Speaker 1: We do have a CU Buffs basketball game taken over
Speaker 1: right at the top of the hour.
Speaker 2: But as I do anyway, I.
Speaker 1: Created an aluminous blog for us for our little hour together.
Speaker 1: You can find that blog by going to mandy'sblog dot com.
Speaker 1: That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline this says
Speaker 1: eleven twenty six, twenty four blog. Welp, I've got a
Speaker 1: short show today. Click on that and here are the
Speaker 1: headlines you will find within and even.
Speaker 2: With some list in office half American, all with ships
Speaker 2: and climas. And see that's going to press flinch.
Speaker 1: Today on the blog, the Buffs lost their first game
Speaker 1: in the Maui Invitational. Stupid man challenges elk if it's
Speaker 1: good enough for Lauren Bobert. The Aurora Pduse of Force
Speaker 1: report is interesting. It's avalanche time in the mountains, big
Speaker 1: time snow for the next forty eight hours. It's addiction stupid.
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook is a good man. Biden will attend Trump's inauguration.
Speaker 1: The UN fires its genocide expert for not saying Israel.
Speaker 2: Is committing genocide.
Speaker 1: Walmart ditches dei y'all who this? And eighty million dollar
Speaker 1: bet on Trump was not dumb luck And now a
Speaker 1: bunch of crazy good covers from the Voice. We're still
Speaker 1: fat from last year. I feel so seen right now.
Speaker 1: And this guy gives haircuts to neurodivergent kids. Let me
Speaker 1: try that again, neurodivergent kids.
Speaker 2: Click on Oha, Wait a.
Speaker 1: Minute, those are the headlines on the point a minute.
Speaker 1: Hang on, there's that's not all the headlines now, Zach.
Speaker 1: You're now it's contagious, Zach. Do you see what happened?
Speaker 1: You made a tiny mistake and now it's just bled
Speaker 1: all over, just.
Speaker 2: All over the show. It's my fault. It's all you
Speaker 2: know what it is, all Zack.
Speaker 1: There's going to be a stern talking to after the program. Okay,
Speaker 1: a stern talking to not by me but by someone.
Speaker 1: Someone is going to have a stern talking.
Speaker 2: To the highest hire up. Oh they're exactly exactly. Okay.
Speaker 1: Two more videos on the blog today, one of them
Speaker 1: couple goals and one of.
Speaker 2: Them struggling with self. Work to watch this.
Speaker 1: Those are the headlines on the blog at Mandy's blog
Speaker 1: dot com. And hopefully we can get to the next
Speaker 1: fifty or so minutes without any more disa. I have
Speaker 1: great Okay, So we have Cubuffs basketball coming up at one,
Speaker 1: so I wanted to make sure you guys had stuff
Speaker 1: to watch. So I pulled some really really good videos
Speaker 1: that I thought were worth your time if you like
Speaker 1: the Voice. I got a great just kind of the
Speaker 1: voice from around the world. Some of the covers that
Speaker 1: were the most popular.
Speaker 2: I love that. Do you watch the Voice? Zach is
Speaker 2: at a show that young people watch.
Speaker 3: I don't catch it like religiously, but if I'm visiting
Speaker 3: my mom, she's a fairly big fan.
Speaker 2: I'll watch it with her, you know, Okay, I will
Speaker 2: accept that.
Speaker 1: I love the very beginning of the Voice, But then
Speaker 1: when it starts to get contrived and they're like trying
Speaker 1: to coach everybody, and then by the end everybody's like
Speaker 1: the most polished, perfect singer in the history of singers,
Speaker 1: that's when I get bored. I mean, I usually watch
Speaker 1: the finale, but I'll watch the beginning that I kind
Speaker 1: of maybe I do, maybe I don't in the middle,
Speaker 1: and then and then I watch the end.
Speaker 2: But the blind.
Speaker 1: Auditions, I love the whole concept because you'll have people
Speaker 1: that don't look remark just remotely what they sound like
Speaker 1: and it's just kind of cool concept and it's a
Speaker 1: good show. It's a really good, you know, competition show.
Speaker 1: That video is on the blog today Jim Gaffagan talking
Speaker 1: about password anxiety, and I've never felt so seen in
Speaker 1: my entire life. Like password managers are getting way more aggressive.
Speaker 2: They're like you put in.
Speaker 1: A pass where they're like, yeah, you already use that
Speaker 1: one seventeen years.
Speaker 2: Ago, Like what, hey remember seventeen years ago.
Speaker 1: That's on the blog. My favorite video on the blog today.
