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Speaker 5: Welcome to a Monday edition of the show. I'm your
Speaker 5: host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell joined by
Speaker 5: my friend Michael Coover in for Anthony Rodriguez. Now, coove,
Speaker 5: do I have you all day?
Speaker 6: You do have me all day? Grant is out sick today.
Speaker 7: Oh jeez, Jaez Louise, our producer cor has been struck
Speaker 7: by illness, and Franklin. We can't lose a man right now.
Speaker 7: We don't have anybody on injured reserve. I mean, we
Speaker 7: don't have a backup right now.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, I'm glad to have you Coover, even if
Speaker 5: it's because Grant is sick. So I got a lot
Speaker 5: of stuff from the blog today, a lot of stuff
Speaker 5: to talk about, lots of stuff happened over the weekend
Speaker 5: that we have.
Speaker 7: Got to talk about.
Speaker 5: And oh my goodness, we've had three celebrity deaths now
Speaker 5: that are just awful. I just heard about the Ken
Speaker 5: Baven Tombow coming in this morning and that one he
Speaker 5: what a did you ever know him?
Speaker 7: Coover?
Speaker 5: Did you know him when he played? I don't know
Speaker 5: how long you've been here. I don't know how long
Speaker 5: ago he was here.
Speaker 6: I mean obviously know of him.
Speaker 8: I never really got to know him very well just
Speaker 8: in passing, but uh, he was obviously a giant in
Speaker 8: this market as well as in other markets across the country.
Speaker 6: He is a I mean, he's just a great guy.
Speaker 6: I mean, he.
Speaker 8: Built a hospital in his hometown because his mother couldn't
Speaker 8: get to a hospital, so he wound up building one
Speaker 8: after she died, And I mean, that's just kind of
Speaker 8: the guy he is.
Speaker 5: I've heard from people that have spent time around him
Speaker 5: that he's just got to had a really great sense
Speaker 5: of humor about life. And he apparently told a friend
Speaker 5: of mine who works in sports media once when he
Speaker 5: had had they'd had a rough game. And I don't
Speaker 5: even know who he was playing for when this happened.
Speaker 5: It was the guy that I know was covering the Magic.
Speaker 5: So he said they'd had his to come home with
Speaker 5: tot Bay's team and had a particularly rough game, and
Speaker 5: he said, you know, do you let stuff like this
Speaker 5: get you down, and he said, do you have any
Speaker 5: idea what life is like in other parts of the world.
Speaker 5: I played professional basketball. This will never get me down.
Speaker 5: Just like very much like, let's keep it all in perspective.
Speaker 5: I love to win, but if I don't, it's you know,
Speaker 5: it's a loss, big deal. Move on and fifty eight
Speaker 5: years old, and as a fifty five year old person.
Speaker 7: That is young to die young, young, young, So let
Speaker 7: me get on it.
Speaker 5: Let me get to the blog. I got the other
Speaker 5: two deaths on the blog today. Hopefully this will be
Speaker 5: our three celebrities, because we all know they die in threes.
Speaker 5: Find the blog by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's
Speaker 5: mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says nine
Speaker 5: to thirty twenty four blog questions about our election integrity.
Speaker 5: Click on that and here are the headlines. Who will
Speaker 5: find within I didn't.
Speaker 9: It's listening office half of American all with ships and
Speaker 9: clipments and say acta press Platt.
Speaker 5: Today on the blog, my ballot guide is out Heidigan
Speaker 5: all has some questions about election integrity. I've got a
Speaker 5: third party candidate for you to vote for Fort Collins.
Speaker 5: We need to know why the RTD chief was canned.
Speaker 5: The guy who started the Alexander Mountain fire wanted.
Speaker 7: To be a hero.
Speaker 5: What devastation in North Carolina. Electric cars and saltwater don't mix.
Speaker 5: Alcohol consumption could lead to cancer. Kamala visited the border
Speaker 5: for her photo op Israel doesn't give a bleep what
Speaker 5: we think. Scrolling scrolling jbs, better get it together. The
Speaker 5: fair article about the Aurora apartment complex issues is the
Speaker 5: cops hot.
Speaker 7: Is Oh excuse me?
Speaker 5: Is the gops hot girl summer gonna stick? This as
Speaker 5: Democrats are having a masculinity problem. You got to watch
Speaker 5: this show Things to know before you go to Japan.
Speaker 7: Young men are being left behind.
Speaker 5: More female athletes are fighting back against men in their sports.
Speaker 5: A transman decided to transition back. CNN decides to pay
Speaker 5: all their web content. Rip Chris Christofferson, Rip Detective Taggart.
Speaker 7: The coolest thing made in Colorado.
Speaker 5: Is super cool and a little Chris Christofferson for you.
Speaker 5: Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot
Speaker 5: com and the two other deaths that are on the
Speaker 5: blog today.
Speaker 7: One of them is.
Speaker 5: The incredibly prolific songwriter and singer Chris Christofferson, who I
Speaker 5: did not know, was like a super smarty. I had
Speaker 5: no idea he was a Rhodes scholar. He was just
Speaker 5: incredibly impressive. He was an actor, and he was eighty
Speaker 5: eight years old as he passed away at his home
Speaker 5: in Hawaii. Now that someday, dear friends and listeners, someday
Speaker 5: I'd like you to hear about my death like this.
Speaker 5: Mandy Connell, aged ninety five, former HOSTS, has passed away
Speaker 5: at her castle in Switzerland.
Speaker 7: That's what I wanted to say.
Speaker 2: Is that so wrong?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 2: Dang it?
Speaker 5: The other one who passed away is prolific actor John Ashton.
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna say it, like I knew who he
Speaker 5: was from Beverly Hills Cop Right. He played Detective Taggert,
Speaker 5: one of the leaguered cops to Judge Reinhold's I can't
Speaker 5: remember his name in the show. But they were the
Speaker 5: straight men to Eddie Murphy's Eddie Murphy. But he did
Speaker 5: so much stuff. He was a character actor. He played
Speaker 5: all kinds of different roles. He was in all these
Speaker 5: different movies. And he passed away at his home in
Speaker 5: Fort Collins. Did not see that come in? Who knew
Speaker 5: he was in Fort Collins. Why did we try to
Speaker 5: get him on the show because we didn't know. But
Speaker 5: he has passed away as well, and I wish my
Speaker 5: sincere condolences to his family and thanks to his family,
Speaker 5: because he gave a great joy in his career. So
Speaker 5: did Chris Christofferson, so did ken Ba Matumbo.
Speaker 7: You know, have you ever been in.
Speaker 5: A situation, Cooper, where you are like in a restaurant
Speaker 5: or whatever, and you see someone famous that you really like,
Speaker 5: and then how do you Have you ever been that
Speaker 5: person that's either walked up or anything like that. Have
Speaker 5: you ever approached someone in that situation just to say, hey.
Speaker 7: I love your work.
Speaker 6: I used to live in La.
Speaker 7: Oh god, yeah, I saw the time. But in La
Speaker 7: it's not cool, yeah, to walk up and say hi.
Speaker 8: Although I did hear recently, probably in the last like
Speaker 8: six months, I saw Kevin Coostner downtown eating dinner.
Speaker 6: At the place where we were at.
Speaker 7: Was he here at Yellowstone or something?
Speaker 6: I'm not sure what he was doing here.
Speaker 5: But let me tell you my go to and y'all,
Speaker 5: this is so smooth. It's so smooth. I stole it
Speaker 5: from someone else. Our go to is find out from
Speaker 5: the waiter what they are drinking. If they're having wine,
Speaker 5: send him over a bottle of wine with a little
Speaker 5: handwritten note that just says, thank you so much for
Speaker 5: all the joy you've given me in my life, which
Speaker 5: your work, Thank you so much, and just send it over. Inevitably,
Speaker 5: someone's gonna come over and say thank you, and then
Speaker 5: they're coming to you. Right So you're just sitting there.
Speaker 5: My husband attacked Mickey Dolans in Vancouver. Mickey Dolans is
Speaker 5: a small fellow. My husband is not a small fellow.
Speaker 5: And Chuck is like Chuck has bet a lot of
Speaker 5: famous people, so he doesn't get starstruck.
Speaker 7: He's not that guy. He doesn't normally overreact.
Speaker 5: But his sister, his first of all, his late sister
Speaker 5: in law who had just passed away, and his sister
Speaker 5: huge monkeys fans, like the biggest monkeys fans.
Speaker 7: Ever. So when Chris saw when Chuck saw Mickey Dolans,
Speaker 7: he ran across the restaurant.
Speaker 5: Up to Mickey Dolans, who cowered invisible fear of this
Speaker 5: giant man that ran up to him.
Speaker 7: But he said, you know, oh my gosh, my son,
Speaker 7: could I please get a picture my sisters are such
Speaker 7: huge chance. And then after he came back to the table,
Speaker 7: Chuck was like, oh my god, I can't believe I
Speaker 7: just did that. I scared the crap out of him.
Speaker 7: So we sent a bottle of wine over with a
Speaker 7: little note, sorry we scared you, but just huge fans,
Speaker 7: you know whatever. Nickey Dolans comes over to say thank you.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 7: So I'm telling you it is like the perfect way
Speaker 7: to do. And here's the thing.
Speaker 5: Even if they don't come over and say thank you,
Speaker 5: you still let them know, right, And I think that's
Speaker 5: just really high praise to say thank you your work
Speaker 5: has made my life a better place to be. I
Speaker 5: just think that's kind of cool.
Speaker 7: So it's whenever you have the chance to do that.
Speaker 7: Two things that.
Speaker 5: I always recommend, if you had a teacher who made
Speaker 5: an impact in your life, let them know. Doesn't matter
Speaker 5: if they are one hundred years old, doesn't matter if
Speaker 5: they're in the old teacher's retirement home. Reaching out a
Speaker 5: phone call, little note saying I just want you to
Speaker 5: know what an impact you had in my life. Do it,
Speaker 5: Just do it, and yeah, send over a bottle of wine.
Speaker 7: There you go. So let's talk about what is on
Speaker 7: the blog.
Speaker 5: We've got Heidigan All coming in today at twelve thirty.
Speaker 7: She had a press conference last.
Speaker 5: Week to talk about some potential issues with the election
Speaker 5: system and some potential issues with the voting machines. She
Speaker 5: is not out there alleging that anything was stolen. She's
Speaker 5: not out there saying we need to re litigate twenty twenty.
Speaker 7: That is not what this is about. This is about.
Speaker 5: Securing our elections going forward, which every single person, regardless
Speaker 5: of party, should want. You should want secure elections period.
Speaker 5: There should be no other way to do this. We're
Speaker 5: really one of the few developed countries in the world
Speaker 5: that doesn't have an ID requirement that allows the kind
Speaker 5: of mail in voting that we do, where you don't
Speaker 5: even have to ask for a ballot in Colorado, they just.
Speaker 7: Send them to you.
Speaker 5: And she's grown some pretty significant irregularities that need to
Speaker 5: be addressed, so of course Jennia Griswell's.
Speaker 7: Going to ignore them the height.
Speaker 5: He's going to be on a twelve thirty to talk
Speaker 5: about some of those issues. And then at one o'clock,
Speaker 5: I have a guy named Steve ee Rash. He is
Speaker 5: running for State House District fifty two in Fort Collins.
Speaker 5: He is not a Republican, he is not a Democrat.
Speaker 5: He is a member of of this Center Party. The
Speaker 5: Center Party is an official minor party in Colorado. I
Speaker 5: had Steve on a couple of years ago when he
Speaker 5: was starting the party now as an official minor party,
Speaker 5: and I'm going to have him on because there isn't
Speaker 5: a Republican in that race. So I would encourage you,
Speaker 5: if you are in District fifty two to vote for
Speaker 5: Steve your rash in that district. He's running against a
Speaker 5: really progressive opponent, and Steve is running a very moderate
Speaker 5: campaign some would say, some would say a groundbreaking campaign
Speaker 5: where he has openly advocated for policies that would traditionally
Speaker 5: be associated with the right or left, and.
Speaker 7: He's got a mix of them.
Speaker 5: Now, I'm just going to talk about this not having
Speaker 5: a Republican in House District fifty two for one second,
Speaker 5: just to reiterate that the person that the Republican Central
Speaker 5: Committee seems to want to leave in charge has basically
Speaker 5: three jobs. The chairman of the party has three jobs.
Speaker 5: Number one, raise money. Number two, support Republican candidates and
Speaker 5: help them get elected. Number three make sure that they're
Speaker 5: a vacancy committee meetings to find people to run where
Speaker 5: there are vacant seats or fine to run in every race.
Speaker 5: This is just another example of his failure to do
Speaker 5: even the most basic part of his job. He hasn't
Speaker 5: been raising money, and the money that he has raised
Speaker 5: is pretty much gone into his own pocket or gone
Speaker 5: to support his failed candidacy in the fifth Congressional district.
Speaker 5: Certainly didn't go to finding a candidate for State House
Speaker 5: District fifty two. But I hope you like Steve because
Speaker 5: he is the best choice for that district. So let's
Speaker 5: do this. We've got a couple of things that are
Speaker 5: they're not like, they're not big, like you know, big
Speaker 5: talk topics per se.
Speaker 2: But I'm kind of.
Speaker 7: Stuck on this right now.
Speaker 5: I mean stuck on this story because I want to.
Speaker 7: Know the rest of the story.
Speaker 5: The RTD chief, former RTD police Chief Jewel Fitzgerald, we
Speaker 5: now know was fired by RTD. RTD will not tell
Speaker 5: anyone why he was fired, and yet they're required to
Speaker 5: report to Colorado's Peace Officer Standards and Training Database, which
Speaker 5: shows the employment and disciplinary status of Colorado law enforcement officers.
Speaker 5: It showed that Fitzgerald had been terminated for cause. The
Speaker 5: Colorado Attorney General's office oversees the post board, so CBS
Speaker 5: four sent over an open records request asking for any
Speaker 5: open records about the termination or separation of Joel Fitzgerald,
Speaker 5: and RTD said they don't have any information any documents
Speaker 5: that respond to that. So apparently no discussion, no discussion
Speaker 5: in any way, shape or form, on any email anywhere
Speaker 5: about the chief being fired exists.
