WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:03.240 The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock 2 00:00:03.279 --> 00:00:04.759 Accident and injury Lawyers. 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:12.160 No, it's Mandy Connell. Manna Ka. 4 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:24.399 Ninem god Way, stay the nicety prey Bendyconnell, keeping your 5 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:26.000 real sadda. 6 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:27.440 Well. 7 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:35.439 But welcome, Welcome to a Monday edition of the show. 8 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:40.200 I don't care that it was basically a guinea game 9 00:00:40.359 --> 00:00:42.679 against a bunch of guys on the practice squad. 10 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:44.920 I don't care thirty eight nothing against the best bats 11 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:45.560 in the league. 12 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:46.439 Yeah, there you go. 13 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:48.200 That is an excellent way to put it. 14 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:50.320 Ain't you excellent? Get dominated? 15 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:50.759 Yeah? 16 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:53.240 I mean, dare I say the game was a little 17 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:56.479 boring in the second half. I was a little beer horse. 18 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:58.759 I was just saying I was a little bored. I 19 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:02.520 was perfectly fine with the highlight reel on this one. Yeah, 20 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:04.079 I'm not looking to give to horse in the mouth. 21 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:06.680 And I'm excited about this, as all Bronco fans should be. 22 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:10.000 But then we have to go to Buffalo. 23 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:12.000 Dang it, Pucha. 24 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:15.319 There's not a soft game in these playoffs, Like usually 25 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:16.680 when you look at the playoffs. 26 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:19.040 Schedule and these teams, Oh there's one, hey beat Buffalo 27 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:20.040 and then go to Kansas City. 28 00:01:20.359 --> 00:01:24.200 Oh, I like your confidence, cause that's where we would go. 29 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:27.760 H I like your moxie on that one. AnyWho, it's 30 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:28.200 it's going. 31 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:29.760 To be a tough, tough road to. 32 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:32.040 The super Bowl, but of course we will cover it 33 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:36.640 all for you here at KOA. And uh So that's exciting, 34 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:38.760 that's very, very exciting, And I have that on the 35 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:41.280 blog today. I actually have the video that a Rod 36 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:44.760 shot of our own Dave Logan planting the flag at 37 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:48.079 empower Field at Mile High and it was it's pretty awesome. 38 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:49.760 Dave's not listening, so I'm going to say something right 39 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:51.280 now exclusively. 40 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:51.319 For your listener. 41 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:53.959 Yes, Dave was a little giddy, I think about doing it, 42 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:56.640 and it was really, really, really fun to watch him be. 43 00:01:56.680 --> 00:01:57.680 A little giddy about it. 44 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:02.799 Really, and again, in this business nature of the business, 45 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:05.920 you get desensitized. Dave Logan's been to a million Broncos games, 46 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:08.719 playing in Broncos games. Here's a little gina about doing that. 47 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:10.319 I don't think he's ever done something like that before. 48 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:12.199 And that was that was fun. He was into it, 49 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:13.080 you can tell by the video. 50 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:13.599 Go watch it. 51 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:16.680 Yeah, it's on the blog today at mandy'sblog dot com. 52 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:19.439 Let me get right to that, because I gotta tell you, 53 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:22.080 after the two weeks or so of the last two 54 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:24.439 weeks of the year, when no one is really paying 55 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:28.400 attention and no one is working it, I'll be finding 56 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:30.719 the news. For the last week on the show was 57 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:33.719 like a nightmare because everybody was still on vacation. Well, 58 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:36.199 everybody's back now and there's so much news. The blog 59 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:38.919 is so big you're probably gonna have to use two hands. 60 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:41.120 Like even if you pull it up on your smartphone, 61 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:43.280 you're just gonna need two hands because it's so big. 62 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:47.039 You can find it at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog 63 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:49.680 dot com. Look for the headline that says one six 64 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:53.080 twenty five blog will the wake up call work? And 65 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:56.400 Mayor Johnston lied to Aurora. Click on that and here 66 00:02:56.439 --> 00:02:58.400 are the headlines you will find within I. 67 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:01.199 Dine Office happening all with ships and clipments of seen 68 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:02.240 that's gonna press. 69 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:07.120 Pledge today on the blog the Vegas bomber wasn't wrong. 70 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:10.280 This is why we don't trust government. It's Mayor v 71 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:14.639 Mayor over illegal immigrants. The case against bike laims. Well, 72 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:17.840 we've stopped the influx of new people to Colorado. The 73 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:21.199 Broncos are in the playoffs. What airlines are on time? 74 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:25.520 The most scrolling? Wait, oh, that's in the wrong order. 75 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:28.960 That's frustrating. A stupid new law creates confusion at school. 76 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:32.599 Let's end the aid of addiction. Should churches work to 77 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:37.080 house the homeless? Another unelected person joins the legislature. Good luck, 78 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:41.840 Boulder restaurants. Democrats are coming for your detachable magazines. More ways. 79 00:03:41.919 --> 00:03:45.039 The Dems want to make Colorado unlivable. The Golden Globes 80 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:48.039 were last night. We just didn't appreciate all that the 81 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:51.879 Democrats did for us. Trudeau is on his way out 82 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:56.080 in Canada. Multitasking is a lie. The most civil Catholic 83 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:59.759 president ever. Men paying women to do things their wives 84 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:03.240 don't do. Those are the headlines on the blog at 85 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:08.400 Manday's blog dot com. So, as you can see, we 86 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:10.080 have lots and lots of stories. But I got to 87 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:13.280 tell you the funniest thing I have seen in so 88 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:15.879 long is a video at the bottom of the blog. 89 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:17.800 You're gonna have to click through to see it on Twitter, 90 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:21.519 and it is a video of men paying a certain 91 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:26.759 kind of woman to perform certain kinds of things that 92 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:28.759 their wives won't do. And I'm just gonna leave it 93 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:31.240 at that a rod because we are on the radio 94 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:33.319 and I don't want to get in trouble yes with 95 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:37.399 the FCC by being too descriptive of what these men 96 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:43.160 are paying these blog I know it's so good. Today's 97 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:45.720 like the best watch because it's so interesting. Yeah, I 98 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:48.279 want to start right with something heavy, because we're we 99 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:51.800 now know quite a bit more about the man who 100 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:56.680 blew up a Tesla truck at the Trump Hotel in 101 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:00.959 Las Vegas. He was a Green Beret and he was 102 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:04.319 active duty but was on leave. He seemed to be okay. 103 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:07.879 Nobody spoted anything, you know, very wrong with the guy. 104 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:11.480 And yet a guy who was a Green Beret made 105 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:17.439 such a rudimentary explosive device in using canisters of gas 106 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:22.079 and the large fireworks in order to create an explosion. 107 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:25.079 There's a zero percent chance I believe that a Green 108 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:26.800 Beret would not be able to make a better bomb 109 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:30.839 than that, And it made me question, like, what was 110 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:34.680 the purpose of this? Well, now we know there were two. 111 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:37.800 When I saw one news article called a manifesto, which 112 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:40.000 I think is a great way to put it because 113 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:43.519 you think of manifesto as like a long drawn out document. 114 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:46.199 This guy had two documents that were found on his 115 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:50.920 phone after he shot himself and then set the interior 116 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:54.399 of the Tesla truck a light outside the Trump Hotel. 117 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:57.959 Now I put a link to where you should read them. 118 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:02.360 And I say should because this is an opportunity for 119 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:06.240 you to skip the news media. You could skip me, 120 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:09.439 in my opinion, like you can just because they're not long. 121 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:12.319 One of them takes up maybe a third and it 122 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:14.959 appears to be double space of one page, and the 123 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.519 others maybe a half maybe three quarters of another page 124 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:19.160 typed these are not long. 125 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:20.600 Then, as a matter of fact, why I just read 126 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:20.959 it to you. 127 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:25.439 Right now, because I think that what this guy was 128 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:30.199 trying to do it was a shout into the wind. 129 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:34.120 But I'll let you decide for yourself. The first one says, 130 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:38.360 fellow service members, veterans, and all Americans, time to wake up. 131 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:41.639 We are being led by weak and feckless leadership who 132 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:45.519 only serve to enrich themselves. Military vets moving on DC 133 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:50.839 starting now. Militious facilitate and augment this activity. Occupy every 134 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:53.279 major road, long federal buildings in the campus of the 135 00:06:53.279 --> 00:06:57.199 federal buildings by the hundreds of thousands. Lock the highways 136 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:00.519 around down with semis right after everybody gets in hold 137 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:04.480 until the purge is complete. Try peaceful means first, but 138 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:06.600 be prepared to fight to get the Dems out of 139 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:10.360 the federal government and military by any means necessary. They 140 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:13.240 all must go, and a hard reset must occur for 141 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:17.199 our country to avoid collapse. That from and then he 142 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:23.319 signs his name. That's the first one and the first line. 143 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:25.920 We are being led by weak and feckless leadership who 144 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:30.360 only serve to enrich themselves. I mean, is that really 145 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:35.160 off the mark? But the second one is the one 146 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:39.199 that I feel like is more important. In this one, 147 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:42.040 he says, we are the United States of America, the 148 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:46.319 best country people to ever exist, but right now we 149 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:50.079 are terminally ill and headed toward collapse. We are crumbling 150 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:53.639 because of lack of self respect, morals, and respect for others. 151 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:57.319 Greed and gluttony has consumed us. The top one percent 152 00:07:57.360 --> 00:07:59.680 decided long ago they weren't going to bring everyone else 153 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:02.959 with them. You are cattle to them. We have strayed 154 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:05.920 from family values and corrupted our minds. And I am 155 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:08.920 a prime example of having it all but it never 156 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:11.839 being enough. A lot of us are just sitting around 157 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:15.439 waiting to die. No sunlight, no steps, no fresh air, 158 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:18.319 no hope. Our children are addicted to screens by the 159 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:21.560 age of two. We're filling our bodies with processed foods. 160 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:24.439 Our population is too fat to join the military. Yet 161 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:27.480 we are facing a war with China, Russia, North Korea 162 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:31.360 and Iran before twenty thirty. We must take these actions 163 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:33.320 if we're going to make it past the next few 164 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:37.639 years in one piece. We must end the war in 165 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:41.480 Ukraine with negotiated settlement. It is the only way. Focus 166 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:44.919 on strength and winning. Masculinity is good and men must 167 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:48.360 be leaders. Strength is a deterrent, and fear is the product. 168 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:52.159 Weeded out those in our government and military who do 169 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:56.279 not idealize. Number two. The income inequality in this country 170 00:08:56.279 --> 00:08:58.960 and cost of living is outrageous. The number of homeless 171 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:02.080 on our street is embarrassed and disgusting. Have some pride 172 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:05.679 and take care of this. Stop obsessing over diversity. We 173 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:09.279 are all diverse and DEI is a cancer. Thankfully we 174 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:12.240 rejected the DEI candidate and we'll have a real president 175 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:16.279 instead of weekend at Bernie's. We must move on from 176 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:19.480 the culture of weakness and self enrichment perpetuated by our 177 00:09:19.559 --> 00:09:23.279 senior political and military leaders. We are done with the 178 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:27.240 blatant corruption. Our soldiers are done fighting wars without end 179 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:29.440 states or clear objectives. 180 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:32.559 This was not a terrorist attack. It was a wake 181 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:33.159 up call. 182 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:37.039 Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better 183 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:39.000 way to get my point across than a stunt with 184 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:42.320 fireworks and explosives. Why did I personally do it? 185 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:42.639 Now? 186 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:45.960 I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I've 187 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:49.000 lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives 188 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:53.000 I took. Consider this last sunset of twenty four and 189 00:09:53.080 --> 00:09:56.000 my actions the end of our sickness and a new 190 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:59.240 chapter of health for our people. Rally around the Trump 191 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:03.159 musk can and ride this wave to the highest hedge 192 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:06.559 many for all Americans. We are second to no one. 193 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:09.720 That is the and two separate as they're calling on 194 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:13.639 minifestos of the man who blew up a truck in Vegas. 195 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:17.240 And because he did not kill anyone but himself, and 196 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:22.320 he shot himself before the explosion started, I can feel 197 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:24.519 sorry for him instead of angry at him. 198 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:25.960 I mean, don't get me wrong. 199 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:28.120 Somebody could have been killed, but I'm guessing When he 200 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:31.440 stopped the car, he looked around to assess the situation 201 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:37.960 before creating havoc. I just feel I feel heartbroken for 202 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:41.279 this guy because in so many. 203 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:42.519 Ways I agree with him. 204 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:47.320 I agree with him that we're just drifting through our 205 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:51.519 lives as a nation collectively. We're not living purposeful lives, 206 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:54.360 not taking care of ourselves, We're not doing things that 207 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:57.039 Michelle Zelner likes to say makes a person a happy, 208 00:10:57.080 --> 00:11:01.919 healthy human. He's right about all of that stuff, but 209 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:05.799 it's so depressing to think that this was the method 210 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:09.200 that he chose in order to make some kind of splash, 211 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:11.759 some kind of difference. And you know what, a vast 212 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:14.519 majority of people are not even going to read these 213 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:17.679 two small documents and know what he said because the 214 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:19.720 news media is reporting it as well. He was a 215 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:24.799 Trump supporter, and you know he wasn't anti Trump, because 216 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:28.039 everybody was speculating it was Elon Musk's truck outside of 217 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:31.399 Trump hotel. Maybe it's anti Trump. All they're basically saying, No, 218 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:35.000 he liked Trump, and that's all you're getting. You don't 219 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:39.159 get the heartbreaking part about him killing himself because he 220 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:41.720 needed to clean cleanse his mind of the brothers he's 221 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:44.679 lost and relieve himself of the burden of the lives 222 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:49.120 I took. Stuff like this makes me far more or 223 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:54.840 far less rather interventionist than I used to be. What 224 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:58.360 have we done to two three generations of men now 225 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:02.639 who have volunteer to serve our country a bold and 226 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:03.600 noble purpose. 