Speaker 1: I saw this the other day on one of my
Speaker 1: Facebook feeds or Instagram or whatever, and it's just so
Speaker 1: it's such a beautiful video of something so simple. It
Speaker 1: is a barber who does these haircuts for neurodivergent and
Speaker 1: developmentally disabled kids. So these are kids that could be
Speaker 1: anywhere on the autism spectrum. They could be nonverbal and
Speaker 1: have real serious challenges, or they could be kids with
Speaker 1: down syndrome that are a little uncomfortable getting their haircut.
Speaker 1: You've just got to see this guy give a kid
Speaker 1: a haircut. And I know it sounds so dumb. You're like, Manny,
Speaker 1: why am I gonna spend thirteen minutes watching a guy
Speaker 1: give a haircut?
Speaker 2: To a kid, because the care that this barber.
Speaker 1: Has for this child and the strategies that he employs
Speaker 1: are incredibly interesting to watch. And it really if you're
Speaker 1: if after the election cycle, maybe your faith in humanity
Speaker 1: has been shaken.
Speaker 2: This is the kind of stuff that makes me have
Speaker 2: faith in our fellow humans. This guy, this family, this haircut.
Speaker 2: So if you're feeling a.
Speaker 1: Little down on the world, then go watch the haircut video.
Speaker 1: And then to follow that up, we got a nice
Speaker 1: little Irish couple been married sixty two years, stopped on
Speaker 1: the street to ask some questions and now I have
Speaker 1: new relationship goals. So that's on there. And Tony Robbins
Speaker 1: with Theovon. Now, if you don't know who Theovon is,
Speaker 1: he is the most surprisingly popular podcaster I have ever
Speaker 1: seen in my life. The fact that Theovonne is famous
Speaker 1: is amazing to me. The because he's not talented, because
Speaker 1: he's really good. He's one of those interviewers that his interview.
Speaker 2: Style is know nothing at the beginning of.
Speaker 1: The interview and basically use the interview to plumb every.
Speaker 2: Aspect of what his guest has to offer.
Speaker 1: Because Theovonne often comes across like I have no idea
Speaker 1: about anything about this, but he asks great questions, the
Speaker 1: same questions you would ask, and hearing him talk to
Speaker 1: Tony Robbins is just really, really interesting. So those are
Speaker 1: things for you to entertain you during the basketball game
Speaker 1: of cubuffs. Basketball is not your favorite thing. I did
Speaker 1: you know how I've been rising above since after the election.
Speaker 1: I've been rising above. I'm not piling on. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to make anybody who is scared to death on
Speaker 1: the other side feel worse. I'm not doing any of that. However,
Speaker 1: And he had to know there's going to be a
Speaker 1: however in there. Someone on the internet, and I'm just
Speaker 1: blaming the internet on this one. Someone on the internet
Speaker 1: made a video and a parody song two journeys Who's
Speaker 1: Crying Now?
Speaker 2: And it's really funny. And as you can imagine, it.
Speaker 1: Is perhaps a compilation of people on the left announcing
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was not going to win the election,
Speaker 1: set two a parody song called Who's Crying Now?
Speaker 2: And it is pretty dang funny. I mean, not for everyone.
Speaker 1: And if you're on that side that I'm trying not
Speaker 1: to pile on to you, that I'm trying to you know,
Speaker 1: have generous spirit towards then you don't need to.
Speaker 2: Watch that one. Just stay away Mandy's block dot com.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I've got a couple of stories that I want
Speaker 1: to talk about Yesterday. Remember when we talked about Matt Gates.
Speaker 1: Now I didn't talk about this at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the show, I don't think so. Matt Gates out of Congress,
Speaker 1: not going back to Congress, and he started a cameo page,
Speaker 1: and I jokingly said, I'm totally doing this. Well, now
Speaker 1: I'm doing it, you guys, Now just hear me out.
Speaker 1: It's going to happen when I get back from vacation.
Speaker 1: I'm setting this up because none other than Lauren Bobert,
Speaker 1: sitting member of the House of Representatives, started a cameo page. Now,
Speaker 1: it was only up over the weekend because apparently there's
Speaker 1: a lot of suspicion that a lawmaker cannot sell a speech.
Speaker 2: There is actual prohibitions. You can't charge for a.
Speaker 1: Speech when you are in Congress because then there could
Speaker 1: be a quick pro quot situation. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of rules about it. And by Monday, she had pulled
Speaker 1: her cameo page down. But I was like, dang, it.
Speaker 1: If it's good enough for Lauren, it's good enough for me.
Speaker 1: So after the if you're waiting for the perfect Christmas gift,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be my cameo page. One of our sales
Speaker 1: staff just showed me that her fellow co workers for
Speaker 1: her birthday bought her a cameo message from the Golden
Speaker 1: Bachelor Jerry whatever his last name is.
