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So, yeah, Wednesday, this is going to be a big day. I have completed my call list of people that I know on the western coast of Florida. I have ensured that they have all evacuated. So I am feeling pretty good about things today because Hurricane Milton.

You hat no honkerers in this No, these are not stupid people. Exactly.

Several of them are in Our former co worker, Hassena. You're Seena is in Sarasota, and I started on.

Her like three days ago, like you got to get out, you got to get out.

And what's funny is I have a lot of friends on the east coast of Florida. They are more concerned, earned and more prepared than the people on the west coast. It's kind of crazy, but I talked to my last friend that I was worried about today. She lives in an old cracker house, like an old wood frame house, and I was like, you cannot stay there, even though that house has lived through so many storms because it's one hundred years old. So just talk to her. She's

And I do have.

Friends that have, you know, gotten these water barriers that are there.

They're kind of cool.

I'm interested to see.

How they work.

Tampa General the big hospital in Tampa, it's it's their U See Health. Tampa General is the big hospital there. They used these in Hurricane Helene and kept the floodwaters back. Now they use much bigger ones because they're right near the bay. But now this is these are now being sold like hotcakes and people are you basically wrap your whole house with like a little wall to keep the water out. I'm interested to see how well it works.

To be there through the aftermath.

One of my friends in Fort Myers is she evacuated because she stayed in her house through Ian and swore to God, she would never do that again. And she has her ring doorbell camera on so she can find out when the power goes out. Her power in Fort Myers has already gone out three times today and the storm hasn't even hit yet. So it's a nasty, nasty hurricane. It is going to be extremely destructive. And if you know anybody on the west coast of Florida, pray for them.

Inside Florida.

It's supposed to be a category two when it hits Orlando, which is huge. And Ron de Santis was on the Weather Channel, Governor Ronda Santis and all I kept thinking the whole time he's talking, why isn't this guy the candidate? Why why was I not allowed to vote for Ronda Santis by the time it got to Colorado, Why isn't this.

Guy the candidate?

Because he's talking, I mean, you should hear his command of what's happening in Florida Right now, they have masked more line workers because what happens before a storm. This is so interesting to me. Maybe it's I mean, if it's not interesting to you guys, sorry, but I find this fascinating. They figure out where they can mass all of the line trucks from the electric companies. They bring in electric companies from all over the country and they stage them in an area that is not supposed to

You're ready to go.

So they're going to roll in the National Guard to clear the roads, to make sure the power lines are out of the way and dead, and so people can go back to their houses past or if their houses are still there. There are a couple of barrier islands long Boat Key, which is one of my favorite places in Florida. If this storm is a Category four or higher. I don't see how long Boat Key survives. It's just

Pray for the people of Florida.

By the way, were you here yesterday when we were talking about the guy on.

His boat that was going to ride it out.

Yes, he's not. He's not. No, Apparently, as Lieutenant Dan.

Showed up and said, don't be an idiot, because now in Florida, here's what they do. They go on TV and say, hey, if you're gonna stay, if you're going to write it out, do as a solid write your name and your next of ken on your leg in black magic marker, permanent marker, so we can identify your next of ken when we find your body. So they're on the full on scare tactics because people are in this it's just going to be really, really, really bad.

This is just a giant mess.

And I've never and I just told my friend lindsay this on the phone, I said, Lindsay, I've never been more grateful that I don't live in my home state than right now, because you know what today is. Today is all day waiting, just waiting and waiting and watching the weather channel and listening to the radio and try it and just waiting.

And it is agony. It's terrible. It's horrible, absolutely horrible. Is it still hitting tonight or is it going more into the morning late.

I don't know right now, but they're already having hurricane force winds across southwest Florida. In the leading edge of the story, oh, there's apparently there was a giant super cell tornado in Cluiston, which is in the bottom center of the state. Luckily no one lives in Cluiston. It's kind of a it's not a nice place. Cluiston is kind of a I'm trying to think of how to say the word craphole on the radio without you know what I'm sayings, Cluiston is not nice. It's not nice

I don't know.

We'll talk to our chief meteorologist from Fox thirty one day, Fraser about it. Obviously he's not predicting the weather for Florida, but I'm guessing every meteorologist is watching this storm because it has done something that no other hurricane on unmeasurable record.

We have to be clear about that.

It dropped below nine hundred millibars, which is not ever been measured before. It's not to say a hurricane has never dropped that low and been that powerful, but in the modern era of measurements, that is the first time that's ever happened. So obviously it's on my mind today, and I'm sorry if you guys don't care, but it's a really big deal and people I love and care about are in the way of this storm. So you're just gonna have to indulge me for just a few minutes.

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Mandy Desanta's press conference was on Fox this morning. He was simply amazing what they have put in place, collaborative work with clean up crews, hotels, uber, et cetera.

If anyone wants.

To watch what true leadership looks like, I highly recommend watching it. Oh that's the other part about this. There are huge, huge piles of debris on the side of the road from Helene that have not been picked up, and so Desanta rallied state assets. It is not the state's responsibility to clean up hurricane debris. It is the city that you live in. They contract with companies to do this, and the state said, you're not getting done.

I think it was missing office half of American all with ships and clipments at Save that ConA press plant.

Today on the blog, I'm guessing we'll chat about Hurricane Milton. Why does Hollywait hate white people? We are paying for anti oil and gas lobbying. My voter guide is out. What the hell is happening at CBS? Can political consultants stop telling candidates to not answer questions? The latest suit against Masterpiece Cakes has been dismissed. AURORAPD is preparing for Trump's visit. Doug co is in stage two fire restrictions. Another pedestrian death. Denver is the least safe sent in Colorado?

And you got to check out some of the videos.

I want one of these slingshot reels I want, Okay, so okay, if you fish, and I'm not talking about fly fishing, because that's a whole different set of circumstances here. I'm talking about if you if you use a regular big cast or a reel. There's a video on the blog today. Have a guy and he's got it. First,

This the follow up?

Does he have something automatically to really quickly reel it back game?

Otherwise you are no.

I mean, fishing is reeling. I mean that's your reeling. And you how far that went?

How long is it.

Going to be kept on?

When you're trolling, when you're when you're out on the ocean and you're trolling and you're fishing. Some of those trolling lines are out two hundred yards. Some of them are close to the boat.

But there's trolling.

Lines, and you have to reel and reel and real and real that you got to set the hook.

Do you fish at all?

Have you ever like, of course, okay, so you got to set the hook.

Yeah, but even then hook set, that's a long time.

Long time that thing stays on. Doesn't pull off the hook.

Or the hook, right, you'll be now breaking the line. Other thing seem to have a leader on it. There was no leader on the thing that I saw.

Do I fish.

I just spent a long time.

It's been a long time. We still have the kid now never hunt fish. I'm looking he's got I'm looking. Oh, come on, I'm looking to see if there's a leader on this thing. I can't tell. It goes too fast, but.

