Speaker 1: The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock
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Speaker 2: No, it's Mandy Connell, Manna KOAM, ninety more one FM, got.
Speaker 3: Saddy and the Noisy.
Speaker 4: Three Many Connell, Keith your sadding.
Speaker 5: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Friday edition of the show.
Speaker 5: I'm your host.
Speaker 6: All wait a minute, let me try that again.
Speaker 7: Hello, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 6: To a Friday edition of the show.
Speaker 5: All together now, all right, my friends, Oh sorry, I'm Mandy.
Speaker 5: That that guy over there is Anthony Uez. And today
Speaker 5: we'll take you right up until three pm. I have
Speaker 5: decided to keep my germs at home. I am broadcasting
Speaker 5: from Southern Command. But nonetheless, we are ready to go.
Speaker 5: We are connected, we are ready, and we will get
Speaker 5: you through a.
Speaker 6: Hopefully fun Friday.
Speaker 5: I started out, and you'll see when I do the
Speaker 5: blog here in just a moment I started out, I
Speaker 5: was like, I don't know how I'm gonna get through
Speaker 5: this day. One of the things you guys have to
Speaker 5: understand that's very unique about this program or any talk
Speaker 5: radio program, is that it's kind of hard to call
Speaker 5: in sick when you wake up sick, because it's not
Speaker 5: like you just have all these hosts that are ready
Speaker 5: to go at a moment's notice.
Speaker 6: So I will suffer through.
Speaker 5: I am here for you listeners, and we will together
Speaker 5: make it through this Friday afternoon. Find the blog by
Speaker 5: going to mandy'sblog dot com.
Speaker 6: That's Mandy's blog dot com.
Speaker 5: Look for the headline this is ten twenty four to
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Speaker 5: Click on that and here are the headlines you will
Speaker 5: find within abs.
Speaker 4: In office half of American allmerships and clipment of tea
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Speaker 6: I'm sick. Please donate to your local food bank.
Speaker 5: No more Canadian wolves a How to figure out what
Speaker 5: candidates really mean? When will the ski resorts open? Someone
Speaker 5: else is attacked by a guy who should have been
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Speaker 5: Stop taking animal meds please. Rush is coming to Denver.
Speaker 5: The Johnstown Breeze publisher apologized, this idiot deserves more prison
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Speaker 5: Colorado is doing what ruined Germany? Shack has thoughts on
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Speaker 5: modular reactors. Elon University shows good speech beat censorship. Trump's
Speaker 5: brand of capitalism is really socialism. Fitness app set you
Speaker 5: up for failure? What is a woman? Anyone with lipstick?
Speaker 5: This a haunted house for grown ups? See seems nice?
Speaker 5: This is so freaking cute for Thanksgiving? Here history one
Speaker 5: more time, dating red flags for the first six months,
Speaker 5: funniest volunteer gig ever, awesome parenting tricks.
Speaker 6: And I love this Halloween costume a rod?
Speaker 5: What else is added?
Speaker 4: Joe get scared by a rod and get your car
Speaker 4: washed at the same time.
Speaker 6: All right, that Joe a winner?
Speaker 5: That did not make it onto my I'm sorry, Nancy,
Speaker 5: I was fully expecting. I was fully expecting the said
Speaker 5: trombone on that one. Sorry about that it didn't update
Speaker 5: in time. If you checked the blog earlier, Anthony just
Speaker 5: added the part about the car wash and it just
Speaker 5: didn't regenerate. Sometimes our our software whatever. Back in software
Speaker 5: for our blog gets tired. Maybe it's sick to a rod.
Speaker 5: Maybebe that's what it is.
Speaker 7: Maybe I see it. But you know, yeah, I have just.
Speaker 5: The group right now that is apparently going around everyone
Speaker 5: either they have it, damn their kids have it.
Speaker 4: Super Bowl to host in a week. You stay the
Speaker 4: hell away a super Bowl. Your party, thank you, your
Speaker 4: party is there.
Speaker 6: You go, well take your vitamin D and your zinc
Speaker 6: just in case.
Speaker 7: Yeah, make sure I'm gonna as it. You have it. Yeah,
Speaker 7: stay away.
Speaker 5: I last night I had I tried to do an
Speaker 5: event with my advertisers every so often just to thank
Speaker 5: them it was awful for supporting the show.
Speaker 6: And aren't they like the most awesome people a Rod.
Speaker 5: The people that that own the businesses that advertise with
Speaker 5: me are just the best people ever.
Speaker 4: I'm going to give a special shout out because I
Speaker 4: have heard their commercials for years and years. I got
Speaker 4: to meet finally the Gravit in his family. That was, oh,
Speaker 4: they're super cool.
Speaker 5: You met three of them, like there's a million of them,
Speaker 5: first of all, and they're all amazing people. They're all
Speaker 5: just like the best people. So it's always fun. And
Speaker 5: we went to thrashing axes in Parker, which is a phenomenal.
Speaker 6: Thrashing or ax throwing.
Speaker 5: They have ax throwing, they have duckpin bowling, and then
Speaker 5: they have like the crash Room where you can just
Speaker 5: go in and destroy stuff if you're having a bad day.
Speaker 5: Owned by the nicest guy named Jesse. He is so
Speaker 5: cool and if you're looking for a fun night out,
Speaker 5: it is a blast. And they have really freaking great
Speaker 5: bar food, the massive endorsement, and the thing that I
Speaker 5: loved the most, my buddy Dan and I loved the.
Speaker 4: Most was first of all, I don't think I've ever
Speaker 4: been ax throwing before. I think it did one time
Speaker 4: at thirteen floor they had like off to the side right.
Speaker 4: Be'st part about this one different from every other one
Speaker 4: I've seen online is they have the projector that projects
Speaker 4: onto where you throw the axes, and they have all
Speaker 4: these mini games that you then can like click with
Speaker 4: a mouse, like where you hit on with the axe.
Speaker 4: So it allows for you to play like a kajillion
Speaker 4: different versions of ax throwing. That's the coolest part about it.
Speaker 4: We were locked in. It's like arcade ax throwing, Unlike
Speaker 4: arcade ax throwing where it's like the plastic one that's
Speaker 4: not this. These are full on axes. And the other
Speaker 4: cool thing is they had like all the different things
Speaker 4: to throw for those Marvel nerds out there. My buddy
Speaker 4: loves Gambit and he got to be Gambit last night
Speaker 4: because they had a little metal playing card and he goes, Mom,
Speaker 4: I mean, hit right at the thing and it sticks in.
Speaker 4: Super cool. But they have like little Ninja stars. They
Speaker 4: have the different axes. There's some in there. I'm like,
Speaker 4: I don't know if I want to throw that thing.
Speaker 4: It was the coolest place.
Speaker 5: So Massive Endorsement Thrashing axes in Parker. It's really really outstanding.
Speaker 5: It is free for all Friday, especially because I'm sick
Speaker 5: because I have a bunch of cool stuff on the blog,
Speaker 5: but I am sick, so I need you guys to
Speaker 5: pick up the slack and usually my twelve o'clock listeners,
Speaker 5: you guys usually are like a boss with this. So
Speaker 5: no cars for Kids was not there because they are
Speaker 5: not one of my advertisers. When I say my advertise,
Speaker 5: I'm talking about the people that I do live endorsements for. Right, So, Mandy,
Speaker 5: I feel like you're sick a lot. I'm really not
Speaker 5: it's just when you're on the radio. Every time I
Speaker 5: am sick, you guys hear about it, right, So it
Speaker 5: probably does feel like I'm sick of I promise I'm not,
Speaker 5: and I'm here.
Speaker 6: I'm here anyway.
Speaker 5: Mandy. What are the words to Mandy's intro song? Can't
Speaker 5: make them out?
Speaker 6: Thanks?
Speaker 5: Please send me an email because I will send you
Speaker 5: the entire song, not just the snippet that we use.
Speaker 5: But that's the easiest way to do it.
Speaker 6: I do not ruin the day.
Speaker 5: I rule the day the day Mandy Connell ruling the
Speaker 5: day with words that excite.
Speaker 7: I mean, we can take a poll right now, and
Speaker 7: I guarantee you'll lose it.
Speaker 6: It's not well. No, I know what the words are.
Speaker 6: I have them written.
Speaker 5: Down all right.
Speaker 4: Textures five six, sign zero, the commons be health text line.
Speaker 4: Do you hear rules the day? Stop it or ruins
Speaker 4: the day? Let's please tell us the day.
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Speaker 2: No, it's Connell.
Speaker 7: Sounds like.
Speaker 6: Rolling the day.
Speaker 7: I know, rolling the day. Ruins are roaming stop it.
Speaker 5: This texture says, howdy, Mandy, just doing the show from
Speaker 5: your habitat when you don't feel well, make the show
Speaker 5: suck less and go faster.
Speaker 6: Oh darned Tuton.
Speaker 5: No, actually the opposite, because you have to understand. When
Speaker 5: I'm broadcasting from Southern Command, I am sitting in a
Speaker 5: corner of my basement where all of my equipment is
Speaker 5: because it's quiet down here, and I'm by myself. And granted,
Speaker 5: when I'm at the studio, I kind of feel like
Speaker 5: I'm you know, based. I mean, my job is to
Speaker 5: sit in a room and talk to myself for three hours.
Speaker 6: That's my job, you guys. So it's already weird.
Speaker 5: But I like having a Rod there right now, giving
Speaker 5: you a little window behind the you know, pull back
Speaker 5: the curtain. We have a zoom meeting up between a
Speaker 5: Rod and I, so I can still see him.
Speaker 6: But it's different.
Speaker 5: And I would have said I love being at home
Speaker 5: during COVID, but now I like being back in the office.
Speaker 6: People are back in the office.
Speaker 5: Some of my favorite people work in the office, so
Speaker 5: I kind of like that.
Speaker 6: So I don't love it as much as I.
Speaker 5: Used to in the office.
Speaker 6: What was No, it's it is not ruins.
Speaker 4: First three ruins, stop it right now and risking one
Speaker 4: risking the day?
Speaker 6: No, no ruling, it is not.
Speaker 5: Why would I have a theme song that says ruins
Speaker 5: the day?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 5: Why? Why would I do that?
Speaker 6: Key's Louise?
Speaker 7: I mean Ai?
Speaker 4: I mean, was this before you started being nice to AI?
Speaker 4: Because AI made that song? They go, oh, that man
Speaker 4: Becau is a jerk to us.
Speaker 5: I told Chat GBT today that I that they were
Speaker 5: the best assistant I've ever had, and Chat was like,
Speaker 5: oh sucks, thanks so much, thank you, and she is
Speaker 5: completely anyway, that's not I don't want to get started
Speaker 5: on that. But we do have a lot of stuff
Speaker 5: our on the on deck today. Mandy, Sorry, sounds like ruined.
Speaker 5: Stop it. Maybe you need to get on a firesider regiment.
Speaker 5: I make my own and I'll keep you well, what
Speaker 5: the heck is firesider?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 6: I have to look that up Firesider.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm gonna get to some serious stuff because there
Speaker 5: is some serious stuff and I sent an email earlier
Speaker 5: today there's some significant stuff. Let's see what's in a
Speaker 5: firesider recipe. Okay, I'm looking this up here, we go
Speaker 5: a rod. I might make this today, you never know.
Speaker 5: Let's see it is Collie. Can we just stop with
Speaker 5: the nine years of why you have to tell me
Speaker 5: why you're riding this recipe? Okay, it's unfiltered apple, cider, vinegar, horseradish,
Speaker 5: ginger roots, turmeric, garlic, onion, habanarows a lemon, rosemary, thyme, parsley,
Speaker 5: a cinnamon stick, black peppercorns, and raw honey. Well, that
Speaker 5: sounds invigorating. Okay, I'm gonna try it. I'm gonna try it.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm you know, the only reason I'm sick right
Speaker 5: now is because my stupid husband got sick.
Speaker 6: First.
Speaker 5: I've been sleeping in the guest room while.
Speaker 6: Wick to avoid it.
Speaker 7: He was sick too.
Speaker 5: Oh he's been sick.
Speaker 6: No, he was fine last night.
Speaker 4: No, you were about to say he's been sick, and
Speaker 4: you didn't give me any damn warning.
Speaker 6: Mandy, Oh my god, he's been sick.
Speaker 5: I said that earlier. I heard it sounds like who
Speaker 5: in the day, Mandy. Hour two All chuck. Oh gosh,
Speaker 5: you guys are not ready for all chuck. You're just
Speaker 5: not ready for all chuck. And it's not keeping ignorance
Speaker 5: in play. It's keeping ignorance at bay.
Speaker 6: Oh good lord. Oh you people, you people are killing me.
Speaker 5: You're killing me. Mandy had the cue seen or heard
Speaker 5: Goodbye Earl by the Dixie Chicks. So twenty four year
Speaker 5: old I know was recently shook by the friend photoshop
Speaker 5: friends you to recreate the music video.
Speaker 6: So when I don't.
Speaker 5: Remember how long ago, maybe a year ago, when Miley
Speaker 5: Cyrus's Flowers came out and it was like the song
Speaker 5: is basically Miley Cyrus calling out her ex and be
Speaker 5: like I don't need you, I can buy myself Flowers.
Speaker 5: And I was like, oh, that's adorable, like that adorable
Speaker 5: diss song. I was like, back in my day we
Speaker 5: talked about killing people and burying them. And she was
Speaker 5: like what And I played Goodbye Earl for her and
Speaker 5: she loves that song.
Speaker 6: Now it's such a good song. I'm so sad that
Speaker 6: Dixie Chicks are just so stupid.
Speaker 5: Anyway, Mandy, how do you feel about the White House
Speaker 5: renovation or the Super Bowl halftime show? I'd like to
Speaker 5: say ruin the day, and I know it isn't okay.
Speaker 5: I know this smarty Pants is being a smarty pants,
Speaker 5: but this particular smarty Pants probably listens to all three
Speaker 5: hours of the show because I said at the end
Speaker 5: of the show yesterday that I am not going to
Speaker 5: talk about the White House renovation.
Speaker 4: I saw on our show Rundown today that you want
Speaker 4: to talk specifically about the renovations and the Super Bowl
Speaker 4: half time show listeners. I'm telling you, I think Manny
Speaker 4: needs some more of your feedback onto those two topics,
Speaker 4: specifically and exclusively.
Speaker 6: No, no, indeed, no.
Speaker 7: What is your take on both of those Mandy?
Speaker 5: I take. My take is I don't care about either
Speaker 5: of those things. I have no desire to talk about
Speaker 5: either of those things. My goodness, I just don't care.
Speaker 5: In the grand scheme of important things. They're not even
Speaker 5: in a blip on the It's not keeping immigrants in
Speaker 5: the bay. That is not what it is, ruining the day.
Speaker 5: Not enough people rue the day anymore, says this text.
