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Speaker 1 (00:01):
So where in the thunder and felicies are all the
podcasts from yesterday? The nine o'clock hours there, the Daily
cock Factor there, but no six o'clock, no seven o'clock,
no eight o'clock. I checked off the Superior podcast app,
Apple Podcast and the in Fire podcast app, the Free
to Be at Heart radio, either place somewhere. It's not
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a silch.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
So before you get a new producer, is that it?
That's it?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
There?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
OK, So before Dragon says a word, you know I
and I tell you this is the truth. I read
text me. I read all the text messages that come in.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Now.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Last night I got busy, and normally, when when camera's
watching something on television and I'm not all that interested
in it, that's one of the times that I sit
and I read text messages. However, she had this spy
thing on last night that had me engrossed, so I
didn't really look at text messages until this morning. So
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I walked into the studio and.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I sit down.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I'm opening my tabs, looking at you know, getting my
notes ready, and I go to the text message and
holy moly, Now before I tell everybody to calm down,
let me just say how much I appreciate because again,
if you look at my podcast numbers, they're amazing, particularly
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in comparison to maybe other programs on you know, other
stations or.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Even on this thing. Nearly everybody else in the building.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, exactly. Let's just say that everybody else has, like
you know, they'll be like at tens of thousands, and
I'll be at hundreds of thousands. So the order of
magnitude more Smige Moore, Yeah, just to smage more so. Plus,
because of the naturally syndicated show, I know that a
lot of people listen to the weekday Show via podcast.
(01:51):
So podcasts are very important to me for that reason.
Plus they are very important to me because even though
I have yet to understand what bonus is or I
actually have to ever see any bonus. Ostensibly I'm supposed
to get a bonus for digital numbers, but I have
yet to see a penny of a digital bonus, which
tells me that, you know, I'm just getting cheated anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's one of those moving goalposts.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It's a moving goal post, that's exactly right, Dragon. So
I understand that podcasts are important. They're important to me
because it helps build the brand and helps spread the
word and more people listen. And I know that many
people can't listen, you know, at six am if you're
on the East coast or west coast West. So I
get all of that, but holy moly, I wait. I
walk in this morning, and I've got my tab set
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and then I go to the text messages and boom.
Listen to the first one. So and maybe that's the
person that left that left the talk back. Listen to
Goober number sixty one to fifty seven. Michael, it's the
day late and dollars short commander from Michigan. We have
a commander in Michigan Dragon who says he's the day
late dollar short commander from Michigan, trying to listen to
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Monday's podcast. The six o'clock, seven o'clock at eight o'clock
hour are not on iHeart and they are not on Apple.
I Heart app sucks. We're not gonna argue with that.
And I can't find a stupid microphone. So basically, Apple's
my go is my go to now because I Heart
keeps keeps locking up. I left them an email saying
that this is happening. They haven't responded. Wait a minute,
(03:18):
Hold on you're telling us that you send an email
to iHeart and you didn't get a reply, and we're
supposed to be shocked. I'm still waiting. So I have
a computer that I use downstairs in my studio that
I use on the Saturday program that still is frozen up.
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And I've been on the little QR code here at
least three times and I haven't got a reply either.
So welcome to our world. But he continues, they haven't responded,
So bye bye. Would like to listen to the six o'clock,
seven o'clock and eight o'clock show for Monday and show
the show when I can, when I can give it
something Morning Dragon. And then the next one sixty five
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four seven, like only four hour on the podcast? What
did you say?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Blah blah blah?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
What'd you say in the oh?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I like this.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
What did you say in the first three that got
you censored? I love that, well, I get centered everything.
The next one twenty one eighty nine, same thing. I mean,
it just goes on and on and on. The sixty
one fifty, I mean it's just all the text messages
this morning about the podcast.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I now love the fact that they're blaming the app.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
So that's that's yes, they're blaming the app.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
That is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Now, had I seen these last night, I would have
gone onto the podcast platform and I would have noticed
last night that the former producer extraordinaire who just happens
to be a new grandfather, got the first hour published.
But when when the you.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Know, like the first last hour published, because we have
to put in backwards in order for them to make
sense when you listen to them.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So kind of like Fred Flintstone when the ten o'clock
you know dong hit you know, ding dong ten o'clock,
yaba dab ado, he went busting out of here. I mean,
if he had still weighed three hundred pounds, my guess
is the elevator doors would have been smashed in the
glass doors, that the exit would have been smashed outward,
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and he would have been in the car and at
the hospital in record time because they were having a grandchild,
and said producer just failed to hit publish on the
other three hours they were uploaded, and they were uploaded,
ready to go, and he just boogied out of here
and forgot to do it. Three so many people so
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on behalf of the new grandfather sitting back there behind
the glass. I apologize to all of you, but he's
told me. I haven't checked, but he's told me they
have since been published, which truly is to his point,
just a mouse click.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
So how's the new grandchild?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Fantastic? Or in just after six o'clock PM and fifty
or five point fifteen five pounds, fifteen ounces and nineteen
and a quarter inches long.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
And do you want to give the name Nicholas Chase?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Huh, Nicholas Chase.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I think that's a pretty cool name. But the same
here's the fighting part. There's another red beard in the world.
That's the scary part. And do you want to go
on and say, mister look at me, publish you know,
or post you know every day on x and on Instagram?
You know, the calories consumed and calories burns, how I'm
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doing and all of that. Do you want to go
through the litany that you I mean, we barely got
the Michael Brown minute done this morning, because he's standing
here next to me reading off every fast food place
that could possibly exist that he consumed yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
When I left here so rapidly, I got a text
message to the daughter in law wanted Burger King and
she was still allowed food at that point in time,
so of course, as a great father in law that
I am, I had to get her burger King. Well,
let's see, everybody else wanted burger King too, so if
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everybody else is had burger Burger King.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Also talk about peer pressure. I mean, you're you know,
you're this year's old when you find out that peer
pressure really does work.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Now, Yeah, it used to be slightly funny when I
would order. I went into a Burger King because it's
a lot faster to order a big order rather than
go through the drive through. So I would go into
the Burger King and I'd say, hey, I need three whoppers.
I need you know, this sandwich and this sandwich and
this sandwich. So I've got of course, right, and then
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she looks up at me and goes sis for here
to go. And I know, when I was a big guy,
I could understand that, Yeah, my fat ass show six
burgers and been fine. But you know when it's just
skinny me now and I'm like, no, this is to go.
