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21 - Super Antihero · NO ID

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  No ID is meant for a sane audience. No ID may
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  contain Liberty -oriented content. Pinko discretion
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  is advised. Now, here's No ID with Paul Banducci
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  and Scott Moskowitz. Word up. Welcome back to
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  No ID. It's episode 21, Blackjack of North ID
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  Ho's mainstream media deconstruction. I'm Scott.
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  Blackjack! I'm Paul. Love that game. Great game.
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  Happy to be here, Scott. How you doing? I'm doing
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  good. Although you know what I discovered later
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  in my I don't go to casinos hardly anymore these
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  days, but when I was at them more often in my
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  days working in and playing in the poker world,
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  I graduated at some point from Blackjack to Pi
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  -Gao. You ever played Pi -Gao? Can't say that
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  I have, no. It is a delightful table game. Uh,
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  less swingy and a little slower paced than Blackjack.
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  So if you're looking to hang out at a table game
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  until four o 'clock in the morning, you know,
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  with the getting the waitress, bringing you cocktails,
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  Pie Gow is where it was at. I will add it to
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  my degen to do list. It doesn't ring. It doesn't
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  have as good of a ring to it though, for at least
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  for a show promotion as Blackjack. So here we
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  are in episode 21 and it works much better than
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  Pie Gow. Blackjack. All right, let's get going
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  right away here. What do you think? I got tons
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  of stuff to do and I've been leaving clips on
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  the table in recent episodes. You know, I'm like
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  doing all that, I'm like over preparing and I've
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  got like four or three or four clips that end
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  up or even more sometimes that end up not getting
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  played. So let's get right into it. Well, let's
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  start with some of the stuff that you sent me.
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  Paul is the enviable position of being like,
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  here's what we should cover on the show. and
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  just sort of sends me the stuff. I'm like, all
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  right, well, here we go. I'll just pull all the
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  stuff and get everything ready. And so here we
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  are. It's true. I definitely get the longer end
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  of the stick. I don't know, the better part of
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  the deal. The better part of the deal, for sure.
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  But to be fair, in my defense, you came to me
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  with this idea. And you told me, you're like,
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  I'm the producer. I know how to produce a show.
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  And I went, I don't. So what do I offer? And
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  what I offer is color commentary and ideas. I
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  are a producer and you know what as long as we're
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  talking about 21 and and pie gal Why don't we
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  just start right away with our leader leader
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  leaders trying to protect us from ourselves?
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  With regard to gambling federal agencies claim
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  to regulate sports betting is being challenged
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  by 39 states including Idaho Idaho attorney general
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  row Labrador says the Commodity Futures Trading
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  Commission is trying to use 15 year old Wall
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  Street laws to override state gambling rules
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  In January of 2025, online platforms Kalshi and
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  Crypto .com began offering sports betting by
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  calling it events contracts on federally regulated
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  futures exchanges. The platforms marketed this
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  activity as sports betting and the public used
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  it that way. Kalshi reported over $1 billion
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  in Super Bowl bets alone in February of this
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  year. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission
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  recently sided with online platforms offering
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  sports betting as events contracts. The coalition
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  argues only Congress can grant such powers and
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  states have long regulated gambling. The Ninth
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  Circuit is now reviewing cases on whether states
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  can enforce their own laws against these platforms.
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  The attorney general accused the federal government
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  of trying to override state gambling laws nationwide,
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  saying, quote, Idaho will continue defending
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  our right to regulate gambling as we see fit,
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  end quote. You know, I wish I wish that the states
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  would fight as hard for my right. as an individual
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  to gamble as they fight for their own right to
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  tell me I'm not allowed to do the things that
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  are my right to do. Well they do fight as long
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  as it's the state lottery or horse racing or
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  bingo and raffles if it's for quote charity so
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  you know there are there are the carve -outs
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  the ever so lovely and sense -making carve -outs
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  oh yeah yeah and they always use the same excuse
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  it's for the children Goes to the Permanent Building
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  Fund and to Idaho Public Schools. They say on
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  every single ad, the ad they put on TV, the ads
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  they put on the radio. They even have ads on
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  Pandora for the state lottery, mega millions,
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  Powerball and scratch tickets, which you want
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  to talk about degeneracy. Like I'm a poker player.
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  I love poker. Poker is a highbrow game where
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  if you are working hard at it. and have a talent
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  for it, you win more often than not. It's not
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  guaranteed. There's risk. There's some luck involved.
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  But generally speaking, over the long term, you
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  can be a winning player. That's why people do
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  it professionally. There is nobody or very few,
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  very, very, very few. And I suppose once you've
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  won at one time, you could say you do it professionally,
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  but there's nobody out there who professionally
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  scratches scratch tickets. or plays the lotto
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  professionally. Like, yes, this is something
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  I've studied and I'm good at, and it's a talent,
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  and I've spent countless hours studying lotto
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  tickets to know which ones are the winners and
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  which ones are not. Whereas poker, it's hours
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  and hours and hours and hours and hours. It is
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  a skill. You study the hands. You study positioning
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  on the table. You study bet sizing. You study
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  timing. You study all kinds of things. It's a
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  skill. But that's illegal in the state of Idaho.
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  One red cent goes in the middle and that's illegal.
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  But hey, scratch tickets are legal. Cool beans.
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  And so is making millions of Powerball, where
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  you statistically speaking have a better chance
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  of being struck by lightning while being devoured
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  by a great white shark than you actually do of
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  winning it. True facts. Look it up. Wasn't there
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  wasn't there legislation on the table to with
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  regard to lottery tickets and bulk buying and
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  like that being made illegal? to prevent people
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  from gaming the scratch tickets? Am I dreaming?
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  No, you are not. What it was, you know, I don't
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  know how it actually did. I didn't follow up
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  on it, but we did mention it a few podcasts ago.
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  The gist of it was out of staters. So they had
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  a spate of out of stator, typically group pools
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  from out of staters or corporate group pools
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  engaging in the Idaho. the Idaho raffle. So not
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  the Mega Millions or the Powerball, which is
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  a national thing. That's across the board. That's
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  all 50 states. I believe that's all 50 states
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  and Puerto Rico nationwide. But it's the, what
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  do they call it? The Idaho millions, I think
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  is what they call it. Something along those lines
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  where one person wins, one ticket wins a million.
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  And then there's a couple of lower prizes as
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  well. And what they found is there were group,
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  there were pools. People were pooling together
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  and a lot of them were from out of state because
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  the odds to win It's all relative, right? The
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  odds, quote unquote, were good to win the million
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  dollars in the Idaho million dollar raffle versus
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  a lot of other forms of gambling, I guess, versus
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  the mega millions of the Powerball or whatnot.
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  So anyways, that's what that legislation was
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  about, was to prevent out -of -staters from gaming
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  the system and crowding out Idaho residents for
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  the lottery, the state lottery. Well, yes, it's
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  always the part where liberty never comes up.
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  It just never comes up in these conversations
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  about banning this or, you know, regulating that.
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  Or, you know, maybe not never, but it seems like
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  almost never. Is it like, oh, we want... I thought
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  this was America! Huh? I thought this was America!
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  The legalizing of the medical marijuana or the
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  legalizing of marijuana push that's going on.
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  I'm hearing a lot of conversations about that,
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  where it's like... Well, we look at what it's
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  done to the states that have legalized it. I
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  feel like I do not hear people just the liberty
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  aspect, like, you don't like it, therefore it
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  should be banned. I know that it leads to bad
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  things macro, societally, and therefore it should
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  be banned. It's just the liberty part never enters
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  into these conversations. I'll do you one better.
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  I fought for a tax cap on cigars. pipes and cigars,
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  actually, pipe tobacco and cigars. And the pipe
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  tobacco one I never got through. But the cigar
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  one we finally managed to get through in 2023.
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  So for nine years, I fight to take the taxes
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  on premium cigars because I was in the premium
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  cigar industry. And few people knew how badly
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  we were regulated in tax and still pretty badly,
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  but less so now. Forty percent of wholesale.
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  So as an example, if I were to buy a box of cigars,
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  let's say there's 20 cigars in that box and my
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  wholesale cost is one hundred dollars. Okay,
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  pretty easy math there. My cost is $5 a stick,
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  right? Okay, well, in retail, you typically try
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  to like, and I'm not revealing trade secrets,
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  secrets here. Really, this is just, you know,
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  it's just a given. You try to get Keystone if
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  you can. And Keystone is a fancy word for saying
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  you try to double your money. If you can double
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  your money, you try to double your money. That's
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  pretty standard. A lot of industries do a lot
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  better than that. A lot of industries don't.
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  But in retail and hospitality, you're aiming
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  for that. So formula says I would sell that stick
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  for 10 bucks. Double my money and not a bad price
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  for a good cigar that I might bring in However,
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  we had a wholesale excise tax in Idaho of 40
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  % which means I buy that box for $100 I Pay $40
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  on top of the hundred to the state of Idaho for
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  excise taxes $40 so All of a sudden the the math
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  doesn't look so great and I have to charge a
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  significantly higher price on those cigars while
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  not making any extra money. But everybody has
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  less money to spend now, except for the government,
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  I guess. They've got more money to spend, but
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  that's the worst way to ever put resources. That's
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  the worst place to ever give resources to. Well,
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  I got that spent nine years fighting it. And
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  I finally got a tax cap passed in, let's see,
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  2023. And we used models from Oregon and Washington
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  actually to do it. It was one of the few times
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  I'd ever refer to those states as having done
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  something positive, but they did because they've
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  got bigger Premium cigar industries in those
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  states with more clout more political more political
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  clout So the 50 cent tax cap basically said the
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  tax rate doesn't change It's still 40 % just
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  to keep it easy for the for the administrators
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  down there, but it's now capped at 50 cents So
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  effectively every premium cigar that I would
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  bring in now is a 50 cent tax which on a box
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  of 20 sticks. Again, let's say that box was 100
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  bucks, 20 sticks times 50 cents. Well, now that's
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  $10 of tax on that box instead of 40. Massive
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  difference. And it really helped. Duh, shocker.
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  This is going to surprise you, Scott. It helped
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  business. Whoa, right? I sold more cigars. I
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  made more money. And the state saw maybe a small
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  drop in revenue, but it was infinitesimal if
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  it was a drop. And if anything, they might have
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  seen more revenue because I sold significantly
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  more volume. Weird how that works, right? So
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  I bring that up because during that fight and
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  for the year we were successful, one of the biggest
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  things that we kept getting told, we being those
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  of us in the industry who were talking to our
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  legislators and our back and forth as our legislators
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  are trying to push this through. And we know
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  that we in the industry, we're going to have
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  to testify and go before the Senate committees
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  and be like, hey, you know, we're bringing this
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  up. This is a good bill. Here's why this is a
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  good bill. It will help with this, this and this
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  and da da da. Anyways, long story, but here's
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  the punchline. Time and time again, we were reminded
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  and told and instructed, do not ever under any
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  circumstances bring up the liberty aspect of
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  this issue. Don't do it. Who told you that? It's
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  a loser. In fact, every legislator I talked to
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  and every mover and shaker who also talks to
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  the legislatures, lobbyists, I guess would be
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  the term, or policy specialists is the more polite
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  term, but lobbyists, they say don't ever bring
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  up liberty. it's dead on arrival the moment you
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  start talking about liberty. And it's true. So
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  you, to your question, you know, what about liberty?
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  Ironically, even in the, even in the Idaho legislature,
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  a place that prides itself on being, you know,
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  freedom in America and, you know, a red, red
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  state where we can do what you want. Nah, it's
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  DOA. If you start talking about the liberty aspect
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  of it, what they wanted to hear and what they
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  care about is the economics of it. And the biggest
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  issue for our tax cap bill was we had to assure
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  them that the government would not get less money
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  because of it. That was the biggest issue. That
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  was what we had to convince them on. Nothing
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  else mattered by a wide margin. That was the
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  biggest concern. How much money the government
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  might not be able to steal from us if we passed
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  that bill. And that's how it happened. That's
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  how it goes down there. Pay, well, pay your fair
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  share. Well, we were paying way, way, way more
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  than our customers. Right. Right. Yep. Right.
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  Right. Right. Yeah. So. So now we've got Raul
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  Labrador blasting the feds. And on one hand,
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  you and I agree. States rights are important.
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  And I agree. States rights are. It's the 10th
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  Amendment, man. The states do have the right
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  to govern themselves. I think in pretty much
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  all issues, really. Federalization is a pipe
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  dream now. The marble cake model they teach you
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  in school, that doesn't exist. That's a joke.
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  The feds control everything. It's the power of
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  the purse. But the states push back once in a
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  while. And hilariously, the states are pushing
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  back right now. And almost all of them are pushing
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  back, all 38 that are pushing back because these
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  are all states that have made gambling in almost
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  any form, except for the forms they like, illegal.
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  So like the one time, the one time the feds are
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  like, hey, Maybe this shouldn't be illegal and
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  we're going to do it this way. And this actually
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  would give people the right to do what they want.
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  No, here come our state leaders jumping into
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  thwart liberty once again, like these super anti
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  -heroes that they are. Yep. God bless them for
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  saving us from ourselves. The one time the feds
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  finally maybe give us a right back and the states
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  are like, not on my watch. I got to read you
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  this, the email that I forwarded to you. that
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  this came up. So Attorney General Raul Labrador
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  down in Boise is crowing about this. He's so
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  pleased and proud of himself that he sent an
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  email letting everybody know that he's fighting
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  on behalf of us to not allow us to do the stuff
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  we want without state approval. And this in particular
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  stuck out to me. As he's blah blah blah blah
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  this that and the other and states rights and
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  the federal government's doing stuff that we
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  don't agree with it says states know how to regulate
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  gambling we impose licensing requirements background
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  checks age verifications Well, I gotta do this
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  Let me start over States know how to regulate
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  gambling comrade we impose licensing requirements
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  background checks age verification and responsible
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  gaming programs. The CFTC allows platforms to
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  self -certify. Their contracts with no pre -approval
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  has no gambling -specific regs. States that have
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  legalized sports betting can protect their citizens.
