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I'm your funneled host, Mandy Connall. I'll be with you for the next three hours and of course right over there Anthony Rodriguez you can call him A rod need you and together we will take you right up until KOA Sports at three p m. And Man, I got a lot of stuff for you today. But I know not all of y'all listen to Roster Show. And I
don't know why I listen on the way in. I'm just saying, but he was talking to Leland Viddert and there was some interesting topics that they were discussing that I don't have on the blog today because I don't
have a bunch of international stuff. I have a bunch of Colorado stuff and a bunch of US stuff, and I got a couple of guests, of course, But I want to jump into that just a little bit because the point that was being made and rightly so is that when it comes to foreign policy, Trump is doing the same thing he's doing with Doge, and not financially.
What he's doing is he is shaking up everything in the status quo and his comments that if Hamas didn't release the rest of the hostages by noon, he would go scorts earth. I I think Israel is going to go with that because Hamas is now broken the ceasefire, alleging Israeli violations.
Of the ceasefire without specifying.
By the way, if I were in a ceasefire with foreign nation that I wanted everyone to hate, I would in the press release, I would bully point all of the alleged violations of the ceasefire that Israel had actually committed, and if I had photographic evidence or witness statements, I'd
staple those right on the back. That's not how Hamas works, and Amos realizes that if they give up all the hostages then they have no more leverage at all, and so I don't think they ever plan on releasing the rest of the hostages.
I truly don't. I think they just see them starve to death so.
They could have their dead bodies and lurd them over Israel and say, you know, if you want wants your body's back. So Trump has really rattled the cage big time, and we're going to talk about that a little bit later. But let me get to the blog because the blog has a lot of good stuff on it. We've got a couple of guests. I have so many things in my mind right now, you guys, I was talking to somebody the other day, a person who does not pay attention to politics at all, and I was so nillous.
Oh, just to be that ignorant.
The level of.
Life satisfaction that this person has because they don't pay attention to any of it is just indescribable.
But I couldn't do that.
I'm not wired that way to simply not pay attention to something that matters so much. But my head has just been just rolling with all of the stuff that Donald Trump has been doing and where I think the outcomes are going to be, because I am not taking anything this man says as the end to point, and if you look at everything he does as just the starting point, the launching point, it gets a lot easier to wage your way through it. But trying to extrap
late out where this stuff is gonna end up. That's the tricky bit. That's the really tricky bit.
So let's do the blog.
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And I got to start at the.
Bottom in Josh Allen Bufflow Bill. He seems like such a nice young man. I've always had a good impression of him, but I don't really know that much about him, so I just kind of had that just generalized impression. And during his acceptance speech for MVP NFL MVP for the Year, he referenced a guy in the mailroom when he was given credit to the entire Buffalo Bill's franchise for his success.
Yes, and there's a.
Video at the bottom of the blog today of slick Rick slick Rick in the mailroom responding to Josh Allen name checking him in his speech, and it is just you You really don't realize what an impact thanking someone for their hard work when they don't feel like they matter what kind of impact it has. It was just very very sweet and very nice.
The kind of guy Josh Allen is is someone that sends a thousand emails to various colleges trying to get noticed, to make it no one gets back to him, and he only gets one offer, and that's to go to Wyoming because I think I've heard that they only were there because they were like scouting or looking at someone else, like his teammate or something. Right, So this is a guy that just put all on the line to make it into now what he is today, and.
Now he's NFL MVP and a nice fella, a nice fella at a boot. I love stories like that. I absolutely love stories like that. It's just it's the little kindnesses,
you know. I saw a beledictorian speech some time ago, I mean I don't even know when, and the kid went through and name checked the ladies in the lunch room and the janitor of the custodian that he talked to all the time, and who helped him with his locker one time when it was broken, and the lady in the office that used to get him tiling on when he had head and he just he name checked all of these support staff everybody's used to hear, you know,
the teachers. It meant so much and they do and please don't I'm not in any way downplaying the importance of teachers, but hearing a kid check all of these other people and you know that it made them feel so good. And that's what Josh Ellen did on a massive, massive stage, just a massive.
Stage, and only because someone else fell through him reading now, only because someone else fell through did Wyoming then go target Josh Allen so like.
No one was planning on going after him at all, And wow, elevates to this level.
And you know what's fascinating about that is when you think about it.
I always think about this when I see a video of some random person on the street singing and all of a sudden, this incredible voice comes out of this person and you think to yourself, there are millions of people like that that have incredible talent, but they're never going to be able to do anything with it because something about their personality doesn't have the drive to make it happen. Josh Allen had that drive way before anybody
thought he had the talent. And as we're hard work, will outwork natural gifts all day long, I mean, will outperform because it's just I love stories like that.
He is a nice man. Oh I like that so much.
He also, though, is a really funny and entertaining track.
Rabbit's married.
Trash talk. He's what Haley's done talking.
But oh that's fantastic. I love her.
Yeah, they're engaged recently.
I love her.
Yeah, go watch go watch trash talking videos with him on the field. Yeah, it's really hilarious. One of my favorite ones. Some guy he's getting into. He goes, oh you're so tough, you're so tough, just just the belittling, funny trash talk style as he is into hilarious.
Yeah you're so tough. Yeah, yeah, he could have been a Bronco.
I well, you know what I'm if.
Here's the thing. I kind of have a soft spot.
For the Buffalo Bills for all those times they went to the Super Bowl and lost, right, and I was an AFC East fan for a long long time. I was a Miami Dolphins fan until I moved out here and I converted. But I was supposed to hate the Bills, but man, they lost.
Four in a row.
Well, as we discussed in the latest A to Z, which of course you can listen to on the very free to use iHeart Radio app or go to KA Collar rider dot com Slash A Z. They have a window, the Bills and the Rains. This is their chance because the Chiefs could be retooling, so that first Super Bowl for Buffalo could be coming in the next year or two. That's their window.
Speaking of which, so Nick Firsond posted a video on X yesterday yes about whether or not Travis Kelcey should just retire and be a kept man by Taylor Swift. He's a billionaire, Okay, Taylor Swift's a billionaire with a bee and I he was like, there's no way I'd be a kept man. You're no way, I'd no way to do it. There's something that guys.
Have to understand. And I am not Taylor Swift.
I am not remotely sitting here and comparing myself to someone of the success of Taylor Swift, but personality wise, she is a very strong woman. And I have been told on occasion that I too, am a very strong woman. And it takes a very special kind of man to deal with women like me and Taylor Swift because my husband is you have to push back against me or I will steamroll right over you.
And my husband pushes back.
But he also is my biggest cheerleader, my biggest fan, my biggest supporter. So you have to be this combination of, you know, extremely manly for lack of a better way to put it, and supportive, kind and excited that your partner is successful.
And if Travis Kelcey is that guy, I hope he is happy being.
A kept man. First, I've literally ever heard this phrase kept man.
Well, oh, that's old school. It used to be a kept woman, Like she's a kept woman. She just all of her stuff is paid for. A kept man is a man who all of his stuff is paid for by a much wealthier woman.
It's just a different way to say, like sugar daddy or yah Sugermm.
Yeah, well, I mean there's in a kept situation, you're usually married and it's not a compliment to say you are a kept man somehow, the implication being that you've also given your testicles to the person who's also paying the bills. And I'm here to tell you that that does not work long term. That will never work long term.
We may decide it soon, because sources today were saying that he will take some time to decide on whether he will retire or not.
I did like his honesty.
He was on his podcast with his brother, and I did like his honesty in saying, you know, this year, towards the end, I was like, Uh, do our I really want to keep doing this? And he said, I'm not going to come back unless I am one hundred percent in and one hundred percent committed.
And right now it doesn't sound like you.
You go back and watch some of the All twenty two from the Super Bowl and he might need to call it. Yeah, you don't got it? Yeah, no, don't.
Well, he did talk about the fact that playing in three Super Bowls in a row, he basically added another season.
Correct, Yeah to his body, that's yeah, those three on average.
Yeah, that extension of playing in three streets of rules, that that would just about do it because they had the one seed this year.
But you're talking.
You're talking three maybe sometimes four games over three years.
Yeah, you're you're a loss.
I mean, that's a lot to add on.
So got it. He's got to figure it out because he's not a good super Bowl.
I think that if they.
Are happy and Travis retires and becomes you know, mister swift or whatever, he is the right kind of personality that she needs. She has got to have somebody with a strong personality and a manly man.
I'm telling you trust me on this because I have steamrolled over many a.
Man who thought that they were, like, you know, a stone cold baller until they met me.
It's sad but true.
And then once I steam roll over them, I don't want them anymore because now I you know, I just I wish I probably shouldn't have given all this information about myself up. But there we are not flattering, but it is what it is. Got to have somebody, somebody to say, I'm your biggest cheerleader. But I think what you're doing is dumb. And I'm pretty sure that those words have come out of my husband's mouth before. You know all were you?
But I think you're doing the wrong thing.
So anyway, I cannot read what Another phrase for a kept man on the text line is I would you say whipped would be the everybody my age would know that whipped is what we're talking about.
There's another word that goes.
With that, Mandy.
My wife makes three times.
The amount I do and we've been married for eleven and a half years. Another strong man. I'm telling you people think men who are with powerful women are week. They are the exact opposite. I mean, if they have a lasting relationship, because it won't last, it just won't. Mandy think Charles Harrington Elster would have gone for name checked all one word when named would work.
Well.
I'm engaging in a little of the common lingo that the kids use today. Name Jack, Mandy hang on. The second he says he's traveling the world with her, she'll dump him and write a song.
I hope not, you guys.
I love people who are happy in their relationships. I love it for them, I love it for society. I love everything about happy couples being happy. I love people getting married. If I could do anything to change our society fundamentally, I would focus marriage. I would resent her marriage in our lives and don't give me the all marriages. Of course, all marriages aren't great. Nothing is perfect. The marriage is, you know, the perfect for me, A great marriage is the best thing in the whole world.
