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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How about that Trump rally in Saudi Arabia. It was
awesome that they had him walk out to Lee Greenwitz.
God bless the USA. He had an incredible speech and
then it was ended with the YMCA. The crowd was
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so excited to see him, applauding left and right, cheering.
The world just needed another Trump rally.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I am, oh, let me go ahead and do this.
I'm switching everything up at the last minute because it's
something I heard on ABC News that I want to
talk about, but before I do, just to kind of
get us moving into the groove. Last night, as I'm
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or yesterday afternoon sometime, and I'm putting together the Michael
Brown Minute that you know airs over on Freedom as
a promo for the weekend program, I ran across another
story and I realized that it seems to me, although
you know, I record them, I usually wought up the
script that I've written out and then toss it over
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my shoulder and it goes in the trash, dragon puts
it on, and that's the last I hear of it.
I mean, I don't remember what it is, but it
seems to me that for at least a week, every
single one has been about something negative about Colorado.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
You must be new here.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Something negative about Denver? Have I done anything positive about
have any of them? For the See, today is hump day,
so let's go back to last hump Day, which I
have no clue what we did at all last up day.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
The problem is it takes more work to find something
good about the Denver metro area when you can just
open any news source and find the bad.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Well, so I usually the the whole secret sauce that
it's no big deal here. When I'm doing these minutes,
they they're limited to sixty seconds, so I'm looking for
some pithy little story. That is because management wanted it.
Since I'm the only local voiceover on Freedom, they wanted
it to be a local promo about something local. Okay,
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So I'm always looking for something local. So I usually
start out with KDVR nine news, CBS Colorado, then maybe
the Denver Gazette or the Colorado Sun, maybe Denver right westward,
and those are probably the seven I almost always go
to because they're all local and there'll always be something
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in there, and it's almost always negative. It's all negative.
So the one I did this morning when I was
writing it last night, I thought, I gotta say something
positive because it's just too easy. It's way too easy
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to rag on what I'm going to rag on, and
I'm ragging on. Well, I'm not, but apparently other people are.
The DMV, the Department of Motor Vehicles. Can you imagine that?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Dun, dun, d dun.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I said that. So here's what I said, positively, Denver
the gift that just keeps on giving for these Michael
Brown minutes. And I said very specifically, I know that
everybody hates going to the DMV, But as I have
said before, and I think I've said it on this station,
the DMV in Douglas County, at least the one that
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I use in Highlands Ranch, is actually staffed by people
who at least have a facade of caring, at least
have an appearance of trying to be good civil servants,
trying to be customer oriented. Always greet you with you know,
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how might I help you? Or how are you today?
I mean, and don't get me wrong, I don't get
that often. But of the last two or three times
in the last maybe two or three years that I've
been there, it's always been good. The one thing I
hate about the stupid Highlands Ranch thing is they have
a stupid little you know, like you take your little ticket,
except now you don't take it. You actually it's like
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a touch screen and you touch in and you go
through the entire process of checking in and then it
assigns you in number. But then it will tell you
but you can't check in yet because you're too early.
So if you have like let's see, you have a
three three pm appointment, I always make an appointment. I
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ever just show up make an appointment. Well, sometimes I'm
not doing stuff. I may like it's two thirty so
rather than just you know, drive around, I just well,
I'm out in the car anyway, I'll just go to
the DMV and I'll take bipad iPad and i'll school
sit down and I'll just check in. But it won't
let me check in, which is just so stupid because
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it's like you're going to just assign me a number
and the numbers are going to be called until you know,
you get to that number anyway, So I don't get
why I can't check in until only ten minutes before
the time of the appointment. So that's the one criticism
I would have. But here is the part of the
minute that I found funny. So some some outfit, I
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don't know who it was, but they scraped all the
Google reviews across thirty major US cities. That would include
one hundred and forty different locations of DMVs Google. Now, see,
that's what struck me. That's what piqued my curiosity about
the story. Who in the hell leaves a Google review
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about a DMV? Because if you're if you got to
go to the dm it's like you got to go
to the DMV and you can't. For example, if you're
registering a car, you've got to register it in the
county in which you're going to reside. So it's not
like I could say, I go to the Google reviews
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and go, oh look these are all crap. Oh here's
a really good DMV's got great Google reviews in Montrose,
So I'll drive over to Montrose and register my car. No,
I can't do that. I have to use the ones
in Douglas County. But they so whatever this company is,
I don't care, It doesn't any difference. They scraped one
hundred and forty locations in thirty major US cities. Finding
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that Denver has four four different DMVs ranking in the
top twenty for the most complaints. The DMVs are located
in South Monaco Parkway, Peoria Street, Tremont Place, and South
Sharidian South Sharidiandan Boulevard. And I'm thinking, Wow, way to go.
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You made you made the top twenty list again Denver,
but top twenty of the worst. But then, when I
think about it, the more interesting part to me is
who leaves a Google review for a DMV. I don't
even leave Yelp reviews. I don't even leave like you know.
Oftentimes I'll use open table or Rezie or one of
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you know, one of those reservation services for a restaurant,
and every time the very either that night or the
very next morning, I wake up, there's an email from
whatever the reservation service is. You know how was dining
out at McDonald's last night? You know how was your
reservation at McDonald's. Delete. I'm just not going to do it.
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I just when I don't care. Two, I don't read
the other reviews. I think the only time I ever
read a restaurant review might be on Open Table or
on Rezi. But I don't go to YELP. I don't
go to next door. I don't go anywhere else to
read reviews, because one, I have no confidence in their legitimacy.
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They might be stacked by the owner of the restaurant,
that it might be one person that's pissed off because
the bread was late getting to the table, or I mean,
some dumb ass thing that doesn't make any difference whatsoever.
And so I just I just don't read them. But
I'm just have you dragging a view of up to
Google review for a DMV. No, do you ever leave
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reviews for anything?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Left a review for a transmission shop that did a
terrible job. Oh, and once I left the review, oddly enough,
they fixed the problem and I took down the review.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Oh interesting, yeah, Oh was it a locally owned shop
or a chain?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
A chain but they're franchise.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Franchise, yeah, franchise okay, yeah, And so you left the
back review and you got it fixed exactly. That's interesting.