227 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:05.360 But what are we doing to them? 228 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:07.639 We're sending them to fight words that we're not serious 229 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:09.879 about winning, and when we finally do win it, we 230 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:13.480 can't give it back to the enemy fast enough, at 231 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:15.639 least that's how it seems in Afghanistan. 232 00:12:17.480 --> 00:12:19.320 So yeah, this is. 233 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:25.279 This is It's just sad and depressing. It's a much 234 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:29.480 different situation than the guy in New Orleans. This was 235 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:33.320 this guy's lad. I liken this too in a way, 236 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:35.840 you know, him setting himself on fire on the steps 237 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:38.279 of the capitol. People do that in order to draw 238 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:40.399 attention to something they think is important, and all that 239 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:43.320 gets reported is someone set themselves on fire at the 240 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:47.080 capitol and the message just kind of gets lost. But 241 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:49.399 if you feel powerless to get the message across, if 242 00:12:49.399 --> 00:12:52.840 you're feeling like nothing I'm doing or nothing I'm going 243 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:54.799 to do is going to make an impact, then I 244 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:58.000 guess this is how you do it. I don't know. 245 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:06.039 It's just very very very very sad, very sad. Mandy. 246 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:08.759 The post about men paying women reminds me of an 247 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:12.279 old Buddy Hackett joke. The punchline is paint my house. 248 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:16.679 She said she do anything he wanted for three hundred bucks. 249 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:17.799 Nice. 250 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:19.120 Nice? 251 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:22.759 Uh, Mandy, please explain planting the flag and why that 252 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:27.559 is important? I don't know. I don't know what the important. 253 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:31.679 But does it have historical meanings? 254 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:33.799 Uh? I don't believe so. 255 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:36.519 Or is it just tradition, like in general or at 256 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:39.519 the Broncos specifically at the Broncos games. 257 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:42.440 I don't know vas a specific tradition. I don't know that. 258 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:45.559 And in general, it's just a matter of firing people up. 259 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:48.440 All right, here we go, I have this right now. 260 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:55.480 Ummm let's see it. How many end up up the 261 00:13:55.799 --> 00:13:59.399 Oh no, that's the big flag on the field. I 262 00:13:59.440 --> 00:13:59.799 don't know. 263 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:03.639 I have no idea why we do that. Does somebody know? 264 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:08.000 Then, text us, because there's a lot on flag planting. 265 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:12.080 I mean, when you plant the flag, you are basically 266 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:15.600 saying we are your we are your conqueror. But planting 267 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:18.559 the flag of the Broncos game takes place before the game, 268 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:21.840 and we're planting it on our own territory. 269 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:27.799 So I'm not sure why it's very I mean, it's 270 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:28.399 a ceremony. 271 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:32.279 They have a spot right below the big jumbo drawn 272 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:35.360 big screen and they had like a little made up 273 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:38.000 spot with a little piece of you know, dirt or 274 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:41.440 turf or whatever it is, and then yeah, just plant 275 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:41.879 it right. 276 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:45.200 There the crowd the Seminoles when the Florida State Seminoles win, 277 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:47.159 which I'm sure they'll do again next year after taking 278 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:50.480 this year off. Well, when they come back next year 279 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:52.240 after taking this year off, I'm sure they'll get right 280 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:54.879 back to the winning. They take a piece of the 281 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:59.240 turf and there's a turf graveyard at in Tallahassee that 282 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:01.559 you can go visit. It has the little placard of 283 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:03.879 the game that it came from. 284 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:11.320 It's pretty awesome. It's pretty awesome anyway, Mandy. 285 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:14.120 As a Cold War veteran, I feel that we've burned 286 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:19.159 our golf war veterans badly. We must provide a lot 287 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:22.200 more mental health care. The VA must be fixed, you know. Ralph. 288 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:25.879 That's from Ralph, and I would love to think that 289 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:29.480 the VA was gonna get quote fixed. I'd love to 290 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:33.679 see that, but at this stage in the game, I 291 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:38.159 don't understand why we need to. You know, work if 292 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:41.200 you're a small government person working to privatize as much 293 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:42.240 of what government. 294 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:42.960 Does should be the goal. 295 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:45.639 You know, anything that can be done in the private 296 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:48.159 sector is probably going to be done far more efficiently, 297 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:52.080 even with the profit mode is factored in. Then government 298 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:55.879 can do it. Proof and point broadband. Do you know 299 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:59.360 that we've spent billions of dollars to deliver rural broadband 300 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:02.559 and no one has been connected. What if we had 301 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:05.360 contracted that out to a private company with actual dates 302 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:10.279 and deadlines, at least we'd have broadband. So I don't 303 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:15.000 understand why we can't privatize more of the VA healthcare system. 304 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:19.159 That needs to happen. There should be no reason for 305 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:22.919 us to even have the level of VA hospital care 306 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:25.080 that we have now because I don't feel like people 307 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:27.519 are getting better care there. If I thought veterans were 308 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:30.320 getting better care through the VA system, I would say 309 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:33.039 one hundred percent keep it. And there is value in 310 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:36.279 having people who have served in the medical profession, but 311 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:40.440 they can still provide that service outside the VA hospital system. 312 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:44.320 Which is just fraught with cost overruns and waiting lists 313 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:46.360 and all of the things you would expect to see 314 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:49.279 in government healthcare. Not as bad as it used to be. 315 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:53.879 It used to be horrific. Now it's a little bit better, 316 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:56.840 maybe a lot better in some areas. But I know 317 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:01.159 veterans here in this community who have horror stories about 318 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:04.519 going to the beautiful Tajma via the billion and like, 319 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:06.000 I don't even know how much that thing ended up 320 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:08.839 costing and waiting eight hours to be seen. 321 00:17:09.480 --> 00:17:13.519 What the blank is that? That is socialized medicine. So 322 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:16.319 I interviewed the guy who was the. 323 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:22.720 He was the secretary of the VA back in let's see, 324 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:25.519 it was pre CU, So this is sixteen seventeen years ago. 325 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:27.799 I believe his name was Jim Nicholson, if I am 326 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:32.200 remembering correctly, And he had all these grandiose plans to 327 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:34.559 fix the VA, and we're moving it in the right direction, 328 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:38.200 blah blah bah bah beh. But we still have too 329 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:42.200 many veterans who cannot get the healthcare that they need, 330 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:44.880 who cannot get the mental health care that they need, 331 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:48.759 and the stigma is still strong when it comes to 332 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:52.559 accessing the services that are available there's a real fear 333 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:55.920 among active active duty members of the service that they 334 00:17:55.960 --> 00:17:59.839 will be declared undeployable if they express the mental health issues. 335 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:01.839 And I got to tell you, I don't necessarily think 336 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:04.640 that would be a bad idea, but on the other 337 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:07.759 side of that, it damages their potential to be promoted. 338 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:11.160 So we've disincentivized. 339 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:12.680 People getting help in a group of people that we're 340 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:17.279 asking to sometimes do incredibly difficult things, things that are 341 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:20.079 beyond their control when they're in the middle of it, 342 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:23.319 you know, I mean, it's just the whole system is 343 00:18:23.400 --> 00:18:25.599 just so jacked up. Thank you, Ralph for correcting me. 344 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:30.000 Global War on Terror. So this is one of the 345 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:33.200 reasons that I really really want to see Pete Hegseth 346 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:37.480 get confirmed. And there's been a lot of things kind 347 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:43.160 of bandied about about Pete Hegseth and I have looked 348 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:47.599 into the sexual impropriety accusation as much as I can, 349 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:51.880 but there's very little evidence. But what evidence exists makes 350 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:55.680 me lean towards believing Pete more than I believe his 351 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:59.720 accused her. Now I could be wrong, I really could, 352 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:02.359 but I looked at it with as you know, as dispassionate. 353 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:03.359 I as I could. 354 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:06.160 But I think Pete Hegseth, coming in from the outside, 355 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:09.119 being a former active duty soldier not that long ago, 356 00:19:09.319 --> 00:19:11.599 is exactly the kind of leader to come in and 357 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:17.039 just say enough. Veterans deserve to have access to the best. 358 00:19:16.839 --> 00:19:19.440 Healthcare available, period. 359 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:24.680 And right now what we see is the VA and Tricare, 360 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:28.359 which is the insurance program for veterans, you know, doing 361 00:19:28.440 --> 00:19:30.759 such a bad job that Children's hospital was going to 362 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:34.519 dump them from their network. Oh I wish the VA 363 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:37.440 would be fixed? Oh man, do I wish the VA 364 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:42.599 would be fixed? So we shall see Yogi texting in. 365 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:45.680 I hope Trump will expand on his administration's previous steps 366 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:48.359 to allow vets to go seek our own help and 367 00:19:48.359 --> 00:19:55.960 support instead of the VA. Exactly exactly right. So yeah, Mandy, 368 00:19:56.079 --> 00:19:58.359 Apparently the cyber truck dude knew a bunch about the 369 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:02.400 Chinese drones. He emailed into podcaster Sean Riot about what 370 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:05.160 he knows about the deep state stuff, including the East 371 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:08.599 Coast drones. Leland Conway brought this up on a show 372 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:12.680 on six hundred co Go. I could not find anything 373 00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:17.599 other than that podcaster and no offense. 374 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:20.119 But I'm just not. 375 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:27.000 Sure that that's altogether accurate. Mandy. Is it a fair 376 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:29.480 comparison to say that the Veterans administration is similar to 377 00:20:29.480 --> 00:20:30.400 socialized healthcare? 378 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:33.000 Yes, it is in the hospital system. 379 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:38.079 One hundred percent. One hundred percent. Anyway, Uh, Mandy. I 380 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:40.160 believe the flag ceremony is a way of saying, this 381 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:42.160 is our territory and we're gonna defend it. 382 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:45.839 That is true, and that's what opposing teams have started 383 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:48.240 to do in the last couple of years, Baker Mayfield, 384 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:52.400 where you plant your flag on the other opposing teams 385 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:56.960 and that's just rude. Baker Mayfield's awesome, No, but that's rude. 386 00:20:57.079 --> 00:20:59.359 It's cool, it's rude. And I think you're just jealous 387 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:00.839 that people are doing or State's. 388 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:03.880 Thing because everything good has come from Florida State. Coming 389 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:06.160 up at one o'clock. I did not mention this earlier. 390 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:08.559 We got Jimmy Sanenberger coming in. He wrote a great 391 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:11.359 column that goes right to the heart of what I 392 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:16.680 think is something that must be addressed or our country 393 00:21:16.839 --> 00:21:17.720 cannot survive. 394 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:18.960 And that is the. 395 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:23.039 Way government treats the citizens that it is supposed to 396 00:21:23.079 --> 00:21:27.880 be beholden to with absolute disrespect and indifference. 397 00:21:28.759 --> 00:21:31.599 And we have a perfect example in jeff Coo Public schools. 398 00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:33.200 We're going to talk to Jimmy about that in just 399 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:36.160 a few minutes, but right now I've got more mayor 400 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:39.319 on mayor of verbal violence, and it's I'm being sarcastic 401 00:21:39.359 --> 00:21:43.119 when I say verbal violence. It's not even remotely verbal violence, 402 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:47.319 because I don't believe in verbal violence. But that being said, 403 00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:50.920 Mayor Mike Kaufman of Aurora has written a column in 404 00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:56.480 the Denver Gazette. Denver's Mayor offloads immigrants in Aurora is 405 00:21:56.519 --> 00:21:58.319 the headline, and I'm just gonna give a little taste 406 00:21:58.319 --> 00:22:00.759 of it, just a little little feel for it. In 407 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:04.160 late November twenty twenty four, Mayor Mike Johnston asked me, 408 00:22:04.279 --> 00:22:07.119 this is the column written by Aurora Mayor Mike Coffin, 409 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:10.279 Just to be clear. In late November twenty twenty four, 410 00:22:10.279 --> 00:22:13.519 Mayor Mike Johnston asked me for permission to use an 411 00:22:13.519 --> 00:22:16.960 extended state quality in Hotel and Aurora to help temporarily 412 00:22:17.039 --> 00:22:20.519 house some of the busloads of migrants that were overwhelming Denver. 413 00:22:20.799 --> 00:22:22.839 I initially said yes, but it soon. 414 00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:26.039 Became a parent that beyond giving the newly arrived migrants 415 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:29.160 a thirty day hotel voucher, he had no plan for 416 00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:32.799 them other than leaving them homeless in Aurora. To make 417 00:22:32.839 --> 00:22:36.119 matters worse, his contract with the extended stay hotel owner 418 00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:39.720 forced all of the existing residents who were paying by 419 00:22:39.759 --> 00:22:42.160 the week because they didn't have the income or credit 420 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:45.039 to get an apartment lease out to make room for 421 00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:50.119 busloads of migrants coming from Denver. When I found this out, 422 00:22:50.359 --> 00:22:53.519 he says, I called Johnston and demanded that he pick 423 00:22:53.599 --> 00:22:56.720 up the migrants as soon as their vouchers expired and 424 00:22:56.920 --> 00:22:59.839 take them back to Denver. He did, and from that 425 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:02.759 points forward, I turned down his request for further assistance. 426 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:06.400 Unlike Denver, Aurora is not a city and county form 427 00:23:06.440 --> 00:23:09.400 of government, so we do not have the specific funding 428 00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:13.200 sources or the structure necessary to provide support on an 429 00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:14.240 ongoing basis. 