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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Michael, your station plays a bunch of commercials all
in Spanish and they're really loud. There anything you can
do to get them to stop doing that. It's driving
me crazy. I just turned the volume off at the
moment that sometimes I forget to turn it back on,
so I miss a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Thanks Bye, I really regret. Did you have the opportunity
in high school dragon to learn a second language?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I did? I took German?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Well you did? Can you speak much German? Still?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Not much anymore? I mean that was over twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Do you like if you hear it occasionally?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Can you I can pick up the general essence of
what they're saying, but I can't go like word for
word or anything. Now.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We had Spanish offered and it was an elective and
I didn't take it. And to this day I regret
not having taken Spanish, particularly when you look around you
today and you realize that, well, it's could have been useful,
It's gonna have been very useful. It's like, if you
gonna leave the sea, you need to know Mandarin. You
need to be able to read Mandan or Japanese or something,
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because it's it's all you know. Dual language at Sea
Tack at the airport there, it's all dual language.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Although celebrities moving to Canada better learn to speak French.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
That's right. They By the way, how many have moved? Uh?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
None have said publicly that I am aware of. Huh, well,
they said some may have.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
You really, do you really think so?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I think Ellen was really thought.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
But I thought Ellen was doing that because she was retiring.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Something like that.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, and then I know that Whoopy WHOOPI has a place.
She has a villa somewhere in Sicily or somewhere in Italy.
That is amazing. I mean, the money these people make
is absolutely well, I'm gonna say it's disgusting simply because
I'm jealous.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Honestly for Whoopee. She's kind of earned that because she's
one of the first of you that's got the egot,
the you know, any Oscar Tony stuff. So she's immensely talented.
We may not like her, but she had or has
silent No, I totally agree.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm just thinking in terms of those who like Ellen,
maybe she was really going to retire, Like who was
it Tina Turner who recently passed not recently, it's probably
been two years now. I don't know how long it's
been since Tina Turner died, but she retired in France,
so you know, maybe I'll retire and I'll retire in
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New Mexico. That's what I'll do.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But as for your Spanish speaking commercials, well, you're most
likely listening on the app which has a GEO located,
so you seem to be in an area that happens
to be speaking Spanish. So that's why you're getting the ads.
It's the volume.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Which proves, which proves, mister producer, that you don't read
every single text message like I do.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
No, I certainly don't.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You should never admitted that because I think I always
say that dragon I always read all the text message.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I read most of them during the show.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Okay, well I read them all the time. In fact,
there's people can prove that because I responded to some
last night. But anyway, people have told me that they're
listening that there. Now, it depends on where you download
the podcast. If you download the podcast in El Paso,
you're going to get Al Paso commercials. If you download
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the podcast in Denver, you'll get Denver commercials. But then
if you go to El Paso. You'll still hear the
Denver commercials because it's already downloaded to your phone or device.
But I've had somebody on the text line say that
they are it's it's either this way or the inverse.
They either they download in Tucson and they still get
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Denver ads, or they download and Denver get Tucson ADS.
So I don't know that the geo fencing always works.
Or maybe it's somebody in Tucson that has an outlet
in Denver and they are buying for whatever reason. But
in terms of the Spanish, no, Comebrunde, I don't know,
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don't know. No, No, kikle here doesn't know. I don't know,
Brito tuckle whatever. I'm sure that offended somebody. But call
somebody that cares.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Uh, Taco Tuesday, it is Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It it is Taco Tuesday today. Oh, but you know
all the Dell Tacos in Colorado of clothes because well,
oh that's right, Grand Junction or something. Right? You want
to drive over today? You want to drive over to
Grand Junction?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
An easy three hour drive?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, you and hire a car together for three hours?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
No, are you all on a road?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
You know? You know how they used to how how
when radio was really radio and they would do remotes, well,
like Angie and I used to go do remotes, and
then occasionally like Matt and uh sometimes Shannon and I
forget who else, Uh there was another producer is no
longer here. We would go up to like Loveland and
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do remotes you and I could do. I always wanted
to do a remote that's in a car, like you
know Jerry Seinfeld does comedians and cars. Okay, I want
to do the show from a vehicle. You maybe maybe
three of us. Maybe you and I'll get us. We'll
get us a nice big like black, you know, like
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a We'll get us like the Beast, and you and
I will sit in the back. We'll have somebody else
drive and we'll tell that person. We just want you
to randomly drive to the oddest places you can think
of in the Denver metro area. And all you and
I will do is for four hours to do a
running commentary on all of the bull crap and silly
stupid or crimes or homeless, drugs, camps, tent camps, whatever.
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That's all we'll do for four hours is we'll just
do a and then we'll get maybe we'll get in
the Michelin tour guide of if you really want to
know what Denver's like. Maybe we'll drive up in the
mountains a little bit. We'll go up to the Wonderview Cafe.
Have you've been to the Wonderview Cafe up in wonder
of you? We'll go up there, drive up there, up
Cole Creek Canyon, and we'll have some Mexican food up there,
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and then we'll drive in. Fact, the rumor is that
the people that own Li Loma have bought that cafe
and turned it into now a white napkin, which is
always a mistake when you eat Mexican food. You need
black napkins when you eat Mexican food. But we could
drive up there and then drive back down through Evergreen.
Get on I seventy talk about traffic on ice side.
We've had to give just real live traffic reports, not
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traffic reports that are an hour and a half old. So,
but do you think you could do four hours in
a car with me?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
No, I'd barely do four hours on the radio, and
we're in a completely different room.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
But I'd buy lunch. I'd buy you whatever you wanted
in terms of food, food, not food, not like. Oh look,
we're going by the Masarati dealership. Can I get you?
Can we stop there? No, we're not going to do that,
but I would. I would buy you whatever you wanted
in terms of food. Huh, you wanted to stop like
on Federal and has some really good Mexican One of
those guys up there can do that.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
We'll definitely get you. Located to the Spanish commercials.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Trotting up and down Federal. We would. Maybe I could
get you some hubcaps. There's some hubcaps and shot up there. Yeah,
I get you some new hubcaps from your car. Missus
red Beard's by the way, how's Missus red beards seat belt?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Oh it's fine, it's it worked because we would she
wanted to go to the dealership. No, no, we we
know we played dealership bright Haven't we talked.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
About this on air?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
You sure?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Sure? Okay, all right, it works.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I always I always worry about Missus bringing up Missus
red Beard on the air because she likes me. I
don't want to not like me because I don't I
don't want to get on her outside.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
She ain't awake for another two hours okay, all right, all.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Right, yeah, okay, so you went to the dealer they
got it replaced.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Oh yeah, it took like four days. All right?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Are you willing to tell us what it costs?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I think I had said, Oh, I said on the
text line. Yeah, it was hundreds of the plurals, the
plurality of hundreds of.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
North of north or south of five hundred? Was it
really north? It didn't get two three zeros?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Did it? Almost? Almost? Almost? Oh? Holy well? The seatbelt
itself was like four hundred and fifty dollars, and think
dealership labor costs.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh, you were easily at eight fifty nine had dollars.
