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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the show. And if you thought we barreled on a Tuesday normally, get ready buggle up because this show is twenty four minutes long because at twenty nine past the hour and thirty seconds, we are going to hand the station over to the CU Buffs who are playing in the Pac twelve Basketball tournament. Just so you know, if they win,
they will play again on Wednesday. If they lose, they will not play again this year unless they get invited to the n or a different tournament.
So we'll have to find out how they today.
They just beat the crap out of TCU yesterday, I think, and that's who they play today in the Pac twelve tournament, so we'll see if TCU bounces back.
But that's coming up. At twelve thirty. Let's do the blog.
I'm here Mandy Connell and I'm joined by hey Rod, you can call him Anthony Rodriguez.
By the way, TCU.
Even being beat by twenty as you just mentioned three days ago, they are favored in this game by two.
They have a much better record than CEU, So I mean, like way better.
They are sixty or fifteen. Yeah, they are four games better SEEUOS twelve and nineteen.
Yeah.
So in any case, that's happening today at twelve thirty. But let's tell you what's on the blog. You can find it by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says three eleven twenty five blog a big half hour before CU buffs basketball.
Click on that and here are the headlines you will find within. Oh god, I think it.
In office half of American all with ships and clipas say that's going to press plat.
Today on the blog.
I was supposed to have Representative Thomas Massey on today the Supreme Court, we'll hear bands on therapy for gender confused children. Democratic legislators want to censor social media, and they hate Government Transparency Act Blue maybe laundering money for Democrats.
Republicans are going to push too hard on trans adults.
Colorado loves bougie dog names, a new country bar comes to the Ballpark district, and a new cracker Barrel's coming to town.
My love affair with Southwest is completely over now.
Kyle Clark interviews Dulph Darcy Schooning, COVID purchases we still love and some we regret hate running Watch this.
What does a good deal for Ukraine look like?
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And as you can tell, I gave you stuff to look at at the blog that I did not spend an exorbitan amount of time because the show is a wopping half hour great video or interesting interview with Kyle Clark and Darcy Schooning. Who is the she is running for the GOP chair position. The formatting, for some reason
is all screwed up. I'll fix that right after the show, but it's a very good interview if you want to find out about the people who are running for the Colorado Republican Party chairmanship. I found some of her answers, in my eyes, to be disqualifying, but that's just me. I put it up here so people could make their own decisions. She did handle some of the really tough questions, very very well.
So I want to I want to.
This is not a shell lacking but the answer she gave I strongly disagree with some of them and for me they would be disqualifying. But that is on the blog as well.
Today.
I've also got a couple of videos, one from Diary of a CEO about how to make sure that you're running in a position that your body is going to respond well. And at the very bottom, Constantine Kissen has been He's the host of Triggernometry.
Super interesting guy.
He's been a result loot supporter of the Ukrainian right to defend itself and in this video he says, look, what does a good deal look like for Ukraine? So if you want to hear from someone who is a supporter of Ukraine about a realistic view of what peace for Ukraine with Russia might look like and what he considers to be a fair deal, I would strongly.
Recommend you watch the video.
We're going to talk about it on tomorrow's show, assuming that basketball doesn't eat the show tomorrow. Now back to the top of the blog, because we are now a third of the way through our show. So I'm super bummed because I was supposed to have representative Thomas Massey
on today. He's a Congressman from Kentucky, but he is proving to be a fly in the proverbial ointment when it comes to yet another ginormous Continuing Resolution with lots of extra spending that all the Republicans have been excited about canceling. It's now back in the Continuing Resolution. Thomas Massi he has already come out and said, no, I'm not going to vote for this now. I got to know Thomas Massey when I lived in Kentucky, and I, frankly,
I love the guy, absolutely love him. His problem is he's extremely principled, and he's been in Congress for twelve years now, and for twelve years he has been asked to vote on giant crap sandwich continuing resolution after another, And for twelve years the Republicans have been saying, hey, we just got to get this crap sandwich through because then, really then we're gonna work on cut and spending.
We're gonna cut the.
