4-18-25 - 6am - Sleep, Homeless Camp Cleanup, Abbey Road and Van Hollen to El Salvador

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Inflation is a mere point seven percent if you actually
include energy, it's deflation. What a glorious number compared to
a few months ago, when under Biden we were at
five point seven percent inflation.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Before you get going, Michael must just stop you there.
I got a card in the mail, yes, from Bernadette
for my birthday, So I just want to.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Say thank you very much, Burnadebt. Yes, who's Burnadebt?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
I don't know a friendly listener who sent me a
card for my birthday? Really yeah, And it's Postmarty the
second And I just now got it because that's just
this is how the mail system works here in the building.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
So yes, between the USPS and iHeart mail service. You're
lucky you have it at all already.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
So I just wanted to make sure that give a
shout out to Bernette and say.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well, as as long as we're doing that, you know,
I tracked my sleep. You know you can track everything now,
So I tracked my sleep and while we were listening
to whatever the top of the news was, because it
was ABC News, so I wasn't paying the attention. I
was just looking to see how well I slept last night.
And on the on the Apple it does a sleep

(01:19):
analysis and sleep stages so you can see how much
rim sleep you got, how much deep sleep sleep. Good. Yeah,
that's the good stuff. Although you don't need to tet
it interesting. You don't need a lot of it. You
need like a couple of hours is all you really need,
and you only get like twenty minutes at a time, right, right,
So I did really will in rim sweep sleep. But

(01:40):
it has can you see those little uh temperature thermometer
things that show like you know, well that is right,
it's it's the environmental noise in my bedroom, which you
know you need a quiet, cool bedroom to sleep well, right, Well,

(02:01):
my average was thirty seven decibels, which is less than
a quiet library at forty decibels. So that's pretty good, right, good. Yeah,
But over here on the right is the peak noise
during my sleep last night, which is that seventy four decibels,

(02:24):
which is four decibels louder than a vacuum cleaner. The dogs.
I think it's the dog. No, no, because no, because
I don't snore, because I do a sea paps. I
don't snore, So it's the dogs getting up and down
off my bed, the king sized bed a monster dogs, right,

(02:48):
or getting on and off. They have a bed at
the end of the bed which is kind of a
like a it's just like a cot sort of thing,
you know, So it's a dog bad except it's raised
the cool eran for them because they're big, heavy dogs.
And I think it's them doing that, or them moving
in and out because our master bath is open onto
the master bedroom and they oftentimes go in there and

(03:11):
they PLoP down on the tile because it's cool in there.
I think that's how much noise they're making at night.
When we had our ships to we had you can't
say that on there. Oops.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
We had to take her collar off at night because
she would do, you know, start doing a little scratchy
and the collar noise. Yeah, it's like nope, click, and
you know, put that in the corner so that she
could just be naked and free at night because it
was just it was just bad for a while.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Well stop, I've noticed this before, but this is one
of the loudest that it's ever been. And I'm thinking,
holy crap, no wonder and I wish it would. It
doesn't show me like what time that occurred or for
how long it was happening. It just says, you know,
that was the peak that the meter read. But I
wish I could correlate that to like, is there there

(04:06):
is a spike on the clock at two at about two,
it looks like about two thirty this morning. It looks
like it shows you. I know you can't see this,
but it shows a green bar on the bar graph,
which means I was fully awake. Oh for you know, instant, instant,
And I wonder if that's when the dogs did there

(04:29):
did their thing. Yea, but isn't it You can track
anything now, fancy we need a fart tracker, you know,
we need to anything like that. So Dragon has a
story over here that I want to do this morning
because it fits in with my Michael Brown minute for
over at Freedom and all credit all credit to what

(04:50):
happened here goes to Fox thirty one KDVR, the Fox
affiliate here in Denver. They report this after nearly two
two weeks of pushing for answers and two years two
years of neighbors dealing with a growing homeless encampment at