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Since you're picking on me, I'll pick on you. Did
you check out those headlines I gave you?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I certainly did check you out the headlines based on
based on our commerce, based on the stories that I
did yesterday and the emails that I got. I'm really reticent, hesitant,
don't really want to look at them.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I just read that the headlines themselves are just fun.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Okay, huge number of people admit they'd be cool with
their partner hooking up with the robot. I saw just
a glimpse yesterday of Elon Musk getting a haircut by
a robot. Have you seen that?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Scissors around my head?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
But I do not either. Colorado manicures of robbing same
store five times.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Oh speak, Oh this is out of Aurora local stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
So yesterday on the news about Aurora, the the apartments
where the trend to rod what people were Now those
they are no. No, I think the apartment complex next
to that is.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I don't think it was that when it was another
ice right apartment complex.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, they've sued because and the news commentator made the
comment based on a new Colorado law, they are suing
the owners of the apartment complex for the apartments being uninhabitable. Well,
I always thought the common law in every state was
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that if your apartment is not habitable, it is subject
to condemnation and you don't have to pay your rent
until they make it habitable. That's just I'm not getting
legal advice. I'm just saying that was my general understanding.
But they are these people, and my heart broke for them.
They're living in apartments that have no heat, no running water.
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And because my first thought was well, why don't you move,
then my second thought was Oh, because you can't because
it's probably Section eight housing and they're getting subsidized for it.
But anyway, so this story comes out of Aurora. An
Aurora man was arrested last week for a half dozen
armed robberies of a gas station convenience stores five and
the robberies occurred at the same store, twenty year old
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Ross Wassner. You know what, I wouldn't worry about it, Ross,
because even though you've you've done a half dozen armed
robberies five with the same store, you've now been arrested.
This occurs in I'm not sure whether this is Denver
or war So I'm not sure whether it's Rappahole County
or Denver, but it's Colorado. So at least a half
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dozen arm robberies, I would say that's gonna get you
probably ninety days in jail, maybe six months.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I can only start taking you seriously if you steal
three or four.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Cars, right, yes, Uh, let's see. Wassner's first robbery and
Aurora happened in July twenty twenty four per Aurora PD,
two months before Denver's case was dropped.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Huh huh.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Aurora PD credited its gang robbery investigative team. You know
what that acronym is gripped? Okay, judge rejects denverse. Oh
this is interesting. District Judge Daniel Domenico said, there's a
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there's little practical difference between the prior policy, the last
iteration of which was issued in twenty twenty one under
former President Biden. In a pair of memo is issued
by the administration in January, a federal judge Friday rejected
DPS's attempt to reinstate a federal policy that treated schools
as sensitive locations. Sensitive locations you know, like gun free zones,
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which always keep guns out a gun free zones. Neither
the old nor the new policy completely demands immigration enforcement
actions at schools and other sensitive locations. The new guidance
from the Trump administration instructs ICE agents to use discretion
in a healthy dose of common sense.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
See I just don't always have maggot stories.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
And do you know what fascinates me about that? What
lawyer wrote a memo saying in terms of legal standards,
that the legal standard is a healthy dose of common sense. Now,
imagine you're in front of a jury and the jury's
trying to decide whether or not that you exercised a
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quote healthy dose of common sense. All right, can I
do this story or do you think the listener will
be upset with this one?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I wasn't paying attention when he did that.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You didn't hear it, No, you didn't. You didn't listen
to the Michael Brown minute.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
All I heard is you stuttered, So I had to
edit that out. And that's all I all. I listened to.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Excuse me, it's six nineteen in the morning the mouth
as it started.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Working, but you recorded it before six am, so it
was even worse.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yeah, we got to get better at that. We the
minutes keep getting later recorded later and later and later
and later. Pretty soon we're going to be doing like
ten am. Uh sometimes. Here was the story on KDVR
and the apparently the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office because they're
not the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Oh yeah, I was listening to this one.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, I think did you think it was funny? I
think it's freaking hilarious.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I think you mentioned it in your minute, So I
don't want to give a spoiler. Alyric, It's like duh.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I know, all right, here's how it goes. Sometimes I read,
you know, I'm looking for these minentsight and I come
across something and the headline on KATIVR was something about
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office doesn't find humor in flyers posted
in public restrooms. So of course I'm thinking, well, what
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did they post a flyer that had a picture of
Dragon Redbeard that said for a fun time, call three
zero three blah blah blah or what was it. No,
they're looking for somebody who hung up a fraudulent flyer
announcing random gentitle inspections at public restrooms. The flyer was
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signed this the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, which is not
the office's real name. But they also took the agency's logo. Now,
I understand that using someone's logo without permission, particularly a
government logo, well, actually any logo can be a copywriter
trademark infringement. But this is you're making something, You're trying
to make something look official, which it's not, and obviously
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that's illegal, but you have to admit that this is funny.
The flyer said quote. In compliance with recent executive orders,
the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department will be conducting random genital
inspections at all public restrooms beginning April twenty one, twenty
twenty five. In the quote now, the Sheriff's office says
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it does not consider this flier a laughing matter. Seriously,
where's your sense of humor? I understand your pod about
the use of the logo, but you're not the Jefferson
County Sheriff's Department. You're the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office apparently.
But here's the point. If anybody is dumb enough, I
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mean truly dumb enough to believe that jeff was doing
random genital checks and public restrooms, then really you are
some kind of stupid and you probably do deserve to
be fearful of random genital inspections in public restrooms. And
by the way, exactly who in the Sheriff's department would
be doing it? Do they have like a swat team
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of sorts that they go out? Then they've got you know,
boxes of the rubber gloves, you know that that you
know we all now use since COVID? And do they
wear masks when they're doing it? Do they have body
armor on? Do they have level A suits on.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Turn your head and cough.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, turn your head and cough exactly. Speaking of turning
your head and coughing, eleven out of twelve, what kind
of flight was this? Okay, let me think, Okay, first
class in the front of the plane, you've got two.
Then as you get to behind first I get let's
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let's assume it's a jumbo jet.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I think it said three passengers or something.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Okay, so it may be what is it are? Is
it the airbus three eighty or something? So it might okay,
it could possibly a twelve eleven out of twelve? Lavatories?
Why do we call them lavatories on on airplanes? Somebody
explained that one to me, or why don't they restrooms?
