2-19-25 - 6am - Letter To Denver

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Chrom's Karen from Germany, letting I how to
know that we will no longer be carrying the situation
with Michael Brown. He used the slang term for schwong,
which we did not like. It was a dick move,

(00:21):
so he will be gone.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Schlaw. We got the word schlong on the air already.
It's six in the morning. Well, mister Redbeard had me
a stack of papers this morning and I hadn't looked
at it yet. And the Michael Brown minute and one
of his stories are all the same, and I didn't

(00:45):
see the version that he has which came out of
the Denver is that I found mine over at nine News,
and it's it's a great juxtaposition when you think about
Let me first say that on the way in this morning,
I don't know why, but the radio was back, the
serious was back over on the Fox. I must have

(01:08):
been listening to something on Fox yesterday and forgot to
change it. And they were already talking about with all
of the waste, fraud and abuse that's now being discovered
by Doge and Elon Musk. You know the billionaire that

(01:29):
is after your money and once your social Security number,
didn't he find wasn't he a founder of PayPal? Sure,
doesn't he have already have all of our information? Probably do,
And doesn't he own x in which you have to
you know, you got to sign up and verify your
agent and all that sort of stuff. Huh Yeah, Okay,

(01:49):
So I just wanted to check in and make sure
I was understand the reality of the world we're living in.
And they were on that insipid Fox and Friends this morning.
They were already saying things like, with all of the
ways fraud and abuse that that billionaire and his minions
are finding that, we ought to get some of that

(02:10):
money back. And I kind of did a double take, like, well,
we are getting it back. We're getting it back because
they're they're shutting down the spending and in the case
of like lee' z Elden, which I'll probably talked about
later in the program, they are literally finding deposits of

(02:34):
money in I don't know whether it's Chase or whatever
bank they're finding it in, and they're calling that money
back and that's going back into the treasury, which takes
that money out of circulation, takes that money out of
you know, helps reduce inflation. But that's not what they mean. Fox.

(02:59):
At least one or two of the hosts on that
show this morning was wanting that money returned to us.
They're already asking for checks. And I'm seeing everywhere, including
in these quarters, not among two of us, but among

(03:21):
all of you, text messages of things like we should
all just not file our income taxes this year because
there is power in numbers and they can't put us
all in jail. All right, let's all just have a
reality check for a moment. It's similar to every if

(03:44):
they can't stop us all at Area fifty one, so
we're all going to storm the gates in Area fifty one. Yeah,
how well that worked? Well, let's right, that's a great example.
But how many people showed up to storm the gates
of area fifty one? Like five exactly? And are are

(04:07):
Are you not going to file your income tax return
this year?

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (04:10):
I most definitely am. Yeah. I think I think I
will too. I think I will too. I I don't
believe for a nano second that we can get everybody
in the country to not file their income tax as
as a protest against all the waste, fraud and abuse

(04:33):
that we're witnessing. So now we're just moving into the
crazy times we're now. Now, we're just moving into the
into the silly times. I I you know, we can
make fun of as I am. Later we're gonna make
fun of m S, NBC and CBS and CNN, We're
gonna make fun of all of them. But today we're
gonna make fun of Fox and Friends. Because there they are.

(04:55):
They there, they are literally asking the government. I guess
as as they get every little raking, can you do
a quick calculation for me? Can you divide how dangerously
in the morning. I know it's early in the morning,
but well, I mean I can do it. I turned
my phone sideways and that takes a lot of effort.

(05:16):
But let's just say they've one hundred Let's say they've
recovered one hundred billion dollars. One hundred billion dollars by
and I know there's let's just divide it by the
entire population. Let's just divide it by three hundred and
fifty million people, so hundred billion dollars. See, this is
something that somebody else be able to figure in their head,
but I can't do it. One hundred billion dollars divided

(05:39):
by three hundred and fifty million people. That's how much
for each of us, two hundred and eighty five dollars
two and eighty five dollars and anyone. Don't don't get
me wrong. If somebody walked up to me right now
and said, hey, here's two hundred ety five dollars that
we've found on the street that really belongs to you,
I'd say, okay, okay, I'll take it. I mean there's
you know, there's there's for me and Dragon one night.