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  Ah, protection, comrade. States that ban sports
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  betting can enforce those bans. That's how it
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  should work. To the gulag for you, comrade. I'll
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  hail our glorious leader, leader, leaders. Protection.
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  Boy, I feel really good that there's a barrier
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  between me and Liberty. Then you should always
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  use protection. You know, you really need that
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  barrier. Oh, by the way, everyone in the first
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  row, stand up. Thank God I can't play poker in
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  Idaho. Here is another form of our, another one
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  that I like besides leaders that they use all
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  the time. Lawmakers. Which makes them, I believe,
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  gods. We have brought you multiple reports on
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  whether Idaho will join six states and D .C.,
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  which currently have full bans of Kratom. And
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  a Kratom ban is the current bill before Idaho's
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  Health and Welfare Committee. Now, this is we've
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  we've touched on this because it's been on the
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  table for some weeks now. So this is sort of
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  a follow up to let you know where the most latest
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  form of protection where, you know, we're being
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  protected from ourselves. Just a progress report.
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  Thursday. was the second of two very long meetings
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  where lawmakers heard from both sides of the
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  Kratom debate. Kylie died at 23 years old of
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  acute my drudging intoxication, the primary active
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  component of Kratom. We've heard testimony. I
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  think that that's like the active ingredient
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  in Oreos, isn't it? What do you say partially
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  hydrogenated? Kylie died at 23 years old of acute
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  my drudging intoxication. Acute -Midrogenene
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  intoxication? Acute -Midrogenene intoxication,
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  the primary active component of kratom. Sounds
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  like the Mars flu or space aids or something.
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  It is a weird one. And I mean, obviously, like,
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  you know, a grieving mother, I suppose it sounds
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  like. I mean, unfortunately, there is a logic
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  train that's on the table here. If you're going
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  to present this as a reason for why, like, laws
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  should be passed to prevent people from making
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  choices for themselves so they'll have to address
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  it so in other words because a bad thing happened
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  therefore nobody is allowed to possess or use
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  this that's the logic so why do we have cars
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  pray tell things are dangerous ban all the things
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  and yeah we're not trying to make i'm definitely
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  not the children that's what this is i'm sorry
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  i mean i know this this woman is an individual
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  and You know, I'm not taking anything away from
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  her emotional experience, but she's being presented
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  publicly to argue for restricting liberty. So
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  I'm sorry, we have to address it, and there will
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  be a little bit of mockery in there. We've heard
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  testimony portraying kratom as a cure -all, offering
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  relaxation, energy, pain relief, and more. We've
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  heard these similar claims before. The pattern
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  is familiar. We heard it with spice. We heard
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  it with bath salt. Substances that are marketed
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  as harmless. Oh, uh -huh. Where else do we hear
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  that? Thought to you by Pfizer. Substances that
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  are marketed as harmless, even beneficial, only
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  for the long -term consequences to emerge later.
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  And the second voice you heard there was Tracy
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  Buster -Achea. Chief of Police in Meridian, and
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  also representative of the Idaho Police Chiefs
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  Association. The Department of Health and Welfare
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  confirms that more than 80 Idahoans have died
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  from a kratom -related overdose in the past four
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  years. But yesterday, there were a good many
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  supporters of Kratom. They say they use it for
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  depression, pain, and much more than what is
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  promised on the label. So get ready. I'm assuming
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  that they're being given the same coaching that
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  you were where they're like, hey, whatever you
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  do, don't bring up liberty. So now they're left
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  with all these weird. I guarantee it. I hope
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  that's what happened, because if this is what
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  they're left with, with regard to how they argue
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  the point. Oh, yo, yo. Freedom saved my life.
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  Plain and simple. It is not a dangerous new drug.
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  I use it every day. It has helped me with my
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  pain. It helped with anxiety. And I'm sorry,
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  but 86 deaths in four years. It seems like it's
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  a bit extreme and history will repeat itself.
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  So lawmakers heard. Right. OK, so. So you just
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  have one person being like, it's horrible and
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  it ruins everything and I hate it. And then the
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  other side's like, it's great and it helps everything
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  and I love it. This is the macro argumentation
• 20:47
  for why other people should have their liberty
• 20:50
  restricted. This is insane. Yeah, it is insane.
• 20:55
  Everybody's different. This goes without saying.
• 20:58
  It's a statement that I could say anywhere at
• 21:00
  any time and everybody will stop and agree. And
• 21:04
  then we won't agree on anything else after that.
• 21:05
  But the people who agree with me that everybody
• 21:08
  is different and then immediately go, yeah, but
• 21:10
  we're going to use government to force you to
• 21:13
  do what we want or to not do what we want. They
• 21:16
  don't know what they're talking about because
• 21:18
  everybody is different biologically, right? So
• 21:20
  Kratom, whether it's driving, whether it's Kratom,
• 21:22
  whether it's poker, whether it's anything, we
• 21:24
  all have different risk tolerances. And physiologically,
• 21:27
  we're all going to react to things differently
• 21:29
  as well. What may work for you may kill me. That's
• 21:34
  the risk we take now. in most instances, it's
• 21:37
  a pretty low risk and it's, you know, you eat
• 21:39
  a piece of bread and I eat a piece of bread.
• 21:41
  It's pretty, you know, it's not like it might
• 21:44
  kill me and it might not kill you, but you understand
• 21:47
  what I'm aiming at here. I guess everybody's
• 21:49
  different and everybody has the right to make
• 21:51
  the choice and everybody has the right to make
• 21:53
  the choice as to how much risk they're willing
• 21:54
  to take. And life comes with risk. Everything,
• 21:57
  everything comes with risk. And to your point,
• 21:59
  cars, I think it's probably one of the best examples
• 22:02
  out there of this thing where you did you know
• 22:05
  that about 80 it's in between 80 and 85 000 automobile
• 22:12
  accidents that are attributable to death deaths
• 22:15
  by car it's like 80 to 85 000 a year that's annualized
• 22:19
  that's every year and that number has stayed
• 22:21
  pretty consistent small increases small decreases
• 22:25
  but that's about the average that's about the
• 22:27
  average over the last long while and half of
• 22:30
  those are due to drunk driving. And that number
• 22:33
  hasn't changed in 20 or 30 years. Now per capita,
• 22:36
  drunk driving deaths have decreased little by
• 22:39
  little. But as far as sheer numbers go, about
• 22:44
  40, I actually did my senior thesis. I was political
• 22:48
  science and economics and that kind of thing.
• 22:50
  And my thesis was whether or not drunk driving
• 22:52
  laws, or actually my thesis was whether or not
• 22:55
  raising the drinking age from 18 to 21 decreased
• 22:59
  drunk driving casualties. And the answer was,
• 23:02
  as a per capita, yes. But in sheer numbers, no.
• 23:07
  It has stayed consistent for 30, 40 years now.
• 23:11
  Kind of wild. It was wild. But you don't see
• 23:13
  anybody rushing to ban cars. Or ban alcohol.
• 23:17
  That's the thing. You can't have carve -outs
• 23:22
  for any of this stuff. Otherwise, the entire
• 23:25
  premise loses its credibility. This thing is
• 23:28
  very bad, and society needs to be protected from
• 23:31
  it. except for this instance. Now the premise
• 23:36
  is now it's irrelevant. I don't even know how
• 23:39
  to say it. It's just so stupid. It is so stupid.
• 23:43
  It defies logic. And yet here we are where, again
• 23:46
  and again and again, it's the norm, not the exception,
• 23:50
  where carve -outs are made. And anytime we do
• 23:53
  figure out that a law isn't so great or that
• 23:55
  the impact wasn't what we expected it to be,
• 23:58
  instead of just repealing the damn thing and
• 24:00
  letting well enough alone, we usually just add
• 24:02
  to it and add another carve out or or strip some
• 24:06
  part of it but add a different part of it. Very
• 24:09
  rarely do we look at it and go you know maybe
• 24:10
  maybe it's best if we just leave this alone.
• 24:13
  I mean what a novel concept that seems to still
• 24:16
  be and I would love to see it go that way. That's
• 24:19
  the logical thing to do is to look at it and
• 24:21
  go yeah we shouldn't have been involved in this
• 24:22
  in the first place or or by or by this premise
• 24:25
  by this logic if A then B we can't say if A than
• 24:32
  D point five and we'll put that into law and
• 24:37
  that'll work and it makes sense. So unfortunately,
• 24:40
  that's pretty much all the law is. If Idaho law,
• 24:43
  federal law, county law, any of it, all of it.
• 24:45
  It's all it's all basically just like, well,
• 24:48
  I always love to use the Catholics for this.
• 24:51
  Be like, you know, don't eat fish on Friday unless
• 24:54
  you forget or what is it? Don't eat meat on Friday
• 24:57
  unless you forget. Also, Jesus said fish doesn't
• 25:00
  count as meat. So me. Yeah, it's OK. It's not
• 25:03
  me. I guess we'll see at church. What do you
• 25:06
  say? Oh, I said I said not meat. I was emphasizing
• 25:09
  what you were saying. Yeah, not me. It's like
• 25:11
  I'm a vegetarian. Well, but I do eat fish. Uh
• 25:13
  huh. So you don't eat animal flesh except for
• 25:15
  when you eat animal flesh. Got it. So, yeah,
• 25:18
  right. It doesn't count. And then you have the
• 25:21
  guy here who, you know, who's been trotted out
• 25:24
  in the proponent camp, who's going like, well.
• 25:28
  There's only been, what do you say? A kratom
• 25:30
  -related overdose. 84 deaths. 84 deaths? I'm
• 25:34
  sorry, but 86 deaths in four years. Okay, this
• 25:40
  is the same, like, the same logical dead end
• 25:44
  that's, you know, was... you know, trotted out
• 25:46
  in the mass psychosis era to infinity degree.
• 25:51
  Like, oh, well, this many deaths and this many
• 25:54
  cases and like, well, if you have this threshold,
• 25:57
  then it justifies that restriction on liberty
• 26:01
  or that declaration or that whatever. There is
• 26:04
  no off -ramp or logic to any of this stuff. So
• 26:07
  in other words, well, only 86 deaths. So at what
• 26:10
  number of deaths would it then in this proponent's
• 26:13
  mind? be okay to ban Kratom for the public? 100?
• 26:16
  1000? What's the number? None of that makes any
• 26:20
  sense. It can't be based on a number. Yeah, well,
• 26:26
  your biggest issue is who gets to decide what
• 26:28
  number is acceptable and what number is not.
• 26:30
  And then you're put in a position where you're
• 26:32
  quantifying what is acceptable and the measuring
• 26:36
  stick is human lives. But that's intentional,
• 26:40
  right? That is how the banners or the government
• 26:45
  sycophant, so basically the people who want to
• 26:47
  clamp down on liberties of every kind, it's a
• 26:49
  brilliant tactic, Scott, because they try to
• 26:53
  force the issue and frame the argument in that
• 26:56
  way that then those of us on the other side,
• 26:58
  if we're not careful, get caught up in playing
• 27:01
  defense when really we should be playing offense.
• 27:03
  Correct. Instead, we play defense. And while
• 27:06
  we're playing defense, we use their metrics.
• 27:08
  but it's really a bad look when you're going,
• 27:11
  well, it's only a hundred deaths. And then people
• 27:13
  are like, oh, you're a monster. No, actually
• 27:15
  I just don't use things being risky as an excuse
• 27:19
  to ban it for everybody else. Exactly. And you
• 27:24
  cannot get bogged down in the numbers arguments
• 27:27
  because then their framing is correct. That if
• 27:31
  a certain metric gets hit, therefore restrictions
• 27:34
  on liberty are justified. Yep. I think it's good
• 27:39
  to know the stats. I think it is good to know
• 27:41
  the numbers, because I do think from a technical
• 27:43
  analysis standpoint, it's good to know those
• 27:46
  things. And it is, I would say, a backup argument.
• 27:49
  Just if you feel like beating your head against
• 27:52
  the wall and arguing with these types of people,
• 27:54
  it's still good data to have. It is. So you can
• 27:57
  be correct and accurate and sound intelligent
• 27:59
  and still refute things on a technical analysis
• 28:02
  standpoint. But well, you are correct, Scott,
• 28:06
  allowing them to frame it this way and force
• 28:07
  us to defend it through that lens and through
• 28:10
  that reframing is it's the wrong tactic for those
• 28:14
  of us on Team Liberty, for sure. And you've actually
• 28:16
  reminded me of it. You've caught me a couple
• 28:18
  of times going on the technical analysis side,
• 28:21
  because that's the way my brain thinks. Instead
• 28:23
  of just going right off with the yeah, it doesn't
• 28:26
  matter. This is an infringement and a violation
• 28:28
  of my rights. Full stop. Well. I mean, hey, I'll
• 28:33
  take that as high praise. Like if I've, of all
• 28:35
  people, if I've actually caught you engaged a
• 28:37
  couple of times in that framing, then I'm really,
• 28:39
  I'll take that as the compliment. I'm assuming
• 28:42
  you intend. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. A hundred
• 28:45
  percent. It is high praise. And yes, you have
• 28:46
  at least I think three times by my count, you've
• 28:49
  caught me doing it. And I'm like, Oh shit. You're
• 28:51
  right. You're 100 % right. That's dumb. I'm dumb.
• 28:54
  Let me, let me start over. Well, and see the
• 28:56
  other thing though is that even, I don't even
• 28:59
  like, even as a backup, even in any context.
• 29:03
  And the reason is the numbers, quote unquote,
• 29:06
  are inherently unknowable anyway. The accuracy
• 29:10
  of any of this stuff and where these numbers
• 29:12
  are emanating from and who is calculating them,
• 29:15
  it's inherently unknowable. Oh, there were this
• 29:18
  many deaths, really? How were they attributed?