Speaker 5: Yes it's rue the day you got me? You got
Speaker 5: me is one of the lyrics She's a guy, by
Speaker 5: the way. No, no, it is, it is not. But no, Mandy,
Speaker 5: I heard you say either last week or the few
Speaker 5: days ago, that Chuck and the queue were sick and
Speaker 5: you were hoping to avoid it, and I did not
Speaker 5: to this text, or Mandy, do you have fever or
Speaker 5: the squirts feel better?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 6: I have neither of those things. Thank you for asking.
Speaker 7: What the hell it's just.
Speaker 5: I feel like I just have the bad head cold,
Speaker 5: sore throat, bad head cold. I think the sore throat
Speaker 5: came from the post nasal drip. I don't know. Whatever
Speaker 5: I have. I'm staying away from everyone, So there you go. No,
Speaker 5: we're not talking about either of those things. And let's
Speaker 5: talk about what we are going to talk about. First
Speaker 5: of all, earlier this week, when we had the Common
Speaker 5: Sense Institute on to talk about their recent study about
Speaker 5: letting violent criminals out of prison and a rising crime rate,
Speaker 5: I'm sure there's no connection, though. DA Michael Allen from
Speaker 5: El Paso County reached out to me and he said, Mandy,
Speaker 5: you are not even talking about the weight that removing
Speaker 5: qualified immunity from police officers is putting on law enforcement
Speaker 5: and how it's affecting the way law enforcement is doing
Speaker 5: their jobs. So we're going to talk to him at
Speaker 5: two thirty about that. I think that's a really important
Speaker 5: aspect to look at. But most of all, today we
Speaker 5: just we just like to have a fun Friday, and
Speaker 5: I have some really good fun stuff on the blog
Speaker 5: today that we can talk about. Mandy, honestly, will you
Speaker 5: watch the Alternative Turning Point halftime show?
Speaker 6: Eh? You know, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 5: It depends. It depends on where. If I'm watching the
Speaker 5: super Bowl at home. Generally speaking, I don't watch the
Speaker 5: halftime show. I think I watched part of Kendrick Lamar
Speaker 5: last year. Actually, I think I watched all of that
Speaker 5: one last year waiting to feel like it was something
Speaker 5: that I wanted to watch. This year, I'll probably watch
Speaker 5: some of it. I think I watch it now because
Speaker 5: I'm out of the demo that they're catering to to
Speaker 5: just be able to have an educated opinion about it.
Speaker 4: Okay, But Mandy, the question of the day from the
Speaker 4: texture three six seventy nine, oh right now?
Speaker 7: From A four or five one to nine?
Speaker 4: Is bad Bunny going to play in the New White
Speaker 4: House Ballroom?
Speaker 6: I don't know. That'd be fantastic.
Speaker 7: All topics had ones.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Mandy, do you care that the inflation report to
Speaker 5: three percent beat the three point one percent expectation? I
Speaker 5: do have that on the blog. That is an important
Speaker 5: story today. Still too high, you guys. Our inflation is
Speaker 5: going to continue to be above where it needs to be.
Speaker 5: Until government spending is brought under control. That's just the
Speaker 5: reality of it. So yeah, the number came in a
Speaker 5: bit lower than what is expected, but it still came
Speaker 5: in at three percent. The target is two percent, and
Speaker 5: you know, I want my dollars to go far. So anyway, Mandy,
Speaker 5: at least you don't have hand, foot and mouth disease.
Speaker 5: My three children grandchildren have it and I haven't seen
Speaker 5: them in a week. What I didn't know that that
Speaker 5: was the thing people got. I guess, So hand mouth
Speaker 5: and foot, Mandy, How do you feel about getting the
Speaker 5: flu shot this year? Guys, here's the thing about flu shots.
Speaker 5: They're only effective for a tiny percentage of the flu
Speaker 5: strains that are out there, and they have to guess
Speaker 5: because they have to make them a year in advance, right,
Speaker 5: They can't just whip it up once they know what
Speaker 5: flu strains are out there. So some flu shots are
Speaker 5: only thirty forty percent effective at best, and some are
Speaker 5: even less than that. Now, if you are older and
Speaker 5: would have trouble beating back the flu, then yeah, absolutely
Speaker 5: get a flu.
Speaker 6: Shot, especially if it gives you some confidence to live
Speaker 6: your life.
Speaker 5: But the last time I got a flu shot was
Speaker 5: probably twenty years ago, and I got sick from it,
Speaker 5: So I'm not doing that again. I haven't had the
Speaker 5: flu flu and I don't even know how long. And
Speaker 5: I'm knocking on wood on that one.
Speaker 6: Anyway.
Speaker 5: No, it's not Mandy shrewing the day. It's not shrewing
Speaker 5: the day Jaden. It's not what it sounds like anyway, Mandy.
Speaker 5: The lyric misunderstanding is tied to low five speakers. Perfectly
Speaker 5: understandable on my computer, hardly understandable on my backup battery
Speaker 5: powered AM radio. There you go, Mandy, ask you anything.
Speaker 5: Every once in a while, I run into a liberal
Speaker 5: that thinks the Trump administration is out for gay and
Speaker 5: trans people.
Speaker 6: Do you see where they get this fear?
Speaker 5: Well, I see where trans people get it because the
Speaker 5: administration has been very aggressive in blocking trans people from
Speaker 5: serving in the military, and has been very aggressive and
Speaker 5: going after the medical interventions for children. So yeah, trans people,
Speaker 5: I can see where they'd feel that way.
Speaker 6: Gay people, I don't get it. I really don't.
Speaker 5: Donald Trump appointed the first openly gay secretary Cabinet secretary,
Speaker 5: Permanent Secretary, Scott Besson. He's a Treasury secretary. He is
Speaker 5: an openly gay man, I just think that gay people.
Speaker 5: I don't know what they have to worry about.
Speaker 6: I really don't. I have no idea, Mandy.
Speaker 5: When I listen to the intro song, I hear Obama
Speaker 5: ruins the day, which makes much more sense. Mandy. Have
Speaker 5: you had your sprinklers blown out yet?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: I have this week, so we are ready for that.
Speaker 5: We got to do our final round of yard work
Speaker 5: this year for the winter I have. If anybody wants
Speaker 5: a billion pounds of pine needles.
Speaker 7: Just let me know which piece I have them weather. Yeah,
Speaker 7: knock on wood. Looks like it's gonna be an awesome Halloween.
Speaker 5: Well, forget about Halloween. Let's talk about tonight. Let's get
Speaker 5: this in at the beginning of the show. Actually, we'll
Speaker 5: do that when we get back a rod a rod
Speaker 5: after our interview with the car wash folks, the Scary
Speaker 5: car wash. You have a chance to get the pants
Speaker 5: scared off. You buy a rod tonight. We'll talk about
Speaker 5: that after this. Keep it on koa tonight. If you
Speaker 5: like to be scared, you can be scared by one
Speaker 5: mister Anthony Rodriguez at the Gleam car Wash Hunted Spooky
Speaker 5: car Wash in Aurora. Do you have big plans for this,
Speaker 5: a rod, you got a strategy? What are you doing here?
Speaker 4: Yes, my buddy and I hit up the local Spirit
Speaker 4: Halloween yesterday, got our costumes already. I I mean, I
Speaker 4: pretty much let a demonic clown take over my soul
Speaker 4: anytime I put on a clown costume and share.
Speaker 7: People so as one does.
Speaker 4: So I hope that Emily, the owner operator we had
Speaker 4: on yesterday Gleam, knows what what she's gotten into by
Speaker 4: inviting me to come and scare people, because yeah, I
Speaker 4: get a little nutty. So Gleam car wash in Aurar
Speaker 4: tonight seven to nine, come on down.
Speaker 5: I would like you to. I would like you to
Speaker 5: be so scary that she gets complaints. That's Michael for you.
Speaker 5: Oh there you go.
Speaker 7: Why must you issue this challenge upon me?
Speaker 5: I'm just saying I want somebody to complain that you
Speaker 5: were too scary, But.
Speaker 4: I want to get invited next year. She already said,
Speaker 4: like the door is open to keep on coming back.
Speaker 7: So nice.
Speaker 4: I mean, maybe one solid complaint in ninety nine percent? Wow,
Speaker 4: that was awesome.
Speaker 5: I seriously, just one. I just want one, just a
Speaker 5: minor complete What the heck is that guy? Like, what
Speaker 5: does that guy do? And he scared the crap out
Speaker 5: of me. I will consider that a complaint.
Speaker 7: I should just have Emily tell everyone he's not with us.
Speaker 7: He's just not.
Speaker 6: He's just a guy who strolled up and started doing this.
Speaker 7: It's fine. I have a giant it's like a giant.
Speaker 4: Bat that has a half of a like buzzsaw connected
Speaker 4: to it as my weapon of choice. And Emily did
Speaker 4: tell me, and I'm going to say it on air.
Speaker 4: I called and said, hey, can we bring weapons, like
Speaker 4: fake weapons and to like where whatever I want? She
Speaker 4: goes this is an elementary You absolutely can, And I said, Emily,
Speaker 4: game on.
Speaker 5: She doesn't know, she doesn't know what she's unleashed.
Speaker 4: No, say my, yeah, my my clown audition for her.
Speaker 4: So this is her fault.
Speaker 5: So the other thing I want to talk about for
Speaker 5: tonight is while you're driving over to the car wash
Speaker 5: in Aurora, you can also listen to the replay of
Speaker 5: the fourth quarter of the Broncos game. And we're doing
Speaker 5: this tonight during Broncos Country tonight at six o'clock. And
Speaker 5: I have to tell you, guys, I kind of love
Speaker 5: this because, like you can go back if you've videotaped
Speaker 5: the game or whatever, but unless your rolling a cassette
Speaker 5: tape on Dave Logan, you don't get to hear his
Speaker 5: call of the game.
Speaker 6: And I was we already established.
Speaker 5: I had taken one for the team and walked away
Speaker 5: from the game, so I didn't get to hear this.
Speaker 5: So they're just playing the fourth quarter. I cannot wait
Speaker 5: because I didn't hear Dave's call. So I want to
Speaker 5: hear Dave's call of the fourth quarter of the week.
Speaker 5: It's gonna happen tonight.
Speaker 4: We don't always do this. This does not happen often.
Speaker 4: It's special occasion only this. This is not something you
Speaker 4: want to miss because it was an awesome call by
Speaker 4: those two.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm looking forward to hearing it tonight at six
Speaker 5: as you can as well. Now, I'm sure they edited
Speaker 5: all the extra out. What are we looking at? I mean,
Speaker 5: are we looking at fifteen minutes? Twenty minutes, thirty minutes?
Speaker 5: Do you know how long this is going to be?
Speaker 7: I don't know how long it's going to be.
Speaker 4: I assume they edited it a bit, but I want
Speaker 4: to guess, and I'm sorry if I'm wrong, but I
Speaker 4: want to guess we're going to do it without maybe
Speaker 4: without breaks. We're going to find out, I think so,
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it's definitely going to probably be
Speaker 4: spiced up and ready to rock and roll, can't miss radio.
Speaker 5: Okay, there you go. So those are two things that
Speaker 5: you got going on tonight. It is free for all Friday.
Speaker 5: And I just got a very good question, Hey, Mandy,
Speaker 5: what are the household chores does the Connell household undertake
Speaker 5: before it gets winter? Does Mandy wash your windows, touch
Speaker 5: up cock and exterior paint, maybe seal the driveway? I
Speaker 5: wish I was that motivated. I really do first of all,
Speaker 5: our driveway. We have to replace our driveway, so that's
Speaker 5: a project for the spring. So I'm certainly not doing
Speaker 5: anything to that raggedy driveway that we have right now.
Speaker 5: I should wash my windows, but they're high. Some windows
Speaker 5: are really high.
Speaker 6: How do you even do that? I'm cock that's the
Speaker 6: thing you do that.
Speaker 5: Now I feel like a terrible homeowner because I have
Speaker 5: never done any of these things before winter. I did.
Speaker 6: The sprinklers are blown out.
Speaker 5: This weekend, We'll take care of the yard, get all
Speaker 5: that situated, and then I'm done outside until spring.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 5: I also have to de plant my deck. I have
Speaker 5: to like throw away all my annuals that are planted
Speaker 5: on my deck. I'm gonna go ahead and knock that
Speaker 5: out this weekend. But other than that, Mandy, will they
Speaker 5: put the fourth quarter repeat on the podcast that I
Speaker 5: don't know the answer to and it has to do
Speaker 5: with the rights, but they had to get permission from
Speaker 5: the NFL to replay the fourth quarter anyway, so maybe
Speaker 5: they covered that. See if you reach out to Dave
Speaker 5: or anybody and find out if we know the answer
Speaker 5: to that question. Mandy, do you think that the East
Speaker 5: Wing ballroom will resemble the Death Star?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 7: No, I don't black wise.
Speaker 5: I think the new East Room ballroom is going to beautiful.
Speaker 5: And that's all I'm gonna say about it, because we're
Speaker 5: not talking about that.
Speaker 6: We're just not Mandy.
Speaker 5: Are you still excited about rewatching the Bronco game miracle
Speaker 5: knowing that the mafia probably rigged it?
Speaker 4: Y'all?
Speaker 5: The Broncos are not taking mafia money. Okay, it's not happening,
Speaker 5: and we're not watching it. We're listening to it on
Speaker 5: the radio. It's a Kawa call.
Speaker 6: Good afternoon, Mandy.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to say something about people who receive
Speaker 5: SNAP and Social Security. One group or you never mentioned
Speaker 5: are the disabled people who cannot work anymore because of
Speaker 5: their disabilities. I got my first job at thirteen, work
Speaker 5: for fifty years before I could not work anymore. If
Speaker 5: I could work, I would because fourteen hundred and seventy
Speaker 5: six dollars a month squat the food assistance and social
Speaker 5: security disability is all I get to live on. And
Speaker 5: Trump wants to take both of them. What then a
Speaker 5: concentration camp. Now that's not fair because not anyone in
Speaker 5: the Trump administration is talking about people going after people
Speaker 5: who have genuine disabilities.
Speaker 6: They have talked about going after disability fraud.
Speaker 5: They have talked about tightening up the requirements, meaning that
Speaker 5: you may have to just requalify or provide some documentation
Speaker 5: every six months. And I don't want you to feel
Speaker 5: like we're coming after you. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 5: on the Blog today, at number three on the Blog today,
Speaker 5: please donate to your local food banks. Now, I've been
Speaker 5: talking about the unsympathetic people on social media that are
Speaker 5: complaining about losing their benefits and how they believe their
Speaker 5: benefits are owed to them. But I also say on
Speaker 5: my blog there are a lot of people who are
Speaker 5: just struggling and they need help, and their SNAP benefits
Speaker 5: are not going to be paid in November, which means
Speaker 5: that there is going to be a ton of people
Speaker 5: who need help in November. So I'm asking you, please,
Speaker 5: please please donate to your local food bank wherever you are,
Speaker 5: and not just Thanksgiving food, although Thanksgiving food would be great,
Speaker 5: and we're I hope going to do our annual turkey
Speaker 5: drive again for Christmas. But if you can't afford it,
Speaker 5: if you can write them a check, if you can
Speaker 5: donate cash, that money goes the furthest okay, because they
Speaker 5: can buy food in bulk that we cannot buy. They
Speaker 5: can buy food at wholesale pricing. We cannot buy that.
