WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:03.240 The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Bell and Pollock 2 00:00:03.319 --> 00:00:04.799 Accident and Injury Lawyers. 3 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:10.000 No, it's Mandy Connell and Donna. 4 00:00:11.279 --> 00:00:16.640 KOAM ninety one FM, sad Way. 5 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:24.760 The Nicey's through three by Connell Keeping in the Rig 6 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:25.559 SAT Day. 7 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:29.199 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the first hour of a three 8 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:29.920 hour program. 9 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:31.359 It is Tuesday. I am Mandy. 10 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:34.560 That guy in the producer seat today, that's Grant Smith 11 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:37.920 in for a Roddy was doing our incredibly good coverage 12 00:00:38.039 --> 00:00:39.640 of training camp that you can see on all of 13 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:43.520 our social media platforms at KOA, Colorado. He's really posting 14 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:47.920 some cool stuff, including Ross trying to Would you try 15 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:48.600 to What do you want to do? 16 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:50.200 You want to catch him football? You want to cat 17 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:53.079 from the machine? Yeah? From the machine those The ball 18 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:54.960 comes out of that machine so fast. 19 00:00:55.159 --> 00:00:57.320 Have you ever gone to the NFL experience before the 20 00:00:57.399 --> 00:00:57.920 Super Bowl? 21 00:00:58.119 --> 00:00:58.840 No, they have. 22 00:00:59.079 --> 00:00:59.880 You can do that there? 23 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:00.479 Have you done it? 24 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:00.640 Oh? 25 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:02.840 Yeah, I've done it multiple Did you catch it? I 26 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:05.359 did catch the ball, but I was not successful in 27 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:07.319 the speed portion where you have to go through kind 28 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:10.560 of an obstacle course to get to where the pass 29 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:11.040 is coming. 30 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:15.359 I caught the pass once I was there, but I 31 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:16.799 was a little slower than the other guy. 32 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:19.079 I was just watching a receiver on the sidelines near 33 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:21.280 the end of practice the other day, just catching the 34 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:22.400 ball froming out of the machine. 35 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:26.000 And it's not slow. No, it's got quite an arm 36 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:28.760 on it. Now, I'd like to just note one other thing. 37 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:33.359 Who do you think is a better mustache the Broncos 38 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:36.799 new Australian punter or producer Grant? 39 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:42.959 Grant's is a pretty good stash. Yeah, but it's not 40 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:46.040 as bushy as the as the punter. Yeah, what do 41 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:47.879 you think Grant? I thought, I'm going to give it 42 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:49.920 to the new Denver punter. Wow, I like that guy. 43 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:52.200 Like, if you ask the new Denver punter that question, 44 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:54.319 you'd be like, that's not a mustache. 45 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:59.480 This is a mustache. Nice, exactly nice. 46 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:01.480 This little crock Dundee throw it back right there. Why 47 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:03.480 is Ross in the studio with me? Other than the 48 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:07.079 fact that we're pals, Well, funny you should ask ross Is. Also, 49 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:09.840 I'm gonna put my pinky out as I have my coffee, 50 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:10.080 as like. 51 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:13.919 Rollis is now a fellow at the Common Sense Institute, 52 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:16.919 which means they've hired him for his brain. 53 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:22.680 Certainly not his looks. Is it okay to put up 54 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:24.439 a pinky with coffee? I mean, I get it. 55 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:25.000 I did. 56 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:27.360 I couldn't do it with my coffee, I was I 57 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:30.039 didn't want to spill on myself. So yeah, I pinkied out, 58 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:33.560 but I was struggling to actually consume the coffee there 59 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:37.400 on that one. Yeah, I'm not a pinky out person apparently. Anyway, 60 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:41.800 Ross and two other experts from the Common Sense Institutrik 61 00:02:41.879 --> 00:02:46.199 gam and Sergio yuckez Caro did a new policy paper 62 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:50.319 on Colorado health policy at a Crossroads. They say, growth, 63 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:52.919 costs and Consequences. Now, we're gonna do the blog in 64 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:55.680 eight minutes because Ross has to go in eight minutes. 65 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.719 And Ross said to me via text message, this is 66 00:02:58.759 --> 00:03:01.800 a pretty dense topic. I'm afraid it won't be interesting. 67 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:05.159 And I said, shame, shame, Ross. We can make anything interesting. 68 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:08.680 Okay, Okay, let's try. Let's talk about this because it 69 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:09.879 is a dense topic. 70 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:14.199 But the reason this is so important is because healthcare 71 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:19.159 spending consumes the largest chunk of the Colorado budget period. Like, 72 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:22.159 that's why this matters. So what did you guys discover? 