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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Michael and Dragon.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
On the last segment of your show, you always play
at the end of the line by the Traveling valries,
have you ever lived and seen? What the meaning of
that song is? And uh, it was about a tribute
to Roy Ooris and I would appreciate you know, if
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you would recognize of that.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Thank you? Well, how would you like for me to
recognize it?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
That's it's it's a tribute to how Roy lived his life.
It's a tribute to Roy and his contribution to art
and in particular music. Rolly Orbison is one of my
favorite artists. I've got like every song the thing he's
ever done on my on my phone, and I've got
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albums at the wall zoo about it. So serious question,
I mean, I what more do you want? What do
you want to know?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Recognize it? Recognize it?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Michael, Okay, I recognize it? Okay, all right?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Is that.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
You know I've got my own problems to do with
this morning. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Okay, I'm just curious because I'll give you another example.
So I'm this is probably a little difficult to comprehend,
but I'm actually in a very good mood this morning.
But the things that I want to.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Talk about are huh, least one of us.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Is well but interesting. One of the things I want
to talk about is is all of the stupid stuff
going on. Yet I woke up, you know, refreshed, slept
well last night. You know, it's a little it's a
little nippy outside, but the birds are chirping and you know,
on springs here and it was it was a nice weekend.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I've met a really nice rain instead of snow, right rain.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Instead of snow, and the temperature was just right for
walking the dogs, and you know, the birds are chirping
and it's you know, you begin to see a little
buds on the on the trees and it's and then
you walk into this hell hole or I checked I
checked test text messages from last night and it's uh.
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For for example, let me give you an example, and
this this is why that particular talk back. Maybe I'm
a little too sensitive sometimes I know that comes as
a shaker to you. But on Saturday, where's the here's
the text. So on Saturday I go through and if
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you haven't listened to Saturday's program, you really should go
listen to it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And I'm not going to and I'm not, and I
would never ask you to.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I just I wouldn't ask you to do that because
you have to listen to the five days a week anyway,
So I'm not gonna ask you to listen to Saturday.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
And I go through a story.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Of these notes I've made about Greenland and why I
think whether Greenland becomes a state, which I would like
for it to do. I'd like for Greenland become the
fifty first state, or we as a territory, or the
least of my preferred outcomes is that we enter into
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some sort of new alliance with Greenland. If you ever
look at a map of the world of the globe,
if you ever look at a map of the globe
from looking down on the North Pole or actually looking
down on the Arctic because the North Pole shifts. If
you look down on the North Pole, you'll see that
Greenland is probably one of the largest land masses inside
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the Arctic Circle. And it is vitally necessary to our
national security. It has all these rare earth minerals and
rare earth, you know, stuff that we need, and it
provides us as it currently does because we do have
bases there, but it would provide us a lot of
forward operating bases in order to protect ourselves from aggression
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from both the Chinese Communist Party and the Rooskies. So
I go through and I'm talking, and I go through
all these facts. I had a list of that I
gathered from different sources of about fifteen or twenty facts
about Greenland that I thought were important. And one of
my largest or strongest contentions was that I want Greenland
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to become a state. This was yesterday on Sunday. So
someone's listening to the program on Sunday, or they just
wait till Sunday to text me. But somebody named Jim
texts me this. Michael, Greenland has less than fifty thousand people.
It does not qualify to be the fifty first state
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with two senators. It would have to be a territory.
If anything. Now, if they just stopped right there, I
would have just maybe responded and said, well that's not
exactly correct. But they had to add this in. Michael,
Greenland has less than fifty thousand people. It doesn't qualify
to be the fifty first state with two senators. It
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would have to be a territory. If anything, do your research,
sign Jim conscious and I thought, you, what do you mean,
do my research? So what do I pull out? I
pull out the handy dandy Constitution because I'm thinking, now,
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I know the Articles of Confederation when they were first
being considered, which they were a failure. We got rid
of the Articles of Confederation. It stipulated that of the
thirteen colonies, or any colonies or territories subsequent to that,
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if they had at least sixty thousand inhabitants, would become
a could become a state of the newly formed Union.
But we rejected the Articles of Confederation, and that is
not what we live by. We lived by the US Constitution.
So now, I you know, when someone when any of
you criticize me or say I got something wrong, my
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first reaction is to go find out if I'm wrong,
because if I'm wrong, I'm certainly going to admit to
a mistake and go, oh, you know what I did?
I misspoke about that, because we can all learn from
each other's mistakes.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
It's the attitude of do your research that kind of
ticked me off. So I thought, well, I'll go back
and I'll do my research again. Article four, Section one
the United States Constitution and the other thing I did
is I went back and I checked. I didn't read
just this little hand pocket constitution that I have, but
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I read several Section one, full faith in credit shall
be given in each State to the public acts, records,
and judicial proceedings of every other State. And Congress may,
by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records,
proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof The citizens
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of the citizens of each state shall be entitled to
all privileges and immunities of citizens of the several states.
That's the full faith and credit clause. And then you
have Section three. New states may be admitted by the
Congress into this Union, but no new state shall be
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formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state.
In other words, you can't form a new state out
of a partial state, not any nor any state formed
by the junction of two or more states. So you
can't combine states or parts of states without the consent
of the legislatures of the states. Concerns as well as
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the Congress. Let's see, and we shall guarantee a republican form.
There's nothing in the United States Constitution about you have
to have at least fifty thousand people. So I did
my research. I got an a in con law, and
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it's not a requirement. And so when when I read it,
it's just like, if you just made a statement, I
would have corrected it. But when you are so convinced
that you're right that you say, do your research, you know,
because I can tell this it's someone that is just looking,
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you know, for a fight. This was my response, I
do my research. Not sure you did. No population no
population requirement see Article four, Section three, clause one. I
think you might be referring to the Articles of Confederation.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
So it was it was a weird.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Weekend, and what I wanted to come in this morning
and talk about was my frustration with Colorado.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I think it was Friday.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
We got several text messages from people that have left
the state talking about how frustrated they are with the state.
