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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So the iHeart tech team could only keep me down.
So one day yesterday at four am, received an email
telling me for my protection, I had to reset my password.
I did it, and from that point on, for the
next twenty four hours, I couldn't use the iHeart app.
It tell me I logged into many times. According to iHeart,
that's ten attempts. I never did more than two attempts
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at a time. Their help desk tried but could not
help me. I guess God reset it.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
What do you expect, seriously, you thought iHeart was going
to help you that you listen to me.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
You listened to this program religiously, and you've heard me
bitch and moan and complain and gripe about You know,
I can't get a light bulb, I can't get a
light switch fixed. I had to Personally, I didn't have to,
but I couldn't stand it. Yesterday I came in here
and Dragon can attest to the fact that I took
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some clocks wipes, and back here behind my right shoulder
is the trash can. And I'm not gonna call out
any names Martina or Kaplis or Ryan, but the trash
can is there, not for you. To see how far
you can throw your coffee cup, but for you to
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walk over and drop your coffee cup into it. I
spent a good three minutes scrubbing that wall, getting the
coffee stains dripping down. I mean, it was disgusting. There's
trash over here on the floor. I cannot wear the
what do we do vacuum once a week or something?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Do I need to mention that this person who left
that talk pack brought us in paper towels because we
didn't have any paper towels here.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
That might be a good thing to remind her of.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Or the fact that if you look in the bottom
right hand corner of your screen right there, what it
says in the uh oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
To activate windows do something?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
How long it took to get light bulbs.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Or that the blinds are still broken, or.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
The fact that we got an email yesterday about the
top of the hour news.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Right that that was broken.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
But I'm not mentioning that, And then you dare.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Leave us a talk back complaining about how iHeart wouldn't
help you, Oh so so sorry. Oh call somebody that cares.
I've already made I've already made a switch to what
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I'm going to start talking about shocker. I know, you
know to think that now.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
You see, if you hadn't have said that, nobody would
have known. You could have just gone about your business
and talked about whatever you wanted to talk about.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Well, but they should know by now that I just
talked about whatever I want to talk about anyway. True,
but I was going to talk about what you and
I were talking about beforehand, about the assign fascination. But
now instead I want to start out with something a
little lighter, like.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
One of the naked guy stories from.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
The transgender surgeries.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Oh that's a lighter story.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, because of what we just recorded. Sure. Yeah, a
Denver City Council committee, I just want you to think about.
You know, we talk about how Marxists are useful idiots,
but we never really talked much about hypocrisy. And this story,
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which is the basis for the Michael Brown minute over
on Freedom Today, just drives me battye. This is according
to Denveright. A Denver City Council committee gave initial approval Wednesday,
which is why I read about it yesterday, which is
why now I'm talking about it today. To a proposed
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ban on the sale of most flavored tobacco products within
the city in County of Denver. So you might be
in Glendale and you know, you could go I guess
maybe go to the Tarja in Glendale or to you know,
a circle k in Glendale and you could buy your
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flavored vape or your flavored tobacco. I mean, first of all,
I don't give what. I don't vape. I don't smoke,
so I don't get any of that. And I don't
understand why you would want to vape something, you know,
expeeriment tobacco. I mean, I just don't. I don't get it.
But because I don't get it sometimes I don't get it.
Either whether I get it or get it, get it
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or get it is immaterial. Because if you want to
do that, I'm all for you doing that. I don't care.
But if you do it Glendale, which apparently is still legal,
I mean, why wouldn't it be legal in Glendale. I mean,
if you can go to the T and a bar,
why can't you, you know, go to the smoke flavored
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vake products. But if you cross you know, if you
cross overre On, you know, Cherry Creek Drive and you
cross into Denver. Well, now, you are a criminal. It
would prohibit the sale in Denver products including fruit and candy,
flavored e cigarettes, menthol cigarettes, flavored hookah tobacco, and flavored
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chewing pouches. On a six to one vote, members of
the now listen to the name of this committee. Now,
you know most committees, like you know, you've got the
Judiciary Committee, or you have the you know, the House
Ways and Means Committee, or you have the House Homeland
Security Committee. No, in Denver, we have the Safety, Housing,
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Education and Homelessness Committee. Safety, Housing, Education and Homelessness. Huh
they maybe there's consolidating committees. I don't know. But what
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one has to do with the other, which has to
do with the other, which has to do the other?
I don't know. Anyway, the Safety, Housing, Education and Homeless
Committee approve the measure, sending it onto the full City Council.
Mayor Mike Johnston has all has obviously already said that
he supports the idea. Now here's why or here's how
Denverright reports why they want to do this. The sponsors
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of the measures say that it is a way to stop
to stop tobacco manufacturers from selling dangerous products that appeal
to young people. Cars are a dangerous product that appeal
to young people.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Garage Oh wait, they're not appealed to the thing, but
they are dangerous to young people.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
They are, and they are appealing. Yeah, I've never understood why.
Like in my neighborhood, like we've tried to match. In fact,
the garage doors actually do match the trim. But we
have some houses in our neighborhood that have let's say,
gray brick, but then they've got this.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Yeah, there's one in our neighborhood brea.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
It's kind of coordinated with the trim. The brick coordinates
with the trim, but then the garage door is like
this ugly, fake brownish it's compressed word. Yeah, I just
don't I don't get it. I just the house well,
and it is their house, and and again I don't care.
I just observe it. I just observe it, and I
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observe it by the next step and wonder why, like
what were you thinking.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
You thought that was a good idea?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Real you know, it's like you know, wearing you know,
striped pants and a plaid shirt or you know, and
then the polka dot jacket or something.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Squirrels already there is a pepto bismoal colored house too,
and that not in our neighborhood, that the next neighborhood over.
It's like you went with that. That's what colors the
trim a red. So it's really pink and red.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
You got to get a picture and put that up
on the web. Okay, yeah, yeah, I want to see
the pink and red house. Mate. Maybe it's a whole house.
Dragon's got a whole house in his neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
No, no, not mine, but the next neighborhood over.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Oh, the next one over. So in the next door neighborhood,
Dragon's got a whole house, and he happens to know
where it is.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
It's probably one of those schools.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Well, which is attractive to the young kids. You know,
the young kids, you know, they're all they're all horny.
