04-16-25 FULL SHOW - I Need Woodpecker Help!

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Mandy Connell, joined, of course, by my right hand man. He's Anthony Rodriguez.

Finally made it to work after enjoying some of Colorado's construction magic on I twenty five. Hey, Rod, where's that construction taking place right now in the middle of the day when lots of people might be on I twenty five.

Like literally from you are impacted from like spear all the way towards Hell. I don't know far after the stadium south bound.

Yeah, I know.

I guess We're in the business now of doing road maintenance in the middle of a work day.

So that's cool.

I long believed that all roadmatings should be done in the middle of the night. I just think that's what it should be done.

Selfishly.

When I used to produce Broncos Country Night at night, it would make my night.

Can you pay in the bus?

Yes?

But I still agree. Yeah, what the hell are we doing? What are we doing? I saw what they were doing, you know, doing something looks like some patchwork. Yeah, well those holes have been here forever, where you've been this whole time, and now we're gonna do it during the mail of work day.

Not the greatest idea.

In the world.

Yeah, not not your fine this moment today. Yeah, let's not do that. Yeah, just saying, I just wanted.

To let you guys hear from a rod you got a little vent out. Good nat here there plenty of time though. All is well, it's all good. Show starts. You're there, I'm here, Everything is fine.

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Can I just take a moment to thank those of you who have already either sent me an email or already commented on the common spirithal text line about the blog today, about reading the blog. You have no idea how much joy it gives me to know that even before I get to the blog on the show, which is coming up in just a moment, you guys have already gone to mandy'sblog dot com and read it. I just wanted to say thank you. It means a lot

That was a shot. But I'll take all of you, all of you and.

Find it by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. That is going to take you to the KAWA webpage for Mandy Connell. Look for the latest post section, and then look for the headline that says four sixteen twenty five blog I need Woodpecker Help. Click on that and here are the headlines you will find within.

In Office South American all with ships and clipments of state press.

Plant today on the blog A winter is coming back soon. Let's ask the attorneys some stuff, shall we? If a couple breaks an engagement, does she give the ring back? How does one get rid of Woodpecker's Democrats hate citizens initiatives. They seem to hate the constitution too. School districts from across the state ask boys be banned from girls' sports. How Space Force HQ became a political football rip? Wank Martindale.

Why won't Jared police pardon this soldier?

A Loveland City council member is facing a recall A paper towel role analogy for weight loss? Uh scrolling which team will deliver the goods? Why having live animals and hockey games may not be a good idea? Another reason to onshore critical infrastructure uh Aurora PD is making good progress. The Manitu Incline claims the life East High says a secure vestibule is far from secure. Home prices aren't going up anytime soon. New York ag Leticia James is in

Do you adhere to the five second rule? Typically?

Yes?

Okay, so I used to until I got a dog that sheds this super fluffy, like, very very fine hair. Jinx has very very fine hair, so it's kind of it's everywhere, But you can't pick it off food because it just goes quick and just so anything that falls on the floor of the kit now is it can't be rinsed. Now, I'll rinse it off and eat it. But the dog here is the thing you gotta worry about. I'm not worried about germs. I don't live my life

No?

Okay, then I'm fine not knowing. I wash my hands all as well. I'm gonna go through life not knowing what exists in that crack in my cutting board. But it's been there for like two years. But I love that cutting board, so I don't want to get rid of it, even though a microbiologist will probably tell me I'm going to die from it someday, I don't want to know. So when it comes to the five to second rule, when I don't have a dog one hundred percent, if it's down there for less than five seconds, I'm

To the blog.

The one thing I will say about that is when the five second rule has been involved in my life, it was for immediate consumption. There wasn't time for bacteria to grow on that stuff, and I'm sure my stomach acid.

Killed it all.

Anyway, it's fine, it's fine, Mandy. We listened to you on the radio, not read a friggin blog. Sorry, but don't get upset with us. I need you to do both, because you guys, I am.

Deploying some incredible sarcasm on the blog that doesn't make it onto the show. This isn't a multi platform programs.

And if you don't read it, then that joke does not reach enough ears. Because some of the jokes that I make on the blog. You guys are worthy of so much more.

Embrace the MPP. Yes, exactly what the multi platform?

Uh?

What's the last I said?

Program?

Program? Multiplatform program?

You say without first.

I said yes, and then I realized, wait a minute, I'm I don't.

Know if I know what that trust means. Well, you're not. I know you. You're not going to do anything obscene on the air. That's not going That was like an audible trust fall. Yes.

Wait, wait, hold on, yeah, well I thought I did, and then I realized, wait, there's an extra p there that I'm not accounting for that.

I got confused by.

Mandy that Jinks hair is floating around. You eat it all night long, and that's perfectly fine because I'm asleep right along with the spiders that we inevitably eat in the middle of the night. What is it like, eight spiders a year? Is that what we're told we eat? I know it's creepy, but I don't know how.

Accurate that is.

And I want to know who came up with that random number. Feels like the ten thousand steps number that was just randomly. Everybody went, oh, that sounds good.

We'll just we'll go with that.

This might surprise you, says this text. But some of us only have finite time for this stuff. That is a valid reason. But you're telling me when you're on the potty you don't have time to read the blog. I'm just say you're not doing anything else in there. Don't be making phone calls while you're in there. That's weird. Do not make phone calls when you're in the bathroom. I find that oddly awful. Anyway, this texter says, I

I just have to go ha.

And she's like right there because she knows I want.

Her to clean something up.

Mandy also regarding the five second rules, since McDonald's food doesn't decompose in several years, it is perfectly Okatie that chicken McNugget that has been left in your passenger guard seat for over a week.

That grossed my wife out.

No, I'm not no, no, no, I will not affirm in any way, shape or form what you just sent.

Text her.

I am hashtag team wife on this fully anyway, I do want to update because I've been pretty hard on the audience about this Venezuelan gang member over the last couple of days. A lot of people are saying, Mandy the Maryland dude, twenty twenty one, domestic violence investigation in a restraining order.

This is the new news today.

But guys, gals, it still doesn't change the fact that the due process set out by the United States of America was not followed. I have never, not once on these airwaves, argued that this guy doesn't deserve to be deported. But what he wasn't supposed to be was deported back to El Salvador, and he had more due process that that was due him. It's the due process, the lack

So be clear about what we're talking about.

I am consistent because and I said this guy didn't get due process, I still have seen nothing, not a single thing where it was proven that he was a part of a gang or accused of gang related activities. I saw a couple judges that were like, yeah, okay, it fits the bill, We'll go ahead and assume that's true. I'm waiting for somebody to get into these guys, like the actual courts stuff and find out what actually went down,

It's amazing.

My dog who cannot listen to me when I tell her to stop or sit when we're outside the house man, she hears housekeeping.

She knows exactly what that is. Mandy, Oh my god.

The fact you call housekeeping to come have chinks come clean stuff up off the floor is hilarious. I might start after using that, if you don't mind. Lol coming from somebody who runs a housekeeping department at a ski area, please do. I stole it from someone else that is not original to me. I had friends that had these two little, you know, those little mop looking dogs.

I never know what they are. They're kind of fuzzy.

They're not poodles, but they're just they look a little bit like a mophead. They had those and they did the same thing, so I stole it. Hey, Mandy, your show comes on while I'm at work, so I have plenty of time to read it.

Well done, common doors or Hungarian sheep dogs.

No, no, no, they're little. They're like loss of lops. Those shit to something like that.

