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Speaker 2 (00:33):
Hey Michael, I was just listening to the Fox News
rundown and they had Tommy Laren talking about how Kamala
Harris was the top pick for twenty twenty eight. Now
that's funny. My prediction for twenty twenty eight is JD
Vance and Ron DeSantis have a good one.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I've already gotten several emails, a couple of text messages
I haven't checked this morning, and even a letter, a
letter from somebody in Sidney, Nebraska in which everybody's already
talking about twenty twenty eight and JD vans for twenty
twenty eight. I'm not saying I'm not I'm not in
favor of Jdvans for twenty twenty eight, but can we
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at least get Trump inaugurated? Can we could we at
least get to January twenty the next year and get
him in office and then start talking about twenty twenty eight.
I mean, I don't know, is that unreasonable? Dragon? I
just seems to me were kind of what's that stupid saying?
Because I thought that's how you ski, but you know,
don't get out in front of your skis. I actually
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thought you were actually kind of supposed to be out
in front of your skis when you're skiing. But you know,
what do I know is I haven't skied in thirty years,
So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Governor Polos shared on social media, Oh, it's been it's
been a few days ago, and I think we may
have actually talked about this about how Colorado's, you know,
the influx of people coming into Colorado's coming from different states,
and that the number one state that is moving to
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Colorado the people, the number one state people are moving
from to Colorado is Texas Tejos, and that more than
thirty more than thirty two thousand people have moved to
Colorado from Texas. Now, look, there could be a whole
host of reasons why people are moving from Colorado, Texas
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to Colorado. Maybe they got a job here, maybe they're
retiring and they and they feel like they're not paying
enough taxes and Texas, you know, they miss paying a
state income tax. So they think to themselves, now that
we're retired and we need to watch our pennies even
a little closer, let's move to Colorado. Whether it's this
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where there is a state income tax, or maybe they're
sick and tire of driving on really nice highways and
they're thinking, you know what, wouldn't it be fun now
in our golden years to be able to drive down
the highway and dodge potholes, you know, to be able
to you know, have to change the rim on your
car because you know, you kaboom, you hit it, and
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so you know, you must spend a thousand dollars having
that fixed, because in Texas you're not going to have
that problem. Or maybe they decided that, you know, skiing
in San Antonio is really not that exciting. It's just
not that exciting. Or hiking, you know, like you know,
maybe you want to hike the uh you want to
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hike the hill country. Well, in August, the hill country,
the humidity is about one hundred and ten percent and
the tempers is about one hundred and twenty degrees. So
you're thinking, maybe instead, let's move to a cheaper place
than the hill country. Let's move to Aspen or tell it,
tell you right? So you see, I could come up
with the Brazilian reasons why people are moving from Texas
to Colorado. But here's why. But our illustree as governor,
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you know what? What a key. I want to use
the word dip, you know what, because he really is
a dip. You know what. He posted this on X
quote this ain't Texas. We're the free state of Colorado.
I can barely get through it. This ain't Texas. We're
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the free state of Colorado, the best state to live,
run a business and raise a family.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
In where we'll fee you and it's not a tax,
so you don't have to vote on it. But right,
we'll just throw a fee on you.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Right, And just like yesterday, he announced that we're going
to get people out of your cars. Now. You know,
when I think about Texas, you know, probably one of
my bad habits of driving fast is the fact that
I had an uncle that lived in Odessa, and occasionally
I would go down to Odessa to spend a few
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weeks with my uncle and and my cousins, uh, you know,
down on the Permian basin. So my uncle might be
up in Oklahoma visiting, you know, my dad or something,
and he had said, you want to come down for
a week, so I would I would jump in the
car and go with him. Now, driving from the Oklahoma
panhandles to Odessa, Texas is pretty much just kind of
put one of those remember those things. Dave Lower always
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used to have one of his car out in the
parking lot. Those things you could a club, club, the
club or whatever it is. You can just put the
club on your steering wheel, point the car south and
just you know, hit the accelerator and just take a nap.
You don't need a self driving car. You just to
lock in the steering wheel because it's just a straight
shot salad. And and he would he would drive, God,
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he would drive. Uh. And he was an oil field guy.
He was he was a patrolleum engineer, so he was
used to driving around all over the place. So he
would drive, you know, on hundred miles an hour get
to Oldeska, Texas. So that's kind of maybe that's where
I learned to drive fast. But the reason I mention
it is because the odes were just I was always amazed,
Like you cross across the state line from Oklahoma into
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the Texas Panhandle and it's like you've gone from Bubby
and Buddby to Budby Trump very smooth, very very smooth. Uh,
we're the free state in Texas? Isn't again, He tweeted out,
this ain't. This ain't Texas? Where the free state of
Colorado the best state to live in, run a business
and raise a family in. What bull crap? What utter
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bull crap? Do you know how many governor do you
know how many listeners that I now have, not not
just because I'm naturally syndicated, but that I have that
that I've brought over from the syndicated show over to
listening to the morning show because they have left Colorado. Yes,
we should you know that map. We can keep wanting
to get dragon. We should get two maps, one that
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show where listeners have moved too. Not you know necessarily
where our listeners are, but where they have moved to.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
This long got to be away from here, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yeah, far away from here. So he's claiming that where
the free state in Texas isn't which tells me he
really doesn't get out much. Now, he doesn't get out
much other than maybe releasing a wolf. You know, maybe
he's going to release a wolf and to talk about trains, huh.
And to talk about trains, and to talk about trains,
that's right, talk about trains, trains and amobiles. Now here's
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the fact. Here are the facts. The census reported for
twenty twenty three that indeed, about thirty two thousand people
moved from Texas to Colorado, more than any other state.
But you know, there's always a butt. There's always a
butt and the butt. Is this the greatest number of
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people moving to Colorado from anywhere else? Are the more
than forty thousand illegal aliens that have made their way
to Denver since Biden opened up the floodgates? Yep? So
I wonder why our you know, brilliant governor didn't mention
those people? What what about those people? Is he racist?
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Does he not want to mention any of those coming
from oh, I don't know, China, you know, somewhere in
South America, Central America, coming from you know, Eastern Africa,
Southern Africa, Northern Africa, coming from the Middle East, coming
from I know, Belarus, coming from God knows where they're
coming from. What you know, Jared and he wants to
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be president of the United States of America, I'm gonna
find Let me find out where the other people were.
