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09 - Leering Center · NO ID

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No ID is meant for a sane audience. No ID may
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contain Liberty -oriented content. PINCO discretion
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is advised. Now, here's No ID with Paul Banducci
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and Scott Moskowitz. Why hello there. Welcome
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back to No ID. I'm Scott. Hello Internet, I'm
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Paul. I heard that you're watching some extra
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kids this morning. That's the last I heard before
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we hit the live button is that you were watching
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some extra kids. So I'm assuming you're gathering
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something around $200 ,000 a month from the state
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for doing that. More like $4 million a year,
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amateurs. I figured I'd take a page out of the
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Minnesota Somali books and open up a quality
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leering center at my house. I'm too good at leering
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myself personally, you know. You're too good
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at leering? Yeah, I get in trouble for it. School
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for Troubled Youth from Zoolander, where the
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building has to be at least three times bigger.
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One of us needs that on our soundboard, which
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is a center for ants. It's classic, it's a classic,
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if you know, you know. The story, of course,
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right now is like sort of breaking from from
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Minnesota, this video that everybody is seeing.
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It doesn't directly pertain yet to North Idaho,
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but. I did get sent an interesting string of
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Grock conversation from one of our producers
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last night, who basically said, here's what I
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did. I prompted Grock to assume what is happening
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there in Minnesota nuts is happening everywhere.
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Given that assumption, who would the likely players
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be and organizations be and boards of fill -in
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-the -blanks be? in North Idaho that might be
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executing something similar. And there was a
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very interesting string of names, some of whom
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we have discussed on this show, some of whom
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I'm not familiar with, but you might be. I don't
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I don't have like a full soliloquy prepared for
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this because I didn't get it. I just got sent
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it last night. Didn't get a chance to do a deep
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enough dive. But I would like to talk about that
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with you offline. in between this week's and
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next week's show and see what kind of presentation
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we might be able to make along those lines. Because
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of course, it's all speculative, but one has
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to assume that if it's happening there, it's
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happening everywhere. It is definitely happening
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everywhere. And it's happening here, too, on
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a smaller scale because there are more guardrails
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in Idaho and the demographics matter. The same
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demographics are destiny. It's true. Idaho doesn't
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have the same level of issues as a lot of other
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places because our demographics are different.
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want to try to cheat the system in Idaho, it's
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a little bit tougher. Not a lot, but enough to
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move the needle. So that's a conversation I'd
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love to have. I want to see what you got there,
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man. We'll talk about it offline. And I definitely
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want to bring it to our producers. Let me just
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share this before we get into stories for this
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week out of the panhandle, which, of course,
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will start with the shooting. Let me just say
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this one one thing about the Minnesota thing,
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because it really it reminded me of the art documentary
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called Made You Look. which is about the Noedler
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Gallery in New York and about a long -running
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fraud that occurred there between 94, 95, and
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2009. It went on for many years, involving tens
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of millions of dollars. I think it was something
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around $80 million in fraudulent art that was
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moved through that gallery. That gallery was
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the oldest in New York and one of the oldest
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in the country from the 19th century. a basically
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a con woman named Glyphiro Rosales had a Chinese
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national forge, a bunch of abstract impressionist
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artists. So it's like the Jackson Pollock era,
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Mark Rothko, de Kooning, and that whole set of
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artists. And she sort of was like, oh, I, you
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know, in the trunk of her car, like came into
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the gallery and was like, hey, I have all of
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these undiscovered works from these artists.
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Oh, I know this very secretive Swiss collector
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and The works were required, they were acquired
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directly from the artists by this very secretive
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collector. So they have no provenance. Like,
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yeah, they don't have records because they were
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acquired directly from the artists. And but here
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they are. Here are these works. And these works
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sell for millions of dollars. In any case, the
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gallery had them. Oh, they had them authenticated.
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And the top people from the art world were saying,
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yes, these are real. These are authenticated.
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The gallery. All the pageantry. All of it. The
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gallery then went on to sell these works to very
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because of course This is the most prominent
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collectors in the world that are buying these
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sorts of nose bleed artworks You know three million
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dollars for this and five million dollars for
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that And it all eventually came crashing down
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and there were lawsuits and the gallery closed
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permanently in 2011 That documentary was uh,
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very good and featured the head of the gallery
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The lady who was actually doing all the purchasing
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who was basically like I got taken for a ride,
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too and the reason that i'm bringing all of this
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up is Yes, Glyphira Rosales and the Chinese national
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who were executing these actual paintings were
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frauds. The gallery was perpetrating a fraud,
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even though, you know, they say they didn't know.
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The authenticators are frauds, even though they
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are, you know, the apologies are few and far
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between, as you might imagine, because they need
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to keep their status as professional art assessors.
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And so that's an awkward position to be in. There's
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all of this. There's all of this downstream fraud.
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But the real fraud in all of it is de Kooning
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and Rothko and Jackson Pollock. They are the
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frauds. That's why you can execute their artwork
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and then have everybody think it's you couldn't
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do that with Albert Bierstadt. You couldn't do
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that with Johannes Vermeer. you just couldn't
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do it because there's their paintings are not
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red squares on black canvases and I have enough
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tapes to a white wall right I'm sure you're familiar
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with that piece there's been more than one like
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the original the original sold for like six million
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dollars or something and then there's been a
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couple of replications of it by the artist so
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their original replications if you will and each
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time they go for six or seven figures and it's
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just and It's a banana taped to a wall, a banana
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that is a real banana that decays and ages and
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rots. And so you eat it, I guess, or throw it
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away or just let it rot on your wall. I don't
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know. Well, and so the parallel that I'm getting
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at here, nobody is nobody is talking about the
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original artists as frauds, even though that's
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where the fraud starts, because nobody they can't
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admit that those people are because they're like
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these legendary abstract impressionists that
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are supposed to be these very impressive artists.
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I agree with you in a sense. The art is fraud
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because it's really, it's not what I would consider
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art. I mean, I could have one of my children,
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a young child splash paint all over a canvas
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and be like, voila, it's valuable. On the other
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hand, the market wants what the market wants.
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And if people find it to be valuable and an artist
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keeps splashing paint on a canvas and people
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keep buying it for ridiculous amounts of money,
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well, the artist is just giving the market what
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the market apparently wants. So On one hand,
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I'd say, yeah, that's fraudulent. On the other
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hand, I'd say, well, we can question the quality
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of your product all day long. That's highly debatable
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all day long, because that's subjective. Of course,
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now we're getting to Austrian economics. And
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the thing I love about Austrian economics is
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that value is subjective. It's not based on labor.
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It's not based on capital. It's based on subjective
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wants, desires, needs, and incentives. Well,
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then I suppose what's happening in Minnesota
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is not fraud either, since that's apparently
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what Minnesotans want. That's another way of
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looking at it, isn't it? One could make that
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case in a way. It's kind of a sick and twisted
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way to look at it. But there are a lot of folks
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who tend to like it that way, inexplicably. Either
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they're on the take or they don't know any better
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or whatnot. But I would say, as I think our producers
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here will understand, is there is a difference
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between fraud involving money forcibly stolen
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from unwilling participants, i .e. taxes, and
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a free and fair marketplace where people willingly
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exchange currency for goods and services. In
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my example, they were willingly exchanging for
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goods that were being fraudulently represented.
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They weren't the goods they thought they were
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getting. And the whole what I was really getting
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at here was... Yeah, no argument there. The source
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of the fraud, just like it's actually de Kooning
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and Rothko and Pollock, In that example, the
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source of the fraud in Minnesota is the state.
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The original fraud is the state. The entire program
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is fraudulent. Like, the notion that you should
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be getting money from the state for running a
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daycare center is fraudulent in the first place.