430 00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:16.400 And then he goes on to talk. 431 00:23:16.279 --> 00:23:20.200 About how after August eighteenth of twenty twenty four and 432 00:23:20.279 --> 00:23:23.559 the videos of the Venezuelan trende Aragua gang at the 433 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:26.960 edge of lowry apartments went viral, he sat down with 434 00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:32.039 Kyle Clark and Mayor Mike Johnston to talk about how 435 00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:35.720 Denver and Aurora with state and federal law enforcement partners 436 00:23:35.720 --> 00:23:37.960 were aggressively pursuing gang members. 437 00:23:39.519 --> 00:23:41.920 My confidence says, just before the interview started, I. 438 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:44.440 Turned to Johnston and said, how I thought it was 439 00:23:44.480 --> 00:23:46.920 strange that I seemed to be having all the problems 440 00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:49.039 with Venezuelan gangs and he didn't. 441 00:23:49.559 --> 00:23:52.279 I then said, I thought that's because he was. 442 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:57.319 He understood the situation by knowing where they were in 443 00:23:57.319 --> 00:24:01.839 his city while I didn't. Johnston talks incessantly in political 444 00:24:01.880 --> 00:24:08.039 sound bites, said nothing in response. Now, in September, someone 445 00:24:08.119 --> 00:24:11.839 sent him an article from the City Journal about Aurora, 446 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:14.640 and it was about how the federal government subsidized the 447 00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:19.119 migrant madness in suburban Colorado, and the article stated that 448 00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:22.279 it was Mayor Mike Johnston who, via the cover of 449 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:28.039 two nonprofit organizations, moved migrants from Denver to Aurora. According 450 00:24:28.079 --> 00:24:31.119 to the article, this funding in hand, the two NGOs 451 00:24:31.160 --> 00:24:34.400 began working with landlords to place migrants in housing units 452 00:24:34.759 --> 00:24:38.720 and to subsidize their rent. One of these organizations, Papagaio, 453 00:24:39.119 --> 00:24:42.880 worked with a landlord called CBZ Management, a property management 454 00:24:42.920 --> 00:24:46.279 company that operates the three apartment buildings at the center 455 00:24:46.319 --> 00:24:49.759 of the current controversy. Edge of lowry whispering Pines and 456 00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:55.240 Fitzsimmons Place also known as Aspen Grove. So and then 457 00:24:55.240 --> 00:24:57.960 it goes on from there. But essentially Mayor Mike Kaufman calledman, 458 00:24:58.079 --> 00:25:00.880 was like, dude, what's up? And Mayor Mike Jos was like. 459 00:25:01.039 --> 00:25:03.920 Uh, yeah, those are NGOs, But. 460 00:25:05.359 --> 00:25:08.079 I don't know how many people we moved over there 461 00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:11.279 and I don't have that information. Isn't it amazing that 462 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:15.480 everything that the Governor's office or excuse me, that the 463 00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:18.799 Denver Mayor's office wants to claim as a victory, they 464 00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:22.400 have no data on where any of these people are. 465 00:25:23.680 --> 00:25:25.359 Oh you want to know exactly how many people have 466 00:25:25.400 --> 00:25:28.319 been moved out of the homeless hotels into permanent housing 467 00:25:28.359 --> 00:25:29.680 and drug and alcohol treatment. 468 00:25:29.839 --> 00:25:30.480 Oh sorry, we. 469 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:33.400 Can't get you that number. We can't know. Oh you 470 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:35.920 want to know how many illegal immigrants the City of 471 00:25:35.960 --> 00:25:39.279 Denver helped pay to move into Aurora without a notifying 472 00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:41.640 aura that they were coming. Oh sorry, that number is 473 00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:49.880 not available. I mean, it's just absolutely crazy. 474 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:54.000 Just nuts. And this is what's passing. 475 00:25:53.599 --> 00:25:57.559 For mayoring in Denver right now. So I guess Mayor 476 00:25:57.640 --> 00:26:00.920 my coffin felt it was necessary. And by the way, 477 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:04.559 you know, the only reason they know this. They did 478 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:10.319 an open records request to get copies of the contracts 479 00:26:10.359 --> 00:26:14.480 between Denver and the two nonprofits that moved all of 480 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:19.640 these migrants into Aurora, and according to the open records request, 481 00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:23.680 we now know. He says that the words in Denver 482 00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:27.559 or in the surrounding communities were quietly inserted into the 483 00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:31.680 contracts to allow the nonprofits to pick people in Aurora 484 00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:35.000 without notifying Aurora. I mean, say what you will. I mean, 485 00:26:35.240 --> 00:26:37.880 I don't think Aurora or any other city that isn't 486 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:42.240 a sanctuary city, should bear any responsibility for the wave 487 00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:44.920 of illegal immigrants that Denver is now taking care of. 488 00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:48.240 I don't think that they owe them a single dime. 489 00:26:49.319 --> 00:26:52.519 I don't think they owe them any help. I think 490 00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:55.480 that they should just tell Denver to pay for it themselves. 491 00:26:55.839 --> 00:26:58.359 You guys wanted to be a sanctuary city. You guys 492 00:26:58.440 --> 00:27:01.559 hung up the big immigrants Welcome sign on city Hall. Well, 493 00:27:01.680 --> 00:27:04.200 now the chickens have come home to roost and you 494 00:27:04.240 --> 00:27:06.279 can deal with them. I don't mind any of that. 495 00:27:07.720 --> 00:27:11.319 But Aurora wasn't even given the opportunity to say yay 496 00:27:11.400 --> 00:27:15.599 or nay. And this is such a weasel move by 497 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:19.079 Mayor Mike Johnston an absolute weasel move. There's no other 498 00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:22.720 way to put it. He essentially, it's a lie by 499 00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:26.640 omission to the mayor of the the biggest city that 500 00:27:26.759 --> 00:27:31.319 is right next to yours. You just lied because you 501 00:27:31.359 --> 00:27:33.599 wanted to take it off your plate and put it 502 00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:35.880 on someone else's plate so you could stand there and 503 00:27:35.880 --> 00:27:40.000 talk about how welcoming we all are in Denver, so 504 00:27:40.200 --> 00:27:50.319 welcoming those Highland moms, Just how Mandy Mayor Mayor Hancock 505 00:27:50.440 --> 00:27:52.160 used to come on with you once a month. Did 506 00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:54.640 Mayor Johnston said he would do the same. Hey, Rod, 507 00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:57.000 let's let's put our thinking cap on for just a moment. 508 00:27:57.599 --> 00:28:00.240 I seem to remember and correct me if I'm wrong 509 00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:03.279 that when candidate Mike Johnston was on the show, I 510 00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:08.200 directly asked him about that, and he was amenable and said, sure, 511 00:28:08.359 --> 00:28:09.440 we're gonna keep doing it. 512 00:28:10.839 --> 00:28:11.640 That is correct. 513 00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:16.640 Yeah, we've efforted, Oh boy, A Rod has made efforts, 514 00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:20.720 lots and lots and lots of it, and at this point, honestly, 515 00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:22.839 I don't care if he ever comes back on the show. 516 00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:25.839 I really don't care. Makes no difference to me. I'm 517 00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:28.960 gonna do a show every single day without him. He 518 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:31.640 would have a great opportunity to come on, and I mean, 519 00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:34.079 maybe try and explain. Although I have to agree with 520 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:37.920 Mike Kaufman's assertion that Johnston speaks in political sound bites 521 00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:42.680 that say absolutely nothing. Very frustrated with the Denver mayer 522 00:28:42.759 --> 00:28:46.319 right now? Is anybody else frustrated by the notion that 523 00:28:46.400 --> 00:28:49.880 somehow all downtown Denver needs is a multi million dollar 524 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:52.200 renovation of Civic Center Park to make everything okay, and 525 00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:55.440 we're all gonna rush back downtown again. It's so stupid, 526 00:28:57.000 --> 00:29:01.240 so stupid. Until they fix the crime, until they fix 527 00:29:01.279 --> 00:29:04.799 the homelessness, until they make it feel safe and clean 528 00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:07.200 downtown again, they can renovate everything. 529 00:29:09.640 --> 00:29:10.079 Anyway. 530 00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:13.720 So I messed. We're trying to get Mayor Mike Coffman 531 00:29:13.799 --> 00:29:16.079 on the show. I believe he will come on the show. 532 00:29:16.160 --> 00:29:19.480 Communication has been opened, yes, so we're walking on that. 533 00:29:19.640 --> 00:29:21.200 But I want to get inside of this because I 534 00:29:21.480 --> 00:29:25.880 will tell you this is a pretty pretty strong shot 535 00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:30.559 across the bow by Mayor Mike Kaufman at Mayor Mike Johnston. 536 00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:33.079 It would be helpful if one of them went by Michael, 537 00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:36.079 because then I could call him Mayor Mike and Mayor Michael. 538 00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:39.279 But I can't do that this. This is a. 539 00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:43.319 Very aggressive political step, and you may not see it 540 00:29:43.319 --> 00:29:46.400 as maybe aggressive, you might think aggressively, but in politics 541 00:29:46.680 --> 00:29:49.960 there's sort of this like, uh oh wait, hang on, 542 00:29:50.920 --> 00:29:55.880 Justin Trudeau is stepping down? Can we I wonder if 543 00:29:55.880 --> 00:29:57.920 anybody's playing this. I want to know what he's saying. 544 00:29:58.680 --> 00:29:59.000 Is that. 545 00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:02.759 This is just captions of him on me? 546 00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:07.599 Yeah, that if I'm having to fight internal battles, I 547 00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:10.880 cannot be the best option in that election. 548 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:12.079 All right, you can turn it down now. 549 00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:17.200 So he is out. That's fantastic for Canada, Absolutely fantastic. 550 00:30:17.240 --> 00:30:19.039 I'm going to talk about this for just a second when. 551 00:30:18.920 --> 00:30:22.160 We get back. I've never had an issue with Justin 552 00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:26.359 Trudeau until the entire thing with the Canadian truckers in 553 00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:28.960 the COVID vaccine. Like, don't get me wrong, I thought 554 00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:33.279 policy wise, he was an absolute disaster, just a miss, 555 00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:37.759 and every decision he's made seems to have been the 556 00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:43.119 wrong one in my view. So now he's resigning as 557 00:30:43.240 --> 00:30:47.440 Liberal Party leader. But you guys, it's not just in 558 00:30:47.480 --> 00:30:51.680 Canada that liberal government is on the ropes. It's been 559 00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:55.079 on the ropes for a long time in Europe a 560 00:30:55.200 --> 00:31:01.240 long time, and now it seems to be accelerating around 561 00:31:01.359 --> 00:31:06.559 the world. It obviously was rejected here in the United States, 562 00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:10.519 with every county nearly in the United States moving to 563 00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:17.279 the right. So I'm wondering what exactly is the underpinning here. 564 00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:22.200 Why are we all rejecting it at the same time. Well, 565 00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:24.519 I think part of it is because when you put 566 00:31:24.559 --> 00:31:28.160 people in power who believe that government power is the 567 00:31:28.359 --> 00:31:31.279 ultimate power, and that you know, everything, every bit of 568 00:31:31.319 --> 00:31:34.319 money in the economy that they let us keep is 569 00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:37.160 is just their own largees. And when they believe that 570 00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:39.279 government is the end all be all and it has 571 00:31:39.359 --> 00:31:42.359 all of the answers, they become very unresponsive to the 572 00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:45.519 people that they are supposed to be governing. And we've 573 00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:47.880 seen that over and over and over again. We saw 574 00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:53.279 it especially during COVID. You know, we saw some ridiculous, 575 00:31:53.559 --> 00:31:58.279 completely fabricated stuff shoved down the throats of the American 576 00:31:58.279 --> 00:32:03.039 people six feet apart, absolutely pulled out of thin air. 577 00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:07.680 I mean, it was just so dumb, those plastic screens 578 00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:09.759 that were supposed to protect us from other I mean, 579 00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:16.599 it was just so stupid. And people lost their livelihoods, 580 00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:21.000 Some people lost their homes because of that, and they 581 00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:25.759 watched corporations who the government arbitrarily decided somehow didn't spread 582 00:32:25.759 --> 00:32:29.839 COVID be allowed to continue operating. I mean, it was 583 00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:34.039 just it was crazy, and it wasn't just here. But 584 00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:36.519 maybe this is enough. Maybe we've had a little taste, 585 00:32:36.599 --> 00:32:39.880 a little little snidge of totalitarianism, and it's going. How's 586 00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:40.640 people going? You know what? 587 00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:43.359 I did not enjoy that. I don't need that anymore. 588 00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:47.039 I don't want that anymore, except in Colorado, where we 589 00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:52.359 continually elect people who are determined to ruin our state 590 00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:56.160 in a multitude of ways. I have a story on 591 00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:58.079 the blog today and a texture just told me that 592 00:32:58.119 --> 00:32:59.640 I did not link to it, so I'll go find 593 00:32:59.640 --> 00:33:01.240 it again because we're going to be talking about it. 594 00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:04.799 U haul does a thing every single year where they 595 00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:07.359 talk about moving in and moving out of the state, 596 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:09.960 and we've done it every year for the last I 597 00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:13.079 don't know, ten fifteen years. We have been at the 598 00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:18.319 top of the inflow in U haul's survey. I mean, 599 00:33:18.359 --> 00:33:20.680 we've been in the top ten for maybe the last 600 00:33:20.839 --> 00:33:24.640 ten years, much to the chagrin of many many people 601 00:33:24.680 --> 00:33:28.880 who have lived here their entire lives. But this year 602 00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:30.839 we have dropped from. 603 00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:34.400 Number nine to number forty. 604 00:33:35.839 --> 00:33:40.839 In one year. And it's simply because we are making 605 00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:43.440 it so no one wants to live here under the 606 00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:48.039 totalitarianism of the legislature that we currently have. And Oh, 607 00:33:48.079 --> 00:33:49.559 I've also got a story we're going to talk about 608 00:33:49.559 --> 00:33:51.759 in the next hour. Oh, they're already gearing up to 609 00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:54.000 have another legislative session that is going to make it 610 00:33:54.079 --> 00:33:58.960 even worse for businesses in Colorado. And they are not 611 00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:03.000 stopping their relentless attack on our Second Amendment rights. There's 612 00:34:03.079 --> 00:34:06.519 new legislation designed to be more appealing to people who 613 00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:10.039 don't understand firearms than the assault weapons. 614 00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:10.960 Ban, which failed last year. 615 00:34:11.039 --> 00:34:14.719 I mean, it's just insane the stuff they're doing in 616 00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:17.880 our best interest, and that's the worst part. They're doing 617 00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:21.159 it for us, not to us. That's the attitude that 618 00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:25.000 you get. I also have video of Chuck Schumer today, 619 00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:27.440 and I'll just tell you what it is, because really 620 00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:30.519 it's lunchtime, you know, I want you to be able 621 00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:34.760 to enjoy your lunch. No a Rod, let me have 622 00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:36.880 my audio. I'm just gonna play him real quick because 623 00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:40.280 it's only twenty seconds. This is Chuck Schumer. So we 624 00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:42.880 did a lot of good things, but all too often, Kristen. 625 00:34:43.320 --> 00:34:46.599 We talked about the mechanics of the legislation and the 626 00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:50.039 details of the legislation, and we really didn't show the 627 00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:55.320 kind of empathy and concern to average or show enough 628 00:34:55.320 --> 00:35:00.400 of it to average working families who didn't really lies 629 00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:02.760 how much we had done and how much we care 630 00:35:02.840 --> 00:35:03.159 for them. 631 00:35:03.559 --> 00:35:08.320 So just to be clear, just to be clear, the 632 00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:12.639 Democrats didn't lose because of the things they did. 633 00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:15.679 They lost because. 634 00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:19.320 They they weren't good at letting us know how much 635 00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:24.320 we owed them. That's the translation of what he just said. 636 00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:29.119 When we get back, talk about another governmental organization that 637 00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:32.039 is trying to wring out any bit of trust from us. 638 00:35:32.639 --> 00:35:35.119 It is the jeff Co Public School System. Jimmy Seenberger 639 00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:37.280 wrote a Greek column about it. We're going to talk 640 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:38.440 to him right after this. 641 00:35:39.320 --> 00:35:41.960 The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock 642 00:35:42.039 --> 00:35:43.480 accident and injury lawyers. 643 00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:46.960 No, it's Mandy Connell and. 644 00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:58.679 God Study and the nicety. 645 00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:04.559 Very sadly. 646 00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:11.480 That books. That's the call that greens Jimmy's singing brother 647 00:36:11.519 --> 00:36:14.039 into the studio. It's like a it's like the bat signal, 648 00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:15.360 only with blues music. 649 00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:18.119 And and look here he is hi, Jimmy. 650 00:36:18.239 --> 00:36:22.639 Yes, indeed, good afternoon, Mandy, Happy New Year, Happy you too. 651 00:36:24.639 --> 00:36:26.960 I brought you in for a very valid reason, and 652 00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:28.320 we're going to get to that in just a second. 653 00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:31.119 But you know, when we talk about newspapers dying and 654 00:36:31.199 --> 00:36:34.840 we talk about journalism being gutted because they've run all 655 00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:37.559 of their audience away to somewhere else, that's my view 656 00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:39.599 on it. Anyway, one of the things that is the 657 00:36:39.679 --> 00:36:43.360 most disheartening to me is that we got the newsroom 658 00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:46.079 and then there's no one to cover school board meetings, 659 00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:48.960 and there's no one to cover Shenanigan's when they arise. 