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Speaker 5: And it is my favorite, No, my favorite.
Speaker 4: That's the sad and Dying airhorn.
Speaker 5: That's what sad nor dying.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, Wednesday, this is going to be a big day.
Speaker 4: I have completed my call list of people that I
Speaker 4: know on the western coast of Florida. I have ensured
Speaker 4: that they have all evacuated. So I am feeling pretty
Speaker 4: good about things today because Hurricane Milton.
Speaker 5: You hat no honkerers in this No, these are not
Speaker 5: stupid people. Exactly.
Speaker 4: Several of them are in Our former co worker, Hassena.
Speaker 4: You're Seena is in Sarasota, and I started on.
Speaker 5: Her like three days ago, like you got to get out,
Speaker 5: you got to get out.
Speaker 4: And what's funny is I have a lot of friends
Speaker 4: on the east coast of Florida. They are more concerned,
Speaker 4: earned and more prepared than the people on the west coast.
Speaker 4: It's kind of crazy, but I talked to my last
Speaker 4: friend that I was worried about today. She lives in
Speaker 4: an old cracker house, like an old wood frame house,
Speaker 4: and I was like, you cannot stay there, even though
Speaker 4: that house has lived through so many storms because it's
Speaker 4: one hundred years old. So just talk to her. She's
Speaker 4: out of it. We're all good now. The saddest part
Speaker 4: about Hurricane Milton. And we have weather Wednesday coming up
Speaker 4: today and I'm sure we're going to talk about this
Speaker 4: a little bit with Dave Frasier is that the people
Speaker 4: that are left behind are the people that cannot afford
Speaker 4: to leave. And that is the sad truth about all
Speaker 4: of this.
Speaker 5: And I do have.
Speaker 4: Friends that have, you know, gotten these water barriers that
Speaker 4: are there.
Speaker 5: They're kind of cool.
Speaker 4: I'm interested to see.
Speaker 5: How they work.
Speaker 4: Tampa General the big hospital in Tampa, it's it's their
Speaker 4: U See Health. Tampa General is the big hospital there.
Speaker 4: They used these in Hurricane Helene and kept the floodwaters back.
Speaker 4: Now they use much bigger ones because they're right near
Speaker 4: the bay. But now this is these are now being
Speaker 4: sold like hotcakes and people are you basically wrap your
Speaker 4: whole house with like a little wall to keep the
Speaker 4: water out. I'm interested to see how well it works.
Speaker 4: But this is going to be a horrible storm. And
Speaker 4: as I keep telling because a lot of my friends
Speaker 4: who live on the West coast of Florida all transplants.
Speaker 4: They just moved there, and I keep telling them like, yeah,
Speaker 4: you may make it through the storm, but you don't want.
Speaker 5: To be there through the aftermath.
Speaker 4: One of my friends in Fort Myers is she evacuated
Speaker 4: because she stayed in her house through Ian and swore
Speaker 4: to God, she would never do that again. And she
Speaker 4: has her ring doorbell camera on so she can find
Speaker 4: out when the power goes out. Her power in Fort
Speaker 4: Myers has already gone out three times today and the
Speaker 4: storm hasn't even hit yet. So it's a nasty, nasty hurricane.
Speaker 4: It is going to be extremely destructive. And if you
Speaker 4: know anybody on the west coast of Florida, pray for them.
Speaker 4: Hope they already got out, but we will find out
Speaker 4: what is uh who's going to get hit. The thing
Speaker 4: I'm worried about is everybody's talking about Tampa and Sarasota.
Speaker 4: But hurricanes are notoriously finicky and they can turn it
Speaker 4: any as a matter of fact. And I'm gonna do
Speaker 4: the blog in just a second, so just hang tight
Speaker 4: for a second. Chuck and I were watching the Weather
Speaker 4: Channel yesterday, and we were watching the Weather Channel because
Speaker 4: we have so many people that are going to be
Speaker 4: in this storm in all up and down the coast
Speaker 4: of Florida.
Speaker 5: Inside Florida.
Speaker 4: It's supposed to be a category two when it hits Orlando,
Speaker 4: which is huge. And Ron de Santis was on the
Speaker 4: Weather Channel, Governor Ronda Santis and all I kept thinking
Speaker 4: the whole time he's talking, why isn't this guy the candidate?
Speaker 4: Why why was I not allowed to vote for Ronda
Speaker 4: Santis by the time it got to Colorado, Why isn't this.
Speaker 5: Guy the candidate?
Speaker 4: Because he's talking, I mean, you should hear his command
Speaker 4: of what's happening in Florida Right now, they have masked
Speaker 4: more line workers because what happens before a storm. This
Speaker 4: is so interesting to me. Maybe it's I mean, if
Speaker 4: it's not interesting to you guys, sorry, but I find
Speaker 4: this fascinating. They figure out where they can mass all
Speaker 4: of the line trucks from the electric companies. They bring
Speaker 4: in electric companies from all over the country and they
Speaker 4: stage them in an area that is not supposed to
Speaker 4: be hit by the hurricane. So as soon as it
Speaker 4: is safe, they are deploying all of these trucks to
Speaker 4: go to the hurricane areas well. Ron Desanta's is already
Speaker 4: called up the National Guard. So not only do they
Speaker 4: have all the line trucks stage you're ready to go,
Speaker 4: they have National Guard ready to go, ready to roll
Speaker 4: into these areas. Because one of the big frustrations for
Speaker 4: the people that go through these storms is that after
Speaker 4: the storm. A lot of the time they are not
Speaker 4: allowed to go back to their homes because there are
Speaker 4: power lines all over the road. Some of them are active,
Speaker 4: some of them are not. There's trees and debris and
Speaker 4: it's just an absolute mess. And people get really mad.
Speaker 4: And I understand it. You want to see if your
Speaker 4: house is still there, right, you want to see the
Speaker 4: damage that was done to your property. But it creates
Speaker 4: this huge, just just group where they don't want to
Speaker 4: ever leave their homes again. So they they've already staged
Speaker 4: the National Guard up in the not totally in the panandle,
Speaker 4: but really kind of up in the in the curvy
Speaker 4: part of the of this I call it the armpit
Speaker 4: of the state. It was just really hit by Helen.
Speaker 4: So they've just got the power back on and Helene
Speaker 4: and now they're all stage.
Speaker 5: You're ready to go.
Speaker 4: So they're going to roll in the National Guard to
Speaker 4: clear the roads, to make sure the power lines are
Speaker 4: out of the way and dead, and so people can
Speaker 4: go back to their houses past or if their houses
Speaker 4: are still there. There are a couple of barrier islands
Speaker 4: long Boat Key, which is one of my favorite places
Speaker 4: in Florida. If this storm is a Category four or higher.
Speaker 4: I don't see how long Boat Key survives. It's just
Speaker 4: this is a really, really really scary storm. And like
Speaker 4: I said yesterday, if you were the prayerful sort, today's
Speaker 4: a great day to pray.
Speaker 5: Pray for the people of Florida.
Speaker 4: By the way, were you here yesterday when we were
Speaker 4: talking about the guy on.
Speaker 5: His boat that was going to ride it out.
Speaker 7: Yes, he's not. He's not. No, Apparently, as Lieutenant Dan.
Speaker 4: Showed up and said, don't be an idiot, because now
Speaker 4: in Florida, here's what they do. They go on TV
Speaker 4: and say, hey, if you're gonna stay, if you're going
Speaker 4: to write it out, do as a solid write your
Speaker 4: name and your next of ken on your leg in
Speaker 4: black magic marker, permanent marker, so we can identify your
Speaker 4: next of ken when we find your body. So they're
Speaker 4: on the full on scare tactics because people are in
Speaker 4: this it's just going to be really, really, really bad.
Speaker 4: And we're still recovering in North Carolina. I mean they
Speaker 4: they're still finding dead people in North Carolina from Helene.
Speaker 5: This is just a giant mess.
Speaker 4: And I've never and I just told my friend lindsay
Speaker 4: this on the phone, I said, Lindsay, I've never been
Speaker 4: more grateful that I don't live in my home state
Speaker 4: than right now, because you know what today is. Today
Speaker 4: is all day waiting, just waiting and waiting and watching
Speaker 4: the weather channel and listening to the radio and try
Speaker 4: it and just waiting.
Speaker 5: And it is agony. It's terrible. It's horrible, absolutely horrible.
Speaker 5: Is it still hitting tonight or is it going more
Speaker 5: into the morning late.
Speaker 4: I don't know right now, but they're already having hurricane
Speaker 4: force winds across southwest Florida. In the leading edge of
Speaker 4: the story, oh, there's apparently there was a giant super
Speaker 4: cell tornado in Cluiston, which is in the bottom center
Speaker 4: of the state. Luckily no one lives in Cluiston. It's
Speaker 4: kind of a it's not a nice place. Cluiston is
Speaker 4: kind of a I'm trying to think of how to
Speaker 4: say the word craphole on the radio without you know
Speaker 4: what I'm sayings, Cluiston is not nice. It's not nice
Speaker 4: at all. That being said, yeah, it's spawning all kinds
Speaker 4: of tornadoes. It's just got a lot of weather happening.
Speaker 4: So say a prayer for your friends in Florida. Hopefully
Speaker 4: this will not be as bad as they think it's
Speaker 4: going to be and it will lessen or whatever.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: We'll talk to our chief meteorologist from Fox thirty one day,
Speaker 4: Fraser about it. Obviously he's not predicting the weather for Florida,
Speaker 4: but I'm guessing every meteorologist is watching this storm because
Speaker 4: it has done something that no other hurricane on unmeasurable record.
Speaker 5: We have to be clear about that.
Speaker 4: It dropped below nine hundred millibars, which is not ever
Speaker 4: been measured before. It's not to say a hurricane has
Speaker 4: never dropped that low and been that powerful, but in
Speaker 4: the modern era of measurements, that is the first time
Speaker 4: that's ever happened. So obviously it's on my mind today,
Speaker 4: and I'm sorry if you guys don't care, but it's
Speaker 4: a really big deal and people I love and care
Speaker 4: about are in the way of this storm. So you're
Speaker 4: just gonna have to indulge me for just a few minutes.
Speaker 4: So I appreciate that. Mandy. I'm in complete agreement with you.
Speaker 4: If only we could have had DeSantis as our nominee,
Speaker 4: this election would be a walk in the park for him.
Speaker 5: Yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 4: Mandy Desanta's press conference was on Fox this morning. He
Speaker 4: was simply amazing what they have put in place, collaborative
Speaker 4: work with clean up crews, hotels, uber, et cetera.
Speaker 5: If anyone wants.
Speaker 4: To watch what true leadership looks like, I highly recommend
Speaker 4: watching it. Oh that's the other part about this. There
Speaker 4: are huge, huge piles of debris on the side of
Speaker 4: the road from Helene that have not been picked up,
Speaker 4: and so Desanta rallied state assets. It is not the
Speaker 4: state's responsibility to clean up hurricane debris. It is the
Speaker 4: city that you live in. They contract with companies to
Speaker 4: do this, and the state said, you're not getting done.
Speaker 4: We're going to come in and pick up as much
Speaker 4: as we can because that stuff just becomes a missile
Speaker 4: after in a storm like that. So it's just what
Speaker 4: an absolute mess this entire thing is. So uh oh,
Speaker 4: here's one DeSantis isn't the candidate because he has beta
Speaker 4: body language that he desperately needs to work on. If
Speaker 4: you're not voting for someone with a track record like
Speaker 4: Ronda Santis because you think he has beta body language,
Speaker 4: please don't vote. I mean, just don't. Just save your
Speaker 4: vote because you're making decisions based on dumb stuff. Anyway,
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Speaker 5: And you got to check out some of the videos.
Speaker 4: I want one of these slingshot reels I want, Okay,
Speaker 4: so okay, if you fish, and I'm not talking about
Speaker 4: fly fishing, because that's a whole different set of circumstances here.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about if you if you use a regular
Speaker 4: big cast or a reel. There's a video on the
Speaker 4: blog today. Have a guy and he's got it. First,
Speaker 4: it's you can't tell what he's doing. First, you know
Speaker 4: that he's pulling back something on a slingshot, right, you
Speaker 4: can tell that he's pulling back something on a slingshot,
Speaker 4: he lets it fly, and then you realize he has
Speaker 4: a fishing reel attached to the other wrist and he
Speaker 4: is using the slingshot to to cast from the shore.
Speaker 4: But cast it. I mean, how far do you think
Speaker 4: that thing went? A rod? It went like one hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty yards at least at least at least and
Speaker 4: I was like, dude, I want that now. It's all
Speaker 4: the video is in the context of another guy who
Speaker 4: I really enjoy his work, sort of commenting on it.
Speaker 4: But how even if you don't fish, you're gonna want.
Speaker 5: This the follow up?
Speaker 7: Does he have something automatically to really quickly reel it
Speaker 7: back game?
Speaker 5: Otherwise you are no.
Speaker 4: I mean, fishing is reeling. I mean that's your reeling.
Speaker 4: And you how far that went?
Speaker 6: How long is it.
Speaker 5: Going to be kept on?
Speaker 4: When you're trolling, when you're when you're out on the
Speaker 4: ocean and you're trolling and you're fishing. Some of those
Speaker 4: trolling lines are out two hundred yards. Some of them
Speaker 4: are close to the boat.
Speaker 5: But there's trolling.
Speaker 4: Lines, and you have to reel and reel and real
Speaker 4: and real that you got to set the hook.
Speaker 5: Do you fish at all?
Speaker 4: Have you ever like, of course, okay, so you got
Speaker 4: to set the hook.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but even then hook set, that's a long time.
Speaker 5: Long time that thing stays on. Doesn't pull off the hook.
Speaker 4: Or the hook, right, you'll be now breaking the line.
Speaker 4: Other thing seem to have a leader on it. There
Speaker 4: was no leader on the thing that I saw.
Speaker 5: Do I fish.
Speaker 4: I just spent a long time.
