01-16-25 FULL SHOW - Dems Favor Unions Over Votes, Plus A New DA Opens Up for Biz

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Nd Connell keeping your real sad Day. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome
to a Thursday edition of the show. Had a moment
there where I forgot what I was doing and what
day it was, but apparent now it's passed. It is
a Rod's Friday. He'll be off tomorrow lovely bride up
to the mountains for her birthday weekend, so that's gonna

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be a lot of fun. But I will be here tomorrow.
I will also be here Monday. Well, yes and no,
I will be here ish Monday. I will be broadcasting
the program, but I will be broadcasting the program from
San Juan, Puerto Rico, and very much looking forward to that.
You'll have to tune in Money Day to find out
more about why I'm there, But we're gonna be broadcasting. Obviously,

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Monday is the inauguration. That's a very big deal and
very exciting. Ryan Schuling is gonna be there, and my
friend Heidi Ganal is gonna be there, so we're gonna
be able to talk and find out what that's like
to be a part of the inauguration of Donald Trump
the second time. So it's gonna be a great Monday.
I know it is Martin Luther King Day. Can we
just say, y'all, I feel I feel bad for the

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folks that try to celebrate Martin Luther King Day with
a moriade. You know, they got a parade, and there's
so many years when the weather is just brutal. I
think they got janked in a winter climate. They got
janked for Mountain Martin Luther King Day, right because because
it's the weather's going to be awful.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
This we get it.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
I just saw that, and I'm like, oh man, these
poor parade people. That's that's just awful. Anyway, let's do
the blog because we've got lots of stuff on the
blog today. I got lots of interesting stuff to talk about.
But I just saw this on x dot com and
now I have to ask the question, what are you
starting to dislike more as you get older?

Speaker 5 (02:10):
Boy?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
That's a very very good question. And the sad thing
is I must be getting old because I immediately ticked
off like four things right in a row in my
mind a run at thirty? What is starting? What are
you starting to dislike more as you get older? You
can text us, by the way, on the Common Spirited
Health text line, and I'll do this question throughout the show.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Because I think it's interesting. Well, you said four give
me one of year or four drunk people?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Okay, crowds, restaurants with concrete flooring and high ceilings. What yeah,
what is that about it? I can't hear a damn
thing in those restaurants, like if it's one of those,
and I used to love them, the ultra moter hit.
They got a little bit of an industrial ve not
he not help you with that? Well, you know, I

(02:57):
it's frustrating. I'm just I told you I've kicked off
like three or were right in my mind, people who
park too close to my car, you know. I just
all kinds of stuff. People who curse loudly in public
and mixed company. I just my tolerance for that has
dropped dramatically. And I'm a cursor. Okay, So I'm not judging.
I'm not.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
I'm just saying, when there's like little children around and
you're yelling the F bomb, I don't like that. I
really don't, So there you go.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
I'm a pretty accepting person, not a lite. Yeah, irritates me.
I think just dumb people in general, which covers a
lot of those things. Yes, this dumbness, consistent dumbness from
typical you know, crowds.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
I don't know, nothing really bugs me, nothing really gets
my good drust me. You'll become far less tolerant as
you get older. You really will happens to us all.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
Oh, you know what.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I've always said, eighty percent of dog owners are terrible. Oh,
I'm just think eighty percent of dog owners Colorado.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
No, it's might it might might be more, no, I know,
And just just being bad dog owners in general, just
watching people be bad dog owners.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
I don't like seeing bad parenting. That's that's difficult to
swallow because you know, you know that that is taking
away an opportunity for a kid to be the very
best they can be. Winter says this text or preach
Mandy High. Reliable sources tell me you will be in
Puerto Rico as part of Trump's purchase of and transition
team to acquire Puerto Rico. We kind of already did. Yeah, yeah,

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definitely not going to Greenland. Next month whatsoever.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
No, No, not not so far.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
But hey, I'm you know what, if they call, I
will accept the call. Okay, I'm not.

Speaker 5 (04:40):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
I'm not like ruling anything out.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Puerto Rico in January, Greenland in February, Canada and March.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
It's fine. Yeah, well it's fine. Nothing to see though,
don't worry about it. No, Mandy, definitely with you on
concrete floor restaurants.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
Don't.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Don't misunderstand me. If you're gonna have concrete floors, you
better have some kind of sound proofing above me.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Okay, and this is specifically you said things that have
done more irritating with age, essentially.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yes, the older you get, the less you tolerate these things.

Speaker 5 (05:08):
The word oh.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Okay, then I got okay, all right?

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, going out and just having terribly mixed beverages from bartenders.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, bad drinks. Bad drinks more common than people tossing
cigarette butts on the ground that here, you guys, if
people are throwing butts out the window, if if you
set my house on fire because of that, I promise
you will never have another peaceful day in your life.
Mandy sixty three. Bad manners drives me nuts. You must
be driven insane every single moment of every single day. Okay,

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let me do the blog and then I'll come.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Back on one of you, one more of those who
like to ride on skateboards or bikes, and just think
that the crowds that you're passing wants to hear your music. Yeah,
oh oh, especially the big boombox like oh, I'm your DJ,
I'm a personal at sixteenth Street djer.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
For those of us who grew up in the first
generation with boomboxes, we appreciate how annoying they are the
second time as well. Okay, the pass again, and then
the pass again. Ooh new song, but they passed again.
Go away, we don't want to hear it. Gets some headphones,
all right, here we go. The blog can be found
at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for
the headline that says one sixteen twenty four blog DEM's

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favorite union's over voters plus a new DA opens up
for biz. Click on that, and here are the headlines
you will find with it. Tick tech toe a winner.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
I didn'ts in office. Half of American all.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
With ships and clippers and say that's going to press
plats Today on the blog, George Brockler is back to
prosecuting bad guys. No, Coloradans don't want to change labor laws.
Tay Tay plays the victim again. Where do you want
a new Broncos Stadium? Colorado Springs Council thinks their voters
are stupid. The sixteen Street Mall stabber benefited from soft

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on crime policies. A grieving wife defends her husband. Mike
Rosen is tired of the debt ceiling circus. How is
lying about comp time not a The Colorado GOP has
a bunch of new members. Hey, look, people were arrested
for shoplifting. The FDA is already making changes. Speaking of
Trump nominees, it's pipe freezing weather. No, climate change didn't

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cause the Cali fires. Why don't Palestinians already have their
own state about Biden taking credit for the Israel Hamast deal.
Stacy Abrams cheated BMI maybe on the way out? The
torque scene around the world. Why dads don't ask for
help to be got the streaming rights to the Super Bowl?
Why students are miserable? A ninety one year old former

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prime minister gives advice. Why raising corporate tax rates is
a dumb idea. A look, another stabbing downtown, and finally,
a WAPO cartoonist gets busted for child porn. Those are
the headlines on the blog at Mandy's blog dot com.
And I have some really good stories on the blog today,
but not the least of which is the last story.

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I was getting ready. Actually, I had already posted the
blog earlier today, and I saw this story come across
the come across the web. A Washington Post cartoonist who
often portrays Republicans as groomers or predators, has just been
arrested for possession of child pornography. Yep, yep. Darren Bell,

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a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist whose work is featured in
prominent newspapers such as The Washington Post, has been arrested
on charges of possessing child sexual abuse material. The arrest
follows an investigation conducted by California law enforcement officials, and
then they go on to talk about how they busted him,
and if you go, I've got a link to a

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Babylon or excuse me not the b story where it
shows some of his cartoons where he portrays Republicans as
groomers and predators. And isn't that how it always is
when you point one finger at someone else, there's four
fingers pointing back at you. You and your child porn stash. Now,

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I did not look to see if the Washington Post
had had reported on this story, but I saw it.
I was like, you know, I have another story on
the blog today. Remember Stacy Abrams, And I got a
bunch of stuff that's way more important than this. I'm
just getting it out of the way. Stacy Abrams, the
woman from Georgia who ran for governor of Georgia and

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lost and then spent I don't even know how many
years claiming that the election had been stolen from her
and that she was the rightful winner, and YadA, YadA, YadA,
and blah blah blah. She became the darling of the left.
Some people even wanted her to step in if Joe
Biden stepped down. It was absurd, but yet they said it. Anyway,

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it has recently been discovered, Well, no, I take that back.
It's recently been proven that Stacy Abrams created a nonprofit
called the New Georgia Project when she was in office
in the State House and after she he decided to
run for governors, she stepped away from the New Georgia
Project and she put it in the hands of now

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Senator Rafael Warnock. He was not Senator Warnock then, he
was just Reverend Rafael Warnock, and he was put in
charge of her nonprofit, the New Georgia Project. And six
years ago they were accused of violating their status as
a nonprofit by campaigning for Stacy Abrams, and they fought

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it for six years, right through her latest campaign, which
she also lost, and now they have admitted it paid
for flyers and door to door canvassers telling voters to
support miss Abrams and other Democrats. Under federal law, tax
exempturities like this one are forbidden to campaign for candidates,

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but this case was about a violation of state law.
The nonprofit conceded that because of its campaign work from
miss Abrams, it should have readis with the state as
a political committee, but it did not. A related nonprofit,
the New Georgia Project Action Fund, admitted the same. Both
of them have been fined three hundred thousand dollars one
hundred and fifty k to be paid this year one

(11:14):
hundred and fifty k to be paid next year. So
just to be clear, just what Stacy Abrams was accusing
everybody else of which was cheating she was doing the
whole time. She knew it, They knew it. And somebody
needs to ask Senator Raphael Warnock about the fraud he
committed from the you know, for using a nonprofit to

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campaign for a candidate and not for nothing. Both of
these organizations should have their nonprofit status repealed immediately because
they violated, clearly violated the terms of that nonprofit status.
Their tax exemption should be removed right now, and then
let them try and raise one hundred and fifty thousand

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dollars this year one hundred and fifty next year. So
let's just review. We have a Washington Post columnist who
calls Republicans predators and groomers, now busted for child pornography.
You have Stacy Abrams, who for I don't even know
how many years at this point, has been running around
yelling about Republicans cheating. Caught cheating. Ugh, this is why

(12:19):
it gets very frustrating when people run around. I don't
trust any politician that accuses someone of something else.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
This is one of the.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Reasons I don't trust I'm not even gonna go down
that road. I was about to pull out the dead horse,
but I'm not. I'll leave it in the closet for
right now. So I don't know why those two stories both.
I was like, h of course, yeah, of course, let's
talk about what is happening today. Coming up at one o'clock.
George Brouckler is the new DA of the newly created

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twenty third Judicial District. He's a long time prosecutor though,
so this is not like a newbie getting as a job.
We're gonna talk to him about what we are going
to see in the twenty third district district. I live
in happily because the commitment from George Brockler and the
sheriff in the county where I live to law enforcement
is really, really strong, and I like that very very much.

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We also have an interview I'm very much looking forward
to at two thirty. There is a move a foot.
A bill has been filed in the Colorado legislature that
would completely trash labor laws that have worked successfully in
Colorado for decades. Democrats want to make it easier for
unions to take money away from people who don't want

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to be a part of the union. And let me
explain right now, if a workplace wants to unionize, they
help to hold two votes.

