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05 - Laying Pipe · 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. Boy, that is so true. It's
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  not just true. It's so true. This is No ID. Welcome
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  back to the show. I'm Scott. I'm Paul. I'll do
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  you're happy to be here. Hey, um, we're back.
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  Yeah. Hey internet, we're back Oh, you know,
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  I'm sorry. I'm hey internet. We're back. Hello
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  internet. Actually. It's hello internet. Hello
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  internet. Do you want to do any of the intro
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  again? We can redo it I'll fix it in post. It'll
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  be so we just should we just roll with it. I'm
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  looking up how to admit I was distracted I was
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  trying to take the extra five seconds. I thought
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  I had to look at YouTube clips for my makeshift
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  soundboard that I'm just hoping to have today
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  It's going to be fantastic. I can see the future.
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  I have a crystal ball and I know how good it's
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  going to be. And I just can't wait until the
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  moment when I'm not using the future tense any
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  longer with regard to your soundboard. Yeah,
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  well, that makes two of us. Well, we're going
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  to be great. That's right. But I wasn't. But
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  I wasn't. See, I suck at this. But I wasn't ready.
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  All right. In my defense, here I am doing my
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  thing today. Minding my own business, trying
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  to figure out health insurance and tax bullshit.
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  Scott dials me up and goes, we need to do a recording
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  today. I went, OK, so here we are. We're going
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  to get real ambitious today and try and. Yeah,
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  what's the word I hear every every week now,
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  huh? Right, Scott, we're going to shoot for every
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  week. Is that the deal? The idea? Yeah, we're
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  going to try to not try. See, what is the now?
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  I'm not a Star Wars guy, but I have it on good
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  authority that Yoda said do or do not. There
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  is no try or something thereabouts. That's exactly
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  what he said. Well, there you go. Well, anyway,
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  so we're not going to try to do it once a week.
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  We're just going to do it once a week. The truth
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  is that in order to be like a regular presence
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  in people's feeds, once every two weeks is just
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  not enough. We know you have a lot of choices
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  when you fly or what is like a Southwest Airlines
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  tagline. There's a lot of podcast choices out
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  there. And in order to establish yourself as
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  a regular presence in people's ears once every
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  two weeks is just not enough. We're going to
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  assault your ears every week now. You're welcome.
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  There's an awful lot that goes on to just day
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  by day. And that's the other thing is, you know,
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  if I spend time when I spend time looking for,
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  you know, pulling the stories that we're going
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  to cover on that show, if it's, you know, seven
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  days old, nine days old already, it's like stale,
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  it's old news, you know, so once a week is it
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  that's the number. So here we are. So let's see.
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  So here we are. Paul is totally we're totally
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  going in Paul blind here. I don't know what to
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  expect. I don't know what you got for me. What
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  do you have lined up for me today, Scott? What
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  have you pulled out from the Internet today?
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  A variety of topics. But the running theme, as
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  always, is the panhandle and our politics up
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  here in North Idaho. This is the hyper local
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  revolution. No ID because every region has a
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  mainstream apparatus that propagandizes and we
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  are going to deconstruct it as we as we always
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  do. So let's start with the did you hear about
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  the the home, the house that got demolished with
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  an excavator? This happened a couple weeks ago?
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  I did. Somebody went almost full killdozer on
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  that house. I don't know the reason why, though.
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  I don't know the story behind it. The details
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  were lackluster upon the breaking of the initial
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  news. And then I haven't seen or heard anything
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  about it since. Now, granted, I haven't done
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  a whole lot of excavating for information. So
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  fill me in. Here is the initial story. A new
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  home is now a pile of rubble after police say
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  someone used an excavator to destroy it earlier
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  this morning. Remtuz Christian Garza is about
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  the scene all day and shares what neighbors are
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  saying tonight. This is great dozens of neighbors
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  came out to look at the scene here at all C and
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  Plat Avenue. Really, the only thing left of this
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  house here on the corner is one wall towards
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  the back. The rest is completely torn to shreds.
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  Really, there's only wood and glass and some
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  insulation after this incident this morning.
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  Now, despite some neighbors not wanting to speak
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  on camera, every single neighbor I talked with
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  today says the only word to describe what happened
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  here is disbelief. Now get ready, get ready for
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  all the the rant. Jim Oakes that are interviewed
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  by the local news. This is classic local news
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  trope. It's going to be great. Hold on, hold
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  on. Before you do, I can already I already know
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  how it's going to go. Oh, man, I don't know.
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  He was so quiet. He was so friendly. He always
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  helped me take out the trash. I had no idea he
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  had seven bodies in the freezer, officer. He
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  just seemed like a like a normal person who kept
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  to himself. Always how it works is never like,
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  oh, yeah, no, everyone on the block knew that
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  guy was a serial killer. Police Department says
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  it got a call earlier this morning around five
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  or six of somebody destroying a newly constructed
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  house with an excavator. Officers say when they
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  got to the scene, they saw someone driving away
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  after a traffic stop. The driver, a 29 year old
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  man, was arrested for DUI, burglary and malicious
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  injury to property. I had the chance to speak
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  with one neighbor, Gail Isley, who lives right
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  across the street from where it all happened.
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  Wayne came and my husband came and woke me up
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  and he said, they're tearing the house down across
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  the street and I'm going, what are you talking
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  about? I was kind of. awake. You know, I just
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  Well, I couldn't believe it door. I'm going really,
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  just doesn't happen one by to the scene to see
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  the d Corson who heard about th grapevine. My
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  son lives in my son was telling me that on the
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  street and it's li A friend of a friend. Here
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  we are interviewing. Why would you even do that?
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  I thought they were interviewing people in the
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  neighborhood. Now they're interviewing somebody
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  whose son lives in the neighborhood. Why are
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  you doing this? Well, now, see, I live in Schenectady,
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  New York, okay? And my cousin, who lives in Boise,
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  well, she knows someone up in Sandpoint, and
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  he said that his cat, which is, you know, he
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  thinks it's his pet, but actually it's feral,
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  because, you know, it's a cat. That cat had wandered
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  all the way down to this neighborhood in Post
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  Falls, where it turns out a house was demolished.
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  And it's like, I didn't see anything, and so
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  I forgot to just keep watching. and I was thinking,
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  oh, m told me the wrong street and I seen this
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  house and it's like, what the heck happened he
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  just seen the house was ju Greenstone Homes,
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  one of th this property says the hou Investigators
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  confirmed the person allegedly responsible for
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  the demolition was a construction worker and
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  was also unhoused. Greenstone confirmed with
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  me the man who was arrested does not work for
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  them or their partner companies. Greenstone declined
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  to speak on camera but sent me a statement saying
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  in part, we are incredibly disappointed that
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  the event happened and we are working as quickly
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  as possible to clean up the demolition and make
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  it as safe as it can be for the community. Greenstone
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  says that it could take up to a year before another
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  property is available. Okay. Now, did you catch
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  the mainstream media propaganda term in there?
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  Unhoused. Unhoused. Well, first of all, I find
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  it curious that the fellow was a construction
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  worker and unhoused. So it's already a curiosity
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  to me how that works if you hold a full -time
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  job in construction, which they can, you know...
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  It's not glamorous, but it can pay decent enough,
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  especially if you're in any of the trades or
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  the semi skilled or the skilled trades. How are
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  you unhoused? Also, why take it out on that house?
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  He doesn't even work for the company who built
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  the house. So just like more questions. I think
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  I have more questions than I started with. Why
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  did you pick that house? Who do you work for?
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  How are you unhoused while being a construction
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  worker? How did you get an excavator? Is that
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  where the burguerly burguerly man? can't even
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  say the word burgle to burgle something burglary
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  charge is that where that comes from did he steal
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  the excavator or are they charging him with burglary
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  in the house that he then bulldozed it's so many
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  i have so many more questions yeah well and i
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  do like the part where they sort of go through
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  charges and they get progressively lessened but
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  it's like uh we got him for burglary a dui and
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  jaywalking like you can just i mean you can just
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  lead with murder like everything else after that
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  just kind of seems you know I don't. I don't.
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  It's not. There's like you said, there's a lot
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  of questions. They don't. This dude like living
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  in his truck and he just decides to get a little
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  too drinky and then get a great session of drinking.
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  Also decides, you know what? Fuck you, house.
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  I'm taking you down. If I have to be out of house,
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  then everybody has to be unhoused. Take that.
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  This was from a couple of weeks ago. Here is
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  the recent update from, I believe, just yesterday.
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  And the case against the man who post falls police
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  say destroyed a home with an excavator will move
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  forward. Prosecutors charged Fred Kadirna, the
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  Kadirna, the fourth rather with felony burglary
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  militia to correct that. Like, oh, actually there
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  were three other assholes just like you that
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  came before you. Kderna the fourth rather with
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  felony burglary, malicious injury to property
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  and operating a vehicle without the owners consent.
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  Witnesses testified the house was worth about
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  a half million dollars. Kderna had a job laying
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  pipe for a contractor in the development where
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  the home was destroyed. He remains in jail on
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  a $75 ,000 bond to haven't been able to find
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  a motive, but it does seem like he was a sub.
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  Just for one of like a sub of a sub for someone
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  working on that makes sense in that Development
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  up on the it's like up and sort of you know,
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  middle of the prairie And the maybe the motive
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  will come out. Maybe it doesn't maybe it won't
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  who really cares, you know, like oh well, I won't
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  okay I say that maybe that's a little too flippant
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  because let's say, you know, I've seen some speculation
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  Oh be the guy maybe he wasn't paid on time and
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  the contractor is just screwing the the subs
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  or whatever So what's what is that a theory you've
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  heard? Yeah, well, yeah, I've read people put
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  pose that because people are always hunting,
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  you know, people are speculating why someone
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  would have done something so absurd, you know,
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  I mean, said he's a subcontractor laying pipe,
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  maybe he just got frustrated from not being able
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  to lay enough pipe, you know, it happens, it
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  happens to a red blooded man. And he just decided
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  to take it out on that house. Just throw it maybe
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  troubles at home, you know, oh, no, wait, no,
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  he's unhoused. It's hard to lay pipe if you don't
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  have a house to go back to, right. You know,
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  where are you going to lay the pipe? It's true.
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  I guess there's the truck, but maybe your truck
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  doesn't have a backseat. I don't know. So many
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  questions. I did love the sneaky inserting of
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  the propagandistic unhoused. Is it not politically
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  correct to just say homeless? I mean, because
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  I guess that's what unhoused is, right? That's
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  homeless, right? I mean, you're from California,
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  Scott, so you could fill me in better on how
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  this works. Explain it to me. Well, Even the
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  term homeless is a propagandistic term, because
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  it implies that if they had a home, well, first
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  of all, a home doesn't, that doesn't mean a structure,
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  like, you know, home is where the heart is and
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  whatnot. So your home could be your Toyota Hilux
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  that you're sleeping in, I guess, you know, homey.
