03-31-25 FULL SHOW - Big Half Hour Show Today Before Baseball

I'm Mandy Connell. And that guy right there, Anthony Rodriguez, we call him a rod. We will entertain you wildly for the next twenty two so minutes or whatnot. Find the blog and boy, we're jumping right into it today by go into mandysblog dot com. Look for the latest post section scroll if you have to to the right to find the one that says three thirty one twenty

five blog Big half hour show today before baseball. Click on that and here are the headlines you will find within Hi Tech two oh winnings list in office half of American allarships and clipment of that corna press pledge today on the blog Rockies at twelve thirty Colorado Republicans embrace sanity. SB twenty five three is worth than initially thought. Corner crossing is now affirmed in Colorado. Another Democrat is investigated for staff mistreatment. Colorado's glowing job numbers were a lie.

Aurora leads on crime fighting. We may have real construction defect performed this year. The Sundance gravy train gets passed. No deportation isn't because of speech. In this case we have the final four Colorado's anti car stance having the intended effect on roads. How to not be exhausted every night after work? Kennedy moves to blog soda purchases with food stamps mostly peaceful Arson In New Mexico, the UAW

says tariffs will bring jobs back. The fact about vats increase protein to save muscle mass advice from a ninety year old millionaire. What the ping pong pandemonium? Is this the fastest way to get dementia? Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And I know that I want you guys to go to the blog

every single day. I truly do. I spend hours, literal hours every day on the blog, but today I only have a half hour show, and there is so much stuff that you need to know about on the blog today. There's a lot of stuff about stuff that's happened in the Colorado legislative session. There's more details by Dave Koppel. He was on the show last week about SB twenty

five three. That's the gun bill. It is the worst most restrictive gun law in Colorado and it just remains to be seen if governor or police will veto it. And I'm kind of in a mood to set you guys upon him. Tomorrow we'll be talking about that on the show. I don't mean set upon him in a negative way. I mean it is time to ring up the governor's mansion. It is time to ring up the governor's office and respectfully ask him to veto SB twenty five dash three, because if he doesn't, it's going to

become law. And Dave Koppel laid out how he would be able to spin this in his run for the presidency, and it makes so much sense that the only way we are going to stop this is with overwhelming respectful commentary to the Governor's office. So I need you to read this article today. You guys, the show is screwed this week because of baseball, and all the time that I've been having to deal with baseball, I've never had it interfere with the program as much as it will

this week. And so there's so much stuff on here. I'm basically begging you for your own benefit. Go to the blog. Look what's on there. Click through to the links, because some of this stuff is super important, really really important, and some of it's just really interesting, like the corner crossing story. This is such a I'm like, I don't even want to spend any time on this show because

I only have a few more minutes left. But if you're a hiker, a hunter, some kind of sportsman who uses public land, and you get to a point where there's four fences coming together and you've got two plots of private land and then the other side of that is a public land. The courts have now affirmed you can operate over that fence and as long as you don't land on private land, you're good to go. And these kind of things are like they're a little bit in the weeds. But if you are a person who

loves this state and loves the outdoors. There's a lot of stuff on the blog today that you need to see. Incredibly great news. I cannot begin to tell you how good the news is out of Saturday's reorganization meeting for the Colorado Republican Party. I am absolutely thrilled that Britta Horn was elected to the chairmanship and she was joined by Lee Feelin Senior, he's the vice chair, and Russ Andrews. All of these guys, they are so focused on the

right things. That's all I want out of Republican Party leadership. Just focus on the things that are going to make a difference in this state and stop getting bogged down in all of this social noise. That doesn't matter because Colorado.

