Mandy Connell

Mandy and Arod gather up some new airhorn entries, James Comey is not a nice man and has tried to insult our intelligence, Aussie Colonel Michael Scott makes the case for Israel and the IDF while fighting anti-Semitism, King Soopers gets busted for overcharging and the City of Denver is the worst slumlord of all.

Dad joke of the day, word of the day, Mandy's trivia question of the day & jeopardy! It's OF THE DAY! Today's opponent: Ryan Edwards AND Benjamin Allbright.

COLONEL MICHAEL SCOTT STANDS WITH ISRAEL And unlike most of us who just SAY that he is putting action to words as a battle tested Australian commander of troops who is putting his money where his mouth is. He joins me at 1pm to talk about his visits to Gaza to talk to IDF soldiers and why he believes the IDF is the most ethical fighting force in the world. Read his column on it here. He joins me at 1pm. Find out more about him by clicking here. Find out about his organization The 2023 Foundation here.

Mandy talks about Colorado losing its business competitiveness and Uber and Lyft leaving the state, Colorado is facing a big loss when it comes to Medicaid, who really pays income taxes, a case that could limit federal judges' ability to issue national injunctions against the Trump administration, and a poker tournament to raise money for veteran's kids Christmas. 

Dad joke of the day, word of the day, Mandy's trivia question of the day & jeopardy! It's OF THE DAY! Today's opponent: Grant Smith.

GET YOUR POKER FACE READY Because if you love poker you can have a fun night and help raise money for the children of veterans this Christmas. The Veterans Association of Real Estate Professionals (VAREP) is hosting a poker tournament this Saturday evening. The details are below but here is the link to sign up. VAREP President Jeff Zoerb joins me at 2:30 to chat about it.

THERE'S A LAWSUIT ABOUT BOYS IN GIRLS SPORTS And if was filed by School District 49 (D49) in the Springs. It doesn't involve a case of a trans girl competing, but is a pre emptive suit and the state organization in charge of high school sports has policies that are in violation of Title IX and of Trump's Executive Order on the subject. Read more here, but Superintendent Peter Hilts joins me at 1:10 today to talk about it.

BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP HEADS TO THE SUPREME COURT And I'm not EXACTLY sure what will come out of this because this hearing is more about procedural stuff when it comes to district courts issuing stays that check the President of the United States's power. The Pacific Legal Foundation says Trump vs CASA is about "a Trump-era Executive Order aimed at ending birthright citizenship for children born to unlawful or non-permanent immigrants. Lower courts blocked the policy nationwide, not just for the plaintiffs, and now the Justices will weigh in on whether courts have the authority to issue such sweeping injunctions." What will this mean for birthright citizenship overall? I've got Joe Luppino-Esposito from the Pacific Legal Foundation at 12:30 on it.

Today we do a deep dive on cutter with The Foundation for the Defensive Democracies Cliff May, Jeff propco public schools is a mess, and Trump storms the Middle East.

Dad joke of the day, word of the day, Mandy's trivia question of the day & jeopardy! It's OF THE DAY! Today's opponent: Ryan Edwards.

WE SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO THE INDIA-PAKISTAN FLARE UP And I've got Cliff May from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies on at 1pm to talk about this column that not only gives some needed history and context but clearly lays out which side we should likely align with.

Today we talk about our lost pop culture with our futurist Thomas Frey, along with the use of AI for education.  Mandy goes on a tear about Jake Tapper trying to profit off his own failures, we discuss motorcycle fatalities in Colorado with DJ Summers from the Common Sense Institute and crime being down in Denver and Aurora, plus Boulder suing Exxon Mobil and Suncor. 

Dad joke of the day, word of the day, Mandy's trivia question of the day & jeopardy! It's OF THE DAY! Today's opponent: Grant Smith.

IT'S DANGEROUS TO RIDE A MOTORCYCLE IN COLORADO And the Common Sense Institute has a new study to prove it. DJ Summers joins me today at 2:30 to talk about this study that shows that a disproportionate number deaths in road accidents are motorcyclists. DJ has the details on this new report about how declining traffic enforcement is making the roads less safe for most and much less safe for those on bikes.

WE'VE LOST OUR POPULAR CULTURE Let's not forget that the phrase "pop culture" means popular culture and it used to refer to those things that we ALL watched or knew about like the finale of MASH or the season premiere of Dallas where they revealed Who Shot JR??? Our favorite futurist Thomas Frey is on to talk about how highly personal algorithms have siloed us into so many different spaces that we don't have those cultural touchstones anymore like we used to. We will also talk about how AI is the future of teaching and learning, though I've got a column later in the blog about one teacher leaving the profession because of the reliance of kids on tech now. Find out more about Thomas or invite him to speak here.

We talk the importance of energy for human flourishing and how Colorado is making it unreliable and more expensive with Amy Oliver Cooke, Jack Corrigan joined us to talk about the firing of Bud Black and more reasons for the team's troubles. Should Trump take a plane from a country that funds terrorism, and the Hope Scheppleman, and Tom Bjorklund of the former Colorado GOP leadership team says they are being unfairly criticized by new leadership. 

Dad joke of the day, word of the day, Mandy's trivia question of the day & jeopardy! It's OF THE DAY! Today's opponent: Ryan Edwards.

GREEN ENERGY IS EXPENSIVE AND UNRELIABLE ENERGY And Amy Oliver Cooke writes about it here for Complete Colorado. This is my favorite part:Environmentalists appealed to consumers by saying wind and solar would save ratepayers money. From the outset, Governor Polis refused to provide a detailed cost analysis of his plan while rejecting Independence Institute’s 2017 projection that the transition could cost $45 billion. Polis insisted the Institute’s estimates were inflated and modeled a plan that wasn’t even his. Yet, Polis never offered an alternative figure, saying, instead, he knows it will be less.Fast forward to 2024. The Colorado Energy Office’s (CEO) Ascend Analytics report offered an acknowledgment and a sobering warning: Polis’s wind, solar, and battery-only system would require 69,000 megawatts of new capacity by 2040 and still “barely meet reliability targets.” At $61 billion, it’s also the most expensive scenario studied. That figure doesn’t even include the billions of dollars needed for transmissi

BUD BLACK IS OUT AS ROCKIES MANAGER and Voice of the Rockies Jack Corrigan joined me to break down what it means and what the future looks like.