03-07-25 FULL SHOW - Rep. Gabe Evans Today, And Have We Found The Fountain of Youth

a gazillionaire for it. And you're welcome, sir or madam for that. But tell me about this marvel Marlborough shot that you did.

I don't even remember what alcohol it is. But they literally have you swirl around this liquid in your mouth that has these little particles in it that must be some similar concoction to what pop rocks does and do something because you switch this around your mouth long enough, then they have you swallow it and then you breathe a certain way like I forget, I forget it was in or out. But then all of the bartenders are like with baited breath like mister Burns, hands like this

looking at you as it happens. Because then in a millowsecond you get this this feeling from your top of your head down into your fricking stomach where it just feels like you just smoked an entire pack of cigarettes.

I mean, damn, California we all know is expensive, but that is just astronomically more than I thought it was going to be.

surge pricing, sometimes it's insane. You just can't you can't justify it.

forced to do so, but it really helps you take yourself, pause.

turn it off, relax and go. Before the last one it was like maybe like the second to last day, I was like, okay, I'm relaxing in it's over.

find the blog by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says three seven twenty five blog Representative Gabe Evans today and have we found the fountain of youth? Click on that and here are the headlines you will find within tick tech toe.

There is a tariff pause again, scrolling now. Trump wants to deal with ron AJ's Pitt barbecue has been seized. What's your icon or epic pass gonna cost next year? Does our lack of religion coincide with our suicide rates? John Fetterman is heckling his own party. Straight Dude is suing Starbucks for discrimination tgif everybody female athletes respond to Nike's stupid Super Bowl ad. Hey, Rod has a great point here. A fool and his money are soon parted,

poor Hunter Biden. Only you can prevent road accidents. The US government is going to check your social before you come in. Forget the parachute, these kids have hovercrafts. What's for dinner? Free d printed meat? What a crabby jerk of a flight attendant? Old man comedy is on point. Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. So you guys, Arod sends me a video this morning that I could not get to embed on the blog properly. So I was super happy about this because I had

to find out who Andy Huggins was. Andy Huggins is a seventy four year old comedian. He might be seventy five now, and he is hilarious And I barey laughed this morning watching this and all he does is make old man jokes and it's freaking hysterical. He's my new favorite comedian. Should we call mil at Comedy Works and tell her that we've requested that she bring Andy Huggins in, but do it soon because he's not buying any green bananas.

normal life. If you see me and I'm really, really really angry, visibly angry, run away, run away, Because if I am in public and I am visibly angry, something has gone so sideways. You do not want to be a part of this. Trust me. And I used to be a flight attendant on Delta Airlines, and the things I loved about that job were the cool things that happened with the passengers, right, I mean I met so many interesting people, and I heard interesting stories, and people

would share things that they were excited about. If they were going to get an award, they would inevitably tell you. And it's just like, in that respect, that part of the job is some of the best parts of the job. So this Delta Airlines flight attendant, there's a woman on a Delta flight. It's sitting at the gate. It has not taken off, it is sitting at the gate, and she finds out that she's been nominated for two Grammy

Awards for her God Hospel record. And she tells her fellow passengers because I mean, she's bursting with excitement and she wants to tell somebody in there there. And then they cut forward and she's singing a little bit and the passengers are, you know, kind of sitting there listening, and this flight attendant come out. He is like, you need to stop singing. Hey, you need to stop saying I am your I am your flight leader. He's that flight leader. What that's not a thing. There's no flight

leader school. You don't do that. That's not even a title. They don't even say that you're not a flight leader. What does that even mean? This aggravated the crap out of me this video, because it's so easy to be kind, It's so easy to just let someone have a moment when they're celebrating something wonderful, and he was just rotten. And I certainly hope Delta Airlines. You know, when I flew for Delta back in nineteen ninety one, they and

the flight attendants. Every group of flight attendants has a reputation. And I mean like Italian flight attendants, the ones that fly for all Italia. They would walk through the airport with their jackets like, you know, slung over both shoulders, smoking a cigarette because it was back you can still smoke in the airport in Italy, and they'd smoke it like they were a you know, Russian spy, and they would all click through the airport at the exact same pace.

I mean, flight attendant groups have a reputation, and Delta's flight attendant reputation was we were super friendly, y'all because Delta was the Atlanta airline. This was before they bought pan Am and became more of a global player. So this is upsetting to me as a former Delta flight attendant where we sort of prided ourselves on being the friendly airline, fly the friendly skies, all that stuff. Right,

I was just aggravated. I fly so much that it's so frustrating when I just see dour, unhappy, mad with power, angry flight attendants on these planes. And don't get me wrong, I understand the job. It is all about safety. It is all about making sure your passengers safely go from point A to point B. And oh yeah, we're gonna throw a drink at you too.

as best I can recall, says this texter. It's three layers of Crown Royal, whiskey, Bailey's Irish Cream, Liqueur, and Kalua. That's very so more to a mind eracer, but a mind e racer has vodka on the top instead of the Crown Royal.

clocks ahead this weekend. Ye Yep, thanks Texter, Yep, You're awesome.

best investigative stuff out there. And he's been on CU regent Wanda James for some time. She is the pot store owner who was made a CU regent who has now been revealed to be advocating for CU to lose money to benefit her business. Oh oh, the tangled web we weave that we're going to explain next with Jimmy. Keep it on KOA. I got to call him that. Mike rosen wrote that I'm gonna share in just a moment because it is interesting. But can we talk about

John Fetterman for just a moment? Okay, because Fetterman is carving out this space where he's just hurling bombs at everybody and rhetorically, of course, but I want to share a tweet that he just sent out. He is a screen grab of an Axios headline that says Trump yank's four hundred million from Colombia over allegations of anti Semitism. Now you know what's been going on at Columbia University. There have been outrageous protests where kids have taken over

classrooms and basically helped people hostage. Just really really outrageous stuff. And it's all been by kids who are anti Semitic, and Colombia is allowed to happen. So John Fetterman grabs that headline and he sends out this tweet. I can't read the whole thing because there's bad words in it, because I guess now everybody's cursing everywhere, and that's you know, I love cursing. I don't know how I feel about the politicians cursing on the internet, but I'll read it.