Speaker 5 (13:42):
One.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
The first one is just a simple majority vote where
employees vote yes or no, we want we want to
join the union. The second vote has to be a
super majority, and that vote is the vote that allows
the unions to take union news away from people who
do not want to pay them. And Democrats want to
do away with a second vote. And no one, by

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the way, no one, no one, no one except for unions,
is asking for this. As a matter of fact, we
have some polling data and we're going to be talking
a little bit later with Rachel Beck from the Colorado
Competitive Council about a survey they just did. Overwhelmingly, overwhelmingly

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voters in Colorado want that second vote to remain. And
Colorado Democrats have already shown in the past they don't
really care what we think. They're going to do whatever
it is they want to do anyway. They've done it
over and over and over again. We vote down some proposition,
they roll it out in the legislature and pass it anyway.
They don't care what we think. But this one is
going to be a really tough nut to swallow if

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they do, and it's going to be a really hard
thing for them to run away from later when they're
running for reelection, because if I am a Republican, I
am definitely going to make hay of this one hundred percent. Uh, Mandy,
what gets annoying as you get older radio hosts beating
dead horses? Lo OLJK, I know, I know. That's why

(15:08):
I said I'm leaving him in the closet this morning. Now,
I don't have any stories about that today, so I'm
just going to pretend we're just the horse is going
to be able to recover from yesterday's beating. It's fine,
eyebrow raise from the horse. Right now, Rat points out,
please beat the dead horse that tender rises the meat.
He's got a point that it has feelings. It doesn't
have a name, but it has feelings. Yeah, just like

(15:29):
Russian collusion. That pot has been calling the kettle black
for years. Amen to that, Mandy. Irritating things people that
live by you, do you mindset and have no idea
that they can still affect others. If you're going to
do you, you still need to not affect others while
doing so, we all have the right to live without
being affected by others. Speeding, smoking dope outside, stabbing people

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on the sixteenth Street, all, all of these are examples. Well,
I don't know if we have a right to live
without being affected by others. You know, my right to freedom,
my right to throw a punch ends at your nose,
as the libertarian saying goes. But to think that you're
going to live in a free society and never quote
the affected by someone else's a little bit Pollyanna. I think,

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is your sheriff Darren Weekly it is, Yes, yes, it is.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Let's see here, Mandy being forced to do everything online.
Hope that today's younger generation run into many as many
technical challenges when they get older as I am now.
I say this to my daughter all the time when
she rolls me about something or I'm trying to do
something on my phone and she's like, oh, mom, let
me do it. Like no, it's going to take me
a second, but I'm going to do it. And I said,
eventually technology will move past you. It's inevitable. It really is, unless,

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of course, the apocalypse comes, we blow ourselves up there's
no electricity, and then everything's going to go backwards. But
it's fine. It's fine. Fees that are all really taxes.
Amen to that.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
Text her on the turnaround tip interface. What the turnaround
tip when they turn the screen? How much tape you
want to give?

Speaker 4 (17:01):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Oh, yes, that's annoying, Mandy. Is it festive Us again?
Maybe we should celebrate Festivus once a month for the
airing of grievances? You know what, Andy?

Speaker 5 (17:10):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Should we have a Festivus Friday one day? Let's do it?
Oh yeah? But should we bring people in for feats
of strength? Maybe we can invite we can invite people
in for arm wrestling. I think we could. We could
set up an arm wrestling table in here. We have
feats of strength. We could bring in a Festivus poll.
It'll be great. That's a good idea, Andy, that's a
good idea. Mandy. What's up with a doug Co lawsuit?

(17:35):
I'm assuming you're talking about the federal investigation into Douglas
County schools. I do not know, and I'm not trying
to hedge. I had a story on the blog about
it today, but I don't think we have the full
story yet, so I'm waiting. I know there were several
different instances, and you know, here's the thing. I think
the Doug Co School District is amazing. I just want

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to throw that out there. I personally not only like
Aaron Kane very much as a person. I think she's
an outstanding superintendent. But in every school district, they are
going to be kids who don't who are not served properly,
and I think that's part of it. But I don't
know exactly the details, so I am holding comment on
that until I have more details, So I hope you

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understand that. But you know, I'm not gonna sit here
and say that Douglas County Schools is perfect. I'm really not.
I think they're fantastic, but no one, no organization is perfect.
So we're gonna have to wait and see what comes
out of this. I do know that more families are
being spoken to about various issues, not just the accusitions,

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the accusations that the school district did too little to
intervene on an off campus matter, which is in a
group text. I mean, you know, there's so many different
aspects to this, and it's heartbreaking that kids have been
harmed at school, but the reality is. It happens way
more than you think at every school district. So as
soon as I know more, you'll know more. As soon

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as I can talk to the Cocho School district about it,
I will let you know as well. We are going
to take a quick time out and when we get back.
I've got a lot of the things that annoy you
as you get older, and some of these, you guys,
are my spirit animals will do those next. What are
you starting to dislike more as you get older? And
I said, I honestly to myself, I'm like, oh God,

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I'm getting old because immediately like putting like four things
bamn right there, and then as I'm sitting here, I
could probably list one hundred more. I just I think
this is why people when they get old people think
you're crotchety. It's because you've spent your entire life putting
up with other people's crap and you're just sick of it.
You're just done right, Get off my lawn. I get

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it getting I'm leaning in to the get off my lawn, Mandy.
I think byline educated virtue signalers who believe that we
should all blindly align with the beliefs of the virtue,
flavor of the day, irritate me most. If anyone's curious
how to identify these people, just take a look at
the person driving the Subaru next to you. Okay, that's fair, Like, yeah,

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fair right there. Annoying any noisy restaurant where we can't
hold a conversation, Doctors who keep leaving, retiring umbrella, medical
associations that keep regrouping, drivers, people in public who act
as if their time is more important than yours. See
now that per you're my spirit animal person right there.
A full list like that. Fees that are really taxes.

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Let me, let me, let me get more entries here,
doing that, turning that off for a second, and go, okay,
here we go. Because there's a lot of them. I'm
gonna read these pretty quickly. Okay, so these are all
not from the same person. These are from different people.
But we're just gonna rip through these starting with this one. People.

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The older I get, the more I dislike people, winter
crowds and Uncle Sam concerts, especially as expensive as ticket
prices and fees are nowadays, I have announced I'm done
with stadium shows. I am never stadium showing it again.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
That's not true at all, because I know exactly what
you're going to do this year with me. What Dave
Tepper's giving us tickets? Come on, we're going to Metallica.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
Oh, I'll totally do Metallica.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
You.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
One of the reasons I hate stadium shows is because
the sound is always awful.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
But have Metallica and it has to be someone your
know is going to cut through that stadium exactly Metallica.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yea, I think they're going to do that. I think
it'll be fine. Spicy food. Oh, I'd be so sad
without spicy food. Hypocrisy, Completely agree, Mandy. People. I get
annoyed with people. Smell of weed on everyone, Trash getting
left on my car if it's not mine. People are
left in your car. Who are you letting in your car?
That's even trash in your car? Uber driver? Maybe oh yeah,

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maybe didn't think about that. Noise, lying politicians, people tossing
cigarette bets on the ground. Uh, get off my lawn
cigarette smoke. I just buys these transplant idiots who drive
with their hazards on when it snows. You know what,
better safe than sorry. I agree with you, but I'd
rather know that they have no idea what they're doing,

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and so I can adjust my own driving around them.
I'm fine with that. Yeah, it's.

Speaker 5 (22:17):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
That to me is just like, hey, I'm mourning you.
Those hazards are free for us, not for them. Yeah,
so there you go. When the new software update is
supposed to make things easier, but it makes things harder.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh my god, I just had this happen. You two,
so it hit both of us Android and iPhone. They're
both not doing great right now.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
I don't know what. I don't know what they're trying
to fix. That's the problem. I don't either. What are
you trying to fix? You're just making more problems anyway,
Mandy being nearsighted, but now I can't see anything within
twelve inches of my face without taking my glasses off.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
Mandy.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Things I can't stand getting older, hearing people chew, being
out past nine nine pm, clutter, chaos people in general,
and especially stupid people, entitlement type attitude. Those are all legit, Mandy.
I hate driving. I hate the fact that no matter
how fast I drive, it is never fast enough for
most of the drivers behind me. Crowds, chailgaters. Unfortunately, too

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many restaurants where I can't hear a thing. Yes, I'm
telling you, y'all. The restaurant thing. You want to be
able to go out to dinner and have a conversation
and there's either concrete floors and high industrial ceilings, or
the music is so blanking loud to hear anything.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
You wait and you get the bill. Oh hey, look
that's like three times. I'm a I thought it would
be just for the loud ceilings. Mandy are E, parking
too close to you.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
If only the developers in Colorado would stripe the parking
lots for SUVs, not compact cars. Amen to that, But
they got to hit that limit. They got to make
sure they're squeezing enough parking spaces in there. Rude and
profane people in public says this with super drivers making
another appearance, I'm really sick of people who keep saying
how great Biden is. Okay, you know what, I'm gonna
take a second here. Last night the President gave his

(24:00):
final comments as President of the United States, and you
know what, not only did I not watch it, I
didn't even get up this morning and watch it because
I realized yesterday I would rather shove a hot poker
into my own eye than ever hear Joe Biden speak again,
and I don't have to anymore. He no longer matters

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in my life one iota. I want him to go
quietly in the night, and I never want to see
the man's face again. I think he's been one of
the worst presidents of the last one hundred and fifty years.
I think he's going to be remembered so poorly in
the grand scheme of things, so worthless as a politician,
in the grand scheme of things, that his so called

(24:43):
legacy is going to be a joke. And I do
not understand these people on the left that are trying
to sell me a crap sandwich and tell me it's,
you know, a sub I can't tell if they really
believe it. That's the part that gets to me. He's
the most consequential president we've had, and so what consequential

(25:07):
in the sense that he gave billions of dollars of
military equipment to the Taliban? Maybe I mean good gravy.
I don't know if they believe it or not. Mandy,
my niece, blurts the F bomb casually in front of
her friends and their kids. No, I mean I protected
my child as much as I could for a very
long time. And she's no worse for the wear at all.

