12-13-24 - 6am - Jill Spreads Joy, Good Christmas As and Tax Funded 'Invesments'

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's low of Friday cash pay relief shots today, no
cackle Friday. Yeah, all of you both, Hey, all you goobers.
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(00:21):
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(01:07):
new updated iHeart Radio App. Regond I fulfill my obligation.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
That's about right.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
But I will honestly say that I absolutely love the
talkback feature because that's less work we have to do
because you leave us a talkback which chases, which forces
us to chase squirrels, which means we don't have to
do any work.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
I love it, well, you know, you think about it,
so people have I normally don't bring this up because
it usually irritates some people, but you know, call somebody
that cares. But I don't know. Ten years ago, I
quit taking phone calls because I found an industry All

(01:46):
industry research shows that people either love or they hate radio,
or love or hate phone calls. So I told management
I wanted to try to do kind of what Rush
used to do. You know, Rush took phone calls, but
Rush was really good at keathing phone calls and saying,
we're gonna get hours for hours, we're gonna give the
phone lines. We're gonna give the phone lines. And then

(02:06):
out of the thirty million people listening to him, they,
you know, Bo Snurtley was able to select exactly the
one phone call out of you know, thirty million listeners
that fit exactly the point that Rush wanted to make.
So I decided that, you know what I'm gonna do
is just we're going to take use of all of
the social media. You know, we got Twitter or x,

(02:27):
we got Facebook, we got Instagram, and we have the
text line, and then iHeart did the stupidest thing of
all and gave us the dog back. So we have
the equivalent of of phone calls, which, then because of
my adhd you know, adhd attle brain now allows to

(02:47):
your point, for us to chase squirrels.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
I love it too, because then they don't have to
wait on hold forever. Even if we were a call
in show. They're not on hold for forty five minutes
to an hour just to say something witty or snarky
or even make us to chase the squirrel. You just
leave that thirty second talk back and you're done.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Right Dan, And Dragon's back there listening to him. And
because Dragon is as lazy asked as I am, Dragon
is listening to all of them and figuring out which
one should I play the wool one either piss brown
off yep, make us all laugh yep, or cause us
to chase a squirrel yep, which will totally eat up

(03:26):
a segment yep. Do whatever. So you're back there doing
that at the same time that we're both reading all
the text messages looking for the same thing. Now I've
come in again this morning, and I've got all my
tabs open and I've got you know, again, I have
no idea what I'm going to go to first, but
I've got all these things that I want to talk about.
And I come in now, when was this scent? Well?

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Real quick, one more quick thing about the talkbacks. Yes,
you get thirty seconds. You don't have to fill the
entire thirty seconds. You know who I'm talking to. Just
because you have for thirty seconds, doesn't mean you need
to talk for thirty seconds. I love all of them,
don't get me wrong.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
But so yesterday, you know, I run, no I do.
I run some marins, and I take the dogs on
a walk, and I come back and I see that
at ten thirty six yesterday morning that my boss has
sent out a you know, a cluster wide email. I

(04:28):
just love using the word cluster because it kind of
fits kind of what this one is.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Normally, an F comes after right exactly.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
And that's pretty much the situation in which we work in.
So and it's uh, you know, business wire is a
is a company that is used by mostly publicly traded company,
but startups can do it too, in which it's a
it's a PR blast thing, so they can send out

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these PR blasts and so our boss sends out email
about very excited to share with you this. The iHeart
app has a new design rolling out over the coming week,
blah blah blah. And so I read through the business
wire press release and that really has me curious. So
I do I open up my iHeart app. It is

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not automatically upgraded. So I go to the app store
and then the little upgrade button the piers and so
I upgrade it. And I go through and I noticed
for the first time because I don't, oh, the buzzes
aren't listening. But I don't normally use the iHeartRadio app.

(05:39):
I know you can get the podcasts there, you can
do all of that, but I have a podcast app
for that. But I looked at what they had listed
as my favorites. Now I've never I have chosen I
think four stations, no favorites, okay, And I do have
like three or four favorites. Obviously k HOL, KDFD KOA,

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let's see k t r H in Houston, WABC seventy
seven in New York, and maybe kf I in LA.
I have like five six favorites. But I had like
a dozen favorites listed, and there was a Christian radio station.

(06:29):
There was a Taylor Swift or something station.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
There was.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
I didn't know that there was a Roy Mercer station,
but there was Roy Mercer listed as one of my favorites.
And I think, is that because I played Roy Mercer
and my phone's heard that, Yes, yes, except it's Larry
the Cable Guy hosts or something. So it's like, no,
that's not what I want. I just go to YouTube.