73 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:25.520 Give me the thumbnail sketch the elevator speech, if you will. 74 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:28.560 Okay, So the thumbnail is, and this probably won't surprise 75 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:31.199 anybody listening to your show or mine that in the 76 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:34.599 last six years or so, there have been one hundred 77 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:36.319 and eighty two new bills coming out of our state 78 00:03:36.439 --> 00:03:40.840 legislature about healthcare, and more than a third of them 79 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:47.039 expand and state healthcare services or add new regulation. 80 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:47.240 Stuff like this. 81 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:50.120 So, right, not surprisingly with the Democrat government, right, it 82 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:51.759 just keeps growing and growing and growing. 83 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:54.319 But there's a couple of big problems. 84 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:58.479 So one is when they did the expansion after Obamacare, 85 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:01.759 more people joined than so that's a cost to government. 86 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:04.120 And then in the short term, and this is really 87 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:07.759 the big thing for now, this well, let me say 88 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:10.159 there's two things. The expansion of the cost of Medicare, 89 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:13.159 even without the Big Beautiful Bill, is putting a big 90 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:15.879 squeeze on our state budget. As you said, it's an 91 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:18.839 enormous thing. And the cost of healthcare is going up 92 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:20.399 and the number of people on it and are going up. 93 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:23.600 And so even already before the Big Beautiful Bill, the 94 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:26.319 legislators were having to go find ways to cut the 95 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:28.879 state budget in order to not cut Medicaid and they 96 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:31.759 may come back in the special session if there is one, 97 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:34.439 and do it again, and then the Big Beautiful Bill 98 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:38.240 is going to massively reduce the amount of federal dollars 99 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:42.439 coming to Colorado, although not right away. Most provisions are 100 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:44.959 the Big Beautiful Bill that relate to Medicaid don't even 101 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:50.000 start until twenty eight and those will be the relatively 102 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:51.839 smaller ones, and then the huge ones are a couple 103 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:52.399 of years later. 104 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:54.600 The interesting thing about this for me is that we 105 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:57.000 cover far too many people in our Medicaid program. We 106 00:04:57.079 --> 00:05:00.279 cover illegal immigrants, we cover people who are a eble 107 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:02.360 bodied and don't have children. 108 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:04.680 This is well beyond the scope of. 109 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:08.279 The Medicaid program, and yet we have people who seem 110 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:11.000 very invested in making sure that no cuts to any 111 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:15.800 of those groups occurs. This is the classic scare tactic. 112 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:17.319 If you vote for that guy, he's going to take 113 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:18.439 away your Medicaid benefits. 114 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:21.120 But the reality is they we can't afford this. 115 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:25.800 We just can't afford it, so something's got to be done. 116 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:27.680 I mean, what's the bottom line here, Do you guys 117 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:30.160 just point out the growth or do you make any 118 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:31.279 hard suggestions? 119 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:35.879 Well, a little of both, So we cover to me, 120 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:40.439 this is a shocking number, but about twenty percent of 121 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:42.439 the population of Colorado was on Medicare. 122 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:44.800 Nineteen point two. Yeah, I read the paper, right, Okay, 123 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:48.240 so that nineteen percent number was the number at the 124 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:51.399 end of last year. Right now it's even a little higher. 125 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:53.360 So it's around twenty or twenty point two. 126 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:56.000 Now it's drifted up. We used end of twenty twenty 127 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:57.839 four data in the paper. 128 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:00.959 Do you know what the poverty rate here in Colorado is? 129 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:04.680 I don't. In twenty twenty two is nine point three percent. Right, 130 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:05.519 So this is supposed to. 131 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:07.959 Be healthcare for the poor, right and people who are 132 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:10.439 destitute who don't have any other options. 133 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:13.759 And so by definition under Obamacare, the under the Obamacare 134 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:16.519 Medicaid expansion, they said you can get into this if. 135 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:19.800 You are at one hundred and thirty thirty eight percent. 