Speaker 2: It is. It is so hilarious that I loved it.
Speaker 2: I love it. I love it so much, so now
Speaker 2: I'm doing it. I'm doing it.
Speaker 1: This is gonna accuse college funds. If you want my
Speaker 1: daughter to have a solid.
Speaker 2: Education, you're gonna want to send a cameo to.
Speaker 1: Someone you love. That's gonna be my new thing. I
Speaker 1: might quit my job. I just full time cameo. I'm kidding,
Speaker 1: of course, not that many people are gonna pay me
Speaker 1: for these. I'm lowering my expectations, but I'm just making
Speaker 1: it available. Here's the reason I'm actually talking about the
Speaker 1: Lauren Bobert thing. And this is one of those things
Speaker 1: that I hope someone plays for her because I mean it.
Speaker 1: In her cameo intro video, she says, and this is
Speaker 1: a quote, it's your girl from Colorado Lauren Bobert. Now,
Speaker 1: I realize that's folksy and relatable. I get it, and
Speaker 1: from an advertising perspective, that is probably a good idea.
Speaker 1: But there's something that I think I feel about Lauren
Speaker 1: Bobert that I don't know if she feels about Lauren Bobert,
Speaker 1: and that is Lauren Bobert is an accomplished woman. I
Speaker 1: may disagree with her strategies, but she is a sitting
Speaker 1: member of Congress. She just won in a different district.
Speaker 1: She's going back to Congress to represent the people of Colorado.
Speaker 1: And sometimes I don't think she recognizes that she is
Speaker 1: an accomplished woman. She's not your girl from Colorado. She
Speaker 1: is your representative from Colorado. I know she can't say
Speaker 1: that in her cameo video, but I'm frustrated when I
Speaker 1: see women, and a lot of times it is women
Speaker 1: of her age, like getting to forty but not quite
Speaker 1: there yet, who don't understand their value and their accomplishments
Speaker 1: and the level of due respect that they should demand
Speaker 1: from everybody else, but they should also give themselves. So
Speaker 1: if anybody knows Lauren, let her know. She's a member
Speaker 1: of Congress. She is an accomplished woman. She should be
Speaker 1: proud of that.
Speaker 2: She doesn't need to like I'm your girl, because you're
Speaker 2: not a girl. You're a woman.
Speaker 1: And there's nothing wrong with being a woman. I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody wants to do it now, even dudes. It's like,
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with it. Everybody wants to be a woman now.
Speaker 2: O JK. I'm just kidding, Mandy. If you run the
Speaker 2: one eight hundred cars for kids commercially in your cameo,
Speaker 2: then you should pay us. That will never happen, never, never.
Speaker 1: Never happen never, Mandy. Why does Ross get the prime spot?
Speaker 1: Is it because he's a liberal? The reason goes back
Speaker 1: to when we replaced Rush Limbaugh on this station, and
Speaker 1: it had to do with programming decisions that were made
Speaker 1: not by a programmer, I'm gonna be perfectly honest.
Speaker 2: They were made by a person who was.
Speaker 1: No longer with the company, thank god, and they were
Speaker 1: bad programming decisions for a variety of reasons. But but
Speaker 1: I love this time slot and Ross does a fantastic
Speaker 1: job in the timeslot before me.
Speaker 2: And he's not a liberal, you guys, Ross is really
Speaker 2: not a liberal.
Speaker 1: But I'm not going to spend today defending Rosskaminski because
Speaker 1: he can defend himself anyway. I have video from our
Speaker 1: friends at Fox thirty one.
Speaker 2: This kind of stuff makes me crazy, and I get it.
Speaker 2: I get it with Tauris right.
Speaker 1: Like I understand when tourists come to Colorado or they
Speaker 1: go to Yellowstone. Do you follow tourns of Yellowstone on
Speaker 1: any social media, Zach.
Speaker 3: I've seen the videos of the people like, hey, let's
Speaker 3: go Petnak Grizly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And Tourns of Yellowellowstone is literally a whole social
Speaker 1: media site and it's t you are oh and a
Speaker 1: combination of tourists and moron okay, Toron's of Yellowstone, and
Speaker 1: it's literally just visitors to Yellowstone Park doing dumb ass
Speaker 1: things like walking off the path by a thermal poll
Speaker 1: that's like a billion degrees, or trying to get up
Speaker 1: close and personal with a bison. You know, it's just
Speaker 1: it's absurd. So that's kind of what this feels like.
