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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
So what would happen if Trump were to write up
a executive order banning these federal judges from issuing their
temporary restraining orders?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It would have no effect the judges he has. He
has no authority over those judges. All he can do is, uh,
nominate and send the names to the Senate to be confirmed,
and then they're that there. Remember, we have the concept
of the separation of powers, and everybody has certain little
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you know, in DC speak, they've everybody has their lane,
and everybody's going to play in their lane. And and
only in certain circumstances can you cross over into somebody
else's lane. And there's really no place for the executive
other than nominating judges. Uh, that's pretty much it. Now.
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The judiciary can and I think they've overreached here. They
can reach into the executive for example, and say that
you know, this action is unconstitutional. But notice there's there's
a very fine that this is all right. Damn talkbacks.
There's a very fine line between ruling because if you
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rule that something is unconstitutional, more likely than not you've
gone through a series of trials, hearings, due process to
finally get to some place where Ultimately, the only place
that can, I think, generally speaking, really really order the
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president to do anything, and that's the US Supreme Court.
What's happened here with this, with these planes taking these
dirt bags to Yese. I kept saying Guatemala, it was
El Salvador. I don't why Guatemala in the head taking
him to El Salvador. Is that that's a pretty much
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a foreign policy decision, and it's a political issue. It's
not a justiciable issue. In other words, it's not an
issue that you can really kind of litigate over. So
I think the courts have way overstepped their bounds. And
ultimately what happens is they're arguing that, hey, we were
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outside the jurisdiction of the country. We had already left
the country. You don't have any jurisdiction outside the territorial
territory of the US government. So we didn't ignore you.
We just don't have any obligation to do what you said,
because we're exercising an agreement that we reached with two
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foreign countries, the Maduro government in Venezuela and the Bekayley
or whatever his name is in El Salvador. And you're
treading on territory, political or jurisdictional roratory that is well settled.
The courts have no place in foreign policy. So there's that, uh,
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one of the places that I I don't spend a
lot of time on. And I got this may seem
trivial to you, but I think it's an example of
how I was thinking about this yesterday. I'm not going
to tell you what circumstances. I wasn't talking. I wasn't
thinking about this particular topic, but I was thinking in general,
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how our society. Because I'm in doing some show prep yesterday,
there's a story I'm going to do in a minute
about the Colorado state budget and how it's it's like
one in one point two billion dollars uh deficit. They're there,
They're in the whole one point two billion dollars, and
they're doing these really stupid things to cut, which I
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looked at and I thought, why are we doing that
in the first place? And then you get on if
you get on the interstates where they have the overhead
signs for the past two days now, I first misread
the sign. The sign says something to the effect for
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cars on shoulder of the road, and then it flashes
to the next sign or to the next screen slow
down or pull over. I thought it said for cars
on the on the road or shoulder, pull over or
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slow down. And I thought, really, for every car of
the road, you want me to pull over and slow down, Well,
then nobody's.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Going to go anywhere, no, thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
And Sunday someone's taking care of a dog of a
friend of mine. Long story short, and this guy has
really bad copd he can't get out of his house
and he was out of dog food. So he sent
me a text message and won don't know if I
will get dog food. So I agreed to go get
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dog food. So I went to the place where they
get dog food on Broadway because they live in Capitol Hill.
And I went on to Broadway, and I decided I
wanted a diet coke. So I'm going southmand on Broadway
at approaching Alameda, and I have to make a left
turn into the McDonald's to get a diet coke. And
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I swear everybody in front of me was trying to
figure out where to turn left onto Alameda, let alone
trying to figure out how to get into the McDonalds.
And you know why, because they've created those stupid bike
lanes that nobody was in, and they put the if
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you've been there, I'm just trying to describe if people
haven't been there. So you have ballards that come out
from the sidewalk at an angle, then run parallel to Broadway,
then go back at an angle, like a forty five
degree angle, back to the sidewalk, and then you're supposed
to park. Now, you can park against the sidewalk where
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there are no ballards, but where there are ballards, you
have to literally park in the street and you can't
decide whether you can I park here or not. And
then you look over and realize that, oh, beyond the ballards,
still on the curb where the sidewalk was is the
parking meter. So people are pulling in, pulling out, trying
to figure out what to do.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So you have to cross the bike lane, yes, with
your vehicle to get to a parking spot on the
side of the street.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Well no, but so the bike lane is inconsistent. It's
like the bike lane kind of comes and it comes
and goes in places, at least in this one block.
It's the block. I don't know what this cross street is,
but it would be the like the couple of blocks
as you are southbound on Broadway approaching Alameda. The It's
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the stupidest thing I think I've ever seen. And I'm thinking, Okay,
is this person because I'm in the left lane that's
not the true left lane, but the left lane where
the ballards push you out into what's now the left lane,
And so I'm trying to figure out is this person
parking here? Are they going to pull up and make
a left I can't, So I have to pull into
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the center lane, pass all of those people, and then
dart back over to the left to get into the
McDonald's driveway. And then I'm wondering, as I approach Alameda,
oh my gosh, do I really need to be over
in the left to get into the drive through in
the McDonald's. I mean, it's so stupid.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
The real problem here is your diet coke addiction. If
you didn't need your diet coke, you wouldn't have had
any of these problems.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And that's true. However, now that I've decided I wanted
a diet coke, the city and County of Denver is
not going to stop me from getting my effing diacoke,
so and I'm thinking, in their effort to be politically correct,
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air quotes here environmentally sound are appropriate or whatever it is.
And then't you think about the overhead signs, because I
think what's happening now is, for example, there was a
car on four seventy over the weekend that had pulled off.
