Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock
Accident and Injury Lawyers.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell and Don on KLA.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Ninety one FM, GOT.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
And then through three Andy Coronal.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
No sad bab.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Thursday edition of the show.
I am your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell,
and join my right hand man. He is a rod,
but you can call him Anthony Robers. Together we will
take you right up until three pm. And today we
are broadcasting from the depths of Hell. Oh wait, no,
our air conditioning is out. That's why it feels that way.
(00:49):
You know what it is a rod? Is the air
just like deathly still in there, like it is deathly
still in here.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Yes, no movement at all, nothing, just yeah, oh fire Bernie, hell.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Girl, I'm not saying he's wrong. Okay.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Oh, I'm going to keep this sound effect going into
the ac work got the whole show.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
People will be trying to get the static. They'll be
trying to well nobody. Back when I was a kid,
if this started to sound like this on the radio station,
you would reach down. You would barely turn the knob
because you were actually using a dial at the back
in ancient.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Times camping with Mandy Connell, a fire pit, the whole show.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
No, you know what I do love though, I love
the mule log on the cable networks like Audible. There
you go. We're just doing an Audible yule log because
we're broadcasting from the depths of Hell because our air
conditioning does not work in the air.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
I'm waiting to get confirmation on Satan to join the
show right now.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
I'm looking at just a phoner.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah, because he said it was too hot.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Yeah, he even is a layer above, so you know,
maybe we'll get him on zoom and didn't person.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
It's just not happening.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
It's too too hot for On.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
A very very very serious note, a lot of people
have reached out to me and said, hey, did you
see what's happening at Florida State University. They are in
an active shooter situation. One person has been arrested, but
five people have been killed and others have also been
sent to the hospital with injuries from the shooting. There's
very few details that are known by now, but every
(02:21):
time you see this, every time I see anything like
this happening, I am overcome by the grief of the
entire situation. And I know that seems weird to go
from laughing just a moment ago, but you know when
you start to get punchy and you start to feel
like a little bit emotionally raw, and then you start
(02:43):
nothing starts making sense. Okay, So last night go back
in time. Last night, we've filmed another episode of My
Side Hustle, and in that episode, I talked about a
piece of artwork. We're decorating our set. So I brought
this piece of artwork in and I talked about the
artists that did it, in this experience that I had,
and just how much I love this woman, and it
(03:03):
was just such a great thing. I get home, I
get a text message she has died, the artist that
I haven't talked to in probably a year and a
half or two years. But it was weird that that
all happen on the same day, and it was just
very cataclysmic. And I actually wrote about her on the
blog today because this was one of those people. And
I hope that everybody in our listening audience has some
(03:24):
of these people in their lives, okay, because I think
that there are people that walk this earth that sort
of exude and inhabit a brightness, a lightness, and they
are people that bring joy and light to other people, right.
I mean, it's a very special personality type to be
able to be that. I certainly am not that person.
(03:46):
I mean, I have no illusions about that. But I've
been lucky enough to have multiples of those people in
my life. And she was one of them. And she
was an artist, and she loved her husband, and she
loved God, and she loved the United States of America.
And so it was definitely a gut punch last night
to find out she had passed away. And I thought
(04:06):
it was really interesting because I called her in twenty
eighteen to chat about something I don't even remember what
at this point, and she said, I can't believe you
called me today. And I said, oh, I'm sorry, I
haven't called in so long. You know one of those,
And she said, no, I'm leaving the doctor's office. I
was just diagnosed with breast cancer. And I don't think
I'm ready to tell anyone here, meaning Southwest Florida, but
(04:30):
I kind of need to vent a little bit to someone,
So thank you for being that person. And she did
she vented and shared her concerns and we talked about that,
and she battled cancer for all of those years. But
yesterday I haven't talked about her in months, maybe you know,
maybe a year, and I chose yesterday to talk about her,
(04:50):
and then I find out she's passed away. So that
is just kind of gotten everything all all whacked. And
then what's happening at Florida State is devastating. It's absolutely devastating,
as it is every single time this occurs, and I'm
devastated for the victims, and I'm devastated for the perpetrators
(05:11):
because I mean, I'm going to make an assumption if
it's a student, this is a young person who made
a choice to throw his or her life away in
some dramatic act of insanity. And now people's lives are
forever altered. Kids went to college and they're not going
to come home. And how do we get to these
(05:32):
people before they become this way? You know, Chuck and
I were talking on the way to work today, and
you know, there's such a problem with mental illness in
this country, but there is sort of this and I've
talked about it so many times. We have a spiritual
rot in this country right now. The good news is
there are pockets of light. There are pockets of lights
(05:56):
on university campuses like Ohio State, which I am not
an Ohio State Bunckeye fan, and this pains me to
admit it, but they've had something of a spiritual revival
going on at Ohio State. We had a story I
think I put it on yesterday's blog. I meant to
if I didn't, that Ohio State's new championship rings when
they have the you know, the big gaudy top part
(06:16):
that all championship rings have now with all the diamonds
and everything. When you flip that over and look underneath
that in the ring, there is a cross underneath in
the bottom of the ring. Because their football team is
leading a spiritual revival at Ohio State. They just had
a huge prayer meeting where thousands of kids showed up
to talk about Jesus. Some of them got baptized. They
(06:39):
were singing, they were rejoicing, they were being together. And
I'm not saying that is going to solve all the ills.
That's not going to solve the problem. It's not going
to prevent what's happening at Florida State, because unfortunately, we
live in a world where evil exists. And I think
evil exists just because we have free will that must
be tested. I that's the only way to explain it.
(07:02):
And I'm not making excuses or poop pooing it or
downplaying it. I'm just saying I think there's evil in
this world, and when things like this happen, this is
an evil thing. So it's devastating. We have at least
six injured. They have caught the shooter. He's still alive,
I guess. So we're gonna find out, you know, maybe
(07:25):
someday what exactly was going on here. But I appreciate
all of you have reached out today. It's just been
a crazy last eighteen hours, just a really crazy day.
So let's just into the blog. Shall we find it
at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for
the headline that says, four seventeen twenty four blog what
(07:46):
should the Colorado GOP focus on? Click on that, and
here are the headlines you will find within tic Tech
toe A winner.
Speaker 8 (07:55):
I think there was in office. Half of American Alwayships
We come on the team. That's cart A France.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Plant Today on the Blood New Colorado. Gopach here Britta Horne.
Today at two thirty, Greg Lopez is running for governor.
A moment about an artist. Yes, O Trump should not
move space force. Yes, school should censor what kids have
access to. Dougco Sheriff's office shows their sense of humor.
Watch the special on Dave Logan. Another violent progressive is arrested.
(08:23):
Scrolling California sues over tariffs, dismantling the Biden's censorship complex.
The evidence that Garcia is a gang member is not
super solid. Scrolling Puerto Rico is a beautiful hot mess
who is ready for farmers' markets. A moss is broke
laser guided robot. Farmers are coming. Jack Black ranks his
(08:43):
own movies nice alternatives to telling someone off another weird
Oreo flavor has sort of arrived. Border patrol morale has skyrocketed.
Zuck bought Insta because of camera envy. Shockingly, Fire Festival
two has been postponed. How it appeals to keynotes properly?
Top ten Dogs of the week. Those are the headlines
(09:04):
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And after everything
We've gone through this week, I'm super excited about tomorrow.
I mentioned as we took Well, maybe I didn't mention
it yet. I'm also we're broadcasting from Hell today, Anthony
and I are because the air conditioner is not working
in this still airs, just killing us. But I because
(09:26):
I'm driving up to Winter Park with Ross after the show.
I'm wearing a sweater because it's gonna be cold in
winter Park later tonight. Right, it's gonna be cold. So
here we are broadcasting from hell. But why are Ross
and I going to Winter Park? We're not running away together.
We're going up tomorrow to broadcast from the mighty millions
(09:47):
Raffle House, and so we're going to be broadcasting for
Winter Park tomorrow, and I'm very much looking forward to
that because I'm very much looking forward to sharing good
news about good things that are happening elsewhere, because I
just feel like everything has been very very heavy lately,
very very heavy lately, which is why the final video
on the blog is top ten Dogs of the Week.
There you go, ay, Rod, TikTok's getting sneaky.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Now.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
When you send me TikTok videos about half of them,
it says this content may not be suitable for some people,
Why don't you log in and we'll decide. See, eh,
we're getting you. So how they get you gonna log in?
Then to the text, you just said that Dave Logan
Special was fantastic. Yes, it was a rod. You were
(10:29):
the one who told me how good it was. Were
you the.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
One that yes, it was absolutely exceptional.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
It is phenomenal And I put it on the blog
today so you can just go there and watch it.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
I immediately texted Dave and said that was a treat.
They did a great job.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
If for no other reason, you got to watch it
for the stash Okay, the Dave Logan stash prominent appearance.
You know what's funny is to hear how his voice
has changed over the years. You know, not what he says.
I mean, he's he's When you see video of Dave
Logan young, that's exactly what Dave Logan now is like,
(11:05):
only he's older. There's no change in the dude. Like
he didn't get a big head from all his success.
He's just the same person, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
And I don't know if you can look it up
on YouTube, maybe you can.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
But if you want to see video of the lone
reception he had as Denver Bronco from John Elway.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
You can see it in the special I do Wonderful.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
It's very very very good, very very very good, and
I don't blow smoke. I also put some stuff on
the blog about the artist that I was just talking about.
Her name was Leoma Lovegrove and she was an absolute trip,
an absolute trip. She was the first artist that I
ever met who was a rock solid conservative first one.
And I love artists as a group of people. I
(11:46):
find them fascinating and wonderful and interesting, but they're all
left leaners or wildly left. But not Leoma. She she
was something man and somebody did a wonderful documentary on
her that is not very long, and it's just really
really the world has lost a very special light. Even
if you didn't know her, you would have loved her.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You did.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Everybody loved her anyway. Okay, on the blog today, we've
got Britta Horn coming in. I just verified with Britta,
and I thought, in before Brita came on, I thought,
maybe she's coming on at two thirty in the one
o'clock hour. We will as a group audience that mostly
leans right, even though even if you're not a registered Republican.
(12:32):
Most of you lean right. I do have you left leaners,
but I want you to participate too, hear me out.
I woant to come up with the list of priorities
that you in this audience would accomplish. Two things. Number one,
be good for the state of Colorado. Like that's number one.
Is this good for the people of the state of Colorado.
(12:53):
And number two, does it reach a wider audience than
merely the Republican Party Because the Republican Party has a
significant brand issue in Colorado. I mean it's.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Deep, it is really deep.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
They are also they're all running not just against you know,
their opponents, but also a good chunk of the news
media in this town. So there are real challenges for
the Republican parties. So it cannot be narrow minded. It
cannot be the party platform, which is, you know, the
most crazy stuff that everybody as far to the right
wants in there. I mean, it's it has to be
(13:29):
realistic because we have to come up with consistent and
coherent and logical and and and you know, stuff that
makes good sense to solve the problems of Colorado. And
then every Republican needs to be on message. They need
to be on message. They need to stay on message.
They need to understand every aspect of the message, because
(13:52):
if we don't pull back the Colorado legislature and I'm
not even talking about Republican majorities, please don't even think
I am not in fantasy land over here. But if
we don't get it back to some semblance of balance
where the Republican Party has a fighting chance to pull
back on some of this insane stuff that is coming
(14:13):
out of the Gold Dome, man when we're in big trouble.
So we'll do that at one o'clock. Is on at
two thirty and oh no, Greg Lopez coming on it one. Okay,
you know what we're gonna do. We're gonna do it
at twelve thirty. We're gonna do it at the twelve
thirty hour. Greg Lopez coming up at one o'clock. I
like Greg, former mayor of Parker. I think he's a
very affable fellow. But Greg has lost every election that
(14:35):
he has run in except a special election that got
him into Congress for a hot minute because he ran
as a placeholder. So Greg has never won an election
except the mayor of Parker. Oh so there's two exceptions
that the general public voted on. But he keeps running.
And I don't mind someone continuing to run for office,
(14:56):
because not everybody wins on the first try, and people
come back and take another bite at the apple. But
if you don't have any indication that you're going to
perform better this time than last time, what are you
even doing? And that's what I'm going to ask him.
What indication does he have that his brand of conservatism
that includes a total ban on abortion, or at least
(15:16):
it did you know a short time ago? How is
that going to sell in the state of Colorado. So
we're going to talk to him at one o'clock. It's
going to be a humdinger of a show, Mandy. Republicans
and conservatives have never been able to have a productive
conversation about race. That's a major problem. It can be done.
If it's ignored, the Dems will always be able to
(15:36):
brainwash us. You guys, I just don't know. I just
don't know if that argument plays anywhere. It might play
in Colorado because we are so far to the left
of the rest of America. It's not even funny. But
you see how many black and Hispanic men voted for Trump,
(15:57):
so it's kind of hard to say, yeah, that guy's
a racist, but all of these you know, African American
and Hispanic men voted for him. I mean, that's a
very condescending position, and I don't know maybe in Colorado
that would work. I do think that the Republican Party
should not shy away from pointing out over and over
(16:20):
and over again the progress that has been made about
race in the United States of America, much of it
under Republican leadership.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
The problem with.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
The race discussion is that it's been so distorted, so
incredibly distorted, that now we have a c year regent
claiming racism because there was a black baby illustrated in
a public health campaign. I mean, it's absurd. We've gone
from horrible instances of awful racism to a place where
that is now what passes for racist behavior. It's crazy, Mandy.
(16:53):
The Republicans need to run a black log cabin candidate
and preach that Colorado is a moderate state and that
the Damas have gone too far. See I think you
can make the second argument while staying away from the first.
You don't need to play better at identity politics. You
really don't, but you can make the case that the
Democratic Party has gone too far, and because they have
(17:16):
over and over and over again. And that's the kind
of messaging I'm talking about. That is exactly the messaging
that every Republican should be adopting right now. I would
if I were running for office, this is how I
would do it. I would just start my comments, my
speaking engagements by saying the age old question is are
you better off now than you were in twenty nineteen?
(17:39):
Are you better off? Is Colorado better off now than
twenty nineteen, Because in twenty nineteen the Democrats took full
control of everything and they've been running the state since.
So if you're not better off, let me tell you
why you don't feel better off. And then you start
talking about the fact that crime is out of control,
the fact that car owner's insurance has gone up dramatically
(18:02):
because of all the car thefts, the fact that, on
a regular basis, we have police departments that are understaffed.
They're wildly understaffed, and no one seems to be talking
about that. We have educational systems where half of the
children in Denver public schools can't even read on grade level.
All under democratic control and just let people draw the line.
(18:27):
But I have that data. I would have every area
that Colorado has fallen, and I would know exactly the
percentage from twenty nineteen to now, and I would use
it after you make that emotional pitches. Is your life
better now? Do you feel like Colorado is better now
than it was in twenty nineteen? That should be the
selling point, because the answer across the board is generally
(18:49):
when it comes to those statistics that really matter, what
has gotten better since twenty nineteen? I mean, maybe we
should look so we can mitigate those issues. Anyway, We're
going to take a very quick time out. I'd love
for you to text your thoughts. We're going to I've
got my paper right here, that's my pad of paper,
and uh, we're going to make a list. What should
(19:10):
the Republican Party focus on in the next election cycle?
Maybe not your pet project, but something that will a
be good for Coloraden's and b be something that would
be appealing to more than the Republican Party. So there
you go. I'm excited. We already have a bunch of
people doing this. Mandy. I think crime and property taxes
(19:33):
for Republicans need to be the focus. The problem there
is that the property taxes horse is already out of
the barn. There's no way we're going to roll back
property taxes to where they were before. It is simply
not going to happen. So I would say your better
bet would be go after income taxes. But I'm writing
that down on list. All right, thank you, Texter. We'll
(19:53):
be right back with more of those. I'm asking you, guys,
and I don't care if you're not a Republican. As
a matter of fact, I'd really like to hear your opinion.
What does the Republican Party need to focus on in
the elects election cycle? What do you think are the
most important issues that not only are A there's two
requirements for this, A good for the people of Colorado,
and B something that will appeal to people outside of
(20:16):
the Republican Party right because there's not nearly enough elect
or registered Republicans to get someone over the finish line here.
You have to be able to go to a general
election and be able to win independence. So that is
something we can. Let me just say this. I think
that there are people and they are incredibly highly principled people,
(20:40):
and more power to you. There are certain things that
I'm pretty unyielding on myself. So I understand it, but
I hate to say it, but there's no way to
say it that isn't ugly, and it's about to be ugly.
Politics usually isn't doesn't go hand in hand with principles.
So you have to be realistic about getting elected, because
(21:01):
if you can't get elected, then you end up happening.
What's happening right now in Colorado is what happens right
If you can't get elected, then there's no point in
having those principles because you're completely ineffective. You may be principled,
and I do think that there are people in the
Republican Party that would rather be principled and lose than
recognize that perhaps whatever it is that their main priority
(21:24):
is is not what the Republican Party should focus on
going forward. Okay, here we go. Here's some interesting points
Republicans need to bring not bring up abortion or religion
in a my way or the highway fashion, be vague
about it until elected. Now, Dan, that is a great idea,
except they will be asked about it, and they'll be
(21:44):
asked about it over and over and over and over again.
Because that's what the media wants to talk about, because
it's not good for Republicans. So you can try and
hedge on the question. You can do all that stuff.
I actually think Hidigan all if she had done this
forcefully from the very beginning, it would have been a
little more helpful. It was just a little confusion before
(22:05):
the messaging got sorted that the messaging for me should
be for pro life, Republicans should be. I am pro life. However,
I recognize that the people of Colorado have decided differently,
and until we put it to a vote of the people,
we will let the people decide. Period. We'll let the
people decide. Now that's going to be very unpopular with
(22:27):
the staunchly pro life crowd, but again, you have zero
chance of ever putting any kind of restrictions or getting
any kind of restrictions on abortion in Colorado with the
curate democratic leadership. So it's time to split the baby people.
I know that's a bad analogy in this case. Oh wow,
that's terrible and oh sorry, oh wow, that was awful.
My apologies. Shouldn't use that when I'm talking about Borzia.
(22:49):
Oh wow. Anyway, Mandy, the Colorado Republican Party could possibly
draw me from the independent side of things if they
would be a lot less trumpy. I'm not on board
with that kind of extremism both ways. A simple deciding
factor for me is when I ask Republicans do you
believe the twenty twenty election was stolen? And when they
(23:11):
say yes, I'm done. I go back to the middle
and sometimes even left. Unfortunately, there are people in the
Republican Party who don't understand how how toxic that issue is.
And the good news is is that, you know, the
former leadership of the Republican Party stood firmly looking backwards
(23:33):
at that issue and they were just voted out and
their shows and successors were voted out. So at least
to the Central Committee, more people said, you know what,
we want to move away from that, and I think
there's a way to do it without, you know, turning
your back on the president. But let's face it, Donald
Trump is extremely unpopular in Colorado. Extremely He gained in
(23:54):
the last election cycle compared to the one before that.
He is excuse me, he lost in the last election
cycle compared to the one before that. He's just wildly unpopular.
So for Republicans trying to get elected outside of a
conservative district. There's no benefit to having Donald Trump in
your camp. There really isn't. I would say it was
a detriment if I was running in any kind of
difficult district then Donald Trump offered to endorse me, I don't.
(24:17):
I would ask him not to privately. So, no, you're
not helping me, you know, you're really not. He's that
unpopular here, Mandy. Uh, you defend that bloated pos no
matter what he does. That's not actually accurate, as has
been evidenced by my conversations earlier about due process and
(24:40):
people being deported. That was wildly unpopular with my listeners, wildly,
and yet I said it anyway, anyway here what people
said that we need to talk about or focus on, Mandy,
I think re establishing the importance of the democratic system.
I feel like Trump's presidency will be great, but it
will kind of be a set reset for the way
(25:00):
things are supposed to be, so we might not see
any true benefits until the next election cycle. And I
think you mean like voter ID, which I think I'd
like to see the polling data on voter ID in Colorado.
But I think voter idea is actually a winning issue
for Republicans as long as any voter ID proposal has
the ability for someone who cannot afford to pay for
(25:22):
an ID has the ability to get one. That has
to be in there, because then you can't make the argument, well,
they can't get an ID. That's ridiculous, completely ridiculous, Mandy,
a Republican candidate in Colorado needs to keep run on,
keeping taper going. The constant attempts at dismantling it by
the Democratic Party, while many moderates in the state appreciated
(25:44):
is a perfect argument to make an election. I do
think that that is a big part of the conversation
about the way that Democrats have been running roughshod over
the voters as part of their ongoing legislative assault on
Colorado since twenty nineteen. It's all part of the narrative,
and I hope and this is one of the things
I'm going to tell Brandant, like, the Republican Party needs
(26:05):
to send the narrative out with details, with facts to
back it up, and then Republican candidates need to know it.
They all need to know it. Mandy. Crime something is
it has to be something that everyone can get behind
and support. The Republican Party has a tendency to focus
on too many issues. Trump won because he was very
(26:26):
specific about issues and what he would do to fix it.
That is an excellent point. Now here's some things that
I wrote down on the break, but they've now scrolled
down so I can't see the actual text. Messages. Crime
has come up multiple times. Somebody said property taxes, and
I don't know if property taxes is a winning issue
because we're never going to get them back down. And
(26:49):
if you try to say we're going to get property
tax relief only to find out it's not feasible because
all of that money has been spent now by all
of the local governments and school districts, you're setting yourself
up for failure. I think a better chance would be
to go after the income tax. Fees are taxes. Fees
are taxes, and taxes are covered under TABOR, and I
(27:13):
would make a big show of pointing out how much
in fees the Colorado Democrats have levied on the citizens
of Colorado since twenty nineteen. It's in the billions of
dollars billions. With a B Vacancy committees man the Vacancy
Committee things sucks. I don't know if the party will
want to tackle that, because ultimately it benefits them because
(27:36):
they have more control over who's in the legislature. I
don't know. We'll have to ask a balanced budget. I
would love to see a balanced budget. But here's the thing.
