9-6-24 - 6am - Polling & Food Trucks and Shooting Numbers

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael, when do you think the.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Day will come when the United States is split by
party Red states, Blue states, and federal programs will have
to be handled.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
In a different method.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
But this is getting ridiculous in the way this country
has gone.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
I have a story that I opened the tab today.
I've got a document where I've collected about story about
Civil War.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Wait, hang on, I forgot to do something.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Good morning, Goober's the sun's rising up over the Land
of the Free and the home of the brave, and
it's time for the show that's trying to keep.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
It that way.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
The situation with Michael Brown. But wait, you can't just listen.
There's rules of engagement. If you want to be a
good gever, you got to text the former under secretary
at three three one zero three. Start your message with
Mike or Michael, not Brownie because that won't work, and
tell him how you really feel. Send them chasing squirrels
or down a rabbit hole. Then there's Dragon Redbeard. Well,
he kind of runs the show. And if you've got

(00:57):
nothing better to do, like you're not swerving to miss
potholes or hitting on the pooper, you're going to go
to your free to you iHeartRadio app that you download
it because you're a good goomer, hit that little red
microphone button and leave a talkback. But hey, if Dragon
doesn't play your talkback and you want to hear all
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Speaker 1 (01:13):
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Speaker 4 (01:16):
Hey, Sweetie, I didn't catch.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
That, Icho says, go here, dot Colm.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Where producer Dragon works his butt off literally to post
all the good news and bad news stories and find
the podcast for that other show, The Weekend with Michael Brown,
where Brownie goes to cheat on his weekday googer listeners
broadcasting on over a billion, three hundred million, trillion, three
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(01:40):
because the dumbassy is our crack and Brownie's dealing it.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Have a great day, Goober's all right? Now, I suppose
the show can begin.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, you know, I miss Summer. We've now been through
well let's see, uh two groomers and I'm I think
I'm now looking for a third. So you know, the
liam Berger's are fairly large dogs, and they're and they're
fairly hairy.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
They are fluffy, Yeah, they're fluffy.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
They're fluffy. And we found a groomer that we that
we thought did an incredible job, and they were incredibly expensive.
The last time I picked them up, they didn't tell me,
but they had told Tamra that while they were grooming Lena,

(02:28):
the lien Berger, who is actually the smaller of the two,
the table they had her on collapsed and the word
they used, or the phrase they told Tamra was that
Lena broke the table. So I wondered, well, why didn't
they say something to me when I went in to
pick them up, and you know, are they going to

(02:50):
charge us for the table or what? Well? No, it
turns out that there's more to the story, as there
usually is, and it was that they were they had
decided before the table collapsed with Lena that they were
no longer going to do big dogs because their facility

(03:10):
really wasn't designed for big dogs. It was more designed
for rat dogs. So so we lost them. So then
we started searching around and we found another place that
does grooming, and so we went in there and it
was I wouldn't say significantly less expensive, but it was
less expensive but then obviously you get what you pay for.

(03:34):
And now we've noticed and I you know, I've actually
suggested it a tamer that maybe we ought to take
them to the vat, but they are excessively. They came
back from the groomer and it was like, you know
how pig Pen walks along in the in the Charlie
Brown strip and there's just this haze of dust and
dirt following him. Well, the dogs walk along and there's
just this like flying hair everywhere, and I'm thinking, did

(03:58):
they not blow them out? Do they not you know, uh,
ferminate them? You know what? What did they not do? Here?
So I'm I'm blaming the groomer. Tamra is blaming that
it's been hot and they're just shedding a lot, and
that the grooming just kind of got that going more.
But then when I looked at them, I thought, but

(04:19):
they really didn't do that good of a job. So
now I'm I'm on the hunt, and I can't believe
because some are just some are just totally you know,
she may or may not be listening. I don't care.
Some are just abandoned us. She's just completely you know,
she just she decided that she she wanted to make
more money. She had a really good job, and so

(04:39):
she was gonna go do that. And I'm thinking, but
what about me? Because it's all about me and my girls?
And she how dare she go to a better job
making more money when she could have still been grooming
my two Liamburger's, I mean, what what? What's wrong with
people these days?

Speaker 3 (04:55):
What? What? What?

