09-22-25 FULL SHOW - The House Minority Has A New Leader, And When Will You Die

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Welcome, welcome to a Monday edition of the show. I'm your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell, joined by my right-hand man. We call him Anthony Rodriguez. You can call him A-Rodd. And today we will take you straight up through a Monday right until we hand the station off in dramatic relay race fashion. There's a baton in everything. Right to K-OA sports. Hey, Rod, you brought the baton today, right? No, that was your job. No, dang it, I thought so. We talked about it. Left it on the kitchen counter. We're just going to have to go till midnight. JK, that's not happening. Anyway, let's jump right in. I love this texter who was just listening to the end of the Ross Kaminsky show. I'm glad Mandy has those annoying home projects and chores and piles of crap to get rid of, too. We all do. But sometimes, yes. Ayrod, you guys haven't lived in your house long enough to have an annoying pile of crap yet, have you? Oh, Mandy. Really? Next month? Yeah. Two months from now? No, next month. Five years already. Whoa. In our first house. I feel like you guys just moved in. I know. I mean... So yeah, we've got that. It's all in the garage. Yeah. Well, ours were things like... Oh, and in the one room. There was just a random pile of wood pieces from when we redid our deck 11 years ago. Mm-hmm. And they had to go. So they're gone. Ours is just extra house crap sitting all piled up in a guest room that we don't open the door. We don't talk about it. No, you cannot do that. Not yet. We've got a lot. You can't do it. Yeah, Mandy, you got time that I don't have? I'm just saying. That I can get in that room. Because I don't do. Baby steps. Yeah, we're trying. Mine started with a pile of lumber that just needed to go. The rest of the house, immaculate. Yeah. That room will get to. Okay. It's not pressing. We don't need it yet. You know what, that's, that is a fair, as long as your guest room. Oh, we have another one. Oh, you have another? Okay, never brought. Yeah, we have another one. Yeah, we have another one. If we only had one, it would be cleared out years ago. Okay. We already have another one. Well, that makes per. I have no judgment at all to offer one way or the other. I'm just going to. You go live your life, bud. Thank you. Because we've all been there. Yeah. Anyway, let's talk about the blog and where to find it. You can go to mandiesblog.com. That's mandiesblog.com. Look for the headline in the latest post section. This says 92225 blog. The House Minority has a new leader. And when will you die? Click on that. And here are the headlines you will find within. Good evening, Mr. Mr. North and South American. All the ships and clip is at sea. Let's go to press pledge. Today on the blog. Jarvis Caldwell is the new minority leader in the house. When will you die? Park around, find out. Well, the Rockies won't tie for the worst ever. Charlie Kirk Memorial Service was lovely. The impact of Maya Stadium on business. It's bugling time at Rocky Mountain National Park about beneficial use of water. And the Brett Kavanaugh Assempted Assassin is trans. The union loves to gin up trouble at Casabonita. Buy travel insurance. Young people are approaching marriage wrong. COVID shots are voluntary now. Is there a card for Chapter 11 bankruptcy? Gold and silver continue their upward march about raising Social Security's full retirement age. Democrats now say shutting down the government is good. How humans cause traffic jams for no reason. Another unknown motive to left-wingers. Another drug-laden go-fast boat meets its maker. Gavin Newsom treats masks like guns. The truth about Charlie Corley.

Kirk Civil Rights comment, a lawsuit to watch on bullying a gay man, where chat says you can retire on three grand a month. Vaughn Miller reflects on Denver. Thornton, you're getting a racetrack. Miles now available for weddings? Nobody likes Russ anymore. Let's talk about sex or the lack thereof. Those are the headlines on the blog at mandisblog.com. And tack toe. A winner. Oh, thank you, Nancy. I'm feeling good today on a Monday. Got a great night's sleep last night. Feeling pretty good about everything, even though it was yesterday was the, I think, the punctuation mark of the tragedy that took the life of Charlie Kirk when a young man misguided in his beliefs, believed that shooting the conservative activist was the way to do, I don't know, something. I don't know. I don't think he thought it out. He obviously didn't. And if you didn't watch the memorial service last or yesterday, I didn't watch it yesterday. I got up this morning and I put it on. I just listened to it this morning. And I have to say, it was absolutely lovely. And it was not a political event other than a few political comments. One by Donald Trump just couldn't stop. He just couldn't just not say it. Just couldn't not say the thing. You know, and now today a lot of the coverage is, Donald Trump said he hates his enemies. Well, they missed a whole bunch of really beautiful commentary that came out of yesterday's service from a variety of sources, not the least of which was Erika Kirk. Now, I know you guys remember when a young, again, a young white man who thought he was going to do something by going into a black church in South Carolina and murdered a bunch of older African American people who had gone to church simply to worship. And again, with him, I don't know what he thought he was going to accomplish with that. But I'm going to tell you right now, I have, I was so deeply moved. when all of the survivors of that horrific event, these elderly African-American folks who had just gone to church to worship, when they showed up at court and they stood outside the courtroom and said, we are here to let him know we forgive him. Because that's what Jesus tells us we need to do. We have to forgive him. It is not our role to judge him. And Erika Kirk did that yesterday. And it was just incredibly, incredibly powerful. Guys, there are things happening right now because of this. There are things, there are bad things happening and there are people saying still horrible things that are coming from a place of complete ignorance and a complete lack. of desire for the truth, right? The truth, for people who are still celebrating Charlie Kirk's death based on some notion that he was some, you know, hardcore right-wing hate monger, if I see one more person compare Charlie Kirk to Nick Fuentes, I'm going to lose my mind because that's, that's just, it's incredibly insulting.

But they're coming from a place of ignorance. And at this point, it's willful ignorance. They're trying not to inform themselves of what Charlie Kirk was actually about. And that's okay. That's on them. That is their issue. That is their problem. And it's up to people like me to gently say, hey, you know what? That's inconsistent with what I have seen in the now, I don't even know how many hours I've watched of Charlie Kirk videos. And that is how I'm pushing back to you guys. I'm pushing back on people on Facebook in a very gentle way and saying, you know what? I'd love for you to show me the videos that you're consuming. I'd love to know where you're getting because it's hard for me to believe that if there are all these instances of Charlie Kirk engaging in all of this racist and misogynist activity, they would be super easy to find. And yet, I'm not seeing them. Maybe I'm just in the wrong algorithm. So I'm asking them, hey, you know what? Show me what you're seeing. Show me what it is you're consuming in an effort to understand where they're coming from a little bit better. I'm channeling my inner Charlie Kirk. I'm just asking them to show me. Here, help me understand where you're coming from. And then leaving it up to them. What's been fascinating, though, is to see people, and this just popped up on my X-Feed. I do not follow this woman at all. I've never heard of this woman until I clicked on this today. Her name is Sana Abrahamimi. Sana Abrahami. A PhD candidate passionate about politics, a retweet is not an endorsement. Opinions are mine. And she had this to say about Erika Kirk's speech specifically. She said, I listened to Erika Kirk's full speech at the memorial and I want to share a few thoughts that came to me while live streaming the event. This is not political. First, I should say that I grew up as a Muslim in a Muslim country. I don't know enough about Christianity to say if what I witnessed is rooted in faith or culture. But what struck me most was how even though death is heavy, and this was by nature a sad occasion, the entire event carried a celebratory spirit that honored life. That contrast hit me deeply. In Islam, even though we believe that good people go to heaven, the relationship with God is taught through fear. Funerals are overwhelmingly sad, often filled with warnings of the terrifying first night in the grave. Growing up hearing that and then witnessing people celebrate life. Speak of God's love and remember someone through the impact he had on others. It felt so refreshing, so positive.

Second, I was profoundly moved by Erika Kirk's words. I cannot fathom the strength. It takes to stand and deliver such a meaningful speech after losing the love of your life. But even more than that, the grace it takes to forgive the very person who destroyed your world. I cannot imagine myself standing on a stage, sending love to those who cheered your husband's murder, or inviting others to spreads God love in response because, as she said, we do not respond to hate with hate. That is powerful beyond words. Again, I am ignorant when it comes to Christianity, but if this is what it truly embodies, then I am envious of those who get to experience that feeling. I mean, you guys, come on. And again, I've never, as a matter of fact, I'm going to go follow her right now just to see what else she has to say in the future. But the butterfly effect of Charlie Kurt's death is changing people. Now, I don't think this woman is going to run and convert to Christianity, but it's giving people pause. And now in my algorithm on X, I don't know about yours, I have video after video after video of young black men who, having never heard of Charlie Kirk, never heard of this dude, never once. They started watching his videos to see just how racist he was because their people were telling him, well, that guy's a racist, you can't be upset. And you know what they're coming away with? They're like, wait a minute. He's preaching personal responsibility of taking care of your kids, of going to school and getting married and having a family. How in the world, how in the world is that racist? And they're right. But that's why it's also dangerous. I mean, this is, everything sort of came to me in clarity over the weekend. Not everything. I shouldn't sit here and say, I have it all figured out. That's just, that's ridiculous. But I got some clarity on why, really, why this is so terrifying for people who are still continuing to say horrible things, even in the face of overwhelming, overwhelming evidence that they're wrong. Because all of this is so incredibly dangerous to the notion that there is no God and that we are all just clumps of cells walking around meaningless on earth. That getting married isn't really necessary. You can go ahead and have kids without a spouse. that making good choices, you don't get ahead if you make good choices, right? Because you're just a victim. If you don't get ahead, it's not because of anything you did or didn't do. Because all of those things that are being preached by politicians on the left are designed to keep people enslaved. And I realize that's a very, very loaded word. And I don't mean, obviously, in the traditional sense of people being physically enslaved and living on a plantation and having no choice. But if they allow Charlie Kirk's message to be heard by people who are consistently told, you have no agency in your life. You are a permanent victim. And no matter what you do, you will never get ahead because everything in the world is stacked against you. What if, what if those people found out that was a lie? What if those people started to say, you know what? I have skills. I have talents.

