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Welcome, We welcome to a Wednesday edition of the program. I your host for the next three hours. Mandy Connell is back in the studio. I was just killing a Rod yesterday broadcasting from Salt River Field at Talking Stick was glorious. The windows were open, I'm looking out over the ball field. It was just great. Now I'm back in a studio that smells vaguely at body Odor and Cheetos, just saying, hey, Rod's here with me. You can call him Anthony rod.
Rido Sanberger back like that.
Geez always has the same.
Sort of e you Knowiness. Do you have your own mic sock?
I do?
I do.
Oh, I've had my own micsock for the last twenty years.
In the a Rod you put on minds fading a little Nita, Oh no, with the silver marker. I don't know whose desk. I stole that off of a little.
Bit later in the show this hour, because we hardly ever do giveaways. In the first hour, we're going to be given away a couple of pairs of tickets to the Denver Home Show. It's happening this weekend at the National Excuse me, couple of tickets one pair to the National Western Complex for the Denver Home Show this weekend. Stick around a little bit later we're going to be doing that, or just buy your tickets at Denver Homeshow
dot com. In the meantime, I know, let's go to the blog, which I'm just gonna say is not as hefty as it normally is because I got up this morning in Phoenix, Arizona and had to fly home, which worked out perfectly except have you ever flown in and out of the Phoenix Airport a rod.
I don't. I'm sure I have.
I would just like to.
Apologize forever talking trash about the Denver Airport and how sprawling it is because the Arizona Airport, I believe you actually walk from one side of Arizona to the other side of Arizona, from the car rental place to your actual terminals where you're gonna check your luggage. X Oh, I know, don't do that when I'm flying, and I need to go west from California. I fly to San Francisco because SFO is so much easier than LAX, so much, especially.
Long Beach now, now, Cod Beach is adorable.
That is the cutest little airport you ever saw in your life. It's like a little baby airport, little teeny tiny. Oh, I'm at the wrong gate. That's okay. All the other gates are right here.
And I have nostalgia too. I think I told you my dad.
Yeah, parrots met Yeah, that was a flight instructor there. He must have worked in the old terminal building that you're about to remodel it.
They're about to go see it, and it's gonna be so cool for them to see it all jazzed up.
Now, this texter said, if it smells like dog dorito feet, that's a yeast problem. Well, uh, it doesn't really smell like Fredo's, and dog freedoms smell like Fredo's. We've already established that some time ago. Now you've ruined cheetos for me, Mandy, I'm sorry, but you're welcome.
And what did you say? Cheetos?
And what body owed on cheetos?
Vaguely?
And it's always smells the same, you guys. It's not like it's from Jimmy or Ross or it always smells vaguely of those things.
So here here, I know, just saying us producers very hygienis.
Yeah.
Anyway, let's talk about the blog for a moment. It's not as big, but it's still amazing if I do say so myself. You can find it at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says three nineteen twenty five blog Weather Wednesday and Belmar Park needs saving. Click on that and here are the headlines you will find within tech.
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bomb and Gaza again. The woman who murdered her Super Bowl reporter faces charges by mom, I'll visit you every week. Are you burnt out? Ea? Sports is going to be paying college players? I've been eating in my car correctly? Where black meets right?
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More althwat story. Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And there's something that.
Is not on the blog today, and I got an email about it that asked a very logical and rational, reasonable question. And I'm paraphrasing because I don't feel like finding the email right now, but the paraphrasing of the email was essentially, Hey, Mandy, I see you're not spending a lot of time talking about judges stopping what the Trump administration is doing. And that, in my mind, is entirely consistent with the way I handle any kind of litigation.
We've talked about this before. If there is a criminal trial going on or there's litigation happening. For the most part, I don't spend a lot of time on it while it's happening. Here's why, there's nothing we can do about it. There's nothing that you and I discussing judges and what they're doing is going to change how the process works. Now we can have a conversation about whether or not I think some of these judges have far overstepped their bounds.
And I do believe that in some cases the judges have far overstepped their bounds. But I also think that all of this stuff, when it comes down to the president's right and abilities to execute a vision for the country in very specific areas, is indeed left up to the president, is going to be decided by the courts, and we just have to let it play out. It's not because I think Trump is right about everything. It's
not because I think Trump is wrong about everything. But in all honesty, I looked this morning just to see I kind of did a look see. I did my show prep on the plane today. Thank god the Wi Fi worked normally when I plan to do show prep on a plane because I'm doing the show the same day, inevitably I get on the plane with no Wi Fi. It's like a nightmare. Today the WiFi worked great. That being said, I did a bunch of searching on judges
stopping Trump, and it is happening everywhere. Judges are inserting themselves into things that I, frankly sometimes don't believe that they have any right to do. So we'll wait to see what's decided and then what happens. So it's not me avoiding them because in all honesty, the tone of the email was a little bit like, Haha, your boy Trump.
Is getting stopped by judges. Why don't you talk about that?
And I'm like, well, number one, he might be right about some things. He might be wrong about some things, but we're gonna have to wait and find out. Talking about it now does nothing, absolutely nothing. So we're gonna wait and see how this stuff comes through the courts. And it is like, when stuff gets to the Supreme Court, then we're gonna talk about that. How about that? Okay, we'll do that, me and you and we'll make it through all of this together. So much of what's happening
now is really unprecedented, and I don't hate that. By the way, because what we're doing now, business as usual has us running a one point eight trillion dollar deficit last year and has jacked up deficit two over thirty seven trillion dollars. That's not sustainable and it's not good. We have to do something, so it'll it'll be very interesting to see how all this shakes out. And it will shake out, that's the thing. All of this will be decided. But everybody gets into a lather and everybody
gets furious and angry. It's like, guys, when you're doing unprecedented things in a system of government that has checks and balances, don't you expect to pushback? Now what I think is happening. I think the Trump administration is ready for every single lawsuit. When you look at some of the filings, and I am following what's going along, I'm just not talking about it. When you look at some of the filings, it is a parent that they were
ready for these challenges. When you listen to Stephen Miller, Trump advisor Stephen Miller, and I'm just gonna say this, Stephen Miller creeps me out. He's like a Bond villain.
Even though he says stuff.
That I agree with, He just for some reason.
He gives me the ick.
As the kids today say, I just don't care for him, but it doesn't mean he's wrong. But it also doesn't mean they're right. We're just gonna have to wait and see what happens. So the one thing I will come out. And I don't have this on the blog today because I did not get as much stuff on the blog as I would have liked because frying whatnot, blah blah blah.
But one of the things I probably should have put on here is that you know, Republicans are rushing to impeach judges that are ruling against Trump, and I don't like that at all. Now, if you want to impeach a judge because they have a significant, demonstrable history of being a crappy judge, then I say go for it. But if a judge does something you don't like politically, you cannot impeach them.
That is wrong. That is wrong.
So I'm not opposed to impeaching justices who deserve it.
But just because someone.
Does something you don't like politically, that's not enough reason to impeach someone. And I strongly disagree with that story. So anyway, let's talk about what is coming up on the show. We got Dave Frasier coming up for Weather Wednesday, Fox thirty one's chief meteorologist is going to tell.
Us what is happening in the next week after last night? Was it snowing sideways?
Here?
What was happening in the weather A.
Rod extreme winds, okay, massively extreme winds, sideways, blowing snow. And I learned today go into the spring south of Castle Rock quite a bit of snow. Everything north of Castle Rock all the snow was gone this morning.
That's why I come in here and I talk about how much snow I've had, you know, and you've had none and I had five feet. What was funny is yesterday Chuck and I are sitting somewhere, no, we're sitting at the baseball game, and we get a notice from our ring doorbell and it says, Mandy is at the front door. Because after you you can name the common people, Mandy is at the front door. And I was like, well, I'm here, so I'm definitely not at the front door.
Do you know what they thought? Was me at the front door?
Yes?
And I was like, what, what what does that even mean? I think I'm insulted by my ring doorbell.
Thanks to our friends at Fox thirty one, some areas saw as high as eighty mile an hour when gust.
That's nuts. It was insane.
We had to go out last night, and I'm talking our backyard is wind ter rized like the multiple bungeies.
We had to go out there and add more.
It was wow sane, like our tarps were doing like parasailing, wind sailing, whatever sailing.
It was insane. We had to go out there again.
It was very cold too, this Texter, Mandy. The Trump administration is working hard at getting rid of checks and balances. Did you guys forget that Joe Biden was ruled against by the Supreme Court on student loan forgiveness, and yet he did it anyway? Again? Did you forget that? So let's not act like Donald Trump has the corner on ignoring the different size, you know, parts of government. Mandy Ross doesn't wash his legs is a the smell you know what. I don't know, but he's been on vacation
all weeks. We're gonna put yes, Oh so we're just gonna blame Ross's dirty legs.
Yeah, okay, he's gross. I'm down with that is hygiene. It probably Lingers. Yeah, it's him.
Yeah, Hey, Mandy, I heard a federal judge ruled that the astronauts have to be returned to the space station. That's funny. That is very very funny.
Man. They look old. Oh my gosh.
Now, granted they are the woman whose name escapes me at this moment, she is second all time for US astronauts for the amount of time she has spent in space.
How long was she up there? No, she was not just this time, like this time? How long?