Every teenager in the world is horny, right, So there
you go. The sponsors of the measure say it is
a way to stop tobacco manufacturers from selling dangerous products
that appeal to young people. The opponents, now here's here's
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the bias in the din Bright story. Opponents COMMA, mostly
representing tobacco manufacturers and sellers, Oh, those evil tobacco manufacturers
and those evil sellers of the products are you? The
band is overreaching, will severely hurt businesses and ultimately will
not drive down youth consumption. And one council member asked
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whether the band would simply create a black market. Let's
think about.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
This, just curious here too, really quickly?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Is it legal to sell flavored tobacco to a miner?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I didn't think it was legal to sell any tobacco
product to a miner. Oh, okay, Nor do I think
it's legal to sell let's say, orange flavor vodka to
a miner. Let alone, just plain old vod just.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Thrown out there, because that's kind of confused.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Well, you know, but situation normal. You're confused because you
just don't get it. Uh, she's worth anyways. Uh. One
council member asked whether the band would simply create a
black market. You mean, like the legalization of marijuana, because
that will get rid of the black market. What did
that do? Well? It drove up prices and it created
a black market. The healthy impacts of tobacco use were
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central to a presentation from the sponsors, Serena Gonzales Guitaris,
who holds an at large council seat, Sean tell Lewis
who represents District Gake, and Daryl Watson, who represents District nine.
And then there's a nice photo of them all lined
up smiling. They give up, big eyes smiles, Protect Denver Kids.
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That's the placard they have at the podium on the
lectern that they have. It says protect Denver Kids. Now.
The use of the cigarettes rose almost fifty percent between
twenty nineteen and twenty twenty three, according to these council members.
That's just according to them, I don't know, I don't care.
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More than eight and ten sales are flavored products, and
disposable vates dominate the market, often having high nicotine content.
A Surgeon General's report stated tobacco use remains higher for
some groups, making tobacco related disparities a serious social injustice. No,
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we're so doomed. We're so doomed. Tobacco use remains higher
for some groups, making tobacco related disparities a serious social injustice. Well,
then by God, let's have government intervention. Because what's better
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at creating or what's better at dissipating or negating social
injustices than the government. I mean, the government never creates
any sort of social disparity, you know, like veterans that
are struggling on homelessness while illegal aliens get hotel rooms,
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in cell phones, in education and medical care. I mean,
so the government fixed that problem. But that's not the point.
Let's see, uh, who said this, Councilman Watson. I can
speak to my individual family members that have died from
tobacco use, specifically from smoking menthol cigarettes that were created
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and targeted for my family solely on the purpose because
we're black and we're African American. Can't you see those
evil white dudes sitting somewhere in Kentucky or Tennessee or
wherever Philip Morris is located. You know what, we need
to kill black people, and they like menthol cigarettes. So
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let's marget menthol cigarettes to black people. I'm kind of curious.
I make what in ebony because you don't see, you
can't eat they they don't advertise on television, radio, so
what magazines and and and they're targeting specifically black people.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
All right, maybe I'm slightly biased here, but it actually
the flavored tobaccos actually helped both of my brother in
laws quit smoking.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Oh seriously, Yeah, because it was just so bad, they
just gave it up.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Well, the wives were like, hey, this this stinks. You
got to do something else. So then they switched over
to the flavored vape.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And what they did spearman or what they chat all.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Kinds of flavors. I couldn't even tell you as to
what they use.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Mango, Yeah, they got mango.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Some Skittles flavors. I recall at one.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Point, wait a minute, Skittles, which is somewhat speaking of
social injustice, is marketed to young black teens and and
so now we're going to be got Skittles flavored. They
products there were.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I don't know if they're they're going to get banned
here shortly, but yeah, they were able to switch over
from cigarettes to vape still then switch over to the
flavored ones, which were much more appealing to the wives.
And then they also lowered the nicotine count in their
vapes until they didn't have anymore and they just stopped.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
And I know it's anecdotal, because you know, you mean.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
You mean two individuals, two human beings on their own. Yeah. Uh,
overcame all the social injustices, all of the addiction, all
of everything and on their own just stopped.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Well full disclosures. They are white, so.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Well still I mean mango flavored, you know, I'm sure, yeah, okay,
all right, I wonder if they have tequila flavored. And
that's you know, targeted towards Hispanic communities, because everything's targeted.
You know, we have micro targeting now in terms of advertising,
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micro targeting. And here's a nice picture of the protect
Denver kids.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
The story goes on talking about whether or not the
black market is a concern. A representative of the Denver
Police Department said it did not believe the measure would
create a black market. That came in response to a
question question about a murder involving a botched robbery of
vape cartridges. I'm not laughing about the murder. I'm laughing
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about the cause of link they're trying to create here. Hey,
you know, we had a we we had we had
a we had somebody break into a tobacco shop. I
don't know the details of the story, so don't hold
me to any any factuality here. We had a murder
because there was a botched robbery of vape cartridges from
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a tobacco shop. But I don't think we have to
worry about a black market because we other goods continue
to rob the vape stores anyway, so and we don't
care about that, So don't worry about that. The Department
looked into about one hundred and forty cases. I don't
mean like boxes, I mean crimes. They The department looked
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into about one hundred and forty one hundred and forty
cases of robberies and burglaries where a vape product was involved.
I'm just trying to think of how we could start
doing on Fridays, not just taxpayer relief shots, but if
we have one hundred and forty cases of robberies were
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a vape product, we could do vape a vape robbery segment.
Where did the vape robberies occur, and the details like
what flavor did they steal and where did they end up?
And over the age, you know, were there any victims.
We are all sorts of things. Samanchez says right now,
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we don't believe we create a black market of any kind.
We actually think their stores did not have these products,
they wouldn't be targeted by juveniles who could not purchase
those products anyway. These people are so stupid. Let's see.
Greer Bailey, executive director of the Colorado Wyoming Petroleum Marketers Association,
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which represents twenty two hundred retailers, obviously convenience stores, said
he had offered a compromise proposal to the sponsor that
would ban flavored vape products but allow other flavored tobacco
to be sold. Our proposal is not just vote no.
That's not what we're saying. We're saying, work with us
and do better, do better, denvers. Yeah, that'll be that'll
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be the day. So here's what bugs me about the story.
