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Welcome, Welcome, WelCom to a Tuesday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell,
joined by my right hand man I call him and
Rod you can call him Anthony Rodrigo. And together we
will get you right through the next two almost three
hours with I hope things that you will find interesting
and yet also entertaining. Today we got a lot of
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stuff on the blog, and I'm seeing like four other
things that I really want to talk about since I
published the blog, like in the last thirty minutes. So
we're gonna get Today's just to be jam packed right now, though,
I want to just do a little sidewinder because there's
multiple televisions on in front of me, much to my chagrin,
and there's showing video of the Delta flight that flipped
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and landed. So out of eighty people on board this flight,
eighteen were injured and no one was killed, and that
is an incredible testament to the crew inside that airplane
after that plane landed upside down on the runway. I
just think that's absolutely incredible, and I hope that the
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crew of this airplane get there just to you. By
the way, the winds were absolutely terrible, and I think
I just told this story on the air fairly recently,
where we were flying into Hartford, Connecticut in a similar
situation and our wingtip nearly hit the ground when we
were landing. The scariest landing I ever went through. That's
kind of what this plane did, only the wingtip didn't hit.
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The whole plane flipped. It's crazy crazy. I still would
take driving, I mean lying over driving any day in
terms of pure safety. Just to remind you guys of that. Now,
let me tell you what's on the blog and where
to find it. You can go to mandy'sblog dot com.
That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says
to eighteen twenty five blog a telethon for Warriors plus
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Danielle Drinsky announces. Click on that and here are the
headlines you will find within. I do you to where
in office half of American all the ships and clipments
of say that's got a press plat today on the
blog Houses for Warriors needs your help. Daniel Durinsky has
an announcement. Colorado GOP leadership does more dumb stuff. Speaking
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of stupid lawsuits. The latest on the King super strike.
You really should watch the jd vance speech scrolling scrolling.
I can cut food waste in schools. The newest eight
Z pod is alive. Democrats attack free speech in Colorado.
Roseen on worthright citizenship. Two Colorado men give Florida man
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a run for his money. Your Colorado tax return won't
be coming anytime soon. Everyone knew about trendy Orragua being
in Aurora. Blake Street Tavern rises like a phoenix. A
shocking inflation stat Lamar is now a foody destination. Everything
is broken, Ford CEO says the quiet part loud about
EV trucks. Doctor Burks finally admits what we were all
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saying all along. A video of Rob getting his giant
cardboard check a Rod's review of the new Captain America
flick a real life Jonah. You had one job. Practical
tools to fight anxiety, bad lip reading, the Super Bowl
and making friends as an adult is hard. Those are
the headlines on the blog at Manday's blog dot com,
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and lots of good videos on the blog today. None
more insane than the guy on the kayak getting eaten
by a whale, and not like an orca, because that'd
be terrifying, right, because orcas will blank you up, They
will mess you up people. No, just a giant whale
because the way whales feed you. Ever been on a
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whale watching towards you guys do that in Mexico. No, okay,
let me give you a little whale lore, a little
whale backstory. When whales are hunting, maybe two or three
whales together, they will make these cones of bubbles and
they're big. They just swim around and blow bubbles, so
it creates this sort of tornado of bubbles and fish
get caught inside that tornado. Then they swim down and
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they just open up their mouths and swim through the
tornado and catch a whole bunch of fish. It's amazing,
absolutely amazing.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Yeah, this one, let me just confirm, double check dot
theiyes cross the teeth.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
No, this whale's name was not Moby. No, no, no
sign that it was Moby. And but dude on a
kayak gets eaten by a whale and then the whale's like, peh,
what is that in my teeth and just splits them
right back out. But you know what a rod I
thought about this, This guy now has, for the rest
of his life, pretty much the trump card in any
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situation where stories are being told. It doesn't matter what
you say, It doesn't matter how exciting your story is,
how insane the ending is. This guy just gets to
flow out the You know, one time when I was
on a kayak, I got eaten by a whale and
what worth a PTSD though probably not.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
You know what.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
He was only in there for like a minute. I mean,
it's fine, it's fun inside another animal. No the moment.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
They have all these gills right here that you were
inside and other animal mouth you were in the mouth.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
They don't even have sharp teeth. No thanks it. I mean,
you know, come on, And obviously the whale was like
did not see that coming? Like that's awful. So that's
on the blog today, And I gotta tell you, if
you don't go to the blog for anything else, just
go for that.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
That whale has a taste for human now, and it
doesn't like it.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
That's a taste for kayaks. You know, all he got
was like plastic, Like, ah, what is that? What is
this paper straw?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
No, just kidding, I'm waiting his review on one of
the websites.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
There, Yeah, about how he tasted his Yelp review. Yes,
so I have the kayaker and I found it to
be really tough. It's not gonna lie. It was, yeah,
salty and tough. Did not enjoy, would not try again.
Zero stars. All right, what's coming up on the show today?
We've got a couple of guests coming up. We've got
Andrew Cannelly's with Houses for Warriors. This is such a
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wonderful and worthy organization. We're going to tell you about
a fundraiser they have coming up Saturday and what they're
gonna do with that money. Then Danielle Darinsky is Aurora's
city council member and she's gonna come on to talk
about why she's running for reelection. And I've got a
bunch of stuff about the Colorado Republican Party, but we're
not going to get into it in the first hour because, frankly, ugh,
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I keep putting this stuff on the blog because I
just want a change in leadership at the State Convention
because the level of toxic nonsense being speed by the
current leadership cabal. And I put leadership in air quotes
when I say that small l for sure is just
it's it's just mind blowing. The money they're wasting, the
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victimhood status they're racing to achieve. Look, it hasn't ven victimized.
Oh god, Oh my god. They're everything they purport to
hate and more. So we'll be talking about that a
little bit later later in the show. I do want
to start the show with one question and you can
text me your answer at five sixty six nine. Now,
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did anybody else read the news media coverage of JD
Vance's speech to the Munich Security Conference and think after
reading the media coverage that you happen to stumble upon
that he had gone to Europe and taken a giant
poop on the floor of the Munich Security Conference and
basically told all of our allies to go straight to
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HG double tooth fix and don't come. I mean, what
did you guys see? Because I, of course was vacationing
with my family and I got a text message from
a friend of mine who said, I'd love to know
what you think of this. And this is a friend
who is on the left, and we do this often.
I'll send her a column and say I'd love to
know what you think about this, and then she'll send
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me seven say I love to know what you think
about this. And it was a column by Heather Cox Richardson.
She is a former Miss America. She lives in Kentucky.
I'm very familiar with her just from being in Kentucky.
But I want you to I want you to just
listen to what was said about JD Vance's speech to
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the Munich Security Conference by someone on the left. Heather
Cox Richardson is a reliable Democrat, Reliable, she says. The
sixty first Munich Security Conference, the world's laiting forum for
talking about international security policy, took place from February fourteenth
to February sixteenth this year. Begun in nineteen sixty three,
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it was designed to be an independent venue for experts
and policymakers to discuss the most pressing security issues around
the globe. At the conference, on Friday February fourteenth, Vice
President J. D Vance launched what the Guardians Patrick Wintour
called a brutal ideological assault against Europe. Attacking the values
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the United States used to share with Europe, but with
which Vance and other members of the Trump administration are
now working to destroy. Vance and Maga Christian nationalists reject
the principles of secular democracy and instead align with leaders
like Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbon. They claimed that the
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equal rights central to democracy undermine nations by treating women
and racial, religious, and gender minorities as equal to white
Christian men. They want to see an end to the
immigration that they believe weakends the nation's people, and for
government to reinforce traditional religious and patriarchal values. That is
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what is happening on the left about this speech. So, okay,
I read that, and I texted her back and I said, well,
I need to go read the speech. And I went
and I read the transcript of the speech, and I
was like, huh, I did not get the part where
it was a brutal ideological attack. Yeah, I did not
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get that part at all. Because in the speech, which
is by the way, very upbeat, very positive, JD. Vanch
calls Europe to the carpet for a few things, one
for cracking down and censoring speech, for cracking down on
free speech for censoring speech, for moving in the direction
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of totalitarianism when it comes to anything that they don't like.
He also censored them for not including a political party
in Germany known as AfD. AfD is running on a
platform of stopping the unfettered immigration of Middle Eastern men
to Germany, to backing away from the green energy scam
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that now has Germany with the highest energy prices in Europe,
and from doing a lot of the same things that
Donald Trump just got elected to, which means, of course
he's a neo Nazi to anyone on the left. They
don't actually look at the platform. They don't even look
at the fact that the party is expected to gain
enough seats in this next parliamentary election that they will
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be a significant player in the next ruling coalition. But
they just want you to think that these are people
walking around with armbands and swastikas and you know, goose
stepping through the streets of Germany because they don't toe
the European line, which is unfettered immigration of Middle Eastern
men of fighting age. Now the irony here is that
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the day before that this happened, a Syrian national drove
his car into a crowded space and killed a woman
and her two year old child and injured like thirty
five other people. The Irony Nil Ferguson has a great
column on the Free Press and it's fantastic, absolutely fantastic.
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I want to share this one part with you. We
also learned on Saturday that the British authorities have charged
two hundred and ninety two people with spreading illegal fake
news or sending threatening communications since the Online Safety Act
came into force in twenty twenty three. A total of
sixty seven have been convicted. I suspect Americans who live
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in a country with a First Amendment will be astonished
to learn the details. After three little girls were stabbed
to death by a jihatist in Southport's last July, there
will multiple cases brought against people for social media postings
that broke the Online Safety Act. The government deliberately he
suppressed the fact that the killer, Axel Rut Cabana, had
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been referred to the Anti Extremism Program PREVENT three times
and was in possession of an Al Qaeda training manual
at the time of the murders. Yet people were jailed
for claiming online that he was a Muslim immigrant jailed.
One man was jailed for three months for a livestream
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video on TikTok that falsely claimed he was running for
his life from rioters in Derby. In calling this out,
Vance was saying more than just Britain and Europe have
forgotten if they ever really understood the importance of free expression.
He was also making an argument about political liberty. Of
all the pressing challenges that the nations represented here faced,
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he declared, I believe there is nothing more urgent than
mass migration. No voter on this continent went to the
ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants.
I mean, you guys, if that is a what is
she I can't remember exactly what she called a brutal
ideological assault. Good gravy, you guys, Europe softer than I thought.
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If this just brings them to their knees, if they're
sitting there sniffling and sniffling at this security conference with security,
are you kidding me? You're scared of the scary words.
Scary words might hurt someone's feelings. I mean, do you
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want to live in a world? And I mean this
genuinely do you want to live in a world where
you have to go through life constantly worried about accidentally
hurting someone's feelings for fear that they could bring charges
against you. Do you know what this does? This means
that people will completely withdraw into their own trusted circles
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because they know their friends and their family are not
gonna wrap them out. And as soon as they at
the perception that someone else's other and could be offended
by something that you don't even know is offensive, well,
then other gets completely shut out as well. So it
just serves no purpose other than to further divide people
into their silos where they can remain protected. And by
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the way, before I get the text message that says,
you know, oh, the hate speech people hang out with
the hate speech people, this isn't hate speech. This is
normal speech where someone is definitely afraid of just offending
someone else. In my lifetime, I know for a fact
that I have offended people accidentally on more than one occasion,
and when I realize it right away, I will immediately apologize.
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If I think I'm wrong, and if I just was misunderstood,
then I will do my due diligence to make sure
that I can be clearly understood with whatever I was saying.
I'm not gonna apologize if you misunderstood me. You know
what I'm saying, Like those are two different things for me.
I'll help you understand my intent, but I'm not gonna
apologize because you mis misunderstood me. Never understood that at all.
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Mandy I listened to Vance's entire speech on X says
this text. I would encourage everyone to listen. I had
no ideas some of the things he called Europe out
on were happening. I felt better than ever of JD.
Vance as Trump's VP and future potus. I will say this,
Jade Vance. It just comes across and I embedded the video.
You can watch it on my blog today. He comes
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across as a true happy warrior. You watch him. He's engaging.
He comes across in such a way that even as
he's telling you to go straight to hell, you're gonna
enjoy the ride. He's got great tact, really really good tact.
But this is all stuff that Europe needs to do.
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By the way, for everyone who keeps freaking out every
time Donald Trump does everything as if that is the
endpoint of whatever's happening. The fact that they don't seem
to be learning to just wait us, wait, see what
happens next, because it happened again, and it happened again. Well,
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I'll get into that later. Actually, do we get in
too that owl of a fish what I'm talking about here.
I am perfectly okay with the President and the Vice
President asking Europe to step up to do a better job,
to not declare an election invalid because you didn't get
the result that you wanted. To allow people to criticize
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other people on the internet and not have someone knock
up the door to come arrest them, to be able
to post memes on Facebook that just might hurt someone's feelings.
But you know, in the UK especially, they've never had
truth free speech. You've never been able to criticize the
monarchy unfettered. You better have your ducks in a row,
because as we've seen, the monarchy will sue back and
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they should be allowed to you. But whatever, Mandy will
never go to Europe until this changes. I believe jd
Vance will redefine the role of VP. You know what, Jimbo,
here's the thing. If there are countries that I will
not visit countries that are in the grips of a
totalitarian regime like Cuba. I know that Cuba was opened
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up and everybody wanted to go to Cuba, but I
found out from Cuban people living in Florida that I
know that their relatives were unable to buy food because
all of the food was being taken to feed the
tourists in the tourist areas. So the regime there could
continue to enrich itself, and I'm not going to support that.
But if I went everywhere that restricted speech more than
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we do in the United States of America, there would
literally be nowhere to go. We have the freest speech
that I know of in the world. We have the
fewest restrictions on what we can say in the world.
That's why it's so deeply concerning and offensive that we
have this push right now coming from the left to
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go after quote information and disinformation. When we get back,
you're not even ready for the bit of uhns or
disinformation that I have for you. Remember doctor Deborah Burks,
she was part of the COVID squad with Donald Trump,
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all those people who you know basically said you got
to have a vaccine or you're going to lose your
job when you hear what is coming out of her mouth. Now,
my head almost exploded today. But I'm only playing it
so I can get the apologies from all the people
who said I was literally responsible for murder during COVID
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because I dared question the narrative and guess what, all
those questions that I had, I was right. And now
they're all coming out to say it like so casually.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, by the way, oh that whole
COVID shot thing that wasn't based on science, but follow
the science. That was the cry, follow this audience. We
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will be back with that and more right after this.
Jd Vance has some dreamy eyelashes, and they just make
him look like he's wearing eyeliner all the time. I
don't think the man wears eyeliner. I really don't ask Ben.
I do just Ben wear eyeliner? I don't know, does he?
I mean, you know what if everyone that we know
that works in this building that was that's mail, I
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would say Ben is the most likely to have dabbled
in eyeliner at some point. Maybe what about Ryan when
he was a rock star? No, no, you don't think so. No,
Ben's most likely. I mean Dave Logan out. That's not
gonna happen.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Nick Ferguson, No, no, gosh, no, no.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
No, I mean Rob Dawson. Maybe maybe we'll have to
ask him. We'll have to see we're not casting aspersions.
By the way, on let me share some stuff with
you that I heard today that made me so mad.
Remember back when the mRNA vaccine was put out, I
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was recommending it based on the scientific information that they released,
not assuming at all that the company that developed it
would just keep the really unflattering parts for themselves. But
we were told that if you did not get a vaccine,
you were going to kill grandma. Remember that you were
going to kill your grandmother if you did not get
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a COVID vaccine. And then they made mandates to where
if you worked in certain positions, including over the road
truck driver, you had to have a shot. And it
created a huge kerfuffle. And even as I was saying
I think you should get it, I was still saying,
but you should have the right not to. I've never
been in favor of any kind of force vaccinations ever,
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even though I think some of them are a good idea.
But doctor Deborah Berks was part of the team that
pushed that narrative forward. I want to share her on
the Piers Morgan Show, doctor Deborah Burks talking about the
COVID vaccine. Do I have my audio? Thank you?
Speaker 8 (22:05):
He made it very clear to every mom out there
that his children were immunized about childhood vaccines. And what
we've done wrong in public health is we didn't explain
that COVID vaccines were nothing like the childhood vaccines, and
that the childhood vaccines, like many of the diseases.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
You get it once, you don't get it again.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
And this is getting the children to have that disease
without getting the deadly consequences. That is not what the
COVID vaccine was designed to do. It wasn't for designed
to preget against infection. And if you look at the
vaccine hesitancy rates, they've doubled since COVID.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
So we have to start addressing these things. We can't
just take me ask you.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
I mean, given that you were the face of COVID
from the Trump presidency at the time, do you share
this doctor who was with you, share the concerns about
the longer term negative impact of some of the COVID vaccines, the.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Messenger RMA vaccine should have been rolled out for the
people that were at risk for severe disease, because that's
what the disease, that's what the vaccine was developed for.
Speaker 10 (23:15):
But when we.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Say that we're following the science and the data, we
need to follow the science and the data. And the
science and the data said people primarily over sixty five
are people with significant comorbidities, were at risk for severe disease.
Those are the individuals that should have been immunized first,
and we should have put our science behind our immunization
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schedule and protected those most at risk. It went into
young people in hospitals before it went into our elderly
and nursing homes. That is not following the science and
the data. So I am all four following the science
and the data. But it shouldn't just be a statement.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
It should be a reality.
Speaker 8 (23:55):
And when we don't match what we do in public
health to the science and the data, that is when
we get into trouble, and that's when we start to
fracture trust with the American people.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
I would say so, doctor Marks, I would say so.
The frustrating part about this is that how many people
were asking these questions. How many people were making these
comments when this stuff was going on. We knew, we
knew when the vaccine. By the time the vaccine came
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out almost maybe a little beyond that, that the real
issue with COVID was going to be elderly people. And yet,
do you guys know that the CDC, as a last
time I checked, was still recommending a COVID vaccine for
maybes six months old and older. Did you know that?
So the fact that she's coming out now, I mean,
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good for her. Maybe she wants to cleanse her soul.
Maybe she wants to relieve herself of any sort of
guilt or responsibility for what COVID and its aftermath did
to this country, our children. We still have young people
who are dealing with the effects of a pericarditis and
myocarditis that I do believe they got from the vaccine
that is now being admitted. There's a connection. And the
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whole time we were told if you don't have the vaccine,
Remember there were people on television that said, if you
don't have a COVID vaccine and you get sick, you
should be denied medical care at a hospital. If you
don't have a COVID vaccine. I remember that, and that
if you didn't get a COVID vaccine and someone around
you died, it was your fault, because that was the
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only way we're going to keep it from straight stop
the spread. Let's review stop the spread policies. Stop the
spread policy Number one stand six feet apart. We already
know from doctor Anthony Fallci's own mouth that that was
just pulled out of hoole cloth. There was no scientific
evidence that that was ever going to work or do
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anything constructive for an airborne respiratory illness, which it was.
But hey, I know, let's throw in masking. Even though
the government's own studies about masking in a healthcare syst
sitting when you have a respiratory illness, a flu like
respiratory illness as covid is had no effect. Doctor Anthony
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Fauci I remember him saying. I remember it so clearly.
At one point he even said, you might want a
double mask. They told people to make masks out of
T shirts. Remember, everybody was sewing masks like we were
back in nineteen forty one. They were walking around with
their homemade masks dripping off of their face, not actually
providing any real coverage. I mean, the things that they
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told us to do, they just lied and if you
didn't do them, then you were the one who got
the stinki. Ugh, Mandy, please start calling the covid vaccine
the covid jab It's not a vaccine, okay, But the
flu they call the flu vaccine the flu vaccine, and
it's the same thing. That's why every year you gotta
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have a new one, the flu vaccine. I mean, you know, Mandy,
I've been told all my life that my eyelashes belong
on a girl. Face it some of us guys have
finnaminon features, naturally. What should we do about it? Sex
changes out of the question. Well, if I were you,
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I would be betting those eyelashes or whoever I wanted
about them at I am not gonna lie. I've always
at eyelash envy for anyone with great eyelashes because I
do not. First of all, the same color as my hair,
like a light like a dirty blonde. Not good. And secondly,
I don't have very many of them, so JD vance,
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I'm like, oh, JD. The eyelashes come on, Mandy. I
wonder if the chickens who refuse the new bird flu
vaccine will be fired. We'll see, we will see go
from there. There's a whole bunch more by the way
out about doctor Burks and some of the things that
she has said. But think about all the people that
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lost their jobs because of this, Think about the people
that were cycled tout the military because of this. Think
about all the people who lost their livelihoods because the
government decided what was an essential business and was what
wasn't COVID is I mean, I really really hope that
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as we get further away from COVID, we will look
back with shame about two things. Number one, the people
like doctor Deborah Burke's and doctor Anthony Fauci that let
us down a disastrous, unscientific path about COVID. And how
willingly so many people were willing to throw every civil
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liberty out the window in fear. We are so easy
to control. It's not even funny. And if you doubt it,
just go back and look at the COVID years, because
that should tell you everything you need to know. I mean,
I have a friend who's much younger than I am.
