Speaker 1: The host on our brother station six thirty k hel
Speaker 1: Brother two to four. I just can't call it a
Speaker 1: sister station. There's literally no chicks on the station.
Speaker 2: There's one right here.
Speaker 1: Well you plus I'm the station in January. Big changes
Speaker 1: coming in. They're positive changes, or I would be like
Speaker 1: big changes are coming, but they're not. So I can
Speaker 1: say big changes are coming. Where are you moving to?
Speaker 3: Well, a little bit of real estate has been shifting
Speaker 3: around thanks to one of Michael Browne. Coming over here
Speaker 3: between nine am and noon is a prelude to your program,
Speaker 3: so something had to fill the va am to ten am?
Speaker 2: Was that you?
Speaker 3: That was me?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do what a Rod asked me to do.
Speaker 3: No, but it's weird. I was hearing like two different
Speaker 3: Mandy voices. I thought my brain, yep. But anyway, six
Speaker 3: am to ten am over there had been vacant for
Speaker 3: some time and it made sense to Jeffersons two years
Speaker 3: well to the morning drive, well, removing the furniture, and
Speaker 3: that's what's happening. And so you know, very appreciative of
Speaker 3: that opportunity to you know, try to pick up where
Speaker 3: Brownie left off.
Speaker 1: Well, you're there was a and here's the thing. Every
Speaker 1: single person that was in contention for that job is
Speaker 1: a friend of mine, every single one of them. And
Speaker 1: I told Dave Tepper, I was like, first of all,
Speaker 1: I'm out, like I have no opinion, but there was
Speaker 1: no way that we weren't going to win in that.
Speaker 1: But you made absolutely the most sense. You're a known
Speaker 1: quantity there. People love you on K They love you
Speaker 1: here too when you do your feeling work. But I'm
Speaker 1: super excited for you, even though I don't want that.
Speaker 1: I don't want that schedule.
Speaker 3: You used to have it, you know, following in the
Speaker 3: lineage of khow mornings would be Mandy Connell, ros Kamensky,
Speaker 3: Michael Brown would all three of them have in common?
Speaker 1: And now they're all on camp. That's the thing, right,
Speaker 1: living the dream buddy. Now let's let's we got to
Speaker 1: talk about this other thing before it went out of time.
Speaker 2: And there's another thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's another thing. We are going to be moderating
Speaker 1: a goobleatory of debate in January January tenth up in Greeley.
Speaker 1: Big thanks to both Sheriff Steve Reams and our buddy
Speaker 1: Steve Wells. Steve is underwriting this whole thing. It is
Speaker 1: designed to be a debate for the top six GOP
Speaker 1: gubernatorial candidates, and it will be a debate between the
Speaker 1: top five gubernatorial candidates. And I didn't ask Sheriff Steve
Speaker 1: Reams how much of the back and forth that I
Speaker 1: could share, because you and I were both privy to
Speaker 1: the series of text messages that were exchanged with the candidates,
Speaker 1: and every candidate except one immediately jumped in to confirm
Speaker 1: the one candidate.
Speaker 2: Victor Marx. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I might add too that Representative Scott Bottoms had just
Speaker 3: lost his father like two days before we passed away,
Speaker 3: and he committed to it. Barb Kirkmeyer, Greg Lopez, I'll
Speaker 3: offer this part of the exchange because I think it's
Speaker 3: relevant to discussion and for our listeners to know. Both
Speaker 3: Barb and Greg offered to move the date YEP immediately
Speaker 3: to accommodate Victor. Victor just has an event apparently scheduled
Speaker 3: January tenth, I believe Saturday coming up, so about a
Speaker 3: month from now, and kind of gave a blanket response
Speaker 3: that he's looking forward to debates, but not that one,
Speaker 3: and it was a conflict in his schedule. He's going
Speaker 3: to be appearing with me actually tomorrow morning, Victor Marx
Speaker 3: eight am over there on six point thirty k ow,
Speaker 3: it'll be the first question that I asked him is
Speaker 3: why not this debate? Why not?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Why wait? Why punt? Why can't the event you have
Speaker 3: on January tenth be moved? I mean, isn't that important?
Speaker 3: What's more important than an open debate for the voters
Speaker 3: to consider the candidate correct and for Victor to have
Speaker 3: opportunity to interact with these other candidates and prove himself
Speaker 3: to be the best candidate.
Speaker 1: When he came back with the I have a conflict,
Speaker 1: I get it, you got a conflict.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a.