Let me pull up that story. Texas. We got thirty
two thousand, one hundred and fifty people from Texas coming
in at number two. You guys are slipping California. Twenty
six eight people moved from California to Colorado. Florida we
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got twelve thousand, seven hundred and eighty six Ploridians. And
you know, I really, with all due respect to people
that live in Florida, I've been to every county in Florida.
I've spent more of my life in Florida than I
ever expected to because of being the FEMA director. And
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I gotta tell you, Florida is Florida's like going to
Scottsdale in February. It's glorious, it's wonderful, it's cool. At night,
they're burning the mesquite it smells really good. The days
get up into you know, the mid seventies. If it's
a really hot day, it might get up to you know,
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seventy eight degrees, but if it drops down to, say
sixty five degrees, that's when the fireplaces start, because you know,
sixty five degrees, you got to have a fireplace. So
I just don't understand people moving well, I do understand
people moving here from Florida, because it's just miserable in Florida.
Arizona we had almost the same number. Twelve three hundred
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and seventy eight people moved to Colorado from Arizona, and
ten thousand, three hundred and fifty one people moved here
from North Carolina. And I can't understand that too. North Carolina,
the summer, unless unless you live out on the outer banks,
is just really not all that pleasant. And yet almost
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forty thousand people came here from someplace outside the continent
of the United States. Forty thousand illegal aliens have made
their way to Denver since the Biden administration started opening
the floodgates. So there's your tidbit of information for the morning.
I thought you just might enjoy that. You know, our governor,
our governor's very proud that people are, you know, it's
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moving to the free state of Texas. In fact, we
all change you instead of welcome to color for Colorado,
we all just say welcome to the free state of Colorado.
Open your pocketbooks, please.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
You can look at the other side and think maybe
hopefully they'll take their red state politics to here in Colorado.
I mean that could be a positive science.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Well, that could be Do you have the hiccups?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Apparently I do.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That's just you know that that's just kind of an
omen for the for the for the entire program today.
I'm going to belch that Cogan, you're going to hiccup
whatever whatever, you're going back there. A British born teacher
who is the head school or heads an expensive preschool,
has been arrested in an FBI sting operation after allegedly
trying to solicit a pornographic materially involving a child. James
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Stewart Carroll, who's fifty five years old, appeared in court
this week to face charges of attempted coercion and enticement
of a minor. Could be sentenced up to ten years
in prison. I okay, maybe if you don't actually go
through with it, uh, you just try. I can kind
of see the ten years in prison. And besides, that
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probably doesn't make any difference whether it's you know, one
year or ten years. If if you're charged with that
and you end up in the general population, you're not
going to last ten years anyway. He's been at the
helm of the National Child Research Center. That's an institution
that requires an annual fee of tens of thousands of dollars.
It's been in an existing since about twenty eighteen. The
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FBIBN investigating Carol back in September after being alerted by
the Discord staff. You know, the Discord is if you've
been on a website and you want to post a
comment or you want to engage in a discussion, well
that's one of one of the platforms that does that,
is called Discord, and Discord noticed that there was some
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unusual activity and they reported it using the name using
the username. You know, when you pick a username, don't
you want to pick something that maybe doesn't might be
kind of cool, but doesn't draw a lot of attention
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to you, particularly if you're looking for child porn.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Oh please don't tell me. It's like Peto King sixty.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Nine circumcised London gay Wow Yeah. He apparently uploaded an
image depicting two miners that started the investigation. The FEDS
traced his online activities back to his home, enabling them
to initiate contact with him through an undercover FBI agent. Now,
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throughout the conversations on discord, this dirt bag reportedly expressed
a specific interest in boys and boys, particularly between the
ages of eight and twelve, and then pretending to be
a separated father. The FBI agent prompted character requests specific
videos of abuse, which finally culminated in his arrest. Now
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that comes just twelve months after a Canadian LGBTQ plus
Pride group leader was also arrested for possession and distribution
of child sexual abuse materials. The head of the Maryland
lgb t Q plus i A Whatever Democrats has also
been exposed in a sting operation this year by child
predator hunter Alex Rosen, Democrat Michael Knopping Napan whatever have
(14:12):
you pronounce it. Let's let you express the desire desire
to rape a child. We got some real sickos out
there in the world. I mean some real sickos out
the out there in the world. There is a there's
a group, a group. There's a group called Gays against groomers.
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You know, you know what a groomer is. A groomer
someone who goes out and tries to groom a minor
into you know, transitioning or you know, deciding that you're
gay or that you're you know by or your your
you know, Q T I, A, X, Y, b z D,
whatever whatever whatever all the acronym stands for. And that
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group these are, These are gay men and women who
are opposed to the sexual exploitation of children. The Democrat
Party has come out and is accusing them of being
some sort of hate group. Now, when I read that,
in conjunction with these other stories about all these other pedophiles,
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I thought, wait a minute. So men and women who
have a gay sexual preference are opposed to members or
individuals who have the same sexual preference of going out
and trying to entice minors into engaging insects with them.
(15:38):
They're opposed to that, and the Democrat Party thinks that
somehow they're a hate group. I find it very different.
There's some mornings when I told Dragon this morning, I said,
I just don't know if I can do today's show
because I knew what I wanted to start out with,
and I wanted to start out with this because I
just find it confusing. What am I missing here? What
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am I missing? So there's that. There is some good news.
California voters have turned down a proposal to raise the
state's minimum waged eighteen dollars an hour, albeit in a
narrow vote. Now, this marks the first the first failure
of a minimum wage high initiative in the entire country
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nearly thirty years. Are you tired of winning? Do you think, California?
I mean, when you lose an in and out Burger joint,
and when you have the Walgreens and the CVS's and
the Publics and the Ralphs and the other grocery stores,
when you actually have them starting to shut down, when
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you have fast food places starting to shut down because
they increase the minimum wage, and then you come back
and you try to increase it again and it gets defeated,
albeit narrowly. Nonetheless it still gets defeated. Maybe it shows
that actually people are beginning to wake up. Yeah, kind
of like you should be. You should have been awake
an hour go, but you're just now waking up.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Wait, if we're forced to pay the employees more, the
cost of said product goes up.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Well, that's I've heard that. If you take econ one
oh one, you might learn that. But I find it
hard to believe.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
We need to pay people a living wage.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
We need to pay people a living wage. And those
evil corporate owners, I mean, you know, like, let's just
imagine a mother of several children wanting to open her
own business. Let's say it's a subway sandwich shop, and
she wants to open a sub you know, and in fact,
she wants to maybe open several subway sandwich shops, and
so she wants to that. That's how she wants to
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make a living. And that's a great entrepreneurial spirit. But
let's say that the cost of the of the blowney.
