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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Morning away dragon, a little friendly note and everybody out
there he doesn't like eight ten cents a bag at
the store at Dan's Club, they'll sell you a box
of one thousand for nineteen dollars and ninety eight cents
two cents the bag. Little shop for insights for you
get around their bs, have great day.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah, I did that on Amazon. I ordered uh, you
know what whatever, you know, like a bodega might order
plastic bags.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Because we need, we need.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We use them for poopsacks and we use them for
although most my poopsacks I just get from the park
across the street from us.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
So yeah, they give him away for free there.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Yeah, they have little bathroom trash bags too far.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yes, a little trash yet exactly to prove my point
about why this is I think, and that those poll
numbers prove it well, at least give evidence of it.
Maybe don't prove it that we we've made everything in
life so complicated. Look, technology is wonderful when it works.
(01:04):
Do I love? I still refuse to do the the
driver's license. I'm not I'm not gonna hand my phone
over to a law enforcement officer.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Real quick would jump back over to the King Soooper's
Home Delivery stuff. We did get a couple of great
text messages on that about people using that. Michael, I
used the King Soooper's Home Delivery years ago, and this
was pre egg shortage. I inadvertently hit the button twice
and I had eleven dozen eggs delivered. Michael, my wife
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uses the shopping at Kingsooper's and we go and pick
it up. She ordered celery one time and we got
home it was one stock.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That's why I think, and I do I sometimes because
Tamer tells me how much she hates going to the
grocery store, and I keep trying to encourage her to
use the online men. She can just pull up and
you know, tell them I'm install number two and they'll
bring all the stuff out. But I also know that
she's pretty picky when it comes to her, like strawberries
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and raspberries and blueberries and all of that, and so
she wants to pick it out herself.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I have to taste the grapes first.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Oh do you do you do that? You taste the grape.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Can to make sure you get the right bench.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh okay, all right, do you ever break the bunches?
In half because you don't want that big of a bunch.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, you're allowed to.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
No, I'm not saying you're not allowed to. I'm just
asking you how picky? How picky of a boy are you?
Is what I'm trying to find out. Very uh but
but go back to that FuG. I wish we had
those numbers. I won't see if I can find it
in a minute about how since the lockdowns and since
the advent. Don't get me wrong, I love technology. I'm
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a techno freak. Anything that I can do technologically, I
love doing it. I but there was there was a story.
It was a national story. So I forget where I
saw it, but an airport somewhere for some reason, I
think it was Texas was now doing where you can
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know it's California because California has the digital ID where
now you can walk up and you can scan your
driver's license and somehow that's supposed to make getting through
tsa more efficient. And I was typical a hole or
numb nut. They interviewed and said, you know, what do
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you think of this new thing about you know, you
can just now you just scan your driver's license and
they take a picture and blah blah blah. And the
kid's response was he was a twenty something, was well,
I like anything that they can do to make it
more efficient. In other words, I'll capitulate to anything. You
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want to use facial recognition, you want to use facial ID.
You want to make everything electronic, that's great. Well, if
you make everything electronic, then you're going to run into
the well. Think about the stupid trains at DIA at
Denver International. I still do not understand when they were
constructing da why they did not construct pedestrian tunnels right
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next to the train tunnels when you're constructing the airport.
And the response at the time was the engineer said, well,
the trains have a ninety nine percent efficiency. I'm thinking, hmmm, yes,
and that one percent when they're not working is when
I'm trying to get from the terminal to concourse B.
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And of course now what happens. Yes, we experience that,
and it's the same thing as me going to Sam's
and the app not working because some idiot installed the
Wi Fi and didn't do it right, and Corporate America
simply does not care. Look, we Dradon and I both
said here and should we mention the blinds again Dragon.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
So Dragon has an engineer in his control room.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Admittedly he's the new guy. He hasn't been he hasn't.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Been right, he's not he hasn't been warped yet. So
he's in there fixing DRG. He was he fixing your TV?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Yes, I do have the DVR function back over here,
and I was trying to go back and find the
more rude since COVID numbers for you.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Okay, well that's wow. You're actually acting like a producer today.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I pay attention you.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Wow, you're all right. So so the new guy, the
new guy is back there, and what.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Do you do?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
What are you talking again?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yes, the new.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Guy's back there fixing your TV the DVR and you
happen to mention the blind yeah, of course.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
And what was his response?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
He was like, well, maybe I'll bring it up in
the meeting and did you Oh he also asked.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Did you put in a ticket for it?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Soon as a ticket out there for it, don't ask
me for a put another ticket. But then he said,
in one of the new engineering meetings, TV was going
to try and remember to bring that up and hopefully
if it's relatively cheap.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
They'll just say, go buy a new one.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
And what did you What did I do when you
told me that story?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
You've laughed your ass off.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I've like spewed my diet cake gold on my lap.
I had to go buy a new laptop because I
just I completely destroyed my laptop. Corporate just just like
this company is so freaking bureaucratic. It takes we got it.
We get an email I.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Should I probably shouldn't tell this story. We got a need?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Was this yesterday? We got the email about social media? Sure,
like late at night or something, so somebody had sent
somebody we I had to go to this stupid social
media class, like as if I don't know how to
use X or Facebook or Instagram or anything, and so
we had to sit through this class about social media.
And I asked the guy and he should have known
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why I was asking the question, but I raised my hand. Hey,
you've got a PowerPoint? Are you going to email this
to us later? Because I'm thinking I don't want to
pay attention to this book wrap. I'll just read it
on my own.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Leader.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I got things, I got text messages, I got things
to do I got bored to look at that. Come on,
and of course he says, oh yeah, well, we'll send
everybody the power point. But by the way, PowerPoint someone
did Bill gateson whoever invented PowerPoint Microsoft? I think they
should be just eliminated. They should be sent on a
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plane to El Salvador PowerPoint and Excel and just destroy it.
It's awful, awful. Well, we never got the power point.
