07-10-24 Full Show - Steve Moore on the GOP Platform and Debt

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All right, that is our housekeepingout of the way. Now,
when I drop something in my kitchena rod, I say housekeeping, and

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Jinx comes over and cleans it upfor me. I stole that from somebody
else. That's a lot of fun. And I will tell you my stubborn
dog that often, even though Iknow she knows the words that are coming
out of my mouth, will completelyignore me. When I'm giving your a
command, I say housekeeping. Thattook her like three tries to figure that
out. She's like, Oh,I did it freeze snacks? Miss She
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because what you could do is ifyou bark at the same time as
her, and then you say,jinks she won't bark the rest of the
day. That's nice in theory,and in practice it has not come true.
Well, I hope Steve Moore remembersthat he's coming on my show in
an hour. He's on Fox Newsright now looking his normal slightly disheveled self.
Let me get to the blog andI'll tell you when Steve Moore what

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Steve Moore is coming on the showto talk about you Just go to mandy'sblog
dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says seven
ten twenty four blog Steve Moore onthe GOP, GOP platform and debt.
Click on that and here are theheadlines you will find within vot I did
go with the office half Americans topress Platt today on the blog how hot

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will it be this weekend? Whydid the GOP ditch fiscal conservatism when enough
people tell you you're dead? Liedown? Denver has plenty of your money.
Is your grocery store going to besold? Denver voters may vote no
to raise taxes. Yes, thelegislature is to blame for high housing costs.
Candice Owens denies Holocaust atrocities. MichaelBennett is out on Biden scrolling.

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If you're wondering how the war gamingfor Dems is going, the Democratic Law
Fair backfired, the RNC will beprotester free. Maybe a doc says Biden
has Parkinson's iran paid pro hamas voices. We are so tired, of course,
we made aging a competitive sport anunbearable guest at the Renfair. No

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lane splitting is still illegal in Colorado. Go well, go broke Nike edition.
Why not a golf match to determinewho leads the free world? Scrolling
the biggest sex abuse scandal you don'thear about. Today's students are dangerously ignorant.
Some parents are paying for this eatin a certain order to mitigate glucose

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spikes. Shrek five is coming.Why companies love it when you quit the
cheap and easy way to fix awhole an AI BUCkies theme? What do
the octane difference numbers really mean?How to handle toddler tantrums? Those are
the headlines on the blog at mammy'sblogdot com. And I want to start

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at the very bottom because I gota bunch of serious stuff again today.
The biggest story is whether or notJoe Biden is going to, you know,
stay the Democratic nominee and who boy, do I have some stuff on
that for you today. Stop it, Stop interrupting, mister president. This
is my show, not your show. No, no, no one invited

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you, mister president, because Iwon't just ask you the preapproved question.
No, he's said, no,that's fine. He can be sad,
don't. I don't care if he'ssad. Can we just start at the
very bottom of the block with thattoddler video. This is one of those
things that should be known of everyparent, and it's basically, I don't

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know a kid, and maybe youhave that magical child who has never had
a tantrum. The que had twoepisodes of what I would call tantrums where
she just came unglued. Right,but no, wait a minute, I'm
gonna walk that back. I thinkshe had one episode that I would call
a tantrum. She had two episodesin her little when between the ages of

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zero and four where she just cameunglued and there was nothing I could do
to stop it. And both timeswere incredibly inconvenient, which is usually how
it is. No, I'm talkingabout an actual tantrum, throw yourself on
the floor in a store, demandingthat mom do this, that or the
other. Whatever it is. Whateverit is. Parents, if you're a
new parent, if you're thinking abouthaving kids, just take two pieces of

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advice from antim over here. Okay, two pieces of parenting advice that are
incredibly important and powerful. Number one, be a nazi about bedtime. Trust
me on this and you're welcome.Do not entertain this. I just wanted
to know. Go back to bed, do not do not let them win

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at bedtime. That's thing number one. Thing number two is very simple.
Let your child know and then doit. If they ever throw a tantrum,
the answer is no to whatever they'reasking. Not just know at that
moment, no forever do you wantto forever know, because that's what's about
to happen. Those two things willhelp your child grow up happier, healthier,

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and more enjoyable to be around.Because there's one thing less or one
thing worse than a sleep deprived child, and that is an over stimulated,
sugared up child. Those are thetwo worst kinds of child anyway. So
watch that video. But man,that's to me, that was like uh
yeah, yeah, Yeah, HeyMandy, why did the GOP ditch physical

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conservatism? This text or asked becausethey got elected to office? Sad but
true. Sad but true. HeyRod, this textor has a question for
you, a Rod, what sounddoes the president? Well, what does
the president sound like when he ischewing his ice cream? See now you

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people are now encouraging this. Stopit. I mean he's chewing it.
Do you chew ice cream? Doyou bite ice cream? If you have
an ice cream cone? Are youonly a liquor? Or you are a
liquor and a biter of the icecream cone? Ice cream you like and
when you get to the cone youkind of have to buy it. You
don't ever bite the ice cream,Like if you have a big old ice

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cream cone and you got a bigold chunk of something, because I always
like stuff in my ice cream,and you don't ever just take that out
and bite it. I typically actuallyprobably will in the beginning, because I
like the ice cream to start outpretty close to frozen because it makes it
lasts longer. And there's any likeon a diet. It's food that lasts
longer, yes, while you're eatingit, not not that it's gone like
I'm feel hungry. Yes, soyeah, I'll buy it in the beginning.

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Yeah, but I also don't reallydo cones. Most always cup and
that's die die. Uh, They'renot worth it. There's there's foods I'm
born off. I like sugar cones. Oh you know what, we just
have this conversation. No, wafflecones are too much cone for me.
What you're basically eating a waffle withyour ice cream cone a little And the
problem is a waffle with the icecream. You just need a little sugar

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cones. You like cones, butonly the mediocre ones. I only like
the smaller cones. It's also it'salso means a portion control. Speaking of
diet stuff. Well, yeah,I'm saying every once in a while,
I'm talking like once or twice ayear, all indulgent a waffle cone.
Otherwise g the cup. Yeah,like the waffle phones. And he just
seemed superfluous to me. I Shoey, don't even know who you are.
The waffle cone is just a lot. I'm just saying, do you have

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a waffle cone in Milwaukee? Yes, I'll have a waffle cone with you.
You will I'm not having Oh no, well you're not then don't tell
me to have a waffle If you'renot want to have a waffle cone.
No, no, I'm gonna haveit. It's gonna be a communal experience.
How many people are gonna be therehaving waffle cones? Everyone but me.
It's like drinking alone. I'm awaffle cone by myself. No,
you won't drink alone. It's terrible. I never said drink alone. That's

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crazy, dog, absolutely terrible,Mandy. Is it true Joe Biden at
the NATO summit said I was blankingyour wife then apologized or was it a
fake? I watched that video lastnight and to me, he clearly says
I was talking. Well wait,let me walk that back, because it's
not clear at all what he says. It's another mumble pants situation, but

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kind of like that, but hedoes. He sounds like to me he
said I was talking to your wife. I was blanking your wife, which
you know if you all said that, if they had said that, then
that would have been, you know, the end of nice guy Joe's campaign,
Mandy. Part of the reason whythe GOP is a band in fiscal
conservatism is because voters want free stuff, even on the right. And that

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is ding ding ding chicken dinner winterright there, right there, this person
says, I prefer eating ice creamin the cold or when it's snowing.
Get help, that's I could eatice cream, but ice cream is not
a winter food for me, likeyou know, just like there are certain
things I cannot cook unless it's coldoutside or Chuck's like, I don't want

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that. He doesn't want chili unlessit's cold outside. To be fair,
I don't like ice cream and likesuper hot weather, like I actually don't
melt too fast. No, no, that's not the problem. It's because
then you're going to dairy to coolyou down, and that's like the worst
idea ever. I mean, ronBergen, he said the best milk was
a bad choice. Yea, inthe heat of the day. Yeah,
seventy degree eighty degree day ice cream. H This person asked this a rod.

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Is that an honest recording of athree second sound Biden uttered somewhere on
mike or did you spring together stringtogether a few different half second grunts and
mumbles. Either way, I loveit, but it's stronger if I know
it's unaltered. Ladies and germs,this is completely unaltered and We were actually
watching the press conference where that happened, and we were rolling on the press

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conference and that was him in apress conference. So there you go.
There you go, Mandy. Rememberwhat the great George Carlin said about what
men think about when watching a womaneat an ice cream cone or a banana,
which is why I bite my icecream, just gonna ruin it.
I'm gonna ruin it for you guys. Anyway, let's not talk about that.

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Let's move on and talk about theactual program coming up at twelve thirty.
It is time to get your weatherquestions in there, meaning whether Wednesday
coming up with Foxy One's Dave Fraser. Obviously, the big questions are exactly
how hot is it going to bethis weekend? Now we're supposed to hit
one hundred, you guys. Italked to my mom yesterday. She lives

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in Las Vegas, and I said, so, it's hotter than hell there
my mom, and she goes sarcastically, yeah, but it's a dry heat,
and she said, Mandy, it'sjust like being snowed in. You
can't leave your house during the dayat all. It's too hot. You
get in and out of your carand it is just like it is literally

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an oven in your car. Ihave a decent amount of family there.
Would you like to know what thehigh in Vegas is today, Well,
do tell one sixteen. Now duringthe summer, these are not outrageous temperatures.
One twenty is outrageous, but likeone twelve, one fourteen, that's
not crazy in the summer in Vegas. Hey, the low is eighty eight,
So good night, It'll be allright. This is why Colorado weather

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is superior to all other weather becausewe get cool at night other places around
the country. I used to getup and go to work in Florida in
the summer, and I would haveto get up at three because I was
doing a morning show, and Iwould be out the door by four am.
So at four am I would getin my car. First of all,
you'd walk out, the entire carwould be covered with water like someone
had just used the sprinkler. Itwas just condensation from the air because it

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was so humid. And you getin your car and you turn it on,
you hit your windshel wipers, youknow, clean your car off a
little bit, and you look downand the car temperature would be eighty nine
or ninety degrees at four o'clock inthe morning. Oh so bad, so
bad, This texter said, whenthey're done mowing the lawn, they come

