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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Why the horse crossed the road to get to day birdhood.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Absolute child abuse and that wasn't at least it didn't
come from you didn't.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Jump in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Well, it's too early. I mean that would be child
abuse if you had dropped that.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Or something there.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's sad. And you know, just get
the number we'll call Child Protective Services and turtle Man
and the way. Yeah good. Uh. Two things I mentioned yesterday,
we had a conversation about dairy queen food. Well that
carried over into the text messages all frigging.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Night long nice.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
And then I woke up this morning to an email
from someone who said, oh, yeah, chicken strips, white gravy,
and you dipped the chicken strips, the Texas toast, and
the French fries into the white gravy and that's a
gourmet meal. Huh.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I did mention that to missus Redbeard yesterday too, before bed,
and she's like, I have never once ever thought to
go to dairy queed for real food for non ice cream,
but we may have to now.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But we may have to see. In fact, I may
do that today. I might do it today. I got
a couple of things I gotta do after the program,
and so before I run home, I may just find
the you know, plug into my maps, you know, my
ways or whatever, the nearest dairy queen. And well, apparently
you need dairy queen that serves food.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I think it was like grill and chill or something
that's that.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And that's what I'm gonna do. I think I'll just
go grill and chill at lunch today, just you know,
it's Friday, grill and chill. Uh. So I also mentioned
that I thought, and you looked at me like cross eyed,
like I was crazy, like you normally do every day.
And so I pulled into the quick trip, walked in
and got my diet coke, and then I walked around
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and I realized then that behind that little center part
where the cashiers are, there's there's a giant menu and
I just scanned it real quickly. But there's all kinds
of sandwiches and subs and pizzas and all sorts of
things on the menu that's all fresh cooked back there
in a kitchen. Now, they do have the typical roller food,
like I could have gotten a roller dog this morning.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Gizzards like the South Dakota guy. He liked the gas
station gizzards.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I didn't, you know, I didn't. I don't recall the
word gizzards on the menu. I think that might have
stuck out, But I I was looking more like at categories,
you know, like sandwiches and pizza and those things. But
uh no, I but I did notice the roller food
and there was a corn dog and it was kind
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of tempting.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
At four o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
No, it was, well only in the sense that I
thought today, is it dairy Queen? Is at mister Mustard?
Which isn't. Then I've come in and now I say
he left them open, as if it's a big secret.
It's not.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You know, the you can still get to the khow text.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Line I can see because I still have the passwords,
so I can still look these up anyway. But Dan
left the text line open from last night and he
apparently hit a nerve yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, was it dairy Queen?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
It is? Strangely, it is not dairy Queen, but it
is something that I happen to see something on the
news last night that irritates me too. Oh and that
is and I still don't there's lane splitting, and there's
lane filtering, right, yes, and can you tell me which
to switch?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Lane filtering is when you're stopped so the motorcycles can
go between these.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
So the cars have to be stopped, correct Now? Is
that stopped at a stop light or stop sign? Or
does that stop because a rush hour, a backup or
wreck or.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Is it just a part of the rule is stop lights?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Okay? But what about if it's if you've come to
a complete stop because of an accident on the twenty
five or the seventy, or because rush hour is just
stop and go and you stop and you sit there
for you know, thirty seconds.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I'm gonna touch hazy on that one. But I would
I would if I were a motorcycle rider, I would
not do that on the highway. I would only do
the lane filtering at stop lights.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Okay, so that's lane filtering, correct stop. What is lane splitting?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Lane splitting is? Yeah, you're on the highway going sixty
five the motorcycle go between the two cars, which is sounds.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Totally it's insane, yes, totally insane. So on the New
so On, I assume again it was KDVR because that's
what I tend to watch. KDVR had a story I'm
not sure what you know, suburban area, but they were
chasing a one of their tag readers had caught somebody
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with a stolen motorcycle.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
So they started staring Colorado.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I know, it's shocking, shocking that there's crime in.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Colorado, stolen vehicles, stolen motorcycle, right.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's amazing. So they get up to you know, one
hundred and fifty miles an hour whatever, and they they
pull off, or they don't pull off, they pulled back
because now they realize that, well, it's dangerous for us
to be chasing a motorcycle going one hundred and fifty
miles an hour. So they put a drone in the air,
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and my first thought was they're watching the drone, the
drone's watching them.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
They do eventually catch the guy and he had surprise, surprise,
he had a stolen motorcycle, he had stolen goods, and
he had like five or six felony warrants. I'm shocked,
I know. But as I'm watching the drone, I'm thinking,
this is why I hate these lane filtering and l
and splitting, because it doesn't have to be a fleeing felon.
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It's when I was coming back from you know, New
Maico last Sunday. The same thing happens all up and
down night twenty.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Five, real quick from a text message zero four seven seven.
Mike dairy queen in Lovelin has been named the best
dairy queen in the country for about six years now.
And lane filtering can be done when traffic is below
fifteen miles per hour.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
So I have my mirrors. There is you can find
all sorts of youtubes or guides on how to do this,
but most people don't know how to set their rear
view mirrors to actually be able to eliminate your blind spots.
So I have mindset that way. And if Tamra ever
gets in the car, it drives her crazy because she's
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just accustomed to the typical Hey, can I just kind
of see, you know, kind of down the side of
the car. And you don't know how to use the
overhead versus the rear and the rear view together to
eliminate your blind spot. Even though I can eliminate my
blind spot, technically you're not eliminating your blind spot. You're
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able to check your rear view mirror and look for
cars and then immediately look at your side view mirror
and see if there's been anything in that millisecond of
the blind spot really still does exist. I now catch
myself more often than not if I've seen motorcycles on
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the highway, nervous about making that lane change, even though
I'm perfectly right to do so, because some a hole
is going to be going to your point one hundred
and fifty miles an hour between traffic on the interstate
and boom, I pull over it. Yeah, which is illegal,
but you know, get a really damn good trial lawyer.
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Let's hope that capitals would be on my side and
not their side. And guess what some jury are going
to go, Well, you know, poor motorcycle, it was just
it was just you only weighs ten pounds in your
car weighs you know, thirty thousand pounds, and so it's
your fault. Well, let's see, dan, two sets of rules.
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One road. All filtering has done is legalized drag racing
at stop lights. For the bikers. It's essential they drag
race away from the lights to get ahead of cars.
