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25 - Dropiest Drop · NO ID

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  No ID is meant for a sane audience. No ID may
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  contain Liberty -oriented content. PINCO discretion
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  is advised. Now, here's No ID with Paul Banducci
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  and Scott Moskowitz. Hey, welcome back to No
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  ID, North Idaho's mainstream narrative deconstruction.
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  I'm Scott. Hello, internet. I'm Paul. What's
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  up, Scott? How are you doing, man? It's happening.
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  It is gorgeous. Yeah. Yesterday and today and
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  the it's like summer's here almost. It's been
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  warm. The sun's out and I'm inside with the shades
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  drawn staring at a computer. And so are you.
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  And, you know, I thought the demeanor as we connected
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  to do our pre -show show, which only lasted a
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  couple of minutes today, I was expecting, you
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  know, coming off of your birthday and 420. And
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  the weather being beautiful. I expected high
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  high spirits and That's not exactly what happened.
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  Just a grumpy asshole. That's all I am. No, it's
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  beautiful. I'm loving it. The weather's great
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  I'm just bummed. I'm I'm inside for the next
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  four hours because I got stuff to do that I can't
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  do outside and Some setbacks with my injury that
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  it's just like the gifts that keeps on giving
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  so that you know Just one of those things but
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  overall life is good. I'm feeling okay about
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  it Overall, how about you? Well, I know you're
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  inside with the shades drawn. It's because you're
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  a ginger. Yeah, I don't want to turn instantly
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  red. You know, the second a bit of UV hits me,
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  I just a peak peek in between the blinds and
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  look at what's going on outside and then quickly
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  shut them as soon as I see the sun peek out from
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  behind a cloud. Well, you know, speaking of gifts
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  that keep on giving, how was your birthday? My
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  birth week, basically. It was a. It was pretty
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  quiet. It was great. Tuesday was awesome. I went
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  in, I did a first thing of PT. So that was my
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  birthday gift, I guess to myself was physical
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  therapy. And the rest of the time was just at
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  home. I had good food, hung out with my family.
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  That was it. It was pretty chill. Got a couple
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  of lovely little letters from my kids and kept
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  it really simple, which is really nice. And then,
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  yeah, came down to Post Falls on Saturday, did
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  a tri -tip dinner with my dad, my brother, and
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  my uncle. Just kept that really small and simple
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  and some champagne, some wine. Good times. I'm
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  38. It's weird. My wife called me middle aged
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  the other day and I corrected her because middle
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  age doesn't start till you're into your upper
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  forties. We looked it up. Yes, we did. Yep. It's
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  not an opinion. It's fact. Speaking of opinions
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  and facts, we got a lot of both of those flying
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  around today, I think. Yes, we do. So we just,
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  you know, we're coming off of 420. So we do want
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  to start with the medical marijuana stuff or
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  do you want to start with the Lakeland stuff?
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  Ooh. Hmm. No, I think we start with the medical
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  marijuana stuff. Let's just let's just go right
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  for it. Let's go right into that. OK. And just
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  for the record, I had no idea. Paul was in Post
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  Falls on on Saturday. He didn't tell me. Well,
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  voters and yes, you did. Did I really? No, I
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  don't remember. Yes, I mentioned it. Oh, what
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  are you talking about? I don't do drugs. Well,
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  voters in Idaho could decide in November whether
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  medical marijuana should be allowed in their
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  state. But many government officials have major
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  concerns about the potential bill saying it's
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  a slippery slope to bringing drugs into the state.
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  Daniel Purcell has... Because yeah, you know,
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  right now there's no drugs in the state. I don't
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  know if you know that, but... No drugs. So there's
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  very concerned that we might bring drugs into
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  the state. Very concerned about bringing drugs
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  into the state. drugs into the state. According
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  to the Mayo Clinic, medical marijuana can help
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  ease the complications of conditions like Alzheimer's,
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  HIV, and ALS. William Shockley saw the benefits
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  of it firsthand when his mother utilized the
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  drug to help ease the pain of terminal bone marrow
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  cancer. It helped her pain so much. Prolonged
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  her life an additional six months on the three
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  months that they gave her to die Knowing that
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  this helped my mother that much makes me have
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  no problem Get out and get the signatures for
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  people to be able to vote on it a petition created
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  so because I saw it I had a firsthand experience
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  where I decided using unfalsifiable face statements
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  about the fact, you know, it extended her life,
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  even though we don't have any idea what it did
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  or didn't do, because you can't go back in time
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  and redo it without the drug. But I like it.
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  So therefore, now I maybe I had a problem with
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  it before, but I don't now. I mean, the reasoning
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  isn't exactly sound, but I agree with them. Yes,
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  of course, that particular line of logic. No,
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  it's not great, but they did. do the appeal to
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  the experts and in this case the experts actually
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  kind of sort of did it okay not because i agree
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  with their conclusion but because it's actually
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  true marijuana can help with a number of different
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  things it also helps with cerebral palsy it also
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  helps with in some cases not all ptsd so there
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  are legitimate medicinal or maybe we should say
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  i mean i think medicinal is the proper word but
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  we could say alternative treatments people prefer
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  that term better. There are many applications
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  for it. And then, of course, there is the aspect
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  of just, you know, liberty. Like engaging in
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  it peacefully. Yeah, I know. Crazy, right? We're
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  not supposed to talk about that. I suppose talk
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  about that. But my rights, my rights. I mean,
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  it's kind of one of those things where it's actually
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  it's really funny to me listening to Idaho establishmentarians
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  and legislators and experts and all the people
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  who don't want marijuana in the state of Idaho.
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  and they always talk about, they're like, look
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  at Portland. They always point to Portland as
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  if Portland didn't have all of the problems before
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  they legalized drugs, as they did. They had all
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  the problems before they legalized drugs. But
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  no, drugs was the issue. That's always, that's
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  the trope. But they can't fathom the fact that
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  there's lots and lots of us and Pete, well, there
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  are dozens of us who can easily, you can easily
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  indulge in cannabis and still be a regular human
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  being. It's not that hard. for people to be able
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  to vote on it. A petition created by the Natural
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  Medicine Alliance of Idaho has gathered over
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  100 ,000 signatures to put medical marijuana
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  on the ballot this November. But they've got
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  a long road ahead of them. There are many legislators
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  who are pushing back on the legalization of the
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  plan. Earlier this year, the Idaho legislature
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  passed Senate concurrent resolution 127 urging
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  residents to not put medical marijuana on the
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  ballot in November. That specific resolution
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  was just saying, you know what? This is not good
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  for our state. It doesn't fit our values. It
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  talks about obviously the detrimental impacts
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  of. having marijuana legalized, even just medical
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  marijuana. However, people who support the medicinal
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  legalization of the drug say it will allow people
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  who are suffering from severe illnesses to get
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  some much needed relief. I don't think it's fair.
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  And I think it's why it's so important that this
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  will hopefully get passed this November is that
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  that Idaho is helping other Idahoans with and
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  getting them the help they need. That's what
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  really what it's about. The Natural Medicine
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  Alliance of Idaho is still working to ensure
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  that their petition meets all the required -
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  Well, kind of. No, it's about him. It's about
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  - they like weed. Just because it's a Trojan
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  horse doesn't mean it's still not a horse. Yeah,
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  I just - okay, fine. Well, we're just - what
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  we are is altruistic people who just care about
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  others' health and well -being. Well, okay, yeah,
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  but that's - you just like weed, man. You're
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  just full of crap. It's not even about I mean,
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  I'm gonna push back on that. I think it can be
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  they're not mutually exclusive No, I write with
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  both. I agree with both statements. I think weed
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  should be fully legal I think all drugs should
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  be fully legal But I think if we can't get any
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  of that medicinal marijuana should be legal And
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  so when I say when I say I want people to have
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  relief, it's true But I also want we to be legalized,
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  right? Okay, and I guess they just think that
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  they can't say that other part and maybe they
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  can't You know, and I can't. It's a cannot. You
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  know, we're adults. We know how the legislator
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  legislature works. You can't tell the truth if
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  you want to get what you want. Yeah. Yeah. You
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  want you want results, don't you? Yeah, that's
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  right. Yeah. It was like five seconds. Sure.
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  I want to live in the world where everybody tells
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  the truth. OK, go to your room and turn your
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  basic economics all of the requirements to get
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  the issue on the ballot in November. That was
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  it. OK. I mean, OK. I'm not even I'm not again.
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  This is all just about the presentation. Like
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  for me at least, like I'm not even what what
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  what I think about the drugs. I'm not even that's
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  not even really first and foremost what I'm trying
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  to trying to express here. It's just about the
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  presentation. So that's your beef. Yeah, exactly.
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  Like the which you're you're right. I mean, whatever
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  this political reality is at play, then that's
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  true. And you're right. They're not mutually
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  exclusive. The. I just always go back to the
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  Liberty thing man. I mean you heard you heard
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  a minute ago. The guy was like oh It doesn't
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  fit our state's values. Yeah, I was liberty of
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  value. Is it a value? Yeah Well, I think so I
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  mean I I see that it says it on our coins it
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  seems to me to be like a like a cunt a state
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  and country, it's like a I don't know, man. Isn't
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  the USA about liberty? I don't know. Well, it
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  always cracks me up when somebody says we're
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  going to we're going to keep something banned
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  or something. We're going to ban something or
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  keep something banned or illegal because blah,
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  blah, blah doesn't match our values. And immediately
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  when you played that clip, I thought, well, whose
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  values are you referring to? You speak for all
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  of Idaho when you say no to cannabis. That's
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  that's got a lot of hubris going on there. It's
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  uh, it actually it's in line with what you always
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  talk about Scott about the one gay person speaking
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  for the gays or an organization of you know The
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  nzap or whatever the hell they are speaking for
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  all blacks, right? You know, of course the only
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  time that actually counts The only time it actually
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  really counts is when like some racist white
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  guy says something really stupid and then everybody's
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  like Oh, he speaks for the whites. Yeah whitey.