I live in a country where, yeah, it's not perfect, but I have the best opportunity to succeed doing whatever it is I want. I have the opportunity to take advantage of an education system that when one engages can produce really fine talent. We see it all over the place. By the way, you guys, not every kid who goes to a failing school fails. Not every kid who goes to a failing school doesn't learn how to read and write, right? There are kids in those schools that are learning how to read and write. Why are they learning? Because somebody is telling them you can do it. The entire Democratic Party apparatus is built on a platform of convincing people that no matter what they do, They are not going to succeed because someone is there to hold their ethnicity, their gender, their sexuality, their race, whatever, against them in a way that they can't control. And then... You have a bunch of people who believe that they must have the power of government to even that playing field or that someone else owes them something because of this great injustice. And if you believe that someone else owes you something because of this great injustice, well, then it's really easy to get you to vote to take other people's property. to increase taxes on other people that you perceive, even though they've never met you, don't know you, don't have anything to do with you, have never been to your hometown. You perceive them as somehow having what's yours instead of perceiving them as having worked for it. And it really, it's a genius plan, really. I mean, whenever you can offload responsibility to someone else, especially in a way that you can't control. You've given yourself a license to be as bad or pathetic as you possibly can, right? It's not your fault. It's not your choices that you're making. You know, everybody loves to use examples. And I'm going to use this example as a perfect example, really. People on Medicaid. Okay, so poor people on Medicaid. smoke at much higher rates than people who don't, who are not on Medicaid. Think about that for a second, knowing that in Colorado, cigarettes cost $9 a pack, $9 a pack. People on Medicaid smoke at a higher rate. Now, you could make the argument, and it's made by people on the left, that the reason they smoke is to deal with the inherent pressures that being poor in society have led them to. Or you can look at it the way I do and say, gosh, If they're smoking cigarettes, spending what? Seven, eight bucks every day, every two days? Uh-oh, wait, stop, stop the presses. It is 1219. September 22nd, 1219. It is now fall. Yeah. Autumnal fall has now begun. Can we get a little earthwind and fire September, please, Anthony.

Need a little musical interlude here, going into the break. Do you remember? Yeah, but then I would have to take it out of the podcast, and then people wouldn't be able to enjoy it as much. Well, why don't we break down the song as an editorial content? No. Anyone's not wrong. If you guys knew the stupid rules we have to deal with trying to just get this show onto the podcast, it's unbelievable. Do you remember? Well, that was yesterday. Number the time. It was yesterday, though. No? No, the song, 21st. But it's the 22nd and it's officially fall. Hell yeah. You're fired even though it's a little hot. I have on long sleeves, but they're thin long sleeves. It's a little tough. Anyway. It's going to be cool tomorrow. Happy fall. Yeah, happy fall. Happy fall. So after the last week and a half of just being buried in, you know, negativity, sadness, whatever, I'm feeling good today. I'm feeling good because there are things that are happening. because of Charlie Kirk's murder that are very, very good. And by the way, that's not to say, oh, I'm glad Charlie Kirk called murder. No, no, no, no, no. These are happening in spite of Charlie Kirk's murder. They're happening because people like his wife and all of those people that came to that memorial yesterday, they got the memo. They were there to celebrate the very short life of Charlie Kirk. And in doing so, The way they did for Erika Kirk to get. I can't play Erika Kirk saying that she forgives the man who killed her husband because it guts me. And I'm not going to do that to myself today. But if you have not heard it, I put her entire comments on the blog today. Just like I was absolutely in awe. of the African-American church growers in South Carolina who showed up to tell that man who certainly did not deserve their forgiveness that they forgave him, forgave him, to hear Erika Kirk say, I forgive you. Because her husband was trying to save, misguided, young men just like him. You can't save them all, but you know what? I have to believe. that in doing so, in demonstrating true, like absolute Christian charity, in a way, guys, I don't think I could do it. I really don't. If you hurt my family, holy cow, I will wish every manner of hellfire and vengeance to come down on your head. And by the way, be clear, forgiveness does not mean. that she does not want this young man to suffer the fullest consequences our legal system allows. She didn't say that. But what she said is, as a Christian, as Jesus said on the cross, about his tormentors who were stabbing him in the side after nailing through his hands and hanging him on the cross, God forgive them for they know not what they do. That is. This is the Christian ethos in its most pure sense. And if Christians continue to behave in that manner and continue to demonstrate to all of these people who, by the way, may have laughed behind their hands at the Christian that they worked with or maybe rolled their eyes when someone said, hey, I'm going to say a prayer before, you know, the meal.

Maybe some of those people are going to open their eyes and maybe some of those people are going to go, you know what? That's the kind of love I'm missing in my life. That's the kind of peace that I want. And maybe the good to come of this will continue to spread and all of this will not be for naught. Mandy. So Stephen Miller was lovely. No, can I just, I don't like Stephen Miller. I think Stephen Miller comes across like a Bond villain. I just, I don't care for the guy. I don't care if we agree on policy or whatever. I just don't care for the guy. I actually didn't watch Stephen Miller speak, so I missed that one yesterday. Mandy, let me see here. Um, I cannot find the texts that I wanted to find. So let's move on to something else. Oh, a lot of people are talking about Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who went, and I believe I had that on last week's blog. If I didn't, I talked about it briefly on Friday. Who said, you know, wow, after going back and watching, did you fix it? Is everybody back now? I'm so sorry, streamers. That was my fault. Anyway. Timothy Gordon or Cardinal Timothy Dolan who it's kind of funny you guys because Timothy Dolan is both embraced by the left because he's very pro immigration as a matter of fact they just made a huge change to um St. Paul's Cathedral in New York where they added, I think it's beautiful. I think it's a beautiful mural. They added a mural to the walls of the entrance area of the cathedral and it focuses heavily on a theme of immigration. It's a beautiful mural and I think it's a lovely addition. But the Catholic Church is very, very pro immigration. They don't care how it happens because, and this is my view. Though they couch it in the terms of God says you should be kind to your fellow man, which is truly the edict, they ignore the fact that there are laws in place that requires such things. And one of the reasons that Jesus was born in a manger was because his parents were required to learn, return to their homeland by the government for a census, right? That's why they were in Bethlehem in the first place. And the Catholic Church's strongest areas of growth are from Central America and Africa and South America. That is where they're getting the most growth in the Catholic Church. So I don't mean to seem skeptical of the Catholic Church, but I tend to look at Catholic Church leadership with a bit of a hairy eyeball. I'm still not over. the way they handled the sex abuse scandal in the church. I still think that was so incredibly vile what they did to little children, but that's neither here nor there. But Cardinal Dolan is widely embraced in left-wing politics until he had the nerve to say that he believed that Charlie Kirk was like a modern-day Paul, like a modern-day apostle.

And he said, wow, I've gone back and watched these videos. And he really did sort of exemplify, you know, Christ's message and Christ's love. And now the left, they're all mad. They're like, you're a horrible person. Whatever. Whatever. It just, it is what it is. Mandy says this text to the left always changes the focus when they are exposed. wouldn't doubt that the left starts to point out that the Jews killed even Jesus. That is why we see them as evil and don't deserve to exist. Meaning that's how the left sees the Jews. I don't know if that's the case because a lot of Jews in this country are left wing. And that goes deeply into how their faith is designed. They have somehow conflated doing good for their fellow man with using government to do good for their fellow man. But we can have that conversation at another time. But the reality of what's going on right now is you get to see the fury and anger that the left was feeling left out about. See, many on the left love to be angry. It's their joie de vivre. Their reason for living is to be angry about something. And when everybody like me and like you and other people that were so angry yesterday or last week about what happened to Charlie Kirk, well, they needed a reason to be angry too. So they have now martyed Jimmy Kimmel at the altar of free speech. The same free speech that they were so cavalier in dismissing the week before when we pointed out, hey, Charlie Kirk was just trying to engage in free speech. And they're like, well, not that kind of speech. Only speech we agree with. And now we're supposed to be upset. We're supposed to be apoplectic. We're supposed to be all of these things about the image. of the federal government in the way of FCC Chair Brendan Carr stifling the free speech of Jimmy Kimmel by threatening fines on ABC or the networks if they aired this kind of hateful speech. And I want to be clear about one thing. I am not in favor of the government censoring speech of anyone at all. It's why we talked about things like the Twitter files when they came out that clearly showed that though there were not orders given on what posts to take down or to ban, it was clear that the government interfered with the operation of social media companies in order to stop the flow of what we now know to be accurate information about COVID and things like an unflattering story about Hunter Biden's laptop. We know that the federal government reached. out to social media companies. That's not in dispute. And they basically were like, hey guys, we're going to need you to check on these tweets because we feel that they are misinformation. So we'd sure hate for something to happen if that kind of misinformation got out there. And the social media companies were like, yes, government agency, we're going to do what you want. But see, the left was not upset about it then because they were out there saying things like if you didn't want to get vaccinated, you should die, right? Remember that? that long ago. We were all there. So the reality of the situation is, is that now they are going to try and elevate the firing of Jimmy Kimmel that will allow him to go home and spend more time with his children. Unlike Charlie Kirk's kids, they get to grow up with a dad. And here's the thing, though in principle, I agree with the position that FCC chair Brendan Carr did a really stupid thing.