Now your heads didn't you have? Oh you had you
had a warranty problem. Yeah, still working on that one. Oh,
drag Dragon's got a warranty problem. Do you ever talked
to the do you ever call him the Martino Show
about it.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Not yet.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I'm working with Bosh right now and they seem to
be accommodating at the moment. My fourteen year old or
fourteen month old refrigerator has had to have his ice
maker replaced twice. So now I'm, you know, in contact
with Bosch to see if they can extend that one
year warranty.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But but I thought their warranties had a one year warranty, right,
I mean I thought that repairs that one.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Year, depending on who installs it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, I thought you went to a Bosch authorized service.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Just because it's on their website does not mean it's
their factory authorized service provider. Wait a minute, so yep, nope,
it's yep, it's your lawyer brain. Yes, it's exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah, yes, on their website.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
So therefore it is an authorized service, yes, center service place.
But they have something different called factory authorized Oh yeah,
Oh did you did this? Is kind of like the
graphs the thousands or millions or what? Did you did
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you look to see if this one was? I mean,
I know you went to the website. Did it did
it have like a column of factory authorized repair services
versus just authorized repair.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Difference between the ones, the one that is factory authorized
versus all of the others on their website is the
factory authorized has a name of the company dash preferred.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Oh preferred. And so you tell me that they're on
the website, the.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Bosch website, they're like five or six of them, but
the top one.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
But one or two has one one has preferred, So
they're trying to steer you to that one. Yeah, and
so you use that one.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
No.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I called that one and they said, yeah, we can
come out in two months. Then I just made my
way down the list and I found somebody that would
be like, yeah, we can be out there tomorrow. Oh okay,
So all right, I used the one that would be
out there tomorrow. But turns out they're not factory authorized.
So the part that they put in the same part
that the other company was.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Though, huh part yes, okay.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
So because it's not a factory authorized service provider, it's
only a sixty day warranty on the part versus a
one year warranty by the factory authorized provider.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
So we may or may not have a Google review
or review of some sort about either.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Bush or I don't I don't fault the service provider
that came and put in the part. It's more or
less a bit worked for were for eight months. It
was perfect for eight months, and then it died.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Well, did you see did you buy an eight month
part or did you buy a twelve month party?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Did you just see? You've got to get the full
year a part.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
But I got a sympathetic ear through Bosh and I
was like, come on, guys, really, I've had to replace
the ice maker twice in fourteen months.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
It's and it's a bosh. You're freaking bosh.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Are you actually talking to a human being about this? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Oh really?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
And he seemed very sympathetic, and I'm like, it's you know,
I don't understand why the warranty on a non factory
provider is different than it's the same part, same work,
same labor, But.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Because Joe Blow put it in same part.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
You're only giving it sixty days versus a year for
the warranty on the warrantied part.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Huh. So something's happened to me for three days in
a row. Now, you know, I'm not I don't want
to give out the location, okay, but you know I've
switched the location from my diet coaching correct and once
just because the price is better. In fact, when I
tell you what's been happening, the price is even better
than you can imagine. But it's larger, and it's larger
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and cheaper, and the quality of the diet coke exceeds
the previous place.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I was consistent.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yes, it's been consistent. Uh, and they have crushed ice
and so it meets it meets all of the Michael
Brown requirements for the you know, five thirty am diet
coke consumption. Well, there's one particular. I mean, this is
a fair these are fairly large locations, and they have
every morning, not every morning. There's been a couple of
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mornings he hasn't been there, but every morning there's been
this young man that's kind of you know, he's kind
of checking the store out, you know, I mean, I
think it's open twenty four to seven, but he's kind
of checking things out and he's getting kind of getting ready.
It's still dark back in the area where they do
the food and stuff. But for three mornings in a row,
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I've walked up to set it there and uh, he said,
is that is that all like on Monday, he said,
is that it? I said yes, and he goes, oh,
you're good to go, just waved me off, didn't make
me pay. The second day, I stand in line because
there's a couple of people in front of me, and
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he he looks over the shoulder and says, is that
it nodded in my head? And he goes, he waved
me off again. This morning, I walk in and there's
two people in front of me and I'm standing there
and he walks over and he does this to me.
I'm I'm taking my index finger and I'm just flipping
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my index finger as as if to.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Just go on, shoo you away, Shay.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
And I I had I made eye contact. I actually
made eye contact with him and gave him that looked
like what and he goes just kind of not his head,
like yeah, just just go on.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
What's up with that?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I can only equate it to what I did in
when when my family had the subway franchise for as
long as we did, I would do that on occasion
to the regulars that would come in every day and
get a sandwich and you know, chips and a drink
and everything. But I would only do that, you know,
once a month. So I was like, man, you're good,
you're here every day. Just take it and enjoy not
every day.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Well it's just been three days, but it's been three
days in a row now by Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
I would say maybe for the fact that it's I
hate to say it, but it's just a soda. No,
I no, I think that may And I know that
the soda itself is freakishly cheap for businesses, right, So
the worst cost expense right there is the cup and
the straw.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
So I mean they're losing out on a dime.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Most And I assume he's trying to hope to get
you to come back and keep coming back.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Make it buy something else, right, And and I've actually
thought about getting gas there sometimes when I you know,
like I'm coming in, I really do need to like
fill up, and I don't want to wait to go
all the way back to Sam's. But and then I thought,
you know, I'm just that kind of person people just
look at me and go, you know, it's either that
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you look like a really nice guy, or it's that
or it's that, oh look at that pathetic old man
and all he can gets a diet coked this morning,
just you know, getting mad at here.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
He clearly doesn't see you driving a geep at the
BMW on front.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
You start parking around the side and start just kind
of hobbling in, like get a cane or something, just
kind of hobble in. Oh. Anyway, So that's that's my
morning today. So I was, I was going along fine,
had my stuff all ready to go, and then ABC
News comes on and ABC News just pissed me off.