Speaker 1 (04:55):
What are they thinking? Don't they know who I am?
Don't they know what I do? Don't they know? So anyway,
if you know, now, listen, if you're gro if you
have a big dog groomer, you know, like Leenberger's, Saint
Benard's amount, I'm talking about big dogs. If you know
of a big dog groomer. Uh. But I don't want
a big dog groomer that's in Thornton or Longmont or

(05:18):
Fort Collins or Colorado Springs. I want someone that's near
and by near I would say anywhere from Highland's Ranch
to the maybe the Tech Center, and to Parker, that
kind of little triangle. Maybe maybe Castle Rock, because you
don't really Castle Rock seems like it's a long ways

(05:38):
from our house, but it's really not. It just seems
that way because you have to get on the twenty five,
and anytime you get on the twenty five to go anywhere,
it just seems like it's a long ways to go.
So there's my wine for the morning. But anyway, back
to the talk back, So I have I've been putting
together some notes about the likelihood of a civil war

(06:00):
because I can't get it out of my brain because
we've been through one civil war. In fact, I was
having lunch with a friend yesterday and the whole concept
of the civil war came up. And he is a
naturalized citizen and doesn't you know, I mean, he knows,
he knows we had a civil war, but not a
lot of the history about it. So we had, you know,

(06:22):
which makes for a bizarre lunch meeting about the American
Civil War. But maybe I'll get to that today. I
just find it weird that sometimes that the goobers out
there are kind of thinking what we're thinking. We weren't. Well,

(06:42):
I'm going to mention it anyway, but we Dragon, I
think now. I don't want to give him too much credit,
but Dragon may have figured out actually how to do polling,
because I have a story about polling.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Oh uh, okay, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Uh. Dragon may have figured out how to do polling
on the text line, but it didn't go live like
it was supposed to do. At six a m.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
The catches it looks like they need to be submitted
for approval, which I did yesterday after noon. Yeah, and
I don't see it being approved yet. At this point
in time, I thought maybe it would have been like
an automated system, get your proofed as long as there's
no naughty words in it, and it's not. So I
don't know, but we were hoping to send you were hoping.

(07:29):
I was hoping, yes, to figure out who your favorite is?
So you text B.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Because now they're gonna start doing it and then it's
not going to work as a pole.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
I mean, we'll at least see it on our text
screen and see, you know, but we won't have the
actual polling two tool to give us the breakdown. Go ahead,
text it go ahead, B for Michael or text it
D for as to who who your favorite is? A

(08:03):
and C?

Speaker 1 (08:04):
What about A and.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
C B for Michael Brown. I'm trying to make it
pretty simple B for Brown.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Do you think our goobers are a bunch of simpletons?

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Because I the keyword that needs to be texted needs
to be some a keyword that's not normally in.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
So if oh, the keyword is it Mike or Michael.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
If this gets approved, I think it still has to
be texted first Mike or Michael, because that's the way
our text line is set up. So it would be
Mike or Michael and then the letter B or the
letter D. But right, but I'm not entirely sure. That's
why we're going to try and play with that today.
But again, this poll has yet to be approved by

(08:46):
our texting service, so we'll see as to exactly what happens.
Why I can tell you what the results of the
poll are going to be. It's going to be one
of us is going to win, hands down, and it's
going to be you.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
It's going to be you because you sit back there
and all you do is criticize me. You point out
my foibles and my mistakes.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
Like your iPad that you smashed, and you point out iPad.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
You point out things that I would think that you.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Know, pink sure that you often think read friend co workers.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
I mean, yes, we're co workers, but I actually consider
it to be more than co workers because we've actually
socialized together, which is very unusual for me because you
think about the rest of the building, there's really not
a love socializing I'd like to do out there.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
But you know, so while experimenting with this, I was
able to find out that there are other key words
that are texted in that get put into a different category.
Like Weirdly enough, the word club would put you into
a news quote unquote club. Then you would get news

(09:55):
text back, but we don't have that texting back service.
But you were entered into that club group. So if
I think I've deleted that so nobody, somebody had texted
the other day saying that, hey, I'm not sure if
you saw this, but something I got this reply. So
I dove into it, and sure enough I found out
that that it inserted that the word club was in

(10:15):
your text, and then that.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Also in their text they used the word.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Club correct like Sam's club.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Oh, and then that put them into some right.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
We didn't get to see that because that got distributed
to that club group. Hmmm. So it's a little a
little strange. So I try to make the keywords something simple,
like something you wouldn't normally text, like you wouldn't text
a solo letter D, or you wouldn't text the solo
letter B. So that's why I wanted it to be

