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Speaker 1: Sad bab Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Wednesday edition of
Speaker 1: the show. And this is going to be an extremely
Speaker 1: short edition of the show. I am joined for my
Speaker 1: big half hour with Anthony Rodriguez. You can call him
Speaker 1: a Rod. Yeah, we don't have time to play the
Speaker 1: longer version today. Rod, Let's say, don't keep a tight,
Speaker 1: keep a tight, because we had a stop. Stop it stop.
Speaker 1: You're wasting precious minutes of airtime and we have so
Speaker 1: few of them. Let's do that. Let's do the blog
Speaker 1: by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.
Speaker 1: Look for the headline and it says nine eighteen twenty
Speaker 1: four blog tiny show but full blog. Click on that
Speaker 1: and here are the headlines you will find within. I
Speaker 1: think you's in office, half American and all with ships
Speaker 1: and clipments and seen that's court a press plat today
Speaker 1: on the blog what will the Fed do? Speeding towards
Speaker 1: the assassination? More details on the hesband of Pager story.
Speaker 1: Caraveo is having to dig deep to attack Gabe Evans. Yes,
Speaker 1: slum lords own the buildings. I wonder who is seeking
Speaker 1: uninsured medical care. Denver says they will spend less on
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants next year. Arvada is about to do something.
Speaker 1: Stupid strippers need wage protection too. Good luck suing Casabanita.
Speaker 1: I guess it won't ruin the tour after all. Just
Speaker 1: say no to the slaughterhouse. Ban Texas is going after TDA.
Speaker 1: Why are we at peak stress looking for funfall events?
Speaker 1: CNN could be in big trouble. Is America racist? More
Speaker 1: sheep hurting video? And if you've been considering the ten
Speaker 1: ex program, those are the headlines on the blog at
Speaker 1: mandy'sblog dot com. And if you're one of those saucy
Speaker 1: blog readers, they're gonna send me a message saying the
Speaker 1: blog today's really short. Well, I'm haf with you the
Speaker 1: show already. It is not huge. It's a very small blog.
Speaker 1: It's a very small blog, probably done by the Clintons.
Speaker 1: They do small things over there in the Clinton the
Speaker 1: Biden camp, small things, very small things. Now, after I
Speaker 1: wrote the blog today, New News broke because I have
Speaker 1: a kind of an update on the Hesbala pager's blowing
Speaker 1: up yesterday, and I just if you listened to the
Speaker 1: Cross Talk with Jimmy Sangenberger, who's filling in for Ross,
Speaker 1: we were talking about the long term ramifications of this situation. Woo,
Speaker 1: you guys. The Federal Reserve just cut interest rates fifty
Speaker 1: basis points, that is zero point five percent in the
Speaker 1: grand scheme of it. And that's a big deal. That's
Speaker 1: a big cut. That's a really big cut. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, the smaller cut, the point two five percent,
Speaker 1: would be a more conservative cut. But obviously the jobs
Speaker 1: numbers of the past few months have the Fed concerned.
Speaker 1: And there are some other economic indicators in the economy
Speaker 1: that are not great. Credit card debt is skyrocketing, defaults
Speaker 1: on car loans and credit card debt are going up.
Speaker 1: Not significant. We're not talking in you know, like fifty percent. No,
Speaker 1: it's but it's like seven percent, ten percent, thirteen percent
Speaker 1: people paying late. So there are some beacons in the
Speaker 1: economy that are not good. So the Fed has lowered
Speaker 1: the rate by a half a percentage point. The decision
Speaker 1: lowers the rate to about four point nine percent, that
Speaker 1: down from its more than two decade high. So we'll
Speaker 1: see if we get a soft landing. I have not
Speaker 1: checked to see what the market is doing right now.
Speaker 1: It is actually up on the news dramatically, like it
Speaker 1: just popped up right after they made the announcement, so
Speaker 1: good news. Yeah, we will see what happens there. But
Speaker 1: right before the show broke, going back to what I
Speaker 1: was just talking about, Uh, there is another attack in
Speaker 1: Lebanon today, and this one involved walkie talkies that apparently
Speaker 1: Hezbollah had given out to its fighters and the people
Speaker 1: involved intimately in the Hesbela infrastructure because they had told
Speaker 1: them all to stop using cell phones because the Israelis
Speaker 1: contract cell phones. So then they got them all these
Speaker 1: pagers from Taiwan that somehow someone we don't know who,
Speaker 1: but let's just say it rhymes with misery. Real. I
Speaker 1: think Israel has not taken any sort of credit for
Speaker 1: these attacks, but really, who else is going to do it?