• 29:20
  Who made the attribution? Did the number change?
• 29:22
  What metric are you using? What test are you
• 29:24
  using? Did they have any underlying coma? There's
• 29:27
  just way too many unknowns. to even make any
• 29:32
  sense of numbers that are being presented to
• 29:34
  us. You're not wrong, but at the same time, even
• 29:38
  with all of the unknowns and all of the issues
• 29:41
  you describe, particularly when it comes to COVID,
• 29:43
  but I'd say almost in every argument where we're
• 29:47
  on the pro -liberty side of things, the numbers
• 29:48
  actually back us up. So I'm still going to use
• 29:51
  them. Yeah. Okay. Fair enough. Let's finish out
• 29:55
  this clip. It helped with anxiety and I'm sorry,
• 29:59
  but 86 deaths. in four years, it seems like it's
• 30:05
  a bit extreme. Yeah, but if it were 250 deaths,
• 30:08
  well then by all means ban it. It's a bit extreme
• 30:10
  and history will repeat itself. So lawmakers
• 30:13
  heard a fair amount of personal... I think what
• 30:15
  he's saying when he says history will repeat
• 30:18
  itself, I think... So I'm going to infer that
• 30:22
  he's referring to black market economics. The
• 30:25
  same thing is when you ban guns or even to a
• 30:28
  degree when you ban abortion, which I'm... before
• 30:31
  because it is a violation of the NAP and murder.
• 30:34
  But that's something else to unpack way later.
• 30:37
  People are still going to find what they want.
• 30:40
  But now in the black market, you are right, though,
• 30:44
  they did a great job of trotting out a couple
• 30:46
  of guys whose best argument was basically a combination
• 30:49
  of it's made me feel great. And those 84 people
• 30:54
  who died don't matter because I feel good. So
• 30:59
  lawmakers heard a fair amount of personal stories
• 31:02
  this week, but recognizing that they have gone
• 31:05
  hours already without too much expert testimony,
• 31:09
  legislators said they were still anxious to hear
• 31:11
  from doctors and coroners about Gradem. But to
• 31:15
  say that somebody who overdoses on an opioid
• 31:18
  like heroin and somehow has a heart attack didn't,
• 31:22
  you know, die from the heroin, right? Like that's
• 31:25
  what causes. the heart attack. Just a lot of
• 31:28
  the testimony here has seemed very self -serving.
• 31:31
  I love this. I need this. I want this. I don't
• 31:33
  take it away. Well, what about the other who
• 31:36
  lost her daughter? There it is. Won't somebody
• 31:41
  please think of the children. Once again, I do
• 31:44
  not mean to laugh at a woman who lost her daughter
• 31:46
  that it's that elicits only sympathy. The reason
• 31:49
  that I'm reacting that way with my soundboard
• 31:51
  is because she's been she's using her platform
• 31:54
  publicly. in order to restrict liberty. Didn't,
• 31:59
  you know, die from the heroin, right? Like that's
• 32:02
  what causes the heart attack. I love this. I
• 32:05
  need this. I want this. I don't take it away.
• 32:08
  Well, what about the mother who lost her daughter?
• 32:11
  The testimonies we heard of people who were misled
• 32:13
  or deceived by labels. Those are mutually exclusive
• 32:16
  things. Like I need a car. I love cars. I want
• 32:20
  a car. I need a car. My neighbor's daughter died
• 32:24
  in a car accident. Think of the mother. Don't
• 32:28
  you dare buy a car. Your neighbor is a bereaved
• 32:31
  mother, man. She lost her daughter in a car accident.
• 32:34
  How could you even think? How could I think about
• 32:38
  driving a car or buying a car or parking my car
• 32:40
  in my parking lot so that poor, bereaved mother
• 32:43
  has to look at my car every day and be reminded
• 32:46
  of what happened to her daughter? Hey, it's sad,
• 32:49
  and I'm not saying it's not. But to your point,
• 32:52
  this lady gets up there and testifies and makes
• 32:55
  her life public now and does so for the sole
• 32:59
  and express purpose of taking away what's left
• 33:04
  of the liberty we still enjoy. And I don't even
• 33:07
  do Kratom. I've never done Kratom. I don't even
• 33:09
  know what Kratom is. I don't care. It doesn't
• 33:11
  matter. It's beside the point. Correct. Doesn't
• 33:13
  matter. I was about to say that exact same thing
• 33:14
  and I didn't because it's totally irrelevant.
• 33:17
  It is completely irrelevant. Even if I did recreate
• 33:21
  him, it doesn't do a disservice to the argument,
• 33:24
  but I don't. I have no connection to it whatsoever.
• 33:26
  But this doctor gets up and basically ties together
• 33:29
  two things that aren't actually connected. They
• 33:31
  are mutually exclusive. So he is mocking those
• 33:36
  who are testifying that they were physically
• 33:39
  helped by the substance and saying that their
• 33:45
  argument is completely invalid. because somebody
• 33:49
  else lost a family member to it. Well, okay,
• 33:53
  I'd love to know how many opioids this guy has
• 33:56
  prescribed. I'd love to know what damage has
• 33:59
  been done by that. We don't hear about that,
• 34:02
  do we? Brought to you by Pfizer. The testimonies
• 34:07
  we heard of people who were misled or deceived
• 34:09
  by labels. Members of the House Health and Welfare
• 34:12
  Committee decided to hold the bill, promising
• 34:15
  to pick it up again next week. All that as they
• 34:19
  also got word yesterday that still another Kratom
• 34:22
  bill was about to surface on the Senate side
• 34:26
  and that could be introduced as early as today.
• 34:30
  Lot of time and energy being used up. Maybe,
• 34:34
  you know what, maybe they're all doing Kratom
• 34:36
  and they just have a ton of extra energy and,
• 34:38
  you know. Verve. You know what, that's just crazy
• 34:42
  enough to be correct. It's like in Virginia,
• 34:48
  the super, super Democrat dominated legislature,
• 34:51
  because they control the governorship, they control
• 34:53
  the House, they control the Senate, and they've
• 34:54
  got like super majorities in both the House and
• 34:56
  the Senate. And they just passed what they're
• 34:58
  calling an assault weapons ban, which in and
• 35:00
  of itself is an absurd label because anything
• 35:02
  is an assault X, Y, Z, the moment you use it
• 35:05
  to hurt somebody. Like if I hit you with a hammer,
• 35:09
  it's an assault hammer now. So I've seen enough
• 35:12
  of those like a like a gas station parking lot
• 35:14
  skirmishes in the middle of the night to get
• 35:16
  caught on camera and it's like it like in like
• 35:18
  Atlanta, you know, and I've seen vehicles cars
• 35:21
  being used as assault weapons. So we should ban
• 35:23
  them. Yeah. Well, the charge of assault assault
• 35:28
  and battery is you could use your fists. You
• 35:31
  could use a crowbar. You can you could use foul
• 35:34
  language and you could you could use a battery
• 35:36
  assault like a D battery. Actually, you know,
• 35:39
  when When I had my my second skirmish with law
• 35:44
  enforcement in 2023 and they pulled me over while
• 35:47
  I was mining my own business and they had no
• 35:49
  right to well they had a legal right but they
• 35:51
  had no natural right to bother me and I didn't
• 35:54
  play their game and then found myself surrounded
• 35:56
  by 12 of them and and under the gun literally
• 36:00
  and then and then on the the asphalt and all
• 36:02
  that fun stuff. as they were pulling me out of
• 36:05
  extricating me from my vehicle, which I was stuck
• 36:07
  in, by the way, because I had my seatbelt on.
• 36:10
  The police report on that is hilarious, like
• 36:13
  that I wouldn't that I wouldn't let go of the
• 36:15
  steering wheel. And then I was fighting off like,
• 36:17
  like somehow I'm fighting off a dozen of these
• 36:19
  fuckers who are all bigger than me and have guns.
• 36:23
  Yeah. OK, things that never happened. But they
• 36:25
  actually slapped an assault charge on me because
• 36:27
  one of the cops as he was trying to get me out
• 36:30
  of the rig fell over. and hurt his collarbone.
• 36:34
  He hurt himself. I'm a buck 50, I'm 150 pounds
• 36:39
  and all these dudes outweighed me by 50 pounds
• 36:41
  or more. And he fell down and hurt his collarbone
• 36:45
  and they actually slapped an assault charge on
• 36:47
  me for it, for assaulting an officer. So I got
• 36:50
  him with my assault seatbelt. Yeah, take that.
• 36:55
  Yes, the subject violently swung his dreadlocks
• 36:58
  in the general vicinity of the officer's chin
• 37:01
  and it made contact. with the facial area. I
• 37:06
  assaulted them with facts and logic. The assault
• 37:12
  with a deadly mouth. Yes. Well, in their minds
• 37:20
  that called for an escalation of violence. Calling
• 37:23
  all units, calling all units. Oh, they, they
• 37:26
  sure did. I think the entire post falls night
• 37:28
  shift came out for that one. Uh, they're pretty
• 37:30
  bored over there. All hands on deck. Yeah. We
• 37:33
  finally got some, we get ladies and gentlemen,
• 37:36
  we got them. Yeah. I don't know which charge
• 37:38
  was my favorite. The assault on the assault on
• 37:40
  an officer when I, I never touched anybody. They're,
• 37:43
  they're busy beating the shit out of me and I
• 37:47
  get slapped with assault or the charge that was
• 37:50
  for, uh, uh, concealing. a firearm while intoxicated
• 37:55
  and I was neither intoxicated nor was I concealing
• 37:58
  the firearm. I was open carrying it in my holster
• 38:00
  like I always have done and always do. You've
• 38:03
  seen it. Yeah, good times. Anyways, rabbit trail.
• 38:08
  But anything is an assault weapon. But where
• 38:09
  I was going with that is in Virginia, what they've
• 38:14
  done is carved it out so that that law does not
• 38:17
  apply to them. It does not apply to them and
• 38:19
  it does not apply to their security details and
• 38:21
  personnel. No, why would this kratom thing? I
• 38:25
  you know, I bet you half the legislature is probably
• 38:27
  like yeah Give me some more of that but not for
• 38:30
  you plebes How come you guys all keep going to
• 38:33
  the the bathroom at the same time? You got to
• 38:35
  get back into the chamber here We're trying to
• 38:37
  be you know, we're law makers and we're trying
• 38:39
  to make laws They're visiting the bathroom because
• 38:44
  that's where all the underage pages hang out
• 38:46
  I've seen people in every way shape or form all
• 38:49
  over the world going to the bathroom Yes! I'm
• 38:53
  so glad you brought that up. Let's do an Ask
• 38:55
  Paul. Here comes the question. Big or small,
• 38:58
  make your guess before we call. The game begins.
• 39:01
  It's Ask. Brought to you by Pfizer. If there
• 39:05
  were two words to describe this year's session,
• 39:08
  two words used more than any others at the State
• 39:12
  House this year, they would likely be... What
• 39:15
  do you think NPR is telling us that the most
• 39:19
  likely description of this... year's legislative
• 39:22
  session. Sad face. You think you really think
• 39:31
  that's what MP? Is that your final answer? No.
• 39:35
  Budget woes. Judges? No. Judges say close, but
• 39:45
  no. They would likely be budget cuts. Last week.
• 39:51
  Oh, come on. You said woes. You said woes. Yeah,
• 39:55
  but to them, that's a woe. To me, that's a great.
• 39:58
  But the way they're gonna frame it, budget woes.
• 40:01
  You know, that same North Idaho NAACP guy, he's
• 40:06
  the one who held up the no sign. And he's sitting
• 40:07
  there, he's got his arms crossed. He's got a
• 40:10
  furrowed brow and his arms are crossed. So I
• 40:12
  don't think you're gonna convince him. That's
• 40:14
  bullshit. He hates me because I'm white. That's
• 40:15
  what's going on. Down there, budget cuts are
• 40:20
  synonymous with woes. I'm just going to throw
• 40:23
  that out there. I'm going to plead my case here
• 40:24
  a little bit. They all bitch and moan about cutting
• 40:26
  the budget. It's a whoa thing for them. For the
• 40:29
  rest of us, it's like, whoa, yeah. For them,
• 40:31
  it's like, whoa, whoa. I mean, these cuts are
• 40:34
  killing people. They would likely be budget cuts.
• 40:40
  Last week, the legislature slashed higher education
• 40:43
  budgets. Boise State, the University of Idaho,
• 40:46
  Idaho State University, Lewis Clark State College,
• 40:49
  Idaho's community colleges. plus significant
• 40:52
  cuts to career technical education programs.
• 40:55
  And the majority of the legislature's budget
• 40:58
  writing committee has decided to make even deeper
• 41:01
  cuts to health and welfare, that on top of their
• 41:04
  previous plan that had already reduced funding.
• 41:07
  But then there are the cuts over the last few
• 41:10
  years where tens of thousands of public servants,
• 41:13
  servants, servants, Idaho's working class at
• 41:16
  Health and Welfare, Fish and Game, working at
• 41:18
  prisons, working on road crews, the departments
• 41:21
  of labor, finance, or insurance, departments
• 41:24
  that will likely see cuts, and possible reductions
• 41:27
  in force, or possible cuts in services, or both.
• 41:31
  Let's make it abundantly clear, it will not be
• 41:34
  nickel one from anyone's paycheck, but your services,
• 41:37
  you plebes, say goodbye to these. But one Idaho
• 41:41
  lawmaker says, It is time for more cuts to another
• 41:45
  part of the government. What? The one at the
• 41:48
  top of the org chart. What? The state's top elected
• 41:50
  officials. The governor, lieutenant governor,
• 41:54
  attorney general, treasurer, controller, secretary
• 41:56
  of state, and the superintendent of public instruction.
• 42:00
  GOP Senator Kevin Cook of Bonneville County is
• 42:03
  proposing a 4 % cut for the top elected officials'
• 42:07
  salaries for the current fiscal year and a 5
• 42:10
  % cut for fiscal year 2027. For that reduction
• 42:14
  for the legislature, it would have been $131
• 42:16
  ,250. For this one that's before you, it will
• 42:19
  be $43 ,294. So budget cuts for - Wait, a date?