(08:09):
Thanks though, I appreciate that, but that was just the
first stop of many Yeah, right, because then you know
about two o'clock or so, give her take. Everybody's like, hey,
let's see what the cafeteria has downstairs. You know, hospital food,
And we've talked to here on this show before about
how delicious hospital food is and how cheap it is too,
And so we go downstairs and like, oh, pizza. So
we all had some hospital food pizza. Then just before
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the delivery, daughter in law says to her father, I
could really go for some Chick fil A. Boom. Everybody
you know has some some Chick fil A.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
So so I'm not so interested in the in the
total amount of calories all of that for everybody might
add up to. I'm more interested in the dollar amount.
How much do you think you spent yesterday? Everybody spent.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I have no idea how much for the pizza. I
know for the Burger King it was over fifty dollars.
And I have no idea how much her dad spent
on Chick fil.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
A, which you know is more expensive than Burge, so
you know that it was more than fifty dollars. So yes,
speaking of the text message, I'm still scrolling through it here.
You'll love this one. It is forty five sixty two
Mike and whatever techno in all capitals the word boob,
whatever techno boob is in charge of your podcast. Did
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you forget something like posting the first and then all
kept three hours on Monday? Yep, you seem to manage
to post the nine am segment in some talkbacks, but
that's it. Did your lack of heat and all those
studio germs finally take its toll in your one damage
brain or what probably yet barely one single brain between
the two of you, and now it's really starting to fail,
not like anyone cares about crappy copyrighted intro music to
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a podcast or anything. Maybe you should get a hungry
lawyer who's not had his brain worked by Washington look
into that yet, not that he would expe it's a
former FEMA guy to do a good job and maybe
break or for commercials on time either, So go ahead
and sit on your hands. Maybe you can get all
your goobers to go listen to Glenn Beck instead. Smh, man,
oh man, you talk about getting me fired up today.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Matt when you have one little life event and you
forget to clack a mouse button three times? Yeesh.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
But let me go back to something that that had
me fed up, but I exercised what I would consider
to be discretion. So I'm assuming now this is an
assumption on my part, and I may be wrong. But
on on January twenty five, three days ago, this is
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from some Yahoo by the name of Nick Whirl. I
don't mind getting his name out, because he emailed me
subject line when did mar Apollo? There is no link.
I bet you are lying. I think this was a discussion.
I've told you the story before about how Bill Maher
had really just viscerated me on a show one time,
(11:14):
and then after I testified before Congress about all of
these problems I had with the mayor and the governor
and quite frankly with the you know, the Secretary of
Homeland Security and others. During Hurricane Hurricane Katrina, both Bill
Maher and Keith Olberman and several others wanted to have
me on their programs. Oh, Stephen Colbert was another one.
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Stephen Colbert also apologize to me. And I've casually mentioned
that before, and I think it's actually in my book too.
So the guy this, Nick Whirl, says, I bet you
are lying. So I see it and I just ignore
it because I'm not going to I'm not going to
respond to everybody that wants to, you know, criticize or
accuse me of lying, because well I just don't. I frankly,
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my dear, don't give a damn. So I wake up
this more again on the same morning I'm getting all
these text messages and he has written back again. At
twelve fifty seven am, Nick World writes, uh head a
subject line, Maher never apologized to any one person. He
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has only one apology on record for a different subject.
You are a liar. So now I've decided, well, now's
the time because I like to when people want to
accuse me of being a liar and or they failed
to do any search on their own, I decide it's time.
You know, fafo right.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I'm sorry, I'm running on less than four hours of
sleep here. But is this goober saying that your your
recollection of an apology from mar is not good enough?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
No, that I'm lying about it? That Bill mahrr never apologizer?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Huh what does he care? Well?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Because he's obviously a Hey listener, it's obviously someone who
hates me.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
But he's wanting you to get an apology from Mar.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
No, I did get an apology from I got it.
Oh yeah, I see what you're saying. Well, So why
would he want Bill Maher to apologize to me? I
think he's more consumed with thinking that I'm lying to
the audience about it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Why wouldn't he take your word for the You're the
one who would have been apologized to because this hurts
my head.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Well, because he's probably a liberal ahole, is my take. No,
so I decided this morning, Okay, you know what fafo,
so I wrote back. I assumed and therefore did not respond.
I assumed that you were too incompetent to actually do
a search to find out for yourself quote from the
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New York Times quote. The release of the video tape
propelled a new wave of media coverage from mister Brown,
this time much more flattering. Bill Maher, the host of
Real Time on HBO, apologize for ridiculing him during the disaster, bingo, FAFO, sincerely,
years MB sent back to him. Now, since he sent
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that at twelve fifty seven am, I'm sure he's still
got his fat ass in bed asleep and not listening
or doesn't hasn't read it yet. But I can't wait
to see like, oh, well, never mind, don't call me
a liar unless you want to do your research and
you can prove that I lied, which I really don't
tend to do unless I'm talking about how great dragon
(14:32):
is or does this dress make my back butt look fat?
Or you know, does this dinner taste good to you?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Or whatever?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
No, maybe you know, I'm not gonna say I never lied,
So you know, maybe I have, but for something that's
so easily provable, Holy cow. You know there's something called
Google dot dot go being you can find out for yourself.
Holy cow. So speaking of restaurants, and this kind of
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fits in too with.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
This morning.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
This morning, I heard that they were having some sort
of discussion again on Fox and Friends. Dear God, I've
got to change and start listening to the Fox News headlines.
Trump was in Durrell at the golf club I assume
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that's where it was held, talking about his agenda, and
he talked about how if the Trump tax cuts expire,
there will be like a six trillion dollar or sixty
billion dollar whatever it is. Whatever it is, it's a
boatload of money that will now come out of your
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pockets because your taxes will increase.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Fox then went on to talk about how, oh, well,
then we're going to have to figure out a way
to offset those increases. And I'm thinking, wait a minute,
the tax cuts already exist, So what's any discussion about
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we have to figure out how to pay for these
tax cuts. The tax cuts are already embedded into the
budget if there actually was a budget. In other words,
whatever revenues are now flowing into the treasury, and we
have record revenues flowing into the treasury, are already based
on the existing tax code, the existing tax rates. So
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if they expire, there's going to be well, you would
think there might be an increase in revenue to the Feds,
which would just mean they could just spend that much more,
which is what they always do. When the Feds get
a dollar increase in revenue, they inevitably increase spending by
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at least a dollar and a half, if not double that.