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  It's like oh definitely not definitely not but
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  Yeah, what are Idaho values? Well, my I don't
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  know my values my values I know don't match up
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  with most Idaho values because I want freedom
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  and if you look at what Idaho has done There's
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  not a lot relative to Washington. Yes more freedom,
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  but we're talking shades of shit relative to
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  Where it should be not even close and if you
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  want to talk about values if ever there was an
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  overarching value It says it on our currency.
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  It says liberty Isn't that an overarching value,
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  if ever there was one? Well, supposedly. I mean,
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  our currency also says in God we trust. Yeah,
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  it does. Because the liberty comes from God.
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  Or at least, you know, that's the concept, I
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  guess. I keep being told. Yeah, well, I mean,
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  my point is we've reached a point where the nation
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  is barely a Christian nation at this point, yet
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  we still have God on our money. Of course, it
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  didn't start like that. Did you know what was
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  first on the currency? It's actually, and it's,
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  it never should have changed. Melissa Winfrey?
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  Something about tax cuts killing people on the
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  currency. What was it? Mind your business. Get
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  out of here. Really? For reals. It said mind
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  your business? Mind your business. Okay. Now
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  I'm going to have to, let's Google, let's Google
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  image that guy. True facts. Yeah. In God we trust
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  didn't hit. the currency until somewhere in the,
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  if I recall right, mid 1800s. Yes, I do remember
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  hearing that that does not date to the beginning
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  of the currency, but I don't ever remember hearing
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  that it said, mind your beeswax. Really? Early
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  American currency. Did early US currency say
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  mind your... I love this, mind your business.
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  Yes, some early U .S. coinage did include the
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  phrase, mind your business, where it appeared.
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  The phrase showed up most famously on certain
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  late 18th century and early 19th century copper
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  tokens and coins, especially private mint pieces
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  and hard times tokens, which was in the 1830s
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  and 40s. I never heard of a hard times token.
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  Some early experimental... I never heard of that
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  either. One well -known example is the Fugio
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  cent from 1787, a design associated with Benjamin
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  Franklin's influence. Okay. All right. Let's
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  Google the Fugio cent. Let's see. It's one of
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  the, I believe the coin is credited with being
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  the first coin minted by the, by the US. Wow.
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  There it is. That's why it's so relevant. Unbelievable.
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  Hey, everyone who's within the sound of our voices,
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  do yourself a favor and image the Fugio scent.
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  There it is, man. Mind your freaking business.
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  Isn't that awesome? That's amazing. It's great.
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  So like once you, once you Know that kind of
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  thing. It gives you an even better understanding
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  of the founders and what they really were aiming
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  for and what America was originally founded on
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  and it was quite simply Find your business. Don't
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  tax me, bro Go away. Leave me alone He's just
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  mispronouncing it. I'm so glad you picked up
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  on that soundbite. Well, we'll see it's November
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  coming up in November as Idaho as somebody who
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  represents all of Idaho lectures me that cannabis
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  is not included in Idaho values. Right. Get bent.
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  Get out of here. Now I'm going to vote twice.
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  Let's see. But I'm glad I got the signatures.
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  Actually, I'll be curious to see if it's on my
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  ballot, because I did just get my mail -in ballots.
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  Ooh, hold on. I'm going to have my kid bring
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  up my ballot. I can't stress enough that this
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  has nothing to do with whether or not we like
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  marijuana. It's just completely unrelated to
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  whether or not we like the particular product.
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  So hopefully that clears a bell. Yeah. Well,
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  I think we've established that fact at this point.
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  I think just I don't have to like something to
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  support it or I don't have to dislike something
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  to not support it either way. You get the idea.
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  The issue is liberty. For instance, I mean, like
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  seatbelt laws. Right. I am very, very against
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  seatbelt laws. They're ridiculous. Because follow
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  this line of logic. If you are caught violating
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  a seatbelt law, you get a ticket. If you don't
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  pay the ticket, then they fine you more. If you
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  don't pay that, they come to your house and they
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  try to kidnap you and put you in jail. If you
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  resist, that's a kidnapping. That is exactly
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  what it is. They come and they take you, not
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  of your own volition. In any other circumstance,
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  being arrested is a kidnapping. And most of the
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  time, it really is precisely just a kidnapping.
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  Just, you know, the costume has changed. But
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  then they kidnap you. And if you resist, they
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  maim or kill you. But it's a safety law, a safety
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  law that apparently protects me only from what
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  they're going to do to infringe upon my safety
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  if I don't follow the safety law. It's retarded.
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  However, is not wearing a seatbelt retarded?
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  Yes. You should wear one. It is an intelligent,
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  optimal life move, but it is an infringement
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  on my right to not wear one. A safety belt law
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  is a total infringement and circular stupid logic
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  because you'll hurt me for not complying with
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  something that's supposed to be for my safety.
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  Makes no sense. I think that illustrates the
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  point pretty well. I never don't wear a seatbelt.
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  I never would want any seatbelt laws on the books.
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  Let's see. I'm opening up my ballot in real time
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  Scott Which got him yesterday now if you were
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  in California They would that would have been
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  sent to you six times and it would have been
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  sent to every person who ever lived on that land
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  Before you including all the people buried beneath
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  your feet who no one ever knew you are 100 %
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  correct, but we live in Idaho. So you have to
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  register you have to prove your residency with
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  ID and and Like a utilities bill to prove your
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  address Racist and then Because only white people
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  can afford utility bills so racist ah Let's see
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  here Is this on the ballot? Oh, there's all the
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  judges on the ballot guess who's not getting
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  to my vote None of them by the way to any of
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  you guys listening even if the race only has
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  one candidate you realize you can still leave
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  it blank and that's a non -vote that's a note
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  that's a non -vote which is which does say something
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  because in let's say in a district of to make
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  the math easy. 10 ,000 people and you run unopposed.
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  If only 3000 people check the box for you, that
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  actually does say something and people do pay
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  attention to that in the long run. Now, does
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  it move the needle? Not necessarily, but is it
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  noticed? Yeah. When nobody has a choice, you
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  only have one person to vote for and a small,
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  small percentage of all of the potential voters
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  actually cast that vote or if ballots sent in
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  or cast. It does say something. So I was just
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  leaving blank. If there's space to write in,
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  I always write in like the shambling corpse of
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  Ronald Reagan or something like that. Gives me
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  a good do. I do not see it, Scott. I do not see
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  it on the ballot. So I wonder, oh, you know why?
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  Because this is the primary. This is the May
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  primary ballot. That's why. So of course, the
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  ballot initiative to legalize medicinal marijuana
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  is not going to be on here. Duh. Well, I just
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  wasted our time, sorry. So many tidbits in there.
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  You don't have to vote for the one judge that's
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  on there and don't expect to see the medical
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  marijuana thing on there yet. A public service
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  announcement from the No ID Show to you. For
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  value, baby. We're bringing it today. The county
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  coroner, he's running unopposed, but I would
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  vote for him anyways, is Robert Beers. He's giving
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  Duke Johnson a run for his money. Two county
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  coroners walk into a room. One is Robert Beers
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  and one is Duke Johnson. I mean, damn, Idaho,
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  way to go. Should I tell everybody who I'm voting
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  for? If you feel compelled. I don't. OK, moving
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  along. The notion of being kidnapped and taken
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  to a cage for a nonviolent defense that was addressed
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  as Governor Tiny discussed with Idaho News 6,
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  the budget and jails. Idaho Governor And by the
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  way, he's, of course, running for reelection
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  again. And he does have an opponent who seems
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  to kind of be gaining a little traction here,
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  named Mark Fitzpatrick. We'll see what happens.
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  But here's what little I can say. about kidnapping
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  you. Idaho Governor Brad Little was in Twin Falls
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  on Monday morning talking about his enduring
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  Idaho plan and how it factored in to the latest
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  legislative session. Enduring Idaho. Idaho is
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  something you shouldn't have to endure, right?
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  Right. Governor Brad Little says he's happy with
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  the decisions made in the state house this session,
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  especially when it comes down to a balanced budget,
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  delivering tax relief to Idahoans and continued
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  commitment to education. Little highlighted the
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  success of this guy lives in the same world that
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  we do. Absolutely doesn't like he does not. This
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  guy, this guy, he's the same dude who will look
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  you in the eye during a campaign ad and tell
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  you that he's the governor that kept Idaho open
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  during COVID. Yep. Well, I'm staring right back
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  at him going, wow, that was weird. Cause I remember
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  having my business shut down for three months
• 20:35
  and being deemed non -essential. You quack constitutional.
• 20:40
  You can't pronounce the word constitutional.
