4-30-25 - 6am - FREE Universal Pre-K and Fall of Saigon

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So we've learned that several of the politicians and their
staff who traveled to Al Salvador stand in really really
really nice POSH five star resorts. Oh who paid for that? Again,
yep us.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
I I would challenge you, Alexa, to confirm that, because
I didn't verify it myself. But there was a quick
story that Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, denied

(00:39):
a specific request by a specific member of Congress. And
I just don't I don't remember the particulars. But they
have to get approval from the Speaker to make these trips.
Am I say these trips, I mean like a codell
a congressional trip. The Speaker has to authorize those. And

(01:03):
someone had reported in fact that I remember reading the
letter I don't remember who the congressman was in which
speaker specifically denied covering the costs of that trip to
l or a trip to l Salvador. Now, whether that
was for other trips or not, I don't know, but
it might be something that as long as you're sitting

(01:24):
around doing show prep for me, you might as well,
you know, do that and see whether or not you
can find that letter and do that.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Because Lord knows neither of us are going to do
show prep show what exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Prep preparation h I mean, that's what you need for
this show, is preparation, Hamid, Well, exactly exactly. So this
before I tell you why I'm talking about this, I
just want to go back in time to November of
twenty twenty and Proposition EE, which and this. You know,

(02:00):
this is going to be true for any state that
has a Democrat controlled legislature and a Democrat governor, a
blue state. It's going to be true for you too,
because this is the bull craft that they feed you.
So police tweeted something yesterday or I guess the technical
term now is he posted something yesterday on x formerly Twitter,

(02:24):
and I read it and it just irritated. It just
pissed me off. So I did a little digging to
find out, well, just how much money are we talking about?
Proposition EE, which we approve. I shouldn't say week as
I didn't vote for it in twenty twenty increased taxes
on cigarettes, tobacco products, nicotine, blah blah blah. It introduced

(02:48):
a new tax on nicotine products like.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
E SIGs, e cigarettes, vaping, whatever.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
And the purpose of the proposition according to the ballot measure,
if I recall correct, was to fund health and education programs,
primarily universal preschool UPK is what they call it, the
Cool People UPK. Well, based on the available data that
I could find, here's what I know about the funds

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they've been raised so far the first five months January
to May of twenty twenty one. The Colorado Sun did
an analysis and reported the Proposition EE generated about thirty
four million dollars in the first five months after taking
effect in January of twenty twenty one. That's according to

(03:38):
the Colorado Sun. Now here's the interesting part. Well, I
think that's interesting in and of itself. So that's thirty
four million dollars that people who use any type of cigarettes,
you know, cigars, tobacco, tobacco, nicotine, whatever. That's thirty four

(04:00):
extra million dollars out of your pockets to pay for
this tax. Now, the fiscal note this was House Bill
fourteen twenty seven, which eventually became Proposition EE, estimated that
the measure would raise about eighty six million dollars in
fiscal year twenty twenty one, and one hundred and seventy

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three and a half million dollars in fiscal year twenty
twenty two, and then by the time the tax rates
are fully phased in by July of twenty twenty seven.
The projections from the Polleit Bureau estimated around annual revenue
of around two hundred and seventy five to two hundred
and seventy seven million dollars taken out of the private

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sector and put into the government the ballot language. If
you go back and look at the original ballot language,
its cited and expected annual increase of two hundred and
ninety four million dollars when Proposition EE becomes fully implemented,

(05:08):
you know, by July, when the tax rates are fully
phased in by July twenty twenty seven. Although what I
find interesting is the more you tax something, the less
of it you tend to get. Because at some point
there's you know, again, there's a price point at which

(05:30):
some people, even though they may be addicted to cigarettes,
will maybe cut back on their consumption of nicotine, tobacco
or whatever, or their price point may be such that
they make a decision that, even though they're addicted to it,
that the price point is such that I just can't
afford it anymore. Now what's interesting. I'm talking about cigarettes

(05:53):
or tobacco and nicotine products. Now, if you're addicted to
say fentanyl or coke or heroin or something, you don't
care what the price point is, because you'll go steal
and rob you know, you'll commit armed robberies, You'll break
into houses, you will. There was some story this morning
as I was getting dressed, some story about a guy