We're going to ban vape flavored tobacco products and flavored
tobacco itself in order to protect the children. But you know,
we've talked this week about puberty blockers and how the
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state of Tennessee, for example, the case currently before the
US Supreme Court has banned puberty blockers and transgender surgeries
for children. Well, wait a minute, you're all concerned about
that we can't sell tobacco products to children, which is
already outlawed, and whether it's flavored or not, it's outlawed
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and children can't buy it. But you want to ban
it because it's going to hurt children. Yet you could
probably go to Denver General. You could probably go to
many doctors within the city and county of Denver and
have your penis removed or you know, or had artificial vagina,
or you know, have your boobs cut off, have your
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testicles removed. But that's seems to me to be harmful
to children. But they're worried about tobacco products. Government is
always intervening, trying to protect you, but only to protect
you from things like tobacco. But if you want to
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get your we are whacked off. Well how about it.
We don't care about that. Denver. You continue to amaze
me with your hypocrisy and your stupidity.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Michael, if you were to ask my fifteen year old
son if he could get anything he wanted regarding vape
or KHC or whatever, regardless of any stupid band in Denver.
We don't live in Denver, but if we did, I
guarantee he'd say it. You can get anything you want,
any time you want. It's just that the city council
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Denver is just stupid.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Oh I was was that a cat or trying?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Maybe it was the fifteen year old No, I totally agree,
but that just adds to the stupidity of it.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
So they're gonna ban something that's to Dragon's point earlier,
that we're gonna ban something that's already illegal for a
minor to obtain, which to your point, they already obtain.
If there I want to use a word that just
irritates people, irregardlessly.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
But you know, if it's just in the whole Senny County,
just go to the next county, across the road.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Across the road, that's what I mean. Just go down
Cherry Creek, drive just over to Glendale and just walk
in and get it there, or just here, just just drive,
just drive over here to the King Supers over here
in Greenwot Village. Just you know, just go off you
blots and go go pick it up. Oh my god,
it's so stupid, so stupid. Uh. I know this comes
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as a shock to you, but I think we have
class warfare going on in the country, and I think
some of it might be justified. Now, I don't mean
I'm not trying to justify murder or anything, but I
have a new little habit that I've been doing because
I really just just still I still do my morning,
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driving in turning on Fox and Friends. But I found
myself more often than not with my mind wandering off
to something else because it's so in Aine that I
just can't. I flip over and I go listen to
I don't know, Bruce Springsteen or something.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Morning friends are better with friends.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, if I could just get to view coming in
that that that would make my morning. You know, Like
this morning, I already had a hard time getting out
of bed, well, not not getting out of bed. I
was wide awake even before the alarm went off. Just
had a hard time just like well literally getting out
of bed, just because I was just like, yeah, I
think just somebody have me a microphone. I think I'll
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just lay here and just do it right here.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
You're fine here?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah? Why do I need to go? Why do I
need to get dressed?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
You know?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I also noticed like.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
I'd appreciate it if you got dressed.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Well, have you have you noticed that?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Now?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I can't speak for any of their hosts that you
work with, but I do know that there is somebody
on air at approximately the same time that we are
that I'm convinced does not shower, does not shave, does
not shampoo, doesn't do anything but just throw on whatever's
laying next to the bed and comes in and and
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and does their show.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Brett's a nice guy. Quit talking about him? Who Brett?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Well, I Brad would Brad would strike me as this
kind of guy that actually what do what I do?
Speaker 5 (23:01):
And the Boulder hippie reference.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Oh yeah, well true true? Yeah, uh, And Rick seems
to I've seen Rick come in a few mornings where
it's like, dude, go home, go back to bed. But
I've also seen Rick get on the elevator with me.
And Rick has obviously showered and shampoo.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
And and Willie never sleeps, so he don't.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
True, that's right, that's right, will he never sleeps. But
did I see this one individual? And it's like, did you?
Speaker 4 (23:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I just I can't come in to work without shaving
and showering and putting on clothes. And just this morning
was one of those mornings where I thought, yeah, and
just get up throwing a dirty shirt, pretty pair of jeans,
put on a baseball cap and just come on in
and just just do it. Who cares, and just take
a shower later in the day or something. Yeah, I mean,
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I might just start doing that.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
It's almost like you could kill a whole hour on that,
kill a whole hour on just the way if you
showed up your jeans and a T shirt and a
baseball cap.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yeah, well I could sleep later. Or you know. My
doctor's concerned about you know, I, you know, because I
do the fasting, which he thinks is a good thing.
But I tend to and and I have to do
what you do. I need to watch my carbs because
then when I eat lunch, if I go too high
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on the carbs, I have a hypoglycemic episode, am I
blood sugar just I just crash. And he has suggested
that maybe I want to start skipping the fasting and
stop at McDonald's. Don't don't, don't scream, but don't eat
the biscuit or the English muffin and just have the
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sausage in the egg and just you know, book up
on some protein coming in. But anyway, I say all
that to say I've kind of changed my routine a
little bit. Well, I'm still psychond down a diet cope
because I had to stop at the circle k and
talk to Zeus for a moment. Zeus is the big
black guy that works at the one. He's such a
nice guy. I mean, it's such a ghetto circle k
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and he is such a wonderful human being. It's just
it's it's a fascinating place. And the people that are
there at five am are.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Very very interesting, an interesting crowd.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
It's a very interesting crowd. You've got the blue collar workers,
you've got the Uber drivers, you've got the limo drivers,
delivery guys, the delivery guys. And and then today I
actually bumped into somebody, or actually they bumped into me,
and I just turned this head, excuse me. And his
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response was you're OK. And I got to look at him,
and for a split second, I thought to myself, what
are you doing in here? Because you know the pictures
we've seen of the assassin in.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
New York, the the professional Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
The so called professional assassin that bought a water bottle
at Starbucks, dropped a phone, took his mask down to
flirt with the clerk desk clerk at the hostel that
you know, exposed himself to the cameras as he was trying. Yeah,
that that professional assassin. Yeah, that guy. Yeah, I thought
that you could be that assassin. I mean, he was
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dressed the same way, had a mask and hood. I mean,
Zeus must have known him because or Zeus has a
ten gage behind the count and doesn't care. But anyway,
long story short that my mind begins to wonder as
it is right now, My mind begins to wonder as
I'm coming in and listening to Fox and Friends, because
it's just so blah. I've taken two coming in and
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opening the Drudge Report. Now I know the Drudge Report
leans left. Don't get me wrong. I'm not looking for quality.