• 20:42
  And do you remember that when he was saying that
• 20:44
  he was going to preserve Idaho, but it came out
• 20:46
  as pervert? I do remember that. We must commit
• 20:50
  ourselves to pervert to preserving our state
• 20:54
  to pervert to pervert. And this is coming up.
• 20:57
  I'm noticing it in the. Media coverage to the
• 21:00
  extent that there is any of mark Fitzpatrick
• 21:02
  running against governor little it's all coming
• 21:04
  from independent media for that I can tell none
• 21:07
  of the mainstream media is they're all acting
• 21:09
  like he doesn't exist at least for now Yeah,
• 21:11
  and in a lot of those like, you know comment
• 21:13
  sections or whatever on the independent media
• 21:15
  on which he is appearing I am seeing plenty of
• 21:18
  people who are like Pepper's farm remembering
• 21:21
  that they know they see what Brad little did
• 21:24
  man They might have been born at night, but it
• 21:26
  wasn't last night They remember when their businesses
• 21:28
  or their neighbors' businesses were shut down
• 21:31
  by the governor who took a chainsaw to the government
• 21:33
  regulations and totally kept everything open.
• 21:35
  He's fork -tongued, like they all are. Little
• 21:38
  highlighted the success of his launch program
• 21:40
  at the College of Southern Idaho. CSI is probably
• 21:43
  one of the biggest recipients and beneficiaries
• 21:46
  of launch. If you look at both the demand and
• 21:50
  the enrollment at CSI, it's a result of our investments
• 21:53
  in launch. Okay, can we talk about launch real
• 21:56
  fast? Launch is something that the establishmentarians
• 21:59
  in the state love. Love, love, love. Little loves
• 22:02
  it. And the NIR folks always talk about it as
• 22:06
  a great thing. The faux Republicans, the pretend
• 22:10
  Republicans always allowed it. And people who
• 22:12
  don't know any better act like it's the greatest
• 22:14
  thing since sliced bread. But every real conservative
• 22:17
  voted against it. because it's crony capitalism
• 22:20
  at its finest. And frankly, that's the only kind
• 22:23
  of capitalism that leftists, establishmentarian
• 22:25
  types and fake conservatives like. That's the
• 22:28
  only kind of capitalism they do like, which is
• 22:31
  ironic because that's the thing that they complain
• 22:33
  the most about when it comes to capitalism is
• 22:35
  how end -stage capitalism is basically corporatism
• 22:38
  and cronyism. And it's all, and the deck is stacked
• 22:41
  against the little guy that is like, well, yes,
• 22:42
  you're right, but that's not end -stage capitalism.
• 22:45
  That's just... plain old cronyism, corporatism,
• 22:48
  and what happens when the state puts its thumb
• 22:50
  on the scale and picks winners and losers. Well,
• 22:53
  that's what the launch program is. The launch
• 22:54
  program is literally a subsidy for big companies,
• 22:59
  all of whom are connected to little and his people
• 23:02
  to funnel at taxpayer expense, funnel trainees
• 23:07
  and new workers towards these businesses so that
• 23:10
  they don't have to train them themselves. It's
• 23:13
  a pipeline program. is what it is for Little's
• 23:17
  friends and for the friends of his friends is
• 23:20
  all of the companies connected to this program
• 23:23
  are mid to big size corporate style programs
• 23:28
  that have their fingers in all the pies are friends
• 23:31
  with all the legislators down there. They are
• 23:33
  part of the mainstream corporate state apparatus,
• 23:36
  so on and so forth. Basically, they're part of
• 23:38
  the cartel. So and so the launch program is essentially
• 23:41
  just one giant ass subsidy. that trains people
• 23:45
  on the taxpayer dime and funnels them right towards
• 23:48
  these big corporations and mid to big sized companies
• 23:52
  that are connected politically. That's what the
• 23:54
  launch program is. Yes, starting in 2027, we
• 23:59
  are going to mandate that all launch program
• 24:02
  applicants and trainees all wear the same silver
• 24:05
  jumpsuit. I'm Brad Little. If you look at both
• 24:09
  the demand and the enrollment at CSI, it's a
• 24:12
  result of our investments in launch. I took the
• 24:15
  opportunity. It didn't seem to that they like
• 24:16
  they started with the acronym and then just reverse
• 24:20
  engineered it like they start with these. They
• 24:22
  just love their catchy acronyms, don't they?
• 24:26
  Launch. Yeah. Launch. CSI. Enduring Idaho. Enduring
• 24:32
  is marketing. You know, they're they're they're
• 24:34
  good marketers. That's for sure. As the fork
• 24:36
  tongued off. Oh, man. Well, you have to be. What
• 24:40
  were we just talking about earlier? I was like,
• 24:41
  you can't tell that. But the marijuana stuff,
• 24:43
  like you can't tell the truth down there. You
• 24:45
  got a Trojan horse. Everything, everything has
• 24:48
  to be a Trojan horse. Even the good stuff, even
• 24:51
  the good stuff. And that's what's so sad. It's
• 24:53
  like when we did our tax cap bill and we had
• 24:56
  to, I had to testify before Senate committee
• 24:58
  and then a house committee. And in both cases
• 25:01
  I was, I was told more than once, like, whatever
• 25:05
  you do, don't bring up the Liberty issue. Whatever
• 25:08
  you do, don't bring up how many of us there are,
• 25:11
  whatever you do, don't say anything about it
• 25:13
  being helpful for the industry basically just
• 25:17
  keep it purely what does the state lose or not
• 25:21
  lose issue because that's it that's all most
• 25:23
  of them care about anyways is how much money
• 25:26
  will the state lose from this or gain from this
• 25:28
  so we had to make the argument that the state
• 25:30
  would not lose any revenue because you know there's
• 25:33
  only five cigar lounges in the whole in the whole
• 25:35
  damn state anyway so it's just a drop in the
• 25:38
  droppiest drop is the buckets but also they might
• 25:41
  even gain revenue because wouldn't you know it,
• 25:43
  if you lower taxes on the product we sell, we'll
• 25:45
  sell a lot more of it and our profit stays the
• 25:47
  same, but we sell more so the state will probably
• 25:50
  win. And that was the argument we made. You can't
• 25:54
  tell. I mean, so, and it was true. It was technically
• 25:56
  true, Scott, but you could take the same tact
• 25:58
  with me as you do with the marijuana people and
• 26:01
  be like, yeah, but that's not what you really
• 26:02
  want. It was like, well, correct. That's not
• 26:04
  really my agenda, but that's the way I have to
• 26:06
  approach it. Because the truth is political poison.
• 26:12
  Correct Yay, yeah, the truth will set you free
• 26:15
  just like zycon be zyklum be get in the gas chamber
• 26:19
  Yeah, oh, I you know the next the next that's
• 26:23
  pretty good. I think I might pen that haiku It's
• 26:25
  that that's a great tagline and when you you
• 26:29
  might even make it to the CEO of IG Farben with
• 26:31
  a line like that I'm going places, baby to ask
• 26:35
  the governor. Oh b is definitely in the runn
• 26:38
  ongoing issues of overcrow County jails. He tells
• 26:42
  m needed to help Idaho inme released. Obviously
• 26:48
  a lot on corrections and are inc health. So increasing
• 26:56
  inca result of growth in Idaho, A large part
• 27:02
  of it is the behavioral health and substance
• 27:06
  abuse problems. And amid the declaration of a
• 27:09
  statewide drought, I asked the government...
• 27:10
  So that was sort of the part about the prisons.
• 27:14
  You know what no one ever touches in any of this
• 27:16
  stuff, which maybe, again, it's just that political
• 27:18
  thing, like it can't be touched, like liberty
• 27:20
  or truth, is the notion of how many people are
• 27:23
  in prison who are there for victimless crimes.
• 27:28
  You know, wouldn't that be a good place to start?
• 27:30
  I was going to say it. Yeah, I'm glad you did.
• 27:33
  Well, but then there's also there's also the
• 27:36
  part where things are like, well, what if it
• 27:38
  was a violent crime, but they plea bargain down?
• 27:41
  So on paper, it looks like they're in there for
• 27:43
  a victimless crime. But in point of fact, there
• 27:45
  was a victim and that does happen. But there
• 27:47
  also are people that are incarcerated for crimes
• 27:50
  for which there was no victim. But both are true.
• 27:52
  Is that fair to say? Mm hmm. 100 percent. I can
• 27:57
  tell you a little bit of anecdotal evidence.
• 28:00
  in which when I spent 10 days in good old Kootenay
• 28:04
  County jail back in 2020, it was part of the
• 28:09
  plea bargain for the racketeering and money laundering
• 28:11
  stuff that the state had tried to prosecute me
• 28:14
  for. And that was all it was all a big dog and
• 28:17
  pony show in a circus. And it was a political
• 28:19
  effort. And it took away a year and change of
• 28:22
  my life. And man, boy. A story I won't tell now,
• 28:28
  but I was not racketeering or money laundering.
• 28:31
  We've said that a bunch of times like it's a
• 28:34
  story for another time. When will be the time?
• 28:37
  I don't know. That one's such a good story to
• 28:39
  tell over a cigar and a drink. So that might
• 28:41
  be like a get together story. Not on the show.