But either late last night or night before last, I
wake up to it must have been night before last,
because it wasn't this morning. I wake up and one
of our bosses has emailed not the power point, but
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oh I got some great ideas about how to use
social media. And the first thing was what dragon it?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Make sure your profile picture is updated.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Make sure you have a nice looking profile picture. Yeah,
hi do it's me mooning this building. So the story
on Fox News was that everybody feels more stressed out.
Everyone is feels like other people are ruder than usual.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
I did find the numbers here. Okay, here we close
it on the screen. How people act in public after COVID.
The options are more rude, about the same, or more polite.
And this is a Pew research study. According to the
Fox News Freeze frame than I have here.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It's a legitimate source.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Yeah, nine percent are more polite.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Since COVID Wow overwhelming.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Forty four percent are about the same, and forty seven
percent are more rude.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
It's I absolutely believe those numbers. And those who are
about the same are mumbling under their breath. They're just
not like me. They don't have a microphone, true, so
they're just going through life bitching to themselves about how
stupid things have become. Whereas I've got a microphone and
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so I'm able to go through my this is rather
than pay for therapy, this is what I do.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
And obviously obviously when we as.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Dragon pointed out during the break, you know, it's kind
of interesting when we do these kind of come in
and just do these wack.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
A doodle just feels like a bitch session for us.
And well, it turns out we're not alone.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
We're not alone in the world.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
It turns out that if in radio it's called relatable,
you try to be relatable. I always try to make
the stories. You know, anytime I'm doing a story about
some political thing, and I know I have a national audience,
so I'm trying to make certain that you understand that
what I might be talking about in Denver could equally
apply to you, which we'll get to the budgeting a minute,
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But it applies anywhere. This stupidity is everywhere, for example
ninety one seventy seven and Michael, everything is harder since
the lockdowns. It makes me grumble under my breath half
the time I'm out in public. The only good thing
about masks well that I could do all my grumbling
and no one can see my mouth moving.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Ha ha.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I'm generally a positive, friendly person, but it has definitely
had a cumulative negative effect even on my optimistic personality.
It takes more effort to stay positive and is frankly
exhausting at times. So you know, I tell you pretty
much a lot of personal stuff about how I lived
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my life. We were having a conversation with friends at dinner,
as we always.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Do, real quick Michael, before you, I just want to
say that these text messages are great.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
We really appreciate them. From zero four to three.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
To three, Mick or Michele, you were talking about breaking
some grapes off of the bunch and sorry, it just
refreshed on me and buying just how much you want.
Of course you can do that with bananas also, but
just the heads up, you don't want to do that
with bread.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
They get a little upset when you do that.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
This is why we call you goobers. You're truly, You're
truly the best. What was like talking about my routine eating? Yeah,
my routine what I do. And we're having a conversation
with these friends, we're eating at this little cheap Italian place,
and I made the comment that, yes, things are moving
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faster because we had four years of this demented old fart.
I've now decided it's no longer the Biden administration. It
is the auto pen administration, where he wasn't doing anything
and the world around us was falling apart, literally falling apart.
Remember how many times did I talk about the who
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these and all we were doing was responding defensively to
the who thies. I mean, this little clan, this little
dumbass clan of terrorists have shut down the Suez Canal,
the Red Sea, everything in the Middle East shipping. And
if you don't think it affects you, the cost of
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those goods that come through any of those Middle East
ports has risen because now they have to go all
the way around to get to this country, and so
there's an inflationary pressure on the cost of goods. But
instead of the autopin administration reacting offensively and taking out
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their missile sites, taking out their leadership, what did they do.
They just shot down the drones of the missiles that
were attacking our ships, totally defensive. Instead, Trump says in
a truth in a post on truth or somewhere that hey,
stop it, and if you don't stop it, there's going
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to be hell to pay. Well, sure enough, there's hell
to pay. So we're just bombing the feces out of them,
wipe them from the face of the earth, which we
should have done four years ago. But if you think
that's the only thing that Trump's doing, holy cow. I
mean when they started some of the attacks, he was
on the golf course, and you can find the photos
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of him because and I know, we've got I think
about the technology we had when I was in that bubble,
you know, twenty years ago, and I imagine how it's
improved now. He stops on the golf course, puts on
a headset and watches as I'm sure they were doing
drone strikes on Hoothy missile sites in Yemen on the
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golf course. And then what does he do? He finishes,
goes home, has dinner, gets on Air Force one, arrives
at midnight Sunday night, arrives back in the joint base,
Andrews goes back to the White House, catches a little
bit of shut eye, gets up, and goes right back
to work. It's bam bam, bam, bam, bam bam, which is,
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don't give me all. I'm not complaining about it. I'm
not bitching. I'm just saying it takes a lot to
absorb all of that and then consent. You know, I'd
still prefer to do a three hour show as opposed
to a four hour show. But I'm now finding myself
doing four hours, and at the end of four hours
realizing I could take the rest of the afternoon off,
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not do any show because I got stuff. Except I
tried to stay current. I could just everything accumulates.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Wall I couldn't rely on my stories.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yes, the one story, which I still don't understand. But
in this conversation, I was trying to explain how everything
is moving faster, We've got more complications, and all of
these liberal do gooders are trying to somehow you know,
whether it's environmental impact or it's illegal aliens, whatever it
might be. They're doing all of this stuff, which means
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life for you and I becomes much more complicated. And
as it becomes more complicated, I think people get frazzled easier.
And that's why we're so on edge about stuff.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
And when you look at the text messages and you
see all of this stuff that's going on that you
may not think.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I mean, you think about it. Okay, this one thing
happens at Sam's, or this one thing happens when I'm
on Broadway trying to pull into the McDonald's, or this
one thing happens here, or the app doesn't work here
or the app doesn't work there, or whatever it is
is not working. You suddenly realize how dependent we are
on technology, how complicated and complex our lives have become,
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and everything they do to make it more convenient is yes,
it probably makes it more convenient, but it comes with
all these unintended consequences that we then have to live with,
which is why I still refuse to do my driver's
license on my phone. It's it's just I shouldn't say
it's not going to happen, but I don't think it's
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going to happen. So I say all of that because
I've told you my routine is, I get up, feed
the dogs, get dressed, do all of that, get in
the car, and I turn on Fox Headlines or Fox
Business and don't listen to Fox and Friends anymore. But
you know what I've been doing the past few days.