Oh, they were up there for a long time. They were apposed to be up there for a few minutes. And when they were back picks. I mean, it looks like she aged like twenty years. I know, I know, hopefully you know, everything normalized.
Well, I mean, you know, maybe this is the thing that happens to women sometimes, like your hair goes gray really fast. Maybe that happened to her. I don't know, but they're back.
She might have been hair dying maybe before she left.
Well surely if you think we're only supposed to be gone for eight days.
That's what I'm saying, So before she was maybe touched up. Yeah, that's a good point point didn't expect to need it. Yeah, very very very good.
This texter said, I thought the judiciary was supposed to be a political And you are correct, Texter, You are correct, Mandy. Shouldn't there be some repercussions when a judge tries to hijack the executive office? Yes, that is why we have the Supreme Court. That is why these things will be divided, decided decided through a process that we have in place. And you know, I have confidence and and I'm I'm here to tell you I don't think Trump's gonna win
them all, but I think He's gonna win a bunch. Mandy. In Central Park Commerce City, wind was so bad we lost partial fences, furniture blue off my porch, trash cands went everywhere.
It was bad.
Mandy mid nest camera commonly think that my daughter is my mother in law and my wife is her grandmother. Lol, talk about insulting. Okay, I feel better now. My just thought blowing snow was me? Was mine? Yeah?
Yeah? Yeah?
Anyway, Okay, We've got Dave Fraser coming up a twelve thirty. We're gonna talk about weather and then my snitch line has produced another guest from the Lakewood area, the one of the people behind the save Belmar Park issue. We're gonna chat with them for a few minutes. I'm trying to get everyone around the Metro agitated at their local government for something that's really my goal, right, So.
This is a good one.
We're gonna pick at Lakewood and then a Rod, we need to invite some of the Lakewood City Council people on the show to discuss this. I'll ask Kathy who we should ask to have on the show to talk
about the other side. And then So the JFK files were released yesterday, eighty thousand pages unredacted, and everybody I said yesterday, I was like, I don't think there's going to be anything super exciting in these But my friend David Strom over at hot air dot com has been following all the people who are digging into these unredacted files, and indeedy, there are some things in here that we should pay attention to. There are few things that we need to talk about. So David is going to join
me at twoint thirty to discuss that. And the CIA is an agency that may need to be rained in just a tiny bit, just a little tiny bit have you ever seen how the astronauts exercise in the space station a rod Have you ever seen it? They're showing it right now on TV.
So imagine this.
You got a treadmill, you know, and instead of just having a treadmill, they have these giant rubber bands that attached to the astronaut's waist and it pulls them down so they remain on the treadmill as they run. It creates kind of false gravity. So cool, so cool. I wish I'd tried harder to be an astronaut, a cool job to have. To be clear, I didn't try it all. So I probably would have needed to join the Air Force or something, and I didn't do that. And I
probably would have learned how to fly a plane. I didn't do that. My chance is to be an astronaut very low at this point, Mandy. What the heck happened with gas price is up forty five cents in one day? Why, I don't know. I didn't get gas this morning, I'm not sure, Mandy. That's not repercussions being overturned by the Supreme Court. There needs to be something personal done to you guys. When Okay, I have an I need to
have a conversation, especially with Republicans. You know, I am not a Republican until new leadership comes into the Colorado Republican Party, and then I'll make a decision based on what that leadership looks like. But I have always, for most of my adult life, identified way more with a
Republican party than the left wing. And I've always thought that they were the party of freedom and that they were the party of recognizing that sometimes we're going to disagree with people, but it doesn't mean we have to destroy them. And Republicans are increasingly becoming just like those on the left, and I realize you're justifying it by saying they do it to us, we should do it
to them. But I always think of my late grandmother when she would say, you are not allowed to go to the store with me with your bare feet, because in my hometown, go to the grocery store and your bare feet not a big deal. It just was not a big deal. We actually have a name for when your feet gets super black from going barefoot all the time, from like you know, the asphalt, and so if we call it grocery store feet, okay, that's a thing.
But my grandmother would say, and I'd say, Nana, everybody does it.
She go, we are better than that. And she never said it like we're better than those people because you know, we're smarter, we're richer. Never that way. It was about our manners and about what she expected of us. And that's what I want to say to the Republican Party.
We are better than this.
We are the Party of Freedom. I am very very concerned about two things right now happening in the Republican Party, very very nationally, very concerned. Number One, apparently there is a serious move afoot to sort of engage in some kind of shenanigans. According to Steve Bannon. Anyway, I hate that guy. He says he's going to make sure that Trump gets a third term. No, no he's not, because I will not vote for him for a third time. I will sit it out. I will not do that.
That's thing number one.
Thing number two, the attacks on the gay community have ramped up, and guys, I am very committed to protecting children from making medical decisions that will affect them for the rest of their lives before they're old enough to understand what they're doing. I'm very committed to that. But trans adults, gay people, What the hell, you guys. We have to stop with that. We absolutely have to stop
with that. Maybe I'm too libertarian and that I believe if an adult wants to live as another gender and they want to have a whole series of affirming surgeries to make them feel like they are part of that gender, more power to you. If you're over eighteen, if you are a gay person who wants to get married, I support you one hundred percent. You deserve to have the same rights as straight people. But lately there's this drum beat that's very negative and I don't like it, not
one bit. So it concerns me that the party that I have always associated with freedom is now saying it's not enough to disagree with the judge and have that overturned at the Supreme Court. If it's a bad ruling, we now have to destroy that person for this decision. Only now, if you can show a pattern of bad behavior, then yeah, knock yourself out. But one judge in the history of the United States has been removed by impeachment.
One that should tell you that it needs to be something that is used incredibly sparingly for the worst possible cases. So let's stop that right now. Let's just stop it. We're not doing that anymore. When we get back, we're going to talk to Dave Fraser from Fox thirty one. We got weather wednesday. What is the weather going to do now? Are we going to get blown away again in the near future? We will talk about that right
after this time. To bring on Dave Fraser. He is Fox thirty one's chief meteorologist.
Dave.
I was in beautiful Arizona yesterday, but I hear things were a little dicey.
Here was the wind expected to be that bad?
So you know the open that you run for me every week, the last line is or whatever mother Nature throws you away. While mother Nature was throwing some curve balls yesterday, so you're lucky you missed it. So I will tell you. I'll just give you a brief recap of what happened because you were out of town. But I heard a rod talking about the nightmare dealing with the win, and you got comments from viewers in Commerce City.
Wind was in the forecast for several days that that wind speeds were supposed to be around fifteen to thirty at around noon yesterday, as I was eyeballing the forecast.
New data came in and everything changed, literally changed and flipped to where the storm coming in over Grand Junction was supposed to go to northeast Colorado, and it was supposed to whip up the wind, but in that position towards Jewelesburg in the northeast, we were just going to get some brief passing rain and snow showers, and that was going to be a some snow on the eastern plains,
and yes, wind would be blowing. When we looked at the forecast around this time yesterday, all of the models, all of them sometimes you get model inconsistency, every single one of them picked up on a change in the storm track and took that storm and increased its intensity and plunked it in southeast Colorado. That is a sweet spot for blizzard conditions over eastern Colorado. And because the storm deepened, the wind speeds increased from fifteen to thirty
to ten atually fifty to seventy miles per hour. The snow also increased because now the storm is further south, we're tapping into colder air, We're bringing it down from the north. Had that storm stayed north, all of the cold air would have stayed right, we wouldn't have been able to produce as much snow. So because of that
jog in the position, everything changed. We were literally scrambling at two o'clock updating our forecast to get ready for our first broadcast at three point thirty, letting people know that we were going to be on a pinpoint weather alert day because of the snow and the blowing snow. And within a few minutes of that, the National Weather Service triggered the blizzard warnings for the Eastern Plains and then back pushed that to the Palmer Divide, Castle Rock
and Elizabeth Whoa and Kyola and Parker. They originally weren't in it until the wind started to roar. Now you don't need a lot of snow. You really don't even need falling snow to have a blizzard. If there's been previous snow and the wind strong enough, you can get blizzard conductions. So we sent our great Gheta in the Beast out east along eighty six and we had him go from Castle Rock. Everything was fine, The roads were
just wet. As the snow was falling, it was white, but as the sun set it wasn't about the depth of the snow. It was about the wind of the snow and the visibility. As Greg left Elizabeth and traveled to Kiowa, he literally went to a wall of snow where it was whiteout conditions. They ended up closing the road. As you guys have been reporting all morning. I seventy is still closed because they're battling the land in some
blowing and drifting, and the visibility was just gone. Our own Charles Turner was out on I seventy around the Strasburg, Bennett and Deer Trail area and it was just visible and it was just the wind. And I will tell you statistically that between Pie Day three fourteen and the nineteenth of March is when we generally get our biggest storms, and those tend to be blizzard conditions. Now they don't
always have to be deep snow. Of course, two years twenty two years ago today, Denver had its worst blizzard. It was the Saint Patrick's State blizzard. Started on Saint Patrick's Day, ended today on the nineteenth, and Denver got thirty five inches of snow. On the south side we had five feet of snow. Oh my god, what hills had six and seven feet of snow and drifts were to the lowest rooflines of people's own People were cutting off their roofs down onto the snow and into the streets,
and the city shut down for three days. All right, yeah, this is kind of that sweet spot. So we thankfully we got that component. But no, I will tell you yesterday mother nature threw us a curveball and we were tracking that wind in that snow, and it was miserable, especially east of by twenty five.
