07-16-25 FULL SHOW - Why Is It Only Genocide When Israel Does It?

like it. It's fun. It's just you know, it's kind of flowing, kind of nice and can itch you ah, just reflecting back on that. Let's jump into the blog, because guys, we have so much stuff going on today. I went down a rabbit hole yesterday on Syria, and I don't understand for a guy who does not seem to worry at all about smashing historical norms, and some

historical norms need to be smashed. As a matter of fact, We're going to get to one historical norm here in a minute that needs to be smashed, which is kind of the whole point of this rabbit hole that I went down yesterday. But it seems that Trump's foreign policy, which so much of I have agreed with. I have

so agreed with his manhandling of NATO. All of those NATO nations needed to step up a long time ago, and lots of presidents have complained about it, but he was the first one to actually shove it down their throat and make them step up, and they are now. So things like that I love. I love that that he just crept all over historical norms when it comes to letting NATO off the hook when it comes to meeting their defense responsibilities. I love that about Donald Trump.

But I think we're getting sucked in or at least pursuing similar strategies in the Middle East with Syria that have been pursued before, and I don't see them working. Let's do this. Let's get into the blog, and I'm gonna suck you down this rabbit hole with me. Fascinating, horrifying. You're gonna be like, what are we doing again? But anyway, find the blog by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's

mandy'sblog dot com. When you get there, go to the latest post section and look for seven sixteen to twenty five blog why is it only genocide when Israel does it? Click on that and here are the headlines you will find within. I think it was the.

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I did see over white, overweight white people. I did see over white or or overweight people of other ethnicities that were not necessarily Japanese. But there were no fat Japanese people. Part of it is their diet and the food, yes, yes, because they eat what's the word. I'm looking for real food with ingredients that you've actually heard of, and I

don't have you know, multi syllabic names. Anyway, that this video is really really good though, because it talks about what kids eat in school and back in the day, back in the way back machine, back in the back in the twentieth century, Grant, we had what was your school cafeteria? Like at school, Grant when and let's start high school, because like, I didn't have a cafeteria. I went to Catholic school in elementary school, so we did have like a cafeteria. We all had to bring our lunch.

Really yeah, it was a private school, so they didn't have a kitchen. You just had to bring your lunch and then you all went to the lunch room and ate it. But anyway, that's a story for another time. What was your high school cafeteria?

the lunch ladies, bless every one of their hearts. They were back there starting at six o'clock in the morning every morning making sure we had good food. They all weighed like three hundred pounds and had boobs the size of Massachusetts, right, I mean, they all just massive boobs.

mean it, they were amazing, so amazing. Anyway, anyway, sorry about that. I do want to go up. We've got Dave Phraser coming up at twelve thirty, and I do not want to start this conversation about Syria and the Druze until I can go deep into it, because boy, howdy did I go deep into it? Why did I go deep into it? Well, I got this message yesterday from my nephew in Israel, and I should say that when we went to my my nephew's wedding in Israel. He took us on a tour of well, lots of

lots of Israel. We went to the border of Syria and Israel. Okay, I've actually seen the border of Syria and Israel. And as we were driving up there, we stopped and had lunch at this restaurant that was run by a Druze family. Okay, the Drews people d r O d r u Ze. Drews is a religion and it is a very insular religion. Pretty Much every Druze is related to every other Drus. They don't proselytize. You cannot convert and become a Druz, you will marry another Drus.

But at the same time, they take their civic responsibilities wherever they are very very very seriously. They make up a large part of the Israel, Israeli Army, the police force. They're the most highly educated ethnic group in Israel. They integrate everywhere. They're in the the Israeli government. They are they are woven into the fabric and known to be upstanding, kind, familial, just good people, the kind of people you want in your lives. Well, there are five hundred thousand drus in Syria.

And I got this message yesterday from my nephew in Israel, and he said, the Drews are the best ethnic group I have ever encountered. They're polite, familial, hard working, loyal, and make some of the finest soldiers in the Israeli Special Forces. This is an actual ethnic cleansing that is about to happen. Isis is selling Drew's women as sex slaves in public markets and in line with their interpretation of Islam. Now that's what started me down this rabbit hole,

and it is bad. And as I kept reading, every so often there would be some mention of the fact that the United States and Israel are trying to bring the quote President of Syria into the fold. Donald Trump. You know, I think that we can all understand a little bit better why Donald Trump appears to suck up to dictators, Because he did it with Kim Jong un until he realized that Kim Jong un is a psychopath and there was no dealing with him. And now he doesn't speak of him at all. It's like he's just

doesn't exist. Right. He did it with Putin, and when Putin did not do what Trump wanted, him to do. Now Trump is issuing threats. I don't think he was ever truly enamored with Putin. I think he was blowing smoke up his skirt in order to see if he could bring him to the table. Well, now the smoke blowing is over. But now we have Trump saying, you know, this guy in Syria, we think he's going to be good. This guy in Syria is an Islamist. He is a

former al Qaeda leader. Now I'm not saying that he can't have a change of heart, and I'm not saying that we should work to achieve some sort of solution that doesn't involve war, Not at all. I would love to see all of this happen. Israel believes in it so strongly that they are allegedly in backroom communications with them with Siria trying to cut some kind of deal to bring Syria into the Abraham Accords. But here's where the problem lies. The problem lies is that they've already

gone into an Alloyite vision village. Alo Whites are another subset of Islam, and they believe in kind of a mystical version of Islam. And please don't use me as as your theology teacher. On this, I'm giving you such a macro description that you can go look up more information about the Alo Whites or the Druz or any

of that stuff. You can do any of that. But the Alo Whites are a subset of Islam, and they practice what's considered a more mystical version of Islam, and therefore it's blasphemous to some other Muslims, specifically Sunni Muslims, of which the new leader of Syria is he is a Sunni Muslim. So this guy went in in April and went into an Alo White village. Under the guise of this, they'll they'll allow the bed Ones to attack. This is the strategy in Syria right now. So the

Syrian forces as they are. By the way, a lot of the president's army is from around the world. It's not from Syria. His army comes from Pakistan, his army comes from Chechnia, his army comes from a whole bunch of different Muslim strongholds. And we'll get to why that

is in just a minute. But he allows the Bedouins because you know, there's always been sectarian violence in the Middle East, because we have all of these different tribes and clans and things like this, and they're constantly clashing with one another. The Drus and the Bedouins have been at it for years, just years about dumb crap. It's

all about dumb crap. But nonetheless, they send the Bedouins in to the Alloyhites to attack, and then they come in and say, the governmental forces will come in and say we're repelling the Bedouins. We've saved you, we can keep you safe. We just need you to disband your

militias and turn over your weapons. And guess what, after being in a civil war for very, very very long time again an incredibly violent and repressive regime in Bashi al Asad, they're not really looking to give up their weapons. And so in response, the Syrian military slaughtered twelve hundred

Ala Whites in April. This happened in April. That doesn't seem that the rhetoric of the President of Syria is going to match the actions of the President of Syria, because he talks a great game about tolerance and oh, everything's going to be great in Syrian We are going to create this great, wonderful Syria moving forward, which everybody would like to see by the way, but deeds not words. So when the Bedouins came in to mix it up

with the Drews, well here come the security forces. Only this time they fought with the Bedouins against the Drews and killed I don't know, like two hundred and fifty people in a village. Twenty one of them were men who were extra extra judiciously executed, which means the government took them into the center square and shot them in the head. And here we are trying to bring the president of this into the fold.

