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the blog at Mandy's blog dot com. Yep, there you go. Don't you just serve adult trick or treaters alcohol? Says this texter. No, I have done that in the past. I have been the person handing out my friend Karen overmade jello shots one year, so I was handing out jello shots. I was the most popular mom in the neighborhood. Everybody was like, greatest Halloween ever. But no, I'd strongly recommend against handing anyone you don't know alcohol in any situation.

I'm just saying, you know, it's not like you're at a concert and somebody passes you a joint and if you don't smoke, you just keep passing it. The unspoken uh don't toke at the car concert rule. What do you do a rod if somebody tries to pass you a joint? Do you just pass it along to the next person? Here you go. I'm just gonna you don't even at touch it. I'm a passer downer. I'm like, let's just keep that thing going if you want me to,

it's fine with me. I have a video on the blog today and I usually warn you when it has bad language, but I forgot. I just realized I forgot to go back and put the bad language warning. It is sort of beeped out. But it is an older lady who took it upon herself to get to know one of the neighbors. And I want to talk about

this today. I was talking to my brother the other day about, uh, just the election and everything, and he said, you know, some of my conservative friends are a little freaked out because the only yard signs they're seeing are Harris Wall signs. And I was like, yeah, I'm seeing some of that too, and he said, but then I reminded them the only reason there's no Trump Harris signs is because we don't want to hear their crap. And I was like, that is a fair point. That is

a fair point. I think that you know, the Republicans back in the day used to talk about the silent majority. I think there are so many silent Trump voters who just don't want to talk about it. And after you see the video on the blog today from this person's ring camera of this little lady who everybody probably would look at her because she's old and go look at that nice little old lady, she is evil. She is an awful, awful person. I don't want to say she's evil.

That is too harsh and that's mean, and I don't I have no way of knowing this. She's evil, but she's an awful person. As far as I know. She's never met this neighbor. It's not like she rings the doorbell and is like, hey, Dena, it's Barb or whatever, you know, and it's just, I mean, really really ridiculous. Mandy, your boy Donald worked one shift out of McDonald's. Uh oh, there's a conspiracy theory out though that. Did you hear this?

McDonald's has now recalled all quarter pounder with cheese. They think it is the onions that contains the E coli that has made a lot of people very very sick and actually killed some people. We had an older gentleman here in Colorado who died after having a quarter pounder

with cheese. Now, some would argue he was just you know, on the installment plan anyway, being an older guy eating quarter pounders with cheese, but it actually took his life, which is terrible and McDonald's has now aggressively recalled everything

that could be possibly put on those sandwiches. But as Donald Trump worked a McDonald's in Pennsylvania, where there has not been an E coli outbreak linked to onions processed in three different plants on the West Coast, I think that he could be clear of any blame on this. But he didn't actually work there, which is shocking to people.

despised around the country. And then I tell my conservative friends in Florida, you can't believe how much Trump is despised in Colorado, and they don't believe me because everyone they know is a Trump supporter. They downplay it because they're not around it. So this is it anyway, So Mandy, why just the Burger Royal? Other burgers have the onions on them too. I don't think they're the same onions.

You get the little tiny, square cut onions on the burgers, right, the little you know what I'm talking about, The little they're all like little square cut and then the quarter pounder has a more significant onion on it. And I think that's the problem. So only losers put up lawn signs. Sorry, you know what, though, here's the thing, you guys. I remember, back when I was a kid. When I was a kid during an election, I lived in a kind of a yellow dog Democrat place in Florida, where people were

Democrats because their parents had been Democrats. They had, you know, on and on and on, and there was a healthy dose of racism in my community when I was very, very young. I'm happy to say that that has not the case now, but in my childhood there definitely was a healthy dose of racism. So we had all these yellow dog Democrats, but they were all very, very conservative.

But at the same time, you could put a Democratic sign in your yard, your neighbor could have a Republican sign in their yard, and you know what, you would guys would talk about it or maybe not, but you'd still stand over the back fence and talk to each other, have a conversation, you know, be friends, barbecue together, that kind of stuff. It just was different. It was a

completely different situation. So the fact that now having a yard sign for someone you disagree with gives this woman license to stand on someone else's porch and call them terrible names. That is a huge part of the problem. And I don't necessarily have as much evidence if any of people on the right doing that, going the other direction. And I'm sure there's people who have destroyed Harris Walls signs. I'm sure, absolutely positive, but you don't see it like

you see it coming from the left. And then they turn around and say, we're doing this because you're violent. Like that kind of feels like a wife beater blaming his wife or making him angry. I'm just saying, just throwing that out there. It would be nice if we could have a really civil conversation, but I don't think we have to get way better candidates. We have to stop allowing the leadership of the two parties to divide

us in this country. We have to stop with the if you don't agree with me, you're evil, Which is why I walk back my statement. I should not have called that woman evil. She's mean, she's awful, but I can't ascribe, you know, motives to her heart. Mandy Freeze dried diced onions, not sliced. But aren't the ones on the quarter pounder different? I have a question. This person says, why does the quarter pounder have different onions than the

other burgers? Because it's special and it costs more, and the cheap o depot burgers and cheeseburgers, they don't cost more.

a naked burger, what's going on that burger? In your world?

they're different. Onions rehydrated for the regular burgers, and Big Macs sliced fresh for the quarter pounder, and that fresh is what's given people he whole, So they think, yikes, A burger is not a burger, says this texter without a big thick slice of raw onion, preferably red onion.

