03-28-25 FULL SHOW - Opening Day, But I'm Making The Most Of My 90 Minutes

So they're playing in their spring the Yankee spring training facility, which is nice, but it is a spring training facility, and they're trying to figure that out, not that it's going to mean much to their attendance numbers, unfortunately, because unlike the Rockies, who still draw a crowd even if they're terrible, because seeing a baseball game in Colorado is just excellent, so good, Tampa does not have that same.

As a matter of fact, middle of summer. I'm not going to a baseball game in the middle of summer in Florida. It's miserable, absolutely miserables. Why I love Tropicana Fields too much. I'm like the person that loves it. Anyway, we're gonna.

start hopeful, and we'll see what happens from this point forward. Now, got a lot of stuff on the blog because, as I established the other day, I always overprepare because man over prepare is something you need to do in radio. So go to the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the latest post section and you may have to scroll over to the right because because they put all kinds of stuff on that same line. But look for the headline that says three twenty five,

twenty five blog opening day. But I'm making the most of my ninety minutes. Click on that and here are the headlines you will find within.

leave and unemployment insurance. Book your hotel now for sundance twenty twenty seven. Colorado Bears are waking from their slumber. Do real women rock? Another Tesla vehicle is vandal Another Tesla vandal is arrested. The unions love Trump now about defunding public broadcasting scrolling. The Rockies opening day lineup is set scrolling. So if TikTok is TikTok banned or not? Will tariffs be good for Tesla? Why government sucks? Don't dead? Name the dead. Those are the headlines on the blog

matmandy'sblog dot com. I got the hiccups right in the middle of reading the blog. Sorry. Literally all the other teams played yesterday, and this text as a point a rod did Tampa play yesterday? No, literally all the teams except Tampa.

I know, it's been nuts, absolutely nuts. So in addition to this, I'm going to add the old ask us anything in here via the text line the Common Spirit Health text line at five six six nine oh five six six nine oh. Go ahead and do that. You can also text anything you want. But I got a

lot of stuff on the blog today. Today at four thirty, if you follow me at Mandy Connell on Facebook, we're gonna do a little fun Facebook live me and my friend Deborah and we're gonna chat about some stuff because stories of the week blah blah blah, et cetera, et cetera. So if you're bored later join us. It's gonna be a lot of fun. I want to talk a little bit about the budget, and I know what you're thinking, Mandy,

please tell us all the details of the budget. Is so exciting and I can hardly wait to hear it on the radio. Well, you're not in luck, because I'm not going detailed explanation. The only reason that I am talking about this is because the budget hole, and I put air quotes around the budget hole that we're facing here in Colorado was one hundred percent self inflicted by the same legislators who are gonna want us to thank them for fixing the hole that they created. So how

did they create this hole? Because you would think if you heard that we had a more than one billion billion with a b one billion dollars shortfall in our budget this year, you would immediately think we must be in some kind of recession. But no, Colorado's economy is chugging along just fine with our high inflation and all the other so we're still chugging along just fine. So

why do we have one billion dollar hole? Well, that's because the legislature has been spending money like drunken monkeys. I know that's your shocked face. But Mark Hillman wrote a great column in the Denver Gazette, and as a matter of fact, I must share part of it with you here. Headlines from the state capitol might cause a reader to believe Colorado is in a deep recession. Legislators say they must cut more than one billion in spending

to balance the twenty twenty five twenty six budget. Still, state government has six hundred and eighty seven million more to spend than last year in a nineteen billion dollar budget. So why all the history onics about a budget crisis because Colorado lawmakers practice fiscal tailgating. Tailgating on the highway is dangerous because when the drivers travel too fast and follow too close to the car ahead, the tailgating driver doesn't have time to react if the lead driver unexpectedly

breaks or swerves. Fiscal tailgating is much the same. Lawmakers spend money as fast as it comes in. Then when the economy slows, they face much harder choices than if they had tapped the brakes. When a wash with money after COVID Congress inflated the money supply and passed out trillions to states, Colorado raked in billions which lawmakers knew

would someday run out. Not long ago, veteran members of the Joint Budget Committee, regardless of party, would stand firmly against spending one time funds for ongoing programs because they knew they'd ultimately be forced to cut the new program or cut something else ending a program. People have come to rely on is never popular, but for the past few years, the Democrat controlled legislature has done the opposite. As one local news organization reported, the budget has actually

