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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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  It's No ID, episode 49 of Idaho's mainstream
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  deconstruction. I'm Scott. Hello internet, I'm
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  Paul. It is glorious up here. Not a cloud in
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  the sky. Blueberry skies, baby. Sunshine. As
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  soon as we get done with this podcast, I'm gonna
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  go sit in it like a lizard. But not a lizard
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  person. Like our glorious supreme Chalupa leaders.
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  Not like them. Just gonna go sit in it like a
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  regular lizard who leaves everyone else alone.
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  Minds his own business. Paul's gonna unzip his
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  skin suit and crawl on top of a warm rock. No,
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  no skin suit. I'm just gonna crawl on top of
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  a warm rock Not a lizard person The reptiles
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  have been at it all week. And so as always so
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  we got great Yeah, they have mainstream coverage
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  of the the skin suited reptile anchors news talking
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  head people covering all the our glorious reptiles
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  and Proof that it covers all over the place Scott
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  and I brought up the same article almost at the
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  same time pre -show The algos are synced up.
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  It's like when chicks hang out a lot and their
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  cycles sync up, our algos are synced up. I don't
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  know, but ours is to even greater and more terrifying
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  effect. And speaking of the reptiles and their
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  silliness, to put it very nicely, I have been
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  on a kick of doing satirical memes and posting
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  them across all these different platforms. usually
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  they're involving the actions of the reptiles
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  and uh like for example the last couple I did
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  oh uh you know there was this governor it is
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  a geonfort geonfort in montana uh greg oh geonforte
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  geonforte yep and uh oh he's uh Mm -hmm. Yep.
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  And the big news he he's announced a delegation
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  to Sri Lanka and somewhere else to promote whatever
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  and of course that sparks a huge Why you what
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  do you do you work for the State Department?
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  Like what are you doing going to these places?
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  Why don't you focus on Montana? You know, you're
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  Jim oak. So then I did a satirical meme I did
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  a Governor tiny governor pervert in front of
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  his delegation that is now going to Djibouti
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  in order to promote Boise Pride and Idaho potatoes.
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  And it's of course an absurd image with the potatoes
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  and the trans flag and Governor Little at a podium
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  with the Air Force One in the background. I mean,
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  it's a ridiculous image and the ridiculous text.
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  I'm telling you, people on the internet wouldn't
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  know fire if they were standing in the flames,
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  man. People don't realize it's satire. Yeah,
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  I saw the comments. We're going to Djibouti?
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  Some people were so outraged. They were so outraged
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  by it. Idaho is ridiculous. Finally, somebody
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  cared about our tax money, though. Somebody even
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  brought that up. Are our tax dollars paying for
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  this? It's like, oh, now you care. All right.
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  Welcome to the party. Oh, man. Yay. All right.
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  No, I saw that. That was really that was really
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  great. I I refrained from participating because
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  I knew I knew the moment that I stepped into
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  the fray. It was going to be two or three days
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  of my life that was going to get absorbed on
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  that thread alone. So I had I just left it alone.
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  Cracked a smile and went, oh, oh, you dirty masses.
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  Never change. There's a there's a new there's
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  a Costco opening up next month and diving down
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  in Meridian. It's going to be the eighth Costco
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  in the state of Idaho. So I did another satirical
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  post, excuse me, post this morning. About oh
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  making okay you did so suck and it's you know
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  huge throngs of people rushing to Costco thousands
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  of cars helicopters and it's like oh the board
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  the Ida the Costco's board has announced that
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  it plans to open 250 locations in Idaho by 2030.
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  And people are like, they're like, where are
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  they going to open? Like, what cities are they
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  opening in? This is crazy. Why do we need so
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  many Costco's? Go back to California Costco.
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  Go back to California. You mean the business
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  is based out of Kirkland, Washington. Yeah, that
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  one. Yep. That Costco. It's headquarters in Issaquah
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  is actually where it's where it's White -collar
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  office is a quah. That's really funny. But the
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  company was founded in Kirkland, Washington.
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  You never been to Kirkland, California? It's
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  gorgeous this time. Dude, try to avoid all of
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  California, whether they are real places or not.
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  I avoid them. Fake California, real California,
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  just avoid. Here is, uh, before we get into the
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  clips, the headline is a Costco for every man,
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  woman, and child at Idaho. It's like, help us
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  governor little. It's like German breweries,
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  like, like a breweries per capita in Germany.
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  It's like a brewery for every four adults. That's
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  basically what we're going to go for, for Costco's
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  and in us. I want that. That is the future I
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  want for Idaho. Let's do the drop deliberation
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  death match for this week. From last week's episode,
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  episode number 48, that was with Matt Edwards
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  from the Citizens Alliance of Idaho. And that
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  was a good time hanging out with Matt. And there
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  are a few, including ones with Matt. I have,
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  let's see, four. And also I need to, I should
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  have put together a jingle for the drop. The
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  drop deliberation deathmatch as this is now becoming
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  a regular feature I will maybe I'll do that for
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  next week or somebody wants to put that together
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  and send it in to no ID pod and gmail .com Taking
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  listener entries. We will definitely consider
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  entries from our executive producers Word. All
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  right. Here's the first one because I hate flat
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  surfaces and I really hate women driving on those
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  flat surfaces So that's the whole one. I separated
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  it out. Whoops. No, no, it could be this one.
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  I hate flat surfaces which is not that clean,
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  but it's all right. I hate flat surfaces. And
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  then the second part of it. And I really hate
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  women driving on those flat surfaces. Probably
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  doesn't really stand. So it's either, I would
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  think it would be all the whole thing or just
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  the, I hate flat surfaces. Thoughts? Man, yeah,
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  it will have to be either the first part or all
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  of it. I'm on the fence, dude. That's a coin
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  toss. Coin toss. We'll come back to it. Yeah,
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  we'll come back to it. Yeah, here's what we had
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  already decided as of last week that this Matt
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  Edwards drop is going on the soundboard. How
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  many gay five -year -olds go to school at White
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  Pine? So that's a good one. Here is a deliberation.
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  This is his LGBT acronym. LGBT, BLT, plus lettuce
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  and avocado. Yeah, we'll definitely use that
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  one. LGBT, BLT, plus lettuce and avocado. Okay,
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  good one. I'll take two. They're on the dollar
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  menu. Here's the final one, and it's you again.
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  Oh, my roads. Oh, my roads. Okay, so we covered
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  roads twice now. I think I gotta go with, I hate
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  flat surfaces. I hate flat surfaces. Done. So
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  the rest of them are getting deleted? I kinda
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  like, oh, my roads. Oh, my roads. It's quick,
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  it's snappy. As the keeper of the soundboard,
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  Scott, I mean, ultimately you have the final
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  say. All right. Tuck it away for later or break
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  it out for a rainy day or save it as a little
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  treasure hunt item. I don't know. It's up to
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  you, dude. You have it all on your end. I'm just
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  over here staring at a blank screen. Word. All
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  right. And then there's another follow -up quickly
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  from last week. Not really a follow -up, but
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  it was pointed out to me that in the prop one
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  thing, there was something that we failed to
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  Mention when we when we did the creme channel
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  to clip about Idaho doctors being divided and
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  it's like oh well 800 million of them are for
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  it But there's only 52 of them that are against
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  it that thing and that thing about the yeah Yeah,
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  the red the ratio it was pointed out to me that
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  they they also did the anchor did a weird thing
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  where they said About or around and then gave
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  an exact number listen more than 300 Idaho physicians
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  have signed a letter in support of prop 1 while
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  around 59 physicians have signed a letter around
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  59, around 59. That sounds like an exact number,
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  doesn't it? Well, around 59 physicians have signed
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  a letter against it. Yeah, you know, plus or
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  minus a half or three. I think what was going
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  on there is that unconscious and conscious bias
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  were, you know, when you want a number. So if
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  it's 312 and you'd say. then you'd say over or
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  let's say if it's 302 then you'd say oh your
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  doctors support this or if you're if you're pro
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  it if it's 302 and you're against it then you'd
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  say you know just just over 300 doctors support
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  this exactly you know there's just the the nuance
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  of how you how you say stuff like that if it's
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  59 then you'd go less than 60 are on the other
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  side of it the side i don't support less than
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  60 support it But if you're pro it, then you
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  go, just over 60. Any time you want to find the
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  bias in which way somebody thinks about something
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  and how they're reporting it, just listen for
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  nuance like that. Just over, just under, how
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  big or small do you want to make the number sound
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  based on what your opinion of the issue is. Well,
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  once you hear it or see it, you can't unhear
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  it. You can't unsee it. And then you know, oh,
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  OK, this is the side that these guys are pushing.
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  Speaking of sides being pushed, this also happened
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  last week, but we didn't get to it. And I'm glad
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  we didn't because there was a hilarious kicker
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  follow up. This is the first one from last week
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  from KTVB. Boise police say they're investigating
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  the theft of around 250 political signs that
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  were taken from neighborhoods over the weekend.
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  District 15 Democratic Representative Steve Birch
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  says hundreds of the signs that were taken or
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  his. He says several neighborhoods in District
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  15 were impacted, including his own, and that
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  the signs all appeared to belong to Democrat
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  candidates. Police say around 250 signs were
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  reported stolen around the same time. Birch says
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  the number and. timing of the thefts make him
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  believe that the signs were taken as part of
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  a coordinated effort. They couldn't wait till
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  the guy across the street was done mowing his
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  postage stamp of a lawn. So you got the nice
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  mower. Got to have that sound pop. The nat pop.
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  What's happened here in district. You're just
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  your friendly neighborhood Democrat politician
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  next door to other friendly neighbors, just mowing.
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  You know, he's just a regular suburban guy. Don't
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  worry about it. Talking about the surge in sign
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  stealing. To have. the political signs of the
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  candidates from just one party systematically
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  removed from several subdivisions overnight at
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  the same time is more than just a teenage prank.
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  This only happens if there's a coordinated planned
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  effort to do so, especially when it happens on
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  the same night. Officials say that thefts were
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  reported around 9 o 'clock Saturday morning.
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  ITD also warned that crews may be removing signs,
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  especially in the Eagle Road area, because those
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  signs can block the view from drivers. And just
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  minutes ago, police releasing these pictures
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  of the potential suspect's car. According to
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  officers, around 100 signs have since been recovered.
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  If you recognize any of these people or the car,
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  you're asked to call the number on your screen.
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  okay so that was the story there was like an
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  obama an obama 2008 bumper sticker on the car
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  that they caught yeah exactly like you know this
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  guy's like oh i've never seen anything like this
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  that the the signs from all of one party would
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  be targeted i guess he is he new here i guess
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  it's his first day or maybe he's never lived
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  in a blue state i don't know but uh here's the
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  hilarious follow -up from npr Boise police say
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  about 200 election yard signs have been recovered
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  and are being returned to their owners, and several
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  juveniles have been identified as having taken
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  the signs from yards in West Boise. Police say
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  there is no evidence of political motivation.
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  A department spokesperson says the signs represented
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  multiple candidates and issues. Democratic Representative
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  Steve Birx had said last weekend that... Signed
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  thefts in West Boise were only affecting Democratic
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  candidates. Police say no charges have been filed
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  and no reports have been sent to the county prosecutor's
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  office. Listen to the kid gloves that NPR treats
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  him with. Listen to that again. Democratic representative
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  Steve Birch had said last weekend that signed
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  thefts in West Boise were only affecting Democratic
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  candidates. Police say no. Now, how would they
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  have framed that if it was a... Conservative
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  Christian policy group. Far right the far right
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  candidates were falsely claimed falsely claimed
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  falsely claimed Yeah Uh -huh. Yeah good times
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  No, it's just an honest mistake just an honest
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  mistake all them signs getting stolen You want
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  to an ask Paul my signs my signs That's so rich.
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  I love it. I'm just marinating in it for a minute.
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  Okay, go on your way That this wasn't a coordinated
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  effort by the far -right bad guys targeting one
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  party possible way just one party Could do what
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  he I think he literally says there's no way this
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  could have been like youths messing around Let's
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  hear it. It's no possible way several neighborhoods
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  in district 50 What's happened here in District
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  15 is unprecedented. To have the political signs
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  of the candidates from just one party systematically
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  removed from several subdivisions overnight at
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  the same time is more than just a teenage prank.
