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Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome, let me try that again. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the show. A Ron is trying to convince me
Speaker 1: that I'm sick. I'm clearly not sick. I just blew
Speaker 1: my nose. There's no sickness to be had. But now
Speaker 1: I'm all like Peter Brady over here. Well, good, well, good, welcome.
Speaker 1: This is awful. You did this, Anthony. I'm Mandy Connall.
Speaker 1: Will be here for the next three hours. That's Anthony Rodriguez.
Speaker 1: He'll be here too. Oh perfect. A Ron is as
Speaker 1: our theme song was just playing just a moment ago.
Speaker 3: I had a vision.
Speaker 1: I had a vision, epiphotic, yes, that we were on
Speaker 1: stage performing the Mandy Connell theme song, much like the Monkeys,
Speaker 1: Like we make a fake band Josie in the Pussycat style.
Speaker 3: And we go up and we could perform the theme song. You're,
Speaker 3: of course the lead singer because it's a male voice.
Speaker 4: Mandy the musical.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: I feel like I could do drums on this.
Speaker 1: It's pretty basic, right, I mean, it's not that hard,
Speaker 1: and I keep I can keep good rhythm.
Speaker 3: I know a tiny bit about drumming.
Speaker 1: I think I know enough about drumming that once given
Speaker 1: the proper guidance, I could fake my way through this
Speaker 1: pretty easily.
Speaker 4: Mandy played by.
Speaker 3: That that would be oh no, Who would play me?
Speaker 4: That'd be popular?
Speaker 1: Who would play me? I mean, I don't even know
Speaker 1: who I'm thinking about this? I know, well, of course,
Speaker 1: I mean, was there ever any I was gonna go
Speaker 1: uh with, you know, Chris Evans? But whatever, It's fine,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, no, So this now, this is an
Speaker 1: idea circulating, like can't you see it? We could do
Speaker 1: a music video. It would be so much fun.
Speaker 4: Common spirit heal tax Line five six ex Glindszara, Who
Speaker 4: should play Mandy and I in a musical? Mandy the musical?
Speaker 1: Best answer wins you tickets to Opening Night?
Speaker 4: There you got, there you go.
Speaker 1: I did not mean to already distract myself in such
Speaker 1: a terrible fashion, because I have so much stuff on
Speaker 1: the blog today. It is a cold day outside one
Speaker 1: of those if you don't need to go anywhere. Just don't.
Speaker 1: Just don't do it. The roads are still really icy.
Speaker 1: It's just not very good. And it's still snowing at
Speaker 1: my house. Is it still snowing there?
Speaker 4: Very lightly?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, So we'll get through this together, Denver Rights
Speaker 1: and beyond.
Speaker 3: We'll get through snowpocalypse.
Speaker 1: We can handle it. We're tough, we're cut from already stock.
Speaker 1: As they say. Let's do this though, let's look at
Speaker 1: the blog together. If you don't regularly look at the blog,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that I judge you harshly, but I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not not saying that I judge you harshly for
Speaker 1: not reading the blog because I make it so easy
Speaker 1: to find. You go to mandy'sblog dot com. Mandy'sblog dot com,
Speaker 1: and then you look for the headline that says one
Speaker 1: seven twenty five blog why changing a diaper is the
Speaker 1: ultimate robot test. Then you click on that, and here
Speaker 1: are the headlines you will find within.
Speaker 5: I think its in office half of American, all the
Speaker 5: ships and clipments and say that's going to.
Speaker 1: Press plat today on the blog when can a robot
Speaker 1: change a diaper? No, there isn't another China virus coming.
Speaker 1: Homelessness skyrocketed in Colorado last year. Mayor Johnson shows how
Speaker 1: much of a weasel he is. This as Johnston gives
Speaker 1: himself good grades. Scrolling, scrolling. This made me laugh yesterday.
Speaker 1: I will drive to Preplo just for this. Another staunch
Speaker 1: progressive joins the Colorado Senate. Oh and another teacher praying
Speaker 1: on a student. The praying JASX granny says no thank
Speaker 1: you to a pardon God is on top of the
Speaker 1: pot cast world. Costco has always been a progressive company.
Speaker 1: Good water hyacinths solve the plastics problem. It's time to
Speaker 1: ban masks. The many failures of Justin Trudeau. Scrolling. Mark
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg rediscovers free speech. Dex Shepherd loves the Lions. Spider
Speaker 1: Man and Mary Jane are engaged, and what a heartbreaking
Speaker 1: reason to leave a team. Little Joy Red tries to
Speaker 1: keep January sixth a live.
Speaker 3: Costco grinds my gears with this one. You never know
Speaker 3: when the zumies are gonna hit.
Speaker 1: Sean Payton offends Yes, egg yolk color matters, And those
Speaker 1: are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Mandy,
Speaker 1: you've definitely got a bet Middler thing going on.
Speaker 3: Have her play you. I actually think that's a big compliment.
Speaker 1: I love her. I know her politics are just god awful,
Speaker 1: but I have loved her work for so many years
Speaker 1: that I just try to block out the politics so
Speaker 1: it doesn't suck the joy out of some of her
Speaker 1: performances that I still absolutely love. You just have to
Speaker 1: do that. Sometimes I can do that with with you know,
Speaker 1: some actors I struggle with others. So I appreciate that. Mandy.
Speaker 1: Don't say you're not sick. Most regular listeners know how
Speaker 1: sick you are. Well, thank you, sir or madam. You
Speaker 1: are not entirely incorrect, but not like a Rod's talking
Speaker 1: about Mandy, Amy Adams and Oscar Isaac. Who is Oscar Isaac?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 1: Yes, I like Amy Adams. That would be a compliment.
Speaker 1: I think she can kind of do anything. I think
Speaker 1: Amy Adams could totally pull this.
Speaker 4: Off Oscar Isaac episode seven of Star Wars, among other things.
Speaker 4: Very very good actor.
Speaker 3: Laura Lenny to play Mandy. I like her too.
Speaker 1: I like that you guys are giving me actors with gravitas,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, no fluff that makes me happy. Anyway,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some of the stuff on the blog, because,
Speaker 1: as you just heard, there's so much stuff on the
Speaker 1: blog today and I'm tempted to jump right to the
Speaker 1: mark Zuckerberg has had to come to Jesus. We'll see
Speaker 1: how that pans out. We'll do that a little bit later.
Speaker 1: Coming up at one o'clock. Thomas Fryar futurist, joins us.
Speaker 1: He's got a white paper. It's not out yet, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about this. It's when will a robot
Speaker 1: have the ability to change a dirty diaper? And when
Speaker 1: you initially think, well, it's not that hard, you know,
Speaker 1: and you sort of think about putting a diaper on
Speaker 1: a doll, remember when we all learned how to diaper
Speaker 1: a doll, And then you actually have a baby and
Speaker 1: you realize that you're trying to put a diaper onto
Speaker 1: an octopus that's angry, and so it's, you know, changing
Speaker 1: a diaper.
Speaker 3: There's definitely an art form to it.
Speaker 1: You got to keep things from fly, I mean just
Speaker 1: and that is going to be kind of one of
Speaker 1: the one of the ultimate tests for robots is can
Speaker 1: they change a diaper? We're going to talk about that
Speaker 1: at one. Okay, I just want to get this out
Speaker 1: of the way. I keep seeing stuff pop up on
Speaker 1: social media. No, mister Bean is not gonna play a Rod. No,
Speaker 1: Rowan Atkins is not gonna play a Rod. Mandy a wig.
Speaker 1: Julia Roberts could Aaron Brockovich the hell out of representing you?
Speaker 1: I love it. Mandy played by Renee Russo a rod
Speaker 1: cheeach as in cheach maren No, No, no, Mandy. Who's
Speaker 1: that actress that does the Discover commercials? Jennifer Coolidge? You
Speaker 1: know I love her. Chuck hates her, just hates her.
Speaker 1: Just not a fan. Anyway, back to serious topics here.
Speaker 1: There is not another China virus on the way. People
Speaker 1: are posting on Facebook things like Chinese hospitals are overwhelmed
Speaker 1: with people with a mysterious illness. Except it's not a
Speaker 1: mysterious illness. It is a human meta new wait, let
Speaker 1: me say if I can do this on the first try.
Speaker 1: Obviously not meta neumovirus human metanuma virus HMPV.
Speaker 3: The reason that it is not well known in.
Speaker 1: Many places is because for many people it just presents
Speaker 1: like the common cold.
Speaker 3: It's a respiratory virus and it.
Speaker 1: Is seasonal in China. It's apparently very common in China,
Speaker 1: and this year's outbreak is not worse than the outbreaks
Speaker 1: that they've had in previous years.
Speaker 3: So everybody who's freaking.
Speaker 1: Out and dusting off their handmade fabric masks can.
Speaker 3: Just chill out, calm down. It's gonna be fine, absolutely fine.
Speaker 3: So China. Now, don't get me wrong, I should.
Speaker 1: Say I don't trust the Chinese government as far as
Speaker 1: I can throw it. I should have stipulated that up front,
Speaker 1: But right now, the numbers that they're sharing art are
Speaker 1: not necessarily unbelievable.
Speaker 3: I guess that's the best way to say.
Speaker 1: So don't worry.
Speaker 3: We don't have to worry about another lab leak.
Speaker 1: Hopefully they fix that now that the Americans are not
Speaker 1: funding their research.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Probably we still are. I don't know. Okay. Gena Davis
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, love that one. Text her Mandy Roseanne
Speaker 1: Rosanna Dana Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh this is interesting.
Speaker 1: A Rod did you know there's a technical name for
Speaker 1: zoomis God? Because we got a zoomi video on the
Speaker 1: blog today. That's very funny.
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 1: It is FRAPs frenetic random activity periods.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 1: So your dog is frapping, stop rapping about. I'm going
Speaker 1: to say that to Jinks when Jinks gets the zoomies
Speaker 1: as scary because if she hits you while she's zooming,
Speaker 1: you're you're being tackled. It's like Nick Ferguson knocked you over. Anyway,
Speaker 1: don't worry about another virus from China. You know, right
Speaker 1: now in the United States we're having all break of RSV, pneumonia, influenza,
Speaker 1: and COVID. So all four of those things are happening
Speaker 1: right now in the United States, and the wastewater shows
Speaker 1: that they are happening with a great.
Speaker 3: Deal of vigorousness. But I certainly know fewer.
Speaker 1: People this year that are sick right now than I.
Speaker 3: Have in prior years.
Speaker 1: So maybe we're coming out of that period where every
Speaker 1: winter you were going to get sick with something, just
Speaker 1: you know, miserable. Everybody I know on the East Coast
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks has either had COVID or
Speaker 1: the flu or the neurovirus. Oh I forgot about neurovirus,
Speaker 1: the stomach bug as we've called it our entire lives.
Speaker 1: So you know, there's gonna be sickness, you guys, And
Speaker 1: I realize we're all gun shy, right, we're looking at
Speaker 1: these numbers, and you know, I saw a very alarmistly
Speaker 1: written news article about the rise of all these illnesses
Speaker 1: at the same time, and one of the lines in
Speaker 1: it was something to the effect of.
Speaker 3: Positive levels.
Speaker 1: Positive tests at this level would not have been enough
Speaker 1: to lift government restrictions during COVID.
Speaker 3: And what is that supposed to imply?
Speaker 1: First of all, the COVID that we're dealing with now
Speaker 1: is nothing like the COVID that first emerged. Viruses is
Speaker 1: part of their lifespan. As they evolve, they become more
Speaker 1: contagious and less deadly.
Speaker 3: That's why the common cold is such a pain in
Speaker 3: the ass.
Speaker 1: It it's not going to kill you. It's just going
Speaker 1: to make you miserable for seven to ten days. Right,
Speaker 1: It's almost insulting. And that's what COVID will become now. Still,
Speaker 1: it is still serious for some people. People who have
Speaker 1: other underlying, you know, issues, or people who are obese,
Speaker 1: have high blood pressure. Smokers seem to be protected in
Speaker 1: this one. For some reason, we've never.
Speaker 3: Really checked into that.
Speaker 1: I don't think they wanted to encourage people to pick
Speaker 1: up smoking just to avoid COVID. But we have to
Speaker 1: stop panicking every time, you know, illness in the middle
Speaker 1: of winter goes up. And that's where we are. We're
Speaker 1: in the middle of winter when everybody's inside together, and
Speaker 1: that's why this stuff spreads like this, and it happens
Speaker 1: every single year, and it has happened every single year
Speaker 1: since the beginning of the world and civilization, right, So
Speaker 1: we've just got to stop having anxiety about it. I
Speaker 1: read an article and I can't remember if someone sent
Speaker 1: it to me, but it is a group of people
Speaker 1: in Boulder.
Speaker 3: This was in the Boulder Weekly.
Speaker 1: This group of people that are working to get everyone
Speaker 1: back in masks because one of them said she is immunocompromised,
Speaker 1: and it's literally, she says.
Speaker 3: Saving her life.
Speaker 1: And they walk around in K ninety five masks all
Speaker 1: the time, and they're out there handing out masks and
Speaker 1: trying to encourage people to wear masks. It is so unscientific.
Speaker 1: The other day a guy came at me on the
Speaker 1: text line for saying that masks don't work. All the
Speaker 1: research before COVID showed they did not work. The only
Speaker 1: random control trial done during COVID showed they do not work.
