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Speaker 5: I don't care that it was basically a guinea game
Speaker 5: against a bunch of guys on the practice squad.
Speaker 6: I don't care thirty eight nothing against the best bats
Speaker 6: in the league.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 7: That is an excellent way to put it.
Speaker 4: Ain't you excellent? Get dominated?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean, dare I say the game was a little
Speaker 5: boring in the second half. I was a little beer horse.
Speaker 5: I was just saying I was a little bored. I
Speaker 5: was perfectly fine with the highlight reel on this one. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm not looking to give to horse in the mouth.
Speaker 5: And I'm excited about this, as all Bronco fans should be.
Speaker 5: But then we have to go to Buffalo.
Speaker 4: Dang it, Pucha.
Speaker 5: There's not a soft game in these playoffs, Like usually
Speaker 5: when you look at the playoffs.
Speaker 6: Schedule and these teams, Oh there's one, hey beat Buffalo
Speaker 6: and then go to Kansas City.
Speaker 5: Oh, I like your confidence, cause that's where we would go.
Speaker 5: H I like your moxie on that one. AnyWho, it's
Speaker 5: it's going.
Speaker 7: To be a tough, tough road to.
Speaker 5: The super Bowl, but of course we will cover it
Speaker 5: all for you here at KOA. And uh So that's exciting,
Speaker 5: that's very, very exciting, And I have that on the
Speaker 5: blog today. I actually have the video that a Rod
Speaker 5: shot of our own Dave Logan planting the flag at
Speaker 5: empower Field at Mile High and it was it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 6: Dave's not listening, so I'm going to say something right
Speaker 6: now exclusively.
Speaker 4: For your listener.
Speaker 6: Yes, Dave was a little giddy, I think about doing it,
Speaker 6: and it was really, really, really fun to watch him be.
Speaker 4: A little giddy about it.
Speaker 6: Really, and again, in this business nature of the business,
Speaker 6: you get desensitized. Dave Logan's been to a million Broncos games,
Speaker 6: playing in Broncos games. Here's a little gina about doing that.
Speaker 6: I don't think he's ever done something like that before.
Speaker 6: And that was that was fun. He was into it,
Speaker 6: you can tell by the video.
Speaker 4: Go watch it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's on the blog today at mandy'sblog dot com.
Speaker 5: Let me get right to that, because I gotta tell you,
Speaker 5: after the two weeks or so of the last two
Speaker 5: weeks of the year, when no one is really paying
Speaker 5: attention and no one is working it, I'll be finding
Speaker 5: the news. For the last week on the show was
Speaker 5: like a nightmare because everybody was still on vacation. Well,
Speaker 5: everybody's back now and there's so much news. The blog
Speaker 5: is so big you're probably gonna have to use two hands.
Speaker 5: Like even if you pull it up on your smartphone,
Speaker 5: you're just gonna need two hands because it's so big.
Speaker 5: You can find it at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog
Speaker 5: dot com. Look for the headline that says one six
Speaker 5: twenty five blog will the wake up call work? And
Speaker 5: Mayor Johnston lied to Aurora. Click on that and here
Speaker 5: are the headlines you will find within I.
Speaker 4: Dine Office happening all with ships and clipments of seen
Speaker 4: that's gonna press.
Speaker 5: Pledge today on the blog the Vegas bomber wasn't wrong.
Speaker 5: This is why we don't trust government. It's Mayor v
Speaker 5: Mayor over illegal immigrants. The case against bike laims. Well,
Speaker 5: we've stopped the influx of new people to Colorado. The
Speaker 5: Broncos are in the playoffs. What airlines are on time?
Speaker 5: The most scrolling? Wait, oh, that's in the wrong order.
Speaker 5: That's frustrating. A stupid new law creates confusion at school.
Speaker 5: Let's end the aid of addiction. Should churches work to
Speaker 5: house the homeless? Another unelected person joins the legislature. Good luck,
Speaker 5: Boulder restaurants. Democrats are coming for your detachable magazines. More ways.
Speaker 5: The Dems want to make Colorado unlivable. The Golden Globes
Speaker 5: were last night. We just didn't appreciate all that the
Speaker 5: Democrats did for us. Trudeau is on his way out
Speaker 5: in Canada. Multitasking is a lie. The most civil Catholic
Speaker 5: president ever. Men paying women to do things their wives
Speaker 5: don't do. Those are the headlines on the blog at
Speaker 5: Manday's blog dot com. So, as you can see, we
Speaker 5: have lots and lots of stories. But I got to
Speaker 5: tell you the funniest thing I have seen in so
Speaker 5: long is a video at the bottom of the blog.
Speaker 5: You're gonna have to click through to see it on Twitter,
Speaker 5: and it is a video of men paying a certain
Speaker 5: kind of woman to perform certain kinds of things that
Speaker 5: their wives won't do. And I'm just gonna leave it
Speaker 5: at that a rod because we are on the radio
Speaker 5: and I don't want to get in trouble yes with
Speaker 5: the FCC by being too descriptive of what these men
Speaker 5: are paying these blog I know it's so good. Today's
Speaker 5: like the best watch because it's so interesting. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: want to start right with something heavy, because we're we
Speaker 5: now know quite a bit more about the man who
Speaker 5: blew up a Tesla truck at the Trump Hotel in
Speaker 5: Las Vegas. He was a Green Beret and he was
Speaker 5: active duty but was on leave. He seemed to be okay.
Speaker 5: Nobody spoted anything, you know, very wrong with the guy.
Speaker 5: And yet a guy who was a Green Beret made
Speaker 5: such a rudimentary explosive device in using canisters of gas
Speaker 5: and the large fireworks in order to create an explosion.
Speaker 5: There's a zero percent chance I believe that a Green
Speaker 5: Beret would not be able to make a better bomb
Speaker 5: than that, And it made me question, like, what was
Speaker 5: the purpose of this? Well, now we know there were two.
Speaker 5: When I saw one news article called a manifesto, which
Speaker 5: I think is a great way to put it because
Speaker 5: you think of manifesto as like a long drawn out document.
Speaker 5: This guy had two documents that were found on his
Speaker 5: phone after he shot himself and then set the interior
Speaker 5: of the Tesla truck a light outside the Trump Hotel.
Speaker 5: Now I put a link to where you should read them.
Speaker 5: And I say should because this is an opportunity for
Speaker 5: you to skip the news media. You could skip me,
Speaker 5: in my opinion, like you can just because they're not long.
Speaker 5: One of them takes up maybe a third and it
Speaker 5: appears to be double space of one page, and the
Speaker 5: others maybe a half maybe three quarters of another page
Speaker 5: typed these are not long.
Speaker 7: Then, as a matter of fact, why I just read
Speaker 7: it to you.
Speaker 5: Right now, because I think that what this guy was
Speaker 5: trying to do it was a shout into the wind.
Speaker 5: But I'll let you decide for yourself. The first one says,
Speaker 5: fellow service members, veterans, and all Americans, time to wake up.
Speaker 5: We are being led by weak and feckless leadership who
Speaker 5: only serve to enrich themselves. Military vets moving on DC
Speaker 5: starting now. Militious facilitate and augment this activity. Occupy every
Speaker 5: major road, long federal buildings in the campus of the
Speaker 5: federal buildings by the hundreds of thousands. Lock the highways
Speaker 5: around down with semis right after everybody gets in hold
Speaker 5: until the purge is complete. Try peaceful means first, but
Speaker 5: be prepared to fight to get the Dems out of
Speaker 5: the federal government and military by any means necessary. They
Speaker 5: all must go, and a hard reset must occur for
Speaker 5: our country to avoid collapse. That from and then he
Speaker 5: signs his name. That's the first one and the first line.
Speaker 5: We are being led by weak and feckless leadership who
Speaker 5: only serve to enrich themselves. I mean, is that really
Speaker 5: off the mark? But the second one is the one
Speaker 5: that I feel like is more important. In this one,
Speaker 5: he says, we are the United States of America, the
Speaker 5: best country people to ever exist, but right now we
Speaker 5: are terminally ill and headed toward collapse. We are crumbling
Speaker 5: because of lack of self respect, morals, and respect for others.
Speaker 5: Greed and gluttony has consumed us. The top one percent
Speaker 5: decided long ago they weren't going to bring everyone else
Speaker 5: with them. You are cattle to them. We have strayed
Speaker 5: from family values and corrupted our minds. And I am
Speaker 5: a prime example of having it all but it never
Speaker 5: being enough. A lot of us are just sitting around
Speaker 5: waiting to die. No sunlight, no steps, no fresh air,
Speaker 5: no hope. Our children are addicted to screens by the
Speaker 5: age of two. We're filling our bodies with processed foods.
Speaker 5: Our population is too fat to join the military. Yet
Speaker 5: we are facing a war with China, Russia, North Korea
Speaker 5: and Iran before twenty thirty. We must take these actions
Speaker 5: if we're going to make it past the next few
Speaker 5: years in one piece. We must end the war in
Speaker 5: Ukraine with negotiated settlement. It is the only way. Focus
Speaker 5: on strength and winning. Masculinity is good and men must
Speaker 5: be leaders. Strength is a deterrent, and fear is the product.
Speaker 5: Weeded out those in our government and military who do
Speaker 5: not idealize. Number two. The income inequality in this country
Speaker 5: and cost of living is outrageous. The number of homeless
Speaker 5: on our street is embarrassed and disgusting. Have some pride
Speaker 5: and take care of this. Stop obsessing over diversity. We
Speaker 5: are all diverse and DEI is a cancer. Thankfully we
Speaker 5: rejected the DEI candidate and we'll have a real president
Speaker 5: instead of weekend at Bernie's. We must move on from
Speaker 5: the culture of weakness and self enrichment perpetuated by our
Speaker 5: senior political and military leaders. We are done with the
Speaker 5: blatant corruption. Our soldiers are done fighting wars without end
Speaker 5: states or clear objectives.
Speaker 7: This was not a terrorist attack. It was a wake
Speaker 7: up call.
Speaker 5: Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better
Speaker 5: way to get my point across than a stunt with
Speaker 5: fireworks and explosives. Why did I personally do it?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 5: I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I've
Speaker 5: lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives
Speaker 5: I took. Consider this last sunset of twenty four and
Speaker 5: my actions the end of our sickness and a new
Speaker 5: chapter of health for our people. Rally around the Trump
Speaker 5: musk can and ride this wave to the highest hedge
Speaker 5: many for all Americans. We are second to no one.
Speaker 5: That is the and two separate as they're calling on
Speaker 5: minifestos of the man who blew up a truck in Vegas.
Speaker 5: And because he did not kill anyone but himself, and
Speaker 5: he shot himself before the explosion started, I can feel
Speaker 5: sorry for him instead of angry at him.
Speaker 7: I mean, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 5: Somebody could have been killed, but I'm guessing When he
Speaker 5: stopped the car, he looked around to assess the situation
Speaker 5: before creating havoc. I just feel I feel heartbroken for
Speaker 5: this guy because in so many.
Speaker 7: Ways I agree with him.
Speaker 5: I agree with him that we're just drifting through our
Speaker 5: lives as a nation collectively. We're not living purposeful lives,
Speaker 5: not taking care of ourselves, We're not doing things that
Speaker 5: Michelle Zelner likes to say makes a person a happy,
Speaker 5: healthy human. He's right about all of that stuff, but
Speaker 5: it's so depressing to think that this was the method
Speaker 5: that he chose in order to make some kind of splash,
Speaker 5: some kind of difference. And you know what, a vast
Speaker 5: majority of people are not even going to read these
Speaker 5: two small documents and know what he said because the
Speaker 5: news media is reporting it as well. He was a
Speaker 5: Trump supporter, and you know he wasn't anti Trump, because
Speaker 5: everybody was speculating it was Elon Musk's truck outside of
Speaker 5: Trump hotel. Maybe it's anti Trump. All they're basically saying, No,
Speaker 5: he liked Trump, and that's all you're getting. You don't
Speaker 5: get the heartbreaking part about him killing himself because he
Speaker 5: needed to clean cleanse his mind of the brothers he's
Speaker 5: lost and relieve himself of the burden of the lives
Speaker 5: I took. Stuff like this makes me far more or
Speaker 5: far less rather interventionist than I used to be. What
Speaker 5: have we done to two three generations of men now
Speaker 5: who have volunteer to serve our country a bold and
Speaker 5: noble purpose.
Speaker 7: But what are we doing to them?
Speaker 5: We're sending them to fight words that we're not serious
Speaker 5: about winning, and when we finally do win it, we
Speaker 5: can't give it back to the enemy fast enough, at
Speaker 5: least that's how it seems in Afghanistan.
Speaker 7: So yeah, this is.
Speaker 5: This is It's just sad and depressing. It's a much
Speaker 5: different situation than the guy in New Orleans. This was
Speaker 5: this guy's lad. I liken this too in a way,
Speaker 5: you know, him setting himself on fire on the steps
Speaker 5: of the capitol. People do that in order to draw
Speaker 5: attention to something they think is important, and all that
Speaker 5: gets reported is someone set themselves on fire at the
Speaker 5: capitol and the message just kind of gets lost. But
Speaker 5: if you feel powerless to get the message across, if
Speaker 5: you're feeling like nothing I'm doing or nothing I'm going
Speaker 5: to do is going to make an impact, then I
Speaker 5: guess this is how you do it. I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's just very very very very sad, very sad. Mandy.
Speaker 5: The post about men paying women reminds me of an
Speaker 5: old Buddy Hackett joke. The punchline is paint my house.
Speaker 5: She said she do anything he wanted for three hundred bucks.
Speaker 7: Nice.
Speaker 4: Nice?
Speaker 5: Uh, Mandy, please explain planting the flag and why that
Speaker 5: is important? I don't know. I don't know what the important.
Speaker 5: But does it have historical meanings?
Speaker 4: Uh? I don't believe so.
Speaker 6: Or is it just tradition, like in general or at
Speaker 6: the Broncos specifically at the Broncos games.
Speaker 4: I don't know vas a specific tradition. I don't know that.
Speaker 4: And in general, it's just a matter of firing people up.
Speaker 5: All right, here we go, I have this right now.