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So everything that flows downstream from that
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is a fraud. Well, the whole premise is rotten
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and fraudulent. From start to finish, the premise
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is they steal the money over the barrel of a
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gun, first off. I mean, it's extortion. At the
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very least, it's extortion. then it's doled out
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based on grift and graft and who knows who and
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a shitty system of distribution. I mean, that's
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fraud right there. And of course, it's used and
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abused by anybody who knows how to file the right
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paperwork and set up an NGO and everything like
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that. And that's fraud right there. And I mean,
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running running quality leering centers with
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no kids is fraud. I mean, all across the board
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and all the way down at all levels. But the big
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burr in my saddle is that it's public money versus
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private sector. There's both wrong. Obviously,
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I'm not making the case that one is wrong and
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one is not. But one is where everybody suffers.
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The other is where if you just got snookered
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by your lack of due diligence or bad luck, well,
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you suffer. Again, that's a really important
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distinction. Well, I don't know about the premise.
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Not everybody suffers. The all of the face hiding
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fat Somalis, they're not suffering. They're rolling
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in it. All of the ministry. And of course, the
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politicians they vote for. The industrial complex
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apparatus isn't suffering for it. All of the
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dumbbell Minnesotans who stand outside the door
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going, ice, ice, like robots, they seem to quite
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like it too. So I don't think everybody suffers.
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As a matter of fact, it seems like only some
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suffer. Well, it gets better because an article
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came out today that in Illinois, over 400 state
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employees have been accused of abusing and defrauding
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the paycheck protection program back in 2020
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and 2021 to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.
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To the shock of no one, but it just keeps rolling.
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I mean, so to go back to your original question
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and the conversation with Grok is it's everywhere.
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It's every state. It's every town. It's every
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city. It's everywhere. It is pervasive. And it's
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just a matter of how much. and who is perpetrating
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it. And so when it comes to Idaho, I guarantee
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you it's going on. Places like Moscow, which
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have a college, name a college town, shit's getting
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laundered and filtered through the colleges and
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the staff and faculty there. The people who pulled
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the strings. Boise, it's gonna be a hotbed for
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that stuff. Of course, the capital of Idaho.
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And then places like Coeur d 'Alene and Sandpoint
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where a lot of wealthy leftists and pseudo Republicans
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live who own a lot of stuff. They know how to
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pull the strings too. So yeah, man, it's everywhere.
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It's one of the biggest reasons why I'm an anarchist
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and why most people who think the way I think
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are anarchist or hardcore libertarians is the
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reasoning goes it's a lot harder to defraud the
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government and steal all this money if the government
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is smaller and doesn't give as much away. There's
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more guardrails, there's more oversight. The
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bigger and more bureaucratic the state is and
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the government is, the easier it is to defraud.
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Plain and simple. The PPP example is another
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perfect one the the people who are they oh, they
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you know fought four million dollars were collected
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falsely and about those are just pissant irrelevant
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interchangeable downstream NPC fraudsters the
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fraud itself originates with the government the
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PPP program was a fraud to begin with the premise
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was a fraud The money is not real. It was all
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phony baloney from top to bottom from the source
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Enough of this already. Let's get on to the real
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story that everyone here cares about. breaking
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news. We've been following all afternoon out
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of Wallace, Idaho. A gunman shot two women and
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a sheriff's deputy at the Shoshone County Sheriff's
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Office before he was killed by law enforcement.
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The women and the deputy are going to be OK.
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The Sheriff's Office says this all started around
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2 30 this afternoon. The shooter fired at a car
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next to the building, hitting two women. The
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gunman then shot a deputy at the entrance and
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continued firing inside. After a shootout, the
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gunman was killed by law enforcement. You are
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seeing a massive police response with help from
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Spokane, Coeur d 'Alene, the FBI and U .S. Marshals.
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a violent afternoon hits the heart of Shoshone
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County in Wallace, Idaho. About 2 30 p .m. Suspect
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entered the sheriff's office lobby and began
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firing before entering the county sheriff's office.
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Shown Sheriff Eddie says the gunman shot two
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women in the leg and grace a deputy's ear outside.
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He then barricaded himself in the empty office
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lobby. Sheriff Eddie assures that inmates in
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the attached jail were secure and not in danger
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the whole time. Julie Edward, a bystander. the
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street while getting groceries shares what she
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saw. I see sheriff's cars, lights. Coming down
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and then as I'm approaching my car, I heard gunshots
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nearly two hours later. She describes the abrupt
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end to the chaos. At some point I did hear him.
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gunshots, and pretty much after that, it seemed
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like the situation was neutralized. Law enforcement
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kills the gunman around 4 30, but it's unclear
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which agency or officer fired the deadly shot,
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killing the unknown man. and also from the press
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conference is shown County sheriff sharing with
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us. The shooter had multiple weapons on him.
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When asked further questions, he explained multiple
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guns, but wouldn't clarify how many guns and
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what type of guns they were tonight. Wallace
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faces a massive crime scene, shocking the small
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community. and as the investigation continues
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through the night authorities working to understand
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what exactly led up to the shooting here in Wallace
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who the shooter is and the motive behind it plus
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how many shots were fired by both officers and
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the shooter I'm curious if they because this
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is uh one of the things that remains unclear
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and I'm curious if what you found touches on
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it because what I've seen hasn't touched on it
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was motive It's either unknown or hasn't been
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released, but he's the guy's almost 80 years
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old And apparently is that someone who was pretty
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well known in Wallace, which is a very small
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community so sort of a lot of people know a lot
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of people and I'm wondering if it was almost
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a suicide by cop situation where he went in to
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make a sort of make a point Like he was wronged
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in some way and he went in to make a point. He
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wasn't gonna murder anybody He was just gonna
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fire a bunch of shots and maybe hit someone in
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the foot or something like that and then be taken
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out, which is that seems to be what happened.
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In any case, here's here's this clip, which is
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an I am when they officially identified him.
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New information out of Wallace, Idaho about the
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shooting that happened Friday afternoon at the
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Shoshone County Sheriff's Office. Here's a look
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at shattered glass and bullet holes in the building.
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The sheriff identified the shooter as 77 year
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old John Drake from Mullen, Idaho. Around 2 .30
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on Friday afternoon, he shot and injured two
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women in a pickup truck before barricading himself
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inside the sheriff's office. He was killed by
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law enforcement in a shootout around 4 .15 that
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same day. And while this investigation unfolds,
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the Shone County Sheriff's Office focusing on
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moving forward and community safety. And it's
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important for us to remember that this is not
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the majority of our citizens. This is an event
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that we wish we could have avoided, but we're
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going to take it in stride and do what we've
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done on the regular. That's sort of a weird quote.
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It's not the majority. So in other words, the
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majority of our citizens don't take weapons into
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the sheriff's office and start fighting. Yeah,
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like, oh yeah, no kidding. Doesn't that seem
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like kind of a weird quote? Well, I think out
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of context, yes. But in context, no, not at all.
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I think the sheriff's department and those around
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it at this point feel the need to probably add
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that caveat to a lot of their statements about
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these kinds of things, because it's been a really
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of year for the Shoshone Sheriff's Department
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for Shoshone County in general. But man, I don't
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envy the job. I got jokes, but not going to crack
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a lot of them right now because that's kind of
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a kind of a bummer. Actually, it's a big bummer
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for a dude to go in there and shoot the place
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up and lose his own life, of course, and threaten
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the lives of others. It's a it's a bummer. So
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I think the Shoshone County folks are feeling
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like, well, it's been a crazy run the last few
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months, maybe a year. We're not all like this.
