the Common Spirit Health text line 101 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:35.120 at five sixty six nine Ohero could answer, at what 102 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:39.519 age what's the rubicon age of when you no longer 103 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:41.639 know who any of the young famous people are? Because 104 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:45.000 I'm there, I'm there I pick up a People magazine 105 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:47.600 or a US Weekly at my hairdressers when I'm waiting, 106 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:49.839 and I got nothing. I have never heard of any 107 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:50.720 of these people. 108 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:55.560 Connected. So I'm not the guy to ask because I 109 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:56.120 never know. 110 00:05:56.199 --> 00:05:58.000 I'm saying, I'm just letting you know. 111 00:05:58.000 --> 00:05:58.079 No. 112 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:01.600 You will will trust me. You know you will, because 113 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:03.720 you'll get to a point where I am. Now where 114 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:05.439 you go watch some of these movies that come out 115 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:08.000 with these young people, and they're freaking terrible. They have 116 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:10.000 plot holes so big you could drive a truck through them. 117 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:13.879 They're they're the same sappy kind of stories that are 118 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:17.319 just god awful for many reasons. And you just stop caring. 119 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:20.160 Right You're busy, you got other stuff to go, you 120 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:22.800 got other stuff to do. You just don't have the time. 121 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:26.319 Like my daughter, Okay, my daughter's fifteen. My daughter could 122 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:30.279 probably tell you every single celebrity right now because she 123 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:32.040 doesn't have as much other plate as I do. And 124 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:35.000 she gets really mad when she's like, oh, so and 125 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:36.920 so was in this, and I'm like, remind me who's 126 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:39.000 so and so was? Well? He was in this, this 127 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:41.800 and this? Three things. I've never started on Disney. How 128 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:45.040 do you not know who they are exactly Yeah, that's yeah, 129 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:47.319 kind of like that, yea. So I kind of rely 130 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:50.439 on her, right, especially for new music. My daughter has 131 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:51.399 very good taste in. 132 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:54.839 Well, all music and television and movies are totally different 133 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:58.120 now music when it comes to terrible up and coming 134 00:06:58.199 --> 00:06:59.879 music and music, I mean, must be real. 135 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:03.720 Music's been dead for a while anyway, But bad, bad, 136 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:05.360 young music is totally different. 137 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:08.199 Do you know what you just did? That is that? 138 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:12.160 That's how it starts. That's the beginning of Oh no, no, no, no, no, 139 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:14.680 this is no this yes, this is just reality. 140 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:16.560 This has nothing to do with age. 141 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:20.000 Music has not been as good as the good old 142 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:21.600 days for a long time. 143 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:26.360 That is not. That is not. That's the same thing 144 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:30.319 today is a good game. Music was the absolute best. 145 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:30.519 No. 146 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:32.120 Eighties music was the best music. 147 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:32.759 Seventies. 148 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:36.000 That is the best music seventies. Seventies. I love disco 149 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:38.319 and all of that, and there was some amazing rock 150 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:40.720 and roll like rock music in the seventies. Man, But 151 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:42.120 for me, I came of age. 152 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:44.680 In the eight Even smart young people would admit that 153 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:46.639 young music is terrible. 154 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:47.120 That's how. 155 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:50.000 That's actually a good gauge of whether you have a 156 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:52.800 smart young person is what do you think about today's music, 157 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:55.680 your music, and how does it compare to our music? 158 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:57.879 And if they have the right answer, they're gonna say 159 00:07:58.079 --> 00:07:59.439 our music today sucks. 160 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:02.399 See this is what I do with Q, right, And 161 00:08:02.439 --> 00:08:04.480 I promise guys, we're gonna get to some serious stuff. 