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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning for South Dakota. I'm November tenth. You're moving
to Koa at nine am till noon. Nine That's about
when I take my first nap. I guess I'll have
to change my habits too. Everyone have a great day.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, it's it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Isn't it.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Friend of reminder, we need some new rules of engagement,
new rules of engagement. You have gotten one from that
South Dakota grandpa, but that's it, so we're gonna need
a few more.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah. Uh so, um, get busy, Get busy. New rules
of engagement.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
You can you can email them to me dragon at
iHeartMedia dot com. Or you can just leave them in
a couple of talkbacks. I'll slam them together.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, yeah, you can do that. Generally speaking, doesn't make much.
I mean it would be nice if you mentioned Koa.
Don't necessarily need to say eight to fifty or ninety
four point one. You need to keep it around sixty seconds.
I mean a little less, a little more, but two minutes.
We're not going to use it's just too long, So
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keep it around sixty seconds. You can you can use
AI if you want to. We don't care if it's your.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Real voice has fun with it.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, we're more interested in you having fun with it,
just like Chris or at Discount. Beth does the Forst.
Gump one, and I think that's a very very clever one.
The Cheech and Chong one is is a good one too,
of course. Yea, yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Office space guy, that's a pretty good one. What the
office spas guy, that's a pretty good Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That's a good one too.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
The guy who's the one that he auto tunes his
voice or something and it's you're listening to the situation
with my it's all you.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Know, that's his voice? Oh is the radio I have
it labeled as radio voice, goober?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Oh so it is, oh radio voice, goober. But if
you want to auto tune it and make it sound
like that, that would be fine too. But you know,
the clock's ticking. We don't have a lot of time.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
If you wait till the last minute, it ain't happening,
because I'm not waiting till the last.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Minute, I hope not, which would be a first for you,
But nonetheless, that would be good. Before I get started
into snap and food stamps, I watched a little bit
of the Broncos game against the Houston Texans or whatever
they call them. Yeah, Tim RAI both comment, and it
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reminds us of the old Ou football team under Berry Switzer. Crappy, crappy,
crappy win. Yeah, crappy, crappy, crappy win. Yeah, right, is
that it?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
And they've really only had the one game against the
Cowboys where they you know, pretty much dominated everything, but
this one.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, he's a huge the fourth quarter. All right, now
it's time to show.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Now it's time to show them to play. Yeah, okay,
I just want to make sure that I didn't perceive
it incorrectly.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
They are undefeated when losing at the beginning of the
fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
That shows make that makes sense?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well, that shows statistics can be made to do anything.
You can. You can, you can the tatis size anything. Yeah,
there's a new word for the days, the status size.
If you listen to the weekend program, bear with me.
But you know, when I get something in, yeah, I'm
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a dog with a bone. I'm a dog with a
new toy and when I find it, I can't let
go of it. And I wanted to make sure that
if you didn't listen to Saturday program that you heard
what I talked about on the Saturday program this morning.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Don't worry. I didn't listen to the Saturday program. I'm
shocked listening to this program. In fact, I went all
day Saturday. Thank you boy.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Dragon will like that segment. Dragon like that segment. I
should I should call Dragon and see what do you
think of that segment? And then I realized, you're not listening.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
You don't listen today, why you know, I'll make a
concerted effort to listen on the tenth. On the On
the tenth, you listen to the podcast. On the tenth,
the show live. Maybe oh you'll listen.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
To Oh I see, yeah, on that Monday morning, you'll
listen at nine am.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I'll try.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, that'd be new. You won't know what well, I
guess you go over there some anyway, but you'll have
this nice new studio just in case anybody from management
is listening Saturday after the program. Because I noticed that,
and I've noticed it before, but I never really thought
about it impacting me, you know, but now since it's
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always all about me, of course, now it's different. So
I had noticed before when I got in there to
you know, do a little you know, talking about something,
gonna call it out of morning news or Ross or
Mandy'd asked me to come in or you know, comment
about something. I noticed that everything is laid out incorrectly.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
But it's new.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I'm not complaining about the newness. It's new, it's clean.
It's uh. I even look down in the hole in
the middle. There's a piece of paper that's falling down
to that. You know, it's the start. It's the start
of the of the trash bin in the middle of
the console. But I noticed that everything's laid out back
ass word.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Just a little different.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
No, it's not just a little different. It's back assword.
I know you don't want to say that because you
don't want to get in trouble, but I'll just say
it's back assword. And if corporate designed that, it shows
me the corporate has never done a top show in
their entire life.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
It is definitely not laid out as if somebody like
your I would have laid it out right.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
So what I'm going to figure out is I got
to get in there as soon as Kaminski finishes, because
I've got to move the I mean, there's there's only
one monitor.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Helpful.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I can put next Gin up. I can make two windows,
but like for Drudge to see what you know the
breaking news is, or we're doing taxplay relief shots, I
will not. And by the way, it is the old
Adobe audition, I won't be able to have a full screen,
so it's gonna be hard to read the entire titles
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because the screen is only half the size of because
I need unless we change our routine somehow where you
have to tell me, let's see what's our what's our
first spot today? We got coming up sound relief, So
you're gonna have to tell me sound reliefing, and you're
gonna to say go, because otherwise I won't be able
to see it. And otherwise you know this. This is
why we're so smooth is because I have next Gym
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up and I know how to use next Gen. So
there's that problem. So I'll have to move the monitor
up and then I've gotta lay the keyboard sideways over
here to my right. And the only reason I have
to do or can do that, is because all of
the buttons I need are awkwardly placed, not at an
angle where you can just reach to it, but where
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you have to put your elbow up and create a
right angle with your elbow and your forearm so that
you can then reach the buttons.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Of course it is a as right now here in
this studio, a right handed person conveniently located the mic
on and off in the next event button.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Is to your right. Yes, so gee, that's it.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
The majority of the population of the world is right handed,
so that makes a lot of sense right until you
get over to KA.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
But even if they were thinking, oh, let's you know,
let's be DEI make sure that all the left handed
people will be higher that they haven't left handed. It's
still perpendicular, it's not at an angle, so you can't
just put your hand over. You can't just naturally put
your hand over and hit next button. The other thing
I've discovered is there's only one next event button.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Oh yeah, you only have one next event button over there?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Do none of the others have next event?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Oh I didn't realize that. Okay, so you. But I
thought originally they were going to put the number one
spot or they still do this. Correct, The number one
is still over in the corner.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
The number one spot is by the window, not the
glass that the lobby. But by by the window window
to the outside, and that had the next event button.