Speaker 5: It's been a long time. We still have the kid
Speaker 5: now never hunt fish. I'm looking he's got I'm looking. Oh,
Speaker 5: come on, I'm looking to see if there's a leader
Speaker 5: on this thing. I can't tell. It goes too fast, but.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's just got the reel on his wrist. And
Speaker 4: I think it's like a Zepco reel or something. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's not a fancy reel. No, just like we're trying
Speaker 4: to give little kids.
Speaker 7: When you can't realize what's happening, you're like, oh, that's cool.
Speaker 7: It's very very because he's just being a menace. No,
Speaker 7: he's doing something really cool.
Speaker 5: Damn.
Speaker 4: All right, So let's talk about some stuff. We've got
Speaker 4: Dave Frasier coming on at twelve thirty to talk about weather.
Speaker 4: So if you have any weather questions, then you need
Speaker 4: to get them ready. Obviously, we're going to talk about
Speaker 4: this storm a little bit, but we're also going to
Speaker 4: talk about our weather, which I must say, I know
Speaker 4: it's above normal, but I am enjoying the heck out
Speaker 4: of this weather. It's too hot for you. You want
Speaker 4: sweater weather, where's my fall?
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm forcing it. I'm wearing sweaters. I'm done
Speaker 5: with it. I'm just forcing it.
Speaker 7: Like if I walk out of here and it's eighty
Speaker 7: eighty five, I'll take off the sweater by yah, absolutely
Speaker 7: need to. But uh, it's sweater weather for me now,
Speaker 7: So I don't care. Yeah, what the hell?
Speaker 4: Yeah it's it's a little but I am actually enjoying it.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 7: I will ask if it wants to remain this hot,
Speaker 7: can it at least hold on then for two more
Speaker 7: weeks so I have a pretty warm like Halloween Halloween season.
Speaker 4: I don't think there's much a near term that is
Speaker 4: going to bring us any kind of.
Speaker 7: We'll have to ask Dave again every time I ask
Speaker 7: him on the phone before, and you go, how we
Speaker 7: get closer? So I'm like, hey, almost there, can we
Speaker 7: forecast a little here?
Speaker 4: We'll find out at twelve thirty. We also have Christian
Speaker 4: Toto coming on the show today. You remember after Hurricane Katrina,
Speaker 4: Hollywood got together and they did a big, you know,
Speaker 4: fundraiser to raise funds for those people impacted by Hurricane Katrina.
Speaker 4: It was a con served for hurricane relief. And you
Speaker 4: may remember at that point Kanye West, the anti Semitic racist.
Speaker 4: Oh by the way, uh, And I know you've been worried.
Speaker 4: It appears that Kanye's marriage to his wife, who walks
Speaker 4: around naked all the time.
Speaker 5: Is over.
Speaker 4: I know, I know you're devastated. The other one, he
Speaker 4: and Bianca, have have apparently broken up. They've gone their separate,
Speaker 4: separate ways. And I thought it was forever Anthony.
Speaker 7: Will he fall off a cliff and then make good
Speaker 7: music again?
Speaker 5: Maybe I could do it.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna shake the magic eight ball. My sources say no. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 4: I do think that Kanye West is a genius, but
Speaker 4: I also think.
Speaker 5: He is severely mentally ill.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think he has pretty severe bipolar disease, and I
Speaker 4: think that he needs medication. And he is extremely gifted
Speaker 4: as well. And unfortunately, in our in our history, madness
Speaker 4: and talent are off hand in Glove, so that is
Speaker 4: not all that surprising. But Kanye West, that was when
Speaker 4: he said George Bush didn't care about black people when
Speaker 4: they were doing the telethon for Katrina or whatever they
Speaker 4: were doing. So we're going to talk to Christian Toto
Speaker 4: about what's happening for Hurricane Helene and obviously Hurricane Milton.
Speaker 4: There's going to be needs after that, so it's going
Speaker 4: to be well, I'm not going to hold my breath
Speaker 4: waiting for Hollywood to do something.
Speaker 5: Let me just say that.
Speaker 4: And then at two point thirty, my friend and yours,
Speaker 4: John Caldera, joins us from the Independence Institute. He wrote
Speaker 4: a great column that made me mad, really really really mad,
Speaker 4: because as a pro oil and gas person, and I
Speaker 4: am pro efficient, reliable energy, to be clear, and there
Speaker 4: are a lot of forces in the state of Colorado
Speaker 4: working to shut down our oil and gas industry, and
Speaker 4: they've had really good success on many many issues. But
Speaker 4: when you find out what I found out, that my
Speaker 4: tax dollars are funding these garbage organizations that want to
Speaker 4: thrust us back to the Middle Ages where I guess
Speaker 4: we're supposed to burn donkey dung to stay warm.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: But taxpayer dollars are flowing into their coffers. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4: Elections have consequences, you guys.
Speaker 5: And this is the stuff.
Speaker 4: That if we had a functioning Republican party, they would
Speaker 4: be making hey about it. But we don't. We don't
Speaker 4: have a functioning Republican party. We have Dave Williams. So
Speaker 4: they're not doing anything productive, just nothing. Mandy hate the
Speaker 4: late summer weather water bill is averaging three hundred bucks
Speaker 4: a month for a third of an acre with southern exposure.
Speaker 4: I would ask you this, Texter, why not just turn
Speaker 4: the sprinklers off?
Speaker 7: I keep forgetting to turn off the Am I still
Speaker 7: watering twice a day every day?
Speaker 5: Yeah? No, you're not watering twice a day every day.
Speaker 5: I am like, you know what I am. Why are
Speaker 5: you watering twice a day? Stop?
Speaker 4: You can go back to once every couple of days.
Speaker 7: No, I keep forgetting, and I know Dave's about to
Speaker 7: yell at me. I keep forgetting to turn off the
Speaker 7: second one. Okay, mushrooms are growing.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 5: If your mushrooms are growing, you're way over I know,
Speaker 5: I am.
Speaker 4: Do you want me to remind you to turn your
Speaker 4: sprinklers off? To a more normal schedule.
Speaker 7: They're currently off today, so I can mow today, and
Speaker 7: then I try to remember when I look at the
Speaker 7: thing turn back on to turn off the second.
Speaker 5: Watery, when are you gonna blow them out?
Speaker 7: I uh, probably like two weeks.
Speaker 4: I'm scheduled for like next week. I scheduled the middle
Speaker 4: of October every year. And you know what if my
Speaker 4: grass dies, I I don't care. I mean, it's not
Speaker 4: gonna die die, it's just gonna go dorm it.
Speaker 7: Oh the grass with that new mower, Thank you, Dwelt
Speaker 7: looks as gray as ever has.
Speaker 5: I want to hold on as long as I can. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you're just living.
Speaker 4: Oh god, Yeah, yeah, really was the secret. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 4: let's take a break. We're gonna come back. We're gonna
Speaker 4: talk to Dave Fraser. Kick off the show, get it
Speaker 4: moving right after this stick around Dave Fraser, Fox thirty
Speaker 4: one Meteorology. How are you today, sir.
Speaker 5: I'm doing good.
Speaker 8: I'm doing good. I've been listening. I'm glad to hear
Speaker 8: that you reached out to your friends and family or
Speaker 8: whoever and got them to consider going and they all have.
Speaker 4: Everybody on the West Coast has relocated and everybody on
Speaker 4: the East coast is ready. So everybody is as good
Speaker 4: as they can be in Florida right now. And so
Speaker 4: I want to ask you this is so I'm gonna
Speaker 4: ask you an absurd question, Okay, And even as I
Speaker 4: ask it to you, I know as it's coming out
Speaker 4: of my mouth that it's an absurd question. But going
Speaker 4: around the internet right now, Dave Frasier, there is all
Speaker 4: of this stuff about how the government is controlling the weather. Specifically,
Speaker 4: they made Helene go up the southeast United States right
Speaker 4: over the lithium mines. And that's I mean, the let's
Speaker 4: talk about government controlling weather, shall we, Dave? Where are
Speaker 4: we in that process?
Speaker 8: We're on the test pool of social media with that.
Speaker 8: Let's be honest. I mean, listen, there's conspiracy theorists for everything.
Speaker 8: But if you're saying that any there's any way that
Speaker 8: we can control something besize of a Heleen or a
Speaker 8: Milton and share it or drive it or direct it
Speaker 8: in one direction or another, Uh, there's not a chance.
Speaker 8: There's just no there's no way. There's no way. So
Speaker 8: I'll just lead that to the conspiratorists and those on
Speaker 8: social media to spread whatever they want through.
Speaker 4: It's so dave. It's just it shows that this isn't
Speaker 4: really about weather, but it shows that people are so
Speaker 4: distrustful of the government that they would rather believe that
Speaker 4: not only think about it like this. And this is
Speaker 4: what I said back to someone on social media not
Speaker 4: too long ago, who's actually a friend of mine, who
Speaker 4: posted this on Facebook, and I was like, stop doing this,
Speaker 4: just stop doing this. This makes you look stupid because
Speaker 4: you have to believe that not only does a government
Speaker 4: send a hurricane to kill hundreds of people in Helene,
Speaker 4: you also have to leave that they let farmers in
Speaker 4: the Midwest go through horrific droughts that destroy their crops,
Speaker 4: that allow hailstorms to happen that destroy those crops. So
Speaker 4: you have to believe that the government is so bad
Speaker 4: that they would let people starve and go out of
Speaker 4: business and then destroy their homes and livelihood and interstate highways.
Speaker 4: For what I mean, it's just so dumb. It's so dumb.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: I want to ask a follow up question though, because
Speaker 4: there have been efforts to try and control the weather,
Speaker 4: the Heart program in Alaska. I mean, these are documented
Speaker 4: scientific experiments trying to control the weather, but to my knowledge,
Speaker 4: they've not been successful in any way, shape or for right.
Speaker 8: Even cloud seating. While it does, while it is a thing,
Speaker 8: and it does they do do it here in parts
Speaker 8: of Colorado, the success rate is very, very low. So, yeah,
Speaker 8: there's just not much you're going to do. I mean,
Speaker 8: just think about where we are, the size of the planet,
Speaker 8: the minuscule impact that we could have in controlling the
Speaker 8: weather across the you know, across the planet, the strength
Speaker 8: of the sun, the power of the oceans.
Speaker 2: There's just no.
Speaker 8: Way that I could wrap my brain around that contributions,
Speaker 8: you know, cloud seating and stuff like that. Sure's it's
Speaker 8: one of the things that frustrates me the most about
Speaker 8: social media, and I tend to turn a deaf ear,
Speaker 8: if you will. I tend to do less and less
Speaker 8: on social media because of that. Yeah, it's just a
Speaker 8: lot of it's a lot of noise. And again we're
Speaker 8: off topic with weather, but it's a lot of noise.
Speaker 8: And I tell my two sons all the time, you
Speaker 8: know two things, Stay away from Stay away from politics
Speaker 8: and religion unless you're comfortable discussing them with the people
Speaker 8: in front of you. Otherwise it just turns into a
Speaker 8: fight or an argument. And it's another reason why I
Speaker 8: don't put down the rabbit hole of global warming. You know,
Speaker 8: do I believe there has been? You know, are we
Speaker 8: in a certain climate change right now?
Speaker 6: Certainly?
Speaker 8: I mean, look at just what's happened with Aline, look
Speaker 8: at what's happening with Milton. You can't argue with but
Speaker 8: you will get into an argument. There's just no right
Speaker 8: or wrong. The minute you go in one direction on
Speaker 8: either side of that conversation, somebody is coming at you
Speaker 8: from the other side. So the best thing for me
Speaker 8: to do is just quietly sit in the background and
Speaker 8: let people fight amongst themselves.
Speaker 4: That's a great strategy. Now let's talk about our weather,
Speaker 4: which has been unseasonably warm. And I just said to
Speaker 4: a Rod, I'm actually enjoying this. I could lie to you.
Speaker 4: I just think it's so pleasant outside. I know it's
Speaker 4: a little too warm for people, but it's beautiful outside,
Speaker 4: even with the smoke. And when is this going to end?
Speaker 4: And are we going to have a warm Halloween or
Speaker 4: is that going to be our first big snow?
Speaker 8: So I agree with you in your assessment of it
Speaker 8: being you know, this type of warmth is not summer heat. Yeah,
Speaker 8: it's just got that warm kind of wrap around you
Speaker 8: kind of feel during the day. But as soon as
Speaker 8: we get to those earlier sunsets, the temperatures drop au
Speaker 8: dramatically and you've got your cool, crisp nights. And that's
Speaker 8: the that's the balance and the great part of September
Speaker 8: and October. We can have these warm days, but it's
Speaker 8: not the summer heat we are seeing, and it's not uncommon.
Speaker 8: We're getting later into the month of October. The sun's
Speaker 8: angle is getting lower, the days are getting shorter. So
Speaker 8: as I'm sitting here doing the forecast right now, one
Speaker 8: of the things we're seeing is two cold fronts coming
Speaker 8: our way. The first one comes on Friday, gets us
Speaker 8: out of the eighties and down into about the mid seventies.
Speaker 8: Nice refreshing, little change. Right now, Denver's average is about
Speaker 8: sixty eight degrees. There's a second cold front coming, so
Speaker 8: we'll one back up on Saturday into the low eighties.
Speaker 8: The second one comes in Sunday. That one looks to
Speaker 8: have cool enough air behind it that it will sit
Speaker 8: and stay. So our forecast is actually going to be
Speaker 8: a mix of upper sixties. More seasonal readings starting early
Speaker 8: next week and some low seventies. But right now, once
Speaker 8: we get beyond Saturday's eighty degree temperature, I don't see
Speaker 8: eighties coming back at this point, within at least the
Speaker 8: next ten days. However, we do look to stay dry,
Speaker 8: that part of the equation is not going to change.
Speaker 4: So the we're not even I mean I don't even
Speaker 4: have to bring my plants in from outside yet. We're
Speaker 4: not even looking at that, like we're not even sniffing
Speaker 4: our first freeze yet.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 8: And I heard you in a Rod talking about the
Speaker 8: sprinkler system. I know you've got yours playing a lot
Speaker 8: of people like you have them scheduled out ahead of time,
Speaker 8: and it's gonna they're gonna come and shut them off whenever.
