WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:03.279 The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock 2 00:00:03.359 --> 00:00:04.799 Accident and injury Lawyers. 3 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:12.199 No, it's Mandy Connell, Andy Dona, KOA. 4 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:21.160 Nine Am, s got way, can the Nicey's through three? 5 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:25.760 Andy Connald, Keith sad Babe? 6 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:32.399 All right, you welcome, Welcome, Welcome. I'm your host for 7 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:34.560 the next three hours, Mandy Connall. I got Grant Smith 8 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:39.119 today because Anthony Rodriguez is covering Broncos training camp and 9 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:42.479 doing all of our social media. When you follow us 10 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:46.439 at KOA, Colorado, you gotta get the inside scoop on 11 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:48.799 what's going on at training camp if you cannot make 12 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:50.679 it there yourself. Now, if you just heard the end 13 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:55.719 of Ross' show, I'm going to talk about this right now. 14 00:00:55.759 --> 00:00:58.240 But I just talked to a friend of mine, a 15 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:01.439 former police officer, and he gave me these steps to 16 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:02.159 go through to. 17 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:03.280 Remedy the situation. 18 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:06.439 So before I light up the Parker Police Department, I'm 19 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:08.280 going to give them a chance to make it right. 20 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:09.599 Let me tell you what I'm going. 21 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:14.879 What's going on, And we had and I mentioned this 22 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:18.040 in passing. I mentioned it briefly when it happened. But 23 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:21.560 I'm gonna be perfectly Honest, I was so freaked out 24 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:23.959 when it happened that I almost didn't even want to 25 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:26.799 talk about it. So here's what happened. 26 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:27.319 Here. 27 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:31.280 What happened, Grant was this, What had happened was what 28 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:33.959 happened was this. We're driving home from the airport. It's 29 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:37.840 like ten thirty at night, and Q my daughter was hungry, 30 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:40.519 and so we're like, okay, we'll stop a mcdonald's'll get 31 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:41.480 you some nuggets whatever. 32 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:44.680 So we're driving home. We get on Parker Road. 33 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:47.280 We're going south on Parker Road because we're coming off 34 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:51.799 four to seventy. We're stopped at a light, and as 35 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:54.920 we get started again, two guys on loud motorcycles go 36 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:56.280 blazing past us. 37 00:01:56.319 --> 00:01:57.280 We're in the left. 38 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:00.359 Hand lane by the median there in the center lie. 39 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:03.480 They go blazing past us with loud pipes, and my thought. 40 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:04.920 Was, look at those a holes. 41 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:09.159 I literally thought that to myself because they were so obnoxious. 42 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:11.919 The pipes were so loud and so obnoxious. Well, little 43 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:15.680 did I know how accurate my statement was, because just 44 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:17.360 a little bit down the road, we're still in a 45 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:19.159 left hand lane. We're tootling a long mind in our 46 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:23.919 own beeswax right so one of the motorcyclists comes over 47 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:25.919 into our lane. That's fine, he's a good bit ahead 48 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:28.159 of us, not a problem, nobody's you know, no harm, 49 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:32.240 no foul. And then he either stops his motorcycle or 50 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:34.159 just he didn't slam on the brakes because there was 51 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:38.560 no brake light, but he basically stops in front of us. Chuck, 52 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:41.120 in order not to just rear end. The guy whips 53 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:42.879 into the second lane. Now the guy he's riding with 54 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:45.479 has kept going, he's kept going in the second lane. 55 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:47.439 This guy has come to a you know, slowed down 56 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:50.360 in the left hand lane. Chuck goes around the motorcycle safely. 57 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:53.560 And here's the kicker about this whole story. You guys, 58 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:57.719 My husband rode a motorcycle as his only form of 59 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:05.599 transportation for years years. He is so respectful of motorcycle riders. 60 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:08.680 He never crowds them. He always makes sure that he's 61 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:11.159 you know, giving him plenty of space. He is one 62 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:14.800 of those drivers that motorcycle drivers should be grateful for. 63 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:17.159 He's the guy looking. 64 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:20.680 Out for you on two wheels, right, unlike me, who 65 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:23.759 you know, half the time ind on cea motorcyclist anyway, 66 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:27.919 that's a story for another moment. So Chuck goes around 67 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:30.080 the bike safely gets back in the left hand lane. 68 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:32.879 Here comes the guy who had basically stopped in front 69 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:36.439 of us, whips around us, stops his bike in front 70 00:03:36.439 --> 00:03:38.680 of us, and gets off his. 71 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:40.639 Motorcycle and starts walking up to Chuck's store. 