04-11-25 FULL SHOW - Home Rule, Right to Work, and AI Replacing Humans

am absolutely stymy by this. Our speakers in the studio right now are not working. Now, what does that matter to you?

am completely baffled by technology at this point. Anyway, That's not what I meant to talk about, because we have so much other stuff to talk about. So let's jump in. Shall we go to the blog? I go through this one more time to find the blog. Oh, here we go, go to I've started sending eight Rod the emails that I get you guys, just so he understand, I just I know. Go to mandy'sblog dot com. And then when you get there, they're gonna find the Mandy connle k

Way page. And then you look for the latest post section and there's like a little scroller. Sometimes you gotta scroll over to the right, but today it's right there. First thing you're gonna see it just says the headline for eleven twenty five blog, Home Rule, right to work and AI replacing humans? You click on that, Yeah, it's going to take you right there.

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doesn't love the paps. Is Elon really wrong? Those are the questions or those are the headlines rather on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com, no apostrophe. Thank you Nancy. It is a winner today. Thank you so much, Nancy. I appreciate you. We've got a lot of good stuff on the blog today. I got three guests coming out. My friend Deb Flora, she is coming on because if you've live in Douglas County, we're going to talk about an event coming up to let people learn more about

the home rule proposition. And when I learn more about it, I'm going to come back and tell you guys about it. Not because I think that you're all going to move to Douglas County, but because I think this is a very interesting theory about what this will allow Douglas County to do in terms of getting out from under some of the state edicts that are the most onerous. So there's an event coming up. We're going to talk to Deb Flora about that. It's part of her Douglas County

Citizenry group that I am also a part of. That is very cool and very interesting. All we do is sit around and listen to people talk about things and learn. It's fascinating. It's really actually very cool and there's like nice people there and stuff. It's very nice. She'll be coming up at one o'clock to talk about that. I'm really looking forward to. My second guest. His name is Faisal Hoak. He is an AI innovator. He's also written a book called Transcend Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI.

But he is also sounding the alarm about replacing human jobs with artificial intelligence because of what it will do to the human race and man. He is spot on on this. This is something I worry about all the time. And you haven't been paying attention to how people react when they are put out of work. It's incredibly important to pay attention to that because people left to their own devices more often than not, do not excel, They do not know do their best. They tend to fall

into bad habits. If you look at and I don't know what the situation is now, so to be fair, maybe it's gotten better. In the Commonwealth of Kentucky, perhaps it has. I'm not sure it has at all. But when they put coal miners out of work, that's when the opioid epidemic really took off. Because the old saying idle hands or the devil's workshop is so true, but it goes it's more about not having anything to do.

It's about not having purpose. And this is one of the things that I think we have to talk about about AI. And I'm sure that you know there were conversations sort of along this line, probably much different, but along this line during the Industrial Revolution when people are like, wait a minute, if this is replacing one hundred men doing this job this machine, what are what's going to

happen to the other ninety nine men. So we have to start having these conversations, and having them now, because AI is going to disrupt I think, just me speculating, the two sectors that this is going to disrupt the most are going to be those sort of entry level menial work jobs that are often the first time jobs for teenagers working in fast food, working in those kind of quick casual restaurants. But I also think AI is poised to put a lot of people who work in

computer science out of work. Because when they harness artificial intelligence and they put it in the hands of a few people, that artificial intelligence is going to be doing the jobs of hundreds, if not thousands, of coders. So it's going to be really fascinating to see how all this work out. I mean, I'm praying that I am spontaneous and unpredictable enough that they can't just replace me

with AI. Mandy. But if you if you tune in one day and I'm like, hello, my name is Mandy Connell, and today we're going to talk about blah blah, you'll know it's not me. I don't think they could make AI hyper enough to actually replace the energy that I've been accused of having on this show.

I'm gonna ask Mark Mix. If the governor decides to sign the horrible labor bill that is upending eighty years of labor in Colorado, this right to work bill would supersede it, so it would solve that problem for us. But I don't count on anything being done anything significant anyway. So we're going to talk to Mark Mix about that, and boy, how do you do? We have a lot of stuff on the blog today, and I want to

start not at the top. I want to start with the fact that yesterday the governor behind closed doors signed with a group of gun grabbers around him SB twenty five three, which is the most onerous, most invasive, most taxing attack on the Second Amendment that Colorado has put forth so far. And it is laughable, absolutely laughable to think that this is going to do anything to stop

violent crime. Now, I've been thinking about this, and I think that the only way that people who believe in the Second Amendment have any chance of fighting back is to run some sort of ballot initiative that requires the State of Colorado to require from all law enforcement agents ease to report how a criminal became in possession of a firearm legally or illegally. When a crime is committed because right now, I don't you think they tracked that

data at all. So, yeah, you've got all these idiots standing around the governor saying, you know what, a training course is going to stop the next mass shooter. A training course before they can buy weapons. That's going to

be the thing that stops them. It's just idiotic. And yet this Colorado Legislature has shown time and time and time again that when somebody tries to bring a bill that would actually make committing a crime with a gun a harsher penalty, that they could actually do this crazy thing called putting criminals in jail, they rejected, They killed it in committee. It never stands a chance. So Representative Lauren Bobert back to s B twenty five, Dash three.