I would advise you to watch that video where the little old lady who should be nice is not nice at all. Anyway. Uh, my voter guide is out. You can find it by clicking on the top link of the blog. Now, should I block the guy who keeps calling me fat? On the text line Today's Today's Yeah, well, I guess we know why you're a fat blank? Maybe you should have tried suing the inventor of the fork. I mean, here's the thing, Should I or should I?

so we'll do that. That's fun. And then also at twelve thirty, we're going to talk to Dave Frasier because we've got weather Wednesday coming up today. And I got to tell you, I realize that all of the weather people are like, we should have we should have much cooler temperatures right now.

big announcement. The election is practically over. We can cancel it because there's no chance Trump is gonna win because the insane clown Posse's violent Jay has endorsed Kamala Harris for president. That is your breaking news. We can all go about our business now and get on with weather Wednesday. Our favorite chief meteorologist from Fox thirty one, Katievr. Dave Frasier. Hello, Dave, how are you, my friend?

the overnight lows in the forties. You know, we haven't had that freeze yet, which we're looking at potentially next Tuesday night into Wednesday we might be right there at thirty two degrees for the time this year. So we're talking an eye on that change coming up and the

potential for maybe another shot of moisture. It's very very dry here in October, so to be talking about getting a little moisture, whether it be a rain, rain, snow mixed, or even a little bit of heavy wet snow in a couple of spots is not a bad thing.

dried out. The drought monitor comes out every Thursday, and the worst route in the state, and the entire state is not in drought. As a matter of fact, the San Juan Mountains southwest Colorado doesn't have any drought. They they've been doing very well. The worst drout is right in the foothills of Larimer and Boulder County, just west of I twenty five and Metro Denver is in there, but not as deep in the drought as they are,

and we've been struggling to get most year. There's no question about the problem with the drought monitor now, Mandy is we're in the kind of end of the season, so everything is naturally dried out. We just don't look for that leg up right now. But we're entering the winter and that can help to crush the drought in some places.

so it's more of a seasonal correction. Right now. We think it's just outside the seven day so we can't see too many specifics, but we think Halloween will be dry but a little bit cool, So it'll probably be in the mid fifties during the day and then for trick or treating our stay between four or five o'clock till nine o'clock, probably slipping into the low forties towards the end of that timeframe, maybe the upper thirties, but it does look to be.

are other driving forces that can change climate. But remember this climate is cyclical and what the future holds is yet to be seen.

One the anniversary of a news story from just last October. Yes, this from NBC News October twenty sixth, twenty twenty three. Let me just read some of this news story to you. President Joe Biden announced in April that he's running for reelection. His campaign and its fundraising entities have a combined ninety one million in the bank, and he's hired key political staffers to help helm his twenty twenty four re election campaign. And then I'm gonna skip ahead for just a moment,

just a moment to this part. Senator Ted Cruz from Texas said on his podcast last month, So here's the scenario that I think is probably the most likely and most dangerous. In August of twenty twenty four, the Democrat Kingmakers jettison Joe Biden and parachute in Michelle Obama. I view this as a very serious danger. And then I'm

skipping ahead again. The idea, centered largely on the thought that Biden is too old and not sharp enough mentally, is that there's a secret plan to replace Biden due to his health or other reasons, by an amopous Illuminati type forces within the Democratic Party. It is not a mainstream thought within the Republican Party that it has maintained a persistent foothold among a relevant chunk of the GOP base, taking their cues from some party officials who continue to

toy with the idea that from a year ago. Let's just put that as another conspiracy theory they came true, not the part about Michelle Obama. Although this one, you guys, listen to this, Listen to this, Listen to this. This from Tim Scott a year ago. I feel like they're grooming someone and we all know it's not Kamala. So I think the Democrats have a backup plan because every time I listen to the current president speak, I'm like, is this getting harder? Now? What if just throw let

me throw this out here. What if? What if Joe Biden read this article too? What if he knew that they weren't grooming Kamala Harris and that is why he immediately came out and endorsed Kamala Harris as his successor. I mean, I have long thought Joe Biden did that to screw the people who stabbed him in the back.

I think that was straight out of House of Cards, like, oh yeah, you're gonna push me out, Okay, I'm gonna f you over to I believe that, and reading this just reminded me of how much I believe it so hah. Now our second anniversary notation are something we are noting the anniversary of this time not nearly as entertaining. This is the forty first anniversary of the Bayroot truck bombing that killed more than three hundred people at the American

embassy and the US Marine sparracks in Beirut. Obviously, the Beyrout truck bombing would have indicated where it happened. But this is the first year that the mastermind behind this is dead. His name was Ibraha Makiel. He was the Hesbala operations commander, and he was killed in September in an Israeli strike against him in Lebanon, in their systematic dismantling of all of the proxy organizations that Iran has been backing to foment violence in the Middle East. They

took him out over a month ago. So for the first time ever, the mastermind of that bombing that killed so many people and injured so many more is dead. He's on the right side of the dirt finally, And you know why he's on the right side of the dirt, because Israel stopped listening to the United States of America and started fighting like their very existence depended on it. Now, there was a story today. I just saw it a

minute ago on Twitter. So I don't have the guy's name in front of me, but you know, they just took out the leader of Hesbola, right, they took out the leader of Hesba Hesbela. Hang on, let me s I can pull this up real quick. So they take out the leader of Hesbala and Azraala, and you know, now they got to get new leadership in there. You got to get new leadership in So now they have also taken out the leadership of Hamas. Let me let me make sure I'm trying to find this guy's name.

