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Speaker 4: All right, you welcome, Welcome, Welcome. I'm your host for
Speaker 4: the next three hours, Mandy Connall. I got Grant Smith
Speaker 4: today because Anthony Rodriguez is covering Broncos training camp and
Speaker 4: doing all of our social media. When you follow us
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Speaker 4: what's going on at training camp if you cannot make
Speaker 4: it there yourself. Now, if you just heard the end
Speaker 4: of Ross' show, I'm going to talk about this right now.
Speaker 4: But I just talked to a friend of mine, a
Speaker 4: former police officer, and he gave me these steps to
Speaker 4: go through to.
Speaker 5: Remedy the situation.
Speaker 4: So before I light up the Parker Police Department, I'm
Speaker 4: going to give them a chance to make it right.
Speaker 5: Let me tell you what I'm going.
Speaker 4: What's going on, And we had and I mentioned this
Speaker 4: in passing. I mentioned it briefly when it happened. But
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be perfectly Honest, I was so freaked out
Speaker 4: when it happened that I almost didn't even want to
Speaker 4: talk about it. So here's what happened.
Speaker 6: Here.
Speaker 4: What happened, Grant was this, What had happened was what
Speaker 4: happened was this. We're driving home from the airport. It's
Speaker 4: like ten thirty at night, and Q my daughter was hungry,
Speaker 4: and so we're like, okay, we'll stop a mcdonald's'll get
Speaker 4: you some nuggets whatever.
Speaker 5: So we're driving home. We get on Parker Road.
Speaker 4: We're going south on Parker Road because we're coming off
Speaker 4: four to seventy. We're stopped at a light, and as
Speaker 4: we get started again, two guys on loud motorcycles go
Speaker 4: blazing past us.
Speaker 5: We're in the left.
Speaker 4: Hand lane by the median there in the center lie.
Speaker 4: They go blazing past us with loud pipes, and my thought.
Speaker 5: Was, look at those a holes.
Speaker 4: I literally thought that to myself because they were so obnoxious.
Speaker 4: The pipes were so loud and so obnoxious. Well, little
Speaker 4: did I know how accurate my statement was, because just
Speaker 4: a little bit down the road, we're still in a
Speaker 4: left hand lane. We're tootling a long mind in our
Speaker 4: own beeswax right so one of the motorcyclists comes over
Speaker 4: into our lane. That's fine, he's a good bit ahead
Speaker 4: of us, not a problem, nobody's you know, no harm,
Speaker 4: no foul. And then he either stops his motorcycle or
Speaker 4: just he didn't slam on the brakes because there was
Speaker 4: no brake light, but he basically stops in front of us. Chuck,
Speaker 4: in order not to just rear end. The guy whips
Speaker 4: into the second lane. Now the guy he's riding with
Speaker 4: has kept going, he's kept going in the second lane.
Speaker 4: This guy has come to a you know, slowed down
Speaker 4: in the left hand lane. Chuck goes around the motorcycle safely.
Speaker 4: And here's the kicker about this whole story. You guys,
Speaker 4: My husband rode a motorcycle as his only form of
Speaker 4: transportation for years years. He is so respectful of motorcycle riders.
Speaker 4: He never crowds them. He always makes sure that he's
Speaker 4: you know, giving him plenty of space. He is one
Speaker 4: of those drivers that motorcycle drivers should be grateful for.
Speaker 5: He's the guy looking.
Speaker 4: Out for you on two wheels, right, unlike me, who
Speaker 4: you know, half the time ind on cea motorcyclist anyway,
Speaker 4: that's a story for another moment. So Chuck goes around
Speaker 4: the bike safely gets back in the left hand lane.
Speaker 4: Here comes the guy who had basically stopped in front
Speaker 4: of us, whips around us, stops his bike in front
Speaker 4: of us, and gets off his.
Speaker 5: Motorcycle and starts walking up to Chuck's store.
Speaker 4: Now at this point, motorcycle number two that had kept
Speaker 4: going also stops on the right hand side of us.
Speaker 4: But when this guy's walking towards Chuck's window, Chuck's like,
Speaker 4: I won't tell you what he said, because it's an
Speaker 4: FCC violation. He said, blank, this hit the gas, goes
Speaker 4: around the first motorcycle in front of us, and in
Speaker 4: the process nicks the other motorcycle. And when I say nix,
Speaker 4: I mean nick's the tire kind of thing. No major damage,
Speaker 4: didn't run over the frame, none of that stuff.
Speaker 5: The guy rode off.
Speaker 4: We know that because as we rode off, guy number one,
Speaker 4: who's already gotten off his bike, hops back on his bike.
Speaker 4: Now he's chasing us. Now, as you can imagine, this
Speaker 4: was all very confusing, very confusing, because we're just mining
Speaker 4: our own business, just mining our own beeswax. Going down
Speaker 4: the road ten thirty at night coming home from the airport.
Speaker 4: So we then call nine one one. We get transferred
Speaker 4: to the PARKERPD. We are talking to the park REPD
Speaker 4: as we're driving around and the guy on the motorcycle
Speaker 4: is following us. So we drive into the Parker Police
Speaker 4: Department parking lot, where there is not a soul to
Speaker 4: be seeing. There's like no sign of life at a
Speaker 4: Parker police I remember on the phone in nine one one,
Speaker 4: she's like, okay, just stop in the parking lot. We stop,
Speaker 4: the guy and the motorcycle stops in the back. Cop
Speaker 4: comes out talks to us. We tell him everything that happened,
Speaker 4: and I genuinely I was like, I have no idea
Speaker 4: why this happened. It was so baffling and honestly really
Speaker 4: really scary. So today, on the way of the office,
Speaker 4: I get a copy of the police report and do
Speaker 4: you think it says any of that? No, it does not.
Speaker 4: They obviously talked to the other guys, didn't ask them
Speaker 4: any questions like hey, why did you why did you
Speaker 4: come to a complete stop in the middle of Parker Row,
Speaker 4: Why did you do that? None of that is in.
Speaker 5: The police report. None of it.
Speaker 4: And to top things off, it doesn't make any physical sense.
Speaker 4: The way they wrote it, it makes absolutely no like
Speaker 4: physics don't explain how this police report is written. I
Speaker 4: didn't realize that you could just leave off another version
Speaker 4: of events.
Speaker 5: I didn't realize that you.
Speaker 4: Could just say to one person, the person who called
Speaker 4: nine one one and said, hey, this is a huge problem. Hey,
Speaker 4: your version of events doesn't matter. I am livid for
Speaker 4: so many reasons. Number one, I don't like it when
Speaker 4: people lie. And these guys lied. They absolutely lied, and
Speaker 4: instead of asking any questions that would show any intellectual curiosity,
Speaker 4: the policeman just wrote down their version of events. Now
Speaker 4: I realized this is a he said, she said, I
Speaker 4: get it, or he said he said whatever. I understand
Speaker 4: that part of it, I really really do.
Speaker 5: But when the.
Speaker 4: Other he said doesn't make any sense. In this report,
Speaker 4: it says that in order to go around another motorcycle,
Speaker 4: Chuck came into the other lane and clipped the motorcycle.
Speaker 4: And it says we were going five miles an hour. Now,
Speaker 4: we're on Parker Road at ten thirty at night on Monday.
Speaker 4: Why would we be going five miles an hour when
Speaker 4: we hit the other motorcycle unless we were stopped in
Speaker 4: the middle of the road by the other bar. It
Speaker 4: So I just talked to a friend of mine who
Speaker 4: is a law enforcement person, and he gave me a
Speaker 4: list of things to do. But this deeply offends me.
Speaker 4: I realize people lie all the time.
Speaker 5: I get it.
Speaker 4: People lie to get out of whatever they did. People
Speaker 4: lie because they don't want to have, you know, whatever
Speaker 4: their situation is.
Speaker 5: I don't I don't care why you lied.
Speaker 4: But you lied about me, and you lied about something
Speaker 4: that happened with me, and that doesn't fly you, guys,
Speaker 4: I hope you've listened to this show long enough to
Speaker 4: know that I do my absolute best.
Speaker 5: To tell you the truth all the time.
Speaker 4: You know why, because the truth is easy. The truth
Speaker 4: is so much easier than a lie, because a lie
Speaker 4: you constantly have to remember what did I say, how
Speaker 4: did I present that?
Speaker 5: What details do I need to make up?
Speaker 4: Now? The truth is simple. The truth is really really
Speaker 4: easy to remember. And if I do get something wrong
Speaker 4: that I thought was the truth and then it turns
Speaker 4: out not to be the truth, I have apologized more
Speaker 4: times on this radio show did I think, probably maybe
Speaker 4: any other host in the history of talk radio. Because
Speaker 4: talk radio is full of people whose egos are such
Speaker 4: that they cannot apologize. I am not one of those people.
Speaker 4: So when somebody lies about me and mine.
Speaker 3: I.
Speaker 5: Can't even.
Speaker 4: I just I can't even. It's infuriating, absolutely, Mandy. You
Speaker 4: need a dashcam? Oh yeah, oh yeah, to this point, Mandy,
Speaker 4: I keep a nine millimeter in my truck for just
Speaker 4: such an occasion, just in case. Except with the likelihood
Speaker 4: of having your car broken into or stolen from Denver
Speaker 4: International Airport, we never carry a firearm when we go
Speaker 4: to and from the airport. We just don't do it.
Speaker 4: I know people who have personally had firearms stolen out
Speaker 4: of their vehicles at the airport, two of them specifically,
Speaker 4: And I'm just not doing it. I mean, I am
Speaker 4: just not doing it. I am super, super, super angry, Mandy.
Speaker 4: Were they cruisers like Harley's or were they crowd rockets?
Speaker 4: One was a Harley, one was a crowd rocket and
Speaker 4: not even a small Crossraul like a pretty big They
Speaker 4: were both big size bikes and loud as hell.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Anyway, So that's why I am irrationally angry right now.
Speaker 4: And I realize I'm irrationally angry. I just told Chuck
Speaker 4: I was like, I don't know if I can talk
Speaker 4: about this and not drop an F bomb on the air.
Speaker 5: That's how angry I was.
Speaker 4: Anyway, sounds like to me, you did more than likely
Speaker 4: cut them off somehow, or at least in their eyes,
Speaker 4: you did.
Speaker 5: That took them off pretty bad, did geesh?
Speaker 4: I would love to know. I would love to know
Speaker 4: what they think we did. And I'm being so genuine.
Speaker 4: I even asked the cop did they tell us why
Speaker 4: they stopped in front of the road? Did they tell
Speaker 4: us why you did that? And he's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: they didn't mention that. Oh okay, I guess I wouldn't
Speaker 4: either if I were trying to spin a version of
Speaker 4: events that sounded plausible to the police so they could
Speaker 4: just file their dumbass, stupid wrong report and walk away.
Speaker 4: So mad, so mad, Mandy, I swear I saw the
Speaker 4: same guys also after being out towards Parker coming back
Speaker 4: north on I twenty five, I was going eighty and
Speaker 4: they blazed past me going probably one hundred miles per
Speaker 4: hour about a week ago. Unfortunately, this is just common
Speaker 4: with motorcycles. I just I don't know.
Speaker 5: And yes, the dash.
Speaker 4: Cam incident, Yes, yes, indeed, but man, I anyway, let's
Speaker 4: do the blog grant. Let's move on. Let's move on.
Speaker 4: I am physically hot right now. You know they say, boy,
Speaker 4: you're really hot under the collar. I am hot under
Speaker 4: the collar and I don't even have a collar on. Eh.
Speaker 4: Super super mad about this sucking message by Parker P.
Speaker 4: Your daughter, who's learning how to correctly handle this situation.
Speaker 5: You know, that was one of the things that.
Speaker 4: I told Chuck. I was glad that Q was with
Speaker 4: us because she's just starting to drive, and she now
Speaker 4: saw like, Okay, when something happens, you drive to the
Speaker 4: police station, you call nine one one. This is what
Speaker 4: you do. And we did all the right things, and
Speaker 4: now I get this garbage police report. Super super super
Speaker 4: mad anyway, So that is, uh, that's why I'm mad.
Speaker 4: But I'm okay, wait, let's just all together now. Let's
Speaker 4: maybe you're having a bad day too. Let's just all together.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: We're going to ent through the nose, out through the mouth, in,
Speaker 4: through the nose, out through the mouth. Let me talk
Speaker 4: about something that I don't have on the blog because
Speaker 4: I just heard it on the way in. I want
Speaker 4: to talk about coach Prime. And then we'll do the blog.
Speaker 4: You guys, I am so glad that Dion Sanders came
Speaker 4: out to talk about his medical issues. When I decided
Speaker 4: to talk about my hysterectomy, which is nothing compared to
Speaker 4: all the stuff he's going through, I actually referenced him
Speaker 4: in that conversation of like, you know what, I think
Speaker 4: sometimes people are afraid to talk about what they're going through.
Speaker 4: But in my case, like I'm going to say a
Speaker 4: little prayer for Coach Prime that he has continued healing
Speaker 4: and that his issues continue to get better and that
Speaker 4: he doesn't always have to be uncomfortable with a new bladder.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's a lot of things to pray for,
Speaker 4: and I'll be praying for him, but I just want
Speaker 4: to say hats off to Coach Dion Prime for coming
Speaker 4: out and talking about his medical issues, because I'm telling you,
Speaker 4: it is going to inspire some guy who maybe has
Speaker 4: had some weird things going on that he can't really explain,
Speaker 4: but he's been writing him off to this or that
Speaker 4: to go ahead and get to the doctor and get
Speaker 4: tested and.
Speaker 5: Find out what's wrong with him.
Speaker 4: Because I think it's very important for people to understand
Speaker 4: that when your body has an issue. It's not a
Speaker 4: personal failing. Yeah, there are lifestyle diseases that you can,
Speaker 4: you know, work on and eat better and exercise to
Speaker 4: take care of. But it's not a personal failing. When
Speaker 4: your body fails in a certain way, It really really isn't.
Speaker 4: So yeah, we are going to have to figure this
Speaker 4: out anyway. I will tell you, Mandy, before you get crazy.