Now where did it go? Here? It is because I'm
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it's it's re populating. Uh.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
This was at the top of the The president hopes
to receive a luxury jet from the Katari government. The
proposed donation has sparked criticism over security concerns and the
legality of accepting the four hundred million dollar jet from
a foreign country. President Trump last night saying the plane
quote will be used by our government as a temporary
air Force one until Boeing can make a new one.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
The president claiming the jet will not.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Cost taxpayers, but experts say it could take years and
up to one billion dollars to overhaul the plane with
classified upgrades.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
There's so many things wrong with that. What is it
twenty How long? Was that a twenty nine second news spot?
And there are so many things wrong with it?
Speaker 6 (17:43):
It's the president hopes to receive a luxury jet from
the Qatar?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Does he really hope? Is the president really traveling halfway
around the world hoping? I mean you think he laid
down on the bed and on Air Force one and
laid there staring up at the ceiling and you know,
twiddling his thumbs. He's got his little silk pajamas on,
he's got his little slippers on, he got a little
Dike Coke next to me, and he's saying, Oh, I hope,
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Oh my god, I hope they give me that play.
I hope they get you. No, I don't.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
I just don't think that he's thinking that our a government.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
The proposed donation has sparked criticism over.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Oh gee, you mean it's sparked criticism. Something that Trump's
involved in has sparked criticism. Stop the presses, I'll explain
why this bugs me.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Next, the Christian camp Idra Hadgi, which Stamford I'd rather
have Jesus is being threatened to be shut down by
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Colorado officials unless they are willing to open up their
shows bathroom and sleeping quarters for people of the opposite sex.
It's a horrible story. Reminds me so much of our
favorite masterpiece, Baker.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I'll uh, I'll look into that and see what's going on.
So back to Air Force one. So here's the ABC
News story. And as somebody said on the text line,
now you understand why all of us goobers get upset
with the top of the hour news. Look, I get
it because it's ABC News. You know, you can always
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go there. There's a contact us on the website not
to contact the program, but I think too, I forget
what it's labeled.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
But literally just contact us.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Is that it? And that goes to management?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Correct? Yeah, it goes to the big management.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Goes to the big management too, That's right. You think
it still goes it to him? Do you think it
goes over to temper oh tepper? Uh oh, see, I
wonder now where it goes. It probably gets filed down. Well, yeah,
you get filtered down. But you think it still originally
goes to the big guy.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yes, I think it does too.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
So if you want to complain about you know, not
having Fox News or whatever you want on here besides
ABC News, feel free to go to Michael says, go
here dot com and and well you may just need
to go to uh khou dot com and see if
you can't find that contact us, because that does go
straight to management. Anyway, Here here's the top of the
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Hour News UH Christian Cordero.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
The president hopes to receive a luxury jet.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
From there, as I said, he hopes, who says he hopes.
I haven't heard it, I.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Have, you know, hopes Katari government.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
That proposed donation has sparked criticism over security concerns.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
And security concerns. What the only the only security concern
that I heard that I actually, you know, kind of
spewed my diet cocat was well, they're going to bug
the plane and we'll never be able to debug that
plane because they'll be the Kataris will be listing in
and everything. He says the whole time. And I thought,
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my god, people, you don't understand exactly the technology that
we have, not only DoD but the CIA and the
NSA have that we can find out whether or not
there's a bug on a plane. Good grief.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
The legality of accepting the four We'll.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Get to the legality in a minute, because it's quite legal.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Fo one hundred million dollar jet from a foreign country.
President Trump last night saying the plane quote will be
used by our government as a temporary Air Force one
until Boeing can make a new one, the President claiming
the jet.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Just think of the word Boeing.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Well, not cost taxpayers.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
But experts say it could take years and up to
one billion dollars to overhaul the plane with classified upgrades.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Okay, so it might take years and it might cost
a billion dollars to upgrade the plane. So I thought, well,
what is it? Why haven't we heard anything about Boweing
currently and what they're doing with uh, the current Air
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Force one?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
What?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
What's what's happened to it? Mm hmm, what's happened to it? Now?
I thought I had somewhere. Where did it go? Did
I not say it?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Well, while you're looking for that, Michael, I do have.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
We talked just a bit off air about Hakim Jeffries
and his thoughts on Trump.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Oh did you find that?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I was able to find it. So, mind you, this
is just a snippet of a longer interview, and I
really despise that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Most of the time.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
But Hakim Jeffries was asked about Trump receiving this this
jet from uh from Qatar, So let's see what Hakeen
has to say about that.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
It's an embarrassment.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Literally, millions of people in this country are struggling to
live paycheck to paycheck. Can't afford housing, can't afford groceries,
can't afford to pay their utility bills, can't afford childcare,
can't afford insurance. And Donald Trump is publicly defending accepting
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a four hundred million dollar flying palace from a close
ally of Iran and Hamas. I mean, you can't make
this stuff up.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
So I do have a question to Hakien here.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Yes, what does Michael getting a free soda from a
gas station this morning and every other day this week
have anything to do with one of our favorite truckers
that work in Ohio? Yes, does one affect the other?
So does Trump getting this jet which I don't like
that he is getting, or he is saying that he's getting,
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or Quitar is offering.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I don't like that idea.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
But what does that have to do with somebody not
being able to or somebody living paycheck to paycheck?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Because Dragon you again don't fully understand the concept that
even you, with the tiny amount of money that you make,
is taking away from people who make even less than
you do, and you owe them because the the economic
pie is contained. Just imagine a lemon meringue pie that's
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as big as the economy is ever going to get.
It can get smaller because people will eat it. And
so you know, if that's the economy and you take
up your you know, eight thousand dollars a year salary,
well that's eight thousand dollars that somebody else can't get.
And you know, and you take my you take my
ten thousand dollars salary, that's ten thousand dollars that somebody
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else can't get. That's the that's the Hoteam Jeffries, that's
the demo craft. That's the socialist Marxist theory of an
economy that they extrapolate and apply to everything. You just
don't get it.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
One thing does not affect the other thing.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
You just don't know how to think like a Marxist.
You just don't get it. You don't get it.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
So you heard.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Dragons say that he doesn't like the idea. Now, irrespective
or irregardless how about that, let's use the word irregardless
just to piss myself off. Regardless of whether you like
the idea or not, that transaction is not a violation
of law. In fact, you might even argue someone argue
that it's an expression of prudence. Boeing has exhibited a
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chronic inability to deliver the new Air Force one aircrafts.