Budget, we're gonna slash and burn the size of government. But all they've done is make the debt and deficit bigger. So Thomas is done he's finished. He's like, Nope, I am not gonna vote for the crap sandwich. And by the way, this continuing resolution, you know how we've all been kind of celebrating all of the wasteful garbage spending in USAID and Marco Rubio comes out and he says, look, we've canceled a vestment already of the programs with the USAID and we're going to bring the rest into the
State Department. Guess what has funding in this gigantic crap sandwich. If you guessed USAID, you would guess correctly. That's why Thomas Massey is opposed. Now his people are working on helping me reschedule. But as you can imagine, getting Thomas Massey on right now is turning out to be something of a nightmare because he's a very hot commodity as he argues vociferously against more of these deals. So I've got that on the blog today. I will defend Tom
and the reason I brought this up. I should say, as I got an email from email or who emails me all the time.
He sends me great stuff.
We have, you know, no no arguments really with this this emailer, but he is so mad at Thomas Massey.
Twitter is so mad at Thomas Massey. Trump is so mad at Thomas Massy.
And if you want government to be smaller, you should be applauding Thomas Massey and what he's doing.
You should be.
Grateful that he is willing to take the slings and arrows to call attention to the fact that Republicans have lied.
Over and over and over and over and over again.
I mean, come on, you guys, Come on, Mandy, how is it this sports is just not broadcast on either the AM or FM side. Why wouldn't it be smart to consistently have the shows on either the AM side or the FM side, and that perhaps broadcasts those games on the opposite frequency as well as online. It's because we don't split the signal, and that is technologically a
lot harder than you would think. So to say we're gonna now send this over to this and this over this requires a significant amount of tinkering on the back end that simply isn't going to happen. Plus, our contracts stipulate that we play on frequencies, so that is not an option.
So there you go. So that is on the blog today.
My defensive Thomas Massey will continue. Hopefully he's going to be on the show next week. We're working on that because dude is getting beaten up for standing on principle.
Stop it. Oh this person said, by the way, my Twitter is all for him. Yes, yes, Mandy.
It's the CRS and thousand plus page omnibus spending bills in Congress that makes us need Doge in the first place.
Amen.
Amen, But Thomas Massey is here to tell you that whatever Doge has done, Congress is about to undo with this giant cr But nonetheless, hopefully he'll be on next week.
We'll make that happen.
A couple big, big stories on the blog today, one of which we'll talk about a little bit more a little later. The US Supreme Court is going to hear a challenge about the ban in Colorado. We have a ban in Colorado that says that therapists are not allowed to do what's called gay conversion therapy or try to counsel gender confused children into accepting their own gender. Both of those things are banned in Colorado under the same
umbrella rule. So now the US Supreme Court has decided to hear arguments about whether or not this violates the First Amendment rights of therapists.
And I'm going to say I.
Strongly believe that these two things need to be split into two separate things because gay conversion therapy, which has been proven to not be effective.
First of all, a lot.
Of the quote leaders of the gay conversion therapy movement who claim to be ex gay have now come back out as gay and have come out to say, yeah, I said I.
Was cute, but that was ridiculous. I was just living in the closet again.
Now, that is much different to try and convince a gay person that they are actually straight.
And some gay conversion therapy is horrific.
It's been abusive physically, mentally, emotionally, it has been a terrible situation and it's ineffective. But aside from the mental damage that is done from gay conversion therapy, it is nothing compared to the mental and physical damage that is done by gender affirming care for children. Especially according to a study from the Netherlands, about eighty percent of children who experience some kind of gender confusion will resolve their
gender confusion and remain wanting to be their born gender. Now, if we even socially affirm a gender transition, then there is like a ninety five percent chance that will move to medical transition. So just left alone or even with some therapy to help them work through it. And and you know, recognize that there's no right or wrong way to be a girl or a boy.
Most people are going to clear up.
And yet the law says, now in Colorado, you're not even allowed to talk to a kid that says, you know, I'm really struggling. I feel like I was born in the wrong body, and a therapist says, okay.
Let's talk about that. What does that mean.
Well, let's talk about the right way or wrong way to be a male or a woman. You know, let's talk about these things. Let's talk You're not even allowed to do that. If someone accuses you of trying to quote change their gender identity, you are in violation.
Of the law.
And that's crazy. That's absolutely crazy. So the Supreme Court is going to hear this. They've already heard a case out of Tennessee that they have They're going to hear a case in Tennessee over whether state bans on treating transgender miners via the Constitution, but they have yet to issue a decision. So yeah, x gay, says this Texter, Lol. I thought they were born that way. And that's the point.
