7-26-24 - 6am - Brownie’s Paper Route & Checkpoints Are Bad

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you Michael and Dragon. Good forFriday morning. Goobirds, hy uplaring,
Let go all. We're done withthe week. Bownie's got to work tomorrow,

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but not us. It's a goodthing. He can work the yesterday
while we're all fishing or boating orhaving fun. Happy he loo off writing
and you know that same dumbass buberright there. God bless his heart,
but he's laughing because I have towork Saturday, and then if I dare,

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if I dare take off like aFriday or a Monday, because I'd
like to have like a couple ofextra days off. Oh do they bitch
and moan and they cry and they'relike, oh, you're always taking vacation.
You're always to go on, You'renever here. What aren't you know
what? I have so much vacation. I get a burn between now and

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the end of the year. Soare we talking about here? And right
to be upset? Why? Thisis the working man? He's the blue
collar goobers of America. These aremy people. No, they're not.
Well, wow, these are mypeople. You're their people. I don't

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know if they're year these are theseare hard working blue collar Americans. What
do you think I am the opposite? I am a hard working blue collar
American. Uh huh. Well looksee if I have a dark blue collar
on, it's kind of a darkblue collar. Will it into existence?
Well, your blue collar is you'retrying to will it into existence this Friday

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morning. Do you know I've I'veworked blue collar jobs in my life.
Uh huh hm, I have whatwas your first ever job? The first
really serious job ever? Job yougotta paycheck? Not serious, first ever
job? Michael Brown got a paycheck. It was in college. It was
my first job in college. Youdidn't work till college. Well in let's

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see in height in high school,I had, I had a newspaper route.
Okay, you get paid, yeah, page, That's what I'm talking
about. But it was really weirdbecause you know, now we're chasing the
squirrel. Let's chase the squirrel.Think about how times were different. So
my best friend and I had weboth had a paper route that covered probably

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half a little town that we grewup in. And then we would substitute.
We would fill in for each otherif we were going to be gone
doing something, and the papers wouldarrive every morning, you know, in
a big stack on your porch,and then you'd have to take them in
on the kitchen table and you wouldeither like, uh, you could depending

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on the size of them, youcould fold them so you could toss them,
or you'd put a rubber band aroundthem so you could toss them.
And then we would get on ourbikes and if the weather was bad.
You know, our parents were reallynice and our parents would actually drive us
the weather was bad. But thenyou had to you had to go do
the collection. You had to gocollect for the paper. So you walked
to every door, every customer andknocked on their door and said, Hi,

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I'm here to collect for the DailyOklahoma to the guyman Daily Herald.
You know, sometimes we would throwboth and your your your bill is let's
just say, three dollars and twentycents, and generally the the the housewife,
because you know, they the housewifewould go find three dollars and twenty

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cents and you would. You wouldget three dollars and twenty cents and you
put it in a in a bagthat the bank gave you, and then
you would go pay your distributor thepaper the cost of the paper, and
what was left over was what wasthe money you made. And of course
you would work for tips, soyou obviously tried to get you know,

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I always tried to make sure thepaper was up not on the driveway,
but up on the porch. Youjust open the door and get the paper
right there. And so you mademoney from the newspaper, and you made
money from the tips. Look atthat, I think, I think I
see it now. You call itis blue. Here's such a look at
that. I can't say it inthe mirror. But you're such an a

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hole. Here's a rod the ahole. And then the first real job
you just you just came across onaccident. In my name, my nickname.
People that don't like me, giveme something else. Is that what
they call it? Pretty much?I love it? Well, it's fitting,
It's very fitting. And then thefirst serious job that I had was

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uh, freshman year in college,and I had all my classes in the
morning, and then in the afternoon, usually around one o'clock, I went
to this construction company where they manufacturedpre framed doors that would go into houses.
So part of my job was,uh, you know, I was
I was nowhere near the saws.But my job was to put the frame

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itself together. So I had anail gun and a power you know,
a power nail gun, and Iwas to then take those boards the frame
and put it together and nail ittogether, and then I would put over
here on a conveyor belt and thatwould go over to wherever they were assembling
the rest of the door inside BrownieBaseball. And I got to tell you

