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Discussing the Rockies woes in the bullpen again her mad Marquez e er a zero And then you want me to read the relievers who worked you know?
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But they have a fix about that third Trump term.
Scrolling. This kid is America's hero. Watch your nasty wash your nasty water bottles. Those are the headlines on the blog at mandysblog dot com. And I just want to say, ay, Roy, do you sent that video of how to wash nasty water bottles? That's an article maybe six months ago this said one of the most germ ridden items that we have in our possession on a daily basis are reusable water bottles because people don't wash them properly, so they're basically,
like enough, a little jug of disgusting germs. That's what you're drinking out of your reusable water.
But does anyone hate washing water bot as much as I do?
Because, no matter how long your rents and I do the where you take the thing from the sink, yeah, the soap, yeah, no, the prayer, the sprayer, and I put it upside down. I move my water bottles that way really gets all the soap out. And I still don't think I get it all out.
Here's what I do.
I put soap in there, I clean it, I dump the soap out, I fill it with water.
I dump it out.
I fill it half with water. I put the lid on a shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, dump it out. Fill it with water one more time. Shake shake, shake, shake, shake, dump it out. Fill it one more time. Chake chake, shake, shake, shake, dump it out.
Try the sprayer thing. It helps well. I you know, it's like an active like getting it all out for a reason.
I feel like shaking the water bottle aggressively, so somehow is.
Moreel like that makes more sides, more soap, more time giving the soap out.
Though by the third time you can see there's only a tiny bit of soap and then you just kind.
Of squirt it out. You're done. Tiny bit.
But a Rod has a video on the blog today where we show you how to do it in the dishwasher, and I'm just gonna have a moment. This is not an endorsement for Bosh dishwashers. Okay, just had to buy a new dishwasher because our other dishwasher crept.
Out, And unlike some people who are like you know, I just start.
Need a dishwasher, I'm past the point in my life where I want to do dishes for the rest of my life.
So we bought a new dishwasher. This wash dishwasher. It's so quiet that you honestly are like, is it is it running? I mean, is it working?
Holy cow, it's delightful. I remember the dishwasher when I was a kid. It sounded like an army of dishwashers were in the kitchen, rattling everything around as they tried to get them cleaned.
This thing whisper quiet.
So if you're in the news or in the market for a new dishwasher, let me just say, Bosh, big fan, we now are Bosh fridge and Bosh dishwasher people, and I regret nothing Mandy.
Three billion dollar.
Budget increase and a one billion dollar budget shortfall.
How does this make sense? Steve?
Well, Steve, thank you so much for asking. And as a matter of fact, why don't we start with Colorado's budget, Because if you've been paying attention to the local news, you have seen over and over and over again.
The Colorado had a massive budget hole. It was so big, it was one point three billion dollars that they had to fill.
And these brave members of the Colorado legislature they went up there and they did their best and they finally managed to hack away at the budget. So uh yeah, oh, God, come on, denverk is that I really should log in before I do this so it doesn't stop me when I'm trying to read this. But the budget that has been introduced, forty three point nine billion dollars is this year's budget, and that is a balanced budget, okay, because we have a balanced budget amendment here in Colorado, and
they don't have any choice but to balance budget. We can't print more money like they do in DC. So lawmakers have introduced in the state Senate the legislation setting up the twenty twenty five twenty six budget, which contains hundreds of millions in dollars in funding, cuts, transfers, and sweeps. The spending plan comes in at forty three point nine billion dollars. I'm reading a story by Marianne Goodland in
the Denver Gazette. Now, as soon as I saw that this spending plan comes in at forty three point nine billion dollars, I immediately went, well, what was.
Last year's budget?
So I looked it up, and in case you were wondering, last year's budget was three point three billion dollars less than this one. It was forty one point six billion dollars. Now, you've heard about how all these we have to make these drastic cuts to the budget. It's just we've had
to take a chainsaw to the budget. And if this doesn't clearly demonstrate that the issue is not that they don't have enough of our tax money or that they don't have the ability to raise taxes on us without our permission, the issue is that the legislature, which is completely controlled by Democrats.
And here's the thing, you guys, I would love to be able to tell you that this is both parties faults, right, like, oh, those jerks in the legislature, But the.
Colorado Democrats control both houses of the legislature to the level that the Republicans are almost they don't even have to consult them anymore, that's how outnumbered they are. So this is definitely a democratic issue. And what happened was what had happened was that made all this happen, these huge, massive budget shortfalls that we're seeing right now, is that Colorado legislators used one time COVID dollars to start new programs that we're going to need ongoing funding.
And we've talked about this.
I've talked about this for years and years and years and years and years upon years. When I talk about how everything is going to get more expensive in Colorado, it's in large part to the new programs, new state employees, new agencies that have been created since twenty nineteen.
They're not going away.
Right, They're still going to be there, and the government is going to try and have to figure out a way to fund these programs that they started with either syntaxes or they started with one time federal dollars, So.
Steve, that's how they overspent.
They overspent on ongoing programs with one time dollars, and then when those one time dollars ran out, they ran around telling everybody that we have a budget shortfall and it's only going to get worse. The drum beat about the budget shortfall is going to go like this is my prediction, Arod, make sure we mark the tape on this,
because it's very important. You are going to be told over and over and over and over again by the Democrats in Colorado that if only we did not have the limitations of the taxpayer's Bill of Rights, we would be able to do everything you've ever wanted from a government. We be able to, we practically be able to give everybody a free unicorn. The roads would be picked and fixed, all of the children would be able to read on grade level, if only it weren't for that terrible taxpayer's
Bill of rights. Now, let's be clear about what the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights does. It simply says you can't raise our taxes without asking us, and government can only grow by a formula of population growth and inflation. Does that sound horrible to you? I mean, does that sound awful? Absolutely awful. And they're going after the Taxpayer's Bill of rights.
They're going to tell you that tabor is the problem, and that Tabor's the reason that we're going to have to fire all the teachers and all the policemen and probably all the firefighters in any other position that works for the government that you like, we're gonna have to fire them first if we don't get rid of taper.
But it would be so much worse if we did not have.
The protections of the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights in place, because over the go go years of the COVID free semi money that was flowing to states and you and me, we would have had even more spending and we would
be in a bigger budget hole right now. The reality is is that taper's one of the greatest things that any government has ever had levied on them, and I would love, love, love to see them try to repeal it, because the problem is, I don't know who's going to agitate against it, because everybody that's got their hand in the government's pocket, right, anybody would as government contracts, anybody
works for the government. They hate taber because it prevents the uh, the kind of overspending that benefits those people. So there you go, this text, or Mandy, this is why taber was voted in to prevent overspending. Correct, correct, Hi, Mandy, I love my bosh dishwasher washes everything, including Yetti water bottles quietly, and the dishes are so clean. Yep, yep, Hi, Mandy, I thought you had a fifteen year old dishwasher living
in her house rent free. I do, but there are occasions when she is at school and doing other things where the dishes still have to be washed and I'm not doing it. I've lived in way too many apartments. How many apartments have you lived in that didn't have a dishwasher?
Ay?
Rod, Now you're a lot younger than I am how many apartments I've lived in places I've lived, I'm at like forty homes right now. I'm probably half that.
I don't know.
It feels like I feel like every single one has had one.
For I'd say twenty years, I did not have a dishwasher for a variety of reasons. One I lived in really cheap apartments that didn't have dishwashers. Or I lived in a house with a septic tank that would not accept a dishwasher because the septic tank was too small. So I've gone without dishwashers for like twenty years, and
I'm just not doing it anymore. There's certain things, there's certain privileges that come along with reaching a point in life where you are making decent money and you have a little bit of extra scratch, right, you got a little walking around money, as they say, and you're not gripping about paying seventy five cents for guacamole a Chipotle, right, I mean, these are all you get to that point and you can actually say I'm not going to do that anymore because I don't have to. I can buy
myself a new dishwasher. Mandy, I'm already hearing people complaining about Taber on nextdoor. I mean, couldn't you just insert any word for Taber on that sentence and have it be true.
Mandy. I'm already hearing.
People complaining about rain on next door. Mandy, I'm hearing people complain about Trump on next door. I mean, it's just well, that's what next story is. That's why I love it so so very much, so so very much.
Ralph not gonna mention the truck terror attack in Boston. What truck terror attack? I literally have the news on in here andtack Boston.
Let's see what's going on there. No, no, yeah, we got nothing. Oh wait, twenty two minutes ago, truck strikes pedestrians in downtown Boston. How do we know that was a terror attack? How do we not know that the guy just handed like a heart attack or something. We'll wait on that until we jump to conclusions. A little bactery is good, Mandy. I only shower twice weekly, and I don't remember the last time I got sick. That's because nobody wants to be around you close enough to
give you germs. Ew you ever know, they're all staying ten feet away. Could be your funky body.
O, it's not social distancing friend. You stink? Yes, I mean I didn't say you stink.
I don't know.
I mean you probably stink. Sorry, probably, I'm not going to assume, but you probably smell.
Yeah, Mandy, the Dems bypass tabor by creating fees or taxes, but by calling them fees. Yes, you are correct, you are correct. Anyway, I'm skimming through these making sure I don't need Mandy spends three hours washing her water bottle. Loll, I'd rather buy a new water bottle. And that's the darnting truth. Yeah, but then you got the packing people's germs.
You still got to wash it. Do you think Ross spends more time washing his water bottles or his legs? I bet you Ross has not washed a water bottle in his lifetime, even dishwasher. I mean maybe dishwasher. Yes. He just seems like the kind of guy who would be like, ah, the germs are good for me.
