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Speaker 4: Welcome, Local, Welcome to a Monday edition of the show.
Speaker 4: I am your host, Mandy Connell, and I'm joined, of
Speaker 4: course by my right hand man, decked out in orange
Speaker 4: and blue to celebrate a very questionable win, Anthony Rodriguez,
Speaker 4: you can call him a rod Monday.
Speaker 5: And today we will take you right up until three
Speaker 5: p m.
Speaker 4: When KOA Sports will take over and do a deep
Speaker 4: dive on yesterday's Broncos win.
Speaker 2: It was a W, but it might be a lowercase W. Anthony.
Speaker 2: We'll get on that and just say no.
Speaker 4: Just saying a W'SW, not taking anything way, but in
Speaker 4: the grand scheme of things, that might have been a
Speaker 4: lowercase W for the Broncos. I'll tell you why I'm
Speaker 4: glad it happened right after we talk about what's in
Speaker 4: the blog and where to find it. Find the blog
Speaker 4: by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.
Speaker 4: Look for the headline that says nine to eight to
Speaker 4: twenty five blog and ugly win is a win. And
Speaker 4: let's talk about section eight. Click on that and here
Speaker 4: are the headlines you will find within.
Speaker 1: Are you doing with much in office?
Speaker 6: Half of America? All with ships and clipments?
Speaker 2: Say that's going to press plant today on the blog?
Speaker 4: And ugly win still counts? Section eight pays how much scrolling? Scrolling?
Speaker 4: The Feds want to know how much we are spending
Speaker 4: on illegal immigrant healthcare? Democrats are hemorrhaging voters. What words
Speaker 4: can you never spell right? If you live to teach
Speaker 4: the if you'd like to teach the trades, got a
Speaker 4: spelling era there? Denver City Council may give impounded cars
Speaker 4: new life another way dia Galge's customers. When the wicked
Speaker 4: witch is fighting for all of us? Colorado River Basin
Speaker 4: is under serious stress. Leaf papers, it's almost your time?
Speaker 4: Will this be the violent criminal that breaks the camel's back?
Speaker 2: Scrolling?
Speaker 4: Howard Stern punked the news we have our first millennial saint.
Speaker 5: Could this be a sign of what's to come in
Speaker 5: the midterms?
Speaker 2: Opeck.
Speaker 4: Once it's market share back, you can fight dementia. Why
Speaker 4: did that man give that ball to that horrible woman?
Speaker 2: News?
Speaker 4: Important to my daughter. McDonald's is starting a fast food price.
Speaker 4: Warn that dude who likes to fight women won't take
Speaker 4: a DNA test. We are beyond over, beyond meat. Why
Speaker 4: is this a thing? Scrolling smuggling La Boo Boo dolls
Speaker 4: is a thing now when rats find poison interpretive dance
Speaker 4: at a city council meeting. William Shatner's version of rocket
Speaker 4: Man is something, y'all. I don't hate this version of
Speaker 4: the anthem. This dude has built an entire town for
Speaker 4: his cats. Those are the headlines on the blog Andy's
Speaker 4: dot com. Yes, thank you, Nancy, We appreciate you. Nance.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be sad when she's out of Congress completely
Speaker 4: because do we still get.
Speaker 2: To use that? Yeah, she's gone. What about you? Just
Speaker 2: did you just say that?
Speaker 1: I know?
Speaker 4: But what I mean, seriously, she's been sidelined right now.
Speaker 4: I mean, she's she's no longer the powerhouse she once was,
Speaker 4: like a mascot. Now they've handed the reins over to
Speaker 4: Hakeem Jeffries, who's just basically dropped them on the ground
Speaker 4: and is just stepping on them. So yes, I am,
Speaker 4: I am here to do that, and I just talked
Speaker 4: to you right now. Christian Toto is gonna Happy, is
Speaker 4: gonna join us at two thirty, because right before the
Speaker 4: show started, I saw a column of his and I'm
Speaker 4: gonna add to the blog about what Howard Stern did
Speaker 4: this morning, and I want to We're gonna get to
Speaker 4: the Broncos game for just a moment. I know there
Speaker 4: are those of you in the audience who are like, this.
Speaker 2: Isn't a spots show.
Speaker 4: Why are you talking about spots Because during football season,
Speaker 4: there's no bigger story in Denver than the Broncos just
Speaker 4: the way it is.
Speaker 2: So this morning, Howard Stern.
Speaker 4: It's been widely reported, It's been all over the news.
Speaker 4: It's like, oh, we're going to get an update on
Speaker 4: September eighth from Howard Stern about his career y Serious Now,
Speaker 4: Howard Stern has had some wildly lucrative deals with Sirious
Speaker 4: since he jumped ship to leave to restaural Radio to
Speaker 4: go to satellite radio. And when he first came over
Speaker 4: it made a lot of sense for Serious because leaving
Speaker 4: terrestural Radio, he was really at the height of his
Speaker 4: popularity at that moment, and he brought a lot of
Speaker 4: subscribers with him a whole bunch.
Speaker 5: But now serious is seeing really.
Speaker 4: Big competition from Spotify, from iHeart, from other fleet free
Speaker 4: platforms that have podcasts on them. So people are now,
Speaker 4: why am I going to pay for that when I
Speaker 4: can get it for free kind of thing, even though
Speaker 4: they can't get Howard. There's just a lot more competition
Speaker 4: in the industry. So this morning I get up and
Speaker 4: the first headline I see, very first headline of the
Speaker 4: day I see, is this one. Howard Stern walks away
Speaker 4: from SiriusXM after two decades.
Speaker 2: Y'all right?
Speaker 4: Next to it, this headline, Howard Stern returns to Sirius
Speaker 4: XM radio show after trolling listeners. Let me fix that
Speaker 4: headline for you. Howard Stern returns to Sirius XM radio
Speaker 4: show after trolling the news media.
Speaker 5: Because that's what happened, because if you google.
Speaker 4: Howard Stern leaves Sirius XM, you will see dozens of
Speaker 4: news stories written by reporters who wanted to be first.
Speaker 4: And what Howard Stern did this morning, I gotta say,
Speaker 4: as an old radio pro myself, hats off Howard thing
Speaker 4: being although I would have known immediately that this was
Speaker 4: a gag, so he got.
Speaker 2: Andy Cohen of Bravo Fame to.
Speaker 4: Pretend that he was taking over Howard's show and Howard's timeslot,
Speaker 4: and Andy apparently did a great job talking about how
Speaker 4: the handoff should have been smoother, YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 5: But then Howard came on and was like mean or Nina,
Speaker 5: I'm still here.
Speaker 4: But Christian Toto is not buying, not buying what Howard
Speaker 4: Stern is selling, and he wrote a pretty scathing column
Speaker 4: about it. We'll talk to him this afternoon at two thirty.
Speaker 4: But I gotta tell you this is so on brand
Speaker 4: for Howard Stern, it's not even funny. But the reality
Speaker 4: is is that the radio that I started in back
Speaker 4: in nineteen ninety seven, right, That's how long I've been
Speaker 4: at this game. It's it's such a different industry now
Speaker 4: that it was before for many many people. And the
Speaker 4: big deals five hundred million dollars from series, There's no
Speaker 4: way Howard Stern got that kind of money. So my
Speaker 4: guess is he took a considerable pay cut. So we'll
Speaker 4: talk to a Christian about that at two thirty. But
Speaker 4: can we talk about yesterday's Broncos game? Yike's Anthony, Yikes.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Did they lose?
Speaker 5: Wait, no, they won, They got the W.
Speaker 4: But we have to talk about the obvious issues that
Speaker 4: the Broncos have, the main one being the offense.
Speaker 6: Before you a couple of teams for you. The Baltimore
Speaker 6: Ravens can't say Chiefs. Yeah, the Detroit Lions. Those are
Speaker 6: some really good teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying that good teams didn't lose yesterday and
Speaker 4: that the Broncos won. The Broncos did win, But here's
Speaker 4: why I'm glad it happened like it did. The offense
Speaker 4: was to say, anemic is downplaying what the word anemic
Speaker 4: is all about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, terrible. Yeah, but the defense was just lights out.
Speaker 2: Thank god.
Speaker 4: The defense is so good, so good they will be okay,
Speaker 4: we've at least got that in our camp. We only
Speaker 4: have to fix one thing, and that's the offense. They
Speaker 4: will be the best defense in the I think so too.
Speaker 4: But that being said, I'm glad yesterday happened like it
Speaker 4: happened for two reasons. Number one, and I just said
Speaker 4: this to our boss, Brenda Egger. I was like, Brenda,
Speaker 4: it almost looked to me like Bonnicks has been believing
Speaker 4: his own press hundred percent, and he got humbled yesterday
Speaker 4: in a big way.
Speaker 6: I was in a rare camp during camp when we
Speaker 6: were hearing from Sean Payton, a lot of the players,
Speaker 6: a lot of the media about.
Speaker 2: This being a Super Bowl contender. I thought it'd be premature.
Speaker 2: I did. I still do.
Speaker 6: You look at the teams last night they played Ravens
Speaker 6: and Bills. The Broncos offense has a lot of ground
Speaker 6: to make up. Having said that, yeah, if they were
Speaker 6: playing you know, twenty seven other teams, they probably lose.
Speaker 6: They were grateful to be playing the Tennessee Titans yesterday.
Speaker 6: But at the same time, Bonnicks said yesterday that he
Speaker 6: can dial he had good vision on those interceptions. He
Speaker 6: was aggressive because he believed that he essentially that he
Speaker 6: could and that he knows he can dial it back
Speaker 6: a bit because he doesn't want to put the defense
Speaker 6: in bad spots.
Speaker 2: So it's not like it was, oh my gosh, he
Speaker 2: has no idea what he's doing.
Speaker 6: He's throwing up you know, I know, I know others
Speaker 6: are saying that he that you know, oh my gosh,
Speaker 6: you look terrible.
Speaker 2: Division is bad. He was aggressive. He was just aggressive.
Speaker 4: It was the perfect thing that could have happened for
Speaker 4: two reasons. Number one, we still got the win, right,
Speaker 4: we still got the win.
Speaker 2: We walked out. We're one to zero.
Speaker 4: That's fantastic. But it happened early in the season. So
Speaker 4: the reality check, because that's what that was yesterday, that
Speaker 4: was a reality check, gives the offense opportunities to drill
Speaker 4: down on the things that they did very badly yesterday
Speaker 4: and fix those issues. If it happened at the end
Speaker 4: of the season and the playoffs, whatever, that would be terrible.
Speaker 4: This is the best case scenario to have a sobering,
Speaker 4: gut check game very beginning of the season, still get
Speaker 4: the win, be able to see that your defense is
Speaker 4: going to be able to pick you up through your mistakes,
Speaker 4: which were significant yesterday. I thought overall it was a
Speaker 4: best case scenario for an offense that just isn't where
Speaker 4: it needs to be.
Speaker 6: Nine out of ten times you lose when you turn
Speaker 6: the ball over five yes, four yeah time.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You a were able to to correct off of a
Speaker 2: win is always one of the best things.
Speaker 6: Yep. And now you're going to go to Indy with
Speaker 6: a colts team that looked pretty dang good yes day
Speaker 6: with Daniel Jones against that really bad Miami Dolphins team.
Speaker 2: But you won the game. That's why I can't watch
Speaker 2: The Dolphins are just so bad. By the way. The
Speaker 2: worst thing you happen to see that Florida.
Speaker 4: State won again on Saturday, Anthony, they played a Bob's
Speaker 4: Barber College. Yeah no, actually, what did you talk about this?
Speaker 4: So they played East Texas A and M University, which
Speaker 4: I didn't even know was a university. Okay, after scheduling
Speaker 4: Alabama first, they're like, oh, we'll take it easy. The
Speaker 4: second week score was seventy to three. Okay, seventy points
Speaker 4: to zero in the fourth quarter. But I want to
Speaker 4: the reason I want to even bring this up, and
Speaker 4: it kind of goes a little bit to yesterday's game.
Speaker 4: Back in the day, back in the late seventies, when
Speaker 4: Bobby Bowden took over the Florida State program, he said
Speaker 4: the first thing he did when he took over the
Speaker 4: team was called every major powerhouse in the area, every
Speaker 4: powerhouse school, and say, look, we want to play you guys,
Speaker 4: come to a home and home at your place if
Speaker 4: we need to. But the only way to get better
Speaker 4: is by playing people that are a lot better than
Speaker 4: you are. Right, So the first few years were an
Speaker 4: absolute disaster for Florida State when he took over, but
Speaker 4: they kept getting better, kept getting better, kept getting bigger.
Speaker 4: And at the beginning, he said, every time before, we
Speaker 4: were about to go play a team that was so
Speaker 4: much better than we were. So we were outmanned, we
Speaker 4: were out matched, we were out spent on facilities and
Speaker 4: everything else. But we had to go play these games.
Speaker 4: I would say to my players, you are probably not
Speaker 4: going to get a victory this week, but you go
Speaker 4: out and you play as hard as you can, and
Speaker 4: you are going to be a better football player by
Speaker 4: the end of it. Right, Just playing the game against
Speaker 4: someone that is far superior to you makes you a
Speaker 4: better player. East Texas A and M University walk down
Speaker 4: on that field on Saturday, and this is how.
Speaker 2: The team looked.
Speaker 4: Well, we're here to cash a check and get our
Speaker 4: butts kicked. They were flat, there was no energy, they
Speaker 4: had nothing going for them, and that is.
Speaker 2: The coach's fault.
