02-27-26 FULL SHOW - Prostitution From a Law Enforcement Perspective

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Anyway, we have, first of all, can I just say right now that I forgot that it was Friday until I was driving to work? And I was like, wait, what? It's Friday. Wait, what? So I'm excited. It's Friday. Yay. Let's do the blog because, oh, my goodness, we have a lot of stuff on here. And when I was driving here, I heard two things in the news. And I got to add that. It's a full Friday. And it's an Ask Me Anything Friday, which is not on the blog, which it normally is, because I forgot today was Friday. Anyway, find the blog at mandy's blog.com. That's mandy's blog. Look for the headline that says 2.27, 26 blog, prostitution from a law enforcement perspective. Click on that, and here are the headlines you will find within. Good evening. Mr. Mississippi, North and South American, all with ships and clip us and see, let's go to press pledge. Today on the blog. Why are we talking about legalizing prostitution? Metro State should be Metro Social Justice University instead. Excel wants another rate hike. Will Trump's endorsement be enough? Denver wants new homes to be even more expensive. Two state lawmakers take on the three kings of Douglas County. Is police trying to leave Colorado broke? Republican prosecutors save lives. How unaffordable is Obamacare? It's Bill Clinton's turn today. The State Department is telling people to leave Iran. AI is destroying the jobs of people who made it. The success sequence works more times than it doesn't. 41% of Americans are effing morons. Ooh, look, and all boys' club has been revealed. Sustainable abundance and to human nature. Did the DOJ remove embarrassing photos? None of these is the best grilled cheese. Instagram is trying to tighten up policies for kids. Who's going to buy the Dunkin' Bucket? Watch one of the Oscar nominees. online your timeline cleanser for the day he is all of us mascots doing their best those are the headlines on the blog at mandy's blog dot com and boy howdy do we have a lot of stuff and here's what's not on the blog today as uh i was driving to work donald trump made some comments you know those yelling the helicopter you know the helicopter you know the helicopter he's going to get on the helicopter never is it's the president like that and he just kind of yells some stuff back well he yelled back something pretty consequential and he yelled back we may be we may see a peaceful transfer of cuba to the united states i mean that's kind of a big deal that is that is something and maybe this as a floridian has more impact for me than it does for you guys because the Cuban population in Florida is incredibly significant. And a vast majority, well, they came from two camps. Like you have the really old Cubans. who came over back right after the Castro Revolution, and they all escaped with what they had on their backs. They had nothing. They came. They moved to Miami. They built businesses and careers and lives, and they've done very, very well. Then you have all of the criminals that came over during the Mariel Boatlift. And if you've ever seen Scarface, the new one with, well, not new now, but with Al Pacino, that is, the Mariel Boatlift is a real thing. Like, that really happens. Scarface was not biographical, but...

It was biographical-ish. So you have those Cubans that came over. And in all of us, you know, they're old too, right? So now they're all retired. A friend of mine. Shannon, you ever been to Keys and the Keys, the Florida Keys? The Florida Keys are not like any place else in the United States. When you're in the Keys, you feel like you are on it in a Caribbean place, right? It's just a completely different thing than you see anywhere else. Well, there's also an exorbitant number of old men in the Keys. with no hair on the top, but they still got the ponytail in the back. You know what I'm talking about? You know those guys. And they're walking around in what we used to call Matt Lechay Reeboks, the big white fishing boots. You know, that's where they walk around in. And a friend of mine just went down to the Keys last week. She goes, oh, my God, I saw more old men with no hair but yet ponytails in one place. I'm like, they're all old, like, drug runner pirates, right? They're all the 80s cocaine cowboys. They were the guys flying the planes back and forth. I mean, and now literally there's a place in Florida where there's a bunch of guys who used to make all their money running drugs for the cartels in the 80s. They were all pilots. And they would just take their cash and bury it. Now, I'm not going to tell you where these places are because if you try to go dig it up, let me tell you, these old men can still shoot straight. but it's like a whole cultural thing it's bizarre but anyway being from florida the cuba thing is a big deal because there's a lot of cubans that would still like to go home and still have family there And Cuba is absolutely collapsing. Cuba ran out of its own money a long, long, long, long, long time ago, right? I mean, a long time ago. So Cuba has been living on the largest of Russia, of Venezuela, a little bit of China. And they've been doing this for decades now. Well, guess what's going on? Russia is at war with Ukraine? Venezuela's dictator who had propped up the regime for a very long time has been arrested for drug trafficking. And China is recognizing that there's a new, I think, this is just speculation. I think China is recognizing that Donald Trump is not Joe Biden. And if they try to flex or move or do anything in the Western Hemisphere, there's going to be a problem. Now, I don't know what that problem is, but there's going to be a problem, right? So China's sort of sitting back just watching what's going on. So Cuba's benefactors have stopped benefacting.

And they're on the verge of collapse. The entire island. They can't keep the power on at all. There's no food. There hasn't been food for a long, long time. When we opened up, when Obama said, look, Americans can travel to Cuba. A friend of mine, a very good friend of mine, booked a trip to Cuba. And I said, you do realize that when you go to Cuba and you go to Havana and you go to the tourist areas, that the food that you're going to be eating is food that is not going to be eaten by Cubans, right? Like you are going to increase the amount of hunger in Cuba by going as a tourist to Cuba. They were undeterred. So off they went to Cuba. And when they got back, I was like, so. How was your trip? And she said to me, I asked one of the waitresses if what you said was true. And she said yes. And that her family had not been able to get any sort of vegetables at all for the past month, that they were literally living on basically unseasoned rice and beans. That's all they were eating in Cuba. Cuba has deserved freedom for a very long time, very long time. The good thing about Cuba is, The people are highly educated. Their educational system made sure everybody could read. Wouldn't it be nice if we did that in the United States? How cute, how quaint. The Cubas are highly educated. They may be ill-educated, right? The education that they're getting, the history they're getting, I'm sure is a little bit different than the history that we got. But this is kind of remarkable, especially if there's just this kind of like if the legacy of the Castro regime is that it goes out with a whimper, you know? That was the first thing that I heard. And the second thing was not something I heard. It was the second thing that I just saw on the, on the Internet. Top Democrats are weighing, and I saw Susan Rice talking about this the other day, top Democrats are weighing how harshly they would go after corporations that have courted President Donald Trump's approval if they retake the House in November. Now, let me be clear. I don't think anyone is accusing any of these companies of doing anything illegal. Everything they've done from sponsoring the new East Wing Ballroom has been completely transparent, utterly completely transparent. So no one's accusing these companies of doing something illegal. They just did something the Democrats don't like. Now, I love it when you have a situation where you have people on the left running around screaming fascist, fascist, at Donald Trump every chance they can get. But they're literally telling us that are not even like, this isn't even like leaked from a secret meeting, right? These are Democrats openly talking about how they're going to go after companies who, in their opinion, demonstrated a willingness to work with a president they didn't like. That is literally the most totalitarian thing I have ever heard in my life. And they're openly doing like it's something to be lauded, right? Now, if there were crimes broken, then heck yeah, let's do it. But they're not alleging that. This would be the exact same is if Donald Trump had taken office in 2016 and said, you know what? All those companies that paid for Obama's, you know, his inauguration.

We're going after them because they supported a guy we don't like. And they were obviously trying to curry favor by paying for his inauguration. By the way, every presidential inauguration is paid for by donors. And often the donors are very important corporations seeking favorable treatment from said president. To act as if this is anything new is what's ridiculous. But it's not enough that the Democrats defeat you at the ballot box. They want to make sure that everybody is put on notice in the future. That if there is a Democrat, or excuse me, a Republican president and you appear to cooperate with him or her, we will destroy you. One of the reasons I don't like Mitch McConnell. During my time in Kentucky, I learned something about Mitch McConnell and how he ran Kentucky politics. Mitch McConnell ran Kentucky politics through a combination of fear and favors. He would come to you first and say, hey, we need you to do X, Y, Z to make this happen, or we need you to lobby to do this or that or whatever, whatever it was, whatever the favor was. You had two options. You could say, absolutely, I will do it, and then you do it. Or you could say, you know what? I disagree with that policy position, so I don't really feel good about that. And he would work to destroy you, not just your political future, your business, whatever. It was the threat always existed that if you didn't do what he said, bad, bad things were going to happen to you. Nothing physical like the mafia, just reputationalally, whisper campaigns behind your back. Now, we're talking about Kentucky where everywhere is a small town, okay? I don't care how big the city is in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It is a small town. Everybody knows everybody. Everybody's from there. They may leave to go to college. They get married. They come back. It's the boomerang effect. So all of these things, that's how he did things. And now the Democrats are very openly saying, if you in any way support a person that we don't like, we are going to come after your company and try to destroy you. It is shocking to me. Shocking. Let me just read some of this from Semaphore. As businesses greet House Democrats rising midterm prospects with prep for a flurry of subpoenas and information requests, the party's lawmakers are already drawing CEOs a roadmap for their potential majority. Judiciary Committee Democrats have sent missives since last year to Paramount, Hewlett-Packard, and Alphabet, and Oversight Committee Democrats have homed in on fundraising for the White House's ballroom renovation. Representative Robert Garcia, the oversight panel's top Democrat, told him before he would focus on alleged corruption in the Trump administration. Jeffrey Epstein, immigration enforcement, and even cost of living issues. He said his office has already contacted some corporations about a future investigative agenda. And this is a quote.