• 42:24
  Yeah, I know that. A total of 43 grand? So budget
• 42:47
  cuts for this and next fiscal year and it all
• 42:52
  bundles up to about $175 ,000 in savings. Well,
• 42:59
  it's basically one mid -level upper management
• 43:03
  level government worker. I guess hey, we'll take
• 43:06
  it it will take it I guess it's Given the notion
• 43:10
  of it like hey, what about the the the very tippy
• 43:13
  top of the leaders? Shouldn't they have a little
• 43:15
  bit of a pay cut? I guess not I Mean these cuts
• 43:29
  are killing people if we all just pay our fair
• 43:34
  share, right? You can keep soaking the taxpayer.
• 43:44
  Literally. Written and performed by the boomer
• 43:49
  generation. Literally. I guess I'm going to try
• 43:56
  to be positive here for a minute. And it's something.
• 44:00
  It's something. Yes, it is something. And it
• 44:03
  sends a message of sorts, I suppose. Kind of.
• 44:08
  Nobody is untouchable. Right. And you know, we're
• 44:10
  going to I'm going to get to it in the donations
• 44:12
  and value for value segment. you know, about
• 44:16
  us going, you know, being so sort of cynical
• 44:18
  and hard on Idaho's government, which compared
• 44:22
  to many other governments, state governments
• 44:24
  is less awful. So but we'll get to that. You
• 44:29
  know, let's do one more. Yeah, totally. But it's
• 44:31
  all relative. And we're talking like, as I always
• 44:33
  like to say to people, especially people who
• 44:35
  aren't from here originally, we're just debating
• 44:38
  shades of shit is what we're doing. That's it.
• 44:41
  Like, you know, you look at a glass. And some
• 44:45
  people say it's half empty. Some people say it's
• 44:47
  half full. I look at that and I go, I'm pretty
• 44:50
  sure this is piss. And then you might say, well,
• 44:53
  yeah, but it's only 30 % piss. And I say, well,
• 44:58
  that's cool. But I'd like it to be 0 % piss,
• 45:01
  please. Meanwhile, these folks at the top who
• 45:05
  are getting a whopping potentially, potentially,
• 45:08
  it hasn't even happened yet, 4 % pay cut. To
• 45:12
  their huge six -figure salaries on our backs
• 45:15
  by the way We've been Talking about cars a lot
• 45:20
  in this segment for whatever reason so before
• 45:22
  we take the Mitchell breather In Idaho if you
• 45:25
  were cruising in the left lane and not trying
• 45:28
  to pass You could soon get a fine a new Senate
• 45:31
  bill would allow Idaho law enforcement to fine
• 45:33
  drivers $75 if they are what they're called camping
• 45:37
  in the left lane making this a law would cost
• 45:40
  the state $200 ,000 just for signage for Idaho
• 45:44
  Department of Transportation and to educate drivers
• 45:47
  in general. Senators against the bill say they'd
• 45:50
  rather that money go elsewhere. I think that
• 45:53
  that money could be better used to repair our
• 45:56
  roads instead of making signs at this time. What
• 46:00
  it does give is law enforcement tools to address
• 46:03
  the chronic left lane camping that creates dangerous
• 46:06
  situations and contributes to aggressive driving.
• 46:10
  Senator Mark Harris, the bill sponsor, says the
• 46:12
  bill would help with clarification on what police
• 46:15
  should do when drivers, he says, monopolize the
• 46:18
  left lane. By the way, Washington already has
• 46:20
  a similar law. Please don't take our road. Yes,
• 46:24
  they do. They do. Washington does also. Please
• 46:26
  don't take our roads, Scott. Yes, I got a premature
• 46:30
  Scots shots. I'm not going to do the theme song
• 46:32
  for it because I have a real Scots shots coming
• 46:34
  up after the break. But what are the odds? It's
• 46:41
  a two -parter first off how many and you can't
• 46:44
  you're not a lot of cheap You gotta use your
• 46:46
  you gotta use your brain not a calculator. How
• 46:49
  many tickets at $75 a ticket? Would they with
• 46:53
  the state of Idaho need to issue to cover the
• 46:56
  sign it the expense for the signage That's question
• 46:58
  number one and question number two is what are
• 47:01
  the odds? That at some point a frustrated legislator
• 47:05
  probably when driving back down to Boise finally
• 47:07
  decided, you know what? I'm sick of this shit
• 47:10
  This left lane camper. Fuck that guy. I'm, I'm
• 47:14
  lawmaking. I'm a lawmaker. I'm going to make
• 47:15
  a law so hard and we're going to deal with this
• 47:19
  shit. Just like the guy who went and got his
• 47:23
  tags for actually, excuse me, had his, his assistants
• 47:26
  go and get his tags for his license plate. And
• 47:28
  he was like, this is dumb. Why do I have to spend
• 47:31
  my time on this? Did the rest of the plebes have
• 47:33
  to spend their time on this? Well, now that it
• 47:34
  inconveniences me, I'm going to make a law so
• 47:38
  hard. What are the odds? What do you think? You
• 47:41
  know, I just have to say I'm picturing like some
• 47:44
  guy in like a mid eighties Toyota motor home,
• 47:48
  like the Itasca that's attached to like the,
• 47:50
  you know, with like the four banger under the
• 47:52
  hood. And he's just like in the left. Oh no,
• 47:54
  I'll do you one better. This legislator who came
• 47:56
  up with it, whoever it is got stuck behind that
• 47:58
  piece of shit. Reclaim Idaho RV. Yeah. That scumbag,
• 48:02
  Luke Mayfield, who rolls around Idaho, total
• 48:05
  carpet bagger. His whole sole purpose is to push
• 48:07
  Medicaid expansion. Now that it's been done,
• 48:10
  now our sole purpose is to keep Medicaid expansion.
• 48:12
  Who the hell pays that guy, by the way? Oh, that's
• 48:15
  something we should investigate at some point.
• 48:18
  No, they got stuck behind Luke Mayfield. And
• 48:19
  then they're like, you know what? We need to
• 48:22
  we need to law make. Well, to answer your first
• 48:25
  question, I can only do math at a poker table
• 48:29
  in all other contexts. I can't do math. So what
• 48:32
  are the pot odds? Going to the river, it's approximately,
• 48:38
  let's see, $75 a ticket to make up, how much
• 48:43
  was it? 200 grand in signage. Oh, I don't know,
• 48:47
  what is that, like 2 ,800 tickets or something?
• 48:52
  You know what? Because I'm in a good mood and
• 48:54
  apparently you're not. The judges will give it
• 48:56
  to you, sir. Well, are there any blacks on your
• 48:59
  judge panel? No, I don't believe in diversity,
• 49:05
  obviously. Are you sure? Say the words, dude.
• 49:13
  Diversity, man. It's very important. Say those
• 49:15
  words. No, you can't tell me what to do. You're
• 49:18
  not my mom. No, no. 2666. That's how many tickets.
• 49:29
  Damn close, sir. Well done. I love that the number
• 49:31
  came out to 2666. That's fantastic. Take that,
• 49:34
  Idaho. You suck. Good times. So don't go there
• 49:38
  you go. And I mean, I don't know I mean how many
• 49:41
  are you running into a lot of left lane campers?
• 49:44
  I don't actually feel like I see that you're
• 49:45
  all that often. No, not really, but then again
• 49:49
  We're not a good sampling size because where
• 49:51
  I live there There are no roads with a total
• 49:55
  of four lanes. Everything is two lane So where
• 49:58
  I'm where I'm at the issue in Bonner County is
• 50:01
  everybody goes five miles If we're lucky, they
• 50:04
  go the speed limit. Most of the time they go
• 50:06
  five miles under until they get to one of the
• 50:09
  two or three places where it's actually a straightaway.
• 50:13
  There aren't many, especially on my roads where
• 50:15
  wraps all the way around Ponderay Lake and it
• 50:17
  weaves and it winds and blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 50:19
  And so there's only two or three places where
• 50:20
  you can get around anybody safely. And then Bonner
• 50:23
  County drivers are just I'm pretty sure they
• 50:26
  teach this in Bonner County drivers that go five
• 50:29
  under until you get to a straightaway. and then
• 50:31
  lead foot that shit. Don't let anybody pass you.
• 50:35
  That we ought to make illegal. I would law make
• 50:38
  that so hard. Well, it's it's not a law here
• 50:43
  on this program. It's simply a suggestion. We
• 50:46
  are not lawmakers. We're just humble podcasters
• 50:49
  bringing you no ID and no ID is a value. IQ is
• 50:53
  too high to be lawmakers. Triple digits, baby.
• 50:58
  Suck on that. Value for value is the model that
• 51:03
  this program runs on. That means that if you
• 51:07
  find this program to be valuable, you contribute
• 51:10
  back value to the show. And there are many different
• 51:12
  ways to do that, time, talent, and treasure.
• 51:14
  Of course, only do that if you find this program
• 51:17
  to be a valuable addition to your rotation. Let's
• 51:21
  see, we have a bunch of stuff to get to, so I'll
• 51:24
  just quickly say time and talent. are maybe sort
• 51:26
  of self -explanatory, just contributing back
• 51:28
  to the show with anything that you want to make
• 51:30
  or suggest. Give us time. Give us talent. Send
• 51:34
  us audio clips. Send us show art. Send us articles.
• 51:39
  Send us stuff you think we should cover. Send
• 51:40
  us boots on the ground reports. Send us your
• 51:43
  area of expertise and something you have insight
• 51:45
  into, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. The treasure
• 51:48
  portion also maybe is self -explanatory. That's
• 51:52
  just currency, fiat currency, which as of this
• 51:56
  writing, still has a little bit of value. So
• 52:00
  as long as that remains the case, we ask that
• 52:02
  you contribute back treasure as you see fit.
• 52:06
  And value can mean anything to, it means many
• 52:08
  different things to many different people. As
• 52:11
  we were discussing earlier, everyone is different.
• 52:13
  So who are we to say what is value to you? Only
• 52:16
  you can say that. Yeah, well on that point, Fiat
• 52:19
  currency, obviously, is always appreciated because
• 52:21
  that's what the banks force us to use to pay
• 52:23
  the mortgage and blah, blah, blah. But ammo is
• 52:27
  accepted. Bullion is accepted. A tab at the racketeer
• 52:32
  is accepted. I mean, pretty much any favors.
• 52:36
  I like favors, you know, all kinds of things.
• 52:39
  Anything really that chickens always looking
• 52:42
  out for more of those. So on and so forth. Yes,
• 52:45
  exactly. Yes. I mean, this is the true barter
• 52:48
  economy, really. So whatever you want to barter,
• 52:51
  goods and services and then anything else. So
• 52:54
  whatever you can think of that is value to you,
• 52:56
  contribute value back to the show. Yeah, if you
• 52:59
  text me and you say, I've got a favor for you
• 53:02
  just and then to meet you at your van somewhere
• 53:05
  down there by Ponterey Lake, I'm coming. Like
• 53:07
  a child to the ice cream truck. You got me. There
• 53:13
  is some executive producers to thank This week
• 53:18
  on At on the last show you mentioned as and as
• 53:21
  we let off the top of this one that this is episode
• 53:23
  number 21 of your new ID show and The blackjack
• 53:27
  donation which you mentioned on the last on episode
• 53:30
  number 20. We did have some takers So let's let's
• 53:35
  start with those and the first one is from Brian
• 53:39
  Maloney who? Hit Blackjack and send us 21 bucks.
• 53:45
  And he says, hello gents, I have contributed
• 53:50
  with some time and a few boots on the ground
• 53:52
  reports, but I was inspired by your idea of a
• 53:55
  show number donation to send you some good old
• 53:57
  fashioned treasure. I am not talented. So while
• 54:02
  the trifecta remains elusive, I certainly get
• 54:06
  more value out of the show than expected. Well,
• 54:09
  okay, so he expected it to suck, but it turns
• 54:12
  out it doesn't so I'm happy to return value as
• 54:15
  I am able I still think Paul is a bit off about
• 54:19
  Rhodes But perhaps he can convince me otherwise
• 54:21
  that the upcoming meetup get on that I'm sure
• 54:25
  our government leaders leaders leaders don't
• 54:28
  have anything else figured out on That what is
• 54:31
  it anything else figured out that well? Oh, I
• 54:36
  see Don't have anything else figured out that
• 54:38
  well, so I'm not sure why I think roads are so
• 54:40
  great. Sometimes I'll bore you with the story
• 54:42
  about how many times the federal court walks
• 54:45
  a thumb drive back and forth across the office
• 54:48
  when video or picture evidence is presented to
• 54:50
  the court, often sent by courier or hand delivered
• 54:53
  by council in person. I'm worried you may not
• 54:56
  have enough examples of the government failing
• 54:58
  to make any sense at all, but... Now is not the
• 55:02
  time as this note is already too long. Keep up
• 55:03
  the good work. Roads are no roads. Taxation is
• 55:06
  theft. There you go from Brian. Brian, you're
• 55:11
  a man after my own heart and there will never
• 55:14
  ever be enough examples of government stupidity
• 55:17
  and waste. We can't make it up. They just make
• 55:19
  it up for us every day. Every day is a new cornucopia
• 55:23
  for which if you have things to share, please
• 55:25
  do. We're always so excited to hear that kind
• 55:30
  of stuff. He's one of a couple few spooks that
• 55:36
  work in the city of Spokane. Like he said, he's
• 55:40
  contributed a little bit with some Boots on the
• 55:42
  Ground stuff, and so has the Sir Spook from Spokane
• 55:45
  who's coming up in a moment. But we'll let you
• 55:49
  know if it's too boring to read on the show.
• 55:52
  But if you've got something to contribute, don't
• 55:53
  assume you'll find it boring. Just shoot a note.