by going in a public forum and talking openly about the fact that he felt like this was wrong, when in reality, he should have just had the people in his office send a well-placed message, expressing concern about the message that was sent, and, hey, could you please do something? Look into this misinformation. I sure would hate it if something that happened. If they'd just done that, it would have been fine, right? I mean, that's, right? Aren't we? I mean, what's really going on right now in the country politically is that the left, who has created a playbook on how to shut down conversation, on how to shut down dissent that they disagree with, they're mad that the same exact things that they've been celebrating are now being used on people they agree with. And it's unfortunate that their inconsistency has led them to this place. But I think I'm going to remain consistent. I can still say that's a horrible idea. The FCC chair shouldn't have done that. But at the same time, deep in my heart, maintaining zero concern for Jimmy Kimmel and his family. Because the worst thing that's going to happen to Jimmy Kimmel and his family is they're going to be able to spend more time together. Yeah, that's it. That's as far as my concern goes. I saw this yesterday on CBS Sunday morning, and I just loved it. I loved it. I want to share this. This is by Raballah Angela Bukdal. She is the first Korean-American woman to become a rabbi. And she's written a book about that and how challenging it was. But I want you to hear her speak about Rosh Hashanah, which is the Jewish New Year, and what this is all about. At Russia Shana, we count the years since God created the world, this year being the year 5,786, give or take a few billion years. While this is a season of joy and community gathering, the new year also begins a season of atonement, where we take an accounting of who we are and how we can do better. We believe that with repentance, people and societies can change. This idea of taking stock as we approach a new year may sound familiar. Many Americans make New Year's resolutions on January 1st, resolving to learn a new skill. lose 15 pounds, or call their mother more often. This examination happens on Rosh Hashanah too, but magnified. Jews come together and reflect for hours in synagogue, literally beating our chests as we read through a scripted litany of ways we have fallen short for spreading lies or hateful speech, for acting callously towards others, for selfishness and greed. The list goes on. But importantly, we don't confess individually. We do it communally. We take responsibility for one another and hold each other accountable. Sounds like it could be an unpleasant way to celebrate a new year, but it's a fundamentally hopeful message. There is joy in knowing we can change.

This repentance in Hebrew is called Teshuvah, which literally means return. What are we returning to? To our better selves, to who we know we can be as human beings and as a society. Now imagine if we as a country could make Teshuvah together, not pointing fingers to the other side saying you're the problem, but collectively we have ignored the vulnerable. We have normalized mass violence. We've celebrated the death of opponents. We've rewarded outrage over understanding. We have forgotten how to grieve and how to hope together. On the cusp of this new year, I know we can return. to the best in ourselves, to the best in our country, to the goodness, compassion, and generosity that this nation has shown me as an immigrant Korean female rabbi, wishing you, the Shanatova. That, my friends, is a wonderful, wonderful way to go at the new year. And it's actually made me think this year, you know, I don't do New Year's resolutions. I hate them, right? They're just, they're so, eh. You know, they're just, hey, how fast can I break this? But this year, at the end of the year, in the end of my new year, because I'm not Jewish, although I, again, wish a happy New Year to all of our friends in the tribe, wouldn't it be nice if we all said, what can we do better next year? What can we do better? And boy, are we in a position right now. to say what can we do better? It's really easy. As I did last week, last week I really struggled with not being angry. I feel so much better this week, not because anything significantly has changed, but because it's gotten easier for me to say, yes, we can do better. We can all figure out a way to be better. Now, I know not everybody's going to do it. And already I can hear those of you like, yeah, it sounds great. Why is it always our side? It's not just always our side. But because. The fact is, if most of us just tried, the world would be a lot better place. It truly would. Now, when we get back, talk about going in a different direction. So there is a new app out there called Death Clock. Hear me out. And you put in a few questions, health questions and things of that nature. And it tells you like, okay, you don't do anything. You keep everything the way it is right now. And boom, you're going to die at this age. I did it. And it said I was going to die at 89, which, you know, good ride. But if I, you know, what if I ate more oatmeal? I don't know. It is, I'm just going to be honest, this app then wants you to buy a bunch of like training and suggestions on how to live forever. The how to live forever movement is building steam. And in my mind, it's another example of us trying to play God.

And frankly, that just doesn't work out very often. Does it? We'll be back. More on that next. The Mandy Connell show is sponsored by Bell and Pollock Accident and Injury Lawyers. Now, it's Mandy Connell. Mandy Connell, 850 a.m. 94.m. 94.m. Inside Bain. When there's news. Charlie Kurt. Bring me a piece of tape. I'm just putting it over the button. I'll never hit it again. I don't know what the blank is wrong with me today. Again, I'm so sorry. You guys, that's like a mental disorder. Now it's become a thing. Like, don't touch the stove because the stove will burn you, but I keep touching the dang stove. Anyway. Good thing the death clock is not until 1.30. That's the kind of day it is. It's a Monday. I have no idea what's going on even in a plan, a show that I plan myself. There's a couple of interesting stories in the news that I want to get to that I think are actually kind of positive news. And, you know, as much as we've been talking about Denver lately, not having great news and things just not going as well as we would hope. Good, interesting story from Denver 7. The headline is research ranks Denver among the top in the country for local economic growth near Empowerfield. So what are we talking about here? We're talking about the area around Empowerfield. The GoDaddy's small business research lab actually did an analysis around stadiums all around the country. And they looked for the cities that have the largest numbers of small entrepreneurs in the area around stadiums. And it should be no surprise that most of those places where there is a lot of locally owned business around the stadiums, they are not the stadiums that use the Jerry World model. And the Jerry World model is, of course, where you build a stadium and then the team or the ownership owns everything around it, and they create an entertainment district around it, which could very well have local businesses in it, but maybe not. The top five cities in the GoDaddy entrepreneurial power rankings in order were Miami. Now, if you've ever been to the stadium in Miami, they built the stadium in Davy, Florida. It's not even in Miami. It's not even super close to Miami, but that's where the Miami Dolphins play. And when they first built it, there was nothing around the stadium, literally nothing. It was just in the middle of nowhere. Las Vegas is the one that surprised me, because they visited Las Vegas right smack in the middle of the strip, and that one's there. Englewood, California is one of them. Glendale, Arizona is one of them, and then Denver. And the reason they're doing this story is obviously we're getting a new stadium. They're moving the stadium to an area called Burnham Yards where there's plenty of space around it to create the entertainment district that ownership loves now. But Denver 7 actually went and spoke to some of these smaller mom and pop shops that are near the stadium. And they said, look, so how important is the stadium to your business? And I love the fact that all of them were like, look.

Most of the revenue comes from people that live within the neighborhood. Now, on game days, we might see a big spike, but how many games? Aeron, what do you have? 11 games, home games, including preseason, mostly. Isn't it? 11? You got 9? Or is it 8? 8? I can't. Every year it changes because now you have 17 games, so it switches each year. Okay, so roughly 11 games per year. Roughly. We'll say roughly 11 games. So a business cannot survive on 11 football games. So it's nice to see these small businesses saying, yeah, I mean, it helps, but it's not going to be the death of us if this happens. But it is going to be very interesting to see how the area around what will become the new mile high evolves. There was also a really good story on 9 News. I think it was last week, and I may have put it on the blog on Friday, about maybe it was over the weekend, about young... entrepreneurs who are now moving onto the 16th street what used to be the mall is now just 16th street right um they're now moving in And they want to bring back that kind of funky, cool atmosphere that Denver had, frankly, when I moved here 13 years ago, 13 years ago, when you went to Larimer Square, I think almost all of those businesses and restaurants were locally owned and operated, meaning they were not franchises. They were not, you know, big, large corporate restaurant chains. They were small mom and pop shops. The clothing stores were cool. It was just a completely different vibe. And what's happened, especially with 16th Street, as this never-ending construction project has just been going on and on and on, is that small, locally owned businesses, they can't spread the losses, right? I mean, if you have, and I'm going to use Olive Garden, I'm going to pick on Olive Garden for a reason here, just for a second. They're everywhere. That's why I'm picking on them. I have no beef with Olive Garden in any way, shape, or form. I don't remember the last time I ate in an Olive Garden, but I'm not big on Italian restaurants, so take nothing from that either. I'm just saying they're everywhere. You can insert the gap into this as well, although I think the gap has finally closed a lot of stores. But nonetheless, let's just say an Olive Garden moves in. into the middle of construction in the 16th Street and no one comes in and they're losing money hand over fist. Well, all of Garden Corporate can kind of spread those losses a little bit better than a mom and pop who have invested everything, their life savings that they've attached to their home in order to start a business on the 16th Street Mall. So I am excited. Chuck and I have been down to the 16th Street Mall one time since part of it reopened. I just wanted to check it out. I have to say,