There's opportunities to look not just at corporations that we think are enabling some of Trump's corruption, but certainly corporations that are not supporting American families and not really focusing on affordability. Now, I've got to tell you guys, right now I look. at these Democrats who are saying things like this, and I'm looking to see if they can stand with their ginormous testicles, right? They have balls in size of cantalopes coming out here and saying this stuff. Do you know? Actually, I know you guys know this because you listen to this show. You know as well as I do that the reason we cannot afford anything is because during the Biden administration, starting in the first Trump administration, I might point out, Starting in the first Trump administration, exacerbated in the Biden administration, we overspent and the Federal Reserve, so the government could keep spending big, just printed more and more and more and more and more money. Since 2020, one third of all of the currency in circulation was issued since 2020. That is why everything costs more. And these same Democrats who are trying to hang it around Donald Trump's neck, part of which he deserves, are the same ones who made it worse. Yet they're counting on you to be too economically illiterate to know the truth. That is what they're counting on. They're 100% counting on the stupidity of the American people. 100%. The part that really got me, Jeffrey Epstein, no. I'm going to try and jog my memory, but I seem to recall Jeffrey Epstein was arrested in 2019. And then let's see what happened after that, after, meaning not before, but after that, Democrats took control. I mean, they had control the White House and the House. And I mean, And they had the Jeffrey Epstein files and they had control. And yet nothing happened for four years with the Epstein files when the Democrats were in control. So please spare me your concern now. Because you had four years to do this. Four flipping years. And you did nothing. Absolutely nothing. The thing that I'm the most excited about is, yeah, please make immigration enforcement an issue because all of the polling data that has come out says the American people agree with it. Maybe not the ugly way that things happen in Minnesota, but we're still on board with deporting illegal immigrants. That has not changed. Ugh. So those things aren't even on the blog. I don't even know why I did a blog now. I have no one. Well, I'll tell you why I did a blog. Because I want to have an incredible work ethic and I do this every single day. Secondly, I've got a guest coming up. I think he's at 230. Wait, let me just check. Let me double check because for some reason. I did not put it on the, on the calendar there. What is today? The 27th. He's coming on at 2.30. D.A. Michael Allen, who's also running.

For Attorney General, we're going to talk a little bit about this bill that would decriminalize prostitution in Colorado. And the more I read into this, the more you can find an overwhelming amount of evidence that the problem they're trying to solve actually gets worse by legalizing it, especially for the first in the country, okay, to on a grand scale. It's a bad idea. Anyway, he's coming up at 2.30. I also have stories like this. Denver wants new homes to be even more expensive. I know, right? Because they're so cheap now, so, so, so cheap. I went to see a speaker last night, and I'm going to get to that housing story in just a second. I went to see a speaker last night as part of the Denver speaker series, and I went with Susan Whitkin, who you all know from her work here in the newsroom. And I was talking about the fact that we're trying to, you know, buy a place closer to my kids because every time we go visit the kids in Ohio, we're spending gobs and gobs of money. staying somewhere. I mean, honestly, because both of our kids live in very small places, so there's not a place, a room for us to stay. So we're looking at buying a little house in Ohio, and we're talking about the houses that we're looking at, and they're all small, post-war, you know, really cute little brick houses, but they're like $215,000. And Susan was like, well, you should buy two. I mean, it's funny. It's kind of funny, but it's not, right? I mean, so we were talking about that and just talking about how expensive it is here in Colorado and how I think we're going to see more young people leave as they begin to realize that things like affordability, home ownership, they're out of reach in this area. They just are. And Denver doesn't care. The mayor of Denver doesn't give a rat's ass if you can't buy a house here because he has his house already. I mean, he's got his house, right? Denver is going to, quote, update the required energy efficiency codes for new homes and remodels. And I say it like that because, like especially use Wash Park as an example. When you drive through Wash Park, you have this mix of smaller homes that were traditional back in the 1940s or 50s when they were built, super cute, lots of personality. And now they're interspersed with what used to be those smaller homes, but people have come in, they've renovated, they've popped the top, they've gone up, they've changed the entire look of the home. Ostensibly, that was a remodel. This is going to make all of that. incredibly expensive. And they don't care. They really don't care. When we get back, I've got this and I've got a column that appeared, I believe, in the Washington Post. I'll double check by Jim Jordan Lumberg about how almost on a dime, almost collectively.

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that Denver is trying to make housing more expensive. And what are they doing? Well, they're going to apply their new energy efficiency electrification rules. Now, back in the day, when they were passing these for big office buildings, and remember when I sat here and said, hey, guys, they're going to come for your gas stove too. And y'all were like, uh-oh, what? Well, guess what? That's what they're going to do. In 2023, this is from the Denver Gazette. The city banned new gas furnaces and water heaters in commercial and multifamily construction, starting in 2024. By 2027, a full prohibition on gas heating and cooling equipment in commercial buildings will be in effect. Industry groups push back back in 2023 and was like, look, this is going to cost people a fortune. And as a matter of fact, there are lawsuits still pending about that. So what are we doing now? We're going to shove all of that same stuff onto the building and renovating of homes. Right now, the, let's see, the energized Denver ordinance is being used to update Denver's energy code. It'll be for all new and renovated small buildings, including single family homes and duplexes. And they would extend efficiency and electrification readiness standards that are already in place for the bigger buildings. I'm telling you guys, they know how you should live. And by gosh, by golly, you will live that way. This is exactly, I mean, this is how it's done. I want to think... Gen X-Gen, Den, she goes on X-S-Gen. She pointed out to me that Denver Mayor Mike's executive order yesterday about ICE. Went far deeper than just saying, hey, ICE can't attack our people. Listen to this. The city attorney's office shall work with the relevant agencies to prepare an ordinance to present to city council that requires all bidders on city contracts to disclose in writing any agreement the contractor has with the Department of Homeland Security, including specificity as to the federal agency within the department, the nature of work, and the terms of compensation. The ordinance shall require bidders to disclose all third-party data sharing. These requirements shall be incorporated into all new or amended contracts. In what way? In what way are you going to incorporate that? Why do you need that information unless you are going to use it as a bludgeon to get businesses that might be doing business with the Department of Homeland Security to bend to your will? I mean, that's what they're doing. This isn't about just, you know, protecting illegal aliens. And boy, howdy, they love to protect illegal aliens. This is about controlling what businesses do and who they contract with. If I'm a business...

I'm going to tell you to go pound sand if you ask me about any other business that I'm doing. If I'm eye heart media and Shannon is one of my clients and I go to Shannon and say, Shannon, we're going to need the terms of the agreements that you have with other businesses that are not me. I'm going to need to know that. I would hope Shannon would tell us to F right off. That is none of your business. Now, if you have a public relationship with someone and you are actively, like just say for instance, I lost my mind and I decided to be best friends with Nick Fuentes, right? Like the white supremacist. I would never be best friends with him. This voice is like, it's like Ross Perot. It's. I don't understand how people can listen to it, but that's the least of his worries. Anyway, I become best friends with Nick Fuentes. And it's publicly known that I'm best friends with Nick Fuentes. Then if someone holds that against me in a contract bidding process, so be it, right? Like I've made it public. But if I am a paper producer, if I'm Dunder Mifflin, and I am just selling paper to the Department of Homeland Security, why in the world is that any business of the city of Denver if I want to sell paper to the city of Denver? What the hell does that have to do with anything? This is designed to get businesses to change their behavior and do what Democrats want them to do. And my friends, how is that not fascism? Come on. Very frustrating. Now, it is also Ask Me Anything Friday, and you can text me anything at 56690. Keep it clean. We are a family show. Mandy, just like Trump does. Trump went after, and somebody else on the text line pointed this out, Trump went after a bunch of law firms that were going after him. And at the time, I was like, I don't think you should do this. I just don't think you should do that. I mean, if you believe that something illegal happened, then sure, that's one thing. But nobody's alleging illegal stuff, right? Nobody's alleging that someone has broke the law. So I'm pretty consistent about that. Mandy, they are communists. Just understand that civil war is the only way to end the indoctrination deep. That's dumb. You guys, I'm so sick of that civil war is the only way to end it. But coming from an area that lost the Civil War, trust me, it's not cool. By the way, my favorite onion headline ever in the history of the world, Shannon, 2013, it was published. And the headline was, the South says it won't rise again this year, but pencil in for next year. Okay? Fantastic. Forcing us to use electricity while raising our rates every year, yep, yep, yep. Mandy, what if I buy a gas furnace from a different state and bring it here to have it installed? I don't think you're going to be able to get it permitted. I don't think you're going to be able to get an inspection on that. Now, here's the thing. If you have a gas furnace and your gas furnace breaks, I don't think. Yet. I'm just going to say yet. They're going to tell you you have to buy an electric furnace. But if you're building a new build, here's a great way to show you how this works in practice. So in certain parts of the metro area, you haven't been able to have a wood burning fireplace for a really long time.

