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brain just does not enjoy. It's like my brain looks at it and goes, oh, no, someone else can handle that, okay, dok. But the reality is I played blackshack once for five dollars a hand, and I'm not kidding you when it was like I just spent five dollars in less than a minute, in less than a minute, and I have

nothing to show for it, and that was it. I was like, I and then I see people at these tables that have a twenty five thousand dollars fifty thousand dollars hand, you know, buy in, and I'm like, what where are they getting that kind of money that they just put it down and blow it in thirteen seconds? And then that's it. I it blew my mind.

successful obviously. But now Vegas has changed so much like old Vegas used to be Barbary Coast, where drinks are always a dollar fifty, right, So we go to Barbary Coast and get a double for three bucks, and then we go to the Mirage where you could get a beer and a hot dog for a dollar fifty for both at the hot dogs stand in the Mirage. There was ways to go to Vegas super cheap. I don't think any of the existing.

anything about electronic dance music. They're like, you'll learn, But I had everybody cycle through that studio, had no clue who any of them were. But then years later I'm like, oh, yeah, I met that guy. All the nicest nerds you'll ever meet your life, Every DJ I've ever met, even though he may be packaged in cool fashion, the nerdiest people you will ever meet in your life.

it was clean it was classy. I mean, if you rubbed in the wrong way, you'd end up dead in the desert. But whatever, right, it was fine. Now it's corporatized and it's more than a little trashy in more than one place. So it's just a different vibe, but it certainly has a vibe.

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There's no The cheapest I found table wise was ten and I'm not doing ten dollar tables now.

he's still in the United States of America. Now, what I found super frustrating coming from the right right now is the justifications that are being given for this absolute violation of the civil rights of a guy who'd been living here for six years and had never been convicted of being a gang member. He has never been accused in court of being a gang member. A lot of people on the right are rushing to talk about the fact he was picked up at a home depot, but

he was wearing Chicago Bulls gear, which everybody knows. Gang members love Chicago Bulls gear, so do a lot of Chicago Bulls fans. Now, conservatives are also quick to point out that a confidential informant said that this guy was a member of the West New York gang. This man

has never lived in West New York. And what's frustrating to me is that a lot of people on the right are still flippantly saying things like, well, everybody knows it is in a gang, everybody knows he did this, when in reality, there's no actual proof, there's no crimes that he's been convicted of. There's no gang affiliation that he's been convicted of. And if you believe that we are a nation laws, and I believe that we are

a nation of laws, then we have to follow those laws. Now, it doesn't mean we should let the legal system be contorted and abused by people who are trying to use it to their advantage. Like the Janette Vesgera. She's had her due process. But this guy didn't have the opportunity to have due process because he was sent to an L. Salvador in prison against the orders of a judge that said he could not be deported to L Salvador. And to flippantly act like Donald Trump can't demand this guy

back is absurd. We are paying L Salvador six million dollars a year to house these people that were sending there. You're telling me that the President of the United States of America couldn't say to the president of El Salvador, yeah, I'm not paying you if you don't give us this guy back. I mean, the entire posturing around this is insulting to my intelligence. And all amat asking for people is to be intellectually consistent. You either believe that the Constitution matters.

the Constitution gives that authority to Congress. Now, Congress, as they've done with many, many, many different aspects of their authority over the years, that they don't want to be held responsible for when they vote for it. They punted that right to the president years ago inappropriately in an unconstitutional way. So now that they're trying to pull it back and say, look, Congress to approve of this stuff now all of a sudden, Jeff Hurd is the problem.

What are we doing? How in the world have we gotten here that people on the right are now arguing that the rule of law doesn't matter as long as you feel that that guy was probably super bad, super bad. I feel it. I mean, my gosh, uh, Mandy, does he have civil rights if he's here illegally. Yes, Even people who are here illegally have the right to do process. They have their right, especially if they've come in as for asylum. His asylum was denied, a deportation was ordered,

then the deportation order was stayed. That's the last that this guy had the opportunity to participate in the process. Right now, if he've been notified, hey, we're gonna go ahead and move forward with your deportation order. By the way, the other part about this, this guy checked in once you year, every single year, as he was supposed to with immigration authorities. He did what we asked him to do. It is just absolutely crazy for this person. Biden did

nothing about the flood. Of course Biden didn't. He not only did nothing about the flood of illegals, he let them know that the gates were open and they could walk across the southern border. You're absolutely right. What does that have to do with what is happening right now? I don't even know why you would send that right now. This isn't a what about game?

that I want to share with you. So last night I went and got the Supreme Court decision on this issue. I just figured i'd go to the Supreme Court and see what they had to say about this. And this is from the Supreme Court ruling. So those of you who say it wasn't a mistake, because that's now Stephen Miller, who I like less and less and less the more he talks. I'm not gonna lie. Don't like the guy. He actually said, No, it wasn't a mistake. It wasn't

a mistake. We sent him on purpose. So basically they've gone from what they told the Supreme Court was it was an administrative error. You know how I know that because it's in the Supreme Court decision It literally says the United States represents that the removal to L. Salvador was the result of an administrative error. That's what the federal government said to the Supreme Court. So either they lied to the Supreme Court or now they're lying to you.