660 00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:50.519 And I just want to give you a little credit. 661 00:36:50.679 --> 00:36:52.599 Through your column in the Denver Gazette. You're doing a 662 00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:59.079 great job casting a light on some of the areas 663 00:36:59.119 --> 00:37:01.199 that the school boards around town would rather you not 664 00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:04.000 cast a light too. So I really appreciate that. I 665 00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:07.119 appreciate you paying attention and continue what you talk about it, 666 00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:12.239 because when you look at the school systems across the country, 667 00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:15.960 it's very difficult to have an extremely successful urban district. 668 00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:17.159 It's just hard. 669 00:37:17.239 --> 00:37:19.559 There's too many people in poverty. Again, I understand that, 670 00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:23.599 but when you start to look at school districts, especially 671 00:37:23.639 --> 00:37:26.880 in suburban areas. Those are the school districts that are 672 00:37:26.920 --> 00:37:30.920 going to determine whether we get new businesses, whether people 673 00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:34.559 relocate company headquarters here. The quality of our education matters 674 00:37:34.880 --> 00:37:37.400 a ton from that perspective, and of course it matters 675 00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:40.039 because we are teaching the next generation of young people 676 00:37:40.360 --> 00:37:42.679 how to read, write, do arithmetic and all that good stuff. 677 00:37:43.159 --> 00:37:45.039 But man, have we lost our mission? 678 00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:47.280 We have lost our mission? 679 00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:51.079 And now this this, I mean, this story is honestly, 680 00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:55.039 it's like a lifetime movie. It's unbelievable. And I'll give 681 00:37:55.079 --> 00:37:58.360 the thumbnail sketch of the story. At the beginning of December, 682 00:37:59.159 --> 00:38:03.760 a rather announcement was made that chief of Schools, who 683 00:38:03.840 --> 00:38:07.480 was number three in command of Jeffco Public Schools, David Wise, 684 00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:11.280 had been fired and that was it. There was like, oh, yeah, 685 00:38:11.320 --> 00:38:14.840 we fired it. That does not happen, Okay. If someone 686 00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:17.960 is being investigated for wrongdoing, they are put on leave 687 00:38:18.360 --> 00:38:21.159 and then the investigation unfolds, much to the frustration of 688 00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:24.639 people who know whatever happened happened. No, there was none 689 00:38:24.679 --> 00:38:26.800 of that. David Wise has been fired no longer with 690 00:38:26.840 --> 00:38:30.039 the district, and everybody's like, what what is happening right now. 691 00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:34.239 Then it comes out that he's being investigated for purchasing 692 00:38:35.199 --> 00:38:38.840 child sexual assault materials, so child pornography is what we're 693 00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:42.679 talking about. And then like a week later, he is 694 00:38:42.760 --> 00:38:45.159 in Maryland visiting family and commits suicide. 695 00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:49.800 Apparently what you would think, you would just think. 696 00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:51.719 Okay, the district has to get out in front of 697 00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:54.559 this at some point, right you gotta, especially if he's 698 00:38:54.599 --> 00:38:59.840 being investigated for child sexual assault possession. W The next 699 00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:03.400 logical question be, oh my god, what if some of 700 00:39:03.519 --> 00:39:06.599 our children were victimized? What I mean what? 701 00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:06.880 That? 702 00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:09.880 To me would be the natural response and the best 703 00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:12.320 way to find out if there are more victims is 704 00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:15.800 to go public and tell people what happened. So you 705 00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:18.199 can say, if you have any concerns about this, bring 706 00:39:18.280 --> 00:39:18.960 them to the district. 707 00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:19.239 We will. 708 00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:22.800 Then all of these things would be very rational choices. So, Jimmy, 709 00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:26.719 what did Jeffco Public Schools do in this situation? 710 00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:28.800 So there's a lot to unpack here. 711 00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:31.519 That is just what you would not be teaching in 712 00:39:31.639 --> 00:39:35.239 crisis management one oh one for sure. And it begins 713 00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:40.119 actually on December nineteenth is when the firing took place, 714 00:39:40.159 --> 00:39:42.920 and it was within twenty four hours of that that 715 00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:48.159 the news went out in a release from the district 716 00:39:48.199 --> 00:39:51.599 to the media saying, hey, this happened, there's an investigation. 717 00:39:51.800 --> 00:39:53.559 Nothing about what the investigation. 718 00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:57.199 Right entailed, anything of that sort, But no notice of 719 00:39:57.400 --> 00:40:01.440 any kind went out to the parents and families of 720 00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:05.199 the second largest school district in Colorado, which is Jefferson 721 00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:06.320 County Schools. 722 00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:06.519 At that time. 723 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:10.639 It wasn't until after New Year's Day the next day, 724 00:40:10.719 --> 00:40:14.159 so January tewod that the district put out a statement 725 00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:18.400 where they and an email blast to parents and families 726 00:40:18.440 --> 00:40:20.360 and put an email blast out to staff and what 727 00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:24.719 have you, acknowledging the details about this and letting the 728 00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:28.880 parents and families know in the community, hey, this is 729 00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:33.719 what this investigation entailed. And here is a sort of 730 00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:37.519 some of the basic outlines of the timeline. Not showing 731 00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:41.039 compassion for the families, not really expressing any concern. 732 00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:43.199 It was coldly bureaucratic. 733 00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:46.159 As I write in my column yesterday, and I'll just add, 734 00:40:46.880 --> 00:40:49.679 I think that the big reason that this even happened 735 00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:52.519 of any kind of note is because on New Year's 736 00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:55.159 Day word came out and was confirmed by a sheriff's 737 00:40:55.159 --> 00:40:59.199 office in Maryland, where David Wise was visiting family with 738 00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:02.000 his family for the holidays, that he had died and 739 00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:06.719 what we now know is an apparent suicide, and that 740 00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:12.039 statement from the Maryland Sheriff's office is what first confirmed 741 00:41:12.280 --> 00:41:14.840 this investigation was about child putography. 742 00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:16.800 So it didn't come out before that. I thought it 743 00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:20.760 came out before that had been traveling on my Twitter feed. 744 00:41:20.920 --> 00:41:23.559 There was there was conversations about this. I mean, there 745 00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:27.360 was people that knew what this investigation was about. Here's 746 00:41:27.559 --> 00:41:32.000 here's the problem for me, So many problems, but the 747 00:41:32.119 --> 00:41:36.840 main problem for me is that I believe that school 748 00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:41.400 districts are so afraid of being sued, of being whatever 749 00:41:41.719 --> 00:41:45.920 because of things like sexual impropriety with a child, which 750 00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:49.719 happens in schools far more than people know. I mean, 751 00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:53.320 it is pervasive in the school system at least. 752 00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:56.599 Three or four times, including this one in Jefferson County schools. 753 00:41:56.320 --> 00:41:59.000 That we know of in last year alone, four how 754 00:41:59.039 --> 00:41:59.760 many times. 755 00:41:59.559 --> 00:42:02.440 At least or four different publicly known cases of some 756 00:42:02.760 --> 00:42:06.800 allegations of sexual propriety by staff members in Jefferson County. 757 00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:08.400 Schools just in twenty twenty four. 758 00:42:08.679 --> 00:42:12.079 But the wrong way to handle that is is to 759 00:42:12.199 --> 00:42:12.519 hide it. 760 00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:16.400 The only way that a school district gains credibility with 761 00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:20.079 parents is by making all of these things known and 762 00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:24.239 making sure that parents understand that if there's any a 763 00:42:24.360 --> 00:42:27.519 question of any sort of impropriety, they must be brought 764 00:42:27.559 --> 00:42:30.719 in immediately so they can take immediate action. The most 765 00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:34.800 frustrating thing about this, Jimmy, is that maybe I'm just 766 00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:38.039 getting old. I don't know, but I am now very 767 00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:41.119 close to being one of those people who doesn't ever 768 00:42:41.320 --> 00:42:44.559 trust anything that anyone from any branch of government tells me. 769 00:42:45.559 --> 00:42:51.480 And it feels so wrong because Jeff Co, more than 770 00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:54.360 anybody else that I'm aware of other than Boulder Valley, 771 00:42:54.800 --> 00:42:59.159 has leaned in to the trusted it jun do we 772 00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:02.480 know better than your parents? Oh, you want to change gender. 773 00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:04.920 We won't tell them that you want to change gender. 774 00:43:05.159 --> 00:43:07.599 We'll just call you whatever. We'll just let you use 775 00:43:07.639 --> 00:43:14.880 the boys. I mean, the level of intervention between the 776 00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:18.639 schools and parents has been next level, and I understand 777 00:43:18.719 --> 00:43:20.960 this guy was actually a big part of some of that. 778 00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:21.480 Yeah. 779 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:25.199 Basically, as chief of Schools, he was essentially responsible for 780 00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:28.840 implementing the trusted adult policies of the district. 781 00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:31.320 What are those policies? That people want. 782 00:43:31.360 --> 00:43:33.480 Well, basically, look at it this way. 783 00:43:33.559 --> 00:43:37.039 So when we were kids, we might get along with 784 00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:40.639 a teacher, trust them, We feel comfortable. 785 00:43:40.239 --> 00:43:43.000 Confiding in them on certain things. We're having a rough 786 00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:44.920 day or what have you. We know that teacher. 787 00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:47.079 Especially when you're in middle or high school, there are 788 00:43:47.159 --> 00:43:49.920 some teachers that you will feel comfortable leaning on. I 789 00:43:50.280 --> 00:43:53.239 talk about one particular instance in middle school where I 790 00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:57.519 had that, and it was a natural development, right, and 791 00:43:57.679 --> 00:43:58.599 that's what should happen. 792 00:43:58.679 --> 00:44:01.440 You find it trust that it does all naturally. Instead, 793 00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:01.719 what the. 794 00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:04.679 District is essentially doing is saying, we want you to 795 00:44:04.800 --> 00:44:08.159 find your trusted adults. Sometimes let us know. They have surveys, 796 00:44:08.239 --> 00:44:11.480 They have all kinds of different ways of putting kids 797 00:44:11.519 --> 00:44:15.480 in the position of picking and identifying trusted adults, and 798 00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:18.440 they may not have those kinds of relationships. So there's 799 00:44:18.480 --> 00:44:22.320 a big difference between the natural development as it should be, 800 00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:27.440 of trust that is earned and institutionalizing trust by saying, oh, 801 00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:29.960 this person's a teacher or a staff member, so you 802 00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:33.840 should find them and trust them, and then you basically 803 00:44:34.039 --> 00:44:36.480 have the I think it's litensey Dad Goo of jeffco Kids. 804 00:44:36.519 --> 00:44:37.840 First, I quoted my column. 805 00:44:37.599 --> 00:44:41.039 Saying that David Weiss was the trusted adult of trusted 806 00:44:41.079 --> 00:44:43.199 adults because he was overseeing. 807 00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:47.360 The implementation of these policies, and not for nothing. And 808 00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:51.480 this is not to disparage any wonderful teachers who signed 809 00:44:51.519 --> 00:44:53.280 up to be a trusted adult and mean it and 810 00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:55.360 really want to be there for the kids. But damn, 811 00:44:55.400 --> 00:44:57.800 if I'm a pedophile in the schools, what do you 812 00:44:57.880 --> 00:44:59.679 think I'm gonna do? Oh, I'm going to put that 813 00:44:59.719 --> 00:45:02.440 little trusted adult side right up on my desk because 814 00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:04.039 the kids that are going to come to you who 815 00:45:04.119 --> 00:45:05.639 need that trusted adult are they going to be the 816 00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:08.880 easiest to victimize. So we basically created a feeder system 817 00:45:08.960 --> 00:45:10.159 for pedophiles in the schools. 818 00:45:10.760 --> 00:45:13.719 It's a big concern that a lot of folks have 819 00:45:13.960 --> 00:45:16.840 along the lines of the trusted adult might be that 820 00:45:16.960 --> 00:45:19.159 person who will say, you know what, if you feel 821 00:45:19.239 --> 00:45:22.639 like you should be questioning your gender, maybe you should 822 00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:26.880 be and guide them in that process as the trusted adult. 823 00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:31.079 And as you mentioned, Jeff co has been notorious for 824 00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:34.000 these kinds of things of keeping from parents the Teachers' Union, 825 00:45:34.639 --> 00:45:38.519 collaborating on there on the Facebook in a private group 826 00:45:38.599 --> 00:45:40.639 a couple of years back, being like, Okay, what are 827 00:45:40.679 --> 00:45:42.800 ways that we can dodge with the school boarding house? 828 00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:45.920 Can you take a survey without taking a survey to 829 00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:48.119 find out which one of your kids is trands right? 830 00:45:48.320 --> 00:45:51.760 I mean, it's so gross. And the trusted adult thing 831 00:45:53.880 --> 00:45:57.320 after an incident at my daughter's school. I don't remember 832 00:45:57.320 --> 00:45:59.039 what the incident was. It wasn't like that big a deal, 833 00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:02.079 but they had one of those conversations like who is 834 00:46:02.119 --> 00:46:03.800 your trusted adult in the school, and my daughter was 835 00:46:03.840 --> 00:46:06.880 like no one, Like what, no one, but she was 836 00:46:06.920 --> 00:46:09.079 put on the spot. I was very annoyed by that. 837 00:46:10.199 --> 00:46:11.840 To your point, I think that's a great way to 838 00:46:11.840 --> 00:46:14.320 put it. We all had teachers that we felt we 839 00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:17.000 could talk to and we could gravitate towards. And I 840 00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:18.840 was lucky to have one in high school that I 841 00:46:18.960 --> 00:46:21.400 called when I was in college to ask how to 842 00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:23.599 write a paper about Shakespeare. I mean, you know, those 843 00:46:23.599 --> 00:46:26.440 are the best teachers. Yes, But I think your point 844 00:46:26.480 --> 00:46:30.079 is spot on that to artificially decide that someone is 845 00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:34.960 going to be your trusted adult is just that it's artificial. 846 00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:40.480 It reeks of performance rather than depth. 847 00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:44.679 So the big problem here, Amandy, is not just that 848 00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:48.679 you have the trusted adult program that clearly needs to 849 00:46:48.800 --> 00:46:52.639 go without questions, and this is the latest example of that. 850 00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:55.440 In Jefferson County schools alone. There was a recent case 851 00:46:55.480 --> 00:46:58.039 I wrote about a couple months back of a school 852 00:46:58.159 --> 00:47:01.239 social worker. Middle school social worker named Chloe Castro, who 853 00:47:01.360 --> 00:47:04.920 had legations against her, was arrested for allegedly having a 854 00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:06.360 sexual relationship with a. 855 00:47:06.480 --> 00:47:07.440 Fourteen year old boy. 856 00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:12.840 And that was a Jefferson County School District employee. So 857 00:47:13.119 --> 00:47:15.239 they have these big problems, But then you have the 858 00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:17.960 issue of if the district is trying to hide the 859 00:47:18.039 --> 00:47:21.360 ball up the rest, if the district is not being straightforward, 860 00:47:21.400 --> 00:47:24.119 they're not showing that they even understand where we're coming from. 861 00:47:24.480 --> 00:47:27.400 That means I can't trust the district because they're not 862 00:47:27.639 --> 00:47:31.239 being honest. But it also indicates that the district isn't 863 00:47:31.239 --> 00:47:33.639 trusting me, the parent with this information. 864 00:47:33.920 --> 00:47:37.719 I don't think it's even that thoughtful. I think it is. 865 00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:41.480 You have a group of people, and I truly believe 866 00:47:42.440 --> 00:47:46.880 Tracy Dulin is a terrible, terrible leader of jeff Coup, 867 00:47:47.440 --> 00:47:51.760 absolutely terrible, and they have their little cabal of people 868 00:47:51.920 --> 00:47:55.159 and they believe they are doing God's work. They believe 869 00:47:55.719 --> 00:47:58.400 only they know I agree to your children. 870 00:47:58.519 --> 00:48:01.000 I think the impression for a lot of parents is 871 00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:03.320 I don't trust you with all of this, and you 872 00:48:03.400 --> 00:48:05.440 know what, I don't think you trust me either. I 873 00:48:05.519 --> 00:48:08.079 think there's a lot of a feeling of that that's 874 00:48:08.199 --> 00:48:11.559 like that for a parent, They're like, we can't stand this. 875 00:48:12.119 --> 00:48:13.920 What's going on. It's a big. 876 00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:17.320 Rot in Jeffco's schools, and especially when they're trying to 877 00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:21.360 control information as they have been, then that indicates that, 878 00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:23.320 you know what, if you had some trust in the district, 879 00:48:23.400 --> 00:48:26.440 maybe in fact that was misplaced. I mean, crisis management 880 00:48:26.519 --> 00:48:30.239 one oh one requires you to be forthright and honest 881 00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:33.880 as much as you can, and to show some semblance 882 00:48:34.039 --> 00:48:37.360 of sympathy, if not empathy for the people that you 883 00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:38.559 are speaking on behind. 884 00:48:38.800 --> 00:48:43.159 You know, I think that for this situation, and the 885 00:48:43.239 --> 00:48:45.320 point I was making at the beginning of our conversation Jimmy, 886 00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:49.159 is that they don't think anyone's going to ask questions. 887 00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:52.159 They don't think anyone's going to ask for documents, they 888 00:48:52.239 --> 00:48:54.480 don't think anyone's going to follow up, they don't think 889 00:48:54.519 --> 00:48:56.880 anyone's going to come to the school board meetings. They 890 00:48:57.159 --> 00:49:00.280 just don't think they have to be accountable, and that 891 00:49:00.559 --> 00:49:03.440 is like the jeff Co's school system. You could look 892 00:49:03.480 --> 00:49:06.400 at that, you could look at so many governmental organizations 893 00:49:06.440 --> 00:49:08.639 who have decided they don't need our input, like soil 894 00:49:08.679 --> 00:49:10.559 you sit down, shut up, we know what's best yes, 895 00:49:10.920 --> 00:49:12.880 And that I think is one of the reasons that 896 00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:15.760 the country started to move right this last election cycle. 