So this whole discussion about the tax cuts expiring and
we've got to keep them in place is now leading
to this insane discussion about how are we going to
pay for these tax cuts. Well, wait a minute, the
tax rates are already the existing tax rates based on
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those tax cuts from twenty seventeen, So why are you
even thinking about that? People are so stupid. But then
it led me to last night's Michael Brown minute, and
the minute is an example of just how these elected
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a holes do not care about you. They don't care
about your business, they don't care about your state of living,
they don't care about how much money you have or
don't have. All they care about is, you know, Elizabeth
Warren writing in well, crap, now, I forget where it was.
(18:14):
Oh is Fox Digital? Elizabeth Warren has a piece up
about how she agrees with Elon Musk and you know,
we could save sixty and I think it was sixty
billion dollars by you know, letting these tax cuts expire. No,
wait a minute, you can save sixty billion dollars by
letting tax cuts expire and then extract an additional sixty
(18:37):
billion dollars out of the pockets of hardworking Americans. And
somehow that's a good thing. Wait to hear the latest
news about restaurants in Colorado proof that they don't care.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Dragon.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Don't We always scold Brownie for this double click.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
But for me it would have been an extra click.
So triple click, and it's just far too complicated for me.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, but the very fact that yeah, so let's get
so let me swerve into you know, they're out there
about you know, they it's all about redistribution of wealth,
any quality of income. It's about you know, oh my gosh,
we got to figure out how to pay for these
tax cuts and tax cuts that already exist. I mean,
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here's the best way to look at it. So they
passed tax cuts, you know, back in twenty seventeen or eighteen, whatever,
whichever year they passed them. So that's now embedded into
the tax code. That is the rate that we now pay.
And they're paniced because they what they don't want is
they don't want these cuts to be extended. In other words,
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they don't want to keep the tax rates the way
they are, and they certainly don't want to low them
even further. What they really want to do is for
the cuts to expire so they can get more revenue
in take more money out of your pocket, so that
they can spend more money. When they take a dollar
out of your pocket, an income tax, sales tax, property tax.
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I got my property tax bill last night. That had
a heart attack. When you get a dollar out of
your pocket. That's a dollar that does not get spent
in the private sector, which turns over and over and
over and over. And that dollar is what grows the economy.
You think, you may think that the dollar you spend
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is not that significant, but think about you know, every
morning I stop at you know, some convenience store or
the or at McDonald's, and I spend a you know,
a dollar forty five cents or whatever it is to
get a large night coke. That helps that restaurant stay
open or that convenience source open. That helps pay the utilities,
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that helps pay the salaries, that helps pay for the product,
it helps pay for everything. It keeps that store going.
And multiply that by the number of people that stop
at that restaurant or to stop at that at that
convenience store, and that dollar is what keeps it open. Now,
if everybody, look, if I got taxed enough that I
could not afford to stop and spend that dollar to
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get the diet coke, Well, if that happens to everybody,
pretty soon that convenience store starts to lose money. There
are some astonishing numbers in Colorado about the restaurant industry.
The Colorado restaurant industry has a Colorado Restaurant Association has
come out with numbers about how embattled restaurants are in
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this state. The Denver Post has covered this, The Denver
Gazette has covered it, and Axials Denver has covered it.
Here's the Axios Denver story new Denver restaurant openings like
and it names a couple of restaurants are increasingly the exception,
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not the norm. This business, this industry in Colorado has
been battered over the past five years, and we're starting
to pay for it. Rising costs for food, rising costs
for rent, increased property taxes are all combining to shrink
profit margins. In addition to that, it's not just those costs,
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but then you've got regulatory pressures, and then you have
people that are budget conscious. Even though Tamer and I
are very very fortunate in that we can afford to
go out to eat, even we have started to cut back.
You know, I just refuse most of the time. So
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I'm not pretty very print what about this, But you know,
there are a couple of places that we go that
we no longer order, like all the longer have a
diet coke, and Tamor, who's even worse about diet coke
than I am, won't have diet coke. I'm not gonna
walk into a restaurant. I don't care how many times
they refill it. I'm not gonna pay four dollars for
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a diet coke. It's just not gonna happen. So instead
we'll just have water. Or if it's a Mexican restaurant,
maybe I'll just have a four dollars diet coke, I'll
have a twelve dollars margarita.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Makes perfect sense?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Does it makes sense? It makes perfect sense. But by golly,
I'm making my protest known. Because I'm not gonna spend
four dollars on a diet coke, we become price sensitive
to some of this stupid stuff. I mean, I would
say that eating out for us is probably I don't know,
it has increased by at least thirty or forty percent,
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maybe fifty percent. Here are the numbers. More than now
on't you think I'm going to give you this number?
But I want you to think about the owners who
may have sunk their life savings into this. I want
you to think about the servers, the dishwashers, the bus boys,
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the vendors that brought the food. I want you to
think about all the peripheral around a restaurant. Last year
twenty twenty four, more than two hundred restaurants closed in
the state of Colorado. That's according to the Colorado Sun.
Of the more than two hundred that closed, Denver alone
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accounted for eighty two percent of those lost restaurants. That's
according to the Colorado Restaurant Association, eighty two percent of
the more than two hundred that closed were right in Denver.
Denver just keeps taking and taking and taking. They cut
fire department budgets, they cut police department budgets so they can,
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you know, have well. They vetoed the needle exchange so
they can pay for illegal aliens, so they can pay
for homeless, so they can pay for bike lanes, so
they can pay for everything other than the essential services
such as fire departments and police departments. The Denver Post
reports that in the past three years, Denver alone has
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lost almost a quarter, almost twenty five percent of all
the restaurants in Denver, and some of them are big restaurants,
so that means all of those people have lost their jobs.
