04-25-25 FULL SHOW - Reacting To Denver Broncos' First-Round Pick, And Jimmy Sengenberger Has The Blues

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mandy. God'll joined by Zach the Wonderkinhi, Zach, how you doing?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm doing great? How are you doing?

Speaker 1 (00:07):
I am doing fantastic. You know what we do on Friday, Zach?
I do we all?

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Who?

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Because it's Friday?

Speaker 4 (00:15):
Right?

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Little Susan wickin pewpp you actually, yeah, that is Susan.
So I just saw Susan wikin. For many of you
are new to the show, first of all, welcome aboard,
Welcome to the fam. We're a little crazy out here,
but instead of hiding in the closet, we just put
it right out on display. If you're new here, you
may not know that well. Susan is my former news

(00:38):
person and also a very good friend of mine, but
she is doing so well. She wanted me to wish
everyone in the listening audience a big hello. And if
you guys know Susan, you know that's how she is.
She wanted us to know everybody's doing great. Anyway, let's
jump in the blog because we've got a lot of
stuff today and I'm trying to juggle something right now
on the blog because the Broncos have a press conference

(01:01):
with their number one draft pick who. I wonder if
you could hear everybody go who when they chose him?
Last night? What from where? What the vision? It was
like the collective hunt? What what are we doing?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
This is a shocking.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
I love the video on social media of Ben Alright,
Dave Logan and Ryan Edwards reacting in real time. It's
the the wave of the fuddlement that washed over them.
A good times, good times anyway. Let me tell you
what's on the blog and where to find it. All
you have to do is go to mandy'sblog dot com.

(01:43):
When that page opens, look for the latest posts and
look for the headline This says for twenty five twenty
five blog Jimmy has the Blues plus a forum on
home rule in Dougco. Click on that and here are
the headlines you will find within office happen argall with
ships and clips a flag today on the blode. Want

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to see a forum with the details on home rule.
Jimmy Sandenberger has got the Blues. Jimmy thinks Morrero should go.
It's an ask me anything kind of day. Did you
see the blog yesterday speaking of sex camp scrolling the Broncos,
Pick who from where? When hype hurts voter id can't
be ordered by the president. The Roman Enclave under London

(02:29):
AI is reducing click for us. John Stossel debunks more
climate nonsense. Shannon Sharp walks away from ESPN how to
be grateful during tough times? Another veto, another override threat.
Speaking of uper the Trump administration is investigating Act Blue, Scrolling, scrolling,

(02:49):
some more scrolling, a little bit more. Colorado can kiss
Federal road money. Goodbye, Shark, Quteri Nachos, Yes please, Monty,
Python and the Holy Brailed Urns. Fifty woodpeckers are menaces
to society. Another wolf bites the dust tgif everybody it's insulting,
but classy like gen Z would not survive the eighties.

(03:12):
Enjoy the Talking Baby podcast. Lindsey Datco on Devil's Advocate
is a must watch. Those are the headlines on the
blog at Mandy's blog dot com. Who dang it, I'm
lightheaded from that, Zach.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
That was a long one.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
It was a very long one. I wanted to make
sure people had lots of stuff over the weekend to
keep them busy. So we got a lot of stuff.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
But let's let's.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Okay to the guy who always sends something to the
common spirit, health text line at five six six nine
oher like, this isn't a sports show. We know this,
but it's kind of a big deal. What's happening right now?
By the way, Zach, have you ever seen the ESPN
special on the nineteen eighty three draft Behind the Draft?

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Oh yeah, the Alwaitchi Marino.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
It's oh my god. It is so good, so good
for so many reasons, right because it just gives you
all of the background and all the machinations that are
happening behind the scenes. But yesterday Broncos country was stunned
into silence when the Broncos shows a cornerback who apparently
was like a superstar on the defensive side of the

(04:21):
ball that flew under everybody's radar. And I have the
video of the press conference to Sean Payton and and
it helped me out. George Peyton, thank you had where
they said, look, we just think that this draft is
kind of an embarrassment of riches on the offensive side,
and we wanted to get our defensive guy. So that happened.

(04:44):
But a bigger, bigger thing, and this is this next
story transcends football in so many ways. Sagar Sanders is
still on the board did not get chosen in the
first round after he was projected by some, including his father,
to be a top five pick. Now how realistic that was,
I don't know. But what we do know is that

(05:05):
a couple of days ago, some nasty rumors started getting
reported where people behind the scenes for unnamed teams were
making disparaging comments about Schador Sanders and saying, look, we
don't necessarily believe in him. It comes with a lot
of hype. One guy said, the way he looks at
you makes you feel small, which I found very interesting because,

(05:27):
you know what, I've never been made to feel small
because I don't allow it. I just I don't see that.
And I've worked with people who are always looking for
ways to feel slighted, like, oh, he's disrespecting me. I'm like, no,
he just answered a question in a snotty fashion. That's
not disrespecting. That's a question in a snotty fashion. I mean,
choose your battles, people. But I was talking a rod

(05:50):
about this a couple of days ago. I said, you know,
the thing about Shador Sanders has for me, from the
outside looking in, has very little to do with his talents,
to do with the entire package. And if I'm an
NFL team, do I want to have a rookie who's
gonna have that kind of swagger and baggage coming into

(06:11):
the locker room. You know, Travis Hunter, as the two
way maniac that he is, has in my estimation, far
more earned the right to have a little swagger. But
he's aside from saying, look, I want to play both ways,
I want to play both ways, he's been pretty contained.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
You know.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
He hasn't been out there running his gums at all.
He's just and I'm not saying schnor has, but I
don't think coach Prime helped at all. I think that
Deon Sanders sort of fast forwarded his son to the
place he was after he graduated from Florida State. But
he had a much longer career, I don't know, you know,

(06:52):
and he was on really incredibly good Florida State teams.
There's a lot of baggage there, and I think the
hyperdon you know, I think retiring is is Jersey or
his number and all that putting his name up on
I just think it cast him in a light that said,
this kid is a potential problem because of all the hype.

(07:14):
That's I mean, that's how I see it, and that's
true for anything. It's like, I don't know, I've been
in situations where and I think everybody's had this situation
at your job, where someone that you worked with who
was clearly not as good at their job as you are,
was elevated and promoted because they were the ones who
ran their mouth the most. You know, it's the Peter principle,

(07:37):
and it's happened in this industry. Holy crap. Radio loves
to hire losers. And I'm just going to be perfectly
frank when I say that if you want to work
in the Boston market, you have to be a politician
who has at least been indicted and possibly been to
prison before they're going to put you on the radio.
But once you once you get over those hurdles, they're
going to throw you onto a talk station. So this,

(07:59):
in just for me, has been really annoying. But I
always take heart in knowing that people who I've lost
jobs too, for whatever reason, they never last. They've never
lasted in the jobs that they got and I didn't,
So I take comfort in that somehow. But I don't know,
I just I wonder if anybody else is seeing that

(08:23):
same thing. Mandy Sanders has the baggage of being Dion's
sun as well. That's exactly what I'm talking about. The
whole thing is just a lot now saying that, I
also recognize the NFL teams will hire anybody if they
think they will help them win. Okay, let's be real.
There's some bad dudes that had played in the NFL,

(08:46):
got caught being bad dudes and continue to get contracts
in the NFL. So the NFL is not this like,
here's the driven snow. We don't win any problems. So
it really does make me wonder what each of these
teams saw that has now dropped him into the second round.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
I think it's this sliding scale thing.

Speaker 6 (09:05):
You know, if you are in immense, immense talent, people
are a little more forgiving with what they'll deal with
on the off field side of things. Tyreek Hill, I think,
is the prime example of that. And then you know
shador I do think he's maybe more of a late
end of the first round type talent. He doesn't have
the arm you look for, he doesn't have the mobility
you look for.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
I think the biggest concern is he's only been coached
by his dad in college, and his dad is absolutely
going to craft playbooks that work exactly for his talents.
You know, why wouldn't you If you know what your
kid is good at, you're going to set them up
for success. And I think there's some questions about that.

Speaker 6 (09:42):
Well, they swapped out the offensive coordinator this past offseason
to get ready for Shador's final season for that exact reason.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Pretty much, Yeah, exactly, So I feel bad for him.
I mean, it's it's got to be embarrassing. It's going
to be very interesting to see how he uses this
as fuel for his fire or if he lets it
burn him down. You know, I mean, I am a
fuel for my fire person, and I think I've talked

(10:08):
about my f you pile on the air before. It's
actually a really good story.

Speaker 7 (10:14):
Though.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
I started working in sports radio, the first woman to
work in that morning show ever, and let's just say
I was not well received at all. And I would
get these emails and it would be like, the subject
line would be you stupid horror, and they would just
get worse in the body of the email. And first time,
you know, it's hard not to be affected by that especially,

(10:36):
I hadn't been in the industry that long, and it
was the first time I'd been like the subject of
a hate campaign kind of thing, and email was just
becoming a really big thing. So I printed out every
single one of those emails, and I printed him out,
and I put them in a pile on my desk,
and I called that my f you pile. And every

(10:56):
day that I came to work and I still had
a job, that was my big f you to all
all of those people in that pile, and it fueled
my fire. I was not going to let them beat me.
It was not going to happen on my watch. And
what ended up happening was like six months later, after
I'd been on the show for a while, these guys
would show up because we were always out and about
doing remotes everywhere, and these guys would show up and go, yeah,

(11:17):
I see you a mean email when you first came on.
But you're not You're not that bad. You're learning, You're learning,
so yeah, And I was like, Okay, Well, I hope
he I hope he creates that that pile of all
of those teams that pass him up, and I hope
that he uses it as fuel for his fire. And
that's really when we're going to find out what shoud

(11:38):
or Sanders is made of, right, I mean that that's
when that happens, when he when he hits the ground
running and makes an impact on whatever team drafts him.
Here in the second round, we're gonna see he would
be Could you even imagine him falling out of the
second round?

Speaker 2 (11:54):
That would be crazy, but it's possible.

Speaker 6 (11:56):
There's not too many QB needy teams, and there's other guys.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
There are quarterbacks like ninety years old that.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Would make sense.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
I could be ironic if we had to watch Chador
play against US twice a year. That would you know?
If I was a Broncos fan, I wouldn't mind it
that much.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
I hate to say it, Austle.

