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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Enough already. That's it. We don't need to hear any
more of this. It's a pain in the butt. We
want to hear what's going on.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
In the world.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
We don't care about men that are suffering from a
man cold. For Heaven's sake, there's nothing worse.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Nothing worth. See this.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is the lack of sympathy women have for men
who you know Stilly Rodney Dangerfield. No respect, no respect,
no respect. Poor Michael Brown had to listen to that
as he is fighting for his life from a cold.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I'm John Caldera for in for the barely surviving Michael Brown.
Give me a call. Three h three seven one three
eight two five five. All right, So so let's all
take a moment and pray for for the health and
safety of our beloved Michael Brown dealing with man cold.
Poor missus Brown has to deal with him with man cold.
(00:57):
See no sympathy, no sympathy. I take, no respect, no respect.
The mayor of our fine city had his state of
the State address, State of the City address. Excuse me,
did I go No? Did I read the transcript? No?
Do I care? Not really it it it's just him
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trying to say we dug ourselves into this hole. Were
a quarter of a billion dollars in behind in the
in the budget. But you know, at least we have
all these great immigrants in the city. That's basically what
he said. And then he said that he's excited about
the new Bronco Stadium, that they're excited to work towards
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a new Bronco Stadium. Now, for those of us, for
those of us who remember the old Bronco Stadium, that
was just like yesterday. That was it seemed like yesterday
we had the fight whether or not to build the
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new Mile High Stadium. It was, it was a it
was a battle. John l Way, the the the incredible quarterback,
said I won't be there, but the Broncos need this.
The argument was if we don't build them a brand
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new stadium, they're gonna leave and we can't afford for
them to leave. The business community go, oh my god,
we can't lose them. But really was we like, we
like the Broncos, let's build them a new stadium. And
how to put it, it's an ugly stadium. When they
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slapped up this stadium, it was obvious at least to
me that as soon as as soon as the last
bond was paid to pay off this bounce rosity, it
would be ripped down and there'd be another one. Is
there anything wrong with the current Broncos stadium yet it's
not a new stadium and the NFL's corporate welfare is
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just amazing. As for the Broncos new stadium, Mayor Johnson
told the Denver Gazette that he's very excited about keeping
the progress. The city's top priority is to keep the
team in the city. So the same old threat will
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be used to get us to reach into our pockets
to buy a new stadium, a new stadium which is
used you know, for what ten games a year, assuming
we go to the playoffs. It's it's really ridiculous, and
we have a stadium. I can't believe I'm old enough
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to go through this second iteration of this. So the
threat will will happen. Not not a not a gratitude
from the Broncos that that, for you know, sixty years,
the city has been good to the Broncos, that the
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fans have been more than good to the Broncos, that
we have been more than patient during the incredible droughts
of terrible, terrible years. The Sunday after Sunday, after endless Sunday,
that our fans give their Denver Broncos and in return
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will be a threat, and you'll it'll it'll start as whisper.
You know, we don't want to leave Denver, but you know,
if some other city gives us a prettier stadium, we'll
we'll have to go. Now, the chances are that that
we'll say yes to a new stadium. Why because well,
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when it comes to football, Denver is a football socialist place,
a crazed place for sports. Denver is the most sports
nutty town I think there ever was. We've got so
many major league teams and amazingly, they all kind of stink.
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Well rephrase, they've all gone through long periods where they
stinkd and we stay with them, like we're staying with
the Rockies now when there are potentially on track to
have the worst season in baseball history. And still people
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go because it's a great place to see a game
and it's a beautiful game. I enjoy the Broncos, love
to see the games on television. I've hit that age
where I don't want to go see it in person.
It's just too much of a hassle I like. I
like watching it from the comfort of my own home,
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and then when I get bored of it, I go
have a life. So there's this threat of we're going
to leave, and it's a power play. I'm gonna see
if I can get this imagery cross instead of a
power play that way, where the Broncos and the city
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say to taxpayers, the team's gonna leave if you don't
say yes to this. I mean it's a it's a
blackmail play, and it usually works. I'm wondering if it
can go the other way, if somehow taxpayers can say
to the city and to the Broncos, if we don't
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clean up the city, if you don't start enforcing the law,
if you don't get crime under can control and vagrants
off the sidewalks, we're not going to give you a
new stadium. And I guarantee you it would be it
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would be a game of chicken to see who would
blink first. If there was some sort of if than statement,
I mean, we don't do this. For instance, with educational taxes,
every few years, school districts ask for a mill levy
increase and they pull on our heartstrings and they show
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you a building that has a bad roofer needs a
new AC unit, and we say yes. Never does a
school district say, you know what, if you say yes
to this tax increase, we will deliver for you improved scores.