Why is that Okay? I make the same argument about bicycles.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Arguably, though a motorcycle can get off the line much
faster than almost any vehicle, So yes.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I agree, And they pull in between cars and then
they go zooming through.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Correct then they have to go faster to get in
front of you to get into the real.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Way, which in of itself is dangerous because, for example,
it was one day this week at five in the morning,
I'm running a little late. It's five in the morning,
and at my at my main intersection, I get onto
University as a red light. Now, normally it's it's got censors,
so it almost immediately turns red when I pull up.
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But for whatever reason that morning it had it didn't
instantly turn red, but it turned green. I started into
the intersection, and a cargoes blowing through the red light,
so it had to be red for the other traffic
right for at least one Mississippi two.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Second, probably three seconds. I think it's like two two
and a half seconds that they are all red. I
think there's.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
There's certainly two or three seconds, right, but boom went
blowing right through it.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Were just anyway, Uh, let's see about the lane filtering
stuff too. If you've got like five six eight motorcycles
in those in that lane right between you. It's like
they're all going to zoom up really quickly and getting it.
It's just it just doesn't seem smart to me. I'm
not a mostshycleist. I've never I don't have a motorcycle license.
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I've I've been on a path singer as a motorcycle.
But I just I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yeah, yeah, let's see. I like this one, Dan, lane
splitting and no helmet law. Dumb coloradins, well, really dumb
pollup bureau that passes those laws, and then the useful
idiots that then participate in those laws. And somehow they
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went from lane splitting to sex without a condom, which
I guess is really kind of the same thing when
you think about it.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Okay, now, both can be pretty dangerous.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Both can be pretty dangerous, and you know, sometimes you know,
you you you take off too fast, you know, you
take off.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
The you know, and somebody's gonna get hurt.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Somebody's gonna get hurt. But uh, one goober wrote Dan funny,
how the will to not whear a condom is more
powerful than the will to not want to go to
all for an abortion okay, uh, Dan, Why must a
woman have sex without a condom constantly? And why do
men want to be in Oh? I can't, I just can't. Careful, Well,
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you know it's it's Dan Dan Ryan's text line. Let's see,
now this is pretty this is fairly insightful. Dan. The lanes,
the late the lane splitting issue has not changed. The
crazies have been doing it for years and will continue
to do it. It is illegal and carries a great risk.
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It is self regulating as the practitioners die or become disabled.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I would say it's much more prevalent now than it
has been because the.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Passed yes, and then I can't. I didn't know this,
but I guess Dan has magical powers. Dan, yes, reverse
the insane motorcycle lane filtering law.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
All right, he'll get Dan laws for us. Do the
do the bewitched twinkle or do the I dream of
Jeenie had Nut and make it happen Dad, Right, I mean.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Just here, why why even have an election for governor?
Just just we'll just have Dan bee that we we
can eliminate the position of governor and just have capitalists
be just hey, you know, this is what we want
and it'll all be determined by Goober's on my program
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and his program, and then he'll just do the twinkle
twinkle with his nose or you know whatever it is,
or rub the genie bottle or whatever, and that would
be the law. We eliminate the governor with him with
the pulp Bureau. We don't have a king. We don't
have king capitalists. We'll just have you know, magic capitalists.
How about that. Let's see then. I've seen on several
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occasions where the motorcyclist splits filters to the front of
the line of stop traffic and sits in the and
sits in the crosswalk. That can't be right unless pads
are supposed to yield to them as well. What a
screwball law, of course, I think this might be our
listener right here, Dan, Until the law is overturned, I
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will continue blowing my hornet motorcycle splitting lanes.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yeah, there you go, that's one of us.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Got that's gotta be one of ours. I can also
I'm obviously I'm not giving out numbers, Dan. I can
also just open my door before a bike passes.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Even that it causes damage to your car. I don't
I don't want purposeful damage done to my car in
this kind of situation.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Let's see, Dan, I rode my I rode my motorcycle
down to the show last week. I wonder who this is.
I was the only I was the only motorcycle that
I encountered that I did not illegally lane split. The
lane filtering thing is a joke, and nobody even knows
what it means. Like I have to have you explain
it to me every single time because I just I
just when I don't care. So it's not something I'm
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gonna I'm even going to attempt to retain. Because I'm
co dependent upon you. I know that if I really
need to understand it, well, I don't really need to
understand it, because you're my encyclopedia. I can just you're
my law book. I can just open you up and
just say explain that to me again, Red Beard.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Same thing with the Excel Energy Time of Youth smart
meter building.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Oh yes, yes, which, by the way, I looked at
my last bill for last month. I still am actually
saving some money having left it on time of use.
There you go. Now I'm concerned because Cammer's planning not
to go to work next year, and she doesn't go
to work next year, may not work so much afternoon. Yeah,
it may not work for me. And I haven't had
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the conversation with her about babe, could you do all
of the stuff in the mornings, you know, while you're here.
Let's see. Then he gets into Epstein, So let's see
anything else there. No, I guess that's it. Okay, So
let's move on to the other part of the program there.
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I don't dwell a lot on local politics. I don't
know how many of you know, but when I was
in law school, I served on the I served on
the law on the law school. I served on the
city council in Edmund, Oklahoma. It was just one of
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my professors had encouraged me to do it, and he
was like, yeah, you know, come on, you can do this.
You can go to law school and be on the
city council. Well yeah, I mean I could, But I mean, married,
raising a kid and going to law school and also
serving on a city council. It was it is a
pretty damn busy time. But the thing that amazed me
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about being on the city council and Edmund at the
time Edmund was and may still be. I don't know,
but that at that time, Edmund was the fastest growing
city in Oklahoma. We were approving new subdivisions. Like I mean,
it seems to me like there were, you know, every
week or every two weeks that we have a city
council meeting, there must have been, you know, twenty new
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subdivisions that were being built. I mean, it was just
everybody was moving out of Oklahoma City. Everybody but that
was moving into Oklahoma from Dallas and other places. It
was just it was just a crazy time to be
on a city council. But we had and we always
did this. We had the typical public comment period, you
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know that was on the agenda. For citizens who had
anything they wanted to talk about, they could you know,
come up to the podium and the microphone and they
could talk about it. Now, we did have a time
limit on it that it was you know, maybe it
was two minutes, three minutes, four minutes, I don't remember
what it was, but there was some time limit, but
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there was not a number limit. So if one hundred
people showed up who wanted to talk about something, we stayed.