Then we had dinner, which doesn't help. We have dinner
with friends who are also frustrated and are actually considering
I mean they've lived here almost their entire lives, very
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well grounded in the state, both working for very significant
organizations in the state. But they share our political values
and they are reaching retirement age. He can retire much
earlier than a lot of people can. And she has
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skill a skill set that can transfer to almost any state.
And she is like, yeah, I'm all for it. If
if we want to go back home to our home state,
we may do that. We're just not really sure. And Tyra,
I are looking around at these friends that we have
that are packing up and leaving. Well, I don't want
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to do that, and I'm not going to do that
because I love the work that I do. But it
really got me to thinking about why are these people
doing this. I understand why they're doing it, and Colorado
really does suck when you think about it in so
many different ways. And then the cherry on the top
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of this whole thing that I've got going on my
head over the weekend about this topic for today, the
cherry on top was I was craving Mexican food last night.
Tamra didn't want to get out, so I went to
dinner on my own last night, took my iPad, sat
down and a little Mexican dive and ordered some food.
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And the waitress comes over and she sees my x
account and she says, Oh, I think.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I follow you.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I looked at her and I said, well, really, well here,
I pulled up my profile, says here, make sure are
you following this account? And she says, oh, yeah, that
is you. Yeah, I do follow you. In fact, I
think one time my son told me that you gave
a shout out to this restaurant on your radio program. Yes,
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I said, you listen to the radio program. No I don't.
And she told me that she doesn't listen to the
radio program because she, like many of us, are like me.
I like to get in the car when I finish
this program and turn on music because I just I
need a break, which I mean everything we've talked about.
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But then, because I'm nosy, I'm asking questions, where.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Are you from? How long have you lived here? You
know what made you? You know?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Why are you working as a waitress? Watch your background?
Blah blah blah blah. And so she she starts telling me,
and one of the things that she tells me is
that she's a cardiac nurse.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I got dragon's attention. Now, she's a cardiac nurse. Who's
a waitress. Who's a waitress? Huh?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
She was a cardiac nurse in San Diego, California. I
am like, Dragon, I'm like, okay, right around the corner.
It's not around the corner You've gotten for me a
cardiac nurse. And don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong
with either being a cardiac nurse or a waitress.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Definitely nothing wrong.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
So I'm looking at her like, Okay, I'm formulating in
my mind, how do I ask the question? But my
question really is how did you go from being a
cardiac nurse to waiting tables in a Mexican restaurant, both
of which are honorable jobs. Don't get me wrong, there's
nothing wrong with it. I've got a lot of respect
cardiac nurses. When I had my gastro and titus attack
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ten years ago, it was a cardiac nurse. It wasn't
a regular nurse by the nurses on that floor. It
was a cardiac nurse because of a shorting staff age
that really got me out of the hospital. So I
got a lot of love for cardiac nurses.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
And my first thought was, she needs two jobs to
afford eggs right now, so she's just you know, doing
the waitressing as extra spending money.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
It's even more interesting than that, Dragon, I'm not going
to give your name because I don't want to draw
any attention to her. But it turns out that she's
a lifelong nurse. She decided during COVID that it was
time to retire because she says, I did my research
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on the COVID. She called it a shot. She didn't
call it a vaccine. She said, I did my research
on the COVID shot. I decided that I didn't think
I wanted based on everything that she read and studied,
and as a cardiac nurse, she did not want to
take the shot. Now, I don't know what hospital or
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facility she was working at in San Diego, but she
had to get a religious exemption, and she had to
fight and fight and fight and fight for the religious exemption.
She finally got the religious exemption, but then the ahole
doctors started persecuting her. She ends up getting persecuted for
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not taking the COVID shot. She now owns a small business.
She describes herself as a deplorable basket of garbage. Her pronouns,
you and know the pronouns are dragon, truth, science, data,
common sense.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
That was pretty good pronouns. I could go for those
in a heartbeat.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
So now the conversation is sliding into why Colorado, Well,
because it's beautiful, and you know, my son lived here,
and so I thought, well, you know, this is as
good a time as they need to retire as a nurse,
and I'm going to start this small business and I'm
going to work part time as a waitress, so working
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two jobs. And I'm sitting here thinking, first of all,
she got a hell of the tip she got. She
got a gigantic, big ass tip. And I'm thinking this
is think about the people that come to this state
because they have from a distance, they have a view
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of this state, about its beautiful geography, it's rugged individualism,
it's freedom, its attitude of live and let live, and
then they come here and then they start realizing that,
oh it's a mirage. Yes you could if you wanted
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to go live and say Wallsenburg, you could live close
to the mountains in Wallsenburg. But if you want to
live close to the mountains and you're in Denver, now
you have to fight the I seventy or the two
to eighty five or the thirty six traffic to go
into the mountains. And it just turns out to be
that that's more pain in the ass than it's worth.
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You then realize that you're driving on crappy roads. You
realize that you're being taxed to death. You realize that
your Second Amendment rights are being eviscerated by the Communists
in the polit bureau. You realize that you've got a
dumb ass governor that is peeing his pants so badly
that he wants to be president, that he is capitulating
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to all the Marxist policies. Uh, and you realize that
it's Colorado is turning into an absolute crap hole state,
if it isn't already entirely a crap hole state. And
so now as all this is, you know, simultaneously going
through my head as I'm sitting there listening to this,
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to this woman talk, and I'm thinking, what a sad
state of affairs that we have gotten ourselves into. And
then I go home and I'm doing some more show prep,
and then I run across the fact that the Colorado
Report Publican Party has elected a new slate of officers
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and brett Or Breda, I'm not sure how she.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Pronounces her first name. Horn.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
She's from I think Route County. She's somewhere up in
maybe Craig or steam Vote somewhere. She's a former fire
chief up there.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
She's the new.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Chair of the Colorilo Republican Party. I know nothing about her,
but I do know this. The color Republican Party is
still pissed off. Now they've had an election. They got
rid of Dave Williams, thank god that he's gone, but
they're still fighting among themselves. And I'm thinking, you stupid
dirt bags.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Why you're never gonna win anything.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Michael, you are right about the Republican Party. I was
at that convention. Her name is Britta Hoorn, and I
voted for Britta. I was very excited to finally get
rid of those people that are just so negative. And
guess what, they turned up the heat. They're no different
than the Democrats that just sit around and complain and
complain and then when things don't go their way they riot.
