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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Michael. This week the Barbershop Parmony Society has
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their annual convention and contest, and they're having it in
downtown Denver, and the warnings are already going out. Hey,
be careful going from the hotel to the venue. That
six Streeth Mall is kind of sketchy, So I worry
about my friends. If we have any other advice we
could pass on, let me know.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Imagine that the city, that the downtown is so bad
that the conventioneers have to have a warning in their
program be careful going from point A to point B.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
That's hilarious. The world has come to me, has come
to an end.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It officially came to an end yesterday at about I'm
guessing around three point fifteen three point thirty, and.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I don't know what to say. I'm shocked.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
We we've talked in the past about the monument that
Jared Polus wants to build to himself for the one
hundred and fifty fiftieth birthday of the state of Colorado
becoming a state, which is next year, the same year
that the United States celebrates two hundred.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
And fifty years of existence.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And in the course of that conversation yesterday, I described
how all of these different organizations are opposed to this
idea of building a so called pedestrian bridge to nowhere
from the State Capitol over to Veterans Park. And it's
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there's no doubt, there's no question in my mind, none whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
That absent twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Seven days a week, security provided not by some security outfit,
not by you know, Joe Blow's security guards, not by
the mauled you know security guards, but by armed swat teams,
it will become nothing more than a haven for drug dealing, defecation, urination, prostitution, crack, meth,
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avoid needles, a homeless place to sleep on or under,
depending upon the weather. And it will not at all
do anything except destroy the the what remains, what little
bit remains of the beauty between that whole downtown area
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right there between the state Capital and the city and
County municipal building. And I don't know how or oh
I know it is because oftentimes, when I'm doing my
Michael Brown Minutes, I'm trying to find a local story
to run for the promotion for the trauma over on Freedom.
I go to local news stations. I usually start with Kadivr.
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Just this shows you my priorities. I usually start with Kadievr.
I'll go to CBS Colorado, I'll go to the local
ABC affiliate, Channel seven, and then last but not least,
I will go to Channel nine.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Now, before I've even gone to the TV stations, I've
also checked Westward, Denver Right, Colorado Sun, the Denver Gazette,
occasionally at Denver Post. But I don't have a subscription
to the Denver Post. I just refuse to do that.
It's kind of funny how I will pay a subscription
fee to the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times,
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the Washington Post, the Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle,
to all these other newspapers around the country, but I
won't for my own local newspaper because that's not a
piece of crap. I won't pay for that. So, in
the course of going through the different television stations, I
run across a story on nine News, and it's by
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my favorite nemesis, Kyle Clark, whom I know everybody in
this audience adores and admires Kyle Clark for his objective,
fair and balanced. You know, we report, you decide kind
of journalism not.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Lo and behold Kyle Clark has and I'm going to
play the entire I want you to hear the entire thing,
and Dragon, you will find it on YouTube next on
Next nine News, they have a YouTube channel. I want
you to hear this because I watched it. It is
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with kudos to not to Kyle Clark, but kudos to
the nine News Next team, whoever their production team is.
They've done fantastic production on this video. There are I
would encourage you once Dragon gets it up, I want
you to go watch it because of it will show
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you just.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
How pardon me, pardon me.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
It will show you just how beautiful that area is
with some really gorgeous drone shots. And then here's where
the world came to an end. I don't think there
is a single thing that Kyle Clark said that I
disagree with.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I had to catch my breath just saying that.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So here's Kyle Clark's take on the Governor's pedestrian bridge
to nowhere. I would just say I could have said
this myself.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
The Governor of Colorado wants to build a twenty nine
million dollar pedestrian bridge project in front.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Of the state Capitol.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
This winding, snaking walkway slash art installation crossing four lanes
of traffic to Lincoln Veterans Memorial Park. I understand that
Governor Polis wants a legacy project, but there is no
good reason to build this, and there are so many
reasons not to build it. I don't know if this
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monument to government waste can be stopped, but we ought
to try. The public's initial reaction to the renderings of
the bridge appears to be a mix.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Of shock, disgust, and amusement.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Yet the governor appears dead set on building this bridge,
even if no one else wants it except him and
some of his rich donor friends. I should say I
have no issue with them having power and money.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I presume that they have earned both.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
I do have an issue with them treating Colorado's capital
like it's their own personal property. The two big criticisms
of this project I've heard so far is that it's
ugly and that it's a waste of money.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I'll get to those in a moment.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I actually think that the best argument against the project
is the fact that the governor can't come up with
a good argument for it. The Governor's office says, this
project honors our shared history, showcases local artists, and brings
the community together. Well, it's bringing the community together. In opposition,
the preservation group Historic Denver wrote, quote, plowing a functionally
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useless bridge through a historic site serves no purpose but
does extensive damage.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
As for this being a twenty nine million.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Dollar outdoor art gallery Capitol Hill, United Neighbors, which represents
the people who live around here, artsy types.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Lots of them. They opposed the project.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Too, saying, quote, we believe the rich and diverse stories
of our state should be honored.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Constructing a massive bridge does not achieve that goal.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
So then the Governor's office pivoted to saying that it
was about pedestrian safety. So we pulled the pedestrian crash
data for this spot in last year.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
There's one crash.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
So then the Governor's office says, it's about wheelchair ramp
access to the Capitol. If you think a wheelchair ramp
needs to cost twenty nine million dollars, the Governor's got
a bridge to sell you.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
And finally, the.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Governor's office now says that the walkway will provide visiting
school kids with a place to sit and eat their
lunch at the Capitol provided no good reason to permanently
disfigure one of the most beautiful man made places in Colorado.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
This area, from.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
The state Capitol to the Denver City and County Building
is one of America's greatest examples of the city beautiful movement.
Is why Civic Center Park is a National Historic Landmark.
From above, you get an even better sense of its
classic architecture, its formal order and balance. And the governor
wants to slap on what looks like an abandoned water slide.
