02-04-25 FULL SHOW - Canada, Mexico Capitulate To Trump's Demands

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people who made mistakes. Johnston supporters madd he's not fixing homelessness. This washbark shooter doesn't seem very stable. Democrats lose their minds over USA and El Paso. Democratic ad Vice chair urges violence. Jimmy Sangenberger beats the dead horse. Wikipedia bands conservative sources one of my guilty pleasure Internet things. Time to play for the Greeley Stampede, y'all, Buffy is coming back. The Fantastic Four is back. That time Robin Williams was

on Whose line is it anyway? And just like that the first transaction actress gets shoved aside is the Department of Education on the way out, pets doing dumb stuff people tweet about, and now British kids try American serial one more. AOC says Elon Musk is stupid. Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And yes indeed, my friends, Yes indeed. And I'm just gonna start the show by playing this snippet. Can I have

my audio please zact for my computer. I just want you to hear Representative Alexandria Acossio Cortes, who before getting elected to Congress was a bartender. Now there's nothing wrong with bartending. I paid my way through college as a bartender. But it's not like she had some great career doing important things before she got into Congress. But listen to what she has to say about Elon Musk.

or form unroll them. So using an AI program, this nineteen year old that she says is not intelligent enough to manage the federal government stuff that he's doing now, actually came up with a computer program that, using a CT scan of the scrolls, used an AI program that actually sort of digitally unrolled them so they could be read for the first time. And former bartender Alexandria Acossio Cortes is disparaging this young man's intelligence because he is

only nineteen. Kind of rich from someone who got into Congress when she was barely out of college. Just mearely, you guys, what's happening right now watching the left wing meltdown over USAAID. USAID is an organization that was supposed to fund programs in developing nations around the world to help them become more than a developing nation. Right in theory.

In theory, it sounds great, right, it sounds like, you know what, what if we went into these African countries and we set up clean water systems and we help people have access to a decent amount of medical care and things like that. USAID, if it was just doing that, nobody would talking about getting rid of it. But what they've done instead is become a basically a slush fund for mostly left wing causes, not all left wing causes,

but mostly left wing causes. And some of the stuff that our tech, my tax dollars, Zach's tax dollars went for is insane. I'm sure you've heard about the Peruvian trans comic book that we paid for, or the thirty nine thousand dollars we invested in an opera about gay people in some other country. I mean, the lists that we're starting to see of the things that they have

funded has gone well beyond anything that any American would go. Yeah, I think my money should go for that, But because it is a slush fund for left wing causes and left wing people. By the way USAID's budget, a vast majority of it is just salaries and entertainment, not a vast majority of about fifty five sixty percent. That was the last number I saw yesterday. We can absolutely do

without this organization with no problem. It's Zach, are you gonna be up to find out that we're not funding any more comic books for trans people?

I didn't. So, Uh, it's been it's been fascinating to see just how reliant on the federal government all of these left wingers are Now I've already known this, You've already known this, but the fact that so many people at the local level are freaking out about this, of all things, you guys, I just want to make sure

everybody in this listening audience understands. Inflation occurs because the Federal Reserve, in an effort to allow the federal government to keep barring way more money and spending way more money than they're bringing in, they just flood the market with new currency, and in doing so, they dilute the

value of your dollar. Right, I saw I had I actually I retweeted it on x Thomas Massey explaining the concept of dilution, and he took a glass of iced tea, and then he took a picture of water, and he poured the water into the half glass of iced tea and he said, look, you can now see it's diluted. When you add more money to the circulation of money, every dollar has less value. So we are seeing prices still twenty percent higher than they were a few years ago.

So we could pay for a comic book for trans people in Peru.

a drop in the bucket situation. You know what, one percent plus one percent plus one percent and pretty soon you're talking serious money. So don't give me the l It's so small. We should be worried about it. We should be worried about all of it. And the fact that there are a bunch of young guys who are some of the best programmers in the world who are trying to make the federal government more efficient and more effective.

I am down with it, Mark me down. And Alexandria A. Cassio Cortes has has a lot of cojones to talk about how they don't have enough experience. She's in freaking Congress, and she's an idiot talk about lack of experience for the job. But shit, doesn't this tell you everything you need to know about these organizations. Doesn't it tell you that we can absolutely live without it? Doesn't it tell you? And you, guys, we haven't begun to see the effect

of these sort of slash and burn tactics. I just saw on x that a thousand people at the EPA were told that they were being let go, But I don't know if that's fact or not. I just saw one tweet, and I don't know if that's accurate because the show started and I couldn't look it up. So all of these cuts, everything that's happening right now signals to the rest of the world that the United States of America is finally serious about spending and that here's

what happens after that. People look at our debt, the debt that we still have to buy because we've still got this massive budget deficit. We look at that, and all of a sudden, people investors say, well, maybe their debt is okay, maybe their treasury bonds are all right. And as soon as treasury brond yields dip, that means

mortgage rates dip. And I'm telling you right now, the housing market is primed for an explosion because everybody's sitting on the sidelines waiting for interest rates to go down. I'm just gonna say it again, if you are ready to buy a house, do not wait until interest rates go down, because it's gonna be a feeding frenzy out there and you're gonna end up getting into bidding wars for houses that you could have bought for seventy five thousand dollars less if you had just bought them. Now,

buy the house, marry the house, date the rate. It's an old adage, but it's very true. I fully believe that when these things happen, when the market starts to respond to the kind of cuts that we are seeing now, And granted they're insignificant in the total picture, but they are cuts. They're real, live government cuts, which is something I've never seen in my lifetime. Whenever they talk about quote,

cutting the budget, they don't cut the budget. They may cut the amount that the budget increases, they don't ever cut the budget. They never have a smaller number the next year than they had the year before. And all the politicians like to walk around and go, oh, we had to and we're seeing it in Colorado right now. Colorado is poor, mouthing everywhere right now. Oh, because of tabor, and because of this, we're gonna have to cut We're slashing the budget. We have to save six hundred and

