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Speaker 4: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Wednesday edition of the show.
Speaker 4: I'm your host for the next three hours. Mandy Connell, joined,
Speaker 4: of course by my right hand man, dressed like a
Speaker 4: pumpkin today, Anthony Rodriguez gearing up for the big Halloweens. Now, Anthony,
Speaker 4: let me ask you a question before we do the blog,
Speaker 4: because we got some very interesting guests we got whether Wednesday,
Speaker 4: we got stuff and things today. But I'm going to
Speaker 4: ask you this question. How old were you when you
Speaker 4: stopped going trick or treating?
Speaker 5: Stop?
Speaker 4: Yeah? No, I know you don't give out candy because
Speaker 4: you like to terrorize the kids in your neighborhood.
Speaker 6: I guess technically thirty because we went to Booth the
Speaker 6: Zoo the other day and one of the stations I
Speaker 6: did get some candy, So technically, idy can me count that?
Speaker 4: I'm not talking about knocking on doors, ringing doorbells?
Speaker 5: Probably once I moved.
Speaker 6: Well, no, I don't think we did it in that place,
Speaker 6: so I mean probably around adulthood, so like around eighteen probably.
Speaker 4: This is now a big uh. This is a big
Speaker 4: to do on one of the social media groups that
Speaker 4: I'm in, So we got to talk about this later.
Speaker 4: There's a couple of things that I want to talk
Speaker 4: about today that I think maybe my view on it
Speaker 4: might surprise some people. So let's jump into the blog
Speaker 4: and we'll get in some of that right now. Find
Speaker 4: the blog by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog
Speaker 4: dot com. Look for the headline that says ten twenty
Speaker 4: three twenty four help kids learn about web safety with Agnes.
Speaker 4: Click on that and here are the headlines you will
Speaker 4: find within.
Speaker 2: Anyone's listening office.
Speaker 7: Half of American all with ships and clipas, and say
Speaker 7: that's going.
Speaker 2: To press.
Speaker 4: Today on the blog. My Voter Guide is out weather
Speaker 4: Wednesday at twelve thirty, a web series to teach kids
Speaker 4: about being online scrolling. Should candidates pay themselves from campaign funds?
Speaker 4: Colorado launches a great tool for healthcare. Did an imaginary
Speaker 4: gang cut off a guy's finger? Colorado is the seventh
Speaker 4: least safe safe state in the country. Let's talk about
Speaker 4: Colorado staying on daylight saving time for a minute. Our
Speaker 4: new director of homelessness worked in Seattle. The big money
Speaker 4: scam of BLM. We aren't loving it. Yes, you can
Speaker 4: take a ballot selfie in Colorado? Has Jason Crowe even
Speaker 4: campaigned in his district? Who will you see the most
Speaker 4: of on Halloween? Why is the New York Times hiding
Speaker 4: the hamas connections of a guest?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Look, the intelligence community pops up to protect thems again.
Speaker 4: There's today's word salad for you. Christians are watching porn?
Speaker 4: Want to win some Broncos tickets? Parents, just say no
Speaker 4: to this new trend for Halloween. SNL goes after influencers.
Speaker 4: Rudy is dead, ass broke. Why you don't see Trump
Speaker 4: signs in people's yard? Men are so weird at big
Speaker 4: endorsement of Harris. Congrats to Jelly Roll and no cutsies,
Speaker 4: no buttsies on American airlines. Those are the headlines on
Speaker 4: the blog at Mandy's blog dot com. Yep, there you go.
Speaker 4: Don't you just serve adult trick or treaters alcohol? Says
Speaker 4: this texter. No, I have done that in the past.
Speaker 4: I have been the person handing out my friend Karen
Speaker 4: overmade jello shots one year, so I was handing out
Speaker 4: jello shots. I was the most popular mom in the neighborhood.
Speaker 4: Everybody was like, greatest Halloween ever. But no, I'd strongly
Speaker 4: recommend against handing anyone you don't know alcohol in any situation.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, you know, it's not like you're at
Speaker 4: a concert and somebody passes you a joint and if
Speaker 4: you don't smoke, you just keep passing it. The unspoken
Speaker 4: uh don't toke at the car concert rule. What do
Speaker 4: you do a rod if somebody tries to pass you
Speaker 4: a joint? Do you just pass it along to the
Speaker 4: next person? Here you go. I'm just gonna you don't
Speaker 4: even at touch it. I'm a passer downer. I'm like,
Speaker 4: let's just keep that thing going if you want me to,
Speaker 4: it's fine with me. I have a video on the
Speaker 4: blog today and I usually warn you when it has
Speaker 4: bad language, but I forgot. I just realized I forgot
Speaker 4: to go back and put the bad language warning. It
Speaker 4: is sort of beeped out. But it is an older
Speaker 4: lady who took it upon herself to get to know
Speaker 4: one of the neighbors. And I want to talk about
Speaker 4: this today. I was talking to my brother the other
Speaker 4: day about, uh, just the election and everything, and he said,
Speaker 4: you know, some of my conservative friends are a little
Speaker 4: freaked out because the only yard signs they're seeing are
Speaker 4: Harris Wall signs. And I was like, yeah, I'm seeing
Speaker 4: some of that too, and he said, but then I
Speaker 4: reminded them the only reason there's no Trump Harris signs
Speaker 4: is because we don't want to hear their crap. And
Speaker 4: I was like, that is a fair point. That is
Speaker 4: a fair point. I think that you know, the Republicans
Speaker 4: back in the day used to talk about the silent majority.
Speaker 4: I think there are so many silent Trump voters who
Speaker 4: just don't want to talk about it. And after you
Speaker 4: see the video on the blog today from this person's
Speaker 4: ring camera of this little lady who everybody probably would
Speaker 4: look at her because she's old and go look at
Speaker 4: that nice little old lady, she is evil. She is
Speaker 4: an awful, awful person. I don't want to say she's evil.
Speaker 4: That is too harsh and that's mean, and I don't
Speaker 4: I have no way of knowing this. She's evil, but
Speaker 4: she's an awful person. As far as I know. She's
Speaker 4: never met this neighbor. It's not like she rings the
Speaker 4: doorbell and is like, hey, Dena, it's Barb or whatever,
Speaker 4: you know, and it's just, I mean, really really ridiculous. Mandy,
Speaker 4: your boy Donald worked one shift out of McDonald's. Uh oh,
Speaker 4: there's a conspiracy theory out though that. Did you hear this?
Speaker 5: A rod?
Speaker 4: This is going to be the thing that swings the election.
Speaker 4: Apparently Donald Trump was not actually a McDonald's employee on
Speaker 4: that day. Yeah. Yeah, he didn't really get a paycheck
Speaker 4: for his shift at McDonald's. There were no uniforms ordered
Speaker 4: for him. He doesn't have a type. Now, what he's
Speaker 4: talking about is the fact that in many states, including Colorado,
Speaker 4: McDonald's has now recalled all quarter pounder with cheese. They
Speaker 4: think it is the onions that contains the E coli
Speaker 4: that has made a lot of people very very sick
Speaker 4: and actually killed some people. We had an older gentleman
Speaker 4: here in Colorado who died after having a quarter pounder
Speaker 4: with cheese. Now, some would argue he was just you know,
Speaker 4: on the installment plan anyway, being an older guy eating
Speaker 4: quarter pounders with cheese, but it actually took his life,
Speaker 4: which is terrible and McDonald's has now aggressively recalled everything
Speaker 4: that could be possibly put on those sandwiches. But as
Speaker 4: Donald Trump worked a McDonald's in Pennsylvania, where there has
Speaker 4: not been an E coli outbreak linked to onions processed
Speaker 4: in three different plants on the West Coast, I think
Speaker 4: that he could be clear of any blame on this.
Speaker 4: But he didn't actually work there, which is shocking to people.
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yep, breaking news. Donald Trump was not They paid
Speaker 4: McDonald's employee on that day.
Speaker 5: You didn't get a paycheck?
Speaker 4: Nope, he did not. His paycheck will be your vote, Anthony.
Speaker 2: Oh see what I did there?
Speaker 4: Oh there you go, there you go. Conservatives don't want
Speaker 4: to deal with the party of racism and violence. We
Speaker 4: keep our Trump signs to ourselves. Yep. Mandy, my wife
Speaker 4: said no Trump signs because she wants our front window
Speaker 4: to stay intact. Mandy. I live in Missouri and there
Speaker 4: are way more Trump signs than Harris. Yes, in some
Speaker 4: parts of the country, the reverse is true.
Speaker 2: It just is what it is.
Speaker 4: There are more conservative parts of the country, there's more
Speaker 4: liberal parts of the country. And I think this is
Speaker 4: why this is where some of our issues have arisen
Speaker 4: because we have big red bubbles, we have big blue bubbles,
Speaker 4: but we don't have a lot of purple bubbles. So
Speaker 4: a lot of these people in the red or blue
Speaker 4: bubbles truly cannot understand the depths of dislike for the
Speaker 4: other team's candidate in some places. Here in Colorado. I
Speaker 4: tell people here in Colorado how much Trump is absolutely
Speaker 4: despised around the country. And then I tell my conservative
Speaker 4: friends in Florida, you can't believe how much Trump is
Speaker 4: despised in Colorado, and they don't believe me because everyone
Speaker 4: they know is a Trump supporter. They downplay it because
Speaker 4: they're not around it. So this is it anyway, So Mandy,
Speaker 4: why just the Burger Royal? Other burgers have the onions
Speaker 4: on them too. I don't think they're the same onions.
Speaker 4: You get the little tiny, square cut onions on the burgers, right,
Speaker 4: the little you know what I'm talking about, The little
Speaker 4: they're all like little square cut and then the quarter
Speaker 4: pounder has a more significant onion on it. And I
Speaker 4: think that's the problem. So only losers put up lawn signs. Sorry,
Speaker 4: you know what, though, here's the thing, you guys. I remember,
Speaker 4: back when I was a kid. When I was a
Speaker 4: kid during an election, I lived in a kind of
Speaker 4: a yellow dog Democrat place in Florida, where people were
Speaker 4: Democrats because their parents had been Democrats. They had, you know,
Speaker 4: on and on and on, and there was a healthy
Speaker 4: dose of racism in my community when I was very,
Speaker 4: very young. I'm happy to say that that has not
Speaker 4: the case now, but in my childhood there definitely was
Speaker 4: a healthy dose of racism. So we had all these
Speaker 4: yellow dog Democrats, but they were all very, very conservative.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, you could put a Democratic
Speaker 4: sign in your yard, your neighbor could have a Republican
Speaker 4: sign in their yard, and you know what, you would
Speaker 4: guys would talk about it or maybe not, but you'd
Speaker 4: still stand over the back fence and talk to each other,
Speaker 4: have a conversation, you know, be friends, barbecue together, that
Speaker 4: kind of stuff. It just was different. It was a
Speaker 4: completely different situation. So the fact that now having a
Speaker 4: yard sign for someone you disagree with gives this woman
Speaker 4: license to stand on someone else's porch and call them
Speaker 4: terrible names. That is a huge part of the problem.
Speaker 4: And I don't necessarily have as much evidence if any
Speaker 4: of people on the right doing that, going the other direction.
Speaker 4: And I'm sure there's people who have destroyed Harris Walls signs.
Speaker 4: I'm sure, absolutely positive, but you don't see it like
Speaker 4: you see it coming from the left. And then they
Speaker 4: turn around and say, we're doing this because you're violent.
Speaker 4: Like that kind of feels like a wife beater blaming
Speaker 4: his wife or making him angry. I'm just saying, just
Speaker 4: throwing that out there. It would be nice if we
Speaker 4: could have a really civil conversation, but I don't think
Speaker 4: we have to get way better candidates. We have to
Speaker 4: stop allowing the leadership of the two parties to divide
Speaker 4: us in this country. We have to stop with the
Speaker 4: if you don't agree with me, you're evil, Which is
Speaker 4: why I walk back my statement. I should not have
Speaker 4: called that woman evil. She's mean, she's awful, but I
Speaker 4: can't ascribe, you know, motives to her heart. Mandy Freeze
Speaker 4: dried diced onions, not sliced. But aren't the ones on
Speaker 4: the quarter pounder different? I have a question. This person says,
Speaker 4: why does the quarter pounder have different onions than the
Speaker 4: other burgers? Because it's special and it costs more, and
Speaker 4: the cheap o depot burgers and cheeseburgers, they don't cost more.
Speaker 6: Does it really have different onions? I'm trying to think
Speaker 6: what I believe? So aren't they both like the dice
Speaker 6: raw onions?
Speaker 4: Could we call a McDonald's.
Speaker 6: I'm a McDonald's guy, I mean I was.
Speaker 5: I used to love the hell out of McDonald's. And
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think.
Speaker 6: I'm looking at pictures of the quarter pounder because I
Speaker 6: know the mcdoubele, for example, well, which is my.
Speaker 5: Go to because it's only one piece of cheese, it's
Speaker 5: not overkiller on.
Speaker 6: G has the and I always say no onions, but
Speaker 6: I know it's like the dice raw onions. And I'm
Speaker 6: looking at quarter pounder pictures and it okay, so maybe
Speaker 6: not okay, So there's some picture that they are they're
Speaker 6: like stringy, Yeah, they are the stringy ones.
Speaker 5: Yeah, which how do you not ask for?
Speaker 6: If they if they do it, you gotta get you
Speaker 6: got to get those grilled a little bit then a
Speaker 6: raw as hell.
Speaker 4: Well, but there, but that's part of the charm of
Speaker 4: the quarter pounder. I mean, that's what are you blessed?
Speaker 5: Charm in raw onions?
Speaker 2: Zero a burger?
Speaker 4: Yes, no, no, no, no, always Okay, let's just sayest
Speaker 4: questions say in and out burger, in and out burger
Speaker 4: grilled onions, animal style always. I first of all, don't
Speaker 4: think in and out is that good. It's not bad,
Speaker 4: but it's.
Speaker 5: Not that good.
Speaker 6: It's the word that is the most misunderstood word in
Speaker 6: the English language.
Speaker 5: In and out is overrated. But they're not bad. They're
Speaker 5: they're good. They're good.