He says. Columbia let anti Semitism run a muck to cater to lunatic fringe and paid provocateurs. Leadership allowed those a holes to take over the campus and terrorized Jewish students. Now Columbia pays for its failure, and I support that. John Fetterman has been as staunch a supporter of Israel as anyone in the US Senate, but he has been on Democrats left and right. I don't think he's going

to change parties because he still holds very liberal positions. Right, He's still a liberal guy, but he's definitely coming across as more of a classical liberal than a progressive sort of craziness, This Texter said, John Fetterman is trying to build a brand for himself. By the way, you can always hit the text line by texting five sixty six nine to zero. I don't feel that from John Fetterman.

He might be building a brand, But unlike the Instagram members of Congress I was talking about the other day that I really do think are building a brand, trying to build a brand. I think John Fetterman may just be building a brand because he doesn't care. He just doesn't care. His stroke. His stroke changed him. I mean, it seems to have changed him in a pretty fundamental way.

Although I'm not going to pretend I knew a lot about him before the stroke and his run for the Senate, but he's certainly, compared to the positions he's held before, has shown to be much more pragmatic, and it's almost like he just has zero blanks to give, if you know what I mean, and so because he's I mean, it's just been fascinating to watch. If you're not on X, you really should be on X. Just follow politicians and

news media outlets and just use it for that. And it's amazing because I'm telling you right now, so much stuff is happening on this platform on a daily basis, important stuff, world leaders making, you know, asking basically asking for a deal. It's all happening on X. It's this has been a democratization platform like none I've ever seen. Mandy fun Friday question because I am not wanting to work today, here's my question. There are a thousand grapes in front of you. One of them is poisonous and

would kill you. Each grape you eat is worth fifty thousand dollars. How many grapes would you eat? If you eat a poisonous grape, you don't get any money. Well, I would not eat one grape because grapes are like eating eyeballs, and I'm not putting one in my mouth.

wealthy man. I know what he's put into that. I know how hard he's worked, and he's earned every single bit of it. He got nothing from anybody in terms of, you know, freebies or inheritance or anything. But I just look at his life and I think that's not what I aspire to do. I look at the lines on my face as a fifty five year old woman in the media, and I'm like, you know, should I be saving up to get something done? And I'm like, no, because I'm saving up to take my kids to Alaska.

I'd rather do that. I'd rather have the wrinkles but be able to take my family to Alaska. So it's kind of weird. I don't know why I just started going down this path.

thank you, no thing. Yeah, as I'm bringing the fork up to my mouth, it reaches out with its little snail hand and touches my tongue and goes right before I eat it.

in cash right there. I'm just gonna not worry about wasting time on hypotheticals that are never gonna happen.

My Oh no, I can't say that, Mandy. Every time you mentioned your brother, it makes me compare your childhood on the show Young Sheldon. It cracks me up. We were not nearly as well as supervised as the kids on Young Sheldon. Trust me, we'll be back right after this. Keep it on, Koa. I'm excited I'm flying out right after the show to go see my grandsons, so I'm excited. Excited. We're gonna do all kinds of fun things and cook unhealthy stuff. Anyway, I want to share some of a

Mike Rosan column that is in today's Denver Gazette. Mike, you guys know, is probably the most staunch Republican Republican I know, and I know a lot of staunch Republican Republicans, and Mike is probably like the King, and I think of him as what I'm now going to refer to as a classic Republican. That's the Reagan Republican era, you know, small government, free markets, less government intervention. But also we

love a War two right, it'll be real. But I read this column today from Mike, and I didn't know what I thought it was going to say, but I was quite surprised by this. So I'm gonna share part of it with you in the spirit of Mike Rosen, who used to love to read columns on his radio show. Early in the twenty twenty for Republican presidential nominating process, he says, I wasn't enthused about Donald Trump. While I approved of his accomplishments his president and his public policy agenda.

I thought his brash style and the clumsy way he ended his presidency would be a drawback, and that someone like Ron DeSantis or Nikki Hayley was a more electable and capable choice. As it turned out, I was wrong. Not since FDR's election in nineteen thirty two has any American president come out of the starting gate with such a barrage of action as has Trump, which he began as President elect even before his inauguration. This Trump bull rush was essential, and I doubt anyone else would have

had the balls to do it. Trump anticipated the all out opposition of congressional Democrats, Democrats, deep state viureaucrats in the liberal media. He apparently learned a lot about governing from his first term, and now he didn't even worry about re election. A quick start in the first year of a presidency is a must. By the second year,

the opposition digs in for the midterm election. That's already happened with nitwit Democrat leaders like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Adam Schiff, Maxine Waters and AOC making fools of themselves hyperventilating at confirmation hearings and protest rallies in the streets. Our founders creatively re engineered democracy, limiting government and fashioning a constitutional republic driven by the energy of capitalism that became the freest, most stable, and productive system of political