Do they sell blooney a subway? I don't know sure do.
So let's say the cost of blooney goes up by
forty percent. Because she's an evil corporate you know, capitalists,
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she wants to keep her profit margin the same, so
she increases the cost of the brony sandwiches.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
What a bitch.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I just find this to be totally, totally communists because
she's clearly already a wealthy person because she owns a
couple of franchises of subway sandwiches. And if you do that,
then you clearly are earning more than you need to earn.
And that's taking away from the money that I might
be earning. And that's what you learn now in modern
econ one oh one.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yeah, she probably drives Alexus today?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Does she drive Alexus today?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Sure? Does?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I'm telling you about that. See that. That's why you
and I can't have nice things, because she drives alexis right.
The final results, delayed by two weeks of counting because
of the close margins, show that the minim wage hike
increase forty nine point two percent in favor of it
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Speaker 6 (20:03):
Right, if I was a member of Gays against Groomers,
I'd wear that hate group sign like a badge.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Of honor because I do hate child blisterener, I do
hate pedophiles, I do hate child abusers.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
You damn right, I'm a hate group dragon. Do you
think he's Do you think he's a hater?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
I'm unclear about his message.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I am too, But once you put that one in
the archive for you and I come back and revisit
it later when we're more awake and see if he
really is a hater or not.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
But there are very few people that we celebrate with
the taxpair of leaf shots, and that group.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Is dogs and children.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yep, yep, uh.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
You number fifty three ninety one. Michael, my boss came
to Colorado two years ago to escape Texas. He's a liberal.
U h zero four zero two. Michaelis all the Californians
that moved to Texas that decided it was too difficult
to flip Texas Democrat when Colorado, Colorado has already done it. Yep,
could be. Let's see those, will you dressed those in
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just a minute. They're not really appropriate right now. So
back to California for a moment. So the differences in
the vote, this is too uh. They rejected a mandatory
minimum wage increase, But the voting results, when you dig
into them, displayed a huge regional difference. While the majority
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of the San Francisco Bay Area and of course obviously
all the coastal counties, they all backed the measure. The
exception included San Luis, Obispo, Orange, Ventur and Del Norte counties.
Those are the exceptions. In contrast, most of the inland
counties They all opposed the Rays except for Alpine and Imperial.
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Now I'm not quite sure why Imperial, but that's generally
a fairly conservative county. Again, when think about those counties,
you take the San Francisco Bay area and then all
the coastal counties and that's that's that's all blue, and
then of course along the Nevada border is all blue also,
but down that middle is the red. Now, California's minimum
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wage currently stands at sixteen dollars an hour, but last
year Newsom, the governor, approved a twenty dollars per hour
minimum wage for these certain fast food restaurants. Now it
wasn't a Panera that he exempted, but Panera.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Decided restaurant that bakes bread.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I think something like that, if you bake bread, then your.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Existence does not matter. That one of his biggest donors,
or his friend, was the owner, then.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I think I may be wrong about this, but I
think that friend caught such backlash that he went ahead
and did the minim wage increase.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Anyway, real quick, just a quick pause. Got a text
message out there. It says sunrise. So if you have
a chance, look to the east. Sunrise. Pretty beautiful right now, nightlight,
not lots of nice pinks blues.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
It is.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
It is so if you get a chance.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
It also means that within an hour, I'm gonna have
to stand over there and close those blinds because I
won't be able to see feces pretty soon. But it
is nice right now. So Newsom approves a twenty dollars
an hour minimum wage for certain fast food establishments, affecting
those with over sixty locations. That led to a surge
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and automation and worker layoffs. I'm shocked. You know, we
are a charge tuition for this program because you learn more,
probably hear about economics than you do anywhere else. Now,
Newsom has consistently defended wage increases because he argues that
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it empowers workers. Now, let's think about that for a moment.
If you're a worker but you are without work, what
good does it do to have power? And what does
that power get you? This is the stupidity of the
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brain dead left. A director, a research director for the
Employment Policies Institute in California, some woman the name of
Rebecca Paxton, says that the perceived negative economic impacts of
the fast food minimum wage laws is what swayed the voters.
Sometimes you can't, and I think this is where conservatives
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oftentimes completely missed the vote. And I'm as guilty of
as anybody else. That's why I try to use examples
like you know that that crazy woman that just happens
to being Dragon's mother that wants to open, you know,
some subway sandwich shops because she's she's entrepreneurial minded. She
wants to make a living. She wants to be her
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own boss. She wants to be able to expand and
grow and to be able to make as much money
as possible. Yet when the blooney that she buys for
the sandwiches goes up in price, she's going to increase
that price of the blowy sandwich because she doesn't want
to lose money. She wants to maintain at least some
you know, demnimous profit margin. And so we try to
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explain that and people, okay, yeah, I get that, but
it doesn't hit them in their pocket book. They don't
really understand it. And that goes back to what this.
Rebecca Packinston at This Employment Policies Institute points out that
the perceived negative economic impact of the fast food minimum
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wage is probably what swayed voters. Think about that because
when you and let's just pick on in and Out
for a moment, when now in and Out didn't close
down simply because of the minimum wage. They closed down
in Oakland because of the crime.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Well it's Oakland.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Well it's right, it's Oakland. So that's why. But she says,
Californians are sending Gavin Newsom and the Service Employees International
Union a clear message they're sick of being lab rats
for their pet projects. Now, this is the first minimum
wage height taken up by a state anywhere that has
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been defeated since are you ready for this? Nineteen ninety six,
And that's when voters rejected minimum wage increases in Missouri
and in Montana. So it really does go. You have
to people have to be able to see the effects.
