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I would probably make more money on OnlyFans than I'm making for my side hustle. But I have this thing it's called it's called dignity. So therefore, I will not be providing pictures of my feet or film videos of myself eating large amounts of food, which is apparently like a whole other genre.

But so in January of last year, when we started being flooded with legal immigrants because they were flooding over the Southern War because the Biden administration didn't actually do anything to stop it. Oh, wait a minute, Wait a minute, this is this year. So this year? Oh okay, I got it. Wait a minute.

The following day, January fifteenth, Text messages obtained by CBS News Colorado show Johnston's Director of Strategic Initiatives, Josh Posner, sent an identical text message to multiple members of the administration saying, and this is a quote, we are going to use signal to communicate with strikeforce so that communications remains encrypted and secure and messages auto delete. That last part was not added by me. It was added by

the Director of Communications. So the strikeforce began to meet offline. They began to meet on Signal, which is an encrypted app that does delete your messages after a certain amount of time. Now you can change the amount of time, and they did eventually. But what's interesting is another line from this article, they were specifically told, specifically told by

its own information security chief not to use Signal. In a December eleventh, twenty twenty four email from Denver Chief Information Security Officer Merlin Namath shared with McLaughlin and several other mayoral staff members and appointees name it discussed the use of encrypted messaging apps and said in bold letters they were for personal use only. Please avoid these applications for city work. So that was a month before this

telegraph or Signal group was started. So this was absolutely one hundred percent done with the knowledge that they were violating the law and having caught conversations about the people's business outside the purview of the people, and then deleting the evidence. I truly, I mean, can you imagine if

this was a Republican administration. Could you imagine could you imagine if this was a Republican that was running Denver and all of a sudden it comes out that they've been erasing messages while talking about the immigrant response and how they're going to deal with it with the Trump administration, like we don't deserve to know. I mean, the outcry it would be this is this has been Nixon tapes too point oh, it would be everywhere, and we already

know that in Colorado. The Democrats have decided that allowing the public to know how the business is being done is bad. They have done everything in their power to make it more difficult for anyone, journalists, citizens, whatever, to get information about the work they're doing allegedly on our behalf. And if I'm not mistaken, Mike Johnston ran on a platform that included the word transparency. Promise made promise broke in, much like the promise to come on this show once

a month. As prior mayors had been doing for thirty years, even before I got here. Anyway, that's on the blog today. Now let me get to some of these common sense health text excuse me, common spirit health text lines. Common sense, oh, common sense hardly ever comes out of this text line anyway, man Da, I'd love to hear your thoughts on what's going on in Jeffco Public schools with these children being

documented as homeless only to move in with teachers. I've talked about this pretty extensively, and it is just it's another indicator of the rot in jeff Co Public schools in the leadership. Not only did that happen where a teacher was not only allowed to groom a teenage girl for a sexual relationship when the mother brought it to the principal, well, the principal basically poop pooed the whole thing and said she's just helping her navigate her sexuality

and did nothing. And then the teacher, with the help of administrators, declared this girl homeless on federal government documents, which means they helped the girl commit fraud. And the school board superintendent, oh wait, one more, one more forgot Chief of Schools number three in the district it gets fired in early December. We find out later he was

being investigated for possession of child porn. He kills himself, and rather than be straightforward and open and honest with the parents in the district, they discussed how hurt they weren't upset, and how they didn't want it to make them look bad. I mean, you guys, that whole district. Everybody on the board needs to go. There's one member of the board that isn't completely insane. She was the one that stood up and said this is not the

way we handle this. We need to be transparent, and she basically was told to sit down and shut up. Her name wasn't on the document. I mean, the whole board needs to go. They have a culture in that school district of putting themselves in between parents and students, and that comes straight from the school board president. In my opinion, she is a COSA volunteer. Costa is an

organization that is incredibly, incredibly valuable and worthwhile. But COSA volunteers advocate for children who are in the child protective system. They go to court, they meet with the kids, they evaluate the situation, and they go in and tell judges whether or not. You know, they believe either parents should have the kid or why one parent should have the kid based on their interactions with the family. They only

advocate for the kid. It is an incredibly valuable and important organization, and I'm actually thrilled she's a part of it. They always need more volunteers. But as part of that, you go through a training that teaches you that essentially you're already dealing with people that are accused of being abusive, right, so the assumption is always that everybody's abusive. It's part of the training. And I know that because my husband used to do the training for that program in Florida.

So this now the school board president has the attitude that parents are the problem, right, All parents are abusers. She actually said, we need to teach kids to be more vocal about the signs of abuse and look for the signs of abuse. And I'm like, what I mean. Don't get me wrong, some parents are horrible, awful, evil parents, but a vast majority of us are not, and we do not need to be assumed guilty when we have done nothing to make that happen. So, yeah, I've talked

a little bit about it. As you can tell that school district has big, big problems, and I don't understand why the parents are not rioting at every single meeting. Just you know, that's me. Maybe if everything was the same, job, climate, friends, family, except education, where would you rather live Colorado or Florida? Well, if everything was the same, meaning humidity, no hurricane, lack of bugs in Florida, I would probably want to live in Florida simply because I still have roots there. But

I love Colorado. It's just getting too expensive to actually live here in a retirement situation. Mandy Lindsay Datko has been on different shows to speak on it. And now a parent of an Olympic student has come forward with their child claiming homelessness to move in with their coach. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. Eight zero one six same question, except for politics. Would I prefer Colorado or Florida's politics? I would prefer Florida's politics one hundred percent.

Here's one. Will any age have the courage to prosecute the mayor at al for the open records violations? Use of signal app that is that is I mean it's not gonna be so wiser. I mean that's not going to happen. It's not going to be any of the DA's in Denver. I mean the people Denver. This is what they voted for, right, That's where we're told, this is what they voted for. So I don't know how who would even investigate that? But the answer is, currently

in this environment, no, nothing will happen, nothing at all. Mandy, been thinking about you saying, Phoenix I heard was better atmosphere, clean, goodies, et cetera. Is it run by a woman? Just a thought?

to your budget. We have one point eight trillion dollar deficit this year, right, So I would give each department the opportunity to do the exact same thing to everyone in their downline command. They would go to every department, every agency, every whatever that reports to them, and they tell every single one of them, I need ten percent of your budget now. The implied threat is, if you don't tell me where to cut it, then I will

cut it for you. I have a friend who work for a large corporation, not a multinational, but a large corporation, and the owner of the company, the founder of the company, was still the CEO and president, and they were going through a really tough time, and that's exactly what he did. He essentially had a meeting with all of the upper management and was very honest and said, look, this is where we need to be and we're not even close.