You know, I have a water cup that I use here all the time, and I take it I like what, I wash it here in our sink in the kitchen, but then I take it home like once every month to run it through the dishwasher, just to like sanitize that bad.
Boy, Mandy.
An analogy on the budget increase, The dem legislators are the pimps, The folks who are employed by the news programs and departments are the whores, and the taxpayers are the John's.
You know what I wish?
I hated that analogy, but is it completely wrong? This texter said, we do not currently use our dishwasher. I know, I know you're better than me.
I'm fine.
Yes, the Bosch dishwasher is Bosh eight hundred. It's very common dishwasher and you can find it at the big box stores if you want, Mandy. The biggest thing I'm able to do as an accomplished adult is to buy quality toilet paper.
See that right there.
When you're able to go from the Scott single sheet thousand sheets per role to something with a little more cushion that you really feel like you made it, you know what I mean, you really feel.
Like uh huh. There was something.
This is so random, but I was in a thrift store once and I saw this super cool ice bucket, you know, like an ice bucket like you put ice in for fancy parties and whatnot.
And I was like, I am gonna buy an ice bucket. And I bought that ice bucket, y'all. I felt so fancy For like two weeks. I was just feeling fancy.
I'm like, I own an ice bucket that in and of itself feels really amazing. Until my brother said, yeah, it's all fun and games. Still, somebody pukes in the ice bucket at a hotel room, and I was like, mmm, oh, this is a really great idea. Denture tablets the best to clean water bottles. Just throw one in two and let it soak.
There you go, There you go.
Anyway, Mandy, I married my dishwasher thirty years ago. My problem is keeping her quiet. Oh my god, I'm just gonna hope your wife isn't listening to this program right now because she may recognize your snarkiness in that. Coming up a little bit later on the show, at two thirty the Q, my daughter will be making a return appearance with one of her teachers from her high school.
They are doing a raffle to raise money so their kids can go compete at the Skills USA contest where they get to show off their crime scene investigation skills, which is I wish they'd had that stuff when I was in school, Like my high school was so boring compared to what they offered her high school.
But that's another story for another day.
And they're doing a raffle, and the raffle involves me, and the raffle involves a suite at the Rockies game, and they're selling tickets.
You get to hang out in the suite with me and Chuck.
And bring ten of your closest friends and we're going to provide food, but you got to buy your own booz.
Because it's a school raffle.
But we'll talk to them at two thirty about what we're doing, why we're doing it, and how you can help some kids go and demonstrate their superior crime scene investigation techniques. Oh this is this is perfect text. I have a wine fridge and feel fancy. Oh yeah, yeah, see what what have you purchased? Listeners?
What? What?
What thing did you get for yourself or you bought for yourself that made you feel fancy?
Right?
A house?
Well, house, well, that's yeah, that'll make you feel look at adultado, that'll make you feel like an adult.
Though.
You know when you buy a house, you're like, well, I am next level adult, right, now Colorado.
It is fancy, but I'm talking about more superfluous things that make you feel fancy. You know what I mean.
This person said, buy an ice maker and you'll really feel fancy. Oh yeah, Mandy, I know I made it. When I can fill my gas tank without having to watch the cost and make sure I don't go over a set amount.
Oh for each on that one?
That is that is so so accurate, so accurate, Mandy. We have our cleaning lady come once a month, and that is our one luxury. Guys, having a cleaning person even once a month is the greatest gift you can give yourself ever, ever, if you can afford it. It is magical to just not have to clean your bathrooms, not have to mop your floors.
Oh it's delightful.
We're gonna take a quick time out when we get back. I've got a bunch of stuff that we're just gonna jump into wildly because Thomas Fry's coming up at one o'clock. He's a really cool idea to kind of revolutionize the way we teach. We'll talk to him at one, but when we get back, we did the budget. We're gonna talk about a new study that shows once again how important school.
Choice really is.
On the text line, I asked the question, what is something that you bought that made you feel a little fancy? And holy macaroni did I get a lot of responses. I'm just gonna through some of these because some of them are so great, so so great. A wine decanter, Yes, how can you not feel fancy if you own a wine decanter?
A brand new infinity X two x eighty of a day, the days are very affordable.
Luxy Loo, The Luxy Lou has changed our pottygoing life.
I love it. Coffee maker that grinds the beans, that is fancy. My brother when he renovated the house.
He bought, he put in a whole built in espresso maker and I was like, Oh, look at how fancy that is. A brand new house made me feel like a baller, says this texter. A custom suit, A three hundred dollars tent ten You're loin states Mandy. I bought a nugget ice maker and I can't live without it.
Mandy.
The first time I felt really fancy and like an adult was my first place in college when I bought scented trash bags.
Whoo ooh, ooh ooh eggs and twenty twenty five exactly a rod.
I bought eighteen eggs at Sam's Club for six dollars and forty three cents pasture raised, not just cage free.
Then we got them relatively cheap. Recently as well, I went.
To Sam's Club for the first time. I'm a Costco girl. Be a Costco girl for third term. Well, I got a free membership to Sam's Club, so we went and check. They got a lot more junk food at Sam's Club, like straight up a lot of junk food at Sam's.
Clock, but they got a lot of good healthy stuff.
Well, Sam's Club feels more like Costco used to feel, which is where you go when you need to fill the vending machine.
Do you know?
So they have the boxes anyway. I don't mean don't try the hot dog. It's not as good. I tried the pizza. Not as good.
Yeah, just saying a Japanese kitchen knife, instant hot water heater, mac lipstick. Yeah, you gotta get a loan to get the mac lipstick there, Mandy. I felt fancy when I bought a bows wave radio that I still have back in two thousand one. A lot of you are buying the little poop ice makers, you know, little tiny nugget ice makers.
I purchased Wait.
Hang on a fifth wheel. No more laying on the ground ground What you can't read that on the air? Mandy has the que looked into intern positions at the CBI. They have a good program for aspiring CSI kits.
I have not, Mandy. I started getting a.
Monthly massage and now can't imagine life without it. Me too, Texter vovasage, kin care and spa. It's where I go once a month. Seem a girl, Laura. Uh, maybe a short list of things I enjoy about being an adult and things that make me feel like an adult. I'm on my feet all day on ladders, and so I now buy decent shoes. I also have a pair of prescription sunglasses finally, instead of ruining my regular glasses with clip ones?
Does along with that? Does a haircut every two and a half weeks count? Because yeah, feeling good? It's real pricey And we we did the math. Yeah, how much you spend on haircuts annually? Oh, let's see forty times. There's twenty two weeks, twenty six. I call it twenty yeah.
Roughly a grand Yeah, if it makes you feel better, I spend more than that a year.
Yeap, Let me tell you. You get hair done every six weeks? Oh wow?
Well yeah, go yeah, every six weeks, and it's a lot more than forty bucks.
I'm blah blah blah.
We bought our first house twenty five years ago and inherited a washer and dryer. To this day, I still even after all the upgrades, and so very grateful that I don't have to go to a laundromat anymore. So very fancy, one hundred percent Mandy. I bought a rooftop tent for my SUV so I could tell all my camping buddies it's over Anakin and I have the high ground in my best Ewan McGregor voice. M Yes, Mandy,
I bought round ice molds and fancy whiskey glasses. There you go, privileges of age having someone do your taxes for you. That actually is you cross a rubicon with your taxes. Right, you buy a house, you realize you've got deductions, and then you're like, maybe I should pay and see if a tax preparer could do a better job than I. Do, and the first time you just like,
you know, ten forty easy your taxes. And then you have a tax prepare your taxes and they're like, oh, you're getting back to gazillion.
Dollars and you're like, wait what.
Yeah, paying a tax preparer is the greatest investment that you can make. Stop buying toothbrushes at Goodwill, Now that's just gross. You can environ them at the Dollar Store and they're only a dollar. Mandy, Oh my gosh, this person must be extremely wealthy. A complete set of law Crusette cookware. I don't have that kind of scratch laaning around. I have to sell a kidney or something, Mandy. A car that you could go above fifty and not die. Yes,
that's always good, Very good, Mandy. Can we talk about al Costco won't let you go through the exit door to the food court. Makes me crazy to have to go through the store, squeezing through the check out just to grab a hot dog before we go shopping, thoughts.
I have never had that issue. I've never had that problem.
I always walk through the exit door and just say I'm going to the food court and they're like okay, and then I walk back out the exit to get a cart and then go back in after I am done at the food court.
A pedicure once a month.
Correct, yes, yes, cleanex tissues, no toilet paper or paper towels, fancy cleanex fancy toilet paper, even fancy paper towels, all that stuff. Oh, an Italian espresso machine for Gila.
Must be Italian. He let's see. I think that's it.
You guys delivered a whole box of cigars, and depending on what kind of cigars, that could be extremely expensive. I felt fancy when I could first buy name brand laundry detergent. That is kind of special. Little bit, Mandy. Hate to break it to you, but everything at the Dollar Tree.
Is now a buck fifty. Ha huh. I was just at the Dollar Tree. I love the Dollar Tree. If you need like stuff for a.
Party, napkins, plates, whatever, for a kid's birthday party, and you're going anywhere but the Dollar Tree, you are wasting so much money, all of coal. Even at a buck fifty, it's a bargain at twice the price a coach purse. You know, for a lot of women, especially young women, when you're able to go out and buy yourself a luxury item like a coach bag that you have long seen other way. That is like a moment when you are able to go out and buy yourself something like that.
