Mandy Connell

COMEDIAN JP SEARS IS A FUNNY GUY And he's a funny guy who leans right and isn't afraid to make fun of everyone and everything on his YouTube channel. He's in town this week at Comedy Works and you should buy tickets here.

CANADA IS SQUANDERING ITS FUTURE By running massive deficits to create the socialist utopia of Justin Trudeau's dreams. I've got Samantha Dagres, who is currently a Communications and Youth Programming Advisor for the Montreal Economic Institute, one of Canada’s leading economic and public policy think tanks. She recently wrote a column in Canada's Financial Post about how unhappy young Canadians are because the high taxes in Canada are crushing their dreams of entrepreneurship. She joins me at 1 tp talk about it, you can read the column here.

GEN X, WE DID IT And by did IT, I mean we pushed Donald Trump over the finish line by a good margin. More than any generation Gen X voted in the wrecking ball, as we're prone to do. This is not surprising to me at all. We've always pushed back against scolding types who told us we can't do something and we voted accordingly This great column by David Strom calls this the Gen X election and I think that's fair. We've lived long enough to know politicians lie all the time and we decided to go in a different direction with a liar who is at least so obvious in his tall tales as to be somewhat transparent. Odd I know but here we are.

WE'VE GOT A NEW CHAMBER OF COMMERCE And I'm talking to Jeremiah Baronberg about the New Colorado-Israeli Chamber of Commerce and what they hope to accomplish. There is a big kickoff event you can be a part of, find it here.

WHY ARE REPUBLICANS LOOKING BACKWARDS IN COLORADO? Jimmy Sengenberger wrote a great column about how the Colorado GOP had a meeting this week to trot out a bunch of people who have been grifting for years on election conspiracies and aren't quite ready to give it up. Dave Williams uses this crap for fundraising because no one will write him a check unless he scares the crap out of them somehow. Read the column here to see how the Colorado GOP is wasting time and energy telling people not to certify the election we just had where Republicans actually made gains in the state. Idiots. What they should be doing instead is finding a really good candidate for Secretary of State so we can get someone competent in that office to insure that elections are run properly in Colorado. But that would be smart and never let anyone accuse this group of having brains. Jimmy joins me at 2pm today to talk about it.

THE HOLIDAYS CAN BE STRESSFUL And I've got a guest on today that has a strategy to help you manage that stress. Dr. Helen McKibben's book Drop: Making Great Decisions is full of strategies based in neuroscience to help you get through the holidays without being buried by the stress of it all. Find the book and more about her by clicking here.

THIS IS NOT WHAT RECESS APPOINTMENTS ARE FOR When I heard yesterday that Trump wanted the Senate to come to order and then recess so he could make recess appointments for his Cabinet, especially with Matt Gaetz, I got mad. This is NOT what recess appointment power is supposed to be used for. Obama got his hand slapped by the Supreme Court when he appointed a bunch of people to the National Labor Relations Board in this fashion and the more conservative justices all joined an opinion by the late great Antonin Scalia in which he said: As Scalia explained in a lengthy statement from the bench that followed Breyer’s summary of the Court’s decision, he and his three colleagues would have held that the president’s recess appointments power is substantially more limited than the Court ruled today. For example, they would have ruled that the president can only make recess appointments during inter-session recesses, and only then to fill vacancies that are created during that recess. And the majority did not escape Sc

THE CAUTIONARY PART OF WEIGHT LOSS DRUGS To be clear, I am NOT anti-weight loss drugs. They have been life changing for several people I know and I think you should lose weight in a way that works best for you. That being said, there are some things you should know before embarking on that path and I've got Pharmacist and integrative health expert Dr. Swathi Varanasi-Diaz joining us to break down the lesser-known dangers of these popular medications and how we can mitigate the risks. She's on at 1pm. Find out more by clicking here.

JUST HOW IS THE REAL ESTATE MARKET DOING? Ed Prather joins me for the last real estate market checkup of the year at 12:30. We'll find out how the market is doing and if now is a good time to sell. If you need Ed's help, find him by clicking here.

I AM FASCINATED BY NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES Because in my mind they are the closest thing we have to proof of the afterlife. Today, I've got Jeffrey Long on the show. Jeffrey Long is a medical doctor specializing in the practice of radiation oncology, using radiation to treat cancer. As a scientist, Jeff founded NDERF in 1998. He wanted to know if NDEs were real by directly asking the NDErs themselves. The answer is a resounding YES! As a result of his research, he is the author of the New York Times best seller, "Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences." He also wrote "God and the Afterlife: The Groundbreaking New Evidence for God and Near-Death Experience." Find out more about his organization and read the story from NDErs yourself by clicking here. He joins me at 1pm to talk about it.