Speaker 1: And this guy called me everything but a child of God,
Speaker 1: and I said, great, send me the random control trials
Speaker 1: that show that masking works, and I'll reassess my entire position.
Speaker 1: There's it's not scientific. And yet the people in this article,
Speaker 1: I my.
Speaker 3: Heart goes out to them because they're.
Speaker 1: They're stuck in this this bubble of fear that that anything,
Speaker 1: everything is going to happen, and and they're they're they're
Speaker 1: they're embarking on this don Quixote like quest to control
Speaker 1: everyone else in the world's behavior.
Speaker 3: You know, that's really what they're trying to do.
Speaker 1: What their endgame is is to have all of us
Speaker 1: in masks all the time. I'm not ever going to
Speaker 1: do that again, unless I'm doing surgery, in which case
Speaker 1: I will protect myself from biological material. So it's it's
Speaker 1: to me that we have terrified people. And now when
Speaker 1: I see somebody wearing a mask, I just assume that
Speaker 1: they are either about to commit a crime, or they
Speaker 1: are in some way, shape or form ill and have
Speaker 1: decided that they need to wear a mask.
Speaker 3: I don't care except the crime part.
Speaker 1: And I've got a story on the Blog today that
Speaker 1: Ilia Shapiro and others are beginning to say it's time
Speaker 1: to ban masks in big cities. And the reasoning is
Speaker 1: is that now pretty much the only people left wearing
Speaker 1: masks are people who have been terrified into thinking that
Speaker 1: not wearing them is it equates with death, even though
Speaker 1: the rest of us are still out here every single day,
Speaker 1: live in our best lives with no masks, not dying.
Speaker 1: I'm just throwing that out there, just you know, consider it.
Speaker 1: But it's the only people are those people and people
Speaker 1: committing crimes. And we've seen them used by Luigi Mangioni
Speaker 1: in his murder of the alleged murder of the CEO
Speaker 1: of United Healthcare in New York City last weekend. A
Speaker 1: guy pushed another guy into the path of an oncoming
Speaker 1: train wearing a mask to get away with it. So
Speaker 1: we've got to figure out how to make this work
Speaker 1: because we've now terrified these group of people that they
Speaker 1: honestly think they're going to die if everybody doesn't get
Speaker 1: a mask on, and now you have criminals that are
Speaker 1: exploiting that, and we've got to figure something out. It
Speaker 1: cannot go both ways, but do not worry. We are
Speaker 1: not at the beginning of another China virus, and if
Speaker 1: it happens, I will be the first one to report
Speaker 1: it here, unfiltered edited. I'm just passing information along this time.
Speaker 1: In the next pandemic, god forbid, I'm still here doing radio.
Speaker 1: In the next pandemic, Mandy, you can hit our Common
Speaker 1: Spirit Health text line at five sixty six nine Ozero, Mandy.
Speaker 1: Whole Foods, Sprouts, and Costco are the places I see
Speaker 1: the most masks. I'm starting to see more of them
Speaker 1: in airports. A Rod, When you guys flew to Mexico,
Speaker 1: did you see people in masks? What was the situation?
Speaker 4: Oh, just a normal, occasional not even.
Speaker 1: A handful, really, no, you know, just a smattering here
Speaker 1: and there. But it's definitely I don't know. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I just assume that they have a medical condition that
Speaker 1: they would like to wear a mask, and I don't
Speaker 1: think about it anymore. Mandy. I wore my first voluntary
Speaker 1: face mask yesterday because I have bronchitis, and even though
Speaker 1: I'm not contagious, I was going to get my nails done.
Speaker 3: I knew I wasn't going to.
Speaker 1: Be able to cover my mouth every time I coughed,
Speaker 1: So just out of consideration for my nail, lady. That's
Speaker 1: very considerate, Texter, very considerate, Well done, Well done, Mandy
Speaker 1: says this text. The masks are hilarious. I play in
Speaker 1: two different pool leagues. One lady plays in both of them.
Speaker 1: She only wears a mask when her girlfriend is with
Speaker 1: her social contagion. Wow, wow, what does that say about
Speaker 1: that relationship? By the way, I mean, ah ah, that's
Speaker 1: that's going nowhere fast, nowhere, fast man. Mandy, Jennifer Aniston
Speaker 1: and Jay Harrington from Swat for Us a Rod.
Speaker 3: I like it, Okay, I like it a lot. I
Speaker 3: could live with that.
Speaker 1: This Texter. Kate Bosworth would be Mandy. She's too skinny,
Speaker 1: you guys. I love her, but she's so tiny she
Speaker 1: couldn't Bolt's I need somebody more Amazonian, Okay, because that's
Speaker 1: honestly how I think about how I'm built. You're like,
Speaker 1: how are you?
Speaker 3: I'm built like an Amazon? I really am.
Speaker 1: I'm just a big person, which will be very handy
Speaker 1: in a post apocalyptic world, not that I think about
Speaker 1: those things. When we get back, I've got to talk
Speaker 1: about you know, we have spent last I checked, and
Speaker 1: maybe I could. I'll check with Rob Dawson to see
Speaker 1: if he remembers the number. But I think we're like
Speaker 1: it like one hundred million something something for homelessness. Maybe
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million, I don't know. But I'm going
Speaker 1: to tell you what happened to hold homelessness in Colorado
Speaker 1: last year. And if you listen to the show, you
Speaker 1: already know where this is going. Right, Yeah, let's just
Speaker 1: say this. We did not really have a good year
Speaker 1: when it comes to homelessness. But the good news is
Speaker 1: Mayor Mike Johnson is also giving himself a report card
Speaker 1: and declaring a little bit of victory in this area.
Speaker 1: So this is two fun stories to do at the
Speaker 1: same time. We'll do them when we get back. Keep
Speaker 1: it right here on KOA. I mentioned in the last
Speaker 1: segment that Mayor Mike Johnston just had a roundtable where
Speaker 1: he gave a I guess, a report card to his administration,
Speaker 1: which is a pretty bold move. I mean, I'd like
Speaker 1: to give myself a report card as well. But let
Speaker 1: me preface that by talking about some pretty damning statistics
Speaker 1: that were just released by the US Department of Housing
Speaker 1: and Urban Development. Their point in time survey on homelessness
Speaker 1: has been reported, and they say that homelessness in Colorado
Speaker 1: has increased by thirty percent in twenty twenty four. That
Speaker 1: is a staggering number. Staggering number. And I want to
Speaker 1: have Rob come in because Rob, what exactly? First of all,
Speaker 1: what was the roundtable? What was the purpose of the roundtable?
Speaker 1: Was it just to talk about how great they've done? Well?
Speaker 6: Yes, because they have outcomes that they have green in
Speaker 6: the front page.
Speaker 5: They have.
Speaker 6: His five goals about Denver Vibrant, affordable, safe, great government,
Speaker 6: employee engagement. Okay, so three of those categories he has
Speaker 6: a green check mark for a completed goal for vibrant, affordable,
Speaker 6: and safe and great government.
Speaker 1: Well wait, just like stop, stop, like back that truck
Speaker 1: up to the station, Rob, So dude said that Denver
Speaker 1: is now affordable. He gave himself a check mark on
Speaker 1: Denver being affordable because they just raised the minimum wage again.
Speaker 1: That means prices are going to go up again.
Speaker 6: So what I think the major problem with all of
Speaker 6: this is I was listening to this yesterday. First of all,
Speaker 6: they hit part of his m and a lot of people's.
Speaker 6: I think it's a growing number of politicians' mo throw
Speaker 6: a bunch of information at the media. They give us
Speaker 6: the report as he's talking about it. They're handing out
Speaker 6: the report to us. So number one, number two, what
Speaker 6: were his goals? He's he's invented goals that you and
Speaker 6: thousands of other people probably don't like. And he says
Speaker 6: he's followed the goals of things that you and other
Speaker 6: people don't like. And and it's I'm just not putting
Speaker 6: it on you. There are thousands of people that are
Speaker 6: really questioning the mayor right now about it. I was
Speaker 6: in terms of, you know, people that when you bring
Speaker 6: up affordability, for example, So in the affordability category, his
Speaker 6: goal at the start of twenty twenty four was reach
Speaker 6: a total of two thousand people moved indoors from unsheltered
Speaker 6: homelesses by into twenty twenty four. The outcome was twenty
Speaker 6: two thirty three brought indoors. You're wondering, how is that affordable?
Speaker 6: How does that fix the affordability thing?
Speaker 1: I think I don't even know how that's related to affordability.
Speaker 3: I truly don't.
Speaker 1: And when you talk about the amount of money that
Speaker 1: has been spent to make that happen, that now has
Speaker 1: to come out of the pockets of Denver taxpayers. I
Speaker 1: mean that, dude, to us stones the size of candals.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is some ballsy stuff, right, yeah.
Speaker 6: All right, So let me just bring up something of
Speaker 6: that because I was a Shamboyd that first brought it up.
Speaker 7: I asked him about it in the one on one.
Speaker 6: How many people have moved on from the tiny homes
Speaker 6: or remember, he's got tiny homes and another group of shelter.
Speaker 7: I think it's like hotels.
Speaker 6: I guess now we're still in the hotels for some
Speaker 6: of the homeless. So we've got home hotels and tiny
Speaker 6: homes together. They are housing people. Okay. My curiosity and
Speaker 6: I think yours all along has been as well. Are
Speaker 6: we moving people out of this eventually? Or are they
Speaker 6: just going to be there for two or three years
Speaker 6: to just kind of hang out, not really work or whatever?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 6: He said, eight hundred and fifty people out of the
Speaker 6: twenty two thirty three have moved on to permanent housing.
Speaker 6: He's also proud of the fact that they're not going
Speaker 6: back to homelessness, but.
Speaker 1: Having twelve percent of the program are people exited back
Speaker 1: to the streets.
Speaker 7: He said eighty two.
Speaker 6: I think the figure was eighty two percent of either
Speaker 6: moved on to better housing or are still with us.
Speaker 6: And it sounds like, if I'm doing the math right,
Speaker 6: eighteen percent have not succeeded the program. Now, would you
Speaker 6: say eighteen percent is a lot? Would you also say
Speaker 6: that the other.
Speaker 1: I actually think that's a pretty good number considering the
Speaker 1: population that you're.
Speaker 6: You're dealing with, the question is you're also wondering the
Speaker 6: nitty gritty of how they're get awaging that as success.
Speaker 1: This is just this is to put that next to affordable.
Speaker 1: That's stuck in my craw rob, because the city of
Speaker 1: Denver has done nothing except raise its own taxes and
Speaker 1: then take in, you know, a bunch of illegal immigrants
Speaker 1: and then ship them around to other neighborhoods. I mean,
Speaker 1: what is happening in Denver is mind blowing. I guess
Speaker 1: we should all be impressed that he didn't give himself
Speaker 1: across the.
Speaker 6: Board so great Again, I think his goals are either
Speaker 6: a different be too easy to make.
Speaker 7: In his own mind. Because I'm going to give you
Speaker 7: an example of the minus. First of all, we were
Speaker 7: texting yesterday. I was upset.
Speaker 6: I was not aware of the op ed for my
Speaker 6: COPMA before I went in there.
Speaker 7: It was brought up.
Speaker 6: In the sense that he said, I'll be happy to
Speaker 6: talk about it, but then he didn't talk about it.
Speaker 6: But I guess it was brought up in a one
Speaker 6: on one. I didn't catch it as well. I didn't
Speaker 6: go two and two together and enough time to ask
Speaker 6: him one on one on this.
Speaker 7: Here's what I think if I'm.
Speaker 6: Listening to him, and his goal is I want to
Speaker 6: help everybody, whether or not it seems like his goal is,
Speaker 6: I want to help anybody who enters the Denver city.
Speaker 7: Limit who is a migrant.
Speaker 6: I want to help because he's proud of we got
Speaker 6: five thousand people work authorization. We're going to have our
Speaker 6: first group of people from the Denver Asylum secret program
Speaker 6: graduates soon. That's his version of success. And that's what's
Speaker 6: difficult I think to get He won't get off of
Speaker 6: that like you try.
Speaker 1: To get him off of that. I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot of Denver rights right now that are starting to say,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, what about us, right?
Speaker 7: You know how we've been into the success.
Speaker 1: Right, And I think that that's going to be if
Speaker 1: if he continues in the manner that he is continuing,
Speaker 1: which is he has spent so much money with almost
Speaker 1: no accountability until after it's spent, right, And I know
Speaker 1: that there are some members of the Denversity Council that
Speaker 1: are starting to get tired of that.
Speaker 7: Amanda Sawyer and Stacy Gomore.
Speaker 6: In particularly the ones that are are they although there's
Speaker 6: not enough of them to reject or the wind up
Speaker 6: passing it, but they but they were like, we wish
Speaker 6: we could spend on other programs that might be cheaper
Speaker 6: and more effective instead of throwing the money truck at
Speaker 6: buildings and you know, hotels and the embassy suites.
Speaker 1: You know, it seems like you know. And don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, one of the things that I actually admire
Speaker 1: about him is that he hit the ground running and
Speaker 1: just started doing and doing and doing and doing.
Speaker 3: But at some point when doing and doing and doing ends.
Speaker 1: Up spending way too much money for too little a
Speaker 1: return on investment, then you've got to start being a
Speaker 1: little more cautious.