You do the same thing in a lavatory that you
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would do in a restroom, but in an airplane, it's
a laboratory. And if it's got a Jeffco County sign
on it that says we're gonna do random genital inspections,
that's a public restroom.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Would be an international thing because sometimes they're called water closets.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
So yeah, w C, w C. Yeah, I always thought
w C fields whenever I saw that. It's all I
ever think about w C fields. An Air India flight
en route to Delhi was forced to circle back to
O'Hare after all but one of the plane's toilets was
rendered unusable. According to a report by the aviation website
View from the Wing, Air India two sixteen took off
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from O'Hare but was forced to turn back after eleven
of twelve toilets became clogged. They were four and a
half hours into the flight, somewhere over Greenland. Why you
go all the way back to Chicago? Maybe for maintenance,
I don't know. Only one toilet was left to use
for over three hundred people aboard the flight. An ex
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user shared the chaos on board the flight, but in
India today could not verify the authority of the video. Okay,
but I want to know why they were all stopped up?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Which flight would you rather have? This flight or the
one where the naked lady gets up and starts walking
up and down the aisle.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
The one where the naked lady starts walking up and
down the aisle.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, but we don't know how what she look like?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah, because I don't have to look. But if I
don't have to look, I can put my little blinders
on or just turn my head. But if I got
to go, I gotta go, and I'm not gonna wait
in line for two hundred ninety nine other passengers to
go until I can go. So yeah, all right, let
me get back, let's get started, because something's happening in DC.
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That's not what you think it is. That's great, it's.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Pretty funny, random general inspections in bathrooms and Jeff co oh,
I was laughing.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
So all I think I woke somebody else up in
a half.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Uh good stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
It is funny, And don't get don't get me wrong.
I understand why the Jeff Go Sheriff's Office is upset
about it because of the use of their logo, but
to make a big story out of it, and then
you're you're you're going to hut them down. Well, first,
if if if anybody is really stupid enough to believe
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that flyer that, I mean, you really are some kind
of stupid. But I would just guess, considering crime in Colorado,
not just Jeff co but crime everywhere, that you might
have something just a little more important to do, because
think about how you would uh think about the investigation
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that would take checking, you know, for any sort of recordings, video, whatever,
h or matching up you know, the printer ID to
the to the paper, the source of the paper. You know,
because I can go on and I can pretty much, uh,
with Photoshop or Adobe, I can pretty much copy any
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logo that I want to and then just randomly go
post something up. To spend any time investigating that is
a complete and total waste of law enforcement resources. But
oh they got a big oh wait, you know, we
got on the We got on the TV about it. Yeah,
as long as we do on TV, that's what's wrong
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with our society if everybody thinks as long as you're
on TV, well, that's that's really important. Yeah, let's go
to d C. The that massive Black Lives Matter mural
that stretches down the pavement of Sixteenth Street leading up
to the White House is now being removed by city workers.
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The Mayor of d C, Muriel Bowser, will be incorporated
into from Black Lives Matter to something about America and
our celebration of two hundred and fifty years coming up
in a year or two. This is from the Black
Lives Matter mostly peaceful protests that broke out in the
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spring the summer of twenty twenty. You know, so you
know nothing better than Black Lives Matter put down. I
wonder how much it costs to do that. Now, the
mayor's decision to remove the massive mural, what do you
think prompted her to do that? Oh, seems like some
Republican lawmakers in Capitol Hill, led by a congressman by
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the name of Andrew Clyde from Georgia, introduced legislation to
encourage its removal. When I when I saw that in
the story, I kind of chuckled because I thought, so what,
you passed a bill that says, Mayor, we encourage you
to remove the arl.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Know.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Here's what the bill said. The bill would quote withhold
certain apportionment funds from the District of Columbia unless the
Mayor of the District of Columbia removes removes the phrase
black Lives Matter from the street symbolically designated as Black
Lives Matter Plaza, redesignates such street as Liberty Plaza, and
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removes such phrase from each website, document, and other material
under the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia. And boy
did they get to start on it. They went to
work on it right away. Now, what I find fascinating
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about this video, which was over on x is you
know how they use I'm not quite sure what the
material is to put the stripes down on a on
a highway, on a freeway on the interstate. Well, it
looks like the same material. So they're having to use
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some sort of backle of some sort some sort of
front loader to scrape this stuff off the street. So
it's going to be fairly costly to remove. But considering
how costly it's going to be to remove, think about
how costly it was to put it there in the
first place.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Forgive my ignorance here, but can't you just like paint
over it? Do you need to know?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You wouldn't act if you go, if you look at
that's a great question. But if you go look, that's
a great question dragon, because.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
It's it's just painted on the street.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
No it's not. No, it's not paint. It's this it's
a it's a thick, almost rubbery plastic sort of Some engineer,
some trying engineer, knows what it is. I don't know
what it is, but it's the reflective coating like like
you see on the you know, lane yeah, lane striping,
but it's that kind of material, and.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
So you have to scrape them out, rearrange lanes here,
and our god forsaken twenty five or seventy to just
paint over that and then paint new lines. So just
paint over the.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Well, I can tell you that that that that I
don't even think the scraping's going to work, because there's
a certain area of town where I travel where they
you know, they've done construction, so they've they've shifted the
lanes back and forth a couple of times. And even
though they have scraped and scraped and scraped at certain
times a day, it really is like dust or dawn
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when you still have your headlights on, it's really difficult
to tell is that the lane or is that the lane?
And then if it snows just slightly, it shows just
enough because of the the impression on the asphalt or
concrete that is that the liner? Is that the line? Anyway?
During so Mayor Bowser held a series of town hall
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meetings because you know, you got to have a town
hall meeting to make a decision. Isn't it fascinating how
elected officials can't make decisions without having a committee without
having a town hall. Wait a minute, we elected you
to go make decisions, so why are you having a
town hall make the freaking decision. So she acknowledged that
her decision was part of this greater effort because she
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wants to ease tensions between herself, her administration, and Trump
and his administration. But she got pushed back from Black
Lives Matter. So the Marxists are all an uproar because
they're going to take out Black Lives Matter plaza. The
mayor argues, pretty much, shut up, we got bigger fish
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to fry. She added this quote, Well, I'm not going
to talk about specifics about my conversations, but I think
it's safe to say that people don't like it, didn't
like it. It's safe to say you can imagine that. Yes,
it's safe to say. So what you're just trying to
say that people don't like it? Why don't you just
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come out and see people don't like it? Why don't
you just say that you did it because you were
trying to appease the Marxist You were trying to somehow
keep the violence out of DC. You were hoping. Here's
what I truly believe was going on. When they put
that crap down, it covers like a three or four
block area. It's humongous, and it goes from sidewalk to sidewalk,
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and that particular area of Sixteenth Street, which is pretty
much well sixteenth Street, you go look it up on
Google Maps anyway, and when it goes from sidewalk to sidewalk,
my gosh, that's a huge that's like going on. It's
like a probably a six lane highway, it's that wide.
