01-07-25 FULL SHOW - Why Changing a Diaper Is the Ultimate Robot Test

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There's definitely an art form to it.

You got to keep things from fly, I mean just and that is going to be kind of one of the one of the ultimate tests for robots is can they change a diaper? We're going to talk about that at one. Okay, I just want to get this out of the way. I keep seeing stuff pop up on social media. No, mister Bean is not gonna play a Rod. No, Rowan Atkins is not gonna play a Rod. Mandy a wig. Julia Roberts could Aaron Brockovich the hell out of representing you? I love it. Mandy played by Renee Russo a rod

The reason that it is not well known in.

Many places is because for many people it just presents like the common cold.

It's a respiratory virus and it.

Is seasonal in China. It's apparently very common in China, and this year's outbreak is not worse than the outbreaks that they've had in previous years.

So everybody who's freaking.

Out and dusting off their handmade fabric masks can.

Just chill out, calm down. It's gonna be fine, absolutely fine. So China. Now, don't get me wrong, I should.

Say I don't trust the Chinese government as far as I can throw it. I should have stipulated that up front, But right now, the numbers that they're sharing art are not necessarily unbelievable.

I guess that's the best way to say.

So don't worry.

We don't have to worry about another lab leak.

Hopefully they fix that now that the Americans are not funding their research.

I don't know.

Probably we still are. I don't know. Okay. Gena Davis nineteen ninety two, love that one. Text her Mandy Roseanne Rosanna Dana Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh this is interesting. A Rod did you know there's a technical name for zoomis God? Because we got a zoomi video on the blog today. That's very funny.

What is it?

It is FRAPs frenetic random activity periods.

I love it.

So your dog is frapping, stop rapping about. I'm going to say that to Jinks when Jinks gets the zoomies as scary because if she hits you while she's zooming, you're you're being tackled. It's like Nick Ferguson knocked you over. Anyway, don't worry about another virus from China. You know, right now in the United States we're having all break of RSV, pneumonia, influenza,

Deal of vigorousness. But I certainly know fewer.

People this year that are sick right now than I.

Have in prior years.

So maybe we're coming out of that period where every winter you were going to get sick with something, just you know, miserable. Everybody I know on the East Coast in the last two weeks has either had COVID or the flu or the neurovirus. Oh I forgot about neurovirus, the stomach bug as we've called it our entire lives.

Positive levels.

Positive tests at this level would not have been enough to lift government restrictions during COVID.

And what is that supposed to imply?

First of all, the COVID that we're dealing with now is nothing like the COVID that first emerged. Viruses is part of their lifespan. As they evolve, they become more contagious and less deadly.

That's why the common cold is such a pain in the ass.

It it's not going to kill you. It's just going to make you miserable for seven to ten days. Right, It's almost insulting. And that's what COVID will become now. Still, it is still serious for some people. People who have other underlying, you know, issues, or people who are obese, have high blood pressure. Smokers seem to be protected in this one. For some reason, we've never.

Really checked into that.

I don't think they wanted to encourage people to pick up smoking just to avoid COVID. But we have to stop panicking every time, you know, illness in the middle of winter goes up. And that's where we are. We're in the middle of winter when everybody's inside together, and that's why this stuff spreads like this, and it happens every single year, and it has happened every single year since the beginning of the world and civilization, right, So

This was in the Boulder Weekly.

This group of people that are working to get everyone back in masks because one of them said she is immunocompromised, and it's literally, she says.

Saving her life.

And they walk around in K ninety five masks all the time, and they're out there handing out masks and trying to encourage people to wear masks. It is so unscientific. The other day a guy came at me on the text line for saying that masks don't work. All the research before COVID showed they did not work. The only random control trial done during COVID showed they do not work.

Heart goes out to them because they're.

They're stuck in this this bubble of fear that that anything, everything is going to happen, and and they're they're they're they're embarking on this don Quixote like quest to control everyone else in the world's behavior.

You know, that's really what they're trying to do.

What their endgame is is to have all of us in masks all the time. I'm not ever going to do that again, unless I'm doing surgery, in which case I will protect myself from biological material. So it's it's to me that we have terrified people. And now when I see somebody wearing a mask, I just assume that they are either about to commit a crime, or they are in some way, shape or form ill and have decided that they need to wear a mask.

I don't care except the crime part.

And I've got a story on the Blog today that Ilia Shapiro and others are beginning to say it's time to ban masks in big cities. And the reasoning is is that now pretty much the only people left wearing masks are people who have been terrified into thinking that not wearing them is it equates with death, even though the rest of us are still out here every single day, live in our best lives with no masks, not dying. I'm just throwing that out there, just you know, consider it.

Oh, just a normal, occasional not even.

A handful, really, no, you know, just a smattering here and there. But it's definitely I don't know. Like I said, I just assume that they have a medical condition that they would like to wear a mask, and I don't think about it anymore. Mandy. I wore my first voluntary face mask yesterday because I have bronchitis, and even though I'm not contagious, I was going to get my nails done.

I knew I wasn't going to.

Be able to cover my mouth every time I coughed, So just out of consideration for my nail, lady. That's very considerate, Texter, very considerate, Well done, Well done, Mandy says this text. The masks are hilarious. I play in two different pool leagues. One lady plays in both of them. She only wears a mask when her girlfriend is with her social contagion. Wow, wow, what does that say about that relationship? By the way, I mean, ah ah, that's

I like it, Okay, I like it a lot. I could live with that.

This Texter. Kate Bosworth would be Mandy. She's too skinny, you guys. I love her, but she's so tiny she couldn't Bolt's I need somebody more Amazonian, Okay, because that's honestly how I think about how I'm built. You're like, how are you?

I'm built like an Amazon? I really am.

I'm just a big person, which will be very handy in a post apocalyptic world, not that I think about those things. When we get back, I've got to talk about you know, we have spent last I checked, and maybe I could. I'll check with Rob Dawson to see if he remembers the number. But I think we're like it like one hundred million something something for homelessness. Maybe hundred and fifty million, I don't know. But I'm going to tell you what happened to hold homelessness in Colorado

Yes, because they have outcomes that they have green in the front page.

They have.

His five goals about Denver Vibrant, affordable, safe, great government, employee engagement. Okay, so three of those categories he has a green check mark for a completed goal for vibrant, affordable, and safe and great government.

Well wait, just like stop, stop, like back that truck up to the station, Rob, So dude said that Denver is now affordable. He gave himself a check mark on Denver being affordable because they just raised the minimum wage again. That means prices are going to go up again.

