03-18-25 FULL SHOW - Yes, China Is Funding The Green Movement, Plus Jesse Thomas

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the show. And oh my goodness, gracious, I wish that I could let you guys see through my eyeballs right now, because I am broadcasting live.

From the broadcast studio at Salt River.

Fields at Talking Stick, the spring troning home of the Colorado Rockies, and there is not a soul in this joint right now. The game tonight is at six forty local time, so not even the groundskeepers are out here. Jesse Thomas, whos got me up and running. We're going to talk to him in a few minutes because one of the things I have seen, well, not just I like Jesse. That's one of the reasons we're talking to him.

They have almost like a big brother feel.

To them somehow, like or like if there was a science fiction movie where cars were stalking people. I feel like they would look like these Waymo cars, and I put a picture of one of them on the blog today because well, apparently a listener reached out to me and said, did Jesse tell you his Weimo story yet? And I was like no, but I told Chuck I kind of wanted to try it out. But then I also googled Weaimo incidents.

And I thought, maybe I'm gonna let.

Somebody else work the kinks out on this one before I jump in.

So here's what we're gonna do.

We're gonna do the blog first of all, because as usual, I got up early this morning to make sure that you have plenty of content to look out while you were doing other things and not listening to the show. Find that by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says three eighteen twenty five blog Yes China is funding the Green Movement.

Plus Jesse Thomas. Click on that and here are the headlines you will find within tic Tech toe a winner.

Anybody wants to listening Office Happen ergon all with ships and clipments of that press Flint.

Today on the blog Remember when I said China is funding the climate movement? Rocky's broadcast engineer Jesse Thomas pops in today, why does she still have no status? Frontier Airline is trying to woo Southwest flyers. CBC management really are slublrds. They can't stop the criminals, but at least they can find your car. Jeffco Schools needs a man in leadership. Trump talks to putin today. Are we getting the JFK files today? Is Trump breaking or fixing the markets? Who will pick the crops?

Robots? Scrolling? Scrolling?

Why is the sphere so big? Scrolling? The court rulings are coming in? Should we put trucks on trains? I don't love the White House dunking Southwest gaslights at all the new Rockies food this year is meh. When you're trying to get the right kind of propaganda shot, so you want a lightsaber? Josh Allen given rich Scholkes vibes. Trump gives Canada as a state vibes scrolling. Denzel drops truth bombs to the bus football team. Trump morally sound

I love of the.

Society that immigration has helped create in the United States, which is entirely unique in the world. When you travel and you start to visit places all over the world, you realize how homogeneous other countries actually are. Like you go to Asia, you only see Asian.

People, right, that's it.

You don't see this kind of diaspora that we have here in the United States where people have come from all over the world.

I like that.

I just want it to happen with some what's the word I'm looking for, semblance of organization. I just want to make sure that people who are not regularly chanting death to America in their home country.

Are not walking across the southern border.

So I think that it's interesting for him to do this on immigration overall, but it still doesn't change the fact that we've let far too many people in this country who are completely unvetted, as evidenced by the complete havoc that gang members from Venezuela have wrought in Aurora and other part to the country, that honestly are just making it a lot harder for people who really do want to come here and work and be part of

If you're not afraid of what this lawless maniac is capable of doing, perhaps hurting you are something or someone you care about, you are sadly, unfrighteningly mistaken.

Now that is a dramatic reading of a text message. I feel like I nailed it. I feel like right there, just got the vibe right out of the chuote.

But to this sector, I would say, where were you?

Where were you when the Biden administration was using the Department of Justice like a personal political prosecutor and no offense. If Trump is truly a dictator, he's the worst dictator ever. As he rolls back the size of government that he would need to enforce his dictatorial regime, and he is allowing people to have more freedom by rolling back the ridiculous, absolutely nonsensical regulations that the Biden administration put in place to limit our choices in our society.

I mean, worst dictator ever. And if one more person.

Is like Project twenty twenty five, guess what, guys, I agree with a vast majority of what's in Project twenty twenty five.

So to me, it's not a boogeyman.

To me, it's really sound policy positions put put up by people who are super smart, who have been studying this stuff for a really long time, and policy positions by the way, which I might also point out when followed, lead to great prosperity for our country. So if you're anti prosperity, then I understand why you hate Project twenty

Or you're starting to hit the message here.

And the only reason you heard about it is because the current leadership of the Heritage Foundation, which I am not a fan of. I used to love the Heritage Foundation because they were partisan only in the sense that they encouraged conservative policy solutions, and now the new leadership at Heritage is too political for my taste. They've decided to go all in politics instead of staying on what

Are you crazy?

Our last president duly elected by people like this Texter, I'm guessing didn't even know where he was and where were you on the text line saying Hey, I'm really worried that we've got unelected bureaucrats running the country right now because our guys only awake from ten am to four pm?

Where were you? Texter?

So sorry if I don't get the vapors along with you, But you can save all the typing because I actually laughed when I read this before the show started, So well done.

Thanks for that.

Anyway, moving on to what I really want to talk about today.

First of all, our.

Man Jesse Thomas is joining us, and this is a great opportunity. And I know this is going to be mostly a dude thing, and that's okay. I like to throw you dudes's a bona on occasion if you've ever wanted to know what it was like to work with or be a part of the broadcast team, which is in the grand scheme of jobs, like if you're going coolest job to not coolest job, like at the top has to be like astronaut, right, I mean that's I mean, would you say, yeah, Jesse agrees astronaut top coolest job,

And then he also has a story about those.

Way Mo cars. They're so weird, you guys. They're so weird. They almost look like Big Brother cars. I don't know why. It's like, do you remember the the slee Stacks from Land of the Loss, like back in the day. Okay, they're like the slee Stack of automobiles. And it's not a great comparison, but it is because they're kind of creepy and they make it a little bit of a noise and they have these things on the top. It's been around super weird. This texter said, I'm scared to

Yeah?

And here's the kicker, you guys, they're not cheaper. I'm thinking, Okay, you got this car without a driver. You've cut out a major expense. This is gonna be a great deal.

Not so much. If you're going on a short haul, it might be cheaper.

But I checked twice yesterday when going from one place to another, and WEIMO was more expensive both times. So I guess you're paying for the uniqueness, or you're paying to not have to talk to an uber driver.

I don't know. I have no idea mand a Trump maybe not.

A dictator, but he's sneaky good at getting his people everywhere.

It counts sneaky good by appointing.

Them to positions, as he's allowed to do by as president of the United States. Yeah, that message, it was probably sent for my sister. She signs everything your lip tard daughter.

Eh.

Maybe No, I think this is a dude, Mandy. It sure is a parent to me that the liberal media has such a bias. Barely a blip about Elon Musk rescuing those two astronauts. If a DEM was in power, this would be headline news. Not only that, a very small blip was made when the astronauts themselves said we're still stuck up here because of politics.

They actually said that.

And so, yeah, Elon Musk going and rescuing a couple of people from space, that's like, oh, oh yeah, I did it again. Whatever, it's not big news. I mean, they're just not going to give this guy the win. They are not going to let him have any sorts of victories. As more and more people are now defacing, destroying, and doing acts of vandalism two people's Tesla automobiles. But apparently Tesla's have cameras where people can't see them. So the Teslas are filming people doing this, and I hope

Isn't that what we're all supposed to say? Stunning brave.

So we've got Jesse Thomas coming up at twelve thirty, and then at one o'clock today, well you've got Jimmy Sengenberger coming up. I know he was just on for Ross, but he wrote such a good column.

And I am very.

Much trying to inspire people who live in Jefferson County to gut their entire school board, fire the superintendent, and get people who know what the blank they're doing running jeff Go public schools because the clown show that is over there now is like a little ball of hormones because it's all females. And I said on the blog today, jeff co needs a man in leadership, and I need it not because I think men are inherently good leaders, but there's a reason that I don't do committee work

This is a true story.

I used to work with the charity and I did all kinds of stuff with them in Southwest Florida, and I loved it. I loved the mission, I loved the people that were part of it, loved everything about working with them.

They were great.

