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Speaker 1 (00:00):
John, I've been listening to you for a long time,
and I've got to tell you, I'm really impressed with
how far you've come to hear you say that you
do not support all male ballots. That is just a
lot of growth from you. It's very egalitarian and the
suffragist would be impressed.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Let me make it very clear. I do support all
male ballots. I do not support all male in ballots. Yeah. Yeah,
So if Colorado truly wants all male ballots, I'm down
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with that. I was at an event over the weekend
and I think it was Jeff Hurd, who a congressman
from the Western Slope, Greek guy, the interesting guy. He
asked me, so, what policy have you changed your mind
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about over the last you know, ten years or so.
Knowing how doctor naire, I can be on many things,
and I said, well, the first one, of course, is
I used to believe that that women voting was a
good thing, and no, now I know, No, we need
to go back to all male balloting. They got a chuckle.
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There is a bit of truth there. I think it
was the economist John Watt who did a regression analysis
of the size of government as a percentage of GDP
all governments and graft. It out over the over the
many years of our republic, and it was a flat line,
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barely even noticeable until women got the vote, and then
it just x looaded. And I know you're not supposed
to talk about it. I know you're not supposed to
talk about the difference between men and women and just
about anything, because you know, no matter what you do,
you're a sexist. I remember when my daughter called me
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a sexist. I said, no, sweetheart, I'm not a sexist.
I'm a misogynist. And she said, what's the difference, And
I said, practice. When women got the vote, it was,
of course the right thing. Colorado was one of the
very early states to let women vote, and it was
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done by a referendum. So men, not the legislature, but
male voters in Colorado voted to let women vote. I
forget the year, but it was it was turn of
the century. Ish. Women and men see the world very differently.
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I know that we look at Trump and Conservatism and
Republicans as as kind of this red versus blue? Is
that the cities versus the rural areas? Is it? You know,
what is the big difference? Turns out The biggest difference
between Republicans Democrats now is gender. Men are Republican, women
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are Democrats? Or should I say? The vote for Trump
was wildly disproportionate based on gender. It makes you wonder
why now A lot of it? As I get it,
Trump is a distasteful character to many. I personally largely
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like his disruption. I hate his ego. I love some
of the policies that pop out of his administration. I
love the tax policy. I love what the administrative state
is doing to change regulations. Those are all great. I'm
not wild about the terriffs. I'm not wild about the ego.
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I'm not wild about the every day is a different drama.
It gets tiresome. And I've thought a lot about the
difference between men and women and why they vote differently.
So let me put it out this way, and ladies
tell me what kind of misogynist I am. Women are
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much more security obsessed than men. They care about the
security of themselves and particularly their families. And an it's
it's because I think women's brains work differently. Women's brains
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are allowed to measure any things at once. Men have little,
simple dog brains. I mean, we just you know, we
can think of one thing at a time, and women
have like five hundred things in their heads floating around
at the same time. I don't know exactly how they
do it. And they have a skill that men do
not have. They think about the future. Most men think
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about the next meal. Oh yeah, they do things for
the future, and they can be future oriented, but they're
not constantly living in the future. Women seem to live
in the future, and they crave security. I'm being wildly,
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wildly full of generalities here, so go with that. And
because women want security, and throughout the history of mankind,
the only released security they could have was hooking up
with the right guy. You needed to marry. Well, if
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you married, well that's where your financial security came from.
Because you couldn't work, you were not a member of industry,
you did not run companies, you couldn't vote, And so
women found their security by choosing the right mate. Men
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not so much. Now things have changed and women don't
need a man. Women have no need for a man.
I'm amazed. I still put up with us. They can
have jobs, they can do all these things, they can
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kick our butts, But yet the craving for that security
has been changed. So I wonder if women have switched
finding security in a man to finding security through government.
That government will care for their children from cradle to grave,
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and there's a security there. We will give them lunches
at school, we will take care of them, we will
make sure they have health care, we will make sure
that all their decisions are made for them. There is
an maternal thing that happens where we give our kids
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up to the state for their own safety, and women
crave that security. This is my theory. The problem is
they don't understand that they haven't just moved from from
needing a man and marrying prince charming to marrying government.
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They don't realize the just married the most abusive man
they could ever have. Government. When you marry yourself to government,
you're marrying yourself to an abusive partner. Let's do it
this way. But ladies, you're looking, you're looking for a man.
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Would would you give yourself to a man and marry
a man who is massively in debt, massively in debt,
who cannot keep his own finances in order? Well, that's
what the government is. Would you would you marry a
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man whose message to your kids. Are you don't really
need to work that hard will take care of you. No,
you wouldn't. But yet we find that women vote overwhelmingly
for Democrats, overwhelmingly for the for the nanny state. Men don't,
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and that that divergence is only getting worse. More and
more surveys so show that younger women, young ladies are
much more friendly to the idea of socialism and state
run economies and planned economies than young men. So this
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chasm is getting bigger and bigger. What do you do
about it? I don't know. But first of all, you
give me a call three oh three seven one three
eight two five five, and you let me know your
thoughts and tell me that I'm so very wrong. Please.
