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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So how did each of the birthday parties go last night?
Any fist fights or screaming anything else exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Each of the birthday parties?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Well, oh you're your your mom's birthday.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Well, I attended in birthday party which you attended.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I can't speak for the well, I can speak for
the Koa birthday party, which I will. All I can
say is about the Red Beard birthday party is I
got the phone call asking for bail money, so you
know it, it totally screwed up my evening. Had to
go all the way out to Aurora, you know, and
and you know, find the stupid scar the scary part
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of Aurora, and well it's scary because he's there, and
you know, so I had to go out there and
I didn't have enough cash on me. So I just
bailed out the mother of missus Redbeard. That sounds about right. Yeah,
So what times you finally get home this morning? You know,
like they let you out of you know one, you
had one? Yeah, you know, so what do you have?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
You have?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Do you have ravioli? Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
What you have?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
You did? Seriously, that was just a wild guests totally did.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Mister Edward had spaghetti and uh, Mama, Redbeard had a
trio of things with some steaks and a trio.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Mom had a trio. I don't know that, just so
it's like a really bad country western song or something.
You know, Mom had a trio.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Maybe in her twenties. I don't know, No, I don't know,
not so much. Netwow.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
You know what one of the sales guys and I
went to a potential sponsors. It's one of these independent
living places and you know, really nice, but well with
some of the stories I hear, and you know, some
of those with you know, a guy like me, you know,
a handsome, you know, sexy, really kind of cool guy
like me walks in. Those ladies are all over me.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I bet they're just all over me.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You know, they're bumping up their wheelchairs, you know, and
they're you know, you know, running over my feet.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
You just didn't see you there, you know, grabbing at.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Me, you know, grabbing my ass and everything. It's it's
just it's simply amazing. And of course, you know what
I do is I'm not here. I'm not listening to
the thing you say. All I can think of is
in my dreams, because you know, at my age, anybody
grabs my ass. I'm kind of happy about it. Doesn't well,
of course not. Besides she's she's blind, and she's blind,
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blind and senile.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
But now, careful, careful. She's a lovely woman, and she's
a lovely woman.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
She's for five hundred miles away, so I'm not worried
about her listening right now. I've already got a text
member this morning. So now in as far as the
other birthday party goes, that should I tell? Should I
tell the story?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Oh? Of course it's a great story. I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Uh, first of all, it was, it was a great party.
It was it was really nice. I I let's see,
I got cornered by Rob, the new news director, and said,
oh uh, there there's a name tag for you up
there on your on my on my cubicle, you know,
because I have a cubicle. I love the fact that,
you know, I used to have this gigantic Now I
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have a cubicle.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You remember the empty row of desks, Yeah, at the
empty row of desks.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
You know where I've got, you know, super shoe on
one side of me, and then you you on the other,
so I can hold actually hold court there. Sometime you
know stand at the you know, at the end of
the row of empty desk and just lecture or whatever.
But there were you know, I saw a lot of
people I hadn't seen in a long time. And there
were like like some old people. I don't mean old
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like age, but some people that used to you know,
formerly worked here. You know we're in uh some of
our old bosses were here. It was great to see
Lee Larson. Hadn't seen Lee Larson and age just Pat
Connor was there. Haven't seen Pat in a while, and
it was you know, they were and they they're either lying.
I don't think they're lying to me, but both Pat
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and Lee.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Pat said that when he goes downtown to his office
which is there on sixteenth Stout, which he tries to avoid,
of course, he listens to the program and loves what
we're doing this program. Yes he's one of the twelve
on occasion, yes, yes, wow. On the days that our
numbers you like skyrocket, Pat's going to work and so
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we go from twelve to thirteen. And so that adds that,
you know, extra boost and the ratings right there and
Lee Larson, of all people, Lee listens to the program.
He says, I don't listen to it every day. He says,
I like to tune in because I'd love to hear
your perspective on what's going on in the news. So,
you know, it's kind of nice for the old bosses
to be listening we have the new bosses would just listen,
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you know, and realize what a quality program we do.
I did get my butt shewed out by well, we'll
just call him Ken. He thinks he's Ken the Barbie Doll.
I mean, that's what he thinks he is, but he
trust me he's not. Ken is the one that I
was making fun of the sales department, and he was
driving back from Fort Collins that sent me the text
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that said, you know, we're listening right Anyway, he was there,
you know, it was kind of sad. You know, he
was drunk and he was stumbling around, and it was
just like you know, typical salespeople. They you know, they
see free food, they see free drinks and.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Just show up.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
They just show up, you know. So anyway, he was
he was singing our praises. But then the governor was there.
Oh yes, and I was back. I know, I was talking.
I was back in the back of the room talking
to Brett Saunders or you know, one of the one
of the other influencers, and which was hilarious because Brett
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wanted to take a photo. This is twice he's done
that with the within the past.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
When you told me that, that made me cock my
head like a little puppy hearing in a usual sounds
like right right, I did, Brett.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
This is the second time in maybe six months that
Brett and I have seen each other at something and
Brett just said, hey, can I take a photo? And
so he told me why because I like you. I'm like, why,
why would you want to do that? That's very odd
because he likes to you.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Don't get us wrong, Brett is a great guy, fantastic
But it's just the politics between the two of you.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Right are Brett's Brett's I'm looking right to my left
and I'm right over here over here on the right.
But Brett and I have always gotten along. But Brett
and I have a mutual well I can't say mutual friend,
but Brett has a friend that used to work here
by the name of David Serota.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
It makes a bunch more sense now.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And he likes to take photos when he and I
are together and send them to Seroda and go ying yan. Yea,
we can't find hilarious. But that's not nearly as funny
as the governor. So the governor has driven us up.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Okay, we got to say that that that they literally
rolled out the red car.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yes, they had, they had vallot. I pull in. I
was just going to pull into my usual spot over here,
you know, in the corner. I park in the shade,
you know, because it's gonna be hot by the time
I get out. And I'm like, valid, I'm not paying
for valid or no. So I go around parking my
my other little secret spot in the back of the building,
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come in through the basement and come up and I'm
told I've got a name tag that's up on Mike,
so I have to walk. I walk up the steps
to the fourth floor and I come back down. Anyway,
I'm milling around. I'm doing it. I'm trying to do.