Lauren Bobert posted this on her X feed, and I am hoping that her office also set an official letter from her office to the Attorney General's office and it says, hello, AG Pambondi, the DOJ's Second Amendment Task Force should begin their first wave of litigation against Governor Polis and the State of Colorado for signing into law the unconstitutional SB twenty five Dash three. The second Amendment is clear shall

not be infringed. SB twenty five to three converts our constitutional rights into a privilege, one that becomes only accessible to those who can afford it. For many Colorado's, especially low income citizens who have been terrorized by trendy Aragua, SB twenty five to three creates a barrier that puts firearm ownership out of reach and renders them defenseless. I'm urging the Department of Justice to immediately consider targeting SB twenty five dash three. What is she talking about this

new committee? Well, thanks for asking. A couple of days ago, a memorandum went out from the Attorney General to all department employees of the Department of Justice, and it simply says, for too long the Second Amendment, which establishes the fundamental individual right of Americans to keep and bear arms, has been treated as a second class right no more. It is the policy of the Department of Justice to use its full might to protect the Second Amendment rights of

law abiding citizens. President Trump is made protecting the Second Amendment rights a priority for this administration. As he explained, the Second Amendment is an indispensable safeguard of security and liberty because it is foundational to maintaining all of the rights held by Americans. They have now created the Second

Amendment Enforcement Task Force. This task force will continue the Department's ongoing work to implement Executive Order fourteen two six and protect the fundamental rights secured by the Second Amendment. And then it goes on from there. So this is

what Lauren Bober is asking Attorney General Pambondi to look into. Now, what I find fascinating about Donald Trump's full throated support of the Second Amendment is this for everyone on the left who says he's a dictator, he's an authoritarian, He's trying to lock up control. He wants to be king. In those cases, those people, the first thing they do is disarm the population. Because a population that doesn't have

weapons to fight back is an easily controlled population. Just ask the Palestinians and the Gaza strip who are controlled by Hamas because Hamas has disarmed them in the name of safety. Just ask the Venezuelans, eight million of which have been forced to leave their country of origin because Hugo chab As, in the name of safety, disarmed the population. Ask the Cuban people, who can't rise up against their authoritarian leadership, because the first thing Fidel Castro did was

disarm them in the name of safety. And now you have President Trump, who those on the left you want to believe that is going to be a dictator and authoritarian, and he's actually saying, we are going to make sure that you're right to be armed to fight against a tyrannical government, will be protected. I'm telling you, this dude is the worst dictator in the history of dictators. He is not paying attention. You think they have firearms in China.

You think they have firearms in Russia. I mean, maybe they do in Russia. Everybody's a little crazy over there in Russia, of course. Not Now about this law SB three, it is truly horrible. It's truly horrible because of the burden that it puts on people time wise, money wise. We still don't know what it's going to cost to take one of these new we don't even have them yet.

Classes for Colorado Parks and Wildlife. And let me tell you, guys, I had the chance a couple of last winter to go with a group of Colorado Parks and Wildlife folks to go and take these little baby bears and put them into an artificial den and it was like the coolest thing ever. Even though I frozen. I took us off because I didn't dress properly, my fault. It was like the coolest thing. But I got to talk to some of these guys and a young lady who were

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers. That's what they want to be doing. They don't want to have to create a new bureaucracy to do these dumb classes. And I'm all for training you guys. I am one hundred percent. I believe if you own a firearm, you owe it to yourself, your family, and your own security to train properly with that firearm and then practice on a regular basis. You know,

I'm a huge fan. But this has set up a bureaucracy that is going to prevent poor people who don't have the time or the money to jump through these hoops, and that is wrong. Poor people should be able to protect themselves and not be forced into buying something illegally because they can't afford to do it legally. I mean, it's it's absurd. This is such a luxury belief by the Democrats who stood behind Jared Bollis while he signed

this bill. It's a luxury belief to think that this is going to do anything to stem violence in our community because in their community, they don't have to worry about it. That's the reality. They're disarming the people that they say they're here to protect, and they just don't care. It's really stunning. So we'll see what happens. I don't know what sort of authority the Department of Justice would have unless they want to argue on behalf of Colorado.

Because when this is, you know, challenged in court, do you trust the current makeup of the Attorney General's office to argue vociferously against this bill? I sure don't, not at all. So we'll see. I mean, we'll see what happens. But man, what a dumpster fire of a legislative session. This has been for freedom, for the people of Colorado, for parents that this what's happening right now on the Colorado legislature is almost comical.

Coming up next, Michael Bennett announced today that he is running for governor, and I'm just mark my words, you guys. He is going to be incredibly hard to beat. He's going to be incredibly hard for another Democrat to come out of the primary. He's going to be incredibly hard for another Republican to beat. It is going to like I'm just gonna say it, I think Governor Michael Bennett is highly likely at this moment in time, and hopefully we can get him on the show soon to talk

about it. I gotta tell you, I was pleasantly surprised with the conversation we had with him at the DNC, mostly because I think he really wanted to be there, you know, unlike some other interviews we did where people were there but they didn't want to they didn't look like they wanted to be there. So I've really been thinking about this, and out of all of the Democrats, I can think of. I don't know if there is

a least or a or a less objectionable Democrat. Now that doesn't mean I'm going to run around and get my you know, Bennett for Colorado sticker on my car. Well, we got to be real, and the reality is is that I don't know if there is a Republican with a name ID that has the fundraising ability because I'm sure he's already sitting on a pile of money. As a matter of fact, only see here, Michael Bennett. I should have done this before the show campaign coffers. Let's