This is why you all need to download the Pinpoint app, the Pinpoint Weather app, because I it changes and as soon as they update their forecast, it updates on the app. So they want literally like, what is happening right now? Just open the app and check it out. I got a text from someone earlier that said, is it an excessively dry March? They feel like this has been a really dry March. How are we doing?
So, it's a great question. I looked that up. So officially, prior to last night, we had no measurable snow out at the airport. Remember, March is, statistically, over the history of our records more than one hundred years, the snowiest month at more than eight inches of snow. The airport officially got zero point eight inches, and that's all the snow we've had this month. If we don't get any more snow for the rest of the month, it would
be the sixth driest March on record. So I checked that because of that the month was before we went into the month. The thirty day outlook for March was it for to be temperatures to be close to normal, but probably lower than normal for moisture. I did look at long range models as far out as I can see on our stuff to get us through about the twenty ninth of the month. There's nothing ahead through the
twenty ninth. We might be able to hook a little bit of a storm, maybe rain, maybe snow, because it's still March. Don't forget April's our second snowiest month. We might be able to hook something around the twenty nine, thirtieth to thirty first, But to get a storm that late in the month of March to make up, you know, eight inches of snoak probably not going to happen.
Well, I remember last April. I remember last April, you and I talking about. Over the last few years, April has sort of superseded March as the snowiest month that we've had, and we've had some really big spring storms in April, and we've talked about whether changing climate is responsible for that, if it's going to change our snow patterns. I mean, did you feel like that could still be a possibility here?
Yeah, I mean, never give up on a season, as I always say it. And actually, not only has April done a little better than March, February has outperformed its normal statistics, and it's because of the big storm we had late last year and the month of February that were actually still on track at this point for seasonal snow. Now again, with March and April being your biggest totals, if we don't get measurable snow through the end of March and April ends up coming up short, then the
season is going to come up short. We need the support of these next two months, and I think March is going to let us down. April may be able to help us out a little bit.
Well, I saw the snow totals though, they're looking pretty good right now, especially in the front right.
Yeah, I mean the snowpack and everything is still looking great. Remember, we load through about the I think it's the eleventh of April. So you load as much snow as you can on the front Range mountains and in the mountains, and then you start, you know, you start to get ready for the runoff and what that means for water supply, reservoirs filling up, what the you know, what the wrapping looks like, the river flows.
You know all that stuff.
So I have a question, what is your uh, what is your own personal pagan celebration of tomorrows spring equinox is going to look like Dave Frasier.
At three oh one in the morning, probably a lot of snoring.
Is that when the actual spring equinox happens.
Yeah, yeah, three oh one tomorrow morning is wind spring. So when you wake up tomorrow we will be in spring. It's not it's not one of those times where where you know, the spring arrives at nine o'clock at night, So really do you call the whole day the spring equinox? Now it arrives at three oh one, so almost a full day of spring arrives small and it will feel
like spring. I know you're asking about the Yeah, what do we got coming with the news, So you know, one of the things we've been dealing with is, you know, when we have wind, which is this is kind of the windy season. When we have wind and everything's dormant as it still is, you know, fire danger becomes a concern. What we need to do is start the growing season, and that's we're getting there. You know, we got to
wait a little longer. But what we need to do that is get a little warm for to get a little more sunshine, and we have that for the next seven to ten days. The outlook is I have one ten percent chance of a shower late on Saturday. Otherwise we're just gonna have some passing cloud It's gonna be a little breezy from time to time. But I think we're near sixty for the next three days, probably low sixties on Saturday, near sixty Sunday, and then starting on Monday,
the temperatures kick up to the seventies. I'm talking low to mid seventies through the middle of next week. Nice and I can see us potentially reaching almost eighty degrees.
But end of next week that's exciting.
I like it.
What I just heard was is that I can get my lawn work done this weekend, is what I heard.
Yeah, you can do my press. Here's some of yeah, or some of the things you didn't get to in the fall, some of that dead brush trimming or whatever. Yeah, I think you're going to have a great weekend as long as you can get away from the TV and watching much meds.
You know what.
I am hardcore for the first couple of rounds. But then I'm sort of like, I just watch the games I care about, So I'm okay with that. You know, I can take a break to watch any games that I actually care about. So if the weather's nice this weekend, I'm all about it. I'm all about it. Yeah, Dave Frasier, you can see you. Yeah, you can see his work on Fox thirty one. Our partner. He does a great job, even though sometimes this weather forecasting business just isn't as
easy as it needs to be. I think Dave appreciate you.
Yeah, I don't mind the challenge. I don't mind the challenge. So enjoy spring, Welcome the new season.
Is this wait?
Is this like actual spring? Or is it fake spring? We'll have another winter I can't keep up in Colorado.
Yeah, well, don't hang your hat is over. But enjoy the next ten days.
Don't put your sweating away, but you can put them away for ten days. Dave Fraser, good to talk to you. We'll talk to you again next week. All right, that's Dave Frasier. He will be back right after this. I want to respond to a text message that I got at the beginning of the show. If you're just joining us, we were talking about these judges that are blocking Trump's or trying to block Trump's actions, and this texter said, let me pull it up so I can see the
whole exchange. Uh, texter said, the issue with the with the charge of the okay, the issue with regard to Judge Boseburg. He's one of the judges who has said that the dissolution of USAID is illegal. So this texter said, the issue with with regard to Boseberg relates to the fact that his family member, specifically his daughter, works for Partners for Justice, which is a pro illegal immigration NGO that receives over half its funding from US eight and
other government grants. So the she was not because of the decision, but because of the perceived, if not actual, conflict of interest. And I want to be very clear about this. We cannot assume and hold judges responsible for what their spouses or their children do. Now, is it a fair maybe.
Assumption, yes, But it goes both ways.
And if the left thought that they could hold Clarence Thomas responsible for his wife Jinny Thomas's political work, they would have impeached Clarence Thomas. So it's a very slippery slope. I mean, it's not crazy, you guys. I'm not saying you're wrong, texture but you also have to believe that there are justices out there who have like conservative justices who have very liberal children, you know, who are working on things they don't like, and they're not swayed by that.
So we cannot get into the habit of looking at the family members and assuming that a judge or you know, a justice would be swayed by that, because I think that is an incredibly dangerous slippery slope. The Texter and I've been going back and forth a little bit, and they texted this last one. The larger issues relate to the fact that you have lower level district judges creating
injunctions with national security implications. You don't know me personally, but I would tell you that I have the exact same position if this were a Republican doing it to Biden or Obama. The only entities that should be able to enjoin a president should come from the Supreme Court. That is a valid point right there. And this is
what's all going to be sorted out. But we have to make sure it gets sorted out the right way because eventually all of this will apply to a Democratic president who we want to either rein in or keep from going beyond their scope. Right, So this is all really important that this is figured out in terms of what a president can do under Article two of the Constitution, of what they can't. So we live in interesting times, my friend, as the old curse said, and that's not necessarily a compliment.
When we get back, the snitch line is open.
And we talked a little bit about Belmar Park last week, but now I have someone from Lakewood Save Belmar Park on And this story is a story that is happening all over Colorado, and it has to do with how do you maintain the beautiful natural environment that we live in in Colorado and still have things like housing for people and development to support a community's tax base. We're going to talk to one of the members. Kathy, Kathy, I just lost her last name. I want to make
sure I get it right because that's rude. Kathy Keckner, she's coming up next to talk about it. Keep it right here on KOA.
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It is me, Mandy Connell, it is I. I am Mandy Connell, joined by Anthony Rodriguez, and he is currently getting our guests on the show.
I think I forgot to confirm with her. You, guys, I was so discombobulated being in Arizona. But if we can't get her on right now, we will get her on shortly. But I think she's going to be okay because Kathy Kittner with Save Belmar Park is more of a professional than I am. Hi, Kathy, thank you for making time after I forgot to confirm our interview. I really appreciate that.
Hi, Mandy, thank you for having me well.
Last week we spoke with Karen Morgan of the Lakewood Informer, because she's doing all kinds of stuff on the Shenanigans happening in Lakewood, and she actually said, I'm not the person you need to talk to about Belmar Park. There's a very good organization that is working on this issue, and you are one of the people involved in save Belmore Park. But I want you to just kind of give a breakdown from my audience that doesn't know what's going on of what you guys are fighting.
Yeah, thank you so much for acting. And to clarify, there are several organizations that have been attempting to have it say in how Belmar Park is developed or not over developed. There are two Save Belmar Park organizations. And then I really spearheaded the save Open Space Lake Good initiative initiative petitions. Okay, that we did, and basically what
has happened over well over the last several years. Many of your listeners, I'm sure are aware that Lakewood has just been developing lot line to lot line, a concrete jungle all over the place. In twenty nineteen, voters even passed an initiative asking city council to have some oversight for our large development projects. Right after that pass, the city went to the state and had a law path that said, if we have any control over our growth, we are anti growth and we may not do that right.
