8-14-25 - 6am - Schumer Takes A Walk, iHeart Bathrooms and RTD

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chuck Schumer claims that he goes on walks around DC.
I'll buy himself, so obviously DC is safe. He does
forget to mention that he has full secret service detail
at Alemmo. Interesting such a wire.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Does he have secret services? We'll just have a security details.
Let's not equip over details just quite yet. Okay, But
I didn't know where I was yesterday. I was driving around.
I had this couple of things to do that I
was having an early deal with.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Him, and I heard that news report and I just
thankfully I didn't have any diet code in my mouth
because I would dispute it all over the console of
the beamer. But Chuck Schumer, actually, man, oh my gosh,
hang on a minute, let me see if I can
find let me go clips. Let me go to the

(00:53):
clips bank, uh, Chuck, Chucky Schumer, and let's see if
it if it pops up, yes, well that's only I want.
I want alonger than I don't want to just here
we go. This is absolutely classic how someone can go

(01:16):
on this is on. Uh, what's the source here? This
is what says YouTube. He's talking to somebody named Aaron Parnas.
Who's Aaron Parnas. Is that a YouTuber or is that
a podcast or whatever. I don't know, but here's what
he said.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
I'll pivot and talk a little bit about what's in
the news today, and that is DC and Donald Trump's
mobilization of it.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
By the way, Dragon, you might want to put this
clip up.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Oh yeah, I'm hunting it down right now.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Okay it it's and not because of the audio, but because,
for the first time in my entire life, guess what,
h chuck, chuck. They Schumer has his glasses actually on
his face, not down on the tip of his nostrils.
It's shocking. It's in fact, i'd not recognize the guy.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
The National Guard, the federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
I want to get your reaction to everything that's happening
in DC.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
But first, a lot of folks on the Republican side,
your Republican colleagues, say that they are very scared to
walk outside in d C.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
That they think this is completely the right thing to do.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Senator, are you scared walking around Washington, DC these days? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Before he answers, let me, let me draw a picture.
Let's do a little cartography here. Let's draw him in.
I can't believe alexis completely hijacks the first segment of
the program. But I had completely forgotten about this by
the time I got home. He kind of like, you know,
gone out, you know, the other.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Ear So he does look weird with this guy. He
look weird. That's just oh, that's.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Like he's he looks like a regular.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Human beings body double.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
That's right, it's a body double. And it must be
because of the stupidity this pizzon the mastery that's about
to come out of his mouth. But let me draw.
Let's do a little cartography, and let's do a little
scene setting here. Okay, just indulge me, please, because I
know this area incredibly well, because when I first went
to Washington, d C. I lived in what my family euphemistic,

(03:17):
well not euphemistically realistically called the dump. Before I moved
into a studio apartment across the river. In Alexandria, I
lived on Capitol Hill northeast I no, I'm sorry, southeast,
and right near the Republican National Committee offices. And it

(03:39):
was one of these you know, the old colonial style,
you know, the row houses, and this elderly woman was
renting out her basement, and I was in a rush
to try to find someplace. I found this place, so
I rented it, and it was just horrible. I'm to
this day when I think about it, I just I
get I can't believe I lived there. It is And

(04:00):
and when I first got to d C, this was
before I became the Undersecretary, I was just a lowly
General council and so I didn't have a security detail.
I didn't have anything. But I could walk the several
blocks to the RNC building because there was a metro
stop there and I could take it was like a
two stop metro ride to my offices. So that's what

(04:22):
I would do. And in the evenings I would sometime
come back and it would be late in the evening.
It would be, you know, seven, eight o'clock at night,
and so I would come up out of the metro stop,
or I might take the next stop beyond the RNC,
and there were there was It would be Pennsylvania Avenue
southeast because it kind of goes in a southeasterly direction,

(04:45):
and I would there were some hole in the wall restaurants.
There were a few nice places. There was a Mexican place,
a tie place, a Chinese place. There was a little
like neighborhood grocery store. There was a place called the
tune In which was a very famous bar dive, hamburger
joint that congressman and senators all went to, and in

