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Speaker 5: Well, welcome, Welcome to a Monday edition of the show.
Speaker 5: I'm your host, Mandy Connell and joining me award winner
Speaker 5: from the Colorado Broadcast Association for Best Use of Social Media,
Speaker 5: that would be Anthony Rodriguez. We call him a rod
Speaker 5: and today we are going to take you through a
Speaker 5: Monday that started with me pretty much and only ladies
Speaker 5: will understand what I am about to say. Well, ladies
Speaker 5: and drag queens, we'll understand what I'm about to say. Ladies,
Speaker 5: my Monday getting ready for work and I fully stabbed
Speaker 5: myself in the eye with a mask ear wine. This
Speaker 5: is a uniquely female issue. And at the age of
Speaker 5: fifty five, I've been wearing makeup now for about forty
Speaker 5: years roughly, and you think this would never happen again,
Speaker 5: But oh no it did. So I can only partially
Speaker 5: see out of my right eye, still a little fuzzy
Speaker 5: on that one. Anthony Rodriguez was not there Saturday night
Speaker 5: when KOA had a bang up night at the Colorado
Speaker 5: Broadcaster Association Awards. What he won an award?
Speaker 2: Anyway, Hey, I had a good excuse.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you had a great excuse.
Speaker 5: He was he was doing the video work for our
Speaker 5: big boss's daughter's wedding. So if there's never made a
Speaker 5: better excuse than that one, I don't know what there is.
Speaker 5: But I was so excited a Rod. I was so excited.
Speaker 5: I felt like I won the award. I did not
Speaker 5: eight Rod won the award, but I texted him right
Speaker 5: away and let him know that he won.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: And then the big awesome picture of his plaque that
Speaker 5: he gets and everything. And then and then I won
Speaker 5: an award and that I didn't even know I was
Speaker 5: nominated for US and that was fantastic, thanks to one
Speaker 5: Rob Dawson who submitted our coverage of the Trump assassination
Speaker 5: for the best Coverage of a breaking news event, and
Speaker 5: we won that. And then KOWAY one Station of the Year.
Speaker 5: And I just want to say this on the air,
Speaker 5: in addition to the people that you hear on the
Speaker 5: air here at KOWA, there are so many people working
Speaker 5: in the background that don't necessarily get a lot of credit,
Speaker 5: one of them being our program director Dave Tepper, who,
Speaker 5: in the few years that he's been here has really
Speaker 5: worked with each and every program and host and news team.
Speaker 5: I mean, he works with everybody to make this station
Speaker 5: the best it can be.
Speaker 3: Of KOA in the last couple of years thanks to
Speaker 3: that guy. Let me tell you, I want.
Speaker 5: To make sure he gets a little love and credit
Speaker 5: on that today because that is definitely at his direction.
Speaker 5: A lot of hurting kittens going on behind the scenes,
Speaker 5: but he has hearded them.
Speaker 6: All very very well.
Speaker 5: So, uh, let's talk about the blog for a second,
Speaker 5: because I've got one, you know, I do, you know
Speaker 5: I do. Find the blog by going to mandy'sblog dot com.
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Speaker 5: Today on the blog. Congrats to KOA. The second episode
Speaker 5: of the Side Hustle is out. Kevin Lundberg is covering
Speaker 5: the capital. We share a birthday with Polydori sausage. Democrats
Speaker 5: have killed real estate development in Denver. I'm doing a
Speaker 5: little survey. It's time to end the lawsuits by the GOP.
Speaker 5: The mayor's office has been deleting more signal messages.
Speaker 6: If you miss me with Ross Friday.
Speaker 5: A judge stops a reservoir expansion, will the governor listened?
Speaker 5: In ninety five thousand Colorados, the incompetent Jenni Griswold is
Speaker 5: running for Attorney General. John caldera yearns for Liberals. Are
Speaker 5: you going on vacation this year? How Jeffrey Goldberg got
Speaker 5: added to the chat. Val Kilmer's last social post, you
Speaker 5: better be ready for the Drake Passage.
Speaker 6: How to not raise entitled.
Speaker 5: Jerks, the weird stuff people will admit to. How to
Speaker 5: keep your cheese fresh longer? Are we headed to another
Speaker 5: housing problem? Two different takes on the Trump Trade Wars.
Speaker 5: Super Baby reporting for duty North Glenn is coming for
Speaker 5: your pets.
Speaker 6: A sneaky trick to.
Speaker 5: Avoid nasty gas station bathrooms. Those are the headlines on
Speaker 5: the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Somebody asked on the
Speaker 5: common spiritelf text line you can always text us. At
Speaker 5: five sixty six, nine to zero, someone said, did you
Speaker 5: accept the award on.
Speaker 6: Eight Rod's behalf? I did not.
Speaker 5: I made Dave Tepper go up and Nick supt nice.
Speaker 5: You know, I wouldn't expose the big boss she'd have
Speaker 5: been accepting it. Yes, I would have felt like I
Speaker 5: was stepping on it somehow if I went up to
Speaker 5: accept it. M Mandy, I do that all the time
Speaker 5: and wonder why I make such a rookie mistake with
Speaker 5: the mascara.
Speaker 6: I poke.
Speaker 5: After decades of practice, I like knowing I'm not alone
Speaker 5: with that gaff.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Mandy. I'm here for you.
Speaker 3: I feel like when I did musicals in high school,
Speaker 3: I probably did that, and I remember it not being
Speaker 3: a great feeling either.
Speaker 5: When you are young and you're just learning how to
Speaker 5: put mascara on, I would say probably a minimum of
Speaker 5: once a month for like the first two years. But
Speaker 5: I cannot remember the last time I stabbed myself in
Speaker 5: the eye with mascara. I can't remember the last time,
Speaker 5: and today it was a whopper, like just into my
Speaker 5: eye kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Thank the Lord, the FCC wasn't listening.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Mandy, women have unique problems like mascara, but
Speaker 5: I haven't heard of any women accidentally getting their whip
Speaker 5: caught in a zipper. Yeah yeah, oh yeah, Mandy, I
Speaker 5: think you're about ten Bosch moves is behind Ross. I
Speaker 5: know you're competitive, so I just wanted to give you
Speaker 5: a heads up. We all need a better contract next time,
Speaker 5: and there's only so much money to go around. No,
Speaker 5: we don't negotiate with our boss contract. Yeah, we do
Speaker 5: that other stuff on that Now, guys, we had a
Speaker 5: lot of stuff on the blog today and a lot
Speaker 5: of stuff to talk about. We are going to talk
Speaker 5: with Kevin Lundberg. Pretty excited about that. Kevin was a
Speaker 5: long time legislator and he started the Lundberg Report, and
Speaker 5: on Monday morning at seven thirty am, he does this
Speaker 5: zoom meeting where you can just log on and hear
Speaker 5: what's happening in the Colorado Capitol and what we are
Speaker 5: facing as people who live here. And just when I
Speaker 5: think they can't get worse, they prove me wrong. So
Speaker 5: we're gonna talk to Kevin today at twelve thirty about
Speaker 5: what's happening in the capitol right now.
Speaker 6: They adjourned yesterday or they didn't adjourned.
Speaker 5: They gabbled in yesterday in order to talk about an
Speaker 5: extremely extremely onerous bill that would essentially say, if you're
Speaker 5: a parent and you're in a divorced situation and the
Speaker 5: other parent decides your kid is trans and decides to
Speaker 5: affirm it, and you say, wait a minute, maybe the
Speaker 5: kid's just having some gender dysphoria. Maybe we should get
Speaker 5: him or her some therapy to maybe help them come
Speaker 5: to terms with their gender. Knowing that eighty percent of
Speaker 5: children you experience gender dysphoria when not affirmed, eventually reconcile
Speaker 5: with their same gender. Now a judge will use that
Speaker 5: against you in a custody hearing.
Speaker 6: You heard me, right, If.
Speaker 5: You don't affirm your child, a child from I don't know,
Speaker 5: a three or four year old maybe who decides they're
Speaker 5: another gender, if you don't immediately go along with it,
Speaker 5: the judge can.
Speaker 6: Use it to take your kids away from you.
Speaker 5: So, yeah, Mandy, in today's age, is it truly a
Speaker 5: woman's only experience to poke yourself in the eye that way?
Speaker 5: I did say drag queens, su Mandy, were you driving
Speaker 5: while putting on mascara?
Speaker 6: I do it?
Speaker 5: I know where my eyelashes are no, I try to
Speaker 5: what's the words I'm looking for? Drive safely, That's what
Speaker 5: I'm trying to do there. I don't put on makeup
Speaker 5: in the car. First of all, I'm really afraid I'm
Speaker 5: gonna look like Mimi from the Drew Carey Show, right,
Speaker 5: like makeup should require a little attention. Mandy. All men
Speaker 5: cringe at the caught in the zipper. Thanks for that,
Speaker 5: and I just made you cringe twice. Lots of leg
Speaker 5: crossing going on right now across the Metro area. Now,
Speaker 5: I'm super excited. Now, you guys may know, if you
Speaker 5: listen to the station, you know that Koa turned one
Speaker 5: hundred a hundred this year, actually technically last year, but
Speaker 5: we're celebrating this year because it happened in December and
Speaker 5: that's where Christmas is and.
Speaker 6: So you know how it goes.
Speaker 5: But I thought it would be fun to have Polydory
Speaker 5: Sausage come in because you know why, they too are
Speaker 5: one hundred years old right now, one hundred years old.
Speaker 5: So hang on, this is gonna be really weird. Erod,
Speaker 5: I need you to reach out to hang on one second.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna find out if I need you to do this.
Speaker 5: I have to do it now.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 5: It's never mine. Ignore me. Nothing to see. Something caught
Speaker 5: my eye on television that I thought we needed to address.
Speaker 6: I was wrong. We don't need to address it. It's over.
Speaker 2: It's over, Mandy.
Speaker 5: I don't want to throw anyone under the bus. With
Speaker 5: the show on Friday, the audio signal was very garbled.
Speaker 5: We know this, but it was I think weather related
Speaker 5: because we use a over the ear machine. Now, I mean,
Speaker 5: I leave it to my technical skills. What do we
Speaker 5: use to get back to the station. We were not
Speaker 5: hooked into a hard wire.
Speaker 3: We might have been hardwired. I don't know if Shannon
Speaker 3: had us hardwired out there.
Speaker 6: I don't think we were.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure. Oh regardless, Yeah, no one's fault. It
Speaker 3: was either lack of hardwire or weather or both. Yeah, possible.
Speaker 5: So we do the best we can. We do the
Speaker 5: best we can, and we appreciate how annoying that is.
Speaker 5: We do appreciate it. Now, Polydori is coming in at
Speaker 5: one o'clock eight r They're bringing us some.
Speaker 2: Sausage, bringing you some sausage.
Speaker 5: No, you're gonna have a little taste in sausage.
Speaker 3: I'm in the extreme calorie defict right now, even more
Speaker 3: so this week because vacationioning this weekend.
Speaker 5: Where are you going this weekend? Ve Oh gosh, everybody,
Speaker 5: look out in Vegas. The road's on the way.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 5: There's a story that I want to get to.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 6: First of all, I'm doing a little survey and.
Speaker 5: I don't wanna. I don't wanna. I don't want to
Speaker 5: give you more than this. And it's on my Facebook
Speaker 5: page at Mandy Connell. If you went to course Field
Speaker 5: this weekend and you've got food, I want to know
Speaker 5: what you ordered and what you thought of it.
Speaker 6: I'm just curious.
Speaker 3: Well, you already know Rob got the what is it?
Speaker 3: What taco in the bag? Walk taco walking taco and
Speaker 3: then the.
Speaker 6: Strawberries on the I should have done the walk in taco.
Speaker 3: You liked it, You like the strawberry on the stack more.
Speaker 3: I Well, I'm not going to get that video for
Speaker 3: a quick ninety second review at Kaylee Colorado on our socials.
Speaker 5: There you go, award winning Socials Award. Yeah, award winning
Speaker 5: social Media. Thank you, Mandy. I'm waiting for the first
Speaker 5: parents to say, okay, fine, the kid is yours and
Speaker 5: give them to the state.
Speaker 6: That's where we're going.
Speaker 5: Oh to the person who said, Mandy, you don't even
Speaker 5: need mascara, you have a natural beauty.
Speaker 6: You are so sweet.
Speaker 5: But I have no eyelashes, and the eyelashes that I
Speaker 5: have are blonde, so you literally can't see them at all. Seriously,
Speaker 5: but I appreciate you. That's very sweet, very very sweet.
Speaker 5: I want to talk about this story that was in
Speaker 5: the Denver Gazette yesterday, but go to at Mandy Connell
Speaker 5: Facebook to participate in my survey. I actually embedded it
Speaker 5: on the blog today. If you want to just click that.
Speaker 5: You can go right over to it. And I'd like
Speaker 5: to know, but only if you went to the stadium.
Speaker 5: I'm just curious and we'll talk about those results later
Speaker 5: in the week. Yesterday in the Denver Gazette, there was
Speaker 5: a headline front page story that the poll quote.
Speaker 6: Listen to the headline of this story.
Speaker 5: It says, I can't do business in Denver now developers
Speaker 5: blame energy regulations as commercial projects decline in Colorado.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 5: Ross on his show earlier said that there was two
Speaker 5: buildings downtown on seventeenth Street that I believe and these
Speaker 5: no don't I know I don't have the numbers exactly right.
Speaker 6: But they're close enough.
Speaker 5: Sold for like one hundred and twenty million back in
Speaker 5: two thousand and eight or two thousand and nine. Okay,
Speaker 5: so these two buildings sold for under twenty million, and
Speaker 5: of the two thousands and now they just sold both
Speaker 5: of them for three point two million dollars. And I
Speaker 5: think a big part of that is what's covered in
Speaker 5: this article. In their zeal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
Speaker 5: Colorado and Denver especially have passed such onerous regulations that
Speaker 5: demand that carbon emissions from larger commercial buildings be cut
Speaker 5: by thirty percent by twenty thirty and by eighty percent
Speaker 5: by twenty forty. Now, the buildings that Ross was talking about,
Speaker 5: one of those was built in nineteen fifty seven. Okay,
Speaker 5: there's a zero percent chance it has any sort of
Speaker 5: energy efficiency whatsoever.
Speaker 6: Zero percent.
Speaker 5: The other one I think was built in the eighties.
Speaker 5: And again my numbers are just from memorizing what Ross
Speaker 5: sent on his show, and he didn't spend that.