It is suburban moms, especially that swing elections and his
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suburban moms who make the difference. And those suburban moms,
at least here in Colorado, despise Trump and they like
they like a larger welfare state. They want government to
take care of things. They believe they're security there all right,
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three oh three seven, one three eight, two five five
seven to one three talk. Let's grab a couple other
other cool things. Keep in mind then, being tough on
crime goes both ways. You know you want you want
a nanty state which coddles criminals. But yet then then
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you've got then you've got these issues. Guess what The
Colorado State Patrol is now giving away wheel locks. No,
not gun locks, wheel locks. Colorado State Patrol is partnering
with an auto theft prevention organization to hand out free
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steering wheel locks throughout the week and at a giveaway
event on Saturday. What so we have to give away
locks because we don't punish. We don't punish criminals. So
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you know, between Monday and Friday, eight am to four
thirty pm, five hundred wheel locks available for free at
the Colorado State Patrols Headquarters building at seven hundred Kipling,
located north of sixth Avenue Freeway intersection. Sign Ups for
those events are required online and you have to provide
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your vehicle registration. You just can't walk up and get one.
You got to show that you actually have a car.
So these wheel locks cost between thirty and sixty bucks.
How about we just punish auto theft. So here's a
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chart of the Colorado State Patrols put out the most
stolen vehicles last year. What was the number one most
stolen vehicle. Sadly, it was not my twenty ten Nissan Ultima.
I keep trying to get it stolen. No, no luck,
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it's just not that sexy. The Chevy Silverado two thousand
and six, especially, over a thousand of them. The Hyundai Elantra,
almost a thousand of those, the Hyundai Sonata, a Chevy
Sierra Ford F two fifty and f one together, that's
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about a thousand of those. Last year, Kia Optaba, Kia Soul,
Honda Civic Kids Sportage. So we haven't we haven't solved
this problem yet. What does it say when the police
are giving away free locks? Does it say that they've
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given up on trying to prosecute car thieves. I think
I've told you this story, but let me let me
run out again. So we had a we had one
of Denver's finests crazed homeless people on our property at
the Independence Institute, and finally he was like, no, I'm
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I'm calling the cops get rid of this guy. He's dangerous.
And I call nine to one one and I'm put
on hold. I'm put on hold for like four minutes,
and then I'm disconnected. I'm thinking, boy, am I glad
I am not shot right now? Call back. Finally get
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through and they said they'll send somebody out. Four hours later.
Four hours later, a couple of cops come by. They
look beat up, they just look dead tired, they're just
they just look like like death warmed over. And I
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start chatting with him. I said, so, how bad is
it out there? How bad are these not being able
to prosecute people? And the cops said to me, well,
let me put it to you this way. Yesterday I
arrested a guy for stealing four cars. Two hours later,
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I arrested the same guy for stealing a car. You
arrest him, you bring him in, He's out within an hour,
stealing cars again. They give him a citation, They basically
give him the equivalent of a parking ticket, and off
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he goes. Wow. Yeah, that is the broken windows of
Colorado right now, of the Denver Metro area. Stolen cars.
You know the broken window theory. Broken window theory is
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somebody breaks your window, and if you don't repair it,
it only invites somebody else to break the next window,
and before you know it, all the windows are broken.
That enforcing low level crime, enforcing the laws against those
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low level crimes, help with all crimes, because it sends
a signal we're not going to take it. Rudolf Rudolf Giuliani,
when he became mayor, wanted to do something. If you remember,
if you remember how New York used to be, how
awful Times Square used to be, how dangerous New York was,
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It's like, I need a victory. I need to show
that we can do something and we can do something
quickly to fight crime. Well, they used to have those
squeegee guys. Do you remember the squeegee guys. These were
guys who would wash your front window with a squeegee.
They would do a lousy job, but they would hold
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on to your wiper blade. Why they did it, and
the idea was if you didn't give them a tip,
if you didn't give them a couple bucks, they'd break
your wiper blade. Until it was low level extortion. Everyone
in New York hated them. You had to deal with them.
People would make sure they had a couple bucks to
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give these people so that they didn't have to spend
a lot more to fix their car. So Giuliani when
he became mayor said, no, that's our first target. This
is the lowest level. This is broken windows and lo
and behold, they went and arrested everyone in stings when
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they did this squeegee action. The people loved it because
they got the squeegee guys off the streets. But nearly
all of the squeegee guys they arrested had outstanding warrants
for other crimes, and they were able to put them
away for a longer time. My suspicion is if Denver
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did the same with the homeless, they'd find the same problem,
and they'd find the same solution. Clean up the damn city.