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We're no different on our side. It's pathetic.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
So so Kathleen, tell me, so tell me why why
is everybody bitching about it? Look, I consider it. We
got rid of Dave Williams. What a scumbag. So we
got rid of Dave Williams as the tear of the
GOP Party and I think.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
That's that, that's marvel, that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
But now, now, why why why are they bitching now?
I really don't get it. And by the way, you
smartasses on the text line, you you personify exactly to
kind of move.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
That IM in today. Uh I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Uh, game Regalt, it's staffing shortage, not shorting staff. If
I said something dislikes me, gee, I apologize. I'll do
my research more. Mike, you're funny looking. Do your research.
Look in the mirror. I don't consider myself funny. Look,
I consider myself ugly. Oh God, Drivon, you ever look
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at yourself and just think.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I've looked at your tons of times and gone.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I gotta hate you. So let's go back to one
of the things that drives me crazy. So the Common
Sense Institute and a couple of organizations have looked at
color our roads and highways and we made a list again.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
And you'll be happy to know that.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
All of the money that you're paying in those fees
and taxes and everything else is not going to fix
roads and highways or bridges in this state. No, most
of it's going to what they consider it to be
according to the Governor's Transportation twenty thirty five Vision or
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whatever the stupid program's called. It's actually going to environmental
mitigation and to public transit. Now, let's be honest about
something about public transit. Public transit in this state is impractical.
You may be able to be to provide a modicum
of public transportation within the confines, and I would say
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this whole idea of running buses from Boulder or LONGMNT
or Fort Collins or Colorado Springs or wherever it might
be into Denver is just absurd, totally absurd. It's it
costs much more than you could ever possibly make if
you charge the cost of actually operating those buses, including
all the overhead, the maintenance, the capitalization, everything that it
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takes to operate those buses. It's just impractical. We're not
a highly dense, highly urbanized area like midtown Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
It's just stupid.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
But nonetheless, we keep pursuing this, this fool's dream.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
It is.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
And I know it's just not me because it's people
that I talk to. It's the text messages I get.
It's people that I see when I'm out and about
that either listen to me or they maybe they don't
listen to me, but they they they know that I'm
that what I do. And so they went, hey, have
you ever talked about you know, roads, bridges and highways? Yeah,
I talk about it a lot. A lot of motorists
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are are are not crazy, including yours, truly about driving
on these crumbling highways that we have all over the state.
I did a lot of driving on Friday, Saturday, and
a little bit on Sunday, but not quite as much
as I did on Friday and Saturday. But I think
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very few people This is the conundrum that bumfuzzles me
about this state. I don't think that many people in
Colorado really hate vehicles. And set aside the whole Tesla argument,
just just forget about Tesla's for a moment. We'll get
to that in a minute. But I thought, I think
most people they they love their Lesbi Roos. They're they're
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super rooms, so they're there, you know, everybody's driving a
super Root or they're they're driving you know, whatever, you know,
whatever they like. But people drive a lot in this state.
But the people who truly hate cars are the dominant
people that control our lives in this state, including the
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governor and I would I would like, for example, let's see,
I don't think I've got this open in a tab,
but Douglas County is going to spend two point four
million dollars to implement something in Highland's Ranch. Now, I
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want you to think about I've been thinking about the
entire size of Douglas County, and then you have Highland Ranch,
a you know, a a special district. I'm not quite
sure what we call Highland's Ranch, but this part of
Douglas County, generally speaking between I would say Quebec and
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Santa Fe south of C.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Four seventy.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
This gigantic subdivision, this gigantic development called Highland's Ranch, even
has its own post office, Highland Ranch, Colorado. But it
doesn't have its own police department, doesn't have its own
fire department. It relies on Douglas County and the West
Metro for fire protection, all of that. So it's just
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this subdivision. So Douglas County announced, Yes, I didn't announce
it yesterday. I saw it yesterday. Douglas County is going
to spend two point four million dollars out of the
Douglas County budget to provide transportation service they call it
micro transportation, so that if if I want now, if
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I want to go, for example, when I take my
cars to the garage vgarage dot Expert, you know that
those that's one of my sponsors. They do incredible work
on all makes and models of cars, and it's an
independent garage, one that I sponsor, I endorse, and I
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use all the time. They're wonderful people. If you're looking
for an independent garage, it's going to be a superior
workmanship at about half the cost of what you're going
to get at a dealer's service department. Then the garage
Dot Expert, you tell them Michael brown sinsure there's there's
your there's your native advertisement for the garage. If they're
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they're they're They're located in color out of Springs Parker
and one on Santa Fe Drive. I use the garage
on Santa Fe Drive. It's the closest to me. And
what I normally do is I and unless Tamer's around,
but obviously oftentimes she's busy and Dragon will.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Never offer to help out.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
So I will just drive up to the garage and
then I'll get on my Uber app and I'll get
an Uber and I'll drive back home and then maybe
Tamor will be home, you know, later.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
In the afternoon, and that she can take me to
pick the car up.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
But I'll use an Uber But no, Douglas County wants
to compete with Uber. So Douglas County's gonna take two
point four million dollars of our tax dollars and rather
than fix the freaking roads in Douglas County, what are
they gonna do. They're gonna provide micro transportation. And it's
all based on something they do in Loan Tree. There's
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a similar program that Douglas County is paying for in
loan Tree, or somebody's paying for it. It's not free,
but they taut it as free transportation. And you know
what you and I think about the use of the
word free. It's not free. Someone's paying for it. In
this case, the people that pay the taxes in Douglas
County are paying for it. So that a handful of
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people so that the government can compete with private enterprises
in providing transportation that they're competing against taxis Uber Lift,
or just asking your neighbor, hey, can you get me
a ride to the grocery store and they're going to
take those tax dollars and use those instead of fixing roads,
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bridges and highways, They're going to use that to provide
micro transportation. Now, I'm tempted sometime to try it once
it fully gets implemented, to see exactly how this works
and to see if they're really gonna Are they gonna take.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Me because I'm guessing it's.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Five miles I don't know, maybe a little more, maybe
a little less, but five miles from garage to garage
for me to take the beamer or the jeep to
from my garage to the garage, and you're going to
provide that to me free of charge. This is what's
wrong with Colorado and Douglas County, Colorado, one of the
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most maybe the most conservative county in the state.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Is touting happy about that.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
It's all up on their website about this micro transportation,
of what a great program it is, and I'm thinking,
wait a minute, why are you doing That's it's one
more example of why we can't have good roads, bridges,
and highways. And then you think about the empty bike lanes. Well, apparently,
according to the Common Sense Institute, the some two hundred
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million dollars that you and I pay on those fees
to dig out. I forgot to do it this morning.