When you guys read some of the stuff that's in this gun bill, if you are a person who has thought about buying a firearm, I am telling you right now you better go get it this week, because after this thing goes into law, and I don't know what the date is, it is going to be a full scale, overly expensive nightmare to buy a basic firearm. And this bill covers almost all firearms that you would want to own. Handguns,

it covers all of them. It is going to be so prohibitively expensive to just buy a weapon in Colorado. I would expect your favorite gun stores to pack up and move over the border to Wyoming. I mean I would. There's no way I would stay a gun store. I would not in that kind of environment. It's insane, absolutely insane. They are about to drive the cost of buying a firearm through the roof. They're going to destroy competition, and then when there's no competition left, they're going to raise

prices here because they can. And thank God that the Republican Party embrace sanity and elected Britta Horne and a great team of leadership to run the Colorado Republican Party, because we are at a perilous at a perilous rate. We are going in a direction that we will not

be able to course correct from. I've got to call them on the blog today by former Denver police chief and now fellow at the Common Sense Institute, Paul Pason, and I don't think I bet you in the history of Aurora, Colorado, at least in recent last thirty forty years, I bet you, no one has ever said, you know what we've got a problem with crime, we should do what Aurora is doing. And yet that's what this column is essentially about. But it was about so much more

than that. It was about Aurora trying to do something to get a handle on this car theft business and increasing penalties in Aurora above what the state did for stealing a car. And guess what happened. Car thefts dropped even more dramatically in Aurora because of these measures. And yet we have people in the Gold Dome who are hell bent on making crime easier for criminals. Lawbiding people are having more and more hoops thrown in front of them, more and more taxes and fees. I don't care what

you call. They're the same thing levied on their Second Amendment rights. And there's a big difference between saying, look, you have to follow the rules when it comes to owning a firearm and that, hey, you've got to pay all of this money now for the right to have the right to purchase a firearm in this state. I mean, I have to think that this thing is going to be bounced out of corporate What happens in the meantime, how many gun stores go under in the meantime, and

that's really what they want to have happened, Mandy. What broke the Williams stranglehold on the party? Says this Texter. I got to say, I don't know, because I have not spoken to all of the people in the Central Committee who voted to go in a different direction. But I have to believe that the divisiveness of that leadership group was so bad that people started to recognize that that was not the way to run a political party

and to conduct a political party. And I really think for a lot of people, it was the endorsing in the primaries and they endorsed a slate of losers. It was Dave Williams saying or refusing to step down from the chairmanship when he decided to run for the fifth congressional district. I think there's a lot of things. Maybe there's different reasons for everybody, but I'm just grateful. I am thrilled, absolutely thrilled. Mandy. Let's protect gun rights, but

not talk about murdering children in the womb. Okay, then, dude, you got to fight your battles as they come up. Right now, Colorado is a solidly pro choice state. Go back and look at the last few votes. Go back and look at the elections on abortion and abortion wins every single time. Pro lifers in this state would do well to stop, try to changing the law and to create an infrastructure that supports moms who are not necessarily wanting to have an abortion but don't know how they

can afford it. Much like the programs that exist for Catholic charities, you want to make a difference. Support those programs because in Colorado it's not going to change anytime soon. Mandy, guns are just another item for my band in Colorado. List Yeah, Mandy, I believe I heard this bill goes through August first is when it kicks in. Yeah, Ari

Britta Horne. She seems peppy, but hope she knows how to play dirty too, because the problem we had when battling partisans in Longmont was that the old Guard Republicans didn't play dirty enough and would lose all the time

in local elections. Hopefully the new Colorado Republican leadership really focuses on getting more Republicans into city councils too, because the Democrats certainly have been I agree with this wholeheartedly, and as a matter of fact, Britt is going to be on the show next Monday, because the show is so screwed this entire week. That's the first time I

can get her on for long conversation. And one of the things I want to talk to her about, and I'm going to get your input via the text line is which things should the Republican Party in Colorado focus on? And I'm going to come with a list, and these are going to be things that you can focus on when you're running for statewide office or you're running for local office, because there's a big difference. There's a really

big difference. So we Shelsey, how come our governor will never join your show as this Texter, I don't know. I have a theory. Well, I have two theories. Both of them make me look good, so you can imagine. The first is that he is he doesn't like women, which I mean, you know. The second is I think he's scared of me because he knows I'm smart, he knows I'm onto him, and he knows that he can't