Except one day they said, Mannie, can you be on a committee on our upcoming gale. I'm like, absolutely, I'll be on a committee. I don't know why I said that, but I said it because I liked all the people that were on the committee. I went to the first committee meeting and we spent three hours talking about what invitations should look like. Three freaking hours. And in that three hours, like four people got their feelings heard and another person got upset and we had to stop and make.

Sure everybody was okay because there was so many feelings.

At the end of the meeting, I went to the woman who was in charge of the committee and I said, I cannot do this. Give me a task and I will handle it, but I cannot sit through another meeting like this. This is not a thing I do and it's not a thing I'm going to do. So she gave me a list of stuff to do. I took care of it. We moved on and I have never been on a committee again, especially a committee with a bunch of women. Now, I've been on committees with men

Yet?

You get some? Yeah?

Okay, you do this, you do this, We're gonna put this on this whole Okay, who wants to do it? Okay, great, let's go get a beer. The whole meeting took thirty minutes, and we play in an entire golf tournament. And when you read some of the stupidity that has come out of this alleged leadership of Jefferson County Schools, when it comes to an issue that is so incredibly stunningly serious, and the response was so incredibly stunningly unseerious.

This is why they need a.

Man in leadership, because apparently all these women got together and they're like, I'm having feelings. What were they having feelings about? They were having feelings because they're male chief of schools. They let one guy in. Turns out he's a pedophile. Great, so he gets investigated for child born, he goes back, he gets fired, he goes back to his family home in Pennsylvania and kills himself. Now, instead of being open and honest with the parents, who were

They were like, I'm just so upset.

I don't know what I can do, and oh my gosh, if we do it this way, then people will find out.

And will it just be even worse. It'll be terrible, It'll make us look bad.

Oh my god, I just can't So Jimmy's got to call him about that. CBS four has a follow up story about a different story in Jefferson County, and this one has to do with the teenage girl who was groomed by a female teacher and with the help of administrators that call him by and High, was declared homeless. Now, I said, when this first story came out, I'm like, how how did they not commit fraud?

This girl was not homeless and at least one teacher knew absolutely she was not homeless because she was engaged in an affair with her and yet the school multiple people helped this girl fill the paperwork out to be declared homeless. Which not only gets the school a lot more money. If you have a homeless student, you get more money. It also allowed the girl to claim being homeless on her FAFSA application for student aid, which is fraud.

Well, now they're being investigated, and I could not be happier. What of you texting in about? Okay, I don't know about this. That guy texture definitely sits to pee. We don't know about that. And I don't want to confirm or deny. Don't even care. But I just thought that was funny. Maybe Trump is not a dictator. Oh wait, already read that, Mandy. It sure as a parent to me that Oh gosh, Mandy, that message I already read these best job is a fighter pilot. Okay, But a

Just doing that.

I took a Waim to the airport last fall from Tempe at three am to catch an early flight. It was more dependable at that time in the morning and was a quarter of the price fifteen bucks instead of sixty for Uber.

Well, that worked out, Mandy.

The real question is a coolest job versus profitable job way harder to make it. On the media side, That is absolutely true unless you're an astronaut.

Astronauts can make all kinds of money in the media. I'm just saying the.

Left withholds wins from Trump and Elon and just it keeps amassing ls by doing so. That is something that I think they are miscalculating badly on the left, and that is that a lot of these things are super popular with people. You look at the polling day on closing the border and expelling I legal immigrants, those things are polling like seventy eighty percent.

They're very, very popular, and for some reason, either no one's showing the Democrats of this polling data. I have no idea. I have no idea.

By Mandy, you've gone so far right I can't listen anymore, especially when you mock people that write in You've obviously.

Never heard the show before. Now if you're just.

Figuring out that I mock people, I'm sorry today was your day. Don't forget SpaceX gets a lot of money from the US government.

It does get a lot of money from the US government.

You know why because it started out privately and now they have contracts with the US government.

Right. And here's the thing.

I love it when people are like, you know, Elon has taken all this federal money to build all these companies and he got rich because he used the federal government.

And I'm like, exactly right, you could have done it.

I could have done it, but we don't have the vision he did. And he did it all legally. It's not like he robbed a bank that was the federal government. These all of these these things are available for you and for me and all of this other stuff.

Why do you think I'm against any kind.

Of government sort of subsidies to encourage development or any of that stuff. We saw it happen with solar, which he had a solar company. We've seen it happen with electric vehicles, which we have. He has an electric vehicle company. I mean, we've seen all of these things where people use government subsidies to build something amazing. But they're all doing it legally. As I said, Texter, you could do it too, I just didn't neither. Did you love what

Didn't he only go but they only had Taco Bell? Was that Total Recall? Were they only? Where was the movie? It was a sliced alone movie where they only had Taco Bell. What was that movie? But yeah, I'll take that.

I actually think that all of the kind of storm and drong that we're seeing right now across the country when it comes to mass transit, yes, thank you, demolition Man where they only had Taco Bell. I mean, demolition Man Taco Bell really goes hand in hand.

I think all.

Of the storm and drong about transportation we're seeing now is going to just all go away when we all lean in and use cars like Weaimo to get around, But until I can get past the creep factor, I'm not sure that's gonna happen when we get back. Jesse Thomas is the man behind the men on the Rockies broadcast.

He's gonna join me.

We're actually gonna talk about Waimo a little bit because apparently he had an experience and we're going to talk to him about that and take your questions about what it's like to travel with the Rockies. If you got any, you can text him on the Common Spirit Health text line at five six six, nine to zero and tell him just keep it right here on kaway.

Here's fun fact.

If you ever have the chance to go to any sort of professional stadium, don't touch the grass. They get super salty about that. So you've got to stay on the outside track because if you put a toe on on the grass, you're gonna get some kind of hairy eyeball from somebody.

Jesse Thomas knows.

He is the producer, the brains of the operation when it comes to keeping jacket.

Yeah, well, I mean I was gonna right. That goes without saying Jesse.

Come on, he keeps the guys on and keeps them on track for the most part during the broadcast, not just in spring training but also throughout the baseball season.

And Jesse, how long have you been doing this?

This will be my ninth season with the.

Rockies, but you've been doing this job for various sports prior to that.

So I've been engineering play by play broadcasts since two thousand and two, right out of the only.

Job you've ever had. Has a grown up in terms of like what you're doing.

Yes, wow, So I've done thousands of play by play events over my career.

But yeah, I did.

Nuggets in the Avalanche for a decade over at altitude, came over with yeah, ay, Rod knows well about that, and yeah, and then I came over when a position opened and Jerry Shimill helped me out and here we are.

So, what is your favorite sport to work in?

Percent?

It's a little because we get to see the cities that we go.

To, all right, because you have so much time in each city.

That's correct.

We're not you know, going to the arena, getting on a plane and going to the hotel, right, and then you're flying in the middle of the night and all that stuff. So being able to see the country and experience all the ballparks and all that stuff has been.

Priceless for me.

So what is your favorite city other than Denver to work in?

Miami?

Miami? Really?

Yeah, I love Miami and I really like Anaheim. And Milwaukee's super sneaky too. I got a Milwaukee is fun. It's a sleepy but it's awesome.

It's super cool. I told people this and the RNC.

We went for the RNC, and they had because Trump was almost assassinated the week before, so they expanded the security perimeter and really cut off a lot of businesses. It was really unfortunate what happened to Milwaukee during the RNC. It was not at its best. But when Chuck and I went to the Milwaukee I was like, this is a great town.

It reminds me of old Denver.

Yeah, yeah, it really does, before Denver became what it is now. And granted I'm there during the month of good weather that they have, but it's it's pretty fun.

I like it, yeah, exactly.

So I'm wondering if you guys have any questions about what it's like to travel with the team or be in the play by play booth or any of that stuff. Now's the time to text us on the common spirit health text line five six six nine er. Somebody just pointed out the steamroly thing. It's a baseball zamboni.

There you go.

Yeah, it's the bambony, is what it is? Much like the bambino.

I dig it.

Yeah, I have a question.

So listener text me and said, did Jesse share with you his Waimo's story? So you got into one of these big brothermobiles that are flying around?

What was that I did?