Speaker 1: Guyan Esta's Park is walking to work, right, He's walking
Speaker 1: to work and this out big ass bull elk, full
Speaker 1: rack of horns, like big ass bull elk right is
Speaker 1: about I don't know, fifteen twenty feet away and he
Speaker 1: just proceeds to walk toward the elk. Now know this,
Speaker 1: there's a fence, right, There's a fence that is running
Speaker 1: parallel to his path. If he were on the other
Speaker 1: side of the fence, I don't think this bull.
Speaker 2: Elk would have thought anything about him. But he wasn't.
Speaker 1: He was on the same side of the elk as
Speaker 1: the fence as the elk, and then the elk.
Speaker 2: Charges at him. The guy backs up. Then the guy
Speaker 2: throws his coffee at the elk. First of all, really, really,
Speaker 2: you wasted a perfectly good cup of coffee.
Speaker 1: Here's my prediction of what happened here. And if you
Speaker 1: know the guy, I'd love to talk to him on
Speaker 1: the air. He's one of those guys that is going
Speaker 1: to prove to you how unbothered he is by all
Speaker 1: the wildlife in his town of Estes Park, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna prove this to all these tourists with their cameras
Speaker 1: by just walking right by it. And the elk decided
Speaker 1: not to play his role to the proper effect, and
Speaker 1: so then he got embarrassed because you know this time
Speaker 1: of year, people are standing there videotaping because the elk
Speaker 1: are in Estes Park, not as much as earlier in
Speaker 1: the year.
Speaker 2: But yeah, they're still there obviously, And the.
Speaker 1: Guy got embarrassed and he ended up throwing his coffee
Speaker 1: at the elk and I hope, sir, I'm really it
Speaker 1: was an Evergreen Why did I think it was an
Speaker 1: Estes Park? Sorry about that kid's Evergreen lake? You are
Speaker 1: righte Texter, thank you very much, thank you, very very
Speaker 1: much so Evergreen Lake. My apologies. But nonetheless, this guy's
Speaker 1: going to work. He's not a tourist. It always amazes
Speaker 1: me when when locals get so casual about wildlife. It's
Speaker 1: called wildlife for a reason. He's lucky it didn't get stabbed.
Speaker 2: You know what is that? That's goring? Right when you
Speaker 2: get hit? Is there this Look at the definition of gord.
Speaker 2: It's goring.
Speaker 3: I have a family out in the country in Westcliffe, Colorado,
Speaker 3: and a big problem is a dog's getting gored by deer.
Speaker 1: And yeah, somebody just in my neighborhood one of their
Speaker 1: dogs got slashed by a deer in the backyard. And
Speaker 1: in my case, deer gets caught in my backyard and
Speaker 1: it didn't have any horns and it just my dog
Speaker 1: chased it around the yard. Forty times until I can
Speaker 1: let it out. Jenks is still tired.
Speaker 2: From that gore.
Speaker 3: To gore or to be gored is to be pierced
Speaker 3: or stabbed with a horn or a tusk.
Speaker 1: That sounds awful, like of all the ways to die,
Speaker 1: like for me, being eaten by a lion sounds horrible, okay,
Speaker 1: or a hippopotamus because they're mean as hell. They kill
Speaker 1: a ton of people every year, so I don't want
Speaker 1: to be eaten by a lion or a hippopotamus. But
Speaker 1: being gored to death sounds pretty horrible, you know, or
Speaker 1: any situation where you're impaled on him that just sounds ugh.
Speaker 1: We really bad, really really bad. All right, So that
Speaker 1: is on the blog as well, not the well, the
Speaker 1: story is. You can see him. It's just it's silly
Speaker 1: and stupid, Just a silly and stupid.
Speaker 2: Thing, Mandy.
Speaker 1: That guy is a true moran and was reaching for
Speaker 1: his phone. He should get a ticket. Is there ticketing
Speaker 1: or they just let you get killed by the elk
Speaker 1: as your punishment. I vote for the second part. Sounds
Speaker 1: to me, says this textter like the elk is smarter
Speaker 1: than the man, especially throwing his coffee at it.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, I agree, I agree.
Speaker 1: Also on the blog today, I want to point this out.
Speaker 1: We are about to get a ton of snow in
Speaker 1: the mountains, like an absolute of snow in the mountains.