(06:01):
So yeah, boom, don'ts. That's right. We get buy a dozen,
we can have scrambled eggs tonight, we get a breakfast
for dinner. It's we're just getting started. And and Americans
are already talking about how well not Americans, but at
least those on Fox and Friends are talking about how

(06:23):
well to start getting checks in the mail. Oh my god,
stop it, just stop it. Then there is this story. Now,
I already knew I wanted to do this story coming
in to the studio today, but I noticed when I
came in and I circled around the parking lot and

(06:45):
then backed into my little space where I park, I noticed,
you know, Dragon, if you have you ever noticed the
ballards that we have out front. Yeah, so you have
noticed those? Yeah, and you notice how they have lights
on top? Uh huh have you noticed that for the
past I would say this is mid February, so I

(07:06):
would say sometime, I know is before Christmas that I
noticed it. So for at least the past couple of months,
probably coming up close on three months that there are two,
maybe three of them where the lights are burned out.
You must be new here because I'm laughing to myself
about how there is there's a story about how kind

(07:33):
of the country as a whole is kind of turning
into a kind of a third world country, how people
are just deferring maintenance. People are putting off doing what
needs to be done because there's a there's a cash
flow problem. There's like five replace one light bulb when

(07:54):
you can replace three, well exactly. And who cares about
those ballers out for anyway? I mean, I don't care
about them. I just think their a symbol of deferred
maintenance that just continues to be pushed off at everywhere
you turn because the economy is not all that great,
and I think this is all still part of how

(08:19):
we ft ourselves, how we royally screwed ourselves during COVID
by shutting down the economy, and we're still not recovered
from it. And then you pile on everything that happened
during COVID, along with the Biden administration coming in and
helping the floodgates to all of these illegal aliens coming

(08:40):
into the country, and then all of the money that
gets diverted from everything else that needs to be done
in the cities and towns across the country, and you
end up looking like a crap whole country. You look
ended up looking like a craphole state, which brings me
to these stories. One story was on nine News and

(09:04):
it was probably about two paragraphs law and then the
Denver Gazette had the same story, and it is about one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen,
forty fifth, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty one, twenty two,
twenty three, twenty four, twenty five, three, sixteen, seventy eight,

(09:27):
twenty nine, thirty, thirty one, thirty two, thirty three, thirty four,
thirty five, thirty six, thirty seven, thirty eight, thirty nine,
forty forty one, oh my gosh, forty two forty three,
forty four, forty five, forty six, forty seven, forty eight,
forty nine, fifty fifty one, fifty one paragraphs fifty one

(09:50):
paragraphs compared to nine News two paragraphs. I haven't done
the entire I haven't read the entire story from the
Denver Gazette, but let's work our way through it because
it and nine News are both the subject of the
Michael Brown minette, and I think it's a great example
of how Colorado Colorado Democrats, by the way, which yesterday

(10:16):
in the Colido State Senate took away your Second Amendment rights.
But we'll get to that later too. They I hesitate
to say this, but I want to say that these
restaurant these restaurant tours who wrote a letter to Denver
Mayor Mike Johnston and city leaders that they sent last

(10:38):
week naive. I just don't get me wrong. I'm not
criticizing them for the letter, and I'm not saying that
the letter is incorrect. I'm just saying that some of
the contents point out that you like Dragon Offen says
to me, you must be new here. Well, if you
run a business in downtown Denver and you're just now

(11:01):
sending a letter to the mayor. And some of the
things you say in the letter you must be new
here too. Both stories at the AT nine News and
the Denver Gets start out with the same point. Now,
I want many of you who because I know we
have listeners all over the country. We have listeners all
over the state. You know. One of the things that

(11:24):
I did on my way to see my mom last
weekend was I didn't take my normal route. My normal
route is because I just hate stopping. I hate two
lane highways. When I'm driving. My point of driving is
to get from point A to point BE as quickly
as possible. So for me, even if that means additional miles,

(11:45):
if that means less time, I'll drive the additional miles
to drive to drive less time. So I can drive
down I twenty five cross rat Home Pass and in
rapt to New Mexico. I can take Highway I think
it's sixty four, and i'd have to go look, I'm
not quite sure. It turns into four to twelve somewhere
in Oklahoma. But I can take a four lane sometimes

(12:08):
well up here, you know, an eight lane expressway all
the way down and then I've got the express lanes
through the gap, and then I've got four lanes, you know,
from Colorado Springs all the way down to Raton, New Mexico.
And then I can take a left and head east
on whatever highway number that is I forget, and it's
four lane, with the exception of just one tiny spot.

