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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. Hey, howdy. Welcome back
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  to No ID, North Idaho's mainstream deconstruction.
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  I'm Scott. And I'm Paul. Hello, internet. How
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  are you today? Well, I feel pretty good, given
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  that I didn't have to go to the State of the
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  State of the State issued by Governor Little
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  yesterday, because I think they shoot the first
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  person to stop applauding, right? It reminded
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  me of the old joke of, you know, Stalin is giving
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  the State of the State and somebody sneezes.
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  And Stalin says, who sneezed? And nobody, everyone's
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  terrified. Nobody says anything. So Stalin says,
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  OK, everybody in the first row, stand up. They
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  all stand up and they all get machine gunned
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  to death. And then Stalin says, OK, now who sneezed?
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  And now everyone is really terrified. Nobody
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  says anything. And so he says, OK, everyone in
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  the second row stand up. They all stand up. They
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  all get machine gunned to death. And then he
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  says, OK, one more time, who sneezed? And finally,
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  someone trembling hand gets raised in the back.
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  It was me. And Stalin says, bless you. Now to
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  go over the budget with Joseph Stalin and Brad
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  Little. Turns out, there's not enough money.
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  Who could have seen this coming, Scott? Who could
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  have seen this coming? Well, I can answer your
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  question right off the bat. Moyle's take on Governor
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  Little's tax cuts contrasts starkly with Democratic
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  Representative Ilana Rubel. I spoke with her
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  and she considers her party a modern day Cassandra
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  from Greek mythology who could see the future
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  and warn the people, but no one would listen.
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  So the answer is the Democrats. We have been
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  predicting that this would happen and saying,
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  stop, don't do it. We can't afford all these
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  cuts. And they didn't listen to us. And here
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  we are in a real pickle. The pickle, according
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  to Rubel, is a giant fiscal hole. We are now
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  about $555 million short of even being able to
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  fund the most bare bones budget to keep our agencies
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  operating. JFAC, the bipartisan group that sets
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  the state budget, says those numbers are a likely
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  scenario if state revenue doesn't rebound. Rubel
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  says the short was easy to see, pointing to Kansas,
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  which experienced the same thing in 2017. After
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  years of tax cuts, they were forced to make deep
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  cuts to education and infrastructure, and their
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  economy tanked. Their schools were ruled by their
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  Supreme Court to be unconstitutional because
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  the cuts were so deep. And they ended up repealing
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  those tax cuts and electing a Democrat governor
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  in Kansas, one of the reddest states in the nation.
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  Rubel says not even the 1 .4 billion. They're
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  feeling pretty smug right now, aren't they? Oh,
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  she they love it. But just hey, let's you want
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  to have some fun with numbers real quick. Five
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  hundred fifty million into 14 billion, which
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  is the total state budget, is a little under
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  four percent. Yeah. Yeah. So it's still a big
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  number. I mean, as a percentage, it's a small
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  number, but it's still a big number. But I guess
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  I got to say this right now. I. I feel like I
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  just like I got played. I'm a fool, Scott. You
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  know why I'm a fool? Because for the briefest,
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  briefest, briefest of moments, I can't even believe
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  I thought this. I thought the Democrats, the
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  Idaho Democrats, who were like, you know, we
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  saw this coming a mile away. I don't even know
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  why I thought this. We're going to talk about
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  how we couldn't afford all the stuff we were
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  doing. No, that's dumb. I'm dumb. Of course,
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  their answer to it was, well, we haven't taxed
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  people enough. It's tax cuts that are the problem.
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  That's the Democrats platform. They're wagging
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  their finger at us because we haven't taxed ourselves
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  into prosperity enough. Couldn't possibly be
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  that the state of Idaho does too much shit and
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  has too many things going on and does way more
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  than the government's supposed to do already
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  by a long, long, long shot. No, it can't be that.
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  It's that we have not stolen enough money from
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  ourselves to pay for all the shit they want to
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  do. You're telling me that you seriously, for
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  a fleeting moment, thought that the Democrat
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  lady was going to talk about spending? I did,
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  actually. I did. I really did. I know. That's
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  why I'm feeling great for this. For a brief list
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  of moments. Yeah, I deserve that. If you spend
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  too much, the answer isn't to steal more money
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  from people. The answer is to cut back. The answer
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  is to stop spending. The answer is to do less.
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  That is the answer. That's the default mode for
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  people who are moral, ethical, and want to make
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  sense. But I should know better. Womp womp. The
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  $1 .4 billion rainy day fund can dig the state
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  out. As the legislative session draws near, she
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  says the Democrats want to see school vouchers
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  go away. I would love to see us repeal vouchers.
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  Of course they do. That is not a program that
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  is helping anybody that needs it, frankly. Bullshit.
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  Okay, wait. You know what? That's bullshit. And
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  on the fly, ask Paul. I wasn't planning on this,
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  but it's a good spot. She said it's not helping
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  the people who need it. She's about to tell you
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  who it does help. Who do you think she's going
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  to tell you that it does help? Here, I'm going
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  to play it one more time. That is not a program
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  that is helping anybody that needs it. Frankly,
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  the money is going... Going where? What do you
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  think she's going to say? Going to private schools,
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  which of course they hate. That's the thing.
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  That's their biggest complaint is it's going
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  to the private sector or to private schools or
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  to parents who want their kids out of the system.
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  But the villain is going to be private schools.
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  You're not nearly... And corporations. Not nearly
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  communistic enough. Think more like Bernie Sanders.
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  Rich people. The money's going to rich people.
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  The money is going to millionaires, largely.
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  Also, she says Democrats are fighting. Oh, yeah.
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  Yeah. Yeah. No, it's those. It's all of the millionaires
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  that exist in Idaho who are making use of those
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  vouchers. Yep. No, this clown world. You know
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  what? I can't wait. That's twice already. Twice
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  in what? Ten, five minutes. I've already been
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  bamboozled. This is going to be a great. podcast.
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  I need to I actually don't know what we should
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  look up what her net worth is, but she'll probably
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  pull a Bernie and when she becomes a millionaire,
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  so she'll switch her rhetoric to billionaires.
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  Believe that money is going to millionaires largely.
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  Also, she says Democrats are fighting to keep
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  Medicaid expansion the voter backed initiative.
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  The thing that is causing the biggest part of
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  the budget deficit that Speaking of crystal balls,
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  and we've talked about this already on a couple
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  of podcasts, there was a small group of us who
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  very loudly said Medicaid expansion is absolutely
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  the wrong way to go. Every state where this has
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  happened ends up having budget issues less than
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  five years later down the road, and they're massive
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  budget issues. And the moment the federal funds
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  either stop, dry up, get more strings attached,
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  get smaller, any or all of that, the state is
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  left holding the bag. And it will be a problem,
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  as it has been in every other state that has
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  expanded Medicaid. And wouldn't you know it,
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  Scott? Here we are. But of course, we can't cut
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  it. No, no. No, what we're going to do is take
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  away school choice that just is getting off the
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  ground. And we're going to tax ourselves harder.
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  I know we're sort of like a broken record with
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  some of this stuff, but so is the mainstream
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  narrative. We have to keep responding to it because
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  they keep hammering home the same talking points.
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  Democrats are fighting to keep Medicaid expansion.
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  The voter -backed initiative passed in 2018.
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  And now, House Speaker Mike Moyle says Republicans
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  will consider repealing it. That is not what
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  voters want. We know it passed with 61 % of the
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  vote. I love, you know, what's so amazing too.
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  Listen to her one more time. That is not what
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  voters want. We know it. Don't you love it when
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  they bust out the what voters want thing? Like
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  they give a flying F what the voters want, you
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  know, when they're like they bring a levy forward
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  and it fails and then they just put it on the
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  ballot again. and it fails and again and it fails
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  and again and it fails. Oh, and then on the sixth
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  time the voters vote correctly or they vote your
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  dad in, whoops, to the board of trustees. Well,
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  that was wrong. So in order to subvert the will
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  of the voters, we'll just start pulling all sorts
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  of maneuvers with the state to try to get our
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  way. They couldn't possibly care less what the
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  voters want unless we vote correctly. Correct.
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  That is not what voters want. We know it passed
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  it with 61 % of the vote and I think support
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  is now more than 80 % range. That would do serious
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  damage to the state and its residents if they
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  repeal that. Rubel says more funding shortfalls
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  are likely this year and it may take a while
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  for all Idahoans to feel them, but some already
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  have. For many folks in Idaho, the chickens have
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  already come home to Bruce. That's what the Democrats
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  have to say. I have nothing nice to say, so.
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  Don't say anything at all. Waiting for the other
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  shoe to drop here. No, your mom taught you well.
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  Are you going to? Oh, man. So what do the Republicans
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  have to say, Scott? Well, let's go to I mean,
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  to the extent that he's a Republican, we can
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  do some of the state of the state, some of the
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  clips from Brad Little's half an hour speech.
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  And so I pulled some some key excerpts. Governor
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  Brad Little kicks off the legislative session
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  for 2026. At this moment, he's about to share
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  his plan for the year and his state of the state
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  address. Mr. Speaker, honored legislators, my
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  fellow constitutional officers. Did you catch
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  that? That was fun. Constitutional officers.
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  He's got like the fast food worker teenager.
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  pizza face kid from the simpsons that was like
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  a really comical voice crack fellow constitutional
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  officers he tripped up on the word constitution
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  because he hates it constitutional officers welcome
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  to idaho what can i get you as threeson i began
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  the final year my second term as idaho's 33rd
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  lieutenant governor we are deeply humbled to
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  serve the people of the great state these past
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  seven years have only reinforced what we've long
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  known Idaho and her people are grounded in enduring
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  values. We are independent and innovative. We
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  act with integrity. We approach our lives and
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  our work with unwavering grit. It takes a lot
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  of grit to keep approaching your work when Brad
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  Little State is trying to shut down your work.
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  Idaho is evolving. It does take a lot of grit.
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  However, through the change, we must commit ourselves
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  to pervert... Oh, did you hear that? The truth
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  wants to come out. To preserve. Whoops. To preserving
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  our state as the place where opportunity thrives.
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  Uh -huh. To pervert. Well, you know, he miss
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  spoke, Scott, give him a break. OK. Ask any law
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  enforcement officer on the ground and they'll
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  tell you under the last administration. Immigration
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  enforcement wasn't just slowed down. It was put
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  on ice. Put on ice. I knew you'd get it. Oh,
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  my gosh. He made it funny. Laugh, everyone. Laugh.