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that job taught me a lot becausethe people I worked with were they didn't
have college degrees. They were youknow, those were good paying jobs.
And they used to laugh at me, like why are you doing this?
And I said, well because Iyou know, I went the extra money

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and I study hard and I workhard. And this allows because tem and
I were married at the time,and this allows me to have a little
extra money so I can go dostuff. And so I did that for
a while. And then I hada friend who worked at a holiday inn
and he was leaving and I gotthe shift, the evening shift, working

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at the whole the desk at thewhole day in not as cool as my
first job, but it's it's cool. But what what was your age fourteen?
Boulder County youth core, thinning theforest baby, Oh yeah, yeah,
oh yeah, permanent calf muscles,right, oh, permanently every muscle,
like a minimum amount of muscle massminimum in my body. Just because

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of that couple of years. Nowfast forward today, when you say Boulder
youth core, yes, I thinkabout a bunch of Marxist mark marching down
Pearl Street. Demanding free stuff foreverybody. That would be today's Boulder youth
core crazy. Start them young,yeah, start them young. Yeah.
Yeah. Uh, you're welcome,goobers. Yeah, you're right, brownie,

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you're welcome. So when I takea day off here and there,
you can bitch and moan about it, but you know what there are,
and particularly concerning the new cycle lately, I I in fact, I'm trying
to figure out the next time I'mgoing to go to New Mexico. I
just want to go down and siton the deck and you know, take
the dogs on the walk and seethe deer in the turkey. And last
time, we have a former downthe road from where our house is is

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a retired Albuquerque cop and I mean, this guy, this is one tough
guy. I mean, he's he'samazing. But Don told us that the
first morning I was there last time, which is why the weekend or so
ago, the biggest mountain lion he'sseen walking down the road very like,

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very majestically. And we've heard themountain lions, but we've never seen it.
And I would love to see themountain lion. But I'd like to
see it maybe from the inside ofthe of the jeep. Maybe not from
you know, walking the dogs downthe road. So anyway, I now
carry when I'm walking the dogs.I now carry a glock with me while
I'm walking the dogs, just incase we encounter that mountain lion. It's

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wild down there, it's absolutely wild. Come down sometimes, Hey Rod,
I'm down you know what I wehere's the interesting thing. No, well,
I shouldn't say I would never.I would take like you and Dragon
down there for a weekend, justas guys ad to the mix. Yeah.
Absolutely, duh. Well I'm not. Dragon's a tequila guy. We'll

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get We'll get Dragon whatever he wants. You'll he'll have some water or some
icedy or whatever. He can havewhatever he wants. But you and I'll
have well, we'll sip tequila andwe'll sit and you know, and and
then one of us will have tobe the designated driver so that we can
walk down the road and the audiendwalker designated walker designated walks right or maybe

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me, Maybe I need a walkerto go down the road. At that
point, I'll get well, I'llget one of those walkers that has the
wheels on it. I can wheeldown the road. No, tennis balls,
TNS tennis bottom of the water,or or you guys could just put
me in a wheelchair and wheel medown the road and the river goes through

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the backyard. The there's a fairlylarge river that goes through our backyard.
You could just take me and pushme off into the river, the final
send off. Yeah, when youwant to go out your way, we'll
deliver, right. Or when youguys just finally get actually, I mean,
I know you pretend that you're sickof me, but you really do
get sick of me. You couldjust say, hey, you know that

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guys weekend you talked about, We'reready for that, and I'll be like,
oh yeah, that'd be so muchfun. And then I'll never come
back if we really get sick ofyou. I don't think we'd have the
patience to wait through half of atrip to get to that moment. I
think we were just just off you. You're just going off me here in
the building right. Well, youknow you dragon's a little crazy, a
little crazy. You're right, alot all of you guys, you know,

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all you guys scared. In fact, everybody just building scares me.
You're not wrong because there because weall work in radio, that's right,
So we're all crazy. Do youknow how bad it is? Do you
know how So I've told you beforehandthat I was having a conversation yesterday with
my program director in LA about thenationally syndicated program, which is The Weekend

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with Michael Brown, which you canhear tomorrow from ten to one, or
you can get this on your iHeartRadioapp and by the way, and it
replays right here on six point thirtyK on Sunday evenings too. Plug yeah,
plug plug plug. But anyway,here's the difference. So we had
a little problem the last actually thelast two times I've been in New Mexico