Speaker 7: What the hell, you guys, what is going on.
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 5: I happen to live under the mindset and if you're
Speaker 5: a law enforcement officer, he may not like this, but
Speaker 5: hear me out. I believe that law enforcement officers who
Speaker 5: carry a gun and have the potential to end someone's
Speaker 5: life in the course of their duties should be held
Speaker 5: to a higher standard when it comes to things like this,
Speaker 5: and this guy, because we don't know what it was,
Speaker 5: could easily get hired by someone else. It seems to
Speaker 5: me that once you reach a certain level in law enforcement,
Speaker 5: finding a commensurate job like that in another state is
Speaker 5: really not that hard.
Speaker 7: So why are we not being open about why this
Speaker 7: guy was fired? What did he do?
Speaker 5: Shouldn't we all get to understand what our tax dollars
Speaker 5: paid for and why they are no longer paying for that.
Speaker 5: I mean, don't even get me started on the mess
Speaker 5: that security is with RTD right now. You want to
Speaker 5: know why people don't run and ride the lightrail because
Speaker 5: they don't want to be on the light reel with
Speaker 5: people smoking mess, that's a big reason.
Speaker 7: Or hey, maybe they don't we get a shot on
Speaker 7: a bus? How about that?
Speaker 5: So this is not exactly inspiring confidence. And I'm wondering,
Speaker 5: I mean, am I the only one that thinks this
Speaker 5: is just super weird?
Speaker 7: Really weird?
Speaker 5: So anyway, anyway, the Center Party is full blown Democrat. Lol,
Speaker 5: So she's allowed to bring up election security. I know
Speaker 5: you're conflating two things.
Speaker 7: Texter.
Speaker 5: Heidi Ganal is coming on at twelve thirty to talk
Speaker 5: about some potential issues with election integrity. A separate guest
Speaker 5: from the Center Party is coming on to talk about
Speaker 5: his run for State House District fifty two, where there
Speaker 5: are no Republicans running. And if you look at Steve's
Speaker 5: policy positions, a lot of them are Republican, a lot
Speaker 5: of them are Democrat. It's an interesting mix. Mandy I
Speaker 5: met Chris Christoph person at DIA five years ago. He
Speaker 5: could not have been nicer, talked for half an hour
Speaker 5: and got a picture with him. I'll never forget it.
Speaker 5: See that's lovely, absolutely lovely, Mandy. John Ashton used to
Speaker 5: come into my local pub and.
Speaker 7: Play trivia and have his iced tea regularly.
Speaker 5: Down to earth guy text or why am I just
Speaker 5: now hearing about this right now?
Speaker 7: Listeners?
Speaker 5: You have a responsibility. Okay, I'm just gonna let you
Speaker 5: know exactly what's up right now. If you have a
Speaker 5: situation like this where you have a famous person that
Speaker 5: comes into your place of business on a regular basis,
Speaker 5: nice person, you have a responsibility to let me know
Speaker 5: so I can come stalk them.
Speaker 7: I mean, really, people, really, it's time. It's time. Make
Speaker 7: it happen.
Speaker 5: Mandy, please make a distinction that Dave Williams you are
Speaker 5: talking about is different from Dave Williams running for Chaffey Counties,
Speaker 5: Colorado House District thirteen for the Republicans. Are two different people.
Speaker 5: Dave will take down one more just because of his name. Now,
Speaker 5: that is completely different. And I believe, if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 5: I know that Dave Williams in Chafey County and he's
Speaker 5: a super nice guy and very involved in Bunavista, so
Speaker 5: I didn't even know he was running. He should have
Speaker 5: called me once again. You gotta let me know people.
Speaker 5: Can we hear the rest of seeing Kevin Costner from Coover?
Speaker 5: Did you just see him coover? Did you watch him eat?
Speaker 5: Was he a messy eater? Did he use his napkin?
Speaker 5: Was his napkin in his lap? What are we talking
Speaker 5: about here?
Speaker 6: Willas?
Speaker 8: What do you He was at a table, probably three
Speaker 8: or four tables away from us, so we didn't necessarily
Speaker 8: watch him do anything.
Speaker 6: Knew that he was there, and we didn't go up
Speaker 6: to him, so we just let him be.
Speaker 7: Yeah whatever.
Speaker 8: But he was there with probably three or four or
Speaker 8: five different people just hanging out, hanging out.
Speaker 6: Who was in the middle of his divorce?
Speaker 7: Ooh so all right then.
Speaker 6: Or a separation or whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, no, it was a divorce. I think he's
Speaker 5: dating Jewel now, Jewel the singer. Yeah, which is age appropriate.
Speaker 5: You know, he didn't run out and get another twenty
Speaker 5: year old like his last wife.
Speaker 7: Age appropriate, guys, age appropriate.
Speaker 5: So if anybody knows anything about why Joel Fitzgerald was
Speaker 5: actually fired. I'd love to know, and I will not
Speaker 5: out you. You can email me Mandy Connall at I
Speaker 5: hurtmedia dot com, but don't email from your RTD address,
Speaker 5: just saying.
Speaker 7: Mandy Connall at I hurtmedia.
Speaker 5: Dot com, or just hit me a text at five
Speaker 5: sixty six nine. Oh, but I will need verification that
Speaker 5: you are who you say you are. I can't just
Speaker 5: believe you because that would be bad, Mandy. It was
Speaker 5: reported that he was fired from a previous job. I'm
Speaker 5: sure he was, sure he was Morning Mandy says this Texter.
Speaker 5: Along with the very sad passing of John Ashton Chris
Speaker 5: Kristofferson to Kenbe Matumbo, please don't forget to also mention
Speaker 5: Drake Augusta, who was well known for his many years
Speaker 5: of playing the character of John Black.
Speaker 7: Oh my god, John Black died.
Speaker 5: He sadly passed away this past Saturday, one day shy
Speaker 5: of his seventy first birthday of pancreatic cancer.
Speaker 7: Oh boo.
Speaker 2: Boo.
Speaker 7: Did your mom ever watch so proper as your mom
Speaker 7: and grandma?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Days of our Lives was the probably the one
Speaker 6: that they watched the most.
Speaker 5: We were young and the restless, young and the restless
Speaker 5: as the world turns a guiding light. I started out
Speaker 5: with all my children and Ryan's hope, but then I
Speaker 5: switched in college because everybody that I knew watched the
Speaker 5: CBS soap So I feel sorry for kids now that
Speaker 5: are sick and they stay home from school and there's
Speaker 5: just daytime crap TV on because daytime TV now, oh god.
Speaker 5: Every time we have a day off, like on holiday,
Speaker 5: I go downstairs. I make coffee because I don't really
Speaker 5: have to do anything right it's day off. And then
Speaker 5: I sit down and I turn the TV on and
Speaker 5: I go through the entire guide and then I'm like,
Speaker 5: get up, turn the TV off, find something better to
Speaker 5: do with my time.
Speaker 6: Hopes are still on these days.
Speaker 5: Bold and the Beautiful is still on. General Hospital is
Speaker 5: still on. Bolden the Beautiful is like a massive international
Speaker 5: celebrity thing.
Speaker 7: I think Days of our Lives are still on. I
Speaker 7: don't know. I mean, I'm working during the stories. I
Speaker 7: don't know. When we get back. Heidigan All joins us,
Speaker 7: we're going to talk.
Speaker 5: A little bit about election security and stuff that we
Speaker 5: need to check out next.
Speaker 7: Right now, we have a candidate for.
Speaker 5: Colorado House District fifty two it is a district that
Speaker 5: is in Fort Collins and there is no Republican running
Speaker 5: in that race. And I could go on for days
Speaker 5: about the incompetence of the Republican Party, but instead I'm
Speaker 5: going to introduce you to a candidate running in the
Speaker 5: Colorado Center Party.
Speaker 7: His name is Steve eh Rash.
Speaker 5: He's been on the show before when he was first
Speaker 5: building the Center Party, and now he is running for.
Speaker 7: The state House with a platform that.
Speaker 5: Is I think very indicative of the sort of mission
Speaker 5: of the Center Party in the first place.
Speaker 7: Steve, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 11: Thanks Mandy.
Speaker 10: I appreciate all the things you've said about me and
Speaker 10: the campaign already.
Speaker 11: Thanks you.
Speaker 5: So let's talk about the Center Party briefly, and then
Speaker 5: we're going to get into some issues, because I think
Speaker 5: your platform is really interesting in that you appear to
Speaker 5: pluck ideas that I guess you think are good ideas
Speaker 5: from the right and the left. So tell people about
Speaker 5: the Center Party, the Colorado Center Party in and of itself.
Speaker 10: So we got our minor party status last year August
Speaker 10: when we got over the one thousand registered voter affiliation threshold.
Speaker 10: We now have one thousand and nine hundred voters affiliating
Speaker 10: with us, so when you when you register to vote,
Speaker 10: we're one of the choices. And I started working on it,
Speaker 10: of course in twenty twenty one, so we have our
Speaker 10: full minor party status. We have two other candidates, Bernadette
Speaker 10: tedsco or Adams County Commissioner right or husband Chaz has
Speaker 10: been county commissioner for a long time and is term limited.
Speaker 10: And we also have Skinny Winkler, who's also in Adams
Speaker 10: County running first State House. There is a Republican in
Speaker 10: his race. Bernadette does not have a Republican in that
Speaker 10: race for county commissioner.
Speaker 7: Okay, the Center Party was formed.
Speaker 10: Why Oh, because neither major party was representing the majority
Speaker 10: in the middle of the voters in Colorado are unaffiliated.
Speaker 10: They don't want to be associated with either of the
Speaker 10: major parties. Both Democrats and Republicans have been losing registered
Speaker 10: voters by about one thousand every month. As a thousand
Speaker 10: or anyway, but they every month they lose registered voters.
Speaker 10: So the way the primaries are set up, the not
Speaker 10: very many people vote in the primaries, and so your
Speaker 10: more extreme elements both Republicans and Democrats, will end up
Speaker 10: winning their primaries. Kim hernandez Elizabeth Epps in Denver were
Speaker 10: defeated in their primaries because there was a lot of
Speaker 10: money put in there and they made total fools of
Speaker 10: themselves in the legislature. My opponent, you are a Zochi,
Speaker 10: is of that same ilk. She's a far left progressive
Speaker 10: and she won because there was no incumbent and her
Speaker 10: opponent in the primary ran a very poor campaign and
Speaker 10: is a lobbyist. Was I'm sorry, was a lobbyist for
Speaker 10: Excel Energy, and people don't want to vote for that
Speaker 10: right of background in a candidate. So I've served on
Speaker 10: the Larimer County Board well for CON's Electric Port.
Speaker 5: So let's talk about your platform, because I think this
Speaker 5: is very interesting. You have some traditionally conservative positions like
Speaker 5: supporting a school of choice, charter schools and local elementary schools.
Speaker 5: You want to maintain tabor tax refunds and tax increase
Speaker 5: limits to control spending. You are a local control guy
Speaker 5: when it comes to land use policy. You don't want
Speaker 5: this kind of one size fits all that the state
Speaker 5: is trying to shove down our throats. You are a
Speaker 5: Second Amendment guy, except you are in favor of red
Speaker 5: flag laws, and for many on the right, second Amendment
Speaker 5: is absolute and no limitations are the best limitations. You
Speaker 5: also go though, and say the gun controls we have
Speaker 5: today are sufficient enforce them. Now, where you start to
Speaker 5: go on the other side of the aisle is you
Speaker 5: want to protect women's reproductive rights and freedom. So I'm
Speaker 5: assuming that's access to abortion. We also, yep, we also
Speaker 5: have very much in favor of supporting teacher pay while
Speaker 5: not supporting the Pewter School mill levy.
Speaker 7: So you're kind of all over the place.
Speaker 5: How did you decide to go with these particular policy positions?
Speaker 5: And you could pick any of them as an example
Speaker 5: of why you chose that.
Speaker 11: Well, the big one is abortion rights.
Speaker 10: And when you look back at the history in Colorado,
Speaker 10: the personhood Amendment, which was on the ballot quite a
Speaker 10: few years ago, only got twenty two percent of the vote. Yeah,
Speaker 10: people do not want to restrict abortion rights. Now nationally,
Speaker 10: the polls will tell you that they're okay with restrictions
Speaker 10: in the third trimester. I'm not going to be able
Speaker 10: to come forward with any kind of a change in that.
Speaker 10: I don't think it's possible to legislate what the exceptions
Speaker 10: should be in the third trimester. My personal issue there
Speaker 10: is what if the fetus as a defect, down syndrome
Speaker 10: or brain defect. You know, it has to be between
Speaker 10: a person and their doctor. But I want to defend
Speaker 10: crisis pregnancy centers so when they talk to at risk
Speaker 10: women who are at risk of having an abortion, that
Speaker 10: they are allowed to talk to them, right, so that
Speaker 10: you can try to reduce the number of abortions outside
Speaker 10: of a change in the law.
Speaker 11: Also, nurses and doctors should not be.
Speaker 10: Forced to participate in abortion procedures if they are against
Speaker 10: it philosophically or religiously.
Speaker 11: They should not lose their job over that.
Speaker 10: And I think that might be an issue that will
Speaker 10: come before the legislature in the future. And so you know,
Speaker 10: there's other ways of dealing with the abortion issue besides
Speaker 10: just trying to create a.
Speaker 11: Law to ban them.
Speaker 7: So you're actually true, truly pro choice.
Speaker 5: You want women to have all the options available to them,
Speaker 5: including crisis centers that may try to talk them out
Speaker 5: of an abortion, or have that available if that's their
Speaker 5: choice of last resort. What do you feel like the
Speaker 5: biggest issue facing Colorado.
Speaker 10: Is, well, the budget is going to be a problem
Speaker 10: if we slip into recession. We're going to have budgetary issues.
