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Speaker 2: No fun. What day is it? No fun at all altogether? No,
Speaker 2: it's not Friday.
Speaker 5: You just wish it was tomorrow. It will be this week,
Speaker 5: you guys. In the last three days, I've had three
Speaker 5: of those days that started at six am and ended
Speaker 5: at like ten o'clock at night. And I was supposed
Speaker 5: to have another meeting tonight and God bless my friend Geta,
Speaker 5: who was like, do we really need to have this meeting.
Speaker 5: I'm like, here's my update. There you go, let's move
Speaker 5: the meeting to the twenty second Yay, yay. We have
Speaker 5: so much stuff to talk about today. I mean so
Speaker 5: much stuff. Yesterday while I was on the air, the
Speaker 5: story was breaking about the shooting in Minneapolis, and in
Speaker 5: the last twenty four hours I have had time to
Speaker 5: roll this around from multiple directions, because if you follow
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Speaker 5: ex bio that it says I'm just wishing people would
Speaker 5: be consistent. And I really started thinking yesterday afternoon, Mandy,
Speaker 5: what is a consistent opinion for you in this situation.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I needed a way to vest for those headlines.
Speaker 2: That's how big today's blog is. Today's blog is a masterpiece,
Speaker 2: if I do say so myself, I mean, it's really
Speaker 2: really good. We've got some great video on the blog today.
Speaker 5: But I want to start out my touching base about
Speaker 5: what happened yesterday in Minnesota. And now I have seen
Speaker 5: multiple angles of the incident that unfolded thusly. There was
Speaker 5: a woman who, in protest, had parked her car across
Speaker 5: a road in order to stop ICE. Now her wife
Speaker 5: is caught on camera saying I should have never made
Speaker 5: her come down here. ICE agents rolled up on her
Speaker 5: vehicle and in order to get her out of the roadways.
Speaker 5: And part of this speculation, because we don't know all
Speaker 5: the details, and we'll get to more of that in
Speaker 5: a second, and one walked up to her driver's side door.
Speaker 5: One was in front of her vehicle. Rather than obey
Speaker 5: the commands of the ICE agents and where she would
Speaker 5: have walked away, she chose to try and get away
Speaker 5: by gunning her car and in the process did hit
Speaker 5: an ICE agent who then opened fire and shot her
Speaker 5: three times and killed her. Those are pretty much the facts,
Speaker 5: as my own eyeballs have shown me. That is what
Speaker 5: I believe to be true. Now, when I really look
Speaker 5: at this from the lens of being consistent, you have
Speaker 5: to think. And I realized that it's very easy to say, well,
Speaker 5: you know, you mess around, what do you expect? But
Speaker 5: this was the mother of three children. This was a
Speaker 5: woman who probably, and I'm just speculating here, probably really
Speaker 5: believed that she was doing the morally right thing. Because
Speaker 5: of the rhetoric around ice agents, she probably really believed
Speaker 5: she was doing something good and valuable and upright and upstanding.
Speaker 5: And I can look at this differently, but I do
Speaker 5: believe that that is where her heart was. And one
Speaker 5: has to wonder, like, at what point do you say
Speaker 5: it is not right that someone was killed, even for
Speaker 5: being an idiot.
Speaker 2: You know, that's a tough call. I wasn't the one
Speaker 2: being run over.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: I don't know how this all gets adjudicated, but I'm
Speaker 5: going to say this, and I said this to a
Speaker 5: Rod before the show. I don't think anything we're going
Speaker 5: to see or anything we're going to say, is going
Speaker 5: to move people off the positions they decided on based
Speaker 5: on their political ideology. If you believe that ICE is bad,
Speaker 5: you are never going to believe that this shooting was.
Speaker 2: Justified in any way, shape or form. And I could
Speaker 2: make the argument that you.
Speaker 5: Are probably correct based on the fact that I truly
Speaker 5: believe that Ashley Babbitt, who was crawling through a window
Speaker 5: at the Capitol when she got shot in the face,
Speaker 5: didn't deserve to die for that either. But the reality
Speaker 5: is I wasn't that Capitol police officer either. I don't
Speaker 5: know if they truly, in their hearts, believe that their
Speaker 5: lives were in danger.
Speaker 2: I don't know. All this stuff happened so fast.
Speaker 5: We're talking in like one and a half seconds, right
Speaker 5: when decisions were made that unfortunately had life and death consequences, And.
Speaker 2: It wasn't just made by the ICE agent.
Speaker 5: That driver made a life and death consequence decision that
Speaker 5: ended badly for her.
Speaker 2: So this is this I said it yesterday.
Speaker 5: This is going to be one of those things that
Speaker 5: could turn into something really, really, really significant, and in
Speaker 5: fifty years we may look back and go, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: between Charlie Kirk and that, Yeah, those are the things
Speaker 5: that really set things off.
Speaker 2: Now, what's interesting is that Tom Homan, the Borders Are.
Speaker 5: Was sitting down for an interview and I want to
Speaker 5: play this is what Tony Decoppolis from CBS News, who
Speaker 5: by the way, we're going to have to talk about
Speaker 5: how Tony's doing. He teared up on the air and
Speaker 5: everybody's making fun of him. But I want you to
Speaker 5: hear Tom Holman and Tony Decopolis talk about this and
Speaker 5: this strategy by Tom Homan is the right one.
Speaker 7: I think the city of Minneapolis is on edge. I
Speaker 7: think the country is on edge right now. You say
Speaker 7: the investigation is.
Speaker 2: Ongoing, investigations just started, just started.
Speaker 7: You say you can't comment on the video which many
Speaker 7: Americans are seeing and reacting to.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to make a judgment call on one
Speaker 6: video when there's one hundred videos out there. I wasn't
Speaker 6: on the scene. I'm not an officer that may have
Speaker 6: bodycam video, I'd be the unprofessional or comment I'm when
Speaker 6: I think happened in that situation. Let the investigation play
Speaker 6: out and hold people accountable based on the investigation.
Speaker 7: I think many members of the public are calling for
Speaker 7: the same thing, and so they're confused. Maybe you can
Speaker 7: help me understand how the Department of Homeland Security could
Speaker 7: conclude so swiftly that this is a quote active domestic
Speaker 7: terrorism that this woman quote weaponized her vehicle by the
Speaker 7: very same standard you describe.
Speaker 2: This investigtion is just getting started.
Speaker 6: That's the question for Homeland Security on the borders are well,
Speaker 6: I can't tell you what I've seen on my airplane
Speaker 6: ride here, looking at numerous videos, seeing numerous social media posts,
Speaker 6: statements from the Homeland Security, statements from Secretary.
Speaker 2: No, I'll leave it at that. And the law enforce
Speaker 2: What good is it to do right now to.
Speaker 6: Me prejudge the facts what happened today without giving law
Speaker 6: enforced professional for the j FPI or the local police there,
Speaker 6: give them time to look at all the videos, talk
Speaker 6: to all the witnesses, talk to the officers, and make
Speaker 6: an educated decision on what occurred today. That's what needs
Speaker 6: to happen. I've been a cop since nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 6: That is a process we must go through, and.
Speaker 5: That is what needs to happen. And by the way,
Speaker 5: I am still inclined, and I just retweeted. I'm retweeting
Speaker 5: every video of this that I can find. I just
Speaker 5: think that it is better for us all to see
Speaker 5: every single thing and then we can decide who's full
Speaker 5: of crap and who's not right. And I believe that
Speaker 5: this woman did indeed hit an ICE agent with her car.
Speaker 5: There is video that's pretty clear that shows her hitting
Speaker 5: this ICE agent with her car. Now, is there something
Speaker 5: else the ICE agent could have done?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm not a train law enforcement officer. I'm really not.
Speaker 5: But if somebody tried to run over me with their car,
Speaker 5: somebody that was blocking the road, somebody that was obstructing.
Speaker 2: Law enforcement, I would probably already be on edge. I
Speaker 2: don't know. I Like I said, I think that this
Speaker 2: is one.
Speaker 5: Of those incidents that the right and left are never
Speaker 5: going to agree on ever, kind of like January sixth.
Speaker 5: You know, we all look at it from our own perspective,
Speaker 5: but this one is tragic. You know, nobody wishes that
Speaker 5: someone's mother was killed. But at the same time, this
Speaker 5: is sort of what happens when you have people out
Speaker 5: calling ice agents Nazis and telling them to get the
Speaker 5: f out of their cities and be openly defiant and
Speaker 5: saying horrible things. This is how things end. People get
Speaker 5: shot at softball games. I mean, these are the things
Speaker 5: that happen, right, These are the things that happen. Got
Speaker 5: some text messages on the Common Spirit Health text line, Hi, Mandy,
Speaker 5: police have a right to protect themselves, but I wish
Speaker 5: the cop had not stood in front of her car
Speaker 5: while drawing his gun. I like told Tom Holman's response,
Speaker 5: you know, I again, I don't know if they are like, look,
Speaker 5: make sure this person doesn't get away, or I have
Speaker 5: no idea.
Speaker 2: I don't know why he drew his gun on her
Speaker 2: in the first place. That is a valid question that
Speaker 2: needs to be answered.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I do know this.
Speaker 5: I do know that any kind of traffic stop, any
Speaker 5: kind of situation where law enforcement is walking up to
Speaker 5: a vehicle not knowing who's in that vehicle, right, not
Speaker 5: knowing what the intentions of the person in that vehicle are,
Speaker 5: it is one of the most dangerous situations that a
Speaker 5: law enforcement officer can find themselves in I personally know
Speaker 5: someone who was murdered in a traffic stop. He worked
Speaker 5: for the Florida Highway Patrol And why I no his son.
Speaker 5: He was murdered and left small children behind, you know,
Speaker 5: because he walked up to do a speeding stop and
Speaker 5: the guy just shot him when he walked up to
Speaker 5: the car.
Speaker 2: So it's a very dangerous situation.
Speaker 5: And as you know, citizens who are in that car,
Speaker 5: we know, like I know, if I get pulled over,
Speaker 5: I'm not There's no Shenanigan's going on, Like, I'm just
Speaker 5: gonna be like, can I have my ticket? Thank you, sir,
Speaker 5: I'm on my way. I don't even try to get
Speaker 5: out of it anymore. I haven't been pulled over in
Speaker 5: a really long time. But at this it's just like, dude,
Speaker 5: just can I I got places to go?
Speaker 2: Can I just have the ticket? Let's just get this
Speaker 2: over with.
Speaker 5: So we know we're not going to do anything, and
Speaker 5: I think that we then project that onto how we
Speaker 5: think an officer should respond, right, Except this officer didn't
Speaker 5: know that this was a thirty seven year old woman
Speaker 5: you know, who just came to the protest because she
Speaker 5: thinks she's doing God's work.
Speaker 2: So this is an entirely dangerous situation.
Speaker 8: Manby.
Speaker 5: If she had run over and killed the ICE sag,
Speaker 5: will we be talking about it like this. Nope, it
Speaker 5: would have been buried by the liberal media because it
Speaker 5: doesn't fit their narrative.
Speaker 2: You know, I think that, and I'm gonna say it.
Speaker 5: I hate to say it, but I think when an
Speaker 5: ICE agent gets killed, and I do believe that is
Speaker 5: where we're headed, it will have an impact, but it
Speaker 5: won't stop the rhetoric. Those on the hard left will
Speaker 5: simply say it's a good beginning, right, and the news
Speaker 5: media will cover it, but they will cover it quickly
Speaker 5: and it will just go away, and then they'll start
Speaker 5: platforming all the people who are saying, you know, that's
Speaker 5: sad that that guy died, but I mean, look at
Speaker 5: what they were doing, right, There's always the look at
Speaker 5: It's like the Charlie Kirk thing. Sorry he's dead, but
Speaker 5: he wasn't a nice man. Sorry he's dead, but oh
Speaker 5: he was awful. Sorry he's dead, but he was a
Speaker 5: hate mongers.
Speaker 2: That's what they do. That's how it works, that's the
Speaker 2: way it goes. Mandy the cop, this shot.
Speaker 5: He was previously drug by another car three months ago.
Speaker 5: He received like thirty stitches from it. I heard and
Speaker 5: read that as well, and that would explain a heightened
Speaker 5: state of response for sure. Now this Texter said, Mandy,
Speaker 5: She's dead because she was stupid. She did a stupid thing.
Speaker 5: And the reality is is that for many on the left,
Speaker 5: she will become a martyr to this cause. And here's
Speaker 5: the thing, you guys, I said at the beginning of
Speaker 5: the show. I can look at both perspectives and see
Speaker 5: how you could feel that way, right, I could look
Speaker 5: at both sides and say, I understand your position. This
Speaker 5: is going to be a very divisive issue because it's inconclusive.
Speaker 5: People who are really honestly believe that Ice are Nazis,
Speaker 5: that Ice are in here rounding up people and throwing
Speaker 5: them out of the country, you know, just sumarily, they
Speaker 5: really believe that this woman was doing something morally right
Speaker 5: and that you.
Speaker 4: Know, just.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 5: And people like me who look at ICE as people
Speaker 5: who are enforcing the laws as the United States of
Speaker 5: America has passed them to solve a problem that was
Speaker 5: created by ignoring the laws of the United States of America.
Speaker 2: I don't wish her dead, But I understand how it happened, Mandy.
Speaker 5: We have an epidemic of white liberal women. Certainly seems
Speaker 5: that way, Mandy. The woman that had been had been
Speaker 5: stalking these agents all day.
Speaker 2: Didn't you know that?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: I did not know that. Where'd you get that? Ralph?
Speaker 2: Send it to me?
Speaker 5: Email Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com. What I'm seeing,
Speaker 5: the coverage that I'm seeing so far of this woman
Speaker 5: is she's originally from Colorado Springs. She moved from here
Speaker 5: to Kansas City, and most recently moved to Minneapolis. If
Speaker 5: you see the video that was taken right after the event,
Speaker 5: her wife or her partner is sitting on the curb crying, saying,
Speaker 5: I shouldn't.