(10:45):
very simple to see if it would work. Because if
I if I say, all right, if you want to
vote for Michael, text Michael, well, then that Michael text
goes into that polling group and we never see it.
We never see it, right, So I don't want to
say you want to text Dragon, and then it will
go into that group that's Dragon and we never see it.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
See you, don't you Goobers, not him. Goober's don't realize
just how complicated our lives are. So it took Moving
Heaven and Earth just to get our own separate text
line because of the nationally syndicated program. So I did
not want to have to scroll through and find and

(11:26):
eliminate all the text messages to what's that guy that
follows me Martinez or something Martinez, and then there's that
that guy that thinks he's a superman or something shoestring, yeah,
super shoe string, and then what's his name the lawyer? Yeah,

(11:47):
I didn't so, so they so iHeart gave us a
separate text line, and I thought that's great because now
I can use it both, you know, locally and nationally.
But then I learned that the reason we have to
use a keyword is because that particular number also goes
there are other people around the country that use that number.

(12:08):
May not be a radio station, it could be a
I mean, it could be any number of things whatever.
So so now, my god, everything takes So then I
started working on can I not just get a dedicated
text line where you don't have to use a keyword,
where if you just text to the number, we just

(12:30):
get it. And then that also eliminates all the smart
ass Douber's out there that text Mike or that texts
the word Mike, or that text Mike or Michael, you know,
just because they're smart asses and I don't.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Like them when they leave the talkbacks that say Mike
or Michael.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
And I just I don't like smart asses. I don't
know why people think that I would like a smart ass,
because I ain't one myself. But speaking of smart asses.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
So we're trying to play with the new tools. It
works out so far, it still shows the status as
pending for approval on my poll here, but you know,
we'll see.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
But this is also an example because you know, I'm
gonna talk about polling in a minute, because there's some
fascinating poll numbers out uh. And you know this is
this is one of those deals where we have no
control over the over the set of people that we're
going to poll. So we don't know what anything about
the demographics. And what we do know is because you're

(13:30):
all goober's and because you're all passive aggressive like me,
we know that Dragon is going to win hands down.
So I don't know, why don't you know why we're
wasting our time? Why why why don't we just you know,
ask you know why you hate me? Just you know,
now we shouldn't ask that because we'll get too many texts,
won't be able to read through it. The Denver Police

(13:53):
Department continues, you know, and I don't think I when
I do these stories, I worry. Okay, you know what,
I'm gonna get stopped by the Denver Police Department or
the Aurora Police Department, and I'm gonna get you know,
they're gonna they're gonna recognize my voice or they're gonna
recognize the name, and then they're gonna remember, oh, remember

(14:15):
how you bad mouth does about this? And this and this, Well,
guess what, you have a broken tail light or we
think we smell alcohol, or we whatever, and now we're
gonna rip your car apart and rip you apart, and
you know, or if you when you tell us that
you're gonna take your hands off the steering wheel and
you're gonna reach for your registration and driver's license, we're
gonna put a bullet in your head because we think

(14:36):
you're just you know, so, you know, I just I
worry about that stuff, and then I think, no, I
shouldn't worry about that stuff because I don't think the
rank and file members excuse me, the rank and file members.
My throat's really bad today, so just deal with it.
That the rank and file members of the DPD, or
for that matter, of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, the

(14:58):
Aurora Police Department, or even the Arapod County Sheriff's Apartment.
I don't think it's the rank and file. I think
it's the leadership, and the leadership of the Denver Police
Department just has to be some of the stupidest people
that I think I've ever met. So I'm looking last

(15:19):
night for a you know, for my Michael Brown minute
for a sixty second, you know, short story to promote
the weekend program. And I found this over here. Here's
the story. A burrito, a hero, a burger, Nope, none
of those. Over the weekend, meaning last weekend, food truck

(15:45):
operators learned that the POPO would be banning their food
trucks from parking in parts of Lodo from Friday through
Sunday between the hours at ten pm to three a m.
The effort is one of several police experiments. Now this

(16:05):
is why I say it's not rank and file. The
rank and file doesn't just experiment. This comes from the leadership,
which is a culture of stupidity. The effort is one
of several POPO experiments meant to curb late night gun
violence in Lodo, which they refer to in this story