It was lovely, the part that was open. There wasn't a lot of activity when we were down there. And I think maybe we're going to make another field trip down there and talk to some of these businesses, see if we can get them on the show. Because I don't want to go anywhere. where I'm walking into a situation where all I'm going to see is chains, right? And by the way, I shop at chain stores. I, you know, I eat at chain restaurants. So I'm not one of those people that's militantly anti-chain, but when I'm, especially when I'm on vacation, right? When I'm on vacation. I want to eat where the locals eat. I want to eat in the mom and pop diner. I want to shop from people who live in that neighborhood. I want to go to the places that create the fabric of wherever I am. And like it or not, a bunch of chain stores, it doesn't say anything. It just says we can't support local business. So I'm encouraged. You know, you guys know, you make fun of me every time I do it. I'm rooting for downtown Denver. I am rooting so hard. And yes, to the text who said the online version keeps going to commercial. That's my fault. 100% my fault. And Arod keeps fixing it for me, and I keep screwing it up again. I promise you, I'm going to, I'm now going to reach across and turn my microphone on with my right hand. So I don't accidentally, mindlessly do what I did again. Yeah, don't promise anything. Reaching across, Anthony, reaching across. Okay? We'll see. Anyway. I have a texter on the line texting me that is truly apoplectic about, and apoplectic, they're not angry. They're not like coming at me. I mean, but they are persistently trying to get me to pay a ton of attention to what happened to Jimmy Kimmel. And I get it. I totally get it. I'm not really interested in government deciding what people can say and what they can't. But the reality is this, in my world, I think it is just as likely that ABC decided to shed the expensive and money losing Jimmy Kimmel's show while they could. With CBS announcing the firing of Stephen Colbert and the end of the CBS show that he has hosted, that creates an opportunity for ABC. And if Stephen Colbert's show was losing $40 million a year, he had higher ratings than Jimmy Kimmel did. And so if Stephen Colbert is losing $40 million a year, you have to figure that Kimmel is losing a similar amount of money. If you look at Kimmel's ratings, and by the way, people have been doing a deep dive into the ratings, and they are not pretty, not at all. He's been shedding the demographic that they want, which is 18 to 49, and he's been shedding them dramatically. On some nights, there were more people in Arizona at the Jimmy or Charlie Kirk Memorial than there are in key demos watching the Jimmy Kimmel program. So I'm inclined to believe that they look for an opportunity. And by the way, have you noticed the silence from ABC and Disney on this?

ABC and Disney, by the way, the stories are that they're trying to figure out a way to allow Jimmy Kimmel to return, but I'm guessing it would start with some kind of apology. And as one who's been forced to apologize when I didn't feel like I needed to, I can tell you it won't do anything. The only time I've been forced to apologize when I did not think that I needed to apologize, and I think if you listen to the show long enough, you know when I think I got something wrong, I will be the first to tell you, I am sorry. Because my goal here is not just to blow smoke out of my rear end, it's to give you factual information to the best of my ability. And when I get it wrong, I have no problem apologizing, but when forced to apologize in a situation, and I've told the story on the air, I was forced to apologize to a Democratic congressman who was no longer in Congress, thanks me to God for that one. Because I made a snappy comment talking about gun control, and I didn't know he was Jewish. I had no idea. And he was talking about gun registrations and how this is what we need to do. And I said, why don't we just make all the gun owners wear yellow stars on their chest? It would make it so much easier for the government to know. And his people demanded an apology. And I was like, what for? And they were like, he's Jewish. And I was like, I had no idea. No clue. But even if he was, how is what I said, how is that the least bit offensive? Like, I'm making the point. And when government decides to target people because they do things that they disagree with, let's just make it easy for them, right? I mean, anyway, I digress. When I apologize, by the way, it sounded like, I'm sorry you got offended by my comment, which is not an apology at all. So Jimmy Kimmel and ABC are going to figure this out, and then people can decide whether or not they want to watch Jimmy Kimmel or not. But the reason I'm so blasé about it. is because all the times before, if you go back and read the Twitter files, and if you haven't read them all, I get it, but there are journalists like Matt Taibi who have written extensively on the Twitter files. And if you're like, what are the Twitter files, Mandy? This kind of proves my point. The Twitter files came out and they were a whole bunch of emails and data about exactly how the government interfered with what was happening. on social media platforms. Now, the reason they got away with it was because they never said, if you don't fire him or if you don't suppress this, well, then bad things are going to happen. But they would just send a friendly email over saying, wow, we have concerns about this bit of misinformation. Can you look at this? And without fail, without fail, the social media companies just happened to pull down that tweet or happened to throttle that post or happened. to ban the United States of America from using their platform. And the whole time, people on the right side of the aisle were kind of yelling about free speech. We were talking about the fact that President Obama actually wiretapped journalist James Rosen and that Cheryl Atkinson still believes that her computer was somehow compromised by the federal government and she was spied on. Still believes to this fact right now today. So all of these times when I was being apoplectic and I was upset and I was all, you know, mad, I was told that it was fine because they were the bad side or something. I don't know why. I was told that I was paying it too much attention. So I'm having a hard time ginning up a lot of outrage on the Jimmy Kimmel situation while still recognizing.

that it's wrong for the federal government to decide what we can and cannot hear and say. I get it. But if you're asking me to be outraged specifically about Jimmy Kimmel, eh, you know, I don't know. Anyway, this texter said nobody is allowed to make a point anymore without someone getting offended, apparently. It does seem to be that we are now trading in a culture. where who is the most offended seems to elevate them at the top of some kind of imaginary mountain, right? It's kind of like the victim Olympics that are played on the left. If you're the loudest person who checks the most boxes, then you are given some kind of moral superiority. So if you're the angriest about Jimmy Kimmel, you are given some kind of high status in the pecking order. I just don't want to be on that pecking order. So I hope you guys can understand. You can believe two things at the same time. You can believe that it's wrong for the government to censor people's viewpoints, and it's wrong for people to use the power of government to get someone to say something or not say something. And you can also not be that mad about it because, well, I'm just not that mad about it. I think when you watch someone get shot in the neck for trying to have a conversation, it just, it hardens you a little. I mean, I know it's hardened me, right? Mandy, there are probably more people complaining about the I-Heart problems today than watching Kimmel. To be clear, the I heart problems are the Mandy Connell problems, okay? I mean, don't get me wrong. I'll throw my company under the bus should I need to, but in this case, it is not eye heart's fault. It is 100% me. Mandy, why is Kimmel and Stephen Colbert losing their audience? One word, Gutfeld! I don't necessarily think that people who would normally watch Stephen Colbert and Kimmel are leaving them to go to Gutfeld. I think that the entire notion of late night television is dead in the way that it's been done in prior years. And honestly, Stephen Colbert and Kimmel. They're standing there with the axe in their hand. The axe over the dead body of late night television. And if you don't believe me, the Tonight Show reruns are available. They're showing them, I think it's, um... Hey, Rod, do you know what the channel that only shows old, is it, is it me TV that only shows old stuff? There's a channel that only shows old, there's several channels actually that just show old television, which by the way, is a genius business model because they're not really paying anything to air all these old repeats, right? It's practically free TV. And they're still selling advertising. Now, if you watch these channels, you're immediately going to know who the demo is because every commercial is a drug commercial.

I mean, it's like, oh, you're incontinent. Oh, you can't have an erection. Oh, here, here's some medicine for you. But that being said, watch Johnny Carson to see what late night television used to really be like and compare it to the relenting, never, never ending, unrelenting stream of political vitriol that passes for late night television today. Now, Gutfeld is on it, I think he's on a 10 here. So he's not really, I mean, I don't feel like that's, I guess on the West Coast he's late night. But Gutfeld is funny and Gutfeld is political, but Gutfeld is not pretending to do what Johnny Carson did. What Johnny Carson did sitting behind a desk, welcoming people to come sit on his couch, right? He was like, hey, let's just have a seat, let's chat. The one thing I will say about Johnny Carson that makes him. so incredibly good is that when you went on the Johnny Carson show, it was never about Johnny Carson. Whoever the guest was, whether it was an incredibly famous celebrity, or it was a woman who had a potato chip collection that had images on each of the chips that looked like different things, he treated them with the exact same level of respect. And he wasn't talking to them trying to set up his next joke. He was talking to them because I really believe Johnny Carson had a genuine interest in learning about whatever it was they were talking about. And what they do now, what Stephen Colbert does, what Kimmel does, you know, I think Jimmy Fallon does a better job just as a pure entertainer because Jimmy Kimmel is a, I mean, excuse me, Jimmy Fallon is a more talented entertainer than Kimmel or Stephen Colbert, just flat out. But even Jimmy Fallon makes the show a lot about Jimmy Fallon more than I would have preferred. But Stephen Colbert and Kimmel have taken a model where, yes, ostensibly people are coming out and sitting on the couch and they're using it to just kind of lecture their audience. When you watch a monologue by Stephen Colbert and or Jimmy Kimmel, one thing jumps out. People don't laugh. They applaud like little, like, oh, look what you said was, but they don't laugh because it's not funny. And they're there not so much to laugh and be entertained as they are to listen to someone, spoofing them the same ideology that they believe in. I mean, that's, I don't know. So if it's the death of late night, I don't think it's because of the FCC. I don't think it's because of ABC, Disney. I don't think it's because they've taken what used to be an entertainment medium and turned it into a nag fest. And unfortunately for them, they've run out of people that want to hear the nagging. So yeah, I know Jimmy Kimmel being, you know, fired or whatever bad. I get it. It's okay. It's bad. I just, just trying to figure out why people are more angry about that than they are about someone being murdered. That's the disconnect right now that I'm struggling with. By the way, thanks of those of you pointed out Gutfields on at 8.