Speaker 5: Ummm let's see it. How many end up up the
Speaker 5: Oh no, that's the big flag on the field. I
Speaker 5: don't know.
Speaker 7: I have no idea why we do that. Does somebody know?
Speaker 5: Then, text us, because there's a lot on flag planting.
Speaker 5: I mean, when you plant the flag, you are basically
Speaker 5: saying we are your we are your conqueror. But planting
Speaker 5: the flag of the Broncos game takes place before the game,
Speaker 5: and we're planting it on our own territory.
Speaker 4: So I'm not sure why it's very I mean, it's
Speaker 4: a ceremony.
Speaker 6: They have a spot right below the big jumbo drawn
Speaker 6: big screen and they had like a little made up
Speaker 6: spot with a little piece of you know, dirt or
Speaker 6: turf or whatever it is, and then yeah, just plant
Speaker 6: it right.
Speaker 5: There the crowd the Seminoles when the Florida State Seminoles win,
Speaker 5: which I'm sure they'll do again next year after taking
Speaker 5: this year off. Well, when they come back next year
Speaker 5: after taking this year off, I'm sure they'll get right
Speaker 5: back to the winning. They take a piece of the
Speaker 5: turf and there's a turf graveyard at in Tallahassee that
Speaker 5: you can go visit. It has the little placard of
Speaker 5: the game that it came from.
Speaker 7: It's pretty awesome. It's pretty awesome anyway, Mandy.
Speaker 5: As a Cold War veteran, I feel that we've burned
Speaker 5: our golf war veterans badly. We must provide a lot
Speaker 5: more mental health care. The VA must be fixed, you know. Ralph.
Speaker 5: That's from Ralph, and I would love to think that
Speaker 5: the VA was gonna get quote fixed. I'd love to
Speaker 5: see that, but at this stage in the game, I
Speaker 5: don't understand why we need to. You know, work if
Speaker 5: you're a small government person working to privatize as much
Speaker 5: of what government.
Speaker 7: Does should be the goal.
Speaker 5: You know, anything that can be done in the private
Speaker 5: sector is probably going to be done far more efficiently,
Speaker 5: even with the profit mode is factored in. Then government
Speaker 5: can do it. Proof and point broadband. Do you know
Speaker 5: that we've spent billions of dollars to deliver rural broadband
Speaker 5: and no one has been connected. What if we had
Speaker 5: contracted that out to a private company with actual dates
Speaker 5: and deadlines, at least we'd have broadband. So I don't
Speaker 5: understand why we can't privatize more of the VA healthcare system.
Speaker 5: That needs to happen. There should be no reason for
Speaker 5: us to even have the level of VA hospital care
Speaker 5: that we have now because I don't feel like people
Speaker 5: are getting better care there. If I thought veterans were
Speaker 5: getting better care through the VA system, I would say
Speaker 5: one hundred percent keep it. And there is value in
Speaker 5: having people who have served in the medical profession, but
Speaker 5: they can still provide that service outside the VA hospital system.
Speaker 5: Which is just fraught with cost overruns and waiting lists
Speaker 5: and all of the things you would expect to see
Speaker 5: in government healthcare. Not as bad as it used to be.
Speaker 5: It used to be horrific. Now it's a little bit better,
Speaker 5: maybe a lot better in some areas. But I know
Speaker 5: veterans here in this community who have horror stories about
Speaker 5: going to the beautiful Tajma via the billion and like,
Speaker 5: I don't even know how much that thing ended up
Speaker 5: costing and waiting eight hours to be seen.
Speaker 7: What the blank is that? That is socialized medicine. So
Speaker 7: I interviewed the guy who was the.
Speaker 5: He was the secretary of the VA back in let's see,
Speaker 5: it was pre CU, So this is sixteen seventeen years ago.
Speaker 5: I believe his name was Jim Nicholson, if I am
Speaker 5: remembering correctly, And he had all these grandiose plans to
Speaker 5: fix the VA, and we're moving it in the right direction,
Speaker 5: blah blah bah bah beh. But we still have too
Speaker 5: many veterans who cannot get the healthcare that they need,
Speaker 5: who cannot get the mental health care that they need,
Speaker 5: and the stigma is still strong when it comes to
Speaker 5: accessing the services that are available there's a real fear
Speaker 5: among active active duty members of the service that they
Speaker 5: will be declared undeployable if they express the mental health issues.
Speaker 5: And I got to tell you, I don't necessarily think
Speaker 5: that would be a bad idea, but on the other
Speaker 5: side of that, it damages their potential to be promoted.
Speaker 7: So we've disincentivized.
Speaker 5: People getting help in a group of people that we're
Speaker 5: asking to sometimes do incredibly difficult things, things that are
Speaker 5: beyond their control when they're in the middle of it,
Speaker 5: you know, I mean, it's just the whole system is
Speaker 5: just so jacked up. Thank you, Ralph for correcting me.
Speaker 5: Global War on Terror. So this is one of the
Speaker 5: reasons that I really really want to see Pete Hegseth
Speaker 5: get confirmed. And there's been a lot of things kind
Speaker 5: of bandied about about Pete Hegseth and I have looked
Speaker 5: into the sexual impropriety accusation as much as I can,
Speaker 5: but there's very little evidence. But what evidence exists makes
Speaker 5: me lean towards believing Pete more than I believe his
Speaker 5: accused her. Now I could be wrong, I really could,
Speaker 5: but I looked at it with as you know, as dispassionate.
Speaker 7: I as I could.
Speaker 5: But I think Pete Hegseth, coming in from the outside,
Speaker 5: being a former active duty soldier not that long ago,
Speaker 5: is exactly the kind of leader to come in and
Speaker 5: just say enough. Veterans deserve to have access to the best.
Speaker 7: Healthcare available, period.
Speaker 5: And right now what we see is the VA and Tricare,
Speaker 5: which is the insurance program for veterans, you know, doing
Speaker 5: such a bad job that Children's hospital was going to
Speaker 5: dump them from their network. Oh I wish the VA
Speaker 5: would be fixed? Oh man, do I wish the VA
Speaker 5: would be fixed? So we shall see Yogi texting in.
Speaker 5: I hope Trump will expand on his administration's previous steps
Speaker 5: to allow vets to go seek our own help and
Speaker 5: support instead of the VA. Exactly exactly right. So yeah, Mandy,
Speaker 5: Apparently the cyber truck dude knew a bunch about the
Speaker 5: Chinese drones. He emailed into podcaster Sean Riot about what
Speaker 5: he knows about the deep state stuff, including the East
Speaker 5: Coast drones. Leland Conway brought this up on a show
Speaker 5: on six hundred co Go. I could not find anything
Speaker 5: other than that podcaster and no offense.
Speaker 7: But I'm just not.
Speaker 5: Sure that that's altogether accurate. Mandy. Is it a fair
Speaker 5: comparison to say that the Veterans administration is similar to
Speaker 5: socialized healthcare?
Speaker 7: Yes, it is in the hospital system.
Speaker 5: One hundred percent. One hundred percent. Anyway, Uh, Mandy. I
Speaker 5: believe the flag ceremony is a way of saying, this
Speaker 5: is our territory and we're gonna defend it.
Speaker 6: That is true, and that's what opposing teams have started
Speaker 6: to do in the last couple of years, Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 6: where you plant your flag on the other opposing teams
Speaker 6: and that's just rude. Baker Mayfield's awesome, No, but that's rude.
Speaker 6: It's cool, it's rude. And I think you're just jealous
Speaker 6: that people are doing or State's.
Speaker 5: Thing because everything good has come from Florida State. Coming
Speaker 5: up at one o'clock. I did not mention this earlier.
Speaker 5: We got Jimmy Sanenberger coming in. He wrote a great
Speaker 5: column that goes right to the heart of what I
Speaker 5: think is something that must be addressed or our country
Speaker 5: cannot survive.
Speaker 2: And that is the.
Speaker 5: Way government treats the citizens that it is supposed to
Speaker 5: be beholden to with absolute disrespect and indifference.
Speaker 7: And we have a perfect example in jeff Coo Public schools.
Speaker 5: We're going to talk to Jimmy about that in just
Speaker 5: a few minutes, but right now I've got more mayor
Speaker 5: on mayor of verbal violence, and it's I'm being sarcastic
Speaker 5: when I say verbal violence. It's not even remotely verbal violence,
Speaker 5: because I don't believe in verbal violence. But that being said,
Speaker 5: Mayor Mike Kaufman of Aurora has written a column in
Speaker 5: the Denver Gazette. Denver's Mayor offloads immigrants in Aurora is
Speaker 5: the headline, and I'm just gonna give a little taste
Speaker 5: of it, just a little little feel for it. In
Speaker 5: late November twenty twenty four, Mayor Mike Johnston asked me,
Speaker 5: this is the column written by Aurora Mayor Mike Coffin,
Speaker 5: Just to be clear. In late November twenty twenty four,
Speaker 5: Mayor Mike Johnston asked me for permission to use an
Speaker 5: extended state quality in Hotel and Aurora to help temporarily
Speaker 5: house some of the busloads of migrants that were overwhelming Denver.
Speaker 7: I initially said yes, but it soon.
Speaker 5: Became a parent that beyond giving the newly arrived migrants
Speaker 5: a thirty day hotel voucher, he had no plan for
Speaker 5: them other than leaving them homeless in Aurora. To make
Speaker 5: matters worse, his contract with the extended stay hotel owner
Speaker 5: forced all of the existing residents who were paying by
Speaker 5: the week because they didn't have the income or credit
Speaker 5: to get an apartment lease out to make room for
Speaker 5: busloads of migrants coming from Denver. When I found this out,
Speaker 5: he says, I called Johnston and demanded that he pick
Speaker 5: up the migrants as soon as their vouchers expired and
Speaker 5: take them back to Denver. He did, and from that
Speaker 5: points forward, I turned down his request for further assistance.
Speaker 5: Unlike Denver, Aurora is not a city and county form
Speaker 5: of government, so we do not have the specific funding
Speaker 5: sources or the structure necessary to provide support on an
Speaker 5: ongoing basis.
Speaker 7: And then he goes on to talk.
Speaker 5: About how after August eighteenth of twenty twenty four and
Speaker 5: the videos of the Venezuelan trende Aragua gang at the
Speaker 5: edge of lowry apartments went viral, he sat down with
Speaker 5: Kyle Clark and Mayor Mike Johnston to talk about how
Speaker 5: Denver and Aurora with state and federal law enforcement partners
Speaker 5: were aggressively pursuing gang members.
Speaker 7: My confidence says, just before the interview started, I.
Speaker 5: Turned to Johnston and said, how I thought it was
Speaker 5: strange that I seemed to be having all the problems
Speaker 5: with Venezuelan gangs and he didn't.
Speaker 7: I then said, I thought that's because he was.
Speaker 5: He understood the situation by knowing where they were in
Speaker 5: his city while I didn't. Johnston talks incessantly in political
Speaker 5: sound bites, said nothing in response. Now, in September, someone
Speaker 5: sent him an article from the City Journal about Aurora,
Speaker 5: and it was about how the federal government subsidized the
Speaker 5: migrant madness in suburban Colorado, and the article stated that
Speaker 5: it was Mayor Mike Johnston who, via the cover of
Speaker 5: two nonprofit organizations, moved migrants from Denver to Aurora. According
Speaker 5: to the article, this funding in hand, the two NGOs
Speaker 5: began working with landlords to place migrants in housing units
Speaker 5: and to subsidize their rent. One of these organizations, Papagaio,
Speaker 5: worked with a landlord called CBZ Management, a property management
Speaker 5: company that operates the three apartment buildings at the center
Speaker 5: of the current controversy. Edge of lowry whispering Pines and
Speaker 5: Fitzsimmons Place also known as Aspen Grove. So and then
Speaker 5: it goes on from there. But essentially Mayor Mike Kaufman calledman,
Speaker 5: was like, dude, what's up? And Mayor Mike Jos was like.
Speaker 7: Uh, yeah, those are NGOs, But.
Speaker 5: I don't know how many people we moved over there
Speaker 5: and I don't have that information. Isn't it amazing that
Speaker 5: everything that the Governor's office or excuse me, that the
Speaker 5: Denver Mayor's office wants to claim as a victory, they
Speaker 5: have no data on where any of these people are.
Speaker 5: Oh you want to know exactly how many people have
Speaker 5: been moved out of the homeless hotels into permanent housing
Speaker 5: and drug and alcohol treatment.
Speaker 7: Oh sorry, we.
Speaker 5: Can't get you that number. We can't know. Oh you
Speaker 5: want to know how many illegal immigrants the City of
Speaker 5: Denver helped pay to move into Aurora without a notifying
Speaker 5: aura that they were coming. Oh sorry, that number is
Speaker 5: not available. I mean, it's just absolutely crazy.
Speaker 7: Just nuts. And this is what's passing.
Speaker 5: For mayoring in Denver right now. So I guess Mayor
Speaker 5: my coffin felt it was necessary. And by the way,
Speaker 5: you know, the only reason they know this. They did
Speaker 5: an open records request to get copies of the contracts
Speaker 5: between Denver and the two nonprofits that moved all of
Speaker 5: these migrants into Aurora, and according to the open records request,
Speaker 5: we now know. He says that the words in Denver
Speaker 5: or in the surrounding communities were quietly inserted into the
Speaker 5: contracts to allow the nonprofits to pick people in Aurora
Speaker 5: without notifying Aurora. I mean, say what you will. I mean,
Speaker 5: I don't think Aurora or any other city that isn't
Speaker 5: a sanctuary city, should bear any responsibility for the wave
Speaker 5: of illegal immigrants that Denver is now taking care of.
Speaker 5: I don't think that they owe them a single dime.
Speaker 5: I don't think they owe them any help. I think
Speaker 5: that they should just tell Denver to pay for it themselves.
Speaker 5: You guys wanted to be a sanctuary city. You guys
Speaker 5: hung up the big immigrants Welcome sign on city Hall. Well,
Speaker 5: now the chickens have come home to roost and you
Speaker 5: can deal with them. I don't mind any of that.