Speaker 6: Much time on it. These buildings are gonna have.
Speaker 5: To be completely gutted, taken down to the studs, as
Speaker 5: they say, and retrofitted with all of this new energy stuff.
Speaker 5: Of course, the building's sold for three point two million dollars,
Speaker 5: it's gonna cost fifty million dollars to bring them up
Speaker 5: to where they need to be.
Speaker 6: What does this mean for.
Speaker 5: The rest of the older buildings in downtown Denver. Let
Speaker 5: me share some of this article with you because it's
Speaker 5: incredibly important, especially as we try to revitalize downtown Denver.
Speaker 5: When I believe we are going to have a just
Speaker 5: an epic level of build bildings for sale that no
Speaker 5: one wants.
Speaker 6: From the Denver Gazette.
Speaker 5: While Colorado is earning praise from climate advocates for its
Speaker 5: new mandates to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, developers and their
Speaker 5: economists are giving D and F grades to the state
Speaker 5: and its capital city, blaming the regulations for a noticeable
Speaker 5: decline in some projects. Representatives for developers and property owners
Speaker 5: are flagging new data showing a marked drop off in
Speaker 5: investment in revenues from commercial projects in Colorado. That decline,
Speaker 5: they said, follows directly on the heels of Colorado's adoption
Speaker 5: of some of the nations And they say boldest, but
Speaker 5: let's be real, strictest carbon reducing strategies. The regulations include
Speaker 5: the Energized Denver Ordinance adopted unanimously by the Denver City
Speaker 5: Council in twenty twenty one that seeks to reduce carbon
Speaker 5: emissions from larger commercial buildings by thirty percent in twenty
Speaker 5: thirty and by eighty percent in twenty forty. Then in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty three, the Colorado legislature said, hold my beer,
Speaker 5: just kidding, it doesn't say that. In twenty twenty three,
Speaker 5: the Colorado Air Control Way air Quality Control Commission issued
Speaker 5: its own statewide carbon reduction package, known as RAG twenty eight,
Speaker 5: after a landmark climate bill was passed by the legislature
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty one. Impacts of both measures are now
Speaker 5: looming in the windshield of investors, property owners, and developers
Speaker 5: as they decide whether to invest in large properties here
Speaker 5: and put a pencil to costs. Last year, industry groups
Speaker 5: filed a lawsuit against both initiatives, but a federal judge
Speaker 5: has now dismissed that action. Meanwhile, in early March, Denver
Speaker 5: Mayor Mike Johnson announced a loosening of deadlines and penalties
Speaker 5: cited in the Energized Denver mandate. Neither correction is likely
Speaker 5: to curb complaints by owners and developers as they weigh
Speaker 5: the impacts on the health of the state's economy. I'm
Speaker 5: the biggest evangelist that Denver has ever had, and I
Speaker 5: can't do business in Denver now, developer Andrew Feinstein, the
Speaker 5: CEO and managing partner of Exto Group, which is heavily
Speaker 5: involved in Denver's burgeoning Rhino District, told the Denver Gazette
Speaker 5: last week. Feinstein is among a number of developers, owners, brokers,
Speaker 5: and trade representatives who have spoken out as costs of
Speaker 5: the regulations take shape. A new study released by NAO APP,
Speaker 5: which represents the national commercial real estate industry, shows a
Speaker 5: sharp lag in economic contributions to Colorado made by the
Speaker 5: commercial development sector in comparison to those of similar Rocky
Speaker 5: Mountain states that lack the ambitious carbon initiatives. One year ago.
Speaker 5: Naop's fifty state data has showed that the input to
Speaker 5: Colorado's broader economy from development improvement of hotels, apartments, large
Speaker 5: retail and offices totaled fourteen point eight one billion dollars.
Speaker 5: This year that sector fell or last year that sector
Speaker 5: fell to six point six seven billion. That's a fifty
Speaker 5: five percent drop. You guys, you've got to read the
Speaker 5: rest of this. And I sent this article to brite
Speaker 5: Horne this morning, and I said, this is an opportunity,
Speaker 5: This is an opportunity for Republicans, because every time I
Speaker 5: turn around, there's another news story about how Democratic policies
Speaker 5: have destroyed the business environment in Colorado. They are chasing
Speaker 5: business not just out of Denver, but now out of
Speaker 5: the state. You know what Utah has seen in that
Speaker 5: kind of development, It is increased, multifold favorable impacts from
Speaker 5: commercial development. In twenty twenty four, Other nearby states show
Speaker 5: some decline, accept nothing on the order of Colorado's sizable losses.
Speaker 5: And here's where it gets good, you guys. Here's where
Speaker 5: it gets good.
Speaker 2: They went to.
Speaker 5: Elizabeth Bapcott, an executive director of Denver's Office of Climate Action,
Speaker 5: Sustainability and Resilience, and you know what she responded. When
Speaker 5: developers are literally he's saying we can't do business in
Speaker 5: Denver because.
Speaker 6: Of this, she says, correlation.
Speaker 5: It's not causation, except it is. It is, right, that's
Speaker 5: what they're saying. They're literally saying it's the cause. We'll
Speaker 5: get back to this a little bit later. You really
Speaker 5: should read it. But what an opportunity for Republicans, What
Speaker 5: an opportunity to run on making Colorado great for business again.
Speaker 5: Oh it could be glorious because guess what, you guys,
Speaker 5: all of these costs that these people are gonna have
Speaker 5: to pay. Who do you think is going to end
Speaker 5: up footing the bill for those costs in the long run?
Speaker 5: Spoiler alert, it's not the businesses. Joining me now is
Speaker 5: a guy who was He was making the sausage there
Speaker 5: for sixteen years, and now he's out of the sausage
Speaker 5: making arena and into the sausage viewing arena. His most
Speaker 5: excellent Lundberg Report and the meeting that he does on
Speaker 5: Monday mornings to kind of bring everybody up to speed
Speaker 5: is absolutely worth your time and joining me now to
Speaker 5: talk about it. Kevin Lendbergh, Welcome to the show. It's
Speaker 5: been a very long while, sir.
Speaker 8: Well, thank you, Mandy.
Speaker 9: It's a pleasure to be on here and to you know, well,
Speaker 9: it's not a pleasure to discuss what they're doing down
Speaker 9: in the legislature, but I'm glad you're giving some attention
Speaker 9: to what they are doing because it's very important to
Speaker 9: every citizen.
Speaker 5: Now, Kevin, you were in the legislature for sixteen years,
Speaker 5: and you were I'm just going to call it the
Speaker 5: Bridge years, right, the Bridge years where we went from
Speaker 5: a more evenly divided house, Republicans in charge sometimes of
Speaker 5: the House and the Senate, a far more reasonable in
Speaker 5: my view, these are opinion based statements, of course, a
Speaker 5: far more reasonable group of Democrats that were liberals but
Speaker 5: not hardcore left wing progressives. And in the ensuing years
Speaker 5: we have seen the hard left take over the Colorado
Speaker 5: Democratic part as it is beginning to take over the
Speaker 5: National Democratic Party.
Speaker 6: And the difference here.
Speaker 5: Is that our state legislature is completely controlled, almost to
Speaker 5: the point of a veto proof majority, very very close
Speaker 5: Republicans have been sidelined. And when you look at where
Speaker 5: we are now compared to how it was when you
Speaker 5: were in office, how, I mean, how different is it?
Speaker 5: What are we really looking at?
Speaker 8: Almost like night and day.
Speaker 9: Quite frankly, I entered the legislature in two thousand and three,
Speaker 9: elected in two two, of course, and.
Speaker 8: Turned out in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 9: And in those sixteen years, ten of them were in
Speaker 9: the minority in the body I was in, and six
Speaker 9: were in the majority. So I saw a little bit
Speaker 9: of everything, which quite right. Back in two three when
Speaker 9: I entered, we had a Republican governor and control of
Speaker 9: the Senate and the House, and it well, the Senate
Speaker 9: was a little close. The almost felt bulletproof. But a
Speaker 9: whole lot of political manipulation occurred in the two thousand
Speaker 9: and four election and suddenly we found ourselves in the
Speaker 9: minority and essentially stayed there since then.
Speaker 8: But you're quite right.
Speaker 9: In twenty nineteen is when things really took off. And hmm,
Speaker 9: seems like we changed governorship at that point too, but
Speaker 9: we'll set that aside for the moment, and I'll simply
Speaker 9: say that I have been appalled, not just with the bills,
Speaker 9: but with the process. This is something that I learned
Speaker 9: that the legislative process is supposed to be a slow
Speaker 9: grinding system that allows everybody a place at the table. Now,
Speaker 9: the majority opinion prevails, but not after everybody else has
Speaker 9: been able to voice their opinions, and oftentimes some you know, negotiations,
Speaker 9: some amendments and things.
Speaker 8: Like that occur.
Speaker 9: And that's what I saw the sixteen years I was there.
Speaker 9: But it's been breathtaking since then.
Speaker 5: Let's start with what happened yesterday on a Sunday morning,
Speaker 5: when good, God fearing people are at church, the Colorado
Speaker 5: Legislature gabbled itself into session for what purpose?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Well, and I would say including Scott Bottoms, who is
Speaker 9: a representative and a pastor of a church, and so
Speaker 9: he wasn't there because he had a pulpit to fill.
Speaker 7: But the.
Speaker 9: Dramatic some of the traumatic transgender bills were in third
Speaker 9: reading as well as a couple of other bills, one
Speaker 9: to eighty three being the one that actually implements funding
Speaker 9: of abortions with taxpayer dollars. Now we knew they had
Speaker 9: the votes, we knew it was going to pass on
Speaker 9: the third reading is the final vote, and this for.
Speaker 8: The House bills.
Speaker 9: Then it goes on to the Senate for the Senate bill,
Speaker 9: which was one eighty three. The House was now approving
Speaker 9: that as well. But what really was appalling to me
Speaker 9: was they did not allow any debate to occur for
Speaker 9: these bills on third reading. See, there's a there's a
Speaker 9: technique you can do. You can call the question and
Speaker 9: then it immediately goes to a vote of the House.
Speaker 9: Shall we vote now? And of course the D's followed
Speaker 9: in lockstep. Well almost I understand five of them said no. Uh.
Speaker 9: I was in those shoes once in two of three,
Speaker 9: and I said no to the to the call of
Speaker 9: the question because I think both sides need to have
Speaker 9: the opportunity to talk. But they just shut everything down
Speaker 9: and voted straight up. The arrogance and the the unbelievable
Speaker 9: misuse the legislative process, it's just appalling.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I'm going to reflect back to the
Speaker 5: big debate, and I'm gonna put debate in air quotes
Speaker 5: about SB three, that SB twenty five three, the absolutely
Speaker 5: gross and unconstitutional gun bill that was going to pass.
Speaker 5: And I have to wonder, Kevin, because we saw lots
Speaker 5: of people that were up in the gallery taking pictures
Speaker 5: of democratic legislatures during the alleged debate. They were playing
Speaker 5: candy crush. One of the legislators had a sticker book.
Speaker 5: She was out putting stickers in her sticker book. They
Speaker 5: were no more paying attention to the people that were
Speaker 5: testifying against that bill. So maybe they just decided to
Speaker 5: end the charade, like they're not going to listen. They
Speaker 5: know they have the votes, so why bother even giving
Speaker 5: the impression that they give a rat's ass what the
Speaker 5: other people who may have voted for a different party.
Speaker 8: Well, that's one way to describe it. I'll tell you.
Speaker 9: It's you know, when you're in the majority, you do
Speaker 9: get a little bit cocky on okay, we can get
Speaker 9: away with this and get away with that. And it's
Speaker 9: it's human nature for some of that to occur. But
Speaker 9: you're quite right, it has reached a point and there
Speaker 9: actually there's actually another side to this too that that
Speaker 9: I greatly disagree with, and that is when COVID hit,
Speaker 9: the legislature decided.
Speaker 8: That they just go online.
Speaker 9: Now, online is great to allow citizens to come and
Speaker 9: testifying committee, but for legislators to think they can legislate
Speaker 9: from home over.
Speaker 8: You know, Zoom's great works in a lot of.
Speaker 9: You know, you talked about that Monday morning call I have,
Speaker 9: but we do that on Zoom and it's an incredible
Speaker 9: place for conversation to occur, but it is a lousy
Speaker 9: place for legislation, and it degrades the the the process.
Speaker 9: You know, people are somewhat surprised when they watch the
Speaker 9: legislature in action because there's a lot of talking on
Speaker 9: the side and there's a lot of not playing candy
Speaker 9: Crush on your computer, by the way, But but there
Speaker 9: is a lot of things going on that has to
Speaker 9: happen in order for everybody to give their input and
Speaker 9: to understand what others are talking about as well.
Speaker 8: That's gone away. I'm yeah, you're right.
Speaker 9: They've turned the legislature into a charade, and I believe
Speaker 9: the people of Colorado are starting to wake up, even
Speaker 9: as we see across the nation a whole lot of
Speaker 9: political change changes. Well, twenty twenty six just might be
Speaker 9: a very interesting election year.
Speaker 5: What are some of the big, big things that you've
Speaker 5: been keeping your eye on in this legislative session. Obviously,
Speaker 5: the gun bill is a big one. We're still waiting
Speaker 5: to see if the governor is going.
Speaker 2: To veto that.
Speaker 9: Well, yeah, but you know it's gun bills plural. Yeah,
Speaker 9: there are nine bad bills. Let me go back to you.
Speaker 9: You mentioned my report that I published every week, and
Speaker 9: I do it year round, but when the legislature's in session,
Speaker 9: I try to look at every bill and identify what
Speaker 9: I consider good bills and bad bills, and then I
Speaker 9: track them through the process.
Speaker 8: Well, and I came up with a couple of other categories.
Speaker 9: One woke bills and and what was the other one?
Speaker 9: A dumb and dangerous bills of course, because some of
Speaker 9: them are just so over the top.
Speaker 8: But yuh, forget me. I forgot where I was headed.
Speaker 6: Just talking about the gun bills. We started with.
Speaker 9: Nine yea, yeah, there are eight or nine gun bills
Speaker 9: that that are designed to choke down the citizen's ability
Speaker 9: to actually bear arms and be able to defend themselves
Speaker 9: and their family.
Speaker 8: Gun bills.