But you can have a gas fireplace, right? So when they come and inspect your home, you have to show that you have a working gas line into your fireplace. You have to have it vented properly with a, you know, a chimney and all that stuff. So I have, I don't even know how many friends that built a home, have the gas fireplace, and you know what they use the gas for to light the wood in their fireplace? Because they don't want a gas fireplace. They want a wood fireplace. But the city said, no, you can't have that. So this is the workaround. There's a workaround for everything. And ultimately, it may not bite you in the butt until you try to sell it. And they find out that it's, you know, I don't know. I have no idea. Mandy, do you have to book your own substitutes when you go on vacation? No, I do not, and I don't care to be involved. I have friends in radio, and I'm going to throw them all under the bus. It's not a lot, not all of them by any stretch of the imagination. I have a couple of friends. in radio who have to approve all of their own fill-ins. Like, that's in their contract, that they have final approval before someone can fill in, right? And their thinking is, I don't want them to get someone better and have them fill in for me and make me look bad. My thinking is, if they're that much better, they should have the job. You know, frankly, I'm just like, who's better? No one. Whatever. Ooh, black market gas appliances, one, two, three. Yes, Texer, you are correct. Mandy is a grape, a Bari Weiss. And if not, what is it? I mean, it's a grape? I don't like grapes. They're like eating an eyeball. I do not like the way they feel in my mouth, and I don't like the way they taste. So I've never given this an iota of thought, not a bit of thought. All of the Barry family is dead to me. Mandy, all of my suburban mom friends that all voted Democratic will start complaining about how difficult it is to remodel their homes and blame it on Trump. Unfortunately, you are right because people are stupid. They are willfully ignorant. So last night, oh, when we get back, I got to tell you, I went to see. Father Greg Boyle speak last night. I mentioned it earlier in the show, but I didn't tell you what he was talking about. It was fascinating. Absolutely fascinating. And it was part of the Denver speaker series. And if you've not heard of this, it is a series where they bring in seven different speakers over the course of the season. You have to buy tickets and all this. It's super cool. I love stuff like this. I mean, I love stuff like this. But looking at who they've invited and who's coming up next, it is a left-wing audience. And... When I left last night after hearing the message of Father Greg Boyle, I thought, wouldn't it be lovely if the people in that audience that are probably congratulating themselves on their own compassion would just extend that to the other side of the aisle? We're going to talk about that. Oh, and so much more stuff. It isn't Ask Me Anything Friday. Text us 56690 back after this.

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They really believe that. They really believe that the number one thing they need to worry about is carbon emissions because carbon emissions are the root of all evil. And if we don't stop carbon emissions, we are going to die of, we're all going to just roast to death on the planet. The reality is much different, much, much different. And I swear I put this column on the blog today and I now can't find it. It's a column by Bjorn Lumberg, and he talks about the fact that in this last meeting at Davos, there was almost no mention of global warming. None. None. So all of the big cheeses, all of the big corporate muckety mucks that have been getting together for two decades telling us that we have to check our carbon emissions while they all flew to Switzerland and their private jets. They've now ended the charade. Now, you have to think about it like this. These are people that are wanting to make more money. They want to be able to sell things to people. And they are many of them in the banking industry. Do you know what has not happened over the last 25 years of scare tactics about global warming? Banks are still loaning money to people on the coasts. And they're loaning them 30-year loans. Do you really think of banks? Stop for a second. The global warming was going to come eat the entire coastline of Florida. They would be giving millions of dollars in loans to people who live there. The whole charade is falling apart. But in Denver... Mayor Mike Johnson and all the green energy people, they really believe that somehow making Denver even more unaffordable is preferable to not signaling the right things when it comes to climate change. And when will they catch up to what's going on around the rest of the world? When are they going to get hit to it? When are they going to go back and watch? An inconvenient truth and go, wait a minute, we still have snow. Florida hasn't been swallowed up. The polar bears are actually increased in numbers since this movie came out. So pretty much nothing that was in that movie that scared the bejibers out of so many people turned out to be true. But in Denver, they still believe. They're solving all the world's problems, but it's getting harder and harder for me to not judge them harshly when they continue to ignore growing evidence that says, hey guys, we should probably work more towards mitigation than trying to stop the climate. That is a fool's errand. I'd love to ask some of those folks if they know how long the carbon that we're putting into the atmosphere right now will remain in the atmosphere. Do you guys know? Do you know the answer to that question? How quickly carbon is, you know, dissipated out of the atmosphere? You can text your question, your guess, to 566990. The prize will be absolutely nothing except the satisfaction. No, and don't use the Google. 5669. I'll be back for the answer.

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But it's not just the Europeans. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney once called for a global net zero commitment to solve climate change, which he saw as, quote, an existential threat. Now he's saying a few different things. Now, Carney admits that the, quote, architecture of collective problem solving, long supported by World Economic Forum elites and including the United Nations organized climate change summits, has been diminished. At home, he's pledging to make Canada into an energy superpower. In the U.S., Democratic politicians have stopped leading with climate change as a central issue, and now they're talking about affordability, low energy prices and immediate economic relief instead. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist winner of last November's election, campaigned on rising grocery bills and housing costs and barely discussed climate change. The global shift is not all down to the election of President Trump. Voters have become sick and tired of constant climate alarmism, meaning many climate advocacy voices, like environmentalist and author Bill McKibben, have had to dial back their rhetoric. Shouting about doomsday is failing to deliver political gains. Other issues have become much more important to voters. People are reading and watching climate change news less across the global north. The media itself has less to say. According to a Washington Post analysis, 2025 saw the fewest media mentions of climate change since it started keeping track in March of 2022. A Searchlight Institute poll highlighted that voters in battleground states are prioritizing pocketbook concerns over abstract environmental threats, with political strategists advising against talking about climate change altogether, because when leaders say the words climate change, voters get bad vibes. This course correction means the media and left-wing politicians are catching up with the public who say climate change ranks low, even compared to other environmental concerns. A Pew Research Center Global Survey from August found that many high-income countries have seen a mass reduction in concerns around climate change as a major threat. Maybe we've all gone, well, they keep being wrong, right? They keep being wrong over and over and over again. They're just wrong all the time. But I'll continue. This recalibration even extends to advocacy groups and observers who have retreated from confrontational dumerism. This retreat is good for sensible policy because the failed alarmist approach relied on a series of persistent misrepresentations. Take the claim that extreme weather events because of climate change have dramatically made us worse off. This is simply untrue.

Deaths from climate-related disasters, including storms, floods, droughts, and fires have declined sharply over the past century, with the last decade seeing some of the lowest numbers on record. Despite global population quadrupling, in the 1920s, the global death toll was nearly half a million per year on average. Last year? It was less than 10,000, a reduction of more than 97%. This progress results from better warnings, stronger infrastructure, improved disaster response, and overall societal wealth that enables such protections. Adaptation through innovation has proved far more effective than fear-driven restrictions. Another fib is the idea that China is rapidly going green. The reality is that China is massively reliant on fossil fuels. Just like everyone else. Half a century ago, China got 40% of its energy from renewables when it relied on burning wood and dung because its people were poor. As Chinese people have since become massively wealthier, fossil fuels peaked at producing 92% of the country's energy in 2011, and that figure has only ebbed slightly to 87% in 2023, the last year for which there is data. Ambitious commitments made its successive climate summits that would redirect enormous financial flows toward green projects in poor countries have proved illusory. Rich countries continuously failed to honor their 100 billion per year climate finance promise and to make matters worse, largely repackaged development aid that could otherwise develop hunger or diseases. Activists and politicians demanded urgent, economy-wide transformations, insisting that only massive shifts could avert climate disaster. They mobilized calls for trillions to flow from taxpayers and conventional industries into renewables. Those grand visions have faltered, and private capital has all been withdrawn amid high risks and uncertain returns. What was presented as an inevitable tidal wave of sustainable finance now appears more like a passing blip. Europe provides the starkest warning of idealism clashing with reality. Germany's vaunted energy transition has been a textbook case of climate scares driving poor, but immensely costly decisions. Now, Chancellor Frederick Merck confesses that Germany has achieved, quote, the most expensive energy transition in the entire world. A large part of the cost comes from prematurely cutting down nuclear plants that were reliable, low carbon, and already fully paid for. Instead, German policymakers increased reliance on coal and gas, drove up emissions, and saw electricity prices skyrocket. Merck now admits it was a serious strategic mistake to exit nuclear energy. The transition from exaggeration to muted realism among the leaders at Davos is at least some progress. This reflects recognition that exaggerated fear tactics have led to public disconnection, bad policies, and political backlash. Now we need to focus on what works. For now, we should deliver cheap, secure energy to boost prosperity while we innovate for a greener future. And that from Bjorn Lumberg in the LA Times is where I just grabbed it.