But in order to move it to the number three
position where all the hosts like to sit so that
they can face the producer and we can have that
non verbal.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Communication that you do to to do a really good show.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
So then they had to put the button there and
remove it from the other position.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, and they all have to put my angle so
now normally I can't sit at an angle looking somewhat
to my left anyway, So that's that will remain the same.
So there's that, except that it's all going to be
scrunched up now, and there's you know, my dick coach
will be way down over here on the corner somewhere.
I don't haven't. I forgot where to put that. But
then I'm most concerned about my spot book. My spot book.
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I have no clue where that's going to go. I
guess it'll just kind of lay over here and I'll I.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Mean, you can put it on the floor. How good
are your glasses? Do you think you can read from
you know, the script from the floor?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
No, I did not. I need binoculars. Binoculars and they
don't have to lean over too and flip the pages,
which means I'd probably fall out of the chair once
or twice because it's the taller chair.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
That'd be great.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
So wouldn't that be fantastic? So I won't be able
to I mean, I could fall out the chair, or
I could just read them from the floor.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Hey, somebody brought in the new chairs over here.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Who somebody's gonna be in trouble.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yeah, those are the new white chairs. What are they
doing in here?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
But they're not the tall ones, are they?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I don't think so, because there's only like four tall
ones and I've got one, and I've got I've got
the only one that actually works.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yes, and if I can find, if I can find
the plastic arm rest for the element, I would actually
repair myself.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
They broke and they threw them away, I know, I know,
tried to do some.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Gaffers tape to put them back together and on some
of them you'll see, but it didn't work.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I mean, well, they pay twelve ninety nine for the chairs,
probably probably not even that much. Okay, Well, anyway, so
it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
The the grass is always green, the studio is cleaner,
and I.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Got five TVs.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Over there's one, two, three, four, four TVs over there.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Yeah, we're gonna there may be a little issue there
because it's channel nine and CNN.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
There's a remote. You can change the channel.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I know, I found the remote and I'll be changing
the channels. It'll be I still want CNN or MSNBC.
I still want to see what the liberal side is saying,
and then I want Fox. Don't care about what the
local channels are doing unless there's breaking local news and
then we can flip the channel. But what happened to
the vertical monitor? It doesn't seem to be working.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
That's supposed to be the Twitter monitor, like the tweet
deck or whatever. So it's got the koa Twitter, it's
got the talent Twitter and another talent Twitter or something
along those eelines.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
But did that I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I don't spend time in there, so it hasn't been
working for a while.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Well, I don't know whether.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It's working for a while or not. But I couldn't
get it. I couldn't get to do anything. So but
that's not saying anything just because I couldn't get to
do it.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Wait a minute, are you saying something in the studio
doesn't work weird.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Could be it's a shock or isn't it.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Now?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I do go I do go into the control room
every Saturday because I've got to flip off to get
the access to turn it on.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
For LA push a button.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, I got to push a button. But I did
notice Saturday that I just kind of observed instead of
just walking in, flipping it and getting out of there.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Compared to that rats.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Nest that you live in, that's pretty darn need over there,
it's just spark.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
There's there's a lot less there's no upper counter stuff,
and there's nothing there's the eas monitor is actually down
below versus up top, so it's still the same amount
of crap.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
It's just organized a little better over there.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, well, and you don't have like there's not a
bullets and board that's got schedules from eight months ago
stuck to it and whatever that other stuff is. That
Is that a picture of me up there on that bullet.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
No, No, that's Biden checking his watch.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Biden checking his watch. Okay, well we can put a
picture of me up in the other control room.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
We still had a picture of over here.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
There's a picture of rosson there. See I don't come
in there because it's so dark in there. I feel
like I'm walking into slight.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Some it needs to be dark because I need to
see the lights on the control board.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
No, all right, whatever, whatever. I did an interesting thing
over the weekend, uh partly in prep for the Saturday program,
but then I wanted to do it for this morning's
program too, And that is, how much does the State
of Colorado distribute in SNAP Supplement supplemental nutritional whatever it
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is program and the Wick Women and Children Program? And
of that total amount, how much goes to NGOs who
actually do the certification for things like qualifying people to
receive SNAP or WICK funds, who administers those funds, who
distribute those funds? And then how much do we spend
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on those funds? And I did that, plus I did
it for another topic. And I find that it seems
to me that for all the talk about transparency and
showing people you know, we want to be fully transparent
about what we're doing and spending money on and YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA, No,
they don't really do that whatsoever. They don't want you
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to know how much they're spending or what they're spending.
It on and I find that really kind of let's
just put it this way. It makes me suspicious. But
before let's do this, let's walk through what I found
out about SNAP. So, the state of Colorado distributes about
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I find this number astonishing, about one hundred and twenty
million dollars per month in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program moneies
that reaches or touches or gets distributed to about six
hundred thousand Coloradens every single month. That is approximately ten percent. Now,
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depending on what numbers you use, we're either at five
point seven five point eight million, or we have probably
exceeded six million. Either way, it's slightly more than ten
percent or it's just under ten percent, depending on what
today's population is. For the Women in Infant and Children
Nutrition Program, our annual shares about eighty eight million dollars.
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And then we have state emergency funds that cover seven
and a half million dollars for one month. That's what
they authorized over the weekend or Friday whenever. It was
seven point five million dollars. So for a state that
is already in the hole, that has a big, big
asshole in our budget, they've allocated seven point five million
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dollars amid these so called federal disruptions. One million dollars
in emergency state funds allocated because of the shutdown is
funneled through something called the Community Food Assistance Grant Program.
But interestingly, that program is administered by something called the
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Trailhead Institute. Keep that in mind. We'll get to the
Trailhead Institute in just a minute. So the money is
then distributed directly to food banks and pantries, which act
as the main in goos responsible for qualifying beneficiaries, administering
and distributing foods resources. I found that over on Denver
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seven now, the major beneficiaries of these funds include Feeding
Colorado and all of its network partners such as Care
and Share, Food Bank, Community Food Share, Food Bank for
Larimer County for example, food Bank of the Rockies, the
Weld County Food Bank. All of that, according to the
Denver Gazette for Wi Women and Children. While Colorado's Department
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of Public Health and Environment oversees eligibility and benefit administration,
local wic clinics and community partners are directly involved in
the certification, the administration, and the distribution of those money.
That's all according to the records at the Colorado Publup Bureau.