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We promise. OK, good point. I mean, really, I
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think, yeah, for them, it's probably felt like
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one thing after another. I mean, you know what,
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two or three different officers being arrested
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and dealt with, resignations, lawsuits. You've
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got the shooting. You've got the death of that
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hunter. And there was all that public questioning.
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And that's, shoot, I think that's only in what,
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the last four months, five months. So that's
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why I think they probably feel the need to say
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that kind of stuff. It's really a nice place,
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we promise. We're not all like this, we promise.
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It's usually quiet and it's a good place to be.
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As a local, I'd be really sad. But at the same
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time, I'd be kind of thrilled because it'd be
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like, oh man, maybe it'll keep out of towners
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away. Maybe my property values will go down a
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little bit and the taxes will decrease too. Stay
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away. Idaho's crazy, everybody. Get out of here.
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Go away. We can dare to dream. This is now a
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multi -agency investigation involving the Kootenai
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County Sheriff's Office and Coeur d 'Alene Police
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Department, Idaho State Police handling the law
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enforcement shooting investigation. I do have
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one more clip because there was an official press
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conference where the third sheriff and three
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-month sheriff, Eddie, addressed questions from
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the press. And there were a lot of very informative
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answers. So I put together a super cut just to
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quickly get an idea of just how forthright the
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sheriff was being at that press conference. I
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don't have an answer for that. I don't know.
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Go ahead. Sorry. I will say this. It is it is
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worth noting that when this happened, it was
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like a six agency response. Yes. So it does go
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to show how rare something like this is. And
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how excited everybody in law enforcement was
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to get on the scene and do something useful,
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I guess, I don't think, cause there's just not
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a lot going on. So you had them, you had Montana,
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Montana state police over there. You had Spokane
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police, you had Shoshone County police, you had
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the feds, a multiple different federal agencies.
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So it was anywhere from five to six different
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agencies that were handling this. So it goes
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to show It really is a rare event and it's still
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a small, quiet area for the most part. When you
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get that many agencies showing up for something
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like this. Word has it the Kootenay sheriff sat
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in the grounded helicopter and just sort of simulated
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as if he was flying over there and he was heard
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making helicopter noises with his mouth. Anyway,
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here is the Shoshone Sheriff William Eddy and
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a super cut from his press conference that yours
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truly put together for your edification. I don't
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have an answer for that. I don't know anything
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about it. Alls I know is I do not know. That's
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all I know. I don't know. Alls I know is and
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that's all I have at this time. That's it. That's
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all I know. That's all I know and then I don't
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know anything about that. Third, that's about
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all I knew. I don't have the answer to that and
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I'm not going to release that information at
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this time. I don't know that at this time. That's
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all I know. Alright, that's all I have. Thank
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you. That's pretty much the summary of the press
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conference with Sheriff William Eddy. So I'm
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starting to think that earlier when you said
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that it was highly informative, now I'm starting
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to wonder if you were joking. No, man, we're
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not making jokes about the situation. You said
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so yourself. Yeah, I'm waking up. I'm slow on
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the uptake. But no, that was very informative.
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It's no laughing matter. You know what else is
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no laughing matter? The minimum wage. and all
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of the changes that are about to take place in
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2026. By the end of this week, millions of workers
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will see a bump in their paycheck. It's not a
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federal increase. Many of them are due to inflation
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adjustments. Many are tied to state ballot measures
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approved by voters. On New Year's Day, the minimum
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wage in the state of Washington goes to $17 .13.
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Oregon's minimum wage, which is already close
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to $15, goes up later in 2026. Get ready. Meanwhile,
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Idaho's minimum wage remains at $7 .25 an hour.
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It is aligned with the federal minimum wage,
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so Idaho's minimum wage has not increased since
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2009. Pop question for you, Paul. What is the
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proper minimum wage? The proper minimum wage
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is zero. You cannot mandate what something is
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worth, and that includes labor. Man, people are
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economically illiterate. It's crazy. That's most
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people. Most people are economically illiterate.
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So if $17 .50 an hour is good for minimum wage
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in Washington and $22 an hour is good for minimum
22:13
wage in California and so on and so forth, why
22:16
not make the minimum wage $100 an hour? Why not
22:21
make everybody gorillionaires overnight and just
22:25
make the minimum wage $1 ,000 an hour? What magically
22:29
makes it $22? make sense versus 100 versus 725.
22:34
It's absurd. But congratulations on taking out
22:38
a rung, a lower rung in the career ladder for
22:41
those with less experience or less talent or
22:43
less intelligence or circumstances that only
22:46
want you know where they can work part time and
22:48
or whether the value of their labor is lower
22:50
or etc etc etc. Oh and also congratulations on
22:55
taking what should be a voluntary interaction
22:56
which is I would like to work for you like well
22:59
I would like to hire you. and here's the wage
23:01
we agree on and instead stepping in and being
23:03
like wait right there you can't do this without
23:06
our say so and our permission and you have to
23:08
pay this much well i can't pay that much well
23:11
then you can't hire this person oh thank you
23:13
thank you for your help government this was very
23:16
this was great you know that half of our fellow
23:19
citizens hear everything you just said as paul
23:21
wants people to make nothing an hour and i want
23:24
to pay them nothing an hour As a business owner,
23:27
I wish I would pay my employees nothing if I
23:31
didn't have to that is the truth and that's not
23:33
because I hate them that's because it makes for
23:36
a better business and I can keep more money to
23:38
take care of my bills or or expand or Or pay
23:42
myself which is always a nice thought once in
23:44
a while so greedy in a free market It doesn't
23:46
work that way. You cannot get somebody to do
23:49
something for you without a proper incentive
23:50
and in a free and competitive market There are
23:54
proper incentives and I have to compete for labor
23:56
because labor is a good or it's a service or
23:59
it's a it's a resource just like anything else
24:01
like a physical good like a metaphorical service
24:05
it is it is a resource like anything else and
24:08
it is scarce just like everything else so one
24:13
must compete for this resource and if there are
24:16
other businesses who are able to pay more or
24:19
offer other perks that i can't well i have to
24:21
compete for labor and talent And that drives
24:25
the price of labor and talent up. So employees
24:30
or laborers have power as well. Individually,
24:35
the more power you have typically has to do with
24:38
your experience levels, your talent levels, your
24:41
intelligence levels, but also your work ethic.
24:43
How many tools are you willing to put in your
24:45
tool belt? So there's a million different ways
24:47
to provide value and to be valuable. And that's
24:51
the beauty of the free market. So dictating what
24:53
something costs. it's a minimum wage is effectively
24:56
a price control and price controls as any economist
25:00
worth anything at all understands price controls
25:04
always fail they always distort the market and
25:08
they always provide perverse incorrect incentives
25:11
and ultimately hurt the most uh the most like
25:16
the least experienced the newest entries into
25:20
the market and hurt the usually the poor, the
25:22
elderly, the people, the most vulnerable are
25:25
oftentimes the one hurt the most. Because if
25:27
I have to pay, and I'll end with this example,
25:30
because I know I'm on my soapbox here, because
25:31
like, you know, nothing gets me more excited
25:33
than basic economics. If I have I want three
25:38
employees, and I can I have, let's see, I don't
25:41
know, let's say 25, 25, or 30, we'll say $30
25:44
per hour that I can put towards labor. And that,
25:47
of course, is before payroll taxes and all that
25:49
bullshit is nobody forget. Nobody remembers that
25:51
stuff either. So it doesn't cost me, you know,
25:54
$30 an hour. It actually cost me fucking 45,
25:56
but that's beside the point. Let's say I got
25:58
30 bucks and I want three employees and I can,
26:01
I'll, you know, pay them all $10 an hour because
26:03
maybe they're of equal value or maybe somebody's
26:06
worth 12 and two people are worth, you know,
26:09
eight or nine, something like that. The government
26:11
says, Nope, you've got to pay them all 15. And
26:14
I go, okay, well, one of you doesn't get a job.