There's a spot as you're eastbound in four seventy that
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there is there's the shoulder, but then there is like
this level dirt area that is I would guess at
least twenty feet from the shoulder way off, and a
car had pulled over, way off, trying to get as
far away from the highway as possible. So they're not
even on the shoulder, they're off the they're on dirt.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
They're not even on the asphalt, essentially on the grass.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
They're essentially on this grass and dirt that is about
the size of half a football field or something. And
they have their flashers on, and what the hell are
people doing? They can't decide do I pull over? Do
I slow down? And people are trying to weave in,
they're trying to It's we've made life so freaking complicated
in this society. That you just can't go it. You
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just can't go any We can't do anything, which leads
me to this story. I don't go to Do you
ever go to Reddit? Dragon?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
He occasionally?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah, it's it's really kind of a it's hard to navigate,
in my opinion, But if you just kind of go
fishing for the fun of it, like just random word searches,
you'll find the darnedest things you'll find. You'll find some
stuff maybe you wish you hadn't found.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
It's a dark side of the Internet there.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
There's there's a dark side to Reddit. But you're like, oops,
how did I How did I find that? That was
not what I was looking for? That's not the Richard
I was trying to find. And then you go elsewhere
and you find this.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
This is in.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And I'm not sure what the acrony is this, Oh,
this is someone's user name ftfm. Because when I first
saw I was like female to female male. I mean,
this is how warp your brain gets now because of
all this crap that's going on. But this is in
the subreddit about Denver king soupers new. This is only
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from two days ago. King supers new theft accusations at
self checkout? Have you ever been accused of stealing anything
the self checkout dragon?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
No, it did yell at me the other day because
I actually had I scanned one item with one hand
and I went over to put it into the basket
while I still had the other item in my other hand,
so it did flash up on the screen. Are you trying?
Did you forget to scan something? I said something. I
was like, no, I'm just trying to be efficient here
and use two hands. But you won't let me listen.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
To this now obviously I can't read it verbatim. There
is some form of security BS at King super self
checkout that abruptly accused me of stealing the last two
times I've gone. It replays listen to this, It replays
the video quote evidence of me reaching into my pocket
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for my wallet to pay, and a teenager has to
come over and watch the footage and then allow my purchase.
If this company straight to hell, I'm done.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yeah, that's that's kind of what happened to me. I
didn't reach in my pocket, but like I said, I
had one item in each hand, scanned one with the left.
Who went to turned and tried to put it in
my bag because you know, I can't use the plastic bags.
And as I'm turning, the unscanned item hovered over the
bags and me, did you forget to scan something something?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
So they must have some sort of light ar over
the bagging section.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Because there's a camera.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
But because I thought it was just based on weight,
that every UPC code had a way to sign to it.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah, both, and that's how.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
They figured out you put it in the bag or not.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
It freaking yells at me too. When I get my
bags and I put them in that bagging area. Did
you put something in the bagging area? Did you?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Asked me? Did you? It's like, yes, you have nothing here.
I need to put my bags here. Leave me alone,
let me scan my crap and get out of here.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Well, the comments are wonderful. I bag comments are glorious.
Let's just go through a few comments just to start
our day out on a positive note.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Happy Tuesday, Happy Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Uh, Ronnie Sidds right. The King super self checkouts are
indeed the worst. Safeway and Whole Foods have machines that
rarely give me issues despite also having security measures built in,
but one attempt to create more space in my reusable bag.
Always creates a quote. Help is on the situation for
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me at King Soupers?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, I can confirm that's accurate too.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Oh then, toaster toaster bath tester. I love these usernames.
Toaster bath tester, A toaster get a bath tester.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yep, it's exactly what you think it is.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Okay, all right, the one by my house now checks
receipts like it's ay effing Costco. Remember Kroger admitted less
than six months ago that they were gouging both during
and after the pandemic, to which Trossy writes, remember you
have no obligation to stop for receipt checks unless you
have a membership agreement that stipulates a receipt check like Costco.
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I just keep walking past the objecting checker at other
places like Walmart, etc. Toaster bath tester says, lol. Yes,
and I've got to remember this last time, I just
handed my receipt to the guy and just kept walking.
That's brilliant.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I don't take my receipt through when it prints out,
I just leave.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Well, and somebody else said down here somewhere another one said,
I always tell them it's my back pocket, and I
turned my butt around for them to pull it out,
and of course they just waved me on.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I'll start crumbling up and throw it in one of
the bags like it's in there. Good luck.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
That's good too. And somebody said I clicked the no
receipt options self checkout. I just keep walking f them
if they want to make sure I'm not stealing it
self checkout, don't have self checkout? Hey, yo, bingo. Let's see,
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the one I went to had a guy in a
cop in uniform stop me and tell me he would
mark me for trespassing if I didn't show him my receipt.
I've never gone back to the King Soupers since.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
And then, okay, we've got an officer in uniform in ours,
but you do yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
We don't in any of ours.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
But then you know, there's a time or two I've
showed him, but most of the time he just he's
just there.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
A fraid. Carrie for zero ninety three says I've never
seen a copy a cop at King Supers. Wouldn't it
be cheaper for them to have cashiers than a cop?
A fair Line sixty seven forty says ours has armed
guards with bulletproof vests. Now stopping the grocery store has
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armed guards wearing body armor.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
But not to sound aggorant in here, but aren't most
officers wearing some kind of a something under their uniform anyway, So.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, they probably are. But just stop and think about
the fact that you got a cop with body armor
on at a grocery store. Now, I understand we've we
had a horrible shooting in Boulder at a King Soupers
where you know, kid goes anti submitic, not job, goes
crazy tries because he thinks there's a munch Jews there.
He'll I'll kill a bunch of Jews. I mean, it's
it's insane. Let's see. Uh, why even waste your breath
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with that about Hey, it's in my back pocket. Just
keep going. You don't owe them an explanation. You were
there to conduct business, a transaction, you paid, They have
fulfilled their part. You don't owe them. Hey guy, I'm
sorry you're asking for this. I did. I did, indeed
click the no receipt option block. No, I just keep walking.
If I were you to clarify, says in dog Beers,
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I've had eighty to clarify you don't have to show
them a receipt, but they are a private business. If
they want to, they can trespass you from the property
for any reason, including not showing a receipt.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Let's see this text brought up a good point here, Hey, dragon,
not only does it ask you if you put if
you put a bag in the bagging area, then it
asks you if you want to purchase any bags. When
you're all done, you don't have any bags for me
to purchase. Stop asking me that question.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Well, and I still go to it, and I will
continue to do this that as long as it asks
me how many bags do I want to purchase? My
answer is zero. Now when they start asking me how
many bags did you use? I will answer that truthfully.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Also, you're still has bags for use.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
They have paper bags, they have paper bag they have
paper bags.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I mean maybe mine does.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I Well, yeah, you know, we live in white suburbia.
We live where we have white privilege. So that's why
we don't have cops. That's why we have paper bags.
Because I'm a white male, I'm superior to a red beard.