Speaker 6 (12:12):
I love Schador and see you, but you know, if
he's going to be the starting quarterback for I would
happily make him the starting quarterback of one of my
division rivals.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Happily.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Okay, that says a lot without saying anything. Zach, well done,
well done. We are going to try and take the
press conference today at two thirty with the first round
draft pick and the Broncos the guy that no one
has heard of. But we'll get to hear from him
at two thirty because Jimmy Sangeberger, who I'm thrilled, you know,

(12:43):
Jimmy comes in. He hosts the show, he does the
call him in the Denver Gazette, and he's in a
great investigative reporter and I mean he's just he's a
well rounded dude. But he also has a super good
blues band and they're playing this weekend as part of
an event. It's Douglas County's annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. Yes, indeed,

(13:03):
we down in Douglas County, we appreciate our law enforcement
and we even tell them in public with a big
party and a band. And it's happened in Sunday at
Fairgrounds from three to six. So Jimmy and his bass
player are coming in today. So we're gonna get a
little bit of music, get a a little bit of
a chif chack, find out what's going on. And my

(13:25):
friend Deb Flora is coming in because there is a forum,
an informative forum, neither for nor against. We are seeking
information about the proposed home rule issue in Douglas County.
It's open to the public. We have a panel. I
say we because I am one of the moderators. We
have a panel that includes super knowledgeable people, including Douglas

(13:47):
County Commissioner George Teel, who is part of the team
of commissioners who have launched this whole process. We've got
the Douglas County Clerk, We've got Scott James from Welld County.
They are already a home rule county, so we'll be
able to find out what works and what doesn't. It's
going to be amazing and it's happening on Tuesday. That
information is on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Let

(14:12):
me share a few of the text messages because I'm
not going to say I'm shud or Sanders. I just
think it's interesting to watch how that all has has transpired,
and I, you know, maybe it's a lesson. I don't know.
I don't know what the lesson is. We'll find out. Mandy,
You're absolutely right on Young Sanders is too much of
an egotistical know it all, just like his father, even

(14:33):
to the point where he was talking about not going
to certain teams if they drafted him. I will say this,
I've only heard good things from like teammates and the
people that are around him all the time. They don't
say stuff. I mean they from what I've heard, he's
a good teammate. He's a leader, you know, he gives
a lot of credit to those around him kind of thing.

(14:53):
I don't know if he gets proper rap. Maybe I've
missed some stuff. I'm not going to tell you that.
I follow, you know, bus football with laser like focus.
So yeah, Mandy, can you explain to me why home
rule is bad? I'm really confused. Okay, I will be
able to after Tuesday's forum, or I'll be able to
tell you why it's good. I'll be able to tell

(15:14):
you if it's good or bad, and you can make
your own decisions. That's what this thing is all about. Mandy.
Thank you for not talking about the Rockies on track
for twenty seven wins this season. Well I wasn't going to,
but never mind. I can't you, guys, I'm trying to.
There are bright spots, Okay, Rockies fans, I'm gonna spend

(15:35):
thirty seconds on this. The bright spots are the right
spots are There are some actually really good pictures in
our starting lineup. They're starting to get a little more
known by the opponents, so they're you know, they're their
eras are going. We have some great young pittures that
are super fun to watch. Zach Veen is going to

(15:55):
be a blast to watch. I mean, there are bright
spots and we still we'll get to go to Course
Field and sit there in the beautiful Colorado summer and
watch baseball, even if we don't necessarily get to hpe hope,
hope for a victory. So that is my take on that. Yeah,
we're gonna take a quick time out when we get back.

(16:18):
Oh my gosh, I have so much stuff today. It's
an ask me anything kind of day. You can text
a question too, five six, six nine.

Speaker 8 (16:25):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
But when we get back, let's talk about sex camp,
shall we. Yeah, we shall.

Speaker 9 (16:38):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
My shift key on my keyboard is not It's not
engaging the way I want it to. So if I
accidentally text you back on the Common Spirit Health text
line and I don't properly capitalize something, I ask for
your understanding because it's driving me crazy. Just isn't. It's
not even an old keyboard. I just need to adjust
how I'm hitting it.

Speaker 6 (16:57):
I guess a lot of the stuff in here is
a lot of the keyboards are pretty pretty janky, at
least all the keys on that one match where they're
supposed to be.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
That is a comfortable Do you look at the keyboard
as you typed at this stage in your life?

Speaker 10 (17:10):
No?

Speaker 1 (17:10):
I don't, but it's helpful to have that backup. Well
I do. I Sometimes you ever sit down and you
put your hands on the keyboard, you start typing, and
everything's like, ah, I'm wrong, and you have to reposition
your hands and start over because you're automatically hitting the
keys right.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, but you're but.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
You're moved over one key too far to the right,
so none of the words makes sense. Yes, yeah, I
do that all the time. Yeah, so okay, goodness not me.
I got to tell you guys about sex camp. Yep,
it's true if you missed the blog yesterday. First of all,
yesterday's blog was amazing, and I did it because the
weather in Kansas City was a little dodgy and I thought,

(17:44):
you know what, Mandy, if you don't prepare to do
some show, then there's going to be a rain out
and you're going to make a fool out of yourself. Again.
What on yesterday's blog I had a pretty extensive discussion
about a Boulder Valley Health Center event this weekend or
this summer summer sex ed Summer Camp, sex d summer Camp.
Remember when sex said at school went like this, Uh okay,

(18:08):
if the man's genitalia gets to the woman's genitalia and
they meet, someone can get pregnant, someone can get a
disease like wait, just basic biology like Abouda being bata boom,
here's what happens. That's what sex said used to be.
Now now sex said goes well beyond it because for

(18:29):
some reason, people on the left are obsessed about talking
to other people's children about sex. You know, in a
perfect world, everybody would have a free, willing conversation with
their kids about sex. That's not reality, It really isn't. Unfortunately,
it's a very awkward thing to do. I would love
to tell you that I have, you know, these great

(18:50):
open lines of communications about sex, but if I bring
it up to my daughter, she's like, oh my god, Mom,
So it's difficult. But I don't want someone else to
do it. I don't want someone else to have that conversation,
which is why I would never send my kid to
sex ed summer camp. You know what grades they're looking
for incoming fifth to eighth graders. Okay, now, between fourth

(19:15):
and fifth grade you are talking ten or eleven years old,
depending on when their birthdays are. Fiddays, are ten and
eleven year old children in the fifth grade? What are
they going to be learning about? Let me just read
from their flyer that was on social media. What sex ed?
Summer camp is full of all sorts of information regarding

(19:37):
sexual health that most students don't get to learn in schools.
We will talk about everything related to sex, bodies, sexuality,
sexy feelings, media, power, and justice. Some topics might include
bodies beyond the binary, feelings that how to navigate them,
gender and sexuality, consent, communication, relationships, pleasure in all sorts

(20:04):
of ways, self love, and so so so much more.
Ten and eleven year olds seems like a lot. Thank you, Zach,
Because I'm old, right, I realize that I'm old, and
the older I get, the crotchity er I get about
stuff like this because you realize how inappropriate it is.

(20:25):
So what we're doing here. By the way, this is
from yesterday's blog, So if you go to yesterday's blog
you can see the actual flyer for yourself. But that's
not all. They're also offering for high school students porn
literacy classes. Yeah, wait, what porn literacy. This presentation is

(20:47):
designed to help participants understand media's impact on our understanding
of relationships and sex. This lesson was designed with high
schoolers in mind and aligns with state national standards for
media analysis. We only offer this after we complete both
the contraception and STI lessons. Boulder Valley School District has

(21:09):
approved us to discuss pornography's impact as well as media
more generally. In this case, students will examine the impact
of sexualized media and poorn through the media literacy framework. Now,
one part of this is something that I wish parents
would recognize and realize that they must do with their children,

(21:32):
male and female. You have to talk to your kids
about how divorced pornography is from reality. My sister has
the best analogy ever. She says, pornography is to human
relationship sex as WWE is to Olympic wrestling. They're tangentially connected,

(21:52):
but they have nothing in common. And I'm you know,
don't get me wrong, I'm not wishing the teenagers were
having more sex. But the real is that people are
not having sex, young people especially, and if they continue
to not have sex, then there will not be any
more children, and there will be anybody to take care
of me when I'm in the nursing home. Okay, it's

(22:13):
all about me. These are really serious issues and they
can lead to very serious problems.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
You know.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
I am so grateful that my sons grew up kind
of before the easy availability of online porn, because they
sort of were the last generation to not have that issue.
But I know people whose sons have had to go
like into intensive, like almost a rehab therapy situation for

(22:44):
over a year to overcome their porn addiction. And these
are teenage boys. Now I'm not saying teenage girls are not,
you know, experiencing the same thing. I'm just saying this
is damaging to relationships if this is where these kids
are getting their sex. So from that perspective, I appreciate
the intent. But this is a conversation that moms and

(23:05):
dads need to have with their kids. I mean, I
guess some parents would sign their kids up for this
because they themselves are They say, oh, my kid won't
talk to me about this. Sometimes you just have to
talk at your kid, knowing that some of it is
going to stick. That's the reality of it. You know,
every kid, no matter what kind of conversation you're having,

(23:26):
at some point, your kid will say to you, cool,
why are you lecturing? They what? What are you lecturing?
Mabe bah And oh go ahead, Zach.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
Sorry.

Speaker 6 (23:35):
I was just gonna say, if you're struggling to get
through to your kid, I don't think poor in summer
camp counselors are going to get through.

Speaker 11 (23:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
But ultimately, and and I know this because I have
kids that are now adults, right, So you see how
it kind of comes around. They don't they may not
listen to all of it, but it does stick, and
it sticks with them, and at some point when they're
you know, lizard brains stops taking control. When they're in
their mid twenties, it's there. So you just have to

(24:04):
have these conversations with your kids. You have to talk
to them because some of the stuff that kids are
consuming now, in terms of pornography and the level of
violence in the pornography and the degradation of women, it's significant.
And I say this as the mom of a fifteen
year old girl. I'm like, who is she going to date,
who is she going to fall in love with, who's

(24:26):
she going to marry? And how are they going to
treat her? So yeah, I am very very concerned about that.
I wish there was some way to make this conversation easier. Maybe,
you know, I don't know, talk about somebody else's kid,
you know, just make the point because it's damaging in

(24:49):
her personal relationships, or just sign them up for the
Boulder Valley Health Centers class. By the way, I follow
someone who actually went to the Oh I just closed
the window because I'm an idiot that actually went to
the orientation for sex camp. Oh yeah, oh yeah. And

(25:10):
they published a video online. Lives of TikTok picked it up,
and it actually talks about what they're doing at the
end of the summer sex that camp. They invite the
parents in so the kids can show them how to
use condoms and dental to hams properly. Ten and eleven
year olds ten and eleven? What are we doing here?

(25:33):
What is this? You got to watch the video on
today's blog. Oh boy, I can't play it on the
air because I'm pretty sure there's some FCC violations in it,
but when you watch it, you just want to go
why are you so obsessed with talking to little children
about this stuff? Camp? I didn't even give you all

(25:58):
of it. The explanation about sex camp in the video
on today's blog at mandy'sblog dot com. This camp is
rooted in justice and taught through a framework of queer theory,
where children go to touch and play with condoms, learn
porn literacy, and talk about transition plans. Yeah yeah, not good.