A trophy husband. Trophy husband is that?
I mean?
Is that when you have a boy toy?
Though, because a trophy wife is like a much younger, much hotter wife that guys get after they've achieved.
A certain level of success.
Bill Belichick, I'm sorry what, Bill Belichick?
Oh yeah, I gotta tell you, though, he that gives me the creeps. I it just it gives me. She looks like she's seventeen years old, and he looks like he is her great grandfather.
You're him in the media though, If he's got a young, spunky personality, I don't care.
That gives me the creeps.
It just does. It's too much.
He's a wily one.
Eh My husband calls himself my arm candy, so he likes that one.
Uh.
My wife has always made more than me and we've been married for forty years.
Let me ask you guys this question.
What do you think about to stay at home dad's stay at home dad's what's I'd like to know your opinion because I got to tell you. One of the reasons that I have been able to be successful is that Chuck has been a stay at home dad since we moved here. My daughter was little, my mom was living with us, and I just said, stay at home and take care of my family so I don't have to worry about it, and he did, and it's worked just spectacularly well for us. And yet there's still judgment there.
And I'm not that I care.
Mind you, Yes, Anthony, if I didn't love this job as much as I did, and it were possible, let me tell you.
Yeah, so cool.
Well honestly, like, oh no, I know, I don't associate with lady like I'm saying the common misconception.
Of about men.
Yes, and it's it's not at all.
It's when you are a stay it owned dad, you have all the same crap to do that a stay at home white wife.
Has to do, right and as the association of it, well, the dad just wants produce well to do nothing.
I don't know if you guys.
Have noticed this, but Chuck used to get so mad at all of the commercials because they all make the dad look like the hood, the hood.
Oh look odumbaham well.
Amazon has a commercial about a stay at home dad and about his evolution of becoming more competent at being the it's so good, Like I want to write Amazon and say thank you for giving stay at home Dad's a little cred that they're not all idiots. They're just like stay at home moms. When they first come home with a baby, there's a learning curve, but then they nail it. Just curious about that. Five sixty six nine, Oh, that's five sixty six nine to oh is our text line,
mister mom, still a great movie. After nineteen ninety one, after dating my wife for three months, I asked her to marry me. We had sent out some invitations, but my mother in law protested, so we put it off till nineteen ninety two. Still happily married to this day. What your mother in law protested, Mandy? Please don't confuse boy toy and toy boy? Wait, but aren't they the same? Wait?
What toy boy?
Toy boy?
What the hell's toy boy?
A toy boy is?
I thought it was the same as a boy toy, But obviously I'm wrong. But I don't understand how I'm wrong. You've never heard of a boy toy. I heard a boy toy toy boy. I don't think that's right.
Toy boy, boy toy. I'm not gonna to sound weird now that I've said it enough times to he's.
Right, toy boy. I'm not going to look that up because I'm concerned. I don't think that's the same.
I don't think you should look it up on a work computer. No, this guy says, I'm my wife's participation trophy husband. Okay, that's pretty funny. That's pretty funny, Mandy. I love the tweet saying that when they show t Swift at the super Bowl and she gets booed, but when t Kelsey has shown at Taylor's concerts, he has cheered for shows egos.
Yes, it certainly does.
It certainly certainly does because all of the Swifties just want Taylor to find true love and happiness, and they hope Travis is that guy.
I hope so too.
Like I said, I love love and they'll never get a breakup song or album ever again, though, so I don't know, you know what, I will.
Say that.
She'll have to use other people's stories as inspiration. Co're ready for her to go in a different direction. I'm gonna be perfectly honest. I did not love this last album, all right, no love.
Maybe eventually good music, who knows.
I'll just let that one hang out there.
The hate mail can go to a rod at iHeartMedia dot com, Ladies and germs. When we get back, it's weather Wednesday. What a perfect frigid day it is for Dave Fraser to come on and tell us it's maybe not gonna get much nicer tomorrow, but we'll find out next It is that time of the week to bring our friend and yours chief meteorologists at Fox thirty one, Dave Fraser, back to the show.
Dave, can you turn up the heat on your way out? Please?
I'm surprised you still reference me as our friend, because sometimes on Dave's lif this I'm enemy number one on the poster board.
Well, it didn't know that much, so you're kind of off the hook. And you could literally move this stuff with a snow I mean with a a blower. You didn't even have to shovel. It was so light and flufy. But where are we headed for the rest of this week temperature wise? Because I got to tell you I've now only been here thirteen years, and this morning I got up and I opened the door and the wind hurt my face, and I was like, I no longer like this wind and this cold.
So what are we looking at?
Well, you're right, the snow amounts were good. With the snow on the ground, you have that blanket and the sky clear and you cool pull away any chance to hold in one. So tonight we got another cold night. We'll go down below zero. We're forecasting right around four below. We'll be our updated forecast. However, there will be metro areas that may not go below zero, and if you're up in elevation, like on the south side of town or in the foothills, you don't get into the thickest
of the cold. So we think the oldest readings will be out on the eastern plains there with a little bit of a breeze when you're dealing with temperatures that low windshills could get below minus fifteen. So we do have a cold cold weather advisory. It will kick in
later tonight, so about eight o'clock tomorrow morning. And the reason for that expiration at eight am is that generally in these patterns, what happens is the wind overnight tonight, albeit light will turn and come out of the south and west in temperatures while they will go below zero, should start to rise right about sunrise and then quickly get up above freezing by the time we get probably ten or eleven tomorrow morning. So it's just a quick little hit in the morning. But you got to dress
smart for that kind of weather. I do have near forty tomorrow. I got fifty on Friday for Valentine's Day. However, there may be a rain shower here and there come later in the day on Friday, nothing to wash out any plans for your sweetheart. And then cold front gets us back into the thirties with a little light snow, maybe a half an inch a little more in some location. Saturday. Another chance of some more light snow in mid thirties on Tuesday. Between then Sunday Monday, we go back to
the forties and fifties. It's that time of the air, Mandy, that the sun the days are getting a little longer on angles coming up, so you're going to have these spouts. You're going to have, you know, the gloves are on between spring approaching in about five weeks and winter trying to hang on, and so the sea swings like this with snow possible every three to five days and not out of question.
How is the snowpack in the mountains? This is holiday weekend, a lot of people are going to be heading up to go skiing. There's a big scheme weekend. How is the snowpack in the in the mountains right now?
Yeah? President's Day weekend and with Valentine's Day to day before, you got a lot of people cutting out on Friday heading up. It is going to be There is going to be heavy snow, the snow packed for the central and northern Mountains. Our water supplied to the Front Range is still in great shape at ninety plus up to one hundred or more. The San Juan Mountains in southwest Colorado continues to struggle and they're pulling down the average to below one hundred percent of the state. But again
we're in good shape here in the north. There is a push of Pacific moisture. You hear us talk about it all the time, the Pineapple Express coming into California. They're getting ready for heavy rain and that specific moisture will push into the Colorado Mountains because it's coming from west to east, the mountains will block to the fast majority of that. That's why we're only looking at light rain or snowshollers spilling off the mountains Friday into Saturday.
So here's our advice. We've already put this on our spotlight. If you're planning on traveling, there will be snow when you head up starting Thursday night and Friday. Right now, there are no advisories, but I guarantee you the National Weather Service is going to add in a winter storm warning for the ice seventy quarter.
There are already.
Watchers for the San Juan. The San Juans can get one to three feet. That's fantastic news, great skiing powder. We're looking at probably a foot to a foot and a half in the northern and central mountains. The challenge, as always when you're talking about fresh snow in time for a long holiday weekend of skiing, is getting there and that snow will continue into Saturday morning. So Friday into Saturday morning is going to be a challenge on the ice seventy quarter.
All right, there you go.
I get one question for you here.
Any idea when the drop freeze in the middle of the country is going to thaw. This from an over the road trucker who's had enough of it.
Yeah, you know, while we've been they're in it for a couple more days. That chunk of icy air, you know, slide down the Midwest. So the farther west you come, we're on the western edge of it. And as I've explained before, it's like pouring syrup into a low spot. So the coldest, the densest air, that thick low cloud deck, the freeezing drizzle, all of that kind of stuff, the rim frost that you see on the trees and everything else that's stuck in the Midwest. We're just on the
western edge of it and getting cliffed. So as you leave Denver, go into the plains and you drop down an elevation, you start to get into the colder air, and certainly as you depart Colorado and head into the Midwest, they've got several days of that before things change. The weekend storm may help to erode some of that, but overall, I don't know that they're going to get a huge improvement in the next probably two to three days. They're stuck in the deep d So.
When we're geez what does the two week outlook look like, I mean, are we just well, I don't even pay attention, you know what. I'm a little bit embarrassed for myself right now. I did not even pay attention to what Pucksatani Phil told us on Groundhog Day. If we're gonna have six more weeks of winter or not, does it look like in the nearer term, next couple of weeks, is there anything we should be concerned about.
So, as always I do before I come on with you, I look at the long range outlooks. Of course, I've got the seven day nail down. I just gave it to you. The eighth of fourteen would be the next period of time. Again, no day to day details. It continues to show a little colder than normal and a little wetter than normal, And I think that aligns with the fact that I just mentioned that about every three
days we can have a little moisture. So we think there could be another one coming next Tuesday, as I mentioned, and potentially next to the following Saturday. So I think that aligns with the kind of the pattern we're in. However, the monthly outlook, which was issue before the month still shows below average and below moisture, so below average temperatures and below moisture. And the three month outlook continually beyond February shows below to normal temperatures and below normal moisture.
But as we saw in January, as we're seeing here, we're overperforming those albums.
I like the spacing. I like the spacing of the snow. I haven't had to water my trees this winter, so it's been kind of nice, you know, just getting a little bit here and there. And like I said, it was so cold we didn't have to worry about it being slushy or hard to move this morning because it was just like air, absolute air. All right, Dave Fraser, good to talk to you, my friend. We will talk to you again next week. Happy Valentine's Day to you, Dave.