Speaker 1: It is gonna rip and if you are planning ongoing skiing,
Speaker 1: you need to be aware if you're a backcountry skier,
Speaker 1: a snow skier, a snowshoe or rather, and you're going
Speaker 1: to be off the beaten paths. The Avalanche Forecast Agency
Speaker 1: whatever it's called, to me find that name, Colorado Avalanche
Speaker 1: Information Center said, look, we've got an avalanche watch from
Speaker 1: five pm Tuesday to five pm Wednesday because they're going
Speaker 1: to get so much snow. Let's see here in Veil Pass,
Speaker 1: they're looking at seventeen inches Aspen, nineteen inches, Georgetown fourteen inches,
Speaker 1: s Does Park six inches, twelve inches at Steamboat. So
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of snow coming in the
Speaker 1: next couple of days. So if you're planning on doing
Speaker 1: any back country skiing, be careful. You know, there's some
Speaker 1: really cool stuff now that is designed to prevent you
Speaker 1: from dying in an avalanche. And it's like, if you're
Speaker 1: into that kind of sport, and it's.
Speaker 2: Not all cumbersome.
Speaker 1: You know, it used to be these giant backpacks and stuff. No,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not all that cumbersome. And I would
Speaker 1: hate to have one of my listeners die in an ablage.
Speaker 1: Dying in an avalanche is also a bad way to go.
Speaker 1: So now we've established being eaten by a lion bad
Speaker 1: way to go. Uh, being eaten my hippopotamus also a
Speaker 1: bad way to go, being gorged to death, and now
Speaker 1: dying in an avalanche. Well, although maybe you just suffocate,
Speaker 1: I don't know. See, suffocation seems like kind of a
Speaker 1: peaceful way to go if you have to go. Not
Speaker 1: that I'm looking forward to it, unfortunately, says this texter.
Speaker 1: If the el Kurt's the man, they would have to
Speaker 1: kill it. Yep, exactly right. So yes, I'm with you
Speaker 1: on that one, stupid man online. We also have an
Speaker 1: interesting editorial that I want to talk about when we
Speaker 1: get back that is so accurate because people are starting
Speaker 1: to shift. Remember a few years ago when the uh,
Speaker 1: I think I think Mayor Michael Hancock was the first
Speaker 1: person that I heard use the phrase houseless.
Speaker 2: Right, We've changed the names of.
Speaker 1: People who are chronically homeless and we keep changing the
Speaker 1: name as if changing the name is somehow going to
Speaker 1: change the underlying condition that has left people living on
Speaker 1: the streets, and that is mostly mental illness and addiction
Speaker 1: or a combination of the two. You know, trauma related
Speaker 1: addiction is probably at the top of the list. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that enough years and enough badness has happened
Speaker 1: with homeless people getting more aggressive, homeless people even being
Speaker 1: more aggressive with police and firefighters, and people are starting
Speaker 1: to go, wait a minute, what we're doing isn't working.
Speaker 1: So when we get back, I'm going to share part
Speaker 1: of this editorial, not all of it, but I'm going
Speaker 1: to share part of it because I'm happy to see.
Speaker 1: I think anyway that more people are starting to stand
Speaker 1: up and say, until we address the underlying root cause
Speaker 1: of these issues, we're never going to come close to
Speaker 1: solving homelessness. We're gonna get into that next to keep
Speaker 1: it right here on KOA. Okay, you guys on the
Speaker 1: text line at five six six nine oh, the Common
Speaker 1: Spirit Health text line. And and you guys, we now
Speaker 1: have the worst possible way to die.
Speaker 2: In case we're wondering it.
Speaker 1: Is, it is the worst possible way to die. And
Speaker 1: as soon as I find it again because it just updated. Mandy,
Speaker 1: we just had a guy in our neighborhood fall dead
Speaker 1: head first, fall headfirst into a septic tank and drown.
Speaker 1: I take back everything I said about being eaten by lions.
Speaker 1: That is indeed the worst way, the worst way. Hippos
Speaker 1: are vegetarian, but they will stomp you to death, you know,
Speaker 1: But hippos kill a bunch of people every year, like
Speaker 1: way more than lions.
Speaker 2: You think lions are the badasses. No, it's hippos that are.
Speaker 1: The mass andres My brother says, this texter was completely
Speaker 1: buried into Colorado avalanche and survived a number of lucky
Speaker 1: factors all came together at once. It led to his survival,
Speaker 1: and avalanche expert later commented that only twenty five percent
Speaker 1: of victims survived the avalanche type he was in. So
Speaker 1: I chose to believe his survival as an example of
Speaker 1: a miracle of God. He's gone on to have a
Speaker 1: son and lead a kind, generous and productive life, and
Speaker 1: this Thanksgiving, I'm.
Speaker 2: Grateful he survived. That is a great story.
Speaker 1: But I just want people to be careful because of
Speaker 1: all this snow that we're going to get in the mountains.
Speaker 1: We definitely have an avalanche danger. The Avalanche Organization has
Speaker 1: put that out there. I want to share some of
Speaker 1: this editorial because you know, we're about to come up
Speaker 1: to Colorado Gives Day. And I say that because every
Speaker 1: year on Colorado Gives Day, I feature multiple organizations that
Speaker 1: I think are worthy of your donation.