Speaker 8: And if you're okay with your long going dormit, it
Speaker 8: is that time of the year anyway. Your grass is
Speaker 8: probably looking green. Like a Rod talked about, I did,
Speaker 8: chastising him about spending too much money and throwing must Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 8: just throwing money away. Listen, your grass looks green, and
Speaker 8: it's great. It's because of the cool Chris Knight, but
Speaker 8: it's not growing like it does in the summer, so
Speaker 8: you should be reducing your water dramatically. You should not
Speaker 8: be watering as much. Save the money, put it in
Speaker 8: your pocket. Don't worry about blowing your sprinklers out to
Speaker 8: your yet if you don't want to, because your trees
Speaker 8: and your shrubs could use a drink. But keep an
Speaker 8: eye on the forecast to that first shot at fleezing temperatures,
Speaker 8: and that's when you're going to want to start. And
Speaker 8: I will tell you that's not for the next ten days,
Speaker 8: so you can leave them on if you've got them scheduled,
Speaker 8: like many have blown out, blown out and call it
Speaker 8: a season, all right.
Speaker 4: So let me ask you this question from a texter.
Speaker 4: I gotta find it because a lot of texts have
Speaker 4: come in now. It says, please ask Dave. Is this
Speaker 4: a warm pattern going so late, the new normal going forward,
Speaker 4: or just a random off year.
Speaker 5: I mean, we kind of talked about.
Speaker 4: I'm with you. It's apparent to me the earth is
Speaker 4: warming right. The underpinnings will leave to others to discuss
Speaker 4: right now, but is this going to be our new normal?
Speaker 4: Are we going to have warm falls? Or is it
Speaker 4: too soon to tell?
Speaker 6: You?
Speaker 8: Know what we have seen? I think what we need
Speaker 8: is a larger database to look at it to see
Speaker 8: if we can determine whether it is a new due
Speaker 8: to climate change, and whether it's new or not. I
Speaker 8: think we would need probably maybe ten years worth of records.
Speaker 8: We had seen some warm Septembers and Octobers of late.
Speaker 8: We've also noticed in the last couple of years, and
Speaker 8: you may have noticed this as well, that March and
Speaker 8: April we always tut as our snowiest months. But I
Speaker 8: think in the last six years, feb you're worry, yeah,
Speaker 8: has outdone March as the snowiest months. So could that
Speaker 8: signal the change in kind the maybe a flight shift
Speaker 8: in the seasons where fall hangs or summer goes a
Speaker 8: little later and winter starts a little later and it
Speaker 8: ramps up and then spring comes. I think we need
Speaker 8: a bigger database to be able to really be able
Speaker 8: to say with any kind of concrete evidence that yeah,
Speaker 8: we might be seeing as shift. But remember that the
Speaker 8: climate is cyclical. We know that over the duration and
Speaker 8: while we've had records, for instance here in Denver going
Speaker 8: back to eighteen seventy two I heard you talking earlier,
Speaker 8: there are things that we can't compare before we had
Speaker 8: records For instance, you mentioned the mill of bars for
Speaker 8: low pressure as it relates to hurricanes. We didn't even
Speaker 8: start keeping those records from nineteen seventy nine, so our
Speaker 8: database is not very deep when it comes to the
Speaker 8: history of weather and climate on this planet.
Speaker 4: All right, So that is I have nothing to add
Speaker 4: because I think you're right. So we'll just leave it
Speaker 4: at that. What is our immediate forecast before we let
Speaker 4: you go?
Speaker 8: Eighties today? A little smoke in the air, not in Denver.
Speaker 8: We've got beautiful air from Denver to the south, and
Speaker 8: you should get into the northeast corner. Some of that
Speaker 8: smoke should lift out. We're sunny and dry again. I
Speaker 8: think we're about eighty four tomorrow. I think we're seventy
Speaker 8: four on Friday. I think we're eighty one, eighty two
Speaker 8: on Saturday. And then I've got probably around seventy Sunday,
Speaker 8: upper sixties, Monday, seventy one, seventy two, just about every
Speaker 8: day next week. And your overnight lows here's the key,
Speaker 8: may get down a couple of mornings into the upper thirties,
Speaker 8: not cold enough to be worried about sprinklers, but maybe
Speaker 8: a little cross on the pumpkin in a few places
Speaker 8: all weather weather a rod.
Speaker 4: Little frost on the pumpkin almost sounds dirty. Dave Fraser,
Speaker 4: I'm just like Dave ay Rod. Once again, no snow
Speaker 4: on Halloween.
Speaker 8: Right As of right now, the forecast continues to look
Speaker 8: dry and warmth for the month. We're run about a
Speaker 8: nine degree average above for the month of October.
Speaker 4: All right on thirty one, Chief Meteorologist Dave Fraser.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 4: Saying back, they say, we will be right back. A
Speaker 4: lot of you weighing in. Mandy, I wonder if you
Speaker 4: could talk about climate change for a minute sometime. My
Speaker 4: personal view is that the climate may be changing, but
Speaker 4: it is totally natural and organic thing and has nothing
Speaker 4: to do with mankind. My proof of this is ice ages.
Speaker 4: The entire planet cooled off on its own enough to
Speaker 4: produce an ice age, then the planet warmed enough to
Speaker 4: melt all of that ice, all without coal fired power
Speaker 4: plants or tailor swift flying around or whatever the environmental
Speaker 4: wackos claim is causing the warming. This has been going
Speaker 4: on literally for hundreds of thousands of years. That's my view.
Speaker 4: Wonder what you think We've talked about this a lot
Speaker 4: in the past, but I tend to side with you.
Speaker 4: Texture I for years, long, long, long years. When I
Speaker 4: first got my show in two thousand and five, when
Speaker 4: I was in Fort Myers, I sought out scientists who
Speaker 4: had alternative theories of why the Earth is warming. These
Speaker 4: were not people who said, the Earth isn't warming.
Speaker 5: That's crazy.
Speaker 4: These were people who said, yeah, the climate is warning,
Speaker 4: but here are some reasons that that could be happening.
Speaker 4: And what I discovered time and time and time again
Speaker 4: is talking to these scientists, it was almost impossible for
Speaker 4: them to get funding to study their theories about alternative
Speaker 4: reasons for this global warming. And when I started hearing
Speaker 4: that over and over and over again, it made the
Speaker 4: entire thing extremely suspect. And as the years have gone on,
Speaker 4: I am getting more and more suspect, even as there
Speaker 4: seems to be more and more scientists who say, Yep, absolutely,
Speaker 4: it's our fault.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: The notion that somehow we can predict the climate in
Speaker 4: one hundred years when we can't predict the weather in
Speaker 4: thirty days, on the face of it, is just ridiculous.
Speaker 4: And that's kind of where I'm sitting right now, right,
Speaker 4: that is where I'm sitting at this moment. But I
Speaker 4: am inclined to believe that, like you, we only have
Speaker 4: good record keeping from the late eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's what everybody says.
Speaker 4: This is the strongest storm any history. Nope, it's the
Speaker 4: strongest storm in recorded history, which is a much different
Speaker 4: sort of thing. And when you look at, say the
Speaker 4: number of hurricanes, they're not more hurricanes.
Speaker 5: Than there was before.
Speaker 4: So there's a lot of this stuff that's bandied about
Speaker 4: as oh, look at this is proof a man made
Speaker 4: global warming that certainly is not. And I happen to
Speaker 4: be of the mindset that we have so little control
Speaker 4: over what the Earth does that it's almost ridiculous for
Speaker 4: us to try and stop climate change instead of adapting
Speaker 4: to climate change. Imagine if we took all the money
Speaker 4: that we're trying to spend stopping climate change when we've
Speaker 4: had no record of history of any success of stopping
Speaker 4: anything climate related. I mean, think about it. The Mayans
Speaker 4: through virgins into volcanoes, They sacrificed young in in order
Speaker 4: to appease the gods and change the weather. What some
Speaker 4: of the stuff we're doing now is is just as
Speaker 4: stupid in my view, and if we really want to
Speaker 4: make an impact, then we should direct all of our
Speaker 4: attention and all of our energies into how to mitigate
Speaker 4: climate change, and that means figuring out new ways of farming.
Speaker 4: I actually have a really cool story on the blog today.
Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, Arod, I want you to
Speaker 4: get these people on the air. They're in Sidalia and
Speaker 4: they are growing the equivalent of two and a half
Speaker 4: acres of produce in shipping containers, and they can do
Speaker 4: this in any kind of weather. They can do it
Speaker 4: in any kind of a climate. And I think to myself,
Speaker 4: these are the people that we should be paying attention to,
Speaker 4: because they are the ones that are going to help
Speaker 4: us mitigate the effects of climate change that I honestly
Speaker 4: don't believe we can have that much of an impact on.
Speaker 4: I just don't, So you know, that's where we are
Speaker 4: at this moment. So I'm kind of with you. I
Speaker 4: think it is a fool's errand and just hubris that
Speaker 4: leads us to believe that we can control the climate.
Speaker 4: I truly do not believe that at all, because we've
Speaker 4: never been successful in doing it. It's like controlling the weather.
Speaker 4: People are talking about us controlling the weather, and I'm like, really, really,
Speaker 4: it's just so dumb. People keep asking Mandy. I would
Speaker 4: like to hear if you saw the CD eight debate
Speaker 4: last night between Evans and Caraveo, moderated by Kyle Clark
Speaker 4: and Marshall Zellinger. It wasn't a moderation, it was a grilling.
Speaker 4: Clark went full MSNBC with his dishonest Trump is racist
Speaker 4: and Trump is Hitler type comments injected into his moderation. Well,
Speaker 4: my issue with last night's debate is less about Kyle
Speaker 4: Clark and more about the fact the candidates refused to
Speaker 4: answer questions and both Caraveo and Evans did it last night,
Speaker 4: and I'm over it.
Speaker 5: But I'm not going to talk about it next. I'm
Speaker 5: going to talk about.
Speaker 4: It at one thirty because next we've got Christian Toto
Speaker 4: coming up. Fascinating column he's written about how Hollywood apparently
Speaker 4: doesn't care about white people. I will explain after we
Speaker 4: get back with Christian Toto.
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Speaker 4: To the second hour of the show and joining us
Speaker 4: now fan favorite and host favorite Christian Toto of the
Speaker 4: Hollywood in Toto website and podcast and now YouTube channel.
Speaker 4: He is everywhere a man about town, but he still
Speaker 4: has time to write incredibly good stuff about Hollywood, and
Speaker 4: that's what we're talking about today. Christian, Welcome back to
Speaker 4: the show.
Speaker 9: Of course, first, thank you, fan. I think you're stretching
Speaker 9: out a bit, but I'll take it.
Speaker 4: You are a fan favorite and you're a host's favorite,
Speaker 4: which is more important than being a fan favorite, right
Speaker 4: because I get to decide who comes on the show.
Speaker 5: I agree.
Speaker 4: I had no idea that Hollywood hates white people as
Speaker 4: much as they do, but this is what we're seeing, right.
Speaker 9: Well, I wouldn't go that far. I think there's some
Speaker 9: other cultural factors here, but I did recall. I mean,
Speaker 9: I think we all remember how Hollywood rallied around the
Speaker 9: victims of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe, and I think that
Speaker 9: was a wonderful thing. And of course when Kanye West
Speaker 9: said George Bush hates black people, that was a detour
Speaker 9: for sure, But you know, Hollywood in general can be
Speaker 9: very generous. They open their pockets and their purses and
Speaker 9: their wallets, and when there's a tragedy in the country
Speaker 9: sometimes they do wonderful things, and they really are generous
Speaker 9: to a fault. And I thought, where is that today
Speaker 9: after Hurricane Helene. I just haven't seen it, and there
Speaker 9: are little pockets. I think country music stars have been
Speaker 9: the most aggressive in the space, but generally speaking, I
Speaker 9: just think the indust he's been kind of quiet. So
Speaker 9: I did some comparing and contrasting to what happened nearly
Speaker 9: twenty years ago with Kristina compared to what's happening now,
Speaker 9: and it's like night and day, and I think that's
Speaker 9: I don't think that's an accident.
Speaker 4: Well, a couple of things that I would suggest, and
Speaker 4: I'm not asserting this to be accurate at all, but
Speaker 4: one of them is it's like everyone is so consumed
Speaker 4: with politics at this moment in time, it's like real life.
Speaker 5: They can't let it get in the way.
Speaker 4: They have to keep the eye on the political prize
Speaker 4: and they have to keep that going. And do you
Speaker 4: think that's part of it that they are just otherwise engaged.
Speaker 6: Right now.
Speaker 9: I think it's a small part of it, but I
Speaker 9: think there's other factors in play. I mean, I think
Speaker 9: the two biggest things we're talking about is that the
Speaker 9: media is really not going wall to wall with the
Speaker 9: hurricane damage and what's going on like they did with Kristina,
Speaker 9: and then I was like that was necessary and needed.
Speaker 9: I don't think that's happening quite so much today. So
Speaker 9: I think that's sometimes the stars take the cues from
Speaker 9: the media that they consume, which is uniformly left leaning,
Speaker 9: like they are. But I also think that to draw
Speaker 9: attention to this crisis showcases how inept the government has
Speaker 9: been in this crisis, and you've got the Biden Harris
Speaker 9: administration pulling those strings, and I think they realize that
Speaker 9: some people may connect those dots. That's my theory. You
Speaker 9: can disagree, you know. It's funny. I wrote about this
Speaker 9: yesterday at my sight and I ran a past a
Speaker 9: couple of friends. The idea behind this, This is not bad,
Speaker 9: I said, am I on the right page here? It's
Speaker 9: just fair And they wrote back and they they're pretty
Speaker 9: straight with me. They said, yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 9: So it was it was a subject I didn't want
Speaker 9: to go into easily, so glibly, but I think there's
Speaker 9: merit here well.
Speaker 4: And ultimately it comes back to politics, right to your point,
Speaker 4: if they focus on the devastation of Helene and the aftermath,
Speaker 4: which has really been you know, bad, It's been really bad.