So what I think the major problem with all of this is I was listening to this yesterday. First of all, they hit part of his m and a lot of people's. I think it's a growing number of politicians' mo throw a bunch of information at the media. They give us the report as he's talking about it. They're handing out the report to us. So number one, number two, what were his goals? He's he's invented goals that you and

I think I don't even know how that's related to affordability.

I truly don't.

And when you talk about the amount of money that has been spent to make that happen, that now has to come out of the pockets of Denver taxpayers. I mean that, dude, to us stones the size of candals. I mean, this is this is some ballsy stuff, right, yeah.

All right, So let me just bring up something of that because I was a Shamboyd that first brought it up.

I asked him about it in the one on one.

How many people have moved on from the tiny homes or remember, he's got tiny homes and another group of shelter.

I think it's like hotels.

I guess now we're still in the hotels for some of the homeless. So we've got home hotels and tiny homes together. They are housing people. Okay. My curiosity and I think yours all along has been as well. Are we moving people out of this eventually? Or are they just going to be there for two or three years to just kind of hang out, not really work or whatever?

Right?

He said, eight hundred and fifty people out of the twenty two thirty three have moved on to permanent housing. He's also proud of the fact that they're not going back to homelessness, but.

Having twelve percent of the program are people exited back to the streets.

He said eighty two.

I think the figure was eighty two percent of either moved on to better housing or are still with us. And it sounds like, if I'm doing the math right, eighteen percent have not succeeded the program. Now, would you say eighteen percent is a lot? Would you also say that the other.

I actually think that's a pretty good number considering the population that you're.

You're dealing with, the question is you're also wondering the nitty gritty of how they're get awaging that as success.

This is just this is to put that next to affordable. That's stuck in my craw rob, because the city of Denver has done nothing except raise its own taxes and then take in, you know, a bunch of illegal immigrants and then ship them around to other neighborhoods. I mean, what is happening in Denver is mind blowing. I guess we should all be impressed that he didn't give himself across the.

Board so great Again, I think his goals are either a different be too easy to make.

In his own mind. Because I'm going to give you an example of the minus. First of all, we were texting yesterday. I was upset.

I was not aware of the op ed for my COPMA before I went in there.

It was brought up.

In the sense that he said, I'll be happy to talk about it, but then he didn't talk about it. But I guess it was brought up in a one on one. I didn't catch it as well. I didn't go two and two together and enough time to ask him one on one on this.

Here's what I think if I'm.

Listening to him, and his goal is I want to help everybody, whether or not it seems like his goal is, I want to help anybody who enters the Denver city.

Limit who is a migrant.

I want to help because he's proud of we got five thousand people work authorization. We're going to have our first group of people from the Denver Asylum secret program graduates soon. That's his version of success. And that's what's difficult I think to get He won't get off of that like you try.

To get him off of that. I think there's a lot of Denver rights right now that are starting to say, wait a minute, what about us, right?

You know how we've been into the success.

Right, And I think that that's going to be if if he continues in the manner that he is continuing, which is he has spent so much money with almost no accountability until after it's spent, right, And I know that there are some members of the Denversity Council that are starting to get tired of that.

Amanda Sawyer and Stacy Gomore.

In particularly the ones that are are they although there's not enough of them to reject or the wind up passing it, but they but they were like, we wish we could spend on other programs that might be cheaper and more effective instead of throwing the money truck at buildings and you know, hotels and the embassy suites.

You know, it seems like you know. And don't get me wrong, one of the things that I actually admire about him is that he hit the ground running and just started doing and doing and doing and doing.

But at some point when doing and doing and doing ends.

Up spending way too much money for too little a return on investment, then you've got to start being a little more cautious.

Well, that's what I'd like to see.

What I texted you yesterday and what I was trying to understand his version of downtown. I do think the homelessness is his number one issue. But I think the symbolic issue, which maybe two or three, and it all kinds of comes together, is is downtown better?

First of all, I asked him.

You have a lot of numbers, you're a numbers guy, but people don't feel it.

They don't feel like downtown is better.

I kind of wanted to ask them too about how expensive everything is, because that's another complaint of people. And you know, I didn't have time. We were under a time limit. But I asked him. I was like, first of all, is this a white flag that businesses aren't coming back? Is that why you want to convert residential housing? Business space to residential housing.

No, I wouldn't say that. We just want a well round a neighborhood.

We want, you know, if there's more people at nine o'clock at night walking their dogs or going for a run, then it's going to be safer. It's going to be safer when there's more people areund I love this.

I love this this and there's some truth to it. Right, people are less likely to attack people about.

I mean, if it's a downtown, it's a ghost town, which a lot of the reports are asking, Hey, downtown is still a ghost town.

Oh that's okay.

The voters approved the expansion of the Downtown Development Authority. Is going to raise five hundred and seventy million dollars. We're going to expand the district and it's going to a lot of it's going to be used for transitioning business space into residential space, and we'll get more people living down there and it'll be affordable down there. This is what we hear, and it comes around the circle. Well, how quickly is that going to happen?

You know, I don't know the answer to any of these questions, Rob, but it's like I said, this mayor's got some stones, and you put this together with his response to Mayor Kaufman's op ed that you just mentioned, which essentially was nuh.

I mean, honestly, it was like.

So flippant that I think this mayor is going to have a lot of problems with accountability when it gets down to it, because to your point, people don't feel like it's getting better. I just had a guy on who lives in the Highlands and he sent this letter to his landlord about why they were.

Leaving the Highlands.

And it's heartbreaking because people have now hit their limit and now they're just leaving. So that's not going to fix Denver either. So it's this whole thing's a mess. But I appreciate you taking second. Let me know what's going on.

Yeah, for sure.

Can I just add one other thing about affordable Okay? So one of his goals that he said he succeeded was permit secure of financier support the development of three thousand long term affordable units, and he said, we did threeenty twenty two last year. So someone asked, well the sales tax thing, remember the sales tax to get that pot of money?

That was very unclear. That's why I felt He's.

Like, yeah, it's gonna be harder this year because we did a lot of this with arp of money and that arp of money is not going to be there. So we that's why we came up with the sales tax idea, because the art of money is going away. We need one hundred million dollars to fill the gap.

And since we didn't do that, And I know.

What you're I think what you're thinking is why is stuff like this being done with arp of money?

Like, why is stuff like this being done by government? Get out of the way and incentivize builders to build. All right, Ron, we're going to take a break. Thank you, Rob Dawson. Back to your room, hoole, We're gonna take

We don't tell him where to put these things. You have to just it's their fault, not mine.