Eventually this is more of a Jesse's a bonehead story. Good, but I'll be happy to share it because listen, why not. So I'm staying in a compound down here off of Scottsdale Boulevard Churches or Scottsdale Road, which is basically the Colorado Boulevard of Scottsdale. Right, So I fire up the old waymo app and I'm having a few cocktails. Headed, gonna go downtown and do my thing right old town Scottsdale.

There's no intendant in Yes, and.

So I'm sitting on my patio and I put myself another glass of wine.

And all of a sudden I started thinking, well, Jesse, you are dumb? How and oh man?

So I started getting all these alerts from Waimo and they said, sir, you will have to meet us out.

On the curb.

And I'm like, you are just dumb, Jesse. Goodness gracious.

So I mean I was gonna ask, like, how does the Waimo put in a gate code?

So that's that's all it wasn't. Yeah, that's already a problem. So have you done it since then?

Yes?

And it works fine.

It's quite the experience once you get over the look of it from the outside with all the spinning cameras and the bells in the whistle.

Yeah.

Now, there are some horror stories out there of people getting locked in the weaymo and them honking uncontrollably and stuff like that.

I just saw the one of the guy in the parking lot and he just kept doing a donut in a parking lot, but very slow speed.

If you're smart enough to actually order one, which I apparently am not, it's quite the experience and I recommend doing it at least once everybody needs to ride with our robot overlords.

Maybe we'll make that a part of our afternoon today. We'll go take a Waimo ride somewhere just to say we did it.

Now, it's my understanding they are still monitored by humans at all times, right, I don't.

I think that's still the case.

But that's like our alarm company. When our alarm in our house goes off, like six hours later, somebody calls and his like, hey man, and something happened.

At your health Yeah, you're.

Like, oh good, okay, great, And.

They'll only go certain in a certain area down here. You can't just order one, and like if you're in Paradise Value, you can't order one. You can only only certain zip code.

I think you can get away.

Well, I've heard that they cannot do interstate traffic yet.

Yeah, I think that's right because I guess it just moves too fast or something. I don't know, But I have to say a couple areas where Phoenix is superior to Denver number one, very few homeless people, but I'm guessing in the summer it's unbearably would probably yeah, I mean, well, more people die from heat related stress than they do cold related stress every year.

That's a fact.

But it's very clean, and the surface streets here are very efficient.

They are you.

Don't have to get on an interstate to get from one side to the other. And Phoenix is geographically ginormous.

It's huge, understand. Yeah, it goes on forever.

It's like Houston, and this is the only place you better get on it if you I've got passed by old woman in a Bentley going there. There's eighty the other day, you know what I mean, Like, yeah, there's that's the.

Tale two people that they're either going twenty.

Yeah or eighty.

Well, I am.

This whole area Scottsdale reminds me of Naples, Florida. A lot of money down here, obviously, like a ton of money in Scottsdale. I told Chuck today, I was like, dude, don't want to go to a thrift store because I've bet the thrift stores in Scottsdale.

Are a little stuff uper coat.

Seriously, this is a thrift store tip for those of you who may want to thrift at some point. If you want to go to the best thrift stores, go to the richest neighbor you could. You could find and go to their thrift store, and you're gonna find.

All kinds of Scottsdale's it.

Yeah, Scottsdale is it. Let's take a very quick time out. I've got some questions for you. I took away mow and the driver looked exactly like my dad. I'm not sure you were in a way, mo, Texter, it could have just been your dad's car. We'll be right back questions with Jesse Thomas right after this.

Keep it on, KOA.

Can I just say a big thank you to all of you who are riading the text line to give me thrift store information in Scottsdale, because I am doing it.

Chuck's already like a oh God, here we go.

Mandy, I'm actually streaming you in North Scottsdale, O Cave Creek. Moving here from Wyoming was the best move we ever made. Also, we can easily pick up Kowa over the air at night and early in the morning.

That from Joel Mandy Jesse.

Cars doing twenty or eighty sounds like super us.

In the mountains to me. We used to have this thing and when I lived in Southwest.

Florida, you would just see like a car being driven by knuckles and a white poof of hair.

Do you have that here as well?

You do?

Yeah, the sunhat, nothing but hands, yes, just the knuckles.

Yeah.

Sometimes when I get bored, I go out to the supermarkets and watch all the old folks look for their.

Base beauties, just for fun.

That's good, good, good.

Well.

I used to joke that the Fort Myers Costco probably like sold more brand products pound for pound per capita than any other costco in the country.

Ran in ointments are really big down here.

Yes, yes, big big ointments. I do have a question from a guy who said, I have a question for Jesse. I've tried to text the guys during a Rockies game, but I never hear back. Why is that glad you're on today with Mandy.

You guys don't have the text line.

No, we do not have the text line. The best way to do that would be to tweet directly at me.

Yes. Yes, So if you have the Twitter, you can text Jesse at broadcast Jesse broadcast Jesse.

At Twitter, and then he will make sure the guys get to it. Maybe they can actually address this on the air. I have a question for you. Are you a Denver guy? Because you work for the Abs, you work for the Dunnets.

So you're a Denver kid born and raised.

Yep, So would you ever.

Be wooed away by another franchise?

I've been fortunate enough.

Most people that in this business have to do that I've been for I mean, never say never, but I'm happy where I'm at.

So I've been blessed to work for the teams that I grew up watching.

So that's actually really cool.

Is it challenging for you as it is for the fans when we have the last two seasons that we've had, Does that just make.

It kind of a different perspective doing what we do? Like our you know, we just be professional no matter what happens.

Out in the field.

And obviously you want him to succeed because you get to know him and you travel with him, and you eat with them, and you know all those things, and so you have a rooting interest. But other than that, we still try to stay as professional as possible.

So who are your favorite players you've ever worked with or gotten to know over the years that you've been doing this.

Charlie Blackman, you know, he is the best. Let's see, Carlos Gonzalez was a pleasure to be.

Alga seemed like he was fun mm hmm.

I mean he's like anybody, you know, it's it's like anything. You know when to stay away from him, and you know when they're two for.

Their last seventeen yes you kind of you know, stay away and keep your head down and all that stuff. But yeah, there's really nobody that sticks out that has been horrible asking.

I was just like, who the favorites are the people that you're always glad to see.

Baseball players in particular, are a lot more friendlier than the other two professional sports I worked with.

Yes, you know my husband Chuck, who's here as well. He worked for the Minnesota Twins franchise team in Fort Myers and talked all the time about how, you know, he would be carrying programs and guys would say, oh, do you need me to sign those? And then just stop in the hallway and sign a bunch programs. And you don't necessarily have that same kind of access or relationship with professional football players or professional hockey.

It's just a different vibe. Why do you think that is?

Is it the length of the season, is it the boys of summer?

What is it that's a good question and the link to Obviously, baseball is kind of its own animal because of the amount of games. Yeah, did you play and get such a tight group? From the forty man rots of to the traveling twenty five. Everybody's with each other. And if you're part of that traveling group, like we're blessed enough to be if you you better be nice otherwise.

They won't keep you along to keep you around.

Yeah, I guess so.

I mean that's is there anything that sticks out for you as a moment that you will never forget because you get to do this job.

Yes, the wild card win at Wrigley in twenty eighteen, I believe it was. Yeah, was incredible. They won it in thirteen innings. It was freezing and to see all the Wrigley faithful go home heartbroken?

Was you know.

I'm more of an agony of defeat guide than a thrill of victory, in case you don't know that about it. Yeah, So anytime we get to stick it to opposing fans, I'm all about it.

And I watch him cry.

Yeah. Yeah.

I ask Jesse if he needs an assistant.

Yeah, first, and says the technician, I'm taking applications for headphone technicians headphone tech which does that just.

Involve being the finger to hang the head shittes.

I balk my headphones in at the beginning of the broadcast and unplug them at the end of the broadcast.

That's it.

You know what's funny, Jesse, is that we get to do this every day. I mean, you get to do it here every day, but I get to do this job every day. And whenever we bring people to the Rockies games, we always have the opportunity to bring him up to the booth.

And when you do it every day, you forget how cool this is.

I mean, I guess you've seen people just come up pie eyed and get to just live the experience.

It's funny.

People always ask me if the amount of visitors we have, you know, interrupts us or No, it's the opposite. It actually keeps me grounded and keeps me focused and really makes me not take anything for granted. When especially the little ones that come, Yeah, their eyes get so big and it's the coolest thing they've ever done.