136 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:22.480 So they're bringing in all these people, and then, like 137 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:25.839 you said, they're bringing in able bodied people of working age. 138 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:28.360 Who don't have children. It's all pretty infuriating. 139 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:31.480 There are actually lots of states that have a higher 140 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:34.439 percentage of their population on Medicaid than we do. But 141 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:40.279 per employee, we spend more than not employee, per enroll lye, 142 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:44.000 we spend more than average. And in general, the states 143 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:48.879 that did Medicare expansion under Obamacare are spending not just 144 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:51.759 more because they added more people, but they're spending twenty 145 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:55.560 three percent more per enrollee than the states that didn't 146 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:58.240 do the expansion. So to answer your question, what can 147 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:00.800 we do to reduce the cost of you can, well, 148 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:02.800 there is oh, go ahead, no go ahead, I'll just 149 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:03.439 real quick. 150 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:06.319 You can reduce the number of people who qualify for Medicaid. 151 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:10.399 You can reduce which kinds of medical treatments Medicaid will 152 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:10.680 pay for. 153 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:13.639 You can reduce the amount of money you pay the 154 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:15.639 doctor for various treatments. 155 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:20.120 And smarter people than I and people with political motivations 156 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:22.519 as well as economic ones, are going to be making 157 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:23.199 those decisions. 158 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:25.759 I would love to see the federal government go to 159 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:28.399 a block grant for Medicaid. I think that they should 160 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:31.120 look at the last five years of spending, last ten years, 161 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:34.720 whatever average it out per person, and say, here is 162 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:38.759 your seventy five million dollars, seventy five billion dollars, whatever 163 00:07:38.839 --> 00:07:42.519 it is. That's your Medicaid money, Colorado, and that's what 164 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:44.800 you get to spend if you want to see efficiencies 165 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:47.439 in the system. You have to limit the federal input 166 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:50.360 because right now it's just a slush fund. They tack 167 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:52.639 on all these stupid hospital provider fees that I think 168 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:54.480 were just killed in the big beautiful bill, or at 169 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:59.079 least limited or limited, and they created this Medicaid sort 170 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:02.639 of circular billing system here in Colorado. And as long 171 00:08:02.639 --> 00:08:05.319 as the federal government's going to keep sending checks, they 172 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:07.439 have no incentive to fix the system. 173 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:09.839 Yeah, I don't think. I'm sure you've talked about it 174 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:10.319 on your show. 175 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:12.079 I don't think a lot of people understand just how 176 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:14.480 big this grift is when it comes to the unreal 177 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:18.279 these provider fees. So you know, there's one part of medicaid, 178 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:21.199 the old part of Medicaid, where if the state spends 179 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:23.759 a dollar, the federal government will send another thirty cents 180 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:27.120 or something like that. But the newer expansion part, this 181 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:29.920 whole grift. The state will spend a dollar and the 182 00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:33.240 federal government matches it with nine dollars. Yeah, nine dollars. 183 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:37.480 And the thing is the states, including Colorado, they see 184 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:39.480 that and they feel like they can kind of expand 185 00:08:39.559 --> 00:08:40.200 Medicaid a lot. 186 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:42.000 It doesn't really cost very much. 187 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:44.399 But now all of a sudden, you get the Trump administration, 188 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:46.799 and if the Trump people end up saying and they 189 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:48.559 haven't done this yet, but if they end up saying, 190 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:51.480 we're going to give you eight dollars instead of nine, right, 191 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:53.559 then you're going to be talking about just that is 192 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:55.879 going to be an eleven percent cut to the money 193 00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:59.679 coming into Colorado. And these folks, the people who are 194 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:02.720 in charge now in Colorado are people who love medicaid 195 00:09:02.759 --> 00:09:05.320 and always want it bigger. They are going to be 196 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:07.200 and they're going to have a very hard time, and 197 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:08.840 they're not gonna have a choice. They're gonna have to 198 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:10.879 do some combination of what I said. 199 00:09:10.879 --> 00:09:11.960 And I'm here for it. 200 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:15.639 So I mean, when I first started looking into Medicaid 201 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:18.320 and how it was structured, I was in Florida, and 202 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:21.120 the match from Medicaid from the federal government in Florida 203 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:24.679 was fifty percent. Fifty percent if you look at the 204 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:26.919 way Florida does Medicaid, and you have to understand, in 205 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:30.080 Florida there are so many old people who rely on 206 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:31.720 Medicaid for long term care. 207 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:34.039 Which is extremely expensive. 