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  It literally was a teenage prank, but okay. Whomp,
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  whomp, turns out. Turns out. Inconceivable. That's
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  so good. Is more than just a teenage prank. And
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  in follow -up news, it was a teenage prank. Too
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  good. We have sort of a problem here. This is
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  this only happens if some if there's a coordinated
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  planned effort to do so, especially when it happens
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  at the same on the same night. So he's got, you
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  know, there's like guys in the in the basement
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  and there's they have the boards full of papers
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  and they're they're dragging the the yarn with
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  the pushpin connecting one thing to the other.
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  You know, they got magnifying glasses. They have
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  they're wearing ski masks. It's like it's like
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  Ocean's Eleven. or was it just a bunch of teenagers
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  in a Yaris with an Obama 08 sticker? Dude, unprecedented.
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  This guy clearly has never met a Republican in
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  Moscow, Idaho who, you know, will get his tires
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  slashed if he has a conservative bumper sticker
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  on his car. In blood red Idaho, but you know,
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  in deep blue Moscow. Yeah, try living in a blue
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  town and let everybody know you're Republican.
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  See what happens to your stuff. Mean neither.
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  It's not cool either way. We will say it obvious
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  I don't think we should have to go on record
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  to say it because it's a given We're libertarians.
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  We respect property, you know property above
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  all else other than life and those are closely
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  linked Yeah, it's all it's all dumb and lame
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  and fake and gay and don't touch other people's
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  stuff, but it is pretty hilarious There's no
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  way This could have been anything other than
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  the work of those far -right bastards Christian
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  policy group, the far -right activists. Should
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  we do an Ask Paul? Are you ready for one? I'm
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  ready. Let's do it. Here comes the question.
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  Big or small, make your guess before we call.
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  The game begins. It's Ask Paul. Brought to you
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  by Pfizer. Superintendent Debbie Critchfield
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  told CBS 2 Fox 9 in an emailed statement her
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  reason for backing out of the televised debate
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  was due to the third party candidate, Teresa
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  Roundy, being excluded due to not meeting a campaign
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  fundraising threshold. Critchfield had participated
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  in a debate in late September hosted by Idaho
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  Ed News in which Roundy also did not qualify
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  due to lack of fundraising. In her emailed statement,
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  Critchfield said, quote, my decision to change
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  debate formats for the third debate is rooted
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  in the principle that citizens should decide
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  who they want to select on their ballot. There
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  are three candidates in this race, and I believe
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  voters deserve the opportunity to hear from all
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  three. Going on to say it's not hers or anyone
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  else's place to decide for voters which candidates
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  are viable. She also said she asked her Democratic
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  opponent, Becky Sundan Mitchell, to join her
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  in the request and that Mitchell declined. In
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  response, Mitchell told CBS 2 Fox 9 in an email
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  Thursday afternoon, she was informed of Critchfield's
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  hesitation to participate, but never asked to
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  join her request, and wasn't informed of the
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  debate cancellation until KTVB emailed her campaign.
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  She went on to say, quote, I welcome Roundy's
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  participation, but honor my commitment and the
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  common participation criteria media outlets use
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  for their debate forums. Idaho voters deserve
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  to hear directly from the candidates seeking
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  to lead their public schools. Roundy, the Constitution
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  Party, candidate told CBS 2 Fox 9 Thursday morning
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  she appreciates Critchfield's quote commitment
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  to operating within a strong value system which
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  truly reflects character and integrity as of
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  October 1st the candidates fundraising shows
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  Critchfield raising a hundred fifty six thousand
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  dollars Mitchell raising around twenty one thousand
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  dollars and Roundy how much is Roundy raised
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  and you could you can it doesn't have to be on
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  the nose although you get bonus double mega bonus
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  points if you hit it on the nose Roundy has probably
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  raised somewhere in between three and five thousand
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  dollars and I would wager that most of that is
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  from herself Maybe a few family members, maybe
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  one or two libertarian donors. I'm gonna go with
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  $3 ,500 Critchfield raising $156 ,000 Mitchell
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  raising around $21 ,000 and Roundy has yet to
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  receive any contributions. Oh damn. I mean like
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  wow So her campaign is like negative $10 ,000
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  probably at this point. It's in the red, yeah.
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  I loved that. Critchfield has raised $80 billion
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  and the other candidate has raised nothing. Imagine
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  that. The establishment candidate has all the
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  money. The one that says she's a Republican,
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  but actually looks an awful lot like a Democrat.
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  The one that says she's a Democrat, but I'll
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  actually... you know looks an awful lot like
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  a full -blown communist and then the libertarian
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  who should be everybody's favorite but has no
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  money i think my favorite part is this common
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  theme we see where one candidate goes says yeah
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  i reached out to my opponent and asked them to
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  do blotty blotty blah and then they interview
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  the opponent and the opponent's like they never
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  talked to me i never heard anything about this
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  like how what we've got here is failure to communicate.
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  How can both sides be so polar opposite on that
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  on that part of the story? Yeah, I talked to
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  her. No, she didn't. No, never. Okay, well, one
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  of you one of you is wrong. Yeah, it's not a
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  policy debate difference of opinion. It's a no.
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  This is a this is a zero sum game here. This
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  is a zero sum question. So I think that funny
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  enough, of all the things that stuck out to me,
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  that's the thing that stuck out the most is like,
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  how do you how do you guys are you not on the
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  same page for that? Um, yeah, I heard about it.
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  And of course, on Facebook, Critchfield caught
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  a bunch of flack for backing out of this because
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  oh, she does, you know, she's hiding and she
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  doesn't she won't debate it. And anybody who'd
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  been paying attention, myself included, who already
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  knew it was like she This is the third debate
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  and it did mention in your sound, in your audio
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  there, it did mention there would have been the
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  third debate. So they'd already had two. So,
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  I mean, it's a hell of a thing to accuse your
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  opponent of being scared, backing out and trying
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  to dodge you when you've already had two debates.
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  It is an interesting tactic. Like why now? Why
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  not? Why not for the first debate? I don't understand.
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  Why are you on debate number three? And finally,
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  you go, you know what? I think we I think we
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  should get a different perspective in here. It's
• 21:41
  the principle of it's the it's the principle
• 21:43
  of the thing. Meanwhile, us as libertarians are
• 21:47
  like, wait, we might get invited to something.
• 21:49
  So you're telling me there's a chance. No, there's
• 21:53
  no money. You don't have any money. You can't
• 21:55
  you can't pay the cover. There's a five dollar
• 21:57
  cover and you have zero dollars. So but. Man,
• 22:03
  but women get in free, so they all should have
• 22:06
  a shot here. Oh, it's ladies night. I really
• 22:08
  do like the part where the Democrat who was already
• 22:11
  in the minority party and already at a distinct
• 22:14
  disadvantage, you would think that the Democrat
• 22:16
  of all people would be like, yeah, you know,
• 22:18
  let's let the younger sibling in. Like, maybe
• 22:23
  we all should get a chance to be heard. But the
• 22:27
  Democrats like, nah, no. Oh man, I just I just
• 22:35
  like the part where we did that being a libertarian
• 22:37
  just it never changes it's always the same even
• 22:39
  when the powerhouse candidates like yeah let
• 22:43
  the libertarian in and everybody goes nah and
• 22:46
  we as libertarians just go you know how much
• 22:49
  rejection I face every day also we're used to
• 22:52
  it can I get some money please anybody Zero dollars.
• 23:00
  Damn. It actually crossed my mind, but I thought,
• 23:02
  nah, there's no way. Like her elite, her dad
• 23:05
  had to have donated something or, you know, a
• 23:07
  couple of friends or, or the libertarian party
• 23:10
  of Idaho maybe are kicked in a thousand bucks
• 23:13
  or something. Nope. She's got nothing. She's
• 23:16
  raised zero. Here is a close to her though. Genuinely.
• 23:20
  Good job giving it a shot. I respect you. And
• 23:23
  I don't, I don't think she was on my ballot.
• 23:25
  I already voted. I mailed it in. I did not vote.
• 23:27
  for the Republican or the Democrat. I think I
• 23:29
  left it blank. I don't think Roundy was on my
• 23:31
  ballot. Well, why would she be? Yeah, well, she
• 23:36
  didn't have enough, I guess, fundraising. The
• 23:39
  issue was fundraising. That's what they said.
• 23:41
  If I heard that correctly, it wasn't even that
• 23:43
  she didn't have enough, quote unquote, votes.
• 23:46
  It was fundraising. That's what they said. She
• 23:47
  didn't have enough money. OK, that's another
• 23:51
  thing we got to unpack real fast than Scott.
• 23:53
  If that's if I heard that correctly and that's
• 23:55
  how they go off of it. That is financial gatekeeping.
• 23:58
  Your campaign doesn't have many money or not
• 24:02
  enough money. It doesn't meet the money threshold,
• 24:04
  so you don't get a voice. Let's make sure you
• 24:08
  heard it. Critchfield has participated in a debate
• 24:10
  in late September hosted by Idaho Ed News in
• 24:13
  which Roundy also did not qualify due to lack
• 24:16
  of fundraising. I mean, you can't get any clearer
• 24:19
  than that. So you don't have enough money. You
• 24:23
  don't get to debate. You don't get a voice. What
• 24:25
  they said. Man, it's almost like Politics hasn't
• 24:30
  changed. What are you new here? OK, so let's
• 24:37
  do let's do this. I think this is another follow
• 24:40
  up. This is the we did this last week with Matt
• 24:44
  Edwards. It was the Hayden and Kootenai County
• 24:49
  Sheriff's Office. Whatever kerfuffle. Here's
• 24:52
  just a quick refresher from four news now. In
• 24:55
  North Idaho News tonight, the Hayden City Council
• 24:57
  voted to cancel the city's contract with the
• 25:00
  Kootenai County Sheriff's Office this week. That
• 25:02
  means the city won't have sheriff's deputies
• 25:04
  dedicated to patrolling its streets. So the sheriff's
• 25:07
  office will still respond to calls in Hayden,
• 25:09
  but won't have deputies dedicated to patrolling
• 25:12
  the city. The last contract offered by the sheriff's
• 25:14
  office included going from five deputies to four,
• 25:17
  which would have saved the city $113 ,000. The
• 25:21
  city council rejected it partly because the consulting
• 25:24
  the city hired found more than 60 % of service
• 25:27
  hours by the sheriff's office in Hayden were
• 25:30
  unaccounted for. The Hayden City Council estimates
• 25:33
  that ending its contract with the Kootenai County
• 25:35
  Sheriff's Office would triple response times,
• 25:38
  but they made it clear that they voted to end
• 25:40
  the contract because they want more transparency
• 25:42
  on what their money is being spent on. Now then.
• 25:46
  I have audio from the, we haven't done one of
• 25:48
  these in a while, from the Kootenai County Board
• 25:50
  of Commissioners meeting. And this is another,
• 25:53
  this is another, remember it was Bella Kovacs
• 25:56
  who lost for the, his reelection campaign for
• 25:59
  Kootenai County Assessor. If you remember it
• 26:01
  was Bruce Matari, the glorious Burrito Supreme
• 26:04
  Leader of the County Commissioners versus Bella
• 26:07
  Kovacs and the sort of contentious barbs or whatever
• 26:11
  back and forth you recall. This one is... Shut
• 26:14
  up when you're talking to me. Who's speaking?
• 26:18
  It's Bella. You scheduled this call with me.
• 26:19
  The guy you called to testify. That's me. The
• 26:23
  assessor. You called me. Do you think Bruce Matari
• 26:27
  has a secretary lady who does outgoing calls
• 26:30
  and then tells you to hold? You answer the phone.
• 26:32
  You're like, hello? And she's like, please hold
• 26:34
  for Bruce Matari. Like, what the? You called
• 26:35
  me. Oh, I love that. That's fantastic. Okay.
• 26:42
  Call Bella. Okay, Bella answers. All right. Hello,
• 26:45
  this is Bella. Hey, shut up, Bella. Shut up when
• 26:48
  you're talking to me. Oh, so good. All right.