Speaker 2: Have brought her here. I shouldn't have brought her here.
Speaker 5: All of her family members are saying she wasn't particularly
Speaker 5: politically active. But you know, I don't know where this is, Mandy.
Speaker 5: It's just like the United Health CEO being murdered. So
Speaker 5: many just shrug, yeah, I mean in a way, except
Speaker 5: this was involving the federal government, so it is slightly different.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 5: The fact that it was a mother is immaterial, says
Speaker 5: this text her. It always bothers me that being a
Speaker 5: mother somehow exculpates justifies behavior. I know you're being sensitive
Speaker 5: to the fact she's a mother, rather than excusing it,
Speaker 5: but it gets perceived as an excuse or justification. You
Speaker 5: often hear a lot of the same wording around Jeanette VISGERA. No,
Speaker 5: I'm not excusing anything. I please don't take it that way.
Speaker 5: She made a dumb choice that eventually led to her death. Right,
Speaker 5: that's just that is the fact of the matter. Had
Speaker 5: she not done what she did, had she not hit
Speaker 5: the gas, she would be alive right now. So I'm
Speaker 5: not excusing anything she did. I just think it's tragic
Speaker 5: that we now have three kids who don't have a mom.
Speaker 5: I feel the same way about Faith Winter's kids. We
Speaker 5: now know that Faith had indeed been drinking when she
Speaker 5: got into the accident that took her life, and that's
Speaker 5: on her right. Those are her choices that got are there.
Speaker 5: But it's still to me that there are now three
Speaker 5: kids without their mother. I feel bad when somebody loses
Speaker 5: their father as well, to be clear, but it's just
Speaker 5: it's a tough situation. Did you hear Ross's interview today
Speaker 5: where she was antagonizing ice prior to that. Won't make
Speaker 5: a judgment on who was at fault, But I tell
Speaker 5: my children, don't put yourself in a position to create
Speaker 5: an issue.
Speaker 2: Correct. That is so correct. And by the way, it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter if you're.
Speaker 5: Black or white, or brown, or green or purple, or
Speaker 5: an alien from Mars. If you have kids and you
Speaker 5: have not had a conversation with them about how to
Speaker 5: behave in an interaction with police, you are doing a
Speaker 5: lousy job as a parent if you have not explained
Speaker 5: to them. Look, if you ever are in a situation
Speaker 5: where you are being hassled by a police or you
Speaker 5: feel like you're being treated unfairly, let it play out
Speaker 5: and I will come get you and we will take
Speaker 5: care of it, you know, because that's.
Speaker 2: It's absurd some.
Speaker 5: Of the things that have happened that have led to
Speaker 5: the deaths of people that otherwise should still be alive,
Speaker 5: some of whom were criminals.
Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong, but.
Speaker 5: It's all at the feet of the tension in the
Speaker 5: system that exists because of the unknown for the officers
Speaker 5: and the unwillingness of people to simply work the process through. Right,
Speaker 5: I don't understand it. I was raised, you know, back
Speaker 5: in the day in the seventies. My father is an attorney.
Speaker 5: He told me exactly how to behave He told me, yes, sir, no, sir,
Speaker 5: you put your hands where they can see him. You
Speaker 5: don't move anything without announcing what you're doing and why
Speaker 5: you're doing it to the police officer.
Speaker 2: And I mean we he was.
Speaker 5: That was from the time I was little. So the
Speaker 5: notion that only black people have that conversation is just wrong.
Speaker 5: Now they may have it for a much different reason.
Speaker 5: But we were also talked to respect authority.
Speaker 2: And here's the thing. If you're not doing anything wrong, if.
Speaker 5: Everything's even, if you're going to get a ticket for
Speaker 5: a misdemeanor for blocking the road, take the ticket you
Speaker 5: earned it. Like I said, this is going to be
Speaker 5: a story that we're going to keep talking about in
Speaker 5: some way, shape or form for a very long time
Speaker 5: to come.
Speaker 2: Now, I've got a couple guests coming up on the show.
Speaker 5: I've got the latest from the Consumer Electronics show underway
Speaker 5: in Las Vegas. This used to be about stereo equipment
Speaker 5: and now it's about robotics. It's amazing the stuff that's
Speaker 5: coming out of it. Will do that at one and
Speaker 5: then our good friend Michelle Zelner is back. Her annual
Speaker 5: Vision Board event is coming up this Saturday, and it
Speaker 5: looks like it's going to be a barnburner. If you
Speaker 5: want help sort of solidifying your vision for the year,
Speaker 5: you want to hear that interview at two thirty.
Speaker 2: When we get back. I talked earlier in the week
Speaker 2: with Sheriff Steve A.
Speaker 5: Reims about our GOP debate that's coming up on Saturday,
Speaker 5: and we had a great meeting about it today and
Speaker 5: I want to ask you guys a question.
Speaker 2: We're gonna ask you.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna focus group you and get some information about
Speaker 5: what you'd like to see when you're trying to make
Speaker 5: up your mind about voting for a candidate. Ryan Schooling,
Speaker 5: my colleague from k howl across the hall. You've heard
Speaker 5: him many times on this station. We are going to
Speaker 5: be moderating a debate that was put together by Welsh
Speaker 5: County Sheriff Steve Reems and sponsored by Steve Wells.
Speaker 2: And as Deep Wells Organization.
Speaker 5: And I am absolutely thrilled that we've gone from six
Speaker 5: candidates invited down to three.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 5: Two of those candidates have left the race. One just
Speaker 5: simply said no, I can't make it, and that is
Speaker 5: Victor Marx. He's just like, no, you can't do it.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: We had a meeting Steve and Ryan and I this
Speaker 5: morning and we were kind of talking about this, and
Speaker 5: we we just we were unanimous in our decision to
Speaker 5: sort of jennison the formal debate, Like, here's the same
Speaker 5: question for all three candidates, and now you have thirty
Speaker 5: seconds to respond, and and Ryan and I are going
Speaker 5: to be given a bit of freedom because Ryan and
Speaker 5: I are knowledgeable.
Speaker 2: About different subjects.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think we're probably knowledgeable about all the
Speaker 5: subjects we're going to be talking about, but more knowledgeable
Speaker 5: about some subjects than others. And we're going to be
Speaker 5: asking very specific questions. And I'm super excited about this.
Speaker 5: But it got me thinking, like, are we do we
Speaker 5: really have our finger on what people care about in
Speaker 5: this state? Because here's what I think people care about. Well, okay,
Speaker 5: I'll just say this is what I care about. I
Speaker 5: care about transportation. I'm sick of having our money to
Speaker 5: fix the roads diverted into mass modal projects that nobody wants,
Speaker 5: nobody wants to ride. I'm tired of having just the
Speaker 5: drain of light rail on our transportation budget. I'm tired
Speaker 5: of having people running Sea Dot whose goal is to
Speaker 5: get us out of our cars. Right, That's not at
Speaker 5: all what I'm looking for. I'm looking for someone who
Speaker 5: wants to do with the citizens of Colorado need which
Speaker 5: is fixed the damn roads.
Speaker 2: So transportation is at the top of my list. Newly
Speaker 2: on my list is I would like to see a full.
Speaker 5: Audit by an outside source. Bring in one of the
Speaker 5: big four accounting firms. I'd like to see a full
Speaker 5: audit and an investigation to make sure that we don't
Speaker 5: have the kind of medicaid fraud that we're seeing in Minnesota,
Speaker 5: in Ohio and in other places.
Speaker 2: More stuff is popping up now.
Speaker 5: Now I'm going to be perfectly clear, I have zero
Speaker 5: evidence that any kind of corruption is taking place in
Speaker 5: the medicaid system. But what I do know now, especially
Speaker 5: over the last few weeks, is that the system is
Speaker 5: so ripe for corruption that it would be irresponsible to
Speaker 5: not ensure that we are making sure that people are
Speaker 5: not being paid improperly. That we're not you know, we
Speaker 5: don't have fake agencies set up like they did in
Speaker 5: Minnesota because Medicaid dollars are precious and they make up
Speaker 5: a huge part of the budget, massive part of the budget.
Speaker 5: So I want to make sure that if we're spending
Speaker 5: this massive part of the budget, I want to make
Speaker 5: sure that the money is going to the people that
Speaker 5: it is supposed to go to. I want to make
Speaker 5: sure that people on Medicaid are going to be able
Speaker 5: to get the doctors that they need, because we can
Speaker 5: actually reimburse the doctors at a reasonable level. And if
Speaker 5: we're spending I mean, even if it is only ten
Speaker 5: percent of the Medicaid budget is in fraud, right, maybe
Speaker 5: just ten percent. Some estimates overall in the medicaid system
Speaker 5: are closer to thirty percent. But we need to make
Speaker 5: sure that those tax dollars are protected, not just for
Speaker 5: the taxpayers, but for people who.
Speaker 2: Actually rely on Medicaid. So transportation is mine.
Speaker 5: Medicaid is number two, but only in the sense that
Speaker 5: I just want to say, look, I just want to
Speaker 5: make sure we don't have those problems because the system
Speaker 5: is sort of set up to abuse, so we got
Speaker 5: to make sure of that.
Speaker 2: What else do we need to talk about?
Speaker 5: What are the topics that are near and dear to
Speaker 5: your heart, the competency issue must be fixed, right, the
Speaker 5: competency issue where we have a law now that says
Speaker 5: if someone a criminal gets arrested for something that then
Speaker 5: is declared incompetent, they're just going to be let out.
Speaker 2: That has to be taken care of.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: I do believe that every politician, regardless of their party affiliation,
Speaker 5: is on that particular issue, like every I don't think
Speaker 5: there's a person in Colorado that's like, no, we don't
Speaker 5: need to do anything to fix that because it's just
Speaker 5: been so disastrous.
Speaker 2: But do you even care about the Medicaid thing? Is
Speaker 2: that just a me thing? Or is that a me
Speaker 2: thing and a you think text us.
Speaker 5: At Common Spirit Health's the Common Spirit Health text line
Speaker 5: five six six nine zero. I would love to hear
Speaker 5: from you guys on this because Ryan and I really
Speaker 5: want to ask the questions on the topics that you
Speaker 5: would like answered. Because I'm hoping this debate is going
Speaker 5: to be recorded and you'll be able to watch it
Speaker 5: even if you can't make it. So this texter said,
Speaker 5: as for the GOP debate, I would like to see
Speaker 5: festivist style feats of strength be performed. Ideally, with an
Speaker 5: aluminum poll without tinsil, I find tinsel distracting.
Speaker 2: I'm with you on that, I too find tinsel distracting.
Speaker 5: This texter said Mandy. I'm so excited to see the
Speaker 5: debate on Saturday. Should I bring my thirteen year old daughter.
Speaker 5: Not many events like this come to Greeley, and I
Speaker 5: want to teach her how important these types of events are.
Speaker 5: But I do feel this might be over her head.
Speaker 5: I promise you your thirteen year old daughter will be
Speaker 5: able to follow along. And here's what I want you
Speaker 5: to tell your thirteen year old daughter, since you're actually
Speaker 5: coming to debate, I want you to tell her watch
Speaker 5: these people before they start the debate. Watch how they
Speaker 5: interact with the crowd. Walk up and say hello. If
Speaker 5: you see the candidates and you know them, walk up
Speaker 5: and say hello. We've got Representative Scott Bottoms, We've got
Speaker 5: Barb Kirkmeyer, and we've got a sheriff Jason Mike Sehl
Speaker 5: from Telller County. If you see the candidates, watch how
Speaker 5: they interact with the crowd. You get a lot of
Speaker 5: information from just watching that. Mandy, I think you should
Speaker 5: lead the number crunching to smart people. I mean, yeah, Okay, Mandy,
Speaker 5: if you've seen the Freedom Care commercials about having a
Speaker 5: family member be your caregiver paid by medicaid, I actually
Speaker 5: have no problem with that.
Speaker 2: I truly don't.
Speaker 5: And now I realize you're like, that's ripe for abuse,
Speaker 5: and it is, but we have there are too many
Speaker 5: people that have been taken out of the workforce who
Speaker 5: are willing to give better care in most cases, to
Speaker 5: their loved one, and they are basically being forced to choose,
Speaker 5: am I gonna be able to take care of my
Speaker 5: loved one or am gonna go out and make money.
Speaker 5: I don't have that problem, especially if you're gonna pay
Speaker 5: someone else for that care. And that, my friends, is
Speaker 5: what medicaid is for, right making sure that our elderly,
Speaker 5: the people who are physically or mentally unable to take
Speaker 5: care of themselves, have the care that they need. This
Speaker 5: texter said, you already sound out of touch. Okay, this
Speaker 5: is why I'm asking, This is why I'm asking. Maybe
Speaker 5: we have free childcare and free lunches in Colorado. Are
Speaker 5: those funds being monitored? What's really interesting about the fund
Speaker 5: that we just voted on, the lawmaker who wrote that
Speaker 5: new one that we just passed because Colorado's love to
Speaker 5: give other people's money away is that they now ask
Speaker 5: for too much money and they're gonna have to do
Speaker 5: a taper refund because they're going to take in too
Speaker 5: much money. They didn't spend enough of what was coming in.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just it's insane, absolutely insane. Mandy, I
Speaker 5: think you should speak about the taper situation and those
Speaker 5: fees that the politicians are using to get around it.
Speaker 5: It's fees are actually taxes in disguise, and it needs
Speaker 5: to be addressed.
Speaker 2: That is a great question. Oh geez, let me check
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 5: Five six six nine zero five six six nine Oho.