economy the world has ever known. In the process, it delivered an unheard of standard of living to its populace. By twenty twenty four, that vision was unrecognizable. The Biden presidency in name only cemented Barack Obama's fundamental transformation of America into a big government, intrusive, bureaucratic welfare state that can't educate its kids or balance its books. Identity politics has replaced individuality and divided the people, defining everyone by race, ethnicity, class, gender,

or disability. The Democrat progressive cartel that dominates public schools, higher education, the media, and entertainment has turned many Americans against our history, religion, values, and principles. The mission of Trump and the Republican Congress is to roll all that back and fundamentally restore America to its best self. The agenda also includes cooling global warming paranoia, repealing the Green New Deal, unleashing America's oil and gas resources, and expanding

nuclear energy, which will bring down consumer price inflation. The newfound electoral coalition that swept Republicans into power in twenty twenty four will be parleyed into an even bigger win in the twenty twenty six midterms. Why are Democrats outraged at Elon Musk for trying to make the government more efficient because they don't care about efficiency. Government is they're all powerful deity that all must always be enlarged to

solve all our problems. No, Musk wasn't elected, He was appointed by Trump, just like thousands of other non civil service federal officials. Every president is empowered to appoint without Senate confirmation. Must DOGE investigators caught the public's attention by exposing the US Agency for International Developments wasteful spending on politicized progressive projects worldwide. But Democrats have asked the court to block voge's access to this kind of information. On

the contrary, it's essential to restore accountability. USAID was created during JFK's presidency to win the affection of underdeveloped nations. Obviously it hasn't. Most of those nations habitually vote against the US interest in the UN General Assembly. Our generous humanitarian aid worldwide goes largely unappreciated, although perhaps half the world's population would love to come here as even as

I legal immigrants. It's preposterous that Democrats attacking Trump pretend to represent the public when it was most of the voting public that turned the Democrats out, rejecting their progressive policies, choosing Trump over Kamala and giving Republicans control of both sides of Congress. Trump is just delivering on his campaign promises,

as was to be expected. No, Trump isn't a threat to democracy, as Democrats absurdly contend, but he is a threat to their control of the country, and thank Heavens for that. Colorado and Denver are microcosms of all this. The democrats iron grip on government as californicated, our once conservative state, The state legislature and Denver City Council continue to pile on yet more intrusive big brother nannyist progressive laws and regulations to mold our behavior, reduce our freedoms,

and raise our taxes. Next, they'll put a bicycle and circled by ballard protester protectors on our state flag as we watch California self destruct. It's hardly a model to follow that, my friends from the great micros in in today's Denver Gazette. Another great column in the Denver Gazette. And see what I'm doing here now, a rod. I know we're coming up to one o'clock, so I'm gonna again preview the fact that Jimmy Sanenberger is going to come on the show and talk about his column in

the Denver Gazette today. Firm thank you about Sea Regent Wanda James, who, though ostensibly is on the Board of Regents to advocate and watch out for the best interest of the University of Colorado, seems to have a bit of a conflict of interest. She is trying to get money stripped away from the university, and it sort of looks very much like she's doing it to benefit her

own business interests. I will have Jimmy on the show next and then we are going to talk about that coming up right after this on KOA.

policy in the state. By the way, speaking of Polish, she ran his first campaign for Congress back in I think two thousand and eight. Not only that, she's a self described pothead who gets elevated daily and is one of the mentors of none other than Tay Anderson. Perfect good sense of who Wanda James is.

But it's my understanding there was also a white baby in the womb in other images from the campaign.

Didn't you a few months back interview a couple of researchers from this program, so you know what they are doing here is trying to educate the public about the high potency of THHC today, which is multitudes what it was twenty thirty years ago, and especially when it comes to kids. And so Wanda James made a big stink about this, saying, you know what, I'm a regent and

this is happening with the University of Colorado. I'm calling it racist, and I'm going to take to LinkedIn and not only that, but i am going to reach out to Governor Polis and his office and say I want to get the funding pulled for this because this while it is a campaign of the School of Public Health as well as the Public Benefit Corporation de Nishim Health, it was mandated several years back, I think in twenty twenty one by the state legislature, which said, we are

tasking the School of Public Health with doing this research and an education campaign, and we're going to spend money from the marijuana tax fund to do it, which seems entirely reasonable for the application of that money, right, And yet, of course Wanda James has to make us think about it, because not only is she a regent, but she has a hot shot of her own and a brand that is personal to her that she has to maintain. And that's what I think is really going on here.

But yeah, she's arguing that that has been debunked, and yet does it provide any contrary evidence of What's striking to me is these are researchers at her own institution that are presenting the science and she has the audacity to critique them on this to the point of saying,

I want to get the funding stripped. Which interesting, Mandy is I actually got a response from Wanda to an email I had sent asking several straightforward questions, and of course she didn't directly answer any of the questions, but you shared a lot of things, including calling it a Republican led spe campaign, attempt to silence black leadership, and more. But what really was interesting to me is that she telled having produced real results because she'd managed to get

some apologies and to get the images removed. And I'm sitting here wondering, Okay, if you managed to accomplish that, then why did you take it the next step to remove the funding and not just say Okay, I'm gonna move on. And that's where the conflict of interest business interests really seems to come into play.

