WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:03.240 The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock 2 00:00:03.319 --> 00:00:04.799 Accident and injury Lawyers. 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:08.279 No, it's Mandy Connell and. 4 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:12.240 On KOA. 5 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:14.199 Ninety one. 6 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:20.039 Am got way you want to say the nicety us 7 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:21.160 through three? 8 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:28.960 Andy Connell keeping sadda. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Wednesday 9 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:29.920 edition of the show. 10 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:33.399 I'm your host for the next three hours. I'm Mandy Connall. 11 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:39.359 That guy over there is Anthony Rodriguez. Together, we're going 12 00:00:39.399 --> 00:00:42.439 to take you right through until three p m. When 13 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:45.600 we will hand the station over to those sweaty boys 14 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:50.159 in the afternoon KOA Sports. In the meantime, though, boy howdy, 15 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:51.520 do we have a lot of stuff to talk about. 16 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:53.079 I got a ton of stuff on the blog. I 17 00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:54.920 can already tell you Nancy's not going to be happy 18 00:00:54.920 --> 00:00:59.000 with this one either. Okay, I go as fast as 19 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:03.679 I can. I do, I really do. We also have 20 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:06.000 some great guests today, and it's going to be one 21 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:10.439 of those shows where we have something kind of intellectual, 22 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:15.519 we have something political, and we have something completely off 23 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:18.280 the beaten path. There you go, It's the Mandy Connell Show. 24 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:23.040 Everybody find the blog by going to mandy'sblog dot com. 25 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:25.200 That's mandy'sblog dot com. 26 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:26.439 Look for the headline that. 27 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:29.280 Says ten twenty two twenty five blog a Jeff Coo 28 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:32.319 Schools candidate at issues and is love Blind? 29 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:35.359 Click on that. Here are the headlines you will find within. 30 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:37.480 I do you with office half of American all with 31 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:38.799 ships and clipments of say that's. 32 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:39.640 Going to press plant. 33 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:44.879 Today? On the blog Jeff cot school voters pay attention today? 34 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:48.560 Did you watch Denver's Love Is Blind? Finale? Looking for 35 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:54.079 affordable healthcare? Denver is suing over grant conditions, taxes, equal fees, 36 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:58.439 equal tariffs, a new wildfire defense system for homes. Doug 37 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:03.719 Cooe Schools pay attention scrolling scrolling. Another violent person is 38 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:06.799 allowed to kill Shucker the all dang and it is 39 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:09.039 supposed to be the Johnstown Breeze is run by a 40 00:02:09.159 --> 00:02:13.479 nasty lefty real estate Socialism is still socialism? Want to 41 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:16.479 abort a baby the day before the due date? Now 42 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:19.759 it's John Brennan's turn on the hot seat. Missed Love 43 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:22.520 is Blind? I'm not the only one who noticed this 44 00:02:22.599 --> 00:02:26.120 about no kings, Let's talk about how you walk sucks 45 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:28.639 when the facts don't match the narrative you're spinning. The 46 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:31.719 folly of no Enemies to the right screen club is 47 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:34.960 now a thing. The Joy of Testosterone for women blow 48 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:39.080 eleven hundred bucks on shoes. The company says no AI 49 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:42.400 in its ads. What net zero looks like in practice. 50 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:46.520 Bernie Sanders gets schooled by the view. Dude finds out 51 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:49.639 he's gonna have to get a job. I'm not paying taxes, 52 00:02:49.639 --> 00:02:52.840 so these clowns can retire early. Arvada wants you to 53 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:56.479 booze it up, don't clean. October is your month. Garrett 54 00:02:56.479 --> 00:02:59.560 Bowles wanted to catch a touchdown. What are your relationship? 55 00:02:59.639 --> 00:02:59.960 Rich Will? 56 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:02.560 I'm the cutest Halloween costume ever? 57 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:07.120 Goes with the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot. 58 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:08.479 Com tech two. 59 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:14.240 Seriously, that old broad she's getting really picky. 60 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:15.719 In her old ash. 61 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:20.759 Dang it, man, going as fast as I can. 62 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:22.400 Nancy can't help. 63 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:24.000 But if there's a lot of information that I need 64 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:26.879 to impart to the four people who read the blog 65 00:03:26.919 --> 00:03:29.639 every day. By the way, if you ever want to 66 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:32.400 it is the Johns soundbrae. I'll fix it. I'll fix it, 67 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:34.560 you guys. Somebody pointed that out earlier and I just 68 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:37.560 didn't have time to go fix it. And now I 69 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:39.560 will fix it on the break cuz I got to 70 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:40.360 here a little late today. 71 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:41.800 One of those days. You ever just have one of 72 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:42.159 those days. 73 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:45.159 We're just feeling a little running late the whole day yesterday, Yeah, 74 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:45.439 I have. 75 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:48.000 It's this morning. I've been running a little late. 76 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:50.240 I had to get gas faster than I ever got 77 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:51.840 gas yesterday. I had to be one of those I 78 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:53.439 was right off the highway and then put them right 79 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:55.280 back on in like sixty seconds. 80 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:56.400 How like a pitstop? 81 00:03:56.599 --> 00:03:58.360 Yes woot. 82 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:00.240 Taking her wheels off and putting new ones on and 83 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:00.800 everything out of it. 84 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:03.080 My car would have still finished top five, top ten 85 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:03.439 in that rate. 86 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:04.639 How big is your gas tank? 87 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:09.719 Not very big? I mean we're talking three fifty four 88 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:10.719 hundred miles. 89 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:15.080 That But for that car, I'm guessing sixteen gallons. 90 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:19.800 Like sixteen gallons, same amount of gas miles, well not 91 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:23.160 gas mileage, same amount of gas that gets me going somewhere, 92 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:26.519 as my Explorer was right, But I unlike the Explorer 93 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:29.160 nineteen twenty miles per gallon, I get thirty miles per. 94 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:33.279 Gallon exactly, so much better, Yeah, much better. My gas 95 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:36.199 tank is twenty six gallons. And when I'm in Thelign 96 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:38.759 at Costco the people get so annoyed, and I'm like, 97 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:41.040 I swear I'm still fueling. Don't worry. 98 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:44.079 You won't see me for a month. Seriously, I fell 99 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:48.199 up like two and a half times a week. Wow, yeah, 100 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:49.439 at least twice. 101 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:53.680 Holy macaroni, Kay, Holy. 102 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:55.319 And a half hours. Three hours. And the Carl Dudia, Oh, 103 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:56.160 that's just work. 104 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:58.399 You just hurt my heart. Yeah, it hurt my heart 105 00:04:58.439 --> 00:04:58.879 a little bit. 106 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:01.519 Yeah. Well I'm kind of join the sub three gas 107 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:03.399 right now. So yeah, there you go, keep it going. 108 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:05.639 Gas prices are ticking down. I saw a story about 109 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:07.639 that today. I did not put it on the blog. 110 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:10.600 I should have, but I did. 111 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:12.120 Have an experience that I did mention this on the 112 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:15.279 blog because I've got a video of George Stephanopolis talking 113 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:21.319 to the CEO of Walmart. Okay, and George stephanoppflis kind 114 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:23.759 of tease up this question about Thanksgiving and it kind 115 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:26.560 of starts it with I mean, I'm paraphrasing, but he 116 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:29.040 kind of starts it along the lines of, now that 117 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:33.680 everything's so expensive, what are people gonna have to shill 118 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:35.040 out for Thanksgiving this year? 119 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:38.879 Some variation of that, you know, and. 120 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:41.240 The Walmart CEO is like, Oh, we've got this basket 121 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:44.680 that includes everything you'd want for Thanksgiving. It's got your stuffing, 122 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:47.560 it's got your turkey, it's about everything. And he said 123 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:50.399 it's fourteen dollars cheaper this year than it was last year. 124 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:58.000 Uh oh, sorry, George, sorry, the turkey. 125 00:05:57.639 --> 00:06:00.000 Price is going up. That was last year's news. 126 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:05.600 That was or we'll just call it button admin rules. 127 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:08.319 So that was interesting. I've got that on the blog. 128 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:10.160 But no, I went to the grocery store Monday, and 129 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:12.720 I meant to talk about this because I went to 130 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:16.879 the grocery store and I buy pretty much the same thing. 131 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:19.120 I mean, you, guys, you realize when you go grocery shopping, 132 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:21.680 you're buying pretty much the same things over and over again. Right, 133 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:25.279 So if you're like me and your price sensitive, you 134 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:27.480 pay attention to how much things cost when you're buying 135 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:29.480 the same things over and over again. And I got 136 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:31.800 to tell you, like a lot of the things that 137 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:35.160 I buy a lot of have dropped in price, some 138 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:39.040 of them dramatically. I buy this turkey sausage, it's dropped 139 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:43.480 by like like ninety cents and not an on sale price, 140 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:46.279 like the normal price is ninety cents lower than it was. 141 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:48.319 So I feel like I know. 142 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:50.759 That prices are going up on other things. I get it, 143 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:54.120 but there are some areas where it's starting to feel 144 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:56.439 like am I just the only one that felt that way? 145 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:58.600 Has anyone else noticed that with their grocery bill? 146 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:00.360 I know? 147 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:02.079 Is the text line, go ahead and text me there? 148 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:04.839 What's interesting is, look, I now look at how many 149 00:07:04.839 --> 00:07:07.279 groceries I get for whatever amount of money. Right, It's like, oh, 150 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:09.839 I got that, I got that for one hundred and 151 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:10.720 thirty dollars. 152 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:13.839 You know, I'm I'm now one hundred years old, apparently. 153 00:07:13.879 --> 00:07:16.480 So that's how you deal with rising prices, is you 154 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:19.240 just you just talk about them as if you know, 155 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:24.480 as if as if there's some kind of fantasy that 156 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:25.319 you can't control. 157 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:27.360 Sub three dollars gas? 158 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:31.920 Lol, I haven't seen above three dollars in my town. Well, 159 00:07:31.959 --> 00:07:35.759 aren't you with smarty pants? My ram says this text 160 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:38.319 for my Ram thirty five hundred has a fifty gallon 161 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:41.639 fuel tank. For being a giant ass truck, it actually 162 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:43.399 gets great fuel mileage unloaded. 163 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:45.720 You think about people at Costco. 164 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:47.439 Getting pissed if I'm a quarter to half a tank 165 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:50.480 where I've had them blow the horn. Lol. 166 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:52.639 Well, now see what I have, like a mom car. 167 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:55.439 At least when I see a big truck, it's reasonable 168 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:57.399 to say, well, that truck has a really big gas tank. 169 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:00.360 But when you look at my mom car, I. 170 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:04.759 Basically have a glorified station wagon crossover thing. Nobody looks 171 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:06.360 at that and says, well, that thing probably has a 172 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:08.240 pretty good tank in that. I mean, look at that. 173 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:10.759 Nobody does that. No one. 174 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:14.399 The funniest thing that ever happened to me driving a 175 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:18.240 car that was unexpected. I was driving a loaner car 176 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:20.399 when my car was in the shop, and it was 177 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:23.279 a Mercedes like Mom car, but it was a diesel. 178 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:26.160 So I pulled up the diesel pump on the end 179 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:29.160 at the convenience store where the diesel pumps usually are, 180 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:31.240 and this guy in a big truck comes rolling around. 181 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:34.960 He's like, could you have used another pump? And I 182 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:37.320 just pointed to the car and went it's diesel, and 183 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:40.960 he was like, oh man, I'm sorry, so sorry. It's like, 184 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:45.159 there you go, Mandy stuck up when right Brand Bacon 185 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:46.679 goes on saying are you kidding me? I have a 186 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:49.720 freezer full of righte brand bacon Because of that. You 187 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:52.960 really don't know how thrifty I am. So Mandy has 188 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:55.879 three more blog viewers than she does listeners go darn touton. 189 00:08:55.960 --> 00:09:00.039 Yeah, probably probably, Man. 190 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:03.919 I had a flat at the tunnels this morning. 191 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:06.960 What no sympathy? 192 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:12.879 I am so sorry, Texter, so sorry. Whatever I said 193 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:14.759 was wrong with my day. Your day is worse. There 194 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:18.799 you go, Yes, Mandy, you're the only one food except chicken. 195 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:26.480 What Mandy? Our price is dropping dramatically or grammatically? Haven't 196 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:29.679 seen prices go down Kings super shopper? I had not 197 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:33.279 either until Monday. And then, like I said, I because 198 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:34.720 we've been out of town. So I had to stalk 199 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:36.840 up on some staples, right, the staples that you buy 200 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:40.000 all the time, and I noticed, how whoa some of 201 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:42.320 these are a lot cheaper. Now, let me tell you 202 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:43.879 what's coming up on the show today, because we got 203 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:46.159 a lot coming up on the show. First of all, 204 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:50.080 at twelve thirty, if you heard us talking about Love 205 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:55.279 is Blind yesterday, well we got one of the contestants 206 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:59.120 on Love is Blind. The finale dropped at midnight. A 207 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:02.600 Rod is not watched it yet, so this is hilarious. 208 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:04.480 So a Rod is going to have to listen to 209 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:08.240 me do an interview without any spoilers, even though because 210 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:13.039 I read this recap, I already know what happened. So 211 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:15.679 we're gonna have her on and I'm dying to just 212 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:19.559 ask questions about what makes people want to do a 213 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:23.399 show like this. I'm curious. I'm very, very curious about that. 214 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:25.919 So we're gonna do that at twelve thirty at one o'clock, 215 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:28.759 Lindsay Datko from jeff Co Kids First. We've got some 216 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:32.759 we got some fun stuff in jeff Co Schools and again, 217 00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:35.720 what are we doing. We're paying attention to the school 218 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:38.480 board races today it's jeff Co's turn. 219 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:43.759 The union had endorsed some candidates. Well, they have now rescinded. 