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But in addition to doing that, guess what else they're doing.
They began clearing homeless encampments that have long played plagued
the nation's capital. Now Trump's been pushing for a federal
takeover of DC in order to restore public order and
clean up the blight encampments. I say, go for it.
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It's why we call it the District of Columbia. I
don't know why we give it any sort of self
governance other than the fact, would you rather be governed
by some people that you get to elect, or would
you rather be governed by five hundred and thirty five
members of the United States Congress. I think I'd rather
keep my self governance. That Congress granted it, But if
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you want to keep that, then you're pretty much going
to do what Congress tells you to do, because that's
pretty much where you get your money. In other news,
that's similar far left anti Israel activists that plan to
take over New York City's Federal Plaza after the arrest
of a pro Palestidian activist by Ice. The activists are
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now demanding the release of mot Mood Khalil, a Palestine
activist and a alumnus of Columbia University. Authorities detained him
over the weekends. His attorney, Amy Greer, reported that he
was taken from his university accommodation on Saturday evening by
ICE personnel and they cited the revocation of his student visa.
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His lawyer also clarified that he holds permanent residency status
but was detained regardless. Well, wait a minute, if you
are actively engaged in the support of terrorism and you
are a permanent resident, that doesn't make you a citizen,
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and that does make you subject to deportation. In fact,
it makes you subject to criminal prosecution because if you're
out actively supporting hamas and I don't mean just protesting,
because there's a really fine line here that the news
often glosses over if university students want to march up
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and down a public sidewalk on a public property and
they want to waive signs supporting a terrorist group HAMAS.
I think that's covered under the First Amendment, and you
can go do that. But if you're actively engaged in
the financial or other types of support for a terrorist organization,
and on top of that, you're not a citizen of
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this country, you are subject to being detained and you're
being subject to being deported. So I think the lawyer
here is really kind of reaching. Another immigration coalition group,
the Meread Alwet of the New York Immigration Coalition, criticize
the arrest, that it was unconstitutional, and they immediately filed
(29:55):
a rit a habeas corpus, which means bring us the body,
show us the body. DHS says that, oh well, his
alignment with HAMAS related activities are the grounds for the arrest,
and Secretary of State Rubio stated the visa the green
cards of HAMAS supporters would be revoked. Trump's has also
(30:17):
moved to cut off federal funding to universities that permit
antisemitic protests to occur on their campuses and Columbia has
been threatened with losing around fifty million dollars in government contracts. Colombia.
I'm not quite sure what Columbia's endowment is Columbia University endowment.
(30:39):
Let's see what we seem. Fourteen point eight billion dollars.
Fourteen point eight billion dollars in endowment and we're giving
them fifty million dollars, which reminds me of a text
message I got that I'll answer next.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Even more than Michael.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Yes, that is called thermalply and it's got little glass
beads in it. That's what gives it to retro reflectivity.
And they are supposed to actually remove it before they
add new the reply because it doesn't always take very well.
But it sounds like serious laziness to use a back
(31:19):
hole when they should use a scai fire.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
What scarifire?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
You're scared of fire? Is that what you said?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Apparently must be Frankenstein's monster.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Oh, I wonder if it is like some sort of
blow torch or something that melts it or eats it
up or.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Well, now we know what was the name of it again, scarifier?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
No, what was the name of the product?
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Thermoplast thermal plastic something.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yeah, Okay, see I knew it wasn't paint, it's substance.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
We knew there was somebody out there smarter than nuts.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I thought that was the entire premise of this program,
that they are smarter than this and they listen to
us just so they can feel better about themselves. That's
probably very true, because they just listen to us too, dummies,
and realize, Oh, however, we do have one listener who
can who confesses that thermoplastic stripping. I just saw the thing.
(32:18):
Let me find this per number two zero five to nine. Mike,
I'm obviously an idiot because I didn't know universities received
federal funding. Can you explain why they got it in
the first place? And I'd like for universities to explain
why tuition rises so quickly every year if they're getting
federal dollars. Well, you just answered your question right there,
(32:42):
because they're getting federal dollars. And every time that you
subsidize something, well that whatever you subsidize is going to
cost more in the end. So the more federal dollars
you pop in that the more they're going to raise tuition.
So the more you subsidize, you know, like a student
going to a college, the university realizes that, well, student's
(33:06):
not paying for it, they're getting loans for it. So
gonna we're gonna increase our tuition. We're gonna increase our
price of the product that we're selling, which is sup
supposedly education. Sorry for clearly being naive and stupid here,
but I don't get it people who never attend college
paying for the elite schools. Seriously, yes, seriously. But there
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is another reason, and that is even though we have
national laboratories, and even though the federal government does a
lot of research and development on all sorts of things,
you know, weapons, military arsenals, all sorts of science projects,
cancer research, you know, I mean, anything you can imagine
(33:49):
that comes under the umbrella of R and D, Somewhere
somebody in the government's doing it. But they outsource a
lot of that. And probably the largest outsourcer is the
National Institute of Health, which then gives grants to universities,
particularly medical schools, pharmaceutical schools, you know, any sort of
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you know, chemistry lab, biological lab to do research. They
get grants. And one of the big doze controversies is
that oftentimes those grants include let's say a million dollars
to do the research, and on top of the million dollars,
they'll include an extra hundred thousand dollars to help cover overhead.
(34:37):
Sometimes even worse, it's even sometimes even greater than ten percent,
and that overhead just goes into the general coffers of
the university to use however they want, however they want,
and it's not audited, it's not tracked, it's not accounted
for or anything. And that's one of the things that
DOGE is looking at. And quite frankly, there is I
(35:03):
think there is some very legitimate research done by universities
that cannot be done by the federal government. But there's
also a lot of fraud. For example, in climate science, Hey,
we're going to give you a grant to prove that
CO two causes global warming or global cooling or whatever
(35:24):
their premise is. Well, if the grant is to prove that,
aren't you going to make certain that your research supports
the conclusion that has been pre made. That's the fraud
that goes on
Hey, Michael, your station plays a bunch of commercials all
in Spanish and they're really loud. There anything you can
do to get them to stop doing that. It's driving
me crazy. I just turned the volume off at the
moment that sometimes I forget to turn it back on,
so I miss a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Thanks Bye, I really regret. Did you have the opportunity
in high school dragon to learn a second language?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I did? I took German?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Well you did? Can you speak much German? Still?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Not much anymore? I mean that was over twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Do you like if you hear it occasionally?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Can you I can pick up the general essence of
what they're saying, but I can't go like word for
word or anything. Now.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We had Spanish offered and it was an elective and
I didn't take it. And to this day I regret
not having taken Spanish, particularly when you look around you
today and you realize that, well, it's could have been useful,
It's gonna have been very useful. It's like, if you
gonna leave the sea, you need to know Mandarin. You
need to be able to read Mandan or Japanese or something,
(01:04):
because it's it's all you know. Dual language at Sea
Tack at the airport there, it's all dual language.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Although celebrities moving to Canada better learn to speak French.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
That's right. They By the way, how many have moved? Uh?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
None have said publicly that I am aware of. Huh, well,
they said some may have.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
You really, do you really think so?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I think Ellen was really thought.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
But I thought Ellen was doing that because she was retiring.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Something like that.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, and then I know that Whoopy WHOOPI has a place.