(06:13):
that in the Orchard Hills or Holly Hills or somewhere
was driving him out without a plate on it and
was breaking into homes. And they showed a picture of him,
and I thought, well, I.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Don't know, it could be a drug addict.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
But thinking about this story, I thought to myself, are
people that are so addicted to nicotine? Are are they
going to go out and start robbing and stealing in
order to support their habit because drug dealers do.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
It's an addiction.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
So but the point is, you tax something, you put
horrible labels on it, you talk about it's gonna kill you,
it's gonna cause cancer, and then you start really just
pounding it with taxes, people are gonna start smoking less
and less and less. And we see that to be true.
Smoking trends are dead. So the more you tack that,
the more.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
It's going to go down.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
But that's that's kind of just a that's kind of
a footnote to the story. Well, long term data specific
comprehensive figures from twenty one to twenty twenty five. I
really couldn't find anything very specific about it. But there
was a twenty twenty three legislative action proposition EE funding

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retention rate reduction thing that the House did, I should
say the Pollit Bureau did. They both did it. They
addressed an overestimation of revenue. So they transferred twenty three
point sixty five million dollars from the proposition EE cash
fund to the preschool program cash fund and the general

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fund in order to avoid refunds under Tabor because they
were exceeding the initial estimates. Now that suggests collections were
significant but slightly misaligned with their bridge And of course
the Democrats will do anything to avoid, you know, refunding
any money to you. So they transferred the money from

(08:09):
the EE cash fund to a preschool program cash fund
and then into the general fund so they could use it,
you know for hmmm, things other than what we approve for.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
When those who voted yes on it voted for it well.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
As I pointed out, tobacco and nicotine consumption tends to
decline with higher taxes, potentially reducing your revenue over time.
So you know, the taxes keep going up, and you
at some point you like, you know, instead of smoking,
you know, six packs a day, I think I'll drop
the five packs a day, and then you know, the
rates will continue to go up over the next couple
of years, and you'll cut down to four packs a

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day at maybe three. At some point, you know, your
your spouse or your set, your or your wallet may
tell you maybe we ought to just stop this, and
then the state will get no more tax money from
you because you're longer buying tobacco products now. Just doing
a rough estimate, if I extrapolate from the one hundred
and seventy three and a half million dollars projected for

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twenty twenty two and just make an assumption, which is,
I know, an assumption that there'll be similar collections for
twenty three to through the end of this year, even
adjusting for some potential decrease in tobacco sales, you could
get a ballpark figure around six to eight hundred million
dollars between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
That's just a rough estimate.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
So there's no I cann't find any actual data that
would document this is the true amount. So I'd have
to go to, you know, the Department of Revenue and
do a full year request or whatever.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
But I'm not going to do that.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
But why do I give you the baseline about all
this money? Because yesterday, you know, I keep a list
on X of government officials and news organizations and liberals
people that just mading my blood pressure boil. So I'm
looking at I'm looking through the list of things that
politicians have said, and I run across this tweet from

(10:11):
the governor quote. Colorado's free universal preschool has moved the
state from twenty seventh to third nationally in access to
preschool enrollment in just two years. He continues, Colorado is

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proud to be breaking down barriers to help increase access
to early childhood education and save families.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
Thousands of dollars per year.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
We look forward to building on the success of free
preschool and helping even more children and families enroll and
access the benefits. Now, when I put this in my
Michael Brown Minute for over freedom for this morning. And
here's how I read the first sentence, and it had

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the intended effect. Colorado's free universal preschool has moved the
state from twenty seven to third nationally in access to
preschool enrollment in just two years. And then of course
I read the rest of it, and then I made
a comment about free. I mean, because nothing is free,
but the governor's trying to convince you that something is free,

(11:26):
and I just told you no, because what's funding this?
Smokers nicotine users? It's not free. They had to get
the money from somewhere. But the governor, because there are
a bunch of useful idiots out there on X that
will read this and they will tout and you know,
I'm sure that you know nine News, I'm Kyle Clark

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or somebody will talk about how successful the free preschool
program is. They might even take the next step and
talk about how the governor claimed that doing this has
moved Colorado from twenty seventh to third nationally, and then