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  Everyone in the first row stand up. Take that,
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  Brown people. Yeah, everyone in the first row
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  stand up. My God, this is so... I knew it would
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  be cringe, which is why I missed out on it. I'm
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  so glad I missed out on it. I wouldn't exactly
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  say I'm missing it, Bob. We're also partnering
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  with the Trump team to deliver results in energy
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  dominance. I'm pretty sure that means Jerry Kushner
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  and the rest of the Jewish cabal that runs, oh,
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  and Israel. Are we going to contract out for
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  Jewish nuclear power plants somewhere in South
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  Idaho? Well, according to all these public figures,
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  it's nuclear. So you ought to take some elocution
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  lessons. The Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho
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  Falls has been at the forefront. of nuclear energy
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  research for decades. Nuclear! And today, under
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  President Trump, America is experiencing a nuclear
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  energy resurgence. He did it again. What is that?
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  It just hurts. So many public figures do that.
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  I wonder if they also will say the word, like,
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  Newton. Mountains. Like, how many Newtons of
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  energy do you get from those power, from those
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  nuclear power plants? We so enjoy working with
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  the rump team We're also partnering with President
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  Trump to deliver results for Idahoans by championing
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  common -sense values Like education freedom and
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  standing up for women's sports in fact, okay
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  pause So I'm already curious. Is this setting
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  up a clash because we just listened to the Democrats
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  Immediately zeroing in on education choice. They
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  hate the vouchers. Of course. They hate the vouchers
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  a lot of Republicans do too And Brad little just
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  brought it up in his state of the state as something
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  that he wants to continue to push forward his
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  education choice. So what's that going to look
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  like? Are we going to have one of the pushes
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  that's going to happen this legislative session?
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  Sorry about my computer doing that. Sorry, dead
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  space. You're going to edit this, but I'm going
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  to get out of my email. Now we're leaving it
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  in. No, I'm over three. It's only been 15 minutes.
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  I'm over three. I'm actually really curious how
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  that's going to look. You have Democrats who
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  absolutely want to go after education choice
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  that just got going in Idaho, and it's going
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  to be a battle. Meanwhile, Brad Little brings
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  it up in a state of the state. You have a lot
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  of Republicans who are on the fence about it
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  and don't know much about it. I'm very curious.
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  It affects us. It directly affects us. We homeschool,
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  but we also utilize some state of Idaho satellite
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  learning programs, whereby they're a small, very,
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  very small. reimbursement for some curriculum
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  expenditures that we make. But they have to be
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  in line with the program that we work with, which
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  is Home Ed 360. And it's under the Braintree
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  umbrella. Braintree being kind of the bigger
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  organization, if you will. And technically, it
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  is tied in with the state of Idaho. So technically,
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  it's considered state -run education. But it
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  allows for a lot of freedom of curriculum choice.
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  There are guidelines, of course. There are goalposts
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  you got to meet. And the trade -off is you do
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  get a little bit of, I mean, it's small. We're
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  talking less than a couple grand a year, but
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  hey, every bit helps. When we spend on education,
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  we get reimbursed. They're going after those
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  programs this year. We know they are in their
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  pursuit of going after the vouchers as well.
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  It's going to be sort of a scorched earth tactic.
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  So I'm curious to see. Brad Little talks about
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  it. What's he actually going to do? In fact,
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  tomorrow, Idaho goes before the U .S. Supreme
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  Court to defend our first -in -the -nation law
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  to protect women's sports. Idaho will continue
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  to lead the rest of the country, and the rest
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  of the country will continue to follow because
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  common sense still matters. There's that word
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  again. Common sense? Common sense. Through my
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  executive order, the Idaho Act, and our work
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  with the legislature, we're driving changes that
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  improve performance. That's because that's what
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  Idahoans expect. I want to thank you, the members
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  of the Idaho Legislature, for sharing my zeal
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  for cutting red tape. You codified a practice
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  I established through Executive Order 2020, zero
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  -based regulation, forcing a routine review of
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  rule chapters annually. What was the outcome?
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  Savings of more than $1 million and a state government
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  that is more transparent. easier to navigate,
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  and less burdensome for citizens of businesses.
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  Small business owners don't need a lawyer to
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  read the law. And let's be honest. Fewer lawyers
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  in the mix never hurt anybody. Fewer lawyers
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  in the mix never hurt anybody. Except maybe lawyers.
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  He first he listened I'm gonna try and let me
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  boost this because he apologizes here effects
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  volume and compression amplify He turns around
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  and sort of apologizes to the guys behind him
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  who's probably an attorney Sorry, that's true.
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  The guys like well, it's true It's true good
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  times that is good times. I mean This is gonna
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  be one of those moments where it's the thought
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  that counts back to your Back to our discussion
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  about that phrase from the last podcast. This
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  all sounds great. It sounds great It always sounds
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  great. It's gonna be shit we're gonna look at
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  this three or four months later and go what did
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  they actually do and especially because it is
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  a The election season begins right after this
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  legislative session ends because in Idaho both
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  the state Senate and the state house campaign
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  every two years. So this legislative session
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  is gonna be pretty limpy and We'll see what actually
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  gets done. Most of it won't be impressive Also
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  when he when Brad little brags about saving a
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  million bucks a million bucks is you know, that's
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  a number It's a million bucks. That's cool, but
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  it's also a rounding error in a budget of 14
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  billion What percentage of 14 billion is 1 million?
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  0 .007. And for that, he is congratulating himself
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  in his legislature. And that's pretty awesome.
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  It'd be like you and I doing our annual finances
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  and cutting out one cup of coffee. Be like, there,
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  my work here is done. I would like to thank my
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  wife. Let's go celebrate with a steak dinner.
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  I would like to thank my kids. And yes, to Ruth's
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  Chris, everyone get in the Uber. Excuse me, limo.
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  A balanced budget isn't just required by the
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  Idaho Constitution. It's the right thing to do.
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  Today, I'm delivering my recommendations for
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  fiscal years 26 and 27. Six, seven. What the
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  hell? Oh, and they're clapping for it. Is that
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  what I think it was, Scott? Was that kids in
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  the audience doing a lot better? I thought it
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  was. Yes. Six, seven thing. Correct. Yep. They
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  cut to them a few times as a bunch of kids in
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  like the upper balcony. Surprisingly, they hadn't
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  masked them up, which I'm kind of confused about
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  that given that they're little disease vectors,
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  you know. But yeah, they were up in the kids
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  are basically walking petri dishes. Yeah, of
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  course. So but there they were bare faced, grandma
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  killing little shits, you know. And but anyway,
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  he made this do you even know dear kids? Probably
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  not do that stupid whatever that six seven thing
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  is the nonsense No, and dude. No, here's the
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  deal. I believe you get your ass kicked saying
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  so much that man That's how we view that so he's
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  fun and cringy when you know Boomers try to like
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  let the kids know that they they know their jargon
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  game or whatever like hey, you know We're up
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  on your lingo kids. Look at me. I'm relevant
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  That went over a lot better than I thought it
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  would. Oh, thank God. Hello. Okay. Got a couple
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  more. I'm so glad you did the work for me on
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  this one, Scott. Thank you. I just want to say
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  right now, thank you for muckraking this particular
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  speech, because this is exactly what I knew it
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  would be. And I'm so glad I get to just enjoy
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  the cringy sound bites and not have had to muckrake
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  the 30 minutes. So bless you. Bless you, Scott.
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  This is value for value. So I'm thinking that
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  Paul is about to make a donation to his own show.
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  I might. I just might. Idaho won't raise taxes
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  to balance the state budget. Well, talk to the
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  Democrats about that. Also, we let's not forget
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  that Idahoans are already paying like 30 something
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  percent of their income toward taxes. I know
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  it's not just from the state, but let's not pretend
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  like your citizens aren't already working. from
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  New Year's through freaking Memorial Day paying
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  taxes. Last year, our revenue forecast decreased
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  by 14 % in a few months. That change was driven
• 21:37
  by several factors. A different approach in the
• 21:41
  legislature to revenue forecasting. Historic
• 21:43
  tax cuts, softer sales tax collections, as consumer
• 21:48
  spending adjusted. and ongoing uncertainty around
• 21:51
  interest rates. Meaning as people had less money
• 21:54
  to spend and inflation stole their purchasing
• 21:56
  power. Because of you people and your phony baloney
• 22:02
  money printing that you do all the time, but
• 22:05
  that you ramped up absurdly. in 2020 and 2021,
• 22:09
  and you devalued the currency by like half with
• 22:12
  your freaking ridiculous totalitarianism. It's
• 22:15
  you people that did it in the first place. Ongoing
• 22:17
  uncertainty around interest rates in the national
• 22:20
  economy. But we were clear on one thing. K -12
• 22:24
  schools are not subject to cuts. Oh, no, because
• 22:29
  we will never touch that sacred cow. We cannot
• 22:32
  ever touch that sacred cow. whereby enrollment
• 22:36
  continues to decline, but we will continue to
• 22:40
  spend more on it as administration continues
• 22:42
  to balloon. In no universe will we stop our heavy
• 22:48
  acceleration toward administrative bureaucracy
• 22:51
  in the public schools. I'm Brad Little. I've
• 22:53
  said it before and I'll say it again. If you're
• 22:56
  going to bet on any state, bet on Idaho. Except
• 22:59
  don't actually because gambling is illegal unless
• 23:02
  it's a state lottery. Thank you. Or the tribe.
• 23:06
  Yes, I'm sorry. Excuse me. How ridiculous. Yes,
• 23:09
  the tribe. In which case, our CityLink County
• 23:11
  bus service will bust your ass directly to their
• 23:14
  casino. Well, I don't know if you heard, Paul,
• 23:17
  but they're doing more jackpots than ever. Yes,
• 23:19
  more jackpots than ever. Thank you. God bless
• 23:24
  Idaho and God bless the United States of America.
• 23:29
  And all right. There was, like I said, it was
• 23:31
  a half an hour speech, but I just pulled some.
• 23:34
  No, no, that was enough. It was more than enough.
• 23:37
  No more. No more, please. Please, God, make it
• 23:41
  stop. Mother of God. Let's move on to a follow
• 23:47
  up here from last week's closing story on the
• 23:51
  Kootenay County coroner situation. There's a
• 23:53
  couple of quick developments, so let's let's
• 23:55
  touch on that. The Board of Spokane County Commissioners
• 23:58
  has voted to continue working with the Kootenai
• 24:00
  County Coroner until the end of this month in
• 24:02
  order to help them transition. Each year, the
• 24:05
  Spokane County Medical Examiner conducts about
• 24:07
  70 autopsies for Kootenai County. This was part
• 24:10
  of a decades -long partnership that was set to
• 24:13
  expire at the end of December. But weeks before
• 24:15
  the expiration, the Spokane County Medical Examiner
• 24:17
  sent an email abruptly ending that partnership.
• 24:20
  The Medical Examiner accused a Kootenai County
• 24:23
  Deputy Coroner of working with a former employee
• 24:25
  of Spokane County to destabilize operations.