Speaker 9: There have been a long list of bills going after
Speaker 9: the rental industry. You know, it has gone to the
Speaker 9: point that that I know a lot of people who
Speaker 9: have had rental properties in Colorado that said I'm getting
Speaker 9: out of here because it is so unreasonable. There's there's
Speaker 9: a bills that deal with the whole global warming. I'm
Speaker 9: going to call it hoax, you know, I'll just tell
Speaker 9: you where I think. And so you see a lot
Speaker 9: of bad bills going that way. And then there's the
Speaker 9: whole transgender issue that's primarily being pushed in our public schools.
Speaker 9: There are many many There's a bill out there right
Speaker 9: now that will allow a death certificate to not reflect
Speaker 9: the actual sex of an individual, but will give their
Speaker 9: preference instead. It's just kind of like bizarre because it's
Speaker 9: you know, you're not really honoring that person one way
Speaker 9: or the other. You're changing an official document that's used
Speaker 9: by medicine to determine why people die of certain diseases,
Speaker 9: and you take out there you know, you know, I
Speaker 9: mean this stuff. You just can't make it up. Really,
Speaker 9: they've gone so far. So that's kind of of a
Speaker 9: quick snapshot on some of the badills. But you know,
Speaker 9: when I go down the list, it really covers about
Speaker 9: every area of life here in Colorado. Kevin, Oh, I
Speaker 9: want to go after Tabor.
Speaker 5: Well, we've got another lossing about that, Kevin. What I'd
Speaker 5: love to do is have you on on a more
Speaker 5: regular basis where we can kind of have a deeper
Speaker 5: conversation about this. We're out of town right now, so
Speaker 5: I'll follow up and we're going to get you scheduled
Speaker 5: for a regular check in because I don't want to
Speaker 5: do what you're doing. Follow the Colorado legislature are close,
Speaker 5: so I will I will w my CUB reporter and
Speaker 5: let you handle that from now on.
Speaker 9: Okay, fair enough, Well, it does take a few late
Speaker 9: nights to get it done, but.
Speaker 6: I bet it does.
Speaker 5: You can subscribe to the Lundberg Report just click on
Speaker 5: the link that I put there and strongly recommended. He's
Speaker 5: doing a great job and everybody needs to know because
Speaker 5: some of this stuff is just bad news.
Speaker 6: Kevin, we will talk to you again soon.
Speaker 8: Thank you very much.
Speaker 6: All Right, that's Kevin Lendbergh. We'll be right back.
Speaker 5: Award winning koa social media like on platforms like x
Speaker 5: you can go see a video of Kaminski doing a
Speaker 5: cartwheel and I ay, Rod, do you think it's because
Speaker 5: maybe he had a video of a little girl tried
Speaker 5: to do a.
Speaker 6: Cartwheel and she faced planted.
Speaker 2: That is what Dragon told me. I did see the video.
Speaker 3: I haven't watched it yet, but I guess they got
Speaker 3: into a conversation about the inability or ability, and I
Speaker 3: say ability to do cartwheel.
Speaker 5: I'm at the ability because Ross, that's impressive. Ross know
Speaker 5: how to do a cartwheels.
Speaker 6: We're just guessing.
Speaker 2: I mean he obviously knew, because no, I.
Speaker 5: Mean he understood the concept. But that doesn't mean he's.
Speaker 3: Ever done a cartwheel. He said he hadn't done one
Speaker 3: in forty years.
Speaker 5: Okay, I think I've done one in the last six months.
Speaker 5: So I are you gonna come out videotape me because
Speaker 5: I will Rob Dawson. If we're going to maintain Station
Speaker 5: of the year. Yeah, we've got to keep the bar high.
Speaker 3: Well, Ross set the bar high, because that was a
Speaker 3: damn good card work for.
Speaker 6: A dude that doesn't really cartwheel.
Speaker 5: That was a fine, fine card with really really good
Speaker 5: I mean for a professional male gymnast, No it was not.
Speaker 5: But for a guy who doesn't do cartwheels, yes, pretty amazing,
Speaker 5: absolutely amazing.
Speaker 6: So I bet my cart was gonna.
Speaker 2: Be better than We got a rating on X a
Speaker 2: two point five. I don't know if that's out of
Speaker 2: ten or out of five.
Speaker 5: Actually the Russian judge gave it a two point so
Speaker 5: you probably don't even get that reference to you. Do
Speaker 5: you get the reference when somebody says the Russian judge
Speaker 5: gives it a two point five. Okay, Back in the day,
Speaker 5: during the Cold War, the Olympics always went like this,
Speaker 5: And I'm gonna use women's gymnastics as an example.
Speaker 6: Because this is how it always went.
Speaker 5: You would have an American gymnast out there, they would
Speaker 5: you know, do their stuff, and then and then the
Speaker 5: scores would be like and the schools are eight point five,
Speaker 5: nine point one, nine point two, nine point seven, nine
Speaker 5: point one, and the Russian judge gives it a four
Speaker 5: point one. It was like, whatever we did, Russia gave
Speaker 5: us like a four point one. And it was always
Speaker 5: the Russian judge was always being harsh and awful. So
Speaker 5: that was just a Russian judge weighing in on Ross's car.
Speaker 3: Well, in spirit, any submission, we'll receive a ten. Then
Speaker 3: we'll actually rate it. If you want to put it
Speaker 3: on X went out there. Oh yeah, just tag us
Speaker 3: use the hashtag Kaway Cartwheel Challenge.
Speaker 5: And I'm just gonna let you guys know, I don't
Speaker 5: know if you if I've ever said this on the radio.
Speaker 5: My my very first job that I got a paycheck for.
Speaker 6: I worked for the.
Speaker 5: Woman that I had taken gymnastics from for years. But
Speaker 5: then I got really tall and it was pretty much like,
Speaker 5: you're never gonna do anything with this.
Speaker 6: So then I started teaching.
Speaker 5: I was fourteen years old, ye and I had a
Speaker 5: class of three to five year olds and the whole
Speaker 5: class was mostly me teaching cartwheels and pulling leotards out
Speaker 5: of little tushies. That was the whole class. That was
Speaker 5: what I made my three dollars and thirty five cents
Speaker 5: an hour.
Speaker 2: Yeah, doing, we'll spice up litt'll have some fun with
Speaker 2: it too. Why not?
Speaker 3: Because I want to see if anyone else can do you?
Speaker 2: Hell no, why not? I'm doing.
Speaker 3: I'm sure I can, but I'm not going to risk
Speaker 3: breaking something here.
Speaker 5: What has ever broken something doing?
Speaker 2: I don't want to fall on my net. Just your pride, Okay.
Speaker 3: So if we get a decent amount of of missions,
Speaker 3: people giving us their best cartwheels, the best cartwheel will
Speaker 3: come play against Manyon of the day, either zoom or
Speaker 3: in person this week.
Speaker 2: Oh that would be cool. At some point maybe.
Speaker 5: They can cartwheel, but they don't want the pressure of
Speaker 5: the day. Well, you don't have to say yes.
Speaker 3: You don't have to say yes, but you do have
Speaker 3: to send us your cartwheels.
Speaker 5: This text on the last comment that Kevin just made Mandy.
Speaker 5: If I can list preferences on my death certificate, I'd
Speaker 5: probably prefer to be listed as alive. Well done, Texter.
Speaker 5: When we get back, Koa is one hundred you know
Speaker 5: who else is one hundred Polydory sausage and they're outside
Speaker 5: with sausage. So we're going to have them on how
Speaker 5: do you stay in business for one hundred years? And
Speaker 5: more importantly, how do you keep it a family business
Speaker 5: for one hundred years? That's all coming up next and
Speaker 5: sausage right here on KOA.
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Speaker 2: No, it's Mandy Connell and KOA ninety one FM.
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Speaker 5: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
Speaker 5: I'm your host, Mandy Connell. Anthony Rodriguez right over there.
Speaker 5: We are KAWA Radio Station of the Year. We just
Speaker 5: were named that on Saturday Night. I'm just going to
Speaker 5: keep mentioning it because it's awesome, because it is our
Speaker 5: one hundredth birthday this year, and it takes a lot
Speaker 5: to stay in business for one hundred years, whether you're
Speaker 5: a radio station or you're making sausage. And joining me
Speaker 5: now two members of a family that have been making
Speaker 5: sausage in Colorado for one hundred years. Melody Polar Wait,
Speaker 5: oh yeah, turner Ning, Polydori poldor is it Polydori?
Speaker 6: Is it polydor.
Speaker 5: Polydori Harris and her brother, Steve Polyodori here to talk
Speaker 5: about Polydori Sausage, which has been around for one hundred
Speaker 5: years now. Who wants to start by telling me the
Speaker 5: family lore behind the sausage company?
Speaker 7: Steve?
Speaker 10: Well, my great grandmother and grandfather started in a small
Speaker 10: grocery store fourth and show showing in nineteen twenty five.
Speaker 10: My grandmother brought her recipes over from Italy.
Speaker 5: And when did when did they immigrate? Did they both
Speaker 5: immigrate from Italy to the United States?
Speaker 8: Did?
Speaker 2: And they both went to Magna, Utah.
Speaker 10: And my great grandfather had worked in the copper mines
Speaker 10: and they moved to Colorado because you had black lung disease?
Speaker 2: Or what the heck do you?
Speaker 5: I mean, you come into Ellis Island and you immediately
Speaker 5: go Utah.
Speaker 6: That's where going? I mean, how did that happen? Magna, Utah?
Speaker 5: Magne, of course, I mean as one does when you
Speaker 5: go to Utah. Is there any other city in Utah
Speaker 5: other than Magna? Do you know how that decision was made?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 10: So that he was had bad lungs, came here for
Speaker 10: the cleaner air, obviously on the fighter air now, but.
Speaker 2: They started out at the little grocery store.
Speaker 10: And in nineteen forty eight, my great grandfather passed away
Speaker 10: and my grandfather and my uncle great uncle.
Speaker 2: Took it over, took the grocery store business over.
Speaker 10: So then in nineteen eighty two my great grandmother passed away,
Speaker 10: my grandfather started this little business.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, so your great grandma how old was
Speaker 5: your great grandmother when she died nineties?
Speaker 6: Okay, so she was there for a lot of this.
Speaker 5: And Melody, I want to go to you. When you're
Speaker 5: born of Polydoro, is like they bring you over the hospital,
Speaker 5: Mandy Polydori.
Speaker 6: Palladori.
Speaker 5: Paulador I already told her I was going to ask
Speaker 5: her the name over and over again. I'm on brand, you, guys,
Speaker 5: is what I am?
Speaker 6: Who I am, what I do?
Speaker 2: Polydori?
Speaker 5: Why I eat your sausage all the time? I mean,
Speaker 5: I buy your sausage, so I'm familiar with it's a product.
Speaker 5: But when you read a name, you don't necessarily know
Speaker 5: how it hears. When you're born of Polydori, Polyodori, we're
Speaker 5: just going to move it from there. Are you come
Speaker 5: over from the hospital and they just give you a
Speaker 5: little sausage making kit right then to play with so
Speaker 5: you can get started in the family business. Sure, was
Speaker 5: there ever an assumption that you would not work in
Speaker 5: the business or was there pressure? I guess is what
Speaker 5: I'm asking to work in the business?
Speaker 2: Zero pressure, zero pressure.
Speaker 11: And I never graduated from college thinking that I would
Speaker 11: go work in the family business. I came to the
Speaker 11: family business in two thousand and two mostly because my
Speaker 11: brother wanted a little bit of help, and I had
Speaker 11: been working in other professional careers and consulting, and the
Speaker 11: opportunity presented itself. And I had always really sort of
Speaker 11: wanted to work in the family business, but I never
Speaker 11: thought I would really end.
Speaker 6: Up in the family business.
Speaker 5: And here you are these many years later. Now, Steve,
Speaker 5: when you I'm assuming you're the day to day guy,
Speaker 5: because I know that Melody.
Speaker 6: Is the chief sausage officer.
Speaker 5: Rich we'll find out more about those job responsibilities as
Speaker 5: a chief sausage officer. When you took over, when you
Speaker 5: assumed the helm, was it difficult because maybe you have
Speaker 5: some new ideas or maybe you want to change a
Speaker 5: few things. Was that transition challenging because you want to
Speaker 5: honor the tradition but also keep the company, you know,
Speaker 5: up to dat and current.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we automated the business, you know, as far as
Speaker 10: machinery and all that stuff that you know, pumps out
Speaker 10: all the little links and a little different shapes and
Speaker 10: sizes of sausage.
Speaker 2: That part was easy.
Speaker 10: It was just you know, dealing with a generational app
Speaker 10: with my grandfather generation skip and you know, him spending
Speaker 10: money in certain areas but not in other certain areas
Speaker 10: where they'd really needed to be spend. He was stepping
Speaker 10: on dollars to pick up pennies. Well, we got to
Speaker 10: move on.
Speaker 5: So when did your grandfather How long did he hang
Speaker 5: around the factory after he took over.
Speaker 10: He was eighty six when he retired. Oh my god,
Speaker 10: I bought him out. He was eighty six years old,
Speaker 10: and he hung out. He came down every almost every
Speaker 10: day until he passed away. He was ninety three when
Speaker 10: he passed away.
Speaker 5: You got an old.
Speaker 6: Sausage guy like that.
Speaker 5: He didn't have anything else on his plate, right, and
Speaker 5: he's going to come in, Yeah, make sure you're not
Speaker 5: ruining everything that he had built for so long.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 5: So, Melody, when you came in, what responsibilities did you
Speaker 5: take on?
Speaker 11: My immediate responsibility was to be dealing with the USDA.
Speaker 11: We had an audit at the time, and I can
Speaker 11: remember having an auditor who was really scared and I
Speaker 11: wasn't because I was blind and didn't know anything, and
Speaker 11: I had a training and education background and so I
Speaker 11: was very proficient in my softwork make changes on the fly.
Speaker 6: And he was like, oh my god, you can do that.
Speaker 6: Oh oh, and.
Speaker 11: Then he started to, you know, get a little bit calmer.
Speaker 11: So you know, it was I came in extremely blind,
Speaker 11: which it's probably better.
Speaker 6: And I was just very curious.
Speaker 11: I asked lots of questions, I visited lost of customers.
Speaker 11: I jumped in feet first, and it was it's been
Speaker 11: super rewarding.
Speaker 5: You guys are successful. I see you in all the
Speaker 5: markets that I shop in. I buy your products because
Speaker 5: they're delicious and yummy. How have you avoided or have
Speaker 5: you just carefully avoided being swallowed up by some other
Speaker 5: big food company because we're not for sale. Okay, that's
Speaker 5: a basic point right there. But I mean, if somebody
Speaker 5: comes with a big enough check everything, they say, everybody's price.