eighty five million dollars. We don't know what we're gonna do. You know what? They in Colorado at least effectively dropped our oil and gas production thirty percent. That means the tax revenues from oil and gas, one of our most productive industries when it comes to tax revenue, is cut by thirty percent. Now you're gonna turn around, tell me it's my fault and I have to make it the difference. No thank you, no thank you. Are borrowing along with the inflation is a tax on the poor. It's a

tax on everyone. Inflation is the hidden tax. That's the reality. So when you see all of these people apoplectic about cutting aid for people around the world that none of us would think was worthy. And by the way, don't even get me started on the corruption. Okay, there is a woman on x and I've got to find her page really quickly because I want to give you her name. I just started following her and all she does is crunch spreadsheets and go through all of these pseudo government organizations.

It's called data Republican, meaning data data Republican all one word, and all she does is crunch the numbers of federal government spending. I just saw one about grants to night Roby that went through right before Biden left office. Do we even know where that money is going? No offense is to the African continent. But if you want to see where they're as a general rule has so much corruption in it and we're just shoveling money at them.

I did see a very interesting response video on x as well from a young African woman who said, you guys say you want to break the shackles of colonialism, then why are you freaking out when the white man isn't giving us more money? And I was like, that's kind of a good point there, young lady. She pointed out that the money rarely goes to the services that

it's promised to. It gets caught up in the bureaucracy and the corruption and skimmed off the top, and it never actually gets to the people that it's supposed to get to. And do you think the USAID organization is checking that? No? No, Once they give the money away, it's gone because they get to be Santa Claus. I mean, wouldn't you love a job where your job was to give away money? Sign me up. Oh wait, even better, I'm giving away somebody else's money. Heck yeah, I'm in

one hundred percent. So it is Uh, it is just fascinating to watch everybody lose their minds. I guess a bunch of Democrats showed up at the USAID office, where they are not allowed to be because they were told to stay out of the office, and decided to storm the building. I've got it now. Yeah, they broke into the building without permission. Yeah, they're breaking in It looks

very insurrection y, extremely insurrectiony. I sure hope these people get two to five years in jail for breaking into a building that they didn't have permission to be in. Super insurrection me. I mean, I understand people fighting for their jobs, I get it. But if I were a federal employee working with one of these agencies, I'd already be looking for another job because if it doesn't happen today,

it's gonna happen and they're gonna starve you to death. Now, one thing I will say, the Republicans in the House of Representatives better get moving because all of this stuff that Trump is doing, if it's not codified into law, it will all be undone in the next you know, a non Republican presidential cycle, all of it. And so Congress has a lot of work to do, and Congress has a lot of things to get working on. It's going to be challenging to get some of them done.

There's some scuttle butt on the street because you know, I love scuttle butt. Scuttle butt on the street about Trump having an executive order that would require the Department of Education head who has not been confirmed yet. He has nominated Linda McMahon and she has not had a confirmation hearing. He is going to order her to come up with a plan to unwind the Department of Education entirely. Everything of value in the Department of Education can be

moved to another department. But most of what the Department of Education has done is oversee a massive collapse of our educational system throughout the country where our kids cannot read on grade level, like we're in a third world country. You know, Back when I was a kid in the seventies, we used to have these reports because there was a whole plan called RIFF Reading is Fundamental? Was that gone before you were a kid, Zach, you've ever heard of

rith The Reading is Fundamental? So that was the seventies, and we used to get these reports from around the world and you get a report and I'm not even kidding. One of them was like Bolivia. In Bolivia, only twenty percent of Bolivian's are literate. And I don't know if that stat is exactly correct, but it was, you know, it was along those and we would all be like, oh, oh my gosh, that's terrible. Now we are giving Bolivia

a run for its money. We're graduating kids from high school that don't even have a basic level of reading comprehension. And that, my friends, is what the Department of Education is overseen. Has there ever been a bigger failure of a department than the Department of Education? I don't think so. So all of this, I get up every morning and I sit down at the computer and I'm like, Okay, Trump, what you do now? And not in a bad way. I'm just saying, what do I have to wrap my

head around before noon? Because everything is happening so fast. I'm actually okay with it when we get back. First of all, we have a big day to day. We've got Thomas Frye coming up. He is our futurist. I want you to go to our website though, before Thomas comes on, and check out his two videos. One of them is about the founders of Silicon Valley, Super interesting run the way. I didn't know anything about it at all until I watch this video, and then one about

whether robots have the right to defend themselves. But what you're watching in this video is Thomas himself or should I say Thomas not himself. I'll explain when Thomas comes on at one o'clock. When we get back. I have an update from the swastika Windows situation. I got a message back, Zach from the property manager. I will give you an update on that, but it's not gonna be as easy as you think it's going to be. We'll talk about that after this. EPA tells one thousand employees

that they may or may not be retained. They may be subject to immediate firing. That email was sent by EPA Mission support official Kimberly Patrick. Notifies impacted employees that they are likely on a probationary or trial period. As a probationary trial period employee, the agency has the right

to immediately terminate you. There are fifteen thousand employees in the EPA, and the EPA folks are screaming already, or at least the union leadership is screaming already, and they're basically saying, if you fire these people, we're all going to drink out of lead filled pipes and things of that nature. See. The problem with that argument is that is a legitimate function of the EPA, right to monitor drinking water, legitimate function, and yet they failed at it

over and over and over again. And in the meantime, they have over extended their own power so far that they want to come and have say over the puddles that form in your yard. Thankfully that was overturned by the courts, but they have overreached. And this is what all of this is about. I want to read this text message, and I promise I'm gonna give you an update on the Swaska thing. But I got a really

good text that I want to respond to. It says Mandy, I don't have a problem with getting rid of USA, the Department of Education, etc. I'm good with cutting most of the federal budgetment, However, what is your take on how it's being done? Seems like a reach for executive branch to go about it in the way they are authoritarian, which I don't want either side to have this much power.