208 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:36.759 So a big chunk of their Medicaid budget is already 209 00:09:36.759 --> 00:09:39.200 allotted for that long term care needs. 210 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:39.960 For people in poverty. 211 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:43.440 So Florida has managed to keep their per person spending 212 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:47.360 dramatically lower than ours is, even though they're shelling out 213 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:50.399 for long term care situations for way more people in 214 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:51.919 Florida than they are in Colorado. 215 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:55.159 I mean, it's like, what is the incentive to do better? 216 00:09:55.559 --> 00:09:57.600 As long as the federal government is willing to backfill 217 00:09:57.679 --> 00:09:58.919 whatever you spend, And that's. 218 00:09:58.799 --> 00:09:59.759 What it's been up to this point. 219 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:02.600 Yeah, I mean, you get a sugar daddy who will 220 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:05.399 let you go shop at Gucci just as well as 221 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:07.399 you can go shop it at Marshalls. 222 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:08.600 Go to Gucci. 223 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:11.120 I still go to Marshalls and pocket the difference. I'm 224 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:12.679 just saying I'm far too practical for that. 225 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:16.120 All Right, boring guests Rock Kininsky, someone. 226 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:20.080 Did ask will Mandy's boring guest or Ross's AI guest 227 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:20.639 be better? 228 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:22.879 Ross did a pretty good job. 229 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:25.240 I'll have to see how he does up against the AI. 230 00:10:25.799 --> 00:10:27.600 I'm here on the way to see our friends at Region. 231 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:29.519 Yeah, I'm going and just folks, if you want to 232 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:32.879 see this report, I actually created an easy ur l 233 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:37.759 CSI like Common Sense Institute COO like Colorado dot org, 234 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:41.360 CSI COO dot org and you can find the report 235 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:44.360 right there on the front page. It's called Colorado Healthcare 236 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:45.399 Policy at a Crossroads. 237 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:47.240 Or you can just go to Mandy's blog dot com 238 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:49.200 click on the link that I put there. That would 239 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:52.360 be easy thing, the better way. Yeah, Randy Cromwell, I'm 240 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:55.399 here Randy Cromwell dot com. Also, we'll take you right there, 241 00:10:55.559 --> 00:10:58.279 I miss Randy. You know what, Randy's been busy. I 242 00:10:58.399 --> 00:10:59.759 know a lot of stuff going on. 243 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:02.840 Really, Randy's into pickleball now, so I don't know what 244 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:08.080 to tell We'll obsessed. Well, whatever Randy can get right, 245 00:11:08.200 --> 00:11:10.480 And Randy has asked that we only refer to Randy 246 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:12.399 in the third person, you know what I mean. 247 00:11:12.759 --> 00:11:15.919 Yeah, and just trying to honor that. So Randy's. 248 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:21.399 Well, you know, between the pickleball and you know, hiking 249 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:24.120 Mount Everest, Randy is his knees are rough. 250 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:26.399 Yeah, that's okay, that's okay. 251 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:29.480 Well, maybe you know, someday when you're going to be out, 252 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:31.600 you could get Randy to fill in again so we 253 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:32.919 can have a we can have a chat. 254 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:35.480 You know, I try, but frankly, Randy doesn't take my 255 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:39.159 calls anymore. So I don't know. Somebody hit the big 256 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:41.200 time and left the rest of us behind. 257 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:43.679 Thanks for having me, Oh no, thanks for writing the 258 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:47.960 boring paper anyway. Now, let's do the blog that includes 259 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:50.039 the boring paper, because I have a whole bunch of 260 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:52.320 more stuff coming up on the show as well. To 261 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:54.919 find the blog, you can go to Randy Cromwell dot com. 262 00:11:55.080 --> 00:11:58.360 That's Randy Cromwell dot com, or just go to mandy'sblog 263 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:02.279 dot com. Look for the headline this is seven five blog. 264 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:06.399 Trump's tariffs are working and Glenn Kessler is not. Click 265 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:09.440 on that and here are the headlines you will find within. 266 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:12.039 As office half of American all with ships and clipments 267 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:13.559 as ConA press plant. 268 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:18.759 Today on the blog when even CNN says it's working, 269 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:21.720 No more pinocchios for Glenn Kessler. 