Music just music, It particularly like some really good solid
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rock and roll just kind of gets me going in
the morning. So when I come in here and I
start doing the stuff that I need to do with
you guys, I'm in a little better mood. I think
we should all do that. We should all now don't
tune out between six and ten, and don't tune out
between noon and three Eastern time on Saturdays. You need
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to stay tuned to this program, but you need to
disengage from it occasionally. You've really got to do that,
because I think you'll find it'll have an amazing difference
in your attitude. Let's get started.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I can't. Yeah, I'll do it anyway.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
So Colorado is facing a one point two billion dollar
budget deficit, and they've got to close it. So what
are lawmakers that the Paulit burell are doing. They're really busy,
really busy, busy, busy trying to find what I would
call stupid things that in my opinion, should never have
been funded in the first place, and are ignoring the
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larger picture. So when don't we get back let's walk
through the story that I found about some of the
stuff that they're cutting. Now, these are the very same people,
by the way, that bitch about Elon Musk and Doze.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
So the yahoos, the a holes at the Pollup Bureau
are doing the same thing that Trump's doing. But don't
you complain about them, because well, when they do it,
it's okay.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Yeah, that other Texter was right. I went into King
Soupers and I was getting some bagels, but I only
wanted three, and I started to open the package to
just take three out, and there was this old man
standing there. He had a name tang that said Joe
or Brandon, and he just said to me, don't, don't, don't.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
That's pretty funny, that is pretty good.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So thirty six oh two, we'll use your text as
the headline for the budget story, Michael Tabor, the taxpayer
Bill of Wrights is at fault. You see, Trump is
cutting because he is mean. Colorado has to cut because
of Tabor. To blame him, all of this is squarely
on Tabor. I'm trying to raise money for a Tabor
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road show this summer. We need to sing the praisers
of Tabor to all who have moved here since nineteen
eighty two. You're probably exactly right, because most people who
have come here have no idea. First of all, That's
why I said taxpayer bill of rights. I say, Tabor.
There's probably a lot of people have no clue what
that is so improving. Last night, trying to find a
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Michael Brown minute, I come across this story in the
Colorado Sun. Here's the headline, food banks, kids' therapy and diapers.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Before I even read the rest of the headline. Who
should fund food banks? The private sector? Individuals, charities, nonprofits.
Dare I say, NGO that doesn't get federal funding?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Churches?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Government hang tight children's therapy. Kid's therapy now set aside
for a moment, Medicare and Medicaid. Maybe parents ought to
pay for kids therapy and if the parents can't afford it,
maybe parents ought to, you know, go search out some
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you know, whether it's a Saint Jude's or you know,
but something similar to that where they can get low
cost or no cost therapy for their child, maybe their
school counselor maybe someplace other than state or federal government.
And then diapers, seriously diapers. And then the headline continues
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what Colorado lawmakers have cut from the state budget so far.
The subhead is most of the cuts have barely made
a den in the state's one point two billion dollar
budget gap. But every dollar saved is a dollar they
won't have to cut this week from the big expense
Medicaid providers, education, and the state workforce, i e. The bureaucracy.
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The story starts out with something that just first of all,
again this is when you're drinking from a fire hose.
You don't catch every drop that comes out of the
end of the fire hose. The story starts out with
this paragraph. This time last year, Colorado food pantries were
on the brink. Now you would think if food pantries
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were on the brink, that.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Local media that.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Churches, the Kolana's Club, the Rotary Club, the Businesses, Businessmen's Club,
the Women's Association, I mean, whatever of local charity organizations
there are would step up and have a food drive. No,
this time last year, Colorado food pantries were on the brink.
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You might ask yourself also why government caused I think
every reason that food pantries were on the brink. Number one,
they spent trillions of dollars that we did not have,
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that we had to borrow. So you end up with
trillions of borrowed dollars circulating in the economy. The velocity
of money sped up to way exceeding speed limit, and
suddenly you've got outrageous inflation. So people are on you know,
leaving paycheck to paycheck, or people are on the edge
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of the economy are suddenly hungry, so they're going to
food banks. But that's not what the paragraph says. This
time last year, Colorado food pantries were on the brink,
so state lawmakers stepped in helping pass a bipartisan bills. Republicans,
you're guilty of this too, to help nonprofits stock up
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on local produce. Next paragraph. A year later, that need
has only grown. The Trump administration has last week announced
it was eliminating the Local Food Purchase Assistant Program, a
five hundred million dollar grant for food banks, as part
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of its wide ranging assault on federal government spending. So
think about how the color else. Who's the reporter on this,
Brian Eathan, Brian, your bias is showing. So when lawmakers
are trying to close a one point two billion dollar budget, well,
that's because of you a whole taxpayers that voted for
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the taxpayer Bill of Rights. But when Donald Trump tries
to eliminate the Local Food Purchase Assistant Program, a program
that I think we do not need and should not
have the federal government on purely philosophical grounds, that is
not something that when I read the Constitution says, oh,
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those are one of the enumerated powers of Congress. But
that's part of Trump's wide ranging assault. It's an assault
on federal government spending. Where's Colorado's just trying to trim.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
But if feds are assaulting.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
It, and the story says, and now the state of Colorado,
facing a one point two billion dollars short budget shortfall
of its own, might reduce its contribution to food pans.
Wait a minute, you're not making a contribution. You have
no power to make a contribution. That is a bastardization
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of the word contribution. If I contribute something, I am
freely choosing to take my own money and give it
to a food bank. When you make a so called contribution,
you have forcibly taken money out of my paycheck, and
now you're giving it to somebody that maybe I don't
want to support. Maybe it's a food bank that doesn't know.