I'm talking to you guys, so bear with me. They got a new guy in Hamas. He took over and Israel took him out. He's dead. And at this point, I just don't know if they're going to be able to get anyone to apply for that job. Cause if you're like, okay, can you imagine going in? You see this job advertised like complete power over everything. Everyone will kneel to your every wish, and you're like, yes, that's what I want. Sign me up. So you fill out an application and you send it in and then you

go in. They're like, oh my god, you're great, come on in for an interview. You go in for an interview and you're like, so tell me about this complete power. They're like, oh yeah. You get to make all of the decisions about what happens in this entire section of the country. You get to make every choice. You get to decide who lives and dies. You get to decide who gets medicine and who doesn't. You get to decide who has food and who doesn't. You get to decide

all that. And you're like, I'm kind of mad with power. It could be down with that. And then we're like, oh yeah, but see, unfortunately, there's a really good chance that you're gonna get killed, because that seems to be what keeps happening to people who step up to lead these organizations. So that's inconvenient at a bare minimum, and it's getting harder and harder to hire people to lead these terrorist organizations, all because Israel finally decided to stop

listening to the United States. Boom, go Israel, go give some little prayers for the families of all of those people that were lost forty one years ago, but know that finally, the man who did it can never ever ever ever do it again because he is DRT. We will be right back after this with an interesting young woman who has created a web series designed to help parents, tweens, and I would dare say teenagers navigate the web. Agnes

joins us, next, it is a great series. Just we'll do that right after this.

it could be late elementary through early high school. I think the information that she's putting together is really outstanding, and it's a web series about social media designed for kids. Now, Agnes, first off, welcome to the show.

in terms of best practices. So having that insider note really made me look at social media and what's happening, especially with young people right now, and being able to have that insider perspective. And I have a ten year old nephew and he is part of that first generation that is growing up in a fully digital world. So he started he got his first iPad I think when he was five, maybe, but I've seen him develop and grow through time and how social media is impacting him

what he's doing. But also having that front row seat, I see the questions that he's asking and how he's thinking about social media, And because I have this unique perspective, I spend a lot of time talking with him about not just what you should and shouldn't do or how

social media works, but why. And I think that that's been the biggest thing for me, is seeing him be able to look at social media and what he's doing and have the tools to think about it critically because this is a different world than what I grew up in. But teaching him these things now will set him up for the rest of his life because it's not going to change. It's going to be part of his life forever.

it overly kid, I can't explain it. You're talking to them like they understand. And I think that's a big difference than some of the other stuff that's out trying to teach kids about social safety. I mean, that's really what we're talking about here, So well done on that. How do you decide what you're going to do each episode on?

to have the tool so that they can understand. So what I'm trying to do with him is talk to him the same way that I would talk to, say, another person's parents. And I have a lot of friends that ask me if their kids could come and listen in while I talk to my nephew. But the reason that it's geared towards, you know, like real information, is because kids want to know, like you can't sugarcup things. You want to give them the real truth and the why.

And so that's what I do for him, But I intend the intent is to have parents listen with their kids too, so that they can get that information and they feel like it's not just the wild West out there,

it's something that they understand. And then after each episode, they're ten minute episodes because there's more to discuss, and then parents can hopefully spend some time with their kids to talk about the material that's being Isn't it that the first episode was about why thirteen is the magic number? The second one was about dangerous challenges? And I think that that's because we've seen a lot of stuff happening with kids and how they're really influenced to do these

different things because they're getting really popular. And what can you do, how do you spot it? How can you actually you know, prevent yourself from doing that, and what the motivation is, like why do people do dangerous challenges at all. And then the next episode that I just released yesterday was about finding the truth online about misinformation because there's so much stuff out there, and when I think about what you're seeing right now, especially within news

cycles and social media. At one time, like when I was growing up, there was you know, a news cycle that happened, and you would look at that as being the truth. But now there are so many sources. How do you actually identify what's real what's fake, and how do you get those skills so that you can actually

look at things more critically. The next episode that I'm releasing next week is about mental health, because I think that that's also something, especially with what we've seen recently with these different lawsuits that have come out and the ages that have placed all these lawsuits, you know, to social media companies about how the effects of social media

are detrimental to young people's mental health. So I really I'm thinking about those things, and as the news cycle comes out, or as I'm getting questions from different people as well, I have.

But if you're a parent of a certain age, because this was all kind of thrust upon us, we're not digital natives, right, this is not our normal state of being. And I'm going to be perfectly honest. I just had one of those moments with my fifteen year old daughter where I handed her my phone and I said, make Snapchat stop sending me things like make it stop. I don't know how, and I'm not going to learn. Because

she's like, well, let me teach you. I go no, I don't want to learn anything else about a social media platform. I'm done. I'm finished. I want no more. And she was like, okay, I'll fix it, and she did. But there's a lot of information in these videos that I need, not just my kids, because you really do a deep dive on some stuff that I, frankly, as an end user, I never even thought about it until I watch these videos. So they're just I highly recommend.

Even if you don't have kids and you're using the Internet, like you should know some of the things that Agnes is doing. And I really would love I can't wait to see your ten minute version on how social media companies gather our data because I saw the social dilemma. I made my daughter watch it with me, but that was almost too at the time we made or watch it. I think it was a little too much over her head,

just a tiny bit. So i'd love to see you just kind of like talk about how much data is being gathered and how it's being used against us.

So it's a really interesting feedback loop. But the thing that young people don't understand is that that data follows you and what you're making choices with right now that will impact, like very long down the road, how you're being targeted by different ads, not just online but also in real life because all of these things, the ultimate goal of digital online is like how do you get irl? Right?