(05:10):
six and Wadd's, an interchange in Lakewood. Cruise cleared the
site Wednesday, two years mounting, trash fires being started, needles
found in neighbors backyards, and contamination in a waterway that
feeds into the Platte River. We're all big concerns, I

(05:32):
would say.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
So.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
The cleanup started on Wednesday around nine o'clock in the
morning and lasted eight hours. Eight hours to clean up
a homeless encampment. Brett Scharboneau, the Neighborhoo contacts the Fox
thirty one was amazed that there was slightly some action.
Charboneau's neighbor, Bob England emlind grew growled, I don't know

(05:55):
German name, I don't know. We're relieved after watching crews
clear out the encampment site near the neighborhoods. He said, quote,
the first thing I want to say is thanks to
Now you'd think he would thank the Colorado Department of
Transportation for having cleaned up the mess. Yeah, thank you CID. No,
the first thing I want to say is thanks to

(06:16):
Fox thirty one and the problem solvers for helping us.
Without you, this problem, this problem would not be getting solved.
It's the second time in recent years that the same
area has been cleared. Charboneau has lived in the area
for more than thirty years. We first spoke with him
two weeks ago. So even after, you know, it's kind

(06:39):
of like the Fox thirty one what do they call themselves,
the problem Solvers. It's almost like the original Mike Wallace
in sixty minutes. You don't want Fox thirty one and
the Problem Solvers showing up at your front door. But
even then, it took them two weeks to finally get

(06:59):
Seed to do something. And I love this later on
the story, let me see blacking find where it says, well,
he continues to say that when you aired the story
and you got a hold of Sea Dot, sea Dot
was telling us it was the city of Lakewood, that
it's been approved and they're doing this. That's when we
found out Fox thirty one actually got a hold of

(07:19):
the people who were responsible for cleaning this up. So
Sea Dot was blaming Lakewood, Lakewood was blaming Sea Dot,
and that was going back and forth for two ethan years,
and then Fox thirty one shows up with a camera
and a microphone and says who's on first, and then

(07:40):
they finally It still takes them two weeks, but they
finally get it cleaned up. Now here's the story. So
congratulations to Fox thirty one and your problem solvers for
doing the job that well others should be doing because
we elect and pay them to do it. This comes
from Denver, right, Denver has not updated it's homelessness data

(08:05):
dashboard in months. In December, let's see December, January, February, March, April,
four months. In four months, Denver uh quietly stopped updating
it's public dashboard, tracking Mayor Mike Johnston's work to end
unsheltered homelessness unsheltered. That's a new one for me. Unsheltered

(08:33):
homelessness versus sheltered homelessness. So you're you're homeless, but you're
living in a shelter, so you're you're you're sheltered homelessness.
But if you're living outside and you're homeless, you're unsheltered homeless.
Does it make any difference?

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Why?

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Why do we have to why? Why does it? Does
it make it sound worse or better or whatever the
dashboard says? Updates to this dashboard have paused while we
develop a new version that more closely aligns with Mayor
Johnston's twenty twenty five city Wye goals. May I interpret

(09:15):
that for you because that's bureaucratic bull crap. Updates this
dashboard have paused while we figure out a way to
rejigger it so that when we put data in, it
will show that Mayor Johnston's citywide twenty twenty five city
y goals are being met. That's what they're really doing.

(09:37):
More than three months into twenty twenty five, that still
has not happened, leaving the public without a way to
track the administration's progress on its homelessness resolution goals. Well,
of course they don't want you to track it, so
what better way than well, we're getting a new version.
It's like our new version. I know, Dragon, Remember yesterday
I told you that suddenly I came in here and

(10:00):
the Windows had been updated or some some some Microsoft
I don't I don't know what it was. Microsoft ware
is something you've been updated. Well, as I came in
this morning through the big pit to walk in to
put my diet coaches and refrigerator, I know some big
screens out there about the stupid goals we were laughing
about yesterday. Huh that down in the corner that's been

(10:21):
updated too, sure has, Yeah, so that you know what
that means. That means that they can finally now do
their work. I don't know. Uh, let's see. But here
they want you to know that, even if it's not
appearing on the dashboard, the city is still recording information
about the people served by its all in mile high program.