162 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:06.319 But my goodness, we've been so heavy all week. Give 163 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:09.079 us a break, right, just give us a second. So 164 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:12.959 my my daughter, she'll play somebody for me, and I 165 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:17.319 will say, wow, that artist is evocative of like, for instance, 166 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:22.959 Chapel Roone. Are you familiar with Chapel Roone? The worst 167 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:29.240 song she has? That is her worst song. It's catchy, 168 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:31.240 but it's the worst song she has. I'm telling you 169 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:37.720 she's incredibly talented. But no, oh, stop with that please, 170 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:41.320 or a Kamala nomina or whatever. But she's got great music. 171 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:44.039 And I say, oh, this is very evocative of Stevie Nicks. 172 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:45.840 Write her voice just the vocal. 173 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:49.799 Sample exactly like Good Times. 174 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:52.960 No no, no, she doesn't sample. She just has her 175 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:56.879 voice in some songs. Is very uh, it has Stevie nicksound. 176 00:08:57.039 --> 00:09:01.200 So my daughter knows, yes it and she I love her. 177 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:03.480 I think she's very, very talented. But my daughter has 178 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:04.919 turned me onto a lot of music I would have 179 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:07.879 never listened to some of it. I say, I never 180 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:10.080 want to hear that again. But like, I've been a 181 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:13.519 little bit on this tip about this chick from New 182 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:15.919 Zealand who opened for a band called The Wallows that 183 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:17.879 I'd never heard of till my daughter's like, can we 184 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:20.759 go see the Wallows at Redrox? So we did and 185 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:23.320 Benny opened up for her, and now I'm like obsessed 186 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:26.000 with this young artist from New Zealand. Having a kid 187 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:29.200 helps you stay on top of things and even dare 188 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:34.320 I say ahead of things just letting you know this? Yeah, 189 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:36.840 oh you just wait. There comes a time when you 190 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:39.159 beg for anything to make you feel young again. People 191 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:41.840 on the text line have weighed in. I think the 192 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:45.919 most common answer about forty you still have you just stop? 193 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:47.159 You still have no idea? 194 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:47.799 All right? 195 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:51.240 No players about forty. You can watch ted Dance's new 196 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:53.399 show on Netflix. You can watch the trailer today on 197 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:57.279 the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Mandy, I've been traveling 198 00:09:57.320 --> 00:09:59.960 and I'm having trouble seeing Colorado and how Senate Rais 199 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:03.120 Did the Republicans get a majority in either or? Are 200 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:06.480 we still in the I don't know what PRC means 201 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:10.840 are Also, we are not in a supermajority in the Senate. 202 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:15.279 Wait a minute, no is the answer. No, no is 203 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:17.399 the answer. We did not gain I think maybe we 204 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:21.159 gained one House seat. It was not a great year 205 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:23.919 for Republicans in Colorado, but with the incompetence of the 206 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:26.960 Republican Party right now under its current leadership, that's not 207 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:31.240 altogether surprising, especially with the leftward lurch that we've experienced 208 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:35.720 here in Colorado. That being said, the Senate does not 209 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:40.240 have a supermajority for the Democrats, which allows Jared Pelist 210 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:44.440 to veto the worst instincts of the left wing legislature, 211 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:48.960 and they can't overwrite a veto. So we did stop that. 212 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:51.960 And it's so it's such a small thing, but it 213 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:55.200 is a very important thing. The good news about the 214 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:59.559 legislature this year is that the most extreme members of 215 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:03.639 the legend got bounced in their primaries. So maybe we'll 216 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:06.799 have a little more pro business, you know, semblance to 217 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:09.480 the Colorado legislature. I'm not holding my breath on that 218 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:12.399 because I just I don't think that, you know, I 219 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:16.039 think we're really screwed until we have a functioning Republican Party. Now, 220 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:21.639 let me ask you guys, or rather, yesterday someone asked 221 00:11:21.639 --> 00:11:26.279 me on x dot com. They asked me, Mandy, you said, 222 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:28.399 we need other than new leadership, what do you think 223 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:31.519 the Republican Party needs to do in Colorado? And I 224 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:34.159 thought about it for like a second and this is 225 00:11:34.200 --> 00:11:35.759 what I came up with. But I think this is 226 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:40.080 a very very good idea. Number One, they have to 227 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:44.480 have new leadership. That's just flat out. Dave Williams is toxic. 