And I think that's what we saw back in November
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five that I think not entirely, but a a component
of of Trump's sweep on November five was that people
were we could talk to we're blue and face about
you know, the causes of inflation. But when people go
to the grocery store, I saw a you know, I
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never remember because I'm doing so much show prep. I
never remember rus see some things. But there was a
guy that was talking about he was in a grocery
store and he was talking about a butter spread. That's
what it was called. It was a butter spread of
some sort. And he was talking about how this is
the kind of thing that Bobby Kennedy Junior needs to
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clean up. Because it was listed as Nongmo Organic and
then there were two other labels on it, and it
cost seven or eight dollars a pound, and it was
some sort of like margin or butter spread, but it
had all these labels on that had a really pretty
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you know, it had you know, you know, it had
some sort of like wheat field or something, and you know,
the sun was rising. It didn't have that Indian that like,
you know, like like whatever it was, Indian can't have
that because that would be racist. But he goes but
flip over and look at look at the ingredients, and
the very first two ingredients was like palm oil and
(28:24):
something something else hydrogenated oils, two types of hydrogenated oils.
Two of the worst things for you. And then he
went through the list of ingredients and it was, you know,
it was all these chemicals and that was going for
like seven eight dollars a tub. He goes and people
tend and he was explaining how people tend to buy
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that because they have all of those things that are
factually true. It's non gmo, and and it is organic
in the sense that well, you know it's it's it's
real palm oil. It's not fake palm oil. But he goes,
come over here, here's something that's you know, a third
or two thirds cheaper. And let's look at the ingredients.
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And he pulls out a stick of butter and on
the butter, on the ingredients, butter. That was it butter.
And he goes and I said, this is actually good
for your body. This is actually good for you. Now
in access, yeah, it might be bad for you, but
it's actually good for you. And it's cheaper. Now that's
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to me, that was a great example of showing us
because most people think about how visual a grocery store is.
You walk into a grocery store and it's just a
circus of lights and colors, and the labels are just
I'm always fascinated by wine labels because you can have
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the crappiest wine in the country, but if you put
a really cool laby on it. You can sell it,
you know, instead of selling it, you know, for you know,
twelve dollars a bottle. You can sell it for thirty
five dollars a bottle. And it's really worth about two
dollars a body. It's like two buck chuck. But what's
nothing wrong with two buck chuck? By the way, but
we're so visually oriented, Well why don't we take that
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same visual orientation and apply it to economics. When you
show people what this is going to cost you, and
how's that apply to the minimum wage? Well, suddenly your
favorite in and out burger place, or your favorite what
a burger or whatever it might be, or the McDonald's
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you're used to going to, whatever it is, is no
longer there, and it's no longer there because of an
increasing minimum wage, an increase in crime, and the increasing
crime is because of all the illegal aliens coming in,
and because of all the homelessness that we actually encourage,
and you have all of that going on, people suddenly
see it. Go the gas thank I've always thought gases
(31:02):
the gas line is the greatest economic indicator of all
because everybody needs gas to get to and from work.
Whether you buy it directly or in directly, and that
affects your fares, that that affects what it costs you
to operate your car. And when you put that in
and you watch those numbers spinning around, either mechanically or
digitally spending, and you see that adding up, do you
(31:23):
ever look at it dragon and think you think about
how much money's in your checking account or you think
about that as that dollar amount can just increase that
when when you end up, you put the nozzle back
in that goes onto your credit card, and you think,
you think, I just spent sixty two dollars and fifty
(31:46):
seven cents. He said, I would never spend sixty two
dollars and fifty seven cents. I would spend sixty two
dollars even, or sixty two fifty or I'd squeeze it
out and gets it sixty three dollars. I would never
shut it off at sixty two dollars fifty seven cents.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
The nearest ten cents round to the nearest ten, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Real, around to the nearest ten. That would be okay,
that's my little low CD kicking in yanking them. When
we get back a h I think I know why
Dragon put this headline in front of me today, Master
the Obvious.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
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Speaker 6 (33:20):
Or Michael, seems like I remember the voters of California
voted down gay marriage, but they did it anyway, So
I'm pretty sure they'll go ahead and raise.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
The minimum wage. Who cares what the voters want. We
know that in Colorado doesn't mean there's what we do
in the story that we would classify us Today's master
of the obvious story. The Denver Police Department after increase
this comes to us from those inquisitive journalists over at
(33:58):
nine News. After increasing police patrols in certain high crime
areas for a month at a time, police said the
data shows the areas are done safer. Well, my work
is done here. I can go home now. At intersections
(34:18):
like Broadway in Colfax, you wouldn't notice anything special or
out of the ordinary. But there's an experiment going on.
Jake Herrera told city council members he's the Denver Police commander.
We focus directive patrols at individual street segments. The Denver
Popo calls the initiative hot Streets god stick. The stupidity
(34:46):
is so strong. The department picks a couple of blocks
to focus increase patrols on. They also pick a different
area nearby to be a control group. Oh, they're conducting
a scientific experiment. Right, let's find two high crime areas.
Now think about this. You live in one of these
two high crime areas. This is like, hey, you went
(35:08):
and enroll in a in a trial study for a
new cancer cure. Yes, it's going to cure cancer. So
but you all you went to and enrolled. Great, you
get the placebo you just get. You get a sailine shot.
You get a drip of sailine every day, while the
(35:29):
guy next to you is getting the stuff that's actually
carrying his cancer. Well that's what the Denver PD is doing.
The department picks a couple of blocks to focus increased
patrols on. They also pick a different area nearby to
be a control group. Every twenty eight days, the locations
change and they're happening all around the city all you.
(35:49):
This is according to ARERA again, all you really need
to reduce crime at individual street segments was a ten
to fifteen minute officer present every two hours. Off those
two hours are random. Let's say we want them to
be at Colfax Broadway from noon to ten pm every
two hours in a random interval. They're being dispatched there
to do specific activities. Every two hours. Officers drive by
(36:12):
with their lights on. What your head lights or your flashing,
your your overhead lights, your emergency lights. They patrol the
area on foot, they talk to people, and when they
do that, they've seen a forty decrease in violence in
the hot street location the water. If you're part of
the control group, you still get the crime. And we
(36:37):
don't have enough cops to do it everywhere because we're
spending too much money on illegal aliens in Denver, right Mayor.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
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Speaker 2 (00:33):
Hey Michael, I was just listening to the Fox News
rundown and they had Tommy Laren talking about how Kamala
Harris was the top pick for twenty twenty eight. Now
that's funny. My prediction for twenty twenty eight is JD
Vance and Ron DeSantis have a good one.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I've already gotten several emails, a couple of text messages
I haven't checked this morning, and even a letter, a
letter from somebody in Sidney, Nebraska in which everybody's already
talking about twenty twenty eight and JD vans for twenty
twenty eight. I'm not saying I'm not I'm not in
favor of Jdvans for twenty twenty eight, but can we
(01:22):
at least get Trump inaugurated? Can we could we at
least get to January twenty the next year and get
him in office and then start talking about twenty twenty eight.
