WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:03.240 The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock, 2 00:00:03.319 --> 00:00:04.759 Accident and injury Lawyers. 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:08.119 No, it's Mandy Connell. 4 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:18.399 And Connall on KOA FM, Gotty and. 5 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:27.320 The Nicety three. Mandy Connall keeping no sad thing. Welcome, Welcome, 6 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:30.679 Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the show. And what 7 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:33.920 a day it is. I'm here your host for the 8 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:34.759 next three hours. 9 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:38.359 Mandy Connell, joined, of course, by Anthony Rodriguez in his 10 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:47.320 Darth Vader Christmas sweater? Is that an homage to the 11 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:50.880 ill fated Star Wars Christmas Special that only aired once? 12 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:52.880 You know? 13 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:53.359 That is? 14 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:55.000 Uh, that's special. 15 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:57.359 I would tell people that is say you were so 16 00:00:57.560 --> 00:01:01.000 moved by the Star Wars Christmas Special nineteen seventy eight 17 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:04.519 that you had to adorn your sweater with the Dark Lords. 18 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:09.239 The only thing I'm missing is the guyliner from Luke 19 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:13.200 Skywalker and other cast members in that thing is woof Yeah, 20 00:01:13.239 --> 00:01:14.120 where's my Walks? 21 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:14.359 Yeah? 22 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:17.640 If you've never seen If you've never seen the Star 23 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:20.599 Wars Christmas Special, I believe it is available on YouTube. 24 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:22.920 I think it is, yes, and it is as bad 25 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:26.079 as you might think. It might be the worst thing 26 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:29.560 that has ever been made. For television, and that says something. 27 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:30.000 I don't know. 28 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:33.280 The story of Chewy's family is heartwarming. Yeah, you know, 29 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:38.280 I can't do my Chewy noise, my vocal cords. 30 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:40.480 The backstory of Chewy and the fam. You know, it's 31 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:41.519 something we don't get in any. 32 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:42.000 Other I know. 33 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:45.480 Oh gosh, Yes, it's certainly special is the word that 34 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:45.840 I would. 35 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:48.120 I would use for it special, as would they in 36 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:51.040 the title special. We're going to take you right through 37 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:51.959 three p m. 38 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:54.640 And today is a very special day because it is 39 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:58.480 Colorado Gives Day bio Yes, which is the day that 40 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:00.439 we ask you. 41 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:01.560 And we're not the only ones. 42 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:04.519 First Bank puts together Colorado Gives Day every single year. 43 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:09.439 It's an opportunity for smaller nonprofits to fundraise on a 44 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:13.800 grander scale, and I have featured some of these nonprofits. 45 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:16.439 I'll have three of them on the show today in 46 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:18.159 the format of an interview, and then I have another 47 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:18.919 list on the blog. 48 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:19.680 So let's do that. 49 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:20.800 I don't know if you have it on the list 50 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:22.400 on the block, but if you don't, obviously mind I 51 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:25.159 would always recommend Big Brother, Big Sisters for Colorado. 52 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:26.280 Not put it on there. But I will go back 53 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:27.960 and I will put it on. Yeah, I was trying to. 54 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:30.919 Okay, I'm just gonna be perfectly frank. You guys what 55 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:33.840 to sleep Last night at like eight o'clock. Woke up 56 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:37.439 at three starving. I never wake up hungry. I was like, 57 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:39.080 oh my god, I'm so hungry. I can eat my 58 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:43.400 own arm. I've got the jet lag something fierce right now, 59 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:46.159 and I'm just trying. I'm having coffee right now, Anthony, 60 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:48.919 I have coffee. 61 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:50.800 Food, just food. 62 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:53.240 I didn't really eat yesterday. I mean I barely ate 63 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:56.039 yesterday because I was just not hungry, so I didn't 64 00:02:56.039 --> 00:02:57.400 really eat. And then I woke up this morning I 65 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:00.639 was starving, because yes, I did grambled eggs and. 66 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:03.400 Half an avocado at three one at three thirty. 67 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:05.800 Oh boy, Actually no, I stayed in bed till like four, 68 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:07.240 so it was four o'clock in the morning. 69 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:07.719 There I got. 70 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:12.159 You know, well, I'm officially back on the plan next week, 71 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:15.120 so hey, I mean, I'm eating kind of the same stuff, 72 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:18.159 hence the two scrambled eggs and a quarter of an avocado, 73 00:03:18.759 --> 00:03:21.639 you know, but I'm not officially back on the plan 74 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:24.759 until next week, so I'm a little bit jet lag. 75 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:26.520 So if I stopped making sense at some point. I 76 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:29.159 haven't had a stroke, but I might just fall asleep 77 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:31.280 on on the air today. That's never happened to me. 78 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:34.800 But hopefully you won't fall asleep listening. Here's what's on 79 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:37.719 the blog. You can find it by going to mandy'sblog 80 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:40.479 dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. 81 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:41.919 Look for the headline that says. 82 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:45.479 Twelve ten, twenty four blog It's Colorado Gives Day. Click 83 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:48.120 on that and here are the headlines you will find within. 84 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:51.919 What if you know something doesn't crash on me? Which 85 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:52.159 it is. 86 00:03:56.199 --> 00:03:58.199 Office half of American all with ships and clippers, and say, 87 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:02.280 that's kind of press plant today on the blog, it's 88 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:06.919 Colorado Gives Day, step Denver Children's Diabetes Foundation, the other 89 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:09.639 side Academy. But I've got a few more options for you. 90 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:14.159 Independence Institute, the Steamboat Institute, Colorado Veterans Project, Come Back Yoga, 91 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:17.519 Motorcycle Relief Project, and of course Big Brothers, Big sisters. 92 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:20.639 It's time to end the Vacancee Committee nonsense. We are 93 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:23.800 now funding medicaid for illegal immigrants. Want to learn how 94 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:25.480 badly Syria is screwed? 95 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:30.279 Scurolling, squirrelling, congrats to see you's Travis Hunter, who is 96 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:33.879 watching Where the Money is Going? Merry Christmas for Mike Rosen. 97 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:37.759 Mass transit in Denver is failing, ladies. This one is 98 00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:41.759 for US government sucks at building things. I ugly cried 99 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:44.680 on this one. The kiffness and a gay kiddy more 100 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:46.000 life advice for old people. 101 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:50.000 This may be my sport? How did we not notice 102 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:50.759 this before? 103 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:54.199 Those are the headlines on the blog at Mandy's blog 104 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:57.800 dot com. And I have some really really, really really 105 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:00.879 good videos on the blog today, not the least of 106 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:03.759 which is a sport that a Rod sent me this 107 00:05:03.839 --> 00:05:07.720 morning that I feel like this could be my jam Anthony, 108 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:09.800 if I'd only known about. 109 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:11.600 Disco foot when I was. 110 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:15.720 Young and enthusiastic about such things. Apparently, and I don't 111 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:19.120 know where this sport takes place, but he imagine this, 112 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:21.560 and you can go watch this on the blog today. 113 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:25.680 Imagine a soccer match taking place, but throughout the entire 114 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:30.399 soccer match, you must continue to dance during the soccer match, 115 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:32.839 and at the end of the match you are judged 116 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:35.439 not only on how many goals you scored, but also 117 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:37.639 the quality of your dats. 118 00:05:37.959 --> 00:05:40.480 Apparently a part of it, at least was a TV 119 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:42.079 program in Sweden. 120 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:43.000 I love this. 121 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:46.120 I would pay money to go watch this, that's how 122 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:49.040 much I loved it. And then seriously, like, we should 123 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:50.519 get a disco foot team together. 124 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:54.240 What would our name be, I mean, the fancy dancers. 125 00:05:54.279 --> 00:05:58.240 What would our name be? Fancy footers? Bam, there you go, 126 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:01.879 were the fancy footers. But it's a thing. I mean, 127 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:05.839 it's a thing, and so there you go. You should 128 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:08.199 do this. Go watch that on the blog today. 129 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:10.879 I've got a Kiffness video with a little kitty who's gay. 130 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:13.680 It came out to the world this little kitty, and 131 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:15.639 Kifness made a song about it. I hope he was 132 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:18.439 ready a kitty. By the way, I also. 133 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:19.680 Have a video that we're going to talk about a 134 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:20.519 little bit later. 135 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:24.920 Ben Shapiro did a great It's about twenty four minutes long. 136 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:29.879 He did a really really good explainer on how all 137 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:33.759 the factions in Syria come together, including with maps and 138 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:36.800 graphs and everything else. And I started watching it this 139 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:38.600 morning at three thirty at four o'clock in the morning, 140 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:38.839 when I. 141 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:41.759 Was eating my breakfast and I was just gonna watch 142 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:43.480 a couple of minutes. I ended up watching the whole thing. 143 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:46.399 Because it was so useful and I knew part of this, 144 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:49.439 but I didn't know all of it. And what's happening 145 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:53.319 in Syria. The fall of Asad in Syria could and 146 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:57.959 there's a big could there could have incredibly powerful ramifications 147 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:01.600 for the entire Middle East region because Iran, who is 148 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:05.680 the big state sponsor of terrorism in the Middle East, 149 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:11.920 has been significantly weakened because of Israel taking out Hesbula's 150 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:15.600 leadership and degrading Hamas to the point where there's so 151 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:19.639 few Hamas members left that you know, it's almost comical. 152 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:23.319 They were the proxies that Iran used to foment terror 153 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:25.920 in attack Israel and try to destroy the Jewish state. 154 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:29.639 So they've been wildly degraded because of that. Right now, 155 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:33.480 the Houthis are still powerful. They're in Yemen and they're 156 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:37.279 still powerful. They're the last proxy that Iran had but 157 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:43.279 Iran and Syria, aside was allied with Iran. So Syria 158 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:47.959 is incredibly important in moving Iranian weapons to other places 159 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:48.680 like Lebanon. 160 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:51.079 So Ben Shapiro does an amazing job. 161 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:53.199 And I thought to myself, like I could try to 162 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:55.439 explain this, but I don't have the graphs in the 163 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:58.240 maps and if you're not familiar with the way that 164 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:01.120 region is structured, if you're I'm not super familiar with 165 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:02.759 the map of the Middle East and how it all 166 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:06.000 goes together. Cannot recommend this video highly enough because it 167 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:09.279 is very very good at explaining how all of the 168 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:11.839 pieces go together. And we are going to talk about 169 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:15.759 this later because the Trump administration coming into power is 170 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:19.480 going to have to deal with this, right, It is 171 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:23.199 not going to just go away, and Aroan knows this, 172 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:27.959 and Ronan also knows that, unlike the Obama administration and 173 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:32.080 its extension, the Biden administration, Donald Trump is not in 174 00:08:32.120 --> 00:08:34.840 a mood to give them one hundred and fifty billion 175 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:38.279 dollars for a hollow promise that they won't develop nuclear weapons. 176 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:38.720 Right. 177 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:42.480 It's a whole new game for them, a whole new game, 178 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:46.120 and so it's a fact that is going to be 179 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:49.159 a big deal. What's happening right now is a big deal. 180 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:51.080 So we're going to talk about that more a little 181 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:53.440 bit later. But watch that video when you have chance, 182 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:55.799 if you just want to educate yourself about how all 183 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:58.720 the players fit together and how the different factions are 184 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:00.279 going to be fomenting. 185 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:04.120 Issues in that in that area. So today is Colorado 186 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:07.679 Gives Day. This is a big day for Colorado in 187 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:13.679 that Colorado Gives. The Colorado Gives Foundation has this big 188 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:19.399 day today and they offer a match for monthly donors. 189 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:23.000 If you set up a new recurring monthly donation on 190 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:27.240 Colorado Gives, Colorado Gives Foundation will match your first month's 191 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:31.440 gift dollar for dollar up to one hundred bucks. These 192 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:35.360 are these are really great ways to get charities money 193 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:36.360 that they desperately need. 194 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:38.440 So that that is the first part of this. 195 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:41.360 But I know it's hard to figure out sometimes if 196 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:45.840 you're not aligned with a certain charitable organization. If you're 197 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:49.759 like me, this is how I view charitable giving. I 198 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:55.960 want to make sure that the money is being spent 199 00:09:56.200 --> 00:10:00.000 on services that is incredibly important to me. I don't 200 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:03.639 want to give money to a charity that spends more 201 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:06.960 on overhead than they do delivering on what they are 202 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:10.639 supposed to deliver on. That is very important to me. 203 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:15.240 I also prefer to donate to hand up charities instead 204 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:17.519 of hand out charities. Now, don't get me wrong. I 205 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:20.200 donate to the Parker Food Bank. You know, those are 206 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:24.240 very specific literally a handout charity. But I want to 207 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:28.200 support organizations who are invested in helping people become the 208 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:31.039 best people that they can be, and that's how I 209 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:33.840 choose my charitable donation. 210 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:36.480 So I thought I would just make it easy for 211 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:40.519 you guys by giving you a list of my faves. Aron. 212 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:41.639 If you want to go on the blog, you can 213 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:43.960 add Big Brothers, Big Sisters. Just get the link from 214 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:45.720 Colorado gives dot org and put it on there. 215 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:46.759 To make it easy for people. 216 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:51.600 I've got three of my favorite nonprofit organizations on today. 217 00:10:51.639 --> 00:10:53.360 The first is step Denver. We're going to talk to 218 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:55.840 them at twelve thirty. If you've listened to this show 219 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:58.600 for any length of time, you know about the incredible, 220 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:00.840 great work that they do. And then a little bit 221 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:03.519 later we're going to talk to Dana Davis from the 222 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:05.320 Children's Diabetes Foundation. 223 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:07.879 This is a wonderful. 224 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:10.559 We're so lucky to have the Barbara Davis Center here 225 00:11:10.600 --> 00:11:15.000 in Colorado to help people young people living with type 226 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:18.360 one diabetes and helping their families with education. 227 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:20.080 They help with research, they do. 228 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:23.759 All this amazing stuff to stop type two type one diabetes. 229 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:26.000 Type one is different than type two. And we're going 230 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:27.759 to have Dana back on the show today to talk 231 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:31.159 about that, and then a little bit later, I've never 232 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:34.399 done this before what we're doing today. The Other Side 233 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:38.559 Academy is an organization that is very similar to Step Denver, 234 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:42.200 but slightly different, And I'm having two organizations with a 235 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:46.879 similar mission on today for this reason. Both of them 236 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:52.360 are helping people who have really messed up their lives 237 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:54.440 because of addiction, really just. 238 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:55.519 Messed up their lives. 