But here we are in Colorado with the city of Denver full speed ahead. Full speed ahead. They want to make housing more expensive. Every single thing you do in life has a trade-off, right? One of the things, one of the sound bites that people on the left used to smear Charlie Kirk after he died was a soundbite where he talked about. Gun deaths are an acceptable tradeoff that we as Americans in the United States of America, the tradeoff that the founders decided was worth it because they decided that an armed population is the only way to ensure that tyranny cannot take hold. We have to be able to physically take up arms against our government if it gets to totalitarian. So in that soundbite, he was talking about the fact that, unfortunately, much as we've decided that the deaths of 50,000 plus people every year on our roadways is an acceptable tradeoff for us being able to have the convenience of transportation. You know, if we were all back on horseback, we would not have to worry about 50,000 plus people being killed in car accidents every single year. But no one is suggesting that we stop driving. That's never being suggested. It's an acceptable tradeoff. Right now, the Democrats leading the Denver, leading Denver have decided that their Don Quixote-like quest to save the world. When, by the way, the rest of the world is going to keep doing business as usual because they realize with current technology as it is, it is impossible to get to net zero. It's simply impossible. And in trying to rush the process, they have bankrupted people in Germany. They've driven out industry and people in Germany. Germany has the highest electricity rates in the developed world, and it's not even close. They're like three times what we pay here in Colorado, three times. And it's even more for business. So we have decisions to make, but it's about time that we should be able to have conversations about whether or not the tradeoff is worth it. Because what we do here in Colorado, What, like, we could drop, we could all, we could turn off every light. We could all, if every citizen in the state of Colorado said, you know what? We're going dark. We're going dark and we're only going to, we're going to heat our houses to 65. We're going to cool our houses to 90. We're not, we're not going to do, we're going to use as little energy as possible. And we did that for 25 years. And in the process, we destroyed all of our economic growth. We drove away any sort of industry that needed any sort of real power pole. But hey, you know what? We're stopping our carbon emissions. And at the same time, China is in the process of building more coal-fired power plants. Oh, yeah. They're not shutting them down. Sure, they're adding wind and solar so they can talk about how green they are, but they are still adding coal-fired power plants in China. India has so many emissions at this point because they're a developed economy now. They don't have great pollution controls. So India is just pumping out all kinds of emissions and pollution.

What do you really think we're accomplishing here in Colorado? We're accomplishing nothing except setting our economy back, putting our people behind, making Colorado a miserable place to live. And they don't understand why that would be a problem. And that's the part I don't get. Climate change is one of those like, so it's a religion now for the people that believe in it. It doesn't, new evidence doesn't need to come to light because they believe on faith. that what they're doing is going to work regardless of how many times it's failed before right no uh but they believe it's going to work that's all they need to know they have faith and nothing you could say could break that faith so now we're stuck in this situation in colorado where we have all and i'm not even talking about government i'm talking about the people in colorado who have stopped any sort of intellectual deep diving about the effect of running companies like Palantir out of Colorado are going to have long term. You know, there's a guy running, I think he's running for Attorney General. His name's David Seligman. He is as far left as you can possibly go. And his policies, the things that he advocates for. would lead to the absolute destruction of any sort of economic growth in Colorado for the foreseeable future. But he believes he's doing the right thing. So all of those people that would be out of work, all of those people that wouldn't be able to find work, all of those people that get left behind when their company moves to another state that they don't want to move to, they don't matter. And the people that are going to be actively priced out of the new housing market in Denver for the forever, not just for the foreseeable future, but forever, they're worth the sacrifice in the minds of the democratic leadership. Your ability to pursue the main cornerstone of wealth building in the United States of America doesn't matter to them because they answer to a higher power and that higher power is the cult of global warming. It's just kind of sad when you think about it. All right, we got a lot of people on the text line. I want to see if I could find this really quickly. Oh, no, that just went, just updated. Hang on one second. Do that. Let me do this, and I'm going to pull up more. All right. Hey, Mandy, ask you anything, even though you said you aren't a practicing Catholic, do you still abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent and eat fish? I probably, if it was up to me, I would eat fish every night. I would be a pescatarian. But my family is not as down with fish as I am. But no, on Fridays, no. No, I don't really do it. Mandy, how much wood can your chuck chuck if your chuck chuck some wood? A lot. Mandy, will you have a fruit smoothie? No. How about the White House ballroom? We're not talking about that. We're not doing that. Mandy, not only do we still have snow and still have Florida, but Florida has snow, if I'm not mistaken, correct.

That is accurate. Well, Mandy, call in next week if anything happens big newswise. No, I will not. Although I will be on a work junk and I'm not technically on vacation. So like I'll check my emails and stuff like that. Mandy, I'm looking at adopting a cat. One of the local shelters wants three non-family references. WTF is that. Ha-ha, now I wonder why more pets aren't adopted. Can I just say, I have now tried with three different rescue operations in the past 10 years, and all of them sucked so bad that I went and bought my dog. You don't want people to shop, you want them to adopt, don't shop, don't make it so ridiculous. Hi, does Mandy clean her own house or does she hire it out? We do twice a month. We do deep cleans, but our house is pretty tidy. It's not like, we're not super messy people. So, yeah, but I don't want to clean bathrooms. I'm going to point in my life where I can pay somebody else to do it. You better believe I'm paying somebody else to do it. Mandy, why do you speculate that, oh, wait? Why do you speculate that American Express would do this talking about they're building a giant new headquarters in New York? I mean, New York is the financial capital of the world, you guys. And they know Zohran Mamdani will run things into the ground enough that the people will vote him out. Socialism is, here's the thing about New York City becoming a socialist city. They can't print more money. Right? Socialism works initially because you give people the power to print money to pay for stuff. But eventually what happens is they devalue the currency so much that it stops working and you have to have other people's money. And Zohran Mamdani just found out by being told no about raising taxes on the rich that he doesn't have the money to fund it. Jesuits have gone to the dark side, says this texture. My wife's alma mater, University of San Francisco, is no longer considered a Catholic university. PUC, well, that's one thing. The only thing that bothers me about Jesuits, because Jesuits are all about helping the poor. There's two things that bother me about Jesuits. Number one, Jesuits are wanting government to solve the problems that Christ commanded them to solve. I have that problem. That's thing number one. Thing number two. What was thing number two? Oh, there's almost this sense. And I got this from Father Greg Boyle last night. There's almost a sense that the Jesuits give moral superiority to poor people. Now, don't get me wrong. I am in no way saying that poor people are bad people, right? I think that a vast majority of people who are poor are poor because they make really bad decisions. I don't think they're evil. I mean, trust me, when in my adult life, when I was broke, it was because I was making stunningly bad decisions with my money, right? I mean, just the way it is. But I don't like the assumption of moral superiority. There were a lot of things that I heard last night that were very Jesuit about just...

reserving your judgment for someone else without knowing the burdens that they carry. And I'm like, you know what? I've talked about it on the show that I've been working over the last few years because I'm not getting particularly better at it at being less judgmental. Now, I still make judgments all the time. I make judgments every day on the show. But I really try to understand what a person, why they would do what they would do. And then I'll judge the actions. I mean, like, that's a dumb thing to do. But I'm trying not to pass that judgment on people. And a lot of you, not a lot of you, some of you on the text line, I get these text messages all the time. The Democrats are evil. They're demons. I'm not doing that. But I'm going to point out all the ways that I think their policies are just wrong, even as I do believe they think they're well-intentioned. And this whole climate thing is a perfect example of that. It is Ryan Seacrest here. There was a recent social media trend which consisted of flying on a plane with no music, no movies, no entertainment. But a better trend would be going to chumba casino.com. It's like having a mini social casino in your pocket. Chumba Casino has over 100 online casino style games all absolutely free. It's the most fun you can have online and on a plane. So grab your free. Welcome bonus now at chumbacasino.com. Sponsored by Chumba Casino.