All I'm asking is that we recognize that as we move through this process, which has been very chaotic, we have to make sure that we're not accidentally sending a guy to the place where another judge said, hey, you know what, he'll probably get killed if he goes back there. By the way, we still have no proof this guy's

even alive. And I stand by my theory that the President of L. Salvador was told by someone in the Trump administration, look, you got to take the hit on this, but we're gonna let you look like a big, macho guy in charge. So the President of L. Salvador comes up here and is basically like, I don't have to give that guy back. I'm not giving him back as a matter of fact, And the Trump administration sits around and goes, we can't tell him to return in L

Salvador and citizen to the United States. I mean, who are way to tell him what to do, and the president of l Salvador gets to go back and beat his chest and be macho and be like, oh, look what I did. I stood up to the United States. I'm not sending this guy back. That's it all smacks of that to me, and I don't like feeling that way. But guys, this could happen to you. I know that sounds so crazy. You're like, Mandy, I was born here,

I'm not illegally. When you just decide that due process doesn't matter because well, you're okay with the people that are getting kicked out, it's fine. What about when due process fails in other parts of our system? The parts that might matter to you are your family members. This isn't about hating Trump, This isn't about hating Biden. This is about looking at the way the justice system is not operating correctly and pointing it out to the benefit

of everyone in this country. That's how I feel about it. I think this is incredibly important, and I don't understand why every American is not furious about this, and the casual nature is that it's being dismissed with, I really do. I don't understand why everybody's not as upset as I am. Maybe they are. I have no idea, certainly not on the text land, certainly not see and this is what

you get on the text line right now. So Biden broke the law and now we're supposed to get due process to all eleven million.

killed two members of his family. That's why they fled in the first place, and at that point he was still a child. Just because you can't wrap your head around the kind of violence that had taken hold in El Salvador before this dictatorial president took over, doesn't mean it didn't happen. I think I'm making people uncomfortable by calling out their inconsistency and if so good, here's one Mandy, why the miss Sandry today accusing people of being macho?

Is it okay now to call out women when they are behaving hysterically? If you've listened to the show when women behave hysterically, I am the first person to call them out. But in this case, we're talking about a Latin American leader, and like it or not, in Latin and Central America, I don't know much as much about South America, but culturally macho is a very important part of their culture. It just is and it's not necessarily

a negative. So when I say bang on his chest and you know, have like a macho moment, that's very on brand for a Latin American president or dictator. I believe he is. He is a dictator. He's just right now a benevolent dictator. We'll see how long that lasts him. And Andy, I agree with you about upholding the Constitution. I'm not sure that if that should apply to non citizens. Though, if we're going to do the whole due process thing, then maybe there is no point in doing anything about illegals.

I mean, if it takes up to six years for one person to get asylum, how long will it take for eleven million to get due process the year three thousand. They came in in a rush, and they should be set back in a rush, or what's the point?

let them in the country. If he said to all of those people, we are withholding or we are withdrawing the parole that you were granted when you came here, that would be an absolutely different situation because they weren't already in the process.

ways to do. These are two different things, though this guy was already in the process, so don't conflate these. And you can still believe that all of the people that walked across the southern border in the last three years should be subject to some kind of immediate deportation. But this guy was well beyond that, well beyond and following the rules that were given to him to follow. And that's why this should be very upsetting for all of you. And the casual way that it's being dismissed

by the Trump administration is not good. I don't know how people of character work for presidential administrations and have to say with a straight face the kind of things that I've seen people that I have respected for a long time, like Mark Rubio when he said tell them to give back an American citizen. Well, then how are we telling a loss to give back an Israeli American citizen who's being held hostage. Why is this any different? Well,

I guess one's an American citizen. I guess that makes sense, Hi, Mandy. Two wrongs don't make a right. Just because one president didn't follow the law doesn't mean another president shouldn't. If there's a problem with the law, then change the law, hold your representatives accountable, or elect someone else. And you know what, I'm going to leave it on that note that agrees with me, I am going to say that more of you disagreed with me than agreed with me.

And I hope you understand you're perfectly fine to be wrong in this instance. You know that's your choice, but at some point in the future if your liberties are being eroded by your team. We're used to having our liberties eroded by the left. I mean, look at what's happened to the Second Amendment here in Colorado. We're used to having that happen on left. So maybe I guess now we're just supposed to be okay with it all the right to and hope that it never happens to

me on either side. Just saying anyway, all right, We've got a lot of stories on the blog today, some of them are very interesting. This political story is going to be one to watch play out. When do we have Greg Lopez see on Thursday? I think he's on Thursday. Greg Lopez announced yesterday he is running for governor again. And I don't have a bit of ill will in my body for Greg Lopez, But why why? And I'm

gonna ask him that on Thursday. He is the only office that Greg has ever won was mayor of Parker. He's run for multiple offices, including governor twice and hasn't even sniffed a victory. And I'm just curious. It is almost confusing to me when people do that. I don't get it. I'm so we're gonna find out on Thursday. But yesterday I was talking about the fact that the news media is all of a sudden interested in town hall meetings again.

to let you know how things shook out. The first time that Yadira Caraveo won the seat, it was the first time the seat existed. She won by about eighteen hundred votes over Barb Kirkmeyer. There was a libertarian in that race who didn't campaign at all, had a campaign song that was full of the F word that pulled away more than that in votes from Barb Kirkmeyer. And therefore Yadira Caraveo won. I only tell you that because she won by about eighteen hundred votes and then Gabe Evans.

That race was insane. It came down to the last votes being counted kind of thing. But she lost to Gabe Evans by about twenty five hundred votes. So as the district is now, the district is slightly more conservative looking, or at least you know from the inside out, based on who's won that race and how tight the race was with Barl Kirkmeyer. But Yaderra Caraveo is now running for reelection again. And I got an email from someone this morning that I think is a very fair and

interesting point to make. And this is from a listener who I will not name because she didn't say I could use her name or read this, but I'm going to anyway. Mandy Yadira Caraveo was on Channel two's Colorado point of View program on March twenty seventh of twenty twenty five. You need to watch this because she was talking about her thoughts of suicide last year after the election. She got help with therapy, is doing better now. I'm surprised that she's going to run for reelection. I do

hope the best for her. I live in the eighth Congressional district and we'll be voting for Gabe Evans again.