So in summer you got Snap and Wick. One hundred
and twenty million dollars for Snap, about eighty eight million
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dollars a year for Wick, so slightly over two hundred
million dollars. Well, I'm sorry, one hundred hundred twenty million
a month for Snap, eighty eight million dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
A year for Wick.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Now, the vast majority of the Snap and the Wick
funds are ultimately distributed to the recipients, with all of
the administrative and its certification costs and the certification rolls
handled by the NGOs, And of course there's some local
government clinics that do it too. Regular federal funding continues
to flow primarily to individual beneficiaries. The state emergency allocations
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get used for stop gap coverage during a disruption like
the shutdown. That's according to the color Red So who's
this Trailhead Institute? Who are those people? Well, it's who
you'd expect. It's a web of revolving state employees, state democrats,
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all with ties to either the legislature, the governor, and
or both. So it's a great example of how democrat
run in Go's run these programs.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Hey, just loving this inter retentive rant about the Kowa
studio and how the monitor is got to be this way,
the keyboards planet that way. Let's move the trash can.
Let's keep this in a retentive rent going. And let
us know, Michael, when you go to a restaurant you
unwrap the several were from a napkin. It's the fourth here,
the night there, this from there, how much space between?
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Let's get the glass right here? How does that go?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Just just as you described? How else would it go?
I mean, what kind of restaurant do you go to?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Now?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I'm also curious do you put the napkin on your
lap or do you tuck it into your shirt?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
But it goes on my lap? Okay, all I have
been known to tuck it in my shirt depending on
what I'm eating. If I have a white shirt and
I'm yes and I'm in a barbecue spot, I might
put the napkin in my shirt. Yeah. Maybe, because most
of the barbecue places are very very casual. They're not like,
you know, fine dining.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I haven't even gotten there yet. You're very bitching about it.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
What I like about it is we're already getting advice
and suggestions that are clearly clearly being a little passive
aggressive about it, which can I find absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Let's see, Michael, I can't tell if you're bragging or complaining.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
And that's the mission accomplished. Mission accomplished. Why didn't the
talent negotiate a good this is sixteen forty one. Why
didn't the talent negotiate a get set up before you
sign the dotted line? Because that it is what it is.
Over it, you can't change. They're not gonna change anything, yeah,
anymore than they ever were gonna change anything over here.
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They're not gonna change anything over there.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
So at least the blinds do work over there. So
that's a plus.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yes, that is a plus.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
There's only two.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
There's always I love the fact that we put in
that big wall that's a giant window so that the
thousands of people that come into the reception area can
look into the blowtorch's studio to see me picking my nose.
I love how that's set up, and we really have
a receptionist.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
It's absolutely fantastic because on those rare occasions that somebody
does come by to have a meeting with who knows who,
right they will stand there and look through the glass,
stare at what would be your back, and stare at
me running the board going you you said to go,
come help me.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
All they expect us to come and take care of us.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Stop what we're doing, come out there and escort them
to whomever they need to.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Be escorted to.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
It's like, no, we are working. I cannot stop what
I'm doing. I see, I'm out there. I see the
makings of a sign.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Don't tap on glass, that's right.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Don't feed the animals. Don't tap on the glass. It'll
irritate the animals. Yes, Summers is one of my favorite
rules of engagement. Also, Yes, al genocide. Yes, I talked
about al genocide on Saturday. We might get to that
again too. This Wall Street Journal, when you send me
(20:49):
Google riber zero two zero zero oh two hundred uh,
this is from yesterday, yesterday evening. This Wall Street Journal
article was from the weekend when you were at Oklahoma
dealing with your fans issues. I found interesting. I don't
recall that you mentioned it. Perhaps you did.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
You don't tell me what it is.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
There's not a link, there's not a title, there's nothing,
so I don't know. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
This is a fairly decent question. From twenty two to
fifty five. Is the Snap food used to cook for
the food.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Trucks you used to Can you use it the food truck?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Yes and no, depending on what Snap benefits that you have.
If you only have the Snap food benefits, no, Snap
food benefits are only used for cold, unprepared foods. If
you have the actual funds transfer actual cash, then most
like you you can.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Okay. And the idea for the spot book, I thought
about a music stand, and I thought about that, except
and I gotta go find the music.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
That's a pretty good idea. It is a very good idea. Yeah,
look at you guys.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
But I'll have to get on Amazon and find one
or go to ones. Right, I was one like a
like you might use it at a podium or elector
when it's really staple, and then of course you know
that logan or somebody will trip over and break it,
so you know, I have to make sure I hide
it in the corner somewhere or put it out on
you know, on you know, my cubicle that everybody seems
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to think it's just a public resting spot.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah, it's just an empty desk.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It's fine, right, just public flection pedals sign out there,
do not sit.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Oh, I forgot to bring in the leftover candy, leftover candy?
What's that?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Missus Brown? You know I told you I told you
the whole thing about the candy bowl. Did I tell
you that?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Okay, well she might be awake, so I won't tell
I won't tell you about it. You have to go
back and listen to the podcast from Saturday. But we
have all other than maybe what I may have eaten,
all all of the candy left over from Halloween, and
I was gonna put it on my desk. I thought
about being a smart ass and putting a Mason jar
that next to it, and said, this is a fundraiser
for Mike to get something like, you know, for the
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Koa studio, and then put like a nickel or a
dime in it, just to kind of obviously, because some
people are too demse to realize that they have a joke.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
The pump. Prime the pump.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, prime the pump exactly so, and you know, but
then I got to thinking, nah, don't do that, because
there's too many people in this buillion would take it seriously, nobody, nobody,
nobody has a sense of humor. Nobody gets the joke.