Happy Valentine's Date to you and your crew, and to everybody enjoyed the long holiday weekend. If you're going to the mountains to be safe, absolutely thank you.
Dave Frasier. Oh jeez, my sleeve just got caught on my arm rest of my chair here. Yeah.
I today was the first day that I was like, you know what, Now I know why.
People moved to Florida, not that I'm moving to Florida because you know, aside from.
These like a few weeks, we don't even have that much of it. We have like a week here of super cold than we have and I was in Puerto Rico.
We have a week here. We're a little bit of cold.
But man, it just gets to me more than it used to.
That surprises me. You just come from Puerto Rico, me just spending a week in New Orleans, I came back.
I love the cold.
Well, the cold is one thing. But this morning when I went to like take the dog out, and honestly had that moment where you inhale and your lungs go, what the in your faces? Because it was like minus three or whatever when I opened the door.
And that's what I'm talking about.
Are we having the conversation about insulating our garage gym?
Yeah?
Oh boy, Yeah, you know what I would recommend though.
They have these really cool heaters that you would like hang up on the ceiling and just plug it in and that.
They they blast get to sweat on even more.
Yeah, exactly, exactly. No, I don't mind cold weather.
I like it when it's like thirty, you know, anywhere between twenty and forty is great.
It's just when it gets to where it was like last.
Night, I'm like, oh, if the sentence starts with if you stay out long and if you could get hypo, Nope, right there.
You know, just a cold it's done.
Yeah, there you go, Manda. You should still water your trees in the winter unless it is real warm after snow, it will mostly evaporate. Well, you're not helpful at all. And I challenge you text because this is one of the nerd things that I do. I observe the snow melt patterns around my trees. I then hear me out, this is true if you go out. So I have a raised bed that has multiple trees in it, and they're mature trees. They're very you know, they're well established.
You can go out after snow and like the snow is solid, right, it's a solid two inches or whatever all the way around on the raised bed. And then the next day you can go out and two things have happened. It's collapsed a little from the top, but it's also like some is melted underneath, So now you have a little gap between the snow and the side of the ground. So that probably didn't evaporate from the bottom. Absolutely, it's evaporating from the top. But I just want to
believe that because my trees look amazing right now. I thought I was going to lose a couple of trees last year, But my trees.
Look so good right now. God, am I old?
I just thought of what if twenty five year old me could somehow be transported to this moment in time and just saw fifty five year old me get so excited about.
How healthy my trees are.
God, I'm such a colossal disappointment to twenty five year old me. Mandy, I don't go to Florida for the winter. I go to Hawaii. It's much better than Florida and much cleaner and twice as expensive. So yeah, yeah, I like this though, Mandy, twenty year old you may be disappointed in fifty five year old to you, but I bet it's vice versa. You're thinking, twenty five year old you, what a dummy. You're about to do so many dumb things and waste inordinate amounts of money on really dumb things.
At least that's how it was for me, But I'm only fifty three. Note that's also how it was for me as well. But I always think that some of those mistakes have made me the person I am today, and I think I'm pretty cool, So I'm okay with it. You guys, you guys. Tulca Gabbard has been confirmed as Director of National Intelligence as of today. It was almost a party line vote except Senator Mitch McConnell voted with
Democrats against Tulsi Gabbard. I'm wondering if Senator Mitch McConnell is finally going to hang it up after this term. He has had multiple multiple falls in.
The recent pass.
He's currently in a wheelchair because of his most recent fall at the Senate. I'm ready for him to go. I mean, and you guys keep saying, well, Kentucky keeps sending it back to gain. Do you have any idea how much grift he brings back to Kentucky in his leadership position in the party. Ugh, they're never gonna not send Mitch McConnell to DC. If he wants to go,
he'll be like you in intensive care. We'll after rolling onto the floor of the Senate, it'll be on a stretcher with an IV maybe some oxygen.
That's how he would go back to the Senate.
I just but he was the only one that voted against Democrats criticized her lack of experience and questioned her ability to stand up to Trump.
Well, let's just go back in time for just a moment.
Back in twenty sixteen, Tolsey Gabber did a video supporting Bernie Sanders. Because she did that, she had to leave a leadership position in the Democratic Party, and Hillary Clinton did not care for that. I think Tulci Gabbard can stand up to pretty much anyone. And the notion that somehow a former member of Congress doesn't have the experience to run the Department of National Intelligence, what does that say about members of Congress? Certainly not good things. So
she has now been confirmed. I guess we're just waiting for RFK Junior. I believe he was on the docket as well. Let's see here if anything is going on there. He advances to final Senate vote, which will happen. Let me see here as soon as Thursday. Let me look up cash Hotel, y'all. I cannot wait for Cash Hotel to take office. Ooh, I cannot wait. He's so scary to the Democrats that They're now throwing everything against the wall they can from NBC News. Democrats accuse FBI Trump
or Trump. FBI picked Cash Btel of secretly ordering firings. Senator Dick Durbin said in a letter that Patel may have perjured himself when he said under oath that he was not aware of any plans to punish FBI agents who investigated Trump. They're going to throw everything against the wall. You know why, because he knows where the bodies are buried. He knows the Congressman Adam Schiff went out and lied to the media and the American people over and over
and over again during the Russia investigation. He's said it in interviews. They're deathly afraid of Cash Betel. I can't wait for him to be confirmed. Really really love love love him. What do they have against Tulci? I like the thing she says and does says this Texter, Well, there's two big issues. One she went down and sat and had a meeting with Bisher al Asad in Syria. She at the time was trying to solve the problem and felt the best way to do that was talking
to the parties involved. That created a kerfuffle. Even though John Kerrey went and talked Tohi Elba Sade, Nancy Pelosi sat down with.
Bashira al Asade.
The other thing is is she has made comments that have been perceived as being pro Russia, but she's also made comments that are definitely clearly anti Russia.
So I don't care.
I like her because she's not beholden to anyone in any party. I've always thought of her as a straight shooter. I believe her when she says things because I don't think she's afraid to put herself out there and cut herself off with the knees. She's done it multiple times because she was saying what she wanted to say the way she wanted to say it, and I respect that. I respect people whose default position is transparency that often bites them in the butt. So there you go, Mandy.
Next week, I'm going to Cancun, joining my wolf at her, my wife at her over a Quota Bonus club. As the keft man, Steve Yes Breaking says, it's Texter, and I like that. You put breaking in all caps. You're really understanding your role here, Texter.
I like it.
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Unco uncle. Welcome to the second hour of the show. I'm Mandy Connell, that's Anthony Rodriguez, and together we will take you zippity dooo dah right through up until three p m. I have a ton of stuff on the blog I didn't even get to in the first hour. I didn't know what just happened in the first Hour's that kind of day. So there was a Denvers that
story today about traffic deaths in construction zones. Okay, and that's terrible, by the way, I don't want to but a headline of the story speed cameras coming to Colorado roadways that made alarming spike in construction zone deaths. And then they show a mangled car and then they talk about how many people have been killed in construction zones and the numbers are.
Just very, very high.
And then way down in the story they talk about speed cameras. The speed camera safety program will be starting in spring. Now, this is the funny part. The agency hopes will reduce crashes involving excessive speed. The speed safety cameras. They're not just speed cameras. They're doing it for our safety. Can you just feel like, do you feel the safetiness of the whole thing? I almost want to do the safety dance right now? S s A F E T WHOA safety because we are going to be so much
safer because now there's gonna be speed cameras. They're going to start in construction zones. If you want, you can leave your friends behind. Is if your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance, man, friends of mine. Anyway, Now, the speed safety cameras will be installed first in construction zones. Do the significant increase in fatalities in those areas. Deployment of future cameras in school zones and other strategic corridors will be evaluated in the future. Did we agree to this?
Was this the thing we talked about.
Because I by the way, I don't speed in construction zones and I don't speed in school zones.
I am that person in a school.
Zone that is slowing down to fifteen or twenty whatever the sign tells me to, because as a former parent, I know little children especially don't pay attention and they could run out in the street. Construction zones, I just don't want to hit someone who's doing their job. Not that I want to hit anyone ever, But hey, ron,
I have a question for you. When you're driving through a construction zone, let's use Do you ever drive on E four seventy Yes, okay, so you know the whole area they've been working on on the way to the airport for about one hundred years now, Yes, on a Sunday afternoon, not a construction person in sight. Which speed are you going? Construction zone speed or regular speed?
I mean I try to go construction zone speed.
That was a little bit of a dodge for that answer.
I mean, you know, but because ultimately are you should you be responsible for a construction zone?
Fine, if there are no workers present, if there are no workers visibly present, no, see.
That's what I think too. In Florida, if there's no workers present, then you don't. It doesn't doesn't matter in Colorado, though, I mean there's all these times where it goes all the lane goes all JANKI you know, all of a sudden you're over three lanes over. It's like happens really fast. I don't know, but I just thought, should we all did we agree to speed cameras? Because I find speed
cameras to be fundamentally unconstitutional. Because I can't face my acueser in court, I have no chance to say that was not me, you were wrong.
And now I think Sea dot is.
Realized with the I can't wait to see the numbers that they're bringing in for people hopping express lanes on E four seventy or C four seventy or I twenty five.
I guess I should say twenty five.
In the gap four seventy, I guess the HOVL like, No, they're totally different on northern part of twenty five.
Where else do they do this? Do we have express lanes parts of seventy part of the time? Yeah, I mean going north that that right in the middle between the north and southbound right, Yeah.
But that's you can't hop out of that you know what I'm saying, like you can't.
No, but they have the is it also the two lanes of the express sometimes it is a solid white line.
Is hopping that part of it is?