talking about it. But when you have someone out there saying, yeah, after the last election there were thoughts of suicide, it almost feels like, are we supposed to not vote against her now because there's like this weird, non implied threat. And again, I'm glad she's talking about it, but it puts a very awkward situation out there and hopefully I'll get a chance to interview her and we can talk about, you know, why she believes our mental health is in

a better state this year than last year. That might be a great story of redemption we can share. So I don't know, it's just it's weird, but I'll tell you what. There's going to be a pile of money in that race, a pile. We are going to hear more conversation about Gabe Evans and you dear a carave Ao than we ever want to hear because that district is in play and it's going to be very very

interesting to hear what they have to say about that. Now, when we get back, it is tax day, and I will do my one segment on tax Day when we get back, and in it, I'm going to ask.

did you pay in federal income taxes this year? And inevitably, and you can text me your answer at five sixty six nine. Oh, that's the common Spirit health text line. But inevitably I would get these text messages saying, oh, I got three hundred and twenty five dollars back this year. Oh I got you know, fifteen hundred dollars back this year, And they would tell me what their refund was. But then I would ask them again, how much did you

pay the federal government in income taxes? And you would be shocked at how many people have no idea how much of their money the federal government kept. They only focus on what they got back because they overpaid the government.

I'm just asking you. Just make s sure you know, because when you look down, and I don't care if you make you know, fifty thousand dollars a year or one hundred grand a year or one hundred and fifty or whatever whatever your income is when you look down and you see how much of the money that the government just took away from you, especially if you don't feel like you're getting a very good return on your investment,

it's infuriating. This is one of the reasons that I love the Fair Tax, because the Fair Tax is a very simple national sales tax, and at the bottom of every single receipt you would see exactly how much money you were given the government every single day. I think a lot of people would feel very differently about DOGE if they really paid attention to how much money they are having skimmed off the top by various governmental factions.

I'm not an anti government person, because I do think in a society as organized at a high level as ours is, we do need to have some sort of collectively agreed upon guardrails. However, there is so much waste and so much just outright nonsense. I just got an

impassioned email from the Colorado Humanity's Association. I can't remember what the last word is, but the federal government just announced that they were not going to send money to the state of Colorado to promote Colorado's specific humanities programs like taking poetry to people, or having these historical representations of things and doing things that are actually, I mean,

really cool. But the whole time, I'm looking at the super cool list of the stuff that I think they're doing, and I think to myself, why should a taxpayer in Kentucky work every day and give money to the federal government for them to turn around and give it to Colorado to teach people about poetry. That's fundamentally unfair. The government is overstepped it's bounds in so many areas. But every time we talk about cutting spending, whatever group is

immediately affected freaks out. But I think if people were really connected to how much of their money gets skimmed off by the government on a regular basis, they perhaps would be better at saying, you know what I mean, maybe some of these cuts make sense. Maybe some of this should be shifted to funding sources outside the government, imagine for an organization. And I'm not picking on this Colorado Humanities organization because, as I said, they do some

stuff that I think is really cool. But I just can't justify forcing someone in Montana or California or Georgia to pay to teach Colorado's poetry. Just like I don't want my money going to Montana or California or Florida to teach someone else about poetry. That should be something that should be paid for by the citizens of the

state in which it is happening. And the easiest way for the federal government to facilitate that is increase the amount of money people can get in deductions for charitable donations, incentivize people to go ahead and support these organizations, but get them off the government dime. I should be able to support that stuff voluntarily because I think it's cool and I think it's worthy of your support. I am not supportive of the federal government supporting and I just

I think that we've we've lost the mission. We've had such mission creep that now we're paying for so many things that we just should not be paying for. Mandy. I do taxes, and every year I get how came I owe even when it's a low amount or they owe a lot, And I asked them, did you look at your weekly paced ups? Apparently the answer is now, Mandy over one hundred and twenty one K to the federal government this year. Go Elono. Mandy, I paid exactly

thirty three percent in taxes. Sorry, Mandy, we paid a nine thousand on small business income of two hundred and seventy three thousand. Listen to that. They paid eighty nine thousand dollars in taxes on income of two hundred and seventy three thousand. A lot of people would consider that income level to be rich, but they don't think about the fact that a third of it just got lopped off by the government, and that's probably not including maybe

it's including state income tax. They don't clarify, Mandy. I'm retired and paid just under thirty two K this year. Last year just under thirty seven k. You guys, are I want to find this text I got earlier? Hang on one second. It's an important point, Mandy. Tax day pretty ironic at this moment in history. To remember that, prior to the sixteenth Amendment income tax, the federal government was funded by tariffs and excise taxes worked for a

long time. Yes, it did, last one because I like this single sole proprietor pay one hundred and forty thousand. Hate paying taxes. But always remember my dad saying I wish I made enough money to pay taxes. It would mean I'm making a good living. That is the way to put lipstick on a pig. Right there, We'll be right back. Lindsay dot Co from jeff co Kids First is on to talk about some crazy things that are happening in jeff Co schools.

can follow them on Facebook at Jeffco Kids First. Joining me now, Lindsay Dadko with an update. Lindsey, let me take you back to the beginning of all this, when you were just trying to get mask mandates taken care of her. You were just trying to inject some reason into the policies of Jefferson County Public Schools. Could you even imagine that you would still be doing this so many years later?

talking to kids about their sexuality. We have use of the term trusted adult where it allows employees to self identify as a child trusted adult and talk about sensitive topics with them. And so those types of policies really are a breeding ground and our right fort predators to come and apply and work here.

But I'm also aware of the training that you do in KASA And she has said a few things that give me the impression that she thinks parents are primarily the problem. Do you have the same sense from her or am I reading too much into the things that she said?

feel it. I'm not even a jeff Co parent, and it's unfortunate because this should be the greatest partnership that exists for parents is the school district. Right when I was a kid, we didn't have nearly the issues that kids today have. But my parents were fully supportive of the school system, and the school system was fully supportive of my parents. It was a two way street. And we've just kind of lost the message on this. When

you guys present about these sexual abuse cases. What was the response from the board at that time.

twenty three. And in that story, she taught the open Records show that she called it detrimental to out a child to their parents and discussed in depth the parental deception and we have since changed those policies through our advocacy work. But again, it changed the culture in jeff Co and it allows her predatory behavior.

and TRANSI issues now, I honestly don't. I mean, with all of the things to be obsessed with, it is amazing to me that they are so obsessed with these issues to the point where they are willing to put it out there as a political, you know, hurdle, and yet it seems to be getting more entrenched. Do you feel like jeff CO could turn the corner with different leadership.