We haven't needed a balance budget amendment because we had TABOR, right,
we had we had a mechanism to control spending. But
if they're going to keep shipping away at TABOR, then
I think we make a balance budget amendment that includes debt.
(27:57):
That's the kicker. One guy's ested posting of legislation for
seven days before it becomes law where a final vote
is taken. That would be that would be something of
a track meet the last week of the legislative session.
Voter I d We'll have to check into that. Roads
and bridges, this is a good one, and we get back.
(28:18):
I'm going to talk about how much I love transportation
as an issue. Well, let me tell you. In latest
polling data in Colorado, voters hold a an unfavorable position
of Donald Trump to the tune of fifty eight percent,
and of those who hold an unfavorable opinion, fifty five
percent of them have a strongly unfavorable opinion. So to
(28:39):
the Texter's point about you know, do not embrace Donald Trump,
especially if you're in a state wide race lowering homeowner
and auto insurance rates. That's a good one, but that's
super specific. Here's how you lower homeowner insurance rates. You
either create a reinsurance fund that specifically allows lodgerns to
(29:00):
tap into if there's cataclysmic costs, but then the taxpayers
are on the hook. Or you incentivize people using haal
resistant materials on their home because hail is what drives
homeowners insurance costs and now wildfires. So incentivize fire mitigation
and fire hardening your home. Give me tax breaks, and
(29:23):
I'm far more likely to cover up my seater sighting
with you know, fiber cement siding. Give me something so
and you put on the right kind of roof, a cement,
a tile roof, or a hail resistant roof. They have
those now, they actually have. I think they're kind of
a rubber composite thing and the hail is supposed to
bounce off and it doesn't hurt the substrate. Incentivize these things.
(29:44):
Give homeowners an opportunity to do the things that are
going to make their homes more secure, but let them
get a tax break while they're doing it. Things like
that auto insurance. One of the reasons auto insurance is
so high is because carthefs are still way too high
in Colorado, much much lower than they wear a couple
of you years ago, but still way too high in Colorado.
So that's going to be a part of a bigger
(30:06):
conversation about law enforcement, Mandy, not just roads and bridges.
How about Colorado pick up all the junk along the
sides of the roads in the state. I can't believe
how bad it continues to get. That takes me back
to the transportation conversation. I think that there is a
real opportunity for Republicans when it comes to transportation, because
you currently have a governor and a director executive director
(30:28):
of the Department of Transportation who are fully and solely
invested in forcing everyone out of their cars and onto
some sort of mass transit. Everything they do is geared
towards mass transit. They take money that should be spent
on roads and they spend it on mass transit crap
that nobody's going to ride.
Speaker 9 (30:43):
Right.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
They're trying to shore up a system that, because of
technological advances, is going to become obsolete very quickly, and
I'm talking in the next two decades. I really believe
that it will become relatively obsolete by then because self
driving cars will be a thing everywhere in every city,
and we will no longer own a car. We will
(31:04):
just call one to come pick us up. So it's
going to change everything. And they're trying to shore up
this system because they all thought it was a great idea,
but none of them use it. And if you ran
on a platform of look, we appreciate where mass transit
is today, but it's time to reinvest in our roadways
and it's time to reinvest in the taxpayers who have
(31:24):
to drive on them. So we are going to do
what we need to do with our transportation dollars to
shore up the roadways, including in the rural areas. You
guys are first, and we are going to fix our
bridges and our infrastructure. We're going to make traffic work
as well as humanly possible. That is our goal. You
start telling people that, I mean, that is an area
(31:45):
of such frustration for so many people. And do you
notice now, like nobody at the Capitol or in the
govern's mansion is even talking about this as an issue.
They really don't think it's a big deal. They think
everything's fine. So safety, roads and jobs, says this Texter,
stay away from social issues, express that in Colorado everyone
(32:09):
is welcome and we want them to be safe. I
would take it one step further text I like that
though we want them to be safe and prosperous, we
want an economy that benefits everyone. We want to be
able to go downtown in our major urban centers and
feel safe and comfortable. We want a vibrant place to
(32:30):
live with fewer regulations so it's easier to build homes.
I mean, there's so many ways to pitch this that
are so good. So we will talk to Brita at
two thirty and see which of these the Republican Party
decides to focus on. By the way, this is way
too many the texter earlier he said the Republican Party
tends to focus on too many things. Is absolutely right,
(32:51):
but all of these should be part of sort of
an informational list of talking points for candidates on all
of these issues, of Republican solutions to all of these problems,
and if we don't have those. We probably should get
cracking because one of my frustrations in the past was
even when Republicans are swept into office in big numbers,
(33:12):
they're generally not ready to be there, and if they
do get elected, they're probably only going to get one
election cycle to prove that they can do what they
said they were going to do, or at least make
a really good show of it when we get back.
Speaking of running for office as a Republican, Greg Lopez
joins us. He announced earlier this week that he is
(33:33):
running for governor. I believe actually last week now that
I said that, and he's on and I'm gonna ask
him Flatbret, why is this going to be different than
the last time? We'll talk to him next.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Bell and Pollock
Accident and Injury Lawyers.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
No, it's Mandy Connell.
Speaker 10 (33:50):
And Donam God the nice through.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Andy Connell, Keith you sad Babe, Welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Welcome to the second hour of the show. Anthony and
I are broadcasting straight from the depths of Hell today
as our air conditioning is still not working in the
studios and the deathly still air I just walked back
into the studios like walking into a dry sauna, because
we're in rooms with a bunch of equipment that gets hot.
(34:30):
So we just want you to feel sorry, maybe say
a little prayer for us that we can make it through. Now,
joining me once again to talk about a candidacy, a
campaign he has launched to be governor of Colorado. Former
Mayor of Parker, Greg Lopez, and I should say former
Congressman Greg Lopez. Welcome back to the show. Greg.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
Hey, Mandy, it's great to be on your show today. Now.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
I said earlier on the show that this is how
many times have you run for office in your career?
Speaker 9 (35:01):
In my career, let's see year one. No, you're talking
about a general election or.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Just like I know you. You ran for the mayor
Parker and you won that, right you were twenty seven
years old, and since then you've run for state Senate
and were unsuccessful and then governor twice.
Speaker 7 (35:19):
Correct, I ran.
Speaker 9 (35:21):
For the nomination, not for the actual election for governor.
So yes, I ran in the primary. Okay, no I didn't.
Just for clarity, because a lot of people do just
go onto the websites Denver posts on the Senate thing.
I never submitted documentation for actually being a candidate, but
(35:42):
that was an interview that we did have. So I
would say mayor once twice for the governor Republican nomination,
once for the vacancy for CD four, and then for
the actual stepping in against the Democrat election.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Okay, So the reason I asked that is because you're
running again for governor. What evidence or what suggests that
this time is going to be different when you didn't
make it out of the primary and the Republican Party
either time? What is different this time? In your eyes?
Speaker 9 (36:15):
You know, what's really different is not only is my
name recognition very well established throughout the state and people
knowed me now as a congressman, a former congressman that
went to DC, but more importantly Mandy. Since I've announced,
it's been I've gotten an enthusiastic support from not only Republicans,
(36:35):
but Democrats and unaffiliated voters. So the tapestry has changed
dramatically since the last since back in twenty twenty two.
Where are you on.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
The issues that you feel like it is going to
be able to bring in independent voters. We've just been
an hour thirty minutes on the show, getting suggestions from
people on the tech line, and there were a lot
of people who said, I don't want to talk about
abortion anymore, Just don't even talk about it. You've endorsed
a full ban on abortion. Do you think that's going
to come back and haunt you in a state that
(37:07):
keeps overwhelmingly affirm a right to abortion.
Speaker 9 (37:12):
No, I don't think. Look, you know, if people want
to talk about abortion, I can they know my position? Right?
There's really no discussion on that, you know. Really, what
I want to talk about is the day to day
issues that are impacting the lives of families, of individuals,
the cost of living, what's going on with our crime
and our streets, what's going on at the legislature that's
(37:33):
actually impacting our quality of life throughout the entire state.
You know, what's happening with our ranchers. You know, all
those things. Those are the things that I'm going to
focus in on because it's important that we start looking
at what was the special thing about Colorado and we've
lost it. So I want to make sure that we
talk about what makes Colorado special. Let's take the burden
(37:55):
off of people, and let's make sure that we improve
the quality of life.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Well, no, I don't disagree with anything you just said.
The problem is is that every time you talk to
well most news media outlets, they're going to ask you
about your stance on abortion. They're going to ask you
if you believe that the twenty twenty election was stolen.
So that's going to be the second question they ask you. Unfortunately,
Republicans in this state, especially in a state wide race,
you're not just running against your opponent. You know this,
(38:21):
You know how the media in this state works. So
when I make an issue of that, it's not because
I believe that should be top of mind. But the
reality is, in this state, I'm not sure that you
won't be bludgeoned to death with that alone, that opinion
that abortion should be illegal. It will be the first
thing every single news organization here leads with. It will
(38:41):
be the thing that defines you, even if you don't
want it to. And this is why I guess I'm
asking you, know, how does that jibe with an electorate
that keeps overwhelmingly saying we want to write to abortion.
That's I think there's got to be a better answer. Well, well,
there's got to be a better answer for it Greg.
Then you know, there's no more discussion about this because
that's not how people feel about it, because now it
(39:02):
is a safe issue, now on the go ahead.
Speaker 9 (39:06):
So here here's the bottom line. Right, everybody focuses on
what the media has to say. I've been out there
talking to ranchers, farmers, small business owners in the urban corridor.
I've been talking to people, you know what, and they
are not interested in the conversational abortion. You're right, the media,
the media is going to try to paint me in
a negative like they did it back in twenty twenty two.
(39:30):
You saw the mailers, you saw the flyers, right, you
saw the commercials. You know that's exactly what they do.
You have to ask yourself why is that, you know what,
when we're talking about the daily lives of people, you know,
people aren't interested necessarily about you know, what is going
to happen in the future. Colorado already voted on that, right. Look,
(39:50):
I don't support at all killing babies. I just don't what.
But it's been parted on. It's not a part of
the constitution. I'm focusing on what's going to make live.
It is better for parents and families and children, small
business owners, the economy here in Colorado. I know a
lot of people are going to say, well, I want
to know about this. Well, I'm going to tell you,
(40:11):
and then I'm going to focus on what's important, because
really what's important is the quality of life that we're
all struggling with. Look, nobody will argue that for the
last eight years under a one party government, things have
dramatically changed from what it was eight years ago. No
one will argue that point. So we need to focus
(40:32):
on what kind of Colorado do we want. Do we
want more of the same, or do we want to
have hope that we can bring a balanced government back
onto the governor's office. Someone that actually will listen, someone
that actually go out there because he understands and he
understands the challenges. Look, I come from humble beginneas. I
don't come from money. I don't come from an Ivy
(40:54):
League school. You know, I've been here in Colorado thirty
seven years. I've seen it change. But I'm not going away.
You know, I think a lot of people, Man, you're like,
you know what, Like you were you and I were
talking earlier. It's like this guy doesn't go away. You know,
every four years. He's coming back, and I'm coming back
because it's not changing, it's getting worse. We're now worse
in California. Think about that for a minute. We're worse
(41:17):
in California.
Speaker 6 (41:18):
Greg.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
That was a much better answer. That was a much
better answer on the question, because unfortunately, this is how
Republicans have to fight.
Speaker 9 (41:27):
Right.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
We don't have the luxury of just presenting the issues
and pointing out the ways that the state has fallen
off a cliff in so many significant areas, because you're
going to have to answer that question. You're going to
have to answer that twenty twenty election question, even though
it's freaking you know, twenty twenty six. You're going to
be asked these things. And I am held bent on
(41:48):
trial by fire here, you know, rather than trial by
fire somewhere else. That's my new attitude, because I'm tired
of seeing good people stumble over these sort of questions
that to your point, and I think you're absolutely right,
it doesn't matter as much to Colorado's it's in the constitution,
it's done. Move on, we're doing that. Now, Let's talk
about some issues that do matter. Because one of the
(42:09):
things that we were talking about in the last last
hour was what specific things should should the party should
should the party messaging be so every Republican in the
state has access to the same data to back up
these solutions. What are those issues that you think are
the issues that are going to make independent voters say,
(42:32):
you know what, that's kind of a good idea. Perhaps
I'm going to look at the Republicans this time.
Speaker 9 (42:37):
Yeah. Look, you know what, when we're talking about the
daily lives and the future of Colorado, let's talk about education.
Let's talk about making sure that our children are actually learning,
that they're being more proficient in reading, writing, and doing math.
Let's focus on giving them the skill sets that they
need to be successful and good stewards to our environment,
(42:58):
and also making sure that, you know, they can live
that American dream. Look, there's a lot of distraction that's
going on inside the school buildings these days. You know it,
I know it. All I want is our children to
be a good educated, be able to read. And I'm
going to ask people is like, do you know that
in Colorado a teacher cannot withhold a student if they're
not ready to move on to the fourth grade. They
(43:21):
still have to pass them on to the fourth grade.
Even they know that they're going to struggle. They know
they're going to struggle in that. We got to reevaluate
what are we doing here. You know, let's talk about transportation.
How long it's taking people to get home to their families,
you know, or to get to a meeting. One of
the things that I'd like to do is, you know,
I would it's time that we buy E four seventy.
(43:41):
The state should buy E four seventy and take the
tolls off. Let's get all that condition off of downtown.
Let's get all those semis to go around. This is
the stuff that impacts people every day. Every day when
they go to work. They hate getting on I twenty
five because they know that if somebody does something, you know,
whether it's a misstep, they try to cut somebody off,
(44:03):
if someone clipped somebody, it's gonna be an hour to
an hour and a half just to open that highway.
Once again, these are the things that I believe we
need to focus in on now. When it comes to
the cost of living. Look, everybody complains about the cost
of eggs. You know what, Oh my god, you know,
you go to I'm not even buying eggs anymore. I
don't know about you, but you know when you buy
eight dollars for a carton of eggs, you know, a
(44:26):
lot of people forget that. The reason that's happened is
because our governor destroyed the supply chain. One point five
million chickens got killed here in Colorado, you know, and
that was the supply chain for the eggs. And so
when people say, well, why is egg so expensive? We
got to look at all that stuff. These are some
(44:47):
of the things that I think common people want to
know what happened, what are we going to do different?
And why? How? What is the future going to look
like for me and my family?
Speaker 4 (44:57):
Greg what do you think about the attacks on Tabor?
I'm gonna lost up a softball for you because that
I think that I think could be a winning issue
for Republicans, but unfortunately the Democrats have chipped away at
it with giveaways to other people with those Taber refunds.
But what would your argument be about Tabor?
Speaker 9 (45:18):
I would say this to the people of Colorado. Look,
most of the people that are talking about they don't
want Tabor. I don't even know if they were eight
years old or ten years old when Taber got passed.
You know, Taber was passed because the people of Colorado said, look,
we don't trust government. We don't trust government that they
know how to spend our money. So we're gonna give
(45:40):
them a cap. We're gonna give them a cap. And
if they truly believe they need more money, all they
have to do is come and ask us. All they
have to do is convince us that this is what
the right way to spend our tax dollar money. One
of the things that really people need to understand is
that that Tabor refund belongs to you, to you, and
(46:01):
this is how we reward people. They're here in Colorado
because if the economy is doing very well, if it's robust,
and there's extra funds, why wouldn't we want to give
more money in the pockets of every Colorado. Let them
go out there and enjoy a movie, Let them go
out there and go to dinner, take their kids to
the zoo.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
You know what.
Speaker 9 (46:20):
This is what the quality of life is all about. So, yes,
Taper is something that we must understand. We cannot let go.
If we lose Taper, we will become worse twice worse
than California. Because right now we're spending way more than
we have. When you have a budget that's one point
two billion dollars over what they were supposed to spend
(46:44):
and it's supposed to be a balanced budget. Who is
not watching the tech book? How can they not know
that they're one point two billion dollars over budget? Well,
we need to focus it.
Speaker 4 (46:54):
They know it, they just don't care. Greg Lopez is
my guest. He is running for governor. A lot of people,
myself included, I have already said this. I think Michael Bennett,
just because of name I D is going to be
very hard to beat. And if Phil Weiser drops out
of the race on that side, which I don't know
if he will, I have no information that says Phil
(47:14):
Wiser is it will really come down to fundraising. I
think Michael Bennet's gonna be really challenging to beat. If
he's a nominee. How do you how do you win?
Speaker 9 (47:24):
Maddie. Let's be honest, right, it's going to be hard
for any Republican to win any race here in Colorado.
Look at the numbers. One point nine million registered on
affiliate voters, one million registered Democrats, and about nine hundred and
forty thousand registered Republicans. It's not about our party. It's
about our vision, it's about our values. It's about how
(47:45):
we're going to help people. Look, I've been in the
urban corridor. I have a lot of Democrat friends. You
don't remember. I used to be the president of the
Denver Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. I have friends in the
Vitios that are RASA. I have friends in Ludlak, the
League of the United Latin American Citizens, the NAACP. I
have been in those communities. I'm here to tell you.
While the press thinks everybody likes Senator Bennett, the voters
(48:09):
do not. The voters truly understand his record is not
helping Colorado. He's never helped Colorado. And then when he
has the audacity to say, hey, look, I'm gonna run
for governor, but I'm not gonna resign. I'm gonna keep
my office so then I can appoint my replacement. The
deals are being struck right now as we speak. Do
(48:30):
you know that, Mandy. I know that, and the people
inside the Urban Corridor they understand it, and they're not
liking the deals that are being cut.
Speaker 4 (48:38):
Well, Greg Lopez, I appreciate you coming on the show.
I'm sure we're gonna have you on again. I mean,
this is a long race, so it's going to be
a while. But I appreciate you making time. And I
told Greg before you came on, I said, are you
ready to answer some hard questions? He said, let's do it,
Let's go. So I appreciate that. And you know, obviously
there's going to be more Republican jumping in to this race,
(49:01):
so we're gonna have everybody on. I think this is
going to be the year that I am going to
try and put something together here at KOA where we
can do a candidate forum, kind of a debate on
the air, that kind of thing. So I hope that
you would make time for us when we get a
little closer and we can put that together.
Speaker 9 (49:17):
Oh you bet you, Mandy. Look, you know what, there's
a lot of great individuals that have already in the race.
There's other individuals that I'm hearing want to get in
the race. Here's what I will tell all your listeners
and all the Republicans. Let's not focus on who can
win the primary. Let's focus on who can win the general.
Who can actually get the votes that are needed to
become the next governor and make sure that our brighter
(49:40):
future here in the state can be achieved.
Speaker 4 (49:42):
That sounds like a great plan. To meet Greg Lopez.
I put a link to his website where you can
find out more about his campaign, and if you want
to support him, you can do that. It's Greg Lopez
dot co. Greg Lopez dot Co. And again I put
a link on today's blog.
Speaker 10 (49:57):
Greg.
Speaker 4 (49:57):
I appreciate your time today. We'll talk again soon, right,
take care of Mandy. All right? That is Greg Lopez
running for governor. So this governor's race in Colorado is
going to be really hotly contested. Wouldn't it be interesting
if Michael Bennett, who was not going to resign from
the Senate until he gets right before he's sworn in
(50:19):
as governor. That's the plan, which I strongly disagree with.
I've been vocal in the past when Republicans try to
do this, I don't like it. I don't even like
it when an elected member of Congress takes on the
leadership role at the RNC or something like that, like
you have a job working within that job to be
a majority whip or something like that, some sort of
(50:40):
subset of that. I have no problem with but don't
take your eye off the ball and running for office
successfully requires a lot of time and energy, and I
just am not happy that he has decided not to
step down. But wouldn't it be interesting if he appointed
Phil Wiser to his seat if Phil drops out, wouldn't
(51:00):
that be something? I mean, I'm wildly speculating. I have
absolutely no factual information to back up any of this,
but wouldn't that be interesting? By the way, Michael Bennett
was on Colorado Morning News this morning. Aaron him on
the show. I actually enjoyed my conversation with him. I
thought he was very nice. I thought he was very
open to answering questions.
Speaker 5 (51:22):
I did have an open lining communication within twenty four
hours of being announced, and the communication was good.
Speaker 6 (51:27):
Just we just couldn't work it out to be fair.
Absolutely yeah, fun.
Speaker 4 (51:31):
Well, like I said, I he's actually a And I
know Ross is really down on Michael Bennett. I know
because he's never come on his show. But I actually
think Michael Bennett might be one of those Democrats that
I could actually have a conversation with. Then I could
ask tough questions like I just doo with Greg off
the ear, I said, Gregg, it's time to answer some
hard questions about whether or not you're electable, right, And
Greg was like, Okay, I think if I said to
(51:53):
Michael Bennett, look, I'd love to have you on the
show on a regular basis, but we have to have
an open conversation. You know, I have to push back
on the things I think you're wrong on. But I
do that because I have confidence in these people. Remember
how Michael Hancock's people would try to protect him, and
then he was awesome on any topic. I could ask
him about anything and he was prepared and he he
would be able to have a conversation about it. But
(52:14):
these people were always trying to protect him. I'm like,
I have more faith in him than you do.
Speaker 5 (52:18):
If only that protection from others wouldn't mean just not
going on with us.
Speaker 6 (52:25):
I'm definitely not at all tried effortlessly.
Speaker 4 (52:30):
Yeah nonsense, Yeah yeah. People always say why don't we
have Democrats on the show, y'all? It is not for
lack of trying. Not all Democrats. I'm not going to
invite some Democrats, but I'm also not going to invite
some Republicans on the show because I already know what
they're going to say, right, I already know what's going
to come out of their mouths.
Speaker 6 (52:47):
So why why why do see our DNC trip? Yes,
I will say nothing else.
Speaker 2 (52:55):
Time.
Speaker 4 (52:55):
Like I said, I really, out of everyone we talked to,
I probably enjoyed my conversation with Michael Bennett the most.
Speaker 5 (53:00):
We still talk finally of It was a really good conversation.
It was really really good, really friendly. It was challenging
for both sides in a good way. It was fantastic.