• 24:29
  Today, Spokane County tells us protocol disagreements
• 24:32
  between the two departments have been going on
• 24:34
  for the past three years. According to the county,
• 24:36
  the medical examiner says she regrets sending
• 24:39
  that email. So Cooney County gets two more weeks?
• 24:45
  Yeah, a little extended time. And then there's
• 24:47
  one more. I did want to say quickly, though,
• 24:51
  the notion of sending the email and regretting
• 24:53
  it. Mean this is like a great life lesson in
• 24:56
  general Don't hit the send button You know, we're
• 25:00
  human. I mean, obviously I've done this we've
• 25:02
  all done this stuff before where we you know
• 25:04
  We say something we write something we we fire
• 25:07
  it off and then we regret it the next day Don't
• 25:10
  hit send just if you know, it's a catharsis to
• 25:14
  type this sort of stuff out. But then Sleep on
• 25:17
  it have a sleep. Don't hit the send button at
• 25:20
  the very least what you'll end up doing is going
• 25:22
  back to the draft and editing it because it won't
• 25:24
  read to you the next morning the way it read
• 25:26
  to you that afternoon. And tone can be really
• 25:30
  hard to convey through email, even though you
• 25:33
  think you're sending the right tone off to time.
• 25:35
  For instance, I'll tell you, I'm the kind of
• 25:37
  guy that I'll tell somebody, you look nice today.
• 25:40
  And what they'll hear is, you don't look ugly
• 25:42
  today. I got one of those personalities and faces
• 25:47
  and tones of voice, I guess. Meanwhile, other
• 25:49
  people I know who I'm friends with were bigger
• 25:51
  assholes than me. can literally tell somebody
• 25:53
  basically, go fuck off, and people will be like,
• 25:56
  ah, he's a nice guy. Isn't he a nice guy? You
• 25:59
  know, this is probably one of the many reasons
• 26:01
  that we vibe is I have the exact same problem
• 26:04
  you did. Now, this story sums it up perfectly,
• 26:07
  which is my kid brother, who's an art dealer
• 26:10
  in LA, his then girlfriend, now wife. At one
• 26:15
  point, years back, as we were watching him, my
• 26:20
  brother's name is Adam, as we were watching Adam
• 26:22
  talk someone's ear off about some piece of artwork.
• 26:25
  The two of them were sitting there staring at
• 26:27
  it and he was talking, talking, talking. Her
• 26:30
  name's Meredith. His wife leaned over to me and
• 26:32
  she was like, you know, Adam can talk someone's
• 26:37
  ear off for a half an hour. And at the end of
• 26:39
  the interaction, the people will be like, wow,
• 26:42
  you know so much. And then you do the exact same
• 26:46
  thing, Scott. And people go, that asshole thinks
• 26:49
  he knows everything. And then you turned to her
• 26:55
  and you said, thanks. Yeah. And well, I did.
• 26:58
  I was like, finally somebody is noticing this.
• 27:02
  I feel like I'm freaking taking crazy pills.
• 27:04
  We have a very similar personality, but he gets
• 27:06
  perceived very differently than I do. I started
• 27:16
  exploring like, Hey, well, what is the, there's
• 27:19
  gotta be, I mean, there's a million reasons,
• 27:21
  right? Like your body language tone, this and
• 27:22
  that. It's occurred to me at some point that
• 27:25
  we have a very different We sort of look similar,
• 27:27
  but he has a different facial structure in that
• 27:29
  his eyebrows, they go up like John Kerry, like
• 27:34
  his eyebrows are like a volcano, you know? So
• 27:37
  they look very earnest and like he's very interested
• 27:39
  in paying attention. Anybody who hears this,
• 27:42
  Google image John Kerry and have a laugh at what
• 27:44
  I just said. He has the most exaggerated, earnest
• 27:47
  eyebrows you've ever seen. So my brother has
• 27:50
  those very much. They sort of go up naturally.
• 27:53
  Mine, And actually, maybe yours, now that I think
• 27:55
  about it, goes down. Like, you would draw angry
• 27:59
  eyebrows on a cartoon yellow face, you know?
• 28:02
  You just angle them downward. And his go up as
• 28:05
  much as mine go down. And I've always, since
• 28:09
  then, gone like, this has a lot to do with it.
• 28:12
  I just Googled John Kerry's earnest eyebrows
• 28:15
  image search. Is it the most absurd thing you've
• 28:19
  ever seen? It's the most absurd thing I've ever
• 28:22
  Googled. Straight at the sky. And there's no
• 28:25
  wonder that guy was able to be such a slimy little
• 28:28
  reptile and have everyone, you know, look at
• 28:31
  him. What a sweetheart. He cares. I just look
• 28:34
  at this guy and I go, he cares about this multi
• 28:37
  -billionaire cares about me. I want to tell him
• 28:41
  my sorrows. He'll do something about it. He'll
• 28:44
  lend you a sympathetic ear. That's how I'm unlocked.
• 28:48
  It turns out I just got to work on my eyebrow
• 28:50
  movement. All right. I can do that. We can work
• 28:52
  on that. Yeah. Be advised. County Commissioners
• 28:55
  approved renovations to add an autopsy lab to
• 28:58
  the coroner's office. That's according to our
• 28:59
  news partners at the Coeur d 'Alene Press. It's
• 29:01
  been in the work since 2023, but has a new sense
• 29:04
  of urgency after Kootenai County's contract with
• 29:06
  the Spokane County Medical Examiner's Office
• 29:08
  was terminated just last week. Like most counties
• 29:12
  in Idaho, Kootenai County has no medical examiner
• 29:14
  on staff and no autopsy facilities. For years
• 29:17
  they would send cases to Spokane County. Commissioners
• 29:20
  unanimously approved the new $1 .7 million project.
• 29:23
  they say that project should be complete in about
• 29:26
  three months. So there you go, we're gonna have
• 29:29
  our own ability to process corpses. In the end
• 29:33
  it's probably in the long run it's a good thing
• 29:34
  with all the growth and now we are not subject
• 29:37
  to the whims of some emotional lady with a keyboard
• 29:41
  and an email address and Mr. Duke Johnson will
• 29:45
  finally get what he wants and ultimately it's
• 29:48
  probably the right maneuver but What I see, first
• 29:51
  and foremost, as always, is another budget line
• 29:53
  item that is eventually going to be used as a
• 29:56
  political weapon or a political shield or a political
• 29:58
  tool. And yet another thing we're going to fight
• 30:01
  over in some way, shape or form, somebody is
• 30:03
  going to want to spend more, somebody is going
• 30:05
  to want to spend less. Somehow we're going to
• 30:08
  get told to think of the children, even though
• 30:10
  we're talking about dead bodies. I'm sure it's
• 30:12
  going to come up. I guess the good news is that.
• 30:16
  while Sheriff Norris sits in this unworkable
• 30:19
  helicopter and thinks about how now at least
• 30:21
  we have a forensic lab for dead people. He's
• 30:25
  got that going for him. No helicopter, but a
• 30:28
  coroner's office. Won't somebody please think
• 30:31
  of the children? Here's one more quick follow
• 30:34
  -up before we take our mid -show breather, and
• 30:36
  this is with regard to the special deputy status,
• 30:39
  if you recall. Sheriff Norris yanked away cruelly
• 30:43
  and unusually. Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris
• 30:46
  is reinstating the special deputy status of two
• 30:50
  Coeur d 'Alene police officers but has yet to
• 30:52
  restore the status of Rathdrum's police chief.
• 30:55
  That's according to public records obtained by
• 30:57
  our news partner, the Coeur d 'Alene Press. Sheriff
• 30:59
  Norris originally revoked those privileges in
• 31:02
  early December and city leaders, leaders, leaders
• 31:05
  there, alleged that the move was an act of retaliation.
• 31:08
  The impact of law enforcement officers had suggested
• 31:11
  that Norris played a role in the incident last
• 31:13
  February at a town hall at a Coeur d 'Alene high
• 31:16
  school. I love that. That's hilarious. You get
• 31:20
  it back. You get it back. You're cool. You're
• 31:23
  cool. Fuck you. You're cool. You're cool. That's
• 31:30
  awesome. How petty can you be? It's the best.
• 31:34
  You know, people think somehow that we should
• 31:36
  give cops more power. And we should always obey
• 31:40
  and do what we're told and that these people
• 31:42
  are beyond reproach and that somehow they're
• 31:44
  the best of us and yada yada yada. You basically
• 31:46
  just have narcissists with guns and badges running
• 31:49
  around and a license and monopoly to hurt and
• 31:51
  kill and maim. They act like people just like
• 31:54
  the rest of us do. And this is just such a great.
• 31:56
  And these are the leader, leader, leaders doing
• 32:01
  this to each other. Like, what is this middle
• 32:03
  school? Are we getting picked last for dodgeball?
• 32:06
  This is hilarious. I also love the fact that
• 32:09
  it took them, what, three weeks to give it back.
• 32:11
  They revoked it two or three weeks ago. And I
• 32:14
  mean, maybe they got together for a steak dinner
• 32:17
  or something on the taxpayer dime and they worked
• 32:19
  it out. They took a Uber and the rathrum chief
• 32:21
  police ordered a salad. So they're like, no,
• 32:23
  no, you're not one of us. You get out of here.
• 32:28
  With that, I think it's time to describe the
• 32:32
  model of this show of no ID, which is value for
• 32:36
  value. This is a value for value podcast. We
• 32:41
  operate on that model. And the reason is we don't
• 32:44
  have and will never have sponsors. When you have
• 32:48
  sponsors, you get told what to say and what not
• 32:50
  to say. I have enough experience with that. And
• 32:54
  I think you don't even need direct experience
• 32:56
  to know what that means. Actually, you know what?
• 32:58
  That's a good question. Did you ever have that
• 33:00
  anything along those lines at the racketeer?
• 33:03
  Like a certain brand wanted you to do a promotion
• 33:06
  or anything like that? Yeah, but we never did
• 33:09
  it. So there's a couple things you could do in
• 33:11
  my industry. One of them is become a branded
• 33:13
  lounge, which I looked into doing because you
• 33:16
  get financial support and brand support, but
• 33:17
  you have to do everything their way. So that
• 33:19
  was, I looked into that and went, no, I'm good.