Speaker 10: You got the property taxes that have skyrocketed for a
Speaker 10: lot of people. That's going to really hurt seniors. And
Speaker 10: the senior exemption is pretty small. And so you know,
Speaker 10: the legislature, the Democrats and the legislature had to be
Speaker 10: dragged kicking and screaming to get the final bill in
Speaker 10: the second special session to reduce the property taxes and
Speaker 10: people aren't aware of it, and so we need to
Speaker 10: protect that and make sure that the legislature doesn't backslide
Speaker 10: on it. Now, the local control, I think I have
Speaker 10: a lot of Democrats supporting me in my campaign. I
Speaker 10: have Democrats and Republicans because I've spent time in the
Speaker 10: Republican Party, so personal friends through those connections are supporting me.
Speaker 10: And I have important issues on the Republican side, so
Speaker 10: they support me for that. But the Democrats are all
Speaker 10: pissed off about the local control of land use and
Speaker 10: what the state has done. Do you serve that, particularly
Speaker 10: in Fort Collins, the city council, very liberal, twice tried
Speaker 10: to change the land use code similar to what the
Speaker 10: state has done, and the preserved Fort Collins group collected
Speaker 10: signatures to overrule the city council not once but twice,
Speaker 10: and in the second time I carried petitions for that effort,
Speaker 10: So you know, and the state legislature may not be
Speaker 10: over with that, right. The U plus two or the
Speaker 10: number of people who live in one house is a
Speaker 10: big And you look at the trash that the Aurora
Speaker 10: apartment complexes, with all the trash building up. That wasn't
Speaker 10: a garbage collection issue. That was because of how many
Speaker 10: people are living in each unit. So they create a
Speaker 10: lot of trash and it's not getting picked up because
Speaker 10: it's too much. And so how many people are allowed
Speaker 10: to live in each unit is actually a very important issue,
Speaker 10: and I think that will come up again.
Speaker 7: Steve, who are you going to caucus with? Mostly? Do
Speaker 7: you feel if you are elected into the state House.
Speaker 10: I know, I think I will probably end up coxing
Speaker 10: with the Republicans. They don't have enough people to fill
Speaker 10: all their committee positions, right, And the Democrats, with the
Speaker 10: number of people they have with control and they're near supermajority,
Speaker 10: they're not going to be interested in dealing with me,
Speaker 10: So I think by default I'll end up coxing with
Speaker 10: the Republicans to make sure I get some caucus assignment.
Speaker 5: Steve your Rash is my guest. He is running in
Speaker 5: House District fifty two. Fascinating platform, Steve. I wish you
Speaker 5: the best and I would love if people would vote
Speaker 5: for you in Fort Collins. Again, there's no Republican on
Speaker 5: the platform. You are probably the right kind of person
Speaker 5: to get elected in this race, and I'm going to
Speaker 5: be rooting for you from Afar.
Speaker 7: I appreciate you making time for me today.
Speaker 11: Thank you, Mandy, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 5: That is Steve you Rash. He's with the Center Party.
Speaker 5: I would tell you to go to the blog at
Speaker 5: mandy'sblog dot com and look at his page. It's fascinating
Speaker 5: and I think this is the way future. This is
Speaker 5: the way forward for conservatives in Colorado.
Speaker 7: Not to adopt all of his platform.
Speaker 5: Positions, but to just say, look, the Republican Party is dead.
Speaker 5: It's an albatross around the neck of good candidates.
Speaker 7: Just go it alone. So he's a chameleon.
Speaker 5: It's interesting that we cannot wrap our heads around someone
Speaker 5: who may be fiscally conservative they but socially liberal.
Speaker 7: But do you have any idea. How many people describe
Speaker 7: themselves exactly that way. They want government to be small.
Speaker 5: They don't want government telling anyone what to do, including
Speaker 5: on issues like abortion.
Speaker 7: They want low taxes.
Speaker 5: They want to be left alone, they don't want massive
Speaker 5: government programs. A lot of people in society feel that
Speaker 5: very way. I was looking at a poll and I
Speaker 5: didn't put it on the blog today because I had
Speaker 5: so much stuff, and I want to do a deep
Speaker 5: dive on it tomorrow. But and issue is an insights
Speaker 5: poll about people's underlying attitudes, not party identification, not candidate polling,
Speaker 5: because never of that matters. I was talking to my
Speaker 5: personal trainer today. She said, well, how do the polls look?
Speaker 5: And I said, honestly, I'm not paying attention to the polls.
Speaker 5: The polls got broken in twenty sixteen. And remember in
Speaker 5: twenty sixteen Hillary was going to walk.
Speaker 7: Away with it. We didn't even have to show up
Speaker 7: to vote. Hillary's got this. Just look at the polls.
Speaker 5: The only poll that matters is in November. And now,
Speaker 5: I really, at this point in time, I believe that
Speaker 5: the poles serve no purpose other than to gin up
Speaker 5: voter turnout or suppress voter turnout, because.
Speaker 7: If you think, well, if I go and vote, my
Speaker 7: guy's still going to at least like people in Colorado
Speaker 7: who are like, well, it doesn't really matter what I
Speaker 7: vote for you they're gonna lose anyway.
Speaker 5: That's the exact wrong attitude, even if it's accurate. It's
Speaker 5: one of the reasons that even though I'm in Colorado
Speaker 5: and there's a zero percent chance that Donald Trump wins Colorado,
Speaker 5: I'm still going to cast my ballot for Donald Trump
Speaker 5: because it's important to be heard even if you in
Speaker 5: this state lose, and people like Steve ee Rash, who
Speaker 5: was who was looking, who looks at the problems right,
Speaker 5: looks at the problems and says, what do I think
Speaker 5: is the best solution, Not which is going to get
Speaker 5: me more Republican votes, or which is going to get
Speaker 5: me more Democrat votes, or what am I supposed to
Speaker 5: say because I'm a Democrat or a Republican. I think
Speaker 5: there's a whole bunch of that that goes on, where
Speaker 5: people running for office or spouting off opinions they don't
Speaker 5: believe in because they're in that party and they're expected
Speaker 5: to say it. Look no further than Kamala Harris in
Speaker 5: twenty nineteen or Kamala Harris in twenty twenty four, because
Speaker 5: she has now held every single position on every single issue,
Speaker 5: because she thought that whatever she was saying at that
Speaker 5: moment would benefit her politically. She started running in the
Speaker 5: general election and didn't have a primary and nobody voted
Speaker 5: for her.
Speaker 7: She didn't have to win over the hardcore.
Speaker 5: Left wing of the Democratic Party like she was trying
Speaker 5: to in twenty nineteen. She was against racking, she wanted
Speaker 5: open borders. She didn't think coming to the country illegally
Speaker 5: should be a crime. Now she wants to deport illegal
Speaker 5: aliens Bill Trump's Wall, which was racist in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 5: She's now adopted did all of the physicians, including not
Speaker 5: taxing tips that the Republican.
Speaker 7: Party has adopted.
Speaker 5: At least, Steve seems to be being honest. No, there's
Speaker 5: no reason that he should lie. There's no reason to
Speaker 5: make up anything. I mean, he's just telling it like
Speaker 5: he sees it.
Speaker 7: That's kind of refreshing. I don't know if it'll work.
Speaker 7: We'll see, Mandy.
Speaker 5: I'm in my late thirties and I'm exactly what you
Speaker 5: describe fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I tell people I'm
Speaker 5: a conservative, meaning I want small government at all levels,
Speaker 5: smallest government possible, always on ninety nine percent of issues.
Speaker 5: This Texter said Mandy, I would like to remind longtime
Speaker 5: listeners that even Mike Rosen to find himself as fiscally
Speaker 5: conservative and either socially liberal or libertarian.
Speaker 7: Mandy down thirty one pounds with soda in twelve weeks,
Speaker 7: still going, Thank you, mount and Grandma. You are welcome
Speaker 7: Mountain Grandma. When we get back now, hiding all coming
Speaker 7: in next She's going to come in and talk about
Speaker 7: some concerns that that probably need to be looked at,
Speaker 7: but we won't be looked at before the next election cycle.
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Speaker 5: I'm your host, Mandy Connell, joined Todave, I'm Michael Cooper
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Speaker 5: through three o'clock and joining me now she is a
Speaker 5: familiar person to people who listen to this show. Heidigan
Speaker 5: All ran for governor and now she is not letting up.
Speaker 5: She is out there, sounded the alarm about some potential
Speaker 5: issues in our voting system, and I'd had a presser
Speaker 5: last week to talk about it. Good afternoon, Heidi Ganal.
Speaker 9: How are you, hi, miss Manny.
Speaker 12: I'm doing great.
Speaker 9: How about you?
Speaker 7: I'm doing fantastic.
Speaker 5: And you know, Heidi, I know you a little bit now,
Speaker 5: as they say, And one of the things that impresses
Speaker 5: me about you is that you ran a very tough
Speaker 5: governor's race.
Speaker 7: You did not succeed, but it has.
Speaker 5: Not stopped your passion for making sure that Coloraden's have
Speaker 5: a government that they can trust and that they can
Speaker 5: be proud of. And you've just pretty much not stopped
Speaker 5: since your race in continuing to find ways to make
Speaker 5: Colorado better.
Speaker 7: And I just appreciate that about you.
Speaker 5: Very very much, because a lot of people would have
Speaker 5: just taken their marbles and gone home.
Speaker 12: You know, I wanted to for a little bit, believe me, Mandy,
Speaker 12: but I care so much about this state and I
Speaker 12: want my kids to stay here, my grandkids to stay here.
Speaker 9: So after I learned so much about how the sausage
Speaker 9: is made. I think that's one of.
Speaker 12: The biggest disservices candidates can make to their voters is
Speaker 12: to just walk away and not share what they learned,
Speaker 12: what they would do differently, how we can make things better.
Speaker 5: So what did you What was your press conference about
Speaker 5: last week? Let's just jump in.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so my press conference was about finding we made
Speaker 12: an I would call it an audit of the twenty
Speaker 12: two election regarding Douglas County, and it wasn't really about
Speaker 12: my race. It was more about Kurt Huffman's race, who
Speaker 12: ran for House sister forty three and lost. It's in
Speaker 12: Highland's ranch.
Speaker 9: He lost in a Republican.
Speaker 12: Plus ten district in Douglas County, and Kurt ran a
Speaker 12: really good rate. He was incumbent, and the final numbers
Speaker 12: just didn't make a lot of sense. So we were
Speaker 12: looking at that, Kurt and I were talking about it.
Speaker 9: My numbers were even a little weird, so we said, well.
Speaker 12: Let's just ask for a recount. That's our right, you know,
Speaker 12: that's every citizen's right. And we did that right after
Speaker 12: the election, and the whole.
Speaker 9: Process was crazy. They just blocked us at every.
Speaker 12: Turn wouldn't let us do what we were You know,
Speaker 12: our rights constitutionally are to do and get access to
Speaker 12: see things that we should have been able to see.
Speaker 12: So that prompted me to hire an attorney.
Speaker 9: To dig in a bit and say, why are they
Speaker 9: blocking us? Why don't they want us to see things?
Speaker 12: And it took us about sixteen months to actually make
Speaker 12: any progress, but we did make progress. And I have
Speaker 12: to say, Cherry Davis, the clerk in Douglas County, has
Speaker 12: been wonderful to work with, very accommodating.
Speaker 9: So is her staff.
Speaker 12: I think this goes bigger to Jennick Griswold in the
Speaker 12: Secretary of State's office. And so it took two years
Speaker 12: to do this analysis and we got the results through
Speaker 12: the beginning of the results a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 12: so we wanted to share it with the public.
Speaker 7: So what did you guys discover?
Speaker 5: And to be clear, Heidi, this is not about past elections, correct,
Speaker 5: This is just concerns that you guys have about our
Speaker 5: elections going forward. I want to be clear about that
Speaker 5: because I'm getting snotty, like you know, oh, she's an
Speaker 5: election tonight. This is not about any past election really, right,
Speaker 5: I mean.
Speaker 10: What you know?
Speaker 7: Yeah, So go ahead and talk about what you guys found.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Mandy, this is about restoring trust for the people
Speaker 12: that don't trust our elections and don't want to vote
Speaker 12: because of it, and that's a travesty. So I thought,
Speaker 12: what can we do to restore trust? Well, I always
Speaker 12: believe sunshine is the.
Speaker 9: Best cure for that. So one of the things that we.
Speaker 12: Discovered, which we weren't really looking for, was that the
Speaker 12: machines the voting systems actually do have remote Wi Fi
Speaker 12: access and can connect to the Internet. And I'm not
Speaker 12: saying anything happened, but the potential for bad actors to
Speaker 12: do something is there. And this is what really ticks
Speaker 12: me off me Andie is that many of our public
Speaker 12: officials have been misleading I would venture to say lying
Speaker 12: in the case of Jenna Griswold, because she knows everything
Speaker 12: that goes on in our elections, and it really upsets
Speaker 12: me that they just aren't honest and talking about security
Speaker 12: and safety when it.
Speaker 9: Comes to the voting systems.
Speaker 12: And I'd love to read you a quote from Jenna
Speaker 12: Griswold if it would help.
Speaker 9: Put things in perspective.
Speaker 12: Okay, So December fifteenth, twenty twenty. She's talking to the
Speaker 12: Legislative Audit Committee and they're having a hearing on election
Speaker 12: integrity and genesis. Voting systems are never connected to and
Speaker 12: cannot be accessed through the Internet because Wi Fi and
Speaker 12: Bluetooth capability are stripped from the unit before use, and
Speaker 12: all other connective technology is disabled by the trusted build.
Speaker 5: Okay, So essentially they're not connected to the Internet. And
Speaker 5: what did you guys find?
Speaker 12: We found that through the purchase orders and through verifying
Speaker 12: it with Douglas County clerks. The voting systems used there,
Speaker 12: how are have Wi Fi remote access cards within them
Speaker 12: that can be activated or be activated, but it's very
Speaker 12: complicated to do that and connect to the Internet remotely.
Speaker 5: Okay, So the possibility exists, though we have no we're
Speaker 5: not saying that it is uh is happening, correct, right, Okay?