Speaker 4 (53:09):
This textra suggests will Bennett and Polus just swap jobs
because think about this, but then Polis would be in
the Senate when he was running for president, which is
not uncommon. I mean, you know, oh, it's like so
machiavellian to think about all this stuff behind the scenes, Mandy,
and my experience, Bennett is the most worthless elected official
(53:32):
I've tried to communicate with as a constituent. That is unfortunate.
And I will tell you this. Part of part of
a legislator's responsiveness is their office. And I have I
have actually worked with Democratic lawmakers whose office was so
incredibly responsive and great that everybody had a certain you know,
(53:54):
silo that they were in and they did a great
job taking care of that little silo, but it really
is hard. Sometimes it's to find the right person in
the right office. And that's not a knock on. I
mean Republican offices that are the same way. It's not
exclusive to one party, So I know how frustrating that
can be, very, very frustrating. There's nothing worse than a
non responsive, you know, so called representative. So I want
(54:18):
to talk for a moment when we get back. A
couple things. One, I got a big shout out to
the Douglas County Sheriff's office. They send out a tweet
this morning that made me laugh out loud, and it
just shows sometimes the police can have a sense of humor.
We'll talk about that. And we haven't really spent any
time on this Elizabeth's school lawsuit because there's just been
(54:39):
so much other stuff to talk about. But I want
to talk about it when we get back because it's
another area where I think most people who are you know,
common sense types recognize how ridiculous the assertion that children
should have access to pornography in a school library actually is.
We'll do that when we get back.
Speaker 8 (54:57):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (54:58):
By the way, Scott, which is short for Southern Culture
on the Skids, one of the most interesting bands you'll
ever see in your life. They're coming to Denver the
weekend of June first. If you and Truck are looking
for a dirt track date, I might be throwing a
graduation party that weekend. I haven't seen her grades yet,
says this texter. That is right before we go to Japan. Hmm,
(55:19):
I'm gonna have to make that happen, all right. So
we have not talked a lot about this story. It's
been working its way through and now it's going to
be a court case, so it's going to more is
going to happen. But the Elizabeth School District had some
complaints about some books in the library. So instead of
just creating some kind of knee jerk reaction, the Elizabus
(55:40):
School District came up with a district policy kind of
thing that brought re rental and community input into the conversation,
and then they reviewed the books together and the whole
thing was transparent, and they resulted in eighteen titles being
removed from the Elizabeth School District libraries collection. Eighteen books.
(56:03):
Why were they removed? In the words of a district
legal filing, they contained graphic violence, graphic sexual content, extreme
drug and alcohol use, and suicidal ideation. Now, to be clear,
just to clarify one aspect of this, the Elizabeth School
District did not pass ruling that every copy of these
(56:25):
books in the world must be destroyed. They did not
do that. They're not having book burning parties in Elizabeth
where they're getting brown shirted children to throw more books
on the pile. That's not what's happening. They merely removed
these books from the Elizabeth School District's libraries. Now, why
does that matter? The notion that librarians are not constantly
(56:51):
monitoring content when they buy books for a library is
just absurd. It's ridiculous. The problem is is that the
Library Association is now fully run by a Marxist, a
lesbian Marxist woman, who has pledged to bring that ideology
to schools. Why does that matter if that's a national organization. Well,
(57:12):
there are book awards that are given out, and a
lot of libraries shop based on book awards. So if
they keep giving book awards to books that are probably
inappropriate for young people in a school library, they're probably
going to keep getting purchased. And I am one hundred
percent on the side of free speech. I am one
hundred percent on the side of public libraries having content
(57:34):
that would be objectionable or upsetting on their shelves. But
we're not talking about a public library. We're talking about
a school district's library, and not everything is appropriate for
a school district. You know, I've heard, and I've never
verified this, that those old Playboy magazines apparently they had
some incredible articles in them, incredible, But we don't see
(57:58):
Playboy Magazine on the shelves and school libraries because it's
not appropriate content. There are lots of things that should
not be on a school library shelf, and librarians make
those decisions all day, every day. Mandy, it's nineteen books,
not eighteen, says this texter. I am just reading from
(58:19):
a column in the Denver Gazette. So I will send
Sean Duffy a stern email. Now, Elizabeth is not urging
that these books be destroyed. They're not urging that no
one ever read these books. They're just saying, look, we've
decided that these are not the right kind of content
for the kids in our district. So of course they're
being sued. Of course they are the problem with this,
(58:42):
And Sean Duffy makes this point really well in a
column today about this in the Denver Gazette. I'll jump
into the middle here, he says. But let the courts
continue in this no limits line of legal reasoning and
invalidate content filters. The ensuing public comment periods in Colorado
school board meetings in liberal and conservative communities alike, will
(59:03):
resemble a chorus of scalded cats. Now there he is
talking about content filters on the Internet in public libraries.
They have those. Schools have those on kids' computers. My
daughter's school computer, for the entire time she had a
school computer, was so locked down that there were times
(59:23):
that she was trying to access a website that wasn't
in no way sexual in any way, shape or form,
but some kind of keyword got caught up in our
school computer would not open it. So should we give
kids unfettered access to the Internet on their school computers?
I just want to ask that question. You know what's
on the Internet should we give? If you believe that
(59:45):
children must have access to pornographic content in school libraries,
then you must also believe that taking any kind of
Internet filters on that computer they need to go because
kids need unfettered access to pornography on the internet. How
are those two things different. Nobody's gonna argue that point,
by the way, because it's so stupid. I mean, maybe pedophiles.
(01:00:06):
Children do not need access to pornography. Children don't need
access to books that graphically and in great detail, both
visually and verbally explain how certain very grown up sex
positions that I didn't even learn about until I was
twenty five are done. They can talk to their parents
(01:00:27):
about that. So this text or is there any room
on the Japan trip? I know it's late. It is
too late. Texture. That's why we sell them a year
in advance, because there is a window that does close.
Mandy's start reading Gender Queer in public at a school
board meeting and make sure you push it on your
own kids library, and it will be completely disbanded. Go absurd.
(01:00:51):
In the opposite direction, that has been the most effective
strategy in these school board meetings is for teachers or
parents to stand at the podium and basically read from
some of these books. They have been shut down every
single time as they say that content is not appropriate
for a school board meeting. And yet they want to
put it on school library shelves. Here's the thing. I'm
(01:01:14):
all in favor of kids reading difficult content with context,
with guidance, with a conversation perhaps with their own parents,
but just putting it in school libraries and giving kids
access to it. I mean, back in my day they had.
This just occurred to me, okay, in our school library
(01:01:38):
in my elementary school, all of the magazines, because we
had magazines back then, all of the magazines were on
one shelf except the National geographic magazines were at the
very front, right and front where the library and checked
us out. It just occurred to me. Now it's because
the boys always looked at the National Geographic magazines looking
for pictures of topless women from a because there were
(01:02:01):
a lot of them in the day, and they probably
put it there to dissuade that sneaky, very very sneaky.
Our work computers have content creation or I'm a guessing
content restriction. I'm guessing is what you meant there, Mandy
and junior high, I read mind comps like by yourself.
(01:02:22):
You just read it as a junior high kid, you
were advanced. But if you read it as part of
your learning experience, and there was a bigger conversation about
the damage that that book has created. Well, then I'm
here for it. That would be perfectly fun. I think
kids need to know how seductive and absolutely wrong communism
is on every measure. And I just stumbled upon a
blog post that is really really scary about shipbuilding in
(01:02:48):
the United States. But first I promised the story a
little bit earlier. You know, I love when police departments
or law enforcement agencies sort of poke fun at themselves
and have fun at their own expense on social media.
And the Douglas County Sheriff does a great job with
us on occasion, including this story. Let me set the
scene for you on this post on x dot com.
(01:03:09):
There are trays in these photographs of what used to
be donuts who are all over the floor, like somebody
just came into a donut shop and just just made
a huge mess, donuts all over the floor. And Douglas
County Sheriff's Office sends out this donut disturbance ends interest.
As you can imagine, this was a tough scene for
(01:03:30):
the deputies, having to witness such tragic treatment of donuts.
And then they go on to talk about a disturbance call.
It was a former employee and he came in and
wrecked a donut shop and they arrested him in charge him.
Speaker 6 (01:03:41):
With some stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:03:42):
But I thought that was kind of funny. I mean,
because honestly, I know the cops get a lot of
crap about the donut stuff. But who doesn't like donuts? Aaron?
Do you know anyone who doesn't like donuts? Or have
you cut them out of your lives as you should?
Speaker 6 (01:03:53):
I don't think I do.
Speaker 4 (01:03:54):
I mean, there are times when somebody will say, do
you want a donut? And I'll say no, because if
I'm gonna have a donut, I'm gonna have like six doughnuts,
right because they're too good. The doughnuts are one of
those kind of they bring everyone together. I've been realizing
lately I know a lot of people who don't like cake,
and I don't know how I feel about that. On
the one hand, more for me, yeah, But on the
(01:04:16):
other how do you go through life and not like cake?
Speaker 6 (01:04:18):
Most cake sucks and cupcakes are terrible?
Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
What?
Speaker 6 (01:04:22):
Yeah, most cake isn't good?
Speaker 4 (01:04:23):
Are you an icing guy? What's the situation we cake?
Speaker 9 (01:04:26):
No?
Speaker 6 (01:04:26):
Just most cake doesn't taste great.
Speaker 5 (01:04:27):
It's overkill on icing most of the time, which is
usually the culprit for the badness.
Speaker 4 (01:04:31):
I agree with you on the icing situation with cake,
But I love cake. I love I love cake cake.
I made a key lime pound cake.
Speaker 6 (01:04:38):
You can ask, like the worst cake?
Speaker 4 (01:04:40):
Oh my gosh, it's so good. It's delicious and most
cake sucks. Next, Okay, the next time I make one,
because it's been too long now for you to like
truly get the magic of the key lime pound cake. Yeah,
next time I make one, if I bring it in
when you taste it, because there's not a lot of
icing on it.
Speaker 6 (01:04:53):
Yeah, let me just calories the rest of the day
and I'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (01:04:57):
I won't. You only have to eat a couple of bites. Okay,
you don't have to eat a thing.
Speaker 6 (01:05:00):
Yeah, anyway, I'd rather waste my calories on good things.
Speaker 4 (01:05:03):
Well, I understand that, but this might you might go,
oh wow, I've turned the corner on cake after having this.
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (01:05:09):
I rather just say, where's the cheesecake?
Speaker 4 (01:05:12):
We can do that as well.
Speaker 7 (01:05:13):
Yes, please, I will say this.
Speaker 4 (01:05:15):
I might do the key lime pound cake for the
State Fair this year. So my cake my pie decorating skills,
I realized are not very good. So I gotta I
gotta switch it up because I am going to win
a ribbon at the State Fair. If it kills me,
I'm going to do it Today. On the blog, you
can find the special done by the Denver Broncos. Did
nine do this with them? Is that who produced this?
Speaker 6 (01:05:36):
The Broncos produced it? The Broncos?
Speaker 4 (01:05:39):
Okay, perfect, It is so good. It is so so good.
And if you've ever wondered, is Dave Logan the same
on the air as he is off the air? This
should answer that question, because he's exactly the same. Now
I want to talk about this in the next dang it,
I want to talk about the Chinese ship building thing.
Let me get that in now, because I haven't read
this whole column. I read the whole thing. I'll put
(01:06:00):
it on the blog tomorrow and make sure that it's there.
But listen to this one statistic. This just blew my mind.
Blew it. One shipyard in China made more commercial ships
in twenty twenty four then the total number the US
has produced since World War Two. Guys, this is untenable.
(01:06:25):
This cannot this cannot be allowed to stand. We have
to be able to make our own stuff for our
own defense. I actually think that's a huge part of
these tariffs and the decoupling with China is that we
are too dependent on our geopolitical foe for too much
of the stuff that we need to be able to
fight our geopolitical foe in a hot war. We'll be like, yes,
(01:06:49):
we need to make more ambutition, China, could you send
us the ingredients please? That would be great. And China's like, no,
thank you, because you're gonna be shooting them at us.
We got to fix that. That just blew my mind.
Let me repeat that for you one more time. One
shipyard in China has made more commercial ships in twenty
(01:07:09):
twenty four than the total number the US has produced
since World War Two. That's absolutely insane. I'm sending this
to myself right now via email so it will be
on tomorrow's blog because it's kind of long, and don't
want a chance to read it all the way before
I share the rest of you. But that should freak
you out, You know, that should freak you out. All right,
(01:07:33):
We're going to take a quick time out. When we
get back, I want to talk about some polling data
that is very, very concerning, But I want to talk
about it because the notion that somehow the left has
the moral high ground on any sort of on any
level when it comes to January sixth is really being
blown out of the water by continued and ongoing violence
(01:07:57):
by people on the left, and more and more people
on the left say it's fine with them.
Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock
accident and injury lawyers.
Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
Well, no, it's Mandy Connell, manna on KOA.
Speaker 1 (01:08:15):
Ninetyma, got wanna stay the nicey.
Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
Three, Mandy Donald keeping sad Babe.
Speaker 4 (01:08:28):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the third hour of the show.
I am super excited. Tomorrow Russ Kaminski and I will
both be broadcasting our shows from the incredibly gorgeous Mighty
Millions Raffle House in winter Park. And I just asked
a Rod. I said, ay, Ron, if I get you
some video from the house, will you put it up
on the website. So he said if I got it
to him early enough, he would because he's got to
(01:08:50):
do the morning show tomorrow, which I get schedule sucks.
So we're gonna be up there tomorrow. Super excited about that.
In the second half of the hour, the the hours,
those of us who use old school clocks call it,
We're gonna hear from Britta Horne. She's a new chair
of the Colorado GOP. If you were with me earlier,
I have a big list put together by smart listeners
(01:09:11):
of things that we think that the Republican Party should
focus on in these upcoming election cycles. We'll talk to
Britta about that, but first I want to talk about
some a survey that came out fairly recently and it
was not good news at all. City Journal wrote about
it in a recent article, and this part caught my eye.
(01:09:33):
They found that nearly one third of American surveyed and
around half of those identifying as left of center, believe
that the murder of certain public figures is at least
somewhat justified. The figures are startling. Thirty eight percent of
respondents and fifty five percent of those left of center
(01:09:55):
said assassinating President Trump would be at least so and
what justified. Thirty one percent of respondents and forty eight
percent of those left of center said the same thing
about Musk. Forty percent of respondents and fifty eight percent
of those left of center deem it at least somewhat
(01:10:19):
acceptable to destroy a Tesla dealership. Where is this headed exactly?
Because from where I'm sitting, you have bought a bunch
of angry lunatics on the left who are now being
accepted as mainstream by many, a majority on the left,
(01:10:42):
at least in the survey. And yet from where I sit,
most of the people who own guns are on the right.
So are we supposed to let the people on the
left just have an ongoing conniption fit where they burn
things down, do forty billion dollars worth of damage. In
the so called Summer of Love, over two hundred people died,
by the way, in that quote, mostly peaceful protest. We
(01:11:08):
were told by the last Attorney General that the real
threat in this country came from super Catholics and school
board moms.
Speaker 6 (01:11:15):
Remember that.
Speaker 4 (01:11:16):
Don't ever forget that that was where the real danger
was coming from. Now, we all know that those on
the left, including those elected to Congress and the US Senate,
have spent a lot of time demonizing Donald Trump, calling
him a Nazi, a littoral nazi. They just ran a
campaign where they told you that the fate of democracy
(01:11:37):
hangs in the balance. Women showed up on the stairs
of the Capitol wearing Handmaid's Tales outfits because they just
knew that Donald Trump was gonna throw us all back
into chains. Everybody that wasn't a white male was going
back in chains. So they've been ginning up this sort
of idiotic response for so long. Now, so so long.
(01:12:00):
So what do you expect? I mean, this is where
we are. But here's the thing that I'm really irritated
by when I see this. Where are the people in
the news media that talk to Democrats on a regular
basis pressing them on whether or not they feel responsible
for the rise in the acceptance of violence by those
on the left. Do you feel any responsibility for Let's
(01:12:22):
just make sure I have this right, fifty five percent
of left of center people saying assassinating President Trump would
be somewhat justified. Do you take responsibility for that? I mean,
it's not like somebody took a shot. Oh wait, they did.
They did try to kill the president. But now something
is happening on the left that I'm sure they weren't expecting.
(01:12:43):
We just had a guy who was to the left
of Democrat Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, who tried to
firebomb the governor's house because of his stance on the
Palestinian situation. Something I might add, the state of Pennsylvania
has absolutely nothing to do with. So the violence is
now coming home to those on the left as well.
(01:13:04):
From their left, Will this be the inflection point that
makes them go, you know what, maybe we should ratchet
it back now. Of course, there are loudmouthed idiots on
the right who say idiotic and violent things, and every
chance I get, I tell them to shut up. Every
chance I get, I write, I say, I speak. There
(01:13:27):
is no place for political violence in this country. We
don't need it. We just need to believe in the
systems that we have had in place for oh so
very long that have protected us from so many, many,
many many things. Now I've got a story from nine
News that goes along with this. A man has been
(01:13:49):
arrested for sending letters to news media outlets emails rather
to local news outlets and insurance companies that detailed his
declaration of what was he declaring war against the forty
seventh presidential Cabinet of the United States. He went on
to describe how Tesla owners would be murdered on April seventeenth,
(01:14:11):
twenty twenty five, and thereafter until the death of Elon Musk.
The message listed various reasons for the declaration, including claims
that Trump violated his presidential oath, the termination of federal employees,
and that the president activated and empowered racism, bigotry, and hatred,
and for that the punishment is death, according to this man.
(01:14:36):
He also sent letters to insurance companies telling them that
the enclosed information is for immediate release and will help
validate evidence shown in the coming social media campaign. We
recommend you cancel all comprehensive vehicle coverage of Tesla vehicle's
effective sixteen April twenty twenty five. And then he wraps
it up by saying, we are Luigi, We are one.
(01:15:02):
This is the same Luigi Mangioni who has had thousands
and thousands of women writing him letters in jail while
they're also donating money for his defense fund. When it
is clear that dude murdered an insurance executive in cold
blood who wasn't even a executive from his own insurance company.
(01:15:23):
Now we have this other kid who stabbed another guy,
but the other guy was white and this kid's black.
So now hundreds of thousands of dollars have been donated
to the shooter because he's black and the other guy
was white. This is what passes for logic and rationale
on the left. They need to put down the crime
podcasts and start really paying attention to who they're supporting.
(01:15:46):
Because when something horrible happens, and I do believe it
will be something horrible at some point, and it will
happen because of someone on the left, I don't think
they're going to take ris ponsibility for it. So perhaps
we should demand that now before something really really bad happens.
Anyone can email me there, Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com.
(01:16:11):
We've got a couple things on the blog. I'm gonna
get you because at two thirty we've got Britta Horn
coming on the new chair of the Colorado GOP. Very
interesting story in that Gavin Newsome, who we all know
is running for president he's really trying to get out
ahead of Jared Polis right now. So now California has
sued to stop Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs. Now,
(01:16:35):
one of the questions I have is a question that
I always have about cases like this, and usually the
courts decide and I never quite understand how one gains standing.
Have you ever heard, Well, the case never really got
adjudicated because the plaintiff didn't have standing. According to the court,
that means that the plaintiff didn't necessarily have the right
(01:16:55):
to engage in suing over whatever they're suing over. And
the first thing I thought of was, I mean, does
California even have standing to sue over tariffs? Because this
is a constitutional issue, a function of the federal government
as outlined in the Constitution, and I don't know if
the justices are going to say that California has the
(01:17:21):
right to do this. Now, there is some legislation being
put forth in the House. I don't think it passes.
If it does, Trump's gonna veto it. That would pull
back the constitutional authority for tariffs back to Congress, which
is where the Constitution initially put them. But as I've
said before, Congress loves to punt difficult decisions to someone
else so they don't get held responsible for it. So
(01:17:44):
that is very interesting. We're going to be watching that
because I think it's actually really kind of important to
see if that check from the Constitution is going to
be reinstated. One of the things I've been talking about
since I got my first show in two thousand and
five is that Congress has abdicated, to my of it's
constitutionally assigned jobs to the executive branch for all the
(01:18:07):
reasons that I just said. They don't want to be
on record is saying yes, I'm voting for tariff's and then,
you know, terifs made everything more expensive. They'd much rather
be able to point at a president and say, oh, no,
he or she did that, not us. So that's going
to be really interesting to watch. We also have a
couple stories on the blog today. One of them is
(01:18:28):
from Puerto Rico, and you guys know, I just went
to Puerto Rico recently with just on American Financing's Dime,
and I was really impressed with San Juan. But they
have some significant issues they have to overcome. They just
had another island wide blackout. Why because it wasn't working.
(01:18:50):
In my mind, the mark of a developed nation is
its ability to keep the power on. That's like thing
number one, because even if you don't have great roads,
I mean Costa Rica is a good example of this.
Their roads are scary as hell in a lot of
places in Costa Rica, Like you've got to have some
serious kajones to want to drive in Costa Rica. But
the power is always on. And for me, that says, okay,
(01:19:13):
you're a little bit beyond developing nation when you can
keep the lights on. And Puerto Rico can't even do that.
And it's a shame. There is so much opportunity in
Puerto Rico right now, and I honestly believe that if
the President of the United States showed any attention to
Puerto Rico, just like, hey, what can we do to
get you moving in the right direction. Because the new
governor of Puerto Rico has come out and said, I'm
(01:19:36):
firing the company that provides power. But of course this
isn't like you can't just fire them and hire somebody else.
This is a really big undertaking. But if President Trump
stepped in and said, okay, Puerto Rico, what do we
need to do here, what do we need to do
to get this power on and keep it on with
some reliability, he would have the Puerto Rican vote till
(01:19:56):
the end of time. Republicans may have the we can
vote till the end of time. And I'm not talking
about in Puerto Rico. I'm talking about in Florida and
in New York, where the Puerto Rican population is huge.