Speaker 5: I really want to hear your thoughts. What do you
Speaker 5: want to hear the Republican candidates talk about Colorado Republican
Speaker 5: debate on Saturday. And Ryan Shuling and I are going
Speaker 5: to be moderating the debate, and I think that everyone
Speaker 5: involved wants this to be a substantial debate, and it's
Speaker 5: not really going to be a debate. We've kind of
Speaker 5: ditched a classic debate format to have a bigger discussion
Speaker 5: about some of these issues. And we had a bunch
Speaker 5: of issues that we wrote down that we thought were
Speaker 5: really important. And I'm just asking you as a voter
Speaker 5: in Colorado, as a resident of Colorado, is what's the
Speaker 5: most important thing to you right now? Like, what do
Speaker 5: you think to yourself? Dang, and I wish they would
Speaker 5: fix blah whatever that is. This Texter said, I'd like
Speaker 5: to ask the Republican candidates if they're going to sue
Speaker 5: the administration forty seven times. I think that gets fairly
Speaker 5: expensive and monotonous. I would also like them to address
Speaker 5: the fact that the current leadership wants to.
Speaker 2: Get away from natural gas.
Speaker 5: Going to electric for heat is going to be not
Speaker 5: only expensive, but unattainable with the current electrical grid the
Speaker 5: way it is. Many Oh, that's from Marty and Lovelin. Marty,
Speaker 5: I have energy and energy security already written.
Speaker 2: Down on this list. Mandy.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you guys having the Governor Forum in place. However, honestly,
Speaker 5: I mean this, honestly, do you really believe a Republican
Speaker 5: will get elected in the state at this time? I
Speaker 5: really don't believe that will happen. Sadly, Barbara Kirkmeyer's kind
Speaker 5: of a rhino, which I think may be a little
Speaker 5: bit of a chance, But we're a solid blue state
Speaker 5: from here on out. I don't see that changing. I'm
Speaker 5: going to be honest, I'm going to be shocked if
Speaker 5: a Republican wins in this cycle. And I happen to think,
Speaker 5: you know, it's going to be challenging for Republicans to
Speaker 5: get elected in Colorado until Trump is gone and out
Speaker 5: of office.
Speaker 2: I really do. I I had this. This state has
Speaker 2: a growing distaste for Donald Trump. I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's growing.
Speaker 5: It grew from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty to twenty
Speaker 5: twenty four. But as long as he is, you know,
Speaker 5: attached to the Republican Party, it's going to be hard.
Speaker 5: It's going to be really hard. But that being said,
Speaker 5: people are super frustrated. They're super frustrated about housing affordability,
Speaker 5: They're super frustrated about you know how the traffic in
Speaker 5: this area is just getting worse and worse and worse.
Speaker 5: By the way, if you're a regular two seventy six driver,
Speaker 5: you need to go to sea Dot's website and way
Speaker 5: in on the two seventy six expansion. A lot of
Speaker 5: you are measure. I have a story on the blog
Speaker 5: today about how you can do that. A lot of
Speaker 5: you were talking about TABOR. This this one says, uh,
Speaker 5: let me find that very quickly. Remove the fees they're
Speaker 5: using to avoid having to get a tax passed, redo
Speaker 5: them or remove them from vehicle licenses and such.
Speaker 2: Make sure TABER isn't going away. I agree. I'd like
Speaker 2: to know, because honestly.
Speaker 5: Taber is almost dead anyway, because the Democrats have voted
Speaker 5: to take our money and give it to people that
Speaker 5: they think need it more. That's so they can both
Speaker 5: buy votes and secure voting block and they can also
Speaker 5: eventually get us to the point where we're never getting
Speaker 5: a table refund, so then they can argue, well, we
Speaker 5: just need to take this whole thing.
Speaker 2: Off the books.
Speaker 5: That's you know how I told you yesterday that whatever
Speaker 5: healthcare bill the left and the Democrats put forward is
Speaker 5: with one purpose and one purpose only, and that is
Speaker 5: to make health care so bad that we'll call for
Speaker 5: a single payer system in Colorado. That's what they do
Speaker 5: with TABOR refunds, right, They just chipping away and chipping
Speaker 5: away and shipping away and giving those refunds to people
Speaker 5: that are not you and not me, and then eventually
Speaker 5: they're just going to say, well, we need to just take.
Speaker 2: This thing off the books. Anyway, Just watch me, watch it,
Speaker 2: watch it happen.
Speaker 5: Mandy asks the candidates how they feel about Trump's vetos
Speaker 5: on Colorado or denial of funding. Guys, I'm just going
Speaker 5: to say this now, I'm not asking one single question
Speaker 5: about Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: I don't care. I really don't. I want to know
Speaker 2: all Colorado centric questions.
Speaker 5: And to the point of this text, they did say,
Speaker 5: how do you feel about Trump's vetos on Colorado or
Speaker 5: the denial of funding?
Speaker 2: That would be a fair question. But the last thing
Speaker 2: I want is for.
Speaker 5: The Republican candidates to be closely attached to the Trump administration.
Speaker 2: For the reasons that I just said.
Speaker 5: It's one of the reasons I'm so tired of the
Speaker 5: Tina Peters question because that does not help a single
Speaker 5: person get elected.
Speaker 2: It really doesn't. And for the people on the right
Speaker 2: who say, well, if you don't say you're going to partente,
Speaker 2: if you're out, you're an non starter. Really, do you
Speaker 2: really think Phil Wiser or Michael Bennett is going to
Speaker 2: pardon Tita Peters Like I, okay, shoot yourself in the foot.
Speaker 2: I don't care this Texter said.
Speaker 5: The other thing I've added Mandy, I'm really sick of
Speaker 5: giving illegals free healthcare, free housing, and feeding. I hope
Speaker 5: they address this. That's on the list as well. And
Speaker 5: I have questions on transportation and fixing the roads. That
Speaker 5: was like the first thing that.
Speaker 2: I did, Mandy. I wish they would fix the cost
Speaker 2: of living in Colorado.
Speaker 5: I'm about eight years older than you and starting staring
Speaker 5: retirement in the face. I'm not sure we'll have the
Speaker 5: money to continue to live here, and I don't know
Speaker 5: where we would go.
Speaker 2: And I feel for you, Texter. I've already started.
Speaker 5: Making my plans, so I just think this place is
Speaker 5: going to be impossible to retire in, and that's going
Speaker 5: to be such a such a shame. Last one, Mandy,
Speaker 5: for me, I would like answers on pardoning Tita Peters
Speaker 5: should never be Tabor. There's a reason we voted for it,
Speaker 5: sanctuary city or state status. We need to follow a
Speaker 5: federal law.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 5: That person doesn't want Tinas is just a loser question.
Speaker 2: We're not doing it. When we get back.
Speaker 5: The Consumer Electronics Show is the biggest electronics show of
Speaker 5: the year, probably in the world. It's happening right now
Speaker 5: and it's where you go to see all of the
Speaker 5: next level technology coming forward in Right now, it's all
Speaker 5: about robotics. We'll talk to Jennifer Doug Dragas. She's the
Speaker 5: vice president of Global Entertainment Communications.
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Speaker 5: Welcome to the second hour of the Very Snowy Show.
Speaker 5: I don't know where you guys are, but it is
Speaker 5: snowing like the Dickens here in the Denver Tech Center.
Speaker 2: But you know where. It's not snowing Las Vegas, unless.
Speaker 5: You consider the Consumer Electronics Show to be a weather
Speaker 5: a vein of its own, because they're pointing right to
Speaker 5: the future of tech. This is the largest trade show,
Speaker 5: I think, probably of its kind, maybe in the world.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's been going on for years, and I have to
Speaker 5: say this, for many, many years I followed the Consumer
Speaker 5: Electronics Show because I wanted to know about the latest,
Speaker 5: coolest stereo equipment and audio visual equipment and flat screen TVs.
Speaker 5: But boy, are we in a different world with this now.
Speaker 5: And joining me now the vp CTAVP of Global Events
Speaker 5: and Communication, she's Jennifer Drogas with the Consumer Electronics Show. Jennifer,
Speaker 5: I'm looking online at the coverage of this show and
Speaker 5: what I'm seeing is you are surrounded by robots right now.
Speaker 9: Well, first of all, Mandy, thanks so much for having
Speaker 9: me on, and it's so great to be here at
Speaker 9: the super Bowl of Tech in your robots are everywhere.
Speaker 9: You can't take two steps without seeing a robotics booth,
Speaker 9: and it's just been really excellent to see how robotics
Speaker 9: has been a standout, not just your sci fi robots,
Speaker 9: not your cute boxing robots that you maybe see on
Speaker 9: social media, but practical robots that are helping farmers, builders,
Speaker 9: and manufacturers really work more safely and efficiently.
Speaker 5: Well, I was going to ask because and I asked
Speaker 5: Jennifer off the year is like, Okay, what other things
Speaker 5: do we want to talk about? I kind of want
Speaker 5: to ask questions about the the unconventional tech first, because
Speaker 5: we have a ton of farmers and ranchers in our
Speaker 5: listening audience. We cover a huge metro area, but then
Speaker 5: we also go way out into the planes. What are
Speaker 5: some of the interesting tech pieces that are coming to agriculture,
Speaker 5: Because I know that farmers have to deal with things
Speaker 5: like labor shortages, how to get their crops in in
Speaker 5: a timely fashion. What are you guys seeing that we're
Speaker 5: going to be seeing in the fields at some point soon.
Speaker 9: There is so much tech in agriculture. It's absolutely one
Speaker 9: of my favorite categories to watch out for. And we
Speaker 9: have the big agg companies at the show, including John
Speaker 9: Deere and Caterpillar. In fact, the CEO of Caterpillar.
Speaker 2: Joe Creed, was one of our keynote speakers this year.
Speaker 2: He was up on the.
Speaker 9: Stage talking about the future of agriculture thanks to AI,
Speaker 9: and he unveiled an AI assistant that is helping operators
Speaker 9: of machinery do their jobs more efficiently and faster. And
Speaker 9: we have the giant combines and everything on the floor.
Speaker 9: It's just really really awesome to see how this technology
Speaker 9: is going to make agriculture more precise, safer, and it's
Speaker 9: going to it's going to make our food taste better.
Speaker 2: It's going to be awesome.
Speaker 5: One of the things that I'm waiting for and this
Speaker 5: might be too deep in the weeds for this conversation.
Speaker 5: Is there are challenges with getting ripe fruits and vegetables
Speaker 5: out of the ground using robotics, and it has to
Speaker 5: do with their ability to have a soft touch, right,
Speaker 5: there are human things about that that have to be overcome.
Speaker 2: Are we seeing that yet? Are we moving that direction yet?
Speaker 2: For harvesting as well?
Speaker 9: Tech is evolving and it's really exciting to see where
Speaker 9: it's going to take us next. And all I can
Speaker 9: say is that the tech that I'm seeing on the
Speaker 9: show floor, I think it's it's closer to uh, to
Speaker 9: reality for many of us than we realize.
Speaker 2: So are you guys seeing my new robot made? Is
Speaker 2: that in the show this year?
Speaker 5: Like I mean, because I've seen some robots washing dishes
Speaker 5: and it warms my heart, it really does, Jennifer, So
Speaker 5: are you are we seeing that as well?
Speaker 2: It's uh.
Speaker 9: I think we're officially entering the jetson space. We're starting
Speaker 9: to see robots that can help you get your makeup
Speaker 9: on in the morning. I love the ruma that has
Speaker 9: a little arm that picks up socks while it's while
Speaker 9: it's vacuuming.
Speaker 2: It's the little things, but they add up to be
Speaker 2: big game changers. So let's talk about an area that
Speaker 2: I love.
Speaker 5: I'm super excited about where AI is going for healthcare
Speaker 5: and longevity.
Speaker 2: In those things. Where are we seeing advances, what sort
Speaker 2: of an advances you have in that area.
Speaker 9: AI is everywhere, It's in all of the technology. It's
Speaker 9: not just a hype anymore. It's really a tool. It's
Speaker 9: helping make everything smarter, more intelligent. I'm actually on the
Speaker 9: table next to me is a transparent knee that has
Speaker 9: AI built into it, and it helps monitor your movements
Speaker 9: and the health of your joints. And that's something that
Speaker 9: plays into the longevity narrative, like tech is going to
Speaker 9: help us live better lives. It's going to help us
Speaker 9: when we want to walk with our kids through Disney
Speaker 9: World and for long days, or or just maintain an
Speaker 9: understanding of where we are in terms of our health.
Speaker 5: This show, for a very long time, and I'm talking
Speaker 5: like twenty five thirty years ago, was so much about audio,
Speaker 5: visual equipment and sort of entertainment. What is there interesting
Speaker 5: in the entertainment aspect that you guys are.
Speaker 2: Seeing this year.
Speaker 9: Entertainment is so immersive And at CEES, one of our
Speaker 9: main halls is filled with all of this immersive entertainment tech. Again,
Speaker 9: there's so much AI that's informing how people consume their entertainment,
Speaker 9: from the sound, from the visual quality. Right when I
Speaker 9: think it won't get better, it gets leaps and bounds better.
Speaker 9: So again we continue to see our minds blown with
Speaker 9: really cool immersive like you're actually there entertainment.
Speaker 5: So the products that you guys have at the Consumer
Speaker 5: Electronics Show, when will we the consumer? Because this is
Speaker 5: a trade show, when will we the consumer? When should
Speaker 5: we expect to see this stuff become widely available?
Speaker 2: And you know, I don't know how.
Speaker 5: The first time I ever saw a flat screen TV
Speaker 5: was at the Consumer Electronics Show, and I feel like
Speaker 5: it took like two years for it to become available
Speaker 5: at an extremely high price. But when is this stuff
Speaker 5: coming to market? Is it ready to go or is
Speaker 5: it already in the market? And this just allows them
Speaker 5: to showcase it.
Speaker 9: Some of the tech is already in the market and
Speaker 9: that's really exciting to see. But like you say, a
Speaker 9: trade show is really about showcasing the future, and that's
Speaker 9: exactly what CES does. It is a portal to the future.
Speaker 2: So a lot of the tech that.
Speaker 9: You're seeing, yes, it's still on the concept phase, but
Speaker 9: we're innovating so quickly now I think the timelines are
Speaker 9: getting shorter.