(12:08):
just not use any other descriptors, just from twenty seventh
to third nationally. So we finish all of that, we
record it, and then I'm putching around getting ready to
do the rest of it. Oh, Red Beard's back there,
you know, doing his production. You know, he's he's producing it,
getting ready to put it in the card over for
freedom and stuff. And then he chimes in and he

(12:31):
interrupts my morning and says.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
What access access? It does not mean people are using it.
It just means that more people have access to Universal
pre K.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
And I would also say, I've had another little subtle
point to that access does not equate to going from
twenty seventh to third, say in success measured by test schoolers,
or measured.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
By any other metric.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
In fact, he doesn't tell us anything other than we
went from twenty seventh to third in access. Well, okay,
does that mean that we went from twenty seventh on
a per capita basis the number of people who are
accessing and using preschool or we just increased the potential

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number of people who could access Universal pre K?

Speaker 5 (13:36):
Which is it?

Speaker 4 (13:37):
Governor?

Speaker 2 (13:38):
And by the way, regardless of what it is, it's
still not free.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
And I've got access to my local library, I just
don't go there very often.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Fat You know what, I guess, I have access to
my Do you say I have to have a library card.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
Yes, do you see. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
I used to be so proud of my library card
because I used to go to the public library all
the time.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
I used to go about once a week or so.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Yeah, And then I think the last time I went
to a public library. It was a Boulder public library
over on the west side of Boulder, up against the mountains.
It's a beautiful location. And I remember walking in because
I was looking for a for a particular reference volume
of something. And I walked in and there were so
many homeless people and there were so many people, you know,

(14:24):
watching porn on the I just that was the last time,
I meane, and I haven't lived in Boulder, and you
know what twenty years or so, so I I that's
the last time I've been in a public life, in
a public library.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
I've been in the public library in a long time. Yuess,
I need to go. But then there's another problem with
this tweet.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Not only does it lie to you about it being free,
because we now know it's not free, because.

Speaker 4 (14:48):
This costing is hundreds of millions of dollars.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
At least at least I'm not paying for it because
I don't smoke or use nicotine. All use smokers out there,
suckers literally and figuratively suckers. You're sucking on those. No,
I can't use the British word, but you're you're, you're
sucking on those. And I'm you know, I'm in a

(15:12):
mood today, so just be prepared. I'm in a mood today.
But here's the other problem. Uh universal, free, universal preschool.
So you've got preschool, kindergarten, elementary, secondary.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
So what does this really do?

Speaker 2 (15:34):
It just gives the government even more time to indoctrinate
your child. So for the people who want to send
their children to free uh universal up K, universal PreK,
you're just putting your rugrat in the hands of government
bureaucrats aka teachers to indoctrinate your child even further.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
Do you know, mayby just teach them.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
About you know, maybe Billy you're really Sally, and Sally
you're really billion, you know, and and let's talk about
how you know, two billies can you know, have fun together?
And two Salies could have fun together, and you know,
and maybe Sally, maybe you really would like to have
what Billy's got and Billy, look what Sally's got. Maybe
you'd like to have that it gives you all sorts

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of time for that indoctrination, and it also, you know,
more time to teach kids that you know, coloring, you know,
outside the line is perfectly fine as long as you
use the colors that we tell you to use, and
those have to be the colors of the rainbow for example.
I mean, there's it's just the whole concept and how
proud Jared Polus is of it. But whatever, I guess

(16:42):
this is a personality flaw that I have anytime that
progresses marksist, socialist, fascist, communists, whatever you want to call
the left, I don't care anymore. They're just they're just
horrible individuals in terms of what they're doing to the
world and to our society and our in our country.
I just have a visceral kind of reaction to it,

(17:03):
like ooh, you think that. I mean, for example, if
they like the sun's coming up through the blinds, right,
you know, the blinds that actually do work, not the
broken blinds that are still broken as the sun comes through.
If if the Democrats told me that, hey, you know
that sunshine's really good for you and we want you
to get more of it, I would question it. I

(17:25):
would honestly question it because it's coming from people who
absolutely I think are detrimental to the future of this
of Western civilization. I yeah, I think that Jared Polis
and the Democrats in the Colorado polop Bureau are threats
in their own little way to Western civilization.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
So there you go. There's the irritation of the morning.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
I do like one of the first comments that I
see on here is from his posts you know what
else is Colorado ranks number three in crimean after turning
Colorado into a crap hole.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
I forgot about that, I did.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
That was the first comment to that tweet last night
was Yeah, we're thirdy crime too. Congratulations Governor, Free, Free, Free, Michael.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
This is uber.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
Er. I forgot to tell you. I'm going to be
gone this week on a Nashville.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Trying a house concert, so I will see you next week. Okay, okay, Well,
first of all, I love the background noise.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
I couldn't figure out what all that was.