Speaker 4: They're not legendary like they're not great. They're not bad,
Speaker 4: but they're not great. They're just coverage way better fast
Speaker 4: food burger, I think. But nonetheless, when you go into
Speaker 4: like a restaurant and you order a burger, so you're
Speaker 4: getting a really nice burger? Are nice bun nothing squished
Speaker 4: together by someone who believes they're underpaid. And what do
Speaker 4: you get on the burger? What is the topping that
Speaker 4: you are getting on that burger? If you are getting
Speaker 4: a naked burger, what's going on that burger? In your world?
Speaker 6: Ketchup mustard cheese only that's it? Oh, lettuce, lettuce, depending
Speaker 6: on the restaurant. So McDonald's no, no, because shreds. It's
Speaker 6: not the shredded. It's a matter of freshness.
Speaker 4: Well, because it's shredded, shredded wilts faster than if you
Speaker 4: slap a piece of romain on there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I'm going pickles, cheese onion because you get that
Speaker 4: nice crunch. I'm getting lettuce and then mayo mustard and ketchup.
Speaker 5: Oh mayo mayo.
Speaker 6: There's a very very distinct difference on how you get
Speaker 6: mayo on a burger. I don't like a dollup of
Speaker 6: mayo like on the burger.
Speaker 4: I like your smerit.
Speaker 6: Yeah you schmeri it to moisturize the bun. Correct the
Speaker 6: key difference.
Speaker 4: But the pickles, No, it's the grease barrier, right. So
Speaker 4: you got the greasy burger, but you put the mayo
Speaker 4: on the bun to prevent the buns from getting super greasy.
Speaker 5: I never thought like that.
Speaker 6: I usually just to just to hydrate the bun, if
Speaker 6: you will. But pickles on the side. I love pickles.
Speaker 6: But pickles on a burgers the way the tast no, no, no,
Speaker 6: no no, I don't want to I want to taste
Speaker 6: the burger. I don't want to taste some pickles with
Speaker 6: a side of burger. That's what pickles do to a burger.
Speaker 4: No, no, I want to taste all of it. I
Speaker 4: want a salad and a burger and cheese and bread
Speaker 4: and no, no, no, god, no. Okay, we have an
Speaker 4: answer on the McDonald's question from a textor who seems authoritative.
Speaker 4: Quarter pounder has raw, Okay, Big Mac and the others
Speaker 4: have something else for onions, not raw. Well that's not authoritative. Yes,
Speaker 4: they're different. Onions rehydrated for the regular burgers, and Big
Speaker 4: Macs sliced fresh for the quarter pounder, and that fresh
Speaker 4: is what's given people he whole, So they think, yikes,
Speaker 4: A burger is not a burger, says this texter without
Speaker 4: a big thick slice of raw onion, preferably red onion.
Speaker 5: Grow up, young man, out, get out.
Speaker 4: There's the door, Jason says. Bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon. But
Speaker 4: I don't like the and on my tee berg.
Speaker 6: I don't think I do anymore because it takes away
Speaker 6: the texture's wrong. Yeah, the texture's wrong. Bacon on the side,
Speaker 6: just like pickles. Yeah, they're for But give me grilled
Speaker 6: onions all day on any burger.
Speaker 4: Oh ah, we're making people hungry, says this texter.
Speaker 5: Sorry about that.
Speaker 4: Sorry, not sorry, Mandy. I literally invited all the Democrats
Speaker 4: to come over and see how I became this way.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't that be funny? Put up a sign, put up
Speaker 4: a table in your yard. You're in the neighborhood where
Speaker 4: everybody else has a Harris Wall sign, and you just
Speaker 4: pull up a chair and you put a big sign
Speaker 4: that says I'm voting for Trump. Ask me why, and
Speaker 4: then just invite your neighbors to come have a conversation
Speaker 4: that would probably not go well, not go well at all.
Speaker 4: I would advise you to watch that video where the
Speaker 4: little old lady who should be nice is not nice
Speaker 4: at all. Anyway. Uh, my voter guide is out. You
Speaker 4: can find it by clicking on the top link of
Speaker 4: the blog. Now, should I block the guy who keeps
Speaker 4: calling me fat? On the text line Today's Today's Yeah, well,
Speaker 4: I guess we know why you're a fat blank? Maybe
Speaker 4: you should have tried suing the inventor of the fork.
Speaker 4: I mean, here's the thing, Should I or should I?
Speaker 1: Just?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I think I will. I think I will, just
Speaker 4: because wouldn't it frustrate him terribly to not have any way?
Speaker 4: No outlet, none at all? You can you can always
Speaker 4: email me Mandy at iHeartMedia dot com and then I'll
Speaker 4: send that to the joke folder automatically and that will
Speaker 4: give me great joy as well.
Speaker 5: Fat. I don't see that.
Speaker 4: I'm just I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't see that.
Speaker 4: Uh number seven currently? So uh? Or should we just
Speaker 4: call call him on the area?
Speaker 3: Run?
Speaker 4: Call him right now?
Speaker 5: I'm literally searching the word fat.
Speaker 4: Oh, she didn't spell it out. He said F period
Speaker 4: capital F period. But I know what he meant. Now
Speaker 4: it's thirteen. I think we should call him on the air,
Speaker 4: call him right now, call him because they'll never call me.
Speaker 3: F.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it. Call them right now.
Speaker 5: Doesn't make any sense. How does that? How do you
Speaker 5: get fat out of that?
Speaker 4: Well, because you're in FF meaning fat and then the
Speaker 4: other Yes, well that's it. Yeah, No, let's call it.
Speaker 4: Let's call it. Let's call them.
Speaker 5: I don't want someone to call you fat on air
Speaker 5: and then I'll get I just want to know.
Speaker 4: I want to know what this person gets out of it, Like,
Speaker 4: does it does it excite them? Does it make them
Speaker 4: feel good? I'm curious about the emotional response that person
Speaker 4: gets from texting that that information get them on the phone.
Speaker 4: I don't want their I don't want if it goes
Speaker 4: to voicemail, which I mean at this point, I certainly
Speaker 4: hope they they would send you to voicemail, but I'm
Speaker 4: sure they won't. I don't want their information to go out.
Speaker 4: I'm not trying to, like, you know, out somebody. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so we'll do that. That's fun. And then also at
Speaker 4: twelve thirty, we're going to talk to Dave Frasier because
Speaker 4: we've got weather Wednesday coming up today. And I got
Speaker 4: to tell you, I realize that all of the weather
Speaker 4: people are like, we should have we should have much
Speaker 4: cooler temperatures right now.
Speaker 5: So there's nobody there voicemail. Ah, but they didn't send
Speaker 5: me to voicemail, so they know what's up.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So weird, so brave, so brave. We're calling to
Speaker 4: ask you questions, sir, madam, calling to ask you. Although
Speaker 4: women hardly ever call other women.
Speaker 6: Fat, well on the text line, Yeah, Mandy, you weren't
Speaker 6: even fat before soda.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you appreciate that. And I'm not looking for compliments.
Speaker 4: I'm just letting you know some of the fun stuff
Speaker 4: that people think is okay to send to your favorite
Speaker 4: talk show hosts out there. And if it's not me.
Speaker 4: They're sending it to someone else now.
Speaker 6: Also, the worst meat Mandy was a rod dropped on
Speaker 6: his head as an infant. He doesn't enjoy prime rib
Speaker 6: but likes McDonald's. Something wrong with that picture to you,
Speaker 6: texture kind sir or madam. Hell no, prime rib is nasty.
Speaker 4: And my husband would agree with a rod on that
Speaker 4: he doesn't like prime rib either. I love prime re.
Speaker 5: It is gross, it is nasty. It is the Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I love it so love it, love it blackened. Anyway,
Speaker 4: let's do this. We're gonna take a time out and
Speaker 4: then we're gonna come back with weather Wednesday. As I
Speaker 4: was saying, all the weather forecasters are like, we should
Speaker 4: be so much cooler right now. But does anybody hate
Speaker 4: I have seventy five? I don't. I gonna tell you
Speaker 4: I'm loving this, Ay, Rod, did you turn your sprinklers
Speaker 4: off yet?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: But we uh insulated the outer section for now.
Speaker 4: We blew ours out this week. It's done. It's done.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I probably should stop growing. I don't think I
Speaker 5: have to mow it again.
Speaker 4: No, I think we should be done with that. We
Speaker 4: used our mower to pick up the leaves. But whatever,
Speaker 4: it's fine. All right, let's take a quick time out,
Speaker 4: Dave Fraser when we get back with your weather questions,
Speaker 4: and we'll find out how much more this glorious weather
Speaker 4: we're gonna get right after this, all kids, ladies, and gentlemen,
Speaker 4: big announcement. The election is practically over. We can cancel
Speaker 4: it because there's no chance Trump is gonna win because
Speaker 4: the insane clown Posse's violent Jay has endorsed Kamala Harris
Speaker 4: for president. That is your breaking news. We can all
Speaker 4: go about our business now and get on with weather Wednesday.
Speaker 4: Our favorite chief meteorologist from Fox thirty one, Katievr. Dave Frasier. Hello, Dave,
Speaker 4: how are you, my friend?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great.
Speaker 8: How are you doing?
Speaker 4: I am doing just fine. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 4: I'm happy to announce we can stop paying attention to
Speaker 4: politics because the insane clown Posse has endorsed Kamala Harris,
Speaker 4: so obviously the race is over. I don't need to
Speaker 4: do anymore that so we can talk about important things
Speaker 4: like the weather. Dave. I realize I'm supposed to be
Speaker 4: upset or something about it about it being seventy five
Speaker 4: degrees today, but I do not hate this. How much
Speaker 4: longer of this glorious are we having.
Speaker 8: Several more days? Actually, all the way through Monday of
Speaker 8: next week, we're looking to be running above average. And
Speaker 8: by the way, I'm in your corner, I'm not upset
Speaker 8: the fact that the temperatures are running about ten to
Speaker 8: twelve to ten degrees above normal. We're not breaking records,
Speaker 8: which all are in the eighties. And it is nice.
Speaker 8: It's you know, it's that kind of fall warm. It's
Speaker 8: not summer hot, yep. And the evening the evenings are fantastic,
Speaker 8: cools off quickly with the earlier setting sun. You got
Speaker 8: the overnight lows in the forties. You know, we haven't
Speaker 8: had that freeze yet, which we're looking at potentially next
Speaker 8: Tuesday night into Wednesday we might be right there at
Speaker 8: thirty two degrees for the time this year. So we're
Speaker 8: talking an eye on that change coming up and the
Speaker 8: potential for maybe another shot of moisture. It's very very
Speaker 8: dry here in October, so to be talking about getting
Speaker 8: a little moisture, whether it be a rain, rain, snow mixed,
Speaker 8: or even a little bit of heavy wet snow in
Speaker 8: a couple of spots is not a bad thing.
Speaker 4: No, we did get some good snow in the mountains,
Speaker 4: which is always you know, you always want to have
Speaker 4: a nice solid start because we're thinking about our snowpack here.
Speaker 4: And I guess Wolf Creek is opening this week. They
Speaker 4: got a ton of snow down there at wolf Preek Pass,
Speaker 4: so they're opening there resort. I believe maybe this weekend.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, yes, so, oh, yesterday, so.
Speaker 4: They're already open today. That seems a little crazy.
Speaker 8: Well, they got if you've been down to skied Wolf Creek,
Speaker 8: it's rugged skiing, it's good skiing. It's three up and down.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's yeah.
Speaker 8: And so they got twenty seven inches over five days,
Speaker 8: twenty two inches in a little over a day, and
Speaker 8: that was enough to get them the eighteen inch base
Speaker 8: that they need mid mountain to get.
Speaker 7: People up in skiing.
Speaker 8: And some of the if you go on social media,
Speaker 8: you'll see some of the guys skiing and folks skiing
Speaker 8: down there, and it looks it's pretty good. And then
Speaker 8: for the north Central Mountains, places like Copper and Keystone
Speaker 8: and a Rapahoe Basin and Loveland got anywhere from five
Speaker 8: to ten inches, and so that's a helping hand from
Speaker 8: other natures they continue to run their snowguns in hopes
Speaker 8: of getting opened soon.
Speaker 4: All Right, I got a question from the text line
Speaker 4: for Dave. Have we seen temperatures like this year September
Speaker 4: and October in the past pre global warming series, like
Speaker 4: fifty years ago? And I think they're kind of asking
Speaker 4: how common are these there, the warm September and octobers.
Speaker 8: You know, I hadn't checked the fifty year record, But
Speaker 8: the way I tend to look at trends like this is,
Speaker 8: are we smashing records left and right? And how old
Speaker 8: are those records? And as I just said a few
Speaker 8: minutes ago, we have not been breaking records here in September.
Speaker 8: Early September. We had some warmer days in the nineties
Speaker 8: and we did break.
Speaker 2: A few records.
Speaker 8: But even though we had at the beginning of the
Speaker 8: month in October we had temperatures in the eighties, we
Speaker 8: weren't breaking records. And while we've been in the seventies
Speaker 8: for pro long period, and we'll stay in the seventies
Speaker 8: all the way through Monday of next week, we're just
Speaker 8: not breaking the records. So I think that should give
Speaker 8: you some historic perspective about, Yeah, how warm have we
Speaker 8: been compared to where the records are set.
Speaker 4: How how how how are we doing drought wise around
Speaker 4: the state. I heard a report last week. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: I want to ask this question first before we talk
Speaker 4: about how we are one of those states like California.
Speaker 4: We're kind of perpetually in a drought on and off cycle,
Speaker 4: are we not. I mean we're a high desert climate
Speaker 4: for much of the state.
Speaker 8: Yes, we're semi arid climate, which means we are you know,
Speaker 8: we depend a lot on our snow to fill our reservoirs.
Speaker 8: We depend on you know, a wet spring is certainly
Speaker 8: helpful during the growing season. We did get some beneficial
Speaker 8: rain early in the season until we hit June, July, August, September, October.