I need everybody to give me ten percent. But if we can do this, if we can do this one thing, it's going to They have like a debt situation that had to be taken care of her. I don't remember what the deal was, but in any case, he said, when we get this done, then we can all share in the rewards, right because the company will be on much more solid footing. We'll be able to do some raises and stuff like that. So then the middle managers went back to all of their departments and said, where

can we cut ten percent? And for some it was kind of easy because they had either unfilled positions that they just said, we don't need those. For others, it was more challenging, and some came back and literally said, we don't have enough fat to give you ten percent. But that was okay because everybody else came up with

ten percent. The reality was he needed five percent, and when he got the almost ten percent from all of those workers, he gave them the five percent back in the form of a bonus for their hard work and dedication. Now imagine if we go to government workers who are at the front line of waste and abuse. I talked to yesterday about an entire agency that was predicated on waste and abuse. It was just an agency of nothing but fraud. But there were people that came forward about

that agency. They just didn't k know anything about it, And I would even go further. It's like I would offer a bounty. We've talked about this before. I would offer a bounty for people. If you know of a fraudulent contract or whatever that the government is involved in right now, you let us know what it is, and you get a cut of whatever that amount of money is that we just saved because of your tip. I mean, I'm a favor of incentivizing all this stuff, but I

also understand why Donald Trump did it this way. He got completely blocked in his first term, and he was determined not to let Washington, DC have time to formulate a defense. We're seeing it now. I mean, if I see one more story, a sob story. And don't get me wrong, you guys, I know federal work or some of them are my friends, some of them are being adversely affected. I don't want people to lose their jobs.

But what happens when this country goes bankrupt and we hit a debt crisis of our own that destroys our economy, which takes the entire world's economy down with it. That's the future if we don't do something about spending, and if it takes a shot to the system to get us moving in that direction with some you know speed, I'm all for it. There might have been a better way, but you know what, I'm not president, so we will find out.

In twenty nineteen, Democrats completely took over everything in Colorado, and since then they have been adding agencies, they have been hiring employees, they have been creating new programs, and many of those programs were funded with one time federal dollars. A lot of that came from the COVID Relief Act, and now all of those dollars are gone, so they have expanded spending. They don't have the ability to just raise taxes on us, which is why Democrats are screaming

about Tabor right now. It is like their main focus

is overturning Tabor. And for those of you and may be new or to the state, you've heard the phrase tabor, it is actually the tax payers Bill of Rights, and it simply says that government cannot grow faster than population growth and inflation combined, and any extra money over that they have to give back to us, the taxpayers, and they cannot raise taxes on us without asking our permission, which is why in Colorado we are now the fee state of Colorado, because legislators, with the help of a

liberal Colorado Supreme Court, have decided to call things taxes and fees. Oh wait, not taxes, just fees. See you know what I did that because taxes and fees are the same thing. They're the same thing. So we have so many taxes, Oh I'm sorry, fees now, but there's still not enough. They've taken away our table refunds. They're going to only be a few hundred bucks. They're not gonna be like eight hundred like we used to get because they've now given our money that is supposed to

be our money back to other people. They have spent like drunken monkeys. And now the bills have come do And I have been saying this for the last six years. This is one of the reasons I've been pretty open about talking about the fact I don't think we can afford to retire here because ultimately, all of this giant spending that Democrats are adopting right now, they're gonna have to pay for it going forward. Someone is going to have to pay for it. So here's my prediction. This

is my prediction of what's going to happen. They're going to come out of this budget situation. They're gonna have to cut. They're gonna have to cut education. And unfortunately, education and Medicaid are probably the two biggest budget items in the state budget, those two items alone. So when you're talking about cutting a significant amount of money, you

really don't have a lot of choice. You have to take something out of those And we've already dropped five hundred thousand people off the Medicaid rolls, those being higher income people that I don't believe should have been on

Medicaid in the first place. And we're gonna have to do some more cutting, and so they're gonna cut education, and then the Democrats are gonna run to repeal Tabor and they're gonna do it because they're gonna say we had to cut education instead of saying maybe we should cut some of the sixteen agencies we've created, or maybe we shouldn't have hired so many new state workers, or maybe maybe we should try cutting the fat out of the budget, or maybe I know this is like a

pipe dream. Maybe they could even do like a Colorado version of Doge, But they won't. They just want to be able to tax us on demand. And if they did have that ability, we are taxes would be as high as they are in California right now. I one hundred percent believe that to be true, one hundred percent. So that's that's how they That's that's how we get there. Texts A great question, thank you can't wait wait a minute, Mandy,

did you get your way mow ride in Phoenix? Please enlighten us your only fans ship sailed thirty years ago? When is out of commission out there? It is, Mandy. Maybe a journalist or Kyle will cover the mayor's story. Well, Sean Boyd at CBS four is always the one who is not afraid to cover their stories. She has covered it on CBS four today. I never realized what a joke Colorado is to the rest of the country until I moved out. I don't know that to be true.

They do think we're all pot smoking hippies out here. Uh Mandy, what spices, herbs, and hot sauces are you using nowadays? That is a fine question. I've been keeping it pretty simple as of late with my herbs and spices, although I do have a pretty voluminous spice rack. I really do your basics, your garlic, your onion, your paprika. Actually I put my daughter says, paprika is our family spice because I put it in everything. It's my Hungarian heritage.

It's what we do. But I've been dabbling a little bit with the with the what is the Korean spice? Go to gong whatever that is. Chili oil is my new favorite. If you tried the chili oil air rod, if you tried this chili oil, chili oil, you got to stir it up and it's got chili, it's it's It sounds weird, but it's flipping delicious and hot sauces. I just got a new hot sauce, but I don't remember the name of it, and honestly, I can't remember

where I got it now. I'm thinking I got it probably at a restaurant or something, because I buy a lot of restaurant hot sauces when they make it themselves, not just like, hey, can I buy the chilula from the table?

here we are. I gave credit to Sean Boyd at cbsbour when in reality it was Brian Moss that did the story about the mayor's office using signal to avoid open records requests and also too high from the federal government. I mean, that's the only reason they did it. And the reason I'm so certain is that one of the people who set it up said we're going to move to signal it's encrypted and messages auto delete. Nothing says transparency more than using an app with auto delete. So

thank you Texter for that correction. And uh, I'm sorry, Brian. I gave credit to your colleague because she's normally the one that does this stuff. But good on you for doing such a good story. Anyway, Mandy, I understand that you don't receive images, So in the interest of transparency, I recommend the Silence got Dogwood letters number eight and a couple of paragraphs in number ten beautiful articles published in seven twenty two regarding government transparency and covering up

government abuse. I love the article. I will try and remember the silence dog do good, Silence do Good letters. Okay, Mandy, Happy Friday. Do you know by chance what big Al is doing now? Did he sign with another station in town? Or what I so missing with Dave in the afternoon? Love all that you do. Thanks Eric from Parker. The last time I talked to him, he was still traveling quite a bit. He had not made any sort of decisions. He's just kind of loving life. I mean, he's doing well.