Good morning, John, uh. The way to stop car theft.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
The perpetrator gets put in a cell four bottles of water.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
There's a little metal panel on the ground. When they
pee on that metal panel, the same as an electric fence.
They won't kill them, but I bet they'll never come
back again to do the same crime. Thank you. I
don't believe in cruel and unusual punishment. That said, I
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do believe in capital punishment for people who drive slowly
in the passing lane. Can I get an amen to that?
I'm John Calderic's thirty four minutes after Michael Brown is
out of town having a good rest and well deserved.
Give me a call three h three seven to one
three eight two five five, Yes, my pet, peeve are
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people who drive slowly in the left lane or even
drive the same speed as somebody on the right lane. No,
that's the passing lane. I know Colorado has a ban
on capital punishment. We need to make an exception for
something that is important, that is crucial, and there is
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nothing more important, nothing more crucial then getting these guys
out of the passing lane? Is it a Colorado thing?
I go to other states. I don't see that problem. Texas,
by the way, has signs up and down their highways.
Let's say left lane for passing only. It's not stay right, No,
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it's left lane for passing only, followed by on penalty
of death. Seems pretty fair. Speaking of driving, a driverless
ride share option will soon be rolling out in Denver.
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Alphabets that's the parent company of Google, owns WEIMO. Have
you been to any of the cities that have WEAIMO.
It's freaky. These are autonomous vehicles, self driving cars, and
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you use them just like any other uber and you
call up the car, the car comes, you get in
and it drives you to your location. I haven't been
in one of these. I wouldn't want to be in
the backseat of a car where there's no driver, even
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though it's probably safer. So the cities that have this
are San Francisco and Phoenix, La Austin, Atlanta, and soon Denver.
So is there something you notice about these cities San Francisco, Phoenix,
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Los Angeles, Austin, Atlanta. Yeah, there's no snow in those cities.
Those cities have have rain, but they have no snow.
Here's Here's what the article says. While Waimo has been
shown to be a little more expensive than some other
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ride share services, it's offering as unique and that many
of its vehicles are driverless. According to Weaimo, their next
generation system has been trained through years of driving in
places with winter weather Likechigan, Upstate New York, and the
Sierra Nevada's Sierra Nevada. This is said to have helped
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the service get better with maneuvering around places with harsh shirt,
something that would likely prove essential to success in Colorado.
Hm hmm, I'm I'm looking forward to seeing it. I
love the idea. I think it's a it's an amazing
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step forward. But do you trust it? Do you trust
a driverless car? And at some point, at some point,
when does the computer make life or death decisions? So
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imagine this, you got a driverless car. There's an obstacle
in road that pops up out of nowhere. It must
choose what to do. You know, you you swerve left,
you hit oncoming traffic, you swerve right, you hit a bicyclist.
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Which one does the computer choose? What programmer gets to
decide who lives and who dies? Or how about this one.
There's you swerve left and you go over a cliff,
You swerve right, and you you hit a crowd of pedestrians,
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and so the computer calculates, well, one of you in
the car dies to save two people on the sidewalk.
From a computer's point of view, that that seems pretty reasonable, unless,
of course, you're the guy in the car who who
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makes these decisions, who makes who makes the decision of
of that safety. There is something comforting about having a
human being there. Although statistically I think these driverless cars
are much safer than cars with drivers. They don't get tired,
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they don't get fatigued, they don't get drunk, they drive.
It is very weird. It's very weird driving up next
to a car that has no driver. It's even weirder
driving up next to a car that has nobody in it,
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an absolutely empty car, and and there's there's no there's
nobody there. So there's two different technologies. One I'm trying
to remember is it radar or vast car or something
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like that, that uses a radar sonar type of system
around it to see what's going on. And then there's
a system where you have cameras all over your car
and the cameras interpret what's around you. If you're in
a Tesla, you've seen that. The Tesla screen shows the
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traffic around you with kind of these images of icons
of cars. It shows if there's somebody on the sidewalk
or a bicycle. But it's it's a computer interpretation of
what it sees. Whereas the other, the sonar, I think
it's sonar, sonar, radar, I forget what term it is,
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uses a different technology. It's not visual that bounces a
radar off and pops back and and sees better, sees
better in the dark, sees better when there's something to interpret.