Speaker 5: So what needs to happen to give you and therefore
Speaker 5: others more confidence that these machines cannot be hacked, because
Speaker 5: that's what this is all about.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: We've now had several hackers demonstrate with certain machines and
Speaker 5: other places how easy it is to hack into the system.
Speaker 5: We have not had that demonstration here in Colorado. But
Speaker 5: the possibility could exist, is that what we're.
Speaker 12: Saying absolutely, and we've been working with some really sophisticated
Speaker 12: smart people to figure out if this is accurate, if
Speaker 12: this is it, if it's actually a possibility, if this happened,
Speaker 12: it's very possible. And so what needs to happen is
Speaker 12: they need to take the cards out of the machines.
Speaker 12: It's not real complicated. And Douglas County said, well, we
Speaker 12: can't do that. The Secretary of.
Speaker 9: State has to talk to you about that.
Speaker 12: So we tried to set up a meeting and of
Speaker 12: course they didn't respond, so nobody.
Speaker 7: I mean, here's the thing.
Speaker 5: It's such a small thing and such an insignificant thing
Speaker 5: that sounds like it would be really easy to take
Speaker 5: care of, and you just can't get any traction and
Speaker 5: even saying we should take care of this.
Speaker 12: Right anany What this comes down to is restoring trust
Speaker 12: with the voters. So well misled the public, so fix it.
Speaker 12: So make sure that there aren't these cards in any
Speaker 12: of our voting systems. And we only looked at Douglas County.
Speaker 12: We did not look at other counties. But it's very
Speaker 12: likely or possible that they are in the other voting systems,
Speaker 12: And I would encourage everybody to ask the county clerks
Speaker 12: that question, or your county commissioner, is that question? But
Speaker 12: it's the possibility, it's the rebuilding of trust. It's how
Speaker 12: we get people back on board with our elections and
Speaker 12: believing that they're the gold standard and not just full
Speaker 12: of gold.
Speaker 5: So the thing that gets me about this, and the
Speaker 5: reason why I think nothing is going to happen here, Heidi,
Speaker 5: is that the Democrats, they're like, there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 5: the election system.
Speaker 7: It's fine, there's nothing to see.
Speaker 5: So the only people that are like, yeah, we should
Speaker 5: probably make this secure seem to be coming from the right.
Speaker 5: And unfortunately in Colorado, the people on the right just
Speaker 5: don't matter very much to the Secretary of State.
Speaker 9: No, and I'm going to get called all kinds of names.
Speaker 12: I already am on Twitter. And what a really frustrating
Speaker 12: thing that happened around the press conferences we had. And
Speaker 12: I knew that we had color of Public Radio, we
Speaker 12: had Fox thirty one, we had a contract writer, I
Speaker 12: believe from the demo posts, and not one of them
Speaker 12: covered the story. They were all there they stayed for
Speaker 12: the entire conference, and none of them put a keep
Speaker 12: out about this.
Speaker 7: Like I said, people on the right don't matter in
Speaker 7: this state. And I mean, am I wrong?
Speaker 5: Because if there are a lot of people in this
Speaker 5: state who are concerned about election integrity, not because there's
Speaker 5: some kind of election denier, but they just want to
Speaker 5: know that their vote is not going to be canceled
Speaker 5: out by someone who is either dead. By the way,
Speaker 5: I have a story on the blog today about the
Speaker 5: new Jenni Griswold loss. She is now being forced to
Speaker 5: demonstrate that dead people are not registered.
Speaker 7: To vote in Colorado.
Speaker 5: This should be such a nothing burger that it should
Speaker 5: have already been done, But she fought it. She fought
Speaker 5: just making sure that we don't have thirty thousand dead
Speaker 5: people on our voter rolls right now. I mean that
Speaker 5: should indicate to me that this woman shouldn't be in charge.
Speaker 5: It should be in my view, Heidi, if someone comes
Speaker 5: and says, we have a legitimate concern that this is happening,
Speaker 5: and can you take care of it, the answer should
Speaker 5: be yes. If this is going to make people trust
Speaker 5: our system more, yes, let's do it. You're not asking
Speaker 5: for like crazy expensive stuff here.
Speaker 12: No, and it's not even just Jenna. The clerks know
Speaker 12: what they're ordering when they order these machines. And just
Speaker 12: in September, Sarah mccaffee, who's the spokesperson for the Jeffical
Speaker 12: Kennty Clerk's office, said, no counting machines in Colorado are
Speaker 12: connected to the Internet.
Speaker 9: And also this is a bipartisan thing. Wayne Williams has
Speaker 9: said the same thing.
Speaker 12: Back in sixteen. He said, to start with, none of
Speaker 12: our tabulation software and none of our tabulation machines are
Speaker 12: connected to the Internet, so they cannot be.
Speaker 9: Hacked from the outside.
Speaker 12: And finally, in June of this year, Bobby Growth and
Speaker 12: Mason County Clerk said, Masa County ballot processing equipment is
Speaker 12: not connected to the internet in any way. And I say,
Speaker 12: we don't know for sure in these other counties if
Speaker 12: it is or not, but it sure is the fact
Speaker 12: that Douglas Counties is to check with the rest of
Speaker 12: the counties to make sure that they're not and these
Speaker 12: people are being accurate and truthful when they're talking about
Speaker 12: their voting systems.
Speaker 7: Well, so, Heidi, I'm glad. I wish that we were
Speaker 7: not so polarized in this state.
Speaker 5: You know, there have been a couple of things that
Speaker 5: have happened lately that made me realize that if you're
Speaker 5: on the right in Colorado and you have the nerve
Speaker 5: to sound the alarm about anything, whether it is the
Speaker 5: takeover of apartment buildings by a Venezuelan gang or the
Speaker 5: possibility of bad actors interfering in our election, the only
Speaker 5: thing I could say is, I hope, Heidi, and I
Speaker 5: can't believe I'm going.
Speaker 7: To say this out loud. I hope that if some
Speaker 7: hardcore right.
Speaker 5: Wing computer hacker is listening to this, wouldn't it be
Speaker 5: funny if they hacked into the machines and all the
Speaker 5: Republicans won in the state.
Speaker 7: You better bet that election.
Speaker 5: Integrity would be at the top of the list for
Speaker 5: the Secretary of State.
Speaker 9: After that, Oh, cuche manny ciche.
Speaker 12: And there's a couple other two key issues I can
Speaker 12: go over real quickly that suns that are important if
Speaker 12: you have time for.
Speaker 9: One is the post office.
Speaker 12: The post office gets undeliverable ballots back and it is
Speaker 12: their responsibility to report to the county Clerk's office how
Speaker 12: many there were, and they actually get paid for those.
Speaker 12: So they sent an invoice. A group that we work with,
Speaker 12: colrad and for an Institute for Fair Elections, did an
Speaker 12: audit of the Post Office invoices and most of them
Speaker 12: were incorrect. They did eleven counties and significantly incorrect, and
Speaker 12: it couldn't be explained. There were over twelve thousand ballots
Speaker 12: that were just not accounted for. And so we've got
Speaker 12: to make sure that our accounting with the Post Office
Speaker 12: and the County Clots Office is accurate and that it
Speaker 12: meets at least basic accounting standards, which it doesn't right now.
Speaker 9: And then the third thing is the drop boxes.
Speaker 12: The way they monitor the drop boxes is silly.
Speaker 9: It's just plain silly.
Speaker 12: They use low definition cameras that cannot be admissible in
Speaker 12: court in most cases, and they point them in a
Speaker 12: direction where you can't actually see anything, and they record
Speaker 12: all this footage and they're.
Speaker 9: Supposed to be monitoring it for bad things happening.
Speaker 12: And they don't typically look at that. And so what
Speaker 12: we'd like to do is encourage citizens. And we fought
Speaker 12: the Secretary of State on this. We almost took her
Speaker 12: to a federal lawsuit over First Amendment rights. Citizens are
Speaker 12: allowed to observe those drop boxes, and there's certain guidelines
Speaker 12: you should use. You should never intimidate voters, but that's
Speaker 12: our right as citizens. So we're going to have more
Speaker 12: information about how people can do that to protect our
Speaker 12: drop boxes and make sure there's no bad actors dealing there.
Speaker 7: Okay, so there's a lot going on here.
Speaker 5: I wish that I thought anything would happen, but I
Speaker 5: just have no confidence in our politicized secretary of State's office.
Speaker 5: People need to understand that Jennack Groswald has been such
Speaker 5: an outlier for this position. She has been an absolute
Speaker 5: partisan hack in the one department, right, the one department
Speaker 5: where is critical for someone to at least give the
Speaker 5: appearance of impartiality, but she has done the exact opposite
Speaker 5: the entire time she's been in office. She should have
Speaker 5: been bounced out, but the hatred for Donald Trump was
Speaker 5: so big in this state and Republicans in general that
Speaker 5: she didn't get bounced out when she should have. So
Speaker 5: I'm glad that you're at least calling attention to this stuff, Heidi.
Speaker 5: I just don't have a lot of confidence that anything
Speaker 5: will happen because we are so thoroughly run by Democrats
Speaker 5: in this state and they just don't care what we think.
Speaker 7: That's the reality.
Speaker 9: Unfortunately.
Speaker 12: I think you're right, Mannie, but I'm tenacious, you know that.
Speaker 9: Yes, they can call me names all they want. I'm
Speaker 9: going to keep on it and I'm.
Speaker 12: Going to make sure that this needs the light of
Speaker 12: day and that voters understand what's happening and we can
Speaker 12: do better to protect our vote. That's all we're asking
Speaker 12: is so that we can restore trust in our vote.
Speaker 9: Here in Colorado.
Speaker 5: I agree, Hidi Gan all thanks for everything you do,
Speaker 5: and we will talk to you again very soon.
Speaker 12: That's great, man, all right, thank you.
Speaker 7: And you know, this is one of those things that
Speaker 7: I don't get thought about. This, This is how this
Speaker 7: is how my brain works.
Speaker 5: If you really wanted to make a point about how
Speaker 5: insecure our elections are in the state of Colorado, here's
Speaker 5: what I would do. Here's my machiavellian plan. But I'm
Speaker 5: pretty sure even if I did all of it on
Speaker 5: camera to demonstrate how bad are the security around our
Speaker 5: election system really is, I'd still get arrested because what
Speaker 5: I'm talking about is completely illegal. Go round to every
Speaker 5: apartment complex starting right after the ballots, drop and gather
Speaker 5: up all of the ballots that are in the trash
Speaker 5: cans of all the apartment complexes, and then in a
Speaker 5: small local race, decide who you're going to have win.
Speaker 5: And because you guys, some of these small local races
Speaker 5: are decided by like ten, fifteen, twenty votes, and go
Speaker 5: ahead and show him how easy it is to boost
Speaker 5: that candidate and show him how easy it is to win.
Speaker 5: I truly believe there's enough ballots in garbage cans around
Speaker 5: the metro area that you could go in and choose
Speaker 5: a race and pick the winner, and steal and return
Speaker 5: enough ballots to make a difference in that race.
Speaker 7: Just one race, just to prove it.
Speaker 5: I mean, it could be something like, you know, a
Speaker 5: town council somewhere, whatever, it doesn't matter, but just to
Speaker 5: demonstrate that our election system is not secure, and just
Speaker 5: because it hasn't been exploited yet, what's to prevent people
Speaker 5: from exploiting it in the future.
Speaker 7: One seat.
Speaker 5: I meant to grab this for the show today and
Speaker 5: I forgot. I think it was Arizona, a leaked conversation
Speaker 5: between Democrats about how many illegals they allowed to vote
Speaker 5: got out, not that they allowed all these illegals to
Speaker 5: register to vote, which they did. But the conversation about
Speaker 5: them talking about that and how if word got out
Speaker 5: it would give all of those election deniers fuel for
Speaker 5: their fire. Well, yeah, but you've got ten million new
Speaker 5: illegal immigrants during the Biden campaign and they're shipping many
Speaker 5: of them into swing states like Ohio.
Speaker 7: Like Pennsylvania. Do you think that's a coincidence?
Speaker 5: And now we find out like seventy thousand people in
Speaker 5: Arizona illegally they're registered to vote. Now, who's going to
Speaker 5: make sure they don't cast their ballots?
Speaker 7: How do you do that? How do you make sure
Speaker 7: that they are not allowed to cast a ballot? How
Speaker 7: do you do that? Mandy?
Speaker 5: From the Common Spirit Health text line at five sixty
Speaker 5: six nine, Ohero, It makes you really suspicious when anyone
Speaker 5: who questions how all these sketchy election things are being
Speaker 5: ignored are or demonized as being an election denier.
Speaker 7: There you go, There you go, Mandy.
Speaker 5: For those of us in other counties who want to
Speaker 5: ask our clerks and commissioners about this issue, what are
Speaker 5: the specific questions we should be asking as it relates
Speaker 5: to the voting machines? Question number one, does this voting
Speaker 5: machine have a card that connects it to the internet
Speaker 5: in any way, shape or form, And they're going to
Speaker 5: tell you yes, but they're deactivated.
Speaker 7: Why not remove them? Why not just go into the
Speaker 7: system and remove them.
Speaker 5: That's what Heidi's asking for, because that's the only way
Speaker 5: then we can truly prevent a hacker from having access.
Speaker 5: Take away the access from a remote source. Period that
Speaker 5: that's what has to happen. And if it's no big
Speaker 5: deal to pull the card out, why can't we do that?
Speaker 5: I don't understand the resistance to that. Mandy, didn't you
Speaker 5: encourage people to collect ballots and get them to you
Speaker 5: during the last election?
Speaker 7: What did that show? No, I didn't do that.
Speaker 5: I probably, you know, threw out my same idea that
Speaker 5: I had this time. But again, I don't want to
Speaker 5: get arrested. So how do you do that without getting arrested?
Speaker 7: I don't know. Perhaps just a coincidence, says this text.
Speaker 7: But we went to mail in ballots.