I mean I would say, don't worry about about Alfred. He's all right. He's doing okay, But as far as I know, there's no movement one way or the other. Right now, Hello, Mandy, what are your thoughts on Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona selling is tesla, calling him an

a hole, and then buying a Chevy Tahoe. You know what's the funniest to me about all these left wingers going on and trading in their Tesla's that they bought to virtue signal about climate change, then going out and buying I mean, I'm assuming it was it a gas Tahoe because they get like thirteen fourteen miles to the gallon last I checked. That is that's really lets you know how serious climate change really is, isn't it, Mandy. When you're out of town, do you drive around and

listen to past radio and TV stations that are the competitors? No, I don't.

I wrote back. I thought it was funny. I mean, Mandy, do you have a good list of potential retirement states for us to consider?

point when I retire. So yeah, but there's a ton of stuff online, and you really My suggestion to you would be this. When I lived in Southwest Florida, I met so many people who came to Southwest Florida in February and they thought it was the most glorious place they'd ever been in their entire lives because they came on vacation. So they moved down in May, and then they're in summer and summer never ends, and they ended

up hating it. So if you're thinking about moving somewhere for retirement, you've got to visit it in every season to see what you're in for, at least summer and winter height of both, to see what you're in for. You can't just don't. Don't plan on moving to a place blind. That's really hard, and then you've kind of locked yourself in So there you go, Mandy. Since Colorado was a liberal state, why are there no liberal radio stations? Oh? Man,

I could go on about that for days. So that has to do with the fact that liberal radio doesn't work, because ultimately, when I come here to do a show, my goal is not to force you to see the error of your left wing ways. It's not to sit here and get people to agree with me, although I hope I present my case in such a compelling way that people will agree with me. My job here is to entertain you, to inform you so you listen to

the commercial breaks and buy stuff. That's my job, right, That's the whole job of a talk show host is to get you to buy stuff. And by the way, the more you support my advertisers and let them know you heard about it from me, the more job security I have. There's a direct correlation to those two things going together. And they tried liberal talk radio. But let's think about it. What are they going to sit on the radio and rail against business? And then who are

they going to sell advertising to. Not to mention, every bit of liberal talk radio that started on air America was there to convince people that they should be left wing to retain people. It was a very low bar and they failed, and I'll be I'll be reallier. I Art Media invested more in liberal talk radio than any other radio company I am aware of. Maybe there's a smaller one, but you know, they invested a ton in liberal talk radio and it has failed every single place

that has been tried, even in San Francisco. Isn't that crazy? Even in San Francisco. You think it would just sail through there, But no, absolutely not. We will be back. Someone's got a shrimp question and I don't know if this is dirty or not, so I'm gonna look it up on the break and see if I get a you know, block on the computer.

important raffle. I got to do a tour of Children's Hospital, and I know they've been in a little bit of controversy lately as they try to figure out the gender affirming care situation, and I know that upsets a lot of people, but I need you guys to focus on the fact that Children's Hospital is an incredible asset to our community. We utilize them. My daughter is part of

the headache clinic there. They have a migraine clinic there, and they have been instrumental and helping us get medication for her that our insurance keeps turning down because it's the only thing that works for her. And I have nothing but good, good things to say about everything. They've

just been outstanding. And when you see the kind of care that they provide, not just for children who are in Children's Hospital, but also for the parents of children who are battling long term chronic critical illnesses, I mean, it is just it's incredible and we're the only thing like this for like a thousand miles around, so we pull families from all around to go to Children's Hospital and the Mighty Millions Raffle is the raffle that gives

away the house every year. This year the house is in winter Park, so tonight is one of their early bird deadlines if you just missed the spot break because somebody else is going to win a Bronco and a trip to Whistler, British Columbia, which is spectacular up there. I don't even ski, but I love Whistler, great Ski Village. It is fantastic. In any case, it didn't mean to give that extra commercial, but I love the cause, and yes,

this is the raffle where the house does get given away. Anyway, a lot of people are pointing out some variation of this about the liberal talk stations. Mandy public news talk proved to be the format that progressives gravitate to, and then he listens a bunch of stations. Correctly, he said, they like speaking softly on the radio and then get

loud and release the rage on the streets. So basically, a Rod, We're gonna do the rest of the show like this, Okay, we are going to talk on our NPR voices, and I really appreciate the texter who is worried about us and our computers here at the office being hopelessly out of date, to which I respond, welcome to radio, hopelessly out of date.

So there you go, there you go. I got a couple I got an update on a story that I want to share with you because, you know, a couple of days ago, we were talking about the fact that some Republicans are calling for impeachment of justices who have ruled in ways against Trump that they don't like. I think that's a terrible reason to impeach a judge. Terrible, absolutely terrible. You know, if they have a long track record of bad decisions, and yeah, we can, we can

talk about that, but not just over political stuff. But it's getting a little bit ridiculous. US District Judge Nina Wang on Friday issued an injunction to prevent the removal by Immigration and Customs Enforcement of Jeanette Visghera, the immigration

rights activist who was detained by ICE on Monday. Judge Wang has asked the US government to quote show cause or why she should not grant Visgha's release, sought in a petition for a rit of habeas corpus against ICE, the Department of Homeland Security, and US Attorney General Pam BONDI. She's asking for a response by Monday. Visghara's attorneys have also filed a petition with a tenth US Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that ICE has never presented their client

with a valid order for removal from the US. Now I heard John Fabrigatory filling in excuse me, h Ryan Schuling talking to John Fabricatory, and John Fabricatory is like, no, that is absolutely wrong. Vius Gharre's lawyer said no lawful removal order exists and ICE would have known this for years. If ICE proceeds with trying to remove her without legal authority,

it sends a chilling message. On Wednesday, the Denver Ice Issue Office issued a statement saying this Ghara has a final order of deportation issued by a federal immigration judge. She illegally entered the United States near El Paso, Texas on nineteen ninety seven, has received legal due process in US immigration court. So I'm guessing they will provide that order of deportation to this judge and this will be over. This story really bugs me, and it bugs me for

a few reasons. One of the reasons is this, this woman is probably the most famous illegal immigrant in the country. She hid in a church for years to avoid deportation. Her deportation was actually stayed by the Biden administration. Now Joe Biden, on his way out of office, gave all these people pardons. Why haven't any of the Democrats that are now rallying to her side done anything to help her get some kind of status before?