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Never does it say, I tell you what you say
yes to this vote, and if in two years our
scores on reading and math and arithmetic, if they don't
improve to this level, whatever that level is, by ten percent,
If they don't go up by ten percent, then the
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tax goes away, or the second half of the tax
doesn't get collected. Could you imagine the pressure on a
school district to say, man, we want the tax money,
but it's contingent on our performance. Hmm. School districts don't
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do this because taxpayers don't demand it, because bureaucrats and
the media usually set the narrative, and the narrative is all,
we need more money for education, but we shouldn't expect
a guarantee word being guarantee of some type of return
of some type of something we're buying, all right, so
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stick with me on this one. We know that in
a couple of years. I don't know when it'll have
to be after a good season with the Broncos, and
who knows if they'll have one one where it looks
like we could be could be looking at a championship.
They're gonna come in and say we need a new stadium.
Taxpayers need to put up the money for this private company,
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the Denver Broncos, and we've we've got to We've got
to do this otherwise we're going to lose the Broncos.
They're gonna move to Detroit or someplace. They're gonna they're
gonna move to Kansas City. Now they've who wants who
wants the team? You know, there'll be some city out
there that says we'll take them, We'll bill you, build
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you a beautiful new stadium. And it's that fear. It's
the fear of loss that gets people motivated. So my
thinking is this, why don't we jump ahead of that.
How how do we say to Denver Broncos, who really
carry the big stick there, If you don't get this
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city cleaned up, if you don't get the beggars off
the streets, if you don't get crime under control, if
you don't get transience from passing out and vomiting on
our sidewalks, if we don't see a visible change, you
don't get a new stadium. However, if if you solve
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the problems, if you get rid of crime up to
this level, if people feel safe walking down the sixteenth
Street mall, if car theft goes down to this level,
then we'll say yes to your stadium instead of the
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power brokers of Denver dictating to us what they want
and how much we have to pay for it. Wouldn't
it be great if we did it the other way?
I mean, right now, the only leverage you have is
to say we're not gonna reelect you, Michael Johnson. But
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come on, incumbents always get re elected. You have to
be terrible not to get re elected. That's that. Wouldn't
it be terrific? Wouldn't it be terrific if we instead
said no, no new stadium will risk the Broncos leaving
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this economic engine everyone claims it is if you don't
clean up because the city's never been like this. This
is a failing city and it's failing faster and faster.
What would the Denver Broncos do. Wouldn't it be fascinating
if the whole Broncos organization, instead of trying to convince
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taxpayers that they need a new toy. Instead, realize if
they want their new toy, they've got to pressure the
city to clean up its act. Wouldn't it be great
to have the Broncos on the people's side demanding, demanding
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we clean up the streets, demanding the litter begone, demanding
the graffiti begone, demanding the people passed out on the
sidewalk be gone, that the drug dealers be gone, maybe
even who knows, the traffic begone. Because they want a
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new stadium. The reason I think this way is this
all so familiar fight from from Trump. You gotta love
this no matter how you feel about it. He that
Trump is telling the Washington Commanders, the football team, the
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NFL football team, to revert back to their old name,
the Redskins. You need to be called the Redskins again.
And why is he? Why is he saying that? Because
the because of the Redskins the Commanders. God, what an
awful name. The Commanders, of course want what every NFL
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football team wants, a government sponsored, taxpayer paid for stadium.
You want a stadium. Change your name back to the Redskins.
Change your name to the Redskins. So how about this
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you want a new stadium, you have to go back
to the Redskins. It makes me think that maybe there's
a way that we can get we can get football
to do some of the heavy lifting to make things better. Now,
because of course, we'll devolve into the into the decision
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should we should we have the Redskins. I loved the
Redskins name, mostly because it was so very offensive and weird.
I mean, it's not like, it's not like the Braves
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or or the Indians. Hmm. Yeah. He called on Cleveland's
Major League Baseball team to change its name back to
the Indians from the Guardians. Are the Cleveland Indians the Guardians?
And I'm not watching I'm not watching sports the way
I used to back when I had a life. Are
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they really the Guardian? General Trump's post on social media
threatens to derail a three point seven the billion dollar
plan unveiled in April by the DC mayor to move
the Washington Commanders back to d C and redeveloped Robert F.
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Kennedy Memorial Stadium, which was the home to the franchise
for decades before moving to Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland.
So they want they want a stadium. They want a
new stadium, they want to fix up old stadium. How
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do you feel about this one? Would you one want
the Commanders to change their name. I want the Commanders
to change their name to anything but the Commanders, the Commanders.
That's just that's just the worst. Remember that year, after
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all the silliness with the kneeling during during football games,
kneeling during the national anthem, that we're going to make
a football a a uh debate about race in America,
that multi multi multi millionaire players, we're playing victim. And
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then we had to change the name of of of teams. Now.
