03-05-25 FULL SHOW - Drag Out The Dead Horse, Plus An Inventor Changes Tinnitus

into that for sure. This morning the mayor was being grilled on Capitol Hill. But I had no idea, no clue that out of four mayors, he was gonna be the second best.

to immigration. Not to mention, New Yorkers are fed up with what's been going on in New York, I mean fed up. So he basically was like, I'm good, Feds, you know, come on in. And then Mayor Johnston in his opening comments and we'll get to the blog in just a second. Mayor Johnston is opening comments essentially said, yes, all these people came here illegally, but we in Denver welcomed them in such a way our crime went down. Everyone was happy, people were dancing in the streets. It

was incredible. We all did the macarena together. I mean he didn't actually say that, but that's kind of the vibe that he went with. So he basically was like, yeah, we helped him, so what. And then Brandon Johnston from Chicago.

We don't need you interfering. We don't want you coming into our city. Crime is lower than it's ever been in Boston. What are you gonna do?

I can't. I could push back, but it wouldn't have a lot of passion behind it. So let me do the blog because I have the blog because last night the president gave a speech. Boy, it's just fast. I'm been furious right now. Did you watch the speech last night?

So normally I don't watch the speech at all, and then I just read the transcript the next day and I go back and dip in and see what I missed. Right, whole thing like that hour and forty minute speech could have probably twenty minutes without the clapping. But then I committed to live tweeting, and I didn't want to let people down, so I started live tweeting. I made it till about eight thirty, so right before the end of the speech. I made it that far. And then thankfully

my daughter needed help with something. So I was like, oh, sure, I can help you with this thing I know nothing about, but I did. I did. Let's do do the blog. Now that we're ten minutes into the show and I've already told you things. I mean, it's just lots have happened in the last twenty four hours, friends, and I'm a little bit exhausted. Go to the blog. Find it

at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says three five twenty five blog Drag out the Dead Horse plus an inventor changes tonightas Click on that off halper all ships and clipments and press flash and here are the headlines you will find within. Are we done with winter? Why can't the state GOP leave county chapters alone? This guy invented the treatment for tonight as tomorrow? We've got asked the injury attorneys. Trump

gave a speech last night. Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. Commerce Secretary says tariff deal is likely soon. Gold Dome staffers are complaining about crime. Another good restaurant bites the dust. Yes, Colorado needs our own doge. Today is Mayor Johnston's big day in DC. The Aurora City Council race gets even more crowded. China heard what Trump laid down. Our first office building to affordable housing project is happening. Legislators come

close to expanding the cottage laws. No, they don't have dirt on their forehead. There are so many scams happening right now. I must be Hella Strong. Denver Botanic Gardens has some great shows this summer. Being pro energy, is being pro human God Insomnia, lift Weights, and now a cute kitten and a big dog. Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And you can tell that a Rod's not here because they'll see the band. The band's drunk again, Shannon, go Lee. It's only Wednesday.

Usually it takes them till Thursday to get you know, liquored up before the show. Dang it, dang it, all right, you guys, as you can see, the blog is voluminous. There's a lot on here. It's a cornucopia of things, but a lot of them have to do with what's happening in DC. And I just want you guys to know the first thing I do every single day is look at local news every day. That's the first thing that I look at. I look to see what stories look interesting, things we need to talk about, et cetera,

et cetera, et cetera. However, the last few weeks, there has not been anything as interesting as what is happening in DC right now. And now the two have collided because Mayor Mike Johnston has been called to Congress to testify in front of the House Oversight Committee about sanctuary city status. Now what's been really, really, really ridiculous is to listen to all for the mayors, and I just

mentioned all the mayors. We have Mayor Mike Johnson, we have maryor Eric Adams from New York, we have Mayor Brandon Johnson from Chicago, and Mayor Michelle wou from Boston. And to hear them try and explain why the laws that are on the books that prevent them from doing things with the federal government make them a sanctuary city. They're trying to explain it away by changing the definition

of sanctuary city. And it's remarkable because as people are watching it, they're going, wait a minute, that's completely ridiculous. So this is a strategy, and I have to start

the show out. We're just going to talk about the Democratic Party for just a minute, okay, because between what's happening right now in DC with these Democratic mayors lined up trying to tell you that what you know and what you see with your own eyes is completely invalid, and what they're telling you is true as they feed you a crap sandwich. So this is what's happening today

in DC and last night. If you wondered, if you were curious about whether or not the national Democratic Party is in utter and complete disarray, what happened last night at Trump's speech should really answer that question for you, because out of everything that happened last night, and I'm gonna tell you, Trump was at his best last night.

He was funny. He had a couple of lines that were I mean, when he said, after you talked about someone being on the Social Security roles, which is true at the age of three, hundred and sixty nine years old. He looked at Bobby Kennedy and said, Bobby, our country is healthier than I thought. That's funny. I mean, that's funny. And he had a few and he flat out called

Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas to your face. And you know what, normally I don't really like that, like name calling, right, but when you're shot with your own ammunition as she is, Wait, is that insensitive for me to say shot? If I said shot with your own arrows, yeah, that would be insensitive. In any case, It was funny. He was in his element. He was being adored with all the dang clapping, the clapping. Ah,

I hate the clapping. So the speech was like a rollicky speech, but just like they did at the RNC. And we talked about this after we went to the RNC and the DNC this year, about the things that the RNC did better than the DNC. And one of the biggest things that the RNC did so much better than the DNC was focus on normal Americans. They're little vignettes about real human beings who had been impacted by policies in one way or another, maybe positive, maybe negative.