• 26:51
  So here is Bruce up on the dais, wearing a crown
• 26:57
  of precious jewels and holding a scepter, speaking
• 27:00
  in person this time, so we can't tell him to
• 27:02
  hold Sheriff Bob Norris. Next up is the Hayden
• 27:06
  law enforcement contract. I'm very disappointed.
• 27:12
  I put a lot of effort into helping the sheriff's
• 27:15
  office fulfill the requests of the city of Hayden.
• 27:18
  Does Bruce speak? I do not think that the city
• 27:20
  of Hayden was unreasonable by asking for this
• 27:22
  type of accountability. And so here we are where
• 27:25
  the county basically was supposed to get about
• 27:29
  a million eighty thousand for this contract.
• 27:33
  That's why he's upset. Decided not to renew it.
• 27:36
  And so because our revenue is short, as a result
• 27:39
  of this, it's time to start having a discussion
• 27:43
  about what should be cut. Now this is all part,
• 27:45
  this is about a 15 minute exchange. And the room,
• 27:48
  you know, sometimes depending on the issue, sometimes
• 27:51
  the room can be like standing room only if it's
• 27:53
  really contentious. Most of the time it's like
• 27:55
  stark raving empty, or there's like one person.
• 27:58
  In this case, just for context, as you can kind
• 28:00
  of picture, it was like half full. And so here's
• 28:03
  Norris now and he's, and it's a part of it. Real
• 28:05
  quick though, we already got a note that like
• 28:08
  they're upset for the same, like here it is.
• 28:11
  It's always this money. Just in case you guys
• 28:14
  were wondering, this is why Bruce is mad. Money.
• 28:17
  So it has nothing to do with the lack of accountability.
• 28:20
  It has nothing to do with the fact that the sheriff
• 28:22
  can't like, they don't care. if the sheriff can't
• 28:26
  come up with the numbers or they don't care if
• 28:29
  any department can't come up with the reason
• 28:30
  why they're doing what they're doing. They only
• 28:32
  care because they lost the contract. Now they're
• 28:35
  down a million bucks. And the fact that their
• 28:37
  general budget depends so heavily on the city
• 28:40
  of Hayden buying a million dollars worth of policing
• 28:43
  service from the county, that right there, that
• 28:48
  right there ought to get you really wondering
• 28:51
  just what the fuck's going on over there because
• 28:53
  that, you shouldn't be leaning on the million
• 28:56
  dollars that hard in a budget that's so much
• 28:58
  bigger than that and you sure as shit shouldn't
• 29:00
  be leaning on it when it's you selling policing
• 29:03
  services to a city that just happens to be Already
• 29:07
  a part of your county and also by the way geographically,
• 29:10
  you know that like the city of Hayden starts
• 29:13
  where the north end of Coeur d 'Alene ends and
• 29:17
  where the sheriff's department where the sheriff
• 29:19
  building is and the the the depot where all of
• 29:22
  the fucking county cars come out of is only a,
• 29:27
  what is it? Three city blocks? It's a mile or
• 29:30
  less. It's less than a mile from the southern
• 29:32
  border of Hayden. So the county sheriff's department
• 29:38
  is positioned as good as you could possibly be
• 29:42
  geographically to already be in Hayden just normally.
• 29:47
  Talk about tripling response times. To drive
• 29:50
  to Hayden from the sheriff's department is Three
• 29:55
  minutes now Hayden begins and stretches further
• 30:00
  north of course, but you know, come on like This
• 30:04
  is all absurd all of this if you're looking for
• 30:07
  if you're looking for the Offices that Paul is
• 30:10
  describing just for a landmark just for a visual
• 30:12
  reference Just look for these shattered glass
• 30:15
  from Ryan McClintock's bat. I guess I'll go Speaking
• 30:21
  of Bob Norris while Bruce is wearing his his
• 30:23
  crown of jewels Bob Norris, I think is wearing
• 30:25
  one of those multicolored caps with the spinny
• 30:29
  rotor on top. Yeah All right, here is the response
• 30:46
  now this is part of about a 15 -minute exchange
• 30:48
  which I show art I cut way down Bob Norris Bob
• 30:53
  Norris with a helicopter hat, you know, it's
• 30:57
  out in a way. Okay, let me I'll write that down
• 30:59
  in a moment. Next to, like, presenting to, okay,
• 31:05
  Bruce Matare up at the, you know, behind where
• 31:08
  they sit all high and mighty as the board of
• 31:10
  commissioners with his crown of jewels and Bob
• 31:14
  Norris at the dais or whatever the hell that's
• 31:18
  called, the podium where he's like facing them
• 31:21
  and under, you know, under, not investigation,
• 31:23
  but you know what I mean, standing there giving
• 31:25
  testimony, wearing his helicopter hat. I can't
• 31:28
  have written this down. This is good. It's very,
• 31:31
  very, very Idaho -specific. A very small percentage
• 31:34
  of people will understand the visual, but for
• 31:36
  the ones who get it, it'll be gold. I don't care.
• 31:38
  The important thing is that it makes me happy.
• 31:41
  Here is Mr. Windup Beanie's response. And this
• 31:44
  is part of about a 15 -minute exchange that I
• 31:47
  cut way down. Thank you for that political fiction
• 31:50
  dialogue. Thank you very much for that. I'm here
• 31:54
  more for the interest of public safety. in the
• 31:57
  city of Hayden, of course, and always in the
• 32:00
  county of CUNY. That's what I'm here for. So
• 32:03
  we've been working with some Hayden officials
• 32:05
  that are here to try to preserve this contract.
• 32:08
  I'm surprised he didn't say pervert. You just
• 32:10
  heard the city manager say the main reason is
• 32:13
  that we want accountability. They have to be
• 32:15
  able to tell their taxpayers where the money
• 32:19
  is being spent. And that is not what a novel
• 32:22
  concept. Think you would agree with that. Where
• 32:24
  are your recommendations when I gave you access
• 32:28
  to this software? To analyze it with you and
• 32:31
  an expert. Where are your recommendations to
• 32:34
  put that procedure in place? Okay, first of all,
• 32:37
  I never had access to the software I was never
• 32:39
  given wait a minute credential Okay We got to
• 32:43
  come up with some I don't know a name a mechanism
• 32:46
  a game something because here we go again Scott
• 32:49
  How many times how many times this happened with
• 32:51
  the Bella Kovach thing too? where they're like,
• 32:55
  Hey Bella, we told you this and this. And Bella's
• 32:58
  like, I never got that memo. And I told these
• 33:01
  people this and that. And the count and the county
• 33:03
  commission was like, we never got that memo.
• 33:07
  Debbie Critchfield says she talked to her opponent
• 33:09
  and encouraged her to also back out. So the third
• 33:12
  party person could get a slot. And the Democrat
• 33:14
  lady says, no, I never heard from Critchfield.
• 33:18
  Well now here you go. Bob Norris is like, Bruce,
• 33:22
  I done told you you could do the Blirty Blur
• 33:23
  with me and an expert and everything, Blirty
• 33:25
  Blirty Blur. And Bruce is like, no, I never got
• 33:28
  that memo. It's kind of like listening to your
• 33:36
  children who are, you know, eight and 10 argue.
• 33:42
  Well, you said I could borrow this toy. No, I
• 33:45
  never said that. You just took it to your room.
• 33:47
  You never even asked. Yes, I did. I asked mom.
• 33:51
  Mom never told me what we need in this house
• 33:55
  is more accountability. When you borrow my toys,
• 33:57
  you tell me not mom. Nobody told me anything.
• 34:01
  You're all grounded. I don't care. I don't care
• 34:04
  who started it. We need us the taxpayers to just
• 34:08
  go into these meetings and go everybody shut
• 34:10
  up. You're all grounded. Give me our money back.
• 34:12
  Just give it back. You can't be trusted with
• 34:15
  it. You children. Hey, you, you and the wind
• 34:18
  up beanie face the corner. Oh, yeah. We're here.
• 34:23
  Here's a dunce cap to wear over your wind up
• 34:25
  beanie. You children. It gets it gets better
• 34:30
  if you can believe it. I agree. I agree with
• 34:34
  that. Now, let me if I could answer your question.
• 34:36
  OK, answer. I think you've been incorporating
• 34:40
  that into the Ask Paul jingle. Answer. Let's
• 34:42
  go answer the question. Okay, answer. The answer
• 34:47
  is my roads. The recommendation is the training
• 34:51
  components that you have to start using it in
• 34:54
  a way that the information going in can be extracted
• 34:59
  out properly. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Sorry,
• 35:04
  loves doing that. Okay. It's in the same, it's
• 35:08
  from the same school of political communication
• 35:10
  where you learn to lead sentences with look.
• 35:13
  You better watch out. You start with look and
• 35:16
  you end with okay. Okay. Okay. Right. Right.
• 35:24
  We need this money, Bruce. Right? You better
• 35:27
  be careful though. You're messing around with
• 35:29
  the sheriff. You shout like that, they put you
• 35:32
  in jail. Yeah. Right. You start talking down
• 35:34
  to the sheriff. Also jail. Yeah, when you start
• 35:37
  talking about accountability to the sheriff.
• 35:39
  Believe it or not, Jen. Right. Better be careful.
• 35:44
  Let's continue on. Mind you. we are using a software
• 35:47
  system by the way this whole thing is about oh
• 35:50
  we we can't like you heard in the in the news
• 35:52
  report oh we can't account for uh the time you
• 35:55
  know the deputy 60 percent of the deputies time
• 35:57
  is is unlogged unaccounted for so what are we
• 36:00
  paying for and this is like well you use this
• 36:02
  use the motorola software to log this and why
• 36:05
  haven't you logged that and why hasn't the city
• 36:06
  gotten reports and why hasn't the sheriff's office
• 36:08
  this and why hasn't the county commissioners
• 36:10
  told the sheriff's office how to that's what
• 36:12
  The dispute is over is over accounting for time.
• 36:15
  Mind you, we are what Bruce Commissioner King
• 36:18
  Bruce doesn't understand is that a lot of the
• 36:21
  time would have been more easy to account for
• 36:23
  if the sheriff's department was able to patrol
• 36:27
  Hayden from the sky in their helicopter. Sure.
• 36:32
  That the county didn't let them have. Then all
• 36:35
  of the hours would have been logged. Of course,
• 36:37
  they would have burned through that million bucks
• 36:39
  in like two tours. You know helicopters are cheap.
• 36:44
  It's the fuel to get you By the way, you know,
• 36:47
  you say King Bruce. I mean, it's so it's it's
• 36:49
  pretty hilariously literal You know, he's sitting
• 36:51
  in the he's sitting in the center Mark Eberlein
• 36:54
  They're three county commissioners Mark Eberlein
• 36:56
  said not word one through this entire thing I'm
• 36:59
  pretty sure mark is probably taking a nap or
• 37:02
  digging the crumbs out of his mustache or both
• 37:04
  That is exactly what it looked like. He looked
• 37:07
  frozen as a matter of fact, you remember the
• 37:09
  looped video from the movie speed? where they're
• 37:11
  trying to convince the bomber that the bus is
• 37:13
  still driving and they just loop the same 60
• 37:15
  seconds. And if not for the little tiny glitch
• 37:17
  of him wiping the crumbs from his mustache, you
• 37:20
  wouldn't have even noticed. That's basically
• 37:22
  what Eberlein looked like the whole time. Duncan,
• 37:25
  the other one, Leslie Duncan did say. a couple
• 37:28
  things. Bruce doesn't know it or not. Bruce Everline
• 37:31
  doesn't know what to do because like no matter
• 37:33
  what I'm sure in his mind, he's thinking this
• 37:36
  is all bullshit and he's the most libertarian
• 37:38
  of the three and he's not really libertarian.
• 37:40
  He's a trad Catholic. So he's not libertarian,
• 37:43
  but he's, you know, you could say he's more of
• 37:45
  what, what we would expect a true conservative
• 37:48
  to be, which is It's more libertarian, especially
• 37:52
  as the Overton window continues to move left.