One of the tests that some guy did on Tesla's
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was the old you remember when when the road Runner
would would run down a tunnel, you know, but the
tunnel was actually just a painted wall. Wiley Coyote would
paint something that looks like a tunnel, but it really
just went right into the cliff. So some guy did
that with with a road. Put a road up with
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a picture of a kid, of a kid, you know,
grabbing a ball or doing something. Oh no, it it
was a It was a picture of a road, and
the Tesla drove right through it because it didn't recognize
that it was actually a picture that there might be
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a cliff on behind it. It saw the road and
just kept driving through the road, so ripped right through
the picture. Whereas the other cars that have the radar
would stop. They could interpret that that's just a big
thing in the middle of the road that we don't
want to hit, so it would slow down and stop
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and not fall for the Wiley coyotes trick. This tells
me one technology is better than the other. What Tesla
is hoping to do with their technology is make it
an upgrade with your software that if you've got a
Tesla and you've got cameras all around your Tesla. You
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download more software, you download a different app, and all
of a sudden, you get a driverless car in the
car you are already have. You pay for an upgrade,
and lo and behold, You've got yourself a driverless autonomous vehicle.
How crazy is that? That's what they're hoping for. I
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knew a woman who said, no, I bought my Tesla
because it can upgrade to the driverless software. So the
thought was I would drive it to work, and then
while I'm at work, instead of paying for parking, I
would just let it go do uber rides, so while
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I'm not using my car, it would drive around on
its own, picking up passengers and making me money. And
then when I wanted to come home, I just summon
it back and it would come and get me and
I'd go home. Is that wild or what? That is? Spectacular?
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Could you imagine your car drives you to work and
then disappears, and at the end of the day you've
made a hundred bucks from whatever it was doing, and
then it drives you home. Another person I met said, no,
I bought this upgrade package because I want to sleep
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on my commute. I want to close my eyes and sleep.
How comfortable are you with these driverless cars? Denver's going
to be getting some. It looks like some Waimo cars
driverless cars. When you first see them, they will flip
you out to the car with nobody in it. I know,
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I know, I sound like such an old guy. I
don't understand how this can happen. It happening, all right,
three all, three, seven, one, three, eight two five five
In for the big Man. I'm John Caldera. And by
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Keep it right here. You're on six point thirty k how.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
I'm a disabled senior citizen. I paid off my F
three point fifty Diesel two thousand and six truck. I
had liability insurance. The thieves that stole it, along with
the stolen Honda the user transport, were both recovered later,
but it was so beat up I couldn't afford to
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get it fixed, and they were a couple of illegals,
so I couldn't sue them for damages either. I lost
my transportation and all my way of getting around.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Incredible, incredible. I'm John Caldera eight minutes to the top.
The Left's war on mobility is ugly, and they do
it in so many ways. One of the ways is,
of course, by keeping our roads so lousy, making sure
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that our roads aren't kept up. Colorado has some of
the worst road systems because we spend all of our
money on transit. In the Denver metro area, most all
of our transportation dollars go to transit, which carries about
three percent of all of our commutes. If that wasn't
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enough to give us bad roads, we do the lane dining.
These ideas that we're gonna get make our roads have
less capacity. You've been down these roads that have bike
lanes with these stupid little plastic ballards that pop up
to keep you out. They're a danger because they make
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more traffic. Somebody's making a left turn in front of you,
You've got to wait, and you can't go around them.
So if there's enough ongoing oncoming traffic and they can't
make their turn, everybody's just and it creates gridlock, which
is what they want. They want to force you onto
transit at gunpoint. I've seen emergency vehicles like fire trucks
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not be able to make the turns or having to
back up to make a turn because of these silly
bike lanes. Oh and if it matters, I rarely ever
see anyone in a bike lane. They hate mobility. They
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want to tell you where to go when you want
to go. That's why they love things like rail. The
best thing about rail is you cannot compete with it,
What are you going to do? Put your own train
on the tracks. Carpool lanes, bus lanes, hov lanes, toll
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lanes that you can drive on at least allow other
people to be part of the game. It allows people
to have to pay and get out of the traffic.
But on a on a train route, you have no way,
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absolutely no way to use that unused capacity. That's why
RTD loves it, That's why government loves it, because it's
empire building. Nobody else can compete with them. And you
shouldn't look at our trolley cars when you see a
trolley car go by. You should look at the tracks
when they're empty and ask yourself, wouldn't it be cool
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if I could just drive my car right up there
and use that right of way. Well, that's what asphalt does.
Train tracks can't. And then finally they let people steal
your car and this hurts. This hurts poorer people the most,
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who need that car, who only have one car. Hey,
I'll be back tomorrow as well. Michael always a joy.
Check out Independence Institute, go to thinkfreedom dot org and
keep it here. You're on six point thirty k How
John, I've been listening to you for a long time,
and I've got to tell you, I'm really impressed with
how far you've come to hear you say that you
do not support all male ballots. That is just a
lot of growth from you. It's very egalitarian and the
suffragist would be impressed.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Let me make it very clear. I do support all
male ballots. I do not support all male in ballots. Yeah. Yeah,
So if Colorado truly wants all male ballots, I'm down
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with that. I was at an event over the weekend
and I think it was Jeff Hurd, who a congressman
from the Western Slope, Greek guy, the interesting guy. He
asked me, so, what policy have you changed your mind
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about over the last you know, ten years or so.