She's about thirty now, and so she was in her
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late twenties. She had friends that didn't leave their houses
for a year, people in their twenties who were so
scared of getting COVID and dying, even though statistically there
was almost no chance of them getting COVID and dying.
And that is what we allowed the government to do
to us. It's shameful and it's sad. Thank you for
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texting like this one. Don't forget the directional arrows on
the floor at the grocery store. And I will never
forgive them for closing the twenty four hour grocery store. Yes,
because COVID was only active at night, remember, And then
and then the other thing we learned about COVID is
you could take a restaurant and you could put a
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tent around some of the outside that was still enclosed.
But COVID wasn't in the tent that was enclosed. It
was just inside in the restaurant which was enclosed. Remember,
it all made so much sense, Mandy, We the people
who didn't need the vaccine should start filing civil suits
against Fauci and her. You know, we're gonna find out
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for many, many years, people that were damaged by the
vaccine and I'm not ever gonna forgive myself for even
remotely waiting into that. That's why if I ever talk
about medical stuff now, I'm gonna try and add a
disclaimer of you know what I'm do, what you're gonna do,
but don't do it because I said one way or
the other. Super frustrating, But you can't get blood from
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a stone. I mean, you could take their fortunes, but
it still wouldn't make it right for all the people
that were actually damaged. Mandy. I can't tell you how
many times I was confronted because I refused to wear
a mask. I got used to getting the stink eye,
and I just didn't care.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Mandy.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
I will have people to this day that won't come
around me because I never got the vaccine. Unreal that
people don't see this lie. You know, please feel free
to share them, share with them the blog today and
say hey, just to let you know, Yeah, it doesn't matter,
it's all about you. If they had just said, imagine
if they had said about the COVID shot. Imagine if
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they had just said, hey, guys, it's not going to
prevent transmission. However, if you think that you're gonna get
really sick with COVID. You are more than welcome to
get a vaccine, but that would have meant what They
weren't going to sell enough of them. I don't know
why they couldn't do that. I And that's kind of
what Debra Burk's is saying now. And yeah, you talk
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about undermining public health. COVID undermined public health in a
way that nothing else possibly could have at all. This
texture just said, Mandy, I'm a guy with the best eyelashes.
That is not nice, not nice at all, Mandy. I
don't know why, but guys generally have longer eyelashes than gals.
(31:56):
Not every guy, trust me on this, not every guy, Mandy.
COVID had multiple purposes that governments around the world use.
Isn't that the truth? And a sad truth at that.
Remember the video when they made masks out of women's
song underwear. I think it was a joke. Any video
about making a mask was a joke if unintentionally. Young
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people that became hermits during COVID were nothing but narcissists, creepy,
wilfully ignorant, alarmist, probably in many cases millennials, narcissist. So
here's the thing, you, guys, when the news media that
you trust is telling you that something is going to
kill you and you're still at the point in life
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when you believe everything news me and it tells you
with that unquestionably. And I think everybody's had that moment.
Some of us just snapped out of it faster than others.
It was I could see why they would feel that way,
But then it became wilfully ignorant. Then it became I'm
going to keep wearing my mask forever. I was just
on an airplane yesterday. You guys, flying in and out
(33:03):
of Denver, when you get to any other place, you
don't see any masks, But flying in and out of Denver,
there's always those people on the plane with the masks on.
And every single time they pull their mask down to
eat or drink, and I'm just like, what are you
still doing? What? But hey, you know what, they can
do what they want to do, as long as they
don't expect me to do the same. Mandy, have you
(33:26):
noticed a serious drop off in the ability of voice
to text to actually do its job. I don't remember
having these problems ten years ago. My Voice to Text
now has started adding random pun punctuation in my voice
to text, and it won't even make sense. I'll say, hey, there,
comma because I always voice my punctuation as well. My
(33:49):
text was one like this, Hey there a comma. Ay Rod,
can you make sure that this happens? And my They'll
just put a period in the middle of the sentence
for no reason, like what are we doing?
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Well, you know, I mean, if we can convert ben
Albright to iPhone, which I just recently learned about, you
can go to the superior side as well. Yeah, not
just the other side, the superior side. It's fine, have
a subpar phone, have issues all the time, It's all.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Right, Hey Mandy. During the beginning of the pandemic, I
admitted my wife to a nursing home, and when social
restrictions took place, I was not allowed to visit her
for two months she was there. Then the nursing home
required my daughter and I to have proof of the
COVID vaccine to be able to visit her for thirty
minutes per week. My at the time employer literally paid
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me forty per vaccine shot. I made eighty bucks. Now
I've been suffering from long term systemic inflammation from the
shots never tested positive for COVID. My wife has passed
away since. But hey, you know what, at least Deborah
Burks is admitting it now. I'm sure that's cold comfort.
I'm so sorry about all of that story. That's terrible,
(34:59):
absolute utely terrible.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Mandy.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
I was a teacher, strongly encouraged to get the vaccine.
I still ended up getting it and giving it to
my own family. After that, I said, well, I can't
read that last part on the radio. Nope, Mandy. And
there were those eight inch knots painted on the floors
and sidewalks six feet apart. It was all so stupid,
you guys. It was so so stupid. Mandy. My very
(35:26):
liberal sister still wears a mask. It's become a crutch
for her. And you know what, There you go. That's
all you need to see. Right now. When we get back,
we're going to talk about something much more uplifting. Andrew
Kneales than Houses for Warriors is trying to provide not
just housing, but the kind of support for veterans who
are either homeless or about to become homeless so they
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can live their best lives. We're going to tell you
about it. Right after this.
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Speaker 5 (36:17):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
And I'm thrilled to have with me now Andrew Canals.
He is the CEO and founder of Houses for Warriors,
a wonderful operation that decided to try and tackle homelessness
in the veteran community. But now it's just turned into
even so much more. Andrew, first of all, welcome back
to the show.
Speaker 10 (36:39):
Thanks for having me back. It's good to see you.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
So let's talk for a second. If nobody's ever heard
of Houses for Warriors, let's talk about how this thing
got started, what the mission is, and what you've accomplished
in the lifespan so far.
Speaker 10 (36:54):
Yeah, I guess it all kind of starts with my story.
You know, when I got out of the military, I
had to combat towards in Iraq. I survived a major
rocket attack that injured a lot of people, and I
really struggled with PTSD and just controlling my emotions and
not being responsible and not making responsible choices. And you know,
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between addiction issues and alcoholism, you know, I was I
hit rock bottom and I was able to get out
of it through getting support and getting my disability, which
I was entitled to the whole time that I struggled,
you know, I was homeless for two and a half
years and just you know, in and out of a
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lot of turmoil and and and didn't have really a
support network. And when I finally got support and I
finally asked for help and I started changing my life.
I really started wanting to you know, continue my service
and give back in a in a different way. And so,
you know, when people started seeing that my life was
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getting better and and you know, I was becoming more successful,
and I got a service dog, and people, how'd you
get your dog? How did you know? How did you
do this? How did you get your benefits? And I
started just really helping the people that I knew that
had served, and it grew from there. You know, after
I received a service dog and got inspired, I started
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going back to school and I started Houses for Warriors
in twenty nineteen and and the whole purpose was to
improve the quality of life for all injured and homeless veterans.
I had also been injured. I broke both in my
femurs mountain biking, and it was just it was a
crazy time in my life that just spiraled and went,
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you know, deeper and deeper and darker and darker. And
so to get out of that and to reclaim my
life and rebuild my life, and now I have a
successful business, and I'm married, and we're working on kids
and and you know, there's there's a lot that has
changed that I never saw myself have that I could
never see myself having when when I was in it,
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when I was when I was struggling. And so, you know,
it's been five years. We've grown way beyond how we started.
You know, we started out doing service projects, and I
was just organizing construction projects for veterans that needed you know,
ramps and wheelchair accessibility and new roofs or major repairs,
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and built the community of contractors and volunteers to do
these projects. And then beyond that, you know, in twenty
twenty one, during the pandemic, we started getting lots of
calls looking for homes and looking for places to go,
you know, people calling in the winter saying, Hey, I'm
on the street and I have nowhere to go. And
so we got we got our start in the transitional
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housing by just getting people hotels, extended state hotels. We
worked out a deal with one of the with one
of the local hotels here and really anybody that had
an available room, we would and I would like raise
money individually for these individuals and get them as much
support as I can. And then it got into giving
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them jobs with the contractors in construction and we eventually
got our own transitional home in twenty twenty one. We
started by leasing this house. It was a five bedroom
home that we had seven beds and we were transitioning.
It took a while to start, but we ended up
transitioning about fifteen, maybe eighteen veterans to that house. And
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then just under about a year and a half ago,
we moved into a nicer neighborhood, a nicer home that
had more space, and we gave everyone their own bedroom.
We learned from the first home and we decided to
cut it down to four. So we've been helping four
veterans at a time, about about ten to twelve per
year in this one home. And you know, we're getting
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to the point now where we've helped about thirty six
veterans and the program has evolved from just providing a
safe place. You know, that's how it started. It was
a safe, comfortable place that had all the amenities of
any group home, video games and TV streaming and all that.
Every room has a TV and and the idea evolved into, Okay,
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you know, let's give them new structure. You know, let's
create you know, we've created house rules and chores and
you know, they have to take care of their space.
And then beyond that, you know, we we raise We
do a bunch of drives and raise money so that
we can provide all the basic needs that they would
need in that home. So their food's provided, freezer Giant
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thirty thirty, keep a foot freezer full of meat and food,
all the house goods, toilet paper, paper products, like everything
is provided so that they can really just focus on
getting on their feet. We implemented a ninety day program
with a mentor and a coach and a facilitator, and
they give us one weekend a month now where they
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are focused on personal growth and doing personal development workshops
and professional development workshops with their coaches in a in
a structured environment. We're actually doing these at Redrox Community College,
so there they graciously gave us a classroom space to
do this class every weekend or every a week, one
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weekend a month. And it's very intensive. They're they're dealing
with like deep rooted programs and deep rooted money issues
and trauma in and out of the military, you know,
from childhood and and post military as well, so you know,
it's a very intense program. It's gotten more and more
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intense intensive and really just focused on the individual's needs,
helping them set goals and then having a support network
and a group of people that are holding them accountable
to doing what they say they're going to do, the
choices that they're making, and ultimately, you know, working as
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a team within the home to support each other through through.
Speaker 4 (43:16):
All of this.
Speaker 10 (43:17):
And and it's it's been a beautiful thing to witness.
We've had some tremendous results. You know, the program, it's
it's working more and more as time goes on, because
we're getting more experienced, We're we're altering the program as
as we learn from from every veteran that goes through it,
constantly making it better constantly giving them more attention and
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more focus and more support, but at the same time
holding them accountable to doing it themselves, you know, being responsible,
making responsible choices, and and and really just we're you know,
our program really combats any other other transition program out there.
You know, we're we're not just giving them a handout.
We've always said we're a hand up, not a handout.
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And you know, the government's very focused on creating dependency
and maybe maybe unintentionally, you know, let's.
Speaker 5 (44:10):
Just say, politically, I can argue about the policies. Yeah, no, no,
I was just gonna say, Andrew, this is what I
love about this because one of the things that I
have learned throughout the years of talking to people with
different kinds of programs similar to this one, and that
is when you add in the responsibility piece, when you
add in the sense of responsibility to the other housemates
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that live there, and you know, holding others accountable, those
are the kind of things that help someone build their identity,
their own self worth back. Is because being part of
the pack again and being part of a group and
then being a good member of that group, I mean,
that's that's a really powerful thing. How did that evolve?
Did that evolve organically where guys were like, look, you
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got to pull your weight? I mean, how did that
process come about?
Speaker 10 (44:59):
Well, it always happens a little organically because if somebody
is not pulling their weight around the house, the burden
gets heavy on on the other three. Having a small
collaborative living environment like that, if somebody leaves their dishes
in the sink, there's only one of four people that
can be like, you know, so, so and and and
empowering the veterans to manage their own home. You know,
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we we step in, we're we're constantly there. We have
house meetings every week. You know, they're required to check
in with their mentors three times a week on time
at the time they designate. They can renegotiate that, but
but ultimately they're you know, it's a structure. And when
when they're when they start falling outside of the structure,
you know, it's the rest of their group finds out
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very quickly, and it took a lot of work to
get here. You know, we actually hired an amazing facilitator.
He was actually a personal mentor of mine. He you know,
I went through a similar ninety day growth program that
that had a different structure, but ultimately the same program
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that that really turned me into the man I am today. Uh,
you know, and that was just within the last few years,
you know, in the middle of my journey with the nonprofit,
and so to be able to offer it to them
and restructure it to fit into the housing program, it's
been a major void, uh that we've filled with with
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hiring this facilitator, and this facilitator brought an amazing team
of volunteer coaches that have been through advanced personal growth work.
They they've all been experienced working together. I met a
lot of them. A lot of these people were at
my wedding, you know that that's how close we all are.
And and so, you know, getting these people involved has
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made a tremendous impact in the lives of the veterans
that veteran the program. Currently, we're seeing major changes in
character and behavior. You know, one that there's one story
in particular. He stands out because he really struggled. He
had a criminal background. Unfortunately, he uh you know, had
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a really hard time getting a job when he moved here.
He moved here to get away from a crowd that
was holding him down. And making you know, and supporting
bad choices in his life. So he took the risk,
came all the way to Colorado. We helped him get here,
and then moved into our home and then just really
struggled and struggled. And you can only struggle so long,
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you know, with the same mindset, and and it eventually
really weighs on you. And and so once we implemented
the ninety day program and we got him a mentor,
we got him a coach, and we started doing these
weekend seminars, he really started breaking out of his old
patterns and programs. And you know, he is now doing
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a culinary uh program with another veteran organization. He's learning
how to be a chef. It's a very good industry
for him to be in because they a lot of
the time, as long as you can cook good food
and do your job and pay attention and be clean
and and do you know, do the job right, they
don't care about your history or your background. And very
similar to construction. And so you know, we we get them,
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you know, we we we do our best to navigate
their personal barriers. And and they're all different. Everybody has
a different story, you know, some people aren't ready for
the type of intensive personal work that we're we're we're
kind of pushing them into. And then you know, it's
it's like we say, it's not just a housing program.
This is a transformative, transformative program that's going to help
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and never be homeless again. And that that's what I
was getting to to. You know, the current programs out there,
you know, they just create dependency, and and these guys
are going from program to program to program and and
a lot of them just aren't getting any real tools
or resources to change their lives. Right, And so I
can confidently say that that Houses for Warriors, and this
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Warriorhouse program and our Warrior Resiliency training, that ninety day
program is all is actually doing that We're actually transforming
lives from the root causes of their struggles and what
led them to being homeless. And we're giving them the
tools and the resources and the mindset and the support
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really is the big one, the real support to change
their lives and make different choices and start getting what
they want in life. You know, it wasn't enough for
me to just get them an apartment or help them
get an apartment, and you know, beyond that we also
furnish those apartments. When they move out, we collect furniture
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and house goods and make sure that they don't need
anything during this transition. That wasn't enough for me.
Speaker 5 (50:00):
I don't want to I don't want to run out
of time, but I want to make sure we get
to what's happening this Saturday. Tell me, first of all,
what are we raising five hundred thousand dollars to do?
And how are how are you doing this Saturday at three? Awesome?
Speaker 10 (50:14):
Thank you for asking. I can ramble. I know I'm
very passionate about this and and this this upcoming event
on to twenty two is a huge, huge milestone for
our organization. We're hosting this in our in our classroom
at Red Rocks Community College. It's also a hybrid event,
so you can you can attend virtually and and watch
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and share the live stream and even go live yourself.
But this is a this is a community effort. It's
about stepping up and and and volunteering and helping us
raise this money. It's it's incorporated into our ninety day program.
With the current veterans that are there, We're going to
We're going to be interviewing some of those guys and
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hearing their stories directly. Uh, we're going to be streaming
the entire event, and and the goal is to buy
a new home, a bigger, nicer home. We've we've had
about a maybe for about a year and a half now.
We've had a waiting list of at least four to
five veterans at any given time, and we just we
just you know, this is a process. You know, it
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takes you know, between three and nine months to really
you know, help this help these guys change and transform
their lives. And so you know, we just we don't
have enough space and we haven't been able to just
get them in and out fast enough.
Speaker 4 (51:37):
You know.
Speaker 10 (51:37):
We we give them as much time as they need
typically to to transition back into an independence, uh life.
So this, this fundraiser is about getting involved, making this
mission your mission. It's about coming together as a community
and purchasing this this home. You know, obviously five hundred
(51:59):
thousand dollars isn't enough to buy the house that we want.
You know, this is we're looking at eight to ten
rooms with a wreck room and a study room and
just you know, amenities for them to really collaborate, work together,
feel comfortable and show them what's possible in their lives.
And you know, in order to do that, you know, obviously,
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any donation supports us five dollars, one thousand dollars, one
hundred thousand dollars right, anything will help. The goal is
to get enough to put a significant down payment on
a new home, you know, reduce the mortgage as much
as possible by putting as much down as we can,
and then putting some money into our account for operations
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and you know, supporting the program for the next year
or two. So we have a number of ways to
do this. Obviously, they can show up, help us, make calls.
We're encouraging everyone to you know, call those friends and
family that you know will support our mission and support
housing homeless veterans. We uh. We also encourage you to
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go live and share the live stream mention it on
on the day of and and share the link and
and get people there. Like I said, we'll be interviewing veterans.
We'll be interviewing some of the volunteers and the coaches
that are working one on one with our vets. And
there's also some naming rights opportunities as well, so if
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you want to really you know, kick down and and
and be a big, big help for for this campaign.
Help us by naming a bedroom, help us by naming
that new movie room that we want to build, or
the game room, or even name the house right. You know,
those are the biggest ways to support. You know, it
comes with recognition, and you know we'll we'll invite you
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to all of our graduation events. You get to meet
the veterans that are that are supporting, that we're supporting,
and and it's just it's gonna be a good time.
We're gonna have pizza, We're gonn to have volunteers, and
the team WRT Team one is going to be present
and helping and supporting. And it's part of their ninety
day growth program is to be involved and give back
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to those who are giving.
Speaker 5 (54:14):
Well, Andrew, I appreciate it. I put everything on the blog. So,
Andrew Knelis is my guest from Houses for Warriors. This
is all happening Saturday from three to six pm a telethon.
I was going to ask you if Jerry Lewis was
going to host, but I doubt it because he's old
and cranky. Now, I also put a link to the
Houses for Warriors website. If you just want to jump
right there and make a donation, you can do that
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as well. Or you can participate on Saturday, or you
can make a donation big enough, or you can just
give him a house. If you have an eight to
ten bedroom house laying around, don't know what to do
with it, just give Andrew a call and say I've
got a house for you. That would be fantastic, great
tax right off for you. Andrew. I love what you're
doing and I cannot wait to hear about the next
house that you guys at Houses for Warriors are going
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to be able to open with this money.
Speaker 10 (55:01):
Well, I'm looking forward to it. I really appreciate your
time and letting me share this mission.
Speaker 5 (55:05):
All right, Andrew Canalis, thank you so much, my friend.
Speaker 10 (55:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (55:11):
Have a good day. All right. That is Andrew Canalis
with Houses for Warriors. You guys, we are so and
we talked about this last week when Rob was on
the show. By the way, a Rod did a fantastic
video of Rob getting his big cardboard check, So if
you heard him on the show on Thursday, you can
see exactly how shocked he was. Very shocked when we
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gave him the giant cardboard check, so we were pretty
excited about that. Anyway, when we get back, it's time
to talk a Rod retrieve the dead horse. We'll be
back with that right after this by a Rod. The
dead horse, of course, being how bad the Colorado Republican
leadership is. This story broke last Friday. Of course it did,
(55:55):
because it's so idiotic that they tried to send it
out on a Friday afternoon.
Speaker 6 (56:00):
Us.
Speaker 5 (56:00):
I'm hoping that nobody would notice how stupid it is,
but I noticed from coloradopeakpolitics dot com. The Colorado Republican
Party sued six prominent state Republicans this week, alleging the
group orchestrated a failed coup that attempted to remove state
GOP Chairman Dave Williams and his fellow state party officers
(56:23):
from their positions last summer, costing the party substantial legal
fees and diverting resources from campaigns just weeks before the
November election. Oh yeah, yeah. The lawsuit the state GOP
Dave Williams, and the party's vice chair and secretary asked
(56:45):
the court to find that Republicans who instigated and carried
out a plan that claim to have replaced Williams and
other officers are liable for unspecified damages to be determined
at trial. They have named Eli Bremmer, Todd Watkins, Nancy Palazzi,
(57:08):
Kevin McCartney, Britta Horn, and Christy Burton Brown in the lawsuit.