You know what I mean?

All those little furry dogs look the same to me. It's a I don't have anything against them. I just would not actually have it, Mandy, Why can't they review it with him absent? I would be fine with that if that's allowed under the rules. I don't know what

How did that go when they didn't get due process? Now they are US citizens, So it is a horse of a different color. But is it really We need to be consistent people.

I mean, our entire system of government, our entire society relies on people mostly doing the right thing. That's you know, Ben Franklin said when asked what form of government they had formed, and he said, a republic if you can keep it, because the republic requires a certain morality. Democracy really requires a certain morality, and we.

Collectively as a society have to decide.

We are going to follow the rules and we are going to treat people equally under those rules. This is why all of the politicians, you know, insider trading and doing all the stuff they do and they never get held to account. Is so incredibly frustrating because the rest of us are being judged by a second set of rules.

For you guys.

I'm always going to try and advocate for the rule of law. I'm always going to try and advocate that we do the right thing instead of the thing.

That may feel good.

So it's not always going to happen, but that's my goal. So we'll see what happens here. Mandy, how would you deport someone to a country that's not their home country.

Isn't that smuggling? I do not know the answer to that question.

His parents did go from El Salvador to Cuba first, and then they immigrated here from Cuba, but mostly because if you come from Cuba and you can get a foot on the ground, you get to stay. That's the wet foot drifoot and that has been that way. Actually,

Uh Mandy.

If El Salvador says they won't return him, do we invade he is their citizen.

No?

But I mean, realistically, you guys, if the president of the United States of America, who is paying you six million dollars a year to house illegal immigrants that you've shipped into this prison, calls you and say, as we need this guy back or everything we're doing is probably going to fall apart, what do you think the guy's

They don't have you know, talk about what's the phrase that Donald Trump used with Zelenski. They don't have the cards. That's why this whole thing stinks so bad. To me. It stinks because it seems like they're they're deferring to the president of El Salvador when it comes to this case a little too easily, and it feels like is this guy even alive? I don't know.

Now, there's a lot of US senators who have hopped on airplanes to fly to El Salvador or to advocate for the return of this man. This is this is the cross they're gonna die on right now. Funny one of them, as far as I know, has gone to Israel to go to the Gaza Strip to advocate for the return of the American Israeli who is still being held hostage.

Not one. I saw a tweet earlier on x.

That was tweeted by a guy who apparently, and I'm going to look this up because I think this is very, very interesting, the guy who was held captive in Iran and his name I'm not I'm gonna try Jiju Wang. Maybe His tweet says I was a New Jersey resident Senator Corey Booker's constituent when I was jailed in Iran as an American hostage. Senator Booker never advocated for my release and refused to speak to my wife Senator Booker is a hypocrite, and again this is all for show.

But I would like to know that the guy is still alive because he didn't get due process. It's all about due process, seriously, Mandy. A thought on the l Salvador guy. Oh, I have enough time.

I like to try to consider things from other involved perspectives. If I was attempting to move forward with an export of Invader's agenda, and I figured out I may have made an error and that relenting to that might badly damage that agenda, I would make plans to correct that error, but I would do it on.

The back burner.

It's possible that the guy will find some remedy if it's due, but possibly not until after it becomes a back burner topic. Except it's not going to be a back burner topic because the Democrats feel like this is a winning topic for them, and to the extent that they are advocating for the rule of law and due process, they are right now. It must be unusual for them to advocate for the rule of law and due process, because again, they didn't feel the need to afford that

There's a whole thing. There's a whole thing, you guys.

If you want to defend the Trump administration by just looking past the fact that they said to the Supreme Court that it was an administrative error that they deported this guy, if you want to just blow that off, that's fine, But you're not going to convince me that just because Trump did it, crapping all over due process and then I guess lying to the Supreme Court is okay, it's not. It doesn't matter if it's Trump that does it,

Right to it. Because this weekend I have.

Enjoyed the heck out of the last couple of days, gonna lie nights and warm, but we're not done with wintery yet.

We are not. You know, when we told you April is Denver's second snowiest month, it should be no surprise that the chance for snows still exists. You know, I'm looking at the forecast as I always do before talking with you, and you know it goes back to the same conversation we had the last couple of weeks if things started to green up and people wondering about turning sprinklers on and is it too early to plant. Well, I've got three mornings Friday morning, Saturday morning, and Sunday morning,

Anyway, how about the mountains. I just saw today that we are now well below the averages for snowpack. What's going on up there?

So yes, no question about that. But here's the thing. When it comes to the snowpack in the mountains, and I'm pretty sure we've covered this. We load the mountains through April seventh. Anything that we can add to the mountains after April seventh is a bonus, is a win to the snowpack to increase those numbers. After April seventh, we start to get into the melting and the draining of those of those basins that feed the reservoirs and

So what am I looking at for my trip to Winter Park this weekend? We're broadcasting from the Children's Hospitals, Mighty Million, Raffle House, Ross and I both are on Friday. So are we going to get caught in snow up there this weekend?

You definitely are, no question about it. Thursday, it starts off as rain. It'll be a rain snow mixing. The mountains should change over to snow pretty quickly with sunset in the mountains. I don't know that your roads will be terrible Thursday evening, But if you're planning on going

But you're always going to.

Run into You're always going to run into convective snow showers at this time of the year, which can have a heavier burst of snow, and you can run into quick patches of slushy, sloppy conditions. And certainly if you're up hot you've got to go over Burst Pass, you go over Birthday Pass. It could be a little bit of a challenge. So I would say if you guys you know, are heading up there, give yourself some extra

Now, I just heard from our Fox thirty one weather forecast in our news here that tomorrow we're going to have a red flag day, and it got me thinking, do we have we always had red flag days like this early in the season.

I always feel like that has.

Traditionally come later in the summer, and it feels like we're having them sort of outside that traditional window or am I just misremembering things?

Now we can get them. Your thought process is correct, and that you think more of that when we get into the heat of the summer and the dry days, and certainly into the fall when you know we're in that dry patch before winter kicks in. But talk to any firefighter across the state, with our expanding population and growth, the fact that we have you know dry periods. Really fire weather season is all year long. So if you think about when the Marshall fire hit, that was a

Thanks, that's exactly what I want to hear. Hey, the allergies which have been killing you for the last six weeks or go.

About to get way way worse. That's that's not encouraging.

So is this gonna be big, heavy snow? Is this going to be hard to shove the snow?

Yeah, it's gonna be heavy and wet. It'll melt underneath. If it freezes overnight, you could have that coating in your garage and driveway the roads. Again, I think elevations may be above six thou sixty five hundred, So that puts the foothills to the west, some communities obviously on the south side of town. You know, we could be looking at We're gonna work on the details of totals.

You will, a shop road will weigh a.

Lot, so you've got to be careful, watch your back. I have that problem, So take it slow. If you're using a snowblower and you've got four or five inches, it's going to be like a slushy machine. It's not going to throw it very far. But again, the moisture content is going to be absolutely fantastic.

Well, somebody said, I've got a weather question real quick before we have to take a break here In just a minute, Mandy. Is there an equivalent feels like temperature table for humidity as there is with wind speed for wind chill?

There is it feels like temperature every single day. You go to the National Weather Service website and you look like you go to their homepage and you put in the upper left hand corner. There's a box where you can put in a city. It will bring up whatever the sensor is closest to where you live, and it will show you temperature, wind speed, And there's a feels like right there, calculated every day. So on dry days it'll be lower, on the humid days it could be

Just asked about to see you spring football game. It's not this weekend, though? Is it this weekend? So is Ralphie going to be running through the snow and boulder?