Knowing how doctor naire, I can be on many things,
and I said, well, the first one, of course, is
I used to believe that that women voting was a
good thing, and no, now I know, No, we need
to go back to all male balloting. They got a chuckle.
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There is a bit of truth there. I think it
was the economist John Watt who did a regression analysis
of the size of government as a percentage of GDP
all governments and graft. It out over the over the
many years of our republic, and it was a flat line,
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barely even noticeable until women got the vote, and then
it just x looaded. And I know you're not supposed
to talk about it. I know you're not supposed to
talk about the difference between men and women and just
about anything, because you know, no matter what you do,
you're a sexist. I remember when my daughter called me
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a sexist. I said, no, sweetheart, I'm not a sexist.
I'm a misogynist. And she said, what's the difference, And
I said, practice. When women got the vote, it was,
of course the right thing. Colorado was one of the
very early states to let women vote, and it was
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done by a referendum. So men, not the legislature, but
male voters in Colorado voted to let women vote. I
forget the year, but it was it was turn of
the century. Ish. Women and men see the world very differently.
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I know that we look at Trump and Conservatism and
Republicans as as kind of this red versus blue? Is
that the cities versus the rural areas? Is it? You know,
what is the big difference? Turns out The biggest difference
between Republicans Democrats now is gender. Men are Republican, women
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are Democrats? Or should I say? The vote for Trump
was wildly disproportionate based on gender. It makes you wonder
why now A lot of it? As I get it,
Trump is a distasteful character to many. I personally largely
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like his disruption. I hate his ego. I love some
of the policies that pop out of his administration. I
love the tax policy. I love what the administrative state
is doing to change regulations. Those are all great. I'm
not wild about the terriffs. I'm not wild about the ego.
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I'm not wild about the every day is a different drama.
It gets tiresome. And I've thought a lot about the
difference between men and women and why they vote differently.
So let me put it out this way, and ladies
tell me what kind of misogynist I am. Women are
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much more security obsessed than men. They care about the
security of themselves and particularly their families. And an it's
it's because I think women's brains work differently. Women's brains
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are allowed to measure any things at once. Men have little,
simple dog brains. I mean, we just you know, we
can think of one thing at a time, and women
have like five hundred things in their heads floating around
at the same time. I don't know exactly how they
do it. And they have a skill that men do
not have. They think about the future. Most men think
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about the next meal. Oh yeah, they do things for
the future, and they can be future oriented, but they're
not constantly living in the future. Women seem to live
in the future, and they crave security. I'm being wildly,
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wildly full of generalities here, so go with that. And
because women want security, and throughout the history of mankind,
the only released security they could have was hooking up
with the right guy. You needed to marry. Well, if
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you married, well that's where your financial security came from.
Because you couldn't work, you were not a member of industry,
you did not run companies, you couldn't vote, And so
women found their security by choosing the right mate. Men
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not so much. Now things have changed and women don't
need a man. Women have no need for a man.
I'm amazed. I still put up with us. They can
have jobs, they can do all these things, they can
(06:52):
kick our butts, But yet the craving for that security
has been changed. So I wonder if women have switched
finding security in a man to finding security through government.
That government will care for their children from cradle to grave,
(07:14):
and there's a security there. We will give them lunches
at school, we will take care of them, we will
make sure they have health care, we will make sure
that all their decisions are made for them. There is
an maternal thing that happens where we give our kids
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up to the state for their own safety, and women
crave that security. This is my theory. The problem is
they don't understand that they haven't just moved from from
needing a man and marrying prince charming to marrying government.
(07:58):
They don't realize the just married the most abusive man
they could ever have. Government. When you marry yourself to government,
you're marrying yourself to an abusive partner. Let's do it
this way. But ladies, you're looking, you're looking for a man.
(08:22):
Would would you give yourself to a man and marry
a man who is massively in debt, massively in debt,
who cannot keep his own finances in order? Well, that's
what the government is. Would you would you marry a
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man whose message to your kids. Are you don't really
need to work that hard will take care of you. No,
you wouldn't. But yet we find that women vote overwhelmingly
for Democrats, overwhelmingly for the for the nanny state. Men don't,
(09:11):
and that that divergence is only getting worse. More and
more surveys so show that younger women, young ladies are
much more friendly to the idea of socialism and state
run economies and planned economies than young men. So this
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chasm is getting bigger and bigger. What do you do
about it? I don't know. But first of all, you
give me a call three oh three seven one three
eight two five five, and you let me know your
thoughts and tell me that I'm so very wrong. Please.