He continued. Every day it's looking for where that housing is and identifying what open unit it is. You might go to Thornton, you might go to North Glenn, you.

Might go to Denver.

So Thornton and North Glenn. You're on notice now if you read the op ed yesterday, which I linked to in the blog yesterday by Mayor Mike Kaufman. You would see that through those core requests, a line into the contract with the NGOs was inserted that said Denver or the surrounding areas to give these NGOs the permission to put illegal immigrants in other cities without notifying anyone that it was happening. Collaborative, My heini, this is not collaborative.

But I'm telling you. Eventually, maybe maybe.

He'll be held to account for some of these decisions that have not particularly been successful and have cost a tremendous amount of money. When we get back, we're talking to our futurist Thomas Frye about robots changing diapers. Now, that sounds like a weird thing to be talking to Thomas Frye about, but it is a tremendous challenge for people in robotics to make that simple thing happen. We're gonna talk to him right after this. Keep it on, Kowa.

So there's a lot of different layers to it.

Why is it important? Well, what kind of milestone is it for a robot to be able to change a human baby diaper?

Well?

See, I view this as kind of the turn test of humanoid robots because it requires these tactile skills. That requires the ability having adaptability and the resources to deal with the screaming child and.

Lots of variables that normally don't get.

Programmed into something like this, and then also the ability to gain the trust of the mother.

And that's the key thing here.

I think that if you don't get the mother's trust, they will never buy a robot for their home. And so this is one of the kind of the ultimate litmus tests. I think of a robot like this, can they handle all of the different things, the different smells and the different chaotic moments and all of that and still perform a flawless job.

So you just mentioned the touring test, and what is the Touring test and t U R I n G is what we're talking about.

Alan Touring.

Yeah, Alan Turing in around nineteen fifty he was just

And so we've used that kind of that Turing test.

As kind of a litmus test for how far we've advanced with computer technology. And clearly we've passed the Turing test and several different categories, but there's a lot more categories to go in the future, because.

I mean, chat GPT can have a conversation with you that is, you know, realistic enough that if you truly didn't know that it was a computer, you maybe could be fooled until they tell you something whack a doodle. I mean, you know, but I think that's an interesting standard.

What I mean. Yeah, I think it's all the variables.

A child is squirming and screaming and crying and fussing and thrashing around, and.

All of this is kind of delicate, little little pieces, so you don't want to hurt the child, you don't want to pinch the skin.

There's all kinds of things that can go wrong in the middle of all this, and for people, this becomes a real high anxiety situation at times. Most of the time it's fairly straightforward and you can change diaper, zip, zip, zip, and you're finished. Other times it turns, especially when you're in public trying to do something.

I think every parent has at least one story of that time my kid pooped all over me in public. I think everybody has at least one of those in their arsenal. If you're a parent, you know, and then you're in the in the you know, in the room trying. I absolutely understand that. So how far are we away? Because I have seen some videos lately that have been so realistic that I had to go back and I'm like, is this AI?

Is it?

Is it real? I hate that AI video has has gotten to the point where it truly is impossible to tell if what you're seeing is real or not. And where are we in robotics process right now? Like how close are we to having a robot that has just a soft enough touch that a mom would feel confident giving her baby to that robot?

Okay, to put this in perspective, there's over one hundred companies throughout the world that have received funding for creating humanoid robots, so it's not possible to know exactly where all of them are in what stages are at.

But in some of the videos I've.

Seen of Optimists, that's the Elon musk about that it was creating the way the hand moves and is manipulated, and everything seems very it has some very delicate skills tied in with it. I think I think at least by two thousand and thirty. If not sooner, he'll be able to accomplish something like this. But again, the real litmus test ends up being is the mother going to trust the robot to do it? And I think there's

Oh well, I got to tell you, I'm already thinking of a science fiction thriller where in the future there is a world and robots are starting to become a normal part and then this extremist organization who doesn't want any kind of robotics goes in and actually kills a baby and frames a robot so they can prevent more robots from being purchased. That's my new just popped into my head right now, So if anybody wants to write

They're going to be asked to do all kinds of crazy things, not just infante care, but elder care, managing people in.

The therapeutic situations where.

PTSD issues are occurring, as people that are screaming and yelling and probably narcotics are involved, and you have to get somebody off of their the high that they're on. You can start going through a list of all kinds of psychotic situations that they may be thrust into, and then you can start seeing the total kind of chaos that they're going to have to contend with.

I think there's going to be lots of challenging situations. I'm not sure this is very straightforward at all.

Well, let me let me ask you this, because, like when I think about this and I think about what robots could look like in the near future, we think of humanoid robots. And I'm just going to use data from Star Trek Next Generation as an example, because technically he was a droid, but it's okay, we're going to

I think this the skin is going to change quite a bit over time as they become more human like and lifelike. In this idea of actually growing the skin on robot, I think we're going to be getting into.

That fairly soon.

So these are some of the things that we'll have to contend with us as robots evolve over the next forty fifty years. Keep in mind that the cars that we drive today have been in development for the last one hundred and twenty plus years, so it's taken that long to get the cars that are this good now. To get to a robot that is so finally refined that it can handle all these human like tests, it's going to take a while.

Okay, I'm okay with that.

I have one more question about the robot thing, though, and that is like, in my mind, if I were going to have a robot caring for my child, which is not a given by any stretch of the imagination. Okay, so I would want to know that they were programmed with everything like first aid, so they know exactly what to do. And I was thinking to myself, like, would there be any limits to what you would want your

Well, if you have your five year old kid hanging out with robot asking a lot of questions, you may want to limit what they're willing to talk about, right right?

Oh yeah, that's probably a good idea. It's probably a very very good idea. An extraordinary number of people are hitting the text line with robot sex doll conversations.

What is wrong with you people?

But that's not what I was talking about when people were lonely. I'm talking about the epidemic of loneliness in this country, where it would be kind of cool to say I'd like to create a companion for me, and you could program the knowledge set that that robot got and maybe you say, look, I want them to have the same historical progression that I had growing up. So you can almost build yourself a peer And as people get older, and I mean in their eighties, late eighties, nineties,

Place, right right, And if you think about how long would it be before somebody is willing to leave and go out on a date with their wife or their husband and just let the robot care for the kids. Yeah, that'll be a different stage as well, having the robot and you know, prepare dinner for a room full of guests, people that show up for you're having invited twelve different people over for dinner and you have the robot prepare everything and then clean up afterwards and do the dishes.