I don't, Ayron, do you know what that came is?

I'm not sure A Ron said it was this weekend.

I thought it was this week I'm not sure. If it is Saturday, yes, ralphild be running in some snow. But you know what's interesting, and I know you've got to go. I went to look to see when was the last time Denver had three inches of snow in April? You know what it was? When the nineteenth and twentieth of last year we had three point three on the nineteenth and three on the twentieth, six point three inches. Guess what we got Friday and Saturday? What two to

But you know what, Davis, they always say in Colorado we need the moisture. You're going to get it, all right, man, Thank you. That's Save Frasier from Box thirty. You should watch him and his team. They do a great job.

Well.

Talks again next week, Dave. All right, that is Dave Fraser. We'll be right back.

Mandy are red flag warnings. We were just talking to Dave Fraser about that and oh where did it go?

Dag Nevitt, It just it was just there. Hang on one second, you guys look it up a different way.

Okay, it says Mandy are red flag warnings. We were rear ended four and a half weeks ago in a little east of Sterling on I seventy six when we all had to slow down quickly and then stop due to heavy smoke from a grass fire. The guy behind us apparently didn't think driving into a cloud of smoke dictated slowing down. We were okay, but had to keep moving or die of smoke inhlation or getting slammed into again. Fortunately we were able to move on. Guy behind us

Well, that sucks. That totally sucks. You know what else sucks? This story.

I have been tweeing with the thought of doing the Manitou Incline for like six years now, But right now I feel really good. My knee, my torn meniscous issue seems to have resolved itself. However, that's going to resolve itself, so I'm not having that issue right now. But I see the story and I think to myself, Man, I don't want to be this guy. It's very sad story. Please don't think I'm making fun about it. A sixty four year old Oregon man has passed away trying to do the Manitou Incline.

And you know, this is the part of the story that.

Is a positive if there is one where you know, the situation resulted in the death of a man, but apparently there were people also trying or doing the Manitou Incline who immediately intervened. They started doing CPR, they called nine to one one, they tried to save the guy. And whenever I hear stories like that, and I just kind of imagine normal, everyday people jumping in to try and save another person's life. It warms my heart. And

Yeah, I feel like.

I can make just up and then it's another windy trail to come back down on bar trails.

One hour and forty seven minutes. I think I could beat that. I could get it.

I think I feel like i'd be okay at like one forty five. And I've got a strategy because I've been working I've been working out. We have some good inclines in Douglas County, not remotely as big as the Manitu Incline, but I've been doing the inclines in Douglas County and I have a strategy that seems to work for me. And I want to know if anybody else does stuff like this. If I count the steps, it

And then I keep going.

So every hundred and I think, there's how many steps in the Manitu incline? I looked this up one time out hang on how many steps in the man Okay, there we go. There are two thy seven hundred and sixty eight steps, So that means I would stop two hundred and seventy point six times two hundred and seventy six times roughly. But I think if I stop for each of those for like three minutes, I should be fine.

Every hundred steps.

Have any of you guys out of our listening audience done the Manitou incline and not like crazy? Like yeah, me and my friends run up and down it for fun. I don't want to talk to you. You're not my people. You're too physically fit for me.

I follow this fitness influencer on Instagram, and she is She's a certified exercise physiologist. She's really good. I like her workouts she does. I like to follow her. But then the other day she did this whole series of stories where she and all of her super hot fitness friends went got together and for a day of fun.

They didn't half marathon. And then at the after party, they were like dropping down to see how many fish have taken two together, and then they were doing squats and all kinds of other stuff, and I was like, these are not my people. My people are the people who celebrate doing a half marathon by not doing a half marathon, to be clear, but I'd love to know if any of you have done it five six, six nine. Oh ooh, Mandy, I think the record is like twenty two minutes or something.

What what Oh? This person made it up in under an hour?

Hm hmm.

Okay.

This person says, I'm thinking two to two and a half hours for you to get up the main incline, and that's because of my age. Okay, I want to read this whole text, because this person started out trying to be gentle before they stabbed a rhetorical knife into my heart. Mandy, I love your show. That's the kindness that's buttering me up. I've met you a few times, but I'm thinking, and I am older than you by the way, that I'm thinking to two and a half

Takes a little longer.

So now I have to do it, and I have to do it in less than an hour and a half because of this person's text message. Okay, great, you give me a goal. I'm gonna print this out and I'm gonna carry it with me on a little piece of paper, and every time I get super tired, I'm gonna.

Be like, no, Mandy, you are not going to let this text win.

No.

Oh gosh, a lot of you have done this. We'll get to it when we get back.

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show. I'm your host, Mandy Connall. That guy right there is Anthony Rodrigue, and we will take you through the next two hours. First of all, I am very pleased to know that we have such a fit group of listeners in my listening audience, because a lot of you are sharing your tales of the Manitou incline and someone pointed out a rod, what do you think the record is for going up the Manitu incline?

Just guess I think you said like twenty something right, Oh, that was way high.

II seventeen minutes and sixteen seconds set by Swiss mountain runner Remy Bonnet on September twelfth of twenty twenty three. He beat his own record of seventeen minutes and twenty five seconds. The fastest Inclinethon, which is thirteen a cents in one day, was done by a guy named Wade Gardner in ten hours and thirty four minutes.

That's that's nuts.

Most cents in a year, Greg Cummings with eighteen hundred and twenty five ascents. Most laps in a day by female Andrea Sanson with nineteen vents in twenty four hours. Okay, I'm not going for any of that. We're not going to do that. That just seems a little excessive. But a couple of people reached down and said, hey, I'd like to do this with you and maybe raise a little money for charity.

And that's appealing because I'm very goal oriented, so I need to know.

I have a question for the listening audience and this is very serious.

We've talked about this before.

Well, we've now reached peak woodpecker at my house. Okay, So we used to have little finches, yeah, exactly, and we have cedar siding right. Our house was built in nineteen eighty three.

And the little.

Finches, you know, they're like like that, you know, We're like, oh, it's a finch.

Whatever.

Now we have a full blown woodpecker. It's huge, and when it hits the side of my house it sounds like we are being shot out by fully automatic machine machine gun. Oh no, it's way faster than that. It's like, I mean, it's so loud. The first time that I heard it, I hit the deck just to be you know, I watched enough cops. I know what that sound is not crazy. But now it's got a big old hole

That worked for a while. We had the fake owl that worked for a.

While, and then the woodpecker's like, hey, this thing never blinks and it sure isn't coming after me.

So we have tried the things. Now I have a question for you guys.

And this is my this is my my theory of what I'm gonna do. Now that the hole in the side of my house is about the size of.

A softball, right, so big hole.

And I was thinking, I have my Hero twenty twenty which fires pepperballs for it, you know, pepper balls, And so I thought, I, oh, by the way, this is also thirty feet off the ground, so it's not anywhere convenient for us to, you know, do something.

It's incredibly inconvenient.

So thinking about taking a little, you know, pepper ball gun, the Hero twenty twenty that I have, and hiring a pepper ball near that hole?

Do you think that would work?

And secondary question, in the off chance that I miss and it goes into the hole, am I going to gas my entire house inside? These are the questions that I have right now. And these are questions honestly I never had until I had I moved to Colorado, because I've never lived in a place where woodpeckers just beat their way through the side of your house. I mean, I'm sure it happens other places. Every place has unique and different things they have.