897 00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:19.000 And I always want to say, keep it up, keep 898 00:49:19.039 --> 00:49:21.280 it up, because people are starting to pay attention. I'm 899 00:49:21.320 --> 00:49:24.679 not hopeful in Colorado that Jefferson County is going to 900 00:49:24.760 --> 00:49:27.400 vote in more conservative board members than they have now. 901 00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:31.440 I'm just I'm not confident about that. It's unfortunate because 902 00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:34.440 I think their school district is sliding backwards as this 903 00:49:34.599 --> 00:49:41.480 current leadership situation continues. But they show such disdain for 904 00:49:41.639 --> 00:49:44.079 the parents, for people in the community, for people who 905 00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:45.239 are worried about this stuff. 906 00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:49.440 That to me is how it comes across. 907 00:49:49.519 --> 00:49:51.800 It's like, you know what, we can't be bothered to 908 00:49:52.039 --> 00:49:54.159 reach out to the parents. But you said something in 909 00:49:54.239 --> 00:49:56.719 your column that there was like a meeting for teachers 910 00:49:56.920 --> 00:49:59.800 or something. Was there was were teachers given some kind 911 00:49:59.800 --> 00:50:02.360 of support or something. So what they had sent out 912 00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:05.199 in a blast email to staff. 913 00:50:05.199 --> 00:50:08.679 Was something that in part said, we have emotional support 914 00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:10.599 and gathering spaces for you. 915 00:50:11.199 --> 00:50:14.679 We know that this is quote unsettling and challenging. 916 00:50:14.719 --> 00:50:19.039 The situation is we have to reground ourselves in our 917 00:50:19.440 --> 00:50:22.480 why So they were putting out all of these like 918 00:50:22.840 --> 00:50:25.280 we want to accompany you in your staff, and you 919 00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:27.320 know what, I don't have a problem with that in 920 00:50:27.400 --> 00:50:29.480 and of itself, because look, there are a lot of 921 00:50:29.559 --> 00:50:31.880 people who have worked in the district and work in 922 00:50:31.920 --> 00:50:34.679 the district now who've interacted with David Wise. He was 923 00:50:34.920 --> 00:50:38.280 one of the two liaisons to the district accountability Committee 924 00:50:38.519 --> 00:50:41.079 for jeffcos So a lot of parents and community members 925 00:50:41.360 --> 00:50:43.840 are involved in that. So I don't have a problem 926 00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:46.079 with showing some of that sympathy. But you need to 927 00:50:46.159 --> 00:50:49.239 show that for the parents too and say, Okay, here 928 00:50:49.559 --> 00:50:53.760 is our understanding, show them we understand why you're concerned 929 00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:56.360 and you're fearful. Here's what we know and can share. 930 00:50:56.440 --> 00:50:58.480 Now here's how you can help. You made a very 931 00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:01.800 important point earlier. Yeah, and you were like, wouldn't you say, 932 00:51:01.960 --> 00:51:04.599 here's the way if you have any information that you 933 00:51:04.719 --> 00:51:07.800 can care, please go ahead and do that. That seems 934 00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:10.880 like the obvious thing that you would ask people to do, 935 00:51:11.480 --> 00:51:14.599 and yet nothing of the sort from jeffic More. 936 00:51:14.679 --> 00:51:17.360 Parents need to use CORA requests with schools. You guys 937 00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:20.480 and Jimmy, you've gotten Correra requests back. You have no 938 00:51:20.800 --> 00:51:25.280 idea what comes when you make a CORRA request, because 939 00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:28.760 if it's something an organization really doesn't want to share 940 00:51:28.800 --> 00:51:33.519 with you, they will bury you in a thousand pages 941 00:51:33.559 --> 00:51:36.280 of crap that doesn't really matter to get to the 942 00:51:36.440 --> 00:51:40.280 one page that you need. So the CORRA request system, 943 00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:43.360 I think is being abused by governments and I think 944 00:51:43.400 --> 00:51:45.599 that needs to change. I know it can be time 945 00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:48.519 consuming for people to gather of especially older documents that 946 00:51:48.599 --> 00:51:51.280 are not digitized, but if we're talking about pulling an 947 00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:55.920 email that takes twenty five seconds. Now you may have 948 00:51:55.960 --> 00:51:58.320 to sort through the emails to make sure. But it's 949 00:51:58.599 --> 00:52:01.920 very frustrating the way to the same point, I just 950 00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:05.920 made the disdain that governmental organizations show to people who 951 00:52:06.159 --> 00:52:07.880 just want to find out what actually happened. 952 00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:10.159 Well, when we've seen this in Denver Public schools on 953 00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:12.760 the school safety issues, where the district even to this 954 00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:16.199 point when they made some changes to their discipline policies, 955 00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:20.760 they still were woefully inadequate, and they've shown disdain for 956 00:52:20.920 --> 00:52:24.119 parents who have been outraged at how the district has 957 00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:27.679 been handling in Denver, how they've been handling school safety 958 00:52:27.760 --> 00:52:31.960 issues and disciplinary issues. And thankfully parents really stood up 959 00:52:32.039 --> 00:52:34.679 made some changes to the school board. But even then, 960 00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:36.559 and I write about this in tomorrow's. 961 00:52:36.159 --> 00:52:38.880 College Numbers, we're still so outnumbered. 962 00:52:38.960 --> 00:52:42.440 Yeah, the Denver situation, there needs to be about three 963 00:52:42.519 --> 00:52:45.159 or four more school board members knocked off. And then 964 00:52:45.159 --> 00:52:48.239 they've got to get rid of Alex Morrero. I'm floored 965 00:52:48.400 --> 00:52:50.960 every day that guy still has a job. Floored. 966 00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:55.880 He is terrible as superintendent. He has deserved to go 967 00:52:56.280 --> 00:52:59.199 for a long time. And yet I think that the 968 00:52:59.320 --> 00:53:03.519 board is very reticent to find themselves in another superintendent 969 00:53:03.599 --> 00:53:05.280 search and sopanic man. 970 00:53:05.639 --> 00:53:07.519 So we don't want to, you know, we don't want 971 00:53:07.559 --> 00:53:07.880 to do that. 972 00:53:09.039 --> 00:53:12.119 I mean, it is the blowback that they would get 973 00:53:12.199 --> 00:53:15.280 from that, as well as the because they could find 974 00:53:15.360 --> 00:53:18.199 somebody else if they wanted to go the DEI routes specifically, 975 00:53:18.480 --> 00:53:21.039 they could find another person to be superintendent, but they 976 00:53:21.119 --> 00:53:21.599 are I. 977 00:53:21.679 --> 00:53:24.159 Know this for a fact. It's been an issue for a. 978 00:53:24.159 --> 00:53:26.920 Couple of years in DPS that the board has been 979 00:53:27.079 --> 00:53:29.960 very hesitant to find themselves in another superintendent search, in 980 00:53:30.039 --> 00:53:32.559 part because who the heck wants to work in DPS 981 00:53:32.760 --> 00:53:33.599 is a superintendent. 982 00:53:33.719 --> 00:53:36.239 I will tell you my experience with people who want 983 00:53:36.320 --> 00:53:39.480 to work in larger urban districts. They fall into such 984 00:53:39.559 --> 00:53:43.079 a hard left category anyway, that anyone willing to take 985 00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:45.920 this job for this board would not be an improvement. 986 00:53:46.000 --> 00:53:48.400 I don't think on Alex Morrero unless we could get 987 00:53:48.440 --> 00:53:51.239 somebody who said, you know what, one person improvement in 988 00:53:51.320 --> 00:53:53.039 student achievement is not good enough for me. 989 00:53:54.440 --> 00:53:58.639 If only Gosh the superintendent would say that, yeah, go 990 00:53:58.840 --> 00:54:00.880 figure who Actually, those are the good old days. 991 00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:03.199 Those are the good old days when student achieve and 992 00:54:03.239 --> 00:54:06.400 it was first instead of adults trying to protect themselves 993 00:54:06.440 --> 00:54:09.599 from difficult conversations from people they make mad because they 994 00:54:09.639 --> 00:54:13.880 want to do better for kids. So incredibly frustrating. Mandy, 995 00:54:15.199 --> 00:54:19.800 look up the case of Imagine. You were ewe r 996 00:54:20.079 --> 00:54:22.079 you ever heard of this? She and her mom worked 997 00:54:22.079 --> 00:54:24.719 for Jeff COO's schools and were suspected of theft by many. 998 00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:28.599 Then Imagine was caught red handed with stolen chromebooks. She 999 00:54:28.880 --> 00:54:31.679 was let go, but then re hired within the district. 1000 00:54:32.079 --> 00:54:35.239 This past year, she was arrested for having a sexual 1001 00:54:35.320 --> 00:54:38.800 relationship with a student. Her mother, if I remember correctly, 1002 00:54:38.960 --> 00:54:41.159 was caught embezzling from the school she moved to. Now, 1003 00:54:41.480 --> 00:54:43.840 because I don't know anything about this case, I don't 1004 00:54:43.880 --> 00:54:46.519 want anyone to think that is accurate because I don't 1005 00:54:46.519 --> 00:54:50.119 want to disparage or anything. I don't know anything about that. 1006 00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:52.760 So Texter, we will look into it, and if we 1007 00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:57.000 find out that you are right, then we will revisit that. 1008 00:54:57.239 --> 00:55:00.480 But Mandy, this text are said. After personally be involved 1009 00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:03.880 with multiple Colorado school districts for the past three decades, 1010 00:55:04.360 --> 00:55:08.360 including Jeffco, I found school districts hide all kinds of 1011 00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:12.679 information i e. Teachers on special assignments that hides administration 1012 00:55:12.840 --> 00:55:20.000 numbers from their communities. So uh yeah, yeah, Mandy, this 1013 00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:24.280 is interesting. Wait a minute, hang on, let me get 1014 00:55:24.360 --> 00:55:28.000 this right, so I get the full thing. A custodian 1015 00:55:28.119 --> 00:55:30.280 gains a lot of trust with students as he she 1016 00:55:30.519 --> 00:55:32.239 doesn't pose as an authority figure. 1017 00:55:32.599 --> 00:55:35.079 Along with bus drivers, there are good folks out there. 1018 00:55:35.159 --> 00:55:38.119 It seems that teachers and principals are the bad guys 1019 00:55:38.239 --> 00:55:41.159 at time, and they are sometimes they are not always. 1020 00:55:41.320 --> 00:55:43.559 I mean, a vast majority of teachers and principals do 1021 00:55:43.639 --> 00:55:44.119 a great job. 1022 00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:47.719 I remember I happened to get along with well multiple 1023 00:55:47.800 --> 00:55:49.480 teachers that I that I got along with when I 1024 00:55:49.480 --> 00:55:51.280 was in high school. I remember getting along with a 1025 00:55:51.320 --> 00:55:53.199 couple of the security guards. Same when I was at 1026 00:55:53.519 --> 00:55:56.800 Regious University. We happened to think alike politically, so that 1027 00:55:57.000 --> 00:55:59.079 certainly helped a little bit. But there is and that 1028 00:55:59.239 --> 00:56:02.159 is actually an important point too about trust. Leaning on 1029 00:56:02.239 --> 00:56:05.679 the SROs at schools or leaning on a security guard 1030 00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:07.159 can certainly make a big difference. 1031 00:56:07.880 --> 00:56:10.800 Uh this Dexter said, thankfully, I'm a cop and get 1032 00:56:10.920 --> 00:56:14.360 super specific in my tons of CORA requests for Denver. 1033 00:56:14.719 --> 00:56:17.920 I like to think my specific requests were a piece that. 1034 00:56:18.039 --> 00:56:20.719 Hit two to three principles relieved, or that got two 1035 00:56:20.719 --> 00:56:23.960 to three principles relieved. You never know. Keep it up, people, 1036 00:56:24.079 --> 00:56:26.440 Jimmy Singerberger, good to see my friends. Do you want 1037 00:56:26.480 --> 00:56:28.119 to stick around and talk about some other stuff for 1038 00:56:28.159 --> 00:56:29.559 a minute. Yeah, I got a few. 1039 00:56:29.559 --> 00:56:30.039 I got two. 1040 00:56:30.159 --> 00:56:31.639 I got two things I want to talk about in 1041 00:56:31.639 --> 00:56:33.639 the next half hour. And they're two editorials by the 1042 00:56:33.679 --> 00:56:37.679 Denver Gazette. They're both so good, so so good about 1043 00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:43.039 two separate things. But similar and somewhat connected in some circumstances. 1044 00:56:43.079 --> 00:56:45.000 I hope that's a vague enough tease for you find 1045 00:56:45.039 --> 00:56:47.239 out what I'm talking about next. Yeah, Okay, let's get 1046 00:56:47.280 --> 00:56:50.440 into this before you have to go. There's a great 1047 00:56:50.639 --> 00:56:56.039 editorial in the Denver Gazette about churches helping house homeless 1048 00:56:56.039 --> 00:57:00.679 people and working towards affordable housing solutions. And you know, 1049 00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:03.559 when you think about it, we have a situation in 1050 00:57:03.639 --> 00:57:06.599 Castle Rock where I understand that the Rock Church wants 1051 00:57:06.639 --> 00:57:09.360 to house people on their property in RVs and they 1052 00:57:09.400 --> 00:57:13.360 feel like this is their mission as as a as 1053 00:57:13.480 --> 00:57:15.800 a church, and I have to agree with them. 1054 00:57:16.199 --> 00:57:17.679 I don't know if any faith, and. 1055 00:57:17.760 --> 00:57:21.159 Maybe there are faiths out there, maybe Buddhism is sort 1056 00:57:21.199 --> 00:57:23.679 of like, you know, let everything happen the way it's 1057 00:57:23.679 --> 00:57:27.039 supposed to happen. But every single faith has a command 1058 00:57:27.480 --> 00:57:30.159 to help those in need, right, That's a tenet of 1059 00:57:30.320 --> 00:57:35.320 every form of religion. And we give churches tax exempt 1060 00:57:35.320 --> 00:57:38.599 status because of the things they do in the community. 1061 00:57:38.639 --> 00:57:40.440 And I'm not saying every church has to open their 1062 00:57:40.480 --> 00:57:44.159 doors and start housing people in their you know, thaing 1063 00:57:44.239 --> 00:57:47.440 to you know area, That's not what I'm talking about, 1064 00:57:47.480 --> 00:57:49.800 but we should encourage. 1065 00:57:49.480 --> 00:57:53.360 And assist and smooth the process. 1066 00:57:53.559 --> 00:57:55.880 If churches say we would like to work to you know, 1067 00:57:56.119 --> 00:57:59.280 give or provide affordable housing for people, we should one 1068 00:57:59.360 --> 00:58:02.239 hundred percent support that because they don't have a profit motive, 1069 00:58:02.599 --> 00:58:05.719 so there's no profit motive attached to it. And don't 1070 00:58:05.719 --> 00:58:07.800 get me wrong, I don't mind a profit motive, but 1071 00:58:08.280 --> 00:58:12.960 building a home in Colorado has become so expensive, mostly 1072 00:58:13.039 --> 00:58:16.280 because of government regulations, that it's no longer profitable to 1073 00:58:16.360 --> 00:58:17.840 build affordable housing. 1074 00:58:18.199 --> 00:58:18.840 It just isn't. 1075 00:58:19.360 --> 00:58:20.079 What are your thoughts? 1076 00:58:20.119 --> 00:58:23.719 Should we make it easier, streamline the process, support churches 1077 00:58:24.440 --> 00:58:28.239 and encourage them to work in this space if they 1078 00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:30.760 have the ability. It's really interesting to consider this. 1079 00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:34.079 First of all, I would say it is inherently better 1080 00:58:34.199 --> 00:58:37.480 than government providing housing correct, without a doubt. And we 1081 00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:40.440 can see, for example, and I'm Catholic, the Catholic charities 1082 00:58:40.760 --> 00:58:44.000 do a phenomenal job at providing services for the poor 1083 00:58:44.320 --> 00:58:47.800 and providing shelters for the homeless, and that's something that 1084 00:58:48.039 --> 00:58:50.519 really I don't think there's any other private organization that 1085 00:58:50.599 --> 00:58:53.119 could really hold a candle quite to what the Catholic 1086 00:58:53.239 --> 00:58:55.760 charities have been able to do. And that's from so 1087 00:58:56.000 --> 00:58:58.599 long of being at it and trying in so many 1088 00:58:58.639 --> 00:59:02.760 different ways. When I look at this, so what's obvious 1089 00:59:03.280 --> 00:59:05.840 much better to have this than the government. I do 1090 00:59:06.119 --> 00:59:10.880 wonder about how you approach that from a government standpoint. 1091 00:59:10.920 --> 00:59:14.199 As far as the property that is, does the government need. 1092 00:59:14.199 --> 00:59:16.559 To sell some property to the churches in order for 1093 00:59:16.639 --> 00:59:20.199 the churches to then manage that property, or do the 1094 00:59:20.280 --> 00:59:23.599 churches need to go and do the real estate deals themselves. 1095 00:59:23.679 --> 00:59:24.280 Will they do that? 1096 00:59:24.559 --> 00:59:25.320 Prefer the latter? 1097 00:59:25.480 --> 00:59:28.159 And here's why me too, because whenever you get government 1098 00:59:28.239 --> 00:59:32.320 involved in any sort of situation in a collaborative way, 1099 00:59:32.480 --> 00:59:36.000 then you run the risk of government making rules and 1100 00:59:37.199 --> 00:59:41.599 or more importantly, preventing you from enacting certain rules. And 1101 00:59:42.280 --> 00:59:44.920 I think that one of the reasons that church based 1102 00:59:45.639 --> 00:59:49.400 charity has worked so well throughout our entire existence is 1103 00:59:50.119 --> 00:59:53.320 when you are taking food from a food bank at 1104 00:59:53.360 --> 00:59:55.360 a church, you're going to stand face to face with 1105 00:59:55.400 --> 00:59:58.679 a volunteer, and there's a very personal nature to that 1106 00:59:58.840 --> 01:00:03.480 transaction that does not exist when this nameless, faceless government 1107 01:00:03.679 --> 01:00:07.000 does X y Z. You have no connection to the 1108 01:00:07.079 --> 01:00:09.119 money where that money came from. But when you're standing 1109 01:00:09.480 --> 01:00:12.159 in front of someone or you're getting rental assistance or 1110 01:00:12.199 --> 01:00:14.000 you're getting some kind of help from a church. 1111 01:00:14.280 --> 01:00:15.679 Churches do this stuff all the time. 1112 01:00:16.119 --> 01:00:18.559 There is a personal connection there that I think makes 1113 01:00:18.599 --> 01:00:22.039 it you have a sense of responsibility. Maybe some people 1114 01:00:22.320 --> 01:00:24.239 they're always going to be people whose suck, right, I mean, 1115 01:00:24.400 --> 01:00:26.039 they're going to try and work the system and never 1116 01:00:26.280 --> 01:00:29.079 do anything instructive. I'm talking about everybody else who's just 1117 01:00:29.159 --> 01:00:31.400 in a bad way. Yeah, you know, I agree with that. 1118 01:00:31.760 --> 01:00:34.400 My concern even with that, though, that might come up 1119 01:00:34.519 --> 01:00:36.760 and I have to think about this more, is I 1120 01:00:36.880 --> 01:00:40.320 do worry about distortions of the private market that could 1121 01:00:40.440 --> 01:00:43.480 happen that if you say, have Catholic charities or some 1122 01:00:43.639 --> 01:00:45.719 other church entity that decides, you know what, we're going 1123 01:00:45.800 --> 01:00:48.039 to go ahead and buy up a bunch of real 1124 01:00:48.159 --> 01:00:50.559 estate properties and put them up for this kind of 1125 01:00:51.840 --> 01:00:54.840 what the impact could be could still have some similar 1126 01:00:54.920 --> 01:00:59.679 ripple effects in the market to a government coming in 1127 01:00:59.760 --> 01:01:02.480 and doing something. It'd be better than that. Because I 1128 01:01:02.800 --> 01:01:04.480 agree with you on what you just said, I won't 1129 01:01:04.480 --> 01:01:07.960 repeat it. But I think there are always a little 1130 01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:10.199 bit of a concern that you might have about distortions 1131 01:01:10.239 --> 01:01:12.039 of the private market. But I think that can be 1132 01:01:12.599 --> 01:01:17.639 addressed well enough. To justify churches to take this action themselves. 1133 01:01:17.719 --> 01:01:21.000 I think the distortions are mitigated simply by the nature 1134 01:01:21.039 --> 01:01:25.280 of the limits that are inherent on donor based housing 1135 01:01:25.440 --> 01:01:28.320 or you know. I mean Catholic Charities is about to 1136 01:01:28.360 --> 01:01:31.760 open a new property, but they have a finite set 1137 01:01:31.800 --> 01:01:32.440 of resources. 1138 01:01:32.480 --> 01:01:33.599 They can't just go to all of. 1139 01:01:33.639 --> 01:01:36.960 Their parishioners te yeah, we're going to need an extra hundred, 1140 01:01:37.079 --> 01:01:39.199 maybe a thousand bucks from each of you. That's not 1141 01:01:39.320 --> 01:01:42.199 how it works. So there are natural limits on how 1142 01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:45.320 much this point can be done. But you know, I'll 1143 01:01:45.400 --> 01:01:48.119 know for any kind of creative solutions. I heard Ross 1144 01:01:48.559 --> 01:01:51.280 had a couple of guests on his show because Littleton 1145 01:01:51.920 --> 01:01:55.440 is trying to upsize certain parts of Littleton and neighbors 1146 01:01:55.480 --> 01:01:58.280 are pushing back. I think that when a charity tries 1147 01:01:58.440 --> 01:02:01.840 to do something to increased affordable housing, you may have 1148 01:02:01.880 --> 01:02:04.719 pushed back from mediate neighbors who are laboring under the 1149 01:02:04.880 --> 01:02:07.639 impression that somehow this is going to be you know, horrible. 