Speaker 4: Or I'd like to wish you good luck on Friday. Well,
Speaker 4: don't wish me good luck on Friday. Wish my surgeon's
Speaker 4: good luck on Friday. There you go, There you go, Mandy,
Speaker 4: Bell and Pollock.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't want to sue anybody. I just want the
Speaker 4: record to reflect what actually happened. I don't have any
Speaker 4: intention of trying to sue these people. I just wanted
Speaker 4: to be on the record as correctly. You know they
Speaker 4: always say history is written by the winners. Well, I
Speaker 4: guess this is they're the winners here. Okay, let's do
Speaker 4: the blog grant. Let's make that happen. Let's find the
Speaker 4: blog by going to Mandy's blot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.
Speaker 4: Look for the headline that says seven twenty eight to
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Speaker 4: on that and here are the headlines you will find within.
Speaker 7: I didn't be with someone whom office South America all.
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Speaker 4: Plant today On the blog shouldn't road money go for roads?
Speaker 4: Support Rich Googaem's new book? Please? What exactly is in
Speaker 4: Denver's bond proposal? Remember when Denver jacked up the minimum wage?
Speaker 4: Scrolling Trump is winning at trade deals, Scrolling luxury brands
Speaker 4: love the new deal. Paulis doesn't care how high our
Speaker 4: energy costs go.
Speaker 5: You really need to watch this show.
Speaker 4: Amazing what immigration enforcement does to crime rates. Want a
Speaker 4: new stadium? Fix things first? Israeli say Israel is committing genocide.
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Speaker 4: boon for Palmer Lake doing some hiking in Colorado. Hey,
Speaker 4: lumineers fans, it's fair and rodeo time time will powerful
Speaker 4: people actually be indicted? Want to see Europe on foot?
Speaker 4: Patchy grass problem, visible signs of insulin resistance. The new
Speaker 4: spinal tap trailer is out, and America is great. Those
Speaker 4: are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Now,
Speaker 4: I got a couple videos on the blog that you
Speaker 4: should see, including a very good trailer for Spinal Tap two. Grant,
Speaker 4: do you have any movies from your youth that you
Speaker 4: have an especially warm, fuzzy feeling for that when they
Speaker 4: come on, you will for sure watch them and you
Speaker 4: know every word and you've seen them a billion times.
Speaker 8: Anchorman for me at Spinal Tap, turn it up to eleven.
Speaker 4: I am going to turn these speakers up to eleven.
Speaker 4: And when I heard they were doing a second one,
Speaker 4: I am not going to lie when I say I
Speaker 4: had a great deal of trepidation, extreme amounts of trepidation.
Speaker 5: And the trailer.
Speaker 4: Seems to be very consistent with the vibe of the
Speaker 4: first one, So I'm kind of excited. I'm cautiously optimistic
Speaker 4: about it now, just cautiously optimistic. We shall see.
Speaker 5: We also have a.
Speaker 4: Couple of videos just just random things when a Rod's
Speaker 4: not working with me. I don't have as many as
Speaker 4: many videos on the blog, but I do have an
Speaker 4: excellent show that you should be watching on YouTube. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna let you go to the blog and find that out. Now,
Speaker 4: I've got a couple guests coming on today. One at
Speaker 4: two fifteen, Dustin Devonic is coming on to talk about
Speaker 4: two ballot initiatives. And this is so insane to me
Speaker 4: that we have to have a ballot initiative that would
Speaker 4: require our legislature to use transportation money on roads. I mean,
Speaker 4: you would think that dollar that are being taken out
Speaker 4: of us in the form of taxes and fees, you
Speaker 4: would think that those transportation related dollars would then go
Speaker 4: to fixing roads and fixing bridges, and God forbid, we
Speaker 4: fix some potholes, shall we please? Little just any anyone, anyone?
Speaker 4: And yet so much of that money is diverted by
Speaker 4: the current administration, by s DOT, by other agencies into
Speaker 4: different sorts of projects that nobody wants. And why don't
Speaker 4: they want them? They don't want them because of climate change.
Speaker 4: I have come to believe, and I believe this very firmly.
Speaker 4: I no longer feel like it's a speculation, because I
Speaker 4: can now give you so many pieces of evidence that
Speaker 4: show that this is not a bug. It is a feature.
Speaker 4: They are trying to make driving so miserable that you
Speaker 4: will beg to get out of your car onto form
Speaker 4: of inefficient and time consuming mass transit that no one
Speaker 4: is riding right now. So what they're doing is they're like, well,
Speaker 4: we built the dang trains. Have you seen, Grant. Have
Speaker 4: you seen the train that goes all the way down
Speaker 4: to RidgeGate. No, it has two cars on it. It
Speaker 4: looks like the little trolley in mister Rogers neighborhood that
Speaker 4: went to the land of make believe. No, there's no need.
Speaker 4: There's absolutely no need. Sometimes it's just one car. I
Speaker 4: mean you guys.
Speaker 5: So they're like, Okay, we built this damn train, Now.
Speaker 4: We got to get people on it.
Speaker 5: How can we get people.
Speaker 4: In It will make it so miserable to drive that
Speaker 4: they will beg to get on the train.
Speaker 5: Except it's not working.
Speaker 4: And we just want to be able to drive our
Speaker 4: cars from point A to point B in an efficient fashion.
Speaker 4: We don't have that. Now. When I get in my
Speaker 4: car in my house to drive to let's just say,
Speaker 4: to go to a baseball game, that's a great example.
Speaker 4: I can drive from my house to the baseball stadium,
Speaker 4: park my car and be walking to the field in
Speaker 4: forty five minutes. Do you how long it takes on
Speaker 4: the train an hour and twenty How is that going
Speaker 4: to be efficient and work for anyone. But instead of going, Okay,
Speaker 4: we may have failed here and we need to figure
Speaker 4: out a better way to do this, they're like, we
Speaker 4: know what we'll do. We'll just make them suffer until
Speaker 4: they take that train. I'm not buying it. Dustin's Devonik
Speaker 4: joins us at two fifteen to talk about ballot initiatives
Speaker 4: that would require transportation money to actually go for the
Speaker 4: transportation that we want, and I'm here for it. We'll
Speaker 4: do that, and when we get back, we're going to
Speaker 4: talk about Denver's bond proposal. So much of this stuff
Speaker 4: seems like stuff this should already be funded in a
Speaker 4: regular budget situation. I'll explain after this my blood pressure
Speaker 4: which I forgot to put my fitbit back on us,
Speaker 4: so I went to check my blood pressure was like, dang,
Speaker 4: it is back.
Speaker 5: To normal anyway, calming, We're calming.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: It's a very interesting thing happening in Denver right now,
Speaker 4: as the mayor is asking Denver Rights to sign on
Speaker 4: for another bond project. Now, asking voters for permission to
Speaker 4: take on a bond seems so innocuous, right, It's like, oh,
Speaker 4: it's a bond and it'll be paid back over years
Speaker 4: with tax seats and everything. And a lot of times
Speaker 4: it's made is like, hey, no, big whoop, you know,
Speaker 4: we got this. It's going to be great, except you're
Speaker 4: still putting the taxpayers on the hook. And if there's
Speaker 4: a severe downturn in the economy, that debt still has
Speaker 4: to be serviced before everything else happens. So taking on
Speaker 4: more debt is not something that we should do lightly.
Speaker 4: We just shouldn't. And I think you have to make
Speaker 4: a pretty compelling case if you're asking voters to take
Speaker 4: on more debt. Well, Mayor Mike Johnston is proposing a
Speaker 4: nine hundred and thirty five million dollar bond package, and
Speaker 4: the mayor, and I'm reading from the Denver Gazette, the
Speaker 4: mayor argues that it's necessary spending as Denver faces what
Speaker 4: he described as a turning point. He wants to use
Speaker 4: the money to fund roughly sixty projects, ranging from new
Speaker 4: facilities to parks improvements to housing. Now there's a huge
Speaker 4: list that you can go and you can inspect. It
Speaker 4: was put together by a group I think I'm pretty
Speaker 4: sure of volunteers and they were given a list of
Speaker 4: I don't even know how many projects that people wanted
Speaker 4: to have addressed by this bond, and then they had
Speaker 4: to narrow it down because some of these some of
Speaker 4: these things are really really expensive. Now, I'm going to
Speaker 4: make the argument first that the mayor has not demonstrated
Speaker 4: good fiscal responsibility. He has blown through so much money
Speaker 4: since he has gotten into office, supporting illegal immigrants, making
Speaker 4: sure that they were being shipped to Aurora properly, making
Speaker 4: sure that apartments were paid for, and making sure that
Speaker 4: everything was given free. He has blown through a ton
Speaker 4: of money buying hotels for homeless people where now children
Speaker 4: are falling out of windows and people are dying of
Speaker 4: overdoses on a regular basis. So I'm just going to
Speaker 4: say it, I don't think the mayor has demonstrated good
Speaker 4: fiscal responsibility. And if the City of Denver is facing
Speaker 4: a two hundred and fifty million dollar downturn so much
Speaker 4: so that they are laying off employees, now, don't get
Speaker 4: me wrong, government has bloated. There are definitely ways that
Speaker 4: you can cut the number of employees at the city
Speaker 4: to save money. But the reality is is that I
Speaker 4: don't trust him to spend the money the right way.
Speaker 4: I just don't. I don't trust this city council to
Speaker 4: make good fiscal decisions. And by the way, the city
Speaker 4: council not happy about this life, not one bit, not
Speaker 4: even a little bit. The list for the mayor's one
Speaker 4: billion dollar bond proposal as it stounds now, consists of
Speaker 4: fifty nine projects categorized into five distinct groups as envisioned
Speaker 4: by the city. Nearly half of the bond funding forty
Speaker 4: six percent, will go to transportation and mobility projects, including streets, bridges,
Speaker 4: and improvements to traffic and pedestrian safety. About twenty five
Speaker 4: percent of the funds will be allocated towards improvements at
Speaker 4: city facilities, including libraries, community centers, the animal shelter, and
Speaker 4: other locations. Additionally, capital maintenance support will be provided for
Speaker 4: popular places such as Red Rocks, the Botanic Gardens, Denver Zoo,
Speaker 4: Conservation Alliance, and the Denver Art Museum. You guys, why
Speaker 4: why do we not have a capital fund for each
Speaker 4: of these different places that is robust enough to meet
Speaker 4: their capital needs. I have a question for you. You
Speaker 4: go to a lot of concerts at Red Rocks.
Speaker 5: Can you answer this question for me?
Speaker 4: If you are a ticket buyer and Red Rocks said, Hi, Grant,
Speaker 4: we know you're going to buy a ticket here. We
Speaker 4: want to charge you an extra two dollars on your ticket,
Speaker 4: and we are going to take that money and we
Speaker 4: are going to use it solely to maintain and make
Speaker 4: sure that your experience at Red Rocks is absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 4: Would you buy the ticket in a heart ns Denver
Speaker 4: botanic gardens? Would you buy the ticket? Of course you
Speaker 4: would buy the ticket. Like, why are we asking the
Speaker 4: taxpayers to sign off on this giant bond issue for
Speaker 4: capital maintenance projects?
Speaker 5: That doesn't even make any sense to me?
Speaker 4: Why are we asking voters for more money for roads
Speaker 4: and transportation? And by the way, the last few times
Speaker 4: that voters have been asked to do something to tax themselves,
Speaker 4: to raise a fee, to raise a tax so they
Speaker 4: could provide for better roadways, that money has been diverted.
Speaker 4: So why in the world will we believe that forty
Speaker 4: percent of this is going to go to these projects.
Speaker 4: I don't believe them. I don't now. Denver loves to
Speaker 4: vote it self at tax increase. They've done this over
Speaker 4: and over and over and over and over again. I
Speaker 4: don't live in Denver, so I don't number one, pay
Speaker 4: the taxes, and I number two don't have to worry
Speaker 4: about the bond payments to pay them back because I'm
Speaker 4: not a Denver resident. But at what point do.
Speaker 5: Denver residents have enough?
Speaker 4: I would say this seems like a pretty big swing
Speaker 4: at the same time that the government is telling us
Speaker 4: that they're so short funds that they have to lay
Speaker 4: people off to make up a two hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: million dollars shortfall. And you're gonna ask for a big
Speaker 4: old pile of money right now when people are still
Speaker 4: dealing with the inflation that is again twenty percent higher
Speaker 4: in Colorado than anywhere else. Don't forget that. I wonder
Speaker 4: if this is going to pass. It's not popular with
Speaker 4: the city council. The city council says that the needs
Speaker 4: that were identified are not consistent with the needs that
Speaker 4: they're you know, their people, their constituents have said, are
Speaker 4: the biggest priority. So what are we doing here? I
Speaker 4: do feel sorry for the group that was tasked with
Speaker 4: coming up with this list. Talk about the most thankless,
Speaker 4: just absolutely thankless job of trying to sort through this
Speaker 4: and figure out exactly who is going to benefit and
Speaker 4: who is not fifty nine projects doesn't seem like that
Speaker 4: many in all honesty, for almost a billion dollars in
Speaker 4: spending and loans.
Speaker 5: I'd love to hear what you Denver rights here.
Speaker 4: Now, I know that we're speaking to a more conservative audience,
Speaker 4: less likely to vote to raise their own taxes. Mandy,
Speaker 4: does the Denver mayor have financial ties to these companies
Speaker 4: that are building homes for the bums and the drug addicts?
Speaker 4: Nobody did have ties to the company that they bought
Speaker 4: one of the hotels from at a tidy profit.
Speaker 5: I mean, draw your own conclusions there, Mandy.
Speaker 4: Look up SCFD. It's a metro tech district that funds
Speaker 4: the Zoo, Denver Museum of Natural History, Art Museum, etc.
Speaker 4: The city is scamming us. Scamming is a strong word,
Speaker 4: but what I would say is, I think it's a
Speaker 4: valid question to say.