270 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:23.360 A real nerd is on at. 271 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:25.960 The beginning of the show, Why is Denver still giving 272 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:29.879 out e bike Coupon's Yes, Jeff Garden Grace is hiring 273 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:31.200 about that ten. 274 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:32.279 Thousand steps thing. 275 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:35.960 Denver Water has a creative way to teach about lawn watering. 276 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:40.799 C dot tears down history, DPS lies about. 277 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:41.840 Attendance and ice raids. 278 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:46.240 JSX is moving to Centennial Airport, Colorado will come for 279 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:49.600 your gas powered mower. See your regents won't be bullied. 280 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:53.879 A man targets the NFL because of CTE and CNN, 281 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:57.279 but clowns itself during the coverage. There are tons of 282 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:00.480 jobs in the airline industry. Hollywood thinks well, buy a 283 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:04.840 female gladiator is the mayor targeting a social media account 284 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:10.159 scrolling China funds are green organizations while ramping up coal use. 285 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:14.480 Marriage maybe making a comeback. Kids who get smartphones too 286 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:18.159 soon may have serious mental issues. Lifestyle changes may slow 287 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:22.679 or reverse Alzheimer's. Why the conflicting gaza won't end five 288 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:25.240 cruises not to book twenty five things the chat JPT 289 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:28.240 can do. Those are the headlines on the blog at 290 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:35.039 mandy'sblog dot com. Hoof anyway, Mandy, ever since you've been 291 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:37.559 off your supplements and your prescriptions, you're kind of cranky. 292 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:41.519 Oh my gosh, you guys. I couldn't sleep last night. 293 00:13:42.159 --> 00:13:45.120 I've been sleeping so well because of the Blue Sky 294 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:47.480 CBD sleep jails that I've been taking. That's not a 295 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:51.039 paid commercial diss just my reality. And last night girl 296 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:55.200 woke up three thirty grant. I was like, I should 297 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:56.480 call Grant to see what we're gonna do on the 298 00:13:56.519 --> 00:13:58.279 show today, because that's how I'm wide awake. 299 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:01.000 I was well, actually I was away last night too. Well, 300 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:03.559 dang it missed opportunity. 301 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:05.960 When I was a flight attendant, we flew to Europe 302 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:07.639 or like way out of our time zone. One of 303 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:10.159 our secrets that we had, and if you ever traveled 304 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:11.759 with a group of people, this is a great secret. 305 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:15.320 Although many hotel rooms no longer have phones in them, 306 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:18.480 I just realized that this is back in the day, though, 307 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:20.399 and I would you would call down to the front 308 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:22.240 desk and say, hey, can you turn on the message 309 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:25.720 light in so and so's phone, and if they were awake, 310 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:27.320 they would see it, and then they could call down 311 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:29.600 and find out who else was awake, and if they weren't, 312 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:30.919 I guess now you just sent a text. 313 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:33.240 Well that was fun while it lasted. Gosh, that made 314 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:35.320 me feel like I was. I feel like I was 315 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:39.120 from olden times after telling you that story. But back 316 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:41.919 when we had the wagon wheels and we were going 317 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:43.759 across the planes in. 318 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:47.919 The covered wagons, we had them turn on each other's lights. 319 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:50.480 And now hotel rooms and then we knew we could 320 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:51.840 go get a drink together. 321 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:55.919 And then Martha died of consumption. I mean, you know, 322 00:14:56.440 --> 00:14:58.399 dysent terry took down the whole group. 323 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:01.519 That was. 324 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:06.480 That did make me feel really old when I realized that, like, 325 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:10.200 my daughter is never going to need that service. Right, 326 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:13.440 there's things that were an integral part of my life 327 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:15.759 that my daughter's just never going to need that thing, 328 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:21.039 not a thing, no landline, no we anyway, I did 329 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:22.919 not mean to go off on a tangent. Coming up 330 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:26.200 at one o'clock, we have my friend David Strom from 331 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:28.320 hot air dot com on to talk about a couple 332 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:30.639 of things. I saw a couple of stories yesterday and 333 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:34.039 have an email and said, hey, but I need John twice. 