1150 01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:09.440 But I think they can get it done in a 1151 01:02:09.639 --> 01:02:12.239 quieter way. I hate to say it like that, but 1152 01:02:12.320 --> 01:02:14.920 in a quieter way that by the time everybody goes, oh, 1153 01:02:14.960 --> 01:02:18.199 we've got you know, two families living in this now 1154 01:02:18.280 --> 01:02:22.679 duplex or whatever it's kind of the neighborhood can absorb it. 1155 01:02:23.119 --> 01:02:26.320 I would say also, one thing that is in favor 1156 01:02:26.559 --> 01:02:29.440 of more of this kind of involvement from churches is 1157 01:02:29.519 --> 01:02:32.039 that I think one of the reasons that we have 1158 01:02:32.199 --> 01:02:35.079 seen over the decades such an expansion of the welfare 1159 01:02:35.199 --> 01:02:39.199 state is because many churches have sort of pulled back 1160 01:02:39.360 --> 01:02:42.039 and thought, you know what, the government is willing and 1161 01:02:42.119 --> 01:02:44.559 able to do more of this, so we'll let them. 1162 01:02:45.039 --> 01:02:47.320 And then that causes all kinds of problems that you 1163 01:02:47.480 --> 01:02:51.639 don't have when churches people of faith are providing services 1164 01:02:51.719 --> 01:02:52.119 for the poor. 1165 01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:54.039 One of the things that people may not know about 1166 01:02:54.039 --> 01:02:58.119 the United States of America is that as a as 1167 01:02:58.199 --> 01:03:01.400 a country, the people of the United States of America 1168 01:03:01.840 --> 01:03:04.039 donate more money to charity than the rest of the 1169 01:03:04.079 --> 01:03:11.000 world combined combined. Think about when the tsunami hit in Indonesia, 1170 01:03:11.960 --> 01:03:15.719 Americans dipped into their own pockets and donated more money 1171 01:03:16.159 --> 01:03:20.800 to that cause than most other governments sent Because they 1172 01:03:20.880 --> 01:03:22.920 rely on their government for everything, so it doesn't occur 1173 01:03:23.000 --> 01:03:25.000 to them that they should be there to pick up 1174 01:03:25.039 --> 01:03:26.400 the slack. And that's one of the things I love 1175 01:03:26.440 --> 01:03:29.719 about Americans. They show over and over time and time 1176 01:03:29.800 --> 01:03:33.480 again that when the government fails us, your neighbors, your friends, 1177 01:03:33.639 --> 01:03:35.760 the people in your community, they're going to be the 1178 01:03:35.800 --> 01:03:38.320 ones that are going to solve the problem. And that's 1179 01:03:38.360 --> 01:03:40.800 why I think this would be a fantastic idea. Obviously, 1180 01:03:40.880 --> 01:03:44.440 not every church is capable. Some churches are very very small, 1181 01:03:44.559 --> 01:03:48.679 and they operate on very thin margins. But I would 1182 01:03:48.760 --> 01:03:50.159 love to see more of this. I would love to 1183 01:03:50.199 --> 01:03:53.639 see it made easier for churches and you know, the 1184 01:03:53.719 --> 01:03:56.679 faith based nonprofits or even other nonprofits to basically say, 1185 01:03:56.719 --> 01:03:58.119 you know what, we're going to throw up some affordable 1186 01:03:58.119 --> 01:04:00.239 housing here. We're going to run this ten you an 1187 01:04:00.239 --> 01:04:02.960 apartment complex, and we're going to make sure that it 1188 01:04:03.159 --> 01:04:05.760 stays where people can pay for it. Jimmy Sangenberger, good 1189 01:04:05.760 --> 01:04:07.840 to see you, my friends. Thank you very much, Mandy. 1190 01:04:07.960 --> 01:04:09.719 I'm sure we'll see you again as we continue to 1191 01:04:09.760 --> 01:04:11.960 talk about the dumpster fire of the school situation. 1192 01:04:12.079 --> 01:04:12.639 I know more. 1193 01:04:13.079 --> 01:04:20.559 Thanks for stopping, men, and we'll be right back. 1194 01:04:20.800 --> 01:04:24.880 The question about whether or not churches should provide housing, 1195 01:04:25.039 --> 01:04:29.320 and I got a couple different respects here, Mandy. Oh 1196 01:04:29.320 --> 01:04:34.079 wait a minute, hang, I'll get that next, Hi, Mandy, dagnabit. 1197 01:04:34.280 --> 01:04:38.280 Hang on, Mandy, many churches know who needs a hand 1198 01:04:38.360 --> 01:04:40.719 and who needs a kick in the pants. Yes they do. 1199 01:04:41.840 --> 01:04:43.960 Here's a different side of this, Mandy. Our church in 1200 01:04:44.039 --> 01:04:47.840 downtown four Collins did overnight shelters for the homeless. The 1201 01:04:47.880 --> 01:04:49.960 homeless hung around during the day and caused people that 1202 01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:52.199 we rented the space to during the day to go elsewhere. 1203 01:04:52.559 --> 01:04:55.239 Our church is now a vacant lot because we cannot 1204 01:04:55.280 --> 01:04:59.639 afford to cover the costs to support the expenses without 1205 01:04:59.679 --> 01:05:05.559 the rent income. There you go, There you go, Mandy. Hello. 1206 01:05:06.159 --> 01:05:09.039 In my opinion, should homes have these rules? Number one 1207 01:05:09.440 --> 01:05:11.719 can only be owned by an individual. Number two can 1208 01:05:11.800 --> 01:05:14.559 only be owned by a US citizen. Number three US 1209 01:05:14.599 --> 01:05:17.880 citizens can own no more than three homes. In my opinion, 1210 01:05:17.960 --> 01:05:20.719 this would take homes away from non human entities. This 1211 01:05:20.800 --> 01:05:22.960 would allow people to own multiple homes for rent and 1212 01:05:23.079 --> 01:05:27.079 travel and such. Would remove homes from major wealth building. 1213 01:05:27.239 --> 01:05:30.039 Based on your show today, it sounds like this country 1214 01:05:30.119 --> 01:05:32.599 needs to do some navel gazing on our goals to 1215 01:05:32.719 --> 01:05:35.000 be rich and powerful and get back to promoting family 1216 01:05:35.039 --> 01:05:38.519 and community atmospheres. Just a thought. Sorry for the long text. 1217 01:05:38.599 --> 01:05:41.440 Love your show. Thanks I disagree with the notion we 1218 01:05:41.760 --> 01:05:47.119 should limit how many homes that an individual can can buy. 1219 01:05:48.639 --> 01:05:51.480 I know a lot of people who in retirement live 1220 01:05:51.679 --> 01:05:54.039 entirely off their income from rental properties that they have 1221 01:05:54.119 --> 01:05:57.400 acquired over the years. Now, if you're talking about corporate 1222 01:05:57.559 --> 01:06:01.880 ownership of houses, where where they own so many houses 1223 01:06:02.039 --> 01:06:05.519 in an area that they create a massive distortion and 1224 01:06:05.639 --> 01:06:09.119 almost a monopoly on rental prices, then I think we 1225 01:06:09.199 --> 01:06:12.599 need to address that. We definitely need to address that. 1226 01:06:12.960 --> 01:06:17.159 I think that perhaps limiting how many homes that one 1227 01:06:17.800 --> 01:06:22.079 rental investment firm can own in a certain area might 1228 01:06:22.159 --> 01:06:24.880 be a good start, But I'm not sure what that 1229 01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:28.599 number is, and I'm not sure how many homes in 1230 01:06:28.639 --> 01:06:32.599 each area that's the issue. The issue was partly that 1231 01:06:32.760 --> 01:06:37.400 rents go with whatever people are willing to pay, and 1232 01:06:37.519 --> 01:06:39.599 as long as they're willing to pay these exorbitant rents 1233 01:06:39.639 --> 01:06:42.000 in certain areas when an area is desirable, then yeah, 1234 01:06:42.039 --> 01:06:44.239 you're going to have higher rents, and that's going to 1235 01:06:44.320 --> 01:06:46.079 lead to higher home prices, and that's going to lead 1236 01:06:46.079 --> 01:06:46.920 to higher mortgages. 1237 01:06:47.719 --> 01:06:48.880 But ultimately, if you. 1238 01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:52.079 Just stick around and put democratic leadership in charge, you 1239 01:06:52.159 --> 01:06:54.320 will make your state and city so unlikable that you 1240 01:06:54.440 --> 01:06:57.000 drop from number nine on U Haul's infloat chart to 1241 01:06:57.119 --> 01:07:01.400 number forty like Colorado has. So I mean it's not 1242 01:07:01.559 --> 01:07:03.920 unreasonable to think that rent prices would drop if new 1243 01:07:03.960 --> 01:07:05.920 people are not moving here and droves like they were, 1244 01:07:06.440 --> 01:07:12.519 and they're not uh mandy. When government is involved, it 1245 01:07:12.639 --> 01:07:15.880 makes it less charitable. There's an attitude of the government 1246 01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:18.599 will take care of it. Luckily, in the USA, we 1247 01:07:18.760 --> 01:07:21.559 still have some charity left. And I will say this, 1248 01:07:23.960 --> 01:07:30.239 I think that when people get government money, they don't 1249 01:07:30.320 --> 01:07:32.599 make the connection that it is taking it out of 1250 01:07:32.639 --> 01:07:34.679 the pockets of their friends and neighbors and putting it 1251 01:07:34.760 --> 01:07:38.440 into theirs. I think that because of the sanitized nature 1252 01:07:38.480 --> 01:07:41.320 of the transaction, meaning that we have the US government 1253 01:07:41.360 --> 01:07:45.000 as a middleman, or state and local governments as a middleman, 1254 01:07:45.519 --> 01:07:48.519 you've now laundered that money. So the person receiving it, 1255 01:07:48.920 --> 01:07:52.199 if they choose, can simply not think about the fact 1256 01:07:52.320 --> 01:07:55.360 that they are living on someone else's hard work, that 1257 01:07:55.559 --> 01:07:59.000 they are living on the sweat and tears and dedication 1258 01:07:59.519 --> 01:08:03.280 of someone else. Sometimes you have to rely on that, 1259 01:08:03.960 --> 01:08:06.800 and I hope it's temporary. See, I would like to 1260 01:08:06.920 --> 01:08:09.679 have just a little bit of shame brought back to 1261 01:08:09.800 --> 01:08:12.719 government assistants. I don't want people to walk around in 1262 01:08:12.760 --> 01:08:15.199 sack cloth and ashes and feel terrible about themselves. It's 1263 01:08:15.239 --> 01:08:17.840 not what I'm asking, but it should be uncomfortable. You 1264 01:08:17.920 --> 01:08:22.880 should be embarrassed to live on government aid. And I 1265 01:08:22.920 --> 01:08:25.319 think too many people have no shame at all in 1266 01:08:25.439 --> 01:08:28.800 taking money from someone else for that very reason. Mandy 1267 01:08:28.920 --> 01:08:32.119 limiting how many homes investment firms can own is that 1268 01:08:32.680 --> 01:08:35.319 people own those investment firms, mostly people who have four 1269 01:08:35.359 --> 01:08:38.319 oh one k's rots I rays. I understand that, I 1270 01:08:38.520 --> 01:08:41.239 absolutely understand, But let me put it like this. Let's 1271 01:08:41.319 --> 01:08:43.560 just say the cap is you cannot own, as a 1272 01:08:43.600 --> 01:08:48.039 private company, one individual company with this set of you know, 1273 01:08:48.159 --> 01:08:51.319 board members, you can only own fifteen percent of the 1274 01:08:51.359 --> 01:08:55.239 homes in one certain DMA in a real estate market. 1275 01:08:56.159 --> 01:08:58.840 Then that large company has a responsibility to go and 1276 01:08:58.920 --> 01:09:02.319 find houses elsewhere. I'm not saying they can't own more houses. 1277 01:09:02.439 --> 01:09:05.039 I'm saying they can't own more houses than a certain 1278 01:09:05.039 --> 01:09:08.720 percentage in any specific real estate market. So they can 1279 01:09:08.800 --> 01:09:12.399 continue to do what they're doing. But you've got to 1280 01:09:12.520 --> 01:09:15.239 protect the market somehow, and I don't know how you 1281 01:09:15.359 --> 01:09:18.319 do that in a free economy. Other than to say, Okay, 1282 01:09:18.439 --> 01:09:20.239 you know what, you can do this up to this point, 1283 01:09:20.560 --> 01:09:22.920 but now we got to have enough houses, And I mean, 1284 01:09:23.840 --> 01:09:27.119 I don't know how that looks. If ten corporate overlords 1285 01:09:27.199 --> 01:09:29.239 come into one area and they all buy that, I 1286 01:09:29.279 --> 01:09:30.560 don't know how that works. 1287 01:09:31.479 --> 01:09:32.239 I'm just I'm. 1288 01:09:32.119 --> 01:09:37.520 Spitballing here, throwing stuff against the wall. But I don't 1289 01:09:37.560 --> 01:09:40.199 know how to fix the problem other than to build more. 1290 01:09:41.199 --> 01:09:43.560 But with all of the requirements that have been put 1291 01:09:43.680 --> 01:09:47.439 on builders in the last ten years, building a house 1292 01:09:47.520 --> 01:09:50.439 is far more expensive than it used to be. And 1293 01:09:50.840 --> 01:09:54.600 until they do construction defects reform that changes the way 1294 01:09:54.680 --> 01:09:58.039 people are able to sue in a condo defects case, 1295 01:09:58.920 --> 01:10:01.560 we're not going to get any new because the insurance 1296 01:10:02.000 --> 01:10:05.560 to ensure those builders has now become prohibitively expensive to 1297 01:10:05.680 --> 01:10:09.159 make those units affordable at the end, I mean, all 1298 01:10:09.199 --> 01:10:11.439 of those costs just get passed into the cost of building. 1299 01:10:12.439 --> 01:10:14.840 We have big problem. Like I said, I'm spitballing. I'm 1300 01:10:14.920 --> 01:10:24.600 open to suggestions, Totally open to suggestions. So yeah, George 1301 01:10:24.840 --> 01:10:29.840 Freddie just texted me about a news report that was 1302 01:10:29.920 --> 01:10:33.279 in Ross's show. I heard Ross address that and correct 1303 01:10:33.319 --> 01:10:35.760 the record on that as well, and what happens in 1304 01:10:35.880 --> 01:10:38.439 Ross's show doesn't really have anything to do with me. 1305 01:10:39.119 --> 01:10:42.640 So uh, you might have said that during Ross's show 1306 01:10:42.640 --> 01:10:44.920 and it just came through when we get back. First 1307 01:10:44.920 --> 01:10:48.640 of all, I can't believe it's turney two o'clock. Let's 1308 01:10:48.680 --> 01:10:50.520 talk about some of the stuff that the Democrats are 1309 01:10:50.640 --> 01:10:55.000 going to do in the next legislative session, because some 1310 01:10:55.119 --> 01:10:58.520 of them suck really badly. I also want to talk. 1311 01:10:58.439 --> 01:11:00.800 About the lie of my ultitasking. 1312 01:11:01.760 --> 01:11:03.720 Jesse Thomas, do you believe you can multitask? 1313 01:11:04.279 --> 01:11:05.159 It's a lie, a. 1314 01:11:05.279 --> 01:11:06.640 Rod Do you believe you can multitask? 1315 01:11:07.640 --> 01:11:08.760 Yes, No, it's a lie. 1316 01:11:09.439 --> 01:11:12.199 I'll tell you. I'll tell you what you're doing, but 1317 01:11:12.319 --> 01:11:15.760 it's not multitasking. In the next hour, stick Around The. 1318 01:11:15.840 --> 01:11:18.760 Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock Accident 1319 01:11:18.840 --> 01:11:19.840 and injury Lawyers. 1320 01:11:20.520 --> 01:11:23.199 No, it's Mandy Connell. 1321 01:11:23.279 --> 01:11:25.079 And Dona. 1322 01:11:26.359 --> 01:11:31.399 Koam got. 1323 01:11:33.680 --> 01:11:40.600 The noisy through Ray Many, Coronald Keithing, sad Thing. 1324 01:11:41.720 --> 01:11:44.239 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the third hour of the show. 1325 01:11:44.319 --> 01:11:46.239 I'm your host, Mandy Connall. That guy over there is 1326 01:11:46.279 --> 01:11:49.439 Anthony Rodriguez. We call him a rod And if you 1327 01:11:49.520 --> 01:11:51.960 have not looked at the blog today. It's got some 1328 01:11:52.119 --> 01:11:57.119 very interesting stories, including the minifestos. I like that minifesto. 1329 01:11:57.479 --> 01:11:59.279 I mean, it's the serious thing. I shouldn't make light 1330 01:11:59.319 --> 01:12:03.199 of it. But the Green Beret who killed himself and 1331 01:12:04.560 --> 01:12:08.680 set off an explosion in a Tesla truck had made 1332 01:12:08.720 --> 01:12:10.960 some notes on his phone that have now been released 1333 01:12:11.560 --> 01:12:15.279 by investigators, and they're just very, very sad. And I 1334 01:12:15.399 --> 01:12:17.680 heard or I mentioned in the first part of the 1335 01:12:17.720 --> 01:12:22.840 show that because he didn't kill anybody else, I don't 1336 01:12:22.880 --> 01:12:24.800 have to be angry at him. I can just feel 1337 01:12:25.399 --> 01:12:29.159 just a wave of pity. But this guy was a 1338 01:12:29.239 --> 01:12:32.680 patriot who's worried about where the country is going, worried 1339 01:12:32.720 --> 01:12:34.680 about the fact that we're fat and can't join the 1340 01:12:34.760 --> 01:12:36.960 military and we're probably going to war with Iran and 1341 01:12:37.079 --> 01:12:39.760 China and who knows who else by twenty thirty, and 1342 01:12:39.840 --> 01:12:42.560 that the United States is being run by people who 1343 01:12:42.640 --> 01:12:46.680 were only invested in their own riches and enriching themselves. 1344 01:12:46.760 --> 01:12:49.680 And I hate to say it, I think he's right. 1345 01:12:49.760 --> 01:12:52.000 I put a link to both of those documents on 1346 01:12:52.079 --> 01:12:54.279 the blog today. I would urge you to go ahead 1347 01:12:54.279 --> 01:12:56.439 and read it, because did you hear about this anywhere else? 1348 01:12:56.800 --> 01:12:59.479 The only way I heard about it is manifesto shows 1349 01:12:59.520 --> 01:13:02.479 he's a Trump supporter. That was all they took from it, 1350 01:13:03.720 --> 01:13:06.039 and some of it is just heartbreaking. This line is 1351 01:13:06.199 --> 01:13:10.039 just haunting me. He said, why did I personally do it? 1352 01:13:10.159 --> 01:13:10.319 Now? 1353 01:13:10.560 --> 01:13:12.760 I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I've 1354 01:13:12.840 --> 01:13:15.439 lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives 1355 01:13:15.520 --> 01:13:23.319 I took. That sentence is just incredibly sad. So we 1356 01:13:23.439 --> 01:13:25.640 now know more about that guy. But that's on the 1357 01:13:25.680 --> 01:13:27.520 blog today. I've got a couple of things on the 1358 01:13:27.680 --> 01:13:30.000 blog that I want to get to right now. One 1359 01:13:30.039 --> 01:13:34.520 of them the case against bike lanes. Now, I think 1360 01:13:34.560 --> 01:13:37.399 we can all agree, if you're a driver, that there 1361 01:13:37.479 --> 01:13:40.560 is nothing more infuriating than finding out that a road 1362 01:13:40.640 --> 01:13:45.520 that is generally clogged anyway is going to be narrowed 1363 01:13:45.680 --> 01:13:48.439 to make room for bike lanes. But we're told bike 1364 01:13:48.520 --> 01:13:52.479 lanes save lives. Mandy, you heartless bastard. Why don't you 1365 01:13:52.680 --> 01:13:56.399 just understand that bike lanes save lives. So I read 1366 01:13:56.439 --> 01:14:01.960 this column by a young man named Frank Lehners Laners Lenners. 1367 01:14:02.039 --> 01:14:04.880 Sope I got that right. Frank. He happens to be 1368 01:14:05.199 --> 01:14:09.399 a bicyclist, an actual bicyclist uses his bike to go 1369 01:14:09.439 --> 01:14:12.760 all over the place and loves it. He's actually worked 1370 01:14:13.279 --> 01:14:17.039 in various ways to make biking more popular. He's a 1371 01:14:17.079 --> 01:14:20.479 big bike he loves bicycling. This isn't a casual bike 1372 01:14:20.560 --> 01:14:23.840 rider like you know I would be. And in this 1373 01:14:24.039 --> 01:14:25.760 column and I would urge you to read it because 1374 01:14:25.760 --> 01:14:30.560 it's very very good. He makes really rational, evidenced based 1375 01:14:30.960 --> 01:14:35.239 suggestions that say bike lanes are not the way to go. 1376 01:14:36.000 --> 01:14:38.439 What is the way to go to make byl bicyclists 1377 01:14:38.479 --> 01:14:45.399 more safe, bicyclist education and teaching them how to integrate 1378 01:14:45.640 --> 01:14:50.960 into the roadway without an expectation of having the lane 1379 01:14:51.000 --> 01:14:53.640 completely free for themselves, because that's not usually how it 1380 01:14:53.720 --> 01:14:57.520 works out. It's a very very good column. And I 1381 01:14:57.560 --> 01:14:59.760 thought to myself, you know, this is the kind of 1382 01:14:59.840 --> 01:15:01.720 our it needs to be made. Of course, it won't 1383 01:15:01.920 --> 01:15:06.359 matter at all. I mean, it's not gonna matter one 1384 01:15:06.479 --> 01:15:09.239 little bit that he was on the board of the 1385 01:15:09.319 --> 01:15:12.920 San Diego County Bicycle Coalition and the San Diego Bicycle Club. 1386 01:15:13.039 --> 01:15:13.720 Now that won't matter. 1387 01:15:16.359 --> 01:15:21.560 It's it's incredible how much of what government is doing 1388 01:15:21.680 --> 01:15:28.039 right now is just to give the impression that politicians 1389 01:15:28.680 --> 01:15:33.760 are somehow better than we are in terms of knowing 1390 01:15:33.880 --> 01:15:38.720 what we should do, of having the answers, of not 1391 01:15:38.920 --> 01:15:44.119 asking enough questions. You know European cities which are super cool. 1392 01:15:44.159 --> 01:15:47.239 They have lots of people riding bicycles, but most of 1393 01:15:47.279 --> 01:15:51.439 them don't have bike lanes. The bicyclist just pay attention 1394 01:15:53.479 --> 01:15:56.920 to what's going on around them. He does a great 1395 01:15:57.000 --> 01:16:00.880 job also of talking about bicycle culture over all. And 1396 01:16:01.000 --> 01:16:03.800 it really is a fantasy to think that we here 1397 01:16:03.880 --> 01:16:06.920 in Denver, Colorado, where we have four seasons, are about 1398 01:16:06.920 --> 01:16:09.439 to get more snow tonight it's cold as hell, are 1399 01:16:09.520 --> 01:16:11.439 going to have the same bicycle culture as a place 1400 01:16:11.560 --> 01:16:17.399 like San Diego, where the weather is beautiful every single 1401 01:16:17.479 --> 01:16:20.520 day except maybe five throughout the year. And I'm not kidding. 1402 01:16:21.520 --> 01:16:24.960 San Diego has the most perfect weather ever, so much 1403 01:16:25.039 --> 01:16:28.039 so that it's almost boring. Oh look, another beautiful day 1404 01:16:28.039 --> 01:16:30.399 in San Diego. Great. 1405 01:16:31.640 --> 01:16:33.279 Fine, It's okay. 1406 01:16:34.600 --> 01:16:36.359 Don't get me wrong. If you want to ride your bicycle, 1407 01:16:36.439 --> 01:16:38.199 I want you to be safe while you're doing it. 1408 01:16:39.159 --> 01:16:41.880 But I've also been the frustrated motorists behind the bicyclist 1409 01:16:41.920 --> 01:16:45.760 who obviously isn't paying attention, obviously doesn't care that they've 1410 01:16:45.760 --> 01:16:48.479 got twelve cars stacked up behind them as they're riding, 1411 01:16:48.600 --> 01:16:52.960 half in the lane and half not. We all share 1412 01:16:53.000 --> 01:16:55.039 the road together, but by C lanes are not going 1413 01:16:55.079 --> 01:16:58.359 to make it better. Please read that editorial and commit 1414 01:16:58.439 --> 01:17:03.920 it to memory. Good news, everybody, Good news. We have 1415 01:17:04.560 --> 01:17:10.920 managed to finally persuade people Colorado is not the place 1416 01:17:11.239 --> 01:17:11.840 they want to be. 1417 01:17:12.800 --> 01:17:18.840 Nope, you Haul. Every single year, you Haul puts out a. 1418 01:17:18.880 --> 01:17:23.920 Report and they this year this was two point five 1419 01:17:24.319 --> 01:17:28.840 million moves, and they release a list of where people 1420 01:17:28.960 --> 01:17:33.239 are moving to and where people are moving from. Now, 1421 01:17:33.560 --> 01:17:36.319 you of course recognize that in order to have a thriving, 1422 01:17:36.920 --> 01:17:39.840 vibrant state, it's good to have a good flow of 1423 01:17:40.000 --> 01:17:43.960 immigrants bringing new ideas, new energy to the economy of 1424 01:17:44.079 --> 01:17:48.920 our state. And Colorado has been really, really, really good 1425 01:17:49.079 --> 01:17:51.520 in these rankings for a very long time, usually in 1426 01:17:51.560 --> 01:17:53.319 the top ten. For a few years. 