12-18-24 - 7am - Corporate Medai and the Dems

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh my god, we have two more years of Polis, Like,
how much more damage can he do in that amount
of time? Along with Mike Johnston and all the morons
of the Democratic Party.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Oh this is awful.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Well it's not quite well, maybe it's well it's not
quite two years, so there's there's that. But yeah, oh
they're listen. Come probably about March April, late spring, maybe
even just early summer. He'll start hearing. Uh, they'll start
positioning themselves. And Jenna Griswold, which I just cannot believe

(00:39):
that she has the highest favorability ratings among the Goose Salazar,
who was the It was, uh, who'd we have there?
We had Jenny Griswold, Joe No Goose, Ken Salazar, Phil Wiser, others,
an unknown, and she had the highest, the highest favorability rating.

(01:02):
He also had the highest negative rating at eighteen percent.
But compared to the others, that's really not a big deal.
What fascinating me was, which kind of leads into the
next story, is how different outlets. So Magellan Strategies gets
hired to do this survey, this poll by something called

(01:25):
Healthcares We Care about Health or something, probably a Democrat
in Goo, and it may be some Democrat in GEO
that's been set up that's kind of quietly in the
background starting to support one of these candidates. But I
say that not to criticize Magellan, because knowing Magellan and

(01:48):
thinking and knowing how good they are, they're not playing games.
They're just they're conducting. Their methodologies are excellent. But someone
may be doing this to set up and to start influencing.

(02:09):
It's not too early to start thinking about the gubernatorial election.
Police is already thinking about the presidential election. You think
Polist isn't thinking about twenty twenty eight, of course he is,
so just get ready for it. We'll continue to watch it.
I just find it fascinating that many media outlets, many

(02:33):
many conservative media outlets, were shocked by this. Well, you
may be shocked by it, and I don't understand that.
I'm ecstatic about it because if Jenna Griswold is end
up being the Democrat nominee for governor, if we can't

(02:56):
beat her, then Colorado deserves continue to go down the
crapper it was just gone. Yes, I mean, it's just
it just shows that, you know, we always joke about
the so in the in the last hour. We rank
in the top ten for porch pirates, people stealing packages
off porches. We're in the we're up in the tenth.

(03:19):
Will we number two? We were actually we were in
the number ten. We were number ten. So we're in
the top ten of the worst states for porch pirates.
You know, somebody in the text line said, you know,
this may sound stupid, but why don't we just, I
don't know, arrest them and prosecute them in Colorado? Such
a silly thing. I mean that goober hadn't had his

(03:40):
coffee or diet coke. Yeah, because he thinks the popo
are going to First of all, the porch pirate has
even though they've got their picture on the ring camera
or the on the Google doorbell or whatever they're they've
they've they've moved on. You think the cops are going
to go try to track down your package from Grandma
the fruitcake she sent. Now, I'm not going to look

(04:00):
for that, not at all. So a state that is
that bad, And then you think about we're also among
the worst states in terms of recovery on public transportation
light rail. We're still we're losing money. Most money that
RTD gets very little comes from riders because the ridership

(04:25):
is down so bad. And yet what do we spend
money on RTD. We don't spend money on fixing potholes,
you know, straightening out. I had a friend who's been
out of town, he's been in South America, and we
were talking and he was bitching about the curve around

(04:46):
I twenty five on Alameda. You know that area, How
bad that that part of town is. And I'm thinking
we spent I don't know, hundreds of millions of dollars
what maybe ten years or less, spend less ten years,
I think to fix that area. We didn't fix it
at all. We didn't straighten it out. And you should
know by your own driving experience that when there's a

(05:09):
curve on the road, if that curve is too tight
on an interstate highway, it naturally causes jams. It causes
people to tap their brakes slow down because people are like,
oh my gosh, I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have
to make a lift, not a like a hard left term.
Now I'm gonna have to kind of curve over to
the left, so I better hit my brakes. Well, I'm