And this is yet another example of the trash decision
making of the Colorado Republican Party leadership. And I have
to put leadership in air quotes because there's no leadership here.
There's vindictiveness, there's spitefulness, and there's a small group of
(57:30):
people who would rather burn the whole thing down and
rule over the ashes than do anything constructive in any way,
shape or form. And I hope that some judge laughs
this out of the courtroom. It's beyond absurd. But then again,
what else would we expect from this group, this clown
(57:50):
show running the Colorado GOP. So you know, I know
that there's going to be an election to bring in
new leadership. As of right now, I to see Britta
Horn in the seat out of the candidates that I
have that I am aware of. And something happened that
has never happened before, So I realized we're having a leadership,
you know, discussion kind of thing. And I have gotten
(58:13):
probably five different emails about one specific candidate for Colorado
Republican leadership. I don't know if any of these five
people know each other, but they all came over the
last two weeks, staggered out, not even on the same day,
like this was a coordinated effort asking me to please
ensure that Darcy Shoenik does not become the chair of
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the Colorado GOP. And these various people who are relaying
to me an email, and I can't verify any of
these stories directly, you know what I'm saying, Like they're
all secondhand, so I'm not going to share them with you.
But all stories about her being a bully, either on
social media in person, about her being extremely nasty to
(58:58):
people that disagree with her, and they believe that she
would be more of the same of the Dave Williams
style of leadership. And again can't verify any of these things,
although some people did send me screenshots of social media
posts that she was involved in that were quite nasty,
but I found that interesting. That's never happened before where
I've had like a drip campaign, and I don't know
if it's a coordinated campaign, or if it's just all
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of these people saying, holy cow, you think Williams is bad?
Darcy schoeneg is off the hook. I don't want any
more divisive people in leadership. I don't want people who
believe in retribution, who use words like treason to talk
about people who are concerned about the direction of the
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party because the party was not helping candidates. It's laughable
that in this lawsuit they actually say caused harm just
before an election. Representative Gabe Evans, Representative Jeff Crank, they
both come on this program and said I got zero
(01:00:01):
help from the Colorado Republican Party other than being able
to use a mailing list. Zero. So what damages are
they going after? I just I don't understand. I don't
understand people who are who would rather be right or
feel like they were right instead.
Speaker 6 (01:00:20):
Of win.
Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
Because we're not winning. We want a little bit more,
and do not give me. Do not for a second
try to give anybody in charge of the Colorado GP
any credit for that, because they endorse the people that
ran against the winners in the primary. Let's not forget. Please,
(01:00:42):
if you are a Republican and you are going to
vote on this. Please take the party back. Just put
someone normal in charge. Put someone who is not fully
invested in profiteering off of the Republican Party, who is
not invested in suing other Republicans. Do you know me, Democrats,
(01:01:04):
the Republican Party has sued zero? Do you know how
many campaigns the Republican Party has run successfully? Zero that
I can find. Even Lauren Bobert, who was supported by
Dave Williams in the election, even she is done with
this nonsense, as was indicated as she tried to talk
(01:01:25):
some kind of sanity back into an insane meeting where
Williams was trying to change the bylaws so we could
stick around longer. And it's so bad, so incredibly incredibly bad,
and they just keep piling on, making one more bad
decision after one more bad decision, after one more bad decision.
(01:01:48):
It's just baffling to me. There's so many opportunities for
Republicans in Colorado right now. People don't feel safe in
our major city centers. They don't think their kids are
being educated properly, and they're not. Test scores show us
they're not. The cost of living is going up every year.
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Directly because of the nickel and diming of the Democratic
Party that keeps passing more fees, more fees, more fees,
which we all know are taxes, but they can't raise taxes,
so they're just piling more fees on us. There are
so many places where the Republican Party could be winning
right now, and instead of that, instead of making the
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argument for more conservative policy, smaller government, freer markets, freer economies,
they're suing other Republicans who decided that they wanted to
follow the bylaws and call a meeting to get this
clown show out. If only they've been successful. But I
actually believe that the judge who ruled in favor of
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Dave Williams is probably a Democrat and knew that the
longer this guy is in charge, the more there will
be beset by infighting, the more money will be wasted
on lawsuits that are going nowhere, the more inanity and
the less effect of the Republican Party will be. So,
if I'm a Democrat, I'm doing everything in my power
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to keep Dave Williams and his little cabal in charge,
all his little rhino calling friends so clever can't define
what a good Republican looks like but the boy. They
love to call people rhinos, and you can go from
Republican and good standing to rhino overnight because they just
move the goalposts. That is truly so ampathetical to everything
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I've always believed about the Republican Party. The pettiness, the smallness,
the vindictiveness, the absolute disregard for the people who may
align with the Republican Party on a lot of issues
but not on all of them. They don't care. They
can shrink away, and then they can have their media.
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They can have the whole state convention inside like a
Denny's somewhere, because there'll be so few people left. It's
so so infuriating, so infuriating, and yet here we are. Okay, ay, Rod,
you can return the dead horse to the closet. We'll
move on in the next segment. This text is right, Hi, Mandy,
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my Democrat friend said, Williams is God's gift to Colorado Democrats. Yes, indeedy,
my friends, he is. I don't know how I missed
this until now. Apparently women are still shaving their heads
to protest the election of Donald Trump. What what? Oh?
By the way, I have something on my blog and
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it's from my friend Jeff Hunt, who actually worked for
a competing radio station, But he went to the protest
yesterday downtown, and this video is so flip and funny.
It is so incredibly funny. Oh my gosh, tell me
that I put it on the blog. Did I? I
might not have because it had so much bad language
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in it. Oh, it's on my it's on my uh
my x speed. But he went downtown and he asked
for specifics, like, hey, what has Donald Trump done? Well,
he's he's coming from my rights and my voting rights
and lgbt Q rights and more rights, and he's taken
away the rights. And he's like, well, what specifically, And
they're like, I don't want to talk to you anymore. Nope, now,
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don't I adoct to you anymore. I love it when
people show up at a protest. But then when you
ask for details, they're like, I know the eight person
to talk to you about this. You need to talk
to my friend. She reads the New York Times. She
can't tell you what we're mad about. But then I
see this video just now that apparently women are shaving
their heads to protest Donald Trump, and this is one
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of those things I don't understand about women. Why is
that an effective form of protest? Who are you hurting?
No one? No one? And what if you shave your
head and you got like a wee weird shaped head.
I'm pretty sure I have a weird shaped skull. Everybody,
you ever shaped your head, you know, just fall on bald?
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Ever did that? Ever?
Speaker 6 (01:06:07):
Since I did an AI rendering of what I would
look like bald?
Speaker 5 (01:06:11):
No?
Speaker 6 (01:06:12):
No, I mean it's okay, but my head's massive.
Speaker 5 (01:06:16):
It is like an orange on a toothpick. I mean
your head is giant.
Speaker 6 (01:06:19):
Yeah, I wear I wear hats they don't buy, they
don't sell in stores exactly over eight.
Speaker 5 (01:06:25):
Yeah, it would not look good. You do have a
giant noggin. Like I'm just afraid I would have weird
because I can feel like a weird bump back here,
you know what I mean? Like everybody'd be like, well,
what the heck happened back there? I don't know. Talk
to my parents. Maybe they got dropped as a child.
But this is one of those things where I guess,
if you're trying to signal to the world and you
want everyone to know how unhappy you are about Donald
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Trump's presidency. Then that's one way to say, yes, I
either have cancer alopecia, or I'm just mad about Donald Trump,
or maybe I just look really good bald. I gotta
tell you have a little bit of envy for African
American women because they can pull off the bald thing.
I've never seen a white woman. No, I take that back.
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I've seen two white women, both recovering from cancer that
look good bald. But black women can rock that look.
Probably not all black women, but a lot of black
women can rock that look. It's just nonsensical, absolutely nonsensical. Okay.
A fun story that I have today. I grabbed it
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from the Denver Gazette. I love, love, love it, and
they don't do enough. And if you work for the
Denver Gazette, I need you to tell your editor that
I need more stories like this. They call it Craving
Colorado and Steth Foster we've had on the show before.
He actually wrote about a place in Lamar, Colorado, on
the Eastern Plains. Not a lot going on in Lamar
except the rebirth of the cow Palace. Oh yes, in Lamar.
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Now it's a foodie destination. I think that's pretty cool.
I'm gonna drive the Lamar and visit it just because
why not just do it? Because that's that would be
a good way to spend an afternoon driving out to
Lamar and back. Maybe anyone, anyone at all? No, Okay,
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moving on.
Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (01:08:17):
A Rod did a review of Captain America. So you
went and saw it Friday night, A Rod, and your
words were, it wasn't as bad as what you'd heard.
I told you i'd seen mixed reviews.
Speaker 6 (01:08:26):
Yes, yeah, nowhere nearly as bad as people have been saying.
Speaker 5 (01:08:30):
I liked it a lot. Don't you think when you
go into a movie with an expectation of, oh, I
don't know, I've heard about things, and then it turns
out to not be horrible, you're like, oh, okay, I
much prefer the bar to be at ground zero. Yeah,
just Steven Stevens.
Speaker 6 (01:08:44):
Yeah, make it as low as possible and just be terrible.
And then I go in go, oh okay, okay, I
was really good.
Speaker 5 (01:08:52):
So I watched a movie on the plane coming back
yesterday that could have been so fantastic that I find
myself getting angry that Tyler Perry directed it because the
story of the Six Triple Eight, which is a battalion
of African American women in World War Two, the only
wag what was wax wax battalions that deployed to Europe,
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and they set them up to fail at a task
that multiple units had tried to solve, and that was
dealing with a backlog of mail. It's a fantastic story
and it's a true story, and it's really interesting, and
Carrie Washington plays the lead and she was just so
incredibly good, like her performance wasted in a movie that
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Tyler Perry decided to make about racism, which there was racism. Now,
don't get me wrong, you have to address the racism
that these women faced. But instead of addressing the fact
that this group of women got together and solved a
problem that multiple other units had tried to solve and
no one else could solve it. But then he just
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glosses over how they a actually solve the problem and
I liken it to Apollo thirteen. Have you ever seen
Apollo thirteen?
Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
A red?
Speaker 5 (01:10:05):
I think?
Speaker 4 (01:10:06):
So?
Speaker 5 (01:10:06):
Okay, So the astronauts are stuck in space. A huge
part of the movie is about the guys on the
ground trying to engineer a solution to how to fix
this problem to bring these astronauts back from space. None
of that, none of that. I was so mad. I
was like, what a great story. It could have been
so much better, so much better. The actresses were great,
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but he just he leaned in on one part instead
of leaning in on the important part, which is these
women solved a problem that no one else could fix
and we really don't know how. There's like two throwaway
lines about how they did it. I'm like, ah, so
aggravating when a movie could have been so much more. Anyway.
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Did you guys hear the hate speech in Keenan Dixon's
news cast? He said it was gonna be a low
of one tonight. That's not cool. It's a dumb low one.
Boo boo. So on the blog today, I have a story,
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actually a column by the esteemed Michael Rosen. You may
be familiar with his work from decades on the radio
Here at KOWA he wrote a column about the birthright
citizenship order. Now, if you heard my conversation with Constitutional
Attorney John you John dismissed the possibility that anything will
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change here because, as he said, no, this has already
been designed by a prior lawsuit, and that was inconsistent
with what I thought I knew. But I could lie
and tell you that I know absolutely was sure, but
I wasn't. So over the weekend did to win on
investigating and the issue of birthright citizenship when it comes
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to people in the country illegally, has not been decided.
And with the current court makeup where we have a
majority of people who generally speaking act like originalists, meaning
they look for the original intent in the Constitution before
making a rolling, although they are not entirely consistent with that,
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I didn't think it had been decided. And Mike Rosen
wrote a column today that pretty much confirms what I
thought I knew from Mike's column. The Fourteenth Amendment to
the Constitution was ratified following the Civil War in eighteen
sixty eight. It was all about ending slavery and punishing
Southern rebellion. Section one granted citizenship and all constitutional protections
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to former slaves, born or naturalized in the United States,
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. That last part is very,
very important as it now applies to foreigners. The key
phrase doesn't just mean being subject to our laws. The
framers of the amendment intended the allegiance to the US
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be exclusive and to no other country. Foreign tourists, legally
or illegally in the US are subject to our laws,
but not our political jurisdiction. They owe no allegiance to
the US. Hence, if a child is born to them
while they're visiting here, that child should have no automatic
right to American citizenship. In an eighteen eighty four case
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versus Wilkins, SCOTUS ruled that even Indians weren't granted citizenship
by the Fourteenth as they were subject to tribal jurisdiction,
not US jurisdiction. That is what I've always thought was
not had not been decided yet. Now what's interesting is
we see the protests that happened a couple of weeks
ago where people are walking around waving their Mexican flags. Well,
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that certainly flies in the face of subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, right, I mean, really really. It's a great
column by Mike, who again just nails it. But I'm
interested to see how all this is decided because this
could throw a lot of people into chaos, because there
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are a lot of people who have lived their entire
lives born here in the United States of America whose
parents were either not here as citizens or not here
with status some kind of status, and gave birth I mean,
what do you do with all those people? What do
you do with the retroactive people? You can't hold them
responsible for that. It's gonna be a very interesting thing
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to see how this all happens. Now. I'm guessing that
Congress could act quickly to protect the those people, but
maybe we put a punctuation mark in and say, okay,
from this point forward, no more, no more. Because I
actually believe that birthright citizenship is a huge lure for
people to come to the United States, specifically to have
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a child to create a citizen that they are connected to.
So family reunification policies can be used to bring over
more family members after a child has been born here
and has given citizenship. I think it's a very big
incentive for illegal immigration, especially for women who come here
pregnant so they can have their babies here. We talked
about the Chinese tourism thing. Huge Chinese women come over
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here at seven months, they stay here in really nice
luxury hotels, they give birth in the United States, and
then they take their baby and they go back to China,
and that China now has dual citizenship that baby. I
just think that's not the way to have a country.
It's a little too loosey goosey for my taste. Just
letting you know, so we'll see what happens. But again
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Mike making the point that is going to uh, We're
gonna have to figure it out. He ends the column
by saying, ultimately, SCOTIS can make its ruling unequivocal, with
the majority opinion declaring it was the intent of the
fourteenth Amendment that only those persons born to citizens of
the United States or naturalized in the United States and
subject to the exclusive jurisdiction thereof are the citizens of
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the United States. And like I said, I don't know
what this would mean to people whose status would be
thrown into chaos. I think there needs to be immediate clarification,
But I don't trust Congress. I don't trust Congress on anything,
because everything in Congress is just it's kind of like
what Donald Trump is doing right now. I keep saying
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when Donald Trump does something or anounces something, I'm like,
just wait, just wait. That's the starting point, because what
should be simple to all of us out here. Even
if you believe the birthright citizenship should be ended, I mean,
you're not suggesting that people who have been born here
and have lived their entire lives should somehow be subject
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to deportation. I just think that's unreasonable and very very cruel.
All that being said, do you trust Congress to go
in and quickly fix the issue? Of course not, because
members of Congress are going to look to get their
little skin out of the game. The bill will man
end up being one thousand pages long, just to make
sure that we can take care of this one issue.
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I just Congress is being left in the dust right
now by the Trump administration. But if they don't get
theirselves together, get their act together, start codifying some of
this stuff into law, I mean, what are we even doing.
What's going to happen with the next Continuing Resolution? How
big is that thing going to be? What's it going
to have in it. We won't know because we'll get
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the three thousand page bill two minutes before they pass it.
That's just standard and really really sad and not cool
at all, not even a little bit. A couple of
things we're gonna talk about next. Blake Street tavern is
rising like a phoenix, and if you're waiting for your
Colorado state tax return, you're gonna be waiting a little longer.
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But before all that, two Colorado men, well they're trying
to get Florida man or run for his money. And
I love this story, so you're gonna hear it too
right after this. Okay, I gotta tell you, guys, it's
my favorite news story I Saturday. This is just it's so.
This is one of those things where you can just
picture these two geniuses sitting around. They're probably drinking, maybe
they're smoking a little mess and one of them says,
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you know what we should do? I bet if we
could get contraband into this prison in Louisiana, then we
could split the profits with our homeboys. Who's in this
prison right now? How hard can it be? Right? Uh?
Apparently pretty hard because two Colorado men or under arrest.
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They were arrested and Grant Parish, Louisiana. It is home
to the US Penitentiary Pollock Facility. According to the Grant
Parish Sheriff's office, eighteen year old Jose Francisco Herrero Munez
and nineteen year old Angel Gonzales Gudierez, both from Greeley,
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tried to smuggle in one hundred and twelve thousand dollars
worth of tobacco and eighty nine thousand and five hundred
dollars worth of methamphetamine into the prison. How did these
two geniuses do it? Just you wait, wait for it. People,
wait for it. The sheriff's office said the two planned
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to use a cannon to launch the items over a
security fence and on to federal prison grounds. This particular
cannon uses compressed air and as a shooting range of
more than three hundred and fifty feet. So basically, what
I'm envisioning is a glorified potato gun, only instead of potatoes,
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it would fire cigarettes and methanthetamine. And then we are
all supposed to believe from these geniuses that no one
inside the prison, like a guard in a watch tower
or guards standing in the yard, none of them would
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notice this projectile hurling over the security fence and then
dropping into the yard. No one was going to notice that. Shockingly,
Ice has issued a detainer for mister Munno's, who, in
addition to living in Greeley, is also in the country illegally.
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Now here's my question, and I'm sure this is your
question too, Where exactly did these two geniuses come up
with one hundred and twelve thousand dollars worth of tobacco
and eighty nine five hundred dollars worth of methamphetamine. I mean,
do you have that kind of scratch laying around? You
get a couple hundred grand worth of drugs and tobacco
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laying around your house, and you're gonna fire it using
a cannon into a prison. I'm guessing these gentlemen had
shared drugs and stolen tobacco with others before they decided
to hurl it over the prison wall. Just guessing. I mean,
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that's my favorite story so far of twenty twenty five.
Colorado genius is trying to fire stuff over the wall
of a prison. Never let it be said that we
got anything on Florida man. You know, Florida man's been
kind of quiet. Haven't heard any wack of doodle Florida
man stories in a while. It's like Florida all of
a sudden, was like, you know, I think these people
are making fun of me. I don't want to do
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it anymore. I'm not gonna do dumb stuff. I'm not
gonna put that alligator through that drifting window. They just
got hit to it right there. If you're waiting for
your Colorado's state income tax refund, well keep on waiting.
The Colorado Department of Revenue announced Tuesday it plans to
start processing state tax returns this week. Why uh, yeah,
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I don't know. Tax season started a couple of weeks ago,
with the state Department of Revenue had not put up
the website for e filing yet, and when asked about it,
they were kind of like, what, all of a sudden,
Florida man is running the Department of Revenue in Colorado.
What's interesting about these news stories is that they don't
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really get a kind of a statement. Oh, here's a
statement from the Department of Revenue. In a statement provided
last week, a spokesperson said, we have nothing to announce
it this time and are focused on completing the necessary
work to ensure taxpayers have a smooth and secure tax
filing experience. Color me crazy, but aren't there a whole
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bunch of months that are not tax season that you're
supposed to get that done? I mean kind of like,
I mean, you got one job, got one one job,
and they didn't quite eke that out. Last story before
next segment, we're talking to Auror City Councilwoman Danielle Drinsky.
So I want to get this in bakes bleah, let
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me try that one more time. Blake Street Tavern closed
on opening day for the Rockies two years ago. In
twenty twenty three, the owner of Chris Fusley had had
enough after trying to keep the place open through COVID
and stepped aside. Two years later, on opening day, the
tavern at Blake Street will reopen. It's still some you know,
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sports bar, but it's also going to be a music venue,
events base, all kinds of stuff going on. I just thought,
if you're the sort of person who goes down to
opening day as we do every year, where what helps
springs Etarnal just for that one day as a Rockies fan? Uh?
Does this make you a happier side? Text me five six
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six nine, Oh when we get back. Danielle Durinsky has
had quite quite an experience on the Aurora City Council
and oh boy, oh boy, she wants more. We'll talk
to her next. Hello, daniel welcome back to the show.
Speaker 3 (01:24:24):
Amy, thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (01:24:26):
Well.