million dollars. Then suddenly, just days after Wanda James makes a big stink about it, the request is let's get rid of the funding all together. That's development. One big development. Number two is that fee regents started hearing from staff from teachers, faculty members, from constituents about this, claiming or complaining about it and saying, look, something's up here. Can

you look into this, what's going on? And so the chair of the Board of Regents, Kelly Renaissan who's a Democrat, and the vice chair of the Board of Regions, Ken Montera, who's a Republican, put in a request to the university's legal council and said, hey, can you look into this and see if there are any policies or laws that may have been violated here, And just last Friday, a week ago today, he came back with a memo to them saying, here are several policies relating to conflict of

interest on do influence things like that, and even several statutes that she may have violated. And of course that's where she went to say, this is ridiculous, this is all racist, what is going on here, And yet it's simply them doing their fiduciary obligation, as the two of them told me to look into this as regents, and she's forgotten that.

further her own business interests. And that's that's shameful. You know, it's just not frustrating, it's it's just irritating and frustrating, and nobody seems to be wanting to hold her to account.

it be elsewhere? But there could be a district attorney who would say I'm going to look into this, in part because Mandy, this is interesting One of the statutes that the attorney for the university identified is a felony a class for felony about attempt to influence a public servant. Recently, Tina Peters was convicted and put to nine years behind bars, and a bulk of that, a good chunk of that with three convictions of that exact same felony.

So perhaps you and I can collaborate on some things that.

equity licenses. Now, this is important because her companies and her organization were involved in creating these licenses for black and brown business owners in the pot industry in twenty twenty, and then the next year went about pushing for the creation of a cannabis loan program that lo and behold would only go to social equity licensees, which included Wanda James,

and she was one of the first two recipients. And now she wants the funding to go from t on THHC this educational program from Colorado School of Public Health to social equity owned pot shops.

Once you get into the government grift system and you figure out how to grift while giving other politicians cover by saying, look, they care about social justice, they care about equity, they care about all that, and at the same time they're just lining in their pockets. That, my friends, is next level grift and the Democrats and the left have mastered it, and the right. I don't want to say, we need to learn how to do it better, but we need to learn how to spot it sooner and

stop it before it has chance to take hold. Just really infuriate.

side as they were all leaving. Twenty billion dollars went out the door of the EPA between the election and Donald Trump taking office, twenty billion with a b. One of those grants, two billion dollars, went to a nonprofit in Atlanta, Georgia that had less than one thousand dollars in its bank accou out when it was given a two billion dollar grant to do something it had never done before. It wasn't even really in the mission statement,

with no oversight. Two billion dollars. Do you know who was on the board of that nonprofit none other than failed candidate Stacy Abrams. What in the world was she going to do with two billion dollars? But helped take Georgia back? I mean, wasn't that. I just I have no faith that all of these things are not just money or laundering operations. This is the best part of what Donald Trump has done all the chaos that's happened. The best part is that people are standing in there going,

I'm sorry, we're doing what with our money? We're spending what on what? And yeah, everybody loves to say that's such a tidy part of the overall budget, but add them all up and you're starting to talk about real cash. So super super frustrating. We're super frustrating in any case. The other grifter that I can get in real quick, that I wasn't going to talk about very much. But it's also such a shocking and upsetting story that I'm sure you're gonna feel exactly the same way I did

when I read about Hunter Biden. I know, I know, do we have a sad Violin? We can play a Roderman some sad Violin type situation because Hunter Biden and I know you guys, I know this is this is going to be really upsetting for some of you. So you may want to just sit down, take a deep breath. Because one of the former first son is having trouble finding work.

But Hunter has fallen onto very hard times. He told the judge he had to drop his lawsuit against the computer shop where he deserted his property and then was outed as a disgusting drug addict who partied with hookers. He had to drop that lawsuit because he had fallen on tough financial times. Tough financial times. I feel terrible for him. He told the judge. His rental house is unlivable after the La fires, although his rental house appears to be the only one on that street that is unscathed.

In his defense, I'm guessing the whole place smells like a giant, you know, woodpile fire. So you know he's It's sad, you guys. Should we have a go fundme for Hunter?

this is from twenty eighteen. This tariff is a perfect example of what Trump was talking about the other night, about the tariffs that are put on US products. And the Canadian dairy market is so protected that there is an allowable amount. There is a quota amount of US dairy that is allowed into Canada, and once you hit

that quota, the tariffs are absolutely insane. Just nuts. Canada has a quota system for imports, and above a certain volume, it imposes high dairy tariffs ranging from two hundred and one point five percent to three hundred and thirteen point five percent. Before the quotas are met, dairy products enter Canada duty free or subject to much lower rates. Now listen to this from UH. This is from a thing

called check your Facts dot Com. Canada heavily regulates this dairy industry with a supply management system that impacts production and sets target prices for dairy products. As part of that system, uses a tariff rate quota for imports. Dairy products imported before a quota on product is met are subject to low tariffs or no tariffs, while products imported after the quota are subjected to tariffs from two hundred and one point five to three thirteen point five. Now,

this is from SHAWNA. Morris. She's with Oh no, I didn't want to read her quote. Sorry, let's give head here from the vice president of the International Dairy Foods Association their Comms department. Generally speaking, when it comes to trade around the world, we get upset when there's a ten percent tariff on something, let alone two hundred and seventy percent. Canadian tariffs are so stiff and so punitive it's just not worth it, so we look for other markets.