I'm looking for headlines. I'm doing about dragon does I'm
looking for the headlines. I'm just trying to did World
War three start? Do we have you know? Do we
have B two bombers?
Speaker 5 (27:10):
You know?
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Bombing?
Speaker 6 (27:11):
You know?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Moscow? What's going on? Well, one of the stories again
about the assassin that caught my eye, was in big
bold red letters. Let me see you it's still there,
uh police blunder and then over here in the corner,
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uh where let me go back to the story. So
the story is a torrent of hate for health insurance
industry follows CEO's killings. This comes from the news and
the story goes like this, the fatal shooting on Wednesday
of a top United Healthcare executive, Brian Thompson, on a
Manhattan sidewalk has unlea a torrent of morbid glee from
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patients and others who say they have had negative experiences
with health insurance companies, that some of the hardest times
of their lives. There's a non story. Welcome to the
insurance industry. Now, I I don't like insurance. I see
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insurance as a necessary evil, and I want to say
publicly that my homeowner's insurance after we had that tornado
what's now been a year and a half ago, however long,
I don't keep track of time, they paid the claim fully.
They paid for things I didn't expect them to pay for.
They wrote a check. And when I got my renewal
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that January four or whenever was March whenever occurs. When
I got the renewal, there was a slight increase, but
it didn't double, it didn't do anything. It's just a
slight increase. So I I really have no complaints now
health insurance. I've had some complaints, but I'm an a hole,
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so I tend to appeal things. I tend to, you know,
give them a hard time, but I get the problems
that people have with health insurance, but listen to this
one comment underneath a video of the shooting posted online
by CNN. Here's what the comment said, thoughts and deductibles
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to the family. I shouldn't laugh, but that's pretty clever.
Thoughts and deductibles to the family. Unfortunately, my condolences are
out of network. Now that's clever, that's pretty funny. That's
very funny. But why is it funny? Because it's truthful?
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Because the and in particular, I think I would rank
health insurance as the worst, auto insurance as second, and
homeowners as last. Now, your mileages may vary depending on
where you live. If you live in Florida, you live
along the Gulf Coast or any coastal area, or you
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live in uh, you know, in California, then your homeowners
that that may be number one for you. But I
think it's I think it's health insurance, auto insurance, and
then homeowners insurance. One TikTok user wrote, I'm an er nurse,
and the things I've been that I've seen dying patients
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get denial for by insurance makes me physically sick. I
just can't feel sympathy for him, the CEO that was
killed because of all those patients and their families. Messages
that long enforcement officials say were found in bullet casings
at the scene of the shooting had inscribed delay and deny, which,
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according to this story, are two words familiar to many
Americans who have interacted with insurance companies for almost anything
other than routine doctor visits. That is true, So I
had seen a graph of health insurance companies ranked by
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size and ranked by the percentage of claims that they deny.
The health insurance industry average is about sixteen percent, and
in fact that that's the medium, so sixteen percent. There
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are a lot of insurance companies out of the I
would guess maybe twenty that were listed, So there were maybe,
you know, eight or nine below that nationwide industry average
of sixteen percent. And then it starts from sixteen percent
greater than it rises exponentially all the way up to
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the highest and largest at thirty two percent, double the
national average of claims denial, is United Healthcare. So of
course there's going to be class warfare, and of course
there is going to be backlash against well. I wouldn't
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say that they support the assassination of the CEO. But
for a guy that makes According to one commentator, I
don't know whether it's true or not, he made a
million dollars a month, which to me seemed to be
fairly nominal considering it's the largest health insurance company in
the country. But it leads to the question, is there
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really a class divide? Well, I think the answer is yes.
But why if.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Hunter didn't commit any crimes or do anything wrong according
to President Biden and his family, then why would he
need a pardon?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Just wondering he's also the smartest man he knows he
you know, I'm going to take your question seriously, and
I want to I'm going to give you a serious answer.
The pardon is because he has been convicted on both
the tax charges. I think he was convicted on the
tax charges and he was I know he's for a fact,
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convicted on the gun charge and he's awaiting sentencing on
both of those. So the pardon is two fold. One
is to prevent him from going to jail. But because
of the terms of the pardon, it going all the.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Way back to January of twenty fourteen, that just happens
to coincide when Hunter Biden started doing business in Ukraine,
and that's when the money laundering started, and that's when
the influenced pedling started. So that's why he did something
that is even even broader than the Gerald Ford's pardon
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of Richard Nixon. He's not been charged with anything in
terms of corruption, so you're going to pardon him for
crimes that may have been committed between January one of
twenty fourteen and whatever it was December one, December one
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of twenty twenty four so essentially a ten year period,
a nine year, eleven month period. And they're doing that
to protect themselves. Although unless he pardons himself and pardons
his brother James, they still have liability. Because Hunter no
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longer has the protection of the Fifth Amendment. Hunter can
be subpoenaed before in front of a grand jury and
forced to testify about things that his dad or his
brother may have done involved in money laundering or influenced
peddling or any other sort of corrupt scheme going on,
and he'll be forced to test he'll be required to
testify and if he perjures himself any time after December
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one of twenty twenty four that's a separate crime that
is not covered by the pardon. So now they think
there you see, Joe Biden thinks he's smarter than than
then behalf. He really thinks he's really smart, and he's
really not. He thinks this is going to make everything
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go away, and it doesn't necess necessarily make everything go away.
In fact, it puts It protects Hunter from jail for
those things he's currently being convicted of. It will prevent
him from getting convicted, charged, or going to jail for
any of the things that Hunter may have been involved
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with his uncle and his dad, but it doesn't protect
his unclean's dad. In fact, makes Hunter a I would
call like a super witness. No Fifth Amendment privilege, no
Fifth Amendment rights. You're going to have to testify. All right,
let's go when we get back. Because I really am
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fascinated by this backlash against the assassination of the CEO
of United Healthcare because it shows how really people are
pissed off about the health insurance industry. And I think
it's you're gentlemen,
So the iHeart tech team could only keep me down.
So one day yesterday at four am, received an email
telling me for my protection, I had to reset my password.
I did it, and from that point on, for the
next twenty four hours, I couldn't use the iHeart app.