Speaker 5: But Aurora wasn't even given the opportunity to say yay
Speaker 5: or nay. And this is such a weasel move by
Speaker 5: Mayor Mike Johnston an absolute weasel move. There's no other
Speaker 5: way to put it. He essentially, it's a lie by
Speaker 5: omission to the mayor of the the biggest city that
Speaker 5: is right next to yours. You just lied because you
Speaker 5: wanted to take it off your plate and put it
Speaker 5: on someone else's plate so you could stand there and
Speaker 5: talk about how welcoming we all are in Denver, so
Speaker 5: welcoming those Highland moms, Just how Mandy Mayor Mayor Hancock
Speaker 5: used to come on with you once a month. Did
Speaker 5: Mayor Johnston said he would do the same. Hey, Rod,
Speaker 5: let's let's put our thinking cap on for just a moment.
Speaker 5: I seem to remember and correct me if I'm wrong
Speaker 5: that when candidate Mike Johnston was on the show, I
Speaker 5: directly asked him about that, and he was amenable and said, sure,
Speaker 5: we're gonna keep doing it.
Speaker 7: That is correct.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we've efforted, Oh boy, A Rod has made efforts,
Speaker 5: lots and lots and lots of it, and at this point, honestly,
Speaker 5: I don't care if he ever comes back on the show.
Speaker 5: I really don't care. Makes no difference to me. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna do a show every single day without him. He
Speaker 5: would have a great opportunity to come on, and I mean,
Speaker 5: maybe try and explain. Although I have to agree with
Speaker 5: Mike Kaufman's assertion that Johnston speaks in political sound bites
Speaker 5: that say absolutely nothing. Very frustrated with the Denver mayer
Speaker 5: right now? Is anybody else frustrated by the notion that
Speaker 5: somehow all downtown Denver needs is a multi million dollar
Speaker 5: renovation of Civic Center Park to make everything okay, and
Speaker 5: we're all gonna rush back downtown again. It's so stupid,
Speaker 5: so stupid. Until they fix the crime, until they fix
Speaker 5: the homelessness, until they make it feel safe and clean
Speaker 5: downtown again, they can renovate everything.
Speaker 7: Anyway.
Speaker 5: So I messed. We're trying to get Mayor Mike Coffman
Speaker 5: on the show. I believe he will come on the show.
Speaker 4: Communication has been opened, yes, so we're walking on that.
Speaker 5: But I want to get inside of this because I
Speaker 5: will tell you this is a pretty pretty strong shot
Speaker 5: across the bow by Mayor Mike Kaufman at Mayor Mike Johnston.
Speaker 5: It would be helpful if one of them went by Michael,
Speaker 5: because then I could call him Mayor Mike and Mayor Michael.
Speaker 7: But I can't do that this. This is a.
Speaker 5: Very aggressive political step, and you may not see it
Speaker 5: as maybe aggressive, you might think aggressively, but in politics
Speaker 5: there's sort of this like, uh oh wait, hang on,
Speaker 5: Justin Trudeau is stepping down? Can we I wonder if
Speaker 5: anybody's playing this. I want to know what he's saying.
Speaker 6: Is that.
Speaker 7: This is just captions of him on me?
Speaker 8: Yeah, that if I'm having to fight internal battles, I
Speaker 8: cannot be the best option in that election.
Speaker 7: All right, you can turn it down now.
Speaker 5: So he is out. That's fantastic for Canada, Absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 7: I'm going to talk about this for just a second when.
Speaker 5: We get back. I've never had an issue with Justin
Speaker 5: Trudeau until the entire thing with the Canadian truckers in
Speaker 5: the COVID vaccine. Like, don't get me wrong, I thought
Speaker 5: policy wise, he was an absolute disaster, just a miss,
Speaker 5: and every decision he's made seems to have been the
Speaker 5: wrong one in my view. So now he's resigning as
Speaker 5: Liberal Party leader. But you guys, it's not just in
Speaker 5: Canada that liberal government is on the ropes. It's been
Speaker 5: on the ropes for a long time in Europe a
Speaker 5: long time, and now it seems to be accelerating around
Speaker 5: the world. It obviously was rejected here in the United States,
Speaker 5: with every county nearly in the United States moving to
Speaker 5: the right. So I'm wondering what exactly is the underpinning here.
Speaker 5: Why are we all rejecting it at the same time. Well,
Speaker 5: I think part of it is because when you put
Speaker 5: people in power who believe that government power is the
Speaker 5: ultimate power, and that you know, everything, every bit of
Speaker 5: money in the economy that they let us keep is
Speaker 5: is just their own largees. And when they believe that
Speaker 5: government is the end all be all and it has
Speaker 5: all of the answers, they become very unresponsive to the
Speaker 5: people that they are supposed to be governing. And we've
Speaker 5: seen that over and over and over again. We saw
Speaker 5: it especially during COVID. You know, we saw some ridiculous,
Speaker 5: completely fabricated stuff shoved down the throats of the American
Speaker 5: people six feet apart, absolutely pulled out of thin air.
Speaker 5: I mean, it was just so dumb, those plastic screens
Speaker 5: that were supposed to protect us from other I mean,
Speaker 5: it was just so stupid. And people lost their livelihoods,
Speaker 5: Some people lost their homes because of that, and they
Speaker 5: watched corporations who the government arbitrarily decided somehow didn't spread
Speaker 5: COVID be allowed to continue operating. I mean, it was
Speaker 5: just it was crazy, and it wasn't just here. But
Speaker 5: maybe this is enough. Maybe we've had a little taste,
Speaker 5: a little little snidge of totalitarianism, and it's going. How's
Speaker 5: people going? You know what?
Speaker 7: I did not enjoy that. I don't need that anymore.
Speaker 5: I don't want that anymore, except in Colorado, where we
Speaker 5: continually elect people who are determined to ruin our state
Speaker 5: in a multitude of ways. I have a story on
Speaker 5: the blog today and a texture just told me that
Speaker 5: I did not link to it, so I'll go find
Speaker 5: it again because we're going to be talking about it.
Speaker 5: U haul does a thing every single year where they
Speaker 5: talk about moving in and moving out of the state,
Speaker 5: and we've done it every year for the last I
Speaker 5: don't know, ten fifteen years. We have been at the
Speaker 5: top of the inflow in U haul's survey. I mean,
Speaker 5: we've been in the top ten for maybe the last
Speaker 5: ten years, much to the chagrin of many many people
Speaker 5: who have lived here their entire lives. But this year
Speaker 5: we have dropped from.
Speaker 7: Number nine to number forty.
Speaker 5: In one year. And it's simply because we are making
Speaker 5: it so no one wants to live here under the
Speaker 5: totalitarianism of the legislature that we currently have. And Oh,
Speaker 5: I've also got a story we're going to talk about
Speaker 5: in the next hour. Oh, they're already gearing up to
Speaker 5: have another legislative session that is going to make it
Speaker 5: even worse for businesses in Colorado. And they are not
Speaker 5: stopping their relentless attack on our Second Amendment rights. There's
Speaker 5: new legislation designed to be more appealing to people who
Speaker 5: don't understand firearms than the assault weapons.
Speaker 7: Ban, which failed last year.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just insane the stuff they're doing in
Speaker 5: our best interest, and that's the worst part. They're doing
Speaker 5: it for us, not to us. That's the attitude that
Speaker 5: you get. I also have video of Chuck Schumer today,
Speaker 5: and I'll just tell you what it is, because really
Speaker 5: it's lunchtime, you know, I want you to be able
Speaker 5: to enjoy your lunch. No a Rod, let me have
Speaker 5: my audio. I'm just gonna play him real quick because
Speaker 5: it's only twenty seconds. This is Chuck Schumer. So we
Speaker 5: did a lot of good things, but all too often, Kristen.
Speaker 9: We talked about the mechanics of the legislation and the
Speaker 9: details of the legislation, and we really didn't show the
Speaker 9: kind of empathy and concern to average or show enough
Speaker 9: of it to average working families who didn't really lies
Speaker 9: how much we had done and how much we care
Speaker 9: for them.
Speaker 5: So just to be clear, just to be clear, the
Speaker 5: Democrats didn't lose because of the things they did.
Speaker 7: They lost because.
Speaker 5: They they weren't good at letting us know how much
Speaker 5: we owed them. That's the translation of what he just said.
Speaker 5: When we get back, talk about another governmental organization that
Speaker 5: is trying to wring out any bit of trust from us.
Speaker 5: It is the jeff Co Public School System. Jimmy Seenberger
Speaker 5: wrote a Greek column about it. We're going to talk
Speaker 5: to him right after this.
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Speaker 2: Very sadly.
Speaker 5: That books. That's the call that greens Jimmy's singing brother
Speaker 5: into the studio. It's like a it's like the bat signal,
Speaker 5: only with blues music.
Speaker 7: And and look here he is hi, Jimmy.
Speaker 8: Yes, indeed, good afternoon, Mandy, Happy New Year, Happy you too.
Speaker 5: I brought you in for a very valid reason, and
Speaker 5: we're going to get to that in just a second.
Speaker 5: But you know, when we talk about newspapers dying and
Speaker 5: we talk about journalism being gutted because they've run all
Speaker 5: of their audience away to somewhere else, that's my view
Speaker 5: on it. Anyway, one of the things that is the
Speaker 5: most disheartening to me is that we got the newsroom
Speaker 5: and then there's no one to cover school board meetings,
Speaker 5: and there's no one to cover Shenanigan's when they arise.
Speaker 5: And I just want to give you a little credit.
Speaker 5: Through your column in the Denver Gazette. You're doing a
Speaker 5: great job casting a light on some of the areas
Speaker 5: that the school boards around town would rather you not
Speaker 5: cast a light too. So I really appreciate that. I
Speaker 5: appreciate you paying attention and continue what you talk about it,
Speaker 5: because when you look at the school systems across the country,
Speaker 5: it's very difficult to have an extremely successful urban district.
Speaker 2: It's just hard.
Speaker 5: There's too many people in poverty. Again, I understand that,
Speaker 5: but when you start to look at school districts, especially
Speaker 5: in suburban areas. Those are the school districts that are
Speaker 5: going to determine whether we get new businesses, whether people
Speaker 5: relocate company headquarters here. The quality of our education matters
Speaker 5: a ton from that perspective, and of course it matters
Speaker 5: because we are teaching the next generation of young people
Speaker 5: how to read, write, do arithmetic and all that good stuff.
Speaker 5: But man, have we lost our mission?
Speaker 7: We have lost our mission?
Speaker 5: And now this this, I mean, this story is honestly,
Speaker 5: it's like a lifetime movie. It's unbelievable. And I'll give
Speaker 5: the thumbnail sketch of the story. At the beginning of December,
Speaker 5: a rather announcement was made that chief of Schools, who
Speaker 5: was number three in command of Jeffco Public Schools, David Wise,
Speaker 5: had been fired and that was it. There was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 5: we fired it. That does not happen, Okay. If someone
Speaker 5: is being investigated for wrongdoing, they are put on leave
Speaker 5: and then the investigation unfolds, much to the frustration of
Speaker 5: people who know whatever happened happened. No, there was none
Speaker 5: of that. David Wise has been fired no longer with
Speaker 5: the district, and everybody's like, what what is happening right now.
Speaker 5: Then it comes out that he's being investigated for purchasing
Speaker 5: child sexual assault materials, so child pornography is what we're
Speaker 5: talking about. And then like a week later, he is
Speaker 5: in Maryland visiting family and commits suicide.
Speaker 7: Apparently what you would think, you would just think.
Speaker 5: Okay, the district has to get out in front of
Speaker 5: this at some point, right you gotta, especially if he's
Speaker 5: being investigated for child sexual assault possession. W The next
Speaker 5: logical question be, oh my god, what if some of
Speaker 5: our children were victimized? What I mean what?
Speaker 1: That?
Speaker 5: To me would be the natural response and the best
Speaker 5: way to find out if there are more victims is
Speaker 5: to go public and tell people what happened. So you
Speaker 5: can say, if you have any concerns about this, bring
Speaker 5: them to the district.
Speaker 3: We will.
Speaker 5: Then all of these things would be very rational choices. So, Jimmy,
Speaker 5: what did Jeffco Public Schools do in this situation?
Speaker 4: So there's a lot to unpack here.
Speaker 8: That is just what you would not be teaching in
Speaker 8: crisis management one oh one for sure. And it begins
Speaker 8: actually on December nineteenth is when the firing took place,
Speaker 8: and it was within twenty four hours of that that
Speaker 8: the news went out in a release from the district
Speaker 8: to the media saying, hey, this happened, there's an investigation.
Speaker 4: Nothing about what the investigation.
Speaker 8: Right entailed, anything of that sort, But no notice of
Speaker 8: any kind went out to the parents and families of
Speaker 8: the second largest school district in Colorado, which is Jefferson
Speaker 8: County Schools.
Speaker 4: At that time.
Speaker 8: It wasn't until after New Year's Day the next day,
Speaker 8: so January tewod that the district put out a statement
Speaker 8: where they and an email blast to parents and families
Speaker 8: and put an email blast out to staff and what
Speaker 8: have you, acknowledging the details about this and letting the
Speaker 8: parents and families know in the community, hey, this is
Speaker 8: what this investigation entailed. And here is a sort of
Speaker 8: some of the basic outlines of the timeline. Not showing
Speaker 8: compassion for the families, not really expressing any concern.
Speaker 5: It was coldly bureaucratic.
Speaker 8: As I write in my column yesterday, and I'll just add,
Speaker 8: I think that the big reason that this even happened
Speaker 8: of any kind of note is because on New Year's
Speaker 8: Day word came out and was confirmed by a sheriff's
Speaker 8: office in Maryland, where David Wise was visiting family with
Speaker 8: his family for the holidays, that he had died and
Speaker 8: what we now know is an apparent suicide, and that
Speaker 8: statement from the Maryland Sheriff's office is what first confirmed
Speaker 8: this investigation was about child putography.
Speaker 5: So it didn't come out before that. I thought it
Speaker 5: came out before that had been traveling on my Twitter feed.