Speaker 4: Part of it is terrain in North Carolina, which has
Speaker 4: made everything really really difficult. But the conflicting stories coming
Speaker 4: out about whether or not the government is responding. You
Speaker 4: have governmental officials saying everything is going along, and then
Speaker 4: you have the people of North Carolina on TikTok going no,
Speaker 4: it's not, no, it's not nothing is good, nothing is fixed.
Speaker 4: So I agree with you that the political aspect of
Speaker 4: this is important, But isn't that sad?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 4: I mean, we're still talking about human tragedy here, and
Speaker 4: to downplay human tragedy for political gain or to avoid
Speaker 4: the appearance of political blame is just a really sad
Speaker 4: state of affairs in our country right now.
Speaker 9: It is will stop. And I think that's the state
Speaker 9: of affairs country right now. I think we're see it
Speaker 9: in so many ways, you know. I also recorded how
Speaker 9: after Hurricane Katrina, I think it was five or six
Speaker 9: days where a major you know, celebrity telethon took kicked
Speaker 9: in and how the response was so swift, and you know,
Speaker 9: I believe this hurricane landed maybe run the twenty sixth,
Speaker 9: twenty seventh around there, and you know of September, so
Speaker 9: you know, it's been a while and you think that
Speaker 9: that would be enough time for that message to go forward,
Speaker 9: you know. But also this is the media saying, oh
Speaker 9: my gosh, there's potentially a huge story here of government ineptitude.
Speaker 9: Let's not have reporters on the scene or on the
Speaker 9: ground and pull our resources into confirming this is what's happening.
Speaker 9: It's like, standback, we'll take the government's narrative and we'll
Speaker 9: make fun of those yoguls who are saying there's problems
Speaker 9: on the ground. So, you know, it's such a big
Speaker 9: picture catastrophe in so many ways beyond the obvious tragedy
Speaker 9: in people's loss of lives and things. It's American in
Speaker 9: twenty twenty four, and it's ugly.
Speaker 5: It's incredibly ugly.
Speaker 4: And now we're having Hurricane Milton bearing down on Florida,
Speaker 4: which is run by a Republican governor, and I have
Speaker 4: a feeling that the silence. The silence will get even
Speaker 4: more deafening from Hollywood after this storm hits, don't you think.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I think that Governor DeSantis has proven
Speaker 9: to be quite capable when these tragedies strike there his
Speaker 9: home state there, and so there's not much to bite on,
Speaker 9: so they won't cover it as much. I mean, they
Speaker 9: will to a certain degree, but it'd be much more
Speaker 9: fun for the journalists. I mean, listen, you and I
Speaker 9: have talked for years. Journalism used to be imbalanced, biased
Speaker 9: partners in it is now full blown corrupt. And I
Speaker 9: hate to say that, and I don't say it loosely,
Speaker 9: but what you're seeing is the end of this institution
Speaker 9: as far as being trustworthy. There's something going on right now.
Speaker 9: At CBS at sixty minutes, we've been editing the Kamala
Speaker 9: Harris interview to death. I mean it just every day
Speaker 9: there's a new scandal. So that's part of what we're
Speaker 9: talking about here. It's just part of the thing. And
Speaker 9: by the way, you know, we also had a year's
Speaker 9: worth of hostages under the Hamas threat, and Hollywood has
Speaker 9: been almost completely silent. I can name with people and
Speaker 9: I can use one hand to name the people speaking out.
Speaker 9: It's Patricia heat And this, Michael Rappaport, It's Deborah Messing,
Speaker 9: it's Amy Schumer. It's more or less it yeah, about
Speaker 9: hostages conquered by terrorists or and some of them are
Speaker 9: Americans who are still, you know, being held and may
Speaker 9: not survive. And Hollywood doesn't give a damn because they
Speaker 9: know it reflects badly on their party. Remember, just yeah,
Speaker 9: please argue with me, please, you know, play Devil's advocate.
Speaker 9: Now what other excuse can there be?
Speaker 4: I've actually and I don't know if you saw this
Speaker 4: story coming out of CBS News about what happened to
Speaker 4: CBS News Morning anchor Tony Deakoople.
Speaker 5: Did you see this story? Oh my god? No, So
Speaker 5: he interviews.
Speaker 9: It's a perfect microcosm of how far journalism has fallen.
Speaker 9: A journalist does and random act of journalism to quote
Speaker 9: the late great Rush Limbaugh, and he has to do
Speaker 9: a struggle session to apologize. It is shocking and embarrassing,
Speaker 9: but it really isn't shocking because that's where journalism is sty.
Speaker 4: And to bring everybody up to speed, CBS Morning co
Speaker 4: anchor Tony to and I think I'm saying his name right.
Speaker 4: He did an interview with noted racist and anti semi
Speaker 4: Tennehisi Coats. Right, So, Tennyhisi Coats rose to fame during
Speaker 4: the Black Lives Matter movement by telling white people that
Speaker 4: we were inherently corrupt and wrong and racist and there
Speaker 4: was nothing we could do about it.
Speaker 5: I can't stand this guy.
Speaker 4: And he's written a new book that apparently is an
Speaker 4: absolutely one sided polemic against Israel, and CBS journalist Tony
Speaker 4: Dekoople had the nerve to push back, and he had
Speaker 4: the nerve to question him and push him on some
Speaker 4: of these things and talk about the more extremeist elements
Speaker 4: of this book. That does not mention hamas hezbala Aran,
Speaker 4: not one time does it mention the Dafadas, Does it
Speaker 4: mention any of that? Does it mention little children being
Speaker 4: blown up in pizza parlors? And Tony pushed back, and
Speaker 4: CBS apparently called all the journalists into some kind of
Speaker 4: zoom meeting to chastise them for doing journalism, And it's like,
Speaker 4: what are we doing? Who do we trust?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 4: That's really what it comes down to me, Christian, because
Speaker 4: I know you feel the same way I do. A
Speaker 4: robust and an earnest journalism. Media is incredibly important to us.
Speaker 4: Who do we trust?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 4: Where do we look?
Speaker 9: The numbers are dwindling. I can't you and that very
Speaker 9: small group I also, Megan Kelly, I think does a
Speaker 9: mostly wonderful job. I used to think Tucker Carlson fell
Speaker 9: in that category. He no longer falls in that category
Speaker 9: at all, and that breaks my heart. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 9: it's a very very small group of people who you
Speaker 9: are you can take to the bank. Michael Schellenberger I
Speaker 9: think has been oh yeah, a leading light on following
Speaker 9: up on censorship concerns. He's literally on the Joe Rogan
Speaker 9: Show as we speak, a new episode. So yeah, it's
Speaker 9: it's a frightening situation we're in. We have more information
Speaker 9: than ever, more ways to share it, and I just
Speaker 9: don't know who to take to the bank.
Speaker 5: I just don't.
Speaker 4: So I am now a subscriber to the Free Press.
Speaker 4: I try to support all these little into the you know,
Speaker 4: journalistic endeavors that are usually disaffected journalists from places like
Speaker 4: the New York Times and CBS and all of these
Speaker 4: other places. But I think it is it's I don't
Speaker 4: want to oversell this, but I think it's dangerous that
Speaker 4: we have a large national media that is very invested
Speaker 4: in one political party. And I don't know exactly how
Speaker 4: to fix this, but I read this story at CBS.
Speaker 4: I was genuinely horrified that people were called to the carpet.
Speaker 5: For asking difficult questions.
Speaker 4: And that's what's happening now. It's like, oh, I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: you can only ask difficult questions of those on the right.
Speaker 9: Listen, we can fix the media. They have no shame,
Speaker 9: they have no scruples. The only thing we can do
Speaker 9: is to gently reach out to people who are our
Speaker 9: center left, who are saying who are people that we
Speaker 9: love who may disagree with us politically, and just show
Speaker 9: them piece by piece, story by story. Can you see
Speaker 9: how corrupt the media is? Can you understand that?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 9: Act accordingly. It's it's maybe the most dangerous part of
Speaker 9: our country right now. Is what you're describing. Dangerous is
Speaker 9: the right word it is. It is critical that we
Speaker 9: do that because otherwise I don't know what the alternative is.
Speaker 9: And by the way, you know, when jd. Vance is
Speaker 9: out there in a debate, he's sharp as attack because
Speaker 9: he's been questioned by tough journalists over the last how
Speaker 9: many weeks and Governor Tim Waltz is doing his I'm
Speaker 9: a knucklehead routine because he's never faced a tough question.
Speaker 9: That's what you get when you have journalists who are
Speaker 9: on one side.
Speaker 4: I gotta let me touch on JD. Vans for just
Speaker 4: a second, because this kind of goes to the bigger picture.
Speaker 4: JD Vance in that debate may have shown the way
Speaker 4: forward when it comes to dealing with the blatantly biased
Speaker 4: media that is running debates, that is asking questions. He
Speaker 4: came across as a happy warrior. He's obviously incredibly intelligent. Unfortunately,
Speaker 4: I don't think a lot of our top tier politicians
Speaker 4: have the mental brain power to do the same. But
Speaker 4: that to me that they probably open the eyes of
Speaker 4: a few more people about how biased the media really is.
Speaker 5: What are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 9: I mean, I agree, I think that's the right approach.
Speaker 9: You can't really come at someone and say how you're wrong.
Speaker 9: See this isn't wave news stories in your hand, because
Speaker 9: then their defenses rise up and they're not going to
Speaker 9: accept the information. You know, we glibally talk about people
Speaker 9: being red pilled, but that's what has to happen organically
Speaker 9: for this to change, the media will not change. They
Speaker 9: seem almost immune to criticism at this point. We need
Speaker 9: to have people who are smart and sensible and cautious
Speaker 9: and gentle, but firm with the facts on their side
Speaker 9: and speak rationally to break through what's going on. And
Speaker 9: Jade Vance is a great person in that arena, but
Speaker 9: we need thousands of him to move forward. And yeah, listen,
Speaker 9: he's a unique politician. And this at the stage they're
Speaker 9: a country. It's sad.
Speaker 4: You can always find great great grace movie reviews, TV
Speaker 4: reviews at Christian's website, Hollywood and Toto. He's got a
Speaker 4: great podcast as well, where he interviews a lot of
Speaker 4: people from the industry. I want to ask you specifically
Speaker 4: about the new movie The Apprentice about Donald Trump, because
Speaker 4: I yes, I have a friend who saw it. She
Speaker 4: is Mary Left, and she said, this film is just brilliant.
Speaker 4: It's just brilliant, and immediately I knew I wasn't gonna
Speaker 4: see it because it obviously spoon fed her everything that
Speaker 4: she wanted to see about Donald Trump.
Speaker 5: What are your thoughts on that film?
Speaker 9: Yeah, listen, it's gonna get a split reaction, for sure.
Speaker 9: I listen, I'm voting for Trump. I'm supporting Trump. I'm
Speaker 9: not a Trump fan per se. I see the flaws,
Speaker 9: I'm not immune to them. And I think that would
Speaker 9: make a very powerful story about his life in the
Speaker 9: eighties and how he rose up to power. And I
Speaker 9: think there are elements of that in the film. The
Speaker 9: first half is not bad at all, and it does
Speaker 9: kind of chart that great performances from Jeremy Strong Strong
Speaker 9: as Roy Cohen, his fixer, and Sebastian Stan does a
Speaker 9: nice job as Trump. But eventually you just see what's
Speaker 9: going on. You see the fix. Yeah, and this is
Speaker 9: about demonizing Trump. This is about attacking Trump. And what
Speaker 9: it does so poorly is it robs Trump of any
Speaker 9: humanity seen by scene by scene, He's shown as a monster,
Speaker 9: and you know, like many people, he has multiple sides.
Speaker 9: He's very funny, he could be generous, he could be charming,
Speaker 9: and by not having any of that there, you're just basically,
Speaker 9: you know, torpedoing your own film, and so it becomes
Speaker 9: what was marginally interesting into an absolute, unabashed hit piece,
Speaker 9: which is not entertaining, which is rather dull. And listen,
Speaker 9: if you want to get all that I just watched
Speaker 9: Stephen Colbert at night.
Speaker 5: That's what you get.
Speaker 9: But they should have told a great, interesting movie from
Speaker 9: a deeply flawed but fascinating figure. There's a great movie
Speaker 9: to be told about that, this, ain't it.
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 5: And that's the thing.
Speaker 4: It's like Donald Trump, like, take the politics out of it.
Speaker 4: What an interesting, complex person. This is right. I mean,
Speaker 4: you don't have to embellish, you don't have to try
Speaker 4: and add anything, because his entire life is razzle dazzle,
Speaker 4: and his entire life is this constructed persona that to
Speaker 4: me would should be a slam dunk.
Speaker 5: For a movie.
Speaker 4: It really should. And yet here we are. Here we
Speaker 4: are Christian Toto. Yeah, I appreciate you. Uh, Christian, I
Speaker 4: appreciate you making time. I always read your site before
Speaker 4: I go see a movie. I needed to ask you
Speaker 4: before we go though about the new Demi Moore movie.
Speaker 4: Have you reviewed this thing yet?
Speaker 10: I have.
Speaker 9: It's the substance. It's a new horror film. It's been
Speaker 9: out a few weeks, getting a lot of award season buzz,
Speaker 9: surprisingly for a horror film. I watch everything. I love
Speaker 9: horror movies. I can sit through anything on the screen.
Speaker 9: I was squirming in my seat. There's actually a lot
Speaker 9: of good satirical material in the film, and Demi Moore
Speaker 9: is quite good in it, but holy metral it is
Speaker 9: the third act is just bring an umbrella for all
Speaker 9: the goal in etc. That's on the screen. That's all
Speaker 9: I'll say.
Speaker 4: Well, I hate horror movies and.
Speaker 5: I hate gore.
Speaker 4: And my best friend said this movie is so good,
Speaker 4: but you can't separate it from the gore. Because I
Speaker 4: was like, look, just get it on, you know, get
Speaker 4: a copy and then cut out all the gore for me.
Speaker 5: She goes, it wouldn't make sense.