Yeah, he's just got the reel on his wrist. And I think it's like a Zepco reel or something. I mean, it's not a fancy reel. No, just like we're trying to give little kids.

When you can't realize what's happening, you're like, oh, that's cool. It's very very because he's just being a menace. No, he's doing something really cool.

Damn.

All right, So let's talk about some stuff. We've got Dave Frasier coming on at twelve thirty to talk about weather. So if you have any weather questions, then you need to get them ready. Obviously, we're going to talk about this storm a little bit, but we're also going to talk about our weather, which I must say, I know it's above normal, but I am enjoying the heck out of this weather. It's too hot for you. You want sweater weather, where's my fall?

I mean, I'm forcing it. I'm wearing sweaters. I'm done with it. I'm just forcing it.

Like if I walk out of here and it's eighty eighty five, I'll take off the sweater by yah, absolutely need to. But uh, it's sweater weather for me now, So I don't care. Yeah, what the hell?

Yeah it's it's a little but I am actually enjoying it.

I'm not gonna lie.

I will ask if it wants to remain this hot, can it at least hold on then for two more weeks so I have a pretty warm like Halloween Halloween season.

I don't think there's much a near term that is going to bring us any kind of.

We'll have to ask Dave again every time I ask him on the phone before, and you go, how we get closer? So I'm like, hey, almost there, can we forecast a little here?

We'll find out at twelve thirty. We also have Christian Toto coming on the show today. You remember after Hurricane Katrina, Hollywood got together and they did a big, you know, fundraiser to raise funds for those people impacted by Hurricane Katrina. It was a con served for hurricane relief. And you may remember at that point Kanye West, the anti Semitic racist. Oh by the way, uh, And I know you've been worried. It appears that Kanye's marriage to his wife, who walks around naked all the time.

Is over.

I know, I know you're devastated. The other one, he and Bianca, have have apparently broken up. They've gone their separate, separate ways. And I thought it was forever Anthony.

Will he fall off a cliff and then make good music again?

Maybe I could do it.

I'm gonna shake the magic eight ball. My sources say no. Yeah. Well, I do think that Kanye West is a genius, but I also think.

He is severely mentally ill.

Yeah.

I think he has pretty severe bipolar disease, and I think that he needs medication. And he is extremely gifted as well. And unfortunately, in our in our history, madness and talent are off hand in Glove, so that is not all that surprising. But Kanye West, that was when he said George Bush didn't care about black people when they were doing the telethon for Katrina or whatever they

Let me just say that.

And then at two point thirty, my friend and yours, John Caldera, joins us from the Independence Institute. He wrote a great column that made me mad, really really really mad, because as a pro oil and gas person, and I am pro efficient, reliable energy, to be clear, and there are a lot of forces in the state of Colorado working to shut down our oil and gas industry, and

I don't know.

But taxpayer dollars are flowing into their coffers. Oh my goodness. Elections have consequences, you guys.

And this is the stuff.

That if we had a functioning Republican party, they would be making hey about it. But we don't. We don't have a functioning Republican party. We have Dave Williams. So they're not doing anything productive, just nothing. Mandy hate the late summer weather water bill is averaging three hundred bucks a month for a third of an acre with southern exposure. I would ask you this, Texter, why not just turn the sprinklers off?

I keep forgetting to turn off the Am I still watering twice a day every day?

Yeah? No, you're not watering twice a day every day. I am like, you know what I am. Why are you watering twice a day? Stop?

You can go back to once every couple of days.

No, I keep forgetting, and I know Dave's about to yell at me. I keep forgetting to turn off the second one. Okay, mushrooms are growing.

I know.

If your mushrooms are growing, you're way over I know, I am.

Do you want me to remind you to turn your sprinklers off? To a more normal schedule.

They're currently off today, so I can mow today, and then I try to remember when I look at the thing turn back on to turn off the second.

Watery, when are you gonna blow them out?

I uh, probably like two weeks.

I'm scheduled for like next week. I scheduled the middle of October every year. And you know what if my grass dies, I I don't care. I mean, it's not gonna die die, it's just gonna go dorm it.

Oh the grass with that new mower, Thank you, Dwelt looks as gray as ever has.

I want to hold on as long as I can. Yeah, you're just living.

Oh god, Yeah, yeah, really was the secret. Yeah, Okay, let's take a break. We're gonna come back. We're gonna talk to Dave Fraser. Kick off the show, get it moving right after this stick around Dave Fraser, Fox thirty one Meteorology. How are you today, sir.

I'm doing good.

I'm doing good. I've been listening. I'm glad to hear that you reached out to your friends and family or whoever and got them to consider going and they all have.

Everybody on the West Coast has relocated and everybody on the East coast is ready. So everybody is as good as they can be in Florida right now. And so I want to ask you this is so I'm gonna ask you an absurd question, Okay, And even as I ask it to you, I know as it's coming out of my mouth that it's an absurd question. But going around the internet right now, Dave Frasier, there is all

We're on the test pool of social media with that. Let's be honest. I mean, listen, there's conspiracy theorists for everything. But if you're saying that any there's any way that we can control something besize of a Heleen or a Milton and share it or drive it or direct it in one direction or another, Uh, there's not a chance. There's just no there's no way. There's no way. So I'll just lead that to the conspiratorists and those on social media to spread whatever they want through.

It's so dave. It's just it shows that this isn't really about weather, but it shows that people are so distrustful of the government that they would rather believe that not only think about it like this. And this is what I said back to someone on social media not too long ago, who's actually a friend of mine, who posted this on Facebook, and I was like, stop doing this,

Now.

I want to ask a follow up question though, because there have been efforts to try and control the weather, the Heart program in Alaska. I mean, these are documented scientific experiments trying to control the weather, but to my knowledge, they've not been successful in any way, shape or for right.

Even cloud seating. While it does, while it is a thing, and it does they do do it here in parts of Colorado, the success rate is very, very low. So, yeah, there's just not much you're going to do. I mean, just think about where we are, the size of the planet, the minuscule impact that we could have in controlling the weather across the you know, across the planet, the strength of the sun, the power of the oceans.

There's just no.

Way that I could wrap my brain around that contributions, you know, cloud seating and stuff like that. Sure's it's one of the things that frustrates me the most about social media, and I tend to turn a deaf ear, if you will. I tend to do less and less on social media because of that. Yeah, it's just a lot of it's a lot of noise. And again we're off topic with weather, but it's a lot of noise.

Certainly?

I mean, look at just what's happened with Aline, look at what's happening with Milton. You can't argue with but you will get into an argument. There's just no right or wrong. The minute you go in one direction on either side of that conversation, somebody is coming at you from the other side. So the best thing for me to do is just quietly sit in the background and let people fight amongst themselves.