How do you get in real life? And that comes into a lot of different ways, whether it's like mail, whether it's like phone calls, but also whether it's like

you know, different events or other things. And so ultimately, when you think about it, you're looking at social media as being something that's fun and you know, a nice distraction maybe or just something that's like fun to do, but there's like a whole other system that's in place that's really like monetizing and the data becomes critical to that.

change to be specific to you. And so you would have billboard space and the doorway of a building that you were walking into, and as you walked by there would be an ad for your favorite coffee brand or your favorite or whatever. It's going to become that specific

and that dial down. So all of these people that are saying, oh, I don't care, I'm so uninteresting, you have no idea what is coming down the pike in terms of what they are going to be able to use to market to you in ways you don't even realize. Is this highly targeted. It's fascinating. I mean, I work in advertising. This is what public radio. I mean, this is what commercial radio does.

processes information that you see. And unlike radio, social media, especially short form, it's gathering information at a super fast rate because the shorter the video, the more you're able to get iterations of you know, your viewing habits, and so when you continue to see things, it affects how you actually perceive it, And so it affects things like, you know, are you going to be more likely to

purchase something? But also you know, are you more likely to believe that something's true afterwards after seeing it so

many times? And we talk about this in PR but also back in the days when I used to work in museum there's a lot of psychology in terms of how you present information that because social media is user generated, people are that are producing it aren't necessarily thinking it that the algorithm in the background is like putting all these things together and it's affecting or taking advantage of how your brain psychology already works.

actually learn something in a way that's very interesting. And Agnes, obviously you guys are listening, she's very relatable and comes across really really well. So I'd love for my listeners to help spread the word about Social Smarts because I think it has real value because, as you said, kids that are getting and first of all, I made my daughter wait until she was fourteen before she was allowed

to get any social media at all. And that was after watching the Social Dilemma and after doing all this stuff. And she will tell you like she understands. She'll say something like I don't know what I clicked, but my algorithm is all screwed up, you know. So she's aware of it, but she still doesn't understand the magnitude. So I'm gonna make her watch Social Smarts as well, even though she's fifteen. But it's only ten minutes, so it'll be fine. But uh, Agnes, I wish you much success

going forward, and I think you're gonna have it. I just think it's a great idea whose time has come. And thank you so much for making time for us today.

I would get better at it. But I the more they make things supposedly intuitive, like every time there's an update, and it's like, oh, this is so much more intuitive than it was before. Intuitive to whom I think there should be two kinds of intuitive. There should be gen X intuitive and other people intuitive. I can't be and ay Rod, here's the news slash bud. It's gonna happen

to you at some point in your life. You're gonna hand your kid your phone and say, make that app stop talking to me, and I'm not learning anything else.

get away from you. Now in your personal life, I could see you still engaging in some stuff, but trust me, you'll hit a level where you're just like, I'm good. I don't need to learn anything else after this. I'm fine. I don't need that new skill.

they can't learn something new. It's not the ability to learn, it is desired. No, you misunderstand me. Text he that's got a good point. Wait, wait, you misunderstand me. I love learning certain new things certain but I don't want to learn how to use Snapchat. I don't care. Makes no difference to me. The only reason I have the stupid app is that my daughter uses it to send me stuff sometimes. That's it. I hate it. I have no desire to learn how to do any of it.

So no, I don't want to learn Snapchat. I would learn other things that I would enjoy more, you know, like the fine art of Japanese paper folding.

figure out how to be as insulting as possible. That would be super comcial we call in.

to go and check it out. Now, I want to talk about one specific issue in the voter guide where I am a yes, but I I want to present the other side of the no because I've gotten so many emails about this particular measure that I want to give a fear shaked this because I've gotten some very very well written, passionate emails about this from people in the veterinary field right now. Measure one twenty nine would

establish a veterinary professional associate position. They would have at least a master's degree, and it is my understanding that they could handle a lot of VET services short of surgery, and it would have free up actual vets for the big and significant stuff. And I'm all for this, So I was like, yes, I'm a solid yes on this. Here's the thing, this particular measure does not do any

of the rule making around this position. So whatever board oversees veterinarians in Colorado would be able to put the meat on this and with the input of veterinarians, you could possibly have a highly educated person who could come in and do a lot of heavy lifting to a certain point as established by a veterinary board, taking a lot of the weight off of a veterinarian, allowing them to expand their clinics, serve more customers, et cetera. Now I am on the opposite side of this from every

veterinary organization that I can see in Colorado. Many vets have emailed me about this and said, look, we don't want people who do not have enough schooling. They didn't go to veterinary school, they haven't gone all the way through the process, and we feel that they could possibly

give substandard care. It's a valid argument, it really is. However, when people view something as competition rather than as an opportunity to grow what they're doing, they tend to be reflexively a no. And when you look at the role making that would go around this, if the veterinary associations got together, put their heads together, worked with the board, and created a really nice framework for this position, it could be such a boom to their industry, especially if

there was a rule that these veterinary associates have to practice under a fully licensed veterinarian right. It's kind of like a nurse practitioner. This is the way I look at it. I prefer to see my nurse practitioners because they don't just shove drugs down your throat. I don't think they get the huge pharmacology component the medical school students get. So I see a nurse practitioner all the time for my healthcare and it works out really well.