Nobody gets that.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
You know, so for trick or treat that you guys
didn't really get any.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Okay, all right, I'm only telling the story objectively because
you ask for it.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
So Tamra doesn't want First of all, we get very
few kids, and she the dogs. While we have our
dogs fairly well trained, they're not trained to not bark
when someone rings the doorbell.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Well that's their thing, yes.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Thing, And in fact, we would prefer that they do
bark if somebody comes, you know, kind of tap taps
on the door, like to see if anybody's here, kind
of thing. We want to know somebody's there so I
can look on the ring and see what's going on. Well,
she doesn't like that because all three you got the
and then you got them, so you got kind of
like a capehey of dog barking. So she decided to
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take a salad bowl, a big, big ass salad bowl,
put dump all the candy in it, and put it
out on not on the porch next to the door,
but kind of out where the sidewalk kind of brings you.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
To the meets up for the driveway. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And then she asked me as we were leaving for dinner,
turn the porch light off. It's automatic, so i'd go
over and you turn it off. So I turned it off,
and I made the mistake of saying I thought porch
lights would indicate that you don't want trigger treaters or
that you're not Yes.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
If the porch lights are off, you're not supposed to
go to that house, right.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
So if people are walking along the sidewalk and the
porch lights off and it's dark, they're not going to
see this dark wooden bowl sitting over here on the
cur on the porch.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
And she gets mad at me, thinking that I'm making
fun of her arguing and I'm not. I'm trying to
be rationally. If you want to get rid of the candy,
I don't think it's going to get rid of the candy.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Correct. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
So they come back from that, we had to do
an early dinner because our friends who liked to dress
up for Halloween, I guess or whatever, they wouldn't have.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
A really early dinner. So we went.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
And it's a Friday night for a Halloween, So, yeah,
you've got to get out and go party, right, So.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
We get back to the house and I walk around
to check the ball because I'm assuming that one person
came by, one teenager came by, saw a bowl, nobody
looking around, and just dumped it all in the sack
and walked off. In fact, I expected the bowl itself
to be gone. Nothing. The bowl and all of the
candy is still.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
There, yep, because he had the lights off right.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Right, So anyway, it's it wasn't that much, but there
is a bag of it out in the in the
jeep that I was going to put on my desk
this morning, because you know that it would be gone
in three minutes, two minutes.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
What do you think The chocolate would be gone pretty quickly,
the fruity flavored candy second, and then the hard Snickers.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I'll be there for a week.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Well, let's just say there may I may not many
Snickers left, Twigs, Snickers regular M and MS peanut M.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
And MS twigs you say yes.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
And something else. I thought there were five varieties. I
don't remember, but it needs to get out of my
car because.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
It's dwindling. It's dwindling. I was.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
I was personally pleasantly surprised with how many kids had
showed up to uh my house in the neighborhood. It's
been dwindling down for years and years, and I think
last year maybe two or three groups of kids and
that was it. But this year, I'd say almost a
dozen groups of kids and groups groups of kids, and
then the last two groups I'd say were mid to
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upper teenagers. Yeah, which I personally find absolutely fantastic. I
am AOK with the upper teenagers going out and trigger treating.
You're doing something kind and sweethearted rather than going out
and doing something rambunctious and causing trouble. So I will
gladly give teenagers candy on Halloween if they put forth
some effort to go trigger treating and dress up. I've
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got no problem with that whatsoever. He still had a
bunch of candy left over. When these two big groups
of teenagers come by, and the kids super polite, you know,
they say trick or treaty. I hand the bowl and
so they can grab whichever one's they like. So he
picks up one and goes, ah, I like just one,
and he goes, can I have more than one?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
And I go, you can have no more than seven,
and he frees eyes get all big. Missus.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Redbeard behind me starts laughing her ass off because she
thinks that's hilarious. And I'm just trying to get rid
of candy at this point because it's in eight thirty
or so, it's getting late for Halloween and trigger treating.
So the kid goes, you're serious, it's like very So
he just grabbed a big old handful puts in his bag.
The next kids come up do the same kind of thing.
It was fantastic. I love Halloween, love the trick or treers,
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love the kids and the costumes.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I think in our neighborhood it's that it's it's aging
in our neighborhood. Duh, it's aging. The family across the
street that has kids were gone. I think they went
somewhere else. And then the other family that's just on
the other side of us, I think they they they
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they're going to sell their house, but they've already moved
into another house, which is a few miles away because
their mother, the mother and mother in law are now
living with them, so they've they've abandoned that house. So
I figured at some point I'll just I'm thinking about
just starting to squat in it just become a squatter
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because they had they recently had it completely redone. So
I'm thinking I'll just build squat and then sell mine
and then they can't get you know, they won't be
able to remove the true Yeah. So anyway, uh, snap,
after this.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Michael, if you're going to prime the pump for your
go fundme jar, make sure you put pennies in it.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
I hear they're discontinued the penny, of course, and.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
So it might become even more valuable at some point.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Well, I would only prime the pump with pennies here,
because these are all radio people. They're all cheap asses.
So I wouldn't you know, if I put a dollar
bill in there, somebody would take the dollar bill. It
was not like somebody go, oh, I think you will
put a dollar into you know, they would take the
dollar bill. So there's there's a there's a certain you know,
you gotta you have to understand exactly how far you
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can go with these things, and I understand that in
radio land you can't go very far. The Trailhead Institute
is kind of some morphous, really hard to find information
about it. I mean, you can go to their website
and you can read about you know, who the board
of directors are and the executive director and all of that.
But to say that they have very specific ties to
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the Democrat polit Bureau, they have very specific ties, in fact,
come from the revolving door, having, for example, the head
of it, Michelle Shima sim Mira something like that. She
used to work at the call of Department of Public
Health and Environment. She's directly connected to the state agency
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funding streams, all the public health workforce strategies and the
implementation of the public state public health initiatives as all
the others. So again it's the revolving door of let's
appropriate the money, give it to our friends. Now friends
will then figure out who qualifies and doesn't qualify and
pass it out. And we're talking about hundreds of millions
(30:50):
of dollars. Then we get to the coupdi grass that
really bugs me, and that is that Democrats are now
screaming about children are little. I mean, I guess babies
and children now have distended stomachs, you know, like you
might see you know on a you know, feed the
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children out of Africa or something that babies are dying,
that people are absolutely starving to death. There is I
don't have a stat in front of me, but you
can again, I know you can manipulate statistics, but the
average person on snap or Wick has an average weight
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that is higher than the average American And you can
drop from that whatever conclusion you want. But it doesn't
surprise me considering that most of those recipients tend to
buy junk food and they don't really eat nutritious stuff.
You've seen the videos and you've heard the videos that
we've played over the past week about you know, you know,
my kids need their you know, they need their snacks
(31:57):
and they need their blah blah blah blah whatever. Well
that's what they're doing. But then last Friday, Katie v R.
On the Evening News program ran a story about a
butcher shop up in Fort Collins where, you know how
I argue and I sincerely believe that we as a
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nation have abdicated our compassion to the federal government. He
actually says that none of those exact words, but he
complains about the fact that he is doing what we
should all be doing. But he doesn't think we should
be doing that he thinks the federal government is responsible
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for feeding hungry people in this country. That's how far
off the beaten path we've gotten in terms of how
this republic should operate. I want you to hear that
after the news the top of the hour, and then
we'll go on to the next topic. Don't go away.