We've learned the city of Denver quietly rejected the state's
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plans for an even bigger, longer bridge that would have
connected all the way to Civic Center Park. So Polus
pulled the project back to just state owned property.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
His land, actually no our land. There are some publicly.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Owned spaces in this state that should be off limits
to pet projects. We wouldn't let somebody draw a mural
on red rocks or open a motel inside the Mason
Verity Cliff dwellings. I've heard people say that the bridge
is ugly. I think that's unfair. It's only we are
to look at because it would be here in this
classic historic space. I can imagine all kinds of neighborhoods
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in Denver where a modern looking, winding pedestrian bridge like
that would look cool, or other cities in Colorado that
would love to have it in their downtown.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Great, let them have it put it there.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
But I'm told there were no other locations considered and
no other projects considered for this location. The governor wants
his legacy project done here, and he wants it done
fast by next summer. For Colorado's one hundred and fiftieth
birthday America's two hundred and fiftieth. The project was unveiled
at the annual Misal dinner, suggesting it's got the support
of Larry Mizel, who's a big campaign donor in Colorado,
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and this project is being pitched to other wealthy Colorados
names you'd know to get them behind the project. That
explains why so many people, including city and state leaders,
who have concerns are staying silent rather than risk angering
the governor and some of the richest political donors in Colorado.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
So I'll say it. If they build this twenty nine million.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Dollar pedestrian bridge project on the front lawn of the
state Capitol.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
It will become a monument to government waste.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
The state legislators are dealing with their second straight year
of budget cuts, and the federal government.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Keeps shifting more and more costs to the states.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Yet every day these legislators are going to look out
their window at millions of dollars they could have spent
on something useful. Every time Colorado can't fund a program,
people will say, well, we had that twenty nine million
dollars to spend on that pedestrian bridge to nowhere. It
will become a symbol of Colorado's misplaced priorities and wasteful spending.
Let me just add, this is still a foolish project
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even if it doesn't cost taxpayers one dollar more than
the one point five million they've already spent, because listen,
there's a chance that our wealthy governor and has even
richer friends could just write a check for the whole thing.
Let me be clear, making a bad idea free does
not make.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
It a good idea.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
We asked the governor's office to point us towards someone,
anyone who supports this project.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
They directed us to an art too, as.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
It turns out, is being paid to do community outreach
for the project.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
If you have to pay.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
People to like your ideas, maybe they're not great ideas.
Being governor comes with perks and power, but there are limits.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
There must be limits.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Someone must be able to tell the governor and his
rich friends, no, no, you cannot spoil a one of
a kind place in Colorado with your pet project. Build
the monument to your legacy somewhere other than the front
lawn of the People's House, Because Governor Polus, this capital.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Is your office.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
This is not your personal property.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
The spam did you watch it?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Dragon?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Yep, it's already up at Michael says, go here dot
com as well.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
That's pretty damn good, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Even blind dogs find bones.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I know, I bet you know.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I'm willing to give Kyle credit for credit is due.
I don't know if anything he and I have agreed
on for the past twenty years, but on this one,
I think we're in simpatico. Every point he made, including
don't let police get by with going to because Larrymizelle
could just write a personal check for this. Phil in
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Shoots could just write a personal check for this. Hell's mails,
Jared Polis could write a personal check for this. So
I'm asking you to do something I don't normally do.
I want you to flood the Governor's office with phone
calls opposing this bridge. But you have to do more
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than that. Where this can really be stopped is with
your state legislator. You need to email, call, flood their
offices with opposition to this monstrosity. And if you if
you need reasons, why go to Michael says go here
dot com. Michael says, oh here dot com. Dragon's got
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the video up. And I don't care whether you cite
Kyle Clark or me. In fact that in fact, probably
don't cite me if you're talking to the governor Governor's
office because that'll just busy moth. But let them know
that twenty nine million dollars for something that's unnecessary, ugly misplaced,
shouldn't be there and is complete and it's going to
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turn into you know. Now, I don't know that you
have to say this to the governor. You have to
say this to the legislators. But you and I know
that this bridge, particularly when you see the schematic overlaid
on the drone shots that they.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Do, that this will become a magnet.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
It will become one of those rare earth mineral magnets
that we're pleading with Ethiopia and China and everybody else
to buy that it'll be right here. It's just that
it'll be the kind of magnet that draws the wrong thing.
It'll draw poop, feces, urine, drugs, needles, homeless derelics, bums, hobos,
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just the dread to society.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Crime.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
There will be all sorts of crime going on. It's
but ugly. I mean, if you think I'm but ugly,
I look like Miss America, I look like mister Universe
compared to that bridge.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Holy cow. I mean, I think you know.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I knew, just from the initial time I did this
story a couple of weeks ago, that this was a
foolish idea and it was stupid. But then when yesterday
I'm watching Kyle Clark and I'm going yep, yep, yes, sir, yep, yep,
I knew that I'd entered a twilight zone. I had
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entered another universe. I had entered that realm of where
two opposites come together and go, oh, what is it
we found? What is the always find? Can we find
some commonality. Can we find some you know, something common
upon which we can agree, Well, Kyle and I have
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found it. Kyle and I have finally found it. And
it's a stupid bridge. You know the late senior senator
from Alaska whose name slept with my mind. You know
that they wanted to build a road to nowhere in
Alaska and it became the laughing stock of Alaska. This
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will be a laughing stock of Colorado, an absolute laughing stock. Now,
in all seriousness, the one point that I think Kyle
makes that deserves I mean, yes, it's ugly, Yes it's inappropriate,
Yes it will be a magnet for everything else. But
I think the most salient point that he made among
all the other points that he made is that next year,
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every single time the legislators look out their window or
they walk out on the steps to get some fresh air,
and they're really just flustered because we're short X number
of millions of dollars, they'll be looking at twenty nine
million dollars that they could to spend on something worthwhile.