This would have been better if they simply did their assessments of the spending now and then tell Congress what bill Trump would be willing to sign, and if they don't listen, he just vetos the spending bill. Would like your analysis on this things. How has that worked out

in prior years? And I'm being genuine because I've been alive for fifty five years, and since Ronald Reagan took over in the nineteen eighties, after the period of terrible inflation and gas price and just a real mess of an economy, the debt has been growing at a very quick rate. Well, it really started when Richard Nixon took us off the gold standard, because then once we have fiat currency, we can say it's worth whatever we want, right, so we can spend s Ben's Ben's men's spend and

not have to worry about that pesky gold standard. There

was really raining us in before that. So since then the debt has exploded, and I've heard Republicans, I've heard them talking for years about we're really going to go at it nuke Kingrich had a little bit of success with Bill Clinton with a Republican Congress where they managed to balance the budget in seven years, and then what happened right after that, We went right back to the drunken monkey spending because the size of government is so

large that it's just going to continue feeding itself. One thing I think Donald Trump learned last time is that government per normal is ineffective for what he's trying to do. Now. I've said over and over again, all of this stuff can be undone in the next administration very easily. And the real kicker here about Trump and everybody on the left saying things like he doesn't have the power to

do this. Congress over the last forty years has abdicated more or abdicated more and more of their responsibilities to the president. They've given the president's much more power, mostly when the Democratic presidents were in power. Well, guess what, you don't get to pick all the time who's president. And guess what, Now there's a guy you don't like wielding all of that power that Congress ceded to the office of the President of the United States, and he's

damn sure going to use it. I think that he looked at the landscape of DC and how business is done, and decided that the best play was shock and awe to do as much as he could and then see what sticks, see what Congress has the stones to get passed. So I wish there was another way. I wish, like you, that we could have had a slow and normal conversation like you know you have about your budget at home. I wish we could have done all of that. I

wish we could have been doing that all along. But unfortunately, the members of Congress are so invested in making sure that their districts get the gravy and that their donors get paybacks that there's no real will in Congress to reign and spending. And the only way to do it significantly is to slash and burn the size of government, and that's what Trump is doing.

us eight as they're hill to die on. That's out of everything that's been passed, out of every executive order that's gone down, that's the one they're the most salty about. Doesn't that strike you as odd? Struck me as odd? So yeah, I like you text her. I wish there was a better way to do it, but I don't see one, So we shall see, Mandy. Ideally the results will be indisputable, so it won't all get undone, Mandy. Executive orders now, then have Congress codify it. That's what

has to happen. All of this, and I'll call an executive order. It's like a pie crest promise, easily made, easily broken. That's what executive orders are. They're four years. They have a four year shelf life, or if they pass them in the middle of their administry, you know what I'm saying, they have an end date. So yeah, Mandy, you really think Trump is behind any of this. You give him way too much credit. He just wants the office, so it's fine he lied about Project twenty twenty five.

You text her are about as bright as Alexandria Cossio Cortez right now, because Alexandria Cossio Cortez calling Elon Musk the most unintelligent billionaire she's ever seen is patently absurd. When you look at the track record, and I think people like you, Texter, you underestimate how smart Donald Trump is. He did not become Donald Trump by not being incredibly smart, being able to read the room, and I think that a lot of these things he has.

and that would be fine. But to say he's not bright enough to drive these policies directives forward, you're doing yourself a disservice, and it just goes to show that. And I don't know if this person who's texting as a Democrat, I don't know, but this is what Democrats say about every Republican who's beating them.

patently absurd. I mean, come on, the guy has started how many companies that have been literally game changing for the world. But whatever, AOC, I'm sure you're right. Okay, let me get into this Swasta windows story that we talked about yesterday. So there's a building at Congress Park.

It's at Colfax and Josephine, And if few weeks ago there was a news story because so many a tenant had put a swastika in one of the windows in the upstairs apartment, and someone throw a rock through the window and before he can even fix that window, Homewood puts a swastika up in a window right next to it. Now, yesterday we were talking about this and I asked a very simple question. I was like, who owns the window, because seems to me that they would be able to

do something about it. Well, excellent producer Zach got onto it. He found the property manager. He reached out to them yesterday. They emailed me a response this morning, and I'll tell you what they said when I get back. Talking about the building in Congress Park where someone put a swastika looks like it's made out of tape on one of the windows upstairs, Well, the neighbors did not take too kindly to that. And lo and behold, somebody bust to maicate it said window with a rock or a brick

or something. Window remains broken, covered up with a plywood board, and uh, Saint Tenant's throws up another swastika on one of the windows. So I had Zach trucked down the property manager of the building, and this is what they had to say. We are aware of a resident displaying a hateful symbol in their window, which violates our least agreement. This symbol is unacceptable and has no place in our community. We are working with law enforcement to address this situation

and remove the resident from the property. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination or hate speech. We are doing all we can legally to address this matter and appreciate your patience and understanding during this time. So the problem here, and I've reached out to a law firm that handles addctions in Colorado. Them here as I see it is that it is exceedingly hard to evict someone for being an a hole. I mean, Colorado's made it really challenging. So we're going to try and get this

law firm on tomorrow to get more information. But if you live in that neighborhood, the property manager is ware and they are trying to take care of it, but of course they have to work through the Colorado eviction process, which can take up to six months. So yeah, that's the fun of being a landlord. Your renter can just stop paying and it takes forever to get them out, forever in a day to get them out. So that

is the latest on that. But you know, here's the thing, Like what somebody emailed me and said, look on Reddit or next door. I can't remember which one. Somebody said, this guy is crazy. He's like I want to be Nazi. Uh you know, and he's nuts. But when you rent you you better like check yourself. Zach, you're still in the renter phase of life. I'm guessing right, you're a young man. Yes, let me give you a little piece of advice.