228 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:48.440 He's a toxic brand. He is toxic to independence, he 229 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:51.879 is toxic to the gay community, he is toxic to 230 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:54.960 everyone except his little cabal of supporters in the upper 231 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:58.519 echelons of the Republican Party. Totally toxic. He has to go. 232 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:02.519 Then the Republican Party in Colorado needs to look at 233 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:05.960 the results of the abortion issue. They need to look 234 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:10.200 at the results of repealing the limitations on marriage that 235 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:13.279 just happened in our constitution because the kind of got 236 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:15.600 made null and void at the Supreme Court. And then 237 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:18.519 they need to recognize that they have to get out 238 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:21.879 of the business of social issues. It's not a winning 239 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:24.960 formula formula for the Republicans now. Now all of you 240 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:27.399 pro life Republicans out there, I want to I have 241 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:29.879 a conversation for you too, so just hang on because 242 00:12:29.919 --> 00:12:31.639 I can hear you freaking out at me right now. 243 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:36.360 The Republican Party needs to focus on everything that has 244 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:40.360 happened since the Democrats took over. Okay, They need to 245 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:44.240 focus on the rioting that was allowed in downtown. They 246 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:46.440 need to focus on the das who chose not to 247 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:49.240 prosecute any of those people. They need to focus on 248 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:53.840 the cities who settled with all of these protesters, some 249 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:56.559 of them rightfully so, but others just because they sued. 250 00:12:56.799 --> 00:12:59.360 They need to talk about crime and how the defund 251 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:03.559 the police Moved movement has negatively affected morale across Colorado, 252 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:07.080 making it harder for them to hire cops. They need 253 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:10.679 to talk about Democrats passing a repeal of qualified immunity, 254 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:14.120 which makes police more reluctant to actively police and are 255 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:17.480 only reactively policing, and who can blame them. We need 256 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:19.559 to talk about real estate prices and the fact that 257 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:23.919 Democrats across the state are continuing to add building codes 258 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:28.039 to our already large set of building codes in chase 259 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:31.360 of a green dream that does nothing except making building 260 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:34.519 a house more expensive. They need to talk about how 261 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:36.519 if they really want to make housing more affordable, which 262 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:38.879 Governor Jared Polis said he did, then we need to 263 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:42.120 go through with a fine tooth comb and find out 264 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:47.159 where government is creating barriers to getting more affordable housing 265 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:50.519 built in a timely fashion. We need to be talking 266 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:52.279 about the hit to oil and gas that has happened 267 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:54.879 in Colorado, what that means for tax bases, what that 268 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:57.559 means for employment, what that means for lost revenue to 269 00:13:57.600 --> 00:14:00.279 the state. We need to be talking about things that 270 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:03.759 matter to Colorado's We don't need to be talking about 271 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:08.879 you know, God hates flags. We don't need that. And 272 00:14:08.919 --> 00:14:10.960 I want to address the pro life movement in Colorado. 273 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:15.840 It should be a parent to every person in the 274 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:19.080 pro life community in Colorado that we are not a 275 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:22.879 pro life state. We just codified abortion rights into our 276 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:26.519 constitution and force taxpayers to pay for them. We have 277 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:28.840 no limitations on abortion. We can't even get a late 278 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:34.200 term abortion ban past. So shift your energies. You are 279 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:35.519 not going to be able to do it at the 280 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:37.559 ballot box, You're not going to be able to do 281 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:40.159 it at the legislature. So it's time to buckle down, 282 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:44.799 create great alternatives for women and support them and create 283 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:49.759 a vibrant, vibrant pro life community here in Colorado dedicated 284 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:52.799 to helping women who decide to keep their babies. Then 285 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:54.799 we need to talk about it. We need to talk 286 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:57.200 about it all the time. We need to talk about options. 