They had to go find other jobs. The people that
sold you know, Cisco or whoever it might be, or
maybe it's you know, a farm to table restaurant. You know,
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they've got a local supplier that they've lost that customer
and the city's lost that revenue. A spokesperson for the
Colorado Restaurant Association, Denise Michelson, says that we're in this
kind of perfect storm moment. It's death by a thousand cuts,
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and they point out that one of the major pain
points is Denvers. Now, think about how democrats think, Think
about how the Marxist among us think. Denvers increased tipped
minimum wage, which is creating ripple effects industry wide. Local
restaurant consultant John Ambergamo, However, you Sam, not delivery bastardizing
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your name, says that the increase in the minimum wage
disproportionately affects back of house staff, enforces price hikes that
turn diners off. Oh but we helped everybody by increasing
the minimum wage.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
No, you didn't.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
You cost people their jobs. Listen to this. This is
according to a Colorado Restaurant Association survey survey of one
hundred and thirty five operators that they first shared this
report with Axios Denver. The most recent wage hike on
January first, added an average of X number of dollars
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in costs per restaurant. According to a survey of one
hundred and thirty five restaurants in Denver, what do you get?
Average costs to do business was eighty two thousand, four
hundred and twelve dollars. Eighty eighty two thousand dollars. And
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the a holes that run the City Council of Denver
or the a holes that are the state reps and
senators at the Pollit Bureau talk about, oh, you know, well,
we increase the minimum wage because we got to help
We got to help people. You just cost people their jobs.
Do you just cost people their businesses? You cost people
their dreams of owning their own business. Michelson says again
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in Colorado Restaurant Association, that's a huge cost jump. Really, no,
fecis Sherlock, You think so for businesses already striving to
hit slim three to five percent annual profit margins. You
want to try to convince me that Jared Polis or
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the Democrats in the polit Burro, or for that matter,
some of the Republicans and the polit Bureau or the
Denver City Council or your local city council that they
really care. They don't care. They do not care. They
would rather drive you out of business because their constituents
are the homeless, Their constituents are the illegal aliens that
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shouldn't be here in the first place. Their constituents are whatever,
you know, big big ass you know, left wing nonprofit organization,
that's their constituent. You the taxpayer, You're just their funding source.
They don't give a rats ass about you. Then, the
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Colorado Restaurant Association says that they're bracing for what it
predicts to be a brutal, brutal legislative session with proposed
bills that could do the following make it easier for
unions to organize by removing a requirement that calls for
a second vote to agree on certain union rules. So
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of course, you unionize and you do what, you drive
up the costs. Now you may be pro union, I'm
kind of ambivalent about unions now, so what get learn
to deal with it. But when you're operating on a
three to five percent margin and your you know, your
weight staff decides to unionize, and now they're working, they're
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working for the you know, the the food workers Organization.
Your costs are going to go up, and you're either
going to have to pass those costs on, which means
that fewer people may come to your restaurant, or you're
going to just absorb those costs and not make any
(30:09):
money and eventually go bankrupt or go out of business.
And of course I love this one. There is a
bill to tack service or junk fees that obviously dinners
diners dislike, but many restaurants are going to use to
pay back of house staff. You know, Tamberge just came
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back from the Bahamas, it may be true here too.
So you know, you go to a restaurant and there
is a service fee attached. If you sometimes will ask
what that's for, Well, that's for the back of the house.
That's for the dishwashers and the cooks and everybody else.
But then there's still a tip line. Well I'll wait
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a minute. So now if I'm going to am I
going to leave a twenty percent tip, a twenty five
percent tip when you're already taking out seven point eight
percent or ten percent whatever it is to pay the
back of the house. Now do I now have to
take that and calculate how much that is deduct that
from what I would normally give because I don't want
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to overtip the waiter. I don't I don't want to
double dip with them. So think about that. In the
last one, crack down on wage theft laws allowing employees
to soothe even even after they've been given their back pay.
So yeah, Colorado, you suck muzzle though, mayor God son
(31:38):
to be happy, healthy and bring you lessing for joy.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
May God bless soup, and then God.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Bless it you've carried Juda.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
So back to the whole thing about taxes and the
money that you spend. And when money's taken out of
your for taxes, that's money that you can't spend that's
going to circulate through the economy. Gouber number sixty seven
ninety one rights. And I've got to totally disagree with you, Mike.
(32:12):
I agree with you at almost all tax levels. I
do not believe that at the very top taxes make
it through to the economy. Elon musks, extra zeros are
not being spent at circle K. Well, let's stop right there.
Yes they are. Maybe he doesn't go to Circle K.
(32:35):
But let's just take elon Musk's jets. I think he's
got to go Stream seven hundred series or something. So
he has to have that jet fueled. So when he
lands somewhere, there's a fuel truck that will come out
and fuel it up. That's run by a guy driving
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the truck that fuels that plane. Now that guy may
not be making minimum wage, but that guy depended upon
the private jets that land at stay right out here
at Centennial, So they land out there and that guy
fuels those planes up and he makes a salary. The
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airport pays him a salary. Well, if there's no planes
to fuel, he's not gonna make as much money. So
he's and that guy has to buy groceries, and on
his way into work, he may stop at the seven
eleven and get a cup of coffee. He may go
to the perfect landing for lunch and have lunch. If
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there are no jets to be fueled up, then that
money's not going to get circulated into the economy. Those
jets have to be have to go through an annual
So now the mechanics they have to hire mechanics, and
the mechanics go through and from you know, from top
to bottom, go through that plane and fix everything and
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check everything, and they get paid for doing that. The
mechanics get paid. Maybe has the interior redesigned, so worker bees,
you know, they're they're companies that will do interiors of planes.
And those companies hire carpet people. They'll hire people to
put in the paneling, they'll hire people to do the upholstery.
(34:26):
They'll hire people to do all of that. Those people
get paid a salary, they get paid a wage, and
those wages get spent because they'll take the family out
to Chick fil A. They'll take you know, maybe they
stop in before they go to work and they'll stop
at at the seven eleven and they'll get a cup
of coffee and they'll you know, they buy groceries, they
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pay utilities. So yes, the money, all of the money
that Elon Musk spends eventually makes its way into the
everyday economy. Every does I find it astonishing that you
I'm trying to be critical here, but that you don't
(35:08):
get that a billionaire buys groceries, a billionaire buys electricity,
a billionaire buys a car as its service. I probably
pay someone a salary to go put the gas in
it for him. They buy furniture, and come on, what
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does that have to do with the fact that I'm
spending a Bucks seventy nine or whatever, a circle K
So where in the thunder and felicies are all the
podcasts from yesterday? The nine o'clock hours there, the Daily
cock Factor there, but no six o'clock, no seven o'clock,
no eight o'clock. I checked off the Superior podcast app,
Apple Podcast and the in Fire podcast app, the Free
to Be at Heart radio, either place somewhere. It's not
(00:23):
a silch.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
So before you get a new producer, is that it?