been out of balance for years. Infusions of one time federal funding during the pandemic helped pay for some of the legislature's biggest priorities, like eliminating the K through twelve funding shortfall, expanding mental health in early childhood programs, and boosting funding to higher education. Now, this spending must be funded from state taxes, which voters have chosen to limit. Federal funds, by contrast, are like free money because they're

exempt from spending limits. Some lawmakers claim constitutional spending limits collectively known as the taxpayer's Bill of Rights, are the problem, but the budget mess would be uglier without tabor. In twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three, economic growth generated over one billion dollars more than the legislature was able

to spend. That money was refunded to taxpayers. Had the legislators instead spent that money as freely as they spent federal funds, the current budget hole would be much deeper. Taber recognizes that voters have a right to limit how much money their government takes from them. Taber then acts as a break on government spending in good times by forcing legislators to s seek efficiencies. In the same way competition forces businesses to be lean in hard times, tabor

doesn't affect government spending. After COVID profligate, federal funds allowed

lawmakers to take a holiday from reality. They use tax dollars to pay for programs like free phone calls for prison inmates five million dollars, an energy efficiency program for marijuana growers five hundred thousand dollars, food pantries a million bucks, and diaperbanks five hundred thousand, healthcare for children of immigrants here illegally nineteen million, and bailing out the new program that provides free lunch for every public school student fifty

to one hundred million. They also added eight thousand, six hundred and sixty two state employees. These programs and others like them certainly add up, but cutting them only makes a small dent. The biggest expenditures are healthcare and Medicaid five billion of thirty two percent of the general fund through twelve, Education four point five billion, twenty nine percent of the fund. Higher education one point seven billion, eleven percent of the fund, and Human Services one point two billion,

eight percent of the fund. Democrats have held the governor's mansion and largely controlled the legislature since two thousand and seven. Back then K through twelve education received forty two percent of the general fund. Had K through twelve funding simply kept pace with overall budget growth, the education budget would be one point five billion dollars more under Governor Bill Rinter. Democrats created the budget Stabilization Factor to balance the budget

by reducing education spending while medicaid spending exploded. Last year, lawmakers also created roughly one billion dollars in refundable tax credits for low and middle income families. These programs literally write checks to families, including immigrants here illegally, that pay little or nothing in taxes. A single parrot with four children in less than fifteen thousand dollars in taxable income could collect a check for fifteen thousand, two hundred and

fifteen dollars. A few years ago, when economists were predicting tabor surpluses exceeding three billion a year, lawmakers were lulled into complacency. I recall similar assumptions in nineteen ninety nine and two thousand, then came nine to eleven and the bursting of the tech stop bubble economic euphoria was extinguished. This year's predicament is unique because the economy isn't in recession.

The problem is unsustainable spending. I read that to you because, first of all, it's entirely accurate, and you need to know that. The Democrats, their messaging in Colorado is Tabor is the problem. We'd be able to do so much more for the people if only we didn't have that pesky Tabor to limit how much we can tax and spend.

They're going to tell you that you wanting to control the size of government is the issue, when in reality, it's the stupid crap that they're spending on money on and using one time funds to pay for ongoing expenses, much like when you use syn taxes meeting taxes on alcohol or pot or cigarettes to pay for ongoing expenses. They're idiotic, and they knew it, and they did it anyway,

because here's what they're going to do. The Democrats are going to run in the next election cycle, and they're going to run on a platform of if only Tabor didn't hold us back, and they're going to tell you that they would hire five million more teachers and eight million more cops, and oh my goodness, we're going to take even better of our outdoor space here in Colorado, and we're going to fix the roads if only Tabor

didn't get in our way. Do not buy it. I want to take you right up to the top of this column a very important piece of information. In the year that we allegedly have over a one billion dollar hole that needs to be fixed. The state government has six hundred and eighty seven million dollars more to spend than last year. That is not an income problem. That

is a spending problem. That's like that friend you have that has fifty thousand dollars in credit card debt and just complains that they don't make enough money instead of looking at their spending as being part of a problem. I mean, that's exactly what it is. They just want access to our credit cards. They just want to be able to do what they want to us without our permission,

and Tabor is the thing that stops them from doing it. Now, I have any of you guys gotten your table refunds this year, I'd like to know we know that the state was having trouble getting refunds, you know, and and income taxes process. Did you get your table refund do you know? Aeron, No, because you get what you do taxes, right, you haven't done your taxes yet?