do everything you can to stay there. Be the best tenant ever. We relandscaped a house one time because our landlords were so good. We're like, you know, this kind of looks like crap. Would you mind if we fixed it up? We fixed up the whole front of the house. We'd stay there for like three years. It was great. If you have a good landlord, that's where you want to stay, because there's nothing worse than a bad landlord. And I've had those who, Boy have I had those

in various areas over my lifetime. Mandy, good for ross involved responding and promising action. That's the property manager. But are they afraid to name the offense and say the word swastika in their statement? I, you know, I don't think. I wouldn't read too much into that. I really won't, Mandy. I wonder if they can have a trans flag in the window. That flag represents the mutilation of children, not

to everyone. And by the way, lots of trans people are adults, and I want to be clear because there's some stuff happening right now where I'm getting increasingly uncomfortable for adult trans people. If you turn eighteen and you want to, you know, have thirty five plastic surgeries to look like a lizard, that is entirely your choice as an adult. I support you in that freedom. I think those are all dumb decisions, but I support you in the freedom to make bad decisions.

perfect tenant, Just great. But if I decide to a victim, I have to pay into a fund so he can tap into that fund to pay for his defense. So now I have to pay for both sides of an eviction. I mean, you guys, what the hell, what the absolute hell? Anyway, Mandy, don't let bad renters know it can take six months to a victim. Oh, trust me, they know one hundred

trust me, they absolutely know that. When we get back our futureist, Thomas Frye joins us, and I want you to take a second in the next break, if you have it already, to go to mandy'sblog dot com and right at the front top of the video there are two videos at the top of the blog. There're Thomas Frye videos. I want you to just start them and then look at Thomas Frye, because that's not really Thomas Frye. It's an ar avatar that just happens to look exactly

like Thomas Frye. Like, I'm thinking about, how could I make this avatar situation work for me so I could just do less at my job. I'm just kidding. I'm never gonna do less. Maybe the guys a Native American, the swastaka has a lot of differ meanings. The swaska in the Native American culture is reversed. This is not that swastika. And if it was a symbol of peace, why would you put up another one when someone broke your window for the first one. That's not very peaceful.

I like your willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. But yeah, no, no, we'll be right back with Thomas Frye, said Mandy, just letting you know. The deficit is thirty three to thirty six trillion. No, that's the national debt. The deficit is what we overspend every year, and in twenty twenty four we overspent one point eight trillion dollars. Currently, as of this moment, our national our deficit for this year is eight hundred and thirty six

billion dollars. So I mean that's progress, I guess. But the debt is the total number. The deficit is the annual number. So that is where that I just want to clear up in confusion there. And speaking of confusion, if you go to the blog today and you look at either of the extremely interesting videos that my friend Thomas fry put together, you may be confused thinking you're seeing the man in those videos. But it is not

the man. It is an avatar of Thomas Frye. And now the real Thomas fry or is it Are you the real Thomas Frye? Am I just talking to an avatar? I can't tell. Thomas. Welcome back to the show.

to tell how you. I mean, you have to be pleased with the way it came out.

asking for, they could create entire masterpieces. I mean, I feel like we'really a few years away before our first AI movie becomes a thing, right, I mean pure AI movie where Thomas Frye is starring in this movie with Mandy Connell, and they'll have us in all these action scenes and stuff.

this technology? Now, are you aware, like you mentioned before, it's using for training and stuff like that. Are you aware of people using it for other purposes that maybe seem off the beaten path.

reaching without putting in as much work? Because how long does this kind of video take you versus filming yourself, editing yourself, all of that stuff.

for an avatar that looks pretty dang good. So well played, by the way, wording to the Internet, Synthesia is the best best site for AI avatar digital editing. So you are you're starting at the top and going from there, Amandy, this textter said, do you think I would be able to loan my avatar for a movie and get paid for it? That was one of the things that they were trying to sort out in this last Hollywood contract situation. So I don't know the answer to it. I don't

know the answer to that at all. We shall see.

I were a computer chip. So obviously it was the role I was meant to play. Thomas rye uh. One more question. Did you hear about the AI mayor who ran in Cheyenne, Wyoming? Did you hear about this? I did not hear about this.

Like what I mean? Because here's the thing. I would do more social media video, but I just don't like being on camera. I don't like having to film myself because the lighting sucks and I look, you know, my age, which is never good. So if I got an AI avatar and I could just upload AI Mandy stuff, do you think people would think that was cool or dorky or both. By the way, I'd like to think my one cameo client that I got before the Holidays, I wish a gentleman. I'm Mary Christmas on my cameo feed,

so I am officially a paid cameo artist. If you'd like me to, I wish you a just go to camp and look at Mandy Connell. Mandy, it's reassuring that a dog can get elected as mayor, but an AI can't. Technically, technically, he wasn't actually an AI mayor. That would be like Max Headroom running for mayor. Now, Zach, did you even get my Max Headroom reference? Do you even know who Max Headroom is?

number every single year that we're gonna deal with. Here's what I think will happen if you can get spending under control. If you can significantly reduce the amount of money that's fed has pumped into the economy, then then you can start to see deficits come down. But it's going to be a long haul before anything happens with our national debt. And by the way, I don't mean to be a negative Nelly. I currently have zero confidence in US not coming to a debt crisis at some point.