And maybe we just got off of a twelve day road.

Trip and won two games and all that stuff, and you're a little tired it's great to get some perspective with you know, yep, with the visitors.

That's why I always try to remember when people are coming to the studio and they're like, this is so cool. You forget how cool it is when you don't do whatever. Lucky, Yeah, we're very lucky.

All right.

When we get back, we're going to talk to Jimmy Sangenberger. I'll let you talk later. Chucky's what did you.

Want to have an input to that.

We've brought people up here and our relatives and stuff, and I have some of the best pictures with Jack and Jerry and our friends are just like their eyes are so big, it's like Christmas, you know.

All right, hold that thought because I got Jimmy Segenberger coming up next. Jeff Co Schools continues to just do dumb thing after dumb thing after dumb thing, of which is.

Improving student achievement.

We'll talk about the latest bit of Shenanigan's in Nonsense with Jimmy right after this.

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This is like the bat signal that we play to bring Jimmy Segendburger out of the woodwork to talk about his latest work on the Denver Zets column that he does twice a week. He's also filling in for Ross quite a bit this week, so you're gonna get some double doses like you are today. But when I read his column this morning about Jefferson County Public schools, I was like, oh, we.

Must chat, so joining me again.

He's had a whopping a couple of hours off and now he's bag a one hour off and now he's back.

Hi.

Jimmy, Hey Mandy, thanks for putting me back to work on KOA today.

You know what, We're gonna squeeze every single dime out of you today. We paid you for part of the day. We're gonna squeeze out as much of you as we can. Don't think of this is iHeartMedia, Jimmy. Come on, we gotta make you earn it. The column that you started today. Let me start with the headline for a moment. Okay, The headline is simply an erosion of trust in jeff

So this really captures a story that goes back to over the holidays. You'll recall that the third in command for Jefferson County Schools, Chase of Schools, David Wife was it was revealed, being investigated for child pornography, and he was fired just after those revelations of an investigation came about, and two weeks later the district finally put out an email to families after only the media had gotten anything. Those of us in the media should not take precedence

And here's the part of it that I found the most interesting is that David Weiss was just all of a sudden fired from Jeffco Schools. We didn't know about the investigation and we didn't know what was going on, so he gets fired. And it was after that two week period that we even began to understand. But he had to kill himself first, right, I mean, and that's a big part of the story. He goes back to Pennsylvania, he commits suicide, and then all of a sudden, people

Now this is the part in December around the nineteenth but he had been fired and was under some kind of investigation or writing was happening.

And when all that happened, when it came out that he was being invested for investigative for child pornography, my immediate response is the district has to immediately come forward and say exactly what they know. He is being investigated for a possession of child sexual assault material. And if any parent suspects or wonders if their child had any contact, or or if there's something that students need to worry about, they must contact us immediately.

That's how you should have handled it. That's exactly what should have been done.

But what you see in these text messages as you lay on in this column is a bunch of women worried about their feelings and looking bad and all of this stuff that has nothing to do with helping kids, helping families and helping parents in Jeffco's schools.

And if you go back to the message to families, it was coldly bureaucratic. It even called this a personal legal matter. Yeah, didn't have anything in terms of sympathy for parents or expressions of concern, and which striking is

Your name isn't.

On it, because she said, Varda said, I'm not going to be a part of this statement. Let's just have it be the president of the school board and the superintendent. So dore Lynd goes again, this is the superintendent the schools. Your name isn't on it, so please let us be We've all had a difficult and challenging and very sad day.

Oh being superintendent is hard.

I mean, you know, I don't know if you know this, Jimmy, but I'm a woman, so I feel like I am in a good position.

Yeah I am. I've been one my whole life. We're not my whole life.

What a woman is well, I have not heard a good answer of what is a woman. I don't know what the answer to that question is.

I am an adult, female human. So there we go. I am a.

Woman, and this is one of my great frustrations with my gender. Right, this should have been very cut and dried. This should not have been a moment of discussion. They should have come up with a statement that clearly said we're aware of this investigation. We want to let you know in case any of you have any concerns. So you can reach out if you are concerned that your child was either around this individual too much or that something might have happened, we need to let authorities know.

So I found this striking because you'll remember we are coming up this weekend on the two year anniversary of the shooting at East High School right in Denver, and the day after, the Denver Public Schools Board of Education went behind closed doors and did an executive session about this, and it was illegal. There's certain vironments that you must

Well, it's basically, well, we can't hide this in executive session because they'll find out about it, and then it'll just look even worse, which is true, right if they'd gone into executive session, we found out la much like what happened to DPS when the record was finally out, it was far worse than if they had just done it all in public in the first place. But there's a level of cowardice on display here that is unacceptable in my mind. But it's indicative of the priorities of

And I'm thinking to myself, if you.

Believe that children were key here and that they need to be protected, don't you think they should be protected from the guy that you guys hired and made number three in the district who was also being investigated for possessing childborn?

Do you think that would be a high thing?

You would? But then again, you'd think that when this comes anything involving students and teachers comes up, they would very serious take issue with it. They wouldn't allow a student or participate in declaring a student homeless so that they could go live with their teacher, or take any sort of that they would have to con it and report to the authorities, fire them, do something about it, as opposed to time and time again allowing these kinds

One thing that people probably don't understand is that there are so many cases of this within schools. Overall, children are very I don't want to say very likely, that's the wrong phrasing. Children are Well, let me just put it this way. Pedophiles are going to get jobs where the kids are, right, just like bank robbers rab banks, because that's where the money is. Pedophiles are going to try and get jobs where the kids are, and that's school districts.

But to your point, Jenny, what do you think it is about Jeff Co or about Jeff co.

Leadership that gives the impression to people who may want to prey on children that that's where they want to work.

Well, for one, I would say that they have this trusted adult policy and approach where they want teachers or other staff to name themselves, to identify themselves as trusted adults.

So, and it's my understanding that David Weiss was actually head of that program, the Trusted Adult program.

Is that accurate?

Yeah, one of his responsibilities was for overseeing the implementation of trusted adults in schools.

Yeah, that's just so gross.

You mentioned the Columbine situation where Columbine administrators, along with a now former teacher, falsified documents to the clearest student homeless so she could move in with the teacher who was grooming her and having a sexual relationship with her. Apparently there's now going to be some kind of investigation, correct.

Yeah, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and Sean Boyd, of course, Sean Boyd at CBS Colorado, the one who will tackle these. TV News brought this out last night that the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office has opened an investigation into that case. And I think that's important in two respects, not one, obviously,

Now, Jimmy, let me ask you this.

Have you spoken reached out to the board to get their thoughts on this or or said, look, I'm going to do a column on this is Is anybody willing to go on the record.

With you on this stuff at all? Are they willing to talk to anybody about it?

Yeah, I have not seen one of the things that I've seen has been And the texts even show this. They directed the board members to simply reach out to it with any request that they get, just forward them on to the associate chief of communications in the district. So there really is and you see this can happen a lot in place like Denver Public Schools or others where there's an attempt to try and insulate board members

Well, and it's unfortunate because the more they circle the wagons, the more I think it's going to make them easier to defeat in the next school board election, which has to happen. It just has to happen.

Jeffco is positioning itself in a place that is not about educating kids.

It's not about student achievement.

They have carved out this space where they have decided that they are going to put the district between parents and their kids every opportunity that they get. And it's gotten to the point now where it's like, if you're a jeff Co parent, do you really know what's going

Yeah, that's the real question, Mandy is in Denver public schools as another example, because I've covered Denver very closely for years, that's another instance where in twenty twenty three, after the East High School shooting that I mentioned before, you had a groundswell of parents who suddenly became recognized how bad things were. They already weren't feeling comfortable, but they realized the gravity of it all and that the school board and leadership was just utterly failing. So they

As Denver shows amen to that, Jimmy, Jimmy Segenberger writes to twice weekly column in the Denver Gazette, I believe you're in for Ross on Thursday and Friday of this week.

Correct, actually tomorrow and Friday, Ryan recovering on Thursday.

Okay, tomorrow and Friday. You can hear Jimmy just before me.