239 00:11:55.559 --> 00:12:01.840 And they are both incredibly value programs at this time, 240 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:04.039 especially because if you look around the streets of Denver, 241 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:06.080 you see a lot of people who need their help. 242 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:08.600 So I've never done this before, but I'm later on 243 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:10.120 in the show, we're going to talk to the Other 244 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:14.519 Side Academy because both of these organizations are worth your investment. 245 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:17.000 And I say investment because we sit here on the 246 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:20.000 show and we talk a lot about homelessness and addiction 247 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:23.559 and all of these things. These two organizations are helping 248 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:27.039 people in a way that matters, that is important, and 249 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:30.000 is helping save their lives, and not just save their lives, 250 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:34.440 but they're coming out of these programs with dignity and 251 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:37.799 they're self respect back, and that to me is an 252 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:40.919 invaluable gift to give to someone who's willing to work 253 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:42.840 for it, and so we're going to talk to the 254 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:45.679 other side a little bit later. But I also have 255 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:48.399 some other options that I want to roll through real quick. 256 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:49.320 Now. 257 00:12:49.399 --> 00:12:53.159 Several of them are politically based, but. 258 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:58.519 They are doing really incredibly important work, both in their 259 00:12:58.519 --> 00:12:58.919 own ways. 260 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:01.399 The first is the Independence Institute. 261 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:05.159 John Caldera and his team at the Independence Institute, they 262 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:10.159 are they're doing stuff that is so incredibly valuable for 263 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:11.480 you as of Coloradin. 264 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:13.440 They are the reason we've had two. 265 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:16.159 Income tax cuts, regardless of what the governor tries to say. Now, 266 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:20.600 the Independence Institute is why we've cut income tax twice. 267 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:23.879 The Independence Institute is the one who is always fighting 268 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:28.080 to make Colorado more free and more fair. Not fair 269 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:30.320 in the sense that everybody has equal outcomes, but everybody 270 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:34.639 has equal opportunity. And they run a very tight ship 271 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:36.159 at the Independence Institute. 272 00:13:36.519 --> 00:13:37.159 That's the other thing. 273 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:40.399 I want to make sure money is spent wisely. And 274 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:42.440 I think, you know, I tease John because John is 275 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:45.679 so teasable, right, So he's John, He's John Caldera. I 276 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:48.200 love the guy like I love, love, love John Caldera, 277 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:51.840 But dang, he does a great job and He's assembled 278 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:55.320 this just amazing staff and all they do every day 279 00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:58.960 is try to figure out a way to prevent Colorado 280 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:01.399 from becoming California and yet even more than it already has. 281 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:05.559 So give them some money. Also, they also support complete 282 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:09.519 Colorado dot com, a website I use every single day 283 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:12.360 in my show prep. It is the best aggregator of 284 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:13.799 news for Colorado. 285 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:16.000 You will find. I have never found a better one. 286 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:20.759 So Independence Institute also supports Complete Colorado. Those two things 287 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:23.279 alone are worth a donation in my mind. Then we 288 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:27.200 have the Steamboat Institute. Yes, they're located in Steamboat, and 289 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:30.720 their mission is very similar. They're defending freedom, they're celebrating 290 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:33.320 the rugged individualism that made our nation great. 291 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:36.440 But they're doing it a little bit differently. Whereas Independence 292 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:40.519 Institute is very engaged in promoting and talking about policy 293 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:44.240 positions and they successfully run many ballot initiatives to protect 294 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:47.320 Colorados from big government, Steamboat is going at it in 295 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:49.360 a different way. They do education. 296 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:54.159 They take to college campuses these debates about big issues, 297 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:58.120 so college students can see two things. Number One, they 298 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:00.879 can see the conservative side of that issue being presented 299 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:03.679 by an incredibly intelligent person, no matter who it is. 300 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:10.519 And secondarily, they can see people disagree civilly, so they both. 301 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:11.480 Do important work. 302 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:14.360 They're both worthy of a donation. So if you want 303 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:17.120 to put your money into saving Colorado, give it to 304 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:19.919 either of them. Then I've got the Colorado Veterans Project. 305 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:22.720 Not only do they do the Veterans Day Parade, they 306 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:26.399 also donate money to other veterans organizations throughout Colorado. 307 00:15:26.519 --> 00:15:27.840 Very well run organization. 308 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:30.279 So if you'd like to support veterans, you could donate 309 00:15:30.559 --> 00:15:32.000 to CVP right. 310 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:32.679 There by the way. 311 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:36.000 I put links to all of their donation pages on 312 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:38.440 Colorado GIFs Day on the blog, so. 313 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:40.039 You don't even have to go to Colorado Gifts. You 314 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:40.679 can just go to the. 315 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:43.679 Blog and click right through and make a donation. And 316 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:46.320 we've added Okay, let me refresh there, but let me 317 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:50.039 get through these other two. Then I've added come Back Yoga. 318 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:55.360 Come Back Yoga is their mission statement provides free, accessible, 319 00:15:55.480 --> 00:15:59.639 trauma informed, science based yoga classes to the military community 320 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:02.159 to enhance overall health and quality of life. And my 321 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:05.519 friend Rob of the Day, Rob is now a yoga 322 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:10.039 instructor because of come Back Yoga, and he speaks very 323 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:13.559 very highly of how the program helps veterans who might 324 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:16.080 be struggling. And so please, if you're a yoga person, 325 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:19.080 maybe consider giving some money to come back yoga. Then 326 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:21.679 we have the Motorcycle Relief Project. This is another veterans 327 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:27.480 organization that takes veterans on multi day motorcycle trips, which 328 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:29.679 you know, you're like, okay, what's the value there. But 329 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:32.200 every night at the end of the ride for that day, 330 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:35.559 they sit around, they have conversations, They talk about dealing 331 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:39.200 with stress and post traumatic stress and let these guys 332 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:42.039 and gals know they aren't alone. So if you love 333 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:45.639 motorcycles and you love veterans, Motorcycle Relief Project might be. 334 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:46.240 The one for you. 335 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:49.200 And then of course A Rod just added, but I 336 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:51.320 don't think it's updated just yet. 337 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:53.080 It's not updated yet. Oh yeah, you did. 338 00:16:53.320 --> 00:16:56.799 Big Brothers and big sisters. He himself is a big 339 00:16:57.159 --> 00:16:57.759 He has. 340 00:16:57.919 --> 00:16:58.600 A little brother. 341 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:01.279 And if you're not familiar with big brothers and big sisters, 342 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:06.000 they provide kind of adult mentorship and friendship for kids 343 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:09.119 who may not have In the case of a Rod's kid, 344 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:11.279 maybe they don't have a father figure in their life, 345 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:14.440 or maybe they don't have a female role model in 346 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:17.440 their life. It's a wonderful program and it really helps 347 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:20.880 kids have another trusted adult in their life to give 348 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:22.000 them a different perspective. 349 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:26.559 Humbly seeing the impact on my little and honestly, you know, 350 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:28.240 I don't know how much is to do with me, 351 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:30.880 more so just to have someone there for him, and 352 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:33.359 then seeing all the other bigs with their littles in 353 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:33.759 the big. 354 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:36.599 Group settings that we do, it has a massive impact. 355 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:39.000 And the leadership, all the different kind of kind of 356 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:42.039 like camp counselor escort, all the other leaders that really 357 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:46.559 help guide our activities are just so cool and they're 358 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:49.079 so great with the kids. They make the activities so 359 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:51.480 awesome for these for these littles, And it's just a 360 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:53.160 couple hours a month we donate our time, but it 361 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:54.640 is a huge impact. 362 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:56.640 And I'm gonna. 363 00:17:56.480 --> 00:17:58.559 Venture to guess, the more money that the big brother, 364 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:00.839 big sister of colorad who gets, the the cooler activities 365 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:02.839 that get that we get to do, the more often 366 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:05.119 activities we get to do, the cooler meals that we 367 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:08.519 get to have for lunch, the more guidance that they 368 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:09.240 have as a program. 369 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:11.720 So I couldn't say enough good things about them. 370 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:13.880 Excellent, So we've all got all of these links on 371 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:15.599 the blog at Mandy's blog dot com. 372 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:17.440 When we get back, I've got some of the folks 373 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:20.519 from Step Denver. Step Denver is. They've been around for 374 00:18:20.559 --> 00:18:23.200 so long, they used to be Step thirteen. I can't 375 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:25.440 even I wonder how many men they have actually helped. 376 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:28.440 It's got to be thousands get their lives back through 377 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:31.799 a program of work and accountability. And I love them. 378 00:18:31.799 --> 00:18:35.440 They're coming up next stick around helping men overcome the 379 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:41.799 perils of addiction in a fashion that I enthusiastically support. 380 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:44.400 I've had the opportunity to go and tour the facility, 381 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:46.519 and if you do that, if you take the tour 382 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:49.200 and you go and find out how the program works, 383 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:52.319 you will be blown away as I was at everything 384 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:55.480 required and joining me in the studio. Now the executive director. 385 00:18:55.559 --> 00:18:56.920 Are you is that your official title? 386 00:18:57.000 --> 00:18:57.279 Megan? 387 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:00.319 Yes, Megan Shay. She's new to that role, but not 388 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:03.559 new to Step Denver. And we also have Derek who 389 00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:05.519 has now are you where are you in the program? 390 00:19:05.559 --> 00:19:07.720 Derek, I'm a recovery support manager. 391 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:11.279 Recovery support manager? Are you a former addict or recovering addict? 392 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:13.440 Okay, I'm in recovery myself. 393 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:14.799 And that is very common. It's Step Denver. 394 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:18.400 It is twenty of our twenty five staff members have 395 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:21.599 been through the program themselves or are actively in recovery. 396 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:22.559 What is the point of that. 397 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:25.319 I believe it's part of the peer to peer model 398 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:29.640 where we're not just people that got a degree in 399 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:31.559 something and have that on the wall and say hey, 400 00:19:31.640 --> 00:19:32.720 I read this in a book. 401 00:19:33.319 --> 00:19:34.119 It might help you. 402 00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:36.759 We get to with the residents that we work with 403 00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:38.759 on a daily basis. We get to tell them, hey, 404 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:41.559 look I've been where you're at. As a matter of fact, 405 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:44.079 I've been in this program myself. I'm not asking you 406 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:46.279 to do anything that I haven't done, but I'm going 407 00:19:46.359 --> 00:19:49.839 to give you suggestions and experience through my lived experience 408 00:19:50.359 --> 00:19:52.960 to help you get out of this cycle of addiction. 409 00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:55.839 How did you end up in STEP in the first place. 410 00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:58.960 I was homeless before I got to STEP, and I 411 00:19:59.079 --> 00:20:02.839 went to a deta and the counselor that was there 412 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:05.559 when I was seeking treatment said you might want to 413 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:08.240 try this place called Step Denver. And I was out 414 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:10.240 of options, and so I was willing to do anything 415 00:20:10.279 --> 00:20:10.839 at that point. 416 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:13.440 So you really were at rock bottom definitely when you 417 00:20:13.480 --> 00:20:14.559 first came into the program. 418 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:16.960 And when you enter the program, it's. 419 00:20:16.759 --> 00:20:19.319 Called Step because there are steps that you go through 420 00:20:19.480 --> 00:20:22.119 and they are physically manifested. 421 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:22.400 In where you sleep. 422 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:24.319 And when you first come into the program, you have 423 00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:26.839 these barracks. You know, you're out with all the other guys. 424 00:20:27.240 --> 00:20:29.400 What was that like for you when you got there 425 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:31.880 and you realize like, okay, I'm gonna do this. Tell 426 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:34.440 me what that part was like, Like how you made 427 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:35.160 that first step? 428 00:20:35.319 --> 00:20:39.440 Yeah, So my experience with STEP, like I should mention that, 429 00:20:39.559 --> 00:20:43.079 like I chose to sleep on the street instead of 430 00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:47.240 the shelters because it was safer and cleaner on the 431 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:50.240 street than in the shelters. And so I went into 432 00:20:50.279 --> 00:20:53.160 STEP with the expectation with if it looks, smells, or 433 00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:55.599 feels like a shelter, I'm not going to stay. And 434 00:20:55.640 --> 00:20:58.119 so when I walked in and I saw how immaculately 435 00:20:58.200 --> 00:21:02.519 clean it was twenty four and how kind and comforting 436 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:05.240 the staff members were, and then like I get a 437 00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:07.319 bed to sleep on instead of like a bunk and 438 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:09.640 it's like a really nice bed, and I get a 439 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:13.759 closet and the living space was like beyond what I 440 00:21:13.839 --> 00:21:16.960 was expecting, and it made me like immediately when I 441 00:21:16.960 --> 00:21:19.559 walked in, it felt like home. It felt like a brotherhood, 442 00:21:19.599 --> 00:21:21.799 and it felt comfortable and I felt welcome. 443 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:24.000 How did you fall into addiction in the first place. 444 00:21:24.319 --> 00:21:27.200 I got introduced to drugs and alcohol at a very 445 00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:31.559 young age, just being exposed to in the environment that 446 00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:32.319 I grew up in. 447 00:21:32.839 --> 00:21:36.759 So tell me about what has happened for you just 448 00:21:36.839 --> 00:21:40.160 as a human since you became You got sober, and 449 00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:42.400 then you committed to the program, and now you're actually 450 00:21:42.440 --> 00:21:43.519 working for the program. 451 00:21:43.880 --> 00:21:46.079 How has that evolution been for Derek? 452 00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:49.400 I mean, it's it's been life saving and life changing. 453 00:21:49.480 --> 00:21:53.680 To be honest, like I'm I'm a completely different person 454 00:21:53.799 --> 00:21:57.839 to the selfish, self centered, egotistical full of pride and 455 00:21:57.880 --> 00:22:01.319 guilt and shame and fear before for recovery and now 456 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:04.559 I'm the exact opposite of all those things. I have 457 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:07.160 a purpose in my life to be of service to 458 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:09.599 other people and to help people, and to be a 459 00:22:09.640 --> 00:22:12.559 messenger of truth and love and an advocate for recovery. 460 00:22:12.599 --> 00:22:16.920 And I'm very much I'm very much a fan of 461 00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:19.680 recovering out loud. I'm not shy about my recovery and 462 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:22.839 I don't shout it from the rooftops like a preacher. 463 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:25.480 But I'm definitely willing to have the conversation and have 464 00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:29.440 the vulnerable conversations, and I lean into discomforts and I 465 00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:31.960 lean into fear, and I only know how to do 466 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:35.599 these things and just be a regular citizen in our community, 467 00:22:35.720 --> 00:22:39.119 like tax paying member of our community, like a good member. 468 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:41.599 I only know how to do those things because Step 469 00:22:42.039 --> 00:22:44.559 and the twelve Step Fellowships that I got involved in. 470 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:47.680 Megan, you, guys, how many people do you think you've 471 00:22:47.680 --> 00:22:49.119 actually helped over the years. 472 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:51.640 I mean, you know that has to be thousands. When 473 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:52.759 did Bob Kota start this? 474 00:22:52.839 --> 00:22:53.200 What year? 475 00:22:53.480 --> 00:22:56.920 So we were founded in nineteen eighty three. We have 476 00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:00.640 served thousands of men over the years. Last year we 477 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:03.400 served almost four hundred men. So we're now serving about 478 00:23:03.400 --> 00:23:07.720 four hundred men per year. So, and the key is 479 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:10.920 it's not just servings, right, So we consider a man 480 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:13.319 served when they've been in our program five plus days. 481 00:23:13.519 --> 00:23:15.880 We don't consider them served because they had a place 482 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:19.079 to stay for one night, or we've provided them with food. 483 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:23.279 To us, true service is they learned something they can 484 00:23:23.319 --> 00:23:25.400 put into action in their life that is going to 485 00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:28.079 have an impact in their quality of life. Their ability 486 00:23:28.079 --> 00:23:31.119 to recover, their ability to be self sufficient. And so 487 00:23:31.599 --> 00:23:35.240 we consider men served after they've actually received career coaching 488 00:23:35.680 --> 00:23:38.839 and peer coaching from men like Derek and gone through 489 00:23:39.359 --> 00:23:42.160 you know, some of our curriculum and meetings and received 490 00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:44.720 things that they can actually apply. And so I think 491 00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:46.759 that's the difference too. When you look at shelters, it's 492 00:23:46.799 --> 00:23:50.359 like heads and beds, right, how many nights did they stay? 493 00:23:50.839 --> 00:23:51.279 For us? 494 00:23:51.319 --> 00:23:54.079 It's about them actually receiving the tools that they need 495 00:23:54.119 --> 00:23:57.559 to become the people that they're capable of being. You 496 00:23:57.640 --> 00:23:59.640 see what Derek is doing every day in his life, 497 00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:02.400 the pact he's having on these men. 498 00:24:02.079 --> 00:24:04.359 And we don't want lives to be wasted. 