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Speaker 4: Sad bab Welcome, Welcome to a Wednesday edition of the show.
Speaker 4: I'm your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell, joined,
Speaker 4: of course, by my right hand man. He's a rod
Speaker 4: but you can call him Anthony Rodriguez. Today we've got
Speaker 4: a bunch of stuff on the blog and some big topics.
Speaker 4: My brain kind of hurts a little bit because I've
Speaker 4: been doing a deep dive into cutter. Used to be qatar,
Speaker 4: but now it's cutter. And you know this.
Speaker 5: Again?
Speaker 4: Is it katar? No, it used to be it used
Speaker 4: to bear.
Speaker 3: I thought it was kaar.
Speaker 4: Are we back to guitar?
Speaker 3: I lost track?
Speaker 4: Wait, check it on the internet. See what the Internet says.
Speaker 4: Internet is always right. Abraham Lincoln said that I read
Speaker 4: that on the Internet anyway, while he's googling to find
Speaker 4: out if it's cutter or a Qatar or something totally
Speaker 4: different that we're not up to speed.
Speaker 6: On the most Apparently, according to aos Okay, the most
Speaker 6: common English pronunciation is qatar katar. Some speakers especially those
Speaker 6: with Middle Eastern connections, may pronounce it closer to cutter.
Speaker 7: Okay, Qatar, we're gonna go with guitar either.
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna say Qatar, and I'm just gonna decide
Speaker 4: it right now until I forget that I decided it
Speaker 4: and refer to it in a different way. But nonetheless,
Speaker 4: this Middle Eastern swing by President Trump, if you just
Speaker 4: miss Leland Vitter on Ross's show, Leland put it so well,
Speaker 4: Donald Trump is upended American foreign policy in the Middle
Speaker 4: East with one visit, and oh, thank goodness, thank you Jesus,
Speaker 4: because I our Middle East policy has been an unmitigated
Speaker 4: disaster in my opinion. Now, granted I have the benefit
Speaker 4: of hindsight, it's easy to look back at something and say, boy,
Speaker 4: was that stupid? And I feel that about a lot
Speaker 4: of the things we've done in the Middle East, Boy
Speaker 4: was that stupid? One are the things that is becoming
Speaker 4: incredibly crystal clear. And this is driving the left crazy
Speaker 4: because the left assumes that Donald Trump is doing whatever
Speaker 4: it is he's doing only to benefit himself, and they're
Speaker 4: always trying to find the way that Donald Trump is
Speaker 4: enriching himself through his presidency. And when he does things
Speaker 4: like try to take a jet from Cutter. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know. I realized I just said Cutter. I
Speaker 4: just I caught myself, even though I was going with guitar.
Speaker 4: But now it's Cutter. I don't know that place. And
Speaker 4: in hindsight, you look at everything we've done in the
Speaker 4: Middle East, and we've done it because for a very
Speaker 4: long time they were so energy dominant that we were
Speaker 4: forced to play a certain game in order to continue
Speaker 4: having access to that energy. Well, we're not energy reliant
Speaker 4: on them anyway. I mean, if worst case scenario, right,
Speaker 4: everybody retreats to their borders and nobody is exporting any
Speaker 4: kind of natural gas or energy or oil or anything
Speaker 4: like that, we're going to be fine. We are aoka,
Speaker 4: So that motivation is no more. And Donald Trump, I
Speaker 4: believe he is the first anti war president we've had
Speaker 4: in a very long time. But where other people see
Speaker 4: reasons to fight, reasons to send their young men to die,
Speaker 4: Donald Trump sees wasted opportunity. So he is anti war
Speaker 4: and pro economic development because he believes that when prosperity happens,
Speaker 4: people are going to be far less anxious to try
Speaker 4: and take over the world when their little corner of
Speaker 4: the world is pretty dang good. Now, I know that
Speaker 4: that's not going to tamp down all the world's violence,
Speaker 4: but a rising tide lifting all ships and whatnot. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's there's something to that. When people are happy with
Speaker 4: their lives, they're far less likely to get sucked into
Speaker 4: some kind of you know, war or some sort of
Speaker 4: aggression against their neighbors now their idea logues, especially in
Speaker 4: the Middle East. And this is another reason why our
Speaker 4: foreign policy has just been a disaster because culturally, the
Speaker 4: Islamists are playing a much different game than the game
Speaker 4: we are playing. And it's a game they've been playing
Speaker 4: since the founding of their religion, and that is the
Speaker 4: game of conquering and destroying everybody else who doesn't believe
Speaker 4: what they believe. So we can't we don't have that
Speaker 4: kind of stamina because we're not motivated by the same thing.
Speaker 4: We're not on a mission from God, you know. I mean,
Speaker 4: people may be motivated motivated by their faith, but the
Speaker 4: United States of America is not on a mission from God.
Speaker 4: Are in their minds, they are, and that's a very
Speaker 4: powerful motivator, especially when they're their countries are you know,
Speaker 4: seen as oppressive or the United States the scene as decadent?
Speaker 4: So yeah, it was time anyway, gosh, I didn't even
Speaker 4: do the blog yet. Sorry about that. Let's do that now. Fine, fine,
Speaker 4: I know it did get distracted.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: Find the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.
Speaker 4: Look for the headline in the latest post section that
Speaker 4: says five fourteen twenty five blog Can Indian Pakistan be fixed?
Speaker 4: And Lift will go if Uber does? Click on that
Speaker 4: and here are the headlines you will find within nick
Speaker 4: Tech two A winner I think with whom office half American,
Speaker 4: all with ships and clipments.
Speaker 3: A scene that's going to press plant.
Speaker 4: Today on the blog, we should pay attention to the
Speaker 4: India Pakistan flare up. Don't forget about the Broncos schedule
Speaker 4: release tonight on k How yes Medicaid cuts are needed? Scrolling?
Speaker 4: How can a judge let a kid get away with murder?
Speaker 4: Who's going to London? Broncos fans? More buildings sell for
Speaker 4: nothing in downtown Denver? If Uber leaves, so will Lift?
Speaker 4: No showers for you? Manitou Springs, Doug Co parents, A
Speaker 4: child predator at school has been arrested. We may have
Speaker 4: finally fixed construction defects. Trump is barn storming the Middle
Speaker 4: East right now. David Hogg is out at the DNC.
Speaker 4: The Babylon Bee nails. Jake Tapper, did Israel just get
Speaker 4: the last October seventh? Mastermind? Tariffs are here, but inflation
Speaker 4: is not. Women are drinking more and that's not good.
Speaker 4: The Menendez brothers may get out of prison. What concerts
Speaker 4: are the best value? Cans doesn't want your naked body.
Speaker 4: The truck was a shell of its former self. Nick
Speaker 4: Cage and Christian Bail nail it. Jeffco School's leadership is
Speaker 4: a dumpster fire, scrolling trinkflation exposed. The office spin up
Speaker 4: spin off looks really good. The opening of idiocracy is
Speaker 4: so true right now? Those are the headlines on the
Speaker 4: blog at Andy's blog dot com. And you know what
Speaker 4: I was thinking, uh a rod. I talked about this
Speaker 4: briefly the other day, and I threw it into the ether,
Speaker 4: hoping someone would volunteer to make it happen. But no
Speaker 4: one has, so I'm probably gonna have to do it myself.
Speaker 4: Just fine, you have like forty jobs, you don't need
Speaker 4: another one. I want to do it like a series
Speaker 4: of movies like wouldn't it be fun to rent out
Speaker 4: a theater and invite listeners to come watch politically and
Speaker 4: correct movies? And Idiocracy might be our first one.
Speaker 6: If I may, mister Reesience Theater three thousand round, There
Speaker 6: we go, Mandy Connell special.
Speaker 4: Yes, we'll bring some of our friends. Maybe that Ryan
Speaker 4: Schuling from over across the hall. He's funny, you know,
Speaker 4: Maybe that Ross Kaminski sneki a koa cast exactly. Well,
Speaker 4: I'm not to do this. I have no idea how
Speaker 4: to execute this. So I'll bring this up to somebody
Speaker 4: and see if we can make it happen. I think
Speaker 4: it'd be super fun. But I'd forgotten about Idiocracies opening
Speaker 4: three minutes, which is an absolute delight, a delight. It's
Speaker 4: almost freakish to know how long ago this movie came out.
Speaker 6: And in twenty twenty eight, Terry Crews really runs as president.
Speaker 6: I mean not a bad candidate at this point. I
Speaker 6: mean anything is possible.
Speaker 3: Stephen A.
Speaker 6: Smith versus Terry Crews first, Donald Trump in his third
Speaker 6: term versus the spirits of Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: Why a four man race? Why wellocracy?
Speaker 4: Three man on a Ghost. That's true. So if you're
Speaker 4: offended by bad language, don't watch it. But it's so
Speaker 4: funny and just the first three minutes is going to
Speaker 4: make you go, oh my goodness.
Speaker 6: There's an argument to be made that no movie holds
Speaker 6: up more than Antiocracy.
Speaker 4: I think it actually is getting better with age. Hey,
Speaker 4: you know it's it's it's aging like a fine wine.
Speaker 4: It came out in two thousand and six, and it
Speaker 4: just keeps getting I know, this is what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's almost twenty years old, and it just keeps getting
Speaker 4: more and more fairly accurate every single time.
Speaker 3: I gotta watch it again.
Speaker 4: Now I know you can't watch it. You don't make
Speaker 4: sure there's not a mic on, because there's a lot
Speaker 4: of potty milthing in there, a lot of potty mouthing
Speaker 4: going on.
Speaker 3: Great cast.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, everybody was in it, and it flew under
Speaker 4: the radar at the time when it came.
Speaker 3: Out again cult classic.
Speaker 4: Yep, Well wait a minute, maybe we start with PCU.
Speaker 4: Have you ever seen Political Correctness University? I believe that
Speaker 4: came out in like maybe nineteen eighty one. Look up
Speaker 4: and see when PCU came out nineteen ninety four. Okay,
Speaker 4: so it's much later than I thought, but still same thing.
Speaker 4: It's all about how college campuses go absolutely batpoof crazy, crazy,
Speaker 4: insane with political correctness. And it's exactly what happened on
Speaker 4: college campuses. I mean like they got the script and
Speaker 4: we're like, oh, we can totally play this role. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's the role I was born to play. So maybe
Speaker 4: we start with PCU and then go to idiocracy. Let's see,
Speaker 4: I'm announced the textures on the common uh Common Spirit
Speaker 4: health text line. Oh, Mandy, I rent it out of
Speaker 4: theater for my friends one time and it was a blast.
Speaker 4: You just have to pick the theater, call the manager
Speaker 4: and set up a time at eight.
Speaker 6: But how do you bring in the movie and then
Speaker 6: get Luke Wilson to introduce the movie before a place?
Speaker 4: That would be super dope. Do you know him?
Speaker 3: Well, you know I can get him on the phone. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 4: I do have a task for you. I need you
Speaker 4: to track down whoever is in charge a voice to
Speaker 4: text for the Android platform. We've got to get someone
Speaker 4: on the show to explain this.
Speaker 3: We have to do it next person to get the superior.
Speaker 4: Well, they're not having the same problems the same problems.
Speaker 4: I'm here. I'm here to solve the problem, Anthony. I'm
Speaker 4: not going to Apple. No, no, and no.
Speaker 3: Okay, have you ever had one? Ever?
Speaker 7: I have a I have a iPad. Count down the
Speaker 7: platform with phones I've had both. iPhone is so far
Speaker 7: and away better. And I know, for a one, not
Speaker 7: a ninety fact, you would like iPhone more.
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't like my iPad.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't like my iPad.
Speaker 5: Don't.
Speaker 4: I don't know what anything is. I don't even know.
Speaker 4: This is going to make me look like the biggest
Speaker 4: idiot in the world. But you, guys, I promise I'm
Speaker 4: smart about other stuff. I have no idea how to
Speaker 4: close the windows on my iPad, so scroll up. But
Speaker 4: then where do I know? I chuck will pick up
Speaker 4: my iPad though, good lord, woman, I have no idea
Speaker 4: that they're all open. I don't know what that is.
Speaker 3: This is the part where I make you feel bad.
Speaker 4: You feel like an idiot.
Speaker 6: iPhone is vastly considered the simpler platforms.
Speaker 4: Oh god, well, maybe there you go.
Speaker 3: Soh not saying you're dumb.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, iPhone is easier, I'm okay, more straightforward.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just saying, but again, how how do we get
Speaker 4: the movie? People who are texting about this?
Speaker 3: You give us seven dollars.
Speaker 4: Yeah, seven dollars, that's all it is. But how do
Speaker 4: you get the movie? That's what I need to know.
Speaker 3: What do you mean? How do you get the movie?
Speaker 4: How do you like if we want to play PCU,
Speaker 4: how do we get that movie? Do we have to
Speaker 4: buy a DVD? Because I bet you I can find
Speaker 4: a DVD or whatever? What format?
Speaker 3: How do you get them?
Speaker 4: That's the question.
Speaker 3: To ask the theater? What platform?
Speaker 4: Okay, let's call the theater. Call find a theater that's
Speaker 4: open right now, and let's call a theater and see
Speaker 4: if it' A manager will come on the show and
Speaker 4: answer these questions.
Speaker 3: I know they won't refer us to someone in PR.
Speaker 4: No, it's fine. Just tell me some questions. So we
Speaker 4: have questions about how to rent a theater so we
Speaker 4: can show a movie to our listeners. They're going to
Speaker 4: want to talk about it. We'll just get them to
Speaker 4: do it on the air. Call make it happen. No,
Speaker 4: do that right now? Okay, coming up at one o'clock today,
Speaker 4: this show's already off the rails. I don't I don't
Speaker 4: know if you guys notice it. It's completely I have
Speaker 4: no cluence going on right now. I one o'clock the
Speaker 4: gets back on the rails. Probably hopefully before that, We're
Speaker 4: going to talk to Cliff May from the Foundation for
Speaker 4: the Defensive Democracies. You just wrote a column about Indian Pakistan.