Those were very powerful moments at the RNC, and they worked. They were very very good. They I think they resonated with people in a way that felt very personal, which is not something you usually say about a political convention. Right. Political conventions are about tribalism, and it's really hard to bring people into an emotional space where they feel like you're really seeing them when they're sitting at home in their living room. So it was very successful with the RNC,

and he did it again last night. And the reason I bring up the Democrats in this context is the Democrats were in such disarray that they decided collectively and who they is that I couldn't even tell you who the leadership is right now in the Democratic Party. Allegedly it's Chuck Schumer and a King Jeffreys. They're not doing a good job, but they decide they're just gonna sit on their hands with dower faces the entire speech, whole thing.

So if you just want a quick review of the things that the Democrats sat on their hands, did not smile, did not clap for you. Got a kid with cancer, brain cancer that Trump brings to this speech. So he can then make the kid who's always dreamed kids. Thirteen years old. He's always dream of being a police officer. It's all he's ever wanted to do. So they make the kid an honorary member of the Secret Service. It

was such a moment. It was such and the Democrats sat there stony faced, many of them on their phones. So let's see, they don't cheer for kids with cancer. Then he features a mom who is also in the audience, who's twelve year old daughter was violently abducted, raped, and then murdered by a bunch of illegal immigrants. Okay, they tell this horrific story, and then they talk about what they're doing to honor her name going forward. Democrats sitting there,

stony faced, nothing, nothing at all. Corey Campatori, the gentleman who was murdered in Buttlet at the Butler rally, his family sitting in the gallery. I mean, you think they could at least clap because Trump almost got did get shot, right, I mean, you think maybe they could find it in their hearts to, you know, to clap for the day that Trump got a shot as they honor this man's family. Nothing, stonefaced, sitting there, nothing. Let's talk about reviving the American economy. Nothing.

Let's talk about deporting violent alien criminals, not a thing, no reaction. Let's talk about getting men out of women's sports. Well, of course they're not going to share for that. They just voted that down. Technically, they didn't vote it down, they just filibustered it, so it died. But in any case, I digress. Do you know what they did stand and cheer four last night? One thing they stood and cheered for last night. It was when Trump talked about sending

billions and billions of dollars to Ukraine. But you know what they didn't stand up for when Trump talked about bringing peace to Ukraine. I mean, guys, what is that? Who are they endearing themselves to?

Just a few, and last night the only thing the Democrats stood up for was billions and billions of dollars to Ukraine, not Ukrainian peace. They had already sat back down and did not get back up for that one. I mean, it was just crazy to watch them. I wonder who who are they talking to? Who are they speaking with, because I have to believe that Democrats in the United States of America want to deport criminal aliens, they want that to happen, they want to stop the

flow of Fentanel across the southern border. I have to believe that. I mean, it's crazy. I have to believe that Democrats across America would feel some compassion and maybe a little move by a kid with cancer that they just gave a secret service badge to. So it was just it was so crazy to watch that last night. And honestly, I sometimes I look at what's going on on and I put a different set of lenses on,

and that is my purely political sense of lenses. And this is why I can look at Jared Polis, who I disagree with on so many issues, but I can absolutely tell you he's one of the most skilled politicians I've seen ever ever, he does politics and politicking in a masterful way, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if he was if he didn't end up president. I mean that because I think he's that skilled at it.

So I'm looking at what happened last night from a purely political lens, and I'm thinking to myself, Trump has absolutely broken this Democratic Party. They have no clue how to respond except to put themselves on the opposite of whatever Donald Trump says. So when Donald Trump says we need to deport criminal aliens, the Democrats sit there stony

faced with what taskit? Approval for criminal aliens? I mean, he has put them in a position where their opposition is so incredibly, incredibly entrenched in politics that they're not even listening to see if there's anywhere that maybe even though they think you scare I mean, a blind squirrel signs a nut right, a broken clock worked is right twice a day kind of thing. You're telling me there's not a single thing that the Democrats can agree with

Donald Trump on. I mean, that's that's just masterful politically. I mean, if you are forcing your opponents to defend the indefensible, you won already without even trying, and so everybody who is sitting here and making grand pronouncements about the death of the Republican Party and this is you, guys,

not unless the Democratic Party comes up with something. Because last night they had these little like picketball pickleball paddles, that's what they look like, like pickleball paddles or giant ping pong paddles, and they had put like words on each side of them, and they were holding them up and it just looked so stupid.

They've got to sort themselves out. Don't get me wrong, I hope they don't, at least long enough to maybe write the ship. When we get back, We've got Weather Wednesday. We're gonna talk more about this tonight, not tonight today. We'll talk about it a little bit later in the show. But we got Weather Wednesday coming up. I didn't even tell you my guests were today because I'm just on a tear, an absolute tear. Dave Frasier, Weather Wednesday coming up next. And then this story out, Uh, Shannon, did

a rod tell you where the dead horse is? Did you tell which closet to drag it out of? I need you to drag it out by one because I'm gonna be beating the dead horse again talking about ongoing interference by the clown show that leads the Colorado GOP. And then at two thirty, we've got a guy named doctor Ross O'Neil. He's Irish first of all, which is really the only reason that I booked him, so we all get an Irish accent at two thirty. No, I'm

just kidding. He's the guy who actually invented the technology that doctor Patty is talking about to actually get rid of tonightis and I have now finally developed my own tonight as in one of my ears. You know what, But Shannon, it's been a good ride. I've been a radio since nineteen ninety seven. Okay, So the fact that I made it thirty years without you know, having any

tonight us or hearing damage. I mean no offense to my colleague Marty Glens, but that guy can't hear anything based on where the volume is on this headset when I sit down on it. Wow. Crazy. Anyway, we'll be right back for weather Wednesday. You probably don't have his number, d Shannon. Okay, one moment, please, Shannon Vamp for me, talk for a moment about something exciting for the next thirty seconds while I send you his number. I think you know me a little bit better than that, and

that I don't have anything exciting to talk about. Wow, that is not as helpful as you might think. But I am a do not lead the league in helpfulness?