And then about a year ago, a year and a half ago, many neighbors adjacent to Belmar Park this a crown jewel of Belma of Lakewood, an unofficial bird. Sank Shawari found out that there are plans to tear down an office building and replace it with an apartment building that would not simply replace the office building, but it would be two to three times as high and go lot line to lot line all the way up to the what is now the walking path around Belmar Park.
So I here's as my experience in Florida. Florida has a lot of communities that are just what you're saying, lined a lot line. I've lived in houses in Florida where I could reach out my bathroom window and almost touch my neighbor's house. I don't like it.
Most people don't like it. But when you're talking.
About trying to get the most bang for your book, I understand why developers do it. But all you guys know, let me be clear about what you're trying to do, because would you be satisfied if the developer just smushed the footprint a little bit to give those easements around so you still were able to maintain the park like quality of Belmore Park.
Absolutely, there would be no outrageous especially if they just wanted to replace the office building in the same footprint, there would be no complaints at all. And we are not anti development.
That we're asking for some balance, right.
And you know, as you know, it sounds like you're very knowledgeable maximizing process. Highest and best use is not it is not a use by rights.
Well, my thinking here is that I understand and I said it before the BREAKATY. I feel like these conversations are happening all over the front range in so many different communities as longtime residents are trying to sort of save the environment that they moved into in a lot of ways. And it sounds like that's kind of where you're going. But I can also see the town the city council saying, look, we need more housing and we need more tax base to come in here and do this.
So I can see both sides of the issue. I have sympathy for both sides of the issue, but I think it's interesting that you guys are saying, Look, we're not asking to not build this.
You know, we're not asking to not do this.
We're asking for some balance.
Right.
City seems to have an all or nothing attitude towards development, and I think the majority of people don't buy into that.
And does it.
Lakewood have a provision that says in any new construction there has to be green space allowances.
Right.
So, getting back to the specific of Belmar Park and the initiative petition that we did, one of the ways that Bellmar was being allowed to be so dense and out of proportion was that they were buying out of our land Dedication Ordinance requirement. We do have a requirement based on the number of people anticipated to be added to your project, that a certain amount of land is
set aside for parks in open space. But in the last nearly thirteen years, every single development has been allowed to buy How did that requirement?
See, I am yeah, I'm not a fan of dispensations, right, and that's what this is. This is the same as Roman Catholic baddies buying dispensations from the pope years ago. It would seem to me that a better alternative than financial dispensations is the builder would be responsible for somehow securing green space elsewhere if they refused to do it
around their existing project. Is there any move a foot in Lakewood that you're aware of to change that particular bit of the law to make it so at least somewhere green space is going to be preserved if someone wants to do a big project.
No.
The thing that is so incredibly disappointed and when you talk about the shenanigans we availed ourselves to after a year and a half of being ignored and told by city council, we are very empathetic, we don't like this project anyhow, but there's nothing we can do. We did this petition to say, here's something you can do, let's
talk about it, let's come up with something. And instead they very briefly accepted our petition and adopted it as required, but then at the end of February repealed and replaced it with what we had before, which is a scheme that puts all of these decisions. What you're talking about could happen, but that decision now goes back behind closed doors with the developer and the director's Community Resources making that decision without any input from anybody else.
That's super frustrating. I mean that's you know, it's one thing if somebody wants to build a building on an empty lot and it's not next to a park and it's not impacting anybody else. But when they're talking about fundamentally changing a corner around Belmar Park, I think there should be a lot more public input here.
Now.
The city council that you're talking about, who should I have on the show to talk about this? I mean, who would you recommend that we get on the show to talk about it from their perspective.
From the city's perspective.
Yeah, I think the most vocal person against their initiatives and for this development has been Counselor Roger Lowe.
And he is the city council right currently, the only city councilor for the area that includes Realmar pok Okay.
So it's in his disc So, yes, that would be.
That would be.
Because because I'm interested to hear from someone on the city council their rationale. It can't be that the state says we can't limit you know, the footprint of a building. We're still going to build a building, but we want to limit the footprint. That seems ridiculous and unreasonable to me. That seems like a misreading on purpose of what the state is actually saying.
Oh, well, that's very interesting that you say that, because last week the state has passed we had another.
New law to.
To try to ensure that regular.
People like those of us around Belmart Park, you know, teacher, single parents like myself, are not really able to do initiatives around these important issues anymore. First of all, the city claimed to try to repeal and replace that. They tried to say that we didn't know what we were doing. We suggested something that was illegal according to state law, because state law requires that you offer a fee to option to the developer. What is very interesting to note there,
and you talk about the Shenanigans. We started our petition in March. At the beginning of March, the city of Lakewood was aware.
Of our petition, and the state of Colorado.
Passed the law that says you have to offer a fee option at the end of April last year.
Of course they did. Of course, it's so funny that the you know, I don't know your political persuasion, Kathy, but I'm going to take a shot at Democrats who love to talk about local control until it's inconvenient for them, and then they want to strip away the local control all they want so they can do whatever they want. It's the most frustrating inconsistency about the legislature that makes me absolutely crazy.
And private property rights, I'm not used to the Democrats talking that private private property rights are unlimited and mean you can do anything with your land.
You know, it really does not break down.
And that's something that's both disheartening and heartening because these local issues really do have so much bipartisan support.
So somebody just hit our text line Kathy and said, can you ask Kathy why she's no longer on the Planning Board of Lakewood?
Did you used to be on the Planning Board?
I did.
I was on the Planning Commission until almost exactly a year ago, and at least in Lakewood, those.
Those positions are quite political.
When I was appointed, well, I still have the I guess, the recognition, the honor of being the only one appointed without unanimous support from the city council. The mayor was very vocal and not wanting me on the Planning Commission. Aw and that was when I was first appointed in twenty twenty.
All right, there is.
Now and there's now a city council vote that.
Is very.
I don't know, very much pro development and does not believe in diversity of thought. And so as soon as the opportunity came last year to replace me, they chose to replace me with someone who, during her interview set I really don't.
Know about this stuff.
Oh ah, yeah, yeah, this is entirely consistent with things I know about other Planning Commission people as well. Kaby One Texter is taking issue by saying, Mandy, are you kidding me? That park is big and there are only two buildings around it? Is this just about this one building or are you concerned that more of this is going to happen going in the future.
Well, you know, the petition dealt with the whole city because quite frankly, there's another area of this city that has been extremely concerned about the lack of green space.
It's off of.
Hole Fast, west of Kipling, and we have added thousands and thousands of apartment units and there's not a slip of green space to be had in So it really is about how we develop the whole city and whether it is sustainable and environmentally sound. The park itself is large, but putting this large as a building right up to the edge of it will have an extremely negative impact on the birds.
And I remember when you invited me to your show, mentioning that there are probably.
Better people to talk about the environmental impacts than myself. But again that when you talk about replacing the office building, what immediately comes into people's minds is that we're just putting another building where the current right building.
Is and that is not what's happened.
Yeah, that is not That is not it. If you want to join Kathy and the others who are working to save Belmar Park, you can do so. They have a website, Save Belmar Park dot com. I put a link today on the blog to it, so you can go to Mandy's blog dot com and find it there. Kathy,
thank you so much. You know, I said earlier on the show, I'm trying to get people to pay attention to what's happening in their local communities because stories like this are really important to your point about the future of Lakewood.
What kind of city do you want to live in?
What kind of city did you move to how is it different than what's happening now? And again, this particular story is probably being repeated over and over and over again in cities and towns all over the front range. So I appreciate your time today to explain the issue, kind of lay it out what you guys are worried about. And thank you for making time.
For me today.
Oh thank you for having me all right?
That is Kathy Kentner Save Belmar Park is up on the blog today. When we get back, Democrats have been flailing trying to figure out how to sort of, you know, coalesce around a message or how to constructively as a political party fight Donald Trump and Elon Musk because they have to protect big government. I think that's hilarious that they're in the position of protecting big government.
But here we are.
So when we get back, I'm going to talk about what they have decided to rally around. Oh no, I have time now, I forgot what segment we're doing. I'm going to start this now. So you may have heard that the Republican budget is asking for eight hundred billion dollars in cuts from HHS, and that is pretty much all that's in the budget, we got to have eight
hundred billion dollars. Well, Trump has already said there are no cuts to Medicare, and so to get eight hundred billion dollars out of health and human services, they're going to have to be some Medicaid cuts. Democrats have decided
to glom on to Medicaid cuts. The problem is is that they're ignoring the fact that under Obamacare, Medicaid was expanded well beyond what its original mission was supposed to be, which is to provide healthcare for people living in poverty, for pregnant mothers living in poverty, for elderly people living in poverty who need help with long term care and other things. This is who Medicaid was designed for. It was not designed for able bodied people who just don't
make enough money. And quite frankly, if you are on that Medicaid expansion bubble, you could probably get subsidies through the exchange that are more going to cover your entire premiums. And we've expanded Medicaid so now it is harder for actual people in poverty to get the care that they need. It's very difficult when you were a Medicaid patient to
get to see a specialist. If you need some kind of specialist, you can always get into some kind of doctor for general health, but it's very hard to get into a specialist because some specialists don't take Medicaid anymore because the reimbursements are so low, And when you get into specialties like pediatric neurology, it is very hard to find a pediatric neurologist in some parts of the country.