We all know the answer to that question. But you can't hop out of the express lane on the on the express lanes unless you're yeah, unless you're an intay some people do, unless you're fast and furious. I think they just figured out they could make a lot of money doing this, and they're doing it. And so there you go.
You warned when there's accidents and when there's construction, and when there's reasons that we got it, we got it.
We gotta wave those we got we gotta wave those like I've heard people.
I think I think my mom's mentioned she's had issues where like you have to, like for emergency swerve into the express hole, and.
I mean there's issues there with like safety.
But then you since you cross over the line, the camera detects, well, you didn't cross enter at the right time.
Boom, Fine, Yeah, So what.
I'm not, I'll be perfectly honest.
I'm on the roads when they're really busy so infrequently that I am always taking the express lane because financially I can pay it. I can pay the three seventy five once every month or two that I'm actually on in that situation.
But people who commute every day, that is just miserable.
I give myself grace.
Usually once a week I try to say, this is the day I need to get this place a sap.
I'm I'm gonna And that's kinda I mean, like I said, I do it so infrequently. I can't imagine being on those roadways every day.
In RUSS hour traffic debate between do I want to pay five I want to play seven nine? Or do I want to pay twelve dollars and get their like forty minutes soon? Or ain't just go totally the entire way back up north?
And sometimes that winds. Sometimes that wins it does.
I have no choice. It's like Dow, I spend forty more minutes or twelve dollars.
Yeah, and sometimes twelve dollars.
Is it, Mandy? You get a ticket from those so results aren't going to be accurate because you barely go over the line you get a ticket. That was the point A Rod was just making. Any automatic enforcement shouldn't be allowed. I agree in the UK. My Irish friend told me this. They have speed cameras and these are going to do the same thing. They have speed cameras at clock how long it took you to get between one point and another, So you can't even slow down
if you know where the cameras are. You know, when you're in an amusement park and you know where the cameras are to get your picture taken on a roller coaster, and everybody does some weird thing because you know where the cameras are. Yeah, you know where the cameras are, but that's not going to help you.
Same concept with people knowing exactly where the speed traps commonly are. Yeah, just slow down those areas and then you're good. Yep, they'll down yourself a rabbit.
Now it's going to be a lot different because they're the way to clock you going in between anything eleven miles over an hour, anything eleven miles an hour over the speed limit, you were going to get a citation.
I think Big I'll always to tell me that about his rabbit strategy. Just find someone that's going way way fast. Yeah, exactly what's.
Mad is when you realize you're the rabbit, Like you look in your rear view mirror, and you're going like eighty miles an hour on a you know, sixty five seventy mile an hour speed limit, and you got a line of cars behind you, and I'm like, no, no, no, no, I'll slide over.
Let them all pass me. My lack of education on this, but my speed bracket, I stay within. Try to stay within nine miles an Hour's pa you too, Yeah, just nine exactly, Chris control is set nine over. Yeah, most of the time, and most of the time everyone's going fast to me anyway.
And that's to be clear, I'm not doing that on surface level streets, not interstate travel.
In late Yeah, like I go the.
Speed limit in my neighborhood. I go the speed limit on surface level streets because there's people walking.
Yeah, interstainble right.
You don't expect anyone to come up to uh.
Yeah, you know, you on.
And for those that are get on my tail, I've got, you know, the adaptive cruise. I'm keeping certain car lengths in front of me. Can you can you can you do the same car behind me?
That's great?
Okay, exactly, don't get up on my butt. Well, I have that gap you should as well. I now have a car that has god, what's it called. It's not called cruise control something. No, it's called some something something.
I don't know what.
It's adaptive it is. It slows down when I get within a certain amount of.
Feet, as is mine, and I can set mine between four to one or no car lengths.
No car.
Actually I think one might be the closest, but I always do because three, even though three is recommended, three is a lot. Two is usually better. But like or today in the roads, I'm setting it at three, but no one behind me ever does Yeah, right them with my tail, yep the gap do the same thing, buddy.
Got a lot of people weighing in on the common Spirit ELF text line, Mandy, I worked for years as a flagger. You'd be appalled at how many people's speed going at least ten over the posted speed limit. You shouldn't speed through an inactive work zone. I've seen unsecured gear go flying into the live lanes. Not sure if
speed cameras are the answer, but something has to be done. Well, then let me throw this back at the road construction industry, because on C. Four seventy go into the airport, there was it looked like everything was done. There was no equipment, there was no one working, there was no nothing was happening, and yet there were still speed zone signs up.
Why is that?
Why is that?
Probably because you have to go through like Mario Kart style the lanes that they make for.
This was after that.
This is I just went to the airport like two weeks ago and it was still all there kind of thing, and it's all done. I don't know, Mandy, how can you face your accuser in court? Exactly, Mandy, it's it is why you don't sign up for the express hole and then just remove your plates, keep them in the glove box. If you ever get pulled over, explain they started to fall off and you don't have a screwdriver.
I am not that shady. I'm sorry, that's shady.
That is a shady thing to do.
I don't mind paying the tolls.
I have a little decount.
Yeah, I have a little decal.
And what amount of money you spend on the difference between having an account and having a decal versus not.
It's like twice as expense.
Right, And I'm not opposed to like, as part of my civic responsibility, I will pay those tolls so I can ride in the nice open lane and I have to sit in traffic.
I don't mind that.
It's when a Rod was talking about his mom swerves over because she was avoiding something and swerved back, and she gets a seventy five dollars ticket.
That's just a money grab.
I mean whole thing.
Yeah, I mean, it's just ridiculous.
If we have these awesome roads that will alleviate some of the traffic. I mean, everything should just be free, but nothing is so.
Because they spent all of our transportation money on other things. Let's be clear about that, Nandy, I have experience in this matter. The state believes that they do not need to provide evidence of your over the double white lines. They also reject your right to face your accuser. Huh, there you go. That is interesting, Mandy. I beat the ticket for being in the lane. I wrote the story safety emergency, got it dismissed. Win one hundred bucks from the wife, so that was a big win.
I will say a pleasant contribution random thought to this conversation. The folks at Expresshole probably some of the best customer service agents I've ever dealt with.
I would say that I don't ever deal with that. That's a chuck thing.
I've exchanged different like little codes for our cars, or if like a sticker doesn't come in the mail, or if I'm changing from card to car with the credit card stuff I do. They are exceptional, so they might take our money, but they are damn good at customer service.
I just got to say shout out Express TOOLE people, Mandy.
I think there should be an enforcement hours as they leave signs up for weeks two months after construction, That's what I'm talking about, and twenty.
Four hours a day.
I would prefer they work twenty four hours a day.
I'm not gonna lie.
I think major disruptive road for should be twenty four hour a day projects and get them done and.
Out of the way.
Please.
Wouldn't that be amazing?
We have an alternate route that is super convenient to our house that is like out of commission until like almost the end of the year.
Oh e rah.
A rod living in Douglas County where every round everything is under constructions. They're building neighborhoods everywhere. There's so much construction going on. There's no way for me to get from my house to hear. Now, all of my areas of egress unless I go all the way down to Monument and come back up twenty five, every single road to get me here is under construction, so I have no options.
None.
You want, you want the Broncos Stadium anywhere.
Near you, but they're in Loan Tree. In Loan Tree, you're.
Saying as far away, No big woops possible to say to find out about that.
Adaptive cruise allows the clowns to go around you and you constantly keep getting slowed down.
Kind of yeah, yeah, but I will say this, I think adaptive cruise.
Is probably like a like a softener for us to get used to driving with fully autonomous vehicles.
All around us.
Oh my, Now my new car has the adaptive cruise plus the lanuses, so it literally does the gap and also stays in the lanes for me.
Yeah, I mean literally just sit there and just deep to attention. It's awesome. Well, I pay attention to Mandy.
There should be no toll roads, Rick, I agree, Rick, I don't agree, But again, they spent all of our transportation money on dumbass mass transit. The no one's riding somewhere else, Mandy I'm the unlucky SOB that has been pulled over for four years in Cheyenne, to which I became disrespectful. Also see a lot of people using the express lanes and NOC including Leo as passing lanes, crossing the double white lines.
They are now going to be fined for that. They're getting tickets for that.
Oh, I like to yell, enjoy your fine.
Yeah a jerk, Yeah, Mandy.
The long grade takes a construction company to finish, the more money they make. See, we have incentivized the wrong faith. If that's how it works. I've always I was trying to remember. I am aware of a government project from between nineteen ninety six and now. They came in under budget and ahead of schedule because they gave an incentive for every day they came in ahead of schedule.
They got X amount of dollars.
For every you know dollar that they came in either on budget or below, they got a bonus of X amount of dollars.
And I thought, why don't we do.
That more often? Why don't they do that?
A rod?
Did you get a new car? Says this Texter?
I did, he did it the old one. The headaches have subsided.
And this one is a brand new. Yeah, I don't even have to worry about it. Typically you don't like to go down that route, but I was done with used cars. Yep.
Everybody has that moment in their life.
I have purchased.
One new car in my entire life.
I just I always wanted to get the five year old car, have it for five years, and then reset.
I couldn't do it this time.
You just had a horrible experience I on the other car ten years of just no headaches.
I just had to do it.
There you go, and you won't regret it. You will not regret it at all.
Now, electronic nannies, this texter says like adaptive cruise and lane departure just make it easier for dumb people with no skills to drive.
This is not a good thing. They should improve or not be on the road at all.
Except if they're dumb people they can't drive, and they're driving a car that literally keeps them from running into other people. I would think that's an improvement because guess what, they're going to drive anyway, right, They're already out there, so let's just make it harder for them to just hurt other.
People, and I'm down with it, like AI shouldn't do it for you, but should help you to do something at something here is to drive.
I have another text. Mandy protested Lime Cross with logical safety incident fine was waved. So if you could make the case that it was a rational decision that saved you or another vehicle or both of you from an accident, then maybe you can get that waved. The toll loans are elitist and I refuse to use them. If you are wealthy enough, you may have the privilege of zooming past the peasants. It's also been just a money grab
by our demon rat government. It is elitist, and that's why I use it because I like to be elitist.