I meant to dig out because I just renewed the
plates on the GEEP. I think I just did the
beamer too. I think they both can do the beginning
of the year. And I meant to bring in the
list of all the fees that I pay, which you
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know are just taxes, just disguised as fees. Well, we
pay some two hundred million dollars in that. When it
comes to our basic transportation infrastructure, we are the eighth
worst in the entire country for overall condition. Reason magazine
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released a study of highway ratings. Now Reasons annual survey
is very closely watched as engauge a public transportation policy,
and in Colorado, transportation policy has turned radically anti vehicle.
The board found that Colorado highways rank forty fifth in
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urban interstate pavement condition, fifth from the bottom forty seventh
in rural interstate pavement condition. We get a little bit
better when it comes to urban arterial pavement condition. No,
not the interstates, the arterial roads, they're thirty fifth. We're
thirty seventh in rural arterial pavement condition. Now we get
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up to number nineteen, but that's not a good sign
because we're in the top twenty of structurally deficient bridges.
We're fortieth in urban fatality rate and thirty second in
or rural fatality rate. We rank thirty six out of
fifty states in traffic congestion. Drivers in Colorado spend thirty
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six hours a year stuck in traffic congestion, and we
worsened the most in capitol bridge disbursements. So we went
from twenty eighth in the state in the country to
number forty two. What's the cause of that? I'll tell
you next.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
I'm glad you're in a good mood, Michael. I have
to appreciate Roy Orbison as well. But I think it's
too early to be talking about your wazoo.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
It's never too early to talk about your wazoo. Google
number fifty seven, twenty two. My deepest apologies. Don't take
it personally. I'm sad about the term lesberu. I love
my super ru and I'm not a communist, I promise,
But are you a lesbian. It's a lesbieru, not a
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comedy beru. So that's that's my concern. I'm curious about
this roads and urbanization. Have you been up to Naiwatt lately? No,
I've not the diagonal. I've not been up the diagonal
at fifty two in IBM and gun Barrel. You know,
when we first moved to Colorado one hundred years ago,
we actually lived in gun Barrel and No, I've been
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up there in ages.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I don't know what it's like. Is it bad?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
But back to what's wrong with Colorado. So this Common
Sense Institute and the Reason Report found that the fees
that we pay for fixing roads, bridges, and highways are
not going to do that. Since twenty seventeen, Colorado has
created or increased all these transportation related fees, but the
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statues that authorize them have directed that the bulk of
the dollars collected. Instead talk about a bait and switch
that the dollars that they collect go to environmental mitigation,
mass transit and demand management efforts, meaning we get the
other way. To control the demand for roads the highways,
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you've got to get people out of their cars. We
got to make it more difficult for people to drive
your cars. So Jimmy Sangenberger, who you know, is filled
in on this program reached out to the author to
find out exactly what's going on. Here's what Stein said. Historically,
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transportation related fees have been used to upgrade and maintain
the infrastructure, but the legislature and the governor have decided,
for the most part, that's not how the money is
going to be spent. So when you look at how
bad the roads are that you're driving on this morning,
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yes it's one more you know. I always find it
fascinating that a poor state like New Mexico, I can
tell the minute I now, I know they're getting ready
to redo rat Home Pass on the north side, on
the on the Colorado side, they're going to do the
south Mound lanes are going to re redo those. But
you can always tell when you cross from Colorado into
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New Mexico. And New Mexico is not exactly a prosperous state,
but the fees and the taxes they pay for roads,
bridges and highways go to roads, bridges and highways. So
what they're doing in Colorado is simply a bait and switch.
They don't want they want you out of your car. Now,
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why would you live in a state that is this
big diverse. And I don't mean diverse like, oh we
got so, we got enough, we got enough gays and
lesbians and Muslims and Catholics and whatever. No, I'm talking
about diverse in terms of our geography, the size that
the weather, everything. It is a it is a really
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diverse state. And I understand, you know, talking to an
engineer friend of mine about why do we use asphalt
so much, Well, because it's cheaper. Well, yeah, but you
have to replace it all the time. Responsible, yeah, but
we don't. But we don't replace it. You know, they
built four seventy out of concrete. Well, I'm sure there
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will there will be times and they'll have to maintain
it and fix it. But we don't do that. We
let it go to crap, absolute crap. So it's just
one example of how this state does not create, or
does not treat your tax dollars with the fiduciary responsibility
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that they should. They waste it on this
I'm Michael and Dragon.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
On the last segment of your show, you always play
at the end of the line by the Traveling valries,
have you ever lived and seen? What the meaning of
that song is? And uh, it was about a tribute
to Roy Ooris and I would appreciate you know, if
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you would recognize of that.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Thank you? Well, how would you like for me to
recognize it?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
That's it's it's a tribute to how Roy lived his life.