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because the equipment was just not workingcorrectly. So without me saying a word,
the engineer said, would you beoffended if we just sent you like
a new access unit and a newmixer and everything and a new microphone just
so we have and just send itdesk. You can just leave it there

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and you'll have it there. I'mlike, because I'm still accustomed, because
I can't even get light in here. I can't even get an e fan
light bulb in here, and they'regonna they're ready to send me, like,
you know, five thousand dollars worthof equipment, but Notn've ben thinking
about it. And so I'm talkingto my program director yesterday and I'm laughing
about the equipment. I can't evenget light bulbs here, and I can't

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get like the cleaning people to cleanup in here. And do you know
that? I woke up this morningrealizing I was dreaming about being in one
of the studios in Los Angeles broadcasting. I was on air. That's how
much I love my job. I'mdreaming about it, Beautiful. I'm it's

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sick. It's sick. How manypeople dream about their work? Do you
dream about work? Uh? Yeah, yeah, I've had some, like
worm working dreams, running shows andall kinds of stuff. But to your
points, because we love our jobs, yeah, we do love our jobs.
But what was interesting about what Iwas dreaming was last night I was

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I was in LA doing it,but I was doing this program, which
I found kind of I mean,I guess that could happen because I could
be because I do need to goout to LA because I do need to
meet with my program director, andI guess I could just do this program
from out there sometime which dragon wouldlove because he would have looked at me.

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You enjoyed working with me this week, and I know you have,
I have, Yeah, I can'tlie. Yeah. Absolutely. Do you
want to get to the first story? Absolutely? Do you know what?
It's not about Kamala. It's notabout Kamala. But we're gonna get to
Kamala later. But this is astory that And let me just say right

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now, I know that some ofyou. In fact, i'd be curious
how many of you disagree with myposition on this story. So last night
I'm looking around. You know,I always do the Michael Brown minute over
on Freedom as a promo that runsthree or four times a day over there

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on Freedom, and I always Ialways want to make it a local you
know, I don't, but managementalways wanted me to make that promo a
local story, since that's all nationallysyndicated program, including yours, truly the
only one in this building. Ijust want to pat myself on the back
there. Oh, can you getmy arm and shoulders unstuck here from patting

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myself on the back. It's notthat permanently, and uh so I'm running.
So I looked for local things totalk about. And I came across
this story that when I saw it, I knew I was already pissed off.
The headline over at KDVR is this. Jim Hooley, one of our
former employees, wrote the story DUIcheckpoints plan for Denver area this weekend.

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Here's the story, Dateline, Denver. The Metro Denver d UI Task Force
will be busy this weekend. Memberswill be conducting d UI checkpoints throughout the
metro area. Agencies involved in theweekend operation will include the Arvada Denver and
the Lakewood PDS, and the ColoradoState Patrol. The times and locations for

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the checkpoints are not being disclosed,says the story, But and remember our
rule about butt, always pay attentionto the words after the butt. The
times and locations for the checkpoints arenot being disclosed, but officers will be
all over the metro. Officers willbe looking for drivers impaired by alcohol,

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marijuana, drugs, or any combinationthereof. Those found under the influence will
be arrested. According to the POPO, in twenty twenty three, two hundred
and eighteen people died in impaired drivingrelated crashes in Colorado. More information on
resources driving impaired to be final onthe No DUI Colorado website. Now,

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let me just say, with respectto the two hundred eight people that I
didn't impair driving related crashes, Iam sorry. And those are tragedies and
they're horrible. But guess what ithappens, and people die in car accidents
where there is no impaired driving.People die every day from all sorts of
diseases from all sorts of accidents.There'll be a work accident somewhere in Colorado.

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You know. I had a guyworking in at my house yesterday and
he's done stuff at our house fora couple of years, and I was
out there talking to him. He'sfrom Mexico. He's an American citizen.
He's a naturalized citizen. And wewere talking about and I asked him about
how much family still in Mexico andhow they're doing. And he's talking about

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all the crime in Mexico and howbad it is. But he said that
his brother died recently in a workplaceaccident. He's a mechanic and one of
those hoists that they have in theshop somehow broke loose and came down and
crushed his head. It was ahorrible story. People die all the time,
and they die for all sorts ofreasons. Let me just say that
I am not in fa I amnot in favor of drunk driving. I

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am not in favor of impaired driving. However, I am vehently opposed to
checkpoints. It's gestopol like, showus your driver's license, maybe see your
papers, Please hand over your papers. Checkpoints, I absolutely despise them.