Speaker 4: But she loved the movie, absolutely loved it. At the
Speaker 4: same time, she expressed horror about her own love for
Speaker 4: the movie because it is so gory. So I mean,
Speaker 4: did it have to be that gory or is that
Speaker 4: just what they did?
Speaker 9: Well, there's a lot of what they call body horror
Speaker 9: in the film, which I think is essential to the story.
Speaker 9: But I think they go over the top and then
Speaker 9: some in the last ten twenty minutes, and I agree,
Speaker 9: I think it was unnecessary because it is a satirical
Speaker 9: look at aging about Hollywood, about sexism, those are all
Speaker 9: meaty topics that should be explored, and sometimes horror does
Speaker 9: it so well. So there's a lot to admire the
Speaker 9: style that the presentation is unparalleled, and so for that
Speaker 9: reason alone, it's fascinating to w But I just think
Speaker 9: they were so in love with the FX that it
Speaker 9: really does hurt the film. So it's worth watching. But again,
Speaker 9: if you're squeamish about horror, I mean, I don't see
Speaker 9: how you watch this. I really don't.
Speaker 4: I loved Demi Moore and one of my good friends
Speaker 4: said this is the best movie she's done since she
Speaker 4: was very, very young, and she loved it except the gore,
Speaker 4: and I'm.
Speaker 5: Like, I'm out.
Speaker 4: I don't even like to watch the autopsy scenes on
Speaker 4: ncis okay, And they're not even gory, Christian, They're just
Speaker 4: what they are. A Christian Toto. Find him at Hollywood
Speaker 4: intoto dot com. Find his podcast Hollywood in Toto and
Speaker 4: his YouTube channel also Hollywood in Toto as well.
Speaker 5: Christian, we'll talk to you again soon, my friend.
Speaker 9: Sounds good.
Speaker 5: Thanks all right, thank you, Christian Toto. I what a touch.
Speaker 4: Just for a second on the story that we mentioned
Speaker 4: about CBS News before, because this story is really like
Speaker 4: next level when it comes to the kind of bias
Speaker 4: we have in our news media, because before you know,
Speaker 4: Bertie Goldberg wrote the book Bias I think in two
Speaker 4: thousand and four maybe two thousand and three, two thousand
Speaker 4: and four, about his experiences with bias in CBS news.
Speaker 4: But this, this is absolutely next level.
Speaker 2: So I mentioned.
Speaker 4: What happened was CBS morning host Tony deaoople interviewed Tonney
Speaker 4: he c Coates, who I believe is a racist and
Speaker 4: an anti anti semit but he shot to fame during
Speaker 4: the Black Lives Matter movement. He interviewed him and asked
Speaker 4: him questions. Now, listen to this, listen to these questions
Speaker 4: when when this guy's on, he wrote a book that
Speaker 4: is all anti Israel. So Tony de coopele asked him.
Speaker 4: He said, why leave out that Israel is surrounded by
Speaker 4: countries that want to eliminate it?
Speaker 5: That's question number one? Question number two?
Speaker 4: Why leave out that Israel deals with terror groups that
Speaker 4: want to eliminate it?
Speaker 5: Question number three?
Speaker 4: Why not detail anything of the First and Second Intifada?
Speaker 4: The cafe bombings, the bus bombings, the little kids blown
Speaker 4: to bits, and because of that.
Speaker 5: On the following Monday morning, the network's top.
Speaker 4: Brass apologized for the interview to staff, saying it did
Speaker 4: not meet the company's editorial standards. The head of CBS News,
Speaker 4: Adrian Rourke, who's in charge of news gathering at the network,
Speaker 4: began her remarks by saying covering a story like October
Speaker 4: seventh requires empathy, respect, and a commitment to truth and
Speaker 4: essentially said, we're super sorry about that interview because we
Speaker 4: question this man that shares our viewpoints.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 4: Apparently, in the meeting, it also devolved into a conversation
Speaker 4: about whether or not questioning Israel's right to exist was
Speaker 4: allowed and if that's not the most you know, profoundly
Speaker 4: disturbing thing I've heard in sometime, I don't know what is.
Speaker 4: You can read all of this on the blog and
Speaker 4: they even have snippets of the meeting that you can
Speaker 4: listen to. Totally worth your time, do it. Got a
Speaker 4: lot of stuff on the plate today. I got a
Speaker 4: couple of things. First of all, I have some videos
Speaker 4: on the blog that you really got to see. One
Speaker 4: of them is the Weather Channel has done this graphic
Speaker 4: of the various stages of storm surge. Holy crap, it
Speaker 4: is insane and accurate because storm surge is the big
Speaker 4: killer now, and that is what everybody's worried about. So
Speaker 4: there you go. I will say this.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 5: It's I don't know how nah, I'm not going down
Speaker 5: that right.
Speaker 4: And we already talked about the hurricane at the beginning
Speaker 4: of the show, and I want to talk about some
Speaker 4: other stuff that I have on the show as well.
Speaker 5: One of the things that I want to talk.
Speaker 4: About today is another conspiracy theory has been proven true.
Speaker 4: The conspiracy theory this time is about fluoride in our water. Now,
Speaker 4: if you haven't heard about this, I had friends talk
Speaker 4: to me about floride in my water for forever, so
Speaker 4: much so that when I moved into my neighborhood, I
Speaker 4: called my water provider to find out if they fluorinated
Speaker 4: the water.
Speaker 5: Okay, so they do not in my water provider, But
Speaker 5: now we know.
Speaker 4: The National Institute of Health has done a study, and
Speaker 4: the National Institute of Health has now released the following
Speaker 4: The NTP monograph concluded that higher levels of fluoride exposure,
Speaker 4: such as drinking water containing more than one point five
Speaker 4: milligrams of fluoride per leader, are associated with lower IQ
Speaker 4: in children. The NTP review was designed to evaluate total
Speaker 4: fluoride exposure from all sources, and was not designed to
Speaker 4: evaluate the health effects of floridaated drinking water alone. It
Speaker 4: is important to note, however, that there were insufficient data
Speaker 4: to determine if the low fluoride level of point seven
Speaker 4: milligrams per leader currently recommended for US community water supplies
Speaker 4: has a negative effect on children's IQs. Guys, we have
Speaker 4: to stop putting crap in our water. I like it that,
Speaker 4: I said, guys in both a Rod and Zach, who's
Speaker 4: now training, both looked up at the same time.
Speaker 5: That was good, you guys.
Speaker 4: You were synchronized when I said, guys, there you go. Now,
Speaker 4: what's sort of fascinating about Florida in the water is
Speaker 4: the reason we have Florida in the water is it
Speaker 4: was a waste product from manufacturing that they needed to
Speaker 4: know what to do with.
Speaker 5: And we know it is good for our teeth.
Speaker 4: But I think I'd rather have janky teeth and a
Speaker 4: bigger brain than a smaller brain and nice teeth. So
Speaker 4: this is especially for little little kid kids. Please don't
Speaker 4: use little little kids. Don't give them real fluoride toothpaste. Kids.
Speaker 4: Toothpaste does not have fluoride in it because kids swallow toothpaste.
Speaker 4: It takes like a year to get your kid to
Speaker 4: stop swallowing the toothpaste when you brush their teeth.
Speaker 5: So just be aware.
Speaker 4: But this is I mean to me, this is like,
Speaker 4: oh okay, another thing that government told us was fine.
Speaker 5: Now not fine, just not fine at all.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 4: Am I gonna do away with my fluorinated toothpaste? No,
Speaker 4: I'm not, because I spit it all out that I
Speaker 4: rinse my mouth. I'm not eating it. And I think
Speaker 4: my brain is big enough already. I don't want to, like,
Speaker 4: you know, get ahead of myself, but I think my
Speaker 4: brain is just fine. Thank you so much, thank you
Speaker 4: so so much. So I wanna ask you. I don't
Speaker 4: normally tell you to follow me on social media. I
Speaker 4: mean I do, but I don't often do it. But
Speaker 4: if you want to know what's going on with Milton,
Speaker 4: with any of this stuff, today is the day to
Speaker 4: be on X do you Are you seeing a bunch
Speaker 4: of stuff from your on your excount I follow a
Speaker 4: lot of news organizations and a lot of news organizations
Speaker 4: in Florida, so I'm seeing a lot of this.
Speaker 7: I'm following the video threads on a lot of TikTokers. Yeah,
Speaker 7: well nuts, did.
Speaker 4: You see the tornado over Cluiston? The ginormous I think
Speaker 4: I did supercell tornado. It is unbelievable. But today's the
Speaker 4: day to be on X.
Speaker 7: I'm following all these people that are also the ones
Speaker 7: who are staying, and I want to see continue to post, you.
Speaker 5: Know, honestly.
Speaker 4: Okay, So apparently Marty Lenz is our morning guy. Marty
Speaker 4: Lenz his brother, Yes, for what a Let's get Marty
Speaker 4: on the phone. I want to ask him why his
Speaker 4: brother's saying, because no one seems to know why his
Speaker 4: brother decided to stay in Sarasota. Sarasta looks like right now,
Speaker 4: unless the hurricane wobbles, it is going to take a
Speaker 4: direct hit, probably a Cat four storm, maybe Cat three,
Speaker 4: but Category three is a devastating hurricane. Anything about Category
Speaker 4: two you need to get the hell out of the
Speaker 4: way because Category three and above is it's gonna it's
Speaker 4: You're basically gonna fafo.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: You're not gonna just that's what's gonna happen. You're gonna
Speaker 4: find out. If you just mess around, you're gonna find out.
Speaker 4: And I just want to know because they're like, hey,
Speaker 4: Marty's brother is going to be able to talk to No,
Speaker 4: if they knock all the cell towers down, that's not
Speaker 4: going to be a thing. So we're gonna find out
Speaker 4: why his brother is staying in Sarah's Oh cool, Okay,
Speaker 4: Marty Lens, half of Colorado's morning news team, Marty, I
Speaker 4: just heard your brother is staying in Sarasota.
Speaker 5: What the deuce?
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I don't know. So basically he said if
Speaker 6: he had his young kids still there, they probably wouldn't.
Speaker 6: But it's kind of a damned if you do, damned
Speaker 6: if you don't.
Speaker 5: Wait wait, but where Okay, where is he in Sarasota?
Speaker 5: How far is he from the coastline? What did he say?
Speaker 6: Is about ten miles in? I think is what he said.
Speaker 5: I think that was right.
Speaker 6: God, I should know better.
Speaker 4: So he is he staying there by himself?
Speaker 9: Is no?
Speaker 6: His wife is his wife and they're both there so
Speaker 6: and they're less concerned about the storm surge and like
Speaker 6: I said, you know Florida. But what the word about
Speaker 6: is some of the wind in some of those things.
Speaker 6: So it's like it's a picture poison. Like, well, if
Speaker 6: they leave, do they know if they can get back
Speaker 6: in See, they don't already one of those things here party.
Speaker 4: I'm just going to say this as a native Floridian,
Speaker 4: I've been through so many hurricanes. Anything over a category two,
Speaker 4: I'm getting the hell out of Dodge because I have
Speaker 4: friends that have gone through They went through Andrew in
Speaker 4: South Florida, their children. Their children were in therapy for
Speaker 4: like eight years. Let me tell you what your brother
Speaker 4: might be in for. They spent eight hours of Hurricane
Speaker 4: Andrew inside a coat closet underneath their stairs while all
Speaker 4: of the roofing tiles, all of the concrete roofing tiles
Speaker 4: from their neighbors hit the side of their house so
Speaker 4: hard and so fast it sounded like machine gun fire.
Speaker 4: And when they finally came out of their closet, one
Speaker 4: whole wall of their house was gone. So this is
Speaker 4: I'm not trying to scare the crap out of him,
Speaker 4: but I'm trying to scare the crap out of him
Speaker 4: because I just worry about people choosing to stay, especially
Speaker 4: for the reason that you just gave. They're not sure
Speaker 4: if they're going to be able to get back. Well,
Speaker 4: if their house is there, they'll have something to come
Speaker 4: back to. But if their house isn't, they're going to
Speaker 4: be inside it.
Speaker 5: And that's what.
Speaker 6: Concerns and that's the thing. And when I asked him
Speaker 6: about their reason, I think he just felt like they
Speaker 6: I think their concern was if they leave, as if
Speaker 6: they'd be able to get back to your point, you know,
Speaker 6: is there something to get back to?
Speaker 9: But I don't know.
Speaker 6: I mean, he's got a generator doing all the things
Speaker 6: I told him. I hope I can talk to him
Speaker 6: tomorrow morning, and.
Speaker 5: He has shutters.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 4: Yes, Well, I've got to tell you after Hurricane Charlie,
Speaker 4: which was only a Category three, there were no cell
Speaker 4: towers left.
Speaker 5: All the cell towers were gone, right.
Speaker 4: So there's all of these different things that you know, Sarah,
Speaker 4: Soda buries their power lines, but they don't bury the
Speaker 4: major transition line, the transmission line. So they come to
Speaker 4: Sarasota and then they get buried. But if those get
Speaker 4: knocked down, I just I'm worried, and I'm worried anyway,
Speaker 4: So now I have to worry about your brother. Let
Speaker 4: him know that Mandy Connell is now going to have
Speaker 4: to worry about him. I do hope he's okay. I
Speaker 4: hope this is the right to work through it too.
Speaker 6: Hey, let let me ask you this, because I should
Speaker 6: have asked him this on the air, And I've been
Speaker 6: texting that. I'm one of six siblings, so we're all
Speaker 6: beating them up with information. He said, they go dark
Speaker 6: after eleven, Mandy, do they de energize the power lines
Speaker 6: and situations like this, Yeah, because of they don't.
Speaker 4: No, it's not like California. It's not like California where
Speaker 4: you're gonna start fires because of it. They kind of
Speaker 4: let the It's almost like the chips are going to
Speaker 4: fall where they may, and they're going to allow the
Speaker 4: power to be on as long as they can, and
Speaker 4: then after the storm they're going to send people into
Speaker 4: clear the live power lines, which is a huge problem.