Speaker 6: Well, and that right there is why, even though I
Speaker 6: said I didn't believe all the building up of the
Speaker 6: hype of being a superral contender in training camp. We
Speaker 6: here for the Broncos doesn't mean I disagree with saying it,
Speaker 6: because if you set the bar, we want to we
Speaker 6: want to maybe make it to the second round this year. Well,
Speaker 6: if you get to the second round, what are you
Speaker 6: going to do after that? Set the bar high? If
Speaker 6: you don't mean it, you got a bar continue to
Speaker 6: want to get to. But the Broncos should absolutely be
Speaker 6: thinking they're a super Bowl contending team because if the
Speaker 6: offense gets to a competent level, yep, and they play
Speaker 6: with that defense, they are a Superble content.
Speaker 4: I just want to point out to everybody in this
Speaker 4: listing audience, Trent Dilfer has a Super Bowl ring. He
Speaker 4: has a ring as a mediocre barely got it done
Speaker 4: quarterback because his defense in Baltimore was unbelievable.
Speaker 6: Mandy will make it more local. Twenty fifteen, Peyton Manning
Speaker 6: has a Super Bowl ring. Correct because of that defense. Yep,
Speaker 6: Peyton was not good that year.
Speaker 2: People.
Speaker 6: If the Broncos offense can be competent, even in today's
Speaker 6: NFL with offenses like we saw last night in Baltimore
Speaker 6: and Buffalo, if the Broncos offense get competent, that is
Speaker 6: how good this defense is going to be one of
Speaker 6: the best teamers can be seen in a long time. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so they've got some work to do, but they don't
Speaker 6: have to be tops in the NFL. They just have
Speaker 6: to be competent and not have four turnovers.
Speaker 2: Thank you. That's exactly my point. Work to do.
Speaker 4: But that's okay, perfect, perfect way you got to win.
Speaker 4: But you know exactly what's wrong.
Speaker 6: And a lot of good teams have a lot of
Speaker 6: work to do. That are really good teams that are
Speaker 6: on one today.
Speaker 4: I gotta tell you, I was I was looking at
Speaker 4: the scores last night. Very few offenses look like they
Speaker 4: were doing anything. I mean we had a lot of
Speaker 4: like sixteen, thirteen, twelve, nine, I mean we had a
Speaker 4: lot of low scoring games yesterday.
Speaker 6: Week one in the NFL is notoriously weird. You just
Speaker 6: want to win the game at the end of the day.
Speaker 6: The bottom line after Week one, if the offense looks
Speaker 6: like this in week nine, we're having a different conversation
Speaker 6: week one.
Speaker 2: Mind you, the preseason has one last game.
Speaker 6: Now, it's still kind of preseason mode, especially for an
Speaker 6: office that didn't get a lot of run.
Speaker 4: Let's be patient, yep, there you go. So that's our
Speaker 4: Broncos talk. It's over now for the three of you
Speaker 4: that are complaining on the text line already, I realize
Speaker 4: you guys, what is football?
Speaker 2: Who cares?
Speaker 4: Irrelevant? It's our national pastime now it is? Anyway, Oh
Speaker 4: is this a sports show?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 2: What a rod?
Speaker 5: We're gonna do three hours of sports right now just
Speaker 5: because this guy.
Speaker 2: No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 9: We can.
Speaker 5: I can, but I don't want to. I did sports
Speaker 5: radio for three years.
Speaker 2: That was enough.
Speaker 4: It's so repetitive, just the same conversations to just insert
Speaker 4: different names or whatever. The guys in the afternoon make
Speaker 4: it far more interesting than I think it should be
Speaker 4: if you ask me.
Speaker 2: Honestly.
Speaker 4: Anyway, I got a lot of stuff on the blog today.
Speaker 4: I do have a couple of things. Today's one of
Speaker 4: those shows. As a matter of fact, I thought about
Speaker 4: doing this the other day and I just remembered it
Speaker 4: right now. For those of you have already read the blog,
Speaker 4: what story would you like me to talk about next?
Speaker 4: You can text us at five six six nine. Now
Speaker 4: what interests you? What caught your eye as you read
Speaker 4: the blog. If you haven't read the blog, you're about
Speaker 4: to have a few minutes here at the bottom of
Speaker 4: the hour when you can peruse the blog and decide
Speaker 4: what stories you.
Speaker 2: Want me to talk about.
Speaker 4: I think I should reward the people, and they are
Speaker 4: there's a lot of people who read the blog every day.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure I have people who read the blog
Speaker 5: who do not listen to the show.
Speaker 4: I'm almost positive I do, because I have people who
Speaker 4: comment on Facebook and Twitter that clearly don't listen to
Speaker 4: the show because of the commentary that they're making, or
Speaker 4: if they listen, they're not paying attention, right. But I
Speaker 4: figure I should reward you blog readers by asking your opinion,
Speaker 4: what story should we talk about in the next segment
Speaker 4: five six six nine, Oh, you can text us on
Speaker 4: the Common Spirit health text line Mandy, did you not
Speaker 4: watch Bill Bill's Eagles?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 4: No, Bill's were Ravens. The Bill's and Ravens game Bill's Ravens.
Speaker 4: I did not watch the end of it.
Speaker 2: One of the best games I've seen a long time.
Speaker 4: I fell asleep really early last night, at like eight
Speaker 4: point thirty in my chair.
Speaker 2: I was just done. I was like, I'm out. I know,
Speaker 2: I'm old.
Speaker 5: I used to ask my dad years.
Speaker 4: Ago I'd be like, Dad, why how do you fall asleep?
Speaker 4: In my dad would fall asleep in his chair in
Speaker 4: the middle of a sentence during a conversation.
Speaker 5: He was just kinda drift off, and I was like, Dad, how.
Speaker 2: It's not even possible. How do you even do that?
Speaker 2: Guess who does it? Now?
Speaker 5: And it goes like this, be a little tired, sit
Speaker 5: in a comfortable chair, fall asleep.
Speaker 2: That's pretty much hit.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: I've already got somebody weighing in at five six six,
Speaker 4: and I know about what we're going to talk about next.
Speaker 5: But you're gonna have to wait and see what it is.
Speaker 4: Right after this, I do want to respond to this
Speaker 4: Texter or Mandy Bob's barber College, and the BBC mascot.
Speaker 5: Is of course they're the Clippers.
Speaker 1: Duh.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows that. Anyway.
Speaker 4: In the next segment, by popular demand, I've got two
Speaker 4: stories that I would have talked about, but now I
Speaker 4: can't get to the blog, but I remember them, although
Speaker 4: one of them, Oh, here we go, it's back up,
Speaker 4: it's back up. So I want to talk for a
Speaker 4: moment about Section eight housing. Section eight Housing is a
Speaker 4: program that initially was designed to assist people with their
Speaker 4: rent and give them a lower housing costs to prevent
Speaker 4: them from being homeless. And I think that's an admirable goal.
Speaker 4: The program's been around for a very long time and
Speaker 4: has been a part of the social safety net for
Speaker 4: a very long time. Well, a couple of things were
Speaker 4: happening with Section eight housing, and one of them comes
Speaker 4: directly from the the HUD Secretary. HUD is Housing and
Speaker 4: Urban Development. Scott Turner is a former NFL player and
Speaker 4: I'm going to be the first to admit he was
Speaker 4: one of the appointments by Donald Trump that I was like,
Speaker 4: what I didn't I just didn't understand it. But I
Speaker 4: got to tell you after hearing this exchange, I am
Speaker 4: all for Scott Turner as HUD secretary. And here he
Speaker 4: is talking about Section eight housing and overall welfare benefits overall.
Speaker 5: Can I have my audio? Are I give him my computer?
Speaker 2: Listen to this?
Speaker 9: Send in all these club programs that you know, this
Speaker 9: is really the only avenue they have mom to get house.
Speaker 2: Are you talking about the proposed time limits?
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: And what is her question?
Speaker 9: Just if there's any concern about whether you're, you know,
Speaker 9: to be pushing out families.
Speaker 7: That you've noticed, no concern at all. Government subsidies were
Speaker 7: never meant to be a lifestyle. Have you ever met
Speaker 7: somebody to live in government housing?
Speaker 4: I'm going to stop it there because I want you
Speaker 4: to hear how long this pause is by the reporter
Speaker 4: after he says, if you ever met anybody who's lives
Speaker 4: in government housing?
Speaker 5: So we just asked a questions. Listen to how long
Speaker 5: the pause is.
Speaker 2: Personally, I have enough.
Speaker 7: I meant hundreds of people around their country. Government subsidies
Speaker 7: were never meant to be a hammock. They're meant to
Speaker 7: be a trampoline. We're always going to have people in
Speaker 7: our nation that need help, and.
Speaker 2: We understand that from the heart of hood. We understand it.
Speaker 7: We'll have these people. I met a young lady in
Speaker 7: a certain city in our country that's been living in
Speaker 7: a certain housing project, which was deplorable. She's fifty two
Speaker 7: years old. She's been living there since nineteen fifty three.
Speaker 7: Excuse me, she's fifty two years old. She's been living
Speaker 7: there since nineteen seventy three. She's able body, able minded,
Speaker 7: she was raised there, she lived there, now, she's raising
Speaker 7: her children there.
Speaker 2: There's three generations living in government subsidies.
Speaker 7: That are able body, able minded. That's not the way
Speaker 7: that our government and our country is supposed to be.
Speaker 7: And so when you talk about time limits, time limits
Speaker 7: are kind of an encouragement.
Speaker 2: It's like, hey, you can do this.
Speaker 7: No, remember, we're talking about able body, able minded people,
Speaker 7: not seniors, not to disable, people who are able to work,
Speaker 7: people who have the ability to work, people who have
Speaker 7: the mental acuity to work and look for work.
Speaker 8: Right when you.
Speaker 7: Change the trajectory of someone's future by saying you know what,
Speaker 7: we're not just telling you the work.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have workforce training around you.
Speaker 7: We're gonna have skill training around you to get out
Speaker 7: of government subsidies to live a life of self sustainability.
Speaker 2: This is not.
Speaker 7: Democrat, it's not republican. Poverty has no party. You understand,
Speaker 7: Poverty is not red, it's not blue, it's not black,
Speaker 7: it's not white. It impacts everyone directly. So my heart,
Speaker 7: the President's heart center, the crapos heart, is this, how
Speaker 7: do we help ablebody people change the conversation?
Speaker 2: I say, you know what you can do it?
Speaker 7: This is not political, this is you know what you
Speaker 7: can So we're gonna put time limps on here and
Speaker 7: help you to traject out of poverty, out of government subsidy,
Speaker 7: to a life of self sustability.
Speaker 5: That's the heart behind this going.
Speaker 7: Research bill Clintons Bill nineteen ninety six, when they did.
Speaker 8: Real well for a reform, I was just gonna bring
Speaker 8: mine of that.
Speaker 2: You don't remember, you too young, So I'm going to
Speaker 2: research that.
Speaker 5: That is HUD Secretary Scott Turner. So why am I
Speaker 5: playing that?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: Center Square just did a big report on Section eight
Speaker 4: in Colorado. Now, I am a person who says, I
Speaker 4: believe that Section eight housing is an important thing, but
Speaker 4: I agree with the HUD secretary it should be a
Speaker 4: temporary measure. I personally know people who have lived in
Speaker 4: hut housing temporarily for some three four years before they
Speaker 4: were able to get their feet on them and get
Speaker 4: under them and get back out on their own. But
Speaker 4: it is, it should be a temporary proposition. And the
Speaker 4: Center Square did some looking into what Section eight housing
Speaker 4: vouchers would buy you.
Speaker 5: Here in Colorado.
Speaker 4: Now, in Colorado, the program pays up to thirty eight
Speaker 4: hundred and seventy nine dollars for a four bedroom home.
Speaker 4: Listen to this in the eight zero nine two four
Speaker 4: zip code, which includes Wolf Ranch. There are twenty eight
Speaker 4: homes with four or more bedrooms for rent, ranging from
Speaker 4: two thousand, ninety nine per month to four thousand, two
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty dollars per month, all but three of
Speaker 4: which are below the three thousand, eight hundred and seventy
Speaker 4: nine dollars per month limit. The median rent is three thousand,
Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty dollars per month, and one example
Speaker 4: A three thousand, two hundred fifty dollar a month home
Speaker 4: is a five bedroom, four bathroom, three thousand, seven hundred
Speaker 4: and ninety square foot home including a home theater, bar,
Speaker 4: a large fenced in yard, and a three car garage. Y'all,
Speaker 4: I don't have a home theater a rod. Do you
Speaker 4: have a home theater in your house?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 2: Her parents do. Well, I'm not asking about your parents.
Speaker 4: No, I don't either, And yet you're telling me that
Speaker 4: people who have Section eight housing can get that.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 4: I don't want people to live in slums, right, I
Speaker 4: want people. I want people to live in housing that
Speaker 4: is clean and safe and tidy. I was watching one
Speaker 4: of the shows that I watched on HTTV and Ben
Speaker 4: and Aaron from hometown were helping this woman renovate a
Speaker 4: home that she was going to use to shelter women
Speaker 4: who were coming out of abusive relationships and allow them
Speaker 4: to get back on their feet. It was it was
Speaker 4: going to be a group housing situation. But they were
Speaker 4: standing in the kitchen and Aaron and Ben were talking
Speaker 4: about what they were going to do in the kitchen,
Speaker 4: and Aaron said, well, what kind of countertipme do you
Speaker 4: want to hear? And the lady said, I want lambin
Speaker 4: It countertops. Now, lamin It is pretty much the cheapest
Speaker 4: kind of countertop that you can buy. I think they
Speaker 4: actually went with butcher block, which is also very affordable
Speaker 4: but looks nicer.