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I clicked to use your own bags, put my bags
on the counter and get the help us on the
way message to the cashier has to come over and
swipe their collar, like damn, I just want to go home.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Higher cashiers March eighteen still have not received my W
two Walmart, Sam's, Clug King, Seevers or any other store.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I got to do self check out.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah, you must be Gouberner ninety two forty nine. Michael,
I had my taxes done recently. I told my tax
prepared that I had not yet gotten my W twos
from Walmart and King Soupers. Explain me, I work at
both part time. When I check out my groceries, my
tax preparer just looked at me and continued on with
my taxes. Huh, have you a driving gotten your W two's. No,
we haven't. Our friend of South Dakota writes, good morning
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from South Dakota. Uh, after you pay for your goods,
isn't that your property? Wouldn't they need a search warrant
to search your bag? Everyone, have a great day. That's
actually a pretty good point.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah, mister lawyer.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah, and think that I've come into your establishment. I've
collected my stuff, I've paid for it, I've put it
in my bag. That's now my bag. Oh you want
to look at my bag? Oh wait while you get
a warrant. You know, I gotta try that one on
some little pimple face or some poor old man that's
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sitting there like I had it out the other day
at Samson.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Huh, what if it's an actual leele Well if.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
That would be even better. I'd love for it to
be an actual leo. Oh really, do you have a
search one that's going to cause a cop to go
thank you? Yeah, I don't think that. I don't think
a cop wants to do that.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Probably not for a pimple faced kid though. For you, yeah,
you're a grouchy old man, but for you know, some teenager,
which reminds me and I.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Told Dragon that My theory about this whole discussion is,
I think this is why people to be so uptight.
It's why we have road rage. It's why we have
people that finally lose it. I'm not trying to justify
any of this, but it is why. It's why you
have road rage, is why people are always on edge. People.
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We've made everything so complicated. I'll give you an example,
so I just say, samn rules, too many rules and technology.
This is why Who's I having this conversation. I was
having a conversation with somebody the other day about cash
and they had heard me on air. Oh I know.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I was with a friend of mine and she had said,
I find it funny you always have cash, And I said,
because I've learned, and I've been in situations where there
are two things. Maybe you want to tip someone and
it's impossible to do it with a credit card. Someone's
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done something really nice for you, and you want to
have a hand, I'm a five dollar bill or something
because they.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Helped you do something cheap, skate or ten twenty.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I mean, I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
You have to go through your hundreds, like if I say, oh,
there's a five here, Oh.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, here, here's here's a five year old twurp. Here's
here's a five five dollars bill? Or when when? And
and this gets to my SAMs story when technology fails. Now,
I have been to Sam's twice, the one at Quebec
and Forth or near Quebec in four seventy because they
have they have gas, so I go there because it's
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always the cheapest gas around. For twice in a week
their system has not worked, so I have the Sam's
app on my phone. You scan and you know, it
reads my membership card and then it you know, do
I pay with this you know? Yes, I'm paying with
this card and then it goes through its process and
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then I just start pumping gas. When it works, it's great.
But it wasn't working, so I mean, I didn't know
it wasn't working. So I walk up, you know, I
pull up to the pump, open the app, scan the
QR code, pay with this card yes, and then it
starts whirling and then finally he kicks out and says,
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please exit. Try again, So I exit and I try again.
Then the second after the second failure, it says, if
you want to buy a gas, please insert a credit card. So,
before it failed the second time, one of the you
know that's always a geriatric attendant. So he's walking around.
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I said, sir, can you help me? Something doesn't seem
to be working, And of course he asked, he hasd to,
he has to ask me what's not working. I explained
to him what I just did, and he said, well,
are you you know? And this is where he pissed
me off.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Are you sure you did it right?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Are you sure you're doing it right. And I just
looked at him and I said, okay, So I opened
I app again and I scanned the QR code and
he's watching. I've got my phone like where he can
watch it. And when it does, what he does this
is what pisss me off. He goes, oh, yeah, they
install new Wi Fi and it's not working. And I
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looked at him and I'm trying to decide. I want
to scream at you because you challenge that I was
not doing it before you knew it, before you asked
me to do this. So I said, well, the Wi
Fi must have been changed, like this was Sunday. I
was putting gas in. I put gas in the BMW
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like on Friday, and it was it was doing the
same thing, and I just finally put my credit. But
this time, I'm like, I want to know what's going
on here, Like you know you you want me to
download the app. You want to make a convenience, so
you're here, tell me why? And I finally said, so,
can you explain to me if you've known since probably
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before last Friday that the Wi Fi wasn't working, why
hasn't management come out and fixed it for you? Now
I'm being very nice to the guy. I'm trying to
put him in a position that I understand You're frustration.
You're out here having to help people, and you've been
explaining for you know, at least five days now that
the WiFi is not working. Why doesn't management at Walmart
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fix the freaking WiFi?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Because they put it in a trouble ticket. It's going
to take another week.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
And that's exactly you know what His response was, Well,
I've told management, but they don't seem to be very
concerned about it. And I said, Corporate America really sucks,
doesn't it. Of course, now he wants to agree, but
he can't. He can't. He knows he can't say that, yes,
Corporate America and Walmart management sucks, but he knows that
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that's it. And I said, would you like for me
to call the store manager while I'm standing right here
with you and explain to them that they have a
frustrated You know, I've spent more time. This is when
you have too much time on your hands. This is
what happens.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
You really are the old man yelling at clouds, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I am, because I'm tired. I'm tired. Of things not working,
and I'm tired of government making things more complicated than
they need to be. And so yes, I'm just yes,
I think that's the role of when you get to
be a certain age, that's your job in life is
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to remind everybody it does not have to be this way.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Okay, Boomer, I'm.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Just waiting for that. I was just waiting for that.
Let's see, let's go back to uh oh fifty three
twenty eight. Mike H. Boulder also has zany traffic mitigation lines.
See now just think about that, we're now doing traffic mitigation. Really,
whenever you do traffic mitigation, it should be called traffic complication.
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It's not mitigating. You're not the traffic's Do you think
do you honestly believe this is a serious question? Do
you honestly believe that traffic mitigation is going to cause
people to go, oh hmm, it's just complicated as hell
to drive. I think I'll just get on the RTD
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and risk my life, or risk the RTD is going
to be late, or RTD is not gonna get me
where it's gonna take me, or that I'm gonna get
shot by some fentanyl addict to you know, heroin addict somewhere. No,
it doesn't mitigate traffic, so just the very idea of
traffic mitigation is again using language to convince you that, oh,
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we're making the traffic so much better anyway. Bolder also
has zany traffic mitigation lines and signs and plastic bowls
and plastic barriers. But drivers and multimodals just blatantly disregard
the guidance and do what they want, which crazy, even
more chaos than before the stupid guides arrest my case,
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uh ninety six twenty four. Mike self checkout is not
for customer convenience. It's for the store to save money.