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in and have a giant glass ofmilk. Oh. Look, Republicans ditched
fiscal conservatism when President Bush sent everyonea stimulus check for like three hundred bucks
during a recession during his term.That was Pandora's box. Yeah, yeah,
I think you're right. At oneo'clock, we're gonna have Steve Moore.
He's on the Trump Trump Economic teamand just one of my favorite people

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from FreedomWorks and other places. Andhe is a huge deficit hawk. I
mean, Steve is the most deficityhawk person I've ever talked to on the
show. And I've been interviewing Stevefor at least the last ten years.
At least he never stops talking aboutdebt and deficit spending. And the new
Republican platform is now. Don't getme wrong. A platform is just a

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loosey goosey framework right within. Yougot to fill in all of the policy
positions that will make these things happen. One of the policy possession positions is
end inflation. I happen to believethe best way to end inflation is to
stop printing money, contract the moneysupply, which is what the Federal Reserve
has been doing, but more importantlyrain and government spending. So I'm going

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to ask Steve about all this.I was a little bit irritated and depressed
about that. So that is comingup at one o'clock. We've gone to
Vegas often in July and it seemslike typical air temp is one oh eight.
The weather guys will say the heatindex is actually lower, like one
oh six because it's so dry.AKA Mandy ak Randy Cromwell. I thought

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the Biden grumbles sound bite was actuallya Rod mocking Joe Biden. No,
no, it's actually Joe Biden.I know, I know, I know.
Yeah, yeah, I want tojump in. Uh wait, I've

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talked too long about other stuff.I didn't mean to start a rambling show.
I apologize for that. We aregoing to talk about all kinds of
stuff. I've got a bunch ofstuff on the blog. Obviously. Today
the big story is still whether ornot Joe Biden is going to drop out
of this race. He is defiantand telling everyone he's not going anywhere but
our own generic Democrat Michael Bennett hasnow gone on record as saying that he

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does not think Joe Biden can beatDonald Trump. So what made me laugh
about this? Jim Garrett is somebodyI follow on Twitter, and this is
what he had to say about MichaelBennett. Michael Bennett is a sitting US
Senator. That's not what he's saying. Is a sitting US senator Grinnedy was
appointed to the job. He hasbeen re elected since then. As far
as I can tell, neither MichaelBennett nor John Hickenlooper has been involved in

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any significant way in the passage ofany original legislation for either of them.
I don't think they've actually accomplished muchthat they can hang their hat on,
other than reliably vote for Joe Biden. Which leads us to Jim Garretty's comment
about Michael Bennett. He says,Michael Bennett is close to the generic Democrat.

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He's not a bomb thrower or aprovocateur. He votes with Biden's position
ninety eight point five percent of thetime. He is stark. Warning stands
out because he's among the less guysyou would expect to get in front of
the cameras and declare his party's nomineeto be doomed. And when we get
back, I will talk about somethingcompletely different, because whether Wednesday is upon

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us, we're expecting some really,really bad and I mean bad heat for
us this weekend. It's all relative, right, But we're gonna find out
what that's going to look like,how long it's gonna last when we talk
to Dave next. Here's an interestingstory, Mandy. Did you hear about
the blockbuster news that dropped down Ross'sshow? Wait for it? Intrepid Chad

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Bauer does not like ice cream,and he also doesn't like pizza. What
can I be real? Uh?You like pizza? No? I do,
but both And again, the mostmisunderstood word in the English language is
the word I'm about to utter win regards to both of those items.
I like both, but both arevastly overrated. Well, pizza is not

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my friend now, I'm just atthat point in my life. And most
ice cream is not great. Uh, some ice cream is great, I
agree with you. Like depends onwhere you're getting it, if you've entered
in the phase of bougie life likeI have. I only eat really good
ice cream, so I never havebad ice diet rebel only never have bad
ice cream. It's life's too shortfor bad ice cream. And chief liquor

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chief meteorologist from Fox thirty one,Dave Fraser, Hi, Dave, how
you doing. I'm doing well,Mandy? How are you? So you
know I'm doing all right. I'menjoying this week. This week is going
to be lovely, but then weturn into the face of the sun.
Dave Frasier, tell me about thisweekend. Yeah, it's going to be
hot Friday, Saturday, Sunday.We should get a little relief on Monday.

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But yeah, for Denver and theofficial gauge out at the airport probably
going to reach one hundred. There'sprobably going to be some northeast Colorado plain
cities that could go one hundred andtwo, one hundred and three. You
know, higher elevations won't be ashot, southern areas won't be as hot,
but they'll still probably reach the uppereighties, nineties, ninety five,

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ninety six, So it'll kind ofbe there consistently each day. And you
know, the last few days we'vebenefited from some clouds coming in. It
just doesn't look like we're going toget that benefit Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday. So what has kept usfrom being part of the great roasting that
has taken place in other parts ofthe country, Because I feel like until
this weekend it's not been bad.And here we are. We're in the

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tenth of July, so it'll bethe middle of July before this settles in.
When is our traditional hottest time ofthe year and how we avoided What
weather pattern is keeping the super hottemperatures that have been in other places from
us, so our hottest part ofthe year. Statistically, our average high
is hot for six days from aboutJuly seventeenth to the twenty second, when

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we have an average high of ninetyone. Right now, that high as
an average of ninety The hot domethat has been sitting out west taking places
like I heard you guys talking aboutVegas, which has a new record high
Death Valley in southern California had atemperature of one hundred and thirty one.
That dome has been sitting there bakingthe desert southwest and southern California, and

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it just hasn't moved. It's beenvery large and stubborn to move. And
now there's a storm system coming infrom the west. It's going to nudge
it, and so that's what's comingour way now. Obviously it will mitigate
and won't be as hot as itgets here. So we've been on the
eastern side of that dome. Wecall that the cool side, So we've
had a northwesterly flow with a littlecooler temperatures. But now we're going to

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get under that dome Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and we'll have to
straight on sunshine. The heat willcome for the three days, and then
the dome will slide east of usstarting Sunday night Monday, and that will
allow moisture to swing up the backsideof it and increase humidity and increased rain
chances, which look to be reallygood starting Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday of
next week. And by the way, we have had hot temperatures in June.

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We had two days at ninety sevenand one day at ninety eight,
two days at ninety nine, andone day at one hundred. Okay,
So I got a question that kindof devetails in with this, Mandy a
weather question. After this very hotweekend, the forecast for next Wednesday is
a high of seventy six and agood chance of rain. What are the
factors that lead to this prediction?And do the long range predictions begin with

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human analysis or do they first originatefrom within computer models? That from John
and Pueblo. Yeah, it's allcomputer models. You know, our years
of experience are schooling our intuition whatmodels work better and what situation plays into
the factors. But overall the modelsare driving everything. And so it's interesting

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that your listener asked about the longrange models because here's what's interesting, and
you and I talk about long rangemodels all the time. Six to ten
day outlooks are beyond a seven dayforecast, and there's an eight to fourteen
day outlook thirty days. You cando seasonal outlooks for you know, the
entire summer, and we always talkabout those things kind of give you a
broad picture of what might happen,but it doesn't detail the day to day.

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So it's interesting is June and Julyand August they all come in on
the long range models as above normalfor temperatures and below normal for precipitation,
including July. However, the sixto ten day in the eight to fourteen
day outlook through the end of themonth showed show Colorado above normal for pre
sip and just barely below above normalfor temperatures. That's all good, Yeah,

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it does. So I think we'rereally going to get a good chance
at some moisture starting Monday, moreso Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday of next
week. So it's odd that youknow at the end of the month when
we balance it out, did weend up in July above normal? Probably?
What was the whole month above normal? Probably not, given the six
to ten and the eighth to fourteenday outlook with a good push of moisture

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coming our way. Here's another questionthat kind of dovetails with that answer.
Do you expect an Indian summer consideringhow long it's taken to heat up this
year? But I don't think it'staken at Last year winter never ended,
right, It just it went onuntil July. It was just like never
ending. So I think this yearisn't This year's kind of been more normal

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for us, hasn't it. Yeah? I think we are seeing a little
more of a normal pattern this year. We had that big bout of severe
weather, the spring was very wet. Winter kicked in early last year and
continued into early this year with snow. Remember we had that five feet of
snow in April, and so yeah, it was kind of you know,
we're really in good shape because ofwhat happened earlier in the year. You

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know, we're not talking about firedanger. Just yes, it's dry,
these don't you know, be openburning and stuff, But we don't have
the wind component to be obsurbly concernedabout that. And this is the dry
part of summer. Right we getinto July, we call it the dog
days of summer from early July tillabout mid October. Come to lay Lauder
part of this month, and itlooks like it's going to happen. Starting
next week. You get the pushof extra moisture from the desert southwest,

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the monsoons that we always talk about, and that sets the stage every day
for not only showers and thunderstord,but good rain makers, and it really
helps to kind of get us throughthe hottest part of the summer. It's
not going to rain every day,but if you can get rain every two
or three days and it's substantial,it helps, and it gets you over
that hump and then gets you setup with a drying part of August.
The heat goes down and then youtake off into you know, the fall

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and the winter look ahead. Nowyou said earlier that we don't have much
chance of rain this weekend. Ihave a Texter saying, what's what's you
know, what's the deal at theAir Force Academy Saturday and Sunday because there's
a huge club lacrosse tourney there andit's really just going to be hot though,
right, I mean they're not supposedto get any rain. Yeah,
no, hot and dry the onlyplace, and even there it's like less

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than ten percent. Sometimes if there'sjust a hint of moisture in the mountains,
the hot day can lead to buildingclouds that can squeeze out a sprinkle
or two. But overall, ifyou look at the forecast and across the
four corners of Colorado, there's norain to be found starting Friday, Saturday
and Sunday. So anybody, youknow, listen, you know, we're

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doing pinpoint whether alert days to letpeople know and it's not for the whole
day you said it. I justheard you and a Rod talking about,
you know, Vegas and it getsdown to eighty eight degree anxiety. You
mentioned how great Colorado is that's thebenefit of our altitude, right. We
won't stay oppressively hot at night.We just need to get through that noon
to six time frame. So inthat time frame, you know, you
know, stay hydrated, take breaksif you have to be outside, you