And there were times when city council meetings would go
until one o'clock, maybe sometimes two o'clock. I just remember that.
I kept thinking to myself, Oh my god, I've got
to get up. I've got con law class, you know,
at eight am, and I got to do this. But
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we let people speak, and we also let people speak.
When there was a subdivision that was going in in
an area that was still predominantly rule, we would let
people in that area that were affected by the proposed subdivision,
we would give them comment periods. Also. Now, again there
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was a time limit. But if you know, if there
were twenty five farmers in the area that wanted to
object or approve or ask questions about that particular subdivision,
we allow them to do that. Now why would we
do that Why? Oh, because we were elected to represent
those people. We were elected to hear them out. Now.
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That's back in the dark ages before the Internet. That's
back in the dark ages before or even I mean, frankly,
I'm trying to think that was probably even before email.
So there wasn't an ability of people to text you
or email you, or to submit you know, online comments
or whatever. It was in person. Everything was in person.
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You think about today, I mean, you can submit all
sorts of comments and in terms of rule making or
ordinances or anything else that, by damn, we showed up
and we let people speak. I made two comments, I think,
one time on air and one time on the Michael
Brown Minute. My objection to home rule in Douglas County. Well,
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plane splitters and no helmet laws are great for the
transplant community. To say it, and in what way would
you claim that they are great for the transplant organ
organ Oh, for the Oregon strader. I'm thinking more of
transplants like from.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
California, right, people coming to color No, no, no, that
that's yeah, that's sick, very helpful.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Very very funny, but very sick. So let's go to
Douglass County, Colorado for a minute, my home county. What's
the role of a county commissioner. The role of the
county commissioner is to manage the county. You you've got
the sheriff, you've got public works, you've got roads, bridges
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and highways. You might have a water district in your county.
You have all of these things and county commission Being
a county commissioner is your job. That's your job. It's
it's not it's not like when I was on a
city council in Edmund where that was a part time job,
where you know, I didn't spend eight hours or twelve
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or fifteen hours a day doing city council business. I
showed up during county meetings. I might show up for
you know, extra budget sessions or something. But it wasn't
a forty hour a week job or even a sixty
hour a week job. It was a part time job.
A county commissioner, however, is a full time job. It's
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like sheriff, you get elected sheriff, it's a full time job.
You don't work, you know, an hour here, an hour there.
You work you know, eight hours or more every single
day of the week. The fact that it's a full
time job means that when you have a board of
county commissioners meeting, you have, in my opinion, you have
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both a moral and a political responsibility to listen to
your constituents. And if you're if your constituents have a
real bugaboo about something and a thousand of them show up,
I think it's reasonable to say you each have sixty seconds,
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or you have two minutes or three minutes, and we
will be here until we can get as many and
if we can't, you know, if we have to go,
if we start at eight o'clock in the morning and
we go until five o'clock at night, well that's a
typical workday for most of us shlubs out there, and
that's what we're gonna do. And if we have to
go longer than that, we will do that because you
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elected us, and we represent you, and your effing job
is to listen to what your constituents have to say.
These these people that run for county commissioner and then
don't want to hear from the constituents can go pound
sand as far as I'm concerned. So I'm doing show
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prep over the past couple of days, and lo and behold,
I run across a description about I can't today say
it's the most recent, because there may have been a
Douglas County Commissioner's meeting since this was discussed. But the
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meeting describes the see if you go to the YouTube
portion of the meeting, which I don't think includes everything
because they don't want to spend much time. I think
it was maybe an hour in fifty six minutes, maybe
maybe an hour. Let's just say almost two hours, but
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during that time there was very little input from citizens.
But the input from citizens that was done at this
Douglas County commission meeting was really kind of condescending, not
on the part of the citizens, on the part of
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the commissioners. And I've kind of reached the point where
I haven't crossed this rubicon yet, but I'm pretty close
to taking on the Douglas County Commissioners and having the
entire slate replaced. Now, I know the Republican, but I'll
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give a rats ass about a Republican. I give a
rats ass about representing your county and representing the values. Now,
I let me just say right up front, a very
in all caps caveat here, I'm worried about Douglas County.
I'm worried about Douglas County because a county that I
chose to live in because it was predominantly, very predominantly conservative,
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is losing its conservatism. And the commissioners seem to be
more concerned about self aggrandizement than they are about actually
serving the people in the community. And one of those
examples of their self aggrandizement is their pushing of home
rule in Douglas County, which I didn't spend a lot
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of time on. I think I did one Michael Brown
minute opposing it, maybe two, and I did maybe one
or two segments talking about how it was really a
stupid idea, that idea was rejected like by you know,
three three quarters or so. I mean actual number was
seventy one percent. Let's just call it three quarters. Three
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quarters of those who voted rejected the idea of home rule.
And the other thing that really bugged me about the
whole home rule was the sleight of hand that was
used to try to push home rule in Douglas County. Well,
you know, we can take on things like illegal immigration. No,
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you cannot, and don't play on people's ignorance or their
their anger about illegal immigration to try to push something
that's simply going to consolidate more power in your hand.
Or gun control. You know, the the unstated thing about
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gun control was, oh, well, you know we can, we
can kind of circumvent state law. No, you cannot. We
We have a we have two counties where home rule
it exists in Colorado, and you can go to either
one of those counties and you can and you can
learn that home rule is really not that great of
a deal.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
You.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
We have in Colorado, as in most states, we have
elected county commissioners who get paid a full time salary
to do a full time job, and that's what I
expect you to do. During the debate, during the campaign
for home rule, George Teal, George Teal came out and
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claimed on a competitive radio station with someone who a
host that I know is actually I think a good guy,
and claimed that the Chinese Communist Party was somehow involved
in opposing home rule. Now, that's prima facia absurd. It
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is absolutely absurd to think that the Chinese Communist Party
that I happen to know quite a bit about because
of my background. In fact, I would challenge any of
those commissioners that I know more about the Chinese Communist
Party and have more intel about the Chinese Communist Party
than you ever dreamed about having. I doubt that any
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of those commissioners have ever had the clearances that I've
had that have given me access and briefings on the
threat that China is to this country. But when you
accuse an individual of somehow being either a part of
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or a conduit for the Chinese Communist Party to oppose something.