(05:07):
fact the Mexican dive. I was there eating by myself
one day and I looked up and sitting at the
tables were all crammed right together. And I looked up
and there was Justice sander Dale old Connor, eating Mexican
food right next to me, and she had a staffer
with me. So I introduced myself to her, told her
you know what I did, and blah blah blah, and
I was new in the administration, and so we had

(05:28):
a lovely conversation. It was. It was to the point
where some of my friends were cautioning me, like, you're
too naive. You're not paying attention to your surroundings. Now,
I've always been one of these guys that was pretty
aware of my surroundings and was always kind of a situation,

(05:51):
you know, just situational awareness. So after that, after those
friends of mine told me, you know, be a little more,
I really started looking around. I think I was just
too busy and too tired to pay much attention, which
is a horrible thing to do. But nonetheless, I'm just
being honest with you. I realized that this is not

(06:12):
really a good area of town. It's it's kind of
on the edges between not really gentrified yet and slums.
So it's it's kind of that area. Now, I could
also walk to the US Capital from there. Now along
Pennsylvania Avenue, either a block or two off, either to
the north of the south, I forget. But still all

(06:35):
these row houses is a house that is owned by
Chuck Schumer. Now these houses have like three stories and
then a basement, and they have you know, like a
bathroom on every story, and there might be a couple
of beds. I mean you could you could cram in
five or six senators. And that's what Schumer does. He

(06:57):
owns the house. And now, whether this is stil true
today or not, but at the time it was true.
He had roommates. They all lived in this house. Now
it was close enough that a schlub like me could
walk to the capital if I needed to. Chuck Schumer
does not walk to the Capitol. Chuck Schumer has a

(07:20):
let me keep he was at that time he would
have been Yes, he would have been the Senate Major
Majority leader, but even as the minority leader, he would
still have the limo. He does not, to be technically correct,
he does not have US Secret Service protection. He has
He does have either part of the Federal Protective Service

(07:45):
or the US Capitol Police will offer details, so he
has one or the other, but it is not US
Secret Service, so it's not quite the same level as well,
it's not the same level at all. But he has
armed people that walk with him everywhere, and I mean everywhere.
I looked, been there, done that. I've walked in the

(08:08):
halls of the United States Capital, I've walked in the
halls of the Senate building. And every time that I've
ever seen Chuck Schumer, even in a hearing, you'll see
to get the cloak rooms behind the hearing, the hearing room,
I've been back in those rooms where Chuck Schumer is.
There's always a bodyguard, always a bodyguard. So now the

(08:31):
little podcast or YouTube or whatever his name is, and
I don't mean to make fun, I just want who
this guy is. Aaron Parnas has asked, so.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
Is it scared to walk outside in DC? That they
think this is completely the right thing to do. Senator,
Are you scared walking around Washington, DC?

Speaker 3 (08:52):
These days?

Speaker 2 (08:53):
I walk around all the time.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
I wake up early in the morning sometimes and take
a nice walk as the sun is rising.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
Or and don't get me wrong, that may be factually true.
I don't know what his personal habits are. He may
get up at the crack of dawn and he may
go for a walk.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
It's just not by himself, round some of the capital
and the other monuments and things, and I feel perfectly safe.
They're full of it. Look, here's what they've done, Aaron,
plain and simple. Donald Trump wants to distract. That's his
game plan. It's been his mo for his first term
in the presidency and now so he trying to make

(09:32):
this a distraction. What's he trying to distract from? Well,
a lot of things, but above all Epstein?

Speaker 3 (09:40):
What Epstein? Where where's that come from?