I got to tell you, I want a humanoid robot, at least humanoid ish, right, like those weird Honda dogs with no heads. I don't want that running around my property.

I guess yeah.

So if you yell at your robot dog, you wanted to acknowledge that it's being yelled.

At us.

Instead of it turning around and you're flipping me off. If robots are used for crime, then who is responsible? These are the reason I read that question because it is kind of silly, but it's not. That's part of the ethical dilemma in robotics like that, that's a big part of it. Can you order a robot to commit a crime? You know, I don't know who's.

Doing that, right, right? Yeah, Yeah, we think we have problems now.

I think we're going to get into really complicated things. But when we get into a world of robots soldiers and robot fighting machines, then kind of all bets are off because it's not just humanoid robots, it's flying robots that are drones.

Right, That's what concerns me. That concerns me a lot more. The drone technology has come so far so fast that I think drones are really the next frontier when it comes to warfare, more so than humanoid robots, because they're way cheaper and they can be deployed right now, and the kind of precision nature that drones deliver is very

I'm not going to lie, Thomas.

Yeah, and then when you start thinking about, well, what form can these robotic soldiers take. They can look like a robotic snake as an example, yep, or a robotic fish that goes through the water and jumps out and blows up.

Thank you, Thanks for another thing to worry about. Now I'm fly fishing, Thanks so much, Thomas. It's bad enough I'm not going to catch anything. Now I have to worry about a giant fish leaping out of the water and using laser eyes to mow me down right there in the river.

Oh my god, robot fish takes your fish off the hook.

Hey, yeah, there you go, Yeah, a whole.

It just eats it whole. No, did you see? And I don't know. I saw this last week. I should have found it and put it on the blog today, but I forgot. South Korean scientists have made tiny little nanobots that are based on ants, and it's absolutely the same concept as the movie Big Hero six.

And I don't know, if you watch The Big Aero six, it's very good.

But the whole thing is this kid invotes these little nanobots, and of course then someone steals them to use them for evil. But it's amazing to see they have these little tiny almost like grains of sand or not sand rice, And they can move things, and they can program these little robots sort collaboratively to move stuff the same way ants move stuff. And I'm thinking to myself, this is crazy. I mean, this is science fiction.

Yeah, they're they're coming in every every scale.

You can imagine every shape, every possible form, and they'll have multiple capabilities that we can we can just start going down a checklist.

Can they fly? Can they swim?

Right?

And they jump?

And they can they climb a tree? Can they attach themselves to a car or a moving vehicle?

And that's the world we're moving into.

And somehow we've got to create limitations to prevent this from just totally disrupting the world that we live in.

Well, I mean, we've all seen the science fiction movies, and I'm just going to lean into it. You know, when the robots take over, Yeah, it'll be fine. I mean, can they do any worse than we're doing right now? On so many levels? So many levels? I also real quick, I want to get to this before we run out of time. I also linked to a story that you did about kids making a move away from college and yet still being able to have a successful career.

And I wanted to ask you about this specifically.

Because we've been talking a lot, and I know we don't ever talk about politics, but there's been a lot of conversation about H one B visas and immigrant labor, especially in the tech field, and things of that nature.

So it seems that what you're.

Saying in this article that I linked today on the blog is that there are companies that are offering certifications and other things to let tech minded kids who don't necessarily need to go the college route go ahead and pursue that as a career. Is that what we're looking at now?

Right right there's lots of alternatives out there. They can go to trade schools, they can do apprenticeships, they can take online courses, go to community college coding boot camps, and the certification are actually becoming an alternative to college degrees. And so that's that's becoming very interesting. And a lot of them are just going straight into entrepreneurship. They're just going to start their own company and run with it.

That's a lot of money for retirement.

Yeah, so this is.

A problem where we're just taking money from the future, and while it enriches us today, this creates this massive problem moving forward into the future.

Well, I wanted to bring up the article because I think that I know people that have gone this route who did not go to high school. I mean, excuse me, did not go to college, but got Microsoft certifications, got various network certifications, did a lot of other stuff, and just went to work in tech. And now at my age, so that was thirty years ago before that was cool, and now they're vice president level and been developing for thirty years.

So it is a viable pathway. But it's nice that.

I think it's interesting because I believe that higher ed has done this to themselves by not adapting, by by continuing to cling to a model that doesn't necessarily work for everyone. And now it's we're going to We're going to see colleges clothes with some great regularity, I think, over the next ten years. But I think that's a good thing, and maybe they'll get serious about delivering on a mission by making sure the kids graduate with skills that can help them get an actual job.

When you think of the cost of managing an entire campus and the student body, and the security, and the utilities and just all of the maintenance and repair an entire campus like that, these things are very expensive, and so they have to charge a lot of money to maintain all that, And I just I think we're at a point where fewer and fewer people.

Are going to be willing to pay that, yep. And so we're going to.

See lots of consolidations. We're going to see lots of selling off of assets. Mergers are going to happen. So we're going to see lots of crazy activity in the academia over the next even five years. Yeah, going to happen pretty quickly.

Here Thomas Fryar futurists.

You can find him if you want him to come speak to your organization about anything from the future.

He is available to make that happen.

Thomas. Good to see you, my friend. I'll see you next time. All right, Thanks by Thomas, We'll be right back. Keep it on KOA.

You can always text us at five six six nine.

Oh.

It says, are you aware that if students do not pursue college or approve trade school after high school graduation, that the high schools are dinged on the post secondary and workforce readiness portion of accountability reporting.

And to this person, I responded, that is not my concern.

Now. I don't want schools to be dinged on accountability, but I also would always look out for what was in the best interest of whatever individual we were talking about, and I don't know what that would be. Many of you on the tech line of pointed out that right now, coding is not the gravy train to the future that it once was, and to be perfectly frank, if I was advising a young technically minded kid who didn't necessarily want to go to college.

I would tell him to find a robotics program and work.

In robotics, because someone's got to be able to make all this stuff work right. And if coding isn't the thing,

Going on, but I was so impressed with it at the time.

I hope it is. They paid their apprentices to learn the job, and they taught people how to do all kinds of trades, and it was just a really good program. And they started it because they didn't have enough skilled labor to do what they needed done. And I'm sitting here looking at the conversation about H one B visas, and I know people who have come here on an H one V visa. I know people who have hired

And yet not everybody's going to stay working for you.

