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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael and Dragon just went to wish both of you
a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Thank
you so much for the stories you brought and discussed
on the show, especially some of the stories that people
have no idea about and you awaken them.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Let's all.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Thanks for the laughter during the show. Got a brand
new Year around the corner.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Well that was a nice thing to say, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
She didn't mean any of it.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh okay, Well, so typical listener.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I mean it's us. Do you really think that somebody
is going to send a genuine talk back with heartfelt feeling.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, you're right, Well, you know, just in the Christmas spirit.
I was just thinking so, And because it's Friday, and
then you and I are taking off and you're headed
to we're both headed out of state, probably never be
allowed back in Colorado, but you know we're going to
add out. I just thought maybe you know, I'm always hopeful. Uh.
(01:03):
And in typical fashion, it is a Friday, and Dragon
and I just don't care today. We just don't care.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
It's like you said, it's it's a Friday, but it's
Friday before vacation, so.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
We just do not care.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Minimal effort today enjoying so.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Which is pretty much what we do every day, just
whatever it takes to just get by. You know, we
were Dragon, how we in our in our you know,
pre show production meeting where we discuss all of the
technicalities of the program and go through the rundown and
think about specifically what we're going to do and when
and how many minutes we're gonna spend on everything, and
how you know, Dragon lectures lectures me about not chasing
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any squirrels or anything.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
And I like to him about breaks on time, and.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I like to him about not interrupting me about you know,
some statistical phenomenon that he's figured out that will completely
you know, blow up the entire story. Uh. While we're going,
while we're going through all of that, uh, I'm thinking
through my head, like, you know, what, what do I
want to start out with today? And obviously the continuing
resolution and oh fiasco in DC. But then I read
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a text message squirrel and there's already a squirrel Michael.
And this is somewhat of a touchy subject because of
the continuing resolution and because of the fact that some
people might not get paid just before the holidays, you know.
And then then the other thing I keep hearing about
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are the Amazon workers, and I found it fascinating. It
shows how Christmas, you know, Christmas and Honikah for the
first time in maybe one hundred years or more. I'm
not quite sure what the stat is. Christmas and Honikus
are on the same day. Well, Honikas starts on the
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same day as christ And when I read about that yesterday,
I thought, yeah, you know, that's I don't know, there's
something I thought kind of spiritually significant about that. And
then I hear the Amazon story about at every single
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news outlet that reported on the Amazon's here's the Amazon story.
Some employees and some contractors. So some people who work
for and some people who work with Amazon are wanting
to unionize, and the Teamsters are doing it.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I know what I was doing because I was at
home working at my desk yesterday and I had Fox
News on in Neil Cavudo, who, by the way, was
I didn't know, but Neil Kavudo retired yesterday. It was
his last name. Anyway, he was interviewing Sean whatever his
name is, as the head of the Teamsters. And the
Teamsters are the ones that are trying to unionize the
Amazon workers, and Neil was really kind of drilling him
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hard about why did you pick just before Christmas? Now
we all know why they picked just before Christmas because
they want customers to be unhappy with Amazon because some
packages may arrive late. So that was the first I
heard of it. Then I go off and I think,
I take the dogs out to Chatfield and walk them,
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and I come back and Brett bears on and he's
talking about Amazon, and the same thing is, Oh, people
are gonna be mad because they're going to get their
packages on time. And then ABC Evening News started out
with the weather. National News started out with the weather
because there's some you know, I'm sure they got some
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you know, hyperbly bombed name for it. But there's in December,
there's going to to be lake effects though, and maybe
even a blizzard and some wintertime weather in the Northeast.
And so that's the number one story. But then the
number two stories Amazon and people are concerned about getting
the packages on time. And at some point in all
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of that, I thought to myself, well, we really have
commercialized Christmas. I am master of the obvious. And it
really struck me as kind of sad that you know,
I don't know, and quite frankly, nor do I care.
I hate I hate buying for other people, and particularly
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my lovely wife, who is incredibly difficult to buy for.
She doesn't need anything. And if you ask her what
she wants anything, anything, and then what she'll do is
she lets slip. Is either now, I've already bought her gift.
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I've gone to great Links. My daughter and I coordinated it.
It's already in Scottsdale. It's already there. I don't have
to haul it on the airplane or anything else. It's there.
And is it wrapped. It's all wrapped and everything. It's
all done. It's under their tree. The granddaughters put you know,
they call her Mimo. They got her name on there.
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And it was more than I wanted to spend, but
I did it. I'm not even I mean, I know
she'll like it, but I don't know that it'll be
something like she'll look at and go, oh, I've just
wanted this forever. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Then.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I think it was day before yesterday. We had gone
to dinner or something and we came back and she
threw her coat over. We throw them kind of over
the stairwell the rail and she just casually said, I
probably really should get a nice new coat. I thought, well,
why the hell did you say that, Like, you know,
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a month ago, I could have got a you know,
I could have gotten a nice burbery code or something.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I don't know until she mentioned it.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Well, no, but every time I ask, it's like, so
so anyway, and I think about all of the effort gone.
Now they've asked me what I want for Christmas, and
I have said, there's really nothing I want. Just you know,
give me, just give me some money, just give me
a gift card. We don't want to get you a
gift card, and blah blah blah. And I said, okay, well,
I'm thinking about buying a new laptop. Give me, you know,
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give me some Apple gift cards. Have everybody just give
me Apple gift cards, and then I'll just make up
the difference. I'll just go buy a new laptop. And
I think the same thing happened that when I finally
gave them that answer, because I got kind of a
poker face look like, well, I wish you'd said that earlier,
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because I think we've already gotten you something else. So
I have no I have no expectations. But should I
should we? I mean, who cares? Just don't worry about it?