Speaker 3: Well, that's what I'd like to see.
Speaker 6: What I texted you yesterday and what I was trying
Speaker 6: to understand his version of downtown. I do think the
Speaker 6: homelessness is his number one issue. But I think the
Speaker 6: symbolic issue, which maybe two or three, and it all
Speaker 6: kinds of comes together, is is downtown better?
Speaker 7: First of all, I asked him.
Speaker 6: You have a lot of numbers, you're a numbers guy,
Speaker 6: but people don't feel it.
Speaker 7: They don't feel like downtown is better.
Speaker 6: I kind of wanted to ask them too about how
Speaker 6: expensive everything is, because that's another complaint of people. And
Speaker 6: you know, I didn't have time. We were under a
Speaker 6: time limit. But I asked him. I was like, first
Speaker 6: of all, is this a white flag that businesses aren't
Speaker 6: coming back? Is that why you want to convert residential housing?
Speaker 6: Business space to residential housing.
Speaker 7: No, I wouldn't say that. We just want a well
Speaker 7: round a neighborhood.
Speaker 6: We want, you know, if there's more people at nine
Speaker 6: o'clock at night walking their dogs or going for a run,
Speaker 6: then it's going to be safer. It's going to be
Speaker 6: safer when there's more people areund I love this.
Speaker 1: I love this this and there's some truth to it. Right,
Speaker 1: people are less likely to attack people about.
Speaker 6: I mean, if it's a downtown, it's a ghost town,
Speaker 6: which a lot of the reports are asking, Hey, downtown
Speaker 6: is still a ghost town.
Speaker 7: Oh that's okay.
Speaker 6: The voters approved the expansion of the Downtown Development Authority.
Speaker 6: Is going to raise five hundred and seventy million dollars.
Speaker 6: We're going to expand the district and it's going to
Speaker 6: a lot of it's going to be used for transitioning
Speaker 6: business space into residential space, and we'll get more people
Speaker 6: living down there and it'll be affordable down there. This
Speaker 6: is what we hear, and it comes around the circle. Well,
Speaker 6: how quickly is that going to happen?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know the answer to any of
Speaker 1: these questions, Rob, but it's like I said, this mayor's
Speaker 1: got some stones, and you put this together with his
Speaker 1: response to Mayor Kaufman's op ed that you just mentioned,
Speaker 1: which essentially was nuh.
Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, it was like.
Speaker 1: So flippant that I think this mayor is going to
Speaker 1: have a lot of problems with accountability when it gets
Speaker 1: down to it, because to your point, people don't feel
Speaker 1: like it's getting better. I just had a guy on
Speaker 1: who lives in the Highlands and he sent this letter
Speaker 1: to his landlord about why they were.
Speaker 3: Leaving the Highlands.
Speaker 1: And it's heartbreaking because people have now hit their limit
Speaker 1: and now they're just leaving. So that's not going to
Speaker 1: fix Denver either. So it's this whole thing's a mess.
Speaker 1: But I appreciate you taking second. Let me know what's
Speaker 1: going on.
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 6: Can I just add one other thing about affordable Okay?
Speaker 6: So one of his goals that he said he succeeded
Speaker 6: was permit secure of financier support the development of three
Speaker 6: thousand long term affordable units, and he said, we did
Speaker 6: threeenty twenty two last year. So someone asked, well the
Speaker 6: sales tax thing, remember the sales tax to get that
Speaker 6: pot of money?
Speaker 7: That was very unclear. That's why I felt He's.
Speaker 6: Like, yeah, it's gonna be harder this year because we
Speaker 6: did a lot of this with arp of money and
Speaker 6: that arp of money is not going to be there.
Speaker 6: So we that's why we came up with the sales
Speaker 6: tax idea, because the art of money is going away.
Speaker 6: We need one hundred million dollars to fill the gap.
Speaker 7: And since we didn't do that, And I know.
Speaker 6: What you're I think what you're thinking is why is
Speaker 6: stuff like this being done with arp of money?
Speaker 1: Like, why is stuff like this being done by government?
Speaker 1: Get out of the way and incentivize builders to build.
Speaker 1: All right, Ron, we're going to take a break. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Rob Dawson. Back to your room, hoole, We're gonna take
Speaker 1: a quick time out. We'll be very buck You know,
Speaker 1: I mentioned this when I was talking to Rob Dawson
Speaker 1: about the mayor's response to the mayor's op ed. Of course,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Mayor Mike Johnston's response to Mayor Mike
Speaker 1: Kaufman's op ed that he did yesterday, essentially throwing Mayor
Speaker 1: Mike Johnston under the bus. The backstory for those of
Speaker 1: you who might be just joining us today is that, uh,
Speaker 1: the Mayor of Aurora found out through open records requests
Speaker 1: that the Mayor of Denver had been paying non governmental
Speaker 1: organizations or NGOs as they're called, to move migrants out
Speaker 1: of Denver and into Aurora without notifying Aurora and essentially
Speaker 1: leaving all of these illegal immigrants homeless at the end
Speaker 1: of their thirty day voulters. So Mike Kaufman called out
Speaker 1: Mike Johnston on the issue in an op ed yesterday,
Speaker 1: and Mike Johnston, I guess, had this to say about it.
Speaker 1: He said, first, the City of Denver never places anyone anywhere.
Speaker 1: He's that he was blindsided by the op ed that
Speaker 1: included a headline claiming Denver's mayor offloads immigrants in Aurora.
Speaker 1: Johnston said, I'm surprised by this because Mayor Kaufman and
Speaker 1: I have a collaborative relationship. You know what. It's not
Speaker 1: collaborative to dump off illegal immigrants into somebody else's city
Speaker 1: and not let them know. Not collaborative at all. According
Speaker 1: to Johnston, Denver contracted with two nonprofits to find housing
Speaker 1: for migrants after more than forty thousand of them were
Speaker 1: bussed here from Texas last year. Johnston said, we give
Speaker 1: them dollars and they decide on housing. That sentence, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, is called passing the buck. Hey, it's not
Speaker 1: my fault.
Speaker 3: We don't tell him where to put these things. You
Speaker 3: have to just it's their fault, not mine.
Speaker 1: He continued. Every day it's looking for where that housing
Speaker 1: is and identifying what open unit it is. You might
Speaker 1: go to Thornton, you might go to North Glenn, you.
Speaker 3: Might go to Denver.
Speaker 1: So Thornton and North Glenn. You're on notice now if
Speaker 1: you read the op ed yesterday, which I linked to
Speaker 1: in the blog yesterday by Mayor Mike Kaufman. You would
Speaker 1: see that through those core requests, a line into the
Speaker 1: contract with the NGOs was inserted that said Denver or
Speaker 1: the surrounding areas to give these NGOs the permission to
Speaker 1: put illegal immigrants in other cities without notifying anyone that
Speaker 1: it was happening. Collaborative, My heini, this is not collaborative.
Speaker 1: So what we've learned here is that the City of
Speaker 1: Denver pays non governmental organizations to move illegal immigrants somewhere,
Speaker 1: and then no one bothers to ask, hey, uh, where'd
Speaker 1: you put those people? Should I mean, should we give
Speaker 1: them a call? Should we you know, just let them
Speaker 1: know that No? No, okay, no, I'm good. I don't
Speaker 1: want to know. La la la la la. That's the
Speaker 1: City of Denver's stance right now. They're gonna put their
Speaker 1: fingers in their ears and la la la la la
Speaker 1: themselves away. Anyway, it's all on the blog, you can
Speaker 1: check it out. But man, I'm telling you, Mayor Mike
Speaker 1: Johnson is like leaning into that kind of opie persona,
Speaker 1: and he thinks that people are gonna let him continue
Speaker 1: to not answer questions.
Speaker 3: But I'm telling you. Eventually, maybe maybe.
Speaker 1: He'll be held to account for some of these decisions
Speaker 1: that have not particularly been successful and have cost a
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of money. When we get back, we're talking
Speaker 1: to our futurist Thomas Frye about robots changing diapers. Now,
Speaker 1: that sounds like a weird thing to be talking to
Speaker 1: Thomas Frye about, but it is a tremendous challenge for
Speaker 1: people in robotics to make that simple thing happen. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk to him right after this. Keep it on, Kowa.
Speaker 1: Thomas Frye joining us from the future. Well, I mean
Speaker 1: maybe you're a little, uh, you know, further east than
Speaker 1: I am. I don't know. Good to see you, Thomas, Yeah,
Speaker 1: great being on your show again. So you sent me
Speaker 1: this paper that you'd written about a robot changing a diaper.
Speaker 1: And when you say it like that, like, because I
Speaker 1: said this earlier in the show, when will a robot
Speaker 1: be able to change a diaper? And it sounds like
Speaker 1: a simple proposition when you think about when you had
Speaker 1: to take those life skills classes and they gave you
Speaker 1: the doll and you had to do the triangle for
Speaker 1: the diaper, and you're like sure, a robot could do that,
Speaker 1: but then once you become a parent, you realize that
Speaker 1: it's like trying to put clothes on a fighting you know, octopus,
Speaker 1: angry octopus, and that's pooped everywhere, you know.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of different layers to it.
Speaker 1: Why is it important? Well, what kind of milestone is
Speaker 1: it for a robot to be able to change a
Speaker 1: human baby diaper?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 8: See, I view this as kind of the turn test
Speaker 8: of humanoid robots because it requires these tactile skills. That
Speaker 8: requires the ability having adaptability and the resources to deal
Speaker 8: with the screaming child and.
Speaker 5: Lots of variables that normally don't get.
Speaker 8: Programmed into something like this, and then also the ability
Speaker 8: to gain the trust of the mother.
Speaker 5: And that's the key thing here.
Speaker 8: I think that if you don't get the mother's trust,
Speaker 8: they will never buy a robot for their home. And
Speaker 8: so this is one of the kind of the ultimate
Speaker 8: litmus tests. I think of a robot like this, can
Speaker 8: they handle all of the different things, the different smells
Speaker 8: and the different chaotic moments and all of that and
Speaker 8: still perform a flawless job.
Speaker 1: So you just mentioned the touring test, and what is
Speaker 1: the Touring test and t U R I n G
Speaker 1: is what we're talking about.
Speaker 3: Alan Touring.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Alan Turing in around nineteen fifty he was just
Speaker 8: asking this question, can machines think? And so he came
Speaker 8: up with this Turing test, and the crude form of
Speaker 8: the test was, as you go into a room and
Speaker 8: it has two curtains, and behind one curtain is a
Speaker 8: computer and behind the other curtain, as a person, you
Speaker 8: start asking questions and the computer can answer and the
Speaker 8: human can answer, and at a certain point in time,
Speaker 8: as the computer evolves, then he sees surmised that you
Speaker 8: wouldn't be able to tell the difference between which is
Speaker 8: the computer and which is the human.
Speaker 5: And so we've used that kind of that Turing test.
Speaker 8: As kind of a litmus test for how far we've
Speaker 8: advanced with computer technology. And clearly we've passed the Turing
Speaker 8: test and several different categories, but there's a lot more
Speaker 8: categories to go in the future, because.
Speaker 1: I mean, chat GPT can have a conversation with you
Speaker 1: that is, you know, realistic enough that if you truly
Speaker 1: didn't know that it was a computer, you maybe could
Speaker 1: be fooled until they tell you something whack a doodle.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, but I think that's an interesting standard.
Speaker 1: So to be passable, let's just call it passable. That's
Speaker 1: a good way to put it, To be passable as
Speaker 1: a human in a conversation with robotics, What is it
Speaker 1: about specifically the physical part of changing a diaper that
Speaker 1: would have to be addressed that we haven't already addressed,
Speaker 1: if you know.
Speaker 5: What I mean. Yeah, I think it's all the variables.
Speaker 8: A child is squirming and screaming and crying and fussing
Speaker 8: and thrashing around, and.
Speaker 5: All of this is kind of delicate, little little pieces,
Speaker 5: so you don't want to hurt the child, you don't
Speaker 5: want to pinch the skin.
Speaker 8: There's all kinds of things that can go wrong in
Speaker 8: the middle of all this, and for people, this becomes
Speaker 8: a real high anxiety situation at times. Most of the
Speaker 8: time it's fairly straightforward and you can change diaper, zip, zip, zip,
Speaker 8: and you're finished. Other times it turns, especially when you're
Speaker 8: in public trying to do something.
Speaker 1: I think every parent has at least one story of
Speaker 1: that time my kid pooped all over me in public.
Speaker 1: I think everybody has at least one of those in
Speaker 1: their arsenal. If you're a parent, you know, and then
Speaker 1: you're in the in the you know, in the room trying.
Speaker 1: I absolutely understand that. So how far are we away?
Speaker 1: Because I have seen some videos lately that have been
Speaker 1: so realistic that I had to go back and I'm like,
Speaker 1: is this AI?
Speaker 9: Is it?
Speaker 1: Is it real? I hate that AI video has has
Speaker 1: gotten to the point where it truly is impossible to
Speaker 1: tell if what you're seeing is real or not. And
Speaker 1: where are we in robotics process right now? Like how
Speaker 1: close are we to having a robot that has just
Speaker 1: a soft enough touch that a mom would feel confident
Speaker 1: giving her baby to that robot?
