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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Wednesday edition of the show. If you haven't glanced at your four O one, kay, just glance at it right now.
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I just want to guys, I'm gonna I'm gonna say something snide about the male gender just for a moment, but it's in response to much snydness about the female gender over the years. Men always like to think and talk about the fact that women are more emotional than men, and we are right. I'll concede that fact. But if you don't think men react on emotion, look at the stock market today, because the stock market, in theory, should operate like this.
You look at a company that is.
Doing a great job, has a good, solid bottom line, and you say, you know what, I would like to buy a piece of that stock. I'd like to own a little bit of that company. But the stock market today is oh my God. Another thing was said by Scott Besson everybody bye bye, and they're just freaking out.
There's so much emotion in the stock market right now, and it's unfortunate because a lot of people out there who have four oh one k's or iras, or they're living on their investments, you know, if they're managed by someone else, they even if they are remaining calm as I am, the people that are running things may not. And it's just the emotion that's happening in the market right now is crazy, just absolutely crazy. So we shall
see what happens next. But I'll let you know. Right now the market is up almost six point four back up over forty thousand. I'll let you know how it ends up. But the emotional swings that are happening in the at Wall Street right now. I have a column on the blog today and I'm gonna get the blog
in just a second. And the column is written from the perspective of someone who is not unhappy about what's happening at Wall Street right now and reminds us that for many, many years, Wall Street has gotten richer and richer and richer and richer, while American jobs have been shifted overseas. Now I've done enough reading about this where
I'm relatively confident. Not you know, I'm not gonna say that I could not be wrong here, but I feel confident that overall, free trade has been a net benefit for far more Americans than it has been a net negative. But it has been a net negative. But let's be real, let's be perfectly frank. Not everyone is going to profit in every economy. Not everyone is going to rise in
every economy. There are winners and they're are losers. The best you can do is to hope and to plan for the most people being winners with the least amount of harm coming to those who are not in the winter category. That's like the best possible outcome. And I'm going to share the column later. I thought about it. I don't love reading columns on the air, but this one,
it just gives you a different perspective. And I've spent the last I don't know, five six days now trying to read as many opinion columns from as many different points of view as I can. I mean, I've read opinion columns that think tariffs are the greatest things to slice spread and that somebody should have done this a
long time ago, and Donald Trump is a genius. And then I read from the other side, which is we are moments away from the next great depression, and oh my god, he's doing it on purpose to enrich his billionaire friends. I have read everything in between those two positions, I feel like, and it's been very instructive. But it's also led me to realize that so much of what is going on right now is one emotional.
Two completely rooted.
In the political part of this entire thing, and no one is having conversations about the people that Trump says he's trying to help. And so I didn't mean to go off on this tangent already. Let me just do this. Let's zip back and do the blog because again it's on the blog today and we have so much good stuff, and we have guests, and it's just going to be a really bang up show. And I'm excited because after today at three o'clock when Kawa Sports takes over, we
are more than halfway through the week. My friends were we're in the downslope because it's home day, as that guy says with a camel. Find the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline in the latest post section that says four nine twenty five blog tax Day is coming and Cindy Romero talks gangs. Click on that and here are the headlines you will find within tic tech toe.
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Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And I told you I had a bunch of stuff on the blog. It's not even it's shocked full. So much stuff right now you have to carry it with two hands. Don't try and just carry it with one. Don't try the farmers carry thing you're doing at the gym. The blog's too big. You can't do it anyway. We've got several guests coming on today. Of course, we have
Dave Fraser coming up at twelve thirty. I'm going to ask him about the weather forecast for the mountains a week from Friday. Oh yes, and here's what he's gonna say, Mandy, you know that that accurate forecast is challenging.
To make that far out, but I'm gonna do it anyway.
Uh. We're also going to talk with Mark Steeber. He's the chief tax officer from Jackson Hewitt Tax Services. He's got some information if you're a last minute five, and he's also going to debunk some misinformation about extensions and estimated taxes, which I will be utilizing once again. I am a perpetual filer of an extension and I make no apologies for it, and I'm gonna do it again this year and again make no apologies for it, just
saying anyway. We're also going to talk with the woman who has been in the news, not for a reason she probably would have chosen, but Cindy Romero and her husband were the ones who filmed the video of Trende Aragua busting in a door of a neighbor's apartment and walking in fully armed, locked and loaded.
She also just recently testified.
In front of Congress about the situation here and I found out we had a mutual friend, and she's going to be on the show today at two thirty to talk about her. You know, I hate to say it as an adventure, because it's almost a misadventure of just being a woman living with her husband in an apartment complex where everything was fine, until Venezuelan gangs took over and no one believed her. So we're gonna do that at two thirty. So already the show's teed up and
it's gonna be awesome. But we also have other things to talk about. This story has really I I realize what's happened in Colorado since I got here. I've been here since twenty thirteen, so a little over twelve years. And since I've been here, it has gone not just from purple to blue, but it has gone from purple to blue to screaming, progressively lead blue, where.
Things have stopped making any rational sense.
And this legislative session, every legislative session, I think to myself.
Well, how much worse can to be next year?
And then they're like, hold my beer, let me show you. This legislative session, they have passed the most onerous gun bill I think in the country, maybe ever, certainly in the modern era. They have passed more regulations in a state that last year was the sixth most regulated state in the country. We now know from a Common Sense Institute study that our job growth has slowed almost to a halt by the way other parts of the country booming.
Our unemployment rate is now above the national average. We have developers saying that they cannot do business in downtown Denver. We have restaurants closing left and right. And we have legislators in Colorado who thought the best use of their time would be to make it even harder for the federal government to come in and arrest illegal immigrants.
Listen to this from the Denver Gazette.
Send It. Bill to seventy six builds on many of those provisions by extending being the ban on information sharing, meaning information about someone's immigration status. They're now banning information sharing to all levels of government within the state. Under the bill, municipalities, counties, boards and commissions, and the state's judicial and legislative branches would all be barred from providing personal information to federal officials unless presented with a valid warrant.
Restrictions on data sharing would also include information related to student visa sponsorships and financial aid for higher education. The bill also seeks to limit deportations in sensitive spaces like schools, hospitals, and childcare centers. Those spaces would be prohibited from giving federal immigration officials information about enrolled children or patients, as well as access to areas that aren't open to the public unless a warrant is provided.
I want to give you an example of what that means.
If a mom brings a child to a daycare center and the child and mom are fine, everything is good, but then dad shows up and it is clear that he is a violent gang member. The daycare center. If they call to request assistance and say something like we believe he's part of Trende and Ragua, they have now broken the law. Violators, this is my favorite part. Violators could face fifty thousand dollars in fines, which would go to the state's Immigration Legal Defense Fund. I mean, I
want you to think about that for a second. If you have maybe you have a really good reason, maybe you're concerned about this dangerous person. If you reach out, you could face a fine of fifty thousand dollars in that fine is going to pay for the defense of the person. Maybe maybe it will maybe someone else. This is what doing in Colorado now?
This is what.
How are people going to keep voting for these people? I have britt of Horn coming on the show next Thursday, a week from tomorrow, and on Wednesday, I've already decided this because I've already been making a list.
We you meet listeners.
If you lean right, heck, if you lean left, I'll take your suggestions as well.
I may not pass them along.
I want us to create a list of issues that the Republican Party must run on, and that they must stay on message on, and that they must find candidates who can clearly articulate these issues from every direction, and then clearly articulate why conservative policies and ideas are the
best way to handle them. Because if we don't start getting people back into elected office, if we don't start putting enough people in the Colorado legislature that the Democrats are forced to pay attention, I shuddered to think what else is going to happen here? I mean, they've made it impossible to be a landlord. They've killed small business with these massive minimum wage increases. They have over regulated industries.
I have a story on the blog today that Colorado regulations and the cost of compliance are putting daycare centers out of work. Combined with universal pre k, where now parents can get free quote free pre k for a few hours a day, it's putting childcare centers out of work. This is not a problem of the markets. Right, Oh, you weren't doing a good job, so the market decided,
and now you're going to go under. This is directly because of government interventions in the market and government regulation strangling their competitors. And none of this.
Should be okay.
I don't care if you are a screaming left winger who thinks that a woman should be able to get an abortion while she's having birth, I don't care. How is it okay that you have government strangling people's private businesses and people shutting down and people leaving the state. Common Sense is now estimating that we're going to be four billion dollars short in tax revenue because of the damage to the economy that has been happening coming from
our quote leadership under the Gold Dome. And don't even look at the Republicans. They're so outnumbered that they can do nothing to stop this. They don't have the numbers to stop a single thing. And the Republican or excuse me, the Democrat discipline of keeping all of their members lockstep in a row, even with all of the crazy crap they're passing. That's pretty remarkable, because I have to believe there's got to be some reasonable moderate Democrats left somewhere.
I just feel like they've been shoved in the closet. We need to have a coming out day for moderates to both parties, like, hey, come on out, swing the closet door open. This kind of stuff is the reason that I am more and more certain that we have to make changes to our primary system and that we have to figure out a way to make it so we don't have to vote for the most onerous politician who became the most onerous politician because of what they did in the primary to win the tiny fraction of
primary voters. I mean, you, guys, it's just this is a mess. Colorado is in a mess, and I don't see any kind of light on the horizon with this stuff. So next Wednesday, we are going to make a list of what we want to see the Republican Party focus on in Colorado. And here's a little clue for you about how I'm thinking about this. It's not going to be my wish list of priorities. Okay, It's not going to be everything that I think is the most important
because I've decided it is the most important. That's not what this is. What it is is a list of issues that are important to the most people in Colorado that have reasonable, explainable solutions that are not being pursued by the Democrats in charge. Those are the kinds of issues I'm looking for. So well, again, we'll do that Wednesday. You have into Wednesday to think about it. I'm giving you plenty of thinking time. After my show's over, turn the radio off and drive around in silence and do
a little thinking. So yeah, Mandy, says our text line from the Common spiritalf text line at five six six nine zero Mandy. Or how about the complete stupidity of the bill being introduced right now that would make it illegal to misgender or use the dead name of a transgender person. Oh boy, Oh, that's not even the worst of it. This legislative session just a bizarre conspiracy, says
this Texter. Do you think they might intentionally be getting rid of private childcare so they can have government childcare where they can indoctrinate the young. I know, I'm wearing a foil hat right now. I mean, that's how they do it in the Soviet Union, That's how they do it in China. You guys know that part of the real human rights disaster in China when it comes to the Muslim wigers is that China removes the children from the home of their parents so they can be brought up properly.