That contract was originally started seven years ago, started in
two thy eighteen. Now it was a fixed price contract
and Boeing is losing money over it. There have been
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all sorts of cost overruns. That's what I was trying
to find somewhere. I thought I had all that info.
I'll see if I can't, I got it into my
history somewhere. But Boeing is losing a boatload of money
on it, and it's left the president dependent on these
they were I think the new ones are VC twenty
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five bees Boeing VC twenty five B's or the new ones.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Now, was this a job that was bid out so
Boeing said hey, yeah, we'll do it for price X.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I don't know whether it was actually bid out or not,
or it was just a negotiated contract.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Either way, Boeing said yep, we'll do it.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
So absolutely Boeing voluntarily willingly entered into it. Now, the
current CEO of Boeing says, in retrospect, doing the contract
at all, and in particular, doing a fixed price contract,
he says, in hindsight, was a mistake. Well, probably so,
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or at least not having an agreement that you know,
any changes upgrades or as technology changes, whatever it might be,
that you know, those costs we would be passed on
to the taxpayers. But that I can't help Bulling for
doing what you did. So Trump's now flying planes that
have been in the air since nineteen eighty seven. Now
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that's not necessarily a bad thing. Lots of planes fly
for decades upon decades. They know, over time, they essentially
get rebuilt through you know, through the annuals and repairs
and you know, replacing equipment and everything. And Trump could
have burdened the American taxpayer with an emergency purchase of
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some sort of stop gap jet, but he chose the
more physically conservative and responsible route. And that is okay, Well,
I can assuming that he still does, which he may
or may not. But everything seems to indicate that he
will accept a gift on behalf of the American people.
So again, there are many things that you can do
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that are legal that maybe are or are not the
right thing to do. I'll leave that up to you.
I've got my own opinion about this, and I'll express
it in a minute. But I want to talk about
the legality of accepting this plane because it is clearly
authorized statutorily and it has a constitutional basis for it too.
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So first the Statute ten US Code, section twenty six
oh one that authorizes the Secretary of Defense to accept gifts,
even including personal property, provided they are not designated for
a specific individual. In fact, the Secretary of Defense Pete
Hegseth postponed his scheduled diplomatic trip to Israel a week
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I think it was a week ago in order to
remain available to accept the gift during Trump's visit to Cutter.
The jet in this particular case is being given to
the Air Force, not to Donald Trump. There is no
private enrichment going on here whatsoever. Now you can argue,
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which I think fails. But you can make an argument.
But he will eventually get the plane because it will
go to his foundation that's doing the Presidential Library. When
he leaves office. I would argue that technically that is incorrect.
The plane never goes to the title to the plane
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is never signed over to Donald J. Trump. It's signed
over to the Donald J. Trump, whatever the name of
the foundation is, that's putting together the eventual building of
his presidential library. But there's another statue, and that's the
Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act. That's at five You Code,
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section seventy three forty two that provides congressional consent for
public officials to accept gifts on behalf of the United States,
so long as those gifts are not retained for personal use.
So the aircraft during its operational life would be used
exclusively for official government purposes. After that, it becomes technically
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a part of a presidential library. Now why do I
say that that's important? Because presidential libraries, with the exception
of Barack Obama, all other libraries, our educational institutions, run
in conjunction with the National Archives and Records Administration NARA.
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The chain of custody is public from the very first
transfer from the Cutter government to the US government. Again
from the US government to NARA, which is the US government.
That's the chain in a custody. So then people are, oh, well,
this is self enrichment. This is in violation of Article one,
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section nine, the emolument's clause of the Constitution. As if
just stating that made it true. Well, that's not how
it works. That clause prohibits personal acceptance of gifts from
foreign states without congressional consent. So when a gift is
accepted by the US government and it's used in the
public interest, that falls outside the clause of scope. Legal
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scholars across all ideological lines, liberal, conservative, right, left, however
you want to do it, including Jonathan Adler and past
opinions from the Office of Legal Counsel, affirm that interpretation,
when the gift is accepted by the US government, used
in the public interests, it is not part of or
not constrained by Article one, section nine. Oh well, he's
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being bribed. This is all part of quid pro quo. No,
the bribery Statute's pretty clear. That's at eighteen US Code,
Section two one. In fact, that requires a quid pro quote.
What's a quid quote pro? A quid pro quote a
thing of value exchange for an official act. You give
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me something, normally it's money in exchange for that although
a certain way, or I'll sign off on a particular
executive order, or I will do whatever. But there's no
such quid pro quote in this arrangement. There's no evidence,
even from the fevered imagination of all these critics that
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are just screaming bloody murder about including a king Jeffries,
that any official act was offered in return. It's a
good will gesture. And I'll tell you this about foreign countries,
particularly the Middle East, this is their culture to give gifts.
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I personally have been involved in those situations. I've even
told you about the gift before. I'll tell you about
it again.
Speaker 8 (33:05):
Trump's acceptance of a four hundred million dollar jet from
Katar is a blatant violation of the molument clause of
the US Constitution. It poses a huge security risk that
will be tremendously expensive to remedy. And on top of
all of this, Boeing is scheduled to deliver a new
Air Force one in twenty twenty seven. All of these
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things add up to a huge bad decision by Trump.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Once again, a source, I disagree with you about the
delivery date, and I just cited you that it was
not a violation of the Emoluments Clause. So I'd like
to know, feel free to text me three three one
zero three and give me your source and your citation
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for it being a violation of Article one, Section nine.
I mean, yeah, send it to me. I'm being serious.
If you're gonna call in and make those kinds of claims,
then tell me on the basis that you make those claims.
So let's do this when we get back, because I
want I want you to understand, not you, I want
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everyone to understand the situation with the new aircraft because
and this has nothing to do with Donald Trump. This
has to do with once again, you know, we just
don't seem to be able to do anything. We can't
build anything. Everything is a costing more, taking longer, blah
blah blah blah blah. It's really absurd that's coming up now.
How about that Trump rally in Saudi Arabia. It was
awesome that they had him walk out to Lee Greenwitz.