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  There's no such thing as housey, but there is
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  a such thing as homey. So even the term homeless
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  is highly propagandistic. Even if it was, so
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  now this is now sort of swapping home for house.
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  So at least it's a little more on the nose for
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  what the homeless industrial complex sort of
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  uses as their reasoning for why junkies live
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  on the street, which is that they lack houses.
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  They always, they go back to income and money
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  as a reason that junkies live on the street.
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  Junkies live on the street because they're junkies
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  and they choose to overwhelmingly. that is true.
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  Like, I know that there are exceptions, but for
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  the most part, it doesn't have anything to do
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  with money or houses. So, homeless is like a
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  crafted term in order to, well, it's so complicated,
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  like who came bono from the homeless industrial
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  complex. But the problem has gotten exponentially
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  worse as time has gone on, not better, and not
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  as the industrial complex has grown. And part
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  of the reason is because the problem is never
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  addressed. Anytime anybody from the complex is
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  up, you know, given a TED talk or at some podium
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  somewhere, they're always naming the problem
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  that isn't the problem, which is the money and
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  the house. So unhoused is at least a little more
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  on the nose, as in, oh, they lack a structure
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  to sleep in. And that is the problem. You see
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  what I'm saying? When you you can't solve a problem
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  and you don't name the problems. If the majority
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  of the population is choosing to be. Homeless
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  or unhoused, which it's not the first time I've
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  heard that. I think people who tend to be close
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  to the situation actually have that same feedback.
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  The vast majority of people who are homeless
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  are homeless by choice. They have the reasons,
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  but it's hard to it's hard to believe if you've
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  never been around it. But those who have been
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  around it often have that feedback. So how do
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  you fix that which does not want to be fixed?
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  Number one. And number two is that, of course,
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  whenever we are talking about these issues, God
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  forbid we let the free market do its thing, and
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  typically the more free people are, the more
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  prosperous people are, the fewer homeless members
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  we will have in society because supply and demand
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  will do what it does. Housing becomes less expensive,
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  development is easy to do, and wouldn't you know
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  it, it's easier to obtain housing and not be
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  unhoused, or whatever term they choose to use
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  today. I don't even know what that means. No
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  one knows what it means, but it's provocative.
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  I don't pretend to know answers, really, which
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  is maybe, well, that's sort of worthless then.
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  Well, OK, maybe so. I'm not here to necessarily
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  say, you know, to give answers. I'm just here
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  to point out how full of crap the mainstream
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  is. So the people that do say they have the answers
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  and do say they want to solve the problem, we're
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  just here to remind you that they don't want
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  to solve the problem. And the things that they
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  say are the problem are not the problem. And
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  they use propagandistic language to convey that.
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  Yeah, well, it's for the same reason that why
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  bother curing cancer when there's billions and
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  billions and billions of dollars at your disposal
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  to treat cancer. Cha -ching, that's right. Cha
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  -ching. Why cure what you can treat? It's also
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  born out of ignorance. I think there are people
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  who genuinely do want to help with XYZ, in this
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  case, again, homelessness or whatnot, but misdiagnose
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  the issue. You don't understand the root causes
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  and therefore cannot actually treat or cure the
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  issue. The answer is always less government involvement
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  and more free markets and people doing what they
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  are allowed to do. And wouldn't you know it,
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  usually the market provides. To your point, the
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  using the term using something like unhoused,
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  like the sort of, you know, the sort of collectivist
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  sect tend to be the homeless industrial complex
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  set. For whatever reason, there's a lot of overlap
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  there. And so, you know, using unhoused completely
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  implies that like society has failed to provide
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  housing. So like making it sound like it's something
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  that is done to them. You know, Fred caderno,
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  the fourth who's destroying a house with an excavator.
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  This was done to you, you were not provided a
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  house. So it sort of absolves the individual
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  of responsibility and places blame on the collective.
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  And in my view, it totally betrays the mindset.
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  Just that single word kind of kind of says all
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  of that to me. Yeah, well, you're dealing with
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  a group of people who tend to think in a collectivist
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  manner, the individual doesn't matter. And because
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  the individual doesn't matter, the individual
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  doesn't have agency. And then everything else
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  flows out from that idea. So the concept that
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  you have agency and you are responsible for you
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  is already one that they're not familiar with
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  and that they don't like. Because if you are
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  responsible for yourself, then you can't make
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  excuses. Exactly all that flows out from that
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  society is the problem here Of course not the
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  individual or the life choices, you know, it's
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  they do that with every single topic whether
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  that's oh, what do they call that body positivity?
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  You know being fat was okay. Well, of course
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  until um What's that stuff that just came out
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  that you can you can take as a shot? It's a big
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  like I like to thank you Have you noticed that
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  the body positivity movement has completely cratered
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  since those empty came out and that funny You
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  don't hear about it at all. You don't see it.
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  You don't hear about it. And all of the Hollywood
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  folks like like, was it Lizzo or Rizzo? Lizzo,
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  I think as a perfect example, she sure lost a
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  lot of weight quick. You don't hear her talking
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  about how fat is beautiful anymore, do you? No.
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  What you mostly see now is like a Sydney Sweeney
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  in, you know, jeans ads. That's that's what they're
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  talking. That's what the mainstream is talking
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  about. Now we're back to big booby blondes, skinny,
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  big booby blondes being the toast of the town.
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  It's a return to normalcy and I'm all for it.
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  That's pretty awesome. Oh, yeah, I'm into it.
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  It also just as a final thought, it also, you
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  know, if it's systemic and it's something that
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  like society is imposing upon the unhoused by
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  not providing them housing, it also justifies
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  budget increases for, you know, your city departments
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  and your preferred contractors and your nonprofits.
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  And that's the the industrial complex part of
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  it. Oh, 100 percent. Although they're barking
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  up the wrong trees Up here in North Idaho people
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  here again with some exceptions in the Coeur
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  d 'Alene area the same point area the places
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  were left Spokane places were leftists congregate
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  But even they have a hard time being able to
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  justify destruction of property like this and
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  especially in North, Idaho It's it's that's a
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  that's a losing issue When you've got a guy who
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  just destroyed a half a million dollar house
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  in an area where housing is already hard to come
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  by and expensive Nobody's gonna feel all that.
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  Sorry for this fella or at least not vocally,
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  as much of a basket case as you may want to make
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  him. Again, that's a losing argument here in
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  North Idaho. We tend to take property destruction
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  not well, which is one of the reasons why this
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  area has remained as nice as it is, because we
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  still value things like private property for
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  the most part, more so than a lot of other places.
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  You know, back when Fred Kederna, the third was
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  running around, that house was only like 180
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  K. That's why he didn't destroy it. You know,
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  you get to wait for these things to get more
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  expensive to really make your statement. Okay,
• 18:52
  so that it will see what happens. We'll see if
• 18:54
  a you know some motive or anything else comes
• 18:56
  out of that story, but we'll keep our eye on
• 18:58
  I'm actually really severely disappointed that
• 19:00
  it wasn't more of a killdozer type scenario where
• 19:03
  like Kootenay County or the city of Post Falls
• 19:05
  was really just screwing them over on rezoning
• 19:08
  laws or something like that and so And so I was
• 19:12
  like fine if I can't have this house the way
• 19:14
  I want ain't nobody can Yeah, word has it, before
• 19:18
  he found the keys to the Exivator, he was trying
• 19:21
  to destroy the place with a flame sword. He quote,
• 19:23
  flame sword? That's what he should have done.
• 19:27
  Okay, let's move on to something a little more,
• 19:31
  a little lighter, a little lighter and actually
• 19:35
  fluffier. The nature was giving us snow today.
• 19:38
  There hasn't been enough of it up in the mountains.
• 19:40
  Some of our local ski resorts have had to postpone
• 19:42
  their opening this year because of a lack of
• 19:44
  snow. Alexander Coneyard shares the impact this
• 19:47
  has on them and the local businesses that rely
• 19:50
  on a good ski season. At this time last year,
• 19:53
  these slopes were packed with skiers enjoying
• 19:55
  the post Thanksgiving snow, but you can see that
• 19:58
  they're completely empty right now, and it is
• 20:00
  really quiet here at Mount Spokane. While there
• 20:02
  might be snow on the ground, the mountain says
• 20:04
  it's not enough for skiers to enjoy these slopes
• 20:07
  safely. We're just waiting for Mother Nature,
• 20:10
  who loves to throw curveballs. give us some more
• 20:12
  snow ab and today's snowfall has mountains a
• 20:17
  lot closer to then these lifts will re still.
• 20:23
  The further we go and not being open, it def
• 20:27
  on our cash flow. Jim Van They were hoping to
• 20:35
  open their slopes on Saturday, but have had to
• 20:37
  push that back to December 13th. When things
• 20:40
  are delayed makes it a little more not stressful,
• 20:44
  but dynamic and you have to shift and adapt kind
• 20:47
  of on a daily basis. Mount Spokane has over 350
• 20:50
  seasonal employees who will now miss a week of
• 20:54
  pay. They're looking for work and you're waiting
• 20:56
  and asking them to wait another week that has
• 20:59
  an impact on our employees. local businesses
• 21:02
  are feeling it too. What we find is when there
• 21:05
  isn't snow early, people wait a little bit or
• 21:08
  they hold out or they even get nervous. Rachel
• 21:11
  Harding is the co owner of Alpine House. She
• 21:13
  says November was slow. but expects things to
• 21:16
  pick up this month. What we will typically see
• 21:20
  is an influx once the snow comes and the mountains
• 21:22
  will say hey we're open and then it's game time
• 21:25
  and we have lines out the door. Harding suggests
• 21:28
  getting your gear ready for the season now so
• 21:30
  that you can hit these slopes as soon as they
• 21:33
  open up. I'm just I'm just trying to imagine
• 21:35
  what it would be like running one of these joints
• 21:36
  where it's just doornails for you know months
• 21:39
  of the year and then you just try to sort of
• 21:40
  cram all your gross sales into just a few months
• 21:43
  and what that might be like. Oh man. The business
• 21:47
  I was in running the racketeer cigar lounge,
• 21:50
  definitely we had four seasons and I knew which
• 21:53
  seasons were the best and which seasons were
• 21:54
  the worst and always would dread the bad seasons
• 21:58
  and always welcome the good seasons. Yeah, man,
• 22:02
  it's stressful. So I definitely feel for all
• 22:04
  the businesses and certainly for the ski resorts
• 22:06
  too, because it does make me wonder how much
• 22:09
  cash they burn through. during periods like this,
• 22:14
  you know, where they're now they're like Mount
• 22:15
  Spokane saying they're not going to open till
• 22:16
  the 13th. That's 10 more days, man. Right. How
• 22:20
  much operating capital are they burning through
• 22:22
  right now? Well, and it sounds like maybe it's
• 22:26
  the mountains employees and maybe these independently
• 22:28
  operated stores, it doesn't work the same, but
• 22:30
  where staff is not, it's not like you have to
• 22:32
  meet payroll. It sounds like they're just well,
• 22:34
  hey, guys, don't come to work yet, because we
• 22:36
  don't open till the 13th. So that helps a lot
• 22:38
  when you're not actually having to like keep
• 22:39
  your payroll going. But it's still like what
• 22:42
  were your best months at the racketeer? My best
• 22:44
  months were surprising for most people. Best
• 22:46
  months were December, January and February. Really?