Now that they're losing money, they're trying to blame the
customer bingo. Um oh this was the fifty to fifty
another good phone number, Hey, Dragon, Not only does it
ask if you put a bag in the bagging area,
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then ask if you want to purchase any bags when
you're done? Sure does the other thing that self checkout does?
It drives me crazy. You know, if you're using a checker,
if you buy let's say, five tens of pork and beans,
what do they do? They take one can of pork
and beans and they scan it five times. Yes, go
try to do that at the self checkout.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Can't because you can't scan the next item until you
put it on the way to air.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
To the efficient of the self checkout, the self checkout
is designed to be an efficient.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Mike equals male care and thank you seventy three forty seven.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Seventy three forty seven. You're banned. You're absolutely bland a
band uh forty one oh six, Michael, we have a
completely geared up Leo at the eggs of the local
King Soupers in north Thornton. The good side seems an
odd use for a limited resource. Now, I'm assuming that
even though he's geared up, he's off duty if if.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Thornton, and he's not getting paid well.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
No, no, he's getting paid by right. He's off duty,
so this is his second gig.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
If you're off duty, are you allowed to wear your
full get up?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I think you are? Really, Yeah, I think you are,
because that's what that's what they're paying for. They're they're
paying for a cop. Okay, you're just but you have
to do it on your outside your shift. So I
think if there's a Leo out there, that says you
can't do it, and there's some rule or regulation that
I'm not aware let me know, because I'm not aware
of it.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
So at least King super is paying for it versus
the taxpayers. Right, Yeah, so that's kind of a positive.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
It is a positive. But I'm also thinking we now
have reached the stage where we have full geared leos
in grocery stores.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
A TI detergent. It's expensive, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Now, I didn't stop at circle K today, but neither
the Circle K's I normally go to have any security guard.
Now they got the cameras everywhere, but there's no security guard.
There have been times that I've gotten out of the
circle k. Al always look at my surroundings because it's
usually five o'clock in the morning and it's a little
sketchy at times, a little sketchy. To me, this is
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probably the best of all. Thirty six oh two, Michael,
we were at the Walmart in Frisco. A woman had
a Target handheld bag. It as her bag.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
That's glorious. Now, that is that to me? That's that's
our society. Now, Oh you're going to take away my
bags and it's still the whole idea of you know,
I need to do a Hey Kathleen, Kathleen, if you're
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listening this morning. She works with the Independence Institute. I
need the Independence Institute to do a CORA, a Colorado
Open Records Act request. I want to know how much
the state of Colorado has collected on the bag fee,
and I want to know to whom and how much
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that bag fee has been distributed and what it's been
used for. So let's let's get on that. Can Can
we get cal? Can we wake Cal there up and
get them to do that. I'm not going to do it.
That's that's wrong.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Pokem with a stick, pokem with a stick.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I met where that bag fee's gone or how much
has been collected and who and to whom it's gone to.
You know, it's probably gone to Jared Poulos's lunch money bucket.
That's what he's done with it.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Hey, Mike and Dragon, this is the Brettoness, and my
way around all that crap is I order all my
groceries on an instat cart.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I select what I want on an app. Somebody goes
to shops.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
For it and brings it to my door.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Sometimes there's bags sometimes there's not I put tubs out
in front, they jumped the groceries.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
In it, and I threw them in the house. I've
tried online shopping many times at King Sleepers. I guess
I should try Safeway because I'll buy toilet trees, and
then if I'm buying fruits and vegetables, I don't really
trust them to pick out the best one. Yeah, I
want to do that myself. And then the third problem
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I have with the online shopping is they're always asking, well,
this is a low count item, like we only have
a few of them, so what can we substitute nothing?
I want this? Well, then we can't guarantee if you're
going to get it. Well, so then why you know?
At least now I go okay, that means I'll just
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go someplace else. I'll just go shop a different store.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I know a few people that work at a King Sooopers,
and their argument for doing the instacart type stuff and
having them pick out the groceries for you is that
they want you to continue to use the service. So
they are going to pick the nicest looking bananas out there.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
But then what if you like brown spotted bananas versus
I like certain just green, not totally green, but you know,
just enough that they're going to ripen a little bit
over a few days and then they'll be right.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
I'm with you. I like them a little bit more green,
so you know, if they pick something a little more brown,
I'm going to be well and kind of with the
the talk back there. Yeah, if you've got your items
locked up, I'm not buying that crap there, I'm just
gonna going from Amazon, right. Yeah, Well.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
As much as I I mean, I don't dislike Jeff Bezos.
I don't know. I've never met Jeff Bezos, but the
whole Amazon thing bugs me. But yes, there are things
where that I have I spent. I went to the
King Soupers over off Orchard and.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Holly.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
It's a pretty fancy King Supers because it's Greenwood Village,
and they didn't have half of what I was looking
for when it came to some of the toilet trees
and stuff. So what I do? I went home Amazon Boom.
It was there the next day. Probably could have had
it there that day if I'd ordered early enough in
the day. It's something Dragon pointed up. We looked up
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at Fox News and to prove my point. Fox News
had a survey about forty four forty seven percent.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Yes, if forty four stayed the same, forty seven got.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
In terms of people's being rude and tense and tied up,
everything's worse since COVID, I'm telling you, And I can
also tell if the text line is any example whatsoever.
I you know, I've got so many like well, I
think this is serious, but I've got the typically serious
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things that we talk about which will generate text messages.
But when I talk about something like this, it blows up.
It literally blows up. Uh. And by the way, Kathleen
was listening and she's going to try to get the
chorra request, I'm just trying to put added pressure on her.
All I'm trying to do. I want to know where that.
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I want to know where the ten cents went, how
much did they collect, and what they spend it on?
Hell's bells. We might be able to shut down that
one point two billion dollar budget deficit if we just
used the bag tack.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Well half of that I think went to the store.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Right, Yes, I know him percentage in the store. I
don't know what it was, you know, I'd like to
know what the storesknew with it. I mean, I don't
just putting their general phones good day, good day. Raise wages.