(10:44):
More than twenty five hundred people were brought into shelters
with a variety of outcomes. What does that mean? We
brought you it to a shelter and we had a
variety of outcomes by bringing you into the shelter. Oh
my god, what does this mean? See the people brought
into the shelters and the tiny homes since July eighteen,

(11:06):
twenty twenty three. So now we're we're on April eighteen,
twenty twenty five, and this story has to go back
to July eighteen of twenty twenty three to tell you
the following. So let's see, in two not quite just
under two years, they have six hundred and seventy two

(11:28):
people received permanent indoor housing as opposed to I guess
permanent outdoor housing. Why do you put the adgitive indoor
in front of the word housing? What does that mean?
Sixty six Wow? Sixty six over a two year period
received stable indoor housing, I guess, as opposed to unstable

(11:53):
like you know, falling apart indoor housing. One hundred and
one went to institutions, a mix of hospitals, residential medical facilities, jails, prisons,
juvenile detention facilities, psychiatric facilities, substance abuse treatment facilities, or
detog centers. So out of those six hundred people, let's see,

(12:19):
is it six hundred or twenty five it's unclear, more
than maybe it's twenty five hundred people. Let's give them
the benefit of the doubt and go with twenty five hundred.
Of twenty five hundred people, one hundred and one went
to some sort of mental institution or jail. Thirty six died.
That's that's said. Three hundred and sixty one went back

(12:41):
to unsheltered homelessness, and two hundred and two people well,
their status is simply unknown. The city has shifted its
focus to street to lease efforts. Street to lease. If
we spend as much time solving the problem, working the problem,

(13:04):
as opposed to coming up with cute, little trite phrases
to make it sound like you're doing something, something might
actually get done. But that would be a pipe dream
on my part. The city has shifted its focus to
street to lease housing efforts, where people are moved directly
from an encampment to an apartment more than now. I

(13:26):
you know, doesn't it raise a question in your mind?
If if you can move someone directly from an encampment
to an apartment, then why do we need the government
doing that? Why can't private organizations like the Colorado Coalition
for the Homeless or any other you know, nonprofit Catholic charities.

(13:47):
Why why can't anybody be doing this? Why does it
take the government to do it. The city has not
said what will be included in the new net, in
the in the new dashboard. Well, of course not. And
then this is report because I know you didn't read this,
so I know that you didn't. You missed them. Actually,

(14:07):
the best part of it you usually do. The best
part is that this is written by well, this case,
this is unclear. It says on the front page this
is from Kevin Bady of Denveright. But down here it
says it's by Kyle Harris, Kyle Harris, and they have

(14:29):
to give you a bio of Kyle Harris. Kyle's been
obsessing over Denver since he moved here. From Chicago in
two thousand and five. What is this place? Who thrives here,
who's pushed out? Who has room to create and fulfill
their dreams? Whose dreams are squashed? And why. He's the
former culture editor at Westward, where he covered the city's

(14:52):
art and music scene. Before that, he covered the city
in state politics as the managing editor at the Colorado Independent.
He's race triathlons, slowly grown food well with others, and
toured the country in a folk punk trio. Apologetically. Now
he's reporting about Denver's growth and couldn't be happier about it.

(15:15):
About what Denver's growth or reporting about Denver's growth? Oh
my god? What else did you leave over here today?
Naked skiing? I don't care about naked skiing, but I do.
This is interesting. There might be a sperm story too,
just to piss people off. Eh, I'm all spermed out.

(15:39):
I'm all spermed out. I I don't know, Uh, Tourists
visiting abbey Road, you know the Beatles. Abbey Road maybe
one of the first albums I ever purchased. I don't
know whether I purchased the White Album or abbey Road first,
but maybe one of the first pieces of nyl action,
well not pieces because obvious. You ever heard of a

(16:01):
forty five? Yes? Oh, I actually have. I know where
all my forty fives are gone. I'd like to have those.
I know where all my vinyl is though, you know
where that is. Tourists visiting Abbey Road, famed by the Beatles,
has taken the trip Advisor to complain that Abbey Road
is just a road. I think our job's done here today.