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Maybe that food bank is all about, Oh, I don't know,
organic strawberries. Well, maybe that's not what I want to
give to. Maybe I want to give to a food
bank that helps children get eggs or something. I mean
pick it out. But you ooh, you're not making a contribution.
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Notice how they use the language to subtly just make you.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Oh, well, it was just you know.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
As part of its line by line review of state spending,
the Joint Budget Committee took a preliminary vote back in
February to cut one million dollars from food assistance grants.
That same day, the six member Budget panel also cut
five hundred thousand dollars from a program created back in
twenty one that helps fund diaper banks across the state.
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You can call me a cold hearted bastard. I don't
care until we start doing stop doing this kind of
bull Ooh, I want to say the word. Then we
must well just have government do everything. If government's going
to provide a diaper bank, why not a food bank?
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Why should I? Why should I pay for anything?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
In fact?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Why why?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Why you know, why should I work? Now?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Besides the fact that I love what I do and
I make good money at it, so I've got discretionary income.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Why why should I work?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Just I've got government's gonna provide me, uh, food from
a food bank. Government's gonna provide you know, I knocked
up some chicken. I've got now a rug rat on
the way. Well, I'm not worry about diapers, maybe because
the study color is gonna provide his diapers too, food
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and diapers that kid.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
In fact, you know what, don't have any insurance. We'll
just go over here to Denver General. You can just
PLoP down the baby there. You have to get in
mine with the illegal aliens and uh boom.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Now listen to the next paragraph. The two choices taking
away diapers from babies and food from families in need
have become a mantra of sorts for lawmakers as they've
combed through the operations of state agencies in recent weeks,
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searching for a million dollars here and one hundred thousand
dollars there to cut from the state's budget. More than once,
lawmakers have been confronted by choices that seem a little
easier when they try to weigh their human toll against
the things they've already agreed to do. These are wrenching choices.
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You set yourself up by agreeing in the first place
to be doing things that you should not be doing.
And if you put it in the context of oh,
we're taking diapers away from babies in need, we're taking
food away from babies in need.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
No, you're not.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
You should never been doing that in the first place.
That is not the role of god government. That is
the role of the private sector, charities, churches. But we
have abdicated you know, I've said it a bazillion times.
We have addicated our compassion to the government. Oh, it's
just easier, just have the government do it. Oh, I
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saw a need somewhere and so I said, oh, look
there are babies without diapers. Let's have the government provide
that I see needs all the time in this country,
and I need. Yeah, I need to take a break
because if I don't, I'm going to have an aneurysm.
Speaker 8 (29:38):
Hey, the difference between the Liberals doing their cuts and
the Trump administration doing their cuts is that the Liberals
feel bad about it and they feel sorry and have empathy.
Trump business is business.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, and his business is my money, my money, your money.
So and Steve down Hooker reminded me that, yes, they're
also spending ten million dollars to refurbish and remodel their
offices at the Pulp Bureau, so they're not willing to
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sacrifice that ten million dollars. There's ten million dollars right there.
But here's where it Here's where Republicans pissed me off.
Now I have respect for State Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
She did.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
She spoke out against the democrats budgetary largest out of
hearing last Friday, and she chided them for putting their
own comfort and interior design needs ahead of funding for
children with severe disabilities. But my point is, you're missing
the point, Senator. You shouldn't be doing any of these
things in the first place. She's quoted as saying, where
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are your values? Where are your priorities? Is it with
these kids that are neglect and abuse? Is it with
these low income families that we're trying to get child
care for? Is it for children with severe disabilities? Or
is it for furniture? We Senator, with all due respect,
you missed the point. The taxpayers of Colorado should not
be buying diapers. The taxpayers of Colorado should not be
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paying for therapy. The taxpayers of Colorado should not be
paying for your stupid, damn furniture. The taxpayers of Colorado
should not be paying for food banks. Those are all
private functions. But I know I'm not an idiot. I
know they've gone so far down the road. And again,
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tax messages today are outstanding. Two zero five nine, Mike,
I can understand why individuals don't donate like they used to.
The government takes so much of our money in the
name of charity and helping people that it seems we
shouldn't do even more beyond that. Charity should be done
by individuals, not the damn government that got screwed up
a long time ago. And it proves my point about
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unwinding this stuff is when when when Trump does it, it's, oh,
it's an assault on federal spending. But when we do
it here for food banks or diapers, oh, it's such
a tough choice to make, you know, f you, I'm
so sick of these people, and and and for all
of you out there who may be thinking yourself with Michael,
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they'll calm down because you know what, we have poor
people in the state and they need diapers. Then why
don't you get off your ass and go organize, you know,
diapers for poor Colorado children. You can get a five
oh one C three, set up tax deductible donations, and
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you can go raise money and you can discreet me diapers.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
To poor children. That's what you know.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Churches, synagogues, mosques, all these business organizations, chambers of commerce,
they all used to have all of these things where
they would do things or you know, for charitable purposes.
Instead we've abdicated it to the government, absolutely abdicated it
to the government, and we've gone so far down that
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path that to do otherwise now seems, oh, well, it's
cold hearted. Don't let them call you cold hearted. Don't
let them get by with that, because it's never ending.
You've heard me do the story about government run grocery stores.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
That story is more.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Than a decade old, probably it's probably twenty years old now,
and we're getting awfully close to that. We're really getting
close to the point where we'll reach their socialist utopia
and know what will happen. Then nobody will have diapers,
nobody will have food. The whole country will be a
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food desert, It'll be a diaper desert. Were many people
are unwilling to face the reality that you're struggling right now.
You hope you don't lose your job this week. You
hope you don't get your hours cut back. You hope
that you don't have some surprise bill that you have
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to pay to fix something, and yet you're.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
The one footing the bill for it. Slap yourself.