I bet you there are more Puerto Ricans in Florida
and New York than there are in Puerto Rico by
a long shot. It needs to be fixed because Puerto
(01:20:17):
Rico could be a beautiful asset, right, a beautiful place
where Americans could go without a passport, have a great vacation,
but they just can't get out of their own way
and it's just kind of sad. Okay, guys, we're gonna
take a time out. When we get back. New Colorado
chair Woman Britta Horn will be joining us, and I
have a whole list of things that we came up
(01:20:38):
with in the first hour that the Republican Party needs
to focus on in these upcoming elections. We'll do that next.
On the other end of the phone is New Colorado
chair Woman Britta Horn. Hello, Britta, I know.
Speaker 8 (01:20:49):
Hello, Hello miss Mandy.
Speaker 4 (01:20:51):
First of all, congratulations, we haven't had a chance to
chat since you were elected by the Colorado Republican Party
Central Committee to be the chairman of the Colorado GOP,
and boy was I glad with that outcome. So let's
just start there.
Speaker 8 (01:21:05):
Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (01:21:07):
I want to ask you and I and my listeners
got together, we put our heads together in the first
hour to come up with issues that we thought that
the Colorado Republican Party should focus on in the upcoming
election cycle. Because we are nothing if not helpful, Britta,
but I appreciate. I'd like to ask you about what
has surely been a whirlwind since that election for you personally.
(01:21:28):
What have you been doing as the brand new chair
of the Colorado Republican Party in the last few weeks.
Speaker 8 (01:21:35):
Oh, my gosh, doing things just like this. I don't
know how many media hits we've had so far, and
I just came off of one just before you. So
it's been that. It's just spreading out what talking about.
What is the job. The job is one thing. It
is to elect more Republicans. It's also to grow the party,
and it's also to fundraise and I've been doing all
three of those things in the last one twenty two
(01:21:57):
to twenty three days. And it's been a while. A
lot of we have transitions going on, right now, we're
trying to find things where things are where, you know,
I think everybody knows that we're moving the office. I'm
going to more regional offices. And we've been looking at
places already and where we can move the furniture and
start hitting the ground running with field directors. So it's
(01:22:18):
all the above, and it's been NonStop.
Speaker 4 (01:22:20):
So if you know, one of the big issues that
the Republican Party has had over the last few years
has been fundraising. And I had a meeting with someone
who is not necessarily a Republican but a conservative and
and he said to me, he said, look, there's a
lot of money on the sidelines right now in the
conservative side of Colorado that isn't that has not been
(01:22:42):
being put in the party. Are you seeing some of
that money perhaps begin to shake loose. Are you seeing
donors that we're not happy with the prior leadership beginning
to say, okay, maybe we're onto something here.
Speaker 8 (01:22:54):
Absolutely, and a lot of new donors, a lot of
people are saying, I'm going to say, of all the
messages I'm getting good at and ugly, the favorite ones
are people going, Okay, I became an independent because of
all this chaos. I'm willing to come back to the
Republican Party, become a Republican and bring money with me,
and that has been the biggest, biggest piece I'm hearing
(01:23:14):
from people saying they're bringing money over. They're going to
be new fundraising people's new donors that we haven't had before.
And I'm looking forward not only to the traditional ones
that around the state that you and I talked about before.
You know, they closed their checkbooks. They were not send
money to Colorado and it went out of state. It
went to Florida that you were talking about earlier. It's like, no,
mosse need to be to redirected back into Colorado and
(01:23:37):
let's get to work.
Speaker 4 (01:23:38):
With it absolutely.
Speaker 7 (01:23:39):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:23:39):
I want to ask you about the I think the
most challenging part I would think of your job, and
that is bringing together the factions. And that's the only
way to put it. There are distinct factions in the
Republican Party in Colorado right now, and they're not particularly
friendly to one another. I've seen some less than kind
(01:23:59):
things about you already in some of the Facebook groups,
and I'm sure you know what's flying around out there.
What if any progress or what if any actions have
you taken as the chair to begin to mend those fences.
Speaker 8 (01:24:14):
Well, absolutely, but I've been putting out the olive branch,
you know. I'm just like, what can we do to
work on together? What can we find things that are together.
You're absolutely right, there's some ugly, nasty things out there,
and I Dinkinner still wheeling from their boss. And the
only way we're going to be able to win them
over is to show some wins. When we start showing
the dollars that we're bringing in, we're showing the changes
that we're bringing in, we're going to be exposing. We
(01:24:35):
just still have to show, like I said, what happened
in the past, We're going to have to expose that,
and we're gonna have to say because we want everybody,
you know, integrity back, we need to get our integrity back.
We have to be honest, we have to be transparent,
and that should come across as more wins. How we're
going to do better, how we're not going to do
the way it was in the past, and that should
bring some people over.
Speaker 4 (01:24:56):
So I'd like to ask you, and this has been
one of my frustrated with Republicans, not just in Colorado.
This is not a uniquely Colorado problem. But Democrats are
super good at staying on message. And I don't know
if they have meetings once a week, I don't know
what happens with that, but they're incredibly good at staying
on message, and especially in this state where not only
(01:25:19):
do Republicans have to run against the Democratic candidate, they
also have to run against a lot of our media. Right,
so you lose the ability to control the narrative because
the media is only going to ask you about things
that you feel they feel are a disadvantage. I've now
watched it happen over and over and over again.
Speaker 9 (01:25:35):
I know you have too.
Speaker 4 (01:25:36):
So the only hope for this is incredibly disciplined messaging.
What is the Republican message right now? Who is working
on crafting the priorities for the Republican Party in terms
of campaign messages that will resonate not just with Republicans,
but resonate with the far larger number of independents whose
votes we have to win.
Speaker 8 (01:25:57):
Right, And I think it's everybody's correct, you know, crafting
out and we're going to do our share as well.
And it's gonna be a lot of candidates.
Speaker 3 (01:26:04):
Have to do.
Speaker 8 (01:26:04):
They're crafting their message. Again, the Republican Colorado. Republican Party
is not policy. It is literally a machine to get
the job done. And the machine and the product that
we have to crank out are good Republicans and more
of them and more people running and growing the party,
and like we just said, fundraising. So when the messaging,
(01:26:24):
like you said, the two hundred fifty thousand Republicans active
in Colorado that didn't vote November, we're gonna have to
message to them separately and differently. But you're right, very
focused and very very point on, and all say the
same thing for those two hundred and fifty thousand people,
and it's going to be different than the independent three
hundred thousand independents at our right leaning and have a
(01:26:46):
message for them. It's going to be we're gonna find
the pieces that we all get along with. And you know,
maybe it's not gonna be eighty twenty with with Ronald
Wigan as they all talk about. Maybe it's gonna be
more sixty forty or seventy thirty. We have to find
the piece is that we can talk about so we
can stay glued together on those pieces and get people
to vote. We need more voters. We're only twenty of
(01:27:09):
the state. Yeah, well voters, go ahead, I'm says that.
Speaker 4 (01:27:16):
Yeah. The way I see this, Brita is really simple
is that we have to sort of drop the Republican blinders.
And this is not a criticism, to be clear, This
is not me saying the Republicans are wrong so they
should drop their blinders. But the reality is, to your point,
we are so outnumbered in this state in terms of
voter registration, that is, it is a losing proposition to
(01:27:42):
only focus on the Republican voter, Like, we have to
craft a message that is going to reach those independent
voters who maybe have not had the best time since
twenty nineteen. I appreciate what you're saying about the Republican
Party being the machinery, but I do think there's value
in helping Republican candidates understand every issue in terms of
(01:28:05):
how to articulate that and how to articulate that. A
conservative you know, answer or solution would be the way
to go. Because I I am not gonna lie. I've
had candidates on this show for office that when I
got done, I just died inside a little bit because
it was so obvious that they didn't have a handle
on certain issues. They weren't able to articulately, sort of
(01:28:29):
articulate the Republican position, and it's painful. And so do
you think there would be any value in sort of
giving those those white paper sort of backstroke, you know,
back information pieces of information to candidates. And if so,
how do we do that?
Speaker 8 (01:28:45):
I like that, I like what your I like what
you're I've already voted down while you were talking, So
I like this idea because you're right. It has to
be the issues that are concerning all of us, not
only across America but Colorado. And it's going to be crime.
Why would aren't we all talking about crime? Why aren't
we all talking about the economy? You know, because there's
like there's pieces that we all are touched by. You know,
we can't we don't talk as much anymore because Trump
(01:29:06):
fixed that for us, or the government did. I'll go
fix So let's find those pieces that still resonate with
all of us at every day living in Colorado. What
is it? And it's going to be obviously right now,
parenting issues, it's going to be school issues. I mean,
that's the topic it's going to be two ways. It's
going to be, you know, set a bill three. We
have to be talking about two A and everybody's and
(01:29:26):
you're right. I'm going to tell you. You know, Mandy
is inside Inso I get a lot of the text
and a lot of people saying you need to have
a statement about this, and you need to have a
statement about that. I already agree about two A. I
already agree about a first amendment, right, I already agree
with all these parents and these m trans things that
are going on and being working on those issues at
the schools. You don't need to hear from me. You
(01:29:48):
need to hear from the candidates officials. I just need
to and the party needs to bolster them for it.
But you're right, you still have to be just thank you.
We have to just be laser focused that we're talking
all the same things absolutely exactly.
Speaker 4 (01:30:02):
And here's the thing. Everybody doesn't have time to become
an expert in every issue, especially if it's not an
issue that's primary in their community. But we need to
prepare them to be able to articulate those positions on
every issue. Because I know for a fact that the
Democratic Party does this and they coach their candidates and
they work on the message with them so they can
(01:30:24):
clearly articulate their positions, and it shows sometimes and I
realize that I view it anyway as Republicans being more
independent minded. Right our candidates tend to think they have
good answers, but then they fall flat in being able
to explain why they're good answers.
Speaker 6 (01:30:39):
So that would be my thing.
Speaker 4 (01:30:41):
But I'm going to give you my list, Britta, and
I'll email this to you because I know you know
you might be driving and I want you to die
one of the things that I would say if I
were chair, and you can do this or not. All
of the fighting and in fighting needs to be taken
off social media, like it all needs to stop. And
if we have to have some kind of come to
Jesus meeting where people can come in invent their spleen
(01:31:03):
and get it over with and just hash it all out,
then let's do that. But the infighting on social media
accomplishes nothing. It makes Republicans look really really bad and
really small and petty. And I'm not saying this just
because I feel that way, and I do. You should
see the emails I get from people about this. They
don't realize that other people are paying attention, so we
(01:31:23):
can find but we got to take it off social media.
Speaker 8 (01:31:26):
Exactly, and behind closed doors disagree, but there's just still
people that have a need.
Speaker 6 (01:31:33):
You know.
Speaker 8 (01:31:33):
You got to remember they've they've lost power. Yeah, they
lost their seat, and they're still, like you said, reeling
and feeling. And I'm already having I mean, I'm already
having trackers people coming to all their meetings and their
trekkers tracking me. I'm not doing the job. And they're
a Republican too, I'm like, oh, good, gravy, I stop. Yeah,
(01:31:55):
And I'm like I'm shocked by it. I really am,
because I'm like, really, they don't. They just want to
fight to fight, and that's what they've been doing the
last two years. And how's that work for them?
Speaker 4 (01:32:05):
Yeah? Trust me, I'm on your side on that one
for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:32:10):
The second point is something I feel really strongly about,
and I think that this is something the parties should
put together almost immediately and distribute to every Republican party,
not just candidates. We need to come up with a coherent,
one sheet page on everything that has happened in Colorado
negatively since twenty nineteen when the Democrats took over total control.
(01:32:30):
We need to have statistics on car thefts, on auto
insurance rates, on affordable housing. We need to have every
statistic that shows that Democrats have raised the cost of living,
made us less safe, possibly led to more overdoses with
their lacks policies. We need to have that data in
front of us. So when we ask voters is your
life better since twenty nineteen than it is now? You know,
(01:32:51):
it's a big, powerful question, and very few people would say, yeah,
my life is better, all those things are better. I'd
love to see that happen right away.
Speaker 8 (01:32:59):
Well there you go like that, and you get me
nervous about the negativity because I want to be you know,
you are the one that monitored me as the happy Warriors.
So when you said that that, I'm like, oh, the
stats that are niggative.
Speaker 6 (01:33:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:33:09):
But here's the thing, Britta, You're not doing it. You're
just empowering other people with the information they need, because
it is going to take a herculean effort to get
Republicans over the finish line for a whole bunch of
reasons that have nothing to do with you or a
lot of Republicans, but here we are. I'm just trying
to arm them with good information. So when the media
tries to steer them do a topic that doesn't matter,
(01:33:32):
they have data to say, wait a minute, I'd rather
talk about this instead, because it's pretty significant. Britta, I
don't I don't envy you, but I'm excited. I've talked
to so many Republicans who are excited about about They
feel hopeful for the first time in a long time,
and they're looking forward to what's going to come out.
What should people do if they are either a lapsed
(01:33:54):
Republican like me, or maybe they're an independent who is
looking at the landscape and saying, maybe I want to
throw my in, how do they get involved at the
local level?
Speaker 8 (01:34:02):
I mean definitely local level. Go back to your local party,
and then we have to do an inventory as that
as well as what does every county party have. You know,
they have a web page, they have a Facebook page,
they have the stand that we need to get an
inventory of that. I am all about everybody going back
to their local and seeing what they can do to
get involved. And if there's so many you know, obstacles
and can't do it or can't find it, then go
(01:34:24):
to the COLGP dot dot org a website and get
involved there. At least get the newsletters. Start getting involved
there and start you know, communicating with us there and
see if we can turn around and find the people
you need to have and so you can start getting involved.
Because again you and I both know this, all politics
is local. We don't take care of our school boards
(01:34:44):
and our waterboards and our electric boards and our commissions
and all the things that go on and planning commissions.
We're not going to get that next level. We have
got to take care of it on the local level.
It's time to take it back.
Speaker 4 (01:34:54):
Aimen to that, Britta Horn. Keep going out there and
beating the pavement, and hopefully we're gonna have good news
for the Republican Party in this state again soon. We
desperately need to bring back some balance in the House
and the Senate. For sure, I appreciate your time as always,
even though I feel like I did most of the
talking and told you how to do your job. But
I have so much confidence in you that I just
want to give you ideas because I think you'll actually
(01:35:16):
go yeah, I'll listen to the good ideas and implement them,
which would would be a nice change.
Speaker 8 (01:35:21):
And we need listeners. Absolutely. You guys have the good ideas,
let's use them.
Speaker 4 (01:35:24):
All right, Bretta, we'll talk to you soon. I'll send
you the rest of our items in an email.
Speaker 8 (01:35:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:35:30):
All right, thanks Bretta Horrane. That's the Colorado chairperson of
the Colorado GOP. So there you go. I guess that's
Grant Smith walking into the studio on Volati Thursday. Oh,
you don't get to talk any ro it's not going
to turn.
Speaker 6 (01:35:42):
Your my cup. That's right.
Speaker 4 (01:35:44):
Yeah, there you go. There I am there you go.
Speaker 3 (01:35:46):
There you go?
Speaker 4 (01:35:48):
Yeah, well why I mean, you know, anyhow, Now it's
well not yet, it's not yet time. What is the
latest Taking It for Granted podcast?
Speaker 10 (01:35:57):
On?
Speaker 7 (01:35:58):
Actually, yeah, there was supposed to be a new episode today,
but I forgot to bring my laptop in. I edited
all last night and then was going to voice my
intro for it.
Speaker 6 (01:36:06):
Failure.
Speaker 4 (01:36:06):
You are a complete and total failure.
Speaker 7 (01:36:10):
The new episode will be out tonight when I get home.
Excellentno Jones he's a musician from the Tono Jones Revelry.
I got to interview him in the studio see a
couple months ago. And we just really vibed out. So
I was like, hey, you want to come on the
podcast and he agreed.
Speaker 4 (01:36:24):
Super cool that he was able to hook up with
a band called Tono Jones.
Speaker 7 (01:36:28):
That out so well, like the Rick Lewis procect exactly.
Speaker 8 (01:36:31):
Kiss.
Speaker 4 (01:36:32):
Yeah, It's just amazing how that all works out. And
now it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio.
Speaker 7 (01:36:38):
Of its Guy and the World of the Day.
Speaker 4 (01:36:43):
Were you scared? Were you scared to yell in the world?
Speaker 7 (01:36:46):
Because the doors are open? So what why is that
still open?
Speaker 4 (01:36:49):
It's working though it's seventy six degrees in here?
Speaker 2 (01:36:52):
Sall.
Speaker 4 (01:36:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:36:53):
I was sitting out there and all I could hear
was you yelling. So I heard the show?
Speaker 4 (01:36:57):
Did you know the show yelling? What is our dad?
Speaker 6 (01:37:01):
Joke of I like this one?
Speaker 5 (01:37:04):
Do not, I repeat, do not trust anyone named Chris
because Chris crossed Apple Sauce.
Speaker 6 (01:37:12):
What he's going to do to you?
Speaker 8 (01:37:16):
David?
Speaker 7 (01:37:16):
I can't find my it's right here behind the phones.
Speaker 6 (01:37:22):
Father.
Speaker 4 (01:37:23):
Here we go, trained professional. I'll try that at home.
Where was a mirror?
Speaker 6 (01:37:28):
Word of the day? Please I apologize times it is
a verb. Whend W E N D whend.
Speaker 2 (01:37:38):
Verb.
Speaker 4 (01:37:40):
I'm gonna say it's to rip something apart.
Speaker 7 (01:37:42):
I'm gonna say it's to travel in a like a
meandering way, like that.
Speaker 4 (01:37:48):
You wend your way around. I think that's wind your way,
but whatever.
Speaker 5 (01:37:51):
To move slowly from one place to another, usually by
a winding or indirection.
Speaker 4 (01:37:59):
We all done, and I made fun of it.
Speaker 7 (01:38:02):
Yeah, golly, sorry journalism.
Speaker 4 (01:38:05):
But now today's trivia question. Where was American poet and
Harlem Renaissance icon Langston Hughes born? Hint it was not
New York. I think Georgia, Baltimore, but I'm not positive.
Speaker 6 (01:38:17):
I see.
Speaker 4 (01:38:20):
You're all wrong, Jonathon, Missouri. It is long believed that
Hughes was born in nineteen oh two, but more recent
research indicates he was born a year earlier. All right,
what is our jeopardy category?
Speaker 5 (01:38:31):
Abbreviations? Okay, I'm going to say the descriptor then say
the abbreviation. Tell me what the abbreviation stands for. So okay,
my rule for this you cannot guess until I say
the abbreviation. Well, okay, okay, your suggested dose of vitamins.
Speaker 4 (01:38:46):
RDA, Mandy, what is your recommended daily allowance?
Speaker 5 (01:38:50):
I'll take that or amount correct, Yes, automotive feature AWD grant, grant?
Speaker 7 (01:38:57):
What is all wheel drive?
Speaker 4 (01:38:58):
And I have that on my car too?
Speaker 7 (01:39:00):
This is a college, you.
Speaker 4 (01:39:02):
Tip, Mandy? What is University of Texas el passing?
Speaker 6 (01:39:05):
That is nice?
Speaker 5 (01:39:07):
The Northern Military Veterans Organization after the Civil War g.
Speaker 1 (01:39:11):
A R.
Speaker 6 (01:39:13):
M M.
Speaker 4 (01:39:17):
Grandsons of the American Revolution.
Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
Dang it.
Speaker 7 (01:39:20):
Oh yeah, I'm staying side Grand Army.
Speaker 6 (01:39:22):
Of the Republic.
Speaker 4 (01:39:23):
Shoot you idiots.
Speaker 6 (01:39:25):
We go cozy feature of a home for sale w
b F w b F, which is the f?
Speaker 7 (01:39:35):
No idea?
Speaker 4 (01:39:37):
What is wood burning fireplaces? And I look at the
state listenings.
Speaker 7 (01:39:44):
Literally every day at WBF in my house.
Speaker 4 (01:39:46):
Now, I've never seen all of my real estate listening
perusing have ever seen WBF.
Speaker 7 (01:39:52):
So what was the score?
Speaker 6 (01:39:52):
Didn't we tell you?
Speaker 4 (01:39:53):
Now?
Speaker 6 (01:39:54):
To one?
Speaker 4 (01:39:55):
I just wore my second one back. I got to that,
I lost one and I won it back, So it's
two to one.
Speaker 7 (01:40:00):
Nice try though, nothing better than a wood burning fireplaces.
Speaker 4 (01:40:03):
You know what, We've talked about converting ours to electric
because Chuck has super bad allergies to wood, chlorophyll, all
that stuff, So when we burn a fire, it's it's
tough for him.
Speaker 6 (01:40:13):
Get that man outside.
Speaker 4 (01:40:14):
We got him an air pier fire instead. I put
it right by his chair, and now I light the
fire and coot.
Speaker 7 (01:40:19):
People from Ohio like have the worst allergies.
Speaker 4 (01:40:21):
Because Ohio, Ohio is like allergy heaven. You know exactly
oh h I don't say the first state school in Ohio,
exactly Ohio University.
Speaker 7 (01:40:37):
There you go, Bobcats, there we go.
Speaker 4 (01:40:40):
Anyway, I'll leave it on that note. I will be
broadcasting live tomorrow from the mighty millions Raffle House in
winter Park. I am so excited.
Speaker 7 (01:40:47):
You're going to hit the slopes, No pass our pasts.
Speaker 4 (01:40:51):
We might do a little snowshoeing, don't know, that would
be fun. Let's see, we're gonna go snowshoeing. I'm doing
the International snowshoeing symbol right now, but it's it's spot on.
You do a exactly what I was doing. We'll be
back from there tomorrow. In the meantime, Koa Sports coming
up next. Keep it right here,
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock
Accident and Injury Lawyers.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell and Don on KLA.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Ninety one FM, GOT.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
And then through three Andy Coronal.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
No sad bab.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Thursday edition of the show.
I am your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell,
and join my right hand man. He is a rod,
but you can call him Anthony Robers. Together we will
take you right up until three pm. And today we
are broadcasting from the depths of Hell. Oh wait, no,
our air conditioning is out. That's why it feels that way.