It tell me I logged into many times. According to iHeart,
that's ten attempts. I never did more than two attempts
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at a time. Their help desk tried but could not
help me. I guess God reset it.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
What do you expect, seriously, you thought iHeart was going
to help you that you listen to me.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
You listened to this program religiously, and you've heard me
bitch and moan and complain and gripe about You know,
I can't get a light bulb, I can't get a
light switch fixed. I had to Personally, I didn't have to,
but I couldn't stand it. Yesterday I came in here
and Dragon can attest to the fact that I took
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some clocks wipes, and back here behind my right shoulder
is the trash can. And I'm not gonna call out
any names Martina or Kaplis or Ryan, but the trash
can is there, not for you. To see how far
you can throw your coffee cup, but for you to
(01:24):
walk over and drop your coffee cup into it. I
spent a good three minutes scrubbing that wall, getting the
coffee stains dripping down. I mean, it was disgusting. There's
trash over here on the floor. I cannot wear the
what do we do vacuum once a week or something?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Do I need to mention that this person who left
that talk pack brought us in paper towels because we
didn't have any paper towels here.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
That might be a good thing to remind her of.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Or the fact that if you look in the bottom
right hand corner of your screen right there, what it
says in the uh oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
To activate windows do something?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
How long it took to get light bulbs.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Or that the blinds are still broken, or.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
The fact that we got an email yesterday about the
top of the hour news.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Right that that was broken.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
But I'm not mentioning that, And then you dare.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Leave us a talk back complaining about how iHeart wouldn't
help you, Oh so so sorry. Oh call somebody that cares.
I've already made I've already made a switch to what
(02:39):
I'm going to start talking about shocker. I know, you
know to think that now.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
You see, if you hadn't have said that, nobody would
have known. You could have just gone about your business
and talked about whatever you wanted to talk about.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Well, but they should know by now that I just
talked about whatever I want to talk about anyway. True,
but I was going to talk about what you and
I were talking about beforehand, about the assign fascination. But
now instead I want to start out with something a
little lighter, like.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
One of the naked guy stories from.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
The transgender surgeries.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Oh that's a lighter story.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, because of what we just recorded. Sure. Yeah, a
Denver City Council committee, I just want you to think about.
You know, we talk about how Marxists are useful idiots,
but we never really talked much about hypocrisy. And this story,
(03:31):
which is the basis for the Michael Brown minute over
on Freedom Today, just drives me battye. This is according
to Denveright. A Denver City Council committee gave initial approval Wednesday,
which is why I read about it yesterday, which is
why now I'm talking about it today. To a proposed
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ban on the sale of most flavored tobacco products within
the city in County of Denver. So you might be
in Glendale and you know, you could go I guess
maybe go to the Tarja in Glendale or to you know,
a circle k in Glendale and you could buy your
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flavored vape or your flavored tobacco. I mean, first of all,
I don't give what. I don't vape. I don't smoke,
so I don't get any of that. And I don't
understand why you would want to vape something, you know,
expeeriment tobacco. I mean, I just don't. I don't get it.
But because I don't get it sometimes I don't get it.
Either whether I get it or get it, get it
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or get it is immaterial. Because if you want to
do that, I'm all for you doing that. I don't care.
But if you do it Glendale, which apparently is still legal,
I mean, why wouldn't it be legal in Glendale. I mean,
if you can go to the T and a bar,
why can't you, you know, go to the smoke flavored
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vake products. But if you cross you know, if you
cross overre On, you know, Cherry Creek Drive and you
cross into Denver. Well, now, you are a criminal. It
would prohibit the sale in Denver products including fruit and candy,
flavored e cigarettes, menthol cigarettes, flavored hookah tobacco, and flavored
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chewing pouches. On a six to one vote, members of
the now listen to the name of this committee. Now,
you know most committees, like you know, you've got the
Judiciary Committee, or you have the you know, the House
Ways and Means Committee, or you have the House Homeland
Security Committee. No, in Denver, we have the Safety, Housing,
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Education and Homelessness Committee. Safety, Housing, Education and Homelessness. Huh
they maybe there's consolidating committees. I don't know. But what
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one has to do with the other, which has to
do with the other, which has to do the other?
I don't know. Anyway, the Safety, Housing, Education and Homeless
Committee approve the measure, sending it onto the full City Council.
Mayor Mike Johnston has all has obviously already said that
he supports the idea. Now here's why or here's how
Denverright reports why they want to do this. The sponsors
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of the measures say that it is a way to stop
to stop tobacco manufacturers from selling dangerous products that appeal
to young people. Cars are a dangerous product that appeal
to young people.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Garage Oh wait, they're not appealed to the thing, but
they are dangerous to young people.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
They are, and they are appealing. Yeah, I've never understood why.
Like in my neighborhood, like we've tried to match. In fact,
the garage doors actually do match the trim. But we
have some houses in our neighborhood that have let's say,
gray brick, but then they've got this.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Yeah, there's one in our neighborhood brea.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
It's kind of coordinated with the trim. The brick coordinates
with the trim, but then the garage door is like
this ugly, fake brownish it's compressed word. Yeah, I just
don't I don't get it. I just the house well,
and it is their house, and and again I don't care.
I just observe it. I just observe it, and I
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observe it by the next step and wonder why, like
what were you thinking.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
You thought that was a good idea?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Real you know, it's like you know, wearing you know,
striped pants and a plaid shirt or you know, and
then the polka dot jacket or something.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Squirrels already there is a pepto bismoal colored house too,
and that not in our neighborhood, that the next neighborhood over.
It's like you went with that. That's what colors the
trim a red. So it's really pink and red.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
You got to get a picture and put that up
on the web. Okay, yeah, yeah, I want to see
the pink and red house. Mate. Maybe it's a whole house.
Dragon's got a whole house in his neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
No, no, not mine, but the next neighborhood over.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Oh, the next one over. So in the next door neighborhood,
Dragon's got a whole house, and he happens to know
where it is.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
It's probably one of those schools.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Well, which is attractive to the young kids. You know,
the young kids, you know, they're all they're all horny.