• 33:21
  There's also a lot of companies out there that,
• 33:24
  especially some of the bigger companies that
• 33:26
  want you to buy. X amount of stuff or certain
• 33:29
  brands or X amount Excuse me certain brands certain
• 33:32
  lines that they offer or X amount of certain
• 33:35
  lines You have to have so many facings or else
• 33:36
  they won't sell you the other stuff sort of like
• 33:38
  gateway products You got to get this much of
• 33:39
  this before we'll give you access to that so
• 33:41
  on and so forth there's a lot of shenanigans
• 33:43
  of that nature and Every single time I just went
• 33:46
  no. I'm not not gonna play your game. I do things
• 33:48
  my way I pick and choose what's best for the
• 33:50
  customer. I pick and choose what's best for me
• 33:52
  I'm not gonna buy cigars that I don't think will
• 33:54
  sell just so I can have access to other cigars
• 33:56
  that I think will sell I said, if you play those
• 33:58
  games with me, then that's shelf space is limited,
• 34:01
  but it's easy to fill up with good stuff. So
• 34:03
  I took my business elsewhere and I thoroughly
• 34:07
  enjoyed the freedom of doing that. I know it
• 34:09
  frustrated a lot of vendors and reps, but I was
• 34:13
  never rude about it. So I never made any enemies
• 34:15
  over it. It more was just a, Hey, you know, I'm
• 34:18
  not going to play that game. This is we're a
• 34:20
  different animal up here in North Idaho. Even
• 34:23
  all the events I ran up, I think I think 2019,
• 34:26
  2018 was the last time I ever ran an event that
• 34:28
  was just your prototypical sales event. Show
• 34:31
  up and like buy boxes of cigars at a discount.
• 34:34
  I stopped doing that a long time ago. I stopped
• 34:37
  doing branded events where the brand themselves
• 34:41
  would come out and it was just for them. I stopped
• 34:43
  doing that stuff seven or eight years ago into
• 34:46
  my career and instead we always found creative
• 34:48
  ways to do what we wanted and then we would incorporate
• 34:51
  brands into it. give them an opportunity to get
• 34:54
  exposure and do something with us and We found
• 34:58
  a lot of success that way freedom and success.
• 35:00
  It was great. I enjoyed that Now you say you
• 35:03
  were never an asshole about it But are you sure
• 35:05
  that people didn't come away going like that
• 35:07
  guy looks so angry. What a dick Well, see most
• 35:11
  of my business interactions were email or phone
• 35:14
  so they couldn't look at my eyebrows So I got
• 35:17
  away with it. Yeah, huh? Yeah, it's your point.
• 35:20
  There you go. That's exactly what Getting that
• 35:21
  is that when you have you know a branded this
• 35:24
  or a sponsored that you get told what to do What's
• 35:28
  on the shelf what things need to look like what
• 35:30
  you need to say and what you need to not say
• 35:31
  and that is not What we do on this show value
• 35:34
  for value means that if you If you appreciate
• 35:37
  what you're hearing on the show if you find it
• 35:39
  valuable We try to bring the value by providing
• 35:42
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• 35:53
  about the show, or even someone who isn't your
• 35:55
  friend, maybe someone you're just sort of sidled
• 35:57
  up next to at a cigar lounge. Hey, I there's
• 36:00
  a great show that covers the panhandle. Tell
• 36:04
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• 36:06
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• 36:08
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• 36:11
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• 36:14
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• 36:17
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• 36:20
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• 36:24
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• 36:33
  We also appreciate you combing through your spam
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  folder because that's for some of it still going.
• 36:39
  The value for value model we definitely have
• 36:40
  in mind. That's why we did it without any video.
• 36:42
  Right. Because Scott and I both possess radio
• 36:44
  faces. So you guys don't even have to look at
• 36:46
  our eyebrows. Maybe we can use AI to superimpose
• 36:50
  John Kerry's eyebrows onto our faces. And then
• 36:52
  everyone will be like, oh, man, these guys are
• 36:54
  so earnest. I'm going to watch them on YouTube.
• 36:56
  That's the dish right there. You're on to something,
• 36:59
  Scott. You're on to something. Second half. Oh,
• 37:09
  show. All right. Yeah. Oh, go. Well, you got
• 37:13
  something you wanted. I was going to launch.
• 37:15
  I think I feel like after the. Value for value
• 37:18
  commercial break is the perfect time to launch
• 37:21
  into Scott's shots all right Okay, okay, cuz
• 37:25
  I think I'm gonna make you know if you'll allow
• 37:27
  me. I think that's the spot I'm gonna put it
• 37:29
  every show that way it's reliable. It's there
• 37:31
  Please let me even let me cue this up. Uh -huh
• 37:43
  Yeah, you get ready for this because the mental
• 37:48
  gymnastics involved you might pull a muscle Okay,
• 37:54
  I just dropped down into 10. I'm ready to go.
• 38:00
  How long did the COVID shutdowns last in Idaho?
• 38:07
  How long did they last? Well, let's be clear,
• 38:11
  there were never any shutdowns because Walmart
• 38:14
  and CVS and Target and Walgreens and Costco and
• 38:17
  Amazon and none of those places ever shut down.
• 38:19
  So how long did the small business attack last?
• 38:24
  I'm going to say, let's see, March, April, May,
• 38:27
  June, I'm going to say four months. That's pretty
• 38:32
  good. All right. Yeah, that's about right. That's
• 38:35
  about right. It's give or take a couple of weeks
• 38:37
  depending on who you ask and who was a little
• 38:38
  more rebellious versus not. So well done. Yes.
• 38:44
  The official unofficial small business attack
• 38:48
  shutdowns in Idaho lasted from the middle of
• 38:50
  March till the middle or end of June. Now, I
• 38:55
  pulled up a timeline of the governor's actions
• 38:58
  because I wanted to see what exactly that looked
• 39:02
  like. Now, I lived through all of it, but you
• 39:04
  always forget some of the specifics. However,
• 39:06
  the National Governors Association was kind enough
• 39:09
  to keep tabs on this. So each step of the way,
• 39:12
  most of it's like, governor requests more money
• 39:15
  for this, governor requests more money for that.
• 39:18
  March 13th, 2020, Governor Little declared a
• 39:20
  state of emergency. That's when things really
• 39:23
  got interesting. Then March 25th, governor issues
• 39:27
  a statewide stay home order for the state of
• 39:30
  Idaho. So through this timeline, you never once
• 39:33
  see the words shut down. The phrase is stay home
• 39:38
  order. Because originally, that's what I was
• 39:40
  looking for was shutdowns, but I couldn't find
• 39:42
  it. So I had to go back through everything and
• 39:43
  go, oh, OK. Also, we're using our made up names
• 39:46
  now. In Idaho, it was a three or four phase.
• 39:53
  reopening, which was always great. So when I
• 39:56
  was running the Bulldog Pipe and Cigar Lounge,
• 39:57
  we were technically considered a tavern because
• 39:59
  we had a beer and wine license. We were the first
• 40:01
  ones to be closed down in mid -March, and we
• 40:06
  were the last ones to get open in phase four
• 40:09
  in late June. In late June, says, Governor announced
• 40:15
  that Idaho will be moving to stage four of the
• 40:18
  reopening plan. under stage four, gatherings
• 40:20
  of more than 50 people are permitted as long
• 40:22
  as social distancing is practiced. And at that
• 40:25
  point, we all went, yeah, get bent. We don't
• 40:27
  like we're opening everybody. Pretty much everybody
• 40:30
  went get bent. We're opening. And then a couple
• 40:32
  of weeks later, I really like the fact that a
• 40:36
  few weeks later is that the governor stated during
• 40:39
  a town hall that he has not ruled out mandating
• 40:41
  mask wearing for the state if COVID -19 cases
• 40:44
  continue to rise. So they sort of kind of let
• 40:47
  us off the leash. two weeks into June, and then
• 40:50
  two weeks later go, but hold on, you might have
• 40:53
  to mask up some more. And we may not be we may
• 40:56
  not be through this. But at that point, nobody
• 40:59
  cared. Cat was out of the bag and we went now
• 41:00
  get bent. We're we're not doing what you say
• 41:02
  anymore. Yeah. And then July 23, the governor
• 41:08
  announces that Idaho will remain in stage four
• 41:11
  of the plan for at least another two weeks. But
• 41:14
  at that point, nobody cared and nobody was listening
• 41:16
  to him. Well, almost nobody. What's really interesting
• 41:19
  about this, Scott, is that in 2022, a couple
• 41:22
  years later, you wouldn't know it at all. I'm
• 41:27
  Brad Little. As a conservative, I know the government
• 41:30
  is best when it does the least. That's why I
• 41:33
  took my chainsaw to state regulation. Cutting
• 41:37
  government red tape by 95 percent 95 percent
• 41:41
  least regulated state in America in creating
• 41:44
  thousands of good -paying jobs Now Idaho's economy
• 41:47
  is booming because we cut government down to
• 41:50
  size with a chainsaw just getting started Man
• 41:56
  yes that all being said cover your face and close
• 41:59
  your business by order of the governor with a
• 42:01
  chainsaw and Just to set the wreck the just sort
• 42:06
  of for clarification purposes. I've had a lot
• 42:10
  of conversations with people where they're like,
• 42:13
  oh, well, of course you had the reaction you
• 42:15
  did. You were running a small business. There
• 42:19
  were a lot of people, my peers in the People's
• 42:22
  Republic of California, who were also running
• 42:25
  small businesses, very similar to mine, as you
• 42:27
  might imagine. I ran in some circles where my
• 42:30
  colleagues were doing the same things. They didn't
• 42:33
  have the same reaction I did. They dove in. to
• 42:36
  face covering and business closures all the way,
• 42:39
  all the way to the deep end of the Olympic pool.
• 42:42
  And they never left. They never reconsidered
• 42:44
  their decisions. They never questioned the government.
• 42:47
  To this day, they blame the pandemic for the
• 42:51
  fact that their businesses have mostly failed
• 42:52
  at this point. Some of my closest colleagues,
• 42:56
  their businesses have ceased to exist because
• 42:58
  they were never able to recover, because of course
• 43:00
  they wouldn't recover. People's habits were changed
• 43:03
  too much. Well, there's a million reasons, but
• 43:05
  they just never recovered. And in their, let's
• 43:08
  say, closure posts on Instagram that were shared
• 43:12
  with me by other colleagues, hey, this place
• 43:14
  is closing permanently in 2023, they blame the
• 43:18
  pandemic. They don't blame the state. They don't
• 43:20
  blame themselves. They blame an inanimate object.
• 43:24
  So just because I was running a private business,
• 43:27
  that did not dictate my reaction. My reaction
• 43:29
  would have been the same no matter what I was
• 43:30
  doing. And my friends' reactions, former friends'
• 43:33
  reactions, would have been the same too. It's
• 43:35
  about your relationship with liberty, not about
• 43:39
  what you were doing in your professional life.
• 43:44
  It's an important distinction to make. They're
• 43:45
  not the COVID shutdowns. They are the government
• 43:47
  shutdowns. COVID did not take my business away.
• 43:51
  COVID did not take my customers away. COVID did
• 43:53
  not keep me indoors. The government did. Or attempted
• 43:56
  to. Or attempted to, yeah. So relevant to Idaho.