That is a status symbol that says, you know what I have made it. I've never really been that person. I don't think I have like I don't think I have fancy purses.
I just can't do that.
I'd like to buy a beer car in my fancy years, but I cannot afford the increase in insurance a beer car.
I'd like to buy a beer car, it says a beer What could a beer car be? Beer? What does that mean? A beer car? Let's find out. Oh, here's one for you.
Ern I now use call girls instead of picking them up off the street. Makes me feel like the guy from Pretty Women. Okay, yeah, Mandy passed my number off to the other guy who bought round ice cube molds and fancy bourbon glasses, so we can sit around having the fancy argument about whether the whiskey or bourbon is better whilst sipping.
From water from crystal. The answer, my friend, is yes, yes it is. If it makes you feel good, do it.
There's a couple of different variations of beer car. I don't know if they mean like a literal car shape like a beer bottle or what.
I don't know what a beer car? Oh, a better car? Better?
That makes more sense, A better car, it will, but it doesn't make a lot of sense on that, Mandy, I just bought a cast iron bunt pan. It's just ridiculously heavy. What do you think cast iurn is going to be?
I think we're going to be in the new pans every like, maybe six months, as soon as it starts sticking.
Boom, new set, new set or just no, no, no, you're not full new set.
Replace the one that needs to get replaced in Okay, just do it more often, don't stick with the bad one?
Is that looking for?
And I won't do this as a whole segment because this went way longer than I thought. But I'm just so amazed at the stuff that made you guys feel fancy.
I love that. I do have a question, though, if anybody has non.
Sick cookwad that they really really really love all of my Calfalon nonstick that I've had some of it I had for twenty years and I use it all the time is finally crapping out, so I am like ceramic non sick, curious when you're making omelets, but they're so well I use a Tromatina omelet pan for that. I just replaced that thing all the time. What it's a brand Tromatina is is like when you go to a buffet and they cooking eggs or an omelet station. You
know the little round pans they have right there. Those are almost all like Tremantina is the brand.
It is. It's just a brand name.
But they last for a really long time, and they're like fifty bucks or whatever.
So I just get a new one of those. But I'm talking about the rest of it.
Email me that information Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com. When we get back, we really will talk about school choice. You know, we talk a lot, or we have talked in the past about school choice, and the movement is definitely gaining steam nationwide, especially under the Trump administration as they work to eliminate the Board.
Of Education and all that bureaucracy.
That has accomplished nothing when it comes to student achievement. And today in the Denver Gazette, it might have been in yesterday's paper, it was report finds school zones contribute to education inequalities in Colorado. Now already, I'm annoyed by this because it's not school zones that create inequalities. It is the students and the families that reside in the various zones that lead to inequalities in schools.
That being said.
Conducted by the Colorado Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights, the report is based on a series of web and in person hearings in twenty twenty three attendance zones. This is from the report contribute to educational inequities by reinforcing geographic disparities in access to high quality schools. Witnesses testified that families in high income areas are significantly more likely to have access to top schools compared to
families in low income areas. The report highlighted research conducted from various organizations including Ready Colorado and Education group that advocates for school choice, and then it goes on to talk about the other people. For example, the reports cited in a twenty twenty Ready Colorado study found that just six percent of those living in low income areas have access to quality elementary schools, compared to twenty four percent
for those in high income areas. The disparities widen at the middle and high school level, with a majority of low and middle income communities lacking meaningful access to quality schools. And then it goes on to kind of explain how the zoning creates, you know, good schools, bad schools and all this stuff. One of the things that we are not talking about at all. And this is a significant issue. And this is rather explosive for me to drop right here because we have Thomas Fry in the next segment.
But guys, there are significant cultural differences with people who live in poverty and people who don't when it comes to education, and we have to start talking about those significant cultural differences. And the easiest way to explain this in a non offensive way is this. Everybody loves to talk about Asian students and how highly they achieve.
Are their IQs any higher? No, they are not.
The difference for Asian students, especially first or second generation Asian students in the United States of America, is that their families aggressively promote, push and support education for their children. They don't tolerate poor grades, they don't tolerate bad behavior. They make sure their kids come to school completely prepared. Their homework is done, not by the parents, but the homework is done, and they send those kids to school to learn. That is a cultural norm, which is a
positive cultural norm. And I have had enough very close friends and relatives teach in a variety of schools to say with certainty that when you go into a school in a poor neighborhood, you're going to see just exponentially more issues with behavior, issues with a complete lack of respect for the entire system, and issues with students being in schools who don't want to be there, who are there all day, every day to disrupt the learning opportunities for everybody else.
And that's just a fact.
And that's not race based, because when you look at overall testing, poverty is a better indicator of failure in schools than anything else. Doesn't matter if the kid's white kid, black, Hispanic kid.
Does not matter.
Poverty is the strongest indicator. But we have to start recognizing that there are families who are going to send their kids to schools completely unprepared, that don't value the education that their kid is supposed to get, and we have to figure out a way to direct those kids into another direction, so they don't disrupt the learning opportunities for the kids who are there to learn and new slash. There are kids in every school who are there to learn.
There are parents of kids in every school who send their kids there with the intent to have them learn, and they support them, but they are far outnumbered in cases where either parents have very low educational attainment, if any at all, and discipline has broken down to the point where teachers and administrators are completely powerless to maintain discipline in the schools. It's not just the zo it's the kids that are in the zoning and the parents that are in the zoning.
But I have no idea how to fix that problem.
When we get back Thomas Fry speaking of education, he has a crazy idea that is a great idea. He wants to reimagine how we teach economics and before your eyes gloze over, economics is the most important class that we are teaching badly every single day.
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No the architect of the future. The future is now. It's futurist. Thomas Fry on the Mandy Connells show you possibly Know what the Future homes on KOA.
And all right, we are that for our once monthly visit with our favorite futurist, Thomas Frye. All he does is moulting over about how great things are going to be in the future. And listen to my paranoya about robots. That's what this entire segment is about. Good to see you again, Thomas.
Yeah, great to see you, Mandy.
Let's talk.
I was cheering with my my friend Ross who does the show right before me, and you know, I dabble in economics, right, that's fun for me on occasion, but he is a hardcore economics nerd. And when I sort of laid out a super brief explanation of your idea that we're going to flesh out here on the show about how to fundamentally change the deep teaching of econ one oh one, he was intrigued. He was He was like, oh, but this is more than about teaching economics. This is
really about the future of education. So let's start with where did this thought come from that we need to reimagine how we are teaching people in the twenty first century.
So I first got the idea when I I was playing around with, well, if you handed econ one oh one to a filmmaker, a filmmaker would look at it and say, ah, you know, we can put some storylines, we can make this add some drama to it. We can make much more interesting and much more memorable at the same time, and then people would retain it.
And I thought, I think we could actually get people to compress the amount of time it takes as well. And so then we.
Started thinking through it like what if somebody was a game designer, then you get people to come in and just game their way through it, to play this whole game and learn the economics as they're playing the game. I thought, Wow, everybody'd want to take that course because it'd be so simple. And then I started thinking about it from lots of different angles too. But if we had a comedian that was trying to teach economics and he turned every one of the principles into a punch line.
So uh that that seemed like seemed like a lot of fun.
So then then I put together this whole idea, this this whole uh competition if you will, for econ one on one called the Intellectual Olympiad, and I thought, well, what if we put a million dollar prize on this and see if we can compress everything into two hours.
What would that look like?
And so it's it's kind of has a few untested ideas in this, but I think it has the makings of something that has interesting potential.
Well, I agree with you on that front.
And this isn't just about economics, but but you chose economics because essentially economics one oh one is teaching the same thirteen principles as part of economics one on one, so those are pretty standards. So this is a very standardized course. Is that why you started with economics or is it because traditional econ one courses are so boring that people check out mentally even though this is an incredibly important topic that we should be discussing.
Well, I don't know about the boring part of it. I think that depends on the instructor. But as far as this is something that's a stable piece of education that's taught virtually every college around the world, it's the same as biology want to one, chemistry one to one, world history one on one, things like that. But I thought economics is one that had the potential to do
something that was real interesting. And then I thought, well, if we take this and we offer a million dollar price to the person who wins it each year, and something substantial to each of the runners up too, then every year then the winners would become the.
Baseline for the next year.
So we would build on what we're doing, So one year we should get it done in two hours, and the next year we do it in much more interesting fashion. And maybe at the end of seven or eight years we would decide to drop it to ninety minutes or drop it down to one hour, even to see if we can do it in that fast. But I think this has the potential if we do this for ten years in a row. We can't even imagine what's going
to come out of the back end. So this is a process to get to an unknown outcome, and I find that just fascinating.
Why are you even looking at shortening the time of a sixteen week course to two hours?
What is the benefit here?
Well, what's growing up is the college system has become very bloated, and it seems like most college courses the instructors are figuring, well, what else can I add to this course to make it equal the three hours that they're going to be in class this week. And so we're paying for all the time we spend in class, and we're paying so much. We're paying very dearly for everything we learned in college, which is way more expensive than everything else we could learn free off the internet.
So this just seemed like a much a very interesting approach. And as a result of this, I'm not sure how this changes the systems. It may change it, it may not change it.
After three years, it might throw into toll and say this is totally broken. Let's not do this anymore. But I think it's worth trying.
One of the reasons I really like this is because we have we have shifted our and I'm talking about K through twelve, So let's go back away from college for a moment, but we've now shifted the focus. You hear teachers and administrators and people in education say this all the time. We don't want to teach kids what to think. We want to teach them how to think.