• 22:49
  Christmas obviously was always great. And then
• 22:52
  January and February, you know, those three months,
• 22:55
  well, because the holidays, of course, for December,
• 22:57
  but the other two months were great because it's
• 22:59
  cold. So smoking outside sucks, man, especially
• 23:02
  an hour and a half long cigar or two hour cigar
• 23:05
  sucks. So it's nice to be inside warm, cozy,
• 23:08
  hang out with your buddies, have a drink. And
• 23:10
  in those months, there's much less to do. There's
• 23:13
  much less going on. You know, there's no hunting
• 23:15
  season. There are no summer events. Nobody's
• 23:18
  on their, you know, on their boat tooling around
• 23:21
  the lakes. You know, you're not out there fishing,
• 23:24
  so on and so forth. So the summer activities
• 23:26
  aren't getting in the way. Basically, it's what
• 23:28
  do I do with my free time? Let's go. Let's go
• 23:31
  hang out. Have a cigar. Have a drink. So yeah,
• 23:33
  December, January and February. Those were my
• 23:35
  best months. Fall was my worst season. everybody
• 23:38
  going back to school, everybody going back to
• 23:39
  work, getting done with the regular with the
• 23:42
  irregular summer schedule, and everybody feels
• 23:44
  like they got to pay for their sins monetarily
• 23:46
  and otherwise. So notice the grindstone. And
• 23:48
  then hunting season man up here hunting is a
• 23:50
  religion within a lot of subsectors of the demographic.
• 23:54
  So a lot of guys I just wouldn't see for two
• 23:56
  months is the inverse of the of our craft beer
• 24:00
  bar, where our big months were June, July, August,
• 24:03
  just the summer. It was pretty consistent. January
• 24:07
  was for sure our worst month by a lot. And maybe
• 24:11
  that was just the post -New Year's, you know,
• 24:13
  people just going out to drinking establishment
• 24:16
  less, you know, after all the holidays. We also
• 24:18
  have dry January too. A lot of folks get in on
• 24:20
  that dry January thing after the holidays. You
• 24:23
  know what's crazy is a couple few of our bartenders
• 24:25
  even would do that. So they'd be like at work,
• 24:28
  but they just wouldn't be... Yeah, they embraced
• 24:30
  it. It's interesting. I never felt compelled
• 24:32
  to do that, but a lot of people do. Nope, I didn't
• 24:35
  either. I thought it was dumb. But hey. So here's
• 24:40
  a quick update because it has been, I don't know,
• 24:44
  unseasonably, whatever it varies every year,
• 24:46
  I guess. But there really hasn't been hardly
• 24:47
  anything for snow until the last couple of days.
• 24:51
  And now it's starting to look like winter. We
• 24:53
  are just hours away from the start of ski season
• 24:55
  in the inland northwest. Schweitzer kicks off
• 24:57
  their season tomorrow. Gramp Two's Cody Proctor
• 24:59
  stopped by a local Spokane ski shop to get the
• 25:02
  vibe. before the first chair. There's something
• 25:05
  in the air. First it was snow, now it's excitement.
• 25:09
  Oh, super pumped. Ski season so close you can
• 25:13
  almost feel it and shops like Solnyx on Division
• 25:15
  have seen it firsthand. I think a majority of
• 25:19
  customers are like, yeah, we're ready to get
• 25:21
  out there. Let's get some snow. A lot of anticipation
• 25:25
  thanks to the new snow. Yesterday we were all
• 25:28
  jumping for joy. It was awesome. We put a bunch
• 25:30
  of stuff on our Instagram story playing a bunch
• 25:31
  of Christmas music. It was a good time and Schweitzer's
• 25:34
  opening day on Wednesday. The other hills aren't
• 25:37
  far behind with Silver Mountain opening this
• 25:39
  Friday and Mount Spokane tentatively set to open
• 25:42
  December 13th. Both lookout paths and 49 degrees
• 25:46
  north don't have official opening days yet, but
• 25:48
  they'll be open soon enough. With the dream of
• 25:51
  a good snow season, the crew at Solnick say they've
• 25:54
  seen customers come in for both new gear and
• 25:56
  for a tune up of what they already have. Now
• 25:59
  here there's a classic Gen Z thing coming up.
• 26:02
  Maybe it's like a younger millennial slash Gen
• 26:04
  Z thing and I wonder if you'll pick up on what
• 26:05
  they already have. We get really good days, we
• 26:08
  get really bad days, but I think as a whole we're
• 26:11
  pretty lucky to have so many close mountains
• 26:15
  around within two hours. These guys aren't just
• 26:18
  helping people prep for the slopes. They're getting
• 26:21
  ready themselves. Trying on boots and dusting
• 26:24
  off the gear. All in the pursuit of a good time.
• 26:29
  That's just everything to me. It's just getting
• 26:31
  out there, getting up with some friends, you
• 26:32
  know, getting outside, having fun on these dark,
• 26:36
  wintery months. In Spokane, Cody Proctor. I don't
• 26:39
  care about the snow. I just care about the vibes.
• 26:41
  Crime 2 News. Did you care about the vibes? Did
• 26:44
  you catch it? Close mountains. Did you catch
• 26:48
  that? Like mountains versus mountains? He dropped
• 26:51
  the T on mountains. Close mountains. Mountains.
• 26:55
  I don't know why all this like there's lots of
• 26:57
  other sentences where he uses the words where
• 26:59
  he uses T without any problem. Like I don't care
• 27:02
  about the snow. I just care about the vibes.
• 27:04
  I don't care. He doesn't say about the snow.
• 27:07
  Like he has no problem with the T except occasionally.
• 27:10
  Around. Within two hours. Have so many close
• 27:14
  mountains. Mountains. Why is that maybe this
• 27:18
  is the next hot debate it used to be is it you
• 27:21
  know nuclear versus nuclear? Maybe it's now it's
• 27:24
  mountains versus mountains You'll see you'll
• 27:28
  you'll hear it if you listen for it like I wonder
• 27:30
  if maybe not your kid your kids are probably
• 27:32
  too smart for it, but there's There is a proclivity
• 27:35
  to drop the T in but only on certain words certain
• 27:40
  words I don't know for when it comes to my kids
• 27:43
  who are highly intelligent, and I'm not just
• 27:45
  bragging, because I'm a parent, anybody who's
• 27:48
  met him knows, we homeschool. So of course, they're
• 27:50
  intelligent. But I'll be honest, even as intelligent
• 27:53
  as they are half the time when they speak, I
• 27:54
  have to ask them to repeat themselves and tell
• 27:56
  them to enunciate their words and stop mumbling,
• 27:59
  damn it, because I'm old, I can't hear you. And
• 28:01
  I'm grumpy. Is that something they do in general
• 28:04
  in life or just when they're talking to their
• 28:05
  parents? It is typically something they do because
• 28:08
  they speak so fast that it all blurs together.
• 28:12
  So I have to ask them to slow down. and enunciate.
• 28:17
  Oh, they're motor mouths. They're very communicative.
• 28:20
  It's a shock. I know my children, the spawn of
• 28:22
  my loins, being good at the words and speaking
• 28:25
  and talking lots. Hard to imagine. I know. Yeah,
• 28:28
  it's weird. So you laid some pipe and created
• 28:30
  some motor mouths. It makes perfect sense to
• 28:33
  me. I laid some pipe and I wrecked that house.
• 28:38
  Let's switch. Metaphorically, metaphorically,
• 28:41
  houses are expensive. Don't bulldoze them. Half
• 28:44
  a million dollars and going up by the day. Like,
• 28:46
  I still am thinking about this. Like, if I was
• 28:49
  angry and unhoused, I would just break in and
• 28:51
  live there instead of knock it down. I would
• 28:54
  squat. I would just squat there and then try
• 28:57
  to make a case for squatters rights or something,
• 28:58
  which is still nonsense. But then again, I'm
• 29:01
  not a drunk construction worker, so things make
• 29:04
  different sense to me. Yeah, you're like applying
• 29:06
  logic and, you know, you're like you're thinking
• 29:08
  it through and stuff. Let's switch gears here.
• 29:13
  And so that was kind of a fluffy story. Let's
• 29:15
  go back to exciting for them. It's exciting for
• 29:18
  them because they are economic drivers. I hope
• 29:20
  I wish them all well. I hope everybody gets to
• 29:22
  have a good time and catch good vibes on the
• 29:26
  mountains and shred the Narbra. So this is we'll
• 29:30
  go back to hair pulling mode and cover. this
• 29:34
  from, is this, I believe NPR? From Boise State
• 29:37
  Public. Yeah, so this is a new - Wait, that still
• 29:39
  exists? I thought we defunded all that crap.
• 29:41
  Damn it. We defunded approximately 1 % of the
• 29:46
  budgets. All of the screaming toward the sky
• 29:49
  that was being done was literally over 1 % of
• 29:52
  the budget. Yeah, I know. 99 % of it. It was
• 29:56
  a nice thought though, right, that we actually
• 29:57
  defunded NPR. What a great idea. What a great
• 29:59
  thought. From Boise State Public Radio, this
• 30:02
  is The Connector. It's Idaho's daily news. Good
• 30:05
  morning. The U .S. Supreme Court now has a date
• 30:07
  when they will hear arguments on Idaho's ban
• 30:10
  of transgender athletics. Idaho Ed News is reporting
• 30:14
  that the high court has scheduled January 13th
• 30:18
  for when justices will take up the case. You'll
• 30:20
  remember that Idaho was the first state in the
• 30:23
  U .S. to pass a transgender athletics ban. And
• 30:26
  since then, 26 other states have followed suit
• 30:29
  with their own transgender athletics ban, and
• 30:31
  now the Supreme Court is poised to hear the case.
• 30:35
  Based on what you just heard here from Idaho's
• 30:37
  NPR, do you actually know? Would a listener come
• 30:42
  away knowing what bill it is that they are talking
• 30:44
  about? No. Transgender athletics ban? Whose language
• 30:52
  is that? Theirs. Why didn't they use the name
• 31:02
  of the bill? The bill is Idaho House Bill 500.