I mean, I don't know, is that unreasonable? Dragon? I
just seems to me were kind of what's that stupid saying?
Because I thought that's how you ski, but you know,
don't get out in front of your skis. I actually
(01:42):
thought you were actually kind of supposed to be out
in front of your skis when you're skiing. But you know,
what do I know is I haven't skied in thirty years,
So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Governor Polos shared on social media, Oh, it's been it's
been a few days ago, and I think we may
have actually talked about this about how Colorado's, you know,
the influx of people coming into Colorado's coming from different states,
and that the number one state that is moving to
(02:12):
Colorado the people, the number one state people are moving
from to Colorado is Texas Tejos, and that more than
thirty more than thirty two thousand people have moved to
Colorado from Texas. Now, look, there could be a whole
host of reasons why people are moving from Colorado, Texas
(02:34):
to Colorado. Maybe they got a job here, maybe they're
retiring and they and they feel like they're not paying
enough taxes and Texas, you know, they miss paying a
state income tax. So they think to themselves, now that
we're retired and we need to watch our pennies even
a little closer, let's move to Colorado. Whether it's this
(02:56):
where there is a state income tax, or maybe they're
sick and tire of driving on really nice highways and
they're thinking, you know what, wouldn't it be fun now
in our golden years to be able to drive down
the highway and dodge potholes, you know, to be able
to you know, have to change the rim on your
car because you know, you kaboom, you hit it, and
(03:16):
so you know, you must spend a thousand dollars having
that fixed, because in Texas you're not going to have
that problem. Or maybe they decided that, you know, skiing
in San Antonio is really not that exciting. It's just
not that exciting. Or hiking, you know, like you know,
maybe you want to hike the uh you want to
(03:37):
hike the hill country. Well, in August, the hill country,
the humidity is about one hundred and ten percent and
the tempers is about one hundred and twenty degrees. So
you're thinking, maybe instead, let's move to a cheaper place
than the hill country. Let's move to Aspen or tell it,
tell you right? So you see, I could come up
with the Brazilian reasons why people are moving from Texas
to Colorado. But here's why. But our illustree as governor,
(04:04):
you know what? What a key. I want to use
the word dip, you know what, because he really is
a dip. You know what. He posted this on X
quote this ain't Texas. We're the free state of Colorado.
I can barely get through it. This ain't Texas. We're
(04:24):
the free state of Colorado, the best state to live,
run a business and raise a family.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
In where we'll fee you and it's not a tax,
so you don't have to vote on it. But right,
we'll just throw a fee on you.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Right, And just like yesterday, he announced that we're going
to get people out of your cars. Now. You know,
when I think about Texas, you know, probably one of
my bad habits of driving fast is the fact that
I had an uncle that lived in Odessa, and occasionally
I would go down to Odessa to spend a few
(04:58):
weeks with my uncle and and my cousins, uh, you know,
down on the Permian basin. So my uncle might be
up in Oklahoma visiting, you know, my dad or something,
and he had said, you want to come down for
a week, so I would I would jump in the
car and go with him. Now, driving from the Oklahoma
panhandles to Odessa, Texas is pretty much just kind of
put one of those remember those things. Dave Lower always
(05:20):
used to have one of his car out in the
parking lot. Those things you could a club, club, the
club or whatever it is. You can just put the
club on your steering wheel, point the car south and
just you know, hit the accelerator and just take a nap.
You don't need a self driving car. You just to
lock in the steering wheel because it's just a straight
shot salad. And and he would he would drive, God,
(05:42):
he would drive. Uh. And he was an oil field guy.
He was he was a patrolleum engineer, so he was
used to driving around all over the place. So he
would drive, you know, on hundred miles an hour get
to Oldeska, Texas. So that's kind of maybe that's where
I learned to drive fast. But the reason I mention
it is because the odes were just I was always amazed,
Like you cross across the state line from Oklahoma into
(06:05):
the Texas Panhandle and it's like you've gone from Bubby
and Buddby to Budby Trump very smooth, very very smooth. Uh,
we're the free state in Texas? Isn't again, He tweeted out,
this ain't. This ain't Texas? Where the free state of
Colorado the best state to live in, run a business
and raise a family in. What bull crap? What utter
(06:26):
bull crap? Do you know how many governor do you
know how many listeners that I now have, not not
just because I'm naturally syndicated, but that I have that
that I've brought over from the syndicated show over to
listening to the morning show because they have left Colorado. Yes,
we should you know that map. We can keep wanting
to get dragon. We should get two maps, one that
(06:49):
show where listeners have moved too. Not you know necessarily
where our listeners are, but where they have moved to.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
This long got to be away from here, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yeah, far away from here. So he's claiming that where
the free state in Texas isn't which tells me he
really doesn't get out much. Now, he doesn't get out
much other than maybe releasing a wolf. You know, maybe
he's going to release a wolf and to talk about trains, huh.
And to talk about trains, and to talk about trains,
that's right, talk about trains, trains and amobiles. Now here's
(07:20):
the fact. Here are the facts. The census reported for
twenty twenty three that indeed, about thirty two thousand people
moved from Texas to Colorado, more than any other state.
But you know, there's always a butt. There's always a
butt and the butt. Is this the greatest number of
(07:41):
people moving to Colorado from anywhere else? Are the more
than forty thousand illegal aliens that have made their way
to Denver since Biden opened up the floodgates? Yep? So
I wonder why our you know, brilliant governor didn't mention
those people? What what about those people? Is he racist?
(08:04):
Does he not want to mention any of those coming
from oh, I don't know, China, you know, somewhere in
South America, Central America, coming from you know, Eastern Africa,
Southern Africa, Northern Africa, coming from the Middle East, coming
from I know, Belarus, coming from God knows where they're
coming from. What you know, Jared and he wants to
(08:27):
be president of the United States of America, I'm gonna
find Let me find out where the other people were.
