6-30-25 - 6am - The Polis Waste of Money Bridge

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael. The Republicans are spineless.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Omer and Jim George did nothing to Biden the whole
four years.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
They talked a big.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Game and did nothing.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
I get so fed up with the Republicans. I'll just
warn you right now. I'm in a mood.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
I'm in a realay yay yay.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
And even better, I'm not here because that was a
Metallica last night? Oh were you? How was that? It
was great? Was it good? Good? Anyway? So the the UH.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I spent an inordinate amount of time fiddy Saturday and
part of Sunday in and around Denver just meetings, dinners, lunches.
I just had a whole bunch of stuff to do,
and I ended up in Denver more than I expected
over the past seventy two hours. And during that time

(01:12):
it became obvious to me that I live in a
I know, mister Brown, master of the obvious, that I
live in a Democrat run crap hole city. And the
Democrat craphole city that I live in. It's not just
me that notices it. Other people are noticing it too.

(01:37):
It was it was kind of interesting because last night
I'm after kind of outlining what I wanted to talk
about today.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
This shows up in my ex timeline.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Now I cannot play the audio for you, but there's
a gentleman looks to be I don't know, in his
mid thirties, might be forty years old. Uh appears to
be at work. He's walking around what looks to be
like maybe like our basement dragon. I don't know what
it is. But Wall Street Apes wrote about wrote wrote

(02:14):
about what he says, wrote writes this. This man has
lived in Denver, Colorado, his whole life. He loves Denver.
He gives a real resident perspective on what's happened to Denver.
He just had a gun pulled on him while trying
to just take his dog on a walk. So he's
finally speaking up. And this is a quote Denver's becoming

(02:39):
a sad place to live.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Man.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yesterday there was a young Hispanic kid hung from a
tree in del Mar Park. Parentheses murder suicide. That is
mind blowing. Then another dude was attacked in the park
by a guy with a machete. And then I had
a nine millimeter pulled on me Sunday night trying to
go home, and that my dog app You're seeing so

(03:02):
much s word in this city. And it's so sad
because you know why, it's the politicians. It's the politicians
destroying Colorado from the inside out. And it's sad because
you literally cannot do anything. And then that Wall Street
Apes writes, there's another video I just literally watched before

(03:24):
I made this video.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Oh I'm sorry. This is the same guy talking.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
There's another video I just literally watched before I made
this video about some guy on a homeless dude kicking
around a bag of trash over by Wadsworth, just destroying
everything in a sight. It's like, sad what the city
has become. What I once loved as an amazing, beautiful city.
We used to preach, come to Colorado. It's beautiful, it's colorful,
it's mountains, venues, things to do, sports teams, good fans.

(03:52):
But it just seems to be turning into an s
whole of a city so fast and so quick. It's sad.
Man two thousand, six hundred comments on this video, share
a few. Denver's crime surge is a direct result of

(04:12):
failed leadership, prioritizing bureaucracy over safety. FBI data shows violent
crime here is one hundred and eighty one percent above
the national average with a one in fifteen chance of
being victimized, numbers of screen systemic collapse while residents face
machetes and guns on dogwalks. Politicians funnel fifty five million

(04:33):
dollars injurydundant quote community safety initiatives close quote that vanish
into administrative bloat instead of funding cops or prosecuting repeat offenders.
The city's probably crime rate is two hundred twenty eight
point nine percent higher than average, Yet DC keeps green
lighting bills like HR fifty one oh, which wastes millions

(04:56):
on crime prevention studies instead of just actually neighborhoods. When
cities decay this fast, it's not random, it's engineered neglect.
And in response to that, someone writes people in this
thread saying, quote, you voted for it, well in all caps,

(05:20):
not all of us did. There is zero election integrity
in Colorado. We're going to go to Orange County, California.
I mean, see something that Department of Justice is doing
which may give you some idea about what's going on
in Colorado. We have dominion and mail imbalance. Until elections
are fair, no one truly knows what is voted on here.