God bless the USA. He had an incredible speech and
then it was ended with the YMCA. The crowd was
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so excited to see him, applauding left and right, cheering.
The world just needed another Trump rally.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I am, oh, let me go ahead and do this.
I'm switching everything up at the last minute because it's
something I heard on ABC News that I want to
talk about, but before I do, just to kind of
get us moving into the groove. Last night, as I'm
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or yesterday afternoon sometime, and I'm putting together the Michael
Brown Minute that you know airs over on Freedom as
a promo for the weekend program, I ran across another
story and I realized that it seems to me, although
you know, I record them, I usually wought up the
script that I've written out and then toss it over
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my shoulder and it goes in the trash, dragon puts
it on, and that's the last I hear of it.
I mean, I don't remember what it is, but it
seems to me that for at least a week, every
single one has been about something negative about Colorado.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
You must be new here.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Something negative about Denver? Have I done anything positive about
have any of them? For the See, today is hump day,
so let's go back to last hump Day, which I
have no clue what we did at all last up day.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
The problem is it takes more work to find something
good about the Denver metro area when you can just
open any news source and find the bad.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Well, so I usually the the whole secret sauce that
it's no big deal here. When I'm doing these minutes,
they they're limited to sixty seconds, so I'm looking for
some pithy little story. That is because management wanted it.
Since I'm the only local voiceover on Freedom, they wanted
it to be a local promo about something local. Okay,
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So I'm always looking for something local. So I usually
start out with KDVR nine news, CBS Colorado, then maybe
the Denver Gazette or the Colorado Sun, maybe Denver right westward,
and those are probably the seven I almost always go
to because they're all local and there'll always be something
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in there, and it's almost always negative. It's all negative.
So the one I did this morning when I was
writing it last night, I thought, I gotta say something
positive because it's just too easy. It's way too easy
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to rag on what I'm going to rag on, and
I'm ragging on. Well, I'm not, but apparently other people are.
The DMV, the Department of Motor Vehicles. Can you imagine that?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Dun, dun, d dun.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I said that. So here's what I said, positively, Denver
the gift that just keeps on giving for these Michael
Brown minutes. And I said very specifically, I know that
everybody hates going to the DMV, But as I have
said before, and I think I've said it on this station,
the DMV in Douglas County, at least the one that
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I use in Highlands Ranch, is actually staffed by people
who at least have a facade of caring, at least
have an appearance of trying to be good civil servants,
trying to be customer oriented. Always greet you with you know,
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how might I help you? Or how are you today?
I mean, and don't get me wrong, I don't get
that often. But of the last two or three times
in the last maybe two or three years that I've
been there, it's always been good. The one thing I
hate about the stupid Highlands Ranch thing is they have
a stupid little you know, like you take your little ticket,
except now you don't take it. You actually it's like
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a touch screen and you touch in and you go
through the entire process of checking in and then it
assigns you in number. But then it will tell you
but you can't check in yet because you're too early.
So if you have like let's see, you have a
three three pm appointment, I always make an appointment. I
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ever just show up make an appointment. Well, sometimes I'm
not doing stuff. I may like it's two thirty so
rather than just you know, drive around, I just well,
I'm out in the car anyway, I'll just go to
the DMV and I'll take bipad iPad and i'll school
sit down and I'll just check in. But it won't
let me check in, which is just so stupid because
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it's like you're going to just assign me a number
and the numbers are going to be called until you know,
you get to that number anyway, So I don't get
why I can't check in until only ten minutes before
the time of the appointment. So that's the one criticism
I would have. But here is the part of the
minute that I found funny. So some some outfit, I
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don't know who it was, but they scraped all the
Google reviews across thirty major US cities. That would include
one hundred and forty different locations of DMVs Google. Now, see,
that's what struck me. That's what piqued my curiosity about
the story. Who in the hell leaves a Google review
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about a DMV? Because if you're if you got to
go to the dm it's like you got to go
to the DMV and you can't. For example, if you're
registering a car, you've got to register it in the
county in which you're going to reside. So it's not
like I could say, I go to the Google reviews
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and go, oh look these are all crap. Oh here's
a really good DMV's got great Google reviews in Montrose,
So I'll drive over to Montrose and register my car. No,
I can't do that. I have to use the ones
in Douglas County. But they so whatever this company is,
I don't care, It doesn't any difference. They scraped one
hundred and forty locations in thirty major US cities. Finding
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that Denver has four four different DMVs ranking in the
top twenty for the most complaints. The DMVs are located
in South Monaco Parkway, Peoria Street, Tremont Place, and South
Sharidian South Sharidiandan Boulevard. And I'm thinking, Wow, way to go.
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You made you made the top twenty list again Denver,
but top twenty of the worst. But then, when I
think about it, the more interesting part to me is
who leaves a Google review for a DMV. I don't
even leave Yelp reviews. I don't even leave like you know.
Oftentimes I'll use open table or Rezie or one of
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you know, one of those reservation services for a restaurant,
and every time the very either that night or the
very next morning, I wake up, there's an email from
whatever the reservation service is. You know how was dining
out at McDonald's last night? You know how was your
reservation at McDonald's. Delete. I'm just not going to do it.
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I just when I don't care. Two, I don't read
the other reviews. I think the only time I ever
read a restaurant review might be on Open Table or
on Rezi. But I don't go to YELP. I don't
go to next door. I don't go anywhere else to
read reviews, because one, I have no confidence in their legitimacy.
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They might be stacked by the owner of the restaurant,
that it might be one person that's pissed off because
the bread was late getting to the table, or I mean,
some dumb ass thing that doesn't make any difference whatsoever.
And so I just I just don't read them. But
I'm just have you dragging a view of up to
Google review for a DMV. No, do you ever leave
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reviews for anything?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Left a review for a transmission shop that did a
terrible job. Oh, and once I left the review, oddly enough,
they fixed the problem and I took down the review.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Oh interesting, yeah, Oh was it a locally owned shop
or a chain?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
A chain but they're franchise.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Franchise, yeah, franchise okay, yeah, And so you left the
back review and you got it fixed exactly. That's interesting.