So essentially you're training your competition's people, but at least you're going to know exactly what they learned when they go work for someone else. Mandy, do you know of any laws governing the programming of robotics security dogs to use lethal force?

No?

And that was the question that someone asked. If you programmed a dog to kill an intruder, but you didn't clarify what intruder was, and the dog kills the mailman, that seems to me like that would be a huge problem. So these are all these questions like if okay, let me ask you guys and you can weigh in on the common Spirit health text line at five six six nine. Oh, what weird question do you have about robot ethics? Because I think that's kind of a weird question, and that's

I do think we're moving.

To a place where I hope anyway that by the end of my life, robots will be there to fill many of the roles that people don't want to fill now, you know, and we have far too people, far too few people that are able to be compassionate caregivers for the elderly. And when I'm elderly, if I could have a super nice robot that was programmed to talk about eighties music and Seinfeld and took really good care of me. I would be perfectly.

Fine with that, perfectly fine.

Hey, Mandy, Disney out so its entire id to it department years ago. That's why there's so many h one bs in Orlando, except most of those I think are in their offices in Seattle. I have a friend who was displaced by an H one B visa worker at Disney. She had to train her replacement and then they fired her.

So awesome.

Disney happiest place on earth unless you're a programmer. Manby, I agree with you, But why doing schools when they're doing what is right for students in Colorado? It's because of the law. I have always been in favor of

But I think we've swung the pendulum too far.

We have now created the necessity of layers and layers of administrators and bureaucracy just to conform with the edicts from layers and layers of bureaucracy.

On top of them, and one of those things, you know, I get it.

You want to know if the kids that go to the high school you're thinking about putting your kid in go to college. If that's your goals, then you want them to be around other college bound kids.

I get it, one hundred percent.

But ultimately, you've got to look out for the kid first and they have to figure that out.

Oh oh, here's a good one.

This is you guys. Are you know what I've always thought that my listening audience was. I just envision you guys. You know, nice, proper people. You put your napkin in your lap when you eat, you know, you hold the door open for people. This is how I envision all of you.

And then I get this text message. If I have a sex robot and sell it, am I a pimp?

That is the ethical question that is asked on our text line right now, right now, Texter, I have my I am disappointed and you face on Okay, just imagine it. Yep, that's it.

That's the face, Mandy.

What constitutes consent with a sex robot? Excellent question?

What if your security dog jumps the fence.

Another good question about robot dogs killing people. If my robot was Johnny five from Short Circuit, I would be happy as a clam, says this texter. How could you not like cutest robot ever? Hey, guys, wasn't in my car to find out if you actually spoke about having robots on a farm to prevent coyotes or wolves. No, but that is a fantastic idea. See now, that would be the perfect application for those weird headless dog like robots that are scary as hell. That's where you put

Are going to come out anyway. We'll be right back after this.

I think I'm going to plan a little mini Mandy Connell adventure for mid twenty twenty five. Do you know what is happening in Peblo, Colorado in mid twenty twenty five. Anthony Rodriguez, No, but I should. Uh. There's a Bojangles Fried Chicken opening in Peblo, Colorado, and I am going to be leading a pilgrimage to Bojangles.

Have you ever eaten at Bojangles?

Ay?

Rod No, I don't believe I have.

Okay, with your new exploration of Cajun food in New Orleans, Bojangles is going to immediately be your favorite fried chicken place. It's so good.

I'm so mad it's in Preblo and not.

Closer to me.

Challenge accepted.

Yeah, I think. Do you think if we rented a bus? Here's what I'm thinking. We rent a bus. We just go down to Preblo for the day, you know, like lunch, and then come back there. You go bada bing bataboo. Supoos. Just have to find out exactly when it's opening. Now, if you don't know about Bojangle's Chicken, let me just share this with you. They're a Carolina based restaurant chains started in nineteen seventy seven in Charlotte, North Carolina. They

No oh, see the synergy, synergy.

I'm becoming aver in this.

What a perfect time to enter the Colorado market because it's bow time has two meanings and one is delicious. I don't know about Bonnet, maybe he's delicious as well, but I do know about Bojangles Fried Chicken.

And I'm a little too excited about this.

Because you're from here, I can't ask you this question, but I'm going to ask my audience, many of you have moved from somewhere else, what what chain would you like to see have a presence in Colorado? And for me, it is Crystal Burger's first, and Bojangles because bo Jangles is absolutely the best.

The easy cop out answer is now no longer an issue because for decades, Coloradin's always asked for in and out.

Yeah, now we have them there everywhere, bringing up like mushrooms after a rain.

So now that check mark. I don't I don't know, I mean, I know, no, I take it back, I do know what people are going to say, and they're crazy and gross.

What a burger?

But what's already here?

Is it?

Now?

Yeah? What burger's here? I love what a burger?

Because what burger was drunk food in college for me.

So I have this like deep attachment to Waterburger, even though you know the fries are gross. I don't like the skinny shoe string fries whatever, but I still love Waterburger even sober. I still enjoy a Waterburger. But Crystal Burgers are like White Castle, only better. And they have these war dogs. Oh they're so good. So text me at five six six nine know if you're from if you're not from around here originally, what do you miss? Mandy? I'm in for the charter best of Bojangles in Preblo

Never take into account the airport versions.

Come on, people, No, what did I tell you when when we were in Milwaukee, couldn't find anywhere else to ea because the airport's stinky, and he's like, let's go to Chili's. Every airport Chili's sucks. They all suck the same exact way. The service sucks, the limited menu sucks. They all suck. So you cannot hold that against Chilis, which which actually does a pretty dark good job by.

The Beachers, is the lone example, the only example that has ever been good in an airport, and also good Beacher is the one where I got the cheese.

Remember, oh yeah, that was a good one. You know, we actually have really good food in the Denver Airport because we have local restaurants that have opened an outpost and we are sort of the not the norm. Everybody's saying white Castle, y'all. I'm telling you right now, Crystal is a far superior product to white Castle, far superior. What is uh Brohms that's made an appearance a couple of times, round table pizza? Uh yeah, Cindy's gonna come with us to the bow Jangles Pilgrimage. Now, what do

A double decker bus to drive us all?

Do we even have those?

I don't think so. M so we need to get one. Anyone got one?

Oh?

Eco?

I love? Okay, I missed them. Did you ever have those here?

I don't think so.

Actually they were a thing. They were everywhere all over Florida, and I.

Loved a playa loco.

It was like a Cuban chicken and beans and plantains and stuff like that. Super super good.

And then they kind of went away.