• 31:05
  You could use that. You could use the Fairness
• 31:09
  in Women's Sports Act, what it is officially
• 31:11
  known as. But NPR chose to use... Idaho's ban
• 31:17
  of transgender athletics. Ban of transgender
• 31:20
  athletics. And then later they said the transgender
• 31:23
  athletics ban. Transgender athletics ban. Who
• 31:27
  is banning transgenders from athletics? What
• 31:30
  are they talking about? It's a good catch. And
• 31:32
  that is how the mainstream apparatus operates,
• 31:37
  100%. Actually, that's how everybody operates,
• 31:39
  truly. If you pay attention, you can pick up
• 31:40
  the bias. which exists universally it just sways
• 31:44
  to one side of the other in the language the
• 31:47
  bias is in the language it's in the framing and
• 31:49
  the language and that's uh well that's what we're
• 31:51
  doing here trying to break some of that down
• 31:52
  of course while we're on our side quests and
• 31:55
  rabbit trails and our fun conversations but uh
• 31:58
  words matter they have gravity they have meaning
• 32:00
  which is why we have fought so hard to gosh preserve
• 32:04
  the language and the language has been commandeered
• 32:06
  and co -opted particularly by the statists and
• 32:09
  the left in in particular. And that's intentional.
• 32:13
  You know, why call it what it is on paper, when
• 32:17
  you can call it what you feel it is a ban? It
• 32:20
  makes you wonder who lives on the other side
• 32:22
  of that topic, where it's like, you get up in
• 32:24
  the morning, and you are actively fighting to
• 32:28
  let men beat the shit out of women in sports.
• 32:33
  And you think you're the good guy. Is that unbelievable?
• 32:38
  What universe I mean with this like the universe
• 32:41
  is gaslighting us around the clock it is a interesting
• 32:45
  time to be alive when the line between parody
• 32:48
  and Real life is so blurred. It's impossible
• 32:52
  to know which is which is which which is why
• 32:54
  like in the Babylon B is so awesome because at
• 32:58
  this point when I read the Babylon B I just know
• 33:00
  that either it's already happened or it's gonna
• 33:03
  come true in the next month They're they are
• 33:07
  basically Nostradamus with humor. And it's only
• 33:11
  a matter of time before we see something like
• 33:12
  it happen in real life. It's got to be a difficult
• 33:15
  gig writing for the bee. Because how do you satirize
• 33:19
  reality when reality is already a satire? I know
• 33:23
  and you have to be one step ahead of what's gonna
• 33:25
  happen you're already like you have to be on
• 33:26
  the cutting edge. It's impressive. It is they
• 33:28
  don't they don't get it 100 % but they have a
• 33:30
  good track record. But yeah, that's a good catch
• 33:33
  Scott. NPR Boise. You know, we probably have
• 33:38
  more listeners than they do. In the, you know,
• 33:41
  in the Bay Area, for example, I know that there
• 33:43
  was a lot of, oh, you know, people commuting
• 33:46
  in their cars listening to KQED, you know, the
• 33:49
  Bay Area affiliate. So there are certain regions
• 33:51
  where NPR has definitely has a large base. I
• 33:55
  don't know that Idaho is one of them. Also note
• 33:57
  the very calm Dulcet tones. You have the nice,
• 34:06
  like, you know, the background bed like you're
• 34:08
  in a Macy's in 1986. And there's a very calm
• 34:12
  sounding announcer who's reading this. Now, the
• 34:16
  contingent they represent, the meme that comes
• 34:19
  to mind is that sort of pudgy androgynous ladies
• 34:22
  screaming at the sky, like during one of the
• 34:25
  Pussyhat riots. You know the meme I'm talking
• 34:26
  about? She's just like, she's got her eyes closed
• 34:30
  tight and she's screaming at the sky. That is
• 34:33
  who... Triggered! Staying public radio... Whoops,
• 34:36
  that's who they're talking to. But they do it
• 34:38
  in exactly the opposite tone. I know who you
• 34:42
  are and who you're appealing to, and you are
• 34:44
  conveying the exact opposite in your presentation.
• 34:47
  I'm going to push back on that just a little
• 34:49
  bit. Most of those gals you just described don't
• 34:51
  have the attention span to listen to radio such
• 34:54
  as this. They get their news from other sources
• 34:56
  like the New York Times. The people who listen
• 35:00
  to that kind of radio are primarily boomer men
• 35:03
  who wear turtlenecks and drink expensive wine
• 35:05
  and probably own at least one or two cats. I'll
• 35:09
  give you that. And fancy themselves pseudo intellectuals
• 35:12
  who yearn for the nostalgia of you know, somewhere
• 35:17
  in between the 60s and the 80s when life was
• 35:20
  so much better and we all got along. It's a very
• 35:23
  specific time and I'll steal a line from Adam
• 35:27
  Carolla who calls it, Pre -Aids, Post -Coke.
• 35:30
  Yeah, but yeah, no, that's a good way to put
• 35:31
  it. I mean, but there is a huge we see them standpoint.
• 35:35
  There's a lot of them. It's it boomers, man,
• 35:37
  the older boomers. They're in their late mid
• 35:39
  late 60s up into their 70s. Some of them even
• 35:42
  the in the 80s. And they most of them are affluent.
• 35:45
  Most of them are proudly, you know, fought in
• 35:48
  the civil rights movements. So they think of
• 35:51
  themselves as the heroes in the story. And life
• 35:54
  was good back then. Everything is bad now and
• 35:56
  they can't connect to the dots on how It's mainly
• 35:58
  their fault. And all of the policies that they
• 36:02
  voted for, pushed for and think make for a Mayberry
• 36:05
  setting instead of the same policies that burnt
• 36:09
  Mayberry down to the ground. But they lived in
• 36:11
  a gated community, so they didn't they weren't
• 36:13
  affected by it. Yeah. Boomers. Boomers, man.
• 36:21
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• 36:24
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  No ID. So we just did trans, we just did a hair
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  pulling out of your head thing. So let's lighten
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  it up a little bit again. And how about this?
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  What are the odds? I have a question though,
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  on the trans on to the Idaho Supreme Court, taking
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  up that case, which you knew they were gonna,
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  they're gonna have to. That is a bellwether case.
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  It actually the implications are quite kind of
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  kind of big. So I'm curious to see how it's going
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  to go. The Idaho Supreme Court is not known as
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  a conservative institution. It is a rather leftist,
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  heavy leftist institution. So I'll be very curious
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  to see how that works. What are the odds? On
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  the other hand, our attorney general, Raul Labrador,
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  is quite conservative. So very interesting to
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  see how that all unfolds. I wonder what the odds
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  are that the ban, the trans ban will be upheld.
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  transgender athletics bad. So common sense. What
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  a time to be alive. I just can't like, I know
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  I've said it already. And I think most everybody
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  who lives in on planet Earth agrees, but like,
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  what the hell? What a time to be alive, where
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  we are now taking this stuff to court over whether
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  or not a man can compete with my daughter in
• 43:20
  sports. I mean, he you know, can you imagine
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  how much more he would have won the swim meet
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  by had his ball sack not created all that drag
• 43:28
  in the water? You know, he would have broke the
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  record by even more. He's right. She's the victim
• 43:32
  in this story. No, no, no, she what is wrong
• 43:34
  with me? She she is the victim. It's all that
• 43:37
  extra body hair to that really slowed he she
• 43:40
  down. You know, ultimately, he's the victim who
• 43:45
  is not a victim is this Idaho lady who apparently
• 43:49
  got picked for this. This is just this is empty
• 43:51
  calories. So, you know, the light in the mood
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  here. So, of course, Thanksgiving is over. There
• 43:57
  are There's probably some leftovers in many fridges
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  out there, which I cannot wait to get home and
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  eat. Bye. And nap today. Oh, by the way, hold
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  on, hold on. This is actually, this is an Ask
• 44:07
  Paul. I'm going to ask you to see if you can
• 44:09
  predict, this is their little preamble before
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  they tell us about this Idaho lady who got picked
• 44:13
  for this cool thing, school they say thing. But
• 44:16
  they have this little banter back and forth.
• 44:18
  It's one of the, you know, whatever the local
• 44:19
  news morning shows. There was, I bleeped it out.
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  And I want you to guess what the actual word
• 44:25
  was that was used here. So here it goes. Cannot
• 44:28
  wait to get home and eat by and nap today and
• 44:30
  then he in that you and I are like eat sleep
• 44:35
  What word was said right there? They're talking
• 44:38
  about their post Thanksgiving or to one more
• 44:40
  time today and then you and I already know You
• 44:44
  know, what's the word shop? Are you serious because
• 44:51
  it was a woman who said it So good it was a dude
• 44:59
  it would have been the other word All these leftovers
• 45:07
  in the fridge I cannot wait to sit out eat sleep
• 45:10
  and shit Shop, eat, or something like that. Anyway,
• 45:27
  so let's talk about Christmas, because as we
• 45:30
  talk about turkeys and pumpkins away, we're changing
• 45:34
  over, and you may think the White House brings
• 45:36
  in a whole team of pros to handle the Christmas
• 45:38
  decorations, but it's not true. Well, it turns
• 45:41
  out most of the magic actually comes from volunteers,
• 45:44
  and this year one is from Idaho. her name is
• 45:48
  and she was husky and she has 6 Christmas trees
• 45:51
  in her home. So this is right up her out what
• 45:54
  you like to do so after applying for nearly a
• 45:57
  decade she finally got the letter that she's
• 46:00
  it's a it's a 10 year long waiting list apparently
• 46:03
  so cool. White House to decorate I bet that has
• 46:07
  just been waiting by her mailbox since 2008.
• 46:10
  You want to know the best thing about this is
• 46:12
  that she when she applied. It was. for under
• 46:16
  Obama, I think if my math is right. Yeah, it
• 46:21
  would have been Obama's last year. Yeah, so she
• 46:23
  was like, oh man, I hope I get to decorate Obama's
• 46:26
  house and now she's getting to decorate Trump's
• 46:29
  White House. So it's got to be disappointing
• 46:32
  for this poor lady. It was so fantastic. A big
• 46:35
  honor. If you love to decorate, I bet that is
• 46:38
  So she'll be in Washington, D .C. through December
• 46:41
  1st, helping deck out everything from the Oval
• 46:44
  Office, just being able to go in there. I know.
• 46:47
  Right? To the Grand Corridor. That sounds very
• 46:50
  cool. Oh, it sounds so cool. Yeah. Just like,
• 46:52
  you know, hanging little swastikas from the White
• 46:54
  House Christmas tree, you know, under truck.