They teach you in politician school because you can get
a degree in politician. I don't know whether you knew
that or not. They teach you in politician school. This
is how you work a room. You find like five
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key people that are kind of the popular kids in
the class. So you find those five people and you
make certain that you say hi to them and maybe,
you know, just a little short chit chat, and then
you go to the next one and until you've covered
your five people, and then you work your way to
the back of the room and.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Then you just leave, just disappear.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
He just disappeared, because then everybody says, hey, I wanted
to talk to Michael Brown.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Oh, I just it was just here.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I saw it. I just saw him. So I'm at
the back of the room working my way out of
the party, as you do when the big boss shows up,
and she's up at the on the on the riser
and says, we have a very special guest this evening,
and uh, why don't we have Ross, So let's have
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Kamensky introduce the guests. And it's Jared Polis. So I
swivel because I'm like.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I need to see this.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I want to watch this, because maybe there's some show
prep in this whatever he's going to say. So I'm
standing next to somebody who then is a bad as
interested in what he has to say as I do so,
and I honestly don't remember who it was. I just
I do remember you, and mind I told you they
wanted me maybe to show up some time to be
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on some panels. Yeah. Yeah, well, of all people, it
was him. He could care less what the governor had
to say. I'm not going to tell you what he does,
because then you'll that'll cause people to go wow, that's yeah,
that's that's who I was talking to is. I was
trying to weasel my way out. So the governor finishes speaking,
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I'm finishing up with mine. I go punch the elevator
door button because I'm going to down. I'm going down
to the basement. You're done, I'm done. I'm out of here.
So I get on the elevator and then hands reach
in and stop the doors. It's the governor's security guy,
oh and the governor and his staff. The governor looks
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me right in the eye. He knows exactly who I am.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Recognize you. You get that little flash. I get the.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Flash because I get the little twinkle, the little smile.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
And more than just I recognize that face. No, no, no,
it's I know who you are.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
It is in fact, in this case, it's not just
I know who you are. It's it's you, That's what
it really is. It's not that I know who you are,
and I remember days when we worked together and we
were even on planes the audience. I know who you are,
So I decide because one and I'm not. I respect
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the governor's office, correct, I respect the President's office whoever
is in there. I respect anybody that goes and makes
the effort to get elected, even if I may one
hundred percent disagree with their politics. Nonetheless, you know what.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
You're an elected official.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
So he gets on, he's getting ready to say something.
He's you can tell you what's to make conversation. I
just say hi, governor. Silence, silence all the way down.
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He makes those little movements like.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Like I do I say something?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
No, don't. Actually, I think I think it's just the
I think he's waiting, like you know that I'm the governor.
Why aren't you speaking to me? And I'm just silent.
I have nothing to say to it. I've said hello,
I've recognized him as the governor. That's fine. Enjoy your
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trip down the elevator. No, I'm not getting off here. No,
actually I ended up did getting off there because I
was on that side. Of the elevator. So I saw
Tepper and I saw the KOA people, so I thought, well,
I'm gonna get off here and go say hi, I
do Grick and Dave and everybody. So I did that.
But it was just hilarious because you could tell that
he was totally flummixed by the fact that I was
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not engaging with him, and now he couldn't decide whether
not to engage with right. Yeah, So it was just
silence for those three floors, freaking hilarious because there was nobody.
There was me, him, the staffer, and the security guy.
Just silence. And I the reason I love it is
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because politicians, while they get tired of it, because honestly,
like when I go give a speech and you're tired
from giving a speech, you really do want to get
just you want to go back to your room, you
want to do whatever you're going to do. You want
to you want to let your guard down. And so
I know he went to let his guard down, but
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nonetheless he was you still expect people because all of
us have.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Egos, and he's still on.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Right, He's still on And I've acknowledged that I know
that you're the governor. I really don't give her house
about talking to you, and he can't stand it. It
was a glorious birthday party. And then I got off
the elevator and had a nice conversation, you know, Rick
and Dave and everybody, you know, you know, Oh look
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Michael's here. He blah blah blah. It was fun. It
was fun. I don't know how the food was. They
had booze. Now here's now the cat I asked the
caterers because I grabbed a glass of wine, and then
I said, wait a minute, there's there's not a tip jar,
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there's not a tip cup. Oh, our company won't allow
us to do that.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Hm hmm.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
And I said, well, now I feel like a complete
jerk because what we can't accept it, can't accept it?
Well why not? I don't get that because now everybody
is going to tip and I know it's an open bar.
And you know, I'm sure, iHeart negotiet is some cheap
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ass deal betrayal. So what whatever their normal rate was,
I'm sure iHeart, you know, negotiated them down to like
you know, they probably paid us to do it, you know,
concerning how cheap iHeart is. You know, by the way,
the other thing I learned is that Corporate is apparently
here today. They were here yesterday and are apparently here
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today too.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Oh today too apparently Wait, people are going to show
up today.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Well, that's that's why we were told to clean up our.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Areas for yesterday for the party. No, it's because corporate's here.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
No, that's what That's what I thought too. No, because
somebody else who will go unnamed, was because corporate, Corporate
was here. I gotta deal with them, to deal with
them all day long. I gotta deal with them all
day Tomorrow, I'll clean Lets talk about corporate ieheart today.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I'll clean up my desk as soon as they you know,
fix the dangling wires from the ceiling.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
In the ceilings. You know how we you know, we
bitch moment about how the place has never vacuum. So
when I'm with the Big Boss and Pat Connor and
I are walking around here on the fourth floor because
Brenda showing off the you know, the KOA studio, she
makes the comment about, yeah, Mike's still upset about the
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fact that that Keha didn't get you know, remodeled, And
I said, no, no, no, Brenda, I'm not No, I don't
care about remodeling. I just want it clean. I just
want it finished, like about remodeled, just like put the
wrap up, you know, just do all that. So I'm
trying to make a joke out of it. And then
she gets real serious because she's now discovered that the
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building maintenance people, huh, don't vacuum. We could have told
you that. We have told you that two years ago.
Because she's she's telling Pat and I about how she
found herself on the third floor. She went down to
check for everything. You know, she found herself scrambling to
find a vacuum so she could vacuum everything because it
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needed to be vacuumed. I just that was the most
that was. That was the second most glorious thing that
happened at the birthday party.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Across across the hall, Kaminski was getting his the back
of his head shaved because he's doing some right, he's
doing doing the work thing today, and so they're cleaning
up the hair clippings from the floor, and I like, oh,
that's okay, somebody's gonna come in vacuum sooner. Kimiski said that, Yeah,
they said something along those kind of lines. Is like
I chime in, It's like that depends on what year
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it is.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, it's like like we're in July. They're not going
to vacuum again until maybe January. It's already done the
twenty twenty five vacuuming, the twenty twenty sixth vacuum. He
won't occur until sometime in January. Kind of great. You know,
I almost didn't come in last night, but i'd i'd
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made a couple of people have promised that I would
come in. I would, you know, make an appearance. So
I did, you know, I I glorified them with my presence,
you know, which.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Is, you know, more than they deserve, more than they deserved.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
But I am that if for no other reason than
just riding in silence with the governor on the elevator,
was that that was just the most It's like when
you get if you ever go to Washington, d C.