I don't know why Indians is a terrible name. I
don't know why Braves would be a terrible name. These
are honoring names. I get why Redskin is a terrible name.
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That is a terrible name. I don't. Yeah, we should
have a team named the Whities. I'm okay with that,
go for it. But there was something so bland about
the Commanders or for that year when it was just
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the Washington football team. Remember a year they were unnamed.
They were just unnamed. So Trump says, bring back the name.
My proposal is, hey, Denver Broncos, you want your stadium.
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Bring back Denver, Bring back Denver. We'll get you a
new stadium, but first show us the change.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Hey, after listening to dragons say that there is scientific
proof that women get through the cold much better. I
think the tip that we need to give Michael is
he just needs to identify as a woman for a
couple of days. He'll be much better, you know, Michelle
double D Brown.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I think it's good. Oh that's brilliant. Logic is undeniable.
It's science, man, it's science. Just ask any good social
justice warrior. You can be a woman just by declaring
you're a woman. That's how you get out over this
man cold. Michael Brown, I love that idea. I'm John Calderic.
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Give me a call. Three h three seven one three
eight two five five. Michael Brown has a man called
start the violins. So could Denver live without a new
Broncos stadium. Part of me would really like to like
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to call their bluff. I've seen this movie before. We
need a new stadium. Otherwise we're leaving. All right. Maybe
that's the marketplace, but you see the power structure there.
The power structure is always you, the little people. We're
going to take away something you want if you don't
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do what we want. Never do we turn that on
its head and go, hey, big corporate interests, big unions,
we will give you what you want if you give
us what we want. First. My suggestion, Denver Broncos, we're
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not going to give you a new stadium until the
city is cleaned up. Here are the numbers we demand.
We want no homeless on the street. We want crime
down to this level. We want to be safe when
we go out at night. You hit these benchmarks, we'll
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vote yes. What would they do? What would we they
do in a school district if he said, we will
approve your mill levy increase when reading scores get to
this level, we'll give you half. Now, we'll give you
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the first few years of your new tax increase, so
you have some runway to get whatever done you need
to get done in order to get to those scores.
But if you don't hit those scores by contract, you
don't get the tax increase. This is the whole issue
of how how government really works. It's called rent seeking.
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Why do they call it rent seeking? Because economists come
up with terms and economists never want to impress women,
so they come up with terms that just are so
stupid rent seeking. But it's simply it's the power of
concentrated special interests over the power the lack of power
of diffused interests. Taxpayers are diffused. We all have a
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little bit of money in the game, but the broncos,
they've got a lot of money in the game. My
days at Regional Transportation District RTD, I learned very quickly
RTD is not about moving people. It's about moving money.
So they want to tax increase so that they can
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buy new toys. Who gives them money to run the
campaign on the guys who build tracks and the guys
who build the trains. Semens Corporation they put in a
quarter million dollars into the campaign, Excel Energy puts in
a quarter million dollars. Everybody puts in the quarter the
bond dealers, and when the thing wins, they all get
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a payday. RTD immediately buys nearly sixty million dollars worth
of trolley equipment from Siemens want a return on investment
for a mere quarter million dollar gift. But for the taxpayers,
if the tax is gonna cost you, oh, let's just
say one hundred dollars a year. How much would be
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reasonable for you to put into a campaign to stop
the tax increase? One hundred dollars ninety nine dollars. That's
the diffused interest. We all get screwed a little bit.
And that's why it's very easy for or concentrated interests,
corporate interests, unions, school unions to push people around. They're
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not very large in the scale of things, but they're
organized and they put their money in a specific thing
that benefits them. Wouldn't it be great if we did
the same. This is the opportunity. This is the opportunity
to say, Denver, you want your Bronco stadium, We'll get
you your Bronco stadium. But not until the numbers go
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like this. All the litter needs to be gone, all
the graffiti needs to be gone, all the bums on
the street need to be gone, all the panhandlers need
to be gone. Car theft needs to go away, and
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then we'll buy you a Bronco stadium, a Bronco stadium.
Wouldn't it be great in a way. Donald Trump is
trying to do that with the Redskins, or what used
to be called the Redskins. The commanders, they want a
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new stadium. Not that he gets to choose this. I
think it's the city of Washington, DC, not the federal government.
But he's got a big megaphone to say no, change
your name back to the Redskins, and then you get
your stadium. Wouldn't it be nice if we, the little
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people decided, decided the terms of this next thing instead
of the usual scare tactic, which is you're going to
lose the Broncos if if you don't buy us a
new stadium. No, no, no, we're the taxpayers. What do
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we get other than just the status quo? The status
quo is we have the Broncos, so we pay a
billion whatever dollars to get them a new stadium. And
what do we have the status quo the Denver Broncos.
