Speaker 1: One texter sent me this. Mandy actually said Andy because
Speaker 1: they forgot the end. But my feelings aren't heard. Don't
Speaker 1: worry about it. Andy, please make an announcement about I
Speaker 1: twenty five to the north between Dacona and Firestone.
Speaker 2: There are four wrecks both sides of the road.
Speaker 1: It's very dangerous, so take your time if you are
Speaker 1: headed north between Dacona and Firestone. Things are a hot mess. Second,
Speaker 1: I just uploaded a photo I made Chuck take a
Speaker 1: photo of the chicken rub recipe that I was just
Speaker 1: talking about. You marinate you can do boneless chicken breast.
Speaker 1: I don't really do that. I do boneless chicken thighs.
Speaker 1: Marinate it in this chicken rub, throw them on the grill.
Speaker 2: Oh so good.
Speaker 1: Now you may have just heard the news story with
Speaker 1: Rob Dawson and cows in Cherry Creek or and something,
Speaker 1: and I needed more information. So we now have the
Speaker 1: intrepid Rob Dawson on the phone to answer questions about
Speaker 1: cows in Cherry Creek. Rob, how many cows are we
Speaker 1: talking about it?
Speaker 3: First of all, thanks for having I knew you were
Speaker 3: going to text me as soon as I saw you
Speaker 3: text I knew it was going to be about that.
Speaker 3: There were there were six they they were walking through
Speaker 3: the streets. Actually, I just have to say something now.
Speaker 4: When they got off.
Speaker 3: The trailer here, yeah, very disorganized.
Speaker 4: One of them walked. I mean the horn was inches
Speaker 4: away from myself.
Speaker 3: Oop.
Speaker 4: So recording this.
Speaker 1: I was like, Rob, you were going to protect yourself
Speaker 1: with your cell phone. You've got to steer with giant
Speaker 1: horns and you throw off your cell phone.
Speaker 2: Rob, we need to talk about self defense. I'm a
Speaker 2: little bit worried about you.
Speaker 3: Well, I thought that you can't make sud and movement.
Speaker 3: So I just, oh, yeah, there, that's what I was turning.
Speaker 3: I have myself out.
Speaker 4: Before the before the steer walked up.
Speaker 1: To my well, I want to make a quick announcement,
Speaker 1: and I being serious about this. There is no pope yet.
Speaker 1: We've got black smoke coming out at the Vatican. And
Speaker 1: so that was just an FYI, no pope today, No
Speaker 1: pope today now, Rob. So they brought six steers into
Speaker 1: Cherry Creek. Now, paint a picture for me, Rob, because
Speaker 1: you know we're radio people.
Speaker 2: Were the steers on leashes? What was going on?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Who was walking.
Speaker 4: Guys on horses?
Speaker 3: Were kind of starting them, but they were not on
Speaker 3: any sort of leaves. They were walking kind of being
Speaker 3: pushed with the horses. Although along this route right before
Speaker 3: the elementary school, there was a car parked on the
Speaker 3: street and.
Speaker 4: One of the steers almost hit the car.
Speaker 3: So the horse just got in there at the last second.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine that insurance claim? Do you call your
Speaker 1: insurance age. You're like, yeah, my car was damaged when
Speaker 1: a steer ran into it. Okay, where did this happen?
Speaker 1: Cherry Creek And they're like, wait, what so this sandwich
Speaker 1: place that's here right, tell me about this sandwich place.
Speaker 1: So essentially they're bringing the steers down so you can
Speaker 1: see what your roast beef used to look like, what
Speaker 1: are we doing?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: I was thinking about that too, But this is Mendocino Farms.
Speaker 3: You and your audience is going to love this, Mandy,
Speaker 3: because it's the California based, LA based sandwich eatery. They
Speaker 3: do sandwiches, saladeetering, and they're open up their first location
Speaker 3: in Cherry Creek now, I guess to endear themselves to Colorado.
Speaker 4: They were aware.