That's it?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
There?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
OK, So before Dragon says a word, you know I
and I tell you this is the truth. I read
text me. I read all the text messages that come in.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Now.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Last night I got busy, and normally, when when camera's
watching something on television and I'm not all that interested
in it, that's one of the times that I sit
and I read text messages. However, she had this spy
thing on last night that had me engrossed, so I
didn't really look at text messages until this morning. So
(00:59):
I walked into the studio and.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I sit down.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I'm opening my tabs, looking at you know, getting my
notes ready, and I go to the text message and
holy moly, Now before I tell everybody to calm down,
let me just say how much I appreciate because again,
if you look at my podcast numbers, they're amazing, particularly
(01:22):
in comparison to maybe other programs on you know, other
stations or.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Even on this thing. Nearly everybody else in the building.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, exactly. Let's just say that everybody else has, like
you know, they'll be like at tens of thousands, and
I'll be at hundreds of thousands. So the order of
magnitude more Smige Moore, Yeah, just to smage more so. Plus,
because of the naturally syndicated show, I know that a
lot of people listen to the weekday Show via podcast.
(01:51):
So podcasts are very important to me for that reason.
Plus they are very important to me because even though
I have yet to understand what bonus is or I
actually have to ever see any bonus. Ostensibly I'm supposed
to get a bonus for digital numbers, but I have
yet to see a penny of a digital bonus, which
tells me that, you know, I'm just getting cheated anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's one of those moving goalposts.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It's a moving goal post, that's exactly right, Dragon. So
I understand that podcasts are important. They're important to me
because it helps build the brand and helps spread the
word and more people listen. And I know that many
people can't listen, you know, at six am if you're
on the East coast or west coast West. So I
get all of that, but holy moly, I wait. I
walk in this morning, and I've got my tab set
(02:33):
and then I go to the text messages and boom.
Listen to the first one. So and maybe that's the
person that left that left the talk back. Listen to
Goober number sixty one to fifty seven. Michael, it's the
day late and dollars short commander from Michigan. We have
a commander in Michigan Dragon who says he's the day
late dollar short commander from Michigan, trying to listen to
(02:55):
Monday's podcast. The six o'clock, seven o'clock at eight o'clock
hour are not on iHeart and they are not on Apple.
I Heart app sucks. We're not gonna argue with that.
And I can't find a stupid microphone. So basically, Apple's
my go is my go to now because I Heart
keeps keeps locking up. I left them an email saying
that this is happening. They haven't responded. Wait a minute,
(03:18):
Hold on you're telling us that you send an email
to iHeart and you didn't get a reply, and we're
supposed to be shocked. I'm still waiting. So I have
a computer that I use downstairs in my studio that
I use on the Saturday program that still is frozen up.
(03:41):
And I've been on the little QR code here at
least three times and I haven't got a reply either.
So welcome to our world. But he continues, they haven't responded,
So bye bye. Would like to listen to the six o'clock,
seven o'clock and eight o'clock show for Monday and show
the show when I can, when I can give it
something Morning Dragon. And then the next one sixty five
(04:02):
four seven, like only four hour on the podcast? What
did you say?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Blah blah blah?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
What'd you say in the oh?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I like this.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
What did you say in the first three that got
you censored? I love that, well, I get centered everything.
The next one twenty one eighty nine, same thing. I mean,
it just goes on and on and on. The sixty
one fifty, I mean it's just all the text messages
this morning about the podcast.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I now love the fact that they're blaming the app.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
So that's that's yes, they're blaming the app.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
That is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Now, had I seen these last night, I would have
gone onto the podcast platform and I would have noticed
last night that the former producer extraordinaire who just happens
to be a new grandfather, got the first hour published.
But when when the you.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Know, like the first last hour published, because we have
to put in backwards in order for them to make
sense when you listen to them.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So kind of like Fred Flintstone when the ten o'clock
you know dong hit you know, ding dong ten o'clock,
yaba dab ado, he went busting out of here. I mean,
if he had still weighed three hundred pounds, my guess
is the elevator doors would have been smashed in the
glass doors, that the exit would have been smashed outward,
(05:17):
and he would have been in the car and at
the hospital in record time because they were having a grandchild,
and said producer just failed to hit publish on the
other three hours they were uploaded, and they were uploaded,
ready to go, and he just boogied out of here
and forgot to do it. Three so many people so
(05:41):
on behalf of the new grandfather sitting back there behind
the glass. I apologize to all of you, but he's
told me. I haven't checked, but he's told me they
have since been published, which truly is to his point,
just a mouse click.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
So how's the new grandchild?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Fantastic? Or in just after six o'clock PM and fifty
or five point fifteen five pounds, fifteen ounces and nineteen
and a quarter inches long.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
And do you want to give the name Nicholas Chase?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Huh, Nicholas Chase.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I think that's a pretty cool name. But the same
here's the fighting part. There's another red beard in the world.
That's the scary part. And do you want to go
on and say, mister look at me, publish you know,
or post you know every day on x and on Instagram?
You know, the calories consumed and calories burns, how I'm
(06:38):
doing and all of that. Do you want to go
through the litany that you I mean, we barely got
the Michael Brown minute done this morning, because he's standing
here next to me reading off every fast food place
that could possibly exist that he consumed yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
When I left here so rapidly, I got a text
message to the daughter in law wanted Burger King and
she was still allowed food at that point in time,
so of course, as a great father in law that
I am, I had to get her burger King. Well,
let's see, everybody else wanted burger King too, so if
(07:12):
everybody else is had burger Burger King.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Also talk about peer pressure. I mean, you're you know,
you're this year's old when you find out that peer
pressure really does work.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Now, Yeah, it used to be slightly funny when I
would order. I went into a Burger King because it's
a lot faster to order a big order rather than
go through the drive through. So I would go into
the Burger King and I'd say, hey, I need three whoppers.
I need you know, this sandwich and this sandwich and
this sandwich. So I've got of course, right, and then
(07:48):
she looks up at me and goes sis for here
to go. And I know, when I was a big guy,
I could understand that, Yeah, my fat ass show six
burgers and been fine. But you know when it's just
skinny me now and I'm like, no, this is to go.