Speaker 4: But it's not like it's going to set a fire
Speaker 4: in California, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right, it's a little bit different dark.
Speaker 6: I think he just meant they probably, you know, might
Speaker 6: not have power, and that's what he's thinking. So anyways,
Speaker 6: it's like, Oh, I should have asked him it on
Speaker 6: the air, about what he's gonna do.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'll text it right now.
Speaker 6: I'm going my yard with just something I always do,
Speaker 6: and I will. I will text them and see what
Speaker 6: he says about that.
Speaker 4: So all right, all right, Marty. Now I'm gonna have
Speaker 4: to worry about your brother, but I will say I'll
Speaker 4: send up prayers for his safety as well.
Speaker 5: So we got that covered.
Speaker 6: Thank you appreciating all.
Speaker 4: Right, thanks Marty, We'll be right.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, well, I gotta say, Marty, moan is lawn
Speaker 7: at one forty? Isn't that like you're gonna hurt your lawn?
Speaker 6: Marty?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, you're now No, no, beautiful. I looked
Speaker 5: up these things. The sun damage.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, the sun is not as it's not intense enough
Speaker 4: in October to Milan.
Speaker 5: I can go home and one at four.
Speaker 4: Yes, which is not nearly intense as it is in
Speaker 4: the middle of summer in July.
Speaker 5: That makes sense.
Speaker 7: Everything, Okay, I don't have to wait until near sunset anymore.
Speaker 4: No, oh really, don't you really? A rod has now
Speaker 4: become lawn obsessed. He's he's like, he's like six months
Speaker 4: away from screaming get out by lawn.
Speaker 5: I've yelled it, I make sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, I haven't yelled. I planned to yell if anyone
Speaker 5: comes near or their dog comes near, He's already there.
Speaker 5: My friends, he's already there. Oh jeez, you.
Speaker 4: Got a texture here. I've got lots of family in
Speaker 4: Sarasodi and they're riding this hurricane. Now, that's just I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: it's stupid. You're just if you have the means to leave,
Speaker 4: you're just stupid for staying and you're going miserable after
Speaker 4: the fact.
Speaker 7: Heard if people liking super tall high rises way up there,
Speaker 7: are they?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 4: It depends on the building. Yeah, you know, it depends
Speaker 4: on how it was built, when it was built, and
Speaker 4: there's always debris. So the super high up buildings a
Speaker 4: lot of times don't have hurricane shutters on the windows.
Speaker 4: So then you've got to worry about some flying in
Speaker 4: your window because all the the stuff flying around.
Speaker 5: Is a huge problem. Also, you're not getting out plumbing,
Speaker 5: you know, well, you're.
Speaker 4: Probably unless you're building has a massive generator that's not
Speaker 4: going to be underwater.
Speaker 5: You're gonna be out of power.
Speaker 4: That's the thing. It's not the storm itself, although Sarasota
Speaker 4: is going to be wrecked.
Speaker 5: Uh, it's the aftermath.
Speaker 4: If this is a Category four storm, when it comes
Speaker 4: on shore, there's a chance power won't be back in
Speaker 4: some areas for weeks, and then you're just sitting and
Speaker 4: it's hot and it's humid, and it's miserable. It's all.
Speaker 4: The aftermath of a hurricane is terrible, just terrible. Never
Speaker 4: want to do it again. This is where I'm never
Speaker 4: moving back to Florida. Never, never, never, never, ever so
Speaker 4: funny a couple of stories that I want to get
Speaker 4: to today before we bring on John Caldera to thirty.
Speaker 4: Denver is the least safe city in Colorado. Wallet Hub
Speaker 4: compared almost two hundred cities to determine where people feel
Speaker 4: the safest in the US. This study based safety on
Speaker 4: where Americans feel most secure, which includes factors like traffic
Speaker 4: deaths and assaults per capital to the unemployment rate, and
Speaker 4: the percentage of the uninsured population. And the study looked
Speaker 4: at some of the state's biggest cities like Aurora, Colorado Springs,
Speaker 4: and Denver.
Speaker 5: This is kind of fun.
Speaker 4: I like the results of this are kind of fun.
Speaker 4: The three Colorado cities sit on the lower half of
Speaker 4: the list. They ranked one hundred eighty two cities. Number
Speaker 4: one South Burlington, Vermont the least safe city, Memphis, Tennessee,
Speaker 4: Colorado Springs.
Speaker 5: Well, it came in at one fifty seven.
Speaker 4: Aurora came in at one point fifteen, meaning Aurora felt
Speaker 4: safer than Colorado Springs, Denver sitting at number one sixty one,
Speaker 4: and uh that is uh, that's kind of sad. While
Speaker 4: the Colorado cities rank on the lower end of the list,
Speaker 4: they still rank higher than some major cities around the country.
Speaker 4: Aurora ranks higher in safety than cities like Salt Salt
Speaker 4: Lake City, Chicago, and New York. While Colorado and Springs
Speaker 4: and Denver are considered safety safer let me try that again,
Speaker 4: safer than cities like Los Angeles and Dallas.
Speaker 5: So there's one for you.
Speaker 4: Oh, this person points out elevators won't work if the
Speaker 4: power goes out. Yep, that's miserable. I rode through the
Speaker 4: tail end of a hurricane. It was only like a
Speaker 4: Category one by the time it hit me in Orlando.
Speaker 4: It was supposed to be in a wedding in Orlando,
Speaker 4: and the storm was coming up through Florida and we
Speaker 4: were like, oh, we're gonna go anyway. So we stayed
Speaker 4: at Ratison. We were on the fifth floor and the
Speaker 4: water was coming in the windows sideways, so imagine having
Speaker 4: a window in a hotel and water is pouring in
Speaker 4: around it from I mean every all the way around it.
Speaker 4: Water is literally pouring in in the Radison Hotel. And
Speaker 4: then the next day everything smelled like mildew. It was
Speaker 4: so much fun, so good.
Speaker 5: I loved it. Not at all, it was terrible. I'm
Speaker 5: never moving back there. So you got that. And I
Speaker 5: want to talk about this story.
Speaker 4: I don't normally talk about stories like this because it's
Speaker 4: a sad story, but it's not a talk topic necessarily.
Speaker 4: A man was killed at eight twenty five pm on
Speaker 4: a Tuesday. There was a crash on Chambers Road, north
Speaker 4: of East Colfax Avenue.
Speaker 5: And that's important.
Speaker 4: Because Denver especially is trying to pass all these rules
Speaker 4: and regulations to make driving a car absolutely miserable, and
Speaker 4: they're doing it in the name of saving people, pedestrians specifically,
Speaker 4: who keep getting hit by cars. But this story is
Speaker 4: a perfect example of why all of their anti car
Speaker 4: nonsense is not going to move the needle, because in
Speaker 4: this case, the driver was not doing anything wrong. The
Speaker 4: driver was not drunk, the driver was not speeding, the
Speaker 4: driver was not intoxicated in any way, shape or form,
Speaker 4: and The guy who is now dead walked out in
Speaker 4: the middle of the road, not at an intersection. He
Speaker 4: wasn't at a crosswalk. He wandered into the road and
Speaker 4: he got hit by a car. And that is what
Speaker 4: I think. A vast majority of our pedestrian deaths are
Speaker 4: about people not using the crosswalks, people wandering into the street.
Speaker 4: I wonder if the gentleman who was hit was actually intoxicated.
Speaker 4: I think I mentioned this the oh dang amount of time.
Speaker 4: Let me finish this on the other side the break.
Speaker 4: We're gonna do the two minute drill today because I've
Speaker 4: got a bunch of stuff I haven't gotten to. And
Speaker 4: then John Caldara is gonna bring join us. We got
Speaker 4: all kinds of stuff stick around.
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Speaker 2: No, it's Mandy Connell and John on KOLA AM.
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Speaker 10: So god ways three Andy Connell keeping sad thing.
Speaker 2: The two minute drill at two.
Speaker 5: Hey, we're going to too minute warrings.
Speaker 2: Rapid fire stories of the day that we don't have
Speaker 2: more time for. Let's call this so it'll take longer
Speaker 2: than two minutes.
Speaker 6: Are are you up.
Speaker 2: Here's Mandy Connall.
Speaker 4: All right, my friends, story number one. Because you know
Speaker 4: that I'm extremely concerned about fire, and you may know
Speaker 4: that I live in Douglas County. If you two live
Speaker 4: in Douglas County, they have now imposed Stay two fire restriction,
Speaker 4: no burning of any kind. You can still have a grill,
Speaker 4: but no burning, no fireworks. Violations are punishable by a
Speaker 4: five a fine of up to one thousand dollars. And
Speaker 4: you know what, if I see you doing it, I'm
Speaker 4: going to call the cops myself. I don't want you
Speaker 4: to burn my house down. This story is super, super interesting.
Speaker 4: From politico dot com. We all know that Portland, Oregon
Speaker 4: is a bastion of liberalism, creating a liberal utopia that
Speaker 4: has turned into a hellhole. How do I know, Well,
Speaker 4: they're in the process of bouncing out their entire government.
Speaker 4: Not only are they bouncing them out, they're restructuring government.
Speaker 4: Portland voters decided to throw out their entire government structure
Speaker 4: and replace it with a weaker mayor, expanded city council,
Speaker 4: and ranked choice voting. A major driver in this was
Speaker 4: Measure one ten, which decriminalized all drugs, which is resulted
Speaker 4: in an absolute human disaster in Portland.
Speaker 5: Now, there are a lot of people running for office.
Speaker 4: There are nineteen people running for mayor, ninety eight people
Speaker 4: seeking seats on the City Council, and though they're all
Speaker 4: campaigning on left of center platforms, almost all of them
Speaker 4: it is Portland progressives are saying, wait, we need to
Speaker 4: fix the problems, including the problems of homelessness and drug addiction.
Speaker 4: And there's some tough talk coming out of Portland. It
Speaker 4: seems that you can beat the progressive out of someone,
Speaker 4: and Portland has figured out how.
Speaker 6: To do it.
Speaker 4: So the people running to join the City Council are
Speaker 4: trying to fix it. One of them is striving for
Speaker 4: a law and order vote, another is selling a vision
Speaker 4: of pragmatic progressivism, and one focuses on mental health service
Speaker 4: as an economic revitalization. A dark horse candidate is Keith Wilson,
Speaker 4: a self made CEO who started a nonprofit aimed at
Speaker 4: ending homelessness in Portland. The entire city Council looks to
Speaker 4: be going We'll have to wait and see what happens
Speaker 4: in Portland, because right now it is a hellhole and
Speaker 4: they've got to do something.
Speaker 2: Drill it too.
Speaker 5: This is an interesting story.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you heard this, but the Justice
Speaker 4: Department has now announced charges against a citizen of Afghanistan
Speaker 4: who lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Why is he being charged, Well,
Speaker 4: he was conspiring to conduct an election day terrorist attack
Speaker 4: in the United States on behalf of ISIS. Now, what's
Speaker 4: super fun about this is Naser Ahmad TAWEEDI, twenty seven
Speaker 4: came over to the United States as part of a
Speaker 4: giant airlift of people who were completely unvetted, meaning we
Speaker 4: didn't know who they were, but we let them into
Speaker 4: the country anyway. The defendant says, the FBI director, motivated
Speaker 4: by ISIS, allegedly conspired to commit a violent act on
Speaker 4: election Day here in our homeland. Now, of course he
Speaker 4: ended up talking to FBI agent instead of an assassin
Speaker 4: or a gun deal or whatever, and they've caught the guy.
Speaker 4: But it does make me wonder who else is planning
Speaker 4: such an attack and who else was brought into the
Speaker 4: country by the Biden Harris administration. Drill it too, So
Speaker 4: this is kind of a cool story. I somehow got
Speaker 4: signed up for an email list of history facts and
Speaker 4: today's history facts. Was how cornflakes were invented. Now, if
Speaker 4: you never saw The Road to Wellness, I think the
Speaker 4: movie about the Kellogg brothers, but they were kind of
Speaker 4: wack a doodles, but early adopters of the importance of nutrition.
Speaker 4: Around eighteen ninety four, Kellogg and associates made a cereal,
Speaker 4: one of the first. It was called Granos. Granos, Yeah,
Speaker 4: they had to change the name. Oh no, they didn't
Speaker 4: have to change the name of granose. Now, the health
Speaker 4: minded doctor Kellogg refused to put any sugar in the cereal,
Speaker 4: and it was only after former patients CW. Post hit
Speaker 4: it big in eighteen ninety seven with the launch of
Speaker 4: grape Nuts, a flame spinoff of the granola he saw
Speaker 4: produced in the kitchen. That Will Kellogg devised a sweeter
Speaker 4: corn based version of Granos that became Cornflakes, a ubiquitous
Speaker 4: part of the American well breakfast table. Now, one more story,
Speaker 4: I should hit that.
Speaker 6: Sorry.
Speaker 4: I meant to talk about this earlier, and I'm going
Speaker 4: to talk about it quickly now. But it is so important,
Speaker 4: Jack Phillips, that Masterpiece Cakes has finally well for now,
Speaker 4: because I don't trust these activists to not come after
Speaker 4: him again. He was being sued by a trans woman
Speaker 4: activist named Amber Scardina because he refused to make a
Speaker 4: cake celebrating her gender transition. And now the High Court
Speaker 4: of Colorado has thrown the case out, meaning that for
Speaker 4: now Jack Phillips will be able to express himself as
Speaker 4: a baker and as a Christian without being hassled. This
Speaker 4: is after, of course, a Supreme Court ruling in a
Speaker 4: case where a gay couple tried to get him to
Speaker 4: make a cake to celebrate their gay marriage in defiance
Speaker 4: of his own religious beliefs. The Court Supreme Court sided
Speaker 4: with him, and now the Colorado Supreme Court has dismissed
Speaker 4: this case. But not because they think Jack Phillips was
Speaker 4: right or he has the freedom to do it. They
Speaker 4: dismissed the case on the grounds that attorney and transactivists
Speaker 4: Amber Scardina did not follow proper procedure in filing the
Speaker 4: case in the first place, and that, my friends, is
Speaker 4: your two minutes drill right there.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: I want to talk about this, and I'm going to
Speaker 4: talk about it on the other side of the.