Zero zero confidence because every massive empire before us has done the exact same thing that we are doing right now, and none of them have been able to avoid the negative repercussions, none of them. Mandy, your AI avatar should chug a bottle of wine after every news story. You know, I don't wanna. I don't wanna. I decided a long time ago that I would never endorse alcohol products because alcohol is very destructive to so many people's lives. So yeah,

they won't. Maybe chug some nice fizzy water with a giant bilch at the end of it. Hey, Mandy, I don't know if your avatar would be dorky or not, but it would be not real. I should have missus roper as my avatar says this to No, It's got to be me it's gotta be me. If you keep saying aar avatar, the Colorado Dems will make sure it gets banned. Okay, that's funny, very very funny. AI avatar a I avatar. So we'll see. Maybe I'll make myself an avatar. That seems like a lot of work. Mandy

Vanity over fifty is the first sign of sinility. Aged with grace sixty five toll toils listener, I don't believe in aging with grace. I think aging with grace reminds me of old ladies and moo moos with their hairs in a bun. At my age, when I was a kid, fifty five year old women in my hometown all had gray hair, and they all wore it up in the same bun, and they all had sensible shoes in flax. No, Nah, I'm not going out without a fight. I'm just not. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not rushing to

have plastic surgery or anything like that. But a lot of the stuff I do at downtowns or redn Revolution has to do with keeping my face looking good. Seriously, when you're in the media, it all feels a little bit different. Trust me, Trust me on that. Okay, we're gonna take a quick time out. When we get back. We got to talk about Canada's capitulation and Donald Trump using tariffs as a bludgeon. We'll do that next. Holy macaroni, what has happened with tariffs? We've got tariffs threatened and

everyone fightd out. Did you guys see on Sunday the markets were all like, oh my god, all the futures were way down. It was a disaster. But then my Monday morning, when Mexico was like, oh yeah, we're gonna work with you, the markets were like, eh, eh, it's fine. That being said, I want to share with you what was posted by lame duck Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. You know, I'm not gonna get tired of saying those words lame duck Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. This is what he posted

on his X feed. I just had a good call with President Trump. Canada is implementing our one point three billion dollar border plan, reinforcing the border with new shoppers, technology and personnel, enhance coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of Fentinel Nearly ten thousand frontline PEP personnel are and we'll be working on protecting the border. In addition, Canada is making new commitments

to a point a fentanyl zar. We will list cartels as terrorists, ensure twenty four to seven eyes on the border, launch a Canada US Joint Strike Task Force to combat organize crime, fentanyl and money laundering. I have also signed a new intelligence directive on organized crime and fentanel and we will be backing it with two hundred million dollars. Proposed tariffs will be paused for at least thirty days while we work together. That is what's known as a capitulation.

That is what's known as justin Trudeau recognizing that he had way more to lose than the United States does. And don't get me wrong, I love Canada. It's I mean, I've been to all of the provinces in Canada at this point in my life, all of them, and it's a beautiful country that people are lovely. The leadership is awful, absolutely awful. But that being said, I don't want to punish the Canadians just like I don't want to punish Americans. Uh does that? Get ready to vamp for a minute.

first one. And when we're out in public and he sneezes, in inevitably somebody says God bless you. I'm like, oh, just wait, just wait till the end of the sneeze parade that is about to happen. But lately I've been doing the multiple sneeze thing too. I don't know what's up with that. In any case, let's review. Mexico has already announced they're sending ten thousand troops to the border.

They are also going to be working closely with the US government to keep both people who are trying to migrate and cross the border illegally out of the United States and also aggressively combat drug trafficking over the border. At the same time, they have asked the US to work on making sure our guns don't end up in the hands of a cartel as well. I mean, aside from Eric holders, you know, giving them guns during Operation Fast and Furious. Oh wait, was that hurricane crossfire? I

can't remember the name. I think it was a hurricane crossfire where we gave a bunch of guns to cartels to see what would happen. Hey, news slash they use them to kill people, super smart. That was awesome. Another big hit by the federal government. I am now back to giving Trump more latitude completely because I believe that these tariffs are all about leverage. They are all about bludgeoning. They are all about the threats of force in order to extract an outcome that you would like to see.

And all of these people on the left, all the people on the text lines talking about how you know Donald Trump's you really think he's doing any of this now? Just because we came through four years of a pet rock president doesn't mean that we have one.

find it anymore, they don't have to reuse needles. Bless their hearts, So we are no longer. We're not gonna have unfettered drug paraphernalia. We're not going to have that. We're still going to have drug paraphernalia give out locations, but they're not going to be everywhere. And for all of the people on the Denver City Council who voted knowing that in the first place, the reason they didn't try to override the veto is they didn't have the votes, but they just decided to just let it ride. And

I'm fine with that now. I also have a story on the blog today about Mayor Johnston. You guys, I'm kind of feeling sorry for him right now, not completely, but he volunteered to take on this incredibly difficult job, ran hard for it on a platform of distributing homeless people throughout the city. So we's got to feel kind of shocked when people take to the news media to

complain that there are homeless people throughout the city. Case in point, there is a story today on Denver seven and the headline, I'll just read the headline to you, Denver leaders respond to businesses, neighbors along South Broadway fed up with homeless uptick. Let may we do this one

little part from the story. It's pretty dismaying sometimes that we have really rallied and been very open and transparent about what it is that we need, the support that we need, and still maintaining a very clear agenda of sympathy. We really are empathetic people and we want to help, but we also want to feel safe. So I don't understand where the disconnect is. She continued, I know Mike Johnston. Mike's been in my house for dinner, and I would tell Mike that he has not cleaned up our streets.