Can I remember the meaning of it? So all of
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after all of that, I was trying to get to
this text message from Gouber number twenty six to fifty Michael.
I know a lot has been said about what this
election was about elites versus the working man, et cetera.
I wonder about private versus public sector. I work in
manufacturing for an S and P five hundred company, and
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they just dropped our pension plan to roll into a
four oh one K, which I'm kind of reading it,
reading between the lines on this one that perhaps, like
we have been for how many years now, dragon at
least four or five years, maybe longer where iHeart has
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not made a employer contribution to the four oh one K.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Two years though? Maximum Okay?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, Well and didn't they And they just came out
like in the past week or so and said they
were going to restart it for next year.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I think, oh, did they? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Did you miss that?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I don't read those anything that comes from Bob and
Tom and Tim and Peter or whoever the freaking bosses
are around here. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
No, it's like reading the comics. You should try it sometime.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I think they're actually starting it back up in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, they'll match a half a percent.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, well what they didn't say what the match was,
but they'll they'll match you know, zero point zero zero
two percent or something. I don't know. So he said,
they just dropped our pension, planned to roll into a
four o one K. He says, I'll be all right,
but we see that all over private industry. Well, public
employees have no concerns about losing their pension. Sometimes pay
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is lower, but the public sector employees I know have
amazing healthcare. How long will the private sector shoulder the
cost of those public sector benefits while their own benefits
keep being taken away? And then he has a story
to He has a link to a story that I've
not read yet. Let's go back and think about that
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because Jamal Bowman, the former US congressman, the one that
pulled the fire alarm, said this.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
So they had three hundred and thirty over three hundred
and thirty million people in the US, About two point
one million people work for the federal government. About nine
hundred thousand will be directly impacted if the government were
to shut down, which is what Donald Trump, Elon Musk,
and Vivek Ramaswami I'll call him for right now from
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the Republican Party.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I disagree with that, but this is what we voted.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
For, y'all. If the government shuts down, we have millions,
if not tens of millions of people impacted because those
who work for the federal government can't pay their bills.
Not true, We'll go into debt maybe, and all chaos
will break loose.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
All chaos really selfishly, all I care about right now
are two groups of people, the United States military and
air traffic controllers. Yeah, they're just being selfish. Now I
might add to the list, but not in a selfish way.
Necessarily customs and border patrol and immigrations and customers enforcement.
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But they're not really allowed to do their job right
now either.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
But this is what Elon Musk, who's worth four hundred billion,
wants to do, and that's what Donald.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Trump wants to do.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
If evact Ramaswami wants to do, and JD Vance wants
to do, this is what we've voted for.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
So they want to government.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
They want to create chaos and then siphon money from
the government for their own pockets. This is what we
voted for, this is what we are, and we better
do everything in our power to push back and fight back,
or else we will be a complete oligarchy, which is
where we are right now. It's not just the healthcare industry,
it's big tech, big pharm of big uh, you know,
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fossil fuel, military industrial complexes, all of it. They represent that,
not the people, and we all have been hoodwinked.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Unfortunately, we keep talking.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
About big government and you know two complex two convoluted,
too much bureaucracy. We need government shut down, we need
to cut spending and all of that. At the same time,
they come from the private sector. They are not doing
anything in the private sector to create the jobs we
need for the American people.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So the private sector is not doing anything to create
the private jobs that private sector employees need. So I
guess the private sector's purpose in life is to solely
create jobs for the public sector. We should just all
be government employees. Let's nationalize everything. But there's a deeper
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point I'll get to in just a second.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
The private sector isn't creating a federal jobs guarantee. The
private sector isn't making housing affordable and have housing as
a human right. The private sectors and making sure your
utilities are affordible, or your transportation is affordable, or your
childcare is affordable.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Fact in fact, who's making those things unaffordable? Do you
think that General Motors wants to sell as many cars
as they possibly can? Yes, so there's a price point
at which they know they cannot go over. But then
some of those price points you have to go over
because Yahoo's like him, or governors like Jared Polis imposed
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all of these mandates you know you've got to have.
You can't sell gas powered vehicles in California. Well so
now you have to have two lines of production, one
for evs and one for internal combustion engines. I mean,
this guy's totally efin insane.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
The private sector isn't doing any of that. They care
about themselves, their oligarchy friends. They don't care about the
American people.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
So an account that I follow on x oil Field
Rando said it this way. Quote, we can't shut we
can't shut down the government. Federal workers won't be able
to pay their bills. Close quote quoting Jamal Bowman. Then
he asked this simple question. Do you remember when we
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shut down the whole ask country and two hundred thousand
oil field workers got laid off and people like Jamal
just told us to stay home to save a lot Thames,
This is how screwed up this country is. Merry Christmas,
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everybody happy, honeken, this is how fed up this country is.
People like Jamal Bowman literally have the audacage to say
that the private sector is not out there doing anything
to create public sector jobs. You well, in a way,
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they actually are, because they're passing on to you and
me in the cost of their products or services all
of the mandates, all of the regulations, all the rules,
all the policies, all the federal statutes, everything that government
mandates that the private sector do in order to comply
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with their ideological wishes, and those costs end up being
passed on to us. And then that's not even counting. Now.
I'm talking about the embedded costs of regulations, the embedded
costs of the policies, of the mandates that cause the
products or services that the private sector creates, which, by
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the way, those products and services are created by jobs
in the private sector. You have dumb, asked Jamal Bowman.