Did you, oh, you had a strike. I don't think
you did
Michael.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
So what would happen if Trump were to write up
a executive order banning these federal judges from issuing their
temporary restraining orders?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It would have no effect the judges he has. He
has no authority over those judges. All he can do is, uh,
nominate and send the names to the Senate to be confirmed,
and then they're that there. Remember, we have the concept
of the separation of powers, and everybody has certain little
(00:34):
you know, in DC speak, they've everybody has their lane,
and everybody's going to play in their lane. And and
only in certain circumstances can you cross over into somebody
else's lane. And there's really no place for the executive
other than nominating judges. Uh, that's pretty much it. Now.
(00:56):
The judiciary can and I think they've overreached here. They
can reach into the executive for example, and say that
you know, this action is unconstitutional. But notice there's there's
a very fine that this is all right. Damn talkbacks.
There's a very fine line between ruling because if you
(01:21):
rule that something is unconstitutional, more likely than not you've
gone through a series of trials, hearings, due process to
finally get to some place where Ultimately, the only place
that can, I think, generally speaking, really really order the
(01:42):
president to do anything, and that's the US Supreme Court.
What's happened here with this, with these planes taking these
dirt bags to Yese. I kept saying Guatemala, it was
El Salvador. I don't why Guatemala in the head taking
him to El Salvador. Is that that's a pretty much
(02:03):
a foreign policy decision, and it's a political issue. It's
not a justiciable issue. In other words, it's not an
issue that you can really kind of litigate over. So
I think the courts have way overstepped their bounds. And
ultimately what happens is they're arguing that, hey, we were
(02:25):
outside the jurisdiction of the country. We had already left
the country. You don't have any jurisdiction outside the territorial
territory of the US government. So we didn't ignore you.
We just don't have any obligation to do what you said,
because we're exercising an agreement that we reached with two
(02:45):
foreign countries, the Maduro government in Venezuela and the Bekayley
or whatever his name is in El Salvador. And you're
treading on territory, political or jurisdictional roratory that is well settled.
The courts have no place in foreign policy. So there's that, uh,
(03:10):
one of the places that I I don't spend a
lot of time on. And I got this may seem
trivial to you, but I think it's an example of
how I was thinking about this yesterday. I'm not going
to tell you what circumstances. I wasn't talking. I wasn't
thinking about this particular topic, but I was thinking in general,
(03:33):
how our society. Because I'm in doing some show prep yesterday,
there's a story I'm going to do in a minute
about the Colorado state budget and how it's it's like
one in one point two billion dollars uh deficit. They're there,
They're in the whole one point two billion dollars, and
they're doing these really stupid things to cut, which I
(03:55):
looked at and I thought, why are we doing that
in the first place? And then you get on if
you get on the interstates where they have the overhead
signs for the past two days now, I first misread
the sign. The sign says something to the effect for
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cars on shoulder of the road, and then it flashes
to the next sign or to the next screen slow
down or pull over. I thought it said for cars
on the on the road or shoulder, pull over or
(04:38):
slow down. And I thought, really, for every car of
the road, you want me to pull over and slow down, Well,
then nobody's.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Going to go anywhere, no, thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
And Sunday someone's taking care of a dog of a
friend of mine. Long story short, and this guy has
really bad copd he can't get out of his house
and he was out of dog food. So he sent
me a text message and won don't know if I
will get dog food. So I agreed to go get
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dog food. So I went to the place where they
get dog food on Broadway because they live in Capitol Hill.
And I went on to Broadway, and I decided I
wanted a diet coke. So I'm going southmand on Broadway
at approaching Alameda, and I have to make a left
turn into the McDonald's to get a diet coke. And
(05:30):
I swear everybody in front of me was trying to
figure out where to turn left onto Alameda, let alone
trying to figure out how to get into the McDonalds.
And you know why, because they've created those stupid bike
lanes that nobody was in, and they put the if
(05:52):
you've been there, I'm just trying to describe if people
haven't been there. So you have ballards that come out
from the sidewalk at an angle, then run parallel to Broadway,
then go back at an angle, like a forty five
degree angle, back to the sidewalk, and then you're supposed
to park. Now, you can park against the sidewalk where
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there are no ballards, but where there are ballards, you
have to literally park in the street and you can't
decide whether you can I park here or not. And
then you look over and realize that, oh, beyond the ballards,
still on the curb where the sidewalk was is the
parking meter. So people are pulling in, pulling out, trying
to figure out what to do.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So you have to cross the bike lane, yes, with
your vehicle to get to a parking spot on the
side of the street.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Well no, but so the bike lane is inconsistent. It's
like the bike lane kind of comes and it comes
and goes in places, at least in this one block.
It's the block. I don't know what this cross street is,
but it would be the like the couple of blocks
as you are southbound on Broadway approaching Alameda. The It's
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the stupidest thing I think I've ever seen. And I'm thinking, Okay,
is this person because I'm in the left lane that's
not the true left lane, but the left lane where
the ballards push you out into what's now the left lane,
And so I'm trying to figure out is this person
parking here? Are they going to pull up and make
a left I can't, So I have to pull into
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the center lane, pass all of those people, and then
dart back over to the left to get into the
McDonald's driveway. And then I'm wondering, as I approach Alameda,
oh my gosh, do I really need to be over
in the left to get into the drive through in
the McDonald's. I mean, it's so stupid.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
The real problem here is your diet coke addiction. If
you didn't need your diet coke, you wouldn't have had
any of these problems.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And that's true. However, now that I've decided I wanted
a diet coke, the city and County of Denver is
not going to stop me from getting my effing diacoke,
so and I'm thinking, in their effort to be politically correct,
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air quotes here environmentally sound are appropriate or whatever it is.
And then't you think about the overhead signs, because I
think what's happening now is, for example, there was a
car on four seventy over the weekend that had pulled off.
There's a spot as you're eastbound in four seventy that
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there is there's the shoulder, but then there is like
this level dirt area that is I would guess at
least twenty feet from the shoulder way off, and a
car had pulled over, way off, trying to get as
far away from the highway as possible. So they're not
even on the shoulder, they're off the they're on dirt.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
They're not even on the asphalt, essentially on the grass.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
They're essentially on this grass and dirt that is about
the size of half a football field or something. And
they have their flashers on, and what the hell are
people doing? They can't decide do I pull over? Do
I slow down? And people are trying to weave in,
they're trying to It's we've made life so freaking complicated
in this society. That you just can't go it. You
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just can't go any We can't do anything, which leads
me to this story. I don't go to Do you
ever go to Reddit? Dragon?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
He occasionally?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah, it's it's really kind of a it's hard to navigate,
in my opinion, But if you just kind of go
fishing for the fun of it, like just random word searches,
you'll find the darnedest things you'll find. You'll find some
stuff maybe you wish you hadn't found.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
It's a dark side of the Internet there.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
There's there's a dark side to Reddit. But you're like, oops,
how did I How did I find that? That was
not what I was looking for? That's not the Richard
I was trying to find. And then you go elsewhere
and you find this.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
This is in.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And I'm not sure what the acrony is this, Oh,
this is someone's user name ftfm. Because when I first
saw I was like female to female male. I mean,
this is how warp your brain gets now because of
all this crap that's going on. But this is in
the subreddit about Denver king soupers new. This is only
(10:32):
from two days ago. King supers new theft accusations at
self checkout? Have you ever been accused of stealing anything
the self checkout dragon?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
No, it did yell at me the other day because
I actually had I scanned one item with one hand
and I went over to put it into the basket
while I still had the other item in my other hand,
so it did flash up on the screen. Are you trying?