(05:29):
gonna have to curve over to the right, so I
better hit my brakes, and so we don't spend money
to fix that stuff. No, we put money in light
rail because they don't want to strive in cars, so
light rail continues. I shouldn't say light rail RTD, just
RTD in general. Ridership has never recovered from the pandemic,

(05:52):
not at all, which kind of leads talking about the
press not reporting on some of these things. Rob Flaherty
is the deputy cam or was. I guess he still
is because they're still trying to pay their bills. Is
the deputy campaign manager for the Harris Walls campaign. He's

(06:15):
now conceding that corporate media outlets are increasingly irrelevant. No
fec shearlock. Really he says this quote, There's just no
value with respect to my colleagues in the mainstream press
in a general election to speaking to the New York
Times or speaking to the Washington Post because those readers

(06:38):
are already with us. Well, he's a master of the obvious.
How long have you known that the Washington Post, even
though they did not endorse a candidate this year and
Jeff Bezos is apparently headed down tomorrow logo to meet with.
Jeff Bezols, who owns the Washington Post, is on his
ways at least today or tomorrow sometime soon to meet

(07:00):
with President elect Trump. Hmmm, what about that's all about?
But we know the New York Times, and we know
the Washington Post and the LA Times and the Denver Post.
We know that all these, you know, these so called
leaders of the of the Cabal are already in the
tank for the Democrats, for the Marxists, for the progressives. Now.

(07:25):
Jeff Bezols himself offered similar views when he I guess
it was at least the employees of the Washington Post
or the Democrats thought it was controversial when he blocked
his newspapers planned endorsement of Harris, telling Fury subscribers, who
you know? I wonder? In fact, I wish I could
remember some of the people that I follow on X

(07:47):
who said that. I remember what. In particular, he's the
president of the Emmys. He used to work for Senator
Mary Landrew down in Louisiana, and that's that's where I
got to know him. I mean, he's a liberal Democrat
and he was all over Facebook. I canceled my subscription
to the Washington Post. I'm not going to read it anymore.

(08:08):
I need to go look up his name on Facebook
and see if he has resubscribed or if he's announced
that he has. Bezos said this newspaper endorsements do nothing
to tip the scales in election. No undecided voters in
Pennsylvania are going to say, oh, I'm going to go
with the newspapers with newspaper a's endorsement, Nobody says that. Well,

(08:31):
Bezos is probably onto something, and he's probably on trying
to figure out, how do I actually make the Washington
Post not even profitable? How do I get it to
break even? So go back to Flaherty, the campaign deputy
campaign manager for the Harris Walls team. He told Semaphore,
which I find interesting in of itself. Semaphore is a

(08:52):
website that is run by a bunch of uh I
started to say Neil cons, but they're not even Neil cons.
They're just a bunch of progressive Some are former editors
at the New York Times, I think some as a
former editor at the Daily Beast, So you kind of
get the drift of who these people are. So here
he is talking to a website that is really no

(09:15):
different than the website for the Washington Post or the
New York Times. He told them before that quote, the
reason folks are seeking alternative sources of media and are
turning away from political news is because they don't trust
our institutions. They don't trust elites, they don't trust the media,
they don't trust all this stuff. The light bulb is

(09:38):
gone off. The light bulb is totally gone off. Let
me have a footnote here before I get to what
he thinks the solution is. I told Dragon in our
pre production meeting, which is always very serious. You know,
he usually brings in breakfast, and you know, I have
a cigarette, a smug, a little cigar, and little ty.