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know, stay cool as best youcan, and get through that hottest part
of the day. And then oncewe get to the afternoon, the temperature
will fall off, get the sunset, and it'll be cool at night,
and then we'll just do it againthe next day. Heat will build,
but probably won't be the hottest tilwe get to about noon. One last
question before I let you go.We got some good questions today via the
text line. Can you ask Daveif there's a formula for how many feet

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you go up in altitude how muchthe temperature drops? Yes, and that's
cut. You know what I willtext it's it's a calculation, and I
can't remember if it's four six degrees, okay, off the top of my
head for every hundred feet. Yeah, not every hundred but there is a

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calculation, and it is. Itis there. You know, if you
do a quick google you'll probably findit. And I apologize. I don't
want to give the wrong answer.Off the top of my head, I'm
thinking four degrees, but it mightbe six degrees. But yeah, we
take those things into we look atwhat we call schematics of the atmosphere to
see what the temperature is and howit's falling, what it looks like coldialoft

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and everything. We get those readings, you know, with hot air balloons
and other data to give us thosereadings. But off the top of my
head, I can't remember exactly,so I don't want to give the wrong
answer. But you're in that fourto six somewhere in there, all right.
So Dave Frasier, we're not goingto talk to you next week.
Aard and I talked about this.We're actually going to be at the convention,
and because that's a very fluid situation, we don't want to schedule anything

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because we never know. But wewill talk to you again in two weeks
at that point, I guess returnback to weather Wednesday. Have you been
to Milwaukee. I've been to Milwaukee. I've never been to a convention,
but I've been to Milwaukee. Greatcity. Yeah, it's a great city.
My son goes to Marquette US enoughmany times over the years, so
we'll be up there again in Augustto drop him off for his final year.
Have you gone to Soberman to geta bloody Mary? No? I

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haven't. Where is this spell its O B E l M. A
wait a minute, sober Man's toget a bloody Mary? That seems rather
ironic. Boberman's. It's one word, Sultan. Can you recommend a good
beverage? Now? I love abloody Mary? Have one before the show.

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So there you go, go Google, Go Google and look at the
pictures of these and oh, Igot it, bloody Mary. I got
it. Original. So woman's on, Saint Paul. We're headed there,
all right, look at him?All right, Dave Fraser, we'll talk
to you again soon, my friend, have a great trip. Thank you.
That is Dave Frasier will be rightback. I had no idea bloody
Mary's. We're so polarizing. Thisperson has a question via the ten X

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line, A rod A rod?Is it the texture or consistency of the
bloody Mary or the taste? Idon't mind the taste, but I hate
the thickness of it. My solutionis to put about half a beer into
the bloody Mary. So they saidtexture consistency, and taste, Yeah,
all of it. Thanks for makingme realize it's it's all Ay rod just
I love a bloody mary first ofall, because they are a hangover cure,

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the worst beverage on planet Earth.Well, I like tomato juice,
though, if you don't like tomatojuice, you're never going to like a
bloody Marry. I despise Blue Carousel, and I told you in the break
I wrest say blue care cella.I'm telling you it's my second least favorite
break and I'd rather take five shotsof Blue Carousel than drink a bloody cire
cell is just blue cough medicine thattastes vaguely of range, and it makes
me sick. Oh, it's awful. I figure that out. It's too

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much sugar, is what it is. Yep, a lot of sugar in
that. That being said, wealso have an answer for this. For
aviation purposes. The standard temperature changemeasured at standard pressure is two degrees celsius
per thousand feet. That is athree point five degree fair and height increase.
So for every thousand increase in altitudeat standard pressure, temp increases three

(30:10):
point five percent fahrenheit. Thank youtexters for looking that up and for the
texture who sent this Mandy. NancyPelosi raised eyebrows today. That's right,
she drew them on a little higherthis morning. Nancy doesn't have to draw
her eyebrows on. And I don'tcriticize anyone for having plastic surgery or getting
some work done or getting botox.But I will tell you this botox does

(30:34):
give you the super high eyebrows,and her eyebrows have been steadily marching up
her face for the last twenty fiveyears. Mandy, this is Dawn.
I'm sure, I sure am excitedto go to the concert of Friday Night
with Billy Joel. If you rememberI won your last Billy Joel giveaway.
I believe by seeing the piano mananyway, looking forward to seeing you.

(30:56):
Correct. So there you go,we did give away a long time.
Where you go? This texture projecttwenty twenty five gets getting a lot more
press could be a big problem forours. Here's the problem. The reason
it is getting a lot of pressis because Biden is in such dire straits

(31:17):
that they are throwing any attack pointagainst the wall, hoping it sticks,
just hoping. I have another guyfrom the Heritage Foundation. Steve Moore,
he is also on Trump's economic advisor'steam, and I'm going to ask him
about why we are seeing, youknow, no mention of the debt,

(31:37):
the deficit in the GOP platform.We'll do that with him next. Keep
it right here on KOA. TheMandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and
Pollock Accident and injury Lawyers. No, it's Mandy Connell onm god and the

(32:01):
nicety then Yconnell sad bab Welcome,Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of
the show. And as Steve Mooreis prone to do, Steve Moore has
left me high and try right now, let me just uh, Steve Stephen
Moore is an economist. He's onthe Trump Economic advisory team. But if

(32:24):
you've ever met Steve, you knowthat no one is ever going to say
Steve is organized, and uh,he often gets too many things on his
plate and then forgets that he hashim on his plate. And then that's
he's like the he's like the absentminded professor. That's Steve Moore in a
nutshell. Really is so uh.We're trying to get him on the phone

(32:47):
right now because I do want totalk to him about the Republicans and their
inability to maintain any sort of focuson fiscal responsibility because the new GOP platform
doesn't mention it explicitly. Maybe there'smore details there that I don't know about,
but it seems like the Republican Partyis turning into something that the American

(33:08):
public cannot afford, and that isa company that our country that is going
to spend itself into oblivion because politicsare going to use our tax dollars at
deficit levels and they are going tocontinue to buy votes. And that's where
we are right now. So we'regoing to hopefully talk to Steve. But
I want to play something. Doyou ever do you ever like someone?

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And I don't mean on a personallevel, just someone that you've either a
pundit that you heard, or awriter that you like, or you know
an actor or actress that you like, and then sometimes they take a turn
and you just think to yourself,what the hell. That's where I am
with Candace Owens right now. AndCandace Owens has been viewed skeptically by many

(33:55):
on the right for a long timebecause Candace Owens used to be a liberal
and now she's this rock solid conservativethat rocketed fame because she's young, she's
pretty, and she's black, andshe was very good at articulating conservative positions.
Well. As of late, shehas left her position at The Daily
Wire after tangling with Ben Shapiro,who is a staunch and relentless supporter of

(34:21):
Israel and being Jewish himself. Heleft the decided to well show her the
door. Why because she started sayingthings like this, give you my audio
for just a second, a rod, I want to make sure innocent people
hang on one second. Here shewas talking about the Holocaust. Just listen
to this. Sent people and thiscome on. That's the difference stakes Germans

(34:45):
and on Twins. I mean,some of the stories, by the way,
sounded completely absurd. I really theidea they just like cut a human
up and then sewed them back together. Why would you do that? Literally,
even if you're the most evil personin the world, that's a tremendous
waste of time and supplies. Justslice a person half to him together.
That just that just sounds like bizarrepropaganda. And that is Candice Owens.

(35:06):
You can't believe that a regime thatmade well lampshades out of human skin could
be evil enough to be you know, uh, doing experiments on twins and
other things that actually happened. Shehas now gone completely off the deep end.
My next guest, I think wentcompletely off the deep end a long
time ago, but he managed tofind his way back. Steve Moore is

(35:29):
part of the economic team advising DonaldTrump for his re election campaign. He
is an economist now with a HeritageFoundation. Steve, thanks for showing up
late, my friend. I'm Mandy. Good to be with you. Sorry
to be a few minutes late.I you know, I'm trying to follow
this intrigue that's changing by minute withwho the Democratic nominee for president will be.

(35:51):
We still don't know, Mandy,Steve, it is, it is.
It's very interesting to see the progressionthat is happening in DC around the
pressure to get Joe Biden to stepdown. Yes, yeah, so I
was just starting to say, sorry, I think maybe Biden is scrambling our
signal or something. But look,the let's let's go over what happened,

(36:13):
because I think it's important for peopleto understand this. You know, we've
known for four or five years thatJoe Biden is an advanced age that his
mental faculties are declining, by theway mine are declining. I'm only sixty
four, so it happens to allof us. I'm not trying to be
snide here. I'm just simply sayingthat, you know, he's suffering from
old age, as many of usare. And but my point is the

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US knew that. They knew that. Remember do you remember Mandy four years
ago? They locked him in thebasement, they wouldn't let him come out.
Ye didn't remember that, And sothey knew that he had real mental
problems. And we've known for thelast four years. They've gotten more severe
as he's continued to age. Theyknew that at the beginning of this year,
and yet that did not stop themfrom, you know, basically telling

(36:58):
all Democratic worriers go out vote inthe primaries for Joe Biden. He got
millions of votes. He was dulyelected man many through the democratic process,
right, this is the way itworks. And then he goes out and
he and by the way they hithim, he didn't go out in public
very often, but people dutifully votedfor him. That the people spoke.
Then he has this disastrous debate withDonald Trump, and now the Democratic established

(37:25):
saying oh, we got to getrid of this guy, you know,
we have to replace him, andthinking, look, I don't agree with
much of anything Joe Biden says,but he is right. He has been
the duly nominated person that the peoplehave spoken, the voters have spoken.
They have nominated him to be theirfive bearer for their party. And they

(37:46):
are not trying to dump him becauseof his mental problems. They are trying
to dump him because he's falling behindin the polls. And all these people
care about is his power. Nowthey say, well, maybe we'll move
with We'll make it Kamila Harris.Maybe it'll be Gressim Whitman or the governor
of Michigan. Maybe we'll make itthe Gavin Newsom, the governor of California,