But if they do not have a good foundational knowledge about about something a topic like economics, how are they supposed to be able to critically think about something When they don't have that foundation of knowledge in the first place. So in my mind when I'm thinking about this, imagine being able to cram all of the concepts in an engaging way of Economics one oh one into a two hour presentation, right, or a two hour board game or
a two hour video game or whatever. And you play that day one in your Economics one oh one class if you want to keep the same structure that already exists. Now you've imparted that knowledge base with that two hour thing, and then the rest of the course is taking that knowledge base and.
Expanding on those concepts.
So I see this being like a complementary part of the current educational system, because I believe that the university system is so intractable that they don't want to change. This is the way they do it, This is the way it's always been done. They still have plenty of demand,
people are still willing to pay the money. But we could totally use this to create that foundational bit of knowledge and then allow for longer, bigger discussions when you're coming from a place of knowledge instead of a place of stupidity.
Well, that's that's certainly what approach.
There's lots of I think this opens the doors for lots of possibilities, and if nothing else, I think it kind of u turns things up. It just tries you're trying something new, and that's going to make a bunch of people uncomfortable in the process.
Oh yeah, for sure. But I'm already when I read this.
I read this column and I linked to Thomas's column on this on the blog today at mandy'sblog dot com look for the latest posts, and the headline today is four to one twenty five blog Our futurist pops in and.
Helps some kids compete. It's in there.
I read it this morning and immediately my wheels started turning. Because there are there are very simple books economics. In one lesson, there's also the Pencil by Lawrence Reid, where he just uses a single lead pencil to explain economies of scale and all of these other economic principles.
But I think this stuff is super cool, and I think.
That this has a lot of applications in terms of allowing teachers to then teach and expand on a subject without having to get bobbed down in figuring out how to impart this initial thirteen principles in the first place.
So I think this is revolutionary Thomas. But this text asks a good question, who puts up.
The million dollars? Who would invest in this? Do we need to do a GoFundMe?
I actually think if there's a legitimate group that wanted to run with this, that the funding would be a no brainer for a lot of companies, whether it's Toyota or Coca Cola.
Or or whoever it might be. They're going to get a lot of press.
And I think that's that's a small piece of the equation, and it could probably be much more than a million dollars each year.
It could probably even be five or ten million dollars. That might be doable.
And then once once you open the door on economics, then maybe you have the opportunity to open the door.
On what does calculus one on one look like? Running it through something like this.
I just start when you heard the word joculous one world history.
Looks like.
Yeah, imagine I mean, right now, my daughter's in APUs history and our teacher gets up there and lectures about a thing, and then they have a conversation about it. But imagine if we were able to impart these nuggets of information of knowledge and then allow teachers to just lead the discussions about those nuggets of knowledge in a way that's engaging for people.
I'm not kidding, Thomas.
I already started making a board game in my mind about the thirteen principles of economics. I'm thinking, you know, I've thought about the games that we've played in the past.
Life.
The game of life should be an economics lesson, but it's not. And then there's another game, an old game called Payday. And I don't know if you ever played pay.
Day, but Payday was set up like a month, right, and you get you have to pay taxes on this day, and you've got to you get paid on this day, and you got a bill unexpectedly on this day. And when my my daughter was really little, we would play that with her and she would be like, well, amount of money, and I'm like, welcome to life. This is
a great way to do this. So I think stuff like this is uh is is the wave of the future, especially as attention spans get shorter and shorter and shorter because of social.
Media, and we're seeing that that's not made up, that's a real thing. So I love this idea.
I we just got to make it happen. Maybe we should write a grant proposal, Thomas, do you know how to do that? Because I don't know how to do it.
I think we could figure that out. Yeah, I think this has great potential. I would love to somehow involved in making it all happen.
Yeah.
I had a group last year in Poland I thought was going to run with this, but they had a lot of changes and so probably from the Ukraine War. But it seemed like they were all set to run with it and then everything changed at the last minute.
Poland has done some really amazing things as of late when it comes to free market economics. I mean they've really sort of embraced the Austrian school of economics and their economy is responding in kind.
So Mandy this.
Textter said, it already exists. It's called monopoly. We raised our kids playing by the rules and it gets pretty cutthroat. Now our eight grandsons fifteen and twenty two all play. Granddad and Grandma usually make it sweeter with twenty to forty bucks going to the winner. A monopoly, though, is
a real estate game. The laws of economics go well beyond real estate, and I think Thomas the really important part here that we're kind of us and over is that out of all of the classes that we take and that we teach our kids as they're growing up, economics really is the one that impacts every single aspect of our lives.
It really does. So this is a great place to start.
Yeah, I mean there's lots of other games.
I mean, if you're playing scrabble, scrabble is all about accumulating points which could be translated into money. That even playing cards. There's lots of card games that have some similarities to some of these principles and economics, but it's much more than playing games. Is there just another way of impartying this knowledge, way of making it so it's easy for people to absorb this making And I think that's what we what education should all be about, is
giving us the easiest possible way of learning these subjects matters. Now, when I went to college long time ago, it always seemed like we had these weeding out classes that they purposely made more difficult than they had to because they wanted to weed out the people that they didn't think should be there. And I think that's the wrong approach. I think we need to make all this stuff easy to learn.
The sad fact of the matter is that when I went to college, which was maybe a little bit after you, but not much. Maybe at the same time that weed them out tech, you know, attitude was very prevalent. But now colleges are having to remediate students who were coming out of high school completely ill prepared for college. So
talk about the shoe being on the other foot. I would argue that schools are making it too easy for students who are not college material to stay in college and continue to spend money taking remedial classes, and they're never going to finish and get their degree. They're just going to end up with a lot of debt. That's a whole other conversation that we could go on about quite a bit there.
Thomas, let me ask you this. I'm going to ask if you've.
Given any thought to something that I think is critically important in education, and that is basic literacy. I saw a horrifying statistic in Chicago. There are like forty five schools in the Chicago public school system where zero percent of the children can read on grade level zero, not a single child.
This is becoming an.
Epidemic because if we have a population that can't read or write.
Holy cow, who's going to work in our nursing homes?
Thomas So years ago, this is the late nineties. I had a good friend, William Crossman, who wrote a book called Vivil Voice In and Voice Out, and he was talking about.
Us soon being able to.
Talk to our computers and the computers would talk back, and then he drew the conclusion that by twenty fifty that literacy would be dead. He says that we've become a verbal society and we just talked back and forth to all of our machines and we don't have to learn standard literacy. And the audiences that he gave that talk to would become violent. Want to throw them off the stage, because there's hardcore literacy advocates they're around.
But he brought up a lot of interesting points.
I kept asking him, how do you do math problems if you can't write them down? Yes, I have to look at things before I can actually make sense.
Out of them. And he says, well, I don't know, but somebody will figure it out. And he might be right.
He might be right, but I know that if we're a total verbal society, that that's very disruptive in places where there's lots of people around.
And I also know that doesn't give us room.
To think through things quite the same way, and it just changes kind of the way we know how to do things.
I would take it one step further.
I would say that that assumes that there will be no disruption in electronics, in the ability to tap into the machines and the machine learning. But this feels very much like the old olden times where the historical tradition was the only tradition. And we know what happens when stories get passed verbally from person to person, they get distorted in incredible ways. So my concern would be a we would lose the ability to even interact with our history. Right.
This is one of my beefs about cursive writing. Kids today that can't read cursive can't read the founding documents, so then they have to rely on someone else to tell them what's in it. I feel the same way about this, And if there was you know, if people were essentially functionally illiterate and had to rely on a computer and that computer goes away, what happens.
Then Well, one of the things I've been talking about is that within ten years, we're going to be wearing smart glasses that will actually see everything that we see and hear everything that we hear, and it will be with a few censors added to it. It will actually be able to record all the things that we touch, we feel, we taste, and spell, and so the whole human experience, the whole life experience, will be recorded and
stored on our personal cloud. And so this idea of having a personal cloud, they're like eight years down the road. You remember something on page two hundred and sixteen of the book Catcher and the Rye.
You want to go back and read that section again. You can recite it verbatim because you've had that recorded. Now.
Are we going to have that ability moving into the future. I'm not sure, but that's what it looks like to me at this point. So that's that throws out all the traditional education out the window. But worth I suddenly going to have this massive information that we have started out there that we could draw in any moment, and in a.
Post apocalyptic world, none of that matters, Thomas. When the robots take over and they take away all of our computers, we've got nothing anyway. Thomas Frye an interesting conversation. As always, I'm always interested in any ways that we can make learning more.
Accessible and more fun.
And I'm genuinely going to look around to see what foundations we can do a grant proposal to to create this prize. So this is going to be the Thomas Frye Prize for Education Revolution.
That's what we're going to call it.
We just have to get a couple million bucks to make it happen. So you leave that to me, and we'll make this happen.
Thomas. Good to see you again, my friend.
Hey up to work with you on that.
Thanks, I love the idea. I'll see you next month, Thomas. Well, jeez, all right, let me do this and that and we'll be right back after this.
Okay.