Speaker 5 (09:44):
Been confronting him on Epstein very successfully, left and right,
so much so that Johnson had to dismiss you know,
had to send his.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
The house home early.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
And we called it the Epstein recess. We have found
an arcane rule that he.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
Sells proud of himself. He leans down because he's looking
at his notes, trying to think about what they called it.
We called it the Epstein recess, but he didn't know that.
Lade looked down at his notes. Really, I've never heard
anybody refer to the Epstein recess until I heard the
clip yesterday. Dragon. Have you heard it before?

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Nope, never heard of it, not at all.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
Five members of our Homeland Security Committee demand documents.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
We should get them.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
When I really, you know, when I attacked them for
sending the Deputy Attorney General Trump's lawyer down to interview Glaine,
they went crazy.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
They're feeling it, and we're not letting go.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
When we come back, we are going to have many
more things in terms of going after them on the
Epstein files. So that's what it is. It's a distraction,
plane and simple.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
Now, isn't it amazing? That was one minute and fifty
one seconds?

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Real quick?

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Though?

Speaker 2 (11:01):
I am curious though, like eight months ago, didn't didn't
they have control over the Epstein file?

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Uh? Yeah they did.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
It asn't matter of I mean, just just thrown that
out there. Yeah, if you wanted them for released, Yeah,
you had them in your hot little hands.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yeah, you certainly did, and you're the majority. In fact,
you have the majority in both houses, and you could
have done up, but you didn't do it. Just like
they could have known. They could have passed comprehensive immigration
reform any number of years since you know the Obama well,
going all the way back to Clinton, they could have passed,
you know, a comprehensive immigration but they did. But think
about this, also put it in context. That was one

(11:44):
minute fifty one seconds. The first maybe twelve fifteen seconds
was this YouTuber asking do you feel safe? And his
answer is yes, I walk around all the time. I
feel you know, I love walking around the monuments. I
love you know, the sunrise, blah blah. And that is
probably true. I don't doubt that whatsoever. But I guarandamn

(12:07):
to you that as he walks around, there are at
least one, if not two men, you know, men and
black guys. Uh, probably six feet behind them, you know,
you got to say, six feet of BArch social distancing.
And then right next to them is a black suv.
So as he strolls in his slippers, in his pajamas,

(12:28):
and he's probably he's kind of like you know, Howard
Hughes he's got his he's got his robe on, and
he's got his slippers, and he's kind of shuffling around DC,
you know, looking at you know, oh god, it's really nice.
That's nice, really nice. Yeah. Oh what bull crap? What
utter bull crap?

Speaker 2 (12:47):
What are the chances you think when Chuck Schumer gets
up in the morning, he's got one of those little
nightcaps and long gown type of night shirts, like an
eben Uzer Scrooge. He walks around a little one, you know,
a singular candle. That's I just picture that when I
see him, you know, walking around at night.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Well, well I picture because I I don't know who
his roommates are.

Speaker 5 (13:07):
Now.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
I'm sure it changes over the years, but you know,
they're all Democrats. They're all Democrats, Senators. I might be
a congressman or too. In there. They might put the
congressmen down in the basement, you know, and then the
senators get the you know, the upper stories of the
nice part of the of the row house. But I'm
just curious, like, they have no social they have no lives,

(13:30):
they have no lives whatsoever. It's you know, go to
the go to your office, meet some constituents, you know, raised,
and then and then they you know, finish their legislative day,
which is so vigorous so just wears me out thinking
about it. And then they have to go to the
cocktail parties to raise money.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
It's so much so that they have to they get
the whole month of August stuff done.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yes, exactly, because because the other eleven months are so
wait a minute, well not really eleven months, so the
other well, what maybe the other six six months. Maybe
it's so grueling that they need all that time off.
And then you know, in those cocktail parties, you gotta
you gotta stuff the checks and the cash into your

(14:14):
pockets and then you got you gotta once you get
then you gotta go home. You gotta get it all out,
you gotta make a Bank's just awful the things they
have to go through. So I'm sure that every morning
that's his one peaceful moment when he can walk around
and think, how can I f the American people today?

(14:36):
Holy cow? That was did you find clip?