And then set aside that and think about the taxes,
the corporate income tax, which they then build into their
cost of production so that they can maintain their profit margins,
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which means that you and I pay those taxes in
the cost of those products and services. That's what we're
up against. I used to think that we were primarily
up against the useful idiots in the country. I'm beginning
to think that the country is run entirely by useful idiots,
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Republican and Democrat alike, because well, they're all afraid of
shutting down the government because they're afraid that, oh, some
federal employees might not get paid whenever. Let's go back
to Amazon. If Amazon can't deliver packages because workers are
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on strike, they at least have the option of getting
some as the union would call them scabs, to come
in and drive the trucks or sort the packages, or
do whatever needs to be done, and eventually those packages
will get delivered. So the private sector will adapt, adopt, innovate,
do whatever it needs to do to continue to make
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a profit and to create jobs. But let's just use
Jen mal Bowman's numbers. Thousand, if nine hundred thousand federal
employees lose their job, Oh, they'll get the jobs back
and they'll get back paid. Now, they might have to
go into debt for a little while, but they'll get paid.
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Who's in control here, the government or us? The people?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Talent is going on vacation and we're going to possibly
get a government intermission.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
It must be Christmas time. Merry Christmas, Coobers.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
The fascinating thing about radio is the p One's all
you p one listeners out there. And I shouldn't even
warn you about what they're planning for the next couple
of weeks, but as you well listen to Ryan Schulling's promo,
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that will give you an indication of what you might expect.
They are not. In fact, I don't mean, I'm not
even sure across the hallway whether they have a lot
of guests fill ins or not. Do you know if
they do or not.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I'd have to look at the schedule.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah, I mean I remember looking at the schedule and
thinking that's pretty thin over there too. So you're going
to get a lot of iHeart holiday programming everywhere everywhere now,
there's a reason for that, and it's and part of
that reason is part of the reason why I'm not
going to be here. Nielsen doesn't count ratings the last
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two weeks pretty much almost all of December, and so
it's a real dead time, in fact on the nationally
syndicated program, which I never take off, but which I
will not this Saturday, but the next Saturday not be doing.
I emailed my affiliate manager in LA this week about
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the promos, and she emailed me back and said, yeah,
everybody's shutting down for the next two weeks. Don't don't
worry about a promo. You don't need a promo. And
I thought, well, that's such an indication of you know,
so I get ext number of weeks in my contract
and I and I and I always screw it up,
and I've screwed it up again this week. I mean
this year, and I always promise myself I'm going to
get better, but I love what I do and I
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just tend to be here all the time. And then
the end of the year rolls around and you're like,
oh crap, I don't want to give those days back
to the company, and I do want some time off
you know, everybody went some time off occasionally. I want
to get away from Dragon. I mean, that's the primary reason.
I just want to get away from Dragon. And I
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keep thinking maybe that the uh, the janitorial fairy will
show up and clean up the studio, you know, or
pay do here that's right, or do something. But none
of that's going to happen. So we're going to do
serious and stupid stories today. I just did a serious story,
so I want to do a well it's stupid, but
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it's serious. This is what Dragon left me this morning.
How fast should an ambulance get to you? I think
the answer is fast, very very fast.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I need an ambulance.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
I need it. I need it now. I don't need
it like you know, can I get a three day delivery?
Or do I want overnight delivery?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I went like right now delivery.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Denver's response time goals are unmet and likely unrealistic, according
to an audit. Now, I don't think anywhere in this story.
It tells us where we are in terms of nationally,
but this is just Denver. None none of Denver's major
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emergency medical response services that would be nine one or
EMS met their response time goals between May twenty three
in March of twenty four. But think about how government thinks, Hey, guys,
we didn't meet our goals. So now in the private sector,
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for example, if we have certain goals, which we do,
we have certain metrics on radio. If we don't meet
those metrics, well, a couple of things. One will getcheed
out by the bosses. We will reevaluate and figure out
what we can do to better meet the metrics, and
then we'll strive to you know, do better and meet
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those metrics. No, the audit says, maybe the goals the
metrics are unrealistic, so you just lower the goals. Well,
the bingo problem solved. Then when you do the next audit,
then your response times are great. You know, we have
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recruitment problem in the military, will just drop instead of
having X number of people in the military, just cut
that in half and then you'll exceed it by you know,
twenty percent. And so man, look at that, you're you're winning.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
We did so much better.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yes, Oh my gosh. During the eleven months considered by
the audit, Denver's ninety one one call takers answered the
phone within fifteen seconds. Just seventy one percent of the time.
One Mississippi two, Mississippi three. Now I remember you're calling
because your husband or wife are having a heart attack.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
You've just been stabbed.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
You've just been stabbed. Someone's trying to break into your house.
They're they're pounding on the front door. Or you're living
in the apartments over in Aurora, and you know Tda's
outside the door with automatic weapons and knives, fingernails ripped out,
and with pliers to pull your fingernails out, and you're
trying to call nine one one. So you one ring
and the two ring and the three ring of dings
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one Mississippi two, Mississippi three, Mississippi four, Mississippi experiment. Hold
your breath for fifteen seconds. Yeah, yeah, now, I know
it sounds like fifteen seconds.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
It is not a long time. Go right ahead, try it.
Go see if it's a long time. Go oh, he's
actually doing it.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Five seconds, ten seconds, fifteen seconds? Oh, nine one one.
What's your emergency? Well, never mind, I've already been stabbed.
My fingernails are gone, I've been shot in the stomach.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I'll just and that's before anybody answers the phone. That
doesn't mean help is on the way yet.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Right, that's exactly right. Dragon. Let's see. So during those
eleven months considered by this audit, the call takers answered
the phone within fifteen seconds only seventy one percent of
the time, shuret of their goal of doing so by
ninety percent of the time. Firefighters reached the scene in
five minutes seventy four percent of the time, short of
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their goal of doing so ninety percent of the time.
Denver Health ambulance crews made it eighty four percent of
their calls within nine minutes, short of their ninety percent goal.