Speaker 5 (01:24:26):
I saw today on social media, So without further ado
announce what you're announcing today.
Speaker 3 (01:24:33):
I am officially running for reelection in Aurora, Colorado.
Speaker 5 (01:24:37):
Danielle, you have had quite the first term. Okay, let's
mean hold it cow. A lot of people jump into
politics and then they get elected and then they spend
a few years sort of getting their feet under them.
Not you. You just put your face right in the
wood chipper. So let's talk about why you want to
continue to represent Aurora on the city council after everything
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you've been through in the first you know term.
Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
Well, you know that's easy, Mandy. Aurora is my hometown
and I did jump in head first, I mean completely
seven weeks into public office. I went after the police chief.
Speaker 11 (01:25:15):
At that time, and the decision was was easy for me.
Speaker 3 (01:25:19):
I have been through a lot. Everybody knows, uh you know,
or has heard of the situation I went through with DHS.
Everything I've gone through with the Venezuelan prison gang and
standing up to our own governor, standing up to the media.
Speaker 11 (01:25:30):
Uh, it hasn't been easy, but you know what.
Speaker 3 (01:25:32):
It has fired me up even more, Mandy, because now
I know. Now I know how truly ugly and dark
politics really are, and how many politicians don't care about people.
So for me, I'm going to keep fighting. If they
didn't beat me when they tried to take away my son,
if they didn't beat me when they tried to, you know,
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snear my name and call me a liar and tell
me that I was crazy over this Venezuelan Uh.
Speaker 11 (01:26:00):
Thinking, if they haven't beat me doing all of that
and throwing.
Speaker 3 (01:26:03):
All of that at me, they're not going to now.
It's not going to start now.
Speaker 5 (01:26:08):
Well, and I admire that because a lot of people
probably would have backed down from a fight. But how
did you become a woman? You're not only a member
of the Aora City Council, you're a small business owner.
You're in an industry that is just tough, in the
restaurant bar industry. What made you tough? Danielle? Tell me
a little bit about how you got to be the
person who decided you were going to stand up to
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a Venezuelan prison gay.
Speaker 3 (01:26:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (01:26:32):
Well, a lot of that goes back to my childhood.
Speaker 3 (01:26:34):
I was raised by my father, Vietnam era marine, and
he raised me and my dad. My dad is.
Speaker 11 (01:26:41):
Tough and a lot of that, A lot of that.
Speaker 3 (01:26:44):
Comes from him, and then humongous sense of.
Speaker 11 (01:26:48):
Wanting to make him proud.
Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
But growing up this with a single father, and then
you know, joining the military. The military also helped instill
some toughness in me. And then you're right.
Speaker 11 (01:26:59):
I mean, the bar business is one of the.
Speaker 3 (01:27:01):
Toughest industry there are, and I went into office owning
four bars. So I think, I think what I don't
mean to sound like a commercial for a certain car company,
but I was built up.
Speaker 5 (01:27:17):
Yes, Well, let me ask you, so, did what inspired
you to get into politics in the first place? Was
it the lockdowns of COVID? What got you into that?
I know that we talked when you ran the first time,
but I honestly don't remember what you said, because I
probably talked to one thousand candidates right before that. So
what did you decide? What drew you to politics after
everything else you have going on?
Speaker 11 (01:27:39):
Well, back in twenty twenty so media. It was the
entire year of twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (01:27:43):
And what I tell people is I didn't get into politics.
Politics got into me. The Democrats knocked on my door.
I had a newborn at March of twenty twenty. I
had a newborn at home. When I had to go
shut down all of my.
Speaker 11 (01:27:58):
Bars and restaurants, I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (01:28:01):
There was no science behind it. Couldn't make it make sense.
If you tried, Costco could be packed, Walmart could be packed.
But if you go to get your hair done, your
nails done, go to a bar, or go to a gym,
you're just automatically.
Speaker 11 (01:28:12):
Going to die from COVID.
Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
So there was no sense, there was no common sense
behind any of that. That's how it started. Then you
remember it was the Summer of love. What happened in
Aurora with all of the riots that broke out. They
smashed out all the windows on our city hall. Our
city hall was completely boarded up. They broke into the courthouse,
that trashcands on fire, and then they had that standoff.
They trapped seventeen police officers in the District Rue Police
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building for seven hours and taunted them with gas cans
and not police chief at that time who I charged
after as.
Speaker 11 (01:28:42):
Soon as I got into office, told.
Speaker 3 (01:28:44):
Everybody to stand down, would not let anybody. And because
of that, that year alone, we lost one hundred and
twenty seven officers in the police department because of her,
because of her actions and allowing these police officers to
be trapped. The final straw came when we were shut
down the second time. My businesses were shut down the
second time in twenty twenty. The Awara City Council at
that time brought forward an ordinance for a twenty dollars
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an hour minimum wage in just for Aura while our
businesses were shut down. So that's why I say I
didn't get into politics. Politics got into me. The government
treaded on me and the Democrats knocked out.
Speaker 11 (01:29:18):
They'ven just knocked on.
Speaker 3 (01:29:18):
My door meunity, they kicked it in. So they brought
me here. They brought me here the first time, and
it's going to be because of them that I went
in the second time.
Speaker 5 (01:29:26):
Well let me ask you this, what if you learned
in your first term that you think is going to
help you all in the city council in a second term.
Speaker 11 (01:29:35):
Well, what I have learned is in this ugly game
of politics.
Speaker 3 (01:29:40):
Certainly not everybody is your friend, and some people that
you think may be your friend, they're also not your friend.
So the only one that's truly going to have your
back is you. And I stick to my principles, I
stick to my beliefs, and I just dig my heels
in and I don't stop even if I'm standing alone,
because in politic you are the only person that is
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truly going to look out for yourself and the people
you represent.
Speaker 5 (01:30:05):
Well. And Daniel, what do you what do you want
to see happen in Aura? I'm watching with great interest
the Homeless Navigation Center. I'm really excited and interested to
see that get up and running and see how that
can make a real impact in Aurora. What are your
thoughts on what needs to happen and what the city
council needs to focus on should you get re elected, Yeah, we.
Speaker 11 (01:30:28):
Do need to focus on on that on homelessness, and
I am so I also am watching with great interests
right what we've kind of put into motion here. It's
a WORKFORCET model to help.
Speaker 3 (01:30:40):
I don't know that anybody is going to completely ever
solve homelessness five percent, but I think that this is
going to make huge strides. I can't wait to see
that through. I want to see We're currently we put
together an infrastructure task force. I want to see that through.
Aurora is in dire need of a new animal shelter,
we need to fire stations. There's a lot of infrastructure
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that we're lacking. I want to see that through the
past two years. The crime rate in Aurora, if you
can believe it or not, and even this is this
comes straight from the governor himself, the past two years
in Aurora, the crime rate has been declining. I don't
think that's any coincidence Mandy that I've been the chair
of the Public Safety Committee for two years in Aura.
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No coincidence at all, Governor pull us.
Speaker 11 (01:31:23):
But I want to see that it's still too much.
It's still too much.
Speaker 3 (01:31:26):
That means our crime rates were so high for us
to be in decline for the past two years, even
with the Venezuelan prison gang and everything else going on,
that means it's waste. It's still way too high. So
I want to see that through as well. We have
a new police chief now and I want to see
our crime rates continue to decline.
Speaker 5 (01:31:45):
Do you feel like the new police chief, Chief Todd Chamberlain,
how do you feel like he's doing so far. I've
you know, I have a few people in the Urora
Police Department. They send me emails every once in a
while and they're sort of taken this so far, so
good stance. But they're still cautious because those officers have
been through a lot in the past five years, especially
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six years, if they've been around that long.
Speaker 3 (01:32:08):
Yeah. Absolutely, I mean the Aurora Police Department, auroral police officers,
they have not had a voice in years in this city.
They have not had someone looking out for them in
four years in this city. I would say I'm the same.
Speaker 5 (01:32:22):
I like the.
Speaker 3 (01:32:22):
Direction that the department is going. I do believe that
crime is being fought. I do believe police officers are
policing again. But again, I am also cautiously optimistic. You know,
you've seen what happened in Aurora after we got rid
of Vanessa Wilson. It's been turnover after turnover from police
chiefs who are also no good.
Speaker 11 (01:32:45):
So you know, I'm still cautious. I'm very cautious, and
I am I stand ready at any minute to be
the voice for the men and women of the Aurora
Police Department. Should something take a turn.
Speaker 5 (01:32:55):
Well, you've gotten to coming up a kickoff if you
will tell me about that, if people want to participate, Yeah,
so Saturday, Mark.
Speaker 3 (01:33:02):
Eighth, from four to six pm at JJ's place in Aurora.
You can get more information about the kickoff event or
how to donate to my campaign, or how to get
involved to be a volunteer. My website is Danielle for
Aurora and that's fr Danielle or Aurora dot com.
Speaker 5 (01:33:20):
Danielle Jurinsky. I appreciate your time today. I wish you
all the best in your reelection campaign. I think that
you know people may disagree with your methods, Danielle, but
I always say the same thing. I never doubt that
you love the city of Aurora and you want to
help everyone who lives in Aurora have the best life possible.
(01:33:41):
And you know, we can quibble about methods all day long,
but I never doubt your love for the people that
live there and your love for the city. So I
hope you win. I'm just gonna say it. I think
you've done a great job for the citizens there, even
if you've ruffled a few feathers in the process.
Speaker 3 (01:33:58):
Well, it's been worth every bit of it, and I'm
here to ruffle a few more. Mandy, thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (01:34:03):
All right, Danielle, have a good win. That's Danielle Darinski
and again you can support her candidcy if you would like.
She is running for re election. I saw the statistic
today and I want to get this in. I got
a couple of things on the blog that you really
should go look at. First of all, due getting eaten
by a whale on a kayak. I mean, spoiler alert,
he doesn't die. But you've really got to see this.
(01:34:26):
It's I don't know, I think it's like the coolest
story ever. A Rod was like, I don't know, maybe
somebody could beat him with a different story. But if
you're in a bar and everybody's like, yeah, one time
I get hit by a car but I survived, and
then this guy's like really quiet in the corner. He
just goes, I got eaten by a whale. That's it. Yeah,
just drop everything. That's it. That's like the record scratch
(01:34:49):
right there. Still terrifying, No, it is terrifying. I also
have another column, and I've reached out to the author
of this column from the free press. And actually it
might be Paywalld now that I thought about this, But
it's about the difference between It's not even necessarily right
or left, or a Democrat or Republican. It's brokenness against
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status quo iss brokenness. Are people like me that believe
the systems and the federal government are broken at such
a level that the only way to fix it is
to just almost burn it down and start over, you know,
limiting government spending. That's what doge is. That's why I'm
all in on doge. Love it. I absolutely love it.
(01:35:36):
I saw a very liberal friend of mine on Facebook
the other day and I did not respond to this
because I didn't want to, but I'll respond to it here.
She essentially was going on about I can't believe people
don't care about these federal workers who are going to
lose their jobs. They at families to support. And what
(01:35:56):
I would have responded, if I were the type to
respond on social media, is simply that over the last
three years, businesses have fired thousands of workers because the
cost of everything has gotten to be so expensive that
businesses have been firing their workers in the private sector
(01:36:17):
for years now. And to think that somehow the federal
government should be immune when it is the spending of
the federal government that drives inflation that has forced everybody
else to have to lay off people, or restaurants to
close because people have tightened their budgets because everything is
so much more expensive. Forced waffle House to charge an
(01:36:38):
extra fifty cents per egg. I mean, you, guys, So
I find that particular line of thinking really challenging to
get behind. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't want
people to be out of work. I don't want people
to lose their jobs in the private sector or the
public sector. But the fact of the matter is, until
we do something significant to rein in government spending, inflation
(01:37:02):
is going to remain high. And that brings me to
my next statistic that I just want to share with
you from the Common Sense Institute. You can find this
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com and the headline
is a shocking inflation stat Hey, ron, how much more
do you think the average household has spent since twenty
twenty per month? No, overall, since twenty twenty? How much
(01:37:27):
more has the average household spent because of inflation? So
five years? I mean a kind of just say double
from the previous five. Well, now give you a number,
give you a just shot in the dark number. How
much more? How much more? Five years? Yeah, since twenty twenty?
How much money since twenty twenty extra have we spent
just because.
Speaker 6 (01:37:47):
Of inflation per household? I'm gonna go with twenty grand.
Speaker 5 (01:37:52):
Forty one thousand dollars for those forty thousand dollars and
for nine hundred and twenty two dollars, glorious, that's what
inflation has cost us. So I'm sorry if I don't
feel bad that every worker at the Limestone Cave where
they hand process federal government retiree requests, I'm sorry that
(01:38:14):
we can't make that system more efficient and keep all
three hundred workers who've been maintaining the Limestone Cave employed.
You know, but we have to do something so the
rest of America can get back to having some spending
power again, stop putting stuff on their credit cards again,
maybe be able to have a restaurant or a business again.
(01:38:38):
All of a sudden is these crocodile tears for federal workers.
I'm like, who do you guys work for? I mean,
in the last five years, we probably have a third
of our workforce here at Ihart Media, I feel like,
I mean, I don't think I'm wrong? Am I? No
(01:38:59):
grants as fires? And so when people start getting like,
oh no, the federal workers, what do you want me
to do about that? I don't want the federal government
to spend any more money because that is what is
causing inflation. And I don't understand people. Those are the
status quotas. We believe that we just need to sort
(01:39:22):
of tweak around the edges and then we can fix
the problems. Really, how's that worked out for us? For
all the people who are thrown for a loop by
the shock and awe flood the zone nature of the
Trump administration from this column about brokenness versus status quotas,
(01:39:44):
This is a paragraph that stuck out. There was no
lever to pull in the last election for change, but
make it responsible and well paced. The choice which was
between a slow canoe ride through more of the same
or a roller coaster. Americans chose the roller coaster. So
hang on, get ready to throw your arms up when
(01:40:05):
you hit the top. Okay, for some reason, I got
on the algorithm. Grant Smith has joined me in the
studio to play of the day my Instagram feet. Maybe
I've lingered on a video a little too long, and
all of a sudden, I'm on this like algorithm feet
of all these people passing out on roller coasters.
Speaker 7 (01:40:21):
Don't don't hover too long on anything, the question, ask
me a question and.
Speaker 5 (01:40:26):
Now but it's you, guys. It's hilarious.
Speaker 7 (01:40:30):
I have seen videos of the people on the one
that like shoots you way up in the air over
the city skyline and people passing out.
Speaker 5 (01:40:36):
This is someone on a roller coaster, grant, so they
take off there and then they go high en up.
The best part is though, they wake up while they're
still on the ride, and then I'm like, I'm a
horrible person. I'm going straight to hell. These people are
passing out, They're losing consciousness, and I am crying over
(01:40:59):
here watching it. The social media algorithm don't take it
for granted. Yoh there you go, Yeah, well take it.
I would be that person on a roller coaster. I
hate rolling. I used to love roller coasters, but as
I've gotten older, that fluid in my ear has thickened,
as it does as you get older, and now certain
roller coasters are I can look at him and be
(01:41:19):
like no, that is not a thing.
Speaker 6 (01:41:21):
The older I'm getting, I feel like the more willing
I'm becoming. Even though I haven't actually jumped hit forty,
Hit forty, I've always been told I was an old soul.
So I think maybe that that fluid in my ear
has always been.
Speaker 5 (01:41:32):
Thick, and that I just funny as I noticed as
I was getting older that this was happening. And then
I'm watching Modern Family and Phil took all the kids
to the amusement park and he was like, I love
roller coasters and then he goes on the first one.
Was like and they actually explained that as you get
older that and I went, oh, well that makes it.
What a great show man. I know it was a
good show anyway. Now it's time for the most exciting
(01:41:54):
segment all the radio.
Speaker 4 (01:41:55):
I'm it's kind in the world.
Speaker 5 (01:41:59):
The damn aren't. What is our dad joke of the day?
Please we may have another jury into the dad joke
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
Let's do it.
Speaker 6 (01:42:06):
A lady asked me if I would help her get
a job as a professional scrabble player. I put in
a good word for her.
Speaker 5 (01:42:15):
I like that one. I like that one a lot.
All right, what is our word today, please. It is
ingle nook, iron g ll e n okay, ingle nook.
There's a really cheap wine brand called Inglenook. My next
door neighbor, who was a raging alcoholic, went through like
five bottles of it a day. I'm not even kidding
why he did not approve. I think it was Inglenook.
(01:42:39):
I saw of those bottles in the recycling thing. She
put them in our recycling. I'm like, I would not
drink that. I'm more of a boona box ming. Oh
there you go. Ingle nook is a it's an especially.
Speaker 7 (01:42:49):
Cozy nook, not just a ingle nook, A rare breakfast
nook and englewood like that.
Speaker 6 (01:42:56):
I might drink some wine by an ingle nook because
an ingle nook is a corner or nook near a fireplace.
Speaker 5 (01:43:01):
Oh, I like a good an nook. What did I
just say? A cozier nook. That's what I think your
places are cozy. I'm giving myself half credit anyway. I
know this one too, who plays the main character Paul
and Trades in the twenty twenty one film Dune, adopted
from the Frank Timothy Hey.
Speaker 6 (01:43:21):
I just saw that they're going to start filming the
third one.
Speaker 5 (01:43:25):
The second one. It gives me a couple of weeks ago.
It's so good. I like the second one. I like
the first all.
Speaker 6 (01:43:29):
The second one is way better the first one. Yeah,
zandia want The third one is a big fast forward.
It's gonna be so good.
Speaker 5 (01:43:41):
Okay, we'll take your word for it. What is our
jeopardy category xo e XO answer exit e x O Okay,
a mass departure of biblical dance? What is exodus? Exit
from the Great four? Bind by oath? It's an expeller of.
Speaker 6 (01:44:02):
Come on, wait say it again, from the Greek for
bind by oath. It's an expeller of devils things should
mean demons, so come on.
Speaker 5 (01:44:14):
I don't know. That's an easy one. What I don't know?
What is exorcism? Dum dundy, Wow, you dumb it? What's
another word for to absolve? Is exonerate?
Speaker 6 (01:44:26):
Curve said of a price unreasonably high, grant, grant, grandson.
Come on the lands like sweat, glands that secrete into
layers of the skin instead of the bloodstream. I have
no only because of commercials. Did I know this one?
(01:44:49):
You hear it all the time, don't give her any
more hands, I really want to give you one more.
Don't do it, Okay, I don't know what is execrine.
Speaker 5 (01:45:00):
The system did talk about commercials all the time. Well,
I don't watch those commercials, even though I now I
watch channels where apparently only old people are because every
commercial is drug. That's just every channel, now, is it really? Yeah? ESPN?
Is it just made me feel so much better? Yeah?
Or you too are getting old grant? I just want
to throw that off. I'm okay with that. Yeah, I'm
okay with that.
Speaker 7 (01:45:20):
And you know, if you want to escape from the
horrible commercials on TV, check out the Taking It.
Speaker 5 (01:45:25):
For Grand podcast Susie Words on this week. I saw
it so awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:45:29):
Man.
Speaker 7 (01:45:29):
I've gotten to work with her for like five years
now on the Broncos broadcast, but didn't really know anything
about her life story.
Speaker 5 (01:45:35):
And man, what a great story she has. I'll have
to tune in and check it out. That's I'm Taking
It for Granted podcast on the media ever.
Speaker 6 (01:45:42):
Get cut, traded or fired, retired.
Speaker 7 (01:45:45):
Exactly exactly how she made that name too, because she
was talking to people who had never been cut, traded
or fired.
Speaker 6 (01:45:52):
I love that where she keeps going down. Any of
that another word, another word.
Speaker 5 (01:45:56):
Tomorrow we have weather Wednesday, of course, when we'll find
out when Dave Fraser is going to work his vooting
magic and bring some summer here because it's not getting
here fast enough. And keep it in the meantime for
KOY Sports, what do they what do the guys have?
Speaker 7 (01:46:09):
Coming up next, it's Brian and Nick and we're going
to talk about how horrible the NBA All Star Weekend is.
Speaker 5 (01:46:14):
I watched the three point shooting contest. I thought that
was kind of I thought that was fun. I was
at a concert Saturday night. I liked it. I watched
it on a repeat, I think on Sunday. I was
flipping through and I watched stopped. It was very interesting.