And I got to tell you, Lindsay, I think it would be great if you were on the school board, but I think that what you guys are doing at jeff Co Kids First is almost more important right now than just getting on the school board, because it is We're in an unfortunate period of time right now in that as we're going through this journalism kind of contraction. People used to work at a newspaper their sole job was to cover school board stuff. Right we don't have

that anymore. So it really is kind of up to citizen journalists like you who have said this is not okay. I'm going to get to the bottom of it. And as much as I think you'd be amazing on the school board. Boy, am I glad you are where you are right now, but I do hope that there are other people, maybe even in your organization, who would consider

stepping up and running. And I will be more than happy to have every single one of them on this show, because I have seen jeff co change even more dramatically than Doug Co since I've been here. In the last thirteen years, it has been a they had a conservative board. When I moved here, the conservative board got kicked out by the unions and everything went batpoop crazy from that

point on. I'm not saying the conservative board was perfect, but holy macarony, we've got to pull some semblance of reality back to Jefferson County Public Schools and Lindsay you and your team, thank you so much for doing what you do and continue to do it and let me know if there's anything I can amplify for you.

I want them to go about their business and be able to live the lives that they've always dreamed of living. I want that for every single human being on this earth, even those people who hate me, I still want them to have an amazing life that fulfills them and makes them happy. All of that being said, we've reached a point where now schools are so immeshed in gayness then it's almost absurd. You cannot walk around to high school and not see a rainbow flag somewhere. It's just like,

what are we even doing? Why in the world should that matter to high school students? It shouldn't, but here we are, and it's all in the name of we want everybody to feel welcome. But the reality is is we're now telling kids, if you want to feel special used to be If you want to feel special, you got to be gay. So then more kids were like, you know what, I think I'm by, girls, especially, I think I'm by because being gay was coool. Well now

being gay is like, eh, everybody's gay, who cares? So now you have to be trans. But there's so much more with going along with announcement that you're an opposite gender than just saying, oh, I'm by. Now if you say you're bye, nobody's gonna call you on it, no one, no one.

I said, well, I was in school in the eighties and we did not talk about it at all, like it just didn't exist. In the nineteen eighties, right. I know Florida didn't have very good schools back then. They do now, but not back then. But the reason I brought that up in the first place.

They're gay, they're by they're queer whatever that means. Queer is just I've decided I want to be on the spectrum of sexuality, but I'm actually straight, so I'm just gonna say queer because there's no follow up questions. They're all on some kind of gender whatever. It's bizarre. When I was in high school, I had two friends that were gay. One was a lesbian closeted one was a guy. Everybody knew he was gay, even though when he came out to me when he's nineteen, he is very dramatic

for him. I was like, Okay, everybody knew that, but it was not a big deal. I mean, don't get me wrong. I grew up in the South, and my gay friend, had he been out and gay, would have gotten a whole bunch of crap. But he was a football player, so he kind of flew under the radar a little bit. But now these kids, in order to be special, in order to fit in, in order to have a month, a week, a year, whatever, every freaking holiday is about being gay. If you want to be celebrated,

you better put yourself on that sexuality spectrum. It's so stupid, and I don't understand why teachers. I know, I shouldn't say that, because I think I do. I think initially they were so worried about the gay kids who were being abused and beaten up and whatever, that they really believed they were making the world a better place when all they've done is confused a lot of street kids who just want to be part of the party. It's I don't know, Mandy. I think the displaying the pride

flag at school is similar to displaying the cross. Maybe maybe my kids have none of these issues. In Nebraska, Colorado was such a joke. Literally the butthole of America. So glad I left five years ago, says that Texter Mandy. I went to high school in the seventies. As far as the Vietnam War, we sold in war pow brass bracelets. But did you learn about it, because I did not learn about it until I kind of went back and learned about it myself. So we'll see. I don't remember

why I brought up the Vietnam War thing. I'm sitting here going why did I bring that up in the context of this Jeff co Kids first story. And I had a reason. I knew where I was going when I started, but I don't now, so I'm sorry. No payoff, there, no payoff at all. Anyway, when we get back, I have a couple of things. I got a couple of health stories that I want to get into a little bit. One of them is kind of interesting, and it really

highlights how little we know about medicine. We all like to think when I go to my doctor, although the older I get, the less faith I have in doctors. And there's a whole bunch of reasons for that. And it's not just me. You know, reading scary things on the Internet and going to web md. But you always want to assume that your doctor knows what he's doing.

You always want to assume that when a doctor says with authority you should do this, this, and this, that there's a measure of you know, experience behind that, and you know they know what they're talking about. But the reality is a lot of the stuff that we are currently doing as part of our you know, advised medical whatevers is going to be found to be complete crockery in the future, or in the case of CT scans, could be cancer inducing. You heard me right. It's just

interesting how little we know. When I had my daughter fifteen years ago, almost fifteen years in a month, it'll be fifteen years, month and six days, we had a very, very extremely challenging birth. She almost died. It was very dramatic, and when all was said and done, and I asked the doctor, why did that happen? The doctor said, we have no idea, because there's way more about childbirth that

we don't know than what we do know. And I was like, well, that's not comforting at all, But I'll tell you about the CT scan thing when we get back. You know, how you think you're doing something good for your health by taking care of yourself, doing preventive things, looking inside to see what's in there. Well, now new studies are showing that radiation from CT scans could lead to thousands of future cancer diagnoses. Now, have you ever

had a CT scan? Arod? I did not know, and I mean this could be something dumb for me to admit, but I didn't know. I thought they were different than next race somehow, I don't know. I thought they were more like MRIs. But apparently they are a big fat nose of radiation. You ever had a CT scan that you know of? No, I've had one. I don't know

if that's enough to raise my wrist risk. Because approximately ninety three million are done each year on sixty two million patients, and now researchers saying, you know what, we might actually be giving you guys a better chance at future cancer, a new study says published in the journal the JAMA Internal Medicine Magazine JAMA Journal of American Medical Association.