(38:08):
Mandy. How many votes did thosepeople get? Oh god, I
have no idea. Zero. Yeah. One. So here's my point.
All these people care about his power. They don't care if if Joe Biden
had won that debate, they'd beall four and for him. But they're
terrified of losing. And now they'resaying screw you to the voters. We're

(38:30):
going to choose, We're going toget remember the old cigar chomping backroom deals
of the nineteenth century. That's whatwe're facing today. And here is my
maiden boy. These are the samepeople, Mandy, who say Donald Trump
is a danger to democracy. Really, as you watch this first that's going
on, they said Trump is thedanger democracy when they want to overturn someone

(38:52):
who is duly nominated by their ownparty. Well, see I mean and
this is why I have zero sympathyfor the positions of the Democrats right now,
because they could have signaled, youknow what, you guys need to
primary him. They should have signaledand gotten themselves another candidate. That then
the people in power could not beassured of remaining in power. So they

(39:14):
put their own needs. And letme just say this, the Biden family,
if you ever thought that they weredecent human beings ever before, this
should put that notion to rest,because they are basically weekend at burniing him
through his days at the White Housein order to stay in power so they
can keep making money selling access withthe Biden name, because that's all they

(39:35):
have. Right. That's disgusting what'sgoing on. You're right, and it's
elder abuse, It really is.I mean, Joe Biden is you know
not. I mean, look,everybody agrees, it's not my belief fit
to be president of the Looner,probably hasn't been for the last several years.
It's dangerous for our country, youknow, it's dangerous to have a
president like this who doesn't you know, not playing with full deck of cards.

(39:55):
And you're right, they knew thisnumber when the special prosecutor came out
and said, I can't really prosecuteBiden for this crime because he doesn't remember
remember that. Yeah, because he'san elderly man, a sympathetic old man
with a bad memory. Yeah,And the Democrats attacked that special Oh this

(40:16):
is a political thing, blah blahblah, how dare you say that about
him? Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And then remember there
was just three weeks ago Joe Bidenwas in Europe and all the European leaders
said, you know what, America, you got a problem here. This
guy isn't all there. And theDemocrats have ignored all that. Why because
at that time I was leading orat least tied in the polls. Now

(40:39):
that he's going ten points behind,Oh my god, we have got this
guy over the side of the boat. Well, Nate Silver's got a really
good call him at his substack todaywhere he kind of lays out the points
that the Democrats have before them,the options they have before them. And
I think what's happening now with themessaging where we started last week with you

(41:00):
know, Joe Biden has just beenthe most successful president we've ever had.
He's just been such a genius.We know he's going to put the country
ahead of everyone else, and he'sgoing to put the country above himself as
he always has done. So theshameless flattery portion is over. And then
today our absolute milk toast, ageneric Democrat, Senator Michael Bennett is now

(41:24):
saying Joe Biden is going to loseto Donald Trump and not only lose the
presidency, but could take the Houseand Senate with him. Right, So,
now we're in the You're going toturn the country over the Republicans entirely,
and this is going to be yourlegacy. Part of the conversation,

(41:44):
Well, here's the thing in termsof I agree with everything you just said.
Here's the thing though for Republicans.Now, look, I'm a Trump
guy. I'm out of this campaign. One of the economic advisers. The
Democratic narrative now is boy Joe Bidenwas a great president, was he?
But he's now just too old.We have to find someone else. Let's
bees he wasn't a great president.He's been a horrible president. I mean

(42:07):
he gave us, you know,twenty percent increase in prices. He has
lost complete control of our border.Our cities are falling up, part we
got our what's happened on our campusesis crazy. We've got two wars going
on that didn't exist when Trump waspresident. I mean, somebody showed me
what's going right in the economy.So this idea, oh, we just
need to put another Democrat in withthe same agenda. But who's a little

(42:28):
bit more mentally said No, weneed a complete one hundred and eighty degree
reversal of these policies. I agree, but that's not why I brought you
in the on the show. Iwanted to bring you on the show because
and I realized that party platforms arejust a bunch of things that people want
to write down on a piece ofpaper. For as much as they make
up the policy positions of any presidentor or congress they're just big liptok,

(42:53):
right, But the twenty twenty fourGP platform did not have a sing a
debt, of deficit spending of anyof that stuff. Now, now,
greented, these are just bullet points. But have we now just conceded that
there isn't a party of fiscal conservatism? And if so, Steve, we're

(43:13):
done. You know that as wellas I do. So it's a good
point. First of all, letme say that I like the platform,
I think, but you've you've pointedout an important flaw in it. But
overall, I really like this platform. I mean, it's basically restating the
positions that are common suns that weshould. Yes, we should be in
all in for producing every bit ofenergy that we can in this country,

(43:36):
so we don't have to rely onthe Europs and the Chinese and the Russians
and the Iranians. Yes, ofcourse we should secure our border. Its
obvious. Yes, of course wehave to do something about bringing down prices
in this country. Yes, ofcourse we should make the Trump tax cuts
permanent so people's taxes don't go up. One of the ones that I love,
love, love, and this thisis the first time Republicans have ever

(43:59):
said this than America today, everychild should have access to universal school choice,
so that every child in America canknow to the best school possible for
their family. You know, thoseare heroic ideas. So there's a lot
to like in the platform. ButI was struck by what you just said
that there was really no mention aboutof control government spending. Now, there

(44:21):
were some platitudes about, well,we could get rid of some of these
green energy programs, which absolutely weshould, but it has to be the
highest priority that we grow the economyand get government spending down. But I
hate to tell you this, youand your audience because I'm a Republican.
But Republicans like to spend as muchmoney as Democrats do. Yep. And

(44:42):
that's the problem Steve, and youand I both. I mean, I've
been interviewing you, I think probablyfor ten years now, and you are
the biggest deficit hawk. I knowyou are the guy who has been talking
about inflation for ten years now,and so here we are. We're still
trying to get inflation under control.As the Fed titans. Yeah, you
know the money supply, but ultimately, if both parties are just elect me,

(45:05):
and here's what I'm going to givemy favorite section of the population.
This country is absolutely spiraling, andthere's nothing we can do to save it
that works. I would simply say, though, in defense of the platform,
that there's a lot of talk aboutdoing everything we can to grow the
economy. Now, the economy hasgrown at about a one and a half
percent snail space under Biden. Hasn'tbeen recessioned, but it's just been really

(45:31):
kind of meager growth. We're justkind of treading water. If we can
get to three to three and ahalf percent growth, you get a lot
more revenues and you start to bendthat curve downward. Where the most important
thing right now in the short terms, get the economy growing faster than the
debt. That's not happening. Andeven when you look where quote where the

(45:52):
economy is growing, you know whatthe fastest growing sector of the economy is
today, I'm guessing government government.Yeah, I mean, look at the
POPS reports, every job report ofthe last twelve months shows you know,
one of the leading sectors of jobgrowth has well been healthcare, which is
fifty percent government, right, andgovernment employment. Now here's the thing,

(46:15):
Maddy, and I'm going to askyou this and your you know, millions
of listeners. If you were runningan institution, if you were the president
of an institution and it was losingtwo trillion dollars a year, would you
go out on a hiring spree?Oh god no. But you know the
answer for that coming from me.I mean, you know, everyone knows
the answer to that, except JoeBiden. They keep hiring. They think

(46:36):
that we're going to get rich byhiring more and more and more government workers.
Well guess what. Everybody can't workfor government, Mandy, who's going
to pay their bills? Exactly?Exactly. And but that brings me to
my next point. You're on theTrump advisors team, h when you talk
to the president, And this wasmy beef with him in twenty sixteen,
and I made this point over andover and over again that this is my
concern that President Trump doesn't even givelip service to wrangling down the debt,

(47:01):
like it's not even a part ofthe conversation. You know. Well,
yeah, I've talked to him alot about this spend the way. I
had a conversation with him about amonth or so ago and he did bring
up the debt and he said,Steve, you know how big of a
problem is this. And I toldhim, mister president, it is a
giant problem. I mean, youknow this, this is a growing grow

(47:21):
road to ruin. And you know, Biden came into office with this crazy
idea called modern Monetary Sun where theybasically said, all we have to do
is just put money, you know, like it's monopoly money and it's play
money, and we can just spendand spend and spend and spend. Well
they were tragically wrong, of course. They did great damage to uh,
to our economy. It's going toand I'm going to tell you we're not

(47:45):
going to fix this problem overnight.This is going to take off. We've
dug ourselves into a very very veryvery deep dick. The most important thing
is, hey, let's stop digging. Yeah, I'm not and don't get
me wrong. I do know thatgovernment growth would be a huge well,
it would definitely have an impact,but as you said, bend the curve

(48:06):
down, we're spending a trillion dollarsa trillion dollars, Steve, you said,
you said government growth, you mntioned, I mean private sector growth would
would definitely work to bend it down. But when we're spending a trillion more
dollars than we bring in. Ourdebt service is now larger than our in
our defense budget and medicare. Okay, so we're reaching a very very precarious

(48:29):
position, and I'm not sure thatwith you know, too many people in
DC have bought into modern monetary policy, which is observed. I mean,
it's just it's failed everywhere, it'sstride. I am concerned regardless of who
becomes president, because no one seemsto be taking this seriously so that you're
not going to solve this problem.I mean, what is what is the
bite in Kamala Harris solution? We'regoing to raise taxes on the rich manby

(48:52):
even if you take every penny fromevery millionaire billion or in this country,
you could you could maybe pay forthe government for two months. Solved the
problem. Yeah, I know,I know, and you know we know
these things. Can we talk fora second about tariffs, because I think
that's a terrible idea. I'd liketo know what your thoughts are because this
has been a big talking point andI know where Trump is, I know

(49:15):
what emotional response he is looking for, but economically it's not a good choice.
Yeah. So, uh, I'ma free trade guy, as you
know, you tell me, youknow, twelve fifteen years and so I
don't like tariffs generally. What Trumpis talking about is a ten percent across

(49:36):
the board tariff. You know,look, if you were to use that
money that you could raise because wedo about two trillion dollars in imports a
year, so you've put ten percenttariff. Math is right, that's two
hundred billion dollars. That's a lotof money. And what Trump said a
couple of weeks ago, we coulduse that money to reduce income taxes or
other maybe the payroll tax or somethinglike that. That that might make sense,