Speaker 3: That the steers didn't make it for the Stack Show
Speaker 3: parades this year because they were stuck in the snow
Speaker 3: on the way up here, so they decided, I guess
Speaker 3: that it would be a good idea.
Speaker 4: And their logo is a cow.
Speaker 3: To do a promotion with the mini parades or Cherry Creek.
Speaker 3: And then the steers and the staff delivered some of
Speaker 3: their food to Elementary School of Brownwell Elementary for teacher
Speaker 3: Appreciation Week. I said, your audience is going to love
Speaker 3: this because the SoundBite I had to use it. I
Speaker 3: was like, so why Terry Creek And the woman, the
Speaker 3: manager said, oh, well, well, there's a lot of California's
Speaker 3: man miss us and know about us, and we just
Speaker 3: thought it would be a great place to pay.
Speaker 4: And I walked past it. It was passed.
Speaker 1: I bet, I bet, I just I find this and
Speaker 1: you know what, here's the thing. We're sitting here talking
Speaker 1: about their brand new business on the radio. So obviously
Speaker 1: it was the right kind of pr stunt. It just
Speaker 1: it would be like chick fil A opening a store
Speaker 1: by bringing in a bunch of like baby chickens, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like, here's what your food looked
Speaker 1: like before we killed it to put it on a
Speaker 1: bun so you can eat here. I mean you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It just seemed like an odd choice
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 3: One of the other media members said, oh, yeah, this
Speaker 3: is a restaurant opening. It's a little weird, but okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, yeah, there we go. Okay, Rob,
Speaker 1: That's really all I needed to know. I just needed
Speaker 1: to Did they get them back onto the trailer without incident,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing or we would have heard about.
Speaker 4: That they did.
Speaker 3: I did hear some conversation they were they were rounding
Speaker 3: up the horses.
Speaker 4: First time I thought.
Speaker 3: They like one guy was like, wait, wait a minute,
Speaker 3: should we leave like one horse behind.
Speaker 4: I guess one of the.
Speaker 3: Steers got loose, the force would be able to chase it.
Speaker 4: But I wasn't around for that part. But I was
Speaker 4: just hoping they all got the trailer.
Speaker 1: Okay, wow, can you imagine what this is like for
Speaker 1: the steers, Like, you know, here they are, they're just
Speaker 1: minding their own beswax right. They're out on a farm
Speaker 1: or ranch somewhere. They're in the wide open spaces, they
Speaker 1: got grass whatever steers do out there. And then they're like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: hop in the truck, and you hop in the truck,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, You're like in the
Speaker 1: big city. It's almost like a cow version of crocodile Dundee.
Speaker 3: And they looked annoyed essentially with the selby they were.
Speaker 3: They were put into like a pen. It makes a
Speaker 3: pen in the middle of the street at the elementary
Speaker 3: school for about a half hour.
Speaker 4: So the kids can watch.
Speaker 3: But the kids have views were blocked by all the
Speaker 3: adults taking chelfies with the.
Speaker 4: With the animals. So that was interesting too. They got
Speaker 4: a chance the kids.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: So we got steers in Jerry Creek and sandwiches to boot.
Speaker 2: It's that kind of day.
Speaker 3: Rob.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the clarification. Let's just confused me. I'm not.
Speaker 2: I was like what what?
Speaker 1: And I kind of wasn't paying full attention to the
Speaker 1: news story the first time it played, and I it
Speaker 1: was I didn't, but apparently I did hear it correctly.
Speaker 2: You did, Yeah you did, Cols and Jerry Creek.
Speaker 1: All right, Rob Dawson, to see you later. Yea, thank
Speaker 1: you are wonderful, wonderful news man.
Speaker 2: Rob Dawson. I don't even understand that.
Speaker 1: But okay, let's talk for a moment about the US
Speaker 1: News and World Report. Annual report on states What States
Speaker 1: are the Best to live? And this is what it
Speaker 1: says on their Best States ranking. Some states shine in healthcare,
Speaker 1: some sort in education, some excel in.
Speaker 2: Both, or in much more.