(16:22):
I think we can leave. Tourists visiting the unassuming but
iconic Abbey Road have been left heartbroken when they discovered
that it was quote just a road. The street gained
mass attention and even became a landmark after the Beatles
name the nineteen sixty nine album Abbey Road, with the

(16:42):
album cover featuring the four members crossing the road. Now
every day dozens of eager and excited tourists head to
the location to recreate the iconic album cover. Can you
imagine that how much that drives the locals crazy? Oh,
I'm sure there are people crossing the road that are
any of them crossing the road barefoot? Because that was

(17:03):
one of the symbols that Paul was dead. Do you
remember that Okay, you don't even remember that.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
I mean, I'll take your word for it, but you
gotta love a good conspiracy theory.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Oh yeah, well that that was one of the signs
that Paul was really dead, was that in the photograph
crossing Abbey Road, which is just a road. You know,
if we were even attempting to be comedic, your timing sucks.
Sometimes the delayed looks funnier, so tourists are upset that

(17:39):
Abbey Road as well just a road. And congratulations Sea
Dot taking two years to clean up a homeless encampment.
And congratulations the city and County of Denver for not
updating your homeless dashboard because you don't want anybody to
know that the mayor is really failing. I lost on

(18:05):
my forty five too, and a boding accident.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Don't be offended about what I'm about to say, which
means he's going to say something offensive.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
No, I don't even take it personally. I'm so tired
of that. I mean, I've said it before myself, and
I just I just it's it's so stupid. Yes, because
you know, because here's the deal. Here's the deal, man,
I own X number of guns, long guns, hand guns,

(18:44):
and I'm proud of it. And but for it's none
of your business. I would tell you exactly how many
guns I own, and I would say to any law
enforcement officer, any politician, if you don't like it to
be you, but I have a second Amendimum Amendment right

(19:04):
to keep and bare arms, and I am choosing to
do so. And if you don't like it, well shove
it up your piehole. We need to quit saying that.
I know it's and actually we need to quit saying
it for several reasons.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
Men.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
There, this is just maybe today turns in one of
those days where it's those kinds of things that what
squirrel not not even a squirrel, just little things that
just irritate me. So that's everything. No, because I'm not

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really someone maybe a was Alex or someone referred to
me as a crime man. I'm in a great mood.
And look, you know it's it's April and we got
a snowstorm, so you know this is exactly. I never
got any outdoor parties for my birthday. And one reason
why I was a little late getting in this morning
because I had to I had to go get the

(20:07):
dogs out of the yards, like come on, I gotta
get moving, and they're like my dad, it's wonderful out here.
I don't know. Just be proud of the fact that
you own guns if none of the government stuff in business.
How many guns you own or yours or anybody else's.

(20:27):
But you know, I own more than I would say
I own more than I own more than a dozen.
I don't. I can't count them in my head right
right off the top of my head. But here's what
else irritates me, And that would be this whole idea

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that somehow the Democrats think that, which shows how leaders
leaderless they are, which shows how they have no agenda,
no philosophy, no program. Not that we need another government program,

(21:10):
but they're completely rudderless. And here's Senator Chris van Hollend
from Maryland running off to El Salvador to meet with
Abrego Garcia, the member of MS thirteen and the guy
that I explained in depth yesterday how he has a

(21:31):
previous order of removal, he's gotten his due process.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
And a lovely linery list of things that we've posted
at Michael says go here dot com from Caroline Lebott.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Yes, of all the things that he's been engaged in well,
the political battle because this is this one individual has
become the Democrats hill to die on. He's now in
El Salvador. He's in prison based on I think a