I know because when I lived in Florida and sold insurance, I spent about two weeks trying to find a pediatric neurologist for a Medicaid patient that I met when I was selling insurance. They didn't buy insurance from me, but they needed help because their daughter needed a pediatric neurologist and no one was helping them. So I just did it, and it took me literally two weeks of calling everybody all over the state of Florida to find one that can see her in the next six to seven months.
It was insane. That was my first go round with Medicaid, trying to understand the system Medicaid needs to be for people in poverty. And you know, garried Poulos is now running around saying that the Republicans want to cut four hundred thousand people off Medicaid. Guess what, five hundred thousand people were just dropped off the Medicaid rolls. You know why, because they ran out of money from COVID. They expanded Medicaid again during COVID and they contracted that and everybody's like, well,
that money's gone so much. Now it's the Republicans who want to cut Medicaid. This is what they're rallying around, and they're saying, Republicans want to kick your elderly grandmother out of her nursing home. Do you really think that? Do you really think any political party, subject to the slings and arrows of the voters, is going to want the imagery of old people being wheeled out of their nursing homes left on the street like trash. Do you
really think that's what they want? It's so stupid, And you want to know, I think I could fix Medicaid. One fell swoop goes like this. The federal government says to states, you're going to get a block grant for X amount of dollars for your Medicaid program. Whatever you do with it is fine with me. Now, if the state was smart, they would start putting people in Medicaid
into private primary care physician offices. Direct primary care. Direct primary care is where you pay a membership fee every month, but then you have doctor visits and if you have to pay for anything, it's just tests over and above, and then you just have catastrophic insurance through Medicaid that would pay for everything else. Now, if you have a family physician that you go to, I have a little thought experiment I want you to do, because I've done
this with multiple doctors. Ask them what it's like to serve the Medicaid population, not the elderly people. They show up for every appointment. I've had doctors say we have more no shows from Medicaid patients because there's no penalty. They don't have to pay a a canceled appointment fee like I do. They don't necessarily follow through on their health care. Even if they're getting free services and free drugs, they will bring in their child and then just not
go pick up the free prescription. Very frustrating because most people on Medicaid are poor, and most people who are poor are not highly educated, and they're followed through and a lot of stuff isn't so great it's a frustrating population. They need care, but a lot of them abuse the system and create problems that don't need to be created.
So this whole.
Republicans want to kick your grandmother out of her nursing home. Don't fall for it. It's the same typical stupid scare tactics, So it won't come true. My question is is why do people still believe the government. I've got David Strom coming in from hot Era at two thirty. He's been following the release of the JFK files. When you hear some of the stuff that's in there about the CIA and what was told to the CIA before the Kennedy assassination that they did nothing about and then they all
ran around and covered their own behinds. Yeah, I'm getting I'm not saying I'm going to make myself a tenfoil hat move to a compound, but I am becoming increasingly closer to that prospect. Just saying you should probably check to make sure you have childcare because a majority eighty five of Denver public schools two hundred and seven schools will be open on Thursday Day, one hundred and twenty two schools will be closed. Now, if you were listening
at twelve thirty. You know from weather Wednesday, we're not expecting a blizzard. So why are they closed. They're closed because apparently no one tells teachers that they can't take a day off because too many other teachers have taken a day off. Now, the real reason is that there is a day of action at the Capitol and all of these teachers requested PTO to go to the No More Cuts rally. Now here's what happens when too many people. Hey, hey, Rod,
I have a question. If you went to our boss and you said, hey, I want to take this week off, but Dragon had already taken it off, Grant had already taken it off, and Zach had already taken it off, what would your answer be from our boss?
Take that note?
Wow, So what you're telling me is that we would not shut down the radio station so you too could have the day off after others had already asked for it off.
Yeah.
Normal confusing, So confusing. I don't know how much normal practice.
Yeah.
By the way, I've had vacations declined in the past because too many other hosts were off that same week.
Yeah.
I'm usually the first one to get my vaca and you do.
You're already in for the year. Yeah, I'm gonna get the rest of mine in for the year. So it's just it's it is.
It's not at all befunneling to me. I understand exactly what's happening. Listen to this.
This this.
DPS Superintendent Alex Morrero released an operational plan with a list of schools that will remain open, saying that while we support fully funded education, we wish their action didn't have a direct impact on student education. DPS reports that more than a thousand teachers have called out for Thursday.
How about this, Why don't you just say sorry, guys, sorry, A certain number of you are going to have to remain at each school so we can have children actually trying to learn something, because, frankly, in Denver public schools, according to their test scores, they're not doing much learning. I bet you, I bet you. The schools that are not calling out are charter schools. I bet at least a majority of them are because they actually care about
educating students. Now, what's funny about this is I have been aware of multiple rallies during the legislative session, all kinds of stuff, gun rights. Leland Conway just had one to rally against this SB three bill. All of these things, they all happen on Saturday. Do you know why, because people have jobs, and for the most part, people who have jobs that they want to keep don't shut down the business so they can go have a moment. Now, all of this crocodile tiers from Alex Morero is just lie.
He doesn't want these. And here's why they do it during the week, you guys. The reason they choose to do this during the week is because they want to
inconvenience parents. Because when parents say, why are we inconvenienced by having our school clothes today, they can say, oh, that awful legislator's trying to cut our budget, which they are, because we have a over one billion dollar shortfall because of all the massive spending that the Democrats adopted, even though they knew the money was going to run out. Let's be clear about why we have a shortfall. Our tax revenues have not fallen. We here in Colorado are
paying more in taxes than we probably ever have. The reason we have a shortfall is because they started a bunch of new programs with one time money and then when the money ran out, they're like, oh my gosh.
How are we short all this money?
We don't know, We're so confused. It must be Tabor.
It must be Tabor.
It's not Tabor. They've overspent, they've grown the size of government. They've hired thousands of new state employees. They've created seventeen new agencies since Jared Polis has become governor, seventeen and now they're telling us what we're gonna We're just gonna have to cut education. So now the teachers' unions are gonna get parents all up in arms because they have to figure out childcare now tomorrow, because these teachers have all taken the day off. And instead of saying sorry, no,
you can't have the day off. You know, when we went on our our Christmas markets cruise, we went Winterball from WBT in North Carolina. His wife was supposed to go, but she had put in for the vacation time. And then the principal came to her she's a teacher, and said, oh no, we've got three teachers who are going to
be out on Mattorney to leave starting that week. We can't let you take your vacation so you can tell people no. Oh, they just chose not to tell people no. So another day of wasted learning in the Boulder Valley School District. At least they're high performing as at least Boulder Valley can hang their hat on being a high performing district. And Denver Public Schools, we know they're not a high performing district. And Adam's twelve. You're not exactly
blazing a trail. Sorry about your luck, Mandy. They're afraid of the teachers union. No, they're in league with the teachers union. They're not afraid of them. They probably haven't on speed dial. Are you kidding me, Mandy? Except the union got it in the contract, so they can't deny
them what that is in the union contract. Well, when you have sympathetic contract, sympathetic union folks on the school board negotiating with the union, they're negotiating with themselves, right, So of course, yeah, I should have known that, Thank you, Texter, Thank you.
Mandy.
We can only take a day off if no more than eleven people will take the same day off, and we have to bid on vacation days.
Yep.
Got to put your vac in early or risk not getting it. A lot of people, A lot of people, A lot of people. Oh, here's one.
I was a TV sports reporter in the Carolinas in big cities, and we could never take time off in the sports department during ratings periods. Those were forty six week periods during the year. I've had program directors that are like, we're in a book. We're in a book.
You can't take time off. But it's now.
The way they do it is so different. Still stupid if you ask me. But whatever, it's fine. It's fine, Mandy. All the wild schools are not able to feed or educate. Waste our money. Again, this is a deliberate act to bankrupt the states. All of these states are doing the same thing. WTF. So here's the thing, you guys. The people that are going to be agitating at the Union, are agitating at the Capitol, are on the same side of the people who blew up government spending to a
point that now they have to cut education. But do you think they're going to hold them responsible? No, there will be no questions of why the Democrats have exploded government spending in this state by the people who are now going to suffer cuts because the Democrats that they support and give money to have exploded spending in this state. No intellectual curiosity, just hey, figure out a way to screw the parents. So they get mad and they do what we want them to do, which is call their
legislators and let them know not to cut education. What's been fascinating about watching Doge and now watching this. Even people who say yeah, we need to cut the size of government, when it comes to land in their lawn, they're like, oh no, not that government. Oh not that government. Cut the other government, cut somebody else's government. It's been
really interesting to watch. This is why I do my dead level best to not depend on the government for anything, because whatever they do is not my problem, not directly. I mean indirectly, but not directly. But it's fascinating and to watch people try to save the behemoth government that we have that is full of waste, full of nonsense, fighting like you know what, to prevent elon Musk from
finding their grift. When we get back, can we talk about the stunning and brave people who are setting teslas on fire, because that's gonna what again? Hi, Mandy. As a bus driver, we are forced to take PTO or a sick day, or sit at the bus terminal for our shifts. So I said, back, take some board games, have a pot luck, breakfast, make it a day. There's no way I would use a sick day or a personal day because the teacher has decided to throw a hissy fit and shut down the schools.