She has a villa somewhere in Sicily or somewhere in Italy.
That is amazing. I mean, the money these people make
is absolutely well, I'm gonna say it's disgusting simply because
I'm jealous.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Honestly for Whoopee. She's kind of earned that because she's
one of the first of you that's got the egot,
the you know, any Oscar Tony stuff. So she's immensely talented.
We may not like her, but she had or has
silent No, I totally agree.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm just thinking in terms of those who like Ellen,
maybe she was really going to retire, Like who was
it Tina Turner who recently passed not recently, it's probably
been two years now. I don't know how long it's
been since Tina Turner died, but she retired in France,
so you know, maybe I'll retire and I'll retire in
(02:25):
New Mexico. That's what I'll do.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But as for your Spanish speaking commercials, well, you're most
likely listening on the app which has a GEO located,
so you seem to be in an area that happens
to be speaking Spanish. So that's why you're getting the ads.
It's the volume.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Which proves, which proves, mister producer, that you don't read
every single text message like I do.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
No, I certainly don't.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You should never admitted that because I think I always
say that dragon I always read all the text message.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I read most of them during the show.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Okay, well I read them all the time. In fact,
there's people can prove that because I responded to some
last night. But anyway, people have told me that they're
listening that there. Now, it depends on where you download
the podcast. If you download the podcast in El Paso,
you're going to get Al Paso commercials. If you download
(03:17):
the podcast in Denver, you'll get Denver commercials. But then
if you go to El Paso. You'll still hear the
Denver commercials because it's already downloaded to your phone or device.
But I've had somebody on the text line say that
they are it's it's either this way or the inverse.
They either they download in Tucson and they still get
(03:38):
Denver ads, or they download and Denver get Tucson ADS.
So I don't know that the geo fencing always works.
Or maybe it's somebody in Tucson that has an outlet
in Denver and they are buying for whatever reason. But
in terms of the Spanish, no, Comebrunde, I don't know,
(03:59):
don't know. No, No, kikle here doesn't know. I don't know,
Brito tuckle whatever. I'm sure that offended somebody. But call
somebody that cares.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Uh, Taco Tuesday, it is Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It it is Taco Tuesday today. Oh, but you know
all the Dell Tacos in Colorado of clothes because well,
oh that's right, Grand Junction or something. Right? You want
to drive over today? You want to drive over to
Grand Junction?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
An easy three hour drive?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, you and hire a car together for three hours?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
No, are you all on a road?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
You know? You know how they used to how how
when radio was really radio and they would do remotes, well,
like Angie and I used to go do remotes, and
then occasionally like Matt and uh sometimes Shannon and I
forget who else, Uh there was another producer is no
longer here. We would go up to like Loveland and
(04:56):
do remotes you and I could do. I always wanted
to do a remote that's in a car, like you
know Jerry Seinfeld does comedians and cars. Okay, I want
to do the show from a vehicle. You maybe maybe
three of us. Maybe you and I'll get us. We'll
get us a nice big like black, you know, like
(05:18):
a We'll get us like the Beast, and you and
I will sit in the back. We'll have somebody else
drive and we'll tell that person. We just want you
to randomly drive to the oddest places you can think
of in the Denver metro area. And all you and
I will do is for four hours to do a
running commentary on all of the bull crap and silly
stupid or crimes or homeless, drugs, camps, tent camps, whatever.
(05:42):
That's all we'll do for four hours is we'll just
do a and then we'll get maybe we'll get in
the Michelin tour guide of if you really want to
know what Denver's like. Maybe we'll drive up in the
mountains a little bit. We'll go up to the Wonderview Cafe.
Have you've been to the Wonderview Cafe up in wonder
of you? We'll go up there, drive up there, up
Cole Creek Canyon, and we'll have some Mexican food up there,
(06:05):
and then we'll drive in. Fact, the rumor is that
the people that own Li Loma have bought that cafe
and turned it into now a white napkin, which is
always a mistake when you eat Mexican food. You need
black napkins when you eat Mexican food. But we could
drive up there and then drive back down through Evergreen.
Get on I seventy talk about traffic on ice side.
We've had to give just real live traffic reports, not
(06:29):
traffic reports that are an hour and a half old. So,
but do you think you could do four hours in
a car with me?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
No, I'd barely do four hours on the radio, and
we're in a completely different room.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
But I'd buy lunch. I'd buy you whatever you wanted
in terms of food, food, not food, not like. Oh look,
we're going by the Masarati dealership. Can I get you?
Can we stop there? No, we're not going to do that,
but I would. I would buy you whatever you wanted
in terms of food. Huh, you wanted to stop like
on Federal and has some really good Mexican One of
those guys up there can do that.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
We'll definitely get you. Located to the Spanish commercials.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Trotting up and down Federal. We would. Maybe I could
get you some hubcaps. There's some hubcaps and shot up there. Yeah,
I get you some new hubcaps from your car. Missus
red Beard's by the way, how's Missus red beards seat belt?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Oh it's fine, it's it worked because we would she
wanted to go to the dealership. No, no, we we
know we played dealership bright Haven't we talked.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
About this on air?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
You sure?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Sure? Okay, all right, it works.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I always I always worry about Missus bringing up Missus
red Beard on the air because she likes me. I
don't want to not like me because I don't I
don't want to get on her outside.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
She ain't awake for another two hours okay, all right, all.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Right, yeah, okay, so you went to the dealer they
got it replaced.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Oh yeah, it took like four days. All right?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Are you willing to tell us what it costs?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I think I had said, Oh, I said on the
text line. Yeah, it was hundreds of the plurals, the
plurality of hundreds of.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
North of north or south of five hundred? Was it
really north? It didn't get two three zeros?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Did it? Almost? Almost? Almost? Oh? Holy well? The seatbelt
itself was like four hundred and fifty dollars, and think
dealership labor costs.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh, you were easily at eight fifty nine had dollars.