Speaker 8: Prior to that, the spring was in pretty good shape
Speaker 8: when we were head for the year, and then we
Speaker 8: dried out. The drought monitor comes out every Thursday, and
Speaker 8: the worst route in the state, and the entire state
Speaker 8: is not in drought. As a matter of fact, the
Speaker 8: San Juan Mountains southwest Colorado doesn't have any drought. They
Speaker 8: they've been doing very well. The worst drout is right
Speaker 8: in the foothills of Larimer and Boulder County, just west
Speaker 8: of I twenty five and Metro Denver is in there,
Speaker 8: but not as deep in the drought as they are,
Speaker 8: and we've been struggling to get most year. There's no
Speaker 8: question about the problem with the drought monitor now, Mandy
Speaker 8: is we're in the kind of end of the season,
Speaker 8: so everything is naturally dried out. We just don't look
Speaker 8: for that leg up right now. But we're entering the
Speaker 8: winter and that can help to crush the drought in
Speaker 8: some places.
Speaker 4: Okay, we do have a couple of people on the
Speaker 4: text line asking about what are we gonna have for Halloween.
Speaker 4: A Rod has been asking this too. He's got a
Speaker 4: big party, He's got all kinds of stuff planned. What
Speaker 4: are we looking at Halloween?
Speaker 8: Well, A Rod's party over the weekend is great. Any
Speaker 8: plans you have through the weekend. If you do have
Speaker 8: parties like kay Rod, you're fine. It's going to be
Speaker 8: in the seventies, mid seventies Saturday, seventies, upper seventies Sunday.
Speaker 8: We are tracking this incoming cold front. It looks to
Speaker 8: get us down into the upper fifties and by that
Speaker 8: time next Tuesday Wednesday, so you're talking the thirtieth, twenty
Speaker 8: ninth and thirtieth of the month, the advertise around sixties,
Speaker 8: so it's more of a seasonal correction. Right now. We
Speaker 8: think it's just outside the seven day so we can't
Speaker 8: see too many specifics, but we think Halloween will be
Speaker 8: dry but a little bit cool, So it'll probably be
Speaker 8: in the mid fifties during the day and then for
Speaker 8: trick or treating our stay between four or five o'clock
Speaker 8: till nine o'clock, probably slipping into the low forties towards
Speaker 8: the end of that timeframe, maybe the upper thirties, but
Speaker 8: it does look to be.
Speaker 4: Dry, all right, Dave Fraser at Fox thirty one, I
Speaker 4: don't have anything else for it. Oh wait, hang on,
Speaker 4: this may be the wrong question to ask. At the
Speaker 4: end of the segment, does Dave Fraser believe in climate change?
Speaker 8: We've talked about this time and time again. Yes, the
Speaker 8: climate has changed, but there's a bigger question beyond that
Speaker 8: that you and I have talked about. It becomes the
Speaker 8: question of you know why, driving factor, why exactly? And
Speaker 8: that's where you get into the argument and it just
Speaker 8: goes down the rabbit hole very very quickly because people
Speaker 8: have their own opinions of what, but yes, you can
Speaker 8: clearly tell as you look over the historical data and
Speaker 8: you look at the weather patterns and stuff, that there
Speaker 8: are other driving forces that can change climate. But remember
Speaker 8: this climate is cyclical and what the future holds is
Speaker 8: yet to be seen.
Speaker 4: Exactly. Dave Fraser, you can see him on Fox thirty one.
Speaker 4: We will talk to again next week after a few
Speaker 4: more days of this glorious weather. You can just keep
Speaker 4: it here as long as you want.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we'll get you an updated it times out perfectly
Speaker 8: next Wednesday. We'll be sitting right on top of that
Speaker 8: forecast for Halloween.
Speaker 4: Excellent, that's say Fraser, Dave, I appreciate you. We'll talk
Speaker 4: to you next week. Yep, all right, where do we
Speaker 4: get back? We are going to note a couple of anniversaries.
Speaker 4: One anniversary that for the first time is seeing justice
Speaker 4: on the anniversary of this day. The second anniversary of
Speaker 4: something so I don't know, kind of funny in hindsight
Speaker 4: that I can't wait to share it with you. We're
Speaker 4: gonna do those on the other side of this break.
Speaker 4: One the anniversary of a news story from just last October. Yes,
Speaker 4: this from NBC News October twenty sixth, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4: Let me just read some of this news story to you.
Speaker 4: President Joe Biden announced in April that he's running for reelection.
Speaker 4: His campaign and its fundraising entities have a combined ninety
Speaker 4: one million in the bank, and he's hired key political
Speaker 4: staffers to help helm his twenty twenty four re election campaign.
Speaker 4: And then I'm gonna skip ahead for just a moment,
Speaker 4: just a moment to this part. Senator Ted Cruz from
Speaker 4: Texas said on his podcast last month, So here's the
Speaker 4: scenario that I think is probably the most likely and
Speaker 4: most dangerous. In August of twenty twenty four, the Democrat
Speaker 4: Kingmakers jettison Joe Biden and parachute in Michelle Obama. I
Speaker 4: view this as a very serious danger. And then I'm
Speaker 4: skipping ahead again. The idea, centered largely on the thought
Speaker 4: that Biden is too old and not sharp enough mentally,
Speaker 4: is that there's a secret plan to replace Biden due
Speaker 4: to his health or other reasons, by an amopous Illuminati
Speaker 4: type forces within the Democratic Party. It is not a
Speaker 4: mainstream thought within the Republican Party that it has maintained
Speaker 4: a persistent foothold among a relevant chunk of the GOP base,
Speaker 4: taking their cues from some party officials who continue to
Speaker 4: toy with the idea that from a year ago. Let's
Speaker 4: just put that as another conspiracy theory they came true,
Speaker 4: not the part about Michelle Obama. Although this one, you guys,
Speaker 4: listen to this, Listen to this, Listen to this. This
Speaker 4: from Tim Scott a year ago. I feel like they're
Speaker 4: grooming someone and we all know it's not Kamala. So
Speaker 4: I think the Democrats have a backup plan because every
Speaker 4: time I listen to the current president speak, I'm like,
Speaker 4: is this getting harder? Now? What if just throw let
Speaker 4: me throw this out here. What if? What if Joe
Speaker 4: Biden read this article too? What if he knew that
Speaker 4: they weren't grooming Kamala Harris and that is why he
Speaker 4: immediately came out and endorsed Kamala Harris as his successor.
Speaker 4: I mean, I have long thought Joe Biden did that
Speaker 4: to screw the people who stabbed him in the back.
Speaker 4: I think that was straight out of House of Cards, like,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, you're gonna push me out, Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: f you over to I believe that, and reading this
Speaker 4: just reminded me of how much I believe it so hah.
Speaker 4: Now our second anniversary notation are something we are noting
Speaker 4: the anniversary of this time not nearly as entertaining. This
Speaker 4: is the forty first anniversary of the Bayroot truck bombing
Speaker 4: that killed more than three hundred people at the American
Speaker 4: embassy and the US Marine sparracks in Beirut. Obviously, the
Speaker 4: Beyrout truck bombing would have indicated where it happened. But
Speaker 4: this is the first year that the mastermind behind this
Speaker 4: is dead. His name was Ibraha Makiel. He was the
Speaker 4: Hesbala operations commander, and he was killed in September in
Speaker 4: an Israeli strike against him in Lebanon, in their systematic
Speaker 4: dismantling of all of the proxy organizations that Iran has
Speaker 4: been backing to foment violence in the Middle East. They
Speaker 4: took him out over a month ago. So for the
Speaker 4: first time ever, the mastermind of that bombing that killed
Speaker 4: so many people and injured so many more is dead.
Speaker 4: He's on the right side of the dirt finally, And
Speaker 4: you know why he's on the right side of the dirt,
Speaker 4: because Israel stopped listening to the United States of America
Speaker 4: and started fighting like their very existence depended on it. Now,
Speaker 4: there was a story today. I just saw it a
Speaker 4: minute ago on Twitter. So I don't have the guy's
Speaker 4: name in front of me, but you know, they just
Speaker 4: took out the leader of Hesbola, right, they took out
Speaker 4: the leader of Hesba Hesbela. Hang on, let me s
Speaker 4: I can pull this up real quick. So they take
Speaker 4: out the leader of Hesbala and Azraala, and you know,
Speaker 4: now they got to get new leadership in there. You
Speaker 4: got to get new leadership in So now they have
Speaker 4: also taken out the leadership of Hamas. Let me let
Speaker 4: me make sure I'm trying to find this guy's name.
Speaker 4: I'm talking to you guys, so bear with me. They
Speaker 4: got a new guy in Hamas. He took over and
Speaker 4: Israel took him out. He's dead. And at this point,
Speaker 4: I just don't know if they're going to be able
Speaker 4: to get anyone to apply for that job. Cause if
Speaker 4: you're like, okay, can you imagine going in? You see
Speaker 4: this job advertised like complete power over everything. Everyone will
Speaker 4: kneel to your every wish, and you're like, yes, that's
Speaker 4: what I want. Sign me up. So you fill out
Speaker 4: an application and you send it in and then you
Speaker 4: go in. They're like, oh my god, you're great, come
Speaker 4: on in for an interview. You go in for an
Speaker 4: interview and you're like, so tell me about this complete power.
Speaker 4: They're like, oh yeah. You get to make all of
Speaker 4: the decisions about what happens in this entire section of
Speaker 4: the country. You get to make every choice. You get
Speaker 4: to decide who lives and dies. You get to decide
Speaker 4: who gets medicine and who doesn't. You get to decide
Speaker 4: who has food and who doesn't. You get to decide
Speaker 4: all that. And you're like, I'm kind of mad with power.
Speaker 4: It could be down with that. And then we're like,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, but see, unfortunately, there's a really good chance
Speaker 4: that you're gonna get killed, because that seems to be
Speaker 4: what keeps happening to people who step up to lead
Speaker 4: these organizations. So that's inconvenient at a bare minimum, and
Speaker 4: it's getting harder and harder to hire people to lead
Speaker 4: these terrorist organizations, all because Israel finally decided to stop
Speaker 4: listening to the United States. Boom, go Israel, go give
Speaker 4: some little prayers for the families of all of those
Speaker 4: people that were lost forty one years ago, but know
Speaker 4: that finally, the man who did it can never ever
Speaker 4: ever ever do it again because he is DRT. We
Speaker 4: will be right back after this with an interesting young
Speaker 4: woman who has created a web series designed to help parents, tweens,
Speaker 4: and I would dare say teenagers navigate the web. Agnes
Speaker 4: joins us, next, it is a great series. Just we'll
Speaker 4: do that right after this.
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Speaker 4: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show
Speaker 4: and joining me. Now, I'm very excited because I feel
Speaker 4: like I'm on the leading edge of something that's going
Speaker 4: to be really big. Okay, and what's going to be
Speaker 4: really big is a new web series by a young
Speaker 4: woman named and Agnes. I'm probably going to destroy your name,
Speaker 4: so just bear with me, Agnes Gomez Koizumi, that's right,
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, okay, perfect. And it's a web series designed
Speaker 4: to help parents, and she says tweens, but I think
Speaker 4: it could be late elementary through early high school. I
Speaker 4: think the information that she's putting together is really outstanding,
Speaker 4: and it's a web series about social media designed for kids. Now, Agnes,
Speaker 4: first off, welcome to the show.
Speaker 7: Thank you so much for having me, Amandy. I'm really
Speaker 7: excited to be here.
Speaker 4: Well, your new web series is called Social Smarts, and
Speaker 4: I want you to tell people a little bit about
Speaker 4: your background and kind of give them a little reason
Speaker 4: of why you are doing this and why you're an expert.
Speaker 7: So I've spent a number of years working for the
Speaker 7: top social media companies in the world, including launching international
Speaker 7: expansion for Tender and TikTok as well. So at the
Speaker 7: very early stages, building out trusted in safety, communications education
Speaker 7: and working with external people including governments, and educating parents
Speaker 7: about the different tips and safety measures that exist to
Speaker 7: keep you safe and what the platforms had to offer
Speaker 7: in terms of best practices. So having that insider note
Speaker 7: really made me look at social media and what's happening,
Speaker 7: especially with young people right now, and being able to
Speaker 7: have that insider perspective. And I have a ten year
Speaker 7: old nephew and he is part of that first generation
Speaker 7: that is growing up in a fully digital world. So
Speaker 7: he started he got his first iPad I think when
Speaker 7: he was five, maybe, but I've seen him develop and
Speaker 7: grow through time and how social media is impacting him
Speaker 7: what he's doing. But also having that front row seat,
Speaker 7: I see the questions that he's asking and how he's
Speaker 7: thinking about social media, And because I have this unique perspective,
Speaker 7: I spend a lot of time talking with him about
Speaker 7: not just what you should and shouldn't do or how
Speaker 7: social media works, but why. And I think that that's
Speaker 7: been the biggest thing for me, is seeing him be
Speaker 7: able to look at social media and what he's doing
Speaker 7: and have the tools to think about it critically because
Speaker 7: this is a different world than what I grew up in.
Speaker 7: But teaching him these things now will set him up
Speaker 7: for the rest of his life because it's not going
Speaker 7: to change. It's going to be part of his life forever.
Speaker 4: You know, your story about doing this for your nephew
Speaker 4: is a little bit reminiscent of how con Academy got started.
Speaker 4: The math website that has saved my bacon as a
Speaker 4: parent multiple times. That's my daughter gets into more advanced math.
Speaker 4: But I have to commend to you for putting together videos,
Speaker 4: and you've got three out so far. You're putting together videos.
Speaker 4: You're not talking down to kids. You're not trying to
Speaker 4: make it like a cartoon, you're not trying to make
Speaker 4: it overly kid, I can't explain it. You're talking to
Speaker 4: them like they understand. And I think that's a big
Speaker 4: difference than some of the other stuff that's out trying
Speaker 4: to teach kids about social safety. I mean, that's really
Speaker 4: what we're talking about here, So well done on that.
Speaker 4: How do you decide what you're going to do each
Speaker 4: episode on?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 7: So, I have three episodes out already. As you mentioned,
Speaker 7: the first one is really like I think about it logistically.
Speaker 7: So the first thing is is that kids want to
Speaker 7: know why can't they have their own social media accounts?