• 37:55
  True conservatives from even 10 years ago are
• 37:57
  basically libertarians now, but I digress. So,
• 38:01
  but Eberlein can't say anything about any of
• 38:03
  it because you can't badmouth the cops because
• 38:07
  this is Northern Idaho, North Idaho blood red
• 38:11
  conservative, and God forbid you ever go against
• 38:13
  the police ever on anything. So you're already
• 38:15
  stuck there. You can't go against the other candidates
• 38:17
  because they're all recommended by the KCRCC.
• 38:20
  Like he's got no room to move. So Eberlein has
• 38:22
  to just sit there and just let this happen and
• 38:27
  glitch out and glitch out every 58 seconds. That's
• 38:30
  basically what he was doing. Leslie Duncan, the
• 38:32
  commissioner, he's a he's like, it's like a T
• 38:34
  -Rex. If I don't move, it can't kill me. The
• 38:39
  of the third commissioner Leslie Duncan she did
• 38:41
  toward the end a chime in I don't think I included
• 38:44
  in this clip because whatever it was sort of
• 38:46
  procedural But yeah, I mean, you know matari
• 38:48
  does 90 % of the of the talking 95 % but okay
• 38:52
  Here's some more of it. Mind you we are using
• 38:56
  a software system. That is over 30 years old.
• 38:59
  This is Norris Thirty years. Wow. Here's the
• 39:03
  problem, is that that is the easy answer for
• 39:05
  you to explain away your inability to provide
• 39:08
  reports. That software is fully updated. We've
• 39:12
  purchased a ton of modules, including contract
• 39:16
  cities. We're probably getting somewhere in the
• 39:19
  neighborhood of 30 to 45 percent utilization
• 39:22
  out of that software. We pay for all the updates.
• 39:26
  We pay for the modules whenever your staff come
• 39:28
  and ask for them. You have that's true software
• 39:32
  just because something was built 30 years ago
• 39:34
  doesn't mean that it's outdated In fact windows
• 39:38
  was built a long time ago, but as long as you
• 39:40
  continue to get the updates You have the latest
• 39:43
  version and that's exactly what your office has
• 39:45
  And now here and know what do you say to that?
• 39:49
  Sheriff Norris interesting That's fair though.
• 39:53
  That's fair. Yep. So here's his response So you
• 39:56
  don't have any recommendations from your task
• 39:58
  force? Okay, you can provide this political theater
• 40:02
  that you're creating. It's not political theater.
• 40:05
  This is total. You are not you are not interested
• 40:08
  in public safety in the city of Hayden care about
• 40:11
  the kids. This is a political theater. It's Hayden.
• 40:14
  So it's only old people. You don't care about
• 40:17
  the old people. Won't somebody please? Well,
• 40:20
  please think of the boomers think of the boomers.
• 40:23
  Why don't you oh my god those poor retired rich
• 40:26
  business owners and their three golf courses
• 40:28
  up in Hayden who who will protect them? boomers
• 40:35
  The quietest wealthiest corner of north, Idaho.
• 40:38
  What will we do? Why don't you tell we'll just
• 40:41
  have regular policing Why don't you tell the
• 40:45
  public what recommendations that you and your
• 40:47
  task force? Presented to the sheriff's office
• 40:50
  for zero As a county I'm really confused though
• 40:54
  here about this part and I know I'm sorry I'm
• 40:55
  cutting the shit out of this audio that you've
• 40:57
  put together and God bless you for go Hey, God
• 40:59
  bless you Scott for going through this God, please
• 41:02
  value for value like I Man I'm telling you I
• 41:07
  really appreciate what you do. Yeah everybody
• 41:09
  the fact that Scott even put Listen to more than
• 41:13
  five minutes of this. He deserves he deserves
• 41:15
  your Schmeckles By the way, they don't go into
• 41:18
  my pocket or at least like Yeah, anyways, y 'all
• 41:21
  get the idea. It's a group effort and I helped
• 41:24
  the least. Woo, group projects. But Michael,
• 41:28
  what the fuck are they talking about here? Norris
• 41:32
  is accusing the county commissioners, specifically
• 41:36
  Bruce, of not giving recommendations to the sheriff's
• 41:44
  department. But if I'm like a reading like I'm
• 41:47
  a thinking reasonable human being I'm pretty
• 41:49
  sure it's the sheriff's department's job to Execute
• 41:54
  the contract on their own and figure out and
• 41:57
  problem like problem solve that stuff. Like what
• 41:59
  am I missing here? How is it? How is it the county's
• 42:02
  job? To tell the county sheriff How to do their
• 42:07
  job. I don't know. This is I this is the same
• 42:10
  question I had Isn't that why you have a sheriff
• 42:13
  and an undershirt? Because the sheriff is an
• 42:15
  administrative position. The sheriff is not the
• 42:17
  guy who goes and arrest people. He's strictly
• 42:18
  an administrative. Like, that's what your job
• 42:21
  is. I don't know. I was missing it too. I'm on
• 42:26
  the right track here, right? I think so. And
• 42:28
  it seems like Norris is... to sort of just deflecting
• 42:32
  responsibility. And I'm saying that as someone
• 42:34
  I'm just obviously a surface level observer here.
• 42:37
  So I don't know that I'm not in the mix of this
• 42:40
  crap. I'm just listening to what these guys are
• 42:42
  saying. And it seems like Norris is no fan of
• 42:44
  either of these guys. So we're not like I I'm
• 42:47
  not taking Bruce's side ever on any topic. But
• 42:50
  if you are objectively correct or if we're talking
• 42:52
  about, you know, the appropriate roles of whatever
• 42:55
  position they fill that I mean, I don't think
• 42:57
  any of it should exist, but fuck it. It's here.
• 42:59
  We have to pay for it. It exists. Here they are
• 43:01
  bickering like eight and 10 year old children,
• 43:04
  like siblings who took each other's toy and then
• 43:07
  just deny it or something. They're like, well,
• 43:08
  what is your recommendation? How do I get my
• 43:09
  toy back? Well, what is your recommendation?
• 43:12
  Well, that's a terrible idea. It's like, yeah,
• 43:15
  but but it's your job. So that's where I'm confused.
• 43:20
  The sheriff is upset because the county's not
• 43:22
  giving them recommendations on how to do their
• 43:25
  job. And it's Bob Norris, the sheriff's job to
• 43:28
  figure out how to do a good job when the city
• 43:32
  of Hayden pays them a million dollars for the
• 43:35
  contract to do the thing that department is literally
• 43:38
  designed to do, which is police work. Right.
• 43:41
  Then I get all that. Okay. Thanks. Sorry. There's
• 43:46
  30 more seconds of this nonsense. And we think
• 43:49
  society would collapse without these people,
• 43:51
  by the way. I just have to throw that in. At
• 43:53
  this point, how are all of you not anarchists?
• 43:57
  Listen to these people. As a county commissioner,
• 44:01
  it's my job to look out for the taxpayers of
• 44:04
  the county. And up until I started looking at
• 44:07
  this contract, you were happy to... It was a
• 44:11
  yes or no question. You were happy to get into...
• 44:13
  What is this, a Senate committee hearing? Exactly.
• 44:16
  Exactly. You want to talk about political theater.
• 44:18
  You know, that's like a classic. It was a yes
• 44:22
  or no question, Senator. It was a yes or no question.
• 44:25
  Nothing's a yes or no question, dude. Like these
• 44:27
  are long form conversations, man. Like give me
• 44:30
  a break. And up until I started looking at this
• 44:33
  contract, you were happy to. It was a yes or
• 44:36
  no question. You were happy to get into a contract
• 44:39
  where the county would have lost seven hundred
• 44:42
  thousand dollars. Yeah, who cares not his money,
• 44:46
  you know Norris is making a hundred forty five
• 44:48
  K from a year from his position And my understanding
• 44:51
  is he also collects other monies from out -of
• 44:53
  -state pensions. I didn't actually look into
• 44:55
  that Oh, yeah uncorroborated. Yeah, but I've
• 44:57
  heard that but you know what he's from California
• 45:00
  and he came up on a disability Setup, that's
• 45:05
  what I heard. Yeah, he is he's some percentage.
• 45:08
  It's not a hundred percent, but he's some percentage
• 45:10
  of qualified disabled, coming from California
• 45:13
  on a pension from that state. Comes up here,
• 45:18
  runs for sheriff. And when he first ran for sheriff,
• 45:20
  Scott, so a little bit of background, when he
• 45:22
  first ran for sheriff, he actually had the full
• 45:24
  support of the Coeur d 'Alene press, of the Coeur
• 45:27
  d 'Alene cartel, of Hagadon, of all of the people
• 45:30
  involved in the quote unquote beautiful people's
• 45:32
  club downtown Coeur d 'Alene that pull all the
• 45:34
  levers. They thought he was gonna be their man.
• 45:37
  Yeah, he ran against Whitehead. Richard Whitehead,
• 45:40
  who ran kind of as a libertarian -esque sheriff,
• 45:43
  I actually backed Whitehead. I mean, dude, we're
• 45:44
  talking back now in 2016, I believe. It's 2016?
• 45:48
  No, 2020, 2018 or 2020. Yeah, because when I
• 45:53
  went in there in 2020, sheriff had just been,
• 45:56
  so it was 2020, 2020 election. Sheriff Bob Norris
• 46:00
  was like brand spanking new, I think. And he
• 46:03
  got the support of the cartel because he came
• 46:05
  up from California. He had all the right certs
• 46:07
  he on paper He looked like he was gonna be their
• 46:08
  guy then he turned out to not be their guy and
• 46:11
  now they hate him But real conservatives also
• 46:15
  hate him. So now he's sort of stuck in no man's
• 46:17
  land It's an interesting spot for Bob Norris,
• 46:20
  but he's not a good person not a good guy not
• 46:22
  good politics I wish him nothing but the worst
• 46:25
  He deserves he deserves his shitty life. Fuck
• 46:28
  you very much Bob Norris. Yeah, let's Let's ask
• 46:32
  quickly the robot. I want to put some numbers
• 46:33
  on it as concise as concisely as possible. Give
• 46:37
  me the numbers for Sheriff Bob Norris and what
• 46:40
  he is collecting from his out of state pensions
• 46:42
  and disability. Checking now. Yeah, he's, um,
• 46:50
  the public. His Lacerra disability benefit was
• 46:53
  about one hundred and eighty six thousand six
• 46:56
  hundred and seventy six dollars a year in twenty
• 46:58
  twenty three. Is that all roughly one hundred
• 47:00
  and forty five thousand dollars salary as Kootenai
• 47:03
  County Sheriff. So around $332 ,000 a year combined
• 47:08
  before taxes. Yep. So, you know, he's good to
• 47:12
  be king. He's doing all right for himself. Yeah.
• 47:15
  I'd say I'll say, yeah, all on the taxpayer dime.
• 47:18
  Man, I'll tell you what, the protection racket
• 47:20
  is a good racket to be in. It sure would be a
• 47:24
  shame if this place went unpoliced. What about
• 47:26
  your safety, citizen? I mean, if it weren't for
• 47:29
  the cops, somebody might come along and shatter
• 47:31
  your windows. I guess I'll go arrest Bob Norris
• 47:36
  my fucking self! Very last part of this. You
• 47:38
  want to talk about public safety or do you want
• 47:40
  to continue this? Well, actually, the only question
• 47:43
  is what does this board want to do with respect
• 47:45
  to the budget? Like here's the kicker. Here's
• 47:49
  the kicker Paul. What do you think they're gonna
• 47:50
  do with the budget? Because you know, they're
• 47:51
  talking with the we're just where we've reached
• 47:53
  the point we need to make cuts What cuts do we
• 47:54
  need to make? You're gonna hear from the other
• 47:57
  the other one of the other commissioners Leslie
• 47:58
  Duncan this, you know What on the fly ask ball
• 48:00
  here comes the question big or small make your
• 48:03
  guess before we call the game begins. It's asked
• 48:07
  Brought to you by Pfizer. What do you think they're
• 48:09
  gonna cut? I don't think they're gonna cut anything.