(05:44):
It's always the same, says the next person. New York City,
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Chicago.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Just take your pick.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Liberal policies are wrecking cities, destroying jobs, and taking lives.
Someone posts a meme you show me in America ghetto,
I'll show you a place where Democrats are in power.
A sanctuary city, writes Daniel on x is apparently not
a sanctuary for anyone who has lived there for decades,

(06:14):
contributed to their community, complied with the law, built anything,
a home of business, a life, and took pride in it.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
What's happened?

Speaker 3 (06:23):
Says nosis Wolf, What's happened to Denver's tragic? Several people
I know have similar stories, including one whose coworker got
carjacked in a formally nice neighborhood. Democrat votes get Democrat results,
is another way to say it. Wondering how Colorado's doing
all you need to do is all you need to
guess is and they point out to house build twenty five,

(06:47):
twelve thirteen or whatever the number was. Colorado house passes
semi automatic firearm band and it just goes on and
on and on. It's it's to me because while this
may not seem related.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
I think it's related in so many different ways.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Colorado Politics has a story. It was actually published last night,
but it's in today's print edition Colorada. The headline is
Colorado panel signs off on a pedestrian bridge project for
SA one hundred and fiftieth anniversary. It's a story about
that stupid pedestrian walkway that's going to link the Colorado

(07:33):
State capital to Lincoln Park. Well, it won approval on
an eight to eight to four vote last Thursday from
the General Assemblies the polit Bureaus Capital Building Advisory Committee.
They had testimony from neighboring groups, local residents opposed to

(07:56):
the project, as well as from supporters, including a group
advocating for people with disabilities. You know, just as I
saw and thought about, what that really means is the
advice that the Colorado Assembly's Capitol Building Advisory Committee is
a group of legislators and citizens. You know they're going

(08:18):
to do it. And even though it was an eight
to four vote, at least there were four dissenters, one
of whom is quoted in the story. I'll tell you
what they said in just a minute. But it's an
example of how this is. This is police's idea that
this is singularly Jared Polis's idea. Now, I maintain that

(08:41):
he's doing this as a monument for himself. It's not
and it's not really a pedestrian walkway, it's not a thoroughfare.
It's really just a monument. Nine News of.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
All places, Kyle Clark.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Of all people, is actually out there eviscerating this idea.
Nine News reports that the cost at currently estimated at
twenty nine million dollars twenty eight point five million dollars,
is already sixty percent higher than the original forecast. Under

(09:26):
the plan, the bridge would be completed in time for
Colorado's one hundred and fiftieth anniversary on August one, twenty
twenty six. Now, if Denver is in a crap hole
situation where crime is running amok, homelessness is out of control,
illegal aliens are getting all of these benefits. Illegal aliens are,

(09:49):
you know, bringing down standards inside schools. They're sucking up
all of the money that ought to be spent on, oh,
I don't know, cleaning graffiti off over passes, cleaning the
medians on the highways, fixing the highways, the potholesy expansion joints,
everything that needs to be done in Colorado. I was

(10:12):
coming down Broadway late yesterday and there's construction going on there,
and then I hit twenty five and I'm coming back
down through the Tech Center headed back to the house.
And I'd never really thought about it until because it
wasn't much traffic yesterday, so I forget where exactly where
it is. It's somewhere between Bellevue and say maybe Orchard.

(10:38):
Certainly app wrote a rap hose somewhere between Bellevue and
a rapa hole southbound. You may remember it's been at
least five years ago, probably longer because I can flate time.
We had a tanker truck. Were you and I together
at that time dragging when the tranker truck exploded over
here on twenty five? Do you remember that at all?