That's a great strategy. Now let's talk about our weather, which has been unseasonably warm. And I just said to a Rod, I'm actually enjoying this. I could lie to you. I just think it's so pleasant outside. I know it's a little too warm for people, but it's beautiful outside, even with the smoke. And when is this going to end? And are we going to have a warm Halloween or is that going to be our first big snow?

So I agree with you in your assessment of it being you know, this type of warmth is not summer heat. Yeah, it's just got that warm kind of wrap around you kind of feel during the day. But as soon as we get to those earlier sunsets, the temperatures drop au dramatically and you've got your cool, crisp nights. And that's the that's the balance and the great part of September and October. We can have these warm days, but it's not the summer heat we are seeing, and it's not uncommon.

So the we're not even I mean I don't even have to bring my plants in from outside yet. We're not even looking at that, like we're not even sniffing our first freeze yet.

No.

And I heard you in a Rod talking about the sprinkler system. I know you've got yours playing a lot of people like you have them scheduled out ahead of time, and it's gonna they're gonna come and shut them off whenever. And if you're okay with your long going dormit, it is that time of the year anyway. Your grass is probably looking green. Like a Rod talked about, I did, chastising him about spending too much money and throwing must Yeah, yeah,

So let me ask you this question from a texter. I gotta find it because a lot of texts have come in now. It says, please ask Dave. Is this a warm pattern going so late, the new normal going forward, or just a random off year.

I mean, we kind of talked about.

I'm with you. It's apparent to me the earth is warming right. The underpinnings will leave to others to discuss right now, but is this going to be our new normal? Are we going to have warm falls? Or is it too soon to tell?

You?

Know what we have seen? I think what we need is a larger database to look at it to see if we can determine whether it is a new due to climate change, and whether it's new or not. I think we would need probably maybe ten years worth of records. We had seen some warm Septembers and Octobers of late. We've also noticed in the last couple of years, and you may have noticed this as well, that March and

All right, So that is I have nothing to add because I think you're right. So we'll just leave it at that. What is our immediate forecast before we let you go?

Eighties today? A little smoke in the air, not in Denver. We've got beautiful air from Denver to the south, and you should get into the northeast corner. Some of that smoke should lift out. We're sunny and dry again. I think we're about eighty four tomorrow. I think we're seventy four on Friday. I think we're eighty one, eighty two on Saturday. And then I've got probably around seventy Sunday, upper sixties, Monday, seventy one, seventy two, just about every

Little frost on the pumpkin almost sounds dirty. Dave Fraser, I'm just like Dave ay Rod. Once again, no snow on Halloween.

Right As of right now, the forecast continues to look dry and warmth for the month. We're run about a nine degree average above for the month of October.

All right on thirty one, Chief Meteorologist Dave Fraser.

I appreciate you. We'll talk to you next week.

Saying back, they say, we will be right back. A lot of you weighing in. Mandy, I wonder if you could talk about climate change for a minute sometime. My personal view is that the climate may be changing, but it is totally natural and organic thing and has nothing to do with mankind. My proof of this is ice ages.

That's crazy.

These were people who said, yeah, the climate is warning, but here are some reasons that that could be happening. And what I discovered time and time and time again is talking to these scientists, it was almost impossible for them to get funding to study their theories about alternative reasons for this global warming. And when I started hearing that over and over and over again, it made the

Now.

The notion that somehow we can predict the climate in one hundred years when we can't predict the weather in thirty days, on the face of it, is just ridiculous. And that's kind of where I'm sitting right now, right, that is where I'm sitting at this moment. But I am inclined to believe that, like you, we only have good record keeping from the late eighteen hundreds.

Okay, that's what everybody says.

This is the strongest storm any history. Nope, it's the strongest storm in recorded history, which is a much different sort of thing. And when you look at, say the number of hurricanes, they're not more hurricanes.

Than there was before.

So there's a lot of this stuff that's bandied about as oh, look at this is proof a man made global warming that certainly is not. And I happen to be of the mindset that we have so little control over what the Earth does that it's almost ridiculous for us to try and stop climate change instead of adapting to climate change. Imagine if we took all the money that we're trying to spend stopping climate change when we've had no record of history of any success of stopping

But I'm not going to talk about it next. I'm going to talk about.

It at one thirty because next we've got Christian Toto coming up. Fascinating column he's written about how Hollywood apparently doesn't care about white people. I will explain after we get back with Christian Toto.

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To the second hour of the show and joining us now fan favorite and host favorite Christian Toto of the Hollywood in Toto website and podcast and now YouTube channel. He is everywhere a man about town, but he still has time to write incredibly good stuff about Hollywood, and that's what we're talking about today. Christian, Welcome back to the show.

Of course, first, thank you, fan. I think you're stretching out a bit, but I'll take it.

You are a fan favorite and you're a host's favorite, which is more important than being a fan favorite, right because I get to decide who comes on the show.

I agree.

I had no idea that Hollywood hates white people as much as they do, but this is what we're seeing, right.

Well, I wouldn't go that far. I think there's some other cultural factors here, but I did recall. I mean, I think we all remember how Hollywood rallied around the victims of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe, and I think that was a wonderful thing. And of course when Kanye West said George Bush hates black people, that was a detour for sure, But you know, Hollywood in general can be

Well, a couple of things that I would suggest, and I'm not asserting this to be accurate at all, but one of them is it's like everyone is so consumed with politics at this moment in time, it's like real life.

They can't let it get in the way.

They have to keep the eye on the political prize and they have to keep that going. And do you think that's part of it that they are just otherwise engaged.

Right now.

I think it's a small part of it, but I think there's other factors in play. I mean, I think the two biggest things we're talking about is that the media is really not going wall to wall with the hurricane damage and what's going on like they did with Kristina, and then I was like that was necessary and needed. I don't think that's happening quite so much today. So I think that's sometimes the stars take the cues from the media that they consume, which is uniformly left leaning,

And ultimately it comes back to politics, right to your point, if they focus on the devastation of Helene and the aftermath, which has really been you know, bad, It's been really bad. Part of it is terrain in North Carolina, which has made everything really really difficult. But the conflicting stories coming

You know?

I mean, we're still talking about human tragedy here, and to downplay human tragedy for political gain or to avoid the appearance of political blame is just a really sad state of affairs in our country right now.

It is will stop. And I think that's the state of affairs country right now. I think we're see it

It's incredibly ugly.

And now we're having Hurricane Milton bearing down on Florida, which is run by a Republican governor, and I have a feeling that the silence. The silence will get even more deafening from Hollywood after this storm hits, don't you think.

Yeah, I mean, I think that Governor DeSantis has proven to be quite capable when these tragedies strike there his home state there, and so there's not much to bite on, so they won't cover it as much. I mean, they will to a certain degree, but it'd be much more fun for the journalists. I mean, listen, you and I have talked for years. Journalism used to be imbalanced, biased

I've actually and I don't know if you saw this story coming out of CBS News about what happened to CBS News Morning anchor Tony Deakoople.