So that previous previous texture, could the state be held liable like in an accident if you say, oh, well, I had to go into the back of this person, had no choice because if I went to the left lane.
It's expressed you can't.
Even get them to pay for a pothole that jacked your entire car up. They're not going to pay for that. I mean, really, Mandy set on contractor should get honest about when and where the work is actually occurring. Instead of signing miles of roads for days and days, no work is being done.
People don't believe the signs.
Amen to that. Amen, just tell us it's an active zone, it's.
A non active zone. Make it happen. You know, it's super frustrating.
All these car nannies, the Latin assist whatever make drivers less of a driver.
Maybe so, but you know what day, I like it.
I like having the backup cameras. I like having the beeps that alert me if I'm going to hit something. I don't hit something. But I'm just saying I like it for me. It's just another safety device. It doesn't control my driving. If I am parallel parking and I know that I am extremely close to the car behind me, my car is going beppppep, I don't care. I'm still gonna parallel park. I'm not gonna hit the car behind me. But it's another tool in the toolbox. I liken it
to my fitness tracker. I wear a Garmin fitness tracker every day. It doesn't like if I don't hit my ten thousand steps, I don't feel the need to go out at nine thirty at night and run around till I get them.
It's just another tool in the toolbox.
Yeah, and these things don't do it for you, then I just assist you. Yeah, Yeah, looks life easier.
Mandy should have.
Got a motorcycle, not a pos Harley, Get a Honda Valkyri and ride with us.
I have a story on the blog today about the fact.
That did you know twenty four percent of Colorado traffic fatalities are motorcyclists and they do not make up twenty four percent of the miles traveled in this state riding a motorcycle. And I has anybody else had this experience where okay, lane filtering became a law this past year where a motorcyclist, when you are stopped can pull up in between two cars to get to the front of the intersection that is considered safer for bikes. I have had so many motorcycles blow past me lanes splitting.
Which is not legal in Colorado.
It is.
It's got way worse.
And I don't know if that's why we have so many people dying on motorcycles, but certainly hasn't had the intended impact thus far.
I mean, the speed at which they do it is just unfathomable. Oh, it's crazy, insane death wish.
I mean, well, they don't think they're ever gonna die. They're invincible. That's the problem, Mandy. I say, it's elitist to have a car when so many can't afford ones. So there, and you know what, while we're at it, it's elitist to have shoes because you can walk to work in your shoes and other people can't afford shoes.
People can't afford clothes.
I don't mind being elitist, y'all. I kind of like it. That's why I buy the Disney VIP.
Pass so I can go buy all the great unwashed.
Masses waiting in line and just be like, see you.
On the other side.
No, I won't because I'm VIP baby.
It's one of the greatest parts about having a little bit of money in your pocket. Valet parking and VIP treatment. I'll apologize for nothing, absolutely nothing, but hey, if you're looking for a little more cash money, this hour's chance to win a thousand dollars. There's this coming up for the next five minutes, and thanks to our friends at Stanbrick Dental Group, somebody's gonna be get another thousand bucks and might as well make it you a minute and
seventeen second long. And it is a man who took a picture of himself every single day from when he was twenty five to twenty was forty seven years old, twenty two years of daily photographs in a minute in seventeen seconds, which is why I'm just gonna sit here. And I mean, it's what made him sink to do this. That's pretty amazing. I mean I thought I was weird. He looks almost exactly the same, so I kind of
hate him. And I'm gonna turn it off right now because I want to talk about this King Super strike. Has anybody else gone to their King Superstore? Because I have I have no dog in this fight. I don't care, I really don't. He right, Have you been to King super since the strike's been going on? Have that experience?
Nope?
Are you just haven't had to go to the grocery store? You're not going to King Supers?
Go to King Supers?
Oh okay, what are you a Walmart?
Damn right?
I love Walmart. I shop at Walmart Alight.
Marketplace up North though.
Yeah oh yeah, oh yeah, that's I'm telling you. Once you go marketplace you can never go back. I mean, yeah, well, I have found in my experience King Supers at least has really good sales. They also send you coupons that are for stuff that you use on a regular basis.
We use those all the time.
And Safeway, dude, Safeway is like, oh, super expensive.
And then Walmart doesn't always have the things that I want.
That's the problem. They don't have the eggs that I want. No one has the eggs right now, I know, but the eggs that I want, they even don't have those. Normally they don't care the brand all the time. But if you go to King Supers, you're going to see the picketers outside. But there may be fewer picketers in the near future because King Soopers has sought a restraining order to keep the picketers out of the front door area because it creates unsafe conditions. King Soopers has not
taking this strike lying down. They really aren't. And Jimmy Sengenberger did a really good call on the other day. Strike serves outside agenda, not local workers, so it's about the outside union and that would be UFCW three thousand. It sounds like a bad science fiction movie, but it's just the bigger union. In October, this is from Jimmy's column, King Soopers objected to involving outside unions, citing their lack
of any bargaining relationship with the company. Yet when contract negotiations began two days later, DW three thousand President Fay.
Gunther flew in anyway.
The next day, UFCW three thousand openly declared intentions to quote coordinate proposals and actions through their United Coalition to force both Kroger and Albertson's to bend so wyre West
Coast union leaders so interested in Colorado grocery workers. In an April twenty twenty four interview with the In These Times, a publication modeled after a socialist newspaper, Gunther laid out her revolutionary mission, compelling locals like UFCW number seven to act more like Local three thousand and using coordinated national contracts to transform the entire grocery industry. So they want the same contract in California as they might have in
I don't know, Idaho, And that's just dumb. Different communities have different needs, how they have different costs of living, but the union doesn't care because they're never going to say, you know what, We're gonna make all union contracts based on the area with the lowest cost of living that contract.
It's never that way.
She went on to say she wants to remake the entire UFCW International in her image quote more willing to strike, quote aggressively organizing and spreading a quote evangelistic message of democratic.
Unionism rooted in social justice.
Meanwhile, Gunther, who according to Union facts dot Com, made one hundred and sixty six four hundred and forty seven in twenty twenty one for being Local twenty one before merging it to form Local three thousand, says this as a multi year strategy to sweep away long entrenched union leadership and propel her to ufcw's International's presidency in twenty
twenty eight. So you got workers in Colorado who are out of a job getting I'm assuming they're getting some kind of money paid by the union to go out and pick it, but they're not working. Jimmy also quotes an employee at Highlands Ranch who spoke to nine News about this, and he said, there's a little apprehension, but I'm more apprehensive of the union people.
And not as much the employees.
They say they have our best interests, but I really don't believe that they do. He noted, this fourteen day strike feels much different from the ten day Wage Center protest in twenty twenty two, and he.
Is tired of the games.
The games could be much bigger than this guy even knows if this is just using Colorado grocery store workers as pawns in some bigger scheme while not informing.
Them of that.
Because if they had come and said, look, guys, we need you guys to go out on strike because we're trying to do something bigger nationwide, and then the worker's voter to go on strike, I'd be like, Okay, great, now you're all invested.
But it certainly doesn't sound like that to me.
What it sounds like is you have you leadership in California who've decided to use this situation to their advantage nationally. And it's just I don't know.
I mean, I I.
I'm sure that there are times when strikes are absolutely necessary and productive. I feel like the actors strike in Hollywood, the one that just was a couple of years ago, I feel like that was very productive because there were some significant issues about artificial intelligence that had to be addressed and how they can be used by studios and all of that.
That stuff had to.
Be hammered out. But I'm not even sure these people know why they're striking. They keep saying that King Supers is engaged in illegal actions, but much High Amas is not being clear.
About how Israel allegedly broke a ceasefire.
Nobody seems to know exactly what the illegal actions are, except one accusation that King super says is flatly a lie. I don't know. It's a big mess. This is why I don't want to belong to a union. It just seems like a lot of hassle. I'd rather negotiate my own stuff. And if I do well, I do well. If I don't do well, I don't do well.
Hey, good news, y'all. The world is healing.
There's I probably shouldn't be sarcastic when I'm talking about life and death. Okay, let me just take back that sarcasm, because what I'm talking about is flu deaths in this flu season have now surpassed COVID deaths for the first time since COVID became COVID, and it really emerged as a dangerous disease. This is good news. That means that covid is getting probably more contagious, but less serious. Where's
the flu just keeps sticking around? I tried to find Wait a minute, now, look it up to see how effective the flush is this year. This is what gets me about flu shots, you know, because they they don't really make a flu shot based on what strain of the flu is actually circulating, because they have to make flu shots well before the flu start circulating.
So they just guess.
They just absolutely guess. The CDC estimates. Oh wait, that was last year. Hang on one second, let me find this. The CDC estimates that the flu vaccine that's not giving me what I want, not giving me what I want. I'll find out, but they're never one hundred percent. They have to guess on strains and then they have to decide forty two effective is what I'm seeing right now. Forty effective.
I mean it's better than nothing.
And if you're in a high risk category over sixty five children with comorbidities, go and.
Get your flu shot.
When I figured when I am sixty five, I'm gonna start getting all the vaccines again. Here give me the flu vaccine. I just can't be bothered. I hope I don't get the flu, but you never know. But if you're over sixty five, get the flu shot. It's it's better than nothing and probably will keep you out.
Of the hospital.
That's really you know how you do it, because really it's just about keeping people out of hospitals. You're still gonna get the flu, it just won't be as bad and hopefully you won't die. Although now you may want COVID because you're probably gonna less chance of dying from that. Now that's something to look up at, I guess, isn't it. Scott Jennings, who is the master on CNN now really
the only reason to watch CNN. He shared something on an X and in light of our recent conversation about the King superstrike, I thought it would be appropriate to play the latest workers protest song. And I don't even know what this is from, nor do I care. I'm assuming that it is HBE. I have no idea of federal employees that are mad about Trump and they're having some kind of rally, and then the lady behind the
microphone busted out this brand new banger. Just I feel like like if you just ate or you have a little bit of an upsessed stomach, you might want to listen to this.