Speaker 4: And though I have been paying sort of, you know,
Speaker 4: corner of the eye attention to Indian Pakistan because they
Speaker 4: are both nuclear nations, so if they really go at it,
Speaker 4: that could be very, very, very bad, but I did
Speaker 4: not have a lot of history or context, and Cliff
Speaker 4: wrote a column that gave me both. So reached out
Speaker 4: to him this morning and said, hey, can you come
Speaker 4: on the show. He's coming on at one to talk
Speaker 4: about that, But I also want to talk about the
Speaker 4: Middle Eastern swing that President Trump is on right now.
Speaker 4: I want to talk about whether or not I can
Speaker 4: trust Cutter Qatar Cutter. I'm going with Cutter. It rolls
Speaker 4: off the town a little bit better. Going to Cutter,
Speaker 4: I'll be wrong. Everybody else will be saying guitar again,
Speaker 4: and I'll be the one saying cutter. I don't care,
Speaker 4: you know, I'm gonna say Qatar from now on, right,
Speaker 4: because I just line in the sand one more time.
Speaker 3: So in the.
Speaker 4: Past couple of days, I've just been reading a lot
Speaker 4: about laws that have past in that country, because there's
Speaker 4: no doubt that Cutter has been funding terror for many,
Speaker 4: many decades. There's no doubt. It's not in question. The
Speaker 4: current premiere of I don't know what the head guy
Speaker 4: is there, I don't know what actual title is. His
Speaker 4: mother tweeted out support for the October October seventh attackers.
Speaker 4: So they are not friendly in the sense that they
Speaker 4: are friendly to all of our allies. But the reality
Speaker 4: is is that Donald Trump is making a swing through
Speaker 4: the Middle East in order to get as many allies
Speaker 4: on our side as he possibly can, because everybody is
Speaker 4: posturing for an actual fight with Iran. Israel has been
Speaker 4: absolutely bombing the crap out of the Hoothies, out of Hesbola.
Speaker 4: They are absolutely trying to dismantle all of these sort
Speaker 4: of proxy organizations that Iran has been using to attack
Speaker 4: them for years. And why are they doing that. They're
Speaker 4: not going to stop with the Houthis and Hesbela and
Speaker 4: Hamas because they know that, like they're already wildly the
Speaker 4: way Israel I think is looking at this, and I'm
Speaker 4: just an outsider who pays close attention. I think Israel
Speaker 4: is like, you know what, the rest of the world
Speaker 4: again has turned their backs on us again. So we
Speaker 4: are not going to rely on anyone else's advice or
Speaker 4: anyone else's whatever. We are going to go and we
Speaker 4: are going to destroy the root of the problem, and
Speaker 4: that is Iran. And they are working their way there now.
Speaker 4: And it doesn't mean that they can't establish a truce
Speaker 4: with Hamas currently because there's a pretty good chance it
Speaker 4: had not been confirmed by the time I published the blog.
Speaker 4: There's a pretty good chance they killed the last high
Speaker 4: level member of HAMAS that helped plan the October seventh attack,
Speaker 4: and he was widely believed to have been to have
Speaker 4: been I'm sorry. Oh wait, we got the manager.
Speaker 6: We have, yes, Josephine on the line from AMC Orchard
Speaker 6: AMC Theater an Orchard up north, and we can answer
Speaker 6: some general questions about renting out of theater.
Speaker 4: Perfect. Hello Josephine, thank you so much for coming on
Speaker 4: the air with me.
Speaker 3: Hello Josephine.
Speaker 4: Hello, Hello Josephine.
Speaker 6: Just okay, Well, I'll tell you what she told me
Speaker 6: I think she did. That's okay, that's okay.
Speaker 3: It's easy. It's just going online.
Speaker 6: There's apparently a place on the portal e AMC wise
Speaker 6: where you can just fill out all the information.
Speaker 3: I told her we'd have some follow up questions. She
Speaker 3: said she was down.
Speaker 4: Okay, but I'm gonna have to We're gonna have to
Speaker 4: charge like charge people tickets because I'm not covering the
Speaker 4: cost of it. I'll cover it up front, but I
Speaker 4: want my money back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 7: You know that's a really good idea, cold Feet. She
Speaker 7: sounded into it well.
Speaker 4: Scary sometimes, and you had she had just long enough
Speaker 4: to think about it.
Speaker 3: Yes, you know what I mean. She did hang up
Speaker 3: right away.
Speaker 4: That's okay, Josephine. We still love you, all right. Maybe
Speaker 4: we'll see there. That's more of an anyway. So we're
Speaker 4: gonna talk to Cliff at one o'clock about all of
Speaker 4: this stuff, because he knows about all of this stuff.
Speaker 4: When we get back here at twelve thirty. We don't
Speaker 4: have weather Wednesday today because Dave is going to pick
Speaker 4: up a kid at college, I believe, and we'll be
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Speaker 4: we literally can't do that too. We can't put people
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Speaker 4: say in a former show that I used to work for,
Speaker 4: we made our stock in trade was middle of the
Speaker 4: night prank phone calls to twenty four hour place, and
Speaker 4: we never told people.
Speaker 5: That arend the air.
Speaker 3: I did know that.
Speaker 4: I appreciate the remind I mean, yeah, wow, but it
Speaker 4: was funny. It was really really funny. All right, we'll
Speaker 4: be back in just a second. When we get back,
Speaker 4: the Republicans have explained how they are going to cut Medicaid,
Speaker 4: and before you freak out, I just want you to
Speaker 4: understand what it is they're cutting and what it is
Speaker 4: they're requiring. And I promise you you will be like,
Speaker 4: why isn't it already like that? We'll do that next.
Speaker 4: We can't pick our own movie. You can only like
Speaker 4: rent a private you know, screening for yourself. That's pretty cool,
Speaker 4: by the way, you know, that's that's kind of cool
Speaker 4: to do that. We'll talk more about that later after
Speaker 4: I figured this out. Okay, so let's talk about medicaid
Speaker 4: cuts for a minute, because there were so many posts
Speaker 4: yesterday on X from my liberal friends, liberal pundits, liberal
Speaker 4: commentators about how medicaid cuts are a sure surefire indicator
Speaker 4: that people will die. They will die if we cut medicaid,
Speaker 4: you are killing people, just like if you didn't wear
Speaker 4: a mask, you were killing Grandma. I mean, I just
Speaker 4: drew that analogy very quickly. So the House Republicans are
Speaker 4: trying to bring spending under control, trying to do something
Speaker 4: about the deficit. I mean, this bill is not going
Speaker 4: to go nearly far enough, but it is a huge start.
Speaker 4: It's going to be a reconciliation bill, which means that
Speaker 4: you know, there's a bunch of stuff in the quote
Speaker 4: big beautiful bill. I hate big beautiful bills. I want
Speaker 4: to see individual budgets. I want to see individual budgets debated.
Speaker 4: I want to see individual budgets pass the way it's
Speaker 4: supposed to. Be this big beautiful bill. Crap is garbage. Unfortunately,
Speaker 4: this is the only way to make this happen in
Speaker 4: the current political climate. So we all decided on the right.
Speaker 4: The means justify the ends. I'm kidding, it never does less.
Speaker 4: This is where we are. And as part of that,
Speaker 4: they are looking to shave eight hundred and eighty billion
Speaker 4: dollars out of Medicaid. And that is a lot of money.
Speaker 4: I mean, that is a big old chunk of change.
Speaker 8: So where's it.
Speaker 4: Going to come from? Because as I see on X,
Speaker 4: people will die. And I don't mean to make light
Speaker 4: of people having access to healthcare at all. I mean,
Speaker 4: I want everybody to have some kind of access to healthcare.
Speaker 4: But the reality is is that Medicaid is a program
Speaker 4: that was designed to serve a very specific group of people,
Speaker 4: mothers with children in poverty and the elderly in poverty.
Speaker 4: It's pretty much it.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 4: I don't know, you got left out because I guess
Speaker 4: they figured, you know, you're a dude. You can always
Speaker 4: go out there and bus rocks if you need to
Speaker 4: for money. But the reality is is that now, because
Speaker 4: of things specifically that happened during the Biden administration, not
Speaker 4: that the Biden administration started this whole out of control
Speaker 4: nonsense that we have now. There was tremendous growth in
Speaker 4: Medicaid spending in the last two years of the Biden administration,
Speaker 4: partly because of the pandemic. There were pandemic Medicaid expansions
Speaker 4: that were encouraged during the pandemic. Of course, you want
Speaker 4: people to have health care. There's a pandemic going on.
Speaker 4: But then they were supposed to expire at the end
Speaker 4: of the COVID Public Health Emergency, except the Biden administration
Speaker 4: extended the public health Emergency into the spring of twenty
Speaker 4: twenty three, which kept ineligible people on Medicaid much longer.
Speaker 4: And then when the Biden administration took regulatory action to
Speaker 4: keep ineligible people on the program longer and to validate
Speaker 4: state financing gimmicks that actually fleece taxpayers quite a bit
Speaker 4: and raise Medicaid rates as well. You know, they made
Speaker 4: it so much worse in the past two years, and
Speaker 4: I really truly believe that they kept it bad now.
Speaker 4: Expanding it during COVID one could understand that, not contract
Speaker 4: it and then fighting to keep it expanded well after
Speaker 4: the Public Health emergency was over. That was simply designed
Speaker 4: to a put more people on the government dole because
Speaker 4: people on the government dole are easier to convince to
Speaker 4: hope for you, because all you have to say is
Speaker 4: that guy is going to kick you off the public dole.
Speaker 4: And you know, people on Medicaid. There's so many people
Speaker 4: on Medicaid.
Speaker 9: Oh.
Speaker 4: In another part of this whole thing, the Biden administration
Speaker 4: actually expanded Medicaid to include people making up to one
Speaker 4: hundred percent of the poverty level and that were healthy
Speaker 4: and had no real issues. Why is this a big deal, Well,
Speaker 4: they incentivized through a series of priority rules. They incentivized
Speaker 4: those people being seen first. So the very people that
Speaker 4: this program was designed for, the really poor, mothers with children,
Speaker 4: and the elderly, were fighting it harder to get service
Speaker 4: and harder to be taken care of. We have to
Speaker 4: reign in Medicaid costs. So we have to rein in
Speaker 4: how states use Medicaid dollars because right now there's an
Speaker 4: incentive for states to increase hospital fees because that increases
Speaker 4: their Medicaid reimbursements. Now, what does that do for the
Speaker 4: rest of us? It leaves us with hospital facility fees.
Speaker 4: What exactly is that fee for? Does anybody know? Anyone? No, me, neither,
Speaker 4: no clue, but we're all paying it. So we've got
Speaker 4: to reign in Medicaid. But you have to understand. Listen
Speaker 4: to the ways that they want to reform Medicaid. Prepare
Speaker 4: to be horrified. Prepare to have your jaw drop into
Speaker 4: your lap at the heartlessness of these reforms. Listen to this.
Speaker 4: To be eligible for Medicaid, there would be new community
Speaker 4: engagement requirements of at least eighty hours per month of work, education,
Speaker 4: or service for able bodied adults without dependence. So people
Speaker 4: who don't have children, who are perfectly fit and able
Speaker 4: would either have to have a job for twenty hours
Speaker 4: a week, or be in some kind of educational program
Speaker 4: for twenty hours a week, or volunteer for twenty hours
Speaker 4: a week in order to remain on Medicaid. God, that's horrible.
Speaker 4: That's the worst thing I've ever heard. I'm being sarcastic.
Speaker 4: Of course, people would also have to verify their eligibility
Speaker 4: to be in the program twice a year, rather than
Speaker 4: just once. The bill also adds a more rigorous income
Speaker 4: verification for those who enrolled in the Affordable Care Acts
Speaker 4: healthcare coverage. Now that last part about more rigorous requirements
Speaker 4: for that. That's a good thing, because if you think
Speaker 4: you are going to sign up in such a way
Speaker 4: to get a larger subsidy than you are legally entitled to,
Speaker 4: and that the government isn't going to take it out
Speaker 4: of your income tax refund the next year, you've lost
Speaker 4: your mind. The government's always going to get their money,
Speaker 4: So making sure that you have verified your income is
Speaker 4: only going to benefit you in the long run. Now
Speaker 4: here are some different things to think about. Some Medicaid
Speaker 4: recipients who make more than one hundred percent of the
Speaker 4: federal poverty level, that's about thirty two thousand dollars a
Speaker 4: year for a family of four would be required to
Speaker 4: pay out of pocket cost to for some services. Those fees,
Speaker 4: which would not apply to emergency room visits, prenatal care,
Speaker 4: pediatric visits, or primary care checkups, would be limited to
Speaker 4: thirty five dollars per visit. Now, less you think this
Speaker 4: is heartless and cruel, talk to your doctor. If your
Speaker 4: doctor serves Medicaid patients, just ask your doctor. Are Medicaid
Speaker 4: patients reliable in showing up for appointments. Are they reliable
Speaker 4: in following through on the instructions or orders or even
Speaker 4: medication that you give them. Because I've talked to doctors
Speaker 4: in Kentucky, doctors in Florida, doctors in Colorado that took
Speaker 4: Medicaid patients, and though here's the thing, they still accept
Speaker 4: Medicaid patients. They want to help people, but they will
Speaker 4: express frustration at the level of no shows because there's
Speaker 4: no fees and there's no way to ding people right.