(12:31):
It's four lane all the way to Clayton, New Mexico.
And then once I hit Clayton, then it turns into
a two lane. So I've done ninety percent of my
driving on four lane highways without any stop signs or
anything else, and I can just keep on driving. You know.
Of course I would drive the speed limit, but I
can drive the speed limit all the way through.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
Well.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Because of the weather and because of the KDVR Pinpoint
Weather Applicate app, I decided, based on the false information
it provided, to take fifty east out of Pueblo, and
that takes you through Rocky Ford, Lahunta, Lamar, Springfield, Campo
and then in Dubois City. And it's predominantly two lanes.

(13:16):
I mean, here and there it's four lanes, but it's
predominantly two lanes, and it's curvy, and you got all
these little towns you have to slow through and go through.
But I did something I've always done my entire life,
going through small town America. I always look closely because
small town America is a great indicator of how the
country is doing. And if you look at small town America,

(13:40):
you go through, and with all due respect to all
those little towns, I didn't even name all of them,
but you know the main ones, you know, would be well, uh,
would be Lahunta and rocky Ford and Lamar and Springfield
and Campo and of course all the other little towns
spread in between. You look at them closely, You slow down,

(14:01):
drive the speed limit as you As you drive through
those little towns, you realize, oh gosh, there's a lot
of stuff boarded up, and you know, like in some
of the places, the hotels, I forget whether it was
rocky Ford or the Hunt, but you know there's a
there's like a Hampton Inn, and there's a Holiday and

(14:22):
Express and places like that, and I'm you know, it's
the weather's kind of bad, and I'm driving into time
when most people would have pulled over, except idiots like me.
You just keep, you know, plugging their way through. And
the hotels don't seem very full. They In fact, they
don't seem to be a quarterfall if that uh. And

(14:42):
you can tell by the parking lots and the number
of lights on in the building. And then you look
down at the main streets and you see all the
boarded up areas. On the way back, I stopped in Raton,
New Mexico, just to stretch my legs and get a
little exercise and grab a bike to eat. And so
I walked around downtown rap New Mexico. It was horrible,

(15:02):
absolutely horrible. Now you go do the same thing in
the great in the Queen City of the Rocky Mountain Empire, Denver, Colorado,
and it's a crap hole. It's truly a crap hole. Now,
the letter from the restaurant tours to the mayor and
city leaders starts out saying that they are at a

(15:25):
boiling point with the conditions of downtown Denver. And I'm
like it it took you this long. I know of
restaurants owned by the husband of people in this building
that have already shut down, fairly famous restaurants in downtown
Denver that have shut down because between the stupid construction

(15:49):
which is behind schedule and over budget and things like
narrowing residential and commercial you know, business streets, building bike lanes,
and do like paving the streets, letting crime run rampant.
Just shuffling the homeless from one corner to another corner
fires crime. You know, if you want to watch, if

(16:12):
you want to follow an account on X that gives
you an idea about how bad Denver is. There's an
account called do Better Denver at do Better Denver. You
ought to follow it. They're all, I don't know. I
don't know who's behind it. I don't know the individual
or the group. I think it's an individual who must

(16:34):
have been a lawful lot of time driving around downtown
Denver and is always monitoring the the police comms, taking photos.
I mean, it's it's a crap hole. It's a crap
hole city. Let's go to the Denver Gazette. In a
letter to Mayor Mike Johnston city leaders last week, Dave Query,

(16:55):
owner of Jack's Fish House and Oyster Bar, I haven't
been to Jacks. You know, with all due respect, day,
I haven't been to Jack's Fishhouse because of your location
in downtown Denver. Yeah, I know exactly the corner that
you're on and that's not a corner that other than
maybe well maybe even in the middle of the day,
I'm not sure I want to go there. And quite honestly,

(17:15):
Jack's Fish House and Oyster Bar is a pretty damn
good restaurant. Expressed frustrations with the mayor, noting he had
promised on the campaign trail to turn downtown Denver around.
Several other major restaurant tours in downtown Denver signed on
to Query's letter, including owners from Illegal Peats They've been
around forever, A Klan restaurant concepts, and Union Station's restaurant operators.