Speaker 4 (14:41):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah, it's posted it, Michael says, go here dot com.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
Well you're actually doing some producing today, so you're you've
done more work in the first Uh, well, we came
on the air about what six oh five or so,
So we've been on the air about fourteen minutes. You've
done more work in the fourteen minutes that you've been
back there producing than Chuck Schumer's day. This is Thursday.
That well, oh wait a Minute's Thursday that they go
home today? They go if they're even working today, they

(15:05):
go home today. And in fact, Chuck, well, Chuck may
Chuck may or may not go back to New York.
I mean, why go to New York when you can
stay in DC and just have people stuffed money in
your buckets. Do you think sometimes when they stuff the
money in their pockets that they kind of play a little,
you know, pucket billiards a little bit. I bet they do.
Or maybe they have the guys that are stuffing the

(15:26):
money in their pockets play the pocket billiards. Maybe that's
what they do.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
That sounds much more fun.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
I think that that only sounds much more fun, but
that would sound much more like a senate minority leader.
I don't need to play pocket billiards myself. I've got
people to do that for me. Oh now, what was
I gonna do? Does see? I'm totally distracted from what
I was going to do.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Ah, here's what I was gonna do, talk making you
chase squirrels.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Nah, I no, I can't believe. I actually I have
to say for that one was something I had completely
forgotten about since I heard it yesterday. So kudos to Alexa.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
You know.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
No, no, no, no, no, don't. I don't want to
do that because when I don't want to encourage her,
I don't want to make her head any bigger than
whatever it is already. And I don't want her to
think that somehow she can influence what the there are,
that any of you gubers can influence the direction of
this program. Because clear I I, I, like al Hague,
am here now in control of this studio, and I

(16:28):
am in charge. So let's just make.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Sure you do. Did you see what I did when
you said that almost spit your sewed out?

Speaker 3 (16:39):
No, I looked down and see if my microphone was
on or not. I was taking a sip of dike
OC and I looked down. As you said, you'd like
to think whether you're in control or not. I look
down and see whether or not my microphone was still on.
So yes, I understand my place in this world.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
I even the more fascinating thing. Your mike could be on.
I just pot that little suck her down. And now
your mic is still on. The light is lit. You
can't do anything in there. You could turn it on
and off all you want. Your gums are flapping, but
ain't nobody hearing you at.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Flapping around right now? Nobody's hearing it. So that's what
you do say. I guess that, and I like you.
I tried to keep you as my producer. Why why
did I do that?

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Ain't nobody else gonna put up with you?

Speaker 3 (17:25):
This is the best show in the entire country to
work on. Trust me. Nobody has as much fun doing
as little work as you and I do. And the
bosses think that we actually do show prep. They think
we actually prepare and do.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Things nine days out of ten. We do have a
pre show meeting.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah, you're right, we do. Just let's see what should
we tell what we talked about today?

Speaker 2 (17:48):
I don't even remember. Oh oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yes, we've got to tell them what we talked about today.
So I'm I'm I'm putting around doing my stuff yesterday,
and I well, I don't care whether Temper or Jojo
knows this because I just I just don't give a
reds ask. I do not for a deliberate purpose. Have
iHeart email on either my phone or my iPad. Yeah,

(18:14):
I have it on my MacBook Pro and I have
it at home on my Mac at home, so I
have access to my email, but not on my phone
and none on my iPad. So if I'm out and
the bout, I don't see emails. I do, however, get
text messages from my producer.

Speaker 6 (18:32):
Good morning from South Dakota. In the late sixties, my uncle,
who was a lawyer, lived in Washington, d C. And
had something to do with the government. I was too
young to really know what was going on, because back
then the adults didn't tell the kids those kind of things.
But he told my dad one time that all he
could do was go to work, come home and stay

(18:53):
in his apartment.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
It wasn't safe in the city. Everyone have a great day. Well,
your uncle clearly was a loser because he didn't have,
you know, a six person security detail in a black
suv to haul him around everywhere. So you know, it's sad,
but you know, anybody listening to Dakotas that's kind of
what we would expect just you know, Loserville so sad.