Speaker 2: Has there been anything in this year's show that made you,
Speaker 2: jennifergo what?
Speaker 9: I can't even begin to account. But my favorite part
Speaker 9: of the show always is our Eureka Park floor because
Speaker 9: that's where our startups are, and so that's where the
Speaker 9: problems that you didn't know needed solving are getting solved.
Speaker 9: And these are the hungry small businesses that are looking
Speaker 9: for that investor funding, and so I see the most
Speaker 9: creative pitches when I'm down there.
Speaker 5: Jennifer Krogus is with the Consumer Electronics Show, Thank you
Speaker 5: so much. I do an interview with this quite often
Speaker 5: because you know, we can't get there, we can't go
Speaker 5: and hit the floor, but I would. There are some great, great,
Speaker 5: great tech journalists that cover this show so well, So
Speaker 5: if you have any interest, use the Google you know,
Speaker 5: use the Consumer Electronics Show tech coverage, and it is
Speaker 5: some of the stuff is crazy. So I kind of
Speaker 5: I have a little bit of envy for your job, Jennifer,
Speaker 5: because you get to go and see what's coming and
Speaker 5: see the next level, and it just it's something that
Speaker 5: that always looks like, you know, walking through the future
Speaker 5: in Jetson's world.
Speaker 9: To your point earlier, well, certainly follow us on on
Speaker 9: all of your social media. We're constantly updating and you
Speaker 9: can you can immerse yourself that way, all right.
Speaker 5: Jennifer Krogus from the Consumer Electronics Show, Oh, thank you
Speaker 5: for your time. I just accidentally hung up on Jennifer,
Speaker 5: So that was rude of me that being said. Oh no,
Speaker 5: she's still there, Jennifer, thank you for your time today. Obviously,
Speaker 5: I don't know how to work tech. That's my problem.
Speaker 2: You know, when you get old, is ay Rob would
Speaker 2: say it, it gets hard future of tech. Let's see one, two, three, three.
Speaker 2: I hope I did it justice. Mandy.
Speaker 5: Listening to you earlier on how to tell your kids
Speaker 5: to interact with police. There was a video put out
Speaker 5: by Chris Rock years ago. It's really funny, but it's
Speaker 5: on point. It's called how not get your bleep kicked
Speaker 5: by the Police. I have seen it many times. The
Speaker 5: problem is it shouldn't be funny. It should just be
Speaker 5: like normal, normal behavior.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 5: Now, got a bunch of stuff on the blog today,
Speaker 5: but I want to talk right now about the veto
Speaker 5: that President Trump issued against a water project in southeast Colorado.
Speaker 5: Southwest Colorado. Represented Lauren Bobert ran the bill. It's for
Speaker 5: a water project that's been needed, I mean for decades,
Speaker 5: and the problem has been is that this is going
Speaker 5: to take water to a part of the state that
Speaker 5: doesn't have a lot of money. There's not a lot
Speaker 5: of cash money in that area, so cost was prohibitive.
Speaker 5: Represented Lauren Bobert passed a bill in a bipartisan fashion,
Speaker 5: both in the House and the Senate, and it would
Speaker 5: have provided federal money upfront, and it would have allowed
Speaker 5: a very very very very slow repayment rate for the
Speaker 5: area that was going to be impacted. There was nothing
Speaker 5: out just against about this bill, and it passed in
Speaker 5: a bipartisan fashion, and then President Trump vetoed it, and
Speaker 5: I believe he vetoed it. He says because of the
Speaker 5: cost of the program. And I mean, you could veto
Speaker 5: every single government program out there if you just want
Speaker 5: to make it about the cost of the program. But
Speaker 5: the reality is is, I think in many other people,
Speaker 5: including Representative Lauren Bobert, now believe that this was just.
Speaker 2: Payback.
Speaker 5: He's still super salty and is demanding that Tina Peters
Speaker 5: be released because he pardoned her for state crimes, which
Speaker 5: he cannot do, and I believe this was punitive. But
Speaker 5: it looks like the House of Representatives is going to
Speaker 5: vote to override the VETO. Now I don't know the
Speaker 5: voting situation here. I don't know if Democrats would vote
Speaker 5: against overriding the veto just to make Trump supporters in
Speaker 5: that part of the state angry. I don't know, but
Speaker 5: I would hope that if they voted for it the
Speaker 5: first time, they would vot vote for it the second time.
Speaker 5: But I have to say, in this situation, I have
Speaker 5: to give Lauren Vobert a lot of credit because Lauren
Speaker 5: Vobert is calling it like she sees it and is like, well,
Speaker 5: I had no idea that the president was going to
Speaker 5: crap all over his supporters in that part of the state,
Speaker 5: because that part of the state is Trump supporters.
Speaker 2: You know, there are parts of this state that do
Speaker 2: have a lot of Trump supporters.
Speaker 5: I realize that's remarkable for some people, but it's really true,
Speaker 5: and this happens to be one of those parts of
Speaker 5: the state. So what's going to be really interesting is
Speaker 5: to see how many Republicans vote to override the veto.
Speaker 5: The other veto, by the way, that he issued, had
Speaker 5: to do with allowing the Mikasuki tribe in Florida to
Speaker 5: have sort of take control of part of the management
Speaker 5: of the Everglades. This all goes back to the Mikasuk
Speaker 5: tribes suing President Trump's administration for the Alligator Alcatraz. The
Speaker 5: penitentiary facility, I don't know if penitentiary is the right word.
Speaker 5: The holding facility for ICE to put people that were
Speaker 5: in the process of being deported.
Speaker 2: It's in the middle of the Everglades.
Speaker 5: If you've never been to the Everglades, imagine standing in
Speaker 5: a slightly earthy smelling shower that has just run. It's
Speaker 5: not running now, but you just have that humidity. And
Speaker 5: now add in about seventy thousand mosquitoes. That's pretty much
Speaker 5: the Everglades in a nutshell. But it's the Everglades is
Speaker 5: a fascinating ecological system. If you have an interest in
Speaker 5: ecological systems, take.
Speaker 2: A trip to the Everglades. It is incredible.
Speaker 5: It's this giant filtration system that covers the entire bottom,
Speaker 5: most of the bottom of the state of Florida, and
Speaker 5: the Army Corps of Engineers years ago cut it in
Speaker 5: half and disrupted the entire ecology of the system.
Speaker 2: But that's neither here north there. It has nothing to
Speaker 2: do with it.
Speaker 5: But the Miskissoki tribe, which is part of the Seminole
Speaker 5: tribe in Florida.
Speaker 2: They are a very powerful voting block.
Speaker 5: But I have to say the Mikisokie tribe and the
Speaker 5: Seminole tribes in Florida are really, really, really good at
Speaker 5: navigating with the government. They've never had a confrontational relationship.
Speaker 2: Well I can't say never, that's ridiculous in recent memory.
Speaker 5: In recent years, they have not had the controversial relationship
Speaker 5: or headbutting relationship that other tribes have had with local governments. Right,
Speaker 5: and that's not every tribe, I'm not saying it is.
Speaker 5: But the Mikisuki said, look, you know what, you guys
Speaker 5: are going to put this in here. We want to
Speaker 5: be able to have a say in this because the
Speaker 5: Everglades are part of our native lands and they're not wrong,
Speaker 5: and because they sued the Trump administration. Trump also vetoed
Speaker 5: that bill as well, And now both of these vetos
Speaker 5: are up, and it's going to depend on which Republicans
Speaker 5: decide that they're going to do the right thing instead
Speaker 5: of the Trump thing. Now I can make the argument,
Speaker 5: and I could probably make it pretty compellingly that I
Speaker 5: don't think that water projects, local water projects other responsibility
Speaker 5: of the federal taxpayers.
Speaker 2: I really don't.
Speaker 5: However, I have to recognize that I'm sure other water
Speaker 5: projects are getting built all over the place, and if
Speaker 5: we're gonna say no to this, then say no to
Speaker 5: all of them. And if you're not going to say
Speaker 5: no to all of them, then figure out a way.
Speaker 2: To get this done. But ultimately, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think this is kind of interesting, and you're seeing
Speaker 5: people Lauren Bobert has been such a staunch supporter of
Speaker 5: this administration. It has to feel very personal for her
Speaker 5: that the president has taken something that she has worked
Speaker 5: really hard on and just use it as a political
Speaker 5: bludgeon against people who all honestly, do you really think
Speaker 5: that Jared Police cares about this?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 2: Why witty he doesn't care about this?
Speaker 5: I mean, you look at the way that the legislature
Speaker 5: treats people outside the metro areas.
Speaker 2: I mean, this isn't how you punish them. There's no
Speaker 2: punishing here.
Speaker 5: So Bobert has also fallen out of favor with Donald
Speaker 5: Trump because she voted for the discharge petition to force
Speaker 5: a vote on the bill directing the Justice Department to
Speaker 5: release the Jeffrey Epstein materials, something that did eventually happen.
Speaker 5: So it's you know, but when you throw your allegiance
Speaker 5: against someone who has no allegiance, unless you're actively doing
Speaker 5: his bidding, you know, what are you doing? This is
Speaker 5: what happens when people show you who they are.
Speaker 2: Pay attention. Isn't that the old adage? It should be?
Speaker 5: Now a couple of things, I guess it's probably over now,
Speaker 5: you know, the snow in the Denver Tech Center is
Speaker 5: finally tapered off with the Stock Show? Have you when
Speaker 5: you were a kid was the Stock Show? Did you
Speaker 5: guys like go every year? Was that a thing that
Speaker 5: you did because you're kind of a city kid, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am, And the first time I went I
Speaker 2: was an adult. It was only a couple of years ago.
Speaker 5: Fun, you're a city kid or you have city kids,
Speaker 5: it is such a great way to allow your kids
Speaker 5: to get up close and personal with farm animals, and
Speaker 5: usually the people that are standing there will answer questions
Speaker 5: like we took Q right after we got here, so
Speaker 5: she was like four, right, four or five when we
Speaker 5: took her. She at that age, this kid would come
Speaker 5: up with these questions that were like no question an
Speaker 5: adult would ever ask, but also the best question ever.
Speaker 5: And I wish I could think of an example right now,
Speaker 5: but she would ask a question like the lady with
Speaker 5: the bunnies. There was a lady with a bunch of
Speaker 5: rabbits and she stood there and talked to this woman
Speaker 5: for like twenty minutes about rabbits. And they're super excited
Speaker 5: to talk about it. It's a great learning experience, it's
Speaker 5: a great way to go. They have a rodeo, they
Speaker 5: have all these events, and I just think there's a
Speaker 5: lot of transplants in our area of probably don't even
Speaker 5: think about it as something they might do.
Speaker 3: There's a bunch of things that can all come in
Speaker 3: second place to the coolest thing, which is always the
Speaker 3: Mexican rodeo.
Speaker 2: Why is the I've never been to the Mexican rodeo?
Speaker 2: What makes that especially?
Speaker 3: She justst a spectacle of so much fun in heritage
Speaker 3: and camaraderie and just exactly what is that? Literally, put
Speaker 3: on a Mexican rodeo do a bunch of crazy things.
Speaker 2: I don't even know.
Speaker 5: But what what are you watching? Tell me what the
Speaker 5: experience was like, because I don't know what the difference is.
Speaker 5: So they don't do like barrel racing and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: They do something different.
Speaker 2: No, gosh, what do they do?
Speaker 3: I mean, they do all the typical stuff that you
Speaker 3: see in a normal rodeo, but then they have the.
Speaker 2: Uh, what is it? The oa? You know, I don't
Speaker 2: even know you what even call it? Wait, let's see
Speaker 2: what makes a Mexican Mexican.
Speaker 5: Every time you say Mexican radio or rodeo, in my mind,
Speaker 5: I go, I'm on a Mexican radio.
Speaker 3: Oh, Mexican audio corrected auto corrected for me.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3: Marioti music, bull riding, roping, synchronized female riding, which was
Speaker 3: really cool. I remember that standing up on the backs
Speaker 3: of the horses and stuff. I think, so beautiful costumes.
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's just it's just art. It's just
Speaker 3: really nice, very festive radio, very very very very special.
Speaker 3: According to this a charea is a Mexican rodeo and
Speaker 3: in Jalisco, Yellisco. It is very popular. In some ways,
Speaker 3: it is Mexican for NASCAR.
Speaker 5: Both men and women can bete wearing colorful Mexican cowboy
Speaker 5: costume trimmed in silver studs. The horsemen show off their
Speaker 5: lasso ability and make their mounts dance to a live
Speaker 5: Mariazi ban while vendors go through the stands selling drinks
Speaker 5: and snack.
Speaker 2: It was by far my favorite. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 2: check that out. Now you have done this how many
Speaker 2: years the socks show.
Speaker 3: I've only been like three times. None of the three
Speaker 3: you even to play Mexican rodeo.
Speaker 2: I don't really go to rodeos overall.
Speaker 5: It's not my thing. I don't hate it, it's just
Speaker 5: not my thing. Mexican rodeo is different. It'll make you
Speaker 5: go every year. Chuck loves rodeos, I mean he loves them,
Speaker 5: so I don't have to. I probably would have twist
Speaker 5: his at all to go to on Mexican radio. But
Speaker 5: the stock show is happening now, it goes on for
Speaker 5: the next few weeks, and at that point, after it's.
Speaker 2: Over, then you need to take down your Christmas lights. Okay,
Speaker 2: after it's over, then the Christmas lights come down. I
Speaker 2: always get so depressed, by the way, the last day
Speaker 2: is the twenty fifth, so you can plan accordingly. I
Speaker 2: always get so depressed when the stock show's over, because
Speaker 2: then we fall into darkness, nothing bright and shiny, nothing
Speaker 2: to look forward to except the latest setting of the
Speaker 2: sun January January.
Speaker 5: One more quick thing that's on the blog today that
Speaker 5: I just saw, and I just want to mention I
Speaker 5: I got to tell you a rod, I don't know
Speaker 5: what to do with the fact that Bonix doesn't like dogs.