Speaker 5: Ninety five percent of the issues and candidates that I,
Speaker 5: as a conservative have supported have gone down in flames,
Speaker 5: and the few issues that went my way were back
Speaker 5: on the ballots next time to turn over.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there should be a website so you can access
Speaker 5: using a social Security number to see your vote and
Speaker 5: who it went to, time and date. There is ballot
Speaker 5: tracks allows you to see when your vote has been counted.
Speaker 5: Oh you know what, let me just say one more
Speaker 5: thing about the upcoming election. In a stroke of dumb assory,
Speaker 5: several years ago, Republicans were told by dumbasses in the
Speaker 5: Republican Party not to return their ballot early because somehow
Speaker 5: that was going to bust the algorithms that the Democrats
Speaker 5: used to cheat. It was like the dumbest thing in.
Speaker 7: The entire world.
Speaker 5: And I'm here to tell you that I want every
Speaker 5: single Republican, Conservative independent, I want you all to return
Speaker 5: your ballots on the first day because every ballot that
Speaker 5: is out that requires money and effort by Republicans who
Speaker 5: are trying to get out the vote to let them
Speaker 5: know that you need to go vote. If you vote
Speaker 5: on the first day, you save them a lot of
Speaker 5: time and energy. When you get your ballot, fill it out,
Speaker 5: take it back, drop it in a dropbox the same day,
Speaker 5: that will save them a lot of get out the
Speaker 5: vote money. So I did my ballot guide and as
Speaker 5: a matter of fact, in the next segment, we're going
Speaker 5: to talk about this. You guys, some of our ballots
Speaker 5: are going to be five and six pages.
Speaker 7: Long, front and back. It's like the Monika and Ross
Speaker 7: breakup letter, except it's a ballot eighteen pages front and back.
Speaker 5: That's from friends. If you didn't watch it, I'm sorry
Speaker 5: you didn't get that joke. But it was very funny
Speaker 5: and very well placed. So we're gonna go over the
Speaker 5: ballot guy just a little bit. There are a ton
Speaker 5: of ballot initiatives, and I did not do all of
Speaker 5: the races everywhere. First of all, I don't have that
Speaker 5: kind of time. Second of all, I don't have that
Speaker 5: kind of time. Okay, But after I published this yesterday,
Speaker 5: a listener sent me an email and said, Mandy, you
Speaker 5: have got to put these Broomfield initiatives on your ballot guide,
Speaker 5: and they sent me some information. I went and did
Speaker 5: a little more research, and now the Broomfield ballot initiatives
Speaker 5: that you all need to vote against are now on
Speaker 5: the ballot guide. So if there's something in jeff Co.
Speaker 5: Or Adams County, or Weld County or El Paso County
Speaker 5: or wherever that you want me to look into. You
Speaker 5: got to email me and say, Mandy, what about this now,
Speaker 5: local races.
Speaker 7: Local candidates. I don't have a lot for you on that.
Speaker 5: I am asking you we need some Republicans in the
Speaker 5: state to balance things out, but I don't know a
Speaker 5: lot about the candidates who are running. So I kind
Speaker 5: of just stepped away from that. But I have my
Speaker 5: ballot guide out, and unlike Ross's, y'all, God bless Roskamenski,
Speaker 5: I'm just going to say it, dude did a dissertation
Speaker 5: on all of the ballot initiatives.
Speaker 2: I did not mine.
Speaker 5: Is a ballot guide for idiots, done by idiots for idiots. So,
Speaker 5: fellow idiot, you're a pre siated and my ballot guide,
Speaker 5: we're going to dip into it.
Speaker 7: Next voter guide is on the blog. It will be
Speaker 7: on the blog on the.
Speaker 5: Top entry every single day until election. Well maybe not
Speaker 5: every single day. Sometimes I forget. I try to put
Speaker 5: it on there, but sometimes I forget. And the voter
Speaker 5: guide is mostly about the ballot initiatives because there are
Speaker 5: so many of them, so many of them, So I
Speaker 5: want to dip my toe into just a little bit
Speaker 5: of it, because good God, you guys. I have all
Speaker 5: the Denver ballot initiative measures. I have some Douglas County
Speaker 5: stuff on there because I live in Douglas County, so
Speaker 5: I'm up to speed on that stuff.
Speaker 7: I have the Broomfield initiatives.
Speaker 12: I have.
Speaker 5: A lot of stuff trying to scroll down here. I
Speaker 5: didn't tell you like who to vote for in the
Speaker 5: federal races. All I said was, look, we need more Republicans,
Speaker 5: and so vote however you want to vote.
Speaker 7: State races.
Speaker 5: I'd love to see more Republicans win in the State House,
Speaker 5: in the state Senate because right now this one party
Speaker 5: rule is it's they're passing stuff, you guys, that is
Speaker 5: going to make it prohibitively expensive to live here in
Speaker 5: the future.
Speaker 7: It's already starting to happen.
Speaker 5: We see our economy slowing down because of the overregulation
Speaker 5: passed by the Democratic legislature. We've been a shrining beacon
Speaker 5: of economic freedom and business friendliness for a long time.
Speaker 5: We're sliding down in those scales. We've just got to
Speaker 5: put more Republicans in those offices. I'm voting no on
Speaker 5: retaining all of the US Supreme Court justices, just on
Speaker 5: I usually vote no on retaining judges anyway.
Speaker 7: But our Supreme Court is a disaster here.
Speaker 5: But let me get to the ballot initiatives themselves, and
Speaker 5: I'm not going to get through all of these in
Speaker 5: this segment, So you're gonna have to go to mandy'sblog
Speaker 5: dot com and check it out for yourself.
Speaker 7: It is there.
Speaker 5: You can also find it on my social media. Now,
Speaker 5: state ballot measures look like this measure modify the property
Speaker 5: tax exemption for veterans with disabilities. I'm voting yes on
Speaker 5: this because this would specifically address veterans who are not
Speaker 5: one hundred percent disabled, but they are disabled in such
Speaker 5: a way that makes them unemployable and that is devastating.
Speaker 5: And these are directly a result of them volunteering to
Speaker 5: serve our nation in the military, and I want them
Speaker 5: to have this property tax exemption extended to them as well.
Speaker 7: That's a yes on that.
Speaker 5: Judicial Discipline Procedures and Confidentiality Measure Number or Measure Letter H.
Speaker 7: This would create an.
Speaker 5: Independent panel made of citizens, lawyers, and judges to conduct
Speaker 5: judicial misconduct hearings and impose disciplinary actions, and allows more
Speaker 5: information on those actions to be shared with the public.
Speaker 5: This after several instances over the past few years where
Speaker 5: especially in the Supreme Court, you had justices behaving badly,
Speaker 5: but the justices were in charge of disciplining themselves and
Speaker 5: they exempted themselves from quarter requirements, so there was no
Speaker 5: way to find out what was actually going. So if
Speaker 5: the justices don't like this new panel, they did it
Speaker 5: to themselves. I am voting yes on that measure I
Speaker 5: constitutional bail except for first degree murder. I am voting yes.
Speaker 5: I want our judges to be able to deny bail
Speaker 5: right now. In Colorado law, you can deny bail for
Speaker 5: capital offenses, but we don't have a functioning death penalty anymore,
Speaker 5: so it's not something that district attorneys seek. They no
Speaker 5: longer seek capital punishment. So capital offenses has been changed
Speaker 5: or will be changed, to say that if someone has
Speaker 5: been charged with first degree murder, judges can deny bail.
Speaker 5: It doesn't mean they will always deny bail, but they
Speaker 5: can deny bail.
Speaker 7: Measure J, so that's a yes on that one.
Speaker 5: By the way, Measure J repealing the definition a marriage
Speaker 5: in the Constitution. This is a housekeeping measure that I
Speaker 5: am voting yes for because gay marriage has been legitimized
Speaker 5: by the Supreme Court, therefore rendering any kind of state
Speaker 5: action on the issue moot. And this is just cleaning
Speaker 5: up the state constitution to take out the definition of
Speaker 5: marriage as being between a man and a woman, because
Speaker 5: that's not how it is anymore. So yes on that
Speaker 5: measure K modifying constitutional election deadlines. This seems like a
Speaker 5: no big deal, saying like, oh, let's just give the
Speaker 5: clerk of courts another week to get their work done
Speaker 5: so they can get the.
Speaker 7: Ballots out in time.
Speaker 5: That is a big fat no for me because it
Speaker 5: limits the times that citizens have to gather signatures to
Speaker 5: get their ballot issues on the ballot in the first place.
Speaker 5: And with technology, there's no reason for the clerk of
Speaker 5: court in any county to need more time. There's no
Speaker 5: reason for the Secretary of State to need more time.
Speaker 5: They can figure it out. So I'm no on modifying
Speaker 5: constitutional election deadlines. Now we get down to Amendment seventy nine.
Speaker 5: This not only codifies abortion rights into the Constitution, it
Speaker 5: also says taxpayers will pay for other people's abortions.
Speaker 7: And that's where I have a real real issue.
Speaker 5: So even if you're pro choice, I hope you would
Speaker 5: understand why it would be patently offensive to use the
Speaker 5: tax dollars of people who believe that every life is
Speaker 5: sacred to pay for abortions that they find to be
Speaker 5: murder And.
Speaker 7: So that's a no for me.
Speaker 5: I do believe that is going to pass because Colorado
Speaker 5: has never voted to limit abortion.
Speaker 7: Well, maybe they have in the past, they have.
Speaker 5: It in the recent past, but I hope that enough
Speaker 5: people say, wait a minute, I'm for women being able
Speaker 5: to choose, but I'm not down with making other people
Speaker 5: taxpayers pay for it. So no on Amendment seventy nine,
Speaker 5: Amendment eighty the right school choice, I am a yes
Speaker 5: on this, but I think that the people who are
Speaker 5: worried about this amendment being used by government to interject
Speaker 5: themselves into private schools, into homeschool and communities in other
Speaker 5: ways is valid. I think it's a valid concern. However,
Speaker 5: the Board of Education, the state Board of Education, is
Speaker 5: increasingly hostile to school choice. Districts all over the state
Speaker 5: are increasingly hostile to school choice, and by passing Amendment eighty,
Speaker 5: we then codify into law the right of parents to
Speaker 5: make a choice about their children's education.
Speaker 7: And I think that's too important to not.
Speaker 5: Just take a swing at it and hope that we
Speaker 5: can put some meat on the bones of this later
Speaker 5: that does not involve interrupting or interfering with private school
Speaker 5: and homeschool communities. I know that government always takes advantage
Speaker 5: of this stuff, so it's going to be interesting to
Speaker 5: see how it gets sort of decided. But I am
Speaker 5: a yes on Amendment eighty Measure JJ retain additional sports
Speaker 5: betting tax revenue. This is a detaboring of sports betting revenue.
Speaker 5: And you know what, everybody loves to say, You know what,
Speaker 5: can we just keep the extra money that the casinos
Speaker 5: pay because casinos are evil and they have lots of money,
Speaker 5: and we just think we should keep their money.
Speaker 7: No, No, we cannot.
Speaker 5: This is another chance for government to take money that
Speaker 5: they do not they do not deserve. We have plenty
Speaker 5: of money in Colorado government plenty, but they keep spending it,
Speaker 5: and they keep spending it in such a way that
Speaker 5: they're going to need more in the future, and I'm
Speaker 5: not willing to give it to them. So no on
Speaker 5: Measure JJ, Measure KK Firearms and Ammunition excise tax.
Speaker 7: That is a big, fat no from me. This is
Speaker 7: another opportunity to.
Speaker 5: Disarm people at the lower socioeconomic end of the of
Speaker 5: the sphere here, because by raising taxes on firearms and ammunition,
Speaker 5: you make it less affordable for people who may live
Speaker 5: in high crime areas to be able to protect themselves.
Speaker 5: This is an anti gun measure disguised as a tax measure.
Speaker 5: No firm no, absolutely no Measure one seven to prohibit
Speaker 5: bobcat links and mountain lion hunting.
Speaker 7: Big fat no. We don't need more biology at the
Speaker 7: ballot box.
Speaker 5: We see how well the wolf every introduction is going,
Speaker 5: and the last thing we need is more mountain lions
Speaker 5: running around, fighting with each other and appearing in our neighborhoods.
Speaker 5: So no on that Measure one twenty one Parole eligibility
Speaker 5: for crimes of violence. This would require that people's sentence
Speaker 5: to certain types of violent crime to serve at least
Speaker 5: eighty five percent of their sentence before being eligible for parole.
Speaker 5: It all so ads a three strikes you're out provision.
Speaker 5: If you get convicted of three of these violent felonies,
Speaker 5: you are not eligible for parole anymore. And I am
Speaker 5: a solid yes on this. I don't know who could
Speaker 5: be a no on keeping violent people out of society
Speaker 5: for even longer. Yes, Measure one twenty nine establishing a
Speaker 5: veterinary professional associates.
Speaker 7: I am yes on this.
Speaker 5: I realize that a lot of veterinarians and veterinary agencies
Speaker 5: or associations are against this, but this would kind of
Speaker 5: be the equivalent of what we have now in medical
Speaker 5: practices for humans, where you either meet with a physician's
Speaker 5: assistant or a nurse practitioner to do your basic care.
Speaker 5: But if something more significant, like surgical procedures, all of
Speaker 5: that stuff has.
Speaker 7: To be done, it would be done by a veterinarian.
Speaker 5: But this creates a position between veterinary tech and veterinarian
Speaker 5: that could possibly take some of the pressure off are
Speaker 5: overworked veterinarians.
Speaker 7: They view it as competition.
Speaker 5: I think it would be an awesome opportunity for them
Speaker 5: to expand their practice. But hey, whatever, all right, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna I'm gonna We're not even through you guys, the
Speaker 5: state ballid initiatives. I'm gonna take a breath and a
Speaker 5: break and be back with the rest of those and
Speaker 5: the Denver ballot initiatives when we get back. Measure one
Speaker 5: thirty one, excuse me, let me go back here. Measure
Speaker 5: one thirty funding for law enforcement. This is a big
Speaker 5: one and it does not require tax increase, but it
Speaker 5: does require a three hundred and fifty million dollar injection
Speaker 5: from the general fund in order to shore up law enforcement.