Every teenager in the world is horny, right, So there
you go. The sponsors of the measure say it is
a way to stop tobacco manufacturers from selling dangerous products
that appeal to young people. The opponents, now here's here's
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the bias in the din Bright story. Opponents COMMA, mostly
representing tobacco manufacturers and sellers, Oh, those evil tobacco manufacturers
and those evil sellers of the products are you? The
band is overreaching, will severely hurt businesses and ultimately will
not drive down youth consumption. And one council member asked
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whether the band would simply create a black market. Let's
think about.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
This, just curious here too, really quickly?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Is it legal to sell flavored tobacco to a miner?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I didn't think it was legal to sell any tobacco
product to a miner. Oh, okay, Nor do I think
it's legal to sell let's say, orange flavor vodka to
a miner. Let alone, just plain old vod just.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Thrown out there, because that's kind of confused.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Well, you know, but situation normal. You're confused because you
just don't get it. Uh, she's worth anyways. Uh. One
council member asked whether the band would simply create a
black market. You mean, like the legalization of marijuana, because
that will get rid of the black market. What did
that do? Well? It drove up prices and it created
a black market. The healthy impacts of tobacco use were
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central to a presentation from the sponsors, Serena Gonzales Guitaris,
who holds an at large council seat, Sean tell Lewis
who represents District Gake, and Daryl Watson, who represents District nine.
And then there's a nice photo of them all lined
up smiling. They give up, big eyes smiles, Protect Denver Kids.
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That's the placard they have at the podium on the
lectern that they have. It says protect Denver Kids. Now.
The use of the cigarettes rose almost fifty percent between
twenty nineteen and twenty twenty three, according to these council members.
That's just according to them, I don't know, I don't care.
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More than eight and ten sales are flavored products, and
disposable vates dominate the market, often having high nicotine content.
A Surgeon General's report stated tobacco use remains higher for
some groups, making tobacco related disparities a serious social injustice. No,
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we're so doomed. We're so doomed. Tobacco use remains higher
for some groups, making tobacco related disparities a serious social injustice. Well,
then by God, let's have government intervention. Because what's better
(11:42):
at creating or what's better at dissipating or negating social
injustices than the government. I mean, the government never creates
any sort of social disparity, you know, like veterans that
are struggling on homelessness while illegal aliens get hotel rooms,
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in cell phones, in education and medical care. I mean,
so the government fixed that problem. But that's not the point.
Let's see, uh, who said this, Councilman Watson. I can
speak to my individual family members that have died from
tobacco use, specifically from smoking menthol cigarettes that were created
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and targeted for my family solely on the purpose because
we're black and we're African American. Can't you see those
evil white dudes sitting somewhere in Kentucky or Tennessee or
wherever Philip Morris is located. You know what, we need
to kill black people, and they like menthol cigarettes. So
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let's marget menthol cigarettes to black people. I'm kind of curious.
I make what in ebony because you don't see, you
can't eat they they don't advertise on television, radio, so
what magazines and and and they're targeting specifically black people.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
All right, maybe I'm slightly biased here, but it actually
the flavored tobaccos actually helped both of my brother in
laws quit smoking.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Oh seriously, Yeah, because it was just so bad, they
just gave it up.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Well, the wives were like, hey, this this stinks. You
got to do something else. So then they switched over
to the flavored vape.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And what they did spearman or what they chat all.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Kinds of flavors. I couldn't even tell you as to
what they use.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Mango, Yeah, they got mango.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Some Skittles flavors. I recall at one.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Point, wait a minute, Skittles, which is somewhat speaking of
social injustice, is marketed to young black teens and and
so now we're going to be got Skittles flavored. They
products there were.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I don't know if they're they're going to get banned
here shortly, but yeah, they were able to switch over
from cigarettes to vape still then switch over to the
flavored ones, which were much more appealing to the wives.
And then they also lowered the nicotine count in their
vapes until they didn't have anymore and they just stopped.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
And I know it's anecdotal, because you know, you mean.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
You mean two individuals, two human beings on their own. Yeah. Uh,
overcame all the social injustices, all of the addiction, all
of everything and on their own just stopped.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Well full disclosures. They are white, so.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Well still I mean mango flavored, you know, I'm sure, yeah, okay,
all right, I wonder if they have tequila flavored. And
that's you know, targeted towards Hispanic communities, because everything's targeted.
You know, we have micro targeting now in terms of advertising,
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micro targeting. And here's a nice picture of the protect
Denver kids.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
The story goes on talking about whether or not the
black market is a concern. A representative of the Denver
Police Department said it did not believe the measure would
create a black market. That came in response to a
question question about a murder involving a botched robbery of
vape cartridges. I'm not laughing about the murder. I'm laughing
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about the cause of link they're trying to create here. Hey,
you know, we had a we we had we had
a we had somebody break into a tobacco shop. I
don't know the details of the story, so don't hold
me to any any factuality here. We had a murder
because there was a botched robbery of vape cartridges from
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a tobacco shop. But I don't think we have to
worry about a black market because we other goods continue
to rob the vape stores anyway, so and we don't
care about that, So don't worry about that. The Department
looked into about one hundred and forty cases. I don't
mean like boxes, I mean crimes. They The department looked
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into about one hundred and forty one hundred and forty
cases of robberies and burglaries where a vape product was involved.
I'm just trying to think of how we could start
doing on Fridays, not just taxpayer relief shots, but if
we have one hundred and forty cases of robberies were
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a vape product, we could do vape a vape robbery segment.
Where did the vape robberies occur, and the details like
what flavor did they steal and where did they end up?
And over the age, you know, were there any victims.
We are all sorts of things. Samanchez says right now,
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we don't believe we create a black market of any kind.
We actually think their stores did not have these products,
they wouldn't be targeted by juveniles who could not purchase
those products anyway. These people are so stupid. Let's see.
Greer Bailey, executive director of the Colorado Wyoming Petroleum Marketers Association,
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which represents twenty two hundred retailers, obviously convenience stores, said
he had offered a compromise proposal to the sponsor that
would ban flavored vape products but allow other flavored tobacco
to be sold. Our proposal is not just vote no.
That's not what we're saying. We're saying, work with us
and do better, do better, denvers. Yeah, that'll be that'll
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be the day. So here's what bugs me about the story.