But they cannot practice here without being under another doctor, so or at least they used to, not to be able to do it anyway. But I wanted to give you the other side. The Veterinary Association is fully against this and would love for you to vote no. But I am still a yes for the reasons that I just gave. I think that this could be a boon to veterinarians in Colorado, and that is why I'm a yes. When we get back, I've got a question should candidates

be able to pay themselves out of campaign funds? And an answer that may surprise you. We'll do that next. The story is about the fourth Congressional District Democratic candidate Tricia Calvaresi, and The Colorado Sun reports that she has been paying herself a salary from her campaign funds and yesse Paul writes the story. But there's that. Let me try this again. Let me just start over. The headline is Tricia calvaretcy Lauren Bobert's Democratic opponent, has been paying

herself a salary from her campaign. The subheadline is there's nothing illegal about the payments, but it's unusual for candidates to pay themselves or their loved ones a salary because of the criticism it can draw. Now, she is not paying herself like the kind of money that Dave Williams is paying himself. She paid herself a little over three thousand dollars in July and then began taking a bi weekly salary, so every two weeks of about twenty six

hundred roughly from her campaign. That's a typical paycheck for someone who earned sixty three five hundred dollars a year. So she is not gouging her campaign. It is not illegal. And I got to tell you, I don't really have a problem with this. Now I start to have a problem when candidates put all their family members on the

payroll for whatever reason. I really have an issue with that, where like, oh, my cousin's doing security, my ex husband's going to plan some events, you know this is gonna happen, This is gonna that's when it goes a little bit too far. But I am not opposed to candidates paying themselves out of campaign funds under one condition, and that is you disclose to donors immediately that you are planning on doing this. And here's why I'm not against it.

Running for office is a full time job. It really is, especially when you're running in a district as large as the fourth Congressional district. And I don't want a system that prevents people who don't have means from being able to run for office. I want middle class people to be able to run for office, and I think that if this is a way to make that happen, then,

by gosh, by golly, why not. I know that people have been criticized in the past, and I may have been critical of this in past, But the more that I know about how much a campaign consumes, and it consumes so much, I mean, so much to do it right and to do it well. It is a full time job. And I'm wondering what you guys think now before you immediately crack back like, of course, of course,

she's you know, a Democrat or whatever. I really want you to think about this, because in my mind, I'm thinking about a person who maybe is has a job where look at a couple. Okay, you got a couple. You got a guy, maybe he owns a small business, and you've got a wife. Maybe she's a teacher or has some kind of you know, other middle class job,

and she decides that she wants to run for office. Well, the husband may not bring in enough to kind of keep things going, and so why shouldn't she be able to take a salary if she has to take time

off work to run for office. By the way, Tricia Calvarecy, if she was able to win this, it would be an absolute I mean it would be earth shattering because the fourth Congressional district is very reliably Republican and Lauren Bobert is the nominee, and I don't see a lot of Republicans, enough Republicans moving their vote to Tricia Calvaresey

to have her win in that race. But she also has collected an absolute gobsmacking amount of money, I mean a gobsmacking amount of money, and so it's not like her campaign can't afford it. It's not like the Republican Party that is bringing in no money but still paying a ton of money to the consulting firm run by Dave Williams or something. I don't even know now. To be clear, if you are the if you are the incumbent, you cannot do this. It's illegal to pay yourself out

of campaign funds. So Lauren Bobert could not do this. She has to you know, she can't doesn't have this option. Now here's another something that you might want to know. Republican Gabe Evans is also paying himself a salary. He's paying himself sixteen hundred and fifty bucks a month. Hardly something to freak out about. But again, Gabe Evans is not a guy who comes from a ton of money. So yeah, I just wonder if five six six nine oh is the text line five sixty six nine oh.

So there you go, five six six nine oh. I'd love to know if it's okay with you, Devil's Advocate. Wouldn't paying yourself out of campaign funds encourage people to run sham campaigns just so they can make money, You know, there's the possibility of that. But here's the thing. Ask any candidate it is really hard to get people to

give you money, really really really hard. When you're running a political campaign, that is the thing you spend the month, this amount of time doing is fundraising, and you immediately be in to find out that people don't like to write checks necessarily. It's a hard thing to run for office, So to do it just as grift. Uh yeah, I don't that's a that's an inefficient grift. I guess would be. I mean you'd be There's so many other ways to

separate people from their money than a political campaign. Trust me, Uh, this asks could one run for office in perpetuity? Not a bad gig. See my earlier comment about how hard it is to get people to give you money. It is very, very difficult. I don't know. I think it's okay, I'm I think I guess you would have to ask how do you set that limit? How do you decide

how much you're going to pay yourself? And if you are someone running for a town council seat and your entire campaign is going to bring in eighty thousand dollars, are you going to pay yourself? I don't know if that's a good look. And I do think, as I said, letting people know that this is what you're doing doing is incredibly, incredibly important. All Right, we're gonna take a quick time out here, and I got so much stuff an imaginary gang might have cut off a guy's finger.

More on that, But what I really want to talk about for just a minute, can we talk about what Colorado's staying on daylight saving time would actually look like. We're gonna do that next. This question. After the election is over, does she get to keep all the money that's left in her campaign account? That would be a good payday. Well, the Federal Elections Commission does not allow a candidate to like write a check to themselves unless they have loaned money to their campaign. They are allowed

to pay themselves back. That money could be dispersed a multitude of ways. They could keep it in an account if they want a future run, if they are done with politics and are done running, then they can donate it to charity. They can donate it to a pack. They can donate it to a political party or another candidate. But you know, like some candidates will donate to their own super pack that they create, so they're basically paying themselves out of the donation. You know, and the FEC

doesn't really do anything. I mean they really don't, so yeah, they It's one of those. Now, can we talk about something really, really really important for a second. It's about to be that time on the first Sunday of November when we get our hour that the government stole from us in the spring back as clocks fall back for an hour and we go to standard time. Now, two years ago, Colorado passed legislation to stay on daylight saving

time permanently. Federal law has not allowed us to do that, so we're waiting for the federal government to decide something. I don't know if the clock shift. This from our friends at Fox thirty one. If the clock shift doesn't necessarily cut down on sunlight, it would have an impact on day to day life. If Colorado switched to day saving time permanently, the time would only matter in the winter.