Speaker 1: So here's what they think happened with the pagers and
Speaker 1: obviously with they said of rocky talkies in a different way,
Speaker 1: but the same way. So Hesbela orders a ton of
Speaker 1: pagers because they're going straight back to the nineteen eighties, right,
Speaker 1: and they ordered these pagers from a Taiwanese company, and
Speaker 1: at some point after they left the Taiwanese company and
Speaker 1: before they were delivered to Hesbola, somewhat probably Israel got
Speaker 1: a hold of them, added a small amount of explosives
Speaker 1: and a trigger code, and yesterday they set them all off.
Speaker 1: Now it's speculated that they believed that there the jig
Speaker 1: was up. They believed that someone had begun to suspect
Speaker 1: that something was in the pagers. So that's why they
Speaker 1: ignited them when they did well today, follow up today
Speaker 1: with more explosions because Hesbela, I guess it handed out
Speaker 1: walkie talkies for people to communicate with because they don't
Speaker 1: want anything that's connected to the web, they don't want
Speaker 1: anything that's connected to the cloud. They don't want anything
Speaker 1: that they think Israel can track. So now Israel has
Speaker 1: blown up their two forms of communication that they could
Speaker 1: use without being heard or seen by Israel. So now
Speaker 1: now they're just going to be passing notes. Uh, carrier
Speaker 1: pigeon might be an option. I really don't know what
Speaker 1: they're going to do to communicate. But then this morning
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about it, I'm like, wait a minute. So,
Speaker 1: if I'm Israel and I'm about to roll a big
Speaker 1: ass offensive into Lebanon, because you guys, we don't talk
Speaker 1: about this, but Hesbela has been firing rockets at Israel
Speaker 1: NonStop since October seventh, NonStop. Okay, the hoo thieves have
Speaker 1: been trying. Now the who this have missiles that can
Speaker 1: actually actually reach Israel, so that's a problem. But they've
Speaker 1: been a firing missiles at Israel this entire time, and
Speaker 1: as Israel has been handling Hamas and taking care of
Speaker 1: that problem they've been dealing with with Hesbela firing rockets,
Speaker 1: say in the entire time. Now, if I'm Israel and
Speaker 1: I'm about to roll some kind of major offensive into Lebanon,
Speaker 1: the first thing I need to do is knock out
Speaker 1: their ability to communicate and mission accomplished. So it could
Speaker 1: be nothing. It could just be Israel putting everyone in
Speaker 1: the country of Lebanon on notice that they can get
Speaker 1: them wherever they are and that no one is safe,
Speaker 1: and it could just be you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but wow, it's fascinating. And I said on the blog
Speaker 1: it is like a Tom Clancy book what's going on
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, the level of psychological warfare that's
Speaker 1: taking place is it's just got to be if I
Speaker 1: am a person living in Lebanon, especially someone connected to HESBLA,
Speaker 1: and maybe a family member, maybe my husband, maybe me.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm getting rid of anything electronic in
Speaker 1: my house right now, like I'm not having anything. They
Speaker 1: could be blown up from anywhere in my house. That
Speaker 1: is not not going to happen. So we'll have a
Speaker 1: bigger conversation about that tomorrow, trying to get some experts
Speaker 1: on what's going on over there on the show tomorrow,
Speaker 1: so we'll make that happen. Got some other stuff on
Speaker 1: the blog that I want to get to. The Denver
Speaker 1: Post did a great bit of journalism on the history
Speaker 1: of CBZ management. They are the slum lords who have
Speaker 1: been running these apartments in Aurora into the ground. And
Speaker 1: as I've said the entire time, two things can be
Speaker 1: true at once. The landlords can be slum lords and
Speaker 1: gangs could have taken over these apartment buildings. Both of
Speaker 1: those things can be true. So the Denver Post did
Speaker 1: a really good deep dive on all of the code
Speaker 1: violations going back years and not even they haven't even
Speaker 1: owned these buildings that long. But when you see the
Speaker 1: conditions that people were supposed to be living in this
Speaker 1: in these apartments, with these landlords that refuse to fix anything,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they deserved it, but I'm saying, don't
Speaker 1: we have this? I mean, we have we have housing support,
Speaker 1: we have we have housing places, I mean departments of housing.