Speaker 5: After the last few years of Democrats aggressively going after
Speaker 5: law enforcement and making them part of the problem, now
Speaker 5: they're all like, oh wow, we need more cups. We've
Speaker 5: got to do something. So this particular injection of cash
Speaker 5: would be given in the form of grants to local
Speaker 5: law enforcement agencies I prove officer recruitment, training, and retention.
Speaker 5: It would also require the state to provide a one time,
Speaker 5: one million dollar death death benefit to the family of
Speaker 5: each state and local law enforcement officer killed in the
Speaker 5: line of duty, and the state would be required to
Speaker 5: maintain that benefit even after the initial three hundred and
Speaker 5: fifty million dollar fund is depleted.
Speaker 7: I'm a yes on this.
Speaker 5: I'm a yes Measure one thirty one establishing all candidate
Speaker 5: primary and rank choice voting general elections.
Speaker 7: I said this on the show the other day.
Speaker 5: I'm a yes on this because I am not happy
Speaker 5: with the way our system works now, and I think
Speaker 5: that this is a great opportunity to allow people who
Speaker 5: run solid, positive idea and solution oriented campaigns to get
Speaker 5: votes from people that otherwise would feel like, well, it
Speaker 5: would to waste my vote on that person. It works
Speaker 5: like this, there's a primary with everybody on the primary
Speaker 5: ballot one ballot. So if you're an independent, you're a Republican,
Speaker 5: you're a Democrat, you all get to vote, and you
Speaker 5: get to vote one time in the primary, just one vote,
Speaker 5: and the top four vote getters go through to the
Speaker 5: general election. In the general election, you will rank them
Speaker 5: like this, one, two, three, and four that if you
Speaker 5: don't want to vote for four or ranked four, you
Speaker 5: can just vote for one. If you do choose to
Speaker 5: rank them one, two, three, four, and your candidate does
Speaker 5: not make it out of the first one, they go
Speaker 5: to your second place choice. Now, somebody asked me a
Speaker 5: question that I'm going to find out the answer to.
Speaker 5: They said, what if your second choice vote has already
Speaker 5: been eliminated in the first round. Well, they've already been
Speaker 5: eliminated because the bottom vote getter will be eliminated. So
Speaker 5: I'm guessing that that round your second place vote doesn't
Speaker 5: even matter.
Speaker 7: But I'm going to find out. What we're doing now
Speaker 7: clearly sucks. So I'm open for that.
Speaker 5: If you want me to talk more with people that
Speaker 5: are extremely knowledgeable, I can have them on the show
Speaker 5: about ranked choice voting. Last, but not least, do I
Speaker 5: have to ironup time to go through all the Denver issues.
Speaker 5: Here's what I'm gonna do tomorrow. I will go through
Speaker 5: the Denver issues. We'll talk about the Broomfield issues, and
Speaker 5: we'll go from there. If you have something that you
Speaker 5: want me to weigh in on and it's not on
Speaker 5: the voter Guide, because I didn't do everything, because my goodness,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of stuff in this voter guide, a
Speaker 5: lot of stuff.
Speaker 7: Email me the.
Speaker 5: Specifics, the specific initiative, whatever it is, and I will
Speaker 5: add it. I am not adding a bunch of candidates
Speaker 5: because that is too complicated. There are too many races.
Speaker 5: So you're gonna have to figure that out for yourself. Now,
Speaker 5: when we get back, we've got a lot of stories
Speaker 5: for the two minute drill. We have to talk about
Speaker 5: what's happening in Israel right now. Israel basically, like here's
Speaker 5: my vision, I'm gonna stand up so Kover will get
Speaker 5: to enjoy this, Like right now in Israel, Benjamin Dettnaw
Speaker 5: who reads and he gets the paper. Maybe gets the paper,
Speaker 5: I don't know, maybe he reads it online and he
Speaker 5: reads how Joe Biden is going to talk to him
Speaker 5: about a ceasefire and Lebanon, and Benjamin just stands up
Speaker 5: and waves the middle fingers like, yeah, we no longer
Speaker 5: matter to Israel right now and I'm here for it.
Speaker 5: They're getting ready to roll into Lebanon. We'll talk about
Speaker 5: that in the next hour as well.
Speaker 7: Plus, oh my gosh, I got so many stories on
Speaker 7: the blog, I'm not even gonna get through to it.
Speaker 7: Oh so, could.
Speaker 5: Hunt people make the Republican Party cool? We got to
Speaker 5: talk about that because that is now a thing. And
Speaker 5: I mentioned this when people ask me what's the difference
Speaker 5: between the RNC and the DNC, One of the things
Speaker 5: that I have to say is the people at the
Speaker 5: RNC were far more attractive than the people at the DNC.
Speaker 5: Now that wasn't to say there weren't attractive people at
Speaker 5: the DNC, because there were, but overall, just as a
Speaker 5: general percentage, the RNC people were way better looking than
Speaker 5: the yeah than the DNC.
Speaker 7: And that could be the thing that helps Republicans. We'll
Speaker 7: get into a that the.
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Speaker 2: Are Here's Mandy Connalls.
Speaker 7: All right, my friends, we got lots of stuff to
Speaker 7: talk about, including this. Drinking.
Speaker 5: Alcohol is linked to six types of cancer. Experts say
Speaker 5: it is toxic and no amount of alcohol is for
Speaker 5: the body. Apparently, more than five percent of all cancer
Speaker 5: cases are caused by drinking. It is one of the
Speaker 5: three modifiable risk cancers, which means things you can change
Speaker 5: to reduce your chance of getting cancer. Alcohol is the
Speaker 5: third biggest behind obesity and cigarette smoking. It's time to
Speaker 5: talk about how alcohol can lead to certain types of
Speaker 5: cancer of the head and neck, esophageal, squamous cell carcinoma,
Speaker 5: and breast, colorectal, liver, and stomach cancers. Guys, it's time
Speaker 5: to realize that cancer isn't just something that happens to everyone.
Speaker 5: Some people are more likely to get it than others.
Speaker 5: But the reality is lifestyle choices have an impact, and
Speaker 5: all of these things are things you can change.
Speaker 11: Too.
Speaker 5: So this is an interesting new thing to worry about
Speaker 5: if you've got an electric vehicle. Vehicles that are in
Speaker 5: homes that have been flooded by salt water are finding
Speaker 5: out that salt water and lithium batteries do not mix.
Speaker 7: It can damage the battery.
Speaker 5: Components, potentially leading to dangerous chemical reactions that could cause
Speaker 5: the vehicle to catch fire.
Speaker 7: Now, authorities in Florida.
Speaker 5: Are saying, look, if you left electric vehicles behind when
Speaker 5: you evacuated, you've got to let local emergency services know
Speaker 5: because then when they respond to your house being on fire,
Speaker 5: they need to know why it could be on fire,
Speaker 5: because that is a completely different kind of fire to fight.
Speaker 5: Does make you think that if you live near saltwater,
Speaker 5: maybe an electric car isn't the best choice for you.
Speaker 11: It too.
Speaker 5: This next story is just sad on so many levels.
Speaker 5: So the Alexander Mountain Fire in Larimer County, which started
Speaker 5: on July twenty ninth and ended up burning almost ten
Speaker 5: thousand acres, was started by one man. And this is
Speaker 5: where it gets really, really sad and pathetic. So Jason
Speaker 5: Alexander Hobby, a forty nine year old Loveland man, faces
Speaker 5: charges of first degree are send, two counts of impersonating
Speaker 5: a peace officer, felony, menacing, false imprisonment, and impersonating a
Speaker 5: public servant.
Speaker 7: He started the fires so he could be the hero.
Speaker 5: Now, I have known people like this in my life
Speaker 5: who so desperately wanted to be part of something important
Speaker 5: and bigger than them that they've pretended to be things
Speaker 5: they aren't. There's a very stolen valor sort of feel
Speaker 5: to this when they found when they went to his
Speaker 5: house to search his house, they found all kinds of
Speaker 5: T shirts and firefighter gear and everything else you could
Speaker 5: possibly imagine for a guy who wasn't at all a firefighter.
Speaker 5: So now this man destroyed ten thousand acres structures, put
Speaker 5: people out of their homes for about a week and
Speaker 5: a half, all because he wanted to.
Speaker 7: Be seen as a hero.
Speaker 5: You guys, that is like the saddest, most pathetic personality
Speaker 5: defect I've ever heard.
Speaker 7: And now he's probably gonna.
Speaker 2: Go to jail for it too.
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna say this to JBS in Greeley. JBS
Speaker 5: Foods meatpacking Plant in Greeley needs to tighten themselves up,
Speaker 5: because we already know that animal rights activists are trying
Speaker 5: to get the meatpacking plant in Denver shut down for
Speaker 5: specious reasons.
Speaker 7: They don't have much to do with them.
Speaker 5: They're coming after JBS next, especially after a bunch of
Speaker 5: Haitian immigrants were lord. They say they were lured to
Speaker 5: the plant with promises that the plant would help them
Speaker 5: find a place to live, and when they get there,
Speaker 5: they're finding out that that place to live, according to
Speaker 5: these migrants, was eight or ten people inside of one
Speaker 5: motel room. The union alleges that as many forty people
Speaker 5: lived in one hotel room.
Speaker 7: And I'm just going to say this.
Speaker 5: When I lived in Southwest Florida, I saw a migrant
Speaker 5: worker housing in Mochallely, Florida, and it was the most
Speaker 5: horrifying thing I've ever seen in my life. Imagine a
Speaker 5: single wide trailer with like forty or fifty peeople living
Speaker 5: in it.
Speaker 7: So this is like kind of tracks for me, like
Speaker 7: I believe this could be happening.
Speaker 5: But right now, when meat packing and just generally eating
Speaker 5: meat are under constant attack in this state, they need
Speaker 5: to get it together, they say. JBS says they fired
Speaker 5: their HR managers to make sure that people are Let me,
Speaker 5: let me read this actual statement. We have put new
Speaker 5: HR leaders in place at the facility and added new
Speaker 5: recruitment training programs to ensure our teams follow JBS's strict
Speaker 5: hiring compliance policies. Any allegations of poor living conditions are
Speaker 5: unacceptable and upsetting, So what are they going to do
Speaker 5: about it? They better do something about it now. It
Speaker 5: too good news everybody. Kamala Harris went to the border
Speaker 5: last Friday. Yes, and at the border of which she is,
Speaker 5: the borders are. She told everybody that.
Speaker 7: As soon as she was elected, she was going to
Speaker 7: do something about this illegal immigrant business. That's it, that's
Speaker 7: the whole story, because you know, she's at four years
Speaker 7: and hasn't done anything, so really it's just like a
Speaker 7: whole stupid thing that's happening right now, and they don't
Speaker 7: really expect her to do anything. About that. So that's
Speaker 7: that's the whole story. That's all you need to know too.
Speaker 7: And finally, I have a story that is wait, hang on,
Speaker 7: I didn't grab it right, the coolest thing made in Colorado.
Speaker 7: Now I've talked about this contest. I think it's super cool.
Speaker 7: This is the first time I've ever actually owned a
Speaker 7: product that.
Speaker 5: Was named the coolest product in Colorado, and it is.
Speaker 5: It is the DNA Vibe. It is a red light
Speaker 5: therapy machine that I have been using now to treat
Speaker 5: my torn meniscus and my torn cartilage in my knee.
Speaker 5: And I don't know if it's fixing it, but I
Speaker 5: will tell you this. It takes away the pain. And
Speaker 5: now it has been named the coolest thing made in Colorado.
Speaker 5: You should read about it if you have you know,
Speaker 5: arthritis pain, stuff like that. This thing is amazing and
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's really working like it could
Speaker 5: be the Placibo effect. I have no clue, but it's working.
Speaker 5: So if it's just a Placibo, I'm doing it. But
Speaker 5: now it is one the coolest thing made in Colorado. That,
Speaker 5: my friends, is your two minute drill. I do want
Speaker 5: to talk about this story next because I think it's
Speaker 5: kind of interesting. Newsweek magazine, which is no longer a magazine.
Speaker 5: I don't think they actually publish, They just have their
Speaker 5: thing online. Newsweek magazine actually did an article the headline
Speaker 5: how hot girls became the rights new obsession.
Speaker 7: Now that in and of itself is stupid. Vacouver.
Speaker 5: When did you lose as a man? When did you
Speaker 5: lose your taste for hot women?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 5: When did you stop being able to appreciate hot women?
Speaker 5: When did that happen for you?
Speaker 6: Wow, this seems like a question is going to get
Speaker 6: me in trouble.
Speaker 5: Well, you're not running around chasing them. I'm just talking
Speaker 5: about appreciating hot women. When did you lose that as
Speaker 5: a dude?
Speaker 6: I don't think you lose it?
Speaker 5: Correct, That is a core answer. My husband will be
Speaker 5: on his deathbed and he'll be in a coma and
Speaker 5: a super hot nurse will walk in and he will
Speaker 5: immediately be like, Hello, men do not lose their love
Speaker 5: of hot women.
Speaker 7: But Newsweek, listen to this. This is hilarious. It all
Speaker 7: began with Sidney Sweeney's cleavage.
Speaker 5: In March, the twenty seven year old actress hosted Saturday
Speaker 5: Night Live for the first time, wearing low cut outfits
Speaker 5: during the start and clothes of the show, which featured
Speaker 5: a number of jokes about her physical appearance, including a
Speaker 5: sketch where she played a Hooters waitress. At the time,
Speaker 5: Sweeney's appearance sparked much discourse and was lauded by a
Speaker 5: number of right wing commentators as the death of woke.
Speaker 7: The actress had become a so.
Speaker 5: Called conservative hot girl, a pin up for the modern
Speaker 5: day right wing movement as it attempts to expand the
Speaker 5: appeal of conservatism beyond the confines of its largely older,
Speaker 5: white male.
Speaker 7: We'll get into the rest of this later, but it's
Speaker 7: just hilarious.
Speaker 5: That all of a sudden, if you're a hot woman,
Speaker 5: you're somehow just gonna be objectified by the right. I
Speaker 5: actually think this is the key to the Republican Party's future,
Speaker 5: Republicans daring to like to look.