Speaker 4: No shows, or parents that bring their kids in and
Speaker 4: then don't get the medication that will be free for them.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of frustration there because a lot of
Speaker 4: times people in poverty have a lot of other issues, right,
Speaker 4: There's a lot of stuff going on, and so they're
Speaker 4: not always the best patient. And sometimes you've got to
Speaker 4: have a little skin in the game to make it matter.
Speaker 4: And I don't want to, you know, to be unable
Speaker 4: to afford something. I do think that this will lead
Speaker 4: to an increase in emergency room visits. I really believe
Speaker 4: that applicants, by the way, could also not qualify for
Speaker 4: Medicaid if they have a home that is valued at
Speaker 4: more than a million dollars. Now I have concerns about
Speaker 4: this specifically because if you have a home's valued at
Speaker 4: over a million dollars and you still low a bunch
Speaker 4: of money on it, now that's a dumb financial decision.
Speaker 4: Should probably sell it. I think there needs to be
Speaker 4: equity in there instead, Like, if you have a million
Speaker 4: dollars in equity in your home, you should not be
Speaker 4: on Medicaid. You should sell that home. If you have
Speaker 4: a remaining spouse, move into something more reasonable and pay
Speaker 4: for your health care. I know it sucks. The proposed
Speaker 4: bill also targets any immigrants who are living in the
Speaker 4: country illegally or without documentation. It reduces by ten percent
Speaker 4: to share the federal government pays to states such as
Speaker 4: New York or California or Colorado that allow those immigrants
Speaker 4: to sign up for Medicaid. To qualify for the ACA
Speaker 4: coverage enroll, these would have to prove they are lawfully present.
Speaker 4: And this is what Democrats are freaking out about. You know,
Speaker 4: there's a case to be made that we have to
Speaker 4: make sure that people are taken care of, but we
Speaker 4: also don't need to supplement or subsidize people that are
Speaker 4: otherwise capable of participating. More in their own care, so
Speaker 4: that those are the things in the Medicaid cust Now
Speaker 4: what would I do if I could wave the magic wind,
Speaker 4: if I were the federal government, I would immediately go
Speaker 4: to a Medicaid block grant program that works like this.
Speaker 4: The federal government, I don't even know how you've come
Speaker 4: up with these numbers. Maybe use the last five years,
Speaker 4: an historical average, that kind of thing, and you say, okay, Colorado,
Speaker 4: you traditionally have this population, this amount of people, this
Speaker 4: part of your population that is utilizing Medicaid that meet
Speaker 4: our standards, and that's going to cost you five billion dollars.
Speaker 4: So here's five billion dollars. You're not getting a penny more.
Speaker 4: No incentives for states to try and jack up Medicaid
Speaker 4: rates or payments. They have to manage the money, and
Speaker 4: when they run out, the taxpayers are going to have
Speaker 4: to pay for it. I think that will lead to
Speaker 4: much more fiscally sound policies here in the state of Colorado,
Speaker 4: for one. So that's what's in Medicaid five sixty six nine.
Speaker 4: OHO is the common Spirit health text line. I'd love
Speaker 4: to hear from you. We need it to be there,
Speaker 4: especially for elderly people. Who need assistance and having a
Speaker 4: place to live. Somebody hit a text and talking about
Speaker 4: the homes. By the way, I just found out Landmark
Speaker 4: over here in Greenwood Village, which is a lovely little theater,
Speaker 4: great parking, good restaurants all around. I'll be checking with
Speaker 4: them today because I can do a private rental there.
Speaker 4: So all of you who are texting, thank you for that.
Speaker 4: We were talking about the provision that if you own
Speaker 4: a home that is over a million dollars then you
Speaker 4: cannot qualify for medicaid, and someone said this, let me
Speaker 4: see here. What let me see trying to find is
Speaker 4: there is there a provision if you have over one
Speaker 4: million dollars in a stock market account when you apply
Speaker 4: for medicaid, they go through all your assets. If you
Speaker 4: have a million dollars in a stock market account, you
Speaker 4: cannot qualify for medicaid. It's not just income based because
Speaker 4: most people, elderly people, they don't have income other than
Speaker 4: social Security, so that doesn't really mean much. But they
Speaker 4: do look at your assets and before you think to yourself,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna sign my assets over to my kids. Most
Speaker 4: states have a what's called a five year look back
Speaker 4: where they go back five years and see when exactly
Speaker 4: you transferred your stuff to your kids. So if you're
Speaker 4: planning on doing that, like you're gonna go ahead and
Speaker 4: sign a house over to your kid, you need to
Speaker 4: do it now and hope they don't kick you out
Speaker 4: before you're ready. Just saying, Mandy, I'm a dentist in
Speaker 4: Colorado's Springs and I've been taking Medicaid since I've been
Speaker 4: here seventeen years. I would say the book, Oh Dagnavity
Speaker 4: just updated. Hang on, I would say the book of
Speaker 4: my patients are Medicaid, and it is very frustrating. The
Speaker 4: no shows, the no skin in the game. It lost
Speaker 4: me money to schedule them and not schedule another patient
Speaker 4: and they don't show up. Fees are less than normal.
Speaker 4: I will admit it's been frustrating to see the amount
Speaker 4: of it with people with Medicaid have a nicer car
Speaker 4: than me and have the newest phone and tell me
Speaker 4: about their vacations to Hawaii when I have yet to
Speaker 4: even be to Hawaii or go to Hawaii. So that
Speaker 4: is consistent with the conversations that I've had. And again,
Speaker 4: these doctors and I didn't even think about dentists. I've
Speaker 4: never asked a dentist about it. They serve this population
Speaker 4: because they think it's important, right, but they still can
Speaker 4: be very, very frustrating. Maybe the new Medicaid policies, this
Speaker 4: Texter says, will put more pressure on the healthcare system
Speaker 4: to be more accountable of their pricing because the people
Speaker 4: will have a more direct line to billing. I think
Speaker 4: that would be good instead of easily soaking up our
Speaker 4: tax dollars. I'm just going to say this, and you
Speaker 4: know I have had good experiences here. I should say
Speaker 4: this my several experiences, like my vocal cord surgery, my
Speaker 4: other stuff. I had a very good experience here when
Speaker 4: it came to hospital billing. But I have had experiences
Speaker 4: in the past in Florida when I was selling insurance
Speaker 4: to older people. I would try to help these people
Speaker 4: sort out their billing from a hospital, and in one case,
Speaker 4: I spent eight hours reconciling Medicare bills to statements, to
Speaker 4: hospital bills to statements because this hospital was telling one
Speaker 4: of my clients that she owed them fourteen thousand and
Speaker 4: eight hundred and something dollars in change, right, And I
Speaker 4: was like, there's no way with the Medicare supplement you have,
Speaker 4: all of this is covered. So I spent eight hours
Speaker 4: going through everything, matching up every bill. It took me forever.
Speaker 4: Then I called the hospital billing department and I said, Hi,
Speaker 4: I'm here with so and so. I am working with
Speaker 4: her to reconcile her hospital bills, and we need to
Speaker 4: make an appointment to come in and talk to someone
Speaker 4: about this outstanding balance that you say. She owes. The
Speaker 4: hospital billing lady says, well, let me pull it up.
Speaker 3: She pulls it up.
Speaker 4: She says, it seems here that we have fourteen it's
Speaker 4: fourteen thousand, eight hundred and something dollars in change. And
Speaker 4: I said no. After I reconciled everything, I got to
Speaker 4: like four hundred and forty dollars or actually was like
Speaker 4: four hundred and eighty dollars, was like a tenth of
Speaker 4: what the actual number was. And she said, oh, that
Speaker 4: sounds fine. Just send that in. And you know how
Speaker 4: you go into something and you're ready for a fight,
Speaker 4: like you're you know, you're jacked up, you got the evidence,
Speaker 4: you spent eight hours going through all this stuff, you
Speaker 4: know what you're talking about. You are ready to fight somebody.
Speaker 4: And she's like, oh, no, that just send that a
Speaker 4: that'll settle it. And it was at that moment I
Speaker 4: was like, so hospital billing is just a racket then,
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just a legal racket. They are counting
Speaker 4: on older people to be too daunted by the thought
Speaker 4: of doing what I did for eight hours and it
Speaker 4: took me forever. It was horrible, and I'm not good
Speaker 4: at that stuff. So it was like, you know, for me,
Speaker 4: maybe for somebody who's good at accounting, it would have
Speaker 4: been easy, breezy, but for me, it was just an
Speaker 4: uphill battle. And this woman was just like, I can't
Speaker 4: do it. It was four years of breast cancer treatment bills.
Speaker 4: Imagine imagine what kind of paper we're we're talking about.
Speaker 4: And so she either just casually wrote off another ten grand,
Speaker 4: you know, another fourteen grand, or it's all just a racket.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Anyway, we're going to take a very
Speaker 4: quick time out. When we get back. My friend Cliff
Speaker 4: May joins us from the Foundation for the Defensive Democracies.
Speaker 4: We're going to talk a little bit about India and Pakistan,
Speaker 4: and we're also going to talk oh you know what
Speaker 4: else I didn't talk about with this medicaid stuff. I
Speaker 4: got to come back to that ten percent cut could
Speaker 4: be very devastating for Colorado because I don't know if
Speaker 4: you guys know this, but Democrats gave illegal immigrants access
Speaker 4: to medicaid here in Colorado too. To a little side note,
Speaker 4: Cliff May coming up next.
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Speaker 4: it's time to welcome Welcome, Welcome one of my favorite
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Speaker 4: Clifford May High. Cliff, how you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm doing great.
Speaker 4: We got a lot we got to talk about. We're
Speaker 4: going to start with the Indian Pakistan, but we got
Speaker 4: to talk about Trump's Mid East wing. We got to
Speaker 4: talk about a lot of stuff.
Speaker 5: Cliff, Wow, Okay, we'll try to do our best to
Speaker 5: beat so thinks.
Speaker 4: So let's talk Because I said earlier, I said, I've
Speaker 4: been following the Pakistan India conflict kind of out of
Speaker 4: the corner of my eye, right, not really paying that
Speaker 4: much attention, but paying attention because you have two new
Speaker 4: powers been at war for how long have they been
Speaker 4: warring over the Kashmir district.
Speaker 5: Since the partition of India into two states, one Hindu
Speaker 5: majority one Muslim majority. Pakistan was a brand new state
Speaker 5: after nineteen forty seven, so.
Speaker 4: A while now they have been at war over this
Speaker 4: piece of real estate in the middle. And because they're
Speaker 4: nuclear powers, when things flare up, we got to pay attention.
Speaker 4: And I loved your column today is this call them
Speaker 4: in Today's Washington Times or yesterday's.
Speaker 5: Great edition the Washington Times today, and it's still and
Speaker 5: it's online as well under Washington Times dot com.
Speaker 4: You did a nice job of sort of laying out
Speaker 4: the background, and if you could do that here and
Speaker 4: kind of bring people up to speed on how we
Speaker 4: got first of all, how India and Pakistan were divided,
Speaker 4: how they've been fighting over the Kashmir region, and what
Speaker 4: happened to kind of flare things up.
Speaker 5: Now, Okay, let me let me try to do that
Speaker 5: as succinctly as I can. Let me just make this point.
Speaker 5: A lot of the media. Here's where the media coverage
Speaker 5: has been right and wrong. Like the mainstream media has
Speaker 5: reported that Indian Pakistan are quarreling over Kashmir, and that's
Speaker 5: a territory in the northernmost region of the Indian subcontinent.
Speaker 5: So far, so good. They're right about that, but they
Speaker 5: infer from that, or they tend to that because they're
Speaker 5: fighting over a territory. This is a territorial dispute. That's misleading.
Speaker 5: They also imply a lot of them BBC, for example,
Speaker 5: they imply a morally equivalence between Indian Pakistan. Now that's
Speaker 5: dead wrong. This particular flare up conflagration called which you
Speaker 5: will almost a full scale war, not quite, and Trump
Speaker 5: and Dvance and Marco Luvil they put a halt to it,
Speaker 5: a ceasefire, not peace, a ceasefire. This flared up in
Speaker 5: April twenty second when you had a group probably five
Speaker 5: Islamis terraces coming in from Pakistan. The Kashmir will get
Speaker 5: to cement. It is along a line of control going
Speaker 5: back to the war in nineteen forty seven forty eight
Speaker 5: over this territory so they come across into the part
Speaker 5: of Kashmir that the Indians administer claim as their own citizens.
Speaker 5: They then try to begin to identify the people they meet.
Speaker 5: A lot of them are tourists. Kashmir is a beautiful place,
Speaker 5: and tourists from indiacome newlywed to come on their honeymoon.
Speaker 5: All that wud they identify them? Are you Muslim or
Speaker 5: are you Hindu? And if they figure they're Hindu, and
Speaker 5: I'll tell you in a second how they figure that out,
Speaker 5: then they kill them, including killing men in front of
Speaker 5: their new brides right there. They kill them. How do
Speaker 5: they know, Well, they may ask them recite the follow
Speaker 5: you know, some verses from the Quran. If they can't
Speaker 5: do it, you're a Hindu. The the way they may
Speaker 5: do it is say, and they didn't see this report
Speaker 5: in a lot of places, but I'm telling you it's true,
Speaker 5: pull down your pants because Hindus are not certain and
Speaker 5: Muslims are. And so if you're not circumcised, we kill you.
Speaker 5: So that's what's going on. Okay, that's what they did.
Speaker 5: Now the final death, by the way, the final there
Speaker 5: was a Christian and a local Muslim who attempted to
Speaker 5: protect some of these Indian civilians. We're talking about civilians
Speaker 5: who are murdered. The final death toll is twenty six.
Speaker 5: Now what happens. The Indians in response, conducted precision air
Speaker 5: and missile strikes against I believe it was nine terrorists
Speaker 5: infrastructure sites in Pakistan and the Pakistani administered half of
Speaker 5: Kashmir had Pakistan to those strikes are an active war.