To worry about. Every place has Like in Florida.

You got to deal with bugs, and you got to deal with snakes that'll kill you, and you got to deal with alligators. And alligators they're really like a kind of a no big deal situation. I realize people that are not around alligators don't realize alligators are big and dumb and slow and mostly scared of people.

So you got bugs, mostly scared of people alligators.

But here.

You have bugs, says this texter. Woodpecker's trying to save your family.

But we don't. We don't have bugs. We've had the house checked.

They just want to nest in the wall of my home, which apparently they are doing now. So this is question number whatever in this series of questions. I'm looking for answers on the Common Spirit health text line at five six six, And I know what exactly is allowed in this case, like perhaps if I had a pellet gun. I'm not saying that's what's gonna I'm just saying, what are the rules around this?

You know?

Now, you're always gonna have that pesky pecker. Being that they are migratory, they will always come back. Well that's not no, that is not going to do that. We tried the shiny streamers, you guys, we tried them forgot to add that one too, had the had the Yeah, Eric, I agree with you that we need James Hardy five or cement siding. But my house unfortunately has so much siding on it that it would be prohibitively expensive for me to replace all of my siding with James Hardy

Work for this woodpecker.

This woodpecker's like, I mean, I'm not saying he flipped me the bird, but I'm saying if he could, he would have been like no. We bang on the wall and he stops for a second, and then like two seconds later he's like even harder, like, oh, yeah, you want me to stop.

I don't think so. I don't know why.

He sounds like he's from Jersey in my mind, but he does. Mandy, I think woodpeckers are a protected species. This is not the helpful I need you guys to lie to me and tell me I can do illegal things and have them not be illegal.

You're not helping me.

Get the oil that they were the same way you got the snakes nailed up there, and the owl well those have been up for a long long time, and we had somebody else go up on the ladder.

And put him up there.

Yeah.

I am deadly accurate with a blowgun, and neighbors.

Don't know what it is.

Well in luckily for us, I guess the woodpecker has also been harassing our neighbors as well.

So there you go. You have to get a.

Federal permit to exterminate a woodpecker. This is not going the way that I want it to go.

Hmm, Mandy. I had a neighbor who reinforced the back of a bird house with metal and hung the bird house over the whole.

Can't beat them, join them, you know what. I'm kind of there right now. I am definitely kind of there.

Hi, Mandy.

We have downy woodpeckers. Since we live along a creek this time of year, that drilling away is just.

A juvenile call.

It's a teenager looking for others, except he's making a giant hole in the side of my house.

Did you guys miss that part? Mandy? Are there bird wranglers out there? I don't know? Are there bird wranglers? Is that a thing?

By the way, we have a very funny video of a guy who probably doesn't consider himself a bird wrangler, but he was trying to wrangle a bird at a hockey game. And if you've ever wondered what an irritable condor looks like, you can watch that video and see because this bird was just like I'm done. A drumming is to attract a mate. A hole is making a home. A house will attract one and keep others from nesting nearby.

You can't kill them. They're protected. I have a house that is oh where did it go? Where did it go?

Oh?

We've used the hose to shoot water at and we tried that. Oh no, where did it all? Updated? And it went away?

Okay, we can deter them from our home from May to September. First during that time is they're nesting time, and they are federally protected from harassment or exclusion. That is not what I wanted to see here. I have a house that is ninety seven percent siding. Every time I find this it read updates, weep at the bullet and did the hearty siding. I'm not kidding when I

All Right. Umm, I've heard they taste like quail says this text. I don't know.

I do enjoy quail hang a cookie sheet on a nearby tree for to drum on. It's not the drumming, guys, it is the giant hole. And when I say giant, I mean it's the size of a softball. Now it's huge, absolutely huge. So hmm, Mandy, same as wolves, shoot shovel and shut up.

Okay, yeah this went. Wait a minute, you guys, mouse trap trigger and a bit of C four, blame the whole lot of lightning strike and get the insurance company to pay for cement siding two for one win. Now that is the kind of skullduggery I can get behind. No, I'm not really doing that.

I've never used before, so I'd be afraid I would overdo it and take down my entire house.

Mandy. If you can get up to where the.

Hole is, you can put a small cup of ammonia up there. The ammonia should be strong enough to drive it away. That's not an option where this is located. Yeah, not gonna happen anyway. If you have better suggestions, let me know at five, six, six nine. Oh and there you go, Mandy. It's only illegal if you tell your friends. Now you text her, are getting you understood.

The assignment.

You understanding, you are picking up when I am laying down. Okay, Mandy, we have one that pounds away at the metal vent on our roof at six a m. Talk about a rude awakening. Seriously, I mean typical teenagers though, aren't they, Mandy, A, J. A and J Pest Bird Services. They do wonders with bats too. When I was in high school, no excuse me,

Old, and you know, it.

Just smelled like an old gym. And they found this dead bat and they tested in the bat had rabies. So now they can't have bats in the gym with all these kids, especially one with rabies. So they tell us they're gonna have to tent the gymnasium and they're gonna have to exterminate. They're gonna have to fumigate the gymnasium to kill any bats that may be remaining in the gymnasium. So we're like, ooh cool. So it was the first time I'd ever seen a tented building, and

I don't know why I'm excited about this.

So they tent the gymnasium and they fumigated, and y'all there were like, there were bats like knee deep in the gymnasium when they got done, thousands and thousands of bats that we had never seen until they exterminated them all in a mass genocide of that bat population. And growing up in Florida, you learn very quickly bats are your friends.

They are on the same side you are.

When it comes to the battle against Mosquitoes. Bat seat multiple times their own body weight every single night in Mosquitoes. So if you can get a bat on purpose to come to your property, and you do that by hanging up a bathouse, and then you have to order some bat poop or guano as it's called, and you put the bat poop up in the bathhouse.

And then the bats come live there.

It was horrifying. It was like a horror movie. When they fumigated our Gymnasium. It was amazing. Uh, woodpeckers are endangered. Yes, I believe that we have cedar siding on our two story mountain home.

Hobby you used to power wash and stain homes.

Hole will become an entry point for squirrels into the attic.

Hobby fits holes.

With cooking and later stains are pain over it. That from Mountain Grandma. Okay, that's what we did last time, Mandy.

Stucco.

Guys can hardcoat your stucco will prevent woodpeckers.

And that ates except we have siding. We have cedar siding in our house.

We have one of those Colorado like houses with cedar siding. That's fantastic until the woodpeckers come to roost. So U, when was the last time you painted your house? Paint your house? They go away that that actually is not true because they came back the year after.

We painted our house. So there you go. Mandy, heads up. Your iHeart broadcast is repeatedly repeating from time to time.

I have forwarded these messages about the Ihart broadcast onto the appropriate people, so hopefully somebody's gonna be working on it soon. Mandy, we get excited about tented homes and buildings because we're chen X and we all saw the movie e t Oh my gosh.

Pam, that could be true. Anyway, So.

Mandy, hang a wolf from the side of your house to send a message.

I like that.

It'll be tough to get him to stay up there.

I mean, you know, we'll figure it out, though, we'll definitely figure this out anyway. I've got other stuff on the blog today that I want to talk about. But I got to tell you, like the last few days, we've had so much politics and everything else that has just been kind of exhausting. But somebody sent a text message to me, actually an email. I can go find it right now. I know it was a text message earlier. Sorry guys, Oh no, it's not.