1427 01:17:53.359 --> 01:17:57.800 We were in the top three. Last year, not so much. 1428 01:17:58.840 --> 01:18:02.720 Colorado had the largest drop on the U HAUL ratings, 1429 01:18:03.039 --> 01:18:06.760 following from number nine in twenty twenty three to number 1430 01:18:07.159 --> 01:18:11.720 forty in twenty twenty four. So where are people moving to? 1431 01:18:12.199 --> 01:18:20.720 South Carolina and Texas, followed by North Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee, Indiana, Oklahoma. 1432 01:18:21.039 --> 01:18:24.359 Do you you know what's funny about all of those places? 1433 01:18:25.840 --> 01:18:26.600 What is there? 1434 01:18:26.920 --> 01:18:28.960 What is their political leadership? 1435 01:18:29.199 --> 01:18:29.239 Like? 1436 01:18:29.680 --> 01:18:31.239 Let me just give you the top five and the 1437 01:18:31.279 --> 01:18:35.880 bottom five to really clarify it for you. The top 1438 01:18:35.920 --> 01:18:40.039 five go like this, number five, Tennessee, number four, Florida, 1439 01:18:40.359 --> 01:18:45.920 number three, North Carolina, number two Texas, number one, South Carolina. 1440 01:18:46.920 --> 01:18:52.199 Bottom five. This means more people moved out of these 1441 01:18:52.239 --> 01:18:59.079 areas than moved in. Bottom five number fifty California for 1442 01:18:59.239 --> 01:19:04.039 the fifth year in a row. Number forty nine, Massachusetts, 1443 01:19:04.199 --> 01:19:08.439 number forty eight, New Jersey number forty seven, New York 1444 01:19:08.840 --> 01:19:11.359 number forty six, Pennsylvania. 1445 01:19:12.960 --> 01:19:15.800 Who runs those dates. 1446 01:19:17.399 --> 01:19:22.119 We're beginning to see a pattern, and Colorado, in its 1447 01:19:23.000 --> 01:19:27.680 quest to out California, California and out New York. New 1448 01:19:27.800 --> 01:19:33.159 York is rapidly, rapidly moving into the bottom five. Now 1449 01:19:33.720 --> 01:19:38.600 their number forty. They only dropped thirty one spots this year. 1450 01:19:38.600 --> 01:19:42.479 I bet we can do better next year, be even lower, 1451 01:19:43.319 --> 01:19:47.600 fewer people moving in. Think about you, guys, Think about 1452 01:19:47.640 --> 01:19:49.119 everything Colorado has to offer. 1453 01:19:50.039 --> 01:19:52.079 Think about how gorgeous it is. 1454 01:19:52.239 --> 01:19:55.039 Think about the fact that we just came through a 1455 01:19:55.199 --> 01:19:58.079 month of winter where we were like fifty degrees and 1456 01:19:58.319 --> 01:20:02.199 sunny a vast majority of those days. The mountains, the 1457 01:20:02.319 --> 01:20:09.079 hot springs, the vary natures of our landscape. And we're 1458 01:20:09.159 --> 01:20:17.000 now losing people to South Carolina, to Tennessee, to Texas, 1459 01:20:17.159 --> 01:20:21.239 North Carolina, Florida because the Democrats have made it so 1460 01:20:21.800 --> 01:20:26.880 miserable to live here. How sad is that, especially for 1461 01:20:26.920 --> 01:20:28.680 a guy who wants to be president, and all this 1462 01:20:28.840 --> 01:20:30.800 happened on his watch. By the way, I went to 1463 01:20:30.800 --> 01:20:33.920 get eggs yesterday. Still nothing, still nothing. 1464 01:20:34.680 --> 01:20:36.800 Would you like to know how much I just spent 1465 01:20:37.159 --> 01:20:37.680 on eggs? 1466 01:20:38.159 --> 01:20:38.560 Do tell? 1467 01:20:38.680 --> 01:20:40.479 I spent a lot on eggs anyway? Because I usually 1468 01:20:40.520 --> 01:20:42.760 buy pasture rays, but they're not even available right now. 1469 01:20:42.880 --> 01:20:44.760 So, big old box of sixty eggs? How much do 1470 01:20:44.760 --> 01:20:46.199 you think that costs now? 1471 01:20:46.279 --> 01:20:48.760 I know it costs like seven forty nine at one 1472 01:20:48.840 --> 01:20:49.920 point at Costco. 1473 01:20:50.800 --> 01:20:51.399 What is it now? 1474 01:20:51.840 --> 01:20:53.319 Sixty eggs thirty dollars? 1475 01:20:54.800 --> 01:20:59.239 Shut up, yep, shut the front door. 1476 01:20:59.479 --> 01:21:03.800 Sixty eight eggs, thirty dollars, about two of them? Sixty bucks, 1477 01:21:04.079 --> 01:21:08.279 one hundred and twenty eggs sixty bucks. Holy Larry, Yeah, 1478 01:21:08.359 --> 01:21:11.239 I was pressed otherwise, was shopped around, but I had 1479 01:21:11.319 --> 01:21:13.159 them to get them right then and there for a 1480 01:21:13.199 --> 01:21:15.199 New Year's thing we were doing and had. 1481 01:21:15.359 --> 01:21:15.920 Yeah, I am. 1482 01:21:16.399 --> 01:21:20.159 I went to my housice second Walmart because the first 1483 01:21:20.199 --> 01:21:21.199 one they were all out. 1484 01:21:21.359 --> 01:21:21.520 Yeah. 1485 01:21:21.560 --> 01:21:25.520 I went to my favorite King Supers and there was 1486 01:21:25.560 --> 01:21:27.399 a guy with eggs on the cart, you know what 1487 01:21:27.479 --> 01:21:28.920 I mean. And I was like, what do you got there? 1488 01:21:29.479 --> 01:21:30.840 I'm over there, like what do you got because there's 1489 01:21:30.840 --> 01:21:33.840 nothing in the case. He's like, well, I got these 1490 01:21:34.039 --> 01:21:36.199 organic cage free. I'm like, I guess they'll have to 1491 01:21:36.279 --> 01:21:38.720 do so you don't have to do my pasture raised 1492 01:21:38.760 --> 01:21:40.439 right now. So I called one of my friends and 1493 01:21:40.600 --> 01:21:42.960 asked what the egg situation is in Florida. Ay Rod 1494 01:21:43.279 --> 01:21:45.920 asked me what the egg situation is? The egg situation 1495 01:21:46.079 --> 01:21:47.439 is said, it's fine. 1496 01:21:47.479 --> 01:21:51.439 Why are you even asking? But I'm sure it's nationwide. 1497 01:21:51.520 --> 01:21:55.760 I'm sure. There you go positive, that's that's what's going 1498 01:21:55.800 --> 01:21:57.399 on there. Okay, I got a bunch of stuff on 1499 01:21:57.479 --> 01:21:58.800 the blog. I'm going to try and get to you here, 1500 01:21:58.840 --> 01:22:01.720 but I want to talk about this for just a moment. 1501 01:22:02.119 --> 01:22:07.800 The multitasking story on the blog Multitasking is a complete 1502 01:22:07.960 --> 01:22:13.600 and total lie. We as human beings, are not capable 1503 01:22:14.199 --> 01:22:18.600 of focusing on one thing more than wait a minute, 1504 01:22:18.640 --> 01:22:21.920 we can't focus on more than one thing at a time, 1505 01:22:23.560 --> 01:22:26.840 And I love this name for it. Okay, so, uh, 1506 01:22:28.479 --> 01:22:30.720 multitasking is not really a thing, but what we do 1507 01:22:32.159 --> 01:22:35.680 is a thing that one researcher a writer has named 1508 01:22:35.840 --> 01:22:41.199 continuous partial attention. What we're doing is just rapidly switching 1509 01:22:41.319 --> 01:22:45.000 from task to task. Now, lest you think this woman 1510 01:22:45.119 --> 01:22:47.720 is is some kind of Ninka poop, She's spent her 1511 01:22:47.760 --> 01:22:51.039 career at Apple and Microsoft watching how humans interact with technology, 1512 01:22:52.039 --> 01:22:56.000 and while she would consider walking and chewing gum at 1513 01:22:56.039 --> 01:23:00.439 the same time simple multitasking, she. 1514 01:23:00.600 --> 01:23:04.159 Says focusing on more than one thing at a time 1515 01:23:04.359 --> 01:23:06.199 usually just leads to disaster. 1516 01:23:06.640 --> 01:23:10.720 A study of doctors, for example, found multitasking almost double 1517 01:23:10.920 --> 01:23:16.960 mistakes in writing prescriptions, and the researcher Stone says, the 1518 01:23:17.039 --> 01:23:19.560 smartphone is amazing, there's so many things we can do, 1519 01:23:20.079 --> 01:23:22.520 one of the most seductive tools ever we've had in 1520 01:23:22.600 --> 01:23:25.479 our hands. And yet what happens to the body. Our 1521 01:23:25.600 --> 01:23:28.680 net goes down, our posture, we lose it, we lose 1522 01:23:28.760 --> 01:23:33.560 our ability to breathe properly. So what she says is 1523 01:23:34.399 --> 01:23:38.600 focus on one thing at a time, I've been trying 1524 01:23:38.840 --> 01:23:41.319 the concept and this is not new I'm not breaking 1525 01:23:41.399 --> 01:23:44.319 new ground here, but of block scheduling myself in the morning, 1526 01:23:44.720 --> 01:23:47.439 trying to get more efficient, and it's really just a 1527 01:23:47.479 --> 01:23:49.520 mind game I'm playing with myself, and block scheduling is 1528 01:23:49.520 --> 01:23:52.119 where you say, for these three hours, I'm going to 1529 01:23:52.199 --> 01:23:55.359 do the blog just bam, and for three hours, that's 1530 01:23:55.399 --> 01:23:57.359 all I do. I don't get distracted by anything else. 1531 01:23:59.840 --> 01:24:02.560 It actually puts this weird pressure on me because I 1532 01:24:02.640 --> 01:24:05.319 have a deadline, even though it's a completely solved most deadline, 1533 01:24:06.079 --> 01:24:07.600 and it wouldn't really matter if I didn't hit the 1534 01:24:07.600 --> 01:24:10.800 deadline in the grand scheme of things. But I'm trying 1535 01:24:10.840 --> 01:24:13.039 to get better because what I find myself doing is 1536 01:24:13.079 --> 01:24:15.720 getting distracted, and that is not because then I go 1537 01:24:15.800 --> 01:24:17.439 down this rabbit hole or that rap. 1538 01:24:17.600 --> 01:24:19.199 It's usually you know what happens. 1539 01:24:19.279 --> 01:24:21.279 I'm reading about a story and then I go, oh, 1540 01:24:21.399 --> 01:24:24.239 I want to know whatever the backstory here is, and 1541 01:24:24.319 --> 01:24:25.680 then I go to that story, and then I go 1542 01:24:25.760 --> 01:24:27.720 to another, and then like an hour and a half later, 1543 01:24:28.119 --> 01:24:29.760 I don't even know how I got to where I am. 1544 01:24:30.720 --> 01:24:31.199 No clue. 1545 01:24:33.000 --> 01:24:37.600 So anyway, no multitasking ladies and germs make multitasking a 1546 01:24:37.680 --> 01:24:39.800 thing of the past. I think it's just another way 1547 01:24:40.239 --> 01:24:43.920 to throw more stuff on our plates that they probably 1548 01:24:43.920 --> 01:24:48.319 won't pay us for, no matter what job you have, Mandy, 1549 01:24:48.359 --> 01:24:50.600 I live in rural Colorado. Two weeks ago, they were 1550 01:24:50.640 --> 01:24:53.800 six forty five a dozen. Now they're only five point 1551 01:24:53.800 --> 01:24:59.039 fifteen a dozen. Who boy, Yeah, you can't focus on 1552 01:24:59.199 --> 01:25:01.039 taking a left turn. I'm on a busy street while 1553 01:25:01.079 --> 01:25:04.680 carrying on a conversation. Who else turns the radio down 1554 01:25:05.199 --> 01:25:07.159 when you are trying to follow directions? 1555 01:25:07.239 --> 01:25:08.439 I love to say I can't see. 1556 01:25:10.079 --> 01:25:13.159 It just helps you think. Because our brains, they're pretty 1557 01:25:13.199 --> 01:25:16.960 simple creatures, don't train over extent yours. This person disagrees, 1558 01:25:17.039 --> 01:25:21.079 Mandy can't multitask. That's bs driving in traffic and talking 1559 01:25:21.119 --> 01:25:23.920 to your passenger getting directions from them. Sure, there are 1560 01:25:23.960 --> 01:25:26.800 situations that require more attention while driving or parking. 1561 01:25:27.199 --> 01:25:32.800 I'm also literally multitasking right now by saying this on 1562 01:25:32.880 --> 01:25:38.039 airon texting the text line saying I'm literally multitasking right now, man, 1563 01:25:38.119 --> 01:25:42.239 that's big l Wait, let me just confirm that it 1564 01:25:42.319 --> 01:25:44.239 came through on the Kyle text one. Of course it 1565 01:25:44.239 --> 01:25:46.119 has five six six nine zero. Think you common spirit 1566 01:25:46.239 --> 01:25:49.439 health and waiting for received and look at that. I'm 1567 01:25:49.479 --> 01:25:52.119 literally multitasking right now. Just came through on the text line. 1568 01:25:52.720 --> 01:25:53.560 That's uncomfortable. 1569 01:25:53.720 --> 01:25:56.720 But see doing neither of them well, that's that's really 1570 01:25:56.800 --> 01:25:57.159 the problem. 1571 01:25:57.199 --> 01:25:57.640 That's true. 1572 01:25:57.720 --> 01:25:58.479 Both were terrible. 1573 01:25:58.920 --> 01:26:01.159 Well one of them felled everything right, but I sounded 1574 01:26:01.159 --> 01:26:02.159 like an idiot on airy. 1575 01:26:05.319 --> 01:26:07.960 Okay, A couple of things I want to draw your 1576 01:26:07.960 --> 01:26:10.000 attention to on the blog. First of all, video that 1577 01:26:10.079 --> 01:26:10.920 a Rod sent me today. 1578 01:26:10.920 --> 01:26:11.960 That is hilarious. 1579 01:26:13.640 --> 01:26:15.880 It's a man paying a woman to do things his 1580 01:26:16.000 --> 01:26:20.119 wife won't do, and it's worth your time. It's at 1581 01:26:20.119 --> 01:26:22.920 the bottom of the blog today, very bottom of the blog. 1582 01:26:24.039 --> 01:26:27.399 I also, just for fun, I have a video of 1583 01:26:27.520 --> 01:26:30.760 our president, Joe Biden. I can't play it on the air. 1584 01:26:32.439 --> 01:26:34.760 Square. Yeah does he really? Yeah? 1585 01:26:35.159 --> 01:26:39.840 Oh yeah, whoa oh yeah. Me being the oldest president, 1586 01:26:40.079 --> 01:26:42.239 I know more world leaders than any one of you 1587 01:26:42.359 --> 01:26:46.119 have ever met in your whole blank blank life. Yeah, 1588 01:26:46.159 --> 01:26:49.880 he's going out strong, going out by the way, in 1589 01:26:50.000 --> 01:26:52.920 the last flurry of activity. His staff, who is actually 1590 01:26:52.960 --> 01:26:54.680 running the country, because you know, he has no clue 1591 01:26:54.720 --> 01:26:57.039 what's going on, they're passing a whole bunch of stuff. 1592 01:26:57.039 --> 01:26:59.199 He just banned any drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. 1593 01:27:00.000 --> 01:27:03.000 I'm sure, uh yeah, he's really really going out with 1594 01:27:03.079 --> 01:27:05.520 a bang or his staff is, I should say, because 1595 01:27:05.960 --> 01:27:10.119 God knows he's not doing anything productive. There's a very 1596 01:27:10.239 --> 01:27:15.000 good story on the new law that was passed in 1597 01:27:15.199 --> 01:27:22.159 Colorado that allows high school students to determine what their 1598 01:27:22.279 --> 01:27:25.159 name should be at school, and then the schools are 1599 01:27:25.239 --> 01:27:30.039 required by law to call the students by their chosen name, 1600 01:27:31.399 --> 01:27:34.920 and they don't have to tell their parents about it. Now, 1601 01:27:35.840 --> 01:27:38.560 I'm about to do something that, as a parent, I'm 1602 01:27:38.640 --> 01:27:40.520 kind of horrified about, but I'm going to tell my 1603 01:27:40.680 --> 01:27:43.960 daughter to do it too. I want every high school 1604 01:27:44.039 --> 01:27:48.279 kid to pick the most absurd name they could think 1605 01:27:48.359 --> 01:27:51.880 of and demand to be called that absurd name. 1606 01:27:54.000 --> 01:27:55.760 And I was thinking about this a rod, like what 1607 01:27:55.840 --> 01:27:56.600 would I name the Q? 1608 01:27:57.119 --> 01:28:02.119 Okay, so the Q is in high school thinking something like, uh, 1609 01:28:02.560 --> 01:28:06.600 let me see here, let me see I'm gonna make 1610 01:28:06.640 --> 01:28:10.039 our lady, you know, like a proper lady, like Lady. 1611 01:28:10.039 --> 01:28:12.399 Q of the Mansion. 1612 01:28:12.800 --> 01:28:18.840 I am just something completely ridiculous, rainbow in the lady Rainbow, Yes, 1613 01:28:19.119 --> 01:28:26.680 Lady Rainbow of the manner. Okay, so yes and demand Yes, 1614 01:28:26.720 --> 01:28:28.359 I'd like you to refer to me as Lady Rainbow 1615 01:28:28.399 --> 01:28:29.039 of the manner, but. 1616 01:28:29.079 --> 01:28:30.640 At the end, make sure you put the second so 1617 01:28:30.680 --> 01:28:33.279 that way they think you're crazy second because you're the original. Whatever. 1618 01:28:33.359 --> 01:28:35.840 Well, they probably already think I'm a little touched. It's okay, 1619 01:28:36.720 --> 01:28:39.720 Lady Rainbow of the manor the second, and and demand 1620 01:28:39.840 --> 01:28:44.079 that every teacher call them the most absurd ridiculous honor 1621 01:28:45.039 --> 01:28:49.720 the honorable You're right, yeah, the honorable, Yeah, the honorable lady. 1622 01:28:50.399 --> 01:28:54.119 That the honorable. It'll be like Tay Anderson just giving 1623 01:28:54.199 --> 01:28:56.920 himself an honorific the honorable Lady Rainbow of the manor 1624 01:28:57.239 --> 01:29:01.079 the second. And because this law is so so ridiculous 1625 01:29:01.920 --> 01:29:04.479 that I want kids to point out to the adults 1626 01:29:04.600 --> 01:29:07.720 how stupid it actually is. What if a kid comes 1627 01:29:07.760 --> 01:29:09.960 in tomorrow and goes, ma'am. From now on, I've decided 1628 01:29:09.960 --> 01:29:12.800 my name is going to be yo mama, and then 1629 01:29:12.840 --> 01:29:15.079 for the rest of the year, which yo mama is 1630 01:29:15.159 --> 01:29:19.720 you want to say something, Yo mama. This is just 1631 01:29:19.800 --> 01:29:22.479 another example of government getting in between parents and kids. 1632 01:29:22.560 --> 01:29:25.399 That's all it is. I am so sick of the 1633 01:29:25.479 --> 01:29:28.439 people in Denver at the legislature in the Gold Dome, 1634 01:29:28.960 --> 01:29:33.560 rushing rushing children into transitioning so they can be permanent 1635 01:29:33.640 --> 01:29:35.239 medical patients for the rest of their lives. 1636 01:29:35.520 --> 01:29:37.560 I'm so excited they keep doing that. And that's what 1637 01:29:37.680 --> 01:29:38.000 this is. 1638 01:29:38.920 --> 01:29:42.039 Studies have shown a children are affirmed. If their new 1639 01:29:42.119 --> 01:29:45.239 gender is affirmed socially, almost all of them move on 1640 01:29:45.359 --> 01:29:50.000 to medical transformation later. And I don't even think, like, 1641 01:29:50.880 --> 01:29:55.439 my daughter is certainly not gender confused. But even if 1642 01:29:55.479 --> 01:29:57.680 your kids aren't, I say, we all just ask our 1643 01:29:57.760 --> 01:29:59.560 kids to go buy a different name and just be 1644 01:29:59.680 --> 01:30:02.199 like you, well, I have your back. I fully have 1645 01:30:02.319 --> 01:30:03.720 your back on this. And if the school colls me 1646 01:30:03.760 --> 01:30:05.960 and says we're having a problem, no, no, no, you 1647 01:30:06.439 --> 01:30:13.199 created the problem. We're just exploiting the problem. It's it 1648 01:30:13.239 --> 01:30:15.199 would be fantastic. This is the kind of stuff that 1649 01:30:15.319 --> 01:30:17.119 I would not do when I was in high school 1650 01:30:17.119 --> 01:30:19.439 because I was a real goodie goody. But I would 1651 01:30:19.520 --> 01:30:22.720 plant the seed in the minds of people that I 1652 01:30:22.800 --> 01:30:26.840 knew would do it. I was basically like a Machiavelian, Hey, 1653 01:30:26.920 --> 01:30:28.640 you know what we should do? And then I would 1654 01:30:28.680 --> 01:30:31.760 never do it, but they would because it seemed like 1655 01:30:31.800 --> 01:30:33.720 a good idea. The way I let I read, Oh 1656 01:30:34.439 --> 01:30:38.359 you know what a news story today CNBC McDonald's rolls back, 1657 01:30:38.439 --> 01:30:41.880 Dee I goals, huh weird, holl that's happening. Maybe they're 1658 01:30:41.920 --> 01:30:45.039 going to focus on making food affordable again. That would 1659 01:30:45.079 --> 01:30:48.600 be nice. Mandy. I wish to be called your excellency. 1660 01:30:48.760 --> 01:30:51.960 Oh ooh, that's good, Your excellency. 1661 01:30:53.319 --> 01:30:56.319 Mm hmm, your excellency. 1662 01:30:56.880 --> 01:31:00.880 Could you imagine, like at graduation, walking across see stage 1663 01:31:01.159 --> 01:31:04.800 and having someone saying, I'm now Summa cum Laudie Awards 1664 01:31:04.880 --> 01:31:11.119 go to your excellency. Anyway, Mandy, I'd like to be 1665 01:31:11.199 --> 01:31:15.840 called who's your daddy? There you go, Mandy. You already 1666 01:31:15.880 --> 01:31:18.840 call your daughter que? How much weird? How much more 1667 01:31:18.880 --> 01:31:21.279 can it get? Okay? They don't call her que at school? 1668 01:31:22.399 --> 01:31:26.079 Princess can swil a banana hammock of course. Phoebe's fake name, 1669 01:31:28.279 --> 01:31:29.920 Joey's fake name. Do you did? 1670 01:31:29.960 --> 01:31:30.000 You? 1671 01:31:30.239 --> 01:31:33.079 You hate friends, don't you? Cause you don't get it correct? Yep, 1672 01:31:33.960 --> 01:31:37.199 too bad, Joey's fake name. Ken Adams, you got to 1673 01:31:37.239 --> 01:31:39.319 have a lot of weird letters in there and just 1674 01:31:39.359 --> 01:31:43.199 say they're all silent letters and wait, wait, what if 1675 01:31:43.319 --> 01:31:45.800 you change your name to something like one of those 1676 01:31:45.920 --> 01:31:48.880 names from like an African tribe where they just use 1677 01:31:48.960 --> 01:31:49.439 clicks and. 1678 01:31:51.119 --> 01:31:51.279 Like that. 1679 01:31:52.119 --> 01:31:54.439 You know, what could you imagine? Like, excuse me, ma'am, 1680 01:31:54.439 --> 01:31:58.159 I'd like to be going like that, let him fly 1681 01:31:58.279 --> 01:32:00.239 with it. Yeah, I'm gonna that. 1682 01:32:01.640 --> 01:32:02.279 I'm gonna need that. 1683 01:32:02.680 --> 01:32:07.800 Mandy. I changed my name to mister Barkie von Schnauzer Mandy. 1684 01:32:07.840 --> 01:32:12.720 They should pick an up scene name I would Yeah, yeah, 1685 01:32:15.600 --> 01:32:17.119 Dingle Berry that's always good. 1686 01:32:17.760 --> 01:32:20.000 Would you go by Dingle or mister Barry. 1687 01:32:21.239 --> 01:32:23.640 Mandy. I think every student in each class should demand 1688 01:32:23.720 --> 01:32:26.680 to be called by the exact same name, including surname. 1689 01:32:26.960 --> 01:32:28.760 Oh my gosh, so you've got a whole class of 1690 01:32:28.880 --> 01:32:32.920 kids that want to be called Anthony Rodriguez. That would 1691 01:32:32.960 --> 01:32:33.760 be magical. 1692 01:32:34.039 --> 01:32:37.920 Yes, this is the kind of you. 1693 01:32:38.000 --> 01:32:43.880 Know, resistance that I can get behind. Did you know? 1694 01:32:44.159 --> 01:32:47.039 Says this texter that kids in Jefferson County are already 1695 01:32:47.079 --> 01:32:49.880 coming to school justsed as dogs and cats. See, But 1696 01:32:49.960 --> 01:32:52.720 you're not supposed to talk about that because Kyle Clark 1697 01:32:52.760 --> 01:32:55.479 will come after you, and after he tells you that's 1698 01:32:55.560 --> 01:32:57.960 not happening, only to find out it is happening, he 1699 01:32:58.000 --> 01:33:00.479 will tell you that you're a horrible person for picking 1700 01:33:00.520 --> 01:33:04.239 on kids who are just different. That's how that whole 1701 01:33:04.359 --> 01:33:07.279 arc goes, how do we know we already did this? 1702 01:33:07.520 --> 01:33:09.439 That's what you're saying is it'll be all bark and 1703 01:33:09.479 --> 01:33:12.760 no bite exactly dogs com Okay, I. 1704 01:33:12.840 --> 01:33:17.119 Am your servant. Would be good to Mandy. I want 1705 01:33:17.119 --> 01:33:20.840 to be called the lady, Mandy. I was fired from 1706 01:33:20.840 --> 01:33:22.720 my job. I demand to be an emeritus and that 1707 01:33:22.840 --> 01:33:26.000 of course. On Tay Anderson's social media, Tay Anderson is 1708 01:33:26.039 --> 01:33:29.720 the guy who did a brief, brief, thank god, stint 1709 01:33:29.880 --> 01:33:34.000 on the Denver Public school Board. Absolute racist, horrible person, 1710 01:33:34.159 --> 01:33:36.720 always tries to destroy people personally when he disagrees with 1711 01:33:36.760 --> 01:33:40.279 their policies, and he has named himself a school board 1712 01:33:40.359 --> 01:33:45.600 member emeritus because he's under the misguided conclusion that he 1713 01:33:45.760 --> 01:33:50.159 did something worthy of remembering. I mean, I guess he did. 1714 01:33:51.399 --> 01:33:53.880 He took the SROs out of school so made it 1715 01:33:53.960 --> 01:33:56.119 easier for kids to bring guns to school and shoot people. 