Speaker 1 (10:59):
I remember, but I don't know if we were working together.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
I know it seems like maybe i've been. I was
doing afternoon drive at the time or something. But tanker
truck hits the media and explodes, shuts down traffic. There's
a big fireball that burns that, you know, destroys the
pavement and anyway, in one of the middle lanes in
that area where the trucker I'd not forget whether he
died or survived, I don't know, but it was it

(11:22):
was a terrible accident really, you know, really destroyed the highway.
Rather than fixing, rather than repairing, there was a hole
in the interstate, they just they just threw some assphalt
in it. Well, of course, because you know, the highway's
concrete down here. The the what the t Rex project

(11:48):
as they called it, well that was actually a little
further up north, but down through his t Rex too.
Rather than taking the time, the energy, the resources to
actually repair the high way, they just filled it in
with asphalt. Then, of course, with the freezing and the
thawing and the raining and the hot and the heat
and everything else, that asphalt and the weight of all

(12:09):
the trucks and everything else.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
It's beginning to give way. And it's just and.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
It's right in the middle of the lane, so you
don't always hit it, but if you're changing lanes or anything,
you're going to hit that in kaboom. You know, it's
not yet, it's not quite yet to the stage where
it's going to destroy you know, your car, but it's
certainly going to wake you up. You know, if you're
driving along and you know you're listening to me drone
on and bitch about stuff, it's going to wake you
up and realize, oh yeah, oh yeah, I know what

(12:34):
he's talking about. Now, we could have fixed that, but
we chose to take the cheap way out. Now, what
does that have to do with this monument. The project's
initial funding comes from the American Rescue Plan Act, dollars

(12:56):
that are still sitting in the Governor's office.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Now.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
We're now a couple of years out from COVID, and
the American Rescue Plan was part of all of the
COVID money. And I remember the American Rescue Plan in
particular because it didn't come with any strings. It was
just checks from the Treasury going to state governments. There

(13:23):
was a consulting firm that had called me and asked
me about some things going on in Colorado, and we
did a little bit of work together. And they won't
know if I wanted to do some consulting with them,
and I said no. And the reason I didn't is
because this money is and I now believe, particularly with

(13:44):
the somewhat the semi demise of DOGE, that these trillions
of dollars in the American Rescue Plan will continue to
be wasted on stuff like a so called pedestrian bridge,
which by the way, is not really a pedestrian bridge,
rather than doing true infrastructure repair.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Now.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
History Colorado in its review of the project, there's not
very many people for this. History Colorado noted that the
walkway is not really intended as a pedestrian thoroughfare. But
when we first talked about this, we all laughed because

(14:28):
that was precisely what it was described as a pedestrian
walkway from the State Capitol Building to Lincoln Park. And
remember it's supposed to have this kind of s curve
going around so that you could, you know, it would
be a place for people to contemplate, people to stop
and enjoy the weather, you know, kind of be above
ground and see everything. And I said, no, it's going

(14:50):
to turn into a craphole place where homeless and drug us.
There's going to be you know, people just like like
down below and spear you know, along the along Cherry
Creek you're gonna see I mean, you'll have a few
bike riders, but the bikers are trying to avoid the
homeless people, the drug addicts, the you know what the
crime whatever is going down along Cherry Creek A long spear.

(15:13):
That's just gonna give one more location for that kind
of stuff.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
History Colorado.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Says that instead of being a pedestrian thoroughfare, it is
primarily envisioned as a monument, not a pedestrian bridge. We
feel that this distinction is important. As a monument, the
walkway adds to the long tradition of using Civic Center
to celebrate Colorado and American history through the creation, erection,

(15:43):
and display of artwork, statuary, memorials, and monuments, according to
History Colorado. But they're opposed to it, History Denver, the
Capitol Hill United Neighborhood, local residents. Now it has drawn
support from I don't know why, but the Colorado Cross
Disability Coalition. Julie Johnson, until recently the chair of the

(16:06):
Denver Landmark Commission, said that while she thinks the design
is beautiful, it is not appropriate. It will affect what
people can see and could over time lead to rendering
the Civic Center area unrecognizable. The twenty eight point five
million construction cost does not appear to cover any maintenance costs.