Speaker 2: We're having too much fun.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we really enjoy what we do, you know, providing
Speaker 10: sausage to all our customers and just I don't know
Speaker 10: what else I would do.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm not ready to sell.
Speaker 5: So when you have meetings, do you guys use the
Speaker 5: phrase this is how the sausage is made literally, whereas
Speaker 5: we just use it figuratively in corporate America, You guys
Speaker 5: could actually say no, this is how the sausage is made,
Speaker 5: and it would be a legit point.
Speaker 11: Well, you know, we keep all those recipes under lock and.
Speaker 5: Key, Like the KFC spices, they're in a fault somewhere
Speaker 5: and no one knows where they are.
Speaker 2: At least sausage recipe.
Speaker 6: Yeah, everything is under vault and key.
Speaker 11: Everybody's got to sign an NDA and a you know,
Speaker 11: all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 6: Do you confidentiality?
Speaker 11: But I mean, we are making the sausage today the
Speaker 11: exact same way that our great grandmother did right back
Speaker 11: in nineteen twenty five, albeit in significantly larger batches.
Speaker 2: Pork, salt, and spices.
Speaker 10: Make it simple, keep it simple, and that's why everybody
Speaker 10: loves our product.
Speaker 5: And what this has been a very challenging environment in
Speaker 5: the past few years, just because of inflation and the
Speaker 5: cost of things and all of that stuff. How have
Speaker 5: you guys managed to mitigate some of that. I mean,
Speaker 5: you're producing food, so there's not a whole lot that
Speaker 5: you can wiggle room there, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: Pork it's going to cost.
Speaker 5: What it costs. Spices cost what they cost. How do
Speaker 5: you mitigate those sort of business challenges?
Speaker 11: I mean, every every business has its challenges with respect
Speaker 11: to regulations, taxes, insurance, wages, and if it's wean, we
Speaker 11: kind of take it as it goes, and you know,
Speaker 11: we have to sharpen our pencils.
Speaker 6: We try not to raise our prices.
Speaker 11: To our consumers to the consumers so that they're not
Speaker 11: reflected in that obviously eat a little bit into your margin,
Speaker 11: But we try to be as cost effective as possible
Speaker 11: at our plant by putting in contracts in place with
Speaker 11: our pork providers and all of our raw material providers
Speaker 11: to try to offset some of that.
Speaker 5: So you're doing pork futures, is what you'rely.
Speaker 10: But right now this summer, pork has been relatively stable
Speaker 10: as far as center of the plate meet.
Speaker 5: It does seem like it has not been hit the
Speaker 5: way beef and chicken and others have been hit.
Speaker 2: It's a pretty safe and clean product.
Speaker 5: And really the best meat if you ask me. I'm
Speaker 5: just gonna say, Now, you guys are using the same
Speaker 5: recipes a great grandma used. Do you ever explore new things?
Speaker 5: And if so, what is that process?
Speaker 2: Like we get the recipe.
Speaker 10: If we can get a recipe, that's great, but otherwise
Speaker 10: we'll figure out what's in it and uh, you know,
Speaker 10: we get in the kitchen and you know, start playing
Speaker 10: with it.
Speaker 5: Like your hatch chili sausage is super good? Where did
Speaker 5: that come from? Because your grandma didn't make that.
Speaker 10: Well, there was a bunch of like jilapino cheddar broughts
Speaker 10: out there. We were like, let's make something different. Let's
Speaker 10: use the hatch we're looking at Pueblo green chilis or
Speaker 10: Hatch green Chili's.
Speaker 2: Hatch green chilies have a better name. So we decided to.
Speaker 5: Go with that hatch instead, much to peblo chagrin. I'm sure,
Speaker 5: but we'll just forgive you for.
Speaker 2: That, Well we will.
Speaker 5: But it's a different flavor profile than than the alipino
Speaker 5: brought worst.
Speaker 2: Correct, It's just different. Definitely milder flavor. Yeah, anybody can
Speaker 2: eat it, but.
Speaker 6: It's got a good pepper flavor.
Speaker 5: So have you ever tried to make something that was
Speaker 5: an abject failure plant Beast. You know what, I totally
Speaker 5: believe that because.
Speaker 10: We came up with a really good product, but it
Speaker 10: just kind of went on the wayside.
Speaker 6: People don't buy.
Speaker 5: Sausage because they I mean, this is the thing I
Speaker 5: don't understand about vegans, and I'm just gonna say it, like,
Speaker 5: if you don't eat meat, why are you gonna eat
Speaker 5: something that's supposed to be meat?
Speaker 2: They eat meat?
Speaker 5: Commit commit to just eating the vegetables and just go
Speaker 5: with that. Are there things that you'd like to try
Speaker 5: that maybe you're outside of your little narrow lane.
Speaker 11: I mean, there are things that present itself all the time.
Speaker 11: We're pretty busy making our core group of eighty some
Speaker 11: odd sausages now, oh well, yeah, it's a lot between
Speaker 11: all kinds of shapes and sizes and the Italian arena
Speaker 11: chisos breakfast sausages.
Speaker 6: We do pre cooked meatballs.
Speaker 2: And jewey and where do I cut I don't see.
Speaker 5: Oh no, I've made your meatballs before meatball now at
Speaker 5: King Super Yes, I have made that as well, and
Speaker 5: they're delicious. We love meatballs and my family. Are there
Speaker 5: any what are your favorites?
Speaker 2: See?
Speaker 10: Oh, the Italian sausage is definitely goes but I can't.
Speaker 10: It's a really kind of a loaded question because I
Speaker 10: like them all. They're all really this is like when.
Speaker 5: You ask them after their favorite role and they're like,
Speaker 5: I just couldn't tell you that you have a favorite.
Speaker 6: Everybody has a favorite. Like when there's a buffet sausage,
Speaker 6: then okay, like.
Speaker 5: You know what you go for, you know what the
Speaker 5: go to item is there? How about humilody?
Speaker 11: Probably the chariso because it's not made with any butts, guts,
Speaker 11: lips or jows. It's pork, salt, spices.
Speaker 5: Now you just implied that the other sausage is made
Speaker 5: with butts, guts and all.
Speaker 2: That it's there.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, I grew up with a dad who thought it
Speaker 5: was important for us to understand our connection to the
Speaker 5: food chain. So when I was ten, he took us
Speaker 5: to a slaughterhouse so we could see that portion of
Speaker 5: Because I lived in your rural area, I already saw
Speaker 5: I knew what cows. Raising cows was all about, but
Speaker 5: getting from cow to the grocery store was a challenge, right,
Speaker 5: that was a big deal. And so we went to
Speaker 5: a slaughterhouse, We went to a fish stick factory. I
Speaker 5: have not eaten a fish stick since I was ten
Speaker 5: years old because of it. Like if people knew what
Speaker 5: fish sticks really were, you would never ever put that
Speaker 5: in your mouth. And then we went to a sausage factory.
Speaker 5: But it wasn't gross. It wasn't like I thought that
Speaker 5: would be the grossest thing we went to because I mean, ultimately,
Speaker 5: I know people wouldn't believe this. A slaughterhouse is a
Speaker 5: very clean operation. Correct, It's a very streamlined, very clean operation.
Speaker 5: It's not what you think it would be. But I
Speaker 5: was kind of surprised because the sausage that we went
Speaker 5: to a little place in Florida, Nettles Sausage is the
Speaker 5: name of the company, and.
Speaker 6: It was like real meat.
Speaker 5: I think people have this misconception that when you get
Speaker 5: sausage it is just all scraps.
Speaker 2: Work shoulders. What we use work shoulder love or trim.
Speaker 10: We run about seventy eight to twenty two fatuline ratio,
Speaker 10: so it's a pretty glean product as far as sausage goes.
Speaker 2: That is kind of lean.
Speaker 6: I mean, isn't it normally like seventy.
Speaker 2: Thirty seventy thirty or sometimes you get sixty forty.
Speaker 5: That's why it's so greasy. What is your favorite thing
Speaker 5: to make with your sausage?
Speaker 6: I have an answer.
Speaker 5: If you want my answer, I'll just tell you I
Speaker 5: love sausage balls. Like I'm from the South, so whenever
Speaker 5: you go to a party, there's always sausage balls. You
Speaker 5: know what I'm talking about. This wick sausage cheese really easy,
Speaker 5: and your sausage makes the best sausage balls. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: have to give them to my friend Crystal, who also
Speaker 5: makes excellent sausage balls. But I don't know what the
Speaker 5: sausage she uses. But do people, do you guys have
Speaker 5: a contest or anything? Like I would have a contest
Speaker 5: if I were you and just ask people about what
Speaker 5: their favorite thing is to make with your sausage, I
Speaker 5: would answer it. You're one hundred years in you may
Speaker 5: as well. You never know what people are gonna come
Speaker 5: up with little Scotch eggs. Look, Grace is over there
Speaker 5: in the corner going great idea. No, and you could
Speaker 5: all host the winners in here and I will sample
Speaker 5: all of their.
Speaker 6: We should do that.
Speaker 11: We'll come back in August to commemorate our hundreds.
Speaker 5: Well, we're actually celebrating our hundredth anniversary. Because KOA is
Speaker 5: also one hundred. I wonder if your great grandparents listen
Speaker 5: to KOA.
Speaker 10: I'm sure, oh, I know my bloorch right. I mean
Speaker 10: everybody listened to CHAOA.
Speaker 5: I'm even in Kansas, even across America. I mean we
Speaker 5: were actually my husband and I were talking, and my
Speaker 5: husband is an idea guy, and he said, I wonder
Speaker 5: who in your listening audience has been listening the longest,
Speaker 5: because we do have people that have been here their
Speaker 5: entire lives, and they have listened to this radio station
Speaker 5: their entire lives. And I think that's one of the
Speaker 5: reasons I wanted to have you guys on. It's like,
Speaker 5: it's not an accident. They are still around after all
Speaker 5: these years. Now, are there kids in the family that
Speaker 5: are already sort of are they interning, are they training?
Speaker 5: Are they part of the company yet? Tell me about
Speaker 5: that for the next generation.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 11: So, my son is about to be twenty seven. He
Speaker 11: has been in an official capacity we won't count the
Speaker 11: child labor laws before, but he's been in an official
Speaker 11: capacity for about four and a half years, and he's
Speaker 11: currently in purchasing and shifting sort of to a sales
Speaker 11: support sales role. He also ran a r and was
Speaker 11: doing some accounts payable and accounts receivable.
Speaker 6: So is that what you did, Steve? Did you do it?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 2: That's when I took it over. I did everything. That's
Speaker 2: why I needed to hire.
Speaker 10: My sister to help me outlays like I am overwhelmed.
Speaker 2: Over here, Get over here can't come quick enough.
Speaker 5: In my mind, that's why you've been successful as a
Speaker 5: family business, right because you know exactly how to do
Speaker 5: everything in that building correct. And I think it's better
Speaker 5: just me personally when you make decisions about a business
Speaker 5: when you can say with authority, we can trim the
Speaker 5: fat over here pun intended, and we can't trim the
Speaker 5: fat over here. I mean, I just think that there's
Speaker 5: real value in that. So is he the only kid?
Speaker 11: He's the only kid that probably will take on the
Speaker 11: fifth generation at the moment.
Speaker 6: I have a daughter that lives in LA I have a.
Speaker 10: Daughter that cuts hair and step son that they do
Speaker 10: with their own thing.
Speaker 5: You said it skipped a generation from your grandfather to you.
Speaker 5: How did that process? Did you come up knowing you
Speaker 5: wanted to do this or did you know when.
Speaker 2: I was in college.
Speaker 10: When I was like a junior in college, I was unemployed.
Speaker 10: My dad came to me and said, your grandfather needs
Speaker 10: help down the sausage plant.
Speaker 2: Get down there and help them. And that's basically how
Speaker 2: I started.
Speaker 5: So I like people who just go with the flow, Steve,
Speaker 5: And it seems like you just jumped right into the
Speaker 5: flow and kept on saleing. I. You know, there are
Speaker 5: worse ways.
Speaker 2: I got out of college.
Speaker 10: He offered me a position and I took it, and
Speaker 10: I was scared, of course, and didn't know what was
Speaker 10: going to happen.
Speaker 2: And I worked with him for ten years before I
Speaker 2: bought him out.
Speaker 5: Do you think that you were just going to do
Speaker 5: this to get experienced until you found a real job.
Speaker 2: Possibly?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I mean when I worked for my grandfather to work
Speaker 10: a second job to supplement my income because my grandfather
Speaker 10: didn't pay me, well, that's.
Speaker 5: Like the most grandfather thing I heard in a life.
Speaker 5: And nobody did pay you.
Speaker 6: He rubbed the bills.
Speaker 5: Together to make sure he was only giving you a five.
Speaker 6: At a time.
Speaker 10: And believe I was making more money bartending than I
Speaker 10: was working with him.
Speaker 5: Man, So have you guys ever thought about making sausage
Speaker 5: out of something else, like other kinds of meat.
Speaker 10: We're chicken right now, and we do some stuff with
Speaker 10: beef too, but majority it's pork beef sausage.
Speaker 5: I mean, chicken sausage is one of my favorites. I
Speaker 5: think it's having a moment.
Speaker 2: Does that sell well very well? Yeah?
Speaker 11: Yeah, we're selling, not only on the food service side
Speaker 11: right now, but we are selling.
Speaker 5: I haven't seen your chicken sausage yet because I would
Speaker 5: buy it. Because there's only a few brands out there
Speaker 5: that are good.
Speaker 10: A couple of restaurants around town you can get it out,
Speaker 10: Snooze Snoop Snooze being.
Speaker 2: One of them.
Speaker 6: And Urban Egg.
Speaker 5: Oh, I love Urban Egg. That's my go to for omelets.
Speaker 5: They have the best omelets in the metro in my opinion.
Speaker 5: Can we have that conversation really quick about does the
Speaker 5: cheese and an omelet belong on the inside of the
Speaker 5: omelet or on top of the omelet? Because in my lifetime,
Speaker 5: until I moved to Colorado, I never saw cheese on
Speaker 5: top of an omelet. That makes no sense to me,
Speaker 5: and apparently it's a thing here.
Speaker 2: It depends on the restaurant.
Speaker 6: That is the wrong answer.