So it's not a crazy thing to say.
It's just a crazy thing that we're even considering the notion in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. Every Wednesday, about this time, we talked to our friend Dave Frasier. Dave, I approve of today's weather.
I do too, stamp of approval all around.
Yep, Well, just let's just do this for a little, you know, a little while longer, and I'm good. And from what I can see in the New York Terms forecast, we should be able to pull that off.
Yeah, I think today's a sweet spot, if you will. You know, it is going to get warmer, and it could get near record levels by the time we get to Saturday. We're talking, you know, to mid eighties, low eighties Friday, potentially close to the record of eighty five on Saturday. It's just going to depend on cloud cover. I think today's the sweet spot. When you're like right at about seventy degrees, you've got the overnight lows in the upper thirties. You've got that. We don't have as
much wind in the city and south. It is a little windy over northeast Colorado, like Fort Collins and up the Ice seventy six quarter. But if you remove the wind, I think today is just it's great.
Where you want to be, It is where we want to be.
So I mean we're going up to the mid eighties this weekend.
We're not.
I mean we're not just blowing through spring to get to summer, though, are we? Because I don't like that.
No.
No.
As a matter of fact, as I always do in preparation for talking with you, I pull all the long range models, things outside of the seven day I just finished our seven day forecast. We will get We will be a little cooler tomorrow in the upper sixties. Then we'll get to the near eighty on Friday. Eighty four is our forecast. Higher Saturday again, that's one off the record of eighty five from twenty twenty three, and then
a cold front comes in. It's not very powerful, but it will cool us into the upper sixties and low seventies again. As we get to Sunday Monday, there's a twenty percent chances some showers. It's always good to have at least a little moisture on the horizon. And then the long range models taking us out ten days, which would be beyond our seven day just shows it kind of more back to a spring pattern mid sixties with
low chances percent chance of some pop up showers. So I like that part of the forecast because we are going to kick in the growing season here pretty quickly, and to have moisture in the forecast it's good.
So what's going on in the mountains though? Because Ross and I are supposed to go to Winter Park a week from Friday and we're seeing like, you know, oh, they're going to get a big dumping snowstorm.
What's happening there?
So the mountains, you know, the mountains are not done with snow, nor His nor His Denver in the front range. I always want to reinforce that because I'm starting to get those emails about can we turn this place? Yeah, the big bad answer is no. The mountains a week out I did.
I have been looking.
I was just on there looking at our long range models outside of seven days, and it looks a little un settled. There will be rain. As showers come next to you, ask what was it Friday? Come next probably there'll be some rain showers. Temperatures will be about fifty to fifty five in town, obviously colder up on the mountains. But there is one computer model, an outlier that does show about a half an inch of one inch of snow, which would not be what would not be out of
the case. I mean at that altitude, win apart, if you've got a rain shower, there's a chance you'll get grappled, there's a chance who get sleep. There's a chance you could get some snow for a period of time. So we're not done up there yet. So I would say, you know, be prepared if you're heading to winter Park next Friday for it to be a little un settled and cool, but not cold.
Okay, that sounds good to me.
Now, Dave, I have a couple of questions, and one of them is, traditionally, what is our hail season? Because we've already had a little bit of hail at my house a couple of weeks ago, very small, nothing, nothing you know, damaging or major. And I was talking to a friend of mine who's from here, and she said, we never used to get hale in March, and is that accurate? What are we looking at when is the
proper hail season? And has climate change shifted us enough that we need to worry about it earlier.
Yes, the answer to that question is yes. Anytime you have convective showers, rising showers and thunderstorms in the forecast, there will always be a chance of hale at this time of the year. We don't traditionally think of March as a hal month, but certainly as you get into mid April and later May is definitely a sweet spot. You're getting into your really stormy season, and then June is kind of the spike. It doesn't mean we won't have hail in July and August, because thunderstorms are still
part of the equation. What you have to remember is hale is produced up above us as rain is thrust up beyond the freezing line, and it's kind of held up there for a little bit and spins around and turns into ice balls and then falls. So at this time of the year, that cold line of below freezing is not that far off the ground. As we expand that line and push it in in the summer, he comes in it gets harder and harder for the thunderstorms to reach that freezing line, and the hail signature kind
of drops off. Our hail season is really now because anytime you have towering showers you can get it. May is certainly a spike early June. Some of our worst severe weather is actually in the first two weeks of June, with a sweet spot of around June ninth to the sixteen. Okay, if you go back in time, you can think about some pretty good hailstorms that it is, and then we position I'm going.
To be out of town to protect my plants. You just broke my heart right there. I got to figure something out.
Dang it, Yeah, it is, it is. Yeah, you definitely want to do that. Anytime we leave and go on vacation during the during the severe weather season or convective season as I call it, my wife and I pull all our pots underneath because you just know that that's possible, because it can't happen when you're gone. Now, there's nothing more gut wrenching than the money, Yes, that's it, and the effort and the time to put in all those gorgeous flowers to watch them just get shredded.
Yep, yep.
I don't like that, not at all. Okay, Dave. Several people off the text line have taken umbradge with your statement about localized winds. My favorite one is this a little windy up north. It's blowing small dogs into Kansas. So apparently there's quite brisk winds up north right now, and you're able to reassess your localized winds comment.
Yeah, there were some guts reported about now nine and a half to go up high in the puthills of a fifty to fifty five miles prow. I know there's some forty five and forty nine out in northeast Colorado out towards you know, past Greeley and up the ice seventy six quarter. So yeah, it's definitely blown out there.
But that's a that's a wind prone area. I'm definitely the wind you know, one of the two of the windiest states in my opinion, And I haven't looked statistically, but I know it's it's wyoming and felt, and so the wind coming through those areas tends to spill down into northeast Colorado. And if there's a part of the state certainly up high in our foothills, in our mountains, they're prone to some of that wind because they get
it coming in with the jet stream. But then the northeast corner of the state is just like this open door, like Cheyenne opens the door and goes here, you go have some of this.
Yeah.
Well, one last question, that's one I said no to sprinklers. Is he expecting a hard freeze? Why did you say no, It's not time to turn your sprinklers on yet.
Because the temperatures we can still get freezing temperatures and a hard freeze. So the problem is, Look, if you know how to drain your external pipe, then you take the responsibility of turning your sprinklers on early. A lot of people pay somebody to do that. And if you pay somebody to do it, they come out and they turn your sprinklers on, They check your heads, they make sure everything's working fine, and the next thing you know, we've got a hard freeze coming or temperature is going
to be in the twenties. What are you going to do and to come back out? Howd them back out again and drain the pipes? So the goal is wait until give it a month Mother's Day for planting, but generally early May you can start to turn those sprinklers on and just look for a week. Like in early May, look at the forecast lows for about a week and if you see out to May sixth, seventh, eighth, and you're not seeing wheezing temperatures, you're probably safe to turn
them on. But just understand it comes with the risk. If you don't know how to drain that external pipe yourself, then you're going to have to pay somebody to come back and do it. And if you blow that external pipe, it can be costly.
Yes, they can.
Not the pipes. It's not the pipes underground. It's that one that comes up from your house that feeds the sprinkler system. That's the sensitive point. And that's why I always say no, because I don't want to be the guy getting emails same you told us to turn our sprinklers on, and it cost me two hundred dollars to have my pipe sick. So if you got a water water by hand with a.
Hose, follow up text message to the earlier text message, this guy sends that guy's dog just blew through Burlington, So there you go, got dogs blow it all over Northern Colorado. Mandy, I feel sorry for hailed out flowers now think about losing an entire crop in ten minutes. My heart always breaks for farmers when they when they're knocked out by hale because they I can move my
plants in, right, they can't move theirs in. So here's hoping we have a mild hail season in the crop area and for roofings companies a great hail season here in the metro.
Yeah. I lost my roof two years ago and had to have it replaced in one of the bigger hailstorms I've seen in twenty three, twenty four years. So I feel for everybody that has to deal with it. But we live in Hale Alley, and there's some things you can protect, there are some things you cannot. You just got to ride it out. Hope for the best.
Amen to that. My friend that is Dave Frasier from Fox thirty one. You should watch their forecast. It's highly accurate. We'll talk to you again next week, Dave.
All right, take care, Mandy, you do man, have a good.
One and we shall return right after this. Lot's going on in the tariff game right now. Trump has temporarily dropped tariffs to ten percent for most tree while raising tariffs on China to one hundred and twenty five percent. So this is I was talking to the bunch of folks in the over by my desk yesterday and they're trying to wrap their heads around this and trying to
figure out, you know, what exactly Trump's endgame is. And I said to them yesterday, I said, you know, I think all of the other nations are going to come to the table with some kind of agreeable proposal, whether that is zero zero tariffs, you know, truly free trade or reasonable measures for reasonable industries and things of that nature, and then there's going to be China. And China is what this is all about. China has been stealing our
intellectual property for decades, that's not even in question. China has been spying on all of the people that shop on Timu and other platforms, your TikTok account. I mean, they have invaded their way in a way that is wildly uncomfortable in my mind for a geopolitical foe. And I always think back to the and A Rhod's too young to remember the Cold War, but go back and look at the movies of the nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties, and if there was a if there was a foreign villain, right,
because all the best villains were foreign. They were all Russians. Like we were certain that we were moments away from nuclear war with Russia during the Cold War, and we are in a very similar but less aggressive situation with China.