Speaker 8: Okay, to put this in perspective, there's over one hundred
Speaker 8: companies throughout the world that have received funding for creating
Speaker 8: humanoid robots, so it's not possible to know exactly where
Speaker 8: all of them are in what stages are at.
Speaker 5: But in some of the videos I've.
Speaker 8: Seen of Optimists, that's the Elon musk about that it
Speaker 8: was creating the way the hand moves and is manipulated,
Speaker 8: and everything seems very it has some very delicate skills
Speaker 8: tied in with it. I think I think at least
Speaker 8: by two thousand and thirty. If not sooner, he'll be
Speaker 8: able to accomplish something like this. But again, the real
Speaker 8: litmus test ends up being is the mother going to
Speaker 8: trust the robot to do it? And I think there's
Speaker 8: a lot of barriers there. If the robot just screws
Speaker 8: up in one way or another, if the kid gets
Speaker 8: pinched one time, then they're going to be very hesitant
Speaker 8: to try it again.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I got to tell you, I'm already thinking
Speaker 1: of a science fiction thriller where in the future there
Speaker 1: is a world and robots are starting to become a
Speaker 1: normal part and then this extremist organization who doesn't want
Speaker 1: any kind of robotics goes in and actually kills a
Speaker 1: baby and frames a robot so they can prevent more
Speaker 1: robots from being purchased. That's my new just popped into
Speaker 1: my head right now, So if anybody wants to write
Speaker 1: that with me, let me know. But that's how my
Speaker 1: brain works, Mandy, and I think this is a valid question, Thomas,
Speaker 1: how long before babypas all over the robot? These robots
Speaker 1: are going to have to be durable, water proof, They're
Speaker 1: going to have to be able to function in a
Speaker 1: urinated on state correct, right.
Speaker 8: They're going to be asked to do all kinds of
Speaker 8: crazy things, not just infante care, but elder care, managing
Speaker 8: people in.
Speaker 5: The therapeutic situations where.
Speaker 8: PTSD issues are occurring, as people that are screaming and
Speaker 8: yelling and probably narcotics are involved, and you have to
Speaker 8: get somebody off of their the high that they're on.
Speaker 8: You can start going through a list of all kinds
Speaker 8: of psychotic situations that they may be thrust into, and
Speaker 8: then you can start seeing the total kind of chaos
Speaker 8: that they're going to have to contend with.
Speaker 5: I think there's going to be lots of challenging situations.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure this is very straightforward at all.
Speaker 1: Well, let me let me ask you this, because, like
Speaker 1: when I think about this and I think about what
Speaker 1: robots could look like in the near future, we think
Speaker 1: of humanoid robots. And I'm just going to use data
Speaker 1: from Star Trek Next Generation as an example, because technically
Speaker 1: he was a droid, but it's okay, we're going to
Speaker 1: use him as an example. Are we going to get
Speaker 1: to a place where they're going to have a human
Speaker 1: skin or a circulatory system exterior that is going to
Speaker 1: allow them to have a true human appearance, because that's
Speaker 1: I think what freaks people out. But on the flip side,
Speaker 1: you know that that could solve a lot of problems
Speaker 1: for people who are lonely. I mean, there's there's so
Speaker 1: many different weird applications for this, right I think.
Speaker 8: I think this the skin is going to change quite
Speaker 8: a bit over time as they become more human like
Speaker 8: and lifelike. In this idea of actually growing the skin
Speaker 8: on robot, I think we're going to be getting into.
Speaker 5: That fairly soon.
Speaker 8: So these are some of the things that we'll have
Speaker 8: to contend with us as robots evolve over the next
Speaker 8: forty fifty years. Keep in mind that the cars that
Speaker 8: we drive today have been in development for the last
Speaker 8: one hundred and twenty plus years, so it's taken that
Speaker 8: long to get the cars that are this good now.
Speaker 8: To get to a robot that is so finally refined
Speaker 8: that it can handle all these human like tests, it's
Speaker 8: going to take a while.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1: I have one more question about the robot thing, though,
Speaker 1: and that is like, in my mind, if I were
Speaker 1: going to have a robot caring for my child, which
Speaker 1: is not a given by any stretch of the imagination. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I would want to know that they were programmed
Speaker 1: with everything like first aid, so they know exactly what
Speaker 1: to do. And I was thinking to myself, like, would
Speaker 1: there be any limits to what you would want your
Speaker 1: robot to know? Or do you want a true know
Speaker 1: it all robot that you could go to at any
Speaker 1: given moment and say, robot, you know what's the flight
Speaker 1: spleeed of an unlaiden swallow and ask them the question
Speaker 1: and get an answer, So you know, how are there
Speaker 1: are you going to compartmentalize that knowledge? I guess this
Speaker 1: is my question.
Speaker 8: Well, if you have your five year old kid hanging
Speaker 8: out with robot asking a lot of questions, you may
Speaker 8: want to limit what they're willing to talk about, right right?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's probably a good idea. It's probably a
Speaker 1: very very good idea. An extraordinary number of people are
Speaker 1: hitting the text line with robot sex doll conversations.
Speaker 3: What is wrong with you people?
Speaker 1: But that's not what I was talking about when people
Speaker 1: were lonely. I'm talking about the epidemic of loneliness in
Speaker 1: this country, where it would be kind of cool to
Speaker 1: say I'd like to create a companion for me, and
Speaker 1: you could program the knowledge set that that robot got
Speaker 1: and maybe you say, look, I want them to have
Speaker 1: the same historical progression that I had growing up. So
Speaker 1: you can almost build yourself a peer And as people
Speaker 1: get older, and I mean in their eighties, late eighties, nineties,
Speaker 1: most of their peer groups starts to die. And that
Speaker 1: was something I learned from my late mother in law.
Speaker 1: She just wanted to talk to people who understood the references,
Speaker 1: you know, she wanted to talk to people who had
Speaker 1: the same cultural art that she had. So I think
Speaker 1: from that perspective, it could be a really interesting situation
Speaker 1: where you'd have a care you know, maybe a residential
Speaker 1: facility full of older people, and you could literally program
Speaker 1: them to be a different friend for every single person
Speaker 1: in that in that.
Speaker 8: Place, right right, And if you think about how long
Speaker 8: would it be before somebody is willing to leave and
Speaker 8: go out on a date with their wife or their
Speaker 8: husband and just let the robot care for the kids. Yeah,
Speaker 8: that'll be a different stage as well, having the robot
Speaker 8: and you know, prepare dinner for a room full of guests,
Speaker 8: people that show up for you're having invited twelve different
Speaker 8: people over for dinner and you have the robot prepare
Speaker 8: everything and then clean up afterwards and do the dishes.
Speaker 8: How skilled does that robot have to be to accomplish
Speaker 8: all of that? And is this a humanoid robot or
Speaker 8: is this just a kitchen with robotic arms that are
Speaker 8: doing most of that work.
Speaker 1: I got to tell you, I want a humanoid robot,
Speaker 1: at least humanoid ish, right, like those weird Honda dogs
Speaker 1: with no heads. I don't want that running around my property.
Speaker 1: I want something that looks more recognizable. That isn't the
Speaker 1: stuff nightmares are made out of, right, I want something
Speaker 1: that feels a little more rosy the robot than you know,
Speaker 1: a faceless kind of droid that's I don't know that
Speaker 1: straddles a weird line between you know, human and plastic
Speaker 1: that I wanted to somewhat be something that looks identifiable.
Speaker 3: I guess yeah.
Speaker 8: So if you yell at your robot dog, you wanted
Speaker 8: to acknowledge that it's being yelled.
Speaker 5: At us.
Speaker 1: Instead of it turning around and you're flipping me off.
Speaker 1: If robots are used for crime, then who is responsible?
Speaker 1: These are the reason I read that question because it
Speaker 1: is kind of silly, but it's not. That's part of
Speaker 1: the ethical dilemma in robotics like that, that's a big
Speaker 1: part of it. Can you order a robot to commit
Speaker 1: a crime? You know, I don't know who's.
Speaker 5: Doing that, right, right? Yeah, Yeah, we think we have
Speaker 5: problems now.
Speaker 8: I think we're going to get into really complicated things.
Speaker 8: But when we get into a world of robots soldiers
Speaker 8: and robot fighting machines, then kind of all bets are
Speaker 8: off because it's not just humanoid robots, it's flying robots
Speaker 8: that are drones.
Speaker 1: Right, That's what concerns me. That concerns me a lot more.
Speaker 1: The drone technology has come so far so fast that
Speaker 1: I think drones are really the next frontier when it
Speaker 1: comes to warfare, more so than humanoid robots, because they're
Speaker 1: way cheaper and they can be deployed right now, and
Speaker 1: the kind of precision nature that drones deliver is very
Speaker 1: concerning to me. I think that might be one of
Speaker 1: the most end up being one of the most significant
Speaker 1: weapons for the next twenty years, used by everybody, terrorists,
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody scares the crap out of me.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to lie, Thomas.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and then when you start thinking about, well, what
Speaker 8: form can these robotic soldiers take. They can look like
Speaker 8: a robotic snake as an example, yep, or a robotic
Speaker 8: fish that goes through the water and jumps out and
Speaker 8: blows up.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks for another thing to worry about. Now
Speaker 1: I'm fly fishing, Thanks so much, Thomas. It's bad enough
Speaker 1: I'm not going to catch anything. Now I have to
Speaker 1: worry about a giant fish leaping out of the water
Speaker 1: and using laser eyes to mow me down right there
Speaker 1: in the river.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, robot fish takes your fish off the hook.
Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, there you go, Yeah, a whole.
Speaker 1: It just eats it whole. No, did you see? And
Speaker 1: I don't know. I saw this last week. I should
Speaker 1: have found it and put it on the blog today,
Speaker 1: but I forgot. South Korean scientists have made tiny little
Speaker 1: nanobots that are based on ants, and it's absolutely the
Speaker 1: same concept as the movie Big Hero six.
Speaker 3: And I don't know, if you watch The Big Aero six,
Speaker 3: it's very good.
Speaker 1: But the whole thing is this kid invotes these little nanobots,
Speaker 1: and of course then someone steals them to use them
Speaker 1: for evil. But it's amazing to see they have these
Speaker 1: little tiny almost like grains of sand or not sand rice,
Speaker 1: And they can move things, and they can program these
Speaker 1: little robots sort collaboratively to move stuff the same way
Speaker 1: ants move stuff. And I'm thinking to myself, this is crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is science fiction.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're they're coming in every every scale.
Speaker 8: You can imagine every shape, every possible form, and they'll
Speaker 8: have multiple capabilities that we can we can just start
Speaker 8: going down a checklist.
Speaker 5: Can they fly? Can they swim?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 5: And they jump?
Speaker 8: And they can they climb a tree? Can they attach
Speaker 8: themselves to a car or a moving vehicle?
Speaker 5: And that's the world we're moving into.
Speaker 8: And somehow we've got to create limitations to prevent this
Speaker 8: from just totally disrupting the world that we live in.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, we've all seen the science fiction movies,
Speaker 1: and I'm just going to lean into it. You know,
Speaker 1: when the robots take over, Yeah, it'll be fine. I mean,
Speaker 1: can they do any worse than we're doing right now?
Speaker 1: On so many levels? So many levels? I also real quick,
Speaker 1: I want to get to this before we run out
Speaker 1: of time. I also linked to a story that you
Speaker 1: did about kids making a move away from college and
Speaker 1: yet still being able to have a successful career.
Speaker 3: And I wanted to ask you about this specifically.
Speaker 1: Because we've been talking a lot, and I know we
Speaker 1: don't ever talk about politics, but there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of conversation about H one B visas and immigrant labor,
Speaker 1: especially in the tech field, and things of that nature.
Speaker 3: So it seems that what you're.
Speaker 1: Saying in this article that I linked today on the
Speaker 1: blog is that there are companies that are offering certifications
Speaker 1: and other things to let tech minded kids who don't
Speaker 1: necessarily need to go the college route go ahead and
Speaker 1: pursue that as a career. Is that what we're looking
Speaker 1: at now?
Speaker 8: Right right there's lots of alternatives out there. They can
Speaker 8: go to trade schools, they can do apprenticeships, they can
Speaker 8: take online courses, go to community college coding boot camps,
Speaker 8: and the certification are actually becoming an alternative to college degrees.
Speaker 8: And so that's that's becoming very interesting. And a lot
Speaker 8: of them are just going straight into entrepreneurship. They're just
Speaker 8: going to start their own company and run with it.
Speaker 8: And so how do we credential people that have this
Speaker 8: miss mash of skills that are coming into the workforce
Speaker 8: right now now there's this the declining birth rates and
Speaker 8: the expensive tuition and the diminishing ROI that people get
Speaker 8: off going to college is amounted to only thirty six
Speaker 8: percent of people express confidence and higher education right now,
Speaker 8: so that that number keeps declining because the price keeps
Speaker 8: going up. I mean, we have one point seven trillion
Speaker 8: dollars in student loan debt in the country and in
Speaker 8: a huge portion of that, three point five million people
Speaker 8: over at the age of sixty still over one hundred
Speaker 8: and twenty five billion dollars.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of money for retirement.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is.
Speaker 8: A problem where we're just taking money from the future,
Speaker 8: and while it enriches us today, this creates this massive
Speaker 8: problem moving forward into the future.