It's a tribute to Roy and his contribution to art
and in particular music. Rolly Orbison is one of my
favorite artists. I've got like every song the thing he's
ever done on my on my phone, and I've got
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albums at the wall zoo about it. So serious question,
I mean, I what more do you want? What do
you want to know?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Recognize it? Recognize it?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Michael, Okay, I recognize it? Okay, all right?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Is that.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
You know I've got my own problems to do with
this morning. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Okay, I'm just curious because I'll give you another example.
So I'm this is probably a little difficult to comprehend,
but I'm actually in a very good mood this morning.
But the things that I want to.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Talk about are huh, least one of us.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Is well but interesting. One of the things I want
to talk about is is all of the stupid stuff
going on. Yet I woke up, you know, refreshed, slept
well last night. You know, it's a little it's a
little nippy outside, but the birds are chirping and you know,
on springs here and it was it was a nice weekend.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I've met a really nice rain instead of snow, right rain.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Instead of snow, and the temperature was just right for
walking the dogs, and you know, the birds are chirping
and it's you know, you begin to see a little
buds on the on the trees and it's and then
you walk into this hell hole or I checked I
checked test text messages from last night and it's uh.
(02:15):
For for example, let me give you an example, and
this this is why that particular talk back. Maybe I'm
a little too sensitive sometimes I know that comes as
a shaker to you. But on Saturday, where's the here's
the text. So on Saturday I go through and if
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you haven't listened to Saturday's program, you really should go
listen to it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And I'm not going to and I'm not, and I
would never ask you to.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I just I wouldn't ask you to do that because
you have to listen to the five days a week anyway,
So I'm not gonna ask you to listen to Saturday.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
And I go through a story.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Of these notes I've made about Greenland and why I
think whether Greenland becomes a state, which I would like
for it to do. I'd like for Greenland become the
fifty first state, or we as a territory, or the
least of my preferred outcomes is that we enter into
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some sort of new alliance with Greenland. If you ever
look at a map of the world of the globe,
if you ever look at a map of the globe
from looking down on the North Pole or actually looking
down on the Arctic because the North Pole shifts. If
you look down on the North Pole, you'll see that
Greenland is probably one of the largest land masses inside
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the Arctic Circle. And it is vitally necessary to our
national security. It has all these rare earth minerals and
rare earth, you know, stuff that we need, and it
provides us as it currently does because we do have
bases there, but it would provide us a lot of
forward operating bases in order to protect ourselves from aggression
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from both the Chinese Communist Party and the Rooskies. So
I go through and I'm talking, and I go through
all these facts. I had a list of that I
gathered from different sources of about fifteen or twenty facts
about Greenland that I thought were important. And one of
my largest or strongest contentions was that I want Greenland
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to become a state. This was yesterday on Sunday. So
someone's listening to the program on Sunday, or they just
wait till Sunday to text me. But somebody named Jim
texts me this. Michael, Greenland has less than fifty thousand people.
It does not qualify to be the fifty first state
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with two senators. It would have to be a territory.
If anything. Now, if they just stopped right there, I
would have just maybe responded and said, well that's not
exactly correct. But they had to add this in. Michael,
Greenland has less than fifty thousand people. It doesn't qualify
to be the fifty first state with two senators. It
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would have to be a territory. If anything, do your research,
sign Jim conscious and I thought, you, what do you mean,
do my research? So what do I pull out? I
pull out the handy dandy Constitution because I'm thinking, now,
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I know the Articles of Confederation when they were first
being considered, which they were a failure. We got rid
of the Articles of Confederation. It stipulated that of the
thirteen colonies, or any colonies or territories subsequent to that,
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if they had at least sixty thousand inhabitants, would become
a could become a state of the newly formed Union.
But we rejected the Articles of Confederation, and that is
not what we live by. We lived by the US Constitution.
So now, I you know, when someone when any of
you criticize me or say I got something wrong, my
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first reaction is to go find out if I'm wrong,
because if I'm wrong, I'm certainly going to admit to
a mistake and go, oh, you know what I did?
I misspoke about that, because we can all learn from
each other's mistakes.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
It's the attitude of do your research that kind of
ticked me off. So I thought, well, I'll go back
and I'll do my research again. Article four, Section one
the United States Constitution and the other thing I did
is I went back and I checked. I didn't read
just this little hand pocket constitution that I have, but
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I read several Section one, full faith in credit shall
be given in each State to the public acts, records,
and judicial proceedings of every other State. And Congress may,
by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records,
proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof The citizens
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of the citizens of each state shall be entitled to
all privileges and immunities of citizens of the several states.
That's the full faith and credit clause. And then you
have Section three. New states may be admitted by the
Congress into this Union, but no new state shall be
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formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state.
In other words, you can't form a new state out
of a partial state, not any nor any state formed
by the junction of two or more states. So you
can't combine states or parts of states without the consent
of the legislatures of the states. Concerns as well as
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the Congress. Let's see, and we shall guarantee a republican form.
There's nothing in the United States Constitution about you have
to have at least fifty thousand people. So I did
my research. I got an a in con law, and
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it's not a requirement. And so when when I read it,
it's just like, if you just made a statement, I
would have corrected it. But when you are so convinced
that you're right that you say, do your research, you know,
because I can tell this it's someone that is just looking,
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you know, for a fight. This was my response, I
do my research. Not sure you did. No population no
population requirement see Article four, Section three, clause one. I
think you might be referring to the Articles of Confederation.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
So it was it was a weird.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Weekend, and what I wanted to come in this morning
and talk about was my frustration with Colorado.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I think it was Friday.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
We got several text messages from people that have left
the state talking about how frustrated they are with the state.