Now your heads didn't you have? Oh you had you
had a warranty problem. Yeah, still working on that one. Oh,
drag Dragon's got a warranty problem. Do you ever talked
to the do you ever call him the Martino Show
about it.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Not yet.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I'm working with Bosh right now and they seem to
be accommodating at the moment. My fourteen year old or
fourteen month old refrigerator has had to have his ice
maker replaced twice. So now I'm, you know, in contact
with Bosch to see if they can extend that one
year warranty.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But but I thought their warranties had a one year warranty, right,
I mean I thought that repairs that one.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Year, depending on who installs it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, I thought you went to a Bosch authorized service.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Just because it's on their website does not mean it's
their factory authorized service provider. Wait a minute, so yep, nope,
it's yep, it's your lawyer brain. Yes, it's exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah, yes, on their website.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
So therefore it is an authorized service, yes, center service place.
But they have something different called factory authorized Oh yeah,
Oh did you did this? Is kind of like the
graphs the thousands or millions or what? Did you did
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you look to see if this one was? I mean,
I know you went to the website. Did it did
it have like a column of factory authorized repair services
versus just authorized repair.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Difference between the ones, the one that is factory authorized
versus all of the others on their website is the
factory authorized has a name of the company dash preferred.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Oh preferred. And so you tell me that they're on
the website, the.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Bosch website, they're like five or six of them, but
the top one.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
But one or two has one one has preferred, So
they're trying to steer you to that one. Yeah, and
so you use that one.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
No.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I called that one and they said, yeah, we can
come out in two months. Then I just made my
way down the list and I found somebody that would
be like, yeah, we can be out there tomorrow. Oh okay,
So all right, I used the one that would be
out there tomorrow. But turns out they're not factory authorized.
So the part that they put in the same part
that the other company was.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Though, huh part yes, okay.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
So because it's not a factory authorized service provider, it's
only a sixty day warranty on the part versus a
one year warranty by the factory authorized provider.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
So we may or may not have a Google review
or review of some sort about either.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Bush or I don't I don't fault the service provider
that came and put in the part. It's more or
less a bit worked for were for eight months. It
was perfect for eight months, and then it died.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Well, did you see did you buy an eight month
part or did you buy a twelve month party?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Did you just see? You've got to get the full
year a part.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
But I got a sympathetic ear through Bosh and I
was like, come on, guys, really, I've had to replace
the ice maker twice in fourteen months.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
It's and it's a bosh. You're freaking bosh.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Are you actually talking to a human being about this? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Oh really?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
And he seemed very sympathetic, and I'm like, it's you know,
I don't understand why the warranty on a non factory
provider is different than it's the same part, same work,
same labor, But.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Because Joe Blow put it in same part.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
You're only giving it sixty days versus a year for
the warranty on the warrantied part.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Huh. So something's happened to me for three days in
a row. Now, you know, I'm not I don't want
to give out the location, okay, but you know I've
switched the location from my diet coaching correct and once
just because the price is better. In fact, when I
tell you what's been happening, the price is even better
than you can imagine. But it's larger, and it's larger
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and cheaper, and the quality of the diet coke exceeds
the previous place.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I was consistent.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yes, it's been consistent. Uh, and they have crushed ice
and so it meets it meets all of the Michael
Brown requirements for the you know, five thirty am diet
coke consumption. Well, there's one particular. I mean, this is
a fair these are fairly large locations, and they have
every morning, not every morning. There's been a couple of
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mornings he hasn't been there, but every morning there's been
this young man that's kind of you know, he's kind
of checking the store out, you know, I mean, I
think it's open twenty four to seven, but he's kind
of checking things out and he's getting kind of getting ready.
It's still dark back in the area where they do
the food and stuff. But for three mornings in a row,
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I've walked up to set it there and uh, he said,
is that is that all like on Monday, he said,
is that it? I said yes, and he goes, oh,
you're good to go, just waved me off, didn't make
me pay. The second day, I stand in line because
there's a couple of people in front of me, and
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he he looks over the shoulder and says, is that
it nodded in my head? And he goes, he waved
me off again. This morning, I walk in and there's
two people in front of me and I'm standing there
and he walks over and he does this to me.
I'm I'm taking my index finger and I'm just flipping
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my index finger as as if to.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Just go on, shoo you away, Shay.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
And I I had I made eye contact. I actually
made eye contact with him and gave him that looked
like what and he goes just kind of not his head,
like yeah, just just go on.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
What's up with that?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I can only equate it to what I did in
when when my family had the subway franchise for as
long as we did, I would do that on occasion
to the regulars that would come in every day and
get a sandwich and you know, chips and a drink
and everything. But I would only do that, you know,
once a month. So I was like, man, you're good,
you're here every day. Just take it and enjoy not
every day.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Well it's just been three days, but it's been three
days in a row now by Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
I would say maybe for the fact that it's I
hate to say it, but it's just a soda. No,
I no, I think that may And I know that
the soda itself is freakishly cheap for businesses, right, So
the worst cost expense right there is the cup and
the straw.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
So I mean they're losing out on a dime.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Most And I assume he's trying to hope to get
you to come back and keep coming back.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Make it buy something else, right, And and I've actually
thought about getting gas there sometimes when I you know,
like I'm coming in, I really do need to like
fill up, and I don't want to wait to go
all the way back to Sam's. But and then I thought,
you know, I'm just that kind of person people just
look at me and go, you know, it's either that
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you look like a really nice guy, or it's that
or it's that, oh look at that pathetic old man
and all he can gets a diet coked this morning,
just you know, getting mad at here.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
He clearly doesn't see you driving a geep at the
BMW on front.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
You start parking around the side and start just kind
of hobbling in, like get a cane or something, just
kind of hobble in. Oh. Anyway, So that's that's my
morning today. So I was, I was going along fine,
had my stuff all ready to go, and then ABC
News comes on and ABC News just pissed me off.
Now where did it go? Here? It is because I'm
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it's it's re populating. Uh.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
This was at the top of the The president hopes
to receive a luxury jet from the Katari government. The
proposed donation has sparked criticism over security concerns and the
legality of accepting the four hundred million dollar jet from
a foreign country. President Trump last night saying the plane
quote will be used by our government as a temporary
air Force one until Boeing can make a new one.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
The president claiming the jet will not.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Cost taxpayers, but experts say it could take years and
up to one billion dollars to overhaul the plane with
classified upgrades.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
There's so many things wrong with that. What is it
twenty How long? Was that a twenty nine second news spot?