Speaker 5 (18:29):
Was she in a cafe or a somewhere egg carpool.
We'll go with carpool.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
It could be called pool to which would be great.
There you are all listening to us in the carpool.
That could be good, But we do appreciate you letting
us know that because we could bring in a temporary
goober to fill in while you're gone, just because there's
there's a line out the door trying to get in,
because they're just there are enough seats, and you know,

(18:54):
as long as your seat is going to be vacant,
we must let somebody come in, because that's just one
more person that we get a round for a while.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Except for the fact that you can take the situation
with Michael Brown featuring Dragon Redbeard anywhere with the new
and improved iHeart app, which you needed to use to
leave that talk back, so you already know that the
app is a thing, and you may have listened to
the situation with Michael Brown featuring Dragon Redbeard on the

(19:22):
iHeart app, so you just you don't stop listen, are you?

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Are you implying that perhaps she was just trying to
defraud us, convince us that, you know, for some reason
she couldn't right like she you know, maybe maybe she
can't take her phone across state lines or something. You know,
maybe she's afraid to take it through TSA because they
might confiscate it. No excuses and look at her, you know, her,
her little sexty that she's been doing with her boyfriend

(19:51):
or husband or girlfriend or whoever. I mean, who knows,
who knows us what it is these days? You know,
I got to cover all the bases or I'll be accused.

Speaker 4 (19:59):
Of discrim a nation.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Interestingly, I don't know how much detail I want to
go in on this story, but today marks the fiftieth
anniversary of the False Igon.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
My gosh, time flies when you're having fun, doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
But I do think it's worth recalling there was a
moment in the fall of nineteen sixty three when reproachment
or peace or some sort of conciliation might have been
possible between North and South Vietnam. This is This is

(20:37):
based on a couple of stories that I read yesterday
from a couple of investigative reporters and others that are
that really we're around and covering and talking about this stuff,
and I just found it fascinat because I never heard
it before. So let's let's go back to nineteen sixty three.
At that point, our presence was in a really early stages.

(21:03):
A little over sixteen thousand troops were actually in country,
But there were thousands that were posted offshore, and I
don't think many in America, including yours, truly obviously, because
I wasn't that old, really didn't understand that what was
the civil war in South Vietnam would soon turn into

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an East West showdown between Russia and Chinese supported troops
and US special forces, because that's what it was, just
a civil war in South Vietnam. Well, that fall, that
fall of nineteen sixty three, journalists and Saigon published rumors
that the leadership of North Vietnam Ho Chi Minh and

(21:48):
his Army general vote men JAP. I think is jep
how you pronounce it, that they were actually in secret
contact with No. DANDM, who the US installed president of
South Vietnam. DM was seen as a puppet of this country,
but I don't think that was correct. Based on these

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stories that I've been reading, both sides understood that the
increasing air attacks and the widespread use of Agent Ancient
Agent Orange was risky in setting off a major war
between the US and local nationalists, and of course the
communist forces in the South known as the viet Cong,
and the Viet Cong would obviously later be supported more

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and more by the North Vietnamese Army troops. General Japp
is the guy that defeated the French ten years earlier.
At the time of the secret North South talks, there
were secret talks going on between North and South Vietnam. DM,
the US installed president, was launching attacks on the Buddhist

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population in Saigon and the war against the Communists led
opposition at the same time, and all that hit a
stay of stalemate, and that alarmed the Kennedy White House. Now,
those conditions were probably factors in the assassination of DM

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and his brother on November two, and then over the
you know, history is pretty obvious to those who kind
of grew up watching and listening about the Vietnam War.
Over the next ten years, we would install a succession
of failed military governments. And there are questions and researchers