(06:56):
If I want R. D. Mercer, I just go to
you and use it from there. So I ascertain what
you just mentioned, and that is they've either listening to
me or they're force feeding favorites because like the Taylor.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Swift channel, we think you'll like.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
I don't think I have ever. I mean what I honestly,
I honestly there here's what I know about Taylor Swift.
She there was something on the news at the top
of the hour that she won some awards last night
or something. I know that there's something about she just
had a birthday. I think she turned thirty five, thirty seven.
I don't know how she is. And she was shopping

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for some Christmas present recently. I couldn't just.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Think for a Christmas present in December. Who would to thunk?

Speaker 1 (07:48):
I know? And I honestly can't put a gun to
my head. I'll throw it making up names, but I
do not know a name of one of her songs,
not one song, And I I understand that the genre
of her songs are pretty much I make bad choices
about men. That's all I know is that fairly actually.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Want to be president again? Huh? Who did she want
to be president?

Speaker 1 (08:17):
The woman that was all about joy? Speaking about the
woman that was all about joy? She apparently well's I
don't know whether she's actually still around or not, but
doctor Jill Biden is still around, and as many people

(08:37):
have indicated, many people believe, including in these quarters, I
sincerely believe this. I sincerely believe that Joe Biden and
Jill Biden and perhaps Hunter all voted for Donald Trump.
Do you think I'm nuts? I really think they did.
Think about this. You have been a United State State

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senator for better half of four centuries, and then you
finally get to be vice president and the first black
guy kicks you out and makes you go in the
Rose Garden and give a speech about how you would
make the greatest president ever. But I've decided not to run.
Now that means that he was probably told those snipers

(09:21):
on top of the White House of the East Residents
at the East Wing, as you're giving your speech in
the Rose Garden, they have a sniper rifle pointed at
the back of your head, So just read from the
teleprompter and don't divert or else splat. So he was

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forced out of the running for president in twenty sixteen.
He runs in twenty twenty, and he finally wins, and
then he gets pushed out again, all by the likes
of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Barack Obama. So
they've all stabbed him in the back. Do you really
think he's going to walk into that polling booth and
you know what, despite the fact that they have absolutely

(10:03):
screwed me over a dozen times, I'm going to vote
for that ditch that I've tried to shun off and
keep hidden from the public view as much as possible.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
But Pelosi said that he should be on Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
I'm just saying that, deep within the darkest what was
that was that?

Speaker 5 (10:22):
Me?

Speaker 1 (10:24):
I've got I've got something playing somewhere something Okay, Oh,
I know where it is hang on, uh okay, I
got it done. Turn it back on. So I sincerely
believe that doctor Jill Biden voted for Donald Trump. Now
listen as doctor Jill engaged in some sort of a

(10:45):
Kamala esque like word salad at the White House Conference
on Women's Health Research yesterday. The audience reaction, I think
shows that they get the joke.

Speaker 6 (10:57):
So I hope that you all feel that sense of
you know, peace and light, and that just for a
moment when you leave here today, that you feel, I
don't know, a little a sense of joy, because I
think we all need like this, you know, we all
need to feel joy now during this time of the season,

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during just during this time.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
So anyway, okay, now I'll start. You're all reading into that.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
So I hope she they voted for Trump. They despised
Kamala Harris. They despise her because she jumped in, you
know she you know, because I was Joe's first indication
that he's really pissed off, was I'm not going to
give them a chance to have a primary, and I'm
gonna go ahead and endorse my stupid vice president, even

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though I know she's a ditch and she's gonna lose.
I'm gonna buy golly, and Jill gets it too. And
you don't think that Jill's pissed off that she's not
gonna be first Lady for another four years. Oh my god,
she is so ticked off. This is I just look
knowing how DC works. I just find this glorious, absolutely glorious.

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And she even admits that, you know what I'm saying here,
So I.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
Hope that you all feel that sense of, you know, by.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
The way she gesticulates, she gestures when she says that
she looks up to the heavens and she waves her
arms up to the heavens, I hope you feel, you know,
the joy, And.

Speaker 6 (12:33):
So I hope that you all feel that sense of
you know, peace and light and that just for a
moment when you leave here today, that you feel, I
don't know, a little, a sense of joy, because I
think we all need like this, you know, we all
need to feel joy now during this time of the season,

(12:54):
during just during this time. So anyway, okay, you're all routing.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Into that, you're all reading into that exactly what I meant.
Oh okay, so let do what to do here? Oh,
you know, in speaking of advertising and all of that,
in the olden days, you know, like last week, advertising

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really did attempt to generate a positive attitude towards the
very product or service that was being advertised. So you know,
what are you trying to do. You're trying to increase
your market share, You're trying to increase your customer base,
You're trying to, you know, increase your profits, and then
wokeness and political correctness just simply got out of control.