And yet no one thinks twice about China buying up farmland right next to military bases, China having unfettered access to millions of Americans through their TikTok platforms, China gathering up more data through Timu and other shopping outlets, and everybody's like, oh okay, China making all of our prescription medications. We would have never allowed the Soviet Union to do any of that stuff, and yet with China, it's like oh okay. And by the way, I no ill will
with the Chinese people. I would love to be able to visit China in my lifetime. I would love it. But I have heard enough stories from people who lean on the right side of the aisle that have either done business or traveled to China for academic reasons, and they have made me concerned.
That because of what I do for a living. I could have.
Problems in China, so I'm not going to go. I would never stop someone else from going. I mean the rich cultural history alone. But the Chinese government is our geopolitical foe, and we have seemed to just like brush that aside. And I realized the world has gotten smaller and smaller, as they say, and that, you know, with the sort of international business environment that we have now, I guess we're just supposed to look the other way.
I'm just genuinely confused by this. And it's so casual, right, nobody even talks about the fact, you know, there are top geopolitical foe, and yet we buy all this crap from them, from Walmart.
You know.
It's just it's a very strange situation. It's kind of the same situation I view the EU being in with Russia. At the same time they're giving money to Ukraine to fight Russia, they are paying more money to Russia for liquefied national gas and oil, so they're funding both sides of the war. Well, when we go to war with China, if that ever happens, and I certainly don't want that to happen, are we going to fund both sides of the war there. How is that gonna work? Does anybody
else think about this stuff? I'm just curious. But this entire tariff situation, it's all about China. It's all about ringing better trade out of China. And we'll see what happens. China's now retaliated. They're at one hundred and twenty five percent. Actually I think they're one hundred and four percent on American products. I'll have to go back and look, it's all happening so fast, I can't keep up.
But the dal Jones market right.
Now up six point six percent, back over forty thousand, the nasdak up s and P back over fifty three hundred, and Naszak back over sixteen seven nine. So the markets are responding irrationally and emotionally, which is unfortunate because a lot of people's retirement depends on that. Anyway, moving on, when we get back, it is about to be our least favorite day of the year. It's the year that we must render unto Caesar. What is Caesar's It's tax day coming up in six short days, six or seven.
When does taxa used to be April fifteenth, But then they moved it to April seventeenth, and I thought, what happened there? It is Tuesday, April fifteenth. So when we get back, we're going to talk to the chief tax officer for Jackson h at Tax Surfaces Services.
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You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, I gotta go get some water.
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Anyway, we're gonna talk to him next.
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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the program. I'm your host for the next two hours, Mandy Connell, And if you like me, can't wait until tax Day. You are going to love our next guest. And you should have been able to hear the sarcasm dripping down both sides of my face as I said, I love tax Day. A guy who may or may not love tax Day, will find out in just a second, but he certainly works at it. His name is Mark Steber,
chief tax officer of Jackson Hewitt Tax Surfaces. Mark, Welcome to the show.
First of all, welcome to the show, and I love tax Day. One hundred million people getting three hundred billion dollars.
What's not the love?
Well, not everybody gets money back, you know, we'll talk about that a little bit later.
How did you end up in the tax field?
I mean not when you when you ask a lot of five year olds what do you want to be when you grow up? I've never met one that said I'd like to work in taxes? How did that happen?
Well, it's even more bizarre than that.
I've done taxes and only taxes for this will be my fortieth year.
I didn't have other jobs. I wasn't one of those guys that found my calling.
H It's a long, you know, complicated path to how I've become just a personal tax return specialist.
But I got out of college back in eighty five.
And you may not remember that, or maybe you were born after that, but that was when Ronald Reagan passed the tax reformat.
So I got out of college with the county degree, and for.
The first time in one hundred years, taxes was a much needed profession. I had some people who said, hey, you adjustable, would you like to learn taxes.
No, I'm not a nerd. I'm not going to be a tax guy.
But I've had job security, a never changing of evolving world technology.
You know, law changes.
It's an exciting field, but mostly, as I said, to begin with, two out of three people get.
A refund every year. That's three hundred billion dollars.
It's a pretty happy thing for the majority of tax payers who get money.
And if you help people even more people get money. And if you help them.
Not self inflict a mistake by skipping something, that's even more fun. So on my side, it's like Christmas in spring giving people money.
It's a pretty good gig. I recommend it to anybody.
Well, I will say, and I've been pretty open about this on the air. I am a big believer in getting tax help because to your point, the tax code feels like it's changing all the time. And in the forty years that you've been doing this, do you feel like now is more complicated or less complicated than it was when you got into this field forty years ago.
Oh, it's very simple.
It's not only more complicated for those that hear the news and think the tax code's going away.
Or we're going to a host card.
Technology and the evolution of technology is what's made taxes so complicated. It used to be a form he could fill out with a pencil. Now it's more of a construct for social media management, whether it be get to buy you know, alternative fuel cars, or buy houses, or we need stimulus because we've got the pandemic. The tax system is a great system. So what's going to change
in the future. Well, tax have evolved from just the pencil and paper with computers and now you have artificial intelligence.
That's just going to let loose the people.
Who say, you know, we need each individual's situation to be considered to be fair and there's.
No stopping that. So taxes are going to be here. They're going to be here for another one hundred years.
They're going to get more complicated, but that's the price of fairness. To be quite honest, people complain about how complicated taxes are, but your situation is different than mine than the next listener, and the tax code should reflect that people who make more money should pay more taxes, people who make less should pay less.
And our system does that despite some of the commentary, and it's going to continue that way.
It's a good system. It's the best system in the world. It is very fair.
Anything else you hear besides that probably just posturing.
Well, let's talk about let's talk specifically to those last minute filers. And I am the proud filer of an extension every single year. This is I'm one of those because I'm just not going to do it more than i have to or faster than I have to. But what if people do want to file before the fifteenth, because that is tax day and has to be postmarked or filed by the end of that day. What are some of the tip store tricks that you give people who've waited till the last minute.
Well, they're not as smart as those really smart, financially prudent people who filed early. When you file early, as I mentioned, to get some of that three hundred billion dollars and that's the number, then you get your money early. You don't have to be a financial wizard to know I'm not waiting six months to get my money, So file early.
Get your money early. File early, you lock up your data on the.
IRS system, state system, So some peske schemer who bought it on the web or stole it or found your copy last year on the printers, just waiting to harm you.
You file early, you lock up your data. Well, those that are going to owe. If you file early, you lock up your data, which is good. And you also don't have to pay till April fifteenth. Filing separate from paying. So earlier is better.
Early February is better than now, But now it's better than on next Tuesday. And that's better than wait until the summer and doing all of those conversated extensions. So the people who waited til the last minute, get a plan, pull that band aid off, find your documents, find last year's return, find a.
Pro unless you want to go learn it yourself.
Here in the last few hours and just get it done and start thinking about twenty twenty five, which were a quarter of the way through.
But get your taxes done.
It's the smart thing to do, and not only because it's your biggest financial transaction now. Employers, banks, lenders, people who are looking to partner with you they're going to ask you, have you done your taxes?
Are you compliant? And if you file the extension you can kind of say yes.
But if you've done them even better, you look like you're somebody disciplined about your own house. They won't mind you partnering up with them in their house. So taxes are a big deal going away. Most people are going to file thirty, forty, fifty or sixty years. Get some best practices, and that includes filing early, being a little bit organized, and using a professional.
That's just the best practice.
But it prevents me from feeling like I am having something pulling something over on the government mark, which is.
Precisely why you do it.
So let me ask you this. What happens if people don't file their taxes on time?
Well, a lot of things none good.
Yeah, you know, if you don't file at least an extension on time, you can be subject to the failure to file penalty properly named, and that's a penalty of up to twenty five percent compounded daily with interest for any taxes that you owe. Separate from that is the failure to pay penalty. If you didn't pay your taxes like you're supposed to do, you can be subject to a second twenty five percent penalty a failure for penalty
to pay your taxes, plus interest compounded daily. Thirdly, if you're supposed to pay throughout the year because you got a side hustle or a side gig, or your crypto's hitting you know gold, and you're making good money stock portfolio and you're selling stocks making money, you owe your money throughout the year. If you didn't pay that like everybody should, then you got an underpayment penalty and interest.
Then you've got to pay a pro to clean it up.
And so the.
Penalties and interest can get bigger than even the tax liability for doing it right.
But there's a new dark element.
Many employers, many lenders, many people who are giving you your certifications, they're going to ask you, are you contemporary?
Are you compliant?
And you can either say yes, I did it or no, I didn't and look like they're not somebody that want to be a part of your team, or you can lie and they'll find that out sooner or later because they can run the check.
And even your credit rating now can be reflective.
Not to mention cross claiming on unpaid taxes and all the rest bad. So nothing good happens to somebody and rarely little even if you extend. But you certainly don't want to miss the deathline and court disaster with penalties, interests, professional fees, and just a bad reputation that can hurt you. With that, it's a self inflicted financial wound that you don't need to wait on.
I've got a question from our text line over here for Mark, our guest. He's the chief tax officer of Jackson Hugh Att Tax Services. Someone said, how far back can you file a return? Maybe you didn't file several returns. Maybe I don't know if they were getting a refund those years, and I don't know if the penalties are difference, But how far back can you go back to sort of make good after you haven't filed.
Yeah, there's a lot packed into that question.
The first answer is you have three years to amend the tax return and claim some unclaimed credits or benefits that.
You left off.
The IRS also has three years to audit a tax return. Now, if you've never filed, the statute of limitations on both being audited, you know, and getting into trouble never starts, so it's wide open, so you never want to leave a tax you're open.
Now.
The bad news is you can't even go back and get refunds.