Did you see this story? Oh my god? No, So he interviews.

It's a perfect microcosm of how far journalism has fallen. A journalist does and random act of journalism to quote the late great Rush Limbaugh, and he has to do a struggle session to apologize. It is shocking and embarrassing, but it really isn't shocking because that's where journalism is sty.

And to bring everybody up to speed, CBS Morning co anchor Tony to and I think I'm saying his name right. He did an interview with noted racist and anti semi Tennehisi Coats. Right, So, Tennyhisi Coats rose to fame during the Black Lives Matter movement by telling white people that we were inherently corrupt and wrong and racist and there was nothing we could do about it.

I can't stand this guy.

And he's written a new book that apparently is an absolutely one sided polemic against Israel, and CBS journalist Tony Dekoople had the nerve to push back, and he had the nerve to question him and push him on some of these things and talk about the more extremeist elements of this book. That does not mention hamas hezbala Aran, not one time does it mention the Dafadas, Does it mention any of that? Does it mention little children being

Now?

That's really what it comes down to me, Christian, because I know you feel the same way I do. A robust and an earnest journalism. Media is incredibly important to us. Who do we trust?

Now?

Where do we look?

The numbers are dwindling. I can't you and that very small group I also, Megan Kelly, I think does a mostly wonderful job. I used to think Tucker Carlson fell in that category. He no longer falls in that category at all, and that breaks my heart. Yeah, it's a it's a very very small group of people who you are you can take to the bank. Michael Schellenberger I think has been oh yeah, a leading light on following up on censorship concerns. He's literally on the Joe Rogan

I just don't.

So I am now a subscriber to the Free Press. I try to support all these little into the you know, journalistic endeavors that are usually disaffected journalists from places like the New York Times and CBS and all of these other places. But I think it is it's I don't want to oversell this, but I think it's dangerous that we have a large national media that is very invested in one political party. And I don't know exactly how to fix this, but I read this story at CBS.

For asking difficult questions.

And that's what's happening now. It's like, oh, I'm sorry, you can only ask difficult questions of those on the right.

Listen, we can fix the media. They have no shame, they have no scruples. The only thing we can do is to gently reach out to people who are our center left, who are saying who are people that we love who may disagree with us politically, and just show them piece by piece, story by story. Can you see how corrupt the media is? Can you understand that?

Now?

Act accordingly. It's it's maybe the most dangerous part of our country right now. Is what you're describing. Dangerous is the right word it is. It is critical that we do that because otherwise I don't know what the alternative is.

I gotta let me touch on JD. Vans for just a second, because this kind of goes to the bigger picture. JD Vance in that debate may have shown the way forward when it comes to dealing with the blatantly biased media that is running debates, that is asking questions. He came across as a happy warrior. He's obviously incredibly intelligent. Unfortunately, I don't think a lot of our top tier politicians

What are your thoughts on that?

I mean, I agree, I think that's the right approach. You can't really come at someone and say how you're wrong. See this isn't wave news stories in your hand, because then their defenses rise up and they're not going to accept the information. You know, we glibally talk about people being red pilled, but that's what has to happen organically for this to change, the media will not change. They

You can always find great great grace movie reviews, TV reviews at Christian's website, Hollywood and Toto. He's got a great podcast as well, where he interviews a lot of people from the industry. I want to ask you specifically about the new movie The Apprentice about Donald Trump, because I yes, I have a friend who saw it. She is Mary Left, and she said, this film is just brilliant.

What are your thoughts on that film?

Yeah, listen, it's gonna get a split reaction, for sure. I listen, I'm voting for Trump. I'm supporting Trump. I'm not a Trump fan per se. I see the flaws, I'm not immune to them. And I think that would make a very powerful story about his life in the eighties and how he rose up to power. And I

That's what you get.

But they should have told a great, interesting movie from a deeply flawed but fascinating figure. There's a great movie to be told about that, this, ain't it.

Yeah?

Yeah?

And that's the thing.

It's like Donald Trump, like, take the politics out of it. What an interesting, complex person. This is right. I mean, you don't have to embellish, you don't have to try and add anything, because his entire life is razzle dazzle, and his entire life is this constructed persona that to me would should be a slam dunk.

For a movie.

It really should. And yet here we are. Here we are Christian Toto. Yeah, I appreciate you. Uh, Christian, I appreciate you making time. I always read your site before I go see a movie. I needed to ask you before we go though about the new Demi Moore movie. Have you reviewed this thing yet?

I have.

It's the substance. It's a new horror film. It's been out a few weeks, getting a lot of award season buzz, surprisingly for a horror film. I watch everything. I love horror movies. I can sit through anything on the screen. I was squirming in my seat. There's actually a lot of good satirical material in the film, and Demi Moore is quite good in it, but holy metral it is the third act is just bring an umbrella for all the goal in etc. That's on the screen. That's all I'll say.

Well, I hate horror movies and.

I hate gore.

And my best friend said this movie is so good, but you can't separate it from the gore. Because I was like, look, just get it on, you know, get a copy and then cut out all the gore for me.

She goes, it wouldn't make sense.

But she loved the movie, absolutely loved it. At the same time, she expressed horror about her own love for the movie because it is so gory. So I mean, did it have to be that gory or is that just what they did?

Well, there's a lot of what they call body horror in the film, which I think is essential to the story. But I think they go over the top and then some in the last ten twenty minutes, and I agree, I think it was unnecessary because it is a satirical look at aging about Hollywood, about sexism, those are all meaty topics that should be explored, and sometimes horror does

I loved Demi Moore and one of my good friends said this is the best movie she's done since she was very, very young, and she loved it except the gore, and I'm.

Like, I'm out.

I don't even like to watch the autopsy scenes on ncis okay, And they're not even gory, Christian, They're just what they are. A Christian Toto. Find him at Hollywood intoto dot com. Find his podcast Hollywood in Toto and his YouTube channel also Hollywood in Toto as well.

Christian, we'll talk to you again soon, my friend.

Sounds good.

Thanks all right, thank you, Christian Toto. I what a touch.

Just for a second on the story that we mentioned about CBS News before, because this story is really like next level when it comes to the kind of bias we have in our news media, because before you know, Bertie Goldberg wrote the book Bias I think in two thousand and four maybe two thousand and three, two thousand and four, about his experiences with bias in CBS news. But this, this is absolutely next level.

So I mentioned.

What happened was CBS morning host Tony deaoople interviewed Tonney he c Coates, who I believe is a racist and an anti anti semit but he shot to fame during the Black Lives Matter movement. He interviewed him and asked him questions. Now, listen to this, listen to these questions when when this guy's on, he wrote a book that is all anti Israel. So Tony de coopele asked him. He said, why leave out that Israel is surrounded by countries that want to eliminate it?