Here's a text. I just came in. Hey, John, took
my daughter to the Metallica concert a few weeks ago.
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I was so worried about having my work truck stolen
from Broncos Stadium that I rented a car for the night. Wow.
That says a lot. That was a one hundred dollars
plus expense. Because of the city's lack of concern about
auto theft. How many people just don't go to Denver
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because of so many bad things happening? Man? Ain't that
the truth? I know so many people who don't go downtown,
or if they do go downtown for a show, they
go to the show and get out. They don't hang
around any longer. Hmm, how true? Think about that. This
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guy made the decision it will cost me less to
spend more than one hundred bucks to rent a car
to go to this concert at Mile High or to
go downtown. It would cost me less to rent a car.
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Then it would lose my car, my work car, and
have to deal with that at work. So this guy
pays the taxes if he works in Denver, he pays
a payroll tax to Denver as well. He pays the
sales tax to Denver. But they do such a poor job.
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He is so worried about losing his truck he'll pay
the extra hundred bucks and go through the hassle of
going down to the rental place renting a car on
the offhand chance it gets stolen, just because he wants
to take his daughter to a show. That that says
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it all, does it? Not? That says it all about
how how unsafe we feel in Denver, And yesterday Michael
Johnson says how wonderful this city is and how things
are going, and that homeless is under control, that there
are fewer homeless on the streets, even though in total
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the number of homeless has gone up about ten percent
in the last year. It's just that we've brought them
all very nice hotels. Why there's a really quarter or
deficit in in the city budget. That's why they have
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to cut services. Oh, I don't know, like police, because
they've got to provide services for the homeless. By welcoming immigrants,
we've got to provide for them, which means we are
in a less safe city. They've got to do staff
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cuts other places. You don't want to be in Denver.
I mean, this might be good for the suburbs. Maybe
outside of downtown Denver people are and businesses are doing well,
but definitely not so inside the city. So give me
your thoughts on this. How do we pull this one off?
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You want a new Broncos stadium, fix the city first,
then we say yes to a stadium. I think we
should dictate the terms of the steel instead of what
the Denver Broncos in the city. Did you know twenty
some years ago when they got rid of a mile
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high stadium, it was pure blackmail. It was you give
us a new stadium or the Broncos leave. Personally, I
think it's wrong to negotiate with terrorists. That's negotiating with terrorists.
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You want to see your kid pay the ransom. You
want to see the Bronco game pay the ransom. How
about this, No, Denver, Broncos, we put it on you
to pressure the city to clean itself up. We pressure
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you to pressure the institution, the government of the city
of Denver, to actually enforce the laws, to get people
off the street, to make it visibly clean again, to
clean up the trash and clean up the graffiti. You
do that, then we'll say yes to your to your
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new stadium. But if we the taxpayers, if we the
Bronco fans, don't make this clear now and say it
in unison, I guarantee you if the Broncos have a
good season this year, they will threaten to leave if
we don't buy them a stadium before they have their
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new cities, and we should say you want your stadium.
You pressure the city to do its damn job three
O three seven one three eight two five five. And
for the man cold ridden, poor poor Michael Brown, we
need a telethon for him. I'm John Calderic. Keep it
right here, you're on six point thirty k.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
How good morning, Michael. Well, h our esteemed mayor here
in Denver found out the true meaning of f a
FO And hey, wi, you protect the illegals and spend
taxpayer dollars on it, You're not going to get reimbursed
by the government. Huh. Anyhow, Yeah, he's whining about a
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budget shortfall, and apparently that shortfall is the exact amount
that he was expecting to get for taking care of
the illegals.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
How very very true. I'm John Caldera in for the recuperating, suffering,
sad Michael Brown, who has a serious man cold. Nothing
worse than a man cold. So our mayor says, Oh,
everything's just groovy. We just need a lot more money
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after he's spent all of our money providing services for
people here illegally. Did anybody see this not coming? Was
anybody out surprised that when you give services to some
near fifty thousand new residents that come in here without
a job or place to live without food support, healthcare, housing.
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You're gotta pay for all this. Anyone surprised that we're
we're hurting for money. In the meantime, he also says
he's excited about working with the Denver Broncos to get
a new Broncos stadium. No, no, no, no no, I
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say no new toys for Denver until you guys, including
the Denver Broncos, pressure of the city to do their job,
you know, enforce the law, clean up the city, clean
up the graffiti and the crime. Seems pretty simple to me.