220 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:48.039 Their endorsement of one of them after some unpleasant business 221 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:50.960 from that candidate's past was brought to the attention of 222 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:53.799 jeff Co Kids First, who did a very good job 223 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:56.879 in sharing the information in such a way as to 224 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:00.639 be sensitive to the nature of the churches. We're going 225 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:03.759 to talk to Lindsay dat COO about that and the 226 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:07.720 current Jefferson County Public Schools Board of Education member and 227 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:11.519 your comments about safety being a privilege not a right, 228 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:16.600 that was in the first meeting back from the Evergreen shooting, 229 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:18.919 by the way, and then. 230 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:20.840 I am so nerded out. 231 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:22.960 And I love this so much because if you guys 232 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:25.519 have listened to the show, you've heard Travis Bokenstead on 233 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:31.159 the show before, and you may have heard that some 234 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:33.240 people are going to see rates go up in this 235 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:35.279 open enrollment period for their health insurance. 236 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:37.919 I want to offer you options. 237 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:42.440 We do have free market solutions here in Denver, We 238 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:45.120 really do, and I have two of them coming on 239 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:48.039 the show today. I have Travis Bocknstead. He is with 240 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:53.320 a company Pinnacle Advanced primary Care. They do direct primary care. 241 00:11:53.399 --> 00:11:58.240 It is the best system. It is so affordable and 242 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:01.080 coupled with a MENA share plan and you can get 243 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:04.720 coverage for everything. And I cannot recommend it highly enough. 244 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:10.960 It is not health insurance. It is access to health care. Okay, 245 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:13.360 I want to be really clear, and we'll get into 246 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:16.600 this later. But now I just found out about another 247 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:20.720 medical practice called Smith Medical. Wait, let me hang on, 248 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:22.399 let me make sure I get this this name right. 249 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:26.360 Make sure I got this absolutely right. Smith Medical Direct 250 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:29.000 Specialty Care. Now, if you've listened to the show for 251 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:30.399 any length of time, you may have heard me talk 252 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:33.399 about the Oklahoma surgeon of the Oklahoma City Surgical Center. 253 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:36.320 The Oklahoma City Surgical Center was the first place in 254 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:38.679 the country to say, Okay, here's what we're gonna do. 255 00:12:38.759 --> 00:12:41.000 We're gonna we're gonna open a surgical center with really 256 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:45.559 good doctors, and then we're gonna make everything cash pay. Okay, 257 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:48.440 we're gonna just say you're gonna cash pay and go 258 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:51.600 from there, and and we're gonna make a website and 259 00:12:51.639 --> 00:12:54.879 we're gonna put all of our prices on that website. 260 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:55.840 And that's what they did. 261 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:00.799 So not only is it absolutely transparent pricing, they have 262 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:04.639 also had a downward effect on the hospitals in the 263 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:08.080 immediate vicinity of the Oklahoma City Surgical Center when it 264 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:11.440 comes to what they can now expect to charge for 265 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:14.519 those same surgeries. Well, I found out we've got one here. 266 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:19.519 So today Travis Backinstead from Pinnacle Advanced Primary Care and 267 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:23.480 CEO Lisa Fagan from Smith Medical Direct Specialty Care are 268 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:26.080 going to be on to talk about how you can 269 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:31.480 have access to incredible medical care without breaking the bank. 270 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:34.799 So lots of good stuff happening there. That's coming up 271 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:35.320 at two thirty. 272 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:38.080 So as you can see we've got a very busy show, 273 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:40.480 and I have all this other stuff on the blog 274 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:42.559 that we're probably not going to get to, but I 275 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:45.879 want to get in one school board story really quickly. 276 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:48.559 There's a great article, and what are we talking about 277 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:49.399 school board races? 278 00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:51.039 For you guys. Three things. 279 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:53.879 Number one, you got kids in schools and you don't 280 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:56.720 want them to suck. Number Two, you don't have kids 281 00:13:56.799 --> 00:13:58.720 in schools, but you own property in the district and 282 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:00.519 you want to make sure you're getting a return on 283 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:04.120 all of those property taxes that you're paying. And number three, 284 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:06.840 if you want a vibrant economy, you must have a 285 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:11.600 vibrant public school system. Companies look at that when they're 286 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:15.759 moving people to new places. It is a big part. 287 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:18.399 If you have a large workforce. You're expecting a large workforce, 288 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:21.399 especially of young people. You want to make sure that 289 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:23.720 our schools are good. And I'll add in number four. 290 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:25.120 These people are going to be in charge of your 291 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:27.360 nursing homes when you're old, so let's make sure they're 292 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:30.320 getting a decent education. Okay, that's why we're paying attention 293 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:34.120 to school board races. I've got something in Douglas County 294 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:36.679 I thought was super interesting. There's a lot of questions, 295 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:40.279 and there's a CBS four story on the two different 296 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:44.600 slates of candidates that are running, and one of the 297 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:48.360 things that I jumped out of me actually was a 298 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:50.600 comment from one of the union. 299 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:51.240 Back to candidates. 300 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:55.240 There are four candidates running that the Douglas County Federation 301 00:14:55.440 --> 00:15:00.639 has endorsed and that the AMERICA or a American Teaching 302 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:05.600 what is it ATF American Teachers Associate Federation. I can't 303 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:12.639 remember what ATF stands for. They are four candidates. One 304 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:15.039 of them is I believe his name is Brian Callahan. 305 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:18.960 He's quoted in this story for CBS saying no one 306 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:22.279 on our slate has committed to a collective bargaining agreement. 307 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:25.080 What I think we are really eager to do is 308 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:27.600 to sit down and listen to teachers and all educators 309 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:29.559 and listen to what they need to be successful in 310 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:31.679 the classroom and working with our kids. 311 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:33.120 Okay, that sounds good. 312 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:37.080 The reason that's important, and especially in Douglas County is 313 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:40.240 Douglas County did away with their collective bargaining agreement many 314 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:44.440 years ago, and since then they have ascended to the 315 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:47.080 top of the heap both in the metro area, they 316 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:49.799 are the highest performing school district, and they have also 317 00:15:49.879 --> 00:15:52.600 done that for every school district of their size in 318 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:56.200 the state. So I was surprised to hear that when 319 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:00.759 I have a letter from the Douglas County Federation that says, 320 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:06.399 in endorsing the four candidates, they endorse it. We believe 321 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:08.840 electing these four candidates who are running as a slate 322 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:11.759 will give us the best chance of restoring collective bargaining 323 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:13.200 and getting a contract. 324 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:15.279 Huh. 325 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:19.279 But that's not all, then, the ATF whatever, the Teachers 326 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:23.320 Federation American Teachers Federation, they sent out in their newsletter 327 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:28.919 information about the various candidates. 328 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:29.559 And they break it down. 329 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:33.320 Candidate number one has made it very clear she would 330 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:36.399 fight for educators to secure a strong and binding contract. 331 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:40.919 Candidate two, and this is a quote, by the way, 332 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:44.039 from the newsletter they sent out. While supportive, he was 333 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:47.519 more cautious about how publicly vocal he would be during 334 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:51.080 the election cycle, not shouting it from the rooftops. He 335 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:55.720 understands that his public position on collective bargaining while trying 336 00:16:55.720 --> 00:17:00.840 to get elected is different from his public stance one elected. 337 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:05.960 Now Candidate number three, this is what they said. Admitted 338 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:09.400 she has green in certain areas, but demonstrated openness and 339 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:12.240 a genuine desire to grow into the role. Non committal 340 00:17:13.559 --> 00:17:17.680 candidate for mister Callahan, who said none of the candidates 341 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:21.240 had committed to a collective bargaining agreement, appeared open to 342 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:24.200 the idea but hesitant to commit publicly at this time. 343 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:28.039 Emphasized he would not make decisions without input from staff 344 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:32.279 and wanted to hear directly from district educators before fully deciding. 345 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:35.480 Also an open mind, but it's hard to say that 346 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:37.880 the other two have not at least signaled to the 347 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:42.240 union their intention to bring back a collective bargaining agreement 348 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:48.920 while telling the public something different. So I just think 349 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:54.000 take that into account because all of these races matter. 350 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:56.759 You guys, If you want to know how our schools 351 00:17:56.759 --> 00:17:59.400 have gone insane, it's because we stopped paying attention to 352 00:17:59.400 --> 00:18:01.680 school boarding. You want to know why kids think that 353 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:04.119 they can change gender when they're three, because we stop 354 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:08.000 paying attention to school board races. I mean, that's people 355 00:18:08.039 --> 00:18:10.400 talk about getting the culture back. We have to get 356 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:16.440 the schools into some semblance of a political life. 357 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:18.279 That's all I want from schools. 358 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:20.960 I don't want schools to never have any teachers who 359 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:23.519 lean left. I don't want any of that. I don't 360 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:26.039 want to know the politics of a single person who 361 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:28.960 works at a school. That's what I want for my kids, 362 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:31.920 and we don't have that now, and we don't have 363 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:35.759 leadership in these districts that wants the same thing. So, okay, 364 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:37.640 here's what's gonna happen. We're gonna take a very quick 365 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:39.839 time out. I'm gonna fix my mistake on the blog, 366 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:42.440 and then we're going to come back with one of 367 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:45.440 the contestants cast members. I guess they should say from 368 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:49.720 the now wrapped up season of Love is Blind Denver. 369 00:18:50.200 --> 00:18:52.000 So we're going to do that next. Keep it right 370 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:53.720 here on KWA. We've got to get into this. 371 00:18:53.799 --> 00:18:54.119 Okay. 372 00:18:54.160 --> 00:18:56.920 First of all, Madison Maidenberg, welcome to the show. 373 00:18:58.240 --> 00:18:59.279 Thank you for having me. 374 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:02.400 You were one of the contestants on Love Is Blind, 375 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:05.279 and I have to ask this question, what makes someone 376 00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:08.200 You're an attractive woman, what makes someone go, you know 377 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:10.200 what I'm gonna I'm just gonna sign up to get 378 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:13.599 married on television. What was that thought process like for you? 379 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:16.920 It's a great question. You know, I've always watched Love 380 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:17.440 is Blind. 381 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:21.680 I absolutely loved the concept and the experiment, and you know, 382 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:25.000 with my eye condition, I have something called retinitis pigmentosa 383 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:27.400 and it is considered a blinding eye disease. 384 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:29.240 So I really wanted to. 385 00:19:29.160 --> 00:19:31.519 Go on the show because it simulates what my life 386 00:19:31.519 --> 00:19:33.559 could be like if I were to lose my vision, 387 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:36.119 and it was just incredible to be able to kind 388 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:38.079 of get a taste of that and feel that. 389 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:39.039 Out in this experiment. 390 00:19:39.359 --> 00:19:41.000 So now that you're on the other side of it, 391 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:43.400 the show has aired, we cannot have any spoilers, by 392 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:45.519 the way, because Anthony and his friends, you are die 393 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:49.240 hard fans, they're not watching until tonight, So we'll just pretend. 394 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:51.960 We'll just talk around what you know, things that happened 395 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:54.160 or didn't happen. We'll just leave it all out there. 396 00:19:54.599 --> 00:19:57.200 But i'd love to know from your perspective, now that 397 00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:00.319 you've seen how they edit you, they see what happens. 398 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:02.720 What do you think you would you do it again? 399 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:07.400 You know, honestly, I would do this experiment a thousand 400 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:10.359 times over. I mean, just the amount of personal growth 401 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:13.519 that I got from this, it's insurmountable and I. 402 00:20:13.440 --> 00:20:14.839 Could have never expected it. 403 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:18.680 You know, obviously my story didn't end with a fairy 404 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:19.599 tale ending the way I. 405 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:20.279 Would have hoped. 406 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:22.599 But I always say I really did find love in 407 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:25.079 the Pods, and that was through the incredible women that 408 00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:28.240 were there that've become my personal Pod squad, and also 409 00:20:28.359 --> 00:20:28.960 just the love that. 410 00:20:28.920 --> 00:20:29.880 I found in myself. 411 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:33.440 Madison, we have been talking so much on the show 412 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:36.000 over the really the course of years, from textures that 413 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:39.400 say that the love scene, the dating scene in Denver 414 00:20:39.599 --> 00:20:42.680 is notoriously just one of the worst, if not the worst, 415 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:45.880 in the country. What do you say to those out 416 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:48.160 there that say that this season of Love is Blind 417 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:50.079 did not really help that narrative? 418 00:20:51.839 --> 00:20:55.079 Uh, you know, unfortunately, I feel like our season did 419 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:58.400 not do my native state the service. 420 00:20:58.039 --> 00:20:59.039 That it should have been done. 421 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:02.240 But you know, the Denver dating scene has been called 422 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:05.160 Menver for a reason, and you know, there are definitely 423 00:21:05.160 --> 00:21:08.599 a few Peter Pans out there, But I think overall, 424 00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:10.920 really Denver gets such a bad rap, and I want 425 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:13.200 to set the record straight that it's not as bad 426 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:14.079 as our season. 427 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:17.599 You know, and the season wrapped up last night. Did 428 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:20.400 you guys already film the reunion show? Because I got 429 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:22.680 to tell you when I was a high consumer of 430 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:26.160 reality television. I lived for the reunion shows because that's 431 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:28.480 when the crap really hit the fan, right, That's when 432 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:29.519 the real stuff came out. 433 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:31.200 Did you guys already film the reunion? 434 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:35.680 We did, and it's coming out next week October twenty ninth. 