Morning away dragon, a little friendly note and everybody out
there he doesn't like eight ten cents a bag at
the store at Dan's Club, they'll sell you a box
of one thousand for nineteen dollars and ninety eight cents
two cents the bag. Little shop for insights for you
get around their bs, have great day.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah, I did that on Amazon. I ordered uh, you
know what whatever, you know, like a bodega might order
plastic bags.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Because we need, we need.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We use them for poopsacks and we use them for
although most my poopsacks I just get from the park
across the street from us.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
So yeah, they give him away for free there.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Yeah, they have little bathroom trash bags too far.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yes, a little trash yet exactly to prove my point
about why this is I think, and that those poll
numbers prove it well, at least give evidence of it.
Maybe don't prove it that we we've made everything in
life so complicated. Look, technology is wonderful when it works.
(01:04):
Do I love? I still refuse to do the the
driver's license. I'm not I'm not gonna hand my phone
over to a law enforcement officer.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Real quick would jump back over to the King Soooper's
Home Delivery stuff. We did get a couple of great
text messages on that about people using that. Michael, I
used the King Soooper's Home Delivery years ago, and this
was pre egg shortage. I inadvertently hit the button twice
and I had eleven dozen eggs delivered. Michael, my wife
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uses the shopping at Kingsooper's and we go and pick
it up. She ordered celery one time and we got
home it was one stock.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That's why I think, and I do I sometimes because
Tamer tells me how much she hates going to the
grocery store, and I keep trying to encourage her to
use the online men. She can just pull up and
you know, tell them I'm install number two and they'll
bring all the stuff out. But I also know that
she's pretty picky when it comes to her, like strawberries
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and raspberries and blueberries and all of that, and so
she wants to pick it out herself.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I have to taste the grapes first.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Oh do you do you do that? You taste the grape.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Can to make sure you get the right bench.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh okay, all right, do you ever break the bunches?
In half because you don't want that big of a bunch.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, you're allowed to.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
No, I'm not saying you're not allowed to. I'm just
asking you how picky? How picky of a boy are you?
Is what I'm trying to find out. Very uh but
but go back to that FuG. I wish we had
those numbers. I won't see if I can find it
in a minute about how since the lockdowns and since
the advent. Don't get me wrong, I love technology. I'm
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a techno freak. Anything that I can do technologically, I
love doing it. I but there was there was a story.
It was a national story. So I forget where I
saw it, but an airport somewhere for some reason, I
think it was Texas was now doing where you can
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know it's California because California has the digital ID where
now you can walk up and you can scan your
driver's license and somehow that's supposed to make getting through
tsa more efficient. And I was typical a hole or
numb nut. They interviewed and said, you know, what do
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you think of this new thing about you know, you
can just now you just scan your driver's license and
they take a picture and blah blah blah. And the
kid's response was he was a twenty something, was well,
I like anything that they can do to make it
more efficient. In other words, I'll capitulate to anything. You
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want to use facial recognition, you want to use facial ID.
You want to make everything electronic, that's great. Well, if
you make everything electronic, then you're going to run into
the well. Think about the stupid trains at DIA at
Denver International. I still do not understand when they were
constructing da why they did not construct pedestrian tunnels right
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next to the train tunnels when you're constructing the airport.
And the response at the time was the engineer said, well,
the trains have a ninety nine percent efficiency. I'm thinking, hmmm, yes,
and that one percent when they're not working is when
I'm trying to get from the terminal to concourse B.
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And of course now what happens. Yes, we experience that,
and it's the same thing as me going to Sam's
and the app not working because some idiot installed the
Wi Fi and didn't do it right, and Corporate America
simply does not care. Look, we Dradon and I both
said here and should we mention the blinds again Dragon.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
So Dragon has an engineer in his control room.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Admittedly he's the new guy. He hasn't been he hasn't.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Been right, he's not he hasn't been warped yet. So
he's in there fixing DRG. He was he fixing your TV?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Yes, I do have the DVR function back over here,
and I was trying to go back and find the
more rude since COVID numbers for you.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Okay, well that's wow. You're actually acting like a producer today.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I pay attention you.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Wow, you're all right. So so the new guy, the
new guy is back there, and what.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Do you do?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
What are you talking again?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yes, the new.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Guy's back there fixing your TV the DVR and you
happen to mention the blind yeah, of course.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
And what was his response?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
He was like, well, maybe I'll bring it up in
the meeting and did you Oh he also asked.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Did you put in a ticket for it?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Soon as a ticket out there for it, don't ask
me for a put another ticket. But then he said,
in one of the new engineering meetings, TV was going
to try and remember to bring that up and hopefully
if it's relatively cheap.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
They'll just say, go buy a new one.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
And what did you What did I do when you
told me that story?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
You've laughed your ass off.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I've like spewed my diet cake gold on my lap.
I had to go buy a new laptop because I
just I completely destroyed my laptop. Corporate just just like
this company is so freaking bureaucratic. It takes we got it.
We get an email I.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Should I probably shouldn't tell this story. We got a need?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Was this yesterday? We got the email about social media? Sure,
like late at night or something, so somebody had sent
somebody we I had to go to this stupid social
media class, like as if I don't know how to
use X or Facebook or Instagram or anything, and so
we had to sit through this class about social media.
And I asked the guy and he should have known
(06:54):
why I was asking the question, but I raised my hand. Hey,
you've got a PowerPoint? Are you going to email this
to us later? Because I'm thinking I don't want to
pay attention to this book wrap. I'll just read it
on my own.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Leader.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I got things, I got text messages, I got things
to do I got bored to look at that. Come on,
and of course he says, oh yeah, well, we'll send
everybody the power point. But by the way, PowerPoint someone
did Bill gateson whoever invented PowerPoint Microsoft? I think they
should be just eliminated. They should be sent on a
(07:27):
plane to El Salvador PowerPoint and Excel and just destroy it.
It's awful, awful. Well, we never got the power point.
But either late last night or night before last, I
wake up to it must have been night before last,
because it wasn't this morning. I wake up and one
of our bosses has emailed not the power point, but
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oh I got some great ideas about how to use
social media. And the first thing was what dragon it?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Make sure your profile picture is updated.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Make sure you have a nice looking profile picture. Yeah,
hi do it's me mooning this building. So the story
on Fox News was that everybody feels more stressed out.