Speaker 1: Well, I wanted to bring up the article because I
Speaker 1: think that I know people that have gone this route
Speaker 1: who did not go to high school. I mean, excuse me,
Speaker 1: did not go to college, but got Microsoft certifications, got
Speaker 1: various network certifications, did a lot of other stuff, and
Speaker 1: just went to work in tech. And now at my age,
Speaker 1: so that was thirty years ago before that was cool,
Speaker 1: and now they're vice president level and been developing for
Speaker 1: thirty years.
Speaker 3: So it is a viable pathway. But it's nice that.
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting because I believe that higher ed
Speaker 1: has done this to themselves by not adapting, by by
Speaker 1: continuing to cling to a model that doesn't necessarily work
Speaker 1: for everyone. And now it's we're going to We're going
Speaker 1: to see colleges clothes with some great regularity, I think,
Speaker 1: over the next ten years. But I think that's a
Speaker 1: good thing, and maybe they'll get serious about delivering on
Speaker 1: a mission by making sure the kids graduate with skills
Speaker 1: that can help them get an actual job.
Speaker 8: When you think of the cost of managing an entire
Speaker 8: campus and the student body, and the security, and the
Speaker 8: utilities and just all of the maintenance and repair an
Speaker 8: entire campus like that, these things are very expensive, and
Speaker 8: so they have to charge a lot of money to
Speaker 8: maintain all that, And I just I think we're at
Speaker 8: a point where fewer and fewer people.
Speaker 5: Are going to be willing to pay that, yep. And
Speaker 5: so we're going to.
Speaker 8: See lots of consolidations. We're going to see lots of
Speaker 8: selling off of assets. Mergers are going to happen. So
Speaker 8: we're going to see lots of crazy activity in the
Speaker 8: academia over the next even five years. Yeah, going to
Speaker 8: happen pretty quickly.
Speaker 3: Here Thomas Fryar futurists.
Speaker 1: You can find him if you want him to come
Speaker 1: speak to your organization about anything from the future.
Speaker 3: He is available to make that happen.
Speaker 1: Thomas. Good to see you, my friend. I'll see you
Speaker 1: next time. All right, Thanks by Thomas, We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Keep it on KOA.
Speaker 3: You can always text us at five six six nine.
Speaker 8: Oh.
Speaker 1: It says, are you aware that if students do not
Speaker 1: pursue college or approve trade school after high school graduation,
Speaker 1: that the high schools are dinged on the post secondary
Speaker 1: and workforce readiness portion of accountability reporting.
Speaker 3: And to this person, I responded, that is not my concern.
Speaker 1: Now. I don't want schools to be dinged on accountability,
Speaker 1: but I also would always look out for what was
Speaker 1: in the best interest of whatever individual we were talking about,
Speaker 1: and I don't know what that would be. Many of
Speaker 1: you on the tech line of pointed out that right now,
Speaker 1: coding is not the gravy train to the future that
Speaker 1: it once was, and to be perfectly frank, if I
Speaker 1: was advising a young technically minded kid who didn't necessarily
Speaker 1: want to go to college.
Speaker 3: I would tell him to find a robotics program and work.
Speaker 1: In robotics, because someone's got to be able to make
Speaker 1: all this stuff work right. And if coding isn't the thing,
Speaker 1: there's so many different options. What I don't understand, and
Speaker 1: I've not understood this for about ten years now, because
Speaker 1: about ten years ago roughly, I interviewed a man or
Speaker 1: a woman, I can't remember if it was a woman
Speaker 1: from what was then Arkae Mechanical which is now just
Speaker 1: ark and they have an internship program there, an apprenticeship program,
Speaker 1: I should say that at the time, and I have
Speaker 1: no idea if this is still.
Speaker 3: Going on, but I was so impressed with it at
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 1: I hope it is. They paid their apprentices to learn
Speaker 1: the job, and they taught people how to do all
Speaker 1: kinds of trades, and it was just a really good program.
Speaker 1: And they started it because they didn't have enough skilled
Speaker 1: labor to do what they needed done. And I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here looking at the conversation about H one B visas,
Speaker 1: and I know people who have come here on an
Speaker 1: H one V visa. I know people who have hired
Speaker 1: people on an H one B visa. I will tell
Speaker 1: you that in Orlando, there are so many people working
Speaker 1: at Disney World on an H one B visa for
Speaker 1: a couple of reasons. One, they just found that young
Speaker 1: people from other countries worked harder than Americans did, and
Speaker 1: that's why they bring them over. But when it comes
Speaker 1: to things like tech skills, why aren't companies that are
Speaker 1: making a ton of money and are sitting there crying
Speaker 1: about the workforce saying, look, we're going to create our
Speaker 1: own workforce. We're going to allow people to test into
Speaker 1: a program that will teach them how to do what
Speaker 1: they need, you know, we need them to do.
Speaker 3: And yet not everybody's going to stay working for you.
Speaker 1: So essentially you're training your competition's people, but at least
Speaker 1: you're going to know exactly what they learned when they
Speaker 1: go work for someone else. Mandy, do you know of
Speaker 1: any laws governing the programming of robotics security dogs to
Speaker 1: use lethal force?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 1: And that was the question that someone asked. If you
Speaker 1: programmed a dog to kill an intruder, but you didn't
Speaker 1: clarify what intruder was, and the dog kills the mailman,
Speaker 1: that seems to me like that would be a huge problem.
Speaker 1: So these are all these questions like if okay, let
Speaker 1: me ask you guys and you can weigh in on
Speaker 1: the common Spirit health text line at five six six nine. Oh,
Speaker 1: what weird question do you have about robot ethics? Because
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of a weird question, and that's
Speaker 1: about robot ethics. Who's responsible if you are a robot
Speaker 1: security dog kills someone. Now if they kill him on accident,
Speaker 1: you know, they something happens and they roll over and
Speaker 1: hurt some I don't know, I'm just speculating here, but
Speaker 1: you know, a true accident, then would they be would
Speaker 1: they be who would be guilty of manslaughter? Who would
Speaker 1: be held Ultimately the person who owned the robot would
Speaker 1: be held liable. But it's just very very interesting questions
Speaker 1: to ask about robots because.
Speaker 3: I do think we're moving.
Speaker 1: To a place where I hope anyway that by the
Speaker 1: end of my life, robots will be there to fill
Speaker 1: many of the roles that people don't want to fill now,
Speaker 1: you know, and we have far too people, far too
Speaker 1: few people that are able to be compassionate caregivers for
Speaker 1: the elderly. And when I'm elderly, if I could have
Speaker 1: a super nice robot that was programmed to talk about
Speaker 1: eighties music and Seinfeld and took really good care of me.
Speaker 1: I would be perfectly.
Speaker 3: Fine with that, perfectly fine.
Speaker 1: Hey, Mandy, Disney out so its entire id to it
Speaker 1: department years ago. That's why there's so many h one
Speaker 1: bs in Orlando, except most of those I think are
Speaker 1: in their offices in Seattle. I have a friend who
Speaker 1: was displaced by an H one B visa worker at Disney.
Speaker 1: She had to train her replacement and then they fired her.
Speaker 3: So awesome.
Speaker 1: Disney happiest place on earth unless you're a programmer. Manby,
Speaker 1: I agree with you, But why doing schools when they're
Speaker 1: doing what is right for students in Colorado? It's because
Speaker 1: of the law. I have always been in favor of
Speaker 1: holding schools accountable always. I think that the fact that
Speaker 1: you have schools, high schools in some places that are
Speaker 1: graduating twenty percent of their students, thirty percent of their students,
Speaker 1: even fifty percent of their students on time, and they're
Speaker 1: allowed to continue is criminal behavior.
Speaker 3: But I think we've swung the pendulum too far.
Speaker 1: We have now created the necessity of layers and layers
Speaker 1: of administrators and bureaucracy just to conform with the edicts
Speaker 1: from layers and layers of bureaucracy.
Speaker 3: On top of them, and one of those things, you know,
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 1: You want to know if the kids that go to
Speaker 1: the high school you're thinking about putting your kid in
Speaker 1: go to college. If that's your goals, then you want
Speaker 1: them to be around other college bound kids.
Speaker 3: I get it, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: But ultimately, you've got to look out for the kid
Speaker 1: first and they have to figure that out.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, here's a good one.
Speaker 1: This is you guys. Are you know what I've always
Speaker 1: thought that my listening audience was. I just envision you guys.
Speaker 1: You know, nice, proper people. You put your napkin in
Speaker 1: your lap when you eat, you know, you hold the
Speaker 1: door open for people. This is how I envision all
Speaker 1: of you.
Speaker 3: And then I get this text message. If I have
Speaker 3: a sex robot and sell it, am I a pimp?
Speaker 1: That is the ethical question that is asked on our
Speaker 1: text line right now, right now, Texter, I have my
Speaker 1: I am disappointed and you face on Okay, just imagine it. Yep,
Speaker 1: that's it.
Speaker 3: That's the face, Mandy.
Speaker 1: What constitutes consent with a sex robot? Excellent question?
Speaker 3: What if your security dog jumps the fence.
Speaker 1: Another good question about robot dogs killing people. If my
Speaker 1: robot was Johnny five from Short Circuit, I would be
Speaker 1: happy as a clam, says this texter. How could you
Speaker 1: not like cutest robot ever? Hey, guys, wasn't in my
Speaker 1: car to find out if you actually spoke about having
Speaker 1: robots on a farm to prevent coyotes or wolves. No,
Speaker 1: but that is a fantastic idea. See now, that would
Speaker 1: be the perfect application for those weird headless dog like
Speaker 1: robots that are scary as hell. That's where you put
Speaker 1: them out in the field with the wool. That's a
Speaker 1: great idea, Texter. Maybe the robot manufacturer would be held liable.
Speaker 1: Ask Ross about the exploding pressure book. Oh no, oh no,
Speaker 1: uh let's see, well, I have a employee, former employee
Speaker 1: of Arcaye Mechanical, not a fan. Not a fan anyway,
Speaker 1: So that's going to end our discussion on robots because
Speaker 1: I'm afraid more robots sex questions.
Speaker 3: Are going to come out anyway. We'll be right back
Speaker 3: after this.
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to plan a little mini Mandy
Speaker 1: Connell adventure for mid twenty twenty five. Do you know
Speaker 1: what is happening in Peblo, Colorado in mid twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Anthony Rodriguez, No, but I should. Uh. There's a Bojangles
Speaker 1: Fried Chicken opening in Peblo, Colorado, and I am going
Speaker 1: to be leading a pilgrimage to Bojangles.
Speaker 3: Have you ever eaten at Bojangles?
Speaker 8: Ay?
Speaker 4: Rod No, I don't believe I have.
Speaker 1: Okay, with your new exploration of Cajun food in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: Bojangles is going to immediately be your favorite fried chicken place.
Speaker 1: It's so good.
Speaker 3: I'm so mad it's in Preblo and not.
Speaker 1: Closer to me.
Speaker 4: Challenge accepted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think. Do you think if we rented a bus?
Speaker 1: Here's what I'm thinking. We rent a bus. We just
Speaker 1: go down to Preblo for the day, you know, like lunch,
Speaker 1: and then come back there. You go bada bing bataboo. Supoos.
Speaker 1: Just have to find out exactly when it's opening. Now,
Speaker 1: if you don't know about Bojangle's Chicken, let me just
Speaker 1: share this with you. They're a Carolina based restaurant chains
Speaker 1: started in nineteen seventy seven in Charlotte, North Carolina. They
Speaker 1: have since grown to eight hundred delicious locations. In seventeen states.
Speaker 1: Bojangle says it's legendary food is made from scratch and
Speaker 1: serve with a friendly smile. And guess what their tagline
Speaker 1: is a ride yo. It's bow time.
Speaker 3: No oh, see the synergy, synergy.
Speaker 4: I'm becoming aver in this.
Speaker 1: What a perfect time to enter the Colorado market because
Speaker 1: it's bow time has two meanings and one is delicious.
Speaker 1: I don't know about Bonnet, maybe he's delicious as well,
Speaker 1: but I do know about Bojangles Fried Chicken.
Speaker 3: And I'm a little too excited about this.
Speaker 1: Because you're from here, I can't ask you this question,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to ask my audience, many of you
Speaker 1: have moved from somewhere else, what what chain would you
Speaker 1: like to see have a presence in Colorado? And for me,
Speaker 1: it is Crystal Burger's first, and Bojangles because bo Jangles
Speaker 1: is absolutely the best.
Speaker 4: The easy cop out answer is now no longer an
Speaker 4: issue because for decades, Coloradin's always asked for in and out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now we have them there everywhere, bringing up like
Speaker 1: mushrooms after a rain.
Speaker 4: So now that check mark. I don't I don't know,
Speaker 4: I mean, I know, no, I take it back, I
Speaker 4: do know what people are going to say, and they're
Speaker 4: crazy and gross.
Speaker 2: What a burger?
Speaker 3: But what's already here?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What burger's here? I love what a burger?
Speaker 3: Because what burger was drunk food in college for me.
Speaker 1: So I have this like deep attachment to Waterburger, even
Speaker 1: though you know the fries are gross. I don't like
Speaker 1: the skinny shoe string fries whatever, but I still love
Speaker 1: Waterburger even sober. I still enjoy a Waterburger. But Crystal
Speaker 1: Burgers are like White Castle, only better. And they have
Speaker 1: these war dogs. Oh they're so good. So text me
Speaker 1: at five six six nine know if you're from if
Speaker 1: you're not from around here originally, what do you miss? Mandy?