26:17
I can only afford to pay two of you. And I'm
26:19
taking the two most qualified, the two smartest,
26:22
the two most experienced, and you over here who
26:26
may already struggle to move up the economic
26:29
ladder and move up the career ladder. Well, you
26:31
just don't even get to start. Congratulations.
26:34
The bottom rung has been removed from you. Thanks,
26:37
government. You jest about the government making
26:41
people gajillionaires, but uh Now to something
26:44
that requires a good deal of luck two people
26:46
will begin the new year as Idaho's newest millionaires
26:50
Now to begin with they will have had to purchase
26:53
a ticket in the Idaho lottery's big million dollar
26:56
raffle All of the tickets sold out pretty quick
26:58
one of the fastest sellouts in the 19 -year history
27:01
of the million dollar raffle This year, the folks
27:04
at the Idaho Lottery Commission have decided
27:06
to have two top prizes of $1 million. They also
27:10
added a $100 ,000 prize and a $50 ,000 prize.
27:15
And good luck. There's a native ad for the Idaho
27:17
State Lottery on Idaho NPR. But poker is still
27:21
illegal. Yeah. After you win your million dollars,
27:24
by the way, guess how much of that you get to
27:25
keep? Almost 50%. Ooh, ooh. Oh yeah, you're 35
27:30
% and change at the federal level and Idaho state
27:33
tax right now is just shy of 7%. So you're I
27:39
think 42 % and change as a immediately just shoot
27:44
off the top. Hey, you know what though? A quality
27:48
leering center near you is going to really appreciate
27:51
your involuntary contribution. This thing too
27:54
with the leftover money after your involuntary
27:57
contribution. You can almost buy a starter home
28:00
Almost buy a starter home in North Idaho But
28:05
you'll be what we call house poor and you won't
28:07
be able to afford the property taxes of anywhere
28:09
from two to six thousand dollars a year Here's
28:12
where you might be able to buy a home because
28:15
they go for a discount when they are located
28:17
adjacent or on top of as construct the I 90 expansion
28:22
proje residents there say they the difference
28:27
and they d expected to take four yea is already
28:32
causing problem in the backyard of some r in
28:36
Coeur d 'Alene safety, po These are just some
28:39
of th living along I 90 in North been taken into
28:43
consider The project started last some of you
28:48
might notice th along the interstate. Th the
28:52
stretch of the interst lane and post falls to
28:54
fo directions doubling the r say they are upset
28:59
becaus from the beginning. Resi asked for a noise
29:06
barrier a spokesperson for the i Department in
29:11
charge of t on a federally required n corridor
29:18
did not meet rea thresholds, meaning the outweigh
29:23
the costs. But we did r findings just to make
29:26
su At the end of doing the noise analysis, at
29:33
the end of looking at the recommendations and
29:35
everything like that in that area, the answer
29:37
for a sound wall at this point is not recommended.
29:40
That's because all of the money went into the
29:42
CityLink bus system so that you could get your
29:46
asses funneled to the Coeur d 'Alene Tribal Casino.
29:50
Perfect. We don't have the budget to improve
29:53
your quality of life that we have also are responsible
29:57
for wrecking, but shut up and give us your money.
30:00
Pay your taxes. Man, I'm telling you what, I'm
30:02
actually pretty excited about all of this fraud
30:04
stuff being uncovered, and about things just
30:06
getting worse and worse and worse, at least on
30:09
a macro level, because even while it sucks on
30:11
a personal level, and I know a lot of people
30:13
aren't having a good time with a lot of different
30:15
things, changes are coming. You know how many
30:19
people right now are thinking to themselves,
30:20
why the fuck do we pay taxes? No change. Why
30:29
do we do it, Scott? We got brought up yesterday.
30:31
My kids asked me because I was complaining. I
30:33
actually, okay, I'm going to go on a tangent
30:34
here. I got a letter from the state of Idaho
30:36
yesterday. It is a notice and demand letter.
30:41
According to them. Shuffles notes here. I owe
30:47
them $1 ,395 and 25 cents. Sure you do. And 160
30:53
of that is interest, by the way, for amended
30:56
tax returns for 2022. We had to do some changey
31:00
changey on some things to clean some stuff up
31:01
and make it more legit like it should be because
31:04
we made some mistakes, honest mistakes. And we
31:07
went back to 2022, 2023 and amended some stuff.
31:11
It turned out I owed money to the IRS and to
31:13
the state of Idaho. Good times. I'm not loving
31:16
it. And it's a mess because the amounts keep
31:18
changing. Nobody can tell me precisely what I
31:20
owe. I keep getting lots of letters and the interest
31:23
and the penalties are adding up. I also sent
31:26
them checks, the IRS and the state and the IRS.
31:28
finally processed the 2022 check after two and
31:32
a half months. And the state of Idaho just says
31:35
they lost theirs. So I get this letter today
31:41
and I've been emailing the Idaho State Tax Commission
31:44
over the last week and a half, asking them a
31:46
litany of questions about what's going on and
31:48
asking them, hey, like, please advise. How do
31:51
you want me to proceed here? I don't want. Any
31:54
more penalties and interest to rack up, but I
31:56
also want to not overpay you guys and also there
31:59
was a check What did you guys do with it? And
32:02
in the middle of all of that the response I got
32:04
back was they answered some of the questions
32:06
and then they didn't answer about half of my
32:09
questions but at the end of the email said and
32:11
It looks like we have answered all of your questions.
32:13
So we're good here, right? It was like what what
32:17
no then I get this letter the same day I got
32:20
that email so yesterday that says If we have
32:23
not received full payment within 10 days after
32:25
the date of this letter, and the date of this
32:27
letter, Scott, is December 26th. So half of my
32:30
days are already gone. Yep. And the other half
32:33
are almost all fucking holidays and weekends,
32:35
Scott. So I don't even know if I can get a hold
32:37
of anybody in time, but it gets better if I don't
32:40
do it within 10 days, half of which are already
32:42
gone. A lien will be recorded against your property
32:45
for the tax and the interest shown. Sure. A levy
32:48
may be issued to seize your wages, bank accounts,
32:51
and other assets, and property belonging to you
32:53
may be seized and sold. Oh, but they include
32:57
this sentence. I love this. We prefer not to
32:59
resort to such harsh measures and therefore urge
33:01
you to resolve this matter. If that isn't the
33:04
most mafioso sounding sentence. That's a really
33:09
nice house you've got there, Paul. It'd be a
33:11
shame if we had to seize it and sell it for below
33:14
market value to resolve your $1 ,300 tax debt.
33:17
You know, we don't prefer to strap those semen
33:20
shoes on your feet, but, you know, we will. So,
33:25
I'm feeling pretty saucy today. I'm pissed, man.
33:30
Fraud, fraud all over the place. Fraud, fraud,
33:32
fraud, fraud, fraud. And these motherfuckers
33:35
have the audacity to, at the state and the federal
33:38
level, to just keep asking for money. Demanding
33:41
money is the wrong term. Demanding more money.
33:45
And I know it's just wasted. So I was ranting
33:48
and raving about it yesterday while I was also
33:50
fixing my leaky freezer. And at one point, one
33:53
of my kids, I think it was Silas, was like, Dad,
33:55
why do you even pay taxes? And of course, he
33:57
knows because they're my kids. They're my kids.
34:00
So they know. They already know taxation is theft.