Then we had dinner, which doesn't help. We have dinner
with friends who are also frustrated and are actually considering
I mean they've lived here almost their entire lives, very
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well grounded in the state, both working for very significant
organizations in the state. But they share our political values
and they are reaching retirement age. He can retire much
earlier than a lot of people can. And she has
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skill a skill set that can transfer to almost any state.
And she is like, yeah, I'm all for it. If
if we want to go back home to our home state,
we may do that. We're just not really sure. And Tyra,
I are looking around at these friends that we have
that are packing up and leaving. Well, I don't want
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to do that, and I'm not going to do that
because I love the work that I do. But it
really got me to thinking about why are these people
doing this. I understand why they're doing it, and Colorado
really does suck when you think about it in so
many different ways. And then the cherry on the top
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of this whole thing that I've got going on my
head over the weekend about this topic for today, the
cherry on top was I was craving Mexican food last night.
Tamra didn't want to get out, so I went to
dinner on my own last night, took my iPad, sat
down and a little Mexican dive and ordered some food.
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And the waitress comes over and she sees my x
account and she says, Oh, I think.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I follow you.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I looked at her and I said, well, really, well here,
I pulled up my profile, says here, make sure are
you following this account? And she says, oh, yeah, that
is you. Yeah, I do follow you. In fact, I
think one time my son told me that you gave
a shout out to this restaurant on your radio program. Yes,
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I said, you listen to the radio program. No I don't.
And she told me that she doesn't listen to the
radio program because she, like many of us, are like me.
I like to get in the car when I finish
this program and turn on music because I just I
need a break, which I mean everything we've talked about.
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But then, because I'm nosy, I'm asking questions, where.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Are you from? How long have you lived here? You
know what made you? You know?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Why are you working as a waitress? Watch your background?
Blah blah blah blah. And so she she starts telling me,
and one of the things that she tells me is
that she's a cardiac nurse.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I got dragon's attention. Now, she's a cardiac nurse. Who's
a waitress. Who's a waitress? Huh?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
She was a cardiac nurse in San Diego, California. I
am like, Dragon, I'm like, okay, right around the corner.
It's not around the corner You've gotten for me a
cardiac nurse. And don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong
with either being a cardiac nurse or a waitress.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Definitely nothing wrong.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
So I'm looking at her like, Okay, I'm formulating in
my mind, how do I ask the question? But my
question really is how did you go from being a
cardiac nurse to waiting tables in a Mexican restaurant, both
of which are honorable jobs. Don't get me wrong, there's
nothing wrong with it. I've got a lot of respect
cardiac nurses. When I had my gastro and titus attack
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ten years ago, it was a cardiac nurse. It wasn't
a regular nurse by the nurses on that floor. It
was a cardiac nurse because of a shorting staff age
that really got me out of the hospital. So I
got a lot of love for cardiac nurses.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
And my first thought was, she needs two jobs to
afford eggs right now, so she's just you know, doing
the waitressing as extra spending money.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
It's even more interesting than that, Dragon, I'm not going
to give your name because I don't want to draw
any attention to her. But it turns out that she's
a lifelong nurse. She decided during COVID that it was
time to retire because she says, I did my research
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on the COVID. She called it a shot. She didn't
call it a vaccine. She said, I did my research
on the COVID shot. I decided that I didn't think
I wanted based on everything that she read and studied,
and as a cardiac nurse, she did not want to
take the shot. Now, I don't know what hospital or
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facility she was working at in San Diego, but she
had to get a religious exemption, and she had to
fight and fight and fight and fight for the religious exemption.
She finally got the religious exemption, but then the ahole
doctors started persecuting her. She ends up getting persecuted for
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not taking the COVID shot. She now owns a small business.
She describes herself as a deplorable basket of garbage. Her pronouns,
you and know the pronouns are dragon, truth, science, data,
common sense.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
That was pretty good pronouns. I could go for those
in a heartbeat.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
So now the conversation is sliding into why Colorado, Well,
because it's beautiful, and you know, my son lived here,
and so I thought, well, you know, this is as
good a time as they need to retire as a nurse,
and I'm going to start this small business and I'm
going to work part time as a waitress, so working
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two jobs. And I'm sitting here thinking, first of all,
she got a hell of the tip she got. She
got a gigantic, big ass tip. And I'm thinking this
is think about the people that come to this state
because they have from a distance, they have a view
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of this state, about its beautiful geography, it's rugged individualism,
it's freedom, its attitude of live and let live, and
then they come here and then they start realizing that,
oh it's a mirage. Yes you could if you wanted
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to go live and say Wallsenburg, you could live close
to the mountains in Wallsenburg. But if you want to
live close to the mountains and you're in Denver, now
you have to fight the I seventy or the two
to eighty five or the thirty six traffic to go
into the mountains. And it just turns out to be
that that's more pain in the ass than it's worth.
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You then realize that you're driving on crappy roads. You
realize that you're being taxed to death. You realize that
your Second Amendment rights are being eviscerated by the Communists
in the polit bureau. You realize that you've got a
dumb ass governor that is peeing his pants so badly
that he wants to be president, that he is capitulating
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to all the Marxist policies. Uh, and you realize that
it's Colorado is turning into an absolute crap hole state,
if it isn't already entirely a crap hole state. And
so now as all this is, you know, simultaneously going
through my head as I'm sitting there listening to this,
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to this woman talk, and I'm thinking, what a sad
state of affairs that we have gotten ourselves into. And
then I go home and I'm doing some more show prep,
and then I run across the fact that the Colorado
Report Publican Party has elected a new slate of officers
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and brett Or Breda, I'm not sure how she.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Pronounces her first name. Horn.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
She's from I think Route County. She's somewhere up in
maybe Craig or steam Vote somewhere. She's a former fire
chief up there.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
She's the new.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Chair of the Colorilo Republican Party. I know nothing about her,
but I do know this. The color Republican Party is
still pissed off. Now they've had an election. They got
rid of Dave Williams, thank god that he's gone, but
they're still fighting among themselves. And I'm thinking, you stupid
dirt bags.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Why you're never gonna win anything.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Michael, you are right about the Republican Party. I was
at that convention. Her name is Britta Hoorn, and I
voted for Britta. I was very excited to finally get
rid of those people that are just so negative. And
guess what, they turned up the heat. They're no different
than the Democrats that just sit around and complain and
complain and then when things don't go their way they riot.