• 28:43
  Paul and Scott's origin story on no ID. Well,
• 28:47
  I'm sure I'll tell elements of it as we go throughout
• 28:49
  the show. But the long and the short of it is
• 28:51
  I was guilty of having a twenty dollar poker
• 28:53
  game in my cigar lounge that had a beer and wine
• 28:56
  license. And my second major crime against humanity
• 28:59
  was that I allowed members to store their own
• 29:01
  legally purchased liquor in their own lockers
• 29:04
  that they rented from me. So apparently that
• 29:06
  was strike one and strike two. Poker is still
• 29:09
  100 % illegal in the state of Idaho, which is
• 29:12
  absolutely retarded. We need to get that on the
• 29:14
  ballot next. It's so retarded. I mean, in your
• 29:16
  own home, you play with your friends. One red
• 29:19
  cent goes in the middle. Congratulations. You're
• 29:21
  a misdemeanor. And the host is potentially a
• 29:23
  felon if they want to make it that way. It doesn't
• 29:25
  align with Idaho's values, man. Nice. The pearl
• 29:31
  clutches, dude, them and their values. Please
• 29:35
  think of the children. Yeah, well, they weren't
• 29:37
  thinking of mine when they were trying to bankrupt
• 29:39
  me, take my business, take everything I had,
• 29:43
  freeze all my assets, send me to prison for 20
• 29:44
  years. Yeah, they were they were really thinking
• 29:46
  of the children there. Anyways, high crimes,
• 29:49
  $20 poker games and illegal storage of liquor
• 29:52
  that we didn't know was illegal. And what they
• 29:53
  tried to do was turn that into money laundering
• 29:55
  and racketeering. Anyways, they prosecuted me
• 29:58
  for almost a year and I did plead out what was
• 30:01
  three felonies and three misdemeanors ended up
• 30:04
  being five misdemeanors. Ultimately, it was what?
• 30:08
  Illegal gambling, running in a legal room. You
• 30:12
  know, you should account. I think it was two
• 30:14
  counts of illegal gambling and one count of running
• 30:15
  in a legal room one count of maintaining a public
• 30:18
  nuisance and one count of disturbing the peace
• 30:20
  I think is then ultimately what I ended up getting
• 30:22
  And I had to spend ten days in jail do ten. It
• 30:25
  was twelve days of sheriff's labor program I
• 30:27
  had to pay a five thousand dollar fine as restitution.
• 30:30
  I got two years of unsupervised probation There
• 30:34
  were a couple of other things that now I can't
• 30:36
  remember but it was a long list of it was a pound
• 30:38
  or two or three of flesh I gave him but it was
• 30:40
  much less than the whole horse that they wanted,
• 30:44
  which was 20 years in prison, asset forfeiture
• 30:46
  of over a million dollars, which I didn't have
• 30:48
  a million dollars, but they were going to try
• 30:50
  to take everything. Really? With all that, with
• 30:52
  all that rake you were charging, you didn't,
• 30:54
  you didn't accumulate a million bucks? Well,
• 30:56
  the funny thing about money laundering and racketeering
• 30:59
  is that what they do, they are, all right, well
• 31:01
  you're at, now you're getting the story, Hoser.
• 31:03
  You wanted it, you got it. Not all, not all of
• 31:05
  it. I'm still going to sound bite it, but the
• 31:06
  way this shit, well, this shit works at the federal
• 31:08
  or the state level is that It's their gangster
• 31:12
  laws. They're laws designed to go after organized
• 31:14
  crime. So how do you go after organized crime?
• 31:15
  Well, you go after the money. So when they charge
• 31:18
  you with these sorts of crimes, then what they
• 31:21
  do is to at least a degree, they freeze your
• 31:25
  assets. And then they also threaten to seize
• 31:28
  them permanently because everything you own,
• 31:31
  in my case, everything I owned, was purchased
• 31:34
  with money that ran through my business and they
• 31:36
  were coming after me as if my business and I
• 31:40
  were both guilty of money laundering and racketeering.
• 31:42
  Ergo, every dollar that I had was blood money
• 31:46
  and everything I bought was bought with blood
• 31:48
  money. That's how they operate. And, you know,
• 31:52
  common sense be damned. You would think you'd
• 31:54
  take one look at me and my situation and my business
• 31:56
  and what it all was. And they did. And they did
• 31:59
  actually. They spent 11 months undercover investigation.
• 32:01
  They had a guy with a camera and audio and visual
• 32:04
  and the whole thing. And he even infiltrated
• 32:05
  our poke and like, quote unquote, infiltrated
• 32:07
  our poker game. We invited him because he was
• 32:09
  like, hey, I like cards. And we're like, oh,
• 32:11
  cool. Come play with us. Like, you know, like
• 32:13
  it was a super hard thing to get into because
• 32:15
  we were so secretive about all the crime we were
• 32:19
  crying. Yeah, so they did an 11 -month undercover
• 32:22
  investigation, then raided my place in 2017,
• 32:25
  Black Tuesday, raided my place. Guns drawn, six
• 32:29
  agents, badges swinging, roped it off with police
• 32:31
  tape, and then tossed the place for the entire
• 32:33
  day. Took everything, phones, computers, registers,
• 32:37
  everything out of everybody's lockers, tossed
• 32:39
  the furniture up and down. They even went through
• 32:41
  the jar of peanuts back behind the bar looking
• 32:43
  like it was hilarious. Are you serious? No, I'm
• 32:48
  dead serious. Yeah, I sat out there It's that
• 32:50
  we were in the mall at the time and I'm sitting
• 32:52
  there on a bench in the middle of the mall because
• 32:54
  you know Benches in the mall where you can sit
• 32:56
  staring in at my lounge through the glass watching
• 32:59
  six agents tear my place apart Just like knives
• 33:04
  knives into the couch cushions like us Feathers
• 33:07
  and stuffing flying everywhere just out of a
• 33:10
  movie out of a movie Wow It was, it was literally
• 33:14
  the stuff you see in the movies. I mean, cause
• 33:16
  when we opened up in the morning too, they come
• 33:18
  coming through the front door, guns drawn, get
• 33:23
  on the ground, get on the ground. And me and
• 33:25
  my elderly employee who's like 65 at the time
• 33:27
  are like, yeah, we're not getting on the ground.
• 33:30
  And, and, ah, dude, it was, it was exactly the
• 33:33
  stuff you see in the movies. So anyways, they
• 33:34
  do all that. That's 20, that's a March 2017.
• 33:37
  They rate us, but we've been under investigation
• 33:39
  since like February of 2016 and Then nothing
• 33:45
  for three years they go away and nothing happens
• 33:48
  for three years. And so we rebuild I rebuild
• 33:50
  my life I rebuild my place I replace all the
• 33:53
  shit that they stole and never came brought back
• 33:56
  to us and Then the first week of 2020 because
• 34:00
  everybody thinks they had a bad 2020 I defy anybody
• 34:04
  To beat mine other than a few there are a few
• 34:08
  people like my business didn't get burned down
• 34:10
  in Minneapolis or Missouri so I'm grateful for
• 34:13
  that like I didn't have to deal with riots that
• 34:15
  thrashed my place and then insurance wouldn't
• 34:17
  pay. And then I went out of business. But short
• 34:20
  of that, my 2020 beats y 'alls, everybody. So
• 34:23
  because this is how mine started. I got served
• 34:25
  for two counts of money laundering and one count
• 34:27
  of racketeering on the first week of 2020. So
• 34:32
  we had to. start taking care of that, and then
• 34:35
  two, three months later, the whole, yay, three
• 34:37
  weeks to flatten the curve bullshit with COVID
• 34:39
  happened, and then my business gets shut down,
• 34:42
  and then we're tearing apart my house from mold,
• 34:45
  because we discovered, we just bought our house
• 34:47
  just August of 2019 up here in Clark Fork, and
• 34:50
  we discovered mold in October of 2019, and then
• 34:53
  finally we're able to get to tearing it all apart,
• 34:55
  the entire roof and all, floors and all. I mean,
• 35:00
  I did 100, 100 grand on my house that I didn't
• 35:03
  have. I worked a lot in trade. A lot of my clients
• 35:06
  happened to be in construction. So man, that
• 35:07
  saved my ass. And so in June of 2020, there I
• 35:11
  was looking up at blue sky because I had no roof.
• 35:15
  My business was shut down because of COVID and
• 35:16
  I was being prosecuted for money laundering and
• 35:18
  racketeering all by the state of Idaho. Thanks.
• 35:21
  Thanks, Idaho. Idaho values. That's the values.
• 35:25
  Values at work. Idaho values. Why did I start
• 35:30
  telling that story, Scott? Oh, victimless crimes
• 35:32
  because, uh, victimless crimes. And when I, when
• 35:36
  I spent the 10 days in jail, after the plea bargain
• 35:39
  in September of 2020, in the 18 guys that were
• 35:43
  in my pod, 16 of them were in there for drugs,
• 35:49
  drug related stuff, or for getting picked up
• 35:53
  on not having figured out their paperwork quite.
• 35:55
  In fact, one of the kids who was in there was
• 35:57
  losing his mind because he got arrested while
• 35:59
  he was applying for his driver's license. He
• 36:01
  was applying for his driver's license. So he
• 36:03
  could he had just gotten a job. He was turning
• 36:07
  his life around. He was getting his driver's
• 36:09
  license so he could work his job. And he got
• 36:11
  arrested because there was a bench warrant out
• 36:14
  for his arrest that he didn't know about because
• 36:16
  they mailed something to him that needed signatures
• 36:17
  to kind of finalize a previous case. And they
• 36:21
  the just the legal system works via the mail.