Everyone is feels like other people are ruder than usual.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
I did find the numbers here. Okay, here we close
it on the screen. How people act in public after COVID.
The options are more rude, about the same, or more polite.
And this is a Pew research study. According to the
Fox News Freeze frame than I have here.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It's a legitimate source.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Yeah, nine percent are more polite.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Since COVID Wow overwhelming.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Forty four percent are about the same, and forty seven
percent are more rude.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
It's I absolutely believe those numbers. And those who are
about the same are mumbling under their breath. They're just
not like me. They don't have a microphone, true, so
they're just going through life bitching to themselves about how
stupid things have become. Whereas I've got a microphone and
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so I'm able to go through my this is rather
than pay for therapy, this is what I do.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
And obviously obviously when we as.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Dragon pointed out during the break, you know, it's kind
of interesting when we do these kind of come in
and just do these wack.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
A doodle just feels like a bitch session for us.
And well, it turns out we're not alone.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
We're not alone in the world.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
It turns out that if in radio it's called relatable,
you try to be relatable. I always try to make
the stories. You know, anytime I'm doing a story about
some political thing, and I know I have a national audience,
so I'm trying to make certain that you understand that
what I might be talking about in Denver could equally
apply to you, which we'll get to the budgeting a minute,
(09:57):
But it applies anywhere. This stupidity is everywhere, for example
ninety one seventy seven and Michael, everything is harder since
the lockdowns. It makes me grumble under my breath half
the time I'm out in public. The only good thing
about masks well that I could do all my grumbling
and no one can see my mouth moving.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Ha ha.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I'm generally a positive, friendly person, but it has definitely
had a cumulative negative effect even on my optimistic personality.
It takes more effort to stay positive and is frankly
exhausting at times. So you know, I tell you pretty
much a lot of personal stuff about how I lived
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my life. We were having a conversation with friends at dinner,
as we always.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Do, real quick Michael, before you, I just want to
say that these text messages are great.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
We really appreciate them. From zero four to three.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
To three, Mick or Michele, you were talking about breaking
some grapes off of the bunch and sorry, it just
refreshed on me and buying just how much you want.
Of course you can do that with bananas also, but
just the heads up, you don't want to do that
with bread.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
They get a little upset when you do that.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
This is why we call you goobers. You're truly, You're
truly the best. What was like talking about my routine eating? Yeah,
my routine what I do. And we're having a conversation
with these friends, we're eating at this little cheap Italian place,
and I made the comment that, yes, things are moving
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faster because we had four years of this demented old fart.
I've now decided it's no longer the Biden administration. It
is the auto pen administration, where he wasn't doing anything
and the world around us was falling apart, literally falling apart.
Remember how many times did I talk about the who
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these and all we were doing was responding defensively to
the who thies. I mean, this little clan, this little
dumbass clan of terrorists have shut down the Suez Canal,
the Red Sea, everything in the Middle East shipping. And
if you don't think it affects you, the cost of
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those goods that come through any of those Middle East
ports has risen because now they have to go all
the way around to get to this country, and so
there's an inflationary pressure on the cost of goods. But
instead of the autopin administration reacting offensively and taking out
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their missile sites, taking out their leadership, what did they do.
They just shot down the drones of the missiles that
were attacking our ships, totally defensive. Instead, Trump says in
a truth in a post on truth or somewhere that hey,
stop it, and if you don't stop it, there's going
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to be hell to pay. Well, sure enough, there's hell
to pay. So we're just bombing the feces out of them,
wipe them from the face of the earth, which we
should have done four years ago. But if you think
that's the only thing that Trump's doing, holy cow. I
mean when they started some of the attacks, he was
on the golf course, and you can find the photos
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of him because and I know, we've got I think
about the technology we had when I was in that bubble,
you know, twenty years ago, and I imagine how it's
improved now. He stops on the golf course, puts on
a headset and watches as I'm sure they were doing
drone strikes on Hoothy missile sites in Yemen on the
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golf course. And then what does he do? He finishes,
goes home, has dinner, gets on Air Force one, arrives
at midnight Sunday night, arrives back in the joint base,
Andrews goes back to the White House, catches a little
bit of shut eye, gets up, and goes right back
to work. It's bam bam, bam, bam, bam bam, which is,
(14:08):
don't give me all. I'm not complaining about it. I'm
not bitching. I'm just saying it takes a lot to
absorb all of that and then consent. You know, I'd
still prefer to do a three hour show as opposed
to a four hour show. But I'm now finding myself
doing four hours, and at the end of four hours
realizing I could take the rest of the afternoon off,
(14:30):
not do any show because I got stuff. Except I
tried to stay current. I could just everything accumulates.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Wall I couldn't rely on my stories.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yes, the one story, which I still don't understand. But
in this conversation, I was trying to explain how everything
is moving faster, We've got more complications, and all of
these liberal do gooders are trying to somehow you know,
whether it's environmental impact or it's illegal aliens, whatever it
might be. They're doing all of this stuff, which means
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life for you and I becomes much more complicated. And
as it becomes more complicated, I think people get frazzled easier.
And that's why we're so on edge about stuff.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
And when you look at the text messages and you
see all of this stuff that's going on that you
may not think.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I mean, you think about it. Okay, this one thing
happens at Sam's, or this one thing happens when I'm
on Broadway trying to pull into the McDonald's, or this
one thing happens here, or the app doesn't work here
or the app doesn't work there, or whatever it is
is not working. You suddenly realize how dependent we are
on technology, how complicated and complex our lives have become,
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and everything they do to make it more convenient is yes,
it probably makes it more convenient, but it comes with
all these unintended consequences that we then have to live with,
which is why I still refuse to do my driver's
license on my phone. It's it's just I shouldn't say
it's not going to happen, but I don't think it's
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going to happen. So I say all of that because
I've told you my routine is, I get up, feed
the dogs, get dressed, do all of that, get in
the car, and I turn on Fox Headlines or Fox
Business and don't listen to Fox and Friends anymore. But
you know what I've been doing the past few days.