Ambulance cruise took ten minutes and fourteen segments to reach
the scene ninety percent of the time, while firefighters took
six minutes and eleven segus ninety percent of the time.
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This is all on a thirty nine page report from
the Office of the Auditor. So here here comes Armando Saldalte,
executive director of Denver's Department of Public Safety, during audit
committee meeting yesterday, said this our current standard is unrealistic.
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So there you go. That's the government sector for you. Your
goal is to reach you know, a victim, you know,
ninety percent of the time within x number of seconds,
minutes or second and it's unrealistic, so we're just going
to lower that. The auditors did not disagree, though they
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also didn't independently find the goal times to be unrealistic.
Now think about that sentence. Auditors did not disagree, being
that the standards are unrealistic, though they did not independently
find the goals to be unrealistic. The standard for response
times for firefighters and EMS providers set by the National
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Fire Protection Association do not take into account real world
factors like traffic congestion, whether construction or housards on the street,
you know, like homeless or crazy people. You know, the
X account that you need to be following, dude, than
for better. I was so tempted yesterday driving that I
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wanted to stop, except that I was on a major
arterial street and there was too much traffic right on
the edge of the streets. If somebody just kind of
flipped this guy, he would have flipped over into traffic.
And he was on I mean, it's Denver on the edge,
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just rocking back and forth, sitting with his legs crossed,
rocking back and forth like at any moment he was
just going to rock right into the street, and of
course it was causing a traffic jam because everybody was
afraid that he was going to fall in front of them,
and the way he wanted to hit the homeless guy
because then the homeless guy would find some you know, ambununciation.
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The next thing, you know, you'd be sued because well,
you ran over the homeless guy who was crazy and
you know, probably on drugs. Now, not just Denver, in
several cities close to Denver, size officials have already adjusted
their goal response times to be higher than the association
goals to account for all those factors I just mentioned.
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Denver Fire Department Chief Desmond Fulton said firefighters are constantly
running into hazards as they try to get the scenes.
He said, the city's bike lanes, in particular, God, I
love this story, in particular, make it difficult for the
department's big city trucks to navigate streets, either because of
the bike lanes themselves separated from the rest of the
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roadway by ballards, or because the drivers who illegally park
along them. In instances like that, what we have to
do then is go one, two, three blocks past the
route we would normally take to streets that might be
wider or not have the clearances that prohibit us from
making those turns. Now, what do you think about the
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utter stupidity of what I just told you? Firefighters say
that one of the reasons their response times are so
far off the mark is because the city of Denver,
much like the entire stupid state of Colorado, has decided
that we want to get people out of their cars.
So we're going to narrow down residential streets. We're going
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to put up bike lanes that nobody is using, and
then firefighters have a hard time giving the locations they
need to get to to either, you know, try to
save somebody's life or put out a fire or do whatever. Also,
you stupid bikers can have a bike lane.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
All five of them.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
No, there's seven seven.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Mistake, I forgot to count that one over there.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yes, that one over there, which that one over there
wasn't a biker, he was a scooter. Because this morning
there was a scooter over on my favorite intersection. But
it wasn't on the sidewalk, it was laying in the gutter.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
And that one over there, we don't like you. You're an
e bike rider.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
You know, we have a couple of e bike riders
in our neighborhood that think they own the FN sidewalk,
so that when when I'm walking two giant dogs and
I try to say on at least half one half
the sidewalk, they stop and give me the nasty look like,
get off the sidewalk, this is ours. And they're two
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old farts and they're the they're the e bigs that
are the three wheelers, so they take out the entire
freaking sidewalk.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
You're a bike. You're supposed to be on the street,
not the sidewalk.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
And I I feel sorry for them and I hate
them all at the same time. Merry Christmas, everybody. Michael,
there's a really funny segment in the TV show Murders
Only in the Building in which Martin Short and Steve.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Martin have a murder right in front.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Of a body, and they are calling nine to one
one in New York and they have a thing that
comes on and says they're number thirty something in line.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
It's hysterical, you.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Know's that's quite a duo. Steve Martin and Martin Eights
heavyweights for sure, man, Yeah, totally heavyweights. That that's Jerry
Lewis and Dean Martin kind of stuff that's really good. Uh,
the next story and then next hour, I guess something serious. Well,
this this is serious. People fear catching chlamittee at the
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gym thanks to TikTok. This is why we need to
ban TikTok. Doctor Joe M. D wrote dirty gym equipment
can haul, can harbor harmful bacteria, viruses, and fungi that
cause a range of infections like you know, staff mursa,
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fungal infections like athletes foot or ringworm, and viral infections
such as wards that can cause HPV. If JIM goers
touch contaminated services and then their face, they may even
risk illnesses like the common cold, with the flu or
the COVID. Clean equipment, cleaning equipment before using, washing hands
after workouts can help reduce these risks. Hashtags stay healthy,
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blah blah blah. You know, I don't think it requires
necessarily a PhD in rocket science or to be a
medical doctor to imagine where this quote you can catch
chalmydia from JIM equipment, rumor came from chlamydia? Really jim equipment.
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I kind of imagine that the first person to share
that story or that lie just wasn't a very good
liar and probably had just come from the gym or
a gym rat, and maybe there had been something maybe
before they went to the gym that caused them to
catch chlamydia, and then they went for a workout, or
maybe they considered what they were doing beforehand their workout,
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and oh, honey, I was at the gym. I was
a gym pumping iron. That's what I was, the gym
pumping iron. And I caught the club media. I got
the clap at the gym. So I work out from home.