It has not gotten better, and we need to do better. Okay, let me break this down, let me unpack this. As they say, it's one of my least favorite jargon phrases. That's out right now, let's unpack this. Let's not because I didn't pack it in there, I'm not unpacking it. Okay,

this is another example. We've had multiple examples of people who first of all, want to let you know that even as they are sick to death of drug addicts crapping literally on the doorstep of their business, they also want you to know that they have compassion and empathy and that they want to compassionately lose these people somewhere else. Their compassion ends with the poop in the in the doorstep of their business. When when are they going to

make a different choice. When are they going to elect a different person or party that promises to actually get tough on crime, that actually says we're going to prosecute all of these crimes. My guess is never, Because it's so important to them to be seen as empathetic that they're really not that invested in solving the problem, which is going to require tough love and a lot of it.

But is that empathetic? I don't know, and I certainly don't know if she thinks it thinks it's empathetic, but I'm sure you know, well, I'll tell you about it in the next segment. I want to give kudos to a member of the Colorado Legislature that politically I think

is wrong on pretty much everything. Could not be more diametrically opposed to me politically, ever, But there is something that happened in the in the capital the other day that I think is important and I hope this member of the Colorado Legislature keeps moving forward in this one way. And I'll tell you all about that next positive vibes. That's the best I'm gonna do. And congratulations to a member of the Colorado Legislature that I generally think is

wrong about literally every single thing she does. However, Senator Faith Winters has had.

past behavior. And I think this is something that, first of all, I've known enough people going through the program, as they call it, that making amends is a very important part, and part of making amends is admitting what you've done right, and admitting what you've done on the floor of the Colorado Senate and making a public statement like this must have been very difficult for her, but I commend her for making her ongoing journey of sobriety

a public issue of discussion, because I think that there's a lot of people out there who think, because of their job or whatever they have going on, that now is not the time to go to rehab. And I can't take the break for my job. You guys, there's a million reasons not to get sober if you have an alcohol or drug problem, but none of them are valid in the grand scheme of your life. None of them matter. And I'm just going to use this as

an example. The Great Rush Limbaugh, after becoming addicted to painkillers after a back surgery, admitted on the radio he was an addict and went to rehab for six weeks. And for six weeks, I, along with many of you, listened to fill in hosts, some that were good, some that were not good. Well, he went and took care of that problem, and what's interesting is yours. Truly. I

had to take an entire month off work. It was the longest time that I had off work since I was fourteen years old after I had vocal cord surgery. And it was not something that I could not do. It wasn't an option. And for me, having her stand up and take this take responsibility for her choices is

a very positive thing. And though I'm probably going to continue to think she's wrong about every single thing that she wants to do politically, I wish her very much continued success in her journey of sobriety, and I hope that she as long as her as long as her constituency wants her in that position, or she's not termin limited out, she can continue to serve her district. And just wanted to let you know, Mandy, did you take a COVID test? I didn't hear and wonder no. I forgot.

I was so tired yesterday and so somebody else sent me a text message yesterday that said, you know, one of the biggest symptoms of my leukemia was exhaustion that never went away. I'm like, okay, let's slow that roll. Okay. I don't think I have leukemia. I think I have some kind of bug. No, I forgot, and today I feel fine, and I took the dog for a walk and everything this morning. So I don't know what it's like. A little eh, it was a bug. It was a bug, Mandy.

My boss sneezed in threes. Coworker sneezed like a horse naehing, and another coworker always sneezed at three decibels. Me I seize one set one hundred and forty decibels, and my chest always hurts after.

seize over your bless you. I'm like Oprah given out cars, only I'm given out blessings because they can't afford cars. I once had a friend and this is how she sneezes. I'm not even exaggerating. It sounds exactly like this, so much so that with the first time she sneezed, I was like, what what was that? She it was a sneeze. I'm like, no, no, that's not how anyone in the world sneezes. She snees like this, and this is exactly what it sounded like. Tee two, tee two, tee two.

I'm not kidding. And I was like, how does anything move?

Rod later in the hour. He is going to join us from New Orleans. He asked Travis Kelcey a great question, and I loved Travis Kelcey's answer, y'all. I just I think Travis and Taylor are going to go the distance. And that's the much does I care about that? Also, guests, who has an agent?

get it all out. President Biden is one of America's most respected and influential voices in national and global affairs. His lifelong commitment to public service is of unity, optimism, dignity, and possibility. We are profoundly honored to partner with him again. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not sure what they're going to be trying, you know, getting him to do. I mean, obviously, whatever he does is going to have to do it between ten am

and four pm, right when he's actually functioning. So yeah, wow, yeah, So, I mean, if you want to hire the president a former president, he's available. By the way, the same agency reps Barack and Michelle's Obama's Higher Ground productions, as well as Joe Manson, Susan Rice, Beto O'Rourkes. Wow, whatever happened to Beto O'Rourke. Dude lost like four elections in a row and he just fell off the map. Didn't he fake? Hispanic?

a little window into the world of former Mandy. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is very close to getting a reboot done, and I am so excited. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the show that I watched every episode start to finish. As soon as they made the DVD set available, I bought it. I loved that show. It was perfect for that moment in time. It was, of course ridiculous because you have a teenage girl who's fighting demons and monsters and vampires and everything else until she falls in love

with a torture vampire and angel. It was just such a good show. It was like half soap opera, half fighting monsters. So how could you not love that. As a matter of fact, Supernatural has totally just stolen that whole gig, right, the show Supernatural, same thing they stole it from Buffy. For years, people have been asking Sarah

Michelle Geller as she would consider a reprise of Buffy. Now, obviously, she's like forty seven I think she's in her late forties, so she will not be playing the fresh faced slayer. And that was the genius of Buffy the Vampire Slayer because part of the story was that you could have more than one slayer, right, you could have multiple teenage slayers, and that was kind of a great way of perhaps

spinning off whatever. But she will pay a character who will become a regular sort of back and forth, but maybe not in all the time. Described as the next chapter in the Buffy Verse. The new incarnation is executive produced by gellerw and it's all female because the other part about Buffy the Vampire Slayer that was so ugly is that the creator, Joss Whedon, was accused of creating a hostile environment on the set by many women who worked in that cast. Many He is in no way

connected to this. Here's something I didn't know though. Executive producing the pilot is Dolly Parton, whose company sand Dollar was a producer on the original. I'm super excited about this, and it just got me to thinking, what show that you loved in the past would you like to see comeback in some form or fashion, assuming they're not going to ruin it and that's altogether possible. They could totally ruin it, and that would make me incredibly sad.

