Mandy Connell

WHEN RUNNING LIKE A GIRL IS A GOOD THING Meet Natalie Daniels. She Ran Boston in 2:50:04. Then Got Cancelled. Natalie Daniels, a 5x marathon winner and new mom, trained hard to run the Boston Marathon just six months postpartum. Before the race, she spoke out with XX-XY Athletics about fairness in women’s sports — and faced backlash. Her teammates leaked her location, and her club told her not to wear their singlet. She ran anyway, in XX-XY gear, finishing in 2:50:04. After the race, she was kicked out for standing up for real women. Now she's starting a running club for women with the help of XX-XY. Find out more here, and Natalie joins me at 2:30 today to discuss it. Join the team running club here!

JUST HOW UNEQUAL IS OUR WEALTH? If you listen to Bernie Sanders rich people are literally stealing the change from poor people's pockets, but of course that is false. But the Gospel of Wealth Inequality is a powerful elixir doled out to gin up envy and greed in the people and it's effective. But is it true? At 1 I'm talking with Daniel Waldenstrom, Professor of Economics, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm, Sweden Previously professor at Paris School of Economics, Uppsala University, UCLA about his work on it, and it tells a much different story. Read this for more, but we will dig in today. Find his book on the subject, Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West by clicking here.

GEN Z IS SEARCHING AND THEY ARE FINDING GOD I love this story so much. Today at 12:30 I will talk to Associate Editor John Hirschauer from City Journal about this story he did on Gen Z returning to church. I love this part especially:Yet these cultural losses may have laid the groundwork for a revival. Public Christianity in the United States receded in part because a rising counterculture successfully challenged its restrictions on individual conduct. Advocates of cultural liberalization gained support by portraying mid-century Christian institutions as rigid and outdated. But today, that once-rebellious counterculture dominates the spaces that Americans inhabit—schools, workplaces, and popular media. And young people, always drawn to rebellion, appear to be pushing back. Many are rejecting a culture that exalts personal autonomy and denigrates self-sacrifice. Perhaps as a result, a surprising number of young adults—who might otherwise have left religion at even higher rates than their parents did—are, for t

Mandy talks about how expensive it is to replace the Ford F-150 Lightning truck battery is, she spoke with a young man with a fatal disease who is advocating for Right to Try new meds, Rich Guggenheim with Gays Against Groomers pops on for an update, Hamas wants Palestinians to starve rather than take aid from a group that MAY be associated with Israel, and the Plum Creek Garden Market team visited to talk about glow in the dark petunias. 

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: Plum Creek Garden Market and the Q!

HOW ABOUT SOME GLOW IN THE DARK PETUNIAS? As gardening is my official hobby now I'm actually pretty excited to have Audrey Sharpe and Matt Niemann on the show. This year Plum Creek Garden Market is excited to announce the debut of the Firefly Petunia, the first bioluminescent petunia for sale (glow in the dark). This year we encourage Colorado gardeners to consider planting more native plants that have adapted to Colorado’s elevation and climate over generations. Audrey and Matt join me at 2:30 to talk about it, find your local Plum Creek Garden Market by clicking here.

GAYS AGAINST GROOMERS IS STILL FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT And I've got Rich Guggenheim on with an update since the passage of SB25-1213 made Colorado a hotspot of trans affirmation. He's on at 1pm. We can talk about how a group made entirely of LGBTQ people has been named "Anti-LGBTQ" by the hate group SPLC.

A DYING MAN JUST WANTS TO TRY I realize that we are ALL dying but my guest today is on a fast track none of us want to be on. Elijah is 23 years old and is fighting for his life. He was only six years old when he was diagnosed with a fatal and incurable disease – Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The disease has robbed Elijah of the ability to walk. He’s losing the use of his hands and arms. He likely only has a few years to live. There’s a potential genetic treatment for his condition that is sitting on the shelf, all because of government bureaucracy. It could save his life, and others like him. That’s why Elijah is advocating for the Right to Try for Individualized Treatments. Elijah he has become a strong advocate for Right to Try for Individualized Treatments (which we also call Right to Try 2.0). There is a treatment that could help him, but government red tape is preventing him from accessing it. So he has made it his mission to advocate for treatments like these/He also started a nonprofit, wrote a book, c

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.

Mandy talks about rainy days on Weather Wednesday, NPR taking tax payer money, she has a chat with 16th Street business owner Derek Friedman about how things are going downtown, free boob jobs for trans women but not actual women, Derrick Wilburn's accuser Bernadette Guthrie joins to explain why she's so upset, and the President of France is an abused husband.  

DERRICK WILBURN'S ACCUSER IS ON AT 2:30 If you heard yesterday's interview with Derrick Wilburn you can listen to it here to get the backstory of the woman accusing him of all sorts of nasty things over his actions when fighting against inappropriate books in school libraries. Bernadette Guthrie joins me at 2:30 with her side of things.

HOW'S BUSINESS ON 16TH STREET? I've got Derek Friedman, the owner of Sportsfan and Sock Em' Sock Emporium downtown on at 1 to talk about the reality of doing business on what is now just 16th Street. I was downtown last night and I'm going to tell you it looks SO MUCH better than it has in years. Downright CLEAN. We saw ONE tent in ONE park. It was like downtown when we moved here! And we drove around quite a bit. I'm excited for what is possible in downtown Denver right now, we'll see if Derek shares my enthusiasm at 1pm.

WE ARE PRACTICALLY A RAINFOREST THESE DAYS What with all these days of rain we've had. I've got Fox 31 Meteorologist Dave Fraser at 12:30 to talk about when it will stop and how much we've gotten.

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 Nick Ferguson.

OPEN PRIMARIES COULD SAVE COLORADO And Jon Caldara writes about it here. I agree 100%. He joins me at 2:30 to chat about it.

MY FRIEND DERRICK HAS HAD ENOUGH OF THIS BROAD'S CRAP My friend Derrick Wilburn has been active in politics for years and as a Black Republican he's dealt with more than his share on nonsense. Now he's on the school board and has been dealing with an angry, out of control left winger for months now. She says her daughter and herself were traumatized by Wilburn's reading of a passage from a sexually explicit book that is available on high school shelves in D20, where he is a school board member. Since then she's continually made accusations about Wilburn that he says are clearly slanderous and instead of taking it, he's fighting back. Read the backstory here, and I've got Derrick on today at 1. If you'd like to help defray his legal fees for this fight you can donate here.

It was a wild Ask Me Anything show where Mandy answered lots of radio questions and more. We also discussed Denver being broke, Trump's personal deals in the Middle East, and AROD's jury duty.

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: Benjamin Allbright.