That's question number one? Question number two?

Why leave out that Israel deals with terror groups that want to eliminate it?

Question number three?

Why not detail anything of the First and Second Intifada? The cafe bombings, the bus bombings, the little kids blown to bits, and because of that.

On the following Monday morning, the network's top.

Brass apologized for the interview to staff, saying it did not meet the company's editorial standards. The head of CBS News, Adrian Rourke, who's in charge of news gathering at the network, began her remarks by saying covering a story like October seventh requires empathy, respect, and a commitment to truth and essentially said, we're super sorry about that interview because we question this man that shares our viewpoints.

Now.

Apparently, in the meeting, it also devolved into a conversation about whether or not questioning Israel's right to exist was allowed and if that's not the most you know, profoundly disturbing thing I've heard in sometime, I don't know what is. You can read all of this on the blog and they even have snippets of the meeting that you can listen to. Totally worth your time, do it. Got a lot of stuff on the plate today. I got a couple of things. First of all, I have some videos

It is.

It's I don't know how nah, I'm not going down that right.

And we already talked about the hurricane at the beginning of the show, and I want to talk about some other stuff that I have on the show as well.

One of the things that I want to talk.

About today is another conspiracy theory has been proven true. The conspiracy theory this time is about fluoride in our water. Now, if you haven't heard about this, I had friends talk to me about floride in my water for forever, so much so that when I moved into my neighborhood, I called my water provider to find out if they fluorinated the water.

Okay, so they do not in my water provider, But now we know.

The National Institute of Health has done a study, and the National Institute of Health has now released the following The NTP monograph concluded that higher levels of fluoride exposure, such as drinking water containing more than one point five milligrams of fluoride per leader, are associated with lower IQ in children. The NTP review was designed to evaluate total fluoride exposure from all sources, and was not designed to

That was good, you guys.

You were synchronized when I said, guys, there you go. Now, what's sort of fascinating about Florida in the water is the reason we have Florida in the water is it was a waste product from manufacturing that they needed to know what to do with.

And we know it is good for our teeth.

But I think I'd rather have janky teeth and a bigger brain than a smaller brain and nice teeth. So this is especially for little little kid kids. Please don't use little little kids. Don't give them real fluoride toothpaste. Kids. Toothpaste does not have fluoride in it because kids swallow toothpaste. It takes like a year to get your kid to stop swallowing the toothpaste when you brush their teeth.

So just be aware.

But this is I mean to me, this is like, oh okay, another thing that government told us was fine.

Now not fine, just not fine at all.

Now.

Am I gonna do away with my fluorinated toothpaste? No, I'm not, because I spit it all out that I rinse my mouth. I'm not eating it. And I think my brain is big enough already. I don't want to, like, you know, get ahead of myself, but I think my brain is just fine. Thank you so much, thank you so so much. So I wanna ask you. I don't normally tell you to follow me on social media. I

I'm following the video threads on a lot of TikTokers. Yeah, well nuts, did.

You see the tornado over Cluiston? The ginormous I think I did supercell tornado. It is unbelievable. But today's the day to be on X.

I'm following all these people that are also the ones who are staying, and I want to see continue to post, you.

Know, honestly.

Okay, So apparently Marty Lenz is our morning guy. Marty Lenz his brother, Yes, for what a Let's get Marty on the phone. I want to ask him why his brother's saying, because no one seems to know why his brother decided to stay in Sarasota. Sarasta looks like right now, unless the hurricane wobbles, it is going to take a direct hit, probably a Cat four storm, maybe Cat three,

You know what I'm saying.

You're not gonna just that's what's gonna happen. You're gonna find out. If you just mess around, you're gonna find out. And I just want to know because they're like, hey, Marty's brother is going to be able to talk to No, if they knock all the cell towers down, that's not going to be a thing. So we're gonna find out why his brother is staying in Sarah's Oh cool, Okay, Marty Lens, half of Colorado's morning news team, Marty, I just heard your brother is staying in Sarasota.

What the deuce?

Yeah, well, I don't know. So basically he said if he had his young kids still there, they probably wouldn't. But it's kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Wait wait, but where Okay, where is he in Sarasota? How far is he from the coastline? What did he say?

Is about ten miles in? I think is what he said.

I think that was right.

God, I should know better.

So he is he staying there by himself?

Is no?

His wife is his wife and they're both there so and they're less concerned about the storm surge and like I said, you know Florida. But what the word about is some of the wind in some of those things. So it's like it's a picture poison. Like, well, if they leave, do they know if they can get back in See, they don't already one of those things here party.

I'm just going to say this as a native Floridian, I've been through so many hurricanes. Anything over a category two, I'm getting the hell out of Dodge because I have friends that have gone through They went through Andrew in South Florida, their children. Their children were in therapy for like eight years. Let me tell you what your brother

And that's what.

Concerns and that's the thing. And when I asked him about their reason, I think he just felt like they I think their concern was if they leave, as if they'd be able to get back to your point, you know, is there something to get back to?

But I don't know.

I mean, he's got a generator doing all the things I told him. I hope I can talk to him tomorrow morning, and.

He has shutters.

Right.

Yes, Well, I've got to tell you after Hurricane Charlie, which was only a Category three, there were no cell towers left.

All the cell towers were gone, right.

So there's all of these different things that you know, Sarah, Soda buries their power lines, but they don't bury the major transition line, the transmission line. So they come to Sarasota and then they get buried. But if those get knocked down, I just I'm worried, and I'm worried anyway, So now I have to worry about your brother. Let him know that Mandy Connell is now going to have to worry about him. I do hope he's okay. I hope this is the right to work through it too.

Hey, let let me ask you this, because I should have asked him this on the air, And I've been texting that. I'm one of six siblings, so we're all beating them up with information. He said, they go dark after eleven, Mandy, do they de energize the power lines and situations like this, Yeah, because of they don't.

No, it's not like California. It's not like California where you're gonna start fires because of it. They kind of let the It's almost like the chips are going to fall where they may, and they're going to allow the power to be on as long as they can, and then after the storm they're going to send people into clear the live power lines, which is a huge problem. But it's not like it's going to set a fire in California, you know.

Yeah, right, it's a little bit different dark.

I think he just meant they probably, you know, might not have power, and that's what he's thinking. So anyways, it's like, Oh, I should have asked him it on the air, about what he's gonna do.

Yeah, I'll text it right now.

I'm going my yard with just something I always do, and I will. I will text them and see what he says about that.

So all right, all right, Marty. Now I'm gonna have to worry about your brother, but I will say I'll send up prayers for his safety as well.

So we got that covered.

Thank you appreciating all.

Right, thanks Marty, We'll be right.

Oh yeah, well, I gotta say, Marty, moan is lawn at one forty? Isn't that like you're gonna hurt your lawn?

Marty?