Speaker 5: Steve I need you to be on my side and
Speaker 5: to get the cheese it.
Speaker 6: Thank you melody.
Speaker 2: Inside the original pancake. How omelet then well the.
Speaker 5: Melody got it. It's just the cheese on the outside.
Speaker 5: I'm confused by that. What is that even a thing
Speaker 5: that's happening right now?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 5: What are you guys doing to celebrate one hundred years?
Speaker 5: We're on share with you from the cooking contest that
Speaker 5: you're now going to do with Polydori sausage, and we're
Speaker 5: gonna have the winners in here to announce where. Somebody
Speaker 5: just asked where does the meat come from? And obviously
Speaker 5: the answer is pigs. But where do you get your pigs?
Speaker 2: Sustainable farms?
Speaker 6: Sustainable farms.
Speaker 11: I would love to tell everyone that all of our
Speaker 11: pork comes here from Colorado, but to be honest with you,
Speaker 11: there's not very many pig farms here in Colorado.
Speaker 6: Most of it comes from the Midwest.
Speaker 11: But we are very careful to source our pork from
Speaker 11: sustainable farms that are practicing open pen gestation where the.
Speaker 6: Pigs roam freely and those types of things. Growing up
Speaker 6: in a rural area, I will tell you I would
Speaker 6: live next to a lot of.
Speaker 5: Farming type industries, but a pig farm is not one
Speaker 5: of them. I don't care how sustainable it is. Pigs
Speaker 5: are pigs, and they like to make noises. They're very noisy.
Speaker 5: Pigs are people don't realize this bit smilly, but they're
Speaker 5: very clean. Oddly enough, people think PIDs are like gross.
Speaker 2: They're not.
Speaker 5: They're very clean animals. It's just pig farming is a lot,
Speaker 5: especially when they've got room to roam.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And I might have gotten chased by a feral pig
Speaker 5: when I was seven years old.
Speaker 6: This carved me for life. But it's fine. I'm over
Speaker 6: it now.
Speaker 5: It's all good. That was a horrible thing that happened.
Speaker 5: Mandy the cheese should go inside the.
Speaker 6: Omelet correct, correct.
Speaker 5: Plant based love her. Where can we find their sausage?
Speaker 5: You guys are in every grocery store that I shop in.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so every King Soupers, every safe Way, every city market,
Speaker 11: Spinele's Market, Lever's, Local War, a handful of mom and
Speaker 11: Woods Mart, Woods Market up or just opened up.
Speaker 6: So you guys are, But you're in a lot of
Speaker 6: restaurants too.
Speaker 2: That's the majority of our business.
Speaker 5: Really, eighty or sense and that's probably solid business too,
Speaker 5: Like that's you know, that's not necessarily we're sawing palettes
Speaker 5: instead of one at a time, Right, You're not necessarily
Speaker 5: kind of stuck with the slings and arrows of customer preferences. Guys,
Speaker 5: has been an absolute joy talking to you. Okay, we're
Speaker 5: gonna your people, my people, and we're gonna get the
Speaker 5: cooking contest well in here, because I've already got some ideas,
Speaker 5: like I'm ready to bring some stuff because I.
Speaker 2: Love, love, love to cook.
Speaker 8: Let's do it.
Speaker 5: Did multiple contests like this in the years. We did
Speaker 5: a spam cookoff one year that I still use some
Speaker 5: of the recipes for the spam cookoff.
Speaker 6: It was so good.
Speaker 5: People made spam enchiladas, they made all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 6: Are those good?
Speaker 5: Yes? I love spam, though, so I might be the
Speaker 5: wrong person to ask if they're good because I love spam.
Speaker 5: I had this weekend. As a matter of fact, Well,
Speaker 5: this will be fun. Melody Polodori Harris and Steve Pollodori.
Speaker 6: Did I get right?
Speaker 2: You got it right?
Speaker 5: No, absolute pleasure. You guys doing an incredible job. Hey, Mandy,
Speaker 5: please say the brand name of the company you're speaking to.
Speaker 6: Polydori sausage.
Speaker 5: But that is what you're looking for Polydori Sausage dot Com.
Speaker 6: I put a link on the blog.
Speaker 5: Actually you can go and see everything that they have
Speaker 5: and where to get them. Okay, we'll be.
Speaker 6: Back with our contest.
Speaker 5: I'm holding ask to it and thank you for the
Speaker 5: sausage bucket hat. I'm super excited about that, like a
Speaker 5: little too excited about that. But now when I go
Speaker 5: to a place that is oh very nice and a bracelet,
Speaker 5: a friendship bracelet that said sausage best day ever on
Speaker 5: the Mandy Connell Show.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
Speaker 5: Got a bunch of stuff on the blog today, including
Speaker 5: if you follow me on social media at Mandy Connell
Speaker 5: on Facebook. I'm running a little survey and I put
Speaker 5: it on the blog today, so you can just click
Speaker 5: that and it'll take you right to the survey. And
Speaker 5: the question is easy. It is if you went to
Speaker 5: course Field this weekend and ordered food, what did you
Speaker 5: order and how was it? And I will share the
Speaker 5: answers to that and what we were talking about. So
Speaker 5: there you go. Oh, this person, I had the new
Speaker 5: Halipino cheddar brought at Polydorus Polydori. Why can't I say
Speaker 5: that a Rod Polydori. It's so easy too. You know
Speaker 5: what it looks like, Olly doory, That's what it looks like.
Speaker 5: P O l I d o ri I sausage. And
Speaker 5: it was amazing. I'm just asking, just curious if you
Speaker 5: could take him minute, if you were at the games
Speaker 5: this weekend. By the way, did you watch yesterday's game
Speaker 5: at all, A rod, did you see any of it?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Finally the bats woke up, finally and it was glorious.
Speaker 5: It was a glorious, glorious Rockies game yesterday.
Speaker 2: And mister Dolander, oh.
Speaker 5: That kid, he got to win his first major league start.
Speaker 5: He got to win. They took him through five innings. Yeah,
Speaker 5: pitched lights on alive for him. Bats came alive.
Speaker 6: But more importantly, the and I hate.
Speaker 5: To say it, like this inevitable collapse of the bullpen
Speaker 5: was mitigated by the fact they had so many runs
Speaker 5: on the board.
Speaker 3: Well, we are now in a position where it doesn't
Speaker 3: need to be double digit runs now if the offense
Speaker 3: is above average and the bullpen is average yep, lazy
Speaker 3: and and the Rockies can be competitive. And I know
Speaker 3: those are two big things that are ifs. But when
Speaker 3: you have good starting pitching, and the Rockies seem like
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty five now with the addition of Chase Dolander,
Speaker 3: that they have good pretty legitimately good starting pitching, but.
Speaker 5: They've got they got a reliever with a ten era really.
Speaker 3: Keep the way the starting pitching is going, and it's
Speaker 3: not it's not sustainable that dominant, right, but you get
Speaker 3: average play from the other two sides.
Speaker 2: I just mentioned, Rockies have a chance to be very competitive. Well.
Speaker 5: Jack Corgan gave me a little bit to mull on
Speaker 5: when he said, you know, the relief pitchers that we have,
Speaker 5: we're all pretty young, yes, for relief pitching, So they've
Speaker 5: got to figure out how to how to settle into
Speaker 5: their roles when the game is on the line.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, Buddy nos pitching, and Buddy will get that
Speaker 3: in order, I hope.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 5: Anyway, got a couple of things on the blog. One
Speaker 5: of the things was if you did not listen to
Speaker 5: the Ross over into the Mandy Verse between nine and
Speaker 5: nude on Friday, because you don't normally listen. During that time,
Speaker 5: we interviewed Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, and it was
Speaker 5: a really good interview. Ross asked questions. Of course I
Speaker 5: always ask great questions, but the reality is you should
Speaker 5: listen to and I put a link on the blog
Speaker 5: today if you want to check that out.
Speaker 6: Now, I also have this story.
Speaker 5: We all know that SB twenty five three, which is
Speaker 5: the most onerous gun bill out of a million gun
Speaker 5: bills that we passed here in Colorado, where, by the way,
Speaker 5: our gun violence, gun crime is not dropped at all.
Speaker 6: After all these gun bills.
Speaker 5: Ninety five thousand petitions were delivered to the Capitol on
Speaker 5: Thursday calling on Governor Jared Polis to veto this bill. Now, oh,
Speaker 5: you know, Trump's talking right now in the Oval office.
Speaker 5: Let's dip in and see what the President has to say.
Speaker 12: Dollar wise and militarily. Until I got there, you know,
Speaker 12: I was able to get six hundred billion dollars from
Speaker 12: NATO where they paid NATO because most of these nations.
Speaker 2: Weren't even paying. We were paying for NATO.
Speaker 12: So we're paying them to guard them militarily, and this
Speaker 12: brewing us on training.
Speaker 2: So that's not a good combination.
Speaker 12: So now it's really turned around, it's the opposite. And
Speaker 12: the European Union has been very, very bad to us.
Speaker 12: They don't take our cars like Japan in that sense,
Speaker 12: they don't take our agricultural product. They don't take anything practically.
Speaker 12: And yet they said millions of cars in a year,
Speaker 12: Mercedes Benz Hookswagen, BMW's, they're sending millions and millions of
Speaker 12: cars into the US. But we don't have a car
Speaker 12: that's been sold to the European Union or other places.
Speaker 12: But let's go for the European Union. And it's not
Speaker 12: going to be that way. It's got to be fair
Speaker 12: and reciprocal.
Speaker 8: It's got to be fair. It's not fair.
Speaker 12: We have a deficit with the European Union of three
Speaker 12: hundred and fifty billion dollars and it's going to disappear fast.
Speaker 12: And one of the reasons, and one of the ways
Speaker 12: that that can disappear easily and quickly, is they're going
Speaker 12: to have to buy our energy from us because they
Speaker 12: need it.
Speaker 8: They're gonna have to buy from us. They can buy it.
Speaker 12: We can knock off three hundred and fifty billion dollars
Speaker 12: in one week. They have to buy and commit to
Speaker 12: buy a like amount of energy.
Speaker 2: And we have that.
Speaker 12: You know, we have more energy than any country in
Speaker 12: the world. I don't know if you know that he
Speaker 12: knows everything. But the one thing you may not know.
Speaker 12: We have more energy than any country in the world.
Speaker 12: We have more of every kind of energy, every form
Speaker 12: of energy, from oily gas to call, and people talk
Speaker 12: about I call it beautiful clean call. As you know,
Speaker 12: Germany is opening up a coal plant a week. They
Speaker 12: tried the windmills and it didn't work.
Speaker 8: They tried all.
Speaker 12: The other solutions, and they were ready to go.
Speaker 8: Out of business.
Speaker 12: Now they're doing a coal plant a week. China is
Speaker 12: now up to two coal plants that they're opening two
Speaker 12: major coal plants every single week in China, all over China,
Speaker 12: and then we're not allowed to use coal. Well, we
Speaker 12: have clean, beautiful coal more than anybody else. We have
Speaker 12: oily gas more than anybody else. We have the most
Speaker 12: energy of any country in the world, including Saudi Arabia,
Speaker 12: including everybody, by a lot. And I took it to
Speaker 12: number one. We were number three, and I took it
Speaker 12: to number one during my administration. And the reason that
Speaker 12: we were hurt so badly and the reason that we
Speaker 12: went into such incredible inflation during Biden is energy. It
Speaker 12: was also their bad spending, but energy because they played
Speaker 12: around with this incredible thing that we had built, this
Speaker 12: administration had built, and the energy costs went through the roof.
Speaker 12: And when that went up, everything else followed.
Speaker 6: Now, if you.
Speaker 12: Look at what's happening, you got to see this today.
Speaker 12: I said, we're going to try and get groceries down right,
Speaker 12: an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term.
Speaker 3: Eggs.
Speaker 12: So when I got in, the press went absolutely crazy.
Speaker 12: The first week they said eggs have quadrupled in price.
Speaker 12: I said, I just got here, tell me about it.
Speaker 12: And Brooke Rowlins and our team did a great job.
Speaker 12: And eggs are down now seventy nine percent. And the
Speaker 12: roll over the place is a problem that somebody else
Speaker 12: would have taken a long.
Speaker 2: Time to cure.
Speaker 12: We have energy is down, we have interest rates are down,
Speaker 12: we have groceries meaning food is down. We have everything
Speaker 12: is down at levels that nobody ever thought possible. Energy
Speaker 12: looks like it's going to be in the two dollars
Speaker 12: and fifty cent.
Speaker 5: All right, this is Trump talking about reciprocal tariffs, and
Speaker 5: how you know the thing that that kind of gets
Speaker 5: lost here is not wrong when he says the United
Speaker 5: States of America has been subsidizing Europe for many, many
Speaker 5: years now, we have allowed them to create these generous
Speaker 5: social welfare programs that liberals here would love to have
Speaker 5: in the United States because we are paying for their defense.
Speaker 5: And there is a proposal, and I don't know how
Speaker 5: serious it is. I looked at it this morning that
Speaker 5: the EU is saying, you know what, maybe we just
Speaker 5: go zero zero tariffs, EU and the United States. Everything
Speaker 5: that is happening right now makes me more and more
Speaker 5: certain that for Donald Trump, tariffs are a tool, not
Speaker 5: an endgame. And as concerning as the markets have been,
Speaker 5: and you guys, you know what, I'm the same. I'm
Speaker 5: just the same as you guys. I got a four
Speaker 5: to oh one K. I have investments that I'm you know,
Speaker 5: looking at and going.
Speaker 6: Oh, that's gonna hurt.
Speaker 5: But I believe that the things that he's doing, normalizing
Speaker 5: trade in it in a free trade way are going
Speaker 5: to be really good for the United States of America
Speaker 5: long term. And we've got to do something. We can't
Speaker 5: continue to have this same just just march to spending
Speaker 5: insolvency that we are on our that we're on right now.
Speaker 6: And so I'm more than I'm more certain.
Speaker 5: That I was last week that the tariffs are merely
Speaker 5: a tool, not the endgame, and that eventually we will
Speaker 5: reach trade agreements with many, many, many, many, many many nations.
Speaker 5: The Trump administration came out over the weekend and said
Speaker 5: over fifty nations had reached out to the United States
Speaker 5: about doing away with tariffs and cutting a deal. I mean,
Speaker 5: if it works, it's going to be the boldest play
Speaker 5: that any president has ever done of this magnitude. If
Speaker 5: it fails, boys are going to be a spectacular fail.