As Ross continues to lays away in the Galapagos, riding tortoises and chasing dragons or whatever he's doing down there.

Jimmy, I appreciate your time today, my friend. I'll talk to you soon.

Thanks man, DC tomorrow excellent.

I I love that Jimmy now has a harmonica play in and out of the segments that he joins me on.

When we get back, I got a couple of things that I want to talk about. One of them.

Today is the day that we're supposed to be getting the rest of the JFK files, right, So this is one of those things that has kind of been like hanging over America's head for the past fifty something years, and I am not confident that we're going to find out anything.

I'm just gonna say it. We'll talk about that when we get back. And is Trump breaking or fixing the markets?

It depends on whether you have a short term view, which is obviously yes, or a long term view, which people like me and a columnist in USA today believe is no.

He's not breaking them. He's fixing them.

But there's a little period of creative destruction that we all have to live through to get to the other side.

We'll do all that next. Keep it right here. On KOA.

I find USA today to be reliably liberal, and I just don't generally care. But I saw this headline and I thought, Okay, I'll bite USA today. Don't panic over the stock market. Trump is fixing holes in our economy. This is written by a young woman, she looks young anyway, named Nicole Russell.

She's a mother of four.

She lives in Texas, and she's got a weekly newsletter, the Right Track dot Com to give you an idea of her which way she's coming at this from.

Okay, so you can take this with.

A grain of salt if you'd like to, depending on your perspective. But the stock market is royaled right now, There's no doubt about that.

And markets respond poorly to uncertainty.

And the way that Trump has rolled out and then pushback and then rolled out and then pushback tariffs has been not giving any certainty to business in the market.

So it's been really really hard on the stock market.

But she makes this case, and I might disagree with this opening line that says President Donald Trump has a new title, stock market Master. When the markets go down, it's his fault, according to democrats and legacy news media.

But when they raw. As they eventually.

Will, it won't be because of Trump. The US stock markets have had a disastrous month. After recently hitting record highs. The Standard of Poor five hundred fell into correction territory a drop of ten percent or more on Thursday, before recall recording a solid rebound Friday. The Nasdaq is off about ten percent from its record peak in December. The Dow also is significantly down since Trump took office in

Wall Street is turning back. It's back on Trump.

A recent CNN headline blaired uncertainty is Trump's brand announced to New York Or headline over Susan Glasser's piece blasting his tariffs. Yet it's time for perspective, not panic. Stock

Under Biden, the.

Federal government ran deficits of nearly two trillion dollars a year, and the national debt soared past thirty six trillion. It's imperative to cut the deficit, both to slow inflation and to trigger interest cuts. Trump didn't promise that the stock markets wouldn't dip. He promised to improve the economy through the Department of Government efficiency and other initiatives.

That will happen, but it will take time.

There's another piece of the stock market panic horse mentioning the egregious double standard of the left. For four years, Biden made policy decisions that rapidly drove up prices on items Americans need, from food to cars to homes. As the Cato Institute reported last year, food prices rose less than eighteen percent between January twenty ten and January twenty twenty two or twenty twenty one when Biden took office, but they shot up twenty one percent in the first

Keep calm. She says, better days are ahead.

So that's Nicole Russell, and I think she glossed over some really important economic stuff that is I believe necessary. First of all, you cannot undersell the importance of contracting the size of government spending.

If you contract the.

Size of government spending, after we've seen government spending make up such a huge part of the economy, it is going to have an impact on GDP, at least in the short term. It has happened every time we have contracted government spending in the economy.

But then think about after World War Two.

After World War Two, we were running a GDP debt to GDP ratio is one hundred and twenty eight percent at the end of World War Two. Now, the government, if they were today's government, would have just kept spending like drunken monkeys, because we all saw what happened when they plugged a bunch of government money into the COVID response. All of that money's still in the budget, it's still there.

Were like, you can't do that. You'll destroy the.

Entire economy of the United States of America if you do that, and he said, screw it, I'm doing it anyway, And they did. And you know what happened the boom of the nineteen fifties where all the gis came home and they started businesses and they bought houses, and the economy roared because we pulled back government spending. But in the short term, it's going to have an impact. In the short term this tariff.

Situation, which I do believe will eventually be taken care of with reciprocal agreements with these different nations to pull back tariffs on United on American goods. And if they don't pull back tariffs.

On American goods, we've already seen multiple companies come up with massive investments companies here in the United States. We've already seen car makers moving production of cars from Mexico back into Michigan where they lost so much car production. So it's not as if all of these things are just Donald Trump willy nilly deciding to do something crazy to wreck the stock market.

And this is.

Something I've said for the since he got back into office. If you're judging Donald Trump now by the first Trump administration, you are not doing it right. You're just not Trump two point zero is an entirely different beast. Trump two point zh has a very clear plan and I sent it a couple of weeks ago, and I think this is a great analogy, and that is simply that you know, the first administration.

He had no idea what he was doing. And that's not a knock on Trump.

I don't think anybody becomes president for the first time and is like I got this, I know where the bathroom is. I don't need any help unless they're vice president. So when you're a new president, he comes in and I had no idea what was going on. I think we're seeing the first entire series of dat Like in an NFL game, those are already scripted before the game starts by the coaches. What we're seeing are the scripted plays by Donald Trump that he had four years.

To think about, four years to kind of roll around in his brain.

And if you're thinking that he's too stupid to pull this off, you.

Are doing yourself and him a disservice.

It's kind of like the people who say you ont is stupid, Like, yeah, he's the richest stupid guy.

I ever met.

I do want to do this right now. I want to give away a pair of tickets to the Denver Home Show. It is happening this weekend at the National Western Complex. If you have any home projects that you need done this weekend, you need to go to the home show because there is someone there that can help you. And I have so many clients there, Gravinus Windows Center of Littleton.

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Three eight five eighty five.

But if you go to Denver Homeshow dot com you can save two bucks, buy your tickets online and then head out there this weekend.

But now, caller five, three oh three seven to one three eighty five eighty five, let's take a very quick time out. Text me your responses.

I'd love to know what you guys think of what is happening economically. Do you still have confidence if you're a Trump supporter, that he is directing things in the right way. If not, why not? And if you think everything's a disaster because you don't like them, you.

Can say that too.

Five six six nine zero is the text line. We'll be back right after this, Hi, Mandy. I think Trump is doing a great job. All the naysayers are forgetting. He's only been back in office for two months. He's done more than Biden did in four years.

We're winning.

Doesn't feel like it if you look at the markets right now, but I understand that feeling.

I'm kind of with you. I think this is short term pain for long term gain.

Mandy, as an investor both managed accounts in my own individually purchased stocks, I have long thoughtket the market was overvalued. I would much rather prefer a slight contraction over a complete crash. I'm waiting for the bottom of this market adjustment so I can buy more this one. Fixing the economy will take patience, Just like if you get yourself into financial trouble, you can't fix it overnight. Taking difficult steps will be necessary and will eventually get you where

Same thing that I see. Business as usual is the preferred way of doing business for both Democrats and Republicans who don't care about the things that we care about. I firmly believe that.

I know it sounds cynical and awful, but the ultimate reality is do they really care about inflation the way we care about inflation? Because they're not stopping spending when we know Historically, hyperinflation has always followed a period of a mass expansion of the money supply, and we just did that during COVID.

We added a third, one.

Third of the money in our economy right now that was printed was printed during COVID one third. We haven't had an expansion like that in I don't even know in the modern era surely not, but that inflation always follows that. But if they weren't worried about getting their special benefits for their friends and the contractors who support them, or whatever their little special interest group is, they would

Year, every single one of them. Does that say we're serious?

No?

So, yeah, this has been a violent uprising, a violent sort of disruption in Washington, DC. But I don't think there was another way to do it. I really don't, Mandy. I'm totally confident in Trump's economic plan. Tariffs are a long term strategy, and after years of ballooning the debt to thirty six trillion, change is going to take some time. The money we are saving by cutting government spending will

I think Trump wants it to go well.

But unless and until he wrangles Congress under control, we're gonna have more of the same kind of nonsense coming out of DC.

I'll let Jason have the last word on this. Mandy.