• 46:56
  I would hang so much mistletoe just above the
• 47:00
  main desk. And this is where we lay the pipe
• 47:02
  is Clinton still here. This is I was just gonna
• 47:05
  say this my homage to Clinton like here you go,
• 47:08
  sir Decorating the White House how fun and exciting
• 47:12
  isn't that it's so cool. I had no idea very cool
• 47:15
  Very cool. Very cool. Yeah, I had no idea that
• 47:18
  that was the process also that it takes ten years
• 47:20
  Also, I just I find that fantastic It really
• 47:23
  I really do hope that she applied to do it for
• 47:26
  Obama and now gets instead gets to do it for
• 47:28
  Trump Me the best we have the biggest mistletoe
• 47:32
  around here you're never gonna need another mistletoe
• 47:34
  our mistletoe is the best we hang it everywhere
• 47:36
  it's beautiful beautiful mistletoe look at all
• 47:38
  this mistletoe it's uh made in america so there's
• 47:41
  no tariffs so you know it's good gets all the
• 47:44
  ladies let's go to this quick one another um
• 47:50
  uh well i don't know maybe i should just stop
• 47:52
  prefacing with is it the funny use of language
• 47:54
  or because it all is Idaho could be getting more
• 47:57
  electric vehicle charging stations soon. The
• 48:00
  state is continuing an EV program from 2022 that
• 48:03
  has been paused for a bit. ITD started working
• 48:06
  on a plan to build more electric vehicle infrastructure
• 48:09
  in 2022, but the Trump administration put a pause
• 48:12
  on all of those plans earlier this year. States
• 48:15
  had to reapply for the funding, and Idaho got
• 48:18
  the green light to stay in the program. ITD says
• 48:21
  over 14 ,000 electric vehicles are registered
• 48:24
  in the state. So they presented as 14 ,000 electric
• 48:28
  vehicles are registered in the state. Do you
• 48:29
  know how many vehicles over 14 ,000? Oh, I'm
• 48:32
  sorry. They said it over over 14 ,000 vehicles
• 48:34
  instead of saying in a state with two million
• 48:37
  people and five million vehicles, only 14 ,000
• 48:40
  of them are electric point. 4 % of the cars are
• 48:45
  electric. But Idaho Department of Transportation
• 48:50
  is really coming in clutch for those 14 ,000
• 48:54
  rigs. I will say that electric cars are really
• 48:58
  fun to drive. You ever driven one? No, but I
• 49:02
  have been in one many times. A buddy of mine
• 49:06
  has a Tesla and he loves it. I do not. I do not.
• 49:10
  It makes me sick. The sensation as it's driving
• 49:14
  or the concept of it makes you sick? Yes, but
• 49:18
  no. Actually, I think electric vehicles... Under
• 49:22
  certain circumstances make sense and if that's
• 49:25
  what the market wants Then okay. That's what
• 49:28
  the market should get to have however Don't you
• 49:30
  dare tell me that it's the green option because
• 49:31
  that's bullshit below That's something we can
• 49:34
  unpack for a whole day here So if you want to
• 49:38
  buy one or you want to make one cool buy one
• 49:39
  make one I'm not against that just they're not
• 49:42
  green not even close. They're way worse for the
• 49:44
  environment in a lot of different ways but no
• 49:47
  physically makes me sick when I am in one the
• 49:50
  motion of them It's not great. They're very Torqued
• 49:56
  and herky -jerky, and they're not great as a
• 49:59
  passenger. Yeah, it makes me sick. I don't feel
• 50:00
  well It is possible. It's just this one buddy
• 50:03
  of yours isn't is a you know an erratic driver
• 50:05
  Oddly enough he he likes to use the autopilot.
• 50:09
  It's not the right word But it's the word I'm
• 50:10
  gonna use because you know all the fancy Tesla's
• 50:12
  now They have auto driver autopilot or whatever
• 50:15
  the hell that is or it drives it they drive himself
• 50:17
  You know self -driving you get on the highway
• 50:19
  and they do their thing and then can be more
• 50:21
  than just on the highway they They can self drive
• 50:22
  damn near anywhere now, which is incredible.
• 50:25
  But they do this thing where they speed up and
• 50:27
  then they break and then they slow down. They
• 50:28
  speed up and they break instead of just having
• 50:30
  some nice form of cruise control. I do not care
• 50:33
  for it. And I don't I mean, you know, I don't
• 50:35
  get car sick. I don't get seasick. I don't get
• 50:36
  plane sick. I don't get car sick. I've only ever
• 50:38
  been car sick in a Tesla. So charging stations.
• 50:43
  That's great. I guess, you know, if I would again,
• 50:45
  I wouldn't care if they were being privately
• 50:49
  funded. If there is a market demand for charging
• 50:52
  stations, awesome. And in the state of Idaho,
• 50:55
  I think somewhere around 60 % of our power in
• 50:57
  the whole state comes from hydro, which is a
• 51:00
  renewable resource. And it's a great resource.
• 51:03
  They keep trying to tear out some of the dams
• 51:05
  up here. Luckily, we've fought that off for years.
• 51:09
  So electric vehicles make more sense in an area
• 51:12
  in a region that is powered primarily by hydro.
• 51:14
  That does actually make more sense. Charging
• 51:18
  stations should be done on a non taxpayer funded
• 51:21
  basis, though, there's a demand form, build them.
• 51:23
  If not, what on God's green earth is the ITD
• 51:26
  doing other than, you know, greasing palms and
• 51:29
  getting grants from the federal government? Because
• 51:31
  that's what this is. It's a grant program from
• 51:32
  the federal government. So somebody's getting
• 51:34
  greased. Yeah, and pipe is about to be tax payers
• 51:37
  are getting bent over. Yep. Yep. Yeah, somebody's
• 51:39
  getting greased and the taxpayers are getting
• 51:41
  fucked. To your point about language, the market,
• 51:45
  you know, demanding it or not. I did lease an
• 51:49
  electric car back in the pre 2020 days when I
• 51:52
  lived in the People's Republic. And I had never
• 51:55
  bought a new car or leased a car ever. I was
• 51:57
  always was a used vehicle guy. And I was incentivized
• 52:01
  by both the utility company Pacific gas and electric,
• 52:04
  and the state with rebates that were offered
• 52:07
  and in the form of just checks, they just cut
• 52:10
  you a check in the the it was a four digit check
• 52:12
  from the state and a three digit check from the
• 52:15
  power company or maybe he was even close to four
• 52:17
  it was a lot of money the money covered the entire
• 52:21
  down payment and then the monthly payment was
• 52:23
  so low that it made up for the amount of fuel
• 52:27
  I was burning at the time I was commuting out
• 52:29
  to like you know over an hour away a couple times
• 52:32
  a week for a broadcast gig that I had many towns
• 52:35
  over and that that card that there was a Nissan
• 52:39
  Leaf that made it just just to where I was going
• 52:42
  and then that place had private charging stations
• 52:45
  in the parking garage because you know it's the
• 52:48
  People's Republic and they were on the are on
• 52:50
  the vanguard of that and I would get I would
• 52:52
  get there on almost zero percent and then charge
• 52:55
  while I was in there working and then drive it
• 52:57
  all the way back so it essentially essentially
• 53:00
  became a well I was burning $300 in fuel using
• 53:04
  my You know other automobiles to do that now.
• 53:06
  I have no no upfront payment because it was all
• 53:09
  given back to me in rebates artificially and
• 53:13
  Then the the charging was also subsidized artificially
• 53:16
  But at least privately and so but you see I'm
• 53:19
  saying them the demand was not there I would
• 53:21
  have never gotten an electric car except for
• 53:23
  the market was created artificially by government
• 53:27
  forces basically Otherwise, yeah, there is there
• 53:29
  would be no market and it's still just such a
• 53:32
  tiny percentage I wonder what what is the real
• 53:35
  market? Nobody knows. Yeah, we call that a market
• 53:37
  distortion and the government is world -class
• 53:41
  at market distortion and usually market distortions
• 53:44
  go hand -in -hand with reverse or perverse incentives
• 53:49
  to devastating effect over the long term and
• 53:52
  the green sector as a whole is a very good example
• 53:54
  of of how this works. Everything has been subsidized.
• 53:57
  The incentives would not exist in a free and
• 53:59
  fair market at all, including EVs. It's already
• 54:03
  a very small subsector and slightly growing,
• 54:05
  but it wouldn't nearly as big as it is now. Also,
• 54:08
  real quick, going back to 14 ,000 electric vehicles
• 54:11
  up against the number of rigs that exist in Idaho.
• 54:14
  I did million up real quick out of curiosity.
• 54:16
  It's roughly it's in between 1 .5 and then on
• 54:18
  the low end and 2 million. So we go on the low
• 54:21
  end of the numbers. electric vehicles make up
• 54:24
  point zero nine percent and that's with all of
• 54:31
  the market distortion I wonder how many millions
• 54:34
  are going to be spent on these charging stations
• 54:36
  and then how many millions divided by the 14
• 54:39
  ,000 rigs what that math's to it's going to be
• 54:41
  ugly either way taxpayers are taking a bath that's
• 54:44
  going to be a fun calculation oh my gosh Speaking
• 54:49
  of things that are way too large and there's
• 54:52
  no such thing as budget and the marketplace has
• 54:54
  been Corrupted and made into something unrecognizable
• 54:57
  this morning. We're covering Idaho The state
• 55:00
  is facing another class -action lawsuit over
• 55:02
  Medicaid cuts this time over services for patients
• 55:05
  with severe mental illnesses The state of Idaho
• 55:08
  has read projected budget shortfall meaning they
• 55:12
  expect to run out of money or have less money
• 55:15
  than planned and scaling back Medicaid may help
• 55:18
  reduce costs. Several key programs are being
• 55:21
  discontinued, including assertive community treatment
• 55:23
  teams and partial hospitalization programs. Those
• 55:27
  are programs that help those with schizophrenia
• 55:29
  or dementia. The Idaho Sheriff's Association
• 55:32
  says this could have serious consequences for
• 55:34
  public safety. Of course, that's how they do
• 55:36
  this. What we're trying to do right now is to...
• 55:39
  Right. Hey, the kids' art program and music program
• 55:41
  are going away. They target the things that you
• 55:44
  see the most. like this that are smaller budget
• 55:47
  items but they can they will cause the most uproar
• 55:51
  when you cut them. Knowing full well though that
• 55:54
  when we did the public about it was a public
• 55:55
  ballot initiative that expanded Medicaid in Idaho
• 55:57
  and it was a bullshit campaign from the start
• 56:00
  and public and funded by a lot of dark money
• 56:02
  and outside interests and it passed this is we're
• 56:05
  going on I think six or seven years ago now actually
• 56:07
  Luke Mayfield is the guy who is responsible for
• 56:10
  getting the thing going and the guys political
• 56:13
  gadfly has been paid to be nothing but. And he
• 56:15
  actually is based out of Sandpoint here. So the
• 56:17
  whole expansion of Medicaid thing has been astroturf
• 56:19
  from the beginning, not grassroots. But it passed.
• 56:23
  And those of us who opposed it said, look at
• 56:26
  every single other state in the union who expanded
• 56:29
  Medicaid. And you'll notice a trend. After only
• 56:32
  a couple of years, none of them can afford it.
• 56:35
  It breaks the budget every single time. And the
• 56:39
  strings that are attached, a lot of it is federal
• 56:42
  dollars. And the federal dollars come with all
• 56:44
  kinds of handcuffs and strings and conditions
• 56:46
  like it always does. And then eventually, when
• 56:49
  the federal dollars either decrease or stop,
• 56:52
  then the state is on the hook to cover the gap.