It is an email. Mandy.

I'm a regular listener to your program, but when I happen to be traveling during your radio timeslot. I also listened to Bill O'Reilly on his No Spin News that he's made me aware of the crazy legislation of HB twenty five thirteen twelve, HP twenty five thirteen oh nine, SB twenty five, pet eighty three, SP twenty five one twenty nine. At the suggestion and provided on your website. I've emailed Governor Polis to respectfully express my concern and disapproval.

If you have any suggestion.

Regarding how to slow down or reverse this trend, I would like to hear them. And I emailed them back something that I think is really true. And every year, at the end of the legislative session, I think to myself, Oh, this was the worst one yet, And then I allow my suffrag a second to say, this has got to be the worst one.

But then no.

Slative session has seen some of the.

Most egregious, horrible legislation that I can recall in my lifetime, and it's happening right here in Colorado, and you want to know to your point, you're absolutely right. A vast majority of the voters in Colorado who continue to put Democrats back into power aren't paying attention at all. It'll be very interesting when some of them may decide they need a firearm and they have to live under the

But is it too late? I mean, the.

Voters don't hold the people who pass.

These laws accountable.

They don't make the connection that since twenty nineteen, inflation in Colorado has been out of control mostly because of laws, rules, regulations, and fees pass by a Democrat majority with very little impact from the Republican Party. This year, they've really ended the charade caring about what Republicans care about. They end a debate on all of these some of these really egregious bills and just said we don't want to hear from you. Thank you can sit down to shut up.

So I keep thinking it can't.

Get worse, it can't get worse, But yeah, it does. And they continue to show so much disregard for the citizens that they claim to represent. They have a new bill being pushed by three of the most progressive Democrats in the legislature.

And that's saying something.

This is going to attack the citizens' initiative process, which in Colorado is in theory supposed to put our legislature on notice about the way we feel about certain issues. And citizens can run these initiatives by very cumbersome process to get this on the ballot.

This is not easy.

But if they get enough volunteers, if they get enough money, they can get enough signatures, they can get this stuff on the ballot. The people of Colorado can directly decide on the big issues in theory to demonstrate to the legislature what we want done. Unfortunately, whatever we voted on in the past, the Democrats just ignore that initiative and come back and pass it. Anyway, this bill is worse than the changes that were on the ballot the last

Oh in that Tabor lawsuit, the Tabor lawsuit literally says the Democrats are arguing that because we are a republican form of government, we are not supposed to put any limits at all on the people that we elect to do the people's business. Is that doesn't show contempt, not just no contempt for the voters and for the taxpayers of the state of Colorado.

I don't know how else you could read that. They just want you to know that your betters that are in the legislature, most of them appoint out most, but a huge portion of them just appointed by party insiders in vacancy committees. You should just defer to your betters and keep your little initiatives and your little taxpayers bill of rights to yourself, because our betters know best, and we need to recognize it and just move forward from there. That's where we are. And i'd see what I mean.

I don't think Michael's an idiot.

I just think he needed to start paying attention a little sooner than apparently he has. We'll be right back about the woman with no legs doing the Manito incline. No, it's not a joke, Mandy Horrorvath of Colorado Springs. Back in twenty eighteen, she lost her legs after being hit by a train. That's a whole other story, but she did the Manito incline.

No legs.

Oh sure, nothing like throw that gauntlet down. If you ever want to be inspired, go up to Winter Park for the big National Sports Center for the Disabled event, the Wells Fargo Classic, and you see people with pretty significant physical disabilities just ripping down the mountain. You're like, oh my god, what am I doing? Such a loser? Everything works on me and I'm just such a baby. That being said, I also appreciate all of you who said.

Hey, I'll go do it with you.

And I had a listener reach out and say hey, we've got a lot of people that would love to do this. And he's had a pretty remarkable story and he's a survivor and he wants to do a little charity thing to raise money, So stay tuned for that. I might just go like, wake up one day, I know that I think you have to have a reservation.

Now.

I might just do it first to make sure that I'm not over committing myself, and then I'll come back and tell y'all, okay, we can do it again. That would be okay. Good news in the girls on boys

The letter states the.

Implications for CHAS are unmistakable. By maintaining policies that permit boys to compete as girls, chass are risks exposing Colorado schools to federal investigations, the potential loss of critical funding and legal liability under Title nine. Now CHASSA, of course says, uh.

We're working on it.

They're working with a legal team to navigate how to comply with the executive order in state law. You know, one of the frustrating parts of this conversation for me is that the conversation is boys who have changed or believe they are girls should absolutely be allowed to compete against girls, no questions asked, no matter where they were, if they went through puberty or.

Not, it does not matter.

They should be able to do that, no questions asked, Or you're essentially forcing them to compete against.

Boys of which they don't believe they are one.

But the reality is is that the bigger conversation is, especially in the high school level, playing sports is a privilege, and it's not a privilege afforded to everyone. Not everyone makes the team, not everyone gets to Some people on the team never get to play.

So the notion that somehow.

We must capitulate because somehow transgender girls are the only ones who have to suffer, never have to suffer any disappointment, it's really frustrating to me because we had to set up an entire framework called Title nine in order to ensure that girls had access to sports at the same level that boys had access to sports because they couldn't

And it's unfortunate.

If you want to make accommodations where you create an open category where you know you can compete against other trans kids, or you can compete against men who want to compete in the open category, then knock yourself out. But I so strongly disagree with the notion that girls and teen girls, especially you know, little kids, you play co ed sports all the time because until puberty hits.

There's not that much difference. And when it comes down to.

Things like in terms of attention span, little girls may be better at some stuff than little boys. But once puberty hits, there's physical changes that can't be denied. And girls deserve to have a space where they don't have to be in a room with a biological man to change clothes, to put on swimsuits, to put on leotards.

They deserve that.

It's why we have men's bathrooms and women's bathrooms. So we'll see what CHASSA does.

I mean.

Chassa did respond to KOAA News by saying, at this time, the full impact of the executive order remains unclear. The directive does not mandate immediate action by CHASSA, the Colorado Department of Education, or local school districts, but instead directs federal agencies to take steps that could lead to changes in funding and oversight. Now, what they just said was, it doesn't tell.

Us we have to do this.

They just tell us that they're prepared to well change funding and oversight if we don't. But we're not going to do anything because we believe in an action. How about the rightness of this? And by the way, the polling direct data is moving in the wrong direction. So let me see polling on trans in girls sports. Let me pull up the latest from twenty twenty three on policies restricting trans people. That's interesting, not protecting girls but

Uh.

Fifty six percent of adults favor a ban on healthcare professionals from providing care related to gender transitions for minors. So the interesting part about this Pew poll is that at the same time, fifty six percent of adults express support for policies aimed at protecting trans people from discrimination in jobs, housing, and public spaces, because those are not an attack on our inherent fairness or unfairness. Right, we all have a strong sense of fairness. I really believe

Is this is what they do to us. We're just doing it back.

And when you talk about it in terms of fairness, overwhelmingly a majority of people are going to agree.

So we're gonna have Gary and Brad from Bell and Palicon. And I realized this.

I was talking to one of my co workers today and I said, I think I love that so much because my father was a person l injury attorney. He was actually kind of a everything attorney in a small town, but he did a lot of personal injury and he would always tell me about his cases when I was a kid, like the interesting ones, not the boring stuff, but he would always tell me about these interesting cases.

So for me hearing you.