(19:15):
So we had our production meeting this morning. And it
all stems back to a text message that I get
from Dufus back there at eleven forty four yesterday morning.
Dufus back There writes to me, you'll see a Denver
all email from Jojo, meaning that you know, the senior

(19:37):
v VP for programming send an email out to everybody
in the Denver market. And then Dufus back There writes,
I almost replied all back to him. I decided not
to be a penis and I wrote just to him.
I bet you'll easily guess what I wrote in a
nice way. Now. I didn't know what the email was

(20:00):
because when I saw this, I was out doing stuff,
so I didn't have access to my email, and I.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Knew you don't. I know, you don't have email on
your phone or anything. So I was trying to be
as elusive as I could. But you tease the crap out.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Of you, right, and it did. It was driving me nuts, like,
you know, well, go ahead, and like what stupid thing
have they done?

Speaker 5 (20:19):
Now?

Speaker 3 (20:19):
I can't wait to find out. I finally I get
home and I, you know, slam open my MacBook, and
I look and I read the email, and the email says,
this team late this after now. This email was sent

(20:39):
at eleven twenty five yesterday morning. Huh, team late this afternoon,
meaning tomorrow or yesterday afternoon, late this afternoon, the fourth
floor bathrooms will have workers starting demolition and will be
out of commission for a while while this work is happening.
You must use the restrooms on either the third floor

(21:01):
or in the lobby. Thanks Jojo.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
First of all, thanks for the heads up for hours
of notice. Appreciate that that's a lot of help. At
least we got notice.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
Now because I you know, because I work on Saturdays,
I go, I broadcast on Saturdays from the third floor.
They were remodeling the restrooms on the third floor, primarily
because KOA was having his one hundredth birthday.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Hey is on the third floor.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
No, but they that's where they were having the birthday
party because they had cleared out. You've been down there, right, yeah, okay,
if you've seen how they've cleaned everything yet.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Right, there ain't nothing there, Yeah, there's nothing there anymore.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
So it's just this vast open space. So I watched
and we kept getting closer and closer and closer to
the birthday party, which was what a week.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Ago, the thirty first.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
Yeah, so the thirty first on a Thursday from like
I don't know, it's like from four to seven or something.
I forget. And I watched them start the remodeling, and
I thought, there's no way they're going to make this
in time, because they it took them four weeks five

(22:12):
weeks to remodel those rest Now. Listen, they all the
plumbings there. All you're doing is taking out the countertops,
the dividers between the commodes, the dividers between the urinals.
You're putting new urinals in. You're putting new commodes in, and.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
You're, well, I don't really know the urinals.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
I think I think the urinals are the same. The
commodes may or may not be the same. I have
not used one, so I don't know. I try not
to use them.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
They I noticed that they didn't smash them. They put them.
They on the third floor. At least they put them
over to the side. So I'm thinking, Okay, that's going
to be interesting. Because the email said is this afternoon
will start demolition. Now let's go back to what let's

(23:12):
go back to what Dragon said, because Dragon said something
to the effect, you will, I bet you'll easily guess
what I wrote. And the minute that I saw the email,
I mean that literally, the nanosecond that I saw the email,
I knew what you.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Had written could have been two things. It could have
really been two things.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
It could have been. I knew it had to be
the first thing. Okay, it had to be the first thing,
because that problem has existed for at least three years
of years, yes, and I know at least three years
because I've been doing the nationally syndicated program on the
third floor for three years. And the very first day
that I did the nationally syndicated program on the third floor,

(23:56):
I discovered the problem.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
And through which was a well known problem at that point.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
Well known by other people, right, And so I went,
before I tell you what the problem is, I went
to the person that would be in charge of that
and said, I noticed Saturday when I was in here
because I had to run up to I had to
do something on one of the on the boards in
the production room, that I found out that I was stuck.