So the snitch line is coming along nicely. Hey, Rod, you were here when I said, Hey, if there's Malfi's and sor Shenanigan's going on in your local communities, send me an email. And people have been now, some of them I have been trying to look into. But the smaller the town, the harder it is to find good information. And somebody sent me an email about the Lewisville Fire Department. Some time ago, I reached out to the only person
I knew in Louisville. They don't know anything. But today same emailer sends me a link to a sub stack called fired Up Louisville. It's written by a woman named Tanya Samoru. I might be massacring her last name if so, I apologize Tanya for that. But the reason I bring it to your attention is because if you live in Louisville,
you really should know what's happening there. And the reason I created the snitch line is because a lot of people have a tendency to see things happening in other areas and sort of go, oh, well, that's over there. I don't need to worry about it. But they're not even paying attention to what's happening in their own communities and their own counties, in their own spaces where they live.
Right So.
This Tanya, she has done a bang up job pointing out some of the glaring issues that are happening. Apparently Louisville's city Hall is quite dysfunctional.
Listen to this.
First, the biggest thing in the history of Louisville happened, the Marshall Fire. While Superior put off many projects and reassigned some of its most experienced staff and resources to manage their fire recovery. Louisville's previous city manager, the city manager just left. Louisville's previous city manager tried to handle the disaster without sufficient staff, while keeping almost all of the city's pre fire agenda on track. Many felt the city did not do enough to support the mental health
of staff, who understandably became burned out. Over the last two years, a number of experience, highly valued employees, mostly women, have left the city, including most.
Recently the well respected city clerk. Then, scandal struck when our prior.
City manager resigned eight months ago, waiving his six month severance pay, presumably to halt in investigation into conduct that would have been made public if completed. Council accepted the resignation and decided to keep the reason they put him on leave secret. The director of human Resources was also put on leave at the same time and resigned. And that's just like a tiny little snippet of what's happened in Louisville right now. I mean, that's kind of Craig
Ray got people resigning. I've got other stuff about other small towns when in Louisville, apparently the fire department has had some significant financial irregularities, and yet the woman who kept the books was just allowed.
To retire.
Instead of saying, wait a minute, well where's the money, which should be the standard. By the way, where's the money should be the first question when asking about stuff like that. There are so many stories like this happening in local communities, and I'm grateful that the internet has now made it so this woman Tanya, and I'm not even gonna try your second.
Soma soma uru.
I'm just gonna guess she can out put this stuff on the internet and everybody in Lewisville can read it, everybody in the small towns around the area that they're
having crazy just we have the power, you guys. When you gather up enough people in your community, and it doesn't have to be fifty percent, it's got to be allowed five percent, allowed ten percent, and you start asking hard questions and you start demanding hard answers, you can have a huge impact on the efficiency and how your government has run.
But it's a slow process.
I'm not gonna sit here and say, oh, just by putting this blog post up, the people in Louisville are on notice. That's not how it works. It probably means they'll circle the wagons even harder. But we spend so much time looking at Washington, DC and talking about stuff that's happening in Washington, DC that genuinely is not going to have a.
Single bit of impact on our daily lives.
No.
Granted, there's stuff that is going to have a big impact, I get it.
But the people that are at the city council, the city managers, the people that are making rules on how fast you can rebuild your house, these are the people that fly under the radar. And to be clear, I am not disparaging everyone who works for a city council or who's on a town council, who works for a city government. That is absolutely not what I'm doing here.
But the reality is without citizens to hold people accountable, there are going to be bad apples who abuse their position and abuse the citizens that they are supposed to serve. And with the just you guys cannot understand. I mean, maybe you can't understand. I don't mean to be condescending when I say it like that, but working in this industry and knowing people who've worked for newspapers who are for a very long time. The reason we all got newspapers was to read about our local stories.
Right.
We wanted to see local coverage. We wanted to see our friends and neighbors, you know, in the paper doing good things. We wanted to see those things in the newspaper. That's the newspaper where I grew up, right, And I grew up in a small town, so I was in the newspaper and a ridiculous number of times when I was a kid, because we were involved in stuff, you know.
But now all of those newsrooms have been absolutely decimated, and I'm using the word decimated correctly here in that some newsrooms have gone from ten people to one person, twenty people to two people, and they simply don't have the vanpower to go to these meetings and pay attention to the city manager, like this woman has now taken it upon herself to do this. On Fired Up Lewisville a substack that you can find and I linked to it today.
If you live in Louisville, subscribe, pay attention.
If you live in any other community, ask around, get on your next stoor, ask on your Facebook page, Hey, is there anybody reporting a local government on a blog or a website or whatever.
Because there are people willing to do this right.
They are willing to watch the city council meetings, they're willing to watch the county commission meetings, and they're willing to report on it. We just have to accept them on their offer of Hey, this is what's going on. But there's definitely some questions that need to be answered by Lewisville. I'm going to reach out first. I'm going to reach out to this writer. I can't message her for some reason on this platform. I don't know why. So, but this is the kind of stuff that I love
the Internet for. I tell people all the time the Internet has been a great democratizer, right it is made an audience accessible. Now, whether that audience is going to find you or not remains to be seen. And finding the right places to go on the internet can be challenging. This is what I'm saying, Hey, ask around, ask about who's writing about this, Ask about who's the thorn in the side of your city council, your county commission. And I'm not saying they're right, by the way, just because
they're a thorn in the side. Does not automatically give them some kind of moral high ground, because rabble rousers can also be wrong. But the reality is we now have a better opportunity to hold our elected officials accountable because people like this woman Tanya are doing the work for us.
We just have to consume it.
So the reason I'm going on this long spiel is if you live in Louisville, now you know where to turn, you know where to subscribe.
It's on the blog today at mandy'sblog dot com.
But what I want to know from the rest of you, is there anybody else in your community? And I don't care if it's Sterling, I don't care. If it's Durrango, I don't care if it's Parker, I don't care if it's Lyttleton. Are they writing about local government? If so, send me that information and I will amplify it. Unless it's just moron, you know, being a crank, because there are those people out there who it wouldn't matter if you know the town council was made up of Jesus Christ,
God and Mother Teresa. They'd still find everything wrong with what they're doing. But I'd love to know if you guys are aware of this stuff because this is critical for us doing a couple of things. Number One, you worry about the direction that Colorado is going, it's all
happening at the local level. Two And if you really want to make a difference, you got to make sure that you're aware of the people that have been elected and are electing people that are going to run the state and your city and your town and your county commission the way you want them to. And the easiest way to do that is to pay attention what to
the people in the office what they're doing. Now it's super simple, so you can always email me if you're aware of good reporting, you know, like the people in Lakewood that are working on keeping that park you know up and running. This woman in Louisville that is reporting on all of this stuff.
We have to help them get an audience.
We have to make it easy for people to follow along and hold people accountable. And this is one of the greatest things about the internet period. We'll be right back, and when we get back, a new study from the University of Colorado has come out with some data that just seems unlikely to me. And I want to ask you if it seems unlikely to you. So nothing in the text line that I need to share. This story from CBS, one out of every fifteen American adults have
been at a mass shooting. This according to a University of Colorado's study. Now, in case you're wondering, I did the math on seven percent of the population of the United States of America. Our current population is roughly three hundred and thirty three million and change. I rounded seven percent of That means that, according to this study, two million, three hundred and thirty seven thousand, three hundred people have
been at a mass shooting event. This study defines a mass shooting as an incident when four or more people are shot in a public space. The research comes. This is all from CBS News as those in the Boulder community gathered four years later to remember the twenty twenty one King Super shooting that took the lives of ten people and impacted countless others. And then it goes on to talk about Erica Mahoney, whose father was killed in
that horrible incident, and then they I'm skipping here. She has a podcast now to talk about gun violence.
Whatever.
Her podcast guests will be David Peruse, a professor of soci sociology and criminologist at the Institute for Behavioral Science at CU Boulder. His episode will break down his new study that came up with the data behind the one in fifteen, or about seven percent of US adults on average, that have been at the scene of a mass shooting.
He says, it.
Means you're in the direct vicinity to where you could see the shooter, there were bullets that were fired in your direction, or if you couldn't directly see the shooter, that you could hear the gunshots. Now hear the gunshots opens this thing wide open. And I think it is a really misleading part of the statistic because.
If I'm a block and a half two blocks away, I can.
Hear the gunshots. You could hear gunshots for very, very very big distance. But I don't know, he says, mass shootings, you know, they occur across the world, but you know in the United States there's just such a concerted interest and focus on it. We should aim to understand this better. Well, yeah, but I mean, does that number seem incredibly incredibly bad?
Oh?
Yeah, you are right, Texter, it's closer to twenty three million.
You're correct.
I just did the math in my head. That's what I get for using a computer to do that math for me. A lot of you are just sharing Jimbo's sentiments that I can't read on the air. Starts with b ends with T anyway. Anyway, this just seems a little bit outrageous and not helpful because this would mean that basically everyone I mean in your friend or if you should have at least one person out of twenty that has been at a mass shooting. Now here's another question.
I have mass shootings where four more people are killed. A lot of those are gang related violence, and are some of those people at those mass shootings also involved in other mass shootings because they're involved in a life of violence and crime, and it would stand a reason that they would be more likely to be part of a mass shooting incident. This just seems it's I see you know what, though, here's the thing. They have to make everyone afraid of a mass shooting in order to
be able to take away all the guns. That's how totalitarians have disarmed the population over and over and over again. They make everybody incredibly afraid. Hugo Javas did it in Venezuela, they had out of control crime, and Ugo Chavaz said, you know what the problem is the problem is guns. We've got too many guns in Venezuela. So now we're going to restrict access to guns. You cannot have guns anymore,
and it's all to make you safer. We're going to create a safe utopia where no one can shoot anyone else because everyone has turned in their guns. Now, any rational thinking person knows that criminals are not going to turn in their guns. And guess what, you guys, you want to know why Venezuela were reduced to eating zoo animals and why millions of them have had to flee their country because they don't have weapons to overthrow the government. Just like in the Gaza Strip, you know who as
the guns Hammas? You know, doesn't everybody else being oppressed by hamas. That's why we talked briefly about the protests that popped up last week where people were shouting down with amasa. You know what happened to the student leader there. He didn't get deported from the Gaza Strip. They killed him and left his dead body on the step of his family's house to let him know what happens that's
what you get when you disarm the population. In this study, I will reach out to this gentleman and ask him to come on and explain his data, because I'm sure.