And let's face it, is it really going to cost
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twenty nine million dollars?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Of course it's not. It's going to cost fifty nine
million dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, And it was also hilarious that when they asked
the Governor's office for somebody, can you point us to
an artist or someone who supports this, Yes, so they
sent them to a person that's already being paid to
be the director of community.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Outreach for it.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
So they know they have a problem if you're getting
if you're getting ready to build something. And the other
point that Kyle makes it I think is absolutely hilarious,
is that some group in Capitol Hill, which he says
is full of artsy type, the artsy fartsy people in
Capitol Hill, which is true, even they oppose it. Now,
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when the hippies and the yuppies and all of the
cool people that live in Capitol Hill oppose this, you
know you got a problem, Governor. So but here's the deal.
What's larger this bridge or Jared Polus's ego? I think
it's Jared Polus's ego. And the thing that scares me
the most about this project is when I saw something
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about Larry Misele being involved. And look, I've met Larry
a few times. He's a nice guy, he's a billionaire.
He could write a check for it. But hmm, perhaps
the two Jews, Jared and Larry will get together and say, well,
let's just pay for it ourselves. No, we don't want that.
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We don't want that at all. I don't want a
bunch of billionaires. I don't for that matter, I don't
want them to go out and raise money from, you know,
donations of five dollars apiece from taxpayers. I just don't
want the thing built. I do not want it built.
As much as I deride downtown Denver and as much
as I think the downtown Denver's become a crap whole
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city thanks to Democrat control, what they're doing here is
actually going to exacerbate that problem and make it worse
in addition to being just but ugly. Michael says, go
here dot com, go watch the video, and then please, please,
please please please reach out to the governor's office and
reach out to your state legislator and tell them how
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badly it helps. Strenuously you oppose this project. Let's kill it,
just like a gray wolf.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Let's just kill them crap out of them dragon.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
How about playing a little talking heads road to nowhere?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Sounds pretty good to me. No, No, he won't do it.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
A couple of text messages that I want to share
with you, and then I want to go back to
Zeram Mundami, the Democrat nominee for mayor in New York
forty seven eighteen, wrote, this was yesterday at five thirty
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or so, Michael, the Mayora Canada from New York City.
Moron Mundani just gave our state a great new name.
In his interview, he called us Boldrado. I don't think
he realizes how right on his mistake was. Though I
personally think Colorado Caliorrado fits better, I actually think Commiado
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fits better. I just love how he was saying he
loves Jewish people and will fight for them in New
York City. Well, as long as they keep their butts
out of Israel. That is what a joke? He is
heard that on Capitalist's show in my ride home and
then later see earlier somebody had written to your let's see, well, Dane,
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I had to write up here where did it go?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
They wanted to know why? Here it is?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
This is forty six thirty two, Mike. Why is every
talk show so fixated on this communist clown in New York?
He is running for mayor, not governor. He cannot set
tax policy or get rid of police. Why give this
more on the time of day, I don't get it. Well,
what he can defund the cops in New York he
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could do that. He could shut down the jails. There
are a lot of things in New York City that
he could turn Gotham into. Well, he could turn it
into Gotham. He would be a black, dark city, just
full of crime and drugs and illegal aliens and oh well,
just kind of like it is. Right now, Here's why
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it's important now being mayor. Being mayor of New York
City is not historically a stepping stone to larger or
higher political office. Very few of any have got on
to be governor. I don't think think any have gone
on to become president. The closest you might get would
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be Theodore Roosevelt. But he wasn't the mayor of New
York City, but he was the New York Police Commissioner
for a while, and he parleyed that into becoming the
assistant Secretary of the Navy and built the modern American Navy,
and then ultimately became Vice president and president. So Theodore
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Roosevelt might be the exception, But The reason that the
city the mayor of New York City is so important
is much like California is so important. Why do I
spend an inordinate amount of time talking about the craphole
state of California and the antics of their communist, fascist,
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Marxist idiot governor Gavin Newsom. Because what happens in California
doesn't stay in California, and what happens in New York
City does not stay in New York City, and it
becomes the canary in the coal mine.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
It is.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
It shows that the world's, at least in the view
of some people, the world's greatest city. Now it may
or may not be the world's greatest city, but it
is this unequivocally. It is the financial center of the universe.
Most major corporations, although many are fleeing the city, Wall Street,
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the NASDAC, all of the major stock exchanges, with all
due respect to Chicago, are located in New York City.
The major banks are headquartered there. It is the financial
univers's center. And so what happens in New York City
eventually spills out into New Jersey and Connecticut, spills out
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into the Northeast, and then gets to bleed out across
the Hudson, and thing you know, is spreading all across
the country. That's why it's so important. Historically, what's happened
in New York, just like what's happening in California, eventually
makes it away, makes its way into flyover country. And
that's why you need to pay attention. There's another reason
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when you think about the surrounding elite universities. New York
is not that far from Harvard, it's not that far
from Boston, from Cambridge, it's not that far from Princeton.
In New Jersey, you have Columbia, you have NYU, you
have Quney, you have all of these really elite schools,
the New School, all of these elite places in New
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York that educate people that then go on to be
the Titans of industry or the Titans of government, and
they're raised in New York, and you end up with
people like Alexandria A Colcia Cortez, for example, not necessarily
a graduate of elite university, but there's a whole nother
story about her, which I hope to do later today.
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So that's why it's so important, and it's important because
we recognize that this guy truly is a well, he's
he's an anti Semite. His he presents himself as having Uh,
there's a there's a short video of him online eating
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a bowl of rice with his with his hands, and
many people have mocked that. But they're mocking him eating
rice with hand with his hands for the wrong reason.
In many Asian countries and many Muslim countries, you eat
a lot of things with your fingers.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
And I found it's kind.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Of historically and culturally ignorant that many people in this
country were mocking him for eating rice with his fingers,
when well, we eat, we eat a lot of things
with our fingers. French fries and corn dogs come to mind,
both of which sound pretty damn good right now, Pizza
and pizza with our fingers. We eat lots of stuff
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with our fingers. Fried chicken, though, some fried chicken.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
I get eat some fried chicken right now. We have
restaurants that are nothing but we that's right, just chicken wings,
chicken wings. So I thought that was culturally ignorant people
to make fun of him for that.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Here's why you should make fun of that video, because
he claims to have some sort of insight from personal
experience having grown up in a third world country. That's
a bald faced lie. His father is a professor at Columbia.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
His mother is.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
A film producer. She's a Hollywood although she lives in
New York. She's a Hollywood elitist. This guy grew up.