(16:27):
Who will pay for that? Very good questions The group
also raised safety concerns, including dangers to pedestrians, motorists, or
anyone who might use the bridge as a shelter. Who
could have imagined that putting a bridge at Colfax in
Broadway is not a practice or efficient route, and one

(16:51):
that won't be used in inclement weather, said one critic.
Brad Cameron, president of Neighbors for Greater Capitol Hills, said
f for a recent presentation in the Governor's office and
the design team that his.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Group voted thirty to two to oppose the walkway.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
The bridge will add unnecessary and disruptive visual clutters of
the beautiful and storic green park space of the Capitol,
the Lincoln Veterans Park, and the entire civic center, eeric.
Cameron said, it will also detract from the main purpose
of Veterans Park, and it's expensive at a time when
the state and its citizens face much more important issues,

(17:29):
adding that there's been little meaningful public outreach and is rushed.
Cameron equipped it will, however, make a great skateboard ramp.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
We spend money on all the.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
Wrong things, and we spend money like drunk and salor,
and I think that maybe not you and I but
or maybe we are. But the public who votes for
the not these things like the bridge, the votes for deportation,

(18:04):
votes to cut spending. Oftentimes the ones that screamed the loudest.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
East to Cheyenne, there was a bad wreck and a fire.
It took the DOT in Cheyenne about two weeks to
cut out the part of I eighty that was charred
and replace it with ball brand new material.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
States are different.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
States are different. How it's I've heard all excuses that
you can possibly imagine about, like why this one particular
spot hasn't been fixed. One, they don't like to work
at night. They don't have any contractors that they have
contracts with that will do night work that costs extra.

(18:58):
But they would rather disrupt traffic and you know, spend
you know, during rush hour than they would you know,
putting the lights up and making the repair at night.
In Wyoming, my guess is they don't spend because you

(19:19):
don't have the well.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Other than Jackson Hole.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
But Jackson Hole is is a microcosm, and it's it's
not even a microcosm of Denver. Jackson hole' is more
the equivalent of an aspen. The problem with Denver is.
It's geographically diverse, it is demographically diverse. It is everything

(19:51):
diverse except in its politics, and its politics is decidedly
Democrat and has been now for decades. And decades of
Democrat politics result in money. The taxpayers, money, hard earned
money that people are struggling themselves to get by, are

(20:13):
now getting pillaged from their paychecks so that they can
have that money go to spend on let's say, school
administrators as opposed to school teachers, or spending on pedestrian
bridges which really aren't pedestrian bridges, so that the governor's
got some monument to himself so he can hold a big,

(20:36):
you know, hullabaloo of a ribbon cutting and an opening
ceremony while he celebrates and keeps himself in the news
while he figures out what he's going to do for
his next iteration of his political life, which I'm sure
you know is probably not president, but it's still too
early to judge that. I know, he still has the aspirations,

(20:58):
but you know, maybe VP or maybe will become the
you know, the Secretary of the Interior or something. We
spend the money on the wrong things, We have the
wrong priorities and then when we elect someone like Donald
Trump who starts trying to turn things around and starts
doing things like, you know, deporting people, then everybody gets
all upset because well we you know, everybody claims, oh,

(21:20):
we want illegal aliens deported from the country. Okay, So
Trump knows I've got to start with the worst of
the worst, because he knows intuitively that if we really
start doing what Dwight Eisenhower did in Operation Wetback, and
we really do start deporting just illegal aliens, we don't

(21:41):
care that we whether you've been here six months or
six years, you're here illegally. We're going to deport you
back to your to your home country. Then, because of
the whole birthright citizenship issue, which I went to address
in a minute, then people start going, oh no, no, no, no, no.
That's that's because the media, the cabal will talk, will
show you, Oh look, look, there's a crying mother. There's

(22:04):
a crying mother who's been here for thirty years. She's
never learned to speak English, she's never held a job.
All she's done is me is and I don't meet all.
But she's just been a housewife, a homemaker, a mother.
And that's all she's ever done. She's not really done
anything else now and never learned English, so she's never

(22:24):
assimilated into the culture. And now we want to send
her back and people say, oh, no, you can't do that.
I guess I'm just a cold hearted bastard, but I
really believe that if you're here illegally in the country,
then everybody is subject to deportation. Now that's true, interestingly
in most every other country in the world, unless you