(26:21):
Not good. By the way, when you go to pick
up your kid from sex camp, you do get to
play with condoms with them, so that makes it all
feel good. Oh the other part I forgot to mention
about this On the flyer about the event, they don't
call them children. They call them young humans. Oh yeah, yeah,

(26:45):
This justice rooted camp will help guide your young people
in navigating their changing bodies. They'll learn bodies beyond the binary,
the mysteries of puberty, feelings, and how to navigate them
m hm. In their other flyer, they call them young humans.
You know why because calling them children makes this seem

(27:07):
very disgusting and groomery. It's gross, completely gross. So that
is on both blogs yesterday and today, I do want
to ask a quick question of you guys, and if
you could text me at five six six nine oher,
I have questions. There is a post circulating on x

(27:28):
dot com that is published by something called Colorado Doge,
and it is a fundraising pitch. Colorado Doge was created
because we believe you deserve to know the truth about
what happens in the rooms you're not allowed in, about
the rule blanking that gets swept under the rug, et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera. They claim to be a nonprofit,

(27:51):
but there is no indication in the form of a
nonprofit number or any kind of documentation that shows that
they are a nonprofit. And when you go to the
website that they send you to, there's nothing there except
how to donate again, no no tax id number, no

(28:11):
five oh one C three certification, nothing. And it's done
by two guys named Eric Grossman and Cody m LeBlanc.
And I'm wondering if you guys know anything about these dudes,
because this looks like a grift. It looks like a
scam to me. Though I may agree with their mission,
I would definitely not give them any money because this

(28:34):
looks like somebody is just trying to scam off of
you know, angry people who wish somebody would shrink the
size of Colorado's government. Guys, let me just explain to
you what it's going to take to shrink Colorado's government.
We have to vote the majority of Democrats out because
all the Democrats are going to continue to do is
grow the size of government. Oh, totally unrelated to anything

(28:54):
we're talking about, except what I just said. I actually
saw a quote that was the allegedly from the Governor's
office when I guess they were asked about Douglas County's
move to set up a home rule system a home
rule charter, and the Governor of Colorado, who has added
like seventeen state agencies and seventeen thousand new state employees,

(29:19):
actually sent out a spokesperson to say he was worried
that home rule would lead to an increased bureaucracy in
Douglas County. And I I thought, for a second I
got dropped into an alternate universe, But then I realized,
I think they had to have been joshing, you know

(29:40):
what I mean, Like that spokes I just have a
feeling when like this First of all, it was definitely
a phone call, not a zoom call, because there's no
camera on right, and Jared Pulls, the spokesperson was probably like,
uh yeah, the governor is just it's just excuse me.
He's a little bit worried that if Douglas County goes
to home rule it will just increasing. He's so concerned

(30:02):
about the increase of this of the bureaucracy. I have
a feeling one like that. So that was laughable, absolutely laughable.
So if anybody knows anything about this alleged Colorado doge,
I'd love to know more. I'd love to be connected
with the people behind it, and I'd love to know
if there's any documentation that they are indeed a nonprofit.

(30:26):
Nothing more irritating to me than people who lie about
such things. And I'm not saying they're lying. I'm just
saying there's absolutely no documentation on their website. Mandy, you
have questions, and I don't have any answers, mostly because
I don't won't understand them. Okay, man, I think part

(30:47):
of the crazy kitty sex ed frenzy is getting some
kids exposed so that they can spread the contagion to
all their friends and peers, just like my kids found
out top secret info on Santa too early because some
little twerp school had early access to those files. Have
a great weekend. You know what. There's always those parents
who are like, we're not going to lie to our kids,

(31:09):
but they forget to say and keep it to yourself.
Jerks sex Camp says, this Texter, what the sam hill? Honestly,
since we already are a divided country, we should build
a wall down the middle, put the left on the
left and the right on the right. They get all
the good weather and we get all the humidity. I
don't know about this split, sir or madam, each with

(31:33):
their own rules and laws. Let it play out the
next ten or fifteen years and see which society succeeds
and which sinks.

Speaker 5 (31:38):
Lol.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Sheesh, Well, we kind of have that experiment going on
with the states, right. I mean, that's why the federalist
system is so genius, because it allows us to succeed
or fail on the local level as well. When we
get back, let's see, Oh gosh, I have so much
good stuff, it's not even funny. We got to talk
about the veto that is going to be overridden and

(32:02):
it has to do with social media companies that if
I own a social media company, you know what I'm doing.
I am flipping the switch to off for Colorado. I'll
be back to explain after this. It's here for Hawllloween.
I'm gonna be Nancy Grace. I'm Nancy Grice. I just

(32:24):
have to get one of those Karen wigs and then
put on the dark eyeshadow. I'm not believing what you're saying.
Don't bring me new evidence about Scott Peterson. I feel
like I'm like I am becoming Nancy Grace.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
It's a good impress.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
She's on TV right now and I just looked up
and she's almost a caricature of herself. Remember how Tammy Well,
you probably don't remember Zach Zach is in for a
Rod today because a Rod's been busting his homp on
draft coverage. You probably don't remember Tammy Fabaker, do you?
Tammy and Jim Baker?

Speaker 2 (32:53):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
She was something. He was something. They have this praise
the Lord Ministries. They made gazillions of dollars, much of
which they spent on themselves. I mean they were like
the first major ripoff television. Preacher set and they both
went to jail. They went to prison. But Tammy Fay

(33:14):
had this look about her, these big fake eyelashes that
young girls now think look good, and we made fun
of her back in the day for him, and lots
of makeup and big hair and just she was like
a caricature of a human being, you know, kind of
like Dolly Parton. Dolly Parton's just so sweet and charming.
We love the caricature she's become.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
No one makes fun of Dolly.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Except Dolly, you know what I mean. Like Dolly's very
self deprecating. But no Nancy Grace right there. So I'm
not saying that because I just talked about this on
the air that the registration page and the entire informational
section about sex said camp is gone, but it is.
It's amazing what happens when you shine a little sunlight

(33:57):
onto something.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (33:59):
They say, the road to scurry at that point. Yeah. Anyway,
so a bill that was bipartisan, and I find that
very irritating that it was bipartisan, because this is one
of those things where we are looking for a company,

(34:24):
a multinational, worldwide company. Colorado's legislature has just decided that
they are going to micromanage social media companies, and it
all has to do about protecting children one hundred percent.
They're like, look, we've got to figure out who's going
after our kids online. I understand all of this. So
they passed this bill that they intend to rein in

(34:49):
illegal drug sales, firearms sales, sex trafficking, things of that nature,
all horrible, horrible things. But in this bill, they've essentially
made the social media company's law enforcement and are basically saying, look,
we're going to deputize you to make sure that these
things are not getting to children. It's an ask that

(35:11):
isn't reasonable unless it's an ass asked for by everyone
in the form of federal legislation. Because here's what I
would do. If I owned a social media company, I
would look at the six million people in Colorado and say, okay,
I'll just flip the switch off to TikTok and Facebook
and Instagram and all of the social media platforms in Colorado.
And if you think for one second they don't have

(35:33):
the technology to do it, you don't know anything about
how the Internet works when it comes to things like geocashing.
They can absolutely turn all social media off only in
Colorado for Colorado's and part of me hopes they do.
There are a couple things right now that can have
such a significant backlash. And as much as I'd love

(35:54):
to think that the owner's new gun bill will have
enough backlash, I know it's not going to because of
a minority of Coloradin's own weapons. Minority right like forty
percent of Coloradin's own weapons, which is high, but a
majority doesn't, and they probably are going to try and
go buy any But if this happens, this bill is

(36:16):
allowed to go into effect. If I'm a social media company,
I look at the bill, I look at everything that
it's asking me to do, and I think about what
if I don't push back on this state of Colorado.
Why don't I Just if I push back here by
turning off social media, every other politician in the country

(36:37):
will be too scared to do anything about social media.
This is what happened with a TikTok ban. Remember we
were barreling towards a TikTok ban. And by the way, I,
more than ever before, believe that TikTok must invest completely
from the Chinese government or they need to be banned,
because now they are using TikTok to wage propaganda campaigns

(36:59):
against capitalism, and they're winning. So anyway, But if you
want to see a change in votership, if you want
to see people really pay attention, take away their social
media or take away the other thing that Democrats are
trying to legislate into oblivion, and that is Uber. Uber

(37:22):
has already said that if the Colorado legislature passes the
legislation that they're trying to pass, which we require ongoing
background checks, it would require full time recording of everything
that happens in the car, which is perfectly fine until
you start talking about storage of that data. Right, that's

(37:42):
a huge issue. A lot of things that are well
beyond and all in the name of safety. But Uber
has already said, you pass this bill, and we are
out of Colorado, And are we going to be that
vibrant metropolis that you can't get a ride here in?
Is that going to be us? Now? Is that what
it is? Because our taxi system at this point is

(38:03):
not it's woefully short. Things like that, and you start
messing with the stuff that people take for granted every day,
you regulate it out of the state. Yeah, regulate out
oil and gas damage our economy, put us in a
huge financial hole that doesn't necessarily hit people day to
day in the same way. Take away their Facebook, their Instagram,

(38:24):
make them have to enter an ID for porn. Now
you're getting into territory that is going to make people
pay attention. And all of these things are being considered
right now by the Democratic legislature. So they're going to
override this meto. And like I said, if it was
my business, we don't have that big of a population
here in Colorado. We don't have a lot of flex

(38:45):
We really don't. And if I'm meta or I'm alphabet
and I'm looking at the landscape and I'm looking at
if we let them do it, then every state is
going to patchwork quilt us to death. You know that
these are series cancer and they can absolutely turn it off.
What's happening right now is people are are legislating things

(39:08):
that they don't know anything about. They have no idea
how this stuff operates, They have no idea how it works.
They have no idea how easy it would be for
these companies to leave Colorado behind. We are a tiny,
infantismal fraction of their business. And the thought of allowing
every state to regulate them individually is far more onerous

(39:29):
than turning off the spicket for our social media. So
as Colorado the first state to enact stuff like this
ride share stuff, no other cities have tried to regulate
ride share, and ride share is left. So I don't
know about other states. I'm not sure. But in the
states that are the cities that have gone after ride
share companies. The right shair companies just turned off the

(39:51):
app and it didn't last long. People love principle unless
it inconveniences them. That's then they're like, oh no, don't
think so, Mandy. The best way to describe Tammy Faye
Baker to Zach is that her appearance resembles an over
the top drag queen make up put on with a
putty knife. She lived in the time of big hair,

(40:14):
and her personality was as big as her hair and
shoulder pads. Will you know what they say? Though, the
higher the hair, the closer to God. Okay, so don't
think that's not a thing. I'm prayingly do these two
bills says it's text her because you're exactly right, they
will notice. Finally, Hi, Mandy, you should check out governor

(40:34):
of Montana post imploring Colorado gun and AMMO manufacturers to
move to Montana. And why wouldn't you if I owned
any kind of vice company other than liquor. Because we've
decided in Colorado you can open a liquor establishment, a distillery,
a brewery, a winery, no problem, all comers, We love you.