(08:09):
Thanks though, I appreciate that, but that was just the
first stop of many Yeah, right, because then you know
about two o'clock or so, give her take. Everybody's like, hey,
let's see what the cafeteria has downstairs. You know, hospital food,
And we've talked to here on this show before about
how delicious hospital food is and how cheap it is too,
And so we go downstairs and like, oh, pizza. So
we all had some hospital food pizza. Then just before
(08:33):
the delivery, daughter in law says to her father, I
could really go for some Chick fil A. Boom. Everybody
you know has some some Chick fil A.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
So so I'm not so interested in the in the
total amount of calories all of that for everybody might
add up to. I'm more interested in the dollar amount.
How much do you think you spent yesterday? Everybody spent.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I have no idea how much for the pizza. I
know for the Burger King it was over fifty dollars.
And I have no idea how much her dad spent
on Chick fil.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
A, which you know is more expensive than Burge, so
you know that it was more than fifty dollars. So yes,
speaking of the text message, I'm still scrolling through it here.
You'll love this one. It is forty five sixty two
Mike and whatever techno in all capitals the word boob,
whatever techno boob is in charge of your podcast. Did
(09:32):
you forget something like posting the first and then all
kept three hours on Monday? Yep, you seem to manage
to post the nine am segment in some talkbacks, but
that's it. Did your lack of heat and all those
studio germs finally take its toll in your one damage
brain or what probably yet barely one single brain between
the two of you, and now it's really starting to fail,
not like anyone cares about crappy copyrighted intro music to
(09:53):
a podcast or anything. Maybe you should get a hungry
lawyer who's not had his brain worked by Washington look
into that yet, not that he would expe it's a
former FEMA guy to do a good job and maybe
break or for commercials on time either, So go ahead
and sit on your hands. Maybe you can get all
your goobers to go listen to Glenn Beck instead. Smh, man,
oh man, you talk about getting me fired up today.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Matt when you have one little life event and you
forget to clack a mouse button three times? Yeesh.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
But let me go back to something that that had
me fed up, but I exercised what I would consider
to be discretion. So I'm assuming now this is an
assumption on my part, and I may be wrong. But
on on January twenty five, three days ago, this is
(10:50):
from some Yahoo by the name of Nick Whirl. I
don't mind getting his name out, because he emailed me
subject line when did mar Apollo? There is no link.
I bet you are lying. I think this was a discussion.
I've told you the story before about how Bill Maher
had really just viscerated me on a show one time,
(11:14):
and then after I testified before Congress about all of
these problems I had with the mayor and the governor
and quite frankly with the you know, the Secretary of
Homeland Security and others. During Hurricane Hurricane Katrina, both Bill
Maher and Keith Olberman and several others wanted to have
me on their programs. Oh, Stephen Colbert was another one.
(11:35):
Stephen Colbert also apologize to me. And I've casually mentioned
that before, and I think it's actually in my book too.
So the guy this, Nick Whirl, says, I bet you
are lying. So I see it and I just ignore
it because I'm not going to I'm not going to
respond to everybody that wants to, you know, criticize or
accuse me of lying, because well I just don't. I frankly,
(11:57):
my dear, don't give a damn. So I wake up
this more again on the same morning I'm getting all
these text messages and he has written back again. At
twelve fifty seven am, Nick World writes, uh head a
subject line, Maher never apologized to any one person. He
(12:17):
has only one apology on record for a different subject.
You are a liar. So now I've decided, well, now's
the time because I like to when people want to
accuse me of being a liar and or they failed
to do any search on their own, I decide it's time.
You know, fafo right.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I'm sorry, I'm running on less than four hours of
sleep here. But is this goober saying that your your
recollection of an apology from mar is not good enough?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
No, that I'm lying about it? That Bill mahrr never apologizer?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Huh what does he care? Well?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Because he's obviously a Hey listener, it's obviously someone who
hates me.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
But he's wanting you to get an apology from Mar.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
No, I did get an apology from I got it.
Oh yeah, I see what you're saying. Well, So why
would he want Bill Maher to apologize to me? I
think he's more consumed with thinking that I'm lying to
the audience about it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Why wouldn't he take your word for the You're the
one who would have been apologized to because this hurts
my head.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Well, because he's probably a liberal ahole, is my take. No,
so I decided this morning, Okay, you know what fafo,
so I wrote back. I assumed and therefore did not respond.
I assumed that you were too incompetent to actually do
a search to find out for yourself quote from the
(13:49):
New York Times quote. The release of the video tape
propelled a new wave of media coverage from mister Brown,
this time much more flattering. Bill Maher, the host of
Real Time on HBO, apologize for ridiculing him during the disaster, bingo, FAFO, sincerely,
years MB sent back to him. Now, since he sent
(14:12):
that at twelve fifty seven am, I'm sure he's still
got his fat ass in bed asleep and not listening
or doesn't hasn't read it yet. But I can't wait
to see like, oh, well, never mind, don't call me
a liar unless you want to do your research and
you can prove that I lied, which I really don't
tend to do unless I'm talking about how great dragon
(14:32):
is or does this dress make my back butt look fat?
Or you know, does this dinner taste good to you?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Or whatever?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
No, maybe you know, I'm not gonna say I never lied,
So you know, maybe I have, but for something that's
so easily provable, Holy cow. You know there's something called
Google dot dot go being you can find out for yourself.
Holy cow. So speaking of restaurants, and this kind of
(15:00):
fits in too with.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
This morning.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
This morning, I heard that they were having some sort
of discussion again on Fox and Friends. Dear God, I've
got to change and start listening to the Fox News headlines.
Trump was in Durrell at the golf club I assume
(15:29):
that's where it was held, talking about his agenda, and
he talked about how if the Trump tax cuts expire,
there will be like a six trillion dollar or sixty
billion dollar whatever it is. Whatever it is, it's a
boatload of money that will now come out of your
(15:54):
pockets because your taxes will increase.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Fox then went on to talk about how, oh, well,
then we're going to have to figure out a way
to offset those increases. And I'm thinking, wait a minute,
the tax cuts already exist, So what's any discussion about
(16:22):
we have to figure out how to pay for these
tax cuts. The tax cuts are already embedded into the
budget if there actually was a budget. In other words,
whatever revenues are now flowing into the treasury, and we
have record revenues flowing into the treasury, are already based
on the existing tax code, the existing tax rates. So
(16:47):
if they expire, there's going to be well, you would
think there might be an increase in revenue to the Feds,
which would just mean they could just spend that much more,
which is what they always do. When the Feds get
a dollar increase in revenue, they inevitably increase spending by
(17:09):
at least a dollar and a half, if not double that.