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Since you're picking on me, I'll pick on you. Did
you check out those headlines I gave you?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I certainly did check you out the headlines based on
based on our commerce, based on the stories that I
did yesterday and the emails that I got. I'm really reticent, hesitant,
don't really want to look at them.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I just read that the headlines themselves are just fun.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Okay, huge number of people admit they'd be cool with
their partner hooking up with the robot. I saw just
a glimpse yesterday of Elon Musk getting a haircut by
a robot. Have you seen that?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Scissors around my head?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
But I do not either. Colorado manicures of robbing same
store five times.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Oh speak, Oh this is out of Aurora local stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
So yesterday on the news about Aurora, the the apartments
where the trend to rod what people were Now those
they are no. No, I think the apartment complex next
to that is.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I don't think it was that when it was another
ice right apartment complex.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, they've sued because and the news commentator made the
comment based on a new Colorado law, they are suing
the owners of the apartment complex for the apartments being uninhabitable. Well,
I always thought the common law in every state was
(09:54):
that if your apartment is not habitable, it is subject
to condemnation and you don't have to pay your rent
until they make it habitable. That's just I'm not getting
legal advice. I'm just saying that was my general understanding.
But they are these people, and my heart broke for them.
They're living in apartments that have no heat, no running water.
(10:16):
And because my first thought was well, why don't you move,
then my second thought was Oh, because you can't because
it's probably Section eight housing and they're getting subsidized for it.
But anyway, so this story comes out of Aurora. An
Aurora man was arrested last week for a half dozen
armed robberies of a gas station convenience stores five and
the robberies occurred at the same store, twenty year old
(10:38):
Ross Wassner. You know what, I wouldn't worry about it, Ross,
because even though you've you've done a half dozen armed
robberies five with the same store, you've now been arrested.
This occurs in I'm not sure whether this is Denver
or war So I'm not sure whether it's Rappahole County
or Denver, but it's Colorado. So at least a half
(11:02):
dozen arm robberies, I would say that's gonna get you
probably ninety days in jail, maybe six months.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I can only start taking you seriously if you steal
three or four.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Cars, right, yes, Uh, let's see. Wassner's first robbery and
Aurora happened in July twenty twenty four per Aurora PD,
two months before Denver's case was dropped.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Huh huh.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Aurora PD credited its gang robbery investigative team. You know
what that acronym is gripped? Okay, judge rejects denverse. Oh
this is interesting. District Judge Daniel Domenico said, there's a
(11:51):
there's little practical difference between the prior policy, the last
iteration of which was issued in twenty twenty one under
former President Biden. In a pair of memo is issued
by the administration in January, a federal judge Friday rejected
DPS's attempt to reinstate a federal policy that treated schools
as sensitive locations. Sensitive locations you know, like gun free zones,
(12:17):
which always keep guns out a gun free zones. Neither
the old nor the new policy completely demands immigration enforcement
actions at schools and other sensitive locations. The new guidance
from the Trump administration instructs ICE agents to use discretion
in a healthy dose of common sense.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
See I just don't always have maggot stories.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
And do you know what fascinates me about that? What
lawyer wrote a memo saying in terms of legal standards,
that the legal standard is a healthy dose of common sense. Now,
imagine you're in front of a jury and the jury's
trying to decide whether or not that you exercised a
(13:03):
quote healthy dose of common sense. All right, can I
do this story or do you think the listener will
be upset with this one?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I wasn't paying attention when he did that.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You didn't hear it, No, you didn't. You didn't listen
to the Michael Brown minute.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
All I heard is you stuttered, So I had to
edit that out. And that's all I all. I listened to.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Excuse me, it's six nineteen in the morning the mouth
as it started.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Working, but you recorded it before six am, so it
was even worse.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yeah, we got to get better at that. We the
minutes keep getting later recorded later and later and later
and later. Pretty soon we're going to be doing like
ten am. Uh sometimes. Here was the story on KDVR
and the apparently the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office because they're
not the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Oh yeah, I was listening to this one.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, I think did you think it was funny? I
think it's freaking hilarious.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I think you mentioned it in your minute, So I
don't want to give a spoiler. Alyric, It's like duh.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I know, all right, here's how it goes. Sometimes I read,
you know, I'm looking for these minentsight and I come
across something and the headline on KATIVR was something about
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office doesn't find humor in flyers posted
in public restrooms. So of course I'm thinking, well, what
(14:31):
did they post a flyer that had a picture of
Dragon Redbeard that said for a fun time, call three
zero three blah blah blah or what was it. No,
they're looking for somebody who hung up a fraudulent flyer
announcing random gentitle inspections at public restrooms. The flyer was
(14:51):
signed this the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, which is not
the office's real name. But they also took the agency's logo. Now,
I understand that using someone's logo without permission, particularly a
government logo, well, actually any logo can be a copywriter
trademark infringement. But this is you're making something, You're trying
to make something look official, which it's not, and obviously
(15:14):
that's illegal, but you have to admit that this is funny.
The flyer said quote. In compliance with recent executive orders,
the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department will be conducting random genital
inspections at all public restrooms beginning April twenty one, twenty
twenty five. In the quote now, the Sheriff's office says
(15:36):
it does not consider this flier a laughing matter. Seriously,
where's your sense of humor? I understand your pod about
the use of the logo, but you're not the Jefferson
County Sheriff's Department. You're the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office apparently.
But here's the point. If anybody is dumb enough, I
(15:57):
mean truly dumb enough to believe that jeff was doing
random genital checks and public restrooms, then really you are
some kind of stupid and you probably do deserve to
be fearful of random genital inspections in public restrooms. And
by the way, exactly who in the Sheriff's department would
be doing it? Do they have like a swat team
(16:18):
of sorts that they go out? Then they've got you know,
boxes of the rubber gloves, you know that that you
know we all now use since COVID? And do they
wear masks when they're doing it? Do they have body
armor on? Do they have level A suits on.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Turn your head and cough.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, turn your head and cough exactly. Speaking of turning
your head and coughing, eleven out of twelve, what kind
of flight was this? Okay, let me think, Okay, first
class in the front of the plane, you've got two.
Then as you get to behind first I get let's
(16:52):
let's assume it's a jumbo jet.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I think it said three passengers or something.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Okay, so it may be what is it are? Is
it the airbus three eighty or something? So it might okay,
it could possibly a twelve eleven out of twelve? Lavatories?
Why do we call them lavatories on on airplanes? Somebody
explained that one to me, or why don't they restrooms?