• 56:55
  So you've expanded Medicaid in a huge way, billions
• 56:58
  and billions and billions of dollars, not knowing
• 57:01
  if the funding is going to be there or for how
• 57:03
  long. And the moment it gets pulled, well, oh,
• 57:07
  shit. You can't afford most or any of it. So
• 57:10
  that's where Idaho actually is right now, along
• 57:11
  with every other state who expanded Medicaid.
• 57:13
  We saw this coming a mile away. We voted, when
• 57:16
  I say we, I mean myself and those of us who felt
• 57:18
  the same way, we're of the same volition. And
• 57:20
  we called this from a mile away and said, this
• 57:23
  is why we shouldn't expand Medicaid. We're gonna
• 57:25
  find ourselves here. And here we are. Be doing
• 57:28
  but we were called heartless, you know, that's
• 57:30
  how they do it. It's always the same tag Be so
• 57:32
  heartless and it's for the it's for the people
• 57:34
  It's to help you know, how could you how could
• 57:36
  you not want to help people? We should not be
• 57:39
  doing a PPP You know grants and you know direct
• 57:44
  deposits of fake money and everybody's checking
• 57:47
  accounts You know during the time when the air
• 57:49
  was dangerous because it's gonna cause massive
• 57:51
  inflation and it's gonna devalue the currency
• 57:53
  and and Boy, who could have, and now the inflation
• 57:57
  is here and the currency is worth half and everyone's
• 57:59
  like, what happened? I don't, well, what happened?
• 58:02
  Who could have possibly seen this coming? We
• 58:04
  could have possibly seen that coming. Man, it's
• 58:07
  wild, man. You don't want to be heartless, do
• 58:09
  you? So now Idaho is in a place with regards
• 58:12
  to Medicaid where we have to make cuts. Idaho
• 58:15
  is constitutionally bound to balance the budget.
• 58:18
  It is a constitutional, what's the word I want,
• 58:22
  requirement. You have to do it. And for the first
• 58:25
  time, maybe ever, Idaho can't do it right now.
• 58:28
  They have to cut stuff. And Medicaid is one of
• 58:31
  the biggest, biggest budget line items there
• 58:35
  is. It's huge. I think it's second only to education.
• 58:38
  The state of Idaho spends about 60 % to 65 %
• 58:41
  of its entire budget in some way, shape, or form
• 58:44
  on some shape or form of education, whether it's
• 58:47
  primary or secondary or trade schools or whatever.
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  As a whole nut, it's about 60 to 65 % of the
• 58:53
  state budget. Next in line is health and welfare,
• 58:56
  Medicaid. And it's like 30%, 20 -ish percent.
• 59:00
  It's massive. It's got to cut. So here we are.
• 59:03
  Here we are. What does Chauncey have to say?
• 59:07
  What are the top four budget items for the state
• 59:10
  of Idaho and what percentages do they take? Of
• 59:21
  course, here's the breakdown as of the latest
• 59:23
  data for Idaho's fiscal year 2024. The top four
• 59:26
  budget items are education, about 33 % of the
• 59:30
  total budget, roughly $3 .46 billion. Medicaid,
• 59:34
  around 27 .8%, which is about $2 .19 billion.
• 59:38
  Transportation, approximately 10 .8 % or about
• 59:42
  $1 .08 billion. Public safety, about 9 .8%, roughly
• 59:46
  $0 .97 billion. There you go. Yep. Like you're
• 59:49
  saying, education and Medicaid. That's it. Education,
• 59:52
  they had it at 30 something percent, but that's
• 59:55
  primary education. Yeah. But that's only referring
• 59:58
  to primary K through 12. That doesn't count all
• 1:00:01
  of the money that goes towards colleges. That
• 1:00:03
  doesn't count all the money that goes towards
• 1:00:04
  charter schools, trade schools, and all other
• 1:00:07
  forms of education that is touched, funded, subsidized
• 1:00:12
  or run by the state. It's actually about double
• 1:00:14
  that. Here is the final part of this report about
• 1:00:18
  the class action lawsuit being filed. The Idaho
• 1:00:21
  Sheriff's Association says this could have serious
• 1:00:23
  consequences for public safety. What we're trying
• 1:00:26
  to do right now is to ask the state to reconsider
• 1:00:30
  these cuts, to look at things like the rainy
• 1:00:33
  day fund, for example, and make these systems
• 1:00:36
  whole again so that we don't have to suffer this,
• 1:00:39
  that we can realize, hey, let's fix it now before
• 1:00:42
  we create a catastrophe. Pulling from the rainy
• 1:00:45
  day fund is not a fix. Exactly. What did I miss
• 1:00:48
  here? That's not a fix. It's like a Band -Aid
• 1:00:53
  by design. These are adults who use, who speak
• 1:00:57
  like this. People who are supposed to be high
• 1:00:59
  functioning adults. They're not even in the Medicaid
• 1:01:02
  psychological retardation program. They're supposed
• 1:01:05
  to be functioning adults and they can't even
• 1:01:07
  connect the dots here. They're supposed to be
• 1:01:09
  our leaders, remember? Leaders, leaders, leaders,
• 1:01:13
  leaders, dear leaders. Hulse says he believes
• 1:01:15
  without those supports, more people in crisis
• 1:01:18
  could end up in jail, not because they are criminals,
• 1:01:21
  but because officers have no other options. There's
• 1:01:23
  not enough money. There's not enough money. That's
• 1:01:26
  always the problem. Yeah, it can't be the way
• 1:01:28
  we designed it. It can't be the fact that we
• 1:01:30
  ignored everybody who said expansion of Medicaid
• 1:01:32
  was a bad idea. It can't be the fact that over
• 1:01:34
  the course of 40, 50 years, we have completely
• 1:01:37
  the left has dismantled The psychiatric hospital
• 1:01:43
  system in this country completely dismantled
• 1:01:45
  it. So there's no place for these people to go
• 1:01:48
  Can't be anything can't be that So on and so
• 1:01:52
  forth good lord, I mean this shit straight You
• 1:01:55
  know what this shit is straight out of a movie
• 1:01:57
  series that I really enjoy watching with my daughter
• 1:02:03
  Borderline dystopian. It's like peace is war
• 1:02:06
  poverty is wealth Weakness is strength We can
• 1:02:11
  fix things with more money Have you introduced
• 1:02:13
  her to the toilet can only move side to side
• 1:02:15
  and not back and forth. That's why when you walk
• 1:02:19
  into the restaurant, you have your mask on because
• 1:02:21
  the virus is flying in your face. But when you
• 1:02:23
  sit down, you can take your mask off because
• 1:02:25
  it's flying right over the top of your head.
• 1:02:26
  Yeah. Right over your head. Have you have you
• 1:02:29
  introduced her to the Twilight Zone? Do you have
• 1:02:33
  you watched the original Twilight Zone? Bits
• 1:02:35
  and pieces. I can't say I'm a true a true fan,
• 1:02:38
  but because I haven't watched enough to call
• 1:02:41
  myself that, but I'm I'm familiar. That might
• 1:02:44
  be a good if you guys are into dystopian elements
• 1:02:47
  that that's a good thing for you to get into
• 1:02:49
  See when I was coming up the TV series that really
• 1:02:53
  caught my attention that was similar I was on
• 1:02:55
  the sci -fi channel. It was called the outer
• 1:02:56
  limits Yeah, they tackled a lot of cool stuff
• 1:02:58
  in that series to the outer limits So more familiar
• 1:03:01
  with that than the Twilight Zone, but both kind
• 1:03:03
  of have the same To use the colloquial isms of
• 1:03:06
  the kids these days the same vibes The sort of
• 1:03:10
  modern. I don't know. It's kind of a modern interpretation
• 1:03:13
  In that every episode is standalone and has some
• 1:03:16
  dystopian vibes black mirror. Did you watch black
• 1:03:18
  mirror? Yeah, yeah, not all of it, but Two three
• 1:03:22
  seasons of it so far so I got a few more seasons
• 1:03:24
  ago. It's for the most part It's pretty dang
• 1:03:26
  decent highly recommend. I was and I do like
• 1:03:29
  the fact that most of it is standalone So you
• 1:03:31
  can pop in pop out and still enjoy all of it
• 1:03:33
  Yeah, every episode is his own thing funnily
• 1:03:35
  enough. My wife and I were watching it in 2019,
• 1:03:38
  we were getting into it and we watched I think,
• 1:03:40
  you know, most of the first season or something
• 1:03:41
  like that. And we got to March 2020. And we all
• 1:03:46
  of a sudden, when reality became a dystopia,
• 1:03:49
  we lost interest in watching that show and we
• 1:03:50
  sort of never picked it back up. But maybe enough
• 1:03:52
  time has passed now, where it would be worth
• 1:03:54
  revisiting because we did really like that show.
• 1:03:57
  I think it's worth revisiting. Good stuff. I
• 1:04:00
  have one more for this week. I pulled some audio
• 1:04:03
  from yesterday's meeting of the Kootenai County
• 1:04:07
  Board of Commissioners. And this is I mean, you
• 1:04:09
  want to talk about value for value. This is where
• 1:04:13
  we're about to bring the value because I sat
• 1:04:15
  through a lot of this so that you guys didn't
• 1:04:18
  have to. Are you aware? You're you're I would
• 1:04:21
  say you're welcome. But honestly, you're really
• 1:04:23
  not. Are you familiar at all with the whole Kootenai
• 1:04:29
  County has acquired a helicopter thing? Yes.
• 1:04:34
  Oh, yes, actually that that made headlines because
• 1:04:36
  old sheriff Norris really wanted a helicopter
• 1:04:39
  It was really important that CUNY County had
• 1:04:41
  a helicopter for my safety. I guess I Don't know
• 1:04:46
  if anybody knows this but helicopters are not
• 1:04:48
  cheap. The helicopter fuel is really not cheap
• 1:04:51
  I mean compared to the fuel the helicopters are
• 1:04:54
  cheap. It's the fuel where they get you but holy
• 1:04:56
  crap Now you got to have people to fly it. That's
• 1:04:59
  not cheap. You got to pay for the fuel. That's
• 1:05:01
  not cheap and you got to pay for the chopper.
• 1:05:04
  That's not cheap. And then you got to have maintenance
• 1:05:06
  on that bad boy because it's only, you know,
• 1:05:07
  every every five hours, you got to maintain those
• 1:05:09
  things or 10 hours because helicopters, unlike
• 1:05:12
  planes, if anything stops working, you can't
• 1:05:15
  even like glide your way onto the runway and
• 1:05:16
  be like, oh, we dodged one there. Instead, you
• 1:05:18
  just you just die. A helicopter just falls out
• 1:05:22
  of the sky and you die. So, you know, eight whole
• 1:05:24
  hours of use and you got to maintain those things.