Speaker 5: Now you have after that cross border artillery and drone exchanges.
Speaker 5: Pakistan claims that it down several Indian fighter jets. Not
Speaker 5: quite clear that sue. I think it's probably true at
Speaker 5: least two. India then reduced the flow of water going
Speaker 5: to Pakistan. There's a treaty about water saying you know,
Speaker 5: you know, you get there. No more water coming, not
Speaker 5: for drinking, not for agriculture. You're not getting anymore. And
Speaker 5: again escalation became possible. And that's when Marco Rubio advance
Speaker 5: on orders from Trump, began making a million phone calls
Speaker 5: and they managed to get a cessation of hostilities. The
Speaker 5: real roots of this conflict go back to after World
Speaker 5: War II, when the sun was setting on the British Empire.
Speaker 5: Britain was pulling out of India. Britain was pulling out
Speaker 5: of Palestine at the same Around the same time when
Speaker 5: the British are pulling out of India, the leader of
Speaker 5: the Muslims there a guy the name of Muhammad Ali
Speaker 5: Jinnah who is head of something called the Old India
Speaker 5: Muslim League. He says, well, we Muslims in this country.
Speaker 5: We can't live in a Hindu dominated, Hindu majority. We
Speaker 5: want our own country. So the next thing that happens
Speaker 5: is there's an Indian Independence Act with the partition. Again
Speaker 5: like the U and did to do a partition of Palestine,
Speaker 5: they did a partition and then you had millions, millions
Speaker 5: of Hindus moving out of the two major Muslim areas
Speaker 5: that were earmarked to become Pakistan, one of the Far
Speaker 5: East one of the Far West. You had the Muslims
Speaker 5: moving out of India to go to the new country
Speaker 5: of Pakistan Stan. This was not a peaceful exchange. It
Speaker 5: was one of the biggest and bloodiest population transfers in
Speaker 5: all of history. Roughly fifteen million people if you can
Speaker 5: imagine that, across these new borders. About as many as
Speaker 5: two million were killed in clashes between Muslims and Hindus
Speaker 5: and Muslims and Sikhs. Now. It's interesting, even after that,
Speaker 5: about twenty five percent of Pakistan's population was still Hindu
Speaker 5: and about ten percent of India's population at that point
Speaker 5: was still Muslim. What's happened over the years since, well,
Speaker 5: the Muslim population of India has grown. It's now the
Speaker 5: fourteen percent of India's population Muslim. By contrast, the non
Speaker 5: Muslim population of Pakistan less than four percent. And that's
Speaker 5: because over the years, Islamists in Pakistan have implemented policies
Speaker 5: that caused Hindus and Sikhs and Christians and others, and
Speaker 5: a lot of very i would say moderate Muslims to
Speaker 5: leave the country, to get out, to emigrate. It's much
Speaker 5: less diverse country now than it was. By the way,
Speaker 5: I just mentioned, I talked to you about Muhammad Ali Jina.
Speaker 5: He was Gritish educated, very well dressed, favored pluralism, tolerance.
Speaker 5: But he died in forty eight and eight years later
Speaker 5: Pakistan declared itself in Islamic Republic. And it's been and
Speaker 5: that's the way it's gone since then. So I'll stop there.
Speaker 5: Permitted for this, a lot of things we can talk.
Speaker 4: About I wouldn't ask militarily because obviously India is far
Speaker 4: more popular and more developed. I mean, India has got
Speaker 4: a lot more going on for it than Pakistan does. Militarily,
Speaker 4: how do they stack up? And who is Pakistan as
Speaker 4: an Islamist nation allied with that could possibly provide them
Speaker 4: weapons for a war with India.
Speaker 5: Okay, so militarily India is stronger than no question. But
Speaker 5: having nuclear weapons a nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are the
Speaker 5: great equalizer, aren't they. You know, that's one of the
Speaker 5: reasons Iran, the Islamic Republic of Iran, wants nuclear weapons
Speaker 5: because that means they could wipe out a whole city
Speaker 5: with one bomb if it gets through. Both countries do
Speaker 5: have nuclear weapons, but if they were not for the
Speaker 5: nuclear weapons, no question that India is the bigger and
Speaker 5: stronger country. Look, Pakistan is very close to China, and
Speaker 5: India has been close to Russia still is, though closer
Speaker 5: and closer to the US. It's relations. It's close relations
Speaker 5: with Russia are somewhat I would say, of an impediment
Speaker 5: to its evolving relations with the US, but not entirely.
Speaker 5: Don't forget this is the most populous democracy on the planet.
Speaker 5: But you know they were if you go back to years,
Speaker 5: they were part of the non Aligned movement, which wasn't
Speaker 5: really not aligned. It was closer to the Soviet Union.
Speaker 5: They have their their weaponry, they have a lot of
Speaker 5: Russian weaponry, uh in their arsenal, and they're still getting
Speaker 5: spare parts. They're getting closer to the US but not
Speaker 5: but again they still there. They still have this and
Speaker 5: they're in things like bricks that you know what that is, Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, an organization trade agreement. But they're all kind
Speaker 5: of anti American, and you know, includes Russian incluse, China,
Speaker 5: includes Iran. They're all kind of anti American. What Indian
Speaker 5: to tell you is, look, we're your friends within bricks. Okay,
Speaker 5: it's good to have us there. We keep an eye
Speaker 5: on things, We tell you what's going on. We keep
Speaker 5: it from going off the deep end. So it's not
Speaker 5: such a problem. But that anyhow, But America, do you think.
Speaker 4: That India being cozy in bricks and being cozy with Russia.
Speaker 4: I don't think that dissuades Donald Trump. I think and
Speaker 4: I want to shift gears just a little bit here
Speaker 4: because it's sort of connected and yet not he's in
Speaker 4: the Middle East. Right now, he stopped in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 4: He's going to UAE, He's going to Cutter. These people
Speaker 4: are people, especially Saudi Arabia. We know nineteen hijackers came
Speaker 4: from Saudi Arabian's flu plains into our buildings. We know
Speaker 4: that Cutter has funded terror against Americans over and over,
Speaker 4: but we also realize that in the Middle East, the
Speaker 4: enemy of my enemy is my friend, and Saudi Arabia
Speaker 4: certainly needs our help with Iran. And I think Donald
Speaker 4: Trump used Cutter as an opportunity to insert, or rather
Speaker 4: maybe put some space between Cutter and Iran, and a
Speaker 4: little less space between the US and Cutter if they
Speaker 4: give Cutter legitimacy. The reason I talk about that is
Speaker 4: because isn't the same couldn't the same thing exist with
Speaker 4: India in Donald Trump's size.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't entirely agree with your analysis there, and
Speaker 5: I'll tell you why in a second. But we are
Speaker 5: getting closer to India. Modi has had good relations with Trump.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of good reasons for us to be
Speaker 5: for India to become our ally and to pull them away.
Speaker 5: And I think that is possible from Russia, especially at
Speaker 5: a time when Russia has a no limits partnership with
Speaker 5: communist China, and Communist China is an enemy of India.
Speaker 5: They have also fought, they have border disoots that China
Speaker 5: and India are are not friends. What role China may
Speaker 5: have had in terms of becoming Pakistan. This is a
Speaker 5: good time maybe for some terrorists to come in and
Speaker 5: knew this for various reasons. Who knows. I know there
Speaker 5: are theories of rumors out there about that. What I
Speaker 5: would tell you about Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia was very
Speaker 5: bad after the nineteen seventy nine revolution in Iran. Why
Speaker 5: because Iran, the revolution in Iran wisinness Islamic Revolution was
Speaker 5: the first nation state committed to jihad against the West,
Speaker 5: and they felt, we have to show that we're committed
Speaker 5: to Jihat two and so they began to finance madrasas
Speaker 5: in Pakistan and I do a lot of bad things.
Speaker 5: Eventually Al Kada came back and bit them. I am
Speaker 5: convinced that so the Saudis at this point wants stability
Speaker 5: in the region. They want to develop their country in
Speaker 5: a very different way. Certainly, I'm talking about the Crown
Speaker 5: Prince effects to the king of fifty years from now.
Speaker 5: And he wants to transform Saudi Arabia that is producing
Speaker 5: much more than just oil and gas, right. He wants
Speaker 5: a country that is in the forefront, intellectually, academically, indust
Speaker 5: all kinds of ways. Can't have that. And he knows
Speaker 5: that the Islamic Republic of Iran is an enemy. Qatar
Speaker 5: is a whole different kettle of fish. There's a piece
Speaker 5: out today in the Free Press by journalist named Jay Solomon,
Speaker 5: recommend you cut our plays both ends against the Middle arm.
Speaker 4: Wait, clist, I got to tell you, I, for the
Speaker 4: last forty eight hours have gone down this rabbit hole
Speaker 4: right about Cutter. This is and I but here's here's
Speaker 4: my problem. And we're going to get into this because
Speaker 4: the Free Press article is a perfect jumping off point
Speaker 4: and it's on today's blog. My issue is that there
Speaker 4: are a lot of very important people in the United
Speaker 4: States of America who have been on the payroll of Cutter.
Speaker 4: They've spent three hundred billion dollars buying good pr in
Speaker 4: the United States of America. Now I can't figure out
Speaker 4: where I'm going to get good intel. But at the
Speaker 4: same time, they've also over the last ten years especially
Speaker 4: passed some reforms internally in Cutter that are encouraging that
Speaker 4: that indicate to me that they do want to join
Speaker 4: the modern world and treat people with a little modicum
Speaker 4: of respect, at least on the on the letter of
Speaker 4: the law. So you say they're playing both sides against
Speaker 4: the middle to what advantage? Tell me, Tell tell me
Speaker 4: what Cutters long game is in your.
Speaker 5: View, Cutter, I'm afraidy to tell you, is a Muslim
Speaker 5: brotherhood state. Cut They they dressed you know better, but
Speaker 5: they support must They have supported Al Keeda, They have
Speaker 5: been cozy with Iran whenever necessary. But they also buy influence.
Speaker 5: Their influence effort is in the US is unbelievable. There's
Speaker 5: a reason more than one, but there's among the main
Speaker 5: reasons why almost every middle he studies department at every
Speaker 5: major university in America is his pro Islamist at this
Speaker 5: point and viciously anti Israeli. And it goes back to
Speaker 5: Cutter buying up these departments. Al Jazeera is very anti American.
Speaker 5: That's an Arabic news service owned and operated by cut
Speaker 5: I understand you know how many you know how many
Speaker 5: cut Turry citizens there are.
Speaker 4: Isn't there like three hundred thousand.
Speaker 5: They're not very big three hundred thousand. There's about two
Speaker 5: million people in the peninsula. They're all servants. They'll never
Speaker 5: get miss citizenship. They can't. They're there to they're there serve.
Speaker 5: And yet it has something like twelve percent of the
Speaker 5: energy resources in the world. They are so rich they
Speaker 5: have they don't know what they don't. Money means nothing
Speaker 5: to them. And Biden made them a major non NATO ally,
Speaker 5: and they said, and they said, and the fact, oh,
Speaker 5: it's great that we have Hamas officials here as billionaires,
Speaker 5: either from donor money the aid money getting skimmed, or
Speaker 5: maybe directly from the Qataris, because then we can negotiate
Speaker 5: them think how well they need right away after nine
Speaker 5: ten seven. First of all, they shouldn't have been at
Speaker 5: ten seven, because the Qataris should have known what was
Speaker 5: going on, since they had high level officials of Hamas
Speaker 5: in their hotels, very rich guys, billionaires. They should they
Speaker 5: should have said, you're not doing something like this, because
Speaker 5: that's that's not good. Our American out after it happened,
Speaker 5: it should have been at the American president that point.
Speaker 5: It says all right, this is what we pay you,
Speaker 5: this is this is who you are. We said, you're
Speaker 5: a non NATO ally. At least get every American out,
Speaker 5: and I mean today. And here's how you do it.
Speaker 5: You tell the you tell the Hamas officials who are
Speaker 5: in your hotels that they either make this call, make
Speaker 5: this order that the hostages leave, or they leave the
Speaker 5: hotels and they leave the hotels and handcuffs and they
Speaker 5: go either into one of our prisons or get extradited
Speaker 5: to the United States. None of that happened. Now we
Speaker 5: finally got the lab the last living American out. Okay,
Speaker 5: that's great, that's really good. But that's but look, but
Speaker 5: really what has cuts are done. They have campuses that
Speaker 5: they pay for for many universities, and again they're indoctrinating, indoctrinating, indoctrinating.
Speaker 5: They have law firms, they have pr firms. They there's
Speaker 5: a big counter gate in Europe where they've bribed government officials.
Speaker 5: It's again, I think Jay Solomon is spot on in
Speaker 5: his colum today about the unbelievable historic influence operation that
Speaker 5: Culter has. And again, their aims are Muslim brotherhood aims,
Speaker 5: and that's frightening.
Speaker 4: And I just want to read some of the column
Speaker 4: that he's talking about in the Free Press today, and
Speaker 4: the headline of the column is how Cutter bought America,
Speaker 4: And I just want to read some of the connections
Speaker 4: in the Trump administration with Cutter. The airplane deal was
Speaker 4: signed off by Attorney General Pam Bondi. She used to
Speaker 4: work at a Washington, DC lobbying firm that received one
Speaker 4: hundred and fifteen thousand dollars a month from Cutter to
Speaker 4: fight human trafficking. She's not the only one. President Trump's
Speaker 4: chief of Staff, Susie wilds led lobbying firm Mercury Public
Speaker 4: Affairs when it represented Cutter's embassy in Washington. FBI director
Speaker 4: Cash Battel worked as a consultant for Cutter, though he
Speaker 4: didn't register as a foreign agent. Then there is Steve Whitkoff,
Speaker 4: President Trump's longtime friend and senior advisor, who's accompanying him
Speaker 4: on the trip this week. For months now, he has
Speaker 4: served as Trump's Special Envoy to the Middle East, and
Speaker 4: he happens to be a beneficiary of Cutter's largest In
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three, Cutter's sovereign wealth fund bought out his
Speaker 4: Faltering investment in New York's Park Lane Hotel for six
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty three million dollars. The Trump organization is
Speaker 4: putting a luxury golf resort near Doha, and next week,
Speaker 4: Donald Trump Junior will speak at the invitation only Cutter
Speaker 4: Economic Forum in a session entitled investing in America. I mean,
Speaker 4: if this were the Biden administration, Republicans would be losing
Speaker 4: their minds.