He's got a ton of data.
I'd be very interested in seeing where he came up the twenty three million people have been involved in a mass shooting situation.
I frankly, I just I don't believe it, not at all. Mandy.
Just want you to know that I messaged Tanya for you to let her know you want to speak to her. I don't know her personally, but we share groups on Facebook and had shared this story earlier this morning.
Thank you for that. I appreciate you, definitely appreciate you. Mandy.
My wife was shopping several blocks from.
The STEM school on that day, so she is in the statistics. I don't know.
Maybe she is, maybe she isn't, But this just seems like a study I wouldn't have necessarily run with right away till I had more information. By the way, this story in CBS not long on details about where these statistics came from, had a glossed over that one part We'll be back and when we get back, is there a specific point in a man's life, and maybe women do this too. I'm just going to say, in my own personal experience, it is men who are more likely
to adopt this habit. When do you go from having a conversation to just telling stories and calling in a conversation, it's a legit question.
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A little bit later in the show, you're going to find out from my daughter the Q and her criminal justice teacher about how you can support their criminal justice team and going to compete. Did you know there are competitions for crime scene investigation. Yeah, it's called the Skills USA Contest. They're coming up at two thirty to talk about a fun raffle and oh, by the way, you could win a day at the Rocky Suite with me.
Yeah, it's true. It's true.
No booze though, should be clear about that. But in the meantime, a couple of things. Number One, you should go to the blog at Mandy's blog dot com. Look for the headline that says right at the top four one twenty five blog, our futurist pops in and uh and help some kids get some key kept. Let me try that again and help some kids compete. I also would love for you guys who are going to spring training. Not spring training, Mandy, you know what this segment is
not starting? Well, let's just pretend that never happened. No, you don't have to go back in time. I don't want to redo everything.
No, No, it's okay, it's fine.
This Friday, for opening Day, the home opener for the Rockies, we're gonna be at the corner of twentieth in Blake, And by we I mean me and Ross Kaminski. But we're gonna be there from nine to noon, and then at noon the afternoon guys take over, and then at one thirty the Rockies will play their home opener against.
Who are they playing on Friday? Do I remember who are they playing? Please?
Oh?
The Oakland A's. Oh maybe we can win. Definitely didn't play that day.
That'd be a well you like I pay attention yeah, so stop buying Stea, Me and Ross. Between nine and noon, we are going to be right in front of the stadium hopefully. The weather, which what just a week ago looked spectacular for opening day, that looks like it's going to be a steaming pile of hot garbage.
So I guess what the high is right now? I'm going to say forty four.
Forty two said forty two, oh of twenty seven. A little sneak preview into tomorrow's weather Wednesday. Uh huh, I did hit up Dave Frasier. Yeah, Dave said rain showers Friday at sixty percent possibility, with snow showers mixing in late in the game.
Temps low to mid forties.
Luckily, I just bought a brand new Rocky sweatshirt at spring training.
So nice.
They have hats you can only get at spring training that are actually really, really really cool.
I should have brought you one. I'm such an idiot for not thinking, Oh no, never buy me a hat. Not even I appreciate thought. No, no, it's about that it will never fit me.
No no no, but Tchuck also has a giant knowledge no no, if it fits his giant nogin my head is way bigger than you.
So basically we need to go Chuck's size up one. Yeah, I can buy online, you know how in the hat store the biggest one L to XL Y. Yeah. Yeah, I buy xcel to XXL nice only available online. Okay, no stores, good to know ever carry my size. It sucks.
And I have been dealing with headaches and small hats for years and I finally give up and I only okay, you.
Know what that is?
Kind of like, now you feel fancy buying a hat on He's got a hat that fits now for his giant nagging.
Yeah.
Anyway, I got a lot of stuff on the blog today, but I want to share with you a tweet set out by Cheryl Atkinson. I love Cheryl Atkinson. She's a reporter, she does great work. But this is totally not a news tweet. It is just a question tweet. But when I read it, I was like, oh my goodness, she is correct. The tweet says observation, man reach a certain age and decide that instead of having conversations, they are supposed to tell stories.
Do you agree?
If so, what's the age?
Now?
I say this as someone married to a storyteller. Big time.
And I but I thought about it, and I realized this is very accurate. My dad was a storyteller my whole life. But I technically prefer to have conversations where I say, how you've been, what's going on? I find out about other people's lives, we maybe talk about some issues that are happening. That to me is a conversation. So why why and guys, I need your help with this. What happens did? It becomes story time because that is
a thing that happened. Somebody just hit the text line, Mandy, Why did they build Course Field without a retractable dome? Coursefield is thirty years old, Guys, there was a only maybe it was there even a retractable dome thirty years ago to emulate when did Seattle build their field? That was about twenty five years ago. In Vesco is probably twenty five years old because I went there the first year in Vesco was open. I went to a game there in the.
Thousand and two that was Invesco, no Seahawk Stadium.
No, I'm talking about in the baseball baseball because their baseball stadium as a retractable roof. That was the first time I had ever seen a retractable roof in action was when I went.
To that stadium ninety nine, so they were right.
After the Rockies, but that was not even really a thing when the Rockies built Course Field.
Now I believe, and I have this on the blog today, that.
They're looking to move. They're going to move Broncos Stadium. They're going to move in, and I would think they're going to put a dome on that thing.
Current site is still kind of an option, Aurora. They don't they can't build out. Yeah.
The problem is that the current site is boxed too, and they can't create an entertainment district around.
It's gonna being at the airport, Nandy.
The storytelling thing is similar to what happens on the Progressive Insurance commercial when you become your parents.
It just happens.
I know, you can text me, by the way, your answer is five sixty six nine.
Oh, I'd like to know.
I think being a parent is an immediate change. But I still am not a storyteller. Like I am not gonna sit. I would much rather have a conversation. And I don't know if this is a male female thing, because I don't know a lot of older women who regale an audience with a story, right, I don't know a lot of older women who do that. They're much more likely to have a conversation, which is asking, how are things going, what kind of stuff are you doing right now? Have you seen any good shows?
You know?
What do you think about the current state of affairs? I mean those are conversations. Telling stories is not a conversation.
I mean, guys just kind of like the show off.
Well, my husband calls it talking stories. He doesn't say I'm having a conversation. He says we were talking stories, and I know exactly what he was doing.
But at some point, if you're the wife of a storyteller, you have heard the stories, all of them. Yeah, I got this. One's gonna be six minutes and forty three seconds. I'm gonna go bathro remal quick. Yeah. I know how it ends, because I was.
There, and you get back right on time, right at the end, the good chuckle after the yeah, yeah exactly.
Word has it that they can't make the engineering work on a retractable snow load presents a problem. But if there was going to be a massive blizzard, you open the roof. If that's the problem, open the roof and deal with the blizzard. We already deal with the blizzards here anyway, you know, So if that's an engineering issue, then you can solve that problem by simply saying, if we're gonna have six inches a foot of snow, which, how often does that even happen in the Denver metro realistically?
I mean once every what four years, and it usually doesn't happen un till later in the winter. Maybe we get that one Thanksgiving stormy.
Indeed, tomorrow.
You tell stories for three hours a day, Guys, this is my job. I do not talk like this when I am not at work. I'm down right quiet. You can ask the people who've gone on our trips with us. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not like a recluse. I don't sit it here, I don't sit alone. No stop talking. I ge't bear to be around people. But I'm not a big I'm not a big talker. Usually older women just write that is a fair assessment, Texter,
a fair assessment. We'll be right back with more of your text messages, Mandy most don't wait a minute.
That's the wrong thing. I want to read this.
Uh uh bah bah bah I want to find the one about her dad. My father became a storyteller when his hearings started failing because he was uncomfortable being in a back and forth conversation.
That makes a lot of sense to me. At what age do we appreciate and accept men becoming storytellers? I think just if they're elderly, if their grandparents, they're locked to be okay to be storytellers.
The issue is, and someone said this down here, men over sixty at the park have me boring on and on with stories, and they don't take a breath, so no one can interrupt, And there's there's the issue. It's one thing if you're in a group of people and everybody is swapping stories, right like, someone tells a story and it reminds somebody else of a story, and then everybody's kind of swapping stories. But it's when somebody goes on a tear, it doesn't take a breath and nobody else can get a word in.
It's like, what are we doing here?
It's ok if they're elderly, though, I mean like, I mean, I don't think they see you like that. They just want to tell you stories.
I understand that. I want to hear your stories. I love hearing people's stories. I really do. Curious about that.
Well, hey, Rod, I've been around people that that don't even give a window, Like they don't even there's no where you can jump in with a question. You're like, how are they continuing to talk this fast and this long without without visibly taking any kind of breath at all.
You're saying there's a possibility they're filibustering you.