• 36:24
  And a lot of these guys, they don't have permanent
• 36:26
  residences quite the way you and I do. So things
• 36:29
  go out in the mail, guys don't see them, bench
• 36:31
  warrant gets issued. So this dude's in the middle
• 36:34
  of bringing his life back around and he ends
• 36:36
  up back in jail, loses his job and he's tripping
• 36:39
  out because his family doesn't know he's there.
• 36:41
  Nobody knows he's in there. He just gets swept
• 36:43
  up and kidnapped and put in there. Anyways, out
• 36:47
  of the 18 guys, I was the oldest. I was at the
• 36:50
  time. What was I? So at the time I was 32. And
• 36:54
  I was the second oldest person in there. And
• 36:57
  out of the 18 guys, 16 of them were for drugs
• 37:01
  and only one of them was violent. One guy was
• 37:03
  in there for assault. Everybody else was in there
• 37:05
  for other stuff, mainly drug related stuff, mostly
• 37:09
  possession or possession with intent to distribute
• 37:13
  and stuff like that. I always loved that one,
• 37:17
  too. We know that you have intent to distribute.
• 37:19
  Cool. So now you're a mind reader. Well, what
• 37:22
  else were you going to do with a scale and Ziploc
• 37:24
  baggies? Do any other crimes work that way? Well,
• 37:29
  we know what you were going to do. Yeah, I don't
• 37:33
  know. I can't speak to that one. I mean, it's
• 37:35
  all fucked up is what it is. And it's a lot of
• 37:38
  lives ruined. Once the system grabs you, it's
• 37:40
  really hard to get out from it. It's very hard,
• 37:43
  especially for a lot of guys who don't know any
• 37:44
  better or who aren't so good with paperwork or
• 37:47
  don't have a permanent residence or don't have
• 37:49
  family support. And a lot of these guys don't
• 37:51
  have any of that. That's partly why they've ended
• 37:53
  up where they are in the first place. So the
• 37:55
  legal system, it's not a justice system, but
• 37:57
  the legal system handles people like broken livestock
• 38:03
  and never let you go. So yeah, you want to fix,
• 38:07
  you want to fix the jail overcrowding system.
• 38:11
  Stop putting people in there for victimless crimes.
• 38:13
  Plain and simple. Let's start there. That part
• 38:16
  just never, ever gets mentioned by anybody. And
• 38:18
  we'll finish this governor tiny clip in a second.
• 38:20
  I just have to point out that the particular
• 38:22
  hilarity of your situation is not only that there
• 38:26
  was no victim, the exact opposite. You actually
• 38:30
  were actively bettering everything like a lounge
• 38:34
  where people can go and have time with, you know,
• 38:38
  fellow like when you want to play some cards,
• 38:40
  you want to unwind, you want to have a cigar,
• 38:42
  like, you know, you have a you have some sip
• 38:44
  on some bourbon. You were providing. an actual
• 38:47
  respite for people. You were actively making
• 38:49
  things better by having an establishment like
• 38:52
  that. It's like the exact opposite of a crime.
• 38:55
  And the state spent who knows how much money.
• 38:58
  I was contributing to society. Like in every
• 39:02
  way you can contribute to society, I was. Everything
• 39:05
  we did, we did because there was a market demand.
• 39:08
  Everything I did, it was voluntary. I harmed
• 39:11
  no one. I stole nothing. people, persons or property
• 39:16
  or animals or anything were hurt of any kind.
• 39:19
  In fact, both of my major interactions with law
• 39:21
  enforcement that have found me in jail are both
• 39:24
  interactions where not a single thing person
• 39:27
  place piece of property were violated or hurt.
• 39:31
  The only victim and this and this doesn't really
• 39:34
  work that way is the state. But the state can't
• 39:37
  be a victim. I don't care what you say society
• 39:38
  can't be a victim. The state can't be a victim.
• 39:40
  That's that's It's false. It's bullshit. Well,
• 39:42
  in this case, the state's the perpetrator. They're
• 39:45
  the ones committing the crime. They're the ones,
• 39:47
  you know, like raiding private businesses and
• 39:50
  messing, you know, screwing with people and,
• 39:52
  you know, messing with people's lives. They're
• 39:54
  the ones committing the crimes. It's also inverted.
• 39:57
  I would say it's beyond belief, but it's actually
• 39:59
  completely on brand. Yeah, well, it always is.
• 40:02
  It's what I always say is like, if we put it
• 40:05
  in any other setting, circumstance or context,
• 40:09
  people would be up in arms over what the government
• 40:13
  does, what the government and its agents do,
• 40:15
  how they behave, the things they do, the way
• 40:17
  they do it. We wouldn't stand for it. We would
• 40:19
  never allow for it. We would not allow our neighbor
• 40:22
  to treat us that way. We would not allow a family
• 40:24
  member to treat us that way, or at least healthy
• 40:25
  people wouldn't. We would not allow a company
• 40:28
  to treat us that way. We would not allow it.
• 40:31
  But all of a sudden, when it's the government,
• 40:35
  You know before we finish this little clip I
• 40:37
  have to I have to play this quickly because it's
• 40:40
  Spokane It's out of Spokane, but it's a Spokane
• 40:42
  craft beer week, which was a thing for for quite
• 40:46
  some time through the 2010s Yeah, I participated
• 40:48
  in many of them because this is my former industry
• 40:51
  the craft beer industry and You know the notion
• 40:54
  of oh hey I defy anybody to have a worse 2020
• 40:58
  than you didn't you you're making quite the case
• 41:00
  for yourself You mentioned three weeks. You had
• 41:03
  said three weeks to flatten the curve. Now, if
• 41:05
  you remember, the marketing was actually two
• 41:07
  weeks, and I just thought - Oh, did I say three?
• 41:09
  I meant two. You did. In my head, I said two.
• 41:12
  Well, the reason I'm keying in on it is because
• 41:13
  this brief clip here illustrates a lot of what
• 41:17
  you touched on there. So before we finish the
• 41:19
  little clip, listen to this. Spokane Craft Brew
• 41:22
  Week. 28 breweries all across town will be teaming
• 41:25
  up from May 16th to the 23rd Note by the way
• 41:29
  the tone of the news reader here. She's like
• 41:32
  there's like ebullient like she's speaking through
• 41:36
  a beaming smile. 28 breweries all across town
• 41:39
  will be teaming up from May 16th to the 23rd
• 41:42
  for Craft Brew Week, inviting people to come
• 41:44
  and try out the local beers on tap throughout
• 41:47
  the week. Featured breweries will have specialty
• 41:49
  beer releases and family oriented events to bring
• 41:52
  more people through the doors. Craft Brew Week
• 41:54
  drew big crowds to the businesses before COVID,
• 41:57
  but shut down for five years before Garland Brew
• 42:00
  Works owner Adam Boyd. Uh -huh. Oh, yeah, it's
• 42:04
  just a brief five years to slow the spread and
• 42:08
  Inexplicably it just stopped for five years They
• 42:13
  almost things to sound like and they they shut
• 42:15
  it down like the Brewer shut it down Yeah, you
• 42:17
  know, it was all good and then it just shut down
• 42:19
  Bring the event back to help empower local businesses
• 42:26
  They love doing that through their beaming smiles.
• 42:30
  It was time to bring the event back to help empower
• 42:33
  local businesses. It's a lot of coordination.
• 42:36
  But it is very fun. And I think everyone who
• 42:39
  participates understands that that is kind of
• 42:41
  the goal, is that we all join hands and kind
• 42:43
  of rise up together. We celebrate all our work
• 42:45
  together. We hang out together. And honestly,
• 42:47
  in this industry, there's no better way to do
• 42:49
  that than to share a pint with each other. That's
• 42:51
  it. So it's all fake and gay. It's hard to describe.
• 42:55
  just how pathetic the craft beer industry was
• 42:59
  in the, I guess, five years that has now elapsed,
• 43:02
  basically, especially in the, you know, 2021.
• 43:07
  The just exactly the opposite of what they always
• 43:10
  what everyone always professed to stand for independence,
• 43:14
  creativity, you know, pioneering spirit, all
• 43:18
  these things that craft beer and craft brewers
• 43:20
  pretended to be when and when they were actually
• 43:22
  tested. They all showed that they were all the
• 43:25
  opposite of those actual things. So they just,
• 43:27
  oh, no, we're just going to shut down for five
• 43:29
  years. And then we're going to come back on four
• 43:32
  news now in the year 2026 and talk about rising
• 43:35
  up. Everyone who participates understands like
• 43:38
  that. That is kind of the goal is that we all
• 43:40
  join hands and kind of rise up together. Join
• 43:43
  hands and rise up together is pathetic. Oh, my
• 43:45
  God, dude. It always it always vexed me how an
• 43:50
  industry that is one of one of the most regulated
• 43:53
  and taxed industries in the country, and certainly
• 43:56
  in the state of Idaho, could be so full of leftists.
• 44:00
  It truly is. I never expected that going into
• 44:03
  my industry because I saw my industry and the
• 44:06
  craft beer industry is sort of industries that
• 44:09
  should like work together and go hand in hand.