Good morning for South Dakota. I'm November tenth. You're moving
to Koa at nine am till noon. Nine That's about
when I take my first nap. I guess I'll have
to change my habits too. Everyone have a great day.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, it's it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Isn't it.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Friend of reminder, we need some new rules of engagement,
new rules of engagement. You have gotten one from that
South Dakota grandpa, but that's it, so we're gonna need
a few more.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah. Uh so, um, get busy, Get busy. New rules
of engagement.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
You can you can email them to me dragon at
iHeartMedia dot com. Or you can just leave them in
a couple of talkbacks. I'll slam them together.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, yeah, you can do that. Generally speaking, doesn't make much.
I mean it would be nice if you mentioned Koa.
Don't necessarily need to say eight to fifty or ninety
four point one. You need to keep it around sixty seconds.
I mean a little less, a little more, but two minutes.
We're not going to use it's just too long, So
(01:06):
keep it around sixty seconds. You can you can use
AI if you want to. We don't care if it's your.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Real voice has fun with it.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, we're more interested in you having fun with it,
just like Chris or at Discount. Beth does the Forst.
Gump one, and I think that's a very very clever one.
The Cheech and Chong one is is a good one too,
of course. Yea, yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Office space guy, that's a pretty good one. What the
office spas guy, that's a pretty good Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That's a good one too.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
The guy who's the one that he auto tunes his
voice or something and it's you're listening to the situation
with my it's all you.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Know, that's his voice? Oh is the radio I have
it labeled as radio voice, goober?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Oh so it is, oh radio voice, goober. But if
you want to auto tune it and make it sound
like that, that would be fine too. But you know,
the clock's ticking. We don't have a lot of time.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
If you wait till the last minute, it ain't happening,
because I'm not waiting till the last.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Minute, I hope not, which would be a first for you,
But nonetheless, that would be good. Before I get started
into snap and food stamps, I watched a little bit
of the Broncos game against the Houston Texans or whatever
they call them. Yeah, Tim RAI both comment, and it
(02:27):
reminds us of the old Ou football team under Berry Switzer. Crappy, crappy,
crappy win. Yeah, crappy, crappy, crappy win. Yeah, right, is
that it?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
And they've really only had the one game against the
Cowboys where they you know, pretty much dominated everything, but
this one.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, he's a huge the fourth quarter. All right, now
it's time to show.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Now it's time to show them to play. Yeah, okay,
I just want to make sure that I didn't perceive
it incorrectly.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
They are undefeated when losing at the beginning of the
fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
That shows make that makes sense?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well, that shows statistics can be made to do anything.
You can. You can, you can the tatis size anything. Yeah,
there's a new word for the days, the status size.
If you listen to the weekend program, bear with me.
But you know, when I get something in, yeah, I'm
(03:22):
a dog with a bone. I'm a dog with a
new toy and when I find it, I can't let
go of it. And I wanted to make sure that
if you didn't listen to Saturday program that you heard
what I talked about on the Saturday program this morning.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Don't worry. I didn't listen to the Saturday program. I'm
shocked listening to this program. In fact, I went all
day Saturday. Thank you boy.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Dragon will like that segment. Dragon like that segment. I
should I should call Dragon and see what do you
think of that segment? And then I realized, you're not listening.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
You don't listen today, why you know, I'll make a
concerted effort to listen on the tenth. On the On
the tenth, you listen to the podcast. On the tenth,
the show live. Maybe oh you'll listen.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
To Oh I see, yeah, on that Monday morning, you'll
listen at nine am.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I'll try.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, that'd be new. You won't know what well, I
guess you go over there some anyway, but you'll have
this nice new studio just in case anybody from management
is listening Saturday after the program. Because I noticed that,
and I've noticed it before, but I never really thought
about it impacting me, you know, but now since it's
(04:35):
always all about me, of course, now it's different. So
I had noticed before when I got in there to
you know, do a little you know, talking about something,
gonna call it out of morning news or Ross or
Mandy'd asked me to come in or you know, comment
about something. I noticed that everything is laid out incorrectly.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
But it's new.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I'm not complaining about the newness. It's new, it's clean.
It's uh. I even look down in the hole in
the middle. There's a piece of paper that's falling down
to that. You know, it's the start. It's the start
of the of the trash bin in the middle of
the console. But I noticed that everything's laid out back
ass word.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Just a little different.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
No, it's not just a little different. It's back assword.
I know you don't want to say that because you
don't want to get in trouble, but I'll just say
it's back assword. And if corporate designed that, it shows
me the corporate has never done a top show in
their entire life.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
It is definitely not laid out as if somebody like
your I would have laid it out right.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
So what I'm going to figure out is I got
to get in there as soon as Kaminski finishes, because
I've got to move the I mean, there's there's only
one monitor.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Helpful.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I can put next Gin up. I can make two windows,
but like for Drudge to see what you know the
breaking news is, or we're doing taxplay relief shots, I
will not. And by the way, it is the old
Adobe audition, I won't be able to have a full screen,
so it's gonna be hard to read the entire titles
(06:08):
because the screen is only half the size of because
I need unless we change our routine somehow where you
have to tell me, let's see what's our what's our
first spot today? We got coming up sound relief, So
you're gonna have to tell me sound reliefing, and you're
gonna to say go, because otherwise I won't be able
to see it. And otherwise you know this. This is
why we're so smooth is because I have next Gym
(06:31):
up and I know how to use next Gen. So
there's that problem. So I'll have to move the monitor
up and then I've gotta lay the keyboard sideways over
here to my right. And the only reason I have
to do or can do that, is because all of
the buttons I need are awkwardly placed, not at an
angle where you can just reach to it, but where
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you have to put your elbow up and create a
right angle with your elbow and your forearm so that
you can then reach the buttons.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Of course it is a as right now here in
this studio, a right handed person conveniently located the mic
on and off in the next event button.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Is to your right. Yes, so gee, that's it.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
The majority of the population of the world is right handed,
so that makes a lot of sense right until you
get over to KA.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
But even if they were thinking, oh, let's you know,
let's be DEI make sure that all the left handed
people will be higher that they haven't left handed. It's
still perpendicular, it's not at an angle, so you can't
just put your hand over. You can't just naturally put
your hand over and hit next button. The other thing
I've discovered is there's only one next event button.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Oh yeah, you only have one next event button over there?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Do none of the others have next event?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Oh I didn't realize that. Okay, so you. But I
thought originally they were going to put the number one
spot or they still do this. Correct, The number one
is still over in the corner.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
The number one spot is by the window, not the
glass that the lobby. But by by the window window
to the outside, and that had the next event button.