(10:00):
Then we discuss all the ills of the world and
what we're going to talk about today. And we were
talking about drones. Now I've got a drone story, and
I don't know, I may or may not talk about
it today. But as I'm watching the news last night,
I forget ah is Brettbear the one thing I actually

(10:21):
try to try to watch. I try to watch but Brettbear.
And then I flip over to Fox thirty one and
I watched Dave Fraser because he's got the most accurate
weather in the world. And as I'm watching the story
about the drones, I'm thinking, why are you even covering
this because you're feeding into the frenzy. Nobody believes what
you're saying, and the people you're quoting nobody believes the

(10:44):
people that you're quoting.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Might I refresh everybody's memory for the tide pods stories, Yes,
that was never really a thing until the news got
a hold of it. Then everybody was doing it. And
now we have locks on tied hide containers because apparently
we think people are too stupid not to eat tide pods.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
And if I were a Darwinian, I would say, if
you're too stupid to know that you shouldn't need a
tide pod, why are we putting locks on those tide
pod things when we could just clear out a bunch
of stupid people by letting them eat tide pods. But
that would be a bad thing to say, so I

(11:26):
won't say that.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
You know, anybody watch them to have a drone Now
it just sends him up for funsies because oh, everybody
else is doing it. Let's see what all the fuss
is about.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Or there's also the passive aggressive person that says, Oh,
everybody's freaking about the drones. You know that drone I've
got in the garage I got for Christmas two years ago.
I haven't flown a long time. I think I'm gonna
go out and flow it, just to see if I
can't get somebody or my neighbor to report that, oh,
there was a drone flying over my house. I forgot
I had a drone. Now, let's go play with this.
Let's go play with it now. Yes, Oh, this is

(12:02):
why we don't if if you look, I only want
watch Brett Baer not because I believe everything that he says,
but because it's the one show that he clearly distinguishes
between just trying just trying to report the news versus

(12:25):
giving an opinion. And he's very clear when he gives
an opinion because he brings on his panel, you know,
usually it's you know, a radio host, and then it's
a Democrat strategist, and that it might be an editor
from Politico or something, and he just asked them questions
about what they think about whatever he may have talked
about earlier, or whatever the top story of the day

(12:46):
may be. So it's clearly news and clearly a division
between the news and opinion, so I don't have to
sit in wonder is this your opinion or is this
are you trying to tell me facts? That's really the
only that's probably the only reason I watch it. Well,
let's go back to Flarity the Wuty campaign managed for

(13:09):
Harris Walls. By the way, do you hear she was?
She gave a speech yesterday, dragon, I should try to
find that, because who gave a speech? Kamala Harris? Yeah,
she's still out there, she's still alive. Oh, and she
made some comment about stick with me. I'll get back

(13:30):
to flerity in a minute. She made some you know,
her stupid word salads about you know, time is, you know,
the time is whatever time is, and we're in the
time that time will be, and you just fell out
of a coconut tree. Well, she she used some phrase
she used before about the context of being in the

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right context, and the audience started to laugh because they
knew that that was one of the stupid things that
she had said. So when the audience laughed, she jumped
in and said, yeah, I said that, didn't I, as
if to make us believe that she knew she intentionally
did it. I don't believe for a second she intentionally

(14:14):
did it. I think that's just how much of an
airhead she really is. Back to Flaherty, so his contention
is why are we wasting our time with the dominant media.
He insists that the solution for Democrat candidates is not
as simple as like go to Joe Rogan and talk
about how great democracy is and the importance of preserving

(14:35):
the independence of the Department of Justice or whatever, explaining
that you've got to speak their language. Really you want
democrats to speak our language? Are you talking about democrats language?
Because our language is not about democracy. Our language is

(14:56):
not about you know, illy or I'm sorry, migrants and
how we have to help the migrants. Our language is about,
you know, like, for example, right now, the CR that's
going through. I probably have an unpopular opinion about the CR,
which I may tell you in a minute. But our
language is about smaller government, deregulation, less regulations, fewer taxes,

(15:21):
lowering taxes, you know, expanding individual liberty and individual freedom.
Is that what you're talking about, mister Flaherty, Because I
don't think you believe any of that. So are you
saying that you should just go on podcasts and you
should lie about it. He said that he believes there
will quote plenty of cultural touch points that Democrats could

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draw from, noting this Joe Rogan was at least recently
for Medicare for All, and that THEO Vaughne is really
against money and politics and the way that farmer has
flooded our communities with opioids. You know, this whole thing
about money in politics. I'm really sick of that. You

(16:03):
want to run you want to run the greatest nonprofit
charitable organization to ever exist in the history of mankind?
What do you need to do that money? Right? You
want to start a small business, what do you need money?