(25:32):
And as a matter of fact, may have let a
curse word slip in front of me. Aid, pretend you're
the queue, and now pretend that you just accidentally let
a curse word slip out of your mouth in front
of me. I mean, and this is what happened. You're
a little scared right now? Or she in real life? Yeah,
a little bit. That's the moms sare. I was like,

(25:53):
this happened fairly recently, and we had conversation. I said, look,
you know what, I'm not stupid. Your fifth no wasn't
even a really bad one. It's minor es word, minor curse,
you know, but still a curse. And I said, look,
when you're with your friends, I understand you guys are teenagers.
I get it, but you better know who's around you
and you better not be cursing around adults, and you

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better not be cursing around anyone that can hear you
in any situation because it makes you look bad. It
makes you look really bad. And she was like, okay,
so we just had the time and place conversation. Just
time and place, and that person's niece does not know
time and place. People with no common sense, Colorado drivers
getting older. Yeah yeah, if I may, too many gas stations,

(26:37):
unless you're in Denver, which now there's going to be
too few gas stations. Well everywhere else too many damn
gas stations. Development. But what do you need in this
nice new spot. It's going to be another gas donkeys
or whatever. Well that's the other one. That's okay, Mandy
tattoos and nose piercings. They don't bother me as long
as you don't make me get one.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Standing in line? Yes, I actually don't mind standing in line.
I generally I'm a friend maker in line. I bet
you're a friend maker in line too, weren't you? If
you're a long line, that you're gonna be there for
a while. I talk to the people around me. Don't
you talk to the people around you? Start a little combo,
It depends, I always I talk to people all the
time in line together. Exactly, I guess, yes, exactly. Yeah,

(27:19):
you just chit chat, you know, you make you make
a line? Am I right? Yeah exactly? I think people
up there, man, yeah, oh man? Yeah, And then you
stand around to share stories about the longest lines you
ever waited in. This is nothing. Back in ninety five,
I was in line for nine hours. I don't remember why,
but it was long. The line was they brought to

(27:42):
the cashier up about the time. Yeah, I bet break
up there. Oh yeah. Being out in public after eight pm, yeah,
cold weather, loud restaurants, crowds, smokers, mo humbug Mandy there
boom bastard. But I'm not reading that. That's not nice, Mandy.
People that push around a shopping car for miles within

(28:02):
a store and then just leave their shopping cart next
to their car instead of pushing them a few more
feet to the parking lot cart corral. Andy, you are right,
and those people are not compete on.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
Ad on is Can they make the cart corrals like
in better locations or more of them? At least the
Kingsoopers that I go to. I go to one of
those big King Sooopers. They have like five thousand cart corrals.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Exciting I do bring them back? You still.

Speaker 5 (28:28):
More?

Speaker 2 (28:28):
You were raised, right, that's why you take the cart back. Okay,
We're gonna do one more segment of this and then
I got a bunch of serious stuff to talk about
keep it right here on KOA. Listen to this though.
I got distracted by this one Mandy. I was at
Bucky's and there was a fella at the pump in
a forward panel van a local plumbing company, local pumping company,
with a water bong, taking hits, and then he gets
back in after fueling up and drives away. There is

(28:51):
a zero percent chance I would not have been on
the phone immediately calling the owner of that company for
two reasons. Number one, if it isn't the owner and
that's an employee, that employee is putting that entire company
at risk because if he gets in an accident where
the water bog in the van, that company is going
to be liable for what he did. And number two,

(29:12):
if it is the owner, if he basically is like yeah, dude,
I know, go pounds end, then you know never to
use that place again. Either way, you're a winner. What
would you do in that situation? Same exactly I would do.
I've actually called on vehicles work vehicles that looked like
the driver was drunk, where they're swerving back and forth
in a lane. I'll just call the company and be like, hey,

(29:33):
truck number this, this guy can't drive, he's all over
the place. It looks like he's drunk. Thanks for letting
us know. I never follow up to find out what happened.
I don't care, Mandy. All the Democrats trying to rebrand
Carter's presidency is reagans. Don't even get me started. Things
that irritate me dating women who bring nothing to the table, Well,

(29:53):
be choosier and only go out with him once. Kids
wearing pajamas to school and in public, That fad seems
to have gone a little bit away. I think, unless
you're a proud Walmart or Target shopper, because that's where
I see them. I saw a mom and a daughter
wearing their pajama pants, and I was like, well, that
explains it. Then that does explain it. People who can't

(30:15):
follow directions on where to put their monthier stickers on
their license plates, Now that is a granular complaint, right,
that is an extremely specific complaint. I feel like there's
a backstory there that we are not getting. Who doesn't
know where those go? And why would that bother you
so much? You know what I'm saying? Hmm, Like some
people don't know because I have seen people basically put

(30:37):
them across the top in order, like they don't want
to cover up the old ones. I have seen that
kind of like that. Oh you know, it shows how
long you've out the car. I guess self, checkouts that
haven't been cleaned, and how long correct open yeah, opens this.
Texter said, you, Mandy, start a conversation. I met you

(30:58):
in a story and you were very shy. That's because
you probably weren't standing in line with me. And if
you approach me, as are you, Mandy Connell, that always
makes me super nervous. Was this the one time thing?
Do you remember this? No, it's I don't get recognized
a lot. I mean I get recognized some, but it
just makes me remember this one time. I actually I
kind of think I do. I think I remember what
story it was, and I believe it was a king

(31:19):
supers could be shy. I don't know what people recognize
it's me. I don't know, it's it's just I get
freaked out.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
I do.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
I get freaked out. I know it sounds so dumb.
I know, I know, I know, like, hey, what's going on?
But I'm nice. I'm not you know, I don't like
run away screaming. It just blicitly said, shy, that's a
very like, that's not you. But I just I don't know,
it's weird being me. I make no no bones about that.

(31:51):
Uh mandy, people who would have talked to me while
waiting in line, please just let me suffer in peace.
I feel like that's a shot. I don't know. Maybe
having a phone answering menu you tell you to leave
a message and then disconnecting. We're I'm giving you the
chance to leave a message. That is a universal hated here.
People with their stupid dogs in the shopping cart and
the produce section are next to me in a restaurant.

(32:13):
I do have issues with that. I mean, I love
my dog. I love my dog, and I know some
people love to take their dogs everywhere. But I sat
in a restaurant, you know where those restaurants where you
have like a banquette seating and then you have two
tops that are really close together. Yes, okay, so one
of those, so you're already almost touching elbows with the
people at the table next to you. And a woman
brought her dog and set it on the table while

(32:36):
she ate, and I was like, no, it don't get
me wrong, it wasn't at my table, but it was.
It was a perfectly cute, very well behaved little dog.
There was nothing wrong with a dog, per se. But
I do not want a dog on the table at
the restaurant where I am eating, because she may have
sat at my table the day before. I like that, Mandy.

(32:58):
People that scuff up their license plate for phone tickets?
What I did an accuse it? No, never mind, that
wasn't me just kidding, Uh, Mandy. There's a bill I
need to pay, but they keep texting me and ask
me to set up an account. I already have an account,
but the online form doesn't recognize my email or phone number.
So annoying, so annoying. Uh, Mandy, people, we don't hear

(33:21):
enough about Randy Cromwell. Well, Randy's been busy, very busy,
wearing pajamas on an airplane. Oh yes, my lord, oh lord.
Oh this person didn't approach me because Q was with me.
What must respect the queue? Actually this was fairly recently.
I do know who this person is because they asked
me the next day if I was there only yeah

(33:41):
I was, um, yeah, uh, increasing Caliado taxes and fees
on everything, and I will let that be the last
word on this textter said, you can just say bong.
I can't. But the person who texted didn't say bong.

Speaker 5 (33:56):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
I read the text. Don't kill the messenger. Online retailers
who show pictures of clothes and shoes in black, I
can't see what it looks like. Amen, Amen to that
it would be This is becoming more common where they
are actually having models of different sizes. I love that
so much, so so much. None of them are my size,

(34:21):
but I can kind of, you know, spitball. What it's
gonna look like remembering passwords? Oh my god, that's the worst.
We'll be right back. George Brockler in the twenty third
Judicial District is up next.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock
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Speaker 2 (34:38):
No, it's Mandy Connell.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
Sad bab.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
That of course our stock shown version of the Mandy
Connell theme song. And what a great way to bring
on the brand new district attorney, just like a previous
district attorney somewhere else. It's George Brockler of the twenty
third Judicial District. George, what's it like to be back
in the saddle as a prosecuting attorney.

Speaker 5 (35:24):
Again, well, it's a saddle that needs to be broken in,
so there's some predictable chafing. Otherwise it's great.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
You know, not many people use the word chafing on
the show, So well done for breaking that barrier, just
just tossing it right aside. So this is a brand
new judicial district and one that I know has been
needed for a long time because of the growth of
the area. What's it like being able to build an
office from the ground up.

Speaker 5 (35:52):
What a great opportunity, but also a little bit daunting too.
I mean, like we're still figuring out things like do
all the computer ter's work? And where did the phone
numbers go? And what's the shortest way to the bathroom?
I mean we're still doing stuff like that. Yeah. Well,
at the same time trying to manage a caseload that
is not insignificant. I'll give you an example, and when
I get off the phone with you, I'm going to

(36:13):
walk down the hall and participate in the sentencing for
the very first murder sentencing in the history of this jurisdiction.
So we have a great team, the county commissioners out
here in Lincoln, Albert and Douglas have been so wonderfully supportive.
They are pro public safety, pro law enforcement, pro justice.

(36:33):
And I can't believe I'm saying this, but it's what
sets them apart from the rest of the metro area.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Isn't that sad? I mean, isn't that sad? George? I
have a story on the blog to now now you know,
I don't know if you've ever seen my blog at
mandy'sblog dot com, but it is magic every single day.
And I actually put a crime story, just a little
throwaway crime story, because two shoplifters were arrested from Park
Meadows Mall and I said, that's Douglas County. That's why
they got arrested. Me, you know, that's why they got arrested.

(36:59):
So it's nice. I live in this judicial district. I
live with a great sheriff. I live with people who
care about law and order. And to your point, it
is disappointing that other municipalities don't have that same support
and the law enforcement officers don't have that same support.
Because go ahead, I was going.

Speaker 5 (37:21):
To say a couple things about that. That shoplifter one
the very first selony that occurred that the arrest occurred
after I was sworn in, and it was happening while
the swearing end was going on. That's one for which
there we had done a press release, but it was
out a Parker And it's similar, and that these aren't
just people who are thieves. These are people who we pursued, right,

(37:43):
And that's the difference too. There you see a lot
of videos out there of people watching folks push shopping
carts full of stolen goods out into the parking lot
and nothing really seems to happen, not down here. And
the part that you bring up, Manny, that's so important
is this, had I had this message, this if you
come down here to victimize us, prepared to be incarcerated

(38:04):
kind of a thing. If I had had that message
fifteen years ago, twenty years ago in this game, it
would have been a total yawn fest. It would have
been boring because everyone would go, that's right. I mean, yep,
isn't that what you do?

Speaker 2 (38:16):
That's a job.

Speaker 5 (38:18):
We've seen such a change and it's like the DA's
offices have become these social support networks instead of law enforcers,
where we're supposed to fix all of society's ills, mental illness,
drug addiction, broken families, and I think at some point
we need to have a readjustment and say no, that's
a different part of government, that's a different part of

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the community. That's not our business. Our business is to
maintain safety, prevent and protect victims, and to hold people
accountable who just can't bring themselves to follow the damn law.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
And you know what, George, nothing you just said, in
my mind is controversial, but you and I'm not asking
you to comment on other das, but a Beth McCann
leaves Denver and she kind of wrote this glowing review
of everything she was proud of. And I'm thinking to myself,
if I'm in charge of prosecuting crime and the crime
rates have done what they have done in Denver under

(39:12):
my tutelage, under my leadership, I would be walking out
with my head hanging in shame. So to hear you
talk about the fact that you understand your job is
to hold criminals accountable, it is. It shouldn't be strange.
But I'm sure there's people listening in Denver that thinks
you sound like some kind of maniac.

Speaker 5 (39:30):
You know, it's not just the DA thing. And again,
Beth I'm sure was committed to what she thought was
the right path for her community, and because they continued
to re elect her, maybe she was right. You know.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Yeah, But think about this.