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I'm John Caldera back after the news
Enough already. That's it. We don't need to hear any
more of this. It's a pain in the butt. We
want to hear what's going on.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
In the world.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
We don't care about men that are suffering from a
man cold. For Heaven's sake, there's nothing worse.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Nothing worth. See this.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is the lack of sympathy women have for men
who you know Stilly Rodney Dangerfield. No respect, no respect,
no respect. Poor Michael Brown had to listen to that
as he is fighting for his life from a cold.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I'm John Caldera for in for the barely surviving Michael Brown.
Give me a call. Three h three seven one three
eight two five five. All right, So so let's all
take a moment and pray for for the health and
safety of our beloved Michael Brown dealing with man cold.
Poor missus Brown has to deal with him with man cold.
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See no sympathy, no sympathy. I take, no respect, no respect.
The mayor of our fine city had his state of
the State address, State of the City address. Excuse me,
did I go No? Did I read the transcript? No?
Do I care? Not really it it it's just him
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trying to say we dug ourselves into this hole. Were
a quarter of a billion dollars in behind in the
in the budget. But you know, at least we have
all these great immigrants in the city. That's basically what
he said. And then he said that he's excited about
the new Bronco Stadium, that they're excited to work towards
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a new Bronco Stadium. Now, for those of us, for
those of us who remember the old Bronco Stadium, that
was just like yesterday. That was it seemed like yesterday
we had the fight whether or not to build the
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new Mile High Stadium. It was, it was a it
was a battle. John l Way, the the the incredible quarterback,
said I won't be there, but the Broncos need this.
The argument was if we don't build them a brand
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new stadium, they're gonna leave and we can't afford for
them to leave. The business community go, oh my god,
we can't lose them. But really was we like, we
like the Broncos, let's build them a new stadium. And
how to put it, it's an ugly stadium. When they
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slapped up this stadium, it was obvious at least to
me that as soon as as soon as the last
bond was paid to pay off this bounce rosity, it
would be ripped down and there'd be another one. Is
there anything wrong with the current Broncos stadium yet it's
not a new stadium and the NFL's corporate welfare is
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just amazing. As for the Broncos new stadium, Mayor Johnson
told the Denver Gazette that he's very excited about keeping
the progress. The city's top priority is to keep the
team in the city. So the same old threat will
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be used to get us to reach into our pockets
to buy a new stadium, a new stadium which is
used you know, for what ten games a year, assuming
we go to the playoffs. It's it's really ridiculous, and
we have a stadium. I can't believe I'm old enough
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to go through this second iteration of this. So the
threat will will happen. Not not a not a gratitude
from the Broncos that that, for you know, sixty years,
the city has been good to the Broncos, that the
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fans have been more than good to the Broncos, that
we have been more than patient during the incredible droughts
of terrible, terrible years. The Sunday after Sunday, after endless Sunday,
that our fans give their Denver Broncos and in return
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will be a threat, and you'll it'll it'll start as whisper.
You know, we don't want to leave Denver, but you know,
if some other city gives us a prettier stadium, we'll
we'll have to go. Now, the chances are that that
we'll say yes to a new stadium. Why because well,
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when it comes to football, Denver is a football socialist place,
a crazed place for sports. Denver is the most sports
nutty town I think there ever was. We've got so
many major league teams and amazingly, they all kind of stink.
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Well rephrase, they've all gone through long periods where they
stinkd and we stay with them, like we're staying with
the Rockies now when there are potentially on track to
have the worst season in baseball history. And still people
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go because it's a great place to see a game
and it's a beautiful game. I enjoy the Broncos, love
to see the games on television. I've hit that age
where I don't want to go see it in person.
It's just too much of a hassle I like. I
like watching it from the comfort of my own home,
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and then when I get bored of it, I go
have a life. So there's this threat of we're going
to leave, and it's a power play. I'm gonna see
if I can get this imagery cross instead of a
power play that way, where the Broncos and the city
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say to taxpayers, the team's gonna leave if you don't
say yes to this. I mean it's a it's a
blackmail play, and it usually works. I'm wondering if it
can go the other way, if somehow taxpayers can say
to the city and to the Broncos, if we don't
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clean up the city, if you don't start enforcing the law,
if you don't get crime under can control and vagrants
off the sidewalks, we're not going to give you a
new stadium. And I guarantee you it would be it
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would be a game of chicken to see who would
blink first. If there was some sort of if than statement,
I mean, we don't do this. For instance, with educational taxes,
every few years, school districts ask for a mill levy
increase and they pull on our heartstrings and they show
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you a building that has a bad roofer needs a
new AC unit, and we say yes. Never does a
school district say, you know what, if you say yes
to this tax increase, we will deliver for you improved scores.