feel about Dave Williams and the State Party. I feel the same way about Trump and the National Party. Such a joke. Are you ready to get on the Tina Peters bandwagon? Yet your party is the DOJ is you better jump on zoon because Dave Williams and his ILK is the future for your team. I'm just gonna say, I hope not not if I have anything to say about it. But I'm not in that party anymore, so I don't have as much to say about it as I used to. All Right, So hang on one second.

Dave Fraser coming up, because Hello Dave Fraser, without the fancy intro for whether Wednesday, because I forgot to tell Shannon anything before this segment.

But at about three o'clock in the morning, actually right before I was leaving at eleven o'clock at night, it was evident that the snow totals weren't going to get up to the three and four inches that we saw. I only got about two here, and so the National Weather Service downgrade blizzard warning at about three in the

morning to a winter weather advisory. I will tell you, however, I drove home that night, and as you know, you've come up past RidgeGate and get up on the flattop there by Castle Pines Parking and the wind in the snow was just so bad and it was a heavy,

wet snow. Yeah, was sticking to everything. Like my sensors on my car were screaming at me like, hey, radars blind, you can't do drive, Yeah, the steering wheel because it was that kind of visibility and sticky snow and that stuffs always a challenge.

the mountains for us. Some of that moisture is going to spill as a rain shower later on Thursday that could mix with a little bit of snow late Thursday night. And then there's some questions on whether or not we have snow Friday morning or Friday afternoon. Some models want to keep the snow into Friday morning with less than an inch. Others want to dry it out and then bring it back in the afternoon. So I would expect snowshowers on Friday with probably less than an inch of accumulation.

And again, this is another Pacific storm, so it won't be terribly cold. The forecast high on Friday Thursday. It's going to be like fifty five Friday, probably around thirty eight to forty degree. Then here comes the good news. We get back into the fifties on Saturday, fifties on Sunday, and seventies come Monday.

and really impacted people's schedules negatively and unnecessarily. What happened with this particular storm that made it so hard to forecast.

And again that many goes to the fact that this was a Pacific storm. It just didn't have a lot of cold air. The wind component was definitely there. When was the challenge was smacking into the side of eighteen wheelers on I seventy. The problem with the school closures, we do the story time and time again when the National Weather Service issues a blizzard warning and you're the administrator at a school on the eastern plains, places like

Kiowa and Linemen and the bullseye for blizzard conditions. I mean, how do you not make that decision to do school?

was looking at. They had the components to give you that reduced visibility and the blowing and the drifting and being able to keep the roads open. The snow never equated, and so you ended up with a wind event a lot of places more so than the snow and a blizzard event.

It depends on the market you're in, It depends on the day part you're in, It depends on you know, so many different factors go into what people make in our industry that you can't give a blanket statement.

Maybe they rethink what they want to do in life. I will say it's exactly the same it is. It's about the size of the city you ran. You know, what's your destination. Do you want to work in Denver or is hometown? You know, somewhere in a small market

in Kansas and you're comfortable making money. I've worked with guys and known guys in the business for years that worked in smaller cities, lessons who didn't make as much as maybe somebody in a New York city, but they made enough money that they had a comfortable, great life as a career. And it goes through experience. It goes to the position. Some you know, a weekend position might not be paid as much as a Monday through Friday position,

mornings versus nights, all of those things. But in Colorado now, if you're curious about any job because of that change in the law two years ago, all you've got to do is go out and google jobs, and the salaries are right there in plain view.

right back. As soon as Representative Gabe Evans begins questioning Mayor Mike Johnston in DC, we are gonna dip into that because I really want to hear what Gabe has to say, first of all, but I want to play the exchange with Senator Jim Jordan or Representative Jim Jordan's I just I upgraded him because this dude is a Stone called baller all the time, and this is what happened is five minutes long.

I send you a detainer which includes an administrative warrant. Basically, it says, if you're going to release this bad guy, this gang member who allegedly stole a car, menace people and assaulted people, give us a forty eight hour heads up. Is that right?

you have to rest him in the parking lot. That is how stupid sanctuary policies are and what they mean to the community that you put at risk and to the Ice officers who the Ice officer who was assaulted and they had to use a taser on the It's not good, mister.

But in the meantime, I've dragged out the dead horse so I could continue beating it. And we have another example from the clown show running the Colorado GOP State Party joining me. Now, I would not put those words in his mouth. I'll let Hunter Rivera explain exactly what just happened at a Weld County reorganization meeting. Now, Hunter,

I've got to tell you welcome to the show. First of all, but I got to tell you I don't think I ever thought in my lifetime I would be covering a reorg meeting from a political party in a county. It's just not something that really ever makes a ripple, you know. It's one of those things that happens and it's great, but we don't ever really talk about this stuff. So what happened at the Weld County Oh, jeez, Hunter, unmute the computer there, Grant. I muted it because it

was looping. So we're just going to get that now, Hunter, I just laid out everything that you could not hear. So what just happened?