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you the reasons why.
Speaker 1: I would like to see we as Colorado's, especially we
Speaker 1: as Denver Metro or Boulder Rights or whatever you want
Speaker 1: to call us, like we are all in this together.
Speaker 1: I would love to see to support organizations that are
Speaker 1: doing work to treat addiction. For this very reason, this
Speaker 1: editorial starts. You can see them shooting up, vaping, smoking,
Speaker 1: or guzzling out of a bottle in alleyways, parks, maybe
Speaker 1: a neighborhood playground. In their wake, they leave a trail
Speaker 1: of spence, syrnches and other drug paraphernalia with empty bottles
Speaker 1: and cans as the chaser.
Speaker 2: Don't call them, don't you dare call them addicts.
Speaker 1: That might take the heat off of more fetching targets.
Speaker 1: You know, the usual suspects trotted out by politicians, activists,
Speaker 1: and even at times, the media, the landlords or employers
Speaker 1: are other faithless boogeymen who supposedly are hindering the quest
Speaker 1: for attainable housing. It's as if calling for greater personal
Speaker 1: responsibility by those on the streets might shift the blame
Speaker 1: and undercut calls for housing first at any cost.
Speaker 2: Now goes in to.
Speaker 1: Depth about housing first and how much this has cost,
Speaker 1: and the fact that Denver voters, who honestly, you people,
Speaker 1: never get tired of raising your own taxes.
Speaker 2: Yet a massive one.
Speaker 1: Hundred million dollars a year additional sales tax to build
Speaker 1: affordable housing just failed in Denver. Such things used to
Speaker 1: be as slammed up, they were absolutely gonna happen, but
Speaker 1: it just failed. So people are tiring of this because
Speaker 1: we have now seen the number that I've seen with
Speaker 1: some reliability that the city of Denver has spent one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five million dollars on homelessness. Now, think about,
Speaker 1: that's not the only people spending money to quote solve homelessness.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of organizations out there throwing a lot
Speaker 1: of money at people living on the streets, and it's
Speaker 1: not working.
Speaker 2: It's getting worse. It feels like we're not.
Speaker 1: Making as much progress as we should. People are not
Speaker 1: moving from these emergency shelters into real housing fast enough,
Speaker 1: they're not moving to independence, they're not moving to Sobriet
Speaker 1: as far as we know. So yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 1: in this that's very, very good, And of course I
Speaker 1: already believe it, because I don't think it's compassionate to
Speaker 1: give someone a space where they can drink or drug
Speaker 1: themselves to death.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's compassionate.
Speaker 1: And I think that people who are addicted their addicts,
Speaker 1: they are mentally slaves and physically slaves to the drugs
Speaker 1: that they are consuming. And you can make all kinds
Speaker 1: of judgment calls about people who chose to take drugs
Speaker 1: in the first place, but you know, I'm not here
Speaker 1: to make a judgment on anyone's life. I don't know
Speaker 1: their story. I don't know how they ended up this way.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they didn't end up this way
Speaker 1: because of a doctor's prescription, because that happens with more
Speaker 1: frequency than we care to discuss.
Speaker 2: Right, maybe not as much.
Speaker 1: Because so many medical practices and hospital chains have you know,
Speaker 1: clamped down on pain medications specific for this reason.
Speaker 2: But now they're addicts. They're not thinking in their right mind.
Speaker 1: And we as a society have to decide what we're
Speaker 1: going to do with it.
Speaker 2: Now, if you want to live in a.
Speaker 1: Truly free society with no sort of standards to be
Speaker 1: you know that you have to abide by, then we
Speaker 1: can have people pooping in the streets and living in
Speaker 1: camps in Civic Center Park.
Speaker 2: But I don't think that's how we want to live.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad that this kind of conversation is starting
Speaker 1: to take hold on a regular basis, and not just
Speaker 1: from the Denverzet editorial page.
Speaker 2: They talk about a story and it was a great story.
Speaker 1: I had it on yesterday's blog about how Bolder, which
Speaker 1: has always been you know, like planet Boulder, Like there's
Speaker 1: the rests of Colorado, then there's Boulder living in their
Speaker 1: little bubble of hippies and naked people and whatever. Well,
Speaker 1: it's almost like the end of the Summer of Love
Speaker 1: has finally come to Boulder because homeless addicts are taking over.
Speaker 1: And there was a great story about it, and it
Speaker 1: talked about a woman who has a mission, a street mission,
Speaker 1: where she is trying to help homeless people, but she's
Speaker 1: not just giving them stuff, She is trying to get
Speaker 1: them help.