(07:57):
Never does it say, I tell you what you say
yes to this vote, and if in two years our
scores on reading and math and arithmetic, if they don't
improve to this level, whatever that level is, by ten percent,
If they don't go up by ten percent, then the
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tax goes away, or the second half of the tax
doesn't get collected. Could you imagine the pressure on a
school district to say, man, we want the tax money,
but it's contingent on our performance. Hmm. School districts don't
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do this because taxpayers don't demand it, because bureaucrats and
the media usually set the narrative, and the narrative is all,
we need more money for education, but we shouldn't expect
a guarantee word being guarantee of some type of return
of some type of something we're buying, all right, so
(09:08):
stick with me on this one. We know that in
a couple of years. I don't know when it'll have
to be after a good season with the Broncos, and
who knows if they'll have one one where it looks
like we could be could be looking at a championship.
They're gonna come in and say we need a new stadium.
Taxpayers need to put up the money for this private company,
(09:31):
the Denver Broncos, and we've we've got to We've got
to do this otherwise we're going to lose the Broncos.
They're gonna move to Detroit or someplace. They're gonna they're
gonna move to Kansas City. Now they've who wants who
wants the team? You know, there'll be some city out
there that says we'll take them, We'll bill you, build
(09:53):
you a beautiful new stadium. And it's that fear. It's
the fear of loss that gets people motivated. So my
thinking is this, why don't we jump ahead of that.
How how do we say to Denver Broncos, who really
carry the big stick there, If you don't get this
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city cleaned up, if you don't get the beggars off
the streets, if you don't get crime under control, if
you don't get transience from passing out and vomiting on
our sidewalks, if we don't see a visible change, you
don't get a new stadium. However, if if you solve
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the problems, if you get rid of crime up to
this level, if people feel safe walking down the sixteenth
Street mall, if car theft goes down to this level,
then we'll say yes to your stadium instead of the
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power brokers of Denver dictating to us what they want
and how much we have to pay for it. Wouldn't
it be great if we did it the other way?
I mean, right now, the only leverage you have is
to say we're not gonna reelect you, Michael Johnson. But
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come on, incumbents always get re elected. You have to
be terrible not to get re elected. That's that. Wouldn't
it be terrific? Wouldn't it be terrific if we instead
said no, no new stadium will risk the Broncos leaving
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this economic engine everyone claims it is if you don't
clean up because the city's never been like this. This
is a failing city and it's failing faster and faster.
What would the Denver Broncos do. Wouldn't it be fascinating
if the whole Broncos organization, instead of trying to convince
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taxpayers that they need a new toy. Instead, realize if
they want their new toy, they've got to pressure the
city to clean up its act. Wouldn't it be great
to have the Broncos on the people's side demanding, demanding
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we clean up the streets, demanding the litter begone, demanding
the graffiti begone, demanding the people passed out on the
sidewalk be gone, that the drug dealers be gone, maybe
even who knows, the traffic begone. Because they want a
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new stadium. The reason I think this way is this
all so familiar fight from from Trump. You gotta love
this no matter how you feel about it. He that
Trump is telling the Washington Commanders, the football team, the
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NFL football team, to revert back to their old name,
the Redskins. You need to be called the Redskins again.
And why is he? Why is he saying that? Because
the because of the Redskins the Commanders. God, what an
awful name. The Commanders, of course want what every NFL
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football team wants, a government sponsored, taxpayer paid for stadium.
You want a stadium. Change your name back to the Redskins.
Change your name to the Redskins. So how about this
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you want a new stadium, you have to go back
to the Redskins. It makes me think that maybe there's
a way that we can get we can get football
to do some of the heavy lifting to make things better. Now,
because of course, we'll devolve into the into the decision
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should we should we have the Redskins. I loved the
Redskins name, mostly because it was so very offensive and weird.
I mean, it's not like, it's not like the Braves
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or or the Indians. Hmm. Yeah. He called on Cleveland's
Major League Baseball team to change its name back to
the Indians from the Guardians. Are the Cleveland Indians the Guardians?
And I'm not watching I'm not watching sports the way
I used to back when I had a life. Are
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they really the Guardian? General Trump's post on social media
threatens to derail a three point seven the billion dollar
plan unveiled in April by the DC mayor to move
the Washington Commanders back to d C and redeveloped Robert F.
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Kennedy Memorial Stadium, which was the home to the franchise
for decades before moving to Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland.
So they want they want a stadium. They want a
new stadium, they want to fix up old stadium. How
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do you feel about this one? Would you one want
the Commanders to change their name. I want the Commanders
to change their name to anything but the Commanders, the Commanders.
That's just that's just the worst. Remember that year, after
(16:29):
all the silliness with the kneeling during during football games,
kneeling during the national anthem, that we're going to make
a football a a uh debate about race in America,
that multi multi multi millionaire players, we're playing victim. And
(16:55):
then we had to change the name of of of teams. Now.