Speaker 5: There was there was conversations about this. I mean, there
Speaker 5: was people that knew what this investigation was about. Here's
Speaker 5: here's the problem for me, So many problems, but the
Speaker 5: main problem for me is that I believe that school
Speaker 5: districts are so afraid of being sued, of being whatever
Speaker 5: because of things like sexual impropriety with a child, which
Speaker 5: happens in schools far more than people know. I mean,
Speaker 5: it is pervasive in the school system at least.
Speaker 8: Three or four times, including this one in Jefferson County schools.
Speaker 5: That we know of in last year alone, four how
Speaker 5: many times.
Speaker 8: At least or four different publicly known cases of some
Speaker 8: allegations of sexual propriety by staff members in Jefferson County.
Speaker 5: Schools just in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 7: But the wrong way to handle that is is to
Speaker 7: hide it.
Speaker 5: The only way that a school district gains credibility with
Speaker 5: parents is by making all of these things known and
Speaker 5: making sure that parents understand that if there's any a
Speaker 5: question of any sort of impropriety, they must be brought
Speaker 5: in immediately so they can take immediate action. The most
Speaker 5: frustrating thing about this, Jimmy, is that maybe I'm just
Speaker 5: getting old. I don't know, but I am now very
Speaker 5: close to being one of those people who doesn't ever
Speaker 5: trust anything that anyone from any branch of government tells me.
Speaker 5: And it feels so wrong because Jeff Co, more than
Speaker 5: anybody else that I'm aware of other than Boulder Valley,
Speaker 5: has leaned in to the trusted it jun do we
Speaker 5: know better than your parents? Oh, you want to change gender.
Speaker 5: We won't tell them that you want to change gender.
Speaker 5: We'll just call you whatever. We'll just let you use
Speaker 5: the boys. I mean, the level of intervention between the
Speaker 5: schools and parents has been next level, and I understand
Speaker 5: this guy was actually a big part of some of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Basically, as chief of Schools, he was essentially responsible for
Speaker 8: implementing the trusted adult policies of the district.
Speaker 5: What are those policies? That people want.
Speaker 4: Well, basically, look at it this way.
Speaker 8: So when we were kids, we might get along with
Speaker 8: a teacher, trust them, We feel comfortable.
Speaker 5: Confiding in them on certain things. We're having a rough
Speaker 5: day or what have you. We know that teacher.
Speaker 8: Especially when you're in middle or high school, there are
Speaker 8: some teachers that you will feel comfortable leaning on. I
Speaker 8: talk about one particular instance in middle school where I
Speaker 8: had that, and it was a natural development, right, and
Speaker 8: that's what should happen.
Speaker 5: You find it trust that it does all naturally. Instead,
Speaker 5: what the.
Speaker 8: District is essentially doing is saying, we want you to
Speaker 8: find your trusted adults. Sometimes let us know. They have surveys,
Speaker 8: They have all kinds of different ways of putting kids
Speaker 8: in the position of picking and identifying trusted adults, and
Speaker 8: they may not have those kinds of relationships. So there's
Speaker 8: a big difference between the natural development as it should be,
Speaker 8: of trust that is earned and institutionalizing trust by saying, oh,
Speaker 8: this person's a teacher or a staff member, so you
Speaker 8: should find them and trust them, and then you basically
Speaker 8: have the I think it's litensey Dad Goo of jeffco Kids.
Speaker 5: First, I quoted my column.
Speaker 8: Saying that David Weiss was the trusted adult of trusted
Speaker 8: adults because he was overseeing.
Speaker 5: The implementation of these policies, and not for nothing. And
Speaker 5: this is not to disparage any wonderful teachers who signed
Speaker 5: up to be a trusted adult and mean it and
Speaker 5: really want to be there for the kids. But damn,
Speaker 5: if I'm a pedophile in the schools, what do you
Speaker 5: think I'm gonna do? Oh, I'm going to put that
Speaker 5: little trusted adult side right up on my desk because
Speaker 5: the kids that are going to come to you who
Speaker 5: need that trusted adult are they going to be the
Speaker 5: easiest to victimize. So we basically created a feeder system
Speaker 5: for pedophiles in the schools.
Speaker 8: It's a big concern that a lot of folks have
Speaker 8: along the lines of the trusted adult might be that
Speaker 8: person who will say, you know what, if you feel
Speaker 8: like you should be questioning your gender, maybe you should
Speaker 8: be and guide them in that process as the trusted adult.
Speaker 8: And as you mentioned, Jeff co has been notorious for
Speaker 8: these kinds of things of keeping from parents the Teachers' Union,
Speaker 8: collaborating on there on the Facebook in a private group
Speaker 8: a couple of years back, being like, Okay, what are
Speaker 8: ways that we can dodge with the school boarding house?
Speaker 5: Can you take a survey without taking a survey to
Speaker 5: find out which one of your kids is trands right?
Speaker 5: I mean, it's so gross. And the trusted adult thing
Speaker 5: after an incident at my daughter's school. I don't remember
Speaker 5: what the incident was. It wasn't like that big a deal,
Speaker 5: but they had one of those conversations like who is
Speaker 5: your trusted adult in the school, and my daughter was
Speaker 5: like no one, Like what, no one, but she was
Speaker 5: put on the spot. I was very annoyed by that.
Speaker 5: To your point, I think that's a great way to
Speaker 5: put it. We all had teachers that we felt we
Speaker 5: could talk to and we could gravitate towards. And I
Speaker 5: was lucky to have one in high school that I
Speaker 5: called when I was in college to ask how to
Speaker 5: write a paper about Shakespeare. I mean, you know, those
Speaker 5: are the best teachers. Yes, But I think your point
Speaker 5: is spot on that to artificially decide that someone is
Speaker 5: going to be your trusted adult is just that it's artificial.
Speaker 5: It reeks of performance rather than depth.
Speaker 8: So the big problem here, Amandy, is not just that
Speaker 8: you have the trusted adult program that clearly needs to
Speaker 8: go without questions, and this is the latest example of that.
Speaker 8: In Jefferson County schools alone. There was a recent case
Speaker 8: I wrote about a couple months back of a school
Speaker 8: social worker. Middle school social worker named Chloe Castro, who
Speaker 8: had legations against her, was arrested for allegedly having a
Speaker 8: sexual relationship with a.
Speaker 5: Fourteen year old boy.
Speaker 8: And that was a Jefferson County School District employee. So
Speaker 8: they have these big problems, But then you have the
Speaker 8: issue of if the district is trying to hide the
Speaker 8: ball up the rest, if the district is not being straightforward,
Speaker 8: they're not showing that they even understand where we're coming from.
Speaker 8: That means I can't trust the district because they're not
Speaker 8: being honest. But it also indicates that the district isn't
Speaker 8: trusting me, the parent with this information.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's even that thoughtful. I think it is.
Speaker 5: You have a group of people, and I truly believe
Speaker 5: Tracy Dulin is a terrible, terrible leader of jeff Coup,
Speaker 5: absolutely terrible, and they have their little cabal of people
Speaker 5: and they believe they are doing God's work. They believe
Speaker 5: only they know I agree to your children.
Speaker 8: I think the impression for a lot of parents is
Speaker 8: I don't trust you with all of this, and you
Speaker 8: know what, I don't think you trust me either. I
Speaker 8: think there's a lot of a feeling of that that's
Speaker 8: like that for a parent, They're like, we can't stand this.
Speaker 5: What's going on. It's a big.
Speaker 8: Rot in Jeffco's schools, and especially when they're trying to
Speaker 8: control information as they have been, then that indicates that,
Speaker 8: you know what, if you had some trust in the district,
Speaker 8: maybe in fact that was misplaced. I mean, crisis management
Speaker 8: one oh one requires you to be forthright and honest
Speaker 8: as much as you can, and to show some semblance
Speaker 8: of sympathy, if not empathy for the people that you
Speaker 8: are speaking on behind.
Speaker 5: You know, I think that for this situation, and the
Speaker 5: point I was making at the beginning of our conversation Jimmy,
Speaker 5: is that they don't think anyone's going to ask questions.
Speaker 5: They don't think anyone's going to ask for documents, they
Speaker 5: don't think anyone's going to follow up, they don't think
Speaker 5: anyone's going to come to the school board meetings. They
Speaker 5: just don't think they have to be accountable, and that
Speaker 5: is like the jeff Co's school system. You could look
Speaker 5: at that, you could look at so many governmental organizations
Speaker 5: who have decided they don't need our input, like soil
Speaker 5: you sit down, shut up, we know what's best yes,
Speaker 5: And that I think is one of the reasons that
Speaker 5: the country started to move right this last election cycle.
Speaker 5: And I always want to say, keep it up, keep
Speaker 5: it up, because people are starting to pay attention. I'm
Speaker 5: not hopeful in Colorado that Jefferson County is going to
Speaker 5: vote in more conservative board members than they have now.
Speaker 5: I'm just I'm not confident about that. It's unfortunate because
Speaker 5: I think their school district is sliding backwards as this
Speaker 5: current leadership situation continues. But they show such disdain for
Speaker 5: the parents, for people in the community, for people who
Speaker 5: are worried about this stuff.
Speaker 7: That to me is how it comes across.
Speaker 5: It's like, you know what, we can't be bothered to
Speaker 5: reach out to the parents. But you said something in
Speaker 5: your column that there was like a meeting for teachers
Speaker 5: or something. Was there was were teachers given some kind
Speaker 5: of support or something. So what they had sent out
Speaker 5: in a blast email to staff.
Speaker 8: Was something that in part said, we have emotional support
Speaker 8: and gathering spaces for you.
Speaker 5: We know that this is quote unsettling and challenging.
Speaker 8: The situation is we have to reground ourselves in our
Speaker 8: why So they were putting out all of these like
Speaker 8: we want to accompany you in your staff, and you
Speaker 8: know what, I don't have a problem with that in
Speaker 8: and of itself, because look, there are a lot of
Speaker 8: people who have worked in the district and work in
Speaker 8: the district now who've interacted with David Wise. He was
Speaker 8: one of the two liaisons to the district accountability Committee
Speaker 8: for jeffcos So a lot of parents and community members
Speaker 8: are involved in that. So I don't have a problem
Speaker 8: with showing some of that sympathy. But you need to
Speaker 8: show that for the parents too and say, Okay, here
Speaker 8: is our understanding, show them we understand why you're concerned
Speaker 8: and you're fearful. Here's what we know and can share.
Speaker 8: Now here's how you can help. You made a very
Speaker 8: important point earlier. Yeah, and you were like, wouldn't you say,
Speaker 8: here's the way if you have any information that you
Speaker 8: can care, please go ahead and do that. That seems
Speaker 8: like the obvious thing that you would ask people to do,
Speaker 8: and yet nothing of the sort from jeffic More.
Speaker 5: Parents need to use CORA requests with schools. You guys
Speaker 5: and Jimmy, you've gotten Correra requests back. You have no
Speaker 5: idea what comes when you make a CORRA request, because
Speaker 5: if it's something an organization really doesn't want to share
Speaker 5: with you, they will bury you in a thousand pages
Speaker 5: of crap that doesn't really matter to get to the
Speaker 5: one page that you need. So the CORRA request system,
Speaker 5: I think is being abused by governments and I think
Speaker 5: that needs to change. I know it can be time
Speaker 5: consuming for people to gather of especially older documents that
Speaker 5: are not digitized, but if we're talking about pulling an
Speaker 5: email that takes twenty five seconds. Now you may have
Speaker 5: to sort through the emails to make sure. But it's
Speaker 5: very frustrating the way to the same point, I just
Speaker 5: made the disdain that governmental organizations show to people who
Speaker 5: just want to find out what actually happened.
Speaker 8: Well, when we've seen this in Denver Public schools on
Speaker 8: the school safety issues, where the district even to this
Speaker 8: point when they made some changes to their discipline policies,
Speaker 8: they still were woefully inadequate, and they've shown disdain for
Speaker 8: parents who have been outraged at how the district has
Speaker 8: been handling in Denver, how they've been handling school safety
Speaker 8: issues and disciplinary issues. And thankfully parents really stood up
Speaker 8: made some changes to the school board. But even then,
Speaker 8: and I write about this in tomorrow's.
Speaker 7: College Numbers, we're still so outnumbered.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Denver situation, there needs to be about three
Speaker 5: or four more school board members knocked off. And then
Speaker 5: they've got to get rid of Alex Morrero. I'm floored
Speaker 5: every day that guy still has a job. Floored.
Speaker 8: He is terrible as superintendent. He has deserved to go
Speaker 8: for a long time. And yet I think that the
Speaker 8: board is very reticent to find themselves in another superintendent
Speaker 8: search and sopanic man.
Speaker 7: So we don't want to, you know, we don't want
Speaker 7: to do that.
Speaker 8: I mean, it is the blowback that they would get
Speaker 8: from that, as well as the because they could find
Speaker 8: somebody else if they wanted to go the DEI routes specifically,
Speaker 8: they could find another person to be superintendent, but they
Speaker 8: are I.
Speaker 4: Know this for a fact. It's been an issue for a.
Speaker 8: Couple of years in DPS that the board has been
Speaker 8: very hesitant to find themselves in another superintendent search, in
Speaker 8: part because who the heck wants to work in DPS
Speaker 8: is a superintendent.
Speaker 5: I will tell you my experience with people who want
Speaker 5: to work in larger urban districts. They fall into such
Speaker 5: a hard left category anyway, that anyone willing to take
Speaker 5: this job for this board would not be an improvement.
Speaker 5: I don't think on Alex Morrero unless we could get
Speaker 5: somebody who said, you know what, one person improvement in
Speaker 5: student achievement is not good enough for me.
Speaker 8: If only Gosh the superintendent would say that, yeah, go
Speaker 8: figure who Actually, those are the good old days.
Speaker 5: Those are the good old days when student achieve and
Speaker 5: it was first instead of adults trying to protect themselves
Speaker 5: from difficult conversations from people they make mad because they
Speaker 5: want to do better for kids. So incredibly frustrating. Mandy,
Speaker 5: look up the case of Imagine. You were ewe r
Speaker 5: you ever heard of this? She and her mom worked
Speaker 5: for Jeff COO's schools and were suspected of theft by many.
Speaker 5: Then Imagine was caught red handed with stolen chromebooks. She
Speaker 5: was let go, but then re hired within the district.