That's the point. We have a pretty long track history now of conversion therapy failing since the late eighteen hundreds. I looked up the whole history of gay conversion therapy. We have a whole history of that failing. But yet we also have actual studies that have shown children will grow out of this with the right kind of therapy, can learn to accept their own gender, which saves them from a lifetime of medicalization.
So you know, these two things are different. I don't think that gay conversion.
Therapy should be banned, but I think if it's abusive, because some of the gay conversion therapy has been flat out physically and mentally abusive, the stuff they do is horrible, I don't think it should be banned. I think we should definitely let people know it as a track record of absolute failure. Mandy's speaking of Massy. Do you think Republicans have the backbone to actually do.
What they say?
That's the reason they lied over and over and over again. They never have the backbone. Is Trump going to give them the backbone? And this is exactly why Thomas Massey is voting no because he's been lied to too, and
he knows he's part of the problem. He's not going to be part of the problem anymore if we hit a point where our debt service strips away all because right now, you guys, and I try to say this as often as possible, our debt service, the amount of interest we are paying on our debt is now larger than the entire defense budget, the whole thing. So what happens when the debt service gets larger than all of the spending that we do outside of entitlements. So what
happens then Thomas Massey will not be a part of that. Now, I've got to talk about a story that is so so infuriating, and I knew it was coming, and I'm so upset. Southwest Airlines is now going to be charging for bags. I know, I know, I know, I know, I am so well, you know what it is.
I'm sad.
I'm sad because I've been a Southwest customer, loyally loyal Southwest customer for about twenty five years. And I've been loyal to Southwest even though sometimes their prices are higher than others, because you go Hey, I get my bags free, I don't have to worry about that, So I'll buy the slightly more expensive ticket on Southwest because I love Southwest.
I love their lucy goosey attitude.
I flew back from Ohio and Southwest on Sunday night and the flight attendant was hilarious and entertaining and the flight was great.
But now they're just another.
Airline and that makes me sad because now I'm just gonna shop on price, and I'm gonna shop on convenience, and a lot of time, convenience is not what Southwest does best. So I'm heartbroken and I'd love to know, and you can hit the text line at five six six nine. Oh, are you guys going to change your airline habits? Do you have a favorite airline habit?
Oh?
And the others. Another person on the text line just pointed this out and they are. Now they're gonna put an expiration date on your airline credits. So if you have to change a flight or cancel a flight, which they've always been so good about, now that credit will expire. U. Yeah, well, they in their defense on this one, they used to expire. I know because I've had some expire in the very far far past. But during COVID they made they took
away the expiration date. So yeah, this show is moving faster than a rolling Oh, says this Texa.
Yes it is. I've got uh, well, eight more minutes. I've got to make it count, gotta make it count. I have a couple of things happening in the under.
The gold Dome you should probably read about. I've got a very interesting story a column from American Spectator or spect American Spectator.
So if you guys ever heard of Act Blue.
Act Blue is a fundraising platform for Democrats, hence.
The name Act Blue. You donate to Act.
Blue for a cause, and then they distribute the money to those various causes. Only now they are being looked at because they appear, and I'm going to say a peer, I don't know, they appear to have been laundering money for a very long time for Democrats.
Listen to this.
A practice known as smurfing is a kind of identity theft whereby the names of small dollar donors are repeatedly used without their knowledge to mask large dollar political contributions that, by law must be reported to the Federal Elections Commission. The website election Watch, which features a smurf search tool that allows users to search FEC data for implausibly large
numbers of political contributions attributed to individual donors. An examination of the data, for example, indicates that a single Colorado resident allegedly made fifty seven thousand, one hundred and thirty eight contributions one transaction every one point three days, totally no less than two hundred and thirty four thousand, four hundred.
And forty one dollars. And that's not all. That is not all at all.
This person said, Mandy, I'm not only going to shop flights. I'm probably going to change my rewards credit card. Now. If you have a Southwest Rewards credit card, if you book using that card, then you get a free bag. But frankly, they change their points program and.
It sucks now.