(50:00):
you know. I mean, atariff is mostly just a it's a
consumption tax on imported when you consumeimported goods. Trump thinks this will create
more jobs in America. Maybe he'sright, maybe he's not. I tend
to think he's not. But youknow, tariffs, income facts are much
worse than tariffs. You know,income just destroy working sentence. But I

(50:22):
do I've got to say this.I love the guy's idea. I haven't
talked to you about this, butI love the idea of mat taxing tips.
You know, I was a tippedworker for my first four years of
my working career. And you know, for service workers, you know,
that's how you make a lot ofyour money is on the tips. Yeah,
but you probably made a ton ofmoney as a male dancer. I

(50:43):
mean you probably were just raking itin hand over fist. Yeah. I
love that, you know. Imade a lot of money doing that,
you know. And look, I'vejust I've got a great body. Okay,
see, I got to go.I gotta take a break. But
we'll talk more as we get closerto the election, didn't I Yeah,
that was yeah exactly. I I'mflustered now, Steeve, I have to

(51:04):
go fan myself outside for a moment. No, honestly, Steve, just
just tell the president I'm concerned.Okay, Well, President Trump, I
tell him there's a talk show hostingDenver that would be that would be great.
And you got to defend yourself.I did the best I could.
And by the way, I justwant to assure your listeners because people,

(51:28):
the liberals are so serious and takeevery deliberally. I was joking, folks,
I was never a male dancer.Well as far as you know,
all right, Steve, I'll talkto you later, my friend, I'm
a gonna went by. All right, We'll be right back. Okay,
we have an update on the dramain the Republican Party deg now, but
I forgot to insert a link tothe actual story. Hang on one second.

(51:49):
I got this from Westward, butit's not not surprising in any way,
shape or form. So hang onone second. My apologies. I
forgot to put the thing in there, and then I got this, and
then I got to go here.Okay, so quick background on the current
chair of the GOP. If you'vebeen living under a rock, let me

(52:10):
just give it to you in thirtyseconds. The current chair of the Republican
Party is a man who used partyfunds and ignored bylaws in order to benefit
himself. He decided to endorse inthe primaries. I believe he lost all
but four races that he endorsed in, and those races were not competitive for
Democrats or for they were not competitiveraces. He was an abject failure.

(52:34):
He has raised no money, hehas no game plan, He has no
strategy to win any of these racesbecause he didn't endorse any of the people
that are now on the ballot,and he needs to go so much so
that a group of Republicans in theCentral Committee signed a petition demanding that they
call a meeting. They got enoughsignatures to make it a thing that has
to be taken care of according tothe bylaws. According to the bylaws,

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once the petition comes in, theparty has ten days to schedule a meeting
to vote on whether or not tobounce him out. But listen to this
crap. So Williams is out theresaying that the petition is invalid and illegal.
It is not. He argued thathe did schedule the meeting in time.

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But here's what they did. Here'swhat they did. The special meeting
set by Dave Williams is set tobegin on July nineteenth. It will immediately
recess and then reconvene on August thirty. First. The strange scheduling, says
Westward, is intended to skirt theparty rule that requires that the special meeting

(53:43):
be held within thirty days of thepetition request, adding more untraditional layers to
the July nineteenth meeting. It isset to be held in Bayfield, that
is in the far southwest corner ofthe state, around six hours from Denver,
and it is in the middle ofa week day. A notice of

(54:04):
the meeting reads there is no needto appear and no business will be conducted.
Now I understand why Dave Williams isdoing this. He's an absolute grifter.
He has absolutely nothing else to do. The only other job he's ever
had other than government is importing cheapChinese goods. What I don't understand is
why Hope Sheppelman is following him downthe drain, Why she is plunging herself

(54:30):
down the commode in his honor.I don't understand it. I don't know.
I truly don't know. So wenow have more garbage and scoff law
attitudes towards the bylaws of the RepublicanParty. And if you're in the Executive
Committee, if you're in the CentralCommittee, rather, for the love of

(54:52):
God, please take this man out. What is he accomplished? Forget about
Forget about the endorsing people in thep mary, forget about using party funds
for his own self aggrandizement in hiscongressional race that he then lost. Forget
about all that. How has he, as the Colorado chairman of the Republican

(55:13):
Party, raised money to support candidatesmade the party bigger, or done anything
of value to promote the Republican PartyRepublican candidates other than his own candidacy.
Of course, what as GOP chairmanhas he done well? Because he has
failed in every respect as chairman ofthe Republican Party, been an absolute disaster.

(55:40):
And the fact that he's now doingthis instead of being a man and
accepting that his time as GOP chairmanmay be over and scheduling a meeting in
the proper time and then going tothat meeting and making his case to stay
on as the Republican chairman. He'srunning the party like you run like he's
a Banana republic ten dictator. Heshould have epaulets. Can we could have

(56:04):
a set of like you know allthose third world dictators they all have those
giant epaulets on their shoulders with likethe you know, the fringe that comes
down to make them look big andimportant and make their shoulders seem bigger.
Can somebody get Dave Williams an epauletbecause he needs one? Now? I
also got to use two. Idon't normally tell you when I've written something

(56:27):
on the blog that I think isexceptionally good. First of all, I
got to use one of my favoritesayings. Ayron, have you ever heard
this saying, when enough people tellyou you're dead, lie down. No,
it's fantastic, it's so so good. And I use that, when
enough people tell you you're dead,lie down. Someone needs to share that
with G. P. Sherman.David Williams, who is clinging to power

(56:49):
like an aging starlet, clings tothe limelight. He has to go.
The Republican Party is in a shamblesunder his leadership. They have done nothing
but divide the party and drive peopleout of the party. They sent out
a purity test for candidates to makesure that they were slavishly devoted to Dave
Williams, oh and Donald Trump.He's been an unmitigated nightmare. By the

(57:16):
way, the petitioner that turned inthe petition actually called a meeting for July
twenty seventh, and we'll see whathappens there. I certainly hope that July
twenty seventh meeting is well attended,and I certainly hope that they make the
choice to move on from this nightmarish, ridiculous And I can't even call it

(57:37):
leadership because there's no leadership whatsoever hereand every Republican that is currently telling us
that Dave Williams was somehow right,you have deluded yourself at a level that
is almost cult like. If youbelieve that, if you believe that Dave
Williams is being persecuted the same waythat Trump is being persecuted, you are

(58:02):
wilfully ignorant and blind, and you'resimply not paying attention. And if you
really care about Colorado and you reallycare about the direction of the state,
he must go because the Republican Partymust be a vibrant, functioning part of
Colorado politics, and it's not onany level, not even a little bit.

(58:24):
As a matter of fact, theother day, I saw a tweet
by the Colorado Democratic Party and Iretweeted it with a question. The tweet
was this, Colorado Democrats sent thisout via Twitter x or whatever it's called.
How do we actually flip red state'sblue by connecting emotionally, listening empathetically,

(58:44):
and building mutual respect. That's exactlywhat we are doing with the Horizon
Project, which is our deep canvassinginitiative in CD eight, Colorado's newest congressional
district. If you'd like to helpus out and make a genuine impact in
a battleground district. Sign up today. So what do you think, I
tweeted at Dave Williams. It justsays this, Hey, Representative, Dave

(59:07):
Williams, what's your plan and groundgame to win the eighth trick question?
We all know you don't have one. A real chair of the Colorado Goop
would, but we don't have thathere. And this is why we can't
have nice things well done, provingonce again that if you look for a
way to be offended, there's gonnabe one. We've got the two minute
drill coming up in just a second. But I want to talk to you

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about Denver asking for more of yourmoney, because I've got two stories that
kind of deal with that, althoughthey are separate stories, and one of
them is by Joshua Sharff over atComplete Colorado, page two, and Bless
this man. Bless this man fortaking the time to go back and remind
you just how much of our moneyDenver already has, right and it's a

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lot. It is a whole bunch. He also goes in to how the
city spends its money in the decadefrom twenty thirteen to twenty twenty two,
Denver built over seventy two hundred affordablehousing units, but rents skyrocketed. The
city became and remained one of themost unaffordable housing markets in the country.

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And now, according to a PODSsurvey, it's twelfth in the country for
people to move out of in largepart because of housing costs. And he
goes on from there. It's agreat column. You need to read it.
But then there's the second part,which is a new survey that has
come out of Denver voters. AndI asked the question, like, when
will Denver voters say enough is enough? A poll from the Colorado Polling Institute

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said twenty nine percent said taxes arehigh but acceptable, about a third said
taxes are way too high, andtwenty seven percent view taxes as about right.
I would argue, I would bet. I'd love to see the tab
on this, the tabulations broken outby demographics. Economically, I'd love to

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see who the twenty seven percent whosay taxes are about right. My guess
is they come from the very upperlevel of the economic scale, or the
very lowest level of the economic scale, where they are shielded from a lot
of those expenditures, arguing they saylet's see Johnston has now put a point

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five point tax hike to actual salestaxes. We talked about this yesterday.
The new polls set about half ofDenver voters approve of the direction the city
is heading and hold a positive viewof Johnston. That said, the number
of respondents to hold an unfavorable viewof the mayor inched up significantly compared to
the firm's previous poll. Last time, almost a third said they had no

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opinion of Johnston. That's now downto eleven percent. Two previous polls showed
voters differing views on Johnston's performance asmayor. The first by Magellan found fifty
percent of the people disapproved of hisperformance. The second from Keating found sixty
percent said he was doing a prettygood job. The Magellan survey where people

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didn't like it, was a lotlarger than this current survey. So,
if you think that taxes are highbut acceptable, are you going to vote
to increase your taxes one more time? Now? The big thing for me
about these, especially the affordable taxone, you could argue that the one
for Denver Health is going to passbecause people will say, look, we

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can't let Denver Health go Billy upeven though they are in a bad way.
They've been in a bad way fora while, but they're in a
bad way because they are offering incrediblehealthcare to a bunch of illegal aliens who
have come here that the city hasrolled out the red carpet for. I
understand they're spending about seventeen million dollars, if I remember my conversation with Rob