Do we have any of Guy Fieri's restaurants here, because his burger joints are good? I don't think we have any here. We do not having one of those? We had one on our cruise.

Oh man, wait a minute, I'm here, but spent some time in Chicago. I want a Portrillos. We have that here, don't we? Yeah, we have a Portillo's here. Hang on, that's what I thought. Or uh, we are eyeing a location in Littleton. They already have a location show we got too.

We got a lost dose, two lost dose. We got one in and they're phenomenal one in Centennial, Yeah, and one in Littleton. Yeah.

There you go, So you got your Patrillo's. See, we're here to connect people and make their dreams come true. Boom broms is ice cream from Texas. Okay, okay, do we have I think we have five guys here, don't we?

Yeah?

Oh yeah, we have five guys. We have smash Burger. We have what's the other one?

Oh, smash Burger.

What was the other five guys?

Competitor?

Uh?

Why can't I remember this?

Smash?

No?

Dang it.

Anyway, let's do this.

You keep texting me the restaurants that you Oh my god, steak and Shake. Oh we've always called steak and shake choke and puke because it too was drunk food, but not as kind to us as what a burger was. Let's take a quick time out so I'll be back with the bunch of restaurants I've never heard of. This is kind of cool. Right after this, The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock, Accident and injury lawyers.

No, it's Mandy Connell, m.

God, the nice food prey, thecon keeping you real sad bab welcome welcome, Welcome.

To the third hour of the show. I have to tamp down a problem that was created because a rod You looked up a different restaurant than the restaurant that they were looking for. Portillo's is an Italian beef sandwich Chicago beef sandwich base like the one we ate at Los Dos Portrios Mexican joint and Texters caught that, whereas I did not. So there is not a Portillo's in the Denver metro, but there may be one opening in Lyttleton next year.

Sorry, yeah, there you go.

I've our seafood restaurants from Seattle. Yes, Oh my god, to be so happy if that was the thing we could do. So happy. And someone else pointed out to me that El Poyo Loco is open in Arvada and up on A seventy and one of the other I don't know, seventy and Peoria. I appreciate the wine Yogi backing me up on the Crystal Burger choch Keys.

What is it choch Keys? Is that like an actual place?

I know?

Yeah, I guess that's a place.

Now that the Pieces of Flair place? Or is that diverent one?

No?

Well, yeah, but I mean that that was from a movie. Yeah, so yeah, yeah, we'll figure it out anyway. Somebody just sent Bill Miller barbecue. We've got better barbecue now in Denver than we had when I moved here. When I first moved here, I got to tell you guys, I was like, oh God, I've moved to a barbecue wasteland. But since then, several good, good, good barbecue joints have opened up, and I've discovered some that I didn't know.

I mean, I I can hear you. I can hear you.

But I am a pork barbecue person. Ribs pulled pork, That's what I want. And I love barbecue chicken too, So I'm just not a barbecue beef person. Ryan Steakhouse, we do not need that here, No, co Dan, we don't need anything else to be help us be as big as a house. Okay, let me move on because I'm getting hungry, and I didn't want to get hungry. We've had another story today on the blog, unfortunately, about

Insane it is the way that schools treat this.

Now, this was a private school in Montrose, and they seem to have taken swift action, but.

It's it feels like it's happening more often.

I'm probably wrong, though, it's just being reported more often than it was before. So I want to get to this story because I find this very very interesting and i'd like, you know what a Well, let's see if we can reach out to this woman. They call her the JA six Granny. Her name is Rebecca Lorenz. She was found guilty last year on four federal misdemeanor charges relating to her role in the US Capitol breach on January sixth. Now, what did she do?

She's seen on video.

Walking into the Capitol building with a group of other rally attendees. She spent about ten minutes there. She didn't touch anything, do anything or yell. She just looked and.

Prayed and then she left.

And for that, she's been on home confinement with an ankle monitor and been banned from using the Internet. And if Donald Trump does a massive pardon of January sixth defendants, she would likely be in that group. And she has come out to say, I don't want it. I'm not looking for the President to pardon me. And here's why she is in the process of appealing her conviction. Her lawyers made a First Amendment defense, and I think it's a strong one. I think a lot of the people

And I admire the heck out of that. The Denver grandma.

Says, should the Washington d c. Appellate Court agree that she's not liable for the one hundred and three thousand dollars fine levied because she was acting under rights allowed by the US Constitution's First Amendment. Lorenz says the decision would be precedent scenting, but the pardon would.

Negate the appeal, and therefore she is moving forward.

And say what you will about you know, people who demonstrate in a way you disagree with, at least they're sticking to their values. It's interesting to me, by the way, you know, she was caught, somebody ratted her out, Somebody called the FEDS and said, yes, she was at the Capitol.

What kind of person do you have to be?

What kind of acts do you have to have wanted to grind to bring this woman down to call the Feds? Because by all accounts, and maybe all accounts are lying, but by all accounts, she's a lovely woman. She's active in her church, she believes in American you know, exceptionalism.

She just seems like a lovely person.

So what did she do to someone to have them rat her out to the Feds as some kind of threat to democracy? And if she didn't do anything to them, and they're just miserable people who want to make sure that people that they disagree with suffer in the maximum sense.

What kind of person are you? God, that's so gross, really really gross.

They couldn't mean Schlatsky's instead of Choschke's. That's that's true. Mandy. You mentioned some time ago at about a great burger place on Colorado Boulevard plast Glendale towards I twenty five.

What was the name that would be?

Is it burg? No, wait a minute, hang on, I think it's Crown Burger. Is it Crownburger Erro Do you know Crown Burger Denver? I'm almost positive I'm looking it up right now. Yeah, it's Crown Burger. Looks dodgy as hell straight up. You're like, I don't know about eating here, and I always go inside because the drive the takes forever. The drive through was basically like a string and a cant at Crown Burger. But the food is ridiculously good.

But it's so funny. At least it was really funny at the time. We'll see if it's funny now.

Right after this my lost decade of my twenties, we gone to Happy Hour and this was at Church Street Station in Orlando, like one of the original downtown entertainment complexes in the country. They opened in like nineteen seventy something, so Jungle Gyms was part of that complex at this point.

So we go over to Jungle Gyms and she.

Orders a burger and we all order burgers because that's what they had, was the burgers that were really good. And she gets her burger roll eating and she's like, this burger tastes like peanut butter. And we're just literally just going shut up and eat. You just need to put some food in your pie hole. Shut up and eat. So she's the whole time, she's complaining, and she's like, it tastes like peanut butter. So my brother walks up and he's like, how is everything. She goes, burger tastes

Drunk that often, because we didn't know you were right.