I only watch Gutfeld like in snippets the next day. So appreciate that. He's on at 10. So really not late night at all. And maybe that's why he's winning. Maybe we're just all going to bed earlier. Do you want to know when you're going to die? And for the most part, it's a philosophical conversation, right? Nobody gets to see the big... The big calendar that's written somewhere in the ether that's going to show us our exact time of death. But there is a new app that says, hey, you know what? Give us a little health information. Give us a little lifestyle information. And we're going to be able to give you a pretty good ballpark of when you're going to die. And joining me now, the founder and CEO of death clock, Brent Franzen joins me to talk about just that. First of all, Brent, how did you get into the death business? So I was, I've been in tech my whole career, but I was very focused on helping people change their habits to improve their health. And we realized that if we were going to predict, if we, if we use that information to predict when somebody was going to die, it made them more likely to change their behavior. And so we went, we just went full into the death prediction business with death clock. So, I mean, everybody has seen it. Well, I'm 56. So now I have, I've lived long enough to have those. friends who have had some kind of medical incident, right? Maybe they had a minor heart attack. Maybe they, you know, had some kind of brush with cancer that they came out on the other side. But boy, that'll snap them too. They will get out there. You see him out there working out and eating right and changing their lives. So is using that mentality sort of what you're doing here instead of saying wait till you have a heart attack, let's show you how likely you are to have a heart attack. Yeah, exactly. I mean, the heart attack that happens at 60s started at 35 or 40. And so our goal is to shake people and say, look, we're all going to die. But there is a question of when. And so we predict two things. We ask you 29 questions and we predict the day we think you're going to die based on your current health. But we also predict... the day we think you're going to die based on optimal health, as our goal to try to get you there. But to kind of let people know, look, there's a choice here. And if you want more time, the things you do today, they matter. One of the things we talk about on this show a lot because it's important to me is like I hate it when people say, oh, I want to live to be 100. As if somehow living to be 100, if you spend the last 10 years decrepit in a wheelchair, not being able to enjoy any activities of life, is somehow desirable. So we talk about health span a lot. And health span meaning. I want to live to be 100 as long as I'm healthy and active and my brain is still there. That's, I think, a better conversation. How does that fit into what with what you guys are doing?

Yeah, so you really think of a lifespan as health span plus care span equals lifespan. And in the context of preventative health, so, you know, I'm in my mid-40s, you're in your mid-50s, if we start making the changes today to be healthier, to improve our biomarkers and all the different things we can use to measure our health, we're going to be extending our health span. The care span tends to be extended by our health. health care system. So our health care system has done a really good job of figuring out ways to get us all to help us all live longer later in life when the quality is really low. But if you start earlier, you tend to be extending your health span. You're right. It matters much more than lifespan. So how did you guys come up with this algorithm? How did you come up with 29 questions? And how certain are you that your information is good? So we have a clinical board, so it's a set of doctors that weighs in on everything that we do, and we looked at what are the factors that matter most. So sleep. diet, exercise, family history, the age of your grandparents, blood pressure, things like that. And we trained the algorithm on people who we have a lot of public information about and have died to be very accurate in predicting death. We stuck that. We trained an AI on 1,200 longevity studies. So all of that sits on top of the AI and all of the actuarial tables that are used by life insurance companies and other things. So we do predict an exact day, and we don't think. the exact day is right, but we think directionally we're very accurate in terms of the life expectancy itself. I mean, you guys don't have like the inside track to the Grim Reaper. It's like this is not written in stone. What I think is interesting is that honestly, the death clock is sort of an entry level way to get people to say, you guys offer a whole range of products on the backside about this. What are those products about? So in a post AI world, what we're really trying to do is, and we're trying to build this platform, but everybody should be aware of this for themselves, is you want to have all of your health data in one place. Number one. Number two is you want to have an AI that's trained on that data that can help you understand the reality of your health and make recommendations. Number two. And then number three, you want to go execute on those changes and try to be healthier and live longer. So we're trying to basically have an AI private doctor that'll help you live longer. You can do this on your own. But that's our goal. We want to try to help people live 10 years longer, not just scare you and predict when you're going to die. a philosophical question, Brent, because you're a tech guy and the stuff that I'm seeing come out of the tech bros who are trying to live forever, okay? You've got Brian, whatever his name is, who is literally trying to live forever. And it feels like for whatever reason, and I'm not saying this is what you guys are doing, okay? I'm really asking you if you fall into this category. It's like, we're all going to die. You started out by saying we're all going to die. Why is this new focus?

Why does it seem to be so intense in such a way that people really do seem to be trying to live forever? Well, I think there's two things going on. I think one is we've all realized that our health care system is a sick care system and it's not good at helping us prevent getting diseases in the first place. And so I think cats out of the bag on that. And then two, I disagree with what people are doing. I think there's a lot of people saying, hey, maybe we can live to 150 or maybe we're never going to die. I totally disagree with that. I would put myself in the camp of trying to get what's called the incremental decade. know we can do to get 10 extra good years. And I want to help people go do those things. But I don't want any part of bleeding edge experimental things that we might be doing or inferring and communicating that maybe we're not going to die. I think that's reckless. So who comes up or how did you guys develop those back-end things that we just mentioned? So it's a combination of just training an AI on all of the top research around longevity and then reviewing that with a clinical board. So on our clinical board, we've got an oncologist, an endocrinologist, a cardiologist, a neurologist, and then a primary care doc. And so it's training and AI and then reviewing it with people who are actually at the top of their field and practicing medicine. What? sent you down this path personally you said you've always been invested in technology that helps people live a better life was there a specific thing that made you go this is going to be my area of concentration Yeah, you know, I got misdiagnosed as bipolar when I was a teenager. There's nothing wrong with bipolar. I'm just, I'm not bipolar. And I got put on an antipsychotic to help me sleep. And I shouldn't have been on it. And I've had problems sleeping since. And so I've long been suspicious of the health care system. I think our health care system tends to go too quickly to pills and procedures and isn't very good at helping us with the basics. I was just a very rebellious team. who is hormonal and I was getting a little wild. I should have never been on that medication in the first place. So I've realized I'm on my own and I want to build a tool that helps me manage my own health. And then I'm a technologist. I might as well, you know, we might as well make it available to others. Well, I put a link on the blog to both the Android App Store and the Apple App Store. If you guys want to download it, by the way, Brian, I did it. Or Brent, I did it. And it said, as of right now, changing nothing, I'm going to live to be 89, which I feel like is a pretty good run. but obviously I'm not doing everything perfect. As long as I'm good and healthy and keep doing the right things, I'm hoping that the death clock is a little short in terms of where it be. But I very much appreciate your time. It's a super interesting concept. It really, really is. And I'm guessing that for someone who goes to your app and downloads it and asks the questions,

and gets a number that is far closer to where they are right now than they realize this is going to be an amazing tool. And I'm also guessing that someone who finds themselves in that situation is open to making those changes because you're not going to download the app unless you realize, I could probably be doing something better. Is that kind of what you guys find? Yeah, I mean, it's not scary. We hear people are concerned about it on the front end, and we never hear that on the back end, so we've tried to lighten it up. But, yeah, we're all going to die. It's good knowing where you might end up so you can proactively make the decision. Is that long enough? Is 89 long enough for you? If it is, okay, fine. If you want to live longer, then, you know, you've got to get on that now. Well, at 56, it seems long enough, but talk to me when I'm 85. Okay, we'll have a follow-up interview when I'm 85. Brent will make it happen. His app is death clock, super interesting. And hats off to you for just trying to help people live a happier, healthier life and a longer life if they really want to. Brent, I appreciate your time today. Thank you, Mandy. All right. Thank you, Brent Franson, again, that's linked on the blog. By the way, breaking news, what is our breaking news? Wait, let me give you a sounder. Oh, there we go. Yes? We can talk about it more on the other side, but we just got a news bulletin. We are just chatting about Jimmy Kimmel. He will be returning to the show tomorrow. God, the Trump administration sucks at breaking the First Amendment. If you're headed up to the mountains to do some leaf peepin or hiking or whatever, all those signs along the road that say no parking, they're for real. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Nine News. That's a story. A late summer hike on Guinella Pass turned into an unexpected ordeal for one family after they say their car was towed with no warning over Labor Day weekend. That's a lie, no warning. There are signs everywhere. It happened as law enforcement in Clear Creek and Park counties announced a crackdown on illegal parking ahead of the annual leaf peeping season on the pass. Clear Creek County Sheriff Matt Harris said the crackdown comes after first responders struggled to reach emergencies last year because of traffic backups caused by leafkeepers. Sheriff said, let me be clear if you're parked on the roadway, we will tote. That warning came too late for hiker Adam Dickerson and his parents. After returning from their hike on August 31st, they found their car was gone. With no cell service on the past, Dickerson said his family had limited options at one point. His 71-year-old mother tried to flag down cars and ask Rangers for help. The family eventually hitched a ride to Georgetown, then back up to Silver Plume where their car had been towed. Guys, if there are no parking signs, don't park there. Unless it is a designated parking area, don't park there. Just don't do it. I got to tell you, it's like, you know, Aaron, how often do you go into the mountains for anything? I mean, never. I mean...