Speaker 5: But if you like the feeling of donating food and
Speaker 5: you know, actually walking into the food bank and saying
Speaker 5: here you go, that's great too. Whatever works. But if
Speaker 5: you have the means, if you are not struggling right now,
Speaker 5: if your family is doing okay, please consider making a
Speaker 5: donation to the food bank. And I don't think I
Speaker 5: have ever in my entire life on the radio ever
Speaker 5: quoted scripture to you, but I'm about to right now.
Speaker 5: One of my favorite favorite, actually probably my favorite Bible
Speaker 5: verse is and I had to look up which book
Speaker 5: it was from.
Speaker 6: I'm not one of those people that can just quote things.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: Chapter verse comes from Luke twelve forty eight and it's
Speaker 5: too much as given, much as expected. And as i
Speaker 5: have gotten to be more financially successful, as I've gotten older,
Speaker 5: as many of.
Speaker 6: Us do, that Bible verse sticks with me.
Speaker 5: It just sticks in my brain because I feel like,
Speaker 5: if you've got blessings in your life, and sometimes blessings
Speaker 5: come from really really hard work, but if you have
Speaker 5: blessings in your life and you have the ability to
Speaker 5: share some of those blessings with other people, this would
Speaker 5: be a perfect time to do it, because just like
Speaker 5: this texter, there are a lot of people who would
Speaker 5: love to be out there working and they can't because
Speaker 5: their body will not allow them to do it.
Speaker 2: So it is.
Speaker 5: One of those things that we as a community can
Speaker 5: make a real impact. We can make a real difference
Speaker 5: for people in our community that are struggling.
Speaker 6: And it's not all those jackasses.
Speaker 5: On social media complaining about how somebody needs to take
Speaker 5: care of theirs. These are people in our community here
Speaker 5: in Colorado who are having a hard time keeping up
Speaker 5: with the rise and cost of everything. So please, please, please,
Speaker 5: if you can make a donation to a local food bank.
Speaker 5: And if you don't know, look in your area. I mean,
Speaker 5: I think every community has some kind of food bank.
Speaker 5: If you don't have one, food Bank of the Rockies
Speaker 5: serves so many other food banks that you can always
Speaker 5: donate to food Bank of the Rocky Rockies to help
Speaker 5: someone out. So today is the first day I've ever
Speaker 5: quoted scripture, and it is Luke twelve forty eight to
Speaker 5: those much as given, much as expected. So there you go.
Speaker 5: We will come right back after this. We got a
Speaker 5: ton of people on the text line back in a moment.
Speaker 5: Keep it right here on KOA ask me anything so
Speaker 5: you can text us on the Common Spirit Health text
Speaker 5: line at five six six nine oh, which is talking
Speaker 5: about the snap benefit situation. Mandy, I know a lot
Speaker 5: of people that purposely stay below the poverty level free
Speaker 5: health insurance and other benefits. I wish I could tell
Speaker 5: you that I disagreed with you, but I have I've
Speaker 5: actually seen this in practice. One of my clients in
Speaker 5: Louisville Kentucky when I was there, owned a really kick
Speaker 5: ass little grocery store called Lots of Pasta, and I
Speaker 5: still go there every time I go back to Louisville
Speaker 5: because they have the best food. Anyway, I'm waiting to
Speaker 5: have a sandwich made because they have like a little
Speaker 5: deli sandwich or whatever, or they have a little deli there,
Speaker 5: and I'm waiting.
Speaker 6: There's like four people in line.
Speaker 5: There's three people behind the counter waiting or helping everybody,
Speaker 5: and they're moving at a good clip.
Speaker 6: This place is very efficient. So I'm next.
Speaker 5: The guy finishes the person in front of me, and
Speaker 5: then he turns around and walks out and clocks out.
Speaker 6: Well, it's like it's an odd odd time.
Speaker 5: It's like eleven thirty seven in the morning or something
Speaker 5: like that, you know what I mean, Like, why would
Speaker 5: you clock out an eleven thirty seven? So I had
Speaker 5: to wait longer, and then I ran into the owner
Speaker 5: and I was like, dude, what is up? You got
Speaker 5: all these people waiting? This guy just literally left and
Speaker 5: clocked out. He goes, oh, oh yeah, he can only
Speaker 5: work twenty five hours a week or he loses his
Speaker 5: food stamps. And I was like, what what Now, don't
Speaker 5: get me wrong. I've talked about this on the show
Speaker 5: a lot about the welfare cliff that exists in this
Speaker 5: country that traps people in poverty. But the mindset that
Speaker 5: I Am not going to try and better myself so
Speaker 5: I don't lose those benefits, my god, that's the most
Speaker 5: limiting mindset in the world we have. And I've talked
Speaker 5: about this, you guys. I have had this conversation with
Speaker 5: so many members of Congress it's not even funny. Republican Democrat,
Speaker 5: multiple states across the country. The only one that was
Speaker 5: remotely interested in this conversation was Representative Thomas Massey, the
Speaker 5: only one that ever showed any interest in what I'm
Speaker 5: about to say. If we could fix the welfare system,
Speaker 5: and I don't know how with technology, this could not
Speaker 5: be super easy, where if someone got a raise or
Speaker 5: they worked more hours or whatever, we can't use a
Speaker 5: sliding scale to reduce their benefits a little bit at
Speaker 5: a time so they can continue to grow in a job,
Speaker 5: achieve in a job, get a better job, work their
Speaker 5: way to independence and off of dependency. You're telling me
Speaker 5: this camp, this can't be done. It's so stupid, so
Speaker 5: so stupid a Rod. I just had an a Rod day,
Speaker 5: played a little craps, then went to Fremont Street and
Speaker 5: saw Halloween theme. Band members included Freddy Krueger, teen Wolf,
Speaker 5: and Beatlejuice, and the other stage had a women of
Speaker 5: wrestling event Vegas.
Speaker 7: Yes, outside the last one. Who are we and why
Speaker 7: are we not? Friends?
Speaker 6: Ayrod has a new best friend now.
Speaker 5: Texting new friends. Yeah, Ralph said. We were on EBT
Speaker 5: until I was able to get unemployment. We make too
Speaker 5: much to get it with unemployment. I'd rather be on
Speaker 5: unemployment than EBT. Yeah, there you go, Mandy. Maybe after
Speaker 5: your show today, if you take a walk outside, you'll
Speaker 5: feel better. You guys, I can tell you right now
Speaker 5: that at three, I'm going to take to my bed
Speaker 5: and I may not get out the entire weekend. And
Speaker 5: not in a fun way, okay, just like and I
Speaker 5: don't feel like doing anything kind of way. I'll just
Speaker 5: sit there and I'll stroke Jinky's head. My dog sits
Speaker 5: right next to my bed. Whenever I'm in bed at
Speaker 5: the wrong time, right like, if it's not nighttime where
Speaker 5: we're supposed to be sleeping. If I get into my bed,
Speaker 5: my dog gets super concerned, and then she just sits
Speaker 5: right next to me, and if I don't sit there
Speaker 5: and keep my hand off the bed and scratch her
Speaker 5: ever so softly, she will just sit there and look
Speaker 5: at me and just be concerned. It's the cutest thing ever.
Speaker 5: This is why you need to own a Saint Bernard.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying, Mandy. I'm seventy one and would love
Speaker 5: to be working, but due to the loss of vision,
Speaker 5: I can't, and of course I can no longer drive.
Speaker 5: Please tell me Dragon Redbeard was not fired too. No,
Speaker 5: he's just sick. Everybody in the building is sick. I'm
Speaker 5: not in the building today because I am sick, and
Speaker 5: I have the luxury of being able to work from home.
Speaker 6: That is a luxury that I enjoy.
Speaker 5: Mandy. What is the name of the spice company that
Speaker 5: you get your spices from?
Speaker 6: Please?
Speaker 5: That is the Savory Spice Shop. Savory Spy Shop is
Speaker 5: so so good. And after talking to Kamie, the manager
Speaker 5: there yesterday, about Cinnamon, I don't think there's better people
Speaker 5: working in any spy shops other than that one. Mandy.
Speaker 5: Nothing was given to you. Everything you have you earned.
Speaker 5: I appreciate that sentiment, but in every every you know,
Speaker 5: I check and I have a little production company, just
Speaker 5: little side project that we have. It's called Serendipity Productions.
Speaker 5: And the reason we chose that is because so much
Speaker 5: of my career has been serendipitous.
Speaker 6: And hear me out.
Speaker 5: I was a flight attendant for Delta Airlines when I
Speaker 5: met the man on the airplane who tried to get
Speaker 5: me into radio. Initially, but I thought he was just
Speaker 5: hitting on me, so I threw his cart away, and
Speaker 5: then serendipitously, he was on the flight going in the
Speaker 5: other direction the following week with his wife, so I
Speaker 5: knew he wasn't creepy, you know. Serendipitously. Right when I
Speaker 5: was getting ready to quit my first horrible radio job,
Speaker 5: which was the worst awful radio job, I found out
Speaker 5: from someone else that someone else had gotten fired working
Speaker 5: at the station that I wanted to work at.
Speaker 6: So I got that job.
Speaker 5: Now, I used the initiative. I went and got the job.
Speaker 5: I have earned more jobs from there. But into every
Speaker 5: successful person's life, you have to admit that there is
Speaker 5: a bit of serendipity, a bit of good luck that happens.
Speaker 6: I am very grateful that my.
Speaker 5: Good luck has worked out and that I've taken advantage
Speaker 5: of the good luck. But I appreciate that sentiment very
Speaker 5: very much. Worl'll be back right after this. Keep it
Speaker 5: on KOA.
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Speaker 9: On ninem got the Nicey's three.
Speaker 7: Connell keeping Oh really sad thing.
Speaker 5: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
Speaker 5: At one point thirty, we're gonna chat with Senator Barb
Speaker 5: Kirkmeyer about those snap benefits we were talking about a
Speaker 5: little while ago.
Speaker 6: It doesn't asked me anything kind of day.
Speaker 5: You can text us on the Common Spirit Health text line,
Speaker 5: and I want to answer this.
Speaker 6: Question because this is kind of interesting.
Speaker 5: And I thought to myself, even though Betty lou is
Speaker 5: texting from Louisville, Kentucky, I bet you knew people who
Speaker 5: live in the Denver metro wonder about this as well, Mandy,
Speaker 5: daily listener from Louisville, Kentucky. Why is there rock scaling
Speaker 5: going on almost every day and your traffic reports? What
Speaker 5: is this daily traffic maker info? Appreciated well, Betty Lou
Speaker 5: if you have not driven out here, you may not
Speaker 5: realize that Interstate seventy specifically goes through some of the
Speaker 5: most beautiful scenery you will ever see in your life.
Speaker 5: And on each side of the road they are big
Speaker 5: old hills, well not even hills, mountains that are covered
Speaker 5: with rocks. And rock scaling is when they go in
Speaker 5: and they either knock down loose rocks or this sometimes
Speaker 5: they blow up rocks and they're about to fall so
Speaker 5: they don't have a rock slide on the roadway in
Speaker 5: traffic and they have to obviously stop road or they
Speaker 5: have to stop traffic in that area while they're doing
Speaker 5: rock scaling, and they have to do it all the time.
Speaker 4: Yes, Anthony Shorter answer in less usefulness. Everywhere on the
Speaker 4: roads in Colorado, there's always something stupid going on.
Speaker 7: And that's not stupid. The rock scaling is necessary.
Speaker 4: But everything else on our roads causing delays late at
Speaker 4: night or early in the morning. I'm definitely not bitter
Speaker 4: so and are most of the time useless, like oh,
Speaker 4: I don't know, them having a million cones of or
Speaker 4: miles long. And then the cars they are looking to
Speaker 4: do something or just sitting there and doing nothing and
Speaker 4: causing twenty thirty minute delays. Please, for the love of God,
Speaker 4: you've been you're you're a traveler, Mandy, yes, ask you anything.
Speaker 4: Is it this bad literally everywhere? Because no good, no God,
Speaker 4: I'm losing my patience now.
Speaker 5: To be clear, they're there are other cities that are
Speaker 5: this bad. I never want to drive in Atlanta again
Speaker 5: in my life ever, I'm never I'm never renting a
Speaker 5: car in Atlanta. Atlanta's traffic is worse than here. Los
Speaker 5: Angeles traffic is worse than here. But other than that,
Speaker 5: you know, I it's not that bad. I'm just I'm
Speaker 5: being honest. What was amazing in Japan A rod is
Speaker 5: they had as many cars on the road in Japan.
Speaker 5: Japan has incredibly crowded roadways, but you know what they
Speaker 5: didn't have They didn't have any accidents and you never
Speaker 5: came to a full stop. I mean we would be
Speaker 5: on an interstate that was like six lanes wide, okay,
Speaker 5: full of cars every I mean full of cars bumper
Speaker 5: to bumper. But everybody's going the same speed, nobody's jumping
Speaker 5: lane to lane. Everybody's just very nicely driving at the
Speaker 5: same speed. Everybody's paying I mean, it was remarkable to
Speaker 5: me how orderly their traffic is in Tokyo, Japan, where
Speaker 5: there are millions of people.
Speaker 4: It doesn't help that along with the aw fully planned
Speaker 4: traffic projects that everyone here drives idiotically, they rate used
Speaker 4: out of my horn and a certain finger on my hand.
Speaker 2: You're number one.
Speaker 5: Anthony's just telling you that, yeah, uh, here's one Mandy.
Speaker 5: Do you have to show you are in need or
Speaker 5: low income in order to take food from the food bank.
Speaker 5: Because we were talking in the last hour in November,
Speaker 5: snap benefits are not coming in, and that's one of
Speaker 5: the things we're going to talk to Senator Barb Kirkmeyer about.
Speaker 5: Snap benefits are not going to be paid because of
Speaker 5: the government shutdown, and there are people who suck on
Speaker 5: social media who are complaining about it in a very
Speaker 5: entitled way, But there are people who genuinely are struggling
Speaker 5: in Colorado, and I was recommending that people donate to
Speaker 5: the food bank.
Speaker 7: So one of the.
Speaker 5: Things that studies have shown over and over and over
Speaker 5: again is that when you are in a face to
Speaker 5: face situation like at a food bank, where you're walking
Speaker 5: in and you need help and you have to look
Speaker 5: at someone and say Hey, I'm here, I need some food.