• 48:14
  I think they're gonna talk about raising rates
• 48:16
  next year Well, we're gonna have to charge the
• 48:20
  property owners another percentage point or two
• 48:22
  either this if not this election cycle the next
• 48:24
  election cycle Like to hear from the city of
• 48:27
  Hayden if they're interested in going month -to
• 48:29
  -month, so we don't have to make any cuts I win
• 48:37
  no cuts. Yeah good times We're here in this political
• 48:42
  theater to discuss the cuts that are never gonna
• 48:44
  be made that are never gonna happen. You know,
• 48:48
  Leslie ran as a conservative a few years back.
• 48:51
  She ran as a conservative. She has proven to
• 48:55
  be not much of what or a token one. You know,
• 49:00
  shocker. I know this kind of thing never happens.
• 49:03
  I know. I don't know why I think this is gonna
• 49:07
  come off as unrelated to maybe everybody but
• 49:09
  me. But the sound drop that I have on my end
• 49:12
  here that I keep thinking about throughout this
• 49:15
  entire exchange is this a spoon morty a spoon
• 49:18
  i'm sorry there's a pile of silverware next to
• 49:20
  you and you throw me the one thing that can never
• 49:22
  kill anything what how is that related i don't
• 49:25
  know why i don't know it just felt like it was
• 49:28
  the argument the the just the whole thing yeah
• 49:32
  what are your recommendations a spoon because
• 49:38
  you didn't give us any recommendations so the
• 49:41
  one thing that won't work we're going with it
• 49:43
  but it might work for us Let's do one mass before
• 49:50
  mid -show. Let's see, do I have a short one here?
• 49:54
  Yeah, how's about Flock? Because Caldwell, as
• 50:00
  we've been hearing from Tyler and DeFlock Idaho,
• 50:04
  I think Caldwell was just last night, or was
• 50:08
  it last night? The night before, very recently,
• 50:10
  they had a big city council vote. And about flock,
• 50:13
  are they going to go with flock? The city of
• 50:15
  Caldwell voted on a controversial change to its
• 50:17
  automated license. Sure. Here comes the question.
• 50:22
  They're keeping it small. Make your guess before
• 50:24
  we call. The game begins. It's asked. Is Caldwell
• 50:30
  going to keep their flock? Are they going to
• 50:32
  go with flock? No, they'll go with Axon. It's
• 50:38
  better because it's not name brand. Yeah, we're
• 50:41
  not doing flock like Mayor Randy Westland in
• 50:43
  Post Falls. Flock? No, we would never do that.
• 50:46
  No, no, no. Motorola. Will change to its automated
• 50:50
  license plate reader cameras KTVB's Aspen Schumpert
• 50:53
  sat in on that meeting Aspen. What did council
• 50:55
  ultimately decide? Yeah, the council voted four
• 50:57
  to one to move away from flock safety and instead
• 51:00
  contract with Axon for ALPR Under one company
• 51:07
  Axon for better integration right now They use
• 51:10
  axon as in we're axon your freedom. You flock
• 51:14
  a sheep. We're gonna ax we're axon your freedom
• 51:17
  Just we're putting it on the block and big overhand
• 51:20
  swing and there you go. Right now they use different
• 51:24
  systems for body cameras, tasers, drones, and
• 51:27
  ALPR cameras. Axon offers one ecosystem with
• 51:31
  all of the technology working together. So it's
• 51:34
  streamlined. Oh yeah. All of the drones, the
• 51:39
  ALPRs, the body cams, the CCTV, all of the eyes
• 51:45
  in the sky and on the ground and in your house.
• 51:47
  They're all going to work as one system, citizen.
• 51:50
  It's all integrated now. It's worse. Good news.
• 51:54
  Worse. Good news, citizens. Police said the proposed
• 51:59
  10 -year contract will cost the city around 40
• 52:02
  % less compared to a shorter five -year agreement.
• 52:05
  Oh, thank God. I'm okay with it now. The package
• 52:07
  includes technology upgrades to drones, body
• 52:10
  cameras, and AI translation software. The Axon
• 52:13
  contract would increase the city's fleet of automated
• 52:15
  license plate readers from 45 to 65, adding 20
• 52:19
  new cameras to the city. Cobble P says this technology
• 52:23
  is helping them solve crimes. Which crimes? Fuck
• 52:30
  off! Well, any shooting can turn into a homicide.
• 52:37
  That was kind of a little garbled, what'd he
• 52:39
  say? Very well came turn to one? Can turn to
• 52:49
  one? So, in other words, we need to investigate
• 52:51
  it and it might turn out that it's a homicide,
• 52:53
  I guess. Is that what he's saying? Both of those
• 52:58
  cases were assisted using Flock. We were able
• 53:00
  to locate the suspect. They got out of our city
• 53:03
  before we could find them. We were able to locate
• 53:05
  them in other counties within 24 hours. Council
• 53:09
  did not hold public comment tonight because it
• 53:11
  was not required. We're not helping public comment
• 53:16
  because we declare that we don't have to, citizen.
• 53:19
  You shout like that, they put you in jail. There's
• 53:23
  no public comment in Baracua. Public comment,
• 53:27
  straight to jail. Caldwell Mayor Eric Phillips
• 53:39
  has publicly stated he opposes stationary ALPR
• 53:42
  systems citing fears the technology could be
• 53:44
  misused and he's pleading support for state legislation
• 53:47
  that would ban the cameras entirely. Morgan we
• 53:49
  know this is not the end of the debate. We expect
• 53:52
  this to come up in the state legislature and
• 53:53
  just last week in Congress there's also a reduction
• 53:56
  of this technology as well. Cities aren't gonna
• 53:59
  do it. If cities aren't going to do it, the state
• 54:01
  legislature might do it. And there's enough conservative
• 54:04
  votes in the state legislature to maybe, maybe
• 54:07
  pull it off. And what you find is a lot of the
• 54:09
  cities, cities tend to be, are blue. But thank
• 54:14
  God, things are a little more representative
• 54:16
  than just the cities. And that's why the state
• 54:19
  legislature turns out to be slightly more conservative
• 54:22
  than places like Caldwell, Sandpoint, Coeur d
• 54:24
  'Alene, Moscow, Boise, and the rest of Idaho
• 54:27
  is a little less crazy. So the legislature will
• 54:31
  probably take it up. Same thing as they did last
• 54:33
  year, where they took up a property rights bill
• 54:36
  and they made it so that if you're a property
• 54:37
  owner, you have far more rights to have your
• 54:39
  Airbnb's and do your different stuff. And of
• 54:41
  course, guess who was mad about it? Guess who
• 54:43
  was big mad about it? The cities. And they, they
• 54:47
  parade. or they trot out the whole local control
• 54:52
  thing and go, well, conservatives are supposed
• 54:54
  to be for local control and libertarian, you
• 54:56
  know, you guys are supposed to be for local control.
• 54:57
  And I go, yeah, I am for local control, unless
• 54:59
  local control means less rights, and then fuck
• 55:01
  you. Then I'll take more rights anyway, I can
• 55:04
  get it. If they come from the state legislature,
• 55:05
  do I like either way? No, not at all. I'd prefer
• 55:08
  none of it at all. But I'm gonna lean towards,
• 55:12
  well, which level is giving us, is letting us
• 55:15
  have some of our own rights back? If it's the
• 55:17
  state. All right, fine. It's got to come from
• 55:20
  the state. So, yeah, the stuff is coming down
• 55:22
  the pipe at the state level. It's going to get
• 55:24
  addressed. But I love how Caldwell, the city
• 55:26
  of Caldwell, votes on a four to one to go, hey,
• 55:30
  plebes, don't worry about it. We're the good
• 55:32
  guys. We're getting rid of flock. Oh, but we're
• 55:36
  going to integrate everything with Axel. Thanks,
• 55:40
  guys. This is about as hardcore of a shuffle
• 55:43
  hustle as you can get. Don't worry, citizens.
• 55:48
  Do the axon. No more flock for you, sheep. Just
• 55:52
  take your pills. Listen to the music. No flock.
• 55:57
  Don't worry. Here's a cynical take. Is the mayor,
• 56:01
  does he know that he can actually just be the
• 56:04
  like, oh, it doesn't matter what I say or vote
• 56:07
  because I know that the council is going to do
• 56:08
  this. So I'm going to like make it seem like
• 56:11
  I'm on the side of the, hey, citizens, just so
• 56:13
  you know, your mayor is against this. I actually
• 56:16
  thought the same thing. I didn't say it, you
• 56:18
  beat me to it, but I was thinking the same thing.
• 56:21
  You know, Dan Guggen on the city council as a
• 56:23
  Coeur d 'Alene city councilman for 12 years,
• 56:25
  and he get, they love him and they tout him as
• 56:28
  the lone, the fiscal conservative on the city
• 56:31
  council. And relative to the rest of them, he
• 56:34
  is, but he's also batshit crazy nutso, not a
• 56:37
  conservative, not a libertarian, but relative
• 56:39
  to the rest of them, he is. And so he gets the
• 56:42
  recommendation from the Coeur d 'Alene press
• 56:43
  editorial board. And they call him, you know,
• 56:46
  the conservative council member, because again,
• 56:48
  it's the Overton window shift to the left. It's
• 56:50
  all relative how you look. And Dan could stand
• 56:53
  up there and be like, yeah, but, but taxpayers.
• 56:56
  And I don't really think, you know, 1 .2 million
• 56:58
  is too much, but 1 .1 million. That's just right.
• 57:02
  And I'm okay with that. And they go, oh, so conservative.
• 57:05
  Oh, Dan Guggen. Yeah. And he could do it. Cause
• 57:08
  he knew he was getting, he knew he was going
• 57:10
  to get out voted every time anyways. And so did
• 57:12
  everybody else. So they were like, yeah, this
• 57:14
  is fine. This is perfectly fine. When they stopped
• 57:16
  liking it is when, you know, like NIC got three
• 57:20
  conservatives on the board for all of six months.
• 57:22
  That's when they stopped liking it. When my dad,
• 57:24
  when my dad was one of five. Yeah. You know,
• 57:27
  there were there, he was the lone conservative
• 57:29
  on the board. Nobody cared and he got the recommendation
• 57:33
  by the press editorial as the stalwart lone conservative
• 57:36
  and it's all good It's all good, but that's because
• 57:38
  he had no power He was the lone no vote every
• 57:40
  time and they were like we need that for accountability
• 57:42
  and how adorable but the moment Yeah, and then
• 57:45
  the moment, you know, it actually had some influence
• 57:47
  then he was Satan incarnate and we got to stop
• 57:50
  these crazy people across the board Yeah, save
• 57:54
  Caldwell Save Caldwell. I am the mayor by axon
• 58:01
  So yeah, you know the Caldwell mayor, he's making
• 58:04
  hay while the sun shines. He's like, ah, I'm
• 58:06
  against it. I'm against it. And who knows man,
• 58:11
  you know, it's just, it's just a cynical take.
• 58:13
  We have no idea what's in the guy's heart, obviously.
• 58:15
  But we've seen this stuff before. He's the mayor
• 58:17
  of Caldwell, Scott. He's the mayor of Caldwell.
• 58:21
  I am tired of this shit. Yeah. No, these, these
• 58:26
  mid tier, mid sized, you know, Utopia type cities
• 58:30
  like Coeur d 'Alene and Sandpoint that fancy
• 58:33
  themselves and think their farts don't stink
• 58:35
  and they're they're assholes They're just douchebaggy
• 58:38
  assholes and lots of money and lots of stuff.
• 58:40
  No, he's the mayor of Caldwell I am the mayor
• 58:42
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• 58:46
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• 58:50
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• 58:53
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• 58:56
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• 1:02:23
  no note, but FK sent in 49 bucks. That's a show
• 1:02:26
  number donation. This is episode number 49. So
• 1:02:30
  49 from FK. Thank you FK. Right on. Thanks FK.
• 1:02:33
  Appreciate it, man. Love the numerology. I love
• 1:02:36
  the numerology. You guys do. I always like how
• 1:02:38
  everybody's thought process on it is different.
• 1:02:39
  It's cool. It's fun. I dig it. Yes, we dig it
• 1:02:42
  very much. And the other one this week is a shiny
• 1:02:46
  schmeckle. And that is from Sir Jamo Black Baron
• 1:02:52
  of North Idaho, executive producer of episodes
• 1:02:55
  past. And he is back this week with a shiny schmeckle.
