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I got some aggrieved emails when he voted against the continuing resolution. So I'm excited you get to hear from him, and we're gonna do the blog in.

Just a second.

But I got to jump right in on something that is so annoying to me. This is one of these things that drives me absolutely insane.

And it happens in politics all the time. Now we used to.

I mean, I still can remember Hillary Clinton clear as a bell in that Alabama church. That's what I'm talking about, Like all of a sudden, she's Hattie McDaniel from Gone with the Wind or something, you know. I mean, it was just it was so patently insulting to the people she was talking to.

And you know, it's one thing and this happens to me. I'm not gonna lie.

I have been open about my extremely deep Southern accent when I was younger, and when.

I go back home, it starts to slide out. Okay, you can't help it.

It just soaks up other people's Southern accents, just soak in, and then you just start find yourself just reverting back to your old ways. But Democrats do this thing where they pander to the audience they're speaking to, and it is, like I said, this is so incredibly insulting, and I don't understand.

Why they do it. I truly don't, So let me do this.

Let me play a couple of sound bites from Representative Jasmine Crockett. Now, Representative Jasmine Crockett is a rising star in the Democratic Party.

She is very entertaining to watch.

She's a brand builder, she's an Instagram brand builder as a congresswoman. But I saw this, and thankfully the internet is forever. So we play a couple of sound bites for you. The first is from Jasmine Crockett, and I don't even know what year this is is, so this is a young woman on the rise kind of thing, and this is what she sounded like, and.

This is what she said.

Absolutely. First of all, it is good to see you in the new year.

You know, no one could have told me that when I went down to Austin now looks like a little bit over a year ago, that I would be running for Congress.

That's not what my plan was.

But what I've always decided is that I would step up when there was a need.

Listen, okay, and then there's more cut in here, But now I want to play for you the latest Jasmine Crockett SoundBite, and this is what I find so incredibly baffling. A little bit more on Representative Jasmine Crockett. She comes from a family of a pastor in Saint Louis, Missouri. She went to exclusive private high schools. She went to a decent liberal arts college, not.

The most expensive, but not the least expensive. And she is a lawyer.

She not only went to law school, she passed the bar very quickly after she graduated. This is an educated woman, and yet when speaking at a human rights campaign event, this is what she sounded like.

Because we in these hot ass taxis streets. Honey, y'all know we got governor high wheels down there. Come on now, and the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot ass mess honey.

So so yes, So what is that?

What is that?

What is that?

This just drives me crazy? And I have to give it to Emily's naughty on X who came up.

With this caption. Didn't she go to some super francy private school.

Why are all our elected leaders talking like they just finished unloading a seafaring vessel at a sketchy dock.

And I had groc the AI four X create a.

Picture of Liz Warren as a longshoreman, and I'm pretty happy with it.

I'm pretty with it.

That's what you see on my Twitter feed right now at Mandy Condle. I made myself laugh this morning. So that's just my annoyance of the day. And nobody ever calls these people out even though it's it's just like, ugh h.

There's one.

There's a tactic in sales called mirroring. And when you're talking to a potential client or a client and and whatever they give you in terms of tone, you know, attitude, whatever, you give the same back to them, right, You're mirroring whatever emotions they're displaying, and it's a sales tactic. The problem is is that mirroring sometimes become becomes a caricature.

And that's just what this feels like.

Just yeah, just eh.

Anyway, Okay, onto the blog. Go to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the latest post section, and then look for the headline that says three twenty five twenty five blog representative Thomas Massey joins me to talk about the sea and more. Click on that and here are the headlines you will find within I eyone's.

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And if you are a small government conservative who has been frustrated with the government spending, if you listen to him, I think you will begin to understand.

So that is coming up at one o'clock.

Looking forward to that. We have so much to talk about today. I just heard Ross talking about the the just I saw this story and I just went, of course, of course, the national Security chat that was going on in Signal where they added the editor of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg to the chat. What what is happening that all of this government business is being done on platforms that immediately delete your encrypted messages. I don't like that at all, not even a little bit. I don't like

I don't like it.

There's a reason that we protect our records and we make sure that you know, these records live on and I don't like that at all. And then the fact that this just gets I mean the fact that it happened. I've seen a lot of people speculate that. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, let me just really quickly, because maybe you're the person you just woke up from a very long and fulfilling nap and you have no idea what I'm talking about.

Okay.

Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, which is a hard left magazine, was accidentally or and I'm putting accidentally in their quotes because there's some question about that we're going to get to in a moment, not by me, but by others, accidentally got added to a group chat on Signal, the encrypted app that erases messages, and discussions were ongoing about hitting the Houthis in Yemen and Goldberg got added right before the missiles started firing at the

You know, doing something so.

That this story is mind blowing that this even occurred. There's so much wrong here, so much wrong here, And for any of you who are just dismissing this out of hand as rookie mistake, which it probably is, but nonetheless, it's like if I make a rookie mistake, you know, I say something weird on the radio, and that's it. When you're Secretary of Defense and you make a rookie mistake like this, you're putting American lives at risk, and that is that is exactly where we should all be

Obviously it was obviously added on purpose. I mean everybody can see that, right, I mean, this is just like next level master ops.

I wish I could believe that, but in all reality, the most obvious answer is probably the right answer, and that is Mike Walls completely screwed up and added Jeffrey Goldberg to this chat, and so, you know, I don't know what else to do about that.

I have no idea what to do with that.

But it's it's disheartening to see people kind of, you know, glossing over this, like, oh, it's no big deal. I mean, nobody really had hurt, right, I mean.

Who am I? How do we know this hasn't happened before?

How do we know that other members of the media or somewhere else have not been added to group chats?

And no one bothered to say, hey, who are you? Who else is on this thread? Don't I don't know, man, it's just this.

Texter said, how do we get proof of these messages if they automatically delete? I believe Jeffrey Goldberg screenshot at all of them. So and by the way, the National Security Council said, yeah, those look like they could be real text messages. So it's not like the White House is out there running around denying it, which would be the absolute response if it was not true.

Think about this, guys, I mean, Donald Trump is the first guy out there to say that is.

I mean, he just argued about his portrait in the Colorado Capitol long enough so they would take it down. He's not afraid to point out when he's being, in his eyes, represented poorly and this certainly would not reflect well, right, so they would be leaping to their own defense. But maybe they are doing the right thing, which is just not saying no and then eventually saying yes, because it's just stupid. It's just a really dumb, dumb thing to do.

It's so incredibly bad and a terrible look.

And this is going to be the thing that the Democrats will coalesce around because they have not been able to co less around anything else. But they're not thinking it through because to do what the Democratic Party, in concert with the Biden administration did to the American people for four years, which was lie about the president's faculties for four years.

They lied.

They don't have a lot of moral high ground on this issue in terms of, oh, you want to know who's running the government.

At least we are out in the open here.

At least our guys are too transparent accidentally too too transparent.

So it's just terrible.

But anybody who sits there and thinks about, you know, and is upset at the thought of shrinking a government of this size, there's an incredible amount of incompetence. And yeah, I think this falls into the category of incompetence. Now do people need to be fired over it?