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You want to buy a car, what do you need money?
Whatever you want to do in this world other than
fart on the elevator, you don't need any money. I mean,
you do need money other than farting on the elevator.
So I don't know what the hell this guy's talking about.
He says, those are all things that Democrats have something

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to say on. He suggested, but despite his I guess
the supposed understanding of the audience democrats have to connect with.
It was Trump's team, not the team that he led
that appeared on Joe Rogan and Theovon's podcasts. And yet
here he is saying, you don't need to go on

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those podcasts, even though they used to be for these things.
You know what, maybe Joe Rogan and Theovon saw the light.
Maybe they realized that Medicare for All is socialized medicine,
and that, oh, if I pay attention to what's going
on in the world, I recognize that socialized medicine doesn't work.
Just look to Canada, just look to the National Health

(17:32):
Service in the United Kingdom. But he goes off, and
I'll tell you what he says next about about the
corporate media media, including Brett there Mike.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
Back when I used to subscribe to the Denver Compost,
my paper would be delivered in an orange sleeve, stuffed
into a tube in a cluster of tubes at the end.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Of my rural road.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
One week, I would see that my newspaper would be
there in the morning when I left for work, but
it would be gone when I came home in the evening.
So one day I just took my paper out early
found an old copy, folded it like a hot dog bunch,
stuffed it full of forcement nowhere, put it back in
the sleep, back in the tube, and my paper was
never stolen.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Again, which begs the question, why would you steal a
copy of the Denver Compost dreg And I know that
sometimes you give me stories that are printed from the
Denver Compost. You know, do we have an account here

(18:30):
that gives you access to the website?

Speaker 2 (18:33):
I personally do not. I know that whenever I to
print those stories from this machine, it never asked me
to log in or anything. So maybe somebody in the
building has logged in here and stayed logged in to
where access to that.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
I'm slowly finally getting the incessant emails from the Denver
Post to cease. I just keep trying. There's another outfit
in New York that I'm trying to get rid of
their emails too, and I finally, so you know, use
Lexus and Nexus and you can find all sorts of things, like,

(19:11):
you know, the CEO and the CEO's email address. So
I finally just send an email to the CEO just
said stop it.

Speaker 4 (19:19):
I'm going to report you to the FTC or something
I don't know. Drives me nuts, So we're talking about
mister Flaherty, the deputy campaign manager for the Harris Walls campaign.
Would you put that on your resume? Would you put
that down? I guess you can, because you always blame

(19:41):
the candidate. Yeah, well, you know what, I went to
work for X, but X turned out to be a
complete loser.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
But that's not my fault. Now, Flarity doesn't completely discount
the corporate media. He says that one of the most
important moments of the campaign for the vice president was
her interview with Brett Barron Fox News. Now. I found
that statement astonishing because if you recall that interview, it

(20:10):
didn't even last thirty minutes. I think it was supposed
to last twenty minutes, but she showed up like ten
minutes late and then insisted that she didn't have any
other time. So Barrot got to ask about two questions
and went round and round with her about something. I
forget what the topic was. See how little I care
about it now, but whatever it was, he never really

(20:34):
got a straight answer, and he moved on to the
second question and then boom, the interview was over. So
he's so Flaherty, the deputy campaign manager, talking about how
Democrats need to kind of forget about the dominant media,
and says that the most effective thing they did, or
one of the most important moments of the campaign was

(20:56):
that interview in which she purposely, in my opinion, showed
up late. But I think that the Democrats are probably
learning the wrong lesson from the encounter. One of a
vanishingly small number of non softball interviews that Harris took

(21:17):
was that interview, and they describe it as a huge
fundraising moment and a huge social moment, despite a widespread perception,
probably with you included that her appearance on Brett Baer
was an utter disaster, and I do mean an utter disaster.