Speaker 5: Break, but I want to start it here.
Speaker 4: Last night, there was a debate between Gabe Evans and Yadira,
Speaker 4: representative Yudiro Caraveo in the eighth Congressional district. Gabe us
Speaker 4: trying to unseat Representative Caraveo, and last night they had
Speaker 4: a debate, and last night I watched it. This morning,
Speaker 4: I didn't watch it last night. It was hosted by
Speaker 4: Kyle Clark and Marshall Zelliger. But I'm not mad at
Speaker 4: Kyle Clark and my Marshall Zeliger because they did what
Speaker 4: they do right. They did what they did. I thought
Speaker 4: Kyle was tough on and asked difficult questions of both candidates.
Speaker 4: But both candidates did the thing that we, the American people,
Speaker 4: have to stop allowing to happen, and that is they're
Speaker 4: asked one question and they start giving a lot of
Speaker 4: blobbedy the love of talking points, and they simply don't
Speaker 4: answer the question that is asked. And here's the thing,
Speaker 4: you guys. I like Gave Evans. I think he would
Speaker 4: be great in the eighth Congressional district. But last night
Speaker 4: he came across like a used car salesman. He didn't
Speaker 4: answer the questions, just answer the damn questions. And political
Speaker 4: consultants are to blame here. Well, you don't want to
Speaker 4: give him some kind of fodder, some kind of candid
Speaker 4: fodder for a negative ad. If you cannot clearly explain
Speaker 4: your positions, if you cannot clearly answer a question. And
Speaker 4: by the way, Representative Caraveo did know better. She did
Speaker 4: know better. It's not like just just gave Evans didn't
Speaker 4: answer the question. She didn't answer me either. I can't
Speaker 4: tell you how many times one of the moderators had
Speaker 4: to say, we didn't answer the question. Kyle Clark got
Speaker 4: in a whole bunch of Trump is racist, Trump is bad.
Speaker 5: You knew that was coming.
Speaker 4: But I'm so sick of candidates just not answering the
Speaker 4: damn questions.
Speaker 5: Just answer the questions. We'll talk more about this.
Speaker 4: On the other side, I've got a couple of questions
Speaker 4: from people about the Trump event on Friday and the
Speaker 4: Trump event I put a link on the blog today.
Speaker 4: It seems that tickets are still available. I did not
Speaker 4: put my name in in for Oh nope, it's sold out,
Speaker 4: sold out as of now. So it was there was
Speaker 4: tickets available this morning and now they're not. So if
Speaker 4: you do not already have tickets to the event, you
Speaker 4: are not going to get them. It is going to
Speaker 4: be at the Gaylord Rockies, and I know that a
Speaker 4: lot of people are super excited about this. I do
Speaker 4: not think this helps Colorado Republicans at all.
Speaker 5: I just don't.
Speaker 4: Trump is extremely disliked by a lot of Colorado voters,
Speaker 4: and I would love to think that people would be
Speaker 4: able to do the split ticket. But no, no, And
Speaker 4: I'm wondering if any you know, If I'm Gabe Evans,
Speaker 4: I don't go see Trump. I don't get my picture
Speaker 4: taken next to Donald Trump. I just don't do it.
Speaker 4: If I am Jeff Hurd in the fourth Congression No,
Speaker 4: third Congressional district, I'm not going to get my picture
Speaker 4: taken with Donald Trump. And don't get me wrong, they're
Speaker 4: Trump supporters in both of those districts. But you're not
Speaker 4: trying to win the Trump supporters as a Republican. You're
Speaker 4: trying to win the Independence And I don't know if
Speaker 4: anything is happening with Independence and their love or dislike
Speaker 4: of Trump in Colorado that would make it significant enough,
Speaker 4: you know, I just don't know. So to the person
Speaker 4: who said, Mandy, do you have any info regarding parking
Speaker 4: and access to the Trump rally on Friday? Can't find
Speaker 4: online anywhere go figure. That's because it was only available
Speaker 4: at Donald Trump.
Speaker 5: Dot com and now they are sold out.
Speaker 4: So there you go.
Speaker 5: So we got that going for us.
Speaker 4: We will have someone out there covering it. I believe
Speaker 4: Jimmy seging Burger is going to be up there covering
Speaker 4: it for us. I think so. I think he's going
Speaker 4: to be part of the media coverage. I may be
Speaker 4: speaking too soon, but I don't think I am so.
Speaker 4: Obviously we're going to have a lot of coverage of
Speaker 4: that wall.
Speaker 5: He's here.
Speaker 4: It's still a big deal. He's still, you know, a
Speaker 4: former president running for president. It's a big deal. I
Speaker 4: don't really, Ayron, have you reached out to the Trump
Speaker 4: campaign to see if we can get him for an interview?
Speaker 5: Does that happened yet? Yeah? You know, I wouldn't. I
Speaker 5: wouldn't count on it. Not holding your breath there, not quite.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, you want to just show up at the Gaylor
Speaker 5: or the Rockies on Friday? No, I'm good.
Speaker 4: I got to do my show.
Speaker 5: It's at one o'clock. It's right during the show. Oh,
Speaker 5: it sounds like a live sh right there.
Speaker 4: I found out about it as soon as it was announced.
Speaker 4: Someone sent me a text and said, this is happening.
Speaker 4: It's happening at one. I'm like, I'm doing the show.
Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong. I love the Gaylord Rockies. I
Speaker 4: go there on every opportunity, very glad, fret.
Speaker 5: And not Thursday when I'm flying out. That would not
Speaker 5: be good. Oh your cruises this week?
Speaker 6: Cruise?
Speaker 4: Where is it?
Speaker 5: Where are you going?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 5: I'm going to California.
Speaker 7: It's our my grandpa's official military like ceremony, celebrate life celebrations.
Speaker 9: Oh that's nice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was.
Speaker 7: He was cremated, so no particular rush. So this is
Speaker 7: where we're able to get all the family. Everywan's comment,
Speaker 7: So what is in San Diego?
Speaker 5: What is special about that your grandpa?
Speaker 7: So I think I'm trying to remember we're flying into
Speaker 7: I think I think we're flying in Ontario.
Speaker 4: So somewhere southern California. Yesio is a great little airport.
Speaker 4: It's fantastic.
Speaker 7: I think the military. Whatever the places he's being buried,
Speaker 7: I think it's the place he wanted to And again
Speaker 7: military cemetery, yeah, I believe, I.
Speaker 5: Believe, don'tquote.
Speaker 7: But then California, all the most of the families there
Speaker 7: got Gaian Hawaii family in Cali family in Vegas gotcha
Speaker 7: central spot for all.
Speaker 4: That's a great, great way to honor your grandpa. Get
Speaker 4: everybody together. And to the person who said you think
Speaker 4: TDA will make their way north to the Gaylord Rockies,
Speaker 4: I don't know. Here's what I hope comes out of this.
Speaker 4: I hope that Mayor Mike Kaufman, who I'm sure will
Speaker 4: be there because it is in Aurora, and yes, the
Speaker 4: Gay Lord Rockies is in Aurora. I hope he and
Speaker 4: Daniel Jorinsky can let Donald Trump know what has occurred
Speaker 4: since all of this stuff happened. And I hope they
Speaker 4: let him know that Aurora has not been taken over
Speaker 4: by gangs. So there you go, Mandy. I still recall
Speaker 4: Trump canceling an interview with you at the last minute
Speaker 4: in twenty sixteen, right when you took over for Mike Rosen,
Speaker 4: and I've texted you about it before and never got
Speaker 4: an acknowledgment. I I'm not saying that didn't happen. It
Speaker 4: absolutely could have happened. But you guys, I don't remember
Speaker 4: stuff like that.
Speaker 5: I just don't.
Speaker 4: I remember when Brooke Shields canceled on me. That upset
Speaker 4: me a great deal but when you're dealing with any
Speaker 4: kind of politician or a candidate or anything, it's so fluid,
Speaker 4: you know, meaning like they have other stuff to do,
Speaker 4: they get a better offer, whatever they're running late, blah
Speaker 4: blah blah.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4: The Gaylord has lots of parking and it's pretty cheap too. Yes,
Speaker 4: it does have lots of parking. I'm assuming that if
Speaker 4: you got a ticket, you're going to get some kind
Speaker 4: of email with the details of what you have to do.
Speaker 4: And I'm just going to say this. This event is
Speaker 4: supposed to start at one. I would recommend that you
Speaker 4: have your happy asses there at like eleven if you
Speaker 4: have a ticket, because going through the security, being screened,
Speaker 4: all of that stuff, it takes a lot longer than
Speaker 4: you think it is, and you don't want to get
Speaker 4: there and miss everything. So if you're going, make sure
Speaker 4: that you're going to get there in a timely fashion. Manday,
Speaker 4: do you know how many tickets were available?
Speaker 5: I have no idea.
Speaker 4: The Gaylord Rocky has some massive convention spaces, so I
Speaker 4: mean thousands at least at least when we get back.
Speaker 4: John Caldera joins us he's got an infuriating column that
Speaker 4: I linked on the blog today about how our tax
Speaker 4: dollars are funding the fight against oil and gas.
Speaker 5: We'll do that next.
Speaker 4: My friend from the Independence Institute, rabble rouser and all
Speaker 4: around good guy, John Caldera, Hello, my friend, that was
Speaker 4: a very bright and sunny good afternoon. Are you feeling
Speaker 4: your oaths today?
Speaker 6: You always make me feel bright and sunny. You are
Speaker 6: the sunshine in my life.
Speaker 4: Wire it's getting deep in here and we're not even
Speaker 4: flooding with a hurricane Milton yet.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 4: Uh, John, I gotta tell you, I got soup. I
Speaker 4: had a high school teacher, Nancy Hunter was her name.
Speaker 4: She was also our cheerleading sponsor, and she was an
Speaker 4: older lady when I went to school there. She actually
Speaker 4: just passed away, but her big line was when you
Speaker 4: do something out of order in her algebra class, she'd.
Speaker 1: Go, that just burns me up.
Speaker 4: And when I read your column this week, I channeled
Speaker 4: Nancy Hunter and I said, that just burns me up
Speaker 4: because you exposed to me something I did not know,
Speaker 4: and that is I am funding the opposition. Please explain
Speaker 4: to my listeners what you wrote about.
Speaker 6: You are funding the opposition, you know, the old thing
Speaker 6: and poker. You're playing with the House's money. Oh yeah, Well,
Speaker 6: your opponents on energy policy, who are trying to make
Speaker 6: all of your energy choices go away, are spending a
Speaker 6: lot of money to lobby the legislature, lobby the Oil
Speaker 6: and Gas Commission, and you are giving them government money
Speaker 6: to do so. And I didn't know until I poked around.
Speaker 6: The Colorado's Office of Environmental Justice gives out the Environmental
Speaker 6: Justice Grant program. So, in other news, Colorado has an
Speaker 6: Office of Environmental Justice.
Speaker 4: I never wanted to be mayor until right now, just
Speaker 4: so I can go rip the name tag off the
Speaker 4: door of the Environmental Office of Justice whatever Justice League
Speaker 4: of environment What what is this?
Speaker 6: Right? And it's yeah, it's It's staffed by a bunch
Speaker 6: of people with crowd pronouns, and they get their job
Speaker 6: is to spend our tax money giving out grants and
Speaker 6: helping promote environmental justice.
Speaker 4: What does that even mean?
Speaker 6: God, I was hoping you wouldn't ask that. I said,
Speaker 6: nobody knows what that means. Here's my research, here's here's
Speaker 6: what I found. You know, the term environmental justice, it's
Speaker 6: kind of like defining pornography. You really can't, but they
Speaker 6: know it when they see it, and so they I
Speaker 6: looked at their definition in the state and it's this weird, convoluted,
Speaker 6: bureaucratic fluff and a woke speak. And basically, the way
Speaker 6: it looked to me was their job is to split
Speaker 6: our community into as many smaller communities as possible and
Speaker 6: then say that the ones that are most victimized get
Speaker 6: to work to push socialism. So they find these groups,
Speaker 6: tell them that they've been victims of the environment or
Speaker 6: utilities or something. And what I found out, and you
Speaker 6: love this. Our money goes to the Office of Environmental
Speaker 6: Justice and their goal is to quote give aid to
Speaker 6: disportionately impacted communities. Whi's just like the term environmental justice
Speaker 6: requires yet more definitions. Okay, so yeah, let me they
Speaker 6: have a list. The office says that disproportionately impacted communities
Speaker 6: include low income communities, communities of color, housing burdened communities.
Speaker 5: Wait stop, wait what wait?
Speaker 4: So they're living under their house, they're holding their house
Speaker 4: up on their.
Speaker 6: Back, they're burdened housing burden. I love this one. Whistically
Speaker 6: isolated communities. What here's yes, linguistically isolated. Yeah, I guess
Speaker 6: they can't speak well, historically marginalized communities, huh, communities with
Speaker 6: environmental and socio economic impacts, tribal lands, and mobile home communities.
Speaker 6: Now I don't even know what all that means. So
Speaker 6: they get to decide, you know, who is a linguistically
Speaker 6: isolated community. But basically they give out these grants to
Speaker 6: organizations to help rectify the injustice of utilities. And what
Speaker 6: I love about this, well, let me give you a
Speaker 6: couple examples. They're one of the leading anti fossil fuel
Speaker 6: groups is called three fifty Colorado. There's a national organization
Speaker 6: as well, and last year they got about nine hundred
Speaker 6: thousand dollars in donations. Of that, one hundred seventy three thousand,
Speaker 6: seven hundred dollars came from your Office of Environmental Justice.
Speaker 6: There's another organization called Greenhouse Connection Center, and their job
Speaker 6: is to pair. You're gonna like this, this is the
Speaker 6: Mandy Tonnels thing. You like this, prepare the arts and
Speaker 6: activism with healing, connection, education and transformation as they developed
Speaker 6: quote develop climate solutions with lasting environmental and social benefits,
Speaker 6: or does that mean they they're being group.