You've crossed the line that's led me to find.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Dragon.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
It's been what maybe a few weeks a month at
the most since I played a SoundBite from of all people,
Kyle Clark, where he and I happened to agree on something. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I think it was a bridge, right.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yes, that's right, it was the It was the bridge
to nowhere that Jared Polis wants to do. So, yeah,
it's it's been within the last two weeks. Well, let
me take a deep breath. I would encourage all of
you to take a deep breath, because Kyle Clark did
a piece on July ninth, two days ago. I didn't
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do this yesterday because I wanted to dig deeper into
what was said at this County commissioner meeting. But here's
Kyle Clark. This was published at seven fifty seven pm
on July ninth. I assume this was published after he
did his next show or whatever he calls that. Kyle,
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there's no romance going on here, so don't get any ideas.
But for you and I to agree on something two
times within the span of less than a month, we
must be very near the end of civilization and why
am I not?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Oh, it's on the It's a double cliqu there, Michael, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
A double clique. I'm just practicing for later in the day.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
Becaus County's Republican commissioners are pushing back on calls to
apologize after a commissioner claimed that a local progressive group
led by an Asian American woman was actually the Chinese
Communist Party meddling in their county politics.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Well, good afternoon, everyone, was in fact a good afternoon
for Douglas County's Republican commissioners, fresh off seventy one percent
of voters rejecting their bid for more power through a
home rule resolution, and Commissioner George Teel claiming the opposition
group was funded by the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
Commissioner teal a falsely linked Asian American oncologist doctor Ko
Brownie to the Chinese Communist Party. Not only is that racist, xenophobic, baseless,
it's also showly harmful on this board, especially Commissioner Tale
owes her an apology.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
No apology was coming, but more public comments were the.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Fact that one of you decided to.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Blatantly lie about doctor Aco Browning makes me nauseous.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
Commissioner Teal has not presented any evidence of his claim
about Chinese communist medaling in local politics. The cancer doctor
in the community that he targeted with that smear told
us this last month.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I am of Japanese heritage. You know that's not the
same as China though, And you have to explain that.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
To the Douglas County commissioners. I'm Japanese. Yeah. Uh well,
in fact, I'll make a joke about how well you
know they all look alike. Actually, somebody said that to
the commissioners later on. It's freaking hilarious. Uh this. I
don't know who this doctor is. My guess is she's
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a progressive Democrat. But so what. We're always told to
find common ground, Well, we happen to find common ground
on a local issue.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
Argeted with that smear told us this last month.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I am of Japanese heritage. You know that's not the
same as China though, And I am an American citizen.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
And is unacceptable to assume guilt or connection based solely
on someone's race or ethnicity. I get it, we all
look alike, but it is also entirely inappropriate and fails
to uphold the standards expected by public officials.
Speaker 8 (30:51):
Commissioner til declined to apologize and even schoolded the public
about truthfulness.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Citizen comments are welcome, we do ask them to be
uh factual and uh informed.
Speaker 8 (31:03):
Commissioner Abe Layden said he values diversity and Nosatian people.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Then I'm not racist. I know black people.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Record demonstrates that, in fact, my best friends from law
school are Asian Americans.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
And Commissioner Kevin van Winkel got mad.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
We are getting now. Kevin van Weekel is a former
member of the Colorado polit Bureau and what he's about
to say just makes my blood boil up.
Speaker 8 (31:28):
For order in this room when people kept speaking once
public comment was over.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I served for over ten years.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
At this STAHAPLAL never had a meeting of outrage in
absurdity like this.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
And with that the doco Commissioner's not very good afternoon.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
We're welcome was over.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
This meeting is adjourneys.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Boom, and that's it. I'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Good morning from Ohio, Mike going Dragon.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
I had to wake up at the young godly hour
of seven point thirty to listen to you today.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
I'm so sorry, so sorry. Apparently we've hit a nerve
based on the text line. For example, I'm a Douglas
County Conservative and completely agree about replacing the current commissioners.
Or these commissioners are buffoons, horrible, they also spend money
like drunken sailors. Well, that's offensive to drunken sailors, as
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regular would say. So I hear from the meeting that
part of I don't know what this has to do
with anything. But abe Laden stated that he didn't want
to speak for George tele but he knew somehow that
George Steele had no ill will for anyone here, and
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so I would assume that that meant that at some
point George Teele was going to apologize for having accused
a citizen of being a member of the Chinese Communist
Party who happened to be Japanese, which is so ignorant
when it comes to understanding Asian culture. You don't know
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your Tie from your Japanese, from your Mongolian from your
Chinese from whatever. Seriously, But no he didn't. But I
found this interesting, and I don't know what this has
to do with the price of bread in Denmark. But
Layden said that the commissioners were quote briefed about an
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active federal investigation of foreign influences in the national No
King's campaign. Well, what does that have to do with
the accusation that the Chinese Communist Party was involved in
the vote on Home rule.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
One.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
I doubt you were briefed, but if you were, you
would and even if it was classified, it probably wasn't classified.
If it was class fight, it might have been classified
as FOUO for official use only, which is one of
the lowest classifications. So you could tell us who it
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was it briefed you, and you could tell us that
what did that briefing? Is that what led you to
believe that the Chinese Communist Party was somehow involved in
the opposition to the Home rule initiative?
Speaker 7 (34:23):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Is that true? But nothing just to claim I get
so tired of people, Clay, Well, you know I got
this classified briefing. Bull crap. If you did, bull crap,
I know exactly how those briefings work. And I dare
to say that none of you have ever been involved
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in a high level breathing. You've never gotten the presidential
daily brief like I did for almost six freaking years.
So to come out and say, well, we were briefed
about this federal investigation, Well, whoop poop, do do tell
us what that has to do with accusing one of
your citizens, even a citizen. My guess is that doctor's
politics and my politics are opposite of each other, except
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on this issue. I've heard her described as a progressive doctor. Well,
I'm not sure what that means. But if she's progressive
and I'm a right wing nut job, we probably don't
agree on much. But I think this is just a
tip of the iceberg about the reason that Douglas County
is starting to turn purple.