So this is one of those times. Only CNN didn't really report it. That way. You know, they kind of left that part out. This is the point that Trump is trying to make. He's trying to make that we we are not treated fairly by these nations when it comes to tariffs. And it's again, you guys, I'm struggling really hard trying to have some sort of bigger picture

come into focus. Because if Trump believes and I'm gonna lay these scenarios out and let you guys ferret your way through them as well, if Trump believes the tariffs are a way to fund the government, then you can't just do it willy nilly and not address all the other issues that you're talking about, like getting rid of the income tax and stuff like that. And you don't back down. You levy them and let the chips fall where they may. So if that's the case, then what

are we doing. And if you're trying to make the point that other nations are not treating us fairly in order to force them to the negotiating table or even to drop or lower those tariffs to a more reasonable level, that makes more sense. But then we have a story today about Mexican and Canadian Canada and Mexico, both of their negotiators are saying, we're really not sure what the White House is looking for here. Now they could be

blowing smoke out of their kazoo. I don't know, but I think there should be a clear set of demands here and a clear understanding of what where we're headed. And I don't feel that yet. I'm not saying there's not a clear plan. I'm not saying that there isn't some kind of you know, direction that we're going that I just can't see. But I don't see it. I do not see it. And it can't just be make America great again. I mean, don't get me wrong, I want America to be great, but that can't just be

the overarching plan, like just general. I will figure out the details later, we'll focus group it on the way. It'll be fine, It'll be a okay, Mandy. I use chat GPT to see if narcissists or are more susceptible to suicide. It indicated that they are. That could explain why suicide rates are exploding under liberal leadership. You know what, We're gonna come back to that story, and no, I'll start it right now because I've said what I have to say about that about this entire situation with Canada

and tariffs. I have no idea how this is going to end, by the way I wish I did. Other talk show hosts are far more confident than I am that they know what's going to happen here. Let me go back to this story that I had today. So suicide rates are very, very high in Colorado. It's the eighth leading cause of death in Colorado. That's pretty significant.

And I'm looking at this map that I grabbed from the story that I was reading, suicide rates by state, and you look at the Western States, and you look at Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, all the way up the Rockies, you have higher than average suicide rates. Now I started thinking about this map in particular, and I thought, you know what, I'm going to go find a map of religiosity in states by states, basically, like

you know what states are the most religious. So I found one that showed the percentage of population where we're religion is important. And the two maps they match up quite a bit in terms of which parts of the country have the lowest rates of suicide. They also have the highest rates of religiosity. Now, not all of these match. There are outliers. So this is and this is all

just me spitballing here. But every ill that we talk about right now, you know, we have a we have an epidemic of loneliness where people no longer have human connection. We have suicide rates that are well above where any

reasonable state should be. You know, we have this kind of general aggravation in society, and this so easily to drop back into tribal positions and be really angry at the people across the way from us, and all of these things, All of these things in my life any way, in my estimation, a lot of that stuff can be handled by God. And I'm not even pushing a church here because I don't attend church. I grew up Catholic, I don't attend church. I've never been much of a

joiner anyway. I'm not really a person that joins things. And I commune with God on a regular basis on my own, so I'm good with that. And if I need real spiritual guidance, then I can talk to Fither Mike and he will send me in the right direction. He's our personal priest. I mean, he's a priest for

other people too, but he's my personal priest. So I start thinking about this, Stefan, how do you even begin to have this conversation with people who have turned so far away from anything that resembles a higher power without seeming like some kind of You know, I'm gonna knock on your door on Saturday morning at seven and be like, can I talk to you about the Lord Jesus Christ? You know I don't want to do that. Are people having these conversations around you? Because I see little flashes

of hope. I see stories that finally the decline in religion is finally seems to have bottomed out and started to respond a little bit. I see stories about young men going to church, not as part of a couple, but young men are some of the fastest demographics in churches now. And I think to myself, it's everybody's looking for this stuff, right, They're searching, They're looking for something. And I have another story on the blog that actually sent me down this rabbit hole in the first place,

about something that is now called acute suicidality. And acute suicidality is when someone with no prior issue, no prior concerns, no prior suicidal ideation, It has never been a thought in their head. They just have something happen and they kill themselves. And that's where I think to myself. You know, I grew up Catholic, where suicide is a mortal sin, and I'm not I'm not wired in such a way that I think I would ever take my own life.

I just don't think I would ever do that. I mean, never say never, I guess, but I just don't see myself ever being in a situation where I would not be able to find some reason in my life to continue. I mean maybe the apocalypse or whatever. You know, do I really want to live in a post apocalyptic world? I don't know. But nonetheless, that knowledge that this was a mortal sin that would keep me out of heaven,

it was a very powerful thing. And in the abstract, I mean, you know, you could decide that sounds absurd, but as a kid, as a young adult, it made me aware of my responsibilities as a human. So we are going to see I just wonder Mandy Capitalist yesterday said there was a huge turnout for Ash Wednesday. Don't know his source. So I have spoken or seen people on my Facebook page, my personal Facebook page talk about

how many people were at church for ash Wednesday. I always I never liked ash Wednesday because then you walked around with ashes on your forehead the whole time, Mandy, Ash Wednesday service was crowded. People need to believe in something higher than themselves.

being creepy. I've had people approach me about coming to their church, and I'm always very flattered, and then I'm I'm just not really a church person. It's just not my jam for a variety of reasons. I wonder you can always text us at five six six and I, oh, that's the Common Spirit heal this Common Spirit health text line.