Speaker 2: But that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 4: So she said, no, I want I want cheap countertops
Speaker 4: because I don't want this house to be so nice
Speaker 4: that when they step out to actually do something that
Speaker 4: they can afford, it is a step down. And I
Speaker 4: thought that was very interesting. She said, I want all
Speaker 4: steps to feel like there is a step up. So
Speaker 4: instead of having you know, granted countertops and all of
Speaker 4: that stuff, they had a very clean, very nice, very
Speaker 4: neatly decorated house that was done with materials that were
Speaker 4: lower end, So when those women moved out of that house,
Speaker 4: they would be feeling like they were stepping up and
Speaker 4: not stepping down.
Speaker 5: One of the issues.
Speaker 4: And this is again from personal experience, not me personally,
Speaker 4: but with people that I know and care about that
Speaker 4: I know very very well. Getting out of the system
Speaker 4: once you're in the system can sometimes be almost as
Speaker 4: challenging as getting in the system. I had one friend
Speaker 4: who was in Section eight housing after her divorce. She
Speaker 4: had a lot of kids and her husband was not
Speaker 4: a nice person, and she decided to leave and she
Speaker 4: ended up in Section eight housing. And in her two
Speaker 4: and a half years in Section eight housing, she went
Speaker 4: managed to go back to school, get her degree in nursing,
Speaker 4: and then got a really good job in nursing. Right,
Speaker 4: so her fortunes changed dramatically in two and a half years.
Speaker 5: It took forever to get her name off the rolls, and.
Speaker 4: In doing so, while she was still on the rolls
Speaker 4: and then now had a really good job, she's getting
Speaker 4: all these notices that essentially she's defrauding the government when
Speaker 4: she was clear she had all the documentations.
Speaker 2: She's like, I've set you.
Speaker 4: Guys all these letters to take me out of the
Speaker 4: system because now I'm making you know, a decent living
Speaker 4: or whatever, and it was a nightmare for her. The
Speaker 4: system is fundamental broken in so many ways. It's broken
Speaker 4: in that to the secretary's point, there are people that
Speaker 4: have made living on the government dole a lifestyle choice,
Speaker 4: and that's wrong if they are able bodied, enable minded.
Speaker 4: And I love the way you kept coming back to that.
Speaker 4: We're not talking about displacing the elderly or the people
Speaker 4: that are physically or mentally unable to care for themselves
Speaker 4: in a significant way. He's talking about people that the
Speaker 4: only thing holding them back is themselves. And this whole
Speaker 4: exchange with the HUD secretary, for me, clearly delineates the
Speaker 4: difference between the ways people on the left look at
Speaker 4: people in poverty and the way people on the right
Speaker 4: look at people in poverty. People on the left look
Speaker 4: at people in poverty and say.
Speaker 5: Oh, no, they're poor. We have to do something to
Speaker 5: help them.
Speaker 2: What can we do.
Speaker 4: We can give them housing, Great, we've solved that problem.
Speaker 4: We've checked that box. Their life is better off now
Speaker 4: because of it. But that's where it stops, right, it
Speaker 4: doesn't you don't stop to say, what are we doing
Speaker 4: to their sense of responsibility, to their sense of self
Speaker 4: worth when we don't allow people to pay their own
Speaker 4: way in any way shape or form. People on the
Speaker 4: right see able minded, able bodied people and say there's potential,
Speaker 4: and all we have to do is help them tap
Speaker 4: into their own potential so they no longer need our
Speaker 4: assistance going forward, and in a perfect world, they will
Speaker 4: become tax paying citizens whose tax dollars will go to
Speaker 4: help other people that started out where they did. And
Speaker 4: I think that's a pretty big fundamental difference. I hope
Speaker 4: you heard the audio that I played from HUTS Secretary
Speaker 4: Scott Turner about requiring able bodied, able minded people to
Speaker 4: have a time limit on how much time they spend
Speaker 4: in Section eight housing, and I.
Speaker 2: Agree with that.
Speaker 4: I actually think, like if I could wave a magic
Speaker 4: wand right now, and I've thought about this for honestly
Speaker 4: for two decades now, welfare reform is not just about
Speaker 4: telling people they can't have access to welfare anymore.
Speaker 2: It's just not going to work. It's not going to
Speaker 2: be effective.
Speaker 4: But the big problem with welfare as it is right now,
Speaker 4: including Section eight housing, is that if you all of
Speaker 4: a sudden go out and you start making too much money,
Speaker 4: they're going.
Speaker 5: To take away your welfare benefits.
Speaker 4: And often what happens is and I'm going to use
Speaker 4: an example that's a real life example. So I know
Speaker 4: a young woman who at the time was a team worker,
Speaker 4: a team member at McDonald's. She had gotten a part
Speaker 4: time job when her kids went to school so she
Speaker 4: could be there for her kids and everything.
Speaker 5: It was, you know, she's in the welfare program.
Speaker 4: I interviewed this young woman, and I interviewed her in
Speaker 4: two thousand and seven, maybe in Florida. So she's a
Speaker 4: team member, and her manager at the McDonald saw something
Speaker 4: in her and said, you know, I think if you
Speaker 4: really wanted to have a career with McDonald's, you can
Speaker 4: do a really great job. And I'd like to make
Speaker 4: you an assistant manager. And that assistant manager job came
Speaker 4: with a very modest raise.
Speaker 2: But that modest raise was.
Speaker 4: Enough to knock her off of her food benefits, the
Speaker 4: snap benefits, so she relied on to pay for her children.
Speaker 4: Because it is an all or nothing situation, right, you
Speaker 4: either get welfare benefits or you don't. If we could
Speaker 4: institute a step down program for welfare benefits, like oh,
Speaker 4: you got to raise it work. We're gonna reduce those
Speaker 4: snap benefits by X amount of dollars, but not the
Speaker 4: whole thing, because what ends up happening is now you've
Speaker 4: trapped this woman who her manager at McDonald's has said,
Speaker 4: you have potential, and if you want to make a
Speaker 4: career in McDonald's, you can do it.
Speaker 5: And by the way, McDonald's has some of.
Speaker 4: The best workforce development opportunities of any franchise operation. I
Speaker 4: know more than one person who started out as an
Speaker 4: employee at McDonald's and ended up owning at McDonald's. Right,
Speaker 4: so don't laugh at McDonald's. But she had been kind
Speaker 4: of targeted and said, look, you have potentially you can
Speaker 4: do this job. Only because of her financial situation with
Speaker 4: her welfare benefits and the modest rays to assistant manager,
Speaker 4: she couldn't do it, and that prevents from becoming a manager,
Speaker 4: It prevents her from becoming a regional manager, It prevents
Speaker 4: her from becoming a store owner because she couldn't make
Speaker 4: that one jump. What we have to do is allow
Speaker 4: people to step down their benefits, and until we can
Speaker 4: figure out how to do that in a reasonable fashion,
Speaker 4: we are trapping people on welfare we are trapping people
Speaker 4: in section eight housing. And don't get me wrong, there
Speaker 4: are plenty of people in Section eight housing. You plan
Speaker 4: on making it a lifestyle because once you get the
Speaker 4: same thing as rent control in New York, the people
Speaker 4: that are in rent control departments for five hundred bucks,
Speaker 4: that's they're perfectly fine with that. At least that's private
Speaker 4: property being hit instead of the government. We need to
Speaker 4: overhaul the same thing, but starting with time limits. I'm
Speaker 4: here for it and recognizing what these benefits do and
Speaker 4: the fact that and I went and looked at this quote.
Speaker 4: I love this quote from Ben Franklin, and I think
Speaker 4: it fits perfectly here. Ben Franklin once said, I am
Speaker 4: for doing good for the poor, but I think the
Speaker 4: best way of doing good to the poor is not
Speaker 4: making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them
Speaker 4: out of it. I observed that the more public provisions
Speaker 4: were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves,
Speaker 4: and of course became poorer. And on the contrary, the
Speaker 4: less was done for them, the more they did for
Speaker 4: themselves and became richer.
Speaker 5: Then Franklin knew it way back then. We should all
Speaker 5: know it now.
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Speaker 4: so if you missed the beginning of the show, you're
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Speaker 4: which will be available right after the show on the
Speaker 4: Crystal Clear iHeartRadio app. Now, this is apropos of nothing,
Speaker 4: but I do want to kind of throw this out here.
Speaker 4: The ten year Treasury note just dropped to just barely
Speaker 4: over four percent. Why am I telling you this because
Speaker 4: with the ten year Treasury note drops interest rates on mortgages.
Speaker 5: That is the number that mortgages are paid to.
Speaker 4: And I just looked there are mortgage rates for the
Speaker 4: thirty year mortgage at the five point nine percent rate. Now,
Speaker 4: I don't know what you're going to qualify for I
Speaker 4: really don't. But if you've been sitting on the sidelines
Speaker 4: waiting to buy a house, I am telling you right now,
Speaker 4: if you wait too long, if you wait for mortgage
Speaker 4: rates to go any any lower, you're going to be
Speaker 4: part of the feeding frenzy in the market. Because there's
Speaker 4: a lot of people on the sidelines who are like, look,
Speaker 4: six percent is just too much for me to pay.
Speaker 4: But as soon as those mortgage rates go below six
Speaker 4: then all bets are off. Feeding frenzy in the housing market.
Speaker 4: It's going to be crazy because we have the houses
Speaker 4: to sell right now. So if I were you, if
Speaker 4: I was buying a house right now, or even if
Speaker 4: I was considering doing you know, a cash out refire
Speaker 4: or something like that, I would call today to lock
Speaker 4: in this mortgage rate. I would just call American Financing
Speaker 4: right now. This is not a commercial for American Financing.
Speaker 4: You guys know I love real estate. You know I
Speaker 4: pay attention to this stuff just as a hobby, and
Speaker 4: I do. But when I saw that Treasury rate, I'm like,
Speaker 4: I bet mortgage rates are below six percent. So if
Speaker 4: you've been waiting, call today, lock in the rate.
Speaker 9: Just do it.
Speaker 2: Do it anyway. I've got to talk.
Speaker 5: About a story that is so disturbing on multiple levels, and.
Speaker 4: It's the story of a young Ukrainian refugee, twenty three
Speaker 4: years old, Arena Zarutska. This happened in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Speaker 4: Zarutska was leaving work and got on the Charlotte light
Speaker 4: rail train and sat down and was looking at her phone,
Speaker 4: not doing anything, minding her own business. And the video
Speaker 4: that is making the rounds now shows her sitting down
Speaker 4: in front of an African American man in a hoodie
Speaker 4: who is directly behind her. And you can watch this
Speaker 4: man very casually take something out of his pocket. You
Speaker 4: realize it's like a pocket knife or whatever, and he
Speaker 4: opens up the blade and then he stands up and
Speaker 4: he stabs this woman three times, once in the throat.
Speaker 4: She is dead now, twenty three year old woman, completely
Speaker 4: and utterly unprovoked attack.
Speaker 2: That is all on video.
Speaker 4: If you're the sort he wants to see the whole thing,
Speaker 4: that video is out there as well.
Speaker 2: I did not embed it.
Speaker 4: I'm not publishing it. It's just not something I'm going
Speaker 4: to share. Hey, Rud, when you're on X, do you
Speaker 4: have I feel like now, and I don't follow any
Speaker 4: of these people, right, But people that I do follow
Speaker 4: are retweeting videos of people getting killed or getting hit
Speaker 4: by a train or whatever. I don't want to see
Speaker 4: that in my life.
Speaker 2: Oh I immediately unfollow. I did too. I don't want
Speaker 2: to see and.
Speaker 4: I'm just but I'm not following the people in the
Speaker 4: original video. I'm following people and then they're retweeting it.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 6: If you are a part of Broncos Country and you
Speaker 6: are a horn dog, please stop.
Speaker 2: Oh god?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, there's a lot of a lot of a
Speaker 6: lot of guys in Broncos Country. I don't feel the
Speaker 6: need to not just enjoy themselves, but to repurpose it
Speaker 6: for all the thing.
Speaker 4: Like whatever you want to follow in your own account,
Speaker 4: I don't care. Like if you want to watch us,
Speaker 4: if that's fine. But when other people are following you
Speaker 4: because of other content that you've created, whether it's you know,
Speaker 4: there's one guy that I love who does this beautiful
Speaker 4: nature photography, or he's stealing beautiful nature photography from someone else,
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, it's like all these death videos,
Speaker 4: which is why I now believe he was stealing all
Speaker 4: those photos from other people, right, this.
Speaker 5: Guy has no original ideas.
Speaker 2: I don't like that.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to see it. I didn't embed it
Speaker 4: on the blog. It's horrible. It's out there though. Here's
Speaker 4: the problem with his story. The first level number one,
Speaker 4: level number one when people started pointing out that this
Speaker 4: story happened in that thirty four year old de Carlos Brown,
Speaker 4: who has now been charged with first degree murder, had
Speaker 4: a long criminal history, including armed robbery, felony, larcenae, breaking
Speaker 4: and entering. He recently had an arrest and was charged
Speaker 4: with the misuse of nine to one one.
Speaker 5: What happened.
Speaker 4: He allegedly asked officers to investigate a man made material
Speaker 4: that controlled when he ate walked and talked.
Speaker 2: Officers told Brown.
Speaker 4: The issue was a medical issue and there was nothing
Speaker 4: more they could do. He became upset and called nine
Speaker 4: to one one. Obviously, this guy is extremely mentally ill,
Speaker 4: but yet he was walking around the streets of Charlotte,
Speaker 4: North Carolina, just like we've had people here in Denver, Colorado,
Speaker 4: walking around the streets of the Sixteenth Street Mall, and
Speaker 4: it was still the sixteenth Street Mall, stabbing a flight
Speaker 4: attendant to death in the middle of the day. What's
Speaker 4: frustrating for me is that this story of a black
Speaker 4: man killing a young white Ukrainian refugee has been absolutely buried,
Speaker 4: and when asked about it, news media outlets all over
Speaker 4: the country are saying things like, well, it's a local story.