Music just music, It particularly like some really good solid
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rock and roll just kind of gets me going in
the morning. So when I come in here and I
start doing the stuff that I need to do with
you guys, I'm in a little better mood. I think
we should all do that. We should all now don't
tune out between six and ten, and don't tune out
between noon and three Eastern time on Saturdays. You need
(16:58):
to stay tuned to this program, but you need to
disengage from it occasionally. You've really got to do that,
because I think you'll find it'll have an amazing difference
in your attitude. Let's get started.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I can't. Yeah, I'll do it anyway.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
So Colorado is facing a one point two billion dollar
budget deficit, and they've got to close it. So what
are lawmakers that the Paulit burell are doing. They're really busy,
really busy, busy, busy trying to find what I would
call stupid things that in my opinion, should never have
been funded in the first place, and are ignoring the
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larger picture. So when don't we get back let's walk
through the story that I found about some of the
stuff that they're cutting. Now, these are the very same people,
by the way, that bitch about Elon Musk and Doze.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
So the yahoos, the a holes at the Pollup Bureau
are doing the same thing that Trump's doing. But don't
you complain about them, because well, when they do it,
it's okay.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Yeah, that other Texter was right. I went into King
Soupers and I was getting some bagels, but I only
wanted three, and I started to open the package to
just take three out, and there was this old man
standing there. He had a name tang that said Joe
or Brandon, and he just said to me, don't, don't, don't.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
That's pretty funny, that is pretty good.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So thirty six oh two, we'll use your text as
the headline for the budget story, Michael Tabor, the taxpayer
Bill of Wrights is at fault. You see, Trump is
cutting because he is mean. Colorado has to cut because
of Tabor. To blame him, all of this is squarely
on Tabor. I'm trying to raise money for a Tabor
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road show this summer. We need to sing the praisers
of Tabor to all who have moved here since nineteen
eighty two. You're probably exactly right, because most people who
have come here have no idea. First of all, That's
why I said taxpayer bill of rights. I say, Tabor.
There's probably a lot of people have no clue what
that is so improving. Last night, trying to find a
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Michael Brown minute, I come across this story in the
Colorado Sun. Here's the headline, food banks, kids' therapy and diapers.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Before I even read the rest of the headline. Who
should fund food banks? The private sector? Individuals, charities, nonprofits.
Dare I say, NGO that doesn't get federal funding?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Churches?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Government hang tight children's therapy. Kid's therapy now set aside
for a moment, Medicare and Medicaid. Maybe parents ought to
pay for kids therapy and if the parents can't afford it,
maybe parents ought to, you know, go search out some
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you know, whether it's a Saint Jude's or you know,
but something similar to that where they can get low
cost or no cost therapy for their child, maybe their
school counselor maybe someplace other than state or federal government.
And then diapers, seriously diapers. And then the headline continues
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what Colorado lawmakers have cut from the state budget so far.
The subhead is most of the cuts have barely made
a den in the state's one point two billion dollar
budget gap. But every dollar saved is a dollar they
won't have to cut this week from the big expense
Medicaid providers, education, and the state workforce, i e. The bureaucracy.
(21:17):
The story starts out with something that just first of all,
again this is when you're drinking from a fire hose.
You don't catch every drop that comes out of the
end of the fire hose. The story starts out with
this paragraph. This time last year, Colorado food pantries were
on the brink. Now you would think if food pantries
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were on the brink, that.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Local media that.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Churches, the Kolana's Club, the Rotary Club, the Businesses, Businessmen's Club,
the Women's Association, I mean, whatever of local charity organizations
there are would step up and have a food drive. No,
this time last year, Colorado food pantries were on the brink.
(22:15):
You might ask yourself also why government caused I think
every reason that food pantries were on the brink. Number one,
they spent trillions of dollars that we did not have,
(22:37):
that we had to borrow. So you end up with
trillions of borrowed dollars circulating in the economy. The velocity
of money sped up to way exceeding speed limit, and
suddenly you've got outrageous inflation. So people are on you know,
leaving paycheck to paycheck, or people are on the edge
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of the economy are suddenly hungry, so they're going to
food banks. But that's not what the paragraph says. This
time last year, Colorado food pantries were on the brink,
so state lawmakers stepped in helping pass a bipartisan bills. Republicans,
you're guilty of this too, to help nonprofits stock up
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on local produce. Next paragraph. A year later, that need
has only grown. The Trump administration has last week announced
it was eliminating the Local Food Purchase Assistant Program, a
five hundred million dollar grant for food banks, as part
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of its wide ranging assault on federal government spending. So
think about how the color else. Who's the reporter on this,
Brian Eathan, Brian, your bias is showing. So when lawmakers
are trying to close a one point two billion dollar budget, well,
that's because of you a whole taxpayers that voted for
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the taxpayer Bill of Rights. But when Donald Trump tries
to eliminate the Local Food Purchase Assistant Program, a program
that I think we do not need and should not
have the federal government on purely philosophical grounds, that is
not something that when I read the Constitution says, oh,
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those are one of the enumerated powers of Congress. But
that's part of Trump's wide ranging assault. It's an assault
on federal government spending. Where's Colorado's just trying to trim.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
But if feds are assaulting.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
It, and the story says, and now the state of Colorado,
facing a one point two billion dollars short budget shortfall
of its own, might reduce its contribution to food pans.
Wait a minute, you're not making a contribution. You have
no power to make a contribution. That is a bastardization
(25:09):
of the word contribution. If I contribute something, I am
freely choosing to take my own money and give it
to a food bank. When you make a so called contribution,
you have forcibly taken money out of my paycheck, and
now you're giving it to somebody that maybe I don't
want to support. Maybe it's a food bank that doesn't know.