(22:06):
belief and evidence both that he is a member of
MS thirteen. That's completely taken over the conversation in DC.
Now that's all you hear about on the cable channels.
In fact, earlier this morning up on CNN. I haven't
seen it on Fox yet, but on CNN that's all
they were talking about. And it's not just Chris van

(22:27):
Holland of Maryland. Several Democrat members of the House in
the Senate have already announced their own plans to follow
the Senator down to El Salvador, where he met with Garcia.
I just you care more about him than anybody else.
In fact, he posted on x This was yesterday at

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six fifty nine pm. I said, he posts this, I said,
my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar.
They're on a first name basis. Isn't that special? Tonight
I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer,
to pass along his message of love. I look forward
to providing a full update on my return and there's

(23:09):
a photo of them now. At first, simply because I
saw the glasses, I thought they're sipping wine. No, they're
water glasses. They're sitting at a parquet inlaid table, and
they have looks like cups of coffee or lattes or something.

(23:30):
There are. Interestingly, there are three glasses of water, yet
there are only two people. Actually, yeah, three glasses of water,
two cups of coffee. Looks like maybe a little container
that has maybe creamer or sugar or something in it.
And he has a bottle of water. He has a
baseball cap on. He's got a checkered shirt on. The

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senator has an open color blue shirt, and he's leaning
over as if he is so concerned. He has his
hand over in front of Kilmore, as if he wants
to touch him, put his hand on his hand and
say everything's going to be okay, everything will be fine.

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I find it so bizarre. Now, whether they will follow
through and actually, do you know, do that will be
interesting because the president of El Salvador posted pictures of

(24:40):
them meeting and wrote killmar Abrego Garcia miraculously risen from
the quote death, camps and torture, now sipping margeritas with
Senator Van Holland in the tropical paradise of l Salvador.
He also posted true himself playing chess solo chess with

(25:05):
a really nice look, looks like a really good margarita
next to him. Also, these people out of their freaking mind,
Absolutely of their freaking mind. Now, political advisor James Carvell
has suggested that the deportations should be the top agenda

(25:25):
for the Democrat Party. So James the Raging Cajun Carvell
says that deportations should be the top agenda for the party.
But who actually benefits from this debate? Is this really
the ground where the Democrats want to take their stand
against Donald Trump? I mean, is it really? Have you

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ever thought about how stupid they must be? Now, the
legal side of the argument is, if you want to
argue it's a muddled question, I'll accept that. Jonathan Turley.
Professor Turley details the muddledness of the question because of

(26:09):
a dispute about what facilitate means. In this instance, a
question will likely end up back at the Supreme Court.
So last night, I forget what time it was, but
it was maybe five o'clock our time, till seven o'clock eastern.
The Department of Justice filed a motion with Judge Boseburg,

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who I went through in detailed yesterday. Well, I read
through their entire motion yesterday yet yesterday evening that spells
out a lot of really fascinating facts about Kilmar and
his association and membership. In MS thirteen, he goes through,

(26:52):
step by step by step, all of the removal orders
that have been put in place, all the due process
that goes back, you know, almost a decade now of
things that he has gotten in terms of his removal
from this country. But then they get into the word facilitate,
because if you recall the conversation yesterday, Judge Boseburg told

(27:16):
the federal government that they must facilitate his return to
the country, and the government makes this fantastic argument about
you have so blatantly overstepped your jurisdiction. Depending on how
you judge, determine or decide what the word facilitate means,

(27:41):
because I want you to think about it in these terms,
does facilitate mean that? Now, remember, there is no question
one of the facts of this case is that Kilar
Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador. He is not
of the United States. He's a foreign citizen. He entered

(28:06):
the country illegally twice. We have affidavits, quotes, oral statements.
We have evidence that he is and has associated with
MS thirteen, which is designated actually designated a foreign terrorist organization.