(21:43):
Go back to this is dated October seventeenth, Kamala Harris's
Fox News interview disaster shows how the media set her
up to fail. This is an opinion piece on The
Hill Vice President called hers had a bad night on Wednesday.
But more interesting than anything she said to Fox News

(22:04):
anchor Brett bear was what wasn't said, namely, that the
reporters had not bothered until this interview to ask her
the most glaringly obvious question of twenty twenty four. This
is why she seemed so completely blindsided when Bear asked
about the role she played in the sweeping, years long

(22:28):
conspiracy to hide Biden's declining mental fitness from the public.
The media's failure to press her on this question until now,
I remember this was in October goes beyond mere in
curiosity or sloppiness. It's outright malpractice. Well, duh, of course
it's outright malpractice because they didn't want to answer that question.

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They didn't want anybody to know just how bad Biden was.
Which now gets back to the media. If Donald Trump,
let's just play a what if game here. If Donald
Trump takes office on January twentieth at noon, and let's
just let's give him a little time. Let's say that

(23:14):
in August, you know, eight months later, now, not a stroke.
I don't even have a stroke. But I don't even
have any of this stuff. This is just a what
if game. What if in August he has a mini stroke.
It is imperceptible, but it starts him on a cognitive decline,

(23:40):
so that by you know, December, November, you know, Thanksgiving,
he's at the Christmas tree lighting and his words are slurred.
He can't figure out how to get off the podium.
Or he trips down the five steps that took him

(24:02):
to the riser to push the button to light the
Christmas tree. What do you think the press would do?
What do you think that the media that here they're
talking about Clarity's talking about how yeah, you know why
we really shouldn't pay attention to the media. If they

(24:22):
started reporting on a Trump mental decline. He fell down
the stairs, he tripped, he had to grab the railing.
His words were slurred, he couldn't say. He started to
say Happy Halloween instead of Merry Christmas. It would be
non stop coverage, maybe going to JD events. Are you

(24:44):
ready to take over? Are you going to invoke the
twenty fifth Amendment? There's something wrong? What's wrong? They try
to corner Malonia. They'd hunt down baronet at college? Ohow,
what's wrong with your dad? What's going on? What's going on?
It would be incessant, utterly incessant. My point being, the

(25:04):
media is not going to change now. They may die
off that, they may die off MSNBC. They're ratings, you know,
Hell's Bill's My ratings are better than MSNBC. Well I
shouldn't say that. That's not really saying a lot, is it?
Unless and until we get real journalism. How often do

(25:29):
you think now? I do it here? In fact, I
got two pieces up from the New York Times that
I may or may not talk about it. I can't
decide whether I'm really that interested in it or not.
But I still go to the Washington Post. I still
go to the New York Times. I still, you know, occasionally,
I'm not doing it nearly as much as I used to,
watching you know, one of the three network's evening news

(25:50):
just to see what they're doing. But I am, particularly
post election, really losing interest. And with the drone story,
I'm particularly losing interest because I'm look the drone story.
To Dragon's point, it's it's the tide pods on steroids.

(26:12):
It's oh, I bought a new red BMW and now
that's all I see are red BMW's. That's what's going
on with the drones, and the media is feeding it.
They're constantly feeding it. The Federal Trade Commission, no segu

(26:32):
best that way, has passed a new rule they will
force ticket sellers and hotels to disclose hidden junk fees
and prices before the customers pay. So they put out
a new regulation that mandates that service fees, resort fees,
and other charges be included upfront and advertised prices. They
say that the FTC estimates that the regulation will save

(26:56):
consumers about fifty three million hours annually. That would be
time previously spent determining the true purchase costs. I don't
get this. The reason I don't get it is the
he's the feet, the heath. The fees are hidden until
you get to your cart. So when you get to