see what comes up here. He could very well be sitting on a large chunk of money that he can transfer to well maybe not, maybe not. I don't know. Hm, this is very very interesting. Looks like he spent more than he took in in the last few years. So I don't know where he is now in terms of

where his money is. But he's a formidable fundraiser. He's a US senator, you guys, and I still think he has presidential aspirations and this is just another way to shore up his sort of street cred because being a governor of a state, he could be on MSNBC and do all the things that would show up his fundraising nationally, and I think he's going to be really, really tough to beat. I just don't see anybody on the landscape

right now that he that could beat him. Now that's not to say they're not good Republicans that I think may or may not be considering a run. I would love if Barb Kirkmeyer could could sort of rally the troops around her. I don't think she has the name ID and I don't think she has the fundraising capability of Trying to think of any Republican that I'm that I can think of that has those things that I don't see one that could win a statewide race. So

I hate to say it. Governor Michael Bennett is Michael Bennett is governor a good or bad thing for Colorado. I don't know jack about him. It really depends on whether or not he is willing to stand up to the hard left of his party, which is running this state. Because the fake libertarian Jared Polish just signed the most onerous gun restrictions in the country into law, and did so while laughingly saying that it was going to make us safer. It's not going to make any of us safer.

It's the stupidest thing ever. More restrictions on legal gun owners, no increased penalties on criminals who actually use firearms to commit crimes makes no sense. So would Michael Bennett pushed back or is he part of the most left part of his coalition? I know in the Senate he's been a reliable Democrat, meaning I don't know how much he's broken from his party. Michael in it. Whoopsie, why don't I spell that correctly? Votes with Democrats. Let's see, let's

see what comes up here. People. Oh, it's all about his his running for office. So you know, he's voted pretty consistently against everybody that Trump has nominated. He's voted, actually, he's voted no on pretty much everyone that Trump has nominated.

So you know how he'll be governor. I'm not sure, especially because next year, according to the aforementioned Barb Kirkmeyer, who's always on the Joint Budget Committee, we're going to face an even larger budget deficit next year then we're facing this year because of the overspending in this in this seat, Mandy, if he wins, do you think he will appoint Polis to his Senate seat. That is a really interesting question. I had not considered until right this second.

When is Bennett up for reelection?

been a congressman, he's been a senator. The only box left to check would be president of the United States. That's a really, really good point. Bennett for governor, says his Texter, the mayor of Denver's endorsed him. That's all I need to know.

It'll be amplified by the press in especially in the metro. You know, you're never allowed to make a mistake as a Republican, whereas when you're a Democrat it's youthful indiscretion or whatever personal problem, not not something to do with the office. Mandy, I don't understand how Bennett is a good candidate. Here's how Bennett is a good candidate. He has a name ID, he's a sitting US Senator. There's

nothing objectionable about Michael Bennett. I mean, he's like the most milt toe senator ever, So there's nothing to attack him on except maybe effectiveness, right, and he's got a ton of fundraising opportunities. He's he's a former, he's a sitting US centator. I mean he's just he's got a lot of the metrics that are that are nothing to do with policy. The other part about this conversation is so much of an election has nothing to do with policy.

Democrats will fall in line behind Michael Bennett because all those things I just said. He's a solid candidate, he's got name ID, he's a fundraising you know, he's got fundraising prowess. It's now going to open up his Senate seat for another Democrat to run for that Senate seat. We haven't even started talking about who's going to run

for that Senate seat. But in a state wide reach for governor, I just don't see a Republican candidate that has all of these same things, these these non policy related things checked in the same way that Michael Bennett checks it. So I would I would just say, you would do well to pay attention to what Senator Bennett says he's going to do, because I think there's an extremely high likelihood that he will be the next governor of the state of Colorado. So yeah, Mandy Poulis will

appoint Bennett's replacement. He can always replace. Well. See this is interesting because years ago Charlie crist was governor of the state of Florida when golly, I can't remember which sitting senator left to take a different position in the White House administration, he resisted appointing himself, and then he appointed a well known placeholder, like one of his buddies. But then the buddy ran for reelection and totally screwed him,

which I thought was hilarious and completely fine. Better or worse than police asked this Texter. I don't know the answer to this question, because Jared Polis has been happy to oversee the growth of the regulatory state, the growth of government. Overall, they've added seventeen new agencies, no more than that, sixteen new agencies and seventeen thousand new government employees. He has overseen the restriction of gun rights. He's overseen

the expansion of graphics, sexual education for little children. He has overseen and probably will sign the bill that just passed that essentially tells everybody in the state we have to pay for abortions now with tax dollars, and that abortion is going to be caught. It is codified in the constitution. I mean, he's wildly left wing, so will ben it.