I mean it might just send you right over.
I just wanted to give that warning before we play the new labor anthem of the year.
Oh, which shot are you? Which shot are you are me? Which side are you on? Which side are you?
Here?
We'll fight again, show, we'll fine mess no way landscap within.
Our walls, will fight from down to dusk.
And then you got the shot you know the where the name track as we just got. Don't show me anyone us there? Are you? Okay? So when we get through this chorus, shot to the next you of verse. Here, here we go through. I'm coming for unions.
He wants sound side to faint.
He wants sends s too bow to him, but we want.
Him in jail.
Which and then you go back to the well.
But which so should have arm on?
Which?
Yeah? Those you are?
And you can just imagine what this ride? Fuck it?
Can you imagine?
They say in the capitals, found you with the union or a scabby musk bloodhound?
Scavvy musk bloodhound? Did you get that scabby? Oh no, it's not over. It's it's not over. They're still singing Anthony. Yeah, one more verse, one more, here we go. You know, government.
Trump sides, heaven't got a chance unless organ lie, are you?
I mean id off?
Now that that is an earworm for the ages, is what that is? Right there?
Let me just describe the crowd to you.
Okay, I'm gonna give you like, let me blow this up so I can get the full full effect, full picture. Let me give the full screen here. The woman singing off key, she's appears to have short hair with a you know, like a tucon. She's surrounded by a bunch of middle aged, pasty white men and women. There are a few African American gentlemen on the far right. Two of them seem not amused at all. One of them is at least nodding along to the white people's song.
The crowd full of people in hats, some of them really rockin' to the song. Just really the crowd you would expect in this situation.
And if there was any.
Confusion about what I said earlier about what this is one of the reasons I don't want to be in a union, this song is actually the number one reason I don't want to be in a union because I don't want to think about a happened to hear that song, b potentially being coerced to sing that song, or three ever hearing that song again, and I might send Scott Jennings some hate mail for bringing that to my attention,
because I can't unhear it. These people are the same people that wish they could have protested Vietnam, but they were a little too young for that, right, So this is their way.
They turned on their.
Joni Mitchell albums before they went to the rally, listen to some old Woody Guthrie songs while they were driving over. They're just trying to relive what they perceived to be the golden age of progressives, the golden age of unions.
Except the golden age is tarnished now.
And I can see the end of it when we get back, you guys, to save the planet, we're gonna have to cut down all the forests in Colorado. I'll explain after this BIZ two three, and I'm your hose for the next fifty seven minutes. Mandy Connell Anthony Rodriguez right over there. If you have not yet visited the blog, Oh boy, do I have some good stuff on there at mandy'sblog dot com, including I could not embed the video of the dragon meet and greet.
So Universal Studios.
Is adding a how to Train Your Dragon land as what if they do you know what they're replaced to make that because they never they don't have any more space at Universal California. So I'd like to know, like what area they they changed to make it into the How to Train Your Dragon lan I find the How to Train Your Dragon movies adorable and charming.
Did you see the live action trailer come out?
I'm saying yeah, And they've got a new meet and greet with one of the dragons, and it's a very elaborate.
Puppet did not directly replace a pre existing land previously undeveloped area.
Within the parks? Is that in Orlando or is that in La at Universal Studios?
Okay, I would like to apologize to everyone who is now sending me nasty text messages that say things.
Like damn it, Mandy, that song is stuck in my head.
Yeah.
I wasn't going to be the only one who heard it. Okay, I wasn't going to be the only one who heard it.
Mandy.
Now I'm walking around singing which.
Side are you on? Which side are you on? Along with cars for kids? And that's the darn tutin truth.
I'm sorry I hurt you.
Again. I wasn't going to be the only one. I have a really interesting video on the blog today of a psychotherapist I believe he's British, and he explains why he became a gender critical psychotherapist and now he refuses to affirm the gender of trans people. He believes it is linked to autism, to underlying mental health issues and this sort of mass hysteria. It's fascinating. It's very very
interesting that's on the blog today. And also I've got one video that almost makes me not want to kayak anymore, even though I love kayaking. Dude's on a kayak, not exactly a large vessel, right, and he's being stalked by a gray white shark.
Yeah.
And when I say stopped, I mean the shark is following him.
It was only missing the Jaws music. Yes, I don't know.
I seriously, how did he not put the Jaws music over?
Anyway?
Hello, all right, guys, now we've got to move on because we have some important work to do here in Colorado.
We're gonna have to go down and cut down.
All of our trees in Colorado, hear me out. According to data reviewed this from our friends at CBS four here in Denver. According to data reviewed and analyzed by Colorado State University researchers, Colorado's forest as a collective is now emitting more carbon into the atmosphere than it is absorbing. Data collected between two thousand and two and twenty nineteen showed the number of carbon sources outnumbered the number of
carbon sinks in Colorado's forest. Carbon sources are the areas of the forests that are emitting carbon.
They are the dead trees.
Because once a tree dies, it immediately begins to deteriorate.
You know.
One of the things that's fascinating to me moving from a place that is high humidity in the state of Florida when I was a kid, so you could have a giant oak tree. I mean when I say giant, I'm talking about how like, I don't know, four or five feet in diameter, right, massive, And they get old and they die and they fall over within a very brief number of years. The level of deterioration of that
log is significant. First of all, it comes off, then the inside starts getting cored out, and within a few years you're usually ending up with a hollow log that will maintain its structural integrity for some time. But you can see how seriously the tree is already degraded. In Colorado, trees die and they just stay, they don't deteriorate. It's like we're missing the bugs that eat trees or whatever.
So now all of the beetle kill trees that have been killed in the forest, they're all just standing there, slowly but surely releasing carbon. Carbon sinks, conversely, are portions of the forests that are absorbing carbon from the atmosphere via photosynthesis, and Tony Vorster, researcher at CSU, said, one thing we found is.
Colorado's forest holds a lot of carbon.
They hold the equivalent of one point three billion cars on the road for one year. That's a lot of carbon. In decades now, we have too much dead wood in the state. So there's still pockets of the Colorado forests that are doing very well and absorbing high levels of carbon. However, he noted that the data they obtained was from twenty two to twenty nineteen. That means it doesn't the continued beetle kills are not getting counted, and the extreme wildfire
season we've had it as of late. So I mean every one of those trees that burns, that's just carbon being released in the atmosphere.
So there you go.
There you go.
Trees freeze, they freeze, but then.
They don't like the difference when I'm talking about a high humidity climate. You also have a ton of bugs, right, so many bugs, so many bugs. We have a cabin in the woods, my family does in Florida. It's right on a river. You cannot believe the number.
Of bugs that live in that.
You just have to get used to it and you just have to like be one with the bugs because there's so many. But there's so many bugs. A lot of those bugs will break down that tree. Here it doesn't, and we don't have that, so they almost become petrified.
It's it's bizarre to me.
I mean cool in a nature kind of way, very cool in a nature kind of way. So what I'd love to see here, and this is only me being sarcastic, say we need to cut down all the trees in Colorado because that would be silly, and nobody wants to do that because the trees on the side of the
mountains are beautiful. I love them. But the reality is, when you drive through some of our forests that have so much dead wood, there are one lightning strike away from a massive conflagration that is going to be impossible to contain because there's so much fuel. I don't know the answer. I don't know anything about forest management in terms of what do you do on the side of a mountain when you've got a bunch of dead trees on the side of a mountain.
Have you seen a rod?
Those things that are they hang from a helicopter and they're basically just like a series of buzzsaws and they just drop them down over the tree and they just shread the tree into sawdust. Do we need to do that? How would that disrupt the ecosystem if we went in and instead of letting these trees degrade over I don't even know one hundred years how long does it take in Colorado?
So I mean, how long would that be expected to last?
So?
Yeah, Landy, Just as a point, a meme on X. Just saw a meme on X advertising an album with a friend dresser Yoko Ono Duet. I'd rather listen to that than your What Side Are You On?
Song?
That from Steve.
By the way, if you miss thee What Side Are You On Song, it'll be on the podcast that you can find for free at iHeartRadio. And it's everything. We are making it out to be everything everything.
We're gonna take a very quick time out. When we get back.
You can tell there's a new sheriff in town because someone did something stupid.
And then they got fired.
And the only thing shocking about this story is that they were government employees. I also have a story that kind of goes along with this story about polling on Doge. There was a lot being a lot of hate being made a couple of weeks ago. Oh, the American people, they don't want Elon Musk to take over. They don't like Doge. It's terrible because all they were hearing was the bad stuff. And then over the last couple of weeks, dough Is released all of this information about these insane
things that we've just from the Common Spirit health text line. Mandy, I identify with your statement about living in Florida in the woods. My husband and I moved full time from Denver to our fishing cabin in the woods on the Saint John's River in twenty twenty one. I am still not used to the number of bugs. It's crazy. Compared to Colorado, I do not miss shoveling snow though. You either have snow or you have bugs. That's the way it is, Mandy.
I think slow composition is a way to go.
These dead trees are great habitat for nut hatches and woodpeckers. There are bugs, just not the numbers in a human climate. Interestingly, new growth for is post wildfires are much large your carbon sinks than old growth. Forest have to consider all the grass and plants to thrive on the forest floor. More sunlight, more plants. Seems to me though, that you could probably do a little bit of thinning, because I'm telling you, man, there are like Medicine Boat National Forest.
We were driving up to Wyoming a few years ago. There are just hundreds and hundreds of acres with no live trees at all, and I just think somebody's gonna drop a match and it's gonna be an absolute disaster.
All right, you guys.
You may have heard the story when California was on fire, and everybody.