Israel cannot leave the Syrian Drews out to dry. They can't do it. And right now, there's a whole bunch of Syrian drus and I have to say, Drew's really hard like that. So you know, I'm not saying Jews, but the Syrian Jews have been right now a long time ago. So drus. They're in the southern part of Syria, which is in the sort of demilitarized zone that Israel has essentially said we are going to enforce because it

borders Israel. And if they allow tanks and stuff like that to come into that area of the Goal On Heights area, then there's a good chance that they're going to keep rolling over into Israel. So Israel yesterday bombs Syrian military headquarters in Damascus. Now, the reason I'm telling you all of this is I want you to watch any news coverage you might see of this, because I have some stuff from CNN and other stuff that is just so insane, so insane. So this is really fantastic.

So Israel bombs the headquarters of Damascus to make them stop attacking the Drews. That is why Israel bombed the HQ of Military HQ and Damascus, And CNN says this, CNN has reached out to the Israeli Defense forces for comment regarding civilian deaths. You guys, they already admitted that people were killed by Syrian forces. Do you think they reached out to the president of Syria to answer for that.

Even when Israel is doing the right thing for good people, they are blamed in a way that no other nation is and certainly Syria is not being held to account on this stuff. And what do I want Donald Trump to do? I want Donald Trump to use his leverage to explain to this guy that one more incursion against an ethnic minority in Syria means that we will make sure that Israel has all the bombs it needs to do what needs to be done in Syria to protect

those people. That's what I want to have happen. You know, I'd love for Donald Trump to call him and do the old Hey, man, we really want you to come to this party, like man, cannot wait to have you, so looking forward to having you as part of the team. But with this kind of behavior, I don't think we can be friends. You know, do the old make him an offer he can't refuse type thing. But even then, I'm not certain that this guy can be stopped in any significant way. As long as you have people in

charge trying to build a new Islamic caliphate. You were never going to have them, you know, be a part of polite society. And that is what this guy's devoted to. That's why you have so many foreign fighters from around the world. Why in the world, from someone in Czechhni or or Indonesia, why would you go Why would you go to fight in Syria? I mean for money, sure, but it's about ideology, because they too believe that the Islamic Caliphate shall rise again and the world will kneel

at their feet. How do you reason with somebody whose goal is that? How do you realize with someone whose goal is that and is willing to do whatever it takes in terms of violence to bring it to fruition. I don't know. I'm aggravated. I'm frustrated because I am old enough to remember when we've propped up dictators around the world, and I'm old enough to know how it inevitably always ends with an entire new group of people who hate us for meddling in their affairs. This is

what I want from Syria. Leave the ethnic minorities alone and then go about your business. Leave them alone. If you did that you could have whatever you wanted, but that doesn't meet their end goal. And the United States of America is going to give them the legitimacy that they need along with Israel to do the things that they are inevitably going to do. And it's like, when in the world are we going to see that this is just untenable. I don't know what the answer is.

I think the Middle East is a permanent disaster because of ideology, culture. There's so many different things that need to be dragged into modernity in the Middle East before it's ever going to be anything other than a sandpit where people are fighting over land so ugly that we wouldn't even pay for it here in America anyway. So that's the start of my rant. We're not even deep into it. Oh yeah, oh yeah. AnyWho got some text

messages Mandy. Theocrats speak with a forked tongue because they try to straddle the fence between God's law and man's law. The problem is is Islama see that as the same law right? That's the issue. Mandy Tyrants and leaders share similar qualities, which makes it hard to tell the difference at times until you get to know them and to the text, who ask what religion are Drus they're a mix of Islam, of Christianity, of Judaism. They are a

large mishmash. But they've been around a very very long time, very long time. But I don't think they would say they were any of those three religions. Even though there are lots of things that overlap. Fox thirty one's chief meteorologist, Day Fraser, ain't Day Fraser. What about this dug and bloomy skies today? What's happening?

this afternoon. But the humidity level is higher today, I'm sure everybody by Colorado standards just about that, and that can lead to heavy rain but hopefully beneficial range. So there's a there's a trade out right, maybe keep the hail on the small side. We don't get any damage, but we can ring out some rain this with this higher humidity, and that's what I'm hoping for.

where I know I'm going to get rain? When am I going to get that?

rain up and down the front range. As I'm looking at our high resolution models, it's going to start. The clouds are going to delay the start because they're delayed the heating, So obviously heating is a component to get the storms going. I'm thinking we're going to be somewhere in the to the three o'clock start. I think the best window goes till about five o'clock, and by five to six they're starting to push past the airport and

go onto the eastern planes. So if you're going to get the rain, you're gonna have to see it by five to six. If you haven't seen it by five to six, your only hope would be that an outflow boundary comes back in your direction. But chances for that in this type of environment are going to be on the very low side. So that's your window coverage is about sixty percent Mandy. So I know a lot of people think that that means though there's a pretty good

chance you know that you'll get rain, it's decent. It means a lot more of us have a better chance of seeing it, But it's not one hundred percent.

tornadoes land falts. So let's clear the air on landsfalts, shall we yep?

be the land spout and land spout. Tornadoes and that's the frase you'll hear us use are defined as tornadoes. It's just that they form in a different way. So a tornado is generally associated with a large thunderstorm or a cumulomid. This cloud, the whole storm is rotating, and the tornado drops from the center of the storm down to the ground, and that rotating column of air can be violent, and as we know, we have categories for them or a zero one two through the EP scale

that we talked about all the time. And the stronger the wind, the more damage you're going to have. The storms can be very large. We don't tend to see them. Most of colorado deals with the F zero EF one.

They don't last all that long. A land spout is in essence, a dust devil that starts on the ground because of heating or swirling wind, and as a thunderstorm is growing, just starting to develop, it acts like a suction or a vacuum, and it stucks that rotation up and connects it with the cloud and gives it a little more spin up, and so it grows from a different direction. Now, the lamp spout that did the damage in Franktown yesterday. Most lamp spouts do not do damage.

They last very they don't last very long, and their steeds are very very low. But I mean you don't want to be in one. I mean you feeling you've been stung by bees. The one that hit frank Down came up and hit the corner of a building. It looks like it took a roof off of a commercial property. That one only lasted ninety seconds, But ninety seconds enough. Here's the problem when it comes to land spouts. The

radar the start at the ground. The radar cannot point directly to the ground radar right, so the radar is pointing over the horizon. So the farther out you get from the radar, the beam is getting higher and higher and higher off the ground because of the curvature of Burey. So because the radar is not pointed at the ground, it's pointed more in the middle aspect of the storms, where we can see the rotation. You don't get the notification of anything happening until it grows tall enough that

it might be able to be seen by radar. So, in essence, we can be blind in those respects. When it comes to the technology, once it connects, it can grow tall, and generally the base of the thunderstorm is way up high, and sometimes you'll be able to see it growing up, and it does visually look like a tornado. It's just a different formation.