(40:56):
One open a pot business one more time. Here you
get a pod store. You get a pod store. Everybody
gets a pot store. But want to sell a firearm
so people can protect themselves. Nope, not going to do that.
Here's a series of herculean efforts that you must make
in order to buy a firearm. Mandy, people will just
flock to VPN. Yeah, some people will. A lot of

(41:19):
people won't, and they'll just be annoyed. And that's that's
where the opportunity lies. Annoyance. Could you imagine someone running
a campaign where their campaign slogan was vote for me,
I'll annoy you less. That's basically the libertarian slogan, which
is why libertarians will never never win. Running on a
platform a vote for us, we'll leave you alone is

(41:40):
not very popular. I have to credit PJ. O'Rourke for that. Joke.
I feel like I would be disingenuous who I didn't
give him credit, Mandy, The criminals would just get a
VPN to get around any social media regulations. Yeah, they
probably will. But you know what, guys, I saw something
yesterday about younger generations, and I'm talking about eighteen year olds,

(42:05):
seventeen year olds and people just now in college. Do
you know who loves Donald Trump? Those people to the
point where Democrats are starting to get a little panicky
because all of these years they've been on college campuses,
get out the vote, get out the vote, get out
the vote, except now college students are voting for Donald Trump.

(42:28):
So the Democrats are like, uh, never mind, because their
primary base is now old white liberals, that's the Democratic
base and academians. You know, they have a real problem.
I mean, I don't feel bad for them, and I'm
just saying they got a real problem. So I would

(42:49):
love it if this bill. And by the way, they
will probably override this veto. We don't know if they're
going to override the veto on the CORA overhaul that
they shove through, which gives special status to certain news
organizations and put citizens at the bottom of the pile.
They may not have enough votes to override that veto.

(43:11):
We shall see, Mandy. If I'm a part time Uber
and Lyft driver, if Uber leaves Colorado, I'm screwed. I'm
all for the ideas in the bill, but not for
the state government to force it and cause a business
to leave. And that's exactly it. The problem is is
that you have a bunch of people in the legislature
who have never run a business. They've never created a job,

(43:33):
they've never dealt with any of that. So for them
to sit under the gold Dome and throw more regulations
and more regulations and act like businesses will not respond
is ridiculous. I love this attitude of what are they
going to do to leave? Yeah, they can totally leave
when you have a national company, actually multi national in

(43:54):
the case of Uber and Lyft. Come on, Jami reminded
me of a ski hill an inch of base and
two inches of powder. That's pretty funny. That's a good one.
I like it, Mandy. The part time ubers will go
away and the rest of us will join us. Taxi drivers,

(44:14):
cab companies are still here to Trip, Metro, Union and
a few others, and by the way we have PUC
control that makes us do most of these regulations. Love
your show, I think that's stupid. I mean, you know,
getting into a cab and I've always loved getting into

(44:37):
a cab. Getting our timeshares kind of the same, but
getting into a cab always felt more risky, Like when
you go to New York. If you're lucky in New York,
you get an English clearly English speaking cabby, but they're
still from all over the world, right, And I've had
cabbies that I was absolutely certain I was going to

(44:57):
die in the back of that cab before I got
to my destination, but I didn't. It was fine. With
Uber it feels a little bit safer, I guess. I
don't know why, though. Are you at chat with the
Uber drivers sort the zach Are you do you chat?
Are you a chit chat guy? Are you just no?

Speaker 6 (45:14):
I try and just get through it in silence, admittedly,
but sometimes they they want to be chatty, and I'll
entertain it.

Speaker 7 (45:20):
I'm not rude.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
I'm going to tell you I have learned the most
interesting things from chatting with cab drivers or Uber drivers.
I always ask them where they're from, what brought them
to the city where they're in. What you know, what
life was like at home and you know where it's
just it's fascinating to me.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
My girlfriend's the exact same way.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
You know, so much interesting stuff. And when we were
in Switzerland, we had an uber driver that was a
child soldier in Somalia and wow, well it kind of
went like this. We asked where he was from and
he said Somalia, and my husband said, ah, I got
shot in Somalia, and the cab driver laughed and he

(45:58):
said that it was probably me. But he told us
about how in Somalia the warlords got their their armies
and what they would do is they would addict these
guys to methamphetamy, right, so they would drug all of
these young men, and when they were whacked out on drugs,
the war lords was essentially said, go kill your family,

(46:19):
and they would. So then these kids come back, they're
addicted to drugs, they have no family left because they've
murdered them. I mean, think about that for a second.
And then they put a machine gun in their hand
and tell them to go fight, and they're like eight, nine,
ten years old, and it's just it was devastating and
the way the driver was telling us this, it was
so casual, you know what I mean, Like if you

(46:41):
heard of this happening in the United States of America,
there's no way to listen to the story without your
mouth open, or to tell the story without it, you know,
being shocking. For him, it was just this is what happened.
And so once you were in, you were in, and
they used food to control the masses. You know, they
gave out just enough food so people didn't starve to death,

(47:02):
but they were still reliant on the warlord. I mean,
it's just the depth of human depravity is amazing. And
I learned that because I talked to the Uber driver.
We have a picture of Chuck and the Uber driver now,
so there you go. Mandy. One of the best parts
about traveling around the world is when you get into
a van or a car with a driver and start
listening to them tell you about all the history and

(47:24):
the way of life there and their economics. We love that.
When my wife and I travel, I am that person
on the Mandy Connell Adventure. I am always asking the
tour guides questions about taxation. I always want to know,
like when we were in Vienna, I know that Vienna
has very generous social welfare programs. They they have very

(47:44):
inexpensive housing in many many places that are basically rent controlled,
So I wanted to know how they pay for it.
All everything in your life is taxed in Austria. Everything.
If you have an apartment with a little like what
we would call a portico, you know, just a little
dry area, they tax you for that. I mean, they

(48:04):
tax you for everything. So I'm adding it up and
I'm figuring that probably sixty to seventy percent of their
income is taken in taxes in Austria. Beautiful place to live,
but you're not going to get rich in Austria. I
mean you're just not. You're either born rich or you're
not going to get rich because they just make it impossible.
But you learn this stuff by talking to people and

(48:25):
asking them where they eat, and you know which Christmas
market do you like the best? So I always ask
those annoying questions on the Mandy Connell Adventures, and sometimes
the answers are really hilarious. But Vienna, I was like,
holy macaroni. Everything everything is taxed. We think we've got
it bad here, No, not even close. Mandy is a
part time Uber driver. I hate it when passengers ask

(48:48):
me a million questions. Well sorry, if I get short answers,
I stop asking questions right away. I do take the
hint that's gonna definitely be impacting your tip, sir or madam.
I believe in order to be a taxi driver you
must pass a test knowledge of hospital locations, et cetera.

(49:10):
A great show, Happy Friday. Trust me on this. I
had been in cabs where that dude had no freaking
clue where anything was. It was like the first time
they'd ever been in the city They're driving around in
all day, Like, how do you go through life knowing
so little? While doing this job, Mandy, we were involved
in a police chase in a cab in Mexico, and

(49:31):
I think he might have been in on it because
once the cops surrounded our cab, the driver helped us
negotiate the terms of getting our friend out of jail
costs with sixty bucks and his watch. Don't pee on
the street, guys, you never want to have an interaction
with Mexican law enforcement because you truly do not know

(49:53):
whose side they're on. I have so many friends who
have had instances where they got shaken down over a
speeding ticket. I mean, just not good, not good, Mandy.
If rideshare companies leave Colorado, the DUIs will increase horribly.
I agree, Mandy. I believe the ride share safety bill

(50:15):
was required because of state Representative Jenny Wilford, who accused
a lift driver of sexually assaulting her. That's awful. Don't
make the rest of us good driver suffer because of
one individual. Exactly right. Best Uber stories ask a five
star driver about his non five star passengers. That's a
good one, you know what, though I usually don't. I
don't ask him about like driving. I asked him about them.

(50:39):
I think that's far more interesting, Mandy, New York hobby
was halfway down the block before my friend had his
leg inside the door. We have friends. Should have moved fast.
Uh okay, your friend should have got himself in the call, Mandy.
I drive Instacart versus ride share so I can avoid
any and all of those annoying questions. And that is
a fine choice. We all know our strengths and weaknesses,

(51:03):
don't we, Yes, yes, we do. When I drove for
Uber one night, says this texture, I felt like I
had to go to church after a drunk young lady
over shared about a sexual experience. She got one star
as a rider from me. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. I
don't tend to share very much at all, but I

(51:25):
still think it's fascinating. Okay, when we get back, we
have it's already one thirty. We do We'll do a
little math in my mind because we're going to take
the press conference at two thirty from the Broncos headquarters
with the brand new Bronco whose name was his name
again Zac jau Day Baron, Juday Baron, Juday Baron like
shaw Day ju Day or is that what we're doing?

(51:47):
Okay Jauday Baron, Shaday Baron. Trying to commit that to
memory because frankly wasn't on the list, Okay, did not
make the mental list. When we get back, my friend
deb Flora is joining me. We're going to talk about
an upcoming forum on Home Rule that is designed to
give as much information as possible. If you can't make it,
I will share it after the event, but everyone's invited.

(52:08):
It's a whole big thing and we're going to do
that next studio. My partner in crime, my friend, my
sister from another.

Speaker 12 (52:24):
Mister whenever you say partner in crime, I just think
that's where the rumors begin. We've not done anything illegal together, and.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
That we know are aspirational for us someday when we
just completely come on glued. You're going to see us
driving across the country and afford Thunderbird. But we're not
going to go over a cliff because that seems unsafe.

Speaker 12 (52:42):
Now we're evil Canievil styles. It will be a ramp
on the other side and it will be glorious to.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Watch evil kept crashing in the canyons. Moving on.

Speaker 12 (52:52):
No, no, we're better than that.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
Okay. So next Tuesday there is a forum on home
rule in Douglas County and you guys have assembled as
part of Douglas County citizenry, a rock solid lineup I mean.
And the moderators on this event, oh you know it.

Speaker 12 (53:10):
I've heard they were the very best. So we did
everything to get them and they're doing it for free,
you know what. They are such rivers.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
That would be Deborah and me, by the way, will
be moderating the event.

Speaker 12 (53:20):
In case you didn't know what about, oh you got
it absolutely For anyone who isn't aware, a home rule
is something that is in the Colorado Constitution, but as
of now, only two counties have actually adopted that, and
that is Picking County and Well County. Now Douglas County,
which is both of your and my home, is considering it.

(53:42):
And I think the reason why we're doing this, I
absolutely believe what the founding father said, A well educated
citizenry is a key to a free republic. And it's
a confusion. It's a confusing concept. And I want to
say upfront, I am a limited government, a small government
person by nature. But home rule is confusing Douglas County citizenry.

(54:04):
Who is hosting this is simply doing a non biased,
informative town hall so people can ask all the questions
because that's an important part of what our process is.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
We are going to hear from Douglas County Commissioner George Teel.
He is part of the three commissioner group who moved
this forward and will hopes to be a part of
the Charter Commission. We're going to find out why the
county commissioners want to move in this direction. We've got
who else, Sherry Davis, she's the Douglas County Clerk. What
role is she going to play.