I don't know why Indians is a terrible name. I
don't know why Braves would be a terrible name. These
are honoring names. I get why Redskin is a terrible name.
(17:16):
That is a terrible name. I don't. Yeah, we should
have a team named the Whities. I'm okay with that,
go for it. But there was something so bland about
the Commanders or for that year when it was just
(17:36):
the Washington football team. Remember a year they were unnamed.
They were just unnamed. So Trump says, bring back the name.
My proposal is, hey, Denver Broncos, you want your stadium.
(17:58):
Bring back Denver, Bring back Denver. We'll get you a
new stadium, but first show us the change.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Hey, after listening to dragons say that there is scientific
proof that women get through the cold much better. I
think the tip that we need to give Michael is
he just needs to identify as a woman for a
couple of days. He'll be much better, you know, Michelle
double D Brown.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I think it's good. Oh that's brilliant. Logic is undeniable.
It's science, man, it's science. Just ask any good social
justice warrior. You can be a woman just by declaring
you're a woman. That's how you get out over this
man cold. Michael Brown, I love that idea. I'm John Calderic.
(18:52):
Give me a call. Three h three seven one three
eight two five five. Michael Brown has a man called
start the violins. So could Denver live without a new
Broncos stadium. Part of me would really like to like
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to call their bluff. I've seen this movie before. We
need a new stadium. Otherwise we're leaving. All right. Maybe
that's the marketplace, but you see the power structure there.
The power structure is always you, the little people. We're
going to take away something you want if you don't
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do what we want. Never do we turn that on
its head and go, hey, big corporate interests, big unions,
we will give you what you want if you give
us what we want. First. My suggestion, Denver Broncos, we're
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not going to give you a new stadium until the
city is cleaned up. Here are the numbers we demand.
We want no homeless on the street. We want crime
down to this level. We want to be safe when
we go out at night. You hit these benchmarks, we'll
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vote yes. What would they do? What would we they
do in a school district if he said, we will
approve your mill levy increase when reading scores get to
this level, we'll give you half. Now, we'll give you
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the first few years of your new tax increase, so
you have some runway to get whatever done you need
to get done in order to get to those scores.
But if you don't hit those scores by contract, you
don't get the tax increase. This is the whole issue
of how how government really works. It's called rent seeking.
(21:12):
Why do they call it rent seeking? Because economists come
up with terms and economists never want to impress women,
so they come up with terms that just are so
stupid rent seeking. But it's simply it's the power of
concentrated special interests over the power the lack of power
of diffused interests. Taxpayers are diffused. We all have a
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little bit of money in the game, but the broncos,
they've got a lot of money in the game. My
days at Regional Transportation District RTD, I learned very quickly
RTD is not about moving people. It's about moving money.
So they want to tax increase so that they can
(21:58):
buy new toys. Who gives them money to run the
campaign on the guys who build tracks and the guys
who build the trains. Semens Corporation they put in a
quarter million dollars into the campaign, Excel Energy puts in
a quarter million dollars. Everybody puts in the quarter the
bond dealers, and when the thing wins, they all get
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a payday. RTD immediately buys nearly sixty million dollars worth
of trolley equipment from Siemens want a return on investment
for a mere quarter million dollar gift. But for the taxpayers,
if the tax is gonna cost you, oh, let's just
say one hundred dollars a year. How much would be
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reasonable for you to put into a campaign to stop
the tax increase? One hundred dollars ninety nine dollars. That's
the diffused interest. We all get screwed a little bit.
And that's why it's very easy for or concentrated interests,
corporate interests, unions, school unions to push people around. They're
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not very large in the scale of things, but they're
organized and they put their money in a specific thing
that benefits them. Wouldn't it be great if we did
the same. This is the opportunity. This is the opportunity
to say, Denver, you want your Bronco stadium, We'll get
you your Bronco stadium. But not until the numbers go
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like this. All the litter needs to be gone, all
the graffiti needs to be gone, all the bums on
the street need to be gone, all the panhandlers need
to be gone. Car theft needs to go away, and
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then we'll buy you a Bronco stadium, a Bronco stadium.
Wouldn't it be great in a way. Donald Trump is
trying to do that with the Redskins, or what used
to be called the Redskins. The commanders, they want a
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new stadium. Not that he gets to choose this. I
think it's the city of Washington, DC, not the federal government.
But he's got a big megaphone to say no, change
your name back to the Redskins, and then you get
your stadium. Wouldn't it be nice if we, the little
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people decided, decided the terms of this next thing instead
of the usual scare tactic, which is you're going to
lose the Broncos if if you don't buy us a
new stadium. No, no, no, we're the taxpayers. What do
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we get other than just the status quo? The status
quo is we have the Broncos, so we pay a
billion whatever dollars to get them a new stadium. And
what do we have the status quo the Denver Broncos.