We're going to ban vape flavored tobacco products and flavored
tobacco itself in order to protect the children. But you know,
we've talked this week about puberty blockers and how the
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state of Tennessee, for example, the case currently before the
US Supreme Court has banned puberty blockers and transgender surgeries
for children. Well, wait a minute, you're all concerned about
that we can't sell tobacco products to children, which is
already outlawed, and whether it's flavored or not, it's outlawed
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and children can't buy it. But you want to ban
it because it's going to hurt children. Yet you could
probably go to Denver General. You could probably go to
many doctors within the city and county of Denver and
have your penis removed or you know, or had artificial vagina,
or you know, have your boobs cut off, have your
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testicles removed. But that's seems to me to be harmful
to children. But they're worried about tobacco products. Government is
always intervening, trying to protect you, but only to protect
you from things like tobacco. But if you want to
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get your we are whacked off. Well how about it.
We don't care about that. Denver. You continue to amaze
me with your hypocrisy and your stupidity.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Michael, if you were to ask my fifteen year old
son if he could get anything he wanted regarding vape
or KHC or whatever, regardless of any stupid band in Denver.
We don't live in Denver, but if we did, I
guarantee he'd say it. You can get anything you want,
any time you want. It's just that the city council
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Denver is just stupid.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Oh I was was that a cat or trying?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Maybe it was the fifteen year old No, I totally agree,
but that just adds to the stupidity of it.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
So they're gonna ban something that's to Dragon's point earlier,
that we're gonna ban something that's already illegal for a
minor to obtain, which to your point, they already obtain.
If there I want to use a word that just
irritates people, irregardlessly.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
But you know, if it's just in the whole Senny County,
just go to the next county, across the road.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Across the road, that's what I mean. Just go down
Cherry Creek, drive just over to Glendale and just walk
in and get it there, or just here, just just drive,
just drive over here to the King Supers over here
in Greenwot Village. Just you know, just go off you
blots and go go pick it up. Oh my god,
it's so stupid, so stupid. Uh. I know this comes
(21:08):
as a shock to you, but I think we have
class warfare going on in the country, and I think
some of it might be justified. Now, I don't mean
I'm not trying to justify murder or anything, but I
have a new little habit that I've been doing because
I really just just still I still do my morning,
(21:33):
driving in turning on Fox and Friends. But I found
myself more often than not with my mind wandering off
to something else because it's so in Aine that I
just can't. I flip over and I go listen to
I don't know, Bruce Springsteen or something.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Morning friends are better with friends.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, if I could just get to view coming in
that that that would make my morning. You know, Like
this morning, I already had a hard time getting out
of bed, well, not not getting out of bed. I
was wide awake even before the alarm went off. Just
had a hard time just like well literally getting out
of bed, just because I was just like, yeah, I
think just somebody have me a microphone. I think I'll
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just lay here and just do it right here.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
You're fine here?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah? Why do I need to go? Why do I
need to get dressed?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
You know?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I also noticed like.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
I'd appreciate it if you got dressed.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Well, have you have you noticed that?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Now?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I can't speak for any of their hosts that you
work with, but I do know that there is somebody
on air at approximately the same time that we are
that I'm convinced does not shower, does not shave, does
not shampoo, doesn't do anything but just throw on whatever's
laying next to the bed and comes in and and
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and does their show.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Brett's a nice guy. Quit talking about him? Who Brett?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Well, I Brad would Brad would strike me as this
kind of guy that actually what do what I do?
Speaker 5 (23:01):
And the Boulder hippie reference.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Oh yeah, well true true? Yeah, uh, And Rick seems
to I've seen Rick come in a few mornings where
it's like, dude, go home, go back to bed. But
I've also seen Rick get on the elevator with me.
And Rick has obviously showered and shampoo.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
And and Willie never sleeps, so he don't.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
True, that's right, that's right, will he never sleeps. But
did I see this one individual? And it's like, did you?
Speaker 4 (23:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I just I can't come in to work without shaving
and showering and putting on clothes. And just this morning
was one of those mornings where I thought, yeah, and
just get up throwing a dirty shirt, pretty pair of jeans,
put on a baseball cap and just come on in
and just just do it. Who cares, and just take
a shower later in the day or something. Yeah, I mean,
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I might just start doing that.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
It's almost like you could kill a whole hour on that,
kill a whole hour on just the way if you
showed up your jeans and a T shirt and a
baseball cap.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yeah, well I could sleep later. Or you know. My
doctor's concerned about you know, I, you know, because I
do the fasting, which he thinks is a good thing.
But I tend to and and I have to do
what you do. I need to watch my carbs because
then when I eat lunch, if I go too high
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on the carbs, I have a hypoglycemic episode, am I
blood sugar just I just crash. And he has suggested
that maybe I want to start skipping the fasting and
stop at McDonald's. Don't don't, don't scream, but don't eat
the biscuit or the English muffin and just have the
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sausage in the egg and just you know, book up
on some protein coming in. But anyway, I say all
that to say I've kind of changed my routine a
little bit. Well, I'm still psychond down a diet cope
because I had to stop at the circle k and
talk to Zeus for a moment. Zeus is the big
black guy that works at the one. He's such a
nice guy. I mean, it's such a ghetto circle k
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and he is such a wonderful human being. It's just
it's it's a fascinating place. And the people that are
there at five am are.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Very very interesting, an interesting crowd.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
It's a very interesting crowd. You've got the blue collar workers,
you've got the Uber drivers, you've got the limo drivers,
delivery guys, the delivery guys. And and then today I
actually bumped into somebody, or actually they bumped into me,
and I just turned this head, excuse me. And his
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response was you're OK. And I got to look at him,
and for a split second, I thought to myself, what
are you doing in here? Because you know the pictures
we've seen of the assassin in.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
New York, the the professional Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
The so called professional assassin that bought a water bottle
at Starbucks, dropped a phone, took his mask down to
flirt with the clerk desk clerk at the hostel that
you know, exposed himself to the cameras as he was trying. Yeah,
that that professional assassin. Yeah, that guy. Yeah, I thought
that you could be that assassin. I mean, he was
(26:27):
dressed the same way, had a mask and hood. I mean,
Zeus must have known him because or Zeus has a
ten gage behind the count and doesn't care. But anyway,
long story short that my mind begins to wonder as
it is right now, My mind begins to wonder as
I'm coming in and listening to Fox and Friends, because
it's just so blah. I've taken two coming in and
(26:53):
opening the Drudge Report. Now I know the Drudge Report
leans left. Don't get me wrong. I'm not looking for quality.