But in order to move it to the number three
position where all the hosts like to sit so that
they can face the producer and we can have that
non verbal.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Communication that you do to to do a really good show.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
So then they had to put the button there and
remove it from the other position.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, and they all have to put my angle so
now normally I can't sit at an angle looking somewhat
to my left anyway, So that's that will remain the same.
So there's that, except that it's all going to be
scrunched up now, and there's you know, my dick coach
will be way down over here on the corner somewhere.
I don't haven't. I forgot where to put that. But
then I'm most concerned about my spot book. My spot book.
(08:46):
I have no clue where that's going to go. I
guess it'll just kind of lay over here and I'll I.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Mean, you can put it on the floor. How good
are your glasses? Do you think you can read from
you know, the script from the floor?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
No, I did not. I need binoculars. Binoculars and they
don't have to lean over too and flip the pages,
which means I'd probably fall out of the chair once
or twice because it's the taller chair.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
That'd be great.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
So wouldn't that be fantastic? So I won't be able
to I mean, I could fall out the chair, or
I could just read them from the floor.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Hey, somebody brought in the new chairs over here.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Who somebody's gonna be in trouble.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yeah, those are the new white chairs. What are they
doing in here?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
But they're not the tall ones, are they?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I don't think so, because there's only like four tall
ones and I've got one, and I've got I've got
the only one that actually works.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yes, and if I can find, if I can find
the plastic arm rest for the element, I would actually
repair myself.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
They broke and they threw them away, I know, I know,
tried to do some.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Gaffers tape to put them back together and on some
of them you'll see, but it didn't work.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I mean, well, they pay twelve ninety nine for the chairs,
probably probably not even that much. Okay, Well, anyway, so
it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
The the grass is always green, the studio is cleaner,
and I.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Got five TVs.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Over there's one, two, three, four, four TVs over there.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Yeah, we're gonna there may be a little issue there
because it's channel nine and CNN.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
There's a remote. You can change the channel.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I know, I found the remote and I'll be changing
the channels. It'll be I still want CNN or MSNBC.
I still want to see what the liberal side is saying,
and then I want Fox. Don't care about what the
local channels are doing unless there's breaking local news and
then we can flip the channel. But what happened to
the vertical monitor? It doesn't seem to be working.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
That's supposed to be the Twitter monitor, like the tweet
deck or whatever. So it's got the koa Twitter, it's
got the talent Twitter and another talent Twitter or something
along those eelines.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
But did that I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I don't spend time in there, so it hasn't been
working for a while.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Well, I don't know whether.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It's working for a while or not. But I couldn't
get it. I couldn't get to do anything. So but
that's not saying anything just because I couldn't get to
do it.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Wait a minute, are you saying something in the studio
doesn't work weird.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Could be it's a shock or isn't it.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Now?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I do go I do go into the control room
every Saturday because I've got to flip off to get
the access to turn it on.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
For LA push a button.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, I got to push a button. But I did
notice Saturday that I just kind of observed instead of
just walking in, flipping it and getting out of there.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Compared to that rats.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Nest that you live in, that's pretty darn need over there,
it's just spark.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
There's there's a lot less there's no upper counter stuff,
and there's nothing there's the eas monitor is actually down
below versus up top, so it's still the same amount
of crap.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
It's just organized a little better over there.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, well, and you don't have like there's not a
bullets and board that's got schedules from eight months ago
stuck to it and whatever that other stuff is. That
Is that a picture of me up there on that bullet.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
No, No, that's Biden checking his watch.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Biden checking his watch. Okay, well we can put a
picture of me up in the other control room.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
We still had a picture of over here.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
There's a picture of rosson there. See I don't come
in there because it's so dark in there. I feel
like I'm walking into slight.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Some it needs to be dark because I need to
see the lights on the control board.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
No, all right, whatever, whatever. I did an interesting thing
over the weekend, uh partly in prep for the Saturday program,
but then I wanted to do it for this morning's
program too, And that is, how much does the State
of Colorado distribute in SNAP Supplement supplemental nutritional whatever it
(12:34):
is program and the Wick Women and Children Program? And
of that total amount, how much goes to NGOs who
actually do the certification for things like qualifying people to
receive SNAP or WICK funds, who administers those funds, who
distribute those funds? And then how much do we spend
(12:56):
on those funds? And I did that, plus I did
it for another topic. And I find that it seems
to me that for all the talk about transparency and
showing people you know, we want to be fully transparent
about what we're doing and spending money on and YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA, No,
they don't really do that whatsoever. They don't want you
(13:17):
to know how much they're spending or what they're spending.
It on and I find that really kind of let's
just put it this way. It makes me suspicious. But
before let's do this, let's walk through what I found
out about SNAP. So, the state of Colorado distributes about
(13:39):
I find this number astonishing, about one hundred and twenty
million dollars per month in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program moneies
that reaches or touches or gets distributed to about six
hundred thousand Coloradens every single month. That is approximately ten percent. Now,
(14:05):
depending on what numbers you use, we're either at five
point seven five point eight million, or we have probably
exceeded six million. Either way, it's slightly more than ten
percent or it's just under ten percent, depending on what
today's population is. For the Women in Infant and Children
Nutrition Program, our annual shares about eighty eight million dollars.
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And then we have state emergency funds that cover seven
and a half million dollars for one month. That's what
they authorized over the weekend or Friday whenever. It was
seven point five million dollars. So for a state that
is already in the hole, that has a big, big
asshole in our budget, they've allocated seven point five million
(14:54):
dollars amid these so called federal disruptions. One million dollars
in emergency state funds allocated because of the shutdown is
funneled through something called the Community Food Assistance Grant Program.
But interestingly, that program is administered by something called the
(15:15):
Trailhead Institute. Keep that in mind. We'll get to the
Trailhead Institute in just a minute. So the money is
then distributed directly to food banks and pantries, which act
as the main in goos responsible for qualifying beneficiaries, administering
and distributing foods resources. I found that over on Denver
(15:37):
seven now, the major beneficiaries of these funds include Feeding
Colorado and all of its network partners such as Care
and Share, Food Bank, Community Food Share, Food Bank for
Larimer County for example, food Bank of the Rockies, the
Weld County Food Bank. All of that, according to the
Denver Gazette for Wi Women and Children. While Colorado's Department
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of Public Health and Environment oversees eligibility and benefit administration,
local wic clinics and community partners are directly involved in
the certification, the administration, and the distribution of those money.
That's all according to the records at the Colorado Publup Bureau.