According to time and date, when the clocks shift back on November third, twenty twenty four, the sun will rise at seven thirty one am and set just before five pm. However, if Denver permanently stayed on daylight saving time, the sun would continue to rise after seven thirty am and set just before six pm. Hey, Rod, which would you rather have dark in the morning or a little more light in the afternoon, or a little more light in the morning and dark in the afternoon.

my eyes glaze over. As someone who has to get to work early in the am, I'm all in a favor of switching it up. Alternatively, let's move it thirty minutes and then keep that year round. Each camp gets a little of what they want, Okay, King Solomon splitting the baby on that. Do you know that the Iranians their clock is oriented a half hour off of ours because they you know, if you control the time, you control everything. Did you know that? Fun fact? Fun fact?

What would you, guys rather do Do you want sun in the morning or sun in the afternoon. Do you want daylight Saving time that is sun in the morning or do you want standard time that is sun in the afternoon? Mandy, People with seasonal depression dread turning clocks back. And this is why I keep bitching about this. To be perfectly frank, I've had sleep issues my entire life. I've been a chronic insomniac diagnosed ephen since I was a child. And this two times a year. This messes

me up for like a month. And I realize that those of you who are blessed, and you are blessed, if you're one of those, I just lay my head down on the pillow and go to sleep. People, I have such envy, Oh lord, I am jealous of you. I am not that person, and I have tried everything, so it's not just me complaining because I don't want to it. Trust me. We already know more people have heart attacks the monday after spring forward, more people get

an auto accident. It's the Monday after spring forward. The week after spring forward, there is more extra excess mortality than any other single week in the year. It's time. It's time, Mandy, thanks for ruining my day. Why don't they move a half hour and be done with it? Sun in the afternoon says this texture on the Common Spirit Health text line. Hey, Mandy, what are the advantages to having light later in the afternoon? From a coaches perspective?

For little kids land and a little bit older children, is the additional late made practice made so much easier? David? I agree. I want kids to have time to play outside after school. Son in the afternoon, afternoon son in the PM standard Please, Mandy. I would perform more in the afternoon for this reason. It means I can sleep in a little bit later before I have to go deer hunting. I like your attitude, sir Madam.

a sudden go from twelve thirty to one. I don't know if I could wrap my head around that. I just don't. I don't know, Mandy, stay on daylight saving time. When I was in college, daylight saving time meant uh oh, that updated time meant more homework. No more homework got done. Everyone schoolwork suffered. I hated it. Stay on daylight saving time. I want it darker earlier. When it's snowy and cold out,

I like to hunker down for the evening. I'm in construction, and I don't like the idea of having to start at seven thirty or eight so I can work in the light. I like to start at seven o'clock in the morning. That is a very legitimate line of reasoning. We're looking at this all wrong. Let's just lengthen the number of hours the sun shines. Ha ha ha, smarty pants. Everybody's got to be a Wisenheimer. Morning already sucks, says this texter. Give me the light in the afternoon, But

then God meant for noon to be noon. Stay on standard times, says this person. This is not helping me at all. People. Dang it, I thought we'd have some kind of resolution when we get back. The big money scam of black lives matters. Well, it's finally over. I'll tell you about that next.

feel free, go crazy. But does anybody really care? The answer is no.

And it is swift, it is simple. And now Rudy Giuliani is homeless, and one must wonder, at this stage in the game, do you think he thinks it was worth it. I'm guessing the answer, maybe no.

any credibility left after the Hunter Biden debacle. They need to shut up and sit down. That's all I have to say about that. Next film, here's a fun story. A majority of practicing Christians are admitting to watching porn, and not only that, they don't even feel bad about it.

This is not good news. And in a research report called Beyond the Porn Phenomenon, and it was produced with a ministry, they found that pornography use is so prevalent among all demographics, and the gap in use among Christians and non Christians, as well as men and women, has gone way narrower over the last eight years. Even though practicing Christians were still found to view it less frequently than non Christians. The gap between the two groups is

only fourteen percentage points. Some fifty four percent of Christians reported viewing porn compared to sixty eight percent of non Christians. It breaks down like this, seventy five percent of Christian men forty percent of Christian women reported consuming porn on some level. Now, obviously people in the pulpit are a little worried that their message is not getting through, but

no one really knows what to do about it. What's more troubling, according to the study, is it well over half of Christians who use porn say they're comfortable with their porn use and the reality for those who struggle in the church that they too often feel like they are alone. Eighty two percent said no one is helping them with their struggle with pornography if they believe themselves to be struggling at all.

And no, I don't think anything has to do with Donald Trump's visit to McDonald's. Stop at you people.

bite candy, I'll take you trick or treating. You gotta work for it. And here's the thing that gets me, Like kids should have to go through the work part of Halloween. This is why I'm fundamentally opposed to the trunk or treat situation for more than like toddlers. For toddlers, it's perfectly fine, perfectly fine, they're little littles. But when you're in elementary school, you better get your ass around the neighborhood right.