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Now, let me make certain thatyou understand that checkpoints have been ruled by
the United States Supreme Court as legal. There's a case of the Ninth Circuit.
It's not it's this is not theUS Supreme Court. This case was
upheld. But here's the here's thestory. It was the valet whole California

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Police Department. It was a roadthat had seen a lot of wrecks involving
impaired drivers. So this guy namedDavid Demarrest sees the checkpoint. As he
got closer, the traffic became slower. Sign said posted DUI and driver's license.
Checkpoint ahead. Have your driver's licenseready now. The checkpoint was operated

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under what they call a neutral formula. That means that every single car has
to be stopped unless the backups getto be more than five minutes long.
Then they just start waving cars through. Then they start checking vehicles again.
Now think about the absurdity of that. You have a checkpoint where you're ostensibly

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going to check every single driver,but if it gets two backed up,
well you just wave everybody through.So you could literally wave through a drunker
and impair driver. Love hearing aboutthe paper out. I had a paper
out in the early seventies and beinga girl like when it was Sunday and

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the papers were big out, pushingthem around in a wheelbare. But when
I had to go collect oh,I got good tips, except the old
man who complained about where I puthis paper. Then he threatened to throw
his money, his paper money,into the yard, so I'd have to
search for it. Interesting. Youknow, you're right the Sunday paper was
always heavier, right because it hadall the inserts on the comic page and

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everything else. But to your pointabout tips, by the way, no
taxes on tips, right, goTrump Trump, twenty twenty four. But
I always got better tips from thefemales than I did from the males.
Yeah, that's why to this dayI that's I think that's if he analyzed

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me psychologically, which would be prettyinteresting, wouldn't it. Because I really
am a hot I'm a hot mess. Uh. That's why I think I'm
so adamant about tipping for service.You know, I have a question,
So somebody give me advice on this. I'm having a mobile detail service come

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to the house on Monday to detailthe jeep because I'm just the dogs have
been hauled down to the undisclosed locationso many times. I just don't want
to mess with cleaning it myself.So I'm having somebody come to the house
and detail the jeep for me.Do you what do you tip? Do
you tip those people? And whatwould you tip them? I don't.

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I don't know what I don't.I don't know what the appropriate tip would
be. So if you have,if you have an idea, or if
you have a mobile detailing service,if one of you listens to this program
and you have a legit. I'mnot talking about you're going to show up
with a bucket of water and soapand wash my car. That's not what
I'm talking about. But if somebodyin this audience has a mobile detailing service,

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I will cancel the other one unlessyou happen to be the one I've
used, and I will use youdon't know, I'll give you a tip.
Well, i'll give you a tip. Tip will be tell other people
about this program. So we're talkingabout checkpoints because they're making a big fn

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deal about checkpoints in the Metro areathis weekend. And I despise checkpoints.
I think they're a violation of theFourth Amendment. There's no probable cause whatsoever,
none whatsoever. Just because I'm drivingdown the highway doesn't give law enforcement
a probable cause. But I amthis is again, I'm don Quixote tilting

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it windmills here because the US SupremeCourt in nineteen ninety ruled that these checkpoints
are legal. But here's the storythat started all of this, and it
comes out of the Ninth Circuit,the most liberal circuit, and it's a
case called Demris versus City of Valo. So this guy named Demrus saw the
checkpoint and he approaches the checkpoint,he stopped, he was signaled to stop,

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and he complied. Then the copasked to see his driver's license.
Now, instead of producing his driver'slicense, Demrous asked if he could content
officer, may I continue, MayI continue to move on? The officer
again asked for his driver's license.Demrous responded by asking whether or not the
officer had any call, any probablecause, or reasonable suspicion to stop him.