Was looking at FEMA to help.
And I was laughing and laughing to myself because I've dealt with FEMA before. There was a story out that they ran out of money for emergency victims because they were spending money on illegal immigrants, and everybody was like, nuh uhh, that money doesn't come out of our emergency fund. It comes out of our illegal immigrant fund, to which I asked the question, why does FEMA have any funds
for legal immigration? But here we are. Yesterday four employees were fired over payments to reimburse New York City for hotel costs for migrants. The workers were accused of circumventing leadership to make the transactions, which had been standard for years through a program that helps with costs to care for a surge in migration. However, officials did not give
details on how the four had violated any policies. The payments were suspended and then the employees authorized them later anyway, to the tune of fifty nine million dollars.
And by the way, this was remember.
These were luxury hotels in New York that they were housing illegal immigrants in sometimes up to a month, and the same Federal Emergency Management Administration was kind enough and generous enough to give seven hundred and fifty dollars checks to people who had lost everything. This is why, exactly why DOGE is.
Polling upward now.
When DOGE was announced and you know, Elon Musk shows up on day one to start slashing budgets and all that stuff, there was a concerted effort to kill the messenger, just absolute media lockstep. Elon Musk is the problem, not the not the politicians and the government that has been sealing and wasting your money.
They are not the problem. Look away, look away.
And some early polling people were like, I don't know about this Doge thing. But then the year stories about how we spent sent fifty million dollars for condoms to a place which turned out to be in Africa, not Gaza, in the Gaza strip, but Gaza, Africa, and everybody was like, see that's not even We're not sending those tomas, but why are we spending fifty million dollars on condoms for
Africa in the first place. Americans are starting to ask big questions, really big questions, and they're starting to think DOGE may be a pretty good idea right now.
The polling data latest done by.
Trafalgar Group just a few days ago February seventh to the ninth, forty nine percent approve of the job Musk is doing it Doge. Only forty four percent disapprove.
The poll is also good news for Trump.
Fifty four percent of voters approve of the job the president is doing, while forty.
Five percent disapprove.
The poll is a margineer about three points in recent polls that have been mainly for Trump, good for Trump but negative for Musk.
Trump is more popular than ever.
The latest polling from Emerson College, conducted at the end of January, showed that Trump's approval rating stands at forty nine percent while forty one percent disapprove. This is an increase from his first term. He has approval ratings peaked then at forty eight percent in August of twenty twenty, and his favorability ratings are also in the historic eyes. His net favorable is now point eight percent or just point eight that's the difference between people who like him
and people who don't like him. The low was February of twenty twenty one minus eighteen. Obviously, kind of a big deal. Now people are not as keen on Elon Musk, but that's okay. He doesn't care because, as I said, one of the reasons I love what Elon Musk is doing is that he is beholden to no one. He doesn't owe anybody anything. He's not running for reelection, and the man has fu money. He doesn't care what you think of him. He doesn't care because he doesn't have to. Our opinions don't matter.
And he's right.
The government has to be wrought under control very very quickly, or we are all screwed. When we get back, We're going to tell you a little bit. And that's something that I've been doing for the last thirty five years, and that is thrifting.
The CEO of the Art Thrift Store.
Is coming up.
They've got an event. You're going to find out more about why they do what they do. It is such a wonderful organization. Keep it right here on KOA. It's about I don't know, so forty years now. Since I was fifteen years old, I have been a thrift store shopper.
I love a good thrift store.
I love it.
I not only shop there, I donate there and now when I donate, I donate to an arc thrift store. And joining me now the CEO of arc Thrift Stores, Lloyd Lewis to talk about a fundraiser coming up. Lloyd, welcome to the show. First of all, Mandie, thanks for having me.
I'm great to see you.
Well, tell people a little bit about arc thrift stores, where they came from, how they got started, and what they actually do other than buy and sell goods.
Yeah, we got started over fifty years ago, and our mission is to raise funds to support now fifteen arc Afficacy chapters across Colorado from Four Columns to Publo and on the Western slopan Grand Junction.
And in turn, those chapters that we support help people.
With intellectual disabilities find jobs, housing, medical services, services, and schools. And people with intellectual disabilities may have down syndrome, they may have autism, they may have cerebral palsy, they may have other non specific cognitive challenges. But the work that the chapters do that we support with our fundraising through our stores is extremely critical to thousands and thousands of individuals and families all across Colorado.
Lloyd, I was selling you.
Off the air that when I was very young, so forty years ago, again, my mother actually worked for an ARC organization and they at her group, they taught adults with developmental disabilities to do lawn care and to refinish furniture, and that.
Was what they did.
But it allowed them to live somewhat independently because people don't necessarily think about it. Maybe you have a challenge that prevents you from being able to live by yourself, but that doesn't mean that you have to live with your parents until they pass away. There are ways to help people who may need a little extra sistance be able to live a more independent life, and work is a huge part of that. And do you guys, I know that you have at the store that I frequent.
You have individuals that are working for arc thrift stores. So is that a program that allows them to make a little income. How does that program work?
Yeah? I want to talk about that program, but I want to start with your on screen. There's no way forty years ago we work fifteens. So you're making that up.
Thank you, I'm making that making that Yeah.
Secondly, I'm so appreciative that your mother helped us and was committed to what we do and The point you make on people with intellectual disabilities being able to be employed and being able to contribute and earn money is extremely important.
When I started twenty years ago, we had ten employees with intellectual disabilities.
Today we have five hundred, wow, And they are working all aspects of our company. They may accept donations, they may unload donations, they may sort donations.
Price them, tag them, run them out to the sales floor.
They work in my corporate office, they work in our warehouse, and they are amazing employees and I attribute our success to their employment. They are very positive, they love to contribute, they love to work in teams, and they inspire their fellow employees. And we have had nineteen of twenty years of record success except for the COVID year, which was a challenge. We also have supplemental programs for these wonderful employees.
We created something we call ARC University, which is a series of twelve post secondary style classes and money and computers and transportation, and we do it over lunch, and if they participated at all, they get a certificate. If they participate in six of twelve they get a bachelor's degree, nine of twelve a master's degree. Twelve of twelve a PhD in last graduation. We have thirty masters graduates, thirty PhDs. I tell them, and it upsets me that they all
have many more integrees than I do. But you know, you think you're at Harvard commencement. They're just all proud and just so happy. We have a social program.
We may go to the.
Museums or the zoos or the movies.
They love karaoke, make me sing Ringo, fire carry over. And we have a community service program with the Civitans where they may make cookies for the police, or prepare care packages for military service personnel serving overseas, or they may write letters to seniors living assisted living.
They're just amazing employees.
And then I myself got started in this because I have a wonderful son who is now twenty one, who has Down.
Syndrome, and he's the inspiration for the work I do in the work that our company does.
Lloyd. Back in the day when my mom was involved in the arc in our community, a lot of people still were sort of laboring under this misconception that if someone was born with Down syndrome or someone has a developmental disability, that they were pretty much incapable of doing anything. Now fast forward to now and we see ad campaigns that have young women who have Down syndrome, and we have athletes that are competing in special Olympics, we have
employees at our through stores. So we've kind of blown that stereotype out of the water. And I think that is the best possible thing that could have ever happened. And you have to be how do you feel about that?
That was a stereotype. It was incorrect.
People did not used to live with their families, they did not used to go to public schools, they did not used to be involved in the community or have employment. But once we started advocating for that, the ark of the United States in particular, you know, as people started to live with their families, participate in the communities, and be employed and be in schools, public schools, you know, all of that changed and they have amazing capacities and capabilities.
Just through inclusion.
As an example, people with Down syndrome have gained on average twenty IQ points. Wow, going from severely to moderately. I don't need to model be impaired, and it's just a stereotype. You know, people are very accepting these days. They love to, you know, be involved with people with disabilities. And you see that, you see that in the media, you see that in the community, and you know you see that in schools, and you know, my son is much.
More popular than me.
They probably much more popular than me.
I'm now Kennedy's dad. I'm not Lloyd. I'm Kennedy's dad. So yeah, he's bypassed me in terms of his impression on the community.
Well, tell me what's happening this Thursday and and what you guys are doing to raise some extra funds for ARC Thrift this Thursday.
We're very excited.
Debbie Brown, the president of the Colorado Business Roundtable, and I are co hosting a special event at at the Landmark in the Tech Center and we are hosting a reception for the CEO of the ARC the United States and the CEO of Inclusion International.
The ARC the United.
States was the first organization founded by parents to advocate in the nineteen boardies for humane treatment in large institutions. People like my son had a life expectancy of teens back in the day because they were being abused and mistreated.
So the ARC the United States advocated for humane treatment followed by advocacy for deinstitutionalization, mainstreaming inclusion, public education, you know, living in the community with their families, and they've made a tremendous difference for people like my son.
And we have the CEO of the ARC the United States visiting us to talk about her work.
I'm on the foundation board for the ARC the United States, on the treasure of that board, and I also serve as treasurer on another board, an international board, Inclusion International, with members in one hundred countries.
And you know, treatment of people with intellectual.
Disabilities varies across not just Star country, but also across the world to a large degree. And you know, they're doing work to advocate or education and employment and you know, independent living.
Across the world.
And I got introduced to it because I saw a video at the ARC United States convention where kids with intellectual disabilities were being sent away to shelters away from their families in Ukraine to avoid you know, the bombings that were occurring, and it was just very sad to see this and how they were being segregated and sheltered away from families. And so, you know, I have become involved in work across the country and across the world to hopefully make a difference for people at my son So.
Can people participate in this event on Thursday out and meet the CEOs. I put the information on the blog, but is it too late to OURSVP?
It is not too late, although I think the RSVP has been discontinued.
But just show up, just bring the rules. So just show up at the Landmark. It's at the Landmark East.