Speaker 1: The Best States rankings by US News draws on thousands
Speaker 1: of data points to measure how wealth states are performing
Speaker 1: for their citizens. In addition to healthcare and education, the
Speaker 1: rankings take into account of state's economy, it's roads, bridges,
Speaker 1: internet and other infrastructure, it's public safety, it's natural environment,
Speaker 1: the fiscal stability of state government, and the opportunity it
Speaker 1: affords its residents. More weight was accorded to some categories
Speaker 1: than others based on a survey of what matters most
Speaker 1: to people. Healthcare and education were weighted most heavily. Then
Speaker 1: came state economies, infrastructure, and the opportunity states offer their citizens.
Speaker 1: Fiscal stability followed closely in waiting, followed by measures of
Speaker 1: crime and corrections, and to state its natural environment. So
Speaker 1: let's look at the ranking. Shall we Number one? The
Speaker 1: state of Utah. Yep, the Great State of Utah is
Speaker 1: number one in fiscal stability overall and in the top
Speaker 1: ten of four other categories.
Speaker 2: Now, what does this matter?
Speaker 1: Well, it matters because as businesses look to move or
Speaker 1: open or expand, they're looking for places that are going
Speaker 1: to have a good worker base.
Speaker 2: They're looking for places that people are.
Speaker 1: Going to want to move if they need to bring
Speaker 1: in experience people from other areas.
Speaker 2: They're looking for.
Speaker 1: Places where there's a good quality of life because happy
Speaker 1: people make happy employees. And I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys knew this, but Utah's right over there. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's like right over there.
Speaker 2: So we need to be.
Speaker 1: Concerned about Utah's ascension and more concerned about where we
Speaker 1: are going.
Speaker 2: Now this year it goes like this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you starting number one, because I already
Speaker 1: gave you Utah. No point in expanding the you know,
Speaker 1: the tension around it. Number two New Hampshire Live for
Speaker 1: or Die. Whenever anyone says New Hampshire, in my mind
Speaker 1: I respond, live for or die, which is their state motto.
Speaker 1: And now they're number two. Idaho right after that. Idaho
Speaker 1: is a beautiful state, but people in Idaho and Montana
Speaker 1: can be a little odd in my view, not bad,
Speaker 1: just odd, not the friendliest group of people. And now
Speaker 1: I guess when you move to Montana and Idaho. You
Speaker 1: do want friends, right You're like, I'm looking for that Yellowstone,
Speaker 1: wide open spaces kind of vibe. So it attracts a
Speaker 1: different sort of you know folk as it were. Minnesota
Speaker 1: number four best overall, Number five Nebraska. Now, guys, you're
Speaker 1: starting to see a pattern here, because just like Utah's
Speaker 1: right over there, Nebraska is right up there, right next door.
Speaker 1: Number six my home state of Florida. That has not
Speaker 1: always been that way, Okay, and Florida right now is
Speaker 1: number one in economy and number.
Speaker 2: Two in education.
Speaker 1: That is amazing to me When I was a kid
Speaker 1: that schools were not good in Florida, I mean, and
Speaker 1: those of you who are who are hate listening right
Speaker 1: now are like, well.
Speaker 2: That explains a lot about you.
Speaker 1: That being said, i have to give a lot of
Speaker 1: credit to Jeb Bush. And I'm not a huge Jeb
Speaker 1: Bush fan. Like I love George W.
Speaker 2: Bush. I'm an unabashed George W. Bush fan. I don't
Speaker 2: like everything he did.
Speaker 1: In hindsight, I have great, great reservations about the entire
Speaker 1: Iraq War.
Speaker 2: But nonetheless I love the guy.
Speaker 1: His brother Eh, he's okay, but he was a great
Speaker 1: governor and he was one of the first governors that
Speaker 1: I was aware of that's centered reading in schools. Everything
Speaker 1: was about making sure kids could read, because if they
Speaker 1: can't read, they can't do anything else. And so he
Speaker 1: really aggressively focused on reading. And now number one in
Speaker 1: education is just number two in education.