Speaker 7: So that's the first episode to talk about the laws
Speaker 7: behind that. But to your point about why I'm I'm talking,
Speaker 7: I'm talking to kids the way that I would talk
Speaker 7: to my own nephew and recognizing that he's not like
Speaker 7: kids don't want to be talked down to. They want
Speaker 7: to have the tool so that they can understand. So
Speaker 7: what I'm trying to do with him is talk to
Speaker 7: him the same way that I would talk to, say,
Speaker 7: another person's parents. And I have a lot of friends
Speaker 7: that ask me if their kids could come and listen
Speaker 7: in while I talk to my nephew. But the reason
Speaker 7: that it's geared towards, you know, like real information, is
Speaker 7: because kids want to know, like you can't sugarcup things.
Speaker 7: You want to give them the real truth and the why.
Speaker 7: And so that's what I do for him, But I
Speaker 7: intend the intent is to have parents listen with their
Speaker 7: kids too, so that they can get that information and
Speaker 7: they feel like it's not just the wild West out there,
Speaker 7: it's something that they understand. And then after each episode,
Speaker 7: they're ten minute episodes because there's more to discuss, and
Speaker 7: then parents can hopefully spend some time with their kids
Speaker 7: to talk about the material that's being Isn't it that
Speaker 7: the first episode was about why thirteen is the magic number?
Speaker 7: The second one was about dangerous challenges? And I think
Speaker 7: that that's because we've seen a lot of stuff happening
Speaker 7: with kids and how they're really influenced to do these
Speaker 7: different things because they're getting really popular. And what can
Speaker 7: you do, how do you spot it? How can you
Speaker 7: actually you know, prevent yourself from doing that, and what
Speaker 7: the motivation is, like why do people do dangerous challenges
Speaker 7: at all. And then the next episode that I just
Speaker 7: released yesterday was about finding the truth online about misinformation
Speaker 7: because there's so much stuff out there, and when I
Speaker 7: think about what you're seeing right now, especially within news
Speaker 7: cycles and social media. At one time, like when I
Speaker 7: was growing up, there was you know, a news cycle
Speaker 7: that happened, and you would look at that as being
Speaker 7: the truth. But now there are so many sources. How
Speaker 7: do you actually identify what's real what's fake, and how
Speaker 7: do you get those skills so that you can actually
Speaker 7: look at things more critically. The next episode that I'm
Speaker 7: releasing next week is about mental health, because I think
Speaker 7: that that's also something, especially with what we've seen recently
Speaker 7: with these different lawsuits that have come out and the
Speaker 7: ages that have placed all these lawsuits, you know, to
Speaker 7: social media companies about how the effects of social media
Speaker 7: are detrimental to young people's mental health. So I really
Speaker 7: I'm thinking about those things, and as the news cycle
Speaker 7: comes out, or as I'm getting questions from different people
Speaker 7: as well, I have.
Speaker 4: To ask Agnes, how old are you? And there's a
Speaker 4: specific reason I'm asking you this, not just because you
Speaker 4: look so incredibly youthful which you do. But how what
Speaker 4: generation are you?
Speaker 7: So I'm a gen X, so I go in the seventies.
Speaker 4: Okay, great, so you because I will tell you. I
Speaker 4: watched the first episode about why you have to be thirteen.
Speaker 4: I didn't know any of that straight up. I was like,
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, I had no clue. And then I thought,
Speaker 4: thank god, I'm not watching this with my daughter because
Speaker 4: I would have lost all credibility at that moment. So
Speaker 4: you would pay parents to watch this with their kids.
Speaker 4: But if you're a parent of a certain age, because
Speaker 4: this was all kind of thrust upon us, we're not
Speaker 4: digital natives, right, this is not our normal state of being.
Speaker 4: And I'm going to be perfectly honest. I just had
Speaker 4: one of those moments with my fifteen year old daughter
Speaker 4: where I handed her my phone and I said, make
Speaker 4: Snapchat stop sending me things like make it stop. I
Speaker 4: don't know how, and I'm not going to learn. Because
Speaker 4: she's like, well, let me teach you. I go no,
Speaker 4: I don't want to learn anything else about a social
Speaker 4: media platform. I'm done. I'm finished. I want no more.
Speaker 4: And she was like, okay, I'll fix it, and she did.
Speaker 4: But there's a lot of information in these videos that
Speaker 4: I need, not just my kids, because you really do
Speaker 4: a deep dive on some stuff that I, frankly, as
Speaker 4: an end user, I never even thought about it until
Speaker 4: I watch these videos. So they're just I highly recommend.
Speaker 4: Even if you don't have kids and you're using the Internet,
Speaker 4: like you should know some of the things that Agnes
Speaker 4: is doing. And I really would love I can't wait
Speaker 4: to see your ten minute version on how social media
Speaker 4: companies gather our data because I saw the social dilemma.
Speaker 4: I made my daughter watch it with me, but that
Speaker 4: was almost too at the time we made or watch it.
Speaker 4: I think it was a little too much over her head,
Speaker 4: just a tiny bit. So i'd love to see you
Speaker 4: just kind of like talk about how much data is
Speaker 4: being gathered and how it's being used against us.
Speaker 7: Because it is you know, yeah, that's an episode I'm
Speaker 7: planning for the future, but we can talk about that briefly,
Speaker 7: because the truth is is that data is a digital currency,
Speaker 7: and social media is the content that people put out there.
Speaker 7: It's designed to get views, but those views and I
Speaker 7: talk about this in the mental health episode as well,
Speaker 7: and then I have another episode of addiction. But all
Speaker 7: of those things are designed to keep you online, so
Speaker 7: it's part of it.
Speaker 8: It's like the data that then the.
Speaker 7: Longer that you're online, the more data that can be
Speaker 7: captured that can talk about your viewing habits, and then
Speaker 7: from there you can sell advertising, and it's all about advertising.
Speaker 7: So it's a really interesting feedback loop. But the thing
Speaker 7: that young people don't understand is that that data follows
Speaker 7: you and what you're making choices with right now that
Speaker 7: will impact, like very long down the road, how you're
Speaker 7: being targeted by different ads, not just online but also
Speaker 7: in real life because all of these things, the ultimate
Speaker 7: goal of digital online is like how do you get irl? Right?
Speaker 7: How do you get in real life? And that comes
Speaker 7: into a lot of different ways, whether it's like mail,
Speaker 7: whether it's like phone calls, but also whether it's like
Speaker 7: you know, different events or other things. And so ultimately,
Speaker 7: when you think about it, you're looking at social media
Speaker 7: as being something that's fun and you know, a nice
Speaker 7: distraction maybe or just something that's like fun to do,
Speaker 7: but there's like a whole other system that's in place
Speaker 7: that's really like monetizing and the data becomes critical to that.
Speaker 4: But yes, that for me is huge I mean I
Speaker 4: always tell my daughter, like, whatever's free, you are the product.
Speaker 4: If you have a free app, you are the product.
Speaker 4: So just remember that they are now selling you in
Speaker 4: some way, shape or form. I sat in on a
Speaker 4: marketing sort of future of marketing meeting where there were
Speaker 4: discussions about how rapidly we would get to a point
Speaker 4: where your metadata was being gathered at such a way
Speaker 4: that when you walked down a street, a billboard would
Speaker 4: change to be specific to you. And so you would
Speaker 4: have billboard space and the doorway of a building that
Speaker 4: you were walking into, and as you walked by there
Speaker 4: would be an ad for your favorite coffee brand or
Speaker 4: your favorite or whatever. It's going to become that specific
Speaker 4: and that dial down. So all of these people that
Speaker 4: are saying, oh, I don't care, I'm so uninteresting, you
Speaker 4: have no idea what is coming down the pike in
Speaker 4: terms of what they are going to be able to
Speaker 4: use to market to you in ways you don't even realize.
Speaker 4: Is this highly targeted. It's fascinating. I mean, I work
Speaker 4: in advertising. This is what public radio. I mean, this
Speaker 4: is what commercial radio does.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: I want my advertise, my people to go to my
Speaker 4: advertisers and buy things, so I can't knock it. It's
Speaker 4: just amazing how specific it is getting.
Speaker 7: And also I think the social media and I talk
Speaker 7: about this and then the episode that I just released
Speaker 7: about truth detectives and how to spot you know, something
Speaker 7: that's real or fake online. There's a lot of psychology
Speaker 7: that goes into repetition and how how your brain actually
Speaker 7: processes information that you see. And unlike radio, social media,
Speaker 7: especially short form, it's gathering information at a super fast
Speaker 7: rate because the shorter the video, the more you're able
Speaker 7: to get iterations of you know, your viewing habits, and
Speaker 7: so when you continue to see things, it affects how
Speaker 7: you actually perceive it, And so it affects things like,
Speaker 7: you know, are you going to be more likely to
Speaker 7: purchase something? But also you know, are you more likely
Speaker 7: to believe that something's true afterwards after seeing it so
Speaker 7: many times? And we talk about this in PR but
Speaker 7: also back in the days when I used to work
Speaker 7: in museum there's a lot of psychology in terms of
Speaker 7: how you present information that because social media is user generated,
Speaker 7: people are that are producing it aren't necessarily thinking it
Speaker 7: that the algorithm in the background is like putting all
Speaker 7: these things together and it's affecting or taking advantage of
Speaker 7: how your brain psychology already works.
Speaker 4: That is amazing and incredibly frightening at the same time.
Speaker 4: The web series is called Social Smarts with Agnes, and
Speaker 4: it's very, very good, and I'd love for people in
Speaker 4: this listening audience. I don't know, I'm sure you know, Agnes,
Speaker 4: that many schools, when the kids come in in the morning,
Speaker 4: they'll show a video or something to kind of keep
Speaker 4: everybody entertained. This to me would be the perfect kind
Speaker 4: of videos to work into those scenes where kids could
Speaker 4: actually learn something in a way that's very interesting. And Agnes,
Speaker 4: obviously you guys are listening, she's very relatable and comes
Speaker 4: across really really well. So I'd love for my listeners
Speaker 4: to help spread the word about Social Smarts because I
Speaker 4: think it has real value because, as you said, kids
Speaker 4: that are getting and first of all, I made my
Speaker 4: daughter wait until she was fourteen before she was allowed
Speaker 4: to get any social media at all. And that was
Speaker 4: after watching the Social Dilemma and after doing all this stuff.
Speaker 4: And she will tell you like she understands. She'll say
Speaker 4: something like I don't know what I clicked, but my
Speaker 4: algorithm is all screwed up, you know. So she's aware
Speaker 4: of it, but she still doesn't understand the magnitude. So
Speaker 4: I'm gonna make her watch Social Smarts as well, even
Speaker 4: though she's fifteen. But it's only ten minutes, so it'll
Speaker 4: be fine. But uh, Agnes, I wish you much success
Speaker 4: going forward, and I think you're gonna have it. I
Speaker 4: just think it's a great idea whose time has come.
Speaker 4: And thank you so much for making time for us today.
Speaker 7: Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 4: All right. That is Agnes Gomez ko Zumi. The website
Speaker 4: or the web series is Social Smarts on YouTube. Thank you, Agnes.
Speaker 4: And uh yeah, great, great little series. And I did
Speaker 4: you guys. I sat there and watch these and I
Speaker 4: literally was like, uh, I didn't know any of it.
Speaker 4: I knew none of it. I'm such a I'm such
Speaker 4: a computer moron. I just I keep thinking, you know,
Speaker 4: I've used computers now for like thirty years. You think
Speaker 4: I would get better at it. But I the more
Speaker 4: they make things supposedly intuitive, like every time there's an update,
Speaker 4: and it's like, oh, this is so much more intuitive
Speaker 4: than it was before. Intuitive to whom I think there
Speaker 4: should be two kinds of intuitive. There should be gen
Speaker 4: X intuitive and other people intuitive. I can't be and
Speaker 4: ay Rod, here's the news slash bud. It's gonna happen
Speaker 4: to you at some point in your life. You're gonna
Speaker 4: hand your kid your phone and say, make that app
Speaker 4: stop talking to me, and I'm not learning anything else.
Speaker 5: Oh many, Yeah, you're already right. About ninety eight percent
Speaker 5: of people my age. I make it a hobby.
Speaker 6: I make it my task to stay up to date
Speaker 6: with all the latest technology each and every day, so
Speaker 6: I will always be hip.
Speaker 5: With the young'ins. Don't you fret?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, okay, I think let me try this to
Speaker 4: my calendar for thirty years from now to give an
Speaker 4: a call and find out how he still is.
Speaker 6: Because I make a concerted effort to always be up
Speaker 6: to day, It's part of my job.
Speaker 4: So technically I understand, I understand, But eventually, no, you
Speaker 4: are going to hear me out, hear me out, this
Speaker 4: is what this is what's going to happen, and then
Speaker 4: people can go to the text line and decide whether
Speaker 4: I am right or you are right. Here's what's going
Speaker 4: to happen. You are eventually going to get a more important,
Speaker 4: higher level job that is going to take you out
Speaker 4: of the day to day intense tech stuff that you
Speaker 4: do now. And at that point tech will start to
Speaker 4: get away from you. Now in your personal life, I
Speaker 4: could see you still engaging in some stuff, but trust me,
Speaker 4: you'll hit a level where you're just like, I'm good.
Speaker 4: I don't need to learn anything else after this. I'm fine.
Speaker 4: I don't need that new skill.
Speaker 6: It's a solid happens, solid line of thinking. But I
Speaker 6: love on a day to day basis to like make
Speaker 6: it my mission to keep up with the trends.
Speaker 5: So I am the outlier. Normally you would be you're
Speaker 5: not for your You're really not.
Speaker 4: But when you get to fifty five, talk to me, then, pal,
Speaker 4: I will this Texter thirty years. Ha, I give them
Speaker 4: ten to fifteen. Because what you don't know, what you
Speaker 4: do not know, is what kids will do to all
Speaker 4: of that, all of whatever you think you are, whatever
Speaker 4: you have time for, whatever you love, kids will come
Speaker 4: along and you're like, a crap, I can't do that anymore.
Speaker 5: I don't have those that.
Speaker 4: Gotta go to soccer, gotta go to football, gotta go
Speaker 4: to ice skating, gotta go to whatever. Gotta go to
Speaker 4: it all.
Speaker 5: I will never be a part of the Olds. You
Speaker 5: leave me alone.
Speaker 4: You know what spoken? I remember when I was young.
Speaker 4: I was when I was your age, ay Rod, and
Speaker 4: I would say things like I just don't understand why
Speaker 4: women have plastics. There's your I don't get it, I
Speaker 4: will say. Now, fifty five year old me is.