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Maybe that food bank is all about, Oh, I don't know,
organic strawberries. Well, maybe that's not what I want to
give to. Maybe I want to give to a food
bank that helps children get eggs or something. I mean
pick it out. But you ooh, you're not making a contribution.
(25:54):
Notice how they use the language to subtly just make you.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Oh, well, it was just you know.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
As part of its line by line review of state spending,
the Joint Budget Committee took a preliminary vote back in
February to cut one million dollars from food assistance grants.
That same day, the six member Budget panel also cut
five hundred thousand dollars from a program created back in
twenty one that helps fund diaper banks across the state.
(26:35):
You can call me a cold hearted bastard. I don't
care until we start doing stop doing this kind of
bull Ooh, I want to say the word. Then we
must well just have government do everything. If government's going
to provide a diaper bank, why not a food bank?
(26:59):
Why should I? Why should I pay for anything?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
In fact?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Why why?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Why you know, why should I work? Now?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Besides the fact that I love what I do and
I make good money at it, so I've got discretionary income.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Why why should I work?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Just I've got government's gonna provide me, uh, food from
a food bank. Government's gonna provide you know, I knocked
up some chicken. I've got now a rug rat on
the way. Well, I'm not worry about diapers, maybe because
the study color is gonna provide his diapers too, food
(27:38):
and diapers that kid.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
In fact, you know what, don't have any insurance. We'll
just go over here to Denver General. You can just
PLoP down the baby there. You have to get in
mine with the illegal aliens and uh boom.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Now listen to the next paragraph. The two choices taking
away diapers from babies and food from families in need
have become a mantra of sorts for lawmakers as they've
combed through the operations of state agencies in recent weeks,
(28:15):
searching for a million dollars here and one hundred thousand
dollars there to cut from the state's budget. More than once,
lawmakers have been confronted by choices that seem a little
easier when they try to weigh their human toll against
the things they've already agreed to do. These are wrenching choices.
(28:39):
You set yourself up by agreeing in the first place
to be doing things that you should not be doing.
And if you put it in the context of oh,
we're taking diapers away from babies in need, we're taking
food away from babies in need.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
No, you're not.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
You should never been doing that in the first place.
That is not the role of god government. That is
the role of the private sector, charities, churches. But we
have abdicated you know, I've said it a bazillion times.
We have addicated our compassion to the government. Oh, it's
just easier, just have the government do it. Oh, I
(29:20):
saw a need somewhere and so I said, oh, look
there are babies without diapers. Let's have the government provide
that I see needs all the time in this country,
and I need. Yeah, I need to take a break
because if I don't, I'm going to have an aneurysm.
Speaker 8 (29:38):
Hey, the difference between the Liberals doing their cuts and
the Trump administration doing their cuts is that the Liberals
feel bad about it and they feel sorry and have empathy.
Trump business is business.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, and his business is my money, my money, your money.
So and Steve down Hooker reminded me that, yes, they're
also spending ten million dollars to refurbish and remodel their
offices at the Pulp Bureau, so they're not willing to
(30:17):
sacrifice that ten million dollars. There's ten million dollars right there.
But here's where it Here's where Republicans pissed me off.
Now I have respect for State Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
She did.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
She spoke out against the democrats budgetary largest out of
hearing last Friday, and she chided them for putting their
own comfort and interior design needs ahead of funding for
children with severe disabilities. But my point is, you're missing
the point, Senator. You shouldn't be doing any of these
things in the first place. She's quoted as saying, where
(30:55):
are your values? Where are your priorities? Is it with
these kids that are neglect and abuse? Is it with
these low income families that we're trying to get child
care for? Is it for children with severe disabilities? Or
is it for furniture? We Senator, with all due respect,
you missed the point. The taxpayers of Colorado should not
be buying diapers. The taxpayers of Colorado should not be
(31:16):
paying for therapy. The taxpayers of Colorado should not be
paying for your stupid, damn furniture. The taxpayers of Colorado
should not be paying for food banks. Those are all
private functions. But I know I'm not an idiot. I
know they've gone so far down the road. And again,
(31:37):
tax messages today are outstanding. Two zero five nine, Mike,
I can understand why individuals don't donate like they used to.
The government takes so much of our money in the
name of charity and helping people that it seems we
shouldn't do even more beyond that. Charity should be done
by individuals, not the damn government that got screwed up
a long time ago. And it proves my point about
(32:01):
unwinding this stuff is when when when Trump does it, it's, oh,
it's an assault on federal spending. But when we do
it here for food banks or diapers, oh, it's such
a tough choice to make, you know, f you, I'm
so sick of these people, and and and for all
of you out there who may be thinking yourself with Michael,
(32:23):
they'll calm down because you know what, we have poor
people in the state and they need diapers. Then why
don't you get off your ass and go organize, you know,
diapers for poor Colorado children. You can get a five
oh one C three, set up tax deductible donations, and
(32:43):
you can go raise money and you can discreet me diapers.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
To poor children. That's what you know.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Churches, synagogues, mosques, all these business organizations, chambers of commerce,
they all used to have all of these things where
they would do things or you know, for charitable purposes.
Instead we've abdicated it to the government, absolutely abdicated it
to the government, and we've gone so far down that
(33:13):
path that to do otherwise now seems, oh, well, it's
cold hearted. Don't let them call you cold hearted. Don't
let them get by with that, because it's never ending.
You've heard me do the story about government run grocery stores.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
That story is more.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Than a decade old, probably it's probably twenty years old now,
and we're getting awfully close to that. We're really getting
close to the point where we'll reach their socialist utopia
and know what will happen. Then nobody will have diapers,
nobody will have food. The whole country will be a
(33:55):
food desert, It'll be a diaper desert. Were many people
are unwilling to face the reality that you're struggling right now.
You hope you don't lose your job this week. You
hope you don't get your hours cut back. You hope
that you don't have some surprise bill that you have
(34:17):
to pay to fix something, and yet you're.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
The one footing the bill for it. Slap yourself.
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