Let me pull up that story. Texas. We got thirty
two thousand, one hundred and fifty people from Texas coming
in at number two. You guys are slipping California. Twenty
six eight people moved from California to Colorado. Florida we
(08:51):
got twelve thousand, seven hundred and eighty six Ploridians. And
you know, I really, with all due respect to people
that live in Florida, I've been to every county in Florida.
I've spent more of my life in Florida than I
ever expected to because of being the FEMA director. And
(09:13):
I gotta tell you, Florida is Florida's like going to
Scottsdale in February. It's glorious, it's wonderful, it's cool. At night,
they're burning the mesquite it smells really good. The days
get up into you know, the mid seventies. If it's
a really hot day, it might get up to you know,
(09:34):
seventy eight degrees, but if it drops down to, say
sixty five degrees, that's when the fireplaces start, because you know,
sixty five degrees, you got to have a fireplace. So
I just don't understand people moving well, I do understand
people moving here from Florida, because it's just miserable in Florida.
Arizona we had almost the same number. Twelve three hundred
(09:56):
and seventy eight people moved to Colorado from Arizona, and
ten thousand, three hundred and fifty one people moved here
from North Carolina. And I can't understand that too. North Carolina,
the summer, unless unless you live out on the outer banks,
is just really not all that pleasant. And yet almost
(10:19):
forty thousand people came here from someplace outside the continent
of the United States. Forty thousand illegal aliens have made
their way to Denver since the Biden administration started opening
the floodgates. So there's your tidbit of information for the morning.
I thought you just might enjoy that. You know, our governor,
our governor's very proud that people are, you know, it's
(10:41):
moving to the free state of Texas. In fact, we
all change you instead of welcome to color for Colorado,
we all just say welcome to the free state of Colorado.
Open your pocketbooks, please.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
You can look at the other side and think maybe
hopefully they'll take their red state politics to here in Colorado.
I mean that could be a positive science.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Well, that could be Do you have the hiccups?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Apparently I do.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That's just you know that that's just kind of an
omen for the for the for the entire program today.
I'm going to belch that Cogan, you're going to hiccup
whatever whatever, you're going back there. A British born teacher
who is the head school or heads an expensive preschool,
has been arrested in an FBI sting operation after allegedly
trying to solicit a pornographic materially involving a child. James
(11:29):
Stewart Carroll, who's fifty five years old, appeared in court
this week to face charges of attempted coercion and enticement
of a minor. Could be sentenced up to ten years
in prison. I okay, maybe if you don't actually go
through with it, uh, you just try. I can kind
of see the ten years in prison. And besides, that
(11:52):
probably doesn't make any difference whether it's you know, one
year or ten years. If if you're charged with that
and you end up in the general population, you're not
going to last ten years anyway. He's been at the
helm of the National Child Research Center. That's an institution
that requires an annual fee of tens of thousands of dollars.
It's been in an existing since about twenty eighteen. The
(12:15):
FBIBN investigating Carol back in September after being alerted by
the Discord staff. You know, the Discord is if you've
been on a website and you want to post a
comment or you want to engage in a discussion, well
that's one of one of the platforms that does that,
is called Discord, and Discord noticed that there was some
(12:36):
unusual activity and they reported it using the name using
the username. You know, when you pick a username, don't
you want to pick something that maybe doesn't might be
kind of cool, but doesn't draw a lot of attention
(12:58):
to you, particularly if you're looking for child porn.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Oh please don't tell me. It's like Peto King sixty.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Nine circumcised London gay Wow Yeah. He apparently uploaded an
image depicting two miners that started the investigation. The FEDS
traced his online activities back to his home, enabling them
to initiate contact with him through an undercover FBI agent. Now,
(13:24):
throughout the conversations on discord, this dirt bag reportedly expressed
a specific interest in boys and boys, particularly between the
ages of eight and twelve, and then pretending to be
a separated father. The FBI agent prompted character requests specific
videos of abuse, which finally culminated in his arrest. Now
(13:48):
that comes just twelve months after a Canadian LGBTQ plus
Pride group leader was also arrested for possession and distribution
of child sexual abuse materials. The head of the Maryland
lgb t Q plus i A Whatever Democrats has also
been exposed in a sting operation this year by child
predator hunter Alex Rosen, Democrat Michael Knopping Napan whatever have
(14:12):
you pronounce it. Let's let you express the desire desire
to rape a child. We got some real sickos out
there in the world. I mean some real sickos out
the out there in the world. There is a there's
a group, a group. There's a group called Gays against groomers.
(14:32):
You know, you know what a groomer is. A groomer
someone who goes out and tries to groom a minor
into you know, transitioning or you know, deciding that you're
gay or that you're you know by or your your
you know, Q T I, A, X, Y, b z D,
whatever whatever whatever all the acronym stands for. And that
(14:54):
group these are, These are gay men and women who
are opposed to the sexual exploitation of children. The Democrat
Party has come out and is accusing them of being
some sort of hate group. Now, when I read that,
in conjunction with these other stories about all these other pedophiles,
(15:18):
I thought, wait a minute. So men and women who
have a gay sexual preference are opposed to members or
individuals who have the same sexual preference of going out
and trying to entice minors into engaging insects with them.
(15:38):
They're opposed to that, and the Democrat Party thinks that
somehow they're a hate group. I find it very different.
There's some mornings when I told Dragon this morning, I said,
I just don't know if I can do today's show
because I knew what I wanted to start out with,
and I wanted to start out with this because I
just find it confusing. What am I missing here? What
(16:01):
am I missing? So there's that. There is some good news.
California voters have turned down a proposal to raise the
state's minimum waged eighteen dollars an hour, albeit in a
narrow vote. Now, this marks the first the first failure
of a minimum wage high initiative in the entire country
(16:21):
nearly thirty years. Are you tired of winning? Do you think, California?