don't know. We shall see. So now that the Department of Education is getting torn apart and put in the state's hands, they can now use the meat weed money correctly.

not a digital native. So the app is is what I use when I'm out of town, or the app is what I use when I want to share a podcast with someone that they might want to hear, because sometimes the people say, oh I love that interview, I'd love to be and I'll just go to my phone and text it to them. And so yeah, I use the app for all of my other podcasts listening. But I'm an over the air kind of girl. I really am Mandy. I can't wait until the fed's cut off

Colorado for being a sanctuary state. Lol. I would think it's coming, and I would think that if our university system doesn't look and see what's happening with other university systems, that they would do well to go ahead and tighten things up. I know they changed their DEI office into the Office of Collaboration, the Office of collaboration at cu Bolter. So good, so so good, Mandy. Just an FYI Desantas sent surplus COVID money back to the Feds. Love that guy. Yeah,

be nice, It would be really nice, Mandy. The date on the blog is in crazy. It sure is. Sorry about that texture. I shall fix it, Mandy. To be fair, I actually got money from family leave, but I'm still waiting on Workmen's comp. The story about family leave and Workmen's comp is about the audit, the recent audit of these two departments that found such disastrous bookkeeping that businesses have been overcharged and undercharged, and the process to maintain

this family leave. It's just a disaster. It's just another example of why government sucks at so much stuff. It really does, Mandy. Curious about what you and a Rod think about the new Tiger Golf League. Have you heard about this?

I like just the putting. I like that part. And at every hole there's a stand and as a QR code, and if you want to order a drink, you zap the QR code, order the drink, they bring it to you on the course.

Before we paid the money, the lady goes just so you know, on a busy night, like a Saturday night, you're going to have to wait at every hole.

Then we're super excited about this and really hopeful that we can take more money away from people and give it to us. By the way, we're gonna talk about NBR when we get back. By the way to the text, he just asked, Hey, why isn't the podcast up from yesterday? That would be Grant Smith's fault. A Rod set him up for success, and he just slapped off, which is rare. So I won't give him too much of a hard time about it. A Rod's fixing that now, so it'll

be up in a bit. If you did not see the CEO of NBR testifying on Capitol Hill, it was, I mean, it was it was something. It was really, really, really something. And I just want to skip ahead to Congressman Hill ready to go buy Jim Jordan. That's James Comer. James Comer, the congressman from Kentucky, actually busted out headlines about him that were demonstrably false. So this is Representative Brandon Gill talking to Catherine mar the CEO of NPR.

Now you have to understand who Catherine Maher is to really appreciate what you're about to hear here here here here on anyway, she is the absolute personification of the white liberal woman. I mean one hundred percent. Just listen to this exchange for more.

a bias. Well, of course, if everyone you work with thinks the exact same way, of course you don't think you have a bias. This is my biggest frustration with journalists and journalism. And I know wonderful journalists that I have a great degree of respect for, but even the ones that I respect will sometimes show their hand. My favorite journalists are the ones that I have no idea

what their political affiliations are. No clue, Susan Wikin. You know our former newswoman here, I had no idea what our political affiliations were the all time, and we're friends. We don't really talk about politics. That's how journalism should be done. And when you have someone who sits there and basically downplay the fact that they work in an echo chamber where nobody probably stands up and says, hey,

should we talk to the other side about this? Now, I have a very personal vested interest in having NPR and none cares so much about PBS because I'm not competing directly with them. But for all of the Democrats, and it is almost all Democrats that want to continue the funding, according to a Pew survey. The survey finds a third of Democrats say they regularly get news from NPR. That compares to just nine percent of Republicans. Nearly a

third of Democrats regularly get news from PBS. That's three times the eleven percent of Republicans who turned to PBS for news. The survey also reveals that Democrats are more likely than Republicans to trust NPR and PBS as sources of news by wide margins. Forty seven percent of Democrats trust NPR as a news source. Just twelve percent of Republicans agreed. In fact, one in four Republicans say they distrust NPR. The numbers aren't much better for PBS six

and ten. Fifty nine percent of Democrats say they trust PBS as a source of news. That's more than double the twenty three percent of Republicans who feel the same way. Now, I just want to point out that means fifty three percent of Democrats did not say they trust NPR as a news source. Doesn't mean they said they don't trust it, just says they didn't say that they do. Now, I am ready to stop allowing my tax dollars to fund the competition. I have no ill will towards Colorado Public Radio.