Who gets elected into what positions?

had the authority to do that under state law. All it said is it had to be those individuals had to be ratified therefore become members of our Central Committee, but those are subject to ratification by our county Central Committee. We ended up putting it on our agenda at our County Central Committee, and we satisfied the requirements of the law.

There was an individual who did like that ended up filing a complaint with the State GOP, and the State GOP inserted themselves made a ruling which I believe was improperly given, which said we had to put that at

the top of our agenda. We asked our County Central Committee meeting at the eighth we asked the body, would you like to consider the ratification of these new voting members from Dave Williams and the State GOP at the beginning of our agenda, like they've asked, our Central Committee overwhelmingly said no, and then the State GOP came back on the conclusion of our meeting and invalidated.

the Weld County Party did not want them. And I'm assuming that all of them were William's loyalist that he thought would make it easier for him to do things like change by laws or win another election to be Colorado's chairman, you know of the GOP. So that's pretty much what happened, right, And he tried to stack the deck and you guys rejected it. Yep, that is exactly it.

whatever decision the State Executive Committee came up with. So basically it put us into the position of we could appeal the decision and be at the mercy of the State Central Committee and I have no idea how they would rule on this case, which I felt was a bit of an unknown, or I could strike a deal with the Chairman, and we ended up strecting a deal to where I felt like my county would still have some be somewhat respected in a process of redoing our

reorg meeting, because honestly, I believe my county is still going to hold firm and I believe the results are going to end up being the exact same as they were a month ago.

the Republican Party here in the state. Further because I've beaten them to a bloody pulp as often as possible, because they're terrible and divisive and awful and need to be completely out. But how old are you, Hunter? Oh, I'm only twenty two years old and you were just what is your position going to be?

I initially ran for versus vice chairman, so that's the position I was in for the last two years, and then got involved with a bunch of different candidates. I helped her on Yasmin Navarus campaign, Ryan Gonzalaz's campaigns, and I also ran the cure effort for Dan Woog's race.

So just you know, I've just been activated for a while, been involved at the state capitol as a legislative aid, and just see the stuff that's coming down from Democrats at the state level, and you know, I just got fed up with it and decided to get involved and talk to my neighbors and talk to my community, get involved in my county, and just get good conservative leaders elected here.

the best organized county organizations that I'm aware of. I think there's great people in the Douglas County GOP. I think there's great people in the Jeffco County GOP. They're a far more uphill battle in Jeffco than in Wells or in Douglas. And not to say that any of your local or state I'm not I Please don't think I'm playing favorites. I'm just more familiar with the work that some of those folks are doing. Mandy Hunter has been my proxy often. This is Kathleen Chandler. He's excellent.

Young men are stepping up. There is hope Mandy. I am a voting member in well To and I'm disgusted by the state Republican Party tarranny that from Rick. Why can't we just run? Williams Off says this Texter, Okay, something has shifted, something has happened. First, when he's not running for reelection to be chairman again. He sent that out on a Friday, I believe Friday afternoon press dump,

meaning don't pay attention to it. That's why I'm releasing it Friday afternoon Old District in the book, I'm pretty sure it came out last Friday. And now we hear that he basically capitulated in Well County. Something is going on. But if it makes him go away, I don't care. I mean, don't get me wrong. I hope he's not ill or something. I just hope maybe he's seen the writing on the walls. I don't know. I have no idea. Okay,

back to the biggest news of the day. Oh, by the way, tomorrow at one o'clock, I've got Gary and Brad from Bell and Pollock coming on the show. I this is something you might not know about, your humble host. I love listening to lawyers give out advice on the radio. I think is fascinating when people call in when they have an issue. And so I can't even tell you how many times I've tried to get these guys in the studio to do this just to satisfy my own

curiosity about personal injury stuff. But I actually have questions. Here's a question for you, Grant, and I'm gonna ask the attorneys tomorrow. They're coming in at one, so get your personal injury questions ready. If someone in my neighborhood does not clear the ice off of their sidewalk and then I bless my toukis and I break something, are they responsible for my injuries? Because if so, this is

what I'm going to do. I'm going to start dropping off notes in people's mailboxes with their scofflaws about cleaning their sidewalks. It makes me crazy because I'm a dog walker.

I made it to about eight thirty and then the Q came in and said, Mom, I need help with this, and I was like, oh, thank God, thy God, finally I don't have to watch this anymore. And it's not that it wasn't a great speech. I think Trump was on. He was funny, but it's just so hyperpartisan and all the clapping and eh, I don't like the State of the Union address for that reason.

And when Joe Wilson yelled, you lied at the State of the Union address to uh Barack Obama, that is the first time that that level of decorum had been breached. And back then I said, I do not like that. I realized that everybody's like high fighting because he wasn't wrong, but ultimately it was a breach of decorum. And what did I say back then? Our team won't always be not in power, right the other team, like you got.

It always goes back and forth. So whatever you accept from your party expected to come back in your face later because it will, it most assuredly will. And last night, the the hooting and the hollering and Algreen yelling and getting thrown out and the pickleball paddles with words written on him, and people wearing red suits with stuff written

on him, it just all fell flat. And the Democrats been put in a position where they now have to oppose anything that Donald Trump says, even if it's about giving a badge to a kid with.

and those stories resonate. I got to tell you when Donald Trump last night, and I didn't talk about this earlier, one of the most masterful parts of the speech in terms of helping people understand why he's doing what he's doing, was the list of stuff that we have sent money to, where he was just listing off the crazy stuff that our tax dollars the debt, but my grandchildren will have to pay six million dollars now. And you know, in the in the grand scheme of the budget, none of

that stuff individually is going to make a dent. But if you're trying to make the case to the American people that what Elon Musk is doing is not just not evil but necessary, there was no better way to do it than focusing on that kind of spending. And he truly is just such an entertainer, you know, like, oh he was on list.