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We're no different on our side. It's pathetic.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
So so Kathleen, tell me, so tell me why why
is everybody bitching about it? Look, I consider it. We
got rid of Dave Williams. What a scumbag. So we
got rid of Dave Williams as the tear of the
GOP Party and I think.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
That's that, that's marvel, that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
But now, now, why why why are they bitching now?
I really don't get it. And by the way, you
smartasses on the text line, you you personify exactly to
kind of move.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
That IM in today. Uh I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Uh, game Regalt, it's staffing shortage, not shorting staff. If
I said something dislikes me, gee, I apologize. I'll do
my research more. Mike, you're funny looking. Do your research.
Look in the mirror. I don't consider myself funny. Look,
I consider myself ugly. Oh God, Drivon, you ever look
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at yourself and just think.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I've looked at your tons of times and gone.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I gotta hate you. So let's go back to one
of the things that drives me crazy. So the Common
Sense Institute and a couple of organizations have looked at
color our roads and highways and we made a list again.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
And you'll be happy to know that.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
All of the money that you're paying in those fees
and taxes and everything else is not going to fix
roads and highways or bridges in this state. No, most
of it's going to what they consider it to be
according to the Governor's Transportation twenty thirty five Vision or
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whatever the stupid program's called. It's actually going to environmental
mitigation and to public transit. Now, let's be honest about
something about public transit. Public transit in this state is impractical.
You may be able to be to provide a modicum
of public transportation within the confines, and I would say
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this whole idea of running buses from Boulder or LONGMNT
or Fort Collins or Colorado Springs or wherever it might
be into Denver is just absurd, totally absurd. It's it
costs much more than you could ever possibly make if
you charge the cost of actually operating those buses, including
all the overhead, the maintenance, the capitalization, everything that it
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takes to operate those buses. It's just impractical. We're not
a highly dense, highly urbanized area like midtown Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
It's just stupid.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
But nonetheless, we keep pursuing this, this fool's dream.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
It is.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
And I know it's just not me because it's people
that I talk to. It's the text messages I get.
It's people that I see when I'm out and about
that either listen to me or they maybe they don't
listen to me, but they they they know that I'm
that what I do. And so they went, hey, have
you ever talked about you know, roads, bridges and highways? Yeah,
I talk about it a lot. A lot of motorists
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are are are not crazy, including yours, truly about driving
on these crumbling highways that we have all over the state.
I did a lot of driving on Friday, Saturday, and
a little bit on Sunday, but not quite as much
as I did on Friday and Saturday. But I think
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very few people This is the conundrum that bumfuzzles me
about this state. I don't think that many people in
Colorado really hate vehicles. And set aside the whole Tesla argument,
just just forget about Tesla's for a moment. We'll get
to that in a minute. But I thought, I think
most people they they love their Lesbi Roos. They're they're
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super rooms, so they're there, you know, everybody's driving a
super Root or they're they're driving you know, whatever, you know,
whatever they like. But people drive a lot in this state.
But the people who truly hate cars are the dominant
people that control our lives in this state, including the
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governor and I would I would like, for example, let's see,
I don't think I've got this open in a tab,
but Douglas County is going to spend two point four
million dollars to implement something in Highland's Ranch. Now, I
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want you to think about I've been thinking about the
entire size of Douglas County, and then you have Highland Ranch,
a you know, a a special district. I'm not quite
sure what we call Highland's Ranch, but this part of
Douglas County, generally speaking between I would say Quebec and
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Santa Fe south of C.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Four seventy.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
This gigantic subdivision, this gigantic development called Highland's Ranch, even
has its own post office, Highland Ranch, Colorado. But it
doesn't have its own police department, doesn't have its own
fire department. It relies on Douglas County and the West
Metro for fire protection, all of that. So it's just
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this subdivision. So Douglas County announced, Yes, I didn't announce
it yesterday. I saw it yesterday. Douglas County is going
to spend two point four million dollars out of the
Douglas County budget to provide transportation service they call it
micro transportation, so that if if I want now, if
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I want to go, for example, when I take my
cars to the garage vgarage dot Expert, you know that
those that's one of my sponsors. They do incredible work
on all makes and models of cars, and it's an
independent garage, one that I sponsor, I endorse, and I
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use all the time. They're wonderful people. If you're looking
for an independent garage, it's going to be a superior
workmanship at about half the cost of what you're going
to get at a dealer's service department. Then the garage
Dot Expert, you tell them Michael brown sinsure there's there's
your there's your native advertisement for the garage. If they're
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they're they're They're located in color out of Springs Parker
and one on Santa Fe Drive. I use the garage
on Santa Fe Drive. It's the closest to me. And
what I normally do is I and unless Tamer's around,
but obviously oftentimes she's busy and Dragon will.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Never offer to help out.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
So I will just drive up to the garage and
then I'll get on my Uber app and I'll get
an Uber and I'll drive back home and then maybe
Tamor will be home, you know, later.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
In the afternoon, and that she can take me to
pick the car up.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
But I'll use an Uber But no, Douglas County wants
to compete with Uber. So Douglas County's gonna take two
point four million dollars of our tax dollars and rather
than fix the freaking roads in Douglas County, what are
they gonna do. They're gonna provide micro transportation. And it's
all based on something they do in Loan Tree. There's
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a similar program that Douglas County is paying for in
loan Tree, or somebody's paying for it. It's not free,
but they taut it as free transportation. And you know
what you and I think about the use of the
word free. It's not free. Someone's paying for it. In
this case, the people that pay the taxes in Douglas
County are paying for it. So that a handful of
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people so that the government can compete with private enterprises
in providing transportation that they're competing against taxis Uber Lift,
or just asking your neighbor, hey, can you get me
a ride to the grocery store and they're going to
take those tax dollars and use those instead of fixing roads,
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bridges and highways, They're going to use that to provide
micro transportation. Now, I'm tempted sometime to try it once
it fully gets implemented, to see exactly how this works
and to see if they're really gonna Are they gonna take.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Me because I'm guessing it's.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Five miles I don't know, maybe a little more, maybe
a little less, but five miles from garage to garage
for me to take the beamer or the jeep to
from my garage to the garage, and you're going to
provide that to me free of charge. This is what's
wrong with Colorado and Douglas County, Colorado, one of the
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most maybe the most conservative county in the state.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Is touting happy about that.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
It's all up on their website about this micro transportation,
of what a great program it is, and I'm thinking,
wait a minute, why are you doing That's it's one
more example of why we can't have good roads, bridges,
and highways. And then you think about the empty bike lanes. Well, apparently,
according to the Common Sense Institute, the some two hundred
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million dollars that you and I pay on those fees
to dig out. I forgot to do it this morning.