435 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:40.880 Wow. So, now did you learn anything about yourself in 436 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:44.119 this process that maybe you weren't expecting in terms of 437 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:46.640 what you saw on the screen and you were like, wow, 438 00:21:46.759 --> 00:21:48.480 didn't know that came across that way? 439 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:49.400 I mean, how how? 440 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:52.160 Because I can't even imagine putting myself out there like that. 441 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:54.759 That's that's a level of brave I just don't have. 442 00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:58.640 Oh, I appreciate that, Mandy. You know, honestly, I learned 443 00:21:58.640 --> 00:22:01.839 a lot about myself watching it back. It's definitely it's 444 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:03.680 a little bit of a humbling experience. You know, there's 445 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:05.400 certain moments they are like, gosh, I didn't realize that 446 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:07.920 my face did that, or you know, wow, I didn't 447 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:10.359 realize that maybe my total voice came across as this, 448 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:13.240 or you know whatever. But I'd say the biggest thing 449 00:22:13.279 --> 00:22:15.680 that I learned from this is to really trust my intuition. 450 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:18.680 You know, there was so much there that I could 451 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:21.559 have leaned into and read a little bit better than 452 00:22:21.599 --> 00:22:24.160 I did in the moment. So I really learned to 453 00:22:24.200 --> 00:22:27.680 trust my intuition, lean into my gut, you know, and 454 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:30.799 really truly not let myself be influenced as much by 455 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:31.799 other people's words. 456 00:22:31.839 --> 00:22:34.359 Well, Madison, a good follow up to that is, I'm 457 00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:36.359 sure you've heard over the years having watched Love Is 458 00:22:36.359 --> 00:22:38.799 Buying the horror stories that people have in terms of 459 00:22:38.839 --> 00:22:41.880 issues with their portrayal on the show. Do you feel 460 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:45.480 like the producers the show gave you a good representation 461 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:47.720 or do you feel like maybe you fell more into 462 00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:49.359 that camp of you don't feel like you were portrayed 463 00:22:49.359 --> 00:22:51.519 the way that you had hoped based on having the 464 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:53.319 fact that they pick and choose what they want to show. 465 00:22:55.079 --> 00:22:55.920 You know, I will. 466 00:22:55.759 --> 00:22:58.039 Say, in general, I'm really proud of the way that 467 00:22:58.079 --> 00:23:01.680 Love is Blind handles editing. They're really good about kind 468 00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:04.319 of capturing the essence of who people are and the 469 00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:08.039 essence of what conversations are. So, you know, in general, 470 00:23:08.119 --> 00:23:10.599 do I think maybe my edit shows me being a 471 00:23:10.599 --> 00:23:12.519 little bit more clinging, a little bit more needy than 472 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:15.480 I really am. Yes, But I think it's also important 473 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:18.519 to note that I was operating from a space of insecurity, 474 00:23:18.680 --> 00:23:20.759 you know, because of some of the things that Joe had. 475 00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:21.599 Said on camera. 476 00:23:21.839 --> 00:23:25.039 So you know, as far as the edit goes in general, 477 00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:27.519 I think that you do get a sense for us 478 00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:30.279 as people, but you don't see all of the other 479 00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:32.880 moments that kind of create the whole story. 480 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:33.319 Right. 481 00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:36.400 Did you follow along with any of the online stuff, 482 00:23:36.440 --> 00:23:41.440 because I know reality shows those like chat areas, message boards, whatever, 483 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:45.240 they can be brutal. Did you pay attention to any 484 00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:45.480 of that? 485 00:23:46.839 --> 00:23:49.680 Honestly, Manny, I cannot stay out of the comments section. 486 00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:54.200 I know everyone tells me not to, but damn, it's 487 00:23:54.319 --> 00:23:57.880 so fun. Sometimes people are so creative. But I love that. 488 00:23:58.599 --> 00:24:01.920 I love your attitude about that because it's tough. And 489 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:03.880 one of the things that I always say about my 490 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:06.799 job being in talk radio over the years, like I 491 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:10.240 have the thickest skin in the world. Nothing affects me 492 00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:13.519 if you attack me personally, nothing, I promise you it 493 00:24:13.559 --> 00:24:16.680 does not affect me. So at a young age, you 494 00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:19.799 now have had that experience and let it toughen you up. 495 00:24:19.839 --> 00:24:22.599 It's much easier to go through the world when you 496 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:24.680 have a little bit of a thick skin. What advice 497 00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:28.079 would you give for someone else before going on. 498 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:29.319 A show like Love is Blind. 499 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:31.599 That's a good question. 500 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:32.200 You know. 501 00:24:32.279 --> 00:24:35.000 My advice would be really good, get a very good 502 00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:38.319 sense of who you are and really know who your 503 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:41.160 character is at your core, because there are going to 504 00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:44.480 be so many voices and so many different opinions, and 505 00:24:44.599 --> 00:24:47.119 if you can really just stay grounded in what you 506 00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:49.680 know to be true about yourself, then it makes it 507 00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:51.920 so much easier to deal with the trolls, you. 508 00:24:51.880 --> 00:24:55.160 Know, Madison last one for me and I've been nice 509 00:24:55.200 --> 00:24:57.440 and cordial throughout this, but we got to talk about 510 00:24:57.480 --> 00:24:59.839 Tom some tea at the end of this thing, because 511 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:02.799 this season was absolutely bonkers storylines glor or whether be 512 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:05.480 Edmund making out with the floor, whether it be Joe's 513 00:25:05.480 --> 00:25:07.319 scene with you in the hotel room making it seem 514 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:10.920 like he was just off the rails watching this thing back. 515 00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:12.440 It could be whether it be you and Joe or 516 00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:14.559 any other couple up to the finale. What were some 517 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:17.000 of your favorite and most funny highlights that you remember 518 00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:17.599 from this season. 519 00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:22.759 Oh, my favorite and most funny highlights. I mean, honestly, 520 00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:25.000 one of the funny moments for me was like when 521 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:27.319 we were in the pods and We're trying to have 522 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:29.880 this deep conversation and we have this box of like 523 00:25:29.960 --> 00:25:32.440 games and toys, and there was this one toy that 524 00:25:32.599 --> 00:25:35.680 kept making the most obnoxious sounds and We're like in 525 00:25:35.720 --> 00:25:37.839 the middle of a very deep conversation and it just 526 00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:40.240 keeps me like bop it, twist it, you know whatever, 527 00:25:40.559 --> 00:25:41.519 and I'm like, oh my god. 528 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:42.599 So it got to the point that. 529 00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:44.799 I ended up throwing it out of the pod and 530 00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:46.599 when I came back out, it's gone. 531 00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:46.799 You know. 532 00:25:46.799 --> 00:25:48.000 It's just kind of funny. 533 00:25:47.720 --> 00:25:49.960 Seeing the behind the scenes a little bit of just 534 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:51.400 how the machine kind of works. 535 00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:53.400 That was definitely a funny moment. 536 00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:53.680 You know. 537 00:25:53.759 --> 00:25:56.720 Another one that was funny when we were in Mexico 538 00:25:56.920 --> 00:25:59.519 kind of filming that whole scene with all the group. 539 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:02.599 We actually had one on ones with each. 540 00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:04.960 Other guy and with you know, the guys with each 541 00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:05.480 other girl. 542 00:26:05.759 --> 00:26:07.680 And I was trying to go down the stairs and 543 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:10.160 production told me that there was like five stairs and 544 00:26:10.200 --> 00:26:10.640 there were. 545 00:26:10.599 --> 00:26:13.240 Six, and I fully wiped out, you know. 546 00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:15.759 And it's just kind of like these silly, little. 547 00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:18.440 Very human moments that you just don't see as much 548 00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:21.359 that make it kind of an interesting behind the scenes. 549 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:23.680 And I lied, I have I'd be remiss if I 550 00:26:23.720 --> 00:26:26.079 didn't ask. At the end of the day, how much 551 00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:28.880 better do you feel knowing the response has been so positive? 552 00:26:28.920 --> 00:26:31.759 You mentioned Team Madison at the end of the day. 553 00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:34.519 How really grateful for yourself and your growth at as 554 00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:37.039 a person in all reality? Are you glad that you 555 00:26:37.079 --> 00:26:40.240 did not go to the altar with Joe because he's 556 00:26:40.359 --> 00:26:44.359 bad news? Uh? 557 00:26:44.440 --> 00:26:47.319 You know, I always say Joe really did me a favor, 558 00:26:47.559 --> 00:26:50.599 And you know, I'm thankful that things ended when they 559 00:26:50.599 --> 00:26:54.039 did because I am absolutely a true lover girl and 560 00:26:54.079 --> 00:26:56.240 when I'm in something, I'm in something and I want 561 00:26:56.279 --> 00:26:58.079 to see it all the way through. So at the 562 00:26:58.160 --> 00:27:00.440 end of the day, you know, thank you, Joe gave 563 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:01.799 me the favor I couldn't do myself. 564 00:27:01.880 --> 00:27:04.920 Yes, thank you, Walmart Brand, knockoff Bone, NICKX. We appreciate that. 565 00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:07.119 That did not happen, Madison Maidenburg. 566 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:09.039 Thanks for your time today and best of luck and 567 00:27:09.079 --> 00:27:09.920 all you do in the future. 568 00:27:09.960 --> 00:27:14.440 Madison. And you know I couldn't do it. I just 569 00:27:14.519 --> 00:27:15.480 I could not do it. 570 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:17.480 But you know what, A Rod and his friends are 571 00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:20.960 sure glad you did that because the show you guys 572 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:22.079 so much, right. 573 00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:23.680 I appreciate you so much, Madison. 574 00:27:24.519 --> 00:27:26.960 All right, you gotta do that a rod, because I 575 00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:28.720 am going to take a quick time out and when 576 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:32.240 I get back, I have so much stuff on the 577 00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:34.039 blog today, but I want to talk about something that's 578 00:27:34.079 --> 00:27:35.240 just cool. Right. 579 00:27:35.480 --> 00:27:37.519 It's not controversial, it's just cool. 580 00:27:38.119 --> 00:27:41.519 And this is one of those things that we don't 581 00:27:41.559 --> 00:27:45.799 have enough of happening right now. A couple of guys 582 00:27:46.279 --> 00:27:51.680 whose home was almost well, I don't want to say 583 00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:55.720 it came uncomfortably close to the tarbag and fire, or 584 00:27:55.799 --> 00:27:58.640 rather the tarmaic and fire came uncomfortably close to his 585 00:27:58.680 --> 00:28:01.799 family's home as at Silverthorne. So he said, you know what, 586 00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:06.559 We're going to create a way to protect homes in 587 00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:08.039 a wildfire. I'm going to tell you about it when 588 00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:11.359 we get back. It's super super cool. Listen to this story. 589 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:13.720 I love this so much. I think this is so cool. 590 00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:19.640 For whatever reason. I love the idea of kind of 591 00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:23.240 an inventor, right, like you know, an inventor sitting just 592 00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:28.519 tinkering in his garage. Two graduates from Colorado's Summit High 593 00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:31.559 School who grew up watching wildfires threaten the mountain hometowns. 594 00:28:31.839 --> 00:28:35.240 They're leading the way to help homeowners protect their properties. 595 00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:43.039 Their company Defense Delivered builds fully autonomous wildfire sprinkler systems 596 00:28:43.079 --> 00:28:46.759 that can detect heat from approaching flames and sparks and 597 00:28:46.920 --> 00:28:51.359 automatically hose down a home in targeted areas to ideally 598 00:28:51.799 --> 00:28:56.119 prevent it from burning dustin dolamor As the CEO, he 599 00:28:56.160 --> 00:28:59.440 said he got the idea after his home was uncomfortably 600 00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:03.200 close to the Ptarmigan fire. He said, when we experience 601 00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:06.240 that fire, the feeling of helplessness that really nothing could 602 00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:08.519 be done, it drove us to make a working solution. 603 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:11.400 We've essentially returned to the community we were raised in 604 00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:12.920 to try and give it back. 605 00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:14.960 The camera use or the system. 606 00:29:14.759 --> 00:29:19.200 Uses thermal cameras to sense heat and activate sprinklers, but 607 00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:23.119 only when needed. They spray about thirty five gallons of 608 00:29:23.160 --> 00:29:28.000 water permanent per zone. That efficiency doesn't put too much 609 00:29:28.039 --> 00:29:32.480 strain on municipal water systems who are trying to fight 610 00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:37.839 fires other places. We saw what happened in California. They 611 00:29:37.920 --> 00:29:39.799 just everybody hit it at the same time and they 612 00:29:39.880 --> 00:29:42.119 just didn't have any water. So they're trying to make 613 00:29:42.119 --> 00:29:44.640 sure they're not creating an undew burden. I love that 614 00:29:47.640 --> 00:29:51.880 The division chief Matthew Benedict with Red, White, and Blue 615 00:29:51.880 --> 00:29:54.279 Fire Protection District said, we have to be smart with 616 00:29:54.319 --> 00:29:57.079 every drop of water. A system like this that uses 617 00:29:57.119 --> 00:29:59.799 about thirty five gallons a minute, that's a low drag 618 00:29:59.839 --> 00:30:02.079 on the municipal system and it can make a real difference. 619 00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:06.720 Unlike traditional sprinkler systems that are on top of houses 620 00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:10.640 for wildfire defense, defense delivered setup is designed to withstand 621 00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:14.680 Colorado's high altitude climate. It automatically drains itself to prevent 622 00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:17.319 freeze damage and can operate year round. 623 00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:23.960 This is so cool, so so cool. And here's the thing. 624 00:30:24.759 --> 00:30:26.759 You know, I realized that homes are full of all 625 00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:29.839 kinds of family things and heirlooms that can't be replaced. 626 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:32.079 But I'm not sure I would want my home to 627 00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:34.759 survive if everything else around it burned down. I know 628 00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:37.640 that sounds crazy, but I also don't live there full time. 629 00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:39.880 If I had a mountain house, it would not be 630 00:30:39.960 --> 00:30:41.960 my primary home, so it wouldn't have all of my 631 00:30:42.519 --> 00:30:45.880 you know, super special valuables in it. So I don't know. 632 00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:47.880 I just love stuff like this, and I'm interested to 633 00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:51.759 see how homeowner's insurance is affected by this because there 634 00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:55.160 is a lot of trouble in the sort of urban 635 00:30:55.319 --> 00:31:01.720 rural interface areas in the actual wildlife areas and wilder 636 00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:05.279 areas of Colorado for homeowners being able to get reasonably 637 00:31:05.319 --> 00:31:09.279 priced homeowners insurance, and a lot of the homeowners that 638 00:31:09.319 --> 00:31:11.799 I have known who lived in the mountains or in 639 00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:14.640 the foothills spend an awful lot of their time just 640 00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:19.359 doing wildfire mitigation, chopping down trees, making sure brush was managed, 641 00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:21.359 you know, things of that nature. I think this just 642 00:31:21.400 --> 00:31:25.359 sounds like a game changer. That's just that's really really good, 643 00:31:25.400 --> 00:31:28.920 and it looks like it can be completely retrofitted. One 644 00:31:28.960 --> 00:31:33.279 of the problems with sprinkler systems overall internally in your house. 645 00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:38.799 We have friends who suffered a horrific tragedy their home 646 00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:43.079 burned down and they lost their daughter into granddaughters in 647 00:31:43.119 --> 00:31:48.519 the fire. And they're big advocates for sprinkler systems inside homes, 648 00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:51.160 which is great, that's the gold standard for fire suppression 649 00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:54.960 in a home, but it's not reasonable if you've already 650 00:31:54.960 --> 00:31:57.200 built your home, it's hard to go back and retrofit. 651 00:31:57.279 --> 00:31:59.240 This looks like they can just slap it on the 652 00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:02.680 outside and call a day. I love that they saw 653 00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:05.000 a problem the experience to need and now they're solving it. 654 00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:07.799 I bet they make a billion dollars and I support 655 00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:11.920 them one hundred percent in their endeavors. Well done, young men, 656 00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:16.359 Well done. All right, when we get back, we have 657 00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:19.160 several things on the blog. I want to follow up 658 00:32:19.160 --> 00:32:19.759 a little bit. 659 00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:20.359 On the No Kings. 660 00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:24.160 I wasn't the only one to notice who actually went 661 00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:26.279 to the No Kings rallies around the country. 662 00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:29.519 I was right in my assessment, by the way. 663 00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:31.920 But I also want to talk about a story I 664 00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:33.920 had yesterday. But I think it's so cool that I 665 00:32:33.920 --> 00:32:35.359 want to talk about it in the middle of the show. 666 00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:38.319 When you guys are supposed to be paying attention, do 667 00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:43.839 you realize that there is a strong bit of evidence 668 00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:49.880 that guys, especially we can watch you walk and know 669 00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:50.599 if you can fight. 670 00:32:51.400 --> 00:32:52.680 I'll explain after this. 671 00:32:53.480 --> 00:32:56.119 The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock, 672 00:32:56.200 --> 00:32:57.680 accident and injury lawyers. 673 00:32:58.319 --> 00:32:59.640 No, it's. 674 00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:16.599 M stay the nicety through Ray Bendy Connell. 675 00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:20.200 Keeping a sad thing well FOOTBALLCA. 676 00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:22.920 Welcome to the second hour of the show. And because 677 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:27.119 the theme until the election is pay attention to school board. 