499 00:24:04.400 --> 00:24:07.279 We don't want people on the street living in misery 500 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:10.480 and despair. We want them to have purpose. And that's 501 00:24:10.519 --> 00:24:13.559 our main goal, is that they can sustain where I 502 00:24:13.680 --> 00:24:16.480 learn it step after they leave, not just oh great, 503 00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:18.240 we served four hundred men. 504 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:22.000 This is a challenging population. Addiction is a real tough 505 00:24:22.039 --> 00:24:24.000 thing and there's a lot of relapse and things of 506 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:26.480 that nature. Do you feel like because of the program, 507 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:29.279 And either of you can answer this, because this program 508 00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:31.799 is and I never want to knock any kind of rehab. 509 00:24:31.920 --> 00:24:35.319 Like there's a form of rehab that's going to help people. 510 00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:37.400 It may not help all people, but I am all 511 00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:39.480 in favor of any program that I want to be 512 00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:42.160 clear about that. But the thing I like about STEP 513 00:24:42.279 --> 00:24:45.720 is that it does require that accountability portion. It requires 514 00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:48.119 self sufficient It requires you to go out and get 515 00:24:48.119 --> 00:24:51.000 a job, It requires you to do these things that 516 00:24:51.160 --> 00:24:52.799 bring you back into society. 517 00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:54.039 Is that do you. 518 00:24:53.960 --> 00:24:56.640 Think that's why it's so successful. I'm gonna ask Derek 519 00:24:56.720 --> 00:24:57.599 that I. 520 00:24:57.519 --> 00:24:59.599 Do believe that's why it's so successful. 521 00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:03.079 I was telling Megan the other day and spoke about 522 00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:05.160 it this morning as well as like we recover in 523 00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:05.759 real time. 524 00:25:05.880 --> 00:25:06.960 Life isn't on pause. 525 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:10.680 We're able to go do those life things instead of 526 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:14.559 just focusing just on one thing for eight hours a day, 527 00:25:14.599 --> 00:25:17.039 which is my addiction and the recovery from it. But 528 00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:20.279 like I actually get to save my money, I get 529 00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:23.720 to be accountable for my actions within this community. 530 00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:26.279 I get to go to the store and cook my food. 531 00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:27.799 I need to be able to. 532 00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:29.599 Learn how to make my bed in the right way 533 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:31.599 and be accountable for all those things. 534 00:25:31.599 --> 00:25:32.359 But also like. 535 00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:36.200 Really just build habits that are going to carry me 536 00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:38.960 once I get out of said program because it's going 537 00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:39.839 to end eventually. 538 00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:42.000 I love the way you just said, I get to 539 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:44.440 do these things. I get to have a job, I 540 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:47.480 get to do these instead of I have to. That's 541 00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:52.240 a pretty significant mindset situation there, you know. It's that 542 00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:52.839 I get to. 543 00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:55.279 Do these things, not I have to. Meghan, how much 544 00:25:55.279 --> 00:25:55.599 does it. 545 00:25:55.559 --> 00:25:59.079 Cost take a man, Yeah, it's five It's just over 546 00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:01.880 five thousand, fifty two two hundred dollars per man, and 547 00:26:01.880 --> 00:26:04.160 that's for the entire stay. So most men are staying 548 00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:06.279 with us for four to six months, some up to 549 00:26:06.359 --> 00:26:08.160 two years. But if we look at how many men 550 00:26:08.200 --> 00:26:09.920 we serve in a year in our total expenses, it's 551 00:26:09.920 --> 00:26:12.759 about fifty two hundred dollars per man, which, by the way, 552 00:26:13.160 --> 00:26:15.680 is one sixth of the cost I did the math 553 00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:18.200 on one of these hotels, one sixth of the cost 554 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:20.680 of just putting someone in a hotel room. And so 555 00:26:21.359 --> 00:26:25.119 for a fraction we are able to help men become 556 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:29.319 self sufficient, get out of that cycle of dependency, and 557 00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:32.079 be able to contribute because they have a lot to contribute, 558 00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:34.759 by the way, to their community and to their families, 559 00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:35.559 and just for. 560 00:26:35.559 --> 00:26:37.640 The person on the text line who asked if Mayor 561 00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:40.160 Mike had done the tour of step Denver yet that 562 00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:42.279 is a big fat no. I asked Megan that when 563 00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:44.880 you came in, if you would like to help out 564 00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:47.880 step Denver and if you're like me, I love a 565 00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:50.720 hand up program, they could use your donation today. I 566 00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:52.880 put a link on the blog today where you can 567 00:26:52.920 --> 00:26:55.240 go straight to the Colorado Gives page. What is the 568 00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:59.079 benefit of working through Colorado Gives instead of a direct donation. 569 00:26:58.799 --> 00:26:59.440 Well, there are a couple. 570 00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:02.559 One is the Colorida Gives Foundation does an incentive fund match, 571 00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:06.519 so we will have a larger percentage of that incentive 572 00:27:06.519 --> 00:27:08.960 fund at the end of the day based on how 573 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:11.839 many people are supporting step Denver among all of the 574 00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:14.519 other charities that they're supporting today. We also have a 575 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:17.440 twenty five thousand dollars match. We have an individual who 576 00:27:17.440 --> 00:27:19.799 has stepped up and said I will match dollar for 577 00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:22.240 dollar up to twenty five thousand dollars gifts that are 578 00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:23.000 received on this show. 579 00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:25.039 Now you just need to hit twenty five thousand dollars 580 00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:26.440 and you hit another twenty five How. 581 00:27:26.359 --> 00:27:28.119 About five thousand dollars from that last. 582 00:27:28.039 --> 00:27:30.680 I was going to look on this right now. It 583 00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:32.640 doesn't have the thing on there. 584 00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:35.319 Yeah, I've been getting updates from our director of development, 585 00:27:35.480 --> 00:27:38.079 and right before we left Step to come here, we 586 00:27:38.079 --> 00:27:40.480 were about five thousand away from lat so here we go. 587 00:27:40.599 --> 00:27:40.920 It is. 588 00:27:41.119 --> 00:27:46.200 Yeah, well, no, it's that's a pretty match. Okay, it's weird. 589 00:27:46.279 --> 00:27:49.559 There's another cool thing that's happening is Colorado Gives Foundation. 590 00:27:50.279 --> 00:27:53.759 Any new monthly donation that's made today through Colorado gives 591 00:27:53.799 --> 00:27:56.440 dot org slash Step Denver. People who sign up for 592 00:27:56.440 --> 00:27:59.480 a monthly gift, Colorado Gives Foundation will match their first 593 00:27:59.480 --> 00:28:01.799 donation okay, dollar for dollars, so there are a couple 594 00:28:01.799 --> 00:28:04.839 of different matches. There's one other benefit which is new, 595 00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:08.039 the Homeless Contribution tax Credit. So people who give one 596 00:28:08.039 --> 00:28:11.119 thousand dollars or more to step Denver are eligible for 597 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:13.519 a twenty five percent tax credit on that gift, So 598 00:28:13.559 --> 00:28:15.359 twenty five percent of their gift they'll get back in 599 00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:17.960 a tax credit on their federal or state TAXI state 600 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:21.119 state of Colorado. All right, my friends, there you go. 601 00:28:21.319 --> 00:28:24.160 How long is the waitlist for step Denver. We never 602 00:28:24.200 --> 00:28:25.519 have a waitlist, Okay. 603 00:28:25.599 --> 00:28:28.960 We were actually an overflow two weeks ago for the 604 00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:31.200 first time, so I've been there six years and I've 605 00:28:31.240 --> 00:28:33.920 never seen us full, and a couple weeks ago we 606 00:28:34.039 --> 00:28:37.480 hit sixty one or sixty two and the sixty three 607 00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:40.440 bed capacity. We actually say we're a sixty bed facility, 608 00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:42.880 but we have three overflow beds okay, and we had 609 00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:46.720 one overflow bed open. So we're very grateful that right 610 00:28:46.759 --> 00:28:49.279 now the demand is actually leading men to our doors. 611 00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:51.720 Men are making that choice. But the fact of the 612 00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:54.039 matter is, at any given time, there are over one 613 00:28:54.119 --> 00:28:56.640 hundred and fifty beds open in this community. We do 614 00:28:56.759 --> 00:28:59.240 not have a shortage of beds for people to have. 615 00:28:59.240 --> 00:29:01.440 A shortage of people taking them. Correct. 616 00:29:02.119 --> 00:29:03.680 I do want to say you do have to go 617 00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:07.960 to the program sober, yes, meaning if you are intoxicated 618 00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:10.160 on anything, you have to sober up before you can 619 00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:12.240 come through the door, which I think is reasonable because 620 00:29:12.440 --> 00:29:14.599 all of the other men there are trying to maintain 621 00:29:14.599 --> 00:29:16.799 their sobriety and they don't need to be around someone 622 00:29:16.920 --> 00:29:19.799 who is not sober. But you can go to detox 623 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:21.960 and then go straight to step Denver and that is 624 00:29:21.960 --> 00:29:22.880 something that's. 625 00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:23.519 What you did. Derek. 626 00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:27.039 Absolutely, Yeah, guys, I really appreciate you coming in. I 627 00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:30.519 love the program. I'm so excited you're expanding into Colorado Springs. 628 00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:31.279 When is that open? 629 00:29:31.400 --> 00:29:33.200 We are this time next year, we hope to have 630 00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:36.200 our doors open, fifty bed facility in Colorado Springs. It'll 631 00:29:36.200 --> 00:29:38.599 be called STEP Springs. It is our first replication of 632 00:29:38.599 --> 00:29:41.160 this program. We've now got a forty plus year history, 633 00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:44.920 we have proof ten years of data proving this works, 634 00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:47.240 and so now our mission is to take this model 635 00:29:47.240 --> 00:29:50.240 into communities and reach more men in need of this program. 636 00:29:50.319 --> 00:29:53.119 Men like Derek give them that opportunity. So Derek will 637 00:29:53.119 --> 00:29:55.319 be moving to Colorado Springs to help us launch that 638 00:29:55.720 --> 00:29:58.079 and give other men the same opportunity he was given. 639 00:29:58.119 --> 00:29:59.319 They're lucky to have you, Derek. 640 00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:01.000 I'm blad to be a part of it. 641 00:30:01.160 --> 00:30:04.000 Meghan Shay from an executive director of Step Denver and Derek, 642 00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:06.640 thank you so much because we'll be back right after this. 643 00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:08.920 Somebody to hit the text line, is today's show just 644 00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:11.759 going to be you asking for money that I don't have, 645 00:30:12.359 --> 00:30:15.880 not directly, but it is Colorado Gives Day, So yeah, 646 00:30:16.079 --> 00:30:18.559 kind of not the whole show, though, I do promise 647 00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:20.920 you that got a lot of stuff on the blog today, 648 00:30:20.920 --> 00:30:22.240 But I want to do this real quick because I 649 00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:23.799 don't a lot of time here. I went a little long. 650 00:30:24.880 --> 00:30:27.720 Can we all just be excited for Cus Travis Hunter? 651 00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:31.079 I know, don't. I don't talk sports a lot, but it's. 652 00:30:31.079 --> 00:30:34.119 Very exciting that a Buffalo is a finalist for the 653 00:30:34.119 --> 00:30:38.039 Heisman Trophy, and truly from where I sit, and I 654 00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:40.039 didn't watch a lot of college football this year because 655 00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:41.400 Florida State took the year off. 656 00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:43.519 And don't tell me otherwise. 657 00:30:43.759 --> 00:30:48.440 Okay, just don't even stop it, don't don't you don't 658 00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:51.359 say it. But since Florida State took the year off, 659 00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:53.960 I haven't been watching a college a lot of college football, 660 00:30:53.960 --> 00:30:59.839 but man, the highlights of this kid, Holy macarony, Holy macarny. 661 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:04.920 It is really really I hope he wins. Let me 662 00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:06.640 just say that, I do hope he wins. 663 00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:07.039 We'll see. 664 00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:09.759 We're all rooting for you, Travis. I'm sure Travis listens 665 00:31:09.799 --> 00:31:11.759 to the program when he's not in school, because you know, 666 00:31:12.359 --> 00:31:17.119 our college age men numbers are off the charts. Anyway, 667 00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:19.400 I just thought that was cool, so I wanted to 668 00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:22.319 bring that to your attention. Mike Rosen has written a. 669 00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:25.079 Column at page two at. 670 00:31:24.920 --> 00:31:28.200 Complete Colorado dot Com and I love it so much, 671 00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:31.200 but it's addressing something that we had a conversation about 672 00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:35.079 with in my friend group not too long ago, and 673 00:31:35.119 --> 00:31:37.519 that was a friend of mine said, hey, did you 674 00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:40.599 notice that Mary Christmas has made a comeback? And I 675 00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:43.880 was like, what, she goes in the stores, in the 676 00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:47.680 stores everywhere, it's Merry Christmas again. Some places still have 677 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:51.480 Happy Holidays. She's like, where I am, everything is Mary Christmas. 678 00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:54.640 She's in Florida, of course, so of course it's Merry Christmas. 679 00:31:54.640 --> 00:31:57.200 But I wanted to ask you, guys, have you noticed 680 00:31:58.079 --> 00:32:01.680 the messaging in stores or whatever, the banners and whatnot. 681 00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:03.079 Have you have you noticed this? 682 00:32:03.240 --> 00:32:05.319 And I figured I would ask the question and then 683 00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:07.240 you guys can hit the text line at five sixty 684 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:09.599 six nine zero and tell me if you've noticed it. 685 00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:15.440 Because Mike Rosen makes a really good case for retailers 686 00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:19.480 going with the prophet motive and going back to Merry Christmas. 687 00:32:19.880 --> 00:32:22.880 And I love it, not because I disparage any other religion. 688 00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:24.000 And if I know someone is. 689 00:32:24.279 --> 00:32:29.359 Jewish or a Muslim, I'll say happy Honkah or happy Holidays. 690 00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:32.880 I'm not trying to, you know, rub the big Christian holiday. 691 00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:34.839 But the point Mike makes, and he makes it beautifully 692 00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:39.200 is that Christmas is there's two versions of Christmas. One 693 00:32:39.559 --> 00:32:42.880 celebrates the birth of Christ. One is Santa Claus bringing 694 00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:46.920 presents for kids. Right, those things are very different, and 695 00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:49.279 we should be able as a society to recognize the 696 00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:53.240 secular Christmas should be okay for everyone to just say 697 00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:58.799 Merry Christmas. I think we're getting past the era of hypersensitization. 698 00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:02.400 I mean, or maybe I'm just hanging out with people 699 00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:04.759 who have, you know, completely heartless. 700 00:33:04.839 --> 00:33:05.319 I don't know. 701 00:33:06.359 --> 00:33:08.519 Hit my text lineup the Common Spirit Health text line 702 00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:11.000 five sixty six nine oero. Are you seeing Merry Christmas 703 00:33:11.240 --> 00:33:12.799 or are you seeing happy Holidays? 704 00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:16.039 And do you even care? Have we beaten this to death? 705 00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:16.839 I don't know. 706 00:33:17.240 --> 00:33:18.240 We'll talk about it next. 707 00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:21.680 The Mandy Connall Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock 708 00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:23.200 Accident and Injury Lawyers. 709 00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:30.599 No, it's Mandy Connell, Mandy Connell, KA. 710 00:33:31.880 --> 00:33:34.759 Nine FM, Got. 711 00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:42.839 Study and the Niceys Through Freight, Mandy Coronal keeping your 712 00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:43.960 really Sad Thing. 713 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:48.039 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show. 714 00:33:48.200 --> 00:33:51.720 I'm your host, Mandy Connall, and it is Colorado Gives Day, 715 00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:54.319 where we ask you to dig out your piggy bank 716 00:33:54.440 --> 00:33:57.480 and donate to your favorite charities. One of my favorite 717 00:33:57.519 --> 00:34:00.160 charities is well she is not my favorite charity. She 718 00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:04.240 is working with the Children's Diabetes Foundation. Dana Davis, Welcome 719 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:04.799 back to the show. 720 00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:07.119 Thank you so much for having me. We're so proud 721 00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:08.760 to be one of your favorite charities. 722 00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:11.840 Well you guys work with First of all, I want 723 00:34:11.880 --> 00:34:14.480 to ask you this because I saw this not too 724 00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:15.840 long ago and I meant to look it up and 725 00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:19.440 I've forgotten to. Right now, there was a big breakthrough, 726 00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:21.880 it seems in type two diabetes. 727 00:34:21.960 --> 00:34:26.199 Earlier this year they did some gene editing SYPE two, 728 00:34:26.440 --> 00:34:29.039 so we too. Yes, so I thought it was type one. 729 00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:34.039 Well you said type two, but I know type one 730 00:34:34.199 --> 00:34:34.800 with type one. 731 00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:37.679 So there are some amazing things that are happening, and 732 00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:41.679 there are some breakthroughs that are happening, and we're hoping 733 00:34:41.800 --> 00:34:44.119 and thinking and I know so many people think that's 734 00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:45.320 just so far down the line. 735 00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:47.639 But in like, we think in twenty. 736 00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:49.239 Years that would be a cure, and I know people 737 00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:52.199 feel like that's so far away. What we're able to 738 00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:56.119 do is figure out right now we can do where 739 00:34:56.159 --> 00:34:58.599 we put islet cells in the body, but we need 740 00:34:58.760 --> 00:35:02.320 to still give people anti rejection drugs right, So, to 741 00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:06.159 be honest, I would rather be type one right than beyond. 742 00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:07.760 Anti rejection correct. Correct. 743 00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:12.199 So we're so close. We're so close. I didn't think 744 00:35:12.239 --> 00:35:13.960 I could ever say that before. I actually just had 745 00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:17.199 a meeting with our researchers last week and for the 746 00:35:17.320 --> 00:35:21.800 researchers were very honest and we're very sort of organic 747 00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:23.760 and specific about what we'll share. 