Speaker 5: Where are those dollars going? How are they being spent?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: I can imagine that maintaining a facility like the Denver
Speaker 4: Natural History Museum or Red Rocks even, or any of
Speaker 4: these other sort of city gems that we have, there's
Speaker 4: probably a.
Speaker 5: Lot going on there.
Speaker 4: I can only imagine about Denver Botanic.
Speaker 5: Gardens you know, but.
Speaker 4: Why are we asking for more money for these things
Speaker 4: unless it is just to say, oh, this bond issue
Speaker 4: is so we can take care of red rocks. This
Speaker 4: bond issue is just so.
Speaker 5: We can take care of the Denver Botanic gardens.
Speaker 4: It's kind of like when they have to cut something,
Speaker 4: they always are like, we're gonna have to cut police
Speaker 4: and teachers. There's no other way, no other way. It's
Speaker 4: to create an emotional pull, so you're more tempted to
Speaker 4: vote for this.
Speaker 5: This texter said Mandy.
Speaker 4: Leftist voters are incredibly easy to manipulate, so yeah, they'll
Speaker 4: vote for it. And again, what I just said about
Speaker 4: we've got to save red rocks, We've got to save
Speaker 4: the potetic guidance. You're gonna see a lot of that.
Speaker 4: This texture is my spirit animal, Mandy. I live in Denver,
Speaker 4: and I'm not voting for the bond.
Speaker 5: Enough is enough? Amen to that? Amen to that.
Speaker 4: This text says exactly what I'm thinking and said earlier,
Speaker 4: like any business add in the costs of the market
Speaker 4: will bear for your own maintenance or improvements. Great idea.
Speaker 4: Perhaps someone should talk to the mayor about it. The
Speaker 4: subject line Shootings says Mandy any comments on the four
Speaker 4: people shot in Lo Doo Saturday night. I don't want
Speaker 4: to seem flippant, but if I had comments every time
Speaker 4: someone got shot in Denver, we wouldn't talk about anything else.
Speaker 5: It's sad but true.
Speaker 7: Great.
Speaker 4: Do you ever go to Loto anymore? I know you're
Speaker 4: older now and more mature.
Speaker 6: I went there, well, usually only for Rockies games, but
Speaker 6: I went there for a friend's birthday party a couple
Speaker 6: of weeks ago at some country bar.
Speaker 4: Was it Dirk spent Ley's.
Speaker 8: No, it was called Bells and Booth.
Speaker 4: That's used to be Dirk spent Ley's Whiskey Road. Now
Speaker 4: it's whatever. It'sn't that same big space on the corner
Speaker 4: right like right on is that on Blake?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's like right beside the Summit Music Hall.
Speaker 4: Yeah it's a big it's a big bar. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: just changed names, same thing. But yes, I was downtown
Speaker 4: for that.
Speaker 5: And how was the vibe?
Speaker 4: The line? The last couple of times we've gone down
Speaker 4: to Grand Empty. Actually I'm not out after ten thirty,
Speaker 4: Like that's not a thing that happens.
Speaker 6: We were out to about midnight that night, and I
Speaker 6: was the latest i'd been out downtown in a long time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I you know, A Rod calls it brodo
Speaker 4: and and that's why he doesn't go there. He's like,
Speaker 4: I don't want to be around the people that hang
Speaker 4: out there. But after a baseball game, it's kind of fun,
Speaker 4: especially if.
Speaker 5: You're going over to the district.
Speaker 4: You know where you're going. Yeah, that's super fun. So
Speaker 4: there is steff to do down there. But these shootings
Speaker 4: were at twentieth and Market, so they were right by
Speaker 4: the stadium and no one died. But I'm not sure
Speaker 4: what texture you were asking about, like, oh, more people
Speaker 4: got shot. Oh okay. I don't mean to seem flippant,
Speaker 4: but unless I'm the one getting shot, I don't know
Speaker 4: if there's anything else I can do about it, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, I was confused by that question. Did you
Speaker 4: want me to say it was a terrible thing. Of course,
Speaker 4: it's a terrible thing when people get shot. It's a
Speaker 4: terrible thing. We can all agree on that. But it's
Speaker 4: just so common now, that's the problem. It's just so
Speaker 4: you know, it's the same every single time. It's the
Speaker 4: same guys get out, they decide they're going.
Speaker 7: To be cool.
Speaker 4: There's a fight, something happens, somebody uh draws a gun
Speaker 4: because nobody knows how to fight anymore.
Speaker 5: Apparently. I remember the good old days, Grant, when.
Speaker 4: You could be at a party in college and all
Speaker 4: of a sudden fisticuffs broke out. The fight lasted approximately
Speaker 4: twenty seven seconds. Someone's shirt got ripped, and then the
Speaker 4: guys were like, Okay, man, we're cool, We're cool. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's how it used to believe.
Speaker 5: That exactly, that's what was when you were in college.
Speaker 4: Although I do know someone who was in a large party,
Speaker 4: like a big keg party in an apartment complex with
Speaker 4: hundreds of people. Fight breaks out, dude throws one punch
Speaker 4: and kills a guy ended up going to jail for
Speaker 4: two and a half years for manslaughter. It was it
Speaker 4: personally devastated him, not because he went to jail, but
Speaker 4: because he killed someone. He didn't really ever get over that.
Speaker 4: But with a gun, your chances of accidentally killing someone
Speaker 4: are far better than they are with just one punch.
Speaker 4: But I mean, the good news is, I guess is
Speaker 4: that we have a story on the blog today and
Speaker 4: I'll get into this in the next hour. We're going
Speaker 4: to talk to Rich Guggenheim here in just a few minuttes,
Speaker 4: my favorite favorite Homo Rich Guggenheim. I only call him
Speaker 4: that because this Twitter handle is fifty two eighty based homo.
Speaker 5: So I feel like it's okay.
Speaker 4: His new book that he's self published, you can buy
Speaker 4: it on Amazon is outstanding, and we're going to talk
Speaker 4: to him next but later on in the next hour,
Speaker 4: I do want to talk about the correlation. Now, correlation
Speaker 4: is not causation. I want to be clear about that.
Speaker 4: Where I know that you know that. But the correlation
Speaker 4: between immigration enforcement and a dramatic drop in crime, wherever
Speaker 4: it's tried.
Speaker 5: It's getting much harder.
Speaker 4: For the Democrats to argue that doing immigration enforcement is
Speaker 4: a bad idea as people immediately begin to see a
Speaker 4: positive change. Again, maybe it's not because of that, but
Speaker 4: it's happening at the exact same time. So it's gonna
Speaker 4: be an interesting thing to try and figure out how
Speaker 4: to argue against that. Did anybody else see the polling
Speaker 4: data about Democrats over the over the weekend? They're almost
Speaker 4: as unpopular as Congress right now, Holy macaroni, and I
Speaker 4: thought Republicans were unpopular. I should find those numbers we'll
Speaker 4: get into them tomorrow. But when we get back, we're
Speaker 4: gonna talk to Boche Gugenheim about his new book, Escaping.
Speaker 5: The Rainbow Plantation. We'll do that next.
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Speaker 4: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
Speaker 4: I'm your host, Mandy Connell. That guy over there, he's
Speaker 4: Grant Smith in for a Rod who has been doing
Speaker 4: a great job at Broncos training camp. Now, if you're
Speaker 4: a regular listener to the show, you have definitely heard
Speaker 4: my next guest before. He's one of my most popular guests.
Speaker 4: I always get great feedback when Rich Gugenheim is on
Speaker 4: the show, and today I want to introduce him as such.
Speaker 4: Hey everyone, welcome published author Rich Gugenheim to the program.
Speaker 5: Hey, Rich, how you doing.
Speaker 7: Mandy, It's good to be wave you again.
Speaker 4: So have you gotten some like elbow patches for your
Speaker 4: blazer yet now that you're a published and maybe a
Speaker 4: pipe so you can sit and puff on your pipe
Speaker 4: with your jacket with your elbow patches.
Speaker 5: Now that you're a published author.
Speaker 7: I guess I just need to get one of those
Speaker 7: badges from the Scouts something I don't know.
Speaker 4: Well, let's talk about the book. It is a book
Speaker 4: that it came about because for the last what how
Speaker 4: many years now have you been doing this?
Speaker 7: About two years?
Speaker 4: Two years of fighting for rational biological fact.
Speaker 5: That's what you've been up to. Is that fair?
Speaker 7: I would say that speaking the truth? Yeah, for the truth.
Speaker 4: And you were on this program when you made a
Speaker 4: comment about gays escaping the rainbow plantation whether all they're
Speaker 4: picking glitter? And now that is the title of your book,
Speaker 4: Escaping the Rainbow Plantation. Tell my listeners about your book.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it started out with that media hit done by
Speaker 7: some people, some transactivists, and so he had it to
Speaker 7: steal their thunder and actually dedicated the book to the
Speaker 7: author of that article.
Speaker 4: That did that.
Speaker 7: And The Rainbow Plantation is a book almost three hundred pages.
Speaker 7: I can't believe I wrote that much. And it talks
Speaker 7: about how gender ideology has captured an hijacked the LGB movement.
Speaker 7: The LGB movement was the right for it was a
Speaker 7: fight for freedom and liberation and what we've seen today
Speaker 7: with the hijacking by the TQIA plus is undermining what
Speaker 7: I call the family, the bedrock and the foundation of society.
Speaker 7: And I have made that statement before that this ideology,
Speaker 7: this gender ideology, isn't about anything other than ending civilization.
Speaker 7: And people think that's a little bit far petched. So
Speaker 7: I decided to take that and end this book. I
Speaker 7: talk about how gender ideology undermines the foundation of society,
Speaker 7: the family, but also how it attacks the five pillars
Speaker 7: of society, and those five pillars of society are science, academia, media, medicine,
Speaker 7: and government. Now and then I talked to one chapters
Speaker 7: the pecifically because a lot of people want to paint
Speaker 7: this as a far right agenda or a far eye
Speaker 7: talking point, and it's not. I talk about the Mahmoud
Speaker 7: case that was brought by Muslims, and how I talk
Speaker 7: about a majority of the people that are fighting against
Speaker 7: it happened to be liberal ideologists, people that identified as
Speaker 7: lifelong Democrats. And I also talk about how a lot
Speaker 7: of the people that are fighting against this the polling
Speaker 7: and I bring in the polling number. In one chapter,
Speaker 7: I talk directly to the Democrats and I say when
Speaker 7: a majority of you oppose this, but you have a
Speaker 7: fringe minority that is well funded speaking on your behalf,
Speaker 7: you have an obligation to speak up and make your
Speaker 7: voice heart and don't let them silence you. This is
Speaker 7: about speaking truth and it is about liberty, because these
Speaker 7: are not libertarious forces at play here.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, one of the most interesting things that
Speaker 4: you specifically address the Democrats, because I just saw this
Speaker 4: the other day from the Wall Street Journal. The Democrats'
Speaker 4: approval numbers right now are about thirty three percent. Thirty
Speaker 4: three percent. Donald Trump is more popular than the Democratic
Speaker 4: Party right now, according to the latest polling data. And
Speaker 4: to your point that you just made, I think that
Speaker 4: until they sort of stop allowing these fringed organizations to
Speaker 4: attach themselves on like little barnacles, and then they just
Speaker 4: give them the microphone to show. In my view, I
Speaker 4: think that Democrats are very wetted to this notion of
Speaker 4: demonstrating how how thoughtful and how open and how you know,
Speaker 4: they don't judge and they don't do anything unless you're
Speaker 4: a conservative wunch case. They do all of those things,
Speaker 4: but they're so wedded to the virtue signaling on these
Speaker 4: issues that they have allowed themselves to be taken over
Speaker 4: by those virtue signalers, and I think that's going to
Speaker 4: be a huge problem that they've got to sort out.
Speaker 4: So I think it's interesting that you're directing this directly
Speaker 4: to them.
Speaker 5: Have you gotten any we oh.
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
Speaker 7: We have to speak truth, right, and part of that
Speaker 7: is speaking. I believe he's gone as far as we
Speaker 7: can with a Republican on moving the needle on this issue.
Speaker 7: And one of the things I will say, you brought
Speaker 7: that up. The Democrats love to talk about love, larance, acceptance, conclusion,
Speaker 7: but anybody, and it's not just conservatives, anybody who does
Speaker 7: not align with their ideology and their agenda is branded
Speaker 7: and attacked. And they do that because they want to
Speaker 7: bully them into silence. And that's what all of this
Speaker 7: is about.
Speaker 4: This gas lighting is a.
Speaker 7: Form of emotional manipulation, and emotional manipulation is bullying. And
Speaker 7: it's time that we just speak truth to this and
Speaker 7: it's time to call it out. And I share a
Speaker 7: story in this book about Fred Sergeant and Fred Sargeant
Speaker 7: was one of the organizers of the Christopher Street Liberation
Speaker 7: Day in that march that grew out of Stonewall and
Speaker 7: I talk about how he went to a Pride event
Speaker 7: in New Hampshire and was carrying a sign that said
Speaker 7: woman faith blackface with slashes through them and he was
Speaker 7: assaulted by Transwright's activists. But to add insult to injury,
Speaker 7: then the lgb mainstream media decided to publish stories about
Speaker 7: it and call him law Literally, one of the founders
Speaker 7: of gay rights movement was assaulted and then belittled and
Speaker 7: attacked and told he was wrong by the LGBTQ establishment.
Speaker 4: That's so I mean, I don't get me right, I'm
Speaker 4: going to say that's so funny.
Speaker 5: It's not funny, haha.
Speaker 4: But it's like, here's one of It's kind of like
Speaker 4: the way that people attack Washington for, you know, his foibles,
Speaker 4: and it undermines the fact that he's the father of
Speaker 4: the country, right. I mean, that's it's very similar to
Speaker 4: that that once you and let's be real, the ideology
Speaker 4: that that man that you're speaking of holds did not change,
Speaker 4: but the ideology shifted dramatically to the left, and he
Speaker 4: was left behind.
Speaker 5: I mean, isn't that kind of what happened?
Speaker 7: Well, it's eating it's a snake eating its tail. And
Speaker 7: this really goes back to the other thing that I
Speaker 7: talk about with one. I talked about media and big tech.