and partner Governor Polis if that's the problem. If that's what the issue is, why haven't the Democrats done anything to help or get some kind of status after all these years? Does anybody know the answer to that question? I want to go back and answer the shrimp question that I was going to answer since someone just reminded me of that, and the question was simple, Manny, do you eat a lot of shrimp? Yes? I do have

you ever velveted shrimp before? And I thought maybe velveting shrimp was some kind of, you know, something crazy, but it is not. It is actually a way to cook shrimp by marinating them in a mix of cornstarch and egg whites, so they get a nice crispy crust on them. That's how shrimped and poor and Chinese restaurants comes out so good. I have not tried it, but I just

looked it up and it looks delicious, absolutely delicious. Great job on mocking public News and Talk still were forced to fund in part NPR, most right wingers understand, but certain show that while they complement NPR, they come from other distributors or local shows. Wait, that again was a grammatical mess. So, Mandy, what do you think about me taking Akron today plus fourteen and a half versus Arizona? I mean, don't put the rent on it that if you want to swing an that's a big line take.

You know, why not it could happen. I mean it could also not happen, but it could happens. That's pretty much my gambling advice right there. Don't ever come to me for gambling advice, you know, salespeople come to me all the time and they ask me about endorsing certain things, and if it's not a good fit, I just say

that is not a good fit. And when they ask me anything about gambling, I'm like, oh, not a good fit, not at all, because number one, I'm not good at I don't get it, and I am not the person you want to ask about. I mean, I don't get why people getmble is just lost on me. Oh I just saw in articles this morning that this year's a record amount of money bet on March Madness. This I view betting a lot of money on March Madness, or you know, filling out a bracket or whatever you want

to do. This is kind of like the Kentucky Derby of basketball, right, Like the actual Kentucky Derby race has far too many horses in it to properly handicap unless there's a clear winner. There's too many wild cards that could go wrong. And real gamblers don't bet that race. They bet the graces around it, but they don't bet that race. They call it a loser's bet. Just letting you know. Mandy Musk is an a hole. He called Mark Kelly a trader for supporting Ukraine. I don't care.

You guys, You guys, at this point, does it matter if someone calls anybody a name? I mean, oh, are we Cindy Brady? I really don't care. I don't care what democrats all Republicans anymore. I don't care what Republicans call democrats anyway. I just don't care. I'm so sick of it. It's just ridiculous, I mean absolutely ridiculous. Uh, Mandy, what's your opinion on the app used by Colorado politicians that the app that leads after time? We talked about

that story right at the beginning of the show. The mayor's office, after being told not to use the signal app, used it anyway to discuss their quote immigrant response after Donald Trump became president because they were worried about what was going to happen and Denver sanctuary policies, so they put it on an app and deleted their messages in

clear violation of the law. But because they're Democrats and the state's run by Democrats, and the attorney general's a Democrat and the DA's a Democrat, I don't expect a single thing to come of it, not one. Hey, Mandy could you say the word staunch in your NPR voice. Staunch. I don't know why I'm saying the word staunch, but here we are staunch. You're welcome, Texter Manday. Not only did Wyoming give the collar back, they also returned the carcasus.

This is another story from the blog today, and you, Texter, get points for reading the blog. So apparently when they brought wolves from British Columbia, they forgot to give the wolves a little map and a little compass so they would know where the state line was. Because one of our wolves, well, he went to walking. He was looking for food, he was looking for a girlfriend, and he walked all the way up into northwestern Wyoming, where he

slaughtered a bunch of sheep. And because Wyoming is not full of pansy, you know what, they killed the wolf. And then when they killed the wolf, they go up to the wolf the wolfstad and they're like, ooh, what's that is that? Does that caller say, please return to Colorado? Yeah, so they did. The headline on the blog today is you can have your caller back. Just here you go. Guys. I don't have a problem with this. I just don't. I really don't if we want to reintroduce wolves to

Colorado because voters are stupid, that's one thing. But Wyoming doesn't have to put up with our bad decision making. They're an independent state. Mandy. The judges need to be impeached because they have no actual authority in these orders that they are giving. They have absolutely no power over

the presidency. That very may well be true, and we're going to find out when the Supreme Court starts rolling on all this stuff, and they will have to one hundred will have to So let's see here, Mandy, this is Dawn. What scares the heck out of me is that you got the executive branch now calling out judicial judges, even coming from the White House. That's terrifying to me. Can we stop getting the vapors about this? Because FDR

was the first that I'm aware of. Maybe there were some before that that really went after the Supreme Court. He hated them so much he was going to stack the court. Remember, he was going to expand it and he was going to stack the court, and it didn't happen. So I disagree with it. By the way, to be clear, I think you know, we should all just go back to our corners. But I understand the frustration that the

Trump administration fields towards the justices. First he had to deal with Russian collusion in his first term, and now he has to deal with Democrats using every lawyer in America at every left leaning court to try and stop everything he's doing. The good news is, once this is sorted, it will be sorted, and we'll know exactly where the limits are and those limits will be applied to the next Democrat. So there you go. No, I am not going to say schweaty balls in my NPR voice. I

mean the classic candy from that SNL skitch. You know what I'm talking about. Go Wyoming, kill all the wolves, says this Texter, And did you really invoke the Cindy Brady classic? Love it? Guys. The last time I invoked the Brady Bunch in popular culture, I was with young people and it went like this. Somebody was complaining about feeling left out, and I just went, oh, it's always Marcia, Marcia Marcia, and I got the dull stare of the dairy cowback, nothing not even a just not even a

flicker of recognition. And I realized after it was out of my mouth that I was alone and none of these people had ever seen The Brady Bunch. And then, of course I have to make it worse by saying, you guys have never seen the Brady Bunch. And then they were like, no, I've kind of heard of it, you know, And I was like, well, it was like the best show in the seventies ever, and it was on every day after school, even though I think it only ran for like three seasons anyway, So I'm glad

you people got it. Thanks for that. I appreciate that. Uh Mandy. One week to opening day and the Rockies have been a eliminated from playoff contention. Let's go Mets, guys. I have been so down on the Rockies for the last few years because I love baseball. I mean, I really love baseball. Out of I know this is blaspheming and Broncos country, but out of all of the professional sports, baseball is my favorite for a whole bunch of reasons.