Guys ask questions about stuff that's happening in your life, I don't know. I find it interesting as all get out. So we're going to have them on for a little while. In the meantime, though, a couple things. Remember the guy who set fire to the governor of Pennsylvania's mansion while he and his family were in it, Governor Josh Shapiro, the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania, And that only matters in the context of this story.

Thirty eight year old.

Cody Baumer has admitted that he took explosive devices, probably molotov cocktails, threw them into the mayor's mansion trying to burn it down. And why did he do it Because he didn't like the mayor's stance on the Palestinian issue. So he is a hardcore left winger, and so this story is going to be gone, gone, gone gone. Now,

The left have decided it is.

We're gonna dig into some of those new polling data, which is profoundly disturbing on tomorrow's show, which is also three hours long. I also have a bunch of stuff on the blog we're not gonna get to that is really important. First of all, game show host Wink Martindale died. Do you even know who Wink Martin Dale.

Is ay rod tic Tac dough heard Nancy tictac Doe a winner, now I've heard the name.

He was sort of the quintessential game show host guy. He had this giant smile, like huge chick lit teeth right and it was just like and he always seemed like the kind of guy you wanted to hang out with at a party, you know, one of those guys like cracking, you know, just cracking jokes and having a good time. He was ninety one years old. He had a good running's applem Foma for the last year. So rip,

So this.

You know, all these.

Websites are constantly putting.

Out lists of like, you know, best places to live or best sandwich up in your town or whatever. Well, this list is the loneliest states in America.

The loneliest So Lonely and Colorado came in number two.

The reason that we came in number two is because we have so many people using dating apps, and I would submit to you that the reason we have so many people using dating apps is because we have so many tech savvy young people living in Denver. So it's uh, it's definitely a I think, perception issue. But I wanted to ask a bigger question, and we've got to do Anyrod, we should do a whole show on dating, just a whole show on what a dumpster fire it is to

Like, well, who did you vote for?

And if you don't say Kamala Harris, that is the end of the relationship. And that is so stupid and shortsighted and ridiculous. I, first of all, wouldn't want to be with somebody who agreed with everything I thought. Chuck and I have spirited conversations about various issues, but man, a lot of these young women are gonna just end up alone and wondering how it happened. Waiting for the perfect beta male to knock on their doors, and he's

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the third hour of the show, and I said it right before the break. Something occurred to me today as I looked at my calendar and saw that Gary and Brad from Bell and Pollock were going to be on the show for an hour of Ask the Personal Injury Attorneys, and I thought to myself, why am I so entertained by this segment. I enjoy the heck out of it, and it reminds me of

Was working on. So I thought we'd start o this hour after. I told people, if you have a question for Gary or Brad from Bell and Pollock, a personal injury question. Maybe you've been in an accident, maybe you've been hurt by somebody else's negligence. Now's the time to get some free advice. You can call us at three oh three seven one three eighty five eighty five. That's three oh three seven one three eighty five eighty five. If you have a super simple question, you can text

I want to ask you, guys, what are the what are the cases that you have tried in your decades of doing this? What are the cases that you still when you go to a cocktail party, that's the story you're going to tell.

You've got that one, Cary.

There's a lot of them, and there's only so much that you know, you can say about a case without you know, compromising the security of the kidning. But yeah, there's a there's a lot of them, big accident cases, big trucking cases. I mean usually we experienced cases many where you match a truck eighteen we row up against the car, saw them a good match. There's going to be a disaster, and they it's amazing how hard they fight, and it's amazing. People don't realize that these trucking companies

They will have a team.

And when I meet a team, they have a human factors expert on site, an engineer on site, an attorney on site.

They fly them in.

They don't they don't wait well, so they get it all done and they want to get the engineering done, and they get the black boxes done. But I guess the funny story would be we did a trucking case one time and the trucker was saying, he said, here's my logs. And it was the old fashioned logs. They weren't digital logs. They were written logs, and here's my logs. And so Brad and I kept looking at the logs and something wasn't right, and we.

Had got it.

We had received his gas receipts. And they sometimes they stay in motels, so we get the hotel receipts.

I said, well, according to.

You, on the night in question, you were at a motel in Lexington, Kentucky.

But your logs say you were in Florida.

Oh so all at the same time, and so you know that was and then went they went south for the company from there. But that's kind of a kind of fascinating choice and that you'll be surprised how many times that happens. The other thing is, I got to put in a word for the Colorad State say patrol, they get on the scene, they want those logs. You the driver, right, you don't want to give me the logs, And they say, I'm going to get on the I'm going to get on the horn and get on the

And so have you guys ever had any just bizarro world cases where people walked in and ask and you just went, yeah, that's outside our scope, Like that's so nuts, we can't even do that.

Yeah, I mean we've had, I mean we've had we've had cases where people have walked in and there's really no there's really no liability. Nobody's falls and we're not going to do the case, right, but they say they say they're hurt, and and then there's you can't do any liability. But then they get angry when you tell them there's not a case and we told them.

You get the ones where they say they cause the accident and they want to sue because they cause the accident. What Yeah, they got hurt in the accident and they caused it. You get down to it, you say, well, it looks like you took the ride away away from the other person, and they go, yeah, I did.

You go well, then you can't recover.

And you kind of just admitted it to us. You just admitted it to us.

Yeah, that's not a question here, you know, I have a question and then we're going to get some calls here in just a moment. A friend of mine is dealing with this situation. And I think with the rise of social media, I don't know if you guys have ever handled these cases where you have someone taking to social media to defame a rival business for another company. And these are not big money players, so we don't

So there is recourse.

The tough part of that answer is that usually that you have to file a loss. Usually they don't care. Usually they're just going to go on doing it. But sometimes it's worth a try. Sometimes when attorneys write demand letters, let's say you are passing the social media, you get demand letters to cease and desist or we're going to file a lawsuit. Sometimes that works, and that's very very cheap,

So maybe a demand letter, well.

If your client's a company or a business, you can sometimes coordinate it with the loss of business. They're try and show that, okay, But once somebody put this on Facebook or they put it on some kind of social media demeaning you or degrading your company or making bad statements, and they refuse to take it off and you can coordinate that with loss of business. You might be able

Well, the other thing is that when people live at Google reviews, businesses get mad. But if it's the truth, truth is a deficient of defamation. If it's the truth, it is the truth, that's real, it is what it is.

Well, these are specifically.

I have a friend who's going through this now, and she said, she came to me because you know, I'm a web I'm a web doctor and also a web lawyer, so people come to me for legal advice. All right, She actually called and said what kind of attorney would I need for this?

And I said, well, first of all, if.

You're talking about suing someone if they have nothing, you're talking about spending a lot of your own money.

You'll probably never get back, right, so probably never get about it.

Would that be a case that if you could prove the damages and all of that nonsense, if you were so in the New York Times, would that be a personal injury? Obviously it's not an injury physically, but it's an injury to your business.

It's an injury to the harm and the harms to the reputation. So yes, it is an injury, and that's what you would you would have to do. I mean, say we're the New York Times, you'd want to file the law soon. It's an injury to your reputation, right and too many people, your reputation is worth more than anything.

Is It hard to prove those kind of cases.

Very hard.

You know.

It can also relate into emotional distress too.

And you know, because I've had people come in that are very upset. They're emotionally distraught over what's happened, and so much so that they don't.

Even care about their physical injuries.

They care more about just trying to be.

Able to get a grip on what's happened.