Speaker 12 (54:35):
In this absolutely, Well, what's involved in this and I'm
not going to talk about the specifics here because I'm
as confused as many folks, and so we're going to
hear from the experts. This involves a couple of different elections,
both for a charter commission and then eventually for approving
a charter if this is what the people of Douglas
County consider. And then we also have the Douglas County
Attorney because we want to know what's that separation between

(54:56):
state law and county law. And then in addition, we
have from Weld County, which is one of only two
counties that is currently a home world county. We have
Commissioner Scott James and also their county Attorney, Bruce Barker,
who will be a part of this as well.

Speaker 1 (55:14):
So they'll be able to clarify, yes, what what advantages
they enjoy in Weld County and what challenge is or
what differences they have as a home world county. So
we'll actually be able to get real world data.

Speaker 12 (55:26):
Yes, absolutely, And you know what I appreciate about the
Douglas County citizenry and those folks that we're hearing as
this is formulating. Most people just want information. They're they're
they're not coming in with a bias. This is not
to be a debate for or against. This is to
be purely of service to the citizens to answer questions.
And that's that's what you, by the way, have to

(55:48):
get back to in our culture, the ability to ask
questions and be informed without it feeling like it is antagonistic.
It's not asking questions is simply allowing citizens to be
informed and then make an educated choice.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
Devil Flora is my guest, and we're talking because a
text just said maybe I missed it. I don't think
you actually said her name. Oh hi, another mister, This
is happening Tuesday night. We wanted to bring it to
your attention so you can put it on your calendar.
It's happening in Parker at North Star Academy. That's on
Keystone Boulevard. It's very very easy to find. Doors open

(56:22):
at six the event begins at six thirty. We have
a lot of people on this panel, and I know
personally somebody at the text line and said, Mandy, can
you please ask Dab why she doesn't like home rule?
Have you made an opinion on this? Because I am.
I am an open I am an open like I'm
open to be convinced.

Speaker 12 (56:38):
That's exactly what I just stated at the beginning, and
I appreciate that, you know, if that person misperceived how
I stated it. I'm a constitutional conservative. I believe government
was most meant to be at the local level. There,
you know, citizens have a greater say. That's why schools
are supposed to be definitely local control. So that is

(56:59):
my bent in my default. We're just trying to have
a robust conversation about what it means, what doesn't it mean.
And by the way, for everyone that wants to vote
for home rule, we're also hopefully doing a service because
if it does pass, there will not be any false
conceptions about what it means or what it doesn't mean.
That just sets people up for aggravation later. There is

(57:20):
definitely an intersection between state law and county law, and
let's find out what that is so then everybody can
be fully informed.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
And it's different than Denver because Denver is a city
county home rule situation. It's different than a municipality, yes,
that has adopted home rule status. So there's a lot
of nuances to this and there is. I have not
talked to a single person that feels like they have
a handle on this at all.

Speaker 12 (57:46):
I agree, And what I think we've lost in our
culture is the ability to come together and hear fully
so people feel empowered. I mean, you know, when I
was running for Congress, we did twenty five percent voter
turn Now in the primary, what that says to me
was seventy five percent of the people either were disengaged
or did not feel enabled to make a decision. So

(58:08):
there is a fault in the process here. So we
also don't want people to sit out on this vote
if they are for it just because they're confused, or
if they're against it because they need more information, and
maybe it'll persuade either side in either direction. To clarify, again,
this is not to be a debate on the pros
and cons. This is informative. That's what a town hall is.
It's a service. Everybody involved is volunteering their time to

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serve the citizens of Douglas County to have full information.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
So if people can't make it to the event, or
if people are in other counties and would like to
understand more about this, because the last time this was
in vote by counties was like in the seventies, right
in the early seventies, so fifty years.

Speaker 12 (58:47):
Yeah, well it was nineteen seventy five. I believe it
was in Weld. I don't know exactly when it was
in Pitkin, but it has been a long time. And
so what you can do if you're not able to attend,
please do join us in person if you can. Next
Tuesday evening at North Star Academy in Parkers doors open
at six and then the program, the town hall begins

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at six thirty.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
How much space is there, I mean, like how many people.

Speaker 12 (59:11):
Well, it can hold a fair amount. I mean we
don't know what to expect because we're just opening it.
Why this is public, by the way, that is very key.
Invite your friends, just invite people who just want to know.
But if you can't make it for some reason, we
will be recording it and then it will be posted
afterwards on the Douglas County Citizenry page. There's a private group,
but this will be on the page so everyone can

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see it. Once again, just to serve the public to
be informed and make the best decisions possible.

Speaker 1 (59:38):
I have to read this to you, okay, honestly, This
is laughable. Okay, this is why Debra is sitting here
talking about how we need to get to be able
to talk about things and inform ourselves. Wow, she really
has it out for these guys. Oh, you're gonna have
to rouse all the liberals and this won't pass. I'm confused.
Why is she going after this guys? It has to

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be personal. Okay.

Speaker 12 (01:00:01):
This is so interesting to me, and one of the
things I've been focused on in the last several months
is how do we get back to civil discourse. We've
gotten to a point where people feel that if you
ask a question, it's an attack, right, and it's not.
We've got people that just want to know, Okay, how
is the charter commission selected? How is the charter created?

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What are we voting on? What's in state law? What's
in counting law? I'd like to repeat very clearly, so
we do not presume one another's intent in any way,
which is also a fallacy in our public discourse to
presume to know what's thinking. I am a smaller government,
local control advocate, as a constitutional conservative, I feel like

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we've gotten to a point where we aren't allowed to
be informed, and the question I would have for anyone
is what would be the fear of being fully informed
of it with a harm?

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Yes, exactly what a harm comes from asking questions to
understand something better.

Speaker 12 (01:00:57):
That's exactly right. Because anyone that does not feel something
can hold up to just having a full understanding of
the parameters. That is a concern because I know I
have no default against home role in any way, shape
or form. We've heard from so many people that are like,
I don't understand exactly and I want to know more.

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And many of those people say to me, you know what,
I think. I lean towards this, but I just want
to be informed. And by the way, for those who
who didn't hear this earlier part, it's a service even
for I believe for the commissioners who are proposing this,
because the reality is it passes, let's say, and then
people have a false expectation that it means you can

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opt out of all of these state laws. Well, that
just sets up for aggravation later because there was misunderstanding.
Everyone is best served. And once again, just to say,
Douglas County Citizenry is an organization that is solely focused
on informing and equipping, not advocating lobbying and the other

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thing too. This is all about the policy and the principles.
There will be no personal tax, and anyone who's planning
and attending just know those are our very strict guidelines.
There will be no name calling, there will be no
personal attacks, and if there are, you will be politely
asked to lay it down or leave. So that is
the event, and I hope that I can repeat that

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again if we'd like.

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
I found that very very funny. Yeah, I truly did. Okay,
And after the event it's going to be posted, so
if you miss the event, you can go see it,
but make your plans today. Dep Flora, thank you so much,
first of all for putting this in. I know that
you and your husband work your tails off to try
and elevate the dialogue, and I appreciate that. I'm looking
forward to being a part of the event, not just

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to moderate, but to learn more about home rule myself,
because people keep asking me, and I'm like, I have
no idea what to tell you. I don't understand the concept,
I don't understand the difference. So I'm looking forward to
learning all that as well.

Speaker 12 (01:02:58):
At one percent, I want to clarify one to Douglas
County citizenry. There's an entire group of citizens that form that,
but we're just happy to serve honestly.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
That is it.

Speaker 12 (01:03:07):
And thank you Mandy for being a part of that.
And I really hope people come to be informed and
have just the facts. That's all we'll be focusing on.

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
Thank you, deb Flora. We'll be right back. Take a
little bit later than I wanted to be, but luckily
for you, I plan for everything. It's an ask me
anything kind to day. And you guys haven't asked me
anything five six six, and I know Zach is here

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gonna get those messages. At two thirty, we are going
to take the Broncos press conference with their new quarterback
corner not quarter corner back, Jade Baron out of Texas
after he was chosen out of nowhere Finnair just whoop,
here we go. I heard a lot of good things
about him, so, you know, make our make our defense

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even better. Interesting story. Although I kind of agree with
this judge, even though I also agree that we have
to make sure that non citizens cannot vote. So an
executive order signed by Donald Trump some time ago that
required ID proof of citizenship in order to register and

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vote has now been stopped by a federal judge, and
I don't necessarily think her reasoning is wrong. Now, do
I like the thought of forcing everyone to use the
driver's licenses that they already have the real IDs to
go vote? Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
I do.

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
Do I like the fact that we're talking about voter
ID Yes I do. I think it's a good idea.
But the reality is that is not the role of
the president. That is one of those clearly delineated to
the state's kind of things. Now, can the federal government
watch state elections if they believe something well has gone
crazier sideways?

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
Will?

Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
They could during the civil rights era? But I don't
know if you can just go in and say, we
think you're letting non citizens vote, so we're going to
start watching you. I'm not sure. But in her one
erdred and twenty page opinion, she blocked the Trump administration
from requiring proof of citizenship, ordering that election officials assess
the citizenship of anyone who receives public assistants before allowing

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them to register. She also barred the Election Assistants Commission
with withholding federal funding from states that did not comply
with the order. She said, our constitution entrusts Congress and
the States, not the President, with the authority to regulate
federal elections. No statutory delegation of authority to the executive
branch permits the President to short circuit Congress's deliberative process

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by executive order. I don't necessarily think her reasoning is wrong,
even though, uh, I love talking about voter ID because
overwhelmingly people think it's a great idea. The polling data
isn't even close. So yeah, keep enforcing Democrats to defend
not wanting ID at the polls, and then voters can
ounce themselves. Why are they so married to that? I mean, really,

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how many answers are there, and none of them are
particularly flattering. When we get back to Time for a
little Blues with Jimmy Seenberger, he's got a gig coming
up this weekend that doesn't involve columns or talk shows,
something totally different. Right after this, at the bottom of

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the hour, we are gonna hear from the Broncos. They've
got a press conference with their number one draft pick
that everybody in Colorado went who last night except for
Ken the bass player. More on that in a moment.
Joining us now though in the meantime you hear him
here as Jimmy Sengenberger, maybe you read his columns in
the Denver Gazette as Jimmy Sangenberger, but he's in here

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today as his alter ego. Oh that's right, Jimmy Junior.
The Jimmy Junior Blues Band is playing on Sunday as
part of the Douglas County tenth Annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Day.
Because in Douglas County, we like our cops, we love
our call it's crazy, we love the cops. And it
is a family friendly event. They got guest speakers, they

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got food, they got drinks, and they got music by
the Jimmy Junior Blues Band. Now I have a theory, Jimmy,
why you call yourself the Jimmy Junior Blues Band. Okay?
I think you think it makes maybe you sound black.
I don't know. And since it's a blues band and
blues is rooted in the black experience, I think you
just maybe wanted to, you know, sort of just get

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a little of that vibe. Am I right, have you
been talking with my buddy Tay Anderson.

Speaker 4 (01:07:45):
I'm not Yeah, I'm sure he'd suggests that's the reason.
There are two main reasons. One I actually am a
junior right. Two Junior Wells is my favorite blues harmonica player,
an old Chicago blues guy. If you're familiar with blues
guitarist Buddy Guy, the legend still alive today, really the
reigning king of the blues. He was very close friends
with Junior Wells and they used to do a lot

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together back in the day as well, and so sort
of handling that a little bit. They're black and.