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The cop did not respond to hisquestion, but instead said that if
you did not produce your license,he was going to be arrested. He
declined to show his license, sothe officer opened the door, grabbed him
by the arm, pulled him outof the car, and handcuffed him,
and then searched his car. Theylocated his Vermont driver's license. They took

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him to jail. He was bookedon a misdemeanor charge of failing to show
his license and carrying a concealed knife. Wow. He participated in a deferred
sentencing program and the charges were ultimatelydismissed, So then he sued. He
sued, alleging an unconstitutional seizure atthe checkpoint and an illegal arrest, unsupported

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by probable cause and excessive force.That case never went to the Supreme Court,
but others did. The Court specificallyapproved the use of limited sobriety checkpoints
to combat impair drivers. That's aMichigan case from nineteen ninety. But here's

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the point I want to make aboutit. This is how you start to
lose your rights. This is howwe start to drift away from the original
meaning of the Constitution. All searches. Hang on, hang on, just
hang on a minute, because thisis really this is one of my personal

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bugaboos. And I know many ofyou right now are saying, Oh,
but Michael, if it saves justone life, the right of the people,
the right of you and me tobe secure in our persons, our
houses, our papers, and oureffects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall
not be violated, and no warrantshall issue but upon probable cause, supported

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by oath or affirmation, and particularlydescribing the place to be searched and the
person's to be seized. Now thinkabout this. Now, set aside the
whole issue of driver's licenses. I'ma radical about driver's licenses. I don't
think you need a driver's license todrive. I don't think that that should

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be a requirement. And I don'tthink that you should be able to just
randomly stop everybody in the highway becauseyou're a fraid that there's too many drunk
drivers will go what guess what,Go look for the drunk drivers and go
stop them. When you see themdoing something that creates a reasonable suspicion,
to stop them. That's your jobas law enforcement. Your job is not

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to stop everybody in the highway,because not everybody is a drunk driver,
not everybody is impaired. But thesecheckpoints are get stop. Well, like
everybody gets stopped. You got toproduce your driver's license, show your registration,
show your insurance. And you knowwhat, I haven't done the damn
thing wrong. Leave me alone.But the Supreme Court disagrees with me.

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And the Supreme Court says, well, it's reasonable because it serves a public
safety interest. Okay, if youwant to see see here's where we've gone.
We've got and here's what the court'sdone too. The courts have first
said that it has to serve aparticular law enforcement purpose, such as stopping

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drunk drivers. But then the courtbroadened that in a later case, and
I think that was don't hold methis. But this was either the Indiana
case or there was a case calledMitchell I. Forget which one's wision doesn't
make any difference. You don't care. It doesn't make any difference. But
then it went from it's a reasonablepurpose to check for drunk drivers, but

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then it expanded to, oh,now you can broaden it because it serves
a general public safety interest to checkfor driver's licenses. So they could actually
have it. They could have acheckpoint just to have you produce your driver's
license. Now, what's next,just to stop you, just to ask

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you. And somebody's mentioned this onthe text line. Where you're going,
Well, it's none of your damnbusiness where I'm going. Where you've been,
it's none of your business where I'vebeen. This is why I've always
said that being a cop is adifficult job, as it should be.
You want to stop drunk drivers,then guess what. Quit cutting police department

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budgets so you can take care ofillegal aliens and put more cops on the
road and have cops look for peoplethat are weaving or you know. Oftentimes
drunk drivers will drive too slow becausethey're so scared of getting stuck, whether
obvious on the highway, or theyweave, or they don't turn, or
they turn on their turn signal fiveblocks ahead, or like old farts,

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then they leave it on and neverturn it off. But that's that creates
a reasonable suspicion. Checkpoints are literally, may I see your papers please?
And I despise them. How manyof you, I'm curious, agree with
me? And how many of youthink? Because I know some of you

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do. But Michael, Michael,come up, you're being so unreasonable.
It's it's not gonna it doesn't takeany time. All you have to do
is just show your license. Allthey're gonna do is shine a flashlight in
your eyes and see if your eyesare bloodshot, to see if your speech,
to see if your speech is slur. Just think Joe Biden would be

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Joe Biden would be arrested for drunkdriving. Every time he talked to a
cop. He slurs everything he says. It doesn't Michael, it's it'll say.
They'll get some drunk drivers off theroad. Think about those two hundred
and eighteen people that died. Yeah, think about the Constitution. It's out
the window. Well, Michael,we have to adopt a modern society.