• 1:02:58
  And Sir Jamo is down in Lewiston. So thank you,
• 1:03:01
  Sir Jamo, very much for the shiny schmeckle.
• 1:03:03
  Yeah, appreciated, but no note as well. Thank
• 1:03:05
  you, Sir J Moe. Much appreciated. Thanks for
• 1:03:07
  listening down there. Our problems are your problems
• 1:03:10
  and vice versa. Lewiston's a lot like Coeur d
• 1:03:12
  'Alene in many, many, many ways, except a little
• 1:03:14
  smellier. Not because of Sir J Moe. He smells
• 1:03:18
  just fine. No, no. Yeah, yeah. I'm sure he smells
• 1:03:22
  like a freshly minted schmeckle. All right. So
• 1:03:26
  that concludes it. That's the value for value
• 1:03:29
  pitch. That's the model. And if you find what
• 1:03:32
  we do to be valuable, Attach a something to it
• 1:03:35
  a number a time or whatever and please send it
• 1:03:38
  back our way. Keep us in mind These things take
• 1:03:40
  time and effort to execute. Knowing Scott has
• 1:03:44
  to go through audio like the exchange between
• 1:03:48
  Commissioner Bruce Matari and Sheriff Bob Norris
• 1:03:51
  like that alone is seriously. Yeah The man deserves
• 1:03:56
  your guys' Schmeckles. I'm speaking for Scott
• 1:03:59
  here. Show the man some love. Yeah, he's the
• 1:04:04
  workhorse. I'm just the talent. I'll take you
• 1:04:08
  down there for 25 Schmeckles. 25 Schmeckles?
• 1:04:12
  I don't know what that is. Is that a lot? Is
• 1:04:14
  it a little? We need this money. I hate flat
• 1:04:17
  services. I hate them so much. I hate flat services.
• 1:04:23
  Yeah, we got it. Not as much as the sheriff's
• 1:04:26
  department hates log in their hours. This is
• 1:04:30
  political theater. We're just asking you to account
• 1:04:34
  for your time. This is theater. I like the part
• 1:04:38
  where he goes, actually, we're trying to represent
• 1:04:40
  the taxpayers here for a change. You don't care
• 1:04:42
  about safety. No. Oh, man. Which is so perfect
• 1:04:47
  coming from the guy who wants a new helicopter.
• 1:04:53
  I wish I don't have a heli sound effect. Unfortunately,
• 1:04:55
  I should have that. I don't either. I actually,
• 1:04:57
  you and I think I had the same thought at the
• 1:04:59
  same time. I was like, man, I wish I had something
• 1:05:00
  for this. Totally. But we're, we're stuck just
• 1:05:03
  doing the tongue. Second half of show. I'd like
• 1:05:11
  to start with, or unless you know what, we, we
• 1:05:14
  deferred, we put into abeyance these Scott shots
• 1:05:17
  from last week. You got it for me? Uh -huh. Yeah.
• 1:05:20
  I have two. You better limber up. It's been a
• 1:05:26
  while. Let's go. Haven't stretched like this
• 1:05:31
  in weeks You're nothing but a bum you never be
• 1:05:37
  anything but a bum That's it's unhoused asshole.
• 1:05:45
  Let's go. All right I accidentally pushed you
• 1:05:57
  at the same time I'm new here. Let's try to go
• 1:06:01
  this. I didn't hear no bell. There we go Good
• 1:06:06
  old Randy Marsh. All right. I have two. You're
• 1:06:11
  getting a bonus, because I owe you at least that.
• 1:06:13
  All right. So just two or three weeks ago, the
• 1:06:20
  greatest president the world has ever seen on
• 1:06:23
  planet Earth, churlupa double supreme with extra
• 1:06:27
  taco sauce rulers, President Obama sat down and
• 1:06:32
  did a podcast. His new podcast, by the way, I
• 1:06:39
  guess it's his podcast, so he sat down in his
• 1:06:41
  podcast, and the podcast is called A Great Book
• 1:06:44
  with Barack Obama. And he said, and I quote,
• 1:06:51
  the federal government is so much less blank
• 1:06:54
  than probably it's ever been. The federal government
• 1:07:02
  is so much less, now competent might be the answer,
• 1:07:06
  but what would Obama actually say? The federal
• 1:07:09
  government is so much less. Well, he might, maybe
• 1:07:13
  it is something like competent because, you know,
• 1:07:16
  orange man is in charge. Uh, the federal government
• 1:07:18
  is so much less. I don't know. Yeah. Competent.
• 1:07:24
  No, he wouldn't say that though. Damn it. That's
• 1:07:26
  yeah. Is it going to be some ridiculous thing?
• 1:07:32
  Like it's smaller or some, some inversion of
• 1:07:34
  reality? Yeah. The poker term here would be you
• 1:07:37
  leveled yourself into the wrong call. Uh, cause
• 1:07:40
  you weren't, you, you, you leveled yourself.
• 1:07:43
  And I quote, the federal government is so much
• 1:07:45
  less corrupt than probably it's ever been in
• 1:07:48
  terms in terms of just pure bribes or patronage
• 1:07:52
  or favors, end quote, which is hilarious because
• 1:07:57
  orange man is in charge and all that Barack Obama
• 1:08:00
  and his people can do is accuse the government
• 1:08:03
  of being corrupt. And they're not wrong. They're
• 1:08:05
  definitely not wrong. But like every day, all
• 1:08:08
  day, they bitch and moan about. the government,
• 1:08:11
  especially the federal government, being corrupt
• 1:08:12
  because orange man. Yeah. Orange man and his
• 1:08:15
  meme coins and his family getting enriched and
• 1:08:18
  blah, blah, blah, blah. It gets better because
• 1:08:21
  he continues. He says, I fantasize about having
• 1:08:24
  blank in charge of every government for like
• 1:08:27
  two years. End quote. I mean, he, he, he would
• 1:08:32
  be at, he, he means himself. He wants it. He
• 1:08:35
  wants himself in charge of all of it. Just clone
• 1:08:37
  himself. Say it again. I fantasize about having
• 1:08:42
  blank be in charge of like every government for
• 1:08:45
  like two years. The size about my myself, him.
• 1:08:56
  I want to give you the bell so bad just cause
• 1:08:58
  it would be fun. He says, I fantasize about having
• 1:09:07
  women in charge of every government for like
• 1:09:09
  two years. So you're not far off again. You leveled
• 1:09:14
  yourself. Wow. And now he just fantasizes about
• 1:09:19
  it. That's really funny. Like, now I picture
• 1:09:20
  Randy Marsh sitting in the desk chair with the
• 1:09:23
  spooge everywhere. Yeah. I fantasize about it.
• 1:09:31
  The internet quits working. Yeah. Here's the
• 1:09:34
  best part. So research published. So I did a
• 1:09:37
  little bit of loodling around, toodling around,
• 1:09:39
  because I'm like, this guy is just on the moon
• 1:09:43
  here, even more than usual. And that's a high
• 1:09:45
  bar. So it turns out according to research published
• 1:09:49
  in 2020, by the way, this is six years ago. This
• 1:09:52
  research was published by the National Institute
• 1:09:55
  of Justice. So this is like kind of their thing
• 1:09:57
  is like their only thing found that just over
• 1:10:01
  there were there were just over 57 ,000 federal
• 1:10:06
  court public corruption convictions from 1985
• 1:10:11
  to 2015 with fraud and bribery. accounting for
• 1:10:16
  70 per six of those charges. 76 % were fraud
• 1:10:21
  and bribery. Now I thought that was like, wow,
• 1:10:24
  that's a big number, man. 57 ,000. So I did the
• 1:10:27
  math, I was curious. Over 30 years, and it's
• 1:10:31
  a 1900 and change. 57 ,000 divided by 30 years
• 1:10:36
  is exactly 1900. So that is 1900 every year.
• 1:10:41
  Let's divide that by the day. That's 5 .2 a day.
• 1:10:49
  That's just federal, federal court, public corruption
• 1:10:54
  convictions. That doesn't count state level.
• 1:10:58
  That doesn't count county level. And that doesn't
• 1:11:01
  count city level. And just in Idaho alone, we
• 1:11:04
  have dozens of city level corruption cases just
• 1:11:06
  over the last five years that we could point
• 1:11:08
  to in Idaho, usually involving embezzlement,
• 1:11:12
  fraud, and bribery. Wouldn't you know? Wouldn't
• 1:11:15
  you know it? It's almost like, you know, operating
• 1:11:18
  from the premise that people are bad, need to
• 1:11:20
  be governed. So let's give a small group of people
• 1:11:22
  all the power is a really stupid fucking idea.
• 1:11:25
  The state who would have guessed. So I thought
• 1:11:29
  that was just absolutely fantastic. I thought
• 1:11:31
  you, you know, and it doesn't even include per
• 1:11:33
  day. Not only does it not include all of the
• 1:11:36
  different state level kind of all the stuff you
• 1:11:37
  just mentioned, these are also only the things
• 1:11:40
  that actually like went to went in front of a
• 1:11:43
  court. No, those are the ones that were convictions.
• 1:11:47
  That's not cases, that's convictions. Yeah, jeez,
• 1:11:50
  I'm understating the case. And of course, none
• 1:11:53
  of this actually None of it accounts for the
• 1:11:56
  stuff that is bribes, but it just goes by a different
• 1:11:59
  name now. Like what happened? How come there's
• 1:12:01
  a dock on that part of Hayden? I thought there
• 1:12:03
  was a, it's only grandfathered in. Oh, well see
• 1:12:06
  the city had an impact fee that was assessed
• 1:12:09
  and the homeowner paid $1 .2 million to the whatever.
• 1:12:12
  Like, oh, I see. So they bribed, they bribed
• 1:12:15
  the city. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's a
• 1:12:17
  special impact fee. Oh, uh -huh. It's like our
• 1:12:21
  mutual buddy who we like to play. We are all
• 1:12:24
  poker enthusiasts. You know him. He owns a joint
• 1:12:27
  on Coeur d 'Alene Lake that's a popular place
• 1:12:29
  to boat into and eat. Fantastic food, great guy,
• 1:12:32
  great business. He's been trying to build a resort
• 1:12:36
  and hotel there for years and years and years
• 1:12:38
  and years and the county and the local city and
• 1:12:41
  the state have all done nothing but block him.
• 1:12:45
  And a big piece, like one of the linchpins of
• 1:12:49
  this is needing the blessing of the local fire
• 1:12:52
  department. And the local fire department quite
• 1:12:55
  literally waltzed on out there and said, we will
• 1:12:57
  sign off on this for you if you buy us two new
• 1:13:01
  fire trucks. And then we will give you whatever
• 1:13:03
  you want. So we will clear the way for you to
• 1:13:07
  get to the next level so you can develop your
• 1:13:09
  stuff. It's not, it's not a bribe. They just
• 1:13:12
  need a new fire truck. Well, so, oh, and I see.
• 1:13:15
  So you, you don't care about safety. Is that
• 1:13:17
  it? That's it. You got it. Yeah. Buy us a fire
• 1:13:21
  truck too. And, uh, we'll, we'll give you what
• 1:13:24
  you want. And he said, no, get fucked. Yeah.
• 1:13:28
  So when people hear always talk about, no, man,
• 1:13:30
  we could never, you know, we could never move
• 1:13:32
  to, we don't want to be like Mexico or we don't
• 1:13:34
  want to be like Brazil or Abu Dhabi. you know
• 1:13:37
  those places are corrupt and it's like yeah well
• 1:13:39
  in mexico the difference here is that the corruption
• 1:13:42
  is accessible to everyone if i want to paint
• 1:13:45
  my shed green i just pay any bureaucrat five
• 1:13:49
  bucks 15 bucks whatever you know 100 bucks 150
• 1:13:53
  bucks and nobody cares there you go here's the
• 1:13:55
  money cool pleasure doing business with you thanks
• 1:13:58
  We're good. But here in America, we act like
• 1:14:00
  we're so far above reproach and like it never
• 1:14:02
  happens, but it happens every day. It just happens
• 1:14:04
  at a higher level. It's a lot more slick. And
• 1:14:07
  you typically have to be friends with or related
• 1:14:09
  to somebody. So the corruption here in America
• 1:14:13
  is much more expensive and it's much less accessible.