Speaker 5 (39:44):
Those horrible stabbings that took place this weekend where two
are dead and two more seriously injured. Those took place
two days after the governor of our state in his
state of the state identified only three crimes. Specifically, they
were wage theft, cattle rustling, and wildlife trafficking. That's not

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what plagues the Metro area.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Cattle rustling really?

Speaker 5 (40:11):
Oh yeah, I go back and take a look at it.
It's bizarre of the things to identify that we need
to tackle with crime. Cattle rustling? Is it the top fifty?
Was this because the National Western stockstilles in town?

Speaker 2 (40:24):
I mean, I don't know, maybe he's pulling bad with
you know, ranchers, maybe, you know, because they're all mad
at him for everything he's done to them. But they're
supposed to feel better now those are going after cattle.
I mean, what year is it, George? What are we
gonna look out for gunfights at the OK Corral at
the same time? And don't get me wrong, I know
cattle gets stolen. I know that this is an actual crime,

(40:45):
But to your point, is it the most important crime
or should we were worrying about mentally all homeless people
slashing the flight attendant's throats in the sixteenth Street mall instead.

Speaker 5 (40:55):
And if you're going to try to make up for
that ridiculous, i'm an impossible meat thing that he did
a few years ago, maybe ask the ranchers, would you
prefer us to tackle cattle rustling or the wolves who
are eating the cattle? I mean, give them a choice.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
Yeah, you know, George, I live in Douglas County and
I'm very familiar with the area, and a lot of
people would say, are you going to be bored in
this office because you kind of think of the suburbs area,
the rural parts that you're covering, as well as not
necessarily being a hotbed of criminality. But how does this
compare to your prior post.

Speaker 5 (41:33):
It's different, and it's different in this way. You know
where rappa Hoe County represented two thirds of the population
of a one point one million population jurisdiction, but half
of a Rapahoe County's population is Aurora, and Aurora is
the third most populous city in the state. But there's
a reason that has the second largest police department, and
that is, for better or for worse, it generates violent

(41:55):
crime and other crimes. And so I think we calculated
before the split about seventy percent of all the felonies
the jurisdiction prosecuted came out of a Rapahoe County. Sixty
percent of the total came out of Aurora itself. Wow,
So we are naturally going to be able to now
focus on those other crimes that you have to prioritize

(42:15):
down the list when you have truckloads full of violent crimes.
Don't get me wrong, we have some down here. But
now we're able to try to stem the tide at
an earlier level. And I'm a believer in this, if
we send the message loud and clear, early and often
and consistently that if you come down here to break
the law and victimize us, you'll be held accountable. I
think we don't get all that violent crime that Aurora

(42:38):
and a rapa Hoe and Denver and Adams have had.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
I don't know if you saw the mayor Mayor Mike
Johnston's press conference after the murders. This past weekend where
he spent eight seconds and that's not an exaggeration giving
condolences to the families the victims before he launched into
a pr campaign about how much Denver has improved. And
the real problem is is we're just not giving it
the chance because we've got a misperception of what's going on.

Speaker 5 (43:05):
Now.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
If what he had said was what you just said,
it would be a completely different situation in Denver. If
he had come out and said exactly what you said,
we are done. We're going to prosecute you if you
break the law, We're going to prosecute quality of quality
of life crimes. I mean, it's like we're operating in
two different planets. It truly is, George.

Speaker 5 (43:26):
There's an awesome video that the Parker PD put out
right before the swearing in, and it was a guy
his faces blurred out. Of course, he's presumed innocent. We
don't know who he is, but it's Parker PD ushering
this guy into the back of a patrol car over
the theft of a couple stolen phones. And he's a
gast and he said this is on social media. You

(43:47):
might play this thing. And he says, this is a ridiculous.
This is a joke. You're ruining my Friday night. He said,
this isn't even a thing in Denver. And you can
hear the cop go, yeah, well you're down here in
Parker and he goes, this is why I don't come
to Douglas County. And I told the chief we need
more of these, we need we need a whole YouTube

(44:09):
channel just dedicated to this.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Yeah, I'm finding that right now.

Speaker 5 (44:14):
So I'm going to find that and at uh PD
look for I think it's on the Parker PD twitter thing,
so I will look for that on the Facebook. But
oh man, it's good.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
Yeah, I mean they they I will make sure we
get that. But that's actually that that makes me incredibly happy.
It makes me incredibly happy that people will think twice
about coming to Douglas County. How much of the uh
issues that we're seeing in Aurora in terms of gang
activity have you? Are you aware of that making its
way into Douglas County at all?

Speaker 5 (44:45):
Yep? Yeah. In fact, you know, if you talk to
syriup Darren weekly, I mean, he's just the best at
what he does. They shortly after that story started getting
the attention it deserved about a year earlier, they busted
up a venezuelan coordinated effort to steal a whole bunch
of cars down here, And we're gonna start keep mapping

(45:08):
the crime that we end up catching and resolving down here.
And it should shock no one because I did this
in a test case about a year ago. It should
shock no one that the home of origin for many,
many of our criminals is not here. It is Aurora,
and it is Denver, and that's what we got to stop.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
Okay, George Brockler, if you could, and before we go,
how would you describe your judicial philosophy?

Speaker 5 (45:35):
Maybe this didn't come out in this interview, but I'll
say this. Look, I'm a Christian guy. I'm not good
at it. I'm constantly trying to improve, but I believe
in redemption. I truly believe in redemption. But there cannot
be redemption without accountability. And for us down here, our
job is to try to change behavior. One. We'd love
you to never break the law. That's our first invest goal.

(45:58):
But if you are held bent on breaking in the law,
our next best goal is to discourage you from doing
it down here. And our third goal is if you
come down here to do it. We're going to give
you reason to never do it again.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
I love that. George Brockler, the new DA of the
twenty third Judicial District. I'm super happy. I just we're
about to see a real time experiment, in real life
unfolding of what it looks like when an entire group
of leadership, whether it's the Douglas County Commission, whether it's

(46:29):
law enforcement agencies, whether it's the twenty third Judicial District,
when they all work together to fight crime next to
areas that simply don't follow that same standard. And I'm
here for it because I know which side of the
line I'm living on. And I'm pretty happy about that. George.
I appreciate you making time for me today.

Speaker 5 (46:45):
I just texted you the link to that.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
Safe Oh perfect, Thank you, sir, Thank you sir. We'll
play that. Yeah, no problem, man. I'll talk to you
again soon, George. I appreciate that very much.

Speaker 5 (46:54):
We will. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
Golle, if you live in Denver right now, are you
like so sad about this? Because Geez, Louise, I'm excited.
Monkey butt for the winds, says one text. I remember
saying monkey butt, but I probably did, Okay, I've got
to talk about this story, because this story Tatay Anderson

(47:20):
taita former board member of Douglas Public School or excuse me,
Denver Public Schools, whose sole accomplishments in life include faking
an injury while going to stop a homeless suite. It
also includes uh being found well, I don't want to
see guilty, that's the wrong word. But found creepy of

(47:43):
contacting high school girls when he was sitting on the
Denver school board and also removing SROs school Resource officers
who are police from schools just in time for multiple
shootings at Denver Public schools. But never let it be
said that Tay is not a grifter, because now that
his career is done in Denver, he's now moved to Aurora,

(48:06):
where he has taken on the mantle of social justice.
King for killin' Lewis kill? What is it killing? Or killing?
I can't remember? Killin killing? Some on the nment mister Lewis.
Mister Lewis was killed by police when they went to
arrest him on a attempted murder charge. When they told
him to put his hands up, he put his hands

(48:27):
in his pocket and they opened fire and he was unarmed.
That was a cell phone he was going for, and
he died. There was an investigation into the officer's actions
and they were found to be justified. But that's not
good enough for Taitan Anderson. He is held bent on
protecting a man, or protecting the memory of a man

(48:47):
who was wanted for attempted murder. Not guilty of attempted murder,
but wanted for attempted murder. And so he's been leading
a weekly protest at the Aurora City Council meetings because
he has no I ma, I don't think he has
a job, got nothing better to do. He's an absolute
racist grifter and Mayor Mike Kaufman kind of had enough

(49:09):
of it, and at the end of the meeting, Mayor
Mike Coffin followed him out. That followed him out of
the meeting and yelled at him about the fact that
his actions led directly to the death of the young
man at East High School who shot two administrators and

(49:29):
later shot himself. And now Taite is telling people that
the mayor attacked him. Now, if you go watch the
video and I did, what happened was the mayor's shouting
at him from across the room. Danielle Dreinsky comes up,
puts her hand on the mayor's back. They then turn
around and walk to the elevators. But Tata, Tata is
the guy who's like I was attacked because he's that

(49:51):
much of a loser. Well, I have to give it
to Mike Kaufman because Mike Kaufman cracked back today on Facebook.
Hang on, let me get to this very quickly. Oh no,
where is it? It won't come up. I hope it'll
still come up. Oh, I don't know if Mike Coffin
pulled it down.

Speaker 5 (50:11):
I wish.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
Oh gosh, I hope he didn't because it was so good.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
Dang it.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
I should have screenshot it.

Speaker 5 (50:18):
Dang it.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
Let me see here. Oh no, here, it is perfect.
Still here, let me read the response to this ridiculous
assertion that Mayor Mike Kaufman attacked Tay Anderson. Mike Coffin
wrote this on his Facebook page, Anderson moves to Aurora.
Tay Anderson has unfortunately moved to Aurora from Denver, hoping
for a do over after having zero political prospects to

(50:40):
run for anything in Denver. I greeted Anderson with my
outdoor voice last Monday night after our city Council meeting
to remind him of his horrific leadership on the Denver
Public School Board, where he led the effort to pull
Denver police officers out of DPS high schools. Austin Lyle
was a seventeen year old Aurora student who, after a

(51:00):
weapons charge, was expelled from Overland High School. Lyle was
allowed to enroll in East High School in Denver under
a safety plan that required he'd be searched every morning
before he attended classes. Without armed police officers available, it
was now up to unarmed school administrators to pat him
down to see if he had a weapon. A handgun

(51:21):
was discovered on Lyle while he was being padded down,
and he used it to shoot the school administrators, wounding
both of them before fleeing the campus and then turning
the handgun on himself, taking his own life. I want
to remind not just Tay Anderson, but all of Aurora
that Aurora resident Austin Lyle would probably be with us
today if not for the anti police leadership of Tay Anderson.

(51:46):
Anderson was also censured by his school board colleagues for
inappropriate behavior, barred from participating with the Denver chapter of
Black Lives Matter because of multiple allegations of sexual assault,
and subsequently he withdrew from his reelection to the Denver
Public School Board and then ended his campaign for the
State House of Representatives. I will have a moment of

(52:07):
silence during our next council meeting in memory of Austin Lyle.
Oh snap, that is how you do it. What's funny
to me is that in the comments, you know, there's
always gonna be people who who have to have snotty comments,
and I want to see if I can quickly find

(52:28):
the specific one that's basically like, you know, you need
to understand that your tone is not good. It's like,
but who cares? Who cares? Tay Anderson is an absolute
stain on any kind of public discourse. He does nothing

(52:51):
but try and divide people in under the guise this
is what the kicker is with Tay Anderson and his ILK.
I love the phrase and your ILK so dismissive and
yet specific at the same time. They run around declaring
the victimhood of everyone and themselves. But the reality is
is they're just trying to bully people into changing an

(53:14):
outcome that they don't.