You were right? Ay Rod? Do you have that friend now, because you're in a little bit of a party phase right this minute. Do you have the Tasmanian devil friend? Or you old enough to not have the Tasmanian devil friend when they drink have.

Or am no you better not?

No, you kind of are though, like you are the life of the party when you've had a few inions.

I'm the well, yeah, no, we've got we've got a couple of friends that fit the bill. I think we take turns, which makes it feel better. Sure, yeah, because then it's like, oh, there's the one.

Passing around, the pain in the ass.

Yes, the baton of nonsense, the bon nonsense. Yes, that's fantastic.

Yeah, every group needs one of you.

And I think the handoff method is good because you don't have the one person that's like, okay, they go.

In my in my twenties, I had a friend who I've found out much later was not just an alcoholic but also a pill addict.

Right, so I had no idea.

So we'd be out and she'd have one drink and then she would be and I'm not exaggerating on the floor, like on the floor after one drink, and I thought she just can't hold her I don't know. Found out later she was also taking like oxycotton with it. So yeah, that was that was super hard.

There are followers.

Yeah, well, I walked away during that fall, so you know, but it's there's always that one person in the group. And if you don't know the one person, maybe you just have a great friend group, or maybe you're the person. You know, if you've ever had to apologize the next day for something that you thought may have happened but you're not sure, you're probably the person.

I mean, yeah, you said, yeah, Yeah.

Anyway, we are going to take a time out in the next half hour. I got a lot of stuff that I want to cover. I've been wasting a lot of time today, but I enjoyed myself, so nice.

Thanks for letting me do that. Looking at the ball.

Okay, there's a picture on the blog today that I laughed out loud yesterday. I snort laughed because it made me laugh so hard. And it was posted by Representative Mike Collins. And it's the truly historic poster. And maybe you've seen this poster before with all of the United States presidents on it, but you've got to click it to open it to see the whole thing. Oh yeah, this Texter said, I thought you were talking about the grocery store Jungle Jim's in Ohio. No, but I do

Now.

I know this might shock people, but I don't care.

I don't care what Costco's politics aren't. I don't care. Doesn't make a difference to me because you know, when I walk in those beautiful stores at Costco to giant deals of massive packs of toilet paper and other things, no one asked me for my voter identification, and no one makes me feel unwelcome because I'm not a progressive liberal. So I don't care that Costco is not stopping its DEI programs. No, but I am mad at Costco for

Hi.

No, oh god, that would be awesome. But I understand my limitations, right, I mean, I get it. I get it one hundred percent. Handy. I like this topic. Let's just talk about food, no, because it's making me hungry. The good burger place that made smash burgers were Lark Burger. They left my ear. I think Lark Burger went out of business, but that's not the one I'm thinking of. It was five guys.

Maybe it was just smash Burger that I'm thinking of.

I have no idea.

We know we can't talk about that.

We're going to talk about who knocked Joe Rogan out of the number one podcast spot. And I was super excited about this, not because I have any will towards Joe Rogan, but when you hear who it is, you know we'll see right after this. Keep it on, ka. I've spent so much time on the show in the past few years talking about the cultural rot that we are in in our society and how we as individual humans have to do.

A better job at making a better world.

It sounds so cliche, right, I mean, like we're all going to sit around and sing kumbaye yeah, and everything's going to be fine and for a long time. And you know this, if you've listened to the program. I've attributed this to the lack of God in our society, and I believe you can be a good person to be an atheist one hundred percent.

I don't believe that you have to be a person of faith in order.

To be a good person. But that being said, we have far too many people in our society who are just flailing through life. They're just they have no direction, they have no purpose, their life has no meaning.

And I think it manifests.

Itself in an overly nasty society because we see people doing things and maybe it is the rise of cell phone cameras that make it so. Wherever you are in any situation, when you are at your worst, you're guaranteed that somebody is going to be there to film it. Not to help you, mind you, but film it. But listen to this. This is from Fox News, the number one podcast in the world to start off the new year. Doesn't belong to Joe Rogan, it doesn't belong to Alex Cooper,

She died holding that rosary.

And I realized later, much much later, because there were times in Catholic school when you had to say the rosary and it takes forever because each bead is a different prayer and there's a reason that you're doing it. And never bothered to learn any of that, but really what praying the Rosary is is it is a form of meditation where you can concentrate on that relationship with God. And the Rosary in a Year is an explanation of what the rosary is because it can be really, as

Like old school.

You know, there's another podcast that is really outstanding called Bible in a Year. I haven't listened to the whole thing. It's on my list of things to do. Listen to that once today. It's very very good. It's like the best way to dip your toe into learning about the Bible. And these podcasts are being listened to people who may or may not have ever grown up with any kind of faith, any kind of faith foundation.

Maybe we're on the upswing, you guys. I hate to be cautious.

I mean, I'd love to be cautiously optimistic, but I have been Charlie Brown, and the world has pulled the football out in front of me far too often for me to think that, oh, yeah, everything's gonna be fine now. But it's nice that people are searching. It's nice that people are looking into that, and I hope that they have continued success about that. Now, I got a couple of things on the blog that I want to direct

With Justin Trudeau and.

Justin Trudeau did things that are either exactly the same or very close to what democrats want to do in Colorado. Hear me out.

He absolutely Let me pull this up one second.

Canada has long welcomed to immigrants, he says, Yet for the first time in twenty five years, the majority of Canadians now say immigration levels are too high. The one point one million new immigrants who came into the country in twenty twenty two alone drove unprecedented competition for jobs. We're seeing some of the highest youth unemployments since twenty twelve in a matter of a year and a half. And when you get to crime, violent crime in Canada

To steal the money that the truckers had.

Collected, freezing their credit cards, breaking their access to their banks. In twenty twenty four, Canadian judge ruled that Trudeau's actions were deeply unconstitutional. And then, don't even get me started on censorship. Trudeau's government has cracked down on what news Canadians are allowed to consume.

Canada's Online News.

Act was sold as a way to make social media companies pay news organizations when linking to their content, but in reality it wound up preventing The Free Press's own reporter in Ottawa from sharing her own work for the publication she works for on social media. And then we've got assisted suicide. Here's a statistic about this. I'll let you read the rest in the column. In twenty twenty three.

Year olds was drug overdoses. Trio doesn't pay attention.

