Mandy Connell

OUR FUTURIST THOMAS FREY IS TALKING ABOUT THE FUTURE OF COMPANIONSHIP And he uses the example of a Buddy Bot and an old cranky guy to get us started down the path to robot companionship. He joins me at 1 to discuss. Find Thomas to speak at your function by clicking here.

IF YOU TEACH IN RURAL AREA, LISTEN UP! There is a program that gives grant money to rural teachers to help them with supplies or anything else they want to bring to their classrooms. It's all courtesy of the Nathan Yip Foundation and applications need to be in by September 13th so share this with all your kids teachers! I'm talking to Nathan Yip Foundation Executive Director Jill Shenkel Henwood at 12:30 about the program. Find out more and apply by clicking here!

A YOUNG MAN FROM CHINA IS SOUNDING THE ALARM Alvin Hailin experienced what it's like to get on the wrong side of Chinese censors when he complained about Xi Jinping on a group chat and was visited by authorities. He came to the United States to go to college and is speaking out about the Chinese government. I'm talking to him at 2:30.

ARE THE KIDS ALRIGHT? I'm chatting with Education Secretary Susana Cordova about the latest CMAS results for Colorado students. Have they caught up to pre pandemic scores? How is the Department of Education working to make up some of that lost time? How is the achievement gap? We shall find out. Read more about the latest scores here.

STOP SECOND GUESSING YOURSELF My guest at 1pm is Dr. Helen McKibben, the author of Drop: Making Great Decisions. She's got thirty years experience of helping people retrain their brains to make better decisions and live without self doubt. Find her book here. Find out more about. Dr. McKibben's work by clicking here.

DANIELLE JURINSKY WAS RIGHT When she sounded the alarm about Venezuelan gangs taking over apartment complexes in Aurora, and now Mayor Mike Coffman is admitting it. He had this to say:Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman acknowledged on Thursday that Venezuelan gangs have taken control of several apartment complexes in the northern part of the city in what he called “a nightmare situation.”He also admitted that the city "lost control" of the gang infiltration "and we're working aggressively to get it back." He went on to say that the national media giving the impression that Aurora has been taken over by gangs (which is NOT what Jurinsky said) is giving a "black eye" to the city which I think is why he didn't want to admit it in the first place. I'm sure Mr. Accountability Journalism Kyle Clark will lead Next tonight with an apology to Danielle Jurinsky for trying to make her seem crazy for sounding the alarm. That's how we Colorado, amiright? Even Mayor Mike talked tough about the gangs, but it's sort of like Opie talk

WEATHER WEDNESDAY TODAY So Fox 31's Dave Fraser is on at 12:30 to discuss when it will finally be sweater weather.

DEBORAH FLORA IS TALKING ABOUT KIDS And she is one of the featured speakers this weekend at the March for Kids, which should bring thousands to DC for a march about protecting kids. Find out more about the march here, and Deborah joins me at 2:30 to talk about it.

RYAN SCHUILING POPS IN TO TALK GOP POLITICS Because Ryan is a native Michigander I was pretty sure he'd know how the Republican National Committee dealt with a leadership situation there very similar to the idiocy happening here in Colorado so he's on at 12:30 to talk about how that was resolved and what it might mean for the GOP here.

DOES RFK JR. HELP TRUMP ENOUGH? I've got the Daily Caller's Mary Rooke on to discuss whether or not it makes much of a difference along with Kamala's extended press honeymoon. She joins me at 2:30 to chat for a moment.

NOW EVERYONE IS GENDER FLUID, AMIRIGHT? In what can only be called the Gayification of history a teacher told her class that the Mona Lisa, which is the most famous and most studied painting in the world, is actually a self portrait by the newly "gender fluid" Leonardo Da Vinci. Except what? A quick scan of Mona Lisa information on the internet shows this is a theory after all although one that has appeared fairly recently. After her kid was given this bit of history Rep. Brandi Bradley went to the school to ask the teacher about this and I've got Brandi at 12:30 to discuss it.

DAVE WILLIAMS WAS VOTED OUT OF THE GOP CHAIRMANSHIP SATURDAY And though he says the meeting is illegitimate the National Republican Campaign Committee has already recognized the legitimacy of the new chairman Eli Bremer, who was elected that same day. He joins me at 1 to talk about what comes next and how to get the formal recognition of the national party so he can get to work getting Republicans elected. Read more about Saturday's meeting here.Williams has rejected the meeting as "illegal". Meanwhile Colorado Republicans keep making headlines by doing stupid stuff like not certifying elections where they did pretty well. And let's not even talk about how badly the GOP is doing with young people. Dick Wadhams writes here about how disastrous Williams so called leadership has been in attracting (or more likely actively repelling) younger voters. Great.