I'm looking for headlines. I'm doing about dragon does I'm
looking for the headlines. I'm just trying to did World
War three start? Do we have you know? Do we
have B two bombers?
Speaker 5 (27:10):
You know?
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Bombing?
Speaker 6 (27:11):
You know?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Moscow? What's going on? Well, one of the stories again
about the assassin that caught my eye, was in big
bold red letters. Let me see you it's still there,
uh police blunder and then over here in the corner,
(27:37):
uh where let me go back to the story. So
the story is a torrent of hate for health insurance
industry follows CEO's killings. This comes from the news and
the story goes like this, the fatal shooting on Wednesday
of a top United Healthcare executive, Brian Thompson, on a
Manhattan sidewalk has unlea a torrent of morbid glee from
(28:03):
patients and others who say they have had negative experiences
with health insurance companies, that some of the hardest times
of their lives. There's a non story. Welcome to the
insurance industry. Now, I I don't like insurance. I see
(28:28):
insurance as a necessary evil, and I want to say
publicly that my homeowner's insurance after we had that tornado
what's now been a year and a half ago, however long,
I don't keep track of time, they paid the claim fully.
They paid for things I didn't expect them to pay for.
They wrote a check. And when I got my renewal
(28:50):
that January four or whenever was March whenever occurs. When
I got the renewal, there was a slight increase, but
it didn't double, it didn't do anything. It's just a
slight increase. So I I really have no complaints now
health insurance. I've had some complaints, but I'm an a hole,
(29:11):
so I tend to appeal things. I tend to, you know,
give them a hard time, but I get the problems
that people have with health insurance, but listen to this
one comment underneath a video of the shooting posted online
by CNN. Here's what the comment said, thoughts and deductibles
(29:32):
to the family. I shouldn't laugh, but that's pretty clever.
Thoughts and deductibles to the family. Unfortunately, my condolences are
out of network. Now that's clever, that's pretty funny. That's
very funny. But why is it funny? Because it's truthful?
(29:56):
Because the and in particular, I think I would rank
health insurance as the worst, auto insurance as second, and
homeowners as last. Now, your mileages may vary depending on
where you live. If you live in Florida, you live
along the Gulf Coast or any coastal area, or you
(30:16):
live in uh, you know, in California, then your homeowners
that that may be number one for you. But I
think it's I think it's health insurance, auto insurance, and
then homeowners insurance. One TikTok user wrote, I'm an er nurse,
and the things I've been that I've seen dying patients
(30:37):
get denial for by insurance makes me physically sick. I
just can't feel sympathy for him, the CEO that was
killed because of all those patients and their families. Messages
that long enforcement officials say were found in bullet casings
at the scene of the shooting had inscribed delay and deny, which,
(31:02):
according to this story, are two words familiar to many
Americans who have interacted with insurance companies for almost anything
other than routine doctor visits. That is true, So I
had seen a graph of health insurance companies ranked by
(31:27):
size and ranked by the percentage of claims that they deny.
The health insurance industry average is about sixteen percent, and
in fact that that's the medium, so sixteen percent. There
(31:47):
are a lot of insurance companies out of the I
would guess maybe twenty that were listed, So there were maybe,
you know, eight or nine below that nationwide industry average
of sixteen percent. And then it starts from sixteen percent
greater than it rises exponentially all the way up to
(32:10):
the highest and largest at thirty two percent, double the
national average of claims denial, is United Healthcare. So of
course there's going to be class warfare, and of course
there is going to be backlash against well. I wouldn't
(32:35):
say that they support the assassination of the CEO. But
for a guy that makes According to one commentator, I
don't know whether it's true or not, he made a
million dollars a month, which to me seemed to be
fairly nominal considering it's the largest health insurance company in
the country. But it leads to the question, is there
(33:01):
really a class divide? Well, I think the answer is yes.
But why if.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Hunter didn't commit any crimes or do anything wrong according
to President Biden and his family, then why would he
need a pardon?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Just wondering he's also the smartest man he knows he
you know, I'm going to take your question seriously, and
I want to I'm going to give you a serious answer.
The pardon is because he has been convicted on both
the tax charges. I think he was convicted on the
tax charges and he was I know he's for a fact,
(33:41):
convicted on the gun charge and he's awaiting sentencing on
both of those. So the pardon is two fold. One
is to prevent him from going to jail. But because
of the terms of the pardon, it going all the.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Way back to January of twenty fourteen, that just happens
to coincide when Hunter Biden started doing business in Ukraine,
and that's when the money laundering started, and that's when
the influenced pedling started. So that's why he did something
that is even even broader than the Gerald Ford's pardon
(34:21):
of Richard Nixon. He's not been charged with anything in
terms of corruption, so you're going to pardon him for
crimes that may have been committed between January one of
twenty fourteen and whatever it was December one, December one
(34:43):
of twenty twenty four so essentially a ten year period,
a nine year, eleven month period. And they're doing that
to protect themselves. Although unless he pardons himself and pardons
his brother James, they still have liability. Because Hunter no
(35:07):
longer has the protection of the Fifth Amendment. Hunter can
be subpoenaed before in front of a grand jury and
forced to testify about things that his dad or his
brother may have done involved in money laundering or influenced
peddling or any other sort of corrupt scheme going on,
and he'll be forced to test he'll be required to
testify and if he perjures himself any time after December
(35:37):
one of twenty twenty four that's a separate crime that
is not covered by the pardon. So now they think
there you see, Joe Biden thinks he's smarter than than
then behalf. He really thinks he's really smart, and he's
really not. He thinks this is going to make everything
(35:58):
go away, and it doesn't necess necessarily make everything go away.
In fact, it puts It protects Hunter from jail for
those things he's currently being convicted of. It will prevent
him from getting convicted, charged, or going to jail for
any of the things that Hunter may have been involved
(36:18):
with his uncle and his dad, but it doesn't protect
his unclean's dad. In fact, makes Hunter a I would
call like a super witness. No Fifth Amendment privilege, no
Fifth Amendment rights. You're going to have to testify. All right,
let's go when we get back. Because I really am
(36:40):
fascinated by this backlash against the assassination of the CEO
of United Healthcare because it shows how really people are
pissed off about the health insurance industry. And I think
it's you're gentlemen,
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