(28:27):
So another thing about the word facilitate. He's in a
El Salvador. He's a citizen of l Salvador. He's being
held in an L Salvadoran prison, and he is there
at the order of the President of Al Salvador. So
what is the United States of America supposed to do
to quote, facilitate his return to the United States. In essence,

(28:52):
let me put it in really just kind of very basic,
dumbass Democrat terms, United States government is supposed to go
to El Salvador, demand the release of an ol Salvadoran
from an Al Salvadoran prison and withsk him back to

(29:12):
the United States of America a non citizen. And in fact,
in the in the motion filed by the government last night,
that's pretty much the argument they make, which they point
out is ho this is a serious violation of separation
of powers. And because you're asking the executive that is

(29:36):
has the sole jurisdiction over foreign policy to and how
foreign policy is implemented. A separate branch of government, in
violation the separation of powers, is ordering the executive of
how to conduct foreign policy. It's a fantastic argument, but

(30:01):
they're leaning into this case. And by the way, I
think the Fourth Circuit has already issued an order denying
the government's request. I think that came just It's like
they had pre written it and it got filed almost
instantaneously after the government filed their motion. But the political

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question seems pretty clear to me. By leaning into a
case with a bad fact pattern about an unsympathetic figure,
the Democrats are giving the Republicans a wide opening to
make the case that the Democrats have learned absolutely nothing
from the twenty twenty four election cycle, which they lost

(30:43):
in large part because of what Biden's administration's open border
policies and accusations by the Republicans the Democrats were being
soft on crime.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
Hey, Michael, you're talking about Abbey Road. You know that
the United States has its own Abbey Road. It's in Savannah, Georgia.
It's called the Bench where Forrest Gump set. Yeah, try
to find that and when you do find it, let
me know what you think of it. Thanks.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Wait, Wait, wasn't Gump from Greenbow, Alabama? Wasn't that a
big thing that he was in Alabama?

Speaker 3 (31:18):
I don't know where it was filmed. Georgia. Yeah, I
thought I think he was from Alabama, but I don't.
Maybe it was filmed in or maybe Savannah just decided
they would erect a bench and say it's the Forrest
gun bench. Nobody knows the difference, and now they got
a tourist attraction. I haven't been Savannah in ages, so
I don't remember seeing it. By the way, Chris van

(31:40):
Holland's trip to El Salvador, excuse me, maybe may I'm not.
I don't know for sure, but uh. Senate aide and
one former aide of Senat Van Hollins tell the Daily
Caller that they believe the trip was like the Congressional
member delegation called the Codell Congressional Member Delegation codels. Those

(32:04):
are trips that they take at taxpayer expense that it
refers to an official visit abroad by members of Congress
and their staff. Those are trips that are paid for
by federal government resources and sometimes even provided government planes
to make those trips. So imagine that if that's true,
this is the hill that Democrats want to die on.

(32:25):
And I say, fine, just roll over and die because
you're a bunch of idiots. And if he took and
if other senators planned to go, we need, particularly when
more evidence gets out about this guy and his association
with our membership in MS thirteen, I want all the

(32:48):
photographs we can possibly get a Democrats with him because
it shows that. Now, remember, do not do not forget this.
Garcia is a member, is a citizen of El Salvador.
And so when you think of all of the people,
first of all, let's think about the protective order that

(33:11):
was you know, requested by his spouse or girlfriend or somebody. Uh.
The guy is the Senate. The senators are more concerned
about him than they are, Oh I don't know Lake
and Riley or anybody else that gets killed, mangled, murdered, raped, whatever,

(33:34):
trafficked by illegal aliens in this country and they run
down to El Salvador to try to get an Al
Salvadoran citizen out of an Al Salvadoran prison. This guy
is not Nelson Mandela. This is it's it's it's it's
beyond absurd, absolutely beyond absurd. Now political reports, it's not

(34:02):
just Democrats they're headed to El Salvador House. Republicans took
their own trip down to El Salvador this week to
cure the prison. And of course we remember that Christine
No went to El Salvador too, but the difference was
they weren't trying to get people out. No, all you

(34:24):
have to do is look at the Polly and realize
that they're really stuck on stupid, truly stuck on stupid.