just be as his way through an interview. And by the way, I would be super respectful as I always am, as I was when we finally cornered him at the DNC, where I have the funniest picture in the history of pictures of him standing there talking to me, and the look on his face is like I would rather be having a hot poker shoved into my eye. Best picture ever. Anyway, Colorado is solidly anti gun. What's the difference, Well, the Second Amendment is in the Constitution of the United States

of America. There's nothing in the Constitution about abortion. Just throwing that out there, big, big, big difference. And I'm not sure. I haven't seen any polling data about Colorado being, you know, like way anti gun. I'm not sure. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'll look that up because God knows, I have time this afternoon because the Rockies take over at twelve thirty, so let me do this. I'm gonna make sure that mclock up area where it's gonna yell at me. We also have a bunch of other stuff

on the blog today. Colorado's job numbers were a lie. That's they're all being revised now down now. After everybody talked about our job numbers, including me, I was I don't know why leave the government statistics on anything anymore. I just every time I find myself going, well, the latest government statistics, why do I even believe them? They're all Alie over and over again. You can read that

on the blog today. We may have actual construction defect reform this year that may be able to spur the condo market in Denver, which would be amazing. I don't know, the details seem pretty good. I feel like everybody in their grandmother has massaged this bill so that means everybody's getting something, but not everybody's getting everything, which is fine. The best legislation falls into that, you know that sphere that's on the blog today. We have the final four.

Watched a lot of basketball this weekend, a lot of basketball this weekend, and honestly, these four teams were clearly the superior teams in this entire tournament, and they all deserve to be there, which I didn't realize how rare that was until they started talking about that. Colorado's anti car stance is having the intended effect. We're now forty third in the nation for road quality. Forty third. Now,

this is absolutely not just expected. This is the desired outcome of our current Department of Transportation leadership appointed by a governor who feels the exact same way. What way is that the governor believes that everyone else should be on mass transit or on their bicycle or I don't know, staying home because that clears the way for his suv to travel unfettered throughout the state. This is the goal

of Colorado Democrats. Now, they're so single minded about it that they've diverted all of this transportation money that should have gone to roads into things like bike lanes and this bus system on Collfax or more something to do with mass transit than no one's writing. Listen to this.

A recently released report found Colorado's Highway's rank forty fifth in urban interstate pavement condition, forty seventh in rural interstate pavement condition, thirty fifth in urban arterial pavement condition, thirty seventh in rural arterial pavement condition. We're only nineteenth in structurally deficient bridges, fortieth in the urban fatality rate, and thirty second in the rural fatality rate. We are doing great. Great. We spend an average of thirty six hours a year

stuck in traffic. Now, the reason I bring this up and make such a point of it is see my earlier comments about I want to see the Republican Party focus like a laser on things that matter. And if I am running for the governor of Colorado, I am running on partially this platform, and it is this. Our roads have been neglected under leadership that has continued to funnel money into mass transit that no one is writing. They keep telling us, if they just give it more money,

then people will write it, but they never do. And instead of that, I'm going to figure back ways to scale back as much as I can, and I'm going to fix the roads in Colorado full stop. You heard me right. I'm taking the transportation money and I'm just fixing roads with it. That's it, and then that'd be one one platform, you know, in my in my anyway, this is a story that I want to talk about, and I put it on the blog. I'm probably gonna forget at some point. But RFK I keep calling him