Speaker 3: I was about to say there's one thing to look
Speaker 3: forward to two weeks after that, Oh yeah, saying I didn't.
Speaker 5: Know Bicks didn't like dogs, that the audacity for him
Speaker 5: to run with under dogs.
Speaker 2: I well, you know, I mean or over dogs.
Speaker 5: But I, generally speaking, don't trust people who don't like dogs,
Speaker 5: although I do know people that have been I was
Speaker 5: actually attacked twice by dog.
Speaker 2: I had to go to the emergency room. The second
Speaker 2: time the kid the same.
Speaker 5: Dog as a kid. And well not only that, I
Speaker 5: got attacked by chow chow and then the first dog
Speaker 5: that I ever got, Yeah, the first dog that I
Speaker 5: ever got was half chow half shepherd. Yeah, so I
Speaker 5: kind of like I just went head on. I was
Speaker 5: like Gordon Lyddy biting the head off a bat or
Speaker 5: whatever he did a rat. Actually he ate a rat
Speaker 5: from this, that's right to get over his fear of rat.
Speaker 2: Did you watch his full interaction with Kirk curb Street. Oh,
Speaker 2: I know, and Kirk Curbstreet's dog is a golden retreat,
Speaker 2: but you got and he tried to.
Speaker 3: Like, He's like, I'm sorry, I wish I could ch
Speaker 3: I know, justify and all those teammates are like, yeah,
Speaker 3: you don't like dogs. He knows it's weird. It's like
Speaker 3: that person that admits, like, I know it's not a
Speaker 3: normal things.
Speaker 2: You know what, great point, Just like me, I don't
Speaker 2: like fruit and there's nothing I can do about it.
Speaker 2: I know it's weird.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 5: That just made me feel better about bo Thank you
Speaker 5: for that. They're about to do the vote to override
Speaker 5: the veto on the water project, and I'm hopefully going
Speaker 5: to have that for you as soon as possible because
Speaker 5: it's supposed to happen today and apparently Representative Lauren Bobert
Speaker 5: took to the floor of the House to call out
Speaker 5: Donald Trump for supporting the water bill before he vetoed it.
Speaker 2: So this is interesting. Oh wait, oh, the veto override
Speaker 2: failed several dozen Republicans to five President Trump. This by
Speaker 2: the way, from Kyle Clark, but not enough to reach
Speaker 2: the two thirds needed for an override. Colorado's Arkansas Valley
Speaker 2: Conduit project is in limbo. It is not in limbo.
Speaker 5: One hundred and seventy six Republicans voted against it, and
Speaker 5: this is from what I understand, they voted for it
Speaker 5: the first time, So I don't know, you got to
Speaker 5: give I'm gonna give reper Lauren Bobert credit for trying.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, you know, didn't work out.
Speaker 5: So this is a little disheartening for people that have
Speaker 5: chosen to use GLP ones to lose weight. And I've
Speaker 5: talked pretty openly about the fact that I've known a
Speaker 5: ton of people who have lost weight with GLP ones
Speaker 5: and most of them have regained the weight, and keeping
Speaker 5: the weight off is the hardest part.
Speaker 2: I mean, that is the hardest part.
Speaker 5: I'm back on my soda eating plan this week, you know,
Speaker 5: trying to get my holiday pounds off.
Speaker 2: I've already lost three of them, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: But now now a landmark study has found that most
Speaker 5: users regain the weight inside of two years of stopping
Speaker 5: the drugs. And now doctors are saying, look, especially obesity doctors,
Speaker 5: and I actually think this is a valid point, But
Speaker 5: obesity doctors are saying, like, you have to look at
Speaker 5: obesity as a chronic condition, because again, keeping the weight,
Speaker 5: once your body starts making your fats grow and your
Speaker 5: fat cells get all plump and happy, they don't want
Speaker 5: to go back to being thin and starved.
Speaker 2: They don't want to do that.
Speaker 5: What these researchers found was that your fat cells retain
Speaker 5: that knowledge of what it was like to be fat. Right,
Speaker 5: so if you can lose weight and keep it off
Speaker 5: for ten years, in that ten years, all of those
Speaker 5: fat cells with that memory will be gone, and then
Speaker 5: your new set weight should be easier to stick with.
Speaker 5: Now that's encouraging to know that at some point your
Speaker 5: body can reach some kind of equilibrium. But then you're
Speaker 5: like good gravy ten years. Yes, people, this is the problem.
Speaker 2: This is where we are.
Speaker 5: But gop ones and now they're trying to figure out
Speaker 5: how to create an off ramp because what happens.
Speaker 2: In a lot of these cases. And this has been
Speaker 2: true of a lot of my friends.
Speaker 5: They went on golp ones which killed their appetite, just
Speaker 5: killed their appetite. They didn't change anything about their habits.
Speaker 5: They didn't change their diet, they didn't change the amount
Speaker 5: of exercise they were doing, they didn't change anything. So
Speaker 5: as soon as you go off the drugs, and some
Speaker 5: say that your your appetite does come back, you know
Speaker 5: it comes comes right back for most people. And not
Speaker 5: only that, it appears and this has not been absolutely proven,
Speaker 5: but it appears that it.
Speaker 2: Messes with that that thing that makes you feel satiated.
Speaker 5: So at the same time your appetite returns, that mechanism
Speaker 5: that is supposed to tell you you're full isn't working
Speaker 5: as effectively as it should. So not only are you
Speaker 5: hungry again, your body's not telling you that you're full.
Speaker 5: So there's a there's things that we need to work
Speaker 5: on with these drugs, but most of them are lifestyle things.
Speaker 2: Right, I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 5: I have said to the Sota people, if you paired
Speaker 5: a GLP one with the Sota weight loss plan and
Speaker 5: the knowledge that you get, you would allow people to
Speaker 5: lose the weight without stress, while at the same time
Speaker 5: learning about how to eat and how to fuel their body. Right,
Speaker 5: I mean that you have to make the changes or
Speaker 5: you're just gonna end up back where you were in
Speaker 5: the first place.
Speaker 2: And sometimes those changes suck. Arod, let me ask you this,
Speaker 2: how much weight did you lose? Total? One? Eight eight?
Speaker 5: And a Rod has done a magnificent job of staying
Speaker 5: on top of his weight loss. Like I have to
Speaker 5: give you a lot of credit for that, a Rod,
Speaker 5: You're constantly working.
Speaker 2: On it always.
Speaker 5: But what have you learned? What foods, if any, have
Speaker 5: you learned? I probably should never eat that again.
Speaker 2: Do you have any foods like that?
Speaker 9: For me?
Speaker 2: Pasta?
Speaker 5: Forget about it. I can eat a quarter cup of
Speaker 5: pasta and gain six pounds. It is absurd, It doesn't
Speaker 5: make any sense. There's certain foods that I just should
Speaker 5: never eat again. And that's a hard thing to understand.
Speaker 5: Like that is not a good food for me. Or
Speaker 5: foods make me feel really lousy, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Like now, if I eat a bunch of fried foods,
Speaker 5: I just feel horrible, horrible, But God I love them still,
Speaker 5: dang it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why do French fries have to hurt you so seriously, why.
Speaker 5: Do they have to take They're like the Jezebel of food,
Speaker 5: Like they just they look at you and they seduce
Speaker 5: you with their delicious crunchy outside and soft inside a
Speaker 5: little bit.
Speaker 2: Of salt, and they're just horrible for you. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: always fries, just the just the one thing, just fries. Now,
Speaker 2: have you given up all potato products because I love
Speaker 2: a good baked potato. No, I mean, I'll still do
Speaker 2: fringe fries. It's not as much. Yeah, as often, very
Speaker 2: very rarely.
Speaker 5: Actually, I find myself in a position where I cannot
Speaker 5: order fries. But if Chuck does, I always say, can
Speaker 5: I have like three of your fries? I'm not one
Speaker 5: of those Why have just three fries? If there's someone else,
Speaker 5: if there's someone else's fries, I'll have those three.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, three more.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, because well, two things are happening
Speaker 5: with me. Mentally, I'm like, I'm not gonna eat Chuck's food,
Speaker 5: you know that's rude. And number two, I'm going to
Speaker 5: order like I'll order a burger with a salad on
Speaker 5: the side if I really want a burger I'll get
Speaker 5: a salad on the side, which is perfectly fine with me,
Speaker 5: but I just need three fries. But by mentally going
Speaker 5: I'm having three fries, I have my three, I enjoy them,
Speaker 5: and then I'm not gonna eat the rest of Chuck's food.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 5: When we first started dating, I would, but now not.
Speaker 5: Now you know that, just just kidding. No, not when
Speaker 5: Chuck and I first started dating. If you've ever met Chuck,
Speaker 5: you know that he is a storyteller. Okay, So when
Speaker 5: we first started dating, we would go out to dinner.
Speaker 5: We would order an appetizer, and right has the appetizer arrived,
Speaker 5: I would ask him a question about himself and he
Speaker 5: would start talking and I would start eating, which is
Speaker 5: probably why I ended up needing the soda.
Speaker 2: Wee lost plan. Then finally he.
Speaker 5: Got hip to it, and one day the appetizer arrived
Speaker 5: and I asked the question, and he literally took an
Speaker 5: appetizer plate, scraped off half the appetizer onto the plate.
Speaker 2: And put it in front of him and said, do
Speaker 2: you want to ask that question now? And I was like, no,
Speaker 2: I'm good that my friends is a true story, and
Speaker 2: yet we're still married.
Speaker 5: See, Chuck and I really do a lot of you
Speaker 5: get this, I'll get this, and then we do Havesi's right,
Speaker 5: so I like this.
Speaker 2: That way you get to try something new with the restaurants.
Speaker 5: Mandy, how the Dickens did you get big enough that
Speaker 5: you needed sota besides appetizers? Yeah, I haven't had an
Speaker 5: appetizer except as a meal in a long time. Joey
Speaker 5: doesn't share food. Took my wife's years to get me
Speaker 5: to share my friends. Okay, I got to tell you
Speaker 5: guys a quick story about my oldest son. My oldest
Speaker 5: son for many, many years was a prison eater, meaning
Speaker 5: you'd put his plate down and he would kind of
Speaker 5: wrap one arm around the outside of the plate and
Speaker 5: then kind of, you know, like hunch over, like he
Speaker 5: was gonna be you know, shanked to get his macaroni
Speaker 5: and cheese or whatever.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 5: It was kind of a running joke between me and Chuck.
Speaker 5: It's like, oh, yeah, Ryan's prison easing again. Well, fast forward.
Speaker 5: Ryan has been dating his girlfriend for a good like
Speaker 5: a little while now.
Speaker 2: We have not met her.
Speaker 5: He is at Fort Benning doing his off training, and
Speaker 5: we were all meeting at Fort Benning to go to
Speaker 5: his graduation, including the girlfriend.
Speaker 2: Her name is Courtney. We had not met her yet.
Speaker 5: Well, we're sitting at there's this restaurant outside Fort Benning
Speaker 5: that after all the officers graduate, everybody goes over and
Speaker 5: has this giant burger.
Speaker 2: It's some kind of thing whatever.
Speaker 11: So there we go.
Speaker 5: So we're all sitting there and it's this big, long
Speaker 5: table full of people and all of his classmates and
Speaker 5: all their families, and it was just like a big
Speaker 5: group of people and Ryan is sitting right next to Courtney,
Speaker 5: and Courtney casually reached over and took a fry off
Speaker 5: Ryan's plate.
Speaker 2: And Ryan didn't even blink. And I looked at Chuck
Speaker 2: and went, oh, my gosh, he likes her a lot
Speaker 2: because he was sharing his fit. He will deny this,
Speaker 2: by the way.
Speaker 5: He's like that I never was concerned about.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, yeah, you didn't. And here's the thing,
Speaker 2: you guys.
Speaker 5: I don't like the automatic assumption of sharing. I'm a
Speaker 5: sharer of food. Like if you want to buy my
Speaker 5: food in a restaurant and we're asked me, I'll give
Speaker 5: it to you, You're not a sharer.
Speaker 3: No, I literally no, I'm not doing a pet peeve.
Speaker 3: I'm a I'm a one plate restaurant guy. I Tapa's
Speaker 3: Mandy Like, I can't do it. No, I hate the
Speaker 3: con you can't share it. I hate the concept of
Speaker 3: sharing a food. Specifically, I'm a sharer, but with food,
Speaker 3: it's just weird to me.
Speaker 2: I know what I want to get. I want to
Speaker 2: make sure I'm gonna be full from that plate in
Speaker 2: front of you.
Speaker 5: You're playing accordingly, right, No, I say, there's only one
Speaker 5: situation where I will not share, and that is if
Speaker 5: I have eaten the amount of my meal that leaves
Speaker 5: me with a good portion for another meal the next day.
Speaker 5: And if I'm at that point where maybe I've even
Speaker 5: stopped eating, I'm just you know, hanging out. If you
Speaker 5: ask me for a bite, then I'm gonna be like,
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I've saved the perfect amount for lunch tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The worst part is I won't say no. I'm just
Speaker 3: gonna be pissed about it. Of course I won't say it. No,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say yes, but I'm gonna be really angry.
Speaker 2: No, I don't find I mean, it's like, here you go.
Speaker 5: I come from a family of sharers, you know, we
Speaker 5: all like throwing food across the table kind of thing,
Speaker 5: and I have no problem with that, but I do
Speaker 5: respect you if you're not a sharer. Like when we
Speaker 5: go to sushi with a new friend and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 5: are we all going to order our individual things or
Speaker 5: are we just going to order a bunch of sushi
Speaker 5: and have at it? And for sushi, I'm down with that,
Speaker 5: just like, let's have at it and then just divide
Speaker 5: the check in half.
Speaker 3: Right, the only place for me? It works like k
Speaker 3: pot what oh like a hot Yeah, like hot pot
Speaker 3: and barbecue like that. It works because that's what it is. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So kind of that way with sushi too. It's just
Speaker 3: any other concept. No, Now I'm ordering. When i'm ordering,
Speaker 3: I'm eating when i'm ordering. You eat what you ordered, yeah,
Speaker 3: and then we're doing well.