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Yeah, it's seldom that you get a burger at like a nice restaurant like that and you think this needs to be taller. You know, like I need a sandwich instead of a bun. I hate it when I get like the, when they try to be super creative and they bring out your meal, you order something and they bring it and it's all stacked up in a pile and you're like, do I knock it down? Do I try and get one of everything in each pile? How do you even approach this? I feel like if your dish comes out of the kitchen. and you need to have some kind of descriptive pamphlet on how to eat it, you're doing things wrong. I shouldn't have to unhinge my jaw to get a good cross-section of what you delivered. Well, I did tell you about my first experience in a New York deli. Have you heard this? No, I don't think I've been here for that. One of the greatest days of my life by myself. Okay. I was a flight attendant laying over in New York City. No one wanted to go out and do anything. So I go down to the lobby bar and I say, here's what I want to do. I give him a list of stuff and he literally writes it out on a legal pad. What subway trains to take, which station to come up out of. I mean, really took care of me, did a great job. This was like smartphones. And I went out and had the best day ever. The first stop was Katz's Deli. And I go up to, I'm sitting at the counter, I order a pastrami sandwich. They put it down in front of me. The meat. Is that big, Zach. It is solid six inches of pastrami, right? So the guy puts it down in front of me. He goes to walk away and I kind of mumbled to myself because I'm by myself. I was like, how am I even supposed to eat this? And without even looking back at me, he says, you put it in your effing mouth and chew. But he didn't say effing. He said the F word. And I was like, oh my God, that was the most New York thing ever. Yeah, that's the right baptism into New York culture. Exactly. It was just, it was the most magical day. And I spent the whole day by myself all over New York City. It was just fantastic. Grilled cheese with bacon and tomato. Now, you lost me at tomato, but I do like bacon on a grilled cheese. But it's got to be good bacon again, too. It can't be like weak, like, you know, super skinny, no flavor bacon. Velvita, you are correct, texture. That processed food cheese product makes the best grilled cheese you're ever going to have. Bree and bacon on sourdough is a really yummy grilled cheese. That from our friend Michelle Zellner. Best grilled cheese I ever made, homemade smoked pulled pork layered on it, delicious. Wow. What kind of cheese are you talking about? You going pepper jack? What are you doing there with that? Because I think pepper jack on pulled pork would be amazing. That'd be fantastic. Mandy, a pimento grilled cheese when you said it. I just about up chuck. That sounds unbelievably gross and nasty. Stay being a grilled cheese traditionalist, I will not. And if you've never had really good pimento cheese, and yes, there is such a thing. When I lived in Kentucky, I went, I had a client there that had the most incredible. a facility for folks living with Alzheimer's. It was just unbelievable. It was magical. So we were doing a grand opening when they were opening up the new wing. And we went and one of the little old ladies who worked at the facility made the best pimento cheese I have ever had in my life. Like it was just like it was magic. And I got her recipe. So now I have her recipe.

And if you, I'm not sharing it with any of you. Because I was sworn to secrecy by this elderly woman and I, and she will come back and haunt me. I'm pretty sure. Here in Vicksburg, Mississippi, we have a bar that serves the Vicksburger. A burger with two grilled cheese sandwiches as buns. It's intimidating and best to be deconstructed. Correct. Mandy, the best grilled cheese I ever had was in the airport in Anchorage, Alaska, the king crab grilled cheese with seafood shatter and ice cold beer. Oh, my God, I need that in my life. Oh, I need that. All of these sound awful, except the classic, says this grumpy texture. They don't. They sound delicious. At Mandy, I like either a thin sliced apple on my grilled cheese or jam on a classic grilled cheese. I actually had, and I'm not a big, I don't like jam. Like I like jelly, but jam generally has seeds in it, and I hate the way they feel in my mouth. It's so gross. I can't do it. But a friend of mine made me a grilled cheese sandwich that had like, it was some kind of white cheese. It wasn't provolone. It might have been some kind of Swiss, but it didn't have holes in it. And she put cherry preserves on it. And at first I was like, ah, but I ate it. Oh, it was really good. Really, really good. Oh, here it is. Good cheese, apple slices, raspberry jam. Velveeta is fish bait. You know what? Just because it can successfully catch catfish does not mean it's not a delicious processed food product. It's a processed cheese food product. That's what Velvita is officially on the box. Because it's not cheese. Mandy, there's a grilled cheese restaurant in Idaho Springs. It's all they do. Delicious. Yep. Correct. Do not judge me, Textor, who says processed cheese. What are you six? You know what it is? I love all cheese. There's not a cheese that I do not enjoy, and I'm not even kidding. I even love blue cheese, much to Ross's chagrin. Oh, by the way, Zach, I'll ask you this. I'm sure Ross isn't listening, and no one will tell him. I found a poster. That is just all the different kinds of blue cheese. Should I buy that for Ross for Christmas? Thousand percent. If not his birthday, whatever sooner. I don't know when his birthday is. I might have missed it already this year. I literally saw it and stopped. So now I'm just getting blue cheese content in my algorithms because I stopped too long on the blue cheese poster. But I was like, oh, I should get this. See if you could sign them up for a subscription letter situation. I do love cheese of the month as a gift. But you got to give it to the right person. You cannot give it to an unadventurous cheese person. I found out the hard way. I mean, I found out the hard way, but it was actually the good way because the person that I gave it to literally gave me all the cheese. So I gave them the gift. I got credit for giving a gift. And yet I got all the cheese.

That's 4D chess. I felt bad, honestly. I had no idea that they had the palate of a toddler. Mandy, supposedly Trader Joe's has an amazing pimento cheese spread reported from my mom in Florida. Need to see if Colorado locations have it. Yes, I do like Stilton cheese. I like all the stinky cheeses. Love them. Listening to you, I'm going to have a grilled cheese and tomato soup for supper. And why wouldn't you? It really is one of the world's most perfect food combinations. Hey, this is Ryan Sechrest here, and I have discovered a fun new escape from the daily grind Chumba Casino. Chumba Casino has hundreds of social casino style games. It's all free to play anytime, anywhere, with daily bonuses. So get to Chumbacasino.com. No purchase necessary. VGW.W. Boy, we're prohibited by loss. See terms and conditions. 21 plus. If you're someone who's tracking your sleep, your steps, and your macros, then you already know that what you eat is kind of everything. You should also know that Sprouts Farmer's Market can help make eating for longevity easier. Sprouts has all the high-quality, nutrient-dense, organic foods and cutting-edge supplements you need. So whether you're focused on protein, gut health, or optimizing how you feel day-to-day, it's all there. And here's what no other grocery store can offer, an in-store wellness expert to help you find exactly what you need. So whether you're after longevity or on any other health journey, it's easier at Sprout's Farmer's Market. From a grilled cheese food truck 10 years ago, I had a goat cheese and jam sandwich. Greasy as hell made me a little sick, but damn, if I don't still think about how good that sandwich was. I think about some stuff like that. I had a dish in Switzerland. And it was a shaved, beet, apple, and horseradish salad. Holy, like right now my mouth is watering because I'm thinking about it. And I was trying to ask the guy what was in it, but he answered me in French, so I have no idea. It was just like, it was just an explosion of flavors on my, on my mouth. Oh, it was so good. Oh. The argument, oh wait, that's about climate change, and we're talking about grilled cheese sandwiches. My mother made toasted, not grilled cheese sandwiches, the best. I've never had a better one. She's gone for over 50 years now. I need more information about that. I need a little more info about that. And yes, Texter, you love all cheese, Limburger? My dad loved that. We had to leave the room. The key to Limburger is to taste it without smelling it too much. But yes, I do. Did Mandy win this work trip from selling advertising? This is a question because next week, I am on a junket. Now, back when I first started in radio, junkets were very common, and junkets work like this. You have a national advertiser who has bought advertising in a lot of different markets, in this case, the San Diego Zoo. So in order for people like me to be able to tell you why you need to go to this new thing at the San Diego Zoo, they fly a bunch of us out there all at one time. And then we do like a whole day. They have this new Elephant Valley Safari Park that they're getting ready to open. It looks amazing. If they bring all of these people out at one time and we all go do a little tour, you know, all of us together and whatnot.

And then they fly us home. And they're super fun. I have never been on a junket that wasn't incredibly fun. I could lie to you and tell you it's not going to be fun, but I'm going to have fun next week. And I cannot wait to come back and tell you all about what's happening. Have you ever been to the San Diego Zoozac? Once when I was really little, so I don't remember it well. It really is like, when I go to a theme park of any kind, I apply the Disney standard to my comparisons for that theme park, right? When you go to Disney, things you don't see. You don't see chipping paint. You don't see trash anywhere. There's never garbage on the ground at Disney. They're like little people who come out of nowhere and take the trash away. And I compare all amusement parks to the Disney standard. And they could go from almost Disney to Disney would laugh in your face. And those are like your fair carnival ride type situations where some guy on meth put the thing together like five minutes earlier. Well, zoos, I kind of apply the San Diego Zoo standard. It's that good. It's kind of the creme to le creme. I've never been to a better zoo. I've been to zoos that were almost as good, but I've never been to a better zoo. I thought you were going to say something. Oh, no, they're just, they're renowned worldwide. Like I haven't been, but I know of how excellent they are for good reason. Yeah, they really are. Mandy, when I was in Austria, I had a roast beef and strawberry jelly. And man, was it good? Roost beef and strawberry jelly. Huh. Mandy, have you ever been to the cheese ranch in Golden? They have the best cheese and one dragon mustard cheese that is to die for. Oh, my gosh. Wait, what is, there's a cheese ranch? I do know about the cheese importers in Longmont, and I have made that pilgrimage more than once. And then you have down south, you got the Springside Cheese Shop in Prebleau. I still haven't made it there, but the Wine Yogi is like my, she's my dealer for the Springside Cheese Shop. So she brings me stuff from there. But to Cheese Ranch? I've never heard of that. I like an open-faced grilled cheese sandwich, toast the bread, slather on some mayo, apply cheese of your choice, and put it under the broiler until it's properly bubbled. We call that cheese toast where I'm from. That is not a grilled cheese in my mind to be a proper grilled cheese must have some kind of, you know, you can use butter, you can use mayo on the outside of a grilled cheese if you've never tried that. You're welcome. but that's got to go down in the pan and then you put the cheese on and then you have another slice of bread that you put the you know the lubrication on the back of whether it's butter or whatever you're putting and then you put that on the top and then you cook it until it's a little melty then you flip it over it's so so perfect and now I really want a grilled cheese sandwich But you cannot order in a grilled cheese sandwich because by the time it gets delivered to your office, you have like a cheese flavored rubber sandwich because the cheese rehardens and it's just, it's not good. Not good at all. Best grilled cheese sandwich at Bertha's Restaurant, 9th in Jersey in Denver, the adult grilled cheese, fontina cheese, thin sliced pears, fig sauce, and caramelized onions on cranberry walnut bread. Now you had me until cranberry walnut bread.