(23:41):
are still studying it whether Kennedy had a director, even
an indirect role in ordering the murders of President DM
and his brothers and others, or at least acquiescing to them.
And I don't know if that will ever be established.
And then Kennedy ends up getting a fascinated in Dallas
twenty days later that all of those entanglements that were

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going on. I don't think Lyndon Johnson understood understood as
he continued to escalate the war with heavy bombing and
adding more than five hundred thousand US troops. More than
fifty eight thousand American soldiers were killed in combat. There
were millions of Vietnamese casualties in the North and the South,

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and most of them came from American be fifty two bombings.
There was a key figure, a mysterious key figure, in
a possible early settlement of the war, which is what
fascinates me about this story. The entire war could have
been avoided if some of the reporting from some of

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these people it is really true, and that settlement could
have occurred without American involvement. It was a Polish diplomat
by the name of Manelli Eli. He was part of
this intermittent peace international peace keeping group that had been
set up way back in nineteen fifty four, that was

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when North and South Vietnam were divided at this international
summit in Geneva. The group was known as the International
Control Commission. It included Communists, democratic, neutral members. There was Polish, Canadian, Indian,
and I think there were others. They had offices in
both Hanoi and Saigon. Well Manelli was the Polish representative

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on this International Commission on and off for almost two decades.
He was a Jew who as a teenager had escaped
the Warsaw Ghetto. During World War Two, he fought against
the Nazis, he was captured, he was interned in some
of the worst of the Discipo torture chambers, and after
the war he was recognized as a hero by the

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Communist leadership. And then by nineteen fifty four, Minnelli had
earned a doctorate in law was an associate professor at
the University of Warsaw. He was a scholar, He was
a writer, and he grew more and more hostile to
the Soviet post war political control of Poland, staunch anti Communist,
even though technically kind of was a Communist himself. He

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then got saved from harassment by being appointed to the
ICC this international Commission, and then in the late nineteen
sixties he fled Poland for the United States and he
became a professor in political science at Queen's College in
New York. He ultimately died of a heart attack in
nineteen ninety four. I really didn't know nothing about this guy,

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nothing at all. But he published an essay in the
New York Times in nineteen seventy five, as the war
was in its kind of last stages. Obviously, he revealed
that in nineteen sixty three, President DM that's the American
installed president of South Vietnam and the French ambassador's South

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Vietnam had asked him to approach the leadership in Hanoi
to discuss resolving the war. There was actual talk of
renewing the exchange of male trade of rice, starting to
do you know, minor things, to start reunifying the country

(27:29):
by doing this, you know, by doing trade. He published
a memoir in nineteen seventy nine Harpronrote called The War
of the Vanquished that provided what turns out to be
a selective account of his role acting as this go
between trying to end a war that would kill millions
of people. If you if you look the book up,

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War of the Vanquished, you'll find that there's really very
little mention of it. You've got to go into Ai
to find anything, and there's there's no review.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
Was the book.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Well, it turns out there's a lot of history of
this guy. But he had a secret the one that
he didn't tell that all of his actions in the
early nineteen sixties trying to, you know, do this act
as a go between was conducted with the knowledge and

(28:23):
the direction of John Richardson, the CIA station chief in Saigon.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
Who as early as the early.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Nineteen sixties knew that the war could not be won,
and he was actually on the CIA payroll at the time.
So this guy was doing all of this operations, these negotiations,
these secret talks between North and South Vietnam, even though

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the war went on after the assassination of both President
DM and President Kennedy, until the North Vietnam, the North
Vietnamese and the viet Cong storm Saigon and the US
embassy fifty years ago today, his spine and coordinating on

(29:16):
Vietnam with North Vietnam. He was spying on them and
talking to them at the same time, was simply an
attempt to bring about an early settlement to the war.
It would have been a separate peace agreement between the
North and South Vietnamese.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
I don't know what whether it would have worked or not.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
But what was interesting is that Kennedy, facing reelection the
next year, that I don't think there was any chance
that Kennedy would withdraw troops and stop the war against
the viet Cong or North Vietnam because DM wanted to
partner with America's enemies, so that the American installed president