Because there's a special rule that says you can go back three years when the taxes are paid, but the IRS can audit you forever if you have not filed at tax return. That's why it's always in your best interest to file, file timely and get all your money. And I leave your listeners with one sad bad fact. You know, each year on April fifteenth, coming up the IRS, and they've been doing this for a couple of months now, has been trying to find.
One million people one million.
With an M to give one billion with a B tax refunds that were failed.
To be claimed. People moved, they closed their bank account for whatever reason, they didn't get them. And after three years, with the deadline expiring on April fifteenth.
Every third year, they keep that billion dollars in unclaim refunds forever.
Then you can't go get that money.
So not only are taxes complicated, there's a million people leaving a billion dollars sitting there at the IRS that after a while, the while being three years, they just keep that money forever, So a lot baked into the how long and how far back?
Three years is your general rule forever? If you didn't file, is your risk of being audited?
What is this question from our another listener? Please ask how to handle disputes with the IRS? I had a seven year battle which I won, but it took that long for the.
IRS to correct their error.
Is this a common experience that you guys have seen at Jackson Hewitt to have a situation drag out for that long?
We have seen it. It doesn't happen with us.
It's usually with people trying to do self representation, or they're using some of those JANKI midnight TV advertisements that they know a guy, a competent professional who has an enrolled agent or CPA or is license to practice before the IRS can usually get a situation wrapped up in a relatively short time, again depending on the facts and circumstances, but seven years is unheard of with a representative unless you've got some really strange facts and really disputed issues, and some really.
Complicated things come up.
But I'd rarely see anything taking more than a couple of three or four letters, maybe a phone call issue resolved maybe the client wins, maybe they owe taxes they didn't agree with, maybe they.
Got penalties for given.
But use a trusted representative, somebody trained and experienced, not those late night TV people. Those are usually more bait and switched, and certainly not some of these other guys that creep into the system.
You want to use someone who's good at this, and you can ask ask them what.
Their experience is with advocacy services, how do they charge, how much it's going to cost you, and what they experiences with your issue, because each issue is different.
If you've got valuation of art that's different, the left off a W two, you know, and so it just depends. But no, that's that's too long.
Let's talk about before we go.
Let's talk about those scams that are floating around out there. Tax Time is like scam Central, And what are you seeing in terms of what people are being solicited allegedly by the irs?
Yeah, you see stuff creep into the system. I mentioned that three hundred billion dollar number all the time. When you've got that much money in the system, bad people creep around and we could cover this for an hour. What we see often are just bold, baseless claims. We guarantee you get a refund, you know, all sorts of
other stuff. You know, ghost preparations epidemic right now. People who do your taxes, but they won't sign it's only your names on there, because they can get a little more aggressive and put faked stuff on there.
But it's only your name and a pro has to sign it under law.
So if your tax re turner doesn't have their signature and their P ten, their prepared tax ID number, then you've likely been scammed and you should report that. The thing is common this year and it's been common in the last two years.
Are these fake texts.
Fake emails, fake phone calls that look like they're from the IRS and they just want to confirm some final information, generally your bank account or some other information that's personable, and you think, well, yeah, I'll confirm my bank account. And you've just given your bank account, your routing number, and you're checking account.
Number to some scammers.
So the IRS does not call, they do not email, they do not text. They may return your call, and that's different than sourcing a call.
But if you didn't call the IRS and you're not managing them, do not believe a text.
Another great reason to have a tax pro on your contact list on your smartphone, go ask them, hey, is.
This text real?
Ninety nine point nine to nine are fake, but they do hurt a lot of people because people try to do right by them and even some of the more sophisticated stuff it may say irs on your call id fake fake fake fake. Now, it's just that way, and it's so easy to scam the vulnerable. Do not fall prey to it. Have a pro on your contact list. You've got a Jackson even if we don't do your taxes.
We hate these guys worse than you hate these guys. Well, gladly look at your email, a, your text, your letter, or your phone call, and then we'll turn it over to the authorities and you won't be out money and have to clean up that whole id theft thing.
Mark Saber is the chief tax officer for Jackson Hewett. Thanks so much for making time for us today, Mark, I really appreciate it.
It's your money, it's your biggest transaction. Go get your money.
I like it. Thanks Mark, Lord, I'm exhausted. He was very high energy, I mean, especially for an accountant. No offense to accountants. Some of my favorite people are accountants, but they're not exactly known for that kind of energy, you know, kind of a low key industry. Mandy at seventy seven years old, with Social Security my only income, do I need to file? You know?
When you have specific questions.
Here's the thing there is, especially for our seniors, there are organizations that will file your taxes for you. So wherever you are in your life local area, check with your senior center or senior services through your county office. There are lots of different people that prepare taxes for older people and they would be able to answer that question for you. So this text or Mandy question for him what energy drink is he on? I mean you should do ads for it, whatever it is.
Our good friend of the show, Mark Stout, Yeah, texted me saying is this the guy the mel kiper junior of the tacks industry?
And I said, seems like it. Yeah.
Oh that was a good one, Mark Stout, that was a very very good one and accurate. Yeah. If you are a senior citizen and there is usually a lot of help for seniors. And what I will do is Texter if you email me Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com. I will see if I can help guide you in the right direction if you tell me what area you are in. Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com. Easy thing to remember. All right, guys, We've got a lot of stuff on the blog today that we want to get to.
But I actually posted a post from Kyle Clark about Jenna Griswold. Jannack Griswold is running for Attorney General, and in this tweet that I posted by Kyle Clark, he gives three reasons why he thinks that Jenna Griswold is going to be very difficult to beat in the attorney General's race. And he's not wrong. All those appearances on MSNBC,
all they are are ways to raise money. They're fundraising appearances because she announced, and she immediately got a couple hundred thousand dollars in donations the moment she announced, And I know all of them did not come in from inside Colorado because the people that I know that are well acquainted with Democrat feelings do not necessarily want her to be the nominee, but they do believe she's going
to be the nominee. They don't have a lot of confidence in her but because she is such an aggressive self promoter, they believe she is going to be the most viable choice. So there you go, aggressive self promotion for the win. But I also have a column by our friend Jimmy Seenberger, and he reminds us of the ways that Jenna Griswold politicized the one office in Colorado. Actually, there's two offices in Colorado that should be the least politicized.
One of them the Secretary of State's office. They're in charge of helping businesses get registered, meet their licensing. They're also in charge of overseeing elections and it has never been a highly politicized office until Jennack Griswold took over. And now she's running for the other office that should never be politicized, but of course is, and that is the Attorney General's office. So this is going to be a disaster. But I want to throw a little bit
of Jimmy's column your way, because he's not wrong. Secretary of State, Jenna Griswold, rebuffed in her ambitions for both govern and US Senator, now wants to be Colorado's Attorney general. She's selling herself as quote, one of the first lines of defense against Trump, But her alarming track record tells a different story. Braced for partisan law, fair and record shattering staff exodus rates from day one, Griswold has chosen
politics over principle. She purged nonpartisan staff, installed loyal Democrats, and watched her office hemorrhage staff at historic rates.
Headlines drive her agenda.
Not results. A symbolic boycott of Alabama over abortion laws coordinated with Planned Parenthood, millions in COVID relief, diverted to a DCPR firm for voter education, flagrant double standards, and campaign finance enforcement that hammered Republicans while frequently giving Democrats a pass. In twenty twenty, Griswold sued the Post Office over a generic voter mailer, saying voter suppression to fuel
the left's outrage machine. As head of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State, she's helped coordinate dark money network to bankroll campaigns, including her own, while pushing unsuccessfully to remove Trump from the ballot. And it goes down hill from there. Shouldn't you be an attorney to be the Attorney general? Well?
Funny story.
Phil Wiser had zero prosecutorial experience before she uh before he got the gig. And that's one of the points that Kyle Clark makes in is his three points are this. One, she's an amazing a juggernaut of a fundraiser, and that's true. Two, all of the excuses for all of the idiotic things that have happened under her so called leadership, she just says are the result of sexism, and that's.
Going to be her reasoning.
And then three, she doesn't have any prosecutorial experience, and he points out nobody seemed to mind when Phil Wiser had no prosecutorial experience. So there you go. There you go, Hey, Jenna Griswold should be in jail for leaking all the pass codes. See, I don't even think you could call that a leak. It was an on purpose, well not totally on purpose, it was just incompetence. Mandy. The main reason I'm fearful of Jenna Griswold winning is that Phil
Wiser got elected. Nothing resulted in me losing more faith in Colorado voters than that. This is where it is going to be critical for the Republicans to field the right kind of candidate. And you know, we need a candidate. Maybe somebody who's already in some sort of prosecutorial role, who can clearly articulate the positives of a nonpartisan attorney general's office. But it's going to be a really tough slog to get it to a Republican elected because the
people of Colorado despise Donald Trump. And if she runs on a platform of I have a history in my secretary of state's role of going against and resisting President Trump, that's going to be It's gonna be like catnip for a lot of Democrats and independents who hate Donald Trump. And as much as you know, one faction of the Republican Party doesn't want to believe this. When he's on the ballot, he loses and loses badly. Candidates like him lose badly, So it's kind of like, come on, start
paying attention. Mandy wasn't at Colorado Republicans who began to push to remove Trump from the ballot. It was actually a group of people. I'm not sure they were all Republicans. Some of them were, some of them were not. So I don't know Mandy. As much as I disagree with D. A. Michael Doherty on certain policies, he's the most qualified and would be a thousand times better than Jennack Griswold. Doherty is my DA in Boulder County. Well, you better donate
money because she is raking in piles of it. All of her appearances on MSNBC have finally paid off, and all of the Democrats across the are throwing money at her because she's part of the resistance. Look how brave she is. Stunning, stunning and brave, brave and stunning. By the way, the DAL is currently up seven percent, back to forty thousand, three fifty seven, the S and P fifty four hundred up eight percent, inn ASDAK up eleven percent,
sixteen nine nine eight. Just something to think about. I mean, it's just it's it's watching craziness, watching the markets right now. When we get back, I got a lot of other stuff on the blog to talk about, including a couple of stories that give me a little bit of hope, one from CU Boulder and one from Microsoft, and yet they are connected. You'll have to stick around to find out why this question. Would George Brockler be a good candidate for AG George ran in twenty eighteen and lost.