What?

Oh my gosh, you're now No, no, beautiful. I looked up these things. The sun damage.

Absolutely, the sun is not as it's not intense enough in October to Milan.

I can go home and one at four.

Yes, which is not nearly intense as it is in the middle of summer in July.

That makes sense.

Everything, Okay, I don't have to wait until near sunset anymore.

No, oh really, don't you really? A rod has now become lawn obsessed. He's he's like, he's like six months away from screaming get out by lawn.

I've yelled it, I make sure.

Yeah.

No, I haven't yelled. I planned to yell if anyone comes near or their dog comes near, He's already there. My friends, he's already there. Oh jeez, you.

Got a texture here. I've got lots of family in Sarasodi and they're riding this hurricane. Now, that's just I'm sorry, it's stupid. You're just if you have the means to leave, you're just stupid for staying and you're going miserable after the fact.

Heard if people liking super tall high rises way up there, are they?

Okay?

It depends on the building. Yeah, you know, it depends on how it was built, when it was built, and there's always debris. So the super high up buildings a lot of times don't have hurricane shutters on the windows. So then you've got to worry about some flying in your window because all the the stuff flying around.

Is a huge problem. Also, you're not getting out plumbing, you know, well, you're.

Probably unless you're building has a massive generator that's not going to be underwater.

You're gonna be out of power.

That's the thing. It's not the storm itself, although Sarasota is going to be wrecked.

Uh, it's the aftermath.

If this is a Category four storm, when it comes on shore, there's a chance power won't be back in some areas for weeks, and then you're just sitting and it's hot and it's humid, and it's miserable. It's all. The aftermath of a hurricane is terrible, just terrible. Never want to do it again. This is where I'm never moving back to Florida. Never, never, never, never, ever so funny a couple of stories that I want to get to today before we bring on John Caldera to thirty.

This is kind of fun.

I like the results of this are kind of fun. The three Colorado cities sit on the lower half of the list. They ranked one hundred eighty two cities. Number one South Burlington, Vermont the least safe city, Memphis, Tennessee, Colorado Springs.

Well, it came in at one fifty seven.

Aurora came in at one point fifteen, meaning Aurora felt safer than Colorado Springs, Denver sitting at number one sixty one, and uh that is uh, that's kind of sad. While the Colorado cities rank on the lower end of the list, they still rank higher than some major cities around the country. Aurora ranks higher in safety than cities like Salt Salt

So there's one for you.

Oh, this person points out elevators won't work if the power goes out. Yep, that's miserable. I rode through the tail end of a hurricane. It was only like a Category one by the time it hit me in Orlando. It was supposed to be in a wedding in Orlando, and the storm was coming up through Florida and we were like, oh, we're gonna go anyway. So we stayed

I loved it. Not at all, it was terrible. I'm never moving back there. So you got that. And I want to talk about this story.

I don't normally talk about stories like this because it's a sad story, but it's not a talk topic necessarily. A man was killed at eight twenty five pm on a Tuesday. There was a crash on Chambers Road, north of East Colfax Avenue.

And that's important.

Because Denver especially is trying to pass all these rules and regulations to make driving a car absolutely miserable, and they're doing it in the name of saving people, pedestrians specifically, who keep getting hit by cars. But this story is a perfect example of why all of their anti car nonsense is not going to move the needle, because in

The Mandy Connall Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock Accident and Injury Lawyers.

No, it's Mandy Connell and John on KOLA AM.

Ninety one FM.

So god ways three Andy Connell keeping sad thing.

The two minute drill at two.

Hey, we're going to too minute warrings.

Rapid fire stories of the day that we don't have more time for. Let's call this so it'll take longer than two minutes.

Are are you up.

Here's Mandy Connall.

All right, my friends, story number one. Because you know that I'm extremely concerned about fire, and you may know that I live in Douglas County. If you two live in Douglas County, they have now imposed Stay two fire restriction, no burning of any kind. You can still have a grill, but no burning, no fireworks. Violations are punishable by a five a fine of up to one thousand dollars. And you know what, if I see you doing it, I'm going to call the cops myself. I don't want you

Now, there are a lot of people running for office.

There are nineteen people running for mayor, ninety eight people seeking seats on the City Council, and though they're all campaigning on left of center platforms, almost all of them it is Portland progressives are saying, wait, we need to fix the problems, including the problems of homelessness and drug addiction. And there's some tough talk coming out of Portland. It seems that you can beat the progressive out of someone, and Portland has figured out how.

To do it.

So the people running to join the City Council are trying to fix it. One of them is striving for a law and order vote, another is selling a vision of pragmatic progressivism, and one focuses on mental health service as an economic revitalization. A dark horse candidate is Keith Wilson, a self made CEO who started a nonprofit aimed at

Drill it too.

This is an interesting story.

I don't know if you heard this, but the Justice Department has now announced charges against a citizen of Afghanistan who lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Why is he being charged, Well, he was conspiring to conduct an election day terrorist attack

Sorry.

I meant to talk about this earlier, and I'm going to talk about it quickly now. But it is so important, Jack Phillips, that Masterpiece Cakes has finally well for now, because I don't trust these activists to not come after him again. He was being sued by a trans woman activist named Amber Scardina because he refused to make a cake celebrating her gender transition. And now the High Court of Colorado has thrown the case out, meaning that for now Jack Phillips will be able to express himself as

Now.

I want to talk about this, and I'm going to talk about it on the other side of the.

Break, but I want to start it here.

Last night, there was a debate between Gabe Evans and Yadira, representative Yudiro Caraveo in the eighth Congressional district. Gabe us trying to unseat Representative Caraveo, and last night they had a debate, and last night I watched it. This morning, I didn't watch it last night. It was hosted by Kyle Clark and Marshall Zelliger. But I'm not mad at Kyle Clark and my Marshall Zeliger because they did what

You knew that was coming.

But I'm so sick of candidates just not answering the damn questions.

Just answer the questions. We'll talk more about this.

On the other side, I've got a couple of questions from people about the Trump event on Friday and the Trump event I put a link on the blog today. It seems that tickets are still available. I did not put my name in in for Oh nope, it's sold out, sold out as of now. So it was there was tickets available this morning and now they're not. So if you do not already have tickets to the event, you are not going to get them. It is going to be at the Gaylord Rockies, and I know that a

I just don't.

Trump is extremely disliked by a lot of Colorado voters, and I would love to think that people would be able to do the split ticket. But no, no, And I'm wondering if any you know, If I'm Gabe Evans, I don't go see Trump. I don't get my picture taken next to Donald Trump. I just don't do it. If I am Jeff Hurd in the fourth Congression No, third Congressional district, I'm not going to get my picture taken with Donald Trump. And don't get me wrong, they're

Dot com and now they are sold out.

So there you go.

So we got that going for us.