Speaker 5: Like, hey, shut up, Well, I will say.
Speaker 6: Dragon and I had a moment yesterday and when we
Speaker 6: were talking about Scars on The Ross Minsky Show, and
Speaker 6: so naturally Dragon bump backed with Scars by Papa Road.
Speaker 5: You know, Zack Segers hits us with I never heard
Speaker 5: that song. I'm like, what what?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Is this what the olds feel like?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: What? Oh?
Speaker 5: I mean he's been twenty so, I mean it kind
Speaker 5: of makes sense. But man, that did not feel good
Speaker 5: for me.
Speaker 4: It was the first time I used the phrase Mushia
Speaker 4: Marsha Mussia at an intern and they were like, I
Speaker 4: don't know what that is.
Speaker 5: And I was like, what wait?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 5: Yeah, how do you not know that?
Speaker 4: Brady Budge, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 5: Goes downhill?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Everybody on the text line, Mandy, I agree with you, Oh,
Speaker 4: this person said, we boomers on as well, die who
Speaker 4: needs us? Well, nobody said anything bad about the boomers nikes. Jeez, Louise,
Speaker 4: somebody's having a bad day. Some of my favorite people,
Speaker 4: including my husband, are boomers. He's in the last year
Speaker 4: of the boomers, but he was fully raised gen X
Speaker 4: so my grandfather. I'm in and I'm a millennial barely Mandy.
Speaker 4: I never want to be that old person that says
Speaker 4: they can't learn something new. It's not the ability to learn,
Speaker 4: it is desired. No, you misunderstand me. Text he that's
Speaker 4: got a good point. Wait, wait, you misunderstand me. I
Speaker 4: love learning certain new things certain but I don't want
Speaker 4: to learn how to use Snapchat. I don't care. Makes
Speaker 4: no difference to me. The only reason I have the
Speaker 4: stupid app is that my daughter uses it to send
Speaker 4: me stuff sometimes. That's it. I hate it. I have
Speaker 4: no desire to learn how to do any of it.
Speaker 4: So no, I don't want to learn Snapchat. I would
Speaker 4: learn other things that I would enjoy more, you know,
Speaker 4: like the fine art of Japanese paper folding.
Speaker 5: You don't know.
Speaker 4: I could be very good at orgami. No idea. That's
Speaker 4: all my list of things to do when I retire
Speaker 4: Mandy A. Rod sounds like one of those youngsters that
Speaker 4: says I will never be like those old farts. Fast
Speaker 4: forward and you are one.
Speaker 5: Yep, ninety eight percent of people absolutely will be.
Speaker 2: I will not.
Speaker 5: It is my job, it will remain my job. It
Speaker 5: is a hobby of mine. Will leave me alone. Yeah, texture, Yeah,
Speaker 5: look at you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go to this texture gravity. Not being
Speaker 4: too kind to the twins, Mandy Gross, I don't think
Speaker 4: I talked about my boobs or any part of them
Speaker 4: or where they are a viral cale. Thanks for assuming
Speaker 4: it's uh, it's whatever you want it to be, sir.
Speaker 4: Those two I should get those two guys together and
Speaker 4: then they could team up and then they could work
Speaker 4: on it. They could go meet at a bar and
Speaker 4: then they could try over a beer to try and
Speaker 4: figure out how to be as insulting as possible. That
Speaker 4: would be super comcial we call in.
Speaker 5: I don't think they need help.
Speaker 4: But then then then they need to have a friend, though.
Speaker 2: We don't need to.
Speaker 4: Well, maybe they would be happier with their lives if
Speaker 4: they had a friend.
Speaker 7: Okay, I want to talk.
Speaker 4: About serious stuff. I got a bunch of stuff on
Speaker 4: the blog today. First of all I want to talk
Speaker 4: about the fact my voter guide is at the top
Speaker 4: of the blog at mandy'sblog dot com and you need
Speaker 4: to go and check it out. Now, I want to
Speaker 4: talk about one specific issue in the voter guide where
Speaker 4: I am a yes, but I I want to present
Speaker 4: the other side of the no because I've gotten so
Speaker 4: many emails about this particular measure that I want to
Speaker 4: give a fear shaked this because I've gotten some very
Speaker 4: very well written, passionate emails about this from people in
Speaker 4: the veterinary field right now. Measure one twenty nine would
Speaker 4: establish a veterinary professional associate position. They would have at
Speaker 4: least a master's degree, and it is my understanding that
Speaker 4: they could handle a lot of VET services short of surgery,
Speaker 4: and it would have free up actual vets for the
Speaker 4: big and significant stuff. And I'm all for this, So
Speaker 4: I was like, yes, I'm a solid yes on this.
Speaker 4: Here's the thing, this particular measure does not do any
Speaker 4: of the rule making around this position. So whatever board
Speaker 4: oversees veterinarians in Colorado would be able to put the
Speaker 4: meat on this and with the input of veterinarians, you
Speaker 4: could possibly have a highly educated person who could come
Speaker 4: in and do a lot of heavy lifting to a
Speaker 4: certain point as established by a veterinary board, taking a
Speaker 4: lot of the weight off of a veterinarian, allowing them
Speaker 4: to expand their clinics, serve more customers, et cetera. Now
Speaker 4: I am on the opposite side of this from every
Speaker 4: veterinary organization that I can see in Colorado. Many vets
Speaker 4: have emailed me about this and said, look, we don't
Speaker 4: want people who do not have enough schooling. They didn't
Speaker 4: go to veterinary school, they haven't gone all the way
Speaker 4: through the process, and we feel that they could possibly
Speaker 4: give substandard care. It's a valid argument, it really is. However,
Speaker 4: when people view something as competition rather than as an
Speaker 4: opportunity to grow what they're doing, they tend to be
Speaker 4: reflexively a no. And when you look at the role
Speaker 4: making that would go around this, if the veterinary associations
Speaker 4: got together, put their heads together, worked with the board,
Speaker 4: and created a really nice framework for this position, it
Speaker 4: could be such a boom to their industry, especially if
Speaker 4: there was a rule that these veterinary associates have to
Speaker 4: practice under a fully licensed veterinarian right. It's kind of
Speaker 4: like a nurse practitioner. This is the way I look
Speaker 4: at it. I prefer to see my nurse practitioners because
Speaker 4: they don't just shove drugs down your throat. I don't
Speaker 4: think they get the huge pharmacology component the medical school
Speaker 4: students get. So I see a nurse practitioner all the
Speaker 4: time for my healthcare and it works out really well.
Speaker 4: But they cannot practice here without being under another doctor,
Speaker 4: so or at least they used to, not to be
Speaker 4: able to do it anyway. But I wanted to give
Speaker 4: you the other side. The Veterinary Association is fully against
Speaker 4: this and would love for you to vote no. But
Speaker 4: I am still a yes for the reasons that I
Speaker 4: just gave. I think that this could be a boon
Speaker 4: to veterinarians in Colorado, and that is why I'm a yes.
Speaker 4: When we get back, I've got a question should candidates
Speaker 4: be able to pay themselves out of campaign funds? And
Speaker 4: an answer that may surprise you. We'll do that next.
Speaker 4: The story is about the fourth Congressional District Democratic candidate
Speaker 4: Tricia Calvaresi, and The Colorado Sun reports that she has
Speaker 4: been paying herself a salary from her campaign funds and
Speaker 4: yesse Paul writes the story. But there's that. Let me
Speaker 4: try this again. Let me just start over. The headline
Speaker 4: is Tricia calvaretcy Lauren Bobert's Democratic opponent, has been paying
Speaker 4: herself a salary from her campaign. The subheadline is there's
Speaker 4: nothing illegal about the payments, but it's unusual for candidates
Speaker 4: to pay themselves or their loved ones a salary because
Speaker 4: of the criticism it can draw. Now, she is not
Speaker 4: paying herself like the kind of money that Dave Williams
Speaker 4: is paying himself. She paid herself a little over three
Speaker 4: thousand dollars in July and then began taking a bi
Speaker 4: weekly salary, so every two weeks of about twenty six
Speaker 4: hundred roughly from her campaign. That's a typical paycheck for
Speaker 4: someone who earned sixty three five hundred dollars a year.
Speaker 4: So she is not gouging her campaign. It is not illegal.
Speaker 4: And I got to tell you, I don't really have
Speaker 4: a problem with this. Now I start to have a
Speaker 4: problem when candidates put all their family members on the
Speaker 4: payroll for whatever reason. I really have an issue with that,
Speaker 4: where like, oh, my cousin's doing security, my ex husband's
Speaker 4: going to plan some events, you know this is gonna happen,
Speaker 4: This is gonna that's when it goes a little bit
Speaker 4: too far. But I am not opposed to candidates paying
Speaker 4: themselves out of campaign funds under one condition, and that
Speaker 4: is you disclose to donors immediately that you are planning
Speaker 4: on doing this. And here's why I'm not against it.
Speaker 4: Running for office is a full time job. It really is,
Speaker 4: especially when you're running in a district as large as
Speaker 4: the fourth Congressional district. And I don't want a system
Speaker 4: that prevents people who don't have means from being able
Speaker 4: to run for office. I want middle class people to
Speaker 4: be able to run for office, and I think that
Speaker 4: if this is a way to make that happen, then,
Speaker 4: by gosh, by golly, why not. I know that people
Speaker 4: have been criticized in the past, and I may have
Speaker 4: been critical of this in past, But the more that
Speaker 4: I know about how much a campaign consumes, and it
Speaker 4: consumes so much, I mean, so much to do it
Speaker 4: right and to do it well. It is a full
Speaker 4: time job. And I'm wondering what you guys think now
Speaker 4: before you immediately crack back like, of course, of course,
Speaker 4: she's you know, a Democrat or whatever. I really want
Speaker 4: you to think about this, because in my mind, I'm
Speaker 4: thinking about a person who maybe is has a job
Speaker 4: where look at a couple. Okay, you got a couple.
Speaker 4: You got a guy, maybe he owns a small business,
Speaker 4: and you've got a wife. Maybe she's a teacher or
Speaker 4: has some kind of you know, other middle class job,
Speaker 4: and she decides that she wants to run for office. Well,
Speaker 4: the husband may not bring in enough to kind of
Speaker 4: keep things going, and so why shouldn't she be able
Speaker 4: to take a salary if she has to take time
Speaker 4: off work to run for office. By the way, Tricia Calvarecy,
Speaker 4: if she was able to win this, it would be
Speaker 4: an absolute I mean it would be earth shattering because
Speaker 4: the fourth Congressional district is very reliably Republican and Lauren
Speaker 4: Bobert is the nominee, and I don't see a lot
Speaker 4: of Republicans, enough Republicans moving their vote to Tricia Calvaresey
Speaker 4: to have her win in that race. But she also
Speaker 4: has collected an absolute gobsmacking amount of money, I mean
Speaker 4: a gobsmacking amount of money, and so it's not like
Speaker 4: her campaign can't afford it. It's not like the Republican
Speaker 4: Party that is bringing in no money but still paying
Speaker 4: a ton of money to the consulting firm run by
Speaker 4: Dave Williams or something. I don't even know now. To
Speaker 4: be clear, if you are the if you are the incumbent,
Speaker 4: you cannot do this. It's illegal to pay yourself out
Speaker 4: of campaign funds. So Lauren Bobert could not do this.
Speaker 4: She has to you know, she can't doesn't have this option.
Speaker 4: Now here's another something that you might want to know.
Speaker 4: Republican Gabe Evans is also paying himself a salary. He's
Speaker 4: paying himself sixteen hundred and fifty bucks a month. Hardly
Speaker 4: something to freak out about. But again, Gabe Evans is
Speaker 4: not a guy who comes from a ton of money.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I just wonder if five six six nine
Speaker 4: oh is the text line five sixty six nine oh.
Speaker 4: So there you go, five six six nine oh. I'd
Speaker 4: love to know if it's okay with you, Devil's Advocate.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't paying yourself out of campaign funds encourage people to
Speaker 4: run sham campaigns just so they can make money, You know,
Speaker 4: there's the possibility of that. But here's the thing. Ask
Speaker 4: any candidate it is really hard to get people to
Speaker 4: give you money, really really really hard. When you're running
Speaker 4: a political campaign, that is the thing you spend the month,
Speaker 4: this amount of time doing is fundraising, and you immediately
Speaker 4: be in to find out that people don't like to
Speaker 4: write checks necessarily. It's a hard thing to run for office,
Speaker 4: So to do it just as grift. Uh yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't that's a that's an inefficient grift. I guess would be.
Speaker 4: I mean you'd be There's so many other ways to
Speaker 4: separate people from their money than a political campaign. Trust me, Uh,
Speaker 4: this asks could one run for office in perpetuity? Not
Speaker 4: a bad gig. See my earlier comment about how hard
Speaker 4: it is to get people to give you money. It
Speaker 4: is very, very difficult. I don't know. I think it's okay,
Speaker 4: I'm I think I guess you would have to ask
Speaker 4: how do you set that limit? How do you decide
Speaker 4: how much you're going to pay yourself? And if you
Speaker 4: are someone running for a town council seat and your
Speaker 4: entire campaign is going to bring in eighty thousand dollars,
Speaker 4: are you going to pay yourself? I don't know if
Speaker 4: that's a good look. And I do think, as I said,
Speaker 4: letting people know that this is what you're doing doing
Speaker 4: is incredibly, incredibly important. All Right, we're gonna take a
Speaker 4: quick time out here, and I got so much stuff
Speaker 4: an imaginary gang might have cut off a guy's finger.
Speaker 4: More on that, But what I really want to talk
Speaker 4: about for just a minute, can we talk about what
Speaker 4: Colorado's staying on daylight saving time would actually look like.
Speaker 4: We're gonna do that next. This question. After the election
Speaker 4: is over, does she get to keep all the money
Speaker 4: that's left in her campaign account? That would be a
Speaker 4: good payday. Well, the Federal Elections Commission does not allow
Speaker 4: a candidate to like write a check to themselves unless
Speaker 4: they have loaned money to their campaign. They are allowed
Speaker 4: to pay themselves back. That money could be dispersed a
Speaker 4: multitude of ways. They could keep it in an account
Speaker 4: if they want a future run, if they are done
Speaker 4: with politics and are done running, then they can donate
Speaker 4: it to charity. They can donate it to a pack.