It is suburban moms, especially that swing elections and his
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suburban moms who make the difference. And those suburban moms,
at least here in Colorado, despise Trump and they like
they like a larger welfare state. They want government to
take care of things. They believe they're security there all right,
(10:25):
three oh three seven, one three eight, two five five
seven to one three talk. Let's grab a couple other
other cool things. Keep in mind then, being tough on
crime goes both ways. You know you want you want
a nanty state which coddles criminals. But yet then then
(10:49):
you've got then you've got these issues. Guess what The
Colorado State Patrol is now giving away wheel locks. No,
not gun locks, wheel locks. Colorado State Patrol is partnering
with an auto theft prevention organization to hand out free
(11:12):
steering wheel locks throughout the week and at a giveaway
event on Saturday. What so we have to give away
locks because we don't punish. We don't punish criminals. So
(11:32):
you know, between Monday and Friday, eight am to four
thirty pm, five hundred wheel locks available for free at
the Colorado State Patrols Headquarters building at seven hundred Kipling,
located north of sixth Avenue Freeway intersection. Sign Ups for
those events are required online and you have to provide
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your vehicle registration. You just can't walk up and get one.
You got to show that you actually have a car.
So these wheel locks cost between thirty and sixty bucks.
How about we just punish auto theft. So here's a
(12:16):
chart of the Colorado State Patrols put out the most
stolen vehicles last year. What was the number one most
stolen vehicle. Sadly, it was not my twenty ten Nissan Ultima.
I keep trying to get it stolen. No, no luck,
(12:37):
it's just not that sexy. The Chevy Silverado two thousand
and six, especially, over a thousand of them. The Hyundai Elantra,
almost a thousand of those, the Hyundai Sonata, a Chevy
Sierra Ford F two fifty and f one together, that's
(13:03):
about a thousand of those. Last year, Kia Optaba, Kia Soul,
Honda Civic Kids Sportage. So we haven't we haven't solved
this problem yet. What does it say when the police
are giving away free locks? Does it say that they've
(13:25):
given up on trying to prosecute car thieves. I think
I've told you this story, but let me let me
run out again. So we had a we had one
of Denver's finests crazed homeless people on our property at
the Independence Institute, and finally he was like, no, I'm
(13:46):
I'm calling the cops get rid of this guy. He's dangerous.
And I call nine to one one and I'm put
on hold. I'm put on hold for like four minutes,
and then I'm disconnected. I'm thinking, boy, am I glad
I am not shot right now? Call back. Finally get
(14:08):
through and they said they'll send somebody out. Four hours later.
Four hours later, a couple of cops come by. They
look beat up, they just look dead tired, they're just
they just look like like death warmed over. And I
(14:32):
start chatting with him. I said, so, how bad is
it out there? How bad are these not being able
to prosecute people? And the cops said to me, well,
let me put it to you this way. Yesterday I
arrested a guy for stealing four cars. Two hours later,
(14:54):
I arrested the same guy for stealing a car. You
arrest him, you bring him in, He's out within an hour,
stealing cars again. They give him a citation, They basically
give him the equivalent of a parking ticket, and off
(15:16):
he goes. Wow. Yeah, that is the broken windows of
Colorado right now, of the Denver Metro area. Stolen cars.
You know the broken window theory. Broken window theory is
(15:38):
somebody breaks your window, and if you don't repair it,
it only invites somebody else to break the next window,
and before you know it, all the windows are broken.
That enforcing low level crime, enforcing the laws against those
(15:58):
low level crimes, help with all crimes, because it sends
a signal we're not going to take it. Rudolf Rudolf Giuliani,
when he became mayor, wanted to do something. If you remember,
if you remember how New York used to be, how
awful Times Square used to be, how dangerous New York was,
(16:23):
It's like, I need a victory. I need to show
that we can do something and we can do something
quickly to fight crime. Well, they used to have those
squeegee guys. Do you remember the squeegee guys. These were
guys who would wash your front window with a squeegee.
They would do a lousy job, but they would hold
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on to your wiper blade. Why they did it, and
the idea was if you didn't give them a tip,
if you didn't give them a couple bucks, they'd break
your wiper blade. Until it was low level extortion. Everyone
in New York hated them. You had to deal with them.
People would make sure they had a couple bucks to
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give these people so that they didn't have to spend
a lot more to fix their car. So Giuliani when
he became mayor said, no, that's our first target. This
is the lowest level. This is broken windows and lo
and behold, they went and arrested everyone in stings when
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they did this squeegee action. The people loved it because
they got the squeegee guys off the streets. But nearly
all of the squeegee guys they arrested had outstanding warrants
for other crimes, and they were able to put them
away for a longer time. My suspicion is if Denver
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did the same with the homeless, they'd find the same problem,
and they'd find the same solution. Clean up the damn city.
Good morning, John, uh. The way to stop car theft.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
The perpetrator gets put in a cell four bottles of water.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
There's a little metal panel on the ground. When they
pee on that metal panel, the same as an electric fence.