Speaker 5 (53:15):
Like you know.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
I'm sorry mister Lewis is dead. I'm sorry he was
accused of attempted murder and because he didn't listen to police,
he is now dead. That's exactly what happened. Had he
put his hands up, they would have been handcuffed behind
his back and he'd still be with us. But he didn't.
He ignored clearer commands, and now he's dead. And yeah,
I'm victim blaming here because there's no other way to

(53:38):
say it. If you follow the directions, you live. I mean,
that's how it goes. I'm sorry about that. But now
Tay Anderson is going to use that to Griff because
they don't like the answer to the question what happened here,
which is if he had lifted his hands up, he
would still be alive. But a man accused of murder

(53:59):
does it get to put his hand in a pocket
before turning around to face police. He just doesn't. I
did forget today's slip and fall at the target. I
forgot about that too. I did not forget him going
to that homeless sweep homeless and canvas weep and then
basically like throwing himself to the ground and then and
then doing a selfie video from his hospital bed where

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he went because he was so hurt from his encounter.
Oh my god, this guy's such a clown, such easy
you know what he is. He's like have you ever
been around little kids trying to get away with something
I had? I mean little little kids, Like when your
kid's like four three three four years old and you
realize that they've hatched a plan. You can see it
on their faces. You know exactly what's going on in

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that little head of theirs. But they've hatched a plan,
and then they proceed to try and execute the plan,
which is usually comically bad. That's Tay Anderson's entire life.
Good gravy, uh this year. Mike Coffin is a former marine,
and he could have wanted to attack Tay Anderson. He
could have curb stomped him into oblivion. But Mike Coffins

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also a class act, so that would not happen. Would
not happen. I'm shocked. Bad things actually happen in Doug Coote.
Yes they do, but not from our delightful residence, only
from interlopers from outside. I'm gonna watch this video from
the Parker ped make sure there's no cursing in it,
and if there's not, I'm gonna go ahead and play

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that next because I really want everyone in Denver to
hear that. The criminals know. You want to get away
with something, then you go to Denver you want to
get arrested, then you come to Doug co.

Speaker 5 (55:44):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
Perfect, We'll be right back. Give me my audio there, Anthony.
This is from the Parker Police Department. Let me set
the scene for you, since you can't see the video.
It appears to be a gentleman being placed into the
back of a Parker Police Department automobile and this exchange
took place. The first voice you hear is the accused criminal.

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The other voices the police.

Speaker 6 (56:08):
I can't believe he's racing my night like this.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
Seriously, you can't even go to jail for them.

Speaker 6 (56:17):
I mean, only in Parker, Are you kidding me? They
wouldn't even I don't take that seriously.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
I can't believe the video. I only in Parker. This
is why I don't come to Douglas County. That is magical,
absolutely magical. And if you live in Denver, how does
that make you feel? How does it make you feel
knowing that your city has a reputation with criminals as
being the place to go to commit your crimes because

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they know nothing will happen to them. Because Da Beth
McCann embraced restorative justice alternative penalties, at the same time,
the Democratic legislator did things like make possession of fintunel
not that big a deal. We're stealing a car, no
big whoop. I love it when people say, you know,

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if you have more police, it doesn't necessarily translate to
less crime. Maybe not, but enforcing the laws no matter
how many police you have, that does lead to less crime.
I mean, in my mind anyway. Maybe I'm crazy, but
it certainly seems that the criminals understand that that's the
case there. Colorado Springs City Council, you guys, I ain't

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having to go after people that I know are like
minded to me, but I have to go after people
who are like minded in Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs is
the last major city to not have recreational pot sales,
and I understand why. They look at what's happened to
Denver and they're like, well, we don't want that here.
So they've been fighting it and fighting it, fighting it well,
last November, they put it on the ballot. A ballot

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measure went up and it passed by fifty four percent,
so a pretty solid majority, not an overwhelming majority, but
a solid majority fifty four percent. But now the Denver
City Council is expected to devote at its next meeting
whether to re refer the issue to the April first ballot.

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Why are they doing that? Well, I mean, in reality,
the April election is notoriously low participation, so it's much
easier to get people who are angry about the thought
of having retail pod establishments in Colorado Springs to mail
in their ballot and participate. But they they say that
the ballot language was confusing and had a muddled they

(58:43):
muddled the issue. Now here's the thing. What they're saying
is our voters are too stupid, Because surely our stupid voters,
if they weren't so stupid, they would have voted this down.
But they didn't. Now, the same city council last September
had adopted a one mile buffer zone, and that would

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have been a one mile buffer zone to prevent any
of the existing medical marijuana shops for applying for recreational
cannabis licenses because they had to be a certain distance
away from schools and daycares and things like that. This
new vote of the people, the stupid people, allows them

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with a buffer zone of one thousand feet. Now, to
the council's credit, they did go back and amend their
rule to be in line with what the voters just
voted on. But I think this is an absolute sham.
The voters made their voices heard in November. They don't
need to have another bite at the apple in a
low turnout election in April. I think this is a mistake.

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I don't like it when elected politicians ignore the will
of the voters. I don't like it at all. So,
you know, I hate that I have to call out
my own team, but I'm calling out my own team
because this.

Speaker 5 (01:00:03):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
I don't like it. Don't like it not one bit.

Speaker 5 (01:00:06):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
Right before we take a break here, I want to
point one thing out and then I'm not going to
spend a lot of time on this. A little more
information is being known about the sixteenth Street mall, alleged
multi murder stabber from over the weekend. He has a
long history of mental illness. He's been homeless from any
of the past few years. But more importantly, he has

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been involved with a justice system for a good bit
of the last three or four years especially, and I
want to just read to you part of this article
about this. Among the other cases against Caudill was a
sexual assault charge in January twenty twenty four out of Denver,
in which he allegedly groped a woman at the Denver

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Cares Detox Facility. Prosecutors in that case ask for a
competency pre screen, according to court records, while in the
Denver jail. On that case, prosecutor alleged that caught Ill
on two consecutive days, assaulted two inmates inside the jail.
In the latter incident, court records showed that Cadill placed
a female in a chokehold before punching her in the face.

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Both cases resulted in misdemeanor charges. His parole came to
an end in May, but he remained in the Denver
Detention Center a pearl for a prior crime. While in
custody at the Denver Detention Center, Cadill kicked a glass
door repeatedly and shattered it at the jail's recreation yard.
In August of twenty twenty four, he was ultimately accepted

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by the Bridges Program, a statewide program that facilitates collaboration
between the criminal justice and mental health systems that displaced
court liaisons throughout Colorado's twenty two judicial districts, and on
November twelfth, with the promise of reporting to the program
via the bus in Aurora, his defense attorney claimed he
would be staying at a home in Aurora as well,

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and he failed to make appearance for a different charge.
A warrant was issued. About a month later, with a
warrant out for his arrest, he stabbed four people in
downtown Denver. Now I left out a whole bunch of
priors where judges had decided he was not a threat,
not an obvious threat to other people. This is, you know,

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I want mentally ill people to get the help that
they need. But you don't transfer a mentally ill violent
person on his own accord. You take him there and
drop him off and hand him off to someone else.
I mean the fact that they're like, Okay, dude, yeah,

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we know you just shattered a door in the jail
and violently attacked two other people. Well, we're gonna trust
you to get on a bus. Even even though you
have all these failure to appears in your history, We're
going to trust you to get on a bus and
get yourself to your next you know, mental health pla.

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
What is that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
Every part of the Denver justice system failed. The two
people who are now dead, one of whom was homeless,
we now know he was a gentleman who lived on
the streets, used a wheelchair. He's dead. A flight attendant
from Phoenix dead because what we've embraced trying to fix
people instead of making sure that they pay the price

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for their crime. See, here's the thing. If there's an
opportunity to help someone rehabilitate themselves and become a better
person than they were before. And I'm going to use
the Other Side Academy as a perfect example of this.
The Other Side of Academy takes a lot of people
coming through the justice system and they're there for drug
charges or alcohol charges or something related to those charges.

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But the Other Side Academy spends two and a half
years not just not just putting a band aid over
what led them now a bad path, but helping them
rebuild themselves and their humanity and coming out of that
program being a better human being. I am all for that,
but if you did the crime, you have to pay

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a price as well. You can't just say I'm crazy,
I need help and then go about your business. You
have to pay I you know, I just the notion
that somehow we've decided that people will not have to
face responsibility for their actions, because I just I don't

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even know what to do with this. Mandy. What's the
name of the attorney that got him free? I have
no idea, but that man was doing his job, and
I don't begrudge a defense attorney for doing his job.
A lot of people hate defense attorneys, especially really good
defense attorneys, because they feel like they're helping bad people
get off, and sometimes they do, but they also help
innocent people protect themselves. And they also help people who

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didn't do anything. But if somehow become entangled in the law,
they save them from prison sentences they don't deserve. So
I don't hate on defense attorneys. Everybody likes to beat
them up until they need one, right, and sometimes you
need one when you didn't do anything. Mandy, I'm very
well informed that there were two things to vote for
on medical marijuana. I don't think a lot of people

(01:05:14):
understood what they were voting for. Now here's the thing.
People are either smart enough to cast a vote and
participate in representative government or they're not. I you know,
you may have had a few people who were confused, absolutely,
but there are people who can't fill out of a
base of ballot anyway. But I do not believe that
fifty four percent of the voting public was confused. I

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simply don't. And if people were confused and they voted
for the wrong thing, then do I really want those
people casting a ballot anyway? Just throwing that out there,
just something to think about. Got a question for you guys,
I need your opinions, And it has to do with
the press conference yesterday, the kind of end of year

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press conference, and Ryan Edwards was talking about how lucy
goosey everybody kind of seemed in yesterday's presser, and I
mean Greg Penner was there and obviously Sean Payton spoke,
but they talked about things they're working on in the future,
and they are looking at a new stadium potentially, and

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I think that, I mean, it feels inevitable for a
whole bunch of reasons that I have nothing to do
with Mile High Stadium. In today's NFL, it's not enough
to just have a football team, get the you know,
the the jersey selling and all that stuff. Now NFL
ownership is such that they want to have an NFL

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experience around the stadiums. They want to be able to
have shops and restaurants and create this kind of vibrant
entertainment district that goes around the stadium. And for the
most part, we can blame Jerry Jones for this. He
was the first one to do it, and it makes
a lot of sense because then you're controlling all that
land and property around, you're leasing it, you're the proper

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I mean, there's a lot of upside to it, and
I think that's going to be what you're going to
see in the future. Now, they cannot do that at
m Powerfield simply because of the location and the way
the city comes right in around the stadium. There's just
no way for them to do that. There's no feasible way.
So I would think that stadium is going to move.
This is in no way certain by the way their

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lease at em Powerfield ends in twenty thirty one. When
asked about it, Greg Penner said, We're continuing to do
our due diligence. It's a complex question and decision of
what we decide to do. We haven't ruled out anything
at this point. We're still looking at options on the
current site and around Denver. We've visited other places like
Lone Tree, and we've still got more steps to take there.