I call them nightmares and daymares because they're still living with it all.

Yeah, and a lot of times.

You got some to counseling and you've got PTSD, and that can happen with somebody putting a bad review about you or saying something bad about you on social media. It can cause a lot of emotional distress. If you can tie that in, if you can show it, which means you got to talk to spouse's, you've got to talk to friends, you've got to talk to business associates.

I think that's an interesting thing that's happening now is now people are more vicious online than they've ever been before, and it's it's damaging to someone's reputation when you go and lie about them on the internet, because.

It lives forever.

It's like a license to lie.

I mean, you know that the internet, social media has turned into some of that is the license to attack somebody with your words. And attacking somebody with your words can be very, very interious to somebody.

I agree, cause a lot of problems. Well, I asked it.

Okay, if you've got a question that isn't slander or libel related. Gosh, if I could see over all the mean stuff that have been said about me on the internet, I'd be rich right now.

Give us a call.

Three three seven, five eighty five. Yes in castle Rock has a question. You're on with Bell and Pollock for ask the attorneys.

Thank you know, I have a multi facinate issue that.

I'm trying to resolve.

I've got a financial institution that refuses to take.

My ex off the account even.

Though she signed a quit claim, and they will not allow the access.

To many of the communications we've.

Had with them and or the other offices unless I get a subpoena.

So where do I go? What do I do?

Well?

I got to tell you to begin with the start off with. That is a typical divorce question, and it happens all the time. A couple they buy a piece of property by usually a house or condominium whatever, they both go on title, and they both signed the promissory note, and then they get a divorce and the the finance company or the loan company will not and is not, and they're not obligated to take either party off of the note. They got the note. That's their security. And

Is it a loan situation, Jess, No, it's not a loan.

It's the investment account. Yeah, so you wanted off the account. She signed a quit claim in the financial investment company will not accept what she did.

They're putting the blame back on me. They said, I need to take her to court. Well, you know we had to. We didn't go to court with her mediation. She did this in mediation.

And like I said, now, I'm trying to say, hey, I've been telling you this for quite some time, but they won't give me the communication records without a subpoena.

Okay, well I got another solution. I got another solution for you. Look, if if she's cooperative, it sounds like she might be signing in the quick claim deed, close the account together, close it, take take your money out, and go better than somewhere else.

I was because of her dealings with the personal moneys. I was in a lot of trouble with the irs, and I am now permanently partially disabled because of the assault she gave me.

I'm sorry.

What was the what was the mediation order? The mediation agreement made in order of court? Did you take it down to court and making an order of court?

The attorneys agreed to go to mediation?

All right, Jeff, I want to hear the rest of this, but I've got to take a break.

I'm very very late. You're on McGary bratd Hang on, Jeff, hold on, don't go anywhere. We'll be right back.

Let me rephrase what Jeff's issue was. Jeff and his ex wife have an investment account. His wife has signed a quick dey to get off of the investment account. The brokerage, the financial institution has said no, thank you, we're going to keep her on this and he wants to know how to get her off this situation and pick it up.

Guys, you got two minutes, Jeff.

What I do is I go back to the attorney that was with you helped you do this. That attorney can contact the ex wife's attorney. The two of them can file a stipulation with the court, or you got your divorce or your separation, and the court can enter an order directing and you want a specific order that specifically goes the institution, and they you don't really need.

The ex wife at that point.

The ex wife's attorney can do this if he's got authority and proper.

Authority to do it.

But and I get an order of court that you can take down to the brokerage to show them. Here's an order of court take her name off.

Well, her attorney says, the statute of limitations has expired, so nobody has any paperwork. The mediator has no paperwork.

The problem is.

The financial institution did not act on this at the time they should have, and I've been fighting them the ever since.

Well, how long was this because your statue limatous makes no.

Sense to me?

Out it doesn't expire on a divorce sto.

Or how long ago?

Okay, it was fifteen years ago, and it wasn't a divorce, it was a separation, right, So I was under the Colorado law. We had a common law marriage. But in its separate divorce you separate assets and liabilities. Separation you separate only the assets. Well, she did this because she knew she took out alone against this account. So I've said before, if you know a screenwriter or an offer I got to made for TV mini series.

Here, Oh, the plot just thickened a whole lot, and you've got that. So so is she being cooperative now?

Not at all?

Of course not. Does he need to talk to a different attorney?

Well, you're you're Your only answer is is court. Your only answer is court. You can't get it done by agreement. You can't get it done by stipulation. That's the only answer. And fifteen years ago, how.

Do I get the people to get the communication records from the financial institution.

You're gonna You're gonna have to have court auction pending. Yeah, if you got a court auction pinion, you can issue subpoena.

Then And you can't just issu your subpoena out of the blue. You have to have a cord action pending.

You need you need a new attorney.

Start with that, Jeff, And I wish I could give you more advice, but I have to let you go because I got to take another break. We went along in that last time.

Yes, call our office and we'll try and give you get a referral to you for an attorney three O three.

Seven nine fifty nine, one hundred. We'll be back, Jill.

Hang in there your next three O three seven one three eighty five eighty five. I'd love to hear if you have a weird legal question, because I love those. We'll do that next with Bell and Pollock. We're playing Ask the Attorney. I've got some really good questions on the text line. We're going to grab those next, but Jill has been patiently waiting. Jill, you're on mc gary and Brad from Bell and Pollock. What's your question?

Hi, It's nice to talk with you.

I think I'm trying to determine if I actually have a kid.

In early February, I was.

Running at the.

Airport to catch the Skylight bus and my oh lip the sidewalk, and long story short, I ended up with a head injury. I tore my handstring on one side

On their part.

Well one one more time, what what caused you to follow? You were doing what exactly exactly I was.

I was at the airport and I was in the transit center. I was running to catch the sky ride bus and dripped on a lip on the sidewalk, and then that was the result.

Okay, here's the deal to recover premises' liability.

That's what that's caused.

Called there has to be a dangerous condition, bottom line, and there's many vary variations of what dangerous condition is. But if you have a lip in the sidewalk, it depends on how big the lip is. I mean, lips and sidewalks when they're built, they have a natural lip. But I mean, if I'm exaggerating right now, but if it's a four inch lip and you slam into it, go fly in, that's dangerous as can be. So I don't know if you have a picture of it or not,

Sure?

It was a lit in the sidewalk that had already been shaved down.

And.

Well that proves knowledge of somebody that yeah.

And just because it's already been shaved down doesn't mean it was shaved down to the proper measure measurements. That doesn't mean it didn't create a dangerous condition. I mean, you know, when you're at the airport, you expect people to be normally in a hurry. They're not going to be watching the sidewalk, and a lot of times they're carrying luggage, or they're trying to figure out where their flight is, or they're trying to figure out where the

Fell and what it looks like.

You know, I know if I were representing you, I'd be having a couple of experts go out to look at it, because you know, there are people who are experts at how these sidewalks, where the lips should be, and how they should be shaved down, and what should be done if they're done correctly.

But you need to listen to what Brad just said. You have one hundred and eighty one days under the statue. I think you said you got injured in February. The governmental community clock is ticking against you. You don't give the proper notice within the first one hundred and eighty one days. You're finished. I don't care what happened to you. I don't care if it's dangerous. You're finished. So you need to get to an attorney fast.

Okay, all right, appreciate the input.