Researchers estimate that over the lifetime of those millions of patients, about one hundred and three thousand radiation induced cancers are projected to result from CT exams done in twenty twenty three. Now I have so many questions about this because I've been told, and if you you are a person who works in this field, please feel free to correct me on the Common Spirit Health text line by texting five

six six nine zero. But I've been told getting an X ray is the equivalent of smoking one cigarette in terms of the cellular damage that you're doing at that moment, which really is not that much, not at all. So I have to wonder, like, what else are these people doing one little zap of radiation, because you guys, we're getting it with radiation all day, every day. That's what the sun does to us. That's why it'd be really hard to live on Mars, because we're too close to

the Sun and the radiation would essentially kill us. Right, That's one of the things they're studying when they send people to space, not like the fake space thing yesterday, like actual space. We got to do an update on the reaction to the All woman crew. Let's just say it's not been kind. I was not the only one to comment on how ridiculous this thing actually was. This text said I've had twelve CT scans. This is great

to hear. Thanks. Here's my thinking about this, though, texture When you think about the fact that ninety three million of these things are done every year, ninety three million on sixty two million patients. So you've got sixty two million people, and they're talking about one hundred and three thousand radiation induced cancers. Those are people who were probably

gonna get cancer anyway. I mean, I don't know the biology behind all of this, but I do believe, and I've seen it happen now over and over and over again, there are people who are more genetically predisposed to getting cancer than not. My family. On both sides of my family, we don't get cancer. We get autoimmune disorders. That's what our cross to bear is. You know, we get high blood pressure, you know, we get heart disease, we get that kind of stuff, But we just don't get cancer.

But then I have friends who my age fifty five have already had a round of cancer because everyone in their family gets cancer. So Texter, if you are in the in a family like mine, where people are not really predisposed to getting cancer, then I think you're gonna be okay, because you're gonna be among the sixty one sixty one million, eight hundred and ninety seven thousand people that don't get cancer from this Earth is closer to the Sun than Mars. I'm at Mercury, sorry about that.

Thank you, Texter, and Texter and Texter Mandy. AM radio and radio in generalist radiation, you'll be harmed if you're too close to an amr FM tower, it'll radiate you from the inside out. And that's the darn tutin truth. And I will take your word for that. So I think again, Statistically, your chances are very low of being one of these people. But if you are in one of those high cancer families, you know might give you

pause before you rush into getting a CT scan. This story from CBS says the largest number of cancers was projected to result from abdomen and pelvis CT in adults, followed by chess CT scans. The most common cancers overall lung cancer, colon cancer, leukemia, and bladder cancer. In female participants. Specifically, breast cancer was the second most common. Now here's my

other question about this. Did they find other factors that could increase the risk of cancer, like smoking, like alcohol use, Yes, and ded guys. Alcohol use is a marker that can increase cancer risk, so can obesity. So the editor's note says, CBS News also offers potential guidance, including the use of alternative radiation free imaging options, reducing radiation doses for CT scans, and educating clinicians about of though avoiding low value testing.

Now this is after a twenty fifteen investigation from Consumer Reports found up to one third of CT scans performed could be unnecessary, exposing patients to unneeded radiation. And the only reason I did this story was because I want to give you information. I'm I already realize that I'm kind of a nightmare for doctors, because when a doctor says you need to do this, if I've read something contrary, I'm the first person to say, well, is that the

latest bit of information available. Now, when you ask someone is that the latest bit of information available, it gives them the opportunity to say I don't know. And at that point I can say, well, there was a recent study by Harvard or whatever, something that I've read or I recently read that CT scans are now being looked at as a possible form of radiation causing cancer. So perhaps there's another less radiation type tests that we can

do instead of a CT scan. I want you to be able to advocate for your own health, because one thing I do know about doctors is a vast majority of them are overworked. A vast majority of them are seeing as many patients as they possibly can. It doesn't leave a lot of free time to read all of the studies that I read, just because I'm in the news all day, every day. And there's nothing wrong with

advocating for yourself with a doctor. Mandy, what is up with the repeating of the last few seconds on the iHeart radio stream? What is up with the repeating of the last few seconds on the iHeart radio stream? I don't know. I just did that twice. You'd think that it was funny. Is the irony of a crew of women writing a multi million dollar remote controlled flying pallast to space and back lost on everybody?

for eleven minutes. But I don't want to take away from the fact that these women did sit on top of a massive explosion in order to get to space, right, But the framing of it is not being it's not

being very well received. A lot of people having a lot of fun with the fact that, as this texter just said, you got women who didn't fly the aircraft, who didn't go all the way into space, and yet they're talking about upending a record held by a female cosmonaut from the Soviet Union that has been around for like sixty years, And that just feels, uh, what's the word I'm looking for. That just feels janky, Yeah, janky. Mandy. A CT scan delivers four hundred times the amount of

radiation of that of a chest X ray. They're damaging to one's DNA. That's from Glenn Mandy. I have an annual exam with my GP and Castlewalk tomorrow. I always get an annual chest X ray because I've lived in houses with high rate on also radiation, because even with a radon mitigation system it can still be high. You are right, radiation is everywhere and yes, radio is radiation or wireless electronics yep, yep, Mandy, everyone that has a

cell phone gets some radiation. Cell phone put out radiation as well. Again, not trying to freak people out, just trying to make you more aware so you can advocate properly when you have to go in and your doctor's trying to figure out what's wrong, and maybe even just asking. Have you ever asked a doctor said, well, you know, we can do an MRI, And then I always go

what will that show that X rays won't? Mostly because I don't like getting an MRI because it's two time consuming and inevitably the doctor's like, well, probably not much. Then why are we doing it? I don't like to have my time waste cedent if it's not helpful. Eh, I'm not doing it anyway. To the texture who said should have been topless about the women in space, I'm just gonna leave it on that one to let us know how far in America we have not come so much stuff on the blog right now that we are

at already one forty nine. How did that happen?