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So the upside for Loan Tree, if I am the
Denver Cowboys, is there's a ton of space. I mean,
there's just like a lot of land down there. Right
next to the Interstate. There is a light rail station,
and the light rail station ends at RidgeGate, and I
don't know how much further they would go from RidgeGate,
but there's a light real station. It's right off twenty five,

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it would be it's right near four seventy, so you
have a way to funnel people east and west from
that portion of I twenty five. I'm just wondering where
would you guys. And this is all on the assumption.
I know most of you are going to say keep
it where it is, right.

Speaker 4 (01:08:20):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
It's tradition, It's Milehouse Stadium, It's always been there. I
fully understand that. I just don't think it is a
realistic option in today's NFL. I just don't feel like
that that is going to be a thing that happens.
The other places they've talked about in the past and
they did not come up here was, of course, going
west on seventy towards Aurora. Also using four seventy. You
got to think about traffic in and out. That's a

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huge part of this. But are there other places that
they could look? So, you know, I'm curious as to
if you have any other options or where in knowing
what the parameters that I just put out there, gotta
have enough land around the stadium for two things, parking
number one, and then also think about an entertainment district

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around the stadium, restaurants, bars, you know, things of that nature.
Maybe a big park. Think about McGregor Square next to
the course field, only way bigger. Think about that. So
you've gotta have space. Mandy, you just said Denver Cowboys.
Did I really? Oh God, you guys, I'm so sorry.

(01:09:25):
That was a misspeak, bad bad misspeak. Wow, Sorry about.

Speaker 3 (01:09:31):
That, Mandy.

Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
I think if they move it out of Denver, it
will be somewhere south, because I doubt they'll put it
anywhere in Aurora. The same reason I would live in
Aurora is because I would never want an Aurora address.
Can you imagine them coming back from a TV break
and saying welcome back to Aurora. They would never do that,
because all you have to do is look around the league.
Do you think the Miami Dolphins play in Miami.

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
They do not.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
They play in Davy, But they don't say welcome back
to Davy. They show you a big view of South Beach,
which is so far away from that stadium it's not
even funny. And until you you're watching the Miami Dolphins
on television, which is exactly what they would do. So afternoon,
Mandy put the stadium either by Dia, by the Gaylord
or Oklahoma.

Speaker 3 (01:10:12):
No we're not.

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
No, we're not moving into Oklahoma. We're not doing that.
I apologize for the Denver Cowboys. I'm so sorry. That's
I just I've besmirched myself and the name. My apologies,
my apologies. I here's the thing about the airport. The
airport traffic sucks just on a normal day, and then

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you're gonna put a stadium out there. So on Sunday,
if you have to actually go to the airport. That
would be an unmitigated nightmare. That is the big drawback
of by the airport in my mind. God knows we've
got space out there.

Speaker 5 (01:10:48):
Though.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
We'll talk about this and some more stuff right after
this in the next hour. Keep it right here on KAWA.

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Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
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because there's a lot of good stuff on the blog
today that we absolutely will not get to, and then
of course some of it that we will get to.
Talking about where we want the Broncos Stadium and the

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press conference yesterday, the ownership group of the Broncos said hey,
you know what, we are open to a lot of
different options, and it is my feeling that they are
for sure going to move the site because they want
to be able to build an entertainment district around it.
They want to be able to control the property around it.
There's a lot of upside in the NFL ownership arena

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for that kind of STUF situation. And right now, you know,
there was some talk about Aurora and then there was
some talk about Loan Tree there they're leased with and
power field at Mile High does not get up until
twenty thirty one, so they have plenty of time to
build a stadium, but they've only got three years to

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plan it. Maybe, I mean, what do you think it
takes three years to build a stadium? What do you think?

Speaker 3 (01:12:23):
Yeah, but once they start that thing, it's going to
be quick. Now, work in, day out of the training
the Raiders or.

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
SOFI eightium take to build Hang on Thicket check sofis.
It came out forty months, so almost four years, three
and a half years. So they are going to make
a move and they're going to make it before their
lease runs out. And SOFI took nearly four years. Yeah,
so I'd say probably four years is probably your best bet.
So that means by twenty twenty six they got to

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make a decision because you've got to have plans, you've
got to have approvals, you got to have all that stuff.
What I find it interesting is that they're being open
about where they're looking. Here's a fun fact about disney
World in Orlando. Okay, so in Walt Disney, he built
disney Land first, but Disneyland was in a more It
was in a city, right, it was in Anaheim. And

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Walt Disney had this vision where he was going to
build an entire set of theme parks. He was gonna
have Epcot was actually supposed to have people living in it.
It was the Environmental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. That's what
EPCOT stands for. Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Sorry about that.
So he had to buy up a ton of land,
but he didn't want to let anybody know that he

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was buying land in the middle of the center of
Florida where there was not a damn thing except orange groves.
So he did it under the guise of all of
these different shell organizations so nobody would get hip to
the fact that somebody was buying up all of his
property because they would have jacked the prices up. And
So what I don't understand is why they're being so
open about it. Because if I know, if I'm in

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loan Tree and I own property, I'm like, yeah, the
price just went up dramatically when I know it's the
Broncos ownership group, And why wouldn't it. I mean, you'd
have to. You're just a bad person at business if
you don't maximize that opportunity. So I'm a little bit
surprised that they're having these conversation. I mean, I guess
with a stadium, you have to because you're gonna have
to get input from a lot of people. But I

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just think that's they got to make a decision sooner
rather than later. Somebody said palmer Lake, palmer Lake should
annex more ground and have at the stadium. The problem
with palmer Lake is they don't want that. The people
in palmer Lake do not want to have a stadium.
I can almost tell you, Mandy, do you think they're
smart enough to add a dome to the new stadium
so they can do Super Bowls? Absolutely? One hundred percent.

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You will never see another stadium built without some kind
of dome. Whether it's permanent, I'm with a rod, I
think it's retractable. In the next fifteen years, Denver is
hosting a Super Bowl.

Speaker 5 (01:14:50):
YEP.

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
And by the way, that would change my opinion on
going to a stadium show. If there was a dome,
if I knew for certain I wasn't gonna have to
leave my seat eight times because of lightning, that might
change my opinion. Mandy, you're asking Denver construction to be
as fast as Vegas. How long has I seventy construction
been ongoing. The longer they take, the more money they make.
Uh uh. Bad comparison because the Penter group, they're not

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the government, and when somebody contracts to build this stadium
with that organization, they're going to expect results on a timeline. Big, big,
big difference, big big difference. Mandy. I left Parker in
two thousand and five and moved to southeast Aurora.

Speaker 5 (01:15:32):
I do like it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
I think the stadium will move out to Aurora Highlands,
along with the amusement park and the dragstrip that from Dave.
I don't think. I think the infrastructure, traffic wise, is
not good enough at that particular place in the Aurora Highlands,
which is right off for seventy. Like there's only a
couple of ways to get to the Aurora Highlands, and
one of them is a two lane road. From my understanding,
maybe there's another way in I don't know about. I

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just think that's a huge problem, huge problem. Aurora is
forever were stigmatized with the Venezuelan gangs. Now there's no
way on Earth I believe the Waltons would build anything
with an address in Aurora. Mandy, Why a new stadium
at all? It's only twenty years old. For goodness sakes,
When does the stadium open? Double check in? Yeah, because

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I thought it was a little bit older than that.
I think it's isn't it two thousand? Let's see, that's
what I thought. I thought it was like two thousand,
thousand and one. Yeah, okay, so it's twenty four years old.
It will be uh six years older by twenty thirty one,
so it's gonna be thirty years old, and unfortunately that
is old in the NFL. Mandy, I like the idea

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of Southeast Aurora past the reservoir. You can have the
reservoir on one side and the stadium on the other.
Think Jerry World exactly. That's stadium. Yeah, I mean, this
is all We're gonna have to have lots of places
to put it. Doug Coo would be great for a stadium,
but Mayor Webb said it wasn't leaving Denver ring it north.

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We'll see. I just want it negotiated so the terms
are strictly from a private bond.

Speaker 5 (01:17:01):
Me too.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
I'm not in favor of taxpayer dollars north nor No.

Speaker 5 (01:17:04):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:17:05):
Here's why it's not going to be North, and it's
because the major urban centers are west and south North.
There's just not enough people, not yet. Well, I mean,
I guess with Boulders, I'm thinking I'm reassessing that. I mean,
for Collins isn't nearly as big as the Springs. I
think strategically it makes better sense south. But I you know,

(01:17:29):
you never know, Mandy. It's not enough to have a
stadium experience. You also need the population dency to keep
those businesses vibrant during the off season. Just saying. And
that is why I think loan Tree is a better
option than putting it up North, because you you know,
you're gonna have to create something that people are going
to want to go to even when there's no games
going on. It's going to be attractive. It's exactly what

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they're trying to do with Ballerina. The area around Ballerina
is the same. And I'm not opposed to this. By
the way, you guys, I think it's a smart idea.
It's also one of the reasons that I am not
in favor of any kind of public financing for a
new stadium. I am firmly in the you can pay
for it yourself, because you're gonna make gobs and gobs
and gobs of money off of that entire situation. You

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can finance the stadium with your own bond sales, you
can pay them back, and you're still gonna make what
did I say, gobs and gobs and gobs of money.
And by the way, not opposed to people making gobs
of money, just don't ask me to front it to you,
because the taxpayers always, every single time, get screwed on

(01:18:32):
stadium builds. Everything you're told about how this is going
to just juice the economy, it's all lies. It never
works out for the taxpayers. And as much as I
want a beautiful new facility for the Broncos a great
entertainment area around it, I don't want to pay for
a damn bit of it unless I go and use it.
And I think that's fair. Mandy. The other advantage of
the Broncos moving their stadium out of downtown is that

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it will give Kronky Sports more land to build their
new little city center. And you know what, again, the
Kronkys can make dobbs and gobs and gobs of money.
Just don't ask me to front him. That's all. I've
got lots of stories on the blog that I want
to jump into, but none better than this one. It's
a column by Alan Dershowitz. And Alan Dershowitz is a

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Jewish man who you would really think would have been
a liberal hero, because he was for a very long
time until he defended Donald Trump in court and that
became a huge problem for the left. He's been excommunicated.
I don't think he cares. I've had the chance to
interview him several times, but he wrote a great column today.
The headline is who denied statehood to the Palestinian People?

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And I want to share some of this column for you.
One of the most pervasive myths of the Palestinian protest
movement is that Israel has denied statehood to the Palestinian people.
To the contrary, Israel has agreed to Palestinian statehood in
nineteen thirty seven, nineteen thirty eight, nineteen forty seven, in
nineteen forty eight, nineteen six thousand, and two thousand and one,

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and two thousand and seven. In each case it was
the Palestinian leadership that refused to agree to this two
state solution that would have created a Palestinian state alongside
a state for Jewish inhabitants. In nineteen thirty seven, in
the midst of the terrorist revolt inspired by Adolf Hitler's
pal haj Amin al Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem,

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the British published the Palestine Royal Commission Report, known as
the Peel Commission Report. The Commission recommended a partition plan
by which to resolve it characterized as irrepressible conflict between
the two national communities within the narrow bounds of one
small country. Because of the general hostility and hatred of
the Jews by the Muslims, national assimilation between Arabs and

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Jews is ruled out, nor could the Jews be expected
to accept Muslim rule over them, especially since Husseini made
it clear that most of the Jews would be transferred
out of Palestine if the Muslims gained comple control. The
Peeal Commission concluded that partition was the only solution. The
Peel Commission proposed a Jewish state in areas in which

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there was a clear Jewish majority, divided into two non
contiguous as sections. The northern part extended from Tel Aviv
to the current border with Lebanon. It consisted largely of
a ten mile wide strip of land from the Mediterranean
east to the end of the coastal plain, than a
somewhat wide area from Haifa to the Sea of Galilee.
A southern portion, disconnected from the northern one by a

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British controlled area that included Jerusalem with its majority Jewish population,
extended from south Jaffa to north of Gaza. The proposed
Arab state was, on the other hand, entirely contiguous and
encompassed the entire Negieve, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.
It was several times larger than the proposed Jewish state.