Of course, the senators and the congressman all have their
own separate elevators, so they don't ride with the hoity toity.
But if you see them when they're walking in the
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hallways like going to committee meetings and stuff, they really
do want to be recognized. They really do want someone
to stop and say, oh, hello, Senator dirksent Er, Hello
Senator Kennedy, or you know whatever whatever really dates me.
But they really do what some acknowledgement because their egos
are are gigantic. Their egos are the size of the
solar system. And when you don't do that, it drives
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them nuts, drives them nuts. Silence on the elevator. City
in County of Denver has a huge budget hole, but
that's not going to stop us from spending money. And
by the way, before you get offended by the terms
that I'm going to use in the next segment, I
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have Cherokee Indian blood coursing through my veins. Frannie just said,
early morning, passed through Vegas Enter in the Great City
of California.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Well, it used to be great, but Colorado went and
beat him.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Isn't isn't he the one that talks about we ain't
going to give super shoe anytime? Or the blonde the
blonde girl down the hallway?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
So Mandy corners me last night and says, you know
your listeners ratt on you all the time? What do
you mean? Okay, she goes every time you make fun
of me. I get text messages and I said, well,
I'm not saying anthing I wouldn't say to your face,
just exactly, You're you're the blonde check at the end
of the hallway up anyway, she's she she rated you
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guys out.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah. You know, Mandy and I are pretty good friends.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
So we are on all competitive competitive stations, but we
all get along with each other.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Oh man, it was really weird. When Mandy first came
to Denver, the management had me. They asked me to
go talk to her. Now, Mandy wanted the job, but
they wanted me to go convince Mandy that, you know,
here's here's what they're looking for, and you know, blah
blah blah and everything. So Manny and I went over
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to Ted's and had burgers. We've been friends for a
long time, so yeah, she's the blonde chick down at
the end of the hallway. We had a great conversation
though about do better Denver. Oh boy, I learned some
more stuff about that.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Oh she's totally in the in the weeds for that
and she I don't know, I can't tell if she
loves it, but she's she's in there and she's fighting.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Oh, she's She and I I talked about we've got
an idea that they're on vacation, so we're gonna wait
till they get off vacation before we because we need
to talk to him about it. But I'm all in
what she wants to do too. Uh eighty nine forty four, Michael,
you got to talk about Senator to Pocahontas falling on
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her ass on the Senate floor. At least she got
up on her own. No, I hadn't. Dragon, Dragon and
I had already talked about it. It's pretty hilarious. If
you haven't seen it, go find it. It's on the
inner web.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I'll find it. But Michael says, go here dot com.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yeah, that's a good producer right there, he'll go put
it up. She thinks she's leaning against one of the
Senate desks, and she's actually leaning against one of the
Senate tables, and she just pooped right over on her butt.
And then Dragon wanted to know if I have as
much Cherokee Indian blood coursing through my veins as Pocahontas does.
And the answer is absolutely not. Mine is real. Mine's
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one thousand percent real. Hers is all fake. My grandfather
was a full blooded Cherokee Indian and that's just a
matter of fact. I can't I can't change that at all.
But I do want to talk about something that involves
Native Americans in the context of the budget deficit in Denver,
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because the budget deficit in Denver is I think a lot,
a lot more serious than people realize. The deficit is
estimated at fifty million dollars for just the remainder of
this year and is projected to be two hundred million
dollars for twenty twenty six. You put those together, you
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get two hundred and fifty million dollars in the hole
for the two year period. Now, that's going to impact
the general Fund obviously, which supports all the core operations,
all the personnel, and that correlates to a need for
a cut that exceeds twelve percent in spending. That's deep
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then the cuts they did during the COVID nineteen pandemic.
But if you ever thought about wine, why do we
have this giant hole? Now? I know we can talk
about priorities and everything, but let's talk about just some
financial reasons why. Sales tax collections, which is Denver's primary
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revenue source has flattened because of inflation, rising living costs,
reduced consumer spending on non essentials like dining and downtown activities.
Then the economic factors you know that I would say,
although it's successful, the so called trade wars, the high
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interest rates, the Jerome power won't bring down and all
the post pandemic shifts that have compounded this dragon. Now
were talking about that during our pre production meeting about
you know, he went out to eat last night and
the place well, what would you say, it two thirds.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Full of barely even that there were probably twenty or
thirty tables and there were five tables occupied.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, and this is a chain restaurant, fairly well known
and is one of.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Those places that we were one of the five.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, they were one of the five. And it's one
of those places where you typically see the parking lot
pretty damn full because it's reasonably priced, lots of locations
and just kind of you know, but no, and I
find that to be true almost anywhere. Even on some
of the high end restaurants that Term and I go to.
We no longer find it always difficult to make to
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get a reservation. It's just I think COVID. I really
wish that I could have some sort of and you know,
maybe when I die, I can do this, but I'd
like to have some sort of really great perspective, like
you know, the thirty thousand foot out of body experience
of what life was like, just just to remind me
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life was like pre COVID. And then we just literally
shut down the entire economy. Do you remember that. I
don't ever want us to forget that. And the sheeple
that we were, some of us, not all of us,
were that just okay, we can't travel anywhere. Okay, but
I won't I won't do anything. I'll go hide in
my basement. No, well, of course Dragon and I didn't
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because you know, we were essential, so we got to
come to work. And then we just think we're going
to turn it back on. No, when you just shut
down globally an entire world, that causes unintended consequences that
we're still living with. And I think that's one of
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the reasons. For example, downtown Denver is still suffering the
way it is. And now all all the secondary causes
are primary. You know, the primary causes probably COVID, And
you know, we just destroyed the central business district and
then falling in on that is the homelessness, the the
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illegal alien invasion, the crime, everything that comes with you
turn someplace into a ghost town. Have you ever seen
if you've ever been hunting, you know this, or you've
had an animal die in the wilderness, if you don't
get to that elk or that you know, whatever the
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carcass is, if you don't get to it quickly, the
ants and the worms and everything just instantaneously start, you know,
consuming it. Well, when you when you kill off a
central business district like we did during COVID, well of
course all of the insects, all all of the the
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grubs are going to move in and start devouring it.