• 44:02
  is, as we've just been talking about Brad Little
• 44:04
  today, because I thought the timing for this
• 44:05
  was perfect. The man campaigned in 2022 on being
• 44:11
  a liberty -minded governor who kept Idaho open.
• 44:14
  In fact, he frequently stated on the 2022 campaigns
• 44:17
  trail that, and I quote, I kept Idaho open while
• 44:21
  other states were on lockdown. I beg to differ.
• 44:27
  I opposed mandates. We issued no state level
• 44:30
  mask or vaccine mandates and we did not issue
• 44:33
  vaccine passports in Idaho. Now, technically
• 44:36
  that's true. However, there are people who were
• 44:41
  arrested for having garage sales in the middle
• 44:43
  of the pandemic by local authorities as part
• 44:46
  of the bigger state. I guess not mandates mandates
• 44:51
  where you get arrested for having garage sales
• 44:53
  and for opening your businesses and congregating
• 44:56
  where you're not supposed to congregate. So I
• 44:58
  guess I don't know. What is it? What is a mandate?
• 45:01
  That's not a mandate, but they treat it like
• 45:02
  a mandate. It's support for businesses he campaigns
• 45:06
  on. And of course, really, all that was was here's
• 45:08
  here's helicopter money. So this is our governor
• 45:11
  right now. So when we listen to his state of
• 45:13
  the state speech, like we did earlier, I just
• 45:16
  shake my head on everything that guy says. It's
• 45:20
  also disingenuous that everything with regard
• 45:22
  to liberty that happened in Idaho happened despite
• 45:25
  Brad Little, not because of him. It was because
• 45:27
  of the people like you just said. that you just
• 45:30
  stopped. People just weren't listening anymore.
• 45:32
  So then they were like, oh, OK, well, I guess
• 45:35
  then we're moving to this level or that level.
• 45:37
  If the people on the ground don't listen, the
• 45:40
  state has no authority. OK. In Idaho, they got
• 45:45
  away with about as much as they thought they
• 45:48
  could. And they knew if they pushed much further,
• 45:50
  there were going to be pockets of resistance,
• 45:52
  some of them up where we are now. They would
• 45:54
  have pushed further. They would have pushed harder.
• 45:55
  Like for where you're from, Scott, they could.
• 45:57
  And they did because they knew they could. So
• 45:59
  they did. That is correct. All right, let's move
• 46:03
  along to do you want to do the Coeur d 'Alene
• 46:07
  Press editorial advocating for Gookin? Yeah,
• 46:11
  let's do it. We put that off last week. So this
• 46:13
  we were we alluded to it last week that the press
• 46:15
  ran the editorial in support of Gookin ahead
• 46:19
  of his swearing in. So here is the actual article
• 46:22
  as read by a voice bot from Eleven Labs. On Tuesday,
• 46:26
  Coeur d 'Alene will see the beginning of a new
• 46:27
  era at City Hall when Dan Gookin is sworn in
• 46:30
  as mayor. Hopes and expectations are high for
• 46:33
  Gukan, who displayed an ability to analyze and
• 46:36
  ask hard questions of staff during his time on
• 46:39
  the City Council. He presented himself as a man
• 46:42
  of the people, and it resonated with residents,
• 46:45
  as Gukan won in November with nearly 35 % of
• 46:48
  the vote. While he will likely shake things up
• 46:50
  at City Hall, which seems to be what residents
• 46:53
  want, a quick look at a handful of situations
• 46:56
  that need the mayor's attention. Figure out ways
• 46:59
  for the city to develop a budget that doesn't
• 47:02
  rely on raising property taxes and using the
• 47:04
  general fund. The city's compensation package
• 47:07
  for employees is generally pretty generous. Wages
• 47:11
  and benefits average more than $100 ,000 per
• 47:14
  employee. Look at water use. It is not an infinite
• 47:17
  resource. Come summer, the city can pump in the
• 47:21
  range of 40 million gallons a day. While the
• 47:23
  city loves its parks, they demand a lot of water
• 47:26
  to keep them green. Water is relatively cheap
• 47:29
  in Coeur d 'Alene. Maybe too cheap. Deal with
• 47:32
  the growth of short -term rentals. Those operating
• 47:35
  illegally should be shut down and find neighborhoods
• 47:38
  are losing. That's going to be a big one. Sorry.
• 47:42
  I'm interrupting, but look out for that one.
• 47:45
  Dan Guggen has been on the war path when it comes
• 47:47
  to Airbnb for years. One of my buddies who runs
• 47:51
  some Airbnb and is the head of the local Airbnb
• 47:53
  advocacy group in Coeur d 'Alene. There's been
• 47:56
  a lot of back -and -forth battling between that
• 47:59
  group and guys like Dan Gukin So now that Dan
• 48:02
  Gukin is mayor It's gonna be interesting to see
• 48:05
  what he thinks he can or can't do and what he
• 48:07
  can or can't do Right now the one thing that
• 48:09
  really held him back in his crusade against Airbnb's
• 48:13
  and other rental properties is the fact that
• 48:15
  all of his friends and the people he's connected
• 48:17
  to and all of the People who are part of the
• 48:20
  Coeur d 'Alene cartel all have properties that
• 48:24
  are to Airbnbs, rentals, revenue generating properties.
• 48:28
  So you can only get so far with that one. plus
• 48:52
  an open seat soon to be filled. All of whom agree
• 48:55
  with each other. They are all part of the same
• 48:57
  group. They are all part of the cartel. Every
• 49:00
  single one of them. Oh, and the guy they just
• 49:02
  had filled the seat is also is also a city of
• 49:06
  Coeur d 'Alene attorney completely tied into
• 49:09
  the cartel. So Coeur d 'Alene is gone. Man, the
• 49:14
  mayor and the entire city council, they are all
• 49:16
  one body. The only thing they're going to argue
• 49:18
  about is How much to spend? It's gonna be a lot
• 49:24
  either way like how much to meddle in people's
• 49:26
  lives how much to spend it won't be Whether or
• 49:28
  not they should the only thing they might disagree
• 49:31
  on is just whether we're talking You know hundreds
• 49:34
  of thousands millions or billions Obviously not
• 49:37
  billions. It's the city of Coeur d 'Alene, but
• 49:38
  you get the idea Well, I don't know I see some
• 49:42
  cranes and some tall buildings going in down
• 49:44
  there Don't be surprised if the B word makes
• 49:47
  an appearance in the next few years He also has
• 49:49
  a sharp team at City Hall These are dedicated
• 49:52
  people who are committed to making and keeping
• 49:54
  Coeur d 'Alene great. But as he demonstrated
• 49:56
  as a city counselor, Gouken is not afraid to
• 50:00
  stand alone. Gouken has the drive, dedication,
• 50:04
  and determination to deliver on the campaign
• 50:06
  that earned him the support of voters and his
• 50:09
  seat in the mayor's office. He plans to provide
• 50:11
  the leadership he believes has been missing at
• 50:13
  City Hall, and we think he is the right person
• 50:16
  for the job. Come over for a gay time. I can't
• 50:20
  help it. It's an evergreen. All right. So we're
• 50:26
  in for it. Actually, you're not. And I'm one
• 50:29
  of us live in Coeur d 'Alene. Thank God. Thank
• 50:33
  God. You know, what's crazy is that they they
• 50:35
  tout that he took 35 percent of the vote, which
• 50:38
  in and of itself is not a majority. They had
• 50:41
  multiple people running three, I think, for sure.
• 50:43
  Four. No, they had four candidates running and
• 50:47
  Dan Guggen got 35 percent of the total vote.
• 50:49
  which amounted to somewhere around 3 ,000 votes,
• 50:53
  if memory serves correctly. It was just above
• 50:55
  3 ,000 votes. Had not their person won, the Coeur
• 51:00
  d 'Alene press would have spun it as, with only
• 51:03
  3 ,200 votes and only 35 % of the overall electorate,
• 51:07
  this mayor is now going to do blah, blah, blah,
• 51:10
  without a clear mandate. Not only that, wasn't
• 51:16
  it only 20 -something percent of people that
• 51:18
  showed up to vote in the first place? It was
• 51:21
  sub 20. I think I'm pretty sure it was because
• 51:23
  we talked about it It was somewhere around 15
• 51:25
  to 19 percent the Cooney County always turns
• 51:27
  out a little higher So it might have been 21
• 51:29
  22 percent, but as the statewide it was sub 20
• 51:33
  So in other words four out of five people didn't
• 51:35
  vote at all and of the of the one in five that
• 51:39
  did Look less than way less than half of them
• 51:44
  voted for Guggen 30 something percent. So it
• 51:47
  isn't it is really not exactly a mandate. However
• 51:50
  People didn't vote. I mean, you know, what are
• 51:52
  you going to do? Yeah. Well, in a town of roughly
• 51:57
  now about 60 ,000, maybe 65 ,000 because of the
• 52:01
  last census in 2020, it was a just smidge under
• 52:04
  55 ,000. That's quarterly improper. We don't
• 52:06
  think of it as that small because there's so
• 52:07
  much surrounding it. It all bleeds together.
• 52:10
  But you got to figure it's about 65 ,000 now.
• 52:13
  They had a sub 20 turnout and 30 in between 3000
• 52:18
  and 3400 people voted for the mayor. So that
• 52:22
  is five percent six percent of the population
• 52:27
  of Coeur d 'Alene of course, we're counting I
• 52:29
  think women and children and all that kind of
• 52:31
  stuff, but That's pretty wild five percent six
• 52:35
  percent mandate let's cover a little bit of how
• 52:40
  Idaho NPR covered the Some ice stuff just because
• 52:44
  that's you know, that's the wall -to -wall mainstream
• 52:47
  hammering at the moment. So here goes nothing
• 52:51
  On the steps of the Idaho Capitol last evening,
• 52:54
  a protest specifically regarding public safety
• 52:57
  and accountability that in the shadow of an immigration
• 53:00
  enforcement agent firing three shots into a vehicle
• 53:03
  killing a Minneapolis woman. All Americans have
• 53:05
  the right to feel safe in our streets. What ice
• 53:08
  is doing is the opposite of that, like they're
• 53:10
  making everyone unsafe. But if the people that
• 53:13
  are in the positions of power right now are being
• 53:15
  so irresponsible and won't address these issues.
• 53:19
  and draw attention to them, then we will. This
• 53:21
  is Sonya Christensen from the Idaho Advocacy
• 53:25
  Group 50501. She and her colleagues last evening
• 53:28
  pointed to Idaho leadership leadership leadership
• 53:32
  ordering state law enforcement to cooperate with
• 53:35
  ICE agents. Just quickly I looked up 50501 that's
• 53:39
  it's like oh 50 protests in 50 states. It's an
• 53:42
  organized It's a group to organize protests.