I don't know.

I think if no one is fired of it, it does give credence to the people who are speculating that this was an on purpose leak. You know, it's like, you're not gonna fire somebody, You're just gonna have them. You're gonna have to, you know, yell at him in public. We'll see what happens.

We'll see if the story gets legs.

We'll see if the polling data says it bothers the American people enough to keep pursuing it. Because let's be real, right, now, I would imagine that the Democrats are spending a small fortune on almost daily polling to try and figure out where the wind's blowing in their favor so they can jump.

On and exploit it.

And that's exactly what I would do if I were in the position they were, I would look for any port in a storm, like any subject that they can, you know, go hard on that is popular with the American people.

So we'll see if it sticks.

And if it does stick and Trump feels like it's hurting him, you'll see Pete Hegseth resign in disgrace. I mean, that's what's gonna happen. So how do they talk to each other? Why is the press available to add on the conversation? This was a Signal app conversation. Signal is an encrypto did text messaging app and Mike Walls added Jeff Goldberg to the chat from the Atlantic. It was just so incredibly stupid, Mandy, I'm kind of thinking, as bad as it is that Goldberg was added, I think

I doubt it. It's a massive colossal.

Screw up, and we can be casual about it all we want, but it's a massive colossal screw up, and to downplay it is just like, I just think that's kind of silly, you know, I don't know anyway. So that's pretty much how the show is going to go today. In case you were wondering, I got coffee, My hair looks good today, feeling good things are things are gonna sail through. We may even barrel through this Tuesday. I got a lot of you hitting the text line, Mandy.

Please mention it.

A pueblo has a record for recipients, and now you're getting a Bojangles in return for their sacrifices. I'm just kidding, I'm being flippant, but there is very few things. There are very few things honors in the world that mean more than the Medal of Honor in my view, So thank you to our Medal of Honor recipients. Ay Ron, I think your talent has gotten off track. She's given the band too much extra time to get drunk.

Maybe what's it to you, mister? Oh god, no, they just woke up out of their drunken summer.

Yeah yeah, all right, big floppy clown shoes, This Texter, big floppy clown shoe. Intelligence screw up two points in this outrageous embarrassment. Number one key trade of leadership excellence is whether a leader models behavior they expect those they lead to follow.

What example does this set for war fighters that serve under and execute their orders? Number two?

How many times previously of government and military personnel use non approved signal comms to discuss classified info and plans? US military is increasingly reliant on the Signal app to communicate. The comms app has become culturized and highly doubt this was the first instance of it being used to discuss classified material whilst inadvertently added the journalist to the signal

Meth so he's culpable too.

Signal auto deletes messages, so without this screw up, public would never know about its improper use. Trump admin that NAT Security team just lost any moral imperative and now know better. Okay, there's a lot there a lot that I agree with, and this.

Is why it's a colossal screw up. You guys.

What I wonder is this, Why hasn't the US military developed its own encrypted app?

Why haven't we done that?

I mean, I guess I know why, because then they would probably be held accountable for the stuff they have.

Mandy, please pause, think and breathe.

I believe you may have browsed sun Zuo's thirteen chapters, and then consider of all the journalists in the USA, the group chose to inadvertently leak to Jeffrey Goldberg number one, the author of the cowardice of Trump. Number two, the person who possessed dual US and Israeli citizenship. This is the Jeffrey Goldberg who served in the IDF. Jeffrey also wrote prisoners a Muslim and a Jew across the Middle East dividen.

Oh so it's the Jew's fault?

Is that what it is? Uh?

Huh, I mean, I'm not even sure what you're getting at there. Your entire connection of going to blame the Jews does not make sense to me. So uh yeah, Yeah, it's a screw up, you guys. It's a screw up. Mandy, What was the biggest rooking mistake you made on the radio?

Darn tutin. I'll tell you. I'll tell you after this. We'll be right back. Keep it on KOA. If it were a democrat, y'all would be losing their mind. Screw up.

Where a bunch of people including the vice president, the Secretary of Defense, the CIA director, national Security advisor, let's see everybody, including Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic, after he was added by mistake by Mike Waltz. While they discussed bombing the hoothies in Yemen, they also discussed their fact that they were disgusted with European free loading

Now, if nobody gets fired or.

Ends up presiding over it, then I will think you have more credence because if they ask somebody to follow on the sword and say, oh, you gotta leak, you know you got to do this, and then they don't make them leave. But I don't know, I don't know, one texter said Mandy. I think the errantly added reporter was a great way to pit Yemen against the Houthis without making a direct threat. Makes it clear that we have plans if the problem isn't solved. Basically, they need

I mean, it's just it's not a place we want to be. And the only reason we are caring for a.

Minute about anything in Yemen is because the Huthi's have shut down a major shipping channel, and Donald Trump wants to get Iran to back down by basically cutting off their little you know, their little tentacles in the form of Hamas and Hezbollah and now the Hoothies.

So there's just one at a time, wopping off.

The tentacles and leaving Iran weekend without their proxies.

And that's what Trump wants to do, you guys. I believe, and I mean this in my heart.

Donald Trump is the most anti war president we've had in the modern era. And he demonstrated that by keeping us out of every foreign entanglement he could. And he's always been consistent about that, even when he was a citizen back in the eighties. He was running full page

People, I'm going to be ready.

Ready.

Here's one more text on this and I'll leave it at that, Mandy, What if I love a good one? If so, it's a great way to start a text message. What if Number one, the information was neither top secret nor confidential, And I believe that is what is being said in some circles that what was discussed was not top secret, But I don't know about confidential.

Number two?

What if the release of this information was specifically targeted and directed?

Number three? Are you positive that this journalist held onto this information? Quote?

To protect the US government and its officials. Number four, will this journalist allow their cell phones, online and social media contact history in the last seven days to be reviewed by US national security personnel? Not sure why he would do that. He did not break into the chat, He merely reported on it.

Do I need to continue?

Remember Trump was just sworn into office on January twenty, twenty twenty five. Seems to me that nobody in the Middle East is buying pages anymore. How do you communicate to gain information cheaply and effectively? Okay, you communicate in a fashion where there's some kind of record so the American people know what happened later on.

Just you know, throw that out there. How about that?

And the ultimate the thing that you're just glossing over, so you're essentially believed they did it on purpose. Well, if they did it on purpose, why would they do that at the beginning of the administration to make themselves look utterly and completely incompetent.

Which is what they do right now?

Queue up the infamous, infamous sound bite of Alec Baldin's radio show with nothing to say for callers. You know what you guys, if you've never heard that audio and I've never been able to get my hands on the audio.

I have looked for it so many times.

But Alec Baldwin was asked a guest host on a radio show and he didn't prepare.

I guess he just thought the.

Callers would come flooding in and he would be overwhelmed with people telling him what to talk about. And as it turned out, nothing could be further from the truth. And it is minutes upon minutes of Alec Baldwin basically saying, Hey.

Guys, give me a call. Hey, why don't you give me a call? Guys, Hey, just give me a call, Give me a call, give me a call.