I don't see a widespread rain event enough to you know, put the fires out. The hope with the smoke might be that if we can get a little wind to stir it and get it up in the way. They do have their quality alerts right now for the west and southwest part of the state because of the smoke. It's unfortunate, but that part of the state we've talked about it for months and months and months, is the part of the state. The eastern half of the state has no drought. The western half of the state is

still druggling in drought. And the trade off for rain chances may come with lightning, and that of course can spark additional fires. I mean, we've seen the news you know what's happening down in the Grand Canyon area in Arizona. You know, unfortunate to see that the lodge was lost and stuff. So the West is struggling a little bit. I just don't see a big enough storm right now

to help. But any wind can help disperse the smoke, and that would be my hope, is that maybe we get the smoke up in a way so that they don't have to deal with the poor air quality and smell.

not going to be bothered to learn the new one. Okay, I said this when he changed the name, and it's not in any way, shape or form a commentary or any sort of judgment on Trump deciding to do that. I'm just letting you know I'm not going to change what I'm saying. Okay, That's just how it is. I don't have time to learn something new about something I don't really care about, so it will always be Mount Evans. To me, it will always be the Gulf of Mexico.

Have you ever had to learn all of the countries in Africa? And I'm very specific about using the African continent as an example, because they are the most guilty of this, although it does happen in other places. When I was a kid, I had to learn a map of Africa, right, I had to learn the countries in Africa.

I knew them all, and like fast forward seven years later in my academic journey, I am somehow responsible for knowing countries in Africa again, and I'm like, I got this, except like half the names had changed, and I just thought, I can't be bothered. And to this day, I may know that a country has two different names, but I won't know which one it is. Currently No clue, you know why, because I don't live in Africa. Like if the states started changing their names, I would probably try

to keep up. Like if all all of a sudden, Alabama was like, you know what, we're tired of being first, We're going to be Salabama from now on. Probably not, I mean I would do my best to remember Zalabama. That would be kind of cool, you know what I mean, Like a little zip zip bang for Alabama. We've been first all these years. We're going to see how the other end of the alphabet feels. Salabama, hire me for more marketing strategies. Okay, there you go. Anyway. Yeah, I'm

not doing it to be uh obnoxious. I'm really not. It's just that's uh no. I know, when my grandmother was alive, my grandmother was a wonderful woman, not my crazy one, my other normal one. And she would give directions. And when my ex husband and I moved closer to my hometown, he didn't know where anything was, so we wouldn't. I tried to spend a lot of time with my grandmother, and uh we'd go over to my grand mother's house and my ex husband would ask her where something was,

you know, like oh that sounds good. Where we should go?

like everything was landmarks that didn't exist anymore. And to my ex husband's credit, he would listen very attentively, and then when we left, he's like, where is she talking about? And I would explain to him what was there now? Oh, okay, you know where this is now? Okay, yes, right there, that's what that used to be. So he had to learn where things were and where they used to be, just so we could get directions from my grandmother. And

that's kind of how I feel now. I am my grandmother and I don't care that that old kmart has been a government office for the last, you know, thirty five years. It will always be the old kmart to me. Gulf of Mexico. It's just a thing, you guys. I can't help it. It's been the Gulf of Mexico since fifteen fifty, says this text, way before the US was even a thing. Yeah, I don't care. I just I don't care. I really don't. I still call Stapleton Stapleton,

not whatever it's been renamed. I still call it Stapleton. And I'm a transplant. I don't even know what is that area called now, Grant? Do you know what do they rename it? Is that like Central Park? But isn't there a Central Park in the eastern part. I drove through an area kind of in the Littleton area that I thought it was called Central Park two, and I'm like, don't we have two of these generically renamed things.

slot morning radio. You have to have a certain kind of constitution to be able to enjoy the morning radio schedule. And I have friends who love it.

that I can be incredibly stubborn. Mandy. I agree with your sticking to the original names of places, but I have to admit that Gulf of America shrimp costs more and taste much better than the old Gulf of Mexico shrimp. Just asked Bubba gump ps. If I were red lobster going bankrupt, I would definitely change the name to red, white, and blue Gulf of America shrimp all you can eat, except if you're a Democrat. It's a little wordy, you know. I don't know how you fit all that on the sign,

but I hear what you're saying. Anyway, Let's talk about some other stuff that's on the blog. No I want to talk about. I started the show with this and now I'm going to kind of expand on this just a little bit more because there's an update yesterday. After getting a message from my nephew that the Druze people in Syria were on the verge of being ethnically cleansed by the quote president of Syria, who is a former

Al Kaedi leader and a devowed Islamist. I started digging into it, and I want to start with what the Druze religion is, because we don't really have Druz people here, and there are a lot in the Middle East. They live primarily in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel and have for forever, just forever. And the Druze faith is an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and syncretic religion whose main tenants assert the unity of God, reincarnation, and the eternity of the soul. This is from Wikipedia.

Although the Druze faith develop from Islamism, they don't identify as Muslims. They maintain an Arabic language. They do not intermarry. Interfaith marriages are strongly discouraged. You cannot convert to become a Druze. It is a very insular religion, but they're also very good citizens. They've been a wonderful part of Israel. They are the most highly educated ethnic group in the Middle East, and they play important roles in Israel, and

they play important roles in Syria. Because the Druz people are loyal to where they are. It doesn't mean that they're loyal to bad people or they're loyal to dictators. But if they're somewhere, if they're going to be in Lebanon, they're going to be good Lebanese citizens. If they're in Syria, they're gonna be good Syrian citizens. If they're in Israel,

they're gonna be good Israeli citizens. And that is not enough for this new leadership in Syria, who in the last couple of weeks have gone into Druze areas and worked with the Bedouin tribes to just massacre people. And we have stories of Dru's women being sold into sex slavery by Isis. I'm a story and I don't know if I put it on the blog or not. I don't think I did. I think I put it on X and I didn't put it on my blog. A story of a young yazide women. Yazdi is another religious

faction in the Middle East. When she was eleven years old, she was kidnapped and she was sold into sex slavery in Gaza. Ten years later, she was just rescued from Gaza after being held in Gaza as a sex slave since she was eleven. She was just reunited with her family in Iraq. Do you know how she got free? Her captor got killed. Any guesses on who killed him? I'm going to bet Israel. And by the way, Israel

and Iraq have no diplomatic relations at all. So Israel retrieved this young woman who's now twenty one years old in Gaza. They then delivered her, I think, to the United States, but I'm not absolutely positive. And in the United States delivered her to Iraq. What Israel facilitated getting this young woman home after ten years? And these are the same people who are allied with the new president of Syria. Why in the world would we think that

they would treat minorities fairly? You know, for all the big talk over here in the United States about how unfair our society is, and it is far from perfect. I certainly don't want to put a Pollyanna spin on some of the issues that we do have in this country. But overall, and it's demonstrated by the men yiminy successful

black people and brown people in this country. When you do the right thing, when you make good decisions and you don't do dumb crap, you can become very, very successful in this country no matter what color you are.

the Drew's minority have agreed to a ceasefire. And what happened to inspire that ceasefire is Israel dropped a bunch of bombs on Cereal. The announcement this is from the AP came after Israel launched rare airstrikes in the heart of Damascus, an escalation and a campaign that it said was intended to defend the DRUS and push Islamic militants

away from its border. The Drews are a substantial community in Israel as well as in Syria, and are seen in Israel as a loyal minority, often serving in the military. So now we have a ceasefire between the Drews and the Syrians, but the UK by based war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than three hundred people had been killed as of Wednesday morning, including four children, eight women, and one hundred and sixty five soldiers and

security forces. Notice how they don't distinguish who killed who right, who was killed and who did the killing, because what they're leaving out is that Syrian soldiers were involved in the killing. The strike in Damascus, by the way, killed three people and injured thirty four. Another Israeli strike it near the presidential palace in the hills outside Damascus, and Israel has basically said leave them alone or we will continue. So they're planning to leave them alone at least for now.