And I've been really down, and I went to spring training partially so I could get my mojo back with the Rockies. We do have some really exciting young players. We've got a couple really promising young pitchers and I'm not saying we're going to be in the playoffs. I'm not stupid, but I just don't. I can't believe we're going to lose one hundred games again.

in afternoon. You know, you go out there, you get a beer, get some peanuts, yang out, you take your seat. Now the game is over in like ten minutes, so it's super fast. It's not like you have to be there for four hours anymore. I just I love it. And I'm trying to find new players to root for because all of the players that I have rooted for previously are gone. So I'm trying so hard to just get Just don't let me down, Please smash my heart

into a million pieces again. Mandy. Question, have you ever been to March powwow before? If not, you have a chance this weekend over the Denver Coliseum, just saying I have not, but I did go to the powwow that they have at the Fort. And you might say to yourself, Oh, it's not as big as this one. No, it's not by any stretch of the imagination. But it was very, very well attended by multiple tribes, and they did a lot of the same stuff. They did, the dances, they did,

the ceremonies, they did a lot of that stuff. So we got to experience that part of it. And so I probably won't make it to the powwow this weekend, But that's okay, Mandy. The American Legoste prefer fur babies and other animals over other humans. They really hate their own existence. You know, some people don't want to have children for there's a lot of reasons. Some people are selfish and they don't want to give up their lifestyles.

I get it. Some people do. Some people can't, though, and some of both of those categories transfer those maternal feelings to their animals, and unfortunately it's going to be the downfall of our society when people stop having babies. I get it, I get it. But people have to use those emotions somehow, So try not to give them too much crap. You just roll your eyes privately, that would be the best way to handle it.

compadre over there on KHAL check with him. He is an Oklahoma guy. We will be back after this great questions to the Common Spirit Health's text line by texting five six six nine oh Thanks to this texture Mandy jan this isn't about you five seasons actually, but the sitcom started in late nineteen sixty nine actually, but yeah, the Brady Bunch is the nineteen seventies. Yes in d D Yes indeedy this question. Hey, Mandy, I'm wondering if you're going to be broadcasting downtown again for the home

opener for the Rockies. I was too nervous to come meet you last year, but after I met you at Regen Revolution, I would love to come visit you down there this year. That from Shannon the trash Lady. When I say Shannon the trash Lady, what do you think Shannon the trash Lady would look like? Hey, Rod, I mean, what would you envision there? I'll tell you how.

mar you don't remember. I pe Large Mark when I was in I know Pee's Playoffs. I don't know Large March. Okay, Large March was a truck drivery war flannel. She was in Peewa's playhouse. I think she was in pee Wee's

Big Top. And when I was in college, I had I was a theater major, and I had all of these set construction classes, and I always came to set construction classes wearing Levi's that I bought at the first store from the men's department, and a flannel shirt because it was really cold in there, and my combat boots, and they started calling me Large March. I didn't like it. It wasn't very nice. But you know what I did. I didn't demand somebody sell their tesla because I didn't

like it. We'll get to that in a little bit. Mandy, you say you've seen a lot of concerts. Have you ever seen Steppenwolf? I don't believe I have, But Guys, between my memory issues and how many concerts I've seen, there is a chance that I have seen Steppenwolf's, but I have no recollection of it. What's However, there are things that pop up on my Facebook patient I'm like, oh, yeah, I forgot about that concert, forgot I saw them, So

I'll say maybe I don't know. Mandy win in Ohio, do you prefer going through the Dayton Dragons or Cincinnati Reds. I have been to neither, so I'm going to be trying that out very very soon. I love minor league baseball. Minor league baseball is just fun. They're they're loopy, they're crazy, it's entertaining, it's just fun. Go goats, the Yad goats,

that's right, the goats of the Yad hard for yard goats. Yep, Mandy, I think Tesla's engineers should quickly code in a self defense mode that allows the cars to run over anyone trying to analyze them. What's funny about this? And I'm sure you guys have seen the stories of these wack a doodle left wingers who are keying Tesla automobiles. One

guy threw his dog's poop on a Tesla audomobile. Will Tesla's have car cameras all the time, so all of these people have been caught on camera, and then, of course the Internet being the Internet, they blasted on X until the person is identified and caught and now out

of Colorado. Remember our incredibly mentally stable trans person who was throwing molotov cocktails at Tesla's in Loveland, Well that person has now been charged with multiple serious crimes and faces a good bit of time in prison, like up to twenty years in prison. Those charges are also being levied at other crazy people who have destroyed Tesla property with Molotov cocktails or other stuff. And it's just you

just want to go, was it worth it? Was this little fit of peak where you were going to have absolutely no impact on anything. Isn't that I mean, isn't that the irony of the situation? Because people do these things because they want to feel important, They want to be admired by their peer group of fellow crazies who thinks stuff like this is super awesome and cool, and they go ahead and they do these things. But they don't have it in. They don't make any difference whatsoever.

Setting a Tesla on fire, throwing your dog's poop on a Tesla is nothing but the fit of a toddler and Unfortunately, you're breaking other people's private property and destroying it, and now you are absolutely going to face some serious charges. Mandy, Large Marge, the party barge. Large Marge was only in the movie Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Okay, so I had it wrong. Hi, Mandy, You're going to see Dead and