Speaker 1: I'm in for the charter best of Bojangles in Preblo
Speaker 1: when they go let's go, let's go. Bojangles at the
Speaker 1: Charlotte Airport ruined it for me more the airport than
Speaker 1: the chicken. Do not hold the mess that is the
Speaker 1: Charlotte Airport against the delicious fried chicken served by our
Speaker 1: friend's Bojangles.
Speaker 4: Never take into account the airport versions.
Speaker 1: Come on, people, No, what did I tell you when
Speaker 1: when we were in Milwaukee, couldn't find anywhere else to
Speaker 1: ea because the airport's stinky, and he's like, let's go
Speaker 1: to Chili's. Every airport Chili's sucks. They all suck the
Speaker 1: same exact way. The service sucks, the limited menu sucks.
Speaker 1: They all suck. So you cannot hold that against Chilis,
Speaker 1: which which actually does a pretty dark good job by.
Speaker 4: The Beachers, is the lone example, the only example that
Speaker 4: has ever been good in an airport, and also good
Speaker 4: Beacher is the one where I got the cheese.
Speaker 1: Remember, oh yeah, that was a good one. You know,
Speaker 1: we actually have really good food in the Denver Airport
Speaker 1: because we have local restaurants that have opened an outpost
Speaker 1: and we are sort of the not the norm. Everybody's
Speaker 1: saying white Castle, y'all. I'm telling you right now, Crystal
Speaker 1: is a far superior product to white Castle, far superior.
Speaker 1: What is uh Brohms that's made an appearance a couple
Speaker 1: of times, round table pizza? Uh yeah, Cindy's gonna come
Speaker 1: with us to the bow Jangles Pilgrimage. Now, what do
Speaker 1: we need for an actual pilgrimage? And I don't mean
Speaker 1: to disparage pilgrims. I'm just curious. I've never pilgrimmed to something.
Speaker 1: What is required for a pilgrimage? Do we have to
Speaker 1: wear specific outfits?
Speaker 4: A double decker bus to drive us all?
Speaker 1: Do we even have those?
Speaker 4: I don't think so. M so we need to get one.
Speaker 4: Anyone got one?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Eco?
Speaker 1: I love? Okay, I missed them. Did you ever have
Speaker 1: those here?
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Actually they were a thing. They were everywhere all over Florida,
Speaker 1: and I.
Speaker 3: Loved a playa loco.
Speaker 1: It was like a Cuban chicken and beans and plantains
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Super super good.
Speaker 2: And then they kind of went away.
Speaker 4: Do we have any of Guy Fieri's restaurants here, because
Speaker 4: his burger joints are good? I don't think we have
Speaker 4: any here. We do not having one of those? We
Speaker 4: had one on our cruise.
Speaker 1: Oh man, wait a minute, I'm here, but spent some
Speaker 1: time in Chicago. I want a Portrillos. We have that here,
Speaker 1: don't we? Yeah, we have a Portillo's here. Hang on,
Speaker 1: that's what I thought. Or uh, we are eyeing a
Speaker 1: location in Littleton. They already have a location show we
Speaker 1: got too.
Speaker 4: We got a lost dose, two lost dose. We got
Speaker 4: one in and they're phenomenal one in Centennial, Yeah, and
Speaker 4: one in Littleton. Yeah.
Speaker 1: There you go, So you got your Patrillo's. See, we're
Speaker 1: here to connect people and make their dreams come true.
Speaker 1: Boom broms is ice cream from Texas. Okay, okay, do
Speaker 1: we have I think we have five guys here, don't we?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we have five guys. We have smash Burger.
Speaker 3: We have what's the other one?
Speaker 4: Oh, smash Burger.
Speaker 1: What was the other five guys?
Speaker 3: Competitor?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: Why can't I remember this?
Speaker 4: Smash?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: Dang it.
Speaker 3: Anyway, let's do this.
Speaker 1: You keep texting me the restaurants that you Oh my god,
Speaker 1: steak and Shake. Oh we've always called steak and shake
Speaker 1: choke and puke because it too was drunk food, but
Speaker 1: not as kind to us as what a burger was.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick time out so I'll be back
Speaker 1: with the bunch of restaurants I've never heard of. This
Speaker 1: is kind of cool. Right after this, The Mandy Connell
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Speaker 2: No, it's Mandy Connell, m.
Speaker 9: God, the nice food prey, thecon keeping you real sad
Speaker 9: bab welcome welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 1: To the third hour of the show. I have to
Speaker 1: tamp down a problem that was created because a rod
Speaker 1: You looked up a different restaurant than the restaurant that
Speaker 1: they were looking for. Portillo's is an Italian beef sandwich
Speaker 1: Chicago beef sandwich base like the one we ate at
Speaker 1: Los Dos Portrios Mexican joint and Texters caught that, whereas
Speaker 1: I did not. So there is not a Portillo's in
Speaker 1: the Denver metro, but there may be one opening in
Speaker 1: Lyttleton next year.
Speaker 3: Sorry, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: I've our seafood restaurants from Seattle. Yes, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: to be so happy if that was the thing we
Speaker 1: could do. So happy. And someone else pointed out to
Speaker 1: me that El Poyo Loco is open in Arvada and
Speaker 1: up on A seventy and one of the other I
Speaker 1: don't know, seventy and Peoria. I appreciate the wine Yogi
Speaker 1: backing me up on the Crystal Burger choch Keys.
Speaker 3: What is it choch Keys? Is that like an actual place?
Speaker 8: I know?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess that's a place.
Speaker 4: Now that the Pieces of Flair place? Or is that
Speaker 4: diverent one?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but I mean that that was from a movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, yeah, we'll figure it out anyway. Somebody just
Speaker 1: sent Bill Miller barbecue. We've got better barbecue now in
Speaker 1: Denver than we had when I moved here. When I
Speaker 1: first moved here, I got to tell you guys, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh God, I've moved to a barbecue wasteland.
Speaker 1: But since then, several good, good, good barbecue joints have
Speaker 1: opened up, and I've discovered some that I didn't know.
Speaker 1: We're here, so barbecue is finally coming along. I'm not
Speaker 1: a big fan of Texas barbecue though, because it's all like,
Speaker 1: all about the brisket, and to me, brisket is overcooked
Speaker 1: and dry. And I know all of you guys with
Speaker 1: a big green egg or screaming at your radio right
Speaker 1: now the nandy my brisket.
Speaker 3: I mean, I I can hear you. I can hear you.
Speaker 1: But I am a pork barbecue person. Ribs pulled pork,
Speaker 1: That's what I want. And I love barbecue chicken too,
Speaker 1: So I'm just not a barbecue beef person. Ryan Steakhouse,
Speaker 1: we do not need that here, No, co Dan, we
Speaker 1: don't need anything else to be help us be as
Speaker 1: big as a house. Okay, let me move on because
Speaker 1: I'm getting hungry, and I didn't want to get hungry.
Speaker 1: We've had another story today on the blog, unfortunately, about
Speaker 1: another teacher praying on a student. We had this conversation
Speaker 1: yesterday with Jimmy Segenberger about what's been going on and
Speaker 1: just how.
Speaker 3: Insane it is the way that schools treat this.
Speaker 1: Now, this was a private school in Montrose, and they
Speaker 1: seem to have taken swift action, but.
Speaker 3: It's it feels like it's happening more often.
Speaker 1: I'm probably wrong, though, it's just being reported more often
Speaker 1: than it was before. So I want to get to
Speaker 1: this story because I find this very very interesting and
Speaker 1: i'd like, you know what a Well, let's see if
Speaker 1: we can reach out to this woman. They call her
Speaker 1: the JA six Granny. Her name is Rebecca Lorenz. She
Speaker 1: was found guilty last year on four federal misdemeanor charges
Speaker 1: relating to her role in the US Capitol breach on
Speaker 1: January sixth. Now, what did she do?
Speaker 3: She's seen on video.
Speaker 1: Walking into the Capitol building with a group of other
Speaker 1: rally attendees. She spent about ten minutes there. She didn't
Speaker 1: touch anything, do anything or yell. She just looked and.
Speaker 3: Prayed and then she left.
Speaker 1: And for that, she's been on home confinement with an
Speaker 1: ankle monitor and been banned from using the Internet. And
Speaker 1: if Donald Trump does a massive pardon of January sixth defendants,
Speaker 1: she would likely be in that group. And she has
Speaker 1: come out to say, I don't want it. I'm not
Speaker 1: looking for the President to pardon me. And here's why
Speaker 1: she is in the process of appealing her conviction. Her
Speaker 1: lawyers made a First Amendment defense, and I think it's
Speaker 1: a strong one. I think a lot of the people
Speaker 1: that were convicted had a First Amendment defense. And I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about people who came in and destroyed things
Speaker 1: or walked around with electorn over their head. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about people who, like this woman, just walked
Speaker 1: around and then left. And she said if she gets
Speaker 1: a pardon, it will stop her appeal, and she is
Speaker 1: moving forward with her appeal because she thinks that protecting
Speaker 1: future citizens from government overreach when they exercise their rights
Speaker 1: to be heard needs to be stopped.
Speaker 3: And I admire the heck out of that. The Denver grandma.
Speaker 1: Says, should the Washington d c. Appellate Court agree that
Speaker 1: she's not liable for the one hundred and three thousand
Speaker 1: dollars fine levied because she was acting under rights allowed
Speaker 1: by the US Constitution's First Amendment. Lorenz says the decision
Speaker 1: would be precedent scenting, but the pardon would.
Speaker 3: Negate the appeal, and therefore she is moving forward.
Speaker 1: And say what you will about you know, people who
Speaker 1: demonstrate in a way you disagree with, at least they're
Speaker 1: sticking to their values. It's interesting to me, by the way,
Speaker 1: you know, she was caught, somebody ratted her out, Somebody
Speaker 1: called the FEDS and said, yes, she was at the Capitol.
Speaker 3: What kind of person do you have to be?
Speaker 1: What kind of acts do you have to have wanted
Speaker 1: to grind to bring this woman down to call the Feds?
Speaker 1: Because by all accounts, and maybe all accounts are lying,
Speaker 1: but by all accounts, she's a lovely woman. She's active
Speaker 1: in her church, she believes in American you know, exceptionalism.
Speaker 3: She just seems like a lovely person.
Speaker 1: So what did she do to someone to have them
Speaker 1: rat her out to the Feds as some kind of
Speaker 1: threat to democracy? And if she didn't do anything to them,
Speaker 1: and they're just miserable people who want to make sure
Speaker 1: that people that they disagree with suffer in the maximum sense.
Speaker 3: What kind of person are you? God, that's so gross,
Speaker 3: really really gross.
Speaker 1: They couldn't mean Schlatsky's instead of Choschke's. That's that's true. Mandy.
Speaker 1: You mentioned some time ago at about a great burger
Speaker 1: place on Colorado Boulevard plast Glendale towards I twenty five.
Speaker 3: What was the name that would be?
Speaker 1: Is it burg? No, wait a minute, hang on, I
Speaker 1: think it's Crown Burger. Is it Crownburger Erro Do you
Speaker 1: know Crown Burger Denver? I'm almost positive I'm looking it
Speaker 1: up right now. Yeah, it's Crown Burger. Looks dodgy as
Speaker 1: hell straight up. You're like, I don't know about eating here,
Speaker 1: and I always go inside because the drive the takes forever.
Speaker 1: The drive through was basically like a string and a
Speaker 1: cant at Crown Burger. But the food is ridiculously good.
Speaker 1: But only go in there if you're trying to have
Speaker 1: a heart attack, because that's exactly what it'll do for you.
Speaker 1: Buds Bar and scenario. We still have buds Bar. It's
Speaker 1: not a restaurant, but went to the Bengal game last weekend.
Speaker 1: We need a Jungle Gyms. Wow, that just took me back.
Speaker 1: My brother was a restaurant manager at Jungle Gyms during
Speaker 1: my lost decade. And this is such a dumb story.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you guys, it's such a dumb story.
Speaker 1: I'll tell it to you when we get back because
Speaker 1: it's that dumb.
Speaker 3: But it's so funny. At least it was really funny
Speaker 3: at the time. We'll see if it's funny now.
Speaker 1: Right after this my lost decade of my twenties, we
Speaker 1: gone to Happy Hour and this was at Church Street
Speaker 1: Station in Orlando, like one of the original downtown entertainment
Speaker 1: complexes in the country. They opened in like nineteen seventy something,
Speaker 1: so Jungle Gyms was part of that complex at this point.
Speaker 1: This was in the nineties, and we had been out
Speaker 1: drinking and one of our friends was one of those
Speaker 1: friends who you really loved being around until they had
Speaker 1: their third beer and they were always on their second beer,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And then she was like
Speaker 1: what I mean, just you know, kind of a loosey
Speaker 1: goosey Tasmanian Devils sort of situation. So we were like, okay, look,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go eat, I said. My brother's working at
Speaker 1: Jungle Gyms. He'll hook us up.
Speaker 3: So we go over to Jungle Gyms and she.
Speaker 1: Orders a burger and we all order burgers because that's
Speaker 1: what they had, was the burgers that were really good.