This is an example of white liberalism that is so
guilty that they become Marxists, they become communists, and then
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you end up with this kind of bull.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Contst and it turned out pretty well.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
All right, So now can we talk about the policy,
the policies which stood out to a lot of people,
but right, I said, the freezing, the freezing rents, and
half of the apartments, free bus service, the free childcare,
and the city run grows freeze.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Rent on nearly fifty percent of the New York apartments,
free bus service, free childcare for kids under five, and
of course the city run grocery stores all Marxist ideology
grocery stores.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
How do you pay for that?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Let's go through it.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
So for the first thing, freezing the rent, that's not
something that requires any fiscal output from the city. It's
something that's determined by the rent guidelines board composed of
nine members. The mayor picks each of those members. They
determine each year whether rents rise or whether they say
the same.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
What's fine, it doesn't cost it doesn't cost us anything
to do. Where do those costs go?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Oh? So you build an apartment building? Are you? Are you?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
You're a sole proprietor and you have an apartment complex
or you have an apartment You have an apartment that
you own that you rent out and suddenly your rents frozen.
Well who pays for that? Well, you do, the owner
or the development company, the construction company, the management company.
They all pay for it one way or another. Because
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because now market rates aren't set, the government sets your
rental rate.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
The previous MARYORL administration froze the rent three times. So
this has clear historical precedent when it comes to city
run grows atoms.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
So you're saying, Adam, so this is prior, Okay.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Toders, he's the current one who has raised at nine
percent on the same New Yorkers, pushing them out of
their homes. City run grocery stores. I propose to you stop.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
And just think about that. Just stop and think about
so taking a face value, Eric Adams raised rents on
the rent control departments by nine percent, drove people out
of their homes. Wait a minute, the governments determining rental
rates in New York that alone, whether they're lowering, increasing, changing,
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keeping them safe. What the idea that government is setting
rental rates ought to make you vomit?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Right alone? That alan should make you vomit?
Speaker 5 (28:20):
The pilot program of one store in each brow. These
are five stores in total. The total cost of this
is sixty million dollars. This is less than half the
cost of what the city is already set to spend
on a subsidy program for corporate supermarkets that has no
guarantee of cheaper prices or collective bargaining agreements or even exception.
Speaker 8 (28:37):
I'm not looking at some like Soviet union grocery stores
on every corner. They're going to be run by the government.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Know what I'm meaning?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Wow? What a softball.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
How about setting up the question so that you can
you can get the answer you want. Oh, you're not
sitting up some Soviet style union grocery stores on every corner.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Are you looking at?
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Is how to solve the very clear twin crises of affordability?
When you go to the grocery store and food deserts.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Which so the government's going to solve the price of
groceries and food deserts. How you know, we just made
fun of the bridge, and Dragon very astuteley pointed out
that while the estimated cost of the bridge is the
bridge of the nowhere, the polist bridge to nowhere, we
need to come up with a funny name for that
the polus. You know, something is not going to cost
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twenty nine million dollars. You don't end up costing fifty
million dollars if that or it maybe maybe you know
even more so here he's claiming that we're going to
lower the price of groceries. Tell me anything that the
government has lowered the price of and that it has
stayed low. It just doesn't work. But guess what his
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program is already falling apart.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
Michael, how about a name for that bridge the Polis pork,
a sausage product.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Well, then I think about what Dragon said in the
microphone button.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
How about the Polis Pork scrabble project? Yeah, much better,
the Polish Pork project. I mean, you got the PPP
got that so real quickly? I want to get back
to the Democrat nominee for mayor New York Mondami. So
you heard in that SoundBite he talked about how he
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was going to fund the government run grocery stores by
getting rid of the city's subsidies that are currently account
for some sixty million dollars or something for the grocery
stores that are in New York City. Now, he has
repeatedly cited a figure of one hundred and forty million dollars,
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claiming that that represents the amount that New York spends
on subsidizing private grocery stores. There's something they call their
food retail expansion to support health program. Did you get
that acronym food retail expansion to support health?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
The Fresh program? What bull crap.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
He has proposed redirecting half of that amount to fund
his communist grocery store initiative, which he has to makes
what costs about sixty million dollars.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
But guess what.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
The Fresh program does not involve direct city spending of
one hundred and forty million dollars. What it does it
provides tax breaks and regulatory relief to grocery stores, but
only grocery stores who invest in underserved areas. Those so
called food deserts. Over the last six years, the program
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has cost the city about twenty million dollars in waived
tax revenue rather than tax expenditures. So they've actually not
put out any money. They've just not collected twenty million
dollars over a six year program, averaging about three point
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three million dollars a year. In addition to that, the
one hundred and forty million dollar figure that the nominee
keeps citing refers to private investments made by grocery stores
who are participating in the program. It does not represent
government spending. In that video, he argues in the many
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other videos, he argues that we will direct We will
redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets to city owned grocery
stores whose mission is lower prices, not price gouging. I
am so damn sick of him talking about price gouging.
Do you know what the profit margin is in a
grocery store? One or two percent? But his complete and
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total misunderstanding of the fresh program structure is kind of
humiliating because it raises questions about the plan. Now, the
reporter who covering all of this says, so this program
would take forty two years to cost the city. The
one hundred and forty million dollars that Mandami says the
city is set to spend on it. Now, that's a
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broader misrepresentation that shows a broader concern about his proposal.