As a matter of fact, I have listened to public radio across the country. I think it's important to hear what's happening on the other and that's how I view it. Just like there are liberals who listen to this show because they want to hear opinions from the other side. You've got to dip your toe into PBS, and honestly, Colorado Public Radio is the most balanced of the PBS or NPR stations that I've heard. That being said, they can go out and sell ads, because that's what they're

doing now. They call them sponsorships, but they're fifteen second commercials. You can hear them, which is in complete violation by the way of how they're structured. But they can do it on their own. All of these democrats who love NPR and PBS can continue donating money, or they can go out and sell commercials, but that would I'll tell you, the commercial model that we have here in commercial radio would prevent NPR from doing a lot of the stuff

that they do, sort of the long form programming. We don't have that option here. We'll see, we'll see what happens, but I'm all for defunding it. They would be just fine without it. And if Catherine Marr had come to Congress and said, boy, did we get a wake up call when I read Uri Berliner's column. By the way, she never spoke to Uri Berliner after he published that column and before he quit that, according to Berliner via Twitter yesterday, because she said, oh, I would have loved

to talk to him. Yeah, well he was there, you were there, you could have chatted. If she had come to Congress and said, look, what a wake up call that was. We realized that that half the country doesn't feel like we are serving them, and in some cases actually don't like them, and we are working with these steps to address this issue, I would say, eh, maybe, but she came in in complete and utter denial. And if someone won't recognize the problem, they are damn sure

not going to fix it. Five six six nine Ozho five sixty six nine. Oh, Mandy, if you listened to their podcast, so informative, so amazing, excellent storytelling, no liberal bias that I can see, I'll gladly pay for your share too. Better than the slop they call news these days,

which is literal proper. Let me just say this in response to that text and another one that says this, wait one moment, please let me find it very quickly, because it was accurate and kind of goes with that one up up uh buh, and it essentially says, oh, come on, Mandy. It says, I'm an independent. This is I'm just oh, I'm an independent, and don't listen to NPR. It's hard to find unbiased news. I've turned to the

Gazette as of late. Let me just say this, you guys, and I say this as a person who works in the media. First of all, I am not the news. I merely talk about the news. I am an opinion pundit, and I am paid to have an opinion, not the opposite, which journalist aer paid not to have an opinion. That being said, every news organization has an agenda. It has a specific kind of person that they are trying to serve. And in Colorado we have nine News, which has done

a great job hyper serving liberal people. I mean, that's why Colin Clark is such a star, because he serves a very specific market and he does a great job at it now KOA, at least for me and Ross, we are definitely right of center. But overall we've got sports and I do not believe for any moment that our news department is a right wing bias station. But to the people that are texting in things like NPR, lean's left and KOA leans right. The big difference here,

and it's the really important difference in this conversation. KOA doesn't get any money from the taxpayers. If KOA doesn't go out and sell advertising to cover our nut, we are not going to be around. We don't have any fallback plan. We don't get to go on the air and beg you guys for money. So it's a much different proposition when the taxpayers are footing the bill. A responsibility to be as straight down the middle as you

can possibly be. And that ship sailed at NPR a long time ago, and for the CEO to deny it, to come in and at oh no, we're non political, we're non partisan. We don't know. That's such crap, and everyone knows that it was insulting to the intelligence of the people that we're watching. I do want to thank my friend Ryan Schuling. You just reminded me that we have a term for women like Catherine Marr, the CEO

of NPR, and it is awful, affluent white female liberal awful. Mandy, do you randomly walk around and say darn Tuton since you occasionally say it on KOA, we chuckle here in Oklahoma every time you say it. The only reason I say it is it keeps popping up on the text line. And I'm faithful unless you have a bad word in there. I will change a bad word, but I'm faithful to what you people text in unless you're a grammatical nightmare, which happens a lot on this text line. Trust me.

Mandy asked me anything on the Ross Show. He's been trying to activate listeners Alexa or Siri over the radio and doing so successfully from what I understand. I was wondering if you played a doorbell on air, could you get dogs to bark? Do we have a doorbell sound? Can we do that?

gonna be my name, Mandy Connall. We've hyphenated Connall and awesome to make that happen. See, I can never get a job at NPR because I can't rate it in. I really can't. Don't you have you ever worked at an NPR stage day. And I'm not I'm not hating here. I'm genuinely because I just feel like when I get going on the show, there's an energy that happens and and a rod feels it, and it's just is everywhere are they just like, Hey, how you doing? Would you

like some more decaf? Sure, I'll take some more decaff and like decaf diet coke. At the NPR building, there's no caffeine, there's no sugar. There's nothing that could accidentally hop someone up on goofballs because it would break their audience out. You would have no clue what to do with that happening, exactly, like is the world coming to an end? What's opening right now? Anyway? Okay, what's happening is the news trafficking weather. We're gonna be back right with Kathy right after this.