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The population of the proposed Jewish state would have included
three hundred thousand Jews and one hundred and ninety thousand Arabs.
Another seventy five thousand Jews lived in Jerusalem, which would
have remained under British control. The Commission allowed how to
partition withhelp the rescue of Europe's Jews from Nazism. Oh
the Commission also alluded to how partition would help the

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rescue of Europe's Jews from Nazism. The Jews accepted the
Peel partition plan, while the Arabs categorically denied it, demanding
that all of Palestine be placed under Arab control and
that most of the Jewish population of Palestine be quote
transferred or ethnically cleansed out of the country because this
country cannot assimilate the Jews now in the country. The

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Peal Commission recognized that it was not so much that
the Arabs wanted self determination, is that they did not
want the Jews to have self determination or sovereignty over
the land the Jews themselves had cultivated and in which
they were a majority. Now it goes on to tell
you about all the other times that there has been
a suggestion or an opportunity for the Palestinian people to

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get their own homeland. And I sure hope you read it,
because there are too many idiots out there right now
who have been steeped in anti Semitism, who do not
realize that it is not Israel's fault. The Palestinians don't
have their own state. It is the leadership of the
Palestinian people and has been for a very very long time,

(01:23:20):
very very long time. So check that out and then
real quick before the break. I'm not going to spend
a lot of time on this because, as I said
earlier during the show, after Monday, I never want to
hear Joe Biden's name again.

Speaker 5 (01:23:32):
Ever.

Speaker 2 (01:23:33):
The article, by the way, is on the blog at
mandy'sblog dot com. You can find it just scroll down
on the page. A tense weekend meeting between Prime Minister
Benjamin Ntyaho an incoming Mideast Envoy Steve Whitcoff he is
going to be with the Trump administration led to a
breakthrough in hostage negotiations with the top a, the US
President elect Donald Trump doing more to sway the premiere

(01:23:56):
in a single sit down than out going President Joe
Biden did all year that from two Arab officials to
the Times of Israel on Tuesday. Just wanted to throw
that out there because apparently in Joe Biden's final remarks
last night, which I didn't watch because I don't care,

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he again tried to take credit for this deal. We're
not that stupid and you were just not and I
think he thinks we are. We're going to take a
very quick time out and by the way, mandy'sblog dot com.
Mandy'sblog dot com. For that article, look for the headline
one sixteen to twenty four blog DEM's favorite unions over
votes plus a new DA opens up for biz. When

(01:24:38):
we get back, we're talking about that legislation that's been
proposed by Democrats to give unions more power in a
state than has worked just fine without this bill. We'll
do that next because why, I don't know. Democrats have
filed a bill that would upend quite a long period
of settled labor law here in Colorado. And it it

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has to do with unionization. And we currently have a
system now where if someone wants to unionize a workplace,
two votes have to take place. The first one is
just a simple majority vote to form a union. The
second vote requires a much larger majority to be able
to take union dues out of the pockets of people

(01:25:20):
who do not want to belong to the union. And
for some reason, the Democrats, no one's begging for this
except the unions. I have decided to move forward with
a bill to end this practice. And go to a
single vote. Now joining me now from the Colorado Competitive
is a Colorado Competitive Institute, a council, that's it. Colorado
Competitive Council Executive Director. Rachel Beck. Hi, Nancy, if you're listening.

(01:25:43):
Just wanted to say hello to Rachel's mom who listens
to the show. Welcome to the show. Rachel.

Speaker 6 (01:25:47):
First of all, thank you so much for having Mendy
so tell.

Speaker 2 (01:25:52):
Me about this survey that you just did on this
very issue.

Speaker 7 (01:25:57):
This is a big issue in Colorado and the Colorado
Labor Peace Act has been in place for eighty years,
so business is very opposed to changing it for a
lot of reasons. I'm sure we'll talk about, but we
just completed some scientific pulling to understand were we out
of step with voters on this, and it turns out
we're not. Seventy percent of voters said that they are
opposed to removing that second vote that you talked about, and.

Speaker 2 (01:26:21):
Not only that, overwhelmingly a majority is opposed to people
being forced to pay union dues that they don't want
to pay. And I think that's the critical part of
this for me. You know that for me is I
don't think you should be able to take money away
from someone who philosophically disagrees with you, and that that
is a tough bridge because traditionally labor boards have sided

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with unions on that. So this is a really really
big change. We're in the process or what do you
guys think this is likely to do in terms of
is it going to pass? Do we need to worry
about this? Will the governor sign it into law? If
it happens.

Speaker 7 (01:27:00):
While the bill will have its first hearing on Tuesday
in committee, it's had quite a number of Democrats signed
on as co sponsors, and at the rally when this
bill was announced before the session started, proponents were really
making this.

Speaker 6 (01:27:15):
A referendum on were you a proper Democrat?

Speaker 7 (01:27:19):
So they're really placing whether this passes or not on
a test of democratic loyalty.

Speaker 6 (01:27:25):
I'm pointing to how.

Speaker 7 (01:27:26):
Colorado really performed differently among states in the nation.

Speaker 6 (01:27:31):
Were a lot bluer than a lot of other states.

Speaker 7 (01:27:33):
It's interesting, though, because that's not necessarily reflective of Colorado voters.
Forty seven percent of us are unaffiliated, and certainly our
polling results, which this was a scientific poll, not some
internet poll where you can go run up the score
reflects Colorado's from all across the state, every political party,

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every age demographic also believe in this unique system that
Colorado has. And I think that's because, as you were
pointing out, it's about employee choice yep.

Speaker 2 (01:28:05):
And I think that even people who are pro union,
who think unions are a great idea, can understand the
fundamental unfairness of asking someone who doesn't share the belief
system or anything else with the union to be forced
to give their money over I've never ever understood that.
To me, that is the most un American thing in
the entire world. It violates my right to free associate

(01:28:26):
in a big way. But this is part of a
larger pattern that we've seen over the last few years
that have really bitten our business competitiveness nationwide. Talk about
some of that stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:28:37):
For me, there are a number of data sources that
really are pointing to Colorado's competitiveness dropping and pretty rapidly.
We have performed in a number of metrics as one
of the top ten states in the country for business
friendliness for decades, and now all of those are starting
to trend down. So CNBC's business friendliness ranking one of

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the most rigorous assessments. They used ten different factors, and
they point to a lot of different data points like
the Small Business Administration, the Pure Research Center, other really
respected sources of data. We dropped from third to sixteenth.

Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (01:29:21):
The Denver Metro EDCs towards a more competitive Colorado report,
which is twenty years they've been doing this report, so
we have a lot of year over year data. They
showed some declines as well, and no surprise, we're getting
killed primarily on the cost of living and the cost
of doing business.

Speaker 2 (01:29:40):
And that's unfortunate because the cost of doing business is
the part that is directly Government is directly responsible for
a huge chunk of that, whether it's taxation, whether it's permitting,
whether it's licensing, any of those things. Now, if this passes,
I feel like this is going to be a way
bigger problem than some of those other things. Is that

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what you're hearing from.

Speaker 7 (01:30:01):
Business absolutely the hallmarks of Colorado's unique system, and nobody
else in the country does it like we do.

Speaker 6 (01:30:09):
With those two votes.

Speaker 7 (01:30:11):
Really is about balancing the interests of employees who want.

Speaker 6 (01:30:14):
To organize and employees who maybe don't want.

Speaker 7 (01:30:18):
To participate in a labor union, and it has served
our state well for eighty years. The Denver Metro EDC
did a steady a number of years ago that looked
at a variety of factors related to organizing right to
work states versus.

Speaker 6 (01:30:31):
Closed union states, and what they found was our system.

Speaker 7 (01:30:35):
Has really kind of smoothed out the bumps in the economy.

Speaker 6 (01:30:38):
So right to work states, for example, go.

Speaker 7 (01:30:40):
Into recession faster than closed union shop states do, but
they also come out.

Speaker 2 (01:30:47):
Of them faster.

Speaker 7 (01:30:48):
And so by having that hybrid that we've created here,
it's meant that we have a strong economy that benefits
all Colorado's.

Speaker 2 (01:30:57):
You know this is going to end up if they
do pass this or even really aggressively go after it.
John Caldera from the Independence Institute has already said we're
going to put a right to work amendment on the ballot.
It'll be very interesting to see what happens first in
the legislature, which I honestly believe and I'm not going
to ask you to comment on this, Rachel. The reason

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the Democrats are doing this is because of the flirtations
with the Trump campaign in this last election cycle. We
saw a union boss speak at the RNC and the
Democrats all of a sudden went, oh my god, we've
been ignoring the unions who constantly fill our coffers. So
I just think this is one of those hey we're
here for you, remember us, We're looking out for you

(01:31:41):
moves nakedly political, and I don't even think they think
it's going to pass. To tell you the truth, I
think this is just posturing. I would hope that the
governor would veto it, our new freedom loving governor who
talks about the pre state of Colorado. But we'll have
to see, I'm guessing. So again I want to ask,
you know, comment on the political nature of that. But

(01:32:02):
it certainly seems like this is just a reminder that
the Democrats are going to, you know, get some are
going to line the pockets of the people who line there.
That's just my opinion, Rachel. What do we need to
see to get our competitiveness back in Colorado? How do
we get back to number three?

Speaker 7 (01:32:21):
The main priority, we believe is we need to go
after those cost drivers that we can control that are
driving the cost of living and the cost of business
in Colorado. So things like we have very high property
and casualty insurance rates in the state.

Speaker 6 (01:32:37):
We have very high auto insurance rates. Some of those
things are due to things.

Speaker 7 (01:32:41):
Like hail and wildfire, but some of those are due
to policy choices that we are making at the capitol.

Speaker 6 (01:32:46):
So those are curves that we can bend.

Speaker 7 (01:32:49):
Cost of housing in Colorado is way out of line
with what people can afford. The average cost of a
home in Colorado has doubled in I think a decade,
and one of the reasons for that is again something
that we can control at the state capitol. We have
unique laws on the books in Colorado that make it
really easy to sue the developers of condos, and so

(01:33:12):
we have virtually no condo construction happening in Colorado. Now,
all those multi family developments that you see going up
our apartments for rent, and that certainly helps when it
comes to supply, but it doesn't help first time home buyers,
low income home buyers, seniors who wish to downsize to
get into a product that's more affordable. We also have

(01:33:33):
a very litigious environment in Colorado, so a lot of risk,
a lot of ways that you can get sued in Colorado.
And if that sounds esoteric and like something that has
nothing to do with you, the US Chamber.