Speaker 5: It's like when I get like shrimp pad tie or
Speaker 5: something like that, and you have X amount of shrimp
Speaker 5: in the thing, and if there's not a lot, depending
Speaker 5: on the restaurant and checks, like can have one of
Speaker 5: your shrimp.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I'll be like, no, you can have a bat.
Speaker 5: Of the pad tie, but you can't have the shrimp
Speaker 5: because there's only like four of them, and I, you know,
Speaker 5: not sharing that. I don't And and truth be told,
Speaker 5: he's always he's like, oh, no problem, he's not like
Speaker 5: mad about it. And I do the same, like can
Speaker 5: I have a bite? Well, I will never forget. I
Speaker 5: had a friend once and I was when you eat
Speaker 5: a burger, do you just blaze a trail throat or
Speaker 5: do you kind of like eat a couple bites around
Speaker 5: the edges so you get that big middle bite. You
Speaker 5: know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's normal. Yeah, that's what I thought too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, except I have done the first like three four
Speaker 5: bytes around the burger.
Speaker 2: And she says, can I have a bite? I assume.
Speaker 5: And by the way, the burger was going to all
Speaker 5: the sides of the bun. It's not like there was
Speaker 5: a big area of bun that was just fun. And
Speaker 5: and she takes that burger and takes the big bite
Speaker 5: out of the middle, and I looked at her and
Speaker 5: was like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Who does that? We are not friends anymore, not because
Speaker 2: of that, but that was just an indication of her character. Yeah,
Speaker 2: don't share burgers? Who cares?
Speaker 4: I do?
Speaker 2: Mandy share food?
Speaker 5: I eat like I'm on the way to the electric chair, Mandy,
Speaker 5: spit on your food. It solves the sharing problem. See
Speaker 5: my little brother when he would want something, he would
Speaker 5: lick his hand and then smack your food with it,
Speaker 5: and I didn't care. My sister was like who I mean,
Speaker 5: she was just but then she'd give him his food.
Speaker 2: It worked every time. I can't share appetizers, that's it.
Speaker 5: Oh, now you would die like sharing fondue in Switzerland
Speaker 5: where everybody's sticking a stick the fo the okay, because.
Speaker 2: It is a shareable by des.
Speaker 5: Like you said, Mandy, The youngest of nine kids, prison
Speaker 5: feeding was like a blood sport. Don't reach across the
Speaker 5: arm or risk being stabbed. Now that that is out
Speaker 5: of necessity, right like that. But now I'm at that
Speaker 5: point in life where it's like, oh, we ate all
Speaker 5: the crab rangoons, order some more.
Speaker 2: You know we can do that. We're there.
Speaker 5: I don't mind, you know what I now, if you're
Speaker 5: a total stranger, don't ask to come up and have
Speaker 5: a bike, because I'm gonna say no because that's weird.
Speaker 5: But if we know they only give you four shrimp,
Speaker 5: says this Texter. Yes, at a Thai restaurant, I will
Speaker 5: not be returning to just.
Speaker 3: Saying, imagine you really like shrimp, I love you, and
Speaker 3: you got one of those four only one.
Speaker 5: Now, I wouldn't do that if I if I want to,
Speaker 5: if I want for shrimp, I'm ordering two appetizers.
Speaker 2: That's the way to go. When we get back, don't share.
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Speaker 5: up at two thirty. I want to play some audio
Speaker 5: from Scott Jennings real quick. This is about the situation
Speaker 5: in Minnesota, and we talked. I talked about it earlier
Speaker 5: in the show, and I'm going to stand on this statement.
Speaker 5: You are going to be able to see whatever you
Speaker 5: want to see in the videos that are out about
Speaker 5: the shooting of a woman in Minneapolis. You're going to
Speaker 5: be able, depending on what your political viewpoints are, You're
Speaker 5: going to be able to justify those political viewpoints based
Speaker 5: on the videos that are out there. It's a terrible
Speaker 5: track that this woman is dead. But I'm finding myself
Speaker 5: in the camp of a woman made a very very
Speaker 5: bad series of choices, probably because she believed she was
Speaker 5: doing the moral and right thing to do, and the
Speaker 5: ice agent, who apparently had had a similar incident where
Speaker 5: he was dragged by a car by a driver three
Speaker 5: months ago made a life and death decision based on
Speaker 5: his own fear for his own life. Two people in
Speaker 5: a high pressure situation both made bad choices.
Speaker 2: That's where I am right now.
Speaker 5: But listener what Scott Jennings has to say about this,
Speaker 5: because I think this is an incredibly interesting point.
Speaker 11: But it strikes me that we are undergoing an epidemic
Speaker 11: of political vigilanteism right now. Why are people showing up
Speaker 11: in vehicles and convoys not just in Minneapolis, but all
Speaker 11: over the country in an effort to obstruct lawful federal
Speaker 11: law enforce activities. This is not an isolated incident. We
Speaker 11: have had hundreds of car rammings against ICE agents all
Speaker 11: over the country. According to DHS, this lady in this
Speaker 11: car today, along with other vehicles, had been tracking ICE
Speaker 11: agents around. Why are people believing that they can drive
Speaker 11: their car into a federal law enforcement situation and that
Speaker 11: is an appropriate thing to do. I understand they don't
Speaker 11: like the fact that these agents are enforcing existing immigration law,
Speaker 11: but that's not how we change laws in this country.
Speaker 11: If you don't like a law, you talk to the politicians.
Speaker 11: You don't drive your car into the middle of a
Speaker 11: building or a law enforcement situation that's being occupied by
Speaker 11: the people who are simply there to enforce the law.
Speaker 11: If I don't like how much the IRS is charging
Speaker 11: me in taxes, I don't drive my car into the
Speaker 11: Treasury Department try to run somebody over.
Speaker 2: I call my congressman.
Speaker 11: Political vigilanteism is being encouraged by Democratic officials like the
Speaker 11: Lieutenant governor of Minnesota Peggy Flanagan, who earlier this year
Speaker 11: told people to quote put your bodies on the line,
Speaker 11: and Tim Walls calling these guys gestapo all year. What
Speaker 11: do you think happens when you radicalize a base of
Speaker 11: people as He's not wrong.
Speaker 2: He's not wrong at all.
Speaker 5: I Mean, what's been interesting about this is that a
Speaker 5: lot of people that are currently very very very very
Speaker 5: upset about this situation are the same people that were
Speaker 5: willing to hold Donald Trump accountable for his rhetoric on
Speaker 5: January sixth. They blame him one hundred percent for they
Speaker 5: say he ordered people to go to the Capitol. He
Speaker 5: did not, but that this is what they believe, right.
Speaker 5: They believe that Donald Trump is responsible for what happened
Speaker 5: on January six because of his rhetoric. But then when
Speaker 5: you ask, is Tim Walls partially responsible for calling Ice agents,
Speaker 5: the Gestapo and nazis there.
Speaker 2: If there's culpability on.
Speaker 5: One side, there has to be culpability on the other
Speaker 5: side as well, Right, So I thought that was a
Speaker 5: very interesting take, a very very interesting take. Another very
Speaker 5: interesting thing was the movements that we're seeing on Greenland.
Speaker 5: You guys, I'm at the point now where trying to
Speaker 5: follow the Trump administration is so exhausting because of the
Speaker 5: very speed with which.
Speaker 2: Things are happening.
Speaker 5: So in the past week alone, we have arrested Maduro,
Speaker 5: We have negotiated with the remaining Socialist vice president to
Speaker 5: buy millions of bears of oil and therefore fund Venezuela's
Speaker 5: rebuilding legitimately and not with drug proceeds, which is what
Speaker 5: Maduro was doing. And although he wasn't rebuilding Venezuela, he
Speaker 5: was just getting.
Speaker 2: Rich, right. But we've also seen.
Speaker 5: Such a slew of activity they don't even know where
Speaker 5: to start, not the least of which is that Rubio
Speaker 5: is now headed to Danish leaders.
Speaker 2: To talk about Greenland. Are we gonna buy Greenland?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 5: It's been bandied about, and Trump has made some comments
Speaker 5: that have led people to say, oh my god, Trump
Speaker 5: is gonna invade Greenland. He's gonna take Greenland by when
Speaker 5: in reality, he's just looking to say, yeah, we'd like
Speaker 5: to buy that from you, Denmark. You guys aren't using
Speaker 5: it really, so we'd like to buy it now. I
Speaker 5: do think that the fifty six eight hundred residents of
Speaker 5: Greenland deserves some say.
Speaker 2: In this, I really do.
Speaker 5: But what if we were to say, hey, Denmark, We're
Speaker 5: going to give you X amount of dollars for this land,
Speaker 5: and hey, Greenland, is that cool?
Speaker 2: Are you good with that?
Speaker 5: And if I'm Greenland, I would say, okay, do we
Speaker 5: get to be a state? What kind of representation do
Speaker 5: we have? Are we just going to be another outlying
Speaker 5: you know, like Guam that nobody talks about. Are we
Speaker 5: going to be like a part of the United States
Speaker 5: of America? How does his work for us? All valid questions,
Speaker 5: all valid questions. So I just think it's super interesting
Speaker 5: and I think it's very interesting to see Secretary of
Speaker 5: State Mark Rubio navigate the kind of rhetoric that we're
Speaker 5: seeing in the press from the President at the same
Speaker 5: time trying to go meet with these people in a
Speaker 5: serious way and say, look, strategically, Greenland is very important.
Speaker 5: It is extremely important. Just where it's located. The amount
Speaker 5: of Greenland's in the Arctic is incredibly important. So yeah,
Speaker 5: it would be pretty good for the United States to
Speaker 5: have access to that fully and completely as part of
Speaker 5: the United States or a territory. Dated Foreign Minister Lars
Speaker 5: Loch Rasmussen and his Greenland counterpark Vivian Mottsfeldt had requested
Speaker 5: a meeting with Ruvio, this from the Denver Gazette.
Speaker 2: According to a statement posted.
Speaker 5: Tuesday to Greenland's government website, previous requests for a meeting
Speaker 5: or not successful. Rubio told a select group of US
Speaker 5: lawmakers that it is the Republican administration's intention to eventually
Speaker 5: purchase Greenland, as opposed to using military force.
Speaker 2: So, I you know, that'd be another place we could
Speaker 2: go without a passport.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think of the upside for the citizens,
Speaker 5: like other than national security concerns, and the upside for
Speaker 5: the American citizen.
Speaker 2: We could go there without a passport. That'd be pretty cool. Mandy.
Speaker 5: The idea has been floated around about Greenland paying each
Speaker 5: resident one hundred thousand dollars that was just announced today.
Speaker 5: What do you I mean, that's pretty fair, that's a
Speaker 5: pretty good offer, Mandy. I asked my wife and she
Speaker 5: said she would share her for shrimp. Well, your wife
Speaker 5: is a better wife than I am. By the way,
Speaker 5: after I talked about sharing food, I will tell you
Speaker 5: I got a ton a ton of text messages and
Speaker 5: they're like fifty to fifty from those of you who
Speaker 5: are food sharers and then those of you who were like,
Speaker 5: if you try to touch my food, I'm gonna stab
Speaker 5: your hand.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to try and convince you otherwise.
Speaker 5: Although I will say I got several text messages from
Speaker 5: former non sharers who are now enthusiastic sharers and enjoy that.
Speaker 5: About the Minnesota shooting, Mandy, where's her child out of
Speaker 5: some Holi daycare?
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know, Uh, Mandy, Yeah, imagine.
Speaker 5: The people who celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk don't
Speaker 5: have a problem with somebody trying to run over law enforcement.
Speaker 2: I'm going to see this.
Speaker 5: I have seen some text messages who are calling the
Speaker 5: woman who was shot a lot of vile names. She
Speaker 5: might have been a vile person I don't know, but
Speaker 5: we certainly don't know enough about her. What we know
Speaker 5: is that she's a woman who made very bad choices,
Speaker 5: extremely bad choices.
Speaker 2: So let's just ratchet back the nasty talk and let
Speaker 2: things play out.
Speaker 5: So Donald Trump sent out a post on X or
Speaker 5: truth Social or whatever he posts, and it says, for
Speaker 5: a very long time, buying and owning a home was
Speaker 5: considered the pinnacle of the American dream. It was a
Speaker 5: reward for working hard and doing the right thing. But now,
Speaker 5: because of the record high inflation caused by Joe Biden
Speaker 5: and the Democrats in Congress, that American dream is increasingly
Speaker 5: out of reach for far too many people, especially younger Americans.
Speaker 5: It is for that reason and much more, that I'm
Speaker 5: immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying
Speaker 5: more single family homes. I will be calling on Congress
Speaker 5: to codify it people live in homes, not corporations. I
Speaker 5: will discuss this topic, including further housing and affordability proposals,
Speaker 5: and more, at my speech in Davos in two weeks now.
Speaker 5: What he's talking about is companies like Blackstone not black
Speaker 5: Rock Blackstone that buy up residential properties and then they
Speaker 5: rent them out, and they are accumulating assets, you know,
Speaker 5: asset growth.
Speaker 2: And things of that nature.
Speaker 5: But at the same time, many worry that they are
Speaker 5: diluting the housing market that's available for people to either
Speaker 5: buy or fixing rents at an unreasonable rate. So I
Speaker 5: did a little digging this morning and realistically the numbers
Speaker 5: for how much housing is actually owned by these corporations
Speaker 5: very very small amounts in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 2: I mean very small amounts.
Speaker 5: Just five point five percent of single family homes are
Speaker 5: owned by corporate investors.
Speaker 2: Now that number is not the.
Speaker 5: Big now, but I do think it is a reasonable
Speaker 5: thing to be concerned about the continued accumulation of homes
Speaker 5: by large corporations. Now, can you go ahead and invest
Speaker 5: in a corporation that does real estate exchange traded funds?