Rays and the Rocky is now ay. Rod actually just got a text message, Hey, Mandy, how about asking the text line what listeners think the Rockies record will be that season.

most of whom I've never heard of. And I'm waiting for Chasetlander to come up from the miners and zach Vine and zach Vin we have to what is it that you told me about the contract the other day.

was the only sport in his mind. He died long before the Rockies got here, but I still listen with him. That's very nice, very nice. Sixty eight wins would be nice at this point, need the beef magnate to sell to someone else.

preferred sport. We don't talk about sports very much, but this is the beginning of the season when all hope springs eternal.

forty billion dollars. Remember, in the Biden administration, forty billion dollars was set aside to expand broadband in rural communities. Okay, forty billion four years later, not a dime. Well, no, I take that back, because I've been A dime has been spent. I've been lots of dimes have been spent.

No broadband has been laid. And Ezra Cline lays out for John Stuart the process created by Democrats in order to get one of these grants to get the oral broadband, and in it, John Stuart begins to wonder I hate government. I mean, he begins to understand why I hate government. And it's unbelievable, Mandy. When NFL teams do bad, wait, hang on, coaches are fired quickly. Why are Major League Baseball managers not fired quickly, especially after several years in

a row. That is a question you would have to ask Dick Montford. And I hate saying that because Buddy Black is honestly such a nice man.

interesting and also appalling. You know, a friend of mine who went through sniper school in the Army said one of the first things his instructor in sniper school told him was, you can do anything if you can justify it to yourself, meaning when you're an Army sniper, your job is to go and kill someone that is your job, and it can be a moral struggle for some people.

But if you understand that the person that you are being sent to kill is a bad person because of this, this, this, this, and this and and and you know the the outcomes that are expected, although you don't normally get that depth in depth of a conversation, then you could justify taking another human life. In that setting. Liberals are justifying all kinds of stuff to themselves right now. Listen to this story from originally from Business Insider. Lee insists he's famously

a very good Catholic. He's a moral person. His mother raised him right by his internal calculation, it's okay to shoplift from Whole Foods? Why because of Jeff Bezos. From about twenty twenty to twenty twenty two, Lee, a twenty something communications professional living in the Washington, DC area, engaged in what he describes as grand theft, autoing from his local whole food store. He would cheat the scale at the hot bar, pocket spices, or take home four lemons

in the self checkout aisle. While only declaring to Lee is never shoplifted from anywhere else, not safe way, not a local store. He's largely stopped taking from Whole Foods because he moved. However, he told me there's one by his gym he'll pop into and steal from from time to time. Now, the article goes on to justify this behavior, and it goes on to talk about how people are just saying, listen to this lie says, if a billionaire can steal from me, I can scrape a little off

the top two. Now, I'd like to know exactly from Lee what Jeff Bezos has quote stolen from him, because Jeff Bezos, from where I sit, has revolutionized shopping to create a product where you can go to Amazon dot Com and you can pretty much order anything that you want to have and they will bring it to your

home sometimes the same day. Now, I don't know where Lee thinks that that is stealing from him, but this is the justification he's using for his bad behavior, the same kind of justification that these nimrods who are keying private citizens eslas are using for theirs. Oh Elon metsk is a Nazi. I have to destroy someone else's private property. As if that makes sense, what is that? By the way, this article goes on, Practically speaking, it's a good moment

to be a billionaire in America? Has there ever been a bad moment to be a billionaire anywhere? You've probably got more tax cuts on the way, and the President is nice to you as long as you're nice to him. Maybe you're stuck so dan, but you're still a billionaire, so it's fine.

want to have that experience. And when he was selling a lot of books on the Internet and all of a sudden realized, maybe I can sell other stuff on this website as well. He was visionary enough to start an entire fleet of electric vehicles to deliver his products, to cut out the shipping expenses that he was paying to FedEx or ups. He was visionary enough to start delivering groceries, and then he was visionary enough to buy

whole foods to make the entire thing seamless. But in Lee's opinion, he's being stolen from, so he can justify stealing from whole foods. Now, if you and your family are on the verge of starving to death and you steal some food to feed your family, you may be able to make a case maybe that in a case of stealing or death, you were forced into an unfortunate position of stealing. But even then, I sure hope you would have the common decency to feel bad about it.