(00:49):
You know what it is a rod? Is the air
just like deathly still in there, like it is deathly
still in here.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Yes, no movement at all, nothing, just yeah, oh fire Bernie, hell.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Girl, I'm not saying he's wrong. Okay.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Oh, I'm going to keep this sound effect going into
the ac work got the whole show.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
People will be trying to get the static. They'll be
trying to well nobody. Back when I was a kid,
if this started to sound like this on the radio station,
you would reach down. You would barely turn the knob
because you were actually using a dial at the back
in ancient.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Times camping with Mandy Connell, a fire pit, the whole show.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
No, you know what I do love though, I love
the mule log on the cable networks like Audible. There
you go. We're just doing an Audible yule log because
we're broadcasting from the depths of Hell because our air
conditioning does not work in the air.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
I'm waiting to get confirmation on Satan to join the
show right now.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
I'm looking at just a phoner.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah, because he said it was too hot.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Yeah, he even is a layer above, so you know,
maybe we'll get him on zoom and didn't person.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
It's just not happening.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
It's too too hot for On.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
A very very very serious note, a lot of people
have reached out to me and said, hey, did you
see what's happening at Florida State University. They are in
an active shooter situation. One person has been arrested, but
five people have been killed and others have also been
sent to the hospital with injuries from the shooting. There's
very few details that are known by now, but every
(02:21):
time you see this, every time I see anything like
this happening, I am overcome by the grief of the
entire situation. And I know that seems weird to go
from laughing just a moment ago, but you know when
you start to get punchy and you start to feel
like a little bit emotionally raw, and then you start
(02:43):
nothing starts making sense. Okay, So last night go back
in time. Last night, we've filmed another episode of My
Side Hustle, and in that episode, I talked about a
piece of artwork. We're decorating our set. So I brought
this piece of artwork in and I talked about the
artists that did it, in this experience that I had,
and just how much I love this woman, and it
(03:03):
was just such a great thing. I get home, I
get a text message she has died, the artist that
I haven't talked to in probably a year and a
half or two years. But it was weird that that
all happen on the same day, and it was just
very cataclysmic. And I actually wrote about her on the
blog today because this was one of those people. And
I hope that everybody in our listening audience has some
(03:24):
of these people in their lives, okay, because I think
that there are people that walk this earth that sort
of exude and inhabit a brightness, a lightness, and they
are people that bring joy and light to other people, right.
I mean, it's a very special personality type to be
able to be that. I certainly am not that person.
(03:46):
I mean, I have no illusions about that. But I've
been lucky enough to have multiples of those people in
my life. And she was one of them. And she
was an artist, and she loved her husband, and she
loved God, and she loved the United States of America.
And so it was definitely a gut punch last night
to find out she had passed away. And I thought
(04:06):
it was really interesting because I called her in twenty
eighteen to chat about something I don't even remember what
at this point, and she said, I can't believe you
called me today. And I said, oh, I'm sorry, I
haven't called in so long. You know one of those,
And she said, no, I'm leaving the doctor's office. I
was just diagnosed with breast cancer. And I don't think
I'm ready to tell anyone here, meaning Southwest Florida, but
(04:30):
I kind of need to vent a little bit to someone,
So thank you for being that person. And she did
she vented and shared her concerns and we talked about that,
and she battled cancer for all of those years. But
yesterday I haven't talked about her in months, maybe you know,
maybe a year, and I chose yesterday to talk about her,
(04:50):
and then I find out she's passed away. So that
is just kind of gotten everything all all whacked. And
then what's happening at Florida State is devastating. It's absolutely devastating,
as it is every single time this occurs, and I'm
devastated for the victims, and I'm devastated for the perpetrators
(05:11):
because I mean, I'm going to make an assumption if
it's a student, this is a young person who made
a choice to throw his or her life away in
some dramatic act of insanity. And now people's lives are
forever altered. Kids went to college and they're not going
to come home. And how do we get to these
(05:32):
people before they become this way? You know, Chuck and
I were talking on the way to work today, and
you know, there's such a problem with mental illness in
this country, but there is sort of this and I've
talked about it so many times. We have a spiritual
rot in this country right now. The good news is
there are pockets of light. There are pockets of lights
(05:56):
on university campuses like Ohio State, which I am not
an Ohio State Bunckeye fan, and this pains me to
admit it, but they've had something of a spiritual revival
going on at Ohio State. We had a story I
think I put it on yesterday's blog. I meant to
if I didn't, that Ohio State's new championship rings when
they have the you know, the big gaudy top part
(06:16):
that all championship rings have now with all the diamonds
and everything. When you flip that over and look underneath
that in the ring, there is a cross underneath in
the bottom of the ring. Because their football team is
leading a spiritual revival at Ohio State. They just had
a huge prayer meeting where thousands of kids showed up
to talk about Jesus. Some of them got baptized. They
(06:39):
were singing, they were rejoicing, they were being together. And
I'm not saying that is going to solve all the ills.
That's not going to solve the problem. It's not going
to prevent what's happening at Florida State, because unfortunately, we
live in a world where evil exists. And I think
evil exists just because we have free will that must
be tested. I that's the only way to explain it.
(07:02):
And I'm not making excuses or poop pooing it or
downplaying it. I'm just saying I think there's evil in
this world, and when things like this happen, this is
an evil thing. So it's devastating. We have at least
six injured. They have caught the shooter. He's still alive,
I guess. So we're gonna find out, you know, maybe
(07:25):
someday what exactly was going on here. But I appreciate
all of you have reached out today. It's just been
a crazy last eighteen hours, just a really crazy day.
So let's just into the blog. Shall we find it
at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for
the headline that says, four seventeen twenty four blog what
(07:46):
should the Colorado GOP focus on? Click on that, and
here are the headlines you will find within tic Tech
toe A winner.
Speaker 8 (07:55):
I think there was in office. Half of American Alwayships
We come on the team. That's cart A France.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Plant Today on the Blood New Colorado. Gopach here Britta Horne.
Today at two thirty, Greg Lopez is running for governor.
A moment about an artist. Yes, O Trump should not
move space force. Yes, school should censor what kids have
access to. Dougco Sheriff's office shows their sense of humor.
Watch the special on Dave Logan. Another violent progressive is arrested.
(08:23):
Scrolling California sues over tariffs, dismantling the Biden's censorship complex.
The evidence that Garcia is a gang member is not
super solid. Scrolling Puerto Rico is a beautiful hot mess
who is ready for farmers' markets. A moss is broke
laser guided robot. Farmers are coming. Jack Black ranks his
(08:43):
own movies nice alternatives to telling someone off another weird
Oreo flavor has sort of arrived. Border patrol morale has skyrocketed.
Zuck bought Insta because of camera envy. Shockingly, Fire Festival
two has been postponed. How it appeals to keynotes properly?
Top ten Dogs of the week. Those are the headlines
(09:04):
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And after everything
We've gone through this week, I'm super excited about tomorrow.
I mentioned as we took Well, maybe I didn't mention
it yet. I'm also we're broadcasting from Hell today, Anthony
and I are because the air conditioner is not working
in this still airs, just killing us. But I because
(09:26):
I'm driving up to Winter Park with Ross after the show.
I'm wearing a sweater because it's gonna be cold in
winter Park later tonight. Right, it's gonna be cold. So
here we are broadcasting from hell. But why are Ross
and I going to Winter Park? We're not running away together.
We're going up tomorrow to broadcast from the mighty millions
(09:47):
Raffle House, and so we're going to be broadcasting for
Winter Park tomorrow, and I'm very much looking forward to
that because I'm very much looking forward to sharing good
news about good things that are happening elsewhere, because I
just feel like everything has been very very heavy lately,
very very heavy lately, which is why the final video
on the blog is top ten Dogs of the Week.
There you go, ay, Rod, TikTok's getting sneaky.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Now.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
When you send me TikTok videos about half of them,
it says this content may not be suitable for some people,
Why don't you log in and we'll decide. See, eh,
we're getting you. So how they get you gonna log in?
Then to the text, you just said that Dave Logan
Special was fantastic. Yes, it was a rod. You were
(10:29):
the one who told me how good it was. Were
you the.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
One that yes, it was absolutely exceptional.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
It is phenomenal And I put it on the blog
today so you can just go there and watch it.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
I immediately texted Dave and said that was a treat.
They did a great job.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
If for no other reason, you got to watch it
for the stash Okay, the Dave Logan stash prominent appearance.
You know what's funny is to hear how his voice
has changed over the years. You know, not what he says.
I mean, he's he's When you see video of Dave
Logan young, that's exactly what Dave Logan now is like,
(11:05):
only he's older. There's no change in the dude. Like
he didn't get a big head from all his success.
He's just the same person, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
And I don't know if you can look it up
on YouTube, maybe you can.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
But if you want to see video of the lone
reception he had as Denver Bronco from John Elway.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
You can see it in the special I do Wonderful.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
It's very very very good, very very very good, and
I don't blow smoke. I also put some stuff on
the blog about the artist that I was just talking about.
Her name was Leoma Lovegrove and she was an absolute trip,
an absolute trip. She was the first artist that I
ever met who was a rock solid conservative first one.
And I love artists as a group of people. I
(11:46):
find them fascinating and wonderful and interesting, but they're all
left leaners or wildly left. But not Leoma. She she
was something man and somebody did a wonderful documentary on
her that is not very long, and it's just really
really the world has lost a very special light. Even
if you didn't know her, you would have loved her.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You did.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Everybody loved her anyway. Okay, on the blog today, we've
got Britta Horn coming in. I just verified with Britta,
and I thought, in before Brita came on, I thought,
maybe she's coming on at two thirty in the one
o'clock hour. We will as a group audience that mostly
leans right, even though even if you're not a registered Republican.
(12:32):
Most of you lean right. I do have you left leaners,
but I want you to participate too, hear me out.
I woant to come up with the list of priorities
that you in this audience would accomplish. Two things. Number one,
be good for the state of Colorado. Like that's number one.
Is this good for the people of the state of Colorado.
(12:53):
And number two, does it reach a wider audience than
merely the Republican Party Because the Republican Party has a
significant brand issue in Colorado. I mean it's.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Deep, it is really deep.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
They are also they're all running not just against you know,
their opponents, but also a good chunk of the news
media in this town. So there are real challenges for
the Republican parties. So it cannot be narrow minded. It
cannot be the party platform, which is, you know, the
most crazy stuff that everybody as far to the right
wants in there. I mean, it's it has to be
(13:29):
realistic because we have to come up with consistent and
coherent and logical and and and you know, stuff that
makes good sense to solve the problems of Colorado. And
then every Republican needs to be on message. They need
to be on message. They need to stay on message.
They need to understand every aspect of the message, because
(13:52):
if we don't pull back the Colorado legislature and I'm
not even talking about Republican majorities, please don't even think
I am not in fantasy land over here. But if
we don't get it back to some semblance of balance
where the Republican Party has a fighting chance to pull
back on some of this insane stuff that is coming
(14:13):
out of the Gold Dome, man when we're in big trouble.
So we'll do that at one o'clock. Is on at
two thirty and oh no, Greg Lopez coming on it one. Okay,
you know what we're gonna do. We're gonna do it
at twelve thirty. We're gonna do it at the twelve
thirty hour. Greg Lopez coming up at one o'clock. I
like Greg, former mayor of Parker. I think he's a
very affable fellow. But Greg has lost every election that
(14:35):
he has run in except a special election that got
him into Congress for a hot minute because he ran
as a placeholder. So Greg has never won an election
except the mayor of Parker. Oh so there's two exceptions
that the general public voted on. But he keeps running.
And I don't mind someone continuing to run for office,
(14:56):
because not everybody wins on the first try, and people
come back and take another bite at the apple. But
if you don't have any indication that you're going to
perform better this time than last time, what are you
even doing? And that's what I'm going to ask him.
What indication does he have that his brand of conservatism
that includes a total ban on abortion, or at least
(15:16):
it did you know a short time ago? How is
that going to sell in the state of Colorado. So
we're going to talk to him at one o'clock. It's
going to be a humdinger of a show, Mandy. Republicans
and conservatives have never been able to have a productive
conversation about race. That's a major problem. It can be done.
If it's ignored, the Dems will always be able to
(15:36):
brainwash us. You guys, I just don't know. I just
don't know if that argument plays anywhere. It might play
in Colorado because we are so far to the left
of the rest of America. It's not even funny. But
you see how many black and Hispanic men voted for Trump,
(15:57):
so it's kind of hard to say, yeah, that guy's
a racist, but all of these you know, African American
and Hispanic men voted for him. I mean, that's a
very condescending position, and I don't know maybe in Colorado
that would work. I do think that the Republican Party
should not shy away from pointing out over and over
(16:20):
and over again the progress that has been made about
race in the United States of America, much of it
under Republican leadership.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
The problem with.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
The race discussion is that it's been so distorted, so
incredibly distorted, that now we have a c year regent
claiming racism because there was a black baby illustrated in
a public health campaign. I mean, it's absurd. We've gone
from horrible instances of awful racism to a place where
that is now what passes for racist behavior. It's crazy, Mandy.
(16:53):
The Republicans need to run a black log cabin candidate
and preach that Colorado is a moderate state and that
the Damas have gone too far. See I think you
can make the second argument while staying away from the first.
You don't need to play better at identity politics. You
really don't, but you can make the case that the
Democratic Party has gone too far, and because they have
(17:16):
over and over and over again. And that's the kind
of messaging I'm talking about. That is exactly the messaging
that every Republican should be adopting right now. I would
if I were running for office, this is how I
would do it. I would just start my comments, my
speaking engagements by saying the age old question is are
you better off now than you were in twenty nineteen?
(17:39):
Are you better off? Is Colorado better off now than
twenty nineteen, Because in twenty nineteen the Democrats took full
control of everything and they've been running the state since.
So if you're not better off, let me tell you
why you don't feel better off. And then you start
talking about the fact that crime is out of control,
the fact that car owner's insurance has gone up dramatically
(18:02):
because of all the car thefts, the fact that, on
a regular basis, we have police departments that are understaffed.
They're wildly understaffed, and no one seems to be talking
about that. We have educational systems where half of the
children in Denver public schools can't even read on grade level.
All under democratic control and just let people draw the line.
(18:27):
But I have that data. I would have every area
that Colorado has fallen, and I would know exactly the
percentage from twenty nineteen to now, and I would use
it after you make that emotional pitches. Is your life
better now? Do you feel like Colorado is better now
than it was in twenty nineteen? That should be the
selling point, because the answer across the board is generally
(18:49):
when it comes to those statistics that really matter, what
has gotten better since twenty nineteen? I mean, maybe we
should look so we can mitigate those issues. Anyway, We're
going to take a very quick time out. I'd love
for you to text your thoughts. We're going to I've
got my paper right here, that's my pad of paper,
and uh, we're going to make a list. What should
(19:10):
the Republican Party focus on in the next election cycle?
Maybe not your pet project, but something that will a
be good for Coloraden's and b be something that would
be appealing to more than the Republican Party. So there
you go. I'm excited. We already have a bunch of
people doing this. Mandy. I think crime and property taxes
(19:33):
for Republicans need to be the focus. The problem there
is that the property taxes horse is already out of
the barn. There's no way we're going to roll back
property taxes to where they were before. It is simply
not going to happen. So I would say your better
bet would be go after income taxes. But I'm writing
that down on list. All right, thank you, Texter. We'll
(19:53):
be right back with more of those. I'm asking you, guys,
and I don't care if you're not a Republican. As
a matter of fact, I'd really like to hear your opinion.
What does the Republican Party need to focus on in
the elects election cycle? What do you think are the
most important issues that not only are A there's two
requirements for this, A good for the people of Colorado,
and B something that will appeal to people outside of
(20:16):
the Republican Party right because there's not nearly enough elect
or registered Republicans to get someone over the finish line here.
You have to be able to go to a general
election and be able to win independence. So that is
something we can. Let me just say this. I think
that there are people and they are incredibly highly principled people,
(20:40):
and more power to you. There are certain things that
I'm pretty unyielding on myself. So I understand it, but
I hate to say it, but there's no way to
say it that isn't ugly, and it's about to be ugly.
Politics usually isn't doesn't go hand in hand with principles.
So you have to be realistic about getting elected, because
(21:01):
if you can't get elected, then you end up happening.
What's happening right now in Colorado is what happens right
If you can't get elected, then there's no point in
having those principles because you're completely ineffective. You may be principled,
and I do think that there are people in the
Republican Party that would rather be principled and lose than
recognize that perhaps whatever it is that their main priority
(21:24):
is is not what the Republican Party should focus on
going forward. Okay, here we go. Here's some interesting points
Republicans need to bring not bring up abortion or religion
in a my way or the highway fashion, be vague
about it until elected. Now, Dan, that is a great idea,
except they will be asked about it, and they'll be
(21:44):
asked about it over and over and over and over again.
Because that's what the media wants to talk about, because
it's not good for Republicans. So you can try and
hedge on the question. You can do all that stuff.
I actually think Hidigan all if she had done this
forcefully from the very beginning, it would have been a
little more helpful. It was just a little confusion before
(22:05):
the messaging got sorted that the messaging for me should
be for pro life, Republicans should be. I am pro life. However,
I recognize that the people of Colorado have decided differently,
and until we put it to a vote of the people,
we will let the people decide. Period. We'll let the
people decide. Now that's going to be very unpopular with
(22:27):
the staunchly pro life crowd, but again, you have zero
chance of ever putting any kind of restrictions or getting
any kind of restrictions on abortion in Colorado with the
curate democratic leadership. So it's time to split the baby people.
I know that's a bad analogy in this case. Oh wow,
that's terrible and oh sorry, oh wow, that was awful.
My apologies. Shouldn't use that when I'm talking about Borzia.
(22:49):
Oh wow. Anyway, Mandy, the Colorado Republican Party could possibly
draw me from the independent side of things if they
would be a lot less trumpy. I'm not on board
with that kind of extremism both ways. A simple deciding
factor for me is when I ask Republicans do you
believe the twenty twenty election was stolen? And when they
(23:11):
say yes, I'm done. I go back to the middle
and sometimes even left. Unfortunately, there are people in the
Republican Party who don't understand how how toxic that issue is.
And the good news is is that, you know, the
former leadership of the Republican Party stood firmly looking backwards
(23:33):
at that issue and they were just voted out and
their shows and successors were voted out. So at least
to the Central Committee, more people said, you know what,
we want to move away from that, and I think
there's a way to do it without, you know, turning
your back on the president. But let's face it, Donald
Trump is extremely unpopular in Colorado. Extremely He gained in
(23:54):
the last election cycle compared to the one before that.
He is excuse me, he lost in the last election
cycle compared to the one before that. He's just wildly unpopular.
So for Republicans trying to get elected outside of a
conservative district. There's no benefit to having Donald Trump in
your camp. There really isn't. I would say it was
a detriment if I was running in any kind of
difficult district then Donald Trump offered to endorse me, I don't.
(24:17):
I would ask him not to privately. So, no, you're
not helping me, you know, you're really not. He's that
unpopular here, Mandy. Uh, you defend that bloated pos no
matter what he does. That's not actually accurate, as has
been evidenced by my conversations earlier about due process and
(24:40):
people being deported. That was wildly unpopular with my listeners, wildly,
and yet I said it anyway, anyway here what people
said that we need to talk about or focus on, Mandy,
I think re establishing the importance of the democratic system.
I feel like Trump's presidency will be great, but it
will kind of be a set reset for the way
(25:00):
things are supposed to be, so we might not see
any true benefits until the next election cycle. And I
think you mean like voter ID, which I think I'd
like to see the polling data on voter ID in Colorado.
But I think voter idea is actually a winning issue
for Republicans as long as any voter ID proposal has
the ability for someone who cannot afford to pay for
(25:22):
an ID has the ability to get one. That has
to be in there, because then you can't make the argument, well,
they can't get an ID. That's ridiculous, completely ridiculous, Mandy,
a Republican candidate in Colorado needs to keep run on,
keeping taper going. The constant attempts at dismantling it by
the Democratic Party, while many moderates in the state appreciated
(25:44):
is a perfect argument to make an election. I do
think that that is a big part of the conversation
about the way that Democrats have been running roughshod over
the voters as part of their ongoing legislative assault on
Colorado since twenty nineteen. It's all part of the narrative,
and I hope and this is one of the things
I'm going to tell Brandant, like, the Republican Party needs
(26:05):
to send the narrative out with details, with facts to
back it up, and then Republican candidates need to know it.
They all need to know it. Mandy. Crime something is
it has to be something that everyone can get behind
and support. The Republican Party has a tendency to focus
on too many issues. Trump won because he was very
(26:26):
specific about issues and what he would do to fix it.
That is an excellent point. Now here's some things that
I wrote down on the break, but they've now scrolled
down so I can't see the actual text. Messages. Crime
has come up multiple times. Somebody said property taxes, and
I don't know if property taxes is a winning issue
because we're never going to get them back down. And
(26:49):
if you try to say we're going to get property
tax relief only to find out it's not feasible because
all of that money has been spent now by all
of the local governments and school districts, you're setting yourself
up for failure. I think a better chance would be
to go after the income tax. Fees are taxes. Fees
are taxes, and taxes are covered under TABOR, and I
(27:13):
would make a big show of pointing out how much
in fees the Colorado Democrats have levied on the citizens
of Colorado since twenty nineteen. It's in the billions of
dollars billions. With a B Vacancy committees man the Vacancy
Committee things sucks. I don't know if the party will
want to tackle that, because ultimately it benefits them because
(27:36):
they have more control over who's in the legislature. I
don't know. We'll have to ask a balanced budget. I
would love to see a balanced budget. But here's the thing.
We haven't needed a balance budget amendment because we had TABOR, right,
we had we had a mechanism to control spending. But
if they're going to keep shipping away at TABOR, then
I think we make a balance budget amendment that includes debt.
(27:57):
That's the kicker. One guy's ested posting of legislation for
seven days before it becomes law where a final vote
is taken. That would be that would be something of
a track meet the last week of the legislative session.
Voter I d We'll have to check into that. Roads
and bridges, this is a good one, and we get back.