678 00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:28.559 Races, we continue with that. 679 00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:33.599 Only we're jumping over to Jefferson County, where one formerly 680 00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:37.920 endorsed by the teachers' union candidate has lost that endorsement 681 00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:41.200 in part because of the very delicate work of an 682 00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:44.240 organization called jeff Co Kids First and joining me now 683 00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:49.319 from that organization, Lindsay, Dadco, Hi, Lindsay, Hey Manby, I 684 00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:53.759 corrected the information that you sent me. My blog is 685 00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:57.200 a disaster today, just misspelling all over the place. It's 686 00:33:57.200 --> 00:33:59.039 been a nightmare just getting it up and running. And 687 00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:00.319 I have no one to blame about myself. 688 00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:04.079 But thank you. Welcome back to Yeah, welcome back to 689 00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:07.920 the show. First of all, thank you so much. Well, 690 00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:08.880 let's talk about the. 691 00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:11.639 Jeffco school board race, but only in the context of 692 00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:17.440 your organization, which has been really critical of the current 693 00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:21.119 superintendent for a lot of very very good reasons. I 694 00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:25.719 might add, you have you came into possession of some 695 00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:29.400 information about one of the candidates running for Jefferson County 696 00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:32.719 school Board who had been endorsed by the union, and 697 00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:34.760 I'd like you to I don't want to, I just 698 00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:37.679 want to have you lay out what happened and what 699 00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:38.760 has happened since then. 700 00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:44.639 Yeah, Well, we heard directly from contacts of more than 701 00:34:44.719 --> 00:34:49.800 one victim of this school board candidate named Michael Yoakam, 702 00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:54.199 and we became very concerned knowing how direct these these 703 00:34:54.679 --> 00:35:00.480 contacts were. We actually listened to our recording at. 704 00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:01.519 A board forum. 705 00:35:01.280 --> 00:35:05.000 Where he admitted to a sexual offense as a juvenile 706 00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:09.400 and a deferred adjudication, which means that someone is found 707 00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:11.760 guilty or pleased guilty as long. 708 00:35:11.639 --> 00:35:13.639 As they and as long as they meet certain. 709 00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:19.159 Rehabilitative steps, their actual sentences deferred for a few years, 710 00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:22.800 and it can be dismissed and those records can be filed. 711 00:35:24.159 --> 00:35:28.079 And so that is what occurred here. There's actually Colorado 712 00:35:28.239 --> 00:35:31.519 state law that provides avenues for records to be unsealed 713 00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:36.360 when someone seeks public office, and we began a very 714 00:35:36.519 --> 00:35:40.039 direct and careful process to alert the community of what 715 00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:45.199 the candidate himself admitted to. The circumstances are tragic. The 716 00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:48.639 facts behind it are extremely serious. This is not a 717 00:35:48.760 --> 00:35:51.920 Romeo and Juliet case, a term that I've been people 718 00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:55.400 have been asking about indicating was this an eighteen year 719 00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:58.679 old and a seventeen year type thing. No, this was 720 00:35:58.840 --> 00:36:03.519 far more serious. It would potentially present a major conflict 721 00:36:03.639 --> 00:36:07.480 for him to hold public office, especially in a decision 722 00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:10.719 making role over over children. And let me just mention too, 723 00:36:11.239 --> 00:36:14.519 I was notified that a constituent, aware of the circumstances, 724 00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:16.719 quietly asked him to step. 725 00:36:16.599 --> 00:36:19.440 Down on September thirtieth, and eight. 726 00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:24.599 Days after that, we noticed this candidate still intended to 727 00:36:24.679 --> 00:36:27.960 continue running. We launched a deliberate and careful process, as 728 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:32.199 we said, to alert the public, alerted the campaign manager. 729 00:36:33.079 --> 00:36:39.559 The same constituent did, and we noticed then that JCEA, 730 00:36:39.679 --> 00:36:43.760 which is the teachers union, withdrew their enforcement of him. 731 00:36:44.239 --> 00:36:47.440 So they must have also seen the gravity of this situation. 732 00:36:48.159 --> 00:36:51.960 Well, and what's interesting is they did not endorse him 733 00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:55.400 until they took a shot at your organization for having 734 00:36:55.480 --> 00:36:59.159 the temerity to actually point out that this person And 735 00:36:59.400 --> 00:37:01.320 am I. I don't want to get into the details 736 00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:03.159 of the case. And I'm assuming you know the details 737 00:37:03.159 --> 00:37:05.440 of the case. What are these are sexual crimes that 738 00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:07.360 involved children? Is that what we're talking about? 739 00:37:08.280 --> 00:37:09.320 That is what we're talking about. 740 00:37:09.320 --> 00:37:09.559 Okay. 741 00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:11.920 I want to be as clear as I can without 742 00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:14.119 being too clearly, you know. 743 00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:18.360 So you're the problem for pointing out that a school 744 00:37:18.360 --> 00:37:20.079 board candidate has this in his history. 745 00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:25.840 Oh yeah, The first paragraph of their statement said that 746 00:37:25.960 --> 00:37:28.880 they failed. Basically, it was a procedural error. 747 00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:32.320 So they were withdrawing. They called it their recommendation, which 748 00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:34.480 was clearly watering down what this is. 749 00:37:34.639 --> 00:37:38.280 This was an endorsement and a full funding. We're talking 750 00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:42.880 potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on their candidates, 751 00:37:43.559 --> 00:37:46.079 so to call it a recommendation, it was definitely watering 752 00:37:46.119 --> 00:37:50.000 that down. But the second paragraphs then called those who 753 00:37:50.360 --> 00:37:54.639 who brought this forward extremists, and so they blamed their 754 00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:59.639 vetting process rather than the unacceptable risk children. And we 755 00:37:59.760 --> 00:38:02.480 keep saying, if this makes us a political extremist, just 756 00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:05.119 sign us up. Mandy Well, I want to. 757 00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:07.400 Play something for you, Lindsay, and I want to play 758 00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:10.000 it for the audience as well. This is why school 759 00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:12.119 boards matter. I just want you guys to listen to 760 00:38:12.199 --> 00:38:15.000 this sound bite. This is why I'm talking about school 761 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:17.679 boards and this kind of nonsense that you're about to 762 00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:22.199 hear from the Jefferson County Board of Education by Aaron Kensworthy. 763 00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:24.199 You are going to this is the kind of stuff 764 00:38:24.199 --> 00:38:26.880 that's happening in school districts all over the area. 765 00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:28.519 So this is just indicative. 766 00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:32.320 This was the first board meeting back after the Evergreen 767 00:38:32.800 --> 00:38:36.480 school shooting, when parents were obviously extremely concerned and looking 768 00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:39.079 for answers about what the district was going to do 769 00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:41.559 to ensure the safety of students. 770 00:38:43.920 --> 00:38:45.840 For one of the gentlemen, I wanted to say, safety 771 00:38:46.039 --> 00:38:49.000 is actually a privilege. It is not a right, and 772 00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:52.159 it cannot be guaranteed, which is incredibly hard for any 773 00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:56.039 parent to say to their child, but it is true 774 00:38:56.079 --> 00:38:58.079 in the culture and the time that we live in. 775 00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:02.320 It's not just in schools. It is in movie theaters. 776 00:39:02.719 --> 00:39:05.719 It's happening at grocery stores and in public parks and 777 00:39:07.400 --> 00:39:08.360 also in schools. 778 00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:09.480 And so. 779 00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:14.559 I wish that I felt that I could walk through 780 00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:18.079 this world entitled to safety, but I am not. And 781 00:39:18.159 --> 00:39:21.039 there are people in this world who have never experienced 782 00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:24.280 a feeling of safety and may not in their lifetime, 783 00:39:24.360 --> 00:39:27.760 and so to expect that we can guarantee safety for 784 00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:34.280 ourselves and for our children is an unfortunate untruths. We 785 00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:37.880 just cannot guarantee it. We can do everything we can 786 00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:41.960 to support it. That I wanted to say that because 787 00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:45.800 safety absolutely is a privilege. Feeling safe is a privilege. 788 00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:51.480 And ultimately I'm going to end with I'm very grateful 789 00:39:51.519 --> 00:39:53.159 for those folks who showed up at public. 790 00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:55.840 So safety is a privilege. 791 00:39:56.400 --> 00:39:59.320 And in saying it like that, Lindsay, she essentially takes 792 00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:01.559 the onus off with the Jefferson County school Board if 793 00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:05.800 really working to really do their best to achieve a 794 00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:08.280 modicum of safety at a high level so kids can 795 00:40:08.360 --> 00:40:10.559 feel comfortable going to school. Why would kids go to 796 00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:13.519 school if there's no effort, because well, you know what, 797 00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:16.360 we can't, we can't and nobody can guarantee safety. She's 798 00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:19.320 absolutely right about that, And at first I was like, well, 799 00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:22.199 maybe she's going to say, you know, we can't expect 800 00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:24.760 one hundred percent to guarantee safe, but then she went 801 00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:27.239 in there are other people who never expect safety. 802 00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:29.519 This school board is a clown show. 803 00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:31.599 And I'm not asking you to to agree or disagree, 804 00:40:31.679 --> 00:40:34.119 but man, does this school board need to be changed? 805 00:40:34.239 --> 00:40:37.320 It really really needs to be changed. 806 00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:40.599 And at least the good news is mister Yoakam has 807 00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:45.559 lost the endorsement of the Jefferson County Education Association, But 808 00:40:46.199 --> 00:40:48.400 that doesn't mean that they're not going to continue to 809 00:40:48.519 --> 00:40:50.480 keep more people like this woman on the school board. 810 00:40:50.519 --> 00:40:52.679 What was the were you at that meeting? Lindsey. 811 00:40:53.840 --> 00:40:56.719 You know I was listening. But Mandy, just minutes before 812 00:40:57.199 --> 00:41:01.920 Evergreen parents who had children running their lives, in addition 813 00:41:02.079 --> 00:41:05.599 to John Castillo, who's the father of Kendrick Castio, the 814 00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:09.519 hero who died rushing the shooter at the sent school shooting, 815 00:41:09.639 --> 00:41:12.400 spoke to the board and poured their hearts out. And 816 00:41:12.519 --> 00:41:16.360 this was her message as someone on a governing board 817 00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:17.000 of education. 818 00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:19.800 And let's just say the quiet part out loud. What 819 00:41:19.960 --> 00:41:22.519 she's doing here is equating. 820 00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:24.159 Safety and DI. 821 00:41:24.920 --> 00:41:31.039 She's saying that safety is an equitable an equitable issue, 822 00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:37.039 and that is a catastrophic view. These two terms collide 823 00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:41.280 so catastrophically. But we know that this is the case 824 00:41:41.360 --> 00:41:45.119 in jeffco because Evergreen High School was deprioritized and didn't 825 00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:48.800 have an FRO assigned to them. And so she's basically 826 00:41:48.920 --> 00:41:51.400 just reiterating what we've seen in jeff COO with the 827 00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:56.559 placement of SROs, and we can't have children safety as 828 00:41:56.559 --> 00:41:58.039 an equitable issue. 829 00:41:58.360 --> 00:42:01.559 Well, I need to say the We played the audio, 830 00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:03.360 but you guys didn't hear it because it was only 831 00:42:03.400 --> 00:42:05.599 in one channel and it didn't go out on the radio. 832 00:42:05.719 --> 00:42:08.840 Let me just tell you the audio in this audio 833 00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:12.400 the school board member said that safety is a privilege, 834 00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:15.960 not a right, that the school district cannot ensure the 835 00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:18.599 safety of every student, which is true, but then she 836 00:42:18.719 --> 00:42:21.239 went on to kind of excuse it as there are 837 00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:24.159 people in this world do never feel safe, and applying 838 00:42:24.360 --> 00:42:27.559 somehow that it's ridiculous for white people to expect to 839 00:42:27.599 --> 00:42:29.960 be safe when there are people who are not in 840 00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:33.920 their same situation who are safe. Ever, it's just the dumbest, 841 00:42:34.360 --> 00:42:36.360 stupidest line of claptrap I've ever heard. 842 00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:40.280 Absolutely, and three TV news stations picked this up. 843 00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:45.079 It just went wild amongst community members. Her most important duty, 844 00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:49.239 it's a very unique duty of care, is to assume 845 00:42:49.320 --> 00:42:52.920 the responsibility in schools, you assume the responsibility of the 846 00:42:53.039 --> 00:42:56.679 parent for a child safety. It's called in loco parentis 847 00:42:57.320 --> 00:43:00.519 She mentioned grocery stores and movie theaters. Is not the 848 00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:05.360 same as institutions that watch over our children safety for thirty. 849 00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:08.039 Hours a week, say jeff Coe School's. 850 00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:09.360 Board member, it's unacceptable. 851 00:43:09.719 --> 00:43:12.599 Amen to that, Lindsay, I appreciate everything that you guys 852 00:43:12.679 --> 00:43:16.119 have done at jeff Co Kids first, and I've already 853 00:43:16.159 --> 00:43:19.679 told my listeners that in my if I were in 854 00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:24.000 Jefferson County. I would vote for Deneen at Shaveria, I 855 00:43:24.039 --> 00:43:26.159 would vote for Samuel Myrat, and I would vote for 856 00:43:26.360 --> 00:43:30.920 Gloria Terry Gascone for the school board and hopefully inject 857 00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:34.280 some common sense. I think that the superintendent needs to 858 00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:38.320 be replaced immediately because Jeff Coe's schools used to be 859 00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:41.199 a powerhouse and they're still good. They're still good, but 860 00:43:41.280 --> 00:43:43.440 if you look at what Cherry Creek is allowed to happen, 861 00:43:43.519 --> 00:43:45.760 you don't want that to happen to Jeff co Right, 862 00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:49.039 So those are my opinions, Lindsay, And I'm not going 863 00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:50.920 to ask you to say anything because I know your 864 00:43:51.039 --> 00:43:54.400 organization does not get involved in politics. You merely inform 865 00:43:54.480 --> 00:43:57.440 people of things that happen, Lindsay, yat Co, I appreciate 866 00:43:57.480 --> 00:43:59.760 your time today, Thank you so much. 867 00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:01.320 Any all right, have a good one. 868 00:44:02.400 --> 00:44:07.880 So important school board races so so so important. Okay, guys, 869 00:44:08.199 --> 00:44:10.079 got a couple of things. We're done talking about school 870 00:44:10.079 --> 00:44:14.119 board races for today. Got a couple of things. One 871 00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:18.920 is that there is a small newspaper in Johnstown. I mean, 872 00:44:19.079 --> 00:44:22.719 I'm assuming it's small because Johnstown's kind of small. I'm 873 00:44:22.760 --> 00:44:25.159 not hating on you. I'm just saying I'm not telling 874 00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:28.199 you anything you don't already know. So the Johnstown Breeze 875 00:44:28.360 --> 00:44:34.760 is run by a uh will a person. You really 876 00:44:34.840 --> 00:44:37.320 decided to do something stupid. 877 00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:38.639 And that stupid thing was this. 878 00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:43.599 When you work for news media organization, as Leslie Banger, 879 00:44:43.719 --> 00:44:46.840 the publisher of the Johnstown Breeze, does you get all 880 00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:48.079 kinds of press releases from. 881 00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:49.039 All kinds of organizations. 882 00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:52.519 I get all kinds of press releases from left wing 883 00:44:52.719 --> 00:44:55.639 organizations about things they're doing, and I just ignore them. 884 00:44:55.719 --> 00:44:58.679 I don't care. And she got one. 885 00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:04.840 About the Weld County Republican hodown that's coming up and 886 00:45:04.960 --> 00:45:06.760 it's gonna be fun and there's gonna be music. 887 00:45:06.840 --> 00:45:07.800 It's gonna be a great time. 888 00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:10.559 And so she was on the mass email and she 889 00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:13.800 just decided to respond with what time is the flag 890 00:45:13.880 --> 00:45:18.760 burning and the Mexican whipping. She's the publisher of the 891 00:45:18.840 --> 00:45:23.239 Johnstown Brees. Now, I'm not gonna call it a boycott, 892 00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:24.920 but what I am gonna call it is this. If 893 00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:29.079 you have a business that does business with the john Stownbrees, 894 00:45:29.559 --> 00:45:32.039 this is who you're giving your money to. And if 895 00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:35.360 you own a business and you're doing business with the Johnstownbrees, 896 00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:38.679 and you are listening to this show because ideologically you 897 00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:41.599 and I align. That's who You're giving your money to, 898 00:45:42.920 --> 00:45:45.280 someone who thinks. By the way, the chair of the 899 00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:52.760 Weld County GOP Hunter Rivera, didn't appreciate the Mexican whipping comment. 900 00:45:54.239 --> 00:45:57.599 It's just absurd, just absolutely absurd. 901 00:45:57.719 --> 00:46:00.800 And I'm tired of acting like you know what, I'm 902 00:46:00.840 --> 00:46:02.559 not going to be I'm not going to urge people 903 00:46:02.880 --> 00:46:04.719 to not do business. No, I'm urging you not to do. 904 00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:08.239 Business with them. I'm urging you to call it. 905 00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:11.239 I can't imagine they have tons and tons of subscribers, 906 00:46:11.280 --> 00:46:13.880 but if you're a subscriber, cancel your subscription and. 907 00:46:13.920 --> 00:46:14.480 Tell them why. 908 00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:19.000 There can't be that many lefties to support this kind 909 00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:22.199 of rag in Johnstown. I mean, I'm sure there are, 910 00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:27.480 but I'm tired of just giving people money that not 911 00:46:27.639 --> 00:46:29.519 only disagree with me. I don't mind giving money to 912 00:46:29.559 --> 00:46:32.880 people who disagree with me. I shop at Costco. Costco 913 00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:33.480 is owned by. 914 00:46:33.360 --> 00:46:35.559 A bunch of progressives in Washington State. 