34:03
When they see sirens flashing, they already know
34:05
it's road pirates. They know. They know how the
34:08
world works better than most adults. But they
34:11
also know how to push my buttons. So I straight
34:15
up was just like, so I don't go to prison. That's
34:18
why I pay my fucking taxes, son. So I don't go
34:20
to prison. But the worm is turning, Scott. The
34:24
more fraud that keeps being revealed, which we
34:26
already knew, like smart people, the very few
34:29
of us who already knew how all this shit worked,
34:31
we knew. And Doge, when Doge was happening earlier
34:35
this year, and all that shit came out, we're
34:36
like, yeah, no, we knew all about this. Us libertarians,
34:39
we knew. The Minnesota stuff, we knew. When we
34:42
reveal all the Idaho stuff, I know, we know.
34:46
And yet, I either have to contribute to it, or
34:49
I go to prison. How is everybody not a libertarian?
34:53
This is the crux of what I was driving out at
34:55
the top of the show. I hope, but I don't have
34:59
a lot of faith, but I... I hope that people do
35:03
the math and actually connect the dots between
35:07
taxation and the nature of the state and what
35:11
they are seeing in these viral unfoldings out
35:15
of Minnesota. I worry that people are too narrowly
35:20
focused on, in other words, they're going to
35:23
blame the overweight, face -hiding Somalian people
35:27
and not the state. And you are correct. It's
35:31
a legitimate concern. What you are saying is
35:33
a legitimate concern, a misdirection, if you
35:36
will. We need to direct our anger and our ire
35:40
at the correct target. And as always, the correct
35:45
target is the state. And it's a boogeyman of
35:49
our own making, though. You know, 100 years,
35:51
150 years of letting it get bigger and bigger
35:53
and bigger and bigger and bigger and electing
35:55
politicians who make it bigger and bigger and
35:56
bigger and bigger and Of course, having our own
35:58
sacred cows. I mean, you know, conservatives
36:00
have this issue, too. They'll talk about, you
36:03
know, my welfare and all this kind of stuff and
36:06
be like, we shouldn't be paying for welfare.
36:08
We shouldn't be. But don't you touch my Social
36:09
Security. I earn that. Well, you did pay into
36:13
it. But statistically speaking, way, way, way
36:16
more people get way, way, way more out of Social
36:18
Security than they ever paid in. It's a net negative.
36:20
That's why it's hemorrhaging money. And there
36:22
is no. There is no magical account where it actually
36:24
all lives. It's just IOUs just being transferred
36:27
from one pocket to the next. And it's a net negative
36:29
because people draw overall draw more than they
36:33
put in. But these same people also will tell
36:36
you that you can't cut police budgets ever. And
36:39
don't you dare ever cut the military budget.
36:41
Just make it bigger. In fact, by however much
36:44
you were going to cut it, we need to add to it.
36:47
You know what the military budget was for 2025,
36:50
Scott? at the federal level, that's not counting
36:52
like state national guards and all that kind
36:55
of shit. Almost one trillion dollars. It wasn't
37:00
an ask Scott. I was going to. Trillion. Yeah.
37:02
I'm sorry. I should have let you guess. I'm still
37:04
figuring out how to do this co -host thing. I'm
37:07
kind of a selfish prick. I'm sorry, Scott. I
37:08
love you. Trillion dollars, Scott. But my I feel
37:13
good knowing that my sixty six hundred I sent
37:16
the IRS. will pay for one one hundredth of a
37:20
patriot missile to blow up brown children in
37:26
Somalia. The irony. Or 11 seconds worth of daycare
37:32
for a fake, non -existent Somalian child in Minnesota
37:36
nuts. Without quality leering. Speaking of, you
37:42
know, here's a great transition if you wish to
37:46
help Paul be extorted by the state, you can contribute
37:51
to this show value for value because that's what
37:54
this show is. Yeah, no idea. OK, please contribute
37:58
to the help Paul pay his overdue taxes fund.
38:01
I beg you is a value for value proposition. That
38:05
means that if you find what you're hearing on
38:06
this show valuable, then you contribute back
38:09
to the show with your time, your talent or your
38:12
treasure or any combination thereof. No ID show
38:15
calm is our website and it has all of the methods
38:17
by which to do so I do have a Well, I kind of
38:22
shared that sort of boots on the ground Contribution
38:25
at the top which we'll get into more next week
38:28
because it's very interesting I just like I was
38:30
saying I just didn't have time to parse it but
38:31
that sort of stuff I really love getting that's
38:34
the the talent time and talent portion. So thank
38:37
you. The treasure portion is also awesome so
38:40
that we can just send it right along to the state
38:43
so that they don't arrest us and take us away
38:45
from our children. And along those lines, I do
38:49
have I was given it in person in cash and slapped
38:53
it right into my palm. Twenty bucks from an executive
38:57
producer this week, Reb, the gold digging cowgirl.
39:00
So I wanted to thank Reb for that. And so that
39:04
should pay, I'm not a mathematician, but what
39:06
is that, like 0 .0003 % of your tax bill? Or
39:11
like one one millionth of a javelin missile.
39:14
Thank you, Reb, the cowgirl for your donation.
39:18
Really appreciate it. It makes me feel like breaking
39:20
out into song and dance. Charming. Did she have
39:33
a message to go along with it? She didn't. Well,
39:35
I mean, we had an in -person conversation and
39:37
she just that she's been enjoying the show. I
39:40
wish she would have sent in like something written
39:44
down so I could read it. But she didn't. She
39:45
just said that she's been liking it. She she's
39:48
got a lot of acreage and a lot of farm animals
39:50
and stuff. So I think she's listening while she's
39:53
working her land. And she appreciated the show
39:55
enough to give me 20 bucks. So thanks, Reb. We
39:58
love you. Thank you very much, Reb. May your
40:00
homestead produce. many valuable resources, including
40:05
joy, and also tangible things. Joy is great,
40:08
but hopefully things you can eat and drink and
40:10
stuff like that. No ID show .com. Thanks everybody
40:14
for the support. No ID show .com no ID. And with
40:23
that said, second half of show. Let's start with
40:27
an Ask Paul. And this one is going to be right
40:31
segment right at the beginning of the clip. And
40:34
so it's Here we go. Idaho ranks. What number
40:39
does Idaho rank? This is for doctors practicing
40:44
physicians per capita. Idaho ranks. Out of 50
40:49
states, Idaho ranks what? For doctors practicing
40:53
per capita. You got it. Man, actually, that's
40:57
a switcheroo. I thought for sure this was going
40:58
to be about education, in which case I already
41:00
knew that one. Because they always trot out that
41:02
Idaho ranks 49th for education funding. Right.
41:05
But what they don't trot out is that Idaho is
41:07
actually middle of the pack for testing and academic
41:09
performance, proving that you don't have to spend
41:11
26 grand per student per year to get better test
41:14
scores. But I digress on that one. I would say,
41:19
let's see, doctors per capita. Well, the health
41:23
industry, the medical industry is the number
41:25
one employer in Idaho, at least at the corporate
41:27
level. It is the biggest employer overall in
41:30
Idaho. But Idaho is not unique that way. But
41:33
because there's two million, two point one million
41:35
people in Idaho. It's going to be an outset influence.