Speaker 1 (01:08:11):
I'm meant to be and then I'm just swing you
know you want to you can idea how any way
you want. Jimmy, if we've learned nothing from our brethren
across the islands that you can just decide you're gonna
be black on Sunday and be part of the Jimmy
Junior Blues Band. There's anything that can happen if you
just put you right where where. And Ken is with
us as well. Ken is normally the bass player, but
in order to be more animated on the radio, he

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is a guitar player today because, as I said, bass
players don't do anything but stand there and look cool
and barely move their hands. Ken that's right, isn't it true?

Speaker 9 (01:08:40):
No, I'm very very animated on stage as well. And
since you brought that up, one of the reasons to
come see Jimmy play is that he gets into it.
I've never played with anybody whoever has gotten into playing
the harmonica or any other instrument for that matter, as
much as Jimmy has.

Speaker 5 (01:08:59):
It is much a.

Speaker 9 (01:09:00):
Site as it is an oral experience to see Jimmy perform.

Speaker 1 (01:09:05):
Is it like Joe Cocker level? What are we looking
at right now?

Speaker 9 (01:09:07):
Such that only it's a little bit more crouching.

Speaker 1 (01:09:12):
Crouching tiger hid and dragon kind of stuff. Maybe a
leg kick here and there.

Speaker 9 (01:09:15):
It's it's I can't obviously, I'm struggling for words.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
Music is flowing through it. Literally, yeah, it really does.

Speaker 9 (01:09:24):
Even at practice. It's just this great thing to be
a part.

Speaker 1 (01:09:27):
You've never really talked about how you started loving blues music,
because I too love blues music, and for me, it
really started when I started going to blue festivals and
being exposed to some of the artists that you were
talking about, and and you know, just kind of really
enjoying it. Although one of my friends once said to me,
I don't know how you go to these blues festivals,

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because we'll go for an all day blues festivals. You like,
after the third song, it all starts starts to sound
the same, And I was like, Okay, maybe it's kind
of like a Mumford and Son, you know, solong, maybe,
but there's so much more to When did you start
loving the blue?

Speaker 4 (01:10:01):
When I was a little kid real honestly, I mean
I would coming home from the hospital as a newborn, myself,
my younger brother, my younger sister. My parents had Steve
Ray Vaughan's version of Live version of Mary had a
Little Lamb by Buddy Guyquede up in the car.

Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
I kid you not first song coming home from the hospital, that's.

Speaker 4 (01:10:18):
Newborn's so from birth, raised on Stevie Ray and the
Almand Brothers band. I mean, I was seven. We'd be
in the car doing errands. My mom would be listening
to the top forty radio. I had a portable CD
players listening to Almen Brothers and Steve rayvaugh At seven
first concert Johnny Lang opening for Jeff.

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
Beck, my dad took me. I was seven or eight
years old. I discovered Jeff Beck when I did not
return my Columbia Recording House, and I still have the
Jeff BACKCD that I got because of it, So if
you'd like to borrow that, that's great and I love it.
I mean just the music. Grew up on blues and
southern rock.

Speaker 4 (01:10:52):
My sister Caitlin will be joining us for a tune
to sing Long Train Running by the Doobie Brothers on Sunday,
so that'll be fun as well.

Speaker 1 (01:10:59):
But it really it's just there's.

Speaker 4 (01:11:01):
Something that spoke to me and connected with me at
that age and growing up.

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
In this society, it probably was challenging.

Speaker 4 (01:11:09):
It makes it very difficult, and so you really channel
and feel the blues. I will say this though, because
I mentioned Buddy I was eleven when I saw Buddy
Guy and bb King first in concert at at Fiddlers.

Speaker 1 (01:11:19):
Wow, that's amazing.

Speaker 9 (01:11:21):
That's more of listeners. Jimmy put that into context. When
were you eleven two.

Speaker 5 (01:11:25):
Thousand and one?

Speaker 1 (01:11:27):
Not long ago? I'm fine, not that long ago for
some people to quite a while ago. Well for the
rest of us whatever. No, I'm just kidding. What are
you guys going to play for us? Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:11:37):
Goodness, I mean, gush. I think we should start with
given a couple of factors. I think we should start
with our original that we've wrote together, actually go back
five years.

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
This one is called blues Man through and Through. Okay,
Bluesman through and Through by the Jimmy Junior Blues Band,
well two of them, anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:11:57):
Shall we say that Jimmy Junior duo we got a
given all the credit here, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:12:02):
He actually was the inspiration for this song.

Speaker 4 (01:12:04):
I said I'm a blues man through and through one day,
and he said, that's gotta be.

Speaker 1 (01:12:08):
The name of your first album, Latmus Forever. We finally
wrote this song.

Speaker 5 (01:12:44):
Yeah, I'm a bluesman, baby.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
You know that is true.

Speaker 5 (01:12:53):
Yeah, I'm a bluesmandlan.

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
You know that it's true.

Speaker 4 (01:13:02):
Yeah, I'm a blues man through and through and a baby,
it's all because of you.

Speaker 5 (01:13:11):
Yeah, I'm a bluesman, baby.

Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
You know it's the truth.

Speaker 5 (01:13:19):
Yeah, I'm a bluesman, baby.

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
You know it's the truth.

Speaker 4 (01:13:28):
Yeah, I'm a blues man through and through and baby, it's.

Speaker 5 (01:13:32):
All because of you. My baby done go and left me.

Speaker 1 (01:13:40):
She left me high and dry.

Speaker 13 (01:13:42):
She didn't even give me a chance to say goodbyes.

Speaker 1 (01:13:46):
Why I'm a.

Speaker 5 (01:13:46):
Blues man, people, a blues man through and through.

Speaker 4 (01:13:54):
I'm a blues man throwing through and baby, it's all
because of you.

Speaker 5 (01:14:03):
Yeah, I'm a blues man, Doland.

Speaker 1 (01:14:06):
I'm a blues man through and through.

Speaker 4 (01:14:12):
I'm a blues man, pretty baby, a blues man through
and through. Just give me a harmonica, little girl, and
I'll prove that is true. Oh baby, I'm feeling down,

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a feeling like a dun clown.

Speaker 5 (01:15:28):
Oh baby, I'm a feeling so downs.

Speaker 4 (01:15:31):
Why I'm a blues man, people, a blues man through
and through. I'm a blues man through and through, and baby,
it's all because of you.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
I'll give you. I'll need the solo flapot against right there,
Jimmy j Bluesban. We're gonna take a quick break. We're
gonna be back with another song. You can see them
as Sunday at the tenth annual Douglas County Law Enforcement
Appreciation Day. It's gonna be at the Douglas County Fairgrounds
from three pm to six pm. Family friendly, free, Come

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on out, celebrate law enforcement, listen to some good music.
We'll be right back. I'm in a studio. Jimmy Sunnenberger
bassed player Ken from the Jimmy Junior Bluesman. They're playing
on Sunday for Law Enforcement Appreciation Day in Douglas County.

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It's at the Douglas County Fairgrounds in Castle Rock. They're
gonna be The event goes from three to six. Do
you know what time you guys are playing? At three o'clock?

Speaker 4 (01:16:41):
At three we're we're gonna do a few tunes, then
they're gonna open things up, then we're gonna play.

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
We're throughout the event. Jocotny Grew, Who are you gonna
cover on Sunday? Oh, we have got quite a great
range of tunes. I mentioned long Train Running.

Speaker 4 (01:16:55):
My sister Caitlin will be sitting in with us for
that Red House from Jimmy Hendrick. So we'll be playing.
I mentioned Junior Wells. We'll be playing. We got a
couple other regional tunes that we've got. We've got an
Alman Brothers song in the mix, a couple of tunes
covered famously by.

Speaker 1 (01:17:11):
The Blues Brothers.

Speaker 4 (01:17:11):
We've got this easy top song in there, really eclectic
fun mix.

Speaker 1 (01:17:16):
One really great tune that Ken actually sings is if
you Want to Get.

Speaker 4 (01:17:20):
To Heaven, which was done by the Ozark Mountain Daredevil's
it is the one that goes on of course, Yeah,
we put that. That is an absolute blast to play
on harmonica and you look like you're possessed.

Speaker 1 (01:17:33):
I have a cute video and I'm gonna put it
on my social media after the show.

Speaker 5 (01:17:37):
Shoot some more.

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
As I stand up now I hunting down. I can't
like I have to record commercials standing up. Okay, they're
gonna do another song and then when we we're gonna
take a break right when they get done, and then
when we come back, the Broncos are having a press
conference with their number one draft pick. We're gonna jump
into that. As soon as that starts. It is time
for the Jimmy Junior Blues Band. You can see them

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Sunday at the Douglas County Fairground.

Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
HITTI kids, all right, this will be a blast this
June by the great Sunny Boy Williamson too covered by
Junior Wowes in the past. Get going, brother, you gotta

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help me, lord, I won't do it all by myself.
You gotta help me, baby, Woman, I won't do it
all by myself.

Speaker 5 (01:18:51):
No, I won't.

Speaker 4 (01:18:54):
If you don't help me, baby, I've gotta find myself
somebody else.

Speaker 1 (01:19:02):
I might have to.

Speaker 4 (01:19:03):
Wash, I might have to sew, I might have to call.

Speaker 13 (01:19:09):
I'll leave in my back for but you gotta help me, woman, baby,
I won't do it all by myself. If you don't
help me, baby, I'm gonna have to find.

Speaker 5 (01:19:24):
Myself somebody else.

Speaker 1 (01:19:26):
Let me go a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:20:21):
When I walk, you walk with me.

Speaker 1 (01:20:25):
When I talk, you talk to me.

Speaker 13 (01:20:29):
Oh ladies, Why I can't do it all by myself.

Speaker 5 (01:20:38):
If you don't help me, darling, I've got to.

Speaker 4 (01:20:42):
Find myself somebody else.

Speaker 1 (01:20:45):
Let me take us out.

Speaker 8 (01:20:45):
Can thank you?

Speaker 1 (01:21:13):
Juni blues Man Sunday, Jegu's County Fairground, three p m.
Hope to see you there. We'll be right back. Broncos
press conference with their number one draft pick coming up next.
Let's jump right into the Broncos press conference with John A.

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Barron from at least.

Speaker 14 (01:21:35):
Take pride in that. And I want to think Broncos
Country just for having me. I'm gonna give you everything
I got a day in and day out, and just
being committed to the process of what I'm doing, but
not being attached to the results. So I'm surely blessed
to be here. And I can't wait to get things rolling.

Speaker 7 (01:21:53):
Day. Welcome to Denver.

Speaker 11 (01:21:56):
When did you realize in your life or career that
this was going to be a possibility for you not
just be drafted, but be drafted in the first round.