748 00:35:24.519 --> 00:35:26.760 For the first time, they told me they feel like 749 00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:29.719 we're close. Wow, that's got it. 750 00:35:29.800 --> 00:35:32.599 I mean, wouldn't it be great to have your organization 751 00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:35.280 go out of business because you weren't need it anymore. 752 00:35:35.719 --> 00:35:37.840 It would be that would be my ultimate goal. 753 00:35:38.239 --> 00:35:40.920 Yeah, And for right now, our goal really is is 754 00:35:41.039 --> 00:35:43.880 to make sure that type ones who do have it. 755 00:35:43.960 --> 00:35:45.440 Are getting the best care possible. 756 00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:47.960 Let's start with what's the difference between type one and 757 00:35:48.039 --> 00:35:49.719 type two? Because a lot of people are like, well, 758 00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:53.599 just love some wait that this is not a lifestyle disease. 759 00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:57.239 Type one diabetes totally different than type two diabetes. 760 00:35:57.320 --> 00:35:58.119 What is the difference? 761 00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:02.079 So type one is an autoimmune disease, and you can 762 00:36:02.280 --> 00:36:05.360 have markers. We can actually test and see if people 763 00:36:05.519 --> 00:36:09.039 have markers to predispose them to type one, and we 764 00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:13.440 actually can give infusions for two weeks that can delay 765 00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:16.519 the onset of type one. Oh wow, the type one 766 00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:20.119 is an autoimmune disease. You don't do anything, you don't 767 00:36:20.679 --> 00:36:25.320 You didn't cause it. Type two is more about lifestyle. 768 00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:28.920 There are some possibilities. There are Type two's that are thin, 769 00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:31.159 and people are like, well, they're thin and they're in shape, 770 00:36:31.199 --> 00:36:36.000 and that's because the pancreas was stressed and make enough insulin. 771 00:36:36.559 --> 00:36:39.599 But type one, literally your body makes no insulin and 772 00:36:40.119 --> 00:36:41.800 you were diagnosed as a child. 773 00:36:42.039 --> 00:36:42.480 Is that why? 774 00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:45.280 Because everybody asked, well, why is it the Children's Diabetes 775 00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:48.159 Foundation when in reality, you can be diagnosed with type 776 00:36:48.199 --> 00:36:49.800 one diabetes at any point in your life. 777 00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:52.119 Thank you for saying that, one hundred percent. So when 778 00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:55.199 I was diagnosed, I was seven, and my parents called 779 00:36:55.199 --> 00:36:58.559 it the Children's Diabetes Foundation because at that time they 780 00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:02.000 called type one childhood diabetes and juvenile diabetes. 781 00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:04.000 Right right now that's changed. 782 00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:06.360 I mean I have board members that were twenty six 783 00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:09.239 and thirty one. They were diagnosed. You can get diagnosed 784 00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:12.000 when you're ninety with type one diabetes. You can be 785 00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:14.760 diagnosed at any age. And I'm really glad you brought 786 00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:16.599 that up because it's so important for people to know. 787 00:37:17.320 --> 00:37:20.599 We recently, you know, we have people that need to 788 00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:25.039 know the symptoms. Recently, there was a teenager who was 789 00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:28.960 misdiagnosed not through US, not through SeeU, but through somewhere 790 00:37:29.039 --> 00:37:31.920 else and unfortunately they passed away because they didn't get 791 00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:34.079 the proper care. And all it is is a simple 792 00:37:34.199 --> 00:37:37.400 blood test and you'urine test, very simple test. 793 00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:39.440 What are the symptoms to look for. Let's go ahead 794 00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:40.000 talk about that. 795 00:37:40.639 --> 00:37:44.280 It's weight loss, it's fatigue. 796 00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:45.039 Unexplained weight loss. 797 00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:46.679 To be clear, like, if you're on a diet you're 798 00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:48.800 losing weight, that doesn't mean you have type one diabetes. 799 00:37:48.840 --> 00:37:51.320 But if you all of a sudden start to shed weight. 800 00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:55.119 Shed weight, it's like twenty pounds in nothing flat. It's 801 00:37:55.400 --> 00:37:59.119 extreme thirst. Depending on your age, it's bed wedding. I 802 00:37:59.239 --> 00:38:03.360 was wedding my bad at seven. That was not normal, right, 803 00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:06.079 It's it's it's crankiness. 804 00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:11.159 Well then I might have Type two guys. 805 00:38:11.559 --> 00:38:13.679 I mean, I say it continues through. We're all a 806 00:38:13.719 --> 00:38:18.880 little cranky, right, So it's that it's knowing the symptoms. 807 00:38:18.920 --> 00:38:22.280 We're working really hard on education too, and educating everyone. 808 00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:24.039 I think people just assume. 809 00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:27.079 They know what type one diabetes is and says, oh, 810 00:38:27.360 --> 00:38:28.559 you know, you're too old to. 811 00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:29.880 Get it, or you're too. 812 00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:32.119 Healthy to get it, and that's it's almost like an 813 00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:35.239 invisible disease because so many people look so healthy you 814 00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:36.800 would never think they actually have it. 815 00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:43.199 Well, it seems like now there are like managing diabetes. 816 00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:45.960 There's so many tools on the market now that are 817 00:38:46.039 --> 00:38:49.840 just crazy. The constant glucose monitor that the people have 818 00:38:50.199 --> 00:38:53.519 for kids, that's just got to be a game changer. 819 00:38:53.760 --> 00:38:55.719 What it's a god sense. So imagine that you have 820 00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:56.840 a one year old. 821 00:38:56.760 --> 00:39:00.239 Who can't quite tell you what's wrong with them, and 822 00:39:01.599 --> 00:39:02.239 you can look. 823 00:39:02.119 --> 00:39:03.239 And see what their numbers are. 824 00:39:03.400 --> 00:39:05.519 So I'm wearing one right now and it tells me 825 00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:07.559 twenty four hours a day on my phone what my 826 00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:11.400 blood sugars are, right, And it's something that in the future, 827 00:39:11.480 --> 00:39:14.239 they feel like all all people should be wearing at 828 00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:16.320 some point in time in their life because it's such 829 00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:20.719 an important thing to see how food and activities affect you, 830 00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:23.199 not just as a type one, right, but as. 831 00:39:23.159 --> 00:39:23.760 A human being. 832 00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:26.440 There's some really interesting stuff happening right now when it 833 00:39:26.519 --> 00:39:27.960 comes to personalization. 834 00:39:28.639 --> 00:39:29.760 To your point, and one. 835 00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:31.719 I just read an article a couple of weeks ago 836 00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:33.960 about a study that's happening now where people are wearing 837 00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:36.920 these glucose monitors and eating what is we've all been 838 00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:39.480 told is a healthy diet, but some people are finding 839 00:39:39.519 --> 00:39:42.920 out certain vegetables are making their blood sugar go crazy. 840 00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:45.360 So we're maybe looking at a future, well, you will 841 00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:48.800 have a very specific eating plan of like these are 842 00:39:48.840 --> 00:39:51.079 your food these are your superfoods, and they might be 843 00:39:51.119 --> 00:39:51.800 different for everyone. 844 00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:53.679 It's so cool the stuff that's cool, isn't it cool? 845 00:39:53.719 --> 00:39:56.000 And it's cool that it can all springboard off of 846 00:39:56.079 --> 00:39:56.480 each other. 847 00:39:56.639 --> 00:40:00.360 There's so many things that with chronic illnesses that can 848 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:03.119 help everybody. And I think that's the one thing about 849 00:40:03.280 --> 00:40:06.760 you know, diabetes, is there's some really cool technologies that 850 00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:08.280 have happened that can help everybody. 851 00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:08.639 Yeah. 852 00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:10.559 I just got a question on the text line, Manny 853 00:40:10.679 --> 00:40:13.239 ask her what it's called or what type of diabetes 854 00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:16.039 it is? When the person doesn't have a pancreas, so 855 00:40:16.199 --> 00:40:18.000 that will that's type one. 856 00:40:18.119 --> 00:40:21.760 Yeah, that's type and that's sometimes when people have cancer 857 00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:25.159 and they're pancreas is removed. I have a girlfriend who 858 00:40:25.199 --> 00:40:27.480 has a father that lived for twelve years, I mean, 859 00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:28.280 and he was older. 860 00:40:28.679 --> 00:40:31.199 Without it, you become type one in need insulin. 861 00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:35.480 But yeah, so let's talk about the Barbiadavia Center first 862 00:40:35.480 --> 00:40:37.800 of all, because we are so blessed and lucky here 863 00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:40.400 in the Denver metro to have the Barbia Davia Center 864 00:40:40.519 --> 00:40:43.280 started by your mom. It was because of your conditional 865 00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:45.000 Is type one diabetes hereditary? 866 00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:46.360 Is there a hereditary component? 867 00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:49.239 There is a hereditary component. I don't have it in 868 00:40:49.320 --> 00:40:52.760 my history at all. So it's also really possible just 869 00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:56.800 out of nowhere for somebody to have life. I know, 870 00:40:57.239 --> 00:41:01.480 I'm special, so yeah, can come out of it? Can 871 00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:04.079 it can be either you know, you know of it 872 00:41:04.239 --> 00:41:06.639 and it's in your genes and and and that's why 873 00:41:06.679 --> 00:41:09.320 it's important too, I think for people to make sure 874 00:41:09.320 --> 00:41:12.079 they get a blood test or to get tested if 875 00:41:12.119 --> 00:41:13.440 you do have it in your family. 876 00:41:14.559 --> 00:41:17.039 The Barbara Davis Center will test you for free, oh. 877 00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:19.719 Wow, to see if you have the markers and then 878 00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:24.159 be able to let you know if an onset of 879 00:41:24.280 --> 00:41:25.159 type one is coming. 880 00:41:25.840 --> 00:41:28.639 What do you guys do at the Data Dava or 881 00:41:28.679 --> 00:41:31.559 the just renamed the Center of the Barbaraga. They need 882 00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:35.320 to change, right, we need rebranding what do you guys 883 00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:37.159 do over there overall because there's so many things. 884 00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:40.440 There's so many things, it's fantastic. So we do patient 885 00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:43.519 care on the first floor. Second floor there's an infusion 886 00:41:43.599 --> 00:41:46.639 center where we actually able to do there's a few 887 00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:49.639 drugs that you can now infuse and push off the 888 00:41:49.800 --> 00:41:52.280 onset of type one if you have all the markers. 889 00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:55.920 And then the top two floors are a wet lab 890 00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:58.000 and a dry lab. So we do sort of soup 891 00:41:58.079 --> 00:42:01.000 to nuts. We do everything from care to trying to 892 00:42:01.039 --> 00:42:02.119 prevent it to a cure. 893 00:42:02.960 --> 00:42:05.039 And that's pretty amazing that there are drugs that you 894 00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:09.320 can give someone to keep their pancreas going if they're headed. 895 00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:09.719 In that direction. 896 00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:12.679 Yeah, but now it's just getting the testing ryan some 897 00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:16.639 of it again is going to be a sticky a 898 00:42:16.719 --> 00:42:19.039 sticky answer, but some of its insurance. It's a very 899 00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:22.199 expensive drug right now. We're trying really hard to get 900 00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:25.159 it past. We're trying very hard to get as much 901 00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:27.079 data as we can on it so that we can 902 00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:28.440 get it into mainstream. 903 00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:30.159 Is that part of what you do as well? Do 904 00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:32.880 you do you help researchers, do you do you fund 905 00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:33.519 that kind of stuff? 906 00:42:33.519 --> 00:42:36.960 Absolutely? We have we have two floors of researchers. Wow, 907 00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:38.800 so you actually have it. For some reason, I thought 908 00:42:38.840 --> 00:42:41.719 you did grants, But you guys actually are telling we 909 00:42:42.199 --> 00:42:43.480 actually have researchers. 910 00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:46.639 We have over two hundred and twenty people in the 911 00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:49.159 building at the Barbara Davia Center. I'd say a third 912 00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:51.280 of them are Type one themselves, so they have a 913 00:42:51.360 --> 00:42:54.000 lot of passion for it and a lot of the 914 00:42:54.079 --> 00:42:56.920 researches is going on. We also have the largest clinical 915 00:42:56.960 --> 00:42:59.920 base of patients, so any devices that are going to 916 00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:02.519 mount in the next five years have come through our 917 00:43:02.639 --> 00:43:05.480 center for testing. Oh wow, We've been able to be 918 00:43:05.519 --> 00:43:07.760 a part of it because we have the most children, 919 00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:11.960 the most adults. Ninety percent of the Type ones in 920 00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:14.880 Colorado and surrounding areas come to the center. 921 00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:17.079 Oh that's fantastic, because I got to tell you, every 922 00:43:17.159 --> 00:43:19.760 time we have this have you on the show, I 923 00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:22.320 get an email from someone that says, Oh my gosh, 924 00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:25.320 I had no idea this was here. Just found out 925 00:43:25.360 --> 00:43:28.000 I had Type one diabetes. I'm going to go there because, 926 00:43:28.239 --> 00:43:31.360 you know, for the education component, because it's scary. 927 00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:34.559 I mean scary, you really do when you get that diagnosis. 928 00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:37.639 I think when you're a child and I don't want to, 929 00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:39.880 you know, speak for your experience. 930 00:43:40.519 --> 00:43:41.119 It's a pain. 931 00:43:41.280 --> 00:43:43.679 But maybe because your parents are kind of handling things, 932 00:43:44.079 --> 00:43:46.079 it may not be as scary as it could be. 933 00:43:46.440 --> 00:43:48.920 But when you're an adult and you realize, oh, this 934 00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:50.679 is going to be the rest of my life, it 935 00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:53.239 can be really intimidating and frightening. 936 00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:54.679 So what do you guys do in the way of 937 00:43:54.840 --> 00:43:57.480 education and do you have how old do you serve? 938 00:43:57.920 --> 00:44:01.599 We serve literally from day one to we have one 939 00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:03.480 patient that's had it for seventy five years. 940 00:44:03.559 --> 00:44:05.960 Oh my gosh, she's amazing, and you know, to one 941 00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:06.840 hundred years old. 942 00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:10.639 Education is crucial and my parents wanted to start this 943 00:44:10.760 --> 00:44:12.920 because they wanted to care for the whole family, right, 944 00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:15.480 So part of it is making sure that the siblings 945 00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:18.400 are okay. If it's you yourself, that your partner or 946 00:44:18.639 --> 00:44:21.440 you know your kids are okay with it, it's we 947 00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:23.920 treat it as a whole family in the education and 948 00:44:24.199 --> 00:44:26.960 that means, you know, a lot of times Type ones 949 00:44:27.079 --> 00:44:28.360 are twice as likely. 950 00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:32.559 To suffer from depression and suicidal thoughts and. 951 00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:37.480 A function of the I mean, is there a physiological 952 00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:40.159 reason for that or is it just the stress and 953 00:44:40.280 --> 00:44:43.000 the and the sort of yeah, you know, mental where 954 00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:45.559 are you? Yeah, Like, yes, I think it's a little 955 00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:46.039 of both. 956 00:44:46.280 --> 00:44:48.920 And then actually Type ones are four times as likely 957 00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:52.000 to suffer from eating disorders because there's such a focus 958 00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:54.079 on what you're eating and what that looks like, and 959 00:44:54.679 --> 00:44:57.159 and that can be at any age. That's not just 960 00:44:57.280 --> 00:44:59.840 for kids and not just for teenagers. So mental health 961 00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:02.639 shoes is a big push that we do as well, 962 00:45:03.199 --> 00:45:05.800 because it's such a crucial part of it and taking 963 00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:08.719 care of the whole person, not just your disease, but 964 00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:12.840 making sure your mind, body, and soul are Okay, Well, 965 00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:13.320 what are. 966 00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:16.920 The repercussions of untreated type one diabetes? Obviously people can die. 967 00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:17.440 You die? 968 00:45:17.800 --> 00:45:20.679 Oh oh, just that's it, okay, I mean yeah, one 969 00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:23.599 hundred years ago, they starved you till you died. Oh my, 970 00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:27.280 that was the treatment before insulin was discovered. Like it's 971 00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:29.280 kind of crazy to think, so to think when people 972 00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:31.079 are like, oh, it's been so long since we've had 973 00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:33.880 a cure, It's like we've only had insulin for one 974 00:45:33.960 --> 00:45:37.840 hundred years and they've known about it since Egyptian times. 975 00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:41.559 There's proof that it was called the sugar urine disease 976 00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:44.840 and they knew to you know, sort of if there 977 00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:48.760 was sugar, if ants went to where you were urinated. 978 00:45:48.880 --> 00:45:52.280 That you probably had diabetes. Like got's crazy, right, Like 979 00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:54.199 it's been around forever. 980 00:45:54.840 --> 00:45:56.679 So if you don't want to go get tested, just 981 00:45:56.760 --> 00:45:58.400 be on the ground near an ant pilon. 982 00:45:58.119 --> 00:46:02.840 And see what. It's perfect. But don't crazy. Now people 983 00:46:02.880 --> 00:46:04.079 are going to do that and I'm going to get 984 00:46:04.119 --> 00:46:06.119 in trouble with our doctors. They're going to be like, 985 00:46:06.199 --> 00:46:07.159 what kind of you live? 986 00:46:08.400 --> 00:46:10.800 But I don't find that fascinating because we don't think 987 00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:13.719 about the ancient Egyptians. 988 00:46:14.280 --> 00:46:15.920 I mean, they had a civilized. 989 00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:17.840 Culture for the time, but you don't think about the 990 00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:21.039 fact that they were figuring out the internal workings or 991 00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:24.840 at least knowing that something was wrong, right, and it's crazy. 992 00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:28.679 That's amazing, Yeah, I mean, that's just amazing. What are 993 00:46:28.719 --> 00:46:31.480 some of the things that people who are coming to 994 00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:32.559 the center for the first time. 995 00:46:32.599 --> 00:46:33.559 What can they expect. 996 00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:38.000 They can expect a really warm and welcoming place. They 997 00:46:38.079 --> 00:46:42.079 can expect to find people who understand them. They can 998 00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:47.400 expect to be treated as a whole person, their whole 999 00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:50.119 family to be treated. We make sure a lot of 1000 00:46:50.199 --> 00:46:52.800 times like kids will come over from Children's hospital and 1001 00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:54.280 little red wagons. 1002 00:46:54.320 --> 00:46:55.239 You know, they'll come across. 1003 00:46:55.320 --> 00:46:59.159 After they've been diagnosed, they're welcome to they get to 1004 00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:02.760 meet with therapist, they get to meet with a nurse practitioner, 1005 00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:05.360 they get to meet with a doctor. We do the 1006 00:47:05.519 --> 00:47:08.519 initial sort of setup, and then a few weeks later 1007 00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:10.880 we have them come back. That's a lot of information 1008 00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:13.159 to get in the beginning. That's a lot of We 1009 00:47:13.320 --> 00:47:15.599 try to connect them with a network. We try to 1010 00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:19.639 get them with social networks, and we have support groups 1011 00:47:19.719 --> 00:47:22.519 and different things to really help to help them get 1012 00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:22.840 through it. 1013 00:47:23.639 --> 00:47:26.079 So what kind of changes have we seen in terms 1014 00:47:26.119 --> 00:47:30.239 of life expectancy and the life expectancy since you were 1015 00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:30.920 diagnosed as. 1016 00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:34.199 So when I was diagnosed, they were basically I was told, 1017 00:47:34.519 --> 00:47:36.800 you know, to not have children. I didn't have children 1018 00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:39.079 for other reasons, but that I couldn't have children and 1019 00:47:39.199 --> 00:47:41.519 that I could expect to live like thirty forty years. 