just the tale as old as time. You know, you phased the bills, caused the shots, and Harvard was on track to get to a lot of money research grants and things of that nature, about two point two six billion dollars in multi year grants when Harvard decided that they were going to make a claim of academic integrity and they just said, no, not at all, We're not doing it. So Harvard wrote this statement, and they actually

have some good points. I do think that there's a very very big line when it comes to what the administration can kind of force universities to do reasonably. And one of those things should be ensured the safety of all the students and access to all the facilities of all the students, which has been blocked by pro Hamas protesters.

But when you were saying, and apparently the Trump administration all so demanded that Harvard essentially do sort of ideological tests of their administration, their faculty of the campus kind of you know, put their finger in the wind and find out where politically everyone lies. Well, I don't necessarily think that that is the job of the federal government to police how people think. That's another thing where I'm like, yeah,

we don't really do that in the land of the free. Right, in the land of the free, you get to be right, but you also get to choose to be wrong. Now, you can curtail someone's ability to use that to foment violence and all of those other things. But you know, just because I wouldn't send my kid to Harvard because of the ideological bent of that university, Harvard should be allowed to do that. But they also should be allowed to lose two point twenty six billion dollars in multi

year grants, which is what just happened. I'm not sure why the federal government is giving money to Harvard when they're sitting on an dowment of about fifty billion dollars fifty a billion. Now with the machinations of the stock market, maybe it's down to forty five billion right now, but it's still forty five billion. It's larger than a vast majority of countries around the world, like their entire GDP. It's larger than the budget of the state of Colorado.

So why exactly are we giving Harvard. I'm just confused. What's funny is is that Harvard stands there with their handout for federal tax dollars. They got very righteously indignant that the federal government has no right to tell a private university how they should run their business. But give us our money. Anyway, you can be principled and not get the money, or you could, you know, say maybe we have work to do, which would have been nice.

Columbia certainly did, but Harvard was like, Nope, not going to do it. By the way, they just floated a seven hundred and fifty dollars seven hundred and fifty million dollar bond Harvard did and sold it to a kind

of hedge against this stuff. I think what Harvard is doing is the same thing that China is doing, and we're gonna get into Chinese tariffs a little bit on the other side of this break, because China has been doing things already behind the scenes to mitigate the damage of what's going on right now with the tariffs and

everything else, because they're just gonna wait out Donald Trump. Now, we can't wait out China because China is an artificially manipulated government, and China doesn't have to answer to the people in the United States. Trump and then the Republican

Party they have to answer to the American people. So China says, Look, in two years, chances are the Republicans are going to lose the House, maybe lose the Senate, and then everything that Trump is trying to do is going to go out the window because they're just going to throw up roadblock after roadblock after roadblock, which is probably accurate unless this tariff thing works. But nonetheless, we're got to take care of that problem. Mandy uhh. This is a quote by me. Is it lost on people

that these women sat on a massive explosion? Nope, nothing sexual or Freudian about that. Stop it, Stop it right now. That's not what I meant. And you know it. You know it when we get back. Here's what we're doing in the next hour. Jimmy Singenberger's coming up. He Wanda James, see you, regent. Wanda James. She is one of those people that when we talk about people lying about racism and it undermining the actual claims of racism. See you reagent Wanda James. She is the poster child for that.

We're gonna get into that. We're also going to talk about the largest flood in history.

And then instinctively they all form a circle where the big elephants are facing out to protect the smaller elephants inside the circle. Coolest thing ever, nice, just cool, and we got to see it because it happened in a zoo, which I think is is kind of interesting. I just I thought that was super super cool. I hate earthquakes,

so that's not cool. The other thing that just popped up that I want to share with you is that one if Pete Hegsecks Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's top advisors, a guy named Dan Caldwell, was purp walked out of the Pentagon today. I say purp walk, that's not really fair. He was escorted out of the Pentagon on Tuesday after

being identified in an investigation into internal leaks. Caldwell's been placed on administrative lead due to what the official described as an unauthorized disclosure, and the action had not publicly been reported prior to Tuesday. But we know that the Trump administration is all about stopping the leaks, so that is uh. He looks like a guy. He's going to

have to be answering some questions pretty pretty soon. To the texter who said about the all female space flight, Mandy, I bet they brought it back with an empty tank. I want you to know. I burst out laughing on the break with that one, because just yesterday I had this conversation with my husband. I said, yeah, I want

to stop and get gas. He goes, oh, you need guess like, no, No, I'm now a person who on Sunday, regardless of how much gas I have in my tank, I'm like, I'm gonna fill my car up, so don't have to stop this week. That's who I've become. I don't even know I look in the mirror. I don't even know who I am anymore. I used to be a I can make it person. Hey Rod, are you and I can make it person? Or are you a fuel up in a responsible ahead of time kind of way?

stuff I was just talking about. But I thought it it was really, really, really cool because I was told a long time ago. I had this incredibly smart teacher for a comparative religion in college, doctor Munchaw and doctor Monchall by far the smartest, most intelligent instructor I ever had his notes like you would have to copy notes, you know, as he was writing on the overhead projector because this was ancient times, and I had to go home and look up the words in the notes because