915 00:46:35.880 --> 00:46:38.239 I don't care. You know why, because they're not messing 916 00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:41.599 with me. They're not being rude, they're not sending mess 917 00:46:41.599 --> 00:46:42.880 to emails they're not doing any of that. 918 00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:45.079 They're just giving me great prices on products that. 919 00:46:45.119 --> 00:46:45.599 I really like. 920 00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:48.920 But when you have somebody like this, when you have 921 00:46:49.480 --> 00:46:52.920 the vile CEO of Penzi's Spices, and if you are 922 00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:55.519 a cook like I am and you love Penzy's, please 923 00:46:55.599 --> 00:46:58.039 never give them another dollar of your money. The CEO 924 00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:03.199 is the most hateful man I have ever encountered against Republicans. 925 00:47:03.440 --> 00:47:05.960 He hates every Republican and he's open about it all 926 00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:10.840 the time. He openly hates you. So stop giving them 927 00:47:10.840 --> 00:47:14.639 your money. I mean, there's some ways you can't get 928 00:47:14.679 --> 00:47:18.239 around it, right, there's some monopoly type situations. Really well, okay, 929 00:47:18.280 --> 00:47:23.400 I've got to do that anyway. Don't do business with 930 00:47:23.559 --> 00:47:27.840 Johnstown Breeze, just just don't. The only way you can 931 00:47:28.119 --> 00:47:31.599 prevent them from spreading that kind of nonsense and idiocy 932 00:47:32.440 --> 00:47:34.360 is to not give them any money to do it 933 00:47:35.679 --> 00:47:38.360 and just stop it. Oh, I have bad news. I 934 00:47:38.440 --> 00:47:40.000 want to get this story in before the break because 935 00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:43.639 I don't want to talk about it very long. It 936 00:47:43.800 --> 00:47:48.000 wasn't that long ago that the long time abortionist in 937 00:47:48.119 --> 00:47:53.719 Boulder died at the age of eighty seven after taking 938 00:47:53.760 --> 00:47:56.639 the lives of some I don't know, forty thousand babies. 939 00:47:58.280 --> 00:47:59.320 And the clinics shut down. 940 00:47:59.360 --> 00:48:01.440 And it was one of the clinics that allowed women, 941 00:48:02.559 --> 00:48:05.519 up until the moment they were, you know, ready to deliver, 942 00:48:06.159 --> 00:48:07.920 to come in and ask for an abortion and get 943 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:08.880 it for no reason. 944 00:48:09.880 --> 00:48:10.599 In interviews, the. 945 00:48:10.599 --> 00:48:13.079 Doctor was forced to admit that, yes, they did do 946 00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:15.599 a lot of late term abortions for women that found 947 00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:18.639 out that their baby had some kind of fatal situation 948 00:48:18.880 --> 00:48:20.880 that was only going to lead to suffering if they 949 00:48:20.920 --> 00:48:23.039 were born, and they decided that that was more humane 950 00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:25.159 than allowing a baby to be born that was going 951 00:48:25.239 --> 00:48:27.920 to die for sure. I get it, hard, horrible choice. 952 00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:30.159 I don't think i'd make it. But that's on them, 953 00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:32.760 and that's their path they have to walk. But he 954 00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:35.239 was forced to admit the like half of his patients 955 00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:37.119 were just women who went through that long of a 956 00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:39.400 pregnancy and then decided they didn't want to be pregnant. 957 00:48:41.559 --> 00:48:45.400 I find this incredibly I can't even imagine what it 958 00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:48.239 must be like to do that job and still go 959 00:48:48.400 --> 00:48:51.159 home and look at yourself in the mirror and not 960 00:48:51.239 --> 00:48:52.119 feel like a monster. 961 00:48:53.719 --> 00:48:55.079 I mean, I could kind of understand it. 962 00:48:55.119 --> 00:48:57.719 If you're helping women there finding out their babies have 963 00:48:57.840 --> 00:49:00.360 some kind of horrible fetal anomaly that's going to make 964 00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:02.639 them suffer when they're like, I get, I kind of 965 00:49:02.920 --> 00:49:08.960 could maybe understand that the guy's a baby is thirty 966 00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:14.480 four weeks. Thirty four weeks. That is a fully formed baby. 967 00:49:14.599 --> 00:49:16.880 They may have lungs that aren't fully formed, that need 968 00:49:16.920 --> 00:49:18.480 a little help, maybe they need to be in the 969 00:49:18.519 --> 00:49:19.400 nikey for a little while, but. 970 00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:21.719 That is a fully formed human being. 971 00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:27.719 All those fingers, all the toes, everything is there, and 972 00:49:27.800 --> 00:49:30.480 they're injecting it with poison and cutting it into pieces 973 00:49:31.719 --> 00:49:36.119 and removing those pieces. Those little hands, those little feet, 974 00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:40.800 those little chunky legs. I don't understand. There are things. 975 00:49:41.280 --> 00:49:43.679 There are jobs that suck in this world, right There 976 00:49:43.719 --> 00:49:46.960 are jobs that I just think to myself, I wonder 977 00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:49.320 what kind of person actually enjoys that job. I'm sure 978 00:49:49.320 --> 00:49:51.559 there's a lot of people who do that job, but 979 00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:54.559 I think there's people like who enjoys being an IRS 980 00:49:54.639 --> 00:49:57.559 auditor who signs up for that. Hey, I want to 981 00:49:57.599 --> 00:49:59.159 be the guy who works for the taxman to go 982 00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:02.000 after people, to try I find where they cheated. Maybe 983 00:50:02.039 --> 00:50:04.800 your sense of righteousness can gird you through that process. 984 00:50:05.960 --> 00:50:08.280 But this is a job. I don't understand how you 985 00:50:08.360 --> 00:50:12.039 can do it. I really don't. I just I don't understand. 986 00:50:13.480 --> 00:50:17.320 And now it's back up and running the new Colorado 987 00:50:17.360 --> 00:50:20.039 abortion business. I guess it's an improvement. I should correct myself. 988 00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:23.480 They're only gonna kill babies up to thirty four weeks 989 00:50:23.559 --> 00:50:26.679 for any reason. Yeah, you just have to suffer through 990 00:50:26.679 --> 00:50:28.639 the last six weeks. If you can't decide before that 991 00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:33.360 that you don't want the little human being that you have, 992 00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:39.960 it's just gross. It's just gross, really really really gross. 993 00:50:41.199 --> 00:50:43.719 From the Common Spirit Health text line, you can text 994 00:50:43.880 --> 00:50:46.400 us at five six six nine zero. Mandy, can you 995 00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:49.320 say the names again you recommended for the jeff Co 996 00:50:49.719 --> 00:50:50.360 school Board? 997 00:50:50.519 --> 00:50:51.639 I absolutely can. 998 00:50:52.840 --> 00:50:58.360 That would be Gascon, Terry Gascon, Samuel Myron, and Denen 999 00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:02.239 at Shaveria. Nina Cheveria is also endorsed by the Democrats. 1000 00:51:03.079 --> 00:51:09.840 But she's the best thing going in that race, So yeah, yeah, Mandy. 1001 00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:12.840 I also drop Penzi's, which I love. Savory Spice is 1002 00:51:12.840 --> 00:51:17.119 an excellent alternative. I am now I dedicated Savory spice shopper. 1003 00:51:17.960 --> 00:51:20.360 They really do have the most amazing cinnamon. If you're 1004 00:51:20.360 --> 00:51:23.599 going into your holiday baking let me give you two suggestions, 1005 00:51:23.679 --> 00:51:27.920 and these are splurges. Okay, go get some of the 1006 00:51:28.039 --> 00:51:32.880 Indonesian cinnamon that they have at Savory Spice. It is Oh, 1007 00:51:34.199 --> 00:51:35.440 it is like a chef's kiss. 1008 00:51:35.559 --> 00:51:36.679 It is so good. 1009 00:51:38.079 --> 00:51:39.159 And then go ahead. 1010 00:51:39.199 --> 00:51:43.039 It's Indonesia. Oh no, is it Vietnamese? I think it 1011 00:51:43.159 --> 00:51:44.320 might be. I think they have both. 1012 00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:46.239 Go get some fancy. 1013 00:51:46.039 --> 00:51:48.840 Cinnamon, and then if you email me, I'll send you the. 1014 00:51:49.239 --> 00:51:51.760 Cocoa that I order. You have to special order it. 1015 00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:57.000 It is gobsmackingly expensive, so expensive, I'm not gonna lie's 1016 00:51:57.039 --> 00:52:00.000 like thirty nine dollars for two pounds, but for holiday 1017 00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:06.719 it will change your life. Mandy the Lineman Leader is 1018 00:52:06.760 --> 00:52:08.760 every bit is bad. We've had a local paper for 1019 00:52:08.800 --> 00:52:10.840 close to one hundred years, and now the current owners 1020 00:52:11.199 --> 00:52:14.199 taking it upon themselves to be political. Needless to say, 1021 00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:17.440 they're going out of business first of the year, Mandy 1022 00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:21.000 whipping Mexicans. What if I'm white and that's my thing? 1023 00:52:21.199 --> 00:52:26.239 What time then? Lol? Mandy. We canceled our subscription a 1024 00:52:26.280 --> 00:52:31.760 while back because of the obvious bias. Yep, yep, Mandy. 1025 00:52:31.880 --> 00:52:35.280 All of these so called legitimate reasons for abortion, why 1026 00:52:35.360 --> 00:52:36.639 it must always be allowed? 1027 00:52:36.719 --> 00:52:37.639 Almost never apply. 1028 00:52:38.199 --> 00:52:43.880 It is done for convenience, you guys. I personally know 1029 00:52:44.039 --> 00:52:48.280 someone who, at like the four month mark, found out 1030 00:52:48.519 --> 00:52:52.960 that her child had a significant defect that would lead 1031 00:52:53.079 --> 00:52:55.519 to a tremendous amount of suffering, and she chose to 1032 00:52:55.599 --> 00:53:01.800 terminate the pregnancy. And she was absolutely gut wrenchingly heartbroken 1033 00:53:01.880 --> 00:53:05.840 about the entire thing destroyed. I don't know if I 1034 00:53:06.119 --> 00:53:08.280 if I, if I would, I don't know. I cannot 1035 00:53:08.280 --> 00:53:11.159 put myself in that person's shoes because I've never had 1036 00:53:11.199 --> 00:53:14.159 to make that decision. I probably A'm just gonna say 1037 00:53:14.199 --> 00:53:17.119 it would ride the whole thing out and let God 1038 00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:20.400 decide when it was over. Mandy, what CEO did you 1039 00:53:20.480 --> 00:53:23.880 say hated Republicans just because they were Republicans. That would 1040 00:53:23.880 --> 00:53:28.519 be Bill Penzie of Penzi's Spices. You can google Bill 1041 00:53:28.599 --> 00:53:31.400 Penzy Republicans and you will see it all. He is 1042 00:53:31.519 --> 00:53:35.519 the nastiest bit of work, the nastiest bit of work. 1043 00:53:36.119 --> 00:53:38.519 And I will never darken the doorsteps of any of 1044 00:53:38.599 --> 00:53:42.119 his stores ever again, because if he doesn't like me, 1045 00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:45.000 then he certainly won't like my money. Mandy, trying to 1046 00:53:45.039 --> 00:53:47.639 find the info on the Emerald River Cruise, Please advise 1047 00:53:47.719 --> 00:53:50.639 one more time where to find it. Thank you always, 1048 00:53:50.800 --> 00:53:54.760 mandyconnelltrip dot com. Did you hear we're going to Europe? 1049 00:53:54.800 --> 00:53:56.599 Did you hear next October? 1050 00:53:56.880 --> 00:53:58.280 Where are you going to Europe? 1051 00:53:58.440 --> 00:54:00.880 We're gonna fly into Switzerland before we hop on the 1052 00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:04.679 Emerald Dawn to sail on the Rhine River through Germany, 1053 00:54:04.800 --> 00:54:07.480 stopping in some parts of France as we end up 1054 00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:10.519 in Amsterdam. It's the Mandy Connell Adventure. It's already over 1055 00:54:10.559 --> 00:54:12.360 half sold. If you want to go, you better go today. 1056 00:54:12.639 --> 00:54:18.239 Mandyconnell Trip dot com. Mandy, what a ridiculous publisher as 1057 00:54:18.320 --> 00:54:21.719 there is a decent Hispanic population in Johnstown, Talking of course, 1058 00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:26.480 about the hateful editor of the Johnstown Breeze. It responded 1059 00:54:26.519 --> 00:54:29.719 to a announcement about a gop ho down with when 1060 00:54:30.199 --> 00:54:31.400 are the Mexican whippings? 1061 00:54:32.159 --> 00:54:36.480 And something else? Mandy, Fyi, I vote for most. 1062 00:54:36.400 --> 00:54:39.639 Mill levies for schools, but why isn't taxing people without 1063 00:54:39.719 --> 00:54:42.960 kids to pay for school? Socialism? It one hundred percent? 1064 00:54:43.199 --> 00:54:44.280 Is it is. 1065 00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:46.280 There's no two ways about it. 1066 00:54:46.360 --> 00:54:50.119 But many many, many many moons ago, we decided as 1067 00:54:50.199 --> 00:54:54.800 a society that an educated population is a necessity to 1068 00:54:54.960 --> 00:54:58.199 make our economic fortunes rise. 1069 00:54:59.400 --> 00:55:06.480 That is that is what we decided, So yes we are. 1070 00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:10.840 Mandy Penzi's is based in Wisconsin. That sucks because I 1071 00:55:10.920 --> 00:55:14.679 love Wisconsin. Bill Penzy puts anti Republican rhetoric on the 1072 00:55:14.800 --> 00:55:16.320 packaging of his products. 1073 00:55:16.760 --> 00:55:20.719 That's how horrible he is. Yes, indeed, and if. 1074 00:55:20.559 --> 00:55:22.800 Anybody knows the owners of Savory Spice, let them know. 1075 00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:25.559 I've been dying to do commercials for them for so 1076 00:55:26.719 --> 00:55:33.360 so many years, so so many years. Here's a text 1077 00:55:33.480 --> 00:55:37.119 responding to the conversation we had about the late term 1078 00:55:37.119 --> 00:55:41.320 abortion clinic that's reopening in Boulder. It says, my wife 1079 00:55:41.360 --> 00:55:43.400 and I made the same decision as your friend and 1080 00:55:43.519 --> 00:55:46.719 aborting our baby as being unviable. 1081 00:55:46.199 --> 00:55:49.480 And a threat to her health. Worst day of our life. 1082 00:55:49.920 --> 00:55:53.119 Best decision for my wife's physical health, although it took 1083 00:55:53.119 --> 00:55:55.679 a toll on her mental health. I try not to 1084 00:55:55.719 --> 00:55:57.440 let her know. I think about this with tears in 1085 00:55:57.480 --> 00:55:59.960 my eyes several times a week. Even fourteen years later, 1086 00:56:00.239 --> 00:56:02.760 I have tears right now. I hope our child and 1087 00:56:02.840 --> 00:56:05.880 God can forgive our decision. I told my dad I 1088 00:56:06.000 --> 00:56:09.440 feel like a murderer. And you know, textor I appreciate 1089 00:56:09.519 --> 00:56:13.320 you sending that in because it's very easy to demonize 1090 00:56:14.719 --> 00:56:18.800 women who have abortions and demonize people who decide to 1091 00:56:19.119 --> 00:56:23.000 make that choice. But it's there are people that make 1092 00:56:23.079 --> 00:56:26.519 that choice, and like this gentleman, have to live with it. 1093 00:56:28.199 --> 00:56:30.639 And that's the penance, right, that's the penance for doing 1094 00:56:30.719 --> 00:56:32.519 what you thought was the right thing to save your wife. 1095 00:56:32.519 --> 00:56:33.800 And my heart goes out to you. 1096 00:56:34.559 --> 00:56:37.480 Like I said, I can't even imagine being in that situation. 1097 00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:42.079 I count my blessings and I've talked about this before. 1098 00:56:42.079 --> 00:56:44.679 I'm a big believer in gratitude. I think that no 1099 00:56:44.800 --> 00:56:47.360 matter what your situation in life is. I've always said 1100 00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:49.880 this about myself. When someone asked me, like, what's a 1101 00:56:49.920 --> 00:56:51.719 good quality You're not a job interview, what do you 1102 00:56:51.760 --> 00:56:54.239 think you have a good quality about yourself? I always 1103 00:56:54.280 --> 00:56:57.880 say I am situationally happy. And what I mean by 1104 00:56:57.960 --> 00:57:00.960 that is, whatever the situation is, for the most part, 1105 00:57:01.960 --> 00:57:04.159 I'm gonna find some reason to be happy. I'm gonna 1106 00:57:04.159 --> 00:57:07.960 find some reason to find satisfaction in whatever is going on. 1107 00:57:08.519 --> 00:57:08.679 Now. 1108 00:57:08.760 --> 00:57:12.079 Sometimes it's kind of hard. Sometimes stuff just sucks right, 1109 00:57:12.199 --> 00:57:15.679 and you really can't do that. But now I realize 1110 00:57:15.719 --> 00:57:19.000 that's just gratitude in action. And one of the things 1111 00:57:19.039 --> 00:57:22.519 I'm grateful to grateful about is that I never had 1112 00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:25.400 to make these hard choices and never had that situation. 1113 00:57:25.559 --> 00:57:29.199 My daughter had a dramatic birth, but that was it. 1114 00:57:29.480 --> 00:57:31.199 No text or I did not say I moved the 1115 00:57:31.199 --> 00:57:34.440 blog to Mandy connalltrip dot com. But you can try 1116 00:57:34.480 --> 00:57:36.599 and find the blog at Mandy connalltrip dot com and 1117 00:57:36.679 --> 00:57:38.039 you may end up going to Europe with us. You 1118 00:57:38.079 --> 00:57:40.960 don't know, you don't know, you have no idea. Could 1119 00:57:41.000 --> 00:57:44.719 have happened, could absolutely happen. I want to play oopscrap, 1120 00:57:44.880 --> 00:57:46.760 got the wrong blog open. I was looking for something 1121 00:57:46.800 --> 00:57:51.039 for someone. I want to play a quick Oh, I 1122 00:57:51.079 --> 00:57:54.239 don't know if I can. Let's play that guy's video 1123 00:57:54.440 --> 00:57:56.119 A Rod. So I said this ad and I said, 1124 00:57:56.159 --> 00:57:58.440 A Rod, I need you to beep out a couple 1125 00:57:58.519 --> 00:58:00.920 words for me. And I saw this yesterday and now, Ayrod, 1126 00:58:00.960 --> 00:58:01.760 you've watched the video. 1127 00:58:01.800 --> 00:58:04.960 Do you think this guy is real or do you 1128 00:58:05.039 --> 00:58:09.400 think he's somebody putting on a video? I mean, do 1129 00:58:09.480 --> 00:58:11.920 you think that I kind of think he's real. I 1130 00:58:12.000 --> 00:58:14.719 don't know that I think he's real because it's so outrageous. 1131 00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:17.920 So this guy is on TikTok talking about his food 1132 00:58:17.960 --> 00:58:20.360 stamps being cut and initially you're like, Wow, that's Tara. 1133 00:58:20.880 --> 00:58:25.039 Listen to this clip of this guy, and just I'm 1134 00:58:25.039 --> 00:58:26.519 gonna see if it strikes you the same way it 1135 00:58:26.559 --> 00:58:26.920 struck me. 1136 00:58:26.960 --> 00:58:29.639 Go ahead, Hey, Roud Trump has cut my food stamps 1137 00:58:29.679 --> 00:58:33.199 from twenty eight hundred dollars down to three hundred and 1138 00:58:33.400 --> 00:58:34.440 fifty dollars. 1139 00:58:35.599 --> 00:58:38.199 Now what am I supposed to do? Huh? 1140 00:58:38.400 --> 00:58:40.559 So I literally just got this piece of mail today 1141 00:58:41.119 --> 00:58:45.320 saying that due to new policy changes from the Trump administration, 1142 00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:51.639 all this all this whatever that, all these cuts and 1143 00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:56.960 whatever he's doing over there. Now now they're telling me 1144 00:58:57.000 --> 00:58:57.840 I have to go work. 1145 00:58:57.920 --> 00:58:58.960 Now I have to go do all this. 1146 00:58:59.199 --> 00:59:05.000 Well, I literally got five kids, Okay, I'm trying to 1147 00:59:05.159 --> 00:59:06.840 sit here and spend time with them. 1148 00:59:07.400 --> 00:59:10.440 I'm not trying to go work, you know, fifty sixty 1149 00:59:10.519 --> 00:59:10.840 hours a. 1150 00:59:10.840 --> 00:59:15.800 Week so I can pay bills. I'm I just really 1151 00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:16.400 don't understand. 1152 00:59:16.440 --> 00:59:16.559 You know. 1153 00:59:16.679 --> 00:59:20.400 I've voted for him this last election because I thought, well, 1154 00:59:20.440 --> 00:59:22.199 he had good was going on. But now all of 1155 00:59:22.239 --> 00:59:26.119 a sudden, all this policy stuff's coming out, and now 1156 00:59:26.159 --> 00:59:29.199 he's making all these cuts and now now he doesn't 1157 00:59:29.199 --> 00:59:33.559 want to help the less fortunate people no more. I'm 1158 00:59:33.920 --> 00:59:35.400 done with that guy. I'm doing with that guy. 1159 00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:35.719 I'm not. 1160 00:59:38.760 --> 00:59:42.320 If literally, if he gets voted in again, I'm leaving 1161 00:59:42.360 --> 00:59:45.920 this country because I'm not dealing with this no more. 1162 00:59:48.760 --> 00:59:50.559 This is all. This is all. 1163 00:59:52.159 --> 00:59:52.280 Now. 1164 00:59:52.400 --> 00:59:54.039 I gotta tell you, guys. 1165 00:59:54.079 --> 01:00:00.159 I mean, I can't imagine that this guy thought and 1166 01:00:00.920 --> 01:00:02.960 the part of me that's saying this can't be real 1167 01:00:03.079 --> 01:00:05.079 is also going But Mandy can. 1168 01:00:05.480 --> 01:00:06.719 It absolutely can. 1169 01:00:09.800 --> 01:00:12.320 When he said, I got five kids, it's not like 1170 01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:14.400 I want to go to be going to work to 1171 01:00:14.559 --> 01:00:17.199 pay bills? Oh ay, Rod, how much do you love 1172 01:00:17.239 --> 01:00:19.280 getting up every day to go work and pay bills? 1173 01:00:20.239 --> 01:00:20.280 What? 1174 01:00:20.920 --> 01:00:21.079 Yeah? 1175 01:00:21.159 --> 01:00:21.199 Do? 1176 01:00:21.280 --> 01:00:23.039 How much you love it? Do you love getting up 1177 01:00:23.039 --> 01:00:24.920 every single day to go to work to pay bills? 1178 01:00:25.079 --> 01:00:25.239 Heay? 1179 01:00:25.360 --> 01:00:25.599 Work? 1180 01:00:25.960 --> 01:00:26.159 Yeah? 1181 01:00:26.559 --> 01:00:28.199 This guy doesn't want to be bothered. 1182 01:00:30.599 --> 01:00:31.360 So it's. 1183 01:00:32.760 --> 01:00:34.039 Are you looking for sympathy there? 