Speaker 5: But I was talking to a colleague the other day
Speaker 5: who said, look, you know, I mean, he's committed to this,
Speaker 5: and I don't know where this is going to go.
Speaker 5: The other part about Donald Trump that I want to
Speaker 5: remind you of is that he is not a politician.
Speaker 5: And unlike politicians who decide on a course of action,
Speaker 5: and by God, by golly, they are going to follow
Speaker 5: that course of action regardless of what you think and
Speaker 5: how effective it is. This is a guy who is
Speaker 5: a business person who's not afraid to pivot if things
Speaker 5: are not working, if things don't go the way they
Speaker 5: thought they were going to go. He is not afraid
Speaker 5: to just change direction. So it's all in.
Speaker 6: The early stages.
Speaker 5: But if nations are reaching out now to cut trade
Speaker 5: deals that are better for the US. I mean, this
Speaker 5: is like crazy, like a fox maybe, But again, whoever
Speaker 5: tells you they know what's going to happen next is
Speaker 5: lying because no one knows whether, well, I know what's
Speaker 5: gonna happen next in the next break right here, in
Speaker 5: just a second, Aird's gonna take a picture or our
Speaker 5: video of me doing a cartwheel. Why because it's a
Speaker 5: thing now, and now that we're Radio station of the
Speaker 5: Year according to Colorado Broadcasters Association, we have to keep
Speaker 5: the bar really high. So I'm in a cartwheel. You
Speaker 5: listen to some spots. It'll be on our social media
Speaker 5: in a minute if I do. Say so, it's better
Speaker 5: than Ross's. Yeah, my legs were straight or not. I
Speaker 5: just compared before I ran smack. Right, Okay, I compared
Speaker 5: before I ran smack. That's what I did.
Speaker 2: Was real good.
Speaker 3: You guys are neck and neckel and cartwheel.
Speaker 5: Well he got a running start too, so I should
Speaker 5: have probably gotten a walking start.
Speaker 3: Guessing you did better in that against Ross than you
Speaker 3: would against Nick and the speedwalking.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what, my hip feels better. I should
Speaker 5: probably get going on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he played in the NFL, so.
Speaker 5: Whatever, he didn't play on the speedwalking NFL. Okay, got
Speaker 5: a lot of stories on the blog today, and one
Speaker 5: of my favorites is that guess who's running for attorney general?
Speaker 5: If you guessed the lovely and incompetent Jennick Griswold, you
Speaker 5: guessed correctly. Now, luckily there are other Democrats running for
Speaker 5: the nomination on the Democratic side, and I'm not willing
Speaker 5: to concede the Secretary of State's race just yet to
Speaker 5: the Democrats. I do think that in this current environment
Speaker 5: there is a lot brewing, a lot brewing that is
Speaker 5: positive for the Republican Party. There are so many points
Speaker 5: of order about what the Democratic leadership has done to
Speaker 5: our state, especially since two thousand nineteen, and if you
Speaker 5: look at things like job creation, we're lagging way behind.
Speaker 5: I actually heard a SoundBite this morning on Colorado's Morning
Speaker 5: News as I was driving in actually know it was
Speaker 5: during the news on Ross's show. I heard a SoundBite
Speaker 5: from a economist I believe maybe from CSU, but he
Speaker 5: said something to the effective you know, we have to
Speaker 5: worry about stagflation, which is low job growth and high inflation.
Speaker 5: But the reality is the job numbers that came in
Speaker 5: last Friday came in higher than economists expected. So nationwide
Speaker 5: hiring is still strong. In Colorado, it is not. So
Speaker 5: there's a lot of points that can be made by
Speaker 5: a functioning, coherent Republican Party, and I'm hoping that Britta
Speaker 5: is the person that can make that happen. Now, coming
Speaker 5: up for the next hour, we're going to get into
Speaker 5: a little bit of inside baseball with some of the
Speaker 5: stuff happening in the Republican Party. But I'm going to
Speaker 5: make a plea. Now, of course, I'm going to make
Speaker 5: a plea that's going to fall on deaf ears because
Speaker 5: none of the people that need to hear my plea
Speaker 5: are going to listen to the show, because well, I've
Speaker 5: mocked them quite a bit in the past, and I
Speaker 5: thought about continuing to mock. No, you know what, Aron,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna mock them again. Aron, on the break, can
Speaker 5: you find some dramatic reading music that I can read
Speaker 5: an email blast that went out? Now, if you're not
Speaker 5: a Republican, the reason I'm doing this is have you
Speaker 5: ever read something that is supposed to be serious and
Speaker 5: then it's so ridiculous that you can't stop laughing.
Speaker 6: That's kind of what I.
Speaker 5: Just experienced reading the latest email blast that was forwarded
Speaker 5: to me by a listener who said, Mandy, this is
Speaker 5: what poses is the opposition. We've got to bring the
Speaker 5: Republican Party back together. And I'm going to read some
Speaker 5: of this email not to well, partially to pile on,
Speaker 5: but I really want people to hear especially the people
Speaker 5: who wrote the email, and want them to hear it
Speaker 5: because sometimes when I'm about to do something stupid, the
Speaker 5: easiest way to not do something stupid is to say
Speaker 5: out loud, whatever stupid thing you're thinking about doing. For instance,
Speaker 5: you're watching your calories, you're about to eat a huge
Speaker 5: piece of chocolate cake, say out loud, I am gonna
Speaker 5: eat this huge piece of chocolate cake. And I'm telling you,
Speaker 5: when you hear it, it hits different. So I'm gonna
Speaker 5: read an email that was received and I just want
Speaker 5: them to listen back to what they're sending out there,
Speaker 5: and thank you. My cart will was better. Thank you
Speaker 5: says you know, Mandy did a round off, not a
Speaker 5: cart Well, no I didn't.
Speaker 2: You kind of stalled out at the peak well.
Speaker 5: Because I didn't give myself enough fu you know running room.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, let me see.
Speaker 6: Did I do a round off? Did I land on
Speaker 6: my feet together?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 6: He didn't.
Speaker 2: Let's see No.
Speaker 5: One two. They came down separately, did not come down
Speaker 5: at the same time? No, roundoff is too at the
Speaker 5: same time. Boom, Mandy, Now.
Speaker 6: You and Roster do a cartwheel face off? There you go.
Speaker 6: Maybe not.
Speaker 5: When we get back, though, I'll have a dramatic reading
Speaker 5: in the hope so we can bring the Republican Party
Speaker 5: back together by pointing out how ridiculous some of the
Speaker 5: issues within the Republican Party actually are.
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Speaker 5: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the third hour of the show.
Speaker 5: I'm your host, Mandy Connell, and I'm joined, of course,
Speaker 5: by the award winning Anthony Rodriguez, who just want to
Speaker 5: Colorado Broadcast Award for his stellar wre on social media.
Speaker 5: We are also right here on KOA, the radio station
Speaker 5: of the Year. Yes, that's right. Such a privilege to
Speaker 5: get to work with the awesome people on the ear
Speaker 5: off the ear that I get to work with. And
Speaker 5: the Hungarian judges gave my cartwheel a ten Anthony.
Speaker 2: Oh, what about the Russian which you can well, the.
Speaker 5: Russian judge gave it a four point five four point one.
Speaker 5: Excuse the joke. Yep, the Russian judge gave it a
Speaker 5: four point one. Now that I explained to him what
Speaker 5: that chip quiz? So that's on Twitter if you want
Speaker 5: to find that. At Koa, Colorado, Ross did a cartwheel.
Speaker 5: I did a cartwheel? Who else has done cartwheels?
Speaker 3: Ey Rod Jesse too? So far not another Koa host.
Speaker 3: People have asked for me to do it.
Speaker 2: I'm not doing it. Do you know how to do
Speaker 2: a cartwheel? I probably could. I'm not racing.
Speaker 6: You don't know how to do a cartwheel?
Speaker 2: No? I probably could.
Speaker 6: Okay, it's not that Harden, says the guy who won't
Speaker 6: try it.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to He's going on.
Speaker 6: Vacation this weekend. It doesn't want to heard it.
Speaker 5: So that means a Monday, right I would. On Monday,
Speaker 5: you're doing the cartwheel? No, I'm gone Monday too, Okay,
Speaker 5: sid Tuesday you're doing the Cartwell, don't think about it, Okay.
Speaker 5: I can teach you how to do it, as I
Speaker 5: established it. I taught three to five year olds how
Speaker 5: to do a cart whe all. I can teach you
Speaker 5: how to do a cart.
Speaker 2: If I don't do well, I'm just not going to
Speaker 2: post it because I'm the guy that posts it.
Speaker 6: Right there, you gout.
Speaker 2: You know, people never know all right now?
Speaker 5: I promised you guys are dramatic reading because over the
Speaker 5: weekend someone sent me an email that they've signed up
Speaker 5: for for some reason from a group called Rhino Watch.
Speaker 5: Rhino Watch represents a faction of the Republican Party that
Speaker 5: is very unhappy that the Central Committee decided to go
Speaker 5: in a different direction. So they sent out their email
Speaker 5: on April fourth, and I'm just going to read part
Speaker 5: of it to you in order to sort of demonstrate
Speaker 5: the seriousness or lack thereof some of the arguments being made.
Speaker 6: Truly are.
Speaker 5: They start off by talking about how rhydos elected their
Speaker 5: new leadership and they're unhappy about it.
Speaker 6: But I just want to jump ahead to this.
Speaker 5: The Weld County officers in voting bonus members were unanimously
Speaker 5: opposed to outgoing share Dave Williams and any of his
Speaker 5: grassroots supporters. They wore red shirt uniforms, proudly declared themselves
Speaker 5: to be Rhinos, and bullied any grassroots delegate who wandered
Speaker 5: over their side of the auditorium. The new reign of
Speaker 5: Britta Horn did not start off well after her so
Speaker 5: called unity supporters, the red shirted Weld County bullies guarded
Speaker 5: donated pizza and refused to share with any grassroots delegates.
Speaker 5: Click on the Rhino Watch report link above for a
Speaker 5: complete election recap. They weren't done with that, though, not
Speaker 5: at all. They had more to say about the pizza issue,
Speaker 5: and it sounded like this. This is hilarious. By the way,
Speaker 5: listen to this what they said about Lauren Bobert. Rhino
Speaker 5: Watches launching the Horn Unity scorecard, and with less than
Speaker 5: one week in office, new chair Britta Horn and her
Speaker 5: supporters are flunking unity. They campaigned on being the ones
Speaker 5: to restore unity to the party and rhino Watch will
Speaker 5: something something hold them accountable.
Speaker 6: I don't even know what they're doing. I don't think
Speaker 6: they know what they're doing.
Speaker 5: Rhino Watch will keep tracks so you can compare what
Speaker 5: they promise to what they actually deliver, which, by the way,
Speaker 5: I don't have a problem with hold people accountable. Amen,
Speaker 5: great job. But there's this is where it gets ridiculous.
Speaker 5: First f grade goes to Horn's pizzagate or no pizza
Speaker 5: for you grassroots. Right after winning the chair position at
Speaker 5: the party reorg meeting, Horn announced free pizza for.
Speaker 6: All unless you are grassroots.
Speaker 5: That is, numerous people report Horn supporters refuse to give
Speaker 5: them a piece of pizza because they were grassroots and
Speaker 5: did not vote for Horn. That's uniparty establishment unity for you.
Speaker 5: Click on Rhino watch blah blah blah you guys. So
Speaker 5: they're stuck on the fact that they say they got
Speaker 5: no pizza, and this is what this is what passes.
Speaker 1: For.
Speaker 6: I don't even know what we're doing, guys.
Speaker 5: I don't even know. I'm in all these Republican groups
Speaker 5: on Facebook, and the stuff they're arguing about is just so.
Speaker 2: Dumb. It's also dumb.
Speaker 5: They're arguing about whether or not they were given pizza
Speaker 5: when we've got a state that we know has the
Speaker 5: highest inflation out of all the states in the country.
Speaker 5: We know that our hiring in the last year is
Speaker 5: falling off a cliff. We know that developers. If you
Speaker 5: didn't hear the beginning of the show. Yesterday in the
Speaker 5: Denver Gazette, their cover story was about downtown people who
Speaker 5: normally would be developing real estate and downtown Denver are saying,
Speaker 5: we can't work in Denver anymore. We're making it impossible
Speaker 5: for people to buy buildings because of the incredibly onerous
Speaker 5: climate change initiatives that the Democrats have passed over the
Speaker 5: last few years have made it damn near fiscally impossible
Speaker 5: to buy some of these buildings.
Speaker 4: And you have.
Speaker 5: Republicans arguing about pizza. And here's the thing. I would
Speaker 5: love the people that follow Rhino Watch and that are
Speaker 5: that part of the party to feel like they have
Speaker 5: a place in the party. I think it's very important
Speaker 5: for the party to have voices across the spectrum from
Speaker 5: the center to the hard right, and then you can
Speaker 5: make decisions based on great arguments from wherever you're hearing them.
Speaker 5: But the reality is is that you have people who
Speaker 5: appear to be so invested in imponing other Republicans like
Speaker 5: we're going to own them, that they're not interested in
Speaker 5: talking about the bigger issues.
Speaker 6: And it's just got to stop now.
Speaker 5: I could be a jerk and say you lost in
Speaker 5: the last election cycle, which is true one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: Or I could say, hey, what needs to happen here
Speaker 5: other than your people staying in charge, which they were
Speaker 5: not elected by a majority of the people. The people
Speaker 5: that were elected we were elected by a majority of
Speaker 5: the people in the Central Committee. Kathleen Chandler said, I
Speaker 5: was there and I got a piece of pizza. So funny.
Speaker 5: Did you see what they called bobert rent a rep Yeah, exactly, Mandy.
Speaker 6: I agree.
Speaker 5: It sounds really stupid, but is it true? And if
Speaker 5: it is, that doesn't sound unifying except I got this
Speaker 5: text message, Mandy. I personally handed pizza to people I
Speaker 5: know worship Dave Williams. We didn't care who they voted for.
Speaker 5: We wanted to feed people. At that point, we'd been
Speaker 5: there for eight plus hours, So I don't know, Mandy.
Speaker 8: Lol.
Speaker 5: I'm in Weld was at the meeting as a voting member.
Speaker 5: Pizzagate and all the bs from Rhino Watch was complete bs.
Speaker 2: But think about it like this, this.
Speaker 5: Is the thing that you're hanging your hat on. This
Speaker 5: this proof that the new regime is not interested in unity.