Speaker 5: This past year, she was arrested for having a sexual
Speaker 5: relationship with a student. Her mother, if I remember correctly,
Speaker 5: was caught embezzling from the school she moved to. Now,
Speaker 5: because I don't know anything about this case, I don't
Speaker 5: want anyone to think that is accurate because I don't
Speaker 5: want to disparage or anything. I don't know anything about that.
Speaker 5: So Texter, we will look into it, and if we
Speaker 5: find out that you are right, then we will revisit that.
Speaker 5: But Mandy, this text are said. After personally be involved
Speaker 5: with multiple Colorado school districts for the past three decades,
Speaker 5: including Jeffco, I found school districts hide all kinds of
Speaker 5: information i e. Teachers on special assignments that hides administration
Speaker 5: numbers from their communities. So uh yeah, yeah, Mandy, this
Speaker 5: is interesting. Wait a minute, hang on, let me get
Speaker 5: this right, so I get the full thing. A custodian
Speaker 5: gains a lot of trust with students as he she
Speaker 5: doesn't pose as an authority figure.
Speaker 7: Along with bus drivers, there are good folks out there.
Speaker 5: It seems that teachers and principals are the bad guys
Speaker 5: at time, and they are sometimes they are not always.
Speaker 5: I mean, a vast majority of teachers and principals do
Speaker 5: a great job.
Speaker 8: I remember I happened to get along with well multiple
Speaker 8: teachers that I that I got along with when I
Speaker 8: was in high school. I remember getting along with a
Speaker 8: couple of the security guards. Same when I was at
Speaker 8: Regious University. We happened to think alike politically, so that
Speaker 8: certainly helped a little bit. But there is and that
Speaker 8: is actually an important point too about trust. Leaning on
Speaker 8: the SROs at schools or leaning on a security guard
Speaker 8: can certainly make a big difference.
Speaker 5: Uh this Dexter said, thankfully, I'm a cop and get
Speaker 5: super specific in my tons of CORA requests for Denver.
Speaker 7: I like to think my specific requests were a piece that.
Speaker 5: Hit two to three principles relieved, or that got two
Speaker 5: to three principles relieved. You never know. Keep it up, people,
Speaker 5: Jimmy Singerberger, good to see my friends. Do you want
Speaker 5: to stick around and talk about some other stuff for
Speaker 5: a minute. Yeah, I got a few.
Speaker 4: I got two.
Speaker 5: I got two things I want to talk about in
Speaker 5: the next half hour. And they're two editorials by the
Speaker 5: Denver Gazette. They're both so good, so so good about
Speaker 5: two separate things. But similar and somewhat connected in some circumstances.
Speaker 5: I hope that's a vague enough tease for you find
Speaker 5: out what I'm talking about next. Yeah, Okay, let's get
Speaker 5: into this before you have to go. There's a great
Speaker 5: editorial in the Denver Gazette about churches helping house homeless
Speaker 5: people and working towards affordable housing solutions. And you know,
Speaker 5: when you think about it, we have a situation in
Speaker 5: Castle Rock where I understand that the Rock Church wants
Speaker 5: to house people on their property in RVs and they
Speaker 5: feel like this is their mission as as a as
Speaker 5: a church, and I have to agree with them.
Speaker 7: I don't know if any faith, and.
Speaker 5: Maybe there are faiths out there, maybe Buddhism is sort
Speaker 5: of like, you know, let everything happen the way it's
Speaker 5: supposed to happen. But every single faith has a command
Speaker 5: to help those in need, right, That's a tenet of
Speaker 5: every form of religion. And we give churches tax exempt
Speaker 5: status because of the things they do in the community.
Speaker 5: And I'm not saying every church has to open their
Speaker 5: doors and start housing people in their you know, thaing
Speaker 5: to you know area, That's not what I'm talking about,
Speaker 5: but we should encourage.
Speaker 7: And assist and smooth the process.
Speaker 5: If churches say we would like to work to you know,
Speaker 5: give or provide affordable housing for people, we should one
Speaker 5: hundred percent support that because they don't have a profit motive,
Speaker 5: so there's no profit motive attached to it. And don't
Speaker 5: get me wrong, I don't mind a profit motive, but
Speaker 5: building a home in Colorado has become so expensive, mostly
Speaker 5: because of government regulations, that it's no longer profitable to
Speaker 5: build affordable housing.
Speaker 2: It just isn't.
Speaker 7: What are your thoughts?
Speaker 5: Should we make it easier, streamline the process, support churches
Speaker 5: and encourage them to work in this space if they
Speaker 5: have the ability. It's really interesting to consider this.
Speaker 8: First of all, I would say it is inherently better
Speaker 8: than government providing housing correct, without a doubt. And we
Speaker 8: can see, for example, and I'm Catholic, the Catholic charities
Speaker 8: do a phenomenal job at providing services for the poor
Speaker 8: and providing shelters for the homeless, and that's something that
Speaker 8: really I don't think there's any other private organization that
Speaker 8: could really hold a candle quite to what the Catholic
Speaker 8: charities have been able to do. And that's from so
Speaker 8: long of being at it and trying in so many
Speaker 8: different ways. When I look at this, so what's obvious
Speaker 8: much better to have this than the government. I do
Speaker 8: wonder about how you approach that from a government standpoint.
Speaker 5: As far as the property that is, does the government need.
Speaker 8: To sell some property to the churches in order for
Speaker 8: the churches to then manage that property, or do the
Speaker 8: churches need to go and do the real estate deals themselves.
Speaker 5: Will they do that?
Speaker 7: Prefer the latter?
Speaker 5: And here's why me too, because whenever you get government
Speaker 5: involved in any sort of situation in a collaborative way,
Speaker 5: then you run the risk of government making rules and
Speaker 5: or more importantly, preventing you from enacting certain rules. And
Speaker 5: I think that one of the reasons that church based
Speaker 5: charity has worked so well throughout our entire existence is
Speaker 5: when you are taking food from a food bank at
Speaker 5: a church, you're going to stand face to face with
Speaker 5: a volunteer, and there's a very personal nature to that
Speaker 5: transaction that does not exist when this nameless, faceless government
Speaker 5: does X y Z. You have no connection to the
Speaker 5: money where that money came from. But when you're standing
Speaker 5: in front of someone or you're getting rental assistance or
Speaker 5: you're getting some kind of help from a church.
Speaker 7: Churches do this stuff all the time.
Speaker 5: There is a personal connection there that I think makes
Speaker 5: it you have a sense of responsibility. Maybe some people
Speaker 5: they're always going to be people whose suck, right, I mean,
Speaker 5: they're going to try and work the system and never
Speaker 5: do anything instructive. I'm talking about everybody else who's just
Speaker 5: in a bad way. Yeah, you know, I agree with that.
Speaker 8: My concern even with that, though, that might come up
Speaker 8: and I have to think about this more, is I
Speaker 8: do worry about distortions of the private market that could
Speaker 8: happen that if you say, have Catholic charities or some
Speaker 8: other church entity that decides, you know what, we're going
Speaker 8: to go ahead and buy up a bunch of real
Speaker 8: estate properties and put them up for this kind of
Speaker 8: what the impact could be could still have some similar
Speaker 8: ripple effects in the market to a government coming in
Speaker 8: and doing something. It'd be better than that. Because I
Speaker 8: agree with you on what you just said, I won't
Speaker 8: repeat it. But I think there are always a little
Speaker 8: bit of a concern that you might have about distortions
Speaker 8: of the private market. But I think that can be
Speaker 8: addressed well enough. To justify churches to take this action themselves.
Speaker 5: I think the distortions are mitigated simply by the nature
Speaker 5: of the limits that are inherent on donor based housing
Speaker 5: or you know. I mean Catholic Charities is about to
Speaker 5: open a new property, but they have a finite set
Speaker 5: of resources.
Speaker 7: They can't just go to all of.
Speaker 5: Their parishioners te yeah, we're going to need an extra hundred,
Speaker 5: maybe a thousand bucks from each of you. That's not
Speaker 5: how it works. So there are natural limits on how
Speaker 5: much this point can be done. But you know, I'll
Speaker 5: know for any kind of creative solutions. I heard Ross
Speaker 5: had a couple of guests on his show because Littleton
Speaker 5: is trying to upsize certain parts of Littleton and neighbors
Speaker 5: are pushing back. I think that when a charity tries
Speaker 5: to do something to increased affordable housing, you may have
Speaker 5: pushed back from mediate neighbors who are laboring under the
Speaker 5: impression that somehow this is going to be you know, horrible.
Speaker 5: But I think they can get it done in a
Speaker 5: quieter way. I hate to say it like that, but
Speaker 5: in a quieter way that by the time everybody goes, oh,
Speaker 5: we've got you know, two families living in this now
Speaker 5: duplex or whatever it's kind of the neighborhood can absorb it.
Speaker 8: I would say also, one thing that is in favor
Speaker 8: of more of this kind of involvement from churches is
Speaker 8: that I think one of the reasons that we have
Speaker 8: seen over the decades such an expansion of the welfare
Speaker 8: state is because many churches have sort of pulled back
Speaker 8: and thought, you know what, the government is willing and
Speaker 8: able to do more of this, so we'll let them.
Speaker 8: And then that causes all kinds of problems that you
Speaker 8: don't have when churches people of faith are providing services
Speaker 8: for the poor.
Speaker 5: One of the things that people may not know about
Speaker 5: the United States of America is that as a as
Speaker 5: a country, the people of the United States of America
Speaker 5: donate more money to charity than the rest of the
Speaker 5: world combined combined. Think about when the tsunami hit in Indonesia,
Speaker 5: Americans dipped into their own pockets and donated more money
Speaker 5: to that cause than most other governments sent Because they
Speaker 5: rely on their government for everything, so it doesn't occur
Speaker 5: to them that they should be there to pick up
Speaker 5: the slack. And that's one of the things I love
Speaker 5: about Americans. They show over and over time and time
Speaker 5: again that when the government fails us, your neighbors, your friends,
Speaker 5: the people in your community, they're going to be the
Speaker 5: ones that are going to solve the problem. And that's
Speaker 5: why I think this would be a fantastic idea. Obviously,
Speaker 5: not every church is capable. Some churches are very very small,
Speaker 5: and they operate on very thin margins. But I would
Speaker 5: love to see more of this. I would love to
Speaker 5: see it made easier for churches and you know, the
Speaker 5: faith based nonprofits or even other nonprofits to basically say,
Speaker 5: you know what, we're going to throw up some affordable
Speaker 5: housing here. We're going to run this ten you an
Speaker 5: apartment complex, and we're going to make sure that it
Speaker 5: stays where people can pay for it. Jimmy Sangenberger, good
Speaker 5: to see you, my friends. Thank you very much, Mandy.
Speaker 5: I'm sure we'll see you again as we continue to
Speaker 5: talk about the dumpster fire of the school situation.
Speaker 9: I know more.
Speaker 7: Thanks for stopping, men, and we'll be right back.
Speaker 5: The question about whether or not churches should provide housing,
Speaker 5: and I got a couple different respects here, Mandy. Oh
Speaker 5: wait a minute, hang, I'll get that next, Hi, Mandy, dagnabit.
Speaker 5: Hang on, Mandy, many churches know who needs a hand
Speaker 5: and who needs a kick in the pants. Yes they do.
Speaker 5: Here's a different side of this, Mandy. Our church in
Speaker 5: downtown four Collins did overnight shelters for the homeless. The
Speaker 5: homeless hung around during the day and caused people that
Speaker 5: we rented the space to during the day to go elsewhere.
Speaker 5: Our church is now a vacant lot because we cannot
Speaker 5: afford to cover the costs to support the expenses without
Speaker 5: the rent income. There you go, There you go, Mandy. Hello.
Speaker 5: In my opinion, should homes have these rules? Number one
Speaker 5: can only be owned by an individual. Number two can
Speaker 5: only be owned by a US citizen. Number three US
Speaker 5: citizens can own no more than three homes. In my opinion,
Speaker 5: this would take homes away from non human entities. This
Speaker 5: would allow people to own multiple homes for rent and
Speaker 5: travel and such. Would remove homes from major wealth building.
Speaker 5: Based on your show today, it sounds like this country
Speaker 5: needs to do some navel gazing on our goals to
Speaker 5: be rich and powerful and get back to promoting family
Speaker 5: and community atmospheres. Just a thought. Sorry for the long text.
Speaker 5: Love your show. Thanks I disagree with the notion we
Speaker 5: should limit how many homes that an individual can can buy.
Speaker 5: I know a lot of people who in retirement live
Speaker 5: entirely off their income from rental properties that they have
Speaker 5: acquired over the years. Now, if you're talking about corporate
Speaker 5: ownership of houses, where where they own so many houses
Speaker 5: in an area that they create a massive distortion and
Speaker 5: almost a monopoly on rental prices, then I think we
Speaker 5: need to address that. We definitely need to address that.
Speaker 5: I think that perhaps limiting how many homes that one
Speaker 5: rental investment firm can own in a certain area might
Speaker 5: be a good start, But I'm not sure what that
Speaker 5: number is, and I'm not sure how many homes in
Speaker 5: each area that's the issue. The issue was partly that
Speaker 5: rents go with whatever people are willing to pay, and
Speaker 5: as long as they're willing to pay these exorbitant rents
Speaker 5: in certain areas when an area is desirable, then yeah,
Speaker 5: you're going to have higher rents, and that's going to
Speaker 5: lead to higher home prices, and that's going to lead
Speaker 5: to higher mortgages.
Speaker 7: But ultimately, if you.