So in summer you got Snap and Wick. One hundred
and twenty million dollars for Snap, about eighty eight million
(16:24):
dollars a year for Wick, so slightly over two hundred
million dollars. Well, I'm sorry, one hundred hundred twenty million
a month for Snap, eighty eight million dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
A year for Wick.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Now, the vast majority of the Snap and the Wick
funds are ultimately distributed to the recipients, with all of
the administrative and its certification costs and the certification rolls
handled by the NGOs, And of course there's some local
government clinics that do it too. Regular federal funding continues
to flow primarily to individual beneficiaries. The state emergency allocations
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get used for stop gap coverage during a disruption like
the shutdown. That's according to the color Red So who's
this Trailhead Institute? Who are those people? Well, it's who
you'd expect. It's a web of revolving state employees, state democrats,
(17:24):
all with ties to either the legislature, the governor, and
or both. So it's a great example of how democrat
run in Go's run these programs.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Hey, just loving this inter retentive rant about the Kowa
studio and how the monitor is got to be this way,
the keyboards planet that way. Let's move the trash can.
Let's keep this in a retentive rent going. And let
us know, Michael, when you go to a restaurant you
unwrap the several were from a napkin. It's the fourth here,
the night there, this from there, how much space between?
(18:00):
Let's get the glass right here? How does that go?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Just just as you described? How else would it go?
I mean, what kind of restaurant do you go to?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Now?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I'm also curious do you put the napkin on your
lap or do you tuck it into your shirt?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
But it goes on my lap? Okay, all I have
been known to tuck it in my shirt depending on
what I'm eating. If I have a white shirt and
I'm yes and I'm in a barbecue spot, I might
put the napkin in my shirt. Yeah. Maybe, because most
of the barbecue places are very very casual. They're not like,
you know, fine dining.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I haven't even gotten there yet. You're very bitching about it.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
What I like about it is we're already getting advice
and suggestions that are clearly clearly being a little passive
aggressive about it, which can I find absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Let's see, Michael, I can't tell if you're bragging or complaining.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
And that's the mission accomplished. Mission accomplished. Why didn't the
talent negotiate a good this is sixteen forty one. Why
didn't the talent negotiate a get set up before you
sign the dotted line? Because that it is what it is.
Over it, you can't change. They're not gonna change anything, yeah,
anymore than they ever were gonna change anything over here.
(19:24):
They're not gonna change anything over there.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
So at least the blinds do work over there. So
that's a plus.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yes, that is a plus.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
There's only two.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
There's always I love the fact that we put in
that big wall that's a giant window so that the
thousands of people that come into the reception area can
look into the blowtorch's studio to see me picking my nose.
I love how that's set up, and we really have
a receptionist.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
It's absolutely fantastic because on those rare occasions that somebody
does come by to have a meeting with who knows who,
right they will stand there and look through the glass,
stare at what would be your back, and stare at
me running the board going you you said to go,
come help me.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
All they expect us to come and take care of us.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Stop what we're doing, come out there and escort them
to whomever they need to.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Be escorted to.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
It's like, no, we are working. I cannot stop what
I'm doing. I see, I'm out there. I see the
makings of a sign.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Don't tap on glass, that's right.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Don't feed the animals. Don't tap on the glass. It'll
irritate the animals. Yes, Summers is one of my favorite
rules of engagement. Also, Yes, al genocide. Yes, I talked
about al genocide on Saturday. We might get to that
again too. This Wall Street Journal, when you send me
(20:49):
Google riber zero two zero zero oh two hundred uh,
this is from yesterday, yesterday evening. This Wall Street Journal
article was from the weekend when you were at Oklahoma
dealing with your fans issues. I found interesting. I don't
recall that you mentioned it. Perhaps you did.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
You don't tell me what it is.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
There's not a link, there's not a title, there's nothing,
so I don't know. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
This is a fairly decent question. From twenty two to
fifty five. Is the Snap food used to cook for
the food.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Trucks you used to Can you use it the food truck?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Yes and no, depending on what Snap benefits that you have.
If you only have the Snap food benefits, no, Snap
food benefits are only used for cold, unprepared foods. If
you have the actual funds transfer actual cash, then most
like you you can.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Okay. And the idea for the spot book, I thought
about a music stand, and I thought about that, except
and I gotta go find the music.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
That's a pretty good idea. It is a very good idea. Yeah,
look at you guys.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
But I'll have to get on Amazon and find one
or go to ones. Right, I was one like a
like you might use it at a podium or elector
when it's really staple, and then of course you know
that logan or somebody will trip over and break it,
so you know, I have to make sure I hide
it in the corner somewhere or put it out on
you know, on you know, my cubicle that everybody seems
(22:21):
to think it's just a public resting spot.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah, it's just an empty desk.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It's fine, right, just public flection pedals sign out there,
do not sit.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Oh, I forgot to bring in the leftover candy, leftover candy?
What's that?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Missus Brown? You know I told you I told you
the whole thing about the candy bowl. Did I tell
you that?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Okay, well she might be awake, so I won't tell
I won't tell you about it. You have to go
back and listen to the podcast from Saturday. But we
have all other than maybe what I may have eaten,
all all of the candy left over from Halloween, and
I was gonna put it on my desk. I thought
about being a smart ass and putting a Mason jar
that next to it, and said, this is a fundraiser
for Mike to get something like, you know, for the
(23:07):
Koa studio, and then put like a nickel or a
dime in it, just to kind of obviously, because some
people are too demse to realize that they have a joke.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
The pump. Prime the pump.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, prime the pump exactly so, and you know, but
then I got to thinking, nah, don't do that, because
there's too many people in this buillion would take it seriously, nobody, nobody,
nobody has a sense of humor. Nobody gets the joke.