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Dawson earlier, just hiring someone tomanage all of the services that they're giving
to illegal aliens. There's all adepartment of people that are now providing money
and housing assistants and food and computersand job training to people who have come
here illegally. So do you thinkthat the City of Denver is spending your

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money? Well? And if youdo, you haven't been paying attention to
the city council meetings as of late, where the city council is pushing back
on how the mayor has asked themto spend money, how frivolously the mayor
has spent some of the money,and how ineffectively some of the money has

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been spent as we continue to warehousehomeless people and not actually get them where
they need to go. So it'sgoing to be very interesting. But both
of these articles are worth your time, especially Joshua's if you need to have
If you are a Denver resident who'sgoing to be arguing against raising sales taxes,
you need to understand why, andJoshua's done a great job of putting
that all together. You can findboth of those at the blog at mandy'sblog

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dot com. Coming up for thenext hour, I have not really talked
about the Biden drama, even thoughit is the top story of the day.
We're going to get into that inthe next hour. After the two
minute drill. Stick around. We'vegot news, traffic, and weather coming
for you right here, right nowon KOA. The Mandy Connell Show is
sponsored by Bill and Pollock Accident andinjury Lawyers. No, it's Mandy connellyn

(01:04:31):
on KOLA ninety one FM. Gotway the nicey Ray Connell keeping who is
sad Babe? The two minute drillat two hi, we're gonna go too

(01:04:53):
minute warnings, rapid fire stories ofthe day that we don't have more time
for. Hick teple. Let's callthis so take longer than two minutes.
Here's man vycuddle all right, Firstup, we have a big story if
you're the one in your house thatdoes the grocery shopping, especially if you
are a Safeway shopper. Now youmay not know this, but Albertson's and

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Kroger are trying to merge. Albertson'sown Safeway, Kroger owns King Supers,
and so many other stores. Noteven funny, but anti trust regulators are
not happy because they think they'll owntoo much of the grocery market. So
they have told them they have tosell a certain number of stores in order
to make this deal happen. They'vereleased the list of stores that are going

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to be either sold to a companythat currently, oh I got the hiccups.
Currently is the parent company of PigleyWiggly, a shopping grocery store on
the southeast and eastern part of theUnited States. And I looked on this
and my Safeway is on this list. Now, I don't know about you,
but here's my concerns. I'm concernedthat they're going to sell to this

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other company. And the first thingthe other company is gonna do is come
in and rearrange my store. Don'tmove my stuff. I hate it when
grocery stores redecorate. You can findthe list by the way and find out
if your Safeway or your Albertson's ifyou are down in the southern part of
the state in Peblo, is goingto be sold. The stores are supposed
to stay open, but under newmanagement, we'll see how that works out.

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Drill it too, Yes, myfriends, it is the fault of
the Colorado legislature that housing is soexpensive, not solely the fault, but
they played a big role in it. And there's a great editorial in the
Denver Gazette today about just how thathappened, and it goes back to construction
defense construction defect legislation that created anenvironment which made it really hard for builders

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to get liability insurance to build condoconstruction, and condominiums are for many,
many people the first thing you buywhen you buy a home, and then
you get equity and then you moveup from there. And we don't have
that going on. And there couldhave been a fixed multiple times, but
Democrats do not want to fix thefix because the lawyers who profit from this

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are telling them not to. Inmy mind, it truly is that simple,
too interesting story. This announcement thatthe Director of National Intelligence, Avril
Haynes, says the US intelligence communityhas quote observed actors tied to Iran's government
posing as activists online, seeking toencourage protests, and even providing financial support

(01:07:39):
to protesters. Guess what they're protesting. If you guessed Israel, you guessed
right. If you young numbskulls fullof mush are out there protesting for quote
the Palestinian people, what you're protestingfor is Iran. You're protesting for totalitarianism.
You're protesting for people who still subjugatewomen and murder gave people. That's

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whose side you're on the Iranian side. Now, if that were me,
I'd be embarrassed and I'd go home. But these kids will never listen to
this show because frankly, they're notsmart enough to keep up rill it too.
Now, in the United States ofAmerica, we have made a lot
of stuff that isn't necessarily a competitivesport into a competitive sport. I e.

(01:08:21):
Yoga, There are yoga competitions.Now yoga should not be a competitive
sport, but neither should aging.But here we are. If you've not
heard about tech bro and entrepreneur BrianJohnson. Oh are you missing out?
So Brian Johnson is trying to agebackwards. He sold a company for eight

(01:08:42):
hundred million dollars and he seems howbent on spending it on anything that he
thinks can make him younger. Well, he began posting about this online and
got a lot of criticism. Sohe did what we do in America and
he created a contest. Now there'san anti agent competition that anyone can enter,
so long as they've completed a specificblood test to measure how fast they

(01:09:03):
are aging biologically. They have onlineleaderboards and the key metric is the pace
of aging. Now, I don'tknow what you're going to win, but
apparently it's been very successful. Aswe now make aging and outliving our friends
a competition. I'm gonna tell you, if nobody's going to show up for

(01:09:24):
my funeral because I outlived everybody,I'm not down with that. It too.
Well, if you've been to theColorado Renaissance Festival, you know that
it's like stepping back in time.But did you know that you may see
a bear there? Oh? Yeah? At the Colorado Renaissance Festival this past
weekend, there was an eighty poundblack bear, who was of course named

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Smokey immediately, who made his wayinto the Renaissance Festival and decided to take
a break under one of the buildings. Ironically or not, it was under
a building that sold honeycombs. Wellafter playing for a ball he found for
a while the ball, the bearwas relocated with the help of Colorado Parks
and Wildlife, away from humans andaway from the festival. It must have

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felt completely stumped to me that closeto all those honeycombs and still not be
able to get it done. Theyshould have named a Winnie the Pooh instead.
Drill it too. And finally,can we talk about lane splitting for
just a moment. If you ridea motorcycle, lane splitting is still illegal

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in Colorado and will remain illegal inColorado come August seventh. Lane filtering is
allowed. What is the difference inlane splitting? A rider passes a moving
car in the same direction. Lanesplitting happens when you're going down twenty five
and traffic is crawling. You're goingfifteen twenty miles an hour, and all

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of a sudden, a motorcycle comesflying past you in the middle between the
two cars that is lane splitting thatwill remain illegal in Colorado. Lane fill,
on the other hand, is theopportunity to come up to a stopped
car at a intersection in order tokind of collapse all the traffic behind them.

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The five rules for lane filtering arethe vehicles a rider wants to pass
are stopped, the lane is wideenough to fit a vehicle in a motorcycle.
When passing, the motorcycle is travelingat a speed of fifteen miles per
hour or less, the rider cancontrol the motorcycle safely, and the rider
must pass on the left without enteringoncoming traffic. Lane splitting still illegal,

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lane filtering soon to not be illegal. So there you go, and that
is what you need to know.In the two minute trill now also on
the blog today, I have somethingso silly and so ridiculous that this kind
of stuff makes me wonder if we'renot all being punked with this Trump Biden
contest. Because you may remember,at the end of the disastrous debate,

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Joe Biden and Donald Trump had anexchange and when it happened, I rolled
and said, really, this iswhere we are now, but I want
to share a part of it withyou. Right now. It's just a
couple of minutes. Oh, canI have my audio? Aaron? All
right, then may have my computer. Okay, here we go. What

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do you say to voters who haveconcerns about your capabilities to serve well?
I took two tests, cognitive tests. I used them, both of them.
As you know, we've made apublic He took none. I'd like
to see him take one, justone, a real easy one. I
go through the first five questions.He couldn't do it. But I took
two cognitive tests. I took physicalexams every year. And you know,

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we knock on wood wherever we mayhave wood. That I'm in very good
health. I just won two clubchampionships, not even senior, two regular
club championships. To do that,you have to be quite smart, and
you have to be able to hitthe ball a long way. And I
do it. But he doesn't doit. He can't hit a ball fifty
yards. He challenged me to agolf match. He can't hit a ball
fifty yards. I think I'm invery good shape. I feel that I'm

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as in good as shape as Iwas twenty five thirty years Actually, i'm
probably a little bit lighter. ButI'm as good a shape as I was
years ago. I feel very good. I feel the same. But I
took I was willing to take acognitive says, and you know what,
if I didn't do well, Iaced him doctor Ronnie Jackson, who's a
great guy when he was White Housedoctor. And then I took another one,

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a similar one, and both oneof them said they've never seen anybody
ace him. Thank you. No, wait, and the market's good.
I didn't five and only two hundredand twenty thirty pounds. Thirty five pounds,
Well, he said, sixty fourtwo hundred. Anyway, that's your
man. Just take a look atwhat he says, he is, Take
a look at what he is.Look I'd be happy to have a driving

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contest in him. Hey, Igot my handicapped, which when I was
vice president, down to a six. No, should he admit that he
got it down to a six.I'll play the rest when we get back.
Let me just give you the lastthirty seconds of that mess. And
well, by the way I toldyou before, I'm happy to play golf.

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If you carry your own bag,think you can do it, that's
the biggest line. Then use asix handicap of all, I was an
eight handicap. Now, but I'veseen you swing. I know you swing.
Let's act liked tru Let's not actlike children. Thanks too late,
But here we are well. Nowthe gauntlet has been thrown. This happened

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yesterday at Trump's rally in Darrel.I'm also officially challenging Crooked Joe to an
eighteen hole golf match right here underousBlue Monster. Considered one of the greatest
tournament golf courses anywhere in the world, one of the great courses of the

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world. It will be among themost watched sporting events in history, maybe
bigger than the Ryder Cup or eventhe Masters. I'm sorry, and I
will even give Joe Biden ten strokesaside. Ten strokes that's a lot.
That means twenty strokes. In caseyou don't play golf, I will give

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him ten strokes aside, and ifhe wins, I will give the charity
of his choice, any charity thathe wants, one million dollars. One
million dollars. Now, let mejust ask this question. A rod out
of every sport we could watch thesetwo men compete at is golf at the

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top of your list. You whatdo you want to see here? Oh?
Boxing? Oh no, I wantto see badminton. Oh, badminton.
Now, boxing would look like this, okay, there would be punch
punch, punch, punch. Itwould be terrible. Basketball is up there?
Little game of horse? Horse?Would you know what? I'd watch?