Speaker 5: Just stick around and put democratic leadership in charge, you
Speaker 5: will make your state and city so unlikable that you
Speaker 5: drop from number nine on U Haul's infloat chart to
Speaker 5: number forty like Colorado has. So I mean it's not
Speaker 5: unreasonable to think that rent prices would drop if new
Speaker 5: people are not moving here and droves like they were,
Speaker 5: and they're not uh mandy. When government is involved, it
Speaker 5: makes it less charitable. There's an attitude of the government
Speaker 5: will take care of it. Luckily, in the USA, we
Speaker 5: still have some charity left. And I will say this,
Speaker 5: I think that when people get government money, they don't
Speaker 5: make the connection that it is taking it out of
Speaker 5: the pockets of their friends and neighbors and putting it
Speaker 5: into theirs. I think that because of the sanitized nature
Speaker 5: of the transaction, meaning that we have the US government
Speaker 5: as a middleman, or state and local governments as a middleman,
Speaker 5: you've now laundered that money. So the person receiving it,
Speaker 5: if they choose, can simply not think about the fact
Speaker 5: that they are living on someone else's hard work, that
Speaker 5: they are living on the sweat and tears and dedication
Speaker 5: of someone else. Sometimes you have to rely on that,
Speaker 5: and I hope it's temporary. See, I would like to
Speaker 5: have just a little bit of shame brought back to
Speaker 5: government assistants. I don't want people to walk around in
Speaker 5: sack cloth and ashes and feel terrible about themselves. It's
Speaker 5: not what I'm asking, but it should be uncomfortable. You
Speaker 5: should be embarrassed to live on government aid. And I
Speaker 5: think too many people have no shame at all in
Speaker 5: taking money from someone else for that very reason. Mandy
Speaker 5: limiting how many homes investment firms can own is that
Speaker 5: people own those investment firms, mostly people who have four
Speaker 5: oh one k's rots I rays. I understand that, I
Speaker 5: absolutely understand, But let me put it like this. Let's
Speaker 5: just say the cap is you cannot own, as a
Speaker 5: private company, one individual company with this set of you know,
Speaker 5: board members, you can only own fifteen percent of the
Speaker 5: homes in one certain DMA in a real estate market.
Speaker 5: Then that large company has a responsibility to go and
Speaker 5: find houses elsewhere. I'm not saying they can't own more houses.
Speaker 5: I'm saying they can't own more houses than a certain
Speaker 5: percentage in any specific real estate market. So they can
Speaker 5: continue to do what they're doing. But you've got to
Speaker 5: protect the market somehow, and I don't know how you
Speaker 5: do that in a free economy. Other than to say, Okay,
Speaker 5: you know what, you can do this up to this point,
Speaker 5: but now we got to have enough houses, And I mean,
Speaker 5: I don't know how that looks. If ten corporate overlords
Speaker 5: come into one area and they all buy that, I
Speaker 5: don't know how that works.
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm.
Speaker 5: Spitballing here, throwing stuff against the wall. But I don't
Speaker 5: know how to fix the problem other than to build more.
Speaker 5: But with all of the requirements that have been put
Speaker 5: on builders in the last ten years, building a house
Speaker 5: is far more expensive than it used to be. And
Speaker 5: until they do construction defects reform that changes the way
Speaker 5: people are able to sue in a condo defects case,
Speaker 5: we're not going to get any new because the insurance
Speaker 5: to ensure those builders has now become prohibitively expensive to
Speaker 5: make those units affordable at the end, I mean, all
Speaker 5: of those costs just get passed into the cost of building.
Speaker 5: We have big problem. Like I said, I'm spitballing. I'm
Speaker 5: open to suggestions, Totally open to suggestions. So yeah, George
Speaker 5: Freddie just texted me about a news report that was
Speaker 5: in Ross's show. I heard Ross address that and correct
Speaker 5: the record on that as well, and what happens in
Speaker 5: Ross's show doesn't really have anything to do with me.
Speaker 5: So uh, you might have said that during Ross's show
Speaker 5: and it just came through when we get back. First
Speaker 5: of all, I can't believe it's turney two o'clock. Let's
Speaker 5: talk about some of the stuff that the Democrats are
Speaker 5: going to do in the next legislative session, because some
Speaker 5: of them suck really badly. I also want to talk.
Speaker 7: About the lie of my ultitasking.
Speaker 5: Jesse Thomas, do you believe you can multitask?
Speaker 7: It's a lie, a.
Speaker 5: Rod Do you believe you can multitask?
Speaker 7: Yes, No, it's a lie.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you. I'll tell you what you're doing, but
Speaker 5: it's not multitasking. In the next hour, stick Around The.
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Speaker 5: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the third hour of the show.
Speaker 5: I'm your host, Mandy Connall. That guy over there is
Speaker 5: Anthony Rodriguez. We call him a rod And if you
Speaker 5: have not looked at the blog today. It's got some
Speaker 5: very interesting stories, including the minifestos. I like that minifesto.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's the serious thing. I shouldn't make light
Speaker 5: of it. But the Green Beret who killed himself and
Speaker 5: set off an explosion in a Tesla truck had made
Speaker 5: some notes on his phone that have now been released
Speaker 5: by investigators, and they're just very, very sad. And I
Speaker 5: heard or I mentioned in the first part of the
Speaker 5: show that because he didn't kill anybody else, I don't
Speaker 5: have to be angry at him. I can just feel
Speaker 5: just a wave of pity. But this guy was a
Speaker 5: patriot who's worried about where the country is going, worried
Speaker 5: about the fact that we're fat and can't join the
Speaker 5: military and we're probably going to war with Iran and
Speaker 5: China and who knows who else by twenty thirty, and
Speaker 5: that the United States is being run by people who
Speaker 5: were only invested in their own riches and enriching themselves.
Speaker 5: And I hate to say it, I think he's right.
Speaker 5: I put a link to both of those documents on
Speaker 5: the blog today. I would urge you to go ahead
Speaker 5: and read it, because did you hear about this anywhere else?
Speaker 5: The only way I heard about it is manifesto shows
Speaker 5: he's a Trump supporter. That was all they took from it,
Speaker 5: and some of it is just heartbreaking. This line is
Speaker 5: just haunting me. He said, why did I personally do it?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 5: I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I've
Speaker 5: lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives
Speaker 5: I took. That sentence is just incredibly sad. So we
Speaker 5: now know more about that guy. But that's on the
Speaker 5: blog today. I've got a couple of things on the
Speaker 5: blog that I want to get to right now. One
Speaker 5: of them the case against bike lanes. Now, I think
Speaker 5: we can all agree, if you're a driver, that there
Speaker 5: is nothing more infuriating than finding out that a road
Speaker 5: that is generally clogged anyway is going to be narrowed
Speaker 5: to make room for bike lanes. But we're told bike
Speaker 5: lanes save lives. Mandy, you heartless bastard. Why don't you
Speaker 5: just understand that bike lanes save lives. So I read
Speaker 5: this column by a young man named Frank Lehners Laners Lenners.
Speaker 5: Sope I got that right. Frank. He happens to be
Speaker 5: a bicyclist, an actual bicyclist uses his bike to go
Speaker 5: all over the place and loves it. He's actually worked
Speaker 5: in various ways to make biking more popular. He's a
Speaker 5: big bike he loves bicycling. This isn't a casual bike
Speaker 5: rider like you know I would be. And in this
Speaker 5: column and I would urge you to read it because
Speaker 5: it's very very good. He makes really rational, evidenced based
Speaker 5: suggestions that say bike lanes are not the way to go.
Speaker 5: What is the way to go to make byl bicyclists
Speaker 5: more safe, bicyclist education and teaching them how to integrate
Speaker 5: into the roadway without an expectation of having the lane
Speaker 5: completely free for themselves, because that's not usually how it
Speaker 5: works out. It's a very very good column. And I
Speaker 5: thought to myself, you know, this is the kind of
Speaker 5: our it needs to be made. Of course, it won't
Speaker 5: matter at all. I mean, it's not gonna matter one
Speaker 5: little bit that he was on the board of the
Speaker 5: San Diego County Bicycle Coalition and the San Diego Bicycle Club.
Speaker 4: Now that won't matter.
Speaker 5: It's it's incredible how much of what government is doing
Speaker 5: right now is just to give the impression that politicians
Speaker 5: are somehow better than we are in terms of knowing
Speaker 5: what we should do, of having the answers, of not
Speaker 5: asking enough questions. You know European cities which are super cool.
Speaker 5: They have lots of people riding bicycles, but most of
Speaker 5: them don't have bike lanes. The bicyclist just pay attention
Speaker 5: to what's going on around them. He does a great
Speaker 5: job also of talking about bicycle culture over all. And
Speaker 5: it really is a fantasy to think that we here
Speaker 5: in Denver, Colorado, where we have four seasons, are about
Speaker 5: to get more snow tonight it's cold as hell, are
Speaker 5: going to have the same bicycle culture as a place
Speaker 5: like San Diego, where the weather is beautiful every single
Speaker 5: day except maybe five throughout the year. And I'm not kidding.
Speaker 5: San Diego has the most perfect weather ever, so much
Speaker 5: so that it's almost boring. Oh look, another beautiful day
Speaker 5: in San Diego. Great.
Speaker 7: Fine, It's okay.
Speaker 5: Don't get me wrong. If you want to ride your bicycle,
Speaker 5: I want you to be safe while you're doing it.
Speaker 5: But I've also been the frustrated motorists behind the bicyclist
Speaker 5: who obviously isn't paying attention, obviously doesn't care that they've
Speaker 5: got twelve cars stacked up behind them as they're riding,
Speaker 5: half in the lane and half not. We all share
Speaker 5: the road together, but by C lanes are not going
Speaker 5: to make it better. Please read that editorial and commit
Speaker 5: it to memory. Good news, everybody, Good news. We have
Speaker 5: managed to finally persuade people Colorado is not the place
Speaker 5: they want to be.
Speaker 7: Nope, you Haul. Every single year, you Haul puts out a.
Speaker 5: Report and they this year this was two point five
Speaker 5: million moves, and they release a list of where people
Speaker 5: are moving to and where people are moving from. Now,
Speaker 5: you of course recognize that in order to have a thriving,
Speaker 5: vibrant state, it's good to have a good flow of
Speaker 5: immigrants bringing new ideas, new energy to the economy of
Speaker 5: our state. And Colorado has been really, really, really good
Speaker 5: in these rankings for a very long time, usually in
Speaker 5: the top ten. For a few years.
Speaker 7: We were in the top three. Last year, not so much.
Speaker 5: Colorado had the largest drop on the U HAUL ratings,
Speaker 5: following from number nine in twenty twenty three to number
Speaker 5: forty in twenty twenty four. So where are people moving to?
Speaker 5: South Carolina and Texas, followed by North Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee, Indiana, Oklahoma.
Speaker 5: Do you you know what's funny about all of those places?
Speaker 6: What is there?
Speaker 5: What is their political leadership?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 5: Let me just give you the top five and the
Speaker 5: bottom five to really clarify it for you. The top
Speaker 5: five go like this, number five, Tennessee, number four, Florida,
Speaker 5: number three, North Carolina, number two Texas, number one, South Carolina.
Speaker 5: Bottom five. This means more people moved out of these
Speaker 5: areas than moved in. Bottom five number fifty California for
Speaker 5: the fifth year in a row. Number forty nine, Massachusetts,
Speaker 5: number forty eight, New Jersey number forty seven, New York
Speaker 5: number forty six, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 7: Who runs those dates.
Speaker 5: We're beginning to see a pattern, and Colorado, in its
Speaker 5: quest to out California, California and out New York. New
Speaker 5: York is rapidly, rapidly moving into the bottom five. Now
Speaker 5: their number forty. They only dropped thirty one spots this year.
Speaker 5: I bet we can do better next year, be even lower,
Speaker 5: fewer people moving in. Think about you, guys, Think about
Speaker 5: everything Colorado has to offer.
Speaker 7: Think about how gorgeous it is.
Speaker 5: Think about the fact that we just came through a
Speaker 5: month of winter where we were like fifty degrees and
Speaker 5: sunny a vast majority of those days. The mountains, the
Speaker 5: hot springs, the vary natures of our landscape. And we're
Speaker 5: now losing people to South Carolina, to Tennessee, to Texas,
Speaker 5: North Carolina, Florida because the Democrats have made it so
Speaker 5: miserable to live here. How sad is that, especially for
Speaker 5: a guy who wants to be president, and all this
Speaker 5: happened on his watch. By the way, I went to
Speaker 5: get eggs yesterday. Still nothing, still nothing.
Speaker 4: Would you like to know how much I just spent
Speaker 4: on eggs?
Speaker 6: Do tell?
Speaker 5: I spent a lot on eggs anyway? Because I usually
Speaker 5: buy pasture rays, but they're not even available right now.
Speaker 4: So, big old box of sixty eggs? How much do
Speaker 4: you think that costs now?
Speaker 5: I know it costs like seven forty nine at one
Speaker 5: point at Costco.
Speaker 7: What is it now?
Speaker 4: Sixty eggs thirty dollars?
Speaker 5: Shut up, yep, shut the front door.
Speaker 6: Sixty eight eggs, thirty dollars, about two of them? Sixty bucks,
Speaker 6: one hundred and twenty eggs sixty bucks. Holy Larry, Yeah,
Speaker 6: I was pressed otherwise, was shopped around, but I had
Speaker 6: them to get them right then and there for a
Speaker 6: New Year's thing we were doing and had.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I am.
Speaker 4: I went to my housice second Walmart because the first
Speaker 4: one they were all out.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I went to my favorite King Supers and there was
Speaker 5: a guy with eggs on the cart, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean. And I was like, what do you got there?
Speaker 5: I'm over there, like what do you got because there's
Speaker 5: nothing in the case. He's like, well, I got these
Speaker 5: organic cage free. I'm like, I guess they'll have to
Speaker 5: do so you don't have to do my pasture raised
Speaker 5: right now. So I called one of my friends and
Speaker 5: asked what the egg situation is in Florida. Ay Rod
Speaker 5: asked me what the egg situation is? The egg situation
Speaker 5: is said, it's fine.
Speaker 7: Why are you even asking? But I'm sure it's nationwide.
Speaker 5: I'm sure. There you go positive, that's that's what's going
Speaker 5: on there. Okay, I got a bunch of stuff on
Speaker 5: the blog. I'm going to try and get to you here,
Speaker 5: but I want to talk about this for just a moment.