I just wouldn't do it.
I would take a corn hole up there. Hey, Rod, what can they do? What can the bus drive so they can take cornhole up there? That's always fun. Maybe that ladder game thing where you got to throw the ball on the string or golf.
What is that called ladder golf?
Ladder golf?
The three poles?
Yeah?
Why is it called ladder golf? Because certain levels are worth a certain amount of points?
Kind of like you know, just oh, okay, yeah, I'm not good at that game. Surprisingly, I'm being sarcastic. I'm not really good at games like that. I'm okay at cornhole. I'm not great, but I'm not embarrassing, you.
Know what I mean. Like I can hold my own, but I'm never going to be like a cornhole victor.
Kind of it drives Chuck crazy.
Ping pong.
Wait a minute, when you at Jocelyn play a team sport together, right, like cornhole, Like if you're playing against another couple, is she better or the same or worse than you? At things like that?
I'm usually the better one I am.
I will say this, there's very few things that Chuck is not good hut when it comes to horseshoes, corn hole, probably the golf ladder game whatever. We've never played that, botchy ball, anything that you play like that as a team. I am the albatross around the neck of my husband in these situations. And when we first got married, he was like, yeah, let's start playing cards and I was like, oh, no, you don't want me to be your partner. No, no you don't because he's very competitive at cards.
Well, I went in the on the cruise and went in the solo tournaments thrown pong, oh, which I placed like fourth ish and my team won dodgeball no offense.
Was there a bunch of Asian kids there playing ping pong because they dominate those tournaments.
Do you think one there?
You go?
Oh, by the way, we respected the hell out of him because he killed us Anthony.
Do you know what the Phoenix I Heart Office has because I did my show from the Phoenix I heard office on Monday.
If you tell me ping pong, I swear they do.
Oh come on, I mean you have to walk down the hall from their kitchen with full snack containers, free snacks, ping pong.
Yeah.
Yeah, they got a ping pong tator. Can we I took a picture of it as evidence. You send it to get it into evidence here And I didn't think a room Are you kidding me? We have a room for you could put in a ping pong table, turn it and no one would even know.
No.
I really wanted to get.
It, like twenty we could have twenty ping pong tables.
On the third floor.
You have it right there in the room and keep hearing they have an actual person at their desk.
Well, it was like a whole new world up there.
Let me tell you.
It was a delight. A whole container of peanut M and m's just sitting right there. Have you guys ever had that experience where you work for a company, a large company like this, and you go to different offices and you're like, what are we like the step children over here?
They had denver.
They had an entire rack of different flavored coffees and they were all full I opened all of them to see if they were full. I'm just saying, And you know what else? Wasn't there people? There was no people.
It was so weird.
No, I didn't.
I didn't.
I'm trying not to eat as much sugar right now. Uh, Mandy, I'd go out all night and sleep in the bus all day. That's a good idea. Ladder golf is actually called testicle toss according all right, I don't think that's it.
All right, that's good though.
That's why would Oh because they're connected?
Oh oh yeah, that's a deep cut.
Wow.
BVSD head custodian here. Tomorrow I'll be blasting music over their cafeteria speakers while I rearrange my office. Well done, sir or madam, Well done, passive aggressively work that day, but not actually do any work.
Sounds like a plan to me. When we get back, we're going to talk about Elon.
Musk and people setting Tesla's on fire? Can you just feel the change occurring every time one of them catches on fire? And guess who isn't going to pay for it? Elon Musk. We're going to talk about this next.
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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the third hour of the show. At two thirty, We're going to talk to my friend David Strom from hot air dot com.
He is covering what is being uncovered.
In the eighty thousand pages of documents related to the jfk assassination, and honestly, yesterday I was like, I think this is going to be a big old nothing burger, but there is some interesting stuff in there. Nothing like LBJ Planet, which is of course we know what happened. But and I'm just I'm being a little cheeky on that.
Not totally cheeky, but a little bit cheeky. He's gonna get to thirty in the meantime, though, can we talk about people setting Tesla charging stations on fire and King Tesla automobiles at the airport and setting Teslas on fire at the dealerships. You know what I find the most ironic about people like King and King If you're the one person who doesn't know what this is, it's you take your car keys and drag it down the side
of someone else's vehicle. I find it fascinating because for the longest time, the left love Tesla, so they may be keying the cars of people that are on their side, which I find very funny. Not funny to have your key card you rate your car keyed, Yes, the second one, not the first one. But I have this story. A hapless arsonist who tried to burn down a Tesla charging
station in protest ended up setting himself on fire. Daniel Clark Pounder twenty four burned down three EV chargers in a South Carolina parking lot Friday, where he scrawled ef Trump and long live the Ukraine. By the way, it's not the Ukraine, it's just Ukraine. You don't say long live the England or long live the France. You say long live the United States of America, because that's multiple
things being like all in there right there. He was seen throwing Molotov cocktails, one of which left him on fire. Witnesses said that the suspect had accidentally caught their own back on fire while throwing the devices. He is, by the way, a mechanic. He was arrested later on Friday, after the police issued a public appeal to help find him. It's not clear how badly he'd been hurt by the fire. What is the point of all this except to throw
a fit or you damage other people's property. Somebody pointed out rightly on the text line earlier, Elon Musk is not hurt by this. If you set those cars on fire at Tesla, all it does is they're going to file an insurance claim and they're gonna get their money back, and you're just gonna drive up insurance rates for all the businesses around them. Well done, Well done, lefties. I was thinking about this, and I'm being genuine, and I
tried earlier and could not think of anything. Is there a case January sixth A side where people on the right got together to protest and it turned into a riot? January sixth the side did we actually set things on fire when Joe Biden became president even though everybody was like,
dude was not justly elected. I mean, what acts of violence January sixth A side have been perpetrated by those on the right and then celebrated by those on the right, even when we have things like when crazy right wingers fire bomb abortion clinics, so they murder abortion doctors. That has been roundly and soundly rejected by most people on the right as that's not how you handle things, it's not what you do. But you don't hear the same
condemnations you hear clapping your excitement. Oh look another tesla has been keyed or burned or destroyed. Oh look, another charging station taken down. But yet we're told by I don't know the Attorney General of Biden's administration that the real threat in America comes from the Catholics or moms at school board meetings. So what am I missing, guys? And I'm being genuine, What am I missing? What acts
of violence? Aside from January sixth have people on the right perpetrated when they didn't get their way at the election box? Now what we did? And like, let's go back to two thousand and eight, because I was in the middle of this in two thousand and eight. Two thousand and eight, Obama gets elected. Spending is exploding both under Bush and Obama, and the infamous comment we need to have another tea party, as made on CNBC. So what did the people on the right do? We had
tea parties, and I'm gonna be perfectly frank. Most tea parties kind of boring. They had people get up and speak and talk about the history of the country and how things are going in the wrong direction and all that stuff. Our tea party that we put on in southwest Florida was freaking epic. We had classic planes to a flyover. We dipped giant tea bags into the Calusahatchie River. We had a band, We had a guide dressed as a revolutionary soldier ride through the streets of Fort Myer's
yelling the socialists are coming, the Socialists are coming. It was a thing of beauty, that's what we did. Oh and at the end of it, we had about roughly forty five hundred and five thousand people show up at our tea party in this giant park, and we had to pay a security deposit for the park. Right, They're like, oh, that's the cleaning fee. So at the end of our little rally, we handed out black trash bags and said, hey, you guys, let's do a grid march. Let's pick up
all the trash. Let's make sure that we leave this place spotless. It was so clean when we got done. They gave us our cleaning feedback. So that's what people on the right did when we didn't get our way. Do we have things in comparison on the on the right, anything anything that's comparing, like the destruction of private property
that's going on right now and celebrated now. It's really hard to think of what you would attack for people on the left, because generally speaking, they don't create stuff. I mean, don't get me wrong, they're left wingers have created great things. But I'm talking about left wing politicians when they come into office. It's not they're not running companies.
Right, they're not. They're not building things, they're not hiring jobs.
They're either attorneys or they've made their money in the market by buying other people's companies that they built. I mean, are there any big industrialists on the on the left that are in Congress right now that we can attack.
I don't know.