And there are so many things wrong with it?
Speaker 6 (17:43):
It's the president hopes to receive a luxury jet from
the Qatar?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Does he really hope? Is the president really traveling halfway
around the world hoping? I mean you think he laid
down on the bed and on Air Force one and
laid there staring up at the ceiling and you know,
twiddling his thumbs. He's got his little silk pajamas on,
he's got his little slippers on, he got a little
Dike Coke next to me, and he's saying, Oh, I hope,
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Oh my god, I hope they give me that play.
I hope they get you. No, I don't.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
I just don't think that he's thinking that our a government.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
The proposed donation has sparked criticism over.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Oh gee, you mean it's sparked criticism. Something that Trump's
involved in has sparked criticism. Stop the presses, I'll explain
why this bugs me.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Next, the Christian camp Idra Hadgi, which Stamford I'd rather
have Jesus is being threatened to be shut down by
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Colorado officials unless they are willing to open up their
shows bathroom and sleeping quarters for people of the opposite sex.
It's a horrible story. Reminds me so much of our
favorite masterpiece, Baker.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I'll uh, I'll look into that and see what's going on.
So back to Air Force one. So here's the ABC
News story. And as somebody said on the text line,
now you understand why all of us goobers get upset
with the top of the hour news. Look, I get
it because it's ABC News. You know, you can always
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go there. There's a contact us on the website not
to contact the program, but I think too, I forget
what it's labeled.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
But literally just contact us.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Is that it? And that goes to management?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Correct? Yeah, it goes to the big management.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Goes to the big management too, That's right. You think
it still goes it to him? Do you think it
goes over to temper oh tepper? Uh oh, see, I
wonder now where it goes. It probably gets filed down. Well, yeah,
you get filtered down. But you think it still originally
goes to the big guy.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yes, I think it does too.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
So if you want to complain about you know, not
having Fox News or whatever you want on here besides
ABC News, feel free to go to Michael says, go
here dot com and and well you may just need
to go to uh khou dot com and see if
you can't find that contact us, because that does go
straight to management. Anyway, Here here's the top of the
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Hour News UH Christian Cordero.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
The president hopes to receive a luxury jet.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
From there, as I said, he hopes, who says he hopes.
I haven't heard it, I.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Have, you know, hopes Katari government.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
That proposed donation has sparked criticism over security concerns.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
And security concerns. What the only the only security concern
that I heard that I actually, you know, kind of
spewed my diet cocat was well, they're going to bug
the plane and we'll never be able to debug that
plane because they'll be the Kataris will be listing in
and everything. He says the whole time. And I thought,
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my god, people, you don't understand exactly the technology that
we have, not only DoD but the CIA and the
NSA have that we can find out whether or not
there's a bug on a plane. Good grief.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
The legality of accepting the four We'll.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Get to the legality in a minute, because it's quite legal.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Fo one hundred million dollar jet from a foreign country.
President Trump last night saying the plane quote will be
used by our government as a temporary Air Force one
until Boeing can make a new one, the President claiming
the jet.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Just think of the word Boeing.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Well, not cost taxpayers.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
But experts say it could take years and up to
one billion dollars to overhaul the plane with classified upgrades.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Okay, so it might take years and it might cost
a billion dollars to upgrade the plane. So I thought, well,
what is it? Why haven't we heard anything about Boweing
currently and what they're doing with uh, the current Air
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Force one?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
What?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
What's what's happened to it? Mm hmm, what's happened to it? Now?
I thought I had somewhere. Where did it go? Did
I not say it?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Well, while you're looking for that, Michael, I do have.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
We talked just a bit off air about Hakim Jeffries
and his thoughts on Trump.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Oh did you find that?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I was able to find it. So, mind you, this
is just a snippet of a longer interview, and I
really despise that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Most of the time.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
But Hakim Jeffries was asked about Trump receiving this this
jet from uh from Qatar, So let's see what Hakeen
has to say about that.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
It's an embarrassment.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Literally, millions of people in this country are struggling to
live paycheck to paycheck. Can't afford housing, can't afford groceries,
can't afford to pay their utility bills, can't afford childcare,
can't afford insurance. And Donald Trump is publicly defending accepting
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a four hundred million dollar flying palace from a close
ally of Iran and Hamas. I mean, you can't make
this stuff up.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
So I do have a question to Hakien here.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Yes, what does Michael getting a free soda from a
gas station this morning and every other day this week
have anything to do with one of our favorite truckers
that work in Ohio? Yes, does one affect the other?
So does Trump getting this jet which I don't like
that he is getting, or he is saying that he's getting,
(24:02):
or Quitar is offering.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I don't like that idea.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
But what does that have to do with somebody not
being able to or somebody living paycheck to paycheck?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Because Dragon you again don't fully understand the concept that
even you, with the tiny amount of money that you make,
is taking away from people who make even less than
you do, and you owe them because the the economic
pie is contained. Just imagine a lemon meringue pie that's
(24:35):
as big as the economy is ever going to get.
It can get smaller because people will eat it. And
so you know, if that's the economy and you take
up your you know, eight thousand dollars a year salary,
well that's eight thousand dollars that somebody else can't get.
And you know, and you take my you take my
ten thousand dollars salary, that's ten thousand dollars that somebody
(24:55):
else can't get. That's the that's the Hoteam Jeffries, that's
the demo craft. That's the socialist Marxist theory of an
economy that they extrapolate and apply to everything. You just
don't get it.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
One thing does not affect the other thing.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
You just don't know how to think like a Marxist.
You just don't get it. You don't get it.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
So you heard.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Dragons say that he doesn't like the idea. Now, irrespective
or irregardless how about that, let's use the word irregardless
just to piss myself off. Regardless of whether you like
the idea or not, that transaction is not a violation
of law. In fact, you might even argue someone argue
that it's an expression of prudence. Boeing has exhibited a
(25:42):
chronic inability to deliver the new Air Force one aircrafts.