Yes, Oh, this one says my dad tells stories, which are great, By the way, more and more now because he struggles to hear the details in a conversation. I think there's a lot of allddity to this, and I'm just gonna say it, men or women, I don't care if you're male or female. If you cannot hear, there are itty bitty, teeny tiny hearing aids and you can go to Colorado tonight.
It's in Hearing Center. Doctor Patty will take care of you.
Because not being able to hear leads to isolation, which leads to dementia. And this is not me speculating. This is scientifically proven fact that those things go in that order. Hearing loss leads to isolation, leads to dementia, and hearing aids are not big and bulky, and no one cares if you're wearing a hearing aid. If I hear one more person say, I don't want them to make me look old. No, your face makes you look old. The hearing aid is just going to allow you to be
back in the conversation again. So you know, although a rod I did. I went to the Kelsey Ballerini show on Sunday night. I wore earplugs the entire time for everything, and you know what, I could hear every single thing in that concert perfectly fine with earplugs in. And I had this, you know, the squishy, not the foam ones, those are the yanky ones. I had, Like the squishy
what is it? It's like Philly putty almost, and you can form it around your ears so there's no gaps and I could still hear everything perfectly because Olivia Rodrigo gave me tonight and it's not bad and I want to keep it that way. Props to the old man who are conversationalists. But when you're talking, they walk away because they can't hear you. I think that's a big, big concern. Mandy men learn to start telling stories when they're in the military, a fun gathering as men in
their fifties and sixties and different services. That is not necessarily true because my dad never served in Holy Cow? Could that guy spin a yarn? Why isn't an issue? Elders have been telling stories since the beginning of time because sometimes I'd rather have an actual conversation. And I think that there are people who confuse telling stories with
having a conversation because they are different. A conversation is a back and forth, an exchange of ideas, you know, a discussion of a topic or an event.
Well, that goes to the core issue of listening only to craft a response, not to actually correct correct really.
When you're already thinking about what you're gonna say next, instead of listening or not really listening. Mandy, I second that the AM eight to fifty volume is going up and down in a very consistent shifts every couple of minutes or so, very strange. Seems like an equipment problem, not the weather. I am here to tell you that this kind of weather that's rolling in right now reaks havoc on the AM band because of the way it goes out.
And I could bore you with like it bounces.
I mean, but yeah, it's it's almost certainly we'll have them check the equipment that if it's not the same way on the FM, then it is definitely just the weather, which is one of the things about AM that's all kind of free option a minute, as you know, maybe iHeart Media could make an app that you can download on your phone.
I heard recently updated and I've heard it's stream what is it also free? Did I hear that?
Free?
Easily accessible to Mandy kyn show just by setting a preset and.
To this person who said Mandy Kelsey Vallerini sucks anyway, so it's well worth as much earplugs as you get.
I love Kelsey Vallerini shut up to a text or hater from well, you know her as my daughter.
We call her the cue so she has plausible deniability and joining her now her criminal justice teacher Richard Vaccaro, to talk about a fundraiser that is going to let kids go and compete. Guys, welcome to the show.
Than thanks having much.
Well, I want to start with you, mister Vaccaro. Specifically, you guys are raising money and we're going to talk about the raffle on how somebody can win a night in a suite at the Rockies game with me. But first I want to talk about Skills USA. Tell me a little bit about this competition and what the students get to do.
Well, it's a national organization that encourages competition and criminal justice related events, including crime scene investigations, police procedures, and along with criminal justice events, they cover other trades and occupations from carpentry to all sorts of vocational avenues. So that is a nutshell what Skills USA is about.
So what do the kids actually do at these competitions. I mean, you drag out a dead body and splatter bread all over the place, and they've got to solve the crime. What does this actually look like?
Yeah, they have to utilize techniques they have they learned in class and learn from people in the fields such as crime scene investigators that we have connections with. So they have to be proficient in all the skills and demonstrate that in a pretty highly competitive event. For example, we're going to the conference in pebol the state conference next week, and they'll be you know, probably fifty other schools that will be competing against from the state.
So about how many students in your high school legend high school are going to go compete.
Well, we have a small but mighty group. We have eight students that are going to compete. There'll be two sets of crime scene student led teams, and then two students will be doing police procedures. So we're small, but it's important to them and they did pretty well last year, so I'm proud of them.
Now, Q, you are in the Criminal Justice Club? What exactly do you guys do?
We have been focusing more on like educating people on what criminal justice is as well as last year we started a fundraiser for the Colorado Crisis Center to help raise money for them for their victims. We've finished that up a few months ago. I'm blanking on like what date, but it was a few months ago, like before the first semester ended.
Why do you like Criminal Justice Club?
I think that we have like a very valuable idea that we're trying to like support when it comes to just all of the topics that we've come up with, because like the Crisis Center wasn't the first idea we had for a fundraiser, and there were just a lot of people that had like a lot of ideas for what we wanted to do, and it's just a group of people that value being able to help out their community in such a way. And I just really like that there's so many of us that can do.
That, right, so a few of us, honestly, So tell.
The listeners what you're raffling off to raise money to send kids to the Skills USA competition.
We are raffling off ten tickets in Koway's stadium suite for a baseball game in July. Baseball game July first. I don't remember whoded against right now.
No one cares, No one cares, No one cares at all but I because it is a hosted suite, and Chuck and I are handling like the food and stuff. I will be in the suite as well, and every bit of the money that is sold in the form of tickets is going to go to support these kids going to Skills USA.
So we're not taking anything. We're providing the food.
I do want to be clear for my listeners, this is a you have to buy your own booze situation because this is a school fundraiser. We are not providing alcohol. So I want to make that very very clear for the July first game. Now, mister Vacar, how long have you guys been doing the Skills USA competitions.
Well, I started working at Legend High School three years ago and created the club after gaining some interest from students. So they were doing it previously, maybe a few years, but since I've been on board, I've been doing it for two years. I had to get my feet wet, get used to it, and then develop, you know, people
to help train the kids. I'm a retired federal probation and prole officer, so I have certain skills and I bring others in that can teach crime scene policing area that I have some knowledge of and not full expertise. So we bring in people who have the full knowledge of These kids can learn the right way and compete to their best ability.
So how many kids have gone on and gone into criminal justice careers are moved in that direction that you're aware of? I mean, are you are you guys able to help kids realize this is a field that they would.
Like to enter.
Yeah, that's a big focus of the program. We have internal in house career fairs each October. I've incorporated where agents from like federal agencies, local agencies, state agencies come meet with the kids and share opportunities available to them. I've had many students go into the Explorer programs with Parker PD and Douglas County Sheriff's Office, and I even have my first success story. I'm a student who went
through the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. They have a program where you can be a correction officer specialist helping out the cards in the jail and then get your feet wet and then get on to be a full fledged peace officer. So he's working on that. So that's my proudest moment as a teacher. And I see people who are interested getting into their pathway.
Oh no, I think that's fantastic.
And I know that Q has enjoyed the club overall and has this expressed a desire to work in that field in the future.
I want to let people know.
I put a link today on the blog for the tickets and they're on a site called Zeffi and it is a can people.
If you go to zepi dot.
Com, ze f f y dot com and search Legend High School Criminal Justice Club, this will come up or you can just go to the blog and mandy'sblog dot com.
How much your tickets Q? What do people get?
Each ticket separately is twenty dollars and then for one hundred dollars you can get six tickets and also a T shirt. I've been looking at this for twenty minutes and for some reason, I can't remember if that's right or no.
No, there's no t shirt. Don't give away t shirts. I don't want to have to do that. You can also add a donation for the Legend High School Criminal Justice Club as well, if you'd like to support these kids. Yes, if you'd like to support these kids in their mission to go to Skills USA. Okay, guys, I appreciate the time today. Hopefully we sell a lot of tickets and hopefully not a jerk wins because I got to hang out with them the whole time in the suite. So
let's hope that nice people win. When will we be choosing the winner on this by the way, we will.
Be choosing the winner on May fifteenth at two thirty.
Okay, and we will contact you via email if you win. That's how we're doing that.
All right, And can I just add my appreciation for Q. She is involved in theater and other things, and she has put a lot of time into this project to help her fellow student, So a lot of maturity, a lot of selflessness. She has been pivotal of that. So I'm so proud of her because you know, when kids are involved in different things, it gets expensive, and she's looking out for a fellow student. So that's admirable at her age for sure.
Gosh, thanks for that. Thanks for that, Richard Viccaro. That just made this mom very, very proud. I'm not surprised, mind you, because she's a pretty awesome kid, but it's always nice to hear from someone else that your kid is pretty awesome.
So thank you so much for that.
Well, thank you very much everybody.
All right, guys, thank you for being on the show, and we'll talk to you again soon.
Thank you. Bye bye, there we go, all right. Gosh, that was really nice.
As a parent, is there anything better than having another parent tell you that your kid is great? I mean, man, man, we are I'm going to reach out to our engineer about this signal. I don't know what is what has happened, but a lot of you are texting about that. Mandy the game July first is against the Astros, correct it is. I would love it if you guys would buy a ticket.
That would be fantastic. Appreciate it.
And before anyone else asks, I don't do fundraisers for people that I'm.
Not related to, and that's just you know, this is why I have a show.
I got my first show in two thousand and five just thinking of the fact that someday I might have a kid who would have a fundraiser at school. It's the only reason I do this. Mandy, so cool for Q to be in the Criminal Justice club. My daughter, now twenty five, will complete her Masters in Forensics DNA track at UC Davis.
Amazing stuff, amazing stuff.
So that is that.
Now.