Hi, Mandy, my buddy is on the radio in Dallas Fort Worth. And he opened the mic and said the call letters to the former station he was on. Oh, I've done that too, the first six months of.

A new gig at a new station.

I have a piece of paper that I attached to the bottoms of the computer screen and it has all the call letters, the phone numbers and everything.

Say it enough to memorize it.

I don't radio pros all do that, because that's kind of commons. It's like calling your girlfriend by your ex girlfriend's name.

I mean, depending on who you're dating, that's how big a deal it is. Mandy, I never meant Bolts that I like Tim Holtz, Mike Colts. I don't know what that last part is, Mandy. Thanks for having Massy on.

I'm so glad he's my congressman now in the goose isn't so you must have moved into the district. Yes, As I said before, we're gonna have Thomas Massey on at one o'clock when we get back. Let's talk about a couple of things that happened in Colorado very quickly.

Well one of them, at least the owner is horrible, awful rotten gun bill passed. We all knew it was going to.

But this has created a level of barrier to firearm ownership that, in my mind is essentially the same as a poll tax.

Poor people will.

Probably never be able to be legal gun owners again, just on cost alone. Well done making a whole new class of criminals. All right, we're gonna take a quick time out. We'll be right back after this.

Keep it on. KOA from Combs and who was Combs on? Alan Combs?

This is Alec Baldwin filling in on w PhD Radio The Big Talker Sunday, May fourteenth, two thousand and six.

When can we take some calls on them whenever we want? Do we have calls that are on there now?

No calls? Yeah?

No, no calls yet? What number of people call to get on the air? I do we have that number? It's right there?

No?

Do I have the call number in front of me?

Oh, I'm so sorry. That's interesting. Interesting? Do you have many calls yet?

There?

Ivan, no calls? Let's read more about scientology. Is Sean Hannity a scientologist Alec Baldwin posing the big questions tonight?

Here?

Do we have any calls here yet?

Ivan?

None?

Boy?

It's just incredible, Yeah, just incredible. It's almost like you have to work at this job. I mean, I realize people that you tune in every day and you think to yourself that job is going to be a piece of cake if that lady.

Can do it.

But no, no, not everyone can, as demonstrated there.

So, the Colorado House of Representatives has now passed Senate Bill three.

This is the worst gun.

Bill that we have ever passed in Colorado. And I know I know what you're thinking, Mandy, how is that possible. We've had so many bad gun bills. This one truly creates a giant new bureaucracy and essentially a poll Tex on weapons. They have up the ante to a level where you better have the ability to pay for a whole series of classes and permissions they're going to have

Now, as if somehow this is.

Going to dissuade someone who is buying a weapon for ill intent. It's like, you know what if we just teach him how to handle their firearms safely and properly. Surely they won't go out and create create havoc. Surely they won't go out.

And do some horrible thing. Does anybody believe that this would have.

Stopped the guy who killed Tom Sullivan's son in the Aurora movie theater? Do you really think that this would have stopped him a clearly mentally unwell manned This is just another way to prevent people from legally owning firearms, which is the endgame.

This.

I mean, I'm guessing that the lawsuits are already being lined up now because I think so much of this is clearly unconstitutional that it will be struck down, and perhaps the Supreme Court will give a clear sort of you know, line in the sand so everybody knows, just stop stop messing with the Second Amendment. So that happened under the Gold Dome and fun story. I'm working right now on getting someone from the Rocky Mountain region of

The gang he's referring to a.

Trend day Arragua it started in took our own penitentiary center in arragua A State in north central Venezuela. It's now expanded the footprint of its criminal enterprises into at least eight Latin American countries, including Brazil, Colombia.

And Chile.

So the fun part about it is why in the world would they be here. Let's just put our noggins together, shall we. You me will really think it over. Could it be that they felt welcomed by Denver's you know, welcome Matt for immigrants, the welcome Matt that allowed them to possibly get free apartments and free cell phones to

We will talk to him next. Keep it right here on KAWA.

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To the second hour of the show.

And I'm pleased as punch to have on the common Spirit health text or excuse me hotline from the Commonwealth of Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massey. It's Sassy with Massey time on the Mandy Connell Show. How are you today, Congressman, I'm.

Doing well here in the swamp. Well.

You know, I will never forget the first time that I talked to you after you went to DC for the first time, and you said to me, and I said, how's DC? And she you said, well, everybody up here thinks it's a hot tub when it's really just a swamp, right, and and I and I that's with me so much.

Sure. So the CR is short for continuing resolution, and what it means is, instead of doing the twelve separate bills like we're supposed to, we do one giant bill and we don't even rewrite the bill from last year. We continued last year's budget. So this R was actually Joe Biden's last year's budget. And I wasn't going to lock our country into Joe Biden's budget for the first nine months of Trump's administration. I think it's ridiculous that we did now listen to the excuses they gave for

We'll lose the.

Majority and Trump won't win the White House. So let's fight after the election. So they did a CR continuing a resolution to fund the government till December. When they said we would fight, we get to December and they said, oh, look, we won the Senate, we won the White House, we kept the House. It would be foolish for us to fight here in December, left fight in January on the spending.

Now, let me ask you this question, and I already know the answer, so I'm just going to softball it up for you. You've now been in Congress for twelve years. What has happened in that twelve years to harden or soften your view about the Republican leadership's ability to get significant spending cuts past.

I have watched enough of them. At first, Like with John Bayner when he was Speaker, you had to believe he was just incompetent he lost every spending fight with Barack Obama in the White House, and this was after the Tea party wave, and at first you think maybe he's just incompetent or not that good. No, you can't lose every fight. You have told get something. So I decided they're playing on the same team. And if you use that model, it's been fairly accurate. The Republicans and

Be in town.

And when the government oftensively would shut down. And then Mike Johnson sent us all home after we passed it. He was so sure this was going to pass in the Senate he sent us home. And that's when I said, Okay, this is the fix is in here. I got to tell the public what's going on. Then they say, and by the way, this, let me give you an example. Are the Trump getting held up in the courts on the things that he wants to cut right, USAD and whatnot? And one week after we fully funded not me, I

Well, this is exactly the point that I have been trying to make.

And the point is everybody who's excited about all of the cuts that DOGE has been finding and unearthing and firing these people and getting rid of the USA, they mean nothing unless Congress passes the legislation that has to pass in order to lock these things into legislation. They're just they're a pig cross promise. When they're in executive order,

It is out there on two different trajectories. Reality and what is being promoted right now are two different things. There is one hope though, Mandy. There's something called recisions. If the White House requests not to spend money, not where they were. This is different from the stuff that he's been held up in court, like when he said I'm not going to pay USAI dam the court right,

I have an article today from the The Hill dot com and the headline is GOP senators warned Trump agenda will be slowed by internal divisions. Now this is the least surprising headline that I've seen in some time. But now they're saying the Senate isn't likely to pass President Trump's border security, energy and tax agenda until July at the earliest. Is so, I mean, they're not even moving forward with that yet. So it is it a bridge too far to think the recisions? Are they started in

I believe the process culls from them to be started at the White House and then ah, then like we have to receive a request from the White House and then we act on that. I think that then the Senate has to vote on it with fifty one votes. I believe that's how it's structured.