Speaker 7: Big tech and media are all playing into this, and
Speaker 7: they're suppressing certain narratives and advancing others, and so they
Speaker 7: love to advance this gender ideology, and then anybody who's
Speaker 7: gender critical or doesn't advance their ideology, they're silenced, their deplatforms,
Speaker 7: they're demonetized. And that's something that I'm actually experiencing right
Speaker 7: now with a very book on x which is supposedly,
Speaker 7: according to Elon Musk, the free speech platform.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 7: But my posts are constantly getting I have over three
Speaker 7: thousand followers and my posts about this book are reaching ten.
Speaker 4: Well, I want to see what happened to my post
Speaker 4: about it because I did a post today. Oh no,
Speaker 4: my post about it has gotten seven hundred and eighty
Speaker 4: seven posts.
Speaker 5: Wait, hang on one second.
Speaker 4: I've got a few because what I did was I
Speaker 4: did a post and about the book, and then in
Speaker 4: the comments, I put a link to the book. That
Speaker 4: seems to be the only way to get around that
Speaker 4: kind of schoolduggery. Buy social media platforms, and it works
Speaker 4: better than you would think. So I did a post
Speaker 4: with a link in the comments to where people can
Speaker 4: buy your book. And I bought it today, Rich because
Speaker 4: not only do I like you and I can't wait
Speaker 4: to read it because I guarantee it's funny, but I
Speaker 4: also want to support the voices who are the ones
Speaker 4: saying the truth that they need to be supported. And
Speaker 4: I think it would be absolutely amazing if your book's
Speaker 4: shot up to the number one book in LGBTQ books today.
Speaker 5: Right, I mean, like force people to pay.
Speaker 4: Attention to Yeah, I mean, but force.
Speaker 5: People to pay attention.
Speaker 7: What's crazy about this too, is when you look at
Speaker 7: the different platforms and you look at the voices that
Speaker 7: are being silenced, and then you look at the big
Speaker 7: money behind it. And I talk about this also, the
Speaker 7: money like the Pritzkers, and I talk about the money.
Speaker 7: This is what I term and I coin the gender
Speaker 7: industrial complex. And I think that this is what is
Speaker 7: so hard about going up against this complex, the money
Speaker 7: and the power that's behind it, and a lot of
Speaker 7: people feel intimidated by it. And that's why I really
Speaker 7: say in this book, we have to speak truth because
Speaker 7: of what is at stake. It's our families, it's our children,
Speaker 7: it's their futures. It's their innocence, it's their freedom to
Speaker 7: grow up and live happy, healthy, productive lives.
Speaker 4: Well, one of the things Rich that I think is
Speaker 4: interesting about the way we started this conversation is that
Speaker 4: you believe they're going after the foundation of society. And
Speaker 4: one of the reasons that I wanted and I've always
Speaker 4: supported gay marriage, is because so many of my gay
Speaker 4: friends just wanted to be able to have their families,
Speaker 4: whether that was just them and their spouse, or it
Speaker 4: was them and children, maybe they brought in children from
Speaker 4: a prior relationship, but they just wanted to be able
Speaker 4: to have a family unit. So I do think it's
Speaker 4: interesting that you think this is a bigger attack on
Speaker 4: the family only foundations, when for a long time people
Speaker 4: on the right accused gay people of attacking those family foundations.
Speaker 4: And I would always make the argument, no, they just
Speaker 4: want to be able to have a family like we do.
Speaker 4: So can you expand on that just a little bit.
Speaker 7: Sure, When we were at the Capital for the hearing
Speaker 7: on thirteen twelve, there are several of us who were
Speaker 7: gay parents. We had two dads, they had two moms,
Speaker 7: and there are several of us there who are signed
Speaker 7: up to speak and testify against that bill because even
Speaker 7: as gay parents at same sex parents, we have children
Speaker 7: and we have families, and we don't want to see
Speaker 7: our children growing up, going to school and having them
Speaker 7: taught things are exposed to things that we don't agree
Speaker 7: or consent to. That's one of the biggest things is
Speaker 7: they're robbing us and they're stealing away and consent. We
Speaker 7: don't want our children being indoctrinated and groomed to go
Speaker 7: down this pathway of medicalization that leads to irreversible harm
Speaker 7: without our knowledge to consent his parents. So that's a
Speaker 7: big piece of it. And I think when we saw
Speaker 7: something that again I addressed in the book, not just
Speaker 7: speaking to democrats, but it's dividing the democrats, and it's
Speaker 7: forming new partnerships that ten years ago no one would
Speaker 7: have ever seen. And I remember on thirteen twelve, I
Speaker 7: was standing outside the Supreme Court chamber and the President
Speaker 7: of the Senate walked by and there were two gay
Speaker 7: people with one couple with their children, myself and two
Speaker 7: people from Focus on the Family. And I stopped him
Speaker 7: and I said, I want you to look at this
Speaker 7: moment right here in history. You have gay people who
Speaker 7: are sitting and aligning with focus on the family on
Speaker 7: an issue. I said, I don't think there was ever
Speaker 7: a moment in my life up until now where I
Speaker 7: thought that would be happened, that would be reality.
Speaker 4: Exactly what did? He says?
Speaker 7: He's just like, well, I disagree with your stamp on it.
Speaker 7: And I said, that's that's perfectly fine. That's your choice.
Speaker 7: I said that, you know, the reality is the things
Speaker 7: that I'm hearing from the Democrats while I'm in the
Speaker 7: Capitol today are the exact same theme that I heard
Speaker 7: from the Republicans when I was fighting for civil unions
Speaker 7: and same sex marriage twenty years ago.
Speaker 5: Golly, that's amazing.
Speaker 4: That's amazing. The book by Rich Guggenheim is called Escaping
Speaker 4: the Rainbow Plantation, And Rich, you know, who do you
Speaker 4: really want to read this book?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 4: Who is the Who? If you could place it into
Speaker 4: the hands of certain people and basically force them clockwork
Speaker 4: orange style with toothpicks in their eyes to read this book.
Speaker 4: Who would you love to see pick up this book
Speaker 4: and read it just to find out if maybe they
Speaker 4: would have a better understanding of your position. Oh?
Speaker 7: Man, I would love for the people like the people
Speaker 7: at One Colorado and the people at the Southern Poverty
Speaker 7: Law Center and the people at a Human Rights Campaign
Speaker 7: to read this because they are not speaking for us.
Speaker 7: And I actually there's a lie in this book. For
Speaker 7: those of you who want to go on an Easter
Speaker 7: egg hunt, I call out the Human Rights Campaign. I said,
Speaker 7: an organization that on stood for freedom and liberty is
Speaker 7: now represents the brand for slave on the Rainbow Plantation.
Speaker 5: I don't know if the right people are going to
Speaker 5: read it.
Speaker 4: That would be.
Speaker 7: Sad because I know the audience is going to be there, right.
Speaker 7: The audience is going to be more of the conservative
Speaker 7: people that are opposed to gender ideology. And that's fine
Speaker 7: because I also want them There's so many people that agree,
Speaker 7: but they're afraid to speak out. I want them to
Speaker 7: know that they're not alone, and I want them to
Speaker 7: find the truth, and I want them to find the
Speaker 7: resources to be able to articulate their feelings and their
Speaker 7: thoughts in a way so that they can't have those
Speaker 7: conversations right.
Speaker 4: And I would love that as well, because I think
Speaker 4: what it comes down to for you know what, I'm
Speaker 4: tired of rich and this is really infuriating for me,
Speaker 4: I actually know, I take that back. It's not infuriating
Speaker 4: because I've just had so many accusations like this hurled
Speaker 4: at me over it doesn't bother me anymore.
Speaker 5: It kind of rolls off my back. But it's just stupid.
Speaker 5: Is that I'm.
Speaker 4: Told that I am trans phobic, I am homophobic if
Speaker 4: I don't support the medicalization of children, and in my mind,
Speaker 4: not supporting the medicalization of children that studies have shown
Speaker 4: most of them are just going to be gay. I
Speaker 4: feel like I'm a better advocate for the gay community
Speaker 4: than people who are rushing to get hormones and puberty
Speaker 4: blockers for little children.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I talk about that also, and I think
Speaker 7: one of the things that I would say along those
Speaker 7: lines is when we start having those conversations, I think
Speaker 7: the time is going to come down the road where
Speaker 7: a lot of the transitioners and the people who have
Speaker 7: been harmed by the gender industrial complets are going to
Speaker 7: start speaking out. And when they speak out, the LGBTQ
Speaker 7: plus community is going to excommunicate them and treat them
Speaker 7: like they are apost states, and they're going to find
Speaker 7: themselves without a community and without friends and without a
Speaker 7: support network. And it is up to us as a
Speaker 7: society to welcome them back and show them compassionate love,
Speaker 7: because they're going to have not only the physical trauma,
Speaker 7: but they're going to have the emotional trauma as well.
Speaker 4: Exactly exactly, Rich hug and I am the book. I
Speaker 4: cannot wait to get it. I ordered it. It will
Speaker 4: be here July thirty first, not just because I'm interested
Speaker 4: in the topic, because I really want this book to
Speaker 4: be successful and perhaps force some people who are not
Speaker 4: even where these conversations are taking place to finally take notice,
Speaker 4: and hopefully the book will be a massive success. I
Speaker 4: put a link on the blog today so people can
Speaker 4: just go to the.
Speaker 5: Blog and go over to Amazon and buy the.
Speaker 4: Book, just to support Rich what he's doing get the
Speaker 4: message out. I would love it if you guys would
Speaker 4: do it. If you're a reader, you can even get
Speaker 4: it on your kindle for free. How does that work
Speaker 4: for an author?
Speaker 7: For you, Rich, Well, I don't get anything for the
Speaker 7: kindle for free. So I decided to do that just
Speaker 7: to kind of help get it out there. I want
Speaker 7: people to have this knowledge. I want people to have
Speaker 7: this truth, and that's why I decided to do it.
Speaker 7: For free as a kindle, So if you have that,
Speaker 7: please download it. And if you love it and you
Speaker 7: like what it has to say, I invite you to
Speaker 7: share the link with other people, or even buy the
Speaker 7: book and share it with a book and just don't
Speaker 7: be afraid. Once you read this book and you understand
Speaker 7: the points and it's well cited. Every single chapter has citations,
Speaker 7: so it's all backed by fact. It's not just hyperbole
Speaker 7: and me meeking stuff up. Share that information with people.
Speaker 7: That's what I want.
Speaker 5: That's all you can ask for.
Speaker 7: Rich.
Speaker 4: It's good to talk to you again, my friend, and
Speaker 4: I hope that lots of people buy.
Speaker 5: The book today. Thank you all right, people, talk to
Speaker 5: you later.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 5: That's Rich Guggenheim.
Speaker 4: His book Escaping the Rainbow Plantation is out now on Amazon,
Speaker 4: and as I said, I ordered my copy today. I
Speaker 4: really would like people to get the information out there
Speaker 4: because I think it's incredibly important. Now, somebody just asked
Speaker 4: a question, Mandy, should we talk about the Walmart stabbing
Speaker 4: where the three Marines and the gentleman with a concealed
Speaker 4: carry disarmed the bad guy and held him for police.
Speaker 4: I almost put that on the blog today, but Honestly,
Speaker 4: that's like a far away story.
Speaker 5: It didn't happen here.
Speaker 4: But if you did not hear about this story, guy
Speaker 4: comes into Walmart in Traverse City, Michigan with a knife
Speaker 4: and just start stabbing people and obviously we need to
Speaker 4: ban more guns in Michigan because he's just stabbing people.
Speaker 4: And a bunch of citizens basically were like, no, this
Speaker 4: isn't a thing that's going to happen, and they stood
Speaker 4: up to the guy, and this African American.
Speaker 5: Guy basically pulled his legally owned.
Speaker 4: Firearm and drew down on the guy and said, you're
Speaker 4: gonna do what we're gonna say, and he did so
Speaker 4: they caught the guy and oh, I don't see your
Speaker 4: post about rich Coubenham's book on Facebook that was on
Speaker 4: Twitter that I did that.
Speaker 5: By the way, sorry about that.
Speaker 4: But they stopped the guy and now he's under arrest
Speaker 4: and he's gonna face charges. And that is my preference
Speaker 4: when it comes to these situations. It's always disappointing to
Speaker 4: me when a mass murderer is killed, not because they
Speaker 4: don't deserve to die, it's not it at all, But
Speaker 4: then we lose any opportunity to drill down and find
Speaker 4: out what actually happened and what made them get to
Speaker 4: a point where they thought stabbing a bunch of people
Speaker 4: in a Walmart was going to make their life a
Speaker 4: better place to be. I just don't I'm disappointed, even
Speaker 4: though I mean for the taxpayers, it's always nice. I
Speaker 4: know you guys didn't hear about this story, and I
Speaker 4: was going to wait until the funeral of one of
Speaker 4: the officers to talk about it. But in Lorain, Ohio,
Speaker 4: last week, two police officers were sitting in their individual cars.
Speaker 4: They had pulled down to the end of a road,
Speaker 4: kind of a dead end area, and one was sitting
Speaker 4: in his car and the other one was sitting in
Speaker 4: his car, and they were having lunch.
Speaker 5: They were kind of hanging out.
Speaker 4: They were each in their individual automobiles and they were
Speaker 4: just having lunch. They were on their lunch break and
Speaker 4: they were sitting in their cars and they were having lunch,
Speaker 4: and they were ambushed by a man who just shot them,
Speaker 4: and another police officer responded to the scene he was
Speaker 4: also shot. One of the officer's names was Phil Wagner,
Speaker 4: and Phil was a cousin of my husband's and he
Speaker 4: has since passed away. And they don't know the motive,
Speaker 4: because Phil did manage to get a shot off and
Speaker 4: killed his attacker. But a lot of speculation because this
Speaker 4: was a clear ambush. They do not believe that it
Speaker 4: was anything other than an ambush, and that this guy
Speaker 4: seemed to know that this was a regular space for
Speaker 4: these cops to stop and have lunch and everything. But
Speaker 4: you know what, Phil Wagner is the cops name who
Speaker 4: has passed away. He served in the military. First, he
Speaker 4: did multiple tours of duty and combat zones, and he
Speaker 4: wasn't done serving the people and serving the community. He
Speaker 4: came home and signed up to be a police officer.