1020 00:47:41.840 --> 00:47:43.239 WHOA, and now we have. 1021 00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:46.159 People that are living with it for seventy five eighty. 1022 00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:50.159 It'll be my fiftieth anniversary diversary this next year. So 1023 00:47:50.280 --> 00:47:53.159 we're doing a celebration in a metal celebration because we 1024 00:47:53.239 --> 00:47:55.400 have over four hundred patients. 1025 00:47:55.079 --> 00:47:57.519 That I have had it more than fifty years. So 1026 00:47:57.800 --> 00:47:58.559 if the life. 1027 00:47:58.400 --> 00:48:02.920 Expectancy has just doubled, it's become and the quality of 1028 00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:05.400 life right right, I mean, let's be really. 1029 00:48:05.280 --> 00:48:08.079 You can extend someone's life, but their quality of life sucks. 1030 00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:10.760 What you're really doing, you know, that's it and now 1031 00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:11.320 it can be. 1032 00:48:11.559 --> 00:48:14.480 That's one of the bigger pushes too, is with cgms 1033 00:48:14.559 --> 00:48:16.480 and pumps in different ways that you can take care 1034 00:48:16.519 --> 00:48:19.280 of your body. You can. I mean you see there's 1035 00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:23.880 Olympic athletes, there's race car drivers. You can do absolutely everything. 1036 00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:26.159 And now even you're allowed to you know, before you 1037 00:48:26.280 --> 00:48:28.719 weren't allowed to fly planes. There are you know, you're 1038 00:48:28.719 --> 00:48:31.719 allowed to do that now, like it's amazing. There's nothing 1039 00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:33.119 that you can't do anymore. 1040 00:48:33.400 --> 00:48:34.480 So what are they working on? 1041 00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:37.840 What are your researchers working on right now that they 1042 00:48:37.960 --> 00:48:41.119 feel hopeful that the end may be near. 1043 00:48:41.719 --> 00:48:43.960 That would be stem cells. 1044 00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:46.519 I mean that would be the implanting of stem cells 1045 00:48:46.559 --> 00:48:48.599 and seeing you know what do you maybe put it 1046 00:48:48.719 --> 00:48:52.239 in what a cancer cells shell is right, because it's 1047 00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:57.679 you know, survives the immune system and it's you know, impervious, 1048 00:48:57.719 --> 00:48:59.719 so you can it can come, will come and go, 1049 00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:04.760 sorry about that, but working on how to create that 1050 00:49:05.280 --> 00:49:09.280 as a protective implant to put it in the body. 1051 00:49:09.400 --> 00:49:11.199 So the delivery system is the challenge. 1052 00:49:11.480 --> 00:49:13.880 It's the delivery system, yeah, because now they can know 1053 00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:17.480 they can sit and watch and see a cell make 1054 00:49:17.599 --> 00:49:19.840 it into They can take a beta cell, make it 1055 00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:22.039 in or an islet cell, make it into an insulin 1056 00:49:22.079 --> 00:49:25.239 producing cell. They can watch it turn green. When that happens, 1057 00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:27.559 they put an algae on it. They know exactly when 1058 00:49:27.599 --> 00:49:31.519 it becomes an insulin producing cell. They can actually really 1059 00:49:31.679 --> 00:49:34.800 manipulate the cells. It's just a matter of churning off 1060 00:49:34.880 --> 00:49:38.960 the autoimmune system or you know, fooling it. 1061 00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:42.119 Right right, And that's the issue. I mean, I read 1062 00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:44.559 a lot about stem cells. I remember regenerative therapy client 1063 00:49:44.639 --> 00:49:47.159 that is on the show quite often, and I'm fascinated 1064 00:49:47.239 --> 00:49:50.199 by the potential for that in the future. But it's 1065 00:49:50.320 --> 00:49:54.440 like you think about stem cells can be anything. How 1066 00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:56.000 do you make sure that they are going to be 1067 00:49:56.199 --> 00:49:57.840 what you want them to be? And to your point, 1068 00:49:58.119 --> 00:50:01.760 an insulin producing stem sell or you know, to basically 1069 00:50:01.880 --> 00:50:02.880 juice the pancreas. 1070 00:50:03.079 --> 00:50:05.519 That's to make it work the way it's supposed to. 1071 00:50:05.639 --> 00:50:07.840 It's all. It's just isn't it a great time to 1072 00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:08.280 be alive? 1073 00:50:08.480 --> 00:50:10.639 And thank goodness, there are people that are so brilliant 1074 00:50:10.679 --> 00:50:13.280 that understand that. Yeah, you know when I talk to 1075 00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:15.360 our researchers and they talk about things and they're so 1076 00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:17.119 excited and they get it and it's just not how 1077 00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:17.800 my brain works. 1078 00:50:17.880 --> 00:50:20.639 But so happy that there are people that think that way. 1079 00:50:21.079 --> 00:50:23.920 Well, this is why we have Dana on the show today, 1080 00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:26.880 because this is Colorado Gives Day, and as we just 1081 00:50:26.920 --> 00:50:28.960 talked a little while ago to step Denver, it's the 1082 00:50:29.039 --> 00:50:31.760 perfect day to make a donation that could feasibly I mean. 1083 00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:33.440 We're actually talking about for real. 1084 00:50:33.840 --> 00:50:36.360 You could make a donation that can help end type 1085 00:50:36.440 --> 00:50:38.559 one diabetes. And then I wouldn't get to see Dana 1086 00:50:38.599 --> 00:50:39.159 every year. 1087 00:50:39.199 --> 00:50:41.559 But we'd find something used to talk about. 1088 00:50:41.679 --> 00:50:45.199 We'd find some reason to have you on for another reason. 1089 00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:47.159 I've got a few text messages I want to share. 1090 00:50:47.239 --> 00:50:49.280 This one said, please tell her that I used to 1091 00:50:49.320 --> 00:50:51.280 work for her dad at Davis Oil when he. 1092 00:50:51.320 --> 00:50:55.239 Started the foundation. I'm so proud of how far they've come. Thanks. 1093 00:50:55.280 --> 00:50:58.119 So it's so incredible people watching you this. 1094 00:50:58.280 --> 00:51:01.719 When my son participated in the program until he was 1095 00:51:01.800 --> 00:51:02.559 eighteen or nineteen. 1096 00:51:02.559 --> 00:51:03.440 What's the Daisy program? 1097 00:51:03.480 --> 00:51:05.920 So the Daisy program is one of the programs where 1098 00:51:06.840 --> 00:51:10.079 he must have a sibling that has Type one. 1099 00:51:10.280 --> 00:51:14.320 Oh, also Celiac and also tess for Celiac. And is 1100 00:51:14.360 --> 00:51:17.960 there a connection there? There is no way, there's a big. 1101 00:51:17.880 --> 00:51:21.559 Connection with I think it's like half the type ones 1102 00:51:21.599 --> 00:51:22.559 have Celiac as well. 1103 00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:24.039 I have four autoimmune diseases. 1104 00:51:24.119 --> 00:51:26.360 Wet's see my family. We don't get cancer, we get 1105 00:51:26.400 --> 00:51:27.199 autoimmune disease. 1106 00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:28.400 Right, we have a healthy. 1107 00:51:28.199 --> 00:51:31.280 Stream of Celiac's on one side, and then we've got 1108 00:51:31.480 --> 00:51:33.599 you know, like sriatic arthritis. I mean, we got a 1109 00:51:33.639 --> 00:51:36.880 whole gamut of of autoimmune Diseases' just a cornucopia of 1110 00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:37.880 waiting for. 1111 00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:40.079 Mine to kick in. Like every time something hurts, I'm like, 1112 00:51:40.119 --> 00:51:41.920 well here it goes, you know here what I'm ready 1113 00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:45.119 down the path. Just it's one time, but that's interesting 1114 00:51:45.239 --> 00:51:45.440 to me. 1115 00:51:45.719 --> 00:51:49.960 So they do so that program then follows people for 1116 00:51:50.039 --> 00:51:51.599 a certain amount of time to see. 1117 00:51:51.519 --> 00:51:52.639 There's two different programs. 1118 00:51:52.679 --> 00:51:55.519 One's Teddy, one's Daisy, and I honestly don't remember which 1119 00:51:55.599 --> 00:51:56.119 is the difference. 1120 00:51:56.159 --> 00:51:57.280 I'm sorry I should know that. 1121 00:51:58.239 --> 00:52:03.079 But one follows Type one are already diagnosed if they 1122 00:52:03.199 --> 00:52:07.480 get a second autoimmune and one is following siblings or 1123 00:52:07.880 --> 00:52:10.920 maybe children of people that have type one and following 1124 00:52:11.000 --> 00:52:11.400 it through. 1125 00:52:11.559 --> 00:52:14.119 I think that is an amazing part of this program, 1126 00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:16.840 because when you have a kid that has a chronic 1127 00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:20.559 illness or a disease or a condition, the other kids 1128 00:52:21.079 --> 00:52:23.480 kind of get left behind a little bit out of necessity. 1129 00:52:23.559 --> 00:52:25.800 It's not bad parenting, it is out of necessity. You 1130 00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:27.800 have to direct more energy to that. 1131 00:52:27.880 --> 00:52:28.679 Child who needs that. 1132 00:52:29.320 --> 00:52:31.559 But what a wonderful thing for you guys to say, 1133 00:52:31.800 --> 00:52:33.280 we're going to bring you all in and we're going 1134 00:52:33.320 --> 00:52:34.960 to make you all feel special and loved. 1135 00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:37.719 Well, And unfortunately we have a lot of siblings that 1136 00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:40.679 are both Type one. Yeah, we've been finding that more 1137 00:52:40.679 --> 00:52:44.199 and more recently. Are we seeing a higher percentage. 1138 00:52:44.280 --> 00:52:47.239 Are the percentages going up the general population or are 1139 00:52:47.280 --> 00:52:48.159 we just getting better. 1140 00:52:48.079 --> 00:52:50.239 At catching it. I think it's a little bit of both. 1141 00:52:50.280 --> 00:52:52.360 I think the percentages aren't a huge jump. 1142 00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:55.679 I mean during COVID everybody's like, oh my god, there's 1143 00:52:55.760 --> 00:52:57.760 you know, there's been a jump, and there wasn't. It 1144 00:52:57.840 --> 00:52:59.719 was unfortunately that people were getting to the point they 1145 00:52:59.719 --> 00:53:02.360 were in DKA and needed to be in the hospital, right, 1146 00:53:03.119 --> 00:53:05.119 So it's being able to catch it early enough. So 1147 00:53:05.159 --> 00:53:07.280 I think it's it's a little bit of both, you know. 1148 00:53:07.400 --> 00:53:10.079 It's I don't think it's a huge jump per se, right, 1149 00:53:11.119 --> 00:53:13.480 you know, it just depends on the population exactly. 1150 00:53:13.639 --> 00:53:16.800 Dana Davis with the Children's Diabetes Foundation, I have put 1151 00:53:16.840 --> 00:53:18.599 a link on the blog today where you can go 1152 00:53:18.760 --> 00:53:22.239 directly to their Colorado Gives page and make a donation 1153 00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:25.599 and maybe be a part of curing type one diabetes. 1154 00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:28.599 Those are big words. They are big words, and hopefully 1155 00:53:28.639 --> 00:53:29.639 we'll get to clink. 1156 00:53:29.639 --> 00:53:32.639 To the curing of diabetes, very very fantastic and maybe 1157 00:53:32.719 --> 00:53:34.480 some other autoimmune disease at the same time. 1158 00:53:34.480 --> 00:53:36.559 Absolutely, because you got to knock him out before I 1159 00:53:36.639 --> 00:53:39.079 get mine. So there you go, Dana, it's good to 1160 00:53:39.079 --> 00:53:40.920 see you, to see We'll be right back. 1161 00:53:41.000 --> 00:53:41.719 Would you say to me. 1162 00:53:41.719 --> 00:53:44.679 On the break, I said, my youngest brother in law 1163 00:53:45.159 --> 00:53:48.039 shout out to kin keeen. Just turned twenty one years old, 1164 00:53:48.159 --> 00:53:52.920 so the birthday, Yeah, so you know me, you can. 1165 00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:55.599 To introduce him to that, to the drinking life. And 1166 00:53:55.679 --> 00:53:57.599 what did you just say? After that? Where are you starting? 1167 00:53:57.639 --> 00:53:59.320 And this is where this is why I bring this up, 1168 00:53:59.400 --> 00:54:00.920 Well I already see a problem. 1169 00:54:01.119 --> 00:54:03.400 Well we're going to bro too, but we're start I mean, 1170 00:54:03.440 --> 00:54:04.840 we we want to dial all the way back. We're 1171 00:54:04.880 --> 00:54:07.880 taking him to dinner. First, we're gonna go Putt Putt downtown. 1172 00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:09.199 Where are you taking him to dinner? 1173 00:54:09.880 --> 00:54:11.599 Oh, we're gonna go to who Hot for some Mongolian. 1174 00:54:12.079 --> 00:54:14.760 Yeah, we're gonna do who Hot. You know, call it 1175 00:54:14.760 --> 00:54:18.679 who ha And that's not obviously it's who What is it? 1176 00:54:18.719 --> 00:54:19.280 Who Who? 1177 00:54:20.079 --> 00:54:22.199 It's on the outskirts to Denversus before we, you know, 1178 00:54:22.639 --> 00:54:25.599 reach the downtown scene. Chill it out a little, have 1179 00:54:25.679 --> 00:54:28.079 a good dinner. Then we're gonna go to put Putt downtown. 1180 00:54:28.119 --> 00:54:29.039 In a place downtown. 1181 00:54:29.320 --> 00:54:30.800 Where's there Putt Putt Downtown? 1182 00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:33.320 Multiple there's multiple. There's one that we've been to multiple 1183 00:54:33.360 --> 00:54:36.400 times called Holy Moly. It's it's incredible, like the most 1184 00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:38.360 immaculate scenes that they build. 1185 00:54:38.440 --> 00:54:38.960 Where is that? 1186 00:54:39.960 --> 00:54:42.840 I will tell you right now, give you the general vicinity. 1187 00:54:43.079 --> 00:54:44.440 I couldn't even tell you the general city. 1188 00:54:44.559 --> 00:54:47.400 I told you the general facility downtown on eighteenth and 1189 00:54:47.880 --> 00:54:51.320 uh Lawrence, okay, so near Lodo Okay. Then the other 1190 00:54:51.320 --> 00:54:53.159 one we're gonna go to is also kind of in 1191 00:54:53.239 --> 00:54:56.800 your course field. It's called uh putt Shack, of course. 1192 00:54:56.960 --> 00:54:58.960 So we're gonna go there because we've been to that 1193 00:54:59.039 --> 00:55:04.000 one yet. And then we're starting to experience the pretty 1194 00:55:04.079 --> 00:55:06.079 much the tour of downtown. 1195 00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:07.639 We're gonna the first one we're going to. We're going 1196 00:55:07.679 --> 00:55:08.920 we're going to the rooftops. We're gonna go to a 1197 00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:10.760 view house first and foremost. 1198 00:55:10.400 --> 00:55:12.159 Well, you just mentioned a two minutes ago, you mentioned 1199 00:55:12.199 --> 00:55:13.039 Margarita's first. 1200 00:55:13.119 --> 00:55:16.840 You can't start with yeah, yeah, Margaret Mark, we're getting 1201 00:55:16.840 --> 00:55:18.840 the Rios has the best. 1202 00:55:19.119 --> 00:55:20.760 No, no, no, you do you know. 1203 00:55:21.599 --> 00:55:24.679 I'm just saying, I'm just I know your Mexican. I 1204 00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:26.880 know that this is I know this the Rios. Have 1205 00:55:26.960 --> 00:55:27.800 you even been to Rios? 1206 00:55:27.880 --> 00:55:29.239 I have not, and I'm not I'm not do wait 1207 00:55:29.320 --> 00:55:29.800 hear me out. 1208 00:55:29.960 --> 00:55:32.360 I'm not doubting the quality of their Margarita's. I bet 1209 00:55:32.360 --> 00:55:33.079 they're amazing. 1210 00:55:33.280 --> 00:55:35.519 Max out it too. You can't have more than two. 1211 00:55:35.719 --> 00:55:38.039 But it's also got like a ton of sugar, and 1212 00:55:38.079 --> 00:55:40.039 that's going to make him puke at some point exactly. 1213 00:55:40.239 --> 00:55:43.920 Oh, I didn't realize turning, he's turning what twenty w. 1214 00:55:45.519 --> 00:55:47.760 The Rios Margarita will be the first, one of the 1215 00:55:47.800 --> 00:55:51.199 first drinks, he goes, yeah yeah, and then view house 1216 00:55:51.599 --> 00:55:53.400 and one up will be a stop, hit up all 1217 00:55:53.519 --> 00:55:55.639 the rooftop bars, the whole the whole tour. 1218 00:55:55.840 --> 00:55:56.119 You know what? 1219 00:55:56.239 --> 00:55:58.480 That that just honestly like And don't get me wrong, 1220 00:55:58.599 --> 00:56:02.960 I had my day in the sign you it sounds exhausting, 1221 00:56:03.840 --> 00:56:05.480 like I'm like, God, that just sounds. 1222 00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:05.719 Like a lot. 1223 00:56:06.280 --> 00:56:08.960 Another thing I confirmed on this Europe trip that we 1224 00:56:09.079 --> 00:56:11.679 just got back to. I can no longer day drink 1225 00:56:11.800 --> 00:56:16.480 into night drink at all. I can day drink period, 1226 00:56:17.159 --> 00:56:20.119 or I can night drink period, cannot do them both 1227 00:56:20.159 --> 00:56:20.800 in the same day. 1228 00:56:21.400 --> 00:56:22.679 And that's what getting old does. 1229 00:56:22.559 --> 00:56:23.320 To you, amateur. 1230 00:56:23.920 --> 00:56:24.800 Oh are you kidding me? 1231 00:56:25.079 --> 00:56:25.480 I'm not. 1232 00:56:25.599 --> 00:56:27.800 I'm such a professional that I no longer can do 1233 00:56:27.920 --> 00:56:30.079 these things because my body's like, you know what, haven't 1234 00:56:30.119 --> 00:56:33.480 we learned? Haven't we learned from all those years of 1235 00:56:33.559 --> 00:56:35.599 going to brunch and then you know, making it the 1236 00:56:35.639 --> 00:56:36.079 whole day? 1237 00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:37.159 Why? 1238 00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:37.480 Why? 1239 00:56:38.239 --> 00:56:38.400 Why? 1240 00:56:38.519 --> 00:56:39.800 Why haven't we learned that? 1241 00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:43.800 I mean it's and then Keeper's telling me about Dessauce, 1242 00:56:43.880 --> 00:56:47.280 which is an amazing apparently pizza place that is Chicago 1243 00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:48.920 style but thin crust. 1244 00:56:48.760 --> 00:56:51.920 The western Chicago. The Kyle we had in Chicago. Yes, 1245 00:56:52.440 --> 00:56:54.480 that pizza was so good. I still dream about that pizza. 1246 00:56:54.599 --> 00:56:59.440 I still talk about every menu item at every restaurant 1247 00:56:59.480 --> 00:56:59.920 in Chicago. 1248 00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:03.199 It's the best food town in the country and it's 1249 00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:06.079 not particularly close and it's not particularly expensive. 1250 00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:08.559 We spent so much. 1251 00:57:08.599 --> 00:57:10.800 Oh yeah, way more money, way less quality. 1252 00:57:10.880 --> 00:57:11.079 Yeah. 1253 00:57:11.719 --> 00:57:14.239 I'm actually thinking of going to uh A radio conference 1254 00:57:14.320 --> 00:57:15.360 because it's in Chicago. 1255 00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:18.719 Oh yeah, Like I would totally go back, just to go. Yeah, 1256 00:57:18.960 --> 00:57:20.840 and I will go back and get that exact same 1257 00:57:20.840 --> 00:57:21.599 pizza that I had. 1258 00:57:21.760 --> 00:57:22.480 It was so good. 1259 00:57:22.599 --> 00:57:24.440 Everything was so good, so good. 1260 00:57:24.599 --> 00:57:28.320 Okay, so that's the plan. Now who is driving you people? 1261 00:57:28.480 --> 00:57:29.960 Because whose car is going to get puked in? 1262 00:57:30.039 --> 00:57:30.719 That's what I want to know. 1263 00:57:32.039 --> 00:57:34.400 You know, I don't know. I don't know cars, cars, 1264 00:57:34.480 --> 00:57:37.119 cars will be left in places. Sure, yeah, I have 1265 00:57:37.199 --> 00:57:38.760 no idea. I mean, you know how far north you live, 1266 00:57:38.840 --> 00:57:41.159 So I have no clue what's happening. 1267 00:57:41.920 --> 00:57:44.840 And who is the one that remains mostly sober to 1268 00:57:45.239 --> 00:57:47.119 make sure that nobody dies or anything like that. 1269 00:57:47.320 --> 00:57:48.400 No one, no one. 1270 00:57:48.480 --> 00:57:50.239 You're just throwing caution to the wind. Just yeah, this 1271 00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:52.920 is uh, this is uh you know role where they. 1272 00:57:52.840 --> 00:57:55.679 Made this is all things all bets off. 1273 00:57:57.679 --> 00:58:00.960 I wish I could remember my twenty first birthday. 1274 00:58:01.719 --> 00:58:04.800 Mine was in Vegas, but I I had. 1275 00:58:04.679 --> 00:58:06.960 A fake ID, right, I had a fake ID from 1276 00:58:06.960 --> 00:58:11.039 the time I got to college. Kimberly Van Cleek fourteen seven. 1277 00:58:11.079 --> 00:58:14.360 Oh excuse me, Kimberly Brandt fourteen seventeen, Van Cleek, Avenue 1278 00:58:14.400 --> 00:58:15.440 Newsromera Beach, Florida. 1279 00:58:15.800 --> 00:58:18.880 Now he has a real fun party trick because he 1280 00:58:19.119 --> 00:58:22.599 has an ID that just expired is from when he 1281 00:58:22.760 --> 00:58:25.199 was two, as a picture of him when he was two, 1282 00:58:25.360 --> 00:58:28.519 because they needed an ID for the passport for them 1283 00:58:28.599 --> 00:58:29.280 for their Wait. 1284 00:58:29.159 --> 00:58:31.960 Wait, wait, wait, you can't hand someone a pass or 1285 00:58:32.039 --> 00:58:34.480 photo that it's a party trick. 1286 00:58:34.519 --> 00:58:36.840 He's got another one that shows that's not gotcha. But 1287 00:58:36.960 --> 00:58:38.880 he's gonna first show that one literally is a face 1288 00:58:38.960 --> 00:58:42.599 of a baby because he's adorable and he looks exactly 1289 00:58:42.639 --> 00:58:44.679 the same. But it's a baby ID that my wife 1290 00:58:44.719 --> 00:58:47.719 had to sign for because he couldn't sign at two, right, 1291 00:58:47.880 --> 00:58:50.079 But they needed an ID to get a passport at 1292 00:58:50.119 --> 00:58:52.119 the time. So he literally carries around this idea that 1293 00:58:52.280 --> 00:58:54.039 just expired at twenty one years old that literally is 1294 00:58:54.079 --> 00:58:56.760 a picture imagining full on ID and then just a 1295 00:58:56.880 --> 00:58:59.599 baby face, literally a baby right there. 1296 00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:00.400 It's great. 1297 00:59:00.480 --> 00:59:02.039 Well, I had a fake ID the whole time I 1298 00:59:02.119 --> 00:59:05.159 was in college until two months before my twenty first birthday. Well, 1299 00:59:05.199 --> 00:59:07.159 this is the eighties, dude. I mean everybody had a 1300 00:59:07.199 --> 00:59:10.679 fake ID. So uh, kids, don't try this at home, 1301 00:59:10.679 --> 00:59:11.679 because now you'll get arrested. 1302 00:59:12.559 --> 00:59:13.559 Luckily his idea doesn't. 1303 00:59:13.760 --> 00:59:15.679 The one you will actually use doesn't expire, because I 1304 00:59:15.679 --> 00:59:17.599 think a lot of people got to get screwed because 1305 00:59:17.599 --> 00:59:19.599 I think some places, if it's expired doesn't matter. 1306 00:59:19.639 --> 00:59:21.480 I know they won't take it an expire driver's license, 1307 00:59:21.599 --> 00:59:24.480 but yeah, so many don't. So many IDs expire, like 1308 00:59:24.760 --> 00:59:25.400 on your birthday. 1309 00:59:25.400 --> 00:59:27.519 It could be the birthday of twenty one, so like 1310 00:59:27.599 --> 00:59:29.159 you go out for the night of twenty one, or 1311 00:59:29.360 --> 00:59:33.239 or some places that don't even take vertical IDs. It's like, well, 1312 00:59:33.280 --> 00:59:35.119 I just turned twenty one, so I obviously couldn't get it. 1313 00:59:35.559 --> 00:59:37.159 So hopefully he's getting his new idea this week. We'll 1314 00:59:37.159 --> 00:59:39.039 say I don't because he actually turned tenty one last Saturday. 1315 00:59:40.440 --> 00:59:42.400 The story that I was about to share just went 1316 00:59:42.440 --> 00:59:44.000 oh no. So I had my fake ID all the 1317 00:59:44.039 --> 00:59:46.159 way through college. I was going to all these bars 1318 00:59:46.199 --> 00:59:48.800 in Tallahassee all the way through college, and then two 1319 00:59:48.880 --> 00:59:50.960 months before I turned twenty one, I went to go 1320 00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:53.599 to this bar, Bullwinkles, in Tallahassee, Florida. If you went 1321 00:59:53.599 --> 00:59:55.559 to Florida State, you know what I'm talking about. They 1322 00:59:55.599 --> 00:59:59.599 were notoriously difficult getting They would take everybody's fake id's. 1323 00:59:59.639 --> 01:00:01.239 But I've been in Bullwinkles a million times, so I 1324 01:00:01.360 --> 01:00:01.920 was like, I'm going. 