That contract was originally started seven years ago, started in
two thy eighteen. Now it was a fixed price contract
and Boeing is losing money over it. There have been
(26:02):
all sorts of cost overruns. That's what I was trying
to find somewhere. I thought I had all that info.
I'll see if I can't, I got it into my
history somewhere. But Boeing is losing a boatload of money
on it, and it's left the president dependent on these
they were I think the new ones are VC twenty
(26:25):
five bees Boeing VC twenty five B's or the new ones.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Now, was this a job that was bid out so
Boeing said hey, yeah, we'll do it for price X.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I don't know whether it was actually bid out or not,
or it was just a negotiated contract.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Either way, Boeing said yep, we'll do it.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
So absolutely Boeing voluntarily willingly entered into it. Now, the
current CEO of Boeing says, in retrospect, doing the contract
at all, and in particular, doing a fixed price contract,
he says, in hindsight, was a mistake. Well, probably so,
(27:03):
or at least not having an agreement that you know,
any changes upgrades or as technology changes, whatever it might be,
that you know, those costs we would be passed on
to the taxpayers. But that I can't help Bulling for
doing what you did. So Trump's now flying planes that
have been in the air since nineteen eighty seven. Now
(27:25):
that's not necessarily a bad thing. Lots of planes fly
for decades upon decades. They know, over time, they essentially
get rebuilt through you know, through the annuals and repairs
and you know, replacing equipment and everything. And Trump could
have burdened the American taxpayer with an emergency purchase of
(27:46):
some sort of stop gap jet, but he chose the
more physically conservative and responsible route. And that is okay, Well,
I can assuming that he still does, which he may
or may not. But everything seems to indicate that he
will accept a gift on behalf of the American people.
So again, there are many things that you can do
(28:07):
that are legal that maybe are or are not the
right thing to do. I'll leave that up to you.
I've got my own opinion about this, and I'll express
it in a minute. But I want to talk about
the legality of accepting this plane because it is clearly
authorized statutorily and it has a constitutional basis for it too.
(28:32):
So first the Statute ten US Code, section twenty six
oh one that authorizes the Secretary of Defense to accept gifts,
even including personal property, provided they are not designated for
a specific individual. In fact, the Secretary of Defense Pete
Hegseth postponed his scheduled diplomatic trip to Israel a week
(28:55):
I think it was a week ago in order to
remain available to accept the gift during Trump's visit to Cutter.
The jet in this particular case is being given to
the Air Force, not to Donald Trump. There is no
private enrichment going on here whatsoever. Now you can argue,
(29:16):
which I think fails. But you can make an argument.
But he will eventually get the plane because it will
go to his foundation that's doing the Presidential Library. When
he leaves office. I would argue that technically that is incorrect.
The plane never goes to the title to the plane
(29:39):
is never signed over to Donald J. Trump. It's signed
over to the Donald J. Trump, whatever the name of
the foundation is, that's putting together the eventual building of
his presidential library. But there's another statue, and that's the
Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act. That's at five You Code,
(30:00):
section seventy three forty two that provides congressional consent for
public officials to accept gifts on behalf of the United States,
so long as those gifts are not retained for personal use.
So the aircraft during its operational life would be used
exclusively for official government purposes. After that, it becomes technically
(30:21):
a part of a presidential library. Now why do I
say that that's important? Because presidential libraries, with the exception
of Barack Obama, all other libraries, our educational institutions, run
in conjunction with the National Archives and Records Administration NARA.
(30:44):
The chain of custody is public from the very first
transfer from the Cutter government to the US government. Again
from the US government to NARA, which is the US government.
That's the chain in a custody. So then people are, oh, well,
this is self enrichment. This is in violation of Article one,
(31:06):
section nine, the emolument's clause of the Constitution. As if
just stating that made it true. Well, that's not how
it works. That clause prohibits personal acceptance of gifts from
foreign states without congressional consent. So when a gift is
accepted by the US government and it's used in the
public interest, that falls outside the clause of scope. Legal
(31:30):
scholars across all ideological lines, liberal, conservative, right, left, however
you want to do it, including Jonathan Adler and past
opinions from the Office of Legal Counsel, affirm that interpretation,
when the gift is accepted by the US government, used
in the public interests, it is not part of or
not constrained by Article one, section nine. Oh well, he's
(31:54):
being bribed. This is all part of quid pro quo. No,
the bribery Statute's pretty clear. That's at eighteen US Code,
Section two one. In fact, that requires a quid pro quote.
What's a quid quote pro? A quid pro quote a
thing of value exchange for an official act. You give
(32:16):
me something, normally it's money in exchange for that although
a certain way, or I'll sign off on a particular
executive order, or I will do whatever. But there's no
such quid pro quote in this arrangement. There's no evidence,
even from the fevered imagination of all these critics that
(32:36):
are just screaming bloody murder about including a king Jeffries,
that any official act was offered in return. It's a
good will gesture. And I'll tell you this about foreign countries,
particularly the Middle East, this is their culture to give gifts.
(32:57):
I personally have been involved in those situations. I've even
told you about the gift before. I'll tell you about
it again.
Speaker 8 (33:05):
Trump's acceptance of a four hundred million dollar jet from
Katar is a blatant violation of the molument clause of
the US Constitution. It poses a huge security risk that
will be tremendously expensive to remedy. And on top of
all of this, Boeing is scheduled to deliver a new
Air Force one in twenty twenty seven. All of these
(33:26):
things add up to a huge bad decision by Trump.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Once again, a source, I disagree with you about the
delivery date, and I just cited you that it was
not a violation of the Emoluments Clause. So I'd like
to know, feel free to text me three three one
zero three and give me your source and your citation
(33:52):
for it being a violation of Article one, Section nine.
I mean, yeah, send it to me. I'm being serious.
If you're gonna call in and make those kinds of claims,
then tell me on the basis that you make those claims.
So let's do this when we get back, because I
want I want you to understand, not you, I want
(34:13):
everyone to understand the situation with the new aircraft because
and this has nothing to do with Donald Trump. This
has to do with once again, you know, we just
don't seem to be able to do anything. We can't
build anything. Everything is a costing more, taking longer, blah
blah blah blah blah. It's really absurd that's coming up now.
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