Speaker 1: And she gets her burger roll eating and she's like,
Speaker 1: this burger tastes like peanut butter. And we're just literally
Speaker 1: just going shut up and eat. You just need to
Speaker 1: put some food in your pie hole. Shut up and eat.
Speaker 1: So she's the whole time, she's complaining, and she's like,
Speaker 1: it tastes like peanut butter. So my brother walks up
Speaker 1: and he's like, how is everything. She goes, burger tastes
Speaker 1: like crap, It tastes like peanut butter. He goes, will
Speaker 1: you ordered the burger that comes with peanut butter on it?
Speaker 1: And I was like, see, now, that's why you don't
Speaker 1: need to be.
Speaker 3: Drunk that often, because we didn't know you were right.
Speaker 1: You were right? Ay Rod? Do you have that friend now,
Speaker 1: because you're in a little bit of a party phase
Speaker 1: right this minute. Do you have the Tasmanian devil friend?
Speaker 1: Or you old enough to not have the Tasmanian devil
Speaker 1: friend when they drink have.
Speaker 4: Or am no you better not?
Speaker 3: No, you kind of are though, like you are the
Speaker 3: life of the party when you've had a few inions.
Speaker 4: I'm the well, yeah, no, we've got we've got a
Speaker 4: couple of friends that fit the bill. I think we
Speaker 4: take turns, which makes it feel better. Sure, yeah, because
Speaker 4: then it's like, oh, there's the one.
Speaker 3: Passing around, the pain in the ass.
Speaker 4: Yes, the baton of nonsense, the bon nonsense. Yes, that's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, every group needs one of you.
Speaker 4: And I think the handoff method is good because you
Speaker 4: don't have the one person that's like, okay, they go.
Speaker 1: In my in my twenties, I had a friend who
Speaker 1: I've found out much later was not just an alcoholic
Speaker 1: but also a pill addict.
Speaker 3: Right, so I had no idea.
Speaker 1: So we'd be out and she'd have one drink and
Speaker 1: then she would be and I'm not exaggerating on the floor,
Speaker 1: like on the floor after one drink, and I thought
Speaker 1: she just can't hold her I don't know. Found out
Speaker 1: later she was also taking like oxycotton with it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was super hard.
Speaker 4: There are followers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I walked away during that fall, so you know,
Speaker 1: but it's there's always that one person in the group.
Speaker 1: And if you don't know the one person, maybe you
Speaker 1: just have a great friend group, or maybe you're the person.
Speaker 1: You know, if you've ever had to apologize the next
Speaker 1: day for something that you thought may have happened but
Speaker 1: you're not sure, you're probably the person.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, you said, yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we are going to take a time out in
Speaker 1: the next half hour. I got a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: that I want to cover. I've been wasting a lot
Speaker 1: of time today, but I enjoyed myself, so nice.
Speaker 3: Thanks for letting me do that. Looking at the ball.
Speaker 1: Okay, there's a picture on the blog today that I
Speaker 1: laughed out loud yesterday. I snort laughed because it made
Speaker 1: me laugh so hard. And it was posted by Representative
Speaker 1: Mike Collins. And it's the truly historic poster. And maybe
Speaker 1: you've seen this poster before with all of the United
Speaker 1: States presidents on it, but you've got to click it
Speaker 1: to open it to see the whole thing. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: this Texter said, I thought you were talking about the
Speaker 1: grocery store Jungle Jim's in Ohio. No, but I do
Speaker 1: know about that place as well. But click on this
Speaker 1: and look and see what it says about the last
Speaker 1: four years. So when we get back, we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about a few things. Number one, we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about Costco. My love of Costco is well documented,
Speaker 1: and people are just now finding out that Costco is
Speaker 1: run by progressive liberals.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 3: I know this might shock people, but I don't care.
Speaker 1: I don't care what Costco's politics aren't. I don't care.
Speaker 1: Doesn't make a difference to me because you know, when
Speaker 1: I walk in those beautiful stores at Costco to giant
Speaker 1: deals of massive packs of toilet paper and other things,
Speaker 1: no one asked me for my voter identification, and no
Speaker 1: one makes me feel unwelcome because I'm not a progressive liberal.
Speaker 1: So I don't care that Costco is not stopping its
Speaker 1: DEI programs. No, but I am mad at Costco for
Speaker 1: something totally unrelated to that. And when you guys here,
Speaker 1: when we get back, who knocked off Joe Rogan as
Speaker 1: the world's most listened to podcaster or podcast I should say,
Speaker 1: I hope that you feel the same way.
Speaker 5: Hi.
Speaker 1: No, oh god, that would be awesome. But I understand
Speaker 1: my limitations, right, I mean, I get it. I get
Speaker 1: it one hundred percent. Handy. I like this topic. Let's
Speaker 1: just talk about food, no, because it's making me hungry.
Speaker 1: The good burger place that made smash burgers were Lark Burger.
Speaker 1: They left my ear. I think Lark Burger went out
Speaker 1: of business, but that's not the one I'm thinking of.
Speaker 1: It was five guys.
Speaker 3: Maybe it was just smash Burger that I'm thinking of.
Speaker 1: I have no idea.
Speaker 3: We know we can't talk about that.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about who knocked Joe Rogan out
Speaker 1: of the number one podcast spot. And I was super
Speaker 1: excited about this, not because I have any will towards
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan, but when you hear who it is, you
Speaker 1: know we'll see right after this. Keep it on, ka.
Speaker 1: I've spent so much time on the show in the
Speaker 1: past few years talking about the cultural rot that we
Speaker 1: are in in our society and how we as individual
Speaker 1: humans have to do.
Speaker 3: A better job at making a better world.
Speaker 1: It sounds so cliche, right, I mean, like we're all
Speaker 1: going to sit around and sing kumbaye yeah, and everything's
Speaker 1: going to be fine and for a long time. And
Speaker 1: you know this, if you've listened to the program. I've
Speaker 1: attributed this to the lack of God in our society,
Speaker 1: and I believe you can be a good person to
Speaker 1: be an atheist one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: I don't believe that you have to be a person
Speaker 3: of faith in order.
Speaker 1: To be a good person. But that being said, we
Speaker 1: have far too many people in our society who are
Speaker 1: just flailing through life. They're just they have no direction,
Speaker 1: they have no purpose, their life has no meaning.
Speaker 3: And I think it manifests.
Speaker 1: Itself in an overly nasty society because we see people
Speaker 1: doing things and maybe it is the rise of cell
Speaker 1: phone cameras that make it so. Wherever you are in
Speaker 1: any situation, when you are at your worst, you're guaranteed
Speaker 1: that somebody is going to be there to film it.
Speaker 1: Not to help you, mind you, but film it. But
Speaker 1: listen to this. This is from Fox News, the number
Speaker 1: one podcast in the world to start off the new year.
Speaker 1: Doesn't belong to Joe Rogan, it doesn't belong to Alex Cooper,
Speaker 1: Mel Robbins, or anyone from the Kelsey clan. It belongs
Speaker 1: to father Mark Mary Ames of a cent and Press
Speaker 1: or Really, as he told Fox News Digital, it belongs
Speaker 1: to God. In a time when Bible sales are seeing
Speaker 1: a sudden spike amid research that suggests people are unsubscribing
Speaker 1: for religiosity at large, it comes as somewhat of a
Speaker 1: surprise that the Rosary in a Year with Father Mark
Speaker 1: Mary Ames CFR climbed to number one on Apple Podcasts
Speaker 1: to start off the new year, holding that spot for
Speaker 1: three consecutive days before falling to a noteworthy number two
Speaker 1: on January fourth. Now, I've never listened to Rosary in
Speaker 1: a year. A friend of mine text me this morning
Speaker 1: and said, I love Rosary in a year. I've already
Speaker 1: done it once. I'm doing it again. But growing up Catholic,
Speaker 1: when you're a kid, you never understand why people sit
Speaker 1: and pray the Rosary. And my late mother in law
Speaker 1: got a great deal of comfort from praying her Rosary
Speaker 1: at the end of her life. When we went to Israel,
Speaker 1: we went to Jerusalem, and in Jerusalem as the Church
Speaker 1: of the Holy Sepulcher, and in the Church of the
Speaker 1: Holy Sepulcher is the stone where it is believed that
Speaker 1: Jesus was removed from the tomb, put on the stone
Speaker 1: where he was anointed and covered with oil. And wrapped
Speaker 1: in a shroud before he was entombed, and the anointing
Speaker 1: stone is there at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher,
Speaker 1: and so we bought. One of the most disappointing parts
Speaker 1: of going to Jerusalem is the fact that it is
Speaker 1: a tourist attraction. Right right outside the Church of the
Speaker 1: Holy Sepulcher, there are people selling millions of different rosaries
Speaker 1: and crosses in all of this religious paraphernalia. And I
Speaker 1: went a little further to find a rosary that wasn't
Speaker 1: really cheap, and we bought her this rosary that was
Speaker 1: made of olive wood, and then we took it in
Speaker 1: and we put it on the anointing stone instead of prayer,
Speaker 1: and then we brought it back and she loved that rosary.
Speaker 1: I mean loved that rosary, and it gave her such comfort,
Speaker 1: especially the very end of her life.
Speaker 3: She died holding that rosary.
Speaker 1: And I realized later, much much later, because there were
Speaker 1: times in Catholic school when you had to say the
Speaker 1: rosary and it takes forever because each bead is a
Speaker 1: different prayer and there's a reason that you're doing it.
Speaker 1: And never bothered to learn any of that, but really
Speaker 1: what praying the Rosary is is it is a form
Speaker 1: of meditation where you can concentrate on that relationship with God.
Speaker 1: And the Rosary in a Year is an explanation of
Speaker 1: what the rosary is because it can be really, as
Speaker 1: this priest says, confusing and even intimidating. So it's fascinating
Speaker 1: to me that this is number one, because this is.
Speaker 3: Like old school.
Speaker 1: You know, there's another podcast that is really outstanding called
Speaker 1: Bible in a Year. I haven't listened to the whole thing.
Speaker 1: It's on my list of things to do. Listen to
Speaker 1: that once today. It's very very good. It's like the
Speaker 1: best way to dip your toe into learning about the Bible.
Speaker 1: And these podcasts are being listened to people who may
Speaker 1: or may not have ever grown up with any kind
Speaker 1: of faith, any kind of faith foundation.
Speaker 3: Maybe we're on the upswing, you guys. I hate to
Speaker 3: be cautious.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd love to be cautiously optimistic, but I
Speaker 1: have been Charlie Brown, and the world has pulled the
Speaker 1: football out in front of me far too often for
Speaker 1: me to think that, oh, yeah, everything's gonna be fine now.
Speaker 1: But it's nice that people are searching. It's nice that
Speaker 1: people are looking into that, and I hope that they
Speaker 1: have continued success about that. Now, I got a couple
Speaker 1: of things on the blog that I want to direct
Speaker 1: your attention today. And now that I hang on one second,
Speaker 1: let me open this Barry Weiss at the Free Press.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if this is Paywald or not.
Speaker 1: You guys, it's not for me, but I also subscribe,
Speaker 1: so if it is, I'm sorry. But she's got a
Speaker 1: list of the many failures of Justin Trudeau. Justin Trudeau
Speaker 1: yesterday stepped down as Prime Minister of Canada after starting
Speaker 1: out his career as prime minister basically the darling of
Speaker 1: the left leaning world. And I mean that not just
Speaker 1: in Canada. My friends here in the United States would
Speaker 1: post things on Facebook about how dreamy Justin Trudeau was.
Speaker 1: You know, oh my god, why can't we have a
Speaker 1: leader like him? He's so dreaming and all of his
Speaker 1: values are aligned perfectly. If you think he just got
Speaker 1: knocked out because you know, Trump is talking about annex
Speaker 1: in Canada, you've got to read this column where Barry
Speaker 1: Weiss really unpeels what happened in Canada.
Speaker 3: With Justin Trudeau and.
Speaker 1: Justin Trudeau did things that are either exactly the same
Speaker 1: or very close to what democrats want to do in Colorado.
Speaker 1: Hear me out.
Speaker 3: He absolutely Let me pull this up one second.
Speaker 1: Canada has long welcomed to immigrants, he says, Yet for
Speaker 1: the first time in twenty five years, the majority of
Speaker 1: Canadians now say immigration levels are too high. The one
Speaker 1: point one million new immigrants who came into the country
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two alone drove unprecedented competition for jobs.
Speaker 1: We're seeing some of the highest youth unemployments since twenty
Speaker 1: twelve in a matter of a year and a half.
Speaker 1: And when you get to crime, violent crime in Canada
Speaker 1: skyrocketed under Trudeau. On a per capita basis, homicides rose
Speaker 1: by more than fifty percent between twenty fourteen and twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, and on a per capita basis, there's now
Speaker 1: more violent crime in Canada than there is in the
Speaker 1: United States. This is a direct result of Trudeau's policies.
Speaker 1: He even created a policy to give lighter sentences to
Speaker 1: people of color who've been convicted of crimes. Does any
Speaker 1: of this sound familiar? We all remember and I mentioned
Speaker 1: this yesterday. His stellar work comple completely going full totalitarian
Speaker 1: on a group of Canadian truckers who took issue with
Speaker 1: the fact that they rode in their trucks by themselves
Speaker 1: doing their jobs, and yet they were required to be
Speaker 1: vaccinated in order to keep trucking. And not only did
Speaker 1: he call them a few thousand people shouting and waving swastikas,
Speaker 1: he invoked emergency powers never deployed in Canadian history.