I mean, when you lose an in and out Burger joint,
and when you have the Walgreens and the CVS's and
the Publics and the Ralphs and the other grocery stores,
when you actually have them starting to shut down, when
(16:42):
you have fast food places starting to shut down because
they increase the minimum wage, and then you come back
and you try to increase it again and it gets defeated,
albeit narrowly. Nonetheless it still gets defeated. Maybe it shows
that actually people are beginning to wake up. Yeah, kind
of like you should be. You should have been awake
an hour go, but you're just now waking up.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Wait, if we're forced to pay the employees more, the
cost of said product goes up.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Well, that's I've heard that. If you take econ one
oh one, you might learn that. But I find it
hard to believe.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
We need to pay people a living wage.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
We need to pay people a living wage. And those
evil corporate owners, I mean, you know, like, let's just
imagine a mother of several children wanting to open her
own business. Let's say it's a subway sandwich shop, and
she wants to open a sub you know, and in fact,
she wants to maybe open several subway sandwich shops, and
so she wants to that. That's how she wants to
(17:42):
make a living. And that's a great entrepreneurial spirit. But
let's say that the cost of the of the blowney.
Do they sell blooney a subway? I don't know sure do.
So let's say the cost of blooney goes up by
forty percent. Because she's an evil corporate you know, capitalists,
(18:03):
she wants to keep her profit margin the same, so
she increases the cost of the brony sandwiches.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
What a bitch.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I just find this to be totally, totally communists because
she's clearly already a wealthy person because she owns a
couple of franchises of subway sandwiches. And if you do that,
then you clearly are earning more than you need to earn.
And that's taking away from the money that I might
be earning. And that's what you learn now in modern
econ one oh one.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yeah, she probably drives Alexus today?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Does she drive Alexus today?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Sure? Does?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I'm telling you about that. See that. That's why you
and I can't have nice things, because she drives alexis right.
The final results, delayed by two weeks of counting because
of the close margins, show that the minim wage hike
increase forty nine point two percent in favor of it
not meeting the required threshold for power. Congratulations, California, if
(19:02):
all you did something.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
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a nobody. Those words stunned me, and I immediately called
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Everybody who comes to our firm at their time of
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Speaker 6 (20:03):
Right, if I was a member of Gays against Groomers,
I'd wear that hate group sign like a badge.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Of honor because I do hate child blisterener, I do
hate pedophiles, I do hate child abusers.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
You damn right, I'm a hate group dragon. Do you
think he's Do you think he's a hater?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
I'm unclear about his message.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I am too, But once you put that one in
the archive for you and I come back and revisit
it later when we're more awake and see if he
really is a hater or not.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
But there are very few people that we celebrate with
the taxpair of leaf shots, and that group.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Is dogs and children.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yep, yep, uh.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
You number fifty three ninety one. Michael, my boss came
to Colorado two years ago to escape Texas. He's a liberal.
U h zero four zero two. Michaelis all the Californians
that moved to Texas that decided it was too difficult
to flip Texas Democrat when Colorado, Colorado has already done it. Yep,
could be. Let's see those, will you dressed those in
(21:21):
just a minute. They're not really appropriate right now. So
back to California for a moment. So the differences in
the vote, this is too uh. They rejected a mandatory
minimum wage increase, But the voting results, when you dig
into them, displayed a huge regional difference. While the majority
(21:46):
of the San Francisco Bay Area and of course obviously
all the coastal counties, they all backed the measure. The
exception included San Luis, Obispo, Orange, Ventur and Del Norte counties.
Those are the exceptions. In contrast, most of the inland
counties They all opposed the Rays except for Alpine and Imperial.
(22:07):
Now I'm not quite sure why Imperial, but that's generally
a fairly conservative county. Again, when think about those counties,
you take the San Francisco Bay area and then all
the coastal counties and that's that's that's all blue, and
then of course along the Nevada border is all blue also,
but down that middle is the red. Now, California's minimum
(22:30):
wage currently stands at sixteen dollars an hour, but last
year Newsom, the governor, approved a twenty dollars per hour
minimum wage for these certain fast food restaurants. Now it
wasn't a Panera that he exempted, but Panera.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Decided restaurant that bakes bread.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I think something like that, if you bake bread, then your.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Existence does not matter. That one of his biggest donors,
or his friend, was the owner, then.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I think I may be wrong about this, but I
think that friend caught such backlash that he went ahead
and did the minim wage increase.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Anyway, real quick, just a quick pause. Got a text
message out there. It says sunrise. So if you have
a chance, look to the east. Sunrise. Pretty beautiful right now, nightlight,
not lots of nice pinks blues.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
It is.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
It is so if you get a chance.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
It also means that within an hour, I'm gonna have
to stand over there and close those blinds because I
won't be able to see feces pretty soon. But it
is nice right now. So Newsom approves a twenty dollars
an hour minimum wage for certain fast food establishments, affecting
those with over sixty locations. That led to a surge
(23:40):
and automation and worker layoffs. I'm shocked. You know, we
are a charge tuition for this program because you learn more,
probably hear about economics than you do anywhere else. Now,
Newsom has consistently defended wage increases because he argues that
(24:04):
it empowers workers. Now, let's think about that for a moment.
If you're a worker but you are without work, what
good does it do to have power? And what does
that power get you? This is the stupidity of the
(24:26):
brain dead left. A director, a research director for the
Employment Policies Institute in California, some woman the name of
Rebecca Paxton, says that the perceived negative economic impacts of
the fast food minimum wage laws is what swayed the voters.
Sometimes you can't, and I think this is where conservatives
(24:50):
oftentimes completely missed the vote. And I'm as guilty of
as anybody else. That's why I try to use examples
like you know that that crazy woman that just happens
to being Dragon's mother that wants to open, you know,
some subway sandwich shops because she's she's entrepreneurial minded. She
wants to make a living. She wants to be her
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own boss. She wants to be able to expand and
grow and to be able to make as much money
as possible. Yet when the blooney that she buys for
the sandwiches goes up in price, she's going to increase
that price of the blowy sandwich because she doesn't want
to lose money. She wants to maintain at least some
you know, demnimous profit margin. And so we try to
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explain that and people, okay, yeah, I get that, but
it doesn't hit them in their pocket book. They don't
really understand it. And that goes back to what this.
Rebecca Packinston at This Employment Policies Institute points out that
the perceived negative economic impact of the fast food minimum
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wage is probably what swayed voters. Think about that because
when you and let's just pick on in and Out
for a moment, when now in and Out didn't close
down simply because of the minimum wage. They closed down
in Oakland because of the crime.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Well it's Oakland.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Well it's right, it's Oakland. So that's why. But she says,
Californians are sending Gavin Newsom and the Service Employees International
Union a clear message they're sick of being lab rats
for their pet projects. Now, this is the first minimum
wage height taken up by a state anywhere that has
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been defeated since are you ready for this? Nineteen ninety six,
And that's when voters rejected minimum wage increases in Missouri
and in Montana. So it really does go. You have
to people have to be able to see the effects.