But people are justifying all kinds of bad behavior now because oh.

But those such admonitions are inconvenient when you want to get an extra something something from the hot bar and not pay for it, and then you can wrap yourself in a shroud of superiority given to you by no one but yourself and declare stealing a okay, as long as you steal from the right people. Now, what would be super interesting is if Lee came out of his apartment and someone had stolen his car because in the communications job he has, they've decided he's spreading this information

and therefore he deserves to be stolen from. I'm guessing he would have a much different view of that. So there you go. There you go, And now Bezo's capitalized on the laziness of his customers. Exactly same justification to kill the healthcare CEO, says the sexter, exactly right. This is why they glorify Luigi Mangioni. He murdered someone and they're like, oh my god, he's so dreamy. He was

fighting the people's fight. Because the people on the left view every conversation as you are either oppressed or you are an oppressor. And I guess for Lee, having to pay for four lemons and Whole Foods makes him oppressed, and Jeff Bezos is stealing from him. I just I don't like this, and I think it's really foul that

Business Insider wrote a very sympathetic article. I'm not reading the rest of the article to you, but trust me when I say that the person who wrote this article is all like, fight the power and you go, Lee, and they're probably shoplifting stuff from their Whole Foods right now.

I say, more power to you. You can do it until you get caught, and then you can pay the price, and you can be embarrassed and humiliated, and you can go before a judge and you can see that Jeff Bezos and the judge will be like, what, what was your family starving?

It ignores the fact that if Lee, this idiot shoplifter over here, it came up with an incredible idea that was unique and different, and nobody else was doing it, and he brought it to market and he invested in himself, Lee could become a billionaire. He doesn't have to take away from Jeff Bezos. It's all lost because they've been told that if people are rich, it's because they got rich from stealing from other people, not from creating something of value that then people love and adore and use

all the time. In their minds, it's he's rich, he's got mine, and that's why I'm not rich. Instead of going maybe I should shop at Walmart instead of Whole Foods. I mean not for nothing, you guys. I don't shop at Whole Foods because it's expensive. It's all get out. So whenever I see I'm shoplifting from Whole Foods because he's rich and I'm not, well, you're not rich because you can't afford to shop at Whole Foods and you are stop it amy, Come on, Mandy matt at Bezos,

not me. I worked at his little book ordering store for a year in the nineties. He didn't pay well, but he gave us each one share of stock each week. If you do the math on a free share of Amazon that has split multiple times since the nineties, you can figure out he made a lot of uspeons into millionaires. That, my friends, is an awesome story. I was once not charged at Murdoch's for a cinch jacket, went back the next day to pay for it. There's no way I

could wear something I didn't pay for. How would someone eat or wear something they know they didn't pay for. I don't get it, because this is their little active rebellion. It's like these idiots. I almost said a much stronger word, but I rained myself in these idiots who are king people's teslas. First of all, they're too stupid to know other on camera. But why are they doing that? I mean one of the guys that was charged with criminal mischief in I don't remember where it was. He's like

this CEO of a company. What exactly was he doing destroying someone else's property in a fit of peak? You know, I'm lucky. I'm very, very lucky because I get to sit here and invent my spleen for three hours a day until baseball season, and so I get my jayas out. But I'm also not so egocentric as to think whatever I say on the radio is going to have any effect.

Trust me, I've been ineffective for so long that I recognize that I reach a very small part of the overall population, and I have a very small impact overall, just because people are different doing different things, and I can only reach so many people. So I get wanting to feel important, But the ultimate thing is you're not king. Someone's car doesn't make you important, even if you run and tell your friends about it after, it doesn't make

you matter any more than you matter right now. And in fact, I think it makes you matter less because now you're gonna have a criminal record.

like salad like buy head of lettuce salad years. And I went into Whole Foods with a friend of mine and I was absolutely floored by the prices. Floored and that, my friends, was before Jeff Bezos spotted more stuff on the blog. I'm doing a Facebook live at four point thirty this afternoon at Mandy Connell on Facebook joined me there. In the meantime, though, we've got opening baseball for the hockey season. Hope Springs Eternal starting today. Keep it on KOA