So I have switched all of my credit card usage over to my American Express Platinum and my Chase Preferred, Sapphire Preferred whatever. Those are the ones I use for everything because their points are the easiest to move, and American Express is not as easy as the Chase Preferred. And I'm not a points and miles person. I'm not gonna sit here and give some kind of dissertation on that. I'm just gonna let you know, yeah, yeah, Well, there's not a single person on my text line that is
defending or saying they're going to stick with Southwest. Mandy, I too have fallen out of love with Southwest. They're now just another airline, Mandy. I'm in a United Explorer card and get the first check bag free. See now I get airline credits from my American Express card up to two hundred bucks per year to pay for those bag fees and stuff like that, Mandy, like you, twenty five year long time Southwest flyer, no more, I will use up one hundred thousand miles which are worth less
now and move on by bye Southwest. I just you know, I don't want Southwest to go under. I want them to make money. But this is an activist investor who pushed them in this direction, and now we're.
Stuck with it, absolutely stuck with it. Anyway.
Also on the blog today, I have a story that I think is, you know, whenever there's a social movement in the Republican Party, there are always people who take it too far.
And I think that we are going we're seeing that.
Now, when it comes to the very simple discussion about whether or not trans adults should have limitations put on them trans adults, in my mind, I'm a person who believes in freedom right. I believe that when you are an adult, you should have the right to make all kinds of bad decisions. You should be able to destroy your own life if that's what you want to do, but don't ask me to pay for it. Don't ask
me to be responsible for your bad decision making. So under the context of that, I support people who want to have plastic.
Surgery that makes them look like a lizard.
I'm not talking about trans people here, or people that want to have extreme piercings in their face or get their full face tattooed. Now, do I think it's a career limiting decision, Yes I do. Do I think it's a bad choice, yes I do. But if you're an adult, you have to live with the consequences of those actions. So from that respect, when someone is eighteen and they decide they were born in the wrong body and they want to transition, I am knock yourself out, go crazy.
And for the people out there who are saying, you know, they're probably just mentally ill. Maybe they are, but that's not a reason to keep someone out of the workforce. It's not a reason to keep people from making choices for themselves, you know. And there's an idiot Republican in Texas who is now proposed a bill and thankfully, I think there's a zero percent chance and it's going to come to fruition because.
There's no co sponsors at all.
He wants to make presenting yourself as the other gender gender identity fraud and a felony, publishable by jail time. This is stupid and another example of people taking things too far. Last Eye Checked, we were talking about protecting children who are not old enough to make decisions about physical alterations that are going to be permanent, not adults who have the right to do whatever it is they do.
I don't know if you guys have ever seen these women who go out and try to compete to see who can get the biggest fake implants you can possibly get.
Now, don't get me wrong, guys, I know men like boobs.
I get it, I do, I understand, But there's a point where it becomes like a pathological sickness. Right, But they're an adult them go about their business, and those people have jobs. Those people are in society. So can Republicans just stop stop making things an issue that should not be an issue.
That's my thoughts on that. Good news.
Ay Roder, You're going to take a pilgrimage to Cracker Barrel with me when it opens up in the Central Park neighborhood, because I'm going.
What wait, wait, wait wait, you obviously are not well schooled. All the entire Cracker Barrell experience clearly enlighten me. First of all, three words for you, hash brown cast role. That's thing number one. Thing number two.
The Country Store itself. Like you go into Cracker Bill, you get to walk through the Country Store. You get to see all this crap you never knew you needed until you see it there. Useless stuff, useful stuff, old Tommy candy. They have a huge selection of interesting soda pops from around the world. I can't wait for this Crackerbil because it's gonna be the closest one to my house.
Excited about where are the closest ones.
Now, there's one in North there's one in the Springs, there's one in Preblo, and I can't remember where the other one is because it's also far away, so this is going to be the.
One crazy North Lynn, Carlo Springs, Peblo, Loveland, Loveland.
Okay, none of those are close to me, so this is going to be the closest one to my house. So I'm I'm fairly excited about this. You can find out more about that on the blog today. But I'll meet you guys over there for a little bit of hash.
Brown cast role, make it happen? Do that all right?
Last thing on the blog that we're going to get to today, that's kind of boring but important. Boring but important. Okay, I've covered the whole blog in nineteen minutes. Some of
these stories we're going to dig into a little bit deeper. Obviously, the Act Blue story, I think is a really big scandal brewing, but yet another scandal where Democrats have gotten away with stuff for a decade before anybody went maybe we should look at this and see if they're actually taking money from the right people or if they're using this platform to launder money into democratic causes.
And that is exactly what it appears to do.
So that is all happening tomorrow, assuming that the cu buffs do not play during my show tomorrow and if they win today, they will play again tomorrow.
We will be back with a full show as of right now,