• 53:45
  So remember yesterday when we were texting, and
• 53:47
  I was joking about central, this is dispatch,
• 53:50
  we need you to dispatch a group of tards out
• 53:53
  to the street here, we're going to have professionally
• 53:55
  printed signs for them. dispatch to central,
• 53:57
  they're on their way over. When you need to dispatch
• 54:01
  the tards into the streets. Here's who you call
• 54:04
  50501. Very grassroots, I'm sure very grassroots.
• 54:09
  Oh, yeah, bottom up all the way. With ice being
• 54:11
  what it is, and our police Working hand -in -hand
• 54:14
  with them. It's a real problem for Idahoans where
• 54:17
  we're not going to be able to really trust our
• 54:19
  police You know, this won't be the last time
• 54:22
  something like what happened in Minneapolis happens
• 54:24
  as long as our elected leaders leaders leaders
• 54:26
  Continues to advocate their duty and shirk all
• 54:30
  responsibility to check this unmeasured executive
• 54:32
  power and casting another last time I last time
• 54:35
  I looked I thought it was the responsibility
• 54:37
  of our leader leader leaders to actually enforce
• 54:41
  the law Which in this case includes immigration
• 54:45
  laws. What am I missing here? It's the whole
• 54:48
  situation is messed up though. It's sad all the
• 54:51
  way around. I'm not taking a side because Everybody's
• 54:55
  horrible in this one. Yeah, everyone's horrible.
• 54:58
  And this lady. Oh, yes Oh unchecked executive
• 55:02
  power clutching my pearls about unchecked executive
• 55:05
  power you psychos love unchecked executive power
• 55:10
  Pepperidge farm remembers 2020 c -word and shirk
• 55:14
  all responsibility to check this unmeasured executive
• 55:17
  power. Oh, uh -huh Yeah, where were you in 2020?
• 55:20
  Where were you? I know where you were. You were
• 55:22
  double masking your four -year -old executive
• 55:24
  power and casting another shadow over last evening's
• 55:28
  event Two people being shot and wounded in portland
• 55:32
  by customs and border protection officers on
• 55:35
  thursday Now there's not a part of that where
• 55:38
  they had somebody on to give another perspective.
• 55:42
  I'm not saying necessarily pro -ICE or anything,
• 55:44
  but just a different perspective than ICE as
• 55:47
  a terrorist organization. There is no other perspective.
• 55:50
  They just give the one. So that would be your
• 55:53
  classic NPR bias by omission. Shocked by this.
• 55:59
  Absolutely shocked, I say. Floored. I have to
• 56:00
  go peel Paul up off the floor. Here's one more
• 56:03
  quick one about the protests. This was out in
• 56:06
  Sandpoint. Our news partners at the Bonner County
• 56:07
  Daily Bee say hundreds of people were there protesting
• 56:10
  against ICE. Organizers say they counted more
• 56:13
  than 200 people. That's what he said. This was
• 56:15
  out in Sandpoint. Our news partners at the Bonner
• 56:18
  County Daily Bee say hundreds of people were
• 56:20
  there protesting against ICE. Organizers say
• 56:22
  they counted more than 200 people. And that's
• 56:25
  just a few of the hundreds of protests that happened
• 56:27
  over the weekend. Hundreds of people, about the
• 56:30
  same amount of people that voted for Dan Gukin.
• 56:33
  Yeah, if this was on the other foot, then it
• 56:35
  would be only, only a few hundred people showed
• 56:38
  up for this. Also, do these people not have anything
• 56:43
  to do? You know, when, when the, at least to
• 56:49
  the, to the credit of most conservatives slash
• 56:51
  libertarians slash whatever, I guess the quote
• 56:53
  unquote right, most of the time when they protest
• 56:57
  or show up for something, It's on the weekend
• 57:00
  because it's the only time they can do it. How
• 57:04
  the hell do all of these people just turn up
• 57:06
  in the middle of the fucking week in the middle
• 57:09
  of the workday on a whim, ready to go. And this
• 57:14
  is the this is the topic they pick. You see,
• 57:17
  that's why you can't take these people seriously.
• 57:18
  These are the people who will look you in the
• 57:20
  eye and tell you that like the covid stuff was
• 57:24
  all worth it to save one life or to save the
• 57:28
  children. while they stand on a mountain of dead
• 57:31
  babies. These are the people who look you in
• 57:33
  the eye and tell you, no kings, while they watched
• 57:36
  Biden issue as many executive orders as Trump
• 57:39
  did, so on and so forth. It's crazy. The level
• 57:43
  of disconnect and the lack of irony that these
• 57:48
  people have is incredible. And here are more
• 57:54
  NPC's with their professionally printed signs
• 57:57
  at the Capitol. The Idaho State House was filled
• 57:59
  with advocates for Medicaid ahead of Monday's
• 58:01
  state of the state address, talking to families
• 58:04
  and local leaders, leaders, leaders who tell
• 58:06
  me they want that funding left alone. Leave Medicaid
• 58:09
  alone. You've already done the cuts. Trixie Wade
• 58:12
  is a Nampa mother whose daughter lives with multiple
• 58:15
  lifelong disabilities. Harper's 10 years old.
• 58:19
  She wants to be a part of our family. She doesn't
• 58:21
  want to be fo by losing um access to c previously
• 58:28
  reported Idaho recommended state lawmak expansion.
• 58:34
  This session tr is cut further, her daughter
• 58:38
  to move to an out of state of receiving care
• 58:41
  at home. to us. We want to love ou her in our
• 58:45
  family. We wan She was one of many who s potential
• 58:52
  impact of cutti as state lawmakers recon session.
• 58:58
  Your friends, you around you is impacted b before
• 59:03
  cuts. Voters passed because they wanted their
• 59:07
  to have health care. Many are accessing or using
• 59:12
  the to pay for additional help. It could be a
• 59:16
  sign language interpreter or school nurse that
• 59:18
  is needed. And the state house was full of people
• 59:21
  living with disabilities who benefit from the
• 59:23
  program. Because it's for my my pacemaker. Even
• 59:27
  with the large turnout intended to get Governor
• 59:29
  Little's attention, Medicaid wasn't mentioned
• 59:32
  in his state of the state address. The federal
• 59:34
  one can't touch it right now. And he's not going
• 59:40
  to lead the charge on it. I'm sorry, I'm interrupting
• 59:42
  your clip, but speaking to Little, this is how
• 59:46
  he's going to operate. He's not going to touch
• 59:48
  it. He's not going to lead the charge on it.
• 59:50
  If the legislature makes a move on it, which
• 59:54
  they will try, but I think they will fail because
• 59:57
  again, it is a election year. It's an election
• 1:00:00
  year. So there might be some murmurings about
• 1:00:02
  it, but the only murmurings about it will be
• 1:00:05
  mainly from the actual conservatives who are
• 1:00:09
  trying to appeal to their base and show that
• 1:00:12
  it's the thought that counts. And then when they
• 1:00:16
  go campaign this year, they can be like, well,
• 1:00:19
  I tried to do it. Vote me back in and I'll try
• 1:00:22
  to do it again. And on the other side, the people
• 1:00:25
  who are on the other side of that can co and
• 1:00:27
  campaign and be like, and I stopped it. And now
• 1:00:30
  you guys can all still have your free money.
• 1:00:33
  And I'm fighting for you. And everybody's happy
• 1:00:36
  on the campaign trail. And then Brad Little,
• 1:00:38
  who will happily just sit there and let it all
• 1:00:41
  play out and nothing will happen anyways, could
• 1:00:42
  just be like, and I didn't have to do anything.
• 1:00:48
  This is a systemic issue. Everybody here is economically
• 1:00:52
  illiterate, not understanding that this will
• 1:00:55
  continue to get worse every year. The budget
• 1:00:58
  deficit will get worse. main driver is spending
• 1:01:02
  on state -run schools and Medicaid expansion.
• 1:01:06
  And yes, we are beating the horse on this, but
• 1:01:07
  that's because those are your two biggest expenditures.
• 1:01:10
  You can't sit there and not address those. I
• 1:01:15
  don't know what you're talking about with your
• 1:01:16
  fancy pants economic literacy. If strangers don't
• 1:01:20
  pay my daughter's medical bills, I can't love
• 1:01:23
  her. Governor Little's recent budget hold back.
• 1:01:26
  Think of the children. Together, these actions
• 1:01:28
  will make significant changes, with estimates
• 1:01:30
  showing about 75 ,000 Idahoans becoming newly
• 1:01:34
  uninsured. At what cost do they do this, and
• 1:01:37
  how many lives will be lost? It's not a free
• 1:01:40
  hand. How many lives there is. It's about saving
• 1:01:42
  lives. We will wreck the economy. We will tax
• 1:01:46
  you harder. We will stimmy actual economic growth.
• 1:01:50
  We will do whatever. The damage doesn't matter.
• 1:01:53
  as long as one life is saved, especially if that
• 1:01:56
  life... WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE! Okay, you don't
• 1:02:02
  get moral credit for forcing people to pay for
• 1:02:06
  the shit you want over the barrel of a government
• 1:02:09
  gun. Medicaid is not charity. Medicaid is forced,
• 1:02:16
  extorted use of funds for other people's stuff.
• 1:02:21
  And it is rife with fraud and abuse. You don't
• 1:02:25
  get moral credit for it. You're not a good person
• 1:02:27
  for voting for your neighbor to have their stuff
• 1:02:30
  taken from them to help your other neighbor.
• 1:02:32
  You want to help somebody, help them yourselves.
• 1:02:35
  That's how you get moral credit. We should let
• 1:02:38
  little Timmy advocate for himself. Timmy, remove
• 1:02:42
  your masks. Would you like to say something?
• 1:02:44
  Actually, no, put them back on. Never mind. It's
• 1:02:47
  not a free handout to people who can't. do anything
• 1:02:51
  for themselves. It's literally a free handout.
• 1:02:54
  Like you can see that's the thing. That's why
• 1:02:56
  you know that they're so bankrupt intellectually
• 1:02:58
  and morally. Like you can say you can make your
• 1:03:02
  case, but if you deny the premise, you're just
• 1:03:05
  a reptile. You're full of crap. You have to lie
• 1:03:08
  about your premise because you know how it sounds
• 1:03:10
  when you tell the truth about it. So you have
• 1:03:12
  to be like, well, it's not a handout. What you
• 1:03:13
  can say is it is, but here's why it's necessary.
• 1:03:16
  It's not a free handout to people who can't.
• 1:03:20
  do anything for themselves. Why can't you? They
• 1:03:23
  still need health care. They still have family.
• 1:03:25
  People still love them and want them around.