• 55:56
  So describe what you're talking about. And then
• 55:58
  if you know, if it's that boring, you know, we
• 55:59
  won't read it. I mean, has there been anything
• 56:02
  yet that's been like too boring for us to bring
• 56:04
  up on the show? Maybe there is. I'm asking Scott
• 56:06
  because he's the one who handles the emails.
• 56:08
  So not really. People send you stuff all the
• 56:09
  time and you're just like pass. But I don't think
• 56:12
  so. No, not really. I think everything. I mean,
• 56:14
  I see some of it. Yeah. So, I mean, send it in,
• 56:18
  baby. Brian, thank you, man. Appreciate it. And
• 56:21
  I'm glad that you have determined after 21 episodes
• 56:24
  that our show does not suck. At the very least,
• 56:27
  it's passable. He expected it to. I like that.
• 56:29
  He was like, well, I wasn't expecting that. Oh,
• 56:31
  yeah. Well, just like that legislator saving
• 56:34
  the state of Idaho $42 ,000 on an administrator's
• 56:37
  salary, I too am happy that we could, you know,
• 56:41
  beat the bare minimum. Barely. He did have at
• 56:45
  the very end, he did say like, hey, I forget
• 56:47
  if you have a deducing or the like, but if so,
• 56:50
  hit me with it. So he's referring to like first
• 56:52
  time donors. Like if you, you know, if you don't
• 56:55
  donate, And you just listen, but you don't ever
• 56:57
  donate anything. You're a douche bag. And then
• 56:59
  when you send in your first donation, which this
• 57:01
  is for Brian, you get deduced. So I don't have
• 57:04
  anything necessarily on my board. So, but I want
• 57:07
  to plant that seed with you to come up with something
• 57:09
  that would be good as a deducing sound effect.
• 57:13
  I think that's a good, I think you have a good
• 57:15
  point right now. I'll tell you what off the top
• 57:17
  of my head. And I think we should start now.
• 57:18
  I really do. And I apologize. And so now we're
• 57:21
  just going to blanket apologize to everybody
• 57:23
  else who we haven't deduced. I'm sorry. Actually,
• 57:27
  I'm going to apologize on behalf of Scott. He
• 57:29
  should know this because he's in the industry.
• 57:31
  I didn't. I'm new to this. So this is your fault,
• 57:33
  Scott. But I'm going to be the bigger man here
• 57:35
  and apologize on behalf of you. I have this that
• 57:41
  I think we could make it work. And if not, we'll
• 57:43
  find something else, Scott. But in the meantime,
• 57:45
  this is what we're done. Thank you, Brian. Indeed.
• 58:02
  Thank you, Brian. Next up is a good one. This
• 58:06
  is Lloyd the Brewer and Lloyd actually did two
• 58:09
  separate donations. Lloyd gave me twenty dollars
• 58:12
  cash money in person at our meet up last Thursday
• 58:17
  at his establishment where he's making the beer.
• 58:19
  That is the Trails and Brewery in Coeur d 'Alene.
• 58:22
  Oh, right on. I don't know if you've ever been
• 58:24
  to that spot. I have. I like the mezzanine they
• 58:27
  got up to the upstairs section. It's a cool spot.
• 58:29
  That is exactly where we do our meetups is up
• 58:31
  on that mezzanine. I love it, too. And so he
• 58:34
  he's the brewer over there. And actually, I have
• 58:36
  to say, since Lloyd took over that spot, the
• 58:38
  beer has improved markedly. I was never a huge
• 58:41
  fan of the beer there. I come from the craft
• 58:43
  beer industry, so I have a little bit of a, you
• 58:45
  know, I would say discerning palate. Others would
• 58:47
  say, like, you know, stuck up or, you know, what
• 58:51
  would you what would you call that? Like, I only
• 58:52
  want great poupon. I don't I don't want regular
• 58:54
  mustard. Well, as the great Winston Churchill
• 58:58
  once said, My tastes are simple. I'm easily satisfied
• 59:02
  with the best. Yes. So you have nothing to be
• 59:04
  ashamed of my friend. And yeah, I would say discerning
• 59:06
  taste is the way to describe it. You and I have
• 59:08
  the same. We're in the same boat on that. I mean,
• 59:10
  I made a living with my mouth. Yes. Tasting things
• 59:13
  and talking about things. Correct. Me too. So
• 59:17
  I but I have to say that since the pizza and
• 59:20
  the atmosphere were always good, but the beer
• 59:21
  was always just OK, in my opinion. But since
• 59:24
  Lloyd has taken over, he has really dialed in
• 59:27
  that program over there, and the beer is excellent.
• 59:29
  It's really good. So I'm stoked on that, and
• 59:32
  I'm stoked on the 20 bucks he gave me. And then,
• 59:34
  so what's funny is, he gave me that 20 bucks
• 59:37
  in person last week, and then he sent in Blackjack
• 59:41
  donation, $21 in addition to that, and he said,
• 59:48
  if I had heard episode 20, I would have given
• 59:51
  you the $21 last Thursday, but I also didn't
• 59:55
  want to be the guy to just donate one more dollar
• 59:57
  after the fact. So I sent you an extra $21 through
• 1:00:01
  Venmo for one of hopefully many black checks
• 1:00:03
  you will receive for episode 21. Keep up the
• 1:00:05
  great work. Cheers from Lloyd the Brewer. That's
• 1:00:08
  really funny. Because when you told me about
• 1:00:10
  the $20, I was waiting for the other shoe to
• 1:00:12
  drop. And I thought for sure he was going to
• 1:00:14
  like Venmo you a buck or something, which would
• 1:00:16
  have been hilarious. He considered it. But I
• 1:00:18
  appreciate what you did the way you did it, Lloyd.
• 1:00:21
  Thank you very much, man. Very good. And we have
• 1:00:25
  one more Blackjack donation. It's the ace of
• 1:00:29
  clubs and the ten of clubs. Bang Blackjack from
• 1:00:32
  the Sir Spook of Spokane, who says. Right. Blackjack
• 1:00:36
  donation from Sir Spook of Spokane. You guys
• 1:00:38
  missed a great irony last show, one hour, eight
• 1:00:42
  minutes. Idaho Women's Day is on three, 14, March
• 1:00:46
  14th, Pi Day. They gave the women Pi Day. Get
• 1:00:49
  back in the kitchen and make some pies, ladies.
• 1:00:51
  And then he, so he sent that in with his donation
• 1:00:54
  and then he texted me later and he said, well,
• 1:00:57
  my donation note doesn't make any sense as Paul
• 1:00:59
  caught the irony later in the episode on the
• 1:01:01
  birds. Suck on that. But I still feel like y
• 1:01:05
  'all were late to the irony. So what happened
• 1:01:06
  is he heard that happen, didn't hear us catch
• 1:01:10
  it immediately. And then he did a shoulder roll
• 1:01:12
  to his phone and mashed and mashed his, uh, his,
• 1:01:15
  his message or whatever, whatever he was typing
• 1:01:18
  that on, uh, and then hit the send button and
• 1:01:21
  then continued listening to the episode and then
• 1:01:22
  went, uh, well, sir, that will teach you to judge
• 1:01:27
  too hastily. Also, thank you for your donation.
• 1:01:32
  Thank you, sir spook of Spokane and as a man
• 1:01:35
  who understands the value for value model chicken
• 1:01:38
  dinner And a couple more here We have Kevin Killian
• 1:01:45
  who's back the man the myth Kevin what's up?
• 1:01:49
  Kevin million legend sent in 50 bucks and Just
• 1:01:53
  in a in his very short note style just wrote
• 1:01:56
  V for V Kevin and this applies to everybody as
• 1:02:03
  it always does. But Kevin's the only one so far
• 1:02:05
  who's taken me up on it. I'm coming down, but
• 1:02:09
  I'm not, I'm not telling Scott about this. I
• 1:02:10
  was going to say Scott, you should take off your
• 1:02:12
  headset so I can say it to everyone but you.
• 1:02:15
  Go away, Scott. While I make this announcement,
• 1:02:16
  I'm coming down Thursday, April 9th, that I'm
• 1:02:18
  going to be in the lounge from about noon, noon
• 1:02:22
  15 ish, give or take depends on when I get out
• 1:02:24
  of my appointment. That's a 10 45. I got to come
• 1:02:26
  down for a doctor's appointment for my busted
• 1:02:28
  ass Achilles Achilles tendon. and check in on
• 1:02:33
  that. That's a 10 .45. After that, I'll be at
• 1:02:35
  the lounge, hopefully right at noon, opening
• 1:02:37
  time, and I will be there until about 3, 33 .45.
• 1:02:41
  I got a backgammon date with Dave Temple, but
• 1:02:45
  I'd love to visit with whoever wants to swing
• 1:02:47
  by during that time and visit. I can hear already,
• 1:02:50
  you know, like Sir Spook of Spokane and Brian
• 1:02:53
  and Lloyd the Brewer and et cetera, going like,
• 1:02:55
  oh cool, so right in the middle of my work day.
• 1:02:57
  Sounds great, Paul. I won't see you there. Whoa.
• 1:03:01
  I mean, it sucks to suck. I don't know what to
• 1:03:02
  tell you. Maybe have you tried being unemployed?
• 1:03:05
  I'm just, you know, don't do that though, because
• 1:03:07
  you need your donations. You're in between ventures.
• 1:03:11
  Actually, I am employed now. I'm self -employed
• 1:03:13
  again. I'm doing my own thing. I won't bore everybody
• 1:03:15
  with that on right now. But the offer is there
• 1:03:19
  and Kevin, maybe I'll see you. Kevin's in sales,
• 1:03:21
  so he can kind of do what he wants. And yeah,
• 1:03:24
  that's the deal. Whoever shows up, I'll buy you
• 1:03:26
  a drink. I'll buy you a cigar. We'll visit. We'll
• 1:03:28
  hang out. And we'll have another time that is
• 1:03:31
  in the evening. So you can get there after work.
• 1:03:33
  I don't know when that is, but I promise we'll
• 1:03:35
  do that. And then we will have that get together.
• 1:03:37
  Scott and I got to put that on the calendar.
• 1:03:39
  But you know, I never really invite Scott or
• 1:03:41
  think of him or talk to him about anything. So
• 1:03:43
  it might take us a while to get there. It's a
• 1:03:45
  public establishment. Also, you're not me. I
• 1:03:48
  mean, I guess if you want to come on Thursday
• 1:03:50
  the 9th, you can. Scott, I'll allow it. You got
• 1:03:53
  to sit on the other side of the room. I don't
• 1:03:54
  want people to think that we're friends or anything.
• 1:03:58
  A couple more here. Let's finish this up so we
• 1:04:01
  can do second half. I'm kidding. I love Scott.
• 1:04:03
  There's just a running joke that Scott and I
• 1:04:05
  hammered to death. I'm going to edit that out
• 1:04:09
  because I want to keep it going. It's much better
• 1:04:11
  if you don't do that. Well, no, if you do that,
• 1:04:14
  you are just like everyone else, Scott. You can't
• 1:04:18
  do that. And I will tell everybody you did that
• 1:04:20
  if you do it. I listen to these. I'll know. Sir
• 1:04:24
  Donald of the fire bottles. Another 50 bucks.
• 1:04:29
  And he, get this dude, handwritten note from
• 1:04:34
  Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles. And he says,
• 1:04:38
  Scott and Paul, $50 for the No ID Show from Sir
• 1:04:42
  Donald of the Fire Bottles, Secretary General
• 1:04:44
  of Greater Idaho. And that is because Sir Donald
• 1:04:49
  wants to be on this side of the border. And because
• 1:04:51
  he's not going to make the move, he wants the
• 1:04:52
  border to come to him. I mean, I'm not opposed
• 1:04:56
  to that idea. We talked about that sort of thing.
• 1:04:58
  Where do you live, Sir Donald? Where does he
• 1:04:59
  live? Can you tell me that? I think he's in Spokane.
• 1:05:02
  I don't know exactly, but he's in Spokane. We
• 1:05:05
  could take pieces of Spokane. I don't want downtown
• 1:05:09
  Spokane. No way. We already have issues with
• 1:05:11
  downtown Coeur d 'Alene. But I'll take the Valley.
• 1:05:14
  Yeah, we'll consider that. Otis Orchards, Liberty
• 1:05:16
  Lake. Okay. Okay. So I think Greater Idaho is
• 1:05:20
  an actual proposal of the... Do you know what
• 1:05:24
  those boundary lines look like? What the redrawing...
• 1:05:26
  Yeah, I do actually. Yeah, it includes... Oregon
• 1:05:30
  all the way to bend. Yes, so basically just just
• 1:05:33
  take Oregon and and then draw a north -south
• 1:05:35
  line Basically right at Bend Oregon and everything
• 1:05:38
  east of that line. It would be part of greater,
• 1:05:41
  Idaho and Basically the same thing for Washington
• 1:05:44
  just keep drawing just keep moving that line
• 1:05:46
  northward at the Cascades so it's basically the
• 1:05:50
  Cascades essentially serve as the line and yeah,
• 1:05:53
  I've heard I've heard about that I've looked
• 1:05:54
  at that on one hand. I think that could be really
• 1:05:58
  cool On the other hand, personally, I want Idaho
• 1:06:01
  to be even smaller, not bigger. And a lot of
• 1:06:05
  Washington Republicans are not as Republican
• 1:06:07
  as some Idaho Republicans. So I mean, I just
• 1:06:13
  want North Idaho to break off. Right. That's
• 1:06:16
  what I want. And then, and then I want Clark
• 1:06:18
  fork to break off and then I'm going to secede
• 1:06:23
  just from everything and everybody, which I should
• 1:06:25
  be able to do. But thank you for the donation.
• 1:06:27
  You're welcome to come to Idaho. Yes, thank you,
• 1:06:30
  Sir Donald. And finally, Chris Erickson, who
• 1:06:35
  is the originator, Chris with a K, originator
• 1:06:37
  of the Shiny Schmeckle donation, slapped another
• 1:06:41
  999 into my hand and said, here is another Shiny
• 1:06:49
  Schmeckle donation. So Chris with a K is back.