Speaker 4: They can donate it to a political party or another candidate.
Speaker 4: But you know, like some candidates will donate to their
Speaker 4: own super pack that they create, so they're basically paying
Speaker 4: themselves out of the donation. You know, and the FEC
Speaker 4: doesn't really do anything. I mean they really don't, so yeah,
Speaker 4: they It's one of those. Now, can we talk about
Speaker 4: something really, really really important for a second. It's about
Speaker 4: to be that time on the first Sunday of November
Speaker 4: when we get our hour that the government stole from
Speaker 4: us in the spring back as clocks fall back for
Speaker 4: an hour and we go to standard time. Now, two
Speaker 4: years ago, Colorado passed legislation to stay on daylight saving
Speaker 4: time permanently. Federal law has not allowed us to do that,
Speaker 4: so we're waiting for the federal government to decide something.
Speaker 4: I don't know if the clock shift. This from our
Speaker 4: friends at Fox thirty one. If the clock shift doesn't
Speaker 4: necessarily cut down on sunlight, it would have an impact
Speaker 4: on day to day life. If Colorado switched to day
Speaker 4: saving time permanently, the time would only matter in the winter.
Speaker 4: According to time and date, when the clocks shift back
Speaker 4: on November third, twenty twenty four, the sun will rise
Speaker 4: at seven thirty one am and set just before five pm. However,
Speaker 4: if Denver permanently stayed on daylight saving time, the sun
Speaker 4: would continue to rise after seven thirty am and set
Speaker 4: just before six pm. Hey, Rod, which would you rather
Speaker 4: have dark in the morning or a little more light
Speaker 4: in the afternoon, or a little more light in the
Speaker 4: morning and dark in the afternoon.
Speaker 6: I rather have it be dark in the afternoon because
Speaker 6: it feels like the days are nice and long, whereas
Speaker 6: like the sun's down out bedtime immediately.
Speaker 4: Wait, so you'd rather have more light in the afternoon.
Speaker 5: No, well, as long as it gets darker early. I
Speaker 5: actually do kind of like that.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you would be you want to go back,
Speaker 4: you want the sun to set before five pm?
Speaker 5: Unsome before five. I gotta find this sweet.
Speaker 4: I mean, we can't make the day any longer, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, so, so we're either in the middle, We're
Speaker 4: either going wait, we're either sun rises at six thirty
Speaker 4: one am setting just before five pm, or sun rising
Speaker 4: after seven thirty am and setting just before six pm.
Speaker 4: Ok Okay, that's what I thought you just were saying.
Speaker 4: That didn't make any sense, Now it does. Yeah, So yeah, Mandy,
Speaker 4: the semi annual cavetching sessions about daylight saving time make
Speaker 4: my eyes glaze over. As someone who has to get
Speaker 4: to work early in the am, I'm all in a
Speaker 4: favor of switching it up. Alternatively, let's move it thirty
Speaker 4: minutes and then keep that year round. Each camp gets
Speaker 4: a little of what they want, Okay, King Solomon splitting
Speaker 4: the baby on that. Do you know that the Iranians
Speaker 4: their clock is oriented a half hour off of ours
Speaker 4: because they you know, if you control the time, you
Speaker 4: control everything. Did you know that? Fun fact? Fun fact?
Speaker 4: What would you, guys rather do Do you want sun
Speaker 4: in the morning or sun in the afternoon. Do you
Speaker 4: want daylight Saving time that is sun in the morning
Speaker 4: or do you want standard time that is sun in
Speaker 4: the afternoon? Mandy, People with seasonal depression dread turning clocks back.
Speaker 4: And this is why I keep bitching about this. To
Speaker 4: be perfectly frank, I've had sleep issues my entire life.
Speaker 4: I've been a chronic insomniac diagnosed ephen since I was
Speaker 4: a child. And this two times a year. This messes
Speaker 4: me up for like a month. And I realize that
Speaker 4: those of you who are blessed, and you are blessed,
Speaker 4: if you're one of those, I just lay my head
Speaker 4: down on the pillow and go to sleep. People, I
Speaker 4: have such envy, Oh lord, I am jealous of you.
Speaker 4: I am not that person, and I have tried everything,
Speaker 4: so it's not just me complaining because I don't want
Speaker 4: to it. Trust me. We already know more people have
Speaker 4: heart attacks the monday after spring forward, more people get
Speaker 4: an auto accident. It's the Monday after spring forward. The
Speaker 4: week after spring forward, there is more extra excess mortality
Speaker 4: than any other single week in the year. It's time.
Speaker 4: It's time, Mandy, thanks for ruining my day. Why don't
Speaker 4: they move a half hour and be done with it?
Speaker 4: Sun in the afternoon says this texture on the Common
Speaker 4: Spirit Health text line. Hey, Mandy, what are the advantages
Speaker 4: to having light later in the afternoon? From a coaches perspective?
Speaker 4: For little kids land and a little bit older children,
Speaker 4: is the additional late made practice made so much easier? David?
Speaker 4: I agree. I want kids to have time to play
Speaker 4: outside after school. Son in the afternoon, afternoon son in
Speaker 4: the PM standard Please, Mandy. I would perform more in
Speaker 4: the afternoon for this reason. It means I can sleep
Speaker 4: in a little bit later before I have to go
Speaker 4: deer hunting. I like your attitude, sir Madam.
Speaker 7: I like it.
Speaker 4: I like it a lot longer afternoons says this text
Speaker 4: is a photographer. I need it for work. My business
Speaker 4: dies November three. Oh that's terrible, man. If we stick
Speaker 4: to standard time, the sun will come up at four
Speaker 4: am in the summer. To think about that, that's a problem.
Speaker 4: Permanent standard time is better for your health, says this texter. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I've said before, fall back thirty minutes and then leave
Speaker 4: the clock alone. I mean that would be weird, though,
Speaker 4: wouldn't it Wouldn't it just be strange to all of
Speaker 4: a sudden go from twelve thirty to one. I don't
Speaker 4: know if I could wrap my head around that. I
Speaker 4: just don't. I don't know, Mandy, stay on daylight saving time.
Speaker 4: When I was in college, daylight saving time meant uh oh,
Speaker 4: that updated time meant more homework. No more homework got done.
Speaker 4: Everyone schoolwork suffered. I hated it. Stay on daylight saving time.
Speaker 4: I want it darker earlier. When it's snowy and cold out,
Speaker 4: I like to hunker down for the evening. I'm in construction,
Speaker 4: and I don't like the idea of having to start
Speaker 4: at seven thirty or eight so I can work in
Speaker 4: the light. I like to start at seven o'clock in
Speaker 4: the morning. That is a very legitimate line of reasoning.
Speaker 4: We're looking at this all wrong. Let's just lengthen the
Speaker 4: number of hours the sun shines. Ha ha ha, smarty pants.
Speaker 4: Everybody's got to be a Wisenheimer. Morning already sucks, says
Speaker 4: this texter. Give me the light in the afternoon, But
Speaker 4: then God meant for noon to be noon. Stay on
Speaker 4: standard times, says this person. This is not helping me
Speaker 4: at all. People. Dang it, I thought we'd have some
Speaker 4: kind of resolution when we get back. The big money
Speaker 4: scam of black lives matters. Well, it's finally over. I'll
Speaker 4: tell you about that next.
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Speaker 4: All right, my friends, if you're one of those sorts
Speaker 4: who dies just to take a ballot, selfie of who
Speaker 4: you voted for and whatnot? Good news. In Colorado that
Speaker 4: is perfectly legal, so you can show everybody your secret
Speaker 4: ballot if you want. Now, in fourteen states, it is
Speaker 4: not legal. So if you're planning on voting somewhere else
Speaker 4: because you don't live here, you're probably gonna want to
Speaker 4: find out what the rules are there. But Colorado snap away,
Speaker 4: feel free, go crazy. But does anybody really care? The
Speaker 4: answer is no.
Speaker 2: Next story the two minute drill at too y'all.
Speaker 4: Rudy Giuliani is flat broke. He has been absolutely busted
Speaker 4: down to nothing, and a federal judge on Tuesday ordered
Speaker 4: him to turn over all of his valuable possessions and
Speaker 4: his Manhattan penthouse apartment to the control of the two
Speaker 4: women who won a defamation suit that he now owes
Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty million dollars to. The judge said, look,
Speaker 4: you got to turn over your interest in the property
Speaker 4: the woman in seven days to a receivership they will control.
Speaker 4: And it is swift, it is simple. And now Rudy
Speaker 4: Giuliani is homeless, and one must wonder, at this stage
Speaker 4: in the game, do you think he thinks it was
Speaker 4: worth it. I'm guessing the answer, maybe no.
Speaker 2: Next story too.
Speaker 4: Good news, you guys, And if you can't tell, I'm
Speaker 4: dripping in sarcasm right now. In case you were wondering
Speaker 4: who was behind the salacious rumors that circulated about Tim
Speaker 4: Walls last week on social media, we have the same
Speaker 4: group of intelligence officials that told us all that Unter
Speaker 4: Biden's laptop was fake, but they've come out to say
Speaker 4: it has the classic symptoms of Russian influence actors. You
Speaker 4: know what, when I saw this today, first of all,
Speaker 4: I rolled so hard, Like any of these people have
Speaker 4: any credibility left after the Hunter Biden debacle. They need
Speaker 4: to shut up and sit down. That's all I have
Speaker 4: to say about that. Next film, here's a fun story.
Speaker 4: A majority of practicing Christians are admitting to watching porn,
Speaker 4: and not only that, they don't even feel bad about it.
Speaker 4: This is not good news. And in a research report
Speaker 4: called Beyond the Porn Phenomenon, and it was produced with
Speaker 4: a ministry, they found that pornography use is so prevalent
Speaker 4: among all demographics, and the gap in use among Christians
Speaker 4: and non Christians, as well as men and women, has
Speaker 4: gone way narrower over the last eight years. Even though
Speaker 4: practicing Christians were still found to view it less frequently
Speaker 4: than non Christians. The gap between the two groups is
Speaker 4: only fourteen percentage points. Some fifty four percent of Christians
Speaker 4: reported viewing porn compared to sixty eight percent of non Christians.
Speaker 4: It breaks down like this, seventy five percent of Christian
Speaker 4: men forty percent of Christian women reported consuming porn on
Speaker 4: some level. Now, obviously people in the pulpit are a
Speaker 4: little worried that their message is not getting through, but
Speaker 4: no one really knows what to do about it. What's
Speaker 4: more troubling, according to the study, is it well over
Speaker 4: half of Christians who use porn say they're comfortable with
Speaker 4: their porn use and the reality for those who struggle
Speaker 4: in the church that they too often feel like they
Speaker 4: are alone. Eighty two percent said no one is helping
Speaker 4: them with their struggle with pornography if they believe themselves
Speaker 4: to be struggling at all.
Speaker 9: Next story too, Now, if you haven't heard, if you
Speaker 9: are a quarter pound of a cheese lover at McDonald's,
Speaker 9: you're going to want to go ahead and steer clear
Speaker 9: of that.
Speaker 4: Because a man in Mesa County has succumbed to e
Speaker 4: coalie after having a quarter pounder with cheese. This is
Speaker 4: one of forty nine documented cases scattered over ten states,
Speaker 4: including Colorado, and the problem seems to be linked to
Speaker 4: the onions on the quarter pounder with cheese, and McDonald's
Speaker 4: has pulled the burgers it's associated ingredients off the menu
Speaker 4: in some states, including hours and they'll be back on
Speaker 4: when they can ensure that people can eat them safely.
Speaker 4: And no, I don't think anything has to do with
Speaker 4: Donald Trump's visit to McDonald's. Stop at you people.
Speaker 2: Next story too.
Speaker 4: Now, this last story is one that we need to
Speaker 4: talk about. We need to talk about how pinterest is
Speaker 4: ruining everyone's lives and how some people who don't have
Speaker 4: enough things to do have come up with new ways
Speaker 4: to make other parents feel like crappy parents. And it's
Speaker 4: got to stop. And I'm talking about boo baskets. Have
Speaker 4: you ever heard of this boo basket nonsense?
Speaker 5: A rod, I've heard of it.
Speaker 4: So apparently you start, you make this big ass basket
Speaker 4: full of stuff for Halloween and then you drop it
Speaker 4: off on someone's porch and you're like, oh, you've been
Speaker 4: boo basketed or something, And now you're supposed to go
Speaker 4: out and buy a bunch of prep for a different
Speaker 4: basket and go take it to someone else.
Speaker 5: I don't really die with this.
Speaker 6: We did the booing, Yeah, we did the booing a
Speaker 6: long time ago. It was a different variation, but of
Speaker 6: the realm. It was a fun neighborly activity.
Speaker 4: I will say, remember that, what was the variation, what's
Speaker 4: the variation on this?
Speaker 5: It was like you would leave.
Speaker 6: It was some variation of like you would say that
Speaker 6: you booed a neighbor, so like you would leave certain
Speaker 6: things I think at other houses, not where they come
Speaker 6: to yours.
Speaker 5: I can't remember exactly how it was, but it was fun.
Speaker 4: Were you leaving like baskets of stuff?
Speaker 5: I don't know if it was baskets at least, definitely
Speaker 5: like some candy and like some like knick knacks. But
Speaker 5: it was no, no, no, yeah, right time.
Speaker 4: No, I'm the person that it's gonna die on my doorstep.
Speaker 4: I'm not doing that. I'm not I'm not getting roped in.
Speaker 4: And here's the thing. One of the benefits of being
Speaker 4: an older mom is I don't care, and you can't
Speaker 4: make me feel bad for not caring about this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a fun and festive Halloween tradition where neighbors
Speaker 6: leave treats and surprises for each other anonymously.
Speaker 5: It's called you getting booed. We used to do that
Speaker 5: in our neighborhood.
Speaker 2: I remember.
Speaker 4: No, okay, this is the same fun that the shelf
Speaker 4: on the elk or the elf on the shelf is.
Speaker 4: You know, Oh, fun, fun family activity. It's gonna make
Speaker 4: you freak out at two o'clock in the morning wondering
Speaker 4: if your elf made it back from a night out.
Speaker 4: If you know what I mean, you gotta get booed.