Speaker 1: Why are these people allowed to continue to own any
Speaker 1: buildings if this is what they're going to do. I
Speaker 1: really it's baffling. But yes, they are Slan lords. And
Speaker 1: I still believe that recently Venezuelan gangs were in control
Speaker 1: of some of these apartment complexes. I still believe that
Speaker 1: both of those things are true. So that's on my
Speaker 1: blog today if you want to read it. It's a
Speaker 1: great story. They did a really good job. I wonder,
Speaker 1: just wonder, wonder, wonder what has happened in the past
Speaker 1: couple of years that would make Denver Health have one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five million dollars in uninsured care that
Speaker 1: they are taking care of now, Just to give you
Speaker 1: a perspective, just in the city of Denver. I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do outside the city of Denver.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to do outside the city of Denver,
Speaker 1: or excuse me, inside the city of Denay. Were people
Speaker 1: from the city of Denver. In twenty nineteen, there was
Speaker 1: forty two million point one dollar forty two point one
Speaker 1: million dollars in uncompensated care. Fast forward to twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: and that is one hundred and eighteen million dollars. And
Speaker 1: when you factor in people from outside Denver, that us
Speaker 1: Denver Health as the medical provider of last resort for
Speaker 1: people who do not have health insurance. Although how does
Speaker 1: no one have health insurance? When Obamacare was going to
Speaker 1: solve that whole problem, it wasn't. It was never going
Speaker 1: to do that. Oh so funny anyway, So this year
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty five million dollars in uncompensated care
Speaker 1: now went up in twenty twenty two. It went up
Speaker 1: to about one hundred and twenty million in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: went up to one hundred and forty million in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, and now it's one hundred and fifty five
Speaker 1: million in twenty twenty four. Could be using these medical services?
Speaker 1: Could it be all the people that have come here
Speaker 1: over the southern border who probably have not had any
Speaker 1: quality medical care in their entire lives and are now
Speaker 1: coming here to have all of their illnesses treated because
Speaker 1: they know they can do it for free. Just a thought,
Speaker 1: Just a thought. Good news though, on the illegal immigrant front, y'all,
Speaker 1: this show is going to be a head snapper because
Speaker 1: I got a lot of stuff to get through and
Speaker 1: I have how many minutes left? I've got five minutes left. Five.
Speaker 1: So Denver is slashing the spending on illegal immigrants next year.
Speaker 1: After spending almost one hundred million bucks this year, they
Speaker 1: say they're only going to spend twelve million next year.
Speaker 1: The reason the changes made at the border, taking border
Speaker 1: the border security back to the Trump error rules has
Speaker 1: slowed the flow of people coming over the southern border.
Speaker 1: Isn't that weird? Isn't that so weird? When President Biden
Speaker 1: finally decided to do something after years of not doing anything,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, there's fewer people coming over the
Speaker 1: southern border. Now, what could be happening this year that
Speaker 1: would have made him do that? Let's see, I think
Speaker 1: he did it before he got stabbed in the back
Speaker 1: by his fellow Democrats and bounced out of the race.
Speaker 1: Yes he did, so good news, Denver Rights. You're not
Speaker 1: going to be paying for the housing, training, cell phones,
Speaker 1: computers of people who walked over the border illegally. You
Speaker 1: will not be paying as much for that next year. Now.
Speaker 1: I love the concept of a homeless navigation center. I
Speaker 1: love it. I think it's the way to go where
Speaker 1: you have all of these different agencies and all of
Speaker 1: these different nonprofits under one roof, so homeless people can
Speaker 1: be brought in and then sort of triaged right and
Speaker 1: figure out what it is they need. Do they need
Speaker 1: drug and alcohol help? Okay, we're going to send him
Speaker 1: over here. Do they need mental health help, We're going
Speaker 1: to send him over here. Do they just need to
Speaker 1: help getting into the Veterans Benefit system so they can,
Speaker 1: you know, get some help from the VA. We can
Speaker 1: do that over here. I love the concept, but where
Speaker 1: you put it is incredibly important. And Arvada is about
Speaker 1: to make a bad choice. Okay, Arvada bought a building
Speaker 1: that used to be a school, and the school, the
Speaker 1: former Early College of Arvada, is in the Arlington Meadows neighborhood.
Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna say this. They say this isn't
Speaker 1: going to be a shelter, right, there's not a shelter.
Speaker 1: But you're going to have a bunch of people who
Speaker 1: are struggling so much that they're living on the street,
Speaker 1: many of them with drug and alcohol probriate problems, many
Speaker 1: of them with severe mental health issues. And you're going
Speaker 1: to drop them into a neighborhood. That is not a
Speaker 1: good idea. And if I live in that neighborhood, I
Speaker 1: am at every meeting until you just say no, we're
Speaker 1: not doing this. You can't put it in a place
Speaker 1: where you can negatively affect the property values around you.
Speaker 1: This is what's happening right now with the homeless hotels.
Speaker 1: As the people who live on the other side of
Speaker 1: that fence from neighborhood or from the homeless hotels, what's
Speaker 1: going on there. It's not good. It's not good at all.
Speaker 1: Good luck suing Casabanita. If you choke on a soap apia,
Speaker 1: you have given up your right for a jury trial
Speaker 1: just by signing their terms of use when you make
Speaker 1: the reservation. Oh yeah, Casabanita has locked into what corporations
Speaker 1: are doing left and right, which I think is fundamentally wrong,
Speaker 1: which is saying you cannot sue us. If you want
Speaker 1: to sue us, we will do it through mediation, and
Speaker 1: we will pick the mediator. This is happening more and
Speaker 1: more and more as corporations are using that as a
Speaker 1: way to prevent lawsuits that could be costably public and expensive.
Speaker 1: And I don't like it because there are they're taking
Speaker 1: but you can't negotiate it. That's the thing. If you
Speaker 1: want to go to Casabanita, you have to sign this.
Speaker 1: It's not like you can go to Casabaneda and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: look right, this is unreasonable. And this is in so many,
Speaker 1: oh many contracts that you sign. And this is one
Speaker 1: of those things where I feel like the corporations need
Speaker 1: to be checked and they need to be checked and
Speaker 1: someone needs to like push this because they're taking away
Speaker 1: my right to seek redress in front of a jury
Speaker 1: of my peers. And that's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a very big deal. So I don't
Speaker 1: like that. Maybe I'll never go to Casabanita. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I keep thinking I want to go, but then I
Speaker 1: don't really and I'm sure, so I'm not going to
Speaker 1: get in a line of people that's fifty thousand long
Speaker 1: just to try and make a reservation. If somebody wants
Speaker 1: to go to Casabanita and make the reservation and invite
Speaker 1: me to come with you, I'll totally do that. Did
Speaker 1: you ever go, AERD? I did not go when I
Speaker 1: got that email, but it still allowed me to get
Speaker 1: on the cool little VIP whatever, Founder's club, Founder's club whatever,
Speaker 1: And apparently my parents informed I did go when I
Speaker 1: was a kid. So right there, All right, guys, we
Speaker 1: got to wrap it up because we got to do
Speaker 1: some commercials and then the Rockies are going to play.
Speaker 1: Hopefully they will beat their diamond again. They are playing that.
Speaker 1: I'm in VECC today, right, that's Slyway day. Okay, hopefully
Speaker 1: they'll do that again. We will be back tomorrow with
Speaker 1: a full show. Keep it right here. Oh oh, I
Speaker 1: got a minute? Wait, well you asked I asked you
Speaker 1: what time and you told me earlier. Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: still got a minute. Someone didn't pay attention. You said
Speaker 1: twenty one fifty two. I wrote it down like you said,
Speaker 1: what your clock is wrong? What time is it in
Speaker 1: your clock? In? Twenty one? Fifteen, twenty one, sixteen, twenty one, seventeen. Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm a minute fast. That's weird. Okay, I do have
Speaker 1: something at the bottom of the blog. First of all,
Speaker 1: I have another sheep hurting video. If you have seen
Speaker 1: the ads for the ten X program. Have you seen
Speaker 1: any of these ads for the TENX fitness program by
Speaker 1: Gary Breck? Okay, so watch the podcast at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the blog. It's first of all, it's my brother's podcast,
Speaker 1: and it's really good and he sort of started on
Speaker 1: the ten X path and then is like, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is not for everyone, and if you've seen all the ads,
Speaker 1: you probably want to watch this before you do it.