(16:26):
as the entertainment district I did. Hey, honey, let's go
down the Lodo. Let's sit and see if you can't
watch any gang bangers. Hey, honey, let's let's drive down
Lodo tonight and watch the some homeless drug addicts shoot
up and die a fentanyl over, you know, overdosing. Hey, sweetheart,
let's go down Lodo to the entertainment district, and let's

(16:49):
see if we can't, you know, watch some some cops
engage in a gun battle with a bunch of gang
bangers or the trender or Lagua. In fact, let's just
go downtown and see if we can't get our car
beat up by a bunch of you know, gang bangers,
you know from Venezuela or the let's watch the car
tails operate. Let's just go to the entertainment district. Denver

(17:11):
has truly turned into a craphole city, story says in
recent years, downtown Denver, this is the this is the
understatement of the day. Denver has suffered from a reputation
as a violent place. No fec sherlock really.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Jordan Fusia, a spokesperson from Mayor Mike Johnston, said this
protecting the public safety of residents and visitors is a
critical priority for the administration. This new policy is aimed
at dispersing food trucks around the area to prevent large
crowds and potential violence. Well, if you're going to be

(17:54):
the entertainment district, you're naturally going to have large crowds.
If you don't want to have large crowds, then don't
have an entertainment district, but this is insane. Lately officers
have been roaming LODO on weekend nights. They've learned that
violence erupts when crowds are leaving night clubs and bars

(18:18):
when they close, leading to the or heading to the
food trucks for a late night snack, and then they
bump into each other. So you're going to ban the
food trucks.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
Once again, the government gets to pick winners or losers
for businesses. Regarding the food trucks story, Here's the thought.
How about the police arrest criminals when crimes are committed,
regardless of who they are or what their statuses oh
in the country, and then how about prosecutors prosecute them.

(18:54):
That will curb crime in downtown Denver. Don't ban the
food trucks on weekends.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
She's either high or drunk this morning. I don't know
what it is. She looks like top to enforce the law,
imagine that a kivity Christmas. I knew that this thing
I knew today was gonna be bizarre.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
And if you don't need to enforce any laws that
are areny in them books, that would take care of this. No, no, no,
we need to make new laws.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
You know what, You're right, we need a new law.
The city council needs to pass a new law. So
here's how the story continues. Let me go back up
one paragraph. Lately, officers have been roaming Low Doo on
weekend nights. They've learned that violence erupts when crowds are

(19:41):
leaving the night clubs and bars, you know, after they close,
and then they head to the food trucks for a
late night snack. Nothing illegal about that, But then the
story says, and then they bump into each other. Uh

(20:02):
uh Denver. Denver Police Department spokesman says this the restricted
area of operations is intended to help reduce the number
of bump into fights and incidents that escalate the gun violence,
and to encourage people to leave the Low Dough area

(20:23):
soon after the bars the night club shut down. It's like,
we all, we all want you to come here, but no,
no lollygagging around, no, no loitering, no, no, you know,
just you know, it's a nice summer night. The stars
well you can't see the stars from downtown Denver. Uh,

(20:46):
but you know it's a nice you know, summer night.
Maybe it's a full No, maybe you don't want to
be out in the full moon. Anyway, it's a you know,
it's a dark, nice summer night in downtown Denver and
you've been to your favorite you know, honky Tonk and
it's closing time and you and you're sweetie, you know
whatever you're sweetie is. You want to go grab something,

(21:07):
you know, a burrito or a hero or something from
a food truck because you know you've been drinking and
you want a little bit. You just need to bite
You need to bite us something before you get in
your car and go driving drunk on the way home.
Or get on the light rail, which I'm sure all
of you do. You get on because you know the
light rail, you know, passengers just escalate just they're so's

(21:31):
it's like on an Broncos game. They're just packed. Some
food truck owners who rely on those late night crowds
are scrambling to find another place to set up. This
is all according to Kadievr. The Denver Police Department says
that it quote recognizes those concerns and has tried to

(21:55):
minimize the affected area. The police are launching a pilot
program that's like a task force in this fantastic. So
we get the Venezuelan gangs, which I got some text messages.
I want to share with you about that in a minute.
So we got the Venezuelan gangs. You know that that
has Denver ought to be proud. May I, may I