To Phil Wiser.
The current attorney General by one hundred and sixty thousand votes.
Now, to put that in perspective, John.
Kellner ran against Wiser in twenty twenty two and lost by two hundred and eighty eight thousand votes. So you know, I have no idea what George's intentions. I'm a huge George Brockler fan on so many levels. I mean, I'm pleased as punch that he is my twenty third Judicial District prosecutor because that's the district I live in. So I think he would be great. I don't know if there's any other people that would be interested in coming forward.
I would there are worst candidates we could have, But I don't know what George's intentions are, even if he is, you know, considering that in any way, shape or form. Now let me get to the Win Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes edition of the program. So I have on the blog today, embedded on the blog a Twitter video, a twitio. Is that we call them a twiteo or an x xcoh. I can't even think about us ZO. Would that be z x I de eo zdo x
rated video? No, that would be bad and our I'm sure our filters at work would have something to say about that. Have you ever tried to put something snappy in the Venmo reimbursement box, like something inappropriate?
Inappropriate? Now, I'd use emojis.
Now here's what I like. My best friend she sent me some stuff and I was reimbursing her for us.
I went to send her a Venmo.
And I tried to put a version of the phrase booby picks in there, and Venmo was like, please use the different category. Please, We're not happy with that. And I was like, she understands, she knows I'm just Joshu Weather, but exactly try that the next time and let me know. Yeah, yeah no, but we'll have just mark the tape. We'll have this back us up. So see you, Boulder. There was a guy and I don't know who this man is, but he is my hero. I don't know who this
professor is, what I love him. So the he's standing up teaching his class, just doing his thing. And here come to idiotic pro hamas Kafia wearing idiots who are hiding their faces as one of them marches up to the front of the classroom with purpose and he starts yelling about Israel. And blah blah blah blah blah, and this teacher just goes get out, get out now. And they didn't, but they did because they were removed from the classroom very unceremoniously.
And I gotta tell you, I watched it.
Like six times today. I watched this video over and over and over again. You can go to the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline, you know, four nine twenty five blog. Look for that. It's in there.
But it is about time that people stop tolerating this idiocy from people who are supporting a regime that murders the Palestinian people, a regime that starves the Palestinian people, a regime that kills gay people, a regime that sometimes demands honor, killings within a family, where a young woman is killed because some other dude has decided she did something that they didn't like. That is who these people
are supporting. And it warms my soul to see cu Boulder's professor just be like nope, hole, lot of big fat nope on that so much. Nope. Here's a giant cup of nope. You can drink it.
On your way out.
And the best part is is that through the little minor, tiny kerfuffle, one of the protesters fell on the floor. It had to be dragged out.
And then they just throw the scarf out the door after him, and it's just.
So good.
The other by the way, the protesters are claiming they were harmed, it was this.
You can't do that.
You have to let us come in and do our protest because we have to be able to do our protests because freedom of speech and an academic freedom and all those other things that we have. Yeah, shut up and sit down, Marci. No one wants to hear from you. I don't know if the girl's name was Marci. She seemed like a Marcie. No offense if you're a Marcy,
but she seemed like a Marcie. A Marci is like a younger, more lefty version of a Karen, like Karens can be any political affiliation, because I gotta tell you, I know some Republican Karens okay one hundred percent, So I think that's like a non denominational kind of thing. But Marcy feels like a liberal, angry woman. The second play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes comes straight out of Microsoft. Oh yes, Microsoft.
The company is also done suffering fools.
Listen to this. Microsoft is fired to employees who interrupted the company's fiftieth anniversary celebration to protest its work supplying artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military. Microsoft accused one of the workers in a termination letter Monday of misconduct designed to gain notoriety and cause maximum disruption to this highly anticipated event. The other worker had already announced her resignation, but on Monday, it ordered her to leave five days earlier. Again,
I'm here for it. I'm here for it. I'm sick of it. I don't know if you guys have been following along. What's been happening at Union Station or not? Union Station?
Oh?
Central? Yes? What is the Central? What is Central? The main train station in New York called Grand Central Station? My god, nanny, wow, did I just have like a senior moment?
There?
No, there are protesters in New York that are shutting down Grand Central Station, and they're shutting it down during like rush hour. Now, when they shut it down, all the trains stop all over the city. So then you have thousands and thousands and thousands of people that have just been stopped in their tracks and I just I find it appalling. I'm all for people protesting and letting their voices be heard and all of that stuff. But you don't have a right to interrupt a class being
taught at CU Boulder, You really don't. And you don't have a right to interrupt a private event that a private company is putting on. You don't.
And I'm glad they're being fired.
Now.
Don't get me wrong, These young scaleywags may be thinking to themselves, it's worth it. I stood up for my beliefs, and I support them in that, But I also support this thing called repercussions. And what I think is going to be very interesting is that a lot of the young people who have been involved in this kind of idiocy for the last three or four years during COVID, like they came of age during COVID, they just went
to college during COVID. They're about to find out that in the real world, pansy acid administrators don't let you set up tents and campuses on Microsoft's campus. Right, It's not like college anymore. And now there are actual repercussions, and those actual repercussions often include things like being fired. So there you go. Mandy on a different topic, It makes me pretty happy to see the airport is.
Ticketing cars with expired plates.
It makes me even happier when people interviewed are complaining about not being given a break. It's funny they think they can break the law, but let's go on a vacation. I'm glad you said this text her, because I literally said the exact same thing to eight Rod on the break. If you didn't hear the sound bite the keenan plade in his news just a few minutes ago, let me give you kind of a you know, paraphrasing. It was
this woman saying travel is stressful enough. Coming back to find you have a ticket just makes it so much worse. They should give us a break.
You know what else is challenging paying for your dang tags.
The rest of us did it. You can too, lay And if you got money to fly somewhere, you surely have money to reregister your car properly.
I'm with you, Texter, one hundred percent. Mandy Brockler is.
Leftist trash red Flag co author Big Government Values, corruption in office, getting his friend the sheriff off from multiple legitimate felony and misdemeanor charges. I'm as far right as the US Constitution. If Brockler runs again, I will go after his campaign again. Please email me details of what you're saying to Mandy Coddle at iHeartMedia dot com. I would appreciate that. Why can't I ever find that blog?
You guys, mandy'sblog dot com. Go to the latest post section on that page and then look for the headline with today's date on it with the word blog behind it. Like I, you may have to scroll over to the right because we also put the podcast on that same line. But I can't make it any easier. I've tried, so it is when it is, But please try a little harder. Is all I'm asking is.
If you're looking right now, it should be the first thing.
Now.
If you're looking after the show, then yeah, but you scroll.
I told Ad the next day or a couple of weeks ago that he would be floored if you knew how much time I spend trying to direct people to my blog. And trust me on this, I have run that up the chain of command at iHeart to figure out a way to make it easier. And literally, I'm the only person in iHeart Media's entire thousand radio stations. Who does what I do with my blog? I'm the only one, I mean, so they don't need to work with me. Is basically what I've been told.
I mean, I don't side with you on this one. I think it's pretty easy. I like it.
I'm saying.
I just again, if you knew how much time I spent answering questions just like that one.
I know, I know, no, maybe that's the problem.
I know, Goola do I know?
I do.
Want to talk really quickly about the firing of Michael Malone, real quick, a Rod, because yesterday when it happened during the show, I was like, oh, just wait, there's.
Stuff happening behind the scenes.
Now people are starting to talk, and it's starting to make a little more sense why they did it now, And that is just that things had fallen apart so badly between both the GM and the coach, and nobody was talking to anybody else, and they were backbiting each other and acting like five year olds. That's what it
sounded like to me. And so that that's been a really interesting story though, And it was almost like the shot heard around the world in the sports world yesterday and it's just would you want to be And I know that sounds like a dumb question to most men, but talk about a job with no job security at all professional coach, Like, if you get to be in any professional league, do you ever have job security? Really?
No, And at no point during any point in the season is it weird to fire coach?
Because the Nuggets weren't the only one.
Yeah, the Memphis Grizzlies, who are in continent for the playoffs as well, they fired their head coach.
When did that happen? Not that long ago, a couple weeks ago, So, I mean, they're all just trying to get it done. But it's certainly I mean, I've heard I've heard from people who know more than I do that it had gotten downright ugly byd the scenes, and it was just thought that it was just better to just end this now sort of than ride this source to the end and just hope that maybe they get something positive out of it.
Disagreements on roster construction, potential relationship being so string where they just didn't communicate again, so much is confirmed and unconfirmed, really a whole lot of rumors, but potentially not really talking much talking to me behind each other's backs. I mean, I think Kronkey just said enough is enough and this is just gotten out of hand and we can't wait any longer, even with three games left.
But you know what's interesting about this, It really goes to show that, you know, the chemistry of an organization is a huge part of success.
Obviously, you have to have talent, right.
You can't just have great chemistry and mediocre guys and expect to achieve at a high level. But chemistry is so incredibly important with these team sports. And when the chemistry is gone, then you got to make some changes. Now, let me ask you your thoughts on this real quick, a Rod, because I was thinking about this last night. I'm not a huge NBA fan, but this to me indicates that they are going to make significant changes in the offseason.
Don't you think they have to?
Yeah, they have to at the very least, even if they don't, you know, move off from their top guys. You know, they need the three and D players, They need to show up the bank. You need to get support for you kick. Well, yeah, that's the thing.
I mean.
I mean, Yokic is a superstar. I mean he is a superstar.
Who's in his prime, who's going to go down as one of the best players of all time, not just as a nugget, but of all time. And they're in the window, and you'll want that thing to slam shut sooner than it should. And again, this is a guy who is not going to play into his forties. Is not That guy's going to play probably late into his thirties. So we're talking about maximizing a window for the next five years at most.