(17:38):
In the letter, they write, you ran your entire campaign
platform on restoring our downtown Denver business districts. It has
gotten worse since you took the position of mayor, even
though you have received five hundred and fifty million dollars
towards stewarding it into a different direction. You must be
new year. You thought that five hundred and fifty million

(18:01):
dollars that they got from the Cares Act and wherever
else that you know Jared Polish, You know Jared Polish,
you know, like a drug deal. Jared Polus got his
in his suv and his security detailed druging in downtown Denver,
and they met on the quarter where Jack's Restaurant is
with you know, Mayor Johnston, and they rolled down the window.
Mayor Johnston walked over and Jared Polis handed him a

(18:22):
big bag of cash and they drove off as rapy
as they could, because not only did they not want
to get caught in their drug deal, but they were
afraid to you know, drive by shootings and you know,
the homeless and the illegal aliens accosting them, so they
had to get moving as quickly as possible.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
When they repeal the sixteenth Amendment will be when I
stopped filing my income tax.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Have a good day, Browian Dragon. They I want to
finish this story about the restaurant, the restaurant tours and
their letter, but just to give you an idea of
where we're going is I want to talk about cities

(19:08):
in general, because urban areas, look, I love, Don't get
me wrong, I love rural America. But growing up, you
know my my the very first large city, well for me,
let's put in perspective the very first large city I
visited in my life, Amarillo, Texas. That that tells you

(19:29):
how small of the town I grew up in but
in high school, the first major city that I got
to visit, uh as as student council president, was going
to Chicago, and I was. I was fascinated by Chicago.
The Museum's O'Hare, uh you know, the Golden Mile, everything

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about Chicago, the Sears Tower at the time off utterly
fascinating to me, and for me, it was a symbol
of America's power, America's strength, America's economy, America's ingenuity, innovation.
I mean, the museums, the Museum of Science and Industry

(20:18):
in Chicago is a fascinating place, the Natural History Museum,
Midway Airport right there downtown Chicago. I mean all it
was just all fascinating to me as a high school teenager.
And I've always been and studied metropolitan areas as a

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symbol of a country's strength, power, its ingenuity, innovation, all
of that. And the same is true with small town America,
because small town America in its own way is the
heartbeat of America and metropol And don't get me wrong,
I grew up in rural Oklahoma, so I have a

(21:05):
love of my heart for rural areas also. That's why
I love the undisposed location so much. It's why I
like going down to see my mom. I enjoyed like.
I haven't posted it to Instagram or ex yet, but
I don't. Don't tell anybody, but I took a video
while driving. We don't don't. Don't give me that wild

(21:26):
eyed look. What are you doing? I lookily. His eyes
are about big as a half Dollarly, you took a
use your phone wild driving. I use my phone wild
driving because there's a stretch along along four to twelve
that is just straight with telephone poles along the side,

(21:50):
just going past, you know, one by one by one,
and you can just it's just like you're going into
a vortex of some sort. I need to get that
video posted because it's a fact. It's flat as far
as the I can see. I love that. I love
all of it. I love this country. And we're gonna
swerve into in a minute. How this country's and its

(22:13):
cities are post apocalyptic. That's exactly what they look like.
And that's kind of what this letter is describing. Despite
how naive they are and their description what they thought
was going to go on, The letter continues that let
me back up the boulder Base, chef behind BRF Restaurant Group,

(22:35):
said downtown's traffic plan and the new bike paths implemented
in the last two years have taken up parking spaces
made it more difficult for customers to come to their businesses.
In addition, food trucks are taking parking spots and bringing
in more competition. He also pointed to the series of
stabbings of the Sixteenth Street mall over a January weekend
when two people were killed and two injured. Quote he writes,

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this is the current vibe and energy on our downtown streets,
and our longtime Lodo and Larimer guests are now driving
to Cherry Creek and Northfield and Golden for dinner and entertainment.
And I laughed out loud when I read that paragraph,
because that's exactly where Tamar and our friends now go

(23:20):
instead of meeting in downtown Denver Larimer Square. I love
Larimer Square, Lodo and all the vibe you got from
the you know, the pathetic Rockies baseball team that's not
worth a he's a crap. But yeah, now we'll go
to Cherry Creek or Cherry Creek North, We'll go out

(23:41):
to Northfield, We'll drive to Golden it's just as easy
for us to go up four seventy and avoid the
twenty five and all that crap. And then you know,
and there's some really nice places in Golden. So what
he describes, we fit that to a te He says,
we're now watching the tenth district fall completely apart. The