1325 01:00:02.320 --> 01:00:06.480 The girl working the door I found out later had 1326 01:00:06.639 --> 01:00:09.599 a crush on my boyfriend at the time, it wasn't 1327 01:00:09.599 --> 01:00:12.000 even with me, and she took my fake ID two 1328 01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:14.920 months before my birthday. So two months later, I'm going 1329 01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:17.280 out with my real ID and I'm like. 1330 01:00:17.320 --> 01:00:18.679 Hey, it's my twenty first birthday. 1331 01:00:18.719 --> 01:00:22.119 And all the bouncers were like, dude, you've been coming 1332 01:00:22.159 --> 01:00:24.719 here for a year. I'm like, I know, I know, 1333 01:00:25.159 --> 01:00:26.000 but I'm twenty. 1334 01:00:25.840 --> 01:00:28.039 One now, you'll let you come in. Yeah. Yeah, it didn't. 1335 01:00:28.119 --> 01:00:30.719 Like I'm telling you, the eighties were wild a rod 1336 01:00:31.199 --> 01:00:31.960 It were wild. 1337 01:00:32.119 --> 01:00:34.960 It was Friday's give me wild, well down down. Still, 1338 01:00:35.480 --> 01:00:37.920 I'm looking for that kind of time you still find it. 1339 01:00:38.960 --> 01:00:41.519 I just I'm never looking for that kind of time anymore. 1340 01:00:42.679 --> 01:00:44.559 I mean, I just and here's the thing. 1341 01:00:44.719 --> 01:00:46.920 I've been watching all these videos and I have one 1342 01:00:46.920 --> 01:00:48.000 of the blog today of this guy. 1343 01:00:48.079 --> 01:00:49.320 I love this guy. I kind of want to get 1344 01:00:49.360 --> 01:00:49.880 him on the show. 1345 01:00:50.440 --> 01:00:53.840 He just goes around and interviews older people in parks, right, 1346 01:00:54.000 --> 01:00:55.840 all of these people some of them are eighty, some 1347 01:00:55.960 --> 01:00:58.039 of them or seventy, some of them are ninety in 1348 01:00:58.159 --> 01:01:01.280 their nineties. It's fascinating because he asked them questions like 1349 01:01:01.360 --> 01:01:04.000 what do you regret from your life? And they're all 1350 01:01:04.199 --> 01:01:09.800 very similar answers, and it's all it's relationships, not stuff, right, 1351 01:01:10.039 --> 01:01:13.400 Like that's just a kind of a sweeping generalization. But 1352 01:01:13.519 --> 01:01:16.840 as I as I'm getting older, like I hear myself 1353 01:01:16.960 --> 01:01:19.159 in these older people. And then I realized, my god, Mandy, 1354 01:01:19.239 --> 01:01:22.079 to other people, to a certain people, you are older. 1355 01:01:23.280 --> 01:01:26.320 It's weird. But the thing is is like as much 1356 01:01:26.400 --> 01:01:28.199 fun as I want you to have, I want you 1357 01:01:28.320 --> 01:01:30.079 to go out and have a blast. I want your 1358 01:01:30.079 --> 01:01:31.639 brother in law to have a blast. I want all 1359 01:01:31.679 --> 01:01:32.559 of you to have a blast. 1360 01:01:32.800 --> 01:01:34.840 Like if you said to me, Mandy, you have to 1361 01:01:34.920 --> 01:01:36.719 go with us, it would feel like punishment for me 1362 01:01:36.800 --> 01:01:37.760 at this time in my life. 1363 01:01:37.880 --> 01:01:38.079 Huh. 1364 01:01:38.400 --> 01:01:39.800 It would just be like, why do you hate me. 1365 01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:42.280 I can't do that I be responsible to I mean 1366 01:01:42.360 --> 01:01:44.360 you you asked should there be and will there be 1367 01:01:44.480 --> 01:01:47.280 a responsible adult, and the current plan is is no. 1368 01:01:47.480 --> 01:01:49.360 Well I'm not gonna and I'll tell you one of 1369 01:01:49.400 --> 01:01:51.159 the things that as I get older, I hate more 1370 01:01:51.199 --> 01:01:52.480 and more is super drunk people. 1371 01:01:53.519 --> 01:01:55.920 My tolerance for super drunk people has dropped. 1372 01:01:55.639 --> 01:01:57.960 Track the word right there you used, I mean when 1373 01:01:57.960 --> 01:02:00.280 it comes to tolerance. Yeah, here's the thing. Also, when 1374 01:02:00.320 --> 01:02:03.320 you're downtown, it takes a while to even get a drink. 1375 01:02:03.360 --> 01:02:06.199 I don't I mean, I couldn't tell you last time 1376 01:02:06.239 --> 01:02:09.039 I went out and actually got at all in dogs kady, 1377 01:02:09.039 --> 01:02:10.599 because you wate a long in between drinks. For me, 1378 01:02:10.920 --> 01:02:14.079 my tolerance level is stupid high. So like it has 1379 01:02:14.159 --> 01:02:16.239 to be like at a house party where I'm like 1380 01:02:16.280 --> 01:02:19.920 it's boom boom boom boom boom boom boom, unless you know, yeah, 1381 01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:21.840 going out, it's not gonna be possible. So to answer 1382 01:02:21.880 --> 01:02:24.800 your question five minutes later, I'm gonna probably wind up being. 1383 01:02:24.719 --> 01:02:25.480 The guy back to the bar. 1384 01:02:25.599 --> 01:02:28.199 You're going up to the bar though you're immediately ordering shots, 1385 01:02:28.440 --> 01:02:30.199 like you have to have shots at twenty first pan. 1386 01:02:30.519 --> 01:02:32.960 Yeah, but even shots for me, like has to be 1387 01:02:33.679 --> 01:02:37.760 one after another to feel anything. Tequilia anything even. 1388 01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:40.599 Tequila nothing El Tequila's Tequila's water to me. 1389 01:02:40.920 --> 01:02:44.920 Oh god, the last thing is Rodriguez. I love tequila 1390 01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:47.480 is like that tasted. I'll like, I'll like, I'll like 1391 01:02:47.519 --> 01:02:49.320 sip it. Not because I'm a baby, but because that 1392 01:02:49.480 --> 01:02:52.199 just tastes good. Well, I like to I enjoy tequila. 1393 01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:54.599 I mean, I mean for the brother in law, I'll 1394 01:02:54.639 --> 01:02:57.599 try to hammer them, you know, and try to keep 1395 01:02:57.679 --> 01:03:01.159 with emotions. But downtown experience, you're going a couple, you know, 1396 01:03:01.199 --> 01:03:04.280 like going like ten twenty sometimes thirty minutes between drinks. 1397 01:03:04.360 --> 01:03:05.280 I'm not feeling nothing. 1398 01:03:05.360 --> 01:03:08.320 Say, when I was young and drinking enthusiastically, I knew 1399 01:03:08.360 --> 01:03:10.639 all the bartenders, so we never because all my friends 1400 01:03:10.679 --> 01:03:12.800 were bartenders, So I never had to wait for a 1401 01:03:12.880 --> 01:03:15.440 drink because my bartender friends were like they knew everybody. 1402 01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:17.800 So we would go out and then we had the hookup, 1403 01:03:17.840 --> 01:03:18.360 so I never had. 1404 01:03:18.320 --> 01:03:22.159 A waiting and then too expensive. You know, Well, we'll try, 1405 01:03:22.239 --> 01:03:23.760 we'll see what we can do. I mean, we're all 1406 01:03:23.840 --> 01:03:25.679 just going to be buying shots for him, so doesn't. 1407 01:03:25.800 --> 01:03:28.239 Yeah, yeah, that's all I hope. 1408 01:03:28.239 --> 01:03:30.199 You crazy kids have a blast, but don't start with 1409 01:03:30.280 --> 01:03:32.599 the marguerite. Is man, you can't start with the sugary 1410 01:03:32.639 --> 01:03:34.119 beverage because that's what makes you puke. 1411 01:03:34.199 --> 01:03:35.719 Oh no, we're going to have the We're going to 1412 01:03:35.760 --> 01:03:38.719 have the just lost the name of it. What we 1413 01:03:38.880 --> 01:03:41.440 use right at the end of the night. The liquid IV. 1414 01:03:41.800 --> 01:03:44.360 It's a game saver, game changer. It doesn't matter what 1415 01:03:44.400 --> 01:03:45.519 we drink and how much we drink. 1416 01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:48.760 Because you're young. Liquid IV. Bang next morning, let's do 1417 01:03:48.840 --> 01:03:50.679 it again. Got a texture, w said a rod. 1418 01:03:50.760 --> 01:03:53.880 Even if his vertical idea is not expired, bars will 1419 01:03:53.960 --> 01:03:56.559 not accept them, even though he's twenty one. He'll have 1420 01:03:56.719 --> 01:03:58.719 to get a new idea or the temporary ID they 1421 01:03:58.800 --> 01:04:02.480 give you to get drinks at bars. So temporary works 1422 01:04:02.559 --> 01:04:06.800 with the vert with the vertical idea, Yeah, I guess okay, 1423 01:04:07.400 --> 01:04:10.320 this person said, trying being an alcoholic in recovery former 1424 01:04:10.360 --> 01:04:14.920 bartender drunk is not pretty? Amen, my friend, Amen, Can 1425 01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:16.920 I just throw this out here? When you have high 1426 01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:19.079 quality mescal, it's a game changer. 1427 01:04:19.199 --> 01:04:22.079 Nope, tried high quality mescal. My dad has some. It's gross. 1428 01:04:22.199 --> 01:04:25.960 What what is It's not so much nonsense? It's so different. 1429 01:04:26.039 --> 01:04:30.079 One's good one's trash. Guess which one is trash? 1430 01:04:30.840 --> 01:04:35.440 Mescal? Mind mescal, but not the super cheap kind any kind. 1431 01:04:35.559 --> 01:04:37.480 But one of the reasons I don't drink mescal has 1432 01:04:37.519 --> 01:04:39.639 to do with that. Hey, just eat the worm. It's fine. 1433 01:04:39.719 --> 01:04:40.400 It's not fine. 1434 01:04:40.440 --> 01:04:41.239 Oh yeah, eat the worm. 1435 01:04:41.280 --> 01:04:41.960 It's a bad. 1436 01:04:41.800 --> 01:04:46.679 Idea, extremely extremely bad idea. Now I have another couple 1437 01:04:46.679 --> 01:04:48.159 of things on the blog today that I want to 1438 01:04:48.199 --> 01:04:51.119 get to. One of them super frustrating. I'm going to 1439 01:04:51.159 --> 01:04:53.159 get to you in the next hour about how we 1440 01:04:53.239 --> 01:04:55.840 are now paying for medicaid for illegal immigrants. 1441 01:04:55.920 --> 01:04:58.039 Now I talked about this earlier in the show. It 1442 01:04:58.159 --> 01:04:59.239 is Colorado Gives Day. 1443 01:04:59.280 --> 01:05:00.760 In just a few minutes, we are going to be 1444 01:05:00.920 --> 01:05:03.719 having a conversation with the Other Side Academy, one of 1445 01:05:03.800 --> 01:05:06.760 the worthy organizations on today's blog that I would love 1446 01:05:07.199 --> 01:05:09.239 for you to consider making a little donation if you're 1447 01:05:09.280 --> 01:05:11.840 going to make some a donation on Colorado Gives Day. 1448 01:05:12.679 --> 01:05:15.480 But also on the blog today, there's a great video 1449 01:05:15.639 --> 01:05:20.800 by Ben Shapiro about Syria and how you know Asad 1450 01:05:20.840 --> 01:05:23.559 Bashar al Assad is now he's gone, he's in Russia. 1451 01:05:24.039 --> 01:05:28.519 His administration has fallen to rebels, and Ben does a 1452 01:05:28.719 --> 01:05:32.800 fantastic job in this video of explaining the different factions 1453 01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:36.239 that exist in Syria and how Syria itself is an 1454 01:05:36.320 --> 01:05:41.800 incredibly important part of Iran's strategy in the Middle East. 1455 01:05:41.920 --> 01:05:45.440 And now you'd think to yourself, well, Bashir al Asad, 1456 01:05:45.519 --> 01:05:47.559 he was in the pocket of Iran, so it's good 1457 01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:51.280 that he's gone, but what comes next may not be better. 1458 01:05:52.119 --> 01:05:55.000 That's that's the point that we're trying to make here. 1459 01:05:55.679 --> 01:05:59.840 And the people, the rebels that actually overthrew Asad are 1460 01:06:00.400 --> 01:06:02.719 isis adjacent some of them, some of them are not 1461 01:06:03.159 --> 01:06:03.760 nice people. 1462 01:06:04.079 --> 01:06:07.079 They are not nice people at all. So the reason 1463 01:06:07.119 --> 01:06:11.519 I bring this up is because this particular situation in 1464 01:06:11.679 --> 01:06:15.719 Syria could have even bigger implications for the Middle East 1465 01:06:15.760 --> 01:06:17.960 as Iran tries to figure out what to do next. 1466 01:06:18.320 --> 01:06:19.880 The thing I didn't mention earlier is. 1467 01:06:19.880 --> 01:06:24.800 That right after a Sod left, because he just took off, 1468 01:06:25.039 --> 01:06:30.239 he went into exile in Russia, and almost immediately Israel 1469 01:06:30.360 --> 01:06:36.440 started surgical air strikes to completely destroy the Syrian military. 1470 01:06:37.360 --> 01:06:41.159 Because Syria had a stockpile of chemical weapons, had because 1471 01:06:41.320 --> 01:06:44.679 Israel blew them up. Israel had a navy they had 1472 01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:48.639 because Israel blew it up. They had worsh planes, they had, 1473 01:06:48.719 --> 01:06:52.039 helicopters had because Israel blew them all up. They struck 1474 01:06:52.119 --> 01:06:56.719 two hundred targets in Syria almost immediately after Asad left, 1475 01:06:57.360 --> 01:07:00.800 and they pretty much left nothing behind because they don't 1476 01:07:00.840 --> 01:07:04.079 want these rebels, they don't want these ices adjacent people 1477 01:07:04.440 --> 01:07:07.800 to have access to that kind of hardware. So if 1478 01:07:07.840 --> 01:07:09.880 this gives you an eight, think about this for just 1479 01:07:10.079 --> 01:07:16.440 one second, just one second. Israel is demonstrated in the 1480 01:07:16.519 --> 01:07:22.760 past six months that they have incredibly high level intelligence 1481 01:07:23.320 --> 01:07:26.719 on Iran, which they struck with pretty much impunity, with 1482 01:07:26.840 --> 01:07:29.639 the Pager situation and then going in and killing the 1483 01:07:29.760 --> 01:07:33.480 leadership of the Iranian National Guard. And now they've demonstrated 1484 01:07:33.519 --> 01:07:37.480 that they had incredible intelligence about where everything was in 1485 01:07:37.639 --> 01:07:40.880 Syria because they went and we're like, we don't need 1486 01:07:40.960 --> 01:07:42.440 to make a map, we know where it all is. 1487 01:07:42.559 --> 01:07:44.440 Boom boom boom boom, boom boom boom, and it is 1488 01:07:44.480 --> 01:07:44.880 all gone. 1489 01:07:46.199 --> 01:07:48.800 So watching what's going to happen next in Syria has 1490 01:07:48.840 --> 01:07:52.360 implications for Israel, it has implications for Iran, it has 1491 01:07:52.400 --> 01:07:56.039 implications for the entire Middle East. Plus we've got Donald 1492 01:07:56.079 --> 01:07:59.760 Trump coming into office, and I love the fact that 1493 01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:01.480 Donald Trump is viewed by the. 1494 01:08:01.480 --> 01:08:03.159 Rest of the world as kind of crazy. 1495 01:08:04.360 --> 01:08:07.360 Because you don't necessarily strike at people that you think 1496 01:08:07.440 --> 01:08:08.920 are kind of crazy because you don't know how they're 1497 01:08:08.960 --> 01:08:10.800 going to spawn. By the way, Rod, I forgot to 1498 01:08:10.800 --> 01:08:12.960 say this about our trip to Europe. Not a single 1499 01:08:13.039 --> 01:08:16.319 person asked me about the election or talked about Donald Trump. 1500 01:08:16.560 --> 01:08:18.600 Yeah, and last year we went to Switzerland, it was 1501 01:08:18.640 --> 01:08:20.359 a big topic of conversation. 1502 01:08:22.039 --> 01:08:23.720 So I guess they're all like, well, we got Trump 1503 01:08:23.720 --> 01:08:27.399 again and we'll see what happens there. So great video 1504 01:08:27.439 --> 01:08:29.720 if you want to know about the ins and outs 1505 01:08:29.760 --> 01:08:33.680 of the entire region. Ben Shapiro does a phenomenal job 1506 01:08:33.800 --> 01:08:37.920 including maps and charts, maps and charts in this video, 1507 01:08:38.000 --> 01:08:40.039 so go watch that so you can at least have 1508 01:08:40.079 --> 01:08:43.239 an educated viewpoint of what's happening in the Middle East, 1509 01:08:43.239 --> 01:08:48.119 because like it or not, we're involved now. The Biden administration, 1510 01:08:48.199 --> 01:08:50.199 of course, was not involved at all with the fall 1511 01:08:50.279 --> 01:08:52.800 of Syria, because you may remember, the last big bold 1512 01:08:52.880 --> 01:08:55.439 move an administration took from over here was if you 1513 01:08:55.800 --> 01:08:59.119 use chemical weapons, that's a red line we won't accept. 1514 01:08:59.199 --> 01:09:03.319 And then Syria you used chemical weapons and Obama didn't 1515 01:09:03.319 --> 01:09:08.079 do anything. So whatever it's fine, it's fine. In the 1516 01:09:08.159 --> 01:09:11.560 next hour, we're going to talk about two things that 1517 01:09:11.720 --> 01:09:15.479 have to do with the Denver City Council. One that 1518 01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:18.119 has to do with not just the Denversity Council. The 1519 01:09:18.159 --> 01:09:22.640 first one medicaid for illegal immigrants. And two, the Denversity 1520 01:09:22.680 --> 01:09:26.439 Council is defending an organization that, in my mind is 1521 01:09:26.479 --> 01:09:29.039 a taxpayer needs to be shut down until they open 1522 01:09:29.079 --> 01:09:31.680 their books. We'll talk about all that, but first, my 1523 01:09:31.760 --> 01:09:33.520 friends from the Other Side Academy are up next. 1524 01:09:33.560 --> 01:09:36.079 It's Colorado Gives Day. Keep it right here on KOA. 1525 01:09:36.880 --> 01:09:39.520 The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock 1526 01:09:39.600 --> 01:09:41.039 Accident and injury Lawyers. 1527 01:09:41.720 --> 01:09:44.520 No, it's Mandy Connell and. 1528 01:09:49.720 --> 01:09:57.359 Ninety three. 1529 01:10:00.479 --> 01:10:04.640 Who is sad Babe? Well, we welcome to the third 1530 01:10:04.720 --> 01:10:05.640 hour of the show. 1531 01:10:05.920 --> 01:10:08.479 I'm your host for the next fifty six minutes. Mandy 1532 01:10:08.520 --> 01:10:11.680 Connell A d right over there, and it is Colorado 1533 01:10:11.760 --> 01:10:13.600 Gives Day. This is the day where if you have 1534 01:10:13.680 --> 01:10:16.159 a little extra scratch laying around and you want to 1535 01:10:16.159 --> 01:10:18.479 give it to an organization that does great work. I 1536 01:10:18.560 --> 01:10:21.880 have conveniently provided you some options. Now, of course, you 1537 01:10:22.000 --> 01:10:23.560 don't have to choose my options. If you have a 1538 01:10:23.640 --> 01:10:26.079 charity that's near and dear to your heart, please give 1539 01:10:26.159 --> 01:10:28.319 money to them. But if you'd like to give some 1540 01:10:28.399 --> 01:10:31.000 money away, but you're not quite sure. The organizations that 1541 01:10:31.079 --> 01:10:33.479 I have on my blog are two things for the 1542 01:10:33.560 --> 01:10:37.960 most part that you are either helping keep Colorado as 1543 01:10:38.039 --> 01:10:41.399 free as possible, or they are helping veterans, or they 1544 01:10:41.439 --> 01:10:44.079 are helping people get out of the depths of addiction. 1545 01:10:44.279 --> 01:10:47.560 And one of those organizations is called the Other Side Academy. 1546 01:10:47.840 --> 01:10:49.520 And joining me now is a guy you may have 1547 01:10:49.600 --> 01:10:51.600 heard the last time he was on the show, Bill, 1548 01:10:52.239 --> 01:10:55.279 a caller to the show several years ago, was at 1549 01:10:56.079 --> 01:10:58.640 rock bottom, as they say, And I said, Bill, you 1550 01:10:58.720 --> 01:11:00.159 got to go to the Other Side of Academy. And 1551 01:11:00.199 --> 01:11:01.640 then we hung up the phone call. And I was 1552 01:11:01.680 --> 01:11:03.680 pretty sure Bill wasn't going to go to the Other 1553 01:11:03.720 --> 01:11:04.279 Side Academy. 1554 01:11:04.319 --> 01:11:05.920 But low and behold, he went. 1555 01:11:05.840 --> 01:11:08.439 To the Other Side Academy. And now is a successful 1556 01:11:08.840 --> 01:11:10.399 Are you full graduate now? 1557 01:11:10.479 --> 01:11:10.720 Bill? 1558 01:11:11.159 --> 01:11:11.560 Not yet? 1559 01:11:11.640 --> 01:11:14.840 I graduate in May in May a master student. 1560 01:11:14.920 --> 01:11:17.119 You're a master student at the Other Side Academy. And 1561 01:11:17.199 --> 01:11:20.119 joining me also is Keith. Now, Keith, what is your 1562 01:11:20.520 --> 01:11:22.840 Where's your role? Get right on that mic, Where's your role? 1563 01:11:23.159 --> 01:11:24.239 At the Other Side Academy. 1564 01:11:24.359 --> 01:11:26.560 I'm the same as Bill. I'm a master student. Yep, 1565 01:11:26.760 --> 01:11:27.960 we work together in the warehouse. 1566 01:11:28.239 --> 01:11:29.920 So how did you end up at the Other Side. 1567 01:11:31.159 --> 01:11:34.800 I was just a decade long drug addict, very bottom 1568 01:11:34.880 --> 01:11:38.479 of the barrel, drug addict, homeless, out of options. I've 1569 01:11:38.479 --> 01:11:42.199 gotten to numerous rehabs, and I have enough of a 1570 01:11:42.399 --> 01:11:44.399 ability that I could talk my way out of any rehab. 1571 01:11:44.479 --> 01:11:46.520 I was really you, im good at rehabbing. 1572 01:11:47.159 --> 01:11:48.960 I was really really good at it. I could tell 1573 01:11:49.199 --> 01:11:51.079 I can tell you. I can tell anybody anything they 1574 01:11:51.119 --> 01:11:53.079 want to hear, right. So for me, it was going 1575 01:11:53.119 --> 01:11:56.319 to have to be something drastically different, something free because 1576 01:11:56.319 --> 01:11:58.640 I'd run out of any kind of financial options. 1577 01:11:58.479 --> 01:12:00.279 Right, and something where I was going. 1578 01:12:00.239 --> 01:12:02.520 To be held accountaboint and something where I was just 1579 01:12:02.600 --> 01:12:04.159 gonna have to learn a completely new way of life. 1580 01:12:04.079 --> 01:12:06.000 Because the way I'd been living for a decade didn't 1581 01:12:06.039 --> 01:12:06.359 work for me. 1582 01:12:06.880 --> 01:12:09.479 And I had the opportunity very recently to go and 1583 01:12:09.640 --> 01:12:13.640 speak to the participants at the Other Side Academy. And 1584 01:12:13.760 --> 01:12:18.640 this program is so incredibly cool and powerful, and I 1585 01:12:18.760 --> 01:12:21.199 want to kind of speak to what you just said there, Keith. 1586 01:12:21.840 --> 01:12:25.560 What made this different? Why did this stick well for 1587 01:12:25.680 --> 01:12:26.239 someone like me. 1588 01:12:26.760 --> 01:12:29.359 I mean, I'm a master manipulator, and I'm a master 1589 01:12:29.560 --> 01:12:33.840 at believing my own dishonesty. My main core issue was dishonesty, 1590 01:12:33.960 --> 01:12:36.199 and so it took me being in a program where 1591 01:12:36.199 --> 01:12:38.239 I was going to be held accountable by fifty other 1592 01:12:38.319 --> 01:12:41.319 master manipulators who could spot every tell I had that 1593 01:12:41.439 --> 01:12:43.640 I was bessing or that I wasn't being completely truthful. 1594 01:12:44.119 --> 01:12:47.359 It took that kind of peer accountability to really get 1595 01:12:47.439 --> 01:12:49.279 me to take a look at what was really going 1596 01:12:49.319 --> 01:12:50.760 on with me. Because I can tell you if I 1597 01:12:50.840 --> 01:12:52.479 was one on one with a therapist, I can say 1598 01:12:52.520 --> 01:12:53.960 the most beautiful things about. 1599 01:12:53.880 --> 01:12:56.800 Freud Nietzsche, and I could tell everything they want to hear. 1600 01:12:57.000 --> 01:12:58.479 But it was when I was with someone like Bill, 1601 01:12:58.840 --> 01:13:00.800 someone who'd been on the streets, who was an addict, 1602 01:13:00.840 --> 01:13:03.760 who knew how to gain the system, and he could tell, hey, 1603 01:13:04.199 --> 01:13:06.359 you're not being completely forthcoming right now, that was the 1604 01:13:06.439 --> 01:13:07.600 only thing that could work for me. I was so 1605 01:13:07.680 --> 01:13:11.159 far gone, my moral compass had completely degenerated. I had 1606 01:13:11.239 --> 01:13:13.760 no semblance of any kind of honesty with myself or others. 1607 01:13:13.960 --> 01:13:15.920 And it wasn't until I was in a facility with 1608 01:13:15.960 --> 01:13:17.319 a bunch of other dishonest. 1609 01:13:16.920 --> 01:13:18.439 People that I was able to really see that and 1610 01:13:18.479 --> 01:13:19.159 start to work on it. 1611 01:13:19.640 --> 01:13:22.680 We were talking when I was there about certain things 1612 01:13:22.720 --> 01:13:24.800 in the program that I found fascinating, and I'm going 1613 01:13:24.840 --> 01:13:27.319 to ask you about this bill, the notion that you 1614 01:13:27.439 --> 01:13:31.600 guys have meetings where people can say you did something 1615 01:13:31.680 --> 01:13:35.319 wrong and you're not allowed to respond. You just have 1616 01:13:35.479 --> 01:13:38.479 to sit and take it. But the reason for doing 1617 01:13:38.560 --> 01:13:41.319 that is to force that kind of accountability that Keith 1618 01:13:41.439 --> 01:13:43.880 is talking about. Is that the kind of thing that 1619 01:13:44.000 --> 01:13:46.720 makes the other side Academy work? And is that the 1620 01:13:46.800 --> 01:13:49.359 kind of thing that really truly changes behavior? 