Speaker 2: She actually said this is the quote.
Speaker 1: Housing is not an intervention for mental health and addiction
Speaker 1: treatment and recovery is. So I'm glad that we're starting
Speaker 1: to have these kind of conversations in a way that
Speaker 1: seems meaningful that will maybe allow people who have been
Speaker 1: locked stepped into this notion that allowing people to live
Speaker 1: on the streets, not forcing them to take responsibility for themselves,
Speaker 1: is compassionate, because it's not. Bob Ktae, the founder of
Speaker 1: Step thirteen which is now Step Denver, used to say
Speaker 1: all the time, if you give an addic food or money,
Speaker 1: or a jacket or a tent, you are just buying
Speaker 1: them death on the installment plan. And that's the attitude
Speaker 1: that needs to take hold, and that is how people
Speaker 1: need to view this, not with contempt for the addict,
Speaker 1: but for a compassion for the addict and recognizing that
Speaker 1: they have in some cases to be forced to do
Speaker 1: the right thing until they can shake themselves free of
Speaker 1: the immediate you know, drug addiction and hopefully make better
Speaker 1: choices for their life going forward.
Speaker 2: And guess what, some people won't. There are people that
Speaker 2: you could put.
Speaker 1: Into treatment a thousand times, and a thousand times are
Speaker 1: going to relapse. We're never going to be able to
Speaker 1: save everybody, but we should be able to save enough,
Speaker 1: and we should be able to have a system in
Speaker 1: place that doesn't allow people to say on the streets,
Speaker 1: it gives them choices, but it doesn't allow.
Speaker 2: Them to feel like they can live.
Speaker 1: Off the grid on the streets of Denver in any
Speaker 1: capacity and get away with it. It just can't be okay,
Speaker 1: it really can't. Many affordable really just means free housing.
Speaker 1: That is an excellent point, and the problem is is
Speaker 1: that there's no move. I have seen absolutely no move
Speaker 1: by Mayor Mike Johnson, who I know, Mayor Mike Johnston
Speaker 1: wants to solve this problem, There's no.
Speaker 2: Doubt in my mind.
Speaker 1: But I have not heard a single peep out of
Speaker 1: the mayor saying, you know what we need to find
Speaker 1: out from the department. There is a building, a building department,
Speaker 1: the permitting department.
Speaker 2: What the hold up is? I'm married from builders.
Speaker 1: Permits needs to take twenty days are now taking fourteen months.
Speaker 1: How are you supposed to make housing affordable when you're
Speaker 1: carrying fourteen months of hard costs with absolutely no ability
Speaker 1: to move forward.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: So solve all the problems first and then ask the
Speaker 1: voters for more money.
Speaker 2: That's the way it should go.
Speaker 1: Mandy, how can we make sure the builder homeless set
Speaker 1: up in front of King Paulis's house? I you know what,
Speaker 1: I realized that that would be super fun. I don't
Speaker 1: mean super fun. But if it doesn't help solve the problem,
Speaker 1: then you know what, text.
Speaker 2: Are your genius? Your genius?
Speaker 1: Because when oil and Gas decided to set up a
Speaker 1: fracking pad so they could get to the oil and
Speaker 1: gas across the road from his vacation home, Jared Polus
Speaker 1: has been on a tear against oil and gas ever since.
Speaker 2: Maybe we do need to put some people in front
Speaker 2: of his house. Hm hm.
Speaker 1: I bet Boulderrites, if you just floated them at twenty
Speaker 1: bucks and gave them.
Speaker 2: An address, you could get them to DeCamp. Just a thought.
Speaker 1: I bet they'd be moving along really quickly. Though that's
Speaker 1: just my just spitballing here. I bet they wouldn't be
Speaker 1: there for very long. We're gonna take a quick time
Speaker 1: out back after this to wrap things up.
Speaker 2: Short show.
Speaker 1: See you Buffs basketball at the top of the hour.
Speaker 1: We're gonna turn the station over. I generously share the
Speaker 1: radio station with the Color Buffalo basketball team, who did
Speaker 1: not exactly burn it up yesterday play in Michigan State,
Speaker 1: but to Michigan State's credit, they look pretty good this year,
Speaker 1: so you know whatever.
Speaker 2: And today the CU.
Speaker 1: Bus will be playing Connecticut and that pregame starts at
Speaker 1: one o'clock. Of course, the Maui Invitational. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to tell you one more thing that's on the blog
Speaker 1: right now that you need to go look at, and
Speaker 1: that is this Walmart becomes the latest company to completely
Speaker 1: walk back it's dei policies. And when I say walk back,
Speaker 1: it's like they just were like, yeah, never mind, we're
Speaker 1: not going to do any of that.