(24:04):
entire downtown traffic plan and bike path cluster implemented over
the last two years is a catastrophic disaster. I guess
they reached the point where they can't take it anymore.
When you can barely get by because of the economy,
and then you take away the convenience and the and

(24:27):
the vibrancy of the downtown central business district. And then
it's also not just the vibrancy of the weekends or
a weeknight, it's during the day when you're I don't
know what the occupancy rate is of say, buildings along
the seventeenth Street corridor. I don't know what it is,

(24:48):
but I'm sure it's not it's certainly not eighty five
or ninety percent. So those downtown workers are gone. Have
you seen the ever under construction sixteenth Street mall. We
had a client meeting it's been it's been a year ago,
probably longer, I don't know, down there, and it was
a it was an effing disaster trying to get to

(25:10):
the restaurant down there. In fact, we all made fun
of the account executive for what were you thinking when
you decided we should all meet here? You know, we
could have met in Cherry Creek, we could have met
in Golden we could have met in Northfield, and it
had been a lot easier than all of us trying
to find parking places where they're all gone or they're

(25:31):
all taken up by bike lanes. Go up and down,
go up and down Broadway, go up down North Broadway,
see what that's like. Or try to cross from Lincoln
over to Broadway and then make a left turn onto Broadway. Uh.
I know, I'm an old fart, but you know, my
eyesight's pretty good and I can see what I'm doing.

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I'm a good driver, and I had to stop and
actually think about where I could turn left on the
Broadway because it's obviously it's it's southbound. Trying to figure
out is is that the bike lane? Well, there's cars
parked Oh, the cars are parked out on where the
street is, and then the bike lanes between those parked

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cars and the sidewalk, and you want people to go
into those businesses. Holy crap. And then you get down
to the interchange, we're Broadway and I twenty five meet
and that's a complete cluster F two. So then the
letter continues, Well, let's go back to these that story.

(26:36):
Jordan Fusia, a spokesperson for the mayor's office, reiterated the
mayor's goal to make downtown a safe place for workers, residents, tours,
and businesses. Well, reiterating your goal is the same as
moving the goal post. Yes, our goal is still to
make downtown a safe place for workers, residence, tours, and businesses.

(26:57):
That's an implicit admission that you have not reached that
goal yet. He said. That's why Mayor Johnston has helped
remove large tent encampments. I would say in in exchange
for small tent encampments. So rather than wasn't giant one,
now you have a bunch of small than spread out
overwhere increase police patrols, which doesn't seem to be doing

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much and is bringing more than five hundred million dollars
in transformative investments. Really where doing what? Now the little
spokeshole says there's more work to do. That Mayor Johnson
will continue to partner with local businesses, restaurants, and residents

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to ensure downtown is a safe and thriving part of
our community. Well, you know what, you're utterly failing in
that objective. She said that the city is investing in
increasing the presence of both police and community safety officers
focusing on high priority areas. Now listen to what they're
listen to. These high priority a Lo Doo, Thermer Square,

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Upper Downtown and Capitol Hill. Dragon does not encompass pretty
much all of downtown Denver, just about just about everything.
But you didn't include Low High or River North or
the Highlands. But otherwise I'd say you pretty much got
all of downtown Denver. That's your priority. Well, doesn't seem
to be working too well, let's see. John Mark Larder,

(28:26):
the business Operations director at City Streets Investors, said in
an emailed statement that downtown Denver is quote not sustainable
for small businesses, the very heart of a central business district.
I know you've got all the big corporations, you got
all the you know, the white shoe law firms, you
got everybody else in downtown Denver. But you know what,

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those people need, all of the small businesses for a
downtown to thrive. You need all of that, and you
don't have much of any of it, he says. We
have all poured years, decades, decades into building energetic, welcoming
spaces that contribute to the cultural and economic fabric of

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the city, and yet we find ourselves navigating an increasingly
untenable environment where safety, infrastructure, and policy decisions seem to
be working against us rather than supporting us. And again,
I'd like to say, before Dragon says it, they must
be new here. They finally reached the bullying point? What

(29:29):
was it? Finally one too many people got stabbed. M
you finally tripped over an encampment somewhere. You finally got
accosted by some you know, PVC pipe wielding person that
tried to crack your head open. You know you you
step on a needle? What wasn't?