I'm not doing that because dried cranberries are like raisins. They're like little teeth assassins. Like six hours later, you're like, what is that in my mouth? Oh, God, it's a dried cranberry. Other than that, everything is fine. Mandy fried bologna grilled cheese, sign me up. You are speaking my language. When we get back, I want to jump back into a more serious conversation. But it's a philosophical serious conversation. And it specifically has to do with Elon Musk is talking about a world without work. And I'm here to tell you, I think this is a terrible idea. We'll do that next. Ready to put a little spin on your day? Then check out Chumba Casino's new online social casino game, Ryan Seacrest 10K Ways. It's free and packed with 10,000 ways to play. Only at ChambaCasino. No purchase necessary. VGW Group, void where prohibited by law. ZTs and Cs is 21 plus. Sponsored by Chumpa Casino. If you're someone who's tracking your sleep, your steps, and your macros, then you already know that what you eat is kind of everything. You should also know that Sprouts Farmer's Market can help make eating for longevity easier. Sprouts has all the high-quality, nutrient-dense, organic foods and cutting-edge supplements you need. So whether you're focused on protein, gut health, or optimizing how you feel day-to-day, it's all there. And here's what no other grocery store can offer, an in-store wellness expert to help you find exactly what you need. So whether you're after longevity or on any other health journey, it's easier at Sprout's Farmer's Market. To decriminalize prostitution in Colorado and a little bit about his campaign and how that's going. In the meantime, though, we've got to talk about something that has been bothering me. As a matter of fact, I've now tweeted at Elon Musk multiple times. Oddly, he has not responded. I keep seeing Elon Musk talking about a future where humans won't work. He talks about what he calls sustainable abundance, a post-scarcity society where humans have created technologies so ubiquitous and so powerful that they've eliminated the need for labor. And this from New York Times. Over the past six months, the utopian phrase has become central to the billionaire's businesses, belief system, and lexicon, according to Mr. Elon Musk's social media posts and what he said on podcasts and at company events. Now his electric carmaker, Tesla, is developing humanoid robots. His rocket company, Space X, is promoting orbital data centers. And his artificial intelligence startup, XAI, is creating AI that Mr. Elon Musk has said will solve most if not all of humanity's problems. All of this sounds amazing. Except, you know, there's an old saying, you know, I don't remember what is it called like an old cliche, Zach, like, you know, early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, is it an idiom? Okay, whatever it is. There's an old one of those that says, idle hands are the devil's workshop.

I heard that a lot when I was a kid because whenever you were bored, if you went and told, especially my grandmother, like, you were bored, she would find something for you to do. Like, go pick up all the magnolia leaves in the backyard, which was like a thing. But devil's hands are the, I mean, excuse me, idle hands are the devil's workshop is a saying for a reason. And you don't have to look far to see what happens when people don't have another way to occupy their time that gives them meaning and purpose. I can make the argument that the level of addiction that rose up, specifically in places like Appalachia and eastern Kentucky, after the first attack on coal, shut down all the coal mines, can at least in part be attributed to the fact that those people had nothing to do. Now, they weren't living in a time of abundance. They weren't living at that. They were living in abject poverty. But many of those people did not take that time to make their lives better. They got addicted to pills. Right? I worry about human nature in all of this. Because human nature, we have certain consistencies that are just kind of across the board. Problems with human nature, if you call them that. One of them is that if we have too much free time, we don't use it for good a lot. Think about this. When was the last time you just had a day? Right? A day. Did you use it to pursue your passions? Did you use it to expand your horizons? Or did you use it scrolling on the internet or watching television or laying on your couch? I mean, I'm not saying that laying on your couch doesn't have a place in your life because it does. Everybody needs downtime and everybody needs to rest. But I think... Knowing all the things that I know from different perspectives, including the perspective of retired people, talking to people, I spent a few years selling insurance to old people and sitting and talking to people, all of whom were retired, I learned some very valuable stuff, and that is when you're retired, you better find some way to have purpose. Because if you don't have purpose, if you don't have a reason to get up and out and move and go and do, the days start to run together. They start to just seem unimportant and it can create problems, especially for people whose entire identity is kind of caught up in who they work, you know, what they do for a living. So I love the idea of it. I love the idea that I could get out of bed and I could have my robot maid whip up some dish in the kitchen for me. But I'm just going to tell you this already. There's going to be some mornings where I wake up and I tell the robot maid. I'm going to make my own breakfast today. And my robot maid is going to turn around, roll her eyes and think to her robot self. She is going to mess up everything in the kitchen. And I'm not going to care. Because even though for some people I realize cooking is drudgery, I get it. Some people really hate it. I love it. I totally love it. But if we get to a point, there was a movie and I can't remember which one. And maybe you guys remember, this kind of concept has been in multiple movies where you walk over and you ask for whatever and then you open it up and out comes like three little tablets of food that you're supposed to eat and it's supposed to give you a, you know.

nutrition, that looks horrible to me, just horrible. But not having something to do in the sense that I like coming to work. Don't get me wrong. I mean, I'm counting the days to retirement. No, I'm just kidding. I actually enjoy coming to work. I feel like talking to you guys in a weird way, I feel like I'm making your day better. If you hate the show and you hate listen to the entire show, you're welcome. I've given you something to direct your hate to. If you like the show and you listen for a little bit every day and I brighten your day or make you laugh or make your head explode or whatever, you know, I like I like I'm making a difference. I think most people who enjoy their work, and I, by the way, I am one of those people that no matter what job I have had and I've had great jobs and I've had crappy jobs, I found a reason to enjoy it. Right? You have to go to work. You have to make money. You have to support yourself. So maybe you don't have the job of your dreams right now, but find a way to enjoy the job that you do have as you start to lay the groundwork by increasing your skills, your responsibilities to get to the job that you really want. That's how I've always looked at work. Even when I was like a waitress in a restaurant in college, I always knew I could manage a restaurant. That was literally like two weeks of my first waitressing job. I was like, oh, I could do this. I could totally manage a restaurant. By the time I was in my senior year, I was managing a restaurant. Because you just think about like this job is not great, although I made more money waiting tables than I did as a restaurant manager. Mandy, I'm in college and I have a lot of free time. Oh, enjoy it now, college kid. Enjoy it now. Because trust me, it goes away. This texture said Britney Spears is a great example of idle hands. Train wreck. I had to unfollow Britney Spears on Instagram because I find what's happening to her so incredibly sad. She is not a mentally well woman. And she is obviously not well. By the way, she's getting ready to sell her catalog, which isn't even that big. That to me says she's running out of money and she's not old. So is it going to be that much longer before we see the stories of Britney Spears living in a trailer? And don't get me wrong. There's nothing wrong with living in a trailer. But when you live in, you know, multi-million dollar mansions and are a massive pop star to end up living in a trailer, it's kind of a sad tale, right? I mean, that's one of those cautionary things. Like when the NFL stars, you'll find out a former NFL star is living under a bridge and you're like, holy crap, how does that even happen? Mandy, if we don't work, says this texture, then we have nowhere the way of making money except having the government pay for everything. That sucks. It's an entirely loser proposition. Here's the thing about this whole thing by Elon Musk. Everything, all this technology is going to have to be maintained and updated and everything else. Without money, how does that work? We'll be back.