72 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:43.599 Now at this point, motorcycle number two that had kept 73 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:46.639 going also stops on the right hand side of us. 74 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:50.280 But when this guy's walking towards Chuck's window, Chuck's like, 75 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:51.800 I won't tell you what he said, because it's an 76 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:55.400 FCC violation. He said, blank, this hit the gas, goes 77 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:57.280 around the first motorcycle in front of us, and in 78 00:03:57.319 --> 00:04:00.960 the process nicks the other motorcycle. And when I say nix, 79 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:04.599 I mean nick's the tire kind of thing. No major damage, 80 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:06.879 didn't run over the frame, none of that stuff. 81 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:07.840 The guy rode off. 82 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:11.599 We know that because as we rode off, guy number one, 83 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:13.879 who's already gotten off his bike, hops back on his bike. 84 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:17.720 Now he's chasing us. Now, as you can imagine, this 85 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:22.800 was all very confusing, very confusing, because we're just mining 86 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:26.439 our own business, just mining our own beeswax. Going down 87 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:28.560 the road ten thirty at night coming home from the airport. 88 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:32.920 So we then call nine one one. We get transferred 89 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:36.120 to the PARKERPD. We are talking to the park REPD 90 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:38.519 as we're driving around and the guy on the motorcycle 91 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:41.600 is following us. So we drive into the Parker Police 92 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:45.160 Department parking lot, where there is not a soul to 93 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:48.120 be seeing. There's like no sign of life at a 94 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:50.120 Parker police I remember on the phone in nine one one, 95 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:53.279 she's like, okay, just stop in the parking lot. We stop, 96 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:55.879 the guy and the motorcycle stops in the back. Cop 97 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:58.439 comes out talks to us. We tell him everything that happened, 98 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:01.319 and I genuinely I was like, I have no idea 99 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:05.759 why this happened. It was so baffling and honestly really 100 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:10.800 really scary. So today, on the way of the office, 101 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:15.759 I get a copy of the police report and do 102 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:20.000 you think it says any of that? No, it does not. 103 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:25.199 They obviously talked to the other guys, didn't ask them 104 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:27.800 any questions like hey, why did you why did you 105 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:30.319 come to a complete stop in the middle of Parker Row, 106 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:32.399 Why did you do that? None of that is in. 107 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:34.079 The police report. None of it. 108 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:37.720 And to top things off, it doesn't make any physical sense. 109 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:42.120 The way they wrote it, it makes absolutely no like 110 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:47.639 physics don't explain how this police report is written. I 111 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:52.079 didn't realize that you could just leave off another version 112 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:52.639 of events. 113 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:54.279 I didn't realize that you. 114 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:56.120 Could just say to one person, the person who called 115 00:05:56.199 --> 00:05:58.560 nine one one and said, hey, this is a huge problem. Hey, 116 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:02.560 your version of events doesn't matter. I am livid for 117 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:06.839 so many reasons. Number one, I don't like it when 118 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:12.399 people lie. And these guys lied. They absolutely lied, and 119 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:17.800 instead of asking any questions that would show any intellectual curiosity, 120 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:21.279 the policeman just wrote down their version of events. Now 121 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:23.319 I realized this is a he said, she said, I 122 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:26.680 get it, or he said he said whatever. I understand 123 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:28.360 that part of it, I really really do. 124 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:29.279 But when the. 125 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:35.240 Other he said doesn't make any sense. In this report, 126 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:38.680 it says that in order to go around another motorcycle, 127 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:42.519 Chuck came into the other lane and clipped the motorcycle. 128 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:45.839 And it says we were going five miles an hour. Now, 129 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:49.639 we're on Parker Road at ten thirty at night on Monday. 