I got a lot of stuff on the blog that we haven't gotten today. I've gotten to today, but I want to point out a couple of things. Number One, you've heard about the measles case in Pueblo. It's an unvaccinated man. I don't think we all need to panic just yet, but we have. We have measles touchdown in Colorado.
Now.
Over the last few weeks, I've been talking here and there about the case of Mahmoud Khalil. He is the guy at Columbia who had his student visa or is now he has a resident card because he married an American woman, and he is now being deported because of his actions supporting Hamas.
And you know, I've gone back and forth about this because I.
Completely agree with the concept that someone who comes to our country as a guest, and when you're here on a visa and you're.
Not a citizen, you are a guest.
You are held to a different standard because if someone says I want a visa to the company's the United States, and the United States says, well, are you going to come over here and support the enemy and foment violence or many of those things, And Everybody's like, oh, no, no, no, no, I'm not going to do that. Well, this guy has actively been supporting Hamas, calling for an intifada at Colombia.
So he's in Louisiana waiting deportation. But I've been vacillating a little bit because there's things happening with the Trump administration that I'm not happy about, and one of them is this sort of lack or perceived lack of due process. Now, in some cases, the Chenette Vescara case that is here in Denver. She has an active deportation order. But what we're not seeing is due process for people who are here and now are going to be kicked out because of their political activities.
Now they may show cause.
The federal government can go in front of a judge and say, look, here's the information that this guy handed out that we believe is supporting AMAS, which is a designated terror organization. But we're skipping over due process. And that is very concerning to me, because you have to believe that if you're doing the right thing, the system
will support that. Although we're seeing some of the stuff happening with judges right now is so egregious that I'm not sure what to even do with it, because we can't impeach all the judges. But there is pushback happening right now on Capitol Hill that is perhaps going to rein in judges that are going beyond their authority to issue nationwide injunctions when they are not allowed to do that. As a matter of fact, I have a video on the blog today of Representative John Kennedy, who truly is
he is a treasurer. This man he asked questions He does not attack, he doesn't grandstand. He asks questions in such a way that he knows where he's going, he knows the answer where he's headed. But he asks questions and lets the witnesses just answer those questions. And one of those questions was I thought the federal judges could only offer.
A stay nationwide if it was a class action suit, which is the law. So that's on the blog today.
But this stuff, I mean, by the way, I'm in favor of deporting people who are here illegally. I'm in favor of it unfortunate that there are people here really lived okay lives and that are probably going to be deported, But that situation occurred because they came here illegally in the first place. Just because we've decided we like them after they committed a crime doesn't necessarily mean you just go, well, yeah, we'll let them get away with it. But the due
process stuff is really kind of bothering me. That is on the blog today. I put an editorial from the Free Press that covers a lot of this stuff, and the headline is, no deportations without due process. The public deserves clarity on these cases, and they do. We need to know that exactly what people are being accused of
and why they're being removed from the country. I actually think that's very helpful, because I think a big part of what's going on right now is message sending by the Trump administration, and the message sending is We're not going to let you come to this country and say bad things about it or our allies and support a terrorist organization. We're not gonna let you do that while you're here as our guest, and as our guest, you have to understand that.
We have the right to kick you out.
I mean, I couldn't imagine going to a foreign country and participating in a protest of any kind.
I'm being serious.
That's unless I was moving there and I was going to have a vested interest in what happens in that country, and I was going to be there forever and always, in which case I would be pursuing citizenship.
I wouldn't weigh in.
It's not my business, it's not my circus, not my monkeys. And yet in the United States, where we all enjoy these free speech protections, perhaps people have been given a false sense of security about being able to go out and advocate against American interests. Now, if you want to have an argument about whether or not Israel is in America's interest, I mean, we can have that conversation.
I believe it is.
I mean for no other reason than Israel is the cradle of the main religion in the United States of America and Christianity.
So anyway, that's on the blog today.
Case of a seventy year old woman who went to jail for twenty days for voter fraud is on the blog today, and in a sad, sad story, very sad story. Today, the former head of Voice of America, which was the voice of democracy and freedom back after World War One World War two, Voice of America is so badly corrupted that it cannot be saved now. I fully expect the next Democratic president to start it back up again because it's kind of become an arm for the Democratic Party, So why wouldn't they.
That's the kicker so many of the things that are going away.
I fully expect Democrats to just roll and write back out when they take power again, no matter how unpopular they are.
They don't care. Guess who's walked in the studio right now.
It's Ryan Edwards. Everybody Hello, you know you're almost at a flannel season.
Ryan, That's not really a thing for me. Like, you don't worry about wearing white after Labor Day. You're just the guy. You're like, I'll wear white after Labor Day. You can't judge me. If it's comfortable and it's all I have in my class.
Well, you're gonna need it Friday at the game, I mean Ross and are going to be there from nine to no before the snow impossible, the rain and snow start.
Yeah, we we've been pretty lucky over the last several years on opening Day. We've got some great, great weather days. But but there are because it's Colorado. Examples the not too Distant Pass. Yeah, I took us off where, yeah, where it's snowed on opening Day.
So this is what I did.
Though.
When I went to spring training, I was like, oh, that's a cool sweatshirt. I'll go ahead and buy that. Then I even said to show I might need it for Opening Day. Boom, but a big bat of boom. There you go, nailed it.
And now it's time for the most exciting segment all the radio of its Guy of the day. All right edwards, Nobody's Okay, what is our dad joke of the please? You know I was going to cook alligator for dinner? Oh no, and I realized I only had a crop pod.
That was a good one.
Okay. What is our word is to day?
Please?
It is a verb and it is elucidate.
That word elucidate means to explain something clearly, to make it obvious.
Elucidate make it clear or easy to understand by to moon. There you I elucidated that definition, didn't I? Today's trivia question, who's portrait was featured on the first.
One dollar bills printed in the United States? Hint, it wasn't George Washington. I'm gonna say King George. Oh I mean because if they were printed before the Revolution? Oh god, no, never mind. Salmon Pete Chase, Abraham Lincoln's secretary of the Treasury. Chase designed the one dollar bill and placed his image on it. His portrait was later replaced by Washington's.
Like what kind of e tell you? And you know what when he did it, he this is exactly the statement he made.
Salmon Peachchase has decided that Salmon Peachase.
Will be on the one dollar bill now. He referred to himself in the third person or the Yeah, that's what happens to put yourself. That's that's bold, right, I mean.
That is bold.
Yeah, it's my it's my currency, all right. What is our Jeopardy category? Fools?
Oh gosh, okay, a two hundred and fifty milliter can of this top selling energy drink that vitalizes body and mind retains Ryan.
What is red Bull that is correct in the category? Actually is Bebridges April fool?
That bridges is the category at the world of this beverage in Atlanta?
What is Coca Cola? That is correct? Have you ever been to the world of Coca Cola?
Oh, it's I gotta tell you for it for an entire situation that celebrates soda.
Totally worth your time. It's really good, well co cola. This Nestle powder started with the what is nest quick? I'm not going to give it to you. It's not what it says. What what did you say, Nestlie quick?
Huh?
Not right? Technically by this answer, can't go ahead and read it.
Oh.
This Nestlie powder started with the chocolate flavor, added banana, pulled banana, and added strawberry.
Quick.
I'll get points for racing us or do we get what is it? What is nest quick?
You got to say, so I'm not gonna I'm not gonna give you a point, So no negative because it basically is.
What you said.
Okay, So I know one that sounds That's what I call its quick so wash it's g organic first Quenchers come in such flavors as mixed.
Berry and passion for it, Danny, what is gatorade? Correct? Wow?
Right?
Two to one?
Sparkling grapefruit and sparkling BlackBerry are among the flavors of this four letter brand of sparkling juice beverages.
I've never heard of this four letter brand. I've never heard of this.
I tell you.
It starts with a. I that Mandy, what is easy good? I never would have gotten that without the hint. But I love Izzy. My kids like Izzy too. It's it's it tastes like soda.
It tastes like soda, but it's got thirty calories or something, and it's like a low calorie fruit soda.
They're good, though.
I know.
There you go. What's coming up today on KO Sports all? So it's fun stuff. We've got you and wrapping at three thirty.
Looking forward to that, We've got a bunch of rule changes in the NFL, which we got to get tours.
But good good, I mean good stuff.
Nothing dumb like putting people on second for extra That's the only new baseball rule I really don't like.
It feels very like mercy rule or something. It the torpedo bats.
I think everybody's gonna have torpedo bats in their hands in the.
Next six weeks. Could you imagine go to course Field where oh wait, it's just cork and you're just like just just sitting them over the wall. Just wait till the relievers come in. They'll make it easy for you. It's fine. But hey, at that point, I'm not even mad at the Rockies relievers. I know it's what it is.
But of course the Yankees hire a freaking physicist from m I t to make their bats, and then the.
Rest last night and they were ninteen runs or something like that.
I wouldn't be surprised if the two things I predicted the end of this season. Torpedo bats may go the way the Dodo bird. Oh really, I think they may go the way that if there are too many home runs, because then you kill your pitching, You just kill your pitch the other way.
I see the pitchers should get their spider tech back well.
And then second, this may be the season that we start serious talks about salary cap. You know, it's getting ridiculous, it is, it's so absurd now, and the Dodgers and the Yankees will have no one to blame it themselves. All right, I'll let you guys handle that talk now.
We'll be back tomorrow. Do we have a short show?
Tomorrow's it Thursday? Okay, full show tomorrow, enjoy all three hours.
I'll see you then