• 1:14:15
  And it's only the elites who get to do it. You
• 1:14:18
  got to have the money to play, baby. Or you got
• 1:14:20
  to be related to somebody. Usually it's both.
• 1:14:23
  Whereas in every everywhere else. It's just accepted
• 1:14:26
  practice and everybody knows it and everybody
• 1:14:28
  can participate. So even the dirtiest of dirty
• 1:14:31
  plebs, as long as he's got an extra hundred bucks,
• 1:14:33
  he can do it. America. So that was a fun one.
• 1:14:40
  All right. Next one. Freedom. There it is. Thank
• 1:14:47
  you. All right. I got another one. Freedom. So
• 1:14:56
  the national debt, it's a big deal. It's a big
• 1:15:01
  deal. This year alone, and the year isn't over
• 1:15:05
  yet, we're only, we just finished Q3, Scott.
• 1:15:07
  So we got three more months to go, baby. And
• 1:15:10
  we've already rung up a $2 trillion deficit,
• 1:15:13
  budget deficit for 2026. And we're only nine
• 1:15:16
  months in, baby. That's a budget. That's an annual
• 1:15:19
  deficit. That's not the total debt. That's the
• 1:15:21
  annual deficit. Total debt crossed 40 trillion
• 1:15:24
  just a couple of months ago. And it's going to
• 1:15:27
  get bigger and bigger, faster and faster. So
• 1:15:30
  we're on that topic Let's see here doo doo doo
• 1:15:34
  doo doo, but they of course have to mention kovat
• 1:15:36
  because in 2020 is when stuff really starts to
• 1:15:39
  get interesting It says in response to the pandemics
• 1:15:43
  dislocations, which is the wrong way of putting
• 1:15:45
  it It should be in response to the government
• 1:15:47
  fucking people over in 2020 the magic US government
• 1:15:51
  sent the magic pen just poof there was Zika or
• 1:15:55
  swine flu or which pandemic was making decisions
• 1:15:58
  again? It's like listening to Forrest Gump and
• 1:16:00
  for for absolutely no reason whatsoever somebody
• 1:16:03
  shot that poor man The US government in 2020
• 1:16:08
  yeah sent about blank in checks to people in
• 1:16:14
  businesses Blank of it being newly printed with
• 1:16:18
  no plans for repayment They sent it to did you
• 1:16:23
  say people in businesses? People and land businesses.
• 1:16:26
  Yeah, so this was all the the free fake money
• 1:16:29
  into the checking accounts the PPP for the businesses
• 1:16:32
  the SBA Loans all that stuff. Geez. I mean, I
• 1:16:38
  know it was in the trillions I'm gonna say it
• 1:16:43
  was like Four four three and a half trillion
• 1:16:46
  four trillion and there was a second part with
• 1:16:51
  blank of it being newly printed money no backed
• 1:16:56
  by no revenue and no plans for repayment with
• 1:16:59
  i mean all of it i don't all of it all right
• 1:17:06
  like i want to give you a bell just out like
• 1:17:08
  because i'm a good sport but getting just thrashed
• 1:17:15
  this week five trillion dollars okay yeah five
• 1:17:20
  trillion dollars was low in checks to people
• 1:17:23
  and businesses with over three trillion sixty
• 1:17:27
  percent 3 trillion of it freshly off the presses,
• 1:17:32
  newly printed money, no revenue back. Why is
• 1:17:35
  everything so expensive? And at the time it seems
• 1:17:41
  crazy now, right? Cause we're 40 trillion in
• 1:17:43
  debt. And at the time we were only like 31 or
• 1:17:47
  32 only 31 or 32 trillion in debt. And at the
• 1:17:52
  time it had actually accounted that. So that
• 1:17:55
  injection in 2020 accounted for over like 65
• 1:18:00
  % of all US America like dollars Fiat currency
• 1:18:05
  dollars ever printed ever in the history of our
• 1:18:08
  country. Yep ever it was 65 some odd percent
• 1:18:13
  that came out in 2020 now final a final one for
• 1:18:18
  you the US dollar is Worth how much less? since
• 1:18:27
  2020 I feel like we've been covering in 2026.
• 1:18:31
  I'm going to get it. We have even though we've
• 1:18:33
  covered it. So I gave you the easiest bonus points
• 1:18:35
  ever here. It's it's a percentage. How much look
• 1:18:39
  it up. Yeah, I'm not looking it up at percent.
• 1:18:41
  I don't ever do that on these on this segment.
• 1:18:44
  As you can tell, I'm not getting anything. How
• 1:18:46
  much less? Yeah. Or like how much how much purchasing
• 1:18:49
  power? Yeah, I'd say it's I'd say it's lost like
• 1:18:52
  30, 35 percent of its purchasing power since
• 1:18:55
  2020. Officially it's low 9 .5 % but that's low
• 1:19:03
  though low and we all know it because when you
• 1:19:05
  when when you track it the way they track it
• 1:19:07
  guess what they don't include oh yeah gas groceries
• 1:19:10
  yeah yeah why would they include that that are
• 1:19:15
  why would you include that yeah so when they
• 1:19:17
  tell us don't worry citizen inflation is only
• 1:19:19
  3 .2 % this month no no try like triple try triple
• 1:19:23
  that I am tired of this shit you and me both
• 1:19:29
  I think it's time to move to Argentina or Somalia.
• 1:19:35
  Is the other now that was that both of them or
• 1:19:37
  was that just one of Scott shots? We mean that
• 1:19:40
  was two. That was both of them. Okay. Just make
• 1:19:42
  Obama saying stupid things. Oh yeah. Obama is
• 1:19:45
  the government spending all the money. Obama.
• 1:19:49
  Okay. Let's move along here. Where are we at?
• 1:19:51
  One 30. Okay. A couple more to round it out this
• 1:19:55
  week. Let's do. this follow -up that we put off
• 1:20:00
  last week. It was sent in to me and it was a
• 1:20:02
  follow -up on HDR4. This is from KTVB. All right,
• 1:20:05
  you at home, we appreciate you so much for all
• 1:20:08
  the viewer comments that you do send in. And
• 1:20:09
  as we mentioned last week, one of the questions
• 1:20:12
  on Idaho's November ballot is HJR 4. It would
• 1:20:15
  give the legislature exclusive authority to legalize
• 1:20:18
  marijuana, narcotics, and other psychoactive
• 1:20:21
  substances, meaning voters could... Or in other
• 1:20:23
  words, exclusive authority to keep it illegal
• 1:20:25
  forever. For... ever is them through a bal of
• 1:20:32
  our viewers asked a s That viewer asked, doesn't
• 1:20:37
  the legislature already have the power to modify
• 1:20:40
  or nullify a citizen initiative if passed? If
• 1:20:43
  so, why do we need this Idaho constitutional
• 1:20:46
  amendment? Sounds like a power grab by certain
• 1:20:49
  groups in legislature. So basically, what's the
• 1:20:52
  point of having this on the ballot if the legislature
• 1:20:53
  already has the power to shut something the people
• 1:20:56
  of Idaho voted in as law? Well, the viewers right
• 1:21:00
  in Idaho. Once voters pass an initiative, it
• 1:21:02
  does become state law, but the legislature can
• 1:21:05
  also amend or repeal it through the normal lawmaking
• 1:21:08
  process we see during the legislative session
• 1:21:11
  each year, and it doesn't have to be put back
• 1:21:14
  on the ballot. So yes, lawmakers can later change
• 1:21:17
  or repeal a past voter initiative. We've talked
• 1:21:19
  about this in the past, 1994, where there was
• 1:21:22
  a voter initiative to set term limits for elected
• 1:21:24
  officials. Voters passed it, but not all elected
• 1:21:27
  officials were thrilled by this. By 2002, the
• 1:21:30
  item legislature passed a bill to repeal those
• 1:21:33
  term limits. It was vetoed by Governor Dirk Kempthorne,
• 1:21:36
  but the legislature overturned the veto. And
• 1:21:39
  while not required, that question about term
• 1:21:41
  limits was also put back on the ballot where
• 1:21:43
  voters were able to narrowly approve a repeal
• 1:21:47
  of set term limits by about 2000 votes. So they
• 1:21:51
  repealed their own initiative after the, the,
• 1:21:55
  uh, after the vault, the, whatever you want to
• 1:21:58
  call it, the back and forth there. I'm just,
• 1:22:00
  I'm just so impressed by how, how, how hard the
• 1:22:04
  legislature fought to not. have to deal with
• 1:22:08
  term limits. I mean, tooth and nail, tooth and
• 1:22:11
  nail. Wow. At every every resource at their disposal
• 1:22:15
  they used to get to get term limits back out
• 1:22:18
  of there. That's wow. Good job. Good job guys.
• 1:22:22
  Nice way to tell the way to tell us what we already
• 1:22:24
  knew about 2000 votes. Well, former Attorney
• 1:22:28
  General Dave Leroy says we've also seen a similar
• 1:22:31
  situation play out with property taxes. We saw
• 1:22:35
  one of these many years ago in Proposition 1
• 1:22:38
  dealing with property taxes and limiting the
• 1:22:41
  tax amount to 1 % of the entire property value.
• 1:22:46
  That passed, but the legislature necessarily
• 1:22:49
  had to take it up that very next January because
• 1:22:52
  it was not technically accurate in terms of complicated
• 1:22:56
  issues like tax legislation. So that's very uncomfortable
• 1:23:00
  for legislators. And if they can avoid doing
• 1:23:02
  that, they would prefer to not disregard the
• 1:23:06
  opinions of the very same voters who elected
• 1:23:09
  them some two months later. So what's the point?
• 1:23:12
  If lawmakers can already do that, what would
• 1:23:15
  H .J .R. 4 add other than taking away your power
• 1:23:18
  as a voter? Well, like Dave Leroy mentioned,
• 1:23:21
  it would help legislators avoid disregarding
• 1:23:23
  the opinions of voters since 1912. Hey, I know
• 1:23:27
  you have an opinion, but. I am your leader and
• 1:23:31
  your opinion is wrong. You just go, you put that
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  wind up beanie back on and go face the corner
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  while we vote on your behalf, citizen. Since
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  1912. Hey, we kind of would like you guys to
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  have term limits. Hello, peasants. No. Since
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  1912, our Idaho Constitution has given the voters
• 1:23:54
  the right to direct legislation by making it,
• 1:23:58
  adopting it at the polls. in the initiative fashion,
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  but legislators would prefer not to second -guess
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  those if they don't have to. And, but unfortunately
• 1:24:10
  for you, citizen, they often have to. They often,
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  yeah. Bomber. I like the big, I like the big
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  but. In the initiative fashion. But. But legislators
• 1:24:22
  would prefer not to second -guess those if they
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  don't have to. And any amendment... to that process
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  of the voters directly adopting legislation has
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  to be a constitutional amendment itself to limit
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  that power of the voters. So that's the answer
• 1:24:39
  to the viewer's question. And it would still
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  have to go through the long process of being
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  repealed or changed. But again, it's happened
• 1:24:46
  and it is possible. We need to vote correctly,
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  I think is the moral of this story. I mean, right
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  now, the thing that's up for vote is us voting
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  away our own rights again. That is literally
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  the vote. Voting like if you vote yes, you are
• 1:25:04
  ab what's the word abdicating your responsibility
• 1:25:07
  as a Man you're basically telling the legislature.
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  Yeah, that's all right. You guys can make these
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  decisions for us forever more so crazy of course
• 1:25:19
  the the left in Idaho actually cares about this
• 1:25:23
  issue and it's one of the few times you will
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  hear the left actually frame it as a You know,
• 1:25:29
  maybe the legislature and the government should
• 1:25:30
  have less power It's one of the few times you'll
• 1:25:34
  ever hear them actually say that, because it's
• 1:25:36
  about weed! Just, do I care about the issue at
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  hand? And if I do, suddenly I'm super super concerned
• 1:25:44
  with liberty. Yeah, I care now! Where were you
• 1:25:50
  on taxes? Where were you on COVID? Where were
• 1:25:54
  you on school choice? Where were you on property
• 1:25:56
  rights? Yeah. Here is a - It's not my business.