Maybe this is oddly reminiscent of what was done to Dan Marino in Miami. I know that sounds like a crazy analogy, but Dan Marino is arguably one of the top five quarterbacks to play the game ever. But they never gave him the supporting cast that he needed. Where Elway got Terrell Davis and had a running game, they never did that for Dan Marino, and he never won a Super Bowl because of it.
Well.
I was saying this to someone yesterday, but then the Nuggets won when they did. Yeah, because man, not only is the rest of the league stronger, but when you don't win when you're at your peak, especially with a team with the Nuggets that they aren't the LA Lakers,
they aren't the Boston Celtics. And I say that as you know, the Nuggets had to win when they were at their absolute peak with the best roster that they probably are going to have, because if they were to trade some of these guys, I mean, some of these contracts are huge.
You don't know if they're going to get better.
Yeah, maybe get more depth and better, like raise the floor of the roster.
But outside of that, I.
Mean outside of a super star coming and joining Jokic in some way.
Good thing. They won when they did. They were at their peak and now you have to completely reset. Maybe Adaman's the guy. I hope you get a really high quality.
General manager as well, but man, you got you got to take advantage of maximize because I don't think Yoki is the guy's going to ask out.
I don't think he'll leave. I don't think he's gonna go anywhere.
I think that to your point, he's not a guy that's going to hang around the league longer than he needs to. Like, I could clearly see him at some point getting frustrated enough to just say I'm good, I'm out. I'm going back to serbian raising horses from here.
I'm out.
Yeah, I've been saying I think age thirty five, he's gonna he's gonna be gone.
Because he's not your average NBA player. He's not in it for the glory, he's not in it for the chicks. He's not in it for the fame. He's in it because he's really really good at it, loves the game, and he's perfectly happy to go back to his wife and kids and horses and serbian call it a day.
And that is saying something about how highly regarded he is when it comes to talking about the best that I've ever played, Because if he were all of those things, he's already in the top five, top ten conversation yep. Because he leans in on being in the spotlight, which he doesn't and still will go down as one best players all the time. So hopefully they maximize, Hopefully they
think the most. Hopefully you see enough promise with a lighting a fire under their butts going into this playoff run where they do make enough of a run to say, Okay, we're taking that little step back, but we're going to take two or three steps forward next year and go on another run.
We shall see, Nuggets fans, we shall see when we get back. I got some health news that you need to hear, including a new study that showed people who got the flu shot were twenty seven percent more likely to get the flu. You heard me right.
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To the third hour of the show. A little bit later, we're gonna have Cindy Romero join us. She is the woman who set a lot of things in motion by videotaping the Venezuelan gang busting down a door in her apartment complex. She has now just come back from testifying in front of Congress, and what an arc that's been. So we're gonna talk to her at two thirty. I do want to talk about a couple of news stories about medical stuff, and this story is fascinating to me.
I haven't gotten a flu shot in years, not.
Because of any other reason other than for a very long time, eggs gave me migrains and then when I get a flu shot, there would be a reaction because flu shots used to be made with egg whites.
I mean they used eggs to make the flu shot.
I know that's what that was the medium they grew it in at the time. It's not that anyway. But then I finally they changed that, and then I finally got a flu shot, and I got the flu immediately and was like, nope, I'm good, I'm out. I'm fine. No more flu.
Shots for me. But I know a lot of people get flu shots every single year.
Bombshell study the Cleveland Clinic just dropped a preprint, meaning it has not been peer reviewed. But the methodology of this test is pretty dang good. They had fifty three thousand employees of the Cleveland Clinic. They had a vaccinated group, and they had an unvaccinated group. So this truly is an apples to apples comparison as much as you can
get an apples to apples comparison in this situation. What they found was that if you got the flu shot, you had a twenty seven percent more likely chance of getting the flu. Over fifty three thousand employees were studied, eighty two point one percent got the flu vaccine. Surprisingly, the vaccinated out of twenty seven percent higher risk of getting influenza than the unvaccinated. That means vaccine efficacy is minus twenty six point nine percent. Now here's the problem
with the flu vaccine. The flu vaccine has to be made well in advance of the flu season. So what happens is they look and see what flu strains are rampant in the southern hemisphere while they're having winter.
And it would be kind of logical.
To say whatever's running rampant in the southern hemisphere will eventually make it up to the northern hemisphere when flu season starts, which is winter, because we're all inside, we're breathing the you know, all the same recirculated air.
It's very logical.
But that being said, they're still just guessing. So flu vaccine efficacies have been you know, as low as forty five percent in prior years. I mean that's considered a successful flu vaccine. Now the issue here, and again this is not a peer reviewed study yet, but it is a real world cohort study. It is a time dependent analysis meeting. It had a beginning and an end. It's been adjusted for sex, such age, job role, and location.
Like they're not comparing somebody who works in an office building off site with someone who's working in a hospital as a nurse with sick people. They're not comparing those as apples to apples. And the statistical significance of this study is huge now coupled with the study that we recently saw that showed that people who got multiple COVID shots are far more likely to get COVID. And if you get a COVID shot after you've had COVID, you're more likely to have a rebound case of COVID. So
what are we doing? You know, what are we doing with these flu vaccines? Because here's the thing. I think flu vaccines can give older people a false sense of security. And you know, I'm not saying old people should just stay at home for the rest of their lives, but you know what, you may may not go to the theater at the height of flu season, right you may not make that choice. So we've got to figure this stuff out. And that is really bad news, very very
bad news. And when you couple it with the documented adverse effects that some people suffer from the flu vaccine, you have to start wondering yourself, is it worth it?
Now?
I want to know if any of you because I tell people a lot. They're like, oh, you're get a flu shot. I'm like, no, I get a flu shot. The last time I got a flu shot, I got the flu like immediately, and they never believe me. They're like, Okay, you don't want to get the flu. You're just gonna give everybody else the flu this year. No, I'm not. I don't remember, knock on wood that it remains this way.
I don't remember the last time I had the flu, probably seven or eight years ago, and before that it had been a solid twenty Because it's easily been twenty five thirty years since I had a flu vaccine. Mandy, avoid all shots, and not just the flu shots, all shots.
No.
I understand that there's a big pushback right now on vaccines like the polio vaccine, the measles vaccine. I get it, But those have a very long track record and seem to be far more effective than these flu shots because they are fighting a very specific thing. This is the problem with flu shots. This is the problem with the covid vaccine. Remember when we were told we got the
first covid vaccine. It's fine, you're great, You're not gonna kill Grandma and then what a year and a half later, they're like, oh, yeah, that covid vaccine, it doesn't do anything anymore.
You got to get the new new covid vaccine.
So they're always moving the goalposts because these viruses are constantly mutating. Flu viruses are constantly mutating. So by the time we're ready for that old flu, the new flu is here, and those old flu shots apparently don't do anything. You can text us your experiences at five six, six nine oh now here. I want to be very clear about this. I am not telling you to not get a flu shot. I'm not that is inten hirely a decision that you need to make. I am here to
inform you of what a very significant study. Now, a lot of the times when you see scientific studies, the cohort size is maybe, if you've got a good solid study, maybe twelve hundred and fifteen hundred people. This is fifty three thousand people that they studied specifically about the flu and the flu vaccine, and it comes back, oh, yeah, if you got the flu vaccine, you're more likely to get the flu.
Now I have a theory about that.
Is it because people who got the flu vaccine feel protected, so they are not cautious. They're not washing their hands like they're about to do surgery all winter long like I am. My skin has never been drier in my entire life than it is in winter since COVID because I wash my hands like I mean, compulsively. But that's how you don't get sick. All of your responses when we get back, because some of these are a doozy.
I can already tell you from the text line Keep it on koa study that has not been peer reviewed, but included over fifty three thousand Cleveland clinic employees, about eighty five percent of which got a flu vaccine. After studying this cohort to see who got the flu and who didn't, and controlling for things like different job capacities, age, overall health, what they've come up with is that the flu vaccine has an efficacy of minus twenty six point
nine percent. That means that you are twenty seven percent more likely to get the flu if you get the flu vaccine. And I asked the question, I'd like to hear your experiences with the flu vaccine because the last flu vaccine I got was like twenty years ago. Because as soon as I got it. I got the flu, and everybody's like, that doesn't happen. I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, it happened to me. I'm good.
You don't have to show me twice. But I am not alone.
I did find another snippet in that same thread that I posted on the blog at mandysblog dot com. That's ma ndysblog dot com. Look in the latest postsection for a thing that says to today's eight and the blog embedded it there. Listen to this.
As of twenty twenty two, after more.
Than sixty years of experience with influenza vaccines, very little improvement in vaccine prevention of infection has been noted. As pointed out decades ago and still true today, the rates of effectiveness of our best approved influenza vaccines would be inadequate for licensure for most other vaccine preventable diseases, meaning
they don't pass the muster. Taking all of these factors into account, it is not surprising that none of the predominantly mucosal respiratory viruses have ever been effectively controlled by vaccines. Durably protective vaccines against non systemic mucosal respiratory viruses with high mortality rates have thus far eluded vaccine development efforts.