• 44:11
  That's why they had such a heavy presence at
• 44:12
  the Bulldog. I had got I would have 12 taps and
• 44:15
  I would go and it was local only local breweries
• 44:19
  only. And everybody got at least one handle if
• 44:21
  they wanted one. A lot of them got two, depending
• 44:23
  on who would work with me. But I realized real
• 44:26
  quick that my list of breweries I wanted to work
• 44:27
  with was actually fairly small because most of
• 44:29
  them were leftists. And so you've got an industry
• 44:33
  that is regulated to death. It's super hard to
• 44:37
  turn a profit or stay in business. It's expensive
• 44:39
  to get started. You deal with the government
• 44:42
  every step of the way and the government does
• 44:45
  not help. They hinder. You think you'd learn
• 44:47
  something, but no. That's funny. No, instead
• 44:50
  the craft industry actually was one of the ones
• 44:51
  that was the most excited to bend over for it.
• 44:53
  The only reason they cared at all was because
• 44:55
  it affected their business, too. Well, and even
• 44:59
  then, even then, even with. Yeah. Well, there's
• 45:01
  an industry that's having a good time right now.
• 45:04
  Oh, yeah. Well, it's richly deserved. OK, let's
• 45:06
  finish this little. This is abuse problems. And
• 45:10
  amid the declaration of a statewide drought,
• 45:12
  I asked the governor how Idaho irrigators will
• 45:14
  be impacted most. We have to comply with law.
• 45:17
  We have to. make sure that people with the oldest
• 45:21
  water rights are protected. But we're also saying
• 45:25
  everybody might need to share a little bit in
• 45:28
  this problem for the greater good for everybody
• 45:31
  else. And with gas prices impacting neighbors
• 45:33
  everywhere, the governor's weighed in optimistically.
• 45:36
  It's a result of supply and demand. We are doing
• 45:42
  all we can to be more efficient in Idaho. But
• 45:46
  Idaho is very dependent upon fossil fuels, and
• 45:49
  we're just hopeful that that problem gets resolved.
• 45:54
  While thousands of miles away from any battlefield
• 45:56
  or wartime decision making, Governor Little says
• 45:58
  he's confident the gem state will continue to
• 46:01
  shine even if gas prices continue to rise. The
• 46:04
  one thing I would tell my fellow Idahoans is
• 46:08
  because of what we've done with our enduring
• 46:10
  Idaho, because of what we've done on having a
• 46:14
  balanced budget. Thanks to me. Yes. To make sure
• 46:18
  that the economy continues on an upward trajectory.
• 46:25
  You're going to be better off in Idaho than you
• 46:27
  are in any other state. That's the one thing.
• 46:30
  That's the one thing he wants to tell people.
• 46:33
  Yeah, that is. Wow. Just before we go, I need
• 46:36
  to make sure you all know that thanks to me,
• 46:40
  Idaho is the best state. Somebody's been. Reading
• 46:44
  notes from Trump speeches or something. Well,
• 46:48
  but it's the it's not quite the best state Nobody's
• 46:51
  got a better state than us. You're gonna love
• 46:52
  us states gonna level so much. You're gonna want
• 46:54
  to leave Listen though actually to the it's not
• 46:58
  Trump style phrasing of repeating the word excellent
• 47:01
  or whatever three times or whatever His rule
• 47:03
  is listen again on an upward trajectory You're
• 47:07
  gonna be better off in Idaho than you are in
• 47:09
  any other state it's the least bad Shades of
• 47:16
  shit You're going to be better off in Idaho than
• 47:19
  you are in any other state. I mean, you know,
• 47:21
  consider all the other, you know, piece of crap
• 47:23
  states. Good times. Here's your glass of piss.
• 47:30
  But I wanted water. Shut up. There's less piss
• 47:33
  here than there are on the other 50 glasses.
• 47:35
  We diluted it with water and we're in a drought,
• 47:38
  man. Stop complaining. All right. Well, you know
• 47:44
  where there was not a drought? Was this week
• 47:47
  on no idea on the value for value segment? No,
• 47:51
  it's raining. It's raining over here Yeah, this
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  show this show runs on value for value. We do
• 47:57
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• 48:00
  the money money money come from one might wonder
• 48:02
  or anything else? Well, it comes from the value
• 48:05
  for value model That is the model that we have
• 48:09
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• 48:11
  you, but I am quite happy that we That we did.
• 48:14
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• 48:17
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• 48:20
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• 48:24
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• 48:55
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• 49:19
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  hanging out with your grandkids, don't you? That's
• 50:51
  the best hostage situation, oh man. Well, as
• 50:54
  my old man used to say, you only hurt the ones
• 50:55
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• 52:57
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• 53:02
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• 53:05
  on 420. So presumably he His judgment was impaired,
• 53:09
  so he sent us some money. And the note says he
• 53:14
  was in a good mood. The note says another trip
• 53:19
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• 53:22
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• 53:25
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• 53:29
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• 53:36
  call you Tony because it feels. Just feels right.
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  Hey, thanks, Tony. I appreciate it. Appreciate
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  it a lot. And next one is a row of ducks to two
• 53:49
  to two. Oh, by the way, that's what I was. The
• 53:51
  other part of the website that I updated is there
• 53:53
  are some. And as you mentioned, I think on the
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  last show, there are some per day. Now they're
• 53:59
  they're they're instant no ID classics. Some
• 54:01
  of these donation amounts like your two to two
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  row of ducks, the twenty one, the blackjack.
• 54:08
  69, which we'll explain when you're older, the
• 54:10
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• 54:13
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  or make up your own. Only you can decide what
• 54:23
  value means to you. But for Dave McPherson, who
• 54:27
  sent in a row of ducks, that was his value return
• 54:29
  22 .22, and he says... Hey, Dave is donated before
• 54:34
  he said hey Paul and Scott a row of ducks from
• 54:36
  Dave and Melissa in Western Washington Hyperlocal
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  is crucial to balance the media and yours is
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  tax Reduced its death tax from 20 % to I'm sorry
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  to 20 % from 35 % Because they don't want to
• 54:56
  be an outlier. So states staying sane keeps us
• 55:00
  in check stay sane And that's from Dave McPherson.
• 55:04
  So wait a minute, am I not understand that Washington
• 55:06
  reduced a tax? What? I'm blown away by that.
• 55:13
  Maybe there was some backroom deal that somebody
• 55:15
  negotiated as they were instituting the first
• 55:18
  ever income tax. We're going to tax income, but
• 55:22
  maybe we're not going to tax death as hard. As
• 55:26
  severely. That'll distract them. Which is super
• 55:32
  sweet for those of us who are still alive, right?
• 55:35
  What a sweet deal the income that we make while
• 55:37
  we're alive gets taxed But we don't get to see
• 55:40
  the benefit The other one that they lowered We
• 55:44
  all just pay your fair share, right? Right. Oh
• 55:48
  I got we got one more for this week and you want
• 55:51
  to talk about paying your fair share Kevin Killian
• 55:55
  is back And it's a hundred and fifty bucks from
• 56:01
  Kevin. In true Kevin fashion, the only note is
• 56:08
  TTT, which of course is Time, Talent, Treasure,
• 56:11
  but that's all Kevin's got to say, at least here
• 56:13
  for the donation note. There was quite a bit
• 56:16
  more on the text thread, but we'll leave that
• 56:18
  on our phones. Oh, yes. Well, that's still unresolved.
• 56:23
  Yes, it is unresolved. I'm still waiting for
• 56:25
  the audio drop that he wants to hear. tell us
• 56:28
  Kevin find it. You must help us find it since
• 56:30
  apparently we've used like six different ones.
• 56:32
  You find it and we'll give it to you. Indeed.
• 56:36
  Speaking of giving it to you, we also are working
• 56:40
  on some form of rewards program. Isn't what I
• 56:44
  want to call it. What do we call it, Scott? Some
• 56:46
  sort of like, like Kevin's already there almost
• 56:49
  I figure. And so are a couple others of you,
• 56:52
  but something to send your guys his way when
• 56:54
  you hit a certain level. Anyways, we don't have
• 56:57
  it fully fleshed out, but we're working on that.
• 56:59
  We also are working on our master wall of donators,
• 57:03
  executive producers. That's the word. Yes. And
• 57:05
  Scott's working on that too. So at some point
• 57:07
  in the near future, when you hit up our website
• 57:09
  and the Facebook, it'll be pinned there and you'll
• 57:12
  get to see your beautiful names on the master
• 57:15
  list of executive producers. So trying to work
• 57:19
  on some things, add more value for you guys.
• 57:23
  Tried to I tried to prompt to you know, what's
• 57:26
  another way to say rewards program? But there's
• 57:28
  a you know loyalty now VIP no Benefits no, I
• 57:33
  don't know. Well, I will think about it offline
• 57:35
  and come up with something something better than
• 57:36
  any of that Maybe like our NPCs or an NPC or
• 57:42
  an NPCs are non are non NPCs and NPCs. I like
• 57:46
  that. I'm writing an NPCs. Mm -hmm. Yeah. All
• 57:51
  right rewards OK. Oh, here's a great opportunity,
• 57:54
  guys. If you have ideas, what do you want us
• 57:56
  to call you? I mean, obviously, executive producers.
• 57:58
  But as far as being contributing, executive producers
• 58:02
  with the TTT, especially the treasure part, what
• 58:06
  do you want us to call you guys? Yeah, be thinking,
• 58:09
  be thinking. We're open to suggestions. Absolutely.
• 58:13
  I'll take you down there for twenty five schmeckles.