(13:45):
Now the purpose of advertising, well except on this show,
is often to make potential customers gaged with revulsion by
simply cramming down the wokeness down your throat, and Google
is at the forefront of doing this. The tech giant
used a Christmas ad for its shopping aggregator feature self
proclaimed non binary TikTok influencer Cyrus Vessi Gregon You ever

(14:11):
heard of Cyrus VESSI sure have not, me either, prancing around?
So here's a guy prancing around in women's clothing, mincing
on about skin creams. Now see if you can get
I'll see if I can get through twenty four seconds
of this Google ads.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
So try this winter jinas?

Speaker 4 (14:32):
Is not it?

Speaker 5 (14:33):
Especially when I have so many holiday looks to pull off.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Thankfully, I know just the thing. Okay, Anison's talking you by.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Hydrated skin is a gift to everyone, No wrapping needed.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Happy Holidays to me, you shopping.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
I see stories like this you and I think. I
think of I think of two groups of people. I
think of all of the all of our ancestors. The
people have gone before us, you know, the greatest generation,
the men of this country, who are you know, rapidly

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dying off. Who did things like you know, raise the
flag at Iajima, who did things like stormed the beaches
at Normandy, Those who were just slaughtered at Pearl Harbor,
those who were captured by the Japanese and just tortured
something awful, the Vietnam vets, the Korean vets. I think

(15:37):
about the men in the Civil War who just lined
up and slaughtered each other. You know, you think about Gettysburg,
you think about Antietam, you think about all of those
great battles, You think about the faunid that you think
about the Revolution and the American Revolution, and you think about,
you know, the struggles that they had to create this

(15:58):
wonderful country that we have. I think about that group
of people, and you know, like my great grandfather who
served in World War One, who thought that everything was
a Communist conspiracy. Turns out he was probably right. And
then I think about another group of people. I think
about the like Jilani and HTS, which I'm going to
talk about a little bit today, and how you know

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they have they have freed the Syrians of a shirasad
so that they can now impose their own form of
a dictatorship, probably based on Shria law. And I think
about people that live in you know, really craphole countries,
you know, whether it be in Africa or the Caribbean,
or South America or wherever, who just would give anything

(16:42):
for a ham sandwich just you know, I take that back,
that's too great, just to have two pieces of white
bread with blowney and maybe mayo or no mao. They
just be happy to have a ham sandwich. And what
are they watching. They're watching a man dressed as a woman,
talking in a really effeminative voice, trying to sell some

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skin moisturizer. And they they look it upon us, and
they they hate us. They hate us, and all of
those that died and those still living World War One
vets at World War Two, vets that make it to
the memorial probably look at and go what wrong? What

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would we fight for?

Speaker 2 (17:29):
What?

Speaker 1 (17:29):
What was that battle? Why did why did all my
brothers die? They walked the Vietnam Wall and they look
at that, and they look at all those names, and
then they watch an ad like this and they think
to themselves, huh, what what happened to us? Where did
we go off the rail?

Speaker 4 (17:49):
Michael, your last segment is a perfect proof to me
that my father, who died probably almost twenty three years ago,
what's not recognize his own country if he were to
come back and see things like this Google ad today.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Isn't that true? I mean, we never really, you know,
one being a history buff and someone who loves history
and and and loves, you know, kind of all of
the machinations that took place to create this wonderful country,
and you look at where we are today and it
really is just it's I mean so many agities. I mean,

(18:29):
it is disgusting, but it's also sad. It's pathetic, and
I think that you and I should recognize that. And
I don't. Nobody knows what the future holds now. Everybody
can predict. You know, do you ever Ryan, have you
ever heard those ads that? And maybe they're just playing

(18:50):
them on Fox News. I don't hear them on any
of the music stations I listened to, but they have
these ads now about these California psychics. Have you heard
that commercial.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
Like miss Clio from back in the day.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
I don't remember that one.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Oh, a Jamaican woman or woman who pretended to be
Jamaican And I'm just going to tell you your future.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Now that might be a man pretending to be a
Jamaican woman. Here you go, Yeah, well no, this is
this is something called California Psychics. And they start they
add out with you know, you know, we're so good
that we reject ninety five percent of the people who
apply to be a psyche. And I every time they
say that, I'm thinking, well, if you're you know, if