Police department. An adult man arrived at the Denver Police District station on October seventh to report a kidnapping and aggravated assault. He told police four people he lived with held him against his will and assaulted him, including amputating a finger. After two days of captivity, the victim was

able to escape and report the incident. Now, the really bad part is Denver Police that officers conducted a welfare check at the location where the victim had been held and investigated to the extent they were able without having full consent or sufficient evidence of a crime that would allow the officers to get a search warrant. The victim told police that the suspects left the location after the

welfare check, which allowed him to escape hours later. On October eighteenth, police arrested Jose Pinera Moreno and Darwin Valiz Gonzalez and help them for investigation a first to ree kidnapping in prisons, secrete with bodily injury, first to reassault, disfigurement, criminal extortion, And this is my favorite line. Police told Fox thirty one that officers are still investigating whether this incident was gang related activity. Now, I've watched enough crime shows, right,

I mean, Ayrod, you've seen the crime shows. We all know how this goes. When you take someone ransom for ransom, you kidnap them, and you call their family and say, if you ever want to see them alive again, you better pay X amount of dollars and oh, by the way, we'll drop off his finger to let you know how serious we are. We've seen this. We already know how this goes. We already know now. We will have to wait, of course, to find out if they are actually in

a gang. But stories like this, I mean, has this I've only been here a little over ten years. Is this how Denver rolls?

Is this where we are? And if we do have gang members who are here illegally, is there any doubt that they would not try to somehow, I don't know, capitalize on the fact that people are still running around saying they don't exist. So let me just recap this story. So nine News I'll just write their script right now. Imaginary gang may have cut off a guy's finger, unfounded allegations, though unfounded allegations. Yeah, it doesn't have a finger, but

we don't know. We have no idea what's going on, certainly just random violence with no connection to any kind. Because I know when I was nineteen, I said to my friend when we were hanging out, you know what we should do. We should kidnap somebody and cut the finger off. No, that did not happen because I am not a criminal, unlike these two gentlemen who will now have to defend themselves in court after we find out, if we ever find out if they have gang ties.

If you are a police officer, by the way, I owes any inside information on that, I love it. Mandy. This sounds like the movie Le Grande Lebowski, Little Bit, Little Bit Mandy. Any word if the governor has filed suit against the victim for insinuating there's gang activity in Colorado TBD, Texter TBD. Anyway, let's do this. Let's just

take a break. When we get back, I have a fascinating story about what happened to the ninety million dollars that was collected by Black Lives Matter, And whatever you're thinking, you're right, You're absolutely right. We'll be back right after this. Look at it. A story from the Free Press. And I talk about the Free Press all the time, and I'm not trying to get you a bunch of subscriptions you don't need. But there are a few things that are worth your money, and a subscription to the Freepress

dot com is one of them. This is not a paid endorsement. I have no business relationship with them. I love what they are doing at the Free Press because it's a bunch of journalists that have gotten tired being micromanaged by big media. And here is the Free Press doing some incredible reporting, including this story from today. Black

Lives Matter. In a very short period of time in twenty twenty, managed to bring in about ninety million dollars ninety million dollars in a year, so people are starting to ask what happened to all the money, including the internal Revenue Service and the state to California. So let's just say this, Black Lives Matter there are two separate organizations. There is Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation and Black

Lives Matter Grassroots. Grassroots was formed in about twenty nineteen as an umbrella organization of local chapters of the group and was co directed by Malina Abdullah. So the other Global Network Foundation was started by a woman named Patrise Culers and two other women whose name I cannot remember right now. I remember Patrese's name because she was busted after buying multiple properties with money from Black Lives Matter. But she's not the only grifter in the situation now.

Mss Abdullah, who was the leader of Black Lives Matter Grassroots, has been accused by other chapter leaders of using their money to pay for vacations to Jamaica and her own personal expenses. She has denied the allegations, but at least eight point seven million dollars in donations are unaccounted for. That's where California comes in. California Attorney General Rob Bonta has demanded that Grassroots turn over their delinquent tax filings

and late fees before this Sunday. If they don't, they're going to pull their tax exempt status in California. Now, three years after BLM Grassroots split from Global, It sued Global alleging financial mismanagement, claiming that ten million dollars in BLM Global donations actually belonged to Grassroots. The court threw out the case and they ordered Grassroots to pay these seven hundred thousand dollars in legal fees that were incurred

by the Global organization. Now, let's talk about the Global Organization for just a second. It started in July of twenty thirteen by Patrise Cullers, Alicia Garza, and Opal Toomeny. They were responding to the killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman in twenty twelve. The stated goal was inspiring but vague. The founders described it as a quote a platform and organizing tool that other groups, organizations, and individuals used to amplify anti black racism across the country. By

the mid twenty tens, its founders were well known. Two of them have left to launch their own celebrity brands. Patrise's Culors has been running or was running, Black Lives Matter Global herself, and in nineteen ninety after George Floyd was killed by police, they raised ninety million dollars in a year. So in addition to just skimming money off the top, Patrise's Culors ink to deal with Warner Brothers.

She got a deal with Warner Brothers to create animated kids programming, documentaries, dramas, and comedies about structural racism and inequality. Boy those sound don't they? Well, they were never made, but I bet she cashed the check she and the foundation. Also, I love the way they say she and the Foundation. That's so so so funny, so so so funny. She

and the foundation bought a bunch of real estate. They got a six million dollar mansion in Los Angeles, a six point three million dollar mansion in Canada, they got a three point two acre estate in Georgia, and a Black Lives Matter Global handed out money to a bunch of Patrise Colors, friends and relatives, including seven hundred and seventy eight thousand dollars for services to an arts group run by the father of her son, A one point six million dollar check to a security firm owned by

her brother Paul. The foundation also kept checks totally two hundred and five thousand dollars to a company run by Colors and her spouse, as well as a two hundred and eleven thousand dollars payout to a friend who helped Colors write her memoir. So Black Lives Matter collected four point six million dollars in the fiscal year that ended in June of twenty twenty three, but they spent ten point eight million.