He continues to push to expand these failed harm reduction strategies across the country. By the way, British Columbia is now leaning into involuntary care facilities for drug addicts. Huh, I wonder why that is. And then let's not even talk about the anti semitism in Canada. Before you know, I just the whole article is worth reading simply because Canada has already done so many of the things that

Of Air is having nothing, none of it. He's like, no, who said that? What are you talking about? And the whole time he's just eating an apple.

It's just a masterclass in not getting bogged down in the nonsense. This is one of the lessons that I would love for Donald Trump to learn. Don't get distracted by the nonsense. You know, if you know you have Donald Trump on the ropes, all you have to do is insult his manhood, insult his crowd sizes, insult his rallies, whatever. And most of the time. He's gonna follow you right down that path. I mean, you know that's big, my big, This guy nothing. He is unflappable. There are no flaps

Oh in the butt? No, bite them in the butt.

Not Biden. No, I didn't say Biden in the butt. I said bite them. I just enunciated poorly. Texter he Mandy Jordan Peterson's recent interview with Canadian oppositionator Pierre poulaver Is Toliev Polyiev. Gotta figure that out. We'll tell you a lot of the damage Trudeau did. Even the Socialist Party in Canada said he was farther left than them. Well, they're just trying to get the stink off now. Mandy explains why most of the famous performers from Canada live

I'm on my third year. Good to know, Mandy never came back from the blackface scandal?

Are you kidding me? The blackface scandal came and went in like three weeks. That was You realize that was like eight or nine years ago, right, that that all happened. He's been caught in blackface like three times. But it's charming when he does it. It's just, you know, grossly racist when everyone else does it but him, you know. Anyway, Mandy, well you and rossby doing another wine and meet and greet. We had so much fun seeing you at Southlands. By

Now just listen for a second.

Hey, everyone, I want to talk about something important today, because it's time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram. I started building social media to give people a voice. I gave a speech at Georgetown five years ago about the importance of protecting free expression and I still believe this today. But a lot has happened over the last several years. There's been widespread debate about potential harms from online content. Governments and

Okay, I'm going to stop him there, because.

I have no idea if this is genuine or if he's just sucking up to Donald Trump because he didn't like getting pulled through the wringer in the you know, by members of Congress. I don't know, but I'm gonna lean in and just believe him that this is how he thinks things should go on Facebook. But I'll believe it when I see it. Although I don't have any

Let's start with that.

My Facebook feed when I do go to Facebook is like, have people you should follow that I don't care about? A quarter ads, and then a quarter of people I actually.

Know and stuff really old like hey Mary Christmas. Yeah, three weeks later, I.

Don't know what they're doing.

Win.

I mean, I I I just I don't. I'm not going to pretend like I know it.

Last year I read through the Bible using the Bible Project, and this year I started the Bible Recap.

Very good, very very good.

I think I'm gonna I committed to like I already subscribed to Bible in a year. I just haven't done it yet. So I'll get right on that, all right. Uh, we got Rob Dawson ready to play today. Hey, Hey, Rob, what song did you sing at karaoke Uh July.

Or didn't do it? Yeah?

Forgotten you?

No the one Milwaukee until Stranger O stranger.

That I almost said that yesterday, but then I was like, no, that's not it, that's not the one.

Hey, good guys said that was one of his favorites. You sing with fred uh the Jimmy Buffett.

Yes, yes, that's a good one too, That's a good one. And no, I didn't sing you, guys, I didn't. I didn't, says my voices. Not no, my voice will not allow that anymore. Mandy fun fact, Canada's national bird is the loon. That's fantastic, absolutely fantastic. All Right, now it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio of its.

Kind in the world.

Of the.

All right, what is our what is our?

What is our?

Dad?

Joke of the day?

Please?

Which celebrity is always ready for cereal?

Voice? Celebrity is always ready for real?

I don't know, I'm thinking like a bowl. I don't know who with her spoon? Oh wow, I did not see that coming.

Wow.

Yes, anyway, the.

Day please verb okay, belieguer.

Uh tough to understand or or worry or.

Is it like pushing the point like like being.

Too beliegue her is to cause a person or business constant or repeated trouble. Belie ye yes.

Speaking of besieges, what revolutionary artist painted the famous less did? I don't know.

I want to get another question.

What was the answer to that one? Whatever it was, was that right? Michael Angelo? U?

No Picasso? A young male horse is called a cult? What is a young female horse called?

I know that one?

Ah?

What's it? Start with an f uh? No clue?

It's a It's a Philly and I know that because the Oaks Day is the Phillies Day at the.

Races at the Kentucky get excited if Philly wins and the Kentucky.

Can you make a cheese steak out of a Philly?

I mean, I guess you could.

Didn't the Philly? Can it Philly run in the Kentucky Derby?

And I don't think so.

I thought it was three year old? No, I think there were three year olds.

I thought it was like on a Casarean stam of the horses or something.

With the I don't know. We'll find out, though, I'll let you know tomorrow. What is our Jeopardy category button?

It button it, Rob, you have an advantage. He is on zoom.

That's not gonna work.

Here we go. Yours may be in any or an audi maybe what's a belly button? That was yours?

That was it?

That was the easy one.

I couldn't even think of what the.

Category was in gold button it, button it, So that was belly button in Goldfinger. James Bond had one of these seats in his car.

What is an eject button?

I'm do I give it to you now because I don't know? Because now I'm not because we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're not gonna make it as negative. But it was ejection seat. You said ejection a button.

But true.

So we're not going to give you the point or we're not going to give you anox injection.

See, here you go.

President Ford introduced a new economic program in October nineteen seventy four, with WIN buttons standing for whip this now.

What Mandy, what is inflation?

Okay? I know this animated on this animated TV show. George and Jane got button finger from pushing too many futuristic devices, Mandy, what is the jets? And finally, a type of shirt that is that symbolizes conformity, as in an eighteen.

What's a button down?

That's button down?

What button out? Collar?

No, it doesn't matter, button down shirt, he said, what kind of shirt?

I thought that would be a redundant.

Phillies have one. Thank you for the texters. Phillies can run in the derby.

All right, there we go.

I got that. That was good. You got one going for you right there. All right, guys, we'll be back tomorrow. We got weather Wednesday. We're going to find out when our next little burst of snow is coming spoiler alert Thursday.

And uh, I don't know what else. You're just gonna have to turn. Just just show on up and and see what happened.

And there's been a lot of NFL coach firings, and I got a good good news for you. KOA Sports coming up next to talk about all of that stuff. In the meantime, keep it right here on KOA