So I mean, it's just it's a never ending mess. And again I don't want us involved in this other than to have President Donald Trump, who is giving legitimacy to the president of Syria right now, and I understand why he's doing it, right, Like I totally get it. Donald Trump wants to make a deal, and he's still laboring under the illusion that these people are going to honor the terms of the deal even when it's made.

I don't believe them. I didn't believe Iran when they signed on to the nuclear deal because they wouldn't let us come in and check or even other countries, not even the United States. So I don't have as much faith. But I do understand if he can get as many countries in the Middle East as possible to just recognize that Israel has a right to exist, that is a sea change now, whether or not as genuine, whether or

not at last, I don't know. I mean, put another weak sauce president in the White House, and who knows what will happen. There's always a dictator waiting to act when they feel like the United States is rudderless when it comes to foreign policy. And if rudderless doesn't describe the foreign policy of the Biden administry, I do not know what does. Because it accomplished nothing, zero zip. They couldn't even secure our own borders, let alone expect to

help secure other people's borders. It's crazy, really, So that is what's going on, and I'd love for you to just keep your eyes peeled for information on what's going on in Syria. And I said this on Ross's show. My frustration about all of this comes down to one

very simple thing. If we elevate this guy, if we somehow prop him up, if we decide that the devil we know in Syria is better than the devil we don't, and make this guy the guy we're hanging our hopes on, it just shows that we have learned nothing from a series of stunningly bad foreign policy disappointments that played out over a period of decades in the Middle East, in other places in Central America. I mean, at what point are we going to realize we suck at picking winners

and losers? And a better strategy would be to look at the massive five hundred thousand drus live in Syria. What can we do to ensure that they will not turn on us? And the easiest thing would be to exert influence and pressure on the Syrian president, who, by the way, would love to have status in the world right, He would love to be considered a normal part of society.

So why not use that pressure to try and bring him under some kind of realization that the easiest way for him to remain in power is to leave the drus alone, leave the Alowhites alone, let them do their own thing, let them practice their faith freely, let them have their lives. But that's only if the only goal that he has is to be a part of normal society.

And I don't think that's what his goal is. I think his goal is the rise of an Islamic caliphate, and anybody he believes as a blasphemer is in the way, which is why we in the United States have to be concerned about it because guess what, you guys, do you think they just want the Islamic Caliphate to be in the Middle East. No, they wanted to be in Europe, where over the last few years, Europe has allowed an unfettered influx of military age Middle Eastern men into their countries.

It's not going well, by the way, They're not assimilating. They're attacking young women at public pools in Germany. There are costing women on the streets in France. So much so and I read this and I thought it was a joke, and then I crossed reference to it and it was real. There are women in Paris who have now gotten pet pigs to walk through the streets of Paris, so no Muslim men will bother them. I mean, this is a culture clash of massive proportions. Only the problem

is is that we live in the tolerant West. If somebody wants to practice the faith, I don't agree with more power. I mean more power to you. I want you to practice your faith as.

I'm not looking for direct military action. But I am looking for us to begin the process. And I think Donald Trump is established his credibility as willing to follow through on threats. I think he's pretty much I don't think anybody's gonna doubt him at this stage in the game. So it'll use him as a tool, and when the tool doesn't work, it'll blow up your nuclear facilities or whatever else you have. And I realize this makes Maga super upset and very unhappy. I get it. I don't

love it. I wish Congress had the stones to come in and do some of the stuff that needs to be done, but they don't. They're the most cowardly group of people in the entire world, who would rather give their powers to someone else than have to answer at the ballot box for making a choice. It's just, it's incredible. It's absolutely incredible. Every time I do one of these like deep dives into one aspect of Middle Eastern politics, I come away even more horrified and honestly more confident.

The Western culture is a superior culture to what they have in Syria, in Lebanon, in any of these Islamist nations. Their culture is not as good as ours. Ours is not perfect, but at least in hours you have the freedom to do dumb things. They're dumb things will possibly get you killed or excommunicated or even your family killed. It's absolutely nuts, but I do wish that you would share. Oh no, I do have the ZD woman's story on

the blog today. Let me just share the details of this because the next time some young idiotic girl is wearing a cafea and telling you that Israel is the problem, I want you to share this with her, because these people are on the same side as the people she's supposedly supporting. A twenty one year old woman kidnapped by ISIS fighters in Iraq in twenty fourteen was freed from Gaza this week in a secret operation that involved Iraq, Israel, Jordan,

and the United States. The Yazidis, whose faith is rooted in zoro Astrianism, mostly live in Iraq and Syria. They were targeted by ISIS in Iraq Sinjar District in a campaign that killed nearly ten thousand people in a matter of days and saw thousands of women kidnapped, raped, or abused as sex slaves. This woman was taken at the

age of eleven and then trafficked to Gaza. She was freed after more than four months of efforts that involved several attempts that failed due to the difficulty difficult security situation resulting from Israel's war in Gaza. The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs praise the cooperation between the US and Jordan and said the girl was handed over to her family this evening after returning to Iraq, and that again went through the US because Israel and I Rock do

not share diplomatic ties. I mean, ten years, how does a sex slave in Gaza? And that's the culture that young women on college campuses who will freak out if a guy asks them out more than once and call it stalking and sexual assault. That's the team they're rooting for now, is the team that sells women into sex slavery and lets them sit there for ten years in Gaza. I mean ugh.

did not need to know well at all? You know what that is what's being given out to drug addicts by harm reduction specialists who are also handing out foil and pipes for people to continue smoking the unregulated and untested drugs that will probably kill a good number of them.