Speaker 5: Well, that's right, there were, but again, the Biden administration
Speaker 5: had no didn't say hey, we got a problem here
Speaker 5: on the contract. Two things Biden did when he got
Speaker 5: into office is one, he designated Kuttar as a major
Speaker 5: non NATO ally. That is huge and that allows anybody
Speaker 5: you just on that list to say, wait a minute,
Speaker 5: this is an American ally. They want my help. That
Speaker 5: on my council, my advice. Why wouldn't I give it
Speaker 5: to a major ally? How is that a problem?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 5: Biden also said the who these we're not We're taking
Speaker 5: them off the terrorists list. I don't think they're terrorists
Speaker 5: after all. And that was a big gift to Iran.
Speaker 5: Try to get them back into you know that the
Speaker 5: Obama's Iran deal. But you know, there's no question in
Speaker 5: my mind that when Kutchar does these things, they want
Speaker 5: something in return. They think they're going to get something
Speaker 5: in return. And I can see how that Again, I
Speaker 5: can understand how people say, all they're doing is they're
Speaker 5: paying me for my advice. I'm very smart, I know
Speaker 5: how government works. Why should there be a problem. They're
Speaker 5: not an adversary. But this is, this is, this is
Speaker 5: a very strategic attempt at what is sometimes called state capture.
Speaker 5: You just you know, you just buy every every pr
Speaker 5: frot and they and I've met with Katari diplomats, they're
Speaker 5: very slick, they're very smart. They say, hey, you know,
Speaker 5: yes we have hamas, but you know the Americans this
Speaker 5: they wanted us to do that. They need somebody, you know,
Speaker 5: to act as a mediator. It's a way we set
Speaker 5: up a channel of communication and we're doing our best. Honestly,
Speaker 5: we are what we you know, really, what do you
Speaker 5: want us to do? But I think it's I think
Speaker 5: it's it's it's very shrewd, it's very clever. Uh. They've
Speaker 5: all you know, they have done. They know they've bribed
Speaker 5: to get sports events in Katar and huge bribes. We
Speaker 5: know that the people who work on a broad or
Speaker 5: off and very badly mistreated. Al Jazeera doesn't report on that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: al Jazeera has been bad from the beginning, but plenty
Speaker 5: of plenty of American journalists went to work for Al Jazeera.
Speaker 5: Maybe made you remember Dave Marrish did years ago, a
Speaker 5: very well known New York journalist, and then eventually he
Speaker 5: quitit and he said, no, I kind of I thought
Speaker 5: it was a good gig, and then I kind of
Speaker 5: understood who they were and what they were really doing.
Speaker 5: There you go journalists from Ala Rabia who I remember
Speaker 5: talking to one and saying, who said, he used to
Speaker 5: work for Al Jazeera And I said, what's the difference.
Speaker 5: He said, well, Al Rabir Arabia I can be reasonably
Speaker 5: free journalists, not entirely, but reasonably Al Jazeera no, no way,
Speaker 5: And Al Jazeera's had influence on the BBC and vice versa.
Speaker 5: It's I mean, we've got to be able to see
Speaker 5: what's under our nose here. Even but again I give
Speaker 5: them credit. They are very very clever about what they're doing,
Speaker 5: and they have and money is no object because when
Speaker 5: you got that kind of hundreds of billions of dollars
Speaker 5: in just three hundred and fifty thousand citizens. It on.
Speaker 5: You can do what you want to do, clib The Saudis,
Speaker 5: the Saudis are. The Saudis are really down on Katari's
Speaker 5: and the Saudis have have criminalized the Muslim brotherhood, as
Speaker 5: have the Amuradis. They will tell you the Qataris are
Speaker 5: the Muslim brotherhood.
Speaker 4: Oh, Cliff May, you didn't make me feel better at all.
Speaker 4: I mean, come on read cliffs column. It is an
Speaker 4: Indian Pakistan I put it linked to on the blog today,
Speaker 4: as well as the story we were just talking about
Speaker 4: from the Free Press. Cliff A joy to talk to you.
Speaker 4: We'll talk again soon, all right, I have a good one.
Speaker 4: We'll be right back. We had a text or say
Speaker 4: it's guitar now. I'm just I don't care. So there's
Speaker 4: a website called memory dot org mri i dot org
Speaker 4: and it is an English language website that tells you
Speaker 4: what is happening in Arab media and right on the
Speaker 4: front page. If you just heard my interview with Cliffmay,
Speaker 4: I'm asking like, what's the truth about cutter? I don't know,
Speaker 4: And listen to this. Listen to this. Uh, the Qatari
Speaker 4: media has recently published articles and cartoons insulting US President
Speaker 4: Donald Trump, and the Katari owned Al Jazeera network in
Speaker 4: Arabic continues to serve as a mouthpiece for anti Trump
Speaker 4: terrorist Islamis and arrange below our examples. The Katari government
Speaker 4: daily Al Shark recently published on March twenty fifth, two
Speaker 4: articles harshly castigate US President Donald Trump appeared in the paper,
Speaker 4: describing Trump as a hostage to the Israeli positions. He
Speaker 4: claims that the American president has put on a Jewish
Speaker 4: skull cap which sits on top of his yellow hair,
Speaker 4: and has started to behave like Theodore Hertzel, the founder
Speaker 4: of the Zionist movement. He mocks Trump's efforts to present
Speaker 4: himself as a superhero and leader capable of bringing change,
Speaker 4: when he is nothing of the sort. He then compared
Speaker 4: hamas terrorists to John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and
Speaker 4: George Washington. He then called Trump a terrorists for threatening
Speaker 4: to annex Canada and take control of the Panama Canal.
Speaker 4: And this is regular from him, and they put the
Speaker 4: columns so you can read it yourself. They have anti
Speaker 4: Trump cartoons showing Trump as a big fat baby.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The most recent example of Al Jazeera in Arabic, Hotsi
Speaker 4: spokesman nas Rudin ammer President Trump is a criminal, a liar.
Speaker 4: He was the one who suggested to cease fire. The
Speaker 4: Americans abandoned Israel, but we won't abandon the Palestinians. We
Speaker 4: will continue blocking Israeli ships and imposing an aerial siege. Now,
Speaker 4: one has to believe that people in the Trump administration
Speaker 4: are also reading this website. And here's the thing. I
Speaker 4: don't necessarily think that Trump loves to be. He loves
Speaker 4: to be you know, fitted, as they say, He loves
Speaker 4: to be having you know, adoration showered upon him, formal
Speaker 4: state dinners and all that good stuff. But whether or
Speaker 4: not he really believes that these people are you know,
Speaker 4: willing to talk about peace, or he understands who he's
Speaker 4: dealing with, That's the only question I care about. And
Speaker 4: I'm inclined to believe that even though he loves having
Speaker 4: his ego stroked, he is not stupid. I do not
Speaker 4: believe President Trump is stupid, and I do not believe
Speaker 4: that he likes having his ego stroke so much that
Speaker 4: he loses sort of the bigger picture here about who
Speaker 4: we are allied with and treats them thusly. Okay, I
Speaker 4: want to move on because I didn't want to stay
Speaker 4: with that. But I just looked that up and thought,
Speaker 4: oh that's great. So Cliff was right, So yeah, okay, awesome.
Speaker 4: Arod sent me a video maybe two weeks ago, and
Speaker 4: it was a young woman and she was like, I
Speaker 4: am never using Uber again because they said they were
Speaker 4: going to pull out of Colorado if this bill pass.
Speaker 4: It's all about safety, and they hate safety. I'm just
Speaker 4: going to be true to Lyft. And I published the
Speaker 4: video and in my little caption, I said, oh, oh, precious.
Speaker 4: If you think Lyft is going to keep operating in
Speaker 4: Colorado when Uber says we're out, you've lost your mind.
Speaker 4: There is a new bill that has been passed. It
Speaker 4: is awaiting the governor's signature, and it requires things of
Speaker 4: Uber and Lyft, some of which are really great ideas,
Speaker 4: really great ideas, things we can get behind. But some
Speaker 4: of them are very, very unwieldy and very very expensive,
Speaker 4: things like having twenty four to seven camera and then
Speaker 4: storing that data endlessly. It's not so much about recording,
Speaker 4: and it's what do you do with it. When you've
Speaker 4: recorded it, where do you put it? So Uber has
Speaker 4: been very vocal about the fact that if this passes
Speaker 4: in Colorado, they're just going to leave the market. And
Speaker 4: everybody's like, Oh, they're just kidding. Why would they do that,
Speaker 4: that's terrible. They're not They've done it before. Austin, Texas
Speaker 4: passed some legislation about Uber that they thought was going
Speaker 4: to help people get paid more by the card sharing services.
Speaker 4: They passed bill and Uber kept saying, yeah, we're we're
Speaker 4: not going to do that. We're we're not going to
Speaker 4: do that at all. We're not going to do that
Speaker 4: at all. And Austin did it anyway. And so what
Speaker 4: happened Uber and Lyft left They left Austin Texas. What
Speaker 4: happened after Uber and Left left Texas Because I've actually
Speaker 4: heard people say this will allow other ride sharing platforms
Speaker 4: to flourish in Colorado if Uber and left leave, Well,
Speaker 4: let me tell you what happened with Austin Texas. They
Speaker 4: pulled out of Austin, Texas, and there were multiple apps
Speaker 4: that immediately popped up. They were springing up everywhere, except
Speaker 4: they weren't working right. They kept crashing.
Speaker 3: They were very very.
Speaker 4: Understaffed, so people couldn't get a car. And then south
Speaker 4: By Southwest came and OMG south By Southwest where celebrities
Speaker 4: and musicians flood the city of Austin, Texas and they're
Speaker 4: not going to rent a car because they don't rent cars,
Speaker 4: that's not what they do. They flew into south By Southwest,
Speaker 4: all of these new apps all collectively crashed. No one
Speaker 4: could get a ride. There was no no rides to
Speaker 4: be had, and the legislature was like, yeah, we're not
Speaker 4: gonna let you do that to ride share anymore. We're
Speaker 4: gonna we're gonna pass our own regulations that you surp yours.
Speaker 4: And Uber and Lyft came back, you know. So the
Speaker 4: notion that somebody is just gonna step into this void
Speaker 4: and it's gonna be seamless and we're not even gonna
Speaker 4: and that's just dumb. And the notion that Uber and
Speaker 4: Lyft will not just say sorry, we're turning off the
Speaker 4: app in Colorado is also crazy because look at it
Speaker 4: from their perspective. If they roll over and let the
Speaker 4: state of Colorado put requirements that they feel are so
Speaker 4: onerous and expensive on them in Colorado and they take it.
Speaker 4: That just opens up forty nine other states to do
Speaker 4: the exact same thing. The only option Uber and Lyft
Speaker 4: have are to pull out of the market and just
Speaker 4: let it collapse. Can you imagine how vibrant Denver would be?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 4: Guys on those little bike pedal things would probably make
Speaker 4: a fortune. They can get you at least one or
Speaker 4: two blocks closer to where you needed to be. Uh, Mandy,
Speaker 4: I wonder what they thought of Trump as the pope
Speaker 4: in Cotter. I don't know. I have no idea, Mandy.
Speaker 4: I was a little shocked that you were shocked about
Speaker 4: the jet graft. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you're
Speaker 4: upset about it. I just wish you would get irritated
Speaker 4: about all his other scams he's currently running from the
Speaker 4: White House too. Made a list, but my top one
Speaker 4: this week besides the jet is buy some bitcoin and
Speaker 4: get a dinner with the President. Absolutely shameful. You know why,
Speaker 4: I don't have a problem with that because it's all
Speaker 4: perfectly transparent, and you, as a voter, can look at
Speaker 4: what he's doing and go, wow, that's really gross. He's
Speaker 4: profiting off the presidency of the United States of America.
Speaker 4: But the reason I don't have a problem with it
Speaker 4: is look at the net worth of the Obamas, of
Speaker 4: the Bidens, of the Clintons, of the Bushes before they
Speaker 4: became president, and then when they were done being president,
Speaker 4: look at their networth. Then people have been profiting off
Speaker 4: their position as president of the United States behind the
Speaker 4: scenes for far too long. Do I still think it's gross, Yes,
Speaker 4: I do. I think it's gross. I think it's in
Speaker 4: the South, we don't say gross, we say it's tacky,
Speaker 4: and he's being really, really tacky. There is gonna be
Speaker 4: a really really fun schedule release show tonight with Broncos
Speaker 4: Country Tonight, Dave Logan's gonna stop by. They're gonna chit
Speaker 4: chat about the upcoming schedule. We do know one game
Speaker 4: is going to be in Julio'd England. They wanted to
Speaker 4: go to Germany apparently, and who could blame them because
Speaker 4: Munich in October wow.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: But they are gonna be playing the Indianapolis Colts on
Speaker 4: October twelfth in London, and I think I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 4: gonna try and go to that game. I'm sure they're
Speaker 4: not gonna let me go from the station officially, but
Speaker 4: that would be super cool. That's kind of a bucket
Speaker 4: list thing a little bit, don't you think Broncos? Does
Speaker 4: anybody else think that's a bucketless thing? Because I gotta
Speaker 4: tell you, London is the coolest city. It is, just
Speaker 4: it is expensive as all get out. So if you
Speaker 4: think you're gonna do it on the cheap, unless you're
Speaker 4: gonna stay in a hostel, which I am far too
Speaker 4: old to stay in a hostel. That stopped appealing to
Speaker 4: me like thirty years ago. So it is expensive. But
Speaker 4: what a great city, and what a fun time to
Speaker 4: go and watch the Broncos play. That'd be neat anybody else.