Speaker 5: You absolutely can. So there are ways for the common
Speaker 5: person to make money in this way. But the reality
Speaker 5: is is that we also have to make sure we
Speaker 5: have enough housing for me. And I've said this before
Speaker 5: on the show. You guys know how I feel about it.
Speaker 5: I think we need to start by looking at how
Speaker 5: government regulations drive up the cost of housing.
Speaker 2: In Colorado.
Speaker 5: We have so many absurd regulations that they're only getting worse,
Speaker 5: that are going to drive up the cost of building
Speaker 5: a home in Colorado. And that's by design, you know,
Speaker 5: it really is. So it's time to start looking at
Speaker 5: how to prevent this from happening. Because if a large
Speaker 5: corporation comes into any area buys up a bunch of
Speaker 5: the property and makes it short term rentals, especially and
Speaker 5: I have no ill will towards short term rents, none whatsoever.
Speaker 5: But you know, if you are if you are in
Speaker 5: a situation where you know you have a housing shortage
Speaker 5: and you have an obscene amount of short term rentals,
Speaker 5: what do you do with that? Now, I'm also a
Speaker 5: free market person, so all of these things are coming
Speaker 5: to a head when it comes to the housing market. Now,
Speaker 5: if corporations by fifteen percent of the houses in a
Speaker 5: market twenty percent of the houses in a market, is
Speaker 5: that where we're headed. This is a very difficult problem
Speaker 5: to solve. This is not something that you can have
Speaker 5: a pat answer to. One of the things that I
Speaker 5: want to correct about the President's statement about why housing
Speaker 5: is so expensive right now. Housing is so expensive right
Speaker 5: now because the Fed kept rates too low for too long.
Speaker 5: So the federal government could continue spending like out of
Speaker 5: control drunken monkeys during the pandemic. Two percent mortgage rates
Speaker 5: are not normal, They've never been normal.
Speaker 2: They were record low.
Speaker 5: Interest rates on mortgages. They were insane, they were absolutely nuts.
Speaker 5: And what they did was people often buy based on payment, right, like, okay,
Speaker 5: what's my house payment going to be? So as as
Speaker 5: interest rates dropped to these crazy low levels, then people
Speaker 5: who are selling were like, well, look now I can
Speaker 5: ask for more money and you can still make that
Speaker 5: payment because your mortgage rate is so low. Back in
Speaker 5: the nineteen seventies, I love it when people are like,
Speaker 5: I can't buy a home. Luggage rates had six percent. Well,
Speaker 5: some of them are in the fives right now, but
Speaker 5: luggage rates are too high. My parents bought a house
Speaker 5: in the nineteen seventies and they had a seventeen percent
Speaker 5: mortgage rate.
Speaker 2: Seventeen percent. It was insane.
Speaker 5: But of course the house costs seventy two thousand dollars, right,
Speaker 5: so it was cheaper to start with that.
Speaker 2: All of these things go in concert. The Federal Reserve
Speaker 2: really screwed up a lot of stuff.
Speaker 5: During COVID, the federal government really screwed up a lot
Speaker 5: of stuff during COVID, and now they're expecting us to
Speaker 5: believe that they're to fix the problem when they are
Speaker 5: a huge part of the problem from the jump.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just super frustrating.
Speaker 5: I will say this, if you've been sitting on the
Speaker 5: sidelines right now, you're looking to buy a home. Maybe
Speaker 5: you know you've got your down payment, you're ready to go,
Speaker 5: and you've just been waiting and waiting and waiting for
Speaker 5: interest rates to drop down to where you think they're
Speaker 5: going to go again, Like the Force. I don't think
Speaker 5: we're going to see the Force anytime in the next
Speaker 5: few years. But I will tell you this, right now,
Speaker 5: mortgage rates are pretty dang good, but not many people
Speaker 5: are paying attention. And when people do start realizing this
Speaker 5: is really good for a mortgage rate, then the buying
Speaker 5: frenzy begins and you're in bidding wars again. If you're
Speaker 5: ready to buy a home, I'm telling you right now,
Speaker 5: I would buy the home. I would go ahead and move.
Speaker 5: I would I would take advantage of the fact that
Speaker 5: there are more homes on the market in the Denver
Speaker 5: metro now than there have been in a long time.
Speaker 5: They're sitting a lot longer, and buyers are starting to
Speaker 5: recognize if I want to sell this house, I'm going
Speaker 5: to have to drop the price. Not a lot, but
Speaker 5: I think there are more negotia well now than they've
Speaker 5: been in a very very long time. When we get back,
Speaker 5: we're going to talk about two things. Number One, HHS
Speaker 5: has released a new food pyramid and in it with
Speaker 5: one Fell Swoop, OURFK Junior makes real.
Speaker 2: Food great again and creating a vision for twenty twenty
Speaker 2: six will be right back.
Speaker 5: And it's that time of year where everybody's like new Year,
Speaker 5: New Me, but the reality is I just want to
Speaker 5: be a better me and joining me now to talk
Speaker 5: about not just that we are going to get to
Speaker 5: creating a vision for twenty twenty six, but Michelle Zelner,
Speaker 5: our fitness guru, is back, and Michelle, let's talk about
Speaker 5: making real food great again. I got a text message
Speaker 5: from Michelle almost immediately about we have to talk about
Speaker 5: the new food pyramid when I come on the show,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, heck, yeah, what is RFK Junior done
Speaker 5: to the food pyramid?
Speaker 10: Well, I mean he's just gone back to common sense
Speaker 10: and basics, which I know it's like earth shattering, right,
Speaker 10: eat real food something I don't know if your listeners
Speaker 10: have listened to me have heard me say, probably since
Speaker 10: the very first time was on your show. So yeah,
Speaker 10: just gone back to basics. Eat real food. Prioritizing protein.
Speaker 10: That's like a huge catchphrase these days, prioritize your protein.
Speaker 10: Most people don't even know what that means, right, So
Speaker 10: prioritizing protein means you need to make sure you're getting
Speaker 10: enough and not just enough to not waste away, which
Speaker 10: is what the old guidelines were based on. The minimum
Speaker 10: recommendation to simply not die, but actually to eat enough
Speaker 10: protein to support and optimize your well being.
Speaker 5: But that's like the most perfect government standard, right, The
Speaker 5: government standard is, here's what you can.
Speaker 2: Do to not die. Okay, it's not optimal performance, it's not.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just like this will keep you alive,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 5: So protein now takes its rightful place at the top
Speaker 5: of this inverted pyramid.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: The pyramid is kind of upside down in the way
Speaker 5: it looks. And I have to say, I put the
Speaker 5: picture of the pyramid on my blo today. It's gorgeous.
Speaker 5: It's like this beautiful illustration of all of these beautiful,
Speaker 5: real foods. And you know what's not on here, Michelle,
Speaker 5: anything ultra process. There's not a single thing that comes
Speaker 5: in a box on this food pyramid. Let's talk for
Speaker 5: a second about why this food pyramid was probably created
Speaker 5: in a much different way than previous food pyramids have
Speaker 5: been created. Those food pyramids were created by lobbyist, food lobbyist,
Speaker 5: and yeah, this pyramid, well go ahead.
Speaker 10: Not to get political, but everything's political. And you know
Speaker 10: this one, I don't know, maybe big broccoli got in
Speaker 10: there and it was like, wait a minute, what about.
Speaker 5: Us a big broccoli, as if there was such a thing. No,
Speaker 5: this looks like it's just based on nutrition, and that's
Speaker 5: a refreshing change. Now I want to share with the
Speaker 5: audience some of the basically, like this is the vertbal
Speaker 5: version of the food pyramid. Number one, prioritize protein at
Speaker 5: every meal. As Michelle just said, consume full fat dairy
Speaker 5: with no added sugars. I think this is going to
Speaker 5: be a shocking one for people because most people don't
Speaker 5: realize that when you take the fat out of dairy,
Speaker 5: they're putting sugar in to maintain the mouthfeel and maintain
Speaker 5: the taste. This list kind of goes after sugar in
Speaker 5: a big way, but without going after sugar right. The
Speaker 5: next is eat vegetables and fruits throughout the day, focusing
Speaker 5: on whole forms, incorporating healthy fats from whole suits for
Speaker 5: the whole foods such as meats, seafood, eggs, nuts, seeds, olives,
Speaker 5: and avocados. Focus on whole grains while sharply reducing refined carbohydrates,
Speaker 5: limit highly processed foods, added sugars, and artificial additives. Eat
Speaker 5: the right amount for you based on age, sex, size,
Speaker 5: and activity level. Choose water and unsweetened beverages, and limit
Speaker 5: alcohol consumption. I don't know if you saw this. Another
Speaker 5: thing came out of HHS today. They are going to
Speaker 5: mandate nutrition classes at medical school. That's amazing, finally, finally, right.
Speaker 10: And the thing that I really appreciate about this, it
Speaker 10: is very comprehensive. It doesn't say eliminate ultra processed foods
Speaker 10: because people are going to eat them. I ate them
Speaker 10: over the holiday, for sure, and they are delicious. That's
Speaker 10: why we eat them. So to think we're going to
Speaker 10: eliminate all these things is just not realistic for most people.
Speaker 10: And it's that all or nothing mindset that tends to,
Speaker 10: you know, get us really gung ho with the New
Speaker 10: Year's resolutions, and then by week two we're out of
Speaker 10: the game already. I do want to say one thing
Speaker 10: about the full fat dairy. So you know, when you
Speaker 10: eat non fat Greek yogurt, they have not added sugar
Speaker 10: back in unless the manufacturer has decided to do right.
Speaker 10: So it really is critical for people to read labels
Speaker 10: because you can see something that seems to look healthy
Speaker 10: on the surface, but unless you're reading that label in
Speaker 10: the ingredient list, you know there might be something's hidden
Speaker 10: in there. But that's why, you know, it's so important
Speaker 10: that we understand what we're looking for. And yeah, like
Speaker 10: whole foods, right, it's so basic. So let's give some
Speaker 10: real numbers. So when when we say prioritize protein, one
Speaker 10: gram per pound of your target body weight. So if
Speaker 10: you're out of body weight and composition that you're happy with,
Speaker 10: let's just pull a number one hundred and fifty pounds,
Speaker 10: one hundred and fifty one five zero grams of protein.
Speaker 10: Most people have no clue what that even looks like
Speaker 10: in terms of food. It's it's all in a little
Speaker 10: bit of context. Right, an egg has six grams, so
Speaker 10: they're like, well, I had two eggs this morning, Awesome,
Speaker 10: that's twelve grams of protein.
Speaker 2: That's not that much.
Speaker 10: So it's also people starting to really understand how where
Speaker 10: do these nutrients come from, how much of each nutrient
Speaker 10: is actually the food you're eating, and that they, you know,
Speaker 10: put the message in there to eat the appropriate amount
Speaker 10: for your needs and your goals. Most people have no
Speaker 10: clue what number even is right, because you've never figured
Speaker 10: it out.
Speaker 5: I'm hoping that we're moving towards a place where education
Speaker 5: when it comes to nutrition becomes a thing. And I
Speaker 5: remember being a kid and we got the four food
Speaker 5: groups right, You had your four food groups and you
Speaker 5: had to learn the basics. But I think I was
Speaker 5: probably thirty years old before I understood the mechanism of
Speaker 5: how insulin is produced in our bodies and what that
Speaker 5: fires and what that means.
Speaker 2: And people have no.
Speaker 5: Understanding of how they work, how their body is actually
Speaker 5: designed to function. And once you have a better understanding
Speaker 5: of that, it gets easier to understand why prioritizing things
Speaker 5: with fiber is important and why prioritizing protein is important.
Speaker 2: I was working with a longevity.
Speaker 5: Doctor a long time ago, and he said something to
Speaker 5: me that I found so ridiculous. But I have since
Speaker 5: and this was probably fifteen years ago, I have since
Speaker 5: seen so much research to back this up. If you
Speaker 5: never ate another carbohydrate again in your life, you could
Speaker 5: live for forever. It doesn't matter. You don't need to
Speaker 5: consume a single carbohydrate. And I think for most people
Speaker 5: that is the exact opposite messaging that we've been getting
Speaker 5: since the eighties, when coincidentally or not, we all started
Speaker 5: getting super fat. So I think some of these things
Speaker 5: are going to be almost like a create a cognitive
Speaker 5: dissonance for what people think they know, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean.
Speaker 10: Well, for sure, there's going to have to be a
Speaker 10: lot of unlearning and then relearning, and that is really hard.
Speaker 10: And that's something that I figured out for myself almost
Speaker 10: thirty years ago. Like this whole just you know, don't
Speaker 10: eat fat, Well okay, except I'm doing that and I'm
Speaker 10: getting fat, so's.
Speaker 2: There's something wrong here.
Speaker 10: And that's when I decided to stop listening to the
Speaker 10: guidelines and just learn how to feed a human body.
Speaker 10: And that's the thing, Mandy, is it's not hard eat
Speaker 10: real food.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's a little bit of hubris throughout
Speaker 5: our history. I mean, I look back at how we
Speaker 5: all started eating more margarine. Right, Margarine is an absolute
Speaker 5: chemical poop storm.
Speaker 2: It is not a food product.
Speaker 5: It was a byproduct of another experiment, and we started
Speaker 5: eating it and we were told this is better for
Speaker 5: you than butter. And there's such a level of ego
Speaker 5: there to think that human beings are going to create
Speaker 5: something better than God created. That's the way I look
Speaker 5: at it, Like God gave us everything we need to
Speaker 5: be healthy. We don't need Dorito's or margarine or all
Speaker 5: of these fake foods to be healthy. If you just
Speaker 5: focus on the food that God made in the closest
Speaker 5: form to the way God made it, you're gonna be
Speaker 5: fine or whatever, or you know, evolution or whatever whatever
Speaker 5: you believe. I just think it's easier to just go, Okay,
Speaker 5: how close can I get to how it either grew
Speaker 5: or came out of the ground or was grown in
Speaker 5: the ground.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: I just think that's the easiest way to do. It
Speaker 5: doesn't have to be complicated. It really doesn't. Okay, let's
Speaker 5: oh go ahead.