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American Social Casino. Do you and Michael Allen coming up next. Mandy, look up Johnny Calhoun's Universe 25 study in regards to the Elon Musk Utopia. I have talked about this study multiple times. As a matter of fact, another texter texted this a little bit later that says, It says, Mandy, please read about the mouse utopia experiment. It's a cautionary tale regarding the downside of having no need to work. And somebody else said, Mandy, I think about that mouse study you talked about. And the mouse study is a psychological study that was done with mice. A researcher named John Calhoun put four pairs of mice in a two point square meter completely wonderful predator-free enclosure with unlimited resources. These mice had nothing that was going to kill them. They had all the food that they needed. And the population of this mouse experiment peaked at 2,200 mice. That was day 560. And starting at day 560. The behavioral sink began. As space became overly crowded, social structures broke down, and the mice began to act in very strange ways. A group of males withdrew from social interaction. All they did was focus on eating, sleeping, and grooming, which caused a loss of reproductive capacity. And within a short time after that, the entire colony was extinct. And when you think about that, like you think about the mouse utopia, isn't this what Elon Musk is talking about? When people do not have something that gives them purpose, something that gives them a reason to get up and go and do, and we are wired for self-preservation. We're wired to want to make sure that we're going to eat, we're going to sleep, our family's going to eat, they're going to sleep. You know, we're just really complex animals when you get right down to it. This texture said,

didn't we see, I don't know where it is, Mandy, didn't we see an example of this during COVID? And I said, so we're going to have a roll full of sourdough? Is that what's going to happen when nobody, are your robots just going to make the sourdough then? Maybe. I don't know. Yeah. Mandy, if nobody had to work, what our cities just become giant amusement parks, I don't know. I don't know. Oh, no, text her. A texter sent me a joke. I didn't get the joke, but I didn't block you. I'm reading your follow-up right now. Mandy, I worked for the state for a short time. It was trained on how to make my small amount of work fill the whole day. And all anybody talked about was how many years, months, and days till retirement became super depressing really quickly. And this is why I can never be a union employee. My son in Ohio got a union job. And he's very efficient. He's a great worker. And the first two days that he was at work, he did all the work that they had scheduled for the entire week and got a talking to. Like, hey, man, you're going to have to slow it down. That stuff you got done in two days. That was our entire week's worth of work. And he was like, what? Yeah. And it will be like the movie Time Machine. Everyone will lay around, get fed, and the warlocks will run the equipment. I don't know. It just doesn't sound that fun. It doesn't, I like doing things. I like being busy. I'm a busy person. I don't like to sit around. I'm busy at home. I, like, putter around all the time. I just think it would be super boring if there was nothing to putter about. If you have robots taking care of everything, then why would I, I mean, just the way I look at is this. If I already had a robot assistant that was taking care of everything in my life, then could I walk by the drywall repair that needs to be done in the bathroom downstairs in the basement every day and think to myself, I'll get to that this weekend. If I had robots to do everything, what would I have to look forward to? Other than the drywall replacement that I'm never going to do. I don't know how to fix drywall. But for some reason, I think that drywall repair, I'm going to handle that. It's so ridiculous. I don't feel good about it. And I'd love the chance to talk to Elon Musk about it and kind of say, look, the human nature part of this is what you're missing. Human nature is what prevents socialism and communism from working. Human nature is really hard to change. I don't think you really can. I think you can control your worst impulses. I think that you can stifle the things that are not productive, but ultimately they're still there. And when there's nothing else to confine them, then we just see the worst of people, right? That's kind of where our society is now. We don't have people who are religious, who have those guardrails. And generally speaking, people can just be really, really awful. Dang it.

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But there are other ways to do that. There are other ways to decriminalize selling your body, but yet keep criminal penalties on the people buying sex. Because my fear is not that we have consenting adults engaged in a consensual exchange of money for sex. I've been doing so much reading in the past two weeks and study after study of areas where some form of sex work has been legalized. They have horrible issues with sex trafficking because they create so much demand that all of a sudden the demand can't be met legally and you create as a sort of black market underground that where women and children, honestly, and young boys and men are being trafficked. We don't often talk about boys, but they are a part of this as well. In the fourth district, how much of sex trafficking or human trafficking do you guys deal with? So, I mean, quite a bit. You know, unfortunately, Colorado is at a crossroads of two major arteries in the country, I-70 and I-25, and those are major thorough affairs. So there is absolutely human trafficking going on here. One of the things that we have done down here that has been really successful is our prostitution diversion program. So it's taking people that are caught up in prostitution that get caught by the police. and then putting them through a diversion program that teaches them how to, you know, interview for a job, how to dress for a job interview, get tattoos removed that have been placed on them by pimps that control them. So they're ownership tattoos. Oftentimes these women, and most of the time it is women, but there are occasions where it's children and whether it's men or boys or girls, rather. really getting the treatment that these folks need because oftentimes the people that engage in prostitution are very vulnerable. Oftentimes they're dealing with, you know, mental health issues that are going untreated, unchecked drug addiction that makes them very vulnerable. Obviously, when you're talking about children, you're talking about a vulnerability just due to age. And so when you think about the idea of... We've got a human trafficking problem in Colorado. We're 13th worst in the entire country. And then let's just throw the Bill Gates open to legalize prostitution. That seems like the wrong recipe and we'll just exacerbate things as opposed to fix things. And again, what is the aim of something like this? We've got real issues to solve in Colorado. And legalizing prostitution doesn't seem like one of the top issues that we should be spending time on. I agree. Wholeheartedly, they said. So let's skip topics. We're going to jump around a little bit here. Mayor Mike Johnson yesterday answered the question that only his hardcore, rabid liberal base was asking, and that was what is the official policy towards ICE when it comes to Denver government? And when he had this press conference yesterday, I'm truly baffled because... If you want to keep poking the bear that is the Trump administration, this is the perfect way to do it. So if you're Attorney General, how do you manage this? How do you manage the disconnect between Colorado being an absolutely a sanctuary state and managing the relationship with the federal government that, frankly, as Attorney General, your office may have to work with on occasion, right?

Sure. Yeah. Yeah, that's a great point. You know, the really unfortunate thing about the mayor's comments is that he is, in fact, trying to create a situation that is going to become very dangerous, not only for Denver Police Department officers that are out on the street interacting with ICE and other federal agencies. He's going to make it dangerous for ICE agents to work and do the work that they need to do to make the streets safe and get rid of violent offenders that are here illegally. He's also making his citizens live in a situation that is, by definition, going to be very dangerous. He's almost stoking violence and aggressiveness from victims, hoping that they can instigate something and force Denver PD to engage in. And then who knows what happens from there. The other thing that I think is really crazy about this is that... If a Denver Police Department officer engages in trying to arrest an ICE agent, that Denver Police Department officer could get charged with a federal crime of obstructing justice on the federal side of things. Oh, God. None of this makes any sense, and it is the exact wrong thing for somebody in a leadership role to say something like this. It is so dangerous, Mandy. It blows my mind that you'll do this. We've seen this across the country where we have. politicians urging people to put their bodies on the line. We see how that went in Minnesota. It went terribly and now two people are dead. I mean, the unnecessary, just constant poking. And the reality is that ICE enforcement has been happening all over Colorado this entire time with no problem because we don't have people with their Ice Watch app open that are trying to rat out anybody that looks like it might be ice. And it sounds like that's what the mayor wants. Yeah, it absolutely is what the mayor wants. It seems like to me. We have had a few issues. There were a couple of instances where in Denver they would release somebody from the jail and notify ICE that they could pick them up in the parking lot. And that has caused a few issues where they've had to chase somebody around. And that creates a dangerous situation, too. I think most of those issues have been ironed out. And there's better working relationships between the agencies now on those fronts. But again, it is just so dangerous for a mayor of a major city in the United States, let alone in the state, to say something like what he did. I agree. Let's talk about why you're running for Attorney General. Why make the jump now? What has inspired you to put your face in the political wood chipper like this? Yeah, I think you asked me if I lost my mind, I think, offline. And you get a lot of that, especially when we're talking about the political landscape that we've got here in Colorado. But, you know, the undenying reality is that Coloradoans are ready for change. We've had, unfortunately, for, you know, coming up on a decade, very left-leaning state control. And we need to stop that. And when you look at what's happening on the other side of the aisle for the Attorney General's race, By the way, I'm the only Republican in the race. But on the Democrat side, we've got some people on that side that are really not going to be good for Colorado or for the Attorney General's office. Jena Griswold hasn't been able to even manage the Secretary of State's office in an effective and competent way. We've got, you mentioned him earlier, David Seligman. He is very, very hard left. He's probably further left than Jenna. He's crazy.

I mean, let me walk that back. He might not be crazy, but he is way to the left of Jena Griswold. Which is hard to say, isn't it? It's hard to imagine that you could get somebody further left than Jenna. I can't look at Jenna's policies. I'm stuck on her incompetence. And the fact that she is blazing a trail to run for Attorney General shows to me that she is so unaware of her own incompetence that it makes her dangerous. So, I mean, if that's the two, are those the two that are running on the Democratic side? There's two others that are also running. It's hard to say who's going to come out of that on that side of the ticket. But to answer your question directly, you know, this is a unique opportunity to bring back some common sense to the Attorney General's office. have that office start to serve the people of the state of Colorado instead of political motivation to hire office like what we've seen out of the current attorney general. And so when you have that opportunity and I've been in public service for such a long time, it just seemed like a natural step. And why not me and why not right now? I agree. And I want to ask you this. I think it's a pretty basic question. And that is if you become attorney general. What happens to the 70-cagillion billion lawsuits that have been filed against the Trump administration by Phil Weiser's office? Yeah, I think the easy answer is that most of those lawsuits have been filed and they're just politically motivated lawsuits. They are not really actually designed to do anything to protect Colorado. And so any of those lawsuits that are only politically motivated, we're going to dismiss those right away. And again, get back to serving the people of the Colorado of the state of Colorado. And I would just change the premise of your question. You said, if I'm elected attorney general, when I'm elected attorney general. Oh, I'm sorry. I should have done the assumed clothes for you, DA Michael Allen. I like it. You got any campaign? events coming up anytime soon where people can come out. I urge my listeners to come to events because I think that when they meet you or any other candidate, it really gives you a better sense of what that person is all about. So do you have any areas where people can come out and meet you and learn more? Yeah, actually. So we're going to be at the Gilpin County Lincoln Day dinner tonight up in Black Hawk. And then tomorrow we'll be down in Fremont County at the high school. They're having a candidate forum down there. And then down in the San Luis Valley in Montevista, they're doing their Lincoln Day dinner tomorrow night, and I'll be out there as well. And we're going all over the state. We've already been to several of the counties far west, both south and northwest parts of the state. DA Michael Allen, I appreciate your time today. I'm sure we're going to talk again many times before the election because we've got, I mean, the thought of a Jena Griswold. Attorney General's office, I can only imagine the train wreck that that would be. I mean, I don't know how she'd have time to be Attorney General with all of her appearances on MS now, but we'll have to see what happens there. Michael, I appreciate your time today. Thank you. All right. That is DA Michael Allen also running for Attorney General. I actually have time to talk about Dunkin' Donuts buckets of ice coffee. Are you an ice coffee guy? Zach, do you drink the ice coffee? Do you like it?