Company at the Spear. No, I'm not. I saw the Grateful Dead when they were alive, and that was good. I'm fine with it. I'm not a jam band person. I get bored, I get distracted. I tried to go see Blues Travelers on fourth of July a couple of years ago, and one song lasted like sixty hours, and I just was begging for it to be over. It's just not my thing. I have good friends and wonderful people in my life that love a good jam band. I am not one of those people. So no, I

don't really want to, you know, go see that again. Uh, Mandy, have you ever gotten so drunk that you didn't make it into a concert parking lot for Jimmy Buffett allegedly for me? No, I have not, but I am not one. I've never been one to get super incredibly stupid wasted. That's just not early on in my drinking life, which happened started in earnest when I was, you know, nineteen

in college. I had some really stupid things happened to me that were all self inflicted when I was drinking excessively, and for some reason that mostly stuck. I mean, don't get me wrong. I have drunk to excess after that, but not nearly as often and as some people I know. So no, that's never happened to me. Trying to think if I've ever gone to a concert and not made it in I have gone to see a show at a bar. And this bar in Gainesville, Florida. God, I

wonder if it's still there. Hang on, I gotta look and see if it's still there. I don't think it is. I think it finally closed. There used to be a bar in Gainesville, Florida where University of Florida is called Doves and Doves bar had been around since like God created bars. Okay, it was this old, dirty bar. It still had shag carpeting on the walls from the nineteen seventies. Now, I just want you to think about this for a second. Shag carpeting on the walls during a time when people

still smoked in bars. Oh yeah, oh yeah. It had a life of its own. It was like its own little micro biome on the wall in there. But they always had touring classic rock bands and we went to see Blue Oyster Cult and somebody else I can't remember who else was playing in this bar and my friend Tricia, my ex friend Tricia. For reasons like the ones I'm about to tell you. By the way, we're all in

the bar drinking underage. Should throw that in there. My ex friend Tricia gets mouthy with everyone and they basically said, Okay, do you want to get arrested or do you want to leave? And we just left, So, yeah, there you go. That was my only time of not seeing a concert I went to go to. But that wasn't even my fault. Mandy, what about the guy who's wiping his own poop on the Tesla, Well, he is a special one, isn't he. Generally speaking, I avoid touching my own poop for pretty

much every reason. I don't understand why some people think that's a great way to insult someone else. Yeah, not gonna, not gonna do it. If Tesla is insured, all the vehicles will be placed in everyone's insurance rates will go up. Huh, yeah, that's true. But don't expect the people that are trying to burn down Tesla's to be smart enough to grasp that simple concept. Mandy memory issues. You're one of the smartest,

really vivid memory persons I know of. I envy your memory. See, but my brain only holds on to dumb stuff and things that I read, the concerts that I went to, movies that I've seen. Sometimes I'll watch an entire movie and get to the end and go, oh, I think I have seen this. I don't know what's wrong with me, but thankfully it works for this job. We are gonna be at opening day. Ross and I are going to be combining our programs nine to noon. You'll have the

Ross and Mandy Show. We're gonna have all kinds of fun stuff. And then yes, he answer is no, Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you asked if I was gonna get Rocking mountin Oysters again. No, you already did your time, You've already paid your you've paid your dues.

I'm with you, although I will say this, do the colon test. Do it because if there is anything wrong, you're gonna have to deal with way worse than that. If you're you know, wait too long to take care of that and that coal of guard tests. I've already told Chuck, I've had three colonoscopies now nothing has been found. They were mostly because of digestive issues stuff that I was having. So I've had three colonoscopies. I'm done. When the with the colonoscopy business. We don't have colon cancer

my family. It's it's not you know, we don't have the hereditary gene whatever. So I'm just going to do the coli guard and yes for the color guard. You have to you know, you have to take care of business, the number two business, if you know what I mean. But it's better than not knowing. Trust me on that. I have a video on the blog today that I want to adress your attention to. It goes back to the people vandalized than Tesla's. So a woman in Seattle

is driving, whoops, just over the wrong thing. A woman in Seattle is driving and a guy whips in front of her, slams on the brakes, gets out with a mask over his face, because of course he does, and proceeds to yell at her that she needs to sell her Tesla. Now, nothing says freedom like demanding that someone sell a car because you don't like the guy who made it. I mean, remember during the Democratic National campaign,

the Committee, and all they talked about was freedom. When we went to the DNC a ron, all the flags, all the freedom talk, there was so much freedom. The entire place smelled like freedom, smelled like a rotten freedom. By the way, that smell of communism in the air today. That is because Bernie Sanders and AOC are in town having a rally right now up in Greeley somewhere, and then they're gonna come down to Civic Center Park today at five to tell you all how bad capitalism is.

So if you have the desire to buy into their IDL based on greed and envy, knock yourself out. Go crazy. So the I'm looking at the text today, you guys have to go to the blog today, mandy'sblog dot com. I have so much stuff on here that we're not going to get to. I also want to make sure we talk about this story. Okay, I've got a little No,

I don't have time right now. Coming up in the next segment though, remember when we were talking about, Hey, how much is the state and the City of Denver spent on homelessness, and the Mayor's office was like, oh, yeah, we don't have those numbers in front of us, but we're getting it together. We promise it is anytime now.

We're getting it together. It's going to happen. Well, there's been a new audit, and I know that you, like me, are going to be shocked when you hear that the City of Denver still has no idea how much it is spent on its homelessness response. And the real kicker is, in order to try and do a better job, they made a team's tag, a Microsoft Teams tag. Now, it seemed to me there should be some kind of awe

accounting code that that would be used here. Just I mean, call me crazy, but as it stands now, despite agreeing to implement all thirty six recommendations of an April twenty twenty three audit, a follow up audit in March found the city had only implemented six, partially implemented eleven, and just failed to implement the remaining eleven. So yeah, yeah,

the auditor said. While some progress has been made over the past four months, they note without documented practices, the city could not fully be transparent about it spending on encampment related efforts or adequately excess, whether the mon is being spent in the right areas. It's oh no, I'm sorry, a workday tag. They put a workday tag. They've asked every city agency to let us know which of their staff are primarily assigned to a homelessness response, so we

can now pull a report on that. We'll get into it on the other side.

behind it. That's the easiest way to find a blog. The real easiest way is to look for pictures that are different than my purple sweater picture. And yes, I know I need to replace it, but I have no idea how so whatever, it's fine. Anyway. Do you guys have a table at your office where everybody brings in baked goods. We have a table here in the newsroom.

I call it the Diabetes Sharing table. And there was one day where there was vegetables on the diabetes Sharing table and I was like, what is happening right now? But the earth is healing and there are just two random glazed donuts on the diabetes Sharing table right now. So everything is okay. The veggies are gone. But does every office have that space where uh, you know, the food that's bad for you goes. I'm just curious if

it's just here in radio. Speaking of food, I have a story that is the perfect example of why broke people stay broke. This tweet hit Twitter yesterday. Door Dash and Klarna have signed a deal where customers can choose to pay for food deliveries in interest free installments or deferred options aligned with payday schedules. So, just to be clear, you can order McDonald's today and pay for it on Tuesday.