But man, the games they weren't good. No, the guys
trying to yeh, it was like they were they were
I you make millions of dollars more than fifteen? Am
(01:46:37):
I playing right now? Because that's what it looks like. Anyway,
that's all coming up next. Keep it on, Koa
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The nicety through three Andy Connell keeping sad things.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
Welcome, Welcome, WelCom to a Tuesday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell,
joined by my right hand man I call him and
Rod you can call him Anthony Rodrigo. And together we
will get you right through the next two almost three
hours with I hope things that you will find interesting
and yet also entertaining. Today we got a lot of
(00:49):
stuff on the blog, and I'm seeing like four other
things that I really want to talk about since I
published the blog, like in the last thirty minutes. So
we're gonna get Today's just to be jam packed right now, though,
I want to just do a little sidewinder because there's
multiple televisions on in front of me, much to my chagrin,
and there's showing video of the Delta flight that flipped
(01:10):
and landed. So out of eighty people on board this flight,
eighteen were injured and no one was killed, and that
is an incredible testament to the crew inside that airplane
after that plane landed upside down on the runway. I
just think that's absolutely incredible, and I hope that the
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crew of this airplane get there just to you. By
the way, the winds were absolutely terrible, and I think
I just told this story on the air fairly recently,
where we were flying into Hartford, Connecticut in a similar
situation and our wingtip nearly hit the ground when we
were landing. The scariest landing I ever went through. That's
kind of what this plane did, only the wingtip didn't hit.
(01:54):
The whole plane flipped. It's crazy crazy. I still would
take driving, I mean lying over driving any day in
terms of pure safety. Just to remind you guys of that. Now,
let me tell you what's on the blog and where
to find it. You can go to mandy'sblog dot com.
That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says
to eighteen twenty five blog a telethon for Warriors plus
(02:17):
Danielle Drinsky announces. Click on that and here are the
headlines you will find within. I do you to where
in office half of American all the ships and clipments
of say that's got a press plat today on the
blog Houses for Warriors needs your help. Daniel Durinsky has
an announcement. Colorado GOP leadership does more dumb stuff. Speaking
(02:38):
of stupid lawsuits. The latest on the King super strike.
You really should watch the jd vance speech scrolling scrolling.
I can cut food waste in schools. The newest eight
Z pod is alive. Democrats attack free speech in Colorado.
Roseen on worthright citizenship. Two Colorado men give Florida man
(02:58):
a run for his money. Your Colorado tax return won't
be coming anytime soon. Everyone knew about trendy Orragua being
in Aurora. Blake Street Tavern rises like a phoenix. A
shocking inflation stat Lamar is now a foody destination. Everything
is broken, Ford CEO says the quiet part loud about
EV trucks. Doctor Burks finally admits what we were all
(03:22):
saying all along. A video of Rob getting his giant
cardboard check a Rod's review of the new Captain America
flick a real life Jonah. You had one job. Practical
tools to fight anxiety, bad lip reading, the Super Bowl
and making friends as an adult is hard. Those are
the headlines on the blog at Manday's blog dot com,
(03:47):
and lots of good videos on the blog today. None
more insane than the guy on the kayak getting eaten
by a whale, and not like an orca, because that'd
be terrifying, right, because orcas will blank you up, They
will mess you up people. No, just a giant whale
because the way whales feed you. Ever been on a
(04:08):
whale watching towards you guys do that in Mexico. No, okay,
let me give you a little whale lore, a little
whale backstory. When whales are hunting, maybe two or three
whales together, they will make these cones of bubbles and
they're big. They just swim around and blow bubbles, so
it creates this sort of tornado of bubbles and fish
get caught inside that tornado. Then they swim down and
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they just open up their mouths and swim through the
tornado and catch a whole bunch of fish. It's amazing,
absolutely amazing.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Yeah, this one, let me just confirm, double check dot
theiyes cross the teeth.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
No, this whale's name was not Moby. No, no, no
sign that it was Moby. And but dude on a
kayak gets eaten by a whale and then the whale's like, peh,
what is that in my teeth and just splits them
right back out. But you know what a rod I
thought about this, This guy now has, for the rest
of his life, pretty much the trump card in any
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situation where stories are being told. It doesn't matter what
you say, It doesn't matter how exciting your story is,
how insane the ending is. This guy just gets to
flow out the You know, one time when I was
on a kayak, I got eaten by a whale and
what worth a PTSD though probably not.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
You know what.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
He was only in there for like a minute. I mean,
it's fine, it's fun inside another animal. No the moment.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
They have all these gills right here that you were
inside and other animal mouth you were in the mouth.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
They don't even have sharp teeth. No thanks it. I mean,
you know, come on, And obviously the whale was like
did not see that coming? Like that's awful. So that's
on the blog today, And I gotta tell you, if
you don't go to the blog for anything else, just
go for that.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
That whale has a taste for human now, and it
doesn't like it.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
That's a taste for kayaks. You know, all he got
was like plastic, Like, ah, what is that? What is
this paper straw?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
No, just kidding, I'm waiting his review on one of
the websites.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
There, Yeah, about how he tasted his Yelp review. Yes,
so I have the kayaker and I found it to
be really tough. It's not gonna lie. It was, yeah,
salty and tough. Did not enjoy, would not try again.
Zero stars. All right, what's coming up on the show today?
We've got a couple of guests coming up. We've got
Andrew Cannelly's with Houses for Warriors. This is such a
(06:27):
wonderful and worthy organization. We're going to tell you about
a fundraiser they have coming up Saturday and what they're
gonna do with that money. Then Danielle Darinsky is Aurora's
city council member and she's gonna come on to talk
about why she's running for reelection. And I've got a
bunch of stuff about the Colorado Republican Party, but we're
not going to get into it in the first hour because, frankly, ugh,
(06:50):
I keep putting this stuff on the blog because I
just want a change in leadership at the State Convention
because the level of toxic nonsense being speed by the
current leadership cabal. And I put leadership in air quotes
when I say that small l for sure is just
it's it's just mind blowing. The money they're wasting, the
(07:14):
victimhood status they're racing to achieve. Look, it hasn't ven victimized.
Oh god, Oh my god. They're everything they purport to
hate and more. So we'll be talking about that a
little bit later later in the show. I do want
to start the show with one question and you can
text me your answer at five sixty six nine. Now,
(07:36):
did anybody else read the news media coverage of JD
Vance's speech to the Munich Security Conference and think after
reading the media coverage that you happen to stumble upon
that he had gone to Europe and taken a giant
poop on the floor of the Munich Security Conference and
basically told all of our allies to go straight to
(07:58):
HG double tooth fix and don't come. I mean, what
did you guys see? Because I, of course was vacationing
with my family and I got a text message from
a friend of mine who said, I'd love to know
what you think of this. And this is a friend
who is on the left, and we do this often.
I'll send her a column and say I'd love to
know what you think about this, and then she'll send
(08:18):
me seven say I love to know what you think
about this. And it was a column by Heather Cox Richardson.
She is a former Miss America. She lives in Kentucky.
I'm very familiar with her just from being in Kentucky.
But I want you to I want you to just
listen to what was said about JD Vance's speech to
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the Munich Security Conference by someone on the left. Heather
Cox Richardson is a reliable Democrat, Reliable, she says. The
sixty first Munich Security Conference, the world's laiting forum for
talking about international security policy, took place from February fourteenth
to February sixteenth this year. Begun in nineteen sixty three,
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it was designed to be an independent venue for experts
and policymakers to discuss the most pressing security issues around
the globe. At the conference, on Friday February fourteenth, Vice
President J. D Vance launched what the Guardians Patrick Wintour
called a brutal ideological assault against Europe. Attacking the values
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the United States used to share with Europe, but with
which Vance and other members of the Trump administration are
now working to destroy. Vance and Maga Christian nationalists reject
the principles of secular democracy and instead align with leaders
like Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbon. They claimed that the
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equal rights central to democracy undermine nations by treating women
and racial, religious, and gender minorities as equal to white
Christian men. They want to see an end to the
immigration that they believe weakends the nation's people, and for
government to reinforce traditional religious and patriarchal values. That is
(10:01):
what is happening on the left about this speech. So, okay,
I read that, and I texted her back and I said, well,
I need to go read the speech. And I went
and I read the transcript of the speech, and I
was like, huh, I did not get the part where
it was a brutal ideological attack. Yeah, I did not
(10:23):
get that part at all. Because in the speech, which
is by the way, very upbeat, very positive, JD. Vanch
calls Europe to the carpet for a few things, one
for cracking down and censoring speech, for cracking down on
free speech for censoring speech, for moving in the direction
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of totalitarianism when it comes to anything that they don't like.
He also censored them for not including a political party
in Germany known as AfD. AfD is running on a
platform of stopping the unfettered immigration of Middle Eastern men
to Germany, to backing away from the green energy scam
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that now has Germany with the highest energy prices in Europe,
and from doing a lot of the same things that
Donald Trump just got elected to, which means, of course
he's a neo Nazi to anyone on the left. They
don't actually look at the platform. They don't even look
at the fact that the party is expected to gain
enough seats in this next parliamentary election that they will
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be a significant player in the next ruling coalition. But
they just want you to think that these are people
walking around with armbands and swastikas and you know, goose
stepping through the streets of Germany because they don't toe
the European line, which is unfettered immigration of Middle Eastern
men of fighting age. Now the irony here is that
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the day before that this happened, a Syrian national drove
his car into a crowded space and killed a woman
and her two year old child and injured like thirty
five other people. The Irony Nil Ferguson has a great
column on the Free Press and it's fantastic, absolutely fantastic.
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I want to share this one part with you. We
also learned on Saturday that the British authorities have charged
two hundred and ninety two people with spreading illegal fake
news or sending threatening communications since the Online Safety Act
came into force in twenty twenty three. A total of
sixty seven have been convicted. I suspect Americans who live
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in a country with a First Amendment will be astonished
to learn the details. After three little girls were stabbed
to death by a jihatist in Southport's last July, there
will multiple cases brought against people for social media postings
that broke the Online Safety Act. The government deliberately he
suppressed the fact that the killer, Axel Rut Cabana, had
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been referred to the Anti Extremism Program PREVENT three times
and was in possession of an Al Qaeda training manual
at the time of the murders. Yet people were jailed
for claiming online that he was a Muslim immigrant jailed.
One man was jailed for three months for a livestream
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video on TikTok that falsely claimed he was running for
his life from rioters in Derby. In calling this out,
Vance was saying more than just Britain and Europe have
forgotten if they ever really understood the importance of free expression.
He was also making an argument about political liberty. Of
all the pressing challenges that the nations represented here faced,
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he declared, I believe there is nothing more urgent than
mass migration. No voter on this continent went to the
ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants.
I mean, you guys, if that is a what is
she I can't remember exactly what she called a brutal
ideological assault. Good gravy, you guys, Europe softer than I thought.
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If this just brings them to their knees, if they're
sitting there sniffling and sniffling at this security conference with security,
are you kidding me? You're scared of the scary words.
Scary words might hurt someone's feelings. I mean, do you
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want to live in a world? And I mean this
genuinely do you want to live in a world where
you have to go through life constantly worried about accidentally
hurting someone's feelings for fear that they could bring charges
against you. Do you know what this does? This means
that people will completely withdraw into their own trusted circles
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because they know their friends and their family are not
gonna wrap them out. And as soon as they at
the perception that someone else's other and could be offended
by something that you don't even know is offensive, well,
then other gets completely shut out as well. So it
just serves no purpose other than to further divide people
into their silos where they can remain protected. And by
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the way, before I get the text message that says,
you know, oh, the hate speech people hang out with
the hate speech people, this isn't hate speech. This is
normal speech where someone is definitely afraid of just offending
someone else. In my lifetime, I know for a fact
that I have offended people accidentally on more than one occasion,
and when I realize it right away, I will immediately apologize.
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If I think I'm wrong, and if I just was misunderstood,
then I will do my due diligence to make sure
that I can be clearly understood with whatever I was saying.
I'm not gonna apologize if you misunderstood me. You know
what I'm saying, Like those are two different things for me.
I'll help you understand my intent, but I'm not gonna
apologize because you mis misunderstood me. Never understood that at all.
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Mandy I listened to Vance's entire speech on X says
this text. I would encourage everyone to listen. I had
no ideas some of the things he called Europe out
on were happening. I felt better than ever of JD.
Vance as Trump's VP and future potus. I will say this,
Jade Vance. It just comes across and I embedded the video.
You can watch it on my blog today. He comes
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across as a true happy warrior. You watch him. He's engaging.
He comes across in such a way that even as
he's telling you to go straight to hell, you're gonna
enjoy the ride. He's got great tact, really really good tact.
But this is all stuff that Europe needs to do.
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By the way, for everyone who keeps freaking out every
time Donald Trump does everything as if that is the
endpoint of whatever's happening. The fact that they don't seem
to be learning to just wait us, wait, see what
happens next, because it happened again, and it happened again. Well,
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I'll get into that later. Actually, do we get in
too that owl of a fish what I'm talking about here.
I am perfectly okay with the President and the Vice
President asking Europe to step up to do a better job,
to not declare an election invalid because you didn't get
the result that you wanted. To allow people to criticize
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other people on the internet and not have someone knock
up the door to come arrest them, to be able
to post memes on Facebook that just might hurt someone's feelings.
But you know, in the UK especially, they've never had
truth free speech. You've never been able to criticize the
monarchy unfettered. You better have your ducks in a row,
because as we've seen, the monarchy will sue back and
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they should be allowed to you. But whatever, Mandy will
never go to Europe until this changes. I believe jd
Vance will redefine the role of VP. You know what, Jimbo,
here's the thing. If there are countries that I will
not visit countries that are in the grips of a
totalitarian regime like Cuba. I know that Cuba was opened
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up and everybody wanted to go to Cuba, but I
found out from Cuban people living in Florida that I
know that their relatives were unable to buy food because
all of the food was being taken to feed the
tourists in the tourist areas. So the regime there could
continue to enrich itself, and I'm not going to support that.
But if I went everywhere that restricted speech more than
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we do in the United States of America, there would
literally be nowhere to go. We have the freest speech
that I know of in the world. We have the
fewest restrictions on what we can say in the world.
That's why it's so deeply concerning and offensive that we
have this push right now coming from the left to
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go after quote information and disinformation. When we get back,
you're not even ready for the bit of uhns or
disinformation that I have for you. Remember doctor Deborah Burks,
she was part of the COVID squad with Donald Trump,
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all those people who you know basically said you got
to have a vaccine or you're going to lose your
job when you hear what is coming out of her mouth. Now,
my head almost exploded today. But I'm only playing it
so I can get the apologies from all the people
who said I was literally responsible for murder during COVID
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because I dared question the narrative and guess what, all
those questions that I had, I was right. And now
they're all coming out to say it like so casually.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, by the way, oh that whole
COVID shot thing that wasn't based on science, but follow
the science. That was the cry, follow this audience. We
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will be back with that and more right after this.
Jd Vance has some dreamy eyelashes, and they just make
him look like he's wearing eyeliner all the time. I
don't think the man wears eyeliner. I really don't ask Ben.
I do just Ben wear eyeliner? I don't know, does he?
I mean, you know what if everyone that we know
that works in this building that was that's mail, I
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would say Ben is the most likely to have dabbled
in eyeliner at some point. Maybe what about Ryan when
he was a rock star? No, no, you don't think so. No,
Ben's most likely. I mean Dave Logan out. That's not
gonna happen.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Nick Ferguson, No, no, gosh, no, no.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
No, I mean Rob Dawson. Maybe maybe we'll have to
ask him. We'll have to see we're not casting aspersions.
By the way, on let me share some stuff with
you that I heard today that made me so mad.
Remember back when the mRNA vaccine was put out, I
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was recommending it based on the scientific information that they released,
not assuming at all that the company that developed it
would just keep the really unflattering parts for themselves. But
we were told that if you did not get a vaccine,
you were going to kill grandma. Remember that you were
going to kill your grandmother if you did not get
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a COVID vaccine. And then they made mandates to where
if you worked in certain positions, including over the road
truck driver, you had to have a shot. And it
created a huge kerfuffle. And even as I was saying
I think you should get it, I was still saying,
but you should have the right not to. I've never
been in favor of any kind of force vaccinations ever,
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even though I think some of them are a good idea.
But doctor Deborah Berks was part of the team that
pushed that narrative forward. I want to share her on
the Piers Morgan Show, doctor Deborah Burks talking about the
COVID vaccine. Do I have my audio? Thank you?
Speaker 8 (22:05):
He made it very clear to every mom out there
that his children were immunized about childhood vaccines. And what
we've done wrong in public health is we didn't explain
that COVID vaccines were nothing like the childhood vaccines, and
that the childhood vaccines, like many of the diseases.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
You get it once, you don't get it again.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
And this is getting the children to have that disease
without getting the deadly consequences. That is not what the
COVID vaccine was designed to do. It wasn't for designed
to preget against infection. And if you look at the
vaccine hesitancy rates, they've doubled since COVID.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
So we have to start addressing these things. We can't
just take me ask you.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
I mean, given that you were the face of COVID
from the Trump presidency at the time, do you share
this doctor who was with you, share the concerns about
the longer term negative impact of some of the COVID vaccines, the.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Messenger RMA vaccine should have been rolled out for the
people that were at risk for severe disease, because that's
what the disease, that's what the vaccine was developed for.
Speaker 10 (23:15):
But when we.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Say that we're following the science and the data, we
need to follow the science and the data. And the
science and the data said people primarily over sixty five
are people with significant comorbidities, were at risk for severe disease.
Those are the individuals that should have been immunized first,
and we should have put our science behind our immunization
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schedule and protected those most at risk. It went into
young people in hospitals before it went into our elderly
and nursing homes. That is not following the science and
the data. So I am all four following the science
and the data. But it shouldn't just be a statement.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
It should be a reality.
Speaker 8 (23:55):
And when we don't match what we do in public
health to the science and the data, that is when
we get into trouble, and that's when we start to
fracture trust with the American people.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
I would say so, doctor Marks, I would say so.
The frustrating part about this is that how many people
were asking these questions. How many people were making these
comments when this stuff was going on. We knew, we
knew when the vaccine. By the time the vaccine came
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out almost maybe a little beyond that, that the real
issue with COVID was going to be elderly people. And yet,
do you guys know that the CDC, as a last
time I checked, was still recommending a COVID vaccine for
maybes six months old and older. Did you know that?
So the fact that she's coming out now, I mean,
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good for her. Maybe she wants to cleanse her soul.
Maybe she wants to relieve herself of any sort of
guilt or responsibility for what COVID and its aftermath did
to this country, our children. We still have young people
who are dealing with the effects of a pericarditis and
myocarditis that I do believe they got from the vaccine
that is now being admitted. There's a connection. And the
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whole time we were told if you don't have the vaccine,
Remember there were people on television that said, if you
don't have a COVID vaccine and you get sick, you
should be denied medical care at a hospital. If you
don't have a COVID vaccine. I remember that, and that
if you didn't get a COVID vaccine and someone around
you died, it was your fault, because that was the
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only way we're going to keep it from straight stop
the spread. Let's review stop the spread policies. Stop the
spread policy Number one stand six feet apart. We already
know from doctor Anthony Fallci's own mouth that that was
just pulled out of hoole cloth. There was no scientific
evidence that that was ever going to work or do
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anything constructive for an airborne respiratory illness, which it was.
But hey, I know, let's throw in masking. Even though
the government's own studies about masking in a healthcare syst
sitting when you have a respiratory illness, a flu like
respiratory illness as covid is had no effect. Doctor Anthony
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Fauci I remember him saying. I remember it so clearly.
At one point he even said, you might want a
double mask. They told people to make masks out of
T shirts. Remember, everybody was sewing masks like we were
back in nineteen forty one. They were walking around with
their homemade masks dripping off of their face, not actually
providing any real coverage. I mean, the things that they
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told us to do, they just lied and if you
didn't do them, then you were the one who got
the stinki. Ugh, Mandy, please start calling the covid vaccine
the covid jab It's not a vaccine, okay, But the
flu they call the flu vaccine the flu vaccine, and
it's the same thing. That's why every year you gotta
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have a new one, the flu vaccine. I mean, you know, Mandy,
I've been told all my life that my eyelashes belong
on a girl. Face it some of us guys have
finnaminon features, naturally. What should we do about it? Sex
changes out of the question. Well, if I were you,
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I would be betting those eyelashes or whoever I wanted
about them at I am not gonna lie. I've always
at eyelash envy for anyone with great eyelashes because I
do not. First of all, the same color as my hair,
like a light like a dirty blonde. Not good. And secondly,
I don't have very many of them, so JD vance,
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I'm like, oh, JD. The eyelashes come on, Mandy. I
wonder if the chickens who refuse the new bird flu
vaccine will be fired. We'll see, we will see go
from there. There's a whole bunch more by the way
out about doctor Burks and some of the things that
she has said. But think about all the people that
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lost their jobs because of this, Think about the people
that were cycled tout the military because of this. Think
about all the people who lost their livelihoods because the
government decided what was an essential business and was what
wasn't COVID is I mean, I really really hope that
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as we get further away from COVID, we will look
back with shame about two things. Number one, the people
like doctor Deborah Burke's and doctor Anthony Fauci that let
us down a disastrous, unscientific path about COVID. And how
willingly so many people were willing to throw every civil
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liberty out the window in fear. We are so easy
to control. It's not even funny. And if you doubt it,
just go back and look at the COVID years, because
that should tell you everything you need to know. I mean,
I have a friend who's much younger than I am.