Speaker 4: So was the death of Michael Brown, so was the
Speaker 4: death of George Floyd. One hundred percent local stories, but
Speaker 4: they certainly made national news.
Speaker 5: But the problem here is that this gentleman is black, so.
Speaker 4: Therefore we don't get the same kind of coverage of
Speaker 4: this horrific crime that is on video.
Speaker 2: Oh you guys, the mayor.
Speaker 4: Of Charlotte, North Carolina, who by the way, has always
Speaker 4: presented herself as a social justice warrior at every opportunity,
Speaker 4: first of all, posted something on Twitter that was so
Speaker 4: weak it was mind blowing.
Speaker 2: Listen to this.
Speaker 5: This is a first statement.
Speaker 4: The video of the heartbreaking attack that took Arena Zarutzki's
Speaker 4: life is now public. I want to thank our media
Speaker 4: partners and community members who have chosen not to repost
Speaker 4: or share the footage out of respect for Arena's family.
Speaker 4: This was a senseless and tragic loss. My prayers remain
Speaker 4: with her loved ones as they continue to grieve through
Speaker 4: an unimaginable time. Like so many of you, I'm heartbroken,
Speaker 4: and I've been thinking hard about what safety really looks
Speaker 4: like in our city. I remain committed to doing all
Speaker 4: we can to protect our residents and ensure Charlotte is
Speaker 4: a place where everyone feels safe. Is that just the
Speaker 4: most garbage nonsense statement you have ever heard?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: It gets better, It gets better. And I don't know
Speaker 4: when this statement came out. I think it probably came
Speaker 4: out after the statement that she made on X. And
Speaker 4: in this statement about this one line mentions the fact
Speaker 4: that a young woman is dead, and it's this one
Speaker 4: first and foremost, my thoughts and prayers go out to
Speaker 4: the young woman's family and friends.
Speaker 2: Didn't even use her name.
Speaker 5: And then she goes on.
Speaker 9: Ah.
Speaker 5: Then she goes on to talk about how.
Speaker 4: For the most part, Charlotte is a safe city, the
Speaker 4: light rail is a safe transit system. I bet Arena
Speaker 4: doesn't feel safe today. She also says this, this is
Speaker 4: a tragic situation that sheds light on problems with society
Speaker 4: safety nets related to mental health care and the systems
Speaker 4: that should be in place as we come to understand
Speaker 4: what happened and why we must look at the entire situation.
Speaker 4: While I do not know the specifics of the man's
Speaker 4: medical record, would have come to understand is that he
Speaker 4: has long struggled with mental health and appears to have
Speaker 4: suffered a crisis. This was the unfortunate and tragic outcome.
Speaker 4: While there are questions about the safety and security of
Speaker 4: our transit system and our city, I do know there
Speaker 4: have been significant and sustained efforts to address safety and
Speaker 4: security within our transit system and.
Speaker 2: Across our city.
Speaker 4: Then she goes on after she talks about how safe
Speaker 4: Charlotte is to say this, I want to be clear
Speaker 4: that I am not villainizing those who struggle with their
Speaker 4: mental health or those who are unhoused. Mental health disease
Speaker 4: is just that, a disease like any other, that needs
Speaker 4: to be treated with the same compassion, diligence, and commitment
Speaker 4: as cancer or heart disease. Our community must work to
Speaker 4: address the underlying issue of access to mental health care. So,
Speaker 4: just so you understand what she wants you to do.
Speaker 4: She wants you to ignore the fact that someone randomly
Speaker 4: got stabbed on the neck on light rail. She wants
Speaker 4: you to make sure that you don't stigmatize the man
Speaker 4: who decided, in a fit of whatever to stab a
Speaker 4: young woman in the.
Speaker 5: Neck for no reason. This is the most backwards logic.
Speaker 2: Of all time.
Speaker 5: And don't get me wrong, you guys.
Speaker 4: I think we've talked about mental health on this show
Speaker 4: enough so that you guys know I not only have
Speaker 4: a lot of familial experience with mental health. I am
Speaker 4: one of those people that, even as a libertarian, am
Speaker 4: advocating for forced confinement for someone who has demonstrated that
Speaker 4: they are mentally ill and potentially violent. That doesn't mean
Speaker 4: forced confinement for people who are mentally ill and are
Speaker 4: trying to deal with those issues in a way that
Speaker 4: doesn't negatively impact.
Speaker 5: Strangers on the street.
Speaker 4: Lots of people have mental illness, even severe mental illness,
Speaker 4: and they never demonstrate the capability of violence.
Speaker 5: Okay, so let's be clear about that. But there are mentally.
Speaker 4: Ill people like this man who are so detached from
Speaker 4: reality that they cannot be trusted in society because doing
Speaker 4: so puts others at risk. These are people who are
Speaker 4: so mentally ill that they are incapable of making decisions
Speaker 4: for themselves. The same way that we protect children from
Speaker 4: bad decision making by not allowing them to sign contracts
Speaker 4: or be held liable for such contracts. We have to
Speaker 4: recognize that there are people who are so significantly mentally
Speaker 4: ill that they cannot make reasonable, rational decisions on their
Speaker 4: own behalf, and of that percentage of people, there are
Speaker 4: a number of people who have proven themselves to be
Speaker 4: violent and dangerous, and we should be okay removing those
Speaker 4: people from society until they show that they have sufficiently
Speaker 4: recovered from that mental illness that they no longer pose
Speaker 4: a danger to themselves or someone else, or maybe never.
Speaker 4: There are people who are never going to get better.
Speaker 4: There are people who are always going to remain a threat,
Speaker 4: and we have to figure something out. But just sitting
Speaker 4: here and talking about it, don't be mad at the
Speaker 4: homeless people. Don't be mad at the mentally ill. I'm
Speaker 4: not mad at any of those people. I'm mad that
Speaker 4: this man who has a violent criminal history was let
Speaker 4: out on the streets to murder this young woman. Talk
Speaker 4: about a death that did not need to happen. And
Speaker 4: this is the same stuff that's happening in Denver, you guys,
Speaker 4: this is the same exact stuff we have These crazy people. Now,
Speaker 4: don't get me wrong, we have a lot of crazy
Speaker 4: people walking around downtown Denver. If you have a driven
Speaker 4: and seen them so whacked out on drugs or just
Speaker 4: insanity that they're just wandering around. If they're wandering around,
Speaker 4: some of them are just bent in half, standing there,
Speaker 4: bent in half. But you see those people that are
Speaker 4: wandering around, they're yelling at each other, yelling at themselves,
Speaker 4: wandering around in the middle of an intersection, dressed in
Speaker 4: a blanket.
Speaker 2: That happened to me.
Speaker 4: I mean, I wasn't wandering around the street and dressed
Speaker 4: in a blanket. I'm just saying we've seen the crazy people.
Speaker 4: Not all those people are dangerous, but we need to
Speaker 4: take the danger one's out of circulation until such time
Speaker 4: as they can be trusted to be let out in
Speaker 4: society again. And this should not be a controversial issue.
Speaker 4: But watching people. By the way, there's a go fund me.
Speaker 2: For this man.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah, someone started to go fund me
Speaker 4: for him so that we could fight against.
Speaker 5: The racism of the system.
Speaker 2: Now, this man.
Speaker 4: Is on video stabbing a woman to death on a train,
Speaker 4: and yet there are people in our society that think
Speaker 4: the problem is racism. Now, I would doubt I'm just
Speaker 4: gonna say it, I doubt that that any of this
Speaker 4: money will ever go to this guy. Seems to me
Speaker 4: like a grift by someone who decided to put up
Speaker 4: a GoFundMe for idiots to donate to.
Speaker 5: I forgot to look and see. Hang on to Carlos
Speaker 5: Brown go fund me.
Speaker 2: Let me see if it's.
Speaker 4: Still up, because I looked at it early. Oh go,
Speaker 4: and he took it down. Thank you, Thank you, Go
Speaker 4: fund me, Thank you. But I'm wondering how.
Speaker 5: Much was actually collected.
Speaker 2: By that, so yeah.
Speaker 4: Go fund Me, by the way, has also set up
Speaker 4: a page for Arena Zurutska's family, and that's raised about
Speaker 4: one hundred thousand dollars right now, So I mean that's good.
Speaker 4: Although I if I'm a parent or a sister or whatever,
Speaker 4: I don't want money. I want my family member back,
Speaker 4: you know. Anyway, I'm trying to see how much money
Speaker 4: has been raised for her, and I can't get to
Speaker 4: that point. So we'll see ninety thousand dollars raised of
Speaker 4: a one hundred and ten thousand dollar coal This is
Speaker 4: another example of the wave of criminal justice reform that
Speaker 4: happened in this country. That all it did was make
Speaker 4: it easier for people to commit crimes and get away
Speaker 4: with it. What's really funny about this Axios. Listen to
Speaker 4: the headline on Axios about this dabbing video fuels Maga's
Speaker 4: crime message, as if somehow this one event was what
Speaker 4: engineered by you know, Maga, people who are actually concerned
Speaker 4: about crime, as if to make the point even stronger. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it makes Maga's point. But it makes Maga's point because
Speaker 4: a young woman is senselessly attacked and murdered on video. Right,
Speaker 4: if you're concerned about about a violent crime, this sort
Speaker 4: of does. It is the giant punctuation mark on this.
Speaker 4: You know, I read something yesterday and I could not
Speaker 4: find it today because honestly, I couldn't remember where I
Speaker 4: read it or I wrote it. But it was an
Speaker 4: interesting take, and the take was that Donald Trump has
Speaker 4: proven to be masterful at putting Democrats on the twenty
Speaker 4: side of an eighty twenty issue, and crime is now
Speaker 4: one of those. You know, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, I
Speaker 4: have to give it to her. She recognized an opportunity
Speaker 4: and she has taken it. She actually was talking day
Speaker 4: before yesterday about the fact that carjackings in d C,
Speaker 4: which by the way, were happening at like two and
Speaker 4: a half carjackings per day, and that was down dramatically.
Speaker 4: Carjackings have ceased to exist in Washington, DC because they've
Speaker 4: got all these federal forces there. They've they freed up
Speaker 4: law enforcement officers to go and actually arrest the bad criminals.
Speaker 5: And now all of a sudden, there's no crime. And
Speaker 5: yet when Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: Says two democratic mayors, democratic democratic governors, hey, guys, if
Speaker 4: you need it, we can bring the National Guard in,
Speaker 4: the Democrats are like, Nope, crime is just fine, especially
Speaker 4: in Charlotte where a young lady just got stabbed in
Speaker 4: the neck.
Speaker 2: It's insane.
Speaker 4: But Axios, listen to this from Axios. This made me
Speaker 4: kind of laugh out loud today. I'm not exaggerating. Mad
Speaker 4: influencers on repeated attention to violent attacks to elevate the
Speaker 4: issue of urban crime, and accused mainstream media of undercovering
Speaker 4: shocking cases. By the way, the mainstream media has not
Speaker 4: covered this story at all. As I said before, They're like, oh,
Speaker 4: local story, we don't care, and then they go on
Speaker 4: driving the news. President Trump asked about the Charlotte video
Speaker 4: by reporter on Sunday said he wanted to find out
Speaker 4: more about the stabbing before commenting. Now, that sentence right
Speaker 4: there completely undermines everything that actually US is trying to
Speaker 4: say that somehow Republicans have seized on this crime. Isn't
Speaker 4: that what they're implying here? But Trump didn't take the
Speaker 4: baby's like, look, you know what, I don't know all
Speaker 4: the details. All know everything by tomorrow. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: this is going to be a thing that people are
Speaker 4: talking about because why is this okay at any level,
Speaker 4: on any any any way or shape or form. Why
Speaker 4: wouldn't JB. Pritsker say, you know what, we'd love to
Speaker 4: get yet, we'd love to get the National Guard to
Speaker 4: come into the dangerous areas of Chicago, not just the
Speaker 4: tourist zones, but the dangerous areas to protect the people
Speaker 4: that are victimized by crimes every single day. My big
Speaker 4: beef with what's going on in Washington, DC is apparently
Speaker 4: it's only in the tourist areas, It's not in the
Speaker 4: highest crime parts of Washington, d C. Don't the people
Speaker 4: that live there deserve to feel safe too, not just tourists.
Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they're doing it for
Speaker 4: the tourists. But I wouldn't it be great if the
Speaker 4: Democrats said, yeah, we'd like to send you into the
Speaker 4: highest crime areas in Chicago and help us really do
Speaker 4: some significant work.
Speaker 2: But they don't. They stand there and save crimes. Not
Speaker 2: that bad.
Speaker 4: It's not that it's in a thirty year low. People
Speaker 4: are still gett murdered every day. Ah, those are acceptable statistics.
Speaker 4: And in Chicago, overwhelmingly everybody being killed is black. Ah,
Speaker 4: They're just black people being killed.
Speaker 2: Not that big of ill. We'll accept a few of those.
Speaker 4: And it's getting a horder and harder for them to
Speaker 4: make that argument, because when you see video of this
Speaker 4: young woman being stabbed by a career criminal who's also
Speaker 4: wildly mentally ill, should not have been on the streets,
Speaker 4: it gets hard to ask, why aren't we taking the
Speaker 4: National Guard? Why aren't we doing these things? And you know,
Speaker 4: we'll see how all this turns out. I don't think,
Speaker 4: by the way, just to be clear, I do not
Speaker 4: believe that the President of the United States has the
Speaker 4: authority to send the National Guard into anywhere else for
Speaker 4: any kind of law enforcement duties except for Washington, DC.
Speaker 4: He can totally do it if governors ask. But if
Speaker 4: he just sends them in to not support federal operations,
Speaker 4: which he did in LA, then he has no right
Speaker 4: to do that. But I don't think he's doing that yet.