And that's the criminals and the homelessness and the illegal
aliens and everything else. They all just moved in and
and they can't recover from it because now that they've
got it, they're using that as their money laundering scheme.
And of course with that also comes all of the
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significant increase in the spending and all the social services,
for example, migrant support. They spent ninety five million dollars
between twenty two and twenty twenty four onjust illegal aliens,
homeless initiatives. Mike Johnson has spent more than fifty seven
million dollars annually, not just in total, but annually, so
that strains all the resources. And they reserved, they reserve,
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They depleted their their reserve fund. They're any day fund.
It dropped below the recommended fifteen percent level to about
eleven percent. They got about two hundred million dollars remaining
because what were they doing well, They were using them
for ongoing costs rather than one time emergency needs. So
you got all of these reasons. And what's Johnston's response.
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Will he announced all the you know, a hiring freezing
place until September. This coming September, two hundred positions left
vacant in next year's or in this year's budget to
reduce the payroll mandatory unpaid leaves starting this past June.
Those are going into effect. I think they went into
effect this week, maybe it's next week, sometime soon. Those
are actually going into effect. Spending restrictions, layoffs, programmed cuts,
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you know now they are you know, they're trying to
protect some of their priorities, which I think are some
of the wrong priorities, like investing in downtown Denver. I
mean we talked about that yesterday. You know, the National
Women's Soccer League, an eight hundred million dollars bond proposal
to do stuff. I mean, it's just insane what they're doing.
So along those lines yesterday I run across the story
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that I'm thinking to myself, seriously, this is what you're
going to considering everything that's going on, this is what
you're going to do. Here's the headline, plans twenty million
dollar American Indian Cultural Embassy near the Sacred Buffalo Herds
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out near Dia. The subhead is the city is planning
its biggest Indigenous investment yet with the center out near
da Now the most hilarious part is the first sentence.
The City of Denver could build a cultural center near
Denver International Airport, part of an effort to welcome members
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of tribal nations to return to their historic homelands on
the Great Plains in the Front Range. But what we're
we're going to invite them to to move into Green
Valley Ranch. We're going to invite them to hold a
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you know, build mud huts and tepees and and you know,
lean to's and whatever other Nineteenth eighteenth century. You know
shelters that Native Americans used in those centuries to protect
themselves from the elements. Oh, I'm sorry, from climate change here,
that's what you're doing. Are we going to hold a
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pal well on the parking lot of the Western Hotel
at the airport? What are we doing? We're inviting them.
We're going to welcome members of tribal nations to return
to their historic homelands on the Great Plains in the
Front Range. I got shocking news for you, Mayor. They're
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still here.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Well, I see another Barnes and Noble return coming up here.
Who is giving Kamala advice? By the way, and all
the interviews I saw yesterday, she still looks like a
complete bufsoon sounds horrible words out left and right. And
she wrote a book, Yes, defensively, she wrote the book,
(30:01):
which we learned from the last time she wrote a
book that she d one hundred and seven days. Who
will buy that?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Well, not me. I have zero interest whatsoever. And even
if I returned it to Barnes and Noble and got
my money back, I have zero interested reading that book
none whatsoever. I heard about her interview on Colbert last night.
Don't see if I can find bits and pieces of it.
If you guys pissed me off, I might actually play
some of it. So if you're nice to me today,
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I may not play any of it.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Talkbacks are a little low, just saying.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Oh well, okay, I told you it was a weird
day coming in work today. It's like nobody is today.
It's one of those days where you think, did I
get up on a holiday?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Right? Is Monday holiday? Everybody's taking a four day weekend.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Right, Yeah. There was no traffic this morning, even when
I went into a quick trip to get Usually it's
pretty busy at five o'clock, there was nobody in there.
It's pretty weird. By the way, I missed my kid
that gave me the free diet cokes, just having to,
you know, pay for a diet coach.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
No longer there.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Oh no, he got transferred.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Oh good, I mean I hope that's good.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
No. No, he was happy about it because it was
close to where he lives. It was up north, and
he was actually very apologetic about it. He goes, I
got some bad news. Oh what, and I think I
got fired for giving you free diet cokes? Right? No,
I got transferred and I said, all right, because I
just burst out. Are you in trouble? No, no, no, he says,
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it's a bigger store up North Colasier to where I live.
So it's a good thing for you. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
he because I just want to be able to give
you any free diet cokes anymore. Oh so every day
I keep thinking, remember me, remember me wand he give
me a Dike Coke. It's so bizarre. You look at
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you look at the main credit card that I use,
and you look at the statement. It's just quick trip,
quick trip, quick trip, you know, a dollar dollar dollar
dollar dollar dollar. Hilarious. So back to the back to
the I don't know. You're right, it's a. It's a
it's an Indian relocation program. You know, we moved them
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onto the reservation. Now we're gonna move them into an embassy.
We're gonna build an embassy for twenty million, an estimated
twenty million dollars, so you know the real cost will
be sixty million dollars and we're gonna build it out
by the airport. Now. I don't know about you, but
would you want to go to a tourist attraction that
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is literally at the end of runway thirty five R.
Is that what you want to do? I don't think so.
I took Tamar to the airport the other day and
it was all I could do, just to I mean,
I still get pissed off when I think about I
know we've had growth, but it's still like, you know,
a two lane road each way, uh, to go into
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and out of the airport. I mean, it's just absurd.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
It's just I don't know, that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
They spent what one hundred million on a survey to
figure out if we needed to expand the road or not.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah, because I could have told them for just one
million that they needed to explain it.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
It might have been a million.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
May be off on the number, but yeah, they spent
money to figure out if widening Penya was a good idea.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Which all they needed to do was go out any
time a day or night and just I don't know,
park on the side of the road or just you know,
maybe get a helicopter and just fly over and just
look at the brake lights. Yeah, maybe you need to
do it. So they say that this this comes from
denveright the embassy. They call it an embassy would serve
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as a place for people to come and do business.
All of the tribes that are across the entire nation
that have ties to Denver, they will now have a
place to come and do business. To partner with the city.
Oh so you're gonna take public money, taxpayer money, build
a place that's going to compete with the private sector,
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you know, for convention business or hey, hey guys, we
need to have a meeting. Oh, let's go to the
embassy out by the Denver International Airport.
So how did each of the birthday parties go last night?