She's about thirty now, and so she was in her
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late twenties. She had friends that didn't leave their houses
for a year, people in their twenties who were so
scared of getting COVID and dying, even though statistically there
was almost no chance of them getting COVID and dying.
And that is what we allowed the government to do
to us. It's shameful and it's sad. Thank you for
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texting like this one. Don't forget the directional arrows on
the floor at the grocery store. And I will never
forgive them for closing the twenty four hour grocery store. Yes,
because COVID was only active at night, remember, And then
and then the other thing we learned about COVID is
you could take a restaurant and you could put a
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tent around some of the outside that was still enclosed.
But COVID wasn't in the tent that was enclosed. It
was just inside in the restaurant which was enclosed. Remember,
it all made so much sense, Mandy, We the people
who didn't need the vaccine should start filing civil suits
against Fauci and her. You know, we're gonna find out
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for many, many years, people that were damaged by the
vaccine and I'm not ever gonna forgive myself for even
remotely waiting into that. That's why if I ever talk
about medical stuff now, I'm gonna try and add a
disclaimer of you know what I'm do, what you're gonna do,
but don't do it because I said one way or
the other. Super frustrating, But you can't get blood from
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a stone. I mean, you could take their fortunes, but
it still wouldn't make it right for all the people
that were actually damaged. Mandy. I can't tell you how
many times I was confronted because I refused to wear
a mask. I got used to getting the stink eye,
and I just didn't care.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Mandy.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
I will have people to this day that won't come
around me because I never got the vaccine. Unreal that
people don't see this lie. You know, please feel free
to share them, share with them the blog today and
say hey, just to let you know, Yeah, it doesn't matter,
it's all about you. If they had just said, imagine
if they had said about the COVID shot. Imagine if
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they had just said, hey, guys, it's not going to
prevent transmission. However, if you think that you're gonna get
really sick with COVID. You are more than welcome to
get a vaccine, but that would have meant what They
weren't going to sell enough of them. I don't know
why they couldn't do that. I And that's kind of
what Debra Burk's is saying now. And yeah, you talk
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about undermining public health. COVID undermined public health in a
way that nothing else possibly could have at all. This
texture just said, Mandy, I'm a guy with the best eyelashes.
That is not nice, not nice at all, Mandy. I
don't know why, but guys generally have longer eyelashes than gals.
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Not every guy, trust me on this, not every guy, Mandy.
COVID had multiple purposes that governments around the world use.
Isn't that the truth? And a sad truth at that.
Remember the video when they made masks out of women's
song underwear. I think it was a joke. Any video
about making a mask was a joke if unintentionally. Young
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people that became hermits during COVID were nothing but narcissists, creepy,
wilfully ignorant, alarmist, probably in many cases millennials, narcissist. So
here's the thing, you, guys, when the news media that
you trust is telling you that something is going to
kill you and you're still at the point in life
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when you believe everything news me and it tells you
with that unquestionably. And I think everybody's had that moment.
Some of us just snapped out of it faster than others.
It was I could see why they would feel that way,
But then it became wilfully ignorant. Then it became I'm
going to keep wearing my mask forever. I was just
on an airplane yesterday. You guys, flying in and out
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of Denver, when you get to any other place, you
don't see any masks, But flying in and out of Denver,
there's always those people on the plane with the masks on.
And every single time they pull their mask down to
eat or drink, and I'm just like, what are you
still doing? What? But hey, you know what, they can
do what they want to do, as long as they
don't expect me to do the same. Mandy, have you
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noticed a serious drop off in the ability of voice
to text to actually do its job. I don't remember
having these problems ten years ago. My Voice to Text
now has started adding random pun punctuation in my voice
to text, and it won't even make sense. I'll say, hey, there,
comma because I always voice my punctuation as well. My
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text was one like this, Hey there a comma. Ay Rod,
can you make sure that this happens? And my They'll
just put a period in the middle of the sentence
for no reason, like what are we doing?
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Well, you know, I mean, if we can convert ben
Albright to iPhone, which I just recently learned about, you
can go to the superior side as well. Yeah, not
just the other side, the superior side. It's fine, have
a subpar phone, have issues all the time, It's all.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Right, Hey Mandy. During the beginning of the pandemic, I
admitted my wife to a nursing home, and when social
restrictions took place, I was not allowed to visit her
for two months she was there. Then the nursing home
required my daughter and I to have proof of the
COVID vaccine to be able to visit her for thirty
minutes per week. My at the time employer literally paid
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me forty per vaccine shot. I made eighty bucks. Now
I've been suffering from long term systemic inflammation from the
shots never tested positive for COVID. My wife has passed
away since. But hey, you know what, at least Deborah
Burks is admitting it now. I'm sure that's cold comfort.
I'm so sorry about all of that story. That's terrible,
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absolute utely terrible.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Mandy.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
I was a teacher, strongly encouraged to get the vaccine.
I still ended up getting it and giving it to
my own family. After that, I said, well, I can't
read that last part on the radio. Nope, Mandy. And
there were those eight inch knots painted on the floors
and sidewalks six feet apart. It was all so stupid,
you guys. It was so so stupid. Mandy. My very
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liberal sister still wears a mask. It's become a crutch
for her. And you know what, There you go. That's
all you need to see. Right now. When we get back,
we're going to talk about something much more uplifting. Andrew
Kneales than Houses for Warriors is trying to provide not
just housing, but the kind of support for veterans who
are either homeless or about to become homeless so they
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can live their best lives. We're going to tell you
about it. Right after this.
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Speaker 5 (36:17):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
And I'm thrilled to have with me now Andrew Canals.
He is the CEO and founder of Houses for Warriors,
a wonderful operation that decided to try and tackle homelessness
in the veteran community. But now it's just turned into
even so much more. Andrew, first of all, welcome back
to the show.
Speaker 10 (36:39):
Thanks for having me back. It's good to see you.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
So let's talk for a second. If nobody's ever heard
of Houses for Warriors, let's talk about how this thing
got started, what the mission is, and what you've accomplished
in the lifespan so far.
Speaker 10 (36:54):
Yeah, I guess it all kind of starts with my story.
You know, when I got out of the military, I
had to combat towards in Iraq. I survived a major
rocket attack that injured a lot of people, and I
really struggled with PTSD and just controlling my emotions and
not being responsible and not making responsible choices. And you know,
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between addiction issues and alcoholism, you know, I was I
hit rock bottom and I was able to get out
of it through getting support and getting my disability, which
I was entitled to the whole time that I struggled,
you know, I was homeless for two and a half
years and just you know, in and out of a
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lot of turmoil and and and didn't have really a
support network. And when I finally got support and I
finally asked for help and I started changing my life.
I really started wanting to you know, continue my service
and give back in a in a different way. And so,
you know, when people started seeing that my life was
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getting better and and you know, I was becoming more successful,
and I got a service dog, and people, how'd you
get your dog? How did you know? How did you
do this? How did you get your benefits? And I
started just really helping the people that I knew that
had served, and it grew from there. You know, after
I received a service dog and got inspired, I started
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going back to school and I started Houses for Warriors
in twenty nineteen and and the whole purpose was to
improve the quality of life for all injured and homeless veterans.
I had also been injured. I broke both in my
femurs mountain biking, and it was just it was a
crazy time in my life that just spiraled and went,
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you know, deeper and deeper and darker and darker. And
so to get out of that and to reclaim my
life and rebuild my life, and now I have a
successful business, and I'm married, and we're working on kids
and and you know, there's there's a lot that has
changed that I never saw myself have that I could
never see myself having when when I was in it,
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when I was when I was struggling. And so, you know,
it's been five years. We've grown way beyond how we started.
You know, we started out doing service projects, and I
was just organizing construction projects for veterans that needed you know,
ramps and wheelchair accessibility and new roofs or major repairs,
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and built the community of contractors and volunteers to do
these projects. And then beyond that, you know, in twenty
twenty one, during the pandemic, we started getting lots of
calls looking for homes and looking for places to go,
you know, people calling in the winter saying, Hey, I'm
on the street and I have nowhere to go. And
so we got we got our start in the transitional
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housing by just getting people hotels, extended state hotels. We
worked out a deal with one of the with one
of the local hotels here and really anybody that had
an available room, we would and I would like raise
money individually for these individuals and get them as much
support as I can. And then it got into giving
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them jobs with the contractors in construction and we eventually
got our own transitional home in twenty twenty one. We
started by leasing this house. It was a five bedroom
home that we had seven beds and we were transitioning.
It took a while to start, but we ended up
transitioning about fifteen, maybe eighteen veterans to that house. And
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then just under about a year and a half ago,
we moved into a nicer neighborhood, a nicer home that
had more space, and we gave everyone their own bedroom.
We learned from the first home and we decided to
cut it down to four. So we've been helping four
veterans at a time, about about ten to twelve per
year in this one home. And you know, we're getting
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to the point now where we've helped about thirty six
veterans and the program has evolved from just providing a
safe place. You know, that's how it started. It was
a safe, comfortable place that had all the amenities of
any group home, video games and TV streaming and all that.
Every room has a TV and and the idea evolved into, Okay,
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you know, let's give them new structure. You know, let's
create you know, we've created house rules and chores and
you know, they have to take care of their space.
And then beyond that, you know, we we raise We
do a bunch of drives and raise money so that
we can provide all the basic needs that they would
need in that home. So their food's provided, freezer Giant
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thirty thirty, keep a foot freezer full of meat and food,
all the house goods, toilet paper, paper products, like everything
is provided so that they can really just focus on
getting on their feet. We implemented a ninety day program
with a mentor and a coach and a facilitator, and
they give us one weekend a month now where they
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are focused on personal growth and doing personal development workshops
and professional development workshops with their coaches in a in
a structured environment. We're actually doing these at Redrox Community College,
so there they graciously gave us a classroom space to
do this class every weekend or every a week, one
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weekend a month. And it's very intensive. They're they're dealing
with like deep rooted programs and deep rooted money issues
and trauma in and out of the military, you know,
from childhood and and post military as well, so you know,
it's a very intense program. It's gotten more and more
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intense intensive and really just focused on the individual's needs,
helping them set goals and then having a support network
and a group of people that are holding them accountable
to doing what they say they're going to do, the
choices that they're making, and ultimately, you know, working as
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a team within the home to support each other through through.
Speaker 4 (43:16):
All of this.
Speaker 10 (43:17):
And and it's it's been a beautiful thing to witness.
We've had some tremendous results. You know, the program, it's
it's working more and more as time goes on, because
we're getting more experienced, We're we're altering the program as
as we learn from from every veteran that goes through it,
constantly making it better constantly giving them more attention and
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more focus and more support, but at the same time
holding them accountable to doing it themselves, you know, being responsible,
making responsible choices, and and and really just we're you know,
our program really combats any other other transition program out there.
You know, we're we're not just giving them a handout.
We've always said we're a hand up, not a handout.
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And you know, the government's very focused on creating dependency
and maybe maybe unintentionally, you know, let's.
Speaker 5 (44:10):
Just say, politically, I can argue about the policies. Yeah, no, no,
I was just gonna say, Andrew, this is what I
love about this because one of the things that I
have learned throughout the years of talking to people with
different kinds of programs similar to this one, and that
is when you add in the responsibility piece, when you
add in the sense of responsibility to the other housemates
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that live there, and you know, holding others accountable, those
are the kind of things that help someone build their identity,
their own self worth back. Is because being part of
the pack again and being part of a group and
then being a good member of that group, I mean,
that's that's a really powerful thing. How did that evolve?
Did that evolve organically where guys were like, look, you
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got to pull your weight? I mean, how did that
process come about?
Speaker 10 (44:59):
Well, it always happens a little organically because if somebody
is not pulling their weight around the house, the burden
gets heavy on on the other three. Having a small
collaborative living environment like that, if somebody leaves their dishes
in the sink, there's only one of four people that
can be like, you know, so, so and and and
empowering the veterans to manage their own home. You know,
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we we step in, we're we're constantly there. We have
house meetings every week. You know, they're required to check
in with their mentors three times a week on time
at the time they designate. They can renegotiate that, but
but ultimately they're you know, it's a structure. And when
when they're when they start falling outside of the structure,
you know, it's the rest of their group finds out
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very quickly, and it took a lot of work to
get here. You know, we actually hired an amazing facilitator.
He was actually a personal mentor of mine. He you know,
I went through a similar ninety day growth program that
that had a different structure, but ultimately the same program
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that that really turned me into the man I am today. Uh,
you know, and that was just within the last few years,
you know, in the middle of my journey with the nonprofit,
and so to be able to offer it to them
and restructure it to fit into the housing program, it's
been a major void, uh that we've filled with with
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hiring this facilitator, and this facilitator brought an amazing team
of volunteer coaches that have been through advanced personal growth work.
They they've all been experienced working together. I met a
lot of them. A lot of these people were at
my wedding, you know that that's how close we all are.
And and so, you know, getting these people involved has
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made a tremendous impact in the lives of the veterans
that veteran the program. Currently, we're seeing major changes in
character and behavior. You know, one that there's one story
in particular. He stands out because he really struggled. He
had a criminal background. Unfortunately, he uh you know, had
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a really hard time getting a job when he moved here.
He moved here to get away from a crowd that
was holding him down. And making you know, and supporting
bad choices in his life. So he took the risk,
came all the way to Colorado. We helped him get here,
and then moved into our home and then just really
struggled and struggled. And you can only struggle so long,
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you know, with the same mindset, and and it eventually
really weighs on you. And and so once we implemented
the ninety day program and we got him a mentor,
we got him a coach, and we started doing these
weekend seminars, he really started breaking out of his old
patterns and programs. And you know, he is now doing
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a culinary uh program with another veteran organization. He's learning
how to be a chef. It's a very good industry
for him to be in because they a lot of
the time, as long as you can cook good food
and do your job and pay attention and be clean
and and do you know, do the job right, they
don't care about your history or your background. And very
similar to construction. And so you know, we we get them,
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you know, we we we do our best to navigate
their personal barriers. And and they're all different. Everybody has
a different story, you know, some people aren't ready for
the type of intensive personal work that we're we're we're
kind of pushing them into. And then you know, it's
it's like we say, it's not just a housing program.
This is a transformative, transformative program that's going to help
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and never be homeless again. And that that's what I
was getting to to. You know, the current programs out there,
you know, they just create dependency, and and these guys
are going from program to program to program and and
a lot of them just aren't getting any real tools
or resources to change their lives. Right, And so I
can confidently say that that Houses for Warriors, and this
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Warriorhouse program and our Warrior Resiliency training, that ninety day
program is all is actually doing that We're actually transforming
lives from the root causes of their struggles and what
led them to being homeless. And we're giving them the
tools and the resources and the mindset and the support
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really is the big one, the real support to change
their lives and make different choices and start getting what
they want in life. You know, it wasn't enough for
me to just get them an apartment or help them
get an apartment, and you know, beyond that we also
furnish those apartments. When they move out, we collect furniture
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and house goods and make sure that they don't need
anything during this transition. That wasn't enough for me.
Speaker 5 (50:00):
I don't want to I don't want to run out
of time, but I want to make sure we get
to what's happening this Saturday. Tell me, first of all,
what are we raising five hundred thousand dollars to do?
And how are how are you doing this Saturday at three? Awesome?
Speaker 10 (50:14):
Thank you for asking. I can ramble. I know I'm
very passionate about this and and this this upcoming event
on to twenty two is a huge, huge milestone for
our organization. We're hosting this in our in our classroom
at Red Rocks Community College. It's also a hybrid event,
so you can you can attend virtually and and watch
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and share the live stream and even go live yourself.
But this is a this is a community effort. It's
about stepping up and and and volunteering and helping us
raise this money. It's it's incorporated into our ninety day program.
With the current veterans that are there, We're going to
We're going to be interviewing some of those guys and
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hearing their stories directly. Uh, we're going to be streaming
the entire event, and and the goal is to buy
a new home, a bigger, nicer home. We've we've had
about a maybe for about a year and a half now.
We've had a waiting list of at least four to
five veterans at any given time, and we just we
just you know, this is a process. You know, it
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takes you know, between three and nine months to really
you know, help this help these guys change and transform
their lives. And so you know, we just we don't
have enough space and we haven't been able to just
get them in and out fast enough.
Speaker 4 (51:37):
You know.
Speaker 10 (51:37):
We we give them as much time as they need
typically to to transition back into an independence, uh life.
So this, this fundraiser is about getting involved, making this
mission your mission. It's about coming together as a community
and purchasing this this home. You know, obviously five hundred
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thousand dollars isn't enough to buy the house that we want.
You know, this is we're looking at eight to ten
rooms with a wreck room and a study room and
just you know, amenities for them to really collaborate, work together,
feel comfortable and show them what's possible in their lives.
And you know, in order to do that, you know, obviously,
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any donation supports us five dollars, one thousand dollars, one
hundred thousand dollars right, anything will help. The goal is
to get enough to put a significant down payment on
a new home, you know, reduce the mortgage as much
as possible by putting as much down as we can,
and then putting some money into our account for operations
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and you know, supporting the program for the next year
or two. So we have a number of ways to
do this. Obviously, they can show up, help us, make calls.
We're encouraging everyone to you know, call those friends and
family that you know will support our mission and support
housing homeless veterans. We uh. We also encourage you to
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go live and share the live stream mention it on
on the day of and and share the link and
and get people there. Like I said, we'll be interviewing veterans.
We'll be interviewing some of the volunteers and the coaches
that are working one on one with our vets. And
there's also some naming rights opportunities as well, so if
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you want to really you know, kick down and and
and be a big, big help for for this campaign.
Help us by naming a bedroom, help us by naming
that new movie room that we want to build, or
the game room, or even name the house right. You know,
those are the biggest ways to support. You know, it
comes with recognition, and you know we'll we'll invite you
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to all of our graduation events. You get to meet
the veterans that are that are supporting, that we're supporting,
and and it's just it's gonna be a good time.
We're gonna have pizza, We're gonn to have volunteers, and
the team WRT Team one is going to be present
and helping and supporting. And it's part of their ninety
day growth program is to be involved and give back
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to those who are giving.
Speaker 5 (54:14):
Well, Andrew, I appreciate it. I put everything on the blog. So,
Andrew Knelis is my guest from Houses for Warriors. This
is all happening Saturday from three to six pm a telethon.
I was going to ask you if Jerry Lewis was
going to host, but I doubt it because he's old
and cranky. Now, I also put a link to the
Houses for Warriors website. If you just want to jump
right there and make a donation, you can do that
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as well. Or you can participate on Saturday, or you
can make a donation big enough, or you can just
give him a house. If you have an eight to
ten bedroom house laying around, don't know what to do
with it, just give Andrew a call and say I've
got a house for you. That would be fantastic, great
tax right off for you. Andrew. I love what you're
doing and I cannot wait to hear about the next
house that you guys at Houses for Warriors are going
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to be able to open with this money.
Speaker 10 (55:01):
Well, I'm looking forward to it. I really appreciate your
time and letting me share this mission.
Speaker 5 (55:05):
All right, Andrew Canalis, thank you so much, my friend.
Speaker 10 (55:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (55:11):
Have a good day. All right. That is Andrew Canalis
with Houses for Warriors. You guys, we are so and
we talked about this last week when Rob was on
the show. By the way, a Rod did a fantastic
video of Rob getting his big cardboard check, So if
you heard him on the show on Thursday, you can
see exactly how shocked he was. Very shocked when we
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gave him the giant cardboard check, so we were pretty
excited about that. Anyway, when we get back, it's time
to talk a Rod retrieve the dead horse. We'll be
back with that right after this by a Rod. The
dead horse, of course, being how bad the Colorado Republican
leadership is. This story broke last Friday. Of course it did,
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because it's so idiotic that they tried to send it
out on a Friday afternoon.
Speaker 6 (56:00):
Us.
Speaker 5 (56:00):
I'm hoping that nobody would notice how stupid it is,
but I noticed from coloradopeakpolitics dot com. The Colorado Republican
Party sued six prominent state Republicans this week, alleging the
group orchestrated a failed coup that attempted to remove state
GOP Chairman Dave Williams and his fellow state party officers
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from their positions last summer, costing the party substantial legal
fees and diverting resources from campaigns just weeks before the
November election. Oh yeah, yeah. The lawsuit the state GOP
Dave Williams, and the party's vice chair and secretary asked
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the court to find that Republicans who instigated and carried
out a plan that claim to have replaced Williams and
other officers are liable for unspecified damages to be determined
at trial. They have named Eli Bremmer, Todd Watkins, Nancy Palazzi,
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Kevin McCartney, Britta Horn, and Christy Burton Brown in the lawsuit.