130 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:53.920 Why would we be going five miles an hour when 131 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:57.759 we hit the other motorcycle unless we were stopped in 132 00:06:57.839 --> 00:07:02.399 the middle of the road by the other bar. It 133 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:07.639 So I just talked to a friend of mine who 134 00:07:07.720 --> 00:07:10.519 is a law enforcement person, and he gave me a 135 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:15.160 list of things to do. But this deeply offends me. 136 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:17.079 I realize people lie all the time. 137 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:17.560 I get it. 138 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:19.639 People lie to get out of whatever they did. People 139 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:22.040 lie because they don't want to have, you know, whatever 140 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:23.079 their situation is. 141 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:24.839 I don't I don't care why you lied. 142 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:28.680 But you lied about me, and you lied about something 143 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:33.199 that happened with me, and that doesn't fly you, guys, 144 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:34.959 I hope you've listened to this show long enough to 145 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:38.839 know that I do my absolute best. 146 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:41.240 To tell you the truth all the time. 147 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:44.920 You know why, because the truth is easy. The truth 148 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:46.879 is so much easier than a lie, because a lie 149 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:49.399 you constantly have to remember what did I say, how 150 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:50.160 did I present that? 151 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:51.959 What details do I need to make up? 152 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:56.800 Now? The truth is simple. The truth is really really 153 00:07:56.920 --> 00:08:00.240 easy to remember. And if I do get something wrong 154 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:01.759 that I thought was the truth and then it turns 155 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:04.319 out not to be the truth, I have apologized more 156 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:08.800 times on this radio show did I think, probably maybe 157 00:08:08.839 --> 00:08:11.800 any other host in the history of talk radio. Because 158 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:14.360 talk radio is full of people whose egos are such 159 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:16.759 that they cannot apologize. I am not one of those people. 160 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:21.879 So when somebody lies about me and mine. 161 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:19.720 I. 162 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:21.879 Can't even. 163 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:28.040 I just I can't even. It's infuriating, absolutely, Mandy. You 164 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:31.759 need a dashcam? Oh yeah, oh yeah, to this point, Mandy, 165 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:33.600 I keep a nine millimeter in my truck for just 166 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:38.679 such an occasion, just in case. Except with the likelihood 167 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:41.559 of having your car broken into or stolen from Denver 168 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:45.200 International Airport, we never carry a firearm when we go 169 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:48.679 to and from the airport. We just don't do it. 170 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:52.080 I know people who have personally had firearms stolen out 171 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:56.039 of their vehicles at the airport, two of them specifically, 172 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:58.759 And I'm just not doing it. I mean, I am 173 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:06.320 just not doing it. I am super, super, super angry, Mandy. 174 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:08.879 Were they cruisers like Harley's or were they crowd rockets? 175 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:11.519 One was a Harley, one was a crowd rocket and 176 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:13.799 not even a small Crossraul like a pretty big They 177 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:17.080 were both big size bikes and loud as hell. 178 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:19.080 Yeah. 179 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:24.240 Anyway, So that's why I am irrationally angry right now. 180 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:26.519 And I realize I'm irrationally angry. I just told Chuck 181 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:27.759 I was like, I don't know if I can talk 182 00:09:27.759 --> 00:09:30.240 about this and not drop an F bomb on the air. 183 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:31.960 That's how angry I was. 184 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:37.159 Anyway, sounds like to me, you did more than likely 185 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:39.320 cut them off somehow, or at least in their eyes, 186 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:39.919 you did. 187 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:42.279 That took them off pretty bad, did geesh? 188 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:46.000 I would love to know. I would love to know 189 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:49.759 what they think we did. And I'm being so genuine. 190 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:52.480 I even asked the cop did they tell us why 191 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:54.879 they stopped in front of the road? Did they tell 192 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:57.320 us why you did that? And he's like, oh, yeah, 193 00:09:57.320 --> 00:10:00.000 they didn't mention that. Oh okay, I guess I wouldn't 194 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:02.559 either if I were trying to spin a version of 195 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:05.679 events that sounded plausible to the police so they could 196 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:09.200 just file their dumbass, stupid wrong report and walk away. 197 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:16.720 So mad, so mad, Mandy, I swear I saw the 198 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:19.639 same guys also after being out towards Parker coming back 199 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:22.000 north on I twenty five, I was going eighty and 200 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:24.240 they blazed past me going probably one hundred miles per 201 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:26.840 hour about a week ago. Unfortunately, this is just common 202 00:10:27.480 --> 00:10:31.159 with motorcycles. I just I don't know. 203 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:33.519 And yes, the dash. 204 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:40.039 Cam incident, Yes, yes, indeed, but man, I anyway, let's 205 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:42.559 do the blog grant. Let's move on. Let's move on. 206 00:10:42.919 --> 00:10:46.559 I am physically hot right now. You know they say, boy, 207 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:48.639 you're really hot under the collar. I am hot under 208 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:54.039 the collar and I don't even have a collar on. Eh. 209 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:59.840 Super super mad about this sucking message by Parker P. 210 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:02.759 Your daughter, who's learning how to correctly handle this situation. 