Speaker 7: At hot girls. I know it's crazy, right, It's so crazy.
Speaker 7: The conservative hot girl isn't a particularly new phenomena. Victoria can, an.
Speaker 5: Associated professor at the University of East Anglia in the UK,
Speaker 5: told Newsweek women have been positioned through the lens of
Speaker 5: masculinist imagery and conservative populist politics for a very long time.
Speaker 7: That's because people like to look at hot women. Guess
Speaker 7: what newslash women like to look at hot women not
Speaker 7: in a sexual way. Well, I can appreciate a woman
Speaker 7: who has put it all together. It looks great. I'm
Speaker 7: also that woman in the batht It was like, dang,
Speaker 7: you look good. So this is really really funny.
Speaker 5: I want to answer some of these text messages very
Speaker 5: very quickly, Mandy. I thought regen rev took care of
Speaker 5: all your knee pain. I have an actual injury, and
Speaker 5: I went to regen Revolution first and they were like, Mandy,
Speaker 5: we can't fix this. But regen Revolution also uses red
Speaker 5: light therapy. So I'm not going rogue here. I'm just saying,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm gonna throw everything at a kind of person.
Speaker 5: I'm also going to physical therapy to take care of
Speaker 5: my torn medial meniscus and my torn cartilage under my kneecap.
Speaker 7: So let's see here, Mandy.
Speaker 5: Every man knows the sound of a woman in heels
Speaker 5: walking on a herd surface, and we all look it's
Speaker 5: in the male DNA. Men are visual creatures, and I
Speaker 5: think one of the things that I try to impart
Speaker 5: to young women about relationships if they ask for my advice,
Speaker 5: and sometimes they do, is that men are going to
Speaker 5: look right, even if you're in a series relationship with
Speaker 5: someone you love, men are going to look and my
Speaker 5: husband and I I mean sometimes I will literally go,
Speaker 5: did you see that? You know if somebody walks by
Speaker 5: and the girls are out, you know what I mean, like,
Speaker 5: did you see this?
Speaker 1: Is?
Speaker 7: Of course I saw it. It's like you're an amateur everything.
Speaker 7: I didn't see that, Mandy.
Speaker 5: I was watching ENNISNL with Sydney Sweeney. All I said,
Speaker 5: with some excitement was, boobs are back my wife's side.
Speaker 5: My daughter might have been mortified. Yeah, your daughter, Your
Speaker 5: daughter was mortified. I can assure you of that, sir.
Speaker 3: Uugh.
Speaker 5: I want to be objective by women on the right,
Speaker 5: says this texter. I can't think of basically any women
Speaker 5: in the Fox lineup I wouldn't want to have keep
Speaker 5: me in their basement. They're all hotties. And that, my friends,
Speaker 5: is what the women at the Republican National Convention looked at.
Speaker 5: And here's where I'm proposing Republicans lean in right, become
Speaker 5: the party of the hot people, become the party where
Speaker 5: everyone at a party looks good, become that person.
Speaker 7: Become that party.
Speaker 5: Because even if people are not attractive, they want to
Speaker 5: believe they're attractive, and they want to hang out with
Speaker 5: people that they believe are attractive. This is one of
Speaker 5: the things that a lot of Republicans in Colorado not
Speaker 5: the party because they're useless. But Republicans in Colorado are like,
Speaker 5: how can we make our party fun and funny and
Speaker 5: entertaining again? And I'm telling you right now, hot women
Speaker 5: and the Babylon be those are the keys to success
Speaker 5: for the Republican Party. All throw in hot men to
Speaker 5: whatever is fine. Those are the keys to success. You
Speaker 5: have to make your party a party that people want
Speaker 5: to be a part of. And it sounds really surface
Speaker 5: and really shallow.
Speaker 7: And I know that there are many of you out
Speaker 7: there who are eye rolling, like this is so ridiculous.
Speaker 7: Trust me on this.
Speaker 5: I have in my lifetime seen really miserable people successfully
Speaker 5: attract other peace people because they simply hung out with
Speaker 5: really attractive people in their circle.
Speaker 7: And everybody wants to be a part of that. So
Speaker 7: why not use it? Just because you've ordered doesn't mean
Speaker 7: you can't look at the menu. Thank you, sir. Thank
Speaker 7: you very much, sir. That's exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5: Uh, Cooper, has your wife ever caught you, you know,
Speaker 5: taking a look at someone.
Speaker 6: I'm sure she has. It's been a while though.
Speaker 5: So my favorite story of Chuck and I were sitting
Speaker 5: at a restaurant. We were in Beaver Creek. It was
Speaker 5: mud season, so there wasn't a lot of people there, right,
Speaker 5: so we walk in. The hostess walks over and seats us.
Speaker 5: She is a young woman, she is generously endowed, and
Speaker 5: the girls are out.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 7: About twenty minutes later, she comes over to the table
Speaker 7: right next to ours, leans over forward, and begins to
Speaker 7: rub the table.
Speaker 5: Okay, she's three to four feet to the side. Chuck,
Speaker 5: of course, you know, looks over there, and when he
Speaker 5: looks back at me, I'm scaring at him.
Speaker 7: And as she walks away, he just looks at me
Speaker 7: and goes, they were right there. And I couldn't argue
Speaker 7: with that. I was while they were they I mean,
Speaker 7: they were right there. Anyway, when we.
Speaker 5: Get back, we're gonna shift gears a little bit. We've
Speaker 5: got to talk about what's happening in Israel right now.
Speaker 12: It is.
Speaker 7: What they're Wow, that's next.
Speaker 5: Some stuff happened in Israel and Lebanon over the weekend
Speaker 5: that is significant in demonstrating how far the United States
Speaker 5: of America has fallen as an influential.
Speaker 7: Part of the world.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 5: Israel over the last several weeks has in very surgical fashion,
Speaker 5: very surgical fashion, degraded and destroyed Hesbela's entire upper management deck.
Speaker 7: I mean, they've taken out, you guys, like twenty five
Speaker 7: people in the highest levels of HESBLA, including over the weekend,
Speaker 7: Hazan Israla, the leader hasibula for decades, but they're not
Speaker 7: stopping there.
Speaker 5: Even as President Joe Biden. I mean, I'm guessing he
Speaker 5: said it. It could have been someone sitting with a
Speaker 5: hand up his back like they were talking with a
Speaker 5: ventriloqus dummy. I don't know, because dude is obviously not
Speaker 5: capable of being president, but yet here he is. So
Speaker 5: the President Biden is said.
Speaker 7: What we're getting with our world partners, and we're asking,
Speaker 7: we're we're proposing a ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel in
Speaker 7: order to use.
Speaker 5: Diplomacy to ratchet things down before things get bigger in
Speaker 5: the region.
Speaker 7: And you know what, Israel did no, we're good.
Speaker 5: Israel instead is massing troops and tanks and people on
Speaker 5: the border of Lebanon, which is their northern border. So
Speaker 5: if you've never seen him out of Israel, it's very skinny, right,
Speaker 5: It's a very skinny state. And at the very top
Speaker 5: you have the border with Lebanon, and then it goes
Speaker 5: down and you have the border with Syria. Now I've
Speaker 5: been into these borders in Israel. What we can't really
Speaker 5: wrap our heads around is that for I don't know
Speaker 5: how many miles, maybe a mile, half mile around the border,
Speaker 5: I should ask my nephew this to get better statistics
Speaker 5: for you. But about a half mile up to the border,
Speaker 5: it is covered with land mines. Like there's signs everywhere
Speaker 5: that say if you go off this road.
Speaker 7: You can step on a landline and die. Pretty much,
Speaker 7: that's what they're going to tell you.
Speaker 6: So it's not like this.
Speaker 7: Border is an open border.
Speaker 5: It's already very well protected because of all the land mines.
Speaker 5: But Israel is massing troops and tanks on Lebanon's border.
Speaker 5: At the same time, they have been carrying out small
Speaker 5: targeted raids into southern Lebanon, gathering intelligence and probing and
Speaker 5: ahead of a possible wider ground incursion. And what this
Speaker 5: says is that it doesn't matter what Joe Biden says.
Speaker 5: Israel has decided they're going to fight this fight until
Speaker 5: it's over.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: We haven't heard a peep out of Hamas in the
Speaker 5: last what several weeks now, because Hamas is like four
Speaker 5: guys in a tunnel with a Wuiji board trying to
Speaker 5: figure out how to get.
Speaker 7: Out of it.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 5: I mean, Hamas has been utterly and completely degraded in
Speaker 5: terms of their capabilities on attacking Israel going forward, and
Speaker 5: they are going to do the exact same thing with Hesbela.
Speaker 7: They've been destroying tunnels.
Speaker 5: They have demonstrated to Hesbela that not only do they
Speaker 5: have eyes and ears everywhere, they know exactly where these
Speaker 5: people are. The Biden administration is from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 5: The Biden administration expects an imminent Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
Speaker 5: US officials said much of the fighting is expected to
Speaker 5: take place along the Israeli Lebanese border, though there is
Speaker 5: concern in Washington that the war could expand geographically and
Speaker 5: last longer than a short term campaign and Israeli officials
Speaker 5: said that if there were to be a broader ground operation,
Speaker 5: it would feature and this is a quote, localized limited
Speaker 5: raids against Hesbela targets along the border with the objective
Speaker 5: of destroying the capabilities of the road wind forces that's
Speaker 5: the militant group Special Operations Unit. Israeli forces assess that
Speaker 5: the group is making preparations for an attack as Amstad
Speaker 5: before October seventh, including positioning closed weapons and other materials
Speaker 5: along the border, and Israel's basically like, you know what, Nope, We're.
Speaker 7: Not doing that again. And the most fascinating part of
Speaker 7: this entire story about what happened over the weekend is
Speaker 7: that the people of Lebanon, who, by the way, are
Speaker 7: completely freaked out because now they know Israel has been
Speaker 7: woven into Lebanese society.
Speaker 5: And another part of this whole thing that we're not
Speaker 5: talking about is in the north of Lebanon, hesbel is
Speaker 5: not in control. So in the north of Lebanon people
Speaker 5: were celebrating, they were partying when they heard in Israla
Speaker 5: was killed.
Speaker 7: They were excited because.
Speaker 5: This guy's a butcher, he's a horrible people who's oppressed
Speaker 5: the people of Lebanon for decades now. So there's this
Speaker 5: group of people in Lebanon in the north that are like, yes,
Speaker 5: let's get rid of Hesbelah.
Speaker 7: They suck.
Speaker 5: And then the southern part of Lebanon is completely taken
Speaker 5: over and run by Hesbela. So what's happening now is
Speaker 5: that the citizens in Beirut and other places in the
Speaker 5: south of Lebanon are trying to leave. They're trying to
Speaker 5: go right, They're trying to flee north, only be finding
Speaker 5: out when they get north that these people are like, yeah,
Speaker 5: you bring in Hesbela with you because we're not interested.
Speaker 7: So listen to this story. So this story is from a.
Speaker 5: Lebanese reporter who says that the people of Lebanon are
Speaker 5: not mad. They're not venting their anger at Israel. They
Speaker 5: want to know who've rated out Nazraala. Lebanese citizens held
Speaker 5: a demonstration in Beirut, with dozens of young people standing
Speaker 5: in the street, holding Lebanese flags and remaining silent.
Speaker 7: Although they are still afraid of Hesbela operatives.
Speaker 5: Their goal is to convey a message to the world
Speaker 5: that Lebanon will remain Lebanon with or without the terrorists
Speaker 5: organization and its leaders who have been eliminated. What's interesting
Speaker 5: to discover that the people pointed fingers at Iran, not
Speaker 5: at Israel. They abandon him, they said, in Beirut, Nezraala
Speaker 5: was revered in Tehran's supreme leader Ali Kamani, brought him closer,
Speaker 5: made him an ally, and abandon him. Kamani, so the
Speaker 5: supporters claimed, has a habit of abandoning his allies. First
Speaker 5: he abandoned Ismael Heimiea, then all of Gaza, and now Nesrali.
Speaker 7: Why do I share that with you? Because does it matter?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: It matters.
Speaker 5: So big One has been the big saber rattler. They've
Speaker 5: been the ones arming the Huthis and Hesbela and Amas.
Speaker 7: They've been very.
Speaker 5: Happy to let their proxies take the hit. But then
Speaker 5: when their proxies are taking the hit, where is Iran?
Speaker 7: Nowhere? As a matter of fact, Iran's like uh yeah,
Speaker 7: They're like, you know, Hesbul is calling like ring ring,
Speaker 7: ring ring.
Speaker 5: Iran picks up, They're like, hey, this is hesbla. Aron's
Speaker 5: like rong number and hangs up. I mean, I don't
Speaker 5: know if it actually happens like that, It kind of
Speaker 5: feels like it should so now the people of Lebanon
Speaker 5: are like who betrayed Hesbla. Conspiracy theories are circulating, with
Speaker 5: one of them claiming that the Iranians betrayed him to
Speaker 5: reach a new nuclear agreement with the Americans. According to
Speaker 5: this theory, the Iranians lied to Nazraala that the fighting
Speaker 5: against Israel would not last long, but.
Speaker 7: Gave him up to the Israelis.
Speaker 5: Some believe it was the Syrian intelligence officers who led
Speaker 5: Israel to Nezrala. Either way, someone betrayed Hesbela and Israel
Speaker 5: was able to discover the exact location of the organization's leadership.
Speaker 5: Somehow Israel managed to discover the location and the participants
Speaker 5: of the secret meeting. Now, somebody on Twitter posted a
Speaker 5: story earlier and I didn't have time to grab it.
Speaker 7: And put it on the blog.