Here's a text. I just came in. Hey, John, took
my daughter to the Metallica concert a few weeks ago.
(25:18):
I was so worried about having my work truck stolen
from Broncos Stadium that I rented a car for the night. Wow.
That says a lot. That was a one hundred dollars
plus expense. Because of the city's lack of concern about
auto theft. How many people just don't go to Denver
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because of so many bad things happening? Man? Ain't that
the truth? I know so many people who don't go downtown,
or if they do go downtown for a show, they
go to the show and get out. They don't hang
around any longer. Hmm, how true? Think about that. This
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guy made the decision it will cost me less to
spend more than one hundred bucks to rent a car
to go to this concert at Mile High or to
go downtown. It would cost me less to rent a car.
(26:24):
Then it would lose my car, my work car, and
have to deal with that at work. So this guy
pays the taxes if he works in Denver, he pays
a payroll tax to Denver as well. He pays the
sales tax to Denver. But they do such a poor job.
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He is so worried about losing his truck he'll pay
the extra hundred bucks and go through the hassle of
going down to the rental place renting a car on
the offhand chance it gets stolen, just because he wants
to take his daughter to a show. That that says
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it all, does it? Not? That says it all about
how how unsafe we feel in Denver, And yesterday Michael
Johnson says how wonderful this city is and how things
are going, and that homeless is under control, that there
are fewer homeless on the streets, even though in total
(27:32):
the number of homeless has gone up about ten percent
in the last year. It's just that we've brought them
all very nice hotels. Why there's a really quarter or
deficit in in the city budget. That's why they have
(27:53):
to cut services. Oh, I don't know, like police, because
they've got to provide services for the homeless. By welcoming immigrants,
we've got to provide for them, which means we are
in a less safe city. They've got to do staff
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cuts other places. You don't want to be in Denver.
I mean, this might be good for the suburbs. Maybe
outside of downtown Denver people are and businesses are doing well,
but definitely not so inside the city. So give me
your thoughts on this. How do we pull this one off?
(28:35):
You want a new Broncos stadium, fix the city first,
then we say yes to a stadium. I think we
should dictate the terms of the steel instead of what
the Denver Broncos in the city. Did you know twenty
some years ago when they got rid of a mile
(28:59):
high stadium, it was pure blackmail. It was you give
us a new stadium or the Broncos leave. Personally, I
think it's wrong to negotiate with terrorists. That's negotiating with terrorists.
(29:19):
You want to see your kid pay the ransom. You
want to see the Bronco game pay the ransom. How
about this, No, Denver, Broncos, we put it on you
to pressure the city to clean itself up. We pressure
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you to pressure the institution, the government of the city
of Denver, to actually enforce the laws, to get people
off the street, to make it visibly clean again, to
clean up the trash and clean up the graffiti. You
do that, then we'll say yes to your to your
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new stadium. But if we the taxpayers, if we the
Bronco fans, don't make this clear now and say it
in unison, I guarantee you if the Broncos have a
good season this year, they will threaten to leave if
we don't buy them a stadium before they have their
(30:28):
new cities, and we should say you want your stadium.
You pressure the city to do its damn job three
O three seven one three eight two five five. And
for the man cold ridden, poor poor Michael Brown, we
need a telethon for him. I'm John Calderic. Keep it
right here, you're on six point thirty k.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
How good morning, Michael. Well, h our esteemed mayor here
in Denver found out the true meaning of f a
FO And hey, wi, you protect the illegals and spend
taxpayer dollars on it, You're not going to get reimbursed
by the government. Huh. Anyhow, Yeah, he's whining about a
(31:11):
budget shortfall, and apparently that shortfall is the exact amount
that he was expecting to get for taking care of
the illegals.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
How very very true. I'm John Caldera in for the recuperating, suffering,
sad Michael Brown, who has a serious man cold. Nothing
worse than a man cold. So our mayor says, Oh,
everything's just groovy. We just need a lot more money
(31:41):
after he's spent all of our money providing services for
people here illegally. Did anybody see this not coming? Was
anybody out surprised that when you give services to some
near fifty thousand new residents that come in here without
a job or place to live without food support, healthcare, housing.
(32:05):
You're gotta pay for all this. Anyone surprised that we're
we're hurting for money. In the meantime, he also says
he's excited about working with the Denver Broncos to get
a new Broncos stadium. No, no, no, no no, I
(32:26):
say no new toys for Denver until you guys, including
the Denver Broncos, pressure of the city to do their job,
you know, enforce the law, clean up the city, clean
up the graffiti and the crime. Seems pretty simple to me.
(32:48):
I'm John Caldera back after the news
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