at odds with his caucus. So who knows. By sending a text to five six six' Nine, zho a lot of you are not thrilled with the potential Governor, bennett And i'm here to tell YOU i think it is not a, lock but dang pretty. Close and that's in no way an endorsement Of Michael. Bennett i'm just saying he checks a lot of the boxes that immediately make him the front. Runner This texter, Said Michael bennett has never ever shown any, backbone no way he would ever

buck The democrat. System he's the most e or like politician in the. Government we shall. See, mandy do you Think Lauren bobert might run for the office or is there too much controversy with? HER i don't believe That Lauren bobert can win a statewide. ELECTION i just don't see. It she is despised by the same people who Despise Donald, trump and that's why he lost so badly in this. State SO i just don't see a path forward for her on a statewide. LEVEL i don't ever see her

being A us. SENATOR i just unless something dramatically, CHANGED i don't ever see her in that. Position so, NO i don't think she is the right candidate for Governor. Mandy it doesn't Matter. California it's here and coming harder, yet is sure? Is and how's that going For? California what's his stance On? Tabor, Well i'm sure it is the same as His democratic, counterparts which is they know how to spend our money better than we. Do then

it was a rubber stamp For obama And. Biden he will be a rubber stamp for The dems in the state. Legislature you, GUYS i don't. Know AND i mean this WHEN i SAY i don't, know BECAUSE i do think that there are Older, republicans AND i Know Michael bennett isn't that, old So i'm not meaning to, say you, know he's, geriatric but he is from a different generation than the sort of young whipper snappers who are leading The Democratic party right, now and In colorado it's even.

Worse so PERHAPS i don't. KNOW i Realize i'm Being. Paulanna we'll just have to wait and.

id it's all about. Money it's all about being palatable enough to get through the primary and non offensive enough to woo the. Independence and, AGAIN i don't see anyone on The republican side of the aisle THAT i can't even think of right, now who would be able to sort of mitigate those built in advantages that again have nothing to do with. Policy mandy blamed Ken buck For Michael. Bennett he ran a terrible campaign against him in his

First senate. ELECTION i will just say, THIS i Ken buck is one of those people that went TO dc and just turned into a colossal disappointment to. Me So i'm glad he's not in THE Us senate because he couldn't even hang in The. House So i'm fine with. That, oddly Watching bennett at the confirmation hearings told me. Everything it certainly did show his hard left stance on. Stuff, Mandy bennett is a, corruption is a corruption excuses and does he have some little weird shady thing going on

with his BAT i don't think. So i'm telling you get used To Governor.

an upcoming. Event if you're A Doug co resident and you want to learn more about this home rule, proposition we have an event coming up that you are invited, to unlike an event that has The Douglas County commissioners in a bit of hot water because they all appeared together in front of a private group that said the media and no one not in the group was. Welcome that seems to be an open meeting. Violation but we'll

find out more about that as it is. INVESTIGATED i, mean on the face of, it it was an open meding. Violation we'll see what. Happens but we've got a lot we're going to do in this half hour BECAUSE i have tons of stuff on the blog as, well and one of them is a really good column By Rob natlson THAT i want to get to you in just a moment about The democrats deciding to use state money to sue us the taxpayers via suing the state to

say that tabor the taxpayer's bill Of rights is. Unconstitutional when you hear how stupid the whole thing, is your mind will be. BLOWN i wanted to bring this story up in the last hour because it kind of went

along with WHAT i was talking about WITH sb. Three Since democrats started focusing in on what they called criminal justice reform several years ago in concert with the riots that followed the death Of George, floyd they have made crime really attractive In, colorado really, attractive and any efforts recently to make crime pay again have been met with stonewalling and absolute antipathy by the same people who are

now trying to disarm law abidings cit. As they're not doing anything to address criminals like the ONE i am going to share with you right. Now first of, All AURORA, pd keep up the good. Work keep sharing the stories of the repeat offenders that you are, arresting because the more people hear about how these, criminals violent dangerous criminals accused of violent and dangerous things are being let back out on the streets to offend, again maybe then we

can get serious about public safety in the. State listen to. This an eighteen year, old who police to believe be a repeat violent offender involved in multiple, crimes was arrested in connection to a drive by shooting that seriously injured a teen Last. Friday aurora police were responding to the shooting at a gas station and the victim and five associates told investigators that they were filming a music video when numerous rounds were fired in their direction from a

white suv traveling south On Peoria. Street the cops took pursued this, guy and they Arrested Mark, jackson an eighteen year old From, aurora in connection to the. Shooting now here's the fun part About Mark. Jackson jackson was convicted of possession of a weapon by a previous juvenile offender in a case from twenty twenty, three for which he is serving a two year parole sentence from The Colorado

division Of Youth. Services in the last six, Months jackson has been arrested twice for possession of a converted automatic. Handgun he was on parole during both. Arrests In october of twenty twenty, Four aurora police Arrested jackson in connection to the carjacking that happened hours before his eighteenth. Birthday he is the active defendant charge with attempted first degree murder and attempted second degree, murder among other, charges in

A Rapahoe district. Court he posted an eighty thousand dollars bond in that case and was free on bond at the time of the drive by. Shooting now this time he's been given a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Bond but why why is he being given bond? Again by the, way this was just a random. Shooting there was no motive other than this guy drove by these kids filming a music video and decided open. Fire that's

who we're talking about. Here and yet in the state Of, colorado he's been arrested twice with an illegal firearm and they did not pull his, parole they did not put him back in. Jail when they did put him back in, jail they let him out. Again thanks to The AURORA pd for publicizing, this because how many other criminals are just walking through the revolving door that is our justice

system here In. Colorado and every Time republicans try to make committing a crime with an illegally owned firearm harder on the, criminal The democrats kill. It And i'm not. EXAGGERATING i, mean wouldn't you think wouldn't you think that we could pass some kind of law that, says, hey if you are a convicted, felon previously convicted for a firearm,

crime you don't get. Bond you just sit and jail until you because you've proven yourself to be dangerous not, once but now at least twice in this, case three four. Times how many people does he have to be allowed to kill before we actually do something to keep this guy who is the problem off the. Streets the gun here is not the. Problem it is the man illegally possessing the. Gun and guess, what you know WHAT i bet?