So I am going to come drive you to the bar you can get blackout drunk, and then I'll drive you home at the end of the night so you don't get into a car accident on the way home. That's harm reduction for an alcoholic. Doesn't it sound absurd? I do that for all my friends, of course. What about for your friend who obviously has an eating issue

and is morbidly obese? Do you pick them up and take them to the Golden Corral buffet every day, because you know what, They're gonna do it anyway, and at least I'll be there to make sure they don't chuck to death on a chicken wing if I take them there. Is But you say it like that, and it really does sound like the dumbest thing that anybody could ever do. And here's the thing, you, guys. I totally understand that the thinking behind harm reduction is that a dead drug

addict will never have the chance to get clean. And that's true, that's absolutely true. But that is why we cannot allow people to wallow in their addiction. I've now spent too much time talking to people who are who are either on I say, on the other side of addiction. I know that addicts can go a very long time being sober and then fall off the wagon and start

the whole process again. I understand this, But I also know addicts who are addicts for a very long time, but then now they've been sober for so long that they don't have the same temptations and impulses that they had when they first got clean. And I know some people like this personally. I mean, I know someone who was like a heroin addict for twenty five years and now has been cleaned for thirty years, and they're not

in the mindset of an addict anymore. I think that anyone who expects people in the throes of addiction when the brain has stopped making sense and only cares about getting more drugs, and that's what addiction is right. Addiction makes drug addicts choose drugs over their children, over the people they love, over their parents, over everything. That's what

addiction can do. And expecting to just keep giving them the stuff they need to keep making a choice that can kill them at any time with a drug supply that is completely untested. We just had a story that there was a bad batch of fentanyl in Baltimore and like thirty people died in a day. Thirty people in a day, and you're handing out pipes and foil to make it easier for them to smoke their drugs. This is completely lost on me, absolutely lost. I think it

is well intended and an absolute disaster. And unless you think I'm wrong, I want to share a tweet that was texted out by someone called gen x Genden a few times a month. She says I check in the Denver County Medical Examines fatal OD data twenty twenty five is looking grim. From January to May, we've hit two hundred and fifty five fatal ods, nearly three times the same or for the same period in twenty eighteen, and a seven percent increase from the twenty twenty three peak.

And you, guys, drug addiction is often a lagging cause of death because the toxicology reports take so long, so that number will likely go up. So you're gonna tell me that telling people on little cards how to more efficiently smoke their drugs is helping solve the problem. I would say, no, it doesn't seem to be, not at all. We'll be right back in this segment. I want to

do something completely different. I have what I'm just calling my silly listener question of the day, and I keep seeing those on the Internet and I love them, and I thought I would just bring them to you. So get ready, get ready to text in your answers to five six six. N I know, but first I want to ask this question respectfully. Mandy is your nephew and Israel. You're a prepper, as you talk Israel more than anything else that support Israel but still think the United States

are upon for Israel. They say jump, We ask how Hi? Thanks?

When Chuck and I got married, we did not register for gifts we had we did not need gifts, so we didn't have a proper registry. But I have one from my first marriage that is very funny and I'm not gonna say yet because I want to hear what you guys have to say. So the question is this, what is the best non traditional wedding gift you asked

for and then got? I actually have another one. One Valentine's Day, Chuck hands me a gift for Valentine's Day and as he's handing me this large box, he hands it to me and says, this is either the best Valentine's Day gift or the worst Valentine's Day gift in history. Intrigued, I opened it and it was a crossbow. Best Valentine's Day gift ever. Seriously, I mean, how cool is that? How cool is that?

guys would really bring it. I was excited. This is yet another one of those examples where the talk show host thought something was very interesting and the audience is like, Nay, whatever, it's fine. So when my husband, my first husband, and I got married, so this was like nineteen ninety nine, the stores has just started giving you the gun. You know what I mean, the little zapper gun. So they give us this gun. We're mad with power. We're going to do our list. It's like Target or something. And

my ex husband zap's a nose hair trimmer. So how many knows harea trimmers do you think we got as wedding gifts. We even got a better nose Haarah trimmer than the one we asked for from someone who was like, you don't want that brand, that's like the amateur brand. So he got a no Zera trimmer. I got a no Zera trimmer. We all got nos hair trimmers. It was fantastic and we had no one to blame but ourselves because, oh, by the way, we forgot to ask him, how do you take something off after you zap it?

A Incidentally, we could have asked, but we did not. So we got noshair trimmers as our wedding gift. That was pretty awesome. Someone gave us pre filled out divorce papers as a gag gift. I don't know if I would take that kindly. I really don't know. My oldest son and his wife, they have an ex friend who is an ex friend because when he called to tell him he wasn't coming to the wedding. They said, I'll come to you guys's next wedding, and they were like, yeah,

we don't need you in our life. Mandy, we got a condom dispenser. We now have seven boys. Apparently somebody poked some holes in your condoms before they gave them to you. I'm just saying. My best wedding gift didn't come until two years later a divorce. Well, that is non traditional, Mandy. For a wedding gift, I gave a good friend a worm farm set up. She loved it. I mean, but if you know your friend's gonna love it,

but what about her spouse? Hey, you married someone who's excited about a worm There's always time to reconsider.

them one at a time. And that's what I did, and I built my knife set based on that and it's pretty dang good and it just got better thanks to Japan Mandy. We gave our friends a partswasher. What is a parts swasher?

unless it was the same sex couple. And not that there's anything wrong with that. I recently gifted a vacuum cleaner to some friends with the note attached this gift sucks well done. That was one of the best gifts we got. Oh you got to love a good vacuum cleaner. Are you really really exactly and vacuum cleaner and you're excited about both of them. Like the first day with the new vacuum. This is what happens. By the way, you're young, you just got your new vacuum, not that

long ago, Grant. At some point that new vacuum is gonna need to be replaced, and you guys are gonna go out, you're gonna find you're gonna go buy a new vacuum, and you're gonna bring it home and one of you is going to put it all together, and then you're gonna go, I'm just gonna vacuum and see, and you're gonna suck up so much dirt. You're gonna be horrified, and you're gonna take the canister and you're gonna show your wife, Oh my god, that old vacuum

wasn't doing this at all. I've I've had that exact same experience at least six times, because I have bought six new vacuums, and every time, oh my god, we're savages. Look at this, We're living in filth. Should have replace this. Years ago. My husband's first gift to me after we were married was a down sleeping bag, the best ever. We were campers, hikers, hunters, so this was valuable to me perfect gift, best gift for my first marriage, the

number do an outstanding divorce attorney. All these pessimists given gifts. Uh oh, Mandy, I gave a shot back twice. It wasn't asked for, but well received. Who doesn't love a shot back? I mean, come on, a shot back is one of the most versatile tools in every garage. Mandy. We registered at ARII thirty five years ago, got tents, camping, cookware, and doggy bag packs for our two Golden Retrievers. Doesn't apply to me, but once I get a friend, I wait.

I gave a friend couple a bicycle built for two. Oh, that's really sweet. That's very sweet. We didn't ask for this, but some friends gave us a Coleman cooler for our wedding forty years ago. Our twenty nine year old daughter now uses it for camping. They don't build him like they used to. Okay, I got a bunch of good stuff. Now we'll be back with a few more of these are right after this. You're killing my text line though.