41:38
I would say Idaho probably ranks higher up. It's
41:42
probably going to be in the top 25 percent. So
41:49
what would that be the top 12? Idaho ranks in
41:52
the top 15. Idaho ranks 50th nationwide for physicians
41:56
per capita and 44th in primary care physicians
42:00
per capita. Now state health care leaders are
42:02
pushing for a change. The Idaho Medical Education
42:06
Working Group designed a plan to expand medical
42:09
schools, strengthen rural training pathways,
42:12
and help local doctors get paid to teach the
42:14
next generation. It also grows residency programs,
42:18
the single biggest factor in where doctors choose
42:21
to practice. title of the project in many ways
42:25
in section two is train here, stay here, grow
42:28
here plan. So the more training we do here, the
42:32
more staying we do here, the more growing we
42:35
do here, the more retention we have here. State
42:38
lawmakers are expected to discuss funding for
42:40
the project in the new year. To be clear, the
42:42
plan itself does not authorize spending or mandate
42:45
specific actions. Those decisions rest with the
42:48
entire legislature. Oh, thank God. So they're
42:50
going to try to do some physician leering centers
42:53
in Idaho to keep more doctors leering here and
42:56
then practicing here. That sounds like a great
42:58
idea. That was 50. Did I whiff on that one? Dead
43:03
last. I thought you were going to get there because
43:05
you started off with the edumacation thing, which
43:07
was essentially 50. I almost went that direction,
43:10
but then I out thought myself and I went, no,
43:12
I know like. It is the number one one of the
43:15
if it's not the number one employer, the medical
43:17
industrial complex is top three in the state
43:19
of Idaho. It's it's huge. It's huge. So but of
43:23
course, I guess it doesn't represent physicians
43:26
necessarily. It just represents the corporate
43:28
medical industrial complex. This is one of those
43:30
moments where Scott's wondering why I'm even
43:32
on the podcast. What would you say you do here?
43:35
I deal with that. I get statistics wrong. I do.
43:39
Well, you apparently you do that, too. Nobody
43:41
talks to me. They all reach out to you. I'm just
43:44
up here in my Clark Fork castle with my moat.
43:47
Just anybody comes around and I - Now go away
43:50
or I shall taunt you a second time! That's probably
43:54
why nobody comes up here to talk to me. Probably.
43:58
what your neighbors were doing while the floodwaters
44:01
were lapping at their ankles. You know who wants
44:03
it to essentially be recriminalized, reclassified
44:07
back to schedule one. Earlier this month, the
44:09
Trump administration reclassified marijuana from
44:12
a schedule one to a schedule three drug. That
44:15
move could bring new medical research and FDA
44:18
approved marijuana products. But now Idaho lawmakers
44:21
are calling on President Trump to reconsider.
44:24
Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch say the act
44:27
undermines efforts to quote, make America great
44:30
again, arguing marijuana still fits schedule
44:34
one because of its abuse potential and lack of
44:37
FDA approval. A natural medicine alliance of
44:40
Idaho survey found 83 % of voters statewide actually
44:44
favor legalizing medical cannabis through a tightly
44:47
regulated program. It's hilarious. I seriously,
44:51
Crapo and Rish actually think the FDA has credibility
44:54
left? What planet do they live on? Well, they
44:58
are boomers. It's not FDA approved man What they
45:02
are prototypical Republican boomers. I mean that
45:05
that's it. That's what they are They're establishment
45:07
Republicans boomers So the so everything that
45:10
is the establishment does still have credibility
45:12
because they've profited from it. Those dudes
45:14
have been in office forever they're the guys
45:17
who will look you dead in the eye and tell you
45:19
that poker should stay illegal while we run a
45:22
state lottery and that Alcohol is bad. Okay,
45:27
because they're Mormon. But also, they need it.
45:31
The state needs the money. So the state will
45:33
retain control of alcohol. And on top of all
45:36
of that, they'll look you in the eye and be like
45:38
a marijuana should be illegal. But legal heroin
45:43
in the form of opioids is perfectly okay. Now
45:45
shut up, sit down, drink your booze, take your
45:47
percocet and play a scratch ticket. You want
45:50
to get high? You know what's amazing too? I got
45:53
some like a piece of campaign, like whatever,
45:56
a postcard, the vote for Rish. And it had the
46:00
asterisk and the fine print at the bottom that
46:02
said, these materials were sent using taxpayer
46:05
dollars. So let's not forget that the money that's
46:10
being rung out of you like a bar rag is actually
46:13
just going to be used for Jim Rish to send out
46:15
his campaign promotional materials. Yep, that
46:19
is the beauty. of our political, one of the beauties
46:22
of our political system, and especially the two
46:24
party system, where each party is so big and
46:27
so broad, they absorb every topic, and everybody
46:29
has to pick one side or the other. And both sides
46:32
have effectively created for themselves a perma,
46:36
a perma nest, from which they cannot be uprooted.
46:39
And they do quite literally get taxpayer money,
46:44
bundled to their organizations, their national
46:46
organizations, and all the way down to their
46:48
local organizations, like the Kootenai County
46:51
Precinct Committee receives, in some ways, some
46:55
taxpayer money that comes from the National Republican
46:58
Convention, which does receive taxpayer money.
47:02
So that's how that works. In a nutshell, it's
47:05
a little more nuanced than that. But yeah, we
47:08
we fund our own oppression, Scott, eight ways
47:10
to Sunday. The moment you realize it, it's just
47:13
like Mother of God. Yep, it's the black pill.
47:17
There's no untaking it. Speaking of oppression,
47:21
here are some new laws coming into effect in
47:24
2026. A public service announcement from the
47:27
No ID Show to you. The new year will bring new
47:29
laws and other changes to public services in
47:33
Idaho. Most laws take effect with the state's
47:35
fiscal New Year's Day, July 1st, but a handful
47:38
will kick in this week, including a bill designed
47:40
to protect freedom of speech rights and insulate
47:43
people from frivolous lawsuits. The anti -slap
47:45
statute allows the subject of a lawsuit to request
47:48
a judge immediately determine whether it's frivolous
47:51
and dismiss the case. If so, health insurers
47:53
offering coverage in Idaho will now be required
47:55
to cover the cost of breast exams for people
47:58
at higher risk of breast cancer due to genetic
48:00
history or dense breast tissue and a multi -year
48:03
The effort to rewrite state law governing management
48:05
of abandoned or impounded vehicles takes effect
48:08
Thursday. Changes include requiring towing companies
48:11
to post their fees and the creation of a database
48:14
through the Idaho Transportation Department for
48:16
towed vehicles and timely notification to owners
48:19
or lienholders. It's not new legislation, but
48:22
state police are raising fees for background
48:25
checks in the new year by 20 % and one change
48:28
that will not happen as expected. Candy and sugary
48:31
beverages become. ineligible for purchase using
48:34
SNAP food benefits has been delayed to February
48:37
15th. The State Department of Health and Welfare
48:39
in September pushed the implementation date by
48:41
45 days to allow more time for retailers to prepare
48:45
for the change. You want to talk about fraud.
48:48
For one, towing of cars. I don't know how much
48:51
experience you've had with this, but I'm from
48:52
the People's Republic and especially when I lived
48:55
in these cities. of the People's Republic where
48:58
you could not avoid parking tickets and you almost
49:00
could not avoid getting your car towed either.
49:02
Basically, everybody that I know, including myself,
49:04
had it happen to them at least once, sometimes
49:06
more than once, despite our best efforts. And
49:08
there's all there's always the interaction where
49:11
you go in because your car got towed at 1245
49:15
p .m. and you go in at 415 p .m. to get your
49:18
car. And they're like, well, that's going to
49:20
be 11, 11 million dollars. And you're like, well,
49:23
why? Why is it so much? Well, it's three days.
49:25
three days, like, you just do four hours. Well,
49:30
but see, 1pm is the cutoff. And then if you and
49:32
then right now, it's technically the end of day.
49:34
And then it's like they give you the run around.
49:36
I think the whole the whole thing was such a
49:38
fraud. Everyone that I know had that had that
49:40
experience where they basically charge you two
49:42
days worth of fees for about four hours of holding.
49:45
And you stole my car to begin with. And then
49:48
the other part of is is the the sugary beverages.