Why you assume never? Well, because you don't ever talk about going to the mountains. After I said, how often you go to the mountains? I'm like, I don't remember the last time Arod said, hey, we're going to the mountains. Not often and not often enough. See, Chuck and I were talking about this. When you live in Florida, like when we met, we were living in the Fort Myers, Naples area of Florida, where there are some beautiful beaches. But when you live there, you never go to the beach. You know why? Getting to the dang beach in the summer takes like an hour and a half, literally an hour. Excuse me, not the summer, in the winter. Because you don't go to the beach in the summer because it's hotter than hell. It's like a billion degrees, and it's going to rain as soon as you get there anyway. So you're trying to go to the beach when the weather's nice, and it literally takes an hour and a half just to do something that normally takes 35 minutes, right? So you just stop going. And one of the reasons I stopped going is the last time we went up there and just drove through the mountains, it was a nightmare because people are just pulling their cars everywhere. It's just, ugh. I'm a rule follower, you guys. I really am. I am a rule follower. And I don't like it when people don't follow the rules. You ever had your car toad? No. Okay, so I've had my car toad one time and it went like this. I pull into a parking lot. This was in Daytona Beach, which may explain why I still have some animosity towards Daytona Beach, but whatever, it's fine. I pull up to a parking space and there's a guy standing in the head of the parking space. I roll down my window. I go, are you holding this parking space for somebody? He goes, oh, no, no, no, I just came over here, pee. Okay? So I was like, great. I pull my car up. I get out of my car. I go in. I have dinner. I come out. My car is gone. And it is at that point that I see the clearly displayed sign that the man had been standing directly in front of. that said, no parking, you will be towed. So though I was frustrated, I was like, dang it. That was on me. And now when I see a sign that says no parking or if you park here, you will be towed, I take them at their word. It's like, yeah, I don't have time to get towed right now. So though I feel sorry that these people didn't have a basic rudimentary understanding of not parking where they're not supposed to park. And that created a really fun story for the rest of their family lore. Hey, Mom, remember that time he had to flag cars down to get us off Winnella Pass? Good times. Good times. I at the same time, a little short on sympathy for all of this. When we get back. I have a million stories on the blog today, but none more important than this story about people not having sex. We're going to talk about that next. The Mandy Connell show is sponsored by Bell and Pollock accident and injury lawyers. Now, it's Mandy Connell. Mandy Connell, room in the day. On KLA, 8.50 a.m. 941 FM.

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the third hour of the show. It's Monday. I'm Mandy. That's Arad. And together we'll get you right through. Now, President Trump is about to make an announcement about autism. It is widely believed to be about a potential connection between Tylenol and autism and a new drug that seems to be helping. kids who are struggling the most with autism, children who are nonverbal and things of that nature. When he starts to talk, we will grab that. I don't know when that's going to start. But in the meantime, we've got lots of stuff on the blog to chat about, not the least of which is this story that I've got to tell you explains a lot. A lot. Remember a week or so ago when I was like, why is everyone so cranky all the time? You drive on the roadways in Colorado, chances are somebody's going to flip you off or honk at you, even when you're not doing anything wrong. Guys, when I do something dumb on the roadway, this is what I do. I'm like, oh, that was me as they drive past me. That was, I pointed myself. Yeah, that was me. I'm sorry. That was me. I own that. But lately, the nastiness has just been insane. And now I know from Spectator. The decline of sex and the alpha male. Not long ago, early in the morning in Washington, D.C., says the story, I walked past a construction site, and a man in a yellow vest whistled at me. I laughed, but what really struck me was how rare cat calling has become. Even construction workers, the cliche of crude male attention, have fallen silent. As it turns out, moans of passion in bedrooms across America. According to a new research, Americans have lost their libido and not by a little. Only 37% of American adults reported having sex once a week or more, down from 55% in 1990. Across generations, the pattern holds the same. Even within marriage, sex is increasingly confined to holidays. Weekly sex rates for married couples have fallen from 59% in the 1990s to below 49% today. Among young adults, the story is even grimmer. Nearly a quarter of Americans, age 18 to 29, said they had no sex at all in the past year, double the rate of a decade ago. And then it goes on to talk about why this could be. And one of them kind of leaps into what happened to men over this same time. And by the way, guys, they're not just, they're not blaming you. Okay. Don't think this is a man hater kind of article. It really, really isn't.

really, really isn't. And I want to share this part to prove that point. The crisis isn't only in the statistics. It's visible in the disappearance of small if imperfect social rituals that once signaled desire in public space, such as buying someone a drink at the bar. The old moral codes are gone, but they're being replaced with new ones. The parish priest is given the way to HR. Sexual harassment trainings and viral tweets. Rules have multiplied around sex from verbal consent protocols to workplace regulations. The result is that people grow afraid of the consequences. And sex hardly feels casual any longer. The Me Too movement that started with a noble aim to prevent sexual abuse, assault, and discrimination against women, predictably overreached into structuring desire. The courts of public opinion declare people guilty and turn them into enemies of the society without giving them a fair trial. Some in America have forgotten that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. If in the Soviet Union it was your neighbor who brought up your careless word or unapproved behavior to authorities. Now it can be a girl you met at a party 10 years ago posting on X. And then you can see where it's going from there. But the reason I brought this up is very, very, very simple, especially if you are in a marriage. And don't get me wrong, you've all, ARA, did anybody say this to you before you and Jocelyn got married? And I'm just asking you because you're the most newly married person on this show, even though you guys have been married for what? Six years? Six. No. How long have you guys been married? Oh, three. Three and a half. Okay, so you bought your house before you got married. Yes. We're going to talk about why that's the wrong order. Well, COVID. Oh, that's true. We were only supposed to be two months. Right. That's right. We got the house two months later, wedding. Yeah, COVID. Yep. My apologies for casting us portions on the way you guys did. You guys have a marriage that I think a lot of young people should aspire to. I'm just going to be honest. Agreed. You genuinely... care about each other. You're super nice to each other. You share a lot of the same interests. You both work your tails off. A lot about the A-Rod marriage to his beautiful wife that is aspirational in my view. Damn. Yep. But if you are married, guys, gals, and your sex life is non-existent, you've got to work on that. I mean, you just have to work on that. Now, I realize as we get older, hormones change, things change, but there's things you can do to still remain close to your partner. And it's a good friend of mine who has been a counselor for many, many years, said that a vast majority of people live the last 25 years of their marriage as basically platonic roommates. And I am not going to lie. I think that's incredibly sad. And someone once told me, if a woman doesn't want to have sex with her husband, it's not because she doesn't want to have sex. It's because she doesn't want to have sex with him. And I've also heard the same from men. But what this article kind of leaves off or skips through or whatever is that these numbers coincide with the rise of online pornography.

Easy access pornography. Back when I was young, you had to work to find your pornography. You couldn't just pick up your phone and look at it. No. You had to go to some shady video store and hope nobody saw you. All of this stuff, it's all so damaging, but doesn't it start to explain why we're all so cranky all of the time? When we get back... I'm not going to include A. Rod and his wife in this, but I do want to talk about young people are doing marriage wrong. And I'll explain why and how. And it's so easy to fix. Oh, my goodness, it's so easy to fix when we get back. A couple things, Mandy, I'm confused as why pornography is always spoken of as a negative. My husband and I enjoy it together. And it definitely spices up our sex life. And in that way, it's perfectly fine. But what we're seeing, especially with young people, is that they have replaced actual human connection with pornography. And that's when it becomes a huge problem. Mandy. What do you do when your husband or boyfriend is old but keeps taking all these hormones for men and all kinds of testosterone treatments that you, the woman, doesn't? There's a difference between the desires in that case. And this is a very common problem, and I don't have a good answer for it. All I can say is maybe you can try hormones. I don't know. But that is a communication issue as much as anything else. Okay? So that's where you've got to have those conversations, those difficult conversations that say, look, you're 75 and I don't need to be running around like a horny teenager. Drop the testosterone down a bit. And that's a reasonable ask. Now, this story originally from the Wall Street Journal, the headline, why marriage is increasingly for the affluent. And it talks about the fact that many young couples are waiting to get married. They're building a career or wealth before tying the knot. And though this has some merits, right? Like you want to feel like you have your own life sort of sorted out before you enter into a marriage with someone else. But I'm telling you the struggle part of marriage is sometimes the part that gets you through the hard times. Now hear me out. When you first get married to someone and. Chuck and I are in this camp. So we were already, you know, a lot older. We didn't get married until I was like late 30s. We were a lot older. We still were not in a great financial situation. And when we got married, we had, we have things in our past. We have a house that we rented. We call it the craptastic house because it was so bad. It was so awful. But you find that person and you find out what their financial values are. That's very important. And you say, look, here are the goals that I have for my future. Would you like to come along and build this together? And that is, the struggle years can cement a marriage. As long as you're both on the same page and as long as you're both moving towards the same goals and you have a decided way that you're going to move forward with your finances.