Any fist fights or screaming anything else exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Each of the birthday parties?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Well, oh you're your your mom's birthday.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Well, I attended in birthday party which you attended.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I can't speak for the well, I can speak for
the Koa birthday party, which I will. All I can
say is about the Red Beard birthday party is I
got the phone call asking for bail money, so you
know it, it totally screwed up my evening. Had to
go all the way out to Aurora, you know, and
and you know, find the stupid scar the scary part
(00:43):
of Aurora, and well it's scary because he's there, and
you know, so I had to go out there and
I didn't have enough cash on me. So I just
bailed out the mother of missus Redbeard. That sounds about right. Yeah,
So what times you finally get home this morning? You know,
like they let you out of you know one, you
had one? Yeah, you know, so what do you have?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
You have?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Do you have ravioli? Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
What you have?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
You did? Seriously, that was just a wild guests totally did.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Mister Edward had spaghetti and uh, Mama, Redbeard had a
trio of things with some steaks and a trio.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Mom had a trio. I don't know that, just so
it's like a really bad country western song or something.
You know, Mom had a trio.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Maybe in her twenties. I don't know, No, I don't know,
not so much. Netwow.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
You know what one of the sales guys and I
went to a potential sponsors. It's one of these independent
living places and you know, really nice, but well with
some of the stories I hear, and you know, some
of those with you know, a guy like me, you know,
a handsome, you know, sexy, really kind of cool guy
like me walks in. Those ladies are all over me.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I bet they're just all over me.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You know, they're bumping up their wheelchairs, you know, and
they're you know, you know, running over my feet.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
You just didn't see you there, you know, grabbing at.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Me, you know, grabbing my ass and everything. It's it's
just it's simply amazing. And of course, you know what
I do is I'm not here. I'm not listening to
the thing you say. All I can think of is
in my dreams, because you know, at my age, anybody
grabs my ass. I'm kind of happy about it. Doesn't well,
of course not. Besides she's she's blind, and she's blind,
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blind and senile.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
But now, careful, careful. She's a lovely woman, and she's
a lovely woman.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
She's for five hundred miles away, so I'm not worried
about her listening right now. I've already got a text
member this morning. So now in as far as the
other birthday party goes, that should I tell? Should I
tell the story?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Oh? Of course it's a great story. I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Uh, first of all, it was, it was a great party.
It was it was really nice. I I let's see,
I got cornered by Rob, the new news director, and said,
oh uh, there there's a name tag for you up
there on your on my on my cubicle, you know,
because I have a cubicle. I love the fact that,
you know, I used to have this gigantic Now I
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have a cubicle.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You remember the empty row of desks, Yeah, at the
empty row of desks.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
You know where I've got, you know, super shoe on
one side of me, and then you you on the other,
so I can hold actually hold court there. Sometime you
know stand at the you know, at the end of
the row of empty desk and just lecture or whatever.
But there were you know, I saw a lot of
people I hadn't seen in a long time. And there
were like like some old people. I don't mean old
(03:33):
like age, but some people that used to you know,
formerly worked here. You know we're in uh some of
our old bosses were here. It was great to see
Lee Larson. Hadn't seen Lee Larson and age just Pat
Connor was there. Haven't seen Pat in a while, and
it was you know, they were and they they're either lying.
I don't think they're lying to me, but both Pat
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and Lee.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Pat said that when he goes downtown to his office
which is there on sixteenth Stout, which he tries to avoid,
of course, he listens to the program and loves what
we're doing this program. Yes he's one of the twelve
on occasion, yes, yes, wow. On the days that our
numbers you like skyrocket, Pat's going to work and so
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we go from twelve to thirteen. And so that adds that,
you know, extra boost and the ratings right there and
Lee Larson, of all people, Lee listens to the program.
He says, I don't listen to it every day. He says,
I like to tune in because I'd love to hear
your perspective on what's going on in the news. So,
you know, it's kind of nice for the old bosses
to be listening we have the new bosses would just listen,
(04:37):
you know, and realize what a quality program we do.
I did get my butt shewed out by well, we'll
just call him Ken. He thinks he's Ken the Barbie Doll.
I mean, that's what he thinks he is, but he
trust me he's not. Ken is the one that I
was making fun of the sales department, and he was
driving back from Fort Collins that sent me the text
(04:59):
that said, you know, we're listening right Anyway, he was there,
you know, it was kind of sad. You know, he
was drunk and he was stumbling around, and it was
just like you know, typical salespeople. They you know, they
see free food, they see free drinks and.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Just show up.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
They just show up, you know. So anyway, he was
he was singing our praises. But then the governor was there.
Oh yes, and I was back. I know, I was talking.
I was back in the back of the room talking
to Brett Saunders or you know, one of the one
of the other influencers, and which was hilarious because Brett
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wanted to take a photo. This is twice he's done
that with the within the past.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
When you told me that, that made me cock my
head like a little puppy hearing in a usual sounds
like right right, I did, Brett.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
This is the second time in maybe six months that
Brett and I have seen each other at something and
Brett just said, hey, can I take a photo? And
so he told me why because I like you. I'm like, why,
why would you want to do that? That's very odd
because he likes to you.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Don't get us wrong, Brett is a great guy, fantastic
But it's just the politics between the two of you.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Right are Brett's Brett's I'm looking right to my left
and I'm right over here over here on the right.
But Brett and I have always gotten along. But Brett
and I have a mutual well I can't say mutual friend,
but Brett has a friend that used to work here
by the name of David Serota.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
It makes a bunch more sense now.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And he likes to take photos when he and I
are together and send them to Seroda and go ying yan. Yea,
we can't find hilarious. But that's not nearly as funny
as the governor. So the governor has driven us up.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Okay, we got to say that that that they literally
rolled out the red car.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yes, they had, they had vallot. I pull in. I
was just going to pull into my usual spot over here,
you know, in the corner. I park in the shade,
you know, because it's gonna be hot by the time
I get out. And I'm like, valid, I'm not paying
for valid or no. So I go around parking my
my other little secret spot in the back of the building,
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come in through the basement and come up and I'm
told I've got a name tag that's up on Mike,
so I have to walk. I walk up the steps
to the fourth floor and I come back down. Anyway,
I'm milling around. I'm doing it. I'm trying to do.