And this is yet another example of the trash decision
making of the Colorado Republican Party leadership. And I have
to put leadership in air quotes because there's no leadership here.
There's vindictiveness, there's spitefulness, and there's a small group of
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people who would rather burn the whole thing down and
rule over the ashes than do anything constructive in any way,
shape or form. And I hope that some judge laughs
this out of the courtroom. It's beyond absurd. But then again,
what else would we expect from this group, this clown
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show running the Colorado GOP. So you know, I know
that there's going to be an election to bring in
new leadership. As of right now, I to see Britta
Horn in the seat out of the candidates that I
have that I am aware of. And something happened that
has never happened before, So I realized we're having a leadership,
you know, discussion kind of thing. And I have gotten
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probably five different emails about one specific candidate for Colorado
Republican leadership. I don't know if any of these five
people know each other, but they all came over the
last two weeks, staggered out, not even on the same day,
like this was a coordinated effort asking me to please
ensure that Darcy Shoenik does not become the chair of
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the Colorado GOP. And these various people who are relaying
to me an email, and I can't verify any of
these stories directly, you know what I'm saying, Like they're
all secondhand, so I'm not going to share them with you.
But all stories about her being a bully, either on
social media in person, about her being extremely nasty to
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people that disagree with her, and they believe that she
would be more of the same of the Dave Williams
style of leadership. And again can't verify any of these things,
although some people did send me screenshots of social media
posts that she was involved in that were quite nasty,
but I found that interesting. That's never happened before where
I've had like a drip campaign, and I don't know
if it's a coordinated campaign, or if it's just all
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of these people saying, holy cow, you think Williams is bad?
Darcy schoeneg is off the hook. I don't want any
more divisive people in leadership. I don't want people who
believe in retribution, who use words like treason to talk
about people who are concerned about the direction of the
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party because the party was not helping candidates. It's laughable
that in this lawsuit they actually say caused harm just
before an election. Representative Gabe Evans, Representative Jeff Crank, they
both come on this program and said I got zero
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help from the Colorado Republican Party other than being able
to use a mailing list. Zero. So what damages are
they going after? I just I don't understand. I don't
understand people who are who would rather be right or
feel like they were right instead.
Speaker 6 (01:00:20):
Of win.
Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
Because we're not winning. We want a little bit more,
and do not give me. Do not for a second
try to give anybody in charge of the Colorado GP
any credit for that, because they endorse the people that
ran against the winners in the primary. Let's not forget. Please,
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if you are a Republican and you are going to
vote on this. Please take the party back. Just put
someone normal in charge. Put someone who is not fully
invested in profiteering off of the Republican Party, who is
not invested in suing other Republicans. Do you know me, Democrats,
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the Republican Party has sued zero? Do you know how
many campaigns the Republican Party has run successfully? Zero that
I can find. Even Lauren Bobert, who was supported by
Dave Williams in the election, even she is done with
this nonsense, as was indicated as she tried to talk
(01:01:25):
some kind of sanity back into an insane meeting where
Williams was trying to change the bylaws so we could
stick around longer. And it's so bad, so incredibly incredibly bad,
and they just keep piling on, making one more bad
decision after one more bad decision, after one more bad decision.
(01:01:48):
It's just baffling to me. There's so many opportunities for
Republicans in Colorado right now. People don't feel safe in
our major city centers. They don't think their kids are
being educated properly, and they're not. Test scores show us
they're not. The cost of living is going up every year.
(01:02:09):
Directly because of the nickel and diming of the Democratic
Party that keeps passing more fees, more fees, more fees,
which we all know are taxes, but they can't raise taxes,
so they're just piling more fees on us. There are
so many places where the Republican Party could be winning
right now, and instead of that, instead of making the
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argument for more conservative policy, smaller government, freer markets, freer economies,
they're suing other Republicans who decided that they wanted to
follow the bylaws and call a meeting to get this
clown show out. If only they've been successful. But I
actually believe that the judge who ruled in favor of
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Dave Williams is probably a Democrat and knew that the
longer this guy is in charge, the more there will
be beset by infighting, the more money will be wasted
on lawsuits that are going nowhere, the more inanity and
the less effect of the Republican Party will be. So,
if I'm a Democrat, I'm doing everything in my power
(01:03:14):
to keep Dave Williams and his little cabal in charge,
all his little rhino calling friends so clever can't define
what a good Republican looks like but the boy. They
love to call people rhinos, and you can go from
Republican and good standing to rhino overnight because they just
move the goalposts. That is truly so ampathetical to everything
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I've always believed about the Republican Party. The pettiness, the smallness,
the vindictiveness, the absolute disregard for the people who may
align with the Republican Party on a lot of issues
but not on all of them. They don't care. They
can shrink away, and then they can have their media.
(01:03:57):
They can have the whole state convention inside like a
Denny's somewhere, because there'll be so few people left. It's
so so infuriating, so infuriating, and yet here we are. Okay, ay, Rod,
you can return the dead horse to the closet. We'll
move on in the next segment. This text is right, Hi, Mandy,
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my Democrat friend said, Williams is God's gift to Colorado Democrats. Yes, indeedy,
my friends, he is. I don't know how I missed
this until now. Apparently women are still shaving their heads
to protest the election of Donald Trump. What what? Oh?
By the way, I have something on my blog and
(01:04:39):
it's from my friend Jeff Hunt, who actually worked for
a competing radio station, But he went to the protest
yesterday downtown, and this video is so flip and funny.
It is so incredibly funny. Oh my gosh, tell me
that I put it on the blog. Did I? I
might not have because it had so much bad language
(01:05:01):
in it. Oh, it's on my it's on my uh
my x speed. But he went downtown and he asked
for specifics, like, hey, what has Donald Trump done? Well,
he's he's coming from my rights and my voting rights
and lgbt Q rights and more rights, and he's taken
away the rights. And he's like, well, what specifically, And
they're like, I don't want to talk to you anymore. Nope, now,
(01:05:24):
don't I adoct to you anymore. I love it when
people show up at a protest. But then when you
ask for details, they're like, I know the eight person
to talk to you about this. You need to talk
to my friend. She reads the New York Times. She
can't tell you what we're mad about. But then I
see this video just now that apparently women are shaving
their heads to protest Donald Trump, and this is one
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of those things I don't understand about women. Why is
that an effective form of protest? Who are you hurting?
No one? No one? And what if you shave your
head and you got like a wee weird shaped head.
I'm pretty sure I have a weird shaped skull. Everybody,
you ever shaped your head, you know, just fall on bald?
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Ever did that? Ever?
Speaker 6 (01:06:07):
Since I did an AI rendering of what I would
look like bald?
Speaker 5 (01:06:11):
No?
Speaker 6 (01:06:12):
No, I mean it's okay, but my head's massive.
Speaker 5 (01:06:16):
It is like an orange on a toothpick. I mean
your head is giant.
Speaker 6 (01:06:19):
Yeah, I wear I wear hats they don't buy, they
don't sell in stores exactly over eight.
Speaker 5 (01:06:25):
Yeah, it would not look good. You do have a
giant noggin. Like I'm just afraid I would have weird
because I can feel like a weird bump back here,
you know what I mean? Like everybody'd be like, well,
what the heck happened back there? I don't know. Talk
to my parents. Maybe they got dropped as a child.
But this is one of those things where I guess,
if you're trying to signal to the world and you
want everyone to know how unhappy you are about Donald
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Trump's presidency. Then that's one way to say, yes, I
either have cancer alopecia, or I'm just mad about Donald Trump,
or maybe I just look really good bald. I gotta
tell you have a little bit of envy for African
American women because they can pull off the bald thing.
I've never seen a white woman. No, I take that back.
(01:07:08):
I've seen two white women, both recovering from cancer that
look good bald. But black women can rock that look.
Probably not all black women, but a lot of black
women can rock that look. It's just nonsensical, absolutely nonsensical. Okay.
A fun story that I have today. I grabbed it
(01:07:29):
from the Denver Gazette. I love, love, love it, and
they don't do enough. And if you work for the
Denver Gazette, I need you to tell your editor that
I need more stories like this. They call it Craving
Colorado and Steth Foster we've had on the show before.
He actually wrote about a place in Lamar, Colorado, on
the Eastern Plains. Not a lot going on in Lamar
except the rebirth of the cow Palace. Oh yes, in Lamar.
(01:07:56):
Now it's a foodie destination. I think that's pretty cool.
I'm gonna drive the Lamar and visit it just because
why not just do it? Because that's that would be
a good way to spend an afternoon driving out to
Lamar and back. Maybe anyone, anyone at all? No, Okay,
(01:08:16):
moving on.
Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (01:08:17):
A Rod did a review of Captain America. So you
went and saw it Friday night, A Rod, and your
words were, it wasn't as bad as what you'd heard.
I told you i'd seen mixed reviews.
Speaker 6 (01:08:26):
Yes, yeah, nowhere nearly as bad as people have been saying.
Speaker 5 (01:08:30):
I liked it a lot. Don't you think when you
go into a movie with an expectation of, oh, I
don't know, I've heard about things, and then it turns
out to not be horrible, you're like, oh, okay, I
much prefer the bar to be at ground zero. Yeah,
just Steven Stevens.
Speaker 6 (01:08:44):
Yeah, make it as low as possible and just be terrible.
And then I go in go, oh okay, okay, I
was really good.
Speaker 5 (01:08:52):
So I watched a movie on the plane coming back
yesterday that could have been so fantastic that I find
myself getting angry that Tyler Perry directed it because the
story of the Six Triple Eight, which is a battalion
of African American women in World War Two, the only
wag what was wax wax battalions that deployed to Europe,
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and they set them up to fail at a task
that multiple units had tried to solve, and that was
dealing with a backlog of mail. It's a fantastic story
and it's a true story, and it's really interesting, and
Carrie Washington plays the lead and she was just so
incredibly good, like her performance wasted in a movie that
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Tyler Perry decided to make about racism, which there was racism. Now,
don't get me wrong, you have to address the racism
that these women faced. But instead of addressing the fact
that this group of women got together and solved a
problem that multiple other units had tried to solve and
no one else could solve it. But then he just
(01:09:58):
glosses over how they a actually solve the problem and
I liken it to Apollo thirteen. Have you ever seen
Apollo thirteen?
Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
A red?
Speaker 5 (01:10:05):
I think?
Speaker 4 (01:10:06):
So?
Speaker 5 (01:10:06):
Okay, So the astronauts are stuck in space. A huge
part of the movie is about the guys on the
ground trying to engineer a solution to how to fix
this problem to bring these astronauts back from space. None
of that, none of that. I was so mad. I
was like, what a great story. It could have been
so much better, so much better. The actresses were great,
(01:10:28):
but he just he leaned in on one part instead
of leaning in on the important part, which is these
women solved a problem that no one else could fix
and we really don't know how. There's like two throwaway
lines about how they did it. I'm like, ah, so
aggravating when a movie could have been so much more. Anyway.
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Speaker 5 (01:11:15):
Welcome Local, Welcome to the third hour of the show.
Did you guys hear the hate speech in Keenan Dixon's
news cast? He said it was gonna be a low
of one tonight. That's not cool. It's a dumb low one.
Boo boo. So on the blog today, I have a story,
(01:11:37):
actually a column by the esteemed Michael Rosen. You may
be familiar with his work from decades on the radio
Here at KOWA he wrote a column about the birthright
citizenship order. Now, if you heard my conversation with Constitutional
Attorney John you John dismissed the possibility that anything will
(01:11:58):
change here because, as he said, no, this has already
been designed by a prior lawsuit, and that was inconsistent
with what I thought I knew. But I could lie
and tell you that I know absolutely was sure, but
I wasn't. So over the weekend did to win on
investigating and the issue of birthright citizenship when it comes
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to people in the country illegally, has not been decided.
And with the current court makeup where we have a
majority of people who generally speaking act like originalists, meaning
they look for the original intent in the Constitution before
making a rolling, although they are not entirely consistent with that,
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I didn't think it had been decided. And Mike Rosen
wrote a column today that pretty much confirms what I
thought I knew from Mike's column. The Fourteenth Amendment to
the Constitution was ratified following the Civil War in eighteen
sixty eight. It was all about ending slavery and punishing
Southern rebellion. Section one granted citizenship and all constitutional protections
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to former slaves, born or naturalized in the United States,
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. That last part is very,
very important as it now applies to foreigners. The key
phrase doesn't just mean being subject to our laws. The
framers of the amendment intended the allegiance to the US
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be exclusive and to no other country. Foreign tourists, legally
or illegally in the US are subject to our laws,
but not our political jurisdiction. They owe no allegiance to
the US. Hence, if a child is born to them
while they're visiting here, that child should have no automatic
right to American citizenship. In an eighteen eighty four case
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versus Wilkins, SCOTUS ruled that even Indians weren't granted citizenship
by the Fourteenth as they were subject to tribal jurisdiction,
not US jurisdiction. That is what I've always thought was
not had not been decided yet. Now what's interesting is
we see the protests that happened a couple of weeks
ago where people are walking around waving their Mexican flags. Well,
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that certainly flies in the face of subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, right, I mean, really really. It's a great
column by Mike, who again just nails it. But I'm
interested to see how all this is decided because this
could throw a lot of people into chaos, because there
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are a lot of people who have lived their entire
lives born here in the United States of America whose
parents were either not here as citizens or not here
with status some kind of status, and gave birth I mean,
what do you do with all those people? What do
you do with the retroactive people? You can't hold them
responsible for that. It's gonna be a very interesting thing
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to see how this all happens. Now. I'm guessing that
Congress could act quickly to protect the those people, but
maybe we put a punctuation mark in and say, okay,
from this point forward, no more, no more. Because I
actually believe that birthright citizenship is a huge lure for
people to come to the United States, specifically to have
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a child to create a citizen that they are connected to.
So family reunification policies can be used to bring over
more family members after a child has been born here
and has given citizenship. I think it's a very big
incentive for illegal immigration, especially for women who come here
pregnant so they can have their babies here. We talked
about the Chinese tourism thing. Huge Chinese women come over
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here at seven months, they stay here in really nice
luxury hotels, they give birth in the United States, and
then they take their baby and they go back to China,
and that China now has dual citizenship that baby. I
just think that's not the way to have a country.
It's a little too loosey goosey for my taste. Just
letting you know, so we'll see what happens. But again
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Mike making the point that is going to uh, We're
gonna have to figure it out. He ends the column
by saying, ultimately, SCOTIS can make its ruling unequivocal, with
the majority opinion declaring it was the intent of the
fourteenth Amendment that only those persons born to citizens of
the United States or naturalized in the United States and
subject to the exclusive jurisdiction thereof are the citizens of
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the United States. And like I said, I don't know
what this would mean to people whose status would be
thrown into chaos. I think there needs to be immediate clarification,
But I don't trust Congress. I don't trust Congress on anything,
because everything in Congress is just it's kind of like
what Donald Trump is doing right now. I keep saying
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when Donald Trump does something or anounces something, I'm like,
just wait, just wait. That's the starting point, because what
should be simple to all of us out here. Even
if you believe the birthright citizenship should be ended, I mean,
you're not suggesting that people who have been born here
and have lived their entire lives should somehow be subject
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to deportation. I just think that's unreasonable and very very cruel.
All that being said, do you trust Congress to go
in and quickly fix the issue? Of course not, because
members of Congress are going to look to get their
little skin out of the game. The bill will man
end up being one thousand pages long, just to make
sure that we can take care of this one issue.
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I just Congress is being left in the dust right
now by the Trump administration. But if they don't get
theirselves together, get their act together, start codifying some of
this stuff into law, I mean, what are we even doing.
What's going to happen with the next Continuing Resolution? How
big is that thing going to be? What's it going
to have in it. We won't know because we'll get
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the three thousand page bill two minutes before they pass it.
That's just standard and really really sad and not cool
at all, not even a little bit. A couple of
things we're gonna talk about next. Blake Street tavern is
rising like a phoenix, and if you're waiting for your
Colorado state tax return, you're gonna be waiting a little longer.
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But before all that, two Colorado men, well they're trying
to get Florida man or run for his money. And
I love this story, so you're gonna hear it too
right after this. Okay, I gotta tell you, guys, it's
my favorite news story I Saturday. This is just it's so.
This is one of those things where you can just
picture these two geniuses sitting around. They're probably drinking, maybe
they're smoking a little mess and one of them says,
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you know what we should do? I bet if we
could get contraband into this prison in Louisiana, then we
could split the profits with our homeboys. Who's in this
prison right now? How hard can it be? Right? Uh?
Apparently pretty hard because two Colorado men or under arrest.
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They were arrested and Grant Parish, Louisiana. It is home
to the US Penitentiary Pollock Facility. According to the Grant
Parish Sheriff's office, eighteen year old Jose Francisco Herrero Munez
and nineteen year old Angel Gonzales Gudierez, both from Greeley,
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tried to smuggle in one hundred and twelve thousand dollars
worth of tobacco and eighty nine thousand and five hundred
dollars worth of methamphetamine into the prison. How did these
two geniuses do it? Just you wait, wait for it. People,
wait for it. The sheriff's office said the two planned
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to use a cannon to launch the items over a
security fence and on to federal prison grounds. This particular
cannon uses compressed air and as a shooting range of
more than three hundred and fifty feet. So basically, what
I'm envisioning is a glorified potato gun, only instead of potatoes,
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it would fire cigarettes and methanthetamine. And then we are
all supposed to believe from these geniuses that no one
inside the prison, like a guard in a watch tower
or guards standing in the yard, none of them would
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notice this projectile hurling over the security fence and then
dropping into the yard. No one was going to notice that. Shockingly,
Ice has issued a detainer for mister Munno's, who, in
addition to living in Greeley, is also in the country illegally.
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Now here's my question, and I'm sure this is your
question too, Where exactly did these two geniuses come up
with one hundred and twelve thousand dollars worth of tobacco
and eighty nine five hundred dollars worth of methamphetamine. I mean,
do you have that kind of scratch laying around? You
get a couple hundred grand worth of drugs and tobacco
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laying around your house, and you're gonna fire it using
a cannon into a prison. I'm guessing these gentlemen had
shared drugs and stolen tobacco with others before they decided
to hurl it over the prison wall. Just guessing. I mean,
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that's my favorite story so far of twenty twenty five.
Colorado genius is trying to fire stuff over the wall
of a prison. Never let it be said that we
got anything on Florida man. You know, Florida man's been
kind of quiet. Haven't heard any wack of doodle Florida
man stories in a while. It's like Florida all of
a sudden, was like, you know, I think these people
are making fun of me. I don't want to do
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it anymore. I'm not gonna do dumb stuff. I'm not
gonna put that alligator through that drifting window. They just
got hit to it right there. If you're waiting for
your Colorado's state income tax refund, well keep on waiting.
The Colorado Department of Revenue announced Tuesday it plans to
start processing state tax returns this week. Why uh, yeah,
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I don't know. Tax season started a couple of weeks ago,
with the state Department of Revenue had not put up
the website for e filing yet, and when asked about it,
they were kind of like, what, all of a sudden,
Florida man is running the Department of Revenue in Colorado.
What's interesting about these news stories is that they don't
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really get a kind of a statement. Oh, here's a
statement from the Department of Revenue. In a statement provided
last week, a spokesperson said, we have nothing to announce
it this time and are focused on completing the necessary
work to ensure taxpayers have a smooth and secure tax
filing experience. Color me crazy, but aren't there a whole
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bunch of months that are not tax season that you're
supposed to get that done? I mean kind of like,
I mean, you got one job, got one one job,
and they didn't quite eke that out. Last story before
next segment, we're talking to Auror City Councilwoman Danielle Drinsky.
So I want to get this in bakes bleah, let
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me try that one more time. Blake Street Tavern closed
on opening day for the Rockies two years ago. In
twenty twenty three, the owner of Chris Fusley had had
enough after trying to keep the place open through COVID
and stepped aside. Two years later, on opening day, the
tavern at Blake Street will reopen. It's still some you know,
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sports bar, but it's also going to be a music venue,
events base, all kinds of stuff going on. I just thought,
if you're the sort of person who goes down to
opening day as we do every year, where what helps
springs Etarnal just for that one day as a Rockies fan? Uh?