YOU i, mean this is just gonna sound so, CRAZY i realize even BEFORE i say, it BUT i will bet you my next six paychecks that this gentleman did not buy that firearm. Legally and after this stupid law goes into effect that requires a training course for people who want to buy a, gun he's not going to take it because he's going to buy a gun. Illegally and we don't track, that so we don't know how

many crimes are committed by people who are illegally possessing. Firearms, now wouldn't you think that little nuggative information would be critically important to crafting gun policy here in the state Of colorado if they were actually serious about gun. Violence they're. Not what they're trying to, do especially with this bill they just. Passed they're trying to put gun stores out of business by making it so onerous and awful to buy a firearm here that nobody does, it and then great.

News then only the criminals buying guns on the black market will have access to. Firearms. Fantastic we'll have a fully disarmed population and The democrats will be able to say we did, something even though it does absolutely. Nothing would. Urge if you work for a different police, department you gots stories like, this stories about this guy or guys like, him or even women like him that are just career criminals just cycling in and out of the, system because

our criminal justice system is nothing of the. SORT i hope every police department starts sending these stories out because we need to. Start we need to have a conversation about who they are letting out of the system and who facilitated that. Release it's not coming from The Republican. Party NOW i want to get to this other story about the attack On. Tabor, now the last polling DATA i saw On tabor was was like that like seventy plus percent Of coloraden's approof Of. Tabor and it's not even.

CLOSE i, mean it's just it's, like we love getting our money back if we pay too.

you know what grounds they're arguing. This they're saying that because we have A republican form of government and we elect representives to represent, us that we the, citizenry should have no right to weigh in on any kind of limitation of what the legislature can. Do now that sounds stupid to, You it sounds even dumber To Rob, natelson and he rips it, apart piece by piece by. Peace so one of the THINGS i want to share with you are all the other ways that The Colorado constitution

restricts what the government can. Do as originally, adopted and this is From rob's, column The Colorado, constitution which remember everyone agreed complied with The republican, form contained restrictions on state taxation far more extensive than those imposed By. Taber, specifically it limited the legislature to property taxes. Only it did not permit income taxes or other. Levies by, Contrast taber permits a range of, levees stipulating only that income

taxes must be imposed at a flat. Rate that's another thing that The democrats really really. Hate they hate a flat rate income tax because they know that they can never go and, say, yeah we're going to raise your income, taxes because then the people in the middle and lower income brackets would suffer. Mightily it's WHY i love. It the constitution capped property taxes on a steadily decreasing scale

of mills per dollar of assessed. Value in other, words as the amount of property, rose the constitution required taxes to be. REDUCED tabor does not require tax. Cuts the constitution prohibited the legislature from taxing certain kinds of property and from exempting other kinds of. Property mines could not be taxed for ten. Years taber says nothing on the. Subject revenue bills had to begin in The house Of representatives in The General, assembly could not delegate the taxing.

Power these are all things that were in The Colorado. Constitute and now The democrats seem to be ignoring That taber undid some things that they would really. Hate could you imagine if they UNDO, tabor then they're only going to be able to talk taxes via property. Taxes that would be, delicious absolutely. Delicious now they would turn around and immediately institute an income tax because then they would

be completely. Unfettered and they know That colorado voters are going to just watch the cost of living go, up and watch the cost of regulation go, up and watch inflation go, up and watch job creation go, down and watch the business environment go. Down and they're never going to Hold democrats responsible because they Hate republicans more than they hate all of those things THAT i just. Said that's the harsh reality of where we. Are sad but, true my, friends sad but. True, MANDY i live In.

AURORA a team shot his pregnant girl behind my. House. Yesterday someone stole my neighbor's toolbox out of his. Garage the crime in my neighborhood really disappoints. Me, Well i'm just GONNA i have a challenge for, You, texter And i'm gonna, say AS i challenge, YOU i don't know where it's gonna, Go but why not call The Aurora Police.

Department why not get some neighbors. Together why not see if you can get a few people to call The Aurora Police department and, say, hey would you come talk to our community about what we can do to make our neighborhood, safer how we can collaborate with the police department to clean up our. Area because this is becoming. Untenable, now what happens after, THAT i don't, know but at

least you know you've. Tried here's the, thing you. Guys my husband AND i have both called the police department or called the sheriff's department in places where we lived and asked for collaboration on different, issues and they have always been open to. It, now right, now we have such a shortage of, cops not just An aurora but in pretty much every, department so it may be tough for them to, respond but at least they know at that point that you are actively paying attention and you

actively want to be a part of the, solution. RIGHT i, mean that's that's kind of WHAT i would. Suggest it sucks when a neighborhood turns when you're living in, it when you see it happening and you feel kind of helpless to stop. IT i talked To Cindy romero earlier this. Week she was the woman in that apartment complex and In aurora that ended up being shut. Down she had to. Move she lived there for years with no problems. WHATSOEVER i asked, her by the, way AND i forgot to

ask her on the. AIR i asked her if she had any problems with the landlords before the gangs moved, in and she, said, no everything was. Great everything was. Great, So, MANDY i wonder If Ian silveri was involved in The tabor. LAWSUIT i have no way of knowing. THAT i don't think on any official, basis But ian is certainly a very well connected part of The Democratic. Party so we don't, Know, mandy how come they didn't ask permission for the property tax.