1184 01:00:35.119 --> 01:00:35.760 I just I don't know. 1185 01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:37.199 I don't know if he's telling the truth, but I 1186 01:00:37.280 --> 01:00:41.840 do know that Senator Amy Klobashar, he of the Nasty reputation, 1187 01:00:43.480 --> 01:00:48.159 decided to make a point about the Democratics shut down 1188 01:00:48.159 --> 01:00:52.039 on the government over subsidies for people who get their 1189 01:00:52.079 --> 01:00:56.280 Obamacare premiums paid for them. That's why they've shut down 1190 01:00:56.280 --> 01:00:58.239 the government and so they can give health care to 1191 01:00:58.280 --> 01:01:03.119 illegal immigrants. This is the example that Senator Amy clovishar 1192 01:01:03.519 --> 01:01:07.599 shares on x dot com. Now see if you are 1193 01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:12.960 swayed or it all moved by this? She writes about 1194 01:01:12.960 --> 01:01:17.920 a news story. Early retirees like Bill and Shelley will 1195 01:01:17.960 --> 01:01:22.320 see their health insurance premiums increase nearly three hundred percent 1196 01:01:22.679 --> 01:01:26.320 from four hundred and forty two to seventeen hundred dollars 1197 01:01:26.400 --> 01:01:31.079 per month if Congressional Republicans refuse to extend the enhanced 1198 01:01:31.159 --> 01:01:34.840 tax credits. That's an extra fifteen k a year of 1199 01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:39.360 families can't afford. How about this, Bill and Shelley, take 1200 01:01:39.400 --> 01:01:42.800 your happy asses back to work. Why don't we start 1201 01:01:42.840 --> 01:01:49.320 with that. She's really showing me early retirees, and I 1202 01:01:49.760 --> 01:01:52.679 am supposed to be out here in the workforce paying 1203 01:01:52.760 --> 01:01:55.800 taxes to the federal government. So they can turn around 1204 01:01:56.239 --> 01:01:59.639 and Bill and Shelley can go to the beach again 1205 01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:03.360 in their early retired years because I'm freaking paying for 1206 01:02:03.440 --> 01:02:09.719 their healthcare. They think this is a moving example. This 1207 01:02:09.920 --> 01:02:11.599 is gonna move the needle all of a sudden, people 1208 01:02:11.639 --> 01:02:13.920 do well, God, we can't let Bill and Shelley down. 1209 01:02:14.800 --> 01:02:16.119 Holy cow, let me. 1210 01:02:16.119 --> 01:02:18.400 Get a second job so they don't have to go 1211 01:02:18.480 --> 01:02:19.079 back to work. 1212 01:02:19.960 --> 01:02:24.000 James, Louise, Bill and Shelley, They're gonna be it hard. 1213 01:02:24.840 --> 01:02:25.519 Don't get me wrong. 1214 01:02:25.559 --> 01:02:28.840 I begrudge you no one in early retirement. I wish 1215 01:02:28.920 --> 01:02:32.559 we could all retire early. But I also don't want 1216 01:02:32.599 --> 01:02:35.159 to pay for someone else's early retirement. If you can't 1217 01:02:35.159 --> 01:02:37.519 afford the full freight of your health care costs, you 1218 01:02:37.760 --> 01:02:40.679 can't afford to retire. How about that, Bill and Shelley. 1219 01:02:41.719 --> 01:02:43.599 How about that dude who doesn't want to go get 1220 01:02:43.599 --> 01:02:45.400 a job and work fifty to sixty hours a week. 1221 01:02:45.519 --> 01:02:51.559 How about that? Let's start with that anyway, Mandy, this 1222 01:02:51.760 --> 01:02:53.760 man sounds like he needs to get with the program. 1223 01:02:54.199 --> 01:02:55.920 I wish I could stay on with my two kids. 1224 01:02:55.960 --> 01:02:57.760 I work sixty to seventy hours a week to keep 1225 01:02:57.800 --> 01:03:00.159 food on the table. What a geek that boy? As 1226 01:03:00.199 --> 01:03:05.800 he needs to snippet or practice abstinence. Agreed to the 1227 01:03:05.840 --> 01:03:08.039 textures that are you trying to raise my blood pressure? 1228 01:03:08.079 --> 01:03:11.440 I am not, and I'm sorry. Also, this is the 1229 01:03:11.519 --> 01:03:14.760 other kicker text her you caught it too. Also, if 1230 01:03:14.800 --> 01:03:18.079 he can't pay bills, how does he leave the USA? 1231 01:03:18.960 --> 01:03:19.639 Exactly? 1232 01:03:20.079 --> 01:03:24.440 Mandy slightly off topic speaking about Johnstown reminded me of 1233 01:03:24.599 --> 01:03:27.519 what a family friend told me. Doctor Jeff of the 1234 01:03:27.639 --> 01:03:30.760 TV show has a clinic and conifer. In the employee 1235 01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:33.639 only areas, he wears a shirt that reads F Trump. 1236 01:03:34.760 --> 01:03:37.920 He harasses his employees in a political manner. She resigned 1237 01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:42.559 because of his behavior. You know, here's the thing, Like 1238 01:03:42.679 --> 01:03:46.239 I said, I if you keep it to yourself and 1239 01:03:46.360 --> 01:03:47.800 I don't work for you, I don't care. 1240 01:03:49.000 --> 01:03:51.199 But as soon as you make it publicly known. 1241 01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:52.000 Because here's the. 1242 01:03:52.039 --> 01:03:54.440 Thing, he thinks that's okay. 1243 01:03:55.880 --> 01:03:58.519 To walk around like this. This Jefferson County Public School 1244 01:03:58.519 --> 01:04:00.920 board member thinks it's okay to tell the parents of 1245 01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:03.960 children who were running away from a shooting at Evergreen 1246 01:04:04.000 --> 01:04:07.079 High School that they just have privilege for expecting their 1247 01:04:07.159 --> 01:04:10.360 kids to be safe at school. This is how they 1248 01:04:10.440 --> 01:04:13.880 think all the time. If that's what they say in public, 1249 01:04:14.360 --> 01:04:17.400 what are they saying in private? We've really seen over 1250 01:04:17.440 --> 01:04:20.159 the last month or so, especially since Charlie Kirk's murder. 1251 01:04:20.440 --> 01:04:25.760 Exactly how uh well, exactly what many on the left 1252 01:04:25.800 --> 01:04:26.679 think of people on the right. 1253 01:04:27.719 --> 01:04:30.639 That they would be fine with us dying, they'd be 1254 01:04:30.719 --> 01:04:32.599 fine with somebody assassinating President Trump. 1255 01:04:33.719 --> 01:04:35.519 They'd be fine with you know, people on the right 1256 01:04:35.559 --> 01:04:37.480 being murdered. I guess. I mean, it's like a thing now, 1257 01:04:38.079 --> 01:04:39.440 but they're very casual about it. 1258 01:04:39.599 --> 01:04:43.719 It's not nobody's whispering, you know, nobody's like I have 1259 01:04:43.880 --> 01:04:45.639 these feelings that I know that they're. 1260 01:04:45.719 --> 01:04:50.760 Wrong and shameful. No, they're all in, let's do it. 1261 01:04:52.400 --> 01:04:54.639 So I'm at the point now where somebody shows me 1262 01:04:55.159 --> 01:04:57.199 who they are in a way that makes me feel unwelcome, 1263 01:04:57.280 --> 01:04:59.960 I will take them at their word. I will absolute 1264 01:05:00.519 --> 01:05:03.400 take them at their word and never visit their business again. 1265 01:05:04.679 --> 01:05:05.599 And here's the thing. 1266 01:05:05.639 --> 01:05:06.760 It's not even a boycott. 1267 01:05:06.800 --> 01:05:09.800 It's not like I'm specifically like, oh, I'm just not 1268 01:05:10.000 --> 01:05:12.199 giving my money to people who hate me. It's one 1269 01:05:12.199 --> 01:05:14.239 of the reasons that I have no desire to travel 1270 01:05:14.280 --> 01:05:18.119 in the Middle East outside of Israel. I cannot wait 1271 01:05:18.199 --> 01:05:20.880 to go back to Israel again. Cannot wait. But do 1272 01:05:21.000 --> 01:05:23.079 I want to go to Egypt or Saudi Arabia where 1273 01:05:23.400 --> 01:05:26.480 women are second class citizens. No, I'm not giving you 1274 01:05:26.559 --> 01:05:31.039 my money. No, Mandy, I told my kids since Sora 1275 01:05:31.159 --> 01:05:34.760 Too came out, you can literally not trust videos online exactly. 1276 01:05:36.320 --> 01:05:41.239 I agree. I absolutely agree that we are in a 1277 01:05:41.639 --> 01:05:44.880 very perilous situation where it is rapidly becoming darn near 1278 01:05:44.920 --> 01:05:51.800 impossible impossible to tell the difference. So be careful with 1279 01:05:51.920 --> 01:05:55.239 what you're consuming, be careful with what you are sharing. 1280 01:05:56.480 --> 01:06:00.639 Do not end up making yourself look silly something that 1281 01:06:00.719 --> 01:06:05.360 turns out to be AI. The easiest way to begin 1282 01:06:05.480 --> 01:06:08.079 the process of verifying if something is AI or not 1283 01:06:08.800 --> 01:06:12.679 is simply go to Google and put in the you know, 1284 01:06:12.840 --> 01:06:17.239 Google box, whatever is the video circulating of Donald Trump 1285 01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:21.280 flying an aircraft pooping on people in a protest reel 1286 01:06:21.480 --> 01:06:21.920 or AI. 1287 01:06:22.119 --> 01:06:25.320 Start with that. That should be your starting position. 1288 01:06:26.599 --> 01:06:28.639 And if you don't get a clear, clear, clear answer 1289 01:06:28.679 --> 01:06:30.840 one way or the other, just don't share it. Don't 1290 01:06:30.840 --> 01:06:33.119 get sucked in, don't make yourself look stupid. I have 1291 01:06:33.239 --> 01:06:35.280 a great column on the blog today and I want 1292 01:06:35.320 --> 01:06:36.800 to get into it on the other side of the break, 1293 01:06:37.519 --> 01:06:39.599 but it's kind of long, and it's by Seth Dylan. 1294 01:06:40.199 --> 01:06:44.360 He's the editor of The Babylon B, which the Babylon B. 1295 01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:47.280 If you don't know what the Babylon B is, you 1296 01:06:47.639 --> 01:06:51.599 are missing out. The Babylon B is a satire site 1297 01:06:52.159 --> 01:06:55.840 and it is so wildly funny. It is what the 1298 01:06:55.920 --> 01:06:58.800 Onion used to be before the Onion lost its sense 1299 01:06:58.840 --> 01:07:03.960 of humor and just started trying to score cheap political points. 1300 01:07:05.400 --> 01:07:08.400 And Seth Dylan has a column in the Free Press 1301 01:07:08.480 --> 01:07:10.400 and it is paywalden. I'm sorry about that. There was 1302 01:07:10.400 --> 01:07:12.559 no way for me to get around the paywall, but 1303 01:07:12.840 --> 01:07:14.119 I am going to share part of it with you 1304 01:07:14.239 --> 01:07:18.719 because it is specifically about the notion that there should 1305 01:07:18.760 --> 01:07:21.719 be no enemies on the right. As a matter of fact, 1306 01:07:21.800 --> 01:07:24.360 the title of the column is the foolishness of no 1307 01:07:24.639 --> 01:07:27.559 Enemies to the Right, and it's about whether or not 1308 01:07:27.800 --> 01:07:31.400 Republicans need to be the ones standing up against the 1309 01:07:31.519 --> 01:07:35.039 fringe elements of the right who are now trying to 1310 01:07:35.159 --> 01:07:38.639 become mainstream in the party. And I got to tell you, guys, 1311 01:07:38.719 --> 01:07:41.000 I have never seen a more correct sentiment in my 1312 01:07:41.239 --> 01:07:46.599 entire life. It makes a great straight line between the 1313 01:07:46.719 --> 01:07:51.320 Democrats refusing to stand up to the fringiest parts of 1314 01:07:51.360 --> 01:07:53.400 their party to where they are now, where they have 1315 01:07:53.440 --> 01:07:59.800 been completely taken over by the fringiest parts of the party. So, yeah, 1316 01:08:00.039 --> 01:08:02.960 it's a fantastic column. We'll get into it next in 1317 01:08:03.079 --> 01:08:06.639 the next hour. We have uh oh, we have at 1318 01:08:06.679 --> 01:08:09.360 two thirty. You're gonna want to stick around for this. 1319 01:08:09.440 --> 01:08:12.199 If you need if you're shopping the market for health insurance, 1320 01:08:12.360 --> 01:08:14.760 if you're a small business trying to figure out how 1321 01:08:14.840 --> 01:08:18.760 to provide your employees some kind of healthcare without breaking 1322 01:08:18.800 --> 01:08:20.439 the bank, you're going to want to hear my interview 1323 01:08:20.439 --> 01:08:23.159 at two thirty because not only are we talking direct 1324 01:08:23.159 --> 01:08:27.520 primary care, we're also talking direct medical specialty care. What 1325 01:08:27.680 --> 01:08:31.079 is that, Oh, you need a knee replacement. You want 1326 01:08:31.119 --> 01:08:33.560 to pay cash. Here's how much it's gonna cost right 1327 01:08:33.600 --> 01:08:34.239 on the website. 1328 01:08:34.279 --> 01:08:36.640 It's so cool. We'll be right back with all that. 1329 01:08:37.560 --> 01:08:40.199 The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock 1330 01:08:40.279 --> 01:08:41.720 Accident and Injury Lawyers. 1331 01:08:42.399 --> 01:08:45.079 No, it's Mandy Connell. 1332 01:08:47.920 --> 01:08:49.119 On KLA. 1333 01:08:50.399 --> 01:08:54.680 Ninem God want. 1334 01:08:54.479 --> 01:09:00.159 To stay the Niceye. 1335 01:09:01.920 --> 01:09:02.560 Sad bab. 1336 01:09:03.640 --> 01:09:04.960 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to. 1337 01:09:05.319 --> 01:09:06.760 The third hour of the show. 1338 01:09:06.800 --> 01:09:09.159 I'm your host for the next one hour, Mandy Connell, 1339 01:09:09.239 --> 01:09:14.600 joined by Anthony Rodrigue. Today we will be taking you 1340 01:09:14.720 --> 01:09:16.800 right up until three pm when ka Wa Sports will 1341 01:09:17.000 --> 01:09:19.199 take over. Now, coming up a little bit later, we're 1342 01:09:19.239 --> 01:09:22.439 going to have a conversation about what injecting free market 1343 01:09:22.520 --> 01:09:25.600 principles into the delivery of healthcare really looks like and 1344 01:09:25.680 --> 01:09:29.119 if you're in the market for healthcare health insurance. This 1345 01:09:29.279 --> 01:09:33.199 is not health insurance. It is healthcare. We'll explain it 1346 01:09:33.279 --> 01:09:35.359 to thirty in the meantime, though, I want to share 1347 01:09:35.479 --> 01:09:40.239 some of this column by Seth Dylan at the Babylon 1348 01:09:40.319 --> 01:09:44.319 B because it is it is. Hang on one second, 1349 01:09:44.319 --> 01:09:47.399 I forgot to log in on this thing. This is paywald, 1350 01:09:47.479 --> 01:09:49.840 and I apologize for that, but I couldn't get around it, 1351 01:09:50.640 --> 01:09:52.680 and it is what it is. So I grabbed a 1352 01:09:52.720 --> 01:09:54.640 snippet of it that you should already subscribe to the 1353 01:09:54.680 --> 01:09:59.840 Free Press anyway, just throwing that out there. It's really good. 1354 01:10:01.880 --> 01:10:07.000 There we go, this is inconvenient. Oh fantast Oh there 1355 01:10:07.039 --> 01:10:10.199 we go. Okay, it just popped up. But Seth Dylan 1356 01:10:10.319 --> 01:10:13.920 is the editor of the Babylon B and the Babylon 1357 01:10:14.000 --> 01:10:17.960 B does satire better than anybody else's doing satire right now, 1358 01:10:19.039 --> 01:10:21.960 and he wrote a column that I got to tell you, 1359 01:10:22.159 --> 01:10:27.159 I completely agree with, completely agree with. As much as 1360 01:10:27.159 --> 01:10:30.600 I want to see unity in the Republican Party on 1361 01:10:30.680 --> 01:10:33.520 the right whatever, there are things happening in the Republican 1362 01:10:33.600 --> 01:10:36.119 Party that need to be called out. And a perfect 1363 01:10:36.199 --> 01:10:39.279 example is the recent story about the Young Republicans in 1364 01:10:39.399 --> 01:10:42.359 New York State who had a chat thread full of 1365 01:10:42.560 --> 01:10:47.680 gallows and Nazi humor that was a little too over 1366 01:10:47.800 --> 01:10:51.000 the top for my taste, and immediately all of these 1367 01:10:51.079 --> 01:10:54.560 Republicans disabout it like, oh, that's absolutely terrible, we cannot 1368 01:10:54.600 --> 01:10:57.479 have that. They pulled the charter of the Young Republicans 1369 01:10:57.520 --> 01:11:00.439 Club in New York because of it. So I want 1370 01:11:00.479 --> 01:11:02.560 to share some of what Seth Dylan has to share. 1371 01:11:04.119 --> 01:11:06.840 Bad ideas are like cancer. If you don't deal with 1372 01:11:06.920 --> 01:11:10.520 them quickly and decisively, they spread. One way to deal 1373 01:11:10.600 --> 01:11:12.960 with bad ideas is to refute them, as C. S. 1374 01:11:13.039 --> 01:11:17.000 Lewis said, good philosophy must exist if for no other reason, 1375 01:11:17.399 --> 01:11:19.760 because bad philosophy needs to be answered. 1376 01:11:20.319 --> 01:11:22.039 Another is to satirize them. 1377 01:11:22.359 --> 01:11:25.880 Ridiculing bad ideas stops them from being taken seriously. This 1378 01:11:26.079 --> 01:11:28.600 is the mission of the Babylon b the conservative fake 1379 01:11:28.720 --> 01:11:32.159 news publication I've been gradually running into the ground since 1380 01:11:32.239 --> 01:11:36.279 twenty eighteen. We mock anyone and anything that deserves it, 1381 01:11:36.600 --> 01:11:40.439 not just because it's funny, because it's imperative. Bad ideas 1382 01:11:40.520 --> 01:11:44.600 taken seriously can have catastrophic consequences. I'm a conservative, and 1383 01:11:44.600 --> 01:11:46.600 it's fair to say that a lot of bad ideas 1384 01:11:46.680 --> 01:11:50.720 we make fun of at the Babylon b are progressive ones. Recently, however, 1385 01:11:51.239 --> 01:11:54.239 I've come under fire from fellow conservatives for pointing out 1386 01:11:54.279 --> 01:11:57.479 what should be obvious. They're bad ideas on the right too. 1387 01:11:58.520 --> 01:12:01.760 Never scrutinize your friend, as I'm told, focus on the enemy. 1388 01:12:02.119 --> 01:12:06.159 They're the ones promoting abortion on demand, gender transition for miners, 1389 01:12:06.439 --> 01:12:10.399 open borders, censorship, DEI, and a whole host of other 1390 01:12:10.520 --> 01:12:13.039 absurdities that no one from a couple of decades ago 1391 01:12:13.359 --> 01:12:17.439 would have believed could have ever become mainstream. I'm steadfastly 1392 01:12:17.479 --> 01:12:20.680 opposed to those ideas. I've spent years and millions of 1393 01:12:20.760 --> 01:12:23.279 dollars fighting them in both the courts and the culture. 1394 01:12:23.800 --> 01:12:26.720 But what if those aren't the only bad ideas? If 1395 01:12:26.800 --> 01:12:30.199 bad ideas spread like cancer, shouldn't we check for them everywhere. 1396 01:12:30.840 --> 01:12:34.479 I recently visited an imaging center for a diagnostic CT scan. 1397 01:12:34.880 --> 01:12:38.079 I'm glad the technician wasn't only interested in scanning the 1398 01:12:38.239 --> 01:12:39.359 left side of my body. 1399 01:12:40.039 --> 01:12:41.880 By insisting on no enemies to. 1400 01:12:41.960 --> 01:12:45.720 The right, the right is repeating the left's biggest mistake. 1401 01:12:46.319 --> 01:12:49.079 The phrase comes from the French Revolution, when the meeting 1402 01:12:49.239 --> 01:12:52.760 was pad denim a ghosh, no enemies to the left. 1403 01:12:53.359 --> 01:12:56.439 It was meant to establish strength through unity, but it 1404 01:12:56.560 --> 01:13:00.239 quickly turned into an excuse to avoid self scrutiny out 1405 01:13:00.279 --> 01:13:03.960 of confronting one's own radicals by insisting the only real 1406 01:13:04.079 --> 01:13:07.039 danger was on the other side. This is how the 1407 01:13:07.119 --> 01:13:10.239 American left has operated in recent years. Looking at all 1408 01:13:10.279 --> 01:13:13.600 the ground the Left is lost lately, it's clear it 1409 01:13:13.720 --> 01:13:16.880 was a huge mistake. Instead of taking on their own 1410 01:13:16.960 --> 01:13:21.000 radicals and self correcting, the left ignored uncomfortable questions and 1411 01:13:21.119 --> 01:13:25.119 let its most extreme factions set the agenda. The result 1412 01:13:25.239 --> 01:13:28.279 was a self defeating overreach, with policies pushed into the 1413 01:13:28.359 --> 01:13:33.399 mainstream that ordinary Americans couldn't stomach. And so despite all 1414 01:13:33.560 --> 01:13:36.800 the cultural power they acquired, the Left is now managing 1415 01:13:36.880 --> 01:13:41.920 a movement in decline. Ridiculous ideas like pregnant men and 1416 01:13:42.039 --> 01:13:45.960 drag shows for kids were almost impossible to satirize. I 1417 01:13:46.079 --> 01:13:47.920 often said the hardest part of our job at the 1418 01:13:47.960 --> 01:13:50.560 Babylon b was coming up with jokes that were more 1419 01:13:50.600 --> 01:13:53.199 absurd than whatever democrats were doing in real life. 1420 01:13:53.920 --> 01:13:56.119 This should serve as a warning to the right. 1421 01:13:57.079 --> 01:14:01.119 Ordinary people have their limits pushed too hard, and you 1422 01:14:01.279 --> 01:14:05.079 start losing people. My argument now is simply this, if 1423 01:14:05.119 --> 01:14:07.800 the right doesn't learn from the left's mistakes, we risk 1424 01:14:07.840 --> 01:14:08.960 suffering the same fate. 1425 01:14:09.520 --> 01:14:10.840 It may already be too late. 1426 01:14:11.399 --> 01:14:13.399 Bad ideas in those pushing them see them to be 1427 01:14:13.520 --> 01:14:17.119 multiple seem to be multiplying by the day. Nick Fuentes, 1428 01:14:17.239 --> 01:14:20.800 a man who glorifies Hitler, has grown his reach and 1429 01:14:20.880 --> 01:14:25.439 influenced dramatically in recent months, finding his way onto mainstream platforms. 1430 01:14:25.680 --> 01:14:28.640 According to Alex Jones, Fuentes is set to appear on 1431 01:14:28.800 --> 01:14:33.359 Tucker Carlston's podcast. Last week, Politico reported on leaked group 1432 01:14:33.520 --> 01:14:37.640 checks that showed young Republican members reveling in open racism, 1433 01:14:37.760 --> 01:14:40.279 anti Semitism, and violent fantasies. 1434 01:14:40.760 --> 01:14:43.319 The right, including JD Vance, have. 1435 01:14:43.520 --> 01:14:47.000 Dismissed the story, arguing that it pales in comparison to 1436 01:14:47.119 --> 01:14:48.920 what leftists have said and done. 1437 01:14:49.199 --> 01:14:51.680 In other words, our friends get a pass. 1438 01:14:52.479 --> 01:14:55.359 The Daily Wires, Mount Walsh has reportedly promised he will 1439 01:14:55.479 --> 01:14:59.880 unite with anyone on the right. Presumably this radically inclusive. 1440 01:15:00.079 --> 01:15:04.000 An inclusive offer extends even to the openly racist and 1441 01:15:04.159 --> 01:15:07.000 anti Semitic gropers who call for the death of his 1442 01:15:07.119 --> 01:15:10.960 own boss, Ben Shapiro. Whenever I criticize the bad ideas 1443 01:15:11.000 --> 01:15:17.319 on our side, anti Semitism, historically illiterate revisionism, baseless conspiracy theories, 1444 01:15:17.560 --> 01:15:21.520 authoritarian impulses. A mob forms to accuse me of treachery 1445 01:15:21.600 --> 01:15:25.479 and betrayal. I'm attacked for punching right, dividing the movement, 1446 01:15:25.760 --> 01:15:28.760 and hurting the cause. What the radical right is demanding 1447 01:15:28.800 --> 01:15:32.000 of conservatives like myself is that we unify with our 1448 01:15:32.079 --> 01:15:35.680 extremists to win. But in what sense are we winning? 1449 01:15:36.119 --> 01:15:38.880 If we're giving up our principles and tolerating evil in 1450 01:15:38.960 --> 01:15:40.600 our own ranks, How does. 1451 01:15:40.520 --> 01:15:41.560 That advance our cause? 1452 01:15:42.039 --> 01:15:42.560 How can it be? 1453 01:15:42.640 --> 01:15:45.119 Do you anything but hurt our cause? 1454 01:15:45.840 --> 01:15:49.079 If unity means refusing to confront evil within our ranks, 1455 01:15:49.359 --> 01:15:51.720 then I don't want it. I don't want to lock 1456 01:15:51.920 --> 01:15:56.039 arms with anyone who thinks bigotry, collectivism, or post constitutional 1457 01:15:56.119 --> 01:15:59.960 tyranny belongs under the banner of conservatism. The slogan knows 1458 01:16:00.119 --> 01:16:03.279 enemies to the right isn't a strategy for defeating the left, 1459 01:16:03.640 --> 01:16:07.319 it's suicide. And then it goes on from there. But 1460 01:16:07.439 --> 01:16:11.640 he's absolutely right. I want to close with this last part. 1461 01:16:12.479 --> 01:16:16.840 Every victory we've earned came through courage and conviction, not 1462 01:16:17.079 --> 01:16:21.239 cruelty or coercion. We're winning because we're right, and because 1463 01:16:21.239 --> 01:16:24.880 our constitutional republic makes it possible to course correct when 1464 01:16:24.960 --> 01:16:28.760 free people stand up and speak out. Conservatism has never 1465 01:16:28.840 --> 01:16:32.119 been about power or tribal victory. It's about conserving what's 1466 01:16:32.199 --> 01:16:35.159 good and true, regardless of what's trending or how much 1467 01:16:35.199 --> 01:16:38.880 it might cost us. The principles that make conservatism worth defending, 1468 01:16:39.399 --> 01:16:45.840 individual liberty, constitutional government, objective truth aren't impediments to victory. 