I have a saying that goes along with what we're dealing with now. It says I can fix stupid, but it's going to hurt. You are correct, Jason, and right now we're in the hurting part for sure. Anyway, we are going to take a quick time out. When we get back. Let's talk JFK files. Because the JFK files are supposed to be released today, And does anybody really think we're gonna learn something new? You know, like LBJ

At our fruits? Now they're just gonna rot. We're all gonna starve.

I did a little digging today some of the tech in farming super super cool.

That's all coming up for the next hour. Keep it right here on KOA.

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Welcome, Local, Welcome to the third hour of the show, broadcasting the live from beautiful Salt River Fields. It talking stick in Arizona, Scottsdale. To be exact, it is an absolutely gorgeous day here. If you were remotely a baseball fan, I cannot recommend this place highly enough. And tonight we're going to stay for the game, and then I'll be back in Denver tomorrow for the show, assuming that all airline flights run on.

Time because of the weather. But I'll be back tomorrow.

But if you've ever wanted to do spring training, I growing up in Florida, I had the opportunity as a kid to go to a bunch of different spring training games because there's so many in the Great Fruit League. But this is my first visit to the Cactus League. And according to everyone that I had talked to in Phoenix or Scottsdale, Salt River Fields at Talking Stick is the crown jewel of all of the facilities throughout the

I have a question.

One of those pieces of information is that, according to what I found, she does have a criminal record, not a violent criminal record, but a criminal record, so that is, and she has a deportioned deportation order from a judge.

It was stayed by the Biden administration.

But apparently now that stay has either been lifted or there's a new deportation order. Whatever, there's a deportation order for this woman. Why didn't they tell her they were coming or they wanted her to turn herself in? Because back in twenty seventeen, she walked herself in a Denver church for.

Three years, for three years to avoid being.

Arrested for deportation. And you want to know why they didn't let her know they were coming.

I mean, you have to be kind of stupid to even ask that question like.

That, I know, But then here's my question that I would like an answer to that. I've looked all over the internet to find out this morning, because in a lot of the stories, it says she's been here since nineteen ninety seven. Okay first had a run in with the law in two thousand and nine when she was arrested after a traffic infraction. I don't know what the traffic infraction was, but she was arrested then. So she's

I'm genuinely confused by that.

Now.

Don't get me wrong.

Our immigration system sucks. I've been over it before. We've talked about it before. It's terrible, it's unwieldy, it's cumbersome, all of these things.

But she's already in the country.

She's well known in politics, and you're telling me she could not have gotten some kind of status before. Now, I really would like to know the answer. If you know the answer, you can text me at five sixty six nine.

Oh.

Sorry, I had to sneeze. Here's another fun fact, day Rod. I've learned at my time in Arizona. I'm allergic to everything in Arizona. Apparently I've been sneezing my brains out since I got here.

So whatever it is, brain lets to do the show though, So that's good.

Barely, just merely.

Now.

If you know the answer to that question, please text me at five sixty sixth nine. Oh, and why was the church allowed to break the law? There was a rule in place that said immigration enforcement would not take place in a church. So that is how she lived in the church for three years, and the church provided shelter for her because there was a rule that said you're not coming in the church. But yeah, that's probably why Immigration didn't make a phone call to give her

Is a bugaboo. It's a real bear. It's a problem. And then this text takes me to my next story. Mandy just heard.

Wait, wait, we will never know all that is concerning Kennedy's assassination.

Kind of like death and dying.

Until we're dead, and I mean permanently dead, we will not know if there's anything to know.

Maybe maybe not. But today, at some point, Donald.

Trump says all of the files related to the nineteen sixty three assassination of John F. Kennedy will be released without any redactions. Now, he made the promise during his campaign, and he says, promise is kept. You know, there you go. His administration is releasing eighty thousand files. Although some of those, many of those have already been made public, but I understand some of them have gotten to be have been heavily redacted. So now he doesn't believe anything will be redacted.

But when something doesn't.

Make sense, you kind of have to go, wait a minute, it just doesn't make any sense. And I'll direct you to another story on the blog today. Guess who is now admitting.

That they totally knew that COVID came from a Wuhan lab. Now now everybody's doing it, by the way, you guys, everybody's like, oh yeah, everybody knew this one hundred percent. Let me find it on the blog today. It's from Michael Schellenberger.

Okay, the former head of the UK's Foreign Intelligence agency m I six told Boris Johnson in early twenty twenty that the COVID virus.

Escaped from the Wuhan lab.

That means the US, UK, Chinese, and German governments all knew the truth, covered it up and spread disformation, disinformation.

Case closed. Okay, this is why I'm not.

Gonna believe anything that's in these documents about the Kennedy assassination. I think that there was such a concerted effort. I truly believe that lb had something to do with it. Never trusted that guy, I mean, he was the one that benefited. I've heard, and I don't know if this is accurate. I wonder if any of you guys have heard this too, that there was Champagne on Air Force one all the way back from.

Dallas when there usually wasn't.

Champagne on Air Force one, and they toasted LBJ after they swore him in on Air Force one after John F. Kennedy was murdered. Now, I don't know if that's accurate, but I'm telling you I don't trust our government not to cover things up and not tell us stuff, because the urge to cya supersedes almost everything, and the urge to protect oneself from harm is pretty significant. So, Mandy, I believe Howard Donahue was correct. Secret Service agent George

But how did he how? I mean, but we've all seen them with cruider tapes. We've all seen it.

Anyway, Mandy, I'm waiting to see how Kyle Clark covers the Jeanette Visgera story.

He will probably halfway state the facts. I do not know.

Oh, somebody said, now he's saying tomorrow, So I do not know when this is going to be released.

To the texter who said.

This earlier, Nope, it's already fallen off. Somebody said Marilyn Monroe faked her own death and is now living happily with John F. Kennedy and Elvis in Mexico somewhere, And I was like, seems legit to me.

I mean, why not, right? Why not?

Just doesn't Kennedy assassination? Did you see the video of the driver shooting him?

I don't know.

I've never heard that before. Now I have to look at it. Yes, ay, rod Oh, got to take a break. We'll be right back after this. We are giving way more tickets to the Denver Home Show throughout the week, So if you didn't win them today, go and do that. Of course, you can go to Denver homeshow dot com and buy him for two dollars.

Off Roger one today, Roger.

That Roger's going to the home show to the texter who said cactus pallen making you sneeze. I don't know if it's the cactus pollen, but holy macrol, I'm allergic to everything here, and there's frankly, not that much foliage. It's not like there's a ton of greenery here. I mean the fields and the yards, they're the greenest ones out there.

Mandy the man who killed Kennedy. The case against.

LBJ by Roger Stone will make you lose sleep. That from Rocky Mountain Rocks. I'm telling you I think LBJ had something to do with it, but I don't think we're gonna find out in this document dump.

That we have today. So we got to talk.

About Frontier Airlines trying to win business, and I gotta say I think this is a very smart move by them. Frontier is now running a I guess an ad campaign that says, hey, if you're having an airline divorce, we're offering a free checked bag on select flights this summer.

Ay, Rod, can you pull up.

The video that you sent me of the Southwest CEO today. It's on the blog if you just want to go there and grab it, because I'd like to play this audio because I'm already mad at Southwest, my airline of choice, for changing pretty much the things that I loved about Southwest, and that is the free bags, free two free check bags. And I'm one of those people who loved to pict your own seat policy.

I'm not gonna lie. I loved it.

God that being said, Okay, so listen to this message from the CEO of Southwest that I guess is supposed to make me feel better, but go ahead and hit it a.

The short answer is that it's about securing our future. We're announcing changes to our business that will help us return to the levels of profitability we all expect and to support our collective long term success. It's also about adapting to what our customers want. Many things have changed post COVID, the loss of short haul demand, arise in premium demand, and a change in customer preferences. There are

You can stop it there, because I just want to get to the problem. He actually said, our DNA is not two free check bags. Well to me, it is to Okay, maybe it's not your DNA, but it's your mitochondria.

Which we all know not on everything everything.

Yes, bags fly free is your DNA, sir.

I'm really glad they have to spend so much money like painting over everything and redoing everything that says that because it is their identity.

Yeah, that's funny.

Yeah, it's their mitochondria, if not their DNA. And now it's gone, and I'm fascinated to see what happens to Southwest.