It was a very but when people hear that someone is three hundred and sixty nine years old and all the Social Security roles, you start to go, wait a minute, what are we doing. So if the speech was designed to drive public opinion toward what Trump is doing, especially because I think he admitted it last night, he knows that we're in for a bumpy ride here coming up. Although the markets have responded really well today to the speech.

Right now, those are treasury yields. I'll tell you what the market's doing about forty minutes out from close, because the market has has had a bumpy spell here, but it has responded positively. The down's up one point two to two percent by five hundred and eighteen five point twenty s and p's up one point one six percent. I mean he's right though about economically, we're in for a bumpy ride. And I would always direct people to look back to the first few years of the Reagan administration.

The first term, we had a recession because when you slash government spending that you have allowed to grow into this massive part of the economy, which is a lie. Government spending is not real GDP because government doesn't create anything but debt. Now, they provide services, and there are certain things that we as a society have decided are really important and we want them to do, but they don't do anything but produce debt and inflation because they

produce inflation by printing too much money. They produce debt by hiring people to do all these jobs. They don't create anything. So yeah, when you contract that, when you contract something that has been way too much a part of the GDP for way too long, we're going to have a recession. So we needs people to understand exactly what they're doing with government, and right now the Democrats don't seem to have a good answer for it. Mandy. Now,

I definitely don't see him as an entertainer. His constant needling is not funny, says this texter. I thought it was. And when he called Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas to her face, I was like, Oh, no, he didn't. And I don't normally like name calling, but she earned that one. Oh this person. I especially liked the funding for transgender mice, and that's why he did it. It was really, really, really a good speech. The market is not responding to

his speech. It's responding to the delay on tariffs on automakers. That is one part of it, but it's all part of the bigger game, you guys. And like I said, what I would have liked to see from last night's speech that we did not get was a clearer explanation of why all of this stuff matters, why shrinking the size of all that excess spending is going to lower inflation for people. Because people don't understand that connection. I would have liked to I've heard a clearer overall vision

instead of individual sound bites about what was happening. I needed him to wrap it all together in a bigger tapestry. And I don't think he did. But overall, I mean, you know, it was a good speech, just too long and way too much clapping. I have to make a correction because honestly, I didn't know this until right now from the text line. By the way, you can always text us at the Common Spirit Health text line by sending a text message to five sixty six nine zero.

It's very easy. We'd love to hear from you today, especially if you watch the speech or if you've seen snippets of it or heard snippets today. I'd love to know your favorite part if you watch the whole speech, because now people are hitting the text line with different parts. But we've got to say this. Millions for transgender mice, uh huh, they are actually transgenic mice. Look up what

it actually means. It was bs mandy. Okay, So transgenic mice are the mice that they've modified their genome sequence to make them useful for human medical trials. So transgendic mice makes more sense than transgender mice, because honestly, I was like, well, how do they know their transgender I mean do they put a pink in a blue sign up and ask the mice to gravitate towards one. Oh, by the way, for a party that doesn't believe in gender,

why were all the women last night wearing pink? I mean, it's a valid question, very gender behavior by the Democratic women. But I had to correct myself because then I just got this text, Mandy, transgender mice have rights, especially when taking scholarships from actual female mice. Racist. I love you, guys, I really do. I really do, Mandy, if you ask me, the Democrats delivered. They made people think they are heartless, care nothing about anybody but themselves. They are truly an

embarrassment to this country. I went to Senator de Bennet's office. I don't agree with one thing the man says, but I sat there respectfully listening to him talk about himself in his book. I didn't hold up a sign saying you're a loser. I sat there and respected his office. But his party can't extend the same courtesy to the American people's shame, shame, shame. And I said this earlier in the show, and I want to be clear about it. You guys, these speeches are always highly partisan in nature.

They just are in the modern era anyway. I don't know if they ever weren't. But they're always like a raw raw for the party in charge and a boos for the party not in charge. Although the boo hissing that actually is out loud started fairly recently by Republicans, if we're fair, I'm the Republicans started that that being said. In every State of the Union address, there's at least like two or three things that the President says that

everybody gets up and claps their hands for right. And you'd think that the kid with cancer or the mom of the twelve year old who'd been violently raped and murdered by a bunch of illegal immigrants, you think they would have been able to stand up. But the only thing they stood up for last night was when Trump said we've sent billions and billions of dollars to Ukraine. And then a little bit later when Trump said talked about peace in Ukraine. They did not applaud for that,

And I'm like, what what is that? Okay, let's just if they're sending a message, what message am I supposed to receive from that? The message is you love sending billions and billions of dollars to a foreign country, but you don't want them to achieve peace with the billions and millions of dollars that you sent them. Is that the message I'm supposed to get. I don't think they know. I think they're in absolute and total disarray. Mandy loved when Trump called out Dems that no matter what he did,

they would not applaud or approve. He was not wrong this textor said Mandy, that was the most presidential he's ever looked. Mandy, curious if one of your many liberal listeners can defend the disgusting behavior from Democrats, guys people that really hate or who and I don't want to say, I think the people that listen to this show that are on the left are not the people you're looking for.

Because they may be on the left, and they need be passionately on the left, they're also open minded enough to listen to a person they disagree with every single day, you know, and not just to hate tweet me or text me. I mean, you have to give them credit if they're listening to this program. And you also have to understand that people on the left, especially people on the left, you have consumed a very narrow media stream.