Speaker 6: Fraud drops dramatically.
Speaker 5: Now, there's still gonna be bad actors who are going
Speaker 5: to go in and lie and say they need food
Speaker 5: when they don't.
Speaker 6: Okay, because some people suck.
Speaker 5: But the reality is is that by having that face
Speaker 5: to face encounter with someone who is going to help you,
Speaker 5: fraud is actually far lower than it I would guess
Speaker 5: in the actual snap system, right, because there's a human
Speaker 5: being that you're encountering, and so I'm not particularly worried
Speaker 5: about that. I'm more worried about the fact that need
Speaker 5: was already up at our food banks, and many of
Speaker 5: our food banks do not have a lot of extra stock.
Speaker 5: And so if you have the ability to donate, the
Speaker 5: easiest way to donate is to just write a check
Speaker 5: because they can buy wholesale and they can get way
Speaker 5: more for that money. But I mean, you, guys, I
Speaker 5: like to donate food. I know that that may seem
Speaker 5: silly to other people because it's not as efficient, But
Speaker 5: I call the food bank, where I find out from
Speaker 5: the food bank most of the time on their websites
Speaker 5: they have the highest level of need, and then I
Speaker 5: try and fill that highest level of need. Whatever that is.
Speaker 5: So whatever you can do is going to be gratefully
Speaker 5: accepted by the folks who run our food banks around here,
Speaker 5: and you will be helping. So probably some of your
Speaker 5: friends and neighbors that you don't even know need that
Speaker 5: kind of help.
Speaker 4: And it's controlled. You're giving food, you know it's going
Speaker 4: to be eaten. You're not giving money, ye not guessing
Speaker 4: where it's going. You're not having money to someone on
Speaker 4: the street. You know the food is going in someone's mouth.
Speaker 6: Yes, exactly.
Speaker 5: Rock Scaling on the news is now about the I
Speaker 5: seventy project on Floyd Hill. I'm not even I should
Speaker 5: probably be embarrassed to admit this, but I'm gonna do
Speaker 5: it anyway because I'm sick and I'm under the weather,
Speaker 5: and maybe you'll just be kind to me, y'all. I
Speaker 5: have no idea where Floyd Hill is. No clue. I
Speaker 5: don't either, Oh, and you've lived here for how many years?
Speaker 5: Like I love our traffic people, but when they're talking
Speaker 5: about Floyd Hill and the Hogback, I have no clue
Speaker 5: where those places are.
Speaker 4: I mean, I fairly still understand what the hell the
Speaker 4: mouse trap is. I'm gonna be real with you, what
Speaker 4: is the mouse trap? Yes see, what is that?
Speaker 5: The I twenty five I seventy intersection I believe, okay,
Speaker 5: well that I knew that I knew, but I don't
Speaker 5: know where Floyd Hill is.
Speaker 6: I don't know where the hog back is hold.
Speaker 7: People are making these up.
Speaker 5: No, well, that's what I thought we should call John Morrissey.
Speaker 5: He's part of the problem here. You know, he absolutely
Speaker 5: would know. Hey, Mandy, traffic would be much better if
Speaker 5: people would zipper merge.
Speaker 6: Amen, texture you know what's up?
Speaker 4: You know what, Mandy? Yep, people are zipper merging pretty well.
Speaker 5: I will tell you, as.
Speaker 4: Your representative, who's on the roads for like two three
Speaker 4: hours a day. Yeah, I can say with pretty decent
Speaker 4: confidence people are yep.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's glorious.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I'm not taking full credit. I'm just saying I started
Speaker 5: the ball rolling down the hill, and people are just
Speaker 5: running with it.
Speaker 4: That is everyone else is everywhere else on the roads.
Speaker 4: The zipper merge people are doing pretty well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5: Mandy, need clarification on the rock scaling on I seventy.
Speaker 5: They're in the process of widening I seventy in between
Speaker 5: Floyd Hill and Idaho Springs again. Still don't know where
Speaker 5: Floyd Hill is, but that's helpful. There's yeah, they're drilling
Speaker 5: and blasting away a section of the mountain to make
Speaker 5: way for the widening of the highway.
Speaker 6: That's what the rock scaling is all about.
Speaker 5: They shut down the highway for thirty minutes while they
Speaker 5: blast and remove any rocks that may have come down
Speaker 5: on the highway.
Speaker 7: So that's great, chat GPT.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Floyd Hill is an unincorporated community in Clear Creek County,
Speaker 4: lies along the I seventy Mountain Corridor west of Denver.
Speaker 5: So it's right as you go through Genesee, says this
Speaker 5: texter through.
Speaker 4: It says between the towns of Evergreen and Idaho Spring.
Speaker 6: Wait a minute, this person says, the mouse trap goes
Speaker 6: to Boulder.
Speaker 7: What okay, Well let's see what well good, let's.
Speaker 6: Get somebody from traffic on the show.
Speaker 4: We've got to get so we got to get to
Speaker 4: the bottom grass in Colorado.
Speaker 7: Let's see what chat GBT says about the mouse trap.
Speaker 5: Mandy. The hogback is associative hills going up high seventy
Speaker 5: or a long four seventy and also incorporates red rocks.
Speaker 4: See this says the mouse trap is the interchange where
Speaker 4: I twenty five and I seventy intersect.
Speaker 7: So does it really go as far as let's see,
Speaker 7: does it go as far as?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: I don't think so. Uh No, that texture is wrong,
Speaker 4: does not okay? Just that interchange?
Speaker 7: Weird?
Speaker 5: Andy, there's more city north of the tech center. No, No,
Speaker 5: I know a lot of the city. I know a
Speaker 5: lot of the city. I now can go into downtown
Speaker 5: Denver and get around without my GPS, which I consider
Speaker 5: a victory. Right, But the traffic reports.
Speaker 4: By the way, in case it doesn't go without saying,
Speaker 4: Chad jibi, you confirm what we already knew. It's called
Speaker 4: the mouse trap because of how vehicles get caught in
Speaker 4: it's maze.
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 5: Yes, indeed, traffic would be a lot better if we
Speaker 5: were all Japanese. Correct, Texter, correct now. I got a
Speaker 5: thing on the blog day that I want to bring up.
Speaker 4: Wait, the hog Back narrow long ridge of rock that
Speaker 4: formed the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. The hog back, not,
Speaker 4: as helpful it says, made of tilted sedimentary rock layers
Speaker 4: that were pushed up seventy million years ago.
Speaker 7: The hog back name.
Speaker 4: Come from how it looks a long curved back like
Speaker 4: a hog or a bore. Several stretches near Morrison in
Speaker 4: Red Rocks along C four seventy and I seventy in
Speaker 4: Dinosaur Ridge, which is between Golden and Morrison.
Speaker 5: I know where that is hogback. Okay, that is actually
Speaker 5: very helpful. I just learned a lot from that. That's
Speaker 5: very good. So on the blog today, because ballots are out.
Speaker 5: You should have your ballot by now. If you do not,
Speaker 5: I would check with your local clerk's office and make
Speaker 5: sure that it has not been taken by someone else.
Speaker 5: Ballots are out and a lot of people are writing
Speaker 5: to me and saying, hey, I don't know who to
Speaker 5: vote for in my little town council race, or I
Speaker 5: don't know who to vote for in this or that,
Speaker 5: and guys, I have been trying, but I can't get
Speaker 5: into every race in every sort of situation. But I
Speaker 5: want to be helpful, and I'm using a great story
Speaker 5: about our Vada City council candidates from the Denver Gazette
Speaker 5: to help you learn how to vet your own candidates.
Speaker 5: And it's all about the words that they look or
Speaker 5: that they use. Right, I don't want to read you
Speaker 5: one little thing. This is about homelessness. They ask the
Speaker 5: city of our vatical candidates about homelessness. One of them said,
Speaker 5: the price of development the city is too high, with
Speaker 5: permitting in water tap pees reaching upwards of two hundred
Speaker 5: thousand dollars before development can begin. He'd like to create
Speaker 5: a sliding scale throughout the city to reduce development costs. Now,
Speaker 5: that guy's name is Griffith. He's running answer person named Vargas.
Speaker 5: This is Bargus's answer. She's a she unhoused. People aren't
Speaker 5: looking to be unhoused. They are looking for a community. Now,
Speaker 5: if I give you both of those answers, who is
Speaker 5: more likely to be the conservative and who is obviously
Speaker 5: invested in the housing first nonsense. Anybody uses the words unhoused,
Speaker 5: They'll show you with their words. They'll show you where
Speaker 5: they lean just by their policy positions. And you guys
Speaker 5: are smart enough to look at this stuff and figure
Speaker 5: out exactly what it is. Right, You're smart enough. I
Speaker 5: have a lot of faith in you guys. Look at
Speaker 5: the language that they use. Do they use the language
Speaker 5: of activists or do they use language that real people use?
Speaker 5: That's the big key, you know, there are so many
Speaker 5: different ways and if all health fails. If you really are,
Speaker 5: you know, baffled by what to vote for in your county,
Speaker 5: reach out to the Republican Party if you're a Republican,
Speaker 5: reach out to the Democratic Party if you're a Democrat,
Speaker 5: reach out if you're an independent, to whichever party you
Speaker 5: more closely align with. Ask them their thoughts, Ask them why,
Speaker 5: ask them who they're supporting. You know, I mean, we
Speaker 5: have abdicated so much of our responsibilities civically that we're
Speaker 5: looking for an easy answer. And don't get me wrong,
Speaker 5: Like for the big elections, I'm more than happy to
Speaker 5: provide you a voter guide and give you some guidance
Speaker 5: that you can use to cast your ballots. But we're
Speaker 5: in the smaller elections like we have this year, I
Speaker 5: don't have the time or knowledge set to go through
Speaker 5: every single one of them. But you are empowered, you're
Speaker 5: smart enough, you're good enough, and dog on it. People
Speaker 5: like you, Okay, so you can make this happen. Just
Speaker 5: pay attention to the words that they use. They will
Speaker 5: tell you everything you need to know. Mandy, Once again,
Speaker 5: I got the helpful text message saying my ballot was delivered.
Speaker 5: Now going on the sixth year, not living in Colorado.
Speaker 6: Wow. Wow, that's fantastic, Mandy.
Speaker 5: The nickname the mousetrap was going back in the nineteen
Speaker 5: seventies by a traffic reporter back in the day. It
Speaker 5: is definitely the I seventy I twenty five interchange. Mandy.
Speaker 6: I call good luck a god thing. That's one way
Speaker 6: to look at it.
Speaker 5: Mandy. The mouse trap was a thing back in the
Speaker 5: day at I twenty five and I seventy till they
Speaker 5: finally redid that interchange. That interchange is still a nightmare,
Speaker 5: big time, a complete nightmare, Mandy. The mousetrap was named
Speaker 5: where I seventy five met or used to meet. It
Speaker 5: used to have a tower and look like the mousetrap game.
Speaker 5: The tower has been removed. Oh that's interesting, Mandy. That
Speaker 5: is so true. I noticed in the Douglas County school
Speaker 5: board race all the Democrats had mental health is a
Speaker 5: key issue in their sites. The other Democrats listed as
Speaker 5: good candidates. I don't know, yeah, one hundred percent. Let
Speaker 5: me talk about that for a second. Because school board races,
Speaker 5: we already know are super important, and the left, the
Speaker 5: teachers' unions, they have coalesced around this idea that school
Speaker 5: board candidates should be running on children's mental health. And
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna throw this out here. I could be
Speaker 5: totally wrong in this, but I feel like I'm right.
Speaker 5: If you want kids to have self esteem, if you
Speaker 5: want kids to have good mental health, if you want
Speaker 5: kids to feel good about themselves, help them learn, help
Speaker 5: them learn new things, help them accomplish things in the classroom,
Speaker 5: Challenge them, and when they accomplish those goals, celebrate them.
Speaker 5: It is not the job's responsibility to manage the mental
Speaker 5: health of children in their care. The job of the
Speaker 5: schools is to educate children. And when children are educated
Speaker 5: well and they have confidence in their abilities and they
Speaker 5: can do hard things, that is when their mental health
Speaker 5: gets better. And if you really care about mental health,
Speaker 5: then we need to completely eliminate phones in the classroom.
Speaker 5: One of the things that has been coming out since
Speaker 5: more and more school districts this year across the country
Speaker 5: have created some cell phone ban, whether it is a
Speaker 5: band where you walk into the classroom and you put
Speaker 5: your phone in a bag, or it's a full all
Speaker 5: day ban. And you know what the kids in those
Speaker 5: schools are saying. They're saying at first, they didn't like it.
Speaker 5: But now I'm happier. I have more friends, I have
Speaker 5: more fun at lunch and in between the classes, I'm
Speaker 5: actually talking to people. I mean, come on, if you're
Speaker 5: worried about mental health, then do the things that the
Speaker 5: school should do, which is educate the kids, give them
Speaker 5: a great education, give them that solid foundation. And secondarily,
Speaker 5: we need to have a serious conversation about banning phones
Speaker 5: in school. And Guys, I am the mother of a
Speaker 5: high school student in Colorado. I understand every single one
Speaker 5: of your concerns about school shootings. I understand it all
Speaker 5: one hundred percent.
Speaker 6: I get it.
Speaker 5: I understand all that. But my insecurities and your insecurities
Speaker 5: should not be put ahead of the mental health of
Speaker 5: our children. And the reality is is that phones are
Speaker 5: a nightmare for kids. Social media is a nightmare for kids,
Speaker 5: and we need to do a better job of understanding
Speaker 5: that we are not helping them by giving into our
Speaker 5: anxieties and keeping keeping phones in the classroom. It's just
Speaker 5: not We're going to see more and more information. We're
Speaker 5: going to have to get over it. And I'd rather
Speaker 5: remove on this now than later, because I think for
Speaker 5: many kids it is a game changer. In terms of
Speaker 5: being a happier kid. Bullying goes way down, having more friends,
Speaker 5: being more social. We destroyed these kids by closing schools
Speaker 5: during COVID. We've destroyed many of their ability to just
Speaker 5: have friends. So there you go, Mandy. Chat GPT is
Speaker 5: a great resource to ask about what a candidate believes in.
Speaker 5: I would double check. You guys know, I love Chat GPT.
Speaker 5: I use it all the time. Chat is still not perfect,
Speaker 5: So click through those links and look and see what
Speaker 5: Chat says. Those links say because I've had three or
Speaker 5: four instances, not a lot, and I use chat all
Speaker 5: day every day. You guys, it is my I ask
Speaker 5: it everything. Let's see what I've asked it since the
Speaker 5: beginning of the show. Okay, let me just pull this
Speaker 5: up really really quickly, so let me see here. I've
Speaker 5: asked it about if there are any changes coming for disability.