Now for those of you that get that joke, now, I made a Brady Bunch joke earlier, but that joke goes in the way back machine. If you get it, text me at five six six I know about why that joke is funny. First of all, just letting you know this is the kind of stuff installment payments, even if they're interest free. My question is, how does Clarina make money on this? If it's interest free payments? How do they make money on this? But you've got to learn a little bit of what's the word that I'm

looking for, self control. If you continue to go through life buying things that you can't afford because you can pay for them later, you are going to be one of those people that ends up with tens of thousands of debt in credit card debt because you haven't learned any discipline. This is one of the reasons I'm grateful that we had lay away when I was a kid.

Lay Away was the best thing ever. Lay Away let you pay for stuff before you got it and after you made those six monthly payments on a pair of Jordash jeans, And he asks, that is the thing that I did because again, no interest right getting those genes. There was no regret that it was like they handed them to you in Jewels sung because you had already paid them off. They were done, You paid, you basically saved and you paid on It was wonderful, absolutely wonderful.

And now we've got people ordering Starbucks and paying it off in installments. What the data on who uses food delivery apps is not flattering for the younger generations complaining about not being able to buy a house. And don't get me wrong, I know the costume of everything is way more expensive proportionately. I'm not sitting here. I'm not one of those people that are like, stop eating your avocado, dost but this is the dumbest way to spend money.

Having food delivered you is the dumbest way to spend money. It really is, And I get it. It's easy. There are a lot of times I don't feel like driving. But I told Chuck like a month and a half ago, is like, this has got to stop. It's just not a good use of funds. It's just not We need to plan better, is what we need to do. Thank you to all of you who got the joke. Wimpy from pop By. If he would give you a burger today, he would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today

from Popeye. There you go. Uh, yes, the seventy year olds did get that.

One size bigger? Because your mom seems like she would be like, no, it's okay, but you'll grow into them. And then your mom would hem your pants and then you would grow and then you would unhem the pants and you'd have that white line on your pants where the hem, the bottom of the hem had been, and then you take the hem out and it's quite obvious where they were hemmed prior who else anyone else had that experience because that was my life because I got

tall really fast, really early. I bought my first leather jacket on layaway, says this Texter, And wasn't it glorious? It was so good. Many if it's interest free, if you pay it off before this that date, otherwise it's interest city. Oh oh okay. That makes a lot more sense, because the kind of people who are gonna make a horrible financial decision like this one and paying for their Starbucks coffee on installments are often the people who are not going to pay it on time, and therefore they're

gonna end up paying really high interest rates. And this, my friends, is my poor people stay poor. This, my friends, is why I broke. People stay broke. I have known some rich people. I have known a rich person who used to come to company me meetings and if they were like a lunch meeting where they'd have trays of sandwiches or something, he would take the sandwiches home at the end of the meeting that no one ain'ate and he was the wealthiest dude in that room. Rich people

are rich because they make good decisions. Very few rich people are rich because they inherited a bunch of money or won the lottery. Very few people fall into that category. The rest of the people they earned their money. They earned it by making good choices and decisions, and they're not willing to give it up easily. Omg, the hemline. Lol, you know exactly what I'm talking about, exactly, one size, bigger and always Kmart. Yeah, there was no shame in

the kmart game. When we were kids, Kmart was like the coolest place to be throwing a blue light special and it's on, it is so on, or you add additional fabric to the bottom of the pants. That never happened in our household. We never added more fabric to the bottom of the pants. And nothing came between you and your Geordash. That from mailman Mike. You know how I know that Brookshields. No, she was Calvin Klein. That was Calvin Klein, not Jordash. Wasn't it. Nothing comes between

me and my Calvins in an ad campaign. That's straight up. Let's be real. She was like fourteen and half naked, and back in the seventies everybody was like, oh my gosh, she looks so good. Not is this a little creepy and pedophilia, Like, Hey, Mandy, what was the name of that really good Italian restaurant in Parker? I don't know. I don't eat in a lot of Italian restaurants because Italian food is generally super easy to make it home.

Dad would buy this texture irregularly. VI's. Oh yeah, I had a pair of those, not quite right, the seam twisted a little around the front. You know, no one knew about us. I mean, I'm assuming no one knew what I don't know what he even said anything, Mandy. I'm an army aviation and our diabetes table is alive and well. Can't fly on an empty stomach. There's nothing like a big handful of empty carbs to get you going. Girl, animals sears.

wasn't like a big deal, Mandy. Amazon offers interest free installments as a payment option for this or that, with automatic payments every two to three weeks. You know, I guess, But again, where these are the people who are gonna end up in super debt at the end? You know before too long? Delayed gratification is a powerful thing and an important thing. Too many people are just not doing it, uh, Mandy. My mom taught us about budgeting by having a Christmas

club accounts at the bank. Decide how much you would need, deposit the budget amount each week, and at the beginning of December you had all your shopping money. That's a great idea, a great idea. Speaking of clothes, my mother was so thrifty. That's where you yell out, hell thrifty was she? She would buy my dad long sleeve shirts. When he wore out the elbows, she would cut them down to short sleeves from my brother. Would he wore out the collars, she would fix that and give it

to me as pajamas. Life is good, y'all. Think about that. Level of thriftiness. That's pretty amazing. That is a woman who was in difficult financial circumstances and yet found a way to take one shirt and make it three completely different clothing items for three completely different people in her household. That's like genius level resilience right there. We don't give nearly enough credit to people for that kind of thinking and the things that they did, because now we live

in an entirely disposable society. You buy any kind of appliance, there's planned obsolescence in it. It's designed to fail after so many uses because they want you to go out and buy another one. Well, back in the day, that's not how it was. Mandy, on this Ask You Anything Friday, I was trying to think of a question. Then came I was tidying up, and it came to me after I vacuumed. How often does the Mandy Connell dump her dust cup on our dice in vacuum once a week

or when it's full? When it's full? We have a Saint Bernard. First of all, I don't have a dyce in. They're too expensive because speaking of items that have a short shelf life, when you have a Saint Bernard and that amount of dog hair investing in an expensive vacuum planterer just is not worth it because that dog and that dog hair will wear out that vacuum planter. In our house, a vacuum is a disposable item. We have a shark which does a great job, really great job.

But that being said, sometimes I will empty the cup after doing one rug the front rug right at the front doors, where jinks our dog lays the most. That thing, Holy macarony, looks like there's fifty dogs in there, at least, Mandy. I thought that the trampoline came with tough skin jeans. Toughskins were tough. They were made for rough and tumble little boys and girls. This irregular Levi's know, one of my legs wasn't longer than the other is slightly twisted.