Everyone's welcome and you can hear these two wonderful CEOs talk about their work, and then there'll be an opportunity to donate to support their missions. And also if you go on to the ARC Through store website and go to our donation tab, you can also donate on that tab to these two wonderful organizations.
And you know, we're just excited to have them in town.
I have multiple people on my Common Spirit Health text line, people texting and asking before COVID, did you guys do pickups at people's houses? And if you I have multiple people saying they used to do that but they don't do that anymore.
Is that something that we'll ever be coming back?
Probably not.
What we found is that people are in this world of where they do drop off donations drive throughs, and you know, landlines aren't as popular as they used to be, and they can pull a fast one and ask you to contact me and I'll arrange a pickup. But you know, that's not something that we continued after COVID because I think the environment's changed.
You know, people really do as much with landlines as they used to. We do do furniture pickups.
You can call call us at our warehouse and we'll arrange a furniture pickup.
Oh so that's what they're asking about.
It I might have done that.
We have thirty six stores, all right, Sorry, man. We have thirty six stores and fifteen free.
Standing donation stations, so chances are for anybody there's there's a drop off donation side within a mile.
Or two where they live.
I like to drive around with my donations in the back of my car and let him get good and seasoned for maybe a couple months, and then finally remember to drop them off at the store. I know I'm not the only one who does that, so yeah, I like to. I like to really let him, you know, get get primed before I drop him off.
I'm just kidding. Lloyd Lewis, I appreciate what you're doing.
Sharp. I shop in the ARC store in Parker and it is off the chain.
It's so good. It's so so good.
I was thinking about it as I was talking to you. I think I about this sweater at a thrift store. I'm almost positive I did, and people do not believe me. But I have been thrift shopping for so long, and it's like a little treasure hunt every time you go. Lloyd, I appreciate everything you're doing for the community, and thanks for making time with me today.
Thanks for all your support.
Man.
Appreciate you, all right.
That is Lloyd Lewis. He is the CEO of Arc thrift store.
Zach Ayron has turned into Zacho. I didn't even have to conjure up a spell or anything. Zac.
You ever been a thrift.
Store shopper, big time, big time?
Yeah. When I was in college, there was a thrift store right across from my apartment called the Haven of Rest Mission Thrift Store, and I bought so much stuff in that thrift store that I would then like wash and sell to other people that I knew in college, and nobody ever asked me where I got it, but I would go over there, and I literally on like the brown bag day, where was everything you could fit in the brown bag was five dollars right the whole bag.
So I'd go in there and stack that up and I'd probably make twenty five bucks off my five dollars bag, just reselling stuff. So I became a thrift shopper early, and I think I did get this in a thrift store.
I'm looking at it, I'm thinking maybe I did.
Mandy as well have donations in my trunk that had been there for weeks. Of course, gotta let him age a little bit. Can't just drop him off willy nilly right out of the chute. Got to use that extra gas for a few days. Anyway, I got a couple more stories. I've got the trailer for Captain America Brave New World on the blog today. A rod is he's a little for clemped because the reviews are not good, not good at all.
I want to like it, but yeah, maybe not.
I also have a very good column on the blog today at nandy'sblog dot com by a kindergarten teacher who had the nerve to say at her school that she agreed with President Trump about DEI programs. Let's just say it went over like the old lead balloon was not well received by her kindergarten brethren. That's on the blog today. And just in case you missed it, I didn't, well, I missed Best in Show. Do you ever watch the dog show when it's on the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is on yesterday.
I rarely do.
My girlfriend's really into it.
By for someone who is not a dog show person, I watch an excessive amount of dog show television and yesterday turned it on just in time to see Monty the Giant Schnauzer win the Working Group over a clearly superior Bocephus the Saint Bernard, who came in third, clearly superior. But then Monty went on to win Best in Show. So congratulations to Giant Schnauzer Monty for his big win at the Westminster Kennel Club. And now I can believe
you can just retire and make puppies for money. I mean, that's really what everybody's that's that's really shouldn't that.
Be the end game?
Like you don't want to retire, what are you gonna do when you retire? I'm gonna make make kids for money. If you're successful, you should be able to sell your sperm. Like here you go sell your well, you know, by the time you retire when you're female. Let's just say those eggs aren't worth having, okay, or just not. I dropped an egg this morning and broke it and was.
Like, oh, the abbity.
Some I'm seven dollars or whatever. Ryan Edwards is entered the room. Everybody, that's right up, Yeah.
There you go. That's like all the times that my wife is like bagged things up and I'm like, that's ten cents. Like they can do that. I think can thrown ten cents.
Yeah.
Anyways, it's hard.
When you're trying to sind the herd because you know how much you paid for everything.
That's right right it is.
It's like, dude, that was seventy five dollars. We haven't touched it in twelve years.
I think we can let it go.
I think it's okay, but nobody's buying anybody else's stuff.
We've ever seen the movie Best in the show, Oh God, I love it, my favorite.
It is one of the that whole all of those those movies.
Waiting for Guffman, I mean all of them are just so you gotta have the right sense of humor.
Though I've turned people onto them and they've come back and been like.
What are you what?
So I showed my kids for your consideration this right, Yeah, because they love all those actors.
They watched.
Yes, I don't know if I can say it, the s c H.
I T T Apostrophe S Crazy show. Yeah, we love that show. And so we watched We've watched that show, and so they of all the actors in it. So I was like, oh, we gotta see the you gotta watch all of these. We gotta watch all of them. And so I for where your sideration was right there. It's like, okay, we'll watch it. And they kind of chuckled a few times.
I'm dying.
It's so they're so weird.
So it's so good.
It is so good.
And I think part of it is because I picture in my mind like when they're coming up with this, like, Okay, well, character you want to play.
I don't know, I want to play this character.
I want to play the lesbian dog trainer.
See that's not funny.
Nobody understand.
Mommy just burst out laughing at lesbian dog Trainer.
But once you see the movie, you're like, Okay, Destiny has to Mommy.
So anyway, great, so great, The Best in Show, the movie.
The series of them. I think Best in Show is my favorite. I think so do.
I love Waiting for Guffman because that was the first one I saw. But the Best in Show is just so good. It's so great anyway, all of these movies.
Musician, there's a special place in my heart for a mighty wind.
And now it's time for the most exciting segment all the radio of its guy, the World of the day.
All right, what is our dad joke of the day, please, Zach.
Well, the great thing is I can pin all this on a ron because I showed up. Yes, it's all his fault, exactly.
A genie granted me one wish, so I wish to be happy. Now I live with six starves and work in a mine.
Thank you.
That's funny.
Good, Okay, I actually take credit for that one.
Word of the day.
Yeah it went well, so go ahead. Word of the day.
Uh this new one for me?
Uh hagee A group GRAPHI hagiography. I think it's hagiography. Oh it might be hagiography. Yeah, it has to do with saints.
That's all I remember.
It's either the story is it the stories of the saints?
It is a biography that idealizes or idolizes a person in their lives would probably okay, I just hear that from.
Catholic school, the Hagian wrapping. It's has something to do with saints. I think that's all the writing enough. I don't know anyway. Today's tribute question, I think I know this one as well. I'm having I'm in a bit of a roll right now. In rock climbing, what is the name of the person who manages the rope that a climber uses?
Is a blay?
I think that's what it is too, the blayer. So we just forgot the earth. The process of managing the rope is called blaying.
See Living in Colorado page.
There you go.
What is our jeopardy category, please, sir?
Jeopardy category today is animated movies by character.
I'll give you a character name and a year. Okay me the movie okay?
Two thousand and one, Donkey Manny, what a Shrek jod that'll do?
Don't fast?
Nineteen sixty seven? Sheer Khan a tiger Manny?
What is the Jungle Book?
It's also correct.
Nineteen ninety one gas.
Stone, Ryan, what a beating the beast?
There you go?
Right on?
Or beast right up from under?
Meet all right? Two thousand and four The last.
Of Girl Many Oh God, who are the Incredibles?
There you go?
Or what is the Incredibles?
I guess it's a good category.
This last one for you here two thousand and three Story, Oh, I think that was Ryan.
What is finding Nemo? That's correct? You know it's still lost lost? Yeah, just so much faster. It's good though, all favorites.
Thank god I had a child.
I would have not known any of those.
I mean I would have known the Jungle Book, but I would have known the rest of what's coming up on Gaway Sports?
What do you guys all?
And we have Rick Lewison Studio. We had all sorts of really fun football topics.
It is what I believe or not? The super Bowl just happened. We are one month away from free agency. What are we looking at here?
I mean I heard you guys talking about like wants, needs and stuff like that. Yeah, what are we really looking at? Where you see the most glare situation that the Broncos would be most likely to address in free agency.
It's such a good question, right, because some of it's about value.
They do have some restrictions because they got like thirty five to forty million or so in cap strace, So it's it's kind of one of those deals, like what is it going to cost? Like, for example, t Higgins, it's going to be the top wide receiver available in free agency. Well, he's gonna cost thirty million per year. So if you put yourself in that conversation, that means
you can't do a lot of other things. They probably need to get an inside linebacker, right, and you usually want to do that with a vet sure, so an inside linebacker. They probably continue to invest in the D line. Honestly, I think most of the money they're going to spend is on their own guys like Nick Benito, Zach Allen. Those guys need to do contracts. Coreland Sutton is a
guy you need to address. So it's an interesting discussion because you know, people get into this mindset of like it's the candy store, let's let's get all of this right, all these It's not realistic, and the reality is is you may look at your roster and say, actually, we're continuing to build in our core.
Let's keep doing that.
Either way, it's going to be a fun season next season. It was fun season this season.
It was a fun season.
I mean talking about over delivering. Lebronco is over delivered this year. All right, all that coming up next and more on Kawa Sports.
I will be back tomorrow.
We're gonna talk to my friend Rob Williams because he has dialed in on all these veterans causes and I wanted him to share some of that with you.
And then I'm off on Friday, so tomorrow's my Friday, so whatever. I'll see you guys then