Speaker 2: And this is great news.
Speaker 1: There's progress being made and someday we're going to be
Speaker 1: able to judge people by the.
Speaker 2: Content of their character. It's going to be amazing.
Speaker 1: And I also have a super interesting story. If you
Speaker 1: didn't hear about the guy he bet eighty million dollars
Speaker 1: on Polymarket, the betting site, that offshore betting site that
Speaker 1: allows people were not Americans, to bet on our elections.
Speaker 1: That eighty million dollars total, that Trump would not only win,
Speaker 1: he would win the popular vote, and he would win
Speaker 1: the electoral college. He would win three russ Belt states.
Speaker 1: And it was not a blind bet. When you read
Speaker 1: how he came to the conclusion that it was far
Speaker 1: more likely that Trump was going to win than not.
Speaker 1: It's fascinating and it could very much upend the polling
Speaker 1: industry going forward. It's by the way, he made eighty
Speaker 1: five million cash money on that bet. Imagine going to
Speaker 1: sleep and you wake up the next day it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I just want eighty five million dollars. You're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: all right then, But now it's time for the most
Speaker 1: exciting segment on the radio of its guy hit it
Speaker 1: Kennon Boom, Oh you're Zach anyway, who's doing it? No
Speaker 1: in the world. Yeah, Zach is just having it. Zack's
Speaker 1: all over the place today. You give an hour show
Speaker 1: and he's like that, He's everywhere. Keenan, our intrepid newsman
Speaker 1: is in the in the studio for his chance to
Speaker 1: win of the day. Now you can hit the Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go.
Speaker 2: First of all, what is our dad joke of the day? Zach?
Speaker 3: Our dad joke of the day? Why do ducks have
Speaker 3: tail feathers.
Speaker 2: Why do ducks have tail feather I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know, to hide their butts.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, my grandsons will like that one.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's the next one? All right?
Speaker 3: Word of the day is eddie eddie like.
Speaker 2: A in a like add Why? Yeah, d d hy eddie.
Speaker 2: Isn't that in a river? Yeah? It is. It's something,
Speaker 2: uh that you get stuck in eddie.
Speaker 1: It's a swirling like place where the current goes around
Speaker 1: in a circle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a current of water or air running contrary to
Speaker 3: the main current, causing a water pool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is exactly what we said to a.
Speaker 3: Contrary or circular current or thought policy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, here's one that we in Colorado should know,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if I do know it. CBD,
Speaker 1: a chemical found in cannabis plants, is often incorporated into
Speaker 1: cosmetic and dietary products and is believed to have health benefits.
Speaker 1: What does CBD stand for. It's cannabinoid something. Yeah, cannabinoid. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's kind of what it is. Cannabin cannab cannabi dial,
Speaker 1: cannabi dial, we cannabi dial. I did not know that
Speaker 1: until I use all the time too. I use CBD
Speaker 1: cream well almost every day. Had no idea obviously what
Speaker 1: I was putting on my body until right now.
Speaker 2: Way to go, Mandy. Well then, all right, what is
Speaker 2: our category today, Zach?
Speaker 3: Our jeopardy category of the day is begins and ends
Speaker 3: with E, Begin and ends with E. All right, first
Speaker 3: one for you here to get hitched without parental.
Speaker 2: Consent in modern less elope. What is what is? We'll
Speaker 2: give you the first one. We'll give you the first one.
Speaker 2: All right, here we go, all right?
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Speaker 2: And also what is evite thingo?
Speaker 3: All right to guarantee or a nutritional protein shake?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I know what this is? What is insure?
Speaker 2: All I can remember was boom. I'm like, that's the
Speaker 2: wrong one. You're your posse from French for around? What
Speaker 2: is entourage? Boom? This right here? This is itable.
Speaker 3: Different parts of the pancreas act like these two main
Speaker 3: types of glands.
Speaker 2: Different parts of the pancreas.
Speaker 3: I don't I didn't pay attention biology in school, so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't know what this is. All I
Speaker 1: can think of is not it doesn't end with E.
Speaker 2: It uh oh you guys, yes, please go Oh maybe
Speaker 2: idiot I literally was thinking and Doorphin is no, it
Speaker 2: would at the end like it just end. Oh we
Speaker 2: need a tiebreaker, okay, tiebreaker? Uh October in history? Oh god?
Speaker 2: Or multiples of three. Maybe.
Speaker 3: The eastern terminus of this route is near Lake Shore
Speaker 3: Drive in Chicago. The western officially at least, and what is.
Speaker 2: The US six sixty six around sixty six? Okay there,
Speaker 2: we'll get to there.