211 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:04.200 You know, that was one of the things that. 212 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:06.799 I told Chuck. I was glad that Q was with 213 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:10.919 us because she's just starting to drive, and she now 214 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:14.679 saw like, Okay, when something happens, you drive to the 215 00:11:14.679 --> 00:11:17.080 police station, you call nine one one. This is what 216 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:21.080 you do. And we did all the right things, and 217 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:27.159 now I get this garbage police report. Super super super 218 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:34.000 mad anyway, So that is, uh, that's why I'm mad. 219 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:36.159 But I'm okay, wait, let's just all together now. Let's 220 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:38.879 maybe you're having a bad day too. Let's just all together. 221 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:39.000 Now. 222 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:43.799 We're going to ent through the nose, out through the mouth, in, 223 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:48.080 through the nose, out through the mouth. Let me talk 224 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:50.000 about something that I don't have on the blog because 225 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:51.519 I just heard it on the way in. I want 226 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:53.399 to talk about coach Prime. And then we'll do the blog. 227 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:58.080 You guys, I am so glad that Dion Sanders came 228 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:01.320 out to talk about his medical issues. When I decided 229 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:03.679 to talk about my hysterectomy, which is nothing compared to 230 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:06.799 all the stuff he's going through, I actually referenced him 231 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:09.679 in that conversation of like, you know what, I think 232 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:12.399 sometimes people are afraid to talk about what they're going through. 233 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:14.480 But in my case, like I'm going to say a 234 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:17.559 little prayer for Coach Prime that he has continued healing 235 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:21.440 and that his issues continue to get better and that 236 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:24.720 he doesn't always have to be uncomfortable with a new bladder. 237 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:27.000 I mean, there's a lot of things to pray for, 238 00:12:27.559 --> 00:12:29.440 and I'll be praying for him, but I just want 239 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:32.200 to say hats off to Coach Dion Prime for coming 240 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:36.679 out and talking about his medical issues, because I'm telling you, 241 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:40.039 it is going to inspire some guy who maybe has 242 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:43.279 had some weird things going on that he can't really explain, 243 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:45.039 but he's been writing him off to this or that 244 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:47.960 to go ahead and get to the doctor and get 245 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:48.679 tested and. 246 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:49.759 Find out what's wrong with him. 247 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:53.600 Because I think it's very important for people to understand 248 00:12:53.720 --> 00:12:58.919 that when your body has an issue. It's not a 249 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:03.000 personal failing. Yeah, there are lifestyle diseases that you can, 250 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:05.600 you know, work on and eat better and exercise to 251 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:09.320 take care of. But it's not a personal failing. When 252 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:14.399 your body fails in a certain way, It really really isn't. 253 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:18.440 So yeah, we are going to have to figure this 254 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:23.440 out anyway. I will tell you, Mandy, before you get crazy. 255 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:24.919 Or I'd like to wish you good luck on Friday. Well, 256 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:27.120 don't wish me good luck on Friday. Wish my surgeon's 257 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:32.799 good luck on Friday. There you go, There you go, Mandy, 258 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:33.600 Bell and Pollock. 259 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:34.240 I don't know. 260 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:37.480 I don't want to sue anybody. I just want the 261 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:42.759 record to reflect what actually happened. I don't have any 262 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:46.360 intention of trying to sue these people. I just wanted 263 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:49.360 to be on the record as correctly. You know they 264 00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:51.639 always say history is written by the winners. Well, I 265 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:55.360 guess this is they're the winners here. Okay, let's do 266 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:57.759 the blog grant. Let's make that happen. Let's find the 267 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:03.279 blog by going to Mandy's blot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. 