1469 01:16:46.039 --> 01:16:47.439 They're its only foundation. 1470 01:16:48.159 --> 01:16:51.640 Abandoning our principles in pursuit of power is not a 1471 01:16:51.720 --> 01:16:55.840 winning strategy. It's confession that we never really believed in 1472 01:16:55.920 --> 01:16:57.000 them at all. 1473 01:16:57.600 --> 01:16:59.399 Can't tell you how much this spoke to me today. 1474 01:17:00.000 --> 01:17:01.319 A good column you just. 1475 01:17:01.359 --> 01:17:05.119 Read, but when you start thinking about politics instead of editorials. 1476 01:17:05.199 --> 01:17:07.199 We need the votes for radicals on the right to win, 1477 01:17:07.720 --> 01:17:09.680 just as Dems need to court the votes of leftist 1478 01:17:09.800 --> 01:17:12.159 radicals to win. And you have to win to hope 1479 01:17:12.199 --> 01:17:14.600 for any of your lofty ideals to be realized. There's 1480 01:17:14.640 --> 01:17:18.760 a difference between accepting someone's vote and elevating them within 1481 01:17:18.840 --> 01:17:22.560 the party. We're now seeing this in the Democratic Party, 1482 01:17:22.720 --> 01:17:24.439 and I love the fact that South Dylan kind of 1483 01:17:24.520 --> 01:17:27.520 uses them as the example. We now have a situation 1484 01:17:27.640 --> 01:17:30.239 in the Democratic Party where you have a guy running 1485 01:17:30.319 --> 01:17:34.239 for lieutenant or excuse me, attorney General in Virginia who texts, 1486 01:17:34.399 --> 01:17:37.680 not even just text messages, has conversations wishing for the 1487 01:17:37.840 --> 01:17:42.960 death of his colleague's children, and the Democratic Party cannot 1488 01:17:43.039 --> 01:17:48.479 bring itself to condemn such language. That's what happens when 1489 01:17:48.520 --> 01:17:51.039 you let them become elevated in the party. 1490 01:17:51.960 --> 01:17:53.239 There's a big difference there. 1491 01:17:54.479 --> 01:17:56.359 And I don't think there's anything wrong with saying, you 1492 01:17:56.439 --> 01:17:57.720 know what, I don't. 1493 01:17:57.520 --> 01:18:00.159 Really care if Nick fwent Tase is a part of 1494 01:18:00.239 --> 01:18:01.119 the party system. 1495 01:18:01.479 --> 01:18:01.640 Sure. 1496 01:18:01.680 --> 01:18:04.439 If he wants to vote Republican, great, If he wants 1497 01:18:04.439 --> 01:18:06.479 to vote for a white supremacist, great, do whatever he 1498 01:18:06.520 --> 01:18:10.000 wants to do. If you need the tiny fraction of 1499 01:18:10.079 --> 01:18:13.039 Americans who are true white supremacists to win an election, 1500 01:18:13.279 --> 01:18:16.039 we're in bad shape. And I would argue that you 1501 01:18:16.199 --> 01:18:20.560 drive more people who may be persuadable, those people who 1502 01:18:20.640 --> 01:18:23.640 feel lost right now, who have no political party, who 1503 01:18:23.680 --> 01:18:26.920 are truly centrist, who probably have some beliefs that lean 1504 01:18:27.000 --> 01:18:29.039 to the left, and probably have some that lean to 1505 01:18:29.119 --> 01:18:31.760 the right. Those people are persuadable when you let a 1506 01:18:31.800 --> 01:18:35.000 white supremacist have a seat at the table, and that 1507 01:18:35.159 --> 01:18:38.560 table is the main table. You now alienate a group 1508 01:18:38.600 --> 01:18:40.359 of persuadable people that could have been a part of 1509 01:18:40.399 --> 01:18:44.239 your coalition. So we have to make choices, and I 1510 01:18:44.279 --> 01:18:48.279 think Seth Dyllan is absolutely right a text or texted 1511 01:18:48.319 --> 01:18:50.199 in I could agree with you, but then we'd both 1512 01:18:50.239 --> 01:18:51.960 be wrong, which is the best way to say this. 1513 01:18:53.399 --> 01:18:55.199 But then they follow it up with Mandy, I'm all 1514 01:18:55.239 --> 01:18:57.960 for unity, except when I could agree with you, but 1515 01:18:58.039 --> 01:19:00.279 then we'd both be wrong. By the way, that's meme 1516 01:19:00.319 --> 01:19:03.239 I collected. I'd love to take credit to finish the thought. 1517 01:19:04.079 --> 01:19:07.079 A unity between Washington and Adams was a pipe dream, 1518 01:19:07.439 --> 01:19:09.800 but they were united in believing in the New Union. 1519 01:19:10.640 --> 01:19:13.640 But you can disagree with someone on policy issues, as 1520 01:19:13.840 --> 01:19:17.680 Washington and Adams did. But we're talking about people on 1521 01:19:17.800 --> 01:19:20.800 the right who are white supremacist, and we're talking about 1522 01:19:20.800 --> 01:19:24.319 people on the hard left that are anarchists. Do you 1523 01:19:24.359 --> 01:19:27.720 see the difference here. You're not talking about two people 1524 01:19:27.760 --> 01:19:31.039 who may generally speaking a line on the bigger issues 1525 01:19:31.199 --> 01:19:35.079 while disagreeing on the finer points. We're talking about people 1526 01:19:35.079 --> 01:19:39.039 who believe vile things. And I don't have any need 1527 01:19:39.199 --> 01:19:41.439 to be associated with them. One of the reasons that 1528 01:19:41.479 --> 01:19:43.640 I'm still a registered independent. I have not changed my 1529 01:19:43.720 --> 01:19:47.399 party affiliation back to Republican. I left the Republican Party 1530 01:19:47.399 --> 01:19:49.560 because I didn't want to be associated with the leadership 1531 01:19:49.800 --> 01:19:51.279 of the Colorado Republican Party. 1532 01:19:51.479 --> 01:19:55.039 And I'm just waiting. I'm just waiting to see what 1533 01:19:55.159 --> 01:19:55.800 happens next. 1534 01:19:56.359 --> 01:20:01.800 You know, Mandy, I've noticed a lot of pro Nazi 1535 01:20:01.960 --> 01:20:03.079 stuff seeping. 1536 01:20:02.800 --> 01:20:03.720 Into the algorithm. 1537 01:20:04.000 --> 01:20:07.239 I always say not interested, but it's strange how it's 1538 01:20:07.279 --> 01:20:10.640 being pushed on the right. Has anybody else had that experience. 1539 01:20:10.680 --> 01:20:12.319 I don't get any kind of pro Nazi crap. 1540 01:20:13.159 --> 01:20:13.760 I just don't. 1541 01:20:14.159 --> 01:20:16.439 I don't know how I keep my algorithm so clean. 1542 01:20:17.800 --> 01:20:20.359 I don't have any the evil, awful, horrible thing. Well, 1543 01:20:20.399 --> 01:20:22.479 if I do, it's because I see it on libs 1544 01:20:22.520 --> 01:20:25.319 of TikTok or someone else. That's the only way I 1545 01:20:25.399 --> 01:20:28.079 see it. I don't have the neo Nazi stuff coming 1546 01:20:28.119 --> 01:20:31.079 at me. So, Mandy, is there any room for us 1547 01:20:31.159 --> 01:20:34.600 to emulate the jazz musician Darryl Davis didn't He set 1548 01:20:34.640 --> 01:20:36.640 a good example of how we sway people from the 1549 01:20:36.720 --> 01:20:40.199 radical edge to come back towards the center. I don't 1550 01:20:40.239 --> 01:20:40.520 know you. 1551 01:20:41.039 --> 01:20:42.119 I don't feel. 1552 01:20:46.479 --> 01:20:50.600 I don't feel any responsibility to try and change someone 1553 01:20:50.680 --> 01:20:54.159 else's mind that I think is terribly terribly wrong unless 1554 01:20:54.239 --> 01:20:56.039 they're in my immediate sphere, you know. 1555 01:20:56.039 --> 01:20:56.520 What I'm saying. 1556 01:20:56.840 --> 01:20:59.000 And then again, I don't think I have any friends 1557 01:20:59.039 --> 01:21:02.439 that I would, even for a moment, would consider. 1558 01:21:02.159 --> 01:21:03.399 Themselves white supremacists. 1559 01:21:03.439 --> 01:21:03.960 I just don't. 1560 01:21:05.399 --> 01:21:06.600 So I don't know. 1561 01:21:07.800 --> 01:21:10.960 I do not know, Mandy. There is no problem Nazi 1562 01:21:11.079 --> 01:21:14.319 stuff on the right, Yes there is. Yet, yeah, there 1563 01:21:14.359 --> 01:21:19.520 really is, you guys, there really is. And the fact 1564 01:21:19.560 --> 01:21:22.079 that you're like there's nothing over there, you're either willfully 1565 01:21:22.119 --> 01:21:23.760 ignorant or you're not willing to call it out when 1566 01:21:23.800 --> 01:21:24.199 you see it. 1567 01:21:24.600 --> 01:21:27.079 That's kind of the point self Dylan is making. It's 1568 01:21:27.159 --> 01:21:28.640 not like we have to have the most. 1569 01:21:28.520 --> 01:21:32.479 Pure party in the world. I welcome all viewpoints, I 1570 01:21:32.600 --> 01:21:35.600 really really do, I truly do. I want to hear 1571 01:21:35.680 --> 01:21:38.680 everybody's viewpoints from the right. I want to hear what 1572 01:21:38.720 --> 01:21:42.399 they're thinking, But I'm not going to treat all of 1573 01:21:42.520 --> 01:21:47.159 those ideas with the same level of seriousness or respect. 1574 01:21:48.680 --> 01:21:50.960 And I think that should be easy to understand. And 1575 01:21:51.079 --> 01:21:55.000 yet there does seem to be this slight elevation of 1576 01:21:55.079 --> 01:21:55.640 the cuckoo. 1577 01:21:56.079 --> 01:21:57.479 Somebody asks of Candace. 1578 01:21:57.199 --> 01:21:59.840 Owens is on the hard right and she didn't used 1579 01:21:59.840 --> 01:22:03.520 to be, but boy, she is just she is moving 1580 01:22:03.600 --> 01:22:07.479 into that grifter territory that, in my mind undermines everything. 1581 01:22:09.000 --> 01:22:11.159 So you can put her, I would put her on 1582 01:22:11.279 --> 01:22:13.039 the far far right and part of the problem. 1583 01:22:14.039 --> 01:22:16.720 And if Tucker Carlson is gonna have Nick Fuentas on 1584 01:22:16.800 --> 01:22:20.199 his podcast to really have a tough interview, as Tucker 1585 01:22:20.279 --> 01:22:23.560 is very capable of doing, then that's one thing. But 1586 01:22:23.640 --> 01:22:25.399 if he's gonna have him on to do the kind 1587 01:22:25.439 --> 01:22:28.039 of softball interviews that he's done for other people lately, 1588 01:22:28.840 --> 01:22:35.199 that's just gross. It's gross and unnecessary and uncalled for, Mandy. 1589 01:22:35.319 --> 01:22:38.920 All white supremacists vote Republican, but that does not mean 1590 01:22:39.000 --> 01:22:43.880 that all Republicans are white supremacists. Again, just like all 1591 01:22:43.960 --> 01:22:49.279 anarchists probably vote Democrat, but not Democrats are all anarchists, Mandy. 1592 01:22:49.319 --> 01:22:51.560 It's not pro Nazi in the sense of hardcore push 1593 01:22:51.640 --> 01:22:53.560 but more of jokes than when you go down the 1594 01:22:53.680 --> 01:22:56.840 rabbit hole of not PC jokes and means that stuff 1595 01:22:56.920 --> 01:22:57.760 starts to pop up. 1596 01:22:57.880 --> 01:23:00.760 I don't know, maybe it's my own fault. Lol. Well, yeah, 1597 01:23:01.319 --> 01:23:01.840 I think it is. 1598 01:23:02.079 --> 01:23:05.399 I am going to talk about alternatives to health insurance 1599 01:23:05.840 --> 01:23:08.880 that are actually about making healthcare. 1600 01:23:08.760 --> 01:23:10.880 Both affordable and accessible. 1601 01:23:11.279 --> 01:23:14.399 And joining me now is a like I mean, Travis 1602 01:23:14.560 --> 01:23:17.039 is like a multiple time guest, He's practically a co host. 1603 01:23:17.319 --> 01:23:21.199 Travis Bocenstaid is the Chief Experience Officer for Pinnacle Advanced 1604 01:23:21.239 --> 01:23:24.960 Primary Care. They do direct primary care. And if you 1605 01:23:25.000 --> 01:23:27.000 don't know what this is, hang in. We're going to 1606 01:23:27.039 --> 01:23:30.520 help you understand the whole process. And joining her today 1607 01:23:31.119 --> 01:23:35.359 is a new Travis Bocenstaid guest. Travis books all the 1608 01:23:35.399 --> 01:23:37.640 guests now when it comes to healthcare. Lisa Fagan is 1609 01:23:37.680 --> 01:23:42.199 the CEO of Smith Medical Direct Specialty Care, and this 1610 01:23:42.600 --> 01:23:46.239 piece of the puzzle answers the question what if I 1611 01:23:46.319 --> 01:23:47.319 need a knee replacement? 1612 01:23:47.399 --> 01:23:49.000 But we're going to start with Travis first. 1613 01:23:49.399 --> 01:23:51.399 Travis, for my listeners who've never heard you on the 1614 01:23:51.399 --> 01:23:53.720 show before, let's do the elevator speech. 1615 01:23:54.119 --> 01:23:56.079 What is direct primary care? 1616 01:23:58.640 --> 01:24:01.560 So Pinnacle Advanced Primary Care and the DPC movement think 1617 01:24:01.560 --> 01:24:04.159 about it like the Netflix of healthcare. You are going 1618 01:24:04.239 --> 01:24:07.399 to pay a fixed monthly membership fee for unlimited access 1619 01:24:07.439 --> 01:24:09.600 to primary care and family medicine with. 1620 01:24:09.680 --> 01:24:12.000 No copays, deductibles, or offices at fees. 1621 01:24:12.319 --> 01:24:15.000 So I want you to think about direct primary care 1622 01:24:15.279 --> 01:24:18.000 like family medicine used to be forty fifty years ago 1623 01:24:18.479 --> 01:24:22.039 before insurance ruined all of it, and DPC can take 1624 01:24:22.119 --> 01:24:25.479 care of ninety percent of a member's everyday health and 1625 01:24:25.560 --> 01:24:26.239 wellness needs. 1626 01:24:26.640 --> 01:24:29.439 But for your listeners and Mandy, what we talk about 1627 01:24:29.479 --> 01:24:29.840 a lot. 1628 01:24:29.800 --> 01:24:32.920 Of times is well what happens outside of the direct 1629 01:24:32.960 --> 01:24:37.880 primary care space. And it's really exciting in the marketplace 1630 01:24:38.000 --> 01:24:40.119 right now that we're not only seeing the growth of 1631 01:24:40.199 --> 01:24:43.760 direct primary care, there's a new strong movement called the 1632 01:24:43.960 --> 01:24:49.640 direct specialty care movement. And Pinnacle's been very excited to 1633 01:24:49.760 --> 01:24:53.439 partner up with our friends at Smith Medical because they're 1634 01:24:53.600 --> 01:24:57.199 solving that problem in the market and actually making big 1635 01:24:57.359 --> 01:24:59.239 procedures affordable for people. 1636 01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:01.880 If you guys have listened to the show at all, 1637 01:25:02.119 --> 01:25:04.800 I have been talking since I got a show in 1638 01:25:04.880 --> 01:25:08.560 two thousand and five about the Oklahoma City Surgical Center. 1639 01:25:08.920 --> 01:25:11.720 The Oklahoma City Surgical Center is a surgical center staff 1640 01:25:11.760 --> 01:25:15.119 by fine surgeons and doctors. And if you need any replacement, 1641 01:25:15.199 --> 01:25:17.600 you can go right now to their website Oklahoma City 1642 01:25:17.640 --> 01:25:19.840 Surgical Center and you can find out how much ane 1643 01:25:19.960 --> 01:25:22.520 replacement is going to cost because they publish all of 1644 01:25:22.600 --> 01:25:25.239 their prices online and I have held it up as 1645 01:25:25.319 --> 01:25:28.640 the gold standard since two thousand and five. And now 1646 01:25:29.239 --> 01:25:32.039 we have one in our neighborhood and it is called 1647 01:25:32.439 --> 01:25:36.680 Smith Medical Direct Specialty Care. And on their website, I 1648 01:25:36.800 --> 01:25:40.079 am right now clicking over to the page that says 1649 01:25:40.520 --> 01:25:44.800 surgery pricing. So let's bring in CEO Lisa Fagan to 1650 01:25:44.840 --> 01:25:46.760 talk about that aspect of it now. 1651 01:25:46.840 --> 01:25:48.520 Lisa, I asked you why. 1652 01:25:48.439 --> 01:25:52.479 You called it Smith Medical Direct Specialty Care. It's actually 1653 01:25:52.680 --> 01:25:56.479 named in honor of the doctor from the Oklahoma City 1654 01:25:56.520 --> 01:25:59.000 Surgical Center. So it was a long introduction, but I 1655 01:25:59.039 --> 01:26:00.520 wanted to get all that in to kind of give 1656 01:26:00.560 --> 01:26:03.600 the background. So you guys are just doing the same thing. 1657 01:26:05.199 --> 01:26:05.760 Absolutely. 1658 01:26:05.880 --> 01:26:08.920 Yes, we named our company after Keith Smith because he's 1659 01:26:09.039 --> 01:26:13.039 the pioneer and we were honored that he allowed us 1660 01:26:13.119 --> 01:26:15.880 to name our company after him. So we are a 1661 01:26:16.000 --> 01:26:20.039 cash pay option for your surgical needs. We're affordable, transparent, 1662 01:26:20.119 --> 01:26:23.960 bundled pricing. We're multi specialty, so we can cover anything 1663 01:26:24.039 --> 01:26:27.680 from a total joint to a spine to a hernia 1664 01:26:28.319 --> 01:26:32.079 and everything. All of our pricing is right online, like McDonald's. 1665 01:26:32.159 --> 01:26:34.039 You take a look on our website and you can 1666 01:26:34.119 --> 01:26:37.560 scroll through and you see a rotator cuff repair, you 1667 01:26:37.680 --> 01:26:40.520 see a total joint and there are no hidden fees. 1668 01:26:40.640 --> 01:26:44.399 You know the exact price upfront prior to surgery. You'll 1669 01:26:44.560 --> 01:26:48.439 never get a bill on the back end. And our 1670 01:26:48.520 --> 01:26:50.119 patients are loving it well. 1671 01:26:50.199 --> 01:26:51.920 And you know, it's funny because you look at some 1672 01:26:52.000 --> 01:26:54.720 of these prices, and some of them are are high prices. 1673 01:26:54.760 --> 01:26:57.199 I mean, you're talking about twenty two thousand dollars for 1674 01:26:57.239 --> 01:27:00.479 a total knee replacement. But when you get into the 1675 01:27:00.880 --> 01:27:04.399 cost of health insurance for someone over the age of fifty, 1676 01:27:05.039 --> 01:27:08.680 they're paying that much in annual premiums for coverage that 1677 01:27:08.800 --> 01:27:10.960 doesn't give them a whole bunch more, you know what 1678 01:27:11.039 --> 01:27:13.720 I mean. It's like you have to break it down 1679 01:27:13.800 --> 01:27:16.000 into how you actually use healthcare. Now, I want to 1680 01:27:16.039 --> 01:27:18.199 ask Travis a question, because the number one question I 1681 01:27:18.279 --> 01:27:21.399 get is, so I sign up for direct primary care, 1682 01:27:21.600 --> 01:27:23.800 or maybe even I sign up my business to take 1683 01:27:23.840 --> 01:27:27.760 care of my employees with direct primary care. What happens 1684 01:27:27.840 --> 01:27:31.319 if I have some kind of catastrophic event. Would you 1685 01:27:31.399 --> 01:27:34.159 guys recommend these meta share programs or you work with 1686 01:27:34.239 --> 01:27:37.319 some of those, but now you also have you know, 1687 01:27:37.520 --> 01:27:39.319 Smith Medical where you can say, look, you can go 1688 01:27:39.319 --> 01:27:41.079 over here at Lisa. I'm assuming you have some kind 1689 01:27:41.119 --> 01:27:42.039 of financing options. 1690 01:27:43.680 --> 01:27:47.239 We do have a financing option. But for employers, they 1691 01:27:47.359 --> 01:27:50.439 actually love to pay direct too, because they save a 1692 01:27:50.520 --> 01:27:54.760 significant amount of money on like their premiums for insurance, 1693 01:27:55.119 --> 01:27:58.199 so they save about forty to sixty percent if they 1694 01:27:58.279 --> 01:28:01.640 go directly to companies like US. So a total knee, 1695 01:28:02.199 --> 01:28:04.600 like you said, yeah, it's a big price, but it's 1696 01:28:04.640 --> 01:28:07.119 a lot more affordable than if they go to a 1697 01:28:07.239 --> 01:28:10.840 hospital or another surgery center and they know exactly what 1698 01:28:10.920 --> 01:28:12.840 they're going to pay. A total knee is the same 1699 01:28:12.920 --> 01:28:15.840 price every single time they do it. I'm like, when 1700 01:28:15.920 --> 01:28:19.079 you go to a hospital, it could be a bunch 1701 01:28:19.119 --> 01:28:21.680 of different prices. It can range anywhere from three hundred 1702 01:28:21.680 --> 01:28:23.720 percent for the same exact CPT code. 1703 01:28:24.199 --> 01:28:26.800 So there's everything including plastic surgery. 1704 01:28:26.880 --> 01:28:29.159 By the way, I was like, wait what, I love 1705 01:28:29.319 --> 01:28:32.680 that And I think that eventually and I'm hoping this 1706 01:28:32.840 --> 01:28:35.760 kind of model catches on that this is going to 1707 01:28:35.840 --> 01:28:39.640 create some downward pressure on these prices in our metro area. 1708 01:28:39.800 --> 01:28:43.079 Because years ago, when I interviewed doctor Keith smith On 1709 01:28:43.840 --> 01:28:47.000 about this. He said, look, we've really seen some price 1710 01:28:47.079 --> 01:28:50.520 reductions even in the hospitals because they have to compete 1711 01:28:51.039 --> 01:28:53.279 with us. Now, you guys haven't been around that long, 1712 01:28:53.680 --> 01:28:55.840 But how did you decide on this pricing? Like, tell 1713 01:28:55.880 --> 01:28:58.039 me how you and I don't need like a you know, 1714 01:28:58.119 --> 01:29:01.359 bullet pointed every single aspect. But when you're setting pricing, 1715 01:29:01.439 --> 01:29:02.199 what do you look at. 1716 01:29:04.000 --> 01:29:08.119 Well, we're really going off of Medicare pricing, So we're 1717 01:29:08.159 --> 01:29:10.239 doing about one hundred and fifty percent of what Medicare 1718 01:29:11.319 --> 01:29:18.960 charges and that's for across the board, so physician anesesia facility. 1719 01:29:19.520 --> 01:29:22.439 And then we don't upprice the implant, which most of 1720 01:29:22.520 --> 01:29:25.439 the most places do. They charge like a ten percent 1721 01:29:25.560 --> 01:29:27.760 increase from the implant. We give it to them at cost. 1722 01:29:28.640 --> 01:29:32.279 So really we're just wanting to be affordable for these patients. 1723 01:29:32.720 --> 01:29:35.880 And that's another thing Travis about direct primary care is 1724 01:29:35.960 --> 01:29:37.800 that you go in, you get your office visits, they 1725 01:29:37.800 --> 01:29:39.960 don't cost you anything extra. But say you need a 1726 01:29:40.000 --> 01:29:42.199 blood test, say you need a strip test, say you 1727 01:29:42.319 --> 01:29:46.159 need something along those lines, you guys will do the test, 1728 01:29:46.279 --> 01:29:50.239 but you only charge wholesale pricing, and those price differences 1729 01:29:50.920 --> 01:29:56.520 are shocking, Like what you will pay less paying for 1730 01:29:56.600 --> 01:29:58.520 the test than a lot of us paying a copay 1731 01:29:58.560 --> 01:29:59.640 to go to a doctor's office. 1732 01:30:00.600 --> 01:30:03.039 Right right, What you're finding here is we all follow 1733 01:30:03.159 --> 01:30:06.640 the same principle. We believe that you can get high 1734 01:30:06.720 --> 01:30:09.479 quality care at a very affordable price. And if we 1735 01:30:09.640 --> 01:30:12.439 start to lift the veil on the madness that is 1736 01:30:12.479 --> 01:30:15.960 happening behind the scenes, we can create stronger healthcare consumers. 1737 01:30:16.359 --> 01:30:19.439 If you're someone that owns a business right now, and 1738 01:30:20.000 --> 01:30:22.720 what's super exciting in the market is that Pinnacle now 1739 01:30:22.840 --> 01:30:26.760 has our own health plan overlaid on top of our practice, 1740 01:30:27.319 --> 01:30:32.359 and we are partnering specifically with Smith to refer surgeries 1741 01:30:32.479 --> 01:30:35.000 over to them because we know those who take our 1742 01:30:35.079 --> 01:30:38.680 health plan, we will be saving them hundreds and thousands 1743 01:30:38.760 --> 01:30:43.359 of dollars by doing a direct pay relationship with Smith Medical. 1744 01:30:43.680 --> 01:30:45.279 So it's like two p's in a pod. 1745 01:30:45.640 --> 01:30:45.800 Right. 1746 01:30:45.960 --> 01:30:47.560 We're keeping them happy and healthy. 