So let me ask you. Let me ask you this question.

I mean, do you see any real and I'm talking about like, you know, the conversations that happen in the cloakroom conversations.

Is there any real will in the Republican.

Party in the House to rock in the destruction of usaid to lock in the Department of Education bill, which, by the way, you've already filed.

Is there any real will there's this all just more theater.

By the way, Yeah, I do have the build end the Department of Education. And now when they bring that bill to the floor, they're going to put somebody else's name on it. They're not going to give me any credit for having done that for the last eight years and building public support, explaining to people why it's good for education, not bad for education, to leave these decisions up to the states and teachers and parents. So you know, what will we get out of all this? What was your question again?

No, I don't even know at this point. I mean, honestly, it's like there's just so much going on.

I do have a question. I have a couple of questions from our text line.

One of them is I get his thoughts on it, but he knew it would still pass without him speaking of the continuing resolution, it was a show vote, which is fine, But how will he vote on Trump's agenda when he is the winning vote? Do you want to address the concept of a show vote.

The concept of a show vote. Well, I'm honestly, I'm giving people hope. I call it the hope vote. Okay, they hope and pray that there's somebody up here who hasn't completely changed their principles based on who is the president. Is like, now is it that all Republicans can be big spenders? And it's thought, Look, I can't control anybody's vote, but mine. I pressed put my voting card in and press that button. I would dearly love to have the Freedom Caucus with me on that. The problem is they're

I'm waiting for and I'm sure, I'm sure you're ready. I've got a Texter who said, why doesn't he introduce twelve spending bills?

Well, it takes a while to write them.

I did.

I did introduce and get passed into law a bill that says and this was passed into law. It's part of two years ago when we raised the debt limit and they needed my vote to get it through rules committee. I said, okay, I'll do that if you put a provision in law. By the way, Joe Biden signed this, the Senate passed it. This provision that was attached to that debt limit increase that says, if you don't do

Oh my god. And that's the Republican Speaker of the House that did that.

Yeah, he totally was ignoring the law that gives him an automatic one percent cut across the board.

I'm talking to Congressman Thomas Massey. Sorry about that. I want to let people know who's speaking here.

Man.

That's frustrating, and this is you know, Thomas.

I my whole life, my dad was a Reagan Republican, and my whole life I've always been told that the Republican Party is the party of fiscal responsibility. But if I am a thinking, rational person. That ship sailed so long ago, and I don't know how to get it back on track. Why don't you offer a bill that would say if you run a deficit, if there's a budget deficit, no one is allowed to run for reelection.

I bet they would fix it.

Then that would be great. Or you can't leave town and go campaign for your own reelection. In the state of Kentucky, by the way, they're not allowed to raise money while they're in session, and that maybe the deal in Colorado. I don't know. This is for the state legislature I'm talking about, and somebody suggests that we should do that for Congress, that you can't raise money while you're in session. But then somebody pointed out the net result of that is you have really short sessions.

But you know what, that's not a bad thing.

That's not a bad thing. It compressed the session to thirty days out of the year, and then the fundraising becomes the other three hundred and thirty five days. You could try to make rules, but it's only as good. The rules are only as good as the people that you elected to follow those rules, because for any given rule, they'll just suspend it if they get two hundred and eighteen votes. Here in the uniparty always has two hundred and eighteen votes.

Congressman, I'd love to know your thoughts on the speed with which because you mentioned earlier that you advised Trump to get as much of his agenda dine in six months before the Senate locked him up, have you been shocked by the speed with which he has unfurled executive orders and what are your thoughts on those executive orders overall?

Because I've always known you to be a constitutional guy.

Oh, I think they're wonderful. I mean, everybody in the executive branch works for the president. And this is the thing that Trump failed to realize in the first administration. He kind of assumed this line that the DOJ is some fourth branch of government, that the Attorney General doesn't work for the president, or the FBI director doesn't work for the president. He went along too long under that false premise. But this time he understands it, he's doing it.

I agree, I agree wholeheartedly.

What are your thoughts on maybe at some point your chances of running for Mitch mcconnell'sy.

That's the same circus with different monkeys. I can from my office window, I can see the Senate side of the Capitol here and it really is not much different. You you know, my Twitter account wouldn't change, my salary wouldn't change. By work hours wouldn't change. They say, oh, but you'll be one of one hundred instead of one of four hundred and thirty five. Well, it doesn't really matter when you're the only one fighting some days. If you're just a one. So I am not likely to run for that seat.

I like the phrase not likely. You know, never close the door entirely. You never know what's going to happen in the future. One last question before I allow you to get back to real work, and that is this, I'd love to know your thoughts on the judges, federal judges who have been overruling or staying some of these executive orders we just talked about.

Oh my gosh, well again, by the way, I'm missing a judiciary back room meeting on this very topic to be on your show. It was like an impromptu meeting that was called by Mike Johnson with our Judiciary Committee, because all impeachments would come from our committee, and so this is something we would we would have to start in our committee. Danny, this is this is This gets back to what I said before. Congress's biggest power is

Yep, Congressman Thomas Massey. I appreciate you.

I appreciate you skipping a very important meeting to have this conversation, and I am cheering you on always from AFAR and especially on Twitter. If you want to follow his sasse with Massey commentary on Twitter, you can do so. I put a link on the blog today at mandy'slog dot com.

Thank you so much for your time.

Today, Thanks man and being in Colorado with you.

All Right, man, that's Congressman Thomas Massey. That is just and you know, somebody says, thank you very much, Mandy for asking my questions.

The speaker sounds a.

Little shady, and I'd love to ask the follow up question, which part of I'm not going to continue to vote for Joe Biden's budget I watched Republicans do the same things that Democrats do.

Which part was shady and shady in what way?

I'm curious about that because, as I said before, he's the only member of Congress that I know of that is just saying, look, just do things by the rules. Do you think it's any coincidence that we have seen an absolute explosion in our budget deficit at the same time continuing resolutions started to be using started to being used on a regular basis to fund it. Of course, not because a continuing resolution is so big that everybody gets their little grift in there. Everybody gets their little

That's why they do it.

No one is trying to save us money, No one except right now, Donald Trump, Elon.

Musk and Thomas Massey. Who knows. We'll see what happens next. We'll be back right after this. Keep it on, Koa.

I've had a lot of this coverage of this story on the blog, but I haven't talked about it because there hasn't really been a high profile case yet that has been affected by the alleged malfeasance of the former head of CBI's forensics department. Her name is Missy Woods, and she was the provider of a lot of evidence for a lot of cases. And now it's been alleged quite clearly and I think significantly, that she lied on

Michael Clark was at the scene of an unsolved murder or.

Now, excuse me, was accused of an unsolved nineteen ninety four murder. The police suspected him because he did admit to having either checks or something of the victim. It had robbed the guy, but he says, I robbed him, but I didn't kill him. Well, Missy Woods back in two thy twelve tested a jar of Carmec's lip bomb that had been recovered from the scene of the murder, and she testified that it matched the DNA of Michael Clark.