Arguing about money is one of the biggest causes for divorce, but I don't think when you look right down into that argument, you're not arguing about money. You're arguing about each person's perceptions of how the other person is managing money. And that is incredibly difficult. And this is why I tell people, if you're about to get married, if you have not... sat down and had maybe a really hard conversation about how to handle your finances and what you want your financial future to look like and how much money you're going to save versus how much money you're going to spend and how many vacations you're going to take, how you're going to pay cash for stuff or not, how you're going to use credit cards going forward. If you've not had that difficult conversation, you do not need to be getting married. But. If you have had that conversation and you find out that your value systems align and your goals for the future, for future you financially are aligned together, it doesn't matter if you don't have a pot to pee in when you get married. Because you can build it together. Now, I'm not knocking you. I say they're doing it wrong and I understand the thinking behind it and it's not crazy. But don't not get married because you don't perceive yourself to be ready financially. Because here's a newsflash. You're never going to be ready financially to get married. You're never going to be ready financially to have kids. Just do it. But make sure those values align on both of those things. That matters way more than how much money you have in the bank when you actually get married. When we get back, the new House Minority Leader Jarvis Caldwell joins me after this. The House Minority Leader, he represents District 20, which covers parts of the Springs and other areas. And now he joins me to talk about his plans as the House Minority Leader. First of all, Jarvis, congratulations. Thank you so much, man. It's an honor to be on your show. I really appreciate it. Well, I wasn't congratulating you for that. I was congratulating you for being the next house minority leader. Now, you've not been, you're a young guy, I should say, mid-30s, not that that should be a disqualify or anything. Do you think that that helped you in running for the leadership position? I don't know if it helped me running for the leadership position. I think what it's going to help is the Republican case, you know, in the wake of the tragic death of Charlie Kirk, because I've just had so many church leaders. I've had so many young people, college students reaching out, saying, listen, this was the straw that broke the camel's back. I'm tired of just voting the right way. I'm ready to actually do something. And I'm just a few years older than what Charlie was when he passed away. I think I can really tap into that momentum there that's just sitting there that everybody feels. And we need to take that. We need to carry it into the next election cycle.

I don't need to tell you that Republicans are so outnumbered in both the House and the Senate. Some progress was made in the last election cycle when it came to the House. We've had Rose Paglisi on the show many, many times, and it was something she talked about pretty endlessly, was how do we restore balance to the Colorado legislature and give... the people who are Republican in this state, who are significant. There are significant numbers of conservatives. How do we give them that voice again? What is your plan or your strategy going forward in this next election cycle to hopefully pick up a few more house seats? Yeah, absolutely. And first I want to say just I have all the thanks to Rose because she was the first minority leader, I believe, in like 14 years to flip seats like that. And so the number one goal is to hold the seats that we won this last election cycle and then to add more seats and flip more seats. And so, you know, we already have a great team in place thanks to Rose and Ty Winter and our other leaders. We have that team in place already that was there with us. last election cycle. And that's not going to change. I mean, I'm changing, but they're not changing. And so we're absolutely going to work together. And the strategy that we used last time won us seats, and we're going to keep going forward with that. But I think we're going to have a lot more people helping us now after everything that's going on. Well, I hope you're right. I do think that, you know, the phrase, the silent majority, you're way too young to remember the silent majority back in the Reagan years. But it was true that there was a lot of people out there who just kind of went through life and, you know, wanted to have raise their families and do their jobs and start their businesses without a lot of a, without a lot of to do, right? Just kind of under the radar. And I do feel like a lot of those people have sort of been awakened. And what does that look like for you in terms of what you're going to ask from Republicans, rank and fire Republicans across the state, what would you like to see happen in a party that in recent years has been a little fractured by some, I'll call it sectarian violence, for lack of a better way to put it. How do you bridge those gaps? Because they're significant. Yeah, yeah, that's a great question. So what I'm going to ask of everybody, and this is people not just in the Republican caucus or Republicans in general, if you want to help, I'm asking for 1% of your time. So if you do the map on that, that's three and a half days. We're going to round it up to four. Just give me four days a year. That's, you know, one day every few months to doork or sign a wave or do something. Like, just give me 1% over the next 14 months. And that's going to make a huge difference. But, you know, the first thing that I did, the first thing that I did was just within an hour or two after the minority leader election Saturday morning, you know, I was at a CSS, the Colorado State Shooting Association event. And I was there with Berga Horn, our state party chair. I was there with Josh Sonenberg, the Colorado Young Republican chair. And then later that night at the CSSA event, I was over there and hanging out with some libertarians.

And I said, hey, guys, listen, I know we're opposition parties, but the reality is we need to work together and not against each other if we really want to take things back. And, you know, they always say that the party in power has a bad off-year election. And so people would say, well, the Republicans are in power in Congress, and so it's going to be bad year for Republicans. But my goal and my job and duty is to... reach out to the people of Colorado and say, no, there's only one party in power right now in Colorado, and that's the Democrat Party. Look, we have ideas. We have better alternatives. And so give us a chance. And you're going to see a difference here. I mean, I'm with you in that. I do think that there are Republican ideas that are outstanding ideas. One of the things that I personally asked Rose off off the air was a big issue that I think we have to address and we have to address it quickly. And that is... With some of the criminal justice reform that was passed recently, we are now in a position where we are releasing dangerous, violent people who were arrested for violent crimes back into the community because they are not, they're found not capable of standing trial. I mean, please tell me the Republicans are working on a real legislative fix for that issue. Yeah, and so I don't want to get too far ahead of myself. This is a conversation that I've been having. And so I feel like in the very near future, I have a very good update for you. But I just want to put it on your radar. This is something. And, you know, the numbers are the numbers. The Democrats, if we're going to pass it, they have to come to the table, right? And so those conversations are being had about the competency issue, like that I believe that you're referring to. And so that is something that. uh is in talks and again you have to have both sides if you're going to get passed um at least if you're a republican running it and so i just i just want to let your listeners know that is a conversation happening and to add to your your concerns i actually ran a bill this year to prevent repeat violent offenders from getting out on PR bonds right cashless bail and i had bipartisan support on it i had a democrat on it but because of the house judiciary committee the makeup of it is so horrible. Remember, this is the same committee that was trying to lower the penalties for attempted homicide, the bad shot bill that I believe I came on your show and we talked about. You shoot into a crowd, you miss somebody, and then they want to lower the penalties for that. And so the judiciary committee is a problem here at the Capitol, and there's a lot of actual bipartisan bills that. would be law right now if there wasn't this this roadblock and this wall in the judiciary committee. So I'm going to keep working to expose that. That's not going to change. I won't be on the committee now that a minority leader, but it is my number one call to expose that, at least in the house. Let me ask you a personal question. And it really has to do with the last, you know, obviously we have been dealing with some really serious. stuff since Charlie Kirk's assassination and just a bigger conversation about rhetoric and dialogue. What kind of Republican leader do you think you are in terms of what do you bring to the table? Are you going to be the one to say something that may be inflammatory? Are you going to lean towards a more even keeled kind of language? What can we expect from Representative Jarvis Caldwell as the House Minority Leader?

Yeah, that's a great question. So I kind of made a little bit of a name for myself this past session because I really took on House Bill 1312, you know, the transgender rights bill. And so, you know, and I just, everybody has their own style. My style is to be passionate about the things that I care about, which parental rights is like my number one issue. And so, you know, I made a lot of headlines and got a lot of attention on this bill, but I didn't do it in a way where I had to go down to the floor and call names or anything like that. You know, I made the arguments, and then I used kind of the abilities I have outside the building to message this. And it caught national news, and you'd seat on lives at TikTok and things like that. And so, you know, I'm a former communications director for the House Republicans for the very place where I'm now the minority leader. And so I'm going to continue using those abilities. And, you know, this is exclusive and breaking news on your show, but it's certainly not public yet, but you'll see it very soon. I did just sign a letter to the Democrat majority calling out some of their members who were what I would consider dancing on the graves of Charlie Kirk. And so you're going to see that if you follow the Colorado House Republican Twitter page, excuse me, X page. You'll see that very soon. But I did sign a letter to them, and we had our House Republicans sign on to it as well. But, you know, we just passed the resolution in the special session saying, you know, everybody's got to be better and all this stuff. Well, you know, we're trying to stick to that resolution, and some of your members, I mean, within a month, are violating that. That is something that I think is super interesting, but I got to tell you, my text line is lit up from people who want to know if any attention will be given to Representative Lorena Garcia and her very profitable nonprofit that has flourished with taxpayer dollars since she got elected. In a way that is so dramatic that there's no way that it can, you know what I'm saying? It just looks really, really. really bad. Is that something that you guys are going to work to call attention to? Yeah, so, you know, every member gets five bills, and this is something I certainly looked at. And you are going to see something about it from my understanding from one of our members. But, yeah, if your listeners who are maybe listening who aren't aware of it, it's my understanding that I think her nonprofits brought in like $2 million since she got elected, and her wife is a paid employee, and even her parents are a paid employee. And, you know, as a taxpayer myself, I'm going... How in the world is this even legal that my tax money is going to a nonprofit of an elected representative who runs the nonprofit and then pays all their family members? So I certainly as a taxpayer have issues with it, and I know a lot of people have issues with it, and I'm pretty certain I can't speak on behalf of my members because technically our bills are secret, but I have it on pretty good authority. You're going to see something coming about that, and we're going to make a very big deal about that.