287 00:14:57.480 --> 00:15:00.240 We need to talk about how to help women not 288 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:02.559 have to make that choice in the first place. So 289 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:06.039 you have to change hearts and minds here before you 290 00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:08.399 can do anything about abortion. And I know it's frustrating, 291 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:11.559 and I know that people in the pro life movement genuinely, 292 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:14.759 with their whole hearts, believe that they are saving a 293 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:17.559 baby's life, which I also believe they are trying to do. 294 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:20.039 But the reality is much different on the ground, and 295 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:23.120 what we're doing now is not going to work. So 296 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:26.919 instead of spending thousands and thousands of dollars getting petitions 297 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:29.159 to get something else on the ballot that's gonna lose, 298 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:32.480 let's just go ahead and address the problem at the 299 00:15:32.519 --> 00:15:36.200 local level in a focused way and create an environment 300 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:39.080 in Colorado where women really have options. I hate to 301 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:41.240 say it, but create an environment in Colorado where the 302 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:43.559 only women who are getting abortions are coming here from 303 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:49.080 out of state. That would be a perfect world. So yeah, 304 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:54.240 it is definitely a different environment here in Colorado, and 305 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:59.360 we have to have Republicans get their act together. We 306 00:15:59.399 --> 00:16:01.480 need strong I got to tell you, and I said 307 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:04.559 this to a couple really connected political people the other day, 308 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:08.720 if the Republicans are not actively seeking another candidate to 309 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:12.799 replace Jannet Griswold now she is term limited out after this, 310 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:16.279 but we need a Secretary of State that will address 311 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:20.279 the concerns and issues of voters in Colorado who are 312 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:24.120 not quite sold that we are the gold standard of elections. 313 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:26.759 I have an update on the mesa county stolen ballot 314 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:30.840 story that is quite alarming. We're going to get into 315 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:34.120 in just a few minutes. So that is what we 316 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:36.360 need to have happened in Colorado. We're going to go 317 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:39.000 through a few election related things a little bit later, 318 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:42.399 but first coming up. Oh no, we got our first 319 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:44.639 guest at one. I got two guests today and they're 320 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:47.559 both I'm very much looking forward to them. One of 321 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:51.480 them is a man named Riley Rhodes. He's seventy two 322 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:55.840 years old and a lifelong cu buff fan, and he 323 00:16:56.120 --> 00:16:59.519 is having a wish granted this week because of Jeremy 324 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:03.440 Bloom's Wish of a Lifetime that's the charitable affiliate of AARP, 325 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:07.480 the grant's life changing Wishes to older adults, and Riley 326 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:10.920 was nominated. He's got a great story. He's super excited. 327 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:12.960 He gets to go to the game, he gets to 328 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.279 meet the team, he gets to meet the coach, and 329 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:18.480 he's super excited. We're going to talk to him a 330 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:20.920 little bit about that later and then we're going to 331 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:23.759 talk to the CEO of the American Culture Project. What 332 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:26.559 is the American Culture Project. It is a I don't 333 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:28.359 know if they call themselves a think tank or a 334 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:33.400 policy tank, I don't know, designed to help move undecided 335 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:36.759 voters in swing states to vote for liberty and freedom 336 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:40.079 over bigger government bureaucracy. So we're going to talk to 337 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:43.599 John Tillman at two thirty today about that. So it's 338 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:45.519 going to be a little bit of election stuff and 339 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:48.240 a little bit not of election stuff. And I'm guessing 340 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:50.880 at this point you guys are probably okay with this. 341 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:56.079 Now I want to ask you guys about the last 342 00:17:56.079 --> 00:18:00.359 twenty four hours on social media because but have you 343 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:05.799 seen the unfettered vitriol from the sore losers who are 344 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:10.640 mad about Trump getting reelected. It's making it hard for 345 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:14.519 me to live by my promise to be a uniting 346 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:17.799 force and to extend grace and be a gracious winner. 