Can you do everything else elsewhere? Is that what you're
telling you? Is that true? Yeah? Okay, all right, just
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curious
Michael and Dragon just went to wish both of you
a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Thank
you so much for the stories you brought and discussed
on the show, especially some of the stories that people
have no idea about and you awaken them.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Let's all.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Thanks for the laughter during the show. Got a brand
new Year around the corner.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Well that was a nice thing to say, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
She didn't mean any of it.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh okay, Well, so typical listener.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I mean it's us. Do you really think that somebody
is going to send a genuine talk back with heartfelt feeling.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, you're right, Well, you know, just in the Christmas spirit.
I was just thinking so, And because it's Friday, and
then you and I are taking off and you're headed
to we're both headed out of state, probably never be
allowed back in Colorado, but you know we're going to
add out. I just thought maybe you know, I'm always hopeful. Uh.
(01:03):
And in typical fashion, it is a Friday, and Dragon
and I just don't care today. We just don't care.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
It's like you said, it's it's a Friday, but it's
Friday before vacation, so.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
We just do not care.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Minimal effort today enjoying so.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Which is pretty much what we do every day, just
whatever it takes to just get by. You know, we
were Dragon, how we in our in our you know,
pre show production meeting where we discuss all of the
technicalities of the program and go through the rundown and
think about specifically what we're going to do and when
and how many minutes we're gonna spend on everything, and
how you know, Dragon lectures lectures me about not chasing
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any squirrels or anything.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
And I like to him about breaks on time, and.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I like to him about not interrupting me about you know,
some statistical phenomenon that he's figured out that will completely
you know, blow up the entire story. Uh. While we're going,
while we're going through all of that, uh, I'm thinking
through my head, like, you know, what, what do I
want to start out with today? And obviously the continuing
resolution and oh fiasco in DC. But then I read
(02:16):
a text message squirrel and there's already a squirrel Michael.
And this is somewhat of a touchy subject because of
the continuing resolution and because of the fact that some
people might not get paid just before the holidays, you know.
And then then the other thing I keep hearing about
(02:38):
are the Amazon workers, and I found it fascinating. It
shows how Christmas, you know, Christmas and Honikah for the
first time in maybe one hundred years or more. I'm
not quite sure what the stat is. Christmas and Honikus
are on the same day. Well, Honikas starts on the
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same day as christ And when I read about that yesterday,
I thought, yeah, you know, that's I don't know, there's
something I thought kind of spiritually significant about that. And
then I hear the Amazon story about at every single
(03:25):
news outlet that reported on the Amazon's here's the Amazon story.
Some employees and some contractors. So some people who work
for and some people who work with Amazon are wanting
to unionize, and the Teamsters are doing it.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I know what I was doing because I was at
home working at my desk yesterday and I had Fox
News on in Neil Cavudo, who, by the way, was
I didn't know, but Neil Kavudo retired yesterday. It was
his last name. Anyway, he was interviewing Sean whatever his
name is, as the head of the Teamsters. And the
Teamsters are the ones that are trying to unionize the
Amazon workers, and Neil was really kind of drilling him
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hard about why did you pick just before Christmas? Now
we all know why they picked just before Christmas because
they want customers to be unhappy with Amazon because some
packages may arrive late. So that was the first I
heard of it. Then I go off and I think,
I take the dogs out to Chatfield and walk them,
(04:31):
and I come back and Brett bears on and he's
talking about Amazon, and the same thing is, Oh, people
are gonna be mad because they're going to get their
packages on time. And then ABC Evening News started out
with the weather. National News started out with the weather
because there's some you know, I'm sure they got some
(04:53):
you know, hyperbly bombed name for it. But there's in December,
there's going to to be lake effects though, and maybe
even a blizzard and some wintertime weather in the Northeast.
And so that's the number one story. But then the
number two stories Amazon and people are concerned about getting
the packages on time. And at some point in all
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of that, I thought to myself, well, we really have
commercialized Christmas. I am master of the obvious. And it
really struck me as kind of sad that you know,
I don't know, and quite frankly, nor do I care.
I hate I hate buying for other people, and particularly
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my lovely wife, who is incredibly difficult to buy for.
She doesn't need anything. And if you ask her what
she wants anything, anything, and then what she'll do is
she lets slip. Is either now, I've already bought her gift.
(06:02):
I've gone to great Links. My daughter and I coordinated it.
It's already in Scottsdale. It's already there. I don't have
to haul it on the airplane or anything else. It's there.
And is it wrapped. It's all wrapped and everything. It's
all done. It's under their tree. The granddaughters put you know,
they call her Mimo. They got her name on there.
(06:22):
And it was more than I wanted to spend, but
I did it. I'm not even I mean, I know
she'll like it, but I don't know that it'll be
something like she'll look at and go, oh, I've just
wanted this forever. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Then.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I think it was day before yesterday. We had gone
to dinner or something and we came back and she
threw her coat over. We throw them kind of over
the stairwell the rail and she just casually said, I
probably really should get a nice new coat. I thought, well,
why the hell did you say that, Like, you know,
(07:03):
a month ago, I could have got a you know,
I could have gotten a nice burbery code or something.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I don't know until she mentioned it.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Well, no, but every time I ask, it's like, so
so anyway, and I think about all of the effort gone.
Now they've asked me what I want for Christmas, and
I have said, there's really nothing I want. Just you know,
give me, just give me some money, just give me
a gift card. We don't want to get you a
gift card, and blah blah blah. And I said, okay, well,
I'm thinking about buying a new laptop. Give me, you know,
(07:32):
give me some Apple gift cards. Have everybody just give
me Apple gift cards, and then I'll just make up
the difference. I'll just go buy a new laptop. And
I think the same thing happened that when I finally
gave them that answer, because I got kind of a
poker face look like, well, I wish you'd said that earlier,
(07:53):
because I think we've already gotten you something else. So
I have no I have no expectations. But should I
should we? I mean, who cares? Just don't worry about it?