So this whole discussion about the tax cuts expiring and
we've got to keep them in place is now leading
to this insane discussion about how are we going to
pay for these tax cuts. Well, wait a minute, the
tax rates are already the existing tax rates based on
(17:31):
those tax cuts from twenty seventeen, So why are you
even thinking about that? People are so stupid. But then
it led me to last night's Michael Brown minute, and
the minute is an example of just how these elected
(17:51):
a holes do not care about you. They don't care
about your business, they don't care about your state of living,
they don't care about how much money you have or
don't have. All they care about is, you know, Elizabeth
Warren writing in well, crap, now, I forget where it was.
(18:14):
Oh is Fox Digital? Elizabeth Warren has a piece up
about how she agrees with Elon Musk and you know,
we could save sixty and I think it was sixty
billion dollars by you know, letting these tax cuts expire. No,
wait a minute, you can save sixty billion dollars by
letting tax cuts expire and then extract an additional sixty
(18:37):
billion dollars out of the pockets of hardworking Americans. And
somehow that's a good thing. Wait to hear the latest
news about restaurants in Colorado proof that they don't care.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Dragon.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Don't We always scold Brownie for this double click.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
But for me it would have been an extra click.
So triple click, and it's just far too complicated for me.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, but the very fact that yeah, so let's get
so let me swerve into you know, they're out there
about you know, they it's all about redistribution of wealth,
any quality of income. It's about you know, oh my gosh,
we got to figure out how to pay for these
tax cuts and tax cuts that already exist. I mean,
(19:31):
here's the best way to look at it. So they
passed tax cuts, you know, back in twenty seventeen or eighteen, whatever,
whichever year they passed them. So that's now embedded into
the tax code. That is the rate that we now pay.
And they're paniced because they what they don't want is
they don't want these cuts to be extended. In other words,
(19:55):
they don't want to keep the tax rates the way
they are, and they certainly don't want to low them
even further. What they really want to do is for
the cuts to expire so they can get more revenue
in take more money out of your pocket, so that
they can spend more money. When they take a dollar
out of your pocket, an income tax, sales tax, property tax.
(20:16):
I got my property tax bill last night. That had
a heart attack. When you get a dollar out of
your pocket. That's a dollar that does not get spent
in the private sector, which turns over and over and
over and over. And that dollar is what grows the economy.
You think, you may think that the dollar you spend
(20:39):
is not that significant, but think about you know, every
morning I stop at you know, some convenience store or
the or at McDonald's, and I spend a you know,
a dollar forty five cents or whatever it is to
get a large night coke. That helps that restaurant stay
open or that convenience source open. That helps pay the utilities,
(21:02):
that helps pay the salaries, that helps pay for the product,
it helps pay for everything. It keeps that store going.
And multiply that by the number of people that stop
at that restaurant or to stop at that at that
convenience store, and that dollar is what keeps it open. Now,
if everybody, look, if I got taxed enough that I
could not afford to stop and spend that dollar to
(21:24):
get the diet coke, Well, if that happens to everybody,
pretty soon that convenience store starts to lose money. There
are some astonishing numbers in Colorado about the restaurant industry.
The Colorado restaurant industry has a Colorado Restaurant Association has
come out with numbers about how embattled restaurants are in
(21:50):
this state. The Denver Post has covered this, The Denver
Gazette has covered it, and Axials Denver has covered it.
Here's the Axios Denver story new Denver restaurant openings like
and it names a couple of restaurants are increasingly the exception,
(22:10):
not the norm. This business, this industry in Colorado has
been battered over the past five years, and we're starting
to pay for it. Rising costs for food, rising costs
for rent, increased property taxes are all combining to shrink
profit margins. In addition to that, it's not just those costs,
(22:34):
but then you've got regulatory pressures, and then you have
people that are budget conscious. Even though Tamer and I
are very very fortunate in that we can afford to
go out to eat, even we have started to cut back.
You know, I just refuse most of the time. So
(22:58):
I'm not pretty very print what about this, But you know,
there are a couple of places that we go that
we no longer order, like all the longer have a
diet coke, and Tamor, who's even worse about diet coke
than I am, won't have diet coke. I'm not gonna
walk into a restaurant. I don't care how many times
they refill it. I'm not gonna pay four dollars for
(23:19):
a diet coke. It's just not gonna happen. So instead
we'll just have water. Or if it's a Mexican restaurant,
maybe I'll just have a four dollars diet coke, I'll
have a twelve dollars margarita.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Makes perfect sense?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Does it makes sense? It makes perfect sense. But by golly,
I'm making my protest known. Because I'm not gonna spend
four dollars on a diet coke, we become price sensitive
to some of this stupid stuff. I mean, I would
say that eating out for us is probably I don't know,
it has increased by at least thirty or forty percent,
(23:51):
maybe fifty percent. Here are the numbers. More than now
on't you think I'm going to give you this number?
But I want you to think about the owners who
may have sunk their life savings into this. I want
you to think about the servers, the dishwashers, the bus boys,
(24:13):
the vendors that brought the food. I want you to
think about all the peripheral around a restaurant. Last year
twenty twenty four, more than two hundred restaurants closed in
the state of Colorado. That's according to the Colorado Sun.
Of the more than two hundred that closed, Denver alone
(24:36):
accounted for eighty two percent of those lost restaurants. That's
according to the Colorado Restaurant Association, eighty two percent of
the more than two hundred that closed were right in Denver.
Denver just keeps taking and taking and taking. They cut
fire department budgets, they cut police department budgets so they can,
(25:00):
you know, have well. They vetoed the needle exchange so
they can pay for illegal aliens, so they can pay
for homeless, so they can pay for bike lanes, so
they can pay for everything other than the essential services
such as fire departments and police departments. The Denver Post
reports that in the past three years, Denver alone has
(25:24):
lost almost a quarter, almost twenty five percent of all
the restaurants in Denver, and some of them are big restaurants,
so that means all of those people have lost their jobs.