They teach you in politician school because you can get
a degree in politician. I don't know whether you knew
that or not. They teach you in politician school. This
is how you work a room. You find like five
(07:40):
key people that are kind of the popular kids in
the class. So you find those five people and you
make certain that you say hi to them and maybe,
you know, just a little short chit chat, and then
you go to the next one and until you've covered
your five people, and then you work your way to
the back of the room and.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Then you just leave, just disappear.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
He just disappeared, because then everybody says, hey, I wanted
to talk to Michael Brown.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Oh, I just it was just here.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I saw it. I just saw him. So I'm at
the back of the room working my way out of
the party, as you do when the big boss shows up,
and she's up at the on the on the riser
and says, we have a very special guest this evening,
and uh, why don't we have Ross, So let's have
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Kamensky introduce the guests. And it's Jared Polis. So I
swivel because I'm like.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I need to see this.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I want to watch this, because maybe there's some show
prep in this whatever he's going to say. So I'm
standing next to somebody who then is a bad as
interested in what he has to say as I do so,
and I honestly don't remember who it was. I just
I do remember you, and mind I told you they
wanted me maybe to show up some time to be
(08:58):
on some panels. Yeah. Yeah, well, of all people, it
was him. He could care less what the governor had
to say. I'm not going to tell you what he does,
because then you'll that'll cause people to go wow, that's yeah,
that's that's who I was talking to is. I was
trying to weasel my way out. So the governor finishes speaking,
(09:22):
I'm finishing up with mine. I go punch the elevator
door button because I'm going to down. I'm going down
to the basement. You're done, I'm done. I'm out of here.
So I get on the elevator and then hands reach
in and stop the doors. It's the governor's security guy,
oh and the governor and his staff. The governor looks
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me right in the eye. He knows exactly who I am.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Recognize you. You get that little flash. I get the.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Flash because I get the little twinkle, the little smile.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
And more than just I recognize that face. No, no, no,
it's I know who you are.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
It is in fact, in this case, it's not just
I know who you are. It's it's you, That's what
it really is. It's not that I know who you are,
and I remember days when we worked together and we
were even on planes the audience. I know who you are,
So I decide because one and I'm not. I respect
(10:30):
the governor's office, correct, I respect the President's office whoever
is in there. I respect anybody that goes and makes
the effort to get elected, even if I may one
hundred percent disagree with their politics. Nonetheless, you know what.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
You're an elected official.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
So he gets on, he's getting ready to say something.
He's you can tell you what's to make conversation. I
just say hi, governor. Silence, silence all the way down.
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He makes those little movements like.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Like I do I say something?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
No, don't. Actually, I think I think it's just the
I think he's waiting, like you know that I'm the governor.
Why aren't you speaking to me? And I'm just silent.
I have nothing to say to it. I've said hello,
I've recognized him as the governor. That's fine. Enjoy your
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trip down the elevator. No, I'm not getting off here. No,
actually I ended up did getting off there because I
was on that side. Of the elevator. So I saw
Tepper and I saw the KOA people, so I thought, well,
I'm gonna get off here and go say hi, I
do Grick and Dave and everybody. So I did that.
But it was just hilarious because you could tell that
he was totally flummixed by the fact that I was
(11:59):
not engaging with him, and now he couldn't decide whether
not to engage with right. Yeah, So it was just
silence for those three floors, freaking hilarious because there was nobody.
There was me, him, the staffer, and the security guy.
Just silence. And I the reason I love it is
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because politicians, while they get tired of it, because honestly,
like when I go give a speech and you're tired
from giving a speech, you really do want to get
just you want to go back to your room, you
want to do whatever you're going to do. You want
to you want to let your guard down. And so
I know he went to let his guard down, but
(12:40):
nonetheless he was you still expect people because all of
us have.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Egos, and he's still on.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Right, He's still on And I've acknowledged that I know
that you're the governor. I really don't give her house
about talking to you, and he can't stand it. It
was a glorious birthday party. And then I got off
the elevator and had a nice conversation, you know, Rick
and Dave and everybody, you know, you know, Oh look
(13:08):
Michael's here. He blah blah blah. It was fun. It
was fun. I don't know how the food was. They
had booze. Now here's now the cat I asked the
caterers because I grabbed a glass of wine, and then
I said, wait a minute, there's there's not a tip jar,
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there's not a tip cup. Oh, our company won't allow
us to do that.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Hm hmm.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
And I said, well, now I feel like a complete
jerk because what we can't accept it, can't accept it?
Well why not? I don't get that because now everybody
is going to tip and I know it's an open bar.
And you know, I'm sure, iHeart negotiet is some cheap
(13:56):
ass deal betrayal. So what whatever their normal rate was,
I'm sure iHeart, you know, negotiated them down to like
you know, they probably paid us to do it, you know,
concerning how cheap iHeart is. You know, by the way,
the other thing I learned is that Corporate is apparently
here today. They were here yesterday and are apparently here
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today too.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Oh today too apparently Wait, people are going to show
up today.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Well, that's that's why we were told to clean up our.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Areas for yesterday for the party. No, it's because corporate's here.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
No, that's what That's what I thought too. No, because
somebody else who will go unnamed, was because corporate, Corporate
was here. I gotta deal with them, to deal with
them all day long. I gotta deal with them all
day Tomorrow, I'll clean Lets talk about corporate ieheart today.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I'll clean up my desk as soon as they you know,
fix the dangling wires from the ceiling.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
In the ceilings. You know how we you know, we
bitch moment about how the place has never vacuum. So
when I'm with the Big Boss and Pat Connor and
I are walking around here on the fourth floor because
Brenda showing off the you know, the KOA studio, she
makes the comment about, yeah, Mike's still upset about the
(15:16):
fact that that Keha didn't get you know, remodeled, And
I said, no, no, no, Brenda, I'm not No, I don't
care about remodeling. I just want it clean. I just
want it finished, like about remodeled, just like put the
wrap up, you know, just do all that. So I'm
trying to make a joke out of it. And then
she gets real serious because she's now discovered that the
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building maintenance people, huh, don't vacuum. We could have told
you that. We have told you that two years ago.
Because she's she's telling Pat and I about how she
found herself on the third floor. She went down to
check for everything. You know, she found herself scrambling to
find a vacuum so she could vacuum everything because it
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needed to be vacuumed. I just that was the most
that was. That was the second most glorious thing that
happened at the birthday party.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Across across the hall, Kaminski was getting his the back
of his head shaved because he's doing some right, he's
doing doing the work thing today, and so they're cleaning
up the hair clippings from the floor, and I like, oh,
that's okay, somebody's gonna come in vacuum sooner. Kimiski said that, Yeah,
they said something along those kind of lines. Is like
I chime in, It's like that depends on what year
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it is.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, it's like like we're in July. They're not going
to vacuum again until maybe January. It's already done the
twenty twenty five vacuuming, the twenty twenty sixth vacuum. He
won't occur until sometime in January. Kind of great. You know,
I almost didn't come in last night, but i'd i'd
(16:52):
made a couple of people have promised that I would
come in. I would, you know, make an appearance. So
I did, you know, I I glorified them with my presence,
you know, which.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Is, you know, more than they deserve, more than they deserved.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
But I am that if for no other reason than
just riding in silence with the governor on the elevator,
was that that was just the most It's like when
you get if you ever go to Washington, d C.