Speaker 4: Five six six, And I know is this a bucket
Speaker 4: list thing for you guys? I think it's super cool.
Speaker 4: I always wonder like how much do the Brits really
Speaker 4: understand about the game itself? Because I feel this way
Speaker 4: when I go to hockey games. I don't know anything
Speaker 4: about hockey, and please don't tell me. I don't want
Speaker 4: to know. It's just not my favorite sport. I don't
Speaker 4: hate anybody. I love the Abs. I'm cheering for them,
Speaker 4: but I have no idea what's going on on the IYCE,
Speaker 4: no clue. I'm fine with it. It's good.
Speaker 3: Am I just now hearing this?
Speaker 4: Oh, you can ask Chuck. It drives him crazy because
Speaker 4: every time we go to a hockey game he tries
Speaker 4: to teach me and I'm like.
Speaker 6: Just bounce, have failed you. I just I know hockey,
Speaker 6: it's my favorite sport. What the hell I it's just
Speaker 6: for some here.
Speaker 4: Okay, here's a little truth about me, a rod. When
Speaker 4: someone tries to teach me something that I don't care about,
Speaker 4: it's like this, this wall of you know, ignorance, disinterest
Speaker 4: drops down over my eyeballs.
Speaker 3: No ignorance and whatever you.
Speaker 4: Know people are trying to put in it, just think, think,
Speaker 4: it just bounces off. And then, because I don't care,
Speaker 4: I try to explain this to my daughter a lot.
Speaker 4: She tells me really intricate stories about some of the
Speaker 4: things in the books that she's reading, and then later
Speaker 4: on she'll try and update me, and I'll say, wait
Speaker 4: a minute, go back and refresh, you know, refresh where
Speaker 4: we are so I can understand, because I do want
Speaker 4: to know. I want to know what she thinks is interesting.
Speaker 4: But that she's like, how can you not remember? I'm like,
Speaker 4: I remember that India and Pakistan had been a worse
Speaker 4: since nineteen forty seven. How about you.
Speaker 7: Things from your own daughter about a book. I listened
Speaker 7: to the important things to important well, and I do
Speaker 7: get up to speed and then I get the resolution of.
Speaker 4: Whatever she's reading. Whatever makes you feel better, Yeah, Mandy,
Speaker 4: I've watched hostile. Nope, nope, nope. I don't know what
Speaker 4: that is.
Speaker 3: Hostile?
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Hostile? He spelled it. Hostile. Hostile is el Probably he
Speaker 4: put there's quotes in here and capitalization. Yeah, Mandy, I
Speaker 4: think more of a bucket list thing for me would
Speaker 4: be watching the Broncos in Kansas City on Christmas. Oh
Speaker 4: to the person London sucks, stop it, stop it right now,
Speaker 4: I reject that. I reject that right now anyway. So, yeah,
Speaker 4: hockey players are the cutest. They are cutey. I love
Speaker 4: the hockey hair. I mean, super cute, manly, even without
Speaker 4: the teeth.
Speaker 3: A lot of hockey.
Speaker 4: Did you you had the party in the front, business
Speaker 4: and the wait either business in the front, party.
Speaker 5: In the back.
Speaker 3: He was a party both sides.
Speaker 4: I dare you to grow a mullet. Now I heard
Speaker 4: they were coming back.
Speaker 3: I could pipe pull it off.
Speaker 4: I think you could I think you could one of
Speaker 4: my Jimmy Keys who owns Gutter Helmet and Keys Concrete Coatings.
Speaker 4: Love that family. His son had a pretty epic mullet
Speaker 4: going for a while. I mean he's like in his twenties.
Speaker 4: He's not a little kid. And it actually, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: say it, it kind of looked good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there might be a cutoff, big.
Speaker 4: Ethan shout out right there for that. It's a little
Speaker 4: bit shorter than it was a cutoff. I saw what
Speaker 4: you did there. Oh, didn't even do it on purpose.
Speaker 3: That is when you know you were really good at
Speaker 3: dad jokes, when they just come naturally.
Speaker 4: Mandy, I had your back on the whole iPhone inferiority thing.
Speaker 4: But hockey is vastly superior to football, no question. And
Speaker 4: here's a news slash. My favorite sport is baseball. I know,
Speaker 4: I know, I don't. I can't explain myself, and I
Speaker 4: like Nickelback and Barry Manilow. There it is, guys, I
Speaker 4: just slammed the closet door open, and now you know
Speaker 4: all the dirt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're a mess.
Speaker 4: I know this person said London does well, they live
Speaker 4: there for a year, so yeah, maybe they know better
Speaker 4: than I do. It's a fun place to visit. How
Speaker 4: about that? And the Broncos will be visiting that by
Speaker 4: the way, tonight during the schedule release show, they're gonna
Speaker 4: be giving away a pair of home tickets to a
Speaker 4: home game, not the London game, a home game and
Speaker 4: you can also go to Instagram and x at Kowa
Speaker 4: Colorado and register to win those tickets.
Speaker 3: Has one to three chances. Three chances there, you go make.
Speaker 4: It happen, Mandy, I agree to go to London and
Speaker 4: to see a Broncos game. I have a daughter who
Speaker 4: lives in England and she has her fiance watching the Broncos.
Speaker 3: He is so cute.
Speaker 4: Does he know what's going on? Mandy? Isn't London annoyingly woke?
Speaker 4: Only the leadership the normal people are not at all
Speaker 4: And it's delightful.
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Speaker 4: We are moving right towards the end of a Wednesday,
Speaker 4: and I'm okay with that. I got a story from
Speaker 4: nine News on the blog today about a couple of
Speaker 4: office buildings downtown and in twenty nineteen US someone valued
Speaker 4: them at about two hundred million dollars twenty nineteen. So
Speaker 4: what did they just sell for? They sold for three
Speaker 4: point two million dollars. Remember twenty nineteen two hundred million dollars,
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five three point two million dollars. That's quite
Speaker 4: the swing.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: Nine News does a decent job talking about the stresses
Speaker 4: of downtown real estate and vacancies being just ridiculous experts.
Speaker 4: This is from the story. Experts estimate that office buildings
Speaker 4: in downtown Denver have lost forty to fifty percent of
Speaker 4: their pre pandemic value. The city central Business district currently
Speaker 4: faces vacancy rates of twenty five percent to thirty percent,
Speaker 4: although this remains lower than tech heavy cities like Austin,
Speaker 4: San Francisco and Seattle, where remote work has been particularly prevalent.
Speaker 4: And then they go on to talk about why, you know, people,
Speaker 4: the rents are too expensive, and now this guy bought
Speaker 4: these two buildings and is going to convert them. Into apartments,
Speaker 4: which is great. There's nothing wrong with any of this
Speaker 4: in the story, except I feel like there's a big
Speaker 4: glaring omission in this story, and that is that Denver's
Speaker 4: new Green Dream requirements for large buildings are going to
Speaker 4: be so expensive to retrofit a building for if the
Speaker 4: building has any age on it whatsoever, because older buildings,
Speaker 4: you know, thirty forty years ago, they did not have
Speaker 4: the energy efficiencies they have now. They didn't have the
Speaker 4: building codes that they have now. There's not remotely as
Speaker 4: energy efficient as a new building. So they pretty much
Speaker 4: destroyed the market for older office buildings in Denver because
Speaker 4: the new owners are going to have to bring the
Speaker 4: buildings up to the new code and it's just prohibitively expensive.
Speaker 4: And that is I think a big, huge issue that
Speaker 4: nine News didn't even mention. So I think that's an
Speaker 4: oversight that should be corrected because if that is definitely
Speaker 4: I've talked to business owners who have said, yeah, there
Speaker 4: are opportunities, like there are people in real estate development
Speaker 4: that become people other people call right They'll call you
Speaker 4: and say, hey, I got a deal, I got this building.
Speaker 4: They're offering them buildings in downtown Denver. They're like, not
Speaker 4: a snowballs chance in hell, because those older buildings are
Speaker 4: going to be like you were talking when I say
Speaker 4: a lot of money. You could be like twenty five million,
Speaker 4: fifty million to retro fift these buildings, and most people
Speaker 4: are not willing to commit, especially for an older building,
Speaker 4: because you never know what other problems you're going to find.
Speaker 4: So that's a huge part of this conversation that is
Speaker 4: not being had in this nine news story. This is
Speaker 4: a crazy story out of Manitoo Springs right now. Manito
Speaker 4: Springs has told the people of Manitou Springs that they
Speaker 4: cannot shower. Yeah, you heard me right. What's going on
Speaker 4: is that they had a bunch of snow in this
Speaker 4: last snowstorm and then it melted really fast and it
Speaker 4: has kicked off all of these organics into organic compounds
Speaker 4: into their drinking water supply, and now they have a
Speaker 4: strict water emergency going on in Manito Springs. According to
Speaker 4: the city. The following is prohibited dishwashing except for sanitation.
Speaker 4: Is there another reason to dishwash being genuine in this?
Speaker 4: I mean, do people just for fun? I think I'm
Speaker 4: just gonna wash my dishes today who is that person?
Speaker 4: And we need to get them some help. You're not
Speaker 4: supposed to do laundry, take showers. Obviously, you don't use irrigation,
Speaker 4: and you can't wash your car. Commercial and industrial use
Speaker 4: is not essential to drinking. I find this fascinating. They've
Speaker 4: closed schools, they've closed the fitness centers because they don't
Speaker 4: have any water. Now, what's ironic about this? And I
Speaker 4: say this with so much love for Manitoo Springs. Do
Speaker 4: you like Manitud Springs if you ever spend any time
Speaker 4: down there? Ayrod Uh?
Speaker 3: Not in the hot springs.
Speaker 4: No, it's adorable. Manituo Springs is adorable. And everybody smells
Speaker 4: like petuli, which is good because now you can't shower.
Speaker 4: So there's every store in Manituo Springs. You can buy
Speaker 4: some crystals to use as deodorant and some petuli because
Speaker 4: you're gonna neat it. What's super ironic is that, when
Speaker 4: you think about it, Manitou Springs has a freaking river
Speaker 4: running right through the middle of it. For them to
Speaker 4: have a water emergency, that's like wow, water water everywhere
Speaker 4: and not a drop to drink. Yeah, manday, they should
Speaker 4: have sold it to the city of Denver, it seems
Speaker 4: they like to overpay. Yes, but only for homeless hotels.
Speaker 4: And to the person who said McBride for Colorado governor,
Speaker 4: has this dude been on the show yet, I would
Speaker 4: be curious what his viewpoints are. I'm gonna be really
Speaker 4: honest with you, guys. I am not ready to jump
Speaker 4: into the next election. We absolutely will be inviting all
Speaker 4: of the candidates on both sides of the aisle. We
Speaker 4: will invite all well, Okay, if there's like a crazy
Speaker 4: person that has no chance, I'm not gonna invite him
Speaker 4: on the show. But all legitimate you know, if you
Speaker 4: have any fundraising to speak of, I'm gonna invite you
Speaker 4: on the show. Both Democrat and Republican, especially the Democrats.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna try and get on the show because the
Speaker 4: way it looks right now, unless there's some unicorn Republican
Speaker 4: out there with absolutely no skeleton in the closet and
Speaker 4: the clear ability to articulate why conservative positions would be
Speaker 4: great for Colorado, we're going to have another Democratic governor.
Speaker 4: A lot has to happen to change my view of that,
Speaker 4: so I will have them on the show. I just
Speaker 4: am not ready to jump right in to another one,
Speaker 4: just not yet. I hope you understand. So if you're
Speaker 4: going to Manitou, you may want to bring a little
Speaker 4: what's that stuff called Vic's vapor rub, like the emmes us.
Speaker 4: Just put it right under your nostrils. I mean, I'm
Speaker 4: just saying there's a lot of hippies in Manito Springs,
Speaker 4: a lot of hippies, a lot of witches, wickens, weirdos,
Speaker 4: And I mean that in the best possible way. I
Speaker 4: happen to be pro weirdo.
Speaker 8: I do.
Speaker 4: I'm pro weirdo. I think weirdos make life interesting. Weirdos
Speaker 4: make life fun. I mean, not the dangerous whack of
Speaker 4: doodle weirdos, just your run of the mill normal weirdos.
Speaker 4: Everybody needs some weirdos in their life. You think, I know,
Speaker 4: I do, Mandy? Do those hippie shower anyway? I don't know, Hi, Mandy,
Speaker 4: My Band's Sundance Revival is playing in Manitou Springs this
Speaker 4: Sunday at one o'clock at the Armadillo Ranch. Come out
Speaker 4: and have a glass of water. Now you rebel? Are
Speaker 4: you just gonna bring bottled water and like like just
Speaker 4: throw it all over everybody in the crowd.
Speaker 5: Just as a.
Speaker 4: Flex I would. This is a fascinating study. Someone decided
Speaker 4: to do something and put a value proposition on concert tickets.
Speaker 4: They went and got the prices for various concerts, and
Speaker 4: then they went and got the set list, and they
Speaker 4: divided the price of the concert with the number of songs,
Speaker 4: and they got a value proposition like what are you
Speaker 4: paying per song? Hey, Runner, you're a Lna del Rey fan.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I if I could identify a
Speaker 4: Lna del Race, I'm going to slap me in the face.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean I think she's she leads with.