1621 01:13:50.079 --> 01:13:50.319 For me? 1622 01:13:50.520 --> 01:13:52.359 Yes, it is, because a lot of times we want 1623 01:13:52.439 --> 01:13:55.640 to fight back somebody's telling us something, excuse me, We 1624 01:13:55.680 --> 01:13:57.079 don't want to believe it, We don't want to hear 1625 01:13:57.159 --> 01:13:59.600 it most of the time because what they're telling is 1626 01:14:00.600 --> 01:14:03.159 and it hurts right and it hits, and we immediately 1627 01:14:03.239 --> 01:14:06.199 want to deflect, or we want to blame somebody else 1628 01:14:06.279 --> 01:14:08.439 when you're forced to sit there and take a look 1629 01:14:08.479 --> 01:14:12.920 at your actions through somebody else's eyes. Because I've I've 1630 01:14:13.079 --> 01:14:15.319 lived my life and I've seen my life through my 1631 01:14:15.439 --> 01:14:17.680 own eyes, and for me, a lot of the stuff 1632 01:14:17.680 --> 01:14:20.239 I do is okay. But when Key sits there and 1633 01:14:20.319 --> 01:14:22.359 tells me, Bill, you did this today or you made 1634 01:14:22.359 --> 01:14:27.600 a comment like this today, and here's how I appreciate it, 1635 01:14:27.680 --> 01:14:29.600 and this is why, and I have to sit there 1636 01:14:30.039 --> 01:14:32.199 and I have to take a look at that and go, okay, well, 1637 01:14:32.680 --> 01:14:35.560 this is something I've done my whole life. Maybe other 1638 01:14:35.640 --> 01:14:37.640 people around me have felt the same way, but they 1639 01:14:37.680 --> 01:14:40.560 haven't said it, either afraid to, or they just didn't 1640 01:14:40.600 --> 01:14:41.199 care enough. 1641 01:14:41.319 --> 01:14:43.600 Or they knew you would be angry in response, so 1642 01:14:43.680 --> 01:14:46.520 there wasn't any point, right, right, Does that kind of 1643 01:14:46.600 --> 01:14:49.680 approach wear down that hard? 1644 01:14:49.960 --> 01:14:52.279 Outer BSL Absolutely. 1645 01:14:52.479 --> 01:14:55.199 Like when you have to recall anything about yourself, nine 1646 01:14:55.279 --> 01:14:56.720 ten out of ten you tell it as you're either 1647 01:14:56.800 --> 01:14:59.399 the hero with a complete victim. Right, So when you 1648 01:14:59.560 --> 01:15:01.039 get to hear it from people, and you get to 1649 01:15:01.119 --> 01:15:04.439 hear other people, multiple people's perception of something that you did, 1650 01:15:04.680 --> 01:15:06.000 where you thought you were either the hero of the 1651 01:15:06.079 --> 01:15:08.880 victim and you were neither, you're actually a perpetrator. Yeah, 1652 01:15:09.000 --> 01:15:11.920 you know, it's a sobering effect, especially for me, Like 1653 01:15:12.039 --> 01:15:14.000 I would think, well, this person, they don't really know 1654 01:15:14.000 --> 01:15:15.399 what they're talking about. But when I heard it from 1655 01:15:15.399 --> 01:15:17.880 five or six different people, twice a week for a year. 1656 01:15:18.239 --> 01:15:20.239 I kind of had to. I didn't really have another 1657 01:15:20.319 --> 01:15:22.439 choice other than other than to believe that, yeah, they're 1658 01:15:22.479 --> 01:15:24.279 probably telling the truth and that I was seeing things 1659 01:15:24.319 --> 01:15:25.199 in a distorted way. 1660 01:15:25.720 --> 01:15:29.239 Was there a was there a distinct moment, or was 1661 01:15:29.279 --> 01:15:31.920 there a single event or was it all an accumulation 1662 01:15:32.239 --> 01:15:35.119 of this that made you go, wait a minute, they 1663 01:15:35.119 --> 01:15:36.000 may be onto something. 1664 01:15:36.439 --> 01:15:39.720 For me, it was just that I I just believed 1665 01:15:40.720 --> 01:15:42.279 all the rhetoric that went on in my head all 1666 01:15:42.359 --> 01:15:44.039 the time for my whole life about how I thought 1667 01:15:44.079 --> 01:15:46.039 I was so smart, nobody really knew anything. 1668 01:15:46.319 --> 01:15:48.399 It was one I got a group, they're called groups. 1669 01:15:48.520 --> 01:15:50.199 I got a group where somebody looked at me and said, 1670 01:15:50.399 --> 01:15:53.880 you're completely incompetent when it comes to telling the truth. 1671 01:15:54.359 --> 01:15:55.840 Wow, And no one has ever told me I. 1672 01:15:55.880 --> 01:15:57.840 Was incompetent at anything? Right, So when I heard that 1673 01:15:57.920 --> 01:16:00.680 I was incompetent at telling the truth, stung me. And 1674 01:16:00.720 --> 01:16:02.600 I had to take a look at it, and I realized. 1675 01:16:02.319 --> 01:16:04.079 That actually I was. I had no idea what the 1676 01:16:04.119 --> 01:16:06.199 truth was with myself or with anybody else. 1677 01:16:06.520 --> 01:16:08.800 Do you think, I mean, where did all these defense mechanisms, 1678 01:16:08.840 --> 01:16:10.880 Because all that's a defense mechanism that you're describing. 1679 01:16:10.920 --> 01:16:14.520 Where did that come from? I think it comes from 1680 01:16:16.199 --> 01:16:17.800 I mean, it comes from a lot of the way 1681 01:16:17.800 --> 01:16:19.000 I was raised, but it's just a lot. 1682 01:16:18.920 --> 01:16:21.079 Of the way I was able to survive on the streets, 1683 01:16:21.159 --> 01:16:22.399 or the way that I was able to just do 1684 01:16:22.479 --> 01:16:23.159 everything my whole life. 1685 01:16:23.159 --> 01:16:24.399 I didn't have to put a lot of effort in. 1686 01:16:24.680 --> 01:16:27.079 I could talk my way out of anything, and when 1687 01:16:27.119 --> 01:16:29.640 somebody would confront me with something ugly, I had the 1688 01:16:29.720 --> 01:16:32.399 ability to tell myself something that I believed and then 1689 01:16:32.439 --> 01:16:34.319 tell them whatever they wanted to hear. Right, I have 1690 01:16:34.399 --> 01:16:37.119 some severe codependency issues where I don't really care how 1691 01:16:37.119 --> 01:16:39.319 I'm doing inside. I care more or less what you 1692 01:16:39.439 --> 01:16:39.920 think I'm. 1693 01:16:39.800 --> 01:16:43.560 Doing right, how I look, I sound, how you're fronting, Yes, exactly. 1694 01:16:43.680 --> 01:16:46.680 So for me, my defense mechanism is, let's just push 1695 01:16:46.720 --> 01:16:48.760 off what actually didn't. Let's make myself sound good or 1696 01:16:48.800 --> 01:16:51.479 look good in that moment. So the other side, academy 1697 01:16:51.560 --> 01:16:54.960 is a commitment. How many months are is the program? 1698 01:16:55.079 --> 01:16:56.199 How long are people there? 1699 01:16:56.479 --> 01:16:58.479 Thirty months, two and a half years. 1700 01:16:58.680 --> 01:17:00.760 And they commit to living there? Being there? 1701 01:17:01.680 --> 01:17:04.399 Yeah, we live together, we work together, we eat together. 1702 01:17:04.640 --> 01:17:09.039 You know, we you know, we get to know each other, 1703 01:17:09.239 --> 01:17:11.880 probably better than most of our families know each other 1704 01:17:12.479 --> 01:17:16.039 from constantly being around each other, being in the groups, 1705 01:17:17.000 --> 01:17:19.720 and seeing the behaviors, the good, the bad, and the ugly. 1706 01:17:19.840 --> 01:17:22.439 We see it all. We see all of it, you know, 1707 01:17:22.560 --> 01:17:24.960 because people come in there and when we're like everybody, 1708 01:17:24.960 --> 01:17:26.479 they come in there, they want to put that front up. 1709 01:17:26.520 --> 01:17:31.000 But as you stay there, you know, the real youth 1710 01:17:31.079 --> 01:17:34.000 starts showing and those behaviors start showing, and people point 1711 01:17:34.079 --> 01:17:34.479 that out to you. 1712 01:17:34.640 --> 01:17:36.239 But it's I mean, it's it's a family. 1713 01:17:36.359 --> 01:17:37.640 We were a family. 1714 01:17:37.680 --> 01:17:38.880 I've have brothers and sisters. 1715 01:17:39.039 --> 01:17:40.319 One of the things that I like about the Other 1716 01:17:40.359 --> 01:17:43.720 Side Academy is immediately as soon as people come in 1717 01:17:43.840 --> 01:17:47.520 they immediately start participating in the financial side of things. 1718 01:17:47.640 --> 01:17:49.800 So you guys have the moving company, you have the 1719 01:17:50.439 --> 01:17:54.760 furniture to teach. So people are actively engaged in in 1720 01:17:55.000 --> 01:17:58.119 supporting the Other Side Academy as they are benefiting from 1721 01:17:58.159 --> 01:18:01.680 the Other Side Academy. But this is an expensive program. 1722 01:18:02.000 --> 01:18:05.159 You guys have a beautiful space. You've got another house 1723 01:18:05.199 --> 01:18:06.880 coming up for women, which is something I want to 1724 01:18:06.880 --> 01:18:08.720 talk about because we had stepped inver On earlier. 1725 01:18:09.199 --> 01:18:12.760 They don't accept women. The other side, academy does accept women. Yes. 1726 01:18:12.920 --> 01:18:14.560 Do we have a women's house as well, Yes. 1727 01:18:14.479 --> 01:18:14.640 We do. 1728 01:18:15.479 --> 01:18:16.479 I will say this. 1729 01:18:16.760 --> 01:18:19.079 You have to go in sober, yes, And. 1730 01:18:19.199 --> 01:18:22.359 You have to have an interview process, which sounds terrifying. 1731 01:18:23.039 --> 01:18:24.479 I mean it sounds terrifying. 1732 01:18:24.479 --> 01:18:25.119 It's rigorous. 1733 01:18:25.560 --> 01:18:27.640 We're going to point some it's older students that are 1734 01:18:27.680 --> 01:18:29.600 going to interview you. When you come in and sit 1735 01:18:29.680 --> 01:18:33.760 on the bench. Myself and Keith are interviewers, and we're 1736 01:18:33.800 --> 01:18:35.880 gonna we're gonna poke the front right. We're going to 1737 01:18:35.960 --> 01:18:38.279 ask you about yourself and we're gonna tell you some 1738 01:18:38.359 --> 01:18:40.479 things about yourself that you probably don't want to hear, 1739 01:18:40.800 --> 01:18:43.079 but there's a reason for it. And we're also going 1740 01:18:43.159 --> 01:18:44.760 to make sure that you're a right fit for us, 1741 01:18:44.840 --> 01:18:47.359 and we're a right fit for you, because we're not 1742 01:18:47.439 --> 01:18:49.960 gonna let anybody that's prone to violence come inside the 1743 01:18:50.039 --> 01:18:52.560 house or anything like that. That's never happened in our 1744 01:18:52.560 --> 01:18:55.279 house since not tolerated. But we just want to make 1745 01:18:55.319 --> 01:18:57.760 sure that you're the right fit and you want help, 1746 01:18:57.800 --> 01:18:59.880 because you have to actually want that. 1747 01:19:00.479 --> 01:19:03.000 And to be clear, you know, Step has a lot 1748 01:19:03.119 --> 01:19:05.239 of guys off the streets, but you guys have a 1749 01:19:05.279 --> 01:19:07.600 lot of people that are into versionary programs, so they 1750 01:19:07.760 --> 01:19:10.439 have the option of going through treatment or being incarcerated, 1751 01:19:11.079 --> 01:19:12.600 and that's a big motivator. 1752 01:19:12.800 --> 01:19:15.479 But you still have to say, we're not gonna put 1753 01:19:15.560 --> 01:19:16.840 up with violence or any of that stuff. 1754 01:19:17.119 --> 01:19:18.520 A lot of the guys though, when they come in, 1755 01:19:18.840 --> 01:19:20.439 there's a lot of people that come in there just 1756 01:19:20.479 --> 01:19:21.279 to beat a sentence. 1757 01:19:21.720 --> 01:19:21.880 Right. 1758 01:19:21.960 --> 01:19:23.960 We have a lot of people now that you know, 1759 01:19:24.079 --> 01:19:26.399 after the two and a half years is over, Like myself, 1760 01:19:26.520 --> 01:19:29.039 I'm committed to stay in a third year. Keith is 1761 01:19:29.079 --> 01:19:31.720 committed to staying a third year to give back. You 1762 01:19:31.800 --> 01:19:33.800 have a lot of people that once they embrace the 1763 01:19:33.880 --> 01:19:37.039 program and they see the changes in them, the bridges 1764 01:19:37.079 --> 01:19:42.279 that they're rebuilding with their family, they are truly invested 1765 01:19:42.359 --> 01:19:42.520 in it. 1766 01:19:42.720 --> 01:19:45.560 I mean, I think this program is amazing. 1767 01:19:45.760 --> 01:19:48.159 It is doing incredible work right here in Denver at 1768 01:19:48.199 --> 01:19:49.159 a place in time when. 1769 01:19:49.079 --> 01:19:51.960 We need it desperately. If you have a little extra 1770 01:19:52.000 --> 01:19:53.880 money to throw at the Other Side Academy, I put 1771 01:19:53.920 --> 01:19:57.399 a link to their Colorado Gives a page on the 1772 01:19:57.479 --> 01:19:59.880 blog today, or you can go to Colorado Gives dot 1773 01:20:00.159 --> 01:20:03.720 or search the Other Side Academy and give him your money. 1774 01:20:03.920 --> 01:20:05.960 Bill and Keith, thanks for coming in today. I really 1775 01:20:06.000 --> 01:20:09.039 appreciate it. All right, we'll be right back. I did 1776 01:20:09.119 --> 01:20:13.399 put a list of great organizations. If you don't know 1777 01:20:13.439 --> 01:20:15.439 who to donate to, or you're not sure what you 1778 01:20:15.479 --> 01:20:17.199 want to donate, please check him out on the blog 1779 01:20:17.279 --> 01:20:19.800 today at mandy'sblog dot com. 1780 01:20:20.079 --> 01:20:23.760 Because it's a great day to give. There's matching funds available. 1781 01:20:23.800 --> 01:20:25.800 There's a lot of reasons to give through the Colorado 1782 01:20:25.920 --> 01:20:28.239 Gives website, so check that out. 1783 01:20:28.720 --> 01:20:28.880 Now. 1784 01:20:29.079 --> 01:20:31.399 I have this text message, and I got to. 1785 01:20:31.359 --> 01:20:33.720 Thank my colleague Michael Brown for bringing this story to 1786 01:20:33.800 --> 01:20:38.000 my attention because I did not see it but recently, 1787 01:20:38.119 --> 01:20:40.079 and I've mentioned this on the show, although I haven't 1788 01:20:40.079 --> 01:20:43.119 gone into super detail. I had to sponsor my friend's 1789 01:20:43.199 --> 01:20:45.880 husband to get his permanent green card here. He's been 1790 01:20:45.920 --> 01:20:48.119 in the United States for years, he has a job, 1791 01:20:48.520 --> 01:20:50.880 he pays his own way. The only reason I'm bringing 1792 01:20:50.920 --> 01:20:55.000 this up again is they made me promise to be 1793 01:20:55.119 --> 01:20:59.560 financially responsible for him until he becomes a citizen, because 1794 01:20:59.680 --> 01:21:01.760 they to make sure he is not going to live 1795 01:21:01.960 --> 01:21:02.600 off the government. 1796 01:21:02.680 --> 01:21:07.399 Teat Okay, great and admirable goal, but it brings. 1797 01:21:07.159 --> 01:21:12.720 Us to the story in from CBS four starting January first, 1798 01:21:12.800 --> 01:21:16.119 twenty twenty five, a new law will help children and 1799 01:21:16.319 --> 01:21:20.800 pregnant moms get health coverage no matter their immigration status. 1800 01:21:21.960 --> 01:21:25.800 The program, called Coverall Coloradin's, makes state Medicaid available for 1801 01:21:25.880 --> 01:21:29.960 prenatal and postpartum care and covers physical, dental, vision, and 1802 01:21:30.079 --> 01:21:31.479 mental health. 1803 01:21:31.279 --> 01:21:32.600 Care for children. 1804 01:21:33.680 --> 01:21:37.319 Now this is again, you don't want little children to 1805 01:21:37.359 --> 01:21:39.960 go without medical coverage. You don't want pregnant moms to 1806 01:21:40.079 --> 01:21:41.840 not be able to get prenatal care. You don't want 1807 01:21:41.840 --> 01:21:44.560 any of these things. But here's the big butt that 1808 01:21:44.680 --> 01:21:48.840 I have. We talked yesterday about how much Medicaid is 1809 01:21:49.079 --> 01:21:52.000 sucking up of the state budget because they've expanded it 1810 01:21:52.399 --> 01:21:55.359 to cover people that I don't believe should be covered, 1811 01:21:55.800 --> 01:21:59.760 people that have more money than they should. They should 1812 01:21:59.760 --> 01:22:06.199 be the exchange, they should get subsidized coverage. But now 1813 01:22:06.239 --> 01:22:09.039 we're going to cover illegal immigrants. At the same time, 1814 01:22:09.279 --> 01:22:11.640 I had to sponsor my friend so he would not 1815 01:22:12.000 --> 01:22:13.720 become a public charge. 1816 01:22:13.840 --> 01:22:17.119 That's the word. The public charge rule. 1817 01:22:17.039 --> 01:22:21.680 Specifies that a US citizen and Immigration services officer may 1818 01:22:21.800 --> 01:22:24.640 deny a person admission to the United States if they 1819 01:22:24.720 --> 01:22:28.199 deem the person is likely to become dependent on certain 1820 01:22:28.319 --> 01:22:31.479 government benefits in the future, which would make them a 1821 01:22:31.680 --> 01:22:36.199 public charge. Now, according to the woman who is signing 1822 01:22:36.359 --> 01:22:40.159 illegal immigrants up for Medicaid, she said, based on current 1823 01:22:40.239 --> 01:22:43.479 Colorado state laws, they protect the privacy of the clients 1824 01:22:43.760 --> 01:22:45.720 that are applying for these public benefits. 1825 01:22:46.439 --> 01:22:48.000 The state says that not only is. 1826 01:22:48.079 --> 01:22:54.880 Privacy protected, the benefits don't present a public charge challenge. Now, 1827 01:22:55.079 --> 01:22:58.600 I'd like to know how putting someone on a government 1828 01:22:58.680 --> 01:23:04.119 program isn't a public charge. This kind of inconsistency in 1829 01:23:04.159 --> 01:23:10.239 the immigration system is making me absolutely crazy, and now 1830 01:23:10.319 --> 01:23:11.960 I just wanted you to be crazy about it too. 1831 01:23:13.159 --> 01:23:15.439 We'll talk about this and another move by the city 1832 01:23:15.479 --> 01:23:19.279 council to protect an organization that I support their mission, 1833 01:23:20.159 --> 01:23:23.079 but their lack of transparency not cool. 1834 01:23:23.239 --> 01:23:24.159 I'll share that next. 1835 01:23:24.399 --> 01:23:28.319 Put respect on Thanksgiving nor Yes, and my friend. 1836 01:23:28.199 --> 01:23:33.640 Greg made the best spot of Apple music Christmas list. 1837 01:23:33.800 --> 01:23:34.760 It's so good. 1838 01:23:35.640 --> 01:23:37.039 He sent it to me and I was like, there's 1839 01:23:37.119 --> 01:23:39.840 so few things I would add to this. Your heart 1840 01:23:39.880 --> 01:23:41.680 it is to find someone that has the same Christmas 1841 01:23:41.760 --> 01:23:44.600 music taste as you do. It's really challenging. 1842 01:23:45.840 --> 01:23:47.760 Chuck just goes along with my Christmas music taste that 1843 01:23:47.760 --> 01:23:51.439 he likes Christmas music but I love Christmas music. Years ago, 1844 01:23:51.479 --> 01:23:54.319 I used to play Christmas music as rejoins the entire 1845 01:23:54.399 --> 01:23:56.479 month after Thanksgiving leading up to December. 1846 01:23:56.560 --> 01:23:58.520 But it was too much work and I will never 1847 01:23:58.600 --> 01:23:58.920 allow that. 1848 01:24:00.920 --> 01:24:02.720 I know, because you do you do. 1849 01:24:02.920 --> 01:24:05.199 Today was the day I made the proclamation, though, like 1850 01:24:05.199 --> 01:24:07.560 I've got the sweater on, I'm listening to the music hardcore, 1851 01:24:07.760 --> 01:24:08.560 like I haven't you. 1852 01:24:08.560 --> 01:24:09.600 Got Christmas shopping? 1853 01:24:10.159 --> 01:24:12.039 No, because we're not gonna do much because all the 1854 01:24:12.039 --> 01:24:13.479 people that are going to get each other we're gonna 1855 01:24:13.560 --> 01:24:15.880 go to go to Mexico for Christmas, so we're not 1856 01:24:15.920 --> 01:24:17.960 gonna that's the gift for all of ourselves. 1857 01:24:18.279 --> 01:24:23.520 Well, uh, you know, we're not seeing the kids this year, like, 1858 01:24:23.640 --> 01:24:25.920 so we'll ship them their Christmas presents and stuff like that. 1859 01:24:26.159 --> 01:24:28.840 And I'm not at the point in my life where 1860 01:24:28.840 --> 01:24:32.359 I am struggling for anything for like a Christmas list. 1861 01:24:32.920 --> 01:24:35.520 My Christmas list essentially is the stuff I would normally 1862 01:24:35.560 --> 01:24:38.800 buy from Amazon already, but I just put it on 1863 01:24:38.840 --> 01:24:40.960 a wish list and I'm leaving it there until the 1864 01:24:41.039 --> 01:24:43.039 day after Christmas, when I will probably order. 1865 01:24:43.039 --> 01:24:45.399 All of it because no one will buy it for me. Well, 1866 01:24:45.399 --> 01:24:46.920 I'm just trying to get in the spirit first, which 1867 01:24:46.960 --> 01:24:50.439 is what today's This is a weird year. It's gone 1868 01:24:50.560 --> 01:24:54.079 so fast. It does not all feel like Christmas season 1869 01:24:54.399 --> 01:24:56.720 to me. Little snow on the ground last, nothing is 1870 01:24:56.800 --> 01:24:59.199 making me feel like it. So I'm trying everything I can. 1871 01:24:59.279 --> 01:25:00.880 I'm pulling out all the stops to try to get 1872 01:25:00.920 --> 01:25:04.399 the spirit. I'm feeling a little feeling a little bit today. 1873 01:25:04.520 --> 01:25:07.640 Maybe maybe tomorrow we should I should bring in like 1874 01:25:07.720 --> 01:25:11.199 a simmering pot where we can do like orange slices 1875 01:25:11.479 --> 01:25:16.000 and some cinnamon, and we'll just we'll stink the whole 1876 01:25:16.079 --> 01:25:17.000 joint up with Christmas. 1877 01:25:17.079 --> 01:25:19.600 This smells help. I think we'll candle at home tonight, 1878 01:25:19.800 --> 01:25:22.039 try to because we got some Christmas ones. 1879 01:25:22.439 --> 01:25:26.960 Like you got some spruce pine type whatever works. 1880 01:25:27.000 --> 01:25:27.600 This year's gone. 1881 01:25:27.600 --> 01:25:27.960 I like that. 1882 01:25:28.640 --> 01:25:29.319 I'm not afraid to. 1883 01:25:29.319 --> 01:25:31.399 Burn a pine scented candle in the middle of summer. 1884 01:25:31.520 --> 01:25:33.000 I'm i I'll go rogue. 1885 01:25:33.159 --> 01:25:33.680 I don't care. 1886 01:25:34.159 --> 01:25:35.079 But you're an animal. 1887 01:25:35.279 --> 01:25:39.079 I know you're a wild wild I haven't watched any 1888 01:25:39.159 --> 01:25:40.159 Christmas movies though yet. 1889 01:25:40.399 --> 01:25:44.079 We just did Elf did Polar Express. 1890 01:25:44.760 --> 01:25:46.399 See, Okay, let me just say this. 1891 01:25:46.560 --> 01:25:48.479 ELF is number one in one. A is a year 1892 01:25:48.479 --> 01:25:50.840 without a Santa Claus Express. 1893 01:25:50.960 --> 01:25:53.039 Is top three. I don't like the animation. 1894 01:25:54.000 --> 01:25:56.399 Did you know almost every single actor and that is 1895 01:25:56.520 --> 01:25:58.119 Tom Hanks the. 1896 01:25:58.279 --> 01:26:00.399 Child I know, I don't. I don't like the animation. 1897 01:26:00.640 --> 01:26:04.680 Well you're what I called nuts. Home Alone is up there, Diehards. 1898 01:26:04.680 --> 01:26:06.039 Not a Christmas movie, so stop it? 1899 01:26:06.279 --> 01:26:09.239 What about Arthur Christmas? Are you familiar? A great movie? 1900 01:26:09.399 --> 01:26:09.800 Ever seen? 1901 01:26:09.960 --> 01:26:10.920 Challenge? You watch that movie? 1902 01:26:10.960 --> 01:26:12.920 It's a is it Arthur the TV show? 1903 01:26:13.159 --> 01:26:16.800 No, it's it's It's Arth for Christmas? Okay, totally different Arthur? 1904 01:26:17.199 --> 01:26:17.560 What is that? 1905 01:26:17.720 --> 01:26:18.720 What is that Arthur animal? 1906 01:26:18.880 --> 01:26:20.399 What is it an ark? 1907 01:26:20.560 --> 01:26:21.279 Is it an art ark? 1908 01:26:21.359 --> 01:26:21.720 I believe? 1909 01:26:22.520 --> 01:26:23.600 Isn't it a long enough nose? 1910 01:26:24.359 --> 01:26:26.840 Home Alone's in there? For sure, there's a there's a 1911 01:26:26.920 --> 01:26:28.079 there's a solid rotation. 1912 01:26:29.720 --> 01:26:31.880 You know what I just watched not too long ago, 1913 01:26:32.079 --> 01:26:34.239 not in part of Christmas, but just oh no, maybe 1914 01:26:34.279 --> 01:26:37.399 we watched this? Where did we just watch the Santa 1915 01:26:37.439 --> 01:26:39.079 Claus with Tim Allen? 1916 01:26:39.479 --> 01:26:42.399 It's a good movie, A good one. Not as much. 1917 01:26:43.199 --> 01:26:45.199 The second one's okay. The third what's the one with 1918 01:26:45.319 --> 01:26:46.479 Martin Short? I hate that one? 1919 01:26:46.560 --> 01:26:46.840 That one? 1920 01:26:46.840 --> 01:26:49.960 And then there's also the Evil Santa Claus opel Gang 1921 01:26:50.039 --> 01:26:50.159 or what. 1922 01:26:50.319 --> 01:26:52.039 Yeah, I didn't like that one, So you're right. Maybe 1923 01:26:52.119 --> 01:26:54.000 the Jim Carreys. 1924 01:26:54.479 --> 01:26:56.840 Jim Carrey, Yeah, you're not. 1925 01:26:57.000 --> 01:27:01.960 You're not Christmas family absolutely, Leo yeah yeah. 1926 01:27:02.239 --> 01:27:05.039 Nothing makes you feel more alone at Christmas than Christmas 1927 01:27:05.159 --> 01:27:05.760 music when. 1928 01:27:05.600 --> 01:27:06.199 You are alone. 1929 01:27:06.439 --> 01:27:11.640 Let me just say this, if you're alone at Christmas. 1930 01:27:12.399 --> 01:27:13.680 First of all, I'm sorry if you don't want to 1931 01:27:13.720 --> 01:27:16.199 be alone at Christmas, but don't let the Christmas music 1932 01:27:16.239 --> 01:27:16.680 bring you down. 1933 01:27:16.800 --> 01:27:17.680 Let it bring you up. 1934 01:27:18.119 --> 01:27:20.760 Put on a little brandi ly rocking around the Christmas 1935 01:27:20.800 --> 01:27:22.800 tree and listen to her curse about Pie. 1936 01:27:24.119 --> 01:27:24.920 It'll make you happy. 1937 01:27:24.960 --> 01:27:26.479 I'll tell you what I can't watch, and I can't 1938 01:27:26.479 --> 01:27:29.600 watch it at Halloween either. You're here with that as 1939 01:27:29.600 --> 01:27:34.039 Santa Claus the night before Christmas. It feels weird at 1940 01:27:34.039 --> 01:27:34.680 both holidays. 1941 01:27:34.920 --> 01:27:36.960 It feels out of place at both holidays. I'm pro 1942 01:27:37.159 --> 01:27:38.640 with you on that. But I will watch it in. 1943 01:27:38.720 --> 01:27:42.800 Like March, yeah, any time of year, except ironically for 1944 01:27:42.840 --> 01:27:44.079 the two holidays, because it has both. 1945 01:27:44.119 --> 01:27:44.479 It's weird. 1946 01:27:44.600 --> 01:27:47.560 Okay, So Diehard is not a Christmas movie, says this 1947 01:27:47.680 --> 01:27:49.560 texture and Polar Express is weird. 1948 01:27:49.840 --> 01:27:51.479 The animation in that movie is weird. 1949 01:27:51.760 --> 01:27:53.880 Okay. Do you you know what you need to do yourself? 1950 01:27:53.880 --> 01:27:55.720 A favor fight through the animation because I'm telling you 1951 01:27:55.800 --> 01:27:57.359 you forgot how much heart there is in that and 1952 01:27:57.439 --> 01:27:57.720 you will. 1953 01:27:57.800 --> 01:27:58.600 You will almost cry. 1954 01:27:58.800 --> 01:27:59.520 The story is. 1955 01:27:59.560 --> 01:28:02.239 Beautiful, The story's great. I cannot watch the animation. 1956 01:28:02.479 --> 01:28:04.039 But Tom Hanks at his best. 1957 01:28:04.199 --> 01:28:06.960 I know he does every damn role in that movie. 1958 01:28:07.079 --> 01:28:09.199 I know he does the kid another. 