1716 01:33:56.520 --> 01:34:01.560 I mean, that's great job. Ooh, Turfer, that would be 1717 01:34:01.600 --> 01:34:03.560 a good one. No relation to Nick Fergus and joining 1718 01:34:03.640 --> 01:34:06.199 us in four minutes, Mandy, How well does this work 1719 01:34:06.239 --> 01:34:08.359 when the sixteen year old girl wants the forty five 1720 01:34:08.439 --> 01:34:12.840 year old male teacher to call her sexy? Could you imagine. 1721 01:34:14.479 --> 01:34:15.720 Wow me. 1722 01:34:15.960 --> 01:34:22.000 Now, how about your royal highness on your high horse? 1723 01:34:22.079 --> 01:34:26.920 That's me. I only sit on the highest of horses. Mandy, 1724 01:34:26.920 --> 01:34:29.279 I want to be called trip around the world. Sure, 1725 01:34:29.520 --> 01:34:31.680 my daddy, that would be good. I need you to 1726 01:34:31.720 --> 01:34:37.840 call me daddy from now on. Yeah, yeah, yep, yep. 1727 01:34:40.920 --> 01:34:46.600 Let's see trying to find if there's anything else in here, 1728 01:34:46.640 --> 01:34:48.359 but you guys are getting it. So if you have kids, 1729 01:34:49.319 --> 01:34:53.439 let's go and stir up some civil disobedience. And civil 1730 01:34:53.600 --> 01:34:58.000 is the real word here. Change my name to christ 1731 01:34:58.199 --> 01:35:01.760 is King. Watch heads explode. Oh that is a passive 1732 01:35:01.800 --> 01:35:05.600 aggressive way to use God to make a point. Mandy, 1733 01:35:05.640 --> 01:35:08.039 I'd like to be called in time for dinner. Who 1734 01:35:08.079 --> 01:35:12.319 wouldn't really change your name to something Irish like Chavon 1735 01:35:12.439 --> 01:35:14.479 or Suarse and then make the teacher spell it. That's 1736 01:35:14.600 --> 01:35:19.760 just mean. My dad called me Farcourt p Harkin Farker Junior. 1737 01:35:20.640 --> 01:35:21.279 That's a good one. 1738 01:35:22.119 --> 01:35:24.319 Like E's kids, right with the weird letters. 1739 01:35:24.439 --> 01:35:28.880 Somebody actually put that Mandy new name a the second 1740 01:35:29.439 --> 01:35:33.680 yes or pain in the ass. He points out hers 1741 01:35:33.840 --> 01:35:37.960 is tiny whinom? What if the kid walks in tomorrow 1742 01:35:37.960 --> 01:35:39.039 and goes, hey, you know what I want to be 1743 01:35:39.079 --> 01:35:41.039 called from now on Bud Wiser. 1744 01:35:41.880 --> 01:35:45.279 First name, Bud, last name Wiser. That's what I want 1745 01:35:45.319 --> 01:35:45.680 to be called. 1746 01:35:45.720 --> 01:35:51.760 And then I'm looking for Wiser, Bud Wiser. 1747 01:35:55.000 --> 01:35:59.119 Exactly, Mandy. There was a Monty Python sketch where the 1748 01:35:59.159 --> 01:36:02.359 guy's name was spelled out as a luxury yacht. But 1749 01:36:02.479 --> 01:36:04.560 when he was asked, I was pronounced he said through 1750 01:36:04.680 --> 01:36:11.520 blah blah. Mangrove today says this Texter, and I'll let 1751 01:36:11.560 --> 01:36:14.319 them have the last word on this topic. I shall 1752 01:36:14.439 --> 01:36:18.560 forever be known as sexual chocolate. That's a throwback as well. 1753 01:36:18.720 --> 01:36:22.239 When TV was great, our movies were great. I guess 1754 01:36:22.279 --> 01:36:24.640 I should say a couple more stories that I want 1755 01:36:24.680 --> 01:36:28.720 to hit on the blog really quickly. The Denver City 1756 01:36:28.760 --> 01:36:34.159 Council has three women who are so desperate to normalize 1757 01:36:34.279 --> 01:36:37.960 little children seeing people shoot up street drugs that they 1758 01:36:38.000 --> 01:36:42.000 are trying to expand the needle program in Denver. 1759 01:36:42.199 --> 01:36:43.920 This is a program that gives. 1760 01:36:43.680 --> 01:36:47.399 Out not just needles, oh no, no, the harm reduction 1761 01:36:47.520 --> 01:36:51.399 people have now expanded their offerings, whereas harm reduction was 1762 01:36:51.479 --> 01:36:54.159 sold to most people, as we're going to give needles 1763 01:36:54.239 --> 01:36:57.279 to drug addicts who otherwise would share needles and then 1764 01:36:57.399 --> 01:37:01.039 share diseases like hepatitis and AIDS, which is true. 1765 01:37:01.079 --> 01:37:04.680 I guess HIV technically, which is true. But now we've 1766 01:37:04.760 --> 01:37:05.079 moved on. 1767 01:37:06.239 --> 01:37:10.399 Now now we are giving out glass pipes to smoke 1768 01:37:10.479 --> 01:37:18.399 meth with. Sure, why not? Heck yeah, harm reduction for everybody. 1769 01:37:18.039 --> 01:37:18.680 Let's party. 1770 01:37:20.439 --> 01:37:20.640 Well. 1771 01:37:21.079 --> 01:37:23.399 The denver is that rightly points out in an editorial 1772 01:37:23.479 --> 01:37:27.479 that this is just dumb. Harm reduction has been an epic, 1773 01:37:27.920 --> 01:37:32.479 massive failure, and we need to not make it easier 1774 01:37:32.560 --> 01:37:34.640 to do drugs. We need to make it harder to 1775 01:37:34.800 --> 01:37:37.039 lie on the streets after you've done drugs. I'm just 1776 01:37:37.119 --> 01:37:41.680 a novel thought. Nick Ferguson making himself a known in 1777 01:37:41.760 --> 01:37:44.439 the studio. That purple looks very good on you, very good. 1778 01:37:44.600 --> 01:37:47.239 It's a good color for you, that nice eggplant purple. 1779 01:37:47.720 --> 01:37:51.039 Thank you. It is actually my favorite color. And I 1780 01:37:51.159 --> 01:37:55.159 wore today because I wanted to see if oh no, 1781 01:37:55.600 --> 01:37:59.039 if Ryan there was scared. Notice the difference between salmon 1782 01:37:59.560 --> 01:38:01.119 and actually will purple. 1783 01:38:01.560 --> 01:38:04.560 See now, salmon is going to be in the pink family. 1784 01:38:04.680 --> 01:38:07.640 But that is definitely like a vibrant purple. You got 1785 01:38:07.720 --> 01:38:10.840 on right there. Egg Plant was kind of it is. 1786 01:38:11.039 --> 01:38:13.520 Eggplant and salmon are the two appropriate names for these colors. 1787 01:38:13.560 --> 01:38:15.560 But we are speaking to a lot of men who 1788 01:38:15.680 --> 01:38:18.880 really don't understand that purple comes in shades and that 1789 01:38:19.000 --> 01:38:19.880 pink can be salmon. 1790 01:38:20.000 --> 01:38:21.119 I get it. That's a good purple. 1791 01:38:21.319 --> 01:38:22.279 It is a good purple. 1792 01:38:22.079 --> 01:38:23.880 Strap he U. 1793 01:38:24.000 --> 01:38:26.000 If he confused that for salmon, I'm walking out. 1794 01:38:26.159 --> 01:38:27.920 Did he give you a crap about your salmon shirt? 1795 01:38:29.119 --> 01:38:30.039 Yes? Why? 1796 01:38:30.640 --> 01:38:30.840 Yes? 1797 01:38:31.239 --> 01:38:31.880 Okay? 1798 01:38:31.960 --> 01:38:34.880 I love Ryan. I love me some Ryan. If you're 1799 01:38:34.920 --> 01:38:37.239 not going I was gonna say, we're not going to 1800 01:38:37.359 --> 01:38:41.520 look to him necessarily, much like I wouldn't expect me 1801 01:38:41.600 --> 01:38:43.880 to look I wouldn't expect people to look at me. 1802 01:38:44.000 --> 01:38:46.319 I buy my clothes at Costco a lot. Okay, so 1803 01:38:46.600 --> 01:38:49.319 this role with it, you know. I yeah, I am 1804 01:38:49.439 --> 01:38:51.840 not a person. I'm not a fashion plate at all. 1805 01:38:52.119 --> 01:38:53.920 Even though I did watch the Golden Globes last. 1806 01:38:53.800 --> 01:38:56.800 Night just to see the dresses. Oh it was kind 1807 01:38:56.800 --> 01:38:57.399 of disappointed. 1808 01:38:57.600 --> 01:39:02.279 Nothing look, you know, full transparent. I like ballroom dancing 1809 01:39:02.479 --> 01:39:05.560 because of the fashion. Like you, I do watch Awards 1810 01:39:05.600 --> 01:39:07.199 shows just to see how people to dress. 1811 01:39:07.319 --> 01:39:09.680 Yeah, it's fun, I mean just to see what people 1812 01:39:09.720 --> 01:39:11.840 are wearing, because God knows, I haven't seen any of 1813 01:39:11.880 --> 01:39:13.920 the shows that they're getting Awards for although I had 1814 01:39:14.039 --> 01:39:16.600 last night I watched like four awards. 1815 01:39:16.680 --> 01:39:18.239 I had seen all of the shows. 1816 01:39:18.000 --> 01:39:20.880 And I was like, yeah, I was like, I'm done. 1817 01:39:20.960 --> 01:39:22.199 I'm turning this off right now. 1818 01:39:22.159 --> 01:39:25.079 Before I break the streak. So's it was fine? Oh 1819 01:39:25.119 --> 01:39:25.960 really really quickly. 1820 01:39:26.479 --> 01:39:29.760 I ran into your husband last night on the sideline. 1821 01:39:29.840 --> 01:39:32.119 Yes, literally ran into him because he would take you 1822 01:39:32.199 --> 01:39:36.640 out there. I mean, yes, literally, that's what happened. Yeah, 1823 01:39:36.680 --> 01:39:39.239 he was. He worked a parabolic yesterday for the game 1824 01:39:39.720 --> 01:39:42.079 and the second half he was on. I don't know 1825 01:39:42.119 --> 01:39:44.600 if I should say this, like, are there parabolic like 1826 01:39:44.840 --> 01:39:46.640 confidentiality agreements. 1827 01:39:47.720 --> 01:39:49.399 Kinda depending on what you're gonna say, so. 1828 01:39:50.039 --> 01:39:54.680 I should not say that. Perhaps someone who shall remain nameless, 1829 01:39:55.039 --> 01:39:58.560 who might have been working on the sidelines doing something unnamed, 1830 01:39:59.079 --> 01:40:01.159 might have heard one of the coaches from the Kansas 1831 01:40:01.159 --> 01:40:04.159 City Chiefs at the beginning of the second quarter just 1832 01:40:04.239 --> 01:40:06.720 go can we just get this over with that? 1833 01:40:10.840 --> 01:40:11.039 Sure? 1834 01:40:12.199 --> 01:40:15.479 Yeah, so their heart was not in that game yesterday, 1835 01:40:15.520 --> 01:40:17.760 but I don't care. We're going back to the playoffs. 1836 01:40:17.840 --> 01:40:20.359 Nick Ferguson, Yes we are. 1837 01:40:20.800 --> 01:40:22.800 And I came in the building today and someone was 1838 01:40:23.159 --> 01:40:26.279 asking me did I go out and celebrate? I said, well, 1839 01:40:26.359 --> 01:40:28.159 you know what, in my teen year period, I've been 1840 01:40:28.239 --> 01:40:31.600 to the playoffs at least five or six times, So 1841 01:40:31.840 --> 01:40:32.399 I didn't. 1842 01:40:32.159 --> 01:40:33.479 Go out there and do anything reckless. 1843 01:40:33.640 --> 01:40:34.439 But I'm happy the. 1844 01:40:34.439 --> 01:40:38.039 Broncos are finally trying to rewrite the book and get 1845 01:40:38.119 --> 01:40:38.720 themselves back. 1846 01:40:39.039 --> 01:40:41.079 I'm just going to say it, Okay, we all thought 1847 01:40:41.439 --> 01:40:45.520 rebuilding year, rookie quarterback, we're looking for you. If we're 1848 01:40:45.560 --> 01:40:47.279 eight and eight, nine and seven, it's gonna be. 1849 01:40:47.279 --> 01:40:47.880 A Q year. 1850 01:40:48.439 --> 01:40:50.319 Now we're in the playoffs, and now I'm like, crap, 1851 01:40:50.359 --> 01:40:52.039 we got to go to Buffalo. This is not my 1852 01:40:52.119 --> 01:40:54.680 favorite place to play, especially in the winter during a 1853 01:40:54.760 --> 01:41:01.560 freaking polar vortex or whatever. Yes, well I'm not getting crazy. Okay, No, 1854 01:41:02.119 --> 01:41:04.520 eat more wings. Eat more wings. 1855 01:41:04.920 --> 01:41:05.880 To show those. 1856 01:41:05.800 --> 01:41:09.600 Buffalo people that we're not scared of their wings, their 1857 01:41:09.720 --> 01:41:11.279 history at the Anchor bar, all that crap. 1858 01:41:11.319 --> 01:41:12.199 We don't have to worry about that. 1859 01:41:12.279 --> 01:41:14.880 You know, Manny, what you speak of only elevates the 1860 01:41:15.000 --> 01:41:16.119 level of expectations. 1861 01:41:16.720 --> 01:41:17.000 You know what. 1862 01:41:17.520 --> 01:41:21.600 I'm trying to manage my own expectations because currently all 1863 01:41:21.640 --> 01:41:23.880 the pressure's on Buffalo because nobody thinks we're gonna win, 1864 01:41:24.800 --> 01:41:28.159 you know, I mean, we're basically playing on borrowed You know, 1865 01:41:28.960 --> 01:41:33.319 we got exactly That's exactly what I was going to say. 1866 01:41:33.920 --> 01:41:36.359 You've probably been on teams like that before, though, where 1867 01:41:36.479 --> 01:41:38.880 nobody expected to How much does that play into it? 1868 01:41:39.000 --> 01:41:42.720 Do you really feel sort of a sense of relief 1869 01:41:42.800 --> 01:41:45.479 going into an underdog because the expectations are lower, because 1870 01:41:45.479 --> 01:41:46.920 I think last time I heard Ross say it was 1871 01:41:46.920 --> 01:41:49.159 like the lines like eight and a half maybe, so 1872 01:41:49.239 --> 01:41:51.520 that's a pretty good spread for a playoff game. You're 1873 01:41:51.520 --> 01:41:52.079 absolutely right. 1874 01:41:52.199 --> 01:41:55.640 There's no pressure on the Broncos because they were not 1875 01:41:55.720 --> 01:41:57.640 supposed to be here. No one predicted them to be 1876 01:41:57.760 --> 01:42:01.640 at this particular point. And it's all Bufalo because they've 1877 01:42:01.680 --> 01:42:04.439 had issues over the years getting past Kansas City. And 1878 01:42:04.800 --> 01:42:07.560 Josh Allen is in the MVP conversation, Yeah, you lose 1879 01:42:07.640 --> 01:42:08.600 to the Denver Broncos. 1880 01:42:09.079 --> 01:42:09.680 That's bad. 1881 01:42:10.680 --> 01:42:16.039 That is very, very very bad. So it's exciting. We 1882 01:42:16.159 --> 01:42:17.199 don't know, do we know what day? 1883 01:42:17.399 --> 01:42:17.520 Is it? 1884 01:42:17.560 --> 01:42:22.880 Saturday or Sunday? Says, so we got a full week, yes, not. 1885 01:42:22.920 --> 01:42:25.560 Rehearsal, it is. 1886 01:42:26.960 --> 01:42:29.439 The line was as high as I've seen it as nine. 1887 01:42:29.520 --> 01:42:30.239 Now it's down to eight. 1888 01:42:30.720 --> 01:42:34.439 Okay, Yeah, Hi, Mandy Nick's hat yesterday was great. What 1889 01:42:34.560 --> 01:42:39.439 hat you were yesterday? You have so many that you 1890 01:42:39.479 --> 01:42:40.119 don't even remember. 1891 01:42:43.159 --> 01:42:45.520 I don't know the exact name of the hat itself, 1892 01:42:46.039 --> 01:42:48.920 but people call it peaky biding, like. 1893 01:42:48.920 --> 01:42:51.920 A NewsCap, a newsboy cap. Chuck has one of those. 1894 01:42:51.920 --> 01:42:55.279 I really like. I't exactly what was the name. 1895 01:42:55.359 --> 01:42:55.840 Proper names. 1896 01:42:55.880 --> 01:42:58.800 I'm trying to bring back hat wearing because in Europe, like, 1897 01:42:58.880 --> 01:43:00.560 all the people wear hats there, and I bought the 1898 01:43:00.640 --> 01:43:02.760 most dynamite hat, but I forgot to wear it. I 1899 01:43:02.800 --> 01:43:04.239 should today. What'd been a perfect day for me to 1900 01:43:04.279 --> 01:43:06.880 wear my hat, but I can't get head from when 1901 01:43:06.920 --> 01:43:08.399 we're in a black sweater. It would go perfectly with 1902 01:43:08.479 --> 01:43:13.159 what I have on today. Not that motivated anyway, Mandy. 1903 01:43:13.399 --> 01:43:15.840 School names, we're talking about this. There's a new law 1904 01:43:16.000 --> 01:43:18.800 in Colorado that if your kids go to school tomorrow 1905 01:43:18.960 --> 01:43:22.600 and say I would like to be called super califragilistic xplidocious, 1906 01:43:22.800 --> 01:43:25.399 the school is required by law to honor their chosen name. 1907 01:43:25.680 --> 01:43:28.760 What goes with the pronouns? Yeah? 1908 01:43:28.800 --> 01:43:30.199 Yeah, what's all part of it? 1909 01:43:30.399 --> 01:43:32.079 Why are we doing this? Well, I'm doing it so 1910 01:43:32.159 --> 01:43:34.159 I can send my daughter to school tomorrow and ask 1911 01:43:34.239 --> 01:43:36.239 to be called the honorable Lady, Rainbow of the Man 1912 01:43:36.359 --> 01:43:36.880 or the second. 1913 01:43:37.760 --> 01:43:39.439 By the way, it looks like there's a lot of 1914 01:43:39.439 --> 01:43:41.399 different names for it, newsboy. 1915 01:43:40.960 --> 01:43:44.199 Cap, baser boy, cat cap, but flat cap looks to 1916 01:43:44.279 --> 01:43:45.840 be When you say. 1917 01:43:45.680 --> 01:43:51.600 A newsboy cap, everybody's gonna know what you're talking about. Yes, yeah, yeah, 1918 01:43:51.680 --> 01:43:53.199 but it is definitely a newsboy cap. 1919 01:43:53.279 --> 01:43:53.760 That is the thing. 1920 01:43:53.920 --> 01:43:57.079 I now it's time for the most exciting segment on 1921 01:43:57.239 --> 01:43:58.520 the radio of its kind. 1922 01:44:00.600 --> 01:44:05.840 Whoa a little soccer flavor to it out that day? 1923 01:44:06.159 --> 01:44:06.520 All right? 1924 01:44:06.600 --> 01:44:08.640 What is our dad joke of the day? Please? 1925 01:44:08.920 --> 01:44:10.680 Well this just didn't just saw this news story. 1926 01:44:10.760 --> 01:44:14.119 A mummy covered in chocolate and nuts has been discovered 1927 01:44:14.159 --> 01:44:14.680 in Egypt. 1928 01:44:14.920 --> 01:44:17.479 Wait, a mummy covered with chocolate and nuts. 1929 01:44:18.079 --> 01:44:24.479 Archaeologists believe it may be Pharaoh rochet. Okay, that's super 1930 01:44:24.600 --> 01:44:25.720 dumb and I love that one. 1931 01:44:25.800 --> 01:44:29.319 That was a good one. What is our word of 1932 01:44:29.359 --> 01:44:29.600 the day. 1933 01:44:31.039 --> 01:44:33.560 This doesn't tell me the kind of word it is. 1934 01:44:33.880 --> 01:44:34.680 Let me just double check. 1935 01:44:36.880 --> 01:44:40.439 No, I think it's a noun that's non parvenu. 1936 01:44:40.960 --> 01:44:42.800 P a r v n u. 1937 01:44:43.399 --> 01:44:45.800 A parvenu sounds like something you do in the bathroom. 1938 01:44:47.319 --> 01:44:48.279 You should get that checked out. 1939 01:44:49.720 --> 01:44:51.920 It's something you're really good at that's your parvenue. 1940 01:44:52.520 --> 01:44:56.479 Okay, Nick, think that, but like the opposite, just get 1941 01:44:56.880 --> 01:45:00.880 just not just not know it's your weirdness. It an upstart, 1942 01:45:01.159 --> 01:45:04.159 somebody who's suddenly rich but doesn't fit into their. 1943 01:45:04.079 --> 01:45:12.880 New social status, like the Beverly Hillbillies. Yeah, okay there, Yeah, Well, 1944 01:45:13.479 --> 01:45:16.159 today's trivia question. What is the difference between a lamb 1945 01:45:16.279 --> 01:45:19.680 and sheep? I mean a lamb is a baby sheep? Right, 1946 01:45:19.960 --> 01:45:21.920 So what do they when they turn one? Do they 1947 01:45:21.960 --> 01:45:24.119 turn into a lamb? When did they turn into a sheep? 1948 01:45:25.079 --> 01:45:27.079 Is like a weight thing? Or is it? Because with 1949 01:45:27.159 --> 01:45:29.680 pigs it's it's a weight thing before they go from 1950 01:45:29.720 --> 01:45:36.680 a pig to a hog. So a lamb is a 1951 01:45:36.720 --> 01:45:38.800 baby sheep. After one year of life, a lamb becomes 1952 01:45:38.840 --> 01:45:39.159 a sheep. 1953 01:45:39.239 --> 01:45:39.600 There you go. 1954 01:45:40.359 --> 01:45:42.479 How is ridiculously obvious? 1955 01:45:42.640 --> 01:45:42.960 Easy? 1956 01:45:43.159 --> 01:45:47.359 Right there? Hang on me, Nick? All right? 1957 01:45:47.479 --> 01:45:48.720 What is our jeopardy category? 1958 01:45:48.920 --> 01:45:49.159 Word? 1959 01:45:49.319 --> 01:45:49.439 Up? 1960 01:45:50.319 --> 01:45:50.560 Word? 1961 01:45:50.840 --> 01:45:54.840 All We'll start with up. To transfer information from your 1962 01:45:54.840 --> 01:45:55.760 computer to one another. 1963 01:45:56.079 --> 01:45:56.800 What is upload? 1964 01:45:58.359 --> 01:46:01.319 It's the general cost of maintaining a hume ranny. 1965 01:46:01.560 --> 01:46:04.439 What's upkeeper? Sorry, Nick, I'm gonna smoke you on this one. 1966 01:46:04.760 --> 01:46:05.039 Nice. 1967 01:46:05.119 --> 01:46:08.199 You got this pre bump into first class for your flight, 1968 01:46:12.520 --> 01:46:13.039 your name. 1969 01:46:13.600 --> 01:46:13.720 Yes. 1970 01:46:13.880 --> 01:46:17.359 Theater can mean to take the focus from another actor. 1971 01:46:18.000 --> 01:46:21.840 What is upstage correct? And for this weep to censure 1972 01:46:22.079 --> 01:46:26.359 or criticize someone not start pigtails from the bottom. 1973 01:46:27.720 --> 01:46:31.560 What is upbraiding? Upbraid. 1974 01:46:32.279 --> 01:46:36.399 That's the one thing that sucks about doing this, he 1975 01:46:36.640 --> 01:46:39.880 is I'm conflicted in my brain because I am I 1976 01:46:40.000 --> 01:46:43.039 want to say the answer yeah and my name simultaneously. 1977 01:46:43.239 --> 01:46:45.159 No, you gotta just shout out Nick. And here's the thing. 1978 01:46:45.239 --> 01:46:46.880 The more you do this, the better at it you get. 1979 01:46:47.000 --> 01:46:50.159 Ryan is one multiple days as late because he comes 1980 01:46:50.199 --> 01:46:52.159 in every day. The more you do it, the better 1981 01:46:52.239 --> 01:46:54.279 you get at It's like it's like football, Nick. The 1982 01:46:54.359 --> 01:46:55.920 more you do it, the better you get at it. 1983 01:46:55.960 --> 01:46:57.840 The more you play of the day, the better you 1984 01:46:57.920 --> 01:46:59.520 get at you'll be ready for the super Bowl of 1985 01:46:59.560 --> 01:47:01.239 the day. Has never actually occurred. 1986 01:47:01.279 --> 01:47:03.560 And the walking, the fast walking competition that you still 1987 01:47:03.640 --> 01:47:04.079 do need to have. 1988 01:47:04.640 --> 01:47:05.159 My knee is. 1989 01:47:06.399 --> 01:47:07.920 Actually feel it feels really good. 1990 01:47:08.359 --> 01:47:10.760 I'm just afraid to do a thing with it. 1991 01:47:11.560 --> 01:47:14.479 I got a torn miniscus that's not sort of like 1992 01:47:14.600 --> 01:47:19.800 in that well maybe it doesn't hurt right now then twice, 1993 01:47:19.960 --> 01:47:22.000 but they're basically like you know, don't. 1994 01:47:22.840 --> 01:47:24.039 I don't know, it's too. 1995 01:47:24.359 --> 01:47:26.840 Don't do physical activity on it because right now. 1996 01:47:26.920 --> 01:47:29.319 My whole thing is that I don't even run anymore, 1997 01:47:29.359 --> 01:47:31.680 and I have a run in years. But it was 1998 01:47:31.720 --> 01:47:33.439 at the point where it's hurting all the time. 1999 01:47:33.520 --> 01:47:35.520 Now it's not hurting at all. But I just wear 2000 01:47:35.520 --> 01:47:37.239 a knee brace when I work out, like when I 2001 01:47:37.319 --> 01:47:39.279 lift weights and stuff, I wear a knee brace, so 2002 01:47:39.399 --> 01:47:43.119 it feels okay. So I'm almost like, I don't want 2003 01:47:43.159 --> 01:47:44.199 to hurt it again, you know what I mean. 2004 01:47:44.520 --> 01:47:45.880 I mean, what do you do with that? 2005 01:47:46.079 --> 01:47:48.399 You can't go through the rest of life cautious because 2006 01:47:48.439 --> 01:47:48.600 of that? 2007 01:47:49.000 --> 01:47:51.239 Well, you you definitely want to be cautious as it 2008 01:47:51.319 --> 01:47:55.239 pertains to that, because have you ever had surgery for yours? Now? 2009 01:47:55.840 --> 01:47:57.439 You don't want it? No, I know that. 2010 01:47:57.720 --> 01:47:58.319 No, I don't know. 2011 01:47:58.680 --> 01:48:00.159 That's kind of why I'm like a little bit. I'm 2012 01:48:00.199 --> 01:48:02.640 a little bit skittish. But like I said, feels great 2013 01:48:02.720 --> 01:48:05.239 right now. Everything is doing right now, is working just fine. 2014 01:48:05.880 --> 01:48:08.399 So speedwalking maybe back on for the spring. I'll be 2015 01:48:08.520 --> 01:48:11.319 practicing anyway. We're gonna make room. We got Koa Sports 2016 01:48:11.359 --> 01:48:13.760 coming up next. I will be back tomorrow for another 2017 01:48:14.199 --> 01:48:17.000 exciting show. Because everybody's back from vacation and there's finally 2018 01:48:17.039 --> 01:48:19.319 news again. Keep it right here on the blue torch 2019 01:48:19.399 --> 01:48:20.520 of the Rockies KOA