excited about this. Mandy. You know the character will be a black trainny. I don't know that, but we'll see Mandy. At first, I was thinking of Christy Swanson instead of Sarah Michelle. Christy Swanson of course in the movie, and the movie was kind of schlocky and a little bit silly, but I loved it. But the character is so good Green Acres, Yo, we could make a Green Acres reboot. But who would play the role of Jejacques bor right now,

Sidney Sweeney? Okay, work with me, go with me right now? Okay, Sidney Sweeney is a fancy socialite who somehow falls in love with a farmer and moves to the country. Chaos and shenanigans in Sue. That would be fantastic tears if they didn't ruin it. I don't know, though, Cheers feels like a moment where that cast was so perfect. Buffy had a great cast like the Scooby Gang, and Buffy was so good. Some of them have gone on to

struggle mightily, some of them have done really well. But the Cheers, there was so much perfect chemistry in that cast. I don't know if they could redo that justified then they destroyed it. We got a new dog, the name she came with as Buffy. We kept it. We call her Buffy the Cushions Slayer. That's funny, Mandy. I'm watching the og Buffy series for the first time. I love it. I always wanted to watch it when I was in college before DVRs, so I always missed it. We need

Grim to come back. I love Grim. Grim was sort of in the same vein. Did you ever watch Grim, Zach, I'm familiar with it. He was fighting monsters and everything, but not as cool as Buffy was. Because Buffy wasn't just about fighting monsters or soap operas with vampires. It was also like all of these different sort of pop culture references throughout the entire show. And as a matter of fact, Texter that's watching it for the first time, how do those things up?

updated for today's time. Can you imagine you, guys? Instead of having Christina Applegate's character be like kind of the slutty girl of the family, she would be the uptight Jen Alpha who would be correcting everyone else for misgendering people and not using the right pronouns. It would be insufferable.

I mean, I don't see how that would fly. Not at this point, No way, Mandy. I heard they were going to reboot the Goonies. Don't mess it up. Do not mess it up.

it happened in the seventies. It would never, ever, ever, ever get made today, here's one. What about that show with the chick with the boobs that talks to ghosts? Unfortunately, I know you're talking about Jennifer love Hewitt, but I don't know the name of the show. That's before my time, and I was so lost. No, no, I mean Jennifer love Hewitt. In that timeframe, in the nineties, she was renowned for her rack among many of my male friends. I'm just gonna say it. I mean, I could be classy,

but they weren't. Anyway, Get Smart. I would love to see a reboot of Get Smart. I love that show. You know another show I loved when I was a kid, Wild Wild West and Wild Wild West. You've got to see. I'll see if I can find it and put it onto tomorrow's blog. Director Kevin Smith has a story about Wild Wild West, but it's more about Superman. He's a huge Superman fan. He got the chance to pitch a script for Superman and he had to go to this producer's house and it is literally one of the funniest

things I've ever seen in my life. But that movie was pretty terrible. But I loved Wild Wild West and Get Smart. I like anything with gadgets. That's one of the reasons I love Bond movies so much. It's gadget, you know. Anyway, let me see, Oh, I wanted to get one down here, and I don't know where it went. Northern Exposure. That was another great, great show, really great show.

Mandy Soap Soap was an interesting show. It was a soap opera, an evening soap opera that was meant to be a soap opera, but they also dealt with a lot of really serious issues. Fun fact, I think that's where Billy Crystal got his start, was on soap, but I don't remember exactly. And thank you to the Texters who corrected me. It was not Jajah Gabor in Green Acres. It was Ave a Good Bore her sister, So I

got that backwards. Um, Mandy in Green Acres. Lisa once said her two talents were speaking Hungarian and imitating Jajah Gabor. That was a great show. That would have been funny. Dukes of Hazard. Could you imagine any network putting a General Lee type vehicle on television with the big Confederate flag on the roof right now? Ah? Yeah, yeah. The Ghosts with Burr starred the chick with the boobs. There you go, there you go. Um, Joe Biden is mister magoo.

Stop it, stop it right now. The nineteen seventies had an entire catalog of shows you could never do today. Samson and Sons are definitely not happening. Sanford and Son, not Samson, Sandford and Son probably right. Tales of the Gold Monkey. Oh, I love that show. That was a total Indiana Jones ripoff. Who starred in that show? Look up Tales of the Gold Monkey. For me, it was good. It was like an adventure show. Totally again, a ripoff of Indiana Jones. But it was so good, so so good.

Uh Mandy, remember how if you don't fire your taxes on time you can get penalized. Shouldn't that apply? What's his name?

not really going to happen, Mandy. A reboot of my favorite Martian with today's special effects would be cool and the little Antanna's A lot of you were saying, mister Ed and I'm just gonna say it, do we really think a talking horse is gonna sell right now? I don't know. I don't know if I've ever seen an episode of mister Ed. It predates me, so yeah, perfect casting for a Get Smart reboot. Steve Carell from the Office who played there was a Get Smart movie. Hang on,

Gets Smart movie. Oh, so there you go. You're you're absolutely right. It was such good casting that he already did it, So there you go. X Files, Yes, on the X Files bring it back. Although they did and it wasn't as good. I think one of the things that made the X Files so good was it was so original and so surprising. The creativity that they had in the writer's room at the X Files was just next level. It was so so good, so so good.