• 1:05:26
  That is a big, big budget line item. He hasn't
• 1:05:30
  even given a good reason of why we actually needed
• 1:05:32
  one. So that's and that has caused a uproar.
• 1:05:36
  I don't want to say across the aisle, but from
• 1:05:38
  all intents and purposes, kind of across the
• 1:05:39
  aisle where a lot of people have been like, hey,
• 1:05:42
  why do we need this? And sheriff's like, because
• 1:05:46
  I'm in charge and safety and I'm a cop and the
• 1:05:49
  sheriff's stuff. In order to set up what I'm
• 1:05:52
  about to play, I'll do a quick for those, including
• 1:05:55
  me, who are not aware of all the exact details.
• 1:05:58
  What happened is A non -profit, the Kootenay
• 1:06:01
  County Regional Air Support Unit was formed to
• 1:06:05
  provide air support and air rescue for the county.
• 1:06:08
  Previously the county had been using Spokane's
• 1:06:11
  heli. The helicopter in question is, it's like
• 1:06:15
  a mid -90s Bell, and it was acquired using donated
• 1:06:18
  funds via this non -profit. In March of 2023,
• 1:06:23
  the county commissioners approved an agreement
• 1:06:25
  giving the sheriff's office use of that heli
• 1:06:28
  via the nonprofit's air support unit. So what
• 1:06:30
  you're saying, Paul, about who's going to fly
• 1:06:32
  it, who's going to maintain it? Well, the nonprofit
• 1:06:34
  had been and has been providing all of the actual
• 1:06:38
  logistical support for the actual air worthiness.
• 1:06:42
  The arrangement was described. Who funds the
• 1:06:46
  nonprofit? Where does that money come from? from
• 1:06:49
  what I'm reading, private donations. So what's
• 1:06:52
  going on now is it's been grounded. And it's
• 1:06:55
  actually been more than a year that this thing
• 1:06:56
  has not been being used because of insurance
• 1:07:00
  issues. Insurance costs reportedly ballooned,
• 1:07:03
  like doubled. It was something around 22K a year.
• 1:07:06
  And it went up to like between 46 and 53 based
• 1:07:10
  on some estimates. Is that all? Yeah, I know,
• 1:07:12
  right? So it's just a light burden. legal and
• 1:07:15
  liability concerns arose because although the
• 1:07:18
  county uses it, the nonprofit owns it, like we're
• 1:07:21
  saying. So it makes it like more of a charter
• 1:07:23
  service rather than county owned law enforcement
• 1:07:25
  aircraft. So it's complicating the insurance
• 1:07:27
  risk and exposure. So in any case, so now you're
• 1:07:31
  going to hear yesterday's board meeting. And
• 1:07:34
  so these three county commissioners that you're
• 1:07:36
  going to hear, it's going to be Bruce Matare,
• 1:07:38
  Leslie Duncan, and he came up on the last show,
• 1:07:40
  Mark Eberlein. Mark Eberlein. And the other voice
• 1:07:43
  you will hear that is speaking to them from the
• 1:07:45
  gallery on behalf of law enforcement is Lieutenant
• 1:07:49
  Mark Ellis. There's a couple minutes long, so
• 1:07:51
  just hang with it. The liability here is here.
• 1:07:54
  You're hearing Bruce now addressing the lieutenant.
• 1:07:57
  The liability here is huge. Liability is going
• 1:08:00
  to increase. There's no doubt about that. What's
• 1:08:02
  the cost though? If we save a young child's life,
• 1:08:04
  is it worth it? Right off the bat. Isn't that
• 1:08:08
  amazing? So that's that's the line. If we close
• 1:08:11
  all of the businesses and make everybody stay
• 1:08:14
  home and shut down the world, it's worth it to
• 1:08:18
  save one life. Sounds familiar. If we save a
• 1:08:23
  young child's life, is it worth it? Well, you
• 1:08:26
  pay it, asshole. Sorry, I'm sorry. You know,
• 1:08:30
  children are important, obviously, but If I already
• 1:08:33
  already fuck off like the moment somebody is
• 1:08:36
  glib with money, not theirs. Fuck off. You're
• 1:08:40
  gonna hear Bruce respond. Well, you know, now
• 1:08:43
  you bring up an interesting point because, you
• 1:08:46
  know, there is a guy who said that if we just
• 1:08:48
  pass one more gun law and it saves a life, is
• 1:08:51
  it worth it? His name was Joe Biden. You know,
• 1:08:55
  so that's kind of a Democrat talking point. I'm
• 1:08:57
  not trying to argue with you on that. But when
• 1:08:59
  that gets thrown at me. You know, I look at it
• 1:09:02
  being a very political statement, in a sense,
• 1:09:04
  because I don't believe you want more gun laws,
• 1:09:06
  right? I do not. And I don't. So, you know, and
• 1:09:10
  we know that as a result of that, perhaps someone
• 1:09:12
  may die, right, according to this person. So
• 1:09:15
  I'm not sure I would buy that as an argument
• 1:09:17
  necessarily, because if something bad happens,
• 1:09:20
  believe me, all the good things that a program
• 1:09:23
  does kind of goes out the window. if something
• 1:09:26
  bad happens, because people are going to start
• 1:09:28
  pointing fingers and saying, why did the board
• 1:09:30
  approve this? They knew this liability. Forgive
• 1:09:33
  me that this is a little long. I did edit it
• 1:09:35
  for brevity. So let's keep going. I just need
• 1:09:37
  to know the direction from the three commissioners,
• 1:09:40
  because we put a lot of money, a lot of time
• 1:09:42
  into it. The board members are now asking, because
• 1:09:45
  frankly, it's been down for a year of not being
• 1:09:48
  used. But wait, hold on, pause it. So here's
• 1:09:51
  a question for this dude. It's been down for
• 1:09:54
  a year. How many children does he think have
• 1:09:56
  died because of that? One a day, maybe? Well,
• 1:09:59
  under the premise that without this chopper up
• 1:10:01
  and running, the children will die. Kids are
• 1:10:03
  dying. How many have died? You know what I really
• 1:10:07
  need? One of us needs on our soundboards is Reverend
• 1:10:10
  Lovejoy's wife from The Simpsons. Won't somebody
• 1:10:13
  please think of the children? Think of the children?
• 1:10:16
  Every time I hear anything like that, just grab
• 1:10:18
  your wallet. The moment somebody mentions the
• 1:10:21
  children, grab your wallet. So give me say the
• 1:10:24
  word children. Children. The children. So something
• 1:10:31
  like that. I just I need to get lovejoy's wife
• 1:10:35
  and the cash register. But that's a good question.
• 1:10:37
  Yeah, no kidding. He admits to the amount of
• 1:10:39
  money that's been put into it. So nonprofit or
• 1:10:41
  not. And that is cool. I will say credit where
• 1:10:43
  credit is due. If most of this has been done
• 1:10:45
  via a nonprofit and the nonprofit is actually
• 1:10:47
  being funded voluntarily, which I still am skeptical.
• 1:10:51
  Skeptical Paul is highly skeptical. But I digress
• 1:10:55
  credit where credit is due if they put all that
• 1:10:57
  together and that's how that actually is going
• 1:10:59
  But there's still them, but the county still
• 1:11:01
  has to maintain all of it even with the support
• 1:11:04
  of the nonprofit I could be wrong here. I'm not
• 1:11:06
  an expert That does appear to be what is being
• 1:11:09
  presented here. And by the way, the word expert
• 1:11:11
  has lost all credibility anyway So you've for
• 1:11:13
  all intent. Well, yeah, I should say I guess
• 1:11:15
  I'm not I'm not super knowledgeable but it doesn't
• 1:11:17
  take an expert or a super for me to be deeply
• 1:11:20
  knowledgeable on this particular topic to make
• 1:11:22
  a to hedge my bets to make a realistic call on
• 1:11:27
  it because all you have to do is know history
• 1:11:29
  and know how government works at any level at
• 1:11:32
  all to know that more often than not far more
• 1:11:35
  often than not there's taxpayer money involved
• 1:11:37
  probably lots of it most of it's not being spent
• 1:11:39
  well and ultimately the taxpayer picks up the
• 1:11:43
  tab it's like every time they they create a new
• 1:11:47
  park or something Every single time they're like,
• 1:11:51
  oh well this new skate park or this new Ballpark
• 1:11:54
  or whatever, you know, it's it's gonna cost this
• 1:11:57
  much and it's like yeah to build but then we
• 1:12:01
  still have to maintain it and Take care of it.
• 1:12:04
  So you ensure it you and staff. Is that it you
• 1:12:06
  hate part? I hate parks. Yep. I hate kids. I
• 1:12:08
  hate skateboards I hate and I hate ballgames.
• 1:12:12
  I hate them. I basically hate America because
• 1:12:14
  I think that theft is immoral and wrong Let it
• 1:12:18
  hereby be known, Paul Manducci hates parks. And
• 1:12:22
  roads. And clean water and clean air. I hate
• 1:12:24
  roads the most. And kids. Oh, and children. Wants
• 1:12:27
  children to die. I hate children so much, I have
• 1:12:30
  three. Let's keep going with this. A year of
• 1:12:34
  not being used, but if it's not something the
• 1:12:37
  board wants, then let's call it quits. We just
• 1:12:39
  need direction. By the way, my understanding
• 1:12:42
  of what's being presented here is basically like,
• 1:12:44
  hey, county... purchase the heli in earnest,
• 1:12:47
  and it can actually just be a Kootenai County
• 1:12:49
  Sheriff's helicopter and not this weird sort
• 1:12:52
  of consignment thing anymore. Yeah, that's been
• 1:12:54
  the push. That has been the push for a little
• 1:12:57
  while. And it is a from from their perspective,
• 1:13:00
  from the county's perspective, the county sheriff.
• 1:13:03
  That makes sense. Let's have this. They might
• 1:13:07
  call it an asset, I would call it a liability.
• 1:13:09
  But let's have this asset solely under our control
• 1:13:12
  so we can do what we need to do with it or do
• 1:13:14
  what we want to do with it. And we can call the
• 1:13:18
  shots. That makes a lot of sense from their perspective.