Increase the property tax increase came when they dec coupled us FROM i don't want to Say Blaine, amendment but that's not. It when they debrust us when they did away with the property tax amendment that created the situation where property tax values were held up artificially, low so they view it as not a tax. Increase property values, skyrocketed and they did not drop the amount of the mills that they're supposed to according To Colorado constitution because

that was changed In. Tabor it's very. Convoluted but they just keep raising our, taxes calling them, fees and the Liberal Colorado Supreme court has upheld, that which is. JUST i, MEAN i don't even know they've raised taxes On COLORADO'S i saw this the other. Day one of the reasons everything has gotten so much more expensive here is because we are being taxed on. Everything, guys they tax our deliveries From, amazon tax, everything but they're called. Fees, now

we're not supposed to be upset about. Them mandy did Dream democrat Ticket Governor bennett And Lieutenant Governor Britney Peterson, gallagher thank You. Gallagher, wow could not think of that. Word so there you. GO i hate it when you live in a place Like colorado and you watch it go. Downhill you know what's really even worse for? Me AND i know this sounds so self. Serving i'm from the state Of, florida and WHEN i was a kid and Old florida was a, thing it is so different than

what there is. Now SO i already watched this. HAPPEN i already watched an invasion of people from somewhere else In. Florida It's New york And New, jersey AND i watched them fundamentally change a, state and not in a good. Way Now, florida leadership, wise is All republican, now and that is mostly because there are so many retirees In florida that are voting economically first and foremost so having it happen again, here only politically this has gone in

a completely different. Direction it's just really really. Depressing So i'm, trying, Guys i'm trying so, Hard. Mandy the state has gone. BONKERS i live In Fort, collins you, know quiet Calm Fort. Collins well used to be gang shooting at our mall last weekend too. Dead then TODAY i just been one hundred dollars on an oil. Change i'm losing my. Mind very. Disappointing, yep, Yep. Mandy with this new gun, law if the future mass shooter decides to obtain his weapons, legally wouldn't the eight

hour training course just make them more? Proficient, yes, indeed we're just going to make better mass. Shooters Thanks, Democrats. Mandy i'm telling, You aurora has turned into The Bay root Of. Colorado wouldn't move over there if they gave me a free. HOUSE i said it the other. Day you, guys they are beautiful parts Of. Aurora there are lovely, neighborhoods there's lovely. Communities there are lovely parts Of, Aurora. Colorado they're just unfortunately known for the parts that have

not been. Lovely so there you.

they're making it expensive to live In. Colorado so it's going to become very quickly Like, california where they're going to try and figure out a. Way if they can get rid of, tabor then they can try and pass a progressive income tax like they have In. California they can put more people on welfare like they do In, california and then when the rich people who are paying for the people on welfare leave and they're just left with the people on, welfare like In, California we're going

to see exactly how bad things can. Be so we shall see all of this is just not good. NEWS i wish there was something like right on the horizon THAT i could, say, look there's this possibility we can

turn things. Around i'm hopeful that with the new leadership that The Republican party can come together and, start you, know coalescing around good ideas that will solve the problems that we have in the state and then be able to speak and sell them to the people Of colorado in such a way that perhaps they will be persuaded to go in a different. Direction but a lot of people in this state vote on, emotion not rational, thought

AND i don't see that changing anytime. Soon. MANDY i lived through this once, already grew up In Paradise mountains in Southern, california left there after thirty, years and now That i'm reaching retirement, age we're having to leave again to somewhere more tax and expense. FRIENDLY i have true bitterness Towards democrat, leaders AND i guess the idiots that vote for. Them it's hard not to. Anyway i'm trying to, you. Guys when you send two texts in a, row they don't come in in.

from people they might disagree. With and that is the organization that is hosting a home a charter home rule forges tell me about.

april twenty. Ninth it's open to the. Public it's going to be At Northstar, academy which is a school In, Parker.

isn't what it, allows what it. Doesn't AND i want to say ahead of, TIME i am a smaller government proponent in every possible, way but EVEN i have a lot of questions about home, roll, Right and it doesn't mean at the end of the, day people might not, say, yes this is the thing to, do but we have a right to come together and get the full. Information and that's what this is.

work what challenges there. Are we have somebody coming From Boulder county who's conservative but stood up against it there because a lot of it is the devils are in the, details you, know you, know what is?

not seeing. That So i'm interested to hear from Both Commissioner, teel who is advocating for, this what his thoughts are and then what the reality In Weld county, is because politically we're very. Similar weld is more, red but Much Chows. County, yeah So i'm very fascinated to find out all of that stuff BEFORE i make a. Decision someone on the text line just, said is this Just Douglas? County this sounds great for all Of. Colorado it is Just Douglas.

County But i'm hoping to get enough of a handle on it after this forum THAT i can come back and talk to every one of my listening audience about what this actually.

on twenty one members of The Charter. Commission, now one of the things that makes me distrustful of this process currently is that apparently The county commission at hand picked twenty one people that they were comfortable. With now that doesn't mean they're necessarily going to be on the, commission but the fact that they came loaded for bear and literally brought all these people into our room so they could sign each other's, petitions that to me Feels i'm

uncomfortable with. That, Right i'm just going to say.

but then you have to appear on the. Ballot but it's all going to be done in By april twenty, Fourth so it's all on the blog. Today Deborah, flora thank you for coming in today and talking about.