I didn't even know what the words meant. It was super hard class. But he shared with me that every ancient religion has a flood story, meaning that any religion that's been a law around long enough in mankind has some story of the gods sending a flood that wiped out everything unless they were somehow connected to whatever Noah is. Of course, in the Christian tradition, Noah is. Everybody knows about Noah in the arc. So when I saw this story,

I thought, Okay, this is what we're talking about. And it's a story specifically about how a little over five million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean busted through the Strait of Gibraltar that we know today. How do we know it busted through because it came through with such intensity that it carved out the Strait of Gibraltar because the water was coming through with such force, and at that time, the entire Mediterranean Sea was dried up

like dry flat salty bed. It was just it was gone. And here comes this giant flood bust through the Strait of Gibraltar. And this whole article is about how they figured out what exactly happened based on how the hills and mountains were worn, and they used that to kind of figure out the force of the water, which was incredible. But the whole story is just about climate change, you guys. I have a video on the blog today John Stossel, who I absolutely love and I always share his because

they're so good. He's tackling some climate myths. Oh myth. He's tackling some climate myths right now. And I thought about it the whole time I'm reading this. It is so stupid for us to think that we know what the climate is going to do. It is so stupid to think that somehow, just now that we have instruments to measure this stuff, we're the reason that the climate is changing. The climate has been changing since the beginning of the Earth. The climate will probably continue changing until

we're long gone. And whatever is here after as well, when the robots rise to power and all that. So it's just foolish to think that somehow this is unprecedented, just because we have the ability to measure it with greater accuracy now than we ever did before. Mandy please see Younger Dryas and Graham Hancock. I don't know what that is. How do you have a twenty sixteen key at Sorrento with eleven thousand miles? Where do you even drive? Why don't you just get a bicycle? I mean you

could do that. I'm sorry. I'm listening to something in my headphones. I swear I could hear someone breathing in my headphones. That's what I'm Why are you hearing it?

can't be true. I thought Trump canceled funding for Noah. Haha, wrong Noah to the person who said, not the Mormons, That's why I said any ancient religion, Paganism, Hinduism. I didn't check to see if the Buddhists have one, but they all have a flood story. It's super interesting. What's old is new again? My friends, What's old is new again? Let's take a quick time out. When we get back, I'm gonna tell you a kind of interesting thing that's happening.

As we start to begin the process of restoring some industries. One chip maker has announced some big news for stuff right here in the United States of America. Even in Native American cultures, you have people that there's a Choctaw flood story, in Algonquin flood story, there's a Cree flood story, an Inuit flood story, a Hope flood story. Everybody's got

a flood story. And it's all about global warming. It's all about climate change, the whole thing, and we're acting like we can stop it instead of figuring out how to mitigate it. Right, that's the thing. There's the rub and those, by the way, are just in America, and I mean around the world. There are flood stories everywhere.

So it's I just find that kind of stuff super interesting because everybody likes to think that the Bible is just like a made up book of stories, when in reality, it is the history of the Jewish people and therefore the history of the world. Right, So, whether or not you want to believe the mystic aspects of it, it is the history of the Jewish people. And they've been around for a lot longer than the people who keep

telling them to leave their land. Anyway. I want to talk about this because I think it's kind of a big deal. There's a couple aspects of this that I want to talk about, one being I am being more and more inclined to agree with the Trump administration about one aspect of the tariffs and manufacturing and all of those things, and that is, we have to ensure that we have the capability as a nation to be able to create the ammunition we might need if we have

to go to a hot war situation. And right now we can't do that. We can't build our own warships. We are reliant on China for a vast majority of the rare earth minerals that we buy, and they have just turned off this pigot. They've said, We're just not going to sell you any more rare earth minerals.

I am increasingly believing that we have to be able to make technology here on American soil to decouple ourselves from our geopolitical foe that we rely on far too much. Remember yesterday we were talking about chat GPT's plan to take over the world and how easy it was going to be because it was going to make itself so indispensable to us that we would just hand over the

running of our lives to chat GPT. That's exactly what China has done since they entered the World Trade Organization, to a series of violations to all of the trade norms, they have made themselves indispensable. They have made themselves indispensable by undercutting the competition and selling things at such a low price artificially propped up by the Chinese government that everyone else exited the market. And now China is the only provider. And in the United States, we've got to

fix this. We've got to be able to build this stuff in the United States.

and AI Supercomputers in Texas. So Nividia is blackwelled Chips have started production at chip plants in Phoenix, Arizona, and they are building a supercomputer manufacturing plant in Texas with fox Con in Houston and Wisdrawn in Dallas. Mass production at both plants is expected to ramp up in the next twelve to fifteen months. This is really good news, but I guarantee you that these manufacturing plants will not be full of thousands and thousands of workers individually soldering

pieces onto a computer board. They're going to be filled with high level robotics that are making these things. But here's the deal, you guys. China is replacing their workforce with robotics as well, so their advantage on labor costs is about to disappear. But what we have to recognize is our workforce is not properly trained to take care of high tech robotics. I love that in Douglas County they have a robotics program. I think that's like the

coolest thing ever. You know, back in the nineteen sixties in the Graduate with Dustin Hoffman and one of his dad's friends is like, son, the future is plastics. Now the future is robotics, and we need to retool a lot of the stuff that we're doing to help young people that have an interest in that kind of work be able to access that kind of work and access

it quickly. Because we can resure all of this stuff on, but if we don't have the workforce that is qualified to do it, it's all going to be offshort again. And China has been working really hard to educate their workforce, specifically to be good worker bees in their companies, and

we just aren't. So we'll see what happens here. It does not make any sort of promise about jobs or any of that stuff, but it does make it easier for us to feel some kind of confidence that we're going to be able to build some of this stuff here is that we're going to need. It's going to be necessary. And if a hot war breaks out today, if China drops bombs on the West Coast today, how

fast can we scale these industries up. We need to already have them on sound footing, so we can just make them bigger instead of having to start them again from scratch. When do we get back? Jimmy Singenberger is joining us. See your regent, Wanda James is running around prying racism when there clearly is none. I'll explain with Jimmy right after this some of the text messages that you just sent about the so I just made about China and decoupling from China and being able to take

care of our own stuff. This texter said, Mandy, wasn't there talk about Ukraine selling US rare earth minerals to offset the US for how much we've spent supporting them during the war. Yes, this is why this was so critically important. The interesting thing about rare earth mineral mining is that it's some of the dirtiest mining out there right now. And by dirty, I don't want to I'm not going to sit here and pretend to I'm an expert on mining. I think dirty might be the wrong word.