Speaker 4: Well well, okay, wait, wait, okay, So I just want
Speaker 4: to ask you a question about that last one, because
Speaker 4: I'm actually working on a Greek tragedy style musical about
Speaker 4: the Tina Peters situation. And so what you're telling me
Speaker 4: is that if I just add a climate change component, maybe.
Speaker 5: They'll give me money.
Speaker 6: Exactly. But you have to be anti fossil fuels to
Speaker 6: do this. By the way, the woman who founded the
Speaker 6: group I just said the Greenhouse Connection also works for
Speaker 6: the alt left group Colorado Rising. They build themselves as
Speaker 6: oil and gases chief adversary. And let me just give
Speaker 6: you one more. There's something called Urban Symbiosis. That's another organization.
Speaker 6: They're focused on building a fair ecosystem and food system.
Speaker 6: So their budget, their budget that I saw in their
Speaker 6: tax forms was one hundred and eighteen thousand dollars and
Speaker 6: they got a grant for two hundred and seventeen dollars.
Speaker 6: They almost triple their budget by getting gifts from Colorado taxpayers.
Speaker 6: And this money is used to lobby, to go down
Speaker 6: and lobby. A matter of fact, you can see it
Speaker 6: on some of their tax forms of how much is
Speaker 6: being used for direct lobbying and others that they're just
Speaker 6: used to organize people. Now, this is great if you
Speaker 6: are an anti energy guy, maybe you love this, but
Speaker 6: that also means if the other team gets in charge
Speaker 6: and starts spending tax money to give to organizations to
Speaker 6: lobby for oil and gas cracking or coal, you've got
Speaker 6: to be okay with that as well. And I guess
Speaker 6: ray I'll wrap it up with this part, which is
Speaker 6: what's so crazy, is that what they try to do
Speaker 6: is under the skies of trying to help the poor
Speaker 6: via this environmental justice. These elitists are working to make
Speaker 6: energy prices skyrocket, which disproportionately hurts guess who.
Speaker 9: The poor.
Speaker 6: So they are using the poor as ponds to raise
Speaker 6: energy prices and cut off our energy supply. They exploit
Speaker 6: financially vulnerable groups to lobby for unworkable energy policies that
Speaker 6: are going to devastate financially vulnerable groups. Yeah, this is
Speaker 6: beyond perverse. They're encouraging people to want to see themselves
Speaker 6: as victims and then to use those newly identified victims
Speaker 6: to lobby for laws that will hurt those very same people.
Speaker 6: It's ugly, it's sick.
Speaker 4: John the I don't know if you saw this study.
Speaker 4: It came and went very very quickly from our news
Speaker 4: media coverage. And that was they did a long study
Speaker 4: in the name of environmental justice about the air quality
Speaker 4: around the and I want to say it was the.
Speaker 5: Elisias wants what are the neighborhoods right there?
Speaker 6: Thank you?
Speaker 4: Wanta Alirius wants you a neighborhood. And so they spent
Speaker 4: all this money doing this environmental justice study because they
Speaker 4: were hell bent on proving that it was I seventy
Speaker 4: that was leading to higher rates of asthma and other
Speaker 4: breathing conditions in those neighborhoods, only to find out the
Speaker 4: air quality wasn't bad at all, and that study just disappeared.
Speaker 4: It just was like it was here today, gone tomorrow.
Speaker 4: We're never going to see it again. So what we're
Speaker 4: doing here is saying we want to go after environmental justice.
Speaker 4: But when then the study doesn't show that there is
Speaker 4: environmental injustice, they're just moving the goalposts. I mean, am
Speaker 4: I wrong?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 6: Understand, one of the things that has happened in Colorado
Speaker 6: over the last couple decades is the Slowinsky way that
Speaker 6: anti energy people have infiltrated the system. So we have
Speaker 6: a PUC that wants to get rid of affordable energy
Speaker 6: We've got a governor who appoints people on the Oil
Speaker 6: and Gas Commission to stop that. We've got these pressure
Speaker 6: groups that push for these laws and these regulations with
Speaker 6: our own money, and the people who are going to
Speaker 6: get destroyed by this be the poor in Notice your
Speaker 6: utility bills keep going up. It's going to be worse
Speaker 6: in Colorado perhaps than any other state in the nation,
Speaker 6: because they are taking away affordable energy.
Speaker 4: So right now, do we have any recourse other than
Speaker 4: electing people who will shut these offices down.
Speaker 6: This was created by the legislature, I believe, and we
Speaker 6: have an Office of Environmental Justice. We need a governor
Speaker 6: and a legislature that gets rid of this. Quite simply,
Speaker 6: you're spending millions of your dollars to raise your utility
Speaker 6: prices and shut off affordable energy. This is this is
Speaker 6: so wrong because it hurts the poor. What I love
Speaker 6: about the left is that they're constantly squawking about how
Speaker 6: they're the ones that care about the poor, but nearly
Speaker 6: every policy they do screws the poor. What they do
Speaker 6: on environmental stuff hurts the poor who can't afford it.
Speaker 6: What do they do with education? They do it one
Speaker 6: size fits all, rich people can get out, poor people can't. Transportation,
Speaker 6: they put most of our money into a failed trolley
Speaker 6: system that almost no one rides. But if you have money,
Speaker 6: you can buy a car. So they hate the poor
Speaker 6: and they exploit them, and now they're using our money
Speaker 6: to do so. And I was surprised. I've never seen
Speaker 6: this report anywhere, so I put it in my column
Speaker 6: for the Denver Gazette. Will be up on Complete Colorado
Speaker 6: later today, and I hope you'll link to it. I
Speaker 6: hope on your blog.
Speaker 5: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: It's already linked on my blog, John, Because if I'm
Speaker 4: going to get angry about something, than God, I'm not
Speaker 4: going to be the only one. I Am going to
Speaker 4: make all of my listeners read it too, so they
Speaker 4: can be as frustrated as I am about this stuff.
Speaker 4: But this is Do we know when the Office of
Speaker 4: Environmental Justice came into being? Do you know when it
Speaker 4: had to have been after twenty nineteen?
Speaker 6: Yeah, there was just a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4: Because I can't imagine that if the Republicans had any
Speaker 4: say in the legislature that this would be a thing,
Speaker 4: and we all know they.
Speaker 5: Don't for some time now.
Speaker 4: So I what I'm looking at I'm looking at this
Speaker 4: from a different perspective now, John, because obviously you and
Speaker 4: I we are doing this wrong, right, we have to
Speaker 4: set up some kind of organization with the right language
Speaker 4: and go with me on this. With the right language.
Speaker 4: We're going to use all of the buzzwords, but we're
Speaker 4: going to use their inability to be straight about something
Speaker 4: to our advantage. We are going to gunk up the
Speaker 4: works so completely with all of the little buzzwords on
Speaker 4: the left and justice and what was it linguistically What
Speaker 4: was the linguistic thing? I forgot already.
Speaker 6: It was linguistically isolated, right.
Speaker 4: Right, right, So we're going to use all that jargon,
Speaker 4: and you and I are going to put in a
Speaker 4: grant proposal and see if we can get some of
Speaker 4: this grift.
Speaker 6: I would love to do that. The Colorado Office of
Speaker 6: Environmental Justice is run by the Colorado Department of Public
Speaker 6: Health and Environment and they're the ones who they're the
Speaker 6: ones who put it all out with our money. So
Speaker 6: keep in mind where you have potholes, millions of dollars
Speaker 6: are going to fund the alt Left. When when you're
Speaker 6: not getting the buses you need for your kids, you're
Speaker 6: not getting the education you need. There you have it.
Speaker 6: That's where it's going.
Speaker 4: I have to listen.
Speaker 5: I have to share a text message now.
Speaker 4: I just want to warn you before I read this
Speaker 4: text message to you, John Caldera from the Independence Institute.
Speaker 4: Your IQ is going to drop just a hair after
Speaker 4: you hear this, but I want you to listen to
Speaker 4: it anyway.
Speaker 2: It's the difficult thing.
Speaker 6: I've known me for a lot of time.
Speaker 4: Just well, there's not a lot of hair for it
Speaker 4: to drop either. So how about this when this text says,
Speaker 4: are you serious? You used to be able to ride
Speaker 4: a trolley across the country with transfers. The oil companies
Speaker 4: burn the trolleys to the ground to make you buy
Speaker 4: a car. And this is the liberals fault it. Gag
Speaker 4: me is how they signed it. So I don't know
Speaker 4: if gag is a is a family name or if
Speaker 4: it's just their parents came up with something creative, but
Speaker 4: that's what we're dealing with.
Speaker 6: Let me go off on that one for a second,
Speaker 6: because this is one of my most important passions, that
Speaker 6: mobility is the key to the American tream. That you
Speaker 6: show me a man who's limited to how far he
Speaker 6: can walk, or how far he can go on public transit.
Speaker 6: I will show you a man who will never go
Speaker 6: above the first rung of the economic class. And mostly
Speaker 6: it is mostly people of color who are poor, who
Speaker 6: can't afford a car. I've probably regaled you many times
Speaker 6: with a story of my five hundred dollars dots in
Speaker 6: to ten that I got in college. And it was
Speaker 6: a babemobile because you know, I went in zero to
Speaker 6: sixty and under fifteen minutes, face pain cracked, wind sealed,
Speaker 6: the headline are probably in the middle.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah. And when when it rained, water would pull up
Speaker 6: in the passenger side. Yeah, so I had to take
Speaker 6: a hammer and nail poke a hole and to get
Speaker 6: drain it. But that five hundred dollars dots and could
Speaker 6: go anywhere Alexis could go and do it for a
Speaker 6: lot less. Yeah, it freed me to hold down a job.
Speaker 6: It freed me to see clients, It freed me to
Speaker 6: go to school. It freed me to live a life
Speaker 6: and start a business. That five hundred dollars and mobility.
Speaker 5: And good roads.
Speaker 6: Let me be who I am. Go down to people
Speaker 6: who are have no choice but to write transit. I'm
Speaker 6: not talking about you know, rich guys who take the
Speaker 6: train into so they don't have to pay parking. I'm
Speaker 6: talking about people who have no other choice. Right. Those
Speaker 6: people are on the bottom of the economy, and what
Speaker 6: your listener just wrote is hateful because what she wants
Speaker 6: to do is keep those people down while people, mostly white,
Speaker 6: who can afford a car, get to live the American tree.
Speaker 6: This is why stuff like this is so very very wrong.
Speaker 4: Well, ultimately, and I'm gonna let this be the last word,
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna take it. It's it's like how valuable
Speaker 4: is your time. The lower you are in the economic ladder,
Speaker 4: the less valuable your time is, and you have an
Speaker 4: hour and a half to spend getting to work. The
Speaker 4: higher up the ladder you are, your time is more valuable.
Speaker 4: In that hour and a half could be spent doing
Speaker 4: something far more productive. John, it's a great column. John Caldera,
Speaker 4: always one of my favorite guests and my pal, and
Speaker 4: I appreciate you burning me up. But if I could
Speaker 4: get a trigger warning or something, that'd be great.
Speaker 6: Yeah, next time, your money going to be worked against
Speaker 6: you to her.
Speaker 2: That's the headline.
Speaker 4: There you go, all right, Jen, I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 4: All right, Okay, we have a new member of the
Speaker 4: KOA team. His name is Zach, and Zach will be
Speaker 4: doing your utility player. Zach, is that your official role?
Speaker 4: Utility player?
Speaker 10: Is that what it is?
Speaker 9: Yes, sir, Yesham excuse me, I'm so sorry right off
Speaker 9: the bed a really rough introduction.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I will be utili. You can probably be bouncing
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Speaker 5: Just hoping however I can.
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Speaker 5: I do so, I'm gonna git him. I'm gonna bree him.
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Speaker 4: nice of the very good first outing on that excellent
Speaker 4: what is our first of all a joke of the
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Speaker 7: I will be I will be posting telepathically today. So
Speaker 7: if you think of something funny that was me that's
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Speaker 4: Today's word of the day.
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Speaker 4: Ungainly is.
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Speaker 7: an awkward or clumsy way, unattractive.
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Speaker 4: All right, what is our category?
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Speaker 5: bay B and B.
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Speaker 5: I have to wait for the word go.
Speaker 7: Animal pair involved an indoctrination about reproduction.
Speaker 4: Go what is birds and the bees.
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh.
Speaker 7: Rare steak charred on the outside and rare in the
Speaker 7: middle is sometimes called this ow Go Mandy.
Speaker 5: What is black and blue? A basic means of support
Speaker 5: or a type of pickle?
Speaker 4: Go Mandy?
Speaker 5: What is bread and butter? Exactly cooking?
Speaker 2: This is rough?
Speaker 4: I was I was giving Ryan such a hard time yesterday.
Speaker 5: Listening enough a period of prosperity followed by a downturn.
Speaker 4: Go you laugh at this security followed by downturn?
Speaker 5: Many? What is boom and b and going for the sweep?
Speaker 7: This British phrase about being oversafe contains two articles of clothing.
Speaker 7: Remember the British word for suspenders go uh oh, I.
Speaker 4: Have no idea what the British word for suspenders is.
Speaker 5: Four is still a sweep?
Speaker 4: M oh man, it's gotta be.
Speaker 5: It's gotta be some weird British slang. I have no
Speaker 5: idea what what is? What is belt embraces the sweep?
Speaker 5: So it's still a shutout a sweep.
Speaker 4: I'll take that, Zach, a pleasure.
Speaker 5: You've taken your first.
Speaker 4: We'll expect to see you back for another beating, very
Speaker 4: very soon. We're happy you're here. HAPPI you're on team
Speaker 4: on the team with us now, so it's nice to
Speaker 4: meet you and I.
Speaker 5: Look forward to working with you.
Speaker 4: But right now we're going to turn the station over.
Speaker 5: To KOA Sports.
Speaker 4: We'll be back tomorrow. Another a fantastic show coming your
Speaker 4: way up I think from the Beer Festival, but I'm
Speaker 4: not positive.
Speaker 5: So that's gonna be a lot of fun to stick around.