• 1:03:28
  Oh, it's right. So you hate kids and don't want
• 1:03:31
  them around if you aren't for other people paying
• 1:03:33
  for your medical bills. That's the way they do
• 1:03:37
  it is if you don't want the government to do
• 1:03:40
  X, then that means you are against X. Actually,
• 1:03:44
  Frederick Bastiat had a great quote about that.
• 1:03:46
  He goes, We being like libertarians and this
• 1:03:48
  is guys from the 17th century 18th century is
• 1:03:51
  as we object to the state Doing education so
• 1:03:55
  status to accuse us of hating education. We object
• 1:03:58
  to the state doing XYZ and so we are accused
• 1:04:01
  of hating XYZ if we were to object to the state
• 1:04:05
  raising grain a Statist would accuse us of wanting
• 1:04:08
  people to not eat Here is another Idaho NPR report
• 1:04:15
  and you're gonna hear that tactic used just perfectly
• 1:04:19
  on the nose with regard to their budget deficit,
• 1:04:22
  quote, reporting. Expect another year of government
• 1:04:25
  cuts and no races for state employees that under...
• 1:04:29
  Yay! ...Red Little's newly proposed budget. James
• 1:04:32
  Dawson reports. That's a good thing. The spending
• 1:04:34
  plan would make Little's 3 % budget cuts permanent,
• 1:04:37
  along with more than $500 million in additional
• 1:04:40
  cuts to clean water, transportation, and Medicaid.
• 1:04:44
  It's all to deal with the projected... We hate
• 1:04:47
  clean water and clean air. I hate clean water.
• 1:04:52
  Yep. Yeah. I can't. Let them drink Ebola, said
• 1:04:59
  Queen What's -her -face from the French Revolution.
• 1:05:03
  That was Marie Antoinette. Thank you. The spending
• 1:05:07
  plan would make Little's 3 % budget cuts permanent,
• 1:05:11
  along with more than $500 million in additional
• 1:05:14
  cuts to clean water, transportation, and Medicaid.
• 1:05:18
  What just just just to clean water it Just like
• 1:05:25
  that whoosh three percent of the clean water
• 1:05:28
  is gone transportation and Medicaid It's all
• 1:05:33
  to deal with a projected budget deficit Still
• 1:05:36
  he says the pain will be temporary Democrats
• 1:05:39
  say this is a self -inflicted wound after many
• 1:05:42
  years in a row of tax cuts. Assistant Senate
• 1:05:45
  Democratic Leader James Ruckte wants to dip into
• 1:05:48
  rainy day funds to fill the gap. The rainy day
• 1:05:50
  funds are taxpayer money that we've set aside
• 1:05:53
  wisely to take care of situations like this.
• 1:05:56
  That's a non -starter for the public. We stole
• 1:05:58
  more than we needed to, and now that we've not
• 1:06:03
  stolen enough, we're going to dip into this.
• 1:06:06
  It's exactly for this situation. When we've spent
• 1:06:09
  too much, we can use what we already over collected.
• 1:06:12
  This is fantastic. House Speaker Mike Moyle says
• 1:06:14
  there's no cause for alarm. I do hear a lot of
• 1:06:18
  griping and concerns right now because we may
• 1:06:21
  have to do a little bit of trimming on budgets,
• 1:06:22
  but it's not that much. The legislature's budget.
• 1:06:25
  That's all they included for him. Wait, wait,
• 1:06:26
  hold on. This is not that much. Okay, this is
• 1:06:29
  how you sound, Mike Moyle. Is this some sort
• 1:06:32
  of peasant joke that I'm too rich to understand?
• 1:06:37
  yes yes now everybody get in the uber limo as
• 1:06:40
  we head to Beverly may have to do a little bit
• 1:06:43
  of trimming on budgets but it's not that much
• 1:06:45
  the legislature's budget committee but it's not
• 1:06:47
  that much morning James Dawson actually I agree
• 1:06:50
  the best part is that I agree with him I do agree
• 1:06:53
  with him. He's right. 3 % is ain't shit. This
• 1:06:57
  is a good thing, especially when you're talking
• 1:06:59
  about the salaries of public employees. Being
• 1:07:02
  a public employee is not a public servant. They
• 1:07:04
  always like to use the term public servant. First
• 1:07:06
  off, get fucked. You're not a public servant.
• 1:07:08
  And the fact that the gig is so good that everybody
• 1:07:10
  wants it. And even in Coeur d 'Alene, it's an
• 1:07:13
  average of six figures. Again, get bent, man.
• 1:07:15
  We spend too much money on that. So let's start
• 1:07:17
  there. That's a great spot. But Mike Moyle is
• 1:07:19
  correct. It's just funny the way he said it.
• 1:07:23
  The way it comes off is, I think, more flippant
• 1:07:25
  than he probably means it to. But I do agree
• 1:07:29
  with him on it. That should be a starting point.
• 1:07:32
  And of course, classic Democrats. I love this,
• 1:07:34
  though. I'm hoping the Democrats, if they keep
• 1:07:36
  on this track, not that I have any love for most
• 1:07:38
  of the Republicans, as everybody who's listening
• 1:07:40
  to this probably should know by now. And I know
• 1:07:42
  you know, Scott. The Democrats are just Republicans
• 1:07:45
  that have fallen fully off the cliff. There's
• 1:07:48
  not a whole lot difference between the most of
• 1:07:49
  them anymore, but the Democrats are tipping their
• 1:07:52
  hand already. The legislative session just started
• 1:07:54
  and the Democrats are going, you know what the
• 1:07:57
  problem is? Too much educational choice and we
• 1:08:00
  haven't stolen enough of your money. That's our
• 1:08:03
  platform. We love clean water. We're the Democrats.
• 1:08:08
  Good times. I did write down as a possible show
• 1:08:12
  title, People Before Cuts. I like that one. So,
• 1:08:15
  but if anything else pops out to you, we should,
• 1:08:17
  I want to start doing that. I want to start picking
• 1:08:19
  the show title during the show when the right
• 1:08:22
  phrase strikes us. So keep that in the back of
• 1:08:25
  your head, in the back of your mind. And until
• 1:08:29
  then, I got one more for this week because today
• 1:08:33
  the Idaho Supreme Court is hearing arguments
• 1:08:36
  with regard to HB 500. No, excuse me. I'm sorry.
• 1:08:40
  The transgender athletic ban. In the nation's
• 1:08:43
  capital today, the U .S. Supreme Court will be
• 1:08:46
  hearing arguments on a challenge to the Idaho
• 1:08:49
  law that bans transgender women and girls from
• 1:08:53
  participating in the sports that align with their
• 1:08:56
  gender identity. that dudes can't beat the shit
• 1:09:03
  out of chicks in sports. That would be the way
• 1:09:07
  to say it in non -fork -tongued language. But
• 1:09:10
  here, let me before I continue on the NPR report,
• 1:09:12
  let me play this from from CREM because they
• 1:09:16
  did the I want to put together a supercut of
• 1:09:19
  the transgender athletic band because clearly
• 1:09:21
  a memo from Central has gone out where that that's
• 1:09:24
  the phraseology that needs to be used by all
• 1:09:26
  of the talking heads. The Supreme Court is set
• 1:09:29
  to hear arguments on the Idaho transgender athletics
• 1:09:32
  ban. Transgender athletics ban. So I'm going
• 1:09:35
  to put together for next show a super cut so
• 1:09:36
  you can hear all of the different places that
• 1:09:38
  are doing it. Now, if something is that, like
• 1:09:42
  if the phrasing is specific and everyone is using
• 1:09:44
  the same phrasing, where did the directive for
• 1:09:47
  the phrasing come from? One must wonder. Owen
• 1:09:50
  Henderson reports. Excellent question. Lindsay
• 1:09:52
  Hecox wanted to try out for the Boise State.
• 1:09:54
  Let me play the name one more time of this person.
• 1:09:57
  Lindsay Hecox wanted to try out for the Boise
• 1:10:00
  State University track team in 2020. But because
• 1:10:02
  she's trans, Idaho law would have required her
• 1:10:05
  to run for the men's team. Because it's a guy.
• 1:10:09
  Because he cocks. He cocks. You cannot make this
• 1:10:13
  stuff up. He cocks. They're trying to sob story
• 1:10:16
  this person. They are they are trying to turn
• 1:10:19
  it. How do you turn this into a sob story? This
• 1:10:21
  is impossible. Won't somebody please think of
• 1:10:25
  the cock and balls? Lindsay Hecox wanted to try
• 1:10:27
  out for the Boise State University track team
• 1:10:29
  in 2020. But because she's trans, Idaho law would
• 1:10:33
  have required her to run for the men's team,
• 1:10:35
  not the women's. So she sued. Courts initially
• 1:10:38
  sided with Hecox, then narrowed the ruling to
• 1:10:41
  apply only to her and not other athletes. How
• 1:10:44
  does that work? I don't know. Only to her? So
• 1:10:48
  like, you get a pass but no one else does? That's
• 1:10:52
  what they mean. Yes, case by case. And you, she
• 1:10:57
  vag can run for the women, but nobody else can.
• 1:11:01
  I guess. I don't know. This is it's also convoluted
• 1:11:04
  in the words. I wonder if they set the set the
• 1:11:07
  metric for like length and girth or something.
• 1:11:09
  And they had to measure and they're like, OK,
• 1:11:11
  if you are this long and this girthy, then you
• 1:11:15
  can participate because you barely count as a
• 1:11:17
  man anyways. And you go, you can run with the
• 1:11:20
  girls. Yeah, stack of dimes over there, you're
• 1:11:22
  in. Only to her and not other athletes. In 2024,
• 1:11:27
  Idaho appealed to the high court. Peter Wren
• 1:11:29
  with LGBTQ advocacy group Lambda Legal says the
• 1:11:32
  decision in this case could be fairly narrow.
• 1:11:35
  What we've seen historically from this court
• 1:11:37
  is that it tends to rule in cases in this field
• 1:11:41
  on fairly case specific grounds rather than reaching
• 1:11:44
  out and deciding questions that it doesn't have
• 1:11:46
  to decide today. ACLU -Idaho will represent HECOX.
• 1:11:50
  In a statement, it said, this law is part of
• 1:11:52
  an effort to, quote, exclude transgender people
• 1:11:54
  from public life and undermine civil rights for
• 1:11:57
  all, end quote. Right. So again, with their forked
• 1:12:00
  tongue. Because we said they can't go out in
• 1:12:01
  public. We said that they're not allowed to do
• 1:12:04
  all kinds of, yeah, because that's what this
• 1:12:05
  is about. They're banned. Transgender banned.
• 1:12:07
  They're banned. Yeah. You notice that's the language
• 1:12:09
  they use, of course, is it's a transgender ban.