49:52
What why was it ever the case? that you could
49:55
get Pepsi with food stamps. It's very indicative
50:01
or illustrative, I should say, of where things
50:03
are at when health and welfare makes a determination
50:06
that they have to extend the deadline out almost
50:11
two months in order to give retailers time to
50:15
adjust to a different sales flow is probably
50:19
the most polite way to put it. Basically, retailers,
50:21
especially, I'm sure convenience stores, because
50:23
you see that they, you know, all the convenience
50:24
stores are like, we take EBT, all the all the
50:27
grocery stores, we take EBT. The fact that they're
50:30
having to emotionally and physically prepare
50:33
for less sales in the junk food aisles, right,
50:36
because of rules that say you can't buy junk
50:38
food with food stamps is pretty wild and very
50:43
indicative of well, Fraud in Idaho. I mean, well,
50:46
it's not fraud. OK, I guess again, if it's within
50:48
the rules, technically you couldn't legally.
50:51
It's not fraud, but folks like you and I and
50:54
most program itself is would consider it. It
50:57
is a fraud. The program itself is a fraud. It
51:00
truly I mean, again, but that's again depends
51:02
on the premise you operate from. I agree with
51:04
you, but I'm agreeing with you. The whole thing
51:08
is, but now some of it's being codified, right?
51:12
A reasonable person looks at junk food and goes,
51:15
no, you shouldn't be able to buy that with food
51:16
stamps. You buy the basics with food stamps.
51:19
But that's how far we have fallen. And actually,
51:21
it was super controversial. That's where it gets
51:23
even crazier. In Idaho, it was very considered
51:25
very, it was a hot button topic, man. It was
51:27
controversial. A lot of people were upset about
51:29
it. Most of them, of course, were politicians
51:31
whose power comes from that demographic and self
51:37
-righteous people who feel better about extracting
51:40
our money for their pet causes. And then people
51:44
who were upset that they couldn't buy whatever
51:45
they wanted with money that wasn't theirs to
51:46
begin with. Pretty wild times. Maybe, maybe,
51:51
with the money saved, we can build the Malirian
51:54
Center. I do love the notion of having to emotionally
52:01
prepare as a retailer. Like, well, for our employees,
52:05
we're going to have an on -site therapist, you
52:07
know, so you can go in and have a cry session
52:10
if you need. We just need to wrap our minds around
52:14
the notion. that the pajama pants -wearing, wildly
52:19
overweight food stamp bearers won't be able to
52:22
buy two liters of Mountain Dew. Oh, no. Whatever
52:27
shall we do? Here's some more wonderful news
52:31
about the private school. We brought this up,
52:34
I don't know, maybe on one of the first couple
52:36
few episodes, the private school tax credits.
52:40
This morning, we're looking at... Exactly, yep.
52:43
This morning we're looking ahead to a court hearing
52:46
challenging Idaho's new private education tax
52:48
credit. Our news partners at the Bonner County
52:51
Daily Bee reporting the suit wants to block the
52:53
state's first private school choice program from
52:56
taking effect. The tax credit offers non -public
52:59
school students up to $5 ,000 or $7 ,500 for
53:03
students with special needs. Now wait a minute,
53:06
five grand, $7 ,500? I thought it cost $200 ,000
53:10
a month. to watch a bunch of three year olds.
53:13
I mean, surely it's going to cost more than that
53:15
to actually edumacate some teenagers, no? That's
53:18
only if quality is in the name. Oh, yeah, that's
53:21
a good point. See, they made a huge mistake.
53:23
$500 for students with special needs to offset
53:26
tuition and other education expenses. The Idaho
53:30
Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments for
53:32
January 23rd. Just going all the way up to the
53:35
Supreme Court. The Idaho teachers union is really
53:39
upset about this and all of the again the politicians
53:42
and the people who suckle at the teat of those
53:45
unions and they're put in a power by those unions
53:47
and all I mean and all of the money that is involved
53:49
I mean it is the education industrial complex
53:52
it is real and it wants all of your schmeckles
53:56
all the time shut up sit down don't question
53:59
us we don't want any accountability we just want
54:02
to do what we want to do and we need all of your
54:04
tax dollars And this threatens them, because
54:07
they're smart enough to know that the moment
54:08
people are able to further break free from these
54:13
subpar products and services that they provide,
54:16
that they have a monopoly on, well, a near monopoly
54:19
on, the floodgates open. The more people can
54:24
break free from the institution, the more they
54:27
will break free from the institution. That's
54:29
why the teachers unions and the powers that be
54:32
keep such a tight grip on state education. They
54:35
don't like anything that challenges it. HB93
54:37
was far from perfect, but it was an excellent
54:39
step in the right direction. Ultimately, where
54:41
you need to get to is full -blown vouchers and
54:44
ESAs and things like that, if anybody cares about
54:48
actual education and school choice and things
54:51
like that. The whole concept of fighting to get
54:55
on the school board at the local level or even
54:58
at the state level really is in a strategy that
55:01
has been proven to be a failure time and time
55:04
again. Again, as a libertarian, we look at conservatives
55:07
who are fighting those battles and we just go,
55:09
just stop. Stop putting money and effort towards
55:11
trying to get on school boards or change curriculum
55:13
or anything like that. Stop trying to change
55:15
a system that's doing exactly what it's designed
55:16
to do. Instead, let's focus on creating our own
55:21
system, our own society. The system is a kind
55:24
of a rigid term for basically just, you know,
55:27
school choice, educational choice, choice in
55:29
general in every facet of our lives. But let's
55:32
start with education. It's pretty crazy that
55:35
the same people who will lecture us about how
55:37
unique and different each child is and whatnot
55:40
are the same people who want to hammer everybody
55:42
into conformity within one size fits all generic
55:46
system of education. Mask them up. Mask up those
55:50
kids. One size fits all. We don't want to see
55:52
any individual faces. You're all just students.
55:57
Yep. Wear a mask and sing and dance monkey dance.
56:02
Here's another clip with regard to Idaho, quote,
56:07
schools. The federal government is pulling $30
56:10
million in funding from a program that brings
56:13
essential services and resources into rural Idaho
56:16
schools. Some Idaho school districts are worried
56:19
about this sudden cut. We're going to have students
56:21
and families that don't have their needs met.
56:23
Yeah, like they're not going to be able to get
56:25
two liters of Mountain Dew. The American Falls
56:27
School District is one of 22 districts in the
56:30
gem state benefiting from a federal full service
56:32
community schools grant. In 2023, the US Department
56:36
of Education awarded the nonprofit United Way
56:38
of Treasure Valley, nearly $46 million for a
56:42
five -year community schools grant to support
56:44
rural Idaho schools. The funds help place community
56:47
coordinators in schools to bring resources in
56:50
that communities need more access to. I'm going
56:52
to play that again. Wait, wait, wait. So the
56:55
money pays for administrators whose job it is
57:00
to get more money. Did I hear that right? This
57:03
that was the real time Paul translation, but
57:05
it was only based on hearing it once. Let me
57:07
play it again and you can provide hopefully a
57:10
translation as precisely as possible. The funds
57:12
help place community coordinators in schools
57:14
to bring resources in that communities need more
57:17
access to. What the hell is a community coordinator?
57:22
Is this just like back when Obama was running
57:25
for president and the term came up community
57:27
organizer? Is this this sounds like the same
57:29
damn thing? Sort of does, doesn't it? This is
57:33
exactly the grift and the graft we're talking
57:36
about. Whoever fills these positions is somebody
57:39
who knows somebody and is useless anywhere else
57:43
in the marketplace. So this is a jobs program
57:47
is what this is. Later in the clip, you're never
57:50
going to guess the tactic that the superintendent
57:53
who I looked him up, he makes $140 ,000 a year.