Speaker 4: Come on, I know, I'm I'm going like I'm sour
Speaker 4: pussing on that. That's terrible, just terrible.
Speaker 6: We had a dandy old time in the neighborhood growing up. Okay,
Speaker 6: it was fun. I remember now getting booed. It was
Speaker 6: good time.
Speaker 4: I you know, maybe you all knew that you had
Speaker 4: that kind of time. I don't know that kind of time,
Speaker 4: like my mom. I hope my daughter never comes to
Speaker 4: me and says, boom. Now my daughter never comes to
Speaker 4: me and is like, hey, Mom, how come I didn't
Speaker 4: have a photograph of myself with a carefully constructed chalkboard
Speaker 4: on every first day of school, cause I'm not a
Speaker 4: Pinterest mom. That's not how I roll. There's no rolling
Speaker 4: like that in our house. We don't do that. I'll
Speaker 4: bite candy, I'll take you trick or treating. You gotta
Speaker 4: work for it. And here's the thing that gets me,
Speaker 4: Like kids should have to go through the work part
Speaker 4: of Halloween. This is why I'm fundamentally opposed to the
Speaker 4: trunk or treat situation for more than like toddlers. For toddlers,
Speaker 4: it's perfectly fine, perfectly fine, they're little littles. But when
Speaker 4: you're in elementary school, you better get your ass around
Speaker 4: the neighborhood right.
Speaker 6: Now or you come down on I assume I know
Speaker 6: what side you're on when it comes to driving to
Speaker 6: different neighborhoods and Halloween trigg or treating in different neighborhoods.
Speaker 4: My neighborhood is not good, but we don't. We will
Speaker 4: go to someone else's neighborhood, but we don't drive around.
Speaker 5: It's walking the kids in and out of cars driving around.
Speaker 6: If you go into the hood and park in one spot,
Speaker 6: and then that's what the wholehood, that's okay.
Speaker 4: And we do it with people who live in that neighborhood,
Speaker 4: because our neighborhood is not good.
Speaker 6: But I've seen like cars following the kids, following the
Speaker 6: kids trick or treating NonStop, like that's parking a spot.
Speaker 5: Do the hood get back to the car.
Speaker 4: Yep. Agree to the person who just sent this text,
Speaker 4: Anthony and is now incumbent upon you to go boo
Speaker 4: Mandy at her house or at least at the studio,
Speaker 4: and you know what, you know what, I'm going to
Speaker 4: pass that basket right back to you. They're like, here
Speaker 4: you go, Boo, I booed you back there you go, Mandy.
Speaker 4: You're sounding like an old lady. Correct, because I don't
Speaker 4: have that kind of time. We'll be right back.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 4: I don't normally talk about crime stories until after they're
Speaker 4: sort of disposed of, right when they're fully adjudicated, then
Speaker 4: we might talk about it, reflect on it, whatever. Except
Speaker 4: this story is so nuts. Oh, we have to talk
Speaker 4: about this. We have no choice. This from our friends
Speaker 4: at Fox thirty one. Denver police arrested two people in
Speaker 4: connection to an alleged kidnapping and assault wherein the victim's
Speaker 4: finger was amputated by his captors. According to the Denver
Speaker 4: Police department. An adult man arrived at the Denver Police
Speaker 4: District station on October seventh to report a kidnapping and
Speaker 4: aggravated assault. He told police four people he lived with
Speaker 4: held him against his will and assaulted him, including amputating
Speaker 4: a finger. After two days of captivity, the victim was
Speaker 4: able to escape and report the incident. Now, the really
Speaker 4: bad part is Denver Police that officers conducted a welfare
Speaker 4: check at the location where the victim had been held
Speaker 4: and investigated to the extent they were able without having
Speaker 4: full consent or sufficient evidence of a crime that would
Speaker 4: allow the officers to get a search warrant. The victim
Speaker 4: told police that the suspects left the location after the
Speaker 4: welfare check, which allowed him to escape hours later. On
Speaker 4: October eighteenth, police arrested Jose Pinera Moreno and Darwin Valiz
Speaker 4: Gonzalez and help them for investigation a first to ree
Speaker 4: kidnapping in prisons, secrete with bodily injury, first to reassault, disfigurement,
Speaker 4: criminal extortion, And this is my favorite line. Police told
Speaker 4: Fox thirty one that officers are still investigating whether this
Speaker 4: incident was gang related activity. Now, I've watched enough crime shows, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, Ayrod, you've seen the crime shows. We all
Speaker 4: know how this goes. When you take someone ransom for ransom,
Speaker 4: you kidnap them, and you call their family and say,
Speaker 4: if you ever want to see them alive again, you
Speaker 4: better pay X amount of dollars and oh, by the way,
Speaker 4: we'll drop off his finger to let you know how
Speaker 4: serious we are. We've seen this. We already know how
Speaker 4: this goes. We already know now. We will have to wait,
Speaker 4: of course, to find out if they are actually in
Speaker 4: a gang. But stories like this, I mean, has this
Speaker 4: I've only been here a little over ten years. Is
Speaker 4: this how Denver rolls?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: We got stories of people being kidnapped in their own
Speaker 4: homes and then having a finger cut off, and then
Speaker 4: people getting arrested for extortion after they cut somebody else's
Speaker 4: finger off allegedly. Is this what we are now? Is
Speaker 4: this who we are?
Speaker 3: Is this?
Speaker 5: I mean?
Speaker 1: Is this?
Speaker 4: Because I gotta tell you, growing up in Florida in
Speaker 4: the nineteen eighties, you would hear stories like this all
Speaker 4: the time out of Miami in Fort Lauderdale during the
Speaker 4: big big cocaine you know, cowboy days, stuff like this
Speaker 4: happened all the time. And I'm just is that what
Speaker 4: we're looking at now? Is this what we're gonna do?
Speaker 4: Is this where we are? And if we do have
Speaker 4: gang members who are here illegally, is there any doubt
Speaker 4: that they would not try to somehow, I don't know,
Speaker 4: capitalize on the fact that people are still running around
Speaker 4: saying they don't exist. So let me just recap this story.
Speaker 4: So nine News I'll just write their script right now.
Speaker 4: Imaginary gang may have cut off a guy's finger, unfounded allegations,
Speaker 4: though unfounded allegations. Yeah, it doesn't have a finger, but
Speaker 4: we don't know. We have no idea what's going on,
Speaker 4: certainly just random violence with no connection to any kind.
Speaker 4: Because I know when I was nineteen, I said to
Speaker 4: my friend when we were hanging out, you know what
Speaker 4: we should do. We should kidnap somebody and cut the
Speaker 4: finger off. No, that did not happen because I am
Speaker 4: not a criminal, unlike these two gentlemen who will now
Speaker 4: have to defend themselves in court after we find out,
Speaker 4: if we ever find out if they have gang ties.
Speaker 4: If you are a police officer, by the way, I
Speaker 4: owes any inside information on that, I love it. Mandy.
Speaker 4: This sounds like the movie Le Grande Lebowski, Little Bit,
Speaker 4: Little Bit Mandy. Any word if the governor has filed
Speaker 4: suit against the victim for insinuating there's gang activity in
Speaker 4: Colorado TBD, Texter TBD. Anyway, let's do this. Let's just
Speaker 4: take a break. When we get back, I have a
Speaker 4: fascinating story about what happened to the ninety million dollars
Speaker 4: that was collected by Black Lives Matter, And whatever you're thinking,
Speaker 4: you're right, You're absolutely right. We'll be back right after this.
Speaker 4: Look at it. A story from the Free Press. And
Speaker 4: I talk about the Free Press all the time, and
Speaker 4: I'm not trying to get you a bunch of subscriptions
Speaker 4: you don't need. But there are a few things that
Speaker 4: are worth your money, and a subscription to the Freepress
Speaker 4: dot com is one of them. This is not a
Speaker 4: paid endorsement. I have no business relationship with them. I
Speaker 4: love what they are doing at the Free Press because
Speaker 4: it's a bunch of journalists that have gotten tired being
Speaker 4: micromanaged by big media. And here is the Free Press
Speaker 4: doing some incredible reporting, including this story from today. Black
Speaker 4: Lives Matter. In a very short period of time in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty, managed to bring in about ninety million dollars
Speaker 4: ninety million dollars in a year, so people are starting
Speaker 4: to ask what happened to all the money, including the
Speaker 4: internal Revenue Service and the state to California. So let's
Speaker 4: just say this, Black Lives Matter there are two separate organizations.
Speaker 4: There is Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation and Black
Speaker 4: Lives Matter Grassroots. Grassroots was formed in about twenty nineteen
Speaker 4: as an umbrella organization of local chapters of the group
Speaker 4: and was co directed by Malina Abdullah. So the other
Speaker 4: Global Network Foundation was started by a woman named Patrise
Speaker 4: Culers and two other women whose name I cannot remember
Speaker 4: right now. I remember Patrese's name because she was busted
Speaker 4: after buying multiple properties with money from Black Lives Matter.
Speaker 4: But she's not the only grifter in the situation now.
Speaker 4: Mss Abdullah, who was the leader of Black Lives Matter Grassroots,
Speaker 4: has been accused by other chapter leaders of using their
Speaker 4: money to pay for vacations to Jamaica and her own
Speaker 4: personal expenses. She has denied the allegations, but at least
Speaker 4: eight point seven million dollars in donations are unaccounted for.
Speaker 4: That's where California comes in. California Attorney General Rob Bonta
Speaker 4: has demanded that Grassroots turn over their delinquent tax filings
Speaker 4: and late fees before this Sunday. If they don't, they're
Speaker 4: going to pull their tax exempt status in California. Now,
Speaker 4: three years after BLM Grassroots split from Global, It sued
Speaker 4: Global alleging financial mismanagement, claiming that ten million dollars in
Speaker 4: BLM Global donations actually belonged to Grassroots. The court threw
Speaker 4: out the case and they ordered Grassroots to pay these
Speaker 4: seven hundred thousand dollars in legal fees that were incurred
Speaker 4: by the Global organization. Now, let's talk about the Global
Speaker 4: Organization for just a second. It started in July of
Speaker 4: twenty thirteen by Patrise Cullers, Alicia Garza, and Opal Toomeny.
Speaker 4: They were responding to the killing of Trayvon Martin by
Speaker 4: George Zimmerman in twenty twelve. The stated goal was inspiring
Speaker 4: but vague. The founders described it as a quote a
Speaker 4: platform and organizing tool that other groups, organizations, and individuals
Speaker 4: used to amplify anti black racism across the country. By
Speaker 4: the mid twenty tens, its founders were well known. Two
Speaker 4: of them have left to launch their own celebrity brands.
Speaker 4: Patrise's Culors has been running or was running, Black Lives
Speaker 4: Matter Global herself, and in nineteen ninety after George Floyd
Speaker 4: was killed by police, they raised ninety million dollars in
Speaker 4: a year. So in addition to just skimming money off
Speaker 4: the top, Patrise's Culors ink to deal with Warner Brothers.
Speaker 4: She got a deal with Warner Brothers to create animated
Speaker 4: kids programming, documentaries, dramas, and comedies about structural racism and inequality.
Speaker 4: Boy those sound don't they? Well, they were never made,
Speaker 4: but I bet she cashed the check she and the foundation. Also,
Speaker 4: I love the way they say she and the Foundation.
Speaker 4: That's so so so funny, so so so funny. She
Speaker 4: and the foundation bought a bunch of real estate. They
Speaker 4: got a six million dollar mansion in Los Angeles, a
Speaker 4: six point three million dollar mansion in Canada, they got
Speaker 4: a three point two acre estate in Georgia, and a
Speaker 4: Black Lives Matter Global handed out money to a bunch
Speaker 4: of Patrise Colors, friends and relatives, including seven hundred and
Speaker 4: seventy eight thousand dollars for services to an arts group
Speaker 4: run by the father of her son, A one point
Speaker 4: six million dollar check to a security firm owned by
Speaker 4: her brother Paul. The foundation also kept checks totally two
Speaker 4: hundred and five thousand dollars to a company run by
Speaker 4: Colors and her spouse, as well as a two hundred
Speaker 4: and eleven thousand dollars payout to a friend who helped
Speaker 4: Colors write her memoir. So Black Lives Matter collected four
Speaker 4: point six million dollars in the fiscal year that ended
Speaker 4: in June of twenty twenty three, but they spent ten
Speaker 4: point eight million.
Speaker 6: Yeah on what.
Speaker 3: On what?
Speaker 4: Black Lives Matter Global is still trying to recover from
Speaker 4: Patrise's Colors. She stepped down a month after it was
Speaker 4: revealed that she bought all those houses. By the way,
Speaker 4: from what I understand, those houses are not in the
Speaker 4: name of Black Lives Matter, They are in Patrise's Colors name.
Speaker 4: She owns those houses. So yeah, yeah, and I'm gonna
Speaker 4: be This is what happens when a pile of money
Speaker 4: falls on people who don't understand how to handle money.
Speaker 4: And it's what happens when a pile of money falls
Speaker 4: on people who believe that everything in the world is
Speaker 4: corrupt and stacked against them, Because then that justifies anything
Speaker 4: they want to do, because as long as you believe
Speaker 4: that the entire world is inherently and irredeemably racist, and
Speaker 4: you are a black person like Patrice Colors is, then
Speaker 4: you can justify bilking the people who are giving you
Speaker 4: money to make race relations better. I don't know if
Speaker 4: that was ever the goal. It certainly hasn't. I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't think anybody is going to tell you that
Speaker 4: race relations are better now than they were. You know,
Speaker 4: twenty five years ago. I grew up that I mentioned
Speaker 4: this earlier in the show. I grew up in a
Speaker 4: small town in the Deep South, and when I was
Speaker 4: very young, there was there was enough racism in my
Speaker 4: hometown to be noticeable. All the black people lived on
Speaker 4: one side, all the white people lived on the other side.