It's the most disruptive, most invasive kind of mining. I grew up in an area of Florida that had very rich phosphate stores. We had lots of phosphate because we have limestone and it all goes together. And so when I was a kid, I had the opportunity to go to see how they strip mine for phosphate, and it is it's ugly. I mean, it's it is not pretty now in the state of Florida when you strip mine for phosphate, and strip mining is where they literally just come and take the top of the top layer of

earth off. They just scrape it off, so you're just left with this giant hole in the ground. And in Florida they required them to come back and mitigate that afterwards. So after they got done mining, they would come back in they push the leftover dirt into place, and then they would basically plant trees and habitat and they make all kinds of like wonderful wildlife areas and it was

a net benefit. But right now, rear earth mineral mining is very disruptive and in the United States, everybody's like, ew, we don't want to do that here because we want to be environmentally sensitive. But they love to take those same minerals from China who most assuredly are not following the best practices when it comes to protecting the environment.

Same with oil and gas trilling, we probably do it as as well as any country in the world, and yet we want to shut it down here and buy it from Saudi Arabia, where I can assure you that don't spend nearly as much time and energy trying to make sure that we don't pollute the earth, right, I mean, so, Jimmy Sangenberger is joining me. Now, oh hey, there you go.

show to talk about today's call. First of all, Jimmy, congratulations, you have a film. Say, now, how does it feel?

done by CU and departments of health about high POTENCYC. Now, the issue at the time was it was racist because there were images of black babies in utero and black children along with images of white babies in utero and white children in an effort to explain to people how high POTENCYCHC, which Wanda James sells at her dispensary, legally can be damaging to young people and babies in utero. But she said it was racist attack the program, and then what happened then and where are we now?

yet pulled. And meanwhile, Wanda is publicly going out there calling the program racist, trying to get rid of it, and so, needless to say, to make a long story short, see you, Regent Chair Kellie Renaisson and Vice Chair Ken Montera, a Democrat and a Republican, respectively, say hey, we need to look into this.

just a teeny tiny part of the entire program. She has criticized some of these science behind it, although that's something that has largely been on the DL because she's been emphasizing the racial piece because first of all, she's wrong on the science right, and that would be criticizing the university's academic freedom in how they've approached the data with actual scientists, and instead has emphasized this idea that

it is racist. And she has nobody, nobody who testified, had given any sort of explanation to Andy as how or why these images are supposedly racist.

representation in illustrations in anatomy textbooks. One study found only five percent of images are of people or illustrations are of people with darker skin, which has implications in terms of medical professionals and how they might evaluate or learn about particular skin conditions and other issues, and so really what CU was doing here with a niche of health at this and the School of Public Health is following the recommendations of a growing body of researchers who say

we need more black and brown.

in the same way in the same presentation. The notion that that is racist is patently absurd. I mean, I just reject it out of hand. And I'm frustrated because we talk on the show a lot there are actual instances of racism in our society. There are. It is a reality. There's always going to be people that harbor

hate in their hearts. But the reality is is that every time some woman like Wanda James comes out and screams racism over something that is clearly not because she's using that to get her way, she undermines everybody else who has a legitimate concern or complaint. And that is infuriating, and it takes wherever we are in society in terms of race relation and just shoves it back. I don't even know how many years. That is the part I find the most egregious here.

is black. The chair of the Scientific Review Council is a Spanish speaking Hispanic who used to lead the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment when marijuana became legalized in this state. Brandon Lloyd, former Broncos player, is an influencer who is helping to promote this message and visiting students at schools and talking to.

pale in mind. You, I mean, I think that there's no justification for this, especially when there are so many researchers, and I lay out a lot of this. There's an organization of a Nigerian man who has started this group called Illustrate for Change that's all about having black representation in medical illustrations.

loving person. But at the same time, I think people should be informed about the effect or impacts that what they are consuming on their body. Right, I think it's important that we have conversations about what alcohol does long term and how more and more young people are dying of alcohol addiction. And I think we have to do the same for pot And I realize that when it is your business, the last thing you want is bad news about your product. But the reality is is that

you are in the business of vice. You are in the vice business. You are a merchant of death, as they say, that's the old phrase for people in the vice business. So you better be prepared to defend that without trying to shut down conversation you agree with. And that's what she did. She didn't argue against it, she didn't say it was wrong, she didn't prevent present different science. She just said, I don't like what you're saying, and

I'm going to make sure the funding gets pulled. And for that, I think she should be removed from the Board of Regents. What could be the end result of these questions by the Board of Regions about her actions.

This one a three felony counts of the four that Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk, was found guilty of and convicted and put behind bars for, was attempt to influence a public servant.

the Denver Gazette and does a great job. And he fills in for me and Ross and all of us over here at KOA. So you'll be hearing him, I'm sure soon, as I've got a couple of vacations coming up. Now it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio of its kind in the world, Jimmy of the Day. I forgot to tell Jimmy what his role there was when you were supposed to yell in the world, But I figured a rod handled it no problem. Now, are you yes?

And I'd strongly recommend you get your answer and as soon as possible by saying Jimmy and then answering in the form of a question, what is our category today?