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The ironic in a game of horse? We have an elephant and a
donkey. Yep, I'm being serious, Like what because I have no interest
in watching these two old guys playgolf? Yeah, you know, no
idea. I don't believe you.Two seconds, everyone on the planet Earth
would watch that. In a millisecond. That would be I am telling you

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now, if that ever were tohappen, Mandy Connell, that would be
the most viewed telecast in history oftelevision for at least the first half hour.
Yeah, you know, first halfhour. So there you get post
watched more than any super Bowl guaranteed. Oh, put a paycheck on it,

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easing more than any super Bowl.That's hundreds of millions of years.
I mean that's kind of crazy.I know, pay per view, so
much money to be made per view. Hmm, there you go. I
don't know. There's got to beother sports Trump golf challenge funny but stupid.

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It's not really though, because makingthe challenge now we all know it's
not gonna happen. There's no way. First of all, I don't think
either of them could carry their bagsfor eighteen holes. No, no,
and there's no way Biden's people aregonna let him go out and play golf
against Donald Trump. But it isagain another way to shine the focus on

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the virility issue, and that's reallywhat this is between these two candidates.
Trump can't hit Biden on age becausehe's not that much younger than he is,
So you just have to make itabout virility. You have to make
it about whether or not you knowyou think he can make it four years.
News Slash Today President Biden is nowscheduled. I don't know if it's

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live. I was trying to findout if it was live or pre recorded.
He scheduled an interview with a softtarget, that is nsnbc's Lester Holt
that will be on Monday night.This is his attempt to suck the oxygen
out of the air from the RepublicanNational Convention, which we'll be going on
starting Monday, which a Rod andI will be covering thanks to our friends

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at Rocky Mountain Voice. So thereyou go. Golf match would have to
be between eleven and four. He'sright, He's right. They need to
play a series of mini golf.Well, how about that mini golf a
rod that's more reasonable, Oh,even more viewers. I would watch that.

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But do you go to like amini golf that's kind of a serious
mini golf where it just has thingsthat you're you know, like it just
has challenging putts instead of like aclown nose and all that the clown nose.
No, they build one custom tothem too. Each one of them
is something from their past, aslike the obstacle. So like the end,

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the very end for hole eighteen,I'll just say two words, Stormy
Daniels. Wow, I knew youwere gonna go there. Donald. I
was actually thinking there could be ahole where you know that had hair plugs
in it, because Joe Biden iswell known for getting hair plugs back in
the day. You could have ahole that's based on China. No,
no, no, no, no, yeah no, why not hot twist

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hole eighteen for Joe? It takeaway the club? You say you,
sir for this challenge complete the sentencewithout stumbling. Ooh, what's more difficult?
Hear that Greco Roman wrestling? Yeahno, not get go Roman wrestling.
That's not happening, Mandy. Iwant to see him play hockey,

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athleticism and fighting combined. That wouldlast for three minutes, would take the
president half an hour to get offthe first tea. Mandy's so sad that
we've arrived at these two clowns gettinginto a peeking match over golf, which
isn't even a real sport. Itis it is it is now. They
would have to pay meat if youit says this texter, I don't think

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so. When we get back ourgeneric Democrat, Senator Michael Bennett has now
entered the chat. When it comesto President Joe Biden will play what he
had to say, and newsflash,it's not flattering. We'll do that next
live from Coursefield. It's Tim Singersong. You have the piano man singersong

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tonight, but we're all in themood for melody and you got us feeling
all right. Nine none, no, no, no, well done.
That is one of our many entriesinto the win. Tickets to Billy Joel
Friday Night, of Coursefield and Ihave got Tim on the line. Tim,

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that was a nice job. Ilike the way you did your own
intro. Thank you, thank you. I thought that might put me over
the top, and my friend,it did. You are the winner of
two tickets to see Billy Joel onFriday night. Well done, my friend.
Now, Tim, I feel likeI should tell you it's going to
be hot as blazes on Friday,so be sure, and you know,

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drink a lot of water, weara hat, all that good stuff.
Oh yeah, definitely. I gotsome live from SNL vibes in the beginning.
There a little bit in the beginning, more time live from Coursey.
It's too I liked it. Iliked it a lot. Tim. Did
you already get Tim's info or doyou need to? All right, Tim,
hang on, man, great job. See on Friday. I mean,

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maybe I will, maybe I won't. You don't know, you don't
know how it goes anyway. Sothe biggest story of the day is still
whether or not Joe Biden is goingto be in the race. And he
says absolutely, he's not going anywhere. What are we even talking about.
He's not listening to anybody. ButI want to share with you some audio

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of a man described by Jim Garrityon X the following way about one of
our esteemed senators from the great stateof Colorado. Jim Gearty says, Michael
Bennett is close to the generic Democrat. He's not a bomb thrower or a
provocateur. He votes with Biden's positionninety eight point five percent of the time.

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His stark warning stands out because he'samong the last guys you would expect
to get in front of the camerasand to cleare his party's nominee to be
doomed. So what exactly did hesay? Well, why don't you listen
for yourself? Up? Ayrod,give you my computer. I forgot to
ask. I didn't realize you turnedit back down. This is him on

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CNN with Caitlin Collins. My colleagueDana Bash reported that you, Senator John
Tester and Senator Shared Brown all saidduring that launch that you don't think President
Biden can win in twenty twenty four. Is that true? Well, it's
true that I said that, andI did say that behind closed doors,
and you guys and others asked whetherI had said it, and that is

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what I said. So I figuredI should come here and say publicly,
why do you think you can't win? I just think this race is on
a trajectory that is very worrisome ifyou care about the future of this country.
Joe Biden was nine points up atthis time. The last time he
was running, Hillary Clinton was fivepoints up. This is the first time
in more than twenty years that aRepublican president has been up in this part

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of the campaign. Donald Trump ison track, I think to win this
election and maybe win it by alandslide and take with him the Senate and
the House. And so for me, this isn't a question about polling.
It's not a question about politics.It's a moral question about the future of
our country. And I think it'scritically important for us to come to grips

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with what we face if together weput this country on the path of electing
Donald Trump again. So you're soto be clear, let me lay this
out. Why is Michael Bennett onCNN saying what a lot of other Democrats
are saying. Well, first ofall, he's not it for reelection anytime
soon. He just got reelected intwenty twenty two. That's thing Number one

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thing number two. He is kindof the generic Democrat, as Jim Doherty
just said, and in doing thisputting the generic Democrat out there. He's
not a fire throat, fire breather. He doesn't go out and try to
raise help. But he's out theresaying what is the new messaging I think,
which is, not only is Trumpgonna win, He's going to take

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the House and the Senate with him, giving the Republicans control of all three
branches of government. This is thenext stage of getting Joe Biden to step
down. There's a great, great, great column today linked on the blog.
I said yesterday that I would loveto be a fly on the wall
while the Democrats are wargaming the variousscenarios that they have in front of them

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to get rid of Joe Biden asa candidate. And Nate Silver, who
is left leaning and a noted pollster, has a really long column about it.
In it, he talks about JoeBiden's we cand and then he talks
about the Democrats' options to get himout, and he starts with number one.

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Biden's situation is probably already beyond repair. He already had Joe Biden losing
in the forecast that he does.His chances have fallen since the debate,
and maybe the Democrats are going towell, they can't really do anything about
that. Number Two, Biden isalmost certain to have other senior moments which

(01:25:32):
could come to the point of noreturn that I think is very likely to
happen. Democrats haven't gone all thatfar up the escalatory ladder. And I
want to share this with you becausehere is the escalatory ladder, as laid
out by Nate Silver previously. Numberone back channel conversations. That's already happened.

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Number two anonymous leaks to the press. That's happening. Number Three influential
non electeds and donor saying he shouldresign. Today, George Cloudy came out
and said Joe Biden should step asideas have many other unelected people who said,
you know, it's time for himto go. So that's already happening.
Number five signals from senior party leaderse. G. Obama, Cliburn,

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and Pelosi saying he should resign withplausible deniability. Nancy Pelosi refused to
endorse Joe Biden. She has openlywondered about his mental capacity already in the
last few days. Number six megadownerssaying he should resign and withholding funds.
That's already happening. Number seven Normysenators or representatives saying he should resign.
Michael Bennett did not say he shouldstep aside. What he said was he

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can't win, which is essentially thesame. Number eight open discussion of invoking
in all good conscience clause at theDNC. That clause in the DNC bylaws
allows them to essentially tell the delegateswho are supposed to be bound to Joe
Biden, telling the delegates that theyshould, in all good conscience not be

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able to vote for Joe Biden,therefore throwing the convention into an open convention,
and essentially the delegates would be theone to pick the nominee. Number
nine on record comments to media outletsabout his cognitive decline. That's happening.
Number ten senior party leaders explicitly sayinghe should resign. I think that starts

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to happen next week. Number elevenstaff resigning or saying he should resign.
Number twelve cabinet members resigning or sayinghe should resign. Number thirteen invoking conscience
clauset convention and or Number fourteen,the twenty fifth Amendment. Oh, I'm
so sorry to the people who fellasleep during the Bennett comments. I thought

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I got it short enough. Ihope you weren't driving. Ross calls him
the cheap sawmin X. I wouldsay, the poor man's Ambian. That's
what we'll call him, the poorman's Ambiy. But I love the generic
Democrat comments so perfect, so incrediblyperfect. So I'd love for you to
go read this column because I feellike Nate Silver probably has his hand on

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what's actually happening. But I wantto take you to number six, Kamala.
Harris is probably a mutually agreeable option, and he goes on to say
I want to write more about Harrisif I can find the time. But
my strong sense is that people whowant Biden out would be perfectly happy with
Harris, even if they prefer somesort of open nomination process, whereas people

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who are defending Biden are more indifferentbetween Biden and Harris, but are also
strongly against an open process. Intechnical terms, Harris is probably the choice
that would emerge from a negotiation.In game theory, equilibrium does not necessarily
the party's best option to defeat Trump. But the one that minimizes the loss
function for respective party stakeholders. Whatthat means is if they put Kamala at

(01:28:59):
the top of the ticket, shemay not get elected, but she won't
create the drag on the down ticketthat having Biden at the top of the
ticket will. And that's all they'reworried about. We talked about it yesterday.
The fact that I really believe stronglythat they are going to figure out

(01:29:19):
a way. They just want tohold the Senate or they want to gain
in the House. That won't happen. But Democrats are just trying to give
themselves enough power to be able tolob accusation after accusation after accusation at Donald
Trump once he's in office. MaeZilver also continues, in more practical terms,

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Biden's biggest defenders so far have beenthe Congressional Black Caucus. Would they
really balk at replacing Biden with hisblack vice president. There's plausibly a deal
to be struck. Biden dowters agreedto drop their demand for an open convention
and support Harris, an option thatBiden defenders can live with, and then
Kamala Harris is sacrificial lamb and shegets beaten, but they already have a

(01:30:03):
plan and a strategy to kneecap theTrump administration before it even gets started.
So there you go, There yougo, assuming Biden stays in. Do
you think at any point KGP resigns? I just don't think she is well.