We will have someone out there covering it. I believe Jimmy seging Burger is going to be up there covering it for us. I think so. I think he's going to be part of the media coverage. I may be speaking too soon, but I don't think I am so. Obviously we're going to have a lot of coverage of that wall.

He's here.

It's still a big deal. He's still, you know, a former president running for president. It's a big deal. I don't really, Ayron, have you reached out to the Trump campaign to see if we can get him for an interview?

Does that happened yet? Yeah? You know, I wouldn't. I wouldn't count on it. Not holding your breath there, not quite.

Yeah.

No, you want to just show up at the Gaylor or the Rockies on Friday? No, I'm good.

I got to do my show.

It's at one o'clock. It's right during the show. Oh, it sounds like a live sh right there.

I found out about it as soon as it was announced. Someone sent me a text and said, this is happening. It's happening at one. I'm like, I'm doing the show. Don't get me wrong. I love the Gaylord Rockies. I go there on every opportunity, very glad, fret.

And not Thursday when I'm flying out. That would not be good. Oh your cruises this week?

Cruise?

Where is it?

Where are you going?

Now?

I'm going to California.

It's our my grandpa's official military like ceremony, celebrate life celebrations.

Oh that's nice.

Yeah, he was.

He was cremated, so no particular rush. So this is where we're able to get all the family. Everywan's comment, So what is in San Diego?

What is special about that your grandpa?

So I think I'm trying to remember we're flying into I think I think we're flying in Ontario.

So somewhere southern California. Yesio is a great little airport. It's fantastic.

I think the military. Whatever the places he's being buried, I think it's the place he wanted to And again military cemetery, yeah, I believe, I.

Believe, don'tquote.

But then California, all the most of the families there got Gaian Hawaii family in Cali family in Vegas gotcha central spot for all.

That's a great, great way to honor your grandpa. Get everybody together. And to the person who said you think TDA will make their way north to the Gaylord Rockies, I don't know. Here's what I hope comes out of this. I hope that Mayor Mike Kaufman, who I'm sure will be there because it is in Aurora, and yes, the Gay Lord Rockies is in Aurora. I hope he and Daniel Jorinsky can let Donald Trump know what has occurred

I just don't.

I remember when Brooke Shields canceled on me. That upset me a great deal but when you're dealing with any kind of politician or a candidate or anything, it's so fluid, you know, meaning like they have other stuff to do, they get a better offer, whatever they're running late, blah blah blah.

I don't know.

I yeah, there you go.

The Gaylord has lots of parking and it's pretty cheap too. Yes, it does have lots of parking. I'm assuming that if you got a ticket, you're going to get some kind of email with the details of what you have to do. And I'm just going to say this. This event is

I have no idea.

The Gaylord Rocky has some massive convention spaces, so I mean thousands at least at least when we get back. John Caldera joins us he's got an infuriating column that I linked on the blog today about how our tax dollars are funding the fight against oil and gas.

We'll do that next.

My friend from the Independence Institute, rabble rouser and all around good guy, John Caldera, Hello, my friend, that was a very bright and sunny good afternoon. Are you feeling your oaths today?

You always make me feel bright and sunny. You are the sunshine in my life.

Wire it's getting deep in here and we're not even flooding with a hurricane Milton yet.

No.

Uh, John, I gotta tell you, I got soup. I had a high school teacher, Nancy Hunter was her name. She was also our cheerleading sponsor, and she was an older lady when I went to school there. She actually just passed away, but her big line was when you do something out of order in her algebra class, she'd.

Go, that just burns me up.

And when I read your column this week, I channeled Nancy Hunter and I said, that just burns me up because you exposed to me something I did not know, and that is I am funding the opposition. Please explain to my listeners what you wrote about.

You are funding the opposition, you know, the old thing and poker. You're playing with the House's money. Oh yeah, Well, your opponents on energy policy, who are trying to make all of your energy choices go away, are spending a lot of money to lobby the legislature, lobby the Oil and Gas Commission, and you are giving them government money to do so. And I didn't know until I poked around. The Colorado's Office of Environmental Justice gives out the Environmental

I never wanted to be mayor until right now, just so I can go rip the name tag off the door of the Environmental Office of Justice whatever Justice League of environment What what is this?

Right? And it's yeah, it's It's staffed by a bunch of people with crowd pronouns, and they get their job is to spend our tax money giving out grants and helping promote environmental justice.

What does that even mean?

God, I was hoping you wouldn't ask that. I said, nobody knows what that means. Here's my research, here's here's what I found. You know, the term environmental justice, it's kind of like defining pornography. You really can't, but they know it when they see it, and so they I looked at their definition in the state and it's this weird, convoluted,

Wait stop, wait what wait?

So they're living under their house, they're holding their house up on their.

Back, they're burdened housing burden. I love this one. Whistically isolated communities. What here's yes, linguistically isolated. Yeah, I guess they can't speak well, historically marginalized communities, huh, communities with environmental and socio economic impacts, tribal lands, and mobile home communities. Now I don't even know what all that means. So they get to decide, you know, who is a linguistically isolated community. But basically they give out these grants to

Well well, okay, wait, wait, okay, So I just want to ask you a question about that last one, because I'm actually working on a Greek tragedy style musical about the Tina Peters situation. And so what you're telling me is that if I just add a climate change component, maybe.

They'll give me money.

Exactly. But you have to be anti fossil fuels to do this. By the way, the woman who founded the group I just said the Greenhouse Connection also works for the alt left group Colorado Rising. They build themselves as oil and gases chief adversary. And let me just give you one more. There's something called Urban Symbiosis. That's another organization. They're focused on building a fair ecosystem and food system.

The poor.

So they are using the poor as ponds to raise energy prices and cut off our energy supply. They exploit financially vulnerable groups to lobby for unworkable energy policies that are going to devastate financially vulnerable groups. Yeah, this is beyond perverse. They're encouraging people to want to see themselves as victims and then to use those newly identified victims to lobby for laws that will hurt those very same people. It's ugly, it's sick.

John the I don't know if you saw this study. It came and went very very quickly from our news media coverage. And that was they did a long study in the name of environmental justice about the air quality around the and I want to say it was the.

Elisias wants what are the neighborhoods right there?

Thank you?

Wanta Alirius wants you a neighborhood. And so they spent all this money doing this environmental justice study because they were hell bent on proving that it was I seventy that was leading to higher rates of asthma and other breathing conditions in those neighborhoods, only to find out the air quality wasn't bad at all, and that study just disappeared. It just was like it was here today, gone tomorrow.

Right?

No?

Understand, one of the things that has happened in Colorado over the last couple decades is the Slowinsky way that anti energy people have infiltrated the system. So we have a PUC that wants to get rid of affordable energy We've got a governor who appoints people on the Oil and Gas Commission to stop that. We've got these pressure groups that push for these laws and these regulations with our own money, and the people who are going to get destroyed by this be the poor in Notice your

So right now, do we have any recourse other than electing people who will shut these offices down.