Speaker 5: Was the perception that somebody kept somebody else from getting pizza.
Speaker 6: It's not exactly the strongest position.
Speaker 5: And I'd love to know if anybody else was there,
Speaker 5: if they were denied pizza, if they if they walked
Speaker 5: up to the table and the pizza box was slammed
Speaker 5: down dramatically, and then someone looked at him and said.
Speaker 6: Go get your pizza from Dave Williams.
Speaker 5: Oh no, That's just what I would have done, Yanks,
Speaker 5: Mandy is the Rhino Watch Dave Williams. Peeps confused as
Speaker 5: to who is who. Rhino Watches aligned with Dave Williams.
Speaker 5: And what I found fascinating is that they keep referring
Speaker 5: to themselves as the grassroots, the grassroots, the grassroots. How
Speaker 5: do you define grassroots? I mean, I asked them to
Speaker 5: find what a good Republican was and they couldn't do it.
Speaker 5: So I'm guessing they can't define grassroots either.
Speaker 6: But what are they going to do?
Speaker 5: What is the next step for Rhino Watch to just
Speaker 5: stand on the sidelines and scream into the ether? Oddly,
Speaker 5: I'm okay with that. I want to get into this story.
Speaker 5: I'm going to get into it a little bit after
Speaker 5: two thirty. Remember the Mayor's office Mayor Mike Johnston using
Speaker 5: the Signal app to create a group chat about the
Speaker 5: immigration response. It's now come out that there is more
Speaker 5: than one signal chat. At least we know there's a
Speaker 5: second signal chat, and I certainly would hope that the
Speaker 5: news media that the mayor will talk to, which apparently
Speaker 5: is getting smaller and smaller and smaller, we'll ask him
Speaker 5: about this, because well, we're going to get into it
Speaker 5: at one or two thirty. Rather sorry about that. Got
Speaker 5: a couple of things on the blog. Finally, we have
Speaker 5: an explanation for how the Atlantics editor Jeffrey Goldberg ended
Speaker 5: up in another signal chat with a bunch of Trump
Speaker 5: administration officials talking about an attack on Yemen. It's a
Speaker 5: very rational explanation that required a pretty significant but understandable
Speaker 5: mistake by Mike Waltz in saving a phone number into
Speaker 5: his phone. It was saved as part of a contact
Speaker 5: for someone else who had forwarded Mike Waltz an email
Speaker 5: from Jeffrey Goldberg, and in saving the guy who sent
Speaker 5: him the stories information, it grabbed the phone number out
Speaker 5: of the email for Jeffrey Goldberg, and they did like
Speaker 5: a whole forensic investigation on this, and that is what
Speaker 5: they came up with. And, like I said, is an
Speaker 5: ideal no, But is it reasonable Yes. And there's no
Speaker 5: way that anybody's going to be fired over it because
Speaker 5: Trump is not going to give a win to the lefties.
Speaker 5: By the way, did you notice how fast that fell
Speaker 5: Atvenue cycle when Trump was basically like, yeah, I'm not
Speaker 5: firing anybody, not gonna do it, not at all. There
Speaker 5: is a fascinating bit of video today. One of the
Speaker 5: trips that I want to take I want to go
Speaker 5: to Antarctica. And there's a couple of ways to go
Speaker 5: to Antarctica, but one of them requires.
Speaker 6: Crossing the Drake Passage.
Speaker 5: The Drake Passage is the body of water beneath South
Speaker 5: America and between Antarctica, and one of the reasons that
Speaker 5: they built the Panama Canal was that the Drake Passage
Speaker 5: is no joke. It is notorious for incredibly rough seas.
Speaker 5: And if you've ever wanted to know how rough, you
Speaker 5: gotta watch the video. Ay, Rod, would you go through
Speaker 5: the Drake Passage on a cruise ship?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 5: After seeing that, absolutely, I would, I would do I
Speaker 5: would generally do it. I was like Oh, but you've
Speaker 5: got to be on the right ship, right, Like, there's
Speaker 5: a lot of ships that are specifically designed for that trip,
Speaker 5: and they have you know, ballasts in all kinds of
Speaker 5: other ways to mitigate these massive but the mass waves
Speaker 5: are part of the adventure.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 5: A lot of people will do the drake passage strip.
Speaker 5: They'll do they'll do the passage down or back, and
Speaker 5: then they'll fly in the other direction because if you
Speaker 5: get seasick, it can be pretty miserable. But I saw
Speaker 5: it and I was like, yes, I mean, that looks awesome,
Speaker 5: but I don't get seasick, which is a big plus
Speaker 5: because oh wait a minute, did I put the right
Speaker 5: thing on here?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 5: I did, I just clicked the wrong thing. What I
Speaker 5: love is that there are people standing essentially at the
Speaker 5: front of the ship at these windows just watching the
Speaker 5: waves just barrel at you.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just so cool.
Speaker 5: What I wouldn't do is be this idiot on the
Speaker 5: top of the stairs that is watching these waves from
Speaker 5: the top of the stairs instead of at the bottom
Speaker 5: of the stairs, which is where a rational person would
Speaker 5: watch it. But if you've ever wanted to go to Antarctica,
Speaker 5: well now's your chance. Also on the blog today, how
Speaker 5: to keep your cheese fresh Longer. I feel like out
Speaker 5: of all the stories that are on the blog, this
Speaker 5: one might be the most useful.
Speaker 6: And as someone who eats.
Speaker 5: A lot of cheese, I was completely shocked by this.
Speaker 5: First of all, apparently there's things called cheese paper. Do
Speaker 5: you know there was a thing called cheese paper? Do
Speaker 5: you even though that was a thing. It's paper for cheese,
Speaker 5: keeps it fresh longer, like the ones that go in
Speaker 5: between the slices litter.
Speaker 6: No, cheese paper is like a storage paper.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is that not what?
Speaker 8: It is? Like?
Speaker 6: Free paper to keep cheese and sharcuterie fresh.
Speaker 3: That's what's in between the slices and a packet of slice.
Speaker 2: Don't talk about how.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's just wax paper. But that's what they're
Speaker 5: selling you. Parchment paper is what they want you to
Speaker 5: use instead. So yeah, if you need help with your cheese,
Speaker 5: that's right there on the blog. Because our blog is
Speaker 5: all about providing you useful information. When we get back,
Speaker 5: we're going to talk about the latest ways that the
Speaker 5: Mike Johnston administration dodges transparency. But first, our friend Rich
Speaker 5: Gugenheim from Gays against Groomers is coming on to talk
Speaker 5: about what the Colorado legislature did yesterday and what Gays
Speaker 5: against Groomers is doing to fight back. That's all coming
Speaker 5: up for the next half hour. You have been a
Speaker 5: busy boy. You have been everywhere. You've been all over
Speaker 5: the place. You went to Washington, DC. Let's do a
Speaker 5: little recap of where you've been rich since the last
Speaker 5: time you were on the show.
Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, where haven't I been. I feel like
Speaker 7: you're right, I've been everywhere. But yeah, the big one
Speaker 7: was Washington, DC. A couple of weeks ago. We were
Speaker 7: back there and we actually introduced what we call a
Speaker 7: Detransitioner's Bill of Rights. And this bill, all it really
Speaker 7: does is it creates a cause of action and a
Speaker 7: statute of limitations for anyone who has been harmed by
Speaker 7: what we call gender affirming care. And that was a
Speaker 7: big bill trying to get that introduced. I've got some
Speaker 7: good sponsorship and support in both chambers. We met with
Speaker 7: over one hundred members of Congress. We also had a nice,
Speaker 7: fun little meeting with Canvas Jackson, who is the senior
Speaker 7: counsel for the Department of Education, reports directly to Linda
Speaker 7: McMahon and other people that we had some let's just say,
Speaker 7: we had some top leadership of our country that we
Speaker 7: got to meet with, and we discussed quite a few
Speaker 7: things that are going on here in Colorado. So let
Speaker 7: me ask you say about that.
Speaker 5: Let me just ask this question about people who have
Speaker 5: been rushed into medicalization when it comes to being trans
Speaker 5: and I feel like rich every time I open up
Speaker 5: social media, I'm seeing another interview with a person who
Speaker 5: was essentially just given hormones almost immediately when they went
Speaker 5: in for depression or other things, and now they're detransitioning.
Speaker 5: It seems like more and more detransitioners are getting their
Speaker 5: stories out. But what is the current state of affairs
Speaker 5: if they want to go and pursue some kind of
Speaker 5: legal remedy against the people that rush them into transition,
Speaker 5: what is the current state?
Speaker 7: That is a complicated question answer because and it does
Speaker 7: vary from state to state, but in most states you
Speaker 7: have if you have any sort of statute of limitations,
Speaker 7: that's two years, and it takes longer for people to
Speaker 7: regret something like that, and so a lot of times
Speaker 7: the other in the worst case scenarios, in cases like Colorado,
Speaker 7: for example, the transitioning is actually prohibited by our law
Speaker 7: that prohibits people from well I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2: There's a council just right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they call it conversion therapy and it's not.
Speaker 7: Yes, And so that was the other thing we find
Speaker 7: on we're going to be helping write an anarchist brief
Speaker 7: that actually support the Colorado case that's being heard at
Speaker 7: the Supreme Court to overturn that band. And a lot
Speaker 7: of people are like, well, why would gay people support that? I,
Speaker 7: for one, am someone who went through that type of
Speaker 7: conversion therapy, so I have a lot of feelings about that.
Speaker 7: But what they did was they tied it to detransitioning. Right,
Speaker 7: Detransitioning is not the same as as conversion therapy. You're
Speaker 7: converting somebody when you put them down this path of
Speaker 7: medicalization and I try to reconcile o their natal sex.
Speaker 7: That is not conversion therapy. And so they've got it backwards.
Speaker 7: And that's why this is a terrible piece of legislation,
Speaker 7: a terrible law that needs to be struck down by
Speaker 7: the Supreme Court.
Speaker 5: And Rich it's fascinating to me that we have legislators
Speaker 5: who are just so willfully ignorant about more and more
Speaker 5: information coming out that says things like about eighty percent
Speaker 5: of children who have some kind of gender dysphoria, if
Speaker 5: left alone, right, just leave them to their own devices,
Speaker 5: maybe get them some counseling to help them work through
Speaker 5: the sticky parts of puberty and all of these other things,
Speaker 5: eighty percent of them come to reconcile with their own gender. Now,
Speaker 5: if they are affirmed, one hundred percent of them go
Speaker 5: on to medicalization for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And that's the thing. That's why I keep saying
Speaker 7: this is a form of modernity conversion therapy. And when
Speaker 7: you say wilful ignorance, I really don't think they're ignorant
Speaker 7: about it at all. I think they know exactly what
Speaker 7: they're doing, and I think that they know that it's wrong.
Speaker 7: And that's why we've seen what's going on at the
Speaker 7: state capital go on at the state capital.
Speaker 6: So you believe it's an on purpose situation.
Speaker 7: I totally believe it's on purpose. And I think that
Speaker 7: if you were to look behind the curtain, follow the money,
Speaker 7: who is the one who what industry benefits from all
Speaker 7: of this? The only winners if you can say this.
Speaker 7: The only winners when it comes to gender affirming care
Speaker 7: is the medical industrial complex.
Speaker 6: Exactly follow the money, indeed rich.
Speaker 5: Yesterday they gabbled into session on a Sunday morning to
Speaker 5: do a third reading for some incredibly onerous legislation that
Speaker 5: would say, if you're a parent and you are in
Speaker 5: a divorce.
Speaker 6: Situation, a custody situation, if.
Speaker 5: You refuse to affirm the gender of your child who
Speaker 5: has declared that they are another gender, that can be
Speaker 5: used to limit your time with your kid. It can
Speaker 5: be used to prevent you from getting custody. Are we
Speaker 5: to point where the people of Colorado are going to
Speaker 5: be pushed far enough to start pushing back?
Speaker 7: I hope so, Manny. And that's not just in a
Speaker 7: divorce case. This is a situation where if a child
Speaker 7: goes to school and says, Mommy and Daddy don't believe
Speaker 7: that I identify as something else other than what I am,
Speaker 7: that child's teacher can report that, and now misgendering and
Speaker 7: dead meaning is going to be considered a hate crime
Speaker 7: in Colorado, and child Protection services can come in and say, well,
Speaker 7: you didn't affirm your child's gender identity, and now We're
Speaker 7: going to remove the child from your custody and we're
Speaker 7: going to place them in foster care where we know
Speaker 7: last year's house built ten seventeen requires lost their parents
Speaker 7: to it from a child's gender identity, an expression, and
Speaker 7: the state to medicalize them. This is when Mandy, when
Speaker 7: I speak hyperbolically, I don't do this lightly. This isn't
Speaker 7: hyperbole when I say the day has arrived for parents
Speaker 7: to either fight for their children at the state capitol,
Speaker 7: which costs nothing, or they will fight for their children
Speaker 7: in court, which can cost everything because the police, our
Speaker 7: armed forces will show up, men in uniforms will show
Speaker 7: up to your door, kick down your door, remove your
Speaker 7: children with force, and send them off to the camps.
Speaker 7: This is reality in Colorado. So parents have a choice
Speaker 7: to make. You can show up to the capitol and fight,
Speaker 7: or you can show up to the courtroom and fight.
Speaker 7: But the time to remain silent and sit on the
Speaker 7: sidelines is over.
Speaker 5: You know what it is rich is that most people think, well,
Speaker 5: my kid's not going to come home and say I'm
Speaker 5: trans my kid's fine, my kids normal. I don't need
Speaker 5: to worry about that. And that's where we end up
Speaker 5: with people sitting silently because they don't want to be
Speaker 5: called a bigot, they don't want to be called a
Speaker 5: homophobe or a trans phobe, which is the tools that
Speaker 5: have been deployed for years to shut people up. Luckily
Speaker 5: they don't work. And I know that you have been
Speaker 5: on the receiving end of those slings and arrows. So
Speaker 5: what is the next thing for gays against groomers and
Speaker 5: what are you organizing and how can we support this?
Speaker 7: Or You're going to have an X space, So if
Speaker 7: you're on X, you can follow us against AGI, nstgr
Speaker 7: mrs against grimmers. You can look us up on X.