Why the horse crossed the road to get to day birdhood.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Absolute child abuse and that wasn't at least it didn't
come from you didn't.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Jump in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Well, it's too early. I mean that would be child
abuse if you had dropped that.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Or something there.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's sad. And you know, just get
the number we'll call Child Protective Services and turtle Man
and the way. Yeah good. Uh. Two things I mentioned yesterday,
we had a conversation about dairy queen food. Well that
carried over into the text messages all frigging.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Night long nice.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
And then I woke up this morning to an email
from someone who said, oh, yeah, chicken strips, white gravy,
and you dipped the chicken strips, the Texas toast, and
the French fries into the white gravy and that's a
gourmet meal. Huh.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I did mention that to missus Redbeard yesterday too, before bed,
and she's like, I have never once ever thought to
go to dairy queed for real food for non ice cream,
but we may have to now.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But we may have to see. In fact, I may
do that today. I might do it today. I got
a couple of things I gotta do after the program,
and so before I run home, I may just find
the you know, plug into my maps, you know, my
ways or whatever, the nearest dairy queen. And well, apparently
you need dairy queen that serves food.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I think it was like grill and chill or something
that's that.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And that's what I'm gonna do. I think I'll just
go grill and chill at lunch today, just you know,
it's Friday, grill and chill. Uh. So I also mentioned
that I thought, and you looked at me like cross eyed,
like I was crazy, like you normally do every day.
And so I pulled into the quick trip, walked in
and got my diet coke, and then I walked around
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and I realized then that behind that little center part
where the cashiers are, there's there's a giant menu and
I just scanned it real quickly. But there's all kinds
of sandwiches and subs and pizzas and all sorts of
things on the menu that's all fresh cooked back there
in a kitchen. Now, they do have the typical roller food,
like I could have gotten a roller dog this morning.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Gizzards like the South Dakota guy. He liked the gas
station gizzards.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I didn't, you know, I didn't. I don't recall the
word gizzards on the menu. I think that might have
stuck out, But I I was looking more like at categories,
you know, like sandwiches and pizza and those things. But
uh no, I but I did notice the roller food
and there was a corn dog and it was kind
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of tempting.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
At four o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
No, it was, well only in the sense that I
thought today, is it dairy Queen? Is at mister Mustard?
Which isn't. Then I've come in and now I say
he left them open, as if it's a big secret.
It's not.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You know, the you can still get to the khow text.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Line I can see because I still have the passwords,
so I can still look these up anyway. But Dan
left the text line open from last night and he
apparently hit a nerve yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, was it dairy Queen?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
It is? Strangely, it is not dairy Queen, but it
is something that I happen to see something on the
news last night that irritates me too. Oh and that
is and I still don't there's lane splitting, and there's
lane filtering, right, yes, and can you tell me which
to switch?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Lane filtering is when you're stopped so the motorcycles can
go between these.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
So the cars have to be stopped, correct Now? Is
that stopped at a stop light or stop sign? Or
does that stop because a rush hour, a backup or
wreck or.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Is it just a part of the rule is stop lights?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Okay? But what about if it's if you've come to
a complete stop because of an accident on the twenty
five or the seventy, or because rush hour is just
stop and go and you stop and you sit there
for you know, thirty seconds.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I'm gonna touch hazy on that one. But I would
I would if I were a motorcycle rider, I would
not do that on the highway. I would only do
the lane filtering at stop lights.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Okay, so that's lane filtering, correct stop. What is lane splitting?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Lane splitting is? Yeah, you're on the highway going sixty
five the motorcycle go between the two cars, which is sounds.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Totally it's insane, yes, totally insane. So on the New
so On, I assume again it was KDVR because that's
what I tend to watch. KDVR had a story I'm
not sure what you know, suburban area, but they were
chasing a one of their tag readers had caught somebody
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with a stolen motorcycle.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
So they started staring Colorado.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I know, it's shocking, shocking that there's crime in.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Colorado, stolen vehicles, stolen motorcycle, right.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's amazing. So they get up to you know, one
hundred and fifty miles an hour whatever, and they they
pull off, or they don't pull off, they pulled back
because now they realize that, well, it's dangerous for us
to be chasing a motorcycle going one hundred and fifty
miles an hour. So they put a drone in the air,
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and my first thought was they're watching the drone, the
drone's watching them.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
They do eventually catch the guy and he had surprise, surprise,
he had a stolen motorcycle, he had stolen goods, and
he had like five or six felony warrants. I'm shocked,
I know. But as I'm watching the drone, I'm thinking,
this is why I hate these lane filtering and l
and splitting, because it doesn't have to be a fleeing felon.
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It's when I was coming back from you know, New
Maico last Sunday. The same thing happens all up and
down night twenty.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Five, real quick from a text message zero four seven seven.
Mike dairy queen in Lovelin has been named the best
dairy queen in the country for about six years now.
And lane filtering can be done when traffic is below
fifteen miles per hour.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
So I have my mirrors. There is you can find
all sorts of youtubes or guides on how to do this,
but most people don't know how to set their rear
view mirrors to actually be able to eliminate your blind spots.
So I have mindset that way. And if Tamra ever
gets in the car, it drives her crazy because she's
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just accustomed to the typical Hey, can I just kind
of see, you know, kind of down the side of
the car. And you don't know how to use the
overhead versus the rear and the rear view together to
eliminate your blind spot. Even though I can eliminate my
blind spot, technically you're not eliminating your blind spot. You're
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able to check your rear view mirror and look for
cars and then immediately look at your side view mirror
and see if there's been anything in that millisecond of
the blind spot really still does exist. I now catch
myself more often than not if I've seen motorcycles on
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the highway, nervous about making that lane change, even though
I'm perfectly right to do so, because some a hole
is going to be going to your point one hundred
and fifty miles an hour between traffic on the interstate
and boom, I pull over it. Yeah, which is illegal,
but you know, get a really damn good trial lawyer.
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Let's hope that capitals would be on my side and
not their side. And guess what some jury are going
to go, Well, you know, poor motorcycle, it was just
it was just you only weighs ten pounds in your
car weighs you know, thirty thousand pounds, and so it's
your fault. Well, let's see, dan, two sets of rules.
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One road. All filtering has done is legalized drag racing
at stop lights. For the bikers. It's essential they drag
race away from the lights to get ahead of cars.