Speaker 4: He was a dad, he was a husband, he was
Speaker 4: a son though his father just passed away fairly recently.
Speaker 4: And he was a good person. And the fact that
Speaker 4: two cops get ambushed in Lorain, Ohio, it didn't even
Speaker 4: make the national news. Think about that for a second.
Speaker 4: That's where we are, and it's just really really sad.
Speaker 4: Let's do some of that interesting stuff, shall we so?
Speaker 4: Number when Denver was gonna was telling us how they
Speaker 4: were gonna jack up their minimum wage, and people like
Speaker 4: me and other people who understand basic economics had the
Speaker 4: nerve to say things like you all are gonna kill
Speaker 4: the restaurant industry in Denver, and we were delle We
Speaker 4: were just ridiculous. And I had people literally say to me, look,
Speaker 4: if they can't afford it, they can just raise their prices.
Speaker 4: Guess what when you raise your prices too high, people
Speaker 4: stop going to your restaurant. A couple of things have
Speaker 4: happened right now. Number One, people's habits have changed. The
Speaker 4: younger generation. Can we just have a minute on gen
Speaker 4: Z for just a moment?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 4: As a millennial grant, this is where you get to
Speaker 4: be smug, right, Okay, so put your smug face on
Speaker 4: the grants in for a rod today.
Speaker 5: Gen Z does not know how to have a good time.
Speaker 4: No, they certainly they have no. And don't get me wrong,
Speaker 4: I don't think you need to go out and get
Speaker 4: wasted to have a good time. But because they don't
Speaker 4: go out at all, bars and bars are going to
Speaker 4: close up. They simply don't have enough of a customer base. Because,
Speaker 4: let's be real, guys, bars are kept open by young people.
Speaker 4: They're not kept open by the four old guys who
Speaker 4: show up at four o'clock every afternoon to have their
Speaker 4: dollar fifty beers for four hours and then go home.
Speaker 4: Those guys are not keeping the bar open. It's the
Speaker 4: young people who come in on Thursday, Friday, Saturday night
Speaker 4: or whatever night's good there, and young people are simply
Speaker 4: not going out. Also, what's happening right now is that
Speaker 4: people are being a little tighter with their money because
Speaker 4: we're still dealing with much higher prices than we were
Speaker 4: just a few years ago, right, I mean, everything is
Speaker 4: still elevated in terms of how much it costs after
Speaker 4: the inflation Biden years. So people have pulled back on
Speaker 4: their discretionary spending, and a lot of times restaurants is
Speaker 4: one of the first things that gets cut. Grant, are
Speaker 4: you and Olivia? Have you cut back at all on
Speaker 4: your restaurants spending? A ton? We have two and granted
Speaker 4: we went, Oh, we had the best experience at the
Speaker 4: Fort on Friday night. I got to tell this story
Speaker 4: really quickly. So we don't go out to dinner very
Speaker 4: often anymore. We used to go out quite a bit.
Speaker 4: But it was my birthday, so we went out to
Speaker 4: the Fort and Holly, the owner of the Fort, who
Speaker 4: I am not kidding you, is like one of the
Speaker 4: nicest people you will ever meet in your entire life.
Speaker 4: I send her a little note and said, hey, we're
Speaker 4: going to be there Friday night. Are we going to
Speaker 4: see you? Because I genuinely just wanted to see her
Speaker 4: and say hi. But she wasn't there. She's set up
Speaker 4: their Tomahawk's Champagne service. Have you ever seen the saber
Speaker 4: service where they take the saber and they open there.
Speaker 4: They do it with a tamahawk at the fort. Of
Speaker 4: course they do the coolest thing. So we got the
Speaker 4: tamahawk with the bubbley and whatever. But we've scaled back
Speaker 4: our dinner spending a lot. Now we still go out
Speaker 4: to breakfast on the weekends. I love a good breakfast
Speaker 4: and we are so blessed with so many great breakfast
Speaker 4: places in the Denver metro area. Now, some would say,
Speaker 4: how do you screw up breakfast? Trust me, I've been
Speaker 4: to restaurants the screw up breakfast. It's it's not that
Speaker 4: hard to screw up breakfast. But as far as our
Speaker 4: overall restaurant spending, it is dramatically reduced. But here we
Speaker 4: have more restaurants in Denver that are closing and they
Speaker 4: are naming the thing that is one of the reasons
Speaker 4: that they're closing. Cap City Tavern closed yesterday permanently after
Speaker 4: eighteen years of service, and what a great spot it was.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 4: The restaurants owners cited the rise in minimum wage, the
Speaker 4: cost of food, and Denver taxes and fees as the
Speaker 4: reasons for its closure. Let's see how many of those
Speaker 4: things to the City of Denver control. Two out of
Speaker 4: three are in the control of the Denver City Council.
Speaker 4: Minimum wage and Denver taxes and fees. Those are problems
Speaker 4: created by government that are now shutting down businesses. I
Speaker 4: did a quick search to find other places that had
Speaker 4: recently closed. Westward actually has a list of restaurants closing
Speaker 4: so far. They said, these are the ten biggest eateries
Speaker 4: that have closed this year. They start with AJ's, Pitt Barbecue,
Speaker 4: Blue Moon Brewing, Denver Stockyard, Saloon, El Noah Noah, Fruition,
Speaker 4: Mercury Cafe, Middleman and Misfit Snack Bar, Noiset, Sushirama, Zomma,
Speaker 4: and more.
Speaker 5: That's just ten of the many who have closed.
Speaker 4: Have been to four or five of those places you
Speaker 4: had been, had been now you did visit when they
Speaker 4: were alive. And around.
Speaker 8: They were all very well run establishments.
Speaker 4: With you cannot fight against an insane minimum wage because
Speaker 4: restaurants by design are a labor intensive business. Oh.
Speaker 5: When we were in Japan, they.
Speaker 4: Have restaurants where you put your order in and then
Speaker 4: a little robot brings you your food, like a little
Speaker 4: wheelly robot like just brings you over your but you
Speaker 4: have to take it off the tray. And I'm like,
Speaker 4: I'm not tipping you for that, mister. If you're not
Speaker 4: even gonna put my food on the track, I'm not
Speaker 4: tipping you. What's that robot spending the tip? My exactly?
Speaker 4: Exactly oil for everyone. But we're going to see more
Speaker 4: and more, and I hope restaurant owners are honest about
Speaker 4: the reasons that they are closing, and so far they
Speaker 4: have been. I looked at a bunch of stories about
Speaker 4: restaurants and bars that have closed. The bars say the
Speaker 4: same thing, it's just a changing business environment. If they're
Speaker 4: on Colfax, the Colefax construction project is killed so many
Speaker 4: places already. And if you do you.
Speaker 5: Ever drive down there where that constructs, Oh my god, griam.
Speaker 4: Oh, I haven't been that way in a while. I
Speaker 4: have to drive there. When I go to the Independence
Speaker 4: Institute to fill in the side hustle, and every time
Speaker 4: i'm there, I'm like, oh my god, how are any
Speaker 4: of these businesses still open? Well, you got Mary Johnston
Speaker 4: guest bart.
Speaker 8: That's how they drive the people in.
Speaker 4: For the record, I love guest bartending gigs. They're super fun.
Speaker 4: I loved being a bartender a long time ago. I
Speaker 4: enjoy them. I've done them for charity multiple times, but
Speaker 4: not once as a restaurant ever.
Speaker 5: Said Mandy, we're struggling.
Speaker 4: We think bringing you in as a guest bartender is
Speaker 4: all that's gonna take.
Speaker 5: You got two hours on a Tuesday.
Speaker 4: We feel like that's going to be the game changer.
Speaker 4: Doesn't really happen that way. But I live in Douglas County.
Speaker 4: The whole reason I brought this story up. I live
Speaker 4: in Douglas County where we have not raised the minimum wage,
Speaker 4: and we're Frankly. I'm just gonna say it, aside from
Speaker 4: a handful, nah, maybe a little more than it, maybe
Speaker 4: two handfuls of really amazing restaurants either in Castle Rock,
Speaker 4: Castle Pines, Parker, a little couple here and there, like
Speaker 4: in frank Town and Elizabeth, you got the you know,
Speaker 4: smaller towns out there. We have way too many chain
Speaker 4: restaurants and not enough locally owned restaurants. I try to
Speaker 4: support locally owned restaurants whenever I can, and I would
Speaker 4: love to invite restaurant tours who have given it a
Speaker 4: shot in Denver only to be frustrated by the nightmare
Speaker 4: that is Denver's business environment. Come on down to Doug Co,
Speaker 4: give us a try, set up a place in a
Speaker 4: storefront in a strip mall, and let us bring you
Speaker 4: into our loving arms. We have a couple really, really
Speaker 4: good restaurants in Douglas County now, and I don't want
Speaker 4: to say which ones they are because I can still
Speaker 4: get a table, But if at some point they are struggling,
Speaker 4: I will let you guys know my favorite breakfast place.
Speaker 4: I typed out a review for my favorite breakfast place
Speaker 4: and then erased it because I.
Speaker 5: Was like, oh god, I can still get a table
Speaker 5: here in the morning.
Speaker 4: Was that the we went to with father Mike? Uh No?
Speaker 5: That Stug's Diner another favorite of horsp No.
Speaker 4: It's okay. I'm just gonna say, you guys, because the
Speaker 4: food in this place that I am about to tell you. Now,
Speaker 4: I love breakfast food and Chuck loves breakfast food, but
Speaker 4: we like different kinds of breakfast food. He likes pancakes,
Speaker 4: stuff like that. I like a really good omelet. I
Speaker 4: want like a shrimp and gritz option. I want, you know,
Speaker 4: I want something a little heartier for breakfast. There's a
Speaker 4: place over myself. It's actually across four seventy from Southlands,
Speaker 4: in the same plaza. I think it's a safe way,
Speaker 4: and it's called Three Little Griddles. Oh on Smoky Hill,
Speaker 4: Off Smoky Hill. Oh my god. Everything in that place
Speaker 4: is to die for. And I think I've tried everything
Speaker 4: in that place now at this point, but I'm never
Speaker 4: mentioning it again. Sushi Restaurant in Omaha is a robot
Speaker 4: server that's very forward of Omaha. You don't necessarily think
Speaker 4: of Nebraska as being like a leader in these types
Speaker 4: of things. I've heard it's an underrated town. Maybe you
Speaker 4: know how far is Omaha driving from here? Is that
Speaker 4: like a weekend road trip doable type thing? I don't know.
Speaker 8: I'd have to look. I want to say, it's not.
Speaker 5: How far it is Omaha from Denver driving.
Speaker 4: Let's just give it to the Wow, that's a long weekend. Maybe,
Speaker 4: but that's a long time in a car for just
Speaker 4: a weekend weekend, especially for Omaha. Seriously, because you got
Speaker 4: to drive will you drive right by Grand Island though
Speaker 4: you drive through Lincoln North Platte.
Speaker 5: Nebraska is not as bad as Kansas.
Speaker 4: I mean, if we're honest and don't I don't have
Speaker 4: anything against the wonderful people of Kansas, because every time
Speaker 4: I go to Kansas and I have an interaction with
Speaker 4: a human, it is delightful. But God, there's not all
Speaker 4: humans in Kansas, long stretches of nothing but cowstink, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, God forbid you roll down the
Speaker 4: window and you're like, oh, there's a feed lot somewhere.
Speaker 4: It's Kansas.
Speaker 5: They're everywhere.
Speaker 4: But Nebraska actually has they have some scenery here and there.
Speaker 4: It's not flat corn wait and cows. I mean, don't
Speaker 4: get me wrong, there's a lot of all of that Nebraska.
Speaker 4: I went to a wedding in Indiana, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Speaker 4: You ever been to Fort Wayne, Indiana? Grant I have? Okay,
Speaker 4: so I fly into Fort Wayne, Indiana, I rent a car.
Speaker 4: This is exactly what the lady at the car rental
Speaker 4: place told me to get to where I was going.
Speaker 4: She said, Okay, you're gonna go out there and get
Speaker 4: on this highway right out here, and you just you
Speaker 4: start to drive, and you drive for a while, and
Speaker 4: then right when you think, my god, that's a lot
Speaker 4: of corn, then you turn right.
Speaker 5: I kid you not, and Grant she was exactly right.
Speaker 3: Mom.
Speaker 4: I was like, good lord, this is a lot of corn.
Speaker 4: There's my right turn. She knew what she was doing
Speaker 4: there in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I know, don't you don't
Speaker 4: you from folks in Kansas? Lol, Mandy, I'm listening to
Speaker 4: you south of Salina, Kansas. I sure do love Kansas,
Speaker 4: though people who love I'm not saying there's not good
Speaker 4: parts of Kansas. I'm just saying that drive through Kansas, Lord,
Speaker 4: have mercy. It feels like you're going backwards in time
Speaker 4: the whole time you're driving there. This texture, said many Mandy,
Speaker 4: probably not typical Kansas, but Olesa, Kansas is a delightful, upscale,
Speaker 4: friendly and modern. There are beautiful places in Kansas. My
Speaker 4: kids lived in Manhattan and it was a delight to visit.
Speaker 4: I don't want Kansas to think I'm disparaging the whole state.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying, driving.
Speaker 4: Through it, yikes, yikes. And somebody texted about Dougs Diner.
Speaker 4: Let me just say one more thing about doug Diner.
Speaker 4: We know the owners of Dougs Diner, and years ago
Speaker 4: when it was owned by somebody else, Chuck asked for
Speaker 4: extra blueberries and his pancakes and they brought and said,
Speaker 4: he always says, I'll pay I'll pay extra, you know,
Speaker 4: I just want a ton of blueberries in my pancakes.