He's asking for it.

And you know, this could be the beginning of undoing an unjust prosecution.

And I really think that, like.

If I had someone I loved or knew of someone that I strongly believed was innocent, I would be looking right now to find out if Missy Woods had handled the evidence because it's clear that she did some things that probably put some people who did not deserve to be in jail in jail. And this kind of stuff is super upsetting to me because when you have this kind of responsibility and this kind of power, you have

To be held to a very very high standard.

And I hope she goes to jail for a long time because she certainly has put people in jail for a long time. Now, I want to direct your attention to a different story. Actually, it's our column by our friend Jimmy Sanckenberger in the Denver Gazette. Remember, it was just a few short years ago, on March twenty second of twenty twenty three, when there was a shooting at East High School. The shooting involved a student who was

If they want or are.

Allowed to come back to school, they have to be padded down every day. And since Taite Anderson was so good at getting school resource officers out of the schools, this had to be done by administrators every day, administrators who were not trained on what to do if the kid freaks out, pulls out a gun shoots them, which is exactly what happened at East High School, and in a tragic end to the story, this young person, who

They would have wanted to know why it happened, how it happened.

Where the failures were, what measures need to be taken in other situations that might be similar to this one. But the entire investigation of Denver Public Schools did not extend to Liz Kerrn, a counselor in East High School, who was in the auditorium for an assembly when a student rushed to her and said there was just a shooting. This from the Denver Gazette, expecting another incident outside the school like the shooting that killed student Lewis Garcia. The

By a student who fled the scene.

She was there and held their hands while paramedics got there to save their lives. They were both critically injured, but both have survived. And you know what number of dps has come to Miss Current to talk to her about her experiences that day. Not a single member of Denver Public Schools, not a single person has come to talk to these people to investigate what happened at East High School. I mean, this is absurd, but it is another example of the incompetent leadership of Denver Public Schools.

But they are not not even close. By the way, they are ignoring their own.

Disciplined matrix, the disciplined matrix, which is this redic If you've ever seen the DPS disciplined matrix, you know that it is designed to obfuse gate whether or not any punishments are actually given out. And now DPS is ignoring their own discipline matrix. Yeah, so this is just And Jimmy says this, and I think he's right, he says in the column. No wonder DPS hasn't bothered investigating. They'd

School is a thing. Right these kids, they deserve the right to get an education.

They don't deserve to be in the classroom if they have expressed and demonstrated that they are potentially dangerous. It's simply not fair to the rest of the students in the school, and it's not reasonable. Any reasonable person would have said if these kids in the criminal justice system accused of violence, and we're talking about violent crimes like attempted murder, these are not like, oh, they punch somebody in the face. No, these are crimes with a weapon,

I mean, as I say it, I'm like, what, how is that even possible?

And yet we see it over and over again where they put whatever stupid just clap trap ideology that they believe in over the safety of.

Students, and DPS is the perfect example of this. How have they not I mean, you guys, if you're a teacher at East High School?

How have you not been all up in DPS is grilled trying to get somebody to investigate something to make sure that you don't have another shooting at your high school after two within a one month period. How are they not agitating to find out more. I just I'm baffled by it. I don't know why it's okay. I don't know why it's so.

Okay for parents.

And there was a group Atny's time, a group of parents that all got together and demanded, you know, do something. I wonder if they know that no one has investigated what happened that day, at least talk to the people that were immediately involved with it. I mean, you would think that would be where the investigation might start. We're gonna take a quick time out. We will be back right after this. And when we get back, Uh, we

Or you a let's skate in and see how closed we can cut it.

I'm gonna have you guessed because you damn well knows you the answer.

I am gonna say you are get there early guy.

Two hours for dastic, three hours for international if it's a customs deal.

Well, some of these dingbats on TikTok are apparently pushing something they call the airport theory, which says you can get there like fifteen minutes before the flight leaves and still make your flight. Now, I do have a caveat here in some airports, like a rod if we got to Long Beach with just to carry on right, we can make it from the parking lot.

To the plane in time to catch that flight easily.

Yeah.

Long Beach has like ten gates, eleven total. It's delightful. It's cute. It's like a little baby airport.

It's so cute.

Yeah, it's adorable.

So where you can get off the plane ride unto the tarmac.

There you go.

Well, you can do that depending on the flight you have pretty much anywhere. I mean, depending on what your airline is doing and chat ways and things like that. Anyway, I digress. This kind of stuff drives me crazy because you know what it leads to. It leads to some young person younger than me. Can I go ahead of you on TSA I'm running late? And I'm like, nope, sorry, your emergency, your failure to plan is not my emergency. And I've seen these people and I've suspected this long

That's what I'm all about.

At the airport, I will say, Denver International Airport is starting to look good again.

Sure, there's still a ton of construction.

Going on, right The new TSA pre chet or the new security checks are fantastic, a delight.

Did you find them to be no?

Ayrod, you walked through with hoy POLOI in the regular security check, did you find that to be a delight as well?

Did you go to the new checkpoint? Did you go through the new security checkpoint?

No?

Oh you didn't. Oh, it's it's so nice.

No.

I I like going through the big one. I never really had issues most of the time.

No.

Yeah, I'm telling you, once you go to the new one, you'll be like, how did I ever slum it in that big What I do?

I just accept things like that. It's fine, it's normal. It's not that often.

So U you know, well, can that's all going away? No, it's all going away. So they're gonna move you to the other one as soon as the other side's done. But there are parts of the airport, like there's new gates that are beautiful, there's new restaurants.

I mean, the airport's starting to look good again.

But the last three times I've been there, I've gone into bathrooms that were disgustingly dirty. And all I can think of the whole time I'm in these disgustingly dirty bathrooms is didn't we just give the janitors a raise? Didn't they strike, like not even a year ago to get more money, and they gave them all big raises.

The bathrooms are disgusting. Not very happy about that.

I gotta tell you, I don't know what bathrooms are going into because yours been spark sparkling great.

Yeah, Now I will say most of them, well most of them, because you do stuff right in the beginning of like Terminal CEA, which is mainly southwest, if not all southwest, Like those new parts you mentioned are beautiful, but the other ones have been really good too, So I don't know what manthrooms are going into.

So this is the mid day.

I was going where I was leaving, actually no, we were coming back. Chuck had gone to get the truck. I was gonna get the luggage. I stopped right there by the luggage to use the restroom, and of course I go in the oldly stall that I'm aware of that has no toilet paper, but I don't realize it until things have already happened, right, So then I'm sitting in this airport bathroom. Not a soul walks in there. Nobody else walks in that can give me some toilet paper.

So I literally called Chuck.

I'm like, I am in the bathroom right now and there's no toilet paper, and there's no people in this bathroom. And then finally another woman walked in and she gave me some toilet paper and.

I went on my way.

But that kind of stuff frustrating, really, really frustrating, Mandy. At almost fifty three years of age, I don't need the adrenaline rush of getting to my flight just in time, a men, fellow traveler.