Speaker 4: Fascinating and terrible story all at once.
Speaker 6: Tonight Rockies Dodgers on the official home of the Rockies.
Speaker 4: This next text intrigues me. Uh, Mandy, ask me anything Monday. Technically,
Speaker 4: it's not asked me anything Monday because I didn't declare it,
Speaker 4: but I will allow it because I'm intrigued by this text. Mandy,
Speaker 4: neighbor moved into assisted living, has an upright piano. Do
Speaker 4: you know anyone that we can donate it to school
Speaker 4: that has music classes student that could use it?
Speaker 2: Any suggestions? Love your show? Thanks now, Texter.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you to email me Mandy Connell at
Speaker 4: iHeartMedia dot com. And then if you want an upright piano,
Speaker 4: I will tell you whoever you are to text me
Speaker 4: Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com.
Speaker 2: Uh, do you want a piano?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: But I have a question.
Speaker 6: Well, obviously I recognize what these are, but why is
Speaker 6: it called an upright piano?
Speaker 2: It's just yeah?
Speaker 5: Instead of going out like a grand piano.
Speaker 4: It just is one of those that looks like you
Speaker 4: know how you see in a Western movie they're always
Speaker 4: plinking on a piano. Yeah, that's an upright piano. The
Speaker 4: strings and keys are in the in the back right now. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's very very common. As a matter of fact, I
Speaker 4: would venture I guess that most in home pianos are
Speaker 4: upright pianos. Yes, because the strings and the keys are
Speaker 4: like this instead of like that got you. You guys
Speaker 4: couldn't see. I held my arms up.
Speaker 2: Yeah that was just for me. I get it though.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what color is it? Look at you being picky
Speaker 5: with a free piano?
Speaker 2: Oh I'm not. I don't want colors. Hopefully they'll email
Speaker 2: me and I'll have more information. So there you go.
Speaker 4: This is really interesting and this just came across my desk,
Speaker 4: so I'm going to jump in here. This from the
Speaker 4: Denver Post about a Magellan Strategies poll.
Speaker 2: It's it's not that good.
Speaker 4: Colorado voters are sort of over politics, and this is
Speaker 4: actually worse for the Democrats right now than the Republicans.
Speaker 4: It really didn't farewell. US Senators Michael Bennett, Johnick, and
Speaker 4: Looper They each notched approval ratings below forty percent in
Speaker 4: the poll, with their disapproval ratings reaching forty four and
Speaker 4: forty nine percent, respectively, forty four for Bennett, forty nine
Speaker 4: for hiccken Looper gared polis approval later rating was slightly
Speaker 4: better at forty one percent, but a majority of the
Speaker 4: voters fifty two percent outright disapproved of the term limited governor.
Speaker 4: Not good news for a guy with presidential aspirations. Republican
Speaker 4: and Democratic parties had identical top line favorabilities sixty eight
Speaker 4: percent negative versus thirty percent positive, and it's just not
Speaker 4: looking good by more than two to one margins. Colorado
Speaker 4: voters survey didn't feel good about the Democratic Party. The
Speaker 4: disdain was shared by many Democratic voters. Among those who
Speaker 4: voted for Kamala Harris for president last year, forty seven
Speaker 4: percent reported unfavorable opinions of registered Democrats. Forty one percent
Speaker 4: reported unfavorable opinions of their party. An anonymous Democratic woman
Speaker 4: in a Rapahoe County characterized it inner survey response, the
Speaker 4: party has quote no backbone, no follow through, poor or
Speaker 4: no response to both mundane and gripping issues, but don't
Speaker 4: think this is going to be a smooth sailing for.
Speaker 2: The GOP because the GOP. Let's see here.
Speaker 4: Loop unaffiliated voters feel the same about the GOP. Now
Speaker 4: I'm trying to read. I'm reading a Denver Post article.
Speaker 4: I haven't been able to click through to the actual
Speaker 4: polling data.
Speaker 2: So if congressional elections.
Speaker 4: Were held today, voters also give Democrats a clear advantage
Speaker 4: in four of the state's eight congressional districts, the ones
Speaker 4: currently represented by Democrats.
Speaker 5: Those are all safe seats.
Speaker 4: The smaller sample size at the district level, however, came
Speaker 4: with large margins of a more than eight percentage points. Okay,
Speaker 4: that just undermines everything about the poll. If your margin
Speaker 4: of error is eight percentage points, don't don't even include that.
Speaker 4: I just that's just basically like throw a dart at
Speaker 4: a dartboard kind of thing. The party also held a
Speaker 4: smaller edge for a fifth seat, and that was the
Speaker 4: red fifth congressional district in Alpazo County. Forty seven percent
Speaker 4: in voters said they would probably support the Democratic nominee there,
Speaker 4: versus thirty nine percent for the Republican nominee. Now, in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four, Republican Jeff Crank won the seat with
Speaker 4: nearly fifty five percent of the vote.
Speaker 5: I don't understand how those numbers jibe.
Speaker 4: The eighth shows a small advantage for the GOP, it
Speaker 4: doesn't crack fifty percent. The fourth Congressional district looks to
Speaker 4: remain read with THEIRS leaning Republican by twenty points, so
Speaker 4: that neither.
Speaker 2: Party is in a good way.
Speaker 5: Neither party has has great numbers to grow about.
Speaker 4: But I think for Democrats this has to be kind
Speaker 4: of concerning because their democratic law in the state. Anything
Speaker 4: that sort of undermines that has got to be caused
Speaker 4: for concerned because right now they I mean, we just
Speaker 4: saw it again in the special session. They have paid
Speaker 4: no mind to anybody on the other side of the
Speaker 4: aisle because they haven't had to. They've been able to
Speaker 4: ignore Republicans. But now that even Democrats are saying, yeah,
Speaker 4: we're not happy. And don't get me wrong, I don't
Speaker 4: think there's any chance in hell that Democrats in Colorado
Speaker 4: will vote for a Republican. I just don't see it happening.
Speaker 4: But we are now a majority independent state. We are
Speaker 4: now over fifty percent of independence last I checked. So
Speaker 4: what are the independents going to do if the Democrats
Speaker 4: don't even like their party, what about what about the independence?
Speaker 2: Now we already know the Republican.
Speaker 4: Party has an image issue here that hopefully most people
Speaker 4: are going to be able to look beyond with new leadership.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll have to see.
Speaker 4: That's kind of I think that's concerning if you're a
Speaker 4: Democrat in Colorado. And good news, however, slight good news,
Speaker 4: but good news nonetheless for the Republican Party.
Speaker 5: Many of you weighing in on the upright piano.
Speaker 2: Laugh out loud.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to pay a piano company to come
Speaker 4: get my piano. No one wants these pianos, That's true.
Speaker 4: Kids are not taking music lessons like they used to.
Speaker 2: Mandy.
Speaker 4: My guess is that most in home pianos are spinets,
Speaker 4: which is a short version of the upright piano. You
Speaker 4: know what, maybe it's just the people I know, the
Speaker 4: people that I know that at pianos they all have uprights.
Speaker 4: I know one family with a spinet, which is just
Speaker 4: a low piano. Upright piano equals wild West grand piano
Speaker 4: equals recital piano.
Speaker 2: There you go, There you go, Manny.
Speaker 4: What's suppressing is that Democrat Party voters, particularly the base,
Speaker 4: want the Democrat to Party to be even bigger a holes.
Speaker 2: Don't kid yourself. Yes, you're absolutely right, Texter, one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: Although you saw in the last primary elections the worst
Speaker 4: of the worst of the Democratic Party in the form
Speaker 4: of Tim Hernandez and Elizabeth Epps. They lost in the primary,
Speaker 4: and they were as far left as anybody could be, right,
Speaker 4: and they lost Democratic vote. Well, maybe Democratic voters and
Speaker 4: independence didn't think about the independence There There are a
Speaker 4: large I don't know how large. I used to think
Speaker 4: it was larger than it is. The more Republicans that
Speaker 4: I meet in the state of Colorado, the more I
Speaker 4: realized that the Fringy part, the Rhino Watch part, they
Speaker 4: do not represent a large chunk of the Republican Party.
Speaker 4: A lot of the Republicans I've met as as late
Speaker 4: are just Republicans who want to hopefully save Colorado from
Speaker 4: being the nightmare that it has turned into with the
Speaker 4: cost of living and all of the other stuff that's
Speaker 4: gone on. But that loud and vocal Rhino Watch minority
Speaker 4: they want you to think they're everybody.
Speaker 5: They are clearly not everybody.
Speaker 2: Mandy.
Speaker 4: A lot of the independents are Republicans who don't want
Speaker 4: to be targeted by Dems, and a lot of independence
Speaker 4: are Dems.
Speaker 2: Who just don't want to be asked for money.
Speaker 4: I mean, independents have a lot of different reasons for
Speaker 4: being independent, not the least of which is they don't
Speaker 4: want everybody asking them for money. Mandy donates the piano
Speaker 4: to a local school. That is a great idea. Text or,
Speaker 4: if you're still listening, I would call all of the
Speaker 4: local schools in your area and just say, you guys
Speaker 4: need a piano. I wonder if any of them would
Speaker 4: take it. We'll see, We'll be right back. I thought
Speaker 4: i'd let the rest of you hear what I was
Speaker 4: going to say. The text messenger says Mandy, the cost
Speaker 4: of living increase isn't primarily political. It has to do
Speaker 4: with planes, supply and demand economics. We can go back
Speaker 4: and forth over government policy, but the main drivers of
Speaker 4: that are well off people and young people want to
Speaker 4: move here for recreation and job opportunities. You see similar
Speaker 4: cost of living spikes in nearby Utah, which is solidly Republican. Okay, this,
Speaker 4: on the face of it is patently absurd, and I'm
Speaker 4: gonna tell you why, because yes, supply and demand is
Speaker 4: a huge part of it. Absolutely, people want to live here.
Speaker 4: I moved here in twenty thirteen because I love the
Speaker 4: state and thought it was absolutely beautiful. But since I
Speaker 4: moved here in twenty thirteen, let's be real about some
Speaker 4: of the stuff that Colorado has done. And as a
Speaker 4: matter of fact, I just pulled up, using chet GPT
Speaker 4: a summary cost of living comparison for Utah and Colorado. Okay,
Speaker 4: Utah has seen huge increases in their homeowners insurance rates
Speaker 4: and things like that because of natural disasters, just as
Speaker 4: we have here. Their home insurance costs have spiked fifty
Speaker 4: nine percent. However, the rest of what's going on in
Speaker 4: Utah looks much different than what's going on here in Colorado. Now,
Speaker 4: if I were going to run for governor, one of
Speaker 4: the platforms in my plank would be as governor, i
Speaker 4: am going to demand a full review.
Speaker 5: Of every single new housing.
Speaker 4: Requirement that has been passed by the Colorado Legislature with
Speaker 4: an actual fiscal note of how much those regulations cost.
Speaker 4: And then I'm going to ask the legislature to go
Speaker 4: back and unwind the most costly, least effective regulations that
Speaker 4: we have on the books. We just saw this when
Speaker 4: people were trying to rebuild homes in Lewisville and Superior
Speaker 4: after the fire, only be told that they have to
Speaker 4: do everything electric, they have to do everything the way
Speaker 4: the government wants you to do it. The more government
Speaker 4: regulation you have, the more expensive everything is going to be.
Speaker 5: And Colorado has seen an explosion in.
Speaker 4: Our regulatory structure so severe that it has downgraded our
Speaker 4: business friendliness from one of the best places in the
Speaker 4: country to do business to now one of the most
Speaker 4: middling places. Right with the regulatory sure we have in
Speaker 4: Colorado adds to pricing on everything. We have the highest
Speaker 4: the highest restaurant inflation in the country. Now we're seeing
Speaker 4: more and more stories of really popular and famous restaurant
Speaker 4: tours saying I will never open another business in the
Speaker 4: Denver metro because it is so expensive and so hard
Speaker 4: to deal with them.
Speaker 5: All of these things combine.
Speaker 4: Whether it is the faster fees that we're going to
Speaker 4: fix all the roads which did nothing of the sort
Speaker 4: because they've redirected all that money into dumbass multimodal systems
Speaker 4: that nobody wants to ride, or force minimum wages that
Speaker 4: have driven up the cost of everything. Policy matters so much,
Speaker 4: and in a situation like ours, supply and demand is
Speaker 4: absolutely a part of it, absolutely a part of it.
Speaker 4: But I would argue that the government has made it
Speaker 4: far worse with all of their nanny stadium statism, all
Speaker 4: of their you have to do it our way or
Speaker 4: the highway.
Speaker 2: About a myriad of issues.
Speaker 4: You cannot disconnect what has happened in Colorado, especially politically,
Speaker 4: from what has happened to our economy. At the same time,
Speaker 4: just ten years ago, we had one of the most
Speaker 4: vibrant economies in the country. Businesses were clamoring to come
Speaker 4: here because of all those things you said.
Speaker 2: But now you have.
Speaker 4: Business leaders on a regular basis saying that the regulatory
Speaker 4: burden in Colorado is so great that I am not
Speaker 4: looking to expand my footprint in Colorado. I am looking
Speaker 4: elsewhere where it's easier to do business. Chef Troy Gard
Speaker 4: of the Tag Group, which owns so many properties here
Speaker 4: it's not even funny, has said he is done with Colorado.
Speaker 2: So all of this matters.
Speaker 4: It's not just supply and demand. And if you believe that,
Speaker 4: then you're probably going to vote Democrat. You've bought their
Speaker 4: line and without paying attention to anything else.
Speaker 5: And I don't mean to be.