• 1:06:53
  and making good on his shiny schmeckle. And this
• 1:06:56
  is what I was alluding to earlier, where he was
• 1:06:59
  saying, and there's not a written note because
• 1:07:01
  he was saying it to me in person at our meetup,
• 1:07:03
  and he was saying, you know, he spent a lot of
• 1:07:07
  time in Seattle, Chris did, and so he's still
• 1:07:10
  in the, not still, that's not the right way to
• 1:07:13
  say it. He has maybe a little less cynicism with
• 1:07:16
  regard to Idaho's government than we do, and
• 1:07:20
  certainly not like as we. Like for what we present
• 1:07:23
  on the show and because we do we do a lot of
• 1:07:26
  criticism and deconstruction and stuff and so
• 1:07:28
  it sounds like It's like oh well all government
• 1:07:31
  is equally bad and terrible across the board
• 1:07:34
  and I it is important I said this to him in person
• 1:07:36
  like I I don't want to lose sight of of like
• 1:07:40
  relative equivalence because especially when
• 1:07:44
  I first moved here in like 2020 and 2021 You
• 1:07:47
  know there was There was a really distinct difference,
• 1:07:51
  which really it flowed from the people much more
• 1:07:53
  than it did from the government. But there are
• 1:07:56
  shades of gray. And yes, it is less bad here.
• 1:08:00
  And yes, here there there still are state representatives
• 1:08:03
  who say things in the microphones that aren't
• 1:08:06
  crazy. And, you know, in other places like your
• 1:08:08
  Seattle's and your L .A.'s and your Portland's
• 1:08:10
  and stuff, they just all sound like commies.
• 1:08:12
  And here only some of them do. So, yes, I don't
• 1:08:15
  want to lose sight of that. That's true. I'll
• 1:08:19
  freely admit it. And yeah, we are pretty cynical.
• 1:08:23
  It's easy to be. And this is all true. But at
• 1:08:28
  the same time, when you measure the speed of
• 1:08:30
  measuring sticks and how we, you know, by what
• 1:08:32
  standard? Well, for me, and Scott's pretty dang
• 1:08:36
  close to me, I think on most of this as well.
• 1:08:39
  The measuring stick is the standard is, you know,
• 1:08:43
  maximum liberty or less liberty. And ultimately,
• 1:08:47
  even though North Idaho, in North Idaho are better
• 1:08:50
  than most, and they are. They are better than
• 1:08:53
  most places on earth, I would say. Yep. You got
• 1:08:56
  your mountains, you got your water, you got your
• 1:08:58
  beautiful skies, you've got all the good stuff.
• 1:09:01
  And you are more free here than you are in probably
• 1:09:04
  80 % or more of the world while enjoying the
• 1:09:07
  first world amenities like running water and
• 1:09:09
  internet and both Western and Eastern medicine.
• 1:09:14
  Yeah. Hey, the toilets flush and everything.
• 1:09:17
  They do and I it's I love it. I'm gonna die here.
• 1:09:21
  I get that So those are good, you know, all good
• 1:09:23
  things all good points and good to be reminded
• 1:09:25
  of however at the same time my god We're not
• 1:09:28
  even close to where we should be for for where
• 1:09:31
  I want to be for liberty in the even close. Yep
• 1:09:33
  It's unfortunate. I think we make clear on a
• 1:09:37
  sentence by sentence basis So and but I just
• 1:09:39
  wanted to acknowledge that that Chris is right
• 1:09:41
  and I appreciated the point He made and I guess
• 1:09:43
  his donation. Yes. Thank you Chris point point
• 1:09:47
  to Chris points to all you guys really appreciate
• 1:09:49
  the donations. We really do not to get too sappy
• 1:09:51
  about it We joke and joke and joke, but it's
• 1:09:54
  really cool. What you guys are doing. I appreciate
• 1:09:57
  it I know Scott does as well. So thanks guys.
• 1:09:59
  Thank you very much Go to no ID show calm if
• 1:10:03
  you would like to contribute back to the show
• 1:10:05
  time talent treasure value for value That's how
• 1:10:08
  we roll no ID show calm Second half of show let's
• 1:10:20
  start off with another follow -up and it is with
• 1:10:24
  no no sir you have forgotten I'm sorry Scott
• 1:10:26
  I'm interjecting but you forgot don't you don't
• 1:10:29
  you take this away from me oh you're right okay
• 1:10:31
  here we go let's go let's go you know what time
• 1:10:37
  it is Scott Get your philosophical shadow boxing
• 1:10:49
  in number up, baby Got a lot of insanity to dodge
• 1:10:56
  Keep wailing baby All right, it's time for Scott's
• 1:11:05
  shots Scott, are you familiar with a man by the
• 1:11:11
  name of Ryan Cole I should be more specific.
• 1:11:16
  Dr. Ryan Cole No, well Just recently, Dr. Ryan
• 1:11:26
  Cole has been appointed to a senior leadership
• 1:11:30
  position in the Independent Medical Alliance.
• 1:11:34
  Dr. Ryan Cole is from Garden City, Boise area.
• 1:11:39
  What do you think the CDC and the Idaho Medical
• 1:11:45
  Association thought of this? Well, he's from
• 1:11:53
  something that's called independent. And boy,
• 1:11:57
  do they hate independence in physicians. They
• 1:12:01
  attempt to breed it out of them and beat it out
• 1:12:04
  of them and otherwise cultivate an independence
• 1:12:06
  -free environment in the Western medicine establishment.
• 1:12:11
  So what did the, so what I'm looking for, what,
• 1:12:13
  like the exact, like a sort of quote or is this
• 1:12:15
  like a, like a spokesman from the CDC made a
• 1:12:18
  statement about it? Just give me a general sentiment
• 1:12:21
  even. Again, the judges are being pretty pretty
• 1:12:25
  lenient today, at least on my end. Obviously
• 1:12:27
  yours haven't been, but. Well, you know how it
• 1:12:30
  goes when you when you have a a homogenous panel,
• 1:12:34
  they always just everything this is copacetic,
• 1:12:35
  you know. Actually, it's the it's the opposite,
• 1:12:38
  though. Usually when you have a DEI panel of
• 1:12:40
  judges like you do, the standard is lower. So
• 1:12:43
  it's opposite day. I'm going to say, I mean,
• 1:12:50
  I guess if I'm the sentiment has to be like.
• 1:12:54
  you know, the appointment of this guy is going
• 1:12:56
  to kill people because of his like anti -vaccine
• 1:13:00
  stance or something thereabouts. Good enough.
• 1:13:06
  All right. Cole narrowly secured the votes needed
• 1:13:08
  to become the only physician on the Boise area
• 1:13:11
  central district health board in 2021. Now he
• 1:13:16
  has been appointed to a senior leadership position
• 1:13:19
  of the independent medical alliance. I quote,
• 1:13:22
  This is his words, medicine must return to science
• 1:13:26
  grounded in real world, real world clinical data
• 1:13:29
  and the sacred doctor patient relationship. In
• 1:13:33
  this new role, I look forward to helping translate
• 1:13:36
  frontline clinical evidence into responsible
• 1:13:39
  education, meaningful research collaboration
• 1:13:42
  and policy solutions that improve patient outcomes
• 1:13:44
  and restore the trust of healthcare. As you can
• 1:13:47
  tell Scott, Ryan Cole is a knuckle dragging extremist.
• 1:13:52
  Oh yeah, far right, clue clutch plan. The issue
• 1:13:54
  being, our primary concern, his opponents say,
• 1:13:59
  is that he says he has treated patients from
• 1:14:02
  Florida to California by refusing to use accepted
• 1:14:05
  and documented medical practices and vaccinations
• 1:14:08
  and instead has prescribed, double shot for you
• 1:14:12
  Scott, what did he prescribe instead? Ivermectin.
• 1:14:18
  Too easy. We believe this practice does more
• 1:14:21
  harm than good and it should be stopped. Sure,
• 1:14:24
  you do. On the other hand, the press release
• 1:14:27
  from the Independent Medical Alliance praised
• 1:14:29
  Cole for rebelling against mainstream medical
• 1:14:31
  guidance. Brought to you by Pfizer. That's the
• 1:14:37
  state of medicine. Yes, it is. Sadly. Yeah. Ryan
• 1:14:42
  Cole's biggest sin, according to the CDC, is
• 1:14:46
  that he alerted the public to cases of myocarditis
• 1:14:50
  or inflammation of the heart muscle. observed
• 1:14:53
  in young men in particular after they received
• 1:14:55
  the second round of the mRNA vaccines for COVID.
• 1:15:01
  The CDC assured us that such cases are rare and
• 1:15:07
  most patients saw their symptoms resolve by the
• 1:15:10
  time they were discharged from the hospital.
• 1:15:12
  Ryan Cole pushed a false narrative. Sure he did.
• 1:15:18
  Yep. Uh, as a, as asserted by the credibility
• 1:15:21
  free CDC. So here's the best part, I think really
• 1:15:26
  of all of it. And this is where us breaking down
• 1:15:29
  the mainstream narrative comes into play because
• 1:15:31
  it was the, uh, the Idaho Statesman, a known
• 1:15:34
  yellow journalistic rag out of the Boise area
• 1:15:37
  just reveals their hand more than they already
• 1:15:40
  did right at the, towards the end of the article.
• 1:15:44
  There's just a little blurb. He previously ran
• 1:15:47
  an independent medical laboratory in Garden City
• 1:15:49
  called Cold Diagnostics, but it closed in December
• 1:15:52
  of 2022. That's it. That's the blurb. Yeah. So,
• 1:15:59
  but it's perfect. It's a perfect tactic because
• 1:16:01
  they don't give any background. They don't give
• 1:16:02
  any context. There's no rhyme or reason. There's
• 1:16:04
  no nothing at all. Just that he did do this thing,
• 1:16:09
  but then it closed. Yeah, probably for nefarious
• 1:16:13
  reasons. Of course. It was probably it was a
• 1:16:15
  pre -dawn raid You know and then they closed
• 1:16:17
  up his you know, they shut him down because of
• 1:16:19
  the horrible You know, whatever he was doing
• 1:16:21
  in there was just beyond the pale Yeah Anyways,
• 1:16:27
  I thought you'd appreciate that I do appreciate
• 1:16:29
  that and you know, hey there aren't a lot of
• 1:16:32
  places where Ryan Cole would be in would he even
• 1:16:36
  get into that position? So to Chris with a case.
• 1:16:39
  Yeah, you know here we are That was kind of my
• 1:16:42
  thought is only it is one of the few places where
• 1:16:45
  he actually would have a voice and he did have
• 1:16:47
  a voice and they tried to shut him down and ultimately
• 1:16:50
  they couldn't but boy the statesmen and the Boise
• 1:16:53
  elites sure don't like it. Do they they do not
• 1:16:55
  you and under normal circumstances they would
• 1:16:57
  be jazzed because he's the only guy from Idaho
• 1:17:01
  who is in a leadership position at this the Independent
• 1:17:05
  Medical Alliance So but he doesn't think correctly
• 1:17:09
  you would think that correct Yeah, there you
• 1:17:12
  are. Let's do a follow up. So what am I? Am I
• 1:17:17
  now like nine for nine, I think? Yeah. But the
• 1:17:20
  important thing is that you feel good about yourself.
• 1:17:24
  Here is a follow up on the license plate registration
• 1:17:29
  stickers that we officially no longer are going
• 1:17:31
  to have. on our vehicles. This has been an ongoing
• 1:17:34
  story for like four. It's the gift that keeps
• 1:17:38
  on giving. Okay, you're actually not gonna even
• 1:17:40
  believe this. I consider doing an Ask Paul for
• 1:17:42
  this clip, but it's so outlandish. It's so ridiculous.
• 1:17:45
  It was unguessable. So I didn't do it, but you'll
• 1:17:48
  hear it in a moment. Please tell me it has to
• 1:17:52
  do with people randomly standing in line for
• 1:17:55
  two days for it. It's better. Idahoans will no
• 1:17:58
  longer be required to put physical stickers on
• 1:18:01
  their license plates. Those sort of in the bottom
• 1:18:04
  right there. Governor Brad Little signed House
• 1:18:06
  Bill 533 in the law earlier this month, aiming
• 1:18:08
  to save the state 300 grand a year. But the bill
• 1:18:11
  was approved despite opposition from local law
• 1:18:14
  enforcement. Multiple Idaho agencies spoke out
• 1:18:17
  against the bill, saying it's going to make an
• 1:18:19
  already difficult job even harder. Now, without
• 1:18:23
  stickers, the officers won't have the ability
• 1:18:25
  unless they run the license plate on the vehicle
• 1:18:27
  in their car or they call their dispatch center.
• 1:18:30
  OK, so this is I believe they'll say it in a
• 1:18:32
  second. I think it's the Nampa police chief.
• 1:18:34
  But I want you to hear him describe how much
• 1:18:37
  more difficult life is going to be for his officers.
• 1:18:41
  Or they call their dispatch center because not
• 1:18:43
  every agency in Idaho has the computers in their
• 1:18:45
  car. They have to call their dispatch center
• 1:18:47
  and a lot of the smaller agencies. some of the
• 1:18:50
  rural counties, the radios don't work. And in
• 1:18:52
  some places, if they need to call dispatch, they
• 1:18:54
  actually have to find a pay phone and call 911
• 1:18:56
  to call into dispatch. So it's just going to,
• 1:18:59
  it's just another tool that they've taken away
• 1:19:01
  from us. Whatever. I will, I will take things
• 1:19:06
  that never happens for 1000 Trebek. There has
• 1:19:09
  not been a phone on street corner one since like
• 1:19:13
  1998. Just to even make the argument that Any
• 1:19:20
  of the departments don't have communication equipment.