RFK Junior. RFK it is RFK junior. I kept calling JFK JFK junior because I had RFK junior. And never mind. He is moving to block soda purchases for food stamps. And I have talked about this for a very long time. I never want people to starve. Right, I never want people in this country of this much wealth to ever starve. But I am staunchly against buying luxuries that I don't even buy from my family. Number one, because they're horrible

for you. But number two because that crap is expensive and it irritates the crap out of me that people who have government assistance for food use it to buy stuff that clearly is not food, and soda is not food and junkie crappy snacks are not real food. So yeah, I'm here for it. He's leaning on the states to say, look, we're gonna start restricting some of the stuff that is horrible for people. And everybody makes the argument, you know, money's fungible, they're just use their cash for it. Will

they will they? Because let me tell you something, when the last time we bought chips, Because time we buy chips is when we're having people over, we're having a party or whatever, you know, a group gathering. Because chips are my kryptonite. I can I have them in my house because I will eat them. I love chips. Okay, the last time we went for then bought chips for a party, they were like seven bucks a bag. When

did that happen? And I thought, holy crap. Yeah, I'm completely down with not allowing people who are using government money to buy food to be able to buy crap with it. I'm perfectly fine with that one hundred percent of the time, Mandy. Bike lanes are not good unless the roads are in better shape. They're idiots. Bad roads plus bike lanes will bring about a bunch of unused bike lanes because a cyclist don't want to lose our

life to a dang pothole. Yes, yes, Mandy, even without a sign, you can tell when you leave Colorado in any direction. One hundred percent. Ooh, du is in the frozen four? I miss that? Sorry guys, Sorry guys. I'm usually pretty good about paying attention, but I'm telling you I watched a lot of basketball this weekend. A lot. Now. He's also encouraging states to ban harmful food dies. But he's also doing something that I like better. He's meeting

with food companies. He's meeting with food producers to say, hey, it's time to get some of this stuff that we The only reason this stuff is in the food is for marketing. It serves no nutritional benefit whatsoever. And I I find it interesting that not only do we allow things that are for marketing inside the food, that no one talks about the fact that the only reason this stuff is in food is for marketing, Like there's no

nutritional value to red dye number three, Absolutely not. It's there to make it more attractive, so you'll eat more of it and we'll all get fat weight. That already happened anyway, Okay. I also have today on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. You need to read it because shows almost over. I have the full interview from Face the Nation and u a W. President Sean Faine was on with Jake Tapper, and when you watch the first part, you're gonna be so like eye rolly, because I was.

But he's talked. Immediately they started talking about Trump did away with collective bargaining for federal employees, and he's like, oh, it's durable, but of course. But then they start talking about tariffs, and you need to see the part about tariffs because I put the whole thing on here because I think the whole interview is worth seeing, Like you know, but the part about tariffs is really interesting because Sean Fayn points out that a lot of carmakers have recently

offshored their production to Mexico. You know, so they still have functioning factories here, they're just not functioning at full capacity. So this may actually work. And I got to tell you, if Trump manages to put a bunch of car auto workers back to work, it's going to be really hard for Sean Fain and other union presidents to make the argument that the Democrats are the party of the union worker. Ever again, you know, it's like deeds not words. At

what point do our deeds more important? And what is actually happening with you know, the stuff that we're seeing? When does that matter more? Okay, I've got a few videos on the blog. I have the Glucose Goddess. Increasing protein will change your life. You'll love this woman. You should go listen to her. And I also have Aron. Did you look at this video, the table tennis video that's on the lune? No you didn't. I did when I didn't even open any of your stuff today, did

you really? Oh wait, maybe I didn't. No, you didn't know. Okay, So these people put two halves of a table tennis a ping pong table, and they put them on wheels. They're separated, and they put them on wheels and they hit onto one side and then the other team has to move the side of the table, so the ball bounces off the side of the table and then another guy hit. It's nuts, absolutely nuts. I would never try

this because I'm bad at ping pong. Anyway, Anyway, that's on the blog today as well and tomorrow on the show. We got a lot of good stuff. We are I don't want to say exactly what because some things are changing right now. Let me see here, I'm going back through here really quickly. Another Democrat, female Democrat is investigated at the capitol for staff mistreatment. Why is it always females and why is it always democrats? I'm just saying.

That's on the blog today. Rocky's coming up next now tomorrow, I have a full show Wednesday. I don't I can't remember. Just tune in. Maybe I'll be here, maybe I won't. But right now Colorado, Rocky's taking over on KOA