The denver. Story. Now you, know we've talked about Downtown. DENVER i DON'T i feel Like i've spent hours talking about Downtown denver on this, show AND i do it as someone rooting for Downtown. DENVER i think that having a vibrant city center is so important to our, state And i'm worried that Downtown denver is headed for a doom. Loop But i'm encouraged because, finally two and a, half three years too, late the mayor is finally starting to

do something about public safety in. Downtown he's committed a lot of money with The Denver Downtown partnership to ensure that there's increased foot. Patrols they're moving the horse patrol back to. Downtown they are upping the number of visible police officers that you're going to see in downtown at any given time in an effort to fight the crime that has, been according to, them dropping over the last

couple of. Years BUT i say it like that according to, them because they just did a survey of people In, denver and they surveyed they surveyed local, visitors they surveyed, residents they surveyed office workers Between september And, october and they're just wanting to gauge how downtown is. Doing this is not great. News about fifty five percent of respondents said they agree Downtown denver offers a great. Experience that's

a good fifty five. Percent that is down dramatically from the last time they asked this question in twenty twenty. Three back then it was seventy three, percent so that's an eighteen point. Drop for the, rest thirty four percent said they feel neutral and eleven percent said they. Disagree and what's interesting to me is that answers varied across the different types of people who go. Downtown residents in the city, corps and office workers are more likely to

have positive, views while visitors had the. Lowest that is not good news on a town that used to have a vibrant tourism. Economy this stuff is not. Good no, bueno no. Bueno but the reality is is perhaps maybe with all of this injection of, police which is something that people like me have been talking about for two, Years i'll take it whenever it gets. Here hopefully we can begin to turn this around because all of this should be rooting for Downtown. Denver all of us should

be rooting that that ship rises and. BRINGS i said ship with a P after it came out of my, MOUTH i was, like that did not sound quite as clear AS i would have. Preferred when we get, BACK i have a story out Of Jefferson county That Jefferson county, PARENTS i promised you IF i lived, THERE i would be at the school board meetings with a pitchfork and a torch because it is out of. Control i'll share that.

Listening still? Listening oh, oh sorry about? That AND i just realized two o'clock is our next, guest AND i completely forgot, it even THOUGH i was very excited to talk to him because he is as concerned about our robot overlords AS i, am although he may say it a bit. DIFFERENTLY i have to welp fhis will hope to the. Show he is not only AN ai tech, innovator he's written a book called Transcend Unlocking humanity in The age OF. Ai Faisil welcome to the. Show first of,

all thanks for having. Me so you work IN ai and yet you are sounding the caution button on ADVANCING ai and putting human beings is out of? Work how how did this? All how did you get from point A ai innovator to, hey, guys we should probably slow down just a bit on.

Cars so a lot of those things is going to have a larger societal and economic impact that we haven't quite thought. Through so imagine you walking into the top of bell uh and now your pop water is being taken by a human as robot versus an eighteen year old who has had his or our first. Job so that's that's really the balance that we need to look for as we move forward with this.

do they're probably going to get into. Trouble but do you think that they had similar conversations around The Industrial revolution when all of a, sudden machinery was replacing human. Labor and are we sounding the alarm too? Quickly?

the truth is somewhere in. Between what's difference about, This, uh you know this stage of evolution of human history with this technology that up until, now we have never created anything that could be actually potentially much or smarter than we are in terms of, thinking, processing, uh you, know ability to move things, physically et, cetera et. Cetera, right so in during The Industrial, revolution we didn't treat things uh you know that are smaller than. Us we

created things that actually helped. Us it still required human. Skills. Uh so this is the key. Difference, Right so it's not you, know you don't have to get to the extreme viewpoint that uh you, know we're going to be all, replaced but there would be some level of job replacement as not just some job will be, created but there'll be a, gap you, know to catch up with this because the technology is moving, faster then we can reskill and rethink and redeploy it where people are going to.

Go like simple example, is, okay if you're going to have all self driving, CARS i mean you're going to have these, robots you, know starving you on your fast. Food what happens to those resource, fools, right what do they? Do you? Know SO i don't think we know that.

these sort of entry level. Jobs but what industries do you see being the most vulnerable that don't necessarily fall into those.

all my graphics WHERE i don't almost don't need a graphic, designer. Right, so, so so what happens to the graphic designer as an, example so the graphic designer will have to elevate their game knowing this tools so that they can produce. More, so as a business owner or a, uh you, know A ceo of a, organization say, OKAY i may not need ten graphic, designer BUT i have a toobed graphic designer who are expert normally in design, sets but also

generating these things utilizing it. On so the white color X t is going to become critical in terms of the domain, expertise not necessarily just doing the way they used to do. Things so the better domain experts are going to be the BETTER ai. Users. Right, so but you're not going to need the same amount of people to do even white collar, jobs just as an example THAT i give you them with the graphic.

in the. Gaps, RIGHT i, mean there are all These i'm hoping they can't replace talk show hosts just, yet BUT i do worry about that in the, future we'll see about, that you, know, technologically what answers or what suggestions do you have suggestions about the way we could mitigate this without slowing progress for the sake of slowing, progress if that makes.