This was created by the legislature, I believe, and we have an Office of Environmental Justice. We need a governor and a legislature that gets rid of this. Quite simply, you're spending millions of your dollars to raise your utility prices and shut off affordable energy. This is this is so wrong because it hurts the poor. What I love about the left is that they're constantly squawking about how they're the ones that care about the poor, but nearly

Are you kidding me?

It's already linked on my blog, John, Because if I'm going to get angry about something, than God, I'm not going to be the only one. I Am going to make all of my listeners read it too, so they can be as frustrated as I am about this stuff. But this is Do we know when the Office of Environmental Justice came into being? Do you know when it had to have been after twenty nineteen?

Yeah, there was just a couple of years ago.

Because I can't imagine that if the Republicans had any say in the legislature that this would be a thing, and we all know they.

Don't for some time now.

So I what I'm looking at I'm looking at this from a different perspective now, John, because obviously you and I we are doing this wrong, right, we have to set up some kind of organization with the right language and go with me on this. With the right language. We're going to use all of the buzzwords, but we're going to use their inability to be straight about something

It was linguistically isolated, right.

Right, right, So we're going to use all that jargon, and you and I are going to put in a grant proposal and see if we can get some of this grift.

I would love to do that. The Colorado Office of Environmental Justice is run by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and they're the ones who they're the ones who put it all out with our money. So keep in mind where you have potholes, millions of dollars are going to fund the alt Left. When when you're not getting the buses you need for your kids, you're not getting the education you need. There you have it. That's where it's going.

I have to listen.

I have to share a text message now.

I just want to warn you before I read this text message to you, John Caldera from the Independence Institute. Your IQ is going to drop just a hair after you hear this, but I want you to listen to it anyway.

It's the difficult thing.

I've known me for a lot of time.

Just well, there's not a lot of hair for it to drop either. So how about this when this text says, are you serious? You used to be able to ride a trolley across the country with transfers. The oil companies burn the trolleys to the ground to make you buy a car. And this is the liberals fault it. Gag me is how they signed it. So I don't know if gag is a is a family name or if it's just their parents came up with something creative, but that's what we're dealing with.

Let me go off on that one for a second, because this is one of my most important passions, that mobility is the key to the American tream. That you show me a man who's limited to how far he can walk, or how far he can go on public transit. I will show you a man who will never go above the first rung of the economic class. And mostly it is mostly people of color who are poor, who can't afford a car. I've probably regaled you many times with a story of my five hundred dollars dots in

Yeah.

Yeah. And when when it rained, water would pull up in the passenger side. Yeah, so I had to take a hammer and nail poke a hole and to get drain it. But that five hundred dollars dots and could go anywhere Alexis could go and do it for a lot less. Yeah, it freed me to hold down a job. It freed me to see clients, It freed me to go to school. It freed me to live a life and start a business. That five hundred dollars and mobility.

And good roads.

Let me be who I am. Go down to people who are have no choice but to write transit. I'm not talking about you know, rich guys who take the train into so they don't have to pay parking. I'm talking about people who have no other choice. Right. Those people are on the bottom of the economy, and what your listener just wrote is hateful because what she wants to do is keep those people down while people, mostly white, who can afford a car, get to live the American tree.

Well, ultimately, and I'm gonna let this be the last word, and I'm gonna take it. It's it's like how valuable is your time. The lower you are in the economic ladder, the less valuable your time is, and you have an hour and a half to spend getting to work. The higher up the ladder you are, your time is more valuable. In that hour and a half could be spent doing something far more productive. John, it's a great column. John Caldera, always one of my favorite guests and my pal, and

Yeah, next time, your money going to be worked against you to her.

That's the headline.

There you go, all right, Jen, I'll talk to you later.

Thank you.

All right, Okay, we have a new member of the KOA team. His name is Zach, and Zach will be doing your utility player. Zach, is that your official role? Utility player?

Is that what it is?

Yes, sir, Yesham excuse me, I'm so sorry right off the bed a really rough introduction.

Yeah, I will be utili. You can probably be bouncing all around here, bounce around, k how.

Just hoping however I can.

Well, we're glad to have you because our poor producers are overworked right now and we're happy to have somebody at a rod says you're really good.

I do so, I'm gonna git him. I'm gonna bree him.

Yeah, your we'll see how good you are. Because now it's time for the most exciting segment all the radio of its kind. Now this is where you yell in the world as loud as you can in the lone nice of the very good first outing on that excellent what is our first of all a joke of the day we have that.

I will be I will be posting telepathically today. So if you think of something funny that was me that's actually kind of good.

Today's word of the day.

Please. It is an adjective adjective ungainly.

Ungainly is.

Not attractive, something that's not beneficial.

Oh that's good, that's a logical choice.

But no, ungainly usually describes someone or something moving in an awkward or clumsy way, unattractive.

I'm just kidding.

I'm trying to give myself too much credit there today, what's the what is the name of the fictional national park? The cartoon characters Yogi Bear roles, Yes, you're right. What's the answer, but that is correct? Yes, Jellystone National Park.

There we go?

All right, what is our category?

We know what your last initial is? Yes, okay, z s.

There we go.

Remember anyone's first time, you have to wait for the whole clue. You guess it anywhere.

Yep, the pity rules are in effect for you, just for the first time players. After this, it's pro least twere.

Is B and B.

Most of these are sayings. Both words start with the bay B and B.

I have to wait till the end of the question. You do not recommend if you know it, jump in.

I have to wait for the word go.

Animal pair involved an indoctrination about reproduction.

Go what is birds and the bees.

Pittsburgh.

Rare steak charred on the outside and rare in the middle is sometimes called this ow Go Mandy.

What is black and blue? A basic means of support or a type of pickle?

Go Mandy?

What is bread and butter? Exactly cooking?

This is rough?

I was I was giving Ryan such a hard time yesterday.

Listening enough a period of prosperity followed by a downturn.

Go you laugh at this security followed by downturn?

Many? What is boom and b and going for the sweep?

This British phrase about being oversafe contains two articles of clothing. Remember the British word for suspenders go uh oh, I.

Have no idea what the British word for suspenders is.

Four is still a sweep?

M oh man, it's gotta be.

It's gotta be some weird British slang. I have no idea what what is? What is belt embraces the sweep? So it's still a shutout a sweep.

I'll take that, Zach, a pleasure.

You've taken your first.

We'll expect to see you back for another beating, very very soon. We're happy you're here. HAPPI you're on team on the team with us now, so it's nice to meet you and I.

Look forward to working with you.

But right now we're going to turn the station over.

To KOA Sports.

We'll be back tomorrow. Another a fantastic show coming your way up I think from the Beer Festival, but I'm not positive.

So that's gonna be a lot of fun to stick around.