It appears to rely on a socialist framework that assumes
that private investment can be treated as public investment. In
other words, your money is not your money, it's the
government's money, which obviously is going to lead you know,
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you know what. This will end up total fiscal mismanagement,
and pretty soon it will look like maybe not the
Soviet Union, maybe in modern times it will look like, oh,
North Korea,
Good morning, Michael. This week the Barbershop Parmony Society has
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their annual convention and contest, and they're having it in
downtown Denver, and the warnings are already going out. Hey,
be careful going from the hotel to the venue. That
six Streeth Mall is kind of sketchy, So I worry
about my friends. If we have any other advice we
could pass on, let me know.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Imagine that the city, that the downtown is so bad
that the conventioneers have to have a warning in their
program be careful going from point A to point B.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
That's hilarious. The world has come to me, has come
to an end.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It officially came to an end yesterday at about I'm
guessing around three point fifteen three point thirty, and.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I don't know what to say. I'm shocked.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
We we've talked in the past about the monument that
Jared Polus wants to build to himself for the one
hundred and fifty fiftieth birthday of the state of Colorado
becoming a state, which is next year, the same year
that the United States celebrates two hundred.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
And fifty years of existence.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And in the course of that conversation yesterday, I described
how all of these different organizations are opposed to this
idea of building a so called pedestrian bridge to nowhere
from the State Capitol over to Veterans Park. And it's
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there's no doubt, there's no question in my mind, none whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
That absent twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Seven days a week, security provided not by some security outfit,
not by you know, Joe Blow's security guards, not by
the mauled you know security guards, but by armed swat teams,
it will become nothing more than a haven for drug dealing, defecation, urination, prostitution, crack, meth,
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avoid needles, a homeless place to sleep on or under,
depending upon the weather. And it will not at all
do anything except destroy the the what remains, what little
bit remains of the beauty between that whole downtown area
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right there between the state Capital and the city and
County municipal building. And I don't know how or oh
I know it is because oftentimes, when I'm doing my
Michael Brown Minutes, I'm trying to find a local story
to run for the promotion for the trauma over on Freedom.
I go to local news stations. I usually start with Kadivr.
(02:57):
Just this shows you my priorities. I usually start with Kadievr.
I'll go to CBS Colorado, I'll go to the local
ABC affiliate, Channel seven, and then last but not least,
I will go to Channel nine.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Now, before I've even gone to the TV stations, I've
also checked Westward, Denver Right, Colorado Sun, the Denver Gazette,
occasionally at Denver Post. But I don't have a subscription
to the Denver Post. I just refuse to do that.
It's kind of funny how I will pay a subscription
fee to the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times,
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the Washington Post, the Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle,
to all these other newspapers around the country, but I
won't for my own local newspaper because that's not a
piece of crap. I won't pay for that. So, in
the course of going through the different television stations, I
run across a story on nine News, and it's by
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my favorite nemesis, Kyle Clark, whom I know everybody in
this audience adores and admires Kyle Clark for his objective,
fair and balanced. You know, we report, you decide kind
of journalism not.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Lo and behold Kyle Clark has and I'm going to
play the entire I want you to hear the entire thing,
and Dragon, you will find it on YouTube next on
Next nine News, they have a YouTube channel. I want
you to hear this because I watched it. It is
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with kudos to not to Kyle Clark, but kudos to
the nine News Next team, whoever their production team is.
They've done fantastic production on this video. There are I
would encourage you once Dragon gets it up, I want
you to go watch it because of it will show
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you just.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
How pardon me, pardon me.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
It will show you just how beautiful that area is
with some really gorgeous drone shots. And then here's where
the world came to an end. I don't think there
is a single thing that Kyle Clark said that I
disagree with.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I had to catch my breath just saying that.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So here's Kyle Clark's take on the Governor's pedestrian bridge
to nowhere. I would just say I could have said
this myself.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
The Governor of Colorado wants to build a twenty nine
million dollar pedestrian bridge project in front.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Of the state Capitol.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
This winding, snaking walkway slash art installation crossing four lanes
of traffic to Lincoln Veterans Memorial Park. I understand that
Governor Polis wants a legacy project, but there is no
good reason to build this, and there are so many
reasons not to build it. I don't know if this
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monument to government waste can be stopped, but we ought
to try. The public's initial reaction to the renderings of
the bridge appears to be a mix.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Of shock, disgust, and amusement.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Yet the governor appears dead set on building this bridge,
even if no one else wants it except him and
some of his rich donor friends. I should say I
have no issue with them having power and money.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I presume that they have earned both.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
I do have an issue with them treating Colorado's capital
like it's their own personal property. The two big criticisms
of this project I've heard so far is that it's
ugly and that it's a waste of money.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I'll get to those in a moment.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I actually think that the best argument against the project
is the fact that the governor can't come up with
a good argument for it. The Governor's office says, this
project honors our shared history, showcases local artists, and brings
the community together. Well, it's bringing the community together. In opposition,
the preservation group Historic Denver wrote, quote, plowing a functionally
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useless bridge through a historic site serves no purpose but
does extensive damage.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
As for this being a twenty nine million.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Dollar outdoor art gallery Capitol Hill, United Neighbors, which represents
the people who live around here, artsy types.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Lots of them. They opposed the project.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Too, saying, quote, we believe the rich and diverse stories
of our state should be honored.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Constructing a massive bridge does not achieve that goal.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
So then the Governor's office pivoted to saying that it
was about pedestrian safety. So we pulled the pedestrian crash
data for this spot in last year.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
There's one crash.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
So then the Governor's office says, it's about wheelchair ramp
access to the Capitol. If you think a wheelchair ramp
needs to cost twenty nine million dollars, the Governor's got
a bridge to sell you.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
And finally, the.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Governor's office now says that the walkway will provide visiting
school kids with a place to sit and eat their
lunch at the Capitol provided no good reason to permanently
disfigure one of the most beautiful man made places in Colorado.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
This area, from.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
The state Capitol to the Denver City and County Building
is one of America's greatest examples of the city beautiful movement.
Is why Civic Center Park is a National Historic Landmark.
From above, you get an even better sense of its
classic architecture, its formal order and balance. And the governor
wants to slap on what looks like an abandoned water slide.