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And there are people driving drunk anddown in Colorado, they're smoking weed and
they're driving drunk. Well, thengo look for them. Don't stop me,
because I'm not doing it. Ohmy god, this just drives me
crazy. And you what else drivesme crazy? With all due respect to
Jim Hooley. Now, Jim Hooley'sarticle that was in KADIVR is fairly neutral.

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But I guarantde amn to you thatif you listen to any of the
television stations, they're all, ohman, this will be a lead story
because they're going to be out andforce this weekend. You lose your rights
little by little because everybody wants tobe safe. Well, you know what,

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why don't we just do this?Why don't we just put you know,
let's put scanners in our car.So I've got to scan my driver's
license, I got to do abreathalyzer in my car. I've got to
do all of these things before Ican even start the ignition. How about
we just do that, and howabout we just reduce all speed limits to
twenty miles an hour everywhere. Now, I know all of you on I

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twenty five, that they're on thetwenty five or the two two five or
the seventy right now, and I'djust like to say that because because we
are California, so you know,in California, they refer to the Five.
They refer you know, to toto the to the Interstates as the
whatever. So you might as welljust start doing that in Colorado too,
because we're just as bad. Wellactually in many cases we're actually worse than

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California. Now, but to TVstations, you just mark mark my words.
They'll be talking about it because they'reall excited about it, and you
know what you can. You canyou can argue that it's going to save
one life. I don't care.I don't care. I care more about
the Constitution. I care more aboutindividual liberty and individual rights than I do

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a cop having a roadblock somewhere andstopping everybody so that, you know,
and mark, oh, one morething before I have to I'm like,
for a break, but mark mywords on this. After this is over
all these DUI checkpoints, the localtelevision stations and probably even our newsroom will
run big ass stories about, oh, so many people were arrested this weekend,

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and it'll be like, oh,look, you screw you. I'll
be right back. Wow. Soan engineer solved a problem a lawyer was
having so he could do his jobbetter. Amazing. I still maintained the

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engineer. See, and that rightthere, that's why engineers are the scourge
of the earth. Engineer, Ijust don't get engineers. They think they
can fix everything. Ah, engineers, engineers, it's lawyers, baby,
Well, thank god we have lawyers, right. The problem is we don't

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have enough lawyers. I don't knowwhy anybody would go to law school today.
You know, I was speaking tosomeone who's who's wife is going to
law school, and I asked,I asked him if she liked it,
and he said, yea mostly.And I have to admit I loved law
school. I absolutely loved it.But was it a pain in the acid

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times? Yes? I wouldn't tradeit for anything else. I man,
it was fantastic. Back to theI'm gonna go to text lines. So
obviously I've hit a sore point withmany of you about the checkpoints, and
it's nice to know that many ofyou agree with me. I love this
one, though. Where did itgo? H good? But number forty

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three forty four says Mike, youcan rest assured that you're correct because you
and I agree on this. SoI'm right because you agree with me.
I love it. Well, ifI'm right, but you disagree with me
on it. But here's a goodpoint about the checkpoints that I that I
should emphasize. You can turn aroundand avoid the checkpoint. However, here's

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the here's the kicker. You haveto be able to make the legal turn.
So if it's I mean, forexample, if if the checkpoint is
on a two lane road, isit legal at that point where every wherever
you at the point you see thecheckpoint ahead, if you can make a

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left or right turn onto another streetand go around it, That's what I
would do. However, if yousee the checkpoint ahead and you have to
make a say, a three pointturn to turn around and go back to
the opposite direction, make sure it'slegal to do that, because now they
have a reasonable suspicion if you've madean illegal turn to come after you and

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stop you anyway, Not that theywould because they're too busy stopping everybody else.
Oh it drives me nuts. Andof course you're also right. How
about during the pandemic, please showUSh your essential employee papers. You know,
it's funny because I have a stackof of like key cards and ID

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cards and stuff like that, includingmy white house collegue did I still keep?
And I ran across my iHeart EssentialEmployee card and I'm just thinking,
you know, if they decided tofire me, ay Rod, I'm gonna
pull that card out and say,wait a minute, you can't do that.
I'm essential. I'm absolutely essential.So watch for the checkpoints, watch

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for the checkpoints, turn around andavoid them. And mark my words,
dealt out on Monday about how manypeople they stopped