Speaker 1 (29:47):
What was it?

Speaker 2 (29:49):
And by the way, I wonder if all of you
that signed on to this letter or quoted in this
newspaper article, uh, are you still taking making your dues,
paying your dues to the downtown Denver Chamber of Commerce. Uh,
what are they doing? What are they doing those It's
one of those things where you might want to look

(30:10):
at your ROI I'm paying my dues and what am
I getting getting in exchange for that? Query also mentioned
Johnston's first major downtown initiative to invest five hundred and
seventy million dollars into the area through expanding the Downtown
Development Authority, but said it doesn't immediately address the issue
restaurants have been facing for a long time. Well, these

(30:33):
problems were last week, they were last month. There tonight,
We've got Valentine's Day guests coming to all of our
restaurants downtown, and they are not safe. If we ran
our business as our restaurants like the way this city runs,
we'd be out of business, which is what's happening. They're
going out of business, and they're claiming this is what's
going to happen to downtown Denver. Now you think that

(30:56):
the five hundred and fifty million dollars is going to
make downtown Denver better? Guess what I discovered last night?
A letter from a Washington, DC law firm to the
I think assistant US attorney quoting something that well, downtown

(31:18):
Denver restaurant owners. Wait to you hear this, Mike, Did
I just hear you use the term spokes whole?

Speaker 3 (31:27):
I live in Denver, and I will drive twenty miles
out of my way to avoid any businesses in Denver
because everything is crowded, no parking, stupid bike lanes, and
all those stupid white posts that they put up everywhere.
It kind of triggers me. Anyhow, Denver sucks.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Well, wait to hear this. When asked about crime in
the Lodo area and the concerns of business owners, Denver
Police Sergeant j. Cassias said, quote, while recent data shows
that all crime continues to fall, the Denver Police Department
recognizes the perception of crime may show something different to

(32:08):
people living in Denver. Close quote, and then he adds
this talk about not understanding what you're saying. He says, quote.
Much of the Denver Police Department's focus remains the same,
which is to address violent crime. Oh so that's still
a problem, but also addressing issues that help reduce the

(32:32):
perception of crime. Those issues include narcotics, which is a crime, shoplifting,
which is a crime, trespassing, which is a crime, damaging property,
which is a crime, etc. Which may or may not

(32:53):
be a crime. So he tries to divert your attention
by saying, well, you know, the data shows that crime
is down. It's just this perception of crime. So we're
going to address those things that give you the perception
the crime is bad. You know, things like you know,
drug dealing, drug usage, shoplifting, trespassing, damaging property, all of

(33:16):
which I think are still in the criminal code. Now
I don't know in Denver it may be different. We
may Denver may have you know, decriminalized all of those things,
you know, narcotics and shoplifting and trespassing and you know, vandalism.
All that may be okay, Now, good grief. These people
are some kind of stupid, absolutely some kind of stupid.

(33:36):
And that's not even addressing a whole issue of of inflation.
The cost of food away from home, which is the
category for eating out, rose six percent since January of
last year, six percent. Over the last five years, the

(33:57):
cost of eating out has surged nearly forty percent. More
than four hundred and twenty five restaurants have closed in
Denver since twenty twenty two, according to the Denver Exercise
and Licensing data provided by the Colorado Restaurant Association, and
it lists some others that are beginning to close. This

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is not unique to Denver. It is unique to predominantly
Democrat run cities, Democrat run states, and we're entering an
era where what what is you know, San Francisco a

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craphole city, Los Angeles falling apart. You know, every weekend
I talked to my producers in Los Angeles and my
program director out there, and they've always got horror stories
of things going on in Los Angeles. Chicago. You know,
I've got an email I respond to and invitation to
go to University of Chicago to speak at something that

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they're hosting, and you know, of course I'll do it.
But it's like, hmm, you're going to provide security as well.
You know, d C, New York. It's everywhere, and I
think that's emblematic of the country is schizophrenic right now.

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At the national level, Trump is really beginning to take action. Now,
it's not going to result in immediate results, but he's
taking action. He's doing what we wanted to get done.
But over here at the lower level, at the state
and local level, we're still floundering. And Democrats are still

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being Democrats and the national Democrats. Have we found a
Democrat yet? This supports the elimination of waste, fraud and abuse.
Who's that haven't found that person yet