I don't know, Mandy. I'm sure those morons equate themselves to patriots throwing tea into the harbor. But they're not even rebelling against the government. They're picking on Elon Musk, who, by the way, a lot of people are super stoked about what he's doing. He seems to be getting genuinely confused about why people are upset that he's trying to
cut the size of government. But when you use government as your piggybank, as we have seen through all of this government money flowing through NGOs that are almost always seem to be left wing, you got to protect that. You got to protect the grift big time. So it's not strange to me that so many people are angry at him. But the lashing out at private citizens who bought a car, I mean, that's just beyond the pale. And by the way, tesla's have cameras, and I hope
every single one of those people is arrested. They already caught a guy in an airport hu keita car. I want them all, you know, protest all you want, But when you break my stuff and when you wreck my things that you don't own, then we have a problem, and it's a serious problem that needs to be addressed. All right, we'll be right back. I have the ultimate time waster. If you're looking for a new way to waste time at work, you're welcome. First of all, ayerd
have you heard about the fish doorbell? What the fish doorbell. No, Okay, So there is a city in the Netherlands. The Netherlands is a city built on canals. There's a lot of water, and they built this one particular canal in this area where fish go to do their annual migration to go lay their eggs, have their babies before they go back out to the ocean. And when they built this canal, they knew they needed to find a way to get the fish up the canal when they needed to go
up the canal and spawn. So they built these gates that open and close. But then they were like, well, we got these gates, but how are we going to know when the fish come up to the gates. So they installed a camera just below the water, right in front of the door, and they put it on the internet. And when you see fish, you're supposed to snap us like a picture of it really quick and then you ring the fish doorbell. And there's actually a doorbell on
the screen that you can watch now. Right now, it's dark, so I would imagine that there morning. I think they're like eight hours ahead of us in Amsterdam. Maybe I'm not sure to tell you the truth. Now, with the changeover of daylight, saving time. But right now I have the live stream pulled up on my computer. I'm watching the live stream with twenty nine others and we're just sitting waiting for the fish to come up so we
can ring the fish doorbell. Now, I shared this with our colleagues up here on the fourth floor in our sales staff, and there was everyone sort of got quiet, and then there was like this riot. Whenever it's like there's a fish, there's a fish at the door, hit the doorbell. So if you're looking for a way to waste a tremendous amount of time, let me be the first to recommend the fish doorbell. I put a link
on the blog you can find more about that. I think it's so fascinating to see the ways that we try to mitigate where fish need to swim and how they need to swim there.
Right.
Have you guys ever seen the fish water bridge over a dam? Have you ever seen this? It's like a little fish conveyor belt. It's a big old tube and fish can swim up the tube.
And they literally go up and over the dam.
It's fascinating. We go to such great links to take care of our animals, and I think that's really really interesting. Last question of the day. A Rod sent this to me. It took me about four seconds to know that I would throw my mom in jail. The question is, would you send your mom to jail or prison for a year for fifty million dollars just be rored need to worry about this er.
My mother would be running that place in fifty seven seconds.
Correct, Mom and I would visit every week. I would visit every week. How much ten fifty million.
Dollars she gets?
Ten?
I get the other forty?
Wait a minute, wait, wait a minute. I was gonna split it fifty to fifty with my mom with the caveat that in the wheel. It all comes back to me.
I'm the one making the deal. Finders Fee, you do the time, you'll get some money. Your mom is listening right now, and she is horrified it finder Fee. I put more investment on Finders Feed than most.
No, my mom is.
Actually now in prison, and you're not gonna split it fifty to fifty with her.
No, she would say, yes, Oh.
Now, my mom would be like, lock me up. Just bring me a lot of books, maybe smarts and crafts. You know, I'll be fine. Do I have TV? Yes, I'm good.
Like I said, my mother would be running that place in no time.
My mom would start like a little theater group. They'd be putting on shows once a week. You know, everybody'd be performing whatever their little thing was. She'd be okay, I mean, she'd be fine, she'd be great. I'd go visit her once a week and see, this is one of those hypotheticals that honestly, who's.
Going to say no?
Who would not go to the like right now, if my daughter came to me and said, hey, Mom, I have the opportunity to put you in prison for a year, but we get fifty million dollars on the back end, and I'm like, okay, do we know the money is there?
I've got the three dots for my mother. Uh oh as we speak. First message was ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I'm concerned with the next That X message might be Yeah, she just said she was going to call me out and ask about it, So I don't.
I probably not.
But if the queue came to me and said, Mom, I'm going to send you to prison for a year, but we get fifty million dollars, I'd be like, is the money in an escrow account. First of all, let's make sure the money's going to be there, So I want the money in a Nescoral account right now. And then I would set out my requirements of what I needed in the prison CANTEENA. I would I would take some boxing classes just so I can defend myself should I need to. And then I'd be like rock and roll.
Let's do it.
Put me in the minty. Mom said she wouldn't do a foreign prison.
What I'm not talking about a foreign prison. We're not savages, we're not. But who would say no? And what mom would be like, no, don't do that. Oh, this textter said I'd send my mom for free. I might even be willing to pay a few dollars. That sounds like a fun Thanksgiving right there. When we get back, my friend David Strong from hot air dot com joins us because he has been following the revelations from the JFK document dump. Yesterday, we'll find out what we should pay
attention to. Right after this, we got an eighty thousand page document dump unredacted about the JFK assassination. And I said yesterday on the show, I was like, you know, I'm kind of prepared to be disappointed in this. I just don't think that there's gonna be I just want the memo that says LBJ did it, and then then then we can go from there. That's not what's happening.
But my friend David Strom from hot air dot com has been pouring over the people who have been pouring over the documents, and there actually is some kind of interesting stuff in this document ump, So.
I thought i'd say, David, what's going on now?
David? First of all, welcome back to the show.
Oh. I love being on the show.
Yay.
I'm glad because I like having you on as well. How are you following this story? Because you've been on this I think since yesterday. What are you doing to stay on top of what's coming out?
Well, I'm cheating, is what I'm doing there. Basically, people are crowdsourcing by having a lot of very smart people combing through. I mean it's eighty thousand pages.
Yeah, and so.
The intelligent way to do this is to crowdsource the information. And then I'm being a leek and taking taking what they found and tried to synthesize it so that I can give it to my readers and get unearned credit for what I'm doing.
We love unearned credit on the Mandy Connell Show. So what have you discovered so far that is noteworthy? Because I don't think did you really think anything interesting we were going to find out anything new because I saw some comments by you that were like, eh, I thought this might be a nothing burger, But here we are.
Well. In fact, I did think it was going to be a nothing burger because I figured, you know, now where what are we Sixty two years since it happened. That's a long time to dispose of embarrassing documents, and so I've been pleasantly surprised that there's actually quite a bit of interest. We've only seen the tip of the iceberg,
and two things so far have really struck me. Number One, we don't have definitive proof of this, and there is countervailing our evidence from after the fall of the Soviet Union. But the documents that we have very much point to the idea that this was at least tangentially a KGB operation,
you know, which is a big deal. And it explains why no one wanted these documents out, because of course you had the threat of the American public wanting to retaliate, and therefore you know the potential for worldwide destruction in a nuclear war. Now, to be fair, I'll give you the pro evidence and the con evidence. The pro evidence in the documents is that the CIA had been warned multiple times that Oswald was not just a Russian agent,
but a Russian assassin. And you had Polish diplomats saying this, You had other sources warning about this. The CIA had been very carefully monitoring them for the two months before this, and so they had a lot of information saying this is a very dangerous guy with very bad intent. And there was also information out there that the Soviets wanted to kill Kennedy that was not tied to Oswald.
So I got to ask a question about this. So if they got a tip that Lee Harvey Oswald, this who was a nobody, right, I mean he wasn't He was nobody until he killed John F. Kennedy Junior. So did they follow up or do we not know if there was any kind of follow or did they just look at it and go, who's this guy and why is he going to kill the president? Why should we even be concerned? Because if one of the if it
is that they just dismissed it out of hand. They had to have known that Lee Harvey Oswald had traveled to the Soviet Union, right, I mean, they knew this, so it just seems really irresponsible to go ahead.
He had not only traveled, but he had defected and then came back and he was there. That's how he met his wife. He was living there and he was sort of kind of kicked out, although now it looks like it wasn't kicked out, that maybe they sent him here. And you know, just days before the assassination, he went down to Mexico City and visited the Cuban embassy to see the Soviet Attah. The CIA knew that because they were watching him for sixty days beforehand, because he had
been named. He was a known you know, kinding of sympathizer who had defected to the Soviet Union and come back. He had a Russian wife who barely spoke English, and which really brings me to the I mean, first of all, there's no question that there was a cover up some kind. You know, there are plenty of documents that they have kept out of the public sphere, and one can only
speculate as to why. But my particular speculation is it's just like COVID, where the bureaucrats, the government officials really messed up. In the case of COVID, we funded the creation of a virus that killed twenty five million people, and so everybody involved wanted to point their fingers somewhere else. The easiest thing was the wet market. And so you know, and now it's almost incontroverted that they covered it up, that they had that it came out of a lab,
that it was engineered. I mean the CIA, the German intelligence you know, I mean Boris Johnson and Angelo Murkel had been briefed on this in twenty twenty and they just hit it all. It's the same thing happened here. And I believe the reason is pretty much for this, it's the same as as with COVID, which is they really really really messed up, and they didn't want anyone to know. They had been warned. They knew he had
been labeled in a assassin of Russian assassin. They knew he had ties to the KGB, They knew that he had ties to Cuba and the Soviet Union. They knew that he had gone down just stays before to Mexico City to go to the Russian embassy, and then they let JFKA get killed. Nobody wants to have that on their record.
Yeah, to say the very least. But one would think if the President of the United States is in Dallas and then all of a sudden, Lee Harvey Oswald is also in Dallas, perhaps they should have put somebody on him a little bit closer, you know, I mean, at what point do you have to be told this guy is going to try and kill the president. Oh, by the way, he's in Dallas right now. Oh you know who else is in Dallas? JFK. I mean, this is the kind of stuff that you really begin to wonder
what happened here with the CIA? What happened because the CIA did not love John F. Kennedy Junior. There was no love loss. We already know that.
No.