They're genuinely afraid, They genuinely think that Donald Trump is going to cancel elections and become a dictator and the Republican Party is just going to be okay with that. And I you know, trust me, if that happened, I will get my torch and my pitchfork and I will meet you guys in DC. It's not okay. It's you know, these these sucking up legislation who are like, we need to do a constitutional amendment so Trump can do a third term. No, sir, no, we don't. We do not

need to make that happen. That is not a thing that needs to happen.

and really, I think they're all female. I'm trying to think that there's any males that are just because Matt Gates is out of Congress now and he was one of them who used their role in Congress to build a brand on the left. You've got AOC, You've got Representative Jasmine Crockett. And I thought about putting her video that she put out on.

I don't like it no matter who does it. I don't care what side of the aisle you are that you're not in that position to self aggrandize and build a brand. You're in that position to represent your constituents. And I feel like there's a chance Lauren is moving in that direction. And I hope so, I truly hope. So Mandy Williams wants to run against Bobert, he would have to move into the fourth district, and I do not think he can win there. I really don't not

at all. Oh, Eric Swalwell, you are correct, but really we know now he's in Congress for the Orgies. Did you hear about this grant?

people got bombed by Ukraine for speaking Russian. Asking for a friend, the Donbass regent you're asking for We're not going through all that again today. We went through all that the other day. But the dog Bass region is incredibly important. And yeah, the Ukrainian government installed by the Biden administration, and that's what happened. Crack down too hard

and when anti Russia. You know, I remembered something the other day that I haven't thought about in the years, so many, many many years ago, and I wish I could remember who I was watching. I was at an event.

So I was at a nerd event, you know, where they have a bunch of speaking and the speaker was talking about the fact that after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the United States really fumbled the response to the fall of the Iron Curtain, because this speaker maintained that if we had worked a little harder to allow Russia to save face on the world stage. And this is well before Ukrainian I mean, this was in the

late nineties, early two thousands that I that I saw. Whoever, this was so as well before the conflict that started in twenty fourteen. He said, if we've done more to allow Russia to save face and bring Putin into the world stage as an important player, that we could have stopped a lot of aggression down the road. And I think about that now, not just in terms of what we're seeing with Ukraine, but also what we're seeing in Gaza.

Not that we need to install hamas, but how do we make the Palestinian people feel enough invested in their future they don't continue choosing the garbage show, you know, organizations like AMAS whenever they have free elections, because I bet you if you had a free election in the in Gaza right now, you'd probably they'd probably choose some moss. So I don't know, Mandy, you slapped a cowboy hat on Mayor Johnston, he could be woody on toy story. Correct, correct,

We'll be right back. So I don't know if you guys saw this, but we have another example this from coloradopolitics dot com. Let me just read the first part of this story, and this is unfortunate. This this came out today when Mayor Mike Johnston is at the capital. By the way, I've kind of deal with Rob Dawson because we believe that Gabe Evans representative Gabe Evans is

going to be testifying in the next little bit. I'm not testifying asking Mayor Johnston questions in the next little bit, but we don't know exactly what time, so we might be at break YadA, YadA, YadA. Rob is going to roll on it and then we're going to play it for you, so it won't actually be live, but it'll be pretty close to live. That way, we don't have to sit here and have Grant just listen over and

over to figure out what we're doing, so you will. Yeah, we will be playing Gabe Evans talking to Mayor Mike Johnston in just a few minutes. So let me just share this from coloradopolitics dot com. As the number of incidents mounted, state lawmakers asked Denver Mayor Mike Johnston to help provide security due to growing criminal activity and harassment around the Colorado State Capitol. On Tuesday morning, a body was discovered on Colefax Avenue, about a block away from

the State Capitol. Last week, police responded to an assault in the parking lot across the street that spilled over into capitol grounds. Several weeks ago, gunfire erupted along Colefax in front of the State Capitol, and last week a legislative aid had to walk into traffic on Colefax to avoid being harassed by someone yelling in a threatening manner.

Makers and staffers say they're being verbally and physically accosted as they walk across Colfax to the Capitol, including an incident in January in which two lawmakers were yelled at and then spat on. Representative Dan Woog Woog of Frederick said, all of us in and out of this building notice a lot of safety issues. He was one who was spat on on the first day of the session. Now, the reason I read this is because the Republicans sent a letter to Mayor Mike Johnston and said, look, you've

got to do something. You've got to give us more security. You got to get police around the State Capitol. And I just want to share with you the response from the Mayor's office. Now, he did tell Colorado Politics his office is open for a productive conversation on the issue. Although the statement sent by a spokesperson did not address the crime and drug use issues around the state capital,

but it did say this. The spokesperson said, in one of the mayor's priorities is for residents, businesses, and visitors to feel safe in the city they work, live in, play. And then they go on to say this. Now, remember the letter outlined multiple ways that staff and lawmakers have been accosted outside the capitol in the last couple of months, not last year, not two years ago, in the last couple of weeks, right, And this is what the Mayor's

office sends back. In just the last year, Denver is sina twenty three percent reduction in shootings and a twenty nine percent drop in homicides involving firearms. The city is building upon that success through proven strategies which prevent prime before it occurs and increase police presence in areas of high risk. Planning is underway to further increase outrage and safety resources in the downtown area from DPD and other