Speaker 1: Big fundraiser, maybe whatever you gotta sco there's a lot
Speaker 1: of but when you know immediately the offer was made,
Speaker 1: we'll move this to accommodate you. And then it just
Speaker 1: got felt dodgy. I felt like his response was vague
Speaker 1: and hey, you guys have a good time. All promoted
Speaker 1: among my channels. It's almost literally what he said there
Speaker 1: at the event. I know that's why I chose those
Speaker 1: So basically, I'll let all of my people see you
Speaker 1: guys rip each other to shreds and then I'll prote that,
Speaker 1: but I won't. Actually, I got to tell you, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't understand the fascination with this guy. I'm going
Speaker 1: to be perfectly honest. It's almost like he's trying to
Speaker 1: pull a Trump. Remember as the primary where Ronda Santis
Speaker 1: and Nikki Haley and all the other Republican candidates, it
Speaker 1: felt like a junior varsity debate.
Speaker 3: And you know, well Trump had been President of the
Speaker 3: United States, so exactly kind of get that. I don't
Speaker 3: know that Victor Marx is on that level. Especially there
Speaker 3: are so many listeners in my audience, Mandy, and maybe
Speaker 3: you've gotten the same response that they don't even know
Speaker 3: who this guy is or are aware of him. Now,
Speaker 3: he's done a lot, He's written a couple of books.
Speaker 3: Apparently he had some ties to Turning Point, USA and
Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk. There's a lot of interesting aspects to his story.
Speaker 3: I just think that he needs to he owes it
Speaker 3: to listeners and to potential voters to really get into
Speaker 3: the nitty gritty and the devil of the details of
Speaker 3: exactly you know, there are questions about some things about
Speaker 3: his past, or questions about his political acumen. Does he
Speaker 3: have policy stance iss that can be well articulated. I
Speaker 3: think this might be some of the concern that he
Speaker 3: gets up there on a debate with a very well
Speaker 3: versed Barb kirkclar Yeah, and I'm just telling you that
Speaker 3: that's the difference is going to be noticeable. So I'm
Speaker 3: looking forward to moderating to debate with the candidates that
Speaker 3: we have, Mandy.
Speaker 2: But to your point, I agree.
Speaker 3: I am disappointed that Victor Marx is not choosing to
Speaker 3: be part of it. Maybe he'll change his mind after
Speaker 3: he talks to me.
Speaker 1: To Mark, you know what, from your lips to God's ears.
Speaker 1: I hope so, because it also feels disrespectful right in
Speaker 1: a way of all of the other candidates that are running.
Speaker 1: Here you have a forum and by the way, to
Speaker 1: the texture, said Mandy, I live in Greeley. Can I
Speaker 1: come to the debate? You absolutely can. But tickets are
Speaker 1: going very very quickly. They're free, packed, they're free. But
Speaker 1: you better get him soon. I put a link on
Speaker 1: the blog today. If you want to know more about that,
Speaker 1: you have the thing.
Speaker 3: This is just my upbringing. My background is be a
Speaker 3: question I have for victors. I'm not going to say
Speaker 3: anything here that I won't say directly to him. It's like,
Speaker 3: what makes your time more valuable than Barb Kirkliers or
Speaker 3: Greg Lopez or Sheriff Mike SEL's. You know, they have events.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that may have been scheduled for that date
Speaker 3: as well. Sheriff Rames floats that out. And that's another thing.
Speaker 3: Chair Steve Reames is one of the most respected people
Speaker 3: in the Colorado Republican Party statewide, not just in Weld County.
Speaker 3: So it makes sense to me that once he extended
Speaker 3: this offer, five of those candidate dates go yes, I'm there.
Speaker 1: Immediately you guys, wait, Ryan and I were on the text, right,
Speaker 1: it was immediate, idiot.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: So that's the thing, is like, why is your time
Speaker 3: more valuable and you can't spare it? But you guys
Speaker 3: go play amongst yourselves in the sandbox. We'll see maybe
Speaker 3: I'll come down the line and participate in a debate
Speaker 3: at some point.
Speaker 2: That's a bad look. It's a bad look. I think
Speaker 2: it's a really bad luck.
Speaker 1: And it was. I just and I have been watching
Speaker 1: and I've been watching the videos that people are sharing
Speaker 1: on social media, and they're very well produced, you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're very well packaged. But until I see and
Speaker 1: hear from the guy myself, and it shouldn't be that
Speaker 1: I have to say, well, I got to get him
Speaker 1: on my radio show. I think every voter, and I
Speaker 1: say this all the time, I think voters should go
Speaker 1: see these people in person. Any opportunity you can, you
Speaker 1: should go see them in person. And I could be
Speaker 1: at a fundraiser, right because you will see, you will
Speaker 1: get a feel for someone in ten minutes in person
Speaker 1: that you cannot get from internet videos that are carefully
Speaker 1: packaged or you know, other commercials that you might see.