Can we be real though, this method as dumb as it sounds, and I would never do it. Ninety percent of the time, it would be fine. Honestly, most of us.

You're not checking bags.

Like, if you don't check your bag thirty minutes before the flight, at least you are.

Really rolling down.

Will never ever, Yeah, with check it all has to be carry on bags has secured percent the only way that this theory works. But with that said, ninety percent of time, if you were not checking a bag, this theory would work. But if you ever were to test it, if you ever were to test it, you well know that would be the one time that it would be up securities forty minutes and you're.

Correct, it would never take that chance. It's never worth a chance, Mandy.

It was a different topic, but my friend told me once that people who are late are selfish. Took me a while to come to agree, but I started watching people like this and now I fully agree they are selfish, only thinking of themselves and nobody else. I agree with this to a certain extent, unless you're dealing with a person who has ADHD, because ADHD messes with your sense of how long it's going to take you to do something, and they often underestimate how long it's going to take

Keep it on KOA.

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Welcome, welcome, Welcome to the third hour of the show. I'm excited to have us for a full hour, three hours of show today. It's just been magical, magical for me. I hope it has been for you. We started the show today talking about some stuff on the blog, which

Those of you that do listen to the whole show, you were my favorite. I'm all they're familiar with that. No, we're not tell the band to pipe down.

The band headed hard after they played their opening gig and now they're all passed out on the twos.

Yet there you go. Nope, we're just that's okay, guys, Just lay back down, go to sleep.

The big story of the day today is that, uh, yesterday, Jeffrey Goldberg, who is the editor of the Atlantic a left wing magazine. He is a noted anti Trumper, but someone in the Trump administration.

Added him to a private discussion on.

Telegraph excuse me, signal, an encrypted messaging app, where they were discussing strikes on the Houthis. The Houthis have shut down a major shipping channel, but it's a major shipping channel for Europe, not for US.

And I believe that Donald Trump.

Wants to go after the Houthies because he is working very diligently to destroy Iran's proxies in the region, dismantling Hesbela, disrupting permanently Hamas, and now going after the Houthies.

Okay, I think he's doing this to avoid war with Iran.

This is based on Donald Trump's history is an anti war guy, and he is. But this has been an abject embarrassment for the Trump administration officials that were on that message, and some of them sat before John Ossoff in a hearing today and I just want to play just a tiny bit of this.

Director Ratcliffe, you were a member of the who DPC small group signal chain.

Correct.

I was, yeah, and so were the Vice President, the Secretaries of State and Defense, the National Security advisor and miss Gabvert.

Correct, I believe so.

I don't have a list of who was invited in.

And so was National political reporter Jeffrey Goldberg.

Correct, I don't know that, Yes you do.

I don't know Jeffrey Goldberg and already testified. I don't know whether or how he was added.

Okay, Well, he was a member of the signal chain, and the discussion included the Vice president's private opinion on the wisdom of proposed US strikes and Yemen.

Correct, I don't recall vance quote. I think we are making a mistake.

I am not sure the President is aware of how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now. There was a strong argument for delaying this a month. You don't recall as you don't recall seeing that read that. I don't It included the private opinions of the Secretary of Defense on the timing of strikes in Yemen.

Correct, I don't recall, Director Ratcliffe. Surely you prepared for this hearing today.

You are part of a group of principles senior echelons of the US government, and now a widely publicized breach of sensitive information. You don't recall whether the Vice President opined on the wisdom of the strikes. That's your testimony today under oath.

In that setting, I don't recall.

Here's what Secretary accept said quote.

Waiting a few weeks or months does not fundamentally change the calculus.

Two immediate risks on waiting. One this leaks and.

We look indecisive to Israel takes an action first, or Gaza cease fire falls apart and we don't get to start this on our own terms your testimonies, you don't recall the Secretary of Defense setting that message or reading it.

I recall there being any change. I don't recall the specifics as you're reading it.

So that's not a good look for CIA Director John Ratcliffe. First of all, I mean not for nothing, Grinn, I don't talk about important things on you know, group chat messages that would directly be related to the security of the country. Ever, so maybe maybe that didn't stick out. Maybe maybe CIA Director John Ratcliffe is so so used to seeing war plans discussed in signal chats that for him it just why commit that to memory?

Why why would you do that?

It does make me question his memory overall, But this is just an appalling. Look, but on the other side of this issue, Jeffrey Goldberg on Inside with Jen Saki seems to be walking.

Back his.

Discussion or his you of the words war plans in his description of the signal messages.

Reponsible here and not disclose the things that I read and saw.

I will describe them to you.

The specific time of a future attack, specific targets.

Including human targets.

Meant to be killed in that attack, weapons systems, even even weather reports or you know that the government is is. I don't know why Hexcept was sharing it with everybody. I mean, the precise detail and then and then a long section on sequencing this is going to happen, then that is going to happen, After that happens, This happens, then that happens, and then we go and find out

So you can decide whether or not whether all those things make it a war plan. Kind of sounds like one to me, just a little bit. Here's the thing, you guys. The cover up is always worse than the crime, always, always, always.

And.

If politicians would just learn that and take the heat up front and just come forward and say, yeah, this was a colossal screw up, and here's how it happened, here's who added him, here's why he was at whatever, Just cop to it, move on. But unfortunately, everybody wants to run for cover. Everybody wants to pretend like it didn't happen. Everybody wants to think that the Internet's not forever.

It's all insane.

Now.

A lot of people, when we talked about this earlier on the show, were very quick to say.

But you know what, maybe this was an on purpose leak. Maybe that's what it was, Mandy.

If the reporter thought it was so dangerous, why did he blast it all over everywhere? To be clear, he didn't blast out the war plans. He was very very careful in what he disclosed. And a lot of people are attacking Jeffrey Goldberg for leaking this in the first place. This is the kind of transparency that I want my government to have, and not just when Democrats are in power. And I urge you before you excuse this or brush it off as rookie mistake or make light of it

And then they go through how it happened in the chat.

Vice President jd Vance notes that only three percent of US trade runs through the canal Cus Canal, as opposed to forty percent of European trade, after which he and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth complain of European freeloading.

And that's a quote.

The monumental security breach is causing a ruckus at home, with Democrats calling for Hegsa's resignation as a result. Across the pond, Europe's leaders and policy makers felt quote sick to their stomach. As an EU official put it to me, officials quoted here are speaking on anonymity. Vance first stunned European officials with his speech last month condemning the continent for having misplaced values such as protecting abortion clinics and

While the US commits.

Three point seven percent of its colossal GDP to defense, it's taken the majority of European partners in Transatlantic Defense Alliance NATO until recently to KAF even two percent of GDP. Some, like big economies Spain and Italy aren't even there yet, although they say they plan to be soon. Europe relies heavily on the used, amongst other things, for intelligence, for

Putting to the screws to them so they can participate.

In their own defense at the same level that we are participating in their defense. At a time when we are spending trillions of dollars, we don't have one point eight trillion dollars is this fiscal year's deficit. That's money that's going to have to be paid back by your kids and your grandkids and my kids and my grandkids. I'm glad that we're finally saying, wait a minute, why are we doing this? What do we get out of

For that defense.