Are you a coffee guy? I don't know if I've ever seen you drink coffee. I'm not a big coffee guy, but if I do do it, it'll be more of an ice coffee. I like the cool drink. Now you can get 48 ounces of ice coffee in a bucket at Dunkin' Donuts. Yeah. Duncan Donuts is testing the oversized drink buckets at five locations. And y'all, they are buckets. They're not like a big glass. They have a handle. Like you can take them to the beach and give them to your children to play in the sand. And they come with a straw. Now, I have to ask, who is the person that wants to be seen walking around with a bucket of iced coffee from Dunkin' Donuts? Like, who wants that to be their brand? Do you know what I mean? Who? It's like the same people. I saw a woman the other day. She was dressed head to toe in Bucky's attire. A Bucky's sweatsuit, a Bucky's hat and tennis shoes. Like a mascot. Correct. With the Bucky's logo on them. And I thought to myself, please God let her work there. But I don't think she did. Just a diehard gas station fan. What message? How do you want to be the person who wears all Buckeys all the time? Like I don't. I don't understand that. I won't even get a 7-Eleven, like, loyalty member card because I'm like, I don't buy that much stuff at 7-Eleven, and I don't want that on my record. I don't want it on my record. Rob Dawson, where are you on grilled cheese sandwiches? Pro grilled cheese. Love it. What's your, are you a purist? Just white bread cheese, that's it? Or do you ever go fancy? Oh, of course. I knew that about you, Rob. You're a purist. So, so many. Anyway, would you get a 48 ounce bucket of Duncan iced coffee? Would you do that? I don't drink coffee. At all? No, I know that's weird, isn't it? No, it's not. My husband hates coffee. Yeah. Oh, my God. Okay, I hope he doesn't get mad that I'm telling him. My husband not only hates coffee, he hates the smell of coffee. He hates everything about coffee. And we were at the LPR retreat, and they have this, like, this dessert event. And so it's a room, and they're bringing around these little cups of dessert, you know. It was very nice. It was really, it was at the Broadmoor, so it was fancy. I like the smell of coffee. He picks one up, and he takes a bite, and it's tiramisu. And honestly, Like all the color drained out of his face. And he ran away. He just ran away so he could get it out of his mouth and was like, oh my God, I'm dying. I have to get something after that. So there you go. Anyway. Some, by the way, social media users have questioned the health impacts of drinking 48 ounces of caffeine and sugar. And I think that's a valid question. By the way, Duncan has all had previously leaned into bucket-sized promotions. They've sold Halloween munchkins in a bucket filled with 50 donut holes. Now, what's funny to me is I think to myself, who would drink 48 ounces of coffee with all that sugar? And then I think 50 donut holes challenge accepted.

You know what I mean? Like, I feel like I could do that. No, I couldn't. I couldn't do that. 50 donut? Do you think you could eat 50 donut holes? Close. I bet if I called Matt the dead to me intern and said, Matt, do you think you can eat 50 donut holes? He would be like, I'm on it. Mentally. How much time do I have? Oh, I think I have a taker. I think I, how about in a three-hour program can you eat 50? Oh, yeah. Easy. Yeah. Really? Easy? I mean, I won't feel good after. You won't feel like four days. I will do it in three hours. Well, we're going to find out. They're small. When I get back from San Diego, you, sir, are going to be eating 50 donut holes. It is happening. Make an event out of it. Let's get A-Rod to post it. Oh, he will. He'll post you lying on the floor in the office trying like one donut left. Donut hole left. You try to shove it in your mouth and your eyes go bad. No. I'll be sprawling out on the couch like Ben Albright. Correct. Anyway, thank you for coming in for this, Rob, because now it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio on Sky. In the world.

I feel like I have to do that back. Anyway, what is our dad joke of the day, please? Dad joke of the day today. Why does the Raiders Stadium always get so hot after in the fourth quarter? Why? Because all the fans have left the stadium by that. Oh. That's a good one. I like that. I like that a lot. I'm going to have to keep that. Today's word of the day, please, sir. The word of the day today is nettle as an N-E-T-T-L-E. Like a spiky plant that you... that stabs you when you try to pull it up? Is it interference? Yeah, I mean, the spiky plant works. That's like the proper now. They're using it as the verb, which is to pest or someone to make them angry or annoyance? A needle. Is that to needle? Is it pronounced needle when you say it like that? Or is that nettle? Okay. But the same idea. All right then. Today's trivia question, what is the official anthem of the European Union? Loser by Radiohead? No, I'm just kidding. I was back, by the way. No, I'm just kidding. I love Europe. I love the European Union. Yeah, no idea on that one. This is ironic. Ode to Joy. Written by Frederick von Schiller and set to music by Beethoven. That would make sense, that would make sense. But they managed to suck the joy out of everything. Rob Dawson, Mandy Connell. What is our Jeopardy category, sir? Jeopardy category today is The Colors of Music. The Colors. That will give you a song title, or an artist, followed by a song title, missing a word. That word will be a color. You tell me the color. Okay. All right. The Colors of Music one. Van Morrison, Blank-eyed Grove. What is brown? That is correct. Yes. There you go, you get the idea. John Mellencamp blank house. What are pink houses? That is correct. Oh, no, I might have chosen the wrong category here. Chris DeBerg, the lady in. Mandy, what is red? Oh, did I cut you off? No, you came in first, Mandy. Okay. Yeah. What is red? That is correct. Yeah. R.E.M. Blank crush. Mandy. That was you. What is orange? Okay. Yeah. Last one here. Sting, Fields of Rob. Gold. That is correct. Yes. I got on the board. We're going to give you the point, even though you did not answer the form of question. But that's okay, Rob. You're as a guest, I will allow it. Did A. Rod leave you the totals there? He did. I didn't look at it ahead of time, but I will get that sort of short. What's funny is I got an email from a listener a couple days ago that said, wow, I didn't realize how much you actually lost until.

We started keeping score. I used to know they're like, you win all the time. Like, I really don't. I really don't win all. I win a lot. But I don't win all the time. You're up to 21, 8, and 1 now. That's pretty good. That's a sad for the year now. Yeah, we're doing it for the whole year now. Okay. So you are now 0 and 1. All right. So you have to come back in. I haven't been in a while. I know. So you've got to come back in sooner and you can redeem yourself and go one in one and be back at 500 very, very easily. All right, guys, I am not going to be here next week. I'm going on a junket and I cannot wait. I will have all a full report from San Diego Zoo's new Safari Park, which is. They've got Elephant Valley. They have all this stuff. And in the meantime, you've got a couple baseball games that'll cut it off at one. But Ross is filling in one day. Jimmy's filling in one day. We've got a new guy filling in one day. So it's going to be an exciting week for you to just see what happens. And I will be back next week to the text who asked, if big news breaks, will you be calling in? The answer is no. Unless the big news is about me. And there's no big news about me. So no. I will be back next Friday. In the meantime, though, do yourself a favor. We got K-O-A sports coming up next. Keep it right here on K-O-A. Hey, it's Ryan Sechrest here, and I have discovered a fun to escape from the daily grind, Chumba Casino. Chumba Casino has hundreds of social casino-style games. It's all free to play anytime, anywhere with daily bonuses. So get to chumbac casino.com. No purchase necessary. VGW. Boy, we're prohibited by loss. See terms and conditions, 21 plus. If you're someone who's tracking your sleep, your steps, and your macros, then you already know that what you eat is kind of everything. You should also know that Sprouts Farmer's Market can help make eating for longevity easier. Sprouts has all the high-quality, nutrient-dense, organic foods and cutting-edge supplements you need. So whether you're focused on protein, gut health, or optimizing how you feel day-to-day, it's all there. And here's what no other grocery store can offer, an in-store wellness expert to help you find exactly what you need. So whether you're after longevity or on any other health journey, it's easier at Sprout's Farmer's Market.