Speaker 5: I asked it about that. It gave me all kinds
Speaker 5: of stuff about social security. I asked if same sex
Speaker 5: marriage was under attack. It gave me all kinds of
Speaker 5: information about that. Earlier today, I asked about Denver landlord
Speaker 5: rule changes, the American beef industry output. I mean, I
Speaker 5: ask it about all this stuff, but you have to
Speaker 5: check it. You have to just click through the links.
Speaker 5: Read what it says. Mandy and Douglas County. Which group
Speaker 5: do you recommend or both know good? I am all
Speaker 5: about the common sense slate a veil Keaton, Wait, veil Keaton,
Speaker 5: Gamble and Kramer, veil Keaton, Campbell and Kramer.
Speaker 6: That is the common sense slate.
Speaker 5: I am extremely concerned, although I will say that there
Speaker 5: are some really smart people on the other side and
Speaker 5: they have some good ideas.
Speaker 6: I would hope that if they don't win.
Speaker 5: They would work with whoever the board that does get
Speaker 5: a elected to bring some of those ideas forward. But
Speaker 5: I am extremely concerned because they've all been endorsed by
Speaker 5: the union, and the union is trying to get a
Speaker 5: collective bargaining agreement back in Douglas County. Douglas County is
Speaker 5: doing just fine without it, and I think that if
Speaker 5: they did bring the collective bargaining agreement back to Douglas County,
Speaker 5: they would have a zero percent chance of getting any
Speaker 5: sort of mill levy override passed. And our teachers are
Speaker 5: still underpaid in Douglas County. They are they're underpaid compared
Speaker 5: to the Metro and we have really, really great teachers
Speaker 5: because our district does really, really well, and I'd like
Speaker 5: to pay them more money. I'd like to raise my
Speaker 5: own taxes to pay teachers more money. And don't even
Speaker 5: give me. The school district needs to do a better job,
Speaker 5: because I've looked at the budget. They run a lean
Speaker 5: machine in Douglas County. Anyway, Mandy, you need to tell
Speaker 5: people to find the statements the candidates have made. I
Speaker 5: would agree with you normally, but I was sent information
Speaker 5: by the American Teaching Federation Teachers Federation that one of
Speaker 5: the candidates running for Douglas County School is publicly saying, oh,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm not sure about the collective bargaining agreement.
Speaker 5: But apparently he told the union that he was going
Speaker 5: to kind of keep his comments to himself before the
Speaker 5: election and then really show what he thought after the election.
Speaker 5: So you've got to make sure that you're following along
Speaker 5: to make sure you know what they're.
Speaker 6: Actually going to do.
Speaker 5: Mandy, of cell phones are affecting the mental health of students,
Speaker 5: and school shootings keep getting correlated with mental health. So
Speaker 5: part of the solution to school shootings is banning cell
Speaker 5: phones seems ironic. The parents fight against cell phone bands.
Speaker 5: They fight against cell phone bans because they themselves are scared.
Speaker 5: That's why parents fight against cell phone bands. And here's
Speaker 5: the thing, you guys, we have had way more than
Speaker 5: our share of school shootings in Colorado, way more.
Speaker 10: So.
Speaker 5: I don't want to make it seem like I'm breezily
Speaker 5: dismissing that. But the reality is is your kid having
Speaker 5: a cell phone in school isn't going to change anything
Speaker 5: in a school shooting situation.
Speaker 4: Mandy.
Speaker 5: If you want to improve kids' mental health, we need
Speaker 5: to get the peedos and sexual deviance out of the
Speaker 5: school districts. Without phones to record the behaviors of these
Speaker 5: teachers and administrators, it's almost impossible to prove the accusation
Speaker 5: Pooter school district is out of control. Guys, guess what
Speaker 5: When I was in college, I had a little pen
Speaker 5: that was a recorder. If you're worried about it, send
Speaker 5: your kid to school with that. We'll be right back.
Speaker 5: Keep it on KOA.
Speaker 6: This texter said listening online.
Speaker 5: I work at a six through twelve school in Albuquerque,
Speaker 5: and we have a no phone policy. The kids are
Speaker 5: social in ways I haven't seen since I was in
Speaker 5: school over twenty years ago, big advocate, and the students
Speaker 5: have adjusted and are enjoying it. Isn't that more important
Speaker 5: than our worries? Honestly? Now, let's check in on the
Speaker 5: common Spirit health topline with Senator Barb Kirkmeyers. She's popping
Speaker 5: in because we know that we're going to be hit
Speaker 5: here in Colorado. This is one of the reasons that
Speaker 5: I started the show urging you to please donate to
Speaker 5: a food bank because net benefits are not coming because
Speaker 5: Congress can't get their act together. And I'd like to
Speaker 5: welcome Senator Barb Kirkmeyer to the show. Hi, Barb, how
Speaker 5: are you good?
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: So what does this mean at the state level, Barb?
Speaker 5: Like, what what does this mean in your view that
Speaker 5: SAT benefits are not coming in in November?
Speaker 3: Well, again, as you've already stated, and it's it's not
Speaker 3: Congress this time, it's actually our two US senators, both Democrats,
Speaker 3: Senator Bennett and Hickenlooper are they're just carelessly gambling with
Speaker 3: people's lives and their ability to feed their families. And
Speaker 3: then you have a governor who doesn't use the tools
Speaker 3: that are out there that he should be using saying, ah,
Speaker 3: this is you know, we're gonna have an issue here
Speaker 3: because of Tabor. Seriously, this is an emergency. And instead
Speaker 3: of coming to the Joint Budget Committee and saying, gush,
Speaker 3: I need ten million dollars to give for you know,
Speaker 3: to make sure that people have access to food because
Speaker 3: they've shut down the Democrats have shut down the federal government.
Speaker 3: He should be looking at his emergency management protocols. We
Speaker 3: have an emergency operations plan to deal with emergencies, and
Speaker 3: that's what he should be looking at. And we should
Speaker 3: be looking at our disaster Emergency Fund and actually figuring
Speaker 3: out how to provide for the benefits food for people
Speaker 3: that they can get it onto their table.
Speaker 5: I think it's very very interesting that you started out
Speaker 5: talking about Senators Ticking loop Or and Bennett, because the
Speaker 5: reality is they do have the power. You know, we
Speaker 5: need five more senators to vote to move this thing
Speaker 5: along to.
Speaker 6: Get it done.
Speaker 5: And I have to say, Barb, you know, and the
Speaker 5: Republican Party for the last I don't even know how
Speaker 5: many years, because I mean, I feel like we have
Speaker 5: a shut down every five minutes now and I just
Speaker 5: I don't even care anymore. That being said, I've never
Speaker 5: seen them be so firm about sticking with what they're
Speaker 5: doing now and refusing to capitulate to these kind of
Speaker 5: threats by the Democratic Party. And I'm kind of proud
Speaker 5: of them a little bit because they're not doing something crazy.
Speaker 5: They're asking Democrats to vote on something that they voted
Speaker 5: on in March.
Speaker 6: Wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 5: My frustration is that they won't do it through regular order,
Speaker 5: But that's a whole other conversation for another place. So
Speaker 5: tapping into the emergency benefits, I agree, well, what would
Speaker 5: that look like?
Speaker 6: I mean, what how does that process go?
Speaker 3: But here's the thing. The governor goes out and just
Speaker 3: announces we're going to you know, we're going to do
Speaker 3: ten million dollars. Next week, the Joint Budget Committee is
Speaker 3: meeting because they're like, well, we got to do a
Speaker 3: supplemental and we need ten million dollars a general fund
Speaker 3: to try and feel you know, what is a program
Speaker 3: that's costing one hundred and twenty million dollars in benefits
Speaker 3: on a monthly basis. So you know, he's coming up
Speaker 3: and saying, look, I'm going to put about eight percent
Speaker 3: into it. I'm going to overwhelm the food banks and
Speaker 3: food pantries in our state. You know, he didn't have
Speaker 3: a discussion with all the food pantries and the food
Speaker 3: so the food banks, and he's just gone about this
Speaker 3: the totally the wrong way. There is no plan here,
Speaker 3: and he's just going to make matters worse. I mean,
Speaker 3: what's going to happen when people go to a food
Speaker 3: panty or a food bank because Polus told him that's
Speaker 3: where they should go and there is no food there.
Speaker 3: There's going to be enough, right. And the whole thing
Speaker 3: about donations, and I think it's wonderful that people want
Speaker 3: to donate fund and donate CANDA items and food and
Speaker 3: that type of thing that I can tell you after
Speaker 3: managing our Hurricane Katrina operation for the state of Colorado
Speaker 3: back in what was that two thousand and five, two
Speaker 3: thousand and six, somewhere in there, you know, I can
Speaker 3: tell you that donation management becomes a disaster all in
Speaker 3: its own because people just start dropping off all sorts
Speaker 3: of things. What are you supposed to do with all
Speaker 3: of that? So what should be occurring here is this
Speaker 3: we have what is called the disaster emergency fund, and
Speaker 3: it actually has about somewhere between you know, somewhere around
Speaker 3: two hundred and seventy million dollars in it as of
Speaker 3: September thirtieth. Now, I'm sure there are some other bills
Speaker 3: there because of the flooding that occurred in Laplata, But
Speaker 3: this is a fund that we have in place that
Speaker 3: the governor can tap into. He doesn't need to ask
Speaker 3: for a supplemental. He can tap into this simply by
Speaker 3: declaring an emergency. And if not having enough food to
Speaker 3: feed six hundred thousand people in our state is an emergency,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what would be. So he needs to
Speaker 3: declare an emergency and what he should be doing right now,
Speaker 3: and he doesn't even have to declare that emergency right now.
Speaker 3: You can declare that if we find out we're not
Speaker 3: going to be able to get the government running again,
Speaker 3: if Bennett Hickenloob don't do their job and actually get
Speaker 3: government running again. So what should be occurring right now
Speaker 3: is they should be putting a plan in place, and
Speaker 3: he should be pulling in his departments of Education, his
Speaker 3: Department of Human Services, his Department of Health, probably the
Speaker 3: Department of the Agriculture, and any other of our state's
Speaker 3: departments that have food programs in their department. He should
Speaker 3: be pulling them in. We should be pulling in the
Speaker 3: faith based community. We should be pulling in Salvation Army,
Speaker 3: Red Cross, other non governmental organizations, and other government or
Speaker 3: non governmental organizations are volunteer groups that work through the
Speaker 3: Emergency Operations Plan that help out in emergencies and put
Speaker 3: together what is called an emergency an incident management plan
Speaker 3: and put the plan together. And they should be talking
Speaker 3: to counties. The counties can be doing this at the
Speaker 3: county level, and the state can help by providing resources
Speaker 3: through the Disaster Emergency Fund, which again somewhere up to
Speaker 3: two hundred and seventy million dollars in it as of
Speaker 3: September thirtieth. That's what should be accoreing here. This governor
Speaker 3: has totally missed the boat and he's going to make
Speaker 3: things even worse by saying if I'm going to try
Speaker 3: and fill this gap with ten million dollars, and oh,
Speaker 3: by the way, it's because we have TABOR. Get over it.
Speaker 3: We've had TABOR for thirty years. It's time to actually
Speaker 3: govern and be a governor that's going to do right
Speaker 3: by the people of this state.
Speaker 5: So do you think he's not doing that just to
Speaker 5: what could score some kind of political points or attack
Speaker 5: Tabor or what is the And I'm asking you to,
Speaker 5: you know, assign motive. And I realize that's hard. You're
Speaker 5: not inside his brain. But what are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 3: I think they think politically first instead of legitimately. How
Speaker 3: do we run a state government? What do we do
Speaker 3: in our mare urgency? Right? I mean, I don't know
Speaker 3: why his staff isn't going to him and saying governor,
Speaker 3: here's the plan, you know, I mean think about after
Speaker 3: like the Marshall fire, or the floods that we had
Speaker 3: in twenty thirteen, or when tornadoes hit, or even for
Speaker 3: goodness sakes, when we've had those snowstorms out on the
Speaker 3: Eastern plains and cattle were stranded out and build because
Speaker 3: of all the snow in the wind. I mean, we
Speaker 3: figured out how to get food to the cows here,
Speaker 3: using the National Guard, using our emergency operations plan. This
Speaker 3: is why we have an emergency operations plan and why
Speaker 3: we have a disaster emergency fund in this state. And
Speaker 3: I don't know why his staff isn't telling them. Maybe
Speaker 3: they are, I don't know why he's doing this, but
Speaker 3: to step up and say, well, you know, because of
Speaker 3: a textpayer bill of rice and because of you know,
Speaker 3: the billion dollars hit from that big bill. You know,
Speaker 3: this is this is all we can do. That's wrong.
Speaker 7: That is wrong.
Speaker 3: That is not all we can do. We should treat
Speaker 3: this as we would treat any other emergency. And he's
Speaker 3: just missing it. I don't know why. I don't want
Speaker 3: to assume that there's ill intention here. I mean, we've
Speaker 3: gone through all the political stuff for the last six
Speaker 3: months on this, or since July fourth, on all of
Speaker 3: this stuff, and I don't know why. But I do
Speaker 3: know what he should be doing. And this is what
Speaker 3: we should be doing in this state. And we should
Speaker 3: have a plan, and we should involve the right people
Speaker 3: so that we can provide for people to have the
Speaker 3: ability to feed their families, to you know, low income
Speaker 3: folks to be able to feed their families and not
Speaker 3: have a food security issue on top of all the
Speaker 3: other issues we have in this state.
Speaker 5: Aimen to that. I just got this text message a
Speaker 5: moment ago. Maybe Mandy, maybe Colorado or Denver could use
Speaker 5: the e vehicle rebate money for food banks instead of
Speaker 5: rebates for rich people.
Speaker 3: Well, there you go. I mean there's also the things
Speaker 3: that we could be looking at. But quite frankly, we
Speaker 3: have an emergency operating All of these departments have different
Speaker 3: emergency support functions within that plan. They should know what
Speaker 3: they were doing. I don't know why he's not getting
Speaker 3: good advice, or maybe he is and he's just not
Speaker 3: listening to it. I don't know, but I do know
Speaker 3: this is what we should be doing, and we know
Speaker 3: we can't keep blaming everybody else. We need to have
Speaker 3: solutions here, and this is what's expected of a governor.
Speaker 5: It would be nice stop baking everybody if it.
Speaker 6: Was solutions first.
Speaker 5: Politics. Second, Senator Barb Kirkmeer, state senator and gubernatorial candidate,
Speaker 5: who sounds like she would know what to do in
Speaker 5: this situation. I'm just saying, Bart, I appreciate your time
Speaker 5: today as always.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much, and thanks for having me on.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it, appreciate what you're doing for the state.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Barb. Kirkmeyer.
Speaker 7: Will be right back yours truly.