And it's what happens when a pile of money falls on people who believe that everything in the world is corrupt and stacked against them, Because then that justifies anything they want to do, because as long as you believe that the entire world is inherently and irredeemably racist, and you are a black person like Patrice Colors is, then you can justify bilking the people who are giving you money to make race relations better. I don't know if

that was ever the goal. It certainly hasn't. I mean, I don't think anybody is going to tell you that race relations are better now than they were. You know, twenty five years ago. I grew up that I mentioned this earlier in the show. I grew up in a small town in the Deep South, and when I was very young, there was there was enough racism in my hometown to be noticeable. All the black people lived on one side, all the white people lived on the other side.

But within our hometown there was a lot of mixing of people outside of where they lived. You know, you would often see an old white man and an old black man sitting next to each other fishing. You would see people sitting at the you know, at lunch together, having lunch together. Black and white, people work together, black and white. It was it was very weird. It was

very strange. But all of that being said, one of the things that that situation taught me is that though you know, there were openly racist people in my hometown, overall, most people were good and decent, and most people didn't look at things that way. They looked at the person that was in front of them, and if they were a good person, that's how they decided whether or not they wanted to be around them. You had to be

a quality person. And you look at the belief system here, the Patrice Colors belief system that every white person is a problem and there's no hope, and we are a hopelessly racist country. And of course they could do anything and justify it to themselves. You know, when you believe you're a victim, it is very easy to become an oppressor because you believe somewhere in your heart that you are owed this right. I mean, this is the logic

of looters. Looters believe they're owed something. Okay, with all due respect, what did Nike do to you? You know, what exactly did Nike or Macy's or Louis Vauton do to oppress you? And yet you're using that as a justification to behave badly. Now it's a black Lives Matter. I think, as after reading this story, as a movement

is largely done. It's just done. And a big part of the problem, as made in this article was Black Lives Matter disastrous, absolutely disastrous embrace of defund the police. Because defund the police, we now know was an abject of failure, and cities that embrace it are now scrambling, like Denver, are to fill the police positions that they need filled because crime got out of control because we

didn't have enough cops. And all of those idiots who have been saying for years more cops doesn't equal more safety have had it shoved down in their throat because it does.

the BLM chapter of Greater Atlanta. He was just sentenced to forty two months in federal prison for money laundering and why fraud pocketing the four hundred and fifty thousand dollars he raised from eighteen thousand donors to fight for George Floyd and the movement page lavishly spent on himself, splurging on tailored suits, nightclub bar tabs, an evening with a prostitute, and, as he texted to a friend, a big ass crib that he bought in Ohio after he

quote won the lottery. So it people are being held to account. Not everyone is getting away with it, but I do think that there would be perhaps a lot more aggressive investigation if this were a right wing organization one hundred percent. I agree with you on that, Texters. But they are being held accountable. Mandy, I didn't know we defunded the police in twenty twenty. The movement took off in twenty twenty. It surely did.

I don't like Black Lives Matter either. I've talked about the fact I think it's wrong for Donald Trump to pay for legal fees out of campaign funds unless he tells people these funds are going to go to my legal fund, and he has there's a separate legal fund that people can donate to. I've said that before on the show. I think it's terrible, but you know what,

I'm not donating to him. They go on in this to talk about the fact that the movement has largely collapsed, but there are still outposts, and now they've shifted their focus from Black Lives Matter to guess what. Guess what? Just guess guess before I say it. Guess before I say it.

That's why I do it. That's the sole reason last story of the day. I want to get this in Because I didn't put this on the blog, it may be on tomorrow's blog. So the United States National Institute of Health funded a study starting in twenty five twenty fifteen, as part of a broader, multimillion dollar federal project on

transgender youth. She and colleagues recruited ninety five children from across the country and gave them puberty blockers, which stave off permanent physical changes like breasts or a deepening voice that could exacerbate their gender distress known as dysphoria. The researchers followed the children for two years to see if

the treatments improve their mental health. An older Dutch study had found that puberty blockers improved well being, results that inspired clinics around the world to regularly prescribe the medications as part of what is now called gender affirming care, but the American trial did not find a similar trend. Doctor Olsen Kennedy said in a wide ranging interview, puberty blockers did not lead to mental health improvements. She said most likely because the children were already doing well when

the study began. They're in really good shape when they come in, and they're in really good shape after two years. The conclusion seems to contradict an earlier description of the group, in which doctor Olsen Kennedy and her colleagues noted that one quarter of the adolescents were depressed or suicidal before treatment. In the nine years since the study was funded, the National Institute of Health has decided not to publish the data.

Not to publish the data you know why, because, she said the findings might fuel the kind of political attacks that have led to the bands of youth gender treatments in more than twenty states, one of which will be considered by the Supreme Court. She said, I don't want our work to be weaponized. It has to be exactly on point, clear and concise, and that takes time. So

let me explain to you what's happening. The National Institute of Health is experimenting on children, and when things don't go the way that they wanted them to go, they simply changed the information about where they started. And this is what we're supposed to trust. The science. The science, the science, manny I love. No matter the topic, there's always someone arguing, well, what about Trump? You guys have no idea. How many text messages I don't read on

the air, you have no idea? Oh to the text? Who said?

bring him in. So now Joe Rogan is going to interview Trump, and no one cares if Kamala Harris is gonna be on the Joe Rogan Show. No one cares, no one, no one. I think I'm gonna leave you on this text message just to go off on a high note. Have I'm voting for Adolf Hitler two point zero in this BS election. There are no winners. Come November fifth, a miracle will be destroyed no matter which power hungry liar wins, Satan wins, and the United States loses.

You're not altogether wrong, not altogether wrong. All right, let's go and talk to our man, Ryan Edwards, because now it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio of its kind, the world of the day. All right, now, Ryan, you today are hamstrung, my friend, you you have to wait until the question is over.