Can I remember the meaning of it? So all of
(08:15):
after all of that, I was trying to get to
this text message from Gouber number twenty six to fifty Michael.
I know a lot has been said about what this
election was about elites versus the working man, et cetera.
I wonder about private versus public sector. I work in
manufacturing for an S and P five hundred company, and
(08:38):
they just dropped our pension plan to roll into a
four oh one K, which I'm kind of reading it,
reading between the lines on this one that perhaps, like
we have been for how many years now, dragon at
least four or five years, maybe longer where iHeart has
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not made a employer contribution to the four oh one K.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Two years though? Maximum Okay?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, Well and didn't they And they just came out
like in the past week or so and said they
were going to restart it for next year.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I think, oh, did they? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Did you miss that?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I don't read those anything that comes from Bob and
Tom and Tim and Peter or whoever the freaking bosses
are around here. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
No, it's like reading the comics. You should try it sometime.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I think they're actually starting it back up in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, they'll match a half a percent.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, well what they didn't say what the match was,
but they'll they'll match you know, zero point zero zero
two percent or something. I don't know. So he said,
they just dropped our pension, planned to roll into a
four o one K. He says, I'll be all right,
but we see that all over private industry. Well, public
employees have no concerns about losing their pension. Sometimes pay
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is lower, but the public sector employees I know have
amazing healthcare. How long will the private sector shoulder the
cost of those public sector benefits while their own benefits
keep being taken away? And then he has a story
to He has a link to a story that I've
not read yet. Let's go back and think about that
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because Jamal Bowman, the former US congressman, the one that
pulled the fire alarm, said this.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
So they had three hundred and thirty over three hundred
and thirty million people in the US, About two point
one million people work for the federal government. About nine
hundred thousand will be directly impacted if the government were
to shut down, which is what Donald Trump, Elon Musk,
and Vivek Ramaswami I'll call him for right now from
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the Republican Party.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I disagree with that, but this is what we voted.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
For, y'all. If the government shuts down, we have millions,
if not tens of millions of people impacted because those
who work for the federal government can't pay their bills.
Not true, We'll go into debt maybe, and all chaos
will break loose.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
All chaos really selfishly, all I care about right now
are two groups of people, the United States military and
air traffic controllers. Yeah, they're just being selfish. Now I
might add to the list, but not in a selfish way.
Necessarily customs and border patrol and immigrations and customers enforcement.
(11:44):
But they're not really allowed to do their job right
now either.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
But this is what Elon Musk, who's worth four hundred billion,
wants to do, and that's what Donald.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Trump wants to do.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
If evact Ramaswami wants to do, and JD Vance wants
to do, this is what we've voted for.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
So they want to government.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
They want to create chaos and then siphon money from
the government for their own pockets. This is what we
voted for, this is what we are, and we better
do everything in our power to push back and fight back,
or else we will be a complete oligarchy, which is
where we are right now. It's not just the healthcare industry,
it's big tech, big pharm of big uh, you know,
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fossil fuel, military industrial complexes, all of it. They represent that,
not the people, and we all have been hoodwinked.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Unfortunately, we keep talking.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
About big government and you know two complex two convoluted,
too much bureaucracy. We need government shut down, we need
to cut spending and all of that. At the same time,
they come from the private sector. They are not doing
anything in the private sector to create the jobs we
need for the American people.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So the private sector is not doing anything to create
the private jobs that private sector employees need. So I
guess the private sector's purpose in life is to solely
create jobs for the public sector. We should just all
be government employees. Let's nationalize everything. But there's a deeper
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point I'll get to in just a second.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
The private sector isn't creating a federal jobs guarantee. The
private sector isn't making housing affordable and have housing as
a human right. The private sectors and making sure your
utilities are affordible, or your transportation is affordable, or your
childcare is affordable.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Fact in fact, who's making those things unaffordable? Do you
think that General Motors wants to sell as many cars
as they possibly can? Yes, so there's a price point
at which they know they cannot go over. But then
some of those price points you have to go over
because Yahoo's like him, or governors like Jared Polis imposed
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all of these mandates you know you've got to have.
You can't sell gas powered vehicles in California. Well so
now you have to have two lines of production, one
for evs and one for internal combustion engines. I mean,
this guy's totally efin insane.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
The private sector isn't doing any of that. They care
about themselves, their oligarchy friends. They don't care about the
American people.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
So an account that I follow on x oil Field
Rando said it this way. Quote, we can't shut we
can't shut down the government. Federal workers won't be able
to pay their bills. Close quote quoting Jamal Bowman. Then
he asked this simple question. Do you remember when we
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shut down the whole ask country and two hundred thousand
oil field workers got laid off and people like Jamal
just told us to stay home to save a lot Thames,
This is how screwed up this country is. Merry Christmas,
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everybody happy, honeken, this is how fed up this country is.
People like Jamal Bowman literally have the audacage to say
that the private sector is not out there doing anything
to create public sector jobs. You well, in a way,
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they actually are, because they're passing on to you and
me in the cost of their products or services all
of the mandates, all of the regulations, all the rules,
all the policies, all the federal statutes, everything that government
mandates that the private sector do in order to comply
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with their ideological wishes, and those costs end up being
passed on to us. And then that's not even counting. Now.
I'm talking about the embedded costs of regulations, the embedded
costs of the policies, of the mandates that cause the
products or services that the private sector creates, which, by
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the way, those products and services are created by jobs
in the private sector. You have dumb, asked Jamal Bowman.