Speaker 4: Dismissive or disparaging to you, Texter, because I think there's
Speaker 4: probably a lot of people who genuinely believe that, just
Speaker 4: like they believe Eve when politicians in Colorado say, wow,
Speaker 4: you know crime is a problem everywhere, not just here,
Speaker 4: until you see the FBI statistic that put us at
Speaker 4: number one for violent crime. Did you ever think those
Speaker 4: words would come out of my mouth? I sure didn't
Speaker 4: when I moved here thirteen years ago, and I used
Speaker 4: to tell people how safe it felt. So do not
Speaker 4: underestimate the impact that bad government policy has on our economy,
Speaker 4: on our safety, and on everything else that we do
Speaker 4: here in Colorado.
Speaker 2: I sure won't.
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Speaker 2: Donald keeping your sad bab Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the
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Speaker 5: I'm your host, Mandy Connell, joined of course by Anthony Rodriguez,
Speaker 5: and we've got a lot of people. Thank you very much.
Speaker 5: We got a lot of stuff going on.
Speaker 2: At two thirty.
Speaker 4: Our friend Christian Toto's going to join us to talk
Speaker 4: about the Howard Stern stunt this morning, and Howard out
Speaker 4: there saying he can't leave now because then people will
Speaker 4: say he got fired. We'll do that a little bit later.
Speaker 4: But I got a lot of stuff on the blog
Speaker 4: that I want to get to today, including this story
Speaker 4: about what we're.
Speaker 5: Calling the Phillies Karen ball snatcher.
Speaker 4: What's remarkable to me is that the Internet has not identified.
Speaker 2: This woman yet.
Speaker 4: That's shocking because we have very clear video about this woman.
Speaker 5: She has not been identified.
Speaker 4: They identified another woman who said, look, not only am
Speaker 4: I not a Phillies fan, I was in Miami during
Speaker 4: this game. So it's not me Plausible deniability being a thing.
Speaker 4: She certainly has it. So someone actually asked the dad
Speaker 4: who eventually handed the ball took the ball, if you
Speaker 4: don't know this story, first of all, congratulations for living
Speaker 4: under a social media rock and not knowing.
Speaker 5: Any of this stuff. But what happened.
Speaker 4: What happened was there is a home run ball and
Speaker 4: it is hit into the stands. Now a rod back
Speaker 4: me up here. So when a ball is hit into
Speaker 4: the stands. It's a free for all, right, there's no
Speaker 4: like you don't get to call dibbs. There's no it's mine, No,
Speaker 4: it is whoever comes out of the scrum with the.
Speaker 2: Ball in their hand.
Speaker 6: Correct, usually a slight edge to children, but correct, I mean,
Speaker 6: decent people make sure that children get these balls.
Speaker 2: But not this woman anyway. So what's happening is the
Speaker 2: ball is hit.
Speaker 4: Dad runs over and he reaches down to the ground,
Speaker 4: and this is important to the ground to pick up
Speaker 4: the ball. He picks up the ball, he brings it
Speaker 4: back to his kid. Now Here comes Philly Karen. We
Speaker 4: don't know her real name, we're just calling her Philly Karen,
Speaker 4: ball snatcher.
Speaker 2: She comes running over.
Speaker 4: Now she is in the row behind where the ball
Speaker 4: eventually hit the ground, which means, you, guys, if you've
Speaker 4: ever been in a baseball stadium, you know that lady
Speaker 4: is not at all going to be able to get
Speaker 4: that ball on the ground in the row in front
Speaker 4: of her.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 5: She missed her window when she didn't reach out and.
Speaker 4: Catch it, which, by the way, she could have wish
Speaker 4: she didn't. Now Here comes Philly Karen over to the dad.
Speaker 4: The kid's his son, who by the way, it was
Speaker 4: a birthday president taking him to the game, and Philly
Speaker 4: Kieren runs over and starts just bitching this guy out,
Speaker 4: and NBC ten at Philadelphia finally tracked down the dad,
Speaker 4: his name is Drew felt Well, and they said why
Speaker 4: did you give the ball to this woman? And he
Speaker 4: said I pretty much just wanted her to go away.
Speaker 4: And I was like, I get it, Dad, I get it.
Speaker 4: But then he continued, and he's absolutely right when he says, look,
Speaker 4: I had a couple options. None of them were good,
Speaker 4: Like what do I show my kid that I'm gonna
Speaker 4: sit here and argue with an old woman to try
Speaker 4: and get the ball back? Or am I gonna show
Speaker 4: him that this is we de escalate, We just you know,
Speaker 4: take care of the situation out. He got a lot
Speaker 4: of crap online for this, but I think as a dad,
Speaker 4: that was probably the right thing to do. This woman,
Speaker 4: on the other hand, is a horrible person, and the
Speaker 4: internet has not been able to find out who she
Speaker 4: is yet.
Speaker 2: Oh they will.
Speaker 5: The internet is like, you know, like ten and oher
Speaker 5: on finding stuff like this out.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 4: I have a couple stories. This one is only important
Speaker 4: to my daughter and possibly me. Target is opening stores
Speaker 4: at midnight yeah, on October third, to sell CDs of
Speaker 4: her newest CD, Life of a Showgirl. So, if you
Speaker 4: have a Swifty in your household, like I do, I
Speaker 4: put a link to all the Colorado stores.
Speaker 2: I've already circled the one closest near me.
Speaker 4: Although, in what I can only describe as the coolest
Speaker 4: thing ever, my daughter is vinyl only. Like now, I'll
Speaker 4: just wait for the vinyl. I'll wait for the record
Speaker 4: to come out. Everything that's old is new again, you guys,
Speaker 4: everything ay rod Do you remember that? And I'm gonna
Speaker 4: put it in air quotes that woman in the Olympics
Speaker 4: that beat the crap out of all the other women
Speaker 4: in Olympic boxing. Yes, do you remember her name? Ammaine
Speaker 4: Khalif Yep? Well, and again the air quotes this woman.
Speaker 4: She has now faced an uphill battle since her Olympic
Speaker 4: victories of beating the crap out of women, and the
Speaker 4: rules have changed and the international boxing organizations have now said, look,
Speaker 4: if you're gonna fight in a women's category, we got
Speaker 4: to do a cheek swab, We got to check out,
Speaker 4: make see make sure their chromosomes are what they're supposed
Speaker 4: to be, which is XX. In a decision that I'm
Speaker 4: sure is going to shock all of you, this dude
Speaker 4: is now refused to take a genetic test to prove
Speaker 4: that this dude is actually a woman. Now, anybody with
Speaker 4: eyeballs could tell you that this woman was not a woman.
Speaker 4: She's a dude, or at least dude like, right, So
Speaker 4: there's no.
Speaker 2: Surprise at all.
Speaker 4: She's refused. She's appealing. By the way, this is what
Speaker 4: I love about this boxing organization. They not only said
Speaker 4: from now on, if you want to fight in a
Speaker 4: woman's category, you have to do this cheek swab and
Speaker 4: we're gonna just do a quick DNA test. They also said,
Speaker 4: and oh, by the way, if you're appealing or you
Speaker 4: don't get to box while you're appealing either. So we'll
Speaker 4: have to wait and see how this all turns out.
Speaker 4: But I'm perfectly fine with excluding someone who cannot be
Speaker 4: bothered to prove that they are a female from being
Speaker 4: able to fight in female categories, especially in boxing, because
Speaker 4: those matches were awful, horrible to watch. I mean, for
Speaker 4: everybody that kept saying things like about.
Speaker 2: The Philly Dad, like Philly Dudgeon had knocked her out.
Speaker 4: I'm like, did you already We already saw a man
Speaker 4: fighting women in the Olympics, and it's not cool. It's
Speaker 4: not cool at all. By the way, thanks to the
Speaker 4: person who just sent me. Although I believed it was coming,
Speaker 4: now it's official. Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer has filed to run
Speaker 4: for governor. She's got an announcement coming out tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna see if I can get her on the
Speaker 4: show on Wednesday to talk about it. But I for
Speaker 4: when am happy about this. I think Barb is so
Speaker 4: incredibly smart. She knows the ins and outs and the
Speaker 4: workings of this state. She can make a compelling case to,
Speaker 4: you know, do the things that need to be done.
Speaker 4: Like here's something crazy, why don't we spend transportation dollars
Speaker 4: on roads. Things like that I think will resonate with voters,
Speaker 4: and then you're gonna have like a white dude or
Speaker 4: a woman to choose from. I mean, the deared police
Speaker 4: versus Heidigan all thing. He was still gay, so in
Speaker 4: the identity politics world, you're like, he's a white dude,
Speaker 4: but he's gay. So I feel like I'm okay voting
Speaker 4: for the white gay dude over the woman. I mean,
Speaker 4: just in the identity politics world, and unfortunately there are
Speaker 4: people who really do think like that. Okay, when we
Speaker 4: get back, I've got news about beyond Meat, and if
Speaker 4: you love beyond meat, you better stalk up. I've got
Speaker 4: McDonald's starting a fast food price war and that's not
Speaker 4: official yet, but just watch it. And we're gonna have
Speaker 4: a moment on double dutch competitions and this one is
Speaker 4: is artistry better than speed?
Speaker 2: All of that coming up next.
Speaker 4: Eleven people, including children and a baby, are missing after
Speaker 4: a hippopotamus capsized a boat in the Ivory Coast. The
Speaker 4: incident took place on the Sossandra River in Buyoi Bou
Speaker 4: Yoh Bou Yoh, b u Yo buy on Friday.
Speaker 5: Three confirmed survivors.
Speaker 2: Now, you know, how do you?
Speaker 4: I don't want that to be my cause of death.
Speaker 4: What happened, Well, we got capsized by hippo.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it's a thing. I just I
Speaker 2: wanted you to know that.
Speaker 4: If I know that, that's that's all there is to it.
Speaker 4: If I know it, you're gonna know it. It's going
Speaker 4: to happen.
Speaker 5: Okay, guys, stories that I want you to know about.
Speaker 4: McDonald's is starting what I'm sure is going to be
Speaker 4: a fast food price war, because fast food is hurting
Speaker 4: right now because their standard clientele middle class, lower middle
Speaker 4: class people don't have any disposable income because everything else
Speaker 4: is too expensive. And McDonald's took it on the chin
Speaker 4: when somebody posted that their Big Mac happened. You know,
Speaker 4: their Big Mac value meal was twenty bucks. So starting
Speaker 4: today now, McDonald's is adding limited time extra value meals
Speaker 4: to the offerings, including an eight dollars big Mac meal
Speaker 4: that comes with medium fries and a medium soft drink,
Speaker 4: and a five dollars sausage McMuffin with egg meal that
Speaker 4: comes with hash browns and a small coffee. Additionally, a
Speaker 4: few other menu items, including egg mcmuffins quarter pounders, can
Speaker 4: also be ordered at as extra value meals and we'll
Speaker 4: be prepared with the appropriate side item and beverage, representing
Speaker 4: a fifteen percent savings. So we'll see what happens with
Speaker 4: other fast food operations. But I gotta tell you, I
Speaker 4: went through Panera the other day. I was running, I
Speaker 4: had a bunch of stuff to do, and then I
Speaker 4: have to go get my hair cut, and I just
Speaker 4: needed something to kind of tide me over.
Speaker 2: So I go through Panera and I get.
Speaker 4: A cup of soup, a cup, not a bowl, not
Speaker 4: the bread bowl, just a cup of soup, very simple,
Speaker 4: no drink, cup of soup.
Speaker 2: Eight bucks and fifty cents.
Speaker 4: And I was like, well, Panera, you have seen my
Speaker 4: last dollars, because that cup of soup is not remotely
Speaker 4: worth eight dollars and fifty cents. Like, nothing about that
Speaker 4: cup of soup was eight dollars and fifty cents. So yeah,
Speaker 4: it's like staggering mode. You go to the grocery store,
Speaker 4: don't you just kind of go, holy crap, how does
Speaker 4: this little amount of food cost that much? But anyway,
Speaker 4: bad news if you're a Beyond Meat fan. When I
Speaker 4: tried the Beyond Meat Whopper, it wasn't bad, you know,
Speaker 4: it wasn't it wasn't horrible, It didn't like it wasn't
Speaker 4: like like that.
Speaker 5: I mean it was it was fine, but not as
Speaker 5: good as the beef whopper.
Speaker 2: And apparently I am not alone.
Speaker 4: Once the darling of the plant based food space, Beyond
Speaker 4: Meat has suffered a precipitous decline in sales as consumer
Speaker 4: consumption plunges. Economic uncertainty and concerns over the processed nature
Speaker 4: of the offerings has push shoppers swords, wait for it,
Speaker 4: cheaper animal options. They have about a billion dollars in
Speaker 4: debt right now, over a billion dollars, and what's really
Speaker 4: bad for them is that new research now suggests that
Speaker 4: consuming meat is not associated with a higher risk of
Speaker 4: death and may even protect against cancer related mortality. Recent
Speaker 4: research from Canada's McMaster University revealed that animal source foods
Speaker 4: are not linked to a higher risk of death. The
Speaker 4: study discovered that animal proteins could also offer protective benefits
Speaker 4: against cancer related mortality. Researchers analyzed data from sixteen thousand
Speaker 4: adults age nineteen and older, considering how much animal and
Speaker 4: plant protein they consumed. They also examined whether these diet
Speaker 4: patterns were associated with risk of dyeing from causes such
Speaker 4: as heart.
Speaker 5: Disease or cancer.
Speaker 4: The results revealed no increased risk of death in association
Speaker 4: with eating.
Speaker 2: More animal protein.
Speaker 4: That data also showed a modest but significant reduction in
Speaker 4: cancer related mortality.
Speaker 5: If that is the case, yours truly is going to
Speaker 5: last forever.