Nobody gets that.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
You know, so for trick or treat that you guys
didn't really get any.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Okay, all right, I'm only telling the story objectively because
you ask for it.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
So Tamra doesn't want First of all, we get very
few kids, and she the dogs. While we have our
dogs fairly well trained, they're not trained to not bark
when someone rings the doorbell.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Well that's their thing, yes.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Thing, And in fact, we would prefer that they do
bark if somebody comes, you know, kind of tap taps
on the door, like to see if anybody's here, kind
of thing. We want to know somebody's there so I
can look on the ring and see what's going on. Well,
she doesn't like that because all three you got the
and then you got them, so you got kind of
like a capehey of dog barking. So she decided to
(24:22):
take a salad bowl, a big, big ass salad bowl,
put dump all the candy in it, and put it
out on not on the porch next to the door,
but kind of out where the sidewalk kind of brings you.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
To the meets up for the driveway. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And then she asked me as we were leaving for dinner,
turn the porch light off. It's automatic, so i'd go
over and you turn it off. So I turned it off,
and I made the mistake of saying I thought porch
lights would indicate that you don't want trigger treaters or
that you're not Yes.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
If the porch lights are off, you're not supposed to
go to that house, right.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
So if people are walking along the sidewalk and the
porch lights off and it's dark, they're not going to
see this dark wooden bowl sitting over here on the
cur on the porch.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
And she gets mad at me, thinking that I'm making
fun of her arguing and I'm not. I'm trying to
be rationally. If you want to get rid of the candy,
I don't think it's going to get rid of the candy.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Correct. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
So they come back from that, we had to do
an early dinner because our friends who liked to dress
up for Halloween, I guess or whatever, they wouldn't have.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
A really early dinner. So we went.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
And it's a Friday night for a Halloween, So, yeah,
you've got to get out and go party, right, So.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
We get back to the house and I walk around
to check the ball because I'm assuming that one person
came by, one teenager came by, saw a bowl, nobody
looking around, and just dumped it all in the sack
and walked off. In fact, I expected the bowl itself
to be gone. Nothing. The bowl and all of the
candy is still.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
There, yep, because he had the lights off right.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Right, So anyway, it's it wasn't that much, but there
is a bag of it out in the in the
jeep that I was going to put on my desk
this morning, because you know that it would be gone
in three minutes, two minutes.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
What do you think The chocolate would be gone pretty quickly,
the fruity flavored candy second, and then the hard Snickers.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I'll be there for a week.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Well, let's just say there may I may not many
Snickers left, Twigs, Snickers regular M and MS peanut M.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
And MS twigs you say yes.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
And something else. I thought there were five varieties. I
don't remember, but it needs to get out of my
car because.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
It's dwindling. It's dwindling. I was.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
I was personally pleasantly surprised with how many kids had
showed up to uh my house in the neighborhood. It's
been dwindling down for years and years, and I think
last year maybe two or three groups of kids and
that was it. But this year, I'd say almost a
dozen groups of kids and groups groups of kids, and
then the last two groups I'd say were mid to
(26:55):
upper teenagers. Yeah, which I personally find absolutely fantastic. I
am AOK with the upper teenagers going out and trigger treating.
You're doing something kind and sweethearted rather than going out
and doing something rambunctious and causing trouble. So I will
gladly give teenagers candy on Halloween if they put forth
some effort to go trigger treating and dress up. I've
(27:15):
got no problem with that whatsoever. He still had a
bunch of candy left over. When these two big groups
of teenagers come by, and the kids super polite, you know,
they say trick or treaty. I hand the bowl and
so they can grab whichever one's they like. So he
picks up one and goes, ah, I like just one,
and he goes, can I have more than one?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
And I go, you can have no more than seven,
and he frees eyes get all big. Missus.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Redbeard behind me starts laughing her ass off because she
thinks that's hilarious. And I'm just trying to get rid
of candy at this point because it's in eight thirty
or so, it's getting late for Halloween and trigger treating.
So the kid goes, you're serious, it's like very So
he just grabbed a big old handful puts in his bag.
The next kids come up do the same kind of thing.
It was fantastic. I love Halloween, love the trick or treers,
(28:07):
love the kids and the costumes.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I think in our neighborhood it's that it's it's aging
in our neighborhood. Duh, it's aging. The family across the
street that has kids were gone. I think they went
somewhere else. And then the other family that's just on
the other side of us, I think they they they
(28:30):
they're going to sell their house, but they've already moved
into another house, which is a few miles away because
their mother, the mother and mother in law are now
living with them, so they've they've abandoned that house. So
I figured at some point I'll just I'm thinking about
just starting to squat in it just become a squatter
(28:51):
because they had they recently had it completely redone. So
I'm thinking I'll just build squat and then sell mine
and then they can't get you know, they won't be
able to remove the true Yeah. So anyway, uh, snap,
after this.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Michael, if you're going to prime the pump for your
go fundme jar, make sure you put pennies in it.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
I hear they're discontinued the penny, of course, and.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
So it might become even more valuable at some point.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Well, I would only prime the pump with pennies here,
because these are all radio people. They're all cheap asses.
So I wouldn't you know, if I put a dollar
bill in there, somebody would take the dollar bill. It
was not like somebody go, oh, I think you will
put a dollar into you know, they would take the
dollar bill. So there's there's a there's a certain you know,
you gotta you have to understand exactly how far you
(29:39):
can go with these things, and I understand that in
radio land you can't go very far. The Trailhead Institute
is kind of some morphous, really hard to find information
about it. I mean, you can go to their website
and you can read about you know, who the board
of directors are and the executive director and all of that.
But to say that they have very specific ties to
(30:05):
the Democrat polit Bureau, they have very specific ties, in fact,
come from the revolving door, having, for example, the head
of it, Michelle Shima sim Mira something like that. She
used to work at the call of Department of Public
Health and Environment. She's directly connected to the state agency
(30:28):
funding streams, all the public health workforce strategies and the
implementation of the public state public health initiatives as all
the others. So again it's the revolving door of let's
appropriate the money, give it to our friends. Now friends
will then figure out who qualifies and doesn't qualify and
pass it out. And we're talking about hundreds of millions
(30:50):
of dollars. Then we get to the coupdi grass that
really bugs me, and that is that Democrats are now
screaming about children are little. I mean, I guess babies
and children now have distended stomachs, you know, like you
might see you know on a you know, feed the
(31:12):
children out of Africa or something that babies are dying,
that people are absolutely starving to death. There is I
don't have a stat in front of me, but you
can again, I know you can manipulate statistics, but the
average person on snap or Wick has an average weight
(31:35):
that is higher than the average American And you can
drop from that whatever conclusion you want. But it doesn't
surprise me considering that most of those recipients tend to
buy junk food and they don't really eat nutritious stuff.
You've seen the videos and you've heard the videos that
we've played over the past week about you know, you know,
my kids need their you know, they need their snacks
(31:57):
and they need their blah blah blah blah whatever. Well
that's what they're doing. But then last Friday, Katie v R.
On the Evening News program ran a story about a
butcher shop up in Fort Collins where, you know how
I argue and I sincerely believe that we as a
(32:18):
nation have abdicated our compassion to the federal government. He
actually says that none of those exact words, but he
complains about the fact that he is doing what we
should all be doing. But he doesn't think we should
be doing that he thinks the federal government is responsible
(32:40):
for feeding hungry people in this country. That's how far
off the beaten path we've gotten in terms of how
this republic should operate. I want you to hear that
after the news the top of the hour, and then
we'll go on to the next topic. Don't go away.
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