Speaker 4: And they brought them a pancake with eight blueberries in it,
Speaker 4: and he was like, I'm never coming here again. Then
Speaker 4: we met the people who had just bought the Doug's
Speaker 4: Diner chain, because Doug Segner is a regional chain only
Speaker 4: in the front range, and he said, oh, I got
Speaker 4: to tell you a story about doug Seiner, and they
Speaker 4: kind of laughed. And now when you go to a
Speaker 4: Doug signer anywhere and you want to order pancakes with
Speaker 4: blueberries or chocolate chips in them, there's a little thing
Speaker 4: that says you can chuck it up for eight you know,
Speaker 4: this amount of money that is named after my Chuck,
Speaker 4: and it's one of his proudest points. That he's ever had.
Speaker 4: And the best part about the story is his older
Speaker 4: brother's in town. We take him to Doug Signer because
Speaker 4: when people are in town, we take him to Doug
Speaker 4: Signer because Chuck wants to show everybody that he's got
Speaker 4: something named after him on the menu. And his brother
Speaker 4: looks at it and Chuck's like, yeah, that's named after me,
Speaker 4: and his brother was like, oh my god, I've always
Speaker 4: wanted to have something named after me on a menu.
Speaker 4: So now it's a bone of contention that Chuck has something,
Speaker 4: you know, named after him on a menu. Anyway, I mean,
Speaker 4: it is just wow wow. Anyway, We've got a bunch
Speaker 4: of other stuff on the blog. When we get back
Speaker 4: at two fifteen, where going to talk to Dustin's Devonic
Speaker 4: about two different ballot initiatives that have been sent to
Speaker 4: the title Board. And they're ballot initiatives that would require
Speaker 4: the Colorado legislature to spend transportation dollars on transportation. I know,
Speaker 4: I know, crazy, right crazy. So we're going to talk
Speaker 4: to him at two fifteen. But when we get back,
Speaker 4: I want to talk about some of the trade deals
Speaker 4: that Trump has struck. Over the weekend he announced with
Speaker 4: the head of the EU Ursula von something something a
Speaker 4: trade deal that when I I was on the internet
Speaker 4: and I saw a headline and the headline was so
Speaker 4: crazy that I was like, well, that can't be right,
Speaker 4: and then I read the details of the trade deal.
Speaker 4: Now I'm not a master negotiator, but the EU got
Speaker 4: screwed in this trade deal. If it is as it
Speaker 4: appears to be, and I don't know why in the
Speaker 4: world they would agree to it, because it's that much
Speaker 4: better than what we had done prior. Now, we were
Speaker 4: supposed to have two hundred trade deals by August first.
Speaker 4: We've had like six, but they're with major trading partners.
Speaker 4: So I'm more worried about major trading partners than I
Speaker 4: am not major trading partners. And the one trading partner
Speaker 4: that we seem to be having a tough time with
Speaker 4: right now is Canada because we have a lot of
Speaker 4: over the borders type stuff going back and forth with
Speaker 4: Mexico and Canada and Canada. We still haven't gotten that
Speaker 4: deal done. But I asked Rock about trade deals specifically
Speaker 4: that had been that had been announced. You, guys, I
Speaker 4: gotta tell you, I am now at the point where
Speaker 4: I am relatively confident that GROC is going to give
Speaker 4: me decent information, especially when I ask it to link
Speaker 4: to its sources, which it does automatically.
Speaker 5: But I'm like, what source did you get this from?
Speaker 4: Where'd you get this? GROC? And I asked ROC is said, hey,
Speaker 4: let's talk about the trade deals that have been announced.
Speaker 4: We'll get into some of those, but what's happening right now?
Speaker 4: And it's this is very, very, very significant. And I
Speaker 4: don't love tariffs. I think they're stupid. I don't you know,
Speaker 4: but a couple of things are happening under these Trump
Speaker 4: trade deals. Number One, no one is going to get
Speaker 4: truly free trade with United States of America. Everyone is
Speaker 4: going to have to pay some kind of tariff to
Speaker 4: do business here and get access to our markets. That
Speaker 4: is a fundamental shift in some of these trade operations.
Speaker 5: That is significant.
Speaker 4: And number two, more and more economists are starting to
Speaker 4: say things like, wait a minute, Trump is fundamentally changing
Speaker 4: the way trade is going to be done.
Speaker 5: And it's not necessarily.
Speaker 4: A bad thing. The way it's happening, it kind of
Speaker 4: looks like winning to me. We'll get into it next.
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Speaker 4: Welcome, wecome, Welcome to the third hour of the show.
Speaker 5: I'm your host for the next hour.
Speaker 4: Mandy Connell joined by Grant Smith, who's in for a
Speaker 4: Rod who is out covering a very hot training camp
Speaker 4: today for the Denver Broncos. Just look at it like this, Grant.
Speaker 4: In Miami, it's like this all the time. That's why
Speaker 4: I can't. I just I refuse to go to Dolphins
Speaker 4: game until November.
Speaker 8: I'm going to Charleston, South Carolina later this week.
Speaker 5: And what comes there?
Speaker 4: Like he's going to breeze though in Charleston. Charleston actually
Speaker 4: has kind of a pleasant climate. Have you ever been
Speaker 4: there before?
Speaker 10: I have?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love it there. It's so pretty.
Speaker 6: My brother lives in Sumter now, so okay at a
Speaker 6: friend's condo.
Speaker 4: Very nice.
Speaker 8: That is that Folly Beach So I'm excited.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, that Folly Beach is. Where are people
Speaker 4: from Athens, Ohio? Goes people from Louisville, Kentucky on spring break?
Speaker 4: Go to Deston. So when you are in Deston, Florida
Speaker 4: during the springtime, you can't swing a dead cat without
Speaker 4: hitting somebody from Louisville, Kentucky. Folly Beach, North Carolina. Everybody
Speaker 4: from Athens goes to Folly Beach. I've never heard of
Speaker 4: it in my whole life until I married someone from Athens, Ohio.
Speaker 4: Then they're like, Flly Beach, Folly Beach. I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 4: I will accept that. It's amazing. It's like Myrtle.
Speaker 8: Beach, but a little classier and a little scholar.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Well, you know.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you've been to Daytona, You've been to
Speaker 5: Myrtle Beach.
Speaker 6: I've been to both so many times and enjoyed the trashy.
Speaker 4: News of it. They kind of love making fun of
Speaker 4: Daytona Beach. I kind of do, I really do, because
Speaker 4: it is Uh, it is trashy, Grant, that's a great
Speaker 4: word for it. Trashy people, Uh, trashy everything.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Bike Week is accepted there because it doesn't change the
Speaker 4: culture at all. It just is the same, only with
Speaker 4: more people. And I love Daytona Beach for a short
Speaker 4: periods of time. Anyway, I want to talk about a
Speaker 4: couple of things before we get in with Dustin Devonic
Speaker 4: here in just a few minutes to talk about some
Speaker 4: proposed ballot initiatives about transportation. And I want to talk
Speaker 4: about some of these trade deals that Trump has struck.
Speaker 4: The latest with the European Union that is so one sided.
Speaker 4: I can't even believe that this deal was made. If
Speaker 4: I'm honest, and I'm not some kind of master negotiator,
Speaker 4: I mean, stop it, but just listen to this from
Speaker 4: the New York Times. President Trump said that the European
Speaker 4: Union had agreed to purchase seven hundred and fifty billion
Speaker 4: dollars of American energy, which Ursula von der Leyen, the
Speaker 4: president of the EU's Executive Branch, told reporters would be
Speaker 4: spread out over three years. The twenty seven nation block
Speaker 4: also read to increase its investment in the United States
Speaker 4: by more than six hundred billion above current levels, adding
Speaker 4: that the European Union would buy military equipment. A senior
Speaker 4: US official said that those investments would include pharmaceuticals and
Speaker 4: the automotive industry, among others. The two sides also agreed
Speaker 4: to drop tariffs to zero on a range of goods,
Speaker 4: including aircraft plane parts, certain chemicals, certain generic drugs, semiconductor equipment,
Speaker 4: and some agricultural products.
Speaker 7: Ms.
Speaker 4: Vonder Lehan said, So I asked Rock, because you know,
Speaker 4: Grock's my new best friend. I asked Rock for key
Speaker 4: details about the various trade deals. And here's what he
Speaker 4: came up with. By the way, Grant, do you think
Speaker 4: that Grock is male or female? And do you think
Speaker 4: Cha Gibt is male or female? You know what's weird.
Speaker 6: I've never never really thought about it until right now
Speaker 6: when you asked me.
Speaker 4: But for some reason, I think may for both.
Speaker 5: I think mail too.
Speaker 4: For some reason, AI feels mail because you know, it's
Speaker 4: very willing to tell you things that may or may
Speaker 4: not be true. No, I'm kidding, guys, I'm kidding. At
Speaker 4: there you go exactly. We should call it che explaining
Speaker 4: or gro explaining, you know. Okay, So we've got the
Speaker 4: US UK Economic Deal that was announced in May. This
Speaker 4: addresses section two thirty two tariffs on steel and aluminum,
Speaker 4: allowing for adjustments or quotas. Starting July ninth of twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five, UK origin products under the WTO Agreement on
Speaker 4: Trade in Civil Aircraft are exempt from tariffs and it
Speaker 4: builds on prior suspensions and aims to boost bilateral trade
Speaker 4: while protecting US industries. And then we have the US
Speaker 4: China Preliminary Trade Frame Framework. China eased restrictions on rare
Speaker 4: earth exports to the US, suspended a plan thirty four
Speaker 4: percent terrifike for ninety days. They did retain a ten
Speaker 4: percent rate in exchange. The US poses and reciprocal tariffs.
Speaker 4: No full tariff elimination, but it de escalates tensions from
Speaker 4: the ongoing trade war. It is a truce extension that
Speaker 4: open source for further talks. Then there's the US Indonesia Framework,
Speaker 4: reduces Indonesia's reciprocal tariff right from nineteen percent from an
Speaker 4: original thirty two percent, focuses on balanced trade.
Speaker 5: And goods like electronics and commodities.
Speaker 4: And then we have the US Japan's Strategic Trade announcement
Speaker 4: fifteen percent tariffs on most Japanese exports to the US
Speaker 4: that was down from a threat in twenty five that
Speaker 4: covers autos, electronics, and other goods. They also commit five
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty billion in US investments over Trump's term,
Speaker 4: plus increased purchases of US energy and defense equipment. Zero
Speaker 4: tariffs on select items like aircraft and chemicals. So these
Speaker 4: are some of our biggest trading partners, and it is
Speaker 4: definitely interesting to see how Trump is trying to leverage
Speaker 4: access to American markets to get allies to do things
Speaker 4: that he wants them to do. One area where the
Speaker 4: tariffs are not going to be dropped or on steel
Speaker 4: and aluminum. And I think there's a very valid reason
Speaker 4: why Trump is trying to encourage steel an aluminum production
Speaker 4: here in the United States of America because without steeling
Speaker 4: the aluminum production here in the United States, in a
Speaker 4: battle situation, in a wartime footing, we would be getting
Speaker 4: all of our steel from somewhere else. You can't build ships,
Speaker 4: you can't build planes, you can't build the things you
Speaker 4: need for war without aluminum and steel. So he's really
Speaker 4: trying to reshore those things. The problem is with both
Speaker 4: of those is that aluminum, especially is a very, very
Speaker 4: energy intensive industry. Making aluminum takes a lot of energy,
Speaker 4: not not as not as much as like.
Speaker 5: AI, but it takes a lot of energy.
Speaker 4: And more and more states are doing dumbass things like
Speaker 4: the things we've done in Colorado that are going to
Speaker 4: make energy more expensive and by the way. I have
Speaker 4: an article today by Sherry Pie at Complete Colorado. In
Speaker 4: a recent meeting of the Clean Energy Office, plans were
Speaker 4: discussed on how to shove us further down the renewable
Speaker 4: grid plan that is being pushed and promoted by Jared Pols.
Speaker 4: And the reality is is that Jared Pols has already
Speaker 4: said I know it's going to make things more expensive.
Speaker 5: He just doesn't care.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take a quick time out Dustin Devonic when
Speaker 4: we get back Dustin Devona. He is with the seventy
Speaker 4: six group and we are hopefully, I say hopefully, we'll
Speaker 4: find out after the title Board takes a bite at
Speaker 4: the apple. Hopefully the people of Colorado will be able
Speaker 4: to speak in this next election cycle and tell our
Speaker 4: our overlords under the Gold Dome that we actually want
Speaker 4: transportation dollars that were collected under the premise of being
Speaker 4: for transportation to.
Speaker 5: Actually be used for our roads.
Speaker 4: For potholes, for bridges, and not for more crappy, stupid
Speaker 4: multi modal crap that nobody wants. And joining me now
Speaker 4: to talk about it is these two measures have just
Speaker 4: been sent to the title Board. But Dustin, let's talk
Speaker 4: about what's in the meat of these and why do
Speaker 4: we need.
Speaker 9: To Yeah, so thanks for having me on. You know,
Speaker 9: these two measures are exactly as you described them. They
Speaker 9: are an effort to say, hey, listen, the taxpayers of Colorado.
Speaker 9: We pay sales and use tax every time we purchase
Speaker 9: a car, every time we buy new tires or parts
Speaker 9: for our car. We pay fees on deliveries, we pay
Speaker 9: fees on uber all of which are supposed to go
Speaker 9: to roads and bridges. That's always what it's promised to be.
Speaker 9: But of course that is never the case. And so
Speaker 9: what these measures seek to do. And there are two
Speaker 9: of them, and I'll tell you the only difference between
Speaker 9: the two. One has a sunset of ten years and
Speaker 9: one doesn't. Otherwise, the the exact same, And at the
Speaker 9: heart of it, it is a measure that it's not
Speaker 9: a novel concept to the state of Colorado, but it
Speaker 9: is telling our legislators, current and future and governor that
Speaker 9: we want to see two thirds of all of this
Speaker 9: revenue that's generated by sales and use tax of automobile
Speaker 9: or cars and car related parts, as well as delivery
Speaker 9: fees to actually go to roads. People across our state,
Speaker 9: especially in rural communities, but frankly, all throughout the front
Speaker 9: range are sick and tired of our poor roads, our
Speaker 9: poor transportation system, and want to see it improved, and
Speaker 9: not as you mentioned, just going to more bike path
Speaker 9: beautification or.