• 1:19:24
  Oh, radios don't work. Shut up. Just shut up.
• 1:19:29
  You, you were the worst. You people are the worst.
• 1:19:32
  I'll tell you what, maybe they can borrow Kootenai
• 1:19:37
  County's helicopter from sheriff Norris. I'll
• 1:19:40
  bet that has a radio. So how, how will they harass
• 1:19:47
  us efficiently? if they don't have tags on our
• 1:19:51
  license plates. That's the real question here.
• 1:19:54
  That's what's at stake. It's like, how will we
• 1:19:57
  more easily extract revenue from motorists? How
• 1:20:01
  dare you make it harder? How dare you make it
• 1:20:04
  easier for people to travel unabated and unimpeded
• 1:20:07
  by us, the mercenaries, also known as law enforcement.
• 1:20:11
  By the way, speaking of standards and measuring
• 1:20:14
  sticks, The moment the cops say they are for
• 1:20:18
  something, I'm against it. And a lot of the smaller
• 1:20:21
  agencies, some of the rural counties, the radios
• 1:20:24
  don't work. And in some places, if they need
• 1:20:26
  to call dispatch, they actually have to find
• 1:20:27
  a pay phone and call 911 to call into dispatch.
• 1:20:31
  So it's just going to it's just another tool
• 1:20:33
  that they've taken away from us. It was Garden
• 1:20:35
  City Chief. You know what they call being a cop
• 1:20:38
  and not having a radio. So bold strategy caught.
• 1:20:41
  And let's see if it pays off for. Well, they
• 1:20:44
  have a radio it just doesn't work of course,
• 1:20:47
  you know what the answer to that problem is money
• 1:20:49
  The budget this is not enough money was Garden
• 1:20:52
  City Chief Police Corey Stambaugh He says he
• 1:20:55
  would like to see more collaboration between
• 1:20:57
  lawmakers and the people are impacted most by
• 1:21:00
  the laws They pass which is us that's us when
• 1:21:03
  we have Legislatures or outside groups who have
• 1:21:06
  good intent maybe on passing laws There might
• 1:21:09
  be a reason that they see they need it, but they
• 1:21:11
  don't talk to the experts, the experts, they
• 1:21:13
  didn't talk to the police chiefs, they didn't
• 1:21:15
  talk to the sheriffs, they didn't talk to the
• 1:21:17
  prosecutors, and they just throw these bills
• 1:21:20
  out there. You still need to renew your vehicle
• 1:21:22
  registration on time to avoid fines. Law enforcement
• 1:21:25
  will continue checking registration during traffic
• 1:21:28
  stops. Your current plates will stay valid without
• 1:21:31
  any changes, though, so make sure to keep those
• 1:21:33
  stickers until July 1st. You know, there's an
• 1:21:37
  anecdote that I have heard over the years. The
• 1:21:40
  source of it isn't even really important. It
• 1:21:42
  was just about fire, like the fire department,
• 1:21:46
  and having the classroom doors in like Southern
• 1:21:51
  California, because that's where I grew up, in
• 1:21:53
  schools in Southern California and, you know,
• 1:21:55
  sort of pre -ubiquitous air conditioning. And
• 1:21:58
  it was very, it was sweltering, you know, for
• 1:22:00
  like previous generations of school children.
• 1:22:01
  But they were, because of the fire risk, like,
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  well, we have to keep, you know, there are 30
• 1:22:07
  -minute doors or 60 -minute doors. We have to
• 1:22:08
  keep classroom doors closed. per, you know, fire
• 1:22:11
  chiefs and fire departments who are making these
• 1:22:13
  rules for public school campuses. And yes, it's
• 1:22:16
  sweltering and you can't learn because you can't
• 1:22:18
  think, but, you know, fire risk. Well, it was
• 1:22:23
  sort of illustrative of in some circumstances,
• 1:22:27
  the opinions of the, quote, experts are actually
• 1:22:30
  what you want the least. They're the least qualified
• 1:22:34
  to speak on that topic because they see They
• 1:22:38
  see that thing, it's all they see. All that Fire
• 1:22:41
  Chief sees is fires. So everything else is secondary
• 1:22:44
  to him. See what I'm saying? That is not who
• 1:22:47
  you want making policy. Well, experts can't know
• 1:22:51
  everything. They're only experts in their field.
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  And what they don't know is the unintended consequences
• 1:22:56
  of how everything else interacts, everybody else's
• 1:22:59
  actions, and how everything else interacts. They
• 1:23:03
  say, as an Austrian economics guy, One of the
• 1:23:08
  big things about Austrian style economics is
• 1:23:11
  that no one person, nor committee, nor government,
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  nor group of people can possibly possess all
• 1:23:18
  of the knowledge necessary to properly run an
• 1:23:21
  economy. Individuals acting in their own best
• 1:23:24
  interests in a peaceable way do that on their
• 1:23:27
  own. And the spontaneous order forms because
• 1:23:31
  of it. Same thing with the experts, the fire
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  chiefs, the police officers. They don't know
• 1:23:37
  everything either. They know what affects them.
• 1:23:39
  And if they don't like it, they're in a position
• 1:23:41
  of power. So they bitch and they mule pretty
• 1:23:43
  loud about it. And because their professions
• 1:23:45
  are considered almost demigod -like, you can't
• 1:23:48
  touch them. You can't talk bad about them. You
• 1:23:50
  can't criticize them. God forbid you don't give
• 1:23:52
  them every dime they ask for, by the way. Those
• 1:23:54
  are cults. If you can't criticize it or deny
• 1:23:57
  it everything it wants, that's a cult. It's an
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  appeal to authority, which is also a logical
• 1:24:02
  fallacy when you're dealing in the world of debate.
• 1:24:06
  That's like one of the number one logical fallacies
• 1:24:08
  that people employ is like, well, the experts
• 1:24:10
  think or the experts agree. Yeah. Well, the experts
• 1:24:12
  said two weeks to flatten the curve, right? The
• 1:24:14
  experts said, take your eighth vaccine. It'll
• 1:24:16
  keep you from doing God. I don't even know anymore
• 1:24:19
  because by that time nobody could take them seriously.
• 1:24:21
  Yes. And when the precious or idiots, when the
• 1:24:23
  precious few experts were ran contrary to that
• 1:24:27
  narrative. They were, they were also, they weren't
• 1:24:30
  experts anymore. Exactly. So when you ask, well,
• 1:24:33
  how do I know which expert to listen to? Yeah.
• 1:24:37
  And consensus doesn't mean it's correct. Consensus
• 1:24:40
  is not correct. It's actually, it's usually a
• 1:24:43
  sign of incorrectness. If we're, if we're going
• 1:24:45
  to use like a historical context, usually it's
• 1:24:48
  incorrect. It's called mob mentality. Yup. Furthermore,
• 1:24:54
  with regards to experts, they have a vested interest.
• 1:24:58
  in maintaining their position of power. They
• 1:25:01
  have a vested interest in calling the shots.
• 1:25:03
  They have a vested interest in the illusion of
• 1:25:05
  their intelligence. So naturally they're gonna
• 1:25:08
  behave in a way that preserves the institution
• 1:25:11
  that props them up. So they're gonna issue laws,
• 1:25:14
  they're gonna issue proclamations, they're gonna
• 1:25:16
  have opinions that are all geared toward, whether
• 1:25:18
  intentional or not, it's just human nature. They're
• 1:25:21
  all geared towards, I'm important. I know what
• 1:25:24
  I'm talking about. This impacts me a particular
• 1:25:26
  way. and I'm for it or against it because of
• 1:25:29
  how it impacts me and my profession and how important
• 1:25:32
  and insulated I am. Not the benefit of everybody
• 1:25:36
  else, although oftentimes the way the experts
• 1:25:38
  talk, they talk as if they are speaking on behalf
• 1:25:42
  of everybody else or they're advocating for the
• 1:25:44
  general population or for my safety or my health
• 1:25:47
  or whatever, but truly is to protect their own
• 1:25:50
  asses and keep themselves in the position of
• 1:25:53
  power that they enjoy. Here is what the experts
• 1:25:57
  on spirituality... have mandated in Idaho public
• 1:26:01
  schools as of five minutes ago. It is now law
• 1:26:04
  to have a mandatory 60 second moment of silence
• 1:26:06
  in Idaho public schools. Governor Brad Little
• 1:26:09
  signed that bill into law last week. The law
• 1:26:11
  requires all K through 12 public schools to start
• 1:26:13
  each day with a one minute moment of silence.
• 1:26:16
  The bill sponsor says the time can be used for
• 1:26:18
  reflection, meditation or prayer. Supporters
• 1:26:21
  say this could improve students mental health,
• 1:26:23
  but critics say the law blurs the line between
• 1:26:26
  church and state and puts pressure. I want to
• 1:26:33
  have a moment of silence for common sense. I
• 1:26:39
  was going to look up, maybe I've been out of
• 1:26:42
  the loop for a long while, but I was going to
• 1:26:44
  look up if it is required for students in Idaho
• 1:26:48
  to say the Pledge of Allegiance still in schools.
• 1:26:52
  So that's a curiosity to me. So my guess is part
• 1:26:57
  of this stems from that. Because at some point
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  somebody looked at that and said well, we got
• 1:27:03
  to have something We can't have the pledge anymore
• 1:27:06
  because that probably won't survive a legal challenge
• 1:27:09
  Well, by the way, I'm fine with let's clarify
• 1:27:11
  because it's let me get goes on so it's not required
• 1:27:14
  Well not required to say it but schools must
• 1:27:18
  provide an opportunity to recite the pledge and
• 1:27:20
  it's typically done daily Okay, so but it is
• 1:27:23
  students cannot be forced to participate They
• 1:27:25
  may remain seated or stay silent or decline entirely.
• 1:27:28
  So it does it does happen, but it's not like
• 1:27:30
  you know, it's not like the teachers are there
• 1:27:32
  saying like, you can just not say it. Yeah. Well,
• 1:27:39
  that's what I was asking. That was the, you answered
• 1:27:41
  my question. It is what you were asking. It is
• 1:27:42
  required for schools to do it, not required for
• 1:27:47
  students or teachers even, I guess, to do it,
• 1:27:50
  but it's required for schools to do it. Okay.
• 1:27:53
  Interesting. Because I was gonna say then if
• 1:27:55
  that is the case that it's no longer required
• 1:27:57
  for schools to do the pledge and I imagine a
• 1:27:59
  lot of them Don't and then somebody felt the
• 1:28:02
  need to fill the gap. Okay, clearly that's not
• 1:28:04
  the case So this is an add -on to the pledge
• 1:28:08
  which by the way, the pledge thing is hilarious
• 1:28:10
  to me because the people who Mostly who want
• 1:28:13
  the pledge? Preserved and think that you know
• 1:28:16
  students should say it every day in school and
• 1:28:18
  whatnot tend to be conservative ish. Yeah people
• 1:28:22
  Although I kind of use that, I use air quotes
• 1:28:24
  when I say that because if they knew better and
• 1:28:25
  they were true conservatives, and especially
• 1:28:28
  libertarians, then they wouldn't be for saying
• 1:28:31
  the pledge was written by a renowned socialist
• 1:28:34
  and the pledge itself is damn near, I mean it
• 1:28:37
  is damn near fascism in a paragraph. You're literally
• 1:28:44
  pledging allegiance to the state and its sky
• 1:28:47
  cloth. The guy who wrote it was an avowed notorious
• 1:28:51
  socialist. Is that right? So, oh yeah, yeah,
• 1:28:54
  he was a hardcore statist socialist. He believed
• 1:28:57
  in the supremacy of the state. So it's ironic.
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  And it was intentional. It wasn't news to the
• 1:29:05
  people who picked it. That's a historical lesson
• 1:29:08
  we can unpack at another time. So it is ironic,
• 1:29:11
  though, that a huge swath of the demographic
• 1:29:13
  that should be the most against the Pledge of
• 1:29:15
  Allegiance. tend to be the ones that want to
• 1:29:17
  preserve it the hardest. That being said, this
• 1:29:20
  moment of silence, like why? I mean, they tell
• 1:29:26
  us why. I actually sent you this article because
• 1:29:29
  it cracked me up and the quotes from the article
• 1:29:32
  is what really caught my attention. It was such
• 1:29:35
  a menagerie of opinions on it and all of them
• 1:29:38
  were stupid. Let's see, where do I want to start?
• 1:29:43
  Because there were three that were just great.
• 1:29:45
  One of the, there was, they interviewed a pastor
• 1:29:48
  or a priest and his feedback was, this is wonderfully
• 1:29:52
  neutral. Students can be religious if they like
• 1:29:55
  it's so huzzah. And I'm thinking you're a, you're
• 1:29:59
  a priest. You, you don't want wonderfully neutral.
• 1:30:04
  They probably interviewed a guy from Boise. I'm
• 1:30:06
  sure probably a priest from one of those priests
• 1:30:08
  or Lutheran. Like instead of the, the white piece
• 1:30:12
  like we're on the, on the neck high, the collar,
• 1:30:14
  you know, it's the little white, uh, section
• 1:30:16
  that's showing. No, not some of them when they
• 1:30:18
  show up at the state house to like argue on behalf
• 1:30:20
  of the trans Maoist stuff. It's a little rainbow
• 1:30:24
  peeking out of their collar instead. So it's
• 1:30:26
  probably one of them. I would wager that hardcore.
• 1:30:30
  So that just blew my mind. Cause I'm like, okay,
• 1:30:33
  we, we know a pastor at deer flat church. It
• 1:30:36
  doesn't, it says, this is a piece of legislation
• 1:30:38
  that is beautifully neutral. It doesn't favor
• 1:30:41
  any belief system or activity. This guy's a pastor.
• 1:30:45
  Just FYI. I mean, at least stand for something,
• 1:30:48
  right? Like, I don't care if you are a religion
• 1:30:50
  I disagree with. If you are a pastor for that
• 1:30:53
  religion, you should take not a vanilla stance
• 1:30:58
  on it. I love this one, too. See, it says a supporters
• 1:31:03
  of the measure. Who's this? Oh, Representative
• 1:31:05
  Bruce Scog, who has had a really interesting.