In fact, my second piece that I wrote about this is he had Aids who basically called the CIA the deep state or an alternate state, a state upon within itself and wanted it broken up. You know, there are multiple interpretations. You know, if you're not feeling charitable towards the CIA, and I can understand why people wouldn't feel charitable.
You'd say, well, they let it happen, right, and that is not an unreasonable thing to suspect if you're being charitable, they did not connect the dots, and now they're trying to hide that fact. You know, kind of like nine to eleven. You know, the CIA, as a state within the state, as Arthur Schlessinger called it, held their card. It's very close to their vests, both when they had
good intentions and bad. We know from long experience that intelligence agencies do not share information with each other, which is why we have the Department of Homeland Security and a Director of National Intelligence because of all the failures around nine to eleven. I mean, they had every reason to know, they had every reason to know who.
They all.
All the dots were there that were not connected. So the charitable explanation is they were too secretive, you know, a bureaucratic. They were protecting their turf and they screwed up. The uncharitable one is they'd let it happen.
Well, you know, I've always thought LBJ had something going on here. I've always suspected that LBJ knew something that everybody else didn't know. I've always thought that. I just think LBJ was just the kind of personality that was more favorable to the CIA and their arguments than John F. Kennedy's junior was. So perhaps the CIA maybe took a more lack of daisical approach. But isn't it interesting that we're now having the discussion of my favorite game show,
malfeasance or incompetence? You know, you get to choose one.
Neither of them are very thought.
You know, it's like, was it evil or was it just incompetence? But but I refuse honestly, David, I have a hard time with the incompetence angle, right, I really because I believe that the people working at these agencies, especially at a high level, are there because they're super
smart about this stuff. You don't get to be a high level in the CIA by being an idiot, by assuming that nothing bad is going to happen, right, And that was the assumption that would have had to be made by an agency whose job it is to create operations that disrupt other nations. That's what they were doing, and yet they think no one's going to do it here. That just does not hold water with me.
And and they were very big into assassinations back then too, you know. I mean there's the whole assassination attempts against feed al Castro. One of the things that really angered Kennedy very early on in his term was the assassination of DM in South Vietnam. I mean, he was furious both because he thought it was counterproductive, but also he had personal ties to DM because they were both Catholics, and so I mean, wait a minute, long, it was moral.
Wait wait wait, so he was president, but the CIA took out DM without.
The president's knowledge. Okay, that that certainly does add to my sense that the CIA was running its own country, running its own operations, and therefore the the thought that they're just in competent, that doesn't pass the smell test for me, David, It just doesn't.
Well.
And I certainly understand that I'm hesitant to make accusations without of something that serious, without you know, really solid evidence, but all the circumstantial evidence certainly suggests. I mean, it's like with the Trump assassination attempt in Butler. Uh, you know again it's incompetence or malfeasans because uh, you know, amateurs like you and me could have looked at their security plan and said, well that's bad.
Yep.
Uh.
You know, amateurs like you and me think, well, you had three minutes warning people screaming there's a gunman up there, the local police are responding. I mean literally, you have these videos of tens of local police swarming where the gunman is, and so the only people not in the know are the Secret Service. Yeah, I mean it's possible. I mean, but that's implausible.
That's even almost more concerning to me that incompetence would be allowed to go on at that high level when we when we rely on these people to do such an important job. I do keep saying JFK Junior. It's just because I have RFK Junior stuck in my head. So sorry, it is JFK. We're talking about right now. And somebody started a poll to see how many times I'm gonna say JFK Junior. So there's one more for your pool.
You know, David.
When we look at this s uff one of the things I saw, did I see that it was sort of like baked in that Lee Harvey.
Oswald was going to kill.
Uh?
I mean, wait a minute, the Jack Ruby was going to kill Lee Harvey Oswald after he killed the president, like that was the plan the whole time.
Well, but again it looks that way and a lot of people, you know, the old Jack Ruby theory was he did it because the mob had ties to the kendidate, right, the new theory that one could have again, I mean, what we have is circumstantial evidence. There are documents that indicate indicate this. But the Soviet Union also had ties
to the Mob. They would pay the Mob to do certain things because of course the Mob and the unions were very tight, and the Soviet Union had a lot of people in the unions, the Union movement right, and the Mob likes money, right, So let.
Me ask I'm trying to figure out how I want to wrap my head around this. This is a question that actually clarifies it. Mandy, I don't think the CIA is allowed to operate on US soil. Won'n't this be the FBI's responsibility. I'm assuming the CIA got the tip on Lee Harvey Oswald because he was a Russian asset and they were spying on Russia during that time. This is the heide of the Cold War, so that would make sense. But why not loop in the FBI to
the potential and the Secret Service. Do we have any evidence that the Secret Service was looped in to this threat that the CIA got about Lee Harvey.
Oswald, Not to my knowledge, although there are eighty thousand pages of documents, so it might come out. But again, this goes back to if you're charitable, It goes back to the homeland security problem, which was what other reasons why they didn't connect all the dots around nine to eleven is all the different intelligence agencies had different views
of what was going on. They you know, one group had one piece, another group had another piece, and there was no coordination to put together the whole picture.
You know.
It's kind of like if you look at how satellite imagery is done. You know, we see the final product, which is everything stitched together. But satellite imagery is usually you know, one hundred or two hundred miles wide. You get these strips and then it all gets put together, you know, in posts by a computer. But if all the strips are going to different people, you only see a tiny little part of a much bigger picture. And the CIA did not talk to anyone. The FBI and
the CIA don't like each other. They probably all look down on the Secret Service, you know, as you know, sort of these knuckle draggers and you know, bureaucratic arrogance. It might be that they withheld the information because they didn't want others to know, But it's just as plausible that they withheld the information because they're bureaucrats, uh, and bureacrats do not help each other.
That's that's like that to me is almost worse than if it was some big, concerted, you know, conspiracy. Just to think it is just incompetence is more distressing for me. Now I've broke David Strom from hot air dot com my guest into playing the most exciting game show ever because it goes like this, And now it's time for the most exciting segment.
All the radio of its kind.
Of the day.
All right, David, it works like this. First, a Ron's gonna tell us a dad joke.
All you have to do is react, not react, laugh, don't laugh, whatever you want.
To do here, Bugs Bunny won't ex laugh at everything. Okay, you better, you better. Bugs Bunny won't accept files through Google apps.
He'll only accept them through What's app doc?
Can you yeah?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there you go.
Yeah, you're still happening. I'm still lapping right now.
Yeah, there you go.
What is our word of the day? Please?
It is an adjective adjective. Rife r I F e oh means full of something.
It's it's uh.
Rife is.
There's a yeah.
Rife it means there's a lot of it and it's.
All in there.
Describes things that are very common and often, though not always bad or unpleasant.
Oh, I did not know that. Read that again.
Rife usually describes things that are very common and often though not always bad or unpleasant.
Like rife with controversy or something like that.
Yeah, maybe rife with.
Today's trivia question. What is someone with the track of phobia afraid of? But track of phobia b A T R A c h oh phobia. What are they afraid of but track of I'm gonna say, coughing. They're afraid of coughing les. Pay, I guess, David, you got a guess, have a clue. Amphibians Huh, here's another animal related fear for you. A lear for reophobia is fear of cats.
That'd be aliens.
No A.
Right, I know.
I see him walking back and forth. It's like, okay, now, David. Now we're gonna play jeopardy. You have to shout out your name, David. You do not have to wait until the end of the question if you know the answer. Okay, I have to wait until the end of the question because you're on a slight delay and that's only fair. So, uh, then you we call on you when you answer in the form of a question, just like normal jeopardy. We all know how to do it.
Okay, what's our category? Vice presidents? Vice presidents. This vice president who later succeeded to the presidency was born on May eighth, eighteen eighty four, in Lamar, Missouri.
Uh, Mandy, who is Lyndon Dains Johnson?
Wrong?
Dang it, Rott.
David? Who is I'm sorry? Succeeded on what date?
Succeeded to the presidency? He was born in eighteen eighty four, So it doesn't give.
You some day, Surrey. Yeah, that's the key. He did become president. I just don't know who that is.
Who is Harry Truman who did it?
Secondly, when he took the oath of office on January twentieth, nineteen fifty three, at age forty, he became yea.
He became the second youngest vice president David David.
It would be Richard M.
Nixon, correct Dorondo, Third John Nance Garner.
This president's first vice president served from nineteen thirty three to nineteen forty one.
Who David David? That would be Franklin del What.
Is David is killing me? In the Minnesotans have served as vice president Hubert Humphrey and this man Jimmy Carter's.
Vat Manny who was Walter Monday?
That is correct? Two two? No, I'm zero, you're zero two.
Years minus one. He's got to I now have zero. He's killing me.
You were sworn in as vice president March fourth, eighteen forty one, and as president April sixth, eighteen forty one.
That was ever heard of?
This guy Lincoln's vice president and I don't know no, eighteen forty one that's well before like good that was William Harry Harrison's vice president. And who who was that is?
That?
Never heard this name in my life? When's the answer is John Tyler?
Of course, Kippie Canoe and Tyler?
Who Kay David.
Strung with Joy Cockety my friend. We got to wrap up the show. K Wait Sports coming X, Keep it right here on koa,