(28:18):
I'm going to talk about how much I love transportation
as an issue. Well, let me tell you. In latest
polling data in Colorado, voters hold a an unfavorable position
of Donald Trump to the tune of fifty eight percent,
and of those who hold an unfavorable opinion, fifty five
percent of them have a strongly unfavorable opinion. So to
(28:39):
the Texter's point about you know, do not embrace Donald Trump,
especially if you're in a state wide race lowering homeowner
and auto insurance rates. That's a good one, but that's
super specific. Here's how you lower homeowner insurance rates. You
either create a reinsurance fund that specifically allows lodgerns to
(29:00):
tap into if there's cataclysmic costs, but then the taxpayers
are on the hook. Or you incentivize people using haal
resistant materials on their home because hail is what drives
homeowners insurance costs and now wildfires. So incentivize fire mitigation
and fire hardening your home. Give me tax breaks, and
(29:23):
I'm far more likely to cover up my seater sighting
with you know, fiber cement siding. Give me something so
and you put on the right kind of roof, a cement,
a tile roof, or a hail resistant roof. They have
those now, they actually have. I think they're kind of
a rubber composite thing and the hail is supposed to
bounce off and it doesn't hurt the substrate. Incentivize these things.
(29:44):
Give homeowners an opportunity to do the things that are
going to make their homes more secure, but let them
get a tax break while they're doing it. Things like
that auto insurance. One of the reasons auto insurance is
so high is because carthefs are still way too high
in Colorado, much much lower than they wear a couple
of you years ago, but still way too high in Colorado.
So that's going to be a part of a bigger
(30:06):
conversation about law enforcement, Mandy, not just roads and bridges.
How about Colorado pick up all the junk along the
sides of the roads in the state. I can't believe
how bad it continues to get. That takes me back
to the transportation conversation. I think that there is a
real opportunity for Republicans when it comes to transportation, because
you currently have a governor and a director executive director
(30:28):
of the Department of Transportation who are fully and solely
invested in forcing everyone out of their cars and onto
some sort of mass transit. Everything they do is geared
towards mass transit. They take money that should be spent
on roads and they spend it on mass transit crap
that nobody's going to ride.
Speaker 9 (30:43):
Right.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
They're trying to shore up a system that, because of
technological advances, is going to become obsolete very quickly, and
I'm talking in the next two decades. I really believe
that it will become relatively obsolete by then because self
driving cars will be a thing everywhere in every city,
and we will no longer own a car. We will
(31:04):
just call one to come pick us up. So it's
going to change everything. And they're trying to shore up
this system because they all thought it was a great idea,
but none of them use it. And if you ran
on a platform of look, we appreciate where mass transit
is today, but it's time to reinvest in our roadways
and it's time to reinvest in the taxpayers who have
(31:24):
to drive on them. So we are going to do
what we need to do with our transportation dollars to
shore up the roadways, including in the rural areas. You
guys are first, and we are going to fix our
bridges and our infrastructure. We're going to make traffic work
as well as humanly possible. That is our goal. You
start telling people that, I mean, that is an area
(31:45):
of such frustration for so many people. And do you
notice now, like nobody at the Capitol or in the
govern's mansion is even talking about this as an issue.
They really don't think it's a big deal. They think
everything's fine. So safety, roads and jobs, says this Texter,
stay away from social issues, express that in Colorado everyone
(32:09):
is welcome and we want them to be safe. I
would take it one step further text I like that
though we want them to be safe and prosperous, we
want an economy that benefits everyone. We want to be
able to go downtown in our major urban centers and
feel safe and comfortable. We want a vibrant place to
(32:30):
live with fewer regulations so it's easier to build homes.
I mean, there's so many ways to pitch this that
are so good. So we will talk to Brita at
two thirty and see which of these the Republican Party
decides to focus on. By the way, this is way
too many the texter earlier he said the Republican Party
tends to focus on too many things. Is absolutely right,
(32:51):
but all of these should be part of sort of
an informational list of talking points for candidates on all
of these issues, of Republican solutions to all of these problems,
and if we don't have those. We probably should get
cracking because one of my frustrations in the past was
even when Republicans are swept into office in big numbers,
(33:12):
they're generally not ready to be there, and if they
do get elected, they're probably only going to get one
election cycle to prove that they can do what they
said they were going to do, or at least make
a really good show of it when we get back.
Speaking of running for office as a Republican, Greg Lopez
joins us. He announced earlier this week that he is
(33:33):
running for governor. I believe actually last week now that
I said that, and he's on and I'm gonna ask
him Flatbret, why is this going to be different than
the last time? We'll talk to him next.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Bell and Pollock
Accident and Injury Lawyers.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
No, it's Mandy Connell.
Speaker 10 (33:50):
And Donam God the nice through.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Andy Connell, Keith you sad Babe, Welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Welcome to the second hour of the show. Anthony and
I are broadcasting straight from the depths of Hell today
as our air conditioning is still not working in the
studios and the deathly still air I just walked back
into the studios like walking into a dry sauna, because
we're in rooms with a bunch of equipment that gets hot.
(34:30):
So we just want you to feel sorry, maybe say
a little prayer for us that we can make it through. Now,
joining me once again to talk about a candidacy, a
campaign he has launched to be governor of Colorado. Former
Mayor of Parker, Greg Lopez, and I should say former
Congressman Greg Lopez. Welcome back to the show. Greg.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
Hey, Mandy, it's great to be on your show today. Now.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
I said earlier on the show that this is how
many times have you run for office in your career?
Speaker 9 (35:01):
In my career, let's see year one. No, you're talking
about a general election or.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Just like I know you. You ran for the mayor
Parker and you won that, right you were twenty seven
years old, and since then you've run for state Senate
and were unsuccessful and then governor twice.
Speaker 7 (35:19):
Correct, I ran.
Speaker 9 (35:21):
For the nomination, not for the actual election for governor.
So yes, I ran in the primary. Okay, no I didn't.
Just for clarity, because a lot of people do just
go onto the websites Denver posts on the Senate thing.
I never submitted documentation for actually being a candidate, but
(35:42):
that was an interview that we did have. So I
would say mayor once twice for the governor Republican nomination,
once for the vacancy for CD four, and then for
the actual stepping in against the Democrat election.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Okay, So the reason I asked that is because you're
running again for governor. What evidence or what suggests that
this time is going to be different when you didn't
make it out of the primary and the Republican Party
either time? What is different this time? In your eyes?
Speaker 9 (36:15):
You know, what's really different is not only is my
name recognition very well established throughout the state and people
knowed me now as a congressman, a former congressman that
went to DC, but more importantly Mandy. Since I've announced,
it's been I've gotten an enthusiastic support from not only Republicans,
(36:35):
but Democrats and unaffiliated voters. So the tapestry has changed
dramatically since the last since back in twenty twenty two.
Where are you on.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
The issues that you feel like it is going to
be able to bring in independent voters. We've just been
an hour thirty minutes on the show, getting suggestions from
people on the tech line, and there were a lot
of people who said, I don't want to talk about
abortion anymore, Just don't even talk about it. You've endorsed
a full ban on abortion. Do you think that's going
to come back and haunt you in a state that
(37:07):
keeps overwhelmingly affirm a right to abortion.
Speaker 9 (37:12):
No, I don't think. Look, you know, if people want
to talk about abortion, I can they know my position? Right?
There's really no discussion on that, you know. Really, what
I want to talk about is the day to day
issues that are impacting the lives of families, of individuals,
the cost of living, what's going on with our crime
and our streets, what's going on at the legislature that's
(37:33):
actually impacting our quality of life throughout the entire state.
You know, what's happening with our ranchers. You know, all
those things. Those are the things that I'm going to
focus in on because it's important that we start looking
at what was the special thing about Colorado and we've
lost it. So I want to make sure that we
talk about what makes Colorado special. Let's take the burden
(37:55):
off of people, and let's make sure that we improve
the quality of life.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Well, no, I don't disagree with anything you just said.
The problem is is that every time you talk to
well most news media outlets, they're going to ask you
about your stance on abortion. They're going to ask you
if you believe that the twenty twenty election was stolen.
So that's going to be the second question they ask you. Unfortunately,
Republicans in this state, especially in a state wide race,
you're not just running against your opponent. You know this,
(38:21):
You know how the media in this state works. So
when I make an issue of that, it's not because
I believe that should be top of mind. But the
reality is, in this state, I'm not sure that you
won't be bludgeoned to death with that alone, that opinion
that abortion should be illegal. It will be the first
thing every single news organization here leads with. It will
(38:41):
be the thing that defines you, even if you don't
want it to. And this is why I guess I'm
asking you, know, how does that jibe with an electorate
that keeps overwhelmingly saying we want to write to abortion.
That's I think there's got to be a better answer. Well, well,
there's got to be a better answer for it Greg.
Then you know, there's no more discussion about this because
that's not how people feel about it, because now it
(39:02):
is a safe issue, now on the go ahead.
Speaker 9 (39:06):
So here here's the bottom line. Right, everybody focuses on
what the media has to say. I've been out there
talking to ranchers, farmers, small business owners in the urban corridor.
I've been talking to people, you know what, and they
are not interested in the conversational abortion. You're right, the media,
the media is going to try to paint me in
a negative like they did it back in twenty twenty two.
(39:30):
You saw the mailers, you saw the flyers, right, you
saw the commercials. You know that's exactly what they do.
You have to ask yourself why is that, you know what,
when we're talking about the daily lives of people, you know,
people aren't interested necessarily about you know, what is going
to happen in the future. Colorado already voted on that, right. Look,
(39:50):
I don't support at all killing babies. I just don't what.
But it's been parted on. It's not a part of
the constitution. I'm focusing on what's going to make live.
It is better for parents and families and children, small
business owners, the economy here in Colorado. I know a
lot of people are going to say, well, I want
to know about this. Well, I'm going to tell you,
(40:11):
and then I'm going to focus on what's important, because
really what's important is the quality of life that we're
all struggling with. Look, nobody will argue that for the
last eight years under a one party government, things have
dramatically changed from what it was eight years ago. No
one will argue that point. So we need to focus
(40:32):
on what kind of Colorado do we want. Do we
want more of the same, or do we want to
have hope that we can bring a balanced government back
onto the governor's office. Someone that actually will listen, someone
that actually go out there because he understands and he
understands the challenges. Look, I come from humble beginneas. I
don't come from money. I don't come from an Ivy
(40:54):
League school. You know, I've been here in Colorado thirty
seven years. I've seen it change. But I'm not going away.
You know, I think a lot of people, Man, you're like,
you know what, Like you were you and I were
talking earlier. It's like this guy doesn't go away. You know,
every four years. He's coming back, and I'm coming back
because it's not changing, it's getting worse. We're now worse
in California. Think about that for a minute. We're worse
(41:17):
in California.
Speaker 6 (41:18):
Greg.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
That was a much better answer. That was a much
better answer on the question, because unfortunately, this is how
Republicans have to fight.
Speaker 9 (41:27):
Right.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
We don't have the luxury of just presenting the issues
and pointing out the ways that the state has fallen
off a cliff in so many significant areas, because you're
going to have to answer that question. You're going to
have to answer that twenty twenty election question, even though
it's freaking you know, twenty twenty six. You're going to
be asked these things. And I am held bent on
(41:48):
trial by fire here, you know, rather than trial by
fire somewhere else. That's my new attitude, because I'm tired
of seeing good people stumble over these sort of questions
that to your point, and I think you're absolutely right,
it doesn't matter as much to Colorado's it's in the constitution,
it's done. Move on, we're doing that. Now, Let's talk
about some issues that do matter. Because one of the
(42:09):
things that we were talking about in the last last
hour was what specific things should should the party should
should the party messaging be so every Republican in the
state has access to the same data to back up
these solutions. What are those issues that you think are
the issues that are going to make independent voters say,
(42:32):
you know what, that's kind of a good idea. Perhaps
I'm going to look at the Republicans this time.
Speaker 9 (42:37):
Yeah. Look, you know what, when we're talking about the
daily lives and the future of Colorado, let's talk about education.
Let's talk about making sure that our children are actually learning,
that they're being more proficient in reading, writing, and doing math.
Let's focus on giving them the skill sets that they
need to be successful and good stewards to our environment,
(42:58):
and also making sure that, you know, they can live
that American dream. Look, there's a lot of distraction that's
going on inside the school buildings these days. You know it,
I know it. All I want is our children to
be a good educated, be able to read. And I'm
going to ask people is like, do you know that
in Colorado a teacher cannot withhold a student if they're
not ready to move on to the fourth grade. They
(43:21):
still have to pass them on to the fourth grade.
Even they know that they're going to struggle. They know
they're going to struggle in that. We got to reevaluate
what are we doing here. You know, let's talk about transportation.
How long it's taking people to get home to their families,
you know, or to get to a meeting. One of
the things that I'd like to do is, you know,
I would it's time that we buy E four seventy.
(43:41):
The state should buy E four seventy and take the
tolls off. Let's get all that condition off of downtown.
Let's get all those semis to go around. This is
the stuff that impacts people every day. Every day when
they go to work. They hate getting on I twenty
five because they know that if somebody does something, you know,
whether it's a misstep, they try to cut somebody off,
(44:03):
if someone clipped somebody, it's gonna be an hour to
an hour and a half just to open that highway.
Once again, these are the things that I believe we
need to focus in on now. When it comes to
the cost of living. Look, everybody complains about the cost
of eggs. You know what, Oh my god, you know,
you go to I'm not even buying eggs anymore. I
don't know about you, but you know when you buy
eight dollars for a carton of eggs, you know, a
(44:26):
lot of people forget that. The reason that's happened is
because our governor destroyed the supply chain. One point five
million chickens got killed here in Colorado, you know, and
that was the supply chain for the eggs. And so
when people say, well, why is egg so expensive? We
got to look at all that stuff. These are some
(44:47):
of the things that I think common people want to
know what happened, what are we going to do different?
And why? How? What is the future going to look
like for me and my family?
Speaker 4 (44:57):
Greg what do you think about the attacks on Tabor?
I'm gonna lost up a softball for you because that
I think that I think could be a winning issue
for Republicans, but unfortunately the Democrats have chipped away at
it with giveaways to other people with those Taber refunds.
But what would your argument be about Tabor?
Speaker 9 (45:18):
I would say this to the people of Colorado. Look,
most of the people that are talking about they don't
want Tabor. I don't even know if they were eight
years old or ten years old when Taber got passed.
You know, Taber was passed because the people of Colorado said, look,
we don't trust government. We don't trust government that they
know how to spend our money. So we're gonna give
(45:40):
them a cap. We're gonna give them a cap. And
if they truly believe they need more money, all they
have to do is come and ask us. All they
have to do is convince us that this is what
the right way to spend our tax dollar money. One
of the things that really people need to understand is
that that Tabor refund belongs to you, to you, and
(46:01):
this is how we reward people. They're here in Colorado
because if the economy is doing very well, if it's robust,
and there's extra funds, why wouldn't we want to give
more money in the pockets of every Colorado. Let them
go out there and enjoy a movie, Let them go
out there and go to dinner, take their kids to
the zoo.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
You know what.
Speaker 9 (46:20):
This is what the quality of life is all about. So, yes,
Taper is something that we must understand. We cannot let go.
If we lose Taper, we will become worse twice worse
than California. Because right now we're spending way more than
we have. When you have a budget that's one point
two billion dollars over what they were supposed to spend
(46:44):
and it's supposed to be a balanced budget. Who is
not watching the tech book? How can they not know
that they're one point two billion dollars over budget? Well,
we need to focus it.
Speaker 4 (46:54):
They know it, they just don't care. Greg Lopez is
my guest. He is running for governor. A lot of people,
myself included, I have already said this. I think Michael Bennett,
just because of name I D is going to be
very hard to beat. And if Phil Weiser drops out
of the race on that side, which I don't know
if he will, I have no information that says Phil
(47:14):
Wiser is it will really come down to fundraising. I
think Michael Bennet's gonna be really challenging to beat. If
he's a nominee. How do you how do you win?
Speaker 9 (47:24):
Maddie. Let's be honest, right, it's going to be hard
for any Republican to win any race here in Colorado.
Look at the numbers. One point nine million registered on
affiliate voters, one million registered Democrats, and about nine hundred and
forty thousand registered Republicans. It's not about our party. It's
about our vision, it's about our values. It's about how
(47:45):
we're going to help people. Look, I've been in the
urban corridor. I have a lot of Democrat friends. You
don't remember. I used to be the president of the
Denver Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. I have friends in the
Vitios that are RASA. I have friends in Ludlak, the
League of the United Latin American Citizens, the NAACP. I
have been in those communities. I'm here to tell you.
While the press thinks everybody likes Senator Bennett, the voters
(48:09):
do not. The voters truly understand his record is not
helping Colorado. He's never helped Colorado. And then when he
has the audacity to say, hey, look, I'm gonna run
for governor, but I'm not gonna resign. I'm gonna keep
my office so then I can appoint my replacement. The
deals are being struck right now as we speak. Do
(48:30):
you know that, Mandy. I know that, and the people
inside the Urban Corridor they understand it, and they're not
liking the deals that are being cut.
Speaker 4 (48:38):
Well, Greg Lopez, I appreciate you coming on the show.
I'm sure we're gonna have you on again. I mean,
this is a long race, so it's going to be
a while. But I appreciate you making time. And I
told Greg before you came on, I said, are you
ready to answer some hard questions? He said, let's do it,
Let's go. So I appreciate that. And you know, obviously
there's going to be more Republican jumping in to this race,
(49:01):
so we're gonna have everybody on. I think this is
going to be the year that I am going to
try and put something together here at KOA where we
can do a candidate forum, kind of a debate on
the air, that kind of thing. So I hope that
you would make time for us when we get a
little closer and we can put that together.
Speaker 9 (49:17):
Oh you bet you, Mandy. Look, you know what, there's
a lot of great individuals that have already in the race.
There's other individuals that I'm hearing want to get in
the race. Here's what I will tell all your listeners
and all the Republicans. Let's not focus on who can
win the primary. Let's focus on who can win the general.
Who can actually get the votes that are needed to
become the next governor and make sure that our brighter
(49:40):
future here in the state can be achieved.
Speaker 4 (49:42):
That sounds like a great plan. To meet Greg Lopez.
I put a link to his website where you can
find out more about his campaign, and if you want
to support him, you can do that. It's Greg Lopez
dot co. Greg Lopez dot Co. And again I put
a link on today's blog.
Speaker 10 (49:57):
Greg.
Speaker 4 (49:57):
I appreciate your time today. We'll talk again soon, right,
take care of Mandy. All right? That is Greg Lopez
running for governor. So this governor's race in Colorado is
going to be really hotly contested. Wouldn't it be interesting
if Michael Bennett, who was not going to resign from
the Senate until he gets right before he's sworn in
(50:19):
as governor. That's the plan, which I strongly disagree with.
I've been vocal in the past when Republicans try to
do this, I don't like it. I don't even like
it when an elected member of Congress takes on the
leadership role at the RNC or something like that, like
you have a job working within that job to be
a majority whip or something like that, some sort of
(50:40):
subset of that. I have no problem with but don't
take your eye off the ball and running for office
successfully requires a lot of time and energy, and I
just am not happy that he has decided not to
step down. But wouldn't it be interesting if he appointed
Phil Wiser to his seat if Phil drops out, wouldn't
(51:00):
that be something? I mean, I'm wildly speculating. I have
absolutely no factual information to back up any of this,
but wouldn't that be interesting? By the way, Michael Bennett
was on Colorado Morning News this morning. Aaron him on
the show. I actually enjoyed my conversation with him. I
thought he was very nice. I thought he was very
open to answering questions.
Speaker 5 (51:22):
I did have an open lining communication within twenty four
hours of being announced, and the communication was good.
Speaker 6 (51:27):
Just we just couldn't work it out to be fair.
Absolutely yeah, fun.
Speaker 4 (51:31):
Well, like I said, I he's actually a And I
know Ross is really down on Michael Bennett. I know
because he's never come on his show. But I actually
think Michael Bennett might be one of those Democrats that
I could actually have a conversation with. Then I could
ask tough questions like I just doo with Greg off
the ear, I said, Gregg, it's time to answer some
hard questions about whether or not you're electable, right, And
Greg was like, Okay, I think if I said to
(51:53):
Michael Bennett, look, I'd love to have you on the
show on a regular basis, but we have to have
an open conversation. You know, I have to push back
on the things I think you're wrong on. But I
do that because I have confidence in these people. Remember
how Michael Hancock's people would try to protect him, and
then he was awesome on any topic. I could ask
him about anything and he was prepared and he he
would be able to have a conversation about it. But
(52:14):
these people were always trying to protect him. I'm like,
I have more faith in him than you do.
Speaker 5 (52:18):
If only that protection from others wouldn't mean just not
going on with us.
Speaker 6 (52:25):
I'm definitely not at all tried effortlessly.
Speaker 4 (52:30):
Yeah nonsense, Yeah yeah. People always say why don't we
have Democrats on the show, y'all? It is not for
lack of trying. Not all Democrats. I'm not going to
invite some Democrats, but I'm also not going to invite
some Republicans on the show because I already know what
they're going to say, right, I already know what's going
to come out of their mouths.
Speaker 6 (52:47):
So why why why do see our DNC trip? Yes,
I will say nothing else.
Speaker 2 (52:55):
Time.
Speaker 4 (52:55):
Like I said, I really, out of everyone we talked to,
I probably enjoyed my conversation with Michael Bennett the most.
Speaker 5 (53:00):
We still talk finally of It was a really good conversation.
It was really really good, really friendly. It was challenging
for both sides in a good way. It was fantastic.
Speaker 4 (53:09):
This textra suggests will Bennett and Polus just swap jobs
because think about this, but then Polis would be in
the Senate when he was running for president, which is
not uncommon. I mean, you know, oh, it's like so
machiavellian to think about all this stuff behind the scenes, Mandy,
and my experience, Bennett is the most worthless elected official
(53:32):
I've tried to communicate with as a constituent. That is unfortunate.