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you're a psychic and you're any good, you should know
that you're gonna get rejected.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
If you think you're psychic, you probably are exactly.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
And they guarantee, I love this. They guarantee that they're
that they're reading or whatever they call them, will be
life changing or you'll get your money back and you
can get your first thirty minute. This shows how effective
repeating commercials is because I can remember. The curse commercial
is that if you if the reading you get is

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not life changing, you can get your money back, and
your first reading is only either twenty or twenty five dollars.
And I think you know for twenty or twenty five bucks, Dragon,
I'll give you twenty five bucks, and so I'll give
it to missus red Beer because I want to give
it to you. I'll give missus Red Beeer twenty five
bucks and I'll get twenty five bucks or whatever it is,

(20:20):
and we'll have some readings done and then if it's
not life changing for us, because you know, let's face it,
we can all use some life changing events. I mean
positive life changing events.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
No, no, nobody, it didn't say positive life changing events,
did it.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
No, it just say you're right. It just said life
changing events.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Uh yeah, Oh they're getting fired tomorrow or I guess
wins this shift over ten o'clock getting fired at fired today? Right?

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Event.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Well, and of course it's almost Christmas too, so you
know it's almost Christmas and you are about to take vacation,
so of course this is the time to fire us,
So I'll see if I can't sneak out the back
door today and avoid seeing anybody.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
And you know they'll wait so you're done with your
shift to do it or the last the last segment
and be like all.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
Right, n yeah. If I look up, you know, like
just before ten am and they're standing out the door,
well maybe I'll just barricade the door refuse to go out.
You know, why am I laughing? Why am I laughing?

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Because it's happened before exactly, just kidding.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
We love our jobs, you know.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
We do love our jobs, which is why we make
these fleek tracts about everything. We love our jobs so
much and we think we're so damn good at it
too that we don't mind like making fun of the
bosses and making fun of the company because well you
know that you would do it too if you could.
So we're just doing what you you we know you appreciate.

(21:53):
But go back to the talk back. It really is
pathetic to think about just how I mean, it's I mean,
I don't want to get too evangelical here, but it's
kind of like Sodom and Gomorrah. I mean, we really
are on the verge of just total cultural collapse. And
I think that's why, which you know, I've heard people

(22:15):
describe the election of Trump this way, that God doesn't
always choose the person that you and I might choose
to you know, bring about change or to you know,
to to spread the gospel or whatever it might be.
That he uses these these people that have all these
you know, warts and pimples and you know, faults and everything.

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And I think maybe that might be true with Trump,
because I do believe when I when I look at
everything going on and he's not even president yet, I'm thinking, yeah,
maybe we have made the right choice. Maybe just maybe
this worked out the way it was supposed to. And
it's always easy hindsight to look behind and say, oh

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my God, because as I've told you, I was really
worried that Trump was not going to win. I did
not know how this country would be I didn't know
how the world would be able to sustain four years
of Kamala Harris. I mean, this woman was just a walking,
breathing time bomb, just ready to set off World War three.

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Now that's not to say that World War three still
won't happen, but at least we'll have a leader in charge.
That will say, you know that will stand up and
say stop it, stop it. I'm going to blow your
asses off. So we got that going for us. And
I really do think that we're living in one of
the most fascinating times because we have seen, and I

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think many Democrats and even people who would call themselves
progresses or liberals have seen that this Marxist ideology that
has taken over the Democrat Party is going to destroy us.
And I think that's why you suddenly see this change. Now.
Why they continued to go along with it while those

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Marxists were in power is beyond me. It's just beyond
my understanding and my comprehension. Well, other than they don't
think logically. They think solely on the emotional side of
the brain. They don't use the logic side of the
brain whatsoever, which let us down this path. So all
the everything that our ancestors have done, everything, you know,

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the whole idea of every generation that follows the previous
generation is going to have a better world, you know,
a higher standard of living and everything, and we don't.
It's just crappy out there now. It's not total negative,
but generally speaking, it really is kind of bad. It

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really is, and I think we're seeing some changes that
quite frankly surprise me. So no segue best segwe where's
my story? H there's a local story that I want
to cover because it has to do with you know,

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we talked about these non government organizations, the NGOs, and
then we talk about like public private partnerships, and we
have so blurred what is a government responsibility versus what
is I wouldn't even say the responsibility of the private sector,

(25:28):
but is the role of the private sector. Yesterday, at
some point, maybe it was the Michael Brown minute or something,
we talked about the hoarding of tax dollars and that
the Governor's office, even the Department of Revenue, Department of Bag,
Department of Labor, I mean, Department of Education, all of

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these state agencies are hoarding money that they're already stealing
money out of tabor, the taxpayer Bill of Rights, they're
not returning tax dollars to us. And then yesterday I
ran across this story. Headline is just simply downtown Denver
is set for hang on, be think about this at

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the federal level. How difficult it's going to be for
Musk and Ramaswami to find places to cut money, and
it's he going to be even more difficult in some cases,
maybe even trouble with Trump convincing Trump, hey, impound these funds,
don't spend these funds. Or if you're going to do

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things like eliminate the Department of Education, that you're going
to have to actually get congressional approval to do that.
Or if you're going to reform, not eliminate, but reform
Social Security and entitlements, that's going to take a lot
of congressional action too, and it's going to be really
hard to do.