Why is that Okay? I make the same argument about bicycles.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Arguably, though a motorcycle can get off the line much
faster than almost any vehicle, So yes.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I agree, And they pull in between cars and then
they go zooming through.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Correct then they have to go faster to get in
front of you to get into the real.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Way, which in of itself is dangerous because, for example,
it was one day this week at five in the morning,
I'm running a little late. It's five in the morning,
and at my at my main intersection, I get onto
University as a red light. Now, normally it's it's got censors,
so it almost immediately turns red when I pull up.
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But for whatever reason that morning it had it didn't
instantly turn red, but it turned green. I started into
the intersection, and a cargoes blowing through the red light,
so it had to be red for the other traffic
right for at least one Mississippi two.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Second, probably three seconds. I think it's like two two
and a half seconds that they are all red. I
think there's.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
There's certainly two or three seconds, right, but boom went
blowing right through it.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Were just anyway, Uh, let's see about the lane filtering
stuff too. If you've got like five six eight motorcycles
in those in that lane right between you. It's like
they're all going to zoom up really quickly and getting it.
It's just it just doesn't seem smart to me. I'm
not a mostshycleist. I've never I don't have a motorcycle license.
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I've I've been on a path singer as a motorcycle.
But I just I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yeah, yeah, let's see. I like this one, Dan, lane
splitting and no helmet law. Dumb coloradins, well, really dumb
pollup bureau that passes those laws, and then the useful
idiots that then participate in those laws. And somehow they
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went from lane splitting to sex without a condom, which
I guess is really kind of the same thing when
you think about it.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Okay, now, both can be pretty dangerous.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Both can be pretty dangerous, and you know, sometimes you know,
you you you take off too fast, you know, you
take off.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
The you know, and somebody's gonna get hurt.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Somebody's gonna get hurt. But uh, one goober wrote Dan funny,
how the will to not whear a condom is more
powerful than the will to not want to go to
all for an abortion okay, uh, Dan, Why must a
woman have sex without a condom constantly? And why do
men want to be in Oh? I can't, I just can't. Careful, Well,
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you know it's it's Dan Dan Ryan's text line. Let's see,
now this is pretty this is fairly insightful. Dan. The lanes,
the late the lane splitting issue has not changed. The
crazies have been doing it for years and will continue
to do it. It is illegal and carries a great risk.
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It is self regulating as the practitioners die or become disabled.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I would say it's much more prevalent now than it
has been because the.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Passed yes, and then I can't. I didn't know this,
but I guess Dan has magical powers. Dan, yes, reverse
the insane motorcycle lane filtering law.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
All right, he'll get Dan laws for us. Do the
do the bewitched twinkle or do the I dream of
Jeenie had Nut and make it happen Dad, Right, I mean.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Just here, why why even have an election for governor?
Just just we'll just have Dan bee that we we
can eliminate the position of governor and just have capitalists
be just hey, you know, this is what we want
and it'll all be determined by Goober's on my program
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and his program, and then he'll just do the twinkle
twinkle with his nose or you know whatever it is,
or rub the genie bottle or whatever, and that would
be the law. We eliminate the governor with him with
the pulp Bureau. We don't have a king. We don't
have king capitalists. We'll just have you know, magic capitalists.
How about that. Let's see then. I've seen on several
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occasions where the motorcyclist splits filters to the front of
the line of stop traffic and sits in the and
sits in the crosswalk. That can't be right unless pads
are supposed to yield to them as well. What a
screwball law, of course, I think this might be our
listener right here, Dan, Until the law is overturned, I
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will continue blowing my hornet motorcycle splitting lanes.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yeah, there you go, that's one of us.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Got that's gotta be one of ours. I can also
I'm obviously I'm not giving out numbers, Dan. I can
also just open my door before a bike passes.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Even that it causes damage to your car. I don't
I don't want purposeful damage done to my car in
this kind of situation.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Let's see, Dan, I rode my I rode my motorcycle
down to the show last week. I wonder who this is.
I was the only I was the only motorcycle that
I encountered that I did not illegally lane split. The
lane filtering thing is a joke, and nobody even knows
what it means. Like I have to have you explain
it to me every single time because I just I
just when I don't care. So it's not something I'm
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gonna I'm even going to attempt to retain. Because I'm
co dependent upon you. I know that if I really
need to understand it, well, I don't really need to
understand it, because you're my encyclopedia. I can just you're
my law book. I can just open you up and
just say explain that to me again, Red Beard.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Same thing with the Excel Energy Time of Youth smart
meter building.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Oh yes, yes, which, by the way, I looked at
my last bill for last month. I still am actually
saving some money having left it on time of use.
There you go. Now I'm concerned because Cammer's planning not
to go to work next year, and she doesn't go
to work next year, may not work so much afternoon. Yeah,
it may not work for me. And I haven't had
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the conversation with her about babe, could you do all
of the stuff in the mornings, you know, while you're here.
Let's see. Then he gets into Epstein, So let's see
anything else there. No, I guess that's it. Okay, So
let's move on to the other part of the program there.
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I don't dwell a lot on local politics. I don't
know how many of you know, but when I was
in law school, I served on the I served on
the law on the law school. I served on the
city council in Edmund, Oklahoma. It was just one of
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my professors had encouraged me to do it, and he
was like, yeah, you know, come on, you can do this.
You can go to law school and be on the
city council. Well yeah, I mean I could, But I mean, married,
raising a kid and going to law school and also
serving on a city council. It was it is a
pretty damn busy time. But the thing that amazed me
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about being on the city council and Edmund at the
time Edmund was and may still be. I don't know,
but that at that time, Edmund was the fastest growing
city in Oklahoma. We were approving new subdivisions. Like I mean,
it seems to me like there were, you know, every
week or every two weeks that we have a city
council meeting, there must have been, you know, twenty new
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subdivisions that were being built. I mean, it was just
everybody was moving out of Oklahoma City. Everybody but that
was moving into Oklahoma from Dallas and other places. It
was just it was just a crazy time to be
on a city council. But we had and we always
did this. We had the typical public comment period, you
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know that was on the agenda. For citizens who had
anything they wanted to talk about, they could you know,
come up to the podium and the microphone and they
could talk about it. Now, we did have a time
limit on it that it was you know, maybe it
was two minutes, three minutes, four minutes, I don't remember
what it was, but there was some time limit, but
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there was not a number limit. So if one hundred
people showed up who wanted to talk about something, we stayed.