• 1:31:07
  Legislative session this the stuff that Bruce
• 1:31:10
  Scalg Republican from Napa has brought to the
• 1:31:13
  legislative floors most of it has been just a
• 1:31:16
  lot of WTF stuff I'm guessing he's the one who
• 1:31:19
  brought it and he says Idaho has failed When
• 1:31:23
  it comes to the suicide of our children for different
• 1:31:26
  different reasons What? Cue the soundbite. That's
• 1:31:37
  why we need a moment of silence Scott because
• 1:31:39
  to quote Bruce Scalg from killing themselves
• 1:31:43
  I kid you not, this is the quote, Idaho has failed
• 1:31:46
  when it comes to suicide of our children. I'm
• 1:31:49
  reading this verbatim. Idaho has failed when
• 1:31:51
  it comes to suicide of our children for different
• 1:31:53
  comma, different reasons. This moment of silence
• 1:31:57
  for me, I think will help that looking at the
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  other states. That's the quote. And then the
• 1:32:10
  third one. Kat Ross a Boise mother, of course,
• 1:32:14
  they start with that right a Boise mother. She's
• 1:32:16
  a mother So we can't so we can't argue against
• 1:32:20
  her obviously because she's a mother I am a mother
• 1:32:22
  But she's a mother with the right opinions, of
• 1:32:24
  course and a member of the Boise school districts
• 1:32:27
  to parent advocacy group So you already know
• 1:32:30
  we already know what we need to know about her
• 1:32:32
  philosophically ideologically and politically
• 1:32:33
  Says she worries that students could feel social
• 1:32:37
  pressure during the moment of silence as if they
• 1:32:39
  don't for like the entire time they're stuck
• 1:32:41
  inside these schools that resemble prisons from
• 1:32:44
  zero to 18 yeah no it's the one minute of silence
• 1:32:48
  that's gonna break them it makes me think of
• 1:32:51
  my daughter sitting in the classroom where it's
• 1:32:54
  a mix of students and could potentially feel
• 1:32:56
  pressured to take up like well they're praying
• 1:33:00
  and i want to fit in with them and i should do
• 1:33:02
  that so this mother's concern is oh no other
• 1:33:06
  people are praying maybe i should try praying
• 1:33:08
  Oh my gosh. And then finally, representative
• 1:33:11
  Sonia Galavis, Democrat from Boise, who was also
• 1:33:14
  a teacher and a mother says, quiet reflection
• 1:33:18
  can be valuable, but she warned against policies
• 1:33:22
  that could be interpreted as encouraging prayer.
• 1:33:25
  Oh my God, Scott. No, we might encourage prayer.
• 1:33:29
  Anything but that. I love how the two negative
• 1:33:35
  ones they got were both like, it could be about
• 1:33:39
  prayer. Oh my God, not like the one guy who's
• 1:33:43
  who's like for it and not a legislature legislator,
• 1:33:48
  the one who has the most vested interest as a
• 1:33:50
  religious leader, leader, leader, the pastor
• 1:33:52
  is the least concerned about the religion aspect
• 1:33:55
  of it. It's so backwards. He's like, oh, thank
• 1:34:00
  God it doesn't have anything to do with God or
• 1:34:02
  prayer or religion. It's super neutral. And the
• 1:34:04
  two hardcore leftists are like, oh, there might
• 1:34:08
  be prayer. And then the guy who, the guy who
• 1:34:12
  supports it in the legislature, Scog is like,
• 1:34:15
  um, children are killing themselves too much
• 1:34:17
  and this will help. And this right here, Scott,
• 1:34:21
  why I sent this to you is because this is the,
• 1:34:24
  this is the Idaho legislative process in a nutshell.
• 1:34:27
  Oh brother. And we always talk about like, aren't
• 1:34:31
  these people supposed to be smart? No, they're
• 1:34:34
  idiots. Almost all of them are bonafide, low
• 1:34:36
  IQ individuals, NPCs, doing NPC shit and thinking
• 1:34:42
  they're smart. And we vote for them. Here is...
• 1:34:50
  Before my brain is... I hope this legislation
• 1:34:54
  has electrolytes, because it's what plants crave.
• 1:34:57
  You know, it's phenomenal that you actually use
• 1:35:00
  the word electrolytes, because here's what I
• 1:35:02
  was about to play next. We're winding down here,
• 1:35:04
  we're getting near the end, but here's another...
• 1:35:05
  This is a follow -up show, I guess. Here's another
• 1:35:07
  follow -up with regard to the food stamps and
• 1:35:11
  benefits and the candy and soda. And I can't
• 1:35:14
  believe you used the word electrolytes. Rules
• 1:35:16
  on buying candy and soda with SNAP benefits changed
• 1:35:19
  this year. But some shoppers and retailers say
• 1:35:22
  those new changes are still confusing. And a
• 1:35:25
  bill in the House is now trying to clear things
• 1:35:27
  up. House Bill 903 aims to clarify restrictions
• 1:35:30
  on candy and soda that took effect in February.
• 1:35:33
  Sponsored by Representative Jordan Redman, the
• 1:35:36
  bill passed in the House Thursday is meant to
• 1:35:39
  better define what items qualify under SNAP.
• 1:35:41
  Right now, candy is generally banned unless it
• 1:35:44
  contains flour or requires refrigeration. But
• 1:35:47
  under the current bill, only items requiring
• 1:35:49
  refrigeration are allowed, including some baked
• 1:35:51
  goods and baking ingredients. And it clarifies
• 1:35:54
  drinks with electrolytes, granola bars and fruit
• 1:35:57
  snacks would now be allowed. So in other words,
• 1:36:00
  you can get Gatorade. But Thursday, Representative
• 1:36:03
  Redmond proposed new amendments. We are looking
• 1:36:06
  to actually strike out which would be cookies,
• 1:36:09
  cakes, brownies, sprinkles, and snack bars. Uh
• 1:36:12
  huh. Those changes would restrict items... Not
• 1:36:14
  the sprinkles! No! Wait, wait, now are we talking
• 1:36:17
  the rainbow sprinkles and the chocolate sprinkles?
• 1:36:20
  And what about the little circles? Or is it only
• 1:36:23
  the ones that are sort of like the rectangle
• 1:36:25
  cylindrical ones? Like what are we talking about
• 1:36:27
  here? It depends on whether or not you can refrigerate
• 1:36:30
  the sprinkles or if they have gluten in them.
• 1:36:32
  What if I just put them in the refrigerator?
• 1:36:34
  Does that count? Baking ingredients and even
• 1:36:36
  chips. Representative Redmond admitted he made
• 1:36:39
  the decision without consulting the associations
• 1:36:41
  as a lawmaker. Oh God knows are the decisions
• 1:36:44
  that we can make. Eaton says she was caught off
• 1:36:46
  guard by the last minute changes and still hopes
• 1:36:49
  the final bill remains cohesive. This is spur
• 1:36:51
  of the moment. I think the reason why some of
• 1:36:55
  these things like sprinkles were in it is because
• 1:36:58
  sprinkles are in your baking goods. Why can you
• 1:37:01
  get one thing and not the like? a cake mix, but
• 1:37:04
  you can't get the chocolate chips. I mean, I
• 1:37:07
  think we were trying to make it a little bit
• 1:37:08
  more uniform. Some lawmakers pushed back on the...
• 1:37:13
  Matt, I just, I got this picture in my head of
• 1:37:16
  these overweight, obese, poor people waddling
• 1:37:21
  into the local gas station just around the corner
• 1:37:23
  from their section eight housing. And they grab
• 1:37:26
  their, they grab their cookies and they bring
• 1:37:30
  them up to the front counter and the cashier
• 1:37:33
  who's barely 16 and their parents made them get
• 1:37:37
  that job and they don't care and they hate life
• 1:37:38
  or like, Hey, I can't tell if those are sprinkles
• 1:37:42
  or chocolate chips. You just got to put those
• 1:37:44
  back and said section eight housing. People are
• 1:37:47
  like, I'll fight you for this cookie. Don't you
• 1:37:50
  be taking away my sprinkles. This is, this is
• 1:37:59
  insane. And we have officially dropped into the
• 1:38:06
  realm of idiocracy. We are we're in a simulation
• 1:38:09
  where apps the only thing Mike judge got wrong
• 1:38:12
  was the timeline He had it in like, you know,
• 1:38:14
  25 36 or whatever No, no, we got there much quicker
• 1:38:17
  than he anticipated and you know what? The best
• 1:38:20
  part of this is Paul. We haven't even gotten
• 1:38:22
  to the punchline of this clip. Some lawmakers
• 1:38:24
  pushed back on the changes. I don't get ready,
• 1:38:27
  get ready for another intellectual powerhouse
• 1:38:30
  down there at the state. He's about to articulate
• 1:38:32
  why he thinks that snap should cover this stuff.
• 1:38:35
  I don't know if you know, chips and cake and
• 1:38:37
  cookies are bad. I told my wife, if the doctor
• 1:38:42
  tells me no coke and no cookies, just shoot me.
• 1:38:45
  While others see Paul, he likes it. Well, this
• 1:38:58
  guy, I bet. These people are nuts. Listen to
• 1:39:07
  the conversations they're having. These people
• 1:39:09
  are psycho. This guy is probably a Mormon and
• 1:39:18
  is probably the kind of guy who is super happy
• 1:39:22
  to uphold the poker ban and and would ban alcohol
• 1:39:26
  if given the opportunity. and thinks anything
• 1:39:29
  that's not an opioid or a legally prescribed
• 1:39:32
  narcotic is perfectly acceptable. Oh, like refined
• 1:39:36
  sugar, by the way, which lights up the same parts
• 1:39:37
  of your brain as heroin and ecstasy does. Well,
• 1:39:41
  that's why he wants to be dead if he can't have
• 1:39:44
  it. That's why, you know, he needs those... What
• 1:39:46
  a great argument. At the risk of getting on another
• 1:39:49
  watch list, I say that we indulge him. Also,
• 1:39:53
  earlier when you said the, I don't get it, I
• 1:39:56
  actually... Have a sound clip for that. I thought
• 1:40:00
  you might yeah Right. Yeah, that's what I was
• 1:40:03
  you played the last show. That's what people
• 1:40:04
  that's what I was quoting. Oh, okay Okay, I think
• 1:40:06
  I wondered but I wasn't sure it wasn't yeah.
• 1:40:08
  It's like I've got that Leadily. Yeah, let's
• 1:40:11
  okay here. There's only a couple moments in the
• 1:40:14
  clip left after the Just the stunningly brave
• 1:40:18
  and well thought -out commentary from this leader.
• 1:40:21
  It's not even an argument. It's it's not even
• 1:40:23
  a key like well Well, hey, hey, the mainstream
• 1:40:27
  media says it is because they're like, well,
• 1:40:29
  some pushed back. And here's what they had to
• 1:40:30
  say. Some lawmakers pushed back on the changes.
• 1:40:33
  I don't know if chips and cake and cookies are
• 1:40:36
  bad. I told my wife, if the doctor tells me no
• 1:40:41
  coke and no cookies, just shoot me. While others
• 1:40:44
  supported them. If you want to buy cookies or
• 1:40:47
  sprinkles, you are welcome to with your own money.
• 1:40:51
  What? No, that doesn't make any sense at all.
• 1:40:55
  It should be subsidized by other people. Why
• 1:40:58
  should you spend your own money on the food you
• 1:41:00
  consume? I think that is the only sound clip
• 1:41:07
  today that has actually made sense. Let's play
• 1:41:13
  it one more time because I wish you maybe do
• 1:41:14
  maybe did we miss something and she's she's actually
• 1:41:17
  just a psycho reptile or does it actually just
• 1:41:19
  make sense if you want to buy Cookies or sprinkles
• 1:41:23
  you are welcome to with your own money Seems
• 1:41:27
  pretty straightforward. I think so I don't want
• 1:41:30
  to know anything else like anything else about
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  that though Don't play anymore because I just
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  want to put even if she's not Even if she is
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  a lizard, I don't want to know. I just want to
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  live in ignorance right now and just enjoy the
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  fact that something cohesive and intelligent
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  was said today. Okay. Yeah. I'm with you. By
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  those people down there. So let's just call it
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  a show then. We're done. How do you like that?
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  Yeah. Let's, let's leave it at that. We, we finally,
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  it took us two hours. We finally got to something
• 1:41:54
  that made sense. And so let's just call it. I
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  want, yeah, let's go out on top. Yeah. Oh, now
• 1:42:01
  I feel much better. Yeah. And then I can just,
• 1:42:04
  I can just hear Chris with a K like, see guys,
• 1:42:06
  see, it's not all bad. It's only 95 % piss. Now
• 1:42:14
  who's bad at math? There's still five percent
• 1:42:16
  water in there. That's five percent, huh? Being
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  generous again. The judges are generous today,
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  Scott. Well, if you feel like being generous,
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  please remember us at noidshow .com to become
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• 1:42:31
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  do all of that. No ID show calm really cool show
• 1:42:40
  of support everyone today. Thank you very much
• 1:42:42
  for Thank you guys. We really appreciate it.
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  He'd in the call very much means a lot and Good
• 1:42:49
  time hanging out with everyone on Thursday at
• 1:42:52
  our meetup over there at the trails end and Let's
• 1:42:55
  see. What else anything else you got for this
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  week before we call it. I've had a great time
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  not hanging out with you Well, I'm gonna be there
• 1:43:06
  on April 9th with you like it or not. What do
• 1:43:07
  you think about that? Talk about this later Alright,
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  thank you guys for tuning in. We'll see you next
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  week for episode number 22. From Post Falls,
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  I'm Scott. And I'm Paul. Taxation is theft. Don't
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  you be turkin' away my sprinkles.