And don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those people that's like I held Southwest fails.

I don't want fewer choices in airlines because the prices will go up, right, I want competition.

I want it to work. But I'm telling you right now.

From this moment forward, I am shopping solely on price and convenience because right now, when we fly to Ohio to see our kids, guess where Southwest doesn't fly.

It doesn't fly where I want to go.

But often it's cheaper for us to fly into a city that is two hours away, rent a car and drive. But no more. Now I'm flying straight there because United Airlines does fly there. And if I have to pay for bags, I may as well just pay for them on United, because why am I going to drive two hours out of my way? Super frustrating, and I'll stop, I'll stop complaining.

I'll stop. You do know it's foliage, right, yes I do, But I just don't care. I can use big words, however, I want.

Texter keep your little corrections to yourself. You can say it however you want on your radio show.

I'll be right back. Keep it on KOA.

I have a question for you guys about Southwest that just occurred to me on the break. I have several tickets booked already with Southwest that were booked before the date where they say they're going to charge for baggage. I think I'm going to make this my hill to die upon. I am not paying for bags for those flights. I'm not doing it, I agree, and I'm I may even cause U s think, oh.

I know that's Chuck by the way, Oh.

Yeah, no, Jesse Thomas, everybody, because I'm broadcasting live from Salt Rivere talking stick, I'm not paying the bat.

You've been loyal, and I mean extraordly loyal to Southwest because you know they have the way we like doing it, and now they're changing.

I heard it everything you said earlier. I was irritated.

So here's the thing.

I think that because we purchased the tickets before they change the policy, that I should not have to pay the baggage fees on that. I think that that's perfectly reasonable.

We get out West and you know, that's a good question.

Let's make that happen, because the best everything that's done on Twitter these days.

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You that she just has me. I can tell you.

I can tell you what everything's doloming because my face is exploding right now because of it. So, uh, how do you think, I mean, do we just I'm trying to think because here's ultimately, the people that I will deal with at the airport are not the ones who made this decision, right, So I always try to be very careful about taking out my ironing. I'm someone who had no control over whatever I'm mad about already exactly.

But if they didn't have anything to do with it. But I mean, I guess, oh, it's only for tickets booked after five twenty eighth. Wait a minute, but when you.

Say booked, I have a ticket booked for after five twenty eight, I have tickets booked in June, I think in July.

Yeah we do and uh and I don't know. I'm gonna tweet it.

Southwest bag fees only apply to tickets booked after five to one.

Okay, there you go.

Yeah, but that wording can be you know, if booked is their magic word.

There, We'll see, we shall see. I can't believe how mad I still am about that. I just feel like there's so few things in life and business that are completely reliable when it comes to corporations.

And I'll give you a few examples. When you go to.

McDonald's, you are gonna get the best fountain coke you can get straight up like, they have the best fountain coke because it's always refrigerated. It's part of their contract with exactly it's it's in canister as that's our deal with Coca Cola. And I think they're the only ones who do that. Yeah, so you're gonna a great coat. Now, if all of a sudden, McDonald's goes to the bagged syrup like everybody else uses, I'm gonna feel like they have violated their contract with me.

Their contract.

We're going to provide this excellent product and you are going to buy it from us, And I feel like a little bit like this, Like what do Southwest think we were all flying them for?

According to the CEO, he said, it's not in our DNA to have free bags and choose your own. Well, yeh, kind of is something like that. It kind of is. I don't know.

I'm trying to think of other corporations that have changed the game to their detriment.

I mean, the biggest, most obvious one.

Is New Coke, Like New Coke is still taught in business schools as the worst business decision ever made.

And I feel like this is kind of.

Like that, because they don't know why we fly them, Mandy, don't go full bill O'Reilly on the gate agent, even if they are rude or lie to you. Again, I'm not mad at the gate agents. I'm not mad at the customer service representatives. I'm not mad at any of them. They did not make this decision, Mandy. I'm an employee of Southwest here in Denver. It's not just the price

It was awful. That needed to be fixed, right.

They needed to modernize everything, they needed to make it so they could get crew where they needed to get them.

All that needed to happen.

But I didn't fly Southwest because of their scheduling program.

I just didn't.

I mean, that's not why I did it. And now they're taking the thing away that I like, But that identity, it's it's not other DNA and Roger.

I think she's fired up.

I think she's a little I believe it's got her attention.

It's like the fourth time I've talked about this. I'm so annoyed by this, and this is true.

You know, this happens, this conversation happens when there's no microphone around.

Chuck.

Yeah, sure, I'm annoyed too.

I mean we travel a lot. We travel.

I mean we have five trips planned just this year that we've already bought tickets to.

Hey, Mandy, Southwest employees could get a bonus if they charge you for bags. Well, their problem is.

Not my problem.

Oh no, I've got two different problems.

I'm going to start with them now.

No, no, uh Mandy uh. Southwest Bag policy note we will not charge standard checked bag fees for your first or second check bag checked bag for any reservation booked or changed on or before May twenty.

Five, regardless of your travel date. There you go, Okay, So should we just book.

All of our flights for the next two years. We're just gonna plan for vacations we don't even have.

Well I look at it this way.

Let's plan and then Southwest does have a good thing where if you change the flight, they don't You don't get a penalty unless they're changing.

That I know, but they are putting a limit on how long your credits are good.

I don't have credits fire the eight months to book a trip longer than eight months out.

You can book a.

Trip a year out, a year out most if you do it.

Most of the time, credits are like.

A like a like a gift card that you purchase, you know if you expire.

And this said Mandy, stupid Southwest.

I would have continued flying them without even checking other airlines, so they could have just raised ticket prices to cover the baggage fees and I never would have known the difference. There you go, Frontier flew it all the time before they went cheap, says this Texter, Mandy, bud Light go WoT Bote go book.

Let me just say this about bud Light.

Though they didn't change their products right, they made a stunningly bad marketing decision that was made by somebody who should have never been elevated to that position.

Second to last, Texter hit up the Elliott Group. That was a genius idea. Literally, just raise prices. People just said, hey, south was getting price heer, someone said maybe, but then not find any more of it exactly.

So cheaper than a lot of the other airlines because there's no bagagees.

Coca Cola made that says this Texter are the two worst business moves ever.

They could have had Pepsi for a song.

That's eliminating their competition. Then there was the new Coke debacle. Somehow they recovered.

From the Will Southwest go back on it?

Though?

You know, here's the thing.

I know it's going to bring revenue in like because everybody has been trained on other airlines that.

This is what you do.

So now people are gonna fly Southwest, It's going to be just like every other airline. So now they have to compete on price. Now they have to compete on destinations. Now they have to compete on convenience, which is what all the other airlines have been competing on.

And they literally under cut the things that made them unique and special.

It's almost like in radio where they keep firing the local personalities and then tell us that local radio is important. I mean, I'm not bitter or anything. I'm just saying it's the same thing, right, It's the same exact thing. Oh, you can only book through December as far out now, hey, United pilot here, welcome aboard. I will be flying United because they fly direct to date.

No high United credit card. I was telling you about.

I gotta tell you as in the points and we got to talk about this on the show at some point. A Rod Beca is so interesting. A Ron is deep in the points in miles game right now. I've been in for a while. Uh, and I find that I'd rather have an unbranded credit card for a variety of reasons. But I might get the Chase United card just to get the free bags on United.

Yeah awesome.

Yeah, Well in Southwest, if you have a Chase Southwest card, are they not giving you at least one bag?

You get one?

You get one there and then but two Yeah well technically technically not two. In the United it's one, but plus companion.

So do the math. It's two brown drip.

Yes, yeah, yeah.

So, I mean, especially like families, when you're talking about traveling with a family and checking bags, you could easily add, you know, two hundred bucks to your flight just from checking bags.

I just I hate this so much. Today flew Southwest this weekend, says this Texter.

And it was the first time in a long time we had a delayed flight because the flight to bring the crew wasn't there on time. We're super loyal customers. I feel like the service is really going down. I will say this, I have not seen a drop off in the quality of the in flight experience in terms. I think their flight attendants are still great. I've always thought Southwest has always had like the happiest seeming flight attendants.

And I'm not gonna lie.