1747 01:30:48.039 --> 01:30:50.760 But when we want our members to get really affordable 1748 01:30:50.800 --> 01:30:54.279 surgical care with no surprise medical bills, we are perfectly 1749 01:30:54.319 --> 01:30:57.279 aligned with Smith and we have the opportunity to save 1750 01:30:57.359 --> 01:30:59.279 local employers and their employees. 1751 01:31:00.000 --> 01:31:00.920 It's of thousands of dollars. 1752 01:31:00.960 --> 01:31:01.560 I got a couple of. 1753 01:31:01.520 --> 01:31:04.359 Text messages earlier Travis from one of them from a 1754 01:31:04.399 --> 01:31:06.720 guy who said, look, i run a business out of 1755 01:31:06.800 --> 01:31:10.000 Dia and I've got forty employees and I need to 1756 01:31:10.079 --> 01:31:13.279 do something just to keep employees. And I was like, well, 1757 01:31:13.319 --> 01:31:14.800 you're gonna want to listen to this interview and give 1758 01:31:14.840 --> 01:31:16.800 them a call now. At least people don't have to 1759 01:31:16.840 --> 01:31:18.960 have a membership with you though, because you've only made 1760 01:31:19.399 --> 01:31:23.520 I may only need Smith Medical Direct one time. Maybe 1761 01:31:23.560 --> 01:31:25.239 if I go to get my I'm not getting my 1762 01:31:25.279 --> 01:31:26.640 nose done. I have a good nose, but you know 1763 01:31:26.720 --> 01:31:28.800 what I mean. I mean, so I don't have to 1764 01:31:28.840 --> 01:31:32.680 have a membership with you. Guys, No, no membership. 1765 01:31:32.720 --> 01:31:35.960 And the average person has a surgery every fourteen years, right, 1766 01:31:36.199 --> 01:31:39.159 so I mean hopefully you don't see us all that often, 1767 01:31:39.239 --> 01:31:41.039 but when you do need us, we're here, and it's 1768 01:31:41.079 --> 01:31:42.640 affordable and transparent pricing. 1769 01:31:43.119 --> 01:31:46.960 So there are so many questions, so many questions. What's 1770 01:31:47.039 --> 01:31:49.960 the warranty on a knee replacement or any surgery do 1771 01:31:50.000 --> 01:31:52.640 you offer? Do do you get like five thousand miles 1772 01:31:52.680 --> 01:31:55.159 on that knee replacement? How does that does that even work? 1773 01:31:57.279 --> 01:32:00.840 So we don't have warranties on nee replacement vints. However, 1774 01:32:01.439 --> 01:32:03.479 we stand by our work, so if you get an 1775 01:32:03.560 --> 01:32:07.680 infection here from our surgery center, we will take care. 1776 01:32:07.600 --> 01:32:08.319 Of it for free. 1777 01:32:08.399 --> 01:32:09.399 We won't make you pay. 1778 01:32:10.039 --> 01:32:12.199 If you need to come in for a washout, or 1779 01:32:12.199 --> 01:32:14.399 if you get a hematoma or something like that, a 1780 01:32:14.479 --> 01:32:18.720 small complication, we'll take care of you for free. But 1781 01:32:19.000 --> 01:32:25.239 if your knee you're rejecting your knee implant, then unfortunately, yes, 1782 01:32:25.840 --> 01:32:29.560 you would have to have another surgery. But yeah, so 1783 01:32:29.680 --> 01:32:33.439 no warranty. However, we do stand by our infection rates 1784 01:32:33.479 --> 01:32:36.960 and quality care, and our quality care is just as 1785 01:32:37.000 --> 01:32:40.560 great as everyone everyone else around here. Everyone thinks, oh well, 1786 01:32:40.600 --> 01:32:43.079 if it's cash pay, they're not following the same rules. 1787 01:32:43.600 --> 01:32:46.600 That's actually not true. We went through the same licensing 1788 01:32:46.640 --> 01:32:49.680 and accreditation that everyone else has gone through, and our 1789 01:32:49.760 --> 01:32:51.000 quality care is high. 1790 01:32:51.600 --> 01:32:53.399 So yeah, go ahead, Travis. 1791 01:32:53.880 --> 01:32:56.199 I was gonna say, I've been in their operating room. 1792 01:32:56.560 --> 01:33:00.880 Oh wow, we love smooth operator, Travis, but I don't 1793 01:33:00.920 --> 01:33:01.920 want you operating on me. 1794 01:33:03.199 --> 01:33:05.079 You don't because I had to have a chair ready 1795 01:33:05.159 --> 01:33:07.960 just in case I passed out, But I for sure 1796 01:33:08.239 --> 01:33:12.319 was in that room witness the most top notch surgeons 1797 01:33:12.439 --> 01:33:15.680 and support team do that procedure, and I can say 1798 01:33:15.880 --> 01:33:18.760 confidently that we would refer our patients to them. 1799 01:33:19.119 --> 01:33:22.119 Lisa runs a tight ship and they do amazing care there. 1800 01:33:22.319 --> 01:33:23.840 A lot of people are asking how to get a 1801 01:33:23.920 --> 01:33:28.439 hold of Pinnacle or the Smith Medical Center. I put 1802 01:33:28.479 --> 01:33:32.600 them both on the blog, but Pinnacle is PINNACLEAPC dot com. 1803 01:33:33.000 --> 01:33:39.000 And I have probably fifteen super specific questions that you 1804 01:33:39.159 --> 01:33:41.600 guys need to call and talk to Travis about because 1805 01:33:41.960 --> 01:33:44.479 they're so highly specific that I don't want to kind 1806 01:33:44.479 --> 01:33:46.079 of get into the weeds on the radio. 1807 01:33:46.640 --> 01:33:49.640 But just go to Pinnacle a PC. 1808 01:33:49.920 --> 01:33:55.560 That's Pinnacle Advanced Primary Care, PINNACLEAPC dot com. And then 1809 01:33:55.640 --> 01:33:59.840 Lisa can be found at Smithdirectcare dot com. And if 1810 01:33:59.840 --> 01:34:02.279 you're anything like me, you're gonna go to the website 1811 01:34:02.319 --> 01:34:04.359 and look how much every surgery costs. That's what I 1812 01:34:04.439 --> 01:34:06.800 did yesterday, Lisa, So now I know how much every 1813 01:34:06.880 --> 01:34:10.000 single surgery at Smith's Direct Care is going to cost. 1814 01:34:10.199 --> 01:34:12.279 Should I need to use your services? 1815 01:34:12.680 --> 01:34:15.079 Guys? I love what you're doing so much, Lisa. I'm 1816 01:34:15.079 --> 01:34:17.880 so glad you guys brought this to Colorado. 1817 01:34:19.720 --> 01:34:22.000 Oh absolutely, and it's really fun to be a part 1818 01:34:22.039 --> 01:34:22.199 of it. 1819 01:34:23.680 --> 01:34:27.600 Does somebody just ask what about physical therapy services after surgery. 1820 01:34:31.119 --> 01:34:33.399 So we do have physical therapists that we work with 1821 01:34:33.640 --> 01:34:38.439 that can be a cash paid price or many times 1822 01:34:38.680 --> 01:34:41.000 they'll use their insurance because it doesn't mean a lot 1823 01:34:41.039 --> 01:34:43.000 of times when people are going direct or employers are 1824 01:34:43.039 --> 01:34:45.680 going direct, it doesn't mean that they don't carry an insurance. 1825 01:34:46.039 --> 01:34:47.760 It just means that they're putting them in a tighter 1826 01:34:47.840 --> 01:34:53.960 box and so they can use their insurance afterwards after 1827 01:34:54.039 --> 01:34:54.560 the surgery. 1828 01:34:55.039 --> 01:34:58.279 I do have probably ten questions of this nature. Would 1829 01:34:58.319 --> 01:35:02.640 I benefit if I have Medicare Travis? How do you 1830 01:35:02.720 --> 01:35:03.840 deal with Medicare patients? 1831 01:35:04.920 --> 01:35:07.520 Though with Medicare patients, they do have to sign an 1832 01:35:07.560 --> 01:35:08.239 opt out waiver. 1833 01:35:08.359 --> 01:35:11.159 From a DPC standpoint, right, you cannot bill. 1834 01:35:11.159 --> 01:35:15.800 Our services back to those government programs, right, But we 1835 01:35:16.000 --> 01:35:19.359 know there are gaps in that care. We know there 1836 01:35:19.359 --> 01:35:22.680 are gaps in payment, so we can actually help bridge that. 1837 01:35:23.039 --> 01:35:25.760 And then too, as people age, they need more than 1838 01:35:25.800 --> 01:35:28.279 a seven and a half visit, so we actually find 1839 01:35:28.359 --> 01:35:32.239 those folks are actually contracting with a DPC and us 1840 01:35:32.319 --> 01:35:34.800 it in direct paid resources even if they're using some 1841 01:35:34.960 --> 01:35:35.840 of those programs. 1842 01:35:36.199 --> 01:35:39.079 So what about the somebody asks, please ask your guests 1843 01:35:39.279 --> 01:35:42.479 what the monthly cost would compare to Blue Cross, Blue Shield. 1844 01:35:42.479 --> 01:35:45.239 We're a family of four and pay out the nose, Travis, 1845 01:35:45.319 --> 01:35:47.520 your prices, you can just give those for a family. 1846 01:35:47.880 --> 01:35:48.600 What do they look like? 1847 01:35:49.479 --> 01:35:51.359 So I would highly recommend that if you are a 1848 01:35:51.479 --> 01:35:54.880 family that's relatively healthy, low utilizer of healthcare, I would 1849 01:35:54.920 --> 01:35:58.840 recommend a combination of Direct Primary Care and Zion Health Share. 1850 01:35:59.279 --> 01:36:01.399 We can cut a We can get a family premium 1851 01:36:01.479 --> 01:36:05.479 to around six hundred dollars for the entire household with 1852 01:36:05.680 --> 01:36:08.479 roughly three thousand out of pocket, and plus you'll add 1853 01:36:08.800 --> 01:36:10.520 you know, one hundred or so on top of that 1854 01:36:10.600 --> 01:36:13.920 for your DPC membership. But we know families paying upwards 1855 01:36:13.960 --> 01:36:17.600 of seventeen hundred a month, Yeah, with fifteen thousand dollars deductibles. 1856 01:36:17.960 --> 01:36:24.399 PINNACLEAPC dot com, Smith Directcare dot Com, Lisa Fagan, Travis Barkinstead, 1857 01:36:24.439 --> 01:36:26.800 thank you so much for making time today and just 1858 01:36:27.279 --> 01:36:29.479 what a great thing to be happening in Colorado. 1859 01:36:29.560 --> 01:36:29.960 I love it. 1860 01:36:31.640 --> 01:36:33.560 Thanks Mandy, Thanks Mandy. 1861 01:36:33.439 --> 01:36:37.640 Thanks Lisa. And now look with cat dragon. Oh you 1862 01:36:37.720 --> 01:36:38.640 got the tiny chair. 1863 01:36:39.479 --> 01:36:41.439 Yeah you did this on purpose though, right, No, I. 1864 01:36:41.479 --> 01:36:43.640 Didn't want Well, you can have the broken armchair. 1865 01:36:43.920 --> 01:36:46.279 That's the broken armchairs chair. 1866 01:36:46.319 --> 01:36:48.439 When I come in for Ross's show, I'm forced to 1867 01:36:48.479 --> 01:36:49.960 sit in the tiny. 1868 01:36:49.840 --> 01:36:52.439 Chair, which of course gives you a big advantage. 1869 01:36:52.479 --> 01:36:54.600 Well, a lollipopkick. 1870 01:36:54.840 --> 01:36:56.560 You know how they do that on the big TV 1871 01:36:56.680 --> 01:36:59.760 talk shows, right, yeah, the guest. If you notice, like 1872 01:37:00.119 --> 01:37:03.119 ter men sitting way higher, the guest is down here. 1873 01:37:03.760 --> 01:37:06.479 That keeps him in a commanding position, you know, the strategy. 1874 01:37:06.520 --> 01:37:07.520 That's why I'm that's. 1875 01:37:07.359 --> 01:37:12.279 Why in your head being tall. I've never had to 1876 01:37:12.319 --> 01:37:14.920 think about that once in my life. I've always just 1877 01:37:14.960 --> 01:37:15.720 been intimidating. 1878 01:37:17.920 --> 01:37:19.760 You know, if I didn't love you'a wouldn't be here. 1879 01:37:19.800 --> 01:37:19.960 Man. 1880 01:37:21.000 --> 01:37:23.479 I'm here so you can humiliate me on your game. 1881 01:37:23.640 --> 01:37:26.720 I Am not going to humiliate it. Stop it right now, 1882 01:37:28.079 --> 01:37:31.600 stop it, just stop it. Oh man, I didn't get 1883 01:37:31.600 --> 01:37:33.359 to the story about how men walk. And you can 1884 01:37:33.399 --> 01:37:36.079 tell how men fight by the way they walk. A 1885 01:37:36.159 --> 01:37:37.039 new study has shown this. 1886 01:37:37.199 --> 01:37:37.800 I'm interested. 1887 01:37:37.960 --> 01:37:40.239 Well it's it's it's not just about men. 1888 01:37:40.199 --> 01:37:43.199 Walking though, because it really does show as human beings, 1889 01:37:43.279 --> 01:37:45.640 we make judgments when we see someone moving towards us. 1890 01:37:45.760 --> 01:37:48.199 Is that person dangerous? Is that person not? And they 1891 01:37:48.239 --> 01:37:50.319 did a breakdown on how men walk and how they 1892 01:37:50.399 --> 01:37:53.359 present themselves, and how some men just look like if 1893 01:37:53.399 --> 01:37:55.039 you mess with them, they will knock you out. 1894 01:37:55.560 --> 01:37:58.640 And every man will tell you when you walk into 1895 01:37:58.680 --> 01:38:02.079 a room, you evaluate, You do a quick evaluation of all. 1896 01:38:02.000 --> 01:38:02.560 The other mens. 1897 01:38:02.600 --> 01:38:04.279 You size them up, You size them up. 1898 01:38:04.359 --> 01:38:06.079 Yeah, just a case, you got to throw it down. 1899 01:38:06.600 --> 01:38:07.239 That's how it is. 1900 01:38:07.439 --> 01:38:09.520 I don't think about it because again I'm just intimidating. 1901 01:38:09.680 --> 01:38:12.239 But no, I was going to extrapolate it out to 1902 01:38:12.319 --> 01:38:15.720 women as well. When you're walking in a city, they're 1903 01:38:15.800 --> 01:38:18.680 women that nobody is going to mess with. I aspire 1904 01:38:18.760 --> 01:38:20.359 to be those women when I am in a city, 1905 01:38:20.680 --> 01:38:22.359 and then there are women who look like they are 1906 01:38:22.399 --> 01:38:24.359 going to be victims. And it's all in how you 1907 01:38:24.479 --> 01:38:26.960 carry yourself. It's all in your presence, in your physical being. 1908 01:38:27.520 --> 01:38:29.359 And for someone who says, well, that's not how I 1909 01:38:29.439 --> 01:38:30.520 am as a person, guess what. 1910 01:38:31.359 --> 01:38:32.479 Feelings follow action. 1911 01:38:33.479 --> 01:38:36.840 Take the action, open up, open up your chest, walk 1912 01:38:36.960 --> 01:38:39.319 like a stone cold baller, and you'll start to feel 1913 01:38:39.319 --> 01:38:42.279 like a stone, even if you're in the tiny chair. 1914 01:38:42.279 --> 01:38:49.560 People people say. People say, walk tall. That's how it 1915 01:38:51.640 --> 01:38:52.119 walk tall. 1916 01:38:52.159 --> 01:38:54.039 When you walk into a room, you do you when 1917 01:38:54.039 --> 01:38:56.600 you're walking on the street in a city like you 1918 01:38:56.640 --> 01:38:58.600 know a busy street, do you make eye contact with 1919 01:38:58.640 --> 01:38:59.439 people as you walk by? 1920 01:39:01.000 --> 01:39:01.039 No? 1921 01:39:01.399 --> 01:39:02.039 Oh, dude, I do. 1922 01:39:03.720 --> 01:39:07.319 No, no, I I literally everybody knows I see you 1923 01:39:07.640 --> 01:39:10.560 as they walk by me. I gotta tell you, when 1924 01:39:10.560 --> 01:39:12.159 you're a woman, you got to think about this time. 1925 01:39:12.239 --> 01:39:14.279 You've got to throw out a vibe that says, if 1926 01:39:14.319 --> 01:39:15.640 you mess with me, I'm going to be the one 1927 01:39:15.680 --> 01:39:16.640 who takes your eyeballs out. 1928 01:39:16.720 --> 01:39:17.560 We're just pointed Chuck. 1929 01:39:18.119 --> 01:39:20.479 Well, but he's not with me. When he's with me, 1930 01:39:20.479 --> 01:39:24.600 I don't worry about anything. He sizes up everything. 1931 01:39:25.920 --> 01:39:30.199 Every time he sees exactly I stand that chair. But 1932 01:39:30.319 --> 01:39:32.439 this chair has got me quite the disadvantage. 1933 01:39:32.520 --> 01:39:33.199 It really does. 1934 01:39:33.399 --> 01:39:36.239 But now it's time for the most exciting segment on 1935 01:39:36.399 --> 01:39:42.279 the radio of It's gone in the world. Well done, 1936 01:39:42.720 --> 01:39:44.800 Rick lewis, well done. 1937 01:39:45.279 --> 01:39:48.359 All right, here we go. What is our dad joke 1938 01:39:48.399 --> 01:39:49.640 out the day? Please, Anthony, I. 1939 01:39:49.680 --> 01:39:53.159 Am so close to becoming a billionaire. I have all 1940 01:39:53.199 --> 01:39:54.600 the zeros now I just need a one. 1941 01:39:55.039 --> 01:40:01.600 Yep, that is a one one point five because on 1942 01:40:01.680 --> 01:40:02.239 the show. 1943 01:40:03.520 --> 01:40:07.399 Where what's the word of the day? 1944 01:40:07.439 --> 01:40:07.720 Please? 1945 01:40:07.880 --> 01:40:08.680 It is a. 1946 01:40:10.199 --> 01:40:10.840 Interjection? 1947 01:40:11.279 --> 01:40:12.920 Hey, what interjection? 1948 01:40:14.760 --> 01:40:15.520 What is interjection? 1949 01:40:15.840 --> 01:40:16.079 Okay? 1950 01:40:16.439 --> 01:40:20.640 Quota quota quotes quota q. 1951 01:40:20.920 --> 01:40:27.760 U O t h as correct quota quoting someone or 1952 01:40:27.880 --> 01:40:29.439 something like quota. 1953 01:40:29.600 --> 01:40:30.439 I don't think. 1954 01:40:33.000 --> 01:40:37.039 I would say the same. You're you're trying to interject 1955 01:40:37.319 --> 01:40:38.920 something about what they said. 1956 01:40:39.119 --> 01:40:41.840 Yeah, you would both be right if the word would 1957 01:40:41.840 --> 01:40:42.960 suggest what it would sound like. 1958 01:40:43.000 --> 01:40:45.399 But no, it means indeed, quota. 1959 01:40:47.439 --> 01:40:50.159 Of course, a quota. Yes, that's what it meant. 1960 01:40:50.800 --> 01:40:53.359 Where in the world can you find the Bloody Bay 1961 01:40:53.520 --> 01:40:57.079 Coral Wall, a popular diving site featuring a vertical wall 1962 01:40:57.119 --> 01:41:01.800 of coral that glues with bioluminescent organism And why Hawaii? 1963 01:41:02.199 --> 01:41:05.960 Yeah, I'm gonna go where in Hawaii? 1964 01:41:06.039 --> 01:41:08.800 I'm gonna go Indian, I'm going in Dni. No, I'm 1965 01:41:08.880 --> 01:41:12.520 going Australia. No, Maui Bloody And yeah you going Mali. 1966 01:41:14.439 --> 01:41:15.359 Oh this is so sad. 1967 01:41:15.399 --> 01:41:17.880 I've actually been to this before and I forgot until 1968 01:41:17.960 --> 01:41:20.760 right now. It's in the Little Cayman Islands, soth Little 1969 01:41:20.800 --> 01:41:23.439 Cayman and the Cayman Islands. One legend claims that Bloody 1970 01:41:23.479 --> 01:41:25.359 Bay's name is a nod to the many pirate battles 1971 01:41:25.399 --> 01:41:26.239 that were once fought there. 1972 01:41:26.439 --> 01:41:26.600 Well. 1973 01:41:26.640 --> 01:41:28.439 Another credit is the name to It's used by nineteen 1974 01:41:28.439 --> 01:41:30.520 century whalers who butchered their catch there. 1975 01:41:31.439 --> 01:41:35.600 I have been there, cool time. Yes, Cayman Island, Hawaii. 1976 01:41:36.680 --> 01:41:39.399 Uh well it's Caribbeans, so it's just a different vot. 1977 01:41:39.520 --> 01:41:41.960 Nothing is quite like Hawaii, you know what I mean? Yes, 1978 01:41:42.159 --> 01:41:43.399 but I love the Cayman Islands. 1979 01:41:43.640 --> 01:41:45.720 I've never been there. Who love Hawaii? Though? 1980 01:41:46.399 --> 01:41:48.359 If you want to go Caribbean, go to the Caymans. 1981 01:41:48.600 --> 01:41:49.920 Okay, yeah, all right, for sure? 1982 01:41:50.119 --> 01:41:50.439 All right? 1983 01:41:50.600 --> 01:41:53.479 Rick Lewis Nandy Connell. What is our category? 1984 01:41:53.640 --> 01:41:56.800 The category is and I would never ever ever choose 1985 01:41:56.800 --> 01:41:59.359 a category that is catered towards a guest. I take 1986 01:41:59.359 --> 01:42:01.600 a fence in that. The category is pomp and rock music. 1987 01:42:01.840 --> 01:42:06.800 Okay, yeah, yeah, how convenience Yeah okay for Mandy of course, 1988 01:42:06.840 --> 01:42:09.039 for the pomp sign it's the pop, it's the poppy. 1989 01:42:09.319 --> 01:42:10.800 I lose. Chuck is gonna make fun of me, so 1990 01:42:10.840 --> 01:42:11.279 I gotta win. 1991 01:42:11.399 --> 01:42:12.920 You guys ever had a show together, it'd be called 1992 01:42:12.960 --> 01:42:16.760 pop Rocks. Here we go this hotel, California band first game, 1993 01:42:18.800 --> 01:42:21.600 Andy got it first, and you gave a tour the 1994 01:42:22.000 --> 01:42:25.720 correct Okay, I forgot how the great quish Oddly female 1995 01:42:25.840 --> 01:42:29.840 rapper Megan Pete calls herself Megan v Mandy? 1996 01:42:29.960 --> 01:42:30.840 What is the stallion? 1997 01:42:31.000 --> 01:42:31.680 That is correct? 1998 01:42:32.319 --> 01:42:34.680 In twenty nineteen, this five letter wrap, an R and 1999 01:42:34.760 --> 01:42:37.760 B artist, had the juice to be nominated for Best 2000 01:42:37.800 --> 01:42:41.680 New Artist at the VMA's What year twenty nineteen? 2001 01:42:42.720 --> 01:42:44.840 One word that's not helped? 2002 01:42:45.239 --> 01:42:50.159 Letter wrap an R and B artist? Mm dated Maybe 2003 01:42:50.239 --> 01:42:51.199 a Minnesota Viking? 2004 01:42:52.000 --> 01:42:54.000 What Rick? Ricky? That is? 2005 01:42:55.319 --> 01:42:55.479 Who? 2006 01:42:55.840 --> 01:42:57.479 Who? Who? Lizzo? 2007 01:42:58.399 --> 01:43:00.159 Half poiso? Sure, half pint? 2008 01:43:00.399 --> 01:43:02.000 I'm giving them twite five five? 2009 01:43:03.359 --> 01:43:05.520 Oh wait a minute, you know who it was? 2010 01:43:05.880 --> 01:43:08.520 I didn't in twenty nineteen as well myself a point? 2011 01:43:08.520 --> 01:43:10.119 I gave you a negative one? 2012 01:43:10.159 --> 01:43:10.640 Yeah, okay. 2013 01:43:11.279 --> 01:43:14.680 In twenty nineteen, Madonna performed at, but did not compete 2014 01:43:14.720 --> 01:43:18.520 in this international song competition that I've never heard of. 2015 01:43:18.720 --> 01:43:21.640 No, it's the European song it's Mandy. What is Eurovision? 2016 01:43:21.760 --> 01:43:22.680 That is correct? 2017 01:43:22.960 --> 01:43:23.399 Good one. 2018 01:43:24.319 --> 01:43:27.279 This Jackson Brown album about Life on the Road was 2019 01:43:27.359 --> 01:43:30.680 recorded on stage, backstage, in hotel rooms, and on a 2020 01:43:30.760 --> 01:43:31.319 tour bus. 2021 01:43:32.319 --> 01:43:33.880 Say this is what Chuck's gonna yell at me about? 2022 01:43:33.880 --> 01:43:34.439 I should know this? 2023 01:43:35.039 --> 01:43:36.119 Rick running on empty? 2024 01:43:36.279 --> 01:43:37.199 That is correct? 2025 01:43:37.479 --> 01:43:38.159 What is the score? 2026 01:43:38.319 --> 01:43:39.680 One point five to three? 2027 01:43:39.960 --> 01:43:42.880 Oh it was a respectable loss, probably respectable. 2028 01:43:43.000 --> 01:43:45.560 Yeah, Oh, it's over. Yeah, it's over to only five question? 2029 01:43:46.079 --> 01:43:49.279 Of course, I mean we can go another any more minutes. 2030 01:43:49.640 --> 01:43:51.520 Okay, you don't get going for the first three? 2031 01:43:52.000 --> 01:43:52.159 Yeah? 2032 01:43:52.199 --> 01:43:55.199 Fourth quarter, guy, Okay, you were down nineteen to nothing 2033 01:43:55.319 --> 01:43:58.079 going into the like third question. You made it respectable, 2034 01:43:58.479 --> 01:43:59.840 but you missed the field goal. 2035 01:44:00.479 --> 01:44:01.199 Yeah, that's okay. 2036 01:44:01.279 --> 01:44:01.920 We're so close. 2037 01:44:02.119 --> 01:44:02.960 That is so close. 2038 01:44:03.520 --> 01:44:05.319 I'm assuming that Rick Lewis is going to be on 2039 01:44:05.520 --> 01:44:07.920 KOI Sports today, otherwise you'd be napping right now. 2040 01:44:08.039 --> 01:44:09.840 I came in here just for you, bandy. Then I'm 2041 01:44:09.880 --> 01:44:11.000 going to drive all the way back home. 2042 01:44:11.119 --> 01:44:11.680 No, you did not. 2043 01:44:12.039 --> 01:44:13.119 Now I'm here for the sports show. 2044 01:44:13.199 --> 01:44:14.800 Yeah, do you know what's what you guys are talking 2045 01:44:14.840 --> 01:44:15.760 about to I'm. 2046 01:44:15.600 --> 01:44:19.079 Sure we'll talk a little bit about the unbelievable game 2047 01:44:19.319 --> 01:44:22.479 Sunday because I haven't had a chance to talk with 2048 01:44:22.640 --> 01:44:25.600 the guys about that yet, and the game coming up, 2049 01:44:25.640 --> 01:44:27.159 big game against the Cowboys coming. 2050 01:44:27.039 --> 01:44:27.439 Up this week. 2051 01:44:27.520 --> 01:44:30.239 I know the Cowboys are ascendant. They're not great, but 2052 01:44:30.319 --> 01:44:31.920 they're better than I thought they were going to be 2053 01:44:32.000 --> 01:44:33.399 this year, and they've been playing hard. 2054 01:44:33.520 --> 01:44:36.399 They're ascending. You're right, and they have a really good offense. 2055 01:44:36.479 --> 01:44:37.520 Their defense kind of stink. 2056 01:44:37.600 --> 01:44:38.159 Yeah, it's terrible. 2057 01:44:38.960 --> 01:44:41.039 Luckily they should be able to shut us out for 2058 01:44:41.079 --> 01:44:42.239 the first three quarters anyway. 2059 01:44:42.399 --> 01:44:43.920 Koi Sports coming up next.