When we get back, I want to talk about a story that's kind of I don't know, I'm gonna watch this story, but it's about a dude suing Starbus for the harassment he had to endure for being straight.

on the job because he is straight. Christopher Sevenson, a heterotypical gender typical man in Rochester, New York, claimed supervisors that his location treated him in a materially different manner than employees who were not heterosexual or gender typical men. The suit, which was served on Starbucks in late February, describes forty seven year old Thievenson as a model employee who performed the essential functions of his employment in an

exemplary fashion. However, he contends his LGBTQ plus coworkers created a hostile work environment due to his gender typicality and sexual orientation and when he went to higher ups to complain, they fired him. Reached by phone on Thursday, Evanson, a person of color who now works at a bank, said he was reluctant to comment before consulting with the attorney. The attorney believes that his heterosexuality was weaponized against him

and then management was indifferent to his complaints. So, yeah, we've got a couple of things going on right now. One is a case of an Ohio woman whose suitor employee, the state Department of Youth Services, because not only was she denied a promotion because she is heterosexual, she maintains she was also demoted and replaced by a gay man. A state agency won the first the six US Court

of Appeals turned it over. She took her case to the Supreme Court, and if they rule with her, it could open the door for those from so called majority backgrounds, such as straight white individuals, to sue on the versus basis of reverse discrimination. I hate the word reverse discrimination.

It's stupid. Discrimination is discrimination, period. That's it. If you don't do something, or work with someone, or invite someone because of their ethnicity or who they are or whatever, in any way, shape or form, for a specific reason that has nothing to do specifically with them. That's discrimination anyway. So I'm going to be watching this story very carefully. I find this fascinating because if you're anti discrimination, everybody

should be all anti discrimination. There are a lot of people, and I don't know what percent, but there's a good chunk of people that don't want equality.

good things. I don't know, I think we're a long way away from there, by the way, last month, the state of Missouri sued Starbucks, claiming it's DEI hiring practices were actually slowing down orders, an assertion in the company called inaccurate. Oh, I'd love to see that. I would love to see that. By the way, back to this complaint, It says the employees who worked at the store he oversaw were members of the LGBTQ plus community. Starbucks management

along with store staff, we're a war. We're aware of his gender, typicality and sexual orientation from the start. At all relevant times he was harassed by the staff due to his sex, sexual orientation, and or gender in the course of his employment. Management had a duty to provide him a safe environment in which to do his job free of harassment, but they breached that duty. I can't wait to see how this goes. I mean I cannot wait. By the way, he was terminated in February of twenty

twenty two for genned up unspecified violations. They called him pretextual and intended to hide the real reason he was fired. So this is going to be the straight white guy sues. Can you imagine being the jury in this if it goes to a jury, I wouldn't send it to a jury. I would just send it to a judge. Many variables that could go wrong, too many people who would think, no, that straight white dude doesn't deserve, you know, justice. So we're seeking all kinds of stuff Mandy on the basis

of color doesn't specify which color. Sure, yeah, Mandy, exactly right. Revenge is the usual motivation. Do two wrongs make or right? I don't say it's the usual motivation because I don't believe that anyone who is in a minority class of any sort. I don't believe everyone is out for revenge. If it sounded that way, that is not at all what I was saying. But there's a chunk of those populations that, yeah, they want they want to you know, they want to feel like they got a little something.

And I get it, but it's not very helpful at all, Mandy. I'm Greek, and when I was young, the older women would ask, you should meet some nice Greek girl and get married. I told them I would get married when I met a bad Greek girl. Oh you naughty boy. Naughty boy. Anyway, Okay, when we get back, I've got so many things on the blog that I want to talk about that I probably won't get to.

mayor things of that nature. So it was good. But uh, we've got Gabe Evans coming up to two thirty. We're gonna talk about that and some more stuff in the meantime. This science story is really cool. You know, everybody since the beginning of time has been looking for the Holy Grail. I mean, how many movies have been made about that that very thing. And so now the search for the Holy Grail has gone less of the mystic and more of the scientific trying to find the Holy Grail. And

now it seems that researchers are onto something. But I want to say this all with a caveat. I love science news. I love medical news, and I've loved it for a very long time. I have studied nutrition news as a casual hobby since I was in my early twenties when I had to go to the library and actually look things up in the Periodical Guide to Literature,

you know what I mean. So I now know that I have read, I don't even know thousands of stories that told me about the next incredible, promising thing, but it never happened, or we found out that they were moving in a completely wrong direction, and none of the stuff that we're working on there is turning out to be true. We're kind of seeing that shift right now

in Alzheimer's research. For many, many years, they were chasing the amyloid plaque proteins, you know, protein, that's where they were going, and all the money was going there because it seemed like the most rational thing. But now they're finding out maybe it's more inflammation related, and the science

is beginning to shift. I talked to a scientist a long time ago who said people would not believe how hard it is to get a grant, because most science is grant based, whether you know from foundations or the government or whatever. They're getting grants to do this. Unless you know you're a drug company and you're trying to develop new drugs. They said, you wouldn't believe how hard it is to get a grant for something that isn't

already something that people are working on. So if you want to do something completely different, it is really hard to get a grant for that because there's once this kind of consensus around what seems like the best idea. That's where all the money goes. So anyway, let me get back to this now that I give you my giant disclaimer of don't put too much stock in this story. There there was an experiment in twenty sixteen at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, and it

is considered the experiment that changed everything. The experiment involved mice born to live fast and die young. You want to party with these mice? Okay? Bread with a rodent version of progeria, a condition that causes premature aging. Left alone, the animals grow gray and frail, and then die about seven months later, compared to a lifespan of about two years for a typical lab mouse. Now, the scientists decided

to change the animals aging. They injected them with a virus carrying four genes that can reshape DNA and in effect make every cell in the rodents' bodies young again. The scientists could even control the genes from outside the mice, turning them on and off to manage the safety and potency of the genetic changes. Now, the first thing that I thought of when I read that paragraph is, wait a minute, they can turn off this stuff inside and out like they what do they have an app for that?