don't become. Obsolete that's the only Only god grail you. Have so what you, know you're you're just giving an example as a. Programmer you, KNOW i can tell you as an ex programmer or who's still kind of dealt with, technology is that you, know you may not have to write, code but you have to you have you, know you

you have to still produce. Spoducts so maybe you don't write, codes maybe you become a better product designer and you level these tools to create application and software, faster, right and it applies even for, researcher right BECAUSE i write

AND i do a lot of. Research i'm using air engine to do a lot of, research But i'm not letting THE ai engine write my output because it's just not it doesn't come out like in my you, know the WAY i would would stop Because i'm adding a different level of, value just like as a talk talk to your, hosts and when you have a certain, value it's your, persona the way you engage with with the. AUDIENCE i, mean you, know actually there are pools that can do that, now but it's not the, same you,

know it doesn't have. Soul so we all have skill and kind of retool ourselves to the next. Level and the people who are going to survive are just always going to be the one that stay. Ahead but there will be certain level of a job loss no matter how we look at, it at least the initial state as we get you, know as we get kind of at that option car. Staceover it happened with every technological, evolution but this is going to be even faster than what we have ever seen in our.

Simple you go to mandy'sblog dot com that takes you to The Kawa Mandy connell, page look for the section that says latest, posts and then look for a headline that has today's date in it with the word blog after it and then click on that and, boom there it. Is Well i'm not doing the whole thing right, now did you stop? IT i thought the band had left for the.

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Towards Justin. BIEBER i don't know, why maybe because he was a baby AND i was already a grown up when he became a. Star But i'm rooting for him and his wife so, hard AND i just think he's going through a really difficult time because child stardom corrupts so badly that it is incredibly difficult to have your head on straight and be a normal human being when you are a child. Celebrity, FIRST i think it's just

really really. Challenging but he's talking to the paparazzi and the paparazzi is in his face while he's trying to go get coffee and he's, yelling, oh you want his, money and he's completely, right one hundred percent. Right so that is on the blog today as. Well now when we get Back National right To Work president of the, committee Rather National right To Work, Committee Mark, mix gonna join us next to talk about a new bill that may make some moves In colorado a moot. Point we'll

do that. Next there's nothing Less american than to me than a union that you don't want to be a part of taking your money. Anyway And Mark mix is the president of The National right To work A, committee and they have just seen a bill introduced that would prevent that from. Happening. Ever, Again, mark welcome to the. Show first of, All, mandy good to be with.

joining together with other. Workers but no one should be forced to pay money or, actually for that, matter forced to associate with the union they want nothing to do. With, unfortunately that's the law in the land right. Now you can lose your job if you don't financially support a labor.

look you enjoy the benefits of collective. Bargaining why won't unions just let people Say i'm going to go my own Way i'm going to negotiate my own. STUFF i don't need your. Help why can, yeah we just do.

support The Political Action. Committee but unions are, deeply deeply involved in political mobilization and grassroots.

would say absolutely, NOT i don't want to support. You if they stuck to the shop floor for bargaining, purposes what was happening on the shop floor instead of standing up for all these radical other ideas that they stand up and, support AND.

the hell they want to die. On and In colorado we've now got this complete upending of The Labor Peace. Act would this bill IN dc supersede any changes That colorado is trying to?

ability to force every worker to pay. Dues that would happen If Paul as signs the bill as it's currently, promulgated it would eliminate that second.

as kind of marketing tools way back. When but the idea of employers email one assumes that their static behavior by.

them and the market system takes. Over union officials don't believe that businesses are capable of anything that's positive or, good and so that's why they continue to, say you, know we have this comfation model between capital and, labor and when it comes to small, businesses they're the ones that really get beat up the.

are doing that in a major. Way that's one of THE i think one of their primary focuses, THAT i, mean there's so much going, on we kind of lose perspective on all the things that are. Happening but he's certainly trying to roll back the power of unions when it comes to the federal.

Money are unions starting to organize the states that don't have solid right to work protections and trying to undermine.

by the legislature and signed by the governor In. UTAH i, mean there's a lot going, on particularly with government unionization because everyone who has It, California New, York, illinois those, states they're going bankrupt because of that.

stuff AND i talked To ross about this. Yesterday i've been consuming so much from every SOURCE i can find on what's going, on trying to see the forest for the, trees, right because there's so many different aspects of this and the aspect that you honed in, on which was treasury. Bonds there was a lot right. There BUT i just want to take a moment and talk about what a garbage Job Janet yellen did because she did not lock people into long term debt at two point five. Percent

what a disastrous rain As treasury. Secretary her failures will go down as an absolute like maybe the Worst treasury secretary, ever just for that.

the way we're doing IT i have issue. With and one of the things That i'm interested to see is if out of these, multiple, many many different separate trade deals they're going to, happen you, know BETWEEN us And madagascar AND us and, whatever are they going to require that those nations levy tariffs On, China because if, not we've lost that trade war With, china at least in the short, term Because china is positioning themselves as, essentially

here's the double middle Finger, trump we're not, caving we're not, moving and they'll just. Inflate they'll they'll keep pumping stimulus money into their economy because they artificially manipulate their. Currency it's just we're in. It these are very interesting times we're living.

the market, falls Main street doesn't necessarily feel. It and his point, is, look we've been focused On Wall street when we want to re engineer the economy to focus more On Main. Street which is a great talking, point but maybe a. Term when you go To walmart and that piece of garbage From china that was a dollar now cost three, dollars and you're already on the edge of the, economy that is a really tough. Thing so it's gonna the next six months are gonna be, crazy.