We've learned the city of Denver quietly rejected the state's
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plans for an even bigger, longer bridge that would have
connected all the way to Civic Center Park. So Polus
pulled the project back to just state owned property.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
His land, actually no our land. There are some publicly.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Owned spaces in this state that should be off limits
to pet projects. We wouldn't let somebody draw a mural
on red rocks or open a motel inside the Mason
Verity Cliff dwellings. I've heard people say that the bridge
is ugly. I think that's unfair. It's only we are
to look at because it would be here in this
classic historic space. I can imagine all kinds of neighborhoods
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in Denver where a modern looking, winding pedestrian bridge like
that would look cool, or other cities in Colorado that
would love to have it in their downtown.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Great, let them have it put it there.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
But I'm told there were no other locations considered and
no other projects considered for this location. The governor wants
his legacy project done here, and he wants it done
fast by next summer. For Colorado's one hundred and fiftieth
birthday America's two hundred and fiftieth. The project was unveiled
at the annual Misal dinner, suggesting it's got the support
of Larry Mizel, who's a big campaign donor in Colorado,
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and this project is being pitched to other wealthy Colorados
names you'd know to get them behind the project. That
explains why so many people, including city and state leaders,
who have concerns are staying silent rather than risk angering
the governor and some of the richest political donors in Colorado.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
So I'll say it. If they build this twenty nine million.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Dollar pedestrian bridge project on the front lawn of the
state Capitol.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
It will become a monument to government waste.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
The state legislators are dealing with their second straight year
of budget cuts, and the federal government.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Keeps shifting more and more costs to the states.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Yet every day these legislators are going to look out
their window at millions of dollars they could have spent
on something useful. Every time Colorado can't fund a program,
people will say, well, we had that twenty nine million
dollars to spend on that pedestrian bridge to nowhere. It
will become a symbol of Colorado's misplaced priorities and wasteful spending.
Let me just add, this is still a foolish project
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even if it doesn't cost taxpayers one dollar more than
the one point five million they've already spent, because listen,
there's a chance that our wealthy governor and has even
richer friends could just write a check for the whole thing.
Let me be clear, making a bad idea free does
not make.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
It a good idea.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
We asked the governor's office to point us towards someone,
anyone who supports this project.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
They directed us to an art too, as.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
It turns out, is being paid to do community outreach
for the project.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
If you have to pay.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
People to like your ideas, maybe they're not great ideas.
Being governor comes with perks and power, but there are limits.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
There must be limits.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Someone must be able to tell the governor and his
rich friends, no, no, you cannot spoil a one of
a kind place in Colorado with your pet project. Build
the monument to your legacy somewhere other than the front
lawn of the People's House, Because Governor Polus, this capital.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Is your office.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
This is not your personal property.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
The spam did you watch it?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Dragon?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Yep, it's already up at Michael says, go here dot
com as well.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
That's pretty damn good, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Even blind dogs find bones.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I know, I bet you know.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I'm willing to give Kyle credit for credit is due.
I don't know if anything he and I have agreed
on for the past twenty years, but on this one,
I think we're in simpatico. Every point he made, including
don't let police get by with going to because Larrymizelle
could just write a personal check for this. Phil in
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Shoots could just write a personal check for this. Hell's mails,
Jared Polis could write a personal check for this. So
I'm asking you to do something I don't normally do.
I want you to flood the Governor's office with phone
calls opposing this bridge. But you have to do more
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than that. Where this can really be stopped is with
your state legislator. You need to email, call, flood their
offices with opposition to this monstrosity. And if you if
you need reasons, why go to Michael says go here
dot com. Michael says, oh here dot com. Dragon's got
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the video up. And I don't care whether you cite
Kyle Clark or me. In fact that in fact, probably
don't cite me if you're talking to the governor Governor's
office because that'll just busy moth. But let them know
that twenty nine million dollars for something that's unnecessary, ugly misplaced,
shouldn't be there and is complete and it's going to
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turn into you know. Now, I don't know that you
have to say this to the governor. You have to
say this to the legislators. But you and I know
that this bridge, particularly when you see the schematic overlaid
on the drone shots that they.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Do, that this will become a magnet.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
It will become one of those rare earth mineral magnets
that we're pleading with Ethiopia and China and everybody else
to buy that it'll be right here. It's just that
it'll be the kind of magnet that draws the wrong thing.
It'll draw poop, feces, urine, drugs, needles, homeless derelics, bums, hobos,
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just the dread to society.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Crime.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
There will be all sorts of crime going on. It's
but ugly. I mean, if you think I'm but ugly,
I look like Miss America, I look like mister Universe
compared to that bridge.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Holy cow. I mean, I think you know.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I knew, just from the initial time I did this
story a couple of weeks ago, that this was a
foolish idea and it was stupid. But then when yesterday
I'm watching Kyle Clark and I'm going yep, yep, yes, sir, yep, yep,
I knew that I'd entered a twilight zone. I had
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entered another universe. I had entered that realm of where
two opposites come together and go, oh, what is it
we found? What is the always find? Can we find
some commonality. Can we find some you know, something common
upon which we can agree, Well, Kyle and I have
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found it. Kyle and I have finally found it. And
it's a stupid bridge. You know the late senior senator
from Alaska whose name slept with my mind. You know
that they wanted to build a road to nowhere in
Alaska and it became the laughing stock of Alaska. This
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will be a laughing stock of Colorado, an absolute laughing stock. Now,
in all seriousness, the one point that I think Kyle
makes that deserves I mean, yes, it's ugly, Yes it's inappropriate,
Yes it will be a magnet for everything else. But
I think the most salient point that he made among
all the other points that he made is that next year,
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every single time the legislators look out their window or
they walk out on the steps to get some fresh air,
and they're really just flustered because we're short X number
of millions of dollars, they'll be looking at twenty nine
million dollars that they could to spend on something worthwhile.
And let's face it, is it really going to cost
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twenty nine million dollars?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Of course it's not. It's going to cost fifty nine
million dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, And it was also hilarious that when they asked
the Governor's office for somebody, can you point us to
an artist or someone who supports this, Yes, so they
sent them to a person that's already being paid to
be the director of community.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Outreach for it.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
So they know they have a problem if you're getting
if you're getting ready to build something. And the other
point that Kyle makes it I think is absolutely hilarious,
is that some group in Capitol Hill, which he says
is full of artsy type, the artsy fartsy people in
Capitol Hill, which is true, even they oppose it. Now,
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when the hippies and the yuppies and all of the
cool people that live in Capitol Hill oppose this, you
know you got a problem, Governor. So but here's the deal.