268 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:05.360 Look for the headline that says seven twenty eight to 269 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:09.480 twenty five blog imagine using road money for roads. Click 270 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:11.840 on that and here are the headlines you will find within. 271 00:14:12.039 --> 00:14:14.039 I didn't be with someone whom office South America all. 272 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:16.039 With ships and clipment of sea that's going to press. 273 00:14:15.720 --> 00:14:20.600 Plant today On the blog shouldn't road money go for roads? 274 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:24.480 Support Rich Googaem's new book? Please? What exactly is in 275 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:29.000 Denver's bond proposal? Remember when Denver jacked up the minimum wage? 276 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:34.240 Scrolling Trump is winning at trade deals, Scrolling luxury brands 277 00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:37.360 love the new deal. Paulis doesn't care how high our 278 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:38.399 energy costs go. 279 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:40.559 You really need to watch this show. 280 00:14:40.919 --> 00:14:44.440 Amazing what immigration enforcement does to crime rates. Want a 281 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:49.120 new stadium? Fix things first? Israeli say Israel is committing genocide. 282 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:53.039 Scrolling the u OAP shoot Bucky's could be a huge 283 00:14:53.159 --> 00:14:57.360 boon for Palmer Lake doing some hiking in Colorado. Hey, 284 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:01.440 lumineers fans, it's fair and rodeo time time will powerful 285 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:05.279 people actually be indicted? Want to see Europe on foot? 286 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:09.879 Patchy grass problem, visible signs of insulin resistance. The new 287 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:14.840 spinal tap trailer is out, and America is great. Those 288 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:19.120 are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Now, 289 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:21.000 I got a couple videos on the blog that you 290 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:28.000 should see, including a very good trailer for Spinal Tap two. Grant, 291 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:30.840 do you have any movies from your youth that you 292 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:33.759 have an especially warm, fuzzy feeling for that when they 293 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:36.440 come on, you will for sure watch them and you 294 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:39.120 know every word and you've seen them a billion times. 295 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:43.440 Anchorman for me at Spinal Tap, turn it up to eleven. 296 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:45.320 I am going to turn these speakers up to eleven. 297 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:50.399 And when I heard they were doing a second one, 298 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:53.960 I am not going to lie when I say I 299 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:58.799 had a great deal of trepidation, extreme amounts of trepidation. 300 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:02.360 And the trailer. 301 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:07.879 Seems to be very consistent with the vibe of the 302 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:12.279 first one, So I'm kind of excited. I'm cautiously optimistic 303 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:21.080 about it now, just cautiously optimistic. We shall see. 304 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:22.720 We also have a. 305 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:25.679 Couple of videos just just random things when a Rod's 306 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:27.600 not working with me. I don't have as many as 307 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:30.639 many videos on the blog, but I do have an 308 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:32.960 excellent show that you should be watching on YouTube. I'm 309 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:35.759 gonna let you go to the blog and find that out. Now, 310 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:38.600 I've got a couple guests coming on today. One at 311 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:41.720 two fifteen, Dustin Devonic is coming on to talk about 312 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:45.240 two ballot initiatives. And this is so insane to me 313 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:50.039 that we have to have a ballot initiative that would 314 00:16:50.120 --> 00:16:57.399 require our legislature to use transportation money on roads. I mean, 315 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:01.879 you would think that dollar that are being taken out 316 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:06.920 of us in the form of taxes and fees, you 317 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:10.559 would think that those transportation related dollars would then go 318 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:14.400 to fixing roads and fixing bridges, and God forbid, we 319 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:20.200 fix some potholes, shall we please? Little just any anyone, anyone? 320 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:24.319 And yet so much of that money is diverted by 321 00:17:24.400 --> 00:17:28.359 the current administration, by s DOT, by other agencies into 322 00:17:28.920 --> 00:17:34.559 different sorts of projects that nobody wants. And why don't 323 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:41.039 they want them? They don't want them because of climate change. 324 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:44.079 I have come to believe, and I believe this very firmly. 325 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:46.440 I no longer feel like it's a speculation, because I 326 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:49.039 can now give you so many pieces of evidence that 327 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:52.400 show that this is not a bug. It is a feature. 