(01:30:30):
I mean, has she been offeredthe job at MSNBC yet? Are
they racist? Because you know,if she doesn't get offered a job at
MSNBC, that's gonna because of MSNBCis racist, not because she is demonstrated
over and over and over and overagain her incompetence. She's just terrible.
And man, we had Sean Spicer, you guys, KJP makes him look

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like a genius. Anyway, injust a few minutes, Rob Dawson is
gonna come on the show because tomorrowwe either have a tiny show. What
times the game start tomorrow? Eleveneleven ten? Okay, so we could
feasibly have an hour half hour ofshow tomorrow because there's a baseball game that
starts eleven ten. So we wantto do a couple of things. A

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Rod's off on Friday, and thenon Monday, Aron and I will be
talking to you live from me,Lee walk lend of the friendly people.
Super excited about that, and thanksto our friends at Rocky Mountain Voice for
making this all possible. And whenI say they made it all possible,
I am not exaggerating. I'm superexcited to be paired up with them.
If you're not going to Rocky MountainVoice dot com every day and seeing what's

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up there, they're doing really goodthings and it's only going to get better
in any case. So we're gonnatalk to Rob Dawson because Rob is also
going to be at the convention,so we're gonna have some really good convention
coverage and on Friday, remember,I am going to ask you guys,
so put on your thinking caps betweennow and Friday. I want you guys

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to let me know what you wantout of our coverage at the Republican National
Convention. It is I've never beento a convention. I don't know how
much power I'm going to have tomake any of it happen. But I
want to do shows that are reallybringing you guys with me to the convention.
And one of the ways we're goingto do that is talk to our
roving reporter, Rob Dawson, haveyou been to a convention before? No,

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so excited. I'm so excited.I'm excited. I'm getting more excited
as we go along. At first, I was like, you know what,
I'm a little overwhelmed because do youdo you go into this thing with
a plan or do you let theyou know, the defense come to you.
Like hard to plan because we're there'sso many unknowns, right, you
know, just the just the logisticsof where we're going to be, where

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everybody else is going to be.We we do know that legally protesters will
not be in the RNC security South. And that's a good that's a really
good. I was in Milwaukee formy cousin's wedding and I'm actually staying with
my cousin, Oh nice for thisweek. He's in the media. He
works at the Milwaukee Business Journal.Oh very nice. And but during his
wedding in October, Uh, itis a protest town, heavy anti Israel

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protest when we were there in October, and I couldn't get to where I
was going in the uber because ofit. Oh No, So when I
heard that the protesters are going tobe away, that's good. Yeah,
that is that is good, Andthat came down from a federal judge's ruling
that said they have plenty of rightto protest, but they do not have
a right to protest wherever they want, Yes, pick the location. Rob,

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what are you expecting out of this? You're a newsman, You're going
in there with your news. I'mtrying to be newsy. I'm trying to
you know, ratchet back my rootingfor the home team and and you know,
be more journalism to me. SoI'm interested in in the what kind
of show it's going to be becauseevery time I when I listen to a

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Trump rally, for example, arethe talking points exhausted? The part there's
parts of it that are not newand old to us now. But then
there are interesting parts where I actuallythink there's some broad bait. Like it
does it feel like he's trying toopen up the tent a little bit with
some of the softening of the positions. And I got to tell you,

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I think that like in control,Trump is making left insane. Yes,
absolutely, because he is. He'sstaying on message. He's he's not saying
anything outrageous. I mean, he'sstill braggadocious and makes up, you know,
exaggerations that mean nothing in the grandscheme of things, but his not
weighing in on Biden's performance at thedebate him just like it real quick.

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I was thinking about this. Rememberhow we've seen a couple splits with Trump
versus, for example, Dave Williamsright with who they supported in the primers,
where Dave Williams is in the puritytests and uh, you know,
closing off people to the party andwishing some people goodbye and we never see
you again. What a that DonaldTrump? Is he trying now to make

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the tent bigger, That's what I'msaying. He asked to do better in
suburbia, right, And one thingthat doesn't play in suburban districts where he
actually lost more suburban men than suburbanwomen is the mean guy shtick, so
he's kind of swung it in theother direction. He has softened the entire
GOP platform on abortion, which ishuge for those suburban voters. And he

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isn't being his normal bombastic self.And one other thing I'm anxious to see
because hopefully I'll get some floor access. We're going to be rotating some I
heard news people across the country onto the floor at various times. Is
the emotion of people. That's whatI want to talk to. I want
to talk to delegates. I wantto talk to people because in my mind,
this is something, this is yetanother thing in my life that radio

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has gotten me entrance to. Thisis something that so few people in the
country. We have three hundred andthirty million people, this is foul like
ten thousand, and that's the onlypeople to get to participate in this process.
No, obviously we're not casting aballot, right, we're not voting,
but we still get to be thereand cover it. And it's just

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one of those great American institutions thatI am excited to see how it works
and be a part of. Yeah, it's their leader, so I'm curious
to see their emotions, especially ashe takes the stage on Thursday night.
So we're actually flying back on Thursday. Yeah A Rod has to work very
early on Wednesday night, I think, is yeah, Wednesday night, Yes,
so we shall see that. Butnow it's time for something far more

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important, because now it's time forthe most exciting segment on the radio of
its guide in long I like it, Rob, I like it well done.
All right, what is our dadjoke of the day. Please,
this was a little more high brow. Yeah, little Nancy Pelosi. Uh

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huh. I left my job asa personal chef in a private estate.
I refuse to be spoken to inthat manner. Wow, how about this
one? Did you hear that theguy at the act This actually it happened
at the airport. At the airport, this guy came in and he was
going to get his bag and hetripped and fell and smashed his face on
the carousel. It's it's fine,he's coming around. Uh yeah, I

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like that joke. I'm sorry youhave a limerick. I do not unreal
it's I know it said. It'salways have the random limerick instead of limerick
of the day. I set thebar too high for myself. Where are
the days of verb? Okay?Pretty easy? One dovetail? What is
to deptail means it comes together beautifullyand fits in tightness? Or follow us
follow to join or fit together compactlyor harmoniously. Yes. Yes, today's

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triba question. Where in the worldcan you find the International Cryptosmology Museum,
San Diego? Just because you maylike you were going to say, we're
in the World's card in San Diego. No, that's completely wrong, or
as a matter of fact, itis opposite of where it actually hits.
Florida, No, New York,your closer, Portland, Maine, Sandy,

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Portland, Maine. Up there,so it is exactly opposite Portland,
Maine. The museum houses mall curiositiespurportedly related to legendary creatures Bigfoot, mermaids,
et cetera. So there you go. We got there. Rob Jawnson,
Mandy Connell keeping score? What isour Jeopardy category? Where else am
I going? Political conventions? Allright? I don't feel good about this.

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You try should not? Okay.The eighteen forty Democratic Gathering was the
first time this eight letter statement RobBaltimore, Sorry, no, freed it
again? This okay. The eighteenforty Democratic Gathering was the first time this
eight letter statement of principles was adoptedat a convention. Bandy, what's the

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platform? At the nineteen eighty convention, Reagan wanted as his running mate this
recent former president who declined, Mannywas your forte? That is correct.
At the nineteen twenty four Democratic Convention, a proposal to condemn this three word
racist organization, Manny, what isthe ku klux Klan, that is correct.

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In eighteen eighty, this former presidentlost a chance for a third term.
Rob, who is Grover Cleveland wrong? When Garfield topped the thirty sixth
ballots at the GOP convention? Eight? I have no ideighty do not know
who is? Wait? Who didyou say? Rob's a Garfield? Okay,

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no, no, Grover Cleveland.It's wrong because it's democraptic. Well,
jac has too, it says UlyssesGrant, or it says another other
answer is Cleveland. So we'll getwhat's the parenthesis things where it says who
is Cleveland? I think this meansit's an acceptable answer. Yeah, go
ahead of get it to them,all right, what's the what's the score?
Three to one? Hey? Eighteensixty four saw the only convention of

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the National Union Party, a newname for the GOP to attract the faction
called the the Democrats. Sixty four? Rob, what is Southern Democrats wrong?
Is the war Democrat? Anywhere?That was hard? I'm actually surprised

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we did as well. And I'mI'm dazzled by Grover Cleveland. I'm not
gonna lie who's from New York andties to New Jersey? To that was
a that was an impressive answer rightthere, because I don't I couldn't tell
you one thing about one question.Does not a Jeopardy category make their missing?
When you're saying impressed and say Iwas impressed, I like to give

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kudos where kudos are with that,Rob another round of plasma. Okay,
there you go. Rob gets aseparate round of plasm. Okay. We'll
be on maybe tomorrow to ish twothirty ish somewhere ish or not at all.
We don't know. Between two andfind out, it'll be like it'll
be like a surprise, Yeah weare we not. It's like Joe Biden
will he will he not? Wedon't know, but we might be here

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tomorrow, but we'll definitely be hereFriday. We're going to make room for
KO Sports right now.