Speaker 6 (01:33:45):
Has put the price tag of that at four thousand and.

Speaker 7 (01:33:48):
Eleven dollars every single year for the average Colorado household
because those costs are ultimately passed along.

Speaker 6 (01:33:55):
So all things that we can and should do something
about in Colorado.

Speaker 2 (01:34:00):
Back with the Colorado Competitive Council. I appreciate your time,
and I appreciate I put the numbers that we just
talked about on the blog today so people can check
them out themselves. We'll be following along with this. Maybe
we can touch base during the legislative session and get
an update where this disastrous bill is at that moment.

Speaker 6 (01:34:17):
Happy to come back.

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
Thanks Mandy, all right, thank you, Rachel. Yeah, you know,
I this is not the Colorado I moved and moved
to in the first place. I feel a lot of
people feel that way, don't you think, Yes, yes, me too.
I don't know if you guys have been watching any
of the coverage of the confirmation hearings of Donald Trump's

(01:34:39):
cabinet picks, but I gotta tell you, guys, they're kind
of crushing it. I mean, and I say that not
because necessarily of anything they're doing, but more because of
the utter weakness of the Democrats to land a good
shot seth Really other than RFK Junior, I thought was

(01:35:03):
going to have the most challenging time. I thought he
was going to you know, they were going to beat
the crap out of him, and they were going to
make it challenging for him to get through. He handled
everything they threw at him with the absolutest and perfectly
calm demeanor. And I think he's going to be confirmed now.
Now RFK Junior is going to be a different kind

(01:35:24):
of story that's going to be fascinating to watch. But
I watched Pam Bondi yesterday. First of all, let's all
have a moment to talk about Pam Bondi being fifty
nine years old, because she looks like she is maybe forty.
So I want to know who her esthetician is and
I'm flying down to Florida to take advantage of that.
But yesterday she fielded some of the dumbest questions that

(01:35:48):
I have ever heard from Senate Democrats, and they did
not land a glove on her. She came back at
Adam Schiff so hard when he was trying to make
Hay and she said, weren't you sent for saying the
same kind of things that you're saying right now, and
I burst out laughing, Mark Rubio, I knew he was
going to be great all of these people. This is

(01:36:09):
what you get when you when you go to hire
people who are already in politics, you get people who
are used to this. Pete access and TV, so he
easy used to anything. I'm kind of excited about this now.
I'm getting excited about these people taking over. And I
know Ross isn't thrilled with a Pete hegset pick. But
I every single active duty, recent retired veteran that I

(01:36:33):
know and have talked to about this, they are all
in for Pete. And that tells me everything I need
to know. And it was laughable, absolutely laughable to hear
Democrats try to come after him. They're like, you know,
the nonprofit that you worked for that had ten people,
it went out of business because you ran it so poorly.
Are we talking about the Department of Defense where they

(01:36:55):
can't account for eight hundred and fifty million dollars? It's
just gone and that's when the pros are running it.
Are you kidding me? They didn't land they didn't land
a glove on him, So I you know, kind of
excited about that. But RFK Junior, as I said, as
the nominated head of HHS, is already making waves. He's

(01:37:19):
already making changes good for the American people. He's not
even confirmed yet. The FDA came out last week and
said they are banning red dye number three from food manufacturing.
Why well, it's been shown to cause cancer in rats.
But that's not why I'm excited about it. There are
creditable studies, credible credit, credible studies that show that red

(01:37:43):
dye number three, for some children can give them symptoms
of hyperactivity. So there's something going on with the red
dye number three and Europe banned a long time ago,
unless you're eating like marachino sherries. So this is the
kind of stuff that RFKG you was talking about. Making
our food supply healthier again, getting all the additives out

(01:38:04):
of our food so we can eat real food instead
of the crap that comes in boxes in the aisles
of the grocery store. Trump loyalism will trump anything that
would be glaringly disqualifying. Heg Seth is unfit. I'm sorry,
I don't think so. Heg Seth has got dust on
his boots. He's exactly who I wren't running the Pentagon

(01:38:28):
because guess what the people are doing it now. They
just lost eight hundred and fifty million dollars. I don't
trust them with things. Do you trust the current leadership
after what happened in Afghanistan? They stunk it up badly?
Mandy BONDI would not admit Trump lost in twenty twenty.
Yes she did, Yes she did. I saw her do

(01:38:50):
it with Dick Durban and she made it look stupid.
But that's not a big stretch, not a big stretch.
So yeah, we will see, we will see, Mandy. Joe
Biden is Chason can't die. He will be back. No, no,

(01:39:11):
he will not, just like Kamala Harris will not be back. Oh,
by the way, you guys, get your Amazon accounts open.
Kamala Harris is writing a book. I cannot wait to
see what kind of stupid advance they give this woman
for a book that may be written in crayon.

Speaker 4 (01:39:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:39:29):
I do not know, Mandy, are you Rubio? I don't care.
I could work for Trump after being belittled by him.
Don't care if he apologizes and says it was just
a joke. If you don't have thick skin, you don't
belong in politics. I mean, that's like rule number one.
It ain't beanbag, as they say, it ain't bean bag.

(01:39:49):
By the way, great article interview on the blog today
about climate change not causing the fires in California. We
also you got to read this stuff about Stacy Abrams cheating.
It is just it's gold. It's gold and something we're
going to talk about tomorrow. The doctors are trying to
figure out a better way to measure how fat you
are instead of bm I I find that fascinating. More

(01:40:11):
on that. But Rob Dawson has entered the chat. Hey hey, Rob,
you play of the day? You ready? Yeah, I'm here,
I'm ready. Here we go because now it's time for
the most exciting segment on the radio of its kind
in the world of the day. That's the Rob Jawson

(01:40:34):
taking it down version, the slow Jam of the of
the day. What is our dad joke of the day? Please,
Hey Rod?

Speaker 3 (01:40:41):
Why can't dinosaurs clap their hands because t rexes can't
reach because they're extinct? Anyway, what's our word of the day, please, Anthony.

Speaker 2 (01:40:57):
The word of the day is uh, oh man, I'm
gonna try this one. It's a noun.

Speaker 3 (01:41:07):
Habilament A b I l I m e n t
habila h A b I l I l I m
e n t habiliment.

Speaker 2 (01:41:16):
You know, knowing how to spell it didn't help at all.
I'm going to say it is a tiny it's a
tiny home. A habilament. Uh, cream an ointment?

Speaker 5 (01:41:29):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:41:30):
The ointment is kind of like moist.

Speaker 3 (01:41:32):
It is another word for clothes oilment.

Speaker 5 (01:41:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
All right, then where in the United States can you find?
Sun Tunnels? A sculpture installation by artist Nancy Holt, consisting
of four large concrete cubes that function Virginia Astrological Gazing Station, Virginia.
I'm gonna go Utah, Alabama, Alabama. Oh, I got a right.

(01:41:58):
I figured it had to be in the desert somewhere.
Each of the four concrete tubes corresponds to a constellation.
Small holes children the concrete frame the constellations at certain
times the year. The tunnels also frame sunrise and sunset
on the solstices. There you go, Mandy rob category, Let's
take a walk. Let's take a walk. Walk is part

(01:42:20):
of every answer? Walk? All right? A sony, exec what's
a walkman? Correct?

Speaker 3 (01:42:29):
Captain Hook made prisoners do this?

Speaker 2 (01:42:31):
What is walk the plane?

Speaker 4 (01:42:32):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:42:33):
Rober playing but someone going home early Sunday morning and
Saturday nights walk shoes?

Speaker 3 (01:42:41):
Yeah, let me just slow this down, Lough. We've got time, Rob.
We need to collect ourselves down three to oh let Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:42:48):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:42:48):
Basically you have to let Mandy do ourselves in here?
All right? Are you ready? Yeah? Okay?

Speaker 5 (01:42:56):
You sure?

Speaker 2 (01:42:57):
Okay, we really had time. That was brutal. Three oh.

Speaker 3 (01:43:00):
Her tension in the wire and among the crowd. When
the circus performers.

Speaker 2 (01:43:04):
Take Rob tightwalk, Manny, what does a tight rope walk?
I mean, Manny? I? Finally, when Nancy Sinatra saying these
boots are made for walking? Is made for walking?

Speaker 1 (01:43:21):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:43:22):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:43:23):
When she's saying these boots are made for walking, she
probably meant these repetitive boots she favored, Manny.

Speaker 5 (01:43:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:43:36):
If it has walk in the title.

Speaker 5 (01:43:37):
Mandy?

Speaker 2 (01:43:37):
What is what go go boots? Correct?

Speaker 5 (01:43:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:43:40):
Okay, that is, which means we have time to ask
Rob Rob about the inauguration.

Speaker 2 (01:43:45):
Oh yeah, are you gonna be there?

Speaker 5 (01:43:46):
No? You're here? No?

Speaker 2 (01:43:47):
No, No, I'm here. Ryan's gonna be there?

Speaker 5 (01:43:49):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (01:43:50):
Uh, No, I mean, I mean it's one of these
events that I went to school.

Speaker 2 (01:43:54):
At the University of Maryland. No interesting, there's I hate crowds,
and this is all crowd Well, I want to see
the TV production of it.

Speaker 8 (01:44:03):
If it's an important speech, I want to be able.

Speaker 2 (01:44:07):
To hear the speech correct.

Speaker 8 (01:44:08):
So and it's an important moment, and I want to
be able to see it without bumping into one hundred
thousand other people.

Speaker 2 (01:44:12):
I want to see the open hostility with which Hillary
Clinton glares at Donald Trump from the back of the
back of his head.

Speaker 8 (01:44:19):
Right now, everyone's going except Michelle Obama pretty.

Speaker 2 (01:44:22):
Much, and she's just decided to like flip off everybody.

Speaker 8 (01:44:26):
The only thing I'm concerned about is she ill for
some reason.

Speaker 2 (01:44:28):
I don't know. Well, they keeps up. Here's the thing
she's They literally said she's staying on her extended vacation
instead of going to the Carter funeral. You don't say
extended vacation, you say conflict. Do you say anything but that,
you know? I don't know. I think she's just done
with it. She doesn't have to go. You don't know
anything to prove to anybody. I actually I actually would

(01:44:50):
rather her do that than be all fake about it, right,
you know, she really didn't want to go. Like there's
no doubt in my mind that Mike Pence's wife is
going to be like, screw that noise. I'm not I'm
not gonna go sit there and watch that. One of
my friends is going, A couple of my friends are going.

Speaker 8 (01:45:01):
One of them got tickets through Congressman GP staffer, and
in our front we have a check group, and uh
there's people hating him for going.

Speaker 2 (01:45:12):
So there you go. You know what, if you have
a chance to go to a convention or an inauguration
or any of that cool stuff, do it. It's an
American tradition. Although I probably wouldn't go, I went.

Speaker 8 (01:45:23):
For the ease of you know how I grade the conventions,
whether it's easy to get around in them, and uh.

Speaker 2 (01:45:29):
DNC winning on that one. Okay, we'll be back tomorrow.
In the meantime, keep it right here on KOA