Speaker 4: But within our hometown there was a lot of mixing
Speaker 4: of people outside of where they lived. You know, you
Speaker 4: would often see an old white man and an old
Speaker 4: black man sitting next to each other fishing. You would
Speaker 4: see people sitting at the you know, at lunch together,
Speaker 4: having lunch together. Black and white, people work together, black
Speaker 4: and white. It was it was very weird. It was
Speaker 4: very strange. But all of that being said, one of
Speaker 4: the things that that situation taught me is that though
Speaker 4: you know, there were openly racist people in my hometown, overall,
Speaker 4: most people were good and decent, and most people didn't
Speaker 4: look at things that way. They looked at the person
Speaker 4: that was in front of them, and if they were
Speaker 4: a good person, that's how they decided whether or not
Speaker 4: they wanted to be around them. You had to be
Speaker 4: a quality person. And you look at the belief system here,
Speaker 4: the Patrice Colors belief system that every white person is
Speaker 4: a problem and there's no hope, and we are a
Speaker 4: hopelessly racist country. And of course they could do anything
Speaker 4: and justify it to themselves. You know, when you believe
Speaker 4: you're a victim, it is very easy to become an
Speaker 4: oppressor because you believe somewhere in your heart that you
Speaker 4: are owed this right. I mean, this is the logic
Speaker 4: of looters. Looters believe they're owed something. Okay, with all
Speaker 4: due respect, what did Nike do to you? You know,
Speaker 4: what exactly did Nike or Macy's or Louis Vauton do
Speaker 4: to oppress you? And yet you're using that as a
Speaker 4: justification to behave badly. Now it's a black Lives Matter.
Speaker 4: I think, as after reading this story, as a movement
Speaker 4: is largely done. It's just done. And a big part
Speaker 4: of the problem, as made in this article was Black
Speaker 4: Lives Matter disastrous, absolutely disastrous embrace of defund the police.
Speaker 4: Because defund the police, we now know was an abject
Speaker 4: of failure, and cities that embrace it are now scrambling,
Speaker 4: like Denver, are to fill the police positions that they
Speaker 4: need filled because crime got out of control because we
Speaker 4: didn't have enough cops. And all of those idiots who
Speaker 4: have been saying for years more cops doesn't equal more
Speaker 4: safety have had it shoved down in their throat because
Speaker 4: it does.
Speaker 3: It just does.
Speaker 4: So yeah, this person Mandy at BLM was a conservative group.
Speaker 4: Everyone would be on trial. You are correct about that. Now,
Speaker 4: I don't necessarily think that all of these players are
Speaker 4: going to escape, because some of them have not escaped
Speaker 4: in Atlanta. Wait, let me find this very quickly to
Speaker 4: make sure I got this correct. Don't want to get
Speaker 4: this wrong. It's a long article. Bear with me for
Speaker 4: just a second. Tyree Kanyer's page aka Sir Major Page.
Speaker 4: He was a thirty four year old former leader of
Speaker 4: the BLM chapter of Greater Atlanta. He was just sentenced
Speaker 4: to forty two months in federal prison for money laundering
Speaker 4: and why fraud pocketing the four hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 4: dollars he raised from eighteen thousand donors to fight for
Speaker 4: George Floyd and the movement page lavishly spent on himself,
Speaker 4: splurging on tailored suits, nightclub bar tabs, an evening with
Speaker 4: a prostitute, and, as he texted to a friend, a
Speaker 4: big ass crib that he bought in Ohio after he
Speaker 4: quote won the lottery. So it people are being held
Speaker 4: to account. Not everyone is getting away with it, but
Speaker 4: I do think that there would be perhaps a lot
Speaker 4: more aggressive investigation if this were a right wing organization
Speaker 4: one hundred percent. I agree with you on that, Texters.
Speaker 4: But they are being held accountable. Mandy, I didn't know
Speaker 4: we defunded the police in twenty twenty. The movement took
Speaker 4: off in twenty twenty. It surely did.
Speaker 1: This.
Speaker 4: Dexter said, we tore down all the statues and destroyed
Speaker 4: the cities. Didn't that fix race for sure? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yep, yep, yep, Mandy.
Speaker 4: What's the difference from that and Trump raising money for
Speaker 4: his legal fees. He's not telling his donors the truth either.
Speaker 4: I don't like Black Lives Matter either. I've talked about
Speaker 4: the fact I think it's wrong for Donald Trump to
Speaker 4: pay for legal fees out of campaign funds unless he
Speaker 4: tells people these funds are going to go to my
Speaker 4: legal fund, and he has there's a separate legal fund
Speaker 4: that people can donate to. I've said that before on
Speaker 4: the show. I think it's terrible, but you know what,
Speaker 4: I'm not donating to him. They go on in this
Speaker 4: to talk about the fact that the movement has largely collapsed,
Speaker 4: but there are still outposts, and now they've shifted their
Speaker 4: focus from Black Lives Matter to guess what. Guess what?
Speaker 4: Just guess guess before I say it. Guess before I
Speaker 4: say it.
Speaker 7: What.
Speaker 4: Oh if you guessed anti Zionism, you guessed correctly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So there are the side of Hamas, which just
Speaker 4: makes me know I am on the right side of history. Mandy,
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna read that one texter who is asking
Speaker 4: about the segment on YouTube about social media that is
Speaker 4: on my blog at mandy'sblog dot com. I also embedded
Speaker 4: a link so you can find everything. As a matter
Speaker 4: of fact. If you hear of anything on the show
Speaker 4: and you don't know or you want more information, you
Speaker 4: can always go to my blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
Speaker 4: That's why I do it. That's the sole reason last
Speaker 4: story of the day. I want to get this in
Speaker 4: Because I didn't put this on the blog, it may
Speaker 4: be on tomorrow's blog. So the United States National Institute
Speaker 4: of Health funded a study starting in twenty five twenty fifteen,
Speaker 4: as part of a broader, multimillion dollar federal project on
Speaker 4: transgender youth. She and colleagues recruited ninety five children from
Speaker 4: across the country and gave them puberty blockers, which stave
Speaker 4: off permanent physical changes like breasts or a deepening voice
Speaker 4: that could exacerbate their gender distress known as dysphoria. The
Speaker 4: researchers followed the children for two years to see if
Speaker 4: the treatments improve their mental health. An older Dutch study
Speaker 4: had found that puberty blockers improved well being, results that
Speaker 4: inspired clinics around the world to regularly prescribe the medications
Speaker 4: as part of what is now called gender affirming care,
Speaker 4: but the American trial did not find a similar trend.
Speaker 4: Doctor Olsen Kennedy said in a wide ranging interview, puberty
Speaker 4: blockers did not lead to mental health improvements. She said
Speaker 4: most likely because the children were already doing well when
Speaker 4: the study began. They're in really good shape when they
Speaker 4: come in, and they're in really good shape after two years.
Speaker 4: The conclusion seems to contradict an earlier description of the group,
Speaker 4: in which doctor Olsen Kennedy and her colleagues noted that
Speaker 4: one quarter of the adolescents were depressed or suicidal before treatment.
Speaker 4: In the nine years since the study was funded, the
Speaker 4: National Institute of Health has decided not to publish the data.
Speaker 4: Not to publish the data you know why, because, she
Speaker 4: said the findings might fuel the kind of political attacks
Speaker 4: that have led to the bands of youth gender treatments
Speaker 4: in more than twenty states, one of which will be
Speaker 4: considered by the Supreme Court. She said, I don't want
Speaker 4: our work to be weaponized. It has to be exactly
Speaker 4: on point, clear and concise, and that takes time. So
Speaker 4: let me explain to you what's happening. The National Institute
Speaker 4: of Health is experimenting on children, and when things don't
Speaker 4: go the way that they wanted them to go, they
Speaker 4: simply changed the information about where they started. And this
Speaker 4: is what we're supposed to trust. The science. The science,
Speaker 4: the science, manny I love. No matter the topic, there's
Speaker 4: always someone arguing, well, what about Trump? You guys have
Speaker 4: no idea. How many text messages I don't read on
Speaker 4: the air, you have no idea? Oh to the text?
Speaker 4: Who said?
Speaker 5: Did you see?
Speaker 4: Trump is gonna be on Joe Rogan Friday? Once again?
Speaker 4: Once again, when it comes to campaigning, Donald Trump takes
Speaker 4: the knees right out from under Kamala Harris because stories
Speaker 4: were out last week Kamala Harris is considering an appearance
Speaker 4: on the Joe Rogan Show. So my guess is is
Speaker 4: that someone on Trump's team saw that on social media
Speaker 4: and got on the phone and called up Joe Rogan
Speaker 4: and said, hey, you want Trump on Friday. And Joe
Speaker 4: Rogan was like, hey, y I'll take Trump on Friday,
Speaker 4: bring him in. So now Joe Rogan is going to
Speaker 4: interview Trump, and no one cares if Kamala Harris is
Speaker 4: gonna be on the Joe Rogan Show. No one cares,
Speaker 4: no one, no one. I think I'm gonna leave you
Speaker 4: on this text message just to go off on a
Speaker 4: high note. Have I'm voting for Adolf Hitler two point
Speaker 4: zero in this BS election. There are no winners. Come
Speaker 4: November fifth, a miracle will be destroyed no matter which
Speaker 4: power hungry liar wins, Satan wins, and the United States loses.
Speaker 4: You're not altogether wrong, not altogether wrong. All right, let's
Speaker 4: go and talk to our man, Ryan Edwards, because now
Speaker 4: it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio
Speaker 4: of its kind, the world of the day. All right, now, Ryan,
Speaker 4: you today are hamstrung, my friend, you you have to
Speaker 4: wait until the question is over.
Speaker 5: This time, I'm just saying, yeah, who makes the rules here?
Speaker 4: Because it ain't Yeah, No, the rules have to be
Speaker 4: the same for everybody. We're not Democrats. Okay, Wow, the
Speaker 4: rules must be the same for everyone. Sorry, it was
Speaker 4: it was like low hanging fruit.
Speaker 5: I had to taste shots.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just saying, anyone, Okay, what is our what
Speaker 4: is our day? Joke of the day? All right?
Speaker 6: Got another Halloween three for They're all bones related? Why
Speaker 6: did the skeletons start a fight because he had a
Speaker 6: bone to pick? What is the skeleton's favorite instrument? Whround bone?
Speaker 6: And how does skeletons know it's going to rain. They
Speaker 6: feel it in their bones.
Speaker 4: I like that one. Yeah, I like that one. Whoa
Speaker 4: that is fantastic.
Speaker 5: Word of the day is a noun noun polaveror p
Speaker 5: l A A p A A l A v E R.
Speaker 4: I know what this is and I don't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you knew what it was, then you would
Speaker 5: say what it was.
Speaker 4: Don't know what it means. At some point in my life,
Speaker 4: I feel like it's like a Shakespearean word. Polaveror is
Speaker 4: someone who does a really lousy job at something. He's
Speaker 4: a real.
Speaker 5: Ryan, totally guessing. Just somebody that is a fleet of foots.
Speaker 6: I don't know, fast to unimportant or meaningless talk.
Speaker 4: That is right. Yeah, theaver going on this show is
Speaker 4: Polaverora'm right, yeah, we need that, all right. Today's trivia
Speaker 4: question in geometry, what are complimentary angles?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 4: Come on, nice kind of angles? Just say nice things too.
Speaker 5: That's cute. That was a cute, well done complimentary Actually this.
Speaker 4: Can I answer it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yes, it is two angles that add up to ninety degree.
Speaker 5: I swear to God, that's what I was going to
Speaker 5: guess along those lines where to God.
Speaker 4: Yeah, supplementary angles. By the way, add up to Okay, Ryan,
Speaker 4: you have to wait to leave the question.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right? Category is that at all? That means
Speaker 5: a L L all is in every answer a missed
Speaker 5: shot in basketball that matches whoa hold on? That can't
Speaker 5: be So she gets to answer first. But I got
Speaker 5: because she's on, because she's on zoom all.
Speaker 4: Right, I'm at Southern Command.
Speaker 5: I think I think, I think I think that you
Speaker 5: both get to answer whenever.
Speaker 4: Okay, zero, okay.
Speaker 6: To remove previously activated software from a computer.
Speaker 4: Manny, what is uninstalled?
Speaker 5: Structural term?
Speaker 6: To engage in stalling tactics and to refuse to give information?
Speaker 4: Mandy, what's stall?
Speaker 2: Wrong?
Speaker 5: Structural turn?
Speaker 6: To engage installing tactics and to refuse to give information?
Speaker 2: Come on, right.
Speaker 5: From a blank? Did you say stall?
Speaker 2: Mandy?
Speaker 5: She did.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to give you the point because we
Speaker 6: already moved past, but stalling was acceptable.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna give you negative, So go back to
Speaker 5: where you were.
Speaker 1: Zero.
Speaker 5: What is stone walling? Is what I was looking for.
Speaker 6: We're gonna we're not gonna do negative. We're gonna keep
Speaker 6: you even Mandy at zero?
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 6: Sorts of rap reggae hybrid. This style of rhythmic excuse me,
Speaker 6: this style of music originated in Jamaica in the late seventies,
Speaker 6: has a L L in it.
Speaker 5: Two acceptable answers, I guess, even though one of them
Speaker 5: doesn't happen.
Speaker 4: I know what is dance hall?
Speaker 2: Correct?
Speaker 5: Whoa oh, I wouldn't have gotten reggae tone essentially.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: This Norse god of light and the Dawn is also
Speaker 6: the guardian of the by Frost, the rainbow bridge, Brian,
Speaker 6: come on, oh, oh, guardian of the by Frost.
Speaker 4: I've seen the movies.
Speaker 5: I can't think of his rainbow bridge. He's holding the
Speaker 5: sword god Ran. What is heal and Alba?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh one one.
Speaker 10: The discussion at the beginning about unfairness and I don't
Speaker 10: know whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes you know, winners win. That's where we just
Speaker 4: letting you know. With my big one zero score, I'm
Speaker 4: just gonna take that and go right now. What do
Speaker 4: you guys have coming up on KAA Sports?
Speaker 10: Oh, we got all sorts of fun stuff. We're gonna
Speaker 10: brick Lewis on the program. We've got a little bit
Speaker 10: of nugget preview. Also, the Broncos are facing a different
Speaker 10: quarterback now and the Carolina Panthers they're going back to
Speaker 10: their first overall pick from last year, Bryce Young, so
Speaker 10: that will be interesting.
Speaker 5: As far as the debate on this show, all.
Speaker 4: Right, my friend, that's coming up next. Keep it right
Speaker 4: here on Kawa