All right, Jill, I got a lot of questions on the blog today, and this one is kind of interesting. Not the blog the text line at five sixty six nine. Oh, that's the common Spirit health text line question for Bell and Pollock jens on a um U, I am that's uninsured motorists claim. I have a personal umbrella policy as well. Can I get or can I see coverage and award under the umbrella policy as well as the underlying auto coverage?

Thanks driving now, Mike in a Rapahoe County.

Mike, we'd have to see the policy. That's just the bottom line note.

If we see the personal umbrella policy, if it includes coverage for car crashes, if it includes coverage for um yes it does. If it doesn't include it, it probably doesn't. And what we need is actually the declaration page. We like the policy and is a declaration page?

Now?

Is it common for umbrella policies to exclude auto accidents?

That's a great question.

Man.

Here's the mistake most people make.

They buy the UIM coverage a regular car policy, then they hey, I want to get an umbrella policy, and they think we all think umbrella that covers everything, right, But it doesn't cover vehicles as bad. You said it has to be specifically endorsed to cover vehicles in.

Than it does.

Okay, And normally you'd expect your uh, your insurance agent help get that in because when you're talking to them, you're saying, I want protection in case I get hurt. Yes, so you think you're getting an umbrella policy that's going to cover that, and hopefully your agent put it in.

Do you guys have an accident checklist that this person can keep on their car or phone.

We do.

We've got a We've got a checklist. We've got a booklet you can keep in your box. I've got one on mine and keep on my insurance papers in there. Certainly call our office. We give you one free.

This one.

I fell at target, resulting in a broken hip and surgery. I have no proof of what made me fall. I went to an attorney. The burden is on me. I don't know what my foot caught on am I just out of luck? Sedgwick says, no liability.

Okay, so I'll take the zone and then you can pick it and pick it up. But first of all, all these stores, every one of them either hire a Crawford and Company or Sedgwick James. And if you look up the website on Sedgwick, James and Cross, then they basically boast that they save corporations across America millions billions.

Of dose are attorneys who work for targets.

They're not attorneys, what are they.

They're a company that target hires, king super hires. They hire them to minimize the claims and get rid of the people before they get more serious on their claims. So they're technically adjusters. Okay, but there's a special way to deal with them. But you, I don't know what your attorney told you. But do you normally I mean, this is a crazy question, but you people don't normally go around following and unless there's a reason to do so,

Well, this is just a text message.

So I can't ask the follow up question, but I would strongly recommend she goes give you guys a call at three three seven nine fifty nine hundred, so just to find out more. I mean, that seems like one of those things. What would be the process if she comes to see you? What does Bell and Pollock do?

First?

Okay, well, we take when we interview her, we try to figure out where in the store she fell. Her the way she fell is critical. Did your feet go out in front of you? Did you trip and go forward? So usually when your feet go out in one way or the other and you either land on your back, your head, or your side, you slipped on produce or you slipped on some slippery substance. And by the way, they have video. And by the way, every time when you ask the video, that's how you we're not going

Your client so you can get it.

Get the video, and they say, our policy is you don't get the video.

And if Cedric was on it, that means a claim was made. You got a pretty good chance that Sedgwick had the video.

They looked at it.

Now maybe they said it was so far back, depending on how much time went by that the video.

They ran back over the video.

But Sedgwick normally is going to pull those videos and look at them to determine what they think.

But you know you want that video.

You'd be very important, and it'd be important to go back to where you fell and see if there's some problem with the floor. There's some problem there. Also look around to see if there's anything close by where you could add a foreign substance on the floor.

We have a rule in our law firm, and you're gonna love this rule, okay on this subject, because occasionally we have a company that will give you the video, okay, like one two percent of the time. But when they give you the video, the company likes what they see and so.

Here here, you go home.

Take it.

And when they don't like what they see, I guess some of you can't have it. You need to come see us. We can't help you.

Shocking, shocking, shocking.

Sure they might be. Uh, here's the question. I don't know the answer to this. So is our lawsuit and they say winnings.

But are they taxed?

Do you pay taxes on damages that you are awarded in a lawsuit?

Normally, No, they're not taxable.

What would be the one area? What would be the areas where they would be?

You said, normally, if you're collecting money for lost wages a lot of time, the amount collection for the lost income is as taxable as income. As income. If you're collecting money for pain and suffering and for lost quality of life, uh, and for scarring or disfigurement, normally that's not taxable.

Okay, Apparently our target lady has called in. Is this Debbie? You said, Aeron, Yeah, yes, so Debbie, you fell.

In the target and you were basically told sorry, uh, you don't have a case.

Did you ask about video of any type?

We asked about Viddy right away. This happened July twelfth, two years ago. So almost a year and a half ago and almost two years in July, and my attorney asked for video right away. They never produced it. She sent letters, they've denied every liability. But when I was in the hospital, I went to the hospital right away after the fall. My foot caught on something in the store, but I think I was out of it. I never I took didn't have a picture, I didn't have anything.

What is the what is the statute of limitations on this debish?

Two years? You got to move.

There's no requirement for a note.

Did you guys.

File any sort of suit against target? Did you get that far?

Did you just send demand letters?

No? Because a lawsuit again which she said that we would have to the burden of proof is on me. We have no proof except the medical records and that I did fall. I was with my grandfather when I fell, and he cannot he was six hens.

Okay, but but there might have been someone's w But also you said, you don't go around falling, all right, so and some some people do. They have a medical condition where they fall. You don't go around falling. You might have the proof already you tripped, and there's a there's got to be a video.

When when they asked, when they said they had a video, did your lawyer ask for it and get.

A copy of it.

They didn't say they had a video. We asked for the video. They just never They've always ignored everything, every letter until recently, and they just said they have no liability. And I said, why did they even ask for the exhibits of the medical records. Why did they call me initially, you know, to find out And when we first asked for the incident report the Target made we got got it in print on a letter. The very first line was in that port said that they asked me what

I don't know what it was.

It sounds like this is a perfect I mean, Debbie, you may want to talk to these guys in the office, but you need to do it like now, I mean now, because your time.

Is running out.

It sounds to me like well, Cedric finally responded, just to throw a little bone so the statute of limitations can run out.

Their their job is to discourage you.

Their job is to delay you, Their job is to pay you little or nothing, and their job is to make the statute of limitation run out.

Well, your lawyer is right that you you have the burden to proof. Yes, you have to show that there was a dangerous condition. But you know, once again, as Gary said, people just don't go following in the store. I mean, your foot caught on something. The question is what did it catch on? Who took the reports? Who who checked on? You know? I mean somebody had to come to you when you fell, and there had to

I do not think that manager.

That manager's under a duty and obligation to make an incident report. Don't think they didn't, but they're not going to show you all of it.

They did.

I read it. It was wrong.

Well that's even worse.

And so that's you know, And that's what I said right away, I was still recovering. I read the incident report and I called target and I said, that's a lie. I was never dizzy, And the attorney said, if you would have been dizzy, the paramedics would have treated you differently. They carried me to the car and told me to go to the emergency room for X rays.

Okay, we're out.

We're out of time, unfortunately, But now I want to know how this resolves.

So I'd love for you to follow.

Up with these guys offline at their office at Bell and Pollock. You can go to Champions of the People dot com for more information and a free legal game plan called three O three seven nine five fifty nine hundred. I'm so sorry I have to cut you off, but you need to talk to somebody, and you need to do.

It like immediately.

Yeah.

Well I have been and I just haven't gotten any results. Right that Sedgwick denies everything. All right, So Ken, is there a way I can I can just call and look up that number for Bell and.

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