And there were times when city council meetings would go
until one o'clock, maybe sometimes two o'clock. I just remember that.
I kept thinking to myself, Oh my god, I've got
to get up. I've got con law class, you know,
at eight am, and I got to do this. But
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we let people speak, and we also let people speak.
When there was a subdivision that was going in in
an area that was still predominantly rule, we would let
people in that area that were affected by the proposed subdivision,
we would give them comment periods. Also. Now, again there
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was a time limit. But if you know, if there
were twenty five farmers in the area that wanted to
object or approve or ask questions about that particular subdivision,
we allow them to do that. Now why would we
do that Why? Oh, because we were elected to represent
those people. We were elected to hear them out. Now.
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That's back in the dark ages before the Internet. That's
back in the dark ages before or even I mean, frankly,
I'm trying to think that was probably even before email.
So there wasn't an ability of people to text you
or email you, or to submit you know, online comments
or whatever. It was in person. Everything was in person.
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You think about today, I mean, you can submit all
sorts of comments and in terms of rule making or
ordinances or anything else that, by damn, we showed up
and we let people speak. I made two comments, I think,
one time on air and one time on the Michael
Brown Minute. My objection to home rule in Douglas County. Well,
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plane splitters and no helmet laws are great for the
transplant community. To say it, and in what way would
you claim that they are great for the transplant organ
organ Oh, for the Oregon strader. I'm thinking more of
transplants like from.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
California, right, people coming to color No, no, no, that
that's yeah, that's sick, very helpful.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Very very funny, but very sick. So let's go to
Douglass County, Colorado for a minute, my home county. What's
the role of a county commissioner. The role of the
county commissioner is to manage the county. You you've got
the sheriff, you've got public works, you've got roads, bridges
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and highways. You might have a water district in your county.
You have all of these things and county commission Being
a county commissioner is your job. That's your job. It's
it's not it's not like when I was on a
city council in Edmund where that was a part time job,
where you know, I didn't spend eight hours or twelve
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or fifteen hours a day doing city council business. I
showed up during county meetings. I might show up for
you know, extra budget sessions or something. But it wasn't
a forty hour a week job or even a sixty
hour a week job. It was a part time job.
A county commissioner, however, is a full time job. It's
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like sheriff, you get elected sheriff, it's a full time job.
You don't work, you know, an hour here, an hour there.
You work you know, eight hours or more every single
day of the week. The fact that it's a full
time job means that when you have a board of
county commissioners meeting, you have, in my opinion, you have
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both a moral and a political responsibility to listen to
your constituents. And if you're if your constituents have a
real bugaboo about something and a thousand of them show up,
I think it's reasonable to say you each have sixty seconds,
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or you have two minutes or three minutes, and we
will be here until we can get as many and
if we can't, you know, if we have to go,
if we start at eight o'clock in the morning and
we go until five o'clock at night, well that's a
typical workday for most of us shlubs out there, and
that's what we're gonna do. And if we have to
go longer than that, we will do that because you
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elected us, and we represent you, and your effing job
is to listen to what your constituents have to say.
These these people that run for county commissioner and then
don't want to hear from the constituents can go pound
sand as far as I'm concerned. So I'm doing show
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prep over the past couple of days, and lo and behold,
I run across a description about I can't today say
it's the most recent, because there may have been a
Douglas County Commissioner's meeting since this was discussed. But the
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meeting describes the see if you go to the YouTube
portion of the meeting, which I don't think includes everything
because they don't want to spend much time. I think
it was maybe an hour in fifty six minutes, maybe
maybe an hour. Let's just say almost two hours, but
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during that time there was very little input from citizens.
But the input from citizens that was done at this
Douglas County commission meeting was really kind of condescending, not
on the part of the citizens, on the part of
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the commissioners. And I've kind of reached the point where
I haven't crossed this rubicon yet, but I'm pretty close
to taking on the Douglas County Commissioners and having the
entire slate replaced. Now, I know the Republican, but I'll
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give a rats ass about a Republican. I give a
rats ass about representing your county and representing the values. Now,
I let me just say right up front, a very
in all caps caveat here, I'm worried about Douglas County.
I'm worried about Douglas County because a county that I
chose to live in because it was predominantly, very predominantly conservative,
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is losing its conservatism. And the commissioners seem to be
more concerned about self aggrandizement than they are about actually
serving the people in the community. And one of those
examples of their self aggrandizement is their pushing of home
rule in Douglas County, which I didn't spend a lot
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of time on. I think I did one Michael Brown
minute opposing it, maybe two, and I did maybe one
or two segments talking about how it was really a
stupid idea, that idea was rejected like by you know,
three three quarters or so. I mean actual number was
seventy one percent. Let's just call it three quarters. Three
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quarters of those who voted rejected the idea of home rule.
And the other thing that really bugged me about the
whole home rule was the sleight of hand that was
used to try to push home rule in Douglas County. Well,
you know, we can take on things like illegal immigration. No,
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you cannot, and don't play on people's ignorance or their
their anger about illegal immigration to try to push something
that's simply going to consolidate more power in your hand.
Or gun control. You know, the the unstated thing about
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gun control was, oh, well, you know we can, we
can kind of circumvent state law. No, you cannot. We
We have a we have two counties where home rule
it exists in Colorado, and you can go to either
one of those counties and you can and you can
learn that home rule is really not that great of
a deal.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
You.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
We have in Colorado, as in most states, we have
elected county commissioners who get paid a full time salary
to do a full time job, and that's what I
expect you to do. During the debate, during the campaign
for home rule, George Teal, George Teal came out and
(25:54):
claimed on a competitive radio station with someone who a
host that I know is actually I think a good guy,
and claimed that the Chinese Communist Party was somehow involved
in opposing home rule. Now, that's prima facia absurd. It
(26:17):
is absolutely absurd to think that the Chinese Communist Party
that I happen to know quite a bit about because
of my background. In fact, I would challenge any of
those commissioners that I know more about the Chinese Communist
Party and have more intel about the Chinese Communist Party
than you ever dreamed about having. I doubt that any
(26:38):
of those commissioners have ever had the clearances that I've
had that have given me access and briefings on the
threat that China is to this country. But when you
accuse an individual of somehow being either a part of
(27:00):
or a conduit for the Chinese Communist Party to oppose something.