328 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:57.559 They are trying to make driving so miserable that you 329 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:00.559 will beg to get out of your car onto form 330 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:05.079 of inefficient and time consuming mass transit that no one 331 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:08.720 is riding right now. So what they're doing is they're like, well, 332 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:11.440 we built the dang trains. Have you seen, Grant. Have 333 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:13.039 you seen the train that goes all the way down 334 00:18:13.079 --> 00:18:16.640 to RidgeGate. No, it has two cars on it. It 335 00:18:16.680 --> 00:18:19.559 looks like the little trolley in mister Rogers neighborhood that 336 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:24.200 went to the land of make believe. No, there's no need. 337 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:28.839 There's absolutely no need. Sometimes it's just one car. I 338 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:29.799 mean you guys. 339 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:33.079 So they're like, Okay, we built this damn train, Now. 340 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:33.839 We got to get people on it. 341 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:34.920 How can we get people. 342 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:37.240 In It will make it so miserable to drive that 343 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:38.640 they will beg to get on the train. 344 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:40.559 Except it's not working. 345 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:44.799 And we just want to be able to drive our 346 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:48.519 cars from point A to point B in an efficient fashion. 347 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:52.559 We don't have that. Now. When I get in my 348 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:56.240 car in my house to drive to let's just say, 349 00:18:56.400 --> 00:18:58.359 to go to a baseball game, that's a great example. 350 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:02.599 I can drive from my house to the baseball stadium, 351 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:07.480 park my car and be walking to the field in 352 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:10.359 forty five minutes. Do you how long it takes on 353 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:14.119 the train an hour and twenty How is that going 354 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:18.200 to be efficient and work for anyone. But instead of going, Okay, 355 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:20.359 we may have failed here and we need to figure 356 00:19:20.359 --> 00:19:22.480 out a better way to do this, they're like, we 357 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:24.920 know what we'll do. We'll just make them suffer until 358 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:29.400 they take that train. I'm not buying it. Dustin's Devonik 359 00:19:29.559 --> 00:19:32.839 joins us at two fifteen to talk about ballot initiatives 360 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:36.480 that would require transportation money to actually go for the 361 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:39.079 transportation that we want, and I'm here for it. We'll 362 00:19:39.079 --> 00:19:41.480 do that, and when we get back, we're going to 363 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:45.079 talk about Denver's bond proposal. So much of this stuff 364 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:48.200 seems like stuff this should already be funded in a 365 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:53.079 regular budget situation. I'll explain after this my blood pressure 366 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:56.079 which I forgot to put my fitbit back on us, 367 00:19:56.079 --> 00:19:57.799 so I went to check my blood pressure was like, dang, 368 00:19:57.839 --> 00:19:59.240 it is back. 369 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:04.079 To normal anyway, calming, We're calming. 370 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:05.119 You know. 371 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:08.039 It's a very interesting thing happening in Denver right now, 372 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:13.880 as the mayor is asking Denver Rights to sign on 373 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:18.079 for another bond project. Now, asking voters for permission to 374 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:22.400 take on a bond seems so innocuous, right, It's like, oh, 375 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:25.920 it's a bond and it'll be paid back over years 376 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:30.000 with tax seats and everything. And a lot of times 377 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:32.160 it's made is like, hey, no, big whoop, you know, 378 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:34.359 we got this. It's going to be great, except you're 379 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:37.599 still putting the taxpayers on the hook. And if there's 380 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:41.200 a severe downturn in the economy, that debt still has 381 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:44.960 to be serviced before everything else happens. So taking on 382 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:46.920 more debt is not something that we should do lightly. 383 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:49.799 We just shouldn't. And I think you have to make 384 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:52.960 a pretty compelling case if you're asking voters to take 385 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:57.440 on more debt. Well, Mayor Mike Johnston is proposing a 386 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:02.400 nine hundred and thirty five million dollar bond package, and 387 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:06.200 the mayor, and I'm reading from the Denver Gazette, the 388 00:21:06.200 --> 00:21:11.039 mayor argues that it's necessary spending as Denver faces what 389 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:16.079 he described as a turning point. He wants to use 390 00:21:16.119 --> 00:21:20.240 the money to fund roughly sixty projects, ranging from new 391 00:21:20.279 --> 00:21:24.880 facilities to parks improvements to housing. Now there's a huge 392 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:27.680 list that you can go and you can inspect. It 393 00:21:27.720 --> 00:21:30.119 was put together by a group I think I'm pretty 394 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:34.240 sure of volunteers and they were given a list of 395 00:21:34.359 --> 00:21:38.640 I don't even know how many projects that people wanted 396 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:41.279 to have addressed by this bond, and then they had 397 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:43.400 to narrow it down because some of these some of 398 00:21:43.440 --> 00:21:47.160 these things are really really expensive. Now, I'm going to 399 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:52.279 make the argument first that the mayor has not demonstrated 400 00:21:53.160 --> 00:22:00.000 good fiscal responsibility. He has blown through so much money 401 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:04.400