Speaker 4: You know, mass.
Speaker 9: Transit that frankly, we could subsidize sneakers and it'd be
Speaker 9: a better investment than then putting more into mass trands.
Speaker 9: That we want money to go to roads. And that's
Speaker 9: what these measures would do, is it would put in
Speaker 9: our constitution a requirement that these funds actually go to roads.
Speaker 4: So if both of these make it through the title board,
Speaker 4: are both of them going to be run? And if
Speaker 4: both pass? I mean what that seems a little confusing.
Speaker 4: What was the thinking behind putting one that sunsets and
Speaker 4: putting one that doesn't. What is the logic there one will?
Speaker 4: Ultimately there will only be one.
Speaker 9: I think that the coalition that has come together, it's
Speaker 9: from a broad coalition of local elected leaders from across
Speaker 9: the state, business leaders from across the state. Colorado is
Speaker 9: a state that is you know, known to use the
Speaker 9: sunset provision too, and I think it's it's always a
Speaker 9: good idea. Frankly, I think I wish we would sunset
Speaker 9: every regulation that's on the books in the state and
Speaker 9: require the legislators to reauthorize them. But I think that
Speaker 9: the question is do we sunset this or do we
Speaker 9: just make it permanent? And and I think there's a
Speaker 9: good argument to be had. So if one gets through,
Speaker 9: the other will get through.
Speaker 4: But ultimately there will.
Speaker 9: Only be one of them on the ballot, and we
Speaker 9: will know. The title setting process takes anywhere from four
Speaker 9: to six weeks, and so at the conclusion of that process,
Speaker 9: if we have a measure to take to the voters,
Speaker 9: we will, but there will be a decision to move
Speaker 9: with either a sunset or not.
Speaker 5: Now, Destin, let me ask you this.
Speaker 4: Have you guys compiled any of the various ways that
Speaker 4: this money that is coming in all those delivery fees
Speaker 4: we're paying them every single time we get a delivery,
Speaker 4: the ways that this money has been diverted, Because this
Speaker 4: is what I think most Coloradens don't know. They were
Speaker 4: sold a bill of goods on things like, hey, raise
Speaker 4: your registration fees when you register your car, and we're
Speaker 4: going to use it to fix roads and bridges, and
Speaker 4: that money just seems to be going into a giant
Speaker 4: black hole. Then we have delivery fees, We have all
Speaker 4: of these things that were sold to Coloradin says this
Speaker 4: is going to fix our roads and bridges. All that
Speaker 4: money is going elsewhere. Are you guys accumulating a list
Speaker 4: of the ways that this money has been diverted to
Speaker 4: really help people understand why we have to vote for this.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yes, absolutely, and in some of itself evident. I mean,
Speaker 9: the thing that we've seen is that the state of
Speaker 9: Colorado is currently in a seven hundred million dollar deficit.
Speaker 9: Despite the fact that they're in there, they're taking in
Speaker 9: record levels of revenue, and it's because they continue to
Speaker 9: do things like they Over the years, they've had the
Speaker 9: largest expansion of Medicaid. And it's not because more and
Speaker 9: more people who actually should be on Medicaid are are
Speaker 9: participating in it, but it's they're expanding the eligibilities to
Speaker 9: where it's really creeping well beyond the intent of helping
Speaker 9: people who you know, are struggling financially and need the
Speaker 9: extra assistance. So the expansion of Medicaid has been a
Speaker 9: significant just the growth of government, the number of employees
Speaker 9: that the state. You know, there's there's a new division
Speaker 9: or department that's created. You know, there's tons of ways
Speaker 9: in which the state is grown, it's expenditures, but it
Speaker 9: hasn't been towards roads. And I think that's the other
Speaker 9: thing that's key about these measures is that what we
Speaker 9: would be doing is forcing fiscal discipline on a very
Speaker 9: not physically disciplined state legislature and saying, you guys are
Speaker 9: already collecting these fees from us. We don't need a
Speaker 9: new tax, we don't need another fee. We need you
Speaker 9: to take the money that you're we're already saying you
Speaker 9: can spend it on roads. But we will have a
Speaker 9: very comprehensive list and it won't be hard to put
Speaker 9: together of all the ways in which they're diverting those
Speaker 9: dollars that should have already been going to our roads
Speaker 9: to other priorities that the legislature has.
Speaker 4: Dustin's Ivonik is my guest, Dustin, what's the timeline on
Speaker 4: this title board approval or not?
Speaker 9: Yeah, so typically it takes four to six weeks. We
Speaker 9: just submitted last week, so that you know there there
Speaker 9: will be an opportunity for any any challenges that first,
Speaker 9: the first you know thing that we'll have to prove
Speaker 9: is that there's a single subject which we believe there is.
Speaker 9: The attorney's working on this, you know, I feel confident
Speaker 9: that it's going to get through. I'm sure that it's
Speaker 9: going to be challenged. I'm sure that the defenders of
Speaker 9: the status quo that they want to see government continue
Speaker 9: to grow and are going to say, I suggest that
Speaker 9: by requiring money go to roads and bridges that was
Speaker 9: supposed to go to roads and bridges is going to
Speaker 9: force us to cut elsewhere. We're going to hear a
Speaker 9: lot of that during the title setting process and then
Speaker 9: ultimately in the campaign, But I would say it. You know,
Speaker 9: sometime in the next four weeks we will have an
Speaker 9: affirmative decision from Titleboard. At that point, it will require,
Speaker 9: because it's a constitutional measure, for the proponents to go
Speaker 9: and get the signatures necessary to get it on the
Speaker 9: ballot for November of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4: So as soon as that happens, as soon as you
Speaker 4: guys hit the ground and you're ready to go, please
Speaker 4: let's revisit this so I can make sure that my
Speaker 4: people are looking out at grocery stores and all of
Speaker 4: those places that they're asking for signatures, so we can
Speaker 4: get enough signatures to get this thing on the ballot,
Speaker 4: because I know that I'm not the only one who
Speaker 4: recently had to have you know, my car realigned because
Speaker 4: of Colorado's road, so it's time to do something about it.
Speaker 5: Dustin, I appreciate your time today.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I appreciate it. Thanks so much for having me on.
Speaker 4: All right. That is Dustin Zavonic from the seventy six group,
Speaker 4: and I will keep you guys posting on that. We'll
Speaker 4: be right back.
Speaker 5: A lot of stuff on the blog today.
Speaker 4: Got a lot of stuff about what's happening right now
Speaker 4: in Israel, and I I have an article where there
Speaker 4: are a couple of Israeli groups who now say that
Speaker 4: Israel is committing genocide. That being said, what's happening right
Speaker 4: now with the Gaza food situation is not what it
Speaker 4: initially seems to be. There's an organization called the Gaza
Speaker 4: Humanitarian Foundation. They are an American and Israeli back to
Speaker 4: organization that is delivering food to people.
Speaker 5: In Gaza right now as we speak.
Speaker 4: And over the weekend they published a video of a
Speaker 4: bunch of UN trucks and a bunch of UNAID just
Speaker 4: sitting there and the UN says, oh, we can't get
Speaker 4: it into Gaza because Israel won't let us use the roads. Well,
Speaker 4: Israel is trying to help them use roads that are
Speaker 4: still functioning. There's a lot of back and forth between
Speaker 4: UN and Israel, but for every accusation that the UN makes,
Speaker 4: Israel has an extremely rational explanation for what they're doing. Now,
Speaker 4: the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is getting aid into Gaza. They're
Speaker 4: making it happen. They're delivering food to people who are starving.
Speaker 4: What they're not doing is delivering food to a mass,
Speaker 4: which is what the UN has been doing. And I
Speaker 4: think the UN is letting that aid sit because they
Speaker 4: want Palestinians to starve. And it sounds harsh and it
Speaker 4: sounds horrible, But the only way you can continue to
Speaker 4: make Israel look horrible is if Palestinian people suffer. Now,
Speaker 4: we all know the easiest way to bring all of
Speaker 4: this to a close is just release the hostages, release
Speaker 4: the last fifty Amas, just release them, or tell us
Speaker 4: you don't know where they are, which is a real
Speaker 4: possibility at this point. But the reality on the ground
Speaker 4: in Israel is much more complicated than it appears to be.
Speaker 4: When asked about the piles of aid being, you know,
Speaker 4: right outside Gaza. The UN seem to confirm why the
Speaker 4: Palestinians are starving in the first place by saying this
Speaker 4: is from the New York Times. To retrieve the eid
Speaker 4: at the border or move around most of the Gaza strip,
Speaker 4: UN trucks must enter zones controlled by the military after
Speaker 4: obtaining its permission. Once the eight is loaded, the trucks
Speaker 4: must get safely to the population. The whole trip can
Speaker 4: take twenty hours, the UN says. Large crowds of desperate people,
Speaker 4: as well as criminal gangs, overwhelm trucks as they enter and.
Speaker 5: Strip off the supplies.
Speaker 4: Witnesses say Israeli troops regularly open fire on the crowds,
Speaker 4: causing deaths and injuries. Now who's dying, who's being injured?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: By the way, Israelis said.
Speaker 4: Yes, we have done that because some moss was overrunning
Speaker 4: the trucks taken together, says a spokesperson for the UN Office.
Speaker 5: These factors have put.
Speaker 4: People in humanitarian staff at grave risk and forced aid
Speaker 4: agencies on many occasions to pause the collection of cargo
Speaker 4: from crossings controlled by the Israeli authorities. Now I'm going
Speaker 4: to tell you a little story about when Chuck was
Speaker 4: in Somalia. Chuck was sent to Somalia and he was
Speaker 4: sent there because they were trying to help starving people.
Speaker 4: Remember that's why we were in Somalia. And he has
Speaker 4: rather harrowing stories of accompanying AID trucks into Somalia when
Speaker 4: starving Somalians would leap onto the trucks and the soldiers
Speaker 4: had no choice but to push them off the moving
Speaker 4: trucks to make sure that the aid got to where
Speaker 4: it was going. Because a lot of those people all
Speaker 4: worked for the Somali warlords, who then took the AID
Speaker 4: for themselves and sold it to the population at at
Speaker 4: exorbitant rates. That's why the Somalia people were starving, the
Speaker 4: same reason the people in Gaza are starving. Hamas fighters
Speaker 4: are well fed. Amas fighters have plenty of food. Hamas
Speaker 4: has warehouses full of food. They turned around and sell
Speaker 4: it on the black market to people who are trying
Speaker 4: to run stores and markets. So I'm not buying that
Speaker 4: Israel is the problem here. Hamas is always the problem
Speaker 4: in anything involving Israel. You should read all of the
Speaker 4: information that I have, though it's very very interesting and
Speaker 4: it's worth your time. Now I want to talk about
Speaker 4: a text message or not a text message like Dan
Speaker 4: Bongeno's text messaging me. A post on x dot com
Speaker 4: that was made by Deputy Director of the FBI Dan Bongino.
Speaker 4: Dan Bongino has been catching a lot of crap because
Speaker 4: as a podcaster, he was one of the guys screaming
Speaker 4: that we all needed to expose all of these things
Speaker 4: blah blah blah. And this is what he's sent out
Speaker 4: on x dot com this weekend. It says, during my
Speaker 4: tenure here is the Deputy Director of the FBI, I
Speaker 4: have repeatedly relayed to you that things are happening that
Speaker 4: might not be immediately visible, but they are happening. The
Speaker 4: Director and I are committed to stamping out public corruption
Speaker 4: and the political weaponization of both law enforcement and intelligence operations.
Speaker 4: It is a priority for us. But what I've learned
Speaker 4: in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations
Speaker 4: into these aforementioned matters has shocked me to my core.
Speaker 4: We cannot run a republic like this. I'll never be
Speaker 4: the same after learning what I've learned. We're going to
Speaker 4: conduct these righteous and proper investigations, by the book and
Speaker 4: in accordance with the law. We are going to get
Speaker 4: the answers we all deserve. As with any investigation, I
Speaker 4: cannot predict where it will land, but I can promise
Speaker 4: you an honest and dignified effort at the truth. Not
Speaker 4: my truth, not your truth, but the truth. God bless
Speaker 4: America and all those who defend her. Respectfully, Dan, Now,
Speaker 4: a lot of people are super excited about this, but
Speaker 4: I remain cynical.
Speaker 5: I remain jaded.
Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong. I've said it before. I would
Speaker 4: love to see powerful people purpwalked. I would love to
Speaker 4: see powerful people be tried for crimes against the United
Speaker 4: States of America, which I think some of these things
Speaker 4: have been. And I think that the or we find
Speaker 4: out and Tulca Gabbard last week was just a machine
Speaker 4: in destroying the foundation of the untouchable Obama legacy. They're
Speaker 4: really saying that they are going to dish the dirt.
Speaker 4: They're telling us that we are going to get some
Speaker 4: kind of satisfaction. And I think part of the reason
Speaker 4: that Dan Bongino put this out, and I think part
Speaker 4: of the reason that we're seeing so much conversation about
Speaker 4: not just not the Epstein files, but the conversations that
Speaker 4: we're seeing about the real root of the Russian collusion
Speaker 4: investigation and how corrupt the entire beginning and really the
Speaker 4: entire operation was. Is because all of a sudden, when
Speaker 4: they tried to just tell us that Jeffrey Epstein was
Speaker 4: a no big deal thing, the rest of us, all
Speaker 4: of us normies out here, we were like, no, it
Speaker 4: is a big thing. It's a super big thing, because
Speaker 4: it's yet another instance of the two tiered system of
Speaker 4: justice that we have in this country, where if you're
Speaker 4: rich and powerful and connected, you can do whatever you
Speaker 4: want and nobody's ever gonna hold you accountable. Mandy, I'm
Speaker 4: with you. I'll believe it when I see it. That's
Speaker 4: why I'm waiting see you know. I'm like, you know what, Becau.
