Mandy Connell

JAMES DUPRE is the man who helped create the new Randy Travis song and he joins me today at 1 to discuss it. Find out more about James Dupre and his original music by clicking here. The official music video is below.

DOUGCO COUNTY COMMISSIONER ON AT 2:30 I normally don't cover state House and Senate races because there are too many of them. However, the soap opera in DougCo continues as a cabal of people supporting a ridiculously unfeasible water plan have decided to relentlessly attack Lora Thomas during her time on the DougCo commission and are now doing the same to her in her HD 43 race. I'm bringing her on just to irritate the cabal if I'm honest. She joins me at 2:30.

STOICISM MAKES LIFE EASIER And my guest at 1 is Donald J. Robertson, who extends an invitation to traverse the annals of history and immerse oneself in the crucible of Roman power and philosophy in his new book "Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor". Jerry Seinfeld talked about Marcus Aurelius' impact and the takeaways his teachings had on his life recently and we shall chat about stoicism can release you from the worries and fears many of us harbor on a daily basis. Buy the book here.

OFRI REINER IS A SURVIVOR OF THE OCTOBER 7TH ATTACKS And she is in town with a film about those horrific events. She will be appearing after a screening of the film SuperNova: The Truth About Oct 7th to tell her story and she joins me at today at 2pm to share a bit of it with us today. Find the film by clicking here, unfortunately the event is sold out. From what I can tell this film is not yet available for widespread release. This is the trailer of the film. She will be in Fort Collins June 6th, buy tickets here!

WHAT SHOULD THE FUTURE OF LAWS LOOK LIKE? Our futurist Thomas Frey thinks about a lot of stuff and now he's thought about what the future of laws should look like. He's outlined it in this column called Four Laws for Managing Laws and I think he's on to something here. He joins me at 1 to discuss. Find Thomas to speak to your organization by clicking here!

DAVID HEITZ HAS STRUGGLED WITH HOMELESSNESS And he's been living in Fusion Studios, operated by the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. After having some mental health issues that led to homelessness, David returned to his work as a journalist, publishing articles on Newsbreak.com. He has written about issues before but today we're talking about the internet issues that are making it hard for him to continue earning a livelihood, along with some pest and rodent issues as well. You should read his work, it's very good. Find a great column on the current situation here, and another unrelated story about just how much shiny police badges are going to cost the city in the next three years. I'm in the wrong business apparently. David joins me at 12:30 to discuss things.

GREG LOPEZ AT 2:30 TODAY And though I am generally a Greg fan I was not happy he backed out of the Republican Women of Weld's debates Saturday over a fit of pique about an endorsement. I will ask him about that and let him make the case for your vote in the CD-4 special election to fill Ken Buck's seat until the next Congress is seated.

DEBORAH FLORA ON TODAY As her race for the 4th Congressional District is heating up. At Saturday's Republican Women of Weld Rumble, which Lauren Boebert couldn't be bothered to attend, Deborah caught all the sharp questions from her opponents. She handled the questions well but it was clear she was viewed as the frontrunner there by her opponents. She won the straw poll at the event. She joins me at 1 to talk about why she deserves your vote. Find out more and give her money if you're so inclined by clicking here.

A HISTORY OF THE KKK IN MIDDLE AMERICA IS FASCINATING And I've got the author of A Fever In the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them Timothy Egan on today at 12:30 to talk about his most excellent telling of how one man's cult of personality helped the KKK take over Indiana politics, law enforcement, and governance in the 1920s. It's a great book, I highly recommend it and you can buy it here. It makes a great companion to this book about the KKK in Colorado. Timothy is going to be at Tattered Cover in Aspen Grove this Sunday, click here for more!