• 58:16
  Twenty five schmeckles. I don't know how much
• 58:19
  I don't know what that is. Is that a lot? Is
• 58:20
  it a little? Second half of show is coming up.
• 58:34
  Do you have an intermission song this week? I
• 58:37
  do. Sweet. I'm gonna go take a leak. I'll be
• 58:39
  back. And I'm not gonna ruin it with gook in
• 58:41
  this time. I promise. You got me breaking it
• 59:00
  down You got me moving I'm sorry for Hello Out
• 59:39
  of all the things to see You can be so been dreaming
• 59:47
  of a better day Like we're on the beach in Marseille
• 59:52
  We're on a hill looking at an L .A. Walking down
• 1:00:01
  the beach to slow stairs Now I'm not at home
• 1:00:07
  and it's not fair Hello Good at dealing with
• 1:01:51
  people Can't you understand it? That was perfect
• 1:01:55
  Look at us. We're getting better all the time,
• 1:01:57
  Scott. Giving the people what they want. More
• 1:02:00
  value. Man, I'm definitely feeling the pressure
• 1:02:02
  now. I've got to figure out how to give Kevin
• 1:02:04
  Kelly and Tony A and who gave us the road ducks,
• 1:02:11
  David and Melissa. Yeah, David and Melissa. Yep.
• 1:02:14
  Yep. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like, man, pressure.
• 1:02:16
  Got to give them even more value. There you go.
• 1:02:19
  All right. Let's bring some value here. Thanks
• 1:02:21
  to all of our executive producers. Majorly, yes.
• 1:02:25
  Let's let's try and bring some value here with
• 1:02:27
  second half a show. Let's start with the Lakeland
• 1:02:30
  thing when he say Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay. This
• 1:02:34
  one kind of hits me near and dear. Oh, yeah I
• 1:02:37
  don't actually have many details and I probably
• 1:02:40
  won't get too many more details But I kind of
• 1:02:44
  feel like we know enough We know what we need
• 1:02:47
  to know based on who's doing what and it feels
• 1:02:50
  like an NIC 2 .0 So, take it away, Scott. Yes,
• 1:02:53
  and I will. The details are scant, much like
• 1:02:58
  with the NIC thing. And so, it's not like you
• 1:03:01
  don't know the details. There aren't any you'll
• 1:03:04
  hear. Dozens of former staff members and community
• 1:03:06
  members are asking the Lakeland School District
• 1:03:09
  Board of Trustees to resign. One of the teachers
• 1:03:11
  leading the charge claims the board is working
• 1:03:14
  against teachers and students. Madeline Mullen
• 1:03:17
  spoke with her today and shares why this request
• 1:03:19
  has been six years in the making. Since 2020,
• 1:03:23
  former teacher Allison Knoll says the Lakeland
• 1:03:26
  School District Board of Trustees has been a
• 1:03:28
  problem. The removal of Superintendent Rusty
• 1:03:31
  Taylor last month was the final straw. It was
• 1:03:34
  a vindictive action because the Superintendent
• 1:03:37
  Rusty Taylor was trying to stand up for the teachers.
• 1:03:43
  Can you please stand in front of this giant Peter
• 1:03:47
  built so that we can get this sound bite? Couldn't
• 1:03:49
  have waited two seconds for it to drive by. trying
• 1:03:51
  to stand up for the teachers, the students and
• 1:03:56
  pushing against some of the things that the board
• 1:03:58
  was asking. In a letter presented to the school
• 1:04:00
  board Wednesday night, Noll stated the board
• 1:04:03
  has been bad stewards of taxpayers' money by
• 1:04:06
  failing to find reasonable cause to fire Taylor.
• 1:04:09
  You always, whenever they bring up taxes, whenever
• 1:04:11
  they're like, oh, hey, what about the taxpayers?
• 1:04:14
  The immediate alarm bells need to go off. Stewards
• 1:04:16
  of taxpayers' money by failing to find reasonable
• 1:04:19
  cause to fire Taylor and now paying out is a
• 1:04:22
  $150 ,000 contract. and by putting next month's
• 1:04:26
  $3 million facilities levy at risk. It is proving
• 1:04:30
  to the taxpayers that they're not managing the
• 1:04:32
  money that they already have. And it's kind of
• 1:04:35
  unfair to then expect the taxpayers to give them
• 1:04:38
  more money on top of that. The only time these
• 1:04:42
  people ever care about the taxpayer is when it
• 1:04:46
  might help the narrative they're trying to craft.
• 1:04:49
  It worked that way with NIC too. In fact, I'll
• 1:04:52
  remember when They were on the hunt for a new
• 1:04:56
  president, my pops, leading the conservative
• 1:04:59
  contingent of the board during that time. And
• 1:05:02
  they found, actually they went through two different
• 1:05:05
  guys because one guy got, he really got put through
• 1:05:08
  the wringer and he couldn't, he didn't want to
• 1:05:10
  do it anymore. But in both cases where my father
• 1:05:13
  and them led the charge for a new president,
• 1:05:16
  they were paying the guy significantly less than
• 1:05:20
  the other presidents of old. And that the current
• 1:05:22
  president, Swain, Believe it's swaying is making
• 1:05:26
  by like fifty thousand dollars seventy five eighty
• 1:05:30
  thousand dollars They're trying to save money.
• 1:05:33
  They're trying to get max value and everything
• 1:05:35
  they did they try to get max value So then when
• 1:05:37
  the people who don't like the changes that are
• 1:05:39
  being made Resign or sue or don't comply with
• 1:05:44
  what the board the power that the board has to
• 1:05:47
  you know They're like, hey, these are the guardrails
• 1:05:48
  You got to stay with them the guardrails and
• 1:05:50
  then the president doesn't comply and then it's
• 1:05:52
  like alright. Well you We're gonna let you go.
• 1:05:55
  And then they turn around and they sue the college.
• 1:05:57
  And only then, only then, do you hear any talk
• 1:06:00
  about taxpayer money. Not all the times my dad
• 1:06:03
  was like, no, we're not gonna do that project
• 1:06:04
  because the taxpayer won't see the benefit. Or
• 1:06:07
  yeah, we're gonna hire this guy over here who's
• 1:06:09
  gonna work twice as hard for half the money.
• 1:06:12
  No, the only time you hear about when taxpayer
• 1:06:14
  money matters is when the left does something
• 1:06:17
  against the institution they perpet to care about.
• 1:06:20
  and usually cost that institution more money.
• 1:06:22
  And then all of a sudden it's like, oh, the taxpayer,
• 1:06:25
  oh, the money. We got to get rid of the board
• 1:06:27
  members. Every part of this presentation and
• 1:06:31
  the presentations were uniform across the entire
• 1:06:34
  mainstream that covered this, the Coeur d 'Alene
• 1:06:35
  press, where this is coming from, like the foreign
• 1:06:38
  news, now all of the network affiliates, not
• 1:06:40
  anywhere that has covered it is covering it in
• 1:06:43
  this exact same way. And it is identical, identical
• 1:06:46
  to how the North Idaho College Brouhaha was covered.
• 1:06:50
  If you want to hear a deep dive on that whole
• 1:06:54
  saga, as Paul just said, because his father,
• 1:06:57
  Todd, was the chairman of the board of trustees
• 1:07:00
  for a time, an extended period of time, you can
• 1:07:04
  go back to the inaugural episode of this program,
• 1:07:06
  but this is all literally the exact same stuff.
• 1:07:11
  expect the taxpayers to give them more money
• 1:07:14
  on top of that. And Noel says that the board's
• 1:07:17
  actions are reasons why teachers and employees
• 1:07:19
  have resigned, including Noel herself. In resignation
• 1:07:23
  letters shared with Four News Now, both Noel
• 1:07:26
  and a school board clerk stated the behavior
• 1:07:28
  of the school board were reasons for leaving.
• 1:07:31
  One of them saying, patterns of unprofessional
• 1:07:34
  conduct, a lack of respectful dialogue, and the
• 1:07:37
  way sensitive matters are handled have created
• 1:07:39
  conditions that make it impossible to carry out
• 1:07:42
  my responsibilities effectively. What does any
• 1:07:44
  of that mean? Those are all corporate buzzwords.
• 1:07:47
  I dug and dug and dug trying to find out specifics.