Speaker 1: So I feel like every opportunity for someone who is
Speaker 1: well known in Olpaso County but not well known in Well.
Speaker 2: County, right, not at all?
Speaker 3: Well And further along those lines, when we saw let's
Speaker 3: say Donald Trump in twenty sixteen, he was a known quantity,
Speaker 3: so that part's different, but the part that would be
Speaker 3: the same circumstances, he was a newcomer to politics, and
Speaker 3: people like myself for like, does this guy really have
Speaker 3: what it takes to get into the political arena and
Speaker 3: affect the change that he's talking about? What are his
Speaker 3: policy positions? Where did Donald Trump shine the most. Where
Speaker 3: did he separate himself the most from those other candidates,
Speaker 3: It was on the debate stage where he called Jeb
Speaker 3: Bush low energy.
Speaker 2: You're over there in the end of the stage. You're
Speaker 2: pulling numbers have fallen through. You're a real tough guy, Jeb.
Speaker 3: And that's how he kind of, like I said, separated
Speaker 3: himself from the field. And you would think of Victor
Speaker 3: Marx's campaign, we have to participate in a debate like that.
Speaker 3: That's how we kind of get our foot in the
Speaker 3: door and show these other establishment candidates who are you know,
Speaker 3: political political muckety MUCKs that we can come into this arena.
Speaker 1: That is that's exactly right. If you believe you're good
Speaker 1: enough to be governor, you should believe to win the debate.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 3: One final thing, I know we got to wrap up here,
Speaker 3: but props to a Rod. I'm not sure if he
Speaker 3: did this intentionally or was just a spin of the wheel,
Speaker 3: but he came into this segment with gimme shelter by
Speaker 3: the rolling stones.
Speaker 2: That's my ring tone on my phone, and.
Speaker 3: That's because my last name, Schuling translates from Dutch to
Speaker 3: shelter in English. And he nailed it with the song there.
Speaker 1: Wow, that was a lot of TMI, right, There a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on there about that. So do
Speaker 1: you know how the top six were chosen? That is
Speaker 1: a question I wanted to ask, and I forgot to
Speaker 1: ask Steven. I popped into my head.
Speaker 3: What he told me, I think was just going on
Speaker 3: whatever internal polling data was. You're comparing these among the candidates,
Speaker 3: and you think they're going to be let's say, massage.
Speaker 2: We're on the margins to make it look as good
Speaker 2: for each candidate as possible.
Speaker 3: But I think with the numbers and the comparisons across
Speaker 3: the tabs of each candidate, it became clear. I think
Speaker 3: to the sheriff that there were six candidates in particular
Speaker 3: that were higher in level of awareness or support, perhaps
Speaker 3: in dollars earned. That'd be a question better for him.
Speaker 3: I'll text them after this segment as a matter of fact,
Speaker 3: or maybe you can as well.
Speaker 2: But let's think that's how he came to this.
Speaker 1: For the record, I don't disagree that these are the
Speaker 1: top six.
Speaker 2: I want to be clear about that.
Speaker 1: I think that these are the clear name I d
Speaker 1: well recognized, you know, candidates for the GUP nomination and
Speaker 1: I think they made the right choice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and again, if you had all six candidates participating,
Speaker 3: this is going to be like a WWE battle. Royale
Speaker 3: and Mandy and yours truly being the referees, It's gonna
Speaker 3: be a lot of fun and it should be. And
Speaker 3: you know, the candidates get in there and they mix
Speaker 3: it up. This is what American politics is all about.
Speaker 3: And it gives the people a chance to make up
Speaker 3: their own minds, bet these candidates for themselves.
Speaker 2: And put them through the ring.
Speaker 3: Because you know, darn well, Mandy and I cleaned up
Speaker 3: my language just for you that whether it's Kyle Clark
Speaker 3: at nine News or the rest of the industry media statewide,
Speaker 3: or Michael Bennett, there is going to be a reckoning
Speaker 3: for our Republican nominee. And I say that myself a Republican.
Speaker 3: I know you may not be at this point, but
Speaker 3: that you got to be able to prove your merit
Speaker 3: and your metal in that kind of atmosphere and surroundings.
Speaker 3: And I think the best candidate that have emerges for
Speaker 3: that debate could get a leg up in the race.
Speaker 2: Amen to that.
Speaker 1: You can see Ryan and I there January tenth, I
Speaker 1: put a link on the blog today at mandy'sblog dot
Speaker 1: com to get your tickets, but get them soon. They
Speaker 1: are actually selling very very quickly, and they are free.
Speaker 1: Ryan Showling, good to see you man, Good to see you.