334 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:37.879 I need John on two things. So that is going 335 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:42.399 to happen. Hang on one second. I am in the 336 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:49.440 process number two call, and I'm gonna get to this 337 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:53.360 in one second. What I'm doing there. So he's got 338 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:56.960 a story on Glenn Kessler. If you're not a political junkie, 339 00:15:56.960 --> 00:15:59.559 if you don't read the Washington Post regularly, First of all, 340 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:03.720 I haven't regularly read the Washington Post since I canceled 341 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:06.320 my subscription like five years ago. It used to be 342 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:09.600 every day I read the Washington Post, but it just 343 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:13.440 got so tedious. The thing that bugs me the most 344 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:17.240 about the Washington Post they have never apologized for anything 345 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:20.759 that they have won Pulitzer Prizes for it that they 346 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:23.480 then found out later was completely fabricated. 347 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:26.639 They don't even have the decency to say, yeah, we're 348 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:30.000 sorry about that. Eh, oh bad. 349 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:35.240 But nonetheless, Glenn Kessler has been working as a fact 350 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:38.519 checker at the Washington Post. 351 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:43.879 For decades now. He's the guy that gives out five pinocchios. Oh, 352 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:46.120 this is the four pinocchio, three pinocchio. 353 00:16:46.399 --> 00:16:49.240 Except yesterday or the day before, I don't remember which 354 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:50.840 day he announced to you had taken a buy out 355 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:53.320 from the Washington Post. We'll talk about David. Talk about 356 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:55.399 this with David a little bit later on the show. 357 00:16:56.399 --> 00:17:00.960 And someone posted that and said, oh, Glenn, you'll be missed, 358 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:03.759 and then people, because the internet is amazing on x 359 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:08.359 people started posting screenshots of all the garbage fact checks 360 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:09.920 he's done over the years that turned out to be 361 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:14.039 the exact opposite. And he's not just a fact checker. 362 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:17.400 He was snarky about it, like, oh yeah, scientists say 363 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:22.799 that could have never escaped from a Lamb, except. 364 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:22.920 No, I do. 365 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:26.680 So much stuff that he was just like cookline and 366 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:31.200 synchron and no apologies for being wrong and no shame. 367 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:33.799 If your job is to fact check and you get 368 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:37.200 so much stuff wrong, wouldn't you be embarrassed? Wouldn't you 369 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:39.000 just come to work on Dan and go You know what, Guys, 370 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:40.799 I don't think I'm very good at this. Maybe we 371 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:42.920 can find them me a new role. Since I keep 372 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:45.079 screwing this one. I don't feel like I'm nailing this 373 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:48.400 fact check thing very well. I'm really not getting it. 374 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:53.319 So Glenn Gessler's out and Jeff Bezos continues to remake 375 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:56.039 The Washington Post, so it could be very interesting to 376 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:58.759 see what happens at the Post. I love it if 377 00:17:58.759 --> 00:18:01.720 the Washington Post became read again. And before you tell 378 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:04.119 me go to the Washington Times, I do, but the 379 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:06.759 Washington Times is biased in the other direction. 380 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:12.799 I just want the news. I want the who, what, why, when, where? Whatever? 381 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:14.960 I want the facts. I don't need you to tell 382 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:18.240 me what to think about it on either side. Now, 383 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:20.559 the interview that I'm trying to set up right now 384 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:22.960 at two thirty, which is not on the blog, but 385 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:24.880 there is a story about what we're going to talk about. 386 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:28.039 There is a social media account called do Better Denver, 387 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:30.920 and if you don't follow do Better Denver, you follow it, 388 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:31.480 don't you Grant? 389 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:35.039 I think I follow it, but I know exactly what 390 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:35.799 you're talking about. 391 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:43.799 Do Better Denver post videos of homeless people, urban outdoorsmen, garbage, 392 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:48.720 and they post it because our current administration seems to 393 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:52.359 be unaware of all of these things going on. But 394 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:56.240 a funny thing is happening from the Mayor's office. We 395 00:18:56.440 --> 00:18:58.960 know that the mayor wants to know who's behind the 396 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:02.160 Do Better Denver account. It is an anonymously run account, 397 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:06.960 and now the Denver Post has been doing some sneaking 398 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:09.920 around and tomorrow I guess they have a story coming 399 00:19:09.960 --> 00:19:10.799 out where they are going. 400 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:13.880 To expose three whole people who. 401 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:16.240