Speaker 14 (01:22:04):
So, you know, I struggled, you know in times, wanted
things all my time, you know, three years back, just
kind of looking back at it, you know, who wanted
to be three and done and things like that. I
wanted to win, Jim, just want to do all these things.
And I have to understand, just mature. It's not on
my time. It's all on God's time, and his time
and is perfect. His time is amazing and you can't

(01:22:26):
question his time. And just just kind of my pastor
he spoke before, so I had a little chapel before
my draft yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:22:32):
I started at six, and.

Speaker 14 (01:22:33):
He spoke about being a lion, just being strong and
courageous and then when the time comes, just open your
hands and you're giving everything to your Lord and Savior.
And that's what I did is this past year, and
that's what I did yesterday while I was waiting, and
then Broncos Country came to save the day. But the
journey has been amazing. And I was just staying committed
to the process, not worried about the results every day.

Speaker 3 (01:22:55):
I just changed my mindset on.

Speaker 14 (01:22:57):
How I viewed everything, on how I carried myself on
and off the field, and allowed me.

Speaker 3 (01:23:00):
To be a better person.

Speaker 10 (01:23:02):
Andrew Mason, Denver Sports, Welcome to Denver. The Star position
that you played at Texas, kind of describe how it
came to be that you fit in that and what
that position entailed and what advantages such a versatile role
is going to give you as you come to the NFL.

Speaker 14 (01:23:22):
Yeah, I'm just being coached by coach Terry Joseph at
Texas and him transitioning me into Star and that nickerole
people call it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:30):
It was a big change. It was good.

Speaker 14 (01:23:31):
He put me there just understanding that was very savvy.
You know, I can manipulate blocks just with my eyes
and things like that get a lot of tackle for losses.
But I was very savvy and just in my blicks
pass and just kind of bluffing READNA alignment to the
of the splits and things like that. So it kind
of all went hand in hand with my IQ and
then from moving forward that was it allowed me to

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play different positions like cornerback and safety and dime just
with my versatility. But I'm always looking up, looking forward
to any position and whatever role they want me to
play and need me to play. I'm most definitely gonna
mass through it. I'm gonna try my best at it.

Speaker 15 (01:24:06):
Hey Brandon Christoph from Grilla Sports, I now have two questions.
Can you describe what your necklace represents? There much on
your chain in the picture, So.

Speaker 3 (01:24:12):
It's trolly Charlotte Fowler.

Speaker 14 (01:24:14):
He's a friend that passed away, So my first year
at Texas War twenty three to honor him.

Speaker 3 (01:24:19):
And then on the back I have the day he
was born and the day he died.

Speaker 14 (01:24:23):
He passed away, so it was a good memory to
have of him and just always know that he's with me,
and I know, just me wearing it. It makes his
parents and it makes his friends and his family hit proud.

Speaker 15 (01:24:32):
And so the pre draft process, you can talk to
every team in the league. May not you know, know
exactly who likes you.

Speaker 7 (01:24:39):
You may know who. Somebody tells you that you're headed there.

Speaker 15 (01:24:41):
When did you have an idea that Broncos liked you
and that you might be coming here?

Speaker 7 (01:24:45):
And then it's the draft unfolded.

Speaker 15 (01:24:46):
Were you starting to see that at twenty and think, oh,
I could end up in Dember?

Speaker 14 (01:24:50):
I mean the process was crazy, I mean truly, I'm
be honest with you guys.

Speaker 3 (01:24:54):
I mean I thought I can end up at every pick.

Speaker 14 (01:24:56):
So I was just sitting there, you know, just waiting,
just being at peace. My mom asked me around Pick seventeen,
like where was my head at? And I told her
I was at peace. I was fine, and I'm blessing
it and it's gonna come. And it came perfectly when
when God wanted on his time, and everything is orchestrated
on his time, and it's where you're at. Everybody's here
for a reason. The purpose starts a purpose that's a

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lot greater than any individual in the room. So everybody
has a purpose in here, and I have a purpose
for myself. So Jesus Christ's purpose for me to be
here with the Broncos country.

Speaker 3 (01:25:27):
It's amazing.

Speaker 16 (01:25:28):
So to your left of Eric Lailahdever Broncos dot Com,
congratulations you mentioned the Burton Orange. Curious how having those
Texas guys here will help you with the transition, and
have you heard from any of.

Speaker 3 (01:25:38):
Your teammates yet welcoming you to Denver most definitely. I've
talked to a lot of guys.

Speaker 14 (01:25:44):
Patrick Shatain's an amazing player to play with. I've been
watching him, been watching his game, and I love the
things that he can do.

Speaker 3 (01:25:51):
So just soaking a.

Speaker 14 (01:25:52):
Lot of knowledge from him and getting a lot of
information him is going to be big for me, just
to grow mature at the next level. And then, you know,
playing with all the guys that I looked to when
I used to be a kid running around at Austin,
just going to the games and watching them playing dk
R from Brandon to PJ to Roach and all those guys,
and then Sam Elnger that was always my like my

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goat growing.

Speaker 3 (01:26:14):
Up, you know, watching him.

Speaker 14 (01:26:15):
I used to go to those high school high school
games and things like that. But just to have all
those guys around, I mean, it's amazing to have my
Texas and my Texas boys will me too.

Speaker 17 (01:26:25):
So here's your day's only stable time I'm associated Press.

Speaker 7 (01:26:32):
Congratulations on your selection. Can you kind of walk us
through your decision to go back for a fifth season
with the Long Orange and what do you think that
this last year did for you? Leading up to today.

Speaker 14 (01:26:44):
Yeah, to go back, you know, that was a challenge
and I have to accept it.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
I'm a big gold guy.

Speaker 14 (01:26:51):
Write goals every single day, and all my goals that
I have, you know, I look in the mirror every
single day and I read them out and if I
don't hit him. I have to hold myself accountable for
those things because at the end of the day, I
can control it. I control my destiny and I can
control the controllables. So when I made the decision to
come back, it was a lot of a lot of things.
We called it three phases of like football, your social,

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and your education. Uh, you know, I got the graduate.
I graduated from my mother, physical culture and sports. And
then for social, it wasn't about social you communicating with
you know, off the field or the connection. It was
all about connection. So I'm best friends with like Matthew
mcconie and things like that, friends with Greg Abbott and
stuff like that, and donors that owned hotels.

Speaker 3 (01:27:34):
I can go to the ut Golf Club. So that
was the social aspect, just.

Speaker 14 (01:27:37):
Just creating a bond, a level of bond and treating
everybody the same, whether whether it's the janitor or it's
the president, and that's just how I carried myself, and.

Speaker 3 (01:27:45):
That's how my mother raised me. And then from a.

Speaker 14 (01:27:47):
Football standpoint, the last brother point was football. It was
I had a lot of goals that want to achieve.

Speaker 3 (01:27:53):
I wrote down eighth to.

Speaker 14 (01:27:55):
Ninth grade, and looking back at it, told you I
was a big goal guy. So if I were to
left last year, I think I would have regretted a
lot of things, and I don't want to live with regret.
So I took a big chance in an investment. Every
single day I invested in more, invested in, more time
in the football, more time in the training room, just
invested in.

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
And I knew there was no other way to look back.

Speaker 14 (01:28:17):
So once I did it, I end up being the
best decision of my life. And every single day I
was committed to the process of what I was doing,
without being attached to the results, not knowing anything could happen.
But back the end of the day, I can control
what I can control, So I can control how hard
to go out practice, what I do in the training
room and things like that, and its shaped me out
to be where.

Speaker 3 (01:28:35):
I'm at today.

Speaker 1 (01:28:37):
Chris Thomas and Denver Gazette welcome to Denver.

Speaker 3 (01:28:39):
You've talked a.

Speaker 14 (01:28:40):
Lot in the past about your mother, maybe you could
expand about what she's meant to you and your life,
and then maybe let us know who your special guests
are over here.

Speaker 3 (01:28:50):
Yeah. So, my mother strongest woman in the world. Like
even on.

Speaker 14 (01:28:54):
Father's Day, I'll tell her Happy Mother's Day.

Speaker 5 (01:28:56):
Again.

Speaker 3 (01:28:57):
You know she gets too. She raised two older brothers
with me, and.

Speaker 14 (01:29:01):
Then eventually she had three beautiful daughters. So it was
kind of like a weird transition. I was the youngest
of the brothers and then so I got to grow
up with my brothers, and then I got to grow
up with my little sisters. But I have my little
sister there, Taliah, and then to me it's as I
and my older brother Trayvon, and my cousin Dejon, and
then my mom to Seanna Davis. But they all play
a big part of my life and I'm blessed to

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have them. But my mom, she pushed me every single day,
which is just what I'm saying, just staying committed to
the process. Whenever I got down, she made sure that
she reminded me that I was staying true to what
I said I'll do. Long after the mood has changed.
So just with that just being committed, and she was committed.
All those things that she did, people look at them
as sacrifices. Everything she did just running me around from

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boxing training, basketball, football practice.

Speaker 3 (01:29:45):
It was an all in investment.

Speaker 14 (01:29:47):
Like I said at the beginning of the interview, I'm
gonna invest that and I'm gonna give.

Speaker 3 (01:29:50):
Her the world back so she can just be a mother.

Speaker 14 (01:29:53):
I feel like over the years she just trying to,
you know, make everybody happy as a mother, and that's
what you do, you know, take take sisters to go here,
take me here, and things like that. But now she
could truly enjoy just being a mother and not having
to work two jobs.

Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
I'm going to take my little sister's the volleyball path
and she can just truly truly be here with God
called her to be as a mother and to provider.
So it's gonna be fun for.

Speaker 18 (01:30:13):
Her than Yeah today, michaelis nine News. You went, you
asked mister Penner to put you on speaker call after
you were drafted yesterday and made a.

Speaker 15 (01:30:26):
Strong first impression on the Broncos press there.

Speaker 2 (01:30:29):
What compelled you to do that?

Speaker 14 (01:30:31):
I mean, they changed my mother's life you know, any
any other team they could have, they could have changed
my mother's life. They didn't pass on me. They took
the opportunity and they changed my mother's life. So I
just wanted to thank everybody that was a part of
doing that, because it was a collective group, you know,
their organization and me just being here already for a
short period of time.

Speaker 3 (01:30:49):
It's a culture here and I.

Speaker 14 (01:30:51):
Could tell, especially with the Texas guys here, they're already
telling me it's his family tight here, family orient here.

Speaker 3 (01:30:57):
So that's just amazing.

Speaker 14 (01:30:59):
But I felt the need of my heart to tell
everybody thank you, and I very appreciate them just changing
my life and then changing my mother's life.

Speaker 3 (01:31:06):
Again, I said, the purpose, there's the purpose that's the
li great than in the individual in the room. So
what they just did for me for.

Speaker 14 (01:31:11):
My life yesterday, it just changed my mom and my
sisters and my brother's life forever.

Speaker 3 (01:31:16):
So that was big on their part. So I very
appreciate them forever. Today.

Speaker 19 (01:31:21):
Welcome to Denver, romy being CBS Colorado. When people talk
about you, a lot of words come up, versatility, football
like you, leadership from your perspective, what part of your
game are you most proud of.

Speaker 3 (01:31:33):
My film. I really proud on that, you know.