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  A couple more humorous ones quickly to round
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  it out here. This is from CBS 2 Boise. It is
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  titled, Boise Volunteers Plan Community Resource
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  Fair with Vaccines, Haircuts, and more. I think
• 1:26:17
  it's a native ad. For nearly a year, volunteers
• 1:26:19
  with Sunday Distro have gathered each week to
• 1:26:21
  serve hot meals, distribute clothing, and provide
• 1:26:24
  other essentials to people in need in Boise.
• 1:26:26
  And now the group and its community partners
• 1:26:28
  are preparing for their next community resource
• 1:26:30
  fair. Attendees will have access to flu, COVID,
• 1:26:33
  and tetanus shots, haircuts, acupuncture, sewing
• 1:26:36
  and repairs, live music, and more. We partner
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  with Corpus Commons and we put on resource fairs
• 1:26:42
  that provide other services that... This chick,
• 1:26:44
  by the way, had the... the septum piercing, which
• 1:26:47
  are standard issue when you go through the blue
• 1:26:50
  hair, blue hair, Boise, masked up, tattooed up
• 1:26:54
  chick. They, you have to have a septum piercing.
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  It's part of the deal. We partner with Corpus
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  Commons and we put on resource fairs that provide
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  other services that people don't usually have
• 1:27:05
  full access to. I think one of the things that
• 1:27:07
  folks think about is unhoused people don't have
• 1:27:09
  access to showers, but they don't think so much
• 1:27:11
  about how often they have access for their pets
• 1:27:13
  to get a shower. So we're really excited to make
• 1:27:16
  sure that our community members from the list
• 1:27:18
  of the biggest are taken care of. Volunteers
• 1:27:20
  from across the community are contributing their
• 1:27:22
  time, skills and services to help make the event
• 1:27:25
  possible. You don't have to come every Sunday.
• 1:27:27
  have to cook 30 meals maybe you have an hour
• 1:27:30
  once a year and that really is how we get momentum
• 1:27:34
  in this community and create people's days a
• 1:27:37
  little happiness in people's days. The community
• 1:27:39
  resource fair is scheduled for October 25th from
• 1:27:42
  1 to 3 p .m. at Corpus Commons in Boise. If you'd
• 1:27:45
  like to volunteer, offer a service, or sign up
• 1:27:47
  to help with Sunday Distro's weekly meal distributions,
• 1:27:50
  you can find more information on IdahoNews .com.
• 1:27:53
  Hey, say friends, would you like to know more?
• 1:27:56
  Would you like to know more? I will say this
• 1:28:01
  Credit to them if they're donating their if they
• 1:28:03
  are voluntarily doing it if they're volunteering
• 1:28:06
  their time their talent their treasures on their
• 1:28:08
  own Well good on you guys for being the change
• 1:28:12
  you want to see in the world So I got to give
• 1:28:15
  credit That's what they're doing. If that's if
• 1:28:18
  it's legitimately that then good for them good
• 1:28:21
  for them Because that's how we want it right?
• 1:28:23
  That's how I want it. I mean they're goofballs
• 1:28:25
  and No, yeah, anyways, there's a lot of goofball
• 1:28:29
  stuff going on and we can probably guess their
• 1:28:31
  politics immediately by the metal in their face.
• 1:28:34
  But hey, and the language they use putting their
• 1:28:37
  putting their time and their money where their
• 1:28:39
  mouths are like their own. And yeah, I got to
• 1:28:41
  give them credit for that. Good job. It's of
• 1:28:43
  course the language as well. Now apply that to
• 1:28:46
  everything else. Unhoused people don't have access
• 1:28:48
  to showers. People don't have access to showers.
• 1:28:51
  You know, and it's, and I'm not, I don't even,
• 1:28:53
  of course what you're saying. Yeah. About volunteerism.
• 1:28:55
  Like, you know, people can put their money where
• 1:28:57
  their mouth is and that's great. Uh, I'm this
• 1:28:59
  from, I'm making fun of the media. I'm making
• 1:29:01
  fun of how CBS two is covering this. They're
• 1:29:03
  doing a native ad for these people. Yeah, they
• 1:29:06
  are. Yeah, they are. Uh, again, I guess I'll
• 1:29:10
  push back just a little bit if that, you know,
• 1:29:12
  versus a lot of the native ads that you and I've
• 1:29:14
  heard over the year of doing this so far at this
• 1:29:16
  one. This one I don't mind so much because it's
• 1:29:18
  like, hey, do you want to help? If you want to
• 1:29:20
  help, here's how you can go help. And it's like,
• 1:29:22
  all right, cool. I'll take that. All right. Fair
• 1:29:26
  enough. Yeah, I know. I know. Call me crazy.
• 1:29:28
  But I don't mind it. Go shower with an unhoused
• 1:29:32
  person. You can't. They don't have access. Oh,
• 1:29:37
  my bad. I don't know how this works. I'm just,
• 1:29:39
  you know. Just a selfish asshole who hates flat
• 1:29:43
  surfaces and children. So I don't ever help anybody,
• 1:29:45
  obviously, with my time or money. So I don't
• 1:29:47
  know how this works. I hate flat surfaces. Damn.
• 1:29:52
  It took me a minute because I don't have that
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  as a button yet. I will for next week. Here is
• 1:29:57
  the final... I'm moving on up. Moving on up.
• 1:30:00
  Here's the final one for this week. Of course
• 1:30:16
  it's a female pastor. She's either Lutheran or
• 1:30:23
  Methodist or Episcopalian. was found guilty of
• 1:30:27
  misdemeanor trespassing in a one -day trial,
• 1:30:30
  but Ada County Judge Adam Kimball noted the conduct
• 1:30:32
  was peaceful and considerate and probation was
• 1:30:35
  not necessary as a sentence. Lawalt, who the
• 1:30:38
  son reports has a transgender daughter, said
• 1:30:40
  prior to sentencing, she knew there would be
• 1:30:42
  consequences and was ready to accept responsibility.
• 1:30:45
  She'll pay a $357 fine. She was one of nine arrested
• 1:30:49
  at the governor's office that day, trying to
• 1:30:51
  meet with him to discuss laws governing bathroom
• 1:30:53
  use and other restrictions on transgender. Trying
• 1:30:56
  to meet with him to discuss law. I'm sure that's
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  what they were doing when they were illegally
• 1:31:01
  occupying the governor's office. Because that's
• 1:31:04
  what you do when you march in and have a sit
• 1:31:06
  -in and don't leave, is you're just trying to
• 1:31:08
  politely discuss politics with the governor.
• 1:31:11
  Yeah, that's what you're doing. Kind of seems
• 1:31:13
  like theater. And other restrictions on transgender
• 1:31:16
  rights they view as discriminatory without knowing
• 1:31:18
  the governor had left the Capitol hours earlier
• 1:31:21
  from a non -public exit. Yeah, so he had gone
• 1:31:24
  down into the bat lair and left via, you know,
• 1:31:28
  stealth heli from there. good times just imagine
• 1:31:31
  the the secret sir whatever i know his version
• 1:31:34
  of secret service is like sir there are trans
• 1:31:36
  activists storming the capital my god it's finally
• 1:31:39
  have oh i get to hear you mother of god we've
• 1:31:43
  got to get out of here they might wave a rainbow
• 1:31:45
  flag at me super dangerous It's like when AOC
• 1:31:49
  was like, I feared I was cowering under my desk
• 1:31:52
  in a fetal position during the insurrection on
• 1:31:55
  January 6, fearing for my life. Miss Cortez,
• 1:31:59
  you were actually in Yuma, Arizona during that
• 1:32:01
  time. I was in fear for my life. Dude, what they
• 1:32:06
  don't understand is they could have avoided this
• 1:32:08
  if they had just strategically positioned basic
• 1:32:11
  economics books and Bibles in and around the
• 1:32:14
  governor's office and just like a crucifix and
• 1:32:16
  garlic works on vampires. That would have worked
• 1:32:18
  on these nine trans activists. They never could
• 1:32:21
  have gotten in there. Couldn't cross the threshold.
• 1:32:24
  What are the chances that this basic economics
• 1:32:26
  book? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, shit, we can't go in here.
• 1:32:30
  We might. My eyes, my eyes are melting. Basic
• 1:32:34
  economics and Bibles is in the running for show
• 1:32:37
  title. All right. I think I can buy the the notion
• 1:32:43
  that that lady has a trans kid. What are the
• 1:32:47
  chances the chances? of of the of the this this
• 1:32:54
  pastor the the sarah what's her nuts the pastor
• 1:32:57
  who was sitting in she has a trans daughter what's
• 1:33:00
  the chances oh yeah yeah oh i thought we were
• 1:33:02
  going to go with what are the chances she's one
• 1:33:04
  of the three she's united methodist episcopalian
• 1:33:06
  or oh the yeah didn't say i'm sure you're right
• 1:33:09
  lgbtblt now i want to look at this and avocado
• 1:33:13
  yep that's right what's her name uh what was
• 1:33:17
  it the adaho capital son reports reverend sarah
• 1:33:20
  lawalt Reverend Sarah the wall Sarah the wall
• 1:33:24
  And of course, it's a female reverend which should
• 1:33:28
  never happen to begin with Boise Well, it's maybe
• 1:33:34
  the old school in the robot Sarah without an
• 1:33:36
  H Unitarian. Oh, I was so close It's Unitarian.
• 1:33:42
  That was my name. I was actually in my top Unitarian.
• 1:33:46
  Yeah, that makes sense. Okay, which you didn't
• 1:33:48
  say it though, right? I mean you'd know I didn't
• 1:33:51
  say it It was in my head All right, we're done.
• 1:33:55
  That's it for this week. We'll go out on a crap
• 1:33:58
  note Going out on a loss and with that everything
• 1:34:01
  Paul says is made up. Oh, did I not add that?
• 1:34:04
  I didn't add it. No fool Hey, man, what's wrong
• 1:34:08
  with me for two right now, dude. I'm like nine
• 1:34:11
  for ten today, by the way I get one wrong and
• 1:34:13
  all of a sudden it's like whoa, that's it podcast
• 1:34:15
  is over And on that note Let me I gotta make
• 1:34:20
  myself a note here add Everything I say is made
• 1:34:24
  up. I cannot believe fail fish. Oh my god. I
• 1:34:28
  say is made up Yeah, Scott. Okay, you're like,
• 1:34:31
  oh you're like one for ten and it's all okay.
• 1:34:34
  Yeah What do you what gee what are you a politician
• 1:34:38
  and double standards here are intense? Yes, vote
• 1:34:42
  for me go to no ID show calm and vote for me
• 1:34:45
  And there's no term limits, by the way, so I'm
• 1:34:47
  never you can pry this seat out of my cold, dead
• 1:34:49
  hands. I don't care what you people have to say
• 1:34:51
  about it. Please remember us at no ID show dot
• 1:34:55
  com. We're heading into episode 50 next week.
• 1:34:57
  Five zero. It's a big one. A phenomenal time,
• 1:35:00
  as mentioned before, to show whatever support
• 1:35:02
  you'd like to throw our way. Please keep us in
• 1:35:05
  mind when your anniversary next next podcast.
• 1:35:08
  I think it's the one after that. I think it's
• 1:35:10
  the one after that. I'll double check it. For
• 1:35:12
  this week, I have, this is episode 49 in the
• 1:35:14
  can, I have Find the Bias, Basic Economics and
• 1:35:18
  Bibles. Basic Economics and Bibles. Yep, I think
• 1:35:23
  that's a given. And I have my Norris Windup Beanie
• 1:35:25
  Art that's calling our name. And there you go,
• 1:35:28
  easy. I love when those decisions are just made.
• 1:35:30
  I don't have to be the creative on every single
• 1:35:33
  dimension. It's great. I helped! Wee! Alright,
• 1:35:39
  episode 50 next week. I'll see you then. Until
• 1:35:43
  then, from Post Falls, I'm Scott. And I'm Paul,
• 1:35:52
  taxation is theft.