Speaker 5: The multitasking story on the blog Multitasking is a complete
Speaker 5: and total lie. We as human beings, are not capable
Speaker 5: of focusing on one thing more than wait a minute,
Speaker 5: we can't focus on more than one thing at a time,
Speaker 5: And I love this name for it. Okay, so, uh,
Speaker 5: multitasking is not really a thing, but what we do
Speaker 5: is a thing that one researcher a writer has named
Speaker 5: continuous partial attention. What we're doing is just rapidly switching
Speaker 5: from task to task. Now, lest you think this woman
Speaker 5: is is some kind of Ninka poop, She's spent her
Speaker 5: career at Apple and Microsoft watching how humans interact with technology,
Speaker 5: and while she would consider walking and chewing gum at
Speaker 5: the same time simple multitasking, she.
Speaker 7: Says focusing on more than one thing at a time
Speaker 7: usually just leads to disaster.
Speaker 5: A study of doctors, for example, found multitasking almost double
Speaker 5: mistakes in writing prescriptions, and the researcher Stone says, the
Speaker 5: smartphone is amazing, there's so many things we can do,
Speaker 5: one of the most seductive tools ever we've had in
Speaker 5: our hands. And yet what happens to the body. Our
Speaker 5: net goes down, our posture, we lose it, we lose
Speaker 5: our ability to breathe properly. So what she says is
Speaker 5: focus on one thing at a time, I've been trying
Speaker 5: the concept and this is not new I'm not breaking
Speaker 5: new ground here, but of block scheduling myself in the morning,
Speaker 5: trying to get more efficient, and it's really just a
Speaker 5: mind game I'm playing with myself, and block scheduling is
Speaker 5: where you say, for these three hours, I'm going to
Speaker 5: do the blog just bam, and for three hours, that's
Speaker 5: all I do. I don't get distracted by anything else.
Speaker 5: It actually puts this weird pressure on me because I
Speaker 5: have a deadline, even though it's a completely solved most deadline,
Speaker 5: and it wouldn't really matter if I didn't hit the
Speaker 5: deadline in the grand scheme of things. But I'm trying
Speaker 5: to get better because what I find myself doing is
Speaker 5: getting distracted, and that is not because then I go
Speaker 5: down this rabbit hole or that rap.
Speaker 7: It's usually you know what happens.
Speaker 5: I'm reading about a story and then I go, oh,
Speaker 5: I want to know whatever the backstory here is, and
Speaker 5: then I go to that story, and then I go
Speaker 5: to another, and then like an hour and a half later,
Speaker 5: I don't even know how I got to where I am.
Speaker 6: No clue.
Speaker 5: So anyway, no multitasking ladies and germs make multitasking a
Speaker 5: thing of the past. I think it's just another way
Speaker 5: to throw more stuff on our plates that they probably
Speaker 5: won't pay us for, no matter what job you have, Mandy,
Speaker 5: I live in rural Colorado. Two weeks ago, they were
Speaker 5: six forty five a dozen. Now they're only five point
Speaker 5: fifteen a dozen. Who boy, Yeah, you can't focus on
Speaker 5: taking a left turn. I'm on a busy street while
Speaker 5: carrying on a conversation. Who else turns the radio down
Speaker 5: when you are trying to follow directions?
Speaker 4: I love to say I can't see.
Speaker 5: It just helps you think. Because our brains, they're pretty
Speaker 5: simple creatures, don't train over extent yours. This person disagrees,
Speaker 5: Mandy can't multitask. That's bs driving in traffic and talking
Speaker 5: to your passenger getting directions from them. Sure, there are
Speaker 5: situations that require more attention while driving or parking.
Speaker 6: I'm also literally multitasking right now by saying this on
Speaker 6: airon texting the text line saying I'm literally multitasking right now, man,
Speaker 6: that's big l Wait, let me just confirm that it
Speaker 6: came through on the Kyle text one. Of course it
Speaker 6: has five six six nine zero. Think you common spirit
Speaker 6: health and waiting for received and look at that. I'm
Speaker 6: literally multitasking right now. Just came through on the text line.
Speaker 6: That's uncomfortable.
Speaker 7: But see doing neither of them well, that's that's really
Speaker 7: the problem.
Speaker 5: That's true.
Speaker 4: Both were terrible.
Speaker 6: Well one of them felled everything right, but I sounded
Speaker 6: like an idiot on airy.
Speaker 5: Okay, A couple of things I want to draw your
Speaker 5: attention to on the blog. First of all, video that
Speaker 5: a Rod sent me today.
Speaker 7: That is hilarious.
Speaker 5: It's a man paying a woman to do things his
Speaker 5: wife won't do, and it's worth your time. It's at
Speaker 5: the bottom of the blog today, very bottom of the blog.
Speaker 5: I also, just for fun, I have a video of
Speaker 5: our president, Joe Biden. I can't play it on the air.
Speaker 4: Square. Yeah does he really? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, whoa oh yeah. Me being the oldest president,
Speaker 5: I know more world leaders than any one of you
Speaker 5: have ever met in your whole blank blank life. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's going out strong, going out by the way, in
Speaker 5: the last flurry of activity. His staff, who is actually
Speaker 5: running the country, because you know, he has no clue
Speaker 5: what's going on, they're passing a whole bunch of stuff.
Speaker 5: He just banned any drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 5: I'm sure, uh yeah, he's really really going out with
Speaker 5: a bang or his staff is, I should say, because
Speaker 5: God knows he's not doing anything productive. There's a very
Speaker 5: good story on the new law that was passed in
Speaker 5: Colorado that allows high school students to determine what their
Speaker 5: name should be at school, and then the schools are
Speaker 5: required by law to call the students by their chosen name,
Speaker 5: and they don't have to tell their parents about it. Now,
Speaker 5: I'm about to do something that, as a parent, I'm
Speaker 5: kind of horrified about, but I'm going to tell my
Speaker 5: daughter to do it too. I want every high school
Speaker 5: kid to pick the most absurd name they could think
Speaker 5: of and demand to be called that absurd name.
Speaker 7: And I was thinking about this a rod, like what
Speaker 7: would I name the Q?
Speaker 5: Okay, so the Q is in high school thinking something like, uh,
Speaker 5: let me see here, let me see I'm gonna make
Speaker 5: our lady, you know, like a proper lady, like Lady.
Speaker 7: Q of the Mansion.
Speaker 5: I am just something completely ridiculous, rainbow in the lady Rainbow, Yes,
Speaker 5: Lady Rainbow of the manner. Okay, so yes and demand Yes,
Speaker 5: I'd like you to refer to me as Lady Rainbow
Speaker 5: of the manner, but.
Speaker 6: At the end, make sure you put the second so
Speaker 6: that way they think you're crazy second because you're the original. Whatever.
Speaker 5: Well, they probably already think I'm a little touched. It's okay,
Speaker 5: Lady Rainbow of the manor the second, and and demand
Speaker 5: that every teacher call them the most absurd ridiculous honor
Speaker 5: the honorable You're right, yeah, the honorable, Yeah, the honorable lady.
Speaker 5: That the honorable. It'll be like Tay Anderson just giving
Speaker 5: himself an honorific the honorable Lady Rainbow of the manor
Speaker 5: the second. And because this law is so so ridiculous
Speaker 5: that I want kids to point out to the adults
Speaker 5: how stupid it actually is. What if a kid comes
Speaker 5: in tomorrow and goes, ma'am. From now on, I've decided
Speaker 5: my name is going to be yo mama, and then
Speaker 5: for the rest of the year, which yo mama is
Speaker 5: you want to say something, Yo mama. This is just
Speaker 5: another example of government getting in between parents and kids.
Speaker 5: That's all it is. I am so sick of the
Speaker 5: people in Denver at the legislature in the Gold Dome,
Speaker 5: rushing rushing children into transitioning so they can be permanent
Speaker 5: medical patients for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 7: I'm so excited they keep doing that. And that's what
Speaker 7: this is.
Speaker 5: Studies have shown a children are affirmed. If their new
Speaker 5: gender is affirmed socially, almost all of them move on
Speaker 5: to medical transformation later. And I don't even think, like,
Speaker 5: my daughter is certainly not gender confused. But even if
Speaker 5: your kids aren't, I say, we all just ask our
Speaker 5: kids to go buy a different name and just be
Speaker 5: like you, well, I have your back. I fully have
Speaker 5: your back on this. And if the school colls me
Speaker 5: and says we're having a problem, no, no, no, you
Speaker 5: created the problem. We're just exploiting the problem. It's it
Speaker 5: would be fantastic. This is the kind of stuff that
Speaker 5: I would not do when I was in high school
Speaker 5: because I was a real goodie goody. But I would
Speaker 5: plant the seed in the minds of people that I
Speaker 5: knew would do it. I was basically like a Machiavelian, Hey,
Speaker 5: you know what we should do? And then I would
Speaker 5: never do it, but they would because it seemed like
Speaker 5: a good idea. The way I let I read, Oh
Speaker 5: you know what a news story today CNBC McDonald's rolls back,
Speaker 5: Dee I goals, huh weird, holl that's happening. Maybe they're
Speaker 5: going to focus on making food affordable again. That would
Speaker 5: be nice. Mandy. I wish to be called your excellency.
Speaker 5: Oh ooh, that's good, Your excellency.
Speaker 7: Mm hmm, your excellency.
Speaker 5: Could you imagine, like at graduation, walking across see stage
Speaker 5: and having someone saying, I'm now Summa cum Laudie Awards
Speaker 5: go to your excellency. Anyway, Mandy, I'd like to be
Speaker 5: called who's your daddy? There you go, Mandy. You already
Speaker 5: call your daughter que? How much weird? How much more
Speaker 5: can it get? Okay? They don't call her que at school?
Speaker 5: Princess can swil a banana hammock of course. Phoebe's fake name,
Speaker 5: Joey's fake name. Do you did?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 5: You hate friends, don't you? Cause you don't get it correct? Yep,
Speaker 5: too bad, Joey's fake name. Ken Adams, you got to
Speaker 5: have a lot of weird letters in there and just
Speaker 5: say they're all silent letters and wait, wait, what if
Speaker 5: you change your name to something like one of those
Speaker 5: names from like an African tribe where they just use
Speaker 5: clicks and.
Speaker 10: Like that.
Speaker 5: You know, what could you imagine? Like, excuse me, ma'am,
Speaker 5: I'd like to be going like that, let him fly
Speaker 5: with it. Yeah, I'm gonna that.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna need that.
Speaker 5: Mandy. I changed my name to mister Barkie von Schnauzer Mandy.
Speaker 5: They should pick an up scene name I would Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: Dingle Berry that's always good.
Speaker 7: Would you go by Dingle or mister Barry.
Speaker 5: Mandy. I think every student in each class should demand
Speaker 5: to be called by the exact same name, including surname.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, so you've got a whole class of
Speaker 5: kids that want to be called Anthony Rodriguez. That would
Speaker 5: be magical.
Speaker 4: Yes, this is the kind of you.
Speaker 5: Know, resistance that I can get behind. Did you know?
Speaker 5: Says this texter that kids in Jefferson County are already
Speaker 5: coming to school justsed as dogs and cats. See, But
Speaker 5: you're not supposed to talk about that because Kyle Clark
Speaker 5: will come after you, and after he tells you that's
Speaker 5: not happening, only to find out it is happening, he
Speaker 5: will tell you that you're a horrible person for picking
Speaker 5: on kids who are just different. That's how that whole
Speaker 5: arc goes, how do we know we already did this?
Speaker 6: That's what you're saying is it'll be all bark and
Speaker 6: no bite exactly dogs com Okay, I.
Speaker 5: Am your servant. Would be good to Mandy. I want
Speaker 5: to be called the lady, Mandy. I was fired from
Speaker 5: my job. I demand to be an emeritus and that
Speaker 5: of course. On Tay Anderson's social media, Tay Anderson is
Speaker 5: the guy who did a brief, brief, thank god, stint
Speaker 5: on the Denver Public school Board. Absolute racist, horrible person,
Speaker 5: always tries to destroy people personally when he disagrees with
Speaker 5: their policies, and he has named himself a school board
Speaker 5: member emeritus because he's under the misguided conclusion that he
Speaker 5: did something worthy of remembering. I mean, I guess he did.
Speaker 5: He took the SROs out of school so made it
Speaker 5: easier for kids to bring guns to school and shoot people.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's great job. Ooh, Turfer, that would be
Speaker 5: a good one. No relation to Nick Fergus and joining
Speaker 5: us in four minutes, Mandy, How well does this work
Speaker 5: when the sixteen year old girl wants the forty five
Speaker 5: year old male teacher to call her sexy? Could you imagine.
Speaker 2: Wow me.
Speaker 5: Now, how about your royal highness on your high horse?
Speaker 5: That's me. I only sit on the highest of horses. Mandy,
Speaker 5: I want to be called trip around the world. Sure,
Speaker 5: my daddy, that would be good. I need you to
Speaker 5: call me daddy from now on. Yeah, yeah, yep, yep.
Speaker 5: Let's see trying to find if there's anything else in here,
Speaker 5: but you guys are getting it. So if you have kids,
Speaker 5: let's go and stir up some civil disobedience. And civil
Speaker 5: is the real word here. Change my name to christ
Speaker 5: is King. Watch heads explode. Oh that is a passive
Speaker 5: aggressive way to use God to make a point. Mandy,
Speaker 5: I'd like to be called in time for dinner. Who
Speaker 5: wouldn't really change your name to something Irish like Chavon
Speaker 5: or Suarse and then make the teacher spell it. That's
Speaker 5: just mean. My dad called me Farcourt p Harkin Farker Junior.
Speaker 5: That's a good one.
Speaker 4: Like E's kids, right with the weird letters.
Speaker 5: Somebody actually put that Mandy new name a the second
Speaker 5: yes or pain in the ass. He points out hers
Speaker 5: is tiny whinom? What if the kid walks in tomorrow
Speaker 5: and goes, hey, you know what I want to be
Speaker 5: called from now on Bud Wiser.
Speaker 7: First name, Bud, last name Wiser. That's what I want
Speaker 7: to be called.
Speaker 4: And then I'm looking for Wiser, Bud Wiser.
Speaker 5: Exactly, Mandy. There was a Monty Python sketch where the
Speaker 5: guy's name was spelled out as a luxury yacht. But
Speaker 5: when he was asked, I was pronounced he said through
Speaker 5: blah blah. Mangrove today says this Texter, and I'll let
Speaker 5: them have the last word on this topic. I shall
Speaker 5: forever be known as sexual chocolate. That's a throwback as well.