You've crossed the line that's led me to find.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Dragon.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
It's been what maybe a few weeks a month at
the most since I played a SoundBite from of all people,
Kyle Clark, where he and I happened to agree on something. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I think it was a bridge, right.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yes, that's right, it was the It was the bridge
to nowhere that Jared Polis wants to do. So, yeah,
it's it's been within the last two weeks. Well, let
me take a deep breath. I would encourage all of
you to take a deep breath, because Kyle Clark did
a piece on July ninth, two days ago. I didn't
(27:54):
do this yesterday because I wanted to dig deeper into
what was said at this County commissioner meeting. But here's
Kyle Clark. This was published at seven fifty seven pm
on July ninth. I assume this was published after he
did his next show or whatever he calls that. Kyle,
(28:17):
there's no romance going on here, so don't get any ideas.
But for you and I to agree on something two
times within the span of less than a month, we
must be very near the end of civilization and why
am I not?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Oh, it's on the It's a double cliqu there, Michael, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
A double clique. I'm just practicing for later in the day.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
Becaus County's Republican commissioners are pushing back on calls to
apologize after a commissioner claimed that a local progressive group
led by an Asian American woman was actually the Chinese
Communist Party meddling in their county politics.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Well, good afternoon, everyone, was in fact a good afternoon
for Douglas County's Republican commissioners, fresh off seventy one percent
of voters rejecting their bid for more power through a
home rule resolution, and Commissioner George Teel claiming the opposition
group was funded by the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
Commissioner teal a falsely linked Asian American oncologist doctor Ko
Brownie to the Chinese Communist Party. Not only is that racist, xenophobic, baseless,
it's also showly harmful on this board, especially Commissioner Tale
owes her an apology.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
No apology was coming, but more public comments were the.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Fact that one of you decided to.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Blatantly lie about doctor Aco Browning makes me nauseous.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
Commissioner Teal has not presented any evidence of his claim
about Chinese communist medaling in local politics. The cancer doctor
in the community that he targeted with that smear told
us this last month.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I am of Japanese heritage. You know that's not the
same as China though, And you have to explain that.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
To the Douglas County commissioners. I'm Japanese. Yeah. Uh well,
in fact, I'll make a joke about how well you
know they all look alike. Actually, somebody said that to
the commissioners later on. It's freaking hilarious. Uh this. I
don't know who this doctor is. My guess is she's
(30:18):
a progressive Democrat. But so what. We're always told to
find common ground, Well, we happen to find common ground
on a local issue.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
Argeted with that smear told us this last month.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I am of Japanese heritage. You know that's not the
same as China though, And I am an American citizen.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
And is unacceptable to assume guilt or connection based solely
on someone's race or ethnicity. I get it, we all
look alike, but it is also entirely inappropriate and fails
to uphold the standards expected by public officials.
Speaker 8 (30:51):
Commissioner til declined to apologize and even schoolded the public
about truthfulness.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Citizen comments are welcome, we do ask them to be
uh factual and uh informed.
Speaker 8 (31:03):
Commissioner Abe Layden said he values diversity and Nosatian people.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Then I'm not racist. I know black people.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Record demonstrates that, in fact, my best friends from law
school are Asian Americans.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
And Commissioner Kevin van Winkel got mad.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
We are getting now. Kevin van Weekel is a former
member of the Colorado polit Bureau and what he's about
to say just makes my blood boil up.
Speaker 8 (31:28):
For order in this room when people kept speaking once
public comment was over.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I served for over ten years.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
At this STAHAPLAL never had a meeting of outrage in
absurdity like this.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
And with that the doco Commissioner's not very good afternoon.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
We're welcome was over.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
This meeting is adjourneys.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Boom, and that's it. I'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Good morning from Ohio, Mike going Dragon.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
I had to wake up at the young godly hour
of seven point thirty to listen to you today.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
I'm so sorry, so sorry. Apparently we've hit a nerve
based on the text line. For example, I'm a Douglas
County Conservative and completely agree about replacing the current commissioners.
Or these commissioners are buffoons, horrible, they also spend money
like drunken sailors. Well, that's offensive to drunken sailors, as
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regular would say. So I hear from the meeting that
part of I don't know what this has to do
with anything. But abe Laden stated that he didn't want
to speak for George tele but he knew somehow that
George Steele had no ill will for anyone here, and
(32:46):
so I would assume that that meant that at some
point George Teele was going to apologize for having accused
a citizen of being a member of the Chinese Communist
Party who happened to be Japanese, which is so ignorant
when it comes to understanding Asian culture. You don't know
(33:07):
your Tie from your Japanese, from your Mongolian from your
Chinese from whatever. Seriously, But no he didn't. But I
found this interesting, and I don't know what this has
to do with the price of bread in Denmark. But
Layden said that the commissioners were quote briefed about an
(33:30):
active federal investigation of foreign influences in the national No
King's campaign. Well, what does that have to do with
the accusation that the Chinese Communist Party was involved in
the vote on Home rule.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
One.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
I doubt you were briefed, but if you were, you
would and even if it was classified, it probably wasn't classified.
If it was class fight, it might have been classified
as FOUO for official use only, which is one of
the lowest classifications. So you could tell us who it
(34:10):
was it briefed you, and you could tell us that
what did that briefing? Is that what led you to
believe that the Chinese Communist Party was somehow involved in
the opposition to the Home rule initiative?
Speaker 7 (34:23):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Is that true? But nothing just to claim I get
so tired of people, Clay, Well, you know I got
this classified briefing. Bull crap. If you did, bull crap,
I know exactly how those briefings work. And I dare
to say that none of you have ever been involved
(34:44):
in a high level breathing. You've never gotten the presidential
daily brief like I did for almost six freaking years.
So to come out and say, well, we were briefed
about this federal investigation, Well, whoop poop, do do tell
us what that has to do with accusing one of
your citizens, even a citizen. My guess is that doctor's
politics and my politics are opposite of each other, except
(35:05):
on this issue. I've heard her described as a progressive doctor. Well,
I'm not sure what that means. But if she's progressive
and I'm a right wing nut job, we probably don't
agree on much. But I think this is just a
tip of the iceberg about the reason that Douglas County
is starting to turn purple.
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