This guy is literally just texting every stream of thought coming into his head, and I'm trying to get back to the comments that you guys made off the topic at hand, and he is literally just filling up my text thread and he's not even talking about this show anyway. First of all, Grant, we have clarification. A parts cleaner is for car parts. Oh so our minds were just in the shutter. Yeah, well I didn't know that that's a thing. I've never cleaned car parts before, just left

them dirty, or assume someone else cleaned them. I don't know. Mandy. I'm from Kansas. My wife and I received a homemade quote with our name on it and the date we were married. Now that's a very touching wedding gift. I'm talking about practical, non traditional, like wow, you open this up and you're like, well, I did not expect that kind of gift. Just you know, Mandy, a friend of mine gives toasters but has them engraved with the newlyweds name so they can't take it back. That is the

most passive aggressive gift giving I have ever heard. Mandy. I bought a new Speed Queen washer and dryer last year, and I washed clothes for the next week. This washer and dryer is so much better than the old front load. Yeah, we all do it. We all do it, guys. I'm asking the question about your non traditional wedding gifts. You can text it to five six six nine. Oh. This one. We gave our oldest niece and her husband some bland wedding gift for public assumption and a secret gift with

the administ to open it up in private. The joy of sex and more joy of sex. They were both very religious and innocent souls. They told us privately later that was one of their best gifts, as they knew some of the mechanics but not the details. They have four children now, sometimes they need a little help. I think they figured it out. Yep, seems like they got The books were probably very helpful. Best wedding gift I gave was a six foot step ladder. I'm not sure why,

but I don't I wouldn't complain. Here's one, Mandy. I've never had any complaints about the envelope with the Benjamins. I like to give a thoughtful wedding gift that represents my relationship with the people getting married in some way, shape or form, because I'm not kidding everything I have For my first marriage, which was in nineteen ninety nine, I remember who gave it to me. I also remember when Chuck buys me things where we were when he bought them, like a gift, or if we're on vacation.

What vacation I bought something on and I you know, I don't know why my brain works like that, but I can't remember my daughter's cell phone number. No idea, Mandy. I gave a set of congas to a couple that did a lot of percussion. We brought them in wrapped, but they were pretty easy to identify. Some said that we raised the bar, and that's what I'm talking about. You knew the couple and you bought something highly personal.

I just I think that's really good, Mandy. Years ago, the wind blew my trash can away, and as a single mom, I didn't have the money to replace it. My neighbors bought one for me and gave it to me from a birthday. I took the lid, jumped in and said, it's a perfect fit. That's the way you go. Who knew trash cans were so expensive? Gully, They're ridiculous, It's so dumb.

are clearly not yours, those are mine. She shows her the ring camera footage and she's like, oh, well, I didn't know those were yours, Like they just occurred, like the trash can fairy had just dropped them off. But it was a huge kerfuffle, a big kerfuffle. Mandy. We got a really nice luggage set for four and eighteen years later we're a family of four. There you go. Um, let me see here, Mandy. We had Waterford glasses on our registry, including champagne flutes that we received early to

use for our toast at the reception. I have a pair of waterfor why did they didn't make it through the twenties? Just letting you know. By the way, if you ever come to my house, you'll notice my beautiful wineglasses are often from the dollar store. Not gonna lie. I have a whole set of party wine glasses that I got at the dollar store. Guess how much they cost? Grant a dollar? Correct direct, There you go. Let me

see here, I'm trying to go the um. Did you mention the cool hummingbird feeders one that came in yet?

business that's going on in there. That's the last thing I need to have to explain to Saint Peter when I hit the pearly gates. Mandy, We gave our son and daughter in law a female calf. It's a gift that keeps on giving what let me see the end of that. To date they now have fought cows. Yes it is, and we gave our hang on Mandy. For my wedding gift, we got some baby clothes yep. Shotgun wedding,

still married after fifty five years. Last one, Mandy. For my first wedding in nineteen seventy, I received a General Electric electric skillet. My husband polished the lid and we still use it in our RV today, fifty plus years later. That's when they do how to make compliances by gosh, by gully. Now they're practically disposable by back in my day.

and we're still rocking it. You have to know somebody to give that as a gift, you know what I'm saying, Like, you just don't randomly give a sex swing to someone without without understanding. Oh yeah, yeah. Anyway, I got a couple of Colorado stories I want to jump into. You know, Phil Wiser is running for governor and he's trying to

find ways to give himself an edge. Michael Bennett is crushing the fundraising, I mean crushing the fundraising and really sucking up all the oxygen and the Democratic primaries for governor. So he's kind of doing some stuff that part of it is a panda and part of it is to signal that he's going to fight Trump. So what are

we talking about here? First of all, you, I mean I kind of went through this stuff with Wanda James, the CU regent who also owns retail marijuana establishments, who actually aggressively attacked CU's high on THHC program because it wouldn't Darry hurt her business. She didn't say that, but that's the real reason, and the other board members censured her, which really means nothing. I mean, you have to have

an honorable society before CenTra actually means anything. But nonetheless she was censured by the other board members, and Phil Weiser has come out to say that's wrong. Dang it. That is the direct pander to the African American community, of which wanted James is a member. The second thing that Pilweiser has done. And part of me actually feels sorry for Phil because he's done all the right things

that you're supposed to do. I mean, let's be real, AG stands for aspiring governor, right, So he's done all the right things. And now you know, Michael Bennett comes in. And Michael Bennett, though a very nice fella, I can't tell you a single accomplishment of Michael Bennett in the US Senate. I'm not saying there's not any, but what I'm saying is I can't tell you what any of them are. And now Phil Wiser's probably gonna lose the Democratic primary to Michael Bennett because he's a senator and

name recognition and blah blah blah. So in order to raise his profile, he's signing on to all these lawsuits against the Trump administration. And the latest one is a coalition of twenty one state attorney generals who are calling on Congress to prohibit federal immigration agents from wearing masks

and plain clothes. Now, guys, if ICE agents hadn't just been shot at at at a pot farm in California, if an ICE agent hadn't recently been shot through the throat just going to work, if Democrats weren't out there calling for violence against size agents, I probably would be like, you know, they kind of have a point. But I did go back. I looked on the internet for any indication that Phil Wiser was calling for protesters in Denver to remove their masks, or maybe a mask ban in

public spaces like New York City is pursuing. Now do you know they're doing that? New York City is like, no more masks because now criminals are using them to hide what their faces are. And that's absolutely true. Same with the protesters. If you're so proud to come out and protest, show your face. Now, of course you could say, Mandy, if they're so proud to work for the government, show your face. There's a big difference. And let me tell

you what it is. If you have fifty protesters out there and ten of them go rogue and start doing terrible things in burning down buildings or whatever. Do you now you find out how or who those protesters were, so maybe you could arrest the guilty. I don't know either, because protesters to show up, right, there's just a group of people who got together to be mad about something or because they want to riot or loot or whatever

their end game is. If I watch fifty ICE agents go in and arrest people and ten of them do things that are wrong, do you know what recourse I have. I can go to ICE and say, you've got to find out out of your fifty agents, which ten we're doing the bad things? Because all fifty we know exactly who those fifty people are. Someone does they can be held accountable, and I grab this story. This is fun,

you guys, this is super fun. A San Antonio City Council candidate publicly urged violence against federal agents, echoing a recent terrorist ambush by far leftist Matthew Ghana. Sounds a lot like guano, which is batpoop. I'll make that joke. A self described Democrat and candidate for San Antonio City Council is facing backlash after posting a now deleted post on x calling for the deaths of ICE agents. He said, I want to see a few dead ICE agents, Los Angeles.