city agencies, as well as community and business partners. Part of this strategy will be to increase visibility of officers in private security to provide a deterrent to crime and help people feel safer. So essentially, they sent back to the letter that said, hey, our staffers are being harassed. A couple of us have actually been spat on around the Capitol. And his response is, no crime has gone down. I mean, isn't that what that says? No crime has

gone down? Your own lived experiences, they're not actually a thing. No, don't worry about it. It's fine, don't worry about it. I mean, okay, kind of what he did today in Congress, And like I said, after a representative gave Evans questions, Mayor Mike Johnston, we will air that in its entirety. And if you have not seen Jim joy Ordan's who's so good at this? And a text to rightly pointed out, like I love Jim Jordan's in situations like this, but

where's the when it comes to voting on stuff. By the way, I secured Representative Thomas Massey on the show next week because you know, I love him. I love him, I love him, I love him, and I'm looking forward to talking about why he voted against the budget cramp Sandwich, although I already know the answer because he's one of the few politicians in DC that is actually what's the word I'm looking for. Consistent, That's the word I'm looking for,

this person, said Mandy. I honestly can't get two worked up about politicians getting spat on. They all deserve it. I really don't want anyone to be spat on in downtown Denver or anywhere else. Mandy. Maybe if the governor actually lived in the Governor's mansion, the city would be safer.

You know what, I'm just gonna say it. You are absolutely right, because if the governor had to deal with this day in and day out, and have his children deal with this day in and day out, I get guarantee you this would have been taking care of a long time ago. Great point, Texter, Great point, Mandy. Remember, Representative al Green was an honorary paid Chinese professor who was deeply involved in the Confucius Institutes rollout, you know,

China forever. Great point didn't know that. We'll be right back.

tonight as even more. And I know many of you in this audience suffer from tonightas and now I suffer from tonight as as well. I made it almost thirty years in radio Grant and I just started getting a ringing in one of my ears like six months ago. I come in here sometimes and people have things so loud. Whenever I sit down after Marty Leunz, I have to I feel like I should sign language to Marty, like I should sign to him because but it's very common

in radio, because we were headphones for three hours a day. Right, that's what we do. But nonetheless they're coming in at two thirty. I would to play the audio of Gabe Evans questioning may Or Mike Johnston. I have not heard this, so we are going to hear it together and Grant, if I give you one of these, can you just hit the pause button because Grant's playing it for me.

When I started my law enforcement career, Colorado was ranked thirty first in the nation for our crime rate, where we were ranked third in the nation last year Denver.

recent headline. We've seen an increase in tucy, which is the drug of choice of trendy aarrogua in the Denver met and we've seen headlines that show that overdose deaths in the Denver metro area remain stubbornly flat despite falling

in pretty much everywhere around the country. In terms of violent crimes, Denver's had over sixty four hundred violent crimes, So that's including things like six hundred and eighty nine sexual assaults, over twelve hundred robberies, over forty four hundred aggravated assaults, and again depending on which database you look at, anywhere from sixty five to seventy one homicides, again double

the homicide rate of San Francisco. So the first question to you is for those homicides, do you know how many of those were committed by people illegally present in the country?

any individual. And that's a problem because of the second item that we're going to display here, which is the standard FBI fingerprint card, something that I've filled out for over a decade when i was a police officer, which has those items as mandatory fields location of birth and

then the citizenship. And so I've heard being a cop in the Denver metro area that police officers in Denver are being told not to fill out those mandatory fields in the FBI fingerprint card, which could potentially indicate why you're unsure of how many of these crimes are being committed by illegal.

the Uplift Act, to focus on this. We're here to protect the victims and Mayor I would ask you to join me in that.

Gabe Evans. He came in hard on pointing out that, you know, we don't even know how many crimes are committed by illegal immigrants in Denver, and you know, statistically it is true that overall people who are immigrants to the country commit crimes at a lower rate than native born They have more to lose, you know, But that doesn't mean that we should not be finding out if people are committing a violent crime, if they're here legally

or not. It does feel more egregious when someone does not have the right to be here and they're here anyway and then they kill someone or they drive drunk or whatever it is and they hurt other people, it feels worse because had they simply not been allowed to break into the country, that particular situation would have never occurred. So I don't know. You know, it's very very interesting

to hear this back and forth. There's so much posturing and pontificating by the members of Congress that it's all kind of a show pony thing. We'll see if has anything ever really productive ever come out of these Oversight Committee meetings. I'm being genuinely when I asked that question, because I can't remember anything. I got text messages on the Common Spirit Health text line at five sixty six nine er. We'll talk about some of those next. A lot of people on the text line the Common Spirit

Health text line. Mandy, I heard your show was fabulous today. Where can I hear the entire show? Sorry I wasn't available to listen. Luckily, you guys can go to the entirely free iHeart Radio app. And here's I'm not telling you how to live your life. But after you download the new iHeart Radio app, they have presets at the top, and I have all of my presets set to my favorite podcasts, including the Taking It for Granted podcast by our own Grant Smith, who was in today for Anthony Rodriguez.

And yes, the first hour was fire. I just want to let you know I was spitting fire, and I was spitting truths about the stuff that's happened in the last twenty four hours. Mandy. Now, please convince Lauren Boebert to stop wearing bright red lipstick. Mandy, You're our only hope. Why don't we hate the bright red lipstick. I think it looks good on her. Un thought she looked really good last night. I thought she looked great. Yeah, I think she looks great last I don't know what your

beef with red lipstick is. Not everyone can wear red lipstick, but some women look great in it. I think she's one of them, Mandy. The FBI fingerprint cards are an important tool in identifying who an individual is. Everyone is digitally scanned, and the FBI uses computers to identify the individual. Every military and most government civilians have been fingerprinted. The

Denver mayor is inhibbiting law enforcement from solving crimes. That was kind of the point that Representative Gabe Evans was making, Mandy. The point is that the crimes committed by illegals would not have happened if they weren't here. Thus the lower rates is not relevant. Second, not identifying them as designed to cover up the consequences of bad policies. That second part, you're spot on, Texter, But I think I kind of covered in my last segment how I feel about those statistics.