Speaker 4: Also on the blog Today, I don't have time to
Speaker 4: go into it right now, because we're gonna talk to
Speaker 4: Christian Toto when we get back. A Rod sent me
Speaker 4: a video of a double dutch jump rope competition that
Speaker 4: was just like, all of these guys were on crack
Speaker 4: and double dutching as fast as they can. A Rod
Speaker 4: I responded with a video from America's Got Talent of
Speaker 4: Japanese double Dutch, which is as much art and arabatics, aerobatics,
Speaker 4: acrobatics as it is speed.
Speaker 5: I prefer the second to the first. The speed just
Speaker 5: made me tired.
Speaker 4: Headline number one prominently displayed on the news media, Howard
Speaker 4: Stern walks away from Serious XM after two decades, and
Speaker 4: then right next to it, headline number two, Howard Stern
Speaker 4: returns to SiriusXM radio show after trolling listeners.
Speaker 5: Did they just troll the listeners news media?
Speaker 2: I don't think they did.
Speaker 4: Christian Toto shared a fawning Hollywood reporter story about Howard
Speaker 4: Stern staying in it for all the right reasons, but
Speaker 4: I don't think Christian was buying what they were selling.
Speaker 5: And so he's on the show with me now to
Speaker 5: talk about it.
Speaker 8: Hello, my friend, Hello, Yeah, I'm an old school og
Speaker 8: listener to Howard Stern.
Speaker 9: So.
Speaker 8: Proud to say it, but he is not what he
Speaker 8: used to be. But I also think the media ain't
Speaker 8: what it used to be either, which is kind of
Speaker 8: interesting as well and actually part of the story.
Speaker 4: So you know, we kind of went over this, and like,
Speaker 4: I have this love hate relationship with Howard Stern, and
Speaker 4: it goes way back as well, because my first real
Speaker 4: gig was producing the Overnight Show, and on occasion I
Speaker 4: would be drafted into staying to produce the Howard Stern Show,
Speaker 4: which you would think would not be that bad. But
Speaker 4: sometimes the Howard Stern Show went three hours, sometimes it
Speaker 4: went five and a half hours. It was just whatever
Speaker 4: Howard felt like doing that day, which on radio like
Speaker 4: this is a nightmare, right because we have other shows
Speaker 4: that are supposed to start. And then there is the
Speaker 4: way that Howard Stern used to treat people on his show,
Speaker 4: especially women.
Speaker 5: He purely objectified women.
Speaker 4: He did really cruel and nasty bits that were designed
Speaker 4: to be cruel and nasty. And so I've had this
Speaker 4: kind of relationship where I don't like the guy. But
Speaker 4: then on the flip side, you see a guy who
Speaker 4: has been so influential in my industry, a guy who
Speaker 4: got a five hundred million dollar contract out of Serious XM.
Speaker 4: So I have this, like, I admire his business acumen
Speaker 4: and what he's accomplished, but I think it's a sad
Speaker 4: commentary on what he did to accomplish those goals.
Speaker 5: So here's where I am. That's long story short.
Speaker 8: Yeap, No, No, that's it's fine, and I think it's
Speaker 8: mostly fair. But I also think he was cruel to everyone, Yeah,
Speaker 8: including himself, including his castmates there, so it was really
Speaker 8: no holds barred they you know, he would make fun
Speaker 8: of himself constantly, self deprecating anyone his crew is fair game.
Speaker 8: So I think if you entered that orbit, you just
Speaker 8: knew what you were getting. And you know, it's a
Speaker 8: little bit like the current show Kill Tony with their
Speaker 8: brutal on each other, the wannabe comedians, the fellow cast members, everyone.
Speaker 2: But that's just part of it.
Speaker 8: And if you don't want to join that, you just
Speaker 8: don't join it. You know, if you're an actress and
Speaker 8: you don't want to be owgle to ask some tough questions,
Speaker 8: you don't go on the Howard Stern Show. So it
Speaker 8: was a little you know, I think people knew what
Speaker 8: they were getting into, and I think in retrospect off
Speaker 8: and say, oh I was offended by that, or I
Speaker 8: don't know why he treated me that way. Well, you
Speaker 8: knew it was coming and you wanted the exposure. So
Speaker 8: I'm a little defensive on that realm. And also, like
Speaker 8: you said, it was so free for him. It was
Speaker 8: so unexpurgated. He never knew what was going to happen,
Speaker 8: and he often went long because the segment was killing it,
Speaker 8: because the interview was great, because he and his cast
Speaker 8: mates there were telling somebody that was really funny. They
Speaker 8: had a vibe going, and as the listener, I didn't
Speaker 8: care about, you know, oh my gosh, the commercial break
Speaker 8: is getting destroyed. I just wanted to hear it. So
Speaker 8: that that was my initial take on Howard from way
Speaker 8: back when.
Speaker 5: When did he completely go soft?
Speaker 4: I mean, COVID absolutely broke the man completely, like I
Speaker 4: have never seen anyone in the public eye I crumble
Speaker 4: like he crumbled during COVID, refusing to leave his house
Speaker 4: for how many years? I mean, really, it was very
Speaker 4: sad because obviously there's some kind of deep seated anxiety
Speaker 4: there that just got exacerbated by COVID. But it was
Speaker 4: before that a lot of people were blaming his wife
Speaker 4: for making him soft.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I mean he's been married to his second wife, Beth
Speaker 8: for quite a while now, so I don't I don't
Speaker 8: know how much impact. I think it's a combination. I
Speaker 8: think it's COVID clearly. I mean, of all the public figures,
Speaker 8: he was the most destroyed by that in many many ways.
Speaker 8: I think it was the Trump Revolution. I don't think
Speaker 8: he's handled that well now. But I also think, deep down,
Speaker 8: Howard Stern really wanted to be loved. And you know,
Speaker 8: I watched him aggressively, and I watched the media aggressively
Speaker 8: cover him, and they hated Howard Stern and they made
Speaker 8: no bones about it. And I think they always were waiting, Okay,
Speaker 8: he's gonna get canceled, his rating's going to go down.
Speaker 8: It's the time. He's just a shock chock, He's nothing more.
Speaker 8: And I think he really really wanted to be loved.
Speaker 8: And I think now he kisses up the Hollywood, he
Speaker 8: kisses up to the Jimmy Kimmels of the world. Now
Speaker 8: they love him in a way, and I think he's
Speaker 8: always wanted that, and to be loved means you have
Speaker 8: to let your guard down. You have to put away
Speaker 8: the divisive comments, you have to not excoriate your fellow celebrities.
Speaker 8: You've got to be nicer. And I think this version
Speaker 8: of him is just wildly inauthentic, and it just is
Speaker 8: not what he was at his best.
Speaker 2: No, not at all.
Speaker 4: And I can't say I've listened to a Howard Stern
Speaker 4: show in over a decade, but I'm not in the
Speaker 4: demo right.
Speaker 5: He's not talking to me. He never has been.
Speaker 4: Well, let's talk about this contract with Serious, because I
Speaker 4: would say zero percent chance the Serious was going to
Speaker 4: pony up another one hundred million a year, and we
Speaker 4: haven't gotten any A's right understanding. A deal has not
Speaker 4: been done yet.
Speaker 2: Is that accurate? Are you read as well?
Speaker 8: He was vague about it. It sounds like he wants
Speaker 8: the deal to continue, a deal of some kind. He
Speaker 8: wants to continue. He doesn't want to retire, So I
Speaker 8: think it makes sense in many levels for him to
Speaker 8: kind of continue where he is right now. I don't
Speaker 8: think he has a fire in his belly to recommit
Speaker 8: to a different platform or different idea or different concept.
Speaker 8: So I think they'll hash something out. They may keep
Speaker 8: some of the details behind the scenes because it's not
Speaker 8: going to be the same No huge contracts he's gotten
Speaker 8: in the past, so you know, it's very important to
Speaker 8: save face. So I think he's going to work out
Speaker 8: something where he's able to save face because that, again,
Speaker 8: the ego is massive. He even said it today, he said, like,
Speaker 8: I can't go out in these terms. I was thinking
Speaker 8: about retiring, but because the image was negative, I just can't.
Speaker 8: I need to go out. I need to write my
Speaker 8: own exit. But really he should have written a decade
Speaker 8: or so ago.
Speaker 4: But isn't that exactly what you just said for a
Speaker 4: guy who just wants to be loved and now he's
Speaker 4: found himself in a position we're in all honesty, Christian,
Speaker 4: I think part of it is he is, in my mind,
Speaker 4: become almost a pathetic character, a shell of what he
Speaker 4: used to be. And it's hard to beat up on
Speaker 4: a pathetic character, right, It's like beating up your little
Speaker 4: brother's best friend, you know. And people do pull their
Speaker 4: punches when they feel like someone is damaged or in
Speaker 4: a bad place or sad or whatever. And the way
Speaker 4: he reacted and acted during COVID was to me just
Speaker 4: like shockingly bad. I was genuinely surprised by that, And
Speaker 4: maybe I shouldn't be, because he's always been a whiner
Speaker 4: and a hypochondriac and all of those things. That's been
Speaker 4: a part of his persona. But I think that people
Speaker 4: are pulling punches because of who he is now.
Speaker 8: Well, part of it is the media is pulling punches
Speaker 8: because he's on their side now right saying all the
Speaker 8: right things and doing all the right things. Listen, he
Speaker 8: did an interview with President Biden I guess probably a
Speaker 8: couple of months before he stepped aside. That was so embarrassing.
Speaker 8: I think MSNBC wouldn't go to that level. And this
Speaker 8: is the guy who is this wild and wacky shock jock.
Speaker 8: He was the guy who just told it like it is,
Speaker 8: and he's talking to Biden like he was Abraham Lincoln,
Speaker 8: with the reverence and the agulation. Yeah, and listen, you
Speaker 8: could be respectful to the president and you could do
Speaker 8: some good interviews. But that was really embarrassing. And the
Speaker 8: old Howard Stern would have mocked the new one into oblivion.
Speaker 8: So he's aggressively changed.
Speaker 4: So Christian, I have to tell you part of the
Speaker 4: other part of my animosity towards Howard Stern. I was
Speaker 4: a flight attendant in the early nineties for Delta Airlines.
Speaker 4: One year for New Year's Eve, I had to lay
Speaker 4: over in that red hot destination of Newark, New Jersey.
Speaker 2: We landed at like eight o'clock at night.
Speaker 5: We are sign in.
Speaker 4: The next morning was like four thirty in the morning. Okay,
Speaker 4: we had to be downstairs in the lobby. Not a
Speaker 4: very long break. We land, we go to our hotel,
Speaker 4: which is located right next to the beautiful prison there
Speaker 4: in Newark, so we're in a hot, hot place. It
Speaker 4: also happened to be the hotel where Howard Stern was
Speaker 4: filming his New Year's Eve special, So you can only
Speaker 4: imagine the quality of the crowd that was in this
Speaker 4: hotel in Newark, New Jersey.
Speaker 5: But I'm like, you know what, whatever, it's eight thirty,
Speaker 5: I'm going to bed.
Speaker 4: I got to be up at four. I go to
Speaker 4: my room, only to be delighted by the people next door.
Speaker 4: At about one o'clock in the morning. They stagger in
Speaker 4: from the event, and the guys decide to have a
Speaker 4: contest to see who could pee the longest Christian. So
Speaker 4: not only did I get to hear their urine stream,
Speaker 4: I got to hear them loudly count one, two, three, foo.
Speaker 2: All of them did it. So I was so mad
Speaker 2: at this point and wide awake.
Speaker 4: At one o'clock in the morning, I filled out the
Speaker 4: little card on the they wanted breakfast, So right after
Speaker 4: I left it four they had all of these breakfast
Speaker 4: items delivered at five am. So that was my revenge
Speaker 4: and I'm still bitter about that.
Speaker 8: How many times did someone cry out baba booie babba booe?
Speaker 5: I was I honestly, I was so angry, like my
Speaker 5: ears were bleeding.
Speaker 2: I was so mad.
Speaker 4: Well, Christian, you know we're gonna have to wait and
Speaker 4: see what happened. Do you think details of the deal
Speaker 4: are going to leak out at any point? I mean,
Speaker 4: this one feels like it's going to be held close
Speaker 4: to the chest for all the reasons you just said.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think if they can hide it, they will.
Speaker 8: I think the big secret with Howard Stern now is
Speaker 8: who's listening? You know, anecdotally, I'll go on Twitter and
Speaker 8: I'll say, hey, anyone over there still listening to him?
Speaker 8: And I get crickets. But more importantly, I think that
Speaker 8: they would announce his ratings over and over year after year,
Speaker 8: and they used to be massive, and another New York
Speaker 8: post had reported something that was minuscule. So who's listening
Speaker 8: right now?
Speaker 2: Who?
Speaker 8: I mean, why wouldn't they shout that number to the
Speaker 8: rafters If they're not, that's certainly suspicious. Again, I think
Speaker 8: that they can hide the details. They will if they
Speaker 8: can maybe maneuver something, maybe he gives.
Speaker 2: Up some of his stock.
Speaker 8: There will be some creative accounting here for sure, because
Speaker 8: his ego is big, and he doesn't want to go
Speaker 8: out on a note like this.
Speaker 2: He is not what he used to be.
Speaker 7: No, not at all.
Speaker 4: I just had this text or Mandy asked Christian about
Speaker 4: K pop Demon Hunters.
Speaker 2: Have you reviewed?
Speaker 4: It's delightful, Christian. The first ten minutes are completely inane,
Speaker 4: but after that I kind of loved it.
Speaker 8: You know, I kind of heard about it after it
Speaker 8: exploded across the culture, and I have not caught up
Speaker 8: with it. It's kind of my bad habit. If I
Speaker 8: don't see a movie right away or at appreciating, I
Speaker 8: tend to kind of have to move on to other films.