Don't let me down now. This is after a group of terrorists and far left US ambushed the Prairie Land Detention Center in Alphado, Texas. During a July fourth assault, armed suspects and tactical gear, open fire on law enforcement, and shot a police officer in the neck. Those ten people have been charge with attempted murder. Democratic leaders like Representative Jiapaul labeled ICE a terrorist force and praised those

obstructing its operations. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons and DHS warned that such rhetoric correlates with spikes and violence against ICE, including a five one hundred to seven hundred percent increase in assaults on ICE officers. DHS Assistant Secretary McLaughlin said demographic data showed a four hundred and thirteen percent increase in assaults against ICE officers in twenty twenty five, and warned that comparison to Hitler's gestapo or encouragement of writers

is beyond the pale. But other Democrats have also come out to say their constituencies are demanding bloodshed and that's why I'm okay with ICE agents being able to wear masks right now because with the Internet, people can find out who they are, and they can tell people where they live. And now you're going to put their families

and everyone else in danger. And before you give me any kind of crap about where they're ripping families apart, the people that they're arresting overwhelmingly are people who have broken the law in the United States of America. They have some kind of deportation order for something. These are agents of the government. I don't love the government, but these are agents of the government, not rogue people who are just walking around snapping people up and throwing them

in vans. So stop it, just stop it. When we get back, guys, gals, I need you to take about two minutes of your time and fill out a survey. The guver's heard that we all hate his ugly ass bridge, and now it's time to make sure he hears that loud and clear. I need you to do Colorado a solid. Okay do people still use that phrase? Grant do me a solid? I still like it. I'm bringing it back, Okay. I'm not hip anymore, though. Well, you know the best thing.

The best thing about being old is that you don't care about being cool anymore, which actually makes you cooler, right, it's the geezer paradox well known. There's a survey now. Apparently word has gotten back to the governor that not only does Kyle Clark hate his walkway, everyone else in

Colorado hates the walkway idea. If you've not seen this, he wants to build this twisting, meandering, multi million dollar, useless bit of walkway in front of the capitol, but only on one side of the front of the Capitol. It completely disrupts the balance of the entire thing. He envisions it being full of artwork or something like that, but we in reality know it will be full of homeless people. And you're in. So this is our chance, Colorado, this is our big chance to stop the madness.

one hundred and fiftieth birthdays coming. What do you think of the proposed one hundred and fiftieth walkway at the state Capitol? And they ask, where's your zip code? Okay, perfect, put in a zip code. There you go submitting, and now there's a bunch of blah blah blah, a bunch of how cool it's going to be, a bunch of wouldn't it be amazing? A bunch of what people are saying. And then then we get to the questions and they

are this voting closes on the twenty first. By the way, should Colorado proceed with the proposed one hundred and fiftieth

anniversary walkway at the State Capital Complex? The answer is no. If Colorado does not proceed with the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary walkway, would you like to see and these are a multiple choice question, a major one hundred and fiftieth anniversary project in our state's capital city of Denver, or several smaller scale anniversary projects in other parts of the state that reflect our rich history and diverse culture, or no anniversary projects at all.

fiftieth Anniversary Walkway scale back to a smaller project. I left that blank. You're not gonna trick me, mister governor. And then the last one, twenty twenty six is just around the corner. Are you more excited about Colorado's one hundred and fiftieth anniversary the United States two hundred and fiftieth anniversary or both equally, And I'll let you do what you pick them on that for you. For me,

it's about the US anniversary, but that's just me. And then you can join the Governor's propaganda I mean mailing list. You can do that there. So CO one fifty walkway dot com. Just scroll through all the crap to get down to the survey at the bottom. We have to bury this pedestrian walkway before it even gets off the ground. People, this vanity project, this legacy nonsense. We have to make

it go away. And the only way to do that is to resoundingly reject this in this survey, so the governor starts to understand how much we just don't want this just don't. So there you go, people, I just it literally. You saw how long and I read them out loud. You don't even need to read them out loud, so you could probably do the whole thing in about thirty seconds. Just remember, don't fall for the trick question

about if we do build this monstrosity. That's not what they say, it's what I say, So don't fall for it, because they're kind of sneaky that way, all right, you guys. I got a bunch of other stories on the blog today, including oh I embedded an X thread just because it is an X thread, babies doing the cutest thing ever, and if you're having a bad day, I don't care who you are.

cuts that are coming to the federal budget. The recision process has started in DC and it looks like, at least out of the Senate, the cuts to PBS and NPR are going to go through. Not sad about that, but the Senate passed eight billion dollars worth of cuts and we're supposed to be excited about it. Yay, we'll talk about it next. When you send us a text,

send all the thoughts in one. The text messages do not come in in order, okay, And if you send fifteen or twenty texts in a row, there's no guarantee they're gonna be in order. So now I don't even look at them, and it annoys the ever living crap out of me. Probably shouldn't mnit that, because now you guys, you're bad actors. Anyway, I got a couple stories on the bar on the blog that I want to talk to you. Great, let me ask you a question as a uh, you're like a younger excuse me, Yeah, you're

a younger, younger millennial. Right, you're like at the end, yes, okay, as a younger millennial. How much network television broadcast network television do you watch, like on actual TV channels? Yeah? None?

you got new shows coming up in the fall. Did you watch any new shows that you're like, yeah, I kind of want to see that come back. In the fall. We watched one called Oh no, this is part of the problem. Oh, it's it's a show I really like to leave character she was always in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The chick from that show, The Blonde Chick. Oh yeah, where she's like a lawyer or something. No, she's actually a super genius single mom who helps the

solve crimes. I love crime procedurals, like I just enjoy them. I have seen a couple of episodes. I loved that show, and I'm excited for it to come back. But broadcast television is like, oh, we're going to give you new shows in the fall. In the spring, and then the summer, you're supposed to watch repeats. Guess what, we're not watching the repeats. I can't remember any is Abbott Elementary? Is that that's still on? Yeah, that's that's a broadcast shots.

That's a good one. Yeah there was another one. But now High Potential, that's the show. I'm trying to think, Yes, High Potential, I have some very entertaining They're very entertaining. So ghosts that's funny too. That's a very funny concept. That's a good show. Back in the seventies and the sixties, you had all these wack a doodle concepts that got made into shows. I would like to see us go back to wack a doodle concepts for shows like ghosts, which is that what did she move into a house?

And the ghosts of many many different generations still live in the in the house and it works. And that I mean, the costume budget's got to be nothing because they wear the same costumes all the time, every time. The guy with the arrow yea on through his head exactly. So there you go, Mandy, none of them. I wouldn't even know how. At this point, everything is streaming. Well,

that's the other thing. A lot of people gave up their regular cable because streaming was gonna be so much cheaper, And now streaming costs as much where if not more.

gonna enjoy that always. And you can look for the latest posts and look for the headline that usually says today's date and blog that's going to be a blog. You might have to scroll over because we do post interviews there as well. Mandy, Nobody wants this great show but on Netflix, I already watched that. Nobody wants this so good. Adam Brody plays a young rabbi who falls in love with the Shiksa Kristin Bell, and they are delightful together. I never watched it, but my wife obsessed

so good. It's so so good. And I think Kristen Bell and Adam Brody are nominated for an Emmy, so the any awards, Like I was gonna put him on the blog today, but they did not nominate.

quite a bit. NCIS is my favorite show, and I always watch Jeopardy. I gotta tell you, guys, I've been watching NCIS since the beginning, and now I just watch it because I'm committed. Right. It's like, I'm not going to be a quitter. If this show is going to be on fifty years, by god, I'm gonna watch it for fifty flipp in years, even the years that it's just not very good. I think the cast they have now is pretty good. We'll see what happens. Mandy. I

watched Mysteries on PBS Channel six. They had many series that are really good in a little edgy you just want to keep watching. PBS has always had quality programming, and when that was one of the few channels that we had, I grew up watching Masterpiece Theater with Alistair? Was it Alistair Cook? Welcome to Misterpiece Theater. Tonight's on, I Claudius and you'd give you the little synopsis of

what happened in the last few episodes, Mandy. Point number one, viewership percentage goes down for so many reasons, more competition and sources. Point number two, it's too expensive. Wages haven't increased at the same rate as inflation and expenses. YouTube has tons of free stuff and can go on any TV. Xbox has YouTube, Huluu all these apps. You don't even need a smart TV and Samsung point three? Are all my rants like this at every station? Am I a buffoon?