Speaker 4: You're gonna be filling in for Jojo, who usually hosts
Speaker 4: Broncos Game Day with Nick Ferguson every home game at
Speaker 4: eleven am right near Mini Mile High the VIP tailgate amongst.
Speaker 7: All of Broncos Country.
Speaker 4: Shout out to OURPD Dave Tepper for giving me that opportunity.
Speaker 4: So from eleven am to noon, yours truly Nick Ferguson.
Speaker 7: Going to be uh right in the middle of our.
Speaker 4: Pregame coverage this Sunday, So come say hello, and they
Speaker 4: heard about it Amenday show.
Speaker 5: And don't forget tonight if you just want to hear
Speaker 5: a replay of the fourth quarter with our KOWA broadcast
Speaker 5: team of Rick and Dave, We're going to replay that
Speaker 5: tonight in Broncos Country tonight, just the fourth quarter, because honestly,
Speaker 5: you don't want to listen to the first three quarters anyway,
Speaker 5: why would you? That would be like, why don't you
Speaker 5: just shove you a ice pick into your own eye
Speaker 5: instead of doing that? But the whole fourth quarter we're
Speaker 5: gonna play it again tonight. We've never done this before,
Speaker 5: but that fourth quarter was historic in many ways, and
Speaker 5: I didn't get to hear Dave's call of the fourth quarter,
Speaker 5: So I'm super excited about this and you can hear
Speaker 5: that tonight during Broncos Country to night and then Ben
Speaker 5: will take things from there after that. So you've got
Speaker 5: a lot of Broncos stuff happening this weekend. I'm actually
Speaker 5: excited about this game. I think this game is going
Speaker 5: to be one of the best tests of our defense
Speaker 5: we've had so far.
Speaker 6: Their offense is really impressive.
Speaker 4: Their offense is really impressive, and that's what concerns me.
Speaker 7: Big time boost for the Broncos offense.
Speaker 4: They just announced superstar cornerback Trayvon Diggs for the Cowboys
Speaker 4: will be out of this game with a concussion. That
Speaker 4: is a massive, massive loss. And I will say that
Speaker 4: may or may not impact something for all of our
Speaker 4: picks for this game, but we may have already made
Speaker 4: our picks and put it on the graphic and Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna.
Speaker 7: Preview and say we're all a little torn.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because Dallas's offense is really, really, really, really good.
Speaker 6: I could see this being a high scoring affair.
Speaker 4: It has to be because their defense is the worst
Speaker 4: in the league. It is the worst in the league.
Speaker 4: You have to destroy them.
Speaker 7: Run the ball. I mean, you gotta get going early.
Speaker 4: Let's get some tempo, Let's get some guys in rhythm,
Speaker 4: a little bit less rotation going and pounce early, because
Speaker 4: if you go up seven, ten, fourteen, nothing on this
Speaker 4: team early, you can send Benito Cooper after Dak Preside,
Speaker 4: really pounce and make this thing ugly quick.
Speaker 5: I am hoping. I'm just gonna say it, like I know,
Speaker 5: Sean Payton is an amazing coach, and I'm not an
Speaker 5: NFL coach. I've never won a Super Bowl. I've never
Speaker 5: done any of those things. I have not been a
Speaker 5: fan of the play calling in the beginning of the
Speaker 5: game compared to the end of the game. And so
Speaker 5: I'm hoping that they loosen things up a little bit
Speaker 5: and let Bo kind of be a little more free
Speaker 5: wheeling than he has been because he seems to excel
Speaker 5: in that situation.
Speaker 7: He does. He says he likes tempo, and Mandy, I'm
Speaker 7: telling you you.
Speaker 4: Got to keep pace because the Chargers won last night
Speaker 4: on Thursday night, they blew out the Vikings. So if
Speaker 4: you win, you remain a game up in the division.
Speaker 4: The Chiefs are coming. And while looking at that Chiefs
Speaker 4: game coming up on November sixteenth, because Mandy, if the
Speaker 4: Broncos win this game going into that Chiefs game, it's
Speaker 4: very likely the Broncos will be on a seven game
Speaker 4: winning streak because you have the Texans in Houston next week.
Speaker 4: They do not look good on offense whatsoever, and the
Speaker 4: Raiders are terrible.
Speaker 7: You have them at home the next week.
Speaker 4: So going to that Chiefs game, you could be riding
Speaker 4: a seven game winning streak at eight and two if
Speaker 4: you win this Cowboys game, that is where.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that Chiefs game, if you beat the Chiefs, that's
Speaker 5: a two game game.
Speaker 7: I'm really glad to be at home.
Speaker 4: I'm really glad the first twelve of the Chiefs matchups
Speaker 4: at home. Of course, we all know they go to
Speaker 4: Casey on Christmas, so I'm really glad this first one
Speaker 4: is at home. But Casey, after starting zero to two,
Speaker 4: they already look like uh back in the Super Bowl
Speaker 4: in February. That's where the that's where we're at now
Speaker 4: in the wide op NFL. That's how much the Chiefs
Speaker 4: have bounced back. So you got to be you got
Speaker 4: to be solving your offensive woes right now and over
Speaker 4: these next two weeks Houston and the Raiders to make
Speaker 4: sure you are full steam ahead going into that Chiefs matchup.
Speaker 7: A let's go yep to.
Speaker 5: The texture who said, Mandy, I usually listen to your
Speaker 5: show on my phone. I'm encouraged now to find some
Speaker 5: disinfectant to dejerm my phone. Lol. Sorry to be so
Speaker 5: snarky now, I'm not saying I don't think my my
Speaker 5: illness can travel through the airwaves. But hey, whatever makes
Speaker 5: you feel more secure, just whatever. Let's take a quick
Speaker 5: time out when we get back. We've got a lot
Speaker 5: of stories on the blog that we have not gotten to,
Speaker 5: especially one about another guy who should in prison who
Speaker 5: just attacked a school teacher.
Speaker 6: We have an update.
Speaker 5: The Johnstown Breeze publisher apologized, and I'm going to try
Speaker 5: and get the co owner of the Johnstown Breeze on
Speaker 5: the shows because you sent me back a long email
Speaker 5: that was very, very interesting, and I think the disconnect
Speaker 5: between what he hears and what I heard from you
Speaker 5: guys who are familiar with the Johnstown Breeze is significant
Speaker 5: and a rod it may be super easy for us
Speaker 5: to cover. The DNC might be coming back to Denver.
Speaker 5: We'll have information about that right after this. Keep it
Speaker 5: on KOA.
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Speaker 5: Welcome to the third hour of the show. Joe, I
Speaker 5: am your very sickly host.
Speaker 6: Mandy Connall just being so.
Speaker 5: Strong to get to this point. Anthony Rodriguez heer with
Speaker 5: me as mad and today we're going to take you
Speaker 5: right up until three o'clock when KOA Sports is going
Speaker 5: to jump in to preview Sunday's game against the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 6: Of course, Ay Rod.
Speaker 5: Just let you know he's going to be down at
Speaker 5: the stadium doing the pregame show with Nick Ferguson, so
Speaker 5: stop buy and see him on Sunday and tonight. Of course,
Speaker 5: we're replaying the historic fourth quarter of last week's game
Speaker 5: in the first part of Broncos Country Tonight tonight at six.
Speaker 6: So you got all that going on.
Speaker 5: So in the break, a Texter sent me a text
Speaker 5: and said, Mandy, you know they caught the guy that
Speaker 5: was involved in that two two five shooting last weekend.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you've heard about this, but in
Speaker 5: the middle of the night police get a report of
Speaker 5: a vehicle that had driven into one of.
Speaker 6: The barriers on southbound I two two five.
Speaker 5: They get there, they find a guy who's been shot
Speaker 5: multiple times, so they have now a red did the
Speaker 5: guy who has been accused of that crime. His name
Speaker 5: is Celine Vieda ri Elana, thirty eight years old. He's
Speaker 5: now been charged with a lot of stuff, including attempted
Speaker 5: first degree murder.
Speaker 6: But this is where it gets good.
Speaker 5: First of all, Aurora PD said, investigators you'd flock safety
Speaker 5: cameras equipped with license plate readers and were able to
Speaker 5: identify a vehicle in connection with the shooting, which is
Speaker 5: believed to have been targeted. Orilana was later identified as
Speaker 5: the registered owner of the suspected vehicle. On Thursday, officers
Speaker 5: conducted a traffic stop and arrested him. During a media briefing,
Speaker 5: This is from our friends at Fox thirty one.
Speaker 6: By the way, KADVR.
Speaker 5: During a meeting briefing on Friday, Aurora Police Chief Todd
Speaker 5: Chamberlain said at the time of the arrest, officers searched
Speaker 5: the vehicle and recovered a handgun along with shellcasings, which
Speaker 5: was allegedly linked back to the shooting. According to Chamberlain,
Speaker 5: APD did not have an arrest warrant at the time
Speaker 5: of the year rest. However, in consultation with the US
Speaker 5: Department of Homeland Security Investigations Orlana was taken into US
Speaker 5: Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody on possible federal charges for
Speaker 5: the possession of the handgun. Following their rest, an investigation
Speaker 5: revealed that Arolana, a Honduran national, was allegedly making plans
Speaker 5: to flee the country.
Speaker 6: And this is where it gets really good.
Speaker 5: According to Aurora PD, Arolana was previously deported in two
Speaker 5: thousand and seven, twenty eighteen, and twenty twenty. In twenty twenty,
Speaker 5: he was deported following an arrest in Denver for charges
Speaker 5: relating to a sexual assault involving a victim under the
Speaker 5: age of fifteen.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: Todd Chamberlain, the chief of police who's going to be
Speaker 5: on the show later this week in Aurora, says this
Speaker 5: case is a clear example of why our partnership with
Speaker 5: Homeland Security Investigations and ICE is so critical. Without their cooperation,
Speaker 5: we would not have the ability to hold this dangerous
Speaker 5: individual accountable for his actions here in Aurora. Chamberlain said
Speaker 5: at a restaurant was formally filed on Thursday evening, in
Speaker 5: which Orelano was arrested on charges of attempted first to remurder,
Speaker 5: first to reassault, menacing an illegal discharge of a firearm.
Speaker 5: Democrats are in favor of policies that would protect this man,
Speaker 5: whether it's getting rid of the flock cameras, the license
Speaker 5: plate readers that allowed APD to figure out who.
Speaker 6: This guy was.
Speaker 5: Democrats don't want our law enforcement to work with Ice
Speaker 5: on any level. This is what Democrats are fighting for.
Speaker 5: They're fighting for this guy. They're fighting for a guy
Speaker 5: who sexually assaulted a victim under the age of fifteen
Speaker 5: when he was thirty three years old.
Speaker 6: That's who they're fighting for.
Speaker 5: And I know it sounds harsh and it sounds kind
Speaker 5: of mean for me to put it that way, But
Speaker 5: until somebody starts really talking about who they're fighting for,
Speaker 5: because they can say they're fighting for people who are
Speaker 5: just here trying to live, I get it, I get
Speaker 5: all that, But in reality, they're fighting for people like
Speaker 5: this this guy, this guy who shot someone on two
Speaker 5: two five, this guy who sexually assaulted a victim under fifteen,
Speaker 5: this guy who was arrested three times prior, but probably
Speaker 5: rocked right back over the southern border during the Biden administration.
Speaker 6: That's who Democrats are fighting for. I don't forget it.
Speaker 5: And if you have a chance to ask them why
Speaker 5: they're fighting for those people, please please do make that point.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 5: I've got a lot of other stuff happening, and it's
Speaker 5: not keeping the Libs at bay. It's keeping ignorance at bay.
Speaker 5: And it's ruling the day, not ruining the day or
Speaker 5: ruining the day.
Speaker 7: Mandy.
Speaker 5: They need to pay past Kate's law. Bill O'Reilly pushed
Speaker 5: it years ago. McConnell killed it. Trump is pushing it again.
Speaker 5: I remember that, but I don't remember the details. So
Speaker 5: I'm gonna not comment on that because I'm not sure.
Speaker 5: Good news, nerdy rock and roll fans. Guess who's coming
Speaker 5: to Denver? If you guessed Rush, you guessed right now.
Speaker 6: Oh a Rod's making face bar.
Speaker 5: You probably don't want to go because the bathroom lines
Speaker 5: are super long for guys at Rush. There's no ladies.
Speaker 7: Wait wait, not because Rush is so overrated and not
Speaker 7: great boat.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, Russian concert. I've seen him in concert
Speaker 5: three times already, and I'm going to see him again.
Speaker 4: Where's the local paint drying event. I'll be going to
Speaker 4: that and stop it.
Speaker 5: They got a new chick drummer because Neil peerre passed away,
Speaker 5: and they are so good in concert, but it is
Speaker 5: basically a sausage farm, like it's all dudes. When I
Speaker 5: go to a Rush concert, I'm like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 5: I might be one of the hottest women here because
Speaker 5: there's only like five I've never waited for the bathroom
Speaker 5: at a Rush concert. It is glorious, absolutely glorious. And
Speaker 5: somebody said, if you're going to the Rush concert, you're
Speaker 5: cutting it close for your trip.
Speaker 6: Oh I can do both.
Speaker 5: By the way, the Mandy Connell Adventure is selling like hotcakes.
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Speaker 5: Rush concert, though, Ross and I are already we're strategizing.
Speaker 5: Ross and I have a plan to get good tickets
Speaker 5: on the main market, not on the resale market.
Speaker 4: Them.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, we are all smarty pants. Smarty smarty going
Speaker 5: to the party. I see what you did there, but
Speaker 5: I'm excited and any other nerdy Rush fans.
Speaker 6: I've got a link to the story.
Speaker 5: So and if you sign up for the fan club,
Speaker 5: you can be in the pre Salem.
Speaker 6: Just letting you know. When we get back, our coverage.
Speaker 5: For the next Democratic National Convention could allow us to
Speaker 5: sleep in our own beds, which for that convention I
Speaker 5: would be fine with. I'd be totally cool with that.
Speaker 5: I want Republicans to pick someplace good. But if the DNC, well,
Speaker 5: i'll tell you where it might be right after this.
Speaker 5: Keep it on.
Speaker 6: KOA.
Speaker 5: Denver is trying to host the DNC in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 5: They of course did it in the Obama years, which
Speaker 5: makes me think it's going to be harder for them
Speaker 5: to land this again. But if they do, it'd be
Speaker 5: super convenient because then I could just stay in my own.
Speaker 6: Bed while I covered the DNZ again.
Speaker 5: We've already a run is demanding that Rob Dawson and
Speaker 5: I go ahead and go to the Republican National Convention
Speaker 5: and the DNC again.
Speaker 6: Yep, And I got to tell you the last time, I'm.
Speaker 5: Still tired from that.
Speaker 7: It was a lot, you'll be there.