They won't kill them, but I bet they'll never come
back again to do the same crime. Thank you. I
don't believe in cruel and unusual punishment. That said, I
(18:32):
do believe in capital punishment for people who drive slowly
in the passing lane. Can I get an amen to that?
I'm John Calderic's thirty four minutes after Michael Brown is
out of town having a good rest and well deserved.
Give me a call three h three seven to one
three eight two five five, Yes, my pet, peeve are
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people who drive slowly in the left lane or even
drive the same speed as somebody on the right lane. No,
that's the passing lane. I know Colorado has a ban
on capital punishment. We need to make an exception for
something that is important, that is crucial, and there is
(19:20):
nothing more important, nothing more crucial then getting these guys
out of the passing lane? Is it a Colorado thing?
I go to other states. I don't see that problem. Texas,
by the way, has signs up and down their highways.
Let's say left lane for passing only. It's not stay right, No,
(19:46):
it's left lane for passing only, followed by on penalty
of death. Seems pretty fair. Speaking of driving, a driverless
ride share option will soon be rolling out in Denver.
(20:11):
Alphabets that's the parent company of Google, owns WEIMO. Have
you been to any of the cities that have WEAIMO.
It's freaky. These are autonomous vehicles, self driving cars, and
(20:33):
you use them just like any other uber and you
call up the car, the car comes, you get in
and it drives you to your location. I haven't been
in one of these. I wouldn't want to be in
the backseat of a car where there's no driver, even
(20:53):
though it's probably safer. So the cities that have this
are San Francisco and Phoenix, La Austin, Atlanta, and soon Denver.
So is there something you notice about these cities San Francisco, Phoenix,
(21:20):
Los Angeles, Austin, Atlanta. Yeah, there's no snow in those cities.
Those cities have have rain, but they have no snow.
Here's Here's what the article says. While Waimo has been
shown to be a little more expensive than some other
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ride share services, it's offering as unique and that many
of its vehicles are driverless. According to Weaimo, their next
generation system has been trained through years of driving in
places with winter weather Likechigan, Upstate New York, and the
Sierra Nevada's Sierra Nevada. This is said to have helped
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the service get better with maneuvering around places with harsh shirt,
something that would likely prove essential to success in Colorado.
Hm hmm, I'm I'm looking forward to seeing it. I
love the idea. I think it's a it's an amazing
(22:30):
step forward. But do you trust it? Do you trust
a driverless car? And at some point, at some point,
when does the computer make life or death decisions? So
(22:55):
imagine this, you got a driverless car. There's an obstacle
in road that pops up out of nowhere. It must
choose what to do. You know, you you swerve left,
you hit oncoming traffic, you swerve right, you hit a bicyclist.
(23:16):
Which one does the computer choose? What programmer gets to
decide who lives and who dies? Or how about this one.
There's you swerve left and you go over a cliff,
You swerve right, and you you hit a crowd of pedestrians,
(23:38):
and so the computer calculates, well, one of you in
the car dies to save two people on the sidewalk.
From a computer's point of view, that that seems pretty reasonable, unless,
of course, you're the guy in the car who who
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makes these decisions, who makes who makes the decision of
of that safety. There is something comforting about having a
human being there. Although statistically I think these driverless cars
are much safer than cars with drivers. They don't get tired,
(24:29):
they don't get fatigued, they don't get drunk, they drive.
It is very weird. It's very weird driving up next
to a car that has no driver. It's even weirder
driving up next to a car that has nobody in it,
(24:51):
an absolutely empty car, and and there's there's no there's
nobody there. So there's two different technologies. One I'm trying
to remember is it radar or vast car or something
(25:11):
like that, that uses a radar sonar type of system
around it to see what's going on. And then there's
a system where you have cameras all over your car
and the cameras interpret what's around you. If you're in
a Tesla, you've seen that. The Tesla screen shows the
(25:33):
traffic around you with kind of these images of icons
of cars. It shows if there's somebody on the sidewalk
or a bicycle. But it's it's a computer interpretation of
what it sees. Whereas the other, the sonar, I think
it's sonar, sonar, radar, I forget what term it is,
(25:58):
uses a different technology. It's not visual that bounces a
radar off and pops back and and sees better, sees
better in the dark, sees better when there's something to interpret.