The world is getting smaller and people need to mind their own business and take care of themselves. I'm sorry, it's just it's true.

You know.

One of the things that the Ukrainian President Zelensky said that really chaped my hide. He didn't want to sign the minerals deal because he didn't want to sign a deal that would make his grandchildren and their children have to pay for something or not yet what they were. And I'm thinking to myself, but you're asking us to do that every day by continuing to spend money on your war that we don't have. It's unpleasant, but it's

Anyway, We'll be back after this. Keep it on, Koa.

I've got to ask a question of my fellow costco shoppers right now, so I don't know what is happening to corporate America, But they are moving my cheese left and right, and I do not like to have my cheese moved.

And I don't mean literally moving my cheese.

And Costco there has not been a redecoration, but they change the muffins, which I'm fine with, right, whatever, you don't get that giant muffin.

Do you ever get the Costco muffins?

Ay? Right?

Have you ever been a Costco muffin guy? I mean when we're healthy, but yes, so you.

Know they used to be dragenormous and you were able to get two packs of six mix and match for nine to ninety nine, right that was it is?

Now?

Well, no, now they come in packs of eight for six ninety nine small you can just buy one.

Pack of eight. But in my Costco. You know what's missing?

The chocolate muffins, the big chocolate one, the big ones. The big muffins are gone forever. They're just they're they even have chocolate muffins, the.

All chocolate one.

Yeah, they don't have.

They haven't had it in my story, which is why I'm asking if you're a Costco shopper whose shops elsewhere outside of Douglas County, I need to know if you guys have chocolate muffins, because if not, I'm gonna have to write a stern letter to Costco if they.

All figure this out, only not in yours. Will you go to another one for them?

If I need chocolate muffins? Yes, generally speaking, I don't eat muffins just because I called. I worked at well, I worked at a restaurant many many years ago, the Mill Bakery, eatery, and brewery. This was in the early nineties, so they were like an og craft brewery before it

I would just scrape the top off and I would eat that.

And then the owner of the company decided to do a nutritional analysis on the muffins.

That was a bad choice.

And I don't think I've eaten a whole muffins since then, even the small I just don't. They had one of those chocolate chip muffins, and they were similar to the Costco muffins, about the same size, seven hundred and twenty five calories. Yees, seven hundred and twenty five forty carbs.

Oh more than that.

More than that, I mean, my gosh, probably like sixty seventy somewhere in that range. Oh no, this texter said they're gone completely. I asked a friend that works as a buyer for them, why why, why this is like Southwest doing away with the free bags.

What are we doing, Costco?

What are we doing all of my beloved corporations? And yes, I'm a freak that I have beloved corporations, and I don't care that Costco is run by left wingers. I don't care. Give me a good deal in delicious muffins and we are fine.

Costco.

No chocolate muffins in Fortin'. The smaller muffins are crap, change the formula. As a matter of fact, we had the smaller uffins. Well, Chuck had a smaller muffin last night for the first time, and he declared it crap as well. So disappointing. What Why do you break something that ain't broken? Why do you fix something that ain't broken.

Why bring back the muffins and bring back the McDonald snack rap ooh snack raps.

Haven't even thought about those for a long time. They were kind of delicious.

Yeah, Mandy, you need to go to Sprouts for their chocolate chocolate giant muffins. No, no, no, you're you're you're miss you're you're miss uh misinterpreting me. I don't need a giant muffin. But if they're gonna make smaller muffins, why can't they make a chocolate chocolate chip smaller muffin.

You know, for a long time people miss the supercize. You'll be all right.

I've never been a supersizor. I don't like I'm I'm one of those people that orders a small beverage.

You know.

I'm not talking about the drinks. I'm talking about the fries.

Oh the fries. Yeah, oh yeah, God, Mandy.

Costco rearranges all the time to make you go through every aisle ten math call, just rearrange the supplement aisle.

They'll arrange the aisles or maybe move a few things.

But generally speaking, they don't do a full quote remodel where they change the shelving direction and.

All that crap.

Mandy went to the Costco and Parker off E four seventy two weeks ago, and they had him.

I got some blueberry. They were right next to the blueberry.

They did not have them at that Costco anyway, Mandy, I'm still mad that Trader Joe's discontinued the sun dried tomato tortillas. Do you know I've never I don't think I've ever shopped at Trader Joe's ever. I've been in there a few times just to like, you know, go see what was up. But every time I go, there's a huge line, and all their food is kind of convenience food for people that don't know how to cook or that don't want to cook, which I'm not knocking

Sad, sad, sad.

The McDonald's salad were the best. I don't think I ever had a salad shaker.

I just just found out about that. Actually, a video I will give you for the blog tomorrow. This one guy posted three days ago. He and a buddy ate one hundred years worth of McDonald's. They went through the decades and had people recreate all the menu items dating back to I think like the fifties is awesome, even maybe further back, and that and that salad shaker thing was revolutionary. In my mind, it looked cool and they should bring that back as well.

I actually was one of those people that went to McDonald's and got their salads that they had.

They were good, not as good as Wendy's.

The snack, oh god, those snack were good and they were a really high caloriy to this texture said, still sad about Del Taco. Stay tuned on Del Taco because Del Taco Corporate shut down the stores because of issues with the franchisee.

But they are looking for people to reopen.

Those Del Tacos or perhaps they reopened them as corporate stores. So Del Taco may not be done done in college, it is just temporarily done.

Now.

It might be done done if they decide they don't want to reopen the stores. But yes, I'm the Dell Taco one got me because I like being able to have a taco and fries.

I like it.

I'm not you know what, It's a genius move. I don't know why more people don't offer tacos and fries.

He you hear that taco bell?

Yeah?

Bitter about the no all day egg mcmuffins. Still like they trained us so quickly. They just expect breakfast whenever we wanted it.

Folded egg, baby, Yeah, No, I'm a round egg person.

I get round egg on everything.

No, und I don't care if it's made earlier and not fresh round egg.

I get a round egg on the biscuits that normally have the folded egg.

I know.

Exter said, sorry, I won't shop at Costco. Great, there'll be one less car in the parking lot when I go. Then to each his own people, to each his own. Hey a Rod, you're gonna be shocked to find out. I have a story, and I hate that this is a slide show, and I apologize. But as soon as I saw the headline the worst behaved dog breed according to data plus see if your dog is one of

Oh it's not bad. Oh wait, fifteen most Oh yes, yeah.

Yes, Number one, by the way, is an Afghan hound. They just look like they're not going to listen to you.

What's the most obedient?

Uh, the most obediate the other end of this. Hang on, I gotta go back down there.

Slide scroll a little.

I know, I'm scrolling right now as fast as I can.

I'm like my clicker fingers getting a workout, like I'm playing you know, Atari.

Or something when I was a kid. Maybe. No, it's one of the terriers, I think, yeah, and I don't think it. Yeah, there we go. Oh it's so cute. Thanks, little dog a wheaten terrier. Why can't I see what's happening?