And then set aside that and think about the taxes,
the corporate income tax, which they then build into their
cost of production so that they can maintain their profit margins,
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which means that you and I pay those taxes in
the cost of those products and services. That's what we're
up against. I used to think that we were primarily
up against the useful idiots in the country. I'm beginning
to think that the country is run entirely by useful idiots,
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Republican and Democrat alike, because well, they're all afraid of
shutting down the government because they're afraid that, oh, some
federal employees might not get paid whenever. Let's go back
to Amazon. If Amazon can't deliver packages because workers are
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on strike, they at least have the option of getting
some as the union would call them scabs, to come
in and drive the trucks or sort the packages, or
do whatever needs to be done, and eventually those packages
will get delivered. So the private sector will adapt, adopt, innovate,
do whatever it needs to do to continue to make
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a profit and to create jobs. But let's just use
Jen mal Bowman's numbers. Thousand, if nine hundred thousand federal
employees lose their job, Oh, they'll get the jobs back
and they'll get back paid. Now, they might have to
go into debt for a little while, but they'll get paid.
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Who's in control here, the government or us? The people?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Talent is going on vacation and we're going to possibly
get a government intermission.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
It must be Christmas time. Merry Christmas, Coobers.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
The fascinating thing about radio is the p One's all
you p one listeners out there. And I shouldn't even
warn you about what they're planning for the next couple
of weeks, but as you well listen to Ryan Schulling's promo,
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that will give you an indication of what you might expect.
They are not. In fact, I don't mean, I'm not
even sure across the hallway whether they have a lot
of guests fill ins or not. Do you know if
they do or not.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I'd have to look at the schedule.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah, I mean I remember looking at the schedule and
thinking that's pretty thin over there too. So you're going
to get a lot of iHeart holiday programming everywhere everywhere now,
there's a reason for that, and it's and part of
that reason is part of the reason why I'm not
going to be here. Nielsen doesn't count ratings the last
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two weeks pretty much almost all of December, and so
it's a real dead time, in fact on the nationally
syndicated program, which I never take off, but which I
will not this Saturday, but the next Saturday not be doing.
I emailed my affiliate manager in LA this week about
(20:00):
the promos, and she emailed me back and said, yeah,
everybody's shutting down for the next two weeks. Don't don't
worry about a promo. You don't need a promo. And
I thought, well, that's such an indication of you know,
so I get ext number of weeks in my contract
and I and I and I always screw it up,
and I've screwed it up again this week. I mean
this year, and I always promise myself I'm going to
get better, but I love what I do and I
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just tend to be here all the time. And then
the end of the year rolls around and you're like,
oh crap, I don't want to give those days back
to the company, and I do want some time off
you know, everybody went some time off occasionally. I want
to get away from Dragon. I mean, that's the primary reason.
I just want to get away from Dragon. And I
(20:42):
keep thinking maybe that the uh, the janitorial fairy will
show up and clean up the studio, you know, or
pay do here that's right, or do something. But none
of that's going to happen. So we're going to do
serious and stupid stories today. I just did a serious story,
so I want to do a well it's stupid, but
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it's serious. This is what Dragon left me this morning.
How fast should an ambulance get to you? I think
the answer is fast, very very fast.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I need an ambulance.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
I need it. I need it now. I don't need
it like you know, can I get a three day delivery?
Or do I want overnight delivery?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I went like right now delivery.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Denver's response time goals are unmet and likely unrealistic, according
to an audit. Now, I don't think anywhere in this story.
It tells us where we are in terms of nationally,
but this is just Denver. None none of Denver's major
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emergency medical response services that would be nine one or
EMS met their response time goals between May twenty three
in March of twenty four. But think about how government thinks, Hey, guys,
we didn't meet our goals. So now in the private sector,
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for example, if we have certain goals, which we do,
we have certain metrics on radio. If we don't meet
those metrics, well, a couple of things. One will getcheed
out by the bosses. We will reevaluate and figure out
what we can do to better meet the metrics, and
then we'll strive to you know, do better and meet
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those metrics. No, the audit says, maybe the goals the
metrics are unrealistic, so you just lower the goals. Well,
the bingo problem solved. Then when you do the next audit,
then your response times are great. You know, we have
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recruitment problem in the military, will just drop instead of
having X number of people in the military, just cut
that in half and then you'll exceed it by you know,
twenty percent. And so man, look at that, you're you're winning.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
We did so much better.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yes, Oh my gosh. During the eleven months considered by
the audit, Denver's ninety one one call takers answered the
phone within fifteen seconds. Just seventy one percent of the time.
One Mississippi two, Mississippi three. Now I remember you're calling
because your husband or wife are having a heart attack.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
You've just been stabbed.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
You've just been stabbed. Someone's trying to break into your house.
They're they're pounding on the front door. Or you're living
in the apartments over in Aurora, and you know Tda's
outside the door with automatic weapons and knives, fingernails ripped out,
and with pliers to pull your fingernails out, and you're
trying to call nine one one. So you one ring
and the two ring and the three ring of dings
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one Mississippi two, Mississippi three, Mississippi four, Mississippi experiment. Hold
your breath for fifteen seconds. Yeah, yeah, now, I know
it sounds like fifteen seconds.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
It is not a long time. Go right ahead, try it.
Go see if it's a long time. Go oh, he's
actually doing it.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Five seconds, ten seconds, fifteen seconds? Oh, nine one one.
What's your emergency? Well, never mind, I've already been stabbed.
My fingernails are gone, I've been shot in the stomach.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I'll just and that's before anybody answers the phone. That
doesn't mean help is on the way yet.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Right, that's exactly right. Dragon. Let's see. So during those
eleven months considered by this audit, the call takers answered
the phone within fifteen seconds only seventy one percent of
the time, shuret of their goal of doing so by
ninety percent of the time. Firefighters reached the scene in
five minutes seventy four percent of the time, short of
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their goal of doing so ninety percent of the time.
Denver Health ambulance crews made it eighty four percent of
their calls within nine minutes, short of their ninety percent goal.