You do the same thing in a lavatory that you
(17:17):
would do in a restroom, but in an airplane, it's
a laboratory. And if it's got a Jeffco County sign
on it that says we're gonna do random genital inspections,
that's a public restroom.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Would be an international thing because sometimes they're called water closets.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
So yeah, w C, w C. Yeah, I always thought
w C fields whenever I saw that. It's all I
ever think about w C fields. An Air India flight
en route to Delhi was forced to circle back to
O'Hare after all but one of the plane's toilets was
rendered unusable. According to a report by the aviation website
View from the Wing, Air India two sixteen took off
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from O'Hare but was forced to turn back after eleven
of twelve toilets became clogged. They were four and a
half hours into the flight, somewhere over Greenland. Why you
go all the way back to Chicago? Maybe for maintenance,
I don't know. Only one toilet was left to use
for over three hundred people aboard the flight. An ex
(18:13):
user shared the chaos on board the flight, but in
India today could not verify the authority of the video. Okay,
but I want to know why they were all stopped up?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Which flight would you rather have? This flight or the
one where the naked lady gets up and starts walking
up and down the aisle.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
The one where the naked lady starts walking up and
down the aisle.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, but we don't know how what she look like?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah, because I don't have to look. But if I
don't have to look, I can put my little blinders
on or just turn my head. But if I got
to go, I gotta go, and I'm not gonna wait
in line for two hundred ninety nine other passengers to
go until I can go. So yeah, all right, let
me get back, let's get started, because something's happening in DC.
(18:56):
That's not what you think it is. That's great, it's.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Pretty funny, random general inspections in bathrooms and Jeff co oh,
I was laughing.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
So all I think I woke somebody else up in
a half.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Uh good stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
It is funny, And don't get don't get me wrong.
I understand why the Jeff Go Sheriff's Office is upset
about it because of the use of their logo, but
to make a big story out of it, and then
you're you're you're going to hut them down. Well, first,
if if if anybody is really stupid enough to believe
(19:33):
that flyer that, I mean, you really are some kind
of stupid. But I would just guess, considering crime in Colorado,
not just Jeff co but crime everywhere, that you might
have something just a little more important to do, because
think about how you would uh think about the investigation
(19:54):
that would take checking, you know, for any sort of recordings, video, whatever,
h or matching up you know, the printer ID to
the to the paper, the source of the paper. You know,
because I can go on and I can pretty much, uh,
with Photoshop or Adobe, I can pretty much copy any
(20:15):
logo that I want to and then just randomly go
post something up. To spend any time investigating that is
a complete and total waste of law enforcement resources. But
oh they got a big oh wait, you know, we
got on the We got on the TV about it. Yeah,
as long as we do on TV, that's what's wrong
(20:36):
with our society if everybody thinks as long as you're
on TV, well, that's that's really important. Yeah, let's go
to d C. The that massive Black Lives Matter mural
that stretches down the pavement of Sixteenth Street leading up
to the White House is now being removed by city workers.
(20:58):
The Mayor of d C, Muriel Bowser, will be incorporated
into from Black Lives Matter to something about America and
our celebration of two hundred and fifty years coming up
in a year or two. This is from the Black
Lives Matter mostly peaceful protests that broke out in the
(21:20):
spring the summer of twenty twenty. You know, so you
know nothing better than Black Lives Matter put down. I
wonder how much it costs to do that. Now, the
mayor's decision to remove the massive mural, what do you
think prompted her to do that? Oh, seems like some
Republican lawmakers in Capitol Hill, led by a congressman by
(21:41):
the name of Andrew Clyde from Georgia, introduced legislation to
encourage its removal. When I when I saw that in
the story, I kind of chuckled because I thought, so what,
you passed a bill that says, Mayor, we encourage you
to remove the arl.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Know.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Here's what the bill said. The bill would quote withhold
certain apportionment funds from the District of Columbia unless the
Mayor of the District of Columbia removes removes the phrase
black Lives Matter from the street symbolically designated as Black
Lives Matter Plaza, redesignates such street as Liberty Plaza, and
(22:23):
removes such phrase from each website, document, and other material
under the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia. And boy
did they get to start on it. They went to
work on it right away. Now, what I find fascinating
(22:52):
about this video, which was over on x is you
know how they use I'm not quite sure what the
material is to put the stripes down on a on
a highway, on a freeway on the interstate. Well, it
looks like the same material. So they're having to use
(23:13):
some sort of backle of some sort some sort of
front loader to scrape this stuff off the street. So
it's going to be fairly costly to remove. But considering
how costly it's going to be to remove, think about
how costly it was to put it there in the
first place.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Forgive my ignorance here, but can't you just like paint
over it? Do you need to know?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You wouldn't act if you go, if you look at
that's a great question. But if you go look, that's
a great question dragon, because.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
It's it's just painted on the street.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
No it's not. No, it's not paint. It's this it's
a it's a thick, almost rubbery plastic sort of Some engineer,
some trying engineer, knows what it is. I don't know
what it is, but it's the reflective coating like like
you see on the you know, lane yeah, lane striping,
but it's that kind of material, and.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
So you have to scrape them out, rearrange lanes here,
and our god forsaken twenty five or seventy to just
paint over that and then paint new lines. So just
paint over the.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Well, I can tell you that that that that I
don't even think the scraping's going to work, because there's
a certain area of town where I travel where they
you know, they've done construction, so they've they've shifted the
lanes back and forth a couple of times. And even
though they have scraped and scraped and scraped at certain
times a day, it really is like dust or dawn
(24:47):
when you still have your headlights on, it's really difficult
to tell is that the lane or is that the lane?
And then if it snows just slightly, it shows just
enough because of the the impression on the asphalt or
concrete that is that the liner? Is that the line? Anyway?
During so Mayor Bowser held a series of town hall
(25:10):
meetings because you know, you got to have a town
hall meeting to make a decision. Isn't it fascinating how
elected officials can't make decisions without having a committee without
having a town hall. Wait a minute, we elected you
to go make decisions, so why are you having a
town hall make the freaking decision. So she acknowledged that
her decision was part of this greater effort because she
(25:32):
wants to ease tensions between herself, her administration, and Trump
and his administration. But she got pushed back from Black
Lives Matter. So the Marxists are all an uproar because
they're going to take out Black Lives Matter plaza. The
mayor argues, pretty much, shut up, we got bigger fish
(25:54):
to fry. She added this quote, Well, I'm not going
to talk about specifics about my conversations, but I think
it's safe to say that people don't like it, didn't
like it. It's safe to say you can imagine that. Yes,
it's safe to say. So what you're just trying to
say that people don't like it? Why don't you just
(26:14):
come out and see people don't like it? Why don't
you just say that you did it because you were
trying to appease the Marxist You were trying to somehow
keep the violence out of DC. You were hoping. Here's
what I truly believe was going on. When they put
that crap down, it covers like a three or four
block area. It's humongous, and it goes from sidewalk to sidewalk,
(26:37):
and that particular area of Sixteenth Street, which is pretty
much well sixteenth Street, you go look it up on
Google Maps anyway, and when it goes from sidewalk to sidewalk,
my gosh, that's a huge that's like going on. It's
like a probably a six lane highway, it's that wide.