Speaker 4: It's like, I'm from the state of Missouri. Show me,
Speaker 4: show me the charges, show me the trials, show me
Speaker 4: all of that. Before I get excited about any of it, Mandy,
Speaker 4: take the food for gaza, put it in packages with
Speaker 4: parachutes and drop them all over the place so citizens
Speaker 4: can get it before Hamas. The problem is is that
Speaker 4: citizens have been squashed and killed by air drops.
Speaker 5: And I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know what you do other than
Speaker 4: like attaching a bunch of whistles to the air drop
Speaker 4: to let people know. But when people are starving, they're
Speaker 4: going to rush to wherever they think they can get food.
Speaker 5: They're doing airdrops now.
Speaker 4: Air drops are an extremely ineffective way to distribute aid. Oddly,
Speaker 4: the Gazla Humanitarian Foundation has been getting aid to real people,
Speaker 4: and that's why Hamas has been shooting people at their
Speaker 4: aid distribution centers, because they're getting it done without the UN,
Speaker 4: which is already we already know the UN is corrupt
Speaker 4: in Israel.
Speaker 5: We already know that members.
Speaker 4: Of the unrah were actually helping Hamas on October seventh.
Speaker 5: That we already know this. This is not in question.
Speaker 4: And by the way that you and we'll say we
Speaker 4: fired those people, shouldn't you have charged them with a crime.
Speaker 5: Are they in jail right now for what they did?
Speaker 4: Because if they're not, then you have no standing whatsoever
Speaker 4: to say anything about anything. Mandy, how do you know
Speaker 4: any of the hostages are still alive with Israel continued
Speaker 4: to bomb them. Most of the hostages that remain are dead,
Speaker 4: and the Israelis already know this, so they're just looking
Speaker 4: to have the body's returned so they can bury them properly,
Speaker 4: and if they're well outside the window of baring them
Speaker 4: properly Forish tradition. But they just want the bodies back
Speaker 4: so the families can grieve and you know, have that finality.
Speaker 4: They are not a lot of hot Maybe there's a
Speaker 4: few that are alive, So I just I don't know
Speaker 4: how many Mandy. Legislation was passed in the late nineties
Speaker 4: that did just that. It was SB one. Its intended
Speaker 4: use was to fund a set of strategic highway projects
Speaker 4: across the state. When the Dams took over in two
Speaker 4: thousand and seven, they reversed the legislation. Of course they did,
Speaker 4: because they hate Rhodes as long as they're on them,
Speaker 4: as long as we're on them. Rather, Mandy, don't get
Speaker 4: your hopes up for prosecutions. Even if the truth gets out,
Speaker 4: there will be those who will never believe it.
Speaker 5: Still it must be exposed. I agree.
Speaker 4: There are people that you could have Barack Obama murder
Speaker 4: someone directly in front of them and they would deny it.
Speaker 4: It's a cheap fake. It's a cheap fake. But yeah,
Speaker 4: you're right, Mandy. Why should we care about Muslims that
Speaker 4: just want to kill us? Because they're human beings, because
Speaker 4: they're little babies and little children. And as much as
Speaker 4: I hate Amas, I don't want little babies and little
Speaker 4: children to starve. I mean, I would hope you don't.
Speaker 4: I am from Missouri, So show me exactly right, Missouri,
Speaker 4: I hear you. Go ahead, Dan Bongino, make it happen.
Speaker 4: Mister that maybe pipe down until you actually do that.
Speaker 10: So.
Speaker 5: John Caldera.
Speaker 4: Has a great column in the Denver Gazette today, like
Speaker 4: a great column, and it is about the fact that
Speaker 4: we are about to be asked to shell out for
Speaker 4: a new football stadium. You know it's coming, I know
Speaker 4: it's coming. And John Caldera wants us to leverage the
Speaker 4: stadium to get some real results on things that are wrong.
Speaker 4: How about safe and clean streets Denver? How about doing
Speaker 4: something significant and important with the homeless population, which, by
Speaker 4: the way, have you driven around the capitol recently, Grant
Speaker 4: at all, haven't been that way yet? Ah, the urban
Speaker 4: outdoorsmen are out in force. There's no tense visible, but boy,
Speaker 4: how do you drive through there in the middle of
Speaker 4: the day and there's no like working people there?
Speaker 5: Mandy, there are most twenty.
Speaker 4: Two hostages still alive. There you go, Grox says nineteen sixties,
Speaker 4: A word invented by Robert Heinlen, American author understanding something
Speaker 4: intuitively or by empathy.
Speaker 5: Number two.
Speaker 4: I don't understand that first part number two fixing roads
Speaker 4: more driving equals more pollution. But they'll take your money.
Speaker 4: I don't even care. I really don't care. I just
Speaker 4: want to be able to go where I want to
Speaker 4: go when I want to go there, and not hit
Speaker 4: a pothole so big that I could vacation in it.
Speaker 4: Is that so wrong? Come on, people, come on. A
Speaker 4: couple of things on the blog that I'd love for
Speaker 4: you to see. I've got a really good article on
Speaker 4: what to do if you have patchy grass. She got
Speaker 4: that going for you, Visible signs of Insulin Resistance. And
Speaker 4: my favorite, there is a reality check. A young African
Speaker 4: American woman is talking to an African American gentleman and
Speaker 4: she says, where are you Where were you born?
Speaker 5: And he said Texas And she basically says.
Speaker 4: Well, you're black, so where you feel like life? Is good.
Speaker 5: He's like, heck, yeah, I do. And then he proceeds to.
Speaker 4: Point out He's like, your hair looks great, you got
Speaker 4: a nice bag on your shoulder. Nobody's oppressing you. It
Speaker 4: was fascinating that people are starting to push back on this. Oh,
Speaker 4: I forgot to talk about this earlier. I wanted to
Speaker 4: talk about it with Rich when he was on the show.
Speaker 4: So I saw video this past weekend and it was
Speaker 4: of an African American teacher and she's standing in front
Speaker 4: of a classroom and one of the students, obviously a
Speaker 4: young woman. She's saying, my pronouns, are they them? And
Speaker 4: the teacher looks editor and goes, there's not more than
Speaker 4: one of you, and that's a plural. That's not a thing.
Speaker 4: And the girl got really agitated and she's like, my
Speaker 4: pronouns are they them? And she's like, no, you're a
Speaker 4: beautiful young lady, and you're not a multiple. There's no extras.
Speaker 4: And the girl got so flustered and upset she got
Speaker 4: up and left the classroom. And I was like, think
Speaker 4: about what we've done to this young woman. We now
Speaker 4: have given her the belief that other people give a
Speaker 4: rat's ass about her. Pronouns, and maybe they do in
Speaker 4: a high school classroom or a college classroom, but frankly,
Speaker 4: the rest of the world just doesn't care. And that's
Speaker 4: why you see people melting down because someone misgendered them
Speaker 4: or used the wrong pronown, because they're so invested in
Speaker 4: thinking everyone cares about their feelings, when in reality, mostly
Speaker 4: people don't care about your feelings. I mean, just go
Speaker 4: on the internet for five minutes and you understand right
Speaker 4: away nobody cares about your feelings. You know who cares
Speaker 4: about your feelings, your mom and dad, your best friends,
Speaker 4: but even some of your best friends may be sick
Speaker 4: of hearing about your feelings. I mean, I know all
Speaker 4: the time I'm having to tell Ryan Edwards stop sharing
Speaker 4: your feelings with me.
Speaker 5: Ryan, God, it's gross.
Speaker 4: I bet Dave put you up to that. That's okay,
Speaker 4: No he didn't. Actually, I'm Dave still on my Doodoo
Speaker 4: list for saying I cheated on of the day, I
Speaker 4: got a long memory, I got a memory like an elephant.
Speaker 10: For stuff like that, I think he just wants you
Speaker 10: to provide information and detail sourcing you.
Speaker 4: I'm not Rock, Okay, I'm not Grock. I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: give you my sources nights just gonna not have that.
Speaker 4: You were out at training camp today, I was what's
Speaker 4: the vibe there compared because the last last one I
Speaker 4: got to go to was in the Russell Wilson era
Speaker 4: and it was super loosey goosey, and there was a
Speaker 4: posse there. Russ had his whole posse. Era had a posse.
Speaker 4: Everybody had a posse. No posse's no posse. So it's
Speaker 4: really like serious football time. It's pretty serious football time.
Speaker 10: It's also a little different because there's only eight time
Speaker 10: hundred fans there versus several thousand rooms too, so it
Speaker 10: feels like training camp light in a lot of ways.
Speaker 10: But yeah, very focused, attention to detail, work on the field.
Speaker 4: And then that's good.
Speaker 5: I'm here for that. I'm fine with that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think in the end, you know, you're you're
Speaker 10: bummed if you're not gonna be able to make it
Speaker 10: out the training camp because there's fewer opportunities. At the
Speaker 10: same time, what you ultimately want is a Broncos fan
Speaker 10: is just them to be good.
Speaker 8: We'll talk about that today and now.
Speaker 4: It's time for the most exciting segment all the radio
Speaker 4: of its guy the world the nice one of the day.
Speaker 4: That was good, Ryan, that was real good. What is
Speaker 4: our dad joke of the day? Dad joke of the day.
Speaker 6: My wife said if I bought her one more stupid gift,
Speaker 6: she would burn it.
Speaker 4: So I bought her a candle. That's a good one.
Speaker 7: I like that one.
Speaker 4: Actually, it's quite good, quite good. All right.
Speaker 5: Today's word of the day, please.
Speaker 6: Word of the day fascil faci l e.
Speaker 4: I've heard this one. This is one of the words
Speaker 4: that when I eat it, I have to look it up.
Speaker 4: Doesn't it mean just like surface level, like not very deep,
Speaker 4: just kind of yeah.
Speaker 6: I would can give that to you something that is
Speaker 6: too simple. There you go, there you go?
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, today trivia question is super easy too.
Speaker 4: Pugilism is a synonym for what popular sport. If you're pugilist,
Speaker 4: what are you? Okay? I thought this was really easy,
Speaker 4: and I'm getting the perplexed look by you. Ryan.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I'm sitting out in the sun, so.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'll give you a moment then.
Speaker 4: Do you know, Brian, No, I have no idea boxing
Speaker 4: that I actually feel a little more like a man
Speaker 4: than you should feel. Right now. After that letting you.
Speaker 10: Know perspective what that means?
Speaker 4: Come on, Ryan, Ryan's always in his feelings. What are
Speaker 4: the Jeopardy categories?
Speaker 6: Jeopardy category for today? You can go with this or
Speaker 6: you can go with that. All right, you can go
Speaker 6: with this. You can go with this sunglasses company's club Master,
Speaker 6: or you can go with its Classic Aviators.
Speaker 5: Mandy, what is RayBan?
Speaker 4: Correct?
Speaker 6: You can go to Northeastern and Boston, or you can
Speaker 6: go to this directional school in Evanston, Illinois.
Speaker 5: Mandy, what is Northwestern?
Speaker 4: Correct?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 4: Nice work.
Speaker 6: You can go see Luca and King James at Crypto
Speaker 6: dot Com Arena, or you can cross town to see
Speaker 6: this other NBA team at Intoit Dome.
Speaker 8: Ryan, what are the LA Clippers? Correct?
Speaker 4: I couldn't remember if they were on the Lakers or
Speaker 4: they were on the Clippers, and I didn't want to
Speaker 4: put myself out like that.
Speaker 6: Go to Lombardi's for a New York style pizza, or
Speaker 6: drive northeast one state to Pepe's to try this New
Speaker 6: City's thin crusted style.
Speaker 5: I think I know, but I read one more time.
Speaker 8: Ryan, what is New York slice a pizza?
Speaker 4: Ain't correct?
Speaker 5: Read it again?
Speaker 6: Go to Lombardi's for a New York style pizza, or
Speaker 6: drive northeast one state to Pepe's to try this new
Speaker 6: city's thing crusted styles.
Speaker 4: I got nothing new Haven.
Speaker 6: Answer that you can climb Mount Rainier, which you can
Speaker 6: see from Seattle, or you can climb this eleven thousand
Speaker 6: footer you can see from Portland.
Speaker 5: I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 4: When he heard Ryan Noe, what is Mount Hood? Oh, Dann,
Speaker 4: I did know that too, somewhere well to to zip.
Speaker 4: I'll take it. I'll take it. What do you got
Speaker 4: on the show today? Who you got on the show today?
Speaker 4: We're gonna have you in rapport?
Speaker 10: Joining us at three thirty all sorts of sound in
Speaker 10: reaction to the first Pad's day for the Broncos.
Speaker 4: Good for Pats, Tan, what do you mean? Wait?
Speaker 7: Wait?
Speaker 4: Who got Courtland?
Speaker 5: He got paid?
Speaker 4: He got paid.
Speaker 5: That's really really good for him.
Speaker 4: Sorry, Pat, didn't mean to throw your gut your hopes
Speaker 4: up there for a second. And what did he do?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: No, No, it's uh, it's Courtland sunon the big money.
Speaker 8: Nice contracts.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'll him in a little bit about Coach Prime
Speaker 10: in you know what when I because I.
Speaker 4: Talked to my audience about the fact I'm having as
Speaker 4: directed me this Friday, and I actually referenced that we
Speaker 4: all know he's had some medical issues, but he's been
Speaker 4: kind of not open about it, and I was like,
Speaker 4: I wish you would talk about it, not the least
Speaker 4: of which because now it will inspire other men to
Speaker 4: pay attention to their health.
Speaker 5: But also there's a lot of people who are.
Speaker 4: Gonna be praying for him now and hopefully he will
Speaker 4: make a full recovery and and you know, go and
Speaker 4: live a long, happy, healthy life from here on out.
Speaker 4: But I heard that today, I heard the press conference.
Speaker 4: I was like, good for him, good for him for sharing.
Speaker 4: It's hard, but I'm glad that he's out there talking
Speaker 4: about what's going on. So hopefully we'll recover soon. We
Speaker 4: got Kaoe Sports coming up next. We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Keep it on, Koa