You know who wrote that, Well, one of the authors was doctor Fi in twenty twenty three from an article in Cell, Host and Microbe magazine called Rethinking Next Generation Vaccines for coronaviruses, influenza viruses, and other respiratory illnesses. So let me go through this very very quickly, because a lot of you have weight in. I am seventy two, I'm an old person. If so, when is the height of flu season? The height of flu season usually hits
January February. But you can always talk to your county health department about flu season in your area and they can help you follow along with when the flu is at its peak. But wash your hands. I know it's a respiratory illness and we all think we're going to breathe it in. A vast majority of us get sick from crap on our hands, you guys. And that's true for norovirus, that's true for coronavirus, that's true for the flu. Wash your hands. It's the best way to prevent this. Mandy,
I'm so glad you're addressing this subject. My daughter the last time she got a flu shot, her exema flared and her asthma flared. They're poison well, they're attacking your immune system. That's how vaccines work. Mandy. I made my husband get the flu shot when he had our girls. Only time he's ever got one got the flu both times. Our daughters are six and eight. Mandy, my flip. My mother who's eighty, never gets the flu shot because she always gets the flu when she does. That is why
she didn't get the COVID vaccine. It's a thing, Mandy. I stopped getting flu shots seventeen years ago, and the last time I had the flu was seventeen years ago. But Mandy, our body has the ability to fight these viruses, and when you get those shots, it takes the T cells out of our bodies and we can't fight them. It actually stimulates T cell production. But is that necessarily a good thing. It's starting to look like maybe not.
This texture is absolutely right. Your text line is gonna blow up because this is hot subject.
Yes, it is.
Constantly washing your hands is how you get sick. No, it's not. No, I don't use antibacterial soap, but I wash my hands. The physical action of washing your hands is all that it takes. I am the only person in my house who did not get a flu vaccine.
I was sick for about two weeks.
They all got running noses or nothing after two weeks of being around me and my symptoms. So there you go.
That's the other side of the story.
Mandy, my daughter and I have gotten one flu shot and both got sick within twenty four hours. That was about eighteen years ago. Neither of us has gotten one since and rarely get sick. I believe in hand washing and my immune system. Yep, Mandy, I never get the flu shot because they never know what strain is going to hit. And when they guess what virus you're they're going to protect you from, and it's usually not the
one to hit. Correct. Mandy did not get a flu shot after hearing the flu shot efficacy in South America was below thirty percent since the same flu shot was to be administered in the US. I decided why. And that's a nurse Carla last text.
They have lied forever about these shots.
Pediatricians are finally looking at the ingredients in these vaccines and shots and they're appalled about how they lied about Ivermectin would not let people take it when they had COVID. It worked, It helped people, it save people. Now they're prescribing ivermectin when people have COVID. So God bless our president for allowing us to go through that misery, because we all know what the heck is going on. At least people aren't in that bubble afraid wearing their masks. Yep, yep, yep.
I'm eighty one. Have gotten the flu vaccine for the last twenty years, no flu or side effects from the vaccine, and I'm glad to hear that, sir or madam. Hey Mandy, I'm almost sixty. I received only one flu shot in my life and it was the worst case of the flu I've ever had. There, you go, fermented garlic honey. That sounds awful texture, but I'm sure sure it's effective for someone I just won't be one to find out.
I want to share a column with you, and I don't normally read columns, but this one, I think is a really interesting perspective that is not being talked about in all of the conversations about tariffs.
And it is by a guy named John.
Cass and it starts like this, Betty and I have an old car that's pushing two hundred thousand miles. It still runs fine, but I was thinking of getting a new one, something fancy, something that speaks to status, to luxury, something posh, something with a quiet ride, something cushy. I look at pictures of fine motor cars I'll never be able to afford. But then I look at another picture, one that I took a few years ago in my
brother Peter's backyard at a swing stet. It is my all time favorite family photo of our two boys and Pete and George's children, two boys and a girl. They're young, tiny enough to fit on one swing. They're in their twenties now, with lives of their own. Later, brother Nick and his wife Dina had two boys who were born later.
Otherwise they'd be in that photo.
But when I sit in the dad's chair in our living room, scrolling on my phone, looking at fancy cars that I yearn for but won't buy, and I look up and see that picture of the kids on the swing set, I ask myself, what do I owe them? And what do we as Americans owe the children of America. We owe them a chance at success, not guaranteed outcome, but a chance at winning, a chance at a good paying job, a chance to buy a home and someday retire with dignity, the same chance.
Our fathers gave us.
We were all given the same thing, opportunity, not a guarantee, but a chance. And we didn't have to face machine gun fire on the beaches of Normandy as our fathers and grandfathers did. We won't have to walk through the killing fields of Southeast Asia. Oh we're too selfish now, we give into a panic when we should stand strong.
All we have to do is grow a spine.
And as President Donald Trump tries to revive American manufacturing, he's trying to do this with tariffs, and the markets predictably entered a drop, and then Wall Street speculators were in a full blown panic. They're all complaining and chining and crying about Trump now, But where were they when the Democrats and Republican establishment sold our nation out to China and shipped all those good middle class American jobs overseas.
They turned their backs on the American people, And now they're afraid it will cost the money a self induced economic nuclear winter if Trump doesn't call a ninety day pause on the impending levees, cried Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman, a public supporter of Trump. What economic nuclear winter? If Ackman and his friends promised to watch your back, would you trust them? If, on the other hand, on April ninth, we launched economic nuclear war on every country in the world.
Business investment will grind into a halt, consumers will close their wallets and pocketbooks, and we will severely damage our reputation with the rest of the world that it will take years and potentially decades to rehabilitate. He wrote on a post on X Can you go to war with men like these?
No, they're cowards. I knew the type years ago.
We called them yuppies, then young urban professionals. These days Trump calls them Wall street pannikins. When the pannikins wore a cologne and paid too much for coveted cigars, they'd smoke with a cigar band on to make sure we would all see it. And they coveted bread machines and silk plaisley neckties. Trump isn't a pannikin. The other day, he put a post on truth Social addressing the chicken littles as he tries to revitalize American manufacturing, and attack
the thirty six trillion dollar national debt. The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done decades ago. Mister Trump posted, don't be weak, don't be stupid, Don't be a pannikin a new party based on weak and stupid people. The President wrote on Truths Social half an hour before Wall Street opened for trading. Be strong, courageous, and patient, and greatness will be the result. He posted. In Chicago back in the nineteen eighties, stockbrokers
got their suits at Bigsby and Cruthers. It was owned by the Silverburg Brothers, who portrayed their store as more European, tailored and fashioned forward than traditional competitors. They used pro athletes and Hollywood stars to market the store. Michael Jordan was cool. Suits and ties were cool. Images are crafted and purchased like ties. Even though the Silverburgs got their start in the more humble environs on Maxwell Street, and
Maxwell Street wasn't cool then. It was the opposite of cool. But in the nineteen eighties B and K was all glitz and greed in Wall Street. Fantasy like Michael Douglas with slick backed tear pronouncing from Hollywood that greed is good. In the early nineteen eighties, I was a college intern at the Daily Calumet, America's oldest community newspaper on the southeast side of Chicago. In two weeks as an intern there, editor Bob Bong made me the newspaper steel writer and
political writer. I stopped trying to finish my college degree. I had a job, and I wasn't interested in the sheepskin. Plus, there was work to do. US Steel South Works was laying off forty five thousand men. Then republic Steal a few miles away laid off eighteen thousand. Wisconsin Steel laid off everyone. The hollowing out of Chicago manufacturing had begun. The elites weren't panicking then. They weren't panickings they would
lose nothing. They had their suits and cigars. The people of the neighborhoods, the workers were panicking, but they weren't given a big media political voice because they weren't in on the grift. Republican swamp creatures like US Senator Mitch McConnell. Old Mitch married into the Chow family and they made fortunes.
Now there's a lot more to this column, but you get the gist, right, You get the gist of what we're talking about, and that is it almost feels like revenge for Wall Street to panic and panic they are when people love to talk about women to be an emotional You know who else is emotional traders on Wall Street because they're showing their emotion right now.
Read the rest of that column by going to the blog.
At nandysblog dot com, which will tell thank you to my ur heart media page where you can look for the latest posts and find the blog today unscrolled down.
It's near the bottom.
But joining me now is a woman who kind of shot to fame in a way she did not need, want or desire, but it took her to the halls of Congress last week.
Cindy Romero, Welcome to the show.
First of all, thank you so much so. Cindy, I told my listeners earlier. You are the person who videotaped a Venezuelan gang We now know it to be Venezuelan gang members, not suspected anymore, busting in the door of a neighbor's house, fully locked and loaded, and that video has truly changed the direction I think of Aurora, Colorado, and I wanted to ask you. I know that I've
talked to Daniel Durinsky about your story. How did you get to the point where you went from just living in those apartments happily and peacefully to videotaping people busting down your neighbor's door.
Over the summer. It started out as a lot of party and a lot of people around that we didn't know that didn't live in our building, or we didn't know they lived in our building. And then you know, the rumors of you know, doors being kicked in. We'd leave our building and see actual doors, not on the hinges, and we would actually see sheets separating different living spaces in these little apartments. So we knew something wasn't right then.
But when we seen the guns, then we started to get scared and prepare ourselves and put up cameras.
Now, Siddy, did you have issues with the apartment management before the gangs moved in? I mean, was it an ok okay place to live before that happened.
Oh? Yeah, I really enjoyed living there. Actually, I didn't want to move, and that's how this all started. It started because I didn't want to move, and so I was. I was providing evidence and recordings to the police because I wanted them to do something about the crime. I didn't want to have to move out.
Were you threatened by gang members? What were your actual interactions, if any, with the men that were sort of taking over.
Well, there were always people standing outside by our cars with guns. There were always people leaning on our cars out in the parking lot with guns. They would walk up and down the stairs. We would have to walk past them because they'd sit on their stairs with the guns, so we would have to wait for them to get out of our way, or you know, sometimes they would just stay there and we would.
Have to, you know, like squeeze by them.
These people, they were taking over the property and by intimidation or threatening other of our neighbors, they were pushing slowly everybody out, and we were just the ones who held on the longest in our building.
Well, I can I tell you, I think that you are probably responsible for the shift from leadership in Aurora, whether it is the mayor, whether it is the police chief. At the know, they've got a new police chief now. But that video really helped people understand that this was not a figment of Danielle Jorinski's imagination that made it real. What has happened since that video came out and you guys were forced to move out of the apartments. What has happened to your life since then?