(26:59):
But in addition to doing that, guess what else they're doing.
They began clearing homeless encampments that have long played plagued
the nation's capital. Now Trump's been pushing for a federal
takeover of DC in order to restore public order and
clean up the blight encampments. I say, go for it.
(27:22):
It's why we call it the District of Columbia. I
don't know why we give it any sort of self
governance other than the fact, would you rather be governed
by some people that you get to elect, or would
you rather be governed by five hundred and thirty five
members of the United States Congress. I think I'd rather
keep my self governance. That Congress granted it, But if
(27:43):
you want to keep that, then you're pretty much going
to do what Congress tells you to do, because that's
pretty much where you get your money. In other news,
that's similar far left anti Israel activists that plan to
take over New York City's Federal Plaza after the arrest
of a pro Palestidian activist by Ice. The activists are
(28:04):
now demanding the release of mot Mood Khalil, a Palestine
activist and a alumnus of Columbia University. Authorities detained him
over the weekends. His attorney, Amy Greer, reported that he
was taken from his university accommodation on Saturday evening by
ICE personnel and they cited the revocation of his student visa.
(28:27):
His lawyer also clarified that he holds permanent residency status
but was detained regardless. Well, wait a minute, if you
are actively engaged in the support of terrorism and you
are a permanent resident, that doesn't make you a citizen,
(28:48):
and that does make you subject to deportation. In fact,
it makes you subject to criminal prosecution because if you're
out actively supporting hamas and I don't mean just protesting,
because there's a really fine line here that the news
often glosses over if university students want to march up
(29:10):
and down a public sidewalk on a public property and
they want to waive signs supporting a terrorist group HAMAS.
I think that's covered under the First Amendment, and you
can go do that. But if you're actively engaged in
the financial or other types of support for a terrorist organization,
and on top of that, you're not a citizen of
(29:33):
this country, you are subject to being detained and you're
being subject to being deported. So I think the lawyer
here is really kind of reaching. Another immigration coalition group,
the Meread Alwet of the New York Immigration Coalition, criticize
the arrest, that it was unconstitutional, and they immediately filed
(29:55):
a rit a habeas corpus, which means bring us the body,
show us the body. DHS says that, oh well, his
alignment with HAMAS related activities are the grounds for the arrest,
and Secretary of State Rubio stated the visa the green
cards of HAMAS supporters would be revoked. Trump's has also
(30:17):
moved to cut off federal funding to universities that permit
antisemitic protests to occur on their campuses and Columbia has
been threatened with losing around fifty million dollars in government contracts. Colombia.
I'm not quite sure what Columbia's endowment is Columbia University endowment.
(30:39):
Let's see what we seem. Fourteen point eight billion dollars.
Fourteen point eight billion dollars in endowment and we're giving
them fifty million dollars, which reminds me of a text
message I got that I'll answer next.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Even more than Michael.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Yes, that is called thermalply and it's got little glass
beads in it. That's what gives it to retro reflectivity.
And they are supposed to actually remove it before they
add new the reply because it doesn't always take very well.
But it sounds like serious laziness to use a back
(31:19):
hole when they should use a scai fire.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
What scarifire?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
You're scared of fire? Is that what you said?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Apparently must be Frankenstein's monster.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Oh, I wonder if it is like some sort of
blow torch or something that melts it or eats it
up or.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Well, now we know what was the name of it again, scarifier?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
No, what was the name of the product?
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Thermoplast thermal plastic something.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yeah, Okay, see I knew it wasn't paint, it's substance.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
We knew there was somebody out there smarter than nuts.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I thought that was the entire premise of this program,
that they are smarter than this and they listen to
us just so they can feel better about themselves. That's
probably very true, because they just listen to us too, dummies,
and realize, Oh, however, we do have one listener who
can who confesses that thermoplastic stripping. I just saw the thing.
(32:18):
Let me find this per number two zero five to nine. Mike,
I'm obviously an idiot because I didn't know universities received
federal funding. Can you explain why they got it in
the first place? And I'd like for universities to explain
why tuition rises so quickly every year if they're getting
federal dollars. Well, you just answered your question right there,
(32:42):
because they're getting federal dollars. And every time that you
subsidize something, well that whatever you subsidize is going to
cost more in the end. So the more federal dollars
you pop in that the more they're going to raise tuition.
So the more you subsidize, you know, like a student
going to a college, the university realizes that, well, student's
(33:06):
not paying for it, they're getting loans for it. So
gonna we're gonna increase our tuition. We're gonna increase our
price of the product that we're selling, which is sup
supposedly education. Sorry for clearly being naive and stupid here,
but I don't get it people who never attend college
paying for the elite schools. Seriously, yes, seriously. But there
(33:29):
is another reason, and that is even though we have
national laboratories, and even though the federal government does a
lot of research and development on all sorts of things,
you know, weapons, military arsenals, all sorts of science projects,
cancer research, you know, I mean, anything you can imagine
(33:49):
that comes under the umbrella of R and D, Somewhere
somebody in the government's doing it. But they outsource a
lot of that. And probably the largest outsourcer is the
National Institute of Health, which then gives grants to universities,
particularly medical schools, pharmaceutical schools, you know, any sort of
(34:12):
you know, chemistry lab, biological lab to do research. They
get grants. And one of the big doze controversies is
that oftentimes those grants include let's say a million dollars
to do the research, and on top of the million dollars,
they'll include an extra hundred thousand dollars to help cover overhead.
(34:37):
Sometimes even worse, it's even sometimes even greater than ten percent,
and that overhead just goes into the general coffers of
the university to use however they want, however they want,
and it's not audited, it's not tracked, it's not accounted
for or anything. And that's one of the things that
DOGE is looking at. And quite frankly, there is I
(35:03):
think there is some very legitimate research done by universities
that cannot be done by the federal government. But there's
also a lot of fraud. For example, in climate science, Hey,
we're going to give you a grant to prove that
CO two causes global warming or global cooling or whatever
(35:24):
their premise is. Well, if the grant is to prove that,
aren't you going to make certain that your research supports
the conclusion that has been pre made. That's the fraud
that goes on
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