Did you forget to scan something? I said something. I
was like, no, I'm just trying to be efficient here
and use two hands. But you won't let me listen.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
To this now obviously I can't read it verbatim. There
is some form of security BS at King super self
checkout that abruptly accused me of stealing the last two
times I've gone. It replays listen to this, It replays
the video quote evidence of me reaching into my pocket
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for my wallet to pay, and a teenager has to
come over and watch the footage and then allow my purchase.
If this company straight to hell, I'm done.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yeah, that's that's kind of what happened to me. I
didn't reach in my pocket, but like I said, I
had one item in each hand, scanned one with the left.
Who went to turned and tried to put it in
my bag because you know, I can't use the plastic bags.
And as I'm turning, the unscanned item hovered over the
bags and me, did you forget to scan something something?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
So they must have some sort of light ar over
the bagging section.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Because there's a camera.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
But because I thought it was just based on weight,
that every UPC code had a way to sign to it.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah, both, and that's how.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
They figured out you put it in the bag or not.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
It freaking yells at me too. When I get my
bags and I put them in that bagging area. Did
you put something in the bagging area? Did you?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Asked me? Did you? It's like, yes, you have nothing here.
I need to put my bags here. Leave me alone,
let me scan my crap and get out of here.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Well, the comments are wonderful. I bag comments are glorious.
Let's just go through a few comments just to start
our day out on a positive note.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Happy Tuesday, Happy Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Uh, Ronnie Sidds right. The King super self checkouts are
indeed the worst. Safeway and Whole Foods have machines that
rarely give me issues despite also having security measures built in,
but one attempt to create more space in my reusable bag.
Always creates a quote. Help is on the situation for
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me at King Soupers?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, I can confirm that's accurate too.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Oh then, toaster toaster bath tester. I love these usernames.
Toaster bath tester, A toaster get a bath tester.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yep, it's exactly what you think it is.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Okay, all right, the one by my house now checks
receipts like it's ay effing Costco. Remember Kroger admitted less
than six months ago that they were gouging both during
and after the pandemic, to which Trossy writes, remember you
have no obligation to stop for receipt checks unless you
have a membership agreement that stipulates a receipt check like Costco.
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I just keep walking past the objecting checker at other
places like Walmart, etc. Toaster bath tester says, lol. Yes,
and I've got to remember this last time, I just
handed my receipt to the guy and just kept walking.
That's brilliant.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I don't take my receipt through when it prints out,
I just leave.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Well, and somebody else said down here somewhere another one said,
I always tell them it's my back pocket, and I
turned my butt around for them to pull it out,
and of course they just waved me on.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I'll start crumbling up and throw it in one of
the bags like it's in there. Good luck.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
That's good too. And somebody said I clicked the no
receipt options self checkout. I just keep walking f them
if they want to make sure I'm not stealing it
self checkout, don't have self checkout? Hey, yo, bingo. Let's see,
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the one I went to had a guy in a
cop in uniform stop me and tell me he would
mark me for trespassing if I didn't show him my receipt.
I've never gone back to the King Soupers since.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
And then, okay, we've got an officer in uniform in ours,
but you do yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
We don't in any of ours.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
But then you know, there's a time or two I've
showed him, but most of the time he just he's
just there.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
A fraid. Carrie for zero ninety three says I've never
seen a copy a cop at King Supers. Wouldn't it
be cheaper for them to have cashiers than a cop?
A fair Line sixty seven forty says ours has armed
guards with bulletproof vests. Now stopping the grocery store has
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armed guards wearing body armor.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
But not to sound aggorant in here, but aren't most
officers wearing some kind of a something under their uniform anyway, So.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, they probably are. But just stop and think about
the fact that you got a cop with body armor
on at a grocery store. Now, I understand we've we
had a horrible shooting in Boulder at a King Soupers
where you know, kid goes anti submitic, not job, goes
crazy tries because he thinks there's a munch Jews there.
He'll I'll kill a bunch of Jews. I mean, it's
it's insane. Let's see. Uh, why even waste your breath
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with that about Hey, it's in my back pocket. Just
keep going. You don't owe them an explanation. You were
there to conduct business, a transaction, you paid, They have
fulfilled their part. You don't owe them. Hey guy, I'm
sorry you're asking for this. I did. I did, indeed
click the no receipt option block. No, I just keep walking.
If I were you to clarify, says in dog Beers,
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I've had eighty to clarify you don't have to show
them a receipt, but they are a private business. If
they want to, they can trespass you from the property
for any reason, including not showing a receipt.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Let's see this text brought up a good point here, Hey, dragon,
not only does it ask you if you put if
you put a bag in the bagging area, then it
asks you if you want to purchase any bags. When
you're all done, you don't have any bags for me
to purchase. Stop asking me that question.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Well, and I still go to it, and I will
continue to do this that as long as it asks
me how many bags do I want to purchase? My
answer is zero. Now when they start asking me how
many bags did you use? I will answer that truthfully.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Also, you're still has bags for use.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
They have paper bags, they have paper bag they have
paper bags.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I mean maybe mine does.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I Well, yeah, you know, we live in white suburbia.
We live where we have white privilege. So that's why
we don't have cops. That's why we have paper bags.
Because I'm a white male, I'm superior to a red beard.