Because people that are here with good intentions, meaning that they want to be here because they want to tap into the American dream, they want the opportunity for their children to have a better life. Those are the people who are not going to be committing crimes, right. And then we have the people like the trende Iragua game members who take over apartment camp complexes and engaging human

trafficking and drug dealing and extortion and intimidation. And all of those people need to be sent straight back home or I mean, I have him to do a little time and then let him out of prison and then deport them. I had no idea that red Lipstick was so controversial, but now the text line is a light with conversations about red lipstick. Hey, Mandy, thank you for playing this talking about the Gabe Evans questioning Mayor Mike Johnston audio we just played. Mayor Mike Johnson is the

worst mayor Denver has ever had. He should be recalled and booted. He is horrible now, I mean, but this is what the people of Denver voted for. One thing I will say about Mayor Mike Johnston. In his defense, he said he was going to do all of these

things in the campaign. The only campaign promise that I believe he has broken is the one he made on this show to continue the once monthly appearances that had been an institution on this program even before I got here with Mike Rosen for like thirty years.

keep asking him. So every day you're sending an email more annoying than the last one, and the responded I'm.

respectful in that manner. Maybe I saw a bad picture, but the red lipstick and the white and teeth are too much for me. Could have been filters on the video. I don't know. Many women look better natural.

shorts everywhere. It's like, dude, you're a US senator. Dress the part you'd always say, grant. They always say to a dress for the job you want, not the one you have. Apparently he wants to be a gym coach. He's doing a great job of dressing for us. Yes it is. When we get back, I have an inventor on the show that I'm super excited about because he has created a treatment that is now FDA approved for Tonightis. And even if you don't have Tonightis right now, it

could be in your future. And let me just say, it sucks. So we're gonna talk to them about that next Keep it right here on KOA, I know that we're all reaching a certain age and that our hearing is going right in the you know garbage. I am super excited right now to have two guests on the show. One of them my longtime friend and has really done so much for Chuck in terms of battling his tonightis

doctor Patty from Colorado Tonightis and Hearing Center. Hey, and she has brought in from across the pond, as they say, or they used to say, uh, doctor Ross O'Neill, who has invented something that is an actual treatment for Tonight's instead of what's been available at to this point, which are pretty high speed hearing aids that actually mask the sound of tonightas. And this is kind of revolutionary, doctor Patty.

year and they've gone. But hearing aids really have been the mainstay of bringing that patient because most of the time, if there's hearing loss, most of the time patients ninety percent of patients are going to say they have ringing in their ears. Right, So if we bring that hearing up and correct for that hearing and give that brain back what it's deprived, a lot of times patients will say, yeah, I noticed some improvement.

So if I'm wrong, you need to correct me now.

patients still saying, hey, my foot hurts. So again it's that hyperactivity in ROSK can give you the neuroscience behind it, but but yeah, it's just bringing that stimulation back up so that brain is not looking for that signal.

It's where you see things, you have non psychotic visual illusions because so you see things like World War two soldiers at the bottom of your bed and they're not really there. And so yeah, it's really really strange, and I've spoken to some people that have it and it's it's very bizarre. But there's one for every condition, and

I was going to work in phantom limb. But around about that time, my eldest daughter had profound hearing loss, so I started becoming more increasingly interested in hearing health. And I just kept stumbling on this this problem. It was just seemed like it was just a huge problem and nobody was really tackling it.

me aware of all these things. It feels like the area of brain plasticity has seen a huge influx of research and curiosity. Is that true or am I just paying attention to it better?

the case of tenatus, it works against us. So you keep paying attention to the sound, you keep being frightened by it, and the more you do that, the more likely you are to do it. So that's how it becomes habituated. So we looked every time I talked to people who used hearing aids for tenatus, they said, the hearing aids are great, but when I take them off at night, my tenative spikes and a that gets sleep.

you're getting it essentially that tone through two senses. You're getting it through your ear and through your tongue at the same time.

the second syllable. Anyway, Thank you, smarty pants texter. Somebody asked you your point about getting tonight us after a COVID Mandy, please ask your guests why my tonight iss is ten times worse after the COVID vacs. I don't think anyone knows the answer to that just yet.

just gonna say that. But I'm excited to come tomorrow night learn more about this. So it's very very interesting. And you brought one of the little one. How did you feel the zap on your tongue? I mean you can feel it. It feels like carbonated Yeah, it's just bubbles. Yeah, yeah, and how long do you have to do this? How long does the treatment last?

they get started, it becomes their me time. Are They're like, cause, we really want you to sit down, read a book.

it's coming for you. It's coming for you. Okay, so you can make fun of us all sitting at dinner with our hands up to our ears, but that's your future anyway. On that note, Rob Dawson, have a seat right there, my friend, because now it's time for the most exciting segment all the radio of It's gone words of that day. Rob's the only one who goes down. Everybody else Oh gosh, Patty can keep borrow your headphones

so he can hear. Yeah, well we'll do this right now. Okay, what is our dad joke of the day?

Game two. No, all of us are dead a zombie surviving series set in a high school. I believe that was originally called Buffy the Vampire Slab.