Speaker 7: We're going to host an X space tomorrow night at
Speaker 7: six pm our time, and we're going to have lawyers, therapists, doctors,
Speaker 7: parents talking about this bill, legislators talking about this bill,
Speaker 7: because this is one of the most egregious infringements on
Speaker 7: both the First Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment, which gives
Speaker 7: parents the right to raise their children as ac fit
Speaker 7: in our country, in our history. This is one of
Speaker 7: the worst bills you've ever seen. And so we're gonna
Speaker 7: have experts talking about this from various perspectives. And we're
Speaker 7: also going to give parents and citizens the opportunity to
Speaker 7: learn how to sign up to testify against this bill,
Speaker 7: because that's what it has come down to. You have
Speaker 7: to fight at this point in time, there's the war
Speaker 7: is here and we are on the front lines. And
Speaker 7: if you don't want to lose your children forever to
Speaker 7: this madness, you got to stand up. You gotta fight,
Speaker 7: and you got to bring your neighbors and your friends
Speaker 7: and everybody you know to the capital to fight against
Speaker 7: this stuff.
Speaker 5: Well, I will put it on my blog tomorrow as
Speaker 5: a reminder, and I'll put a link on the blog
Speaker 5: tomorrow so you can easily we can direct people there.
Speaker 5: But Rich, I just every time I talk to you,
Speaker 5: I'm so grateful that you are out there fighting as
Speaker 5: a non parent. Yeah, Rich doesn't have kids yet, so
Speaker 5: you know, we never know if what his plans are,
Speaker 5: but you're out there fighting the fight that I think
Speaker 5: a lot of parents are scared to fight because they
Speaker 5: don't want to be called a bigot, They don't want
Speaker 5: to be called the names. But the reality is is
Speaker 5: that science is on our side, and more and more
Speaker 5: science is on our side. The truth, as Rich just said,
Speaker 5: is on our side.
Speaker 8: All right.
Speaker 6: I'll put it on the blog tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Witch.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much for giving us a whole time
Speaker 6: today to talk about it.
Speaker 8: Day you too.
Speaker 5: That's Rich Cogenheim from Gays Against Rumors, and I'll put
Speaker 5: that on tomorrow's blog so you can see it there. Now,
Speaker 5: I want to talk about this Mike Johnston's story. I
Speaker 5: just think this is super interesting because Mayor Mike Kaufman
Speaker 5: from Aurra, he is done suffering fools, and I'm going
Speaker 5: to give you guys a little inside baseball. Normally, when
Speaker 5: I have conversations with people off the air, I keep
Speaker 5: the content of those conversations off the air because generally speaking,
Speaker 5: I don't want people to be afraid to talk to
Speaker 5: me about stuff because I do a lot of information
Speaker 5: gathering that I never am going to credit on the air,
Speaker 5: but it's information gathering. I have been in the process
Speaker 5: of talking to people about the mayor's administration, people that
Speaker 5: are not just Republicans, people that are also Democrats, people
Speaker 5: who voted for the mayor. Even though I supported Kelly
Speaker 5: Bruff in the primary, I still think she would have
Speaker 5: been a much better mayor. But I had really good friends.
Speaker 5: You were Republicans who said no, no, no, Mike Johnston
Speaker 5: is a really really good guy. Mike Johnston is a
Speaker 5: good guy. He's going to do a good job. He's
Speaker 5: very reasonable, He's going to be fine. Well, he's been
Speaker 5: an abject disaster in my opinion. He finally, finally, finally
Speaker 5: is adding security to the sixteenth Street Mall. He's finally
Speaker 5: doing some of the things that I would have advocated
Speaker 5: for right out of the chute. But whatever, it's fine.
Speaker 5: But listen to this from our friends at CBS. A
Speaker 5: spokesperson for Denver Mayor Mike Johnston admitted this week that
Speaker 5: the office has been operating an internal group on the
Speaker 5: encrypted messaging app Signal that was monitoring news stories and
Speaker 5: had been auto deleting the group messages apparently for more
Speaker 5: than a year. It's a strategy that some experts say
Speaker 5: violate the spirits of Colorado's open meeting laws. Now, the
Speaker 5: mayor's spokesperson, Jordan Fuja, said this group chat is used
Speaker 5: to make sure the mayor's office can keep track of
Speaker 5: the news in real time, which is a critical function
Speaker 5: of running the city. Well, then why are we deleting
Speaker 5: them if it's just a gathering of news stories? Why
Speaker 5: are we deleting them. I mean, I'm asking the question
Speaker 5: because it would seem to me they're deleting them because
Speaker 5: they want to evade transparency.
Speaker 6: That's the reason. Now here's my next question.
Speaker 5: By the way, Brian Moss at CBS, he tried to
Speaker 5: get an interview with the mayor, and apparently the mayor
Speaker 5: only has time to talk to the City Cast podcast
Speaker 5: and NPR.
Speaker 6: That's oh and Colorado's.
Speaker 5: Morning News doesn't have time to talk to me, that's
Speaker 5: for sure, unless he's ordering a sandwich at subway. Still
Speaker 5: bitter about that, will remain bitter about that.
Speaker 2: Aby he'll go to Polydori. Maybe Polydori.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So Brian Moss from CBS asked for an interview
Speaker 5: and they're like, oh, the mayor doesn't have time. Sorry,
Speaker 5: we can't make it. So, you know what Brian Moss said,
Speaker 5: he showed up at one of his press conferences. It
Speaker 5: was like, hey, there, got a second and asked him
Speaker 5: about this and this, this, This is what he said. Polydori,
Speaker 5: he said, with a straight face. We feel great.
Speaker 6: We're deeply committed to transparency.
Speaker 5: He said his administration was entirely transparent, always have been.
Speaker 5: A reporter pointed out that Johnston that the public could
Speaker 5: not obtain records of the signal conversations if they'd been
Speaker 5: automatically deleted and no longer existed, and he responded again
Speaker 5: without laughing, anything that's cora ed will obviously overturn. And
Speaker 5: we think that's totally transparent, except you can't CORA messages
Speaker 5: that don't exist anymore. And this is where Aurora Mayor
Speaker 5: Mike Coffin stepped in, He said, and I quote he
Speaker 5: Johnston might go down as one of the least transparent
Speaker 5: officials in the history of the state.
Speaker 2: He said.
Speaker 5: Aurora began requesting open records from Denver months ago related
Speaker 5: to the immigrant crisis and how immigrants who arrived in
Speaker 5: Denver ended up being housed in Aurora.
Speaker 6: To date, Aurora said Hiss has spent.
Speaker 5: More than nine thousand dollars on Denver's records, but still
Speaker 5: does not have everything that's been requested. The City of
Speaker 5: Aurora has put Denver on notice that if all of
Speaker 5: Aurora's open records requests are not fulfilled by next Wednesday,
Speaker 5: they will file a lawsuit against Denver. Kaufmin continued, this
Speaker 5: is an administration, that this is an administration, not just
Speaker 5: not transparent, but dedicated to not being transparent. So yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean, what do we do with this between this? Okay,
Speaker 5: there's a few things that are happening right now that
Speaker 5: I just want you to pay attention to because they
Speaker 5: all demonstrate the arrogance of the Democrats in this state.
Speaker 5: They convened a meeting yesterday to shove through some onerous
Speaker 5: anti parent regulations and laws that would force parents to
Speaker 5: affirm their children as transgender, even if they didn't believe
Speaker 5: they were, because the state knows best right. It's arrogant. Oh,
Speaker 5: they didn't allow debate, by the way, they just send
Speaker 5: it to a vote. They didn't allow debate. Now we
Speaker 5: have Mayor Mike Johnson saying, hey, whatever you guys, cora,
Speaker 5: We're gonna give it to you, except if they cora
Speaker 5: records that have been deleted. I mean, you're beginning to
Speaker 5: see the pattern here. There's a level of arrogance that
Speaker 5: can only exist in a state where one party controls everything.
Speaker 5: And here's the cool flip side of this. Lest you
Speaker 5: think this is just how Democrats act in states where
Speaker 5: only Republicans control everything, they do the same crap. When
Speaker 5: one party has control and the other party has no
Speaker 5: real you know impact, This is what you get. So yeah,
Speaker 5: it's time to do something about it. It's also time
Speaker 5: to do something completely different on this show because Ryan
Speaker 5: Edwards has made his way into the studio.
Speaker 6: Hello, did you happen to see the Rockies game yesterday?
Speaker 4: I did?
Speaker 2: Second?
Speaker 6: Nice.
Speaker 5: This is what I was talking to Ross about this
Speaker 5: on Friday. One of the reasons I like baseball is
Speaker 5: the cerebral aspect of it, yes, but there's other aspects
Speaker 5: to it, like everybody gets hot with the bat at
Speaker 5: the same time.
Speaker 6: Right, that doesn't make any rational sense.
Speaker 13: It's also numbingly maddening, right, I mean, like just so
Speaker 13: brutal to see, like, hey, there's so many opportunities here,
Speaker 13: and they just get this going, and then all of
Speaker 13: it comes together in a tidal wave and you're like,
Speaker 13: why could you do this?
Speaker 7: All time?
Speaker 6: Correct? As it's it's like the best day ever.
Speaker 5: Of course we're you're a Rockies fan and you're up
Speaker 5: seven runs and then Votnik comes in to close and
Speaker 5: you're like, oh, sweet baby Jesus, please just don't don't
Speaker 5: don't scrit up, don't up, don't screw it up. Honestly,
Speaker 5: don't screw it up is gonna be my new mantra
Speaker 5: for the Rockies this year.
Speaker 2: Just don't screw it up.
Speaker 14: Honestly, you know, when you're talking talking about the margins
Speaker 14: that they're on, that's that's a pretty good bar to clue.
Speaker 14: I know, time for the injection of the torpedo. Exactly
Speaker 14: while they're getting a couple of torpedo.
Speaker 3: Bouts, Chris Bryan was doing batting practice and.
Speaker 2: McMahon ordered some. So okay, we'll see, okay, we shall see.
Speaker 5: By the way, don't forget check out our Ryan Edwards.
Speaker 5: Can you do a cartwheel?
Speaker 2: Cannot at all?
Speaker 5: You ever tried?
Speaker 2: I well, I mean like when I was young, and.
Speaker 5: You just your anti you just it's like the Minsky
Speaker 5: did one of them.
Speaker 13: You know, if you were going to be able to
Speaker 13: do it at some point you would, and then after
Speaker 13: a while you stopped trying. Your video Yeah, and I
Speaker 13: saw rosses as well, and your kudus to you guys
Speaker 13: for going on camera doing something like that. I've embarrassed
Speaker 13: myself in off on the station with stuff on camera.
Speaker 2: So you know what I feel.
Speaker 6: I feel like that's a fair statement by you anyway.
Speaker 6: And now It's time for the.
Speaker 5: Most exciting segment all the radio of its god, the
Speaker 5: world of that day. All right, what is our dad
Speaker 5: joke of the day, please, Anthony?
Speaker 2: What do you call an ugly dinosaur?
Speaker 6: Ugly dinosaur?
Speaker 2: I love this one. Um, I don't know an iore.
Speaker 5: Oh that's pretty funny.
Speaker 2: I like that a lot.
Speaker 5: I like it a lot.
Speaker 6: Today's debt or word today the word verb verb It
Speaker 6: is q h e w.
Speaker 5: It means you you move closely with something, you hew
Speaker 5: closely to something you're commonly used with. To me, to
Speaker 5: conform to or adhere to something. I'm giving myself credit
Speaker 5: on that point three No, I, but I could have
Speaker 5: used it correctly in this sentence anyway. Today's trivia question.
Speaker 5: What is the name of the animated Netflix TV show
Speaker 5: adapted from the video game series League of Legends.
Speaker 2: I have no ida Netflix show?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, it's called Arcane.
Speaker 2: Oh oh oh, I'm intrigued.
Speaker 5: Came out in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: Apparently I highly recommended Invincible. I'm literally watching it right now. Amazon.
Speaker 3: Think like an X Men animated show, like a nerdy
Speaker 3: show but rated like NC seventeen, so good.
Speaker 2: Violent.
Speaker 5: Also like what was a movie in.
Speaker 6: The seventies that was heavy metal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like it was like a very gay Yeah, it's.
Speaker 4: All right, here we go.
Speaker 6: What is our Jeopardy category?
Speaker 3: Getting coffee? Okay, getting coffee? America runs on this Mandy
Speaker 3: Bear is dun that is correct at any times?
Speaker 2: Excuse me? America's diner this place?
Speaker 5: What is Denny's?
Speaker 2: That is correct?
Speaker 3: New Orleans Cafe Dumon so Good offers coffee mixed.
Speaker 2: With the root Man.
Speaker 6: What is chickory?
Speaker 2: That is correct?
Speaker 6: Coffee?
Speaker 3: This convenience store asks you to walk on the wild
Speaker 3: side and try the blueberry coffee.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Gross, hard pass on that walk on the.
Speaker 6: Walk on the wild side.
Speaker 5: I don't know what.
Speaker 14: What is.
Speaker 2: What is seven to eleven? I wouldn't have gone at Starbucks.
Speaker 3: The smaller eight ounce cappuccino is called this and it's
Speaker 3: not an insult?
Speaker 2: Ryan Ran What is a short that is correct?
Speaker 6: I didn't know that one.
Speaker 5: I have no idea how I refuse to use their
Speaker 5: dumb little names of Starbucks and just like I want
Speaker 5: to medium coffee.
Speaker 2: Well that's why you. They don't use your right name either.
Speaker 5: They always get my name right. Yeah, yeah, they get
Speaker 5: my name. It's it's kind of hard to screw up
Speaker 5: even I sometimes know never and I that's good, always.
Speaker 6: The right, maybe because I spell it out.
Speaker 5: Let me spell that for you.
Speaker 6: What's coming up on KOA Sports?
Speaker 2: Oh, we got got a show, good show. We have
Speaker 2: Ryan Harrison's studio, looking forward to that.
Speaker 13: We have a rap before at three thirty right checking
Speaker 13: with him, and all sorts of draft news that we're
Speaker 13: gonna get into. Plus we'll react to the Rockies National
Speaker 13: championship tonight.
Speaker 5: I'm excited about this and I am cheering for the
Speaker 5: Florida Gators even though I'm a Florida State girl because
Speaker 5: I have so many friends who are Gator fans. I
Speaker 5: want them to have the fun party. I want them
Speaker 5: to I want them to win. Yeah.
Speaker 13: Plus we're going to talk about the Nuggets and their
Speaker 13: struggles and aah.
Speaker 5: Like me shooting the basket. Okay, anyway, we'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Keep it righty here on KOA