Speaker 2: Is stunning to me. But it just goes to show.
Speaker 1: You what a good plan, what great phonics education, what
Speaker 1: a solid foundation can do for kids as they get older.
Speaker 1: Just a point of order for Denver Public schools, throwing
Speaker 1: that out there. Number seven, Vermont, number eight, South Dakota.
Speaker 1: Guess what South Dakota is right there? Number nine Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: But then you got to have Massachusetts winner, number ten
Speaker 1: Washington State. So Colorado not in the top ten. Colorado
Speaker 1: is number eleven. Wait is this the right Let me
Speaker 1: make sure I have the right year. This might be
Speaker 1: the wrong long year because Colorado is actually sixteen.
Speaker 2: Um bum bum bum. Let me see here, you guys,
Speaker 2: get back to where we're try this again and do
Speaker 2: this and do this.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me see I just put the wrong link
Speaker 1: in here. Oh, come on, one moment, Well, I find
Speaker 1: the right thing. And if I still have a wrong
Speaker 1: on the block, I'm gonna be super mad about about that.
Speaker 1: Um and try this makes great radio Zach vamp for me.
Speaker 5: Vamp uh man. I think sixteen still sounds pretty solid
Speaker 5: for Colorado.
Speaker 2: You'd like to hear it better.
Speaker 5: Obviously that's not pull US's goal of top ten.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's terrible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna have to come back to this because
Speaker 1: I can't get this to open. And I know that
Speaker 1: I have a a password for this because I had
Speaker 1: to make it this morning, but it's not working right now.
Speaker 2: So that's usually how this goes. Let me do this.
Speaker 1: I know how I can find this twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: best state.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 5: I'm surprised to see Nebraska and Utap that high at
Speaker 5: the very least, even though you know they do some
Speaker 5: nice things going for them. I don't see a flock
Speaker 5: of people go in Nebraska or Utah.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I am wrong on my blog. It is
Speaker 1: eleventh overall. Oh that's good. We were sixteenth in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. Hey, trend en, I've gone back up. Nope,
Speaker 1: then I rescind my entire thing. We've been going up
Speaker 1: and down over the last few years, mostly down. So
Speaker 1: if we pop back up, to eleven. Then I have
Speaker 1: to change my entire blog post. Never mind. The problem
Speaker 1: is is I was looking for history to try and compare,
Speaker 1: which should be easily available, but it's not, and I
Speaker 1: screwed myself up. This is one of those occasions where
Speaker 1: your delightful talk show host, I got to eat at
Speaker 1: my friends. That's the egg on my face. Do you
Speaker 1: have any salt, Zach, because he knows egg needs salt.
Speaker 1: I got about fifteen pack.
Speaker 2: You asked for one. So moving on. This is a
Speaker 2: very cool story.
Speaker 1: And I know that there's a touchiness to people when
Speaker 1: we're talking about immigration because now all immigration has been
Speaker 1: conflated with legal immigration.
Speaker 2: But that's not right, it's.
Speaker 1: Not accurate right, And this story from nine News, I
Speaker 1: really like it. Denver Public Schools offers citizenship classes at
Speaker 1: three of its community hubs throughout the district, and since
Speaker 1: the inauguration of Donald Trump and the pursuit of illegal immigrants,
Speaker 1: a lot of people who have visas, green cards, and
Speaker 1: permanent residents are now feeling some urgency to go ahead
Speaker 1: and become citizens.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't care why someone becomes a citizen finally, but
Speaker 1: if they're here and they have legal status and they're
Speaker 1: working and they're part of the community, then I really
Speaker 1: want them to become a CITI. I want people who
Speaker 1: want to work hard and be you know, successful, I
Speaker 1: want them to become citizens. And a lot of the
Speaker 1: people they talk to in the story is they want
Speaker 1: to vote, they want to participate.
Speaker 2: I think that's wonderful.
Speaker 1: And now they say they've got so much demand as
Speaker 1: these classes that they can't keep up, which I also
Speaker 1: think is great.
Speaker 2: Have you you've probably never had.