Of course, the senators and the congressman all have their
own separate elevators, so they don't ride with the hoity toity.
But if you see them when they're walking in the
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hallways like going to committee meetings and stuff, they really
do want to be recognized. They really do want someone
to stop and say, oh, hello, Senator dirksent Er, Hello
Senator Kennedy, or you know whatever whatever really dates me.
But they really do what some acknowledgement because their egos
are are gigantic. Their egos are the size of the
solar system. And when you don't do that, it drives
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them nuts, drives them nuts. Silence on the elevator. City
in County of Denver has a huge budget hole, but
that's not going to stop us from spending money. And
by the way, before you get offended by the terms
that I'm going to use in the next segment, I
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have Cherokee Indian blood coursing through my veins. Frannie just said,
early morning, passed through Vegas Enter in the Great City
of California.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Well, it used to be great, but Colorado went and
beat him.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Isn't isn't he the one that talks about we ain't
going to give super shoe anytime? Or the blonde the
blonde girl down the hallway?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
So Mandy corners me last night and says, you know
your listeners ratt on you all the time? What do
you mean? Okay, she goes every time you make fun
of me. I get text messages and I said, well,
I'm not saying anthing I wouldn't say to your face,
just exactly, You're you're the blonde check at the end
of the hallway up anyway, she's she she rated you
(19:04):
guys out.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah. You know, Mandy and I are pretty good friends.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
So we are on all competitive competitive stations, but we
all get along with each other.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Oh man, it was really weird. When Mandy first came
to Denver, the management had me. They asked me to
go talk to her. Now, Mandy wanted the job, but
they wanted me to go convince Mandy that, you know,
here's here's what they're looking for, and you know, blah
blah blah and everything. So Manny and I went over
(19:38):
to Ted's and had burgers. We've been friends for a
long time, so yeah, she's the blonde chick down at
the end of the hallway. We had a great conversation
though about do better Denver. Oh boy, I learned some
more stuff about that.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Oh she's totally in the in the weeds for that
and she I don't know, I can't tell if she
loves it, but she's she's in there and she's fighting.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Oh, she's She and I I talked about we've got
an idea that they're on vacation, so we're gonna wait
till they get off vacation before we because we need
to talk to him about it. But I'm all in
what she wants to do too. Uh eighty nine forty four, Michael,
you got to talk about Senator to Pocahontas falling on
(20:18):
her ass on the Senate floor. At least she got
up on her own. No, I hadn't. Dragon, Dragon and
I had already talked about it. It's pretty hilarious. If
you haven't seen it, go find it. It's on the
inner web.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I'll find it. But Michael says, go here dot com.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yeah, that's a good producer right there, he'll go put
it up. She thinks she's leaning against one of the
Senate desks, and she's actually leaning against one of the
Senate tables, and she just pooped right over on her butt.
And then Dragon wanted to know if I have as
much Cherokee Indian blood coursing through my veins as Pocahontas does.
And the answer is absolutely not. Mine is real. Mine's
(20:55):
one thousand percent real. Hers is all fake. My grandfather
was a full blooded Cherokee Indian and that's just a
matter of fact. I can't I can't change that at all.
But I do want to talk about something that involves
Native Americans in the context of the budget deficit in Denver,
(21:16):
because the budget deficit in Denver is I think a lot,
a lot more serious than people realize. The deficit is
estimated at fifty million dollars for just the remainder of
this year and is projected to be two hundred million
dollars for twenty twenty six. You put those together, you
(21:40):
get two hundred and fifty million dollars in the hole
for the two year period. Now, that's going to impact
the general Fund obviously, which supports all the core operations,
all the personnel, and that correlates to a need for
a cut that exceeds twelve percent in spending. That's deep
(22:00):
then the cuts they did during the COVID nineteen pandemic.
But if you ever thought about wine, why do we
have this giant hole? Now? I know we can talk
about priorities and everything, but let's talk about just some
financial reasons why. Sales tax collections, which is Denver's primary
(22:22):
revenue source has flattened because of inflation, rising living costs,
reduced consumer spending on non essentials like dining and downtown activities.
Then the economic factors you know that I would say,
although it's successful, the so called trade wars, the high
(22:44):
interest rates, the Jerome power won't bring down and all
the post pandemic shifts that have compounded this dragon. Now
were talking about that during our pre production meeting about
you know, he went out to eat last night and
the place well, what would you say, it two thirds.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Full of barely even that there were probably twenty or
thirty tables and there were five tables occupied.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, and this is a chain restaurant, fairly well known
and is one of.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Those places that we were one of the five.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, they were one of the five. And it's one
of those places where you typically see the parking lot
pretty damn full because it's reasonably priced, lots of locations
and just kind of you know, but no, and I
find that to be true almost anywhere. Even on some
of the high end restaurants that Term and I go to.
We no longer find it always difficult to make to
(23:38):
get a reservation. It's just I think COVID. I really
wish that I could have some sort of and you know,
maybe when I die, I can do this, but I'd
like to have some sort of really great perspective, like
you know, the thirty thousand foot out of body experience
of what life was like, just just to remind me
(24:00):
life was like pre COVID. And then we just literally
shut down the entire economy. Do you remember that. I
don't ever want us to forget that. And the sheeple
that we were, some of us, not all of us,
were that just okay, we can't travel anywhere. Okay, but
I won't I won't do anything. I'll go hide in
my basement. No, well, of course Dragon and I didn't
(24:23):
because you know, we were essential, so we got to
come to work. And then we just think we're going
to turn it back on. No, when you just shut
down globally an entire world, that causes unintended consequences that
we're still living with. And I think that's one of
(24:44):
the reasons. For example, downtown Denver is still suffering the
way it is. And now all all the secondary causes
are primary. You know, the primary causes probably COVID, And
you know, we just destroyed the central business district and
then falling in on that is the homelessness, the the
(25:08):
illegal alien invasion, the crime, everything that comes with you
turn someplace into a ghost town. Have you ever seen
if you've ever been hunting, you know this, or you've
had an animal die in the wilderness, if you don't
get to that elk or that you know, whatever the
(25:28):
carcass is, if you don't get to it quickly, the
ants and the worms and everything just instantaneously start, you know,
consuming it. Well, when you when you kill off a
central business district like we did during COVID, well of
course all of the insects, all all of the the
(25:50):
grubs are going to move in and start devouring it.