And I will tell you this. Part of part of
a legislator's responsiveness is their office. And I have I
have actually worked with Democratic lawmakers whose office was so
incredibly responsive and great that everybody had a certain you know,
(53:54):
silo that they were in and they did a great
job taking care of that little silo, but it really
is hard. Sometimes it's to find the right person in
the right office. And that's not a knock on. I
mean Republican offices that are the same way. It's not
exclusive to one party, So I know how frustrating that
can be, very, very frustrating. There's nothing worse than a
non responsive, you know, so called representative. So I want
(54:18):
to talk for a moment when we get back. A
couple things. One, I got a big shout out to
the Douglas County Sheriff's office. They send out a tweet
this morning that made me laugh out loud, and it
just shows sometimes the police can have a sense of humor.
We'll talk about that. And we haven't really spent any
time on this Elizabeth's school lawsuit because there's just been
(54:39):
so much other stuff to talk about. But I want
to talk about it when we get back because it's
another area where I think most people who are you know,
common sense types recognize how ridiculous the assertion that children
should have access to pornography in a school library actually is.
We'll do that when we get back.
Speaker 8 (54:57):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (54:58):
By the way, Scott, which is short for Southern Culture
on the Skids, one of the most interesting bands you'll
ever see in your life. They're coming to Denver the
weekend of June first. If you and Truck are looking
for a dirt track date, I might be throwing a
graduation party that weekend. I haven't seen her grades yet,
says this texter. That is right before we go to Japan. Hmm,
(55:19):
I'm gonna have to make that happen, all right. So
we have not talked a lot about this story. It's
been working its way through and now it's going to
be a court case, so it's going to more is
going to happen. But the Elizabeth School District had some
complaints about some books in the library. So instead of
just creating some kind of knee jerk reaction, the Elizabus
(55:40):
School District came up with a district policy kind of
thing that brought re rental and community input into the conversation,
and then they reviewed the books together and the whole
thing was transparent, and they resulted in eighteen titles being
removed from the Elizabeth School District libraries collection. Eighteen books.
(56:03):
Why were they removed? In the words of a district
legal filing, they contained graphic violence, graphic sexual content, extreme
drug and alcohol use, and suicidal ideation. Now, to be clear,
just to clarify one aspect of this, the Elizabeth School
District did not pass ruling that every copy of these
(56:25):
books in the world must be destroyed. They did not
do that. They're not having book burning parties in Elizabeth
where they're getting brown shirted children to throw more books
on the pile. That's not what's happening. They merely removed
these books from the Elizabeth School District's libraries. Now, why
does that matter? The notion that librarians are not constantly
(56:51):
monitoring content when they buy books for a library is
just absurd. It's ridiculous. The problem is is that the
Library Association is now fully run by a Marxist, a
lesbian Marxist woman, who has pledged to bring that ideology
to schools. Why does that matter if that's a national organization. Well,
(57:12):
there are book awards that are given out, and a
lot of libraries shop based on book awards. So if
they keep giving book awards to books that are probably
inappropriate for young people in a school library, they're probably
going to keep getting purchased. And I am one hundred
percent on the side of free speech. I am one
hundred percent on the side of public libraries having content
(57:34):
that would be objectionable or upsetting on their shelves. But
we're not talking about a public library. We're talking about
a school district's library, and not everything is appropriate for
a school district. You know, I've heard, and I've never
verified this, that those old Playboy magazines apparently they had
some incredible articles in them, incredible, But we don't see
(57:58):
Playboy Magazine on the shelves and school libraries because it's
not appropriate content. There are lots of things that should
not be on a school library shelf, and librarians make
those decisions all day, every day. Mandy, it's nineteen books,
not eighteen, says this texter. I am just reading from
(58:19):
a column in the Denver Gazette. So I will send
Sean Duffy a stern email. Now, Elizabeth is not urging
that these books be destroyed. They're not urging that no
one ever read these books. They're just saying, look, we've
decided that these are not the right kind of content
for the kids in our district. So of course they're
being sued. Of course they are the problem with this,
(58:42):
And Sean Duffy makes this point really well in a
column today about this in the Denver Gazette. I'll jump
into the middle here, he says. But let the courts
continue in this no limits line of legal reasoning and
invalidate content filters. The ensuing public comment periods in Colorado
school board meetings in liberal and conservative communities alike, will
(59:03):
resemble a chorus of scalded cats. Now there he is
talking about content filters on the Internet in public libraries.
They have those. Schools have those on kids' computers. My
daughter's school computer, for the entire time she had a
school computer, was so locked down that there were times
(59:23):
that she was trying to access a website that wasn't
in no way sexual in any way, shape or form,
but some kind of keyword got caught up in our
school computer would not open it. So should we give
kids unfettered access to the Internet on their school computers?
I just want to ask that question. You know what's
on the Internet should we give? If you believe that
(59:45):
children must have access to pornographic content in school libraries,
then you must also believe that taking any kind of
Internet filters on that computer they need to go because
kids need unfettered access to pornography on the internet. How
are those two things different. Nobody's gonna argue that point,
by the way, because it's so stupid. I mean, maybe pedophiles.
(01:00:06):
Children do not need access to pornography. Children don't need
access to books that graphically and in great detail, both
visually and verbally explain how certain very grown up sex
positions that I didn't even learn about until I was
twenty five are done. They can talk to their parents
(01:00:27):
about that. So this text or is there any room
on the Japan trip? I know it's late. It is
too late. Texture. That's why we sell them a year
in advance, because there is a window that does close.
Mandy's start reading Gender Queer in public at a school
board meeting and make sure you push it on your
own kids library, and it will be completely disbanded. Go absurd.
(01:00:51):
In the opposite direction, that has been the most effective
strategy in these school board meetings is for teachers or
parents to stand at the podium and basically read from
some of these books. They have been shut down every
single time as they say that content is not appropriate
for a school board meeting. And yet they want to
put it on school library shelves. Here's the thing. I'm
(01:01:14):
all in favor of kids reading difficult content with context,
with guidance, with a conversation perhaps with their own parents,
but just putting it in school libraries and giving kids
access to it. I mean, back in my day they had.
This just occurred to me, okay, in our school library
(01:01:38):
in my elementary school, all of the magazines, because we
had magazines back then, all of the magazines were on
one shelf except the National geographic magazines were at the
very front, right and front where the library and checked
us out. It just occurred to me. Now it's because
the boys always looked at the National Geographic magazines looking
for pictures of topless women from a because there were
(01:02:01):
a lot of them in the day, and they probably
put it there to dissuade that sneaky, very very sneaky.
Our work computers have content creation or I'm a guessing
content restriction. I'm guessing is what you meant there, Mandy
and junior high, I read mind comps like by yourself.
(01:02:22):
You just read it as a junior high kid, you
were advanced. But if you read it as part of
your learning experience, and there was a bigger conversation about
the damage that that book has created. Well, then I'm
here for it. That would be perfectly fun. I think
kids need to know how seductive and absolutely wrong communism
is on every measure. And I just stumbled upon a
blog post that is really really scary about shipbuilding in
(01:02:48):
the United States. But first I promised the story a
little bit earlier. You know, I love when police departments
or law enforcement agencies sort of poke fun at themselves
and have fun at their own expense on social media.
And the Douglas County Sheriff does a great job with
us on occasion, including this story. Let me set the
scene for you on this post on x dot com.
(01:03:09):
There are trays in these photographs of what used to
be donuts who are all over the floor, like somebody
just came into a donut shop and just just made
a huge mess, donuts all over the floor. And Douglas
County Sheriff's Office sends out this donut disturbance ends interest.
As you can imagine, this was a tough scene for
(01:03:30):
the deputies, having to witness such tragic treatment of donuts.
And then they go on to talk about a disturbance call.
It was a former employee and he came in and
wrecked a donut shop and they arrested him in charge him.
Speaker 6 (01:03:41):
With some stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:03:42):
But I thought that was kind of funny. I mean,
because honestly, I know the cops get a lot of
crap about the donut stuff. But who doesn't like donuts? Aaron?
Do you know anyone who doesn't like donuts? Or have
you cut them out of your lives as you should?
Speaker 6 (01:03:53):
I don't think I do.
Speaker 4 (01:03:54):
I mean, there are times when somebody will say, do
you want a donut? And I'll say no, because if
I'm gonna have a donut, I'm gonna have like six doughnuts,
right because they're too good. The doughnuts are one of
those kind of they bring everyone together. I've been realizing
lately I know a lot of people who don't like cake,
and I don't know how I feel about that. On
the one hand, more for me, yeah, But on the
(01:04:16):
other how do you go through life and not like cake?
Speaker 6 (01:04:18):
Most cake sucks and cupcakes are terrible?
Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
What?
Speaker 6 (01:04:22):
Yeah, most cake isn't good?
Speaker 4 (01:04:23):
Are you an icing guy? What's the situation we cake?
Speaker 9 (01:04:26):
No?
Speaker 6 (01:04:26):
Just most cake doesn't taste great.
Speaker 5 (01:04:27):
It's overkill on icing most of the time, which is
usually the culprit for the badness.
Speaker 4 (01:04:31):
I agree with you on the icing situation with cake,
But I love cake. I love I love cake cake.
I made a key lime pound cake.
Speaker 6 (01:04:38):
You can ask, like the worst cake?
Speaker 4 (01:04:40):
Oh my gosh, it's so good. It's delicious and most
cake sucks. Next, Okay, the next time I make one,
because it's been too long now for you to like
truly get the magic of the key lime pound cake. Yeah,
next time I make one, if I bring it in
when you taste it, because there's not a lot of
icing on it.
Speaker 6 (01:04:53):
Yeah, let me just calories the rest of the day
and I'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (01:04:57):
I won't. You only have to eat a couple of bites. Okay,
you don't have to eat a thing.
Speaker 6 (01:05:00):
Yeah, anyway, I'd rather waste my calories on good things.
Speaker 4 (01:05:03):
Well, I understand that, but this might you might go,
oh wow, I've turned the corner on cake after having this.
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (01:05:09):
I rather just say, where's the cheesecake?
Speaker 4 (01:05:12):
We can do that as well.
Speaker 7 (01:05:13):
Yes, please, I will say this.
Speaker 4 (01:05:15):
I might do the key lime pound cake for the
State Fair this year. So my cake my pie decorating skills,
I realized are not very good. So I gotta I
gotta switch it up because I am going to win
a ribbon at the State Fair. If it kills me,
I'm going to do it Today. On the blog, you
can find the special done by the Denver Broncos. Did
nine do this with them? Is that who produced this?
Speaker 6 (01:05:36):
The Broncos produced it? The Broncos?
Speaker 4 (01:05:39):
Okay, perfect, It is so good. It is so so good.
And if you've ever wondered, is Dave Logan the same
on the air as he is off the air? This
should answer that question, because he's exactly the same. Now
I want to talk about this in the next dang it,
I want to talk about the Chinese ship building thing.
Let me get that in now, because I haven't read
this whole column. I read the whole thing. I'll put
(01:06:00):
it on the blog tomorrow and make sure that it's there.
But listen to this one statistic. This just blew my mind.
Blew it. One shipyard in China made more commercial ships
in twenty twenty four then the total number the US
has produced since World War Two. Guys, this is untenable.
(01:06:25):
This cannot this cannot be allowed to stand. We have
to be able to make our own stuff for our
own defense. I actually think that's a huge part of
these tariffs and the decoupling with China is that we
are too dependent on our geopolitical foe for too much
of the stuff that we need to be able to
fight our geopolitical foe in a hot war. We'll be like, yes,
(01:06:49):
we need to make more ambutition, China, could you send
us the ingredients please? That would be great. And China's like, no,
thank you, because you're gonna be shooting them at us.
We got to fix that. That just blew my mind.
Let me repeat that for you one more time. One
shipyard in China has made more commercial ships in twenty
(01:07:09):
twenty four than the total number the US has produced
since World War Two. That's absolutely insane. I'm sending this
to myself right now via email so it will be
on tomorrow's blog because it's kind of long, and don't
want a chance to read it all the way before
I share the rest of you. But that should freak
you out, You know, that should freak you out. All right,
(01:07:33):
We're going to take a quick time out. When we
get back, I want to talk about some polling data
that is very, very concerning, But I want to talk
about it because the notion that somehow the left has
the moral high ground on any sort of on any
level when it comes to January sixth is really being
blown out of the water by continued and ongoing violence
(01:07:57):
by people on the left, and more and more people
on the left say it's fine with them.
Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock
accident and injury lawyers.
Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
Well, no, it's Mandy Connell, manna on KOA.
Speaker 1 (01:08:15):
Ninetyma, got wanna stay the nicey.
Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
Three, Mandy Donald keeping sad Babe.
Speaker 4 (01:08:28):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the third hour of the show.
I am super excited. Tomorrow Russ Kaminski and I will
both be broadcasting our shows from the incredibly gorgeous Mighty
Millions Raffle House in winter Park. And I just asked
a Rod. I said, ay, Ron, if I get you
some video from the house, will you put it up
on the website. So he said if I got it
to him early enough, he would because he's got to
(01:08:50):
do the morning show tomorrow, which I get schedule sucks.
So we're gonna be up there tomorrow. Super excited about that.
In the second half of the hour, the the hours,
those of us who use old school clocks call it,
We're gonna hear from Britta Horne. She's a new chair
of the Colorado GOP. If you were with me earlier,
I have a big list put together by smart listeners
(01:09:11):
of things that we think that the Republican Party should
focus on in these upcoming election cycles. We'll talk to
Britta about that, but first I want to talk about
some a survey that came out fairly recently and it
was not good news at all. City Journal wrote about
it in a recent article, and this part caught my eye.
(01:09:33):
They found that nearly one third of American surveyed and
around half of those identifying as left of center, believe
that the murder of certain public figures is at least
somewhat justified. The figures are startling. Thirty eight percent of
respondents and fifty five percent of those left of center
(01:09:55):
said assassinating President Trump would be at least so and
what justified. Thirty one percent of respondents and forty eight
percent of those left of center said the same thing
about Musk. Forty percent of respondents and fifty eight percent
of those left of center deem it at least somewhat
(01:10:19):
acceptable to destroy a Tesla dealership. Where is this headed exactly?
Because from where I'm sitting, you have bought a bunch
of angry lunatics on the left who are now being
accepted as mainstream by many, a majority on the left,
(01:10:42):
at least in the survey. And yet from where I sit,
most of the people who own guns are on the right.
So are we supposed to let the people on the
left just have an ongoing conniption fit where they burn
things down, do forty billion dollars worth of damage. In
the so called Summer of Love, over two hundred people died,
by the way, in that quote, mostly peaceful protest. We
(01:11:08):
were told by the last Attorney General that the real
threat in this country came from super Catholics and school
board moms.
Speaker 6 (01:11:15):
Remember that.
Speaker 4 (01:11:16):
Don't ever forget that that was where the real danger
was coming from. Now, we all know that those on
the left, including those elected to Congress and the US Senate,
have spent a lot of time demonizing Donald Trump, calling
him a Nazi, a littoral nazi. They just ran a
campaign where they told you that the fate of democracy
(01:11:37):
hangs in the balance. Women showed up on the stairs
of the Capitol wearing Handmaid's Tales outfits because they just
knew that Donald Trump was gonna throw us all back
into chains. Everybody that wasn't a white male was going
back in chains. So they've been ginning up this sort
of idiotic response for so long. Now, so so long.
(01:12:00):
So what do you expect? I mean, this is where
we are. But here's the thing that I'm really irritated
by when I see this. Where are the people in
the news media that talk to Democrats on a regular
basis pressing them on whether or not they feel responsible
for the rise in the acceptance of violence by those
on the left. Do you feel any responsibility for Let's
(01:12:22):
just make sure I have this right, fifty five percent
of left of center people saying assassinating President Trump would
be somewhat justified. Do you take responsibility for that? I mean,
it's not like somebody took a shot. Oh wait, they did.
They did try to kill the president. But now something
is happening on the left that I'm sure they weren't expecting.
(01:12:43):
We just had a guy who was to the left
of Democrat Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, who tried to
firebomb the governor's house because of his stance on the
Palestinian situation. Something I might add, the state of Pennsylvania
has absolutely nothing to do with. So the violence is
now coming home to those on the left as well.
(01:13:04):
From their left, Will this be the inflection point that
makes them go, you know what, maybe we should ratchet
it back now. Of course, there are loudmouthed idiots on
the right who say idiotic and violent things, and every
chance I get, I tell them to shut up. Every
chance I get, I write, I say, I speak. There
(01:13:27):
is no place for political violence in this country. We
don't need it. We just need to believe in the
systems that we have had in place for oh so
very long that have protected us from so many, many,
many many things. Now I've got a story from nine
News that goes along with this. A man has been
(01:13:49):
arrested for sending letters to news media outlets emails rather
to local news outlets and insurance companies that detailed his
declaration of what was he declaring war against the forty
seventh presidential Cabinet of the United States. He went on
to describe how Tesla owners would be murdered on April seventeenth,
(01:14:11):
twenty twenty five, and thereafter until the death of Elon Musk.
The message listed various reasons for the declaration, including claims
that Trump violated his presidential oath, the termination of federal employees,
and that the president activated and empowered racism, bigotry, and hatred,
and for that the punishment is death, according to this man.
(01:14:36):
He also sent letters to insurance companies telling them that
the enclosed information is for immediate release and will help
validate evidence shown in the coming social media campaign. We
recommend you cancel all comprehensive vehicle coverage of Tesla vehicle's
effective sixteen April twenty twenty five. And then he wraps
it up by saying, we are Luigi, We are one.
(01:15:02):
This is the same Luigi Mangioni who has had thousands
and thousands of women writing him letters in jail while
they're also donating money for his defense fund. When it
is clear that dude murdered an insurance executive in cold
blood who wasn't even a executive from his own insurance company.
(01:15:23):
Now we have this other kid who stabbed another guy,
but the other guy was white and this kid's black.
So now hundreds of thousands of dollars have been donated
to the shooter because he's black and the other guy
was white. This is what passes for logic and rationale
on the left. They need to put down the crime
podcasts and start really paying attention to who they're supporting.
(01:15:46):
Because when something horrible happens, and I do believe it
will be something horrible at some point, and it will
happen because of someone on the left, I don't think
they're going to take ris ponsibility for it. So perhaps
we should demand that now before something really really bad happens.
Anyone can email me there, Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com.
(01:16:11):
We've got a couple things on the blog. I'm gonna
get you because at two thirty we've got Britta Horn
coming on the new chair of the Colorado GOP. Very
interesting story in that Gavin Newsome, who we all know
is running for president he's really trying to get out
ahead of Jared Polis right now. So now California has
sued to stop Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs. Now,
(01:16:35):
one of the questions I have is a question that
I always have about cases like this, and usually the
courts decide and I never quite understand how one gains standing.
Have you ever heard, Well, the case never really got
adjudicated because the plaintiff didn't have standing. According to the court,
that means that the plaintiff didn't necessarily have the right
(01:16:55):
to engage in suing over whatever they're suing over. And
the first thing I thought of was, I mean, does
California even have standing to sue over tariffs? Because this
is a constitutional issue, a function of the federal government
as outlined in the Constitution, and I don't know if
the justices are going to say that California has the
(01:17:21):
right to do this. Now, there is some legislation being
put forth in the House. I don't think it passes.
If it does, Trump's gonna veto it. That would pull
back the constitutional authority for tariffs back to Congress, which
is where the Constitution initially put them. But as I've
said before, Congress loves to punt difficult decisions to someone
else so they don't get held responsible for it. So
(01:17:44):
that is very interesting. We're going to be watching that
because I think it's actually really kind of important to
see if that check from the Constitution is going to
be reinstated. One of the things I've been talking about
since I got my first show in two thousand and
five is that Congress has abdicated, to my of it's
constitutionally assigned jobs to the executive branch for all the
(01:18:07):
reasons that I just said. They don't want to be
on record is saying yes, I'm voting for tariff's and then,
you know, terifs made everything more expensive. They'd much rather
be able to point at a president and say, oh, no,
he or she did that, not us. So that's going
to be really interesting to watch. We also have a
couple stories on the blog today. One of them is
(01:18:28):
from Puerto Rico, and you guys know, I just went
to Puerto Rico recently with just on American Financing's Dime,
and I was really impressed with San Juan. But they
have some significant issues they have to overcome. They just
had another island wide blackout. Why because it wasn't working.
(01:18:50):
In my mind, the mark of a developed nation is
its ability to keep the power on. That's like thing
number one, because even if you don't have great roads,
I mean Costa Rica is a good example of this.
Their roads are scary as hell in a lot of
places in Costa Rica, Like you've got to have some
serious kajones to want to drive in Costa Rica. But
the power is always on. And for me, that says, okay,
(01:19:13):
you're a little bit beyond developing nation when you can
keep the lights on. And Puerto Rico can't even do that.
And it's a shame. There is so much opportunity in
Puerto Rico right now, and I honestly believe that if
the President of the United States showed any attention to
Puerto Rico, just like, hey, what can we do to
get you moving in the right direction. Because the new
governor of Puerto Rico has come out and said, I'm
(01:19:36):
firing the company that provides power. But of course this
isn't like you can't just fire them and hire somebody else.
This is a really big undertaking. But if President Trump
stepped in and said, okay, Puerto Rico, what do we
need to do here, what do we need to do
to get this power on and keep it on with
some reliability, he would have the Puerto Rican vote till
(01:19:56):
the end of time. Republicans may have the we can
vote till the end of time. And I'm not talking
about in Puerto Rico. I'm talking about in Florida and
in New York, where the Puerto Rican population is huge.
I bet you there are more Puerto Ricans in Florida
and New York than there are in Puerto Rico by
a long shot. It needs to be fixed because Puerto
(01:20:17):
Rico could be a beautiful asset, right, a beautiful place
where Americans could go without a passport, have a great vacation,
but they just can't get out of their own way
and it's just kind of sad. Okay, guys, we're gonna
take a time out. When we get back. New Colorado
chair Woman Britta Horn will be joining us, and I
have a whole list of things that we came up
(01:20:38):
with in the first hour that the Republican Party needs
to focus on in these upcoming elections. We'll do that next.
On the other end of the phone is New Colorado
chair Woman Britta Horn. Hello, Britta, I know.