What's larger this bridge or Jared Polus's ego? I think
it's Jared Polus's ego. And the thing that scares me
the most about this project is when I saw something
(17:17):
about Larry Misele being involved. And look, I've met Larry
a few times. He's a nice guy, he's a billionaire.
He could write a check for it. But hmm, perhaps
the two Jews, Jared and Larry will get together and say, well,
let's just pay for it ourselves. No, we don't want that.
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We don't want that at all. I don't want a
bunch of billionaires. I don't for that matter, I don't
want them to go out and raise money from, you know,
donations of five dollars apiece from taxpayers. I just don't
want the thing built. I do not want it built.
As much as I deride downtown Denver and as much
as I think the downtown Denver's become a crap whole
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city thanks to Democrat control, what they're doing here is
actually going to exacerbate that problem and make it worse
in addition to being just but ugly. Michael says, go
here dot com, go watch the video, and then please, please,
please please please reach out to the governor's office and
reach out to your state legislator and tell them how
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badly it helps. Strenuously you oppose this project. Let's kill it,
just like a gray wolf.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Let's just kill them crap out of them dragon.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
How about playing a little talking heads road to nowhere?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Sounds pretty good to me. No, No, he won't do it.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
A couple of text messages that I want to share
with you, and then I want to go back to
Zeram Mundami, the Democrat nominee for mayor in New York
forty seven eighteen, wrote, this was yesterday at five thirty
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or so, Michael, the Mayora Canada from New York City.
Moron Mundani just gave our state a great new name.
In his interview, he called us Boldrado. I don't think
he realizes how right on his mistake was. Though I
personally think Colorado Caliorrado fits better, I actually think Commiado
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fits better. I just love how he was saying he
loves Jewish people and will fight for them in New
York City. Well, as long as they keep their butts
out of Israel. That is what a joke? He is
heard that on Capitalist's show in my ride home and
then later see earlier somebody had written to your let's see, well, Dane,
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I had to write up here where did it go?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
They wanted to know why? Here it is?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
This is forty six thirty two, Mike. Why is every
talk show so fixated on this communist clown in New York?
He is running for mayor, not governor. He cannot set
tax policy or get rid of police. Why give this
more on the time of day, I don't get it. Well,
what he can defund the cops in New York he
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could do that. He could shut down the jails. There
are a lot of things in New York City that
he could turn Gotham into. Well, he could turn it
into Gotham. He would be a black, dark city, just
full of crime and drugs and illegal aliens and oh well,
just kind of like it is. Right now, Here's why
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it's important now being mayor. Being mayor of New York
City is not historically a stepping stone to larger or
higher political office. Very few of any have got on
to be governor. I don't think think any have gone
on to become president. The closest you might get would
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be Theodore Roosevelt. But he wasn't the mayor of New
York City, but he was the New York Police Commissioner
for a while, and he parleyed that into becoming the
assistant Secretary of the Navy and built the modern American Navy,
and then ultimately became Vice president and president. So Theodore
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Roosevelt might be the exception, But The reason that the
city the mayor of New York City is so important
is much like California is so important. Why do I
spend an inordinate amount of time talking about the craphole
state of California and the antics of their communist, fascist,
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Marxist idiot governor Gavin Newsom. Because what happens in California
doesn't stay in California, and what happens in New York
City does not stay in New York City, and it
becomes the canary in the coal mine.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
It is.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
It shows that the world's, at least in the view
of some people, the world's greatest city. Now it may
or may not be the world's greatest city, but it
is this unequivocally. It is the financial center of the universe.
Most major corporations, although many are fleeing the city, Wall Street,
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the NASDAC, all of the major stock exchanges, with all
due respect to Chicago, are located in New York City.
The major banks are headquartered there. It is the financial
univers's center. And so what happens in New York City
eventually spills out into New Jersey and Connecticut, spills out
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into the Northeast, and then gets to bleed out across
the Hudson, and thing you know, is spreading all across
the country. That's why it's so important. Historically, what's happened
in New York, just like what's happening in California, eventually
makes it away, makes its way into flyover country. And
that's why you need to pay attention. There's another reason
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when you think about the surrounding elite universities. New York
is not that far from Harvard, it's not that far
from Boston, from Cambridge, it's not that far from Princeton.
In New Jersey, you have Columbia, you have NYU, you
have Quney, you have all of these really elite schools,
the New School, all of these elite places in New
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York that educate people that then go on to be
the Titans of industry or the Titans of government, and
they're raised in New York, and you end up with
people like Alexandria A Colcia Cortez, for example, not necessarily
a graduate of elite university, but there's a whole nother
story about her, which I hope to do later today.
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So that's why it's so important, and it's important because
we recognize that this guy truly is a well, he's
he's an anti Semite. His he presents himself as having Uh,
there's a there's a short video of him online eating
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a bowl of rice with his with his hands, and
many people have mocked that. But they're mocking him eating
rice with hand with his hands for the wrong reason.
In many Asian countries and many Muslim countries, you eat
a lot of things with your fingers.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
And I found it's kind.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Of historically and culturally ignorant that many people in this
country were mocking him for eating rice with his fingers,
when well, we eat, we eat a lot of things
with our fingers. French fries and corn dogs come to mind,
both of which sound pretty damn good right now, Pizza
and pizza with our fingers. We eat lots of stuff
(25:09):
with our fingers. Fried chicken, though, some fried chicken.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
I get eat some fried chicken right now. We have
restaurants that are nothing but we that's right, just chicken wings,
chicken wings. So I thought that was culturally ignorant people
to make fun of him for that.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Here's why you should make fun of that video, because
he claims to have some sort of insight from personal
experience having grown up in a third world country. That's
a bald faced lie. His father is a professor at Columbia.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
His mother is.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
A film producer. She's a Hollywood although she lives in
New York. She's a Hollywood elitist. This guy grew up.