And I think that's what we saw back in November
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five that I think not entirely, but a a component
of of Trump's sweep on November five was that people
were we could talk to we're blue and face about
you know, the causes of inflation. But when people go
to the grocery store, I saw a you know, I
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never remember because I'm doing so much show prep. I
never remember rus see some things. But there was a
guy that was talking about he was in a grocery
store and he was talking about a butter spread. That's
what it was called. It was a butter spread of
some sort. And he was talking about how this is
the kind of thing that Bobby Kennedy Junior needs to
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clean up. Because it was listed as Nongmo Organic and
then there were two other labels on it, and it
cost seven or eight dollars a pound, and it was
some sort of like margin or butter spread, but it
had all these labels on that had a really pretty
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you know, it had you know, you know, it had
some sort of like wheat field or something, and you know,
the sun was rising. It didn't have that Indian that like,
you know, like like whatever it was, Indian can't have
that because that would be racist. But he goes but
flip over and look at look at the ingredients, and
the very first two ingredients was like palm oil and
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something something else hydrogenated oils, two types of hydrogenated oils.
Two of the worst things for you. And then he
went through the list of ingredients and it was, you know,
it was all these chemicals and that was going for
like seven eight dollars a tub. He goes and people
tend and he was explaining how people tend to buy
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that because they have all of those things that are
factually true. It's non gmo, and and it is organic
in the sense that well, you know it's it's it's
real palm oil. It's not fake palm oil. But he goes,
come over here, here's something that's you know, a third
or two thirds cheaper. And let's look at the ingredients.
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And he pulls out a stick of butter and on
the butter, on the ingredients, butter. That was it butter.
And he goes and I said, this is actually good
for your body. This is actually good for you. Now
in access, yeah, it might be bad for you, but
it's actually good for you. And it's cheaper. Now that's
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to me, that was a great example of showing us
because most people think about how visual a grocery store is.
You walk into a grocery store and it's just a
circus of lights and colors, and the labels are just
I'm always fascinated by wine labels because you can have
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the crappiest wine in the country, but if you put
a really cool laby on it. You can sell it,
you know, instead of selling it, you know, for you know,
twelve dollars a bottle. You can sell it for thirty
five dollars a bottle. And it's really worth about two
dollars a body. It's like two buck chuck. But what's
nothing wrong with two buck chuck? By the way, but
we're so visually oriented, Well why don't we take that
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same visual orientation and apply it to economics. When you
show people what this is going to cost you, and
how's that apply to the minimum wage? Well, suddenly your
favorite in and out burger place, or your favorite what
a burger or whatever it might be, or the McDonald's
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you're used to going to, whatever it is, is no
longer there, and it's no longer there because of an
increasing minimum wage, an increase in crime, and the increasing
crime is because of all the illegal aliens coming in,
and because of all the homelessness that we actually encourage,
and you have all of that going on, people suddenly
see it. Go the gas thank I've always thought gases
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the gas line is the greatest economic indicator of all
because everybody needs gas to get to and from work.
Whether you buy it directly or in directly, and that
affects your fares, that that affects what it costs you
to operate your car. And when you put that in
and you watch those numbers spinning around, either mechanically or
digitally spending, and you see that adding up, do you
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ever look at it dragon and think you think about
how much money's in your checking account or you think
about that as that dollar amount can just increase that
when when you end up, you put the nozzle back
in that goes onto your credit card, and you think,
you think, I just spent sixty two dollars and fifty
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seven cents. He said, I would never spend sixty two
dollars and fifty seven cents. I would spend sixty two
dollars even, or sixty two fifty or I'd squeeze it
out and gets it sixty three dollars. I would never
shut it off at sixty two dollars fifty seven cents.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
The nearest ten cents round to the nearest ten, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Real, around to the nearest ten. That would be okay,
that's my little low CD kicking in yanking them. When
we get back a h I think I know why
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Or Michael, seems like I remember the voters of California
voted down gay marriage, but they did it anyway, So
I'm pretty sure they'll go ahead and raise.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
The minimum wage. Who cares what the voters want. We
know that in Colorado doesn't mean there's what we do
in the story that we would classify us Today's master
of the obvious story. The Denver Police Department after increase
this comes to us from those inquisitive journalists over at
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nine News. After increasing police patrols in certain high crime
areas for a month at a time, police said the
data shows the areas are done safer. Well, my work
is done here. I can go home now. At intersections
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like Broadway in Colfax, you wouldn't notice anything special or
out of the ordinary. But there's an experiment going on.
Jake Herrera told city council members he's the Denver Police commander.
We focus directive patrols at individual street segments. The Denver
Popo calls the initiative hot Streets god stick. The stupidity
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is so strong. The department picks a couple of blocks
to focus increase patrols on. They also pick a different
area nearby to be a control group. Oh, they're conducting
a scientific experiment. Right, let's find two high crime areas.
Now think about this. You live in one of these
two high crime areas. This is like, hey, you went
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and enroll in a in a trial study for a
new cancer cure. Yes, it's going to cure cancer. So
but you all you went to and enrolled. Great, you
get the placebo you just get. You get a sailine shot.
You get a drip of sailine every day, while the
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guy next to you is getting the stuff that's actually
carrying his cancer. Well that's what the Denver PD is doing.
The department picks a couple of blocks to focus increased
patrols on. They also pick a different area nearby to
be a control group. Every twenty eight days, the locations
change and they're happening all around the city all you.
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This is according to ARERA again, all you really need
to reduce crime at individual street segments was a ten
to fifteen minute officer present every two hours. Off those
two hours are random. Let's say we want them to
be at Colfax Broadway from noon to ten pm every
two hours in a random interval. They're being dispatched there
to do specific activities. Every two hours. Officers drive by
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with their lights on. What your head lights or your flashing,
your your overhead lights, your emergency lights. They patrol the
area on foot, they talk to people, and when they
do that, they've seen a forty decrease in violence in
the hot street location the water. If you're part of
the control group, you still get the crime. And we
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don't have enough cops to do it everywhere because we're
spending too much money on illegal aliens in Denver, right Mayor.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
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