Speaker 4: The priciest concert performer at sixteen dollars and two cents
Speaker 4: per song. I mean, that's that's kind of nuts. Pass
Speaker 4: Oasis generates the most revenue for song at wait for it,
Speaker 4: eight hundred and fifty eight twenty four dollars, with nightly
Speaker 4: earnings of seventeen point one six million across their Reunion
Speaker 4: tour shows. Budget conscious fans get the best value from
Speaker 4: Ed Sheeran just ninety one cents per minute and Usher
Speaker 4: at three dollars and seventy six cents per song. Now
Speaker 4: let me just go back in the way back machine.
Speaker 4: Back when I was a kid. I remember the first
Speaker 4: concert that I bought tickets for that I had to
Speaker 4: save up money and I had to go, you know,
Speaker 4: wait in line. I gotta tell you, Like as easy
Speaker 4: as it is to sit in your computer in a
Speaker 4: queue when tickets go on sale on Ticketmaster, there was
Speaker 4: something magical about camping out for tickets for a show
Speaker 4: you really wanted to see. Right, you go to the
Speaker 4: record store, you set up your lawn chair, you got
Speaker 4: your cooler, and you hang out with a bunch of
Speaker 4: other nerds who are in line waiting for a concert.
Speaker 4: And then you're like first in line the next day,
Speaker 4: and it was you still got ten throw seats, And
Speaker 4: you're like, what happened? But artists back then, when tickets
Speaker 4: were thirty seven dollars, I had to save up thirty
Speaker 4: seven dollars, which was a lot of money to me
Speaker 4: in nineteen eighty seven. But in the grand scheme of things,
Speaker 4: when people are paying hundreds of dollars for a concert ticket,
Speaker 4: now I feel pretty lucky. But back then, artists made
Speaker 4: money on album sales. Right, we all went and we
Speaker 4: bought their album, We bought their CD, we bought their cassette.
Speaker 4: We bought their eight track depending on how old you were,
Speaker 4: and they made money off of all of that. But
Speaker 4: now streaming pays so little that they may have tons
Speaker 4: more downloads, but the actual payout per play is much much,
Speaker 4: much lower, so they have to make money on these concerts.
Speaker 4: I will tell you, I feel like the Tailor swift
Speaker 4: Eras tour that had to be a good value because
Speaker 4: she sang so many songs. I mean so many songs.
Speaker 4: Lady Gaga's Mayhem Ball Tour follows at thirteen point nine
Speaker 4: seven cents per song and two forty seven a minute.
Speaker 4: That's two dollars and forty seven cents a minute. Beyonce
Speaker 4: rounds out the top three with her Cowboy Carter and
Speaker 4: the Rodeo Chitlin Circuit Tour at thirteen dollars and sixty
Speaker 4: three cents per track. Her generous thirty six song two
Speaker 4: and a half hour spectacles command premium pricing, averaging four
Speaker 4: hundred and ninety one dollars per seat. Yike, you guys,
Speaker 4: how do you take your kids to stuff like that?
Speaker 4: I mean, how do you? We've now now with my daughter,
Speaker 4: that's all she wants for Christmas is she asked for concerts,
Speaker 4: and a lot of the music she listens to or
Speaker 4: not is no music that we have here in the station.
Speaker 4: But thankfully they're not big star they're not super celebrities.
Speaker 4: They're you know, lower tier musicians on the way up,
Speaker 4: I think most of them. But still it's like, you know,
Speaker 4: eighty five ninety dollars a ticket, it's like oof, that hurts.
Speaker 4: With my best friend in nineteen eighty five camping out
Speaker 4: at Independent Records to get Rush tickets so fun, I
Speaker 4: will never forget. I camped out for two days, two nights,
Speaker 4: two days, two nights, three nights, I guess three days,
Speaker 4: two nights to get Eric Clapton tickets on my twenty
Speaker 4: first birthday. I didn't camp out on my twenty first birthday.
Speaker 4: The concert was on my twenty first birthday and it
Speaker 4: was worth it. And the last day I used to
Speaker 4: work at a restaurant called the Mill Bakery, Etery and Brewery,
Speaker 4: and we had donuts and muffins and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: The last day of the camp out, right before tickets
Speaker 4: went on sale, I got the manager to bring donuts
Speaker 4: for everybody in line, and I was I was the
Speaker 4: hero of the day and I was in the front
Speaker 4: of the line, so I was I was like, yeah, God,
Speaker 4: it was so fun. Back in the day, the Dead
Speaker 4: never made money on their records. Sharing music sure paid
Speaker 4: off for them, Yeah, I did, Mandy. I saw in
Speaker 4: nineteen eighty two saw Queen and Billie Squire from the
Speaker 4: Eighteenth paid twelve bucks for the whole show, Mandy. I
Speaker 4: was seventeen when I saw my first live concert Led
Speaker 4: Zeppelin in nineteen seventy three at Kazar Stadium in San Francisco.
Speaker 4: We camped overnight. It was epic ticket price seven dollars
Speaker 4: and fifty cents. Back in my day, you could go
Speaker 4: see a concert for a reasonable an out of money.
Speaker 4: Not anymore. But at what point, I wonder, at what
Speaker 4: point the people start saying, uh, yeah, I'm not going
Speaker 4: to pay four hundred dollars a ticket for bad money.
Speaker 4: I guess as long as there's people willing to pay,
Speaker 4: they could get them. By the way, I'll begrudge you
Speaker 4: anybody making money. I really don't, but it does feel
Speaker 4: inaccessible for a lot of people to be able to
Speaker 4: pay four hundred and fifty bucks for concert ticket. I mean,
Speaker 4: at that point you're like, do I pay my rent
Speaker 4: or do I go see Beyonce. I have a video
Speaker 4: a young Chinese woman did an undercover report on the
Speaker 4: working conditions for fast fashion giant San And if you
Speaker 4: buy from Shean, you're buying from people who are not
Speaker 4: being treated well. But you know, hey, whatever, it's fine.
Speaker 4: That's on the blog today. The Office has a new
Speaker 4: spin off, and I have to say I love the
Speaker 4: concept so much. It almost has a Christopher guest waiting
Speaker 4: for Guffman feel to it. And it is about a
Speaker 4: small town newspaper who has run out of money and
Speaker 4: the editor is trying to keep the whole thing afloat
Speaker 4: with volunteer reporters. Already, I'm excited about the premise Oscar
Speaker 4: will be a part of this show. What network? Where's
Speaker 4: this airing? It's not on regular television?
Speaker 3: Is it Paramid on NBC? No, It's on Peacock plus
Speaker 3: Peacock Yes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So this is the new way they're trying to
Speaker 4: make us all get streaming services. Ha jokes on them.
Speaker 4: I already have that one. Anyway, I want to talk
Speaker 4: for just a moment about again. I mean, this is
Speaker 4: I really don't understand why Jeff co parents aren't constantly
Speaker 4: up in arms about the things that are happening in
Speaker 4: their district. You may remember that there was a female
Speaker 4: teacher who not only groomed a female student towards a
Speaker 4: sexual relationship, she also helped the student commit fraud by
Speaker 4: lying on FAFSA forms those are Federal student aid forms
Speaker 4: and declaring her homeless, even though everybody knew she wasn't.
Speaker 4: Since the girl turned eighteen, she conveniently left the state
Speaker 4: to go live with the teacher, and Jefferson County Public
Speaker 4: Schools has done nothing productive about it until now. Until now,
Speaker 4: I just want to let you know what Jeffco Superintendent
Speaker 4: Tracy Doorland is doing about this. Listen to this good
Speaker 4: morning from an email for Inquiring Minds. Tracy's breakfast meeting
Speaker 4: with us tomorrow at Columbine High School where all this
Speaker 4: took place, is an opportunity for her to share her
Speaker 4: support and the district support of Columbine and Scott, the
Speaker 4: principal who knew about it and helped it happen anyway,
Speaker 4: and when the mother complained said this teacher was just
Speaker 4: helping this girl navigate her sexuality. I would say, so,
Speaker 4: let me start again for Inquiring Minds, Tracy's breakfast meeting
Speaker 4: with us tomorrow morning is an opportunity for her to
Speaker 4: share her support and the district support of Columbine and
Speaker 4: Scott as related to the leanne Kearney news stories in
Speaker 4: the past weeks. Last week, a small group collaborated on
Speaker 4: the importance of making a statement in defense of Scott
Speaker 4: and Columbine as we feel the news has portrayed a
Speaker 4: horribly negative and false image of Columbine and how the
Speaker 4: situation was handled. Because that's what happened. The media didn't
Speaker 4: have to spin anything out of control. A principle of
Speaker 4: a school guidance counselors of a school committed fraud and
Speaker 4: helped a female lesbian teacher groom a female student at school.
Speaker 4: I mean what, I'm sorry, did I miss something we're
Speaker 4: in that we're in that is just the Oh, they
Speaker 4: just mishandled one situation. There were a series of purposeful
Speaker 4: choices by school officials to separate this girl from her
Speaker 4: family so she could be preyed upon by their colleague.
Speaker 4: I admit, that's pretty clear. I don't think we need to,
Speaker 4: you know, there's no reason. I sorta nibble around the edges. Thankfully.
Speaker 4: By the way, while Tracy Dorelin, the superintendent, has just
Speaker 4: been ignoring parents were outraged about this. At least she's
Speaker 4: gonna go to the school to let them know the
Speaker 4: district is going to support them as they're being investigated
Speaker 4: for the fraud they perpetrated allegedly. I am really fascinated
Speaker 4: to see how this thing turns out, really fascinated. And
Speaker 4: I again, I don't understand why jeff Co parents, and
Speaker 4: why this is okay. I don't understand why you're not
Speaker 4: at every single school board meeting demanding the resignation of
Speaker 4: Tracy Dorlund for her blatant ineptitude in this and so
Speaker 4: many other matters. But hey, I don't live in jeff Co.
Speaker 4: You guys are on your own anyway. Can we talk
Speaker 4: about you know, sometimes people will balk, like if you've
Speaker 4: ever rented a vrbo and Airbnb, there's usually a list
Speaker 4: of rules. Right when Chuck and I got married, we
Speaker 4: actually came out here for our honeymoon because we were
Speaker 4: living in Southwest Florida or living on the sun as
Speaker 4: I like to call it. So I told you we
Speaker 4: got married in December, and I said I for our honeymoon,
Speaker 4: I want to go to a place with four feet
Speaker 4: of snow. I want to have a hot tub outside,
Speaker 4: and I want it to be really private. So we
Speaker 4: rented a cabin and divide. It was so good, it
Speaker 4: was absolutely fantastic. But when we thought when we got
Speaker 4: this deal done, so this is two thousand and seven,
Speaker 4: and a lot of stuff was still being done, Like
Speaker 4: we got this emailed contract because Airbnb wasn't a thing then,
Speaker 4: or if it was, I wasn't aware of it, and
Speaker 4: they emailed us this contract and I am not joking you.
Speaker 4: It was like fifteen pages long, written in tiny mice
Speaker 4: type of all of these rules that you had to
Speaker 4: follow to stay in this cabin. And Chuck looked at
Speaker 4: it and was like, you have got to be kidding me.
Speaker 4: With all these rules, I said, you have to understand
Speaker 4: every one of these rules is in response to some
Speaker 4: stupid thing that someone else did already. I mean, there
Speaker 4: were things I wish I could remember the most ridiculous one,
Speaker 4: but they were so ridiculous. You know, someone did it
Speaker 4: and they had to make a rule so it didn't
Speaker 4: happen again. So that's kind of how I feel about
Speaker 4: this rule change. At CON the Film Festival, you know,
Speaker 4: the Con Film festival, massive Hollywood event in France. It's
Speaker 4: one of the biggest film festivals in the world, if
Speaker 4: not the biggest film festival in the world, and it's
Speaker 4: their seventy eighth annual event. So this year the cann
Speaker 4: website has added something to the website. One of those
Speaker 4: things is the dress code. Listen to this for the
Speaker 4: Graham Theater Lumire Gallas greenings taking plays around seven to
Speaker 4: ten PM, which are attended by the artistic teams evening
Speaker 4: where long dress tuxedo is required. Alternatively, you may also
Speaker 4: wear a little black dress, a cocktail dress, a dark
Speaker 4: colored pantsuit, a dressy top with black pants, elegant shoes
Speaker 4: and sandals with or without a heel, no sneakers, a
Speaker 4: black or blue navy suit with bow tie or dark
Speaker 4: colored a tie. Tope bags, backpacks or large bags are
Speaker 4: prohibited for decency reasons.
Speaker 10: Nudity is prohibited on the red carpet, as well as
Speaker 10: in any other area of the festival. Voluminous outfits, in
Speaker 10: particular those with a large train that hinder the proper
Speaker 10: flow of traffic of guests and complicate seating in the
Speaker 10: theater are not permitted. They had to make a rule
Speaker 10: that you couldn't show up naked to the can Film Festival.
Speaker 4: That's where we are in society right now. The funniest
Speaker 4: part about this is I'm pretty sure you can go
Speaker 4: to the beach in can and see a bunch of
Speaker 4: topless women, but you're not gonna see them at the
Speaker 4: film festival. This is what Hollywood has done. All of
Speaker 4: these Hollywood starlits, trying to get some kind of traction,
Speaker 4: trying to be the thing that was talked about the
Speaker 4: next day, have now set a standard where in France,
Speaker 4: of all places, they have to clearly say no nudity
Speaker 4: of any kind. Now this article that I read the
Speaker 4: headline is very misleading. It says Halle there he was
Speaker 4: supposed to change at Cans last minute, not going to
Speaker 4: break the rules, and then they start out with the
Speaker 4: naked part. You're like, Halle was not about to go naked.