Speaker 3: To steal the money that the truckers had.
Speaker 1: Collected, freezing their credit cards, breaking their access to their banks.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, Canadian judge ruled that Trudeau's actions
Speaker 1: were deeply unconstitutional. And then, don't even get me started
Speaker 1: on censorship. Trudeau's government has cracked down on what news
Speaker 1: Canadians are allowed to consume.
Speaker 3: Canada's Online News.
Speaker 1: Act was sold as a way to make social media
Speaker 1: companies pay news organizations when linking to their content, but
Speaker 1: in reality it wound up preventing The Free Press's own
Speaker 1: reporter in Ottawa from sharing her own work for the
Speaker 1: publication she works for on social media. And then we've
Speaker 1: got assisted suicide. Here's a statistic about this. I'll let
Speaker 1: you read the rest in the column. In twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: In some provinces, nearly five percent of Canadians died with
Speaker 1: government assistants, meaning the government killed them or allowed them
Speaker 1: to be killed. And the fetnal epidemic is most pronounced
Speaker 1: in Canada. In British Columbia, which is the most progressive
Speaker 1: province in the country. They have run that beautiful, beautiful
Speaker 1: city of Vancouver into the ground drug overdoses in a
Speaker 1: city where, by the way, they have safe injection sites,
Speaker 1: they give out free works for the drug addicts. Small
Speaker 1: amounts of her drugs are legal in Vancouver. The leading
Speaker 1: cause of death among ten to eighteen.
Speaker 3: Year olds was drug overdoses. Trio doesn't pay attention.
Speaker 1: He continues to push to expand these failed harm reduction
Speaker 1: strategies across the country. By the way, British Columbia is
Speaker 1: now leaning into involuntary care facilities for drug addicts. Huh,
Speaker 1: I wonder why that is. And then let's not even
Speaker 1: talk about the anti semitism in Canada. Before you know,
Speaker 1: I just the whole article is worth reading simply because
Speaker 1: Canada has already done so many of the things that
Speaker 1: democrats in this state are trying to do. Democrats nationwide
Speaker 1: are trying to do and it's biting them in the
Speaker 1: butt really really, really hard. I also put one of
Speaker 1: my favorite videos of a politician ever of all time
Speaker 1: on the blog today because it is about a man named,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to say his last name, Pierre Paulivier.
Speaker 1: I think he is right now odds on favorite to
Speaker 1: be the next prime minister. He is the leader of
Speaker 1: the Conservative Party and in this he is talking to
Speaker 1: a reporter while he is also eating an apple, Pierre
Speaker 1: Paul of Airs, and the reporter does that thing that
Speaker 1: reporters are prone to do when they say things like
Speaker 1: some say or reporters say, and Pierre Paul.
Speaker 3: Of Air is having nothing, none of it. He's like, no,
Speaker 3: who said that? What are you talking about? And the
Speaker 3: whole time he's just eating an apple.
Speaker 1: It's just a masterclass in not getting bogged down in
Speaker 1: the nonsense. This is one of the lessons that I
Speaker 1: would love for Donald Trump to learn. Don't get distracted
Speaker 1: by the nonsense. You know, if you know you have
Speaker 1: Donald Trump on the ropes, all you have to do
Speaker 1: is insult his manhood, insult his crowd sizes, insult his rallies, whatever.
Speaker 1: And most of the time. He's gonna follow you right
Speaker 1: down that path. I mean, you know that's big, my big,
Speaker 1: This guy nothing. He is unflappable. There are no flaps
Speaker 1: given in this video. Many, what article is this? It
Speaker 1: is an article from the Free Press. Pah, Mandy, you
Speaker 1: said Biden then in the buff Wait?
Speaker 3: Oh in the butt? No, bite them in the butt.
Speaker 1: Not Biden. No, I didn't say Biden in the butt.
Speaker 1: I said bite them. I just enunciated poorly. Texter he
Speaker 1: Mandy Jordan Peterson's recent interview with Canadian oppositionator Pierre poulaver
Speaker 1: Is Toliev Polyiev. Gotta figure that out. We'll tell you
Speaker 1: a lot of the damage Trudeau did. Even the Socialist
Speaker 1: Party in Canada said he was farther left than them. Well,
Speaker 1: they're just trying to get the stink off now. Mandy
Speaker 1: explains why most of the famous performers from Canada live
Speaker 1: in the US. Yep, yep, yep. The article is linked
Speaker 1: on the blog Texter, and it is linked with the
Speaker 1: headline on the blog at Mandy's blog dot com, The
Speaker 1: many failures of Justin Trudeau. Looking there, look for the
Speaker 1: highlight of the dark bold bit and you can click
Speaker 1: on it. Right through to the Free Press. Very very
Speaker 1: very good article, Mandy. I would highly recommend the Bible
Speaker 1: Recap with Tara Lee Kobble for a Bible study.
Speaker 3: I'm on my third year. Good to know, Mandy never
Speaker 3: came back from the blackface scandal?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? The blackface scandal came and went
Speaker 1: in like three weeks. That was You realize that was
Speaker 1: like eight or nine years ago, right, that that all happened.
Speaker 1: He's been caught in blackface like three times. But it's
Speaker 1: charming when he does it. It's just, you know, grossly
Speaker 1: racist when everyone else does it but him, you know. Anyway, Mandy,
Speaker 1: well you and rossby doing another wine and meet and greet.
Speaker 1: We had so much fun seeing you at Southlands. By
Speaker 1: the way, Chuck is the coolest guy. Don't tell him
Speaker 1: that we're working on it. You guys, we're working on it.
Speaker 1: We just don't have a lot of extra staff to
Speaker 1: make things like that happen. Ay, Rod can do it all.
Speaker 1: It's fine, grow perfectly fine thing to see here. Mark
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg has had what appears to be some kind of
Speaker 1: come to Jesus moment when it comes to how he
Speaker 1: feels about free speech. Because he sat down and gave
Speaker 1: quite the hit chat that I'm going to play right now.
Speaker 1: Released this video to let you know what is going
Speaker 1: to be happening at Facebook.
Speaker 3: Now just listen for a second.
Speaker 10: Hey, everyone, I want to talk about something important today,
Speaker 10: because it's time to get back to our roots around
Speaker 10: free expression on Facebook and Instagram. I started building social
Speaker 10: media to give people a voice. I gave a speech
Speaker 10: at Georgetown five years ago about the importance of protecting
Speaker 10: free expression and I still believe this today. But a
Speaker 10: lot has happened over the last several years. There's been
Speaker 10: widespread debate about potential harms from online content. Governments and
Speaker 10: legacy media have pushed to censor more and more. A
Speaker 10: lot of this is clearly political, but there's also a
Speaker 10: lot of legitimately bad stuff out there. Drugs, terrorism, child exploitation.
Speaker 10: These are things that we take very seriously, and I
Speaker 10: want to make sure that we handle responsibly.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to stop him there, because.
Speaker 1: I have no idea if this is genuine or if
Speaker 1: he's just sucking up to Donald Trump because he didn't
Speaker 1: like getting pulled through the wringer in the you know,
Speaker 1: by members of Congress. I don't know, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: lean in and just believe him that this is how
Speaker 1: he thinks things should go on Facebook. But I'll believe
Speaker 1: it when I see it. Although I don't have any
Speaker 1: problems on Facebook, because I'm never on Facebook anymore. I
Speaker 1: would like to say to Zuck that if you really
Speaker 1: want to make an impact with Facebook, just show me
Speaker 1: the stuff that my friends are posting.
Speaker 3: Let's start with that.
Speaker 1: My Facebook feed when I do go to Facebook is like,
Speaker 1: have people you should follow that I don't care about?
Speaker 1: A quarter ads, and then a quarter of people I actually.
Speaker 4: Know and stuff really old like hey Mary Christmas. Yeah,
Speaker 4: three weeks later, I.
Speaker 1: Don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 5: Win.
Speaker 3: I mean, I I I just I don't. I'm not
Speaker 3: going to pretend like I know it.
Speaker 1: Last year I read through the Bible using the Bible Project,
Speaker 1: and this year I started the Bible Recap.
Speaker 3: Very good, very very good.
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna I committed to like I already
Speaker 1: subscribed to Bible in a year. I just haven't done
Speaker 1: it yet. So I'll get right on that, all right. Uh,
Speaker 1: we got Rob Dawson ready to play today. Hey, Hey, Rob,
Speaker 1: what song did you sing at karaoke Uh July.
Speaker 4: Or didn't do it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Forgotten you?
Speaker 4: No the one Milwaukee until Stranger O stranger.
Speaker 1: That I almost said that yesterday, but then I was like, no,
Speaker 1: that's not it, that's not the one.
Speaker 6: Hey, good guys said that was one of his favorites.
Speaker 6: You sing with fred uh the Jimmy Buffett.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that's a good one too, That's a good one.
Speaker 1: And no, I didn't sing you, guys, I didn't. I didn't,
Speaker 1: says my voices. Not no, my voice will not allow
Speaker 1: that anymore. Mandy fun fact, Canada's national bird is the loon.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic, absolutely fantastic. All Right, now it's time for
Speaker 1: the most exciting segment on the radio of its.
Speaker 2: Kind in the world.
Speaker 1: Of the.
Speaker 3: All right, what is our what is our?
Speaker 4: What is our?
Speaker 1: Dad?
Speaker 3: Joke of the day?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 4: Which celebrity is always ready for cereal?
Speaker 1: Voice? Celebrity is always ready for real?
Speaker 3: I don't know, I'm thinking like a bowl. I don't
Speaker 3: know who with her spoon? Oh wow, I did not
Speaker 3: see that coming.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yes, anyway, the.
Speaker 4: Day please verb okay, belieguer.
Speaker 7: Uh tough to understand or or worry or.
Speaker 1: Is it like pushing the point like like being.
Speaker 4: Too beliegue her is to cause a person or business
Speaker 4: constant or repeated trouble. Belie ye yes.
Speaker 1: Speaking of besieges, what revolutionary artist painted the famous less did?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I want to get another question.
Speaker 4: What was the answer to that one? Whatever it was,
Speaker 4: was that right? Michael Angelo? U?
Speaker 1: No Picasso? A young male horse is called a cult?
Speaker 1: What is a young female horse called?
Speaker 7: I know that one?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 4: What's it? Start with an f uh? No clue?
Speaker 1: It's a It's a Philly and I know that because
Speaker 1: the Oaks Day is the Phillies Day at the.
Speaker 6: Races at the Kentucky get excited if Philly wins and
Speaker 6: the Kentucky.
Speaker 4: Can you make a cheese steak out of a Philly?
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess you could.
Speaker 7: Didn't the Philly? Can it Philly run in the Kentucky Derby?
Speaker 1: And I don't think so.
Speaker 3: I thought it was three year old? No, I think
Speaker 3: there were three year olds.
Speaker 7: I thought it was like on a Casarean stam of
Speaker 7: the horses or something.
Speaker 1: With the I don't know. We'll find out, though, I'll
Speaker 1: let you know tomorrow. What is our Jeopardy category button?
Speaker 4: It button it, Rob, you have an advantage. He is
Speaker 4: on zoom.
Speaker 7: That's not gonna work.
Speaker 4: Here we go. Yours may be in any or an
Speaker 4: audi maybe what's a belly button? That was yours?
Speaker 3: That was it?
Speaker 1: That was the easy one.
Speaker 7: I couldn't even think of what the.
Speaker 4: Category was in gold button it, button it, So that
Speaker 4: was belly button in Goldfinger. James Bond had one of
Speaker 4: these seats in his car.
Speaker 3: What is an eject button?
Speaker 4: I'm do I give it to you now because I
Speaker 4: don't know? Because now I'm not because we're gonna, we're gonna,
Speaker 4: we're gonna, we're not gonna make it as negative. But
Speaker 4: it was ejection seat. You said ejection a button.
Speaker 1: But true.
Speaker 4: So we're not going to give you the point or
Speaker 4: we're not going to give you anox injection.
Speaker 1: See, here you go.
Speaker 4: President Ford introduced a new economic program in October nineteen
Speaker 4: seventy four, with WIN buttons standing for whip this now.
Speaker 3: What Mandy, what is inflation?
Speaker 4: Okay? I know this animated on this animated TV show.
Speaker 4: George and Jane got button finger from pushing too many
Speaker 4: futuristic devices, Mandy, what is the jets? And finally, a
Speaker 4: type of shirt that is that symbolizes conformity, as in
Speaker 4: an eighteen.
Speaker 1: What's a button down?
Speaker 4: That's button down?
Speaker 1: What button out? Collar?
Speaker 4: No, it doesn't matter, button down shirt, he said, what
Speaker 4: kind of shirt?
Speaker 3: I thought that would be a redundant.
Speaker 1: Phillies have one. Thank you for the texters. Phillies can
Speaker 1: run in the derby.
Speaker 7: All right, there we go.
Speaker 1: I got that. That was good. You got one going
Speaker 1: for you right there. All right, guys, we'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We got weather Wednesday. We're going to find out when
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Speaker 3: And uh, I don't know what else. You're just gonna
Speaker 3: have to turn. Just just show on up and and
Speaker 3: see what happened.
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