• 1:13:21
  But again, it's easy to speak and think that
• 1:13:23
  way when you're not the one picking up the tab
• 1:13:26
  and everybody else is. It's not something the
• 1:13:29
  board wants. Then let's call it quits. We just
• 1:13:31
  need direction at this point. Well, I think it's
• 1:13:34
  not about whether, from my perspective, and I'm
• 1:13:36
  just a vote on this, it's not that I want or
• 1:13:38
  don't want per se. Overall, I like the idea of
• 1:13:42
  the county having a helicopter to do the very
• 1:13:44
  things that you say. Right? The problem here
• 1:13:48
  is that I don't know what the liability is. I
• 1:13:51
  don't know what I'm saying yes to. Okay. And
• 1:13:54
  so without understanding that information, it's
• 1:13:57
  hard for me to make a good decision. Right? Are
• 1:14:01
  you going to represent the county if something
• 1:14:02
  bad happens? That's right. So we need someone
• 1:14:06
  who knows what they're talking about, who's done
• 1:14:08
  this before, who's seen all these different situations
• 1:14:11
  to make sure that we don't have gaps in what
• 1:14:15
  we think is good, but may not be good. When you
• 1:14:17
  buy a car, do you buy the insurance before you
• 1:14:19
  buy the car? Well, you know, insurance cars don't
• 1:14:22
  fall out of the sky. I mean, I'm sorry, but do
• 1:14:25
  you refer to the sheriff's office for law enforcement
• 1:14:27
  expertise? Well, interesting. This is getting
• 1:14:32
  combative. Yes. And you could tell that he's
• 1:14:34
  got a couple of these sort of what he what the
• 1:14:37
  Sheriff's Department believes are trap questions
• 1:14:39
  that were promoted. But so well, we'll get to
• 1:14:43
  hear how the commissioners responded. Now, I
• 1:14:44
  think that's OK. That's an interesting question,
• 1:14:46
  though. Do you do you buy the insurance before
• 1:14:49
  you buy the car? That's a great question. And
• 1:14:51
  it does sound initially like a gotcha question.
• 1:14:54
  But the better question would be. Do you buy
• 1:14:57
  a car without accounting for the fact that you
• 1:15:00
  will also have to insure it? Does any reasonable
• 1:15:03
  person buy a car and then not think, while they're
• 1:15:07
  thinking about buying a car, not think about
• 1:15:09
  the insurance that's going to be required for
• 1:15:11
  it. If you're a, again, if you're a high functioning
• 1:15:14
  adult of any sort, the answer is no, of course
• 1:15:17
  not. That's stupid. You also have to account
• 1:15:20
  for the insurance costs, the maintenance costs.
• 1:15:25
  The lost opportunity costs, the trade -offs that
• 1:15:28
  come with making such a purchase. What do you
• 1:15:30
  gain versus what do you lose? And when it's your
• 1:15:33
  money and you're the one on the hook for whether
• 1:15:36
  or not it's a good trade -off, well then you
• 1:15:38
  have to be as intelligent about it as you can
• 1:15:41
  be. That's what separates government from individuals.
• 1:15:45
  Government doesn't have to run that equation.
• 1:15:48
  Do you refer to the sheriff's office for law
• 1:15:49
  enforcement expertise? I'm looking at it as a
• 1:15:54
  commissioner. This is Mr. Mark Eberlein, who
• 1:15:57
  is going to respond to that question. I'm looking
• 1:16:00
  at it as a commissioner. OK, you're looking at
• 1:16:03
  stuff as a cop. When the crap hits the fan, it's
• 1:16:06
  the commissioners that are going to take the
• 1:16:07
  heat. That's fine. I understand you're saying
• 1:16:10
  that you don't understand the need. And I'm telling
• 1:16:11
  you, the Sheriff's Office has said there is a
• 1:16:13
  need and they're the ones that are actually executing
• 1:16:16
  law enforcement. Why does somebody? OK, so are
• 1:16:18
  we supposed to just? So that's interesting too.
• 1:16:22
  Speaking of breaking down narrative, the narrative
• 1:16:24
  that this fellow from the Sheriff's Department
• 1:16:25
  is building is that if we say we need it, then
• 1:16:29
  you should get it for us. Otherwise, the implication
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  is like, don't you trust us? We're the professionals.
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  What we say is what you should do. Don't you
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  trust us? Why does somebody give somebody a donation
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  of a helicopter? Because the community cares
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  about it. Or they want to get out of it. Somebody
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  wants to get rid of some piece of garbage that
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  they have, and so all of a sudden, great, this
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  sucker took it. Someone out there does know the
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  true motives, but it is another way to think
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  about it. It isn't necessarily just because,
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  oh, everyone cares and just really wants to see,
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  for the good of the community, Kootenay County
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  have a heli. Well, they're not mutually exclusive
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  either. Sorry, I apologize. That's OK. It's important
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  to note that motives are not mutually exclusive.
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  You can have good motives and you can have not
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  so good motives simultaneously. You can kill
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  multiple birds with one stone. Like I can get
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  out from under this helicopter while also quote
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  unquote giving back to the community and feel
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  good about it while also getting out from underneath
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  this problem and ridding myself of this headache.
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  Well, that's a win win, baby. Lieutenant Ellis,
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  have you been a part of these conversations at
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  all with any attorneys? No. I think you should
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  be. So that's basically where they ended it is
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  they didn't come to any conclusions. They just
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  are going to employ an outside attorney to...
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  Look through the you basically try to nail down
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  the legalities of this and exactly what kind
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  of who would be liable and what instance and
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  Further consultation is needed essentially and
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  the commissioners want lieutenant Mark Ellis
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  and the sheriff's department to be in on I suppose
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  further reconnaissance work before we figure
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  out Which is a wise thing to do make them privy
• 1:18:16
  to it so that they have to be a part of the process
• 1:18:18
  as well Maybe it'll be an eye -opening process
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  for one side of the other or both. Maybe it will
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  bring the contentious nature of the discussion
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  down a little bit. If both sides are privy to
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  the same data, oftentimes that does help. Something
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  else that I think is worth noting here is that
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  these three commissioners, this is probably one
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  of the most true blue libertarian conservative
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  board of commissioners Kootenai County has had
• 1:18:48
  maybe since I've been born. There this kind of
• 1:18:53
  discussion would not have gone on if the makeup
• 1:18:54
  of the board was what like the North Idaho Republicans
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  wanted it to be Rubber stamp outfit they would
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  have rubber stamped this shit faster than you
• 1:19:02
  could say the words They would have been like,
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  oh, well if the department if the sheriff says
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  we need to have it Well, then we better have
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  it because my safety, you know, it's which that's
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  what we got to do for the children For the children,
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  of course stamped Like well, what about the insurance?
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  I will figure it out. Well, what about the maintenance?
• 1:19:18
  That's okay. We'll figure it out. You know, well
• 1:19:21
  Hard choices will have to be made. We'll figure
• 1:19:23
  it out. Yeah, those hard choices will be that
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  they take the max 3 % property tax increase for
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  three years in a row and They take foregone taxes
• 1:19:31
  that they didn't take lately You know years back
• 1:19:34
  because that's the bullshit they can do in this
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  in this state, too I think I think everywhere
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  they can do it, but what they do cities, you
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  know, whether it's core lane or Sandpoint counties,
• 1:19:44
  whether it's Kootenai County or Bonner County,
• 1:19:45
  what they do is by law, there's a max and I think
• 1:19:48
  across the board is 3%, whether it's city or
• 1:19:50
  county, they can only increase your taxes, a
• 1:19:53
  max of 3%. But what these insidious sons of bitches
• 1:19:57
  can do is if they only take 1%, let's say in
• 1:20:01
  2022, well, there's a statute of limitations.
• 1:20:04
  It's like fucking five or seven years, I could,
• 1:20:07
  I'm a little hazy on it. It's three, it might
• 1:20:09
  be three years, it might be five years, it's
• 1:20:10
  long enough to make a, you know, to hurt. And
• 1:20:13
  if they come back and let's say it's now 2025,
• 1:20:16
  it was 2022, they took one percent, it's 2025,
• 1:20:19
  and they take the max of three, but then they
• 1:20:21
  need a chopper to get paid for as well. Well,
• 1:20:24
  they can take another two percent that they didn't
• 1:20:27
  take in 2022. They call that foregone taxes.
• 1:20:30
  And then they so they campaign on on being low
• 1:20:33
  tax during one era of their tenure. And then
• 1:20:37
  they put you over a barrel during a different
• 1:20:39
  era of their tenure because, oh, well, we've,
• 1:20:42
  you know, We need this thing. We got to pay for
• 1:20:44
  it. What do you know? What do you want us to
• 1:20:45
  do? Tough choices have to be made. You have to
• 1:20:48
  sacrifice. With this board of commissioners that
• 1:20:51
  exists right now, they're going to be a little
• 1:20:54
  less nonsensical on that kind of thing. They're
• 1:20:56
  going to be more skeptical. They're going to
• 1:20:57
  try to protect. They're not perfect, and I'm
• 1:20:59
  not fanboying on them. I know two of the three
• 1:21:02
  of them, actually, personally. And I support
• 1:21:04
  them. But I'm not going to fanboy on them. They
• 1:21:08
  have their issues just like everybody else. They're
• 1:21:10
  not as libertarian as I'd like them to be, but
• 1:21:12
  they're close enough. They're getting this one
• 1:21:14
  right, that's for sure. I think they want to
• 1:21:16
  protect taxpayers more than most other boards
• 1:21:18
  would. How can we threaten the accreditation
• 1:21:22
  of the Kootenai County Board of Commissioners?
• 1:21:24
  You know, because it's chaos over there and they're
• 1:21:26
  not doing the rubber stuff they need to be doing.
• 1:21:28
  So how can we threaten their legitimacy? Oh,
• 1:21:31
  man, I don't know. We should ask the North Idaho
• 1:21:33
  Republicans. I'm sure they have a plan percolating
• 1:21:35
  as we speak. You know what I think we need to
• 1:21:38
  do after all of this, all of this hand -wringing
• 1:21:41
  over, you know, the Supreme Court and the...
• 1:21:44
  The chaos. Yeah, chaos. Trans -athletic bands
• 1:21:48
  and EV chargers that nobody wants and the snow
• 1:21:53
  that isn't falling and the home being destroyed
• 1:21:55
  by the excavator. We just need to take a breath
• 1:21:58
  and... Eat, sleep, sh**. You know, make you feel
• 1:22:03
  better. Just have a nice meal and a nice nap
• 1:22:05
  and a nice and a nice shopping spree. Because
• 1:22:11
  you know what makes you feel better than anything
• 1:22:14
  is spending money you don't have on stuff you
• 1:22:17
  don't need. Yes, this segment of four news now
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  sleep, shop. Yeah. Are you feeling depressed?
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  Well, have you tried debt? Okay, results may
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  vary only take twice a day. Call your doctor
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  three chess subjects experienced elevated anxiety.
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  It may make your depression worse. Thank you
• 1:22:54
  for checking out episode number five here of
• 1:22:58
  no ID, the hyper local revolution. Thank you
• 1:23:03
  for your time. Thank you for your ears. We are
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  you found this show valuable. And until next
• 1:23:20
  Thursday, I'm Scott. And I'm Paul. Taxation is
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  theft. You still did it backwards, but I'm going
• 1:23:27
  to call it a show. I did, didn't I? Maybe that's
• 1:23:29
  going to be my shtick. I'm just gonna do it,
• 1:23:31
  I'm just gonna do it backwards Scott. You're
• 1:23:32
  just gonna have to love me where I'm at. I'm
• 1:23:34
  just how God made me.