Speaker 8: So I haven't checked it out yet, but it's a sensation.
Speaker 5: You need a sixteen year old daughter to guide you
Speaker 5: in your movie choices.
Speaker 1: I have.
Speaker 8: It really is the old we don't. I think it's
Speaker 8: a William Goldman line. No one knows anything about Hollywood.
Speaker 8: I mean, they just put out a fourth movie in
Speaker 8: the Conjuring franchise, I know, and it made nearly two
Speaker 8: hundred dollars one hundred million dollars globally.
Speaker 4: I mean, who saw that great obviously not me and you,
Speaker 4: but no, watch it. I'd love to hear your opinion.
Speaker 4: First ten minutes, you're gonna want to shove pencils in
Speaker 4: your eyes. But then after that it gets all this
Speaker 4: like Korean mysticism and culture. It's I thoroughly enjoyed it,
Speaker 4: like I would voluntarily watch it again.
Speaker 2: That's that's why. I think.
Speaker 8: That's what shows you that I think the Hollywood formula
Speaker 8: can be so stale. If something is different, unique, it
Speaker 8: shakes things up. It's exciting.
Speaker 4: Yeah it is, and it certainly has had a good
Speaker 4: run thanks to those K pop kids.
Speaker 2: Christian Toto.
Speaker 4: You can read his work or listen to his podcasts
Speaker 4: at Hollywood intoto dot com. Or read his columns all
Speaker 4: over the place. You're like, you're publishing everywhere now, Chris,
Speaker 4: You're so popular, very popular, very famous too.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, I'm afraid he's got I'm
Speaker 4: gonna call him one day. It's gonna be like, I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: I don't know who this is.
Speaker 2: Do you know who you're calling? Exactly?
Speaker 5: Neither of us have people spoiler alert. All right, my friend, I'll.
Speaker 2: See you later.
Speaker 4: All right, all right, that's Christian Toto read his stuff
Speaker 4: at Hollywood intoto dot com. Mandy the Day Howard Lost
Speaker 4: Me says this Texters. When right after he split up
Speaker 4: with his first wife, Opie and Anthony did a great
Speaker 4: skit about his breakup, Howard whined to the owners and
Speaker 4: stopped Opie and Anthony from speaking about him. That was
Speaker 4: a really great radio feud between Howard Stern and Opie
Speaker 4: and Anthony because they were all powerhouses.
Speaker 5: At the time.
Speaker 4: That was a really good feud. Geez, enough about Howard.
Speaker 4: He doesn't read this much interest. Trust me, I will
Speaker 4: never speak of him again. Because now in the studio,
Speaker 4: the flannel wearing god himself Ryan Edwards to talk about
Speaker 4: yesterday's game and whatnot, and this is what I said
Speaker 4: at the beginning of the show, agree or disagree. I
Speaker 4: said this game was ugly. It exposed serious flaws in
Speaker 4: the offense. It showed us how good the defense is.
Speaker 4: But we still got a w and we have time
Speaker 4: to course correct because it's the first game of the season.
Speaker 4: This is the best of the possible situations in my view,
Speaker 4: where we are right at the second, I could agree
Speaker 4: with I think three of those four points.
Speaker 9: I don't know about the serious flaws in the offense.
Speaker 9: I think most of this stuff is correctable.
Speaker 4: But oh, I think all of it is correctable. Yeah,
Speaker 4: But what I'm saying is I'm glad it was exposed
Speaker 4: right now, sure, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: And I was a good game.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 4: I think that bo Nicks maybe consumed a little too
Speaker 4: much of his own press.
Speaker 9: I think could have been Yeah, you know, we talked
Speaker 9: a little bit about that on React last night, about
Speaker 9: how much maybe some of the way the offense played
Speaker 9: and maybe even Sean who was actually putting out the press,
Speaker 9: the way they coached that game, maybe it could be
Speaker 9: a little bit of that. It felt like, again, there's
Speaker 9: some moments where they just were on the same page.
Speaker 9: It's amazing how sometimes we talk about preseason reps and
Speaker 9: how they can be helpful. This felt like one of
Speaker 9: those moments, like gay, if you had had some more
Speaker 9: time in the preseason, it might have helped you a
Speaker 9: little bit with these Hey, the receiver is supposed to
Speaker 9: run this kind of route, but decided to stop instead
Speaker 9: of keep going. There was a couple of moments with
Speaker 9: bone Nicks where I think that the Tennessee Titans and
Speaker 9: you got to give them some love on the defensive
Speaker 9: side of the wall because they're very talented, and I
Speaker 9: think they gave bone Nicks in that offense some looks
Speaker 9: that they were not prepared for, and so it definitely looked.
Speaker 5: Like somebody forgot to tell Tennessee they were supposed to
Speaker 5: lose that game.
Speaker 2: Yeah I did.
Speaker 4: I mean, in my mind, I felt like bow got
Speaker 4: out of his depth and then wasn't quite sure how
Speaker 4: to recover, especially in the first half. Second half, you
Speaker 4: started to feel like, Okay, you know, maybe, but as
Speaker 4: one who has occasionally in the far far away past
Speaker 4: enjoyed a little too much of my own press, only
Speaker 4: to be smacked down and embarrassed by God in some
Speaker 4: public fashion, I know what that looks like. And that's
Speaker 4: kind of what that looked like to me.
Speaker 9: I mean, listen, it's hard not to think about it, right,
Speaker 9: especially in those moments when you have your coach talking
Speaker 9: about this is one of seven teams that could win
Speaker 9: a Super Bowl. You're talking about your quarterback is a
Speaker 9: possible top five guy. Well, that's not how a top
Speaker 9: five guy plays. That's certainly not how a super Bowl team,
Speaker 9: at least on the offensive side of the ball looks.
Speaker 9: The defense, again, was spectacular. The numbers are staggering, really,
Speaker 9: and part of that also, the Sissy Titans offense is
Speaker 9: a flawed Now that's a flawed unit.
Speaker 4: That's still came at the end of the game when
Speaker 4: his receivers dropped three balls in a row. I felt
Speaker 4: sorry for the kid. Yeah, I was like, he didn't
Speaker 4: and his poor dad.
Speaker 2: Did you see his sad I didn't. His parents are
Speaker 2: sitting up.
Speaker 4: There completely stoic, like not no emotionless, and one of
Speaker 4: the commentators was like, wow, you know, I don't know
Speaker 4: if I.
Speaker 2: Could be that emotionless.
Speaker 4: Then the third ball gets dropped and they show the
Speaker 4: dad and he's just like, oh my god, yeah, and.
Speaker 2: He had I would say overall decent accuracy.
Speaker 9: I mean, certainly his time in the pocket, he he
Speaker 9: drifted a little bit too much, and that happens with rookies, right,
Speaker 9: I mean there's that moment where panic, Yeah, where Marvin
Speaker 9: MIM's muscle and they have the ball basically right outside
Speaker 9: the red zone and they end up going backwards out
Speaker 9: of fiel little range. Those are things that you got
Speaker 9: to learn from. But yeah, I saw some things that
Speaker 9: I think are very encouraging. But you know, the receivers
Speaker 9: drop the baller's lens is so much you can do.
Speaker 4: The good thing that I feel like I know as
Speaker 4: a fan about bo Nix is that I think that
Speaker 4: this will not remotely mentally crush.
Speaker 2: Him, like maybe humble him a little bit.
Speaker 4: Maybe that was needed, but I think that he has demonstrated,
Speaker 4: especially last year, that he does not spend a lot
Speaker 4: of time like regurgitating in his mind what could have
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, He's like, what can I learn?
Speaker 4: Let's move on, which I think is the only way
Speaker 4: to be in sports at any level. You can't get
Speaker 4: mired down.
Speaker 2: And what happened in the last game one.
Speaker 9: Hundred percent, and that was one of the things that
Speaker 9: his coaches, all of them said universally about him when
Speaker 9: we were sort of doing our detailed work on him
Speaker 9: in the pre draft process, was that he tends to
Speaker 9: not repeat mistakes. And they said the same thing when
Speaker 9: he got here. To Denver's coaches were like, it's really impressive.
Speaker 9: Is he only needs to learn something once? So I
Speaker 9: do think that's why, Like what you think about is
Speaker 9: flaws in the offense is fair because it was flawed
Speaker 9: that day, but that's hopefully not something that they will
Speaker 9: repeat catastrophic.
Speaker 2: Yes, not, Oh my god, we don't have an offense
Speaker 2: which we've seen many years of that here and so like,
Speaker 2: you know, you go down that road where you're.
Speaker 9: Like Trevor Simeon and Jake Skeenam and Joe Flacco and
Speaker 9: you're like, no, those are flaws and there's nothing you
Speaker 9: can do about it. So you're just gonna have to
Speaker 9: hope that one day it's not as bad.
Speaker 2: As the next day. And this is not one of
Speaker 2: those things.
Speaker 9: I think that they're gonna be able to build off
Speaker 9: a lot of the things, and there's some really positive
Speaker 9: science from the offense. Obviously, the running game, especially in
Speaker 9: the second half, really kind of started to show up.
Speaker 9: And that's that's kind of by design, right, that's why
Speaker 9: you're doing the wide zone. It's supposed to eventually break
Speaker 9: open a few of those people down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. So that is the hope is if you
Speaker 2: stick with it and you can get.
Speaker 9: Into the second half of these games, you're gonna be
Speaker 9: able to open up some of those lanes.
Speaker 2: And they were able to do.
Speaker 9: And again, if they can listen, they've run rush for
Speaker 9: one hundred and fifty one yards every single game. They're
Speaker 9: gonna be a lot of games, and they might win
Speaker 9: a lot of games too.
Speaker 5: And now it's time for the most exciting segment on
Speaker 5: the radio.
Speaker 2: On its guide in the world of that day. Look
Speaker 2: at I gotta tell you been all right.
Speaker 5: I don't know if he's been practicing at home, but
Speaker 5: he's coming for you.
Speaker 2: He's coming for you. I'm he's giving it. Oh I
Speaker 2: like that. Well, think about Ben. It's Ben.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he gets bored very easily, exactly. So give it
Speaker 9: like a week and they hit be like Ryan, Now
Speaker 9: I don't care.
Speaker 2: Now I don't care. It's fired. Okay, what does our
Speaker 2: dad joke of the day? Please?
Speaker 6: I asked a farmer for twelve asparagus, but he gave
Speaker 6: me thirteen. The extra was a spare. I guess, oh wow, wow.
Speaker 2: What is today's word of the day. Please?
Speaker 3: It's the verb verb mollify. What mollify m O l
Speaker 3: l I f y mollify? Is that to soothe things
Speaker 3: over to sort of?
Speaker 2: That's mollify mollify m O l l I.
Speaker 4: So that is right, Yeah, tomlifies to make things better,
Speaker 4: to smooth something.
Speaker 2: Over to sort of A yeah, pretty much?
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: To mollify someone is to make them less angry. Can
Speaker 6: also meet it reduced in intensity. Okay, do you want
Speaker 6: question A or B from the trivia questions?
Speaker 2: I eat? Both of them are super hard.
Speaker 4: Okay, what record did professional boxer Al Couture set in
Speaker 4: September twenty fourth, forty six match against Ralph Back.
Speaker 5: What is a rat height?
Speaker 2: A T I T E rat type rat poop? Oh
Speaker 2: little small one.
Speaker 4: Little turdle rat turd Ryan's like sounds good to me.
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 4: Any bird with a flat breastbone that has no attached
Speaker 4: flight muscles trats height is primarily used to describe flightless
Speaker 4: birds like ostriches, EMUs and moas.
Speaker 2: There I go all right, what was the was the
Speaker 2: answer to the one?
Speaker 4: The other one was fastest knockout in professional boxing history
Speaker 4: and torn off in ten point five seconds. You go,
Speaker 4: that was walk up, punch him in the face, walk away?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 5: What is our Jeopardy category?
Speaker 2: Party? Party? Party? Okay?
Speaker 6: And overnight get together for kids, in which I feel
Speaker 6: like Ryan got down until what does the sleepover?
Speaker 2: Correct?
Speaker 5: But also accepted summer party because it has party in
Speaker 5: the name.
Speaker 6: Wait a minute, it says both no, no, no, it
Speaker 6: says both say the other one in print, but in
Speaker 6: the blue now it says in blue ahead.
Speaker 2: This type of shin dig with all white garb was
Speaker 2: made popular. What is a white party?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 2: It's made popular by the film Animal House. Oh what
Speaker 2: an idiots? Was the toga party? Close off?
Speaker 6: Both ends up the street and turn up the music.
Speaker 6: What's a block party?
Speaker 2: Correct? Like to zero? Yes, guess the birth is a
Speaker 2: popular theme. What's a general reveal party?
Speaker 6: Nope, that would be normal, but this is from twenty fourteen,
Speaker 6: not popularized yet. Guess the birth is a popular game
Speaker 6: at this type of get together.
Speaker 5: If you don't know this, I'm gonna be at it.
Speaker 2: It's like a baby.
Speaker 5: It's a baby shower. Yeah, it's a baby shower.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Did you guess that you're you're already wrong. I'm already wrong. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're wrong. Yeah, baby shower.
Speaker 6: Oh he was a shower from the French for evening
Speaker 6: this word for a party, that's correct.
Speaker 2: Does that mean your time? I have zero?
Speaker 5: Ryan won handily two to zero, which.
Speaker 2: Is amazing because I feel like I'm sleepwalking. But you're
Speaker 2: doing great, You're doing perfectly fine.
Speaker 4: All right, we'll leave you to dang it to dissect
Speaker 4: the game and more on KO Sports.
Speaker 5: We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Keep it right here,