(22:15):
divert for just a moment, digress for just a moment. Uh,
Denver really should be proud. And Aurora, Aurora and Denver,
Mike Kaufman and Mike Johnston ought to be very proud
of themselves because now Denver has landed on the national news,
It's landed on all the cable channels. It's the talk
of the town. It's it's fantastic. Yes. Uh, the police,

(22:41):
the POPO are launching a pilot program to create a
few zones around low Do where the food trucks will
definitely be allowed to congregate. Now I I am you know,
it's Friday, I've been on vacation. My throat's a little sore.
This morning. Dragon's all wrapped up around trying to do

(23:03):
a poll and I'm just confused. And here's my confusion.
So the Denver Police Department tells us that the problem
is that people come out of the bars after closing,
and they go to where the food trucks are because
they want a late night snack, and then they bump
into each other, and then somebody pulls a gun and

(23:24):
the next thing you know, it's the shootout at the
Ok Corral in Lower Downtown and in Low Dough as
we call it. So their idea is this to launch
a new pilot program to create a few zones around
where the food trucks will be allowed to congregate. Wait

(23:46):
a minute, isn't that the very problem that they said
started all of this is that the food trucks are
all together, and so people line up with the food
trucks and they bump into each other. So they're launching
a program to create zones around where the food trucks
will be allowed to congregate. Huh Golly, Sometimes I really

(24:14):
do wonder am I just a if an idiot? Am
I missing something? Or or or have we become so
stupid that stories like this get spread around. Stories like
this make not just one website. Oh it's not just KDBR.

(24:34):
It's a whole bunch of websites all saying the same thing.
And I'm thinking to myself, you've identified the problem. Which
is that food trucks are in one place, and so people,
you know, line up at the food trucks and then
they bump into each other, and you know, you know,
and I always do that. I mean, don't ever, don't

(24:55):
ever accidentally bump into me, because I'll just pull a
glock out and just blow your brain. I mean, that's
just isn't that isn't that isn't that being respectful? I mean,
you invaded my space and it may have been accidental,
but who cares? You invaded my space? So what what's
the logical rational reaction? Well to pull out your concealed
carry and blow somebody's brains out. So the solution is

(25:21):
the food trucks are congregated in one place, so move
the food truck somewhere else where they can come. And
they literally use the word congregate. Oh, the details are
still being worked out. Now there's the Denver Downtown Partnership.
It supports the policy as a violence prevention effort, stressing
that it just covers a three block area. So we're

(25:44):
going to take a three block area and move it
to another three block area, and then we're going to
have the same problem again. But hey, because they assume
that everybody that, well, I might agree with this. Anybody
that goes down to Low Dough and goes out from

(26:04):
ten pm to three am to go to a food
truck food truck, you might be out of your mind
doing that. In the first place, the agency is creating
a ride share pickup zones, allowing people to hail rides
from anywhere in the area. Well, that's great. What's that

(26:28):
going to do? That's still the food trucks are together.
The story says that the hope. Oh well, it's a
policy based on hope.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
You see.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
Now now I'm beginning to understand this is another we
have a problem. Now, I don't know, let me just
suggest now, don't spew your coffee out or your diet
coke or whatever you're drinking this morning, or like Alexa,
that wasn't that Alexa that left that talk back? Yes, well,
obviously she's drunk to morning, so she shouldn't spew out

(27:02):
her tequila or whiskey or whatever she's drinking. But how
about we do something like, I don't know, put more
cops on patrol during the hours where the crime seems
to spike, because oftentimes the presence of law enforcement deters crime.

(27:27):
Huh Nah, scratch that idea. That's that's just stupid on
my part because that's based in reality, that's based on
you know, empirical evidence that the presence of law enforcement
tends to reduce crime. Instead, let's just move the food trucks. Uh,

(27:52):
The spokesman for Mike Johnston says this, and then we'll
just we'll stop because my brain already hurts. Trucks, he says,
are an integral part of Denver's food scene and culture.
We will work closely with the business owners to ensure
that they continue to see success and can adapt to

(28:12):
this pilot program. So they want to make certain that
the food trucks that are located in one area, let's
just say two or three blocks of Blake Street. Then
now we're going to move into two or three blocks
of Wine Coop or two or three blocks of Larimer,
and that will solve the problem. That'll solve the problem.

(28:39):
We live in a really, really stupid world. Hey, Eg
and Mike.