(24:27):
I couldn't get back to the I mean I couldn't
get you couldn't get too. I couldn't get to the
fourth floor, so I had to go back down to
the third floor and get on an elevator. Now remember
this isn't actually send to I don't have time to
fart around, and so I had to go back down
the steps, wait on an elevator, come back up, do
the thing because you know, my producers in LA and

(24:50):
then I had to get back and me didn't get
back in and start the program. I said, so that
that really needs to be fixed, selfishly for me, but
also because that is a serious safety issue.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Oh how so, Michael, it's the fourth floor. Everybody's trying
to get down from the fourth floor.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
Well, let's just say that there's a fire on the
second floor. Okay, that so when there's a fire, the
elevators become inoperable, right, you have to use the staircase. Now,
if you have to use the staircase and you can't
get and the fires on the second floor, you've got

(25:30):
to use the staircase to get down. But if the
fire has now spread into which it shouldn't, but it
you know, again just playing safety engineer here, if the
stairwells fill full of smoke, now you've got to go up.
You got to start getting up to get to the
roof to be rescued. Well, you can't because you can't

(25:51):
get off on the fourth floor because the key card
reader doesn't work, and it hasn't worked for I don't
have any at least at least.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Three plurality of years.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Yes, So I mentioned that to somebody one time and said,
you know that that really ought to be fixed because
the you know, and the response was, well, just use
the stairs, I mean, just use the.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Elevator, Just use the other the other stairwell.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yeah, use the use the other stairwell, the at the
other end of the building, which is still an issue,
or just use the elevators. And I just looked like,
oh okay. Well it turns out that's exactly what Dragonhead
sent to Jojo.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Well not in those exact words, but I said, hey,
can we get this card reader to work because some
of us need to pee and elevators take a long time.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
So I wrote, hey, Jojo, maybe the bathroom remodeling could
be a reason to in all words of the words
caps uh, the word finally, maybe the bathroom remodeling could
be a reason to finally, parentheses after a couple of years,
actually fix the card reader on the north stairwell to
the fourth floor. The last time I mentioned that to
a responsible individual, the response was me use the stairs,

(27:01):
to which Jojo replies my thoughts exactly, We'll put in
a ticket today with the card access vendor.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
So now I'm thinking, now how well they.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Have to do with the damn ticket system? How do
you like it? Now?

Speaker 3 (27:16):
That's right?

Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (27:17):
How you like that? Bucko? Now you've got to deal
with the Oh, I'm going to put in a ticket now.
Dragon wanted to make a bet which gets done first,
the card reader gets fixed first, or the bathrooms get
remodeled for reader, to which I responded back to Dragon
and said, I'm not taking that bet because I want
to bet on the on the on the card reader,

(27:39):
because I think the card reader will get fixed first,
because that's an outside vendor.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
All they have to do is not even part of
iHeart is just so you're like a security company out
here somewhere. All they have to do is just come
and fix the reader. So I think that'll get done first.
Now I think the new challenge is how long will
it take for the restrooms be real when I came
in today when when.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
I heard that they said demolition would starting to start yesterday.
So normally I don't toilets are out, the stalls are down.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
I thought I didn't even go that far. I thought
that at least we might have uh inside the urinals,
at least maybe on the floor because the demo or
some of them disconnected. So this morning, on purpose, I
get off the elevator. Instead of making that left, I

(28:32):
make her right because I want to see how much
demo has been done. Guess how much demos. I didn't
check see if the water's turned off. I guess I
should check that. Of course it says do not enter,
but of course i've I've been in anyway because I
didn't give a right. I wanted. I wanted to see.
So I go in and realize, oh, nothing's been done.
Take that back, I need to be objecting. They laid