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of South Vietnam was wanting to continue to do business
with US and supported the troops coming in. At the
same time that Manelli is doing all these discussions on
behalf of the CIA and Visa E, this ICC, these
all these talks going on at the time, So it

(30:23):
raises a great question. Could it be that Manelli, for
all of the whispered talk in those days in November
nineteen sixty three about the secret doings of present DM
before he was assassinated, actually in talks with Ho Chi
Minh trying to join forces to end the war at
which would have forced Kennedy to flee South Vietnam. Raises

(30:48):
one simple question. Was he actually doing the bidding of
the Americans through the CIA who had been paying him
for decades. I'd never heard of this guy, but it
really raises a fascinating question. Could all of that been
avoided except that the CIA. I'm not going to delve
into whether the CIO is involved in the assassination of

(31:10):
Kennedy or not. That's you put your tenfoil hat on
for that. But it seems to me that if these
accounts are true and the CIA was paying him and
the ICC was appointing him to do these negotiations between
the North and the South, this war could have been avoided.

(31:32):
But that your pipe smoke.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
It for a while. Good morning from South Dakota.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
In June, my wife and I are planning to vote
in Nashville, but I'll keep up to date with the
situation with Michael Brown through the free to Me iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
Everyone have a great day.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
I love how people have picked up on the free
to me because because it's not free, I mean, they
do just like poles I advertise. You know, the free
iHeartRadio app, but somebody paid for it.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
And you see, even the South Dakota grandpa can figure
out that the free to me iHeart app travels with you,
travels with you.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
And then somebody pointed out, why am I making such
a big deal. Be nice to that nice muber lady
that's going to Nashville or wherever she was going, because
why am I arguing over twelve slots, twelve listeners.

Speaker 5 (32:22):
When you only have twelve.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
That's exactly right, dragon, When you only have twelve, you
gotta make sure you got a enough backfill so that
if somebody's going to be gone for a week on
you know, stupid wedding or whatever she was going to,
that there's somebody to fill in, to come back in
and fill up that seat.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
We need seat fillers just well, no, well, we need
to fill seats because we're those twelve are like a
jury and we can't reach a verdict without twelve.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
We got to have twelve, so we gotta have alternate
listeners in case somebody gets sick.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
And frankly, if you were to come to the building,
you wouldn't even know that.

Speaker 5 (32:56):
Ka, howe is here?

Speaker 4 (32:57):
Are you trying to get me pissed off? This morning? Yep?

Speaker 5 (33:00):
This morning? Every morning.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
So this morning I'm the elevators taking it a little
longer to get to the first floor. And there is
a a on a stand down in the lobby is
a sign that if you're here to pick up if
you're here as a guest or to pick up a prize,
or to you know, you're what for whatever reason, there's

(33:26):
a number to call and then it you know, has
you know, it's got some wording on it. But across
the top there are seven station logos seven.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
There are seven stations here.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Well, as a matter of fact, that is factually correct,
there are seven stations here. There are actually eight stations here.

Speaker 5 (33:51):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
So I'm looking and I don't see a logo, so
I count. I'm like, so I do a double take.
Let's see one, two, three, four, five, six, where.

Speaker 5 (34:07):
Where one's missing, there's a there's.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
One missing, and it happens to be the bastard child
of this cluster called Denver's Talks. It's Denver's Talk Station
six point thirty k how and our logo.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
Is not on there.

Speaker 5 (34:25):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
So today I'm going to go home and I'm going
to find the logo online and I'm going to screenshot
it and then i'm going to print it on my
color printer at home, and then I'm going to get
you know, the packing tape, the wide packing tape, and
I'm going to bring it in tomorrow morning and I'm
going to tape it onto that stupid sign downstairs.

Speaker 5 (34:46):
Ain't nobody gonna notice, just like our clock on the wall.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Well, I'm thinking that with if I use that shine
you a shiny packing tape, I think if I put
it on there, that perhaps Brenda or Jojo somebody in
management might notice, and.

Speaker 4 (35:01):
Of course then they'll be, oh, we left off.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
We lost off one of the major stations in this
cluster because the one station that is on there is
right behind me, and there is never anybody in that station. Yeah,
it's on there, but the one here that is occupied
from six am until six or seven pm doesn't.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
They are