Speaker 5: But it's from two years ago, in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 5: In twenty twenty two, Iran had created a special basically
Speaker 5: a department that was in charge of looking for Israeli
Speaker 5: spies in the ways that Israel has infiltrated Iran only
Speaker 5: come to find out much later the guy they hired
Speaker 5: to do that job was Masade. He was in Israeli spy. Now,
Speaker 5: I laughed and laughed when I saw that. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 5: so good, so funny. But the reality is is that
Speaker 5: no one it has blot and feel safe. And I'm
Speaker 5: okay with that. No one in Hesbela should feel like
Speaker 5: they are not the target of a potential assassination in
Speaker 5: the near future. And Israel's not stopping, and no one
Speaker 5: is going to get Israel to stop. The US has
Speaker 5: been trying to urge Israel to seek a quote diplomatic
Speaker 5: solution and keep any ground operation targeted.
Speaker 6: But guess what.
Speaker 7: The US also told Israel not to go into Rafa.
Speaker 7: You know what happened when we went into Rafa.
Speaker 5: They completely dismantled what was left of Hamas and now
Speaker 5: they've just got a bunch of rats in the tunnels
Speaker 5: that they have to go through and find.
Speaker 7: After the United States said don't do that.
Speaker 5: So now Israel, when they roll into Lebanon, they will
Speaker 5: take care of what they need to take care of.
Speaker 7: And it's widely believed.
Speaker 5: That the reason they're going into southern Lebanon is simply
Speaker 5: to disable any opportunity for Hesbela to strike Israel anymore.
Speaker 5: Because since October seventh, there has been a non stop
Speaker 5: barrage of rockets coming into northern Israel. About seventy thousand
Speaker 5: Israelis are displaced. By the way, not all of those
Speaker 5: Israelis are Jewish, some of them are Arabs, some of
Speaker 5: them are Drus, some of them are Israeli Jews. But
Speaker 5: they've been out of their homes for a year because
Speaker 5: Hesbela will not stop firing rockets at them. So Israel
Speaker 5: is looking to completely destroy the ability of Hesbela to keep.
Speaker 7: Doing those attacks. But in the process they've really.
Speaker 5: Exposed through the war against Tomas and the war against Hesbela,
Speaker 5: they have exposed to Iran as the paper tiger they
Speaker 5: are for all of the fear that the Biden administration
Speaker 5: has about Iran, And don't kid yourself, it is fear based.
Speaker 5: Every foreign policy decision that Joe Biden has made, and
Speaker 5: probably Kamala Harris has agreed with, is a decision made
Speaker 5: out of fear.
Speaker 7: And those are the worst. The withdrawal from Afghanistan made
Speaker 7: out of fear. Well, if we don't stop this war,
Speaker 7: people are going to hold this responsible.
Speaker 5: You could have stopped it without giving away billions of
Speaker 5: dollars of weapons to the Taliban, and this is what
Speaker 5: this is. We're afraid that this is going to start
Speaker 5: a larger conflagration in the Middle East. Another interesting thing,
Speaker 5: I don't have this on the blog, but I saw
Speaker 5: it earlier today. One of the big cheeses in Saudi Arabia,
Speaker 5: one of the princes who's in charge there, was asked
Speaker 5: about the Palestinian situation, and he was like, I don't
Speaker 5: really care. I don't have an opinion. I'm still recognizing Israel.
Speaker 5: We're still doing business with Israel. Saudi Arabia has not
Speaker 5: closed its airspace to Israeli jets.
Speaker 7: Saudi Arabia doesn't care. So it's going to be really
Speaker 7: interesting to watch how all of this pans out in
Speaker 7: the next few days. But I saw a video the
Speaker 7: other day.
Speaker 12: That was.
Speaker 7: Really telling.
Speaker 5: From balcony of an apartment in Tel Aviv, and it
Speaker 5: was just video of rockets coming into Tel Aviv being
Speaker 5: taken out by the Iron Dome. Right, So you see
Speaker 5: you see the rocket incoming and then you see a
Speaker 5: big explosion.
Speaker 7: And by the way, when there's an explosion.
Speaker 5: All that shrapnel falls down out of the sky. So
Speaker 5: there are places all over Israel where You'll be walking
Speaker 5: through the street and they'll be like shrapnel from rockets
Speaker 5: on the ground. But the most interesting thing about this
Speaker 5: was the conversation that was happening in the apartment as
Speaker 5: the rockets.
Speaker 7: Are being fired.
Speaker 5: It was like, so, what do you want to have
Speaker 5: for dinner? I don't know, what do you want to
Speaker 5: do for dinner? Kids are playing in the background. It
Speaker 5: was like the same conversation you have with your spouse
Speaker 5: when you get home from work, only there are rockets
Speaker 5: being fired directly at their apartment the whole time, and
Speaker 5: they're just like, well, you.
Speaker 7: Know, I don't know if we want to do this?
Speaker 7: Do you want to go? I mean, it's just bizarre.
Speaker 5: We cannot even begin to wrap our heads around what
Speaker 5: the people of Israel lived through on a daily basis.
Speaker 7: So for anyone in the United States to say anything about.
Speaker 5: How Israel's executing this war is just ridiculous. Because let
Speaker 5: me tell you something, if Mexico started hurling rockets every
Speaker 5: day for a year at Tucson, Arizona, you better believe
Speaker 5: that we would respond in kind, and we would respond brutally.
Speaker 5: And then when the news media showed up and said,
Speaker 5: you guys killed all these Mexican people. All they were
Speaker 5: doing was ineffectively firing rockets at you.
Speaker 7: And you killed them all.
Speaker 5: We would be very, very upset that you were trying
Speaker 5: to tell us how to take care of our business.
Speaker 7: And yet that's what we've done with Israel for years.
Speaker 5: Luckily though, for Israel, they've decided that if everyone in
Speaker 5: the world is going to hate them anyway, which apparently
Speaker 5: that's what's happening. You look at college campuses, in the
Speaker 5: anti semitism in the United States of America, you look
Speaker 5: at the anti semitism in the United States Congress. Why
Speaker 5: in the world would you give a crap what any
Speaker 5: other nation was going to say about you when you
Speaker 5: have the opportunity to once and for all, definitively destroy
Speaker 5: the people who are trying to destroy you. If you've
Speaker 5: already got a bad rap internationally, go ahead and take
Speaker 5: care of business. And that, I think is what's happening,
Speaker 5: and I think it's a good strategy. You know, people
Speaker 5: don't understand that there are still people in Israel.
Speaker 7: Who lived through the Holocaust. They still remember and they remember.
Speaker 5: That no one came to save them until six million
Speaker 5: people were murdered by the Nazis. No one came, and
Speaker 5: they're not going to let that happen again. Whether the
Speaker 5: Nazis or German, or the Nazis are Arab, they're not
Speaker 5: going to let that happen again. This isn't just some
Speaker 5: you know, way to flex, way to show your your muscle.
Speaker 7: This is life or.
Speaker 5: Death from a people that truly experience life and death
Speaker 5: in World War Two, and they have not forgotten that.
Speaker 7: They will never forget that. I hope, I hope these young.
Speaker 5: Kids living in Israel appreciate what's going on right now,
Speaker 5: even as it makes their life a living hell. Standing
Speaker 5: there talking about dinner, watching the rockets fly at you.
Speaker 5: I mean, I can't even imagine, Just can't even imagine.
Speaker 5: All right, So that is on the blog today.
Speaker 7: Don't forget.
Speaker 5: If you just joined us, and you join us later
Speaker 5: on in the show then others. I have put out
Speaker 5: my voter guide. It is the first thing in today's blog.
Speaker 5: You can just find it right there, entrance number one.
Speaker 5: And if you have something that you'd like me to
Speaker 5: look into, not candidates, because there are too many candidates
Speaker 5: and I can't do a deep dive.
Speaker 7: So I'm trusting you to just choose that on your own.
Speaker 5: That being said, if there are other issues that you
Speaker 5: want me to look into, you can email me up.
Speaker 7: Put my email address at the bottom of the voter guide.
Speaker 7: So there you go.
Speaker 5: Right now, we are going to check out what is
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Speaker 13: Yet not yet, but I'm sure there'll be an opportunity
Speaker 13: somewhere in one of the breaks to uh find out
Speaker 13: if I even know what I'm doing out there.
Speaker 14: But yeah, but you know, again, it's.
Speaker 13: Not like I'm opposed to embarrassing myself in front of
Speaker 13: a lot of people, obviously for multi reasons throwing out
Speaker 13: the first pitch, which, by the way, you did a
Speaker 13: great job and I don't know if I ever congratulated
Speaker 13: you on that.
Speaker 7: Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, this is one of those deals.
Speaker 13: Where, yeah, at some point I'm gonna have to probably
Speaker 13: go do that. I'm sure we have promotions here to
Speaker 13: film a video of it to make me look silly.
Speaker 7: You know what. Here's the thing, though, Ryan, here's what
Speaker 7: you have going for you.
Speaker 5: Nobody looks tough playing pickleball, right, No one looks like
Speaker 5: like a badass. It's I mean, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 5: it's a fun sport, but it's essentially elevated ping pong,
Speaker 5: so a tough thing.
Speaker 7: You don't have to worry about it because everybody.
Speaker 6: Looks like that.
Speaker 13: Okay, well you know what, I feel better about my
Speaker 13: decision in the future to do that.
Speaker 2: Now there you go.
Speaker 7: I'm here for you.
Speaker 5: But now it's time for the most exciting segment on
Speaker 5: the radio of its kind in the world of the day.
Speaker 5: And you always look tough to in that rinds. Always
Speaker 5: always Today's dad joke of the day, please Cooper, all right.
Speaker 8: Our dad joke of the day is did you hear
Speaker 8: about the archaeologist that got fired?
Speaker 6: No, Howa's career is in ruins?
Speaker 7: Oh wow, well yeah, I bet he didn't dig it
Speaker 7: he tired. Ah, double dad joke, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: What is our uh?
Speaker 7: What is our word of the day? Please?
Speaker 2: Tribulation?
Speaker 7: Oh, tribulation is a challenge that you have to face.
Speaker 6: Yeahs and tribulation Yeah, yep, you go.
Speaker 7: Okay, what is our tribute question?
Speaker 5: It is this and I Honestly, in my whole life,
Speaker 5: I have never pondered this question, and I don't know
Speaker 5: if I have an answer for it, but I'm gonna
Speaker 5: ask in anyway, how does an oyster eat?
Speaker 7: Ryan Edwards?
Speaker 14: How does an oyster eat?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 5: I mean, does it have a little mouth? Does this
Speaker 5: stick its mouth out of the shell? How does this happen?
Speaker 14: That's a fantastic question. I need to know the answer now.
Speaker 10: Well.
Speaker 5: The answer is oysters filter water through their gills. As
Speaker 5: they do so, they extract algae, plankton, and other food
Speaker 5: particles from the water.
Speaker 9: There you go.
Speaker 7: Now you know how oysters eat. I'm gonna have oysters tonight.
Speaker 2: By the way, I love oysters.
Speaker 12: I do too.
Speaker 5: I'm having some tonight, looking forward to it. All right,
Speaker 5: what is our jeopardy category?
Speaker 8: Our jeopardy category today is pay respects?
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, here's question number one.
Speaker 8: At his twenty eighteen funeral, his son said he was
Speaker 8: the brightest of a thousand.
Speaker 6: Points of light.
Speaker 7: His sun night.
Speaker 2: When what year twenty eighteen?
Speaker 11: Ryan?
Speaker 6: Yes? Who's George Bush?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 7: Oh dang, that was so obvious. I'm so stupid. Go ahead.
Speaker 6: Question two.
Speaker 8: Many funeral homes suggest keeping this to five minutes or less.
Speaker 7: Manny, Yes, what are eulogies? Yes, yep, all right?
Speaker 8: Question number three or nineteen ninety seven funeral included a
Speaker 8: song with the revised lyrics Goodbye ing Rose.
Speaker 14: I think I got there, Princess. Who's PRIs Dianna?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 7: I like the way you just give yourself the win there, Ryan,
Speaker 7: when you when you just look you leg you would
Speaker 7: look you legit did go first?
Speaker 6: So right? Question four two to one Ryan.
Speaker 8: Pollen found in burial caves used by these ancient humans
Speaker 8: named for a German valley suggests flowers were.
Speaker 6: Laid with their dead.
Speaker 7: Manny, who are the pharaohs? No, dang it? Back to zero.
Speaker 6: I got nothing Neanderthals.
Speaker 7: Oh wow, did not see that coming? All right?
Speaker 6: All right? Last question in the underworld goddess mitchet shooty.
Speaker 6: Of course, of course, no idea how to say that,
Speaker 6: because I was I'm just.
Speaker 8: Guessing this celebration was moved to coincide with All Saints
Speaker 8: Day and.
Speaker 7: All souls the fanny, what is Halloween? No dang it, Minus,
Speaker 7: I think I know what it is.
Speaker 2: I'll say, what is Day of the Dead?
Speaker 7: Yes, oh, Mandy, you moron? Well done? Ryan, Edwards, Well done.
Speaker 5: What do you guys have coming up on KA Sports
Speaker 5: from the Sporty Pickle Bar and Grill.
Speaker 7: Where are you? Oh? What's that location again?
Speaker 14: I'm glad you asked.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
Speaker 14: Yes, it is a half mile north of E four
Speaker 14: seventy on Peoria.
Speaker 6: We are thrilled to be here.
Speaker 14: And by the way, you come on down here. You
Speaker 14: mentioned big Al. You get a free twenty ounce of beer.
Speaker 13: We're gonna be given away Broncos Raiders tickets, so plenty
Speaker 13: of reasons to come down here. Of course, it's a
Speaker 13: victory Monday. I'm wearing my victory flannel, which can only
Speaker 13: mean good things. So we're very excited to be here.
Speaker 7: All right, there you go. That is Ryan Edwards.
Speaker 5: They are broadcasting live from the Sporty Pickle Bar and Grill.
Speaker 5: We'll be back tomorrow and let me do this real
Speaker 5: quick because I know I have some guests. Oh, we
Speaker 5: got Thomas Fryar Futurists coming up tomorrow, looking forward to that.
Speaker 5: And we're going to talk about a teacher that was
Speaker 5: fired because he says he said America is the greatest
Speaker 5: country in the world. We're going to get into all
Speaker 5: that keep it right here. In the meantime, on Koa