Ambulance cruise took ten minutes and fourteen segments to reach
the scene ninety percent of the time, while firefighters took
six minutes and eleven segus ninety percent of the time.
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This is all on a thirty nine page report from
the Office of the Auditor. So here here comes Armando Saldalte,
executive director of Denver's Department of Public Safety, during audit
committee meeting yesterday, said this our current standard is unrealistic.
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So there you go. That's the government sector for you. Your
goal is to reach you know, a victim, you know,
ninety percent of the time within x number of seconds,
minutes or second and it's unrealistic, so we're just going
to lower that. The auditors did not disagree, though they
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also didn't independently find the goal times to be unrealistic.
Now think about that sentence. Auditors did not disagree, being
that the standards are unrealistic, though they did not independently
find the goals to be unrealistic. The standard for response
times for firefighters and EMS providers set by the National
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Fire Protection Association do not take into account real world
factors like traffic congestion, whether construction or housards on the street,
you know, like homeless or crazy people. You know, the
X account that you need to be following, dude, than
for better. I was so tempted yesterday driving that I
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wanted to stop, except that I was on a major
arterial street and there was too much traffic right on
the edge of the streets. If somebody just kind of
flipped this guy, he would have flipped over into traffic.
And he was on I mean, it's Denver on the edge,
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just rocking back and forth, sitting with his legs crossed,
rocking back and forth like at any moment he was
just going to rock right into the street, and of
course it was causing a traffic jam because everybody was
afraid that he was going to fall in front of them,
and the way he wanted to hit the homeless guy
because then the homeless guy would find some you know, ambununciation.
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The next thing, you know, you'd be sued because well,
you ran over the homeless guy who was crazy and
you know, probably on drugs. Now, not just Denver, in
several cities close to Denver, size officials have already adjusted
their goal response times to be higher than the association
goals to account for all those factors I just mentioned.
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Denver Fire Department Chief Desmond Fulton said firefighters are constantly
running into hazards as they try to get the scenes.
He said, the city's bike lanes, in particular, God, I
love this story, in particular, make it difficult for the
department's big city trucks to navigate streets, either because of
the bike lanes themselves separated from the rest of the
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roadway by ballards, or because the drivers who illegally park
along them. In instances like that, what we have to
do then is go one, two, three blocks past the
route we would normally take to streets that might be
wider or not have the clearances that prohibit us from
making those turns. Now, what do you think about the
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utter stupidity of what I just told you? Firefighters say
that one of the reasons their response times are so
far off the mark is because the city of Denver,
much like the entire stupid state of Colorado, has decided
that we want to get people out of their cars.
So we're going to narrow down residential streets. We're going
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to put up bike lanes that nobody is using, and
then firefighters have a hard time giving the locations they
need to get to to either, you know, try to
save somebody's life or put out a fire or do whatever. Also,
you stupid bikers can have a bike lane.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
All five of them.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
No, there's seven seven.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Mistake, I forgot to count that one over there.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yes, that one over there, which that one over there
wasn't a biker, he was a scooter. Because this morning
there was a scooter over on my favorite intersection. But
it wasn't on the sidewalk, it was laying in the gutter.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
And that one over there, we don't like you. You're an
e bike rider.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
You know, we have a couple of e bike riders
in our neighborhood that think they own the FN sidewalk,
so that when when I'm walking two giant dogs and
I try to say on at least half one half
the sidewalk, they stop and give me the nasty look like,
get off the sidewalk, this is ours. And they're two
(30:13):
old farts and they're the they're the e bigs that
are the three wheelers, so they take out the entire
freaking sidewalk.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
You're a bike. You're supposed to be on the street,
not the sidewalk.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
And I I feel sorry for them and I hate
them all at the same time. Merry Christmas, everybody. Michael,
there's a really funny segment in the TV show Murders
Only in the Building in which Martin Short and Steve.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Martin have a murder right in front.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Of a body, and they are calling nine to one
one in New York and they have a thing that
comes on and says they're number thirty something in line.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
It's hysterical, you.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Know's that's quite a duo. Steve Martin and Martin Eights
heavyweights for sure, man, Yeah, totally heavyweights. That that's Jerry
Lewis and Dean Martin kind of stuff that's really good. Uh,
the next story and then next hour, I guess something serious. Well,
this this is serious. People fear catching chlamittee at the
(31:22):
gym thanks to TikTok. This is why we need to
ban TikTok. Doctor Joe M. D wrote dirty gym equipment
can haul, can harbor harmful bacteria, viruses, and fungi that
cause a range of infections like you know, staff mursa,
(31:43):
fungal infections like athletes foot or ringworm, and viral infections
such as wards that can cause HPV. If JIM goers
touch contaminated services and then their face, they may even
risk illnesses like the common cold, with the flu or
the COVID. Clean equipment, cleaning equipment before using, washing hands
after workouts can help reduce these risks. Hashtags stay healthy,
(32:05):
blah blah blah. You know, I don't think it requires
necessarily a PhD in rocket science or to be a
medical doctor to imagine where this quote you can catch
chalmydia from JIM equipment, rumor came from chlamydia? Really jim equipment.
(32:27):
I kind of imagine that the first person to share
that story or that lie just wasn't a very good
liar and probably had just come from the gym or
a gym rat, and maybe there had been something maybe
before they went to the gym that caused them to
catch chlamydia, and then they went for a workout, or
maybe they considered what they were doing beforehand their workout,
(32:48):
and oh, honey, I was at the gym. I was
a gym pumping iron. That's what I was, the gym
pumping iron. And I caught the club media. I got
the clap at the gym. So I work out from home.
Can you do everything else elsewhere? Is that what you're
telling you? Is that true? Yeah? Okay, all right, just
(33:09):
curious
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