(27:19):
the cart and the price is different than what you
thought you were paying, Oh, it's your choice whether or not.
I mean, it will show.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
You you don't have to hit purchase.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
You don't have to buy it, exactly, Thank you, Captain
obvious back there. You don't have to buy it. So
when I bought the tickets for Time Right to fly
down to Arizona, I found I found the flights I wanted.
I looked at the price, thought it was reasonable, and
then I put them in the cart. And then I
looked at the total and I was like, where'd that

(27:53):
come from? That ain't right now, That didn't seem right.
So I went back and I asked for I there's
a place to break down the price. Well, you add
in the TSA fee and the taxes and the fees
for this, and the fees for landing, and the fees
for taking off, and the fees for using the bathroom,
the fees for having a seat, the fees for using
a seat belt, the fees for you know, using the

(28:14):
overhead bend, the fees for well, I don't get charged
for you of that stuff, but you know, the thieves
for whatever. Then then I had the choice. Oh that's
why the price went up. I had the choice. Hey, baby,
you want to drive or you want to fly? Eh,
I don't want to take it. It's winter time. I
don't want to risk it that we get snowstorm. Can

(28:35):
you imagine Stamer and not getting stuck in a car together.
She'd kill you, I know. Well, I'd taken nap and
pretty soon I'd be shoved out of the car and
she'd be taking off. I'd be left in the ditch,
frozen to death somewhere. Sounds about right. So you get
the choice to hit purchase or not. But now we
have a new regulation because they believe that you're too

(28:57):
stupid to make for a decision for yourself. Oh, the
hotel room was one hundred and nineteen dollars, but the
checkout price was two hundred and twenty five. Let's see
what the difference is.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
I agree with everything you just said about fees, but
and you know what happens after budd, what's wrong with
having the final total price up front? So when people
like me who shop site after site after site to

(29:32):
get the best deal, I don't have to go through
all that bull craft.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
I knew this was coming. In fact, it started with
this text message front man, maybe this is you because
it's almost virtually the same thing, fifty two to seventy seven, Michael.
Wouldn't it be much easier, nicer if the total price
was just displayed in the first place.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, it was a whole heck of a lot of
fun growing up that we had a movie theater not by,
not too far away from us that would give the
full price including tax. And they even made it more
convenient where things were like two dollars and twenty five
cents or four dollars and fifty cents, the nice round

(30:16):
numbers all the way around.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
It's glorious. So they would so, because I've seen places
where they will calculate what the tax would be so
they can have a round number. Yes, so including the tax,
it's two dollars fifty cents exactly, or three dollars even. Yes, Yeah,
I love that.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
It was beautiful.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
It was beautiful, and I would probably be more likely
to patronize a place like that than I would a
place where I've got to figure that figure it out?
Uh oh, five to five three, Mike zero five, five
to three. I think it makes comparing prices very difficult
as a consumer can't see what the real cost is
until they're about to purchase all. It also makes the
public prices of all these businesses fake because everyone has

(30:59):
to lie about the public costs to compete. So in
this electronic age, it makes the marketplace more competitive, better
for consumers and business No.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
No, hey, real quick here in Denver, can we get
rid of that junk fee that is the delivery fee?

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yes, that twenty eight cents is And where do they
come up with.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Twenty eight cents used to be twenty seven?

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah? Well where they come up with twenty seven? I mean,
why not make it a quarter? But why not? Why
have it at all? And what are they doing with
that money? So yes, you make an argument that makes
it much more easy for you, easier for you. I
would ask, why don't you use businesses that do that,

(31:42):
or businesses why don't you do that yourself. You've brought
this on yourself, and we've now created a new federal regulation.
And this is a regulation that I would guess that
the majority of people in this audience want. Now, did
I find it inconvenient? No, because I wasn't prize shopping. Well,

(32:06):
I guess I was prize shopping because I could see
the different fairs for the different times of day for departures.
But I was suddenly looking on United because that's all
I flied, So I wasn't price sensitive except for that
particular day because I was going to fly on that
day and return on another day. It just made me curious,

(32:27):
like why did the christ change? Well, I went back
and I saw and it would be the same for
every fair. I looked at everyone. So no, I just
don't want the regulations.