(28:55):
down plastic. Yes, yes, so at this rate, I'm guessing, eh,
by the time I retire, you know, ninety five years old,
it'll be done today.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
The water will be turned off tomorrow. Maybe no tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
They'll have to relay the plastic because the plastic will
be ripped up today by people using the fourth floor.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
And they don't work on weekends, so they're not going
to be here Saturday.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
E never. They never did one thing on a Saturday
that I was here when they read my lingos back.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
So Monday we may have a urinal or some of
the little side panel stalls.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Now I didn't notice that. I think you're right. I
bet we I bet they recycle the commodes and the urine.
Oh yeah, you know why. The other thing I noticed,
the plastic walkway extends all the way around to that
little to that little corner what conference room. I bet
they and they don't want those urinals and the stools

(29:52):
all out west people and clients are coming in, so
they're gonna hide them back there in that conference room.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
That sounds about right.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yep, yep. The saga of iHeart remodeling and put in
a ticket. You know, I was total one time by
a previous market president that iHeart was more bureaucratic than
the government, and I laughed in his face. And this
is when I started, like, you know, twenty years ago.

(30:19):
And I went back to him about six months later
and said, you know what, I really hate to admit it,
but I think you might be right.

Speaker 6 (30:26):
Right, you guys are betting about the card reader or
the bathroom.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
I'm still curious about the light bulbs or the battery
and the freaking smoke detector. Nope, I got the same
old You know, I'm going to be blind fairly soon
because of the lighting in the studio. It's a mishmash
of the old style fluorescence plus the one of those

(30:53):
kind of bulbs called the track light, the track lighting,
and it's a combination of both of the works kind
of lighting you can you can have. And then in
front of me is all the blue light from you know,
three monitors plus you know, an iPad and an iPhone.
So yeah, I'll be blind pretty soon.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Don't forget about the non functioning blinds that we do have.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Oh and there's still non functioning blinds. We got those,
so that that's still broken. And of course we still
have the bullet hole back here in the corner too.
I'm just surprised we don't have bore bullet holes in
the windows. Uh Axios is reporting that RTD that now
and this is probably true in your town too. Uh
RTD our Regional Transportation District that runs the light rail

(31:37):
on the bus line, the ridership decline deepens. But here's
the here's the crux of the story. You know how
Axios does like you know, here's the story. Why it
matters and between the lines kind of crap. Well, here's
why it matters. They write, the decline a possible signal
of waning public confidence, is undercutting Colorado's push to get

(32:02):
more people onto buses and trains, just as Denver pursues
a two hundred eighty million dollar bus rapid transit line. Now,
before I tell you where when I when you think
of a rapid bus transit line, what do you think? Well,

(32:28):
I think of a of a bus that doesn't stop
for well, let's be generous, two miles. I would regionally
reasonably think that a rapid bus line would actually go
for like ten miles, but let's just say two miles.
So they're going to spend two hundred eighty million dollars
to do a rapid bus line on Collfax. Now, for

(32:54):
those of you who don't live in Colorado, Collfax is
the main arterial street used to be part of I
think it was Highway sixty US sixty six. Yeah, I
think it was part of the old Route sixty six.
But anyway it it goes from way out where I seventy.
You can exit I seventy way out in the hinterlands

(33:14):
and get on Colfax and drive all the way until
you get back up on the I seventy to go
into the mountains. And it's a combination of the Well's
the state capital of the city and county municipal building
near downtown. And then you kind of get into the
area where oh, Cossa Benita isn't it on Colfax out
in Lakewood. Yeah, so you get to Cossa Benita and

(33:35):
then kind of out toward Aurora Way. You got the
street walkers, and you got the you know, the dilapidated
hotels and motels, and you got the bars and the dives,
and why you've got Bassian Steakhouse, which is really good.
That's gonna be a rapid transit line and you're spending
two hundred eighty million dollars on it.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
Colfax is part of the historic Route forty.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
Route forty. Yeah, that's right, Route forty. So ridership down
as they try to push us out of our cars,
and yeah, I think it's because we don't have any
confidence in actually getting us from point A to point
B on time. All right, What I really wanted to
talk about, which I won't tell you, is coming up
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