That's a little unnerving, because what if they could put something in us and turn it on and off. I don't like that at all, but any I digress. The experiment worked. The animals live thirty percent longer afterward. That was a marked improvement, but not quite the normal mouse lifespan, but it created a gold rush into this kind of research, and now segular reprogramming, as they're calling it, is hailed as the most promising scientific approach to improving human health

spans and lifespans. So it kind of works like this. It actually cleans off the debris that grows on the on the DNA structure are cellular structure in our bodies. And there's a big explanation of it in this article, and it's I'm not going to go into great detail because the other thing you need to know is so far they've only done this in mice, and it has a few problems like creating giant tumors and sending some to an early death. So there are some big issues

that have to be overcome, big, big, big issues. They call them the Yamanaka factors. By the way, their skin cells or their cells that can change one cell into everything, because what this does is it strips down an aging cell and essentially turns it back into a stem cell, and the stem cell then becomes whatever cell it is supposed to be. It's supposed to be an ear, it becomes an ear, it's supposed to become a tooth, it

becomes a tooth, that kind of thing. But the problem is is that those kinds of cells often don't get them message that they're supposed to be a certain thing, and they can create horrible, giant, benign tumors. I guess there's something in the fact that they're benign, but they've got a lot of stuff to figure out before this ever comes to human consumption. But all I could think of was, oh, my gosh, this is the substance, isn't it.

I didn't even see the movie where Demi Moore or injects this substance and then birth's another version of herself out of her back or something. And then I started thinking philosophically because I've been in my feels lately. I've been thinking about all kinds of stuff lately, and I thought, would I even want to live forever? I don't know, because I'm a believer. Zipping back to our religion discussion in the last hour, like don't get me wrong. I don't want to die in time soon. I want to live,

have a happy, long life span and health span. I want to be healthy until I die kind of thing. But I don't want to stick around forever. I believe this is just one part of a bigger adventure. But I know that there are people out there who just can't not bear the thought of not being here, because they really do think after this, it's just the you know, eternal dirt nap doesn't seem as much fun that way. Regarding mice, you should have said, but I digress. I did.

Wait what, oh, oh, we have an update. We have an update on the transgender mice situation. Remember how everybody on the left was on their TikTok page going it's called transgenic mice and they're used for research and how dumb is Donald Trump? Well wait till I tell you the dummy is now. We'll do that right after this. Keep it on Koa, Hey, Rod, you were on the cruise ship on Tuesday, weren't you? Were you? Okay? So were people watching the speech? Did anybody talk about it at all?

like five million dollars for transgender mice. And over the last few days there have been all these videos on TikTok and Twitter of all these people on the left that are like, Donald Trump needs to know those were transgenic mice, and transgenic mice everybody knows are used for research. He's a stupid See and end did a fact check doge and transgender Mike mice. Trump falsely claimed that the Department of Government Efficiency identified government spending of eight million

dollars for making mice transgender. And then they go on to make the same excuse. But listen to what happened. They had to do a little update, just a little bit of update, and now the fact checks said as the morning after Trump's speech, the White House provided a list of eight point three million dollars in federal grants to health studies that involve mice receiving treatments that can be used in gender affirming healthcare. The White House lists

made clear what Trump in the speech did not. The studies were meant to figure out how these treatments might affect the health of the humans who take them, not for the purpose of making mice transgender, and then they go on from there. So apparently, Karen, there are mice that are being given cross sex hormones. But you know what I find so appalling about that? Why are we doing mouse studies on stuff that we're already giving to human beings. Shouldn't we have done that first? I mean,

isn't that how the scientific process happens. You start by doing you know, like here's in a peatriet dish. We think is what's gonna happen. Maybe we use a little AI tos you up, maybe tighten it up a little bit, and then we're going to move on to a mouse study, and then if we're lucky, we're gonna move on to a primate study or even humans at that point. But here we are, we're funding studies in mice to see what might happen to them when we're actually giving it

to people already right now. I found that story to be fascinating. I saw that by the way, on X today, I said it earlier, and I am not getting paid. As a matter of fact, I pay Elon Musk to have a premium account so I can edit stuff because I make a lot of typos, and there is so much stuff happening on that platform right now that I'm just gonna say it. You need to be on X. You don't have to engage, you don't have to you don't have to like have a whole thing, you don't

have to argue with people. You don't have to follow a bunch of people. But you should be following our political leaders, our elected officials. You should be following people in the federal government. You should be following news outlets that at least the ones you like. And then you got to follow people on the other side. There's so much stuff coming out of everything out of DC, and it's all happening on X. It's crazy. It's absolutely amazing,

and I am here for it. Absolutely. I have a lot of other stuff on the blog today that I'm not gonna get to. Oh, I do want to throw this out real quick because we've got Representative Gabe Evans coming up next. So Donald Trump has checked Elon Musk and Doge, but did it in such a way that Elon Musk was standing there going, yep, we endorsed this process. So Trump stressed to his cabinet that they are in charge of their departments and they will be making decisions

about who gets cut and who doesn't. And I think that's a better approach. I've never understood somewhere from the outside of whatever you're doing making cuts from people on the inside, you cannot possibly know if you're cutting good or deadweight. And in theory, the leaders of the agency should understand that. Now when we get back, we've got