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claim some sort of refugee status and you're trying to
get from you know, you're trying to get from somewhere
in the Middle East or Africa, and you're going through
Greece or Italy, making your way through France and Germany
and eventually trying to make make your way to the
United Kingdom because the United Kingdom has such a huge
social safety net that you can live there forever. Look
at what's happened to London. London stand now, it's not London,

(23:09):
it's London Stan. And we got the same thing going
on in New York. With the potential, not necessarily that
he will win, but the potential for Zaran Mundani to
become the first outwardly communist mayor. You know, I thought
Bill de Blasio was bad. Bill de Blasio is a
horrible mayor of New York City. Zoran Mundami is going

(23:33):
to make it look even worse. And what's happening is
we're seeing the results of decades and decades and decades
of really lousy public education, not teaching youngsters history, Civics, government,
the things that they need to understand about what it

(23:54):
takes and how we live in this social compact that
we have that's called a constitutional republic. And what they
believe is socialism is entirely different from what we believe
is socialism. Why because they've been taught that. Well, the
problem with socialism is we've just never had the right

(24:15):
people running it, and we need to get the right
people running it. And this new generation like Zoron Mandani
is the kind of new person will come in and.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
Do it right.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Which is the same bull crap that gets pushed every
single time that somebody tries socialism or communism. It simply
doesn't work. And then you have problems like communists China
where they see these gleaming cities like Shanghai or Hong Kong,

(24:53):
but they don't see anything other than the shiny city.
They don't see the government control. They don't see how
you can't do anything without approval from the government. And
if you do anything that crosses them, even the most
minor things jaywalking. Jaywalking in China can get a ding

(25:16):
on your social score, which might prevent you from getting
an airline ticket, or a bus ticket, or even getting
in a cab or an uber. That's the extent of
the control of the Chinese Communist Party. And as we
approach the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding
of Sunday, the Declaration of Independence, and we're saying no Kings.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
You're late to the party. Yahoos.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
We said no Kings two hundred and forty nine years ago,
this coming Friday. As we get closer and closer to that,
you realize that from oh, I would say again going
back to Woodrow Will but really kind of catching speed
through the sixties and the seventies, and then he gets

(26:06):
really an overdrive with Barack Obama, and then the third
term of Barack Obama, which we just came out of,
also known as the Biden administration, has just pushed that
to the hilt. And now that Trump's come along, And
I think one thing we have to realize about Trump
is he's a man on a mission. He knows he

(26:26):
has a limited amount of time, whether that's because of
his lifespan or they're out to kill him, or he
knows he's only got, you know what, three and a
half years left now that he's got to get busy
and get things done. So push, push, push, get everything
that I can done done. And when we see that,
I you know, I don't have a problem with it.

(26:49):
But Americans have become so soft that we do have
a problem that many people do have a problem with it.
And the Cabald has become so intertwined into our everyday
lives that whatever they feed us, we tend to believe.
So I bet if if I ask twenty of you

(27:11):
about this so called you know, one big beautiful bill,
the OBBB, that would have thirty twenty people who have
thirty different stories. Because everybody say, well, I've heard this,
and I've heard that, and all of them are probably
right because you probably have heard that, and you've heard this,
and you've heard everything else about it. You know it's

(27:31):
going to destroy Medicare and Medicaid. No, it's not going
to reduce people's benefits, it's actually taking illegal aliens off
that system so that we're no longer spending money that
we don't need to spend on people who are not
citizens to this country. It's just freaking unbelievable to me

(27:52):
how naive we are about what's going on around us.
And I shouldn't be naive about it, but I guess
I'm just disappointed that when I look around and I
know it's a giant leap from a stupid walkway on
the state Capitol grounds to Lincoln Park, but when you

(28:15):
realize that that is a microcosm of all the stupid
things that we do in this state. Whatever that amount is,
I don't care whether it's the twenty nine million dollars
and that's the latest estimate. So we've already paid somebody
to do the design. I forget what the name of
the outfit was. They had some funky little name. We've