Does this make you a happier side? Text me five six
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six nine, Oh when we get back. Danielle Durinsky has
had quite quite an experience on the Aurora City Council
and oh boy, oh boy, she wants more. We'll talk
to her next. Hello, daniel welcome back to the show.
Speaker 3 (01:24:24):
Amy, thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (01:24:26):
Well.
Speaker 5 (01:24:26):
I saw today on social media, So without further ado
announce what you're announcing today.
Speaker 3 (01:24:33):
I am officially running for reelection in Aurora, Colorado.
Speaker 5 (01:24:37):
Danielle, you have had quite the first term. Okay, let's
mean hold it cow. A lot of people jump into
politics and then they get elected and then they spend
a few years sort of getting their feet under them.
Not you. You just put your face right in the
wood chipper. So let's talk about why you want to
continue to represent Aurora on the city council after everything
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you've been through in the first you know term.
Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
Well, you know that's easy, Mandy. Aurora is my hometown
and I did jump in head first, I mean completely
seven weeks into public office. I went after the police chief.
Speaker 11 (01:25:15):
At that time, and the decision was was easy for me.
Speaker 3 (01:25:19):
I have been through a lot. Everybody knows, uh you know,
or has heard of the situation I went through with DHS.
Everything I've gone through with the Venezuelan prison gang and
standing up to our own governor, standing up to the media.
Speaker 11 (01:25:30):
Uh, it hasn't been easy, but you know what.
Speaker 3 (01:25:32):
It has fired me up even more, Mandy, because now
I know. Now I know how truly ugly and dark
politics really are, and how many politicians don't care about people.
So for me, I'm going to keep fighting. If they
didn't beat me when they tried to take away my son,
if they didn't beat me when they tried to, you know,
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snear my name and call me a liar and tell
me that I was crazy over this Venezuelan Uh.
Speaker 11 (01:26:00):
Thinking, if they haven't beat me doing all of that
and throwing.
Speaker 3 (01:26:03):
All of that at me, they're not going to now.
It's not going to start now.
Speaker 5 (01:26:08):
Well, and I admire that because a lot of people
probably would have backed down from a fight. But how
did you become a woman? You're not only a member
of the Aora City Council, you're a small business owner.
You're in an industry that is just tough, in the
restaurant bar industry. What made you tough? Danielle? Tell me
a little bit about how you got to be the
person who decided you were going to stand up to
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a Venezuelan prison gay.
Speaker 3 (01:26:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (01:26:32):
Well, a lot of that goes back to my childhood.
Speaker 3 (01:26:34):
I was raised by my father, Vietnam era marine, and
he raised me and my dad. My dad is.
Speaker 11 (01:26:41):
Tough and a lot of that, A lot of that.
Speaker 3 (01:26:44):
Comes from him, and then humongous sense of.
Speaker 11 (01:26:48):
Wanting to make him proud.
Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
But growing up this with a single father, and then
you know, joining the military. The military also helped instill
some toughness in me. And then you're right.
Speaker 11 (01:26:59):
I mean, the bar business is one of the.
Speaker 3 (01:27:01):
Toughest industry there are, and I went into office owning
four bars. So I think, I think what I don't
mean to sound like a commercial for a certain car company,
but I was built up.
Speaker 5 (01:27:17):
Yes, Well, let me ask you, so, did what inspired
you to get into politics in the first place? Was
it the lockdowns of COVID? What got you into that?
I know that we talked when you ran the first time,
but I honestly don't remember what you said, because I
probably talked to one thousand candidates right before that. So
what did you decide? What drew you to politics after
everything else you have going on?
Speaker 11 (01:27:39):
Well, back in twenty twenty so media. It was the
entire year of twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (01:27:43):
And what I tell people is I didn't get into politics.
Politics got into me. The Democrats knocked on my door.
I had a newborn at March of twenty twenty. I
had a newborn at home. When I had to go
shut down all of my.
Speaker 11 (01:27:58):
Bars and restaurants, I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (01:28:01):
There was no science behind it. Couldn't make it make sense.
If you tried, Costco could be packed, Walmart could be packed.
But if you go to get your hair done, your
nails done, go to a bar, or go to a gym,
you're just automatically.
Speaker 11 (01:28:12):
Going to die from COVID.
Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
So there was no sense, there was no common sense
behind any of that. That's how it started. Then you
remember it was the Summer of love. What happened in
Aurora with all of the riots that broke out. They
smashed out all the windows on our city hall. Our
city hall was completely boarded up. They broke into the courthouse,
that trashcands on fire, and then they had that standoff.
They trapped seventeen police officers in the District Rue Police
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building for seven hours and taunted them with gas cans
and not police chief at that time who I charged
after as.
Speaker 11 (01:28:42):
Soon as I got into office, told.
Speaker 3 (01:28:44):
Everybody to stand down, would not let anybody. And because
of that, that year alone, we lost one hundred and
twenty seven officers in the police department because of her,
because of her actions and allowing these police officers to
be trapped. The final straw came when we were shut
down the second time. My businesses were shut down the
second time in twenty twenty. The Awara City Council at
that time brought forward an ordinance for a twenty dollars
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an hour minimum wage in just for Aura while our
businesses were shut down. So that's why I say I
didn't get into politics. Politics got into me. The government
treaded on me and the Democrats knocked out.
Speaker 11 (01:29:18):
They'ven just knocked on.
Speaker 3 (01:29:18):
My door meunity, they kicked it in. So they brought
me here. They brought me here the first time, and
it's going to be because of them that I went
in the second time.
Speaker 5 (01:29:26):
Well let me ask you this, what if you learned
in your first term that you think is going to
help you all in the city council in a second term.
Speaker 11 (01:29:35):
Well, what I have learned is in this ugly game
of politics.
Speaker 3 (01:29:40):
Certainly not everybody is your friend, and some people that
you think may be your friend, they're also not your friend.
So the only one that's truly going to have your
back is you. And I stick to my principles, I
stick to my beliefs, and I just dig my heels
in and I don't stop even if I'm standing alone,
because in politic you are the only person that is
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truly going to look out for yourself and the people
you represent.
Speaker 5 (01:30:05):
Well. And Daniel, what do you what do you want
to see happen in Aura? I'm watching with great interest
the Homeless Navigation Center. I'm really excited and interested to
see that get up and running and see how that
can make a real impact in Aurora. What are your
thoughts on what needs to happen and what the city
council needs to focus on should you get re elected, Yeah, we.
Speaker 11 (01:30:28):
Do need to focus on on that on homelessness, and
I am so I also am watching with great interests
right what we've kind of put into motion here. It's
a WORKFORCET model to help.
Speaker 3 (01:30:40):
I don't know that anybody is going to completely ever
solve homelessness five percent, but I think that this is
going to make huge strides. I can't wait to see
that through. I want to see We're currently we put
together an infrastructure task force. I want to see that through.
Aurora is in dire need of a new animal shelter,
we need to fire stations. There's a lot of infrastructure
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that we're lacking. I want to see that through the
past two years. The crime rate in Aurora, if you
can believe it or not, and even this is this
comes straight from the governor himself, the past two years
in Aurora, the crime rate has been declining. I don't
think that's any coincidence Mandy that I've been the chair
of the Public Safety Committee for two years in Aura.
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No coincidence at all, Governor pull us.
Speaker 11 (01:31:23):
But I want to see that it's still too much.
It's still too much.
Speaker 3 (01:31:26):
That means our crime rates were so high for us
to be in decline for the past two years, even
with the Venezuelan prison gang and everything else going on,
that means it's waste. It's still way too high. So
I want to see that through as well. We have
a new police chief now and I want to see
our crime rates continue to decline.
Speaker 5 (01:31:45):
Do you feel like the new police chief, Chief Todd Chamberlain,
how do you feel like he's doing so far. I've
you know, I have a few people in the Urora
Police Department. They send me emails every once in a
while and they're sort of taken this so far, so
good stance. But they're still cautious because those officers have
been through a lot in the past five years, especially
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six years, if they've been around that long.
Speaker 3 (01:32:08):
Yeah. Absolutely, I mean the Aurora Police Department, auroral police officers,
they have not had a voice in years in this city.
They have not had someone looking out for them in
four years in this city. I would say I'm the same.
Speaker 5 (01:32:22):
I like the.
Speaker 3 (01:32:22):
Direction that the department is going. I do believe that
crime is being fought. I do believe police officers are
policing again. But again, I am also cautiously optimistic. You know,
you've seen what happened in Aurora after we got rid
of Vanessa Wilson. It's been turnover after turnover from police
chiefs who are also no good.
Speaker 11 (01:32:45):
So you know, I'm still cautious. I'm very cautious, and
I am I stand ready at any minute to be
the voice for the men and women of the Aurora
Police Department. Should something take a turn.
Speaker 5 (01:32:55):
Well, you've gotten to coming up a kickoff if you
will tell me about that, if people want to participate, Yeah,
so Saturday, Mark.
Speaker 3 (01:33:02):
Eighth, from four to six pm at JJ's place in Aurora.
You can get more information about the kickoff event or
how to donate to my campaign, or how to get
involved to be a volunteer. My website is Danielle for
Aurora and that's fr Danielle or Aurora dot com.
Speaker 5 (01:33:20):
Danielle Jurinsky. I appreciate your time today. I wish you
all the best in your reelection campaign. I think that
you know people may disagree with your methods, Danielle, but
I always say the same thing. I never doubt that
you love the city of Aurora and you want to
help everyone who lives in Aurora have the best life possible.
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And you know, we can quibble about methods all day long,
but I never doubt your love for the people that
live there and your love for the city. So I
hope you win. I'm just gonna say it. I think
you've done a great job for the citizens there, even
if you've ruffled a few feathers in the process.
Speaker 3 (01:33:58):
Well, it's been worth every bit of it, and I'm
here to ruffle a few more. Mandy, thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (01:34:03):
All right, Danielle, have a good win. That's Danielle Darinski
and again you can support her candidcy if you would like.
She is running for re election. I saw the statistic
today and I want to get this in. I got
a couple of things on the blog that you really
should go look at. First of all, due getting eaten
by a whale on a kayak. I mean, spoiler alert,
he doesn't die. But you've really got to see this.
(01:34:26):
It's I don't know, I think it's like the coolest
story ever. A Rod was like, I don't know, maybe
somebody could beat him with a different story. But if
you're in a bar and everybody's like, yeah, one time
I get hit by a car but I survived, and
then this guy's like really quiet in the corner. He
just goes, I got eaten by a whale. That's it. Yeah,
just drop everything. That's it. That's like the record scratch
(01:34:49):
right there. Still terrifying, No, it is terrifying. I also
have another column, and I've reached out to the author
of this column from the free press. And actually it
might be Paywalld now that I thought about this, But
it's about the difference between It's not even necessarily right
or left, or a Democrat or Republican. It's brokenness against
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status quo iss brokenness. Are people like me that believe
the systems and the federal government are broken at such
a level that the only way to fix it is
to just almost burn it down and start over, you know,
limiting government spending. That's what doge is. That's why I'm
all in on doge. Love it. I absolutely love it.
(01:35:36):
I saw a very liberal friend of mine on Facebook
the other day and I did not respond to this
because I didn't want to, but I'll respond to it here.
She essentially was going on about I can't believe people
don't care about these federal workers who are going to
lose their jobs. They at families to support. And what
(01:35:56):
I would have responded, if I were the type to
respond on social media, is simply that over the last
three years, businesses have fired thousands of workers because the
cost of everything has gotten to be so expensive that
businesses have been firing their workers in the private sector
(01:36:17):
for years now. And to think that somehow the federal
government should be immune when it is the spending of
the federal government that drives inflation that has forced everybody
else to have to lay off people, or restaurants to
close because people have tightened their budgets because everything is
so much more expensive. Forced waffle House to charge an
(01:36:38):
extra fifty cents per egg. I mean, you, guys, So
I find that particular line of thinking really challenging to
get behind. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't want
people to be out of work. I don't want people
to lose their jobs in the private sector or the
public sector. But the fact of the matter is, until
we do something significant to rein in government spending, inflation
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is going to remain high. And that brings me to
my next statistic that I just want to share with
you from the Common Sense Institute. You can find this
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com and the headline
is a shocking inflation stat Hey, ron, how much more
do you think the average household has spent since twenty
twenty per month? No, overall, since twenty twenty? How much
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more has the average household spent because of inflation? So
five years? I mean a kind of just say double
from the previous five. Well, now give you a number,
give you a just shot in the dark number. How
much more? How much more? Five years? Yeah, since twenty twenty?
How much money since twenty twenty extra have we spent
just because.
Speaker 6 (01:37:47):
Of inflation per household? I'm gonna go with twenty grand.
Speaker 5 (01:37:52):
Forty one thousand dollars for those forty thousand dollars and
for nine hundred and twenty two dollars, glorious, that's what
inflation has cost us. So I'm sorry if I don't
feel bad that every worker at the Limestone Cave where
they hand process federal government retiree requests, I'm sorry that
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we can't make that system more efficient and keep all
three hundred workers who've been maintaining the Limestone Cave employed.
You know, but we have to do something so the
rest of America can get back to having some spending
power again, stop putting stuff on their credit cards again,
maybe be able to have a restaurant or a business again.
(01:38:38):
All of a sudden is these crocodile tears for federal workers.
I'm like, who do you guys work for? I mean,
in the last five years, we probably have a third
of our workforce here at Ihart Media, I feel like,
I mean, I don't think I'm wrong? Am I? No
(01:38:59):
grants as fires? And so when people start getting like,
oh no, the federal workers, what do you want me
to do about that? I don't want the federal government
to spend any more money because that is what is
causing inflation. And I don't understand people. Those are the
status quotas. We believe that we just need to sort
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of tweak around the edges and then we can fix
the problems. Really, how's that worked out for us? For
all the people who are thrown for a loop by
the shock and awe flood the zone nature of the
Trump administration from this column about brokenness versus status quotas,
(01:39:44):
This is a paragraph that stuck out. There was no
lever to pull in the last election for change, but
make it responsible and well paced. The choice which was
between a slow canoe ride through more of the same
or a roller coaster. Americans chose the roller coaster. So
hang on, get ready to throw your arms up when
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you hit the top. Okay, for some reason, I got
on the algorithm. Grant Smith has joined me in the
studio to play of the day my Instagram feet. Maybe
I've lingered on a video a little too long, and
all of a sudden, I'm on this like algorithm feet
of all these people passing out on roller coasters.
Speaker 7 (01:40:21):
Don't don't hover too long on anything, the question, ask
me a question and.
Speaker 5 (01:40:26):
Now but it's you, guys. It's hilarious.
Speaker 7 (01:40:30):
I have seen videos of the people on the one
that like shoots you way up in the air over
the city skyline and people passing out.
Speaker 5 (01:40:36):
This is someone on a roller coaster, grant, so they
take off there and then they go high en up.
The best part is though, they wake up while they're
still on the ride, and then I'm like, I'm a
horrible person. I'm going straight to hell. These people are
passing out, They're losing consciousness, and I am crying over
(01:40:59):
here watching it. The social media algorithm don't take it
for granted. Yoh there you go, Yeah, well take it.
I would be that person on a roller coaster. I
hate rolling. I used to love roller coasters, but as
I've gotten older, that fluid in my ear has thickened,
as it does as you get older, and now certain
roller coasters are I can look at him and be
(01:41:19):
like no, that is not a thing.
Speaker 6 (01:41:21):
The older I'm getting, I feel like the more willing
I'm becoming. Even though I haven't actually jumped hit forty,
Hit forty, I've always been told I was an old soul.
So I think maybe that that fluid in my ear
has always been.
Speaker 5 (01:41:32):
Thick, and that I just funny as I noticed as
I was getting older that this was happening. And then
I'm watching Modern Family and Phil took all the kids
to the amusement park and he was like, I love
roller coasters and then he goes on the first one.
Was like and they actually explained that as you get
older that and I went, oh, well that makes it.
What a great show man. I know it was a
good show anyway. Now it's time for the most exciting
(01:41:54):
segment all the radio.
Speaker 4 (01:41:55):
I'm it's kind in the world.
Speaker 5 (01:41:59):
The damn aren't. What is our dad joke of the day?
Please we may have another jury into the dad joke
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
Let's do it.
Speaker 6 (01:42:06):
A lady asked me if I would help her get
a job as a professional scrabble player. I put in
a good word for her.
Speaker 5 (01:42:15):
I like that one. I like that one a lot.
All right, what is our word today, please. It is
ingle nook, iron g ll e n okay, ingle nook.
There's a really cheap wine brand called Inglenook. My next
door neighbor, who was a raging alcoholic, went through like
five bottles of it a day. I'm not even kidding
why he did not approve. I think it was Inglenook.
(01:42:39):
I saw of those bottles in the recycling thing. She
put them in our recycling. I'm like, I would not
drink that. I'm more of a boona box ming. Oh
there you go. Ingle nook is a it's an especially.
Speaker 7 (01:42:49):
Cozy nook, not just a ingle nook, A rare breakfast
nook and englewood like that.
Speaker 6 (01:42:56):
I might drink some wine by an ingle nook because
an ingle nook is a corner or nook near a fireplace.
Speaker 5 (01:43:01):
Oh, I like a good an nook. What did I
just say? A cozier nook. That's what I think your
places are cozy. I'm giving myself half credit anyway. I
know this one too, who plays the main character Paul
and Trades in the twenty twenty one film Dune, adopted
from the Frank Timothy Hey.
Speaker 6 (01:43:21):
I just saw that they're going to start filming the
third one.
Speaker 5 (01:43:25):
The second one. It gives me a couple of weeks ago.
It's so good. I like the second one. I like
the first all.
Speaker 6 (01:43:29):
The second one is way better the first one. Yeah,
zandia want The third one is a big fast forward.
It's gonna be so good.
Speaker 5 (01:43:41):
Okay, we'll take your word for it. What is our
jeopardy category xo e XO answer exit e x O Okay,
a mass departure of biblical dance? What is exodus? Exit
from the Great four? Bind by oath? It's an expeller of.
Speaker 6 (01:44:02):
Come on, wait say it again, from the Greek for
bind by oath. It's an expeller of devils things should
mean demons, so come on.
Speaker 5 (01:44:14):
I don't know. That's an easy one. What I don't know?
What is exorcism? Dum dundy, Wow, you dumb it? What's
another word for to absolve? Is exonerate?
Speaker 6 (01:44:26):
Curve said of a price unreasonably high, grant, grant, grandson.
Come on the lands like sweat, glands that secrete into
layers of the skin instead of the bloodstream. I have
no only because of commercials. Did I know this one?
(01:44:49):
You hear it all the time, don't give her any
more hands, I really want to give you one more.
Don't do it, Okay, I don't know what is execrine.
Speaker 5 (01:45:00):
The system did talk about commercials all the time. Well,
I don't watch those commercials, even though I now I
watch channels where apparently only old people are because every
commercial is drug. That's just every channel, now, is it really? Yeah? ESPN?
Is it just made me feel so much better? Yeah?
Or you too are getting old grant? I just want
to throw that off. I'm okay with that. Yeah, I'm
okay with that.
Speaker 7 (01:45:20):
And you know, if you want to escape from the
horrible commercials on TV, check out the Taking It.
Speaker 5 (01:45:25):
For Grand podcast Susie Words on this week. I saw
it so awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:45:29):
Man.
Speaker 7 (01:45:29):
I've gotten to work with her for like five years
now on the Broncos broadcast, but didn't really know anything
about her life story.
Speaker 5 (01:45:35):
And man, what a great story she has. I'll have
to tune in and check it out. That's I'm Taking
It for Granted podcast on the media ever.
Speaker 6 (01:45:42):
Get cut, traded or fired, retired.
Speaker 7 (01:45:45):
Exactly exactly how she made that name too, because she
was talking to people who had never been cut, traded
or fired.
Speaker 6 (01:45:52):
I love that where she keeps going down. Any of
that another word, another word.
Speaker 5 (01:45:56):
Tomorrow we have weather Wednesday, of course, when we'll find
out when Dave Fraser is going to work his vooting
magic and bring some summer here because it's not getting
here fast enough. And keep it in the meantime for
KOY Sports, what do they what do the guys have?
Speaker 7 (01:46:09):
Coming up next, it's Brian and Nick and we're going
to talk about how horrible the NBA All Star Weekend is.
Speaker 5 (01:46:14):
I watched the three point shooting contest. I thought that
was kind of I thought that was fun. I was
at a concert Saturday night. I liked it. I watched
it on a repeat, I think on Sunday. I was
flipping through and I watched stopped. It was very interesting.
But man, the games they weren't good. No, the guys
trying to yeh, it was like they were they were
I you make millions of dollars more than fifteen? Am
(01:46:37):
I playing right now? Because that's what it looks like. Anyway,
that's all coming up next. Keep it on, Koa
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