I meant to dig out because I just renewed the
plates on the GEEP. I think I just did the
beamer too. I think they both can do the beginning
of the year. And I meant to bring in the
list of all the fees that I pay, which you
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know are just taxes, just disguised as fees. Well, we
pay some two hundred million dollars in that. When it
comes to our basic transportation infrastructure, we are the eighth
worst in the entire country for overall condition. Reason magazine
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released a study of highway ratings. Now Reasons annual survey
is very closely watched as engauge a public transportation policy,
and in Colorado, transportation policy has turned radically anti vehicle.
The board found that Colorado highways rank forty fifth in
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urban interstate pavement condition, fifth from the bottom forty seventh
in rural interstate pavement condition. We get a little bit
better when it comes to urban arterial pavement condition. No,
not the interstates, the arterial roads, they're thirty fifth. We're
thirty seventh in rural arterial pavement condition. Now we get
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up to number nineteen, but that's not a good sign
because we're in the top twenty of structurally deficient bridges.
We're fortieth in urban fatality rate and thirty second in
or rural fatality rate. We rank thirty six out of
fifty states in traffic congestion. Drivers in Colorado spend thirty
(30:55):
six hours a year stuck in traffic congestion, and we
worsened the most in capitol bridge disbursements. So we went
from twenty eighth in the state in the country to
number forty two. What's the cause of that? I'll tell
you next.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
I'm glad you're in a good mood, Michael. I have
to appreciate Roy Orbison as well. But I think it's
too early to be talking about your wazoo.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
It's never too early to talk about your wazoo. Google
number fifty seven, twenty two. My deepest apologies. Don't take
it personally. I'm sad about the term lesberu. I love
my super ru and I'm not a communist, I promise,
But are you a lesbian. It's a lesbieru, not a
(31:49):
comedy beru. So that's that's my concern. I'm curious about
this roads and urbanization. Have you been up to Naiwatt lately? No,
I've not the diagonal. I've not been up the diagonal
at fifty two in IBM and gun Barrel. You know,
when we first moved to Colorado one hundred years ago,
we actually lived in gun Barrel and No, I've been
(32:09):
up there in ages.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I don't know what it's like. Is it bad?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
But back to what's wrong with Colorado. So this Common
Sense Institute and the Reason Report found that the fees
that we pay for fixing roads, bridges, and highways are
not going to do that. Since twenty seventeen, Colorado has
created or increased all these transportation related fees, but the
(32:37):
statues that authorize them have directed that the bulk of
the dollars collected. Instead talk about a bait and switch
that the dollars that they collect go to environmental mitigation,
mass transit and demand management efforts, meaning we get the
other way. To control the demand for roads the highways,
(33:00):
you've got to get people out of their cars. We
got to make it more difficult for people to drive
your cars. So Jimmy Sangenberger, who you know, is filled
in on this program reached out to the author to
find out exactly what's going on. Here's what Stein said. Historically,
(33:20):
transportation related fees have been used to upgrade and maintain
the infrastructure, but the legislature and the governor have decided,
for the most part, that's not how the money is
going to be spent. So when you look at how
bad the roads are that you're driving on this morning,
(33:42):
yes it's one more you know. I always find it
fascinating that a poor state like New Mexico, I can
tell the minute I now, I know they're getting ready
to redo rat Home Pass on the north side, on
the on the Colorado side, they're going to do the
south Mound lanes are going to re redo those. But
you can always tell when you cross from Colorado into
(34:04):
New Mexico. And New Mexico is not exactly a prosperous state,
but the fees and the taxes they pay for roads,
bridges and highways go to roads, bridges and highways. So
what they're doing in Colorado is simply a bait and switch.
They don't want they want you out of your car. Now,
(34:26):
why would you live in a state that is this
big diverse. And I don't mean diverse like, oh we
got so, we got enough, we got enough gays and
lesbians and Muslims and Catholics and whatever. No, I'm talking
about diverse in terms of our geography, the size that
the weather, everything. It is a it is a really
(34:46):
diverse state. And I understand, you know, talking to an
engineer friend of mine about why do we use asphalt
so much, Well, because it's cheaper. Well, yeah, but you
have to replace it all the time. Responsible, yeah, but
we don't. But we don't replace it. You know, they
built four seventy out of concrete. Well, I'm sure there
(35:09):
will there will be times and they'll have to maintain
it and fix it. But we don't do that. We
let it go to crap, absolute crap. So it's just
one example of how this state does not create, or
does not treat your tax dollars with the fiduciary responsibility
(35:33):
that they should. They waste it on this
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