Speaker 6 (28:43):
I don't know if you guys have noticed, probably not
because you're stuck in that drywalls room there. But there's
some weird floating thing in the sky in the southwest,
maybe a little north for you guys. But it's just
floating sitting there. It's not spherical. Looks like I don't know,
maybe he's Chinese weather bloom on his the fairies coming
together us the isaaeen.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
God, I hope.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
So I was looking at our windows, which face east,
and I'm like, well, is it he talking about that? No,
we're no windows.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Listen, I gotta take I gotta take my break now
so I can go step out on the balcony and
see what it is. You know. In fact, I'll wave
to them and say, come and get come and get me. Please,
come and take me away.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
From the planet. I'm getting off. That's right, Please get
get me out of here now.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
So yesterday Dragon, I meant to do this and we
could wait, and we totally spaced it out. Uh. But
we were trying to be somewhat deferential about the school shooting,
uh in that Whittner or whatever then the little town
is in Georgia. But nonetheless I think it's appropriate. Uh.
Every shooting is tragic, Uh, especially when you have a

(29:50):
fourteen year old kid that's killing teachers and students. So
don't get us wrong, we understand how tragic, that is.
But Dragon, I love comparison, will you like, because you know,
everything that was on the news for the past two
days has been that there is a epidemic, an absolute

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epidemic of violence of school shootings in the country. In fact,
I read or somebody had a graph up. Don't hold
me to the numbers, I just generally remember it. But
the number of school shootings, you know, since Columbine is
something like, I don't know, I think they said three

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hundred and fifty or something, or maybe I'm dyslexic and
it was five hundred and thirty or something. And I
thought to myself, being the jerk that I am, I thought, well,
that's not as high as I thought it was. But
Dragon and I wanted to compare school shootings to Chicago.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
One of these places is much safer than the other.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
And then Dragon starts asking me questions, which got me
going down a rabbit hole that he'd already gone down.
And that was a comparison of the population of Chicago
to the population of you know, rug rats enrolled in
public schools.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Granted, that is a slightly skewed data point because those
are students that are enrolled, not always saying that those
are students that are physically in a school building at
any given time.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yes, but I would I would imagine that unless the
truancy rate is like, you know, fifty, it's got to
be pretty damned.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
You can't even give a truancy rate of fifty percent
and this number is still astronomical.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Right, So what did you find?

Speaker 6 (31:39):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (31:39):
Well, like I said, one of these places is much
more safe than the other. So we just did Chicago
shootings over the weekend. So this is a Labor Day weekend,
so it is a longer weekend. And WTTW, which I
believe is a PBS station in Chicago, puts out a
story that says, according to preliminary Chicago Police Department data,
twenty nine people were shot in twenty seven separate incidents

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between six pm on Friday and midnight on Monday. In
addition to the six people who were fatally shot, a
seventh person died of head trauma.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
How many were just shot but didn't die.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Twenty nine people were shot in twenty seven incidents.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
So that compares. Because I went to the website that
I booked marked for show prep called heyjackass dot com
because they tracked Chicago shootings, and these are their numbers
for September to date. Shot and killed five, just close
to you, Shot and wounded twenty eight, total shot thirty three,

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total homicides six.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
So that's to date. I also found out that the
ABC seven Eyewitness News in Chicago reports that thirty at
least at least thirty one shot five fatally in just
Labor Day weekend, which.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
Is extraordinarily close, just off by one from my website. Now,
let's just do Chicago year to date, and then let's
do your school numbers. So year to date shot and
killed in Chicago three hundred and seventy three, shot and
wounded seventeen hundred and fifty nine, total shot twenty one

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hundred and thirty two for total homicides of four hundred
and twenty four. How many kids are there in school?

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Roughly fifty million.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
And the population Chicago is two point six million. Yeah,
so there's a lot more kids in school.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
Yeah. Even, like I said, even we did the Truancia
rate of fifty percent, that's still twenty five million compared
to two.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Point six million.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Yeah. Yeah, so one of these places is much more
dangerous to be than the other.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah, it's much more dangerous to be in Chicago than
it is in a public school.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Okay, that's wrong. The loss of any life is not
a good feature. The scumbags in taxpury releave shots and
bags coming up in a couple of hours.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Perspective is always pretty good.

Speaker 5 (34:10):
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