Speaker 10: It doesn't. Yeah, that was to say and that's why
Speaker 10: I came up with PFF as your BFF. How many
Speaker 10: years ago did I come up with that?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 10: Protein fat fiber is your best friend forever because these
Speaker 10: are whole foods that are going to allow your body
Speaker 10: to function correctly, absorb your nutrients, keep your blood sugar steady,
Speaker 10: avoid the spikes and crashes, help you feel full, help
Speaker 10: you be satisfied. And it is it's just PFF, PFF.
Speaker 5: Protein fat fiber PFF is your BFF. And now your
Speaker 5: hair of the shell's voice like I do all the time,
Speaker 5: do you Let's have a moment on fiber and then
Speaker 5: we're going to talk about the vision stuff because it's
Speaker 5: so good. Fiber is now being there's a connection. They're
Speaker 5: finding out that there are certain gut issues for people
Speaker 5: with multiple sclerosis, and they are experimenting now with the
Speaker 5: roll of fiber in how our guts can lead to
Speaker 5: all of these other things. And Americans, we do not
Speaker 5: eat enough fiber on the standard American diet. If you're
Speaker 5: making a little health resolution, make it eat more fiber,
Speaker 5: whatever that looks like. And let's talk about resolutions because
Speaker 5: on Saturday, Michelle has her annual Virtual Vision Board event
Speaker 5: and This thing is so flip and good. If you're
Speaker 5: looking for focus for twenty twenty six, what can people
Speaker 5: expect from this event?
Speaker 10: So if you've come before, you're going to get a
Speaker 10: little different, a little different experience. I think you'll like it,
Speaker 10: so please come again. If you've never come, you don't
Speaker 10: know what you were missing, so come anyway. It's just
Speaker 10: so much more than making a vision board. This is
Speaker 10: going to be a whole reflect and reset workshop. It's
Speaker 10: going to basically be like one of my trainings that
Speaker 10: I do for corporate or for private groups, and you
Speaker 10: get to have all of me, just me, no speakers,
Speaker 10: just me. But it's going to be an opportunity for
Speaker 10: people to really dig in to define what matters to them,
Speaker 10: and then we're going to spend time creating strategies to
Speaker 10: help you accomplish what you say you want to accomplish.
Speaker 10: And there's going to be plenty of time for lots
Speaker 10: of conversations. So I've actually, since the new Food Pyramid Drop,
Speaker 10: decided that this isn't just going to be about twenty
Speaker 10: twenty six vision. I want people to come who have
Speaker 10: questions about anything, any health well being related thing. It
Speaker 10: is an open forum to pick my brain hear what
Speaker 10: I think. I know a lot of your listeners have
Speaker 10: heard little, you know, bits and pieces here and there,
Speaker 10: but it's really an opportunity for anyone to come and
Speaker 10: just you know, maybe hear it from a different perspective.
Speaker 5: I've got to say, Michelle, the aspect of creating a
Speaker 5: framework to actually bring these things to life, that part
Speaker 5: is very interesting to me because I think that that
Speaker 5: is going to force people to either figure out how
Speaker 5: to make these things happen, which is what you're saying
Speaker 5: is the ultimate goal, or recognize that they don't really
Speaker 5: want those things. Because if you think you want something
Speaker 5: and you're like, you know what, I'm going to use
Speaker 5: the perfect example. I want to I want to be thin,
Speaker 5: I want to be fit, I want to be athletic. Okay,
Speaker 5: are you going to cut out the garbage that you're
Speaker 5: eating in your diet?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to do that. Are you going
Speaker 2: to exercise more? Well, I don't really have time to
Speaker 2: do that. Or what are you going to do?
Speaker 5: And when the answer is I'm not going to do
Speaker 5: anything that I have to do to achieve these goals,
Speaker 5: it may be time to recognize that that needs to
Speaker 5: come off your vision board, and you need to stop
Speaker 5: diluting yourself about that being an actual thing that you want.
Speaker 5: Because if you're not willing to put any effort in
Speaker 5: actions speak way louder than words do, and especially when
Speaker 5: it comes to what we say we want to do,
Speaker 5: because if you say you want to do something, but
Speaker 5: you're not willing to do any of the proven strategies
Speaker 5: to make it happen, you need to let it go
Speaker 5: and move on. And there's some free there's something freeing
Speaker 5: about that, right, I mean, there's something good about saying, Okay,
Speaker 5: I have to be real about what I really want
Speaker 5: out of life.
Speaker 10: Well, it's what we say is the outcome that we want.
Speaker 10: We don't want to do it. We just want the outcome,
Speaker 10: right right, And that's where the disconnect is, like, Okay, well,
Speaker 10: let's talk the realities of what it's going to require
Speaker 10: to have that outcome, and very often it's going to
Speaker 10: require doing things you don't want to do. That's just
Speaker 10: the reality of it.
Speaker 2: Hard things are hard.
Speaker 5: But my father always said most things worth doing are hard, right,
Speaker 5: I Mean, that's just if it was easy, everyone would
Speaker 5: do it. So what are some of the things that
Speaker 5: you have found or learned from the people that attend
Speaker 5: these events.
Speaker 2: Now, the first one that I did with you, it
Speaker 2: was in person, and it was wild.
Speaker 5: Because it was really it was kind of even before
Speaker 5: we started using internet photos, and there was magazine cutting
Speaker 5: and gluen sticks flying, and there was crying as people
Speaker 5: were trying to sort things out. What have you learned
Speaker 5: over the years of doing these events that maybe you've
Speaker 5: taken to heart or that you see a common pattern.
Speaker 10: Yeah. I think a lot of people come in with
Speaker 10: an idea and maybe they leave with a different idea
Speaker 10: of because when we get into discussion and conversation, they
Speaker 10: start to get some real clarity, and you know, it
Speaker 10: is maybe about letting go of some things or solidifying
Speaker 10: that actual strategy that has been you know, maybe preventing
Speaker 10: them from accomplishing what they say they want to accomplish.
Speaker 10: It's identifying obstacle and then figuring out, all, right, well,
Speaker 10: what are you willing and able to do about this obstacle?
Speaker 10: And I think for some people it it is maybe
Speaker 10: like that kind of come to Jesus moment for them,
Speaker 10: like okay, right, you know, I have to take ownership
Speaker 10: of myself and my life.
Speaker 2: I'm in charge.
Speaker 10: I can only do what I can do, and so
Speaker 10: for a lot of people, it is a reframing of things,
Speaker 10: and it's a big mindset shift. And once you shift
Speaker 10: your mindset, it doesn't usually go back to the way
Speaker 10: it used to be. So even just leaving from something
Speaker 10: like this, if you haven't created a vision board, that's fine,
Speaker 10: Like that's kind of the cherry on top. It's all
Speaker 10: of the different thought patterns that you're having, or the
Speaker 10: ideas or that you've been open to a new idea
Speaker 10: or a new way of thinking about something that's then
Speaker 10: going to carry you through to maybe making some of
Speaker 10: those changes that have been difficult for you to make.
Speaker 2: In the past.
Speaker 5: And you and I were chatting off here about this,
Speaker 5: and you said you're going to start with having some
Speaker 5: time for reflection about five And I got to tell
Speaker 5: you that has given me pause, because I don't think
Speaker 5: that I have taken a moment to look back at
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five and really reflect on what worked for me,
Speaker 5: what didn't work for me, and what I need to
Speaker 5: pull forward and what I need to leave behind. So
Speaker 5: that is something that I'm going to take, you know,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 2: To heart.
Speaker 5: On this now, Michelle, I am going to Greeley to
Speaker 5: do a goobernatorial debate during this event.
Speaker 2: But how can people participate?
Speaker 10: They can just go to my website. You'll see the
Speaker 10: link to register and anybody who registers will get a
Speaker 10: recording of the event. So if you can't come live,
Speaker 10: or you can only come for part of it, that's fine.
Speaker 2: Just register.
Speaker 10: Everybody will get the recording afterwards, and then you can
Speaker 10: listen to it over and over and over and take
Speaker 10: your time, invite your friends, do you know, do it
Speaker 10: at your own pace.
Speaker 5: I put a link on the blog, but our website
Speaker 5: is better beings dot net. Better beings dot net. Good
Speaker 5: to see my friend, Happy twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Six, Happy new Year. All right, that's Michelle Zellner. I'll
Speaker 2: talk to you later, my friend.
Speaker 5: So the vision board thing is Ben Albright in the
Speaker 5: studio in a are you are you headed out on
Speaker 5: a fishing boat with your bulky sweater?
Speaker 8: The rug really tied the room together. And if you
Speaker 8: can see me right now, you get that reference. Anyway,
Speaker 8: you ever done a vision board, then I don't know
Speaker 8: what that is. Okay, it's a it's a board where
Speaker 8: you take pictures of things that you want to accomplish
Speaker 8: in the upcoming year, and you glue them all this
Speaker 8: board kind of keeping inspired, focus and motivated throughout the year.
Speaker 2: I think you can tell by the look. Come on,
Speaker 2: I know I'm gonna take that as a no. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna we're gonna go with that one. That
Speaker 2: sounds like a teenage girl arts and crafts kind of thing.
Speaker 5: I used to think it was stupid, and now I've
Speaker 5: honed my vision board to one word or a small phrase.
Speaker 5: So this year, my word is presence, and my focus
Speaker 5: is being present in my life to try and slow
Speaker 5: down the world as it whips by. So that's you know,
Speaker 5: it just it helps you sort of focus on. For me,
Speaker 5: I can only handle one thing. A vision board was overwhelming.
Speaker 8: It's interesting to say, because like, I don't do a
Speaker 8: vision board, but I do have like a thing that
Speaker 8: I pick for the year that's going to be kind
Speaker 8: of my focus that year and for this year. You
Speaker 8: said presence being present in the real world. Yeah, like,
Speaker 8: I'm so terminally online.
Speaker 10: You.
Speaker 5: Ben's hand actually is Ben's hand is actually turned into
Speaker 5: a cellular telephone. He doesn't even have an extra phone anymore.
Speaker 5: He just holds it up to his ear and then
Speaker 5: types on the others like the cop from Terminator too,
Speaker 5: but it's.
Speaker 8: You know the actor for that, yes, Robert Patrick and
Speaker 8: Richard Patrick, the lead singer of Filter's Brother.
Speaker 2: Right, what that's random? Anyway, next time for the most
Speaker 2: exciting segment on the radio of its kind.
Speaker 5: Well done of the day, All right, what is our
Speaker 5: dad joke of the day, please, Anthony.
Speaker 2: I don't get why bakers aren't wealthier. They make so much.
Speaker 2: Go all that cake too? Yeah, yeah, so much. Today's
Speaker 2: word of the day. Please. It's an adjective adjective. It
Speaker 2: is febrile. Febro means you have a fever. We just
Speaker 2: had that one. Yeah, well, you know what, whatever, we're feverish.
Speaker 2: It doesn't and the only prescription is a different word. Okay, ready,
Speaker 2: what is Can we get a different word?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, whatever, because I feel feverish right now?
Speaker 5: What does the adjective pavanine mean? Pavanine p A v
Speaker 5: O N I n E pvinine. I don't know what
Speaker 5: the over pretending to.
Speaker 9: I don't. I don't.
Speaker 2: Well let's find out, because I got no guess.
Speaker 5: Over Relating to peacocks, the word can't describe something that
Speaker 5: is colored like a peacock's tail.
Speaker 2: Havevanine? Okay? What is our Jeopardy category? Homonyms hamon, words
Speaker 2: that sound the same right?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: To switch? Or the dimes and quarters in your pocket?
Speaker 2: Manny man?
Speaker 3: What has changed to throw a fishing net into water?
Speaker 2: Many? What is cast?
Speaker 3: Or the actors in a play correct part of the
Speaker 3: covering of a lizard? Or the minimum wage fixed by
Speaker 3: a performer's contract.
Speaker 2: Mandy? What a scale?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I should have that? A heap? Or the loops of
Speaker 2: yarn forming the surface of a carpet. This one's a heap?
Speaker 2: A heap, Mandy? What pile? That is correct?
Speaker 3: The triangular blade on an anchor's arm or an accidental.
Speaker 2: Stroke of good luck? Say that again. The first one
Speaker 2: is not going to help you.
Speaker 3: The triangular blade on an anchor's arm or an accidental
Speaker 3: stroke of good luck.
Speaker 2: The latter is much more useful. I have no idea.
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 2: I should be Mandy. What is a windfall? Dang it?
Speaker 2: What is a fluke?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 5: Ben, that was not your best performance? You know what
Speaker 5: it is is probably the sweater. It's got you too warm.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm off to bundled up. I got to get
Speaker 8: warmed up in the new year. That need to rechange
Speaker 8: my presence to be present to get warmed up with
Speaker 8: the sweater back on. Yeah, are today, I'm doing sports today.
Speaker 8: What do you guys got I don't know. It's just
Speaker 8: a pretty face. You just show up and does all
Speaker 8: the work and then you just show up.
Speaker 2: And many people say that this industry needs more pretty faces.
Speaker 3: Ben Ben, who should the Broncos want to face the most?
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh? Who should they want to face the least? The
Speaker 2: Texans are Chargers?
Speaker 3: Who should the Broncos wish loses the Bills Jags matchup?
Speaker 2: That's tough.
Speaker 8: I personally want the rematch with the Jags, but I
Speaker 8: think most people are going to tell you, Buffalo, there
Speaker 8: you go.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't have any questions for you at all. Is
Speaker 5: coming up next? This is just arm Candy is going
Speaker 5: to do the show. We'll be back tomorrow for a
Speaker 5: Friday edition of the show. Ask me anything and you guys, Brant,
Speaker 5: we'll do that tomorrow. Keep it right here on KOA