Speaker 8 (01:20:49):
Hello, Hello miss Mandy.
Speaker 4 (01:20:51):
First of all, congratulations, we haven't had a chance to
chat since you were elected by the Colorado Republican Party
Central Committee to be the chairman of the Colorado GOP,
and boy was I glad with that outcome. So let's
just start there.
Speaker 8 (01:21:05):
Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (01:21:07):
I want to ask you and I and my listeners
got together, we put our heads together in the first
hour to come up with issues that we thought that
the Colorado Republican Party should focus on in the upcoming
election cycle. Because we are nothing if not helpful, Britta,
but I appreciate. I'd like to ask you about what
has surely been a whirlwind since that election for you personally.
(01:21:28):
What have you been doing as the brand new chair
of the Colorado Republican Party in the last few weeks.
Speaker 8 (01:21:35):
Oh, my gosh, doing things just like this. I don't
know how many media hits we've had so far, and
I just came off of one just before you. So
it's been that. It's just spreading out what talking about.
What is the job. The job is one thing. It
is to elect more Republicans. It's also to grow the party,
and it's also to fundraise and I've been doing all
three of those things in the last one twenty two
(01:21:57):
to twenty three days. And it's been a while. A
lot of we have transitions going on, right now, we're
trying to find things where things are where, you know,
I think everybody knows that we're moving the office. I'm
going to more regional offices. And we've been looking at
places already and where we can move the furniture and
start hitting the ground running with field directors. So it's
(01:22:18):
all the above, and it's been NonStop.
Speaker 4 (01:22:20):
So if you know, one of the big issues that
the Republican Party has had over the last few years
has been fundraising. And I had a meeting with someone
who is not necessarily a Republican but a conservative and
and he said to me, he said, look, there's a
lot of money on the sidelines right now in the
conservative side of Colorado that isn't that has not been
(01:22:42):
being put in the party. Are you seeing some of
that money perhaps begin to shake loose. Are you seeing
donors that we're not happy with the prior leadership beginning
to say, okay, maybe we're onto something here.
Speaker 8 (01:22:54):
Absolutely, and a lot of new donors, a lot of
people are saying, I'm going to say, of all the
messages I'm getting good at and ugly, the favorite ones
are people going, Okay, I became an independent because of
all this chaos. I'm willing to come back to the
Republican Party, become a Republican and bring money with me,
and that has been the biggest, biggest piece I'm hearing
(01:23:14):
from people saying they're bringing money over. They're going to
be new fundraising people's new donors that we haven't had before.
And I'm looking forward not only to the traditional ones
that around the state that you and I talked about before.
You know, they closed their checkbooks. They were not send
money to Colorado and it went out of state. It
went to Florida that you were talking about earlier. It's like, no,
mosse need to be to redirected back into Colorado and
(01:23:37):
let's get to work.
Speaker 4 (01:23:38):
With it absolutely.
Speaker 7 (01:23:39):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:23:39):
I want to ask you about the I think the
most challenging part I would think of your job, and
that is bringing together the factions. And that's the only
way to put it. There are distinct factions in the
Republican Party in Colorado right now, and they're not particularly
friendly to one another. I've seen some less than kind
(01:23:59):
things about you already in some of the Facebook groups,
and I'm sure you know what's flying around out there.
What if any progress or what if any actions have
you taken as the chair to begin to mend those fences.
Speaker 8 (01:24:14):
Well, absolutely, but I've been putting out the olive branch,
you know. I'm just like, what can we do to
work on together? What can we find things that are together.
You're absolutely right, there's some ugly, nasty things out there,
and I Dinkinner still wheeling from their boss. And the
only way we're going to be able to win them
over is to show some wins. When we start showing
the dollars that we're bringing in, we're showing the changes
that we're bringing in, we're going to be exposing. We
(01:24:35):
just still have to show, like I said, what happened
in the past, We're going to have to expose that,
and we're gonna have to say because we want everybody,
you know, integrity back, we need to get our integrity back.
We have to be honest, we have to be transparent,
and that should come across as more wins. How we're
going to do better, how we're not going to do
the way it was in the past, and that should
bring some people over.
Speaker 4 (01:24:56):
So I'd like to ask you, and this has been
one of my frustrated with Republicans, not just in Colorado.
This is not a uniquely Colorado problem. But Democrats are
super good at staying on message. And I don't know
if they have meetings once a week, I don't know
what happens with that, but they're incredibly good at staying
on message, and especially in this state where not only
(01:25:19):
do Republicans have to run against the Democratic candidate, they
also have to run against a lot of our media. Right,
so you lose the ability to control the narrative because
the media is only going to ask you about things
that you feel they feel are a disadvantage. I've now
watched it happen over and over and over again.
Speaker 9 (01:25:35):
I know you have too.
Speaker 4 (01:25:36):
So the only hope for this is incredibly disciplined messaging.
What is the Republican message right now? Who is working
on crafting the priorities for the Republican Party in terms
of campaign messages that will resonate not just with Republicans,
but resonate with the far larger number of independents whose
votes we have to win.
Speaker 8 (01:25:57):
Right, And I think it's everybody's correct, you know, crafting
out and we're going to do our share as well.
And it's gonna be a lot of candidates.
Speaker 3 (01:26:04):
Have to do.
Speaker 8 (01:26:04):
They're crafting their message. Again, the Republican Colorado. Republican Party
is not policy. It is literally a machine to get
the job done. And the machine and the product that
we have to crank out are good Republicans and more
of them and more people running and growing the party,
and like we just said, fundraising. So when the messaging,
(01:26:24):
like you said, the two hundred fifty thousand Republicans active
in Colorado that didn't vote November, we're gonna have to
message to them separately and differently. But you're right, very
focused and very very point on, and all say the
same thing for those two hundred and fifty thousand people,
and it's going to be different than the independent three
hundred thousand independents at our right leaning and have a
(01:26:46):
message for them. It's going to be we're gonna find
the pieces that we all get along with. And you know,
maybe it's not gonna be eighty twenty with with Ronald
Wigan as they all talk about. Maybe it's gonna be
more sixty forty or seventy thirty. We have to find
the piece is that we can talk about so we
can stay glued together on those pieces and get people
to vote. We need more voters. We're only twenty of
(01:27:09):
the state. Yeah, well voters, go ahead, I'm says that.
Speaker 4 (01:27:16):
Yeah. The way I see this, Brita is really simple
is that we have to sort of drop the Republican blinders.
And this is not a criticism, to be clear, This
is not me saying the Republicans are wrong so they
should drop their blinders. But the reality is, to your point,
we are so outnumbered in this state in terms of
voter registration, that is, it is a losing proposition to
(01:27:42):
only focus on the Republican voter, Like, we have to
craft a message that is going to reach those independent
voters who maybe have not had the best time since
twenty nineteen. I appreciate what you're saying about the Republican
Party being the machinery, but I do think there's value
in helping Republican candidates understand every issue in terms of
(01:28:05):
how to articulate that and how to articulate that. A
conservative you know, answer or solution would be the way
to go. Because I I am not gonna lie. I've
had candidates on this show for office that when I
got done, I just died inside a little bit because
it was so obvious that they didn't have a handle
on certain issues. They weren't able to articulately, sort of
(01:28:29):
articulate the Republican position, and it's painful. And so do
you think there would be any value in sort of
giving those those white paper sort of backstroke, you know,
back information pieces of information to candidates. And if so,
how do we do that?
Speaker 8 (01:28:45):
I like that, I like what your I like what
you're I've already voted down while you were talking, So
I like this idea because you're right. It has to
be the issues that are concerning all of us, not
only across America but Colorado. And it's going to be crime.
Why would aren't we all talking about crime? Why aren't
we all talking about the economy? You know, because there's
like there's pieces that we all are touched by. You know,
we can't we don't talk as much anymore because Trump
(01:29:06):
fixed that for us, or the government did. I'll go
fix So let's find those pieces that still resonate with
all of us at every day living in Colorado. What
is it? And it's going to be obviously right now,
parenting issues, it's going to be school issues. I mean,
that's the topic it's going to be two ways. It's
going to be, you know, set a bill three. We
have to be talking about two A and everybody's and
(01:29:26):
you're right. I'm going to tell you. You know, Mandy
is inside Inso I get a lot of the text
and a lot of people saying you need to have
a statement about this, and you need to have a
statement about that. I already agree about two A. I
already agree about a first amendment, right, I already agree
with all these parents and these m trans things that
are going on and being working on those issues at
the schools. You don't need to hear from me. You
(01:29:48):
need to hear from the candidates officials. I just need
to and the party needs to bolster them for it.
But you're right, you still have to be just thank you.
We have to just be laser focused that we're talking
all the same things absolutely exactly.
Speaker 4 (01:30:02):
And here's the thing. Everybody doesn't have time to become
an expert in every issue, especially if it's not an
issue that's primary in their community. But we need to
prepare them to be able to articulate those positions on
every issue. Because I know for a fact that the
Democratic Party does this and they coach their candidates and
they work on the message with them so they can
(01:30:24):
clearly articulate their positions, and it shows sometimes and I
realize that I view it anyway as Republicans being more
independent minded. Right our candidates tend to think they have
good answers, but then they fall flat in being able
to explain why they're good answers.
Speaker 6 (01:30:39):
So that would be my thing.
Speaker 4 (01:30:41):
But I'm going to give you my list, Britta, and
I'll email this to you because I know you know
you might be driving and I want you to die
one of the things that I would say if I
were chair, and you can do this or not. All
of the fighting and in fighting needs to be taken
off social media, like it all needs to stop. And
if we have to have some kind of come to
Jesus meeting where people can come in invent their spleen
(01:31:03):
and get it over with and just hash it all out,
then let's do that. But the infighting on social media
accomplishes nothing. It makes Republicans look really really bad and
really small and petty. And I'm not saying this just
because I feel that way, and I do. You should
see the emails I get from people about this. They
don't realize that other people are paying attention, so we
(01:31:23):
can find but we got to take it off social media.
Speaker 8 (01:31:26):
Exactly, and behind closed doors disagree, but there's just still
people that have a need.
Speaker 6 (01:31:33):
You know.
Speaker 8 (01:31:33):
You got to remember they've they've lost power. Yeah, they
lost their seat, and they're still, like you said, reeling
and feeling. And I'm already having I mean, I'm already
having trackers people coming to all their meetings and their
trekkers tracking me. I'm not doing the job. And they're
a Republican too, I'm like, oh, good, gravy, I stop. Yeah,
(01:31:55):
And I'm like I'm shocked by it. I really am,
because I'm like, really, they don't. They just want to
fight to fight, and that's what they've been doing the
last two years. And how's that work for them?
Speaker 4 (01:32:05):
Yeah? Trust me, I'm on your side on that one
for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:32:10):
The second point is something I feel really strongly about,
and I think that this is something the parties should
put together almost immediately and distribute to every Republican party,
not just candidates. We need to come up with a coherent,
one sheet page on everything that has happened in Colorado
negatively since twenty nineteen when the Democrats took over total control.
(01:32:30):
We need to have statistics on car thefts, on auto
insurance rates, on affordable housing. We need to have every
statistic that shows that Democrats have raised the cost of living,
made us less safe, possibly led to more overdoses with
their lacks policies. We need to have that data in
front of us. So when we ask voters is your
life better since twenty nineteen than it is now? You know,
(01:32:51):
it's a big, powerful question, and very few people would say, yeah,
my life is better, all those things are better. I'd
love to see that happen right away.
Speaker 8 (01:32:59):
Well there you go like that, and you get me
nervous about the negativity because I want to be you know,
you are the one that monitored me as the happy Warriors.
So when you said that that, I'm like, oh, the
stats that are niggative.
Speaker 6 (01:33:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:33:09):
But here's the thing, Britta, You're not doing it. You're
just empowering other people with the information they need, because
it is going to take a herculean effort to get
Republicans over the finish line for a whole bunch of
reasons that have nothing to do with you or a
lot of Republicans, but here we are. I'm just trying
to arm them with good information. So when the media
tries to steer them do a topic that doesn't matter,
(01:33:32):
they have data to say, wait a minute, I'd rather
talk about this instead, because it's pretty significant. Britta, I
don't I don't envy you, but I'm excited. I've talked
to so many Republicans who are excited about about They
feel hopeful for the first time in a long time,
and they're looking forward to what's going to come out.
What should people do if they are either a lapsed
(01:33:54):
Republican like me, or maybe they're an independent who is
looking at the landscape and saying, maybe I want to
throw my in, how do they get involved at the
local level?
Speaker 8 (01:34:02):
I mean definitely local level. Go back to your local party,
and then we have to do an inventory as that
as well as what does every county party have. You know,
they have a web page, they have a Facebook page,
they have the stand that we need to get an
inventory of that. I am all about everybody going back
to their local and seeing what they can do to
get involved. And if there's so many you know, obstacles
and can't do it or can't find it, then go
(01:34:24):
to the COLGP dot dot org a website and get
involved there. At least get the newsletters. Start getting involved
there and start you know, communicating with us there and
see if we can turn around and find the people
you need to have and so you can start getting involved.
Because again you and I both know this, all politics
is local. We don't take care of our school boards
(01:34:44):
and our waterboards and our electric boards and our commissions
and all the things that go on and planning commissions.
We're not going to get that next level. We have
got to take care of it on the local level.
It's time to take it back.
Speaker 4 (01:34:54):
Aimen to that, Britta Horn. Keep going out there and
beating the pavement, and hopefully we're gonna have good news
for the Republican Party in this state again soon. We
desperately need to bring back some balance in the House
and the Senate. For sure, I appreciate your time as always,
even though I feel like I did most of the
talking and told you how to do your job. But
I have so much confidence in you that I just
want to give you ideas because I think you'll actually
(01:35:16):
go yeah, I'll listen to the good ideas and implement them,
which would would be a nice change.
Speaker 8 (01:35:21):
And we need listeners. Absolutely. You guys have the good ideas,
let's use them.
Speaker 4 (01:35:24):
All right, Bretta, we'll talk to you soon. I'll send
you the rest of our items in an email.
Speaker 8 (01:35:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:35:30):
All right, thanks Bretta Horrane. That's the Colorado chairperson of
the Colorado GOP. So there you go. I guess that's
Grant Smith walking into the studio on Volati Thursday. Oh,
you don't get to talk any ro it's not going
to turn.
Speaker 6 (01:35:42):
Your my cup. That's right.
Speaker 4 (01:35:44):
Yeah, there you go. There I am there you go.
Speaker 3 (01:35:46):
There you go?
Speaker 4 (01:35:48):
Yeah, well why I mean, you know, anyhow, Now it's
well not yet, it's not yet time. What is the
latest Taking It for Granted podcast?
Speaker 10 (01:35:57):
On?
Speaker 7 (01:35:58):
Actually, yeah, there was supposed to be a new episode today,
but I forgot to bring my laptop in. I edited
all last night and then was going to voice my
intro for it.
Speaker 6 (01:36:06):
Failure.
Speaker 4 (01:36:06):
You are a complete and total failure.
Speaker 7 (01:36:10):
The new episode will be out tonight when I get home.
Excellentno Jones he's a musician from the Tono Jones Revelry.
I got to interview him in the studio see a
couple months ago. And we just really vibed out. So
I was like, hey, you want to come on the
podcast and he agreed.
Speaker 4 (01:36:24):
Super cool that he was able to hook up with
a band called Tono Jones.
Speaker 7 (01:36:28):
That out so well, like the Rick Lewis procect exactly.
Speaker 8 (01:36:31):
Kiss.
Speaker 4 (01:36:32):
Yeah, It's just amazing how that all works out. And
now it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio.
Speaker 7 (01:36:38):
Of its Guy and the World of the Day.
Speaker 4 (01:36:43):
Were you scared? Were you scared to yell in the world?
Speaker 7 (01:36:46):
Because the doors are open? So what why is that
still open?
Speaker 4 (01:36:49):
It's working though it's seventy six degrees in here?
Speaker 2 (01:36:52):
Sall.
Speaker 4 (01:36:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:36:53):
I was sitting out there and all I could hear
was you yelling. So I heard the show?
Speaker 4 (01:36:57):
Did you know the show yelling? What is our dad?
Speaker 6 (01:37:01):
Joke of I like this one?
Speaker 5 (01:37:04):
Do not, I repeat, do not trust anyone named Chris
because Chris crossed Apple Sauce.
Speaker 6 (01:37:12):
What he's going to do to you?
Speaker 8 (01:37:16):
David?
Speaker 7 (01:37:16):
I can't find my it's right here behind the phones.
Speaker 6 (01:37:22):
Father.
Speaker 4 (01:37:23):
Here we go, trained professional. I'll try that at home.
Where was a mirror?
Speaker 6 (01:37:28):
Word of the day? Please I apologize times it is
a verb. Whend W E N D whend.
Speaker 2 (01:37:38):
Verb.
Speaker 4 (01:37:40):
I'm gonna say it's to rip something apart.
Speaker 7 (01:37:42):
I'm gonna say it's to travel in a like a
meandering way, like that.
Speaker 4 (01:37:48):
You wend your way around. I think that's wind your way,
but whatever.
Speaker 5 (01:37:51):
To move slowly from one place to another, usually by
a winding or indirection.
Speaker 4 (01:37:59):
We all done, and I made fun of it.
Speaker 7 (01:38:02):
Yeah, golly, sorry journalism.
Speaker 4 (01:38:05):
But now today's trivia question. Where was American poet and
Harlem Renaissance icon Langston Hughes born? Hint it was not
New York. I think Georgia, Baltimore, but I'm not positive.
Speaker 6 (01:38:17):
I see.
Speaker 4 (01:38:20):
You're all wrong, Jonathon, Missouri. It is long believed that
Hughes was born in nineteen oh two, but more recent
research indicates he was born a year earlier. All right,
what is our jeopardy category?
Speaker 5 (01:38:31):
Abbreviations? Okay, I'm going to say the descriptor then say
the abbreviation. Tell me what the abbreviation stands for. So okay,
my rule for this you cannot guess until I say
the abbreviation. Well, okay, okay, your suggested dose of vitamins.
Speaker 4 (01:38:46):
RDA, Mandy, what is your recommended daily allowance?
Speaker 5 (01:38:50):
I'll take that or amount correct, Yes, automotive feature AWD grant, grant?
Speaker 7 (01:38:57):
What is all wheel drive?
Speaker 4 (01:38:58):
And I have that on my car too?
Speaker 7 (01:39:00):
This is a college, you.
Speaker 4 (01:39:02):
Tip, Mandy? What is University of Texas el passing?
Speaker 6 (01:39:05):
That is nice?
Speaker 5 (01:39:07):
The Northern Military Veterans Organization after the Civil War g.
Speaker 1 (01:39:11):
A R.
Speaker 6 (01:39:13):
M M.
Speaker 4 (01:39:17):
Grandsons of the American Revolution.
Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
Dang it.
Speaker 7 (01:39:20):
Oh yeah, I'm staying side Grand Army.
Speaker 6 (01:39:22):
Of the Republic.
Speaker 4 (01:39:23):
Shoot you idiots.
Speaker 6 (01:39:25):
We go cozy feature of a home for sale w
b F w b F, which is the f?
Speaker 7 (01:39:35):
No idea?
Speaker 4 (01:39:37):
What is wood burning fireplaces? And I look at the
state listenings.
Speaker 7 (01:39:44):
Literally every day at WBF in my house.
Speaker 4 (01:39:46):
Now, I've never seen all of my real estate listening
perusing have ever seen WBF.
Speaker 7 (01:39:52):
So what was the score?
Speaker 6 (01:39:52):
Didn't we tell you?
Speaker 4 (01:39:53):
Now?
Speaker 6 (01:39:54):
To one?
Speaker 4 (01:39:55):
I just wore my second one back. I got to that,
I lost one and I won it back, So it's
two to one.
Speaker 7 (01:40:00):
Nice try though, nothing better than a wood burning fireplaces.
Speaker 4 (01:40:03):
You know what, We've talked about converting ours to electric
because Chuck has super bad allergies to wood, chlorophyll, all
that stuff, So when we burn a fire, it's it's
tough for him.
Speaker 6 (01:40:13):
Get that man outside.
Speaker 4 (01:40:14):
We got him an air pier fire instead. I put
it right by his chair, and now I light the
fire and coot.
Speaker 7 (01:40:19):
People from Ohio like have the worst allergies.
Speaker 4 (01:40:21):
Because Ohio, Ohio is like allergy heaven. You know exactly
oh h I don't say the first state school in Ohio,
exactly Ohio University.
Speaker 7 (01:40:37):
There you go, Bobcats, there we go.
Speaker 4 (01:40:40):
Anyway, I'll leave it on that note. I will be
broadcasting live tomorrow from the mighty millions Raffle House in
winter Park. I am so excited.
Speaker 7 (01:40:47):
You're going to hit the slopes, No pass our pasts.
Speaker 4 (01:40:51):
We might do a little snowshoeing, don't know, that would
be fun. Let's see, we're gonna go snowshoeing. I'm doing
the International snowshoeing symbol right now, but it's it's spot on.
You do a exactly what I was doing. We'll be
back from there tomorrow. In the meantime, Koa Sports coming
up next. Keep it right here,
The Mandy Connell Podcast News
Popular Podcasts
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy And Charlamagne Tha God!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Decisions, Decisions
Welcome to "Decisions, Decisions," the podcast where boundaries are pushed, and conversations get candid! Join your favorite hosts, Mandii B and WeezyWTF, as they dive deep into the world of non-traditional relationships and explore the often-taboo topics surrounding dating, sex, and love. Every Monday, Mandii and Weezy invite you to unlearn the outdated narratives dictated by traditional patriarchal norms. With a blend of humor, vulnerability, and authenticity, they share their personal journeys navigating their 30s, tackling the complexities of modern relationships, and engaging in thought-provoking discussions that challenge societal expectations. From groundbreaking interviews with diverse guests to relatable stories that resonate with your experiences, "Decisions, Decisions" is your go-to source for open dialogue about what it truly means to love and connect in today's world. Get ready to reshape your understanding of relationships and embrace the freedom of authentic connections—tune in and join the conversation!