This is an example of white liberalism that is so
guilty that they become Marxists, they become communists, and then
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you end up with this kind of bull.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Contst and it turned out pretty well.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
All right, So now can we talk about the policy,
the policies which stood out to a lot of people,
but right, I said, the freezing, the freezing rents, and
half of the apartments, free bus service, the free childcare,
and the city run grows freeze.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Rent on nearly fifty percent of the New York apartments,
free bus service, free childcare for kids under five, and
of course the city run grocery stores all Marxist ideology
grocery stores.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
How do you pay for that?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Let's go through it.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
So for the first thing, freezing the rent, that's not
something that requires any fiscal output from the city. It's
something that's determined by the rent guidelines board composed of
nine members. The mayor picks each of those members. They
determine each year whether rents rise or whether they say
the same.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
What's fine, it doesn't cost it doesn't cost us anything
to do. Where do those costs go?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Oh? So you build an apartment building? Are you? Are you?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
You're a sole proprietor and you have an apartment complex
or you have an apartment You have an apartment that
you own that you rent out and suddenly your rents frozen.
Well who pays for that? Well, you do, the owner
or the development company, the construction company, the management company.
They all pay for it one way or another. Because
(27:25):
because now market rates aren't set, the government sets your
rental rate.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
The previous MARYORL administration froze the rent three times. So
this has clear historical precedent when it comes to city
run grows atoms.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
So you're saying, Adam, so this is prior, Okay.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Toders, he's the current one who has raised at nine
percent on the same New Yorkers, pushing them out of
their homes. City run grocery stores. I propose to you stop.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
And just think about that. Just stop and think about
so taking a face value, Eric Adams raised rents on
the rent control departments by nine percent, drove people out
of their homes. Wait a minute, the governments determining rental
rates in New York that alone, whether they're lowering, increasing, changing,
(28:11):
keeping them safe. What the idea that government is setting
rental rates ought to make you vomit?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Right alone? That alan should make you vomit?
Speaker 5 (28:20):
The pilot program of one store in each brow. These
are five stores in total. The total cost of this
is sixty million dollars. This is less than half the
cost of what the city is already set to spend
on a subsidy program for corporate supermarkets that has no
guarantee of cheaper prices or collective bargaining agreements or even exception.
Speaker 8 (28:37):
I'm not looking at some like Soviet union grocery stores
on every corner. They're going to be run by the government.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Know what I'm meaning?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Wow? What a softball.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
How about setting up the question so that you can
you can get the answer you want. Oh, you're not
sitting up some Soviet style union grocery stores on every corner.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Are you looking at?
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Is how to solve the very clear twin crises of affordability?
When you go to the grocery store and food deserts.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Which so the government's going to solve the price of
groceries and food deserts. How you know, we just made
fun of the bridge, and Dragon very astuteley pointed out
that while the estimated cost of the bridge is the
bridge of the nowhere, the polist bridge to nowhere, we
need to come up with a funny name for that
the polus. You know, something is not going to cost
(29:27):
twenty nine million dollars. You don't end up costing fifty
million dollars if that or it maybe maybe you know
even more so here he's claiming that we're going to
lower the price of groceries. Tell me anything that the
government has lowered the price of and that it has
stayed low. It just doesn't work. But guess what his
(29:49):
program is already falling apart.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
Michael, how about a name for that bridge the Polis pork,
a sausage product.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Well, then I think about what Dragon said in the
microphone button.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
How about the Polis Pork scrabble project? Yeah, much better,
the Polish Pork project. I mean, you got the PPP
got that so real quickly? I want to get back
to the Democrat nominee for mayor New York Mondami. So
you heard in that SoundBite he talked about how he
(30:24):
was going to fund the government run grocery stores by
getting rid of the city's subsidies that are currently account
for some sixty million dollars or something for the grocery
stores that are in New York City. Now, he has
repeatedly cited a figure of one hundred and forty million dollars,
(30:45):
claiming that that represents the amount that New York spends
on subsidizing private grocery stores. There's something they call their
food retail expansion to support health program. Did you get
that acronym food retail expansion to support health?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
The Fresh program? What bull crap.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
He has proposed redirecting half of that amount to fund
his communist grocery store initiative, which he has to makes
what costs about sixty million dollars.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
But guess what.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
The Fresh program does not involve direct city spending of
one hundred and forty million dollars. What it does it
provides tax breaks and regulatory relief to grocery stores, but
only grocery stores who invest in underserved areas. Those so
called food deserts. Over the last six years, the program
(31:42):
has cost the city about twenty million dollars in waived
tax revenue rather than tax expenditures. So they've actually not
put out any money. They've just not collected twenty million
dollars over a six year program, averaging about three point
(32:05):
three million dollars a year. In addition to that, the
one hundred and forty million dollar figure that the nominee
keeps citing refers to private investments made by grocery stores
who are participating in the program. It does not represent
government spending. In that video, he argues in the many
(32:26):
other videos, he argues that we will direct We will
redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets to city owned grocery
stores whose mission is lower prices, not price gouging. I
am so damn sick of him talking about price gouging.
Do you know what the profit margin is in a
grocery store? One or two percent? But his complete and
(32:50):
total misunderstanding of the fresh program structure is kind of
humiliating because it raises questions about the plan. Now, the
reporter who covering all of this says, so this program
would take forty two years to cost the city. The
one hundred and forty million dollars that Mandami says the
city is set to spend on it. Now, that's a
(33:12):
broader misrepresentation that shows a broader concern about his proposal.
It appears to rely on a socialist framework that assumes
that private investment can be treated as public investment. In
other words, your money is not your money, it's the
government's money, which obviously is going to lead you know,
(33:33):
you know what. This will end up total fiscal mismanagement,
and pretty soon it will look like maybe not the
Soviet Union, maybe in modern times it will look like, oh,
North Korea,
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