(28:35):
already paid them to do the design work on it.
They'll get more work because the design will change over
time as all these different groups have their input, and
we'll spend let's just say we end up spending fifty
million dollars on it, which is probably a conservative estimate.
What else could you do with fifty million dollars? A

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lot of road repair, You could hire more cops, hire
more firefighters, you could clean up this city. You could
do any number of things with fifty million dollars. But
instead we're going to build a monument to Jared Polus
or Hill came home. It's not for me, No, it
is for you, and you know that it is, so
don't lie to us about that either. It's just one

(29:19):
of those frustrating mornings having spent you know, and I
would encourage you to do this too when you're when
you're in Denver, we tend to because we're driving, or
we're you know, we're thinking about a meeting we're going
to or got to meet with a client or whatever
it is. But take a and make a conscious effort

(29:43):
to look closely, look down, look around, observe, and just
think about what you see when you're in Denver. It's
not the Denver that I remember, even from Hill's Bells
twenty years ago, let alone thirty forty or fifty years ago.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
Like there are pedestrian and bike underpasses and things like that,
and for collins that are routinely closed because of homeless
people taking up residence there. It's a good place for shelter. Well,
I can see this monumental waste of money in Denver
being coming the same thing, and they're going to have

(30:27):
a problem.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
Well no, because you see they've they've assured us that
they will not allow that to happen. Yeah, you threughly
things gonna happen on their doorstep because it's right in
their backyard.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
They can see it from their office window.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
I guarandemn to you will happen even if they can't
see it. Yeah, So what will happen is they'll just
close it off. So we'll have we'll have a concrete structure,
you know, as a light through there, and nothing will change.
So I just looked up at CNN and they're all
on Saturday. I talked about how the court's decision about

(31:04):
the nationwide injunctions is very well reasoned and it's grounded
in in the law, a sixty three decision. Well, CNN
is panicked about it, so is MSNBC. MSNBC is so
I mean, you know, they squawk about threats to democracy,

(31:29):
and then when democracy so to speak, is upheld, they
squawk about that too.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
We do you agree? I completely agree with this.

Speaker 5 (31:39):
I want to go back to what Andrew was saying
about the silver linings. I don't think there are silver
linings here. And I want to be very clear with
the viewers at home. This is a really grave situation.
This Court has effectively taken the restraints off of this administration.
We don't have a Congress that is stepping in to
reign in this administration. All we've had our lower court

(32:01):
judges who are looking at the lawlessness of this administration saying,
not on my watch imposing these nationwide injunctions to stop
the damage in its tracks. And this Court has now
said that limited tool, that limited judicial remedy, goes too far,
and instead, what individual litigans are going to have to
do is go to every district in this country to

(32:23):
litigate to stop the administration in its tract or somehow
find at a time when the administration has made the
availability of lawyers' fears, find a lawyer who is willing
to take on the challenge of mounting a class action
to go and challenge this administration. This Court has made
it absolutely impossible to try and stop the worst of

(32:47):
what the administration is doing so, there really aren't silver linings. Yes,
there are some litigants now who have amended their complaints
and filed class actions, but the idea that we are
going to do this for everything is really just unfathomable.
It's not just birthright citizenship that is at state. These
nationwide injunctions have been used across the board. To stop

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this administration from firing federal workers, to stop this administration
from rescinding funding from research institutions and universities. All of
that ends now the gloves are off. There are no restraints,
no checks on this administration.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
We are in that interesting, she says, now there are
no restraints, no checks. Yet she freely admits that some
of the ledigans have already kind of reformed and are
now looking at class action lawsuits. So oh, so there
is a remedy. You just don't like the remedy. You
like the fact that now you have to actually do

(33:46):
what the rest of the country has to do. And
by the way, Soldomayor, who wrote the dissent, said just
the opposite earlier. You'll hear that. And then let's talk
about birth like citizenship.