I got the irregular discount jeans. Yeah, but they were all seconds. That means there was something wrong with them that their quality inspectors found but we didn't. But hey, they were like half price. Mandy wouldn't do the interest free loan for small purchases, but I will arbitrage zero percent interest loans. That's a smart way to do it. Now, you're moving inventory totally different, Mandy. I am so sick and tired of subscription and payments. Just buy the blank

item and be done with it. We live mostly debt free car payment house and that's about it. I got to tell you, guys, Chuck just paid off his truck. My car is paid off. Things in the household are spectacular right now. And for those people who are like law, do you drive a car from twenty fifteen? I will drive that thing till the wheels fall off while I'm driving to work, because no car payment's worth it completely. When we get back, I get a lot of this

and that, a little bit of here and there. I got to talk about my former home city of Fort Myers. Oh what's happened? And the United States has fallen again in happiness rankings, and I just think it's because we're ingrateful. We'll talk about that next, Mandy. You do know what a rainbow vacuum as I do not. That sounds like it could be dirty. I don't know, Kirby. Vacuums will last you a lifetime and you can pass them down through the generations. They also weigh about a billion pounds,

don't they. I mean no offense. I got three story in my house. I got a schlep a vacuum up and down those stairs. Maybe I'm wrong about that. I don't know. Mandy. I bought a dice in when they first came out for five hundred dollars plus and it's still working great. To my shock surprise, Mandy, Armando's in Parker was the Italian restaurant. I still miss Armando's. Armando's was my exception because he had the best rossotto ever. I love rossotto, and so many restaurants do it so badly,

so so so badly. Mandy. I used to do Postmates when it first came out, and it used to be very lucrative for the driver because they would charge based on distance too. This girl paid thirty two dollars for a cinnamon roll because I delivered it to Centennial from downtown. Someone else paid seventy dollars for dog food. The dog food tip was better. Good lord, who are these people made of money? Who? Uh? This text? Ra ass? How much does it cost for a radio station to be on? iHeart?

I have no idea how any of that works. I don't even know that it costs anything. I know it doesn't cost iHeart stations. Well, no, I don't even know that. I have no idea textor Because I am what's called an end user of things, I don't need to know how the sausage is made. I just need to know that I can open up my entirely free iHeart Radio app and click on my presets right at the top for KOA and listen to the radio station from wherever.

As a matter of fact, if I want to listen to my own podcast, that's preset number two, Boom boom. Preset number three taking it for granted. Podcast pre set number four Diary of the CEO, my other podcast I listen to all the time. Umandy Kirby vacuum weighs about two pounds per vacuum. You just got to put one on each floor in They're about three thousand dollars each. Of course, of course why wouldn't I, I mean nine grand in vacuums.

May I have my audio please? I'd like to direct the audience to what can only be described as sniveling coming from the Fort Myers City Council. Let me set the scene for you. On your left, there's a woman of Hispanic descent. She is a Republican, I understand. In the center, there's a woman who is a Democrat. She is from the liberal part of Fort Myers, because southwest

Florida is very, very very conservative. And then there's a guy on the right who is literally sitting back with his hand on his uh on his face, like like you know, sitting with his face on his on his fist, watching these two as they snibble their way through the following discussion about the trauma of being forced to cooperate with ICE. Just listen to this if you can even hear it. And now it's buffering. Of course, I dramatically hit it right at the moment that I wanted to play.

And the Internet is not going to cooperate, and now it's just going to buffer because too many people are watching this stupid thing on X. You know, my father in law passed away before I married Chuck, and Chuck Away said that his dad was one of those old school guys who said that the country really went to hell in a handbasket when women got the right to vote. When I watched stuff like this, I'm inclined to agree

with him. Let's try this one more time. Still not going to participate correctly, So let's do this another way, because I really really want you guys to hear this. Even though at this point, okay, thank.

Don't get me wrong, I love a good cry. You know, when you have a really crappy week or really crappy day and you put on a sad movie, something that's really gonna make you ugly cry, and you just have at it, and then after it's over, you're like, you wipe your you know, your nose on your sleeve and go about your business. What movie aar? Do you ever watch a movie if you're sad specifically because it'll either make you sadder that will then eventually make you feel better.

that is just gut wrenching. It just rips your heart out and I cry like a baby every single time. And then once that's over, I'm like, huh, I feel better. I feel better. On Pass So Good and the Color Purple, the Whoopi Goldberg version. That movie. Oh, that movie is fantastic. I'm no Whoopy political fan, but man, that movie is just a perfect film on many, many, many levels. Just great. Mandy, did you see Anora? I don't understand why I won an oscar or anything. My personal trainer told me she

left the movie theater she was sort good. It was one F bomb after another. That was the whole movie was just f bombs. Oh no, not swearing. Well, you know what is it? Just so tedious? This is too much for me? Yes, so much swearing? Yes, out of here, I protest this much swearing. Well, I mean, but if it doesn't move things, if it's gratuitous, you.

DVR sports? I mean, oh my gosh. I have a friend who had to work every night during the World Series when his favorite team was in it, and he would DVR it and whenever anyone would try and talk to it, he would scream and put his hands over his ears and run away.

I have not seen it. Anyway, We're got a few more things on the blog, including this in the twenty twenty five World Happiness Report. We are in the lowest spot ever ever, and I want to read what I wrote about this today on the blog. It just says this. I talked to my nephew and tel Aviv quite a bit this week. He had to get his kids out of bed to go to the bomb shelter in the middle of the night because Moss was firing rockets at his family. The kids can't play outside anymore for fear

of being killed. He's armed twenty four to seven because of the real fear of someone trying to kill him and his family. This morning, I got up, had coffee, played with my dog, got ready for the show, recorded some commercials with Running Creek Dental, and no one tried to shoot at me. Once. I have plenty of food, gas for my car, and I can go to work completely unfettered and free of the immediate fear of death.

I say this all because the United States, which is the richest country in the world, where even poor people enjoy a standard of living higher than most people around the world, including Europe has dropped in the happiness rankings.

That's why soccer is a contact sport. That's why lacrosse is a contact sport, right, I mean, this is a way for men to get that physical stress and aggravation out.

we all know this. Little kids starts crying and instead of the kids negotiating a settlement like we had to do, you know what I mean, you stood there and you knew you were like, dude, he didn't do it on purpose. It was an accident. You have to get over it. Are you okay? Okay, get back on, We'll push you. That's how it worked. No, now it's run over to dad. Kid that actually stepping on The kid runs over to dad and the parents were like, go figure it out.

But their first instinct was to go get somebody to help with the situation. Instead of let's just work it out. And that made me kind of sad for this generation of kids. They don't have those opportunities to just work it out.