One of the tests that some guy did on Tesla's
(26:19):
was the old you remember when when the road Runner
would would run down a tunnel, you know, but the
tunnel was actually just a painted wall. Wiley Coyote would
paint something that looks like a tunnel, but it really
just went right into the cliff. So some guy did
that with with a road. Put a road up with
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a picture of a kid, of a kid, you know,
grabbing a ball or doing something. Oh no, it it
was a It was a picture of a road, and
the Tesla drove right through it because it didn't recognize
that it was actually a picture that there might be
(27:06):
a cliff on behind it. It saw the road and
just kept driving through the road, so ripped right through
the picture. Whereas the other cars that have the radar
would stop. They could interpret that that's just a big
thing in the middle of the road that we don't
want to hit, so it would slow down and stop
(27:27):
and not fall for the Wiley coyotes trick. This tells
me one technology is better than the other. What Tesla
is hoping to do with their technology is make it
an upgrade with your software that if you've got a
Tesla and you've got cameras all around your Tesla. You
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download more software, you download a different app, and all
of a sudden, you get a driverless car in the
car you are already have. You pay for an upgrade,
and lo and behold, You've got yourself a driverless autonomous vehicle.
How crazy is that? That's what they're hoping for. I
(28:20):
knew a woman who said, no, I bought my Tesla
because it can upgrade to the driverless software. So the
thought was I would drive it to work, and then
while I'm at work, instead of paying for parking, I
would just let it go do uber rides, so while
(28:44):
I'm not using my car, it would drive around on
its own, picking up passengers and making me money. And
then when I wanted to come home, I just summon
it back and it would come and get me and
I'd go home. Is that wild or what? That is? Spectacular?
(29:10):
Could you imagine your car drives you to work and
then disappears, and at the end of the day you've
made a hundred bucks from whatever it was doing, and
then it drives you home. Another person I met said, no,
I bought this upgrade package because I want to sleep
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on my commute. I want to close my eyes and sleep.
How comfortable are you with these driverless cars? Denver's going
to be getting some. It looks like some Waimo cars
driverless cars. When you first see them, they will flip
you out to the car with nobody in it. I know,
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I know, I sound like such an old guy. I
don't understand how this can happen. It happening, all right,
three all, three, seven, one, three, eight two five five
In for the big Man. I'm John Caldera. And by
the way, check out Independence Institute. Go to thinkfreedom dot org.
Thinkfreedom dot org. Our alcohol, tobacco and firearms party coming
up on the thirteenth, where we smoke, drink and shoot.
(30:17):
You want to be part of it. You're not alone.
Don't let the nannists ruin your life. There are still
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You got to love it. We have a speaker, John Fund,
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We'll be speaking and we do this shotgun course. Afterwards,
(30:38):
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Keep it right here. You're on six point thirty k how.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
I'm a disabled senior citizen. I paid off my F
three point fifty Diesel two thousand and six truck. I
had liability insurance. The thieves that stole it, along with
the stolen Honda the user transport, were both recovered later,
but it was so beat up I couldn't afford to
(31:31):
get it fixed, and they were a couple of illegals,
so I couldn't sue them for damages either. I lost
my transportation and all my way of getting around.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Incredible, incredible. I'm John Caldera eight minutes to the top.
The Left's war on mobility is ugly, and they do
it in so many ways. One of the ways is,
of course, by keeping our roads so lousy, making sure
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that our roads aren't kept up. Colorado has some of
the worst road systems because we spend all of our
money on transit. In the Denver metro area, most all
of our transportation dollars go to transit, which carries about
three percent of all of our commutes. If that wasn't
(32:25):
enough to give us bad roads, we do the lane dining.
These ideas that we're gonna get make our roads have
less capacity. You've been down these roads that have bike
lanes with these stupid little plastic ballards that pop up
to keep you out. They're a danger because they make
(32:48):
more traffic. Somebody's making a left turn in front of you,
You've got to wait, and you can't go around them.
So if there's enough ongoing oncoming traffic and they can't
make their turn, everybody's just and it creates gridlock, which
is what they want. They want to force you onto
transit at gunpoint. I've seen emergency vehicles like fire trucks
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not be able to make the turns or having to
back up to make a turn because of these silly
bike lanes. Oh and if it matters, I rarely ever
see anyone in a bike lane. They hate mobility. They
(33:35):
want to tell you where to go when you want
to go. That's why they love things like rail. The
best thing about rail is you cannot compete with it,
What are you going to do? Put your own train
on the tracks. Carpool lanes, bus lanes, hov lanes, toll
(33:55):
lanes that you can drive on at least allow other
people to be part of the game. It allows people
to have to pay and get out of the traffic.
But on a on a train route, you have no way,
(34:15):
absolutely no way to use that unused capacity. That's why
RTD loves it, That's why government loves it, because it's
empire building. Nobody else can compete with them. And you
shouldn't look at our trolley cars when you see a
trolley car go by. You should look at the tracks
when they're empty and ask yourself, wouldn't it be cool
(34:38):
if I could just drive my car right up there
and use that right of way. Well, that's what asphalt does.
Train tracks can't. And then finally they let people steal
your car and this hurts. This hurts poorer people the most,
(34:59):
who need that car, who only have one car. Hey,
I'll be back tomorrow as well. Michael always a joy.
Check out Independence Institute, go to thinkfreedom dot org and
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