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I clicked to use your own bags, put my bags
on the counter and get the help us on the
way message to the cashier has to come over and
swipe their collar, like damn, I just want to go home.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Higher cashiers March eighteen still have not received my W
two Walmart, Sam's, Clug King, Seevers or any other store.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I got to do self check out.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah, you must be Gouberner ninety two forty nine. Michael,
I had my taxes done recently. I told my tax
prepared that I had not yet gotten my W twos
from Walmart and King Soupers. Explain me, I work at
both part time. When I check out my groceries, my
tax preparer just looked at me and continued on with
my taxes. Huh, have you a driving gotten your W two's. No,
we haven't. Our friend of South Dakota writes, good morning
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from South Dakota. Uh, after you pay for your goods,
isn't that your property? Wouldn't they need a search warrant
to search your bag? Everyone, have a great day. That's
actually a pretty good point.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah, mister lawyer.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah, and think that I've come into your establishment. I've
collected my stuff, I've paid for it, I've put it
in my bag. That's now my bag. Oh you want
to look at my bag? Oh wait while you get
a warrant. You know, I gotta try that one on
some little pimple face or some poor old man that's
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sitting there like I had it out the other day
at Samson.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Huh, what if it's an actual leele Well if.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
That would be even better. I'd love for it to
be an actual leo. Oh really, do you have a
search one that's going to cause a cop to go
thank you? Yeah, I don't think that. I don't think
a cop wants to do that.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Probably not for a pimple faced kid though. For you, yeah,
you're a grouchy old man, but for you know, some teenager,
which reminds me and I.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Told Dragon that My theory about this whole discussion is,
I think this is why people to be so uptight.
It's why we have road rage. It's why we have
people that finally lose it. I'm not trying to justify
any of this, but it is why. It's why you
have road rage, is why people are always on edge. People.
(20:15):
We've made everything so complicated. I'll give you an example,
so I just say, samn rules, too many rules and technology.
This is why Who's I having this conversation. I was
having a conversation with somebody the other day about cash
and they had heard me on air. Oh I know.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I was with a friend of mine and she had said,
I find it funny you always have cash, And I said,
because I've learned, and I've been in situations where there
are two things. Maybe you want to tip someone and
it's impossible to do it with a credit card. Someone's
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done something really nice for you, and you want to
have a hand, I'm a five dollar bill or something
because they.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Helped you do something cheap, skate or ten twenty.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I mean, I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
You have to go through your hundreds, like if I say, oh,
there's a five here, Oh.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, here, here's here's a five year old twurp. Here's
here's a five five dollars bill? Or when when? And
and this gets to my SAMs story when technology fails. Now,
I have been to Sam's twice, the one at Quebec
and Forth or near Quebec in four seventy because they
have they have gas, so I go there because it's
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always the cheapest gas around. For twice in a week
their system has not worked, so I have the Sam's
app on my phone. You scan and you know, it
reads my membership card and then it you know, do
I pay with this you know? Yes, I'm paying with
this card and then it goes through its process and
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then I just start pumping gas. When it works, it's great.
But it wasn't working, so I mean, I didn't know
it wasn't working. So I walk up, you know, I
pull up to the pump, open the app, scan the
QR code, pay with this card yes, and then it
starts whirling and then finally he kicks out and says,
(22:16):
please exit. Try again, So I exit and I try again.
Then the second after the second failure, it says, if
you want to buy a gas, please insert a credit card. So,
before it failed the second time, one of the you
know that's always a geriatric attendant. So he's walking around.
(22:37):
I said, sir, can you help me? Something doesn't seem
to be working, And of course he asked, he hasd to,
he has to ask me what's not working. I explained
to him what I just did, and he said, well,
are you you know? And this is where he pissed
me off.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Are you sure you did it right?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Are you sure you're doing it right. And I just
looked at him and I said, okay, So I opened
I app again and I scanned the QR code and
he's watching. I've got my phone like where he can
watch it. And when it does, what he does this
is what pisss me off. He goes, oh, yeah, they
install new Wi Fi and it's not working. And I
(23:17):
looked at him and I'm trying to decide. I want
to scream at you because you challenge that I was
not doing it before you knew it, before you asked
me to do this. So I said, well, the Wi
Fi must have been changed, like this was Sunday. I
was putting gas in. I put gas in the BMW
(23:41):
like on Friday, and it was it was doing the
same thing, and I just finally put my credit. But
this time, I'm like, I want to know what's going
on here, Like you know you you want me to
download the app. You want to make a convenience, so
you're here, tell me why? And I finally said, so,
can you explain to me if you've known since probably
(24:02):
before last Friday that the Wi Fi wasn't working, why
hasn't management come out and fixed it for you? Now
I'm being very nice to the guy. I'm trying to
put him in a position that I understand You're frustration.
You're out here having to help people, and you've been
explaining for you know, at least five days now that
the WiFi is not working. Why doesn't management at Walmart
(24:24):
fix the freaking WiFi?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Because they put it in a trouble ticket. It's going
to take another week.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
And that's exactly you know what His response was, Well,
I've told management, but they don't seem to be very
concerned about it. And I said, Corporate America really sucks,
doesn't it. Of course, now he wants to agree, but
he can't. He can't. He knows he can't say that, yes,
Corporate America and Walmart management sucks, but he knows that
(24:50):
that's it. And I said, would you like for me
to call the store manager while I'm standing right here
with you and explain to them that they have a
frustrated You know, I've spent more time. This is when
you have too much time on your hands. This is
what happens.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
You really are the old man yelling at clouds, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I am, because I'm tired. I'm tired. Of things not working,
and I'm tired of government making things more complicated than
they need to be. And so yes, I'm just yes,
I think that's the role of when you get to
be a certain age, that's your job in life is
(25:27):
to remind everybody it does not have to be this way.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Okay, Boomer, I'm.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Just waiting for that. I was just waiting for that.
Let's see, let's go back to uh oh fifty three
twenty eight. Mike H. Boulder also has zany traffic mitigation lines.
See now just think about that, we're now doing traffic mitigation. Really,
whenever you do traffic mitigation, it should be called traffic complication.
(25:57):
It's not mitigating. You're not the traffic's Do you think
do you honestly believe this is a serious question? Do
you honestly believe that traffic mitigation is going to cause
people to go, oh hmm, it's just complicated as hell
to drive. I think I'll just get on the RTD
(26:17):
and risk my life, or risk the RTD is going
to be late, or RTD is not gonna get me
where it's gonna take me, or that I'm gonna get
shot by some fentanyl addict to you know, heroin addict somewhere. No,
it doesn't mitigate traffic, so just the very idea of
traffic mitigation is again using language to convince you that, oh,
(26:41):
we're making the traffic so much better anyway. Bolder also
has zany traffic mitigation lines and signs and plastic bowls
and plastic barriers. But drivers and multimodals just blatantly disregard
the guidance and do what they want, which crazy, even
more chaos than before the stupid guides arrest my case,
(27:02):
uh ninety six twenty four. Mike self checkout is not
for customer convenience. It's for the store to save money.