Representative Gabe Evans. He had the chance to question Mayor Mike Johnston this week in DC and it was a barn burner, an absolute barn burner, and we're gonna talk to him, Naxie. I got to say. It was his first Congressional Committee hearing and he did a fine job. We'll do that well. I got a vamp here for a second, a rod I'm early. I ran out of things to talk about. Trying to read text messages, but you people are texting terribly today and in terms I can't read most of it. And if I do read it,

it doesn't make sense. Oh. Also on the blog today, Trump wants a deal with Iran. Yep. Yeah. And for all you skiers, I'm scrolling through the blog right now to see what you need to go and check the rates for Icon and Epic passes are out. And I just want to say, bless all y'all who buy these because, oh my gosh, they're expensive. Oh my gosh, skiing you people with your expensive hobbies. We'll be right back with Gabe Evans after this. What you might have missed when the mayor testified in.

that coming from illegal drugs like fentanyl. And we know from criminal intelligence that in the Denver, Colorado area, almost all of that fentanyl is being trafficked by illegal transnational criminal organizations, the Hostco cartel and the Sinaloa cartel. We've seen a massive increase that this is just a recent headline. We've seen an increase in two, which is the drug of choice of trendy atogua in the Denver metro area.

And we've seen headlines that show that overdose deaths in the Denver metro area remained 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.

be a sanctuary city, that it's blank. Is it frustrating that they seem to be arguing about a definition and you're talking about actually what's happening.

just empowering our own local homegrown criminals. They were opening up Colorado to international criminal organizations with their sanctuary state policies, and we see it even now. The governor and the mayor continue to say till they're blue in the face. Of course, we want to work with federal authorities to be able to get people who commit crimes in our

community out of the community. Which was why I chose that specific line of questioning to highlight how are you going to get somebody who is illegally present in the

state or in the city. How are you going to get that person out of the community if you don't even ask them as is required by the FBI fingerprint card, if you don't even ask them their nationality when they are arrested for a crime, and when the mayor couldn't answer that, it highlighted just the absolute gas lighting and the two faced nature of what they say versus the actual policies that they put in place, which protect criminals

who are committing crimes in our community from deportation because even when they're in custody, the cops aren't allowed to determine nationality.

Americans ages eighteen to forty five. Every month we lose more Americans to Fenton All in the entire death toll of the September eleventh terrorist attacks by quite a actually, and we know where fentanyl comes from. It comes from China, it's traffic through Mexico, and it comes into the United States.

And so when we have a new administration that has quite reasonably declared these cartels to be terrorist organizations, that is clearly within the purview of the federal government under the established justice, and to provide for the common defense clauses in the preamble, and so I argue, this is absolutely a place where the federal government has the lawful authority and responsibility to weigh in and make sure that we are protecting Americans from what are quite literally declared

terrorist organization. To help with that, I introduced, as promised, last year, I introduced my first bill in Congress, the Uplift Act, which uplifts public safety by unhandcuffing police to

locate and interdict foreign transgressors. There's a lot of things in the bill, but one of the specific things that it does is it basically holds harmless and indemnify any state or local law enforcement officers who choose to do things like completely fill out the FBI fingerprint card and be able to work with their federal counterparts to be able to get violent criminals out of their communities.

And so again that's one of the many things that my Uplift Act does is it exerts that federal primacy and says, look, if you're working to protect the public safety, you're working to fulfill the oath that you took by getting violent to legal criminals and drug dealers or the dealers out of the community, the federal government will indemnify you from any sort of punitive or retaliatory actions taken against you by the state or the local government.

I mean, it's like, you have to think about all this now. If you're a cop, you know, you can't just go out and do your job. You have to think about whether or not you're breaking state or federal law, and which of those is more likely to get you sued if anything happens while you're on the job. I mean, it's kind of a mess.

misconduct on the part of the officer. So in state law, cops in Colorado are actually presumed guilty and it's up to them to prove their own innocence for anything that was not within the field of view or not captured by body cameras. Wants to work with that kind of liability in an already very dangerous and stressful profession.

handle ice if I showed up. I mean, come on, how is that not running right up against the supremacy of a federal law.

they are ready for a change. And then the second answer to that is as Trump's nominees continue to be confirmed to the various different positions, and I think this is something that you'll probably ultimately see litigated between the states and the localities that continue to try to pretend like they're not sanctuary jurisdictions. And I think that you'll probably see some input on that from the DOJ, the FBI, and some of these other federal agencies under the new administration.

actual crime committed. And through my line of questioning about the fingerprint card, no, they very clearly don't. Through Representative Cranks line of questioning where he was talking about releasing a trend de Agua member in a parking lot, no, they clearly don't. And so you know, that's just the first thing that pops to my mind if we if we define this is they're just going to tell you they're not doing it anyway.

hundred and eighteenth and that resolution expires on March fourteenth. Now, obviously, back in the one hundred and eighteenth, you still have the Democrats controlling the Senate, you had Joe Biden in the White House, and so that continuing Resolution was not perhaps as favorable to the conservative viewpoints just because we didn't control the Senate, we didn't control the presidency. And so where we're at now is we're actually working twofold

Number one. We're working through you've heard President Trump talk about the one big, beautiful bill and budget reconciliation, that is the long term budget to be able to really fix a lot of the problems that we're seeing in

the United States. But there's so much to fix. We're not going to get that package put together by March fourteenth, which is then where this CR, the Continuing Resolution comes in, and then that is a short term fix to be able to bias the time to be able to put together this long term reconciliation package that I think is going to be incredibly effective in terms of just cutting out basics term the government.