Speaker 4: Because Halle normally ninety nine point one percent of the
Speaker 4: time is flawless on a red carpet. She is gorgeous,
Speaker 4: she has incredible style, she has a rock and body.
Speaker 4: I only say ninety nine point one percent of the
Speaker 4: time because her Met Galla dress was not good. It
Speaker 4: was it was not good. It just it was It
Speaker 4: was the opposite of good. It was bad. It had
Speaker 4: sheer panels sewn in with kind of in this striped way,
Speaker 4: and there was a black panel in the middle of
Speaker 4: her body that went right down, you know, and covered
Speaker 4: the uh the private area, do you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: But then there was two sheer panels on either side
Speaker 4: of it, so you could sort of like, oh, can
Speaker 4: I see No, you could not, but it just it
Speaker 4: did not work. Mandy has Scott a principle or a pimpsicle?
Speaker 4: Uh huh. I don't think he is trying to pimp
Speaker 4: people out, but I think he was asleep at the wheel.
Speaker 4: I think he trusted the word of a teacher who
Speaker 4: was a predator, because we still don't think of women
Speaker 4: as predators, and yet they are. We've had two stories.
Speaker 4: I have a story on the blog today about a
Speaker 4: Douglas County teacher, a male teacher, being arrested for child
Speaker 4: abuse of some sort. And then I heard in Keenan's
Speaker 4: news we got a guy at a cherry creek or somewhere.
Speaker 4: But these are both dudes, right, so we you know,
Speaker 4: when that happens, we're like, okay, we need to think
Speaker 4: that women can be predators because they can be Mandy.
Speaker 4: Did they also have to include thou shalt not kill
Speaker 4: in the rules it can what and make sure that
Speaker 4: Alec baldw you could never come again. That would be
Speaker 4: mean to single him out like that, Nandy, they do
Speaker 4: not take a bath with a toaster clause is standard
Speaker 4: in rental agreements. No, it was way worse than that.
Speaker 4: It was things very specific like don't put an open
Speaker 4: container of tuna fish in the refrigerator and leave it.
Speaker 4: I mean that it was that kind of level of specificity,
Speaker 4: and they were just more absurd. They either got my
Speaker 4: thinking was the people who own this area or own
Speaker 4: this home that we rented. It's now a private residence.
Speaker 4: We found it again, but you can't rent it anymore.
Speaker 4: I think they either got super drunk and just made
Speaker 4: up the wildest rules that they could ever think of
Speaker 4: in their lives, or all of these things had been
Speaker 4: done by prior renters. Mandy, private area, whatever do you
Speaker 4: mean if you don't know, I cannot help you. Nope,
Speaker 4: do not Nope. And I cannot read the other text
Speaker 4: about that because it will it will get me fired anyway.
Speaker 4: This text message gets it right, Nandy. My life motto
Speaker 4: is there's always one schmuck and it's true. It absolutely
Speaker 4: is true. So here we go. We've gone from Jeffco's schools.
Speaker 4: We've gone to the what's the word I'm looking for,
Speaker 4: the halle Berry situation. But I do want to get
Speaker 4: into this story. I should have done it earlier because
Speaker 4: this is something we've talked about and I think that
Speaker 4: it is one of those things that it's really important
Speaker 4: to understand the damage around alcohol that we have sort
Speaker 4: of pushed to the wayside. And there's a story in
Speaker 4: the Wall Street Journal right now about women and alcohol.
Speaker 4: And we've talked about this before. I've talked about how
Speaker 4: I really don't like mommy wine culture. And it's not
Speaker 4: that I don't like women drinking wine. That's not it
Speaker 4: at all, obviously not I have the wine again in
Speaker 4: the show we talk about wine. I drink in moderation,
Speaker 4: although hardly ever anymore, but simply because it prevents me
Speaker 4: from sleeping. Ever. So, mommy wine culture is more the
Speaker 4: women who walk around with the t shirts that say
Speaker 4: your why Mommy drinks, or they walk around with the
Speaker 4: win o'clock shirts like they're walking around as an active
Speaker 4: promotion of a habit that is not a healthy habit. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you can have wine and moderation and it's good for
Speaker 4: you and all that stuff. That's one of those nutrition
Speaker 4: stories that one day alcohol will be bad, one day
Speaker 4: wine will be good, one day beer'll be good, then
Speaker 4: it'll be bad. I mean, we don't really know, and
Speaker 4: I don't think that. Like I'm never in favor of like,
Speaker 4: let's just never sell alcohol again. That's not it at all.
Speaker 4: I'm for responsible usage. But now women are not just
Speaker 4: drinking more, they're also dying more. Men by far, die
Speaker 4: more often of alcohol related issues by far, but women
Speaker 4: are catching up. Women who turn thirty five between twenty
Speaker 4: eighteen and twenty nineteen were more sixty percent more likely
Speaker 4: to report binge drinking or alcohol use disorder symptoms than
Speaker 4: women who turn thirty five earlier than that. Doctors are
Speaker 4: now witnessing more hospitalizations of women for liver disease, and
Speaker 4: some researchers suspect alcohol consumption is contributing to a rise
Speaker 4: in the rates of breast cancer. Women are also experiencing
Speaker 4: alcohol related deaths at a faster clip than men, and
Speaker 4: they're saying it's not pay parity, it's drinking parity. So
Speaker 4: I always like people to just think about be purposeful
Speaker 4: in your vices, right, think about what you're doing. Just
Speaker 4: don't do it because it's habit. And if you enjoy
Speaker 4: a glass of wine and you love having a delicious
Speaker 4: bottle of wine with your dinner on occasion, I'm here
Speaker 4: for you one hundred percent. Just pay attention to what
Speaker 4: you're doing. Pay attention if it's negatively impacting your relationships
Speaker 4: in your life, if it's making more difficult to do
Speaker 4: your job. At that point, you may need to recognize
Speaker 4: that you were headed down a very very bad road
Speaker 4: and right edwards. I'm gonna ask you this because Ryan
Speaker 4: just came in the studio. Did you have friends in
Speaker 4: college who were like party, party, party, party, party, of course,
Speaker 4: and then they got out of college and they were
Speaker 4: like I'm done.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I'm done.
Speaker 4: And then you have the friends that never did They
Speaker 4: never got over it, right, and now they're forty and
Speaker 4: they're bloated and they're a full blown alcoholic. And that
Speaker 4: is the most depressing thing because I think if you've
Speaker 4: gone to college, you have people that fit in both those.
Speaker 8: Categories, correct, And I even lived in a house with
Speaker 8: three other guys, and I can immediately tell you two
Speaker 8: of them that that went on to have successful lives
Speaker 8: and then the one guy that really did not.
Speaker 4: Everybody has a blue dough from animal House. Everybody's got
Speaker 4: a blue do in there, and it's depressing because mine
Speaker 4: is dead.
Speaker 5: So there you go.
Speaker 3: So and I mean mine is not.
Speaker 8: But to that point, it's like, you know, when you're
Speaker 8: in your early twenties, you know, there's a certain amount
Speaker 8: of acceptance we have with that lifestyle while you know
Speaker 8: your forties and fifties, and then it's kind of like, Okay,
Speaker 8: what was going on?
Speaker 4: I gotta tell you. I have a few friends that
Speaker 4: were great friends in my twenties that if I plan
Speaker 4: to see them because they live in a different city,
Speaker 4: so I'm gonna go visit them, and I make sure
Speaker 4: to go see them early in the day. Yeah, cause
Speaker 4: I just I don't want to be a part of it.
Speaker 4: I don't like it. You know, there's nothing worse than
Speaker 4: like a fifty year old sloppy drunk.
Speaker 8: No. And the other side of that, too, is when
Speaker 8: you have elected to either scale back or maybe not
Speaker 8: drink at all. They don't want to be around you either,
Speaker 8: because you're a reminder of the constant reminder of what
Speaker 8: they probably should be doing with their life.
Speaker 4: I actually think younger people are more tolerant of non drinkers.
Speaker 4: Like when we were young, if you have those nightsperens like, look,
Speaker 4: I gotta go to work tomorrow at four o'clock in
Speaker 4: the morning, I'm not drinking. I was like, what, you're
Speaker 4: not drinking? It became a challenge, right, like, oh, I'm
Speaker 4: just going to buy one shot. That doesn't count, but
Speaker 4: yet it all counts. I do think younger people are
Speaker 4: much more tolerant of not drinking, which is great. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, and like I said, if you enjoy a
Speaker 4: glass of wine or whatever, just be thoughtful about it, right,
Speaker 4: Just make sure that you're paying attention to what you're
Speaker 4: doing and don't let yourself get to a point where
Speaker 4: you're damaging relationships or your overall health because it's simply
Speaker 4: it's not working. And for the person who's that, aren't
Speaker 4: you And the wine called yogi just contributing to the culture.
Speaker 4: You notice we're not talking about yellowtail chardonnay, right, Like,
Speaker 4: if you're going to do it, Phronsia, Yeah, at least, Hey,
Speaker 4: don't knock the phronsie that got me through right there again.
Speaker 4: You know, that's that's why we talk about really quality wine,
Speaker 4: because you know, I'm not a teetotaler. I don't expect
Speaker 4: people to be a teetotal I'm just asking people to
Speaker 4: be purposeful in their choices, that's all. It's just make
Speaker 4: sure in whatever you do, be purposeful in your choices. Anyway,
Speaker 4: Now it's time for the most exciting segment on the
Speaker 4: radio of its kind in the world of the day.
Speaker 4: All right, I have a dad joke today. No, no, oh,
Speaker 4: you can go first. Then give me subject now and okay,
Speaker 4: go for it. Okay. A slop got robbed by three turtles,
Speaker 4: and when the police arrived, they asked what happened, and
Speaker 4: the sloth said, I don't know.
Speaker 8: It all happened so fast, anyone. My daughter told me
Speaker 8: we're all in the pool. Now, my daughter, where do
Speaker 8: sheep like to go on vacation? Where the Bahamas?
Speaker 6: I like both of those very much, But Ryan, I
Speaker 6: told Andy that this is going in my dad Joe call. Okay, okay,
Speaker 6: is anyone out there interested in buying my DeLorean great
Speaker 6: condition in low mileage?
Speaker 3: Really only driven from time to time.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's really good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a frame of reference though, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean, Like you gotta know the movie love that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a.
Speaker 4: Great, great one. Okay, what is our our word? Our
Speaker 4: word of the day?
Speaker 5: Please?
Speaker 3: It is an adjective, okay.
Speaker 7: Ephemeral, ephemeral e femeral means not of this world, kind of.
Speaker 4: Angelic u ephemeral like ghost like No, what is it?
Speaker 6: It sounds right though lasting a very short time. Ah,
Speaker 6: dang it that word for wrong for years trivia question.
Speaker 6: Although she was born in Egypt, Cleopatra was not Egyptian.
Speaker 6: What nation did Cleopatra's family hail from?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna see.
Speaker 3: Great for it.
Speaker 4: No, I don't know. Ethiopia. Oh okay, wow, Greece. Cleopatra
Speaker 4: was a descendant of Ptolemy told me the first Soda,
Speaker 4: a general who served Alexander the Great. There's the thing
Speaker 4: we know now. I should have known that. I feel
Speaker 4: bad for myself that I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: Because because he said great, birl was like, well that
Speaker 3: wasn't really like I was like, old.
Speaker 4: World, pretty obvious, though. We should have said Greece, we're
Speaker 4: just dumb. Ryan We're just dumb anyway. What is our
Speaker 4: jeopardy category? Please don't call ryme dumb?
Speaker 6: Take my rhyme, which means every answer rhymes with take
Speaker 6: take my rid When used by hand, it'll kill a vampire.
Speaker 3: That was exactly it'sie. You need rock paper scissors right now?
Speaker 4: Crap, go ahead?
Speaker 3: Was a stake that is correct? Ok? Really close? Take
Speaker 3: my rhyme?
Speaker 6: The Yama gashi not Tamagachi. Yama Kagashi of Asia is
Speaker 6: a venomous one?
Speaker 3: What is a stake?
Speaker 4: Is correct?
Speaker 3: It follows a schooner as it? That is correct? To
Speaker 3: leave someone when they still need you?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 4: What's the forake that is correct?
Speaker 5: Is that a tie?
Speaker 6: Here we go rubber match? To satisfy, to satisfy one's thirst.
Speaker 6: I've never heard this word.
Speaker 3: Neither of you get this. I've never heard this word.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know ay word, but it doesn't rhyme
Speaker 4: rhymes satisfy ones.
Speaker 3: First, man, I don't know that word either.
Speaker 4: All I could remember was.
Speaker 3: Was, uh, sate Ryan. He starts so well, and you
Speaker 3: kind of choked away like the nuggets last night. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: I'm guessing that's gonna be a painful subject today.
Speaker 3: For that is gonna be tough.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Colorado Sports Show sort of deal with that.
Speaker 3: We actually are.
Speaker 4: Gonna do the schedule show tonight too. Are you going
Speaker 4: the full.
Speaker 3: Full month in the full full full gambit there? So yeah,
Speaker 3: so we'll start.
Speaker 8: We actually have Warren Shaffer, the interim Rockies manager, right
Speaker 8: off the top of the show.
Speaker 4: All right, there you go. You can shake something loose there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 8: Got the Nuggets game, We got some Broncos topics, and
Speaker 8: yes we have the schedule and stuff that's exciting.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna try and go to the London game. I
Speaker 4: would like to go and uh and go see a
Speaker 4: football game in London. I just think that's cool. Okay, Tomorrow,
Speaker 4: I don't know who's coming on. He's not confirmed yet,
Speaker 4: so we'll talk about that tomorrow. Okay, Waite Sports coming
Speaker 4: up next.