I hope so because that has been stuck in my craw for some time. Representative Jarvis Caldwell, I hope that you will visit the show as often as possible because it is my intention to continue. Probably more aggressively than before. Because one of my big frustrations in the talk show host is I have a lot of people who say things like, well, why didn't the Republicans stop this? Why didn't the Republicans stop that? And I spend so much time saying they're so hopelessly outnumbered that they can't stop anything. So let's you and I decide to keep everybody up to speed with what you're trying to do, even if you're not successful just because of the imbalance of power that exists there right now. Absolutely. And you know, you have to define your wins when you're in a minority like us. You know, there's 22 of us, there's 43 of them. You know, the math is the math. We just don't have the numbers. Right. Like the way we fought 1312, the bill was still horrible. Poll has still signed it. But the reality is, is it got way watered down from where it started at. And we, that attempted homicide bill to lower penalties. We actually got that bill killed in committee because there was such backlash. that we actually got a Democrat or two who are, I would consider more moderate to basically not support it. And then so the bill sponsors killed it. But it's my understanding. It's coming back. So, you know, this fight is just starting. And I'm really happy to lead the Republicans in this. Amen to that. Jarvis Caldwell. Thanks so much. And best of luck. You've got a tough road to hoe, as they say, tough road to hoe. And I hope you can handle it. We'll talk again soon. Thank you, ma'am. All right. Thank you. That is represented. Ooh, Jarvis Caldwell. There we go. And one Mr. Ryan Edwards has made it into the studio dressed for fall in his flannel that's fall colored today. Did you have your PSL this morning? No, I have not. I probably should have. I had one yesterday. But no, this is a, you know. comfort, like cover food. This is comfort clothing. There you go. Nothing wrong with that. On a Monday. Yeah, I got to tell you a couple things about yesterday's game. Okay. Here's my take. And you can tell me if I need a job in sports or not. Take number one, that last touchdown play by the Chargers was so good. And everything broke their way. Our defense was right there. I mean, It just, you can't even get mad about it, right? Because it was such a, but it leads me to my second point, which is the difference between a good team and a great team is being able to get it done at the end. And right now we are not getting it done at the end. And three, Bonix, I think, is starting to question his decision making and it's showing up in bad footwork, feet not being planted, balls being overthrown. Is this just the sophomore slump? Well, Anthony agrees with everything that you said. I think they're all great points. I mean, the first one, yeah. Touchdown. Golly. Even last night. It's one of those you tip your calf because you just say. And you can't even get mad at our defense either because they were right there. They were in it. It was just perfectly placed ball. He bent the ball around Nick Benito. Seriously. While moving to his left, while the receiver is also covered in the end zone.

Justin Herbert is one of those guys. And he's always had the talent. It's always kind of been about some of the other things around him. The talent around him is the coaching he's getting. But he's getting the right coaching. They have the right, they have the right mixture of everything. They're actually pretty close to a complete team. And I think that as we're discussing the Broncos today and kind of going forward this week. There needs to be a little bit of context on the team you just played because they are a very good team. And I think the Colts are actually a really good team too. And that's a conversation I had this offseason. I said, hey, listen, I know that people are making fun of the Colts because they're going from Anthony Richardson to Daniel Jay Jones. But I think that actually makes them better. They are a good team now. And they're going to give the Broncos some fits. And of course, they ended up doing that. The other thing is, you know, the frustration of losing two last second field goal moments also acknowledges how close. Things are in the NFL every single weekend. You've been watching for a long time as well. It really is like that. And the Broncos could be 3 and 0. They could be, as they are 1 and 2, maybe they could be 0.3 because that's just what the league is in a lot of ways. So I'm not losing faith necessarily in what they're doing. I think your point about Bonix is a very good one. He looks so much less. He looks so. much more unsure. And last year, when expectations are zero because you're a rookie in the league, when you don't have that pressure on you, I do think it's really easy to play fast and loose. And other teams didn't necessarily have a beat on him that they have now. But I'm not willing to throw Bo Nix out. I think he is having a sophomore slump. He's got a crisis of confidence happening. You can see it on him a little bit. But he'll get through it. He'll get through it. And I mean, there's really no way to go but through. Right. I mean, there's not really another option. People, even last night, were like, when did you start talking about Jarrett's Titum? No. We're not even close to that. There was something interesting that Sean Payton said today on his press conference phone call that I thought about in terms of why Bo is missing some of these throws, the way he's doing it, because they're always long, right? He's always off the fingertips. And Sean said, well, it's better than him putting it in a position where a team could possibly intercept it. And I sort of wondered that a little bit about. But that's exactly what I'm talking about. That's a second guess. Yes. Right at that moment when you don't have time to second guess. Right. And he's not mature enough to be able to guess correctly yet. But he errs on the side of what coach will be happy as long as this is long and not in the possibility for an interception. So I'm not saying that's a thing. But when he said that as like the immediate retort. My thought process went immediately too well. That's got to be something in Bo Dix's head as well. When he's throwing these long passes, it's like, well, I'd rather err on the side of long, but that's also not giving your receiver an opportunity to make a play on the ball if it's going to be long every time. So there's got to be somewhere they can find some balance there. And sometimes the ball is going to be put into risk and you're just going to have to trust your receiver to make a play. Exactly. He'll get there. He will. But dang. And they, listen. Two weeks in a row. Come on, man. Very quickly, the schedule, I mean, they got, they got this week against the Bengals, right, on Monday night football. They got the Eagles after that, which is going to be a tough game. But then after that, there's a lot of underachieving teams across the board, weaker defenses, weaker staffs, weaker quarterbacks.

The Broncos are about to go on a run here. Okay. So whatever you think about them today is certainly frustrated and maybe you measuring stick stuff about the best teams of the AFC. They're about to go on a bit of run here. And now it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio of its guys. In the world! Of that day. All right. What is our dad joke of the day, please? Someone tried to sell me a coffin today. Listen, that's the last thing I need. That's funny. That's funny. Really good. That was a good one. All right. What's our word of the day, please? Adverb. Adverb. Amain. A-M-A-I-N. A-M-A-N. A-M-A-N. A-M-A-N. Yeah. A-M-M-A-N. Yeah. Adverb. I am going to just guess the obvious and say it's something that's central to whatever you're talking about. I was going to see adjacent to. No, it means with full force. Oh, I mean. Okay, that's good. Actor Mark Leonard was the first to portray characters from three different alien races in the Star Trek franchise. What three types of aliens did he play? Well, you got Klingons. You got Romulans. What are other alien types? It's the... The ones that control, ah, golly. I'm more of Star Wars personally. Thank you. Horns down. I love doing this. What is that? What does that mean? It's the Trekkie, but horns down version. In the original series episode, Balance of Terror, he played a Romulan. Yeah, that Star Trek, the motion picture. He played a Klingon. And in multiple Star Trek TV shows and films, he played a Vulcan. Oh. Oh. I don't ever consider them. I know. Yeah, that was a lot easier than we made it. Yeah. I mean, I never think of Vulcans. I was sitting at the Borg. Like I was like, oh yeah, there you go. That's what I was like, I was like the only two aliens that I know. Anyway, go ahead. What's our Jeopardy category? All American. Okay. Every answer has American. Merca. Merck. Their publication include First Aid Fast and a babysitter's handbook. What is the American Red Cross? That is correct. A gorilla named Coco, learn to communicate. What is American Sign Language? Correct. In 2009, this organization that maintains the largest registry for purebred dogs celebrated its 125th anniversary. Awesome. Mandy, what is the American Kennel Association? No! Dang it! No! Dang it! I don't know. What is the American Kennel Club? Dang it! Yeah, you had it right there. Crap! When Iowa farmers and their wives first saw this 1930 painting of a farm couple, many of them were downright. Mandy, what is American Gothic? That is correct. Yeah, that's pretty much. And in 2009, the U.S. Mint issued a quarter for this territory featuring an... Avable, avable, avable, a whisk and a coconut tree. Mandy, what is American Samoa? That is correct. Oh, nice. Nice work. Woo! I know my America stuff. We've got to be coming up on K-O-A sports. We're going to have fun. We have Nate Jackson in studio. So former Broncos wide receiver tied in, and obviously we'll strip down the game. But we'll try to find some positivity at the end of it because I know that Broncos fans are feeling pretty bummed right now. I know, I know. Patience. Patience is a virtue, people.

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