• 1:12:12
  And that's just what they call it. As if this
• 1:12:16
  passes or goes through, or the Supreme Court
• 1:12:18
  rules in the favor of biology, that now trans
• 1:12:22
  people just don't have a place in the world because
• 1:12:26
  a man couldn't run with the girls. How else is
• 1:12:31
  he Cox supposed to break state records, you dick?
• 1:12:34
  If you'll excuse the exact insult I decided to
• 1:12:37
  hurl at you there. To quote, exclude transgender
• 1:12:40
  people from public life and undermine civil rights
• 1:12:42
  for all. By the way, that's exactly by the way,
• 1:12:45
  you freaking inverters of reality at the ACLU.
• 1:12:48
  What a disgrace. That's exactly what you're doing.
• 1:12:51
  You are trying to undermine the civil liberties
• 1:12:54
  of all of the actual females who are attempting
• 1:12:56
  to compete in sports like normal humans. You
• 1:12:59
  are undermining everybody. It's a much as if
• 1:13:03
  you're doing what you're you're accusing your
• 1:13:05
  opponent of that, which you do. Well, furthermore,
• 1:13:09
  imagine being part of the silent generation or
• 1:13:11
  the boomer generation, which fought at this point
• 1:13:15
  was, I think, boomers were third wave feminism
• 1:13:17
  because then Gen X and millennials were fourth
• 1:13:19
  wave feminism and third wave feminism made at
• 1:13:22
  least a little more sense. Not a lot more, but
• 1:13:25
  a little more relative to fourth wave feminism.
• 1:13:28
  Everything makes way more sense. But the title
• 1:13:31
  nine bullshit where you know, if you're gonna
• 1:13:33
  have men's sports You need to have a commensurate
• 1:13:36
  amount of female sports and whatnot, which again,
• 1:13:38
  it's bullshit But the idea behind it in theory
• 1:13:41
  made sense But of course the practice is always
• 1:13:44
  messy and screwed up and men lose most their
• 1:13:46
  sports because of it at the college level at
• 1:13:49
  the high school level it's called title nine
• 1:13:50
  and it was a big thing that came about during
• 1:13:52
  after the civil rights movement, but imagine
• 1:13:55
  being, you know, your grandma or your great grandma
• 1:13:57
  and Yeah. Having fought for women's rights and
• 1:14:01
  the ability to, you know, do sports on an equal,
• 1:14:03
  on a, at the same level as men and have access
• 1:14:07
  to all these different things. Only, only for
• 1:14:09
  your grandchild to be out there protesting and
• 1:14:12
  advocating for men to dominate your sports. What
• 1:14:19
  a time to be alive. Did you imagine watching
• 1:14:20
  that? Like, yeah. What is the point of feminism
• 1:14:24
  at all in any way, shape or form? if men can
• 1:14:27
  be women and women can be men. Oh, it's almost
• 1:14:30
  as if the whole point of the feminist movement
• 1:14:33
  in the first place had nothing to do with feminism,
• 1:14:36
  eh, comrades? Part of an effort to, quote, exclude
• 1:14:38
  transgender people from public life and undermine
• 1:14:41
  civil rights for all, end quote. Yes, yes, my
• 1:14:44
  civil rights are definitely at stake because
• 1:14:46
  I can't just get out there and pounce on the
• 1:14:50
  women in sports. Yes, Paul Shevage wants to go
• 1:14:54
  compete with the women. 29 states currently...
• 1:14:57
  Olena would be really good at women's basketball.
• 1:15:01
  29 states currently restrict trans athletes participation
• 1:15:03
  in sports. No, they do not. No, they do not.
• 1:15:06
  That is an outright lie. You hear the lie? 29
• 1:15:09
  states currently restrict trans athletes participation
• 1:15:12
  in sports. What the hell is this lady talking
• 1:15:14
  about? What is she talking about? Yeah, because
• 1:15:16
  I know that's not true. Fork tongue. In his own
• 1:15:19
  statement, Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador
• 1:15:22
  said it's an injustice to allow trans women to
• 1:15:25
  compete with athletes assigned female at birth.
• 1:15:28
  Hecox asked the court to drop the case, saying
• 1:15:30
  she wanted to focus on graduating. A federal
• 1:15:33
  judge declined to do so, but the high court may
• 1:15:35
  still dismiss the case after hearing arguments.
• 1:15:38
  Hecox then shifted in his seat, scratched his
• 1:15:40
  balls, and said, I thank the court for your time.
• 1:15:44
  I don't want to do this anymore. Of course, the
• 1:15:47
  problem is a precedent's been set. Now it has
• 1:15:49
  to be determined what can happen going forward.
• 1:15:52
  This is a big deal. But if I had a kid in the
• 1:15:55
  system, which I don't because I'm not an idiot,
• 1:15:58
  but if I did, then I would be incensed at my
• 1:16:04
  15 -year -old daughter sharing a locker room
• 1:16:06
  with a dude and having to compete with a dude.
• 1:16:10
  We are biologically different. I can't believe
• 1:16:13
  we're talking about this. I know. It's like,
• 1:16:16
  right. It's any sense at all. It is so self -evident.
• 1:16:18
  Everything about it is so self -evident. But
• 1:16:20
  here we are in the state of Idaho having the
• 1:16:23
  conversation. Well, that's the thing. That's
• 1:16:25
  the thing about the activist, the commie activist
• 1:16:27
  set is that, like, what you just said, like,
• 1:16:29
  well, I'd be uncomfortable with my 15 -year -old
• 1:16:31
  dad. Like, 99 .999 % of parents feel the same.
• 1:16:39
  Forget parents. Of people. either will say that
• 1:16:43
  or at least think it. Everybody knows that this
• 1:16:46
  is absurd. Like just gaslighting reality is gaslighting
• 1:16:51
  everybody. And then the ACLU turns around and
• 1:16:54
  says the opposite. They're trying to protect
• 1:16:56
  the civil liberties of everybody, even though
• 1:16:58
  everybody knows what you just said. Yeah, well,
• 1:17:01
  where were they when they were locking us all
• 1:17:03
  down? Where are they every time the government
• 1:17:05
  actually does step on our necks? See, that's
• 1:17:07
  the problem. That's the problem with the the
• 1:17:09
  mass psychosis era is that all of these institutions
• 1:17:12
  and all these organizations and all of these
• 1:17:15
  governmental bodies, they all revealed for everyone
• 1:17:17
  to see what they are and what they stand for
• 1:17:20
  and when they will step in. So now all of their
• 1:17:22
  premises about what they do and don't stand for
• 1:17:25
  and do and don't care about. It's all it's too
• 1:17:27
  late. You already showed us. Indeed. Now they
• 1:17:32
  just say the quiet part out loud. I will say
• 1:17:35
  this as a sort of a PSA, if I may. I'm going
• 1:17:38
  to get on my soapbox. Get your kids out of public
• 1:17:43
  school. What are you doing? And there's always
• 1:17:49
  the people who are like, well, I can't. Life
• 1:17:51
  is so expensive. We both got to work or we won't.
• 1:17:54
  We don't want to sacrifice, blah, blah, blah,
• 1:17:55
  blah. There are circumstances. I get it. I understand.
• 1:18:00
  There's a few excuses that are actually valid.
• 1:18:02
  Most of them are not. my wife and I have done
• 1:18:08
  it on one income since we've had kids. That's
• 1:18:11
  15 years now. We've been a lot poorer than we
• 1:18:14
  could have been. We chose to do it. The sacrifice
• 1:18:17
  is worth it. Our kids show it. And all of these
• 1:18:20
  issues, like boys competing with girls, we don't
• 1:18:25
  deal with. If you are a Christian, if you are
• 1:18:28
  a conservative, you are a libertarian, if you
• 1:18:29
  are a person who has common sense, morals, values,
• 1:18:33
  standards, ethics, get your kids out of public
• 1:18:36
  school. We gotta build a parallel society of
• 1:18:39
  our own. And that starts with getting your kids
• 1:18:42
  and yourselves extricated from the system. It
• 1:18:46
  starts there. And man, it's freeing. So, there
• 1:18:49
  you go. There's my PSA. Perfect. It's Dances
• 1:18:53
  with Wolves. If you've ever seen that movie.
• 1:18:55
  Now obviously we're not dealing with like cowboys
• 1:18:57
  and Indians here, but the music is emotive and
• 1:19:01
  brings, to me anyways, brings back thoughts of
• 1:19:04
  like more front team. Like more of the American
• 1:19:07
  Spirit type thing going on, you know what I mean?
• 1:19:10
  I do. Well, speaking of American Spirit, I think
• 1:19:15
  I need to go to an Idaho smoke shop and get a
• 1:19:18
  pack of American Spirits, where it's half the
• 1:19:20
  price as they are in Washington now. Heyo! Yeah,
• 1:19:24
  good times. Well, I don't know that we had anything...
• 1:19:28
  Was there anything uplifting in this week's show?
• 1:19:30
  Or is it just a fun day? Is it just a big downer?
• 1:19:34
  I feel a little gross. I'm going to have to go
• 1:19:36
  take an Ace Ventura rape shower. Dang, dang.
• 1:19:41
  Just in a fetal position on the floor of the
• 1:19:44
  tub sobbing while cold water runs on me. Einhorn
• 1:19:47
  is a man! An extra cold shower. Oh, boy. You're
• 1:19:52
  right. I got nothing, man. I got nothing that
• 1:19:56
  was... I'm sorry. Well, Kootenai is going to
• 1:19:59
  have a new facility for dead people. Is that...
• 1:20:02
  Well, no, that's not... either. Gukin is a shill.
• 1:20:07
  No. Brad Little is a reptile. No. Let's see.
• 1:20:12
  Ice is no, no. Deputy status is reinstated by
• 1:20:16
  Norris. That's good for those guys. I mean, that's
• 1:20:18
  kind of a, I guess that's sort of a puff piece.
• 1:20:21
  Yeah, yeah. Democrats want higher taxes. I mean,
• 1:20:25
  like breaking news, the leader, leader, leaders
• 1:20:28
  of the cops aren't fighting amongst each other
• 1:20:31
  anymore. And yes, now they can finally, they
• 1:20:35
  can pull people over again for, you know, California
• 1:20:38
  rolling through stop signs. I thought this was,
• 1:20:43
  I'm sorry, I thought this was America. Well,
• 1:20:47
  I guess we can, I'll try and maybe more specifically
• 1:20:51
  look for, you know, some levity in there, like,
• 1:20:54
  you know, some Idaho and decorating the White
• 1:20:56
  House for our leader, leader, leaders or other
• 1:20:59
  forms of fluff. that we can maybe inject some
• 1:21:01
  levity into next week's show. So I apologize
• 1:21:04
  for what you've heard today. I don't. And with
• 1:21:08
  that lack of apology from Post Falls, I'm Scott.
• 1:21:13
  And I'm Paul. Taxation is theft. You don't look
• 1:21:19
  ugly today.