Speaker 5 (26:52):
So.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Having said that, now listen to this headline. Downtown Denver
is set for five hundred and seventy million dollars of
tax funded investment, meaning spending in housing, jobs, culture, parks,
and mobility. Now five hundred and seventy million dollars, if
I can do sort of kind of like math in
my head, that's half a billion dollars a half more

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than half a billion dollars. But wait to hear what
they're going to spend the money on, and even more importantly,
listen to where they're going to get the money. The
Downtown Development Authority, the Denver Downtown Development Authority is set
to revamp downtown the central business district with hundreds of
millions of dollars in spending. Oh so, the headline calls

(27:39):
it an investment, the story uses the real term spending.
The authority previously funded the revitalization of Union Station in
the surrounding area. Earlier this year, voters approved changes that
will allow the Denver Redevelopment Authority to take on five
hundred and seventy million dollars of debt and spread the

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spending across a broader swath of downtown Denver. This week,
the Denver City Council proved the detailed plans for how
the money will be spent over the next thirteen years. Now,
think about that, for the next thirteen years, a half
billion dollars is going to be spent on doing all
the stuff to downtown Denver. They still haven't been finished

(28:23):
the sixteenth Street mall. It's still a cluster f and
they haven't finished that. And now they're going to pour
in another half billion dollars to make downtown Denver even better.
Now here's where I mean I was first pissed off
just thinking about five hundred seventy million dollars in debt,
because the very first thing I thought of, if you

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issue bonds, whether the revenue bonds or general obligation bonds,
you're going to have to have a source of revenue
or a source of taxes to pay for those bonds. Yeah,
you got to pay the debt. You just can't ignore it. Well,
instead of raising taxes to fund and service that debt,

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they're going to use existing taxes. In fact, the paragraph
reads this, Well, i'll tell you the what the paragraph
reads after the break.

Speaker 5 (29:19):
One of the best piece of advice I received in
my career when presenting in front of an executive team,
or in this case you, Michael Brown and the doubers,
was be brief, be brilliant, and be gone.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Okay, well we're out of here. Then we'll be gone. Sam,
enjoy the silence. So, talking about how difficult it's going
to be to reduce spending, the Downtown Development Authority has
decided to take five hundred seventy Issue five five and
twenty five whatever was five hundred seventy five million dollars

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worth of bonds using existing taxes, Meaning that's tax money
that was just laying around, which you could have lowered
taxes or refunded it through TABOR, but no, they're gonna
take that money and they're gonna spend over the next
thirteen years, which means construction for the next thirteen years
in downtown Denver on the following one, two, three, four, five, six,

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on the following seven items. Now, I want you to
think in terms of public private partnerships, what is a
purely government function versus what should really be a private
sector function? Because this is what your tax dollars. And
I'm sure this is true all across the country because

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all these cities have these development authorities, this is what
they're gonna spend money on, taxpayer money. So again, all
these schlubs going to work this morning so that you
can get your paycheck because of today's Friday, December thirteenth. Ooh,
we better be careful. It's with the Friday the thirteenth.
This is what they're going to spend half a billion

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dollars on, more than half a billion dollars new development.
Well wait a minute, development, What the hell is that?
I think that if it's development, like you know, we're
going to build a new I don't know, like a
shopping center, or we're going to build a new you know,
retail area. Well, that's a private sector function. That's not

(31:27):
a government function. Listen to this one office to residential conversions.
Why is the government doing that? So the government's going
to go buy up an old office building where people
haven't gone back to work, you know, like government buildings.
They're going to go buy government or just any office
building and convert it to residential property. That's a government function. No,

(31:54):
that's a private sector function. Find some investors and go
do that. You can make a bowload of money on it.
Economic and economic and employment opportunities and supporting economic and
employment opportunity. You're doing that. Child care facilities, parks and
public spaces. Now that I can say is government arts

(32:16):
and cultural events. Most people think that's public. I think
it should be private. The only one on the list
that is truly private is this better infrastructure for pedestrians
and those trying to get around downtown, meaning streets and
roads and bridges and things like that. Otherwise this is

(32:37):
all private sector work.