Is? Oh?

Really, she's mostly I think, so we haven't done the test. We have it sitting in the laundry room.

Yeah, the soft coded wheaten terrier's. Yeah, oh yeah, that's understanding of new commands. Twenty five to forty repetitions, Sam, the Saint Bernard was like fifty to seventy repetitions. Obey first command fifty percent of the time or better. Saint Bernard is thirty percent of the time or better. Yeah, look at that. Yeah, Oh my gosh, Mandy, bring back Taco John's Taco potato the ball. I have to second this, except my sister worked at Taco John's when she was

It was just it was so good, so gross.

No, it was not.

No, what do you smell like tagos? It's a good smell.

No.

I had to make So.

My daughter is involved in the spring musical at her high school. She is working on the tech team. So they're in final rehearsals because it opens this week. So every night parents volunteer to bring in food for the kids because they're there till like ten o'clock at night every night. So last night was breakfast, and I volunteered to bring bacon. I had to shower twice to get the stench of bacon off of me because it just my whole house now smells like bacon.

And I signed up to make.

Waffles as well, So I'm make a batch of batter to make forty eight waffles. So imagine I have literally a tub of waffle batter and guess what happens a rod my waffle iron brakes. Yeah, yeah, so I did with normal people there. I ran to Walmart, but a really bad one. It made terrible.

Waffles, but it was fine. Mandy.

Don't businesses make decisions on what to sell based on sales data? So you may love chocolate muffins like me, but they didn't sell well enough to keep.

I just don't believe that. I just don't believe that, Mandy. Where's a Basst hound? I did not see basset hounds, but I'm not saying they're not on there.

Yeah, see if I can see of them. Yeah, not the most obedient in the world.

Chuck at Basst hounds as well. He had giant bassin hounds as they say.

One was great, one was not so much obedient.

No, well, it's like the frustrating thing about my dog is she completely understands what I'm saying when we're in the house and I've got her attention, and I could make her go through all of her commands and she'll do them all right there, I mean perfectly.

It's ridiculous.

I walk out the door and she's like, I don't know who you are, lady, but stop talking to me.

I wish I say different, but on the outside a little bit of the same problem.

Yeah, backyard too, Mandy.

It always annoys me that folks consider the bidable characteristic to be synonymous with canines being intelligent.

I don't think they were.

They were conflating it with intelligence. They were conflating it with the least obedient breeds. Oh no, my dog is extremely intelligent. You know what I've taught her how to do. Now I ride is when I drop something on the kitchen floor ieel housekeeping, and she comes running in to eat it for me, whatever's on the floor. And now I come up every morning before I leave for work, I go ahead and I prep my vegetables to make my lunch. And I usually have like broccoli or qulifower

You can see it. You can see it all happen on her face.

She just like, oh, your mouth is moving, but I am busy doing whatever it is you're telling me not to do. Mandy, we called potato Olays potato oilies. Well, your Taco Johns wasn't as good as ours. They were crunchy and delicious this text or maybe right, Mandy, we have Taco John's up here in Forton. Meh, the only good thing is the potato Olays. But yeah, they are really really good. Great Pyrenees Is also are near where

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The good news is if you've got oh no Texter, Mandy cook your bacon in the oven.

I did cook it in the oven.

Or you know, do superior so much of it? Superior turkey bacon, I too.

Yeah, turkey bacon is like punishment.

I mean it's not. It is better tasting and better for you.

I know that there are people out there like you that prefer turkey bacon, but I prefer it naturally from the pig, delicious, delicious pork. Anyway, in Colorado you can live on two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, or excuse me, two hundred fifty thousand dollars in savings and social security. You could live here for six point four years, not very long. Where could you live longer? Well, if you go to the story you can click through all of the states and see what the big news is.

Of course, when you go to places like Connecticut.

Is that all Colorado or just like average or like just debns average, just an average in Colorado, Well, you know, our inflation is higher than every other state right now.

Our inflation is higher than every other state, you guys.

And that part of the equation is directly attributable to the Democrats running the state of Colorado. But the problem is is that people who live here don't realize that everything isn't as expensive everywhere else as it is here.

They genuinely think that you have to spend.

One hundred dollars to go to a restaurant, and not even a fancy restaurant. They genuinely think that eggs should cost eleven dollars, because that's what the No, it's not like that everywhere. Jack Russell terriers, by the way, very smart and they listen, Mandy Turkey, bacon is the bomb.

No, thank you, no, it is way better.

No, no, no, no, no, no no.

Uh Mandy, my dog is the opposite. Doesn't listen real well at home? Does great out in the world. Well, I would prefer that because trust me, out in the world having a Saint Bernard that doesn't listen what a recipe for.

Disaster that is.

And I'm here to tell you by the way you move to Hawaii that money only lasts three years.

Ah.

West Virginia is becoming the second best state to retire.

Yes, it is.

That is where your money goes the furthest and contrary to popular opinion, there are parts of West Virginia that are quite beautiful and that money would go nine point four years in West Virginia. I will tell you though, some of the stereotypes about people in West Virginia are stereotypes for a reason.

Okay, not all of them, but definitely some of them.

There's some weird rangers in West Virginia. A Rod is awesome, but wrong on so many food things. At least he complimented you before insulting you. You Yeah, I mean he's trying to soften the blow.

Yeah.

Couldn't be about turkey bacon though, I definitely am not wrong there. But whatever else you're talking about. Textra sure, a.

Texter said, what are they estimating for monthly expenses? I don't know, but you can find that story along with a lot of others on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com, along with oh geezu. Who's playing of the day today, Ryan Edward is he isn't here yet because we're all right, because now it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio.

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All right, we are, we are ready to go because it is time for our dad joke of the day.

Please, interviewer at a restaurant, why should we hire you as a waiter?

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That's something I would say in an interview and then wait for the laugh, and then when no one laughs, I would just sit awkwardly for a minute, you know, like a scene in the office.

Exactly. Okay, what is our what is our word of the day?

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Today's trivia question, what classic book begins with the following line?

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Castaways.

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I should know that too, been to her museum and stuff in Florida.

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What is our category? And I'm not waiting till the end? Ryan has an advantage today.

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Then I yeah, I was actually I was waiting for a stop drop and roll. I figured that had to be there. That went in my mind immediately, So I was just waiting for that to appear. What is going to appear today? On ka WA Sports, Ryan Edwards.

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We have the Shelby Harrison Studio very excited as always to have him here. We're gonna get to all sorts of really fun topics. We're gonna ask about his Wisconsin Badgers. Unfortunately not continuing on the nuggets of course. Last night losing to Chicago, and we had a smattering of great NFL topics stuff on the NFL draft coming up, what the Broncos might do with twenty, all that coming up, on the show.

All right, all of that is coming up next tomorrow. We have another big show planned for you. I'm pretty sure. Let me pull up my calendar and double check. Oh, we've got weather Wednesday. We've got Alexander Salter talking about whether or not we are using the law to advance climate agendas. It's gonna be much more interesting than that actually just sounded. And then of course we've got so much more, So keep it right here. We've got Kaoe