Speaker 1: The experience to watch a class of people take their
Speaker 1: citizen their oath of citizenship is very, very moving. I
Speaker 1: mean I got to go watch it for a news story.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know any of the people, and I
Speaker 1: cried because when they take the oath of citizenship and
Speaker 1: they become an American citizen, the pride, it's like everybody's
Speaker 1: glowing with pride because, you know what, we were born here.
Speaker 1: We really got the luck of the draw, right, we
Speaker 1: were lucky enough to be born in the United States
Speaker 1: of America. These people have gone over so many heard
Speaker 1: they've had to learn of language most of the time.
Speaker 1: Many of them have incredibly arduous stories of how they
Speaker 1: got out of their native lands. And how they got
Speaker 1: to the United States and waiting for years and seeing
Speaker 1: all of that come to fruition to see them become
Speaker 1: Americans because all they ever wanted was to be Americans.
Speaker 2: It's so great. It's so incredibly great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like watching someone get into their dreams schools
Speaker 5: or something. With all the work that goes into it,
Speaker 5: and the tests and the studying and all that. It's
Speaker 5: something you have to be really determined to do. It's
Speaker 5: it's interesting to see some states start to require it
Speaker 5: as a graduation required from high school, which I do
Speaker 5: think is interesting. It gives you a valuable perspective about
Speaker 5: what it took for these other people to become an Immerman.
Speaker 2: States require going to what some states require you to pass.
Speaker 5: The new State just leave say yeah, you past the
Speaker 5: citizenship exam to earn your high school diploma.
Speaker 2: I'll check which states right now.
Speaker 1: The citizenship exam is not a walk in the park.
Speaker 1: It's not the hardest thing ever. If you paid attention
Speaker 1: in civics class and history, you should be able to
Speaker 1: pass it. But for people that it's not their history
Speaker 1: and it's not their you know, native language, it's just
Speaker 1: it's a wonderful thing. So I don't know if there
Speaker 1: are other classes like this around where people are coming in,
Speaker 1: but I'd love to know if there are.
Speaker 2: These are at Denver Public Schools.
Speaker 1: And there's a line Mandy, I work for DPS, and
Speaker 1: they've said they're not even gonna bother trying to teach
Speaker 1: these kids to English. They think that would be racist.
Speaker 2: What what I'm if that's accurate.
Speaker 1: That has to come straight out of the brain of
Speaker 1: Superintendent Alex Mareno, the first after Latino bilingual superintendent of
Speaker 1: Denver Public Schools, who has just given a contract extension,
Speaker 1: even though Denver Public Schools has not recovered from pandemic
Speaker 1: learning losses, not even close, and black and Latino students
Speaker 1: are slighting even further back. And yet the Denver Public
Speaker 1: School which I hope changes significantly this November, decided to
Speaker 1: go ahead and do it anyway.
Speaker 2: That sounds like something he would do. You know, here's
Speaker 2: the thing.
Speaker 1: If you don't teach kids who don't speak English English,
Speaker 1: you are locking them out of a huge part of
Speaker 1: the economy. You are trapping them in a small fraction
Speaker 1: of the entire economy of the United States of America.
Speaker 1: And I have friends who work in you know. You
Speaker 1: know who's a great example of what I'm about to say.
Speaker 1: The jockey, the Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day, nicest
Speaker 1: man you will ever meet in your life. And when
Speaker 1: he stopped racing, he started a ministry and he ministers
Speaker 1: to all of these young jockeys. They're all from Latin
Speaker 1: American countries. They're all like little, pocket sized people and
Speaker 1: Pat Day teaches them English, helps them get citizenship if
Speaker 1: they want it, but he supports them as they become Americans.
Speaker 2: It's just part of the wonderful things that Pat does.
Speaker 3: To me.
Speaker 1: He is, he's an amazing man. He's a small man,
Speaker 1: but an amazing man. One of my favorite pictures is
Speaker 1: Pat Day to my left, chucked to my right. We
Speaker 1: look like that cell phone commercial with the bars. It's perfect.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back.