57:56
You're never going to guess the tactic that he
57:58
uses. to defend this. Won't somebody please think
58:02
of the children. The funds help place community
58:04
coordinators in schools to bring resources in
58:06
that communities need more access to. When families
58:09
have their needs met, kids can come to school
58:11
prepared to learn, ready to learn, and they'll
58:14
be able to do better there. Superintendent Randy
58:16
Jensen says there's a coordinator in each of
58:18
their four schools. They brought in resources
58:20
like food pantries, dental clinics and mental
58:23
health services. But earlier this month, the
58:26
U .S. Department of Education let the nonprofit
58:28
know the grant is being cut off three years early
58:31
and funds would stop at the end of the month,
58:34
putting 60 full -time staff positions in jeopardy.
58:37
Just finding out that we're going to lose the
58:38
total funding for them in just two weeks is pretty
58:41
tragic for us. The Department of Education cites
58:43
the program focuses on diversity, equity and
58:45
inclusion instead of fairness and education excellence.
58:49
But Jensen pushes back on that. I'm sure it does.
58:50
All this has to do with providing the help they
58:53
need and by helping people that does raise our
58:55
academic standards and our academic success.
58:58
And with 2026 budgets already set, Jensen says
59:01
it could be hard or impossible for districts
59:04
to try and retain these positions on their own.
59:06
It'll hurt our students, hurt our student families.
59:09
In the long run, it'll hurt our community. So
59:12
there are charts all over the Internet that track
59:16
most of them start the year that the Department
59:19
of Education was created. So we're talking late
59:21
late 60s early 70s because that's just a great
59:24
benchmark. Whoa, how did anybody know anything
59:26
before that, dude? Well, they didn't. Everybody
59:29
was just knuckle dragging the end with us. We
59:31
had no we had no roads. We had no schools. We
59:34
had no inventions of any kind. Nobody could read
59:37
or write or communicate properly before 98 or
59:41
it was total chaos. Total chaos. You got it.
59:45
But yeah, check those charts. They're out there
59:47
that just Google search them in. And one can
59:51
see that the percentage of administration across
59:55
the board, and this is in education as a whole,
59:58
but you can break it down state by state, county
59:59
by county, and it still works the same way. Student
1:00:02
enrollment has gone up 5%, 7%, and that's across
1:00:05
the whole country. In a lot of areas, it's actually
1:00:08
decreased. And this is for state -run education,
1:00:11
of course. Meanwhile, administrative. positions
1:00:14
have increased by anywhere from 70 % to 120%,
1:00:19
again, depending on your chart, your graph and
1:00:21
your region. So they always complain about not
1:00:23
having enough money, but they're so happy to
1:00:25
pay 50, 60, 70, 80, 120, 140 grand for all these
1:00:29
for community coordinators. This is a jobs program.
1:00:34
In fact, education itself is a jobs program.
1:00:37
It's not about the students. It's about mainly
1:00:40
useless leftists. hanging on to jobs where they
1:00:44
get tenure, retirement, platinum benefits, decent
1:00:47
pay, decent schedule, and no oversight or very
1:00:53
little, or they themselves oversee themselves.
1:00:56
It's like anytime the government does an investigation
1:00:59
and they're like, we investigated ourselves and
1:01:00
found no wrongdoing. That's the education complex
1:01:03
in a nutshell. With all that said, we here at
1:01:09
KnowID Hope that you have a happy ding -dang
1:01:13
New Year and a wonderful 2026. And here, let's
1:01:18
finish this New Year's show with the thing we
1:01:24
all loved to do on New Year's Eve in 1998, watch
1:01:28
things drop from towers. On Wednesday, millions
1:01:32
will tune in to watch the ball drop at midnight
1:01:34
in Times Square, but Idahoans... are adding their
1:01:38
own spin on the classic New Year's Eve tradition.
1:01:41
Since 2012, Boise has been ringing in each new
1:01:44
year by lowering a 17 -foot potato from a crane
1:01:47
in downtown Boise. The spud wears white wings
1:01:50
and is illuminated, dubbing it the Glowtato.
1:01:53
The Idaho potato drop has brought Boise national
1:01:56
recognition. In 2023, USA Today ranked the event
1:01:59
as the second best New Year's Eve celebration
1:02:02
in the nation. The first best thing to d in Vegas
1:02:05
and do a bunch o celebration in the nation is
1:02:10
counting down to midnigh vegetable. Boise has
1:02:14
the the sugar beat. That's Ki events. The organizer
1:02:20
of drop. The city of Cune by dropping a gem.
1:02:25
It's he Keeley Perez, recreation and event specialist,
1:02:33
says the idea behind the event is simple. Idaho's
1:02:36
known for like the gem state. Although Kuna is
1:02:38
near Boise's potato drop, Perez says she hopes
1:02:41
the gem. Wait a minute, I gotta, hold on, I gotta
1:02:43
mark this so I remember to ISO it. Idaho's known
1:02:45
for like the gem state. For like the gem state?
1:02:49
For like the gem state? Behold, a community coordinator
1:02:52
putting on a drop the beat, which actually I
1:02:56
made it sound way cooler. Drop the beat. Although
1:03:00
Kuna is near Boise's potato drop, Perez says
1:03:02
she hopes the gem can keep the celebration local.
1:03:05
This is more like small hometown kind of coziness,
1:03:11
I suppose, instead of going to downtown. Jackson
1:03:14
Holmes, Public Radio News. It's sort of a weird
1:03:16
cut. OK, this woman is a sugar beat like she
1:03:19
has the IQ of a sugar beat. Just saying she's
1:03:23
a public employee. Was she? I thought it was
1:03:25
for, she worked for the event coordination company.
1:03:29
We have the sugar beet. That's Kit Carney, president
1:03:31
of Square Events, the organizer of the sugar
1:03:34
beet drop. Square Events, I think it's a private
1:03:36
company. I might stand corrected. I thought it
1:03:39
said community organizer type position. Let's
1:03:42
re -listen. The city of CUNO will enter 2026
1:03:44
by dropping a gem. Keeley Perez recreation and
1:03:48
event specialist says the idea Keeley Perez recreation
1:03:51
and event specialist. OK, let's look her up real
1:03:54
quick. Keeley Perez events specialist. Is she
1:03:59
like an event specialist for the city? She's
1:04:02
like an event specialist, you know, events and
1:04:05
action coordinator for it. She works for the
1:04:10
city. How do you like that? I told you, I told
1:04:13
you the title was just too. Governmenty. Like,
1:04:21
the only other entities that have positions like
1:04:24
that are big corporations. This is more like...
1:04:28
Okay, that's a really exaggerated one. Like...
1:04:32
It hurts. Good times. You know, I can't... No,
1:04:38
like... Idaho is like the gem state? Question
1:04:42
mark? I work for the city. I'm an events specialist?
1:04:48
I'm so warm in my heart as I send this money
1:04:51
to the state of Idaho. It just makes me feel
1:04:53
so good that I'm contributing to the Keely Perez's
1:04:57
of the world and the Learing Centers of the world.
1:05:02
After you're done licking the envelope to send
1:05:04
that check off, what say you and I fly to Vegas
1:05:06
and do a bunch of blow all night on New Year's,
1:05:09
you know, try to turn our brains off for once.
1:05:12
I say we set up an NGO first and funnel it all
1:05:15
through that and make the taxpayer pay for our
1:05:18
blow. That's something that actually might cost
1:05:20
$200 ,000 a month. Yeah, but all we got to do
1:05:23
is get the CIA involved and they'll cover our
1:05:25
bills and give us qualified immunity. Good times.
1:05:30
Happy New Year from Post Falls. This is Scott.
1:05:36
And I'm Paul Banducci. Taxation is theft. Idaho's
1:05:44
known for like the gem state.