Mandy in Today's Hollywood, A revised Dukes of Hazzard would be an electric car with a big old gay Pride flag on the roof.

rod gets on. In a stunning reversal, the first trans woman nominated for Best Supporting Actress seems to have already admitted she will not be getting the award. I'll explain it after this. Welcome Anthony Rodriguez to the show live from New Orleans. First of all, to the person who said a modern version of Hogan's Heroes or McHale's Navy could be made to be pretty funny. Did you guys ever wonder what that pitch meeting was like for Hogan's Heroes? It was like, hear me out a comedy set in

a concentration camp. And then I was watching the movie I cannot remember what the name of the movie is with Miles Teller about the making of The Godfather.

have a watch the rest of it. But it was sort of controversial when they nominated a trans woman in the Supporting Actress category. And now we don't have to worry about a person born as a boy winning a female category because unfortunately, text messages have appeared, not text messages, tweets, and there might have been some anti Islam stuff and maybe some racist type stuff in the actress's Twitter account.

And now she is expected to fly. She is no longer expected to fly from her home in Spain, but she has basically realized she's not going to win. And something you guys have to realize about this Oscar stuff is Oscar nominations, Oscar campaigns. Oh, it's the offer, Thank you, Miles Teller. The offer such a good show. These Oscar

campaigns that are back by the studios. There's a lot of money involved, and there's a lot of backbiting and backstabbing as people try to torpedo the nominations of other people. And I feel like, you know, but if you've got racist stuff, like my Twitter feed has some stuff that

is out of context, looks ridiculous. Like one of my tweets from way back in the day was one of my callers had just called me a member of the KKK first something I don't even know what, and I just said, can I wear my white sheet after Labor Day? Obviously funny joke, right, But if people go back and see that and think that makes me a racist, I would burst out laughing at this point. But if you do have actual racist stuff, you probably need to scrub it out before this. But now she will not Mandy.

I wouldn't call Hogan's hero as a concentration camp. It was a pow camp. My bad, My bad, Hey, hear me out. Comedy based in a pow camp still sounds ridiculous, completely ridiculous. Laverne and Shirley. Yes, yes, Laverne and Shirley. And where did you get to do it?

Opening night was just a mad house. I mean I've heard tails obviously, people not just countrywide but across the entire globe come to this event. I mean hundreds of people at each podium for these star players.

question into Pat Mahomes. I pissed off all the Swifties yesterday with my question that Travis Kelsey your question.

I was expecting the full can you know response that you would hear from a boyfriend of a Taylor swift And instead of getting that canned response that I had that I was anticipating and going to be a good social bit, he just hits me with, who's not a Swiftie?

As the week rams up, I've been hearing that, you know, the celebrity level will increase, at professional athlete level will increase. But today it's for me, it's kind of walking around Radio Row. I already got a chance to do a one on one with longtime NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf. I chalk to talk to legend legendary Titans running back, you know, one on one CJ two K about about elite running backs.

you got a second, I'm ready to go. And that's where we got some of our best interviews, just like off the cuff, because the media events are cool, but you get a lot of those canned answers, right, And I love talking to the guys that were not playing anymore, the veterans who were in for the game, because they're just there to have fun and they're there to talk sports and football and see their buddies. So it's lucy

goosey and super fun. So tonight you're not going to see any of those people at the media party, have you Like tonight? This is your job, a Rod. Your job is to say, okay, so where are the good parties this week? Because used to be back in the day, Aea sports had a massive party like massive Playboy had

a massive party. Obviously that's not happening now. But like every night, there's a different good party, and you just got to figure out who to ask to get into those parties because that is where the athletes are, that's where they all are.

Are there any stories in New Orleans that we're not hearing about?

it took me to walk out. That reminds me of the security perimeter, not as vast really so reminded me of the security perimeter that we saw in Milwaukee and Chicago.

because that that's that's really notable. And and then like you said, with the with the game, I think you know, on the field, the one thing I know, like Travis Kelsey said yesterday, someone asked him what would be the question you would ask in the media, and he said, why are you guys leaning in so much to this

referee stuff that we're getting the calls and whatnot? So I think, well, it is, it is, and it isn't because there's some numbers out there that suggests they maybe don't get as many calls you think, but they kind of get him into the bigger moments, which is I think what makes people more talk about that more. But honestly,

I'll say this. Andy Reid, head coach of the of the Chiefs, last night was talking about how you know, this team really hasn't leaned in to the talk of three p talked it lean into the talk of a dynasty.

Mahomes and the Chiefs. But but honestly, they're they're leaning in the right way. They are not taking any chances of giving the Eagles bullets and bore material and anything they said last night. I will say this though, Manny, in terms of storyline, I know we hear in the last few minutes storylines for the for the Denver Broncos talk about good bolts and barred material.

Steve spag No, the DC of the Chiefs, couldn't even really hold back his appreciation, said that how much bo Nix impressed him, especially from matchup one to matchup two. So if there's anything to glean from the current team that's in this big game that's you know, could potentially win the third in a row, is that they think the Broncos have what it takes is to maybe be here. I mean Ian Rappaport our NFL network inside or even said the same thing to me, said he doesn't think

they're that far off. I mean, you add some playmakers to this squad. So I think there's a there's a good chance the next couple of years that we're covering this bad boy and our Denver Broncos are in that thing. So talk about bolts and bor Matlia for the Broncos in a positive way.

But other than that, I've had it all here in New Orleans back in November. So that lets me have the ability to, uh to not have to indulge this time around. But I feel good. Am I getting up at six in the morning working around? Yes, I am the hotel and I'm not indulgent and I feel a good.

into Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky, they were together. I talked to Jerome Bettis, I hung out with Sean Salisbury and Dan Patrick from ESPN. So it's just like a great cool way to run.

egg roll? I don't know? You push it? What?