347 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:21.799 When I see someone saying Trump supporters should all die, 348 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:24.359 I'm having trouble with that. Have you seen it? Are 349 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:25.160 you seeing it as well? 350 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:25.480 Oh? 351 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:26.240 I've seen it. 352 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:28.200 You know my age age thirty. 353 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:31.880 Yes, you know it's probably being seen by me by 354 00:18:31.960 --> 00:18:33.640 the people my age. 355 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:40.960 Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Mandy, 356 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:43.400 I just want you to know you're always welcome north 357 00:18:43.440 --> 00:18:45.880 of the border to buy Ammo cheap gas and fireworks. 358 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:47.960 Please stay for a meal while you're here the free 359 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:50.640 State of Wyoming. Let's race. The State of Wyoming just 360 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:53.160 sent me an invite. You don't get that every day? 361 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:56.799 They just don't, Mandy from Republican state chairman. I would 362 00:18:56.799 --> 00:19:00.559 be a terrible state chairman. I am not good at 363 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:02.839 glad handing. Do you know what glad handing is? It's 364 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:05.759 like where you go and you schmooze and you ask 365 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:08.200 people for money. I'm just it's not my skill set. 366 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:10.799 I'm not good at small talk. I've never been good 367 00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:13.599 at small talk. Is anybody really good at small talk? 368 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:15.759 If you are, give me the give me the clue. 369 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:18.599 I try. I try, But I'd much rather have a 370 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:22.160 meaningful conversation, even if I just met you. Sometimes I'll 371 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:24.720 have really deep conversations with people in line at target 372 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:27.680 or something, and I find that more gratifying than small talk. 373 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:30.279 But a lot of raising money and going out to 374 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:33.960 be the chairman is predicated on small talk, and I'm 375 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:35.200 just not good at it. Okay, let me take a 376 00:19:35.279 --> 00:19:37.079 quick time out. Just realize what time it was. Wait 377 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:40.079 a minute, I've got yeah, I got two clocks, two 378 00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:43.799 clocks with different times on them. Be right back after this. Mandy, 379 00:19:43.839 --> 00:19:46.880 have you attended a caucus meeting. If you have, you've 380 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:49.759 seen the problem. In most districts, the only people attending 381 00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:53.000 are the old school conservatives entrenched in there. Thinking I 382 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:55.440 have been a delegate to county and state assemblies. Your 383 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:58.799 goals won't be met unless you get more grassroots participation 384 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:02.599 by younger members. Remember we at KBB and she couldn't 385 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:07.039 move things exactly. The caucus system sucks. I'm just going 386 00:20:07.079 --> 00:20:10.039 to say it. I have gone to caucus meetings. I 387 00:20:10.119 --> 00:20:13.799 was one of three people in my area that showed up, 388 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:17.480 and they're too incredibly time consuming at a time where 389 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:20.799 people do not have the time or desire to spend 390 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:23.799 an entire day sitting around with a bunch of other 391 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:27.039 people talking about politics. So you're absolutely right, Texter, that 392 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:29.440 is one hundred percent the problem, which is why I 393 00:20:29.480 --> 00:20:32.799 supported rank choice voting because it would have completely undermined 394 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:35.720 the caucus system. I do think that more and more 395 00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:39.640 candidates are just going to skip the caucus and it 396 00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:43.880 is going to become a completely just afterthought. Whoever the 397 00:20:43.880 --> 00:20:46.480 caucus chooses is just going to be an afterthought because 398 00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:50.400 they're going to be too extreme to be elected in 399 00:20:50.440 --> 00:20:53.079 the general election. That's what I predict is going to happen, 400 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:56.359 this person said Mandy. Small talk is an opportunity to 401 00:20:56.359 --> 00:20:59.480