1959 01:28:09.000 --> 01:28:11.279 Texter or the animation and Polar Express is one hundred 1960 01:28:11.319 --> 01:28:11.960 percent creepy. 1961 01:28:12.159 --> 01:28:12.560 No it's not. 1962 01:28:12.800 --> 01:28:13.199 Yes, it is. 1963 01:28:13.359 --> 01:28:15.720 No in the heart of it about Oh, you have 1964 01:28:15.880 --> 01:28:19.720 to watch Klaus it's animated nteen. 1965 01:28:20.239 --> 01:28:21.560 I just read about that today. 1966 01:28:22.039 --> 01:28:24.800 I came out on Netflix in twenty nineteen, flew under 1967 01:28:24.840 --> 01:28:27.359 everybody's radar. But now everybody's like, this is an instant 1968 01:28:27.439 --> 01:28:29.640 Christmas classic five years later? 1969 01:28:30.239 --> 01:28:31.880 So good? Is Gremlin's a Christmas movie? 1970 01:28:32.119 --> 01:28:32.159 No? 1971 01:28:32.920 --> 01:28:35.399 I mean no, you can put it in the same 1972 01:28:35.439 --> 01:28:37.960 category as Diehard. It takes place at Christmas, but it's 1973 01:28:38.000 --> 01:28:39.000 not a Christmas movie. 1974 01:28:39.359 --> 01:28:39.680 Correct. 1975 01:28:39.880 --> 01:28:40.920 I really want to say this person. 1976 01:28:40.920 --> 01:28:42.920 If die Hard isn't a Christmas movie, then neither is. 1977 01:28:42.960 --> 01:28:43.840 It's a wonderful life. 1978 01:28:43.920 --> 01:28:44.560 Blasphem me. 1979 01:28:45.199 --> 01:28:45.720 I don't hate it. 1980 01:28:47.319 --> 01:28:50.439 What do you not like it's a wonderful life? 1981 01:28:50.439 --> 01:28:52.199 I don't know, But now now I cannot wait to 1982 01:28:52.239 --> 01:28:54.000 finish Elf tonight and then start Home Alone. 1983 01:28:54.199 --> 01:28:54.880 I love it. 1984 01:28:55.640 --> 01:28:57.479 I watch Home Alone whenever it's on. Doesn't have to 1985 01:28:57.520 --> 01:29:04.760 be Christmas. Christmas with the Cranks, that's not bad. Mandy 1986 01:29:04.840 --> 01:29:07.159 Nott King Cole's Christmas album is Better than Being. 1987 01:29:07.359 --> 01:29:13.720 Is not liar. You are wrong, ACDC need a mistress 1988 01:29:13.760 --> 01:29:18.079 for Christmas? Not familiar, but I'll look it up. Crampis okay, 1989 01:29:18.239 --> 01:29:19.880 So do you know, I mean, do you know the 1990 01:29:19.920 --> 01:29:23.760 story of crampis generally okay? So in Europe we just 1991 01:29:23.840 --> 01:29:24.279 went through this. 1992 01:29:24.359 --> 01:29:28.119 In Germany on December sixth, Saint Nicholas comes and brings 1993 01:29:28.199 --> 01:29:30.760 toys and little candies for the kids. Yep, so that's 1994 01:29:30.800 --> 01:29:35.279 their Santa Claus comes on December, but he also comes 1995 01:29:35.319 --> 01:29:36.800 along with Crampus. 1996 01:29:36.560 --> 01:29:40.920 Who is terrifying. Satan meets Santa and if the kids 1997 01:29:40.960 --> 01:29:42.920 are bad all year, they don't get a lump of cold. 1998 01:29:42.960 --> 01:29:45.680 Crampis takes them to hell. Yeah, your soul is mine. 1999 01:29:45.800 --> 01:29:48.840 I kind of like that better than are Like, you know, oh, 2000 01:29:48.880 --> 01:29:51.439 you're not gonna get any toys. Yeah, if you're bad 2001 01:29:51.479 --> 01:29:53.239 in Europe, cramps Is gonna take you to hell. 2002 01:29:53.479 --> 01:29:55.560 If you mean, I'm not gonna answer that question. I 2003 01:29:55.600 --> 01:29:56.960 ask that question, I know the answer. You have not 2004 01:29:57.039 --> 01:29:59.840 seen the movie because it's horrifying. I'm not gonna watch Crampis. 2005 01:30:00.079 --> 01:30:02.199 It's horrifying. Why would I watch that? 2006 01:30:02.279 --> 01:30:02.319 What? 2007 01:30:02.680 --> 01:30:04.000 That's a great it's it's you. 2008 01:30:04.000 --> 01:30:05.880 Already knew in our history together. I'm not going to 2009 01:30:05.920 --> 01:30:06.119 watch it. 2010 01:30:06.560 --> 01:30:07.399 But it's really scary. 2011 01:30:08.399 --> 01:30:11.119 Race Willis himself said it's not a Christmas. 2012 01:30:10.800 --> 01:30:13.680 Movie when I was on with deb Flora, because I 2013 01:30:13.760 --> 01:30:17.520 told her that, and that's true. A director didn't necessarily 2014 01:30:17.640 --> 01:30:19.159 say that it is, but he didn't say that it's not. 2015 01:30:19.359 --> 01:30:22.359 It's got like well, and again my number one category 2016 01:30:22.520 --> 01:30:24.680 is a number one factor is a Christmas movie. A 2017 01:30:24.760 --> 01:30:26.880 Christmas movie does have the spirit of Christmas? Does it 2018 01:30:26.920 --> 01:30:30.119 feel like Christmas? Diehard does not? That is all I am. 2019 01:30:30.239 --> 01:30:31.359 I mean, if you have a. 2020 01:30:31.479 --> 01:30:34.319 Christmas celebration where people get shot and fall out of buildings, 2021 01:30:34.359 --> 01:30:34.640 it does. 2022 01:30:34.920 --> 01:30:38.279 No, it doesn't have the spirit, the feel, the vibe 2023 01:30:38.439 --> 01:30:40.880 of Christmas. That is the ultimate factor. 2024 01:30:41.000 --> 01:30:42.920 Christmas vacation of course on the list. 2025 01:30:43.000 --> 01:30:44.800 Yeah, it's just hard to watch. God, it's cringey, but 2026 01:30:44.840 --> 01:30:47.079 it's so good. No, I love it. 2027 01:30:47.119 --> 01:30:49.279 I'm saying cringey because of how much goes wrong and 2028 01:30:49.359 --> 01:30:50.279 how badly it goes. 2029 01:30:51.039 --> 01:30:52.680 I am aware that it is the whole thing. 2030 01:30:52.960 --> 01:30:55.319 It's just like, of course, when Clark goes to turn 2031 01:30:55.359 --> 01:30:57.640 the lights on. That is That's one of my favorite 2032 01:30:57.680 --> 01:30:59.720 cinematic moments of all time. 2033 01:30:59.800 --> 01:31:03.439 It's hard to match the cringe though, when Will Ferrell 2034 01:31:03.960 --> 01:31:06.760 goes after comes in the office and goes after Peter 2035 01:31:06.840 --> 01:31:08.000 Dinklish thinking he's an elf. 2036 01:31:08.399 --> 01:31:11.640 Yeah, oh my god, he says, say elf one more time. 2037 01:31:13.720 --> 01:31:16.239 This is the most perfect text message about Polar Express 2038 01:31:16.319 --> 01:31:21.560 that has ever existed. It's great, It simply says Mandy, 2039 01:31:22.039 --> 01:31:27.159 Polar Express animation is that you ordered from Timu. It's old, 2040 01:31:27.800 --> 01:31:31.039 it's old anime. It's it's like a little too anime 2041 01:31:31.199 --> 01:31:33.319 e for me. I don't like it at all. 2042 01:31:33.399 --> 01:31:33.920 It's weird. 2043 01:31:34.239 --> 01:31:36.119 It looks like it was done on a budget. Like, 2044 01:31:36.239 --> 01:31:38.640 hey guys, we've got forty bucks. Can we animate this 2045 01:31:38.800 --> 01:31:40.960 movie because Tom Hanks is willing to do all voices, 2046 01:31:41.119 --> 01:31:44.239 but we can't afford it. We can't afford animation, good animation. 2047 01:31:44.239 --> 01:31:46.800 And Tom Hanks, And we're going with Hanks. He's gonna 2048 01:31:46.800 --> 01:31:48.479 do all the voices. But now we only have forty 2049 01:31:48.520 --> 01:31:52.439 dollars of that texture. I ask one simple question, are 2050 01:31:52.520 --> 01:31:57.279 you in need of refreshment? And if so, you need 2051 01:31:58.079 --> 01:32:00.680 hot chocolate just like that. Having the movie it is 2052 01:32:01.319 --> 01:32:02.840 we had a lot of hot chocolate. If the Christmas 2053 01:32:02.880 --> 01:32:03.560 markets hot. 2054 01:32:03.479 --> 01:32:05.520 Chocolate, chok, hot chocolate. 2055 01:32:05.680 --> 01:32:08.199 Come on, if you guys go to the Christmas markets 2056 01:32:08.239 --> 01:32:10.119 next year, I need to know that if the hot 2057 01:32:10.199 --> 01:32:13.600 chocolate cellars also have pepperminte shops, because Chuck would say, 2058 01:32:13.600 --> 01:32:15.399 do you have peppermint shops to put in the hot chocolate, 2059 01:32:15.399 --> 01:32:15.640 and they. 2060 01:32:15.600 --> 01:32:18.760 Would go no, But that's a really good idea. So 2061 01:32:18.960 --> 01:32:21.520 Chuck brought a little flask of shops with him. 2062 01:32:21.640 --> 01:32:24.359 On TikTok made a recipe as to what they think 2063 01:32:24.479 --> 01:32:27.439 the recipe would be from the creamy hot chocolate on 2064 01:32:27.560 --> 01:32:29.239 the Polar Express, and I really need. 2065 01:32:29.239 --> 01:32:29.600 To try it. 2066 01:32:29.960 --> 01:32:30.399 What's in it? 2067 01:32:30.479 --> 01:32:34.319 Do you know with my fancy cocoa that I have? Well, 2068 01:32:34.359 --> 01:32:36.560 there's a couple of different things. There's hot chocolate and 2069 01:32:36.640 --> 01:32:41.520 then there is sipping chocolate, which is like liquid thick, 2070 01:32:42.159 --> 01:32:44.760 delicious chocolate syrup. 2071 01:32:44.479 --> 01:32:45.600 Hot chocolate so good. 2072 01:32:45.800 --> 01:32:48.520 Well, they only let the kids enjoy the hot chocolate 2073 01:32:48.720 --> 01:32:51.199 during the duration of that song on the Polar Express. 2074 01:32:51.279 --> 01:32:52.760 And then they take it away from him, like it 2075 01:32:52.760 --> 01:32:54.399 looks like most cups are like half full and it's 2076 01:32:54.399 --> 01:32:55.000 really depressing. 2077 01:32:55.279 --> 01:32:56.880 But you can take a ride on the Polar Express 2078 01:32:56.920 --> 01:32:57.279 by the way. 2079 01:32:57.439 --> 01:33:00.680 By the way, the Durango silverton a gauge rail rate 2080 01:33:01.399 --> 01:33:04.279 the official They're the official Polar Express. 2081 01:33:04.319 --> 01:33:06.840 They're the only railroad company in the country. 2082 01:33:07.159 --> 01:33:09.159 Videos of them. I didn't know it was the official one. 2083 01:33:09.760 --> 01:33:11.840 They are licensed from Polar Express. 2084 01:33:12.000 --> 01:33:14.720 To go, you should go Tom Hanks on every single round. 2085 01:33:14.760 --> 01:33:17.439 No, but I'm sure they pipe his voice in What 2086 01:33:17.640 --> 01:33:20.079 is Chocolate? Somebody keeps suggesting violent Night? 2087 01:33:20.199 --> 01:33:20.640 What is that? 2088 01:33:20.840 --> 01:33:24.319 I've heard about that. It's a new horror style. It's 2089 01:33:24.399 --> 01:33:28.600 got a god have here. David Harbor as Santa clausa 2090 01:33:28.640 --> 01:33:29.439 guy from Stranger Games. 2091 01:33:29.439 --> 01:33:31.880 Oh, I'm not doing that. It looks appealing. I'm not 2092 01:33:32.000 --> 01:33:32.279 doing it. 2093 01:33:32.560 --> 01:33:33.720 It looks kind of cool, traded all. 2094 01:33:33.800 --> 01:33:36.920 I'm not doing it. If it's scary, I don't want 2095 01:33:36.920 --> 01:33:37.159 to watch. 2096 01:33:37.159 --> 01:33:39.439 It's like it's like it looks like John Wick meets 2097 01:33:40.159 --> 01:33:43.520 Santa Claus, which doesn't appeal to because John was terrible. 2098 01:33:43.640 --> 01:33:45.760 What what John's trash? 2099 01:33:45.960 --> 01:33:46.199 I love? 2100 01:33:46.760 --> 01:33:48.159 Every John Wick movie is terrible. 2101 01:33:48.600 --> 01:33:50.520 You know what's funny is I can watch violence like that. 2102 01:33:50.840 --> 01:33:56.760 Violence absolutely zero, positively, no substance of a plot. My dog, guy, 2103 01:33:56.800 --> 01:33:58.800 I'm gonna go on a rampage over four movies for 2104 01:33:58.920 --> 01:33:59.640 five or six or. 2105 01:33:59.640 --> 01:34:00.359 As well, my dog. 2106 01:34:00.399 --> 01:34:03.159 I'm not saying I wouldn't go John Wick on them. Terrible, 2107 01:34:03.319 --> 01:34:05.399 just let it terrible, terrible, choppy. 2108 01:34:05.640 --> 01:34:09.840 So your wife Jocelyn, god forbid, and then she dies 2109 01:34:09.920 --> 01:34:12.000 after she gives you this dog, and somebody kills Poppy 2110 01:34:12.039 --> 01:34:13.199 and you're gonna be like, oh, it's. 2111 01:34:13.079 --> 01:34:15.520 Fine, I'm going on, but we don't need movies about it. 2112 01:34:16.159 --> 01:34:16.760 Oh stop it. 2113 01:34:16.960 --> 01:34:19.000 No plot there, there's just rape. 2114 01:34:19.079 --> 01:34:21.279 But what is this? Tom Hanks is a known pedophile? 2115 01:34:21.439 --> 01:34:22.079 What what? 2116 01:34:22.840 --> 01:34:27.039 No, he's not a known pedophile. You can't just throw 2117 01:34:27.119 --> 01:34:28.439 that stuff out there like everybody. 2118 01:34:28.479 --> 01:34:29.279 It's not known. 2119 01:34:29.840 --> 01:34:34.000 No trading places, I would argue. Also, not a Christmas movie. 2120 01:34:34.199 --> 01:34:36.920 You just know it when you know it's the feeld 2121 01:34:36.920 --> 01:34:41.039 thing for Christmases. But Elf is the best Christmas movie, 2122 01:34:41.039 --> 01:34:43.800 and that's not close. ELF's number one. I love Elf, 2123 01:34:43.920 --> 01:34:47.199 but I think there are My favorite Christmas movie of 2124 01:34:47.239 --> 01:34:49.079 all time is White Christmas because. 2125 01:34:48.920 --> 01:34:49.720 It is a classic. 2126 01:34:49.800 --> 01:34:52.399 Again nostalgia. Number one is Year Without a Santa Claus. 2127 01:34:52.439 --> 01:34:55.239 Heer colder. I mean, come on, Al's drop like thirty 2128 01:34:55.319 --> 01:34:57.479 dollars on a on a year without a Santa Claus 2129 01:34:57.520 --> 01:34:58.439 sweatshirt this morning and. 2130 01:34:58.880 --> 01:35:01.680 Right anyway, because it's thirty dollars scared. 2131 01:35:01.720 --> 01:35:03.119 But that is nostalgia number one. 2132 01:35:03.119 --> 01:35:06.560 But ELF movie wise is number one, number one, it's 2133 01:35:06.640 --> 01:35:08.079 number One's Will Ferrell's. 2134 01:35:07.720 --> 01:35:10.680 Best work is best work, and that's best. Step Brothers 2135 01:35:10.760 --> 01:35:11.319 is damn good. 2136 01:35:11.479 --> 01:35:11.680 Elf. 2137 01:35:13.319 --> 01:35:18.880 I would say, yes, okay, lost all credibility. J W 2138 01:35:19.239 --> 01:35:21.720 is awesome. Who's JW? What movie we're we talking about? 2139 01:35:22.560 --> 01:35:23.000 J W? 2140 01:35:24.039 --> 01:35:24.479 I don't know what. 2141 01:35:24.640 --> 01:35:27.399 John Way, oh, John Wick? Yeah, trash No, it's not 2142 01:35:27.600 --> 01:35:28.000 it's good. 2143 01:35:28.600 --> 01:35:29.800 I've seen trash more appealing. 2144 01:35:30.399 --> 01:35:31.239 Jack's on my side. 2145 01:35:32.479 --> 01:35:35.399 Hey, everyone has has an ability to be wrong. You 2146 01:35:35.479 --> 01:35:36.640 guys are both exercising. 2147 01:35:36.720 --> 01:35:42.720 That's not a Christmas movie. No, it's not best Christmas movie. 2148 01:35:42.840 --> 01:35:45.560 Fat Man with Mel Gibson and Walton Goggins. 2149 01:35:45.640 --> 01:35:49.840 I don't know about that. I do not know about that. 2150 01:35:50.199 --> 01:35:52.960 The animation style, you know, Frosty the Snowman. Those movies 2151 01:35:53.039 --> 01:35:56.079 in the realm are also classics, but not great movies. 2152 01:35:56.239 --> 01:35:56.920 This person said. 2153 01:35:56.920 --> 01:36:00.039 Polar Express was a very early computer animation. It's the 2154 01:36:00.119 --> 01:36:01.039 best they could do at the time. 2155 01:36:01.199 --> 01:36:02.399 Like I said, yes it is. 2156 01:36:02.520 --> 01:36:04.159 They had forty bucks left for the animation. 2157 01:36:04.960 --> 01:36:09.239 They used to Apple original Apple computer to do it all. 2158 01:36:09.399 --> 01:36:12.039 Being with that much high quality, they were able to 2159 01:36:12.119 --> 01:36:13.600 do it of that good a movie. 2160 01:36:14.680 --> 01:36:18.680 But no, I'm telling you that animation is just strange. 2161 01:36:19.520 --> 01:36:21.840 It's just really really strange. And to the person who 2162 01:36:21.920 --> 01:36:24.279 said Bruce Willis has de menia, of course Diehard is 2163 01:36:24.279 --> 01:36:29.039 a Christmas movie, stop that. That's not nice, not nice 2164 01:36:29.079 --> 01:36:29.520 at all. 2165 01:36:31.399 --> 01:36:33.760 Anyway. I did not mean to go down the Christmas movie. 2166 01:36:33.760 --> 01:36:35.760 And I've wasted the last segment of the show, which 2167 01:36:35.840 --> 01:36:38.359 is fine, because let's face it, we're in that time 2168 01:36:38.399 --> 01:36:39.399 of December where. 2169 01:36:39.479 --> 01:36:42.640 If you're at work right now, you're kind of mailing 2170 01:36:42.680 --> 01:36:45.960 it in, right, I mean, aren't we? I mean you, 2171 01:36:46.439 --> 01:36:48.239 not me. I'm not mailing. I never mail it in. 2172 01:36:49.279 --> 01:36:51.600 I bring it one hundred percent every single time. Now, 2173 01:36:51.720 --> 01:36:54.840 this person makes a point. If Diehard is a Christmas movie, 2174 01:36:54.960 --> 01:36:57.399 so is lethal weapon, which is why Diehard is not 2175 01:36:57.479 --> 01:36:59.560 a Christmas movie, nor is leth a weapon. 2176 01:37:00.600 --> 01:37:02.600 Mandy, did you have the bread filled with cheese on 2177 01:37:02.680 --> 01:37:03.720 your trip? I did not. 2178 01:37:04.000 --> 01:37:07.279 Find the fondue sandwich as they call it. But trust me, 2179 01:37:07.720 --> 01:37:09.880 I did not lack for snacks on this trip. 2180 01:37:10.640 --> 01:37:10.920 Vienna. 2181 01:37:11.039 --> 01:37:14.319 Christmas Markets win for the snack department. They have this 2182 01:37:14.439 --> 01:37:18.920 Austrian flatbread where they take like a pita dough and 2183 01:37:19.039 --> 01:37:21.000 then they put it on a grill and then they 2184 01:37:21.119 --> 01:37:24.159 fill it halfway with fillings and then they flip the 2185 01:37:24.199 --> 01:37:26.399 other side over, kind of like a calzone, and they 2186 01:37:26.399 --> 01:37:27.119 cook it on the grill. 2187 01:37:27.279 --> 01:37:33.800 Oh my goodness, And yes, Texter, Love actually is very good. 2188 01:37:34.239 --> 01:37:35.079 Is a very good movie. 2189 01:37:36.000 --> 01:37:38.600 Christmas Vacation is the clear winner from this one. Mandy, 2190 01:37:38.920 --> 01:37:42.399 it's Anton. It's my former UPS driver or FedEx driver 2191 01:37:42.520 --> 01:37:43.920 until they changes around. 2192 01:37:43.960 --> 01:37:44.880 I'm still bitter about that. 2193 01:37:45.159 --> 01:37:48.079 How come everyone argues over die Hard being a Christmas movie, 2194 01:37:48.319 --> 01:37:51.000 but no one mentions Lisa weapon because leitha weapon like 2195 01:37:51.079 --> 01:37:56.119 Diehard clearly not a Christmas movie. So there you go, 2196 01:37:58.279 --> 01:38:03.199 and we've already established the Diehard lethal weapon not Christmas movies. 2197 01:38:03.880 --> 01:38:08.079 Grimlins not Christmas movie. I don't know where you people 2198 01:38:08.119 --> 01:38:10.640 are getting your stuff. Frosty the Snowman, of course a 2199 01:38:10.720 --> 01:38:16.560 Christmas movie. Mandy, the best Christmas song, Hard Candy Christmas 2200 01:38:16.640 --> 01:38:19.439 my Dolly partner. I love that Christmas song, but unfortunately 2201 01:38:19.800 --> 01:38:25.079 it comes from uh best little whorehouse in Texas, so 2202 01:38:25.479 --> 01:38:26.600 it kind of gets left behind. 2203 01:38:26.680 --> 01:38:27.079 Sometimes. 2204 01:38:27.199 --> 01:38:29.039 Zach is joining us in the studio. Zach, what's your 2205 01:38:29.039 --> 01:38:32.000 favorite Christmas movie? And you better think carefully because you're 2206 01:38:32.039 --> 01:38:34.159 gonna pick a Rod has one? 2207 01:38:34.239 --> 01:38:34.680 I have one. 2208 01:38:34.720 --> 01:38:38.720 What's your favorite Christmas Movief The Red Nose Reindeer? Safe choice? 2209 01:38:39.000 --> 01:38:41.880 Well done, You're practically Switzerland. 2210 01:38:41.359 --> 01:38:43.840 With that choice. You can offend no one with that choice. 2211 01:38:43.920 --> 01:38:46.840 It's just so great. You know it hasn't aged the best, 2212 01:38:46.880 --> 01:38:48.600 but I just love the style of it. Those old 2213 01:38:49.399 --> 01:38:52.680 hate to stop animation whatever. Yeah, but really, I mean, when. 2214 01:38:52.560 --> 01:38:54.439 You get right down to it, Rudolph is a story 2215 01:38:54.600 --> 01:38:57.880 about reindeer being bullied until Santa found Eddie was useful. 2216 01:38:58.119 --> 01:39:01.199 So there you go. Now it's for the most exciting 2217 01:39:01.640 --> 01:39:06.520 segment on the radio of its guide in world. 2218 01:39:08.039 --> 01:39:10.640 That's what I'm talking about, Zach of the day, What 2219 01:39:10.840 --> 01:39:11.960 is our dad joke of the day? 2220 01:39:12.039 --> 01:39:12.359 Please? 2221 01:39:12.560 --> 01:39:14.439 In Germany you would know this, Mandy. 2222 01:39:14.560 --> 01:39:18.439 They even have a sausage made out of other sausages. 2223 01:39:19.520 --> 01:39:20.600 It's the worst of the worst. 2224 01:39:20.760 --> 01:39:24.000 Oh wow, why did I eat a lot of German 2225 01:39:24.039 --> 01:39:25.319 sausage when I was on this train. 2226 01:39:25.680 --> 01:39:26.119 Protein. 2227 01:39:26.359 --> 01:39:29.520 Today's word of the day. Please don't think I'm how 2228 01:39:29.560 --> 01:39:33.079 to pronounce this, but if you have the computer whirl brogue, 2229 01:39:33.279 --> 01:39:36.079 brogue b r o g u e. That's a certain 2230 01:39:36.359 --> 01:39:39.359 vocal pattern, like you have an Irish brogue. 2231 01:39:39.840 --> 01:39:40.279 Is all right? 2232 01:39:41.279 --> 01:39:43.159 I have not heard that word before. 2233 01:39:43.680 --> 01:39:47.560 It is a low shoe, usually made of leather, decorated 2234 01:39:47.600 --> 01:39:51.000 with small holes along the sides of the shoe, and 2235 01:39:51.159 --> 01:39:55.239 that usually refers usually features a wing tip brogue. 2236 01:39:55.279 --> 01:39:56.039 It's like a shoe thing. 2237 01:39:56.479 --> 01:39:58.279 So what is an Irish brogue? 2238 01:39:58.319 --> 01:39:58.720 What is that? 2239 01:39:59.079 --> 01:39:59.119 Like? 2240 01:39:59.199 --> 01:39:59.880 What is what is? 2241 01:40:00.079 --> 01:40:00.439 What is that? 2242 01:40:02.680 --> 01:40:05.119 I don't know? Brichant is called a brogue? 2243 01:40:06.000 --> 01:40:10.359 Well, I mean, man, it's another term for us. It 2244 01:40:10.439 --> 01:40:10.760 is wait. 2245 01:40:11.119 --> 01:40:14.199 The word originates from the Irish word for shoe. The 2246 01:40:14.359 --> 01:40:16.720 term brogue is believed to have emerged from the Irish 2247 01:40:16.720 --> 01:40:18.560 people's rough and unrefined way speak. 2248 01:40:18.680 --> 01:40:22.439 Webster compare this is from me, Webster. Well, no, you're right, 2249 01:40:22.560 --> 01:40:24.600 it is a shoe. But they also called the Irish 2250 01:40:24.680 --> 01:40:27.960 brogue because it never mind. Go ahead. Today's trivia question. 2251 01:40:28.279 --> 01:40:29.439 What was country music. 2252 01:40:29.359 --> 01:40:34.279 Legend Willie Nelson's debut album, I Have no idea, and 2253 01:40:34.359 --> 01:40:36.840 it was called and Then I Wrote. Released in nineteen 2254 01:40:36.880 --> 01:40:39.119 sixty two, the album featured the single touch Me. 2255 01:40:39.520 --> 01:40:42.560 Prior to his debut as a performer, Nelson wrote songs 2256 01:40:42.600 --> 01:40:44.880 for other artists. Think about that that. 2257 01:40:44.960 --> 01:40:49.520 He's going on sixty two years of performing. 2258 01:40:50.000 --> 01:40:53.199 It's unreal, real what ca marijuana will do for you? 2259 01:40:53.359 --> 01:40:55.399 Zach right there, That's what I'm talking about. 2260 01:40:55.399 --> 01:40:59.520 What's our category category today is wearable tech? 2261 01:41:00.000 --> 01:41:01.000 Okay you know what. 2262 01:41:01.840 --> 01:41:03.399 Nope, we're gonna do that. We're gonna do the one 2263 01:41:03.439 --> 01:41:06.840 night next whips. I didn't see Christmas movies. Oh, here 2264 01:41:06.920 --> 01:41:08.920 we go, Here we go Christmas movies. 2265 01:41:09.600 --> 01:41:13.640 In twenty eighteen, betted A cumber Batch voiced this Susian 2266 01:41:13.800 --> 01:41:17.039 title guy who wasn't as into Christmas as those were. 2267 01:41:18.960 --> 01:41:22.319 That's okay, I'll get Which is the the Gridge? 2268 01:41:22.359 --> 01:41:23.800 And now we make it? Who are doing good? 2269 01:41:23.920 --> 01:41:24.640 Who is the Gritch? 2270 01:41:24.720 --> 01:41:24.800 Oh? 2271 01:41:24.880 --> 01:41:26.760 Man, it's not great, but it's okay. 2272 01:41:27.039 --> 01:41:30.520 That Ridge fine original of course, still the basketing mind. 2273 01:41:30.600 --> 01:41:34.760 Jim carry Alistair sim is among those who have played 2274 01:41:34.800 --> 01:41:36.079 this Dickenson. 2275 01:41:35.720 --> 01:41:37.600 Andy who is Scrooge cogged? 2276 01:41:38.880 --> 01:41:42.560 Basically, this heartwarming Frank Capra classic is about what's. 2277 01:41:42.479 --> 01:41:45.520 It's a wonderful life. Jack. We're still playing right now, Bud. 2278 01:41:45.760 --> 01:41:51.199 In this film Santa Tell's Buddy, there are thirty great 2279 01:41:52.199 --> 01:41:56.039 and finally, two memorable bits from this nineteen eighty three classic, 2280 01:41:56.479 --> 01:41:59.520 The leg Lamp and what is a Christmas Story? 2281 01:42:00.199 --> 01:42:04.199 Yeah? Jump, you gotta jump in. Okay, you know what 2282 01:42:04.560 --> 01:42:06.600 I got? One last time, I got completely swept. 2283 01:42:06.680 --> 01:42:08.600 So I just had more appearances. 2284 01:42:08.640 --> 01:42:11.239 And I'll I'm telling you right now, the more you play, 2285 01:42:11.319 --> 01:42:14.119 the easier this guest. That's the fact of it. That time, 2286 01:42:14.159 --> 01:42:15.640 I at least had the answers in my head. I 2287 01:42:15.640 --> 01:42:16.840 didn't feel completely You just have. 2288 01:42:16.880 --> 01:42:18.880 To get them out of their mouth and then bam, 2289 01:42:18.960 --> 01:42:20.760 you're just gonna be like ready to go. All right, 2290 01:42:20.840 --> 01:42:23.439 you guys, we'll be back tomorrow. We got another full show. 2291 01:42:23.520 --> 01:42:26.439 I already got questions for weather Wednesday. Wait what we 2292 01:42:26.560 --> 01:42:28.039 have to get this in because I will forget My 2293 01:42:28.119 --> 01:42:30.119 mom just sent me another dad job. What does a 2294 01:42:30.159 --> 01:42:32.600 gingerbread man use when he breaks his leg? 2295 01:42:35.800 --> 01:42:37.039 I don't know, candy game? 2296 01:42:37.279 --> 01:42:39.920 Okay, we're done, thanks, b Rod. 2297 01:42:40.239 --> 01:42:42.560 All right, we're gonna wrap this up. We got ko 2298 01:42:42.720 --> 01:42:45.159 Sports coming up next. Keep it right here on KOA