Speaker 5: Might be less running around. If I go again, I
Speaker 5: might be like, no, I can't run around, Like well.
Speaker 4: Just inject, we'll lay it down. We'll get some red
Speaker 4: bull iv up into you. You'll be okay. There you go,
Speaker 4: there you go.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 6: So that may happen in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 5: We'll keep you posted on that, but I want to
Speaker 5: share with you yesterday I talked about the Johnstown Breeze,
Speaker 5: the little newspaper up in Johnstown. The publisher of the
Speaker 5: Johnstown bree got a press release from the Weld County
Speaker 5: Republican Party. It's up in Weld County and they were saying, look,
Speaker 5: we're having a hoe down this Saturday. It's just a
Speaker 5: press release. I get them all the time, and she
Speaker 5: could not resist the urge to send back a snotty
Speaker 5: email that said, when is the flag burning in Mexican
Speaker 5: whippings starting? I mean, it's just rude.
Speaker 6: It was, and I kind of feel.
Speaker 5: Like I know what happened. Like she saw this and
Speaker 5: was annoyed, and instead of thinking about what she was doing,
Speaker 5: she just shot off a snotty response. Well, the Republican
Speaker 5: Party posted her comments online and she apologized, and the
Speaker 5: co owner of The Johnstown Breeze sent me her apology
Speaker 5: and said, hey, you know, she apologized. Here's what it
Speaker 5: is in its entirety. Hello, Weld County Republicans. I want
Speaker 5: to apologize for the comment I made in a reply
Speaker 5: to an email sent to you all. It was inappropriate
Speaker 5: to ask when the flag burning and Mexican whippings were scheduled.
Speaker 5: I am sorry for any distress I may have called.
Speaker 5: Any further comment would be a justification or be open
Speaker 5: to misinterpretation. Sincerely, Leslie Banger, publisher the Johnstown Breeze. Now
Speaker 5: I'm assuming that she probably had the look of a
Speaker 5: hostage while she was typing this out, and I mean,
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I'm making assumptions, that's what I do.
Speaker 5: But I emailed her, the co owner of the paperback,
Speaker 5: and said, look, you know, perhaps you should know that
Speaker 5: when I brought this up, I got several text messages
Speaker 5: from people saying this is on brand for the Johnstown
Speaker 5: Breezes and that you have a reputation as being a
Speaker 5: left leaning outlet. And I have invited him to come
Speaker 5: on the show to talk about it, so maybe we
Speaker 5: can have a conversation about what we perceive to be
Speaker 5: left wing versus what the paper perceives to be straight
Speaker 5: and narrow down the middle. And I would love to
Speaker 5: have these conversations on a regular basis.
Speaker 6: I would love to be able to say. My frustration with.
Speaker 5: The media, the left leaning media, which is so much
Speaker 5: of the national media, all of our paper, you know,
Speaker 5: except the Denver Gazette, is that when you try to
Speaker 5: tell them, hey, this is what makes you sound like
Speaker 5: a left winger, they will deny it. They will absolutely
Speaker 5: say no, no, no, no no. And we just saw
Speaker 5: evidence of this with the story of oh jeez, I
Speaker 5: just lost my train of thought. We saw evidence of
Speaker 5: this when Barry Weis, who just took over as editor
Speaker 5: in chief of CBS News, in her first meeting with
Speaker 5: sixty minutes, asked a very simple question, why do people
Speaker 5: perceive you to have a left wing bias? And no
Speaker 5: one could answer the question, guys. I interviewed Bernie Goldberg,
Speaker 5: formerly of CBS News in like two thousand and six
Speaker 5: about his book Bias, where he very clearly laid out
Speaker 5: how the operations are in CBS News and why he
Speaker 5: believed they were hopelessly biased. In a book, Okay, that
Speaker 5: was like two thousand and six. I think the book
Speaker 5: came out in two thousand and four. I don't remember.
Speaker 5: We've had twenty five years of this now, twenty years
Speaker 5: of this, and they still can't see where the bias is.
Speaker 5: I know personally, for me, I have worked with people
Speaker 5: in my career over many many years that were, in
Speaker 5: my opinion, very biased on the air. And here I'm
Speaker 5: a talk show host, I'm expected to be biased. I
Speaker 5: tell you where my biases are. I tell you where
Speaker 5: they come from, and you can decide whether or not
Speaker 5: to listen if you will, right, It's fine, but news
Speaker 5: people have to do better than that. In the past,
Speaker 5: I have actually reached out to some of my news
Speaker 5: colleagues and said, hey, I heard an interview or a
Speaker 5: story that you did, and if you want to know
Speaker 5: why our listeners perceive you as left wing, go back
Speaker 5: and listen to this, and here's why you guys to
Speaker 5: a person, they argue with me about how wrong the listener.
Speaker 6: I'm like, I'm not attacking you.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to help you understand why you're perceived as
Speaker 5: left wing. There's been no introspection on this issue. There's
Speaker 5: been no naval game on this issue. There's been no
Speaker 5: attempt to fix this issue in way too many news
Speaker 5: media outlets, and so I try.
Speaker 6: So I'll see.
Speaker 5: I've offered him to come on the show. I'd love
Speaker 5: to have a conversation with him about this, so we'll
Speaker 5: see what happens when we get back. Earlier this week,
Speaker 5: we were talking with the Common Sense Institute folks about
Speaker 5: a new study they put out about how we're letting
Speaker 5: more criminals out of jail and completely coincidentally are crime
Speaker 5: rates of skyrocketed.
Speaker 6: I'm sure they're not connected. I'm kind of sure they are.
Speaker 5: DA from the fourth Congressional or the fourth Judicial District,
Speaker 5: Michael Allen reached out to me and said, Mandy, we
Speaker 5: got to talk about how the changes to qualified immunity
Speaker 5: are changing law enforcements. So he's coming on with us
Speaker 5: next to do just that. Keep it on KOA about
Speaker 5: the man who was just arrested for attempted murder for
Speaker 5: the shooting on two two five in Denver. Apparently the
Speaker 5: gentleman who had already been deported three times. He in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty when he was arrested for child sex assault charges.
Speaker 5: I said, lodged a detainer on him. The Denver Justice
Speaker 5: Center declined to honor the detainer and released him into.
Speaker 6: The community instead.
Speaker 5: Ice caught him later and deported him after that, but
Speaker 5: we know that at some point he walked back across
Speaker 5: the southern border and now has perhaps murdered someone. The
Speaker 5: guy's still in the hospital fighting for his life, so
Speaker 5: I just wanted to get that update. Another example of
Speaker 5: the things Democrats fight for in Colorado. Joining me now
Speaker 5: from the fourth Judicial District is DA Michael Allen, who
Speaker 5: reached out to me after the conversation with former police
Speaker 5: chief Paul Paysan about releasing criminals and seeing violent crime rise.
Speaker 5: Although Da Michael Allen, I'm sure there's no connection at
Speaker 5: all between those two things, but then you sent an
Speaker 5: email and said, Mandy, we're not even talking about what
Speaker 5: the lack of qualified immunity for police officers is doing.
Speaker 6: So welcome to the show to have that conversation.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Well, thanks a lot, Mandy for having me on and
Speaker 10: having a chance to discuss this.
Speaker 8: I thought the conversation you had with Paul.
Speaker 10: Pays And I think it was a Tuesday or Wednesday,
Speaker 10: I thought it was really good. I happened to catch
Speaker 10: a big chunk of it. And one of the things
Speaker 10: that I think people have forgotten about is that Senate
Speaker 10: Bill twenty dash two seventeen, which was called Police Accountability.
Speaker 10: I think they had some other fancier name for it
Speaker 10: to make it sound like it was a good thing,
Speaker 10: but it has turned out to be a bad thing,
Speaker 10: and it really it was designed to remove qualified immunity
Speaker 10: protections from police officers who are out in the field
Speaker 10: making tough decisions every day, fighting crime and that kind
Speaker 10: of thing, and it really had a detrimental impact on
Speaker 10: law enforcement agencies around Colorado.
Speaker 2: Well, let's talk.
Speaker 5: About what their qualified immunity did first, because I think
Speaker 5: a lot of people don't understand. They do know, like
Speaker 5: people understand, you can't sue government, right because government has
Speaker 5: always assumed to act in our best interest even when.
Speaker 6: They're clearly not.
Speaker 5: So I can't sue government because they have what's called
Speaker 5: qualified immunity, which means they don't get sued because they're
Speaker 5: expected to do the right thing. For US cops had
Speaker 5: the same kinds of protections. What changed in that crit bill?
Speaker 10: So basically what changes It stripped that qualified immunity from
Speaker 10: police officers. You know, as I said, they're making really
Speaker 10: tough decisions out in the field in real time and
Speaker 10: reacting to dynamic situations that are really dictated by a
Speaker 10: criminal behavior, and by removing qualified immunity, it just puts
Speaker 10: them personally liable for any decisions they made, which is
Speaker 10: a new thing in Colorado that had never been taken
Speaker 10: away before.
Speaker 8: Legislators, by the way, have immunity for the.
Speaker 10: Bills that they pass because they're also weighing really tough
Speaker 10: things and they have to say some things maybe that
Speaker 10: they wouldn't say otherwise, or do things they wouldn't do otherwise,
Speaker 10: and so they're also immune from lawsuits. We don't see
Speaker 10: legislators getting sued for bad bills, even though maybe we should.
Speaker 8: Take that away.
Speaker 5: Amen, I would be in favor of that. So how
Speaker 5: has this affected the actual policing? What are the real
Speaker 5: world impacts of this qualified immunity situation.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so there was a couple of real world impacts.
Speaker 10: I think one can't discount the idea that this had
Speaker 10: a psychological impact on law enforcement. This was legislation designed
Speaker 10: to be very punitive towards law enforcement officers all over
Speaker 10: the state of Colorado. So just from a psychological standpoint,
Speaker 10: when the tough work you're doing isn't being appreciated by
Speaker 10: those passing laws, it makes it tough to do the job,
Speaker 10: makes it tough to wake up every morning, put on
Speaker 10: the uniform and go out and fight crime. And then
Speaker 10: on a separate, more real world basis, you know, it
Speaker 10: really affected recruiting and retention, and so we saw people
Speaker 10: that were close to retirement age they might retire early
Speaker 10: or you know, get out as soon as they possibly can,
Speaker 10: and then the recruiting effort was really difficult. And so
Speaker 10: law enforcement has had a real fight really since that
Speaker 10: bill was passed to recruit and properly fully staff their
Speaker 10: police departments. So down here in Colorado Springs, we've got
Speaker 10: the second biggest city in the state of Colorado, and
Speaker 10: our police department is severely understaffed and.
Speaker 8: It struggles all the time to get even.
Speaker 10: Close to something that what we actually need down and
Speaker 10: it's the same all over the state.
Speaker 5: I want to share with you an email from a
Speaker 5: former law enforcement officer here in Colorado who has since
Speaker 5: left the state, and he said, I have so much
Speaker 5: to say on this. First, it's not really the pay
Speaker 5: up to twenty five K, because that was always the case.
Speaker 5: When you were found to be acting outside the color
Speaker 5: of authority, you can be held viable and no immunity applies.
Speaker 5: One of the most chilling parts of the reforms was
Speaker 5: the form you have to fill out after every contact.
Speaker 5: It consists of why contact, race, outcome, forced use, and
Speaker 5: who initiated the contact. An extra fifteen minutes if there's
Speaker 5: only one person in the contact, add more time for
Speaker 5: more people. It is one of the huge reasons why
Speaker 5: cops don't do traffic stops. And this may shock you
Speaker 5: when it came out, it was so gray as to
Speaker 5: was what it was used for and.
Speaker 6: When you needed to fill it out.
Speaker 5: According to the Democrat pass law, just another pain in
Speaker 5: the ass and a tool which can selectively be used
Speaker 5: to show racism depending on how you pull the data.
Speaker 5: So there's I think for people who are not in
Speaker 5: law enforcement, and generally speaking, I hate it when legislators
Speaker 5: legislate anything that they don't know anything about. And let's
Speaker 5: be real, they don't know anything about most stuff, right,
Speaker 5: They just don't.
Speaker 6: They have their very individual siloed views.
Speaker 5: What I've always found fascinating, Michael, is when you see
Speaker 5: news stories where you have a community activist who then
Speaker 5: goes through the point and shoot training that the cops
Speaker 5: have to go through, the split second training, and they
Speaker 5: come out on the other.
Speaker 6: Side and go, holy crap. That was a lot different
Speaker 6: than I thought.
Speaker 5: What was going on? What can we do in Colorado
Speaker 5: to either help legislators or help regular people understand these
Speaker 5: life and death decisions that are made instantaneously every single day.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think if we can ever figure that out,
Speaker 8: we'd be onto something. It's a tough thing.
Speaker 10: Voters, unfortunately, are so distracted by so many different things,
Speaker 10: and I think that's ultimately what it comes down to,
Speaker 10: is that elections do have consequences when we're allowing people
Speaker 10: to get elected into the state legislature that have maybe
Speaker 10: an acts to grind against law enforcement. Yeah, the thing
Speaker 10: that we get and we shouldn't be surprised when we
Speaker 10: get the government we deserve when we're so distracted as
Speaker 10: a community.
Speaker 5: So what do we do with this bill and how
Speaker 5: would that make an impact? I don't see this legislature
Speaker 5: made up controlled by Democrats, is a zero percent chance
Speaker 5: they're going to roll back this qualified immunity change.
Speaker 6: So what could we do? What could be possible?
Speaker 10: Well, I think you asked Paul this the other day
Speaker 10: on the radio too, about if he could undo one
Speaker 10: legislative change over the last several years with the criminal
Speaker 10: Justice reform.
Speaker 8: What would that be.
Speaker 10: The problem is, there's been so many that are so
Speaker 10: detrimental to public safety that it's hard to pick just one.
Speaker 10: I think the Senate built two seventeen from twenty twenty
Speaker 10: would be a really good one to just completely undo.
Speaker 10: It's led to less police on the streets, and that
Speaker 10: means fewer crimes being solved. And then as you all
Speaker 10: were talking about on Tuesday, is more repeat offenders. They're
Speaker 10: just out on the street and they have a proclivity
Speaker 10: to commit crime, and they're doing that because they can.
Speaker 5: I'm want to ask you another question that isn't directly
Speaker 5: related to the qualified immunity story, But we've just had
Speaker 5: a story where we have a guy who's been arrested
Speaker 5: for attempted murder after allegedly shooting someone on two two five,
Speaker 5: and he is an illegal immigrant from Honduras. He was
Speaker 5: deported three times, and I don't even know how the
Speaker 5: Aurora ped was able to loop in Homeland Security to
Speaker 5: get this guy off the streets. Finally, but we're in
Speaker 5: a state where democrats are increasingly protecting people.
Speaker 6: Like this, this is what's going on.