Do they come in in weird orders? All my efforts defending Kobe the game's only started. I don't care about Kobe. I don't mean to be a jerk, but I there's not even enough words to tell you how little I care about Kobe. I do uber and lyft for the law for the life of me, I don't know how people afford it as their daily transportation. I only get seventy percent of the fare, and I feel like I'm robbing them. You know what, You're just engaged in a

capitalist exchange, that's all. Mandy, I live in southeast Wyoming, eight miles from the Colorado border, picked up a thirty dollars digital antenna pointed at south and get all the Denver stations no charge. And that's what a lot of people who rely on streaming do now for the network stations. But I don't know how they would get credit for that, and maybe that's why it seems like their numbers are

dipping so much. That's a good point. I didn't even think about that because I know a lot of people that have the over the air and digital antennas and they work really really well. I mean, they're digital quality. So you know, I'm not willing to put a fork in network television's stomach just yet and say they're done. But it is definitely not the world it used to be where they kind of ran everything. Now I want

to switch gears for just a second. You know, Trump has been at Jerome Powell in the FED for some time now, But wouldn't it be interesting if the thing that leads to Jerome Powell being axed or quitting is the insane renovation that they are doing at the Federal Reserves headquarters in Washington, d C. The Federal Reserve is renovating, and I think that's important, renovating two massive buildings, but not that massive, two big buildings in Washington, D C.

And the price tag, Grant, take a guess on how much it's costing to renovate the Federal Reserve buildings. Give me a guess, Grant, Grant, give me a guess. I just want you to guess to see how wrong you are. They're renovating the Federal Reserve buildings in Washington, d C. Two buildings. How much is the price tag right now? Seventy four million dollars? That is adorable, Grant, right now, the price tag is you're sitting down two point five

billion dollars billion. I almost have like a Brewster's Millions moment. Have you ever seen millions with priory? Yes, where he gets like ten million dollars and he gets to keep more if he spends the ten million in thirty days or something like that. I mean, don't get me wrong. I have amazing taste. I can walk into a furniture store and the only thing that I like is the most expensive thing in the furniture store, and I find that out before I look at any of the prices.

I have incredibly expensive taste. I think I would struggle to spend two point five billion dollars on a renovation. They just built a new Universal Studios for five hundred million from scratch.

Powell kicked out. Jerome Powell's being blamed for something that is not his fault, and that is mortgage rates. Because though lower mortgage rates are often correlated with lower mortgage rates, they are not necessarily connected. It's the ten year treasury that mortgage rates are more indexed to for a variety of reasons, mostly having to do with the fact that a mortgages a long term investment, not a short term investment.

And the reason that those two things are correlated most of the time low interest rates and good mortage rates is because that's when our economy is getting ready. It booms with low interest rates. We've got low inflation, we're employment is good, so interest rates can be low, and the economy is usually roaring, which means that investors will buy our bonds. When they won't buy our bonds, then the price of a ten year bond yield goes up.

And that's where we've been. And I think until we show some seriousness to really cut spending, not just nine million dollars that they're probably gonna cut through recisions, those investors are going to be a little more cautious. And that's going to keep that ten year treasury wheeled up where it is now, and that's going to keep the housing market locked up until one of two things happen. People just decide screw it. I'm going to take the mortgage at six point seven and figure it out later.

But you know, we're in a tough situation. I don't think Jerome Powell has done a good job, to be clear. I think he's slept on what he said was transitory inflation, which clearly wasn't clearly was never transitory oriinflation. And he's just he's not done a great job managing things. Mandy, that's about what Ross is spending on trees, not bad. Wait is he building the Ross Mahaja? When Susan Witkin was renovating her house, I called it the Susan the

Susan mahal as in the Taj Mahal. Right, I'm just gonna start calling Ross's the Ross Mahal.

which could be seen as an effort to contain media expansion. Oddly, though, the Democrats are not demanding that the publicly funded networks do a better job at presenting both sides. If they really believed in it, they could absolutely enforce the fairness doctrine on public radio. But I don't hear them calling for that. It's so weird. We're either about to have rain or an alien invasion. That's what it looks like outside. I'm hoping for aliens. Well, I didn't bring my umbrella in,

so I am too. I certainly don't need rain like this. No, I do need rain, I just need it at my house. It looks a little green, doesn't it. That's scary because that's the really tornado stuff.

on PBS. I still miss Bob Bob Bob. What was Bob fila? Yes, Bob vila from this Old House. We used to watch This Old House when I was a kid. Maybe that's my love for you know what, I might do a whole hour tomorrow on what the blank is happening at HGTV? Okay, because I have one favorite network and it is HGTV, and they are canceling shows left and right, and they canceled two of my favorites. Did you post something about it recently? I'm so mad I right now. I was like, what are we doing now?

They have like dumb eighties movies on there, not even good ones, like dumb ones. Don't mess with my channel. People don't mess with it. Do you think they're gonna have Pacburrow racing on the OA Show? Ryan Edwards? Since you're in here, I'd like to get your thoughts good. Yeah, fit my way. HGTV is so funny because my parents love this channel. I love it. They just no stop watching them, Like, are you guys gonna do renovations? Like no, no, no, no, I was just like watching it. I was like, well,

are you saying it like getting some ideas? No, no, no, we just we just really enjoy it. I like to keep on trend, so when I do go to sell my house, I'll know quickly how to make it work for this when we we've remodeled our entire house over the last ten years, Like at every room in our house has been completely redone, but some of them, like generally speaking, I go just classic. I don't want anything that's going to be trendy. I don't want any of

that crap. I'm just like something easily adaptable with a different backslash kind of stuff. And HGTV helps me, first of all, know I am never doing that my house because some of these trends they come out and they're just you're like, well, you're going to regret the crap out of that in two years. Like that's gonna be everyone painting their brick. Oh I don't mind painted brick, but be judicious about it. Okay, that's all I'm saying. No, I guess my parents have that things. They did the tiles,

subway tile stuff in the kitchen. Yeah, I played out now they'll feel figure that out. They keep watching its classic though it really is, it's classic. I mean yeah, you know, I mean you watch the you know the things, you know the things. And now it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio on its guy World of the Day. I see it, I see it here. I can't do it without the pen. What's the dad joke of the day? Please, the dad joke of the day. And I like this one once I pull it back up.