Well, since then, I've had the opportunity to do many interviews and get the word out. And since then, I've spoke at President Trump's rally before he was elected. I have been able to go testify at Congress and in front of a House Judicial Committee so I could explain to them what really happened in Aurora, because, you know, mainstream media for the most part pushback and tried to downplay it. And now that so many people have been arrested,
and you know, nobody still has apologized to Danielle. Poor Danielle for you know, liar insinuating that it was just part of her imagination and it was. I felt like it was my responsibility to get that on public record, that this really did happen, no matter how they try to the misstate or downplay or gaslight as this really happened in Aurora and it should never happen in the US period.
Amen to that. So tell me about testifying in front of Congress.
It was an amazing experience to go to the ARA capital for the first time. It was my first trip to DC. I got to meant meet a lot of people there that were supportive and didn't try to call me a liar, and I was actually approached to off camera several times by people on the other side of the aisle. And it all started out and the same
way that it's been. You know, we're very sorry that this happened to you and your family, But my question is, well, then why did you allow it to happen, Why did you invite these people here, and why did you allow it to continue after? If it was reported for many, many months.
So do you feel like anything was accomplished there other than being able to tell your story and share. Do you feel like you moved the needle enough or at all that there's going to be any kind of significant actions so this doesn't happen again.
I already see changes in my community. I think most people will agree that they're already starting to see changes in their community. Less crime, Let's bullets flying in the middle of the night, let's stolen cars out on the streets, Let's expire tags everywhere, Let's people running up to your cars at intersections. I think everybody is starting to notice the change. I feel a little bit safer. One day. I'd like to be able to move back to Aurora.
Well, I said this yesterday, Cindy. I'm super I'm keen on Aurora right now because the new police chief seems to be doing the right thing in the right way.
That is, that is making the community.
Safer without exacerbating any sort of you know, community negative feelings about the police. You have a city council that is very invested in making crime again in Aurora. So I said yesterday, I'm keen on Aurora. I think they're
moving in the right direction. And I think the fact that you were so open and came out and told your story has allowed people like Chief Todd Chamberlain and say, yeah, we got a gang problem, but we're here to fix it, which is completely different than the response you initially got when you would call police and say, there are guys standing next to my car with guns. What would they say?
Well, most of the time I would get, you know, we're busy, I'm sorry, we're you know, responding to other crimes. And that was my biggest pushback The second biggest pushback was I wouldn't get a response till hours later, right, and by the time they did come by, the people have wandered off or it's not illegal for them to
have guns in Colorado. I got that a lot. And although I knew that these people were here in the United statesy legally, the police didn't necessarily know that, right, So it's hard for them to take the crime seriously if they weren't the ones experience in it. So I would I would say, you know, you guys, come over here and hang out here for a little while. If nothing else, it would just deter the crime a little
bit more, I would think. But you know, they're already so short staffed, and you know, I support Aurora Police Department at every single bit that I can. And it's it's disappointing that this happened the way it did, but I'm so glad that it is propelling change.
I agree.
Cindy Romero, is such a pleasure to talk to you. Thank you for being brave, you know, because it's one thing to say I need help and I need to I need people to understand what's going on, but it's quite another to then put yourself out there and do interviews about it and go testify in front of Congress.
That is a next level brave.
Because a lot of people would just be like, great, I'm out of that situation. I'm done. So thank you for not leaving and turning your back on the situation and making it better for the people that are still in Aurora and hopefully maybe someday will be there again soon.
Well, thank you so much. And you know, Colorado is my home and I hope everyone is working towards the Colorado for tomorrow and not just today.
I want to ask you one more thing I just thought about because I watched part of your testimony. Lives of TikTok picked up part of your congressional testimony, and I went back and found the rest of it. You started out by saying, I am a lifelong Democrat. Why did you do that?
Because I wanted them to know that it's not that I don't see where they're coming from. I've felt really betrayed by the way they treated me, by the way they turned their backs and then gas light of the
entire community. The community would have been better prepared, they would have bought camera, they would have been more aware of what was going on around them, and maybe it could have saved a few people from being victims of these criminals if they would have known about the problem at the beginning when I first started reporting it, rather than, you know, months later, when it became, you know, a worldwide video.
I think that's kind of sad that you feel like you have to give yourself some street cred by saying, hey, I'm a lifelong Democrat.
You should listen to me too. I just that's not sad that for you.
I'm just saying, it's sad that that's where we are in our political discourse, you know what I mean.
And they're so disappointing, and they don't realize that they're they're gaslighting actually changed votes cycle, it changed minds, and their platform isn't working. Back to the drawing board on that one, because what they're doing is not good for communities here in Colorado.
Amen to that. Cindy Ramero, thanks so much for your time today.
Thank you so much.
I have a great day.
That is, you know, can't even imagine, like all of a sudden, you're living in an apartment. She'd lived there for years with her husband. Everything's fine, and then all of a sudden it just gets taken over by gangs.
Sure, okay, alrighty.
Then this is why every time my neighbors go to sell their house, I'm like, oh god, what are we going to get next?
Have you had to have the new neighbor experience yet, Ryan, where you're just.
Like holding your breath.
Oh yeah.
My neighbor right next door, he came to us, it was like three years ago now, and he's like, hey, guys, yeah, I'm putting the house on the market. And I was like, oh no, no, no, no, that is not acceptable. But boy, howdy do we get great neighbors. I mean we won the neighbor lottery on that one.
Super It's super underrated to have neighbors that you know, that you can trust.
Yeah, that are good people.
Yeah, we had to move out of our last house. I mean we were thinking about it anyways. But very quick story. So we're sitting at home, We're sitting on the couch in our living room, We're just hanging out, and all of a sudden, we here come out with your hands up and there are police running across our front lawn to our neighbor's house. No kidding, and my wife looks at me. She's like, this is the sign we're wow. Yeah, so they're they're swats their police running.
We already we knew they're kind of a little bit skilled dodgy.
Yeah, yeah, that's like another level of you know, and and.
Yeah, gun's drawn. Well I'm so lucky with our neighbors right now. Like I even if I wanted to move, I probably wouldn't move because our neighbors are are really really good. So I'm very blessed that way. But now it's time for the most exciting segment on.
The radio of its kind.
Of the day.
All right, what is our dad joke of the day, please, Anthony.
I have a pet tree now. Oh it's a lot like having a pet dog, but the bark is much quiet.
What is our word of the day please?
I think I know this is pronounced, but just to be sure, it's an adjective call callo.
So call means, of course, kind of dismissive or mean gallow cold, cold, not quite anything.
Yes, I was thinking like like it's not shallow, but just like as a person that yeah, it is just yeah cold.
It's yeah a synonym of immature.
Oh I did not know hollow. I might have been using that word wrong for a.
Very long time anyway.
What is boiling point at of water at sea level in fahrenheit? The boiling point of water, Well, the boiling point at my house is lower than the boiling point at sea level.
Huh.
It's about twelve degrees lower at my house because I've actually put a thermometer in it to see.
That's what kind of nerd I am.
I've never don Yeah, no, two twelve two or twelve degrees fahrenheit. At higher altitudes where there's less atmospheric pressure, the boiling point of water is lower, so mine is about two hundred at my house, which is very important to know when you're making pasta. Yes, because when I first moved here and I'm cooking, I'm like, what the heck is going on? I was putting any when it was not quite two hundred and twelve. Okay, what is our Oh shoot, I just crumpled up my scoreboard? Okay?
What is our Jeopardy category?
Category?
Is baby not baby? In every answer just has to do with the word baby. Okay, baby likes this brand of food that's been around nineteen Ryan.
What is.
Girl?
Yes? Yes, day?
It baby loves this song where things go round and round all through the town, Ryan, Ryan, what are the wheels?
Oh no, no, that's not enough, Mandy, what are the wheels on the bus?
Cow's milk doesn't agree with baby, so she gets this three letter alternative formula from enfamil for sensitive tummy.
Oh gosh, it's been a long time, desid that that's what you used when she was a sensitive similar I.
Know what it is to alternative? Should you say it's going to make me out?
I have no idea?
What is soy?
Gross?
Baby is beginning to teeth as the front teeth are also known as the central these start to come in.
And we incisors correct.
I don't know if that's a pronounce, but.
As a newborn baby scored high. I love how these are written as a baby. Newborn baby scored high on this assessment test.
Maybe what's the appar scores is correct?
Wheels the bus? Yeah, round Ryan, the ground and the rest of it. You know, wheels on the bus. Anyway, speaking of the wheels on the bus, have they've flown completely off the denver? See what I did there?
So good?
So at home kids, some people break their tongue either hear a.
Little gossip here and there, little scuttle bus starting to come out about how bad things were actually in the locker room.
It got.
It got pretty bad, and we're going to do it a little bit today. I mean, obviously we spent a lot of time on it yesterday, but there's some more information that has been coming out, and you get the sense, based on some of the comments from Josh Cronkey that this was kind of a long time coming.
Like I see a lot of people are like, wow.
All of a sudden, three games for the season, and it's like they wanted to do this months ago.
I don't know if you saw.
I think it was Denver seven had an article like seven Michael Malone quotes that are prescient, and when you go back and look at him in context, you're like, oh, okay, this is all starting to make a little more sense now.
Yeah, we played one from two weeks ago on the show yesterday where he said, you know, they're never going to go back and look at their own film. We have to show them their own film, and and he's like that, yes, yeah, really lazy there. It is about prep work. Yeah, when you lose the locker room you lose your job, and that's kind of what happened that and what else is coming up today? Well, we also
fun stuff on the draft to coming up. The Broncos trade scenarios that are sort of surfacing now that we're about two weeks out.
So I like having ownership that's not afraid to shake things up, exciting stuff, you know what it is. It feels like they want win. Ryan, You're in a window.
You got nice, You're nice, nice, uh nice.
Feeling absolutely good feeling. We'll be back tomorrow for a minuscule half hour show from twelve to twelve thirty. Let's see you much crap we can pack into that half hour, So I'll meet you here on the radio noon tomorrow.
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