Now that they're losing money, they're trying to blame the
customer bingo. Um oh this was the fifty to fifty
another good phone number, Hey, Dragon, Not only does it
ask if you put a bag in the bagging area,
(27:25):
then ask if you want to purchase any bags when
you're done? Sure does the other thing that self checkout does?
It drives me crazy. You know, if you're using a checker,
if you buy let's say, five tens of pork and beans,
what do they do? They take one can of pork
and beans and they scan it five times. Yes, go
try to do that at the self checkout.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Can't because you can't scan the next item until you
put it on the way to air.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
To the efficient of the self checkout, the self checkout
is designed to be an efficient.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Mike equals male care and thank you seventy three forty seven.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Seventy three forty seven. You're banned. You're absolutely bland a
band uh forty one oh six, Michael, we have a
completely geared up Leo at the eggs of the local
King Soupers in north Thornton. The good side seems an
odd use for a limited resource. Now, I'm assuming that
even though he's geared up, he's off duty if if.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Thornton, and he's not getting paid well.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
No, no, he's getting paid by right. He's off duty,
so this is his second gig.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
If you're off duty, are you allowed to wear your
full get up?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I think you are? Really, Yeah, I think you are,
because that's what that's what they're paying for. They're they're
paying for a cop. Okay, you're just but you have
to do it on your outside your shift. So I
think if there's a Leo out there, that says you
can't do it, and there's some rule or regulation that
I'm not aware let me know, because I'm not aware
of it.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
So at least King super is paying for it versus
the taxpayers. Right, Yeah, so that's kind of a positive.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
It is a positive. But I'm also thinking we now
have reached the stage where we have full geared leos
in grocery stores.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
A TI detergent. It's expensive, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Now, I didn't stop at circle K today, but neither
the Circle K's I normally go to have any security guard.
Now they got the cameras everywhere, but there's no security guard.
There have been times that I've gotten out of the
circle k. Al always look at my surroundings because it's
usually five o'clock in the morning and it's a little
sketchy at times, a little sketchy. To me, this is
(29:46):
probably the best of all. Thirty six oh two, Michael,
we were at the Walmart in Frisco. A woman had
a Target handheld bag. It as her bag.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
That's glorious. Now, that is that to me? That's that's
our society. Now, Oh you're going to take away my
bags and it's still the whole idea of you know,
I need to do a Hey Kathleen, Kathleen, if you're
(30:23):
listening this morning. She works with the Independence Institute. I
need the Independence Institute to do a CORA, a Colorado
Open Records Act request. I want to know how much
the state of Colorado has collected on the bag fee,
and I want to know to whom and how much
(30:43):
that bag fee has been distributed and what it's been
used for. So let's let's get on that. Can Can
we get cal? Can we wake Cal there up and
get them to do that. I'm not going to do it.
That's that's wrong.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Pokem with a stick, pokem with a stick.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I met where that bag fee's gone or how much
has been collected and who and to whom it's gone to.
You know, it's probably gone to Jared Poulos's lunch money bucket.
That's what he's done with it.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Hey, Mike and Dragon, this is the Brettoness, and my
way around all that crap is I order all my
groceries on an instat cart.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I select what I want on an app. Somebody goes
to shops.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
For it and brings it to my door.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Sometimes there's bags sometimes there's not I put tubs out
in front, they jumped the groceries.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
In it, and I threw them in the house. I've
tried online shopping many times at King Sleepers. I guess
I should try Safeway because I'll buy toilet trees, and
then if I'm buying fruits and vegetables, I don't really
trust them to pick out the best one. Yeah, I
want to do that myself. And then the third problem
(31:57):
I have with the online shopping is they're always asking, well,
this is a low count item, like we only have
a few of them, so what can we substitute nothing?
I want this? Well, then we can't guarantee if you're
going to get it. Well, so then why you know?
At least now I go okay, that means I'll just
(32:19):
go someplace else. I'll just go shop a different store.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I know a few people that work at a King Sooopers,
and their argument for doing the instacart type stuff and
having them pick out the groceries for you is that
they want you to continue to use the service. So
they are going to pick the nicest looking bananas out there.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
But then what if you like brown spotted bananas versus
I like certain just green, not totally green, but you know,
just enough that they're going to ripen a little bit
over a few days and then they'll be right.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
I'm with you. I like them a little bit more green,
so you know, if they pick something a little more brown,
I'm going to be well and kind of with the
the talk back there. Yeah, if you've got your items
locked up, I'm not buying that crap there, I'm just
gonna going from Amazon, right. Yeah, Well.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
As much as I I mean, I don't dislike Jeff Bezos.
I don't know. I've never met Jeff Bezos, but the
whole Amazon thing bugs me. But yes, there are things
where that I have I spent. I went to the
King Soupers over off Orchard and.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Holly.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
It's a pretty fancy King Supers because it's Greenwood Village,
and they didn't have half of what I was looking
for when it came to some of the toilet trees
and stuff. So what I do? I went home Amazon Boom.
It was there the next day. Probably could have had
it there that day if I'd ordered early enough in
the day. It's something Dragon pointed up. We looked up
(33:58):
at Fox News and to prove my point. Fox News
had a survey about forty four forty seven percent.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Yes, if forty four stayed the same, forty seven got.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
In terms of people's being rude and tense and tied up,
everything's worse since COVID, I'm telling you, And I can
also tell if the text line is any example whatsoever.
I you know, I've got so many like well, I
think this is serious, but I've got the typically serious
(34:32):
things that we talk about which will generate text messages.
But when I talk about something like this, it blows up.
It literally blows up. Uh. And by the way, Kathleen
was listening and she's going to try to get the
chorra request, I'm just trying to put added pressure on her.
All I'm trying to do. I want to know where that.
(34:54):
I want to know where the ten cents went, how
much did they collect, and what they spend it on?
Hell's bells. We might be able to shut down that
one point two billion dollar budget deficit if we just
used the bag tack.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Well half of that I think went to the store.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Right, Yes, I know him percentage in the store. I
don't know what it was, you know, I'd like to
know what the storesknew with it. I mean, I don't
just putting their general phones good day, good day. Raise wages.
Did you, oh, you had a strike. I don't think
you did
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