When we flew on American during COVID, those flight attendants were so mean.

I swore off American.

I was like, I do not want to be treated like a criminal because I have my mask down and my soda in my.

Hand, you know what I mean.

It was like and this woman all she did, it was like a four hour flight.

Where were we going, Chuck? We were going?

It was like a long flight, like four and a half hours. She walked up and down the aisle like a prison warden.

The entire time.

She looked like a prison warden. And if anyone had their masks down around their face or whatever, she was yelling at people.

And I was like, I'm not a coasty with me because I'm big and these seats aren't and I was sticking out a little bit, so she would like push me into this thing. And then I'm eating peanuts so I'm not putting my mask up. I'm not stupid. I know how to, you know, avoid that. And she was just like, you need to put it up between bites. I'm like, no, make me come here and do it.

Yeah.

She was my passive aggressive cousin's daughter. She would get on the plane with a lollipop in her mouth yep, and then that was her cover story for the entire I was like, God, this passage.

She remember, I bought lollipops and passed them outs everywhere in our group.

Uh huh, Mandy, I will continue to non rev on AA. Well, if I could non rev on AA, I would totally do that as well.

Non rev is when.

You work for the airline and you're a non revenue passenger. It is the best perk of working for an airline. Although as airlines have contracted their routes and planes have gotten.

More and more full, it's almost impossible. It's hard to non rev.

When I was a flight attendant, there were so many airlines and there were so many flights that you could always get where you wanted to go, so it didn't matter. Mandy, do you take two bags on every trip you go on?

No?

I do not.

I'm a pretty efficient packer. We usually just take one bag each.

Well, we have great luggage thanks to.

Yeah, we do, thanks to Paradise Bag. It's go check them out. They're amazing. Well they didn't give it to us. I mean we bought it, true, but still amazing luggage, Mandy.

Southwest charging for bags is like Wendy's going with frozen beef.

Amen.

My friend to me, that's another one of those things, change their meat, and that was I never went to Wendy's again. Their original burgers were phenomenal and their fries and they changed everything.

I haven't been back since.

You are a picky man. Now I'm getting credit card advice. A Rod's City American Executive card is fantastic, This couple says. My husband and I both have United cards. He has the upgraded card that gets us into the United Club and free bags for all companions. I have the non upgrade card and it gets me one free bag when I travel alone. This text are set up in every household expense on my Southwest credit card.

My wife and I fly free. We do that with the Chase preferred Sapphire or is that what it is?

Yes?

Because those miles when you go to get a miles credit card. And by the way, if you're a person who cannot or will not pay off your credit card balance at the end of every month, do not do this, okay, because carrying credit card debt to get airline miles does not make any financial sense any way you look at it. Ever, full stop, don't get credit cards if you cannot manage

Or Luftanza to Switzerland.

You've got to be able to move those miles around. So there's a lot to know about it. A Rod slowly becoming an expert. If somebody said this, A Rod, you should do a video on this on your top ten channel.

MM, yeah, it's a good one. I just might.

It's so awesome all the travel we're doing, so much of it knock them out of our pockets.

Yep, you can't, baby, Mandy back it up.

And go slower. Southwest Airlines has a woke marketing third party firm. Wait what, I don't know what the woke marketing third party firm is. I mean they don't need a woke third party firm. They're screwing their airline up all by themselves and you don't have to bring an outside help at least but light you know, yeah, Ralph and black Forest also in first class, the flight attendants treat you much better. You know why, because we know you've paid an exorbitant amount of money to be there.

It was ridiculous.

But then you had to go back for training for first class International, and that training alone was a week long. We had a caviar and vodka service that we had to do. We had like a ten course meal that we had to serve.

It was insane and I loved it. I loved it.

I got a fly International first class. I got bumped up when I was in the service and I was in uniform. You're lucky doing an escort.

Oh, you were escorting us.

Yeah, I'd like to relate all this, but just fly private.

Jesse Thomas. It must be so tough to hear US pores talk about what it's like to travel around, Just Mandy.

They should charge for the stupid carry on. Would make boarding and disembarking much more efficient. I I what frustrates me as a person who doesn't fly with a giant carry on is when they come to me and say, can I take your bag out of the overhead bin and put it in front of you on the floor, And I'm like, no, my legs are too long.

I stand up whenever they do that. Do you think these.

Legs can fit up there?

No, this person got it right, aroon. It's a perfect analogy, Mandy. Collecting credit card points is like Pokemon for adults.

Oh, Pokemon that get lets you go places for free and stay in fabulous hotels. So there you go, Manby.

We have to chase United card and go to Hawaii free every year which Chuck and I went to Switzerland. We paid for probably three quarters of our trip with airline miles and we stayed in a hotel so fancy that I felt like the Beverly Hillbillies and that thing.

Man, it was like.

Wow, because first five apartments.

All right, you guys, it is now to fifty.

My husband Chuck is here as we wrap up our broadcast in the beautiful Salt River fields. If you go to my Facebook page, Mandy Connell, you can see a picture of the view that I've had all day to day. And we're gonna be joined by Jesse Thomas, who I've all and told he was also playing of the Day. Because now it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio.

Of its guy World of the Day. All right, here we go, all right, Anthony, What is our dad joke of the day.

What is a home run hitter's favorite type of music?

Run hitter, bass sing? Oh day Oh, that was a good one.

You have to telling them these are good ones.

Okay, I think that's funny.

I could tell you I like this. I thank the ones for our grandkids. That's what I'm doing.

Oh, here's another one, you know what, double dough. Since you love that one so much, Chuck. Why are some umpires overweight? I don't know, because they.

Always clean their plates.

Oh I love that one so good.

That was better than the swing one.

I'll thank you that that is so good.

All right, Now we have our trivia question. According to the US cost we don't Oh wait, I'm sorry.

Word of today.

It's a verb verb. Have we done this one before going to do it again?

Okay? Fame feign That means to fake something like you pretend to be something you're not.

That is correct, pretty much, all right?

According to the.

US Constitution, what is the minimum age for a person to be elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington.

D C?

Twenty five?

Yes, you are correct? Is it very good? Very good? All right? What is our jeopardy category. Jesse.

Here's how you play Jeopardy with us. It's a blood sport. You don't have to wait till the end of the question. You have to shout your name out, Jesse. I'll call on you, and then you answer it in the form of a question.

Johnny has to wait.

They do in Jeopardy. No, I don't right here.

Jesse's never played.

I don't care.

It's our two rules.

No win, the win.

I'm just trying to stay out of the way.

It's here too, I don't care. When there's a delayer, someone new, you have to wait. No, yes, so you have to wait for the word go.

Hey, what if you could see her face?

Jesse is gonna win because ladies and gentlemen, we're talking baseball.

I'm not waiting then.

For failures. All you did.

In nineteen ninety six, the bottom of this imaginary rectangle over home plate was moved from the top of the batter's es Mandy.

What is the strike zone?

We're not gonna really not gonna wait?

Huh, all right?

Yes?

Correct A baseball hat worn in an unusual way by players or fans to inspire a comeback.

What's the rally? Cap?

I told you.

We should have had.

Her late telling, she added.

As part of safety protocols in twenty two twenty all half innings after the ninth now begin with an automatic runner at Jesse's.

Jesse second base, dumbas.

This new stat that sounds like it's kept by NASA is higher more than twenty degrees on average for a fly ball hitner Jesse Jesse long angle correct.

Here we go.

Jesse first time.

Chuck, Chuck.

I'm good, I'm good. I'm watching these two try to kill.

Also a soccer term for a lone back line defender.

It's a pitch similar, Oh, Jesse correct.

I didn't even need to give him an advantage exactly. You're acting like Jesse doesn't know what he's doing. I had faith in you, Jesse, not like that Arod soccer to the bast We got.

A handicapped man. He's so Jesse can win.

No, we don't.

All right, guys, I will be back in the studio tomorrow, assuming that south US Southwest Airlines. Let's be board the plane tomorrow morning after maybe hearing this show.

But if you have a.

Chance to come to spring training, do it. This is absolutely beautiful out here. The weather is gorgeous and aside from the cactus is blooming that's given me the allergies. I highly recommend it. You should make the trip. We'll be back tomorrow.

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