Speaker 5: When TV was great, our movies were great. I guess
Speaker 5: I should say a couple more stories that I want
Speaker 5: to hit on the blog really quickly. The Denver City
Speaker 5: Council has three women who are so desperate to normalize
Speaker 5: little children seeing people shoot up street drugs that they
Speaker 5: are trying to expand the needle program in Denver.
Speaker 7: This is a program that gives.
Speaker 5: Out not just needles, oh no, no, the harm reduction
Speaker 5: people have now expanded their offerings, whereas harm reduction was
Speaker 5: sold to most people, as we're going to give needles
Speaker 5: to drug addicts who otherwise would share needles and then
Speaker 5: share diseases like hepatitis and AIDS, which is true.
Speaker 7: I guess HIV technically, which is true. But now we've
Speaker 7: moved on.
Speaker 5: Now now we are giving out glass pipes to smoke
Speaker 5: meth with. Sure, why not? Heck yeah, harm reduction for everybody.
Speaker 7: Let's party.
Speaker 10: Well.
Speaker 5: The denver is that rightly points out in an editorial
Speaker 5: that this is just dumb. Harm reduction has been an epic,
Speaker 5: massive failure, and we need to not make it easier
Speaker 5: to do drugs. We need to make it harder to
Speaker 5: lie on the streets after you've done drugs. I'm just
Speaker 5: a novel thought. Nick Ferguson making himself a known in
Speaker 5: the studio. That purple looks very good on you, very good.
Speaker 5: It's a good color for you, that nice eggplant purple.
Speaker 10: Thank you. It is actually my favorite color. And I
Speaker 10: wore today because I wanted to see if oh no,
Speaker 10: if Ryan there was scared. Notice the difference between salmon
Speaker 10: and actually will purple.
Speaker 5: See now, salmon is going to be in the pink family.
Speaker 5: But that is definitely like a vibrant purple. You got
Speaker 5: on right there. Egg Plant was kind of it is.
Speaker 5: Eggplant and salmon are the two appropriate names for these colors.
Speaker 5: But we are speaking to a lot of men who
Speaker 5: really don't understand that purple comes in shades and that
Speaker 5: pink can be salmon.
Speaker 4: I get it. That's a good purple.
Speaker 5: It is a good purple.
Speaker 2: Strap he U.
Speaker 4: If he confused that for salmon, I'm walking out.
Speaker 7: Did he give you a crap about your salmon shirt?
Speaker 10: Yes? Why?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 5: I love Ryan. I love me some Ryan. If you're
Speaker 5: not going I was gonna say, we're not going to
Speaker 5: look to him necessarily, much like I wouldn't expect me
Speaker 5: to look I wouldn't expect people to look at me.
Speaker 5: I buy my clothes at Costco a lot. Okay, so
Speaker 5: this role with it, you know. I yeah, I am
Speaker 5: not a person. I'm not a fashion plate at all.
Speaker 5: Even though I did watch the Golden Globes last.
Speaker 7: Night just to see the dresses. Oh it was kind
Speaker 7: of disappointed.
Speaker 10: Nothing look, you know, full transparent. I like ballroom dancing
Speaker 10: because of the fashion. Like you, I do watch Awards
Speaker 10: shows just to see how people to dress.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's fun, I mean just to see what people
Speaker 5: are wearing, because God knows, I haven't seen any of
Speaker 5: the shows that they're getting Awards for although I had
Speaker 5: last night I watched like four awards.
Speaker 7: I had seen all of the shows.
Speaker 5: And I was like, yeah, I was like, I'm done.
Speaker 7: I'm turning this off right now.
Speaker 5: Before I break the streak. So's it was fine? Oh
Speaker 5: really really quickly.
Speaker 10: I ran into your husband last night on the sideline.
Speaker 5: Yes, literally ran into him because he would take you
Speaker 5: out there. I mean, yes, literally, that's what happened. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he was. He worked a parabolic yesterday for the game
Speaker 5: and the second half he was on. I don't know
Speaker 5: if I should say this, like, are there parabolic like
Speaker 5: confidentiality agreements.
Speaker 4: Kinda depending on what you're gonna say, so.
Speaker 5: I should not say that. Perhaps someone who shall remain nameless,
Speaker 5: who might have been working on the sidelines doing something unnamed,
Speaker 5: might have heard one of the coaches from the Kansas
Speaker 5: City Chiefs at the beginning of the second quarter just
Speaker 5: go can we just get this over with that?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so their heart was not in that game yesterday,
Speaker 5: but I don't care. We're going back to the playoffs.
Speaker 5: Nick Ferguson, Yes we are.
Speaker 10: And I came in the building today and someone was
Speaker 10: asking me did I go out and celebrate? I said, well,
Speaker 10: you know what, in my teen year period, I've been
Speaker 10: to the playoffs at least five or six times, So
Speaker 10: I didn't.
Speaker 5: Go out there and do anything reckless.
Speaker 4: But I'm happy the.
Speaker 10: Broncos are finally trying to rewrite the book and get
Speaker 10: themselves back.
Speaker 5: I'm just going to say it, Okay, we all thought
Speaker 5: rebuilding year, rookie quarterback, we're looking for you. If we're
Speaker 5: eight and eight, nine and seven, it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: A Q year.
Speaker 5: Now we're in the playoffs, and now I'm like, crap,
Speaker 5: we got to go to Buffalo. This is not my
Speaker 5: favorite place to play, especially in the winter during a
Speaker 5: freaking polar vortex or whatever. Yes, well I'm not getting crazy. Okay, No,
Speaker 5: eat more wings. Eat more wings.
Speaker 2: To show those.
Speaker 5: Buffalo people that we're not scared of their wings, their
Speaker 5: history at the Anchor bar, all that crap.
Speaker 7: We don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 10: You know, Manny, what you speak of only elevates the
Speaker 10: level of expectations.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to manage my own expectations because currently all
Speaker 5: the pressure's on Buffalo because nobody thinks we're gonna win,
Speaker 5: you know, I mean, we're basically playing on borrowed You know,
Speaker 5: we got exactly That's exactly what I was going to say.
Speaker 5: You've probably been on teams like that before, though, where
Speaker 5: nobody expected to How much does that play into it?
Speaker 5: Do you really feel sort of a sense of relief
Speaker 5: going into an underdog because the expectations are lower, because
Speaker 5: I think last time I heard Ross say it was
Speaker 5: like the lines like eight and a half maybe, so
Speaker 5: that's a pretty good spread for a playoff game. You're
Speaker 5: absolutely right.
Speaker 10: There's no pressure on the Broncos because they were not
Speaker 10: supposed to be here. No one predicted them to be
Speaker 10: at this particular point. And it's all Bufalo because they've
Speaker 10: had issues over the years getting past Kansas City. And
Speaker 10: Josh Allen is in the MVP conversation, Yeah, you lose
Speaker 10: to the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 6: That's bad.
Speaker 5: That is very, very very bad. So it's exciting. We
Speaker 5: don't know, do we know what day?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 5: Saturday or Sunday? Says, so we got a full week, yes, not.
Speaker 7: Rehearsal, it is.
Speaker 4: The line was as high as I've seen it as nine.
Speaker 4: Now it's down to eight.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, Hi, Mandy Nick's hat yesterday was great. What
Speaker 5: hat you were yesterday? You have so many that you
Speaker 5: don't even remember.
Speaker 10: I don't know the exact name of the hat itself,
Speaker 10: but people call it peaky biding, like.
Speaker 5: A NewsCap, a newsboy cap. Chuck has one of those.
Speaker 5: I really like. I't exactly what was the name.
Speaker 7: Proper names.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to bring back hat wearing because in Europe, like,
Speaker 5: all the people wear hats there, and I bought the
Speaker 5: most dynamite hat, but I forgot to wear it. I
Speaker 5: should today. What'd been a perfect day for me to
Speaker 5: wear my hat, but I can't get head from when
Speaker 5: we're in a black sweater. It would go perfectly with
Speaker 5: what I have on today. Not that motivated anyway, Mandy.
Speaker 5: School names, we're talking about this. There's a new law
Speaker 5: in Colorado that if your kids go to school tomorrow
Speaker 5: and say I would like to be called super califragilistic xplidocious,
Speaker 5: the school is required by law to honor their chosen name.
Speaker 5: What goes with the pronouns? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, what's all part of it?
Speaker 5: Why are we doing this? Well, I'm doing it so
Speaker 5: I can send my daughter to school tomorrow and ask
Speaker 5: to be called the honorable Lady, Rainbow of the Man
Speaker 5: or the second.
Speaker 4: By the way, it looks like there's a lot of
Speaker 4: different names for it, newsboy.
Speaker 6: Cap, baser boy, cat cap, but flat cap looks to
Speaker 6: be When you say.
Speaker 5: A newsboy cap, everybody's gonna know what you're talking about. Yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: but it is definitely a newsboy cap.
Speaker 10: That is the thing.
Speaker 5: I now it's time for the most exciting segment on
Speaker 5: the radio of its kind.
Speaker 7: Whoa a little soccer flavor to it out that day?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 5: What is our dad joke of the day? Please?
Speaker 4: Well this just didn't just saw this news story.
Speaker 6: A mummy covered in chocolate and nuts has been discovered
Speaker 6: in Egypt.
Speaker 5: Wait, a mummy covered with chocolate and nuts.
Speaker 4: Archaeologists believe it may be Pharaoh rochet. Okay, that's super
Speaker 4: dumb and I love that one.
Speaker 5: That was a good one. What is our word of
Speaker 5: the day.
Speaker 4: This doesn't tell me the kind of word it is.
Speaker 2: Let me just double check.
Speaker 4: No, I think it's a noun that's non parvenu.
Speaker 5: P a r v n u.
Speaker 4: A parvenu sounds like something you do in the bathroom.
Speaker 4: You should get that checked out.
Speaker 5: It's something you're really good at that's your parvenue.
Speaker 6: Okay, Nick, think that, but like the opposite, just get
Speaker 6: just not just not know it's your weirdness. It an upstart,
Speaker 6: somebody who's suddenly rich but doesn't fit into their.
Speaker 5: New social status, like the Beverly Hillbillies. Yeah, okay there, Yeah, Well,
Speaker 5: today's trivia question. What is the difference between a lamb
Speaker 5: and sheep? I mean a lamb is a baby sheep? Right,
Speaker 5: So what do they when they turn one? Do they
Speaker 5: turn into a lamb? When did they turn into a sheep?
Speaker 5: Is like a weight thing? Or is it? Because with
Speaker 5: pigs it's it's a weight thing before they go from
Speaker 5: a pig to a hog. So a lamb is a
Speaker 5: baby sheep. After one year of life, a lamb becomes
Speaker 5: a sheep.
Speaker 6: There you go.
Speaker 5: How is ridiculously obvious?
Speaker 4: Easy?
Speaker 5: Right there? Hang on me, Nick? All right?
Speaker 7: What is our jeopardy category?
Speaker 4: Word?
Speaker 10: Up?
Speaker 2: Word?
Speaker 6: All We'll start with up. To transfer information from your
Speaker 6: computer to one another.
Speaker 7: What is upload?
Speaker 4: It's the general cost of maintaining a hume ranny.
Speaker 5: What's upkeeper? Sorry, Nick, I'm gonna smoke you on this one.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 6: You got this pre bump into first class for your flight,
Speaker 6: your name.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 6: Theater can mean to take the focus from another actor.
Speaker 6: What is upstage correct? And for this weep to censure
Speaker 6: or criticize someone not start pigtails from the bottom.
Speaker 5: What is upbraiding? Upbraid.
Speaker 10: That's the one thing that sucks about doing this, he
Speaker 10: is I'm conflicted in my brain because I am I
Speaker 10: want to say the answer yeah and my name simultaneously.
Speaker 5: No, you gotta just shout out Nick. And here's the thing.
Speaker 5: The more you do this, the better at it you get.
Speaker 5: Ryan is one multiple days as late because he comes
Speaker 5: in every day. The more you do it, the better
Speaker 5: you get at It's like it's like football, Nick. The
Speaker 5: more you do it, the better you get at it.
Speaker 5: The more you play of the day, the better you
Speaker 5: get at you'll be ready for the super Bowl of
Speaker 5: the day. Has never actually occurred.
Speaker 4: And the walking, the fast walking competition that you still
Speaker 4: do need to have.
Speaker 3: My knee is.
Speaker 5: Actually feel it feels really good.
Speaker 7: I'm just afraid to do a thing with it.
Speaker 5: I got a torn miniscus that's not sort of like
Speaker 5: in that well maybe it doesn't hurt right now then twice,
Speaker 5: but they're basically like you know, don't.
Speaker 4: I don't know, it's too.
Speaker 10: Don't do physical activity on it because right now.
Speaker 7: My whole thing is that I don't even run anymore,
Speaker 7: and I have a run in years. But it was
Speaker 7: at the point where it's hurting all the time.
Speaker 5: Now it's not hurting at all. But I just wear
Speaker 5: a knee brace when I work out, like when I
Speaker 5: lift weights and stuff, I wear a knee brace, so
Speaker 5: it feels okay. So I'm almost like, I don't want
Speaker 5: to hurt it again, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I mean, what do you do with that?
Speaker 5: You can't go through the rest of life cautious because
Speaker 5: of that?
Speaker 10: Well, you you definitely want to be cautious as it
Speaker 10: pertains to that, because have you ever had surgery for yours? Now?
Speaker 5: You don't want it? No, I know that.
Speaker 4: No, I don't know.
Speaker 5: That's kind of why I'm like a little bit. I'm
Speaker 5: a little bit skittish. But like I said, feels great
Speaker 5: right now. Everything is doing right now, is working just fine.
Speaker 5: So speedwalking maybe back on for the spring. I'll be
Speaker 5: practicing anyway. We're gonna make room. We got Koa Sports
Speaker 5: coming up next. I will be back tomorrow for another
Speaker 5: exciting show. Because everybody's back from vacation and there's finally
Speaker 5: news again. Keep it right here on the blue torch
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