Speaker 14 (01:31:37):
And I think at the next level, obviously it's going
to take a different level of concentration in my film
level and execution and things like that. But just for
my film and my film, study allows me to do
the route recognition allows me to play faster and trust
what the coaches have given me. I sulk a lot
of information in from coaches and things like that, from

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corner coach, safe the coach and things like that kind
of put it all into my head.

Speaker 3 (01:32:01):
It's just it's just chesting me. Uh.

Speaker 14 (01:32:03):
And then once I come of do that, I use
the ability that God gifts me with psalms on the
fivers want to get thanks to the Lord proclaiming his
greatness and showed the whole world what.

Speaker 3 (01:32:10):
He has done.

Speaker 14 (01:32:11):
So like, when I'm out there, I'm playing fast. I'm
just playing free. I have no worries. I'm not afraid
of anything because at the end of the day, I
know my creator, he has me.

Speaker 3 (01:32:20):
He's keeping me.

Speaker 14 (01:32:20):
Safe, so he just wants me to go out there
and play relaxed.

Speaker 3 (01:32:23):
So yeah, I know.

Speaker 14 (01:32:24):
I'm doing a lot of hard things off the field.
I'm studying, I'm working out hard, I'm in the field,
I'm in the training room and things like that. But
at the end of the day, he's gift for me
with the abilities to just go out there and.

Speaker 3 (01:32:33):
Play and not worried.

Speaker 14 (01:32:34):
I think, you know a lot of people are great
at anything and anything in life, and it's just for
anybody watching.

Speaker 3 (01:32:40):
You know, most of the time.

Speaker 14 (01:32:41):
People they're afraid or they have they have things and distractions.

Speaker 3 (01:32:45):
And I think when you just have kind of a
clear mind and your clear mind and.

Speaker 14 (01:32:48):
With a steady seat, and it allows you to do
anything anything better. Whether somebody was studying for a test, uh,
they'll just be free minded and allow them to study.
So when they're going for the test.

Speaker 17 (01:32:58):
So Jeff Fake Wall the ESPN just curious from a
football perspective, can you just kind of run down specifically
where you lined up for snaps all the places.

Speaker 14 (01:33:10):
Yeah, so corner, Star, dime and safety and it was fun.

Speaker 3 (01:33:17):
It was it wasn't a big task. It was a
it was a mental and physical thing.

Speaker 14 (01:33:21):
Coach Joseph and coach Gideon they taught me something that
Nickel and Dime it was more physical physical thing. And
then understand when I was at corner and safety. It
was more mental just understanding that you have to do
the things right over and over and over again, and
you don't know where they're going to come at you.
So it was just kind of changing on the aspect.
But they prepared me well. Just when my practice, my

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practice reps just kind of going rapid fire on me,
just throwing me out there in the fire.

Speaker 3 (01:33:45):
So when the game came, it was.

Speaker 14 (01:33:46):
Like series of series, but it allowed me to play fast.
It allowed me to understand each position and not only
understand each position, but understand and truly know what that
position needs from point A to B.

Speaker 3 (01:33:56):
Just understand where it.

Speaker 14 (01:33:58):
Stretches this person out files that corner and the stars
and man.

Speaker 3 (01:34:01):
I could show, I could show often just take away
the slot, faith for the for the stars, So little
things like that, and just understanding.

Speaker 14 (01:34:07):
Where I had to be if I was the post player,
where can I.

Speaker 3 (01:34:10):
Disguise to get down?

Speaker 14 (01:34:11):
If I was a dying player, just understanding what was
the where the mic needed help. So all those things,
all those variations, I was just kind of playing in
my head. And again I was just playing chess, and
I was able to play fast. Just the amount of
the amount of reps I did, and then the amount
of knowledge that I learned from the.

Speaker 15 (01:34:26):
Coaching staff at the University of Texas Shadda Brander Christall
from Guerrilla Sports again and I'm curious, you said all
the longhorns that reached out in Ps two?

Speaker 7 (01:34:35):
Did you hear from bow Nix?

Speaker 15 (01:34:36):
And how excited are you to be teammates with you know,
one of the exciting rookie qbs from a year ago
and practice against him every day?

Speaker 3 (01:34:42):
Oh? Good?

Speaker 14 (01:34:42):
No, So he texted me last night and called me
crazy night. I called him back this morning. We chopped
it up. He welcomed me, So that's big. I told him,
I'm excited and I'm pumped up, which is ready to
soak a lot of knowledge in. And I'm gonna come
with my best every day, and I know everybody's else
is going to give me their best.

Speaker 3 (01:35:00):
Uh.

Speaker 14 (01:35:00):
And you're just gonna be iron shopper and irons, So
that's gonna be good.

Speaker 11 (01:35:05):
Luke Evans Denver Post Today, you know, there's this scenario
where you end up taking a lot of snaps opposite
pat you know, outside and obviously in that case you
might see a lot of a lot of targets. Just
what gives you confidence that you're ready for that kind
of opportunity and the chance to play next to him again.

Speaker 14 (01:35:20):
My preparation and then the Broncos staff, I know they're
gonna prepare me, right, I know they're gonna they're gonna
make sure I'm ready to go, just from film wise,
my preparation on how I see things at this next level,
how I'm communicating with my teammates. But at the end
of the day, it's my confidence, and I get my
confidence from God. I go out there with no worries.
I'm gonna go out there and play flass. I'm glorifind him,

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So I'm glorifind him. I can do that all day,
and I can do that fast, not not worry to
making mistakes and things like that. Just to honor him
when you honor him, and just be a light bult
for him, just be his servant.

Speaker 3 (01:35:55):
You know, it's always good.

Speaker 2 (01:35:56):
So because better with the athletic day.

Speaker 1 (01:36:01):
How much was Michael Huff.

Speaker 18 (01:36:02):
Kind of part of your experience there in terms of
deciding to go back and then did you have any
time to reflect on you know, he kind of ended
his career here you know, and then you get in
the kind of start it here with what that sort of.

Speaker 2 (01:36:13):
Means to you.

Speaker 14 (01:36:14):
Yeah, I mean Michael Huff a mentor, big brother everything.
He played a big part when when I came back,
I had to I had to ask him if I
can wear seven? Uh, And he allowed me to wear seven.
And I knew it wasn't just on the field thing.
It was off the field on how Michael Huff carried
himself and the whole nine uh.

Speaker 3 (01:36:31):
And I took and I took it upon me and
I knew it.

Speaker 14 (01:36:34):
Was a lot of weight on me. But it's good
to have weight. It's good to have that and you
have to own it. And I think I owned it.

Speaker 3 (01:36:40):
To my full ability. But every day he'll mess with me.

Speaker 14 (01:36:43):
He would just just teach me how to just to.

Speaker 3 (01:36:45):
Go about life. You know.

Speaker 14 (01:36:47):
If I had a pick and I didn't and I
didn't take it for six, he would have been like
I would have taken it for six. So he was
always just in my ear and messing with me. But
that was a big mentor and it was it was
an honor to wear them or seven after I'm always
telling myself honor the ones that paved the way and
leave it, leave a legacy for the ones that came
after me. And I could truly say that I left
mark there at the University of Texas.

Speaker 3 (01:37:06):
And I'm proud Coach Stark's doing.

Speaker 14 (01:37:08):
He changed my life tremendously on just how I carry myself.
So I know he's gonna do a lot of great
things with the team, with the young guys and people
that he's bringing in, So.

Speaker 3 (01:37:16):
I'm excited for him.

Speaker 14 (01:37:17):
And then Michael Huff he's still around his mentoring those
young guys, getting.

Speaker 3 (01:37:21):
Them on the right track. I appreciate you, APPRENTI.

Speaker 1 (01:37:31):
All right, guys, that was the Broncos number one picks
Jahne barn I gotta tell you what an impressive young man.
He sounds like a good egg. He does.

Speaker 6 (01:37:43):
One story that I thought was really really cool I saw.
I think it was Nick Cosmonder tweeted out yesterday, but
George Peyton shared how after they selected Jade Baron, he
requested to be put on speakerphone so he could thank
all the scouts.

Speaker 2 (01:37:56):
Everyone in the room for their efforts or however.

Speaker 6 (01:38:00):
They contributed to the process of him and Peyton, who
you know has been around twenty three who knows how
many drafts and draft rooms said he had never seen
a player ever do that before.

Speaker 1 (01:38:10):
Well, the part that I found the most interesting was
have you ever seen the like the NFL story on
Emmitt Smith, have you ever seen EMMITTT. Smith is a
goals guy. So when he started talking about every day
I get up in the set goals and at the
end of the day, I look and find out why
I didn't achieve that goal. And I was like, that's
very EMMITTT. Smith reminiscent. You know that sort of approach

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to work. This gid could be really good. If not,
he just seems like such a nice fellow.

Speaker 6 (01:38:38):
Yeah, I mean, and remarkably mature for his age, no
matter the profession. I think, you know, professional football player radio,
you know the sales. If you have a mindset of
I'm going to accomplish this goal every day and be
really intentional about Hey, I didn't accomplish that.

Speaker 5 (01:38:53):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (01:38:54):
How can I continue to improve?

Speaker 6 (01:38:56):
If you follow that recipe, I think you're probably going
to be pretty successful in life.

Speaker 1 (01:38:59):
I started on the treadmill this morning watching the latest
episode of the Diary of a CEO. I love that podcast.
It's it's the podcast that I listen to the most,
and he is interviewing a Shallolin warrior monk and talking
about how to overcome your sort of own obstacles that
you throw up and not like actually who like that?

Speaker 3 (01:39:20):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:39:21):
Just you know, we all we all limit ourselves. And
when you hear a young man, a very young man,
I mean, how old is he? Like, twenty two, twenty three? Maybe? Yeah,
twenty three? Okay, so this is a young dude. His
prefrontal cortex isn't even fully formed yet. But to hear
someone have a clear understanding of what you're saying that
you have to be intentional about what you're doing. I mean,

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at the ripoole age of fifty five, I'm still trying
to figure that out right, So that level of maturity
is very very interesting. But isn't this the kind of
player though, that Sean Payton likes. He likes guys who
understand the game, the intellectual part of the game. That's
one of the the reasons that I think you want
to bo Nick so bad, because both smart about football,

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and it sounds like this kid is too smart.

Speaker 6 (01:40:06):
And then I think, even bigger than that, the ability
to learn. Yeah, vance Joseph's brother was actually the defensive
backs coach in Texas, right, so they know him well.
They talked about knowing that he's an A plus learner
on top of just being a really smart player, so
and him being so versatile. If he learns things fast,
you can use him as a defensive weapon. He can

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be an outside cornerback, he can be in the nickel,
he can have safety.

Speaker 1 (01:40:31):
Yeah, so everybody freaking out about this choice. I will
say this, when I saw people on Twitter getting really
salty about this, this ownership group has done a really
good job drafting players. So I'm going to give them
leeway until they demonstrate to me that they need to
be questioned. You know what I mean. It's like, you

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guys have done a pretty bang up job so far.
So I'm just gonna sit back and keep my opinion
to myself.