They had to go find other jobs. The people that
sold you know, Cisco or whoever it might be, or
maybe it's you know, a farm to table restaurant. You know,
(25:45):
they've got a local supplier that they've lost that customer
and the city's lost that revenue. A spokesperson for the
Colorado Restaurant Association, Denise Michelson, says that we're in this
kind of perfect storm moment. It's death by a thousand cuts,
(26:06):
and they point out that one of the major pain
points is Denvers. Now, think about how democrats think, Think
about how the Marxist among us think. Denvers increased tipped
minimum wage, which is creating ripple effects industry wide. Local
restaurant consultant John Ambergamo, However, you Sam, not delivery bastardizing
(26:31):
your name, says that the increase in the minimum wage
disproportionately affects back of house staff, enforces price hikes that
turn diners off. Oh but we helped everybody by increasing
the minimum wage.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
No, you didn't.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
You cost people their jobs. Listen to this. This is
according to a Colorado Restaurant Association survey survey of one
hundred and thirty five operators that they first shared this
report with Axios Denver. The most recent wage hike on
January first, added an average of X number of dollars
(27:13):
in costs per restaurant. According to a survey of one
hundred and thirty five restaurants in Denver, what do you get?
Average costs to do business was eighty two thousand, four
hundred and twelve dollars. Eighty eighty two thousand dollars. And
(27:35):
the a holes that run the City Council of Denver
or the a holes that are the state reps and
senators at the Pollit Bureau talk about, oh, you know, well,
we increase the minimum wage because we got to help
We got to help people. You just cost people their jobs.
Do you just cost people their businesses? You cost people
their dreams of owning their own business. Michelson says again
(27:58):
in Colorado Restaurant Association, that's a huge cost jump. Really, no,
fecis Sherlock, You think so for businesses already striving to
hit slim three to five percent annual profit margins. You
want to try to convince me that Jared Polis or
(28:19):
the Democrats in the polit Burro, or for that matter,
some of the Republicans and the polit Bureau or the
Denver City Council or your local city council that they
really care. They don't care. They do not care. They
would rather drive you out of business because their constituents
are the homeless, Their constituents are the illegal aliens that
(28:40):
shouldn't be here in the first place. Their constituents are whatever,
you know, big big ass you know, left wing nonprofit organization,
that's their constituent. You the taxpayer, You're just their funding source.
They don't give a rats ass about you. Then, the
(29:03):
Colorado Restaurant Association says that they're bracing for what it
predicts to be a brutal, brutal legislative session with proposed
bills that could do the following make it easier for
unions to organize by removing a requirement that calls for
a second vote to agree on certain union rules. So
(29:25):
of course, you unionize and you do what, you drive
up the costs. Now you may be pro union, I'm
kind of ambivalent about unions now, so what get learn
to deal with it. But when you're operating on a
three to five percent margin and your you know, your
weight staff decides to unionize, and now they're working, they're
(29:49):
working for the you know, the the food workers Organization.
Your costs are going to go up, and you're either
going to have to pass those costs on, which means
that fewer people may come to your restaurant, or you're
going to just absorb those costs and not make any
(30:09):
money and eventually go bankrupt or go out of business.
And of course I love this one. There is a
bill to tack service or junk fees that obviously dinners
diners dislike, but many restaurants are going to use to
pay back of house staff. You know, Tamberge just came
(30:30):
back from the Bahamas, it may be true here too.
So you know, you go to a restaurant and there
is a service fee attached. If you sometimes will ask
what that's for, Well, that's for the back of the house.
That's for the dishwashers and the cooks and everybody else.
But then there's still a tip line. Well I'll wait
(30:51):
a minute. So now if I'm going to am I
going to leave a twenty percent tip, a twenty five
percent tip when you're already taking out seven point eight
percent or ten percent whatever it is to pay the
back of the house. Now do I now have to
take that and calculate how much that is deduct that
from what I would normally give because I don't want
(31:11):
to overtip the waiter. I don't I don't want to
double dip with them. So think about that. In the
last one, crack down on wage theft laws allowing employees
to soothe even even after they've been given their back pay.
So yeah, Colorado, you suck muzzle though, mayor God son
(31:38):
to be happy, healthy and bring you lessing for joy.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
May God bless soup, and then God.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Bless it you've carried Juda.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
So back to the whole thing about taxes and the
money that you spend. And when money's taken out of
your for taxes, that's money that you can't spend that's
going to circulate through the economy. Gouber number sixty seven
ninety one rights. And I've got to totally disagree with you, Mike.
(32:12):
I agree with you at almost all tax levels. I
do not believe that at the very top taxes make
it through to the economy. Elon musks, extra zeros are
not being spent at circle K. Well, let's stop right there.
Yes they are. Maybe he doesn't go to Circle K.
(32:35):
But let's just take elon Musk's jets. I think he's
got to go Stream seven hundred series or something. So
he has to have that jet fueled. So when he
lands somewhere, there's a fuel truck that will come out
and fuel it up. That's run by a guy driving
(32:57):
the truck that fuels that plane. Now that guy may
not be making minimum wage, but that guy depended upon
the private jets that land at stay right out here
at Centennial, So they land out there and that guy
fuels those planes up and he makes a salary. The
(33:20):
airport pays him a salary. Well, if there's no planes
to fuel, he's not gonna make as much money. So
he's and that guy has to buy groceries, and on
his way into work, he may stop at the seven
eleven and get a cup of coffee. He may go
to the perfect landing for lunch and have lunch. If
(33:40):
there are no jets to be fueled up, then that
money's not going to get circulated into the economy. Those
jets have to be have to go through an annual
So now the mechanics they have to hire mechanics, and
the mechanics go through and from you know, from top
to bottom, go through that plane and fix everything and
(34:03):
check everything, and they get paid for doing that. The
mechanics get paid. Maybe has the interior redesigned, so worker bees,
you know, they're they're companies that will do interiors of planes.
And those companies hire carpet people. They'll hire people to
put in the paneling, they'll hire people to do the upholstery.
(34:26):
They'll hire people to do all of that. Those people
get paid a salary, they get paid a wage, and
those wages get spent because they'll take the family out
to Chick fil A. They'll take you know, maybe they
stop in before they go to work and they'll stop
at at the seven eleven and they'll get a cup
of coffee and they'll you know, they buy groceries, they
(34:47):
pay utilities. So yes, the money, all of the money
that Elon Musk spends eventually makes its way into the
everyday economy. Every does I find it astonishing that you
I'm trying to be critical here, but that you don't
(35:08):
get that a billionaire buys groceries, a billionaire buys electricity,
a billionaire buys a car as its service. I probably
pay someone a salary to go put the gas in
it for him. They buy furniture, and come on, what
(35:32):
does that have to do with the fact that I'm
spending a Bucks seventy nine or whatever, a circle K
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