Speaker 5: How has the the banning of any cooperation between your
Speaker 5: office or any law enforcement agency and ICE affected you
Speaker 5: in the fourth Judicial District?
Speaker 10: Well, I think it's I can actually point to even
Speaker 10: across the little state of Colorado law enforcement. You know,
Speaker 10: our local law enforcement agencies, whether it's a sheriff's office
Speaker 10: or a police department, they're really nervous about working with
Speaker 10: ICE on anything or any federal agency for that matter,
Speaker 10: that might have some tangential connection to immigration. So if
Speaker 10: we have a drug distribution investigation and it is involving
Speaker 10: cartel activity, that means somehow that the federal government is
Speaker 10: involved in investigating these people because it's a transnational drug
Speaker 10: distribution organization, which means that immigration potentially is at play
Speaker 10: in any sort of convictions that you might get in
Speaker 10: the case like that.
Speaker 8: And I've had police officers locally tell me that they're nervous.
Speaker 10: About working on those types of cases because we've had
Speaker 10: our Attorney General suing law enforcement officers across the state
Speaker 10: of Colorado.
Speaker 8: We've obviously got the law that says you're not allowed.
Speaker 10: To do that, although there is a caveat in that
Speaker 10: law that says if you are working on an active
Speaker 10: criminal investigation, you can still cooperate on that criminal investigation.
Speaker 8: But when you've got an.
Speaker 10: Attorney general that's actively going after people, it makes them
Speaker 10: nervous about working on these cases.
Speaker 5: In a general sense, my frustration with this entire thing
Speaker 5: is that imagine, just imagine if Colorado said to the
Speaker 5: federal government, we'd love your help in getting these people
Speaker 5: that are violent criminals, like this guy from Honduras.
Speaker 6: Out of our state.
Speaker 5: We'd love to cooperate with you to get these violent
Speaker 5: criminals who already have a deportation order, maybe been deported
Speaker 5: three more times.
Speaker 6: We'd love to work with you.
Speaker 5: At least from that perspective, a collaboration could actually get
Speaker 5: something done. A collaboration could actually get this guy, maybe permanently,
Speaker 5: out of the country. Although I have no reason to
Speaker 5: think he won't just come back because there's no penalty
Speaker 5: to be paid, right if you just keep coming back,
Speaker 5: Apparently all they do is keep sending you out again.
Speaker 6: I just it's insane. How is there any way.
Speaker 5: For your office to and you just kind of explained
Speaker 5: how to navigate this whole thing. But I mean, what
Speaker 5: I want, and I'm never going to get it, is
Speaker 5: for everyone outside state government to just say we're not
Speaker 5: following this bad law. It's a bad law, and we're
Speaker 5: not following it. I realize that won't happen, but it
Speaker 5: seems to me we have ample ammunition rhetorical to make
Speaker 5: the case that we are actually harming Colorado citizens by
Speaker 5: not doing that. So I mean, can you make that
Speaker 5: argument in any compelling way to anyone who will listen.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I think that's a hard thing to actually put in
Speaker 10: the practice, because you know, as an executive branch member
Speaker 10: that's what I am as a prosecutor, the police are
Speaker 10: executive branch. We take a notae to support the constitution
Speaker 10: of the State of Colorado, the laws of the State
Speaker 10: of Colorado. It's hard to start picking and choosing, and
Speaker 10: you know, you could get a scenario potentially where maybe
Speaker 10: a far left leaning person gets elected to a position
Speaker 10: like this and they start ignoring other laws that we
Speaker 10: think are important on violent.
Speaker 8: Crime, for instance. I think that's a slippery slope to
Speaker 8: go down.
Speaker 10: The I think for me, the better avenue is bring
Speaker 10: attention to it, and let's try to get some advances
Speaker 10: in the legislature so we can get more seats and
Speaker 10: maybe stop some of this, and then as we build momentum,
Speaker 10: maybe start on doing some of the nonsense.
Speaker 8: Thee A.
Speaker 5: Michael Allen from the fourth Judicial District, Thanks so much
Speaker 5: for your time today, Mike, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 6: All right, that is good information.
Speaker 5: A couple of people are asking the bill was inspired
Speaker 5: by the homicide of Elijah McClain by police.
Speaker 6: I'm sure you know the story.
Speaker 5: How can we prevent that from happening without holding police responsible.
Speaker 5: It's not about not holding them responsible. You remember there
Speaker 5: were trials in the Elijah McCain McClain case. The Elijah
Speaker 5: McClain case was absolutely horrible. It was unnecessary. It was
Speaker 5: something that occurred because we had paramedics that were given
Speaker 5: a new tool without enough training or information about how
Speaker 5: to use it. It was just this confluence of bad decisions,
Speaker 5: none of them made maliciously, and that's the problem.
Speaker 6: That's the difference here.
Speaker 5: I don't think any of those people that were involved
Speaker 5: in the Elijah McClain thing had anything any beef with
Speaker 5: Elijah McClain. I think that they just made a catastrophic
Speaker 5: series of errors that led to that poor man's death,
Speaker 5: and qualified im prevents any criminal from just call like
Speaker 5: suing a cop who arrests them, so cops are so
Speaker 5: held accountable in the criminal system. Okay, this is about
Speaker 5: civil responsibility, and it's just I hate it when legislators
Speaker 5: are making laws about things that they have no absolutely
Speaker 5: no knowledge about. I would love it if before they
Speaker 5: did that, legislators on mass decided to do ride alongs
Speaker 5: with police officers or did the point and shoot kind
Speaker 5: of activities that are so good at making people understand
Speaker 5: what they don't understand.
Speaker 6: So I don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 5: I got a bunch of other stuff on the blog
Speaker 5: today that is really really interesting. I mentioned a couple
Speaker 5: days ago that I was investing in small modular reactor technology,
Speaker 5: the nuclear technology, and I am not giving you investment advice.
Speaker 5: I want to be very very clear, do not use
Speaker 5: this as investment advice. But I've got a substat column
Speaker 5: on the blog today about small modular reactors, and more importantly,
Speaker 5: the bigger column is about how we're going to power
Speaker 5: our future because we have, you know, we have the
Speaker 5: normal needs that we're gonna have like you and I
Speaker 5: and the power we use in business and industry, AI
Speaker 5: and data centers that run AI are changing the game
Speaker 5: because they suck up so much energy and our current
Speaker 5: grid cannot support it, our current means of production cannot
Speaker 5: support it. And from where I'm sitting, small modular reactors
Speaker 5: is how we're going to be able.
Speaker 6: To support it.
Speaker 5: So there's a really good column that does a really
Speaker 5: good job on that, and it's kind of why I'm invested.
Speaker 5: I actually talked to my financial advisor today and I
Speaker 5: was telling her about my little gamble. You know, I
Speaker 5: have like I have like reasonable investments where I have
Speaker 5: mutual funds and stuff like that. But then I told
Speaker 5: Chuck maybe three months ago. I was like, Okay, Chuck,
Speaker 5: I'm taking five hundred bucks and I am in buying
Speaker 5: stock in this company because I think this is a
Speaker 5: thing for the future and I'm not going to spend
Speaker 5: a lot of money. But I have to understand I
Speaker 5: could be wrong and I could lose every single dollar.
Speaker 5: And he was like, do what, Dish, Just do it,
Speaker 5: Just go ahead. So I was talking to my financial
Speaker 5: advisor today and I was like, Okay, I've gone down
Speaker 5: this rabbit hole and I've read all this stuff and
Speaker 5: she's like, well, you know, your thinking is good, so
Speaker 5: we'll see what happens. It is not a short term investment,
Speaker 5: just to let you know this is not a run
Speaker 5: it up and then no, this is a long term
Speaker 5: investment situation because they're years away from any sort of profitability.
Speaker 5: They just are. So that is on the blog today
Speaker 5: as well. There is a story from The Babylon Bee.
Speaker 5: They do a podcast every week that is very, very
Speaker 5: funny for not the Bee. And you guys have to
Speaker 5: see when when I hear school board candidates saying, we
Speaker 5: don't really need to worry about boys and girls' sports
Speaker 5: because it's not happening here. It's not happening here yet.
Speaker 5: But you have got to see this story because it
Speaker 5: is hilarious. There's a dude who decided he wanted to
Speaker 5: swim as a woman. You look at this dude's picture.
Speaker 6: He is a dude, Okay, dude.
Speaker 5: The only thing that looks remotely feminine about him is
Speaker 5: he is swimming with.
Speaker 6: Lipstick on, because really that's all it takes.
Speaker 5: I mean, right now, I don't have any lipstick on
Speaker 5: because I'm working from home and I'm in my basement
Speaker 5: and I don't feel good. Obviously not a woman. Wait stop,
Speaker 5: I have some lipstick right here on my desk. I'll
Speaker 5: put it on. Oh wait, now I'm a woman. The absurdity,
Speaker 5: the absurdity of it all, Mandy, How does one get
Speaker 5: involved in investing in reactors? I use an app called
Speaker 5: public dot com to do my little penny stock buying
Speaker 5: right now today it's thirty seven dollars. The company that
Speaker 5: I'm invested in. I bought it at thirty six. It's
Speaker 5: gone up to forty eight, it's come back down to
Speaker 5: thirty seven. I don't care. I think they've got a
Speaker 5: good thing going. It's called New Scale. But do not
Speaker 5: buy that because I told you to buy it. I'm
Speaker 5: not telling you to buy it, not telling you to
Speaker 5: buy it at all. Grant has joined us for what's
Speaker 5: sure to be a very SUCs well session of the
Speaker 5: most exciting segment on the radio on its.
Speaker 6: Gy in the world of the.
Speaker 5: Day now because Grant is at the studio and I
Speaker 5: am not because I'm sick. First of all, your thank
Speaker 5: you are You're welcome Grant for me not bringing my
Speaker 5: sickness in what the Democrats get my dang old husband
Speaker 5: gave it to me anyway, What is our dad joke
Speaker 5: of the day. Please.
Speaker 4: It's easy to convince ladies not to eat tide pods,
Speaker 4: but harder to deter gents.
Speaker 7: Oh, burgers love that one.
Speaker 6: That is fantastic.
Speaker 7: Word of the day is a verb.
Speaker 6: It is snarfnarf.
Speaker 5: No, but it's an exclamation from from a cartoon snarf.
Speaker 10: It.
Speaker 6: I don't know what it means. It's just an exclamation right.
Speaker 7: To eat quickly and voraciously.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5: By the way, the ticker number for for that stock
Speaker 5: that I'm not telling you to buy. Okay, s m
Speaker 5: R Small Modular Reactor. But that's not the company's name. Okay.
Speaker 5: What is the adjective erinaceous mean e r i N
Speaker 5: a satious nation.
Speaker 2: Lawn.
Speaker 4: Oh that's actually you're really good at making airs.
Speaker 5: Except it's e r i N.
Speaker 6: Right, Well, it's hedgelog hedgehog.
Speaker 5: Like if someone reminds you of a hedgehog, whether whether
Speaker 5: in their physical appearance or their prickly personality, you might
Speaker 5: describe them as erinaceous.
Speaker 6: For instance, porn star Ron Jeremy is ernaceous.
Speaker 7: Benjamin, Oh no, he's not.
Speaker 5: No, no, what's our Jeopardy category?
Speaker 2: Grant?
Speaker 5: Are you preparedness like not answer until the end of
Speaker 5: the question.
Speaker 7: Yes, Well, I'm I'm trying to win. I'm gonna try
Speaker 7: something different here today.
Speaker 4: I'm going to give you guys two options for categories,
Speaker 4: and if it's a tile to I'll.
Speaker 7: Break the tiles. See if you guys both agree which
Speaker 7: one you want to do?
Speaker 4: Do you either get to choose between please bear with
Speaker 4: me or let's play cards?
Speaker 7: Mandy, what do you think?
Speaker 5: I of course would go please bear with me because
Speaker 5: it's a numbers category and I'm not good at cards,
Speaker 5: so I would like, please bear with.
Speaker 8: Let's do it.
Speaker 7: She said she's not good at cards grants. Are you
Speaker 7: good at cards?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 7: Okay, then let's category bear with me.
Speaker 4: A February twenty twenty three headline said, this movie about
Speaker 4: one seriously hopped up bear Gran Grant.
Speaker 7: What is cocaine bearg Have you either of you seen it?
Speaker 4: Is it good?
Speaker 7: I would never seen it?
Speaker 6: No, but it looks funny. I've heard it's very funny.
Speaker 7: Actually, Waka waka to voice this mummy Fanny?
Speaker 5: What is Fazzy Bear?
Speaker 7: That is correct?
Speaker 4: Movie within a movie time in the Unbearable Weight of
Speaker 4: massive talent. Nick Cage and Pedro Pascal swoon over this
Speaker 4: brit based bear two.
Speaker 7: So the second grand Grant? No, I don't know, Oh.
Speaker 6: Manny, what is Grant?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 7: You're out there, rand No, go for it.
Speaker 6: That would be what is Paddington?
Speaker 7: That is correct? What a great movie that is that?
Speaker 6: Are you talking about Paddington?
Speaker 7: About the Unbearable Weight?
Speaker 6: I got to tell you that movie is so underrated.
Speaker 5: I love that movie.
Speaker 7: What I love that too? Is also great?
Speaker 6: All the Paddington movies are adorable.
Speaker 2: From Darcas Peru.
Speaker 6: Anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 4: This man as Jackie Moon after a stint grant.
Speaker 7: Who is will Ferrell?
Speaker 5: Correct?
Speaker 7: Oh, let's score?
Speaker 6: It is two to one?
Speaker 7: Who is the two? Grant? I do you have two
Speaker 7: as well?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 6: You lost one?
Speaker 8: You us?
Speaker 7: You said your name?
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: Bill Harris provided the bare necessities as this character in
Speaker 4: nineteen sixty seven's The Jungle Book.
Speaker 7: Grant Grant? What is? Oh? No Bulu? Yeah, so we're.
Speaker 4: Going to go to the let's play card. Okay, here
Speaker 4: we go in a dish to two regular decks of
Speaker 4: fifty two cards. The game of Canasta uses four of
Speaker 4: these as wild cards, Grant, Grant, what is a joker?
Speaker 5: That is correct?
Speaker 7: What a comeback?
Speaker 5: Excellent game? What are you bow Nicks?
Speaker 10: You?
Speaker 8: What do you do right?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 6: You're down and now you're back? All right, don't say
Speaker 6: it for the.
Speaker 7: Whole game, Grant, not just in the fourth.
Speaker 6: Come on, Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: We've got Heaway Sports coming up next. We'll be back
Speaker 5: on Monday. I hope I'm well by then.
Speaker 7: I'm sure it will be.
Speaker 5: I will.
Speaker 6: I'm strong like bull.
Speaker 5: It's fine Catawaite Sports taking over.
Speaker 6: Now, have a great weekend, guys,