And that's the criminals and the homelessness and the illegal
aliens and everything else. They all just moved in and
and they can't recover from it because now that they've
got it, they're using that as their money laundering scheme.
And of course with that also comes all of the
(26:11):
significant increase in the spending and all the social services,
for example, migrant support. They spent ninety five million dollars
between twenty two and twenty twenty four onjust illegal aliens,
homeless initiatives. Mike Johnson has spent more than fifty seven
million dollars annually, not just in total, but annually, so
that strains all the resources. And they reserved, they reserve,
(26:34):
They depleted their their reserve fund. They're any day fund.
It dropped below the recommended fifteen percent level to about
eleven percent. They got about two hundred million dollars remaining
because what were they doing well, They were using them
for ongoing costs rather than one time emergency needs. So
you got all of these reasons. And what's Johnston's response.
(26:58):
Will he announced all the you know, a hiring freezing
place until September. This coming September, two hundred positions left
vacant in next year's or in this year's budget to
reduce the payroll mandatory unpaid leaves starting this past June.
Those are going into effect. I think they went into
effect this week, maybe it's next week, sometime soon. Those
are actually going into effect. Spending restrictions, layoffs, programmed cuts,
(27:25):
you know now they are you know, they're trying to
protect some of their priorities, which I think are some
of the wrong priorities, like investing in downtown Denver. I
mean we talked about that yesterday. You know, the National
Women's Soccer League, an eight hundred million dollars bond proposal
to do stuff. I mean, it's just insane what they're doing.
So along those lines yesterday I run across the story
(27:48):
that I'm thinking to myself, seriously, this is what you're
going to considering everything that's going on, this is what
you're going to do. Here's the headline, plans twenty million
dollar American Indian Cultural Embassy near the Sacred Buffalo Herds
(28:09):
out near Dia. The subhead is the city is planning
its biggest Indigenous investment yet with the center out near
da Now the most hilarious part is the first sentence.
The City of Denver could build a cultural center near
Denver International Airport, part of an effort to welcome members
(28:36):
of tribal nations to return to their historic homelands on
the Great Plains in the Front Range. But what we're
we're going to invite them to to move into Green
Valley Ranch. We're going to invite them to hold a
(28:58):
you know, build mud huts and tepees and and you know,
lean to's and whatever other Nineteenth eighteenth century. You know
shelters that Native Americans used in those centuries to protect
themselves from the elements. Oh, I'm sorry, from climate change here,
that's what you're doing. Are we going to hold a
(29:18):
pal well on the parking lot of the Western Hotel
at the airport? What are we doing? We're inviting them.
We're going to welcome members of tribal nations to return
to their historic homelands on the Great Plains in the
Front Range. I got shocking news for you, Mayor. They're
(29:38):
still here.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Well, I see another Barnes and Noble return coming up here.
Who is giving Kamala advice? By the way, and all
the interviews I saw yesterday, she still looks like a
complete bufsoon sounds horrible words out left and right. And
she wrote a book, Yes, defensively, she wrote the book,
(30:01):
which we learned from the last time she wrote a
book that she d one hundred and seven days. Who
will buy that?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Well, not me. I have zero interest whatsoever. And even
if I returned it to Barnes and Noble and got
my money back, I have zero interested reading that book
none whatsoever. I heard about her interview on Colbert last night.
Don't see if I can find bits and pieces of it.
If you guys pissed me off, I might actually play
some of it. So if you're nice to me today,
(30:30):
I may not play any of it.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Talkbacks are a little low, just saying.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Oh well, okay, I told you it was a weird
day coming in work today. It's like nobody is today.
It's one of those days where you think, did I
get up on a holiday?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Right? Is Monday holiday? Everybody's taking a four day weekend.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Right, Yeah. There was no traffic this morning, even when
I went into a quick trip to get Usually it's
pretty busy at five o'clock, there was nobody in there.
It's pretty weird. By the way, I missed my kid
that gave me the free diet cokes, just having to,
you know, pay for a diet coach.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
No longer there.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Oh no, he got transferred.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Oh good, I mean I hope that's good.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
No. No, he was happy about it because it was
close to where he lives. It was up north, and
he was actually very apologetic about it. He goes, I
got some bad news. Oh what, and I think I
got fired for giving you free diet cokes? Right? No,
I got transferred and I said, all right, because I
just burst out. Are you in trouble? No, no, no, he says,
(31:30):
it's a bigger store up North Colasier to where I live.
So it's a good thing for you. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
he because I just want to be able to give
you any free diet cokes anymore. Oh so every day
I keep thinking, remember me, remember me wand he give
me a Dike Coke. It's so bizarre. You look at
(31:50):
you look at the main credit card that I use,
and you look at the statement. It's just quick trip,
quick trip, quick trip, you know, a dollar dollar dollar
dollar dollar dollar. Hilarious. So back to the back to
the I don't know. You're right, it's a. It's a
it's an Indian relocation program. You know, we moved them
(32:10):
onto the reservation. Now we're gonna move them into an embassy.
We're gonna build an embassy for twenty million, an estimated
twenty million dollars, so you know the real cost will
be sixty million dollars and we're gonna build it out
by the airport. Now. I don't know about you, but
would you want to go to a tourist attraction that
(32:30):
is literally at the end of runway thirty five R.
Is that what you want to do? I don't think so.
I took Tamar to the airport the other day and
it was all I could do, just to I mean,
I still get pissed off when I think about I
know we've had growth, but it's still like, you know,
a two lane road each way, uh, to go into
(32:52):
and out of the airport. I mean, it's just absurd.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
It's just I don't know, that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
They spent what one hundred million on a survey to
figure out if we needed to expand the road or not.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah, because I could have told them for just one
million that they needed to explain it.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
It might have been a million.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
May be off on the number, but yeah, they spent
money to figure out if widening Penya was a good idea.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Which all they needed to do was go out any
time a day or night and just I don't know,
park on the side of the road or just you know,
maybe get a helicopter and just fly over and just
look at the brake lights. Yeah, maybe you need to
do it. So they say that this this comes from
denveright the embassy. They call it an embassy would serve
(33:33):
as a place for people to come and do business.
All of the tribes that are across the entire nation
that have ties to Denver, they will now have a
place to come and do business. To partner with the city.
Oh so you're gonna take public money, taxpayer money, build
a place that's going to compete with the private sector,
(33:55):
you know, for convention business or hey, hey guys, we
need to have a meeting. Oh, let's go to the
embassy out by the Denver International Airport.
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