• 1:07:51
  What are they talking about? They did all this
• 1:07:53
  exact same stuff with NIC. Unprofessional conduct,
• 1:07:57
  there's tension, there's this, there's that,
• 1:07:59
  which of course It always takes two, it takes
• 1:08:02
  two for there to be this toxic environment or
• 1:08:05
  whatever, all the words that you, they even use
• 1:08:07
  the same verbiage to describe this stuff. And
• 1:08:10
  there is never any specifics anywhere. I couldn't
• 1:08:13
  find a single instance of a specific given. Why
• 1:08:16
  might that be? Yeah, I, uh, well, this has all
• 1:08:21
  been done before. And because the playbook has
• 1:08:25
  now been written and it is essentially this,
• 1:08:27
  make enough noise, throw your arms around, make
• 1:08:31
  accusations of misconduct, just general misconduct,
• 1:08:35
  and then turn the superintendent, who has been
• 1:08:39
  essentially let go, but he's on paid leave, which
• 1:08:41
  is kind of crazy that we're gonna have to foot
• 1:08:44
  the bill for that, make him the poster child
• 1:08:48
  around which to rally, or the underdog around
• 1:08:52
  which to rally, be like, oh, we're losing good
• 1:08:54
  people, we can't be doing that, and also it's
• 1:08:56
  costing the taxpayer money to do this. They did
• 1:08:58
  the same thing. with the president of NIC who
• 1:09:01
  the board decided hey we're going in a different
• 1:09:03
  direction because the president doesn't want
• 1:09:05
  to work with the board the majority conservative
• 1:09:07
  board so they went a different direction and
• 1:09:09
  the president turned around and sued and rallied
• 1:09:12
  the support of all of the establishmentarians
• 1:09:15
  down there and they made the president the poster
• 1:09:19
  child and the other dog and they rallied around
• 1:09:21
  him and like this is you know we gotta we gotta
• 1:09:23
  save NIC yeah words like misconduct and hostile
• 1:09:28
  behavior or unprofessional when when teachers
• 1:09:33
  lob teachers and faculty long especially long
• 1:09:36
  time staff and faculty in academia lob stuff
• 1:09:39
  like this at somebody else, I immediately know
• 1:09:41
  whose side I'm probably on. And it's not the
• 1:09:44
  teachers, staff and faculty. Yeah. Because basically
• 1:09:46
  what this usually means is we're not getting
• 1:09:49
  exactly what we want when we want how we want
• 1:09:51
  it. And we're used to being able to get what
• 1:09:52
  we want when we want how we want it by a board
• 1:09:55
  that rubber stamps everything we want and never
• 1:09:57
  says no. And now we're mad. This also is all
• 1:10:01
  the same Oh these board members were elected
• 1:10:05
  in 2020 the year that the Lakeland School District
• 1:10:09
  decided to go full -blown delusional psychotic
• 1:10:13
  a hypochondriac authoritarian like you can't
• 1:10:16
  use language strong enough for how school districts
• 1:10:18
  like Lakeland behaved in 2020 and then you have
• 1:10:21
  the teachers who were the the ground level boots
• 1:10:24
  -on -the -ground perpetrators of this delusional
• 1:10:26
  paranoid hypochondria acting indignant, and they're
• 1:10:30
  just they're just exasperated with a stupid public
• 1:10:33
  who just doesn't get how valuable and wonderful
• 1:10:35
  they are, as if none of us remember or saw what
• 1:10:38
  you did. And that's the whole reason these types
• 1:10:40
  of board members have been elected in the first
• 1:10:42
  place. Correct. Well, and they're in a region,
• 1:10:46
  they're up there in a district that is overwhelmingly
• 1:10:49
  a fairly conservative Republican district. And
• 1:10:52
  the school board is one of the only places, if
• 1:10:55
  not the only place that parents actually can
• 1:10:58
  wield power. Now, I disagree with the strategy.
• 1:11:04
  I don't necessarily disagree with the tactics,
• 1:11:06
  but the overall strategy is flawed. And I've
• 1:11:08
  mentioned this before, too. And what's going
• 1:11:11
  to happen is that enough people who are low information
• 1:11:14
  voters are going to hear this narrative because
• 1:11:16
  this narrative is going to get pushed over and
• 1:11:18
  over and over and over and over again by the
• 1:11:19
  press, by everybody, every mainstream media outlet,
• 1:11:22
  all of the big Facebook pages and the established
• 1:11:25
  academic establishment. They're going to they're
• 1:11:28
  going to push this whole the board is bad narrative.
• 1:11:30
  And at some point, just like with NIC, because
• 1:11:32
  they pushed it for years and years and years,
• 1:11:34
  at some point, people are going to believe it.
• 1:11:37
  And they're going to vote out whoever they think
• 1:11:39
  needs to be voted out. And then things will go
• 1:11:41
  back to the way they were. And the staff and
• 1:11:44
  faculty and academia will be happy. And they're
• 1:11:46
  going to get their shit rubber stamped again,
• 1:11:47
  just like at NIC. And nothing will change ultimately.
• 1:11:50
  So where conservatives go wrong is trying to
• 1:11:52
  do stuff like this, is take over the boards and
• 1:11:55
  effect good change. You can't. Because you can't
• 1:11:58
  fix what is not broken. state run indoctrination
• 1:12:02
  camps are working precisely as designed, and
• 1:12:05
  you cannot change them, solve them, fix them,
• 1:12:08
  redirect them. Maybe for a few years, you can
• 1:12:10
  slow it down. But ultimately, you're being worked
• 1:12:13
  against. So the trick is to then put we should,
• 1:12:16
  we being those of us who want an alternative,
• 1:12:19
  put all of our energy in the effort of educational
• 1:12:23
  choice at the state level, passing laws, getting
• 1:12:27
  laws created and passed that let the money follow
• 1:12:30
  the student. and give parents a maximum choice
• 1:12:34
  and support to exit the system. Deny the system
• 1:12:37
  that which it needs and that which it needs is
• 1:12:40
  pupils because pupils equals cold hard cash.
• 1:12:44
  So don't give it to them. And to your point,
• 1:12:47
  Scott, these teachers wore the boots on the ground
• 1:12:50
  for the COVID stuff. Everybody acts as if teachers
• 1:12:54
  are above, it just drives me nuts. It's hero
• 1:12:56
  worship is what it is. Cops, firefighters, teachers.
• 1:13:00
  government employees as if they use the term
• 1:13:03
  service, you know, 30 years of service that I'm
• 1:13:06
  retiring. It's like, screw you, dude. That's
• 1:13:08
  not service. That's a job. You're working a job
• 1:13:10
  just like anybody else. You're getting paid to
• 1:13:11
  do it. You're not serving. You're working just
• 1:13:15
  like anybody else. Hell, I could say that being
• 1:13:18
  in hospitality and retail, I did more years of
• 1:13:21
  service than any public employee ever. Ah, yes.
• 1:13:24
  And the, and the servants prosecuted you for
• 1:13:27
  it. How do you like that? I love the irony. Well,
• 1:13:32
  and then on top of everything you're saying,
• 1:13:34
  of course, the reason you can't fix what isn't
• 1:13:37
  broken and as the mainstream media continues
• 1:13:39
  to run cover for all of this, so that they will
• 1:13:43
  present everything as if it is not broken, just
• 1:13:46
  like you're saying. Let's finish this clip out
• 1:13:47
  so you can hear the rest of it. One of them saying,
• 1:13:49
  patterns of unprofessional conduct, a lack of
• 1:13:52
  respectful dialogue, and the way sensitive matters
• 1:13:55
  are handled have created conditions that make
• 1:13:57
  it impossible to carry out my responsibilities
• 1:14:00
  effectively. Noel citing that the board's oversight
• 1:14:03
  of curriculum is hurting the students. Teachers
• 1:14:06
  are not trusted to do the jobs that they were
• 1:14:07
  hired to do. Well, gee, I wonder why that might
• 1:14:10
  be, Teacher Noel. Why do you think it is that
• 1:14:13
  the trust is so low, man? Do you think you have
• 1:14:15
  any part to play in this at all? No, can't be.
• 1:14:21
  Teachers are untouchable. Teachers are heroes.
• 1:14:24
  Heroes. Teachers are not trusted to do the jobs
• 1:14:27
  that they were hired to do. Today, I reached
• 1:14:29
  out to the current superintendent and the school
• 1:14:32
  board. One of the trustees shared with me in
• 1:14:34
  a statement that read, in part, the board has
• 1:14:37
  both the authority and the responsibility to
• 1:14:39
  oversee the superintendent's employment. Resigning
• 1:14:42
  because a vocal group disagrees with a legally
• 1:14:45
  sound, unanimously supported decision would be
• 1:14:48
  a failure of my obligation to the voters, not
• 1:14:50
  a fulfillment of it. So they wait until the very
• 1:14:53
  end to read the other side to the extent that
• 1:14:56
  they even present what the other side is, which,
• 1:14:59
  by the way, is the voting public and the board.
• 1:15:02
  But it's as if none of that actually even exists.
• 1:15:05
  You just you just read a real or matters or matters.
• 1:15:08
  You read a written statement at the very, very
• 1:15:10
  end. Uh, and the rest of it is just like, look
• 1:15:12
  at this, uh, look at the chaos, the, the, the,
• 1:15:15
  the, the chaos that's been fomented. There is
• 1:15:17
  a horrible, right? Klu Klux Klaners that are
• 1:15:19
  sitting on the board. They fired rusty. This
• 1:15:26
  is, this is it's uncanny. It's actually a little
• 1:15:28
  unnerving how similar this is to the NIC thing,
• 1:15:31
  because it was the same thing. We had a board
• 1:15:33
  voted in by the voters of Kootenay County, majority
• 1:15:36
  conservative. There was some, we, we wanted accountability.
• 1:15:40
  for this taxing entity, this large taxing entity
• 1:15:42
  that had run largely without accountability for
• 1:15:45
  decades. Everything, rubber stamped, everything.
• 1:15:47
  We need more money. You got it. Everything. Staff,
• 1:15:50
  faculty, presidents could do whatever they wanted.
• 1:15:52
  It's a damn slush fund for those people down
• 1:15:54
  there. It truly is. Finally, get some accountability
• 1:15:58
  and the president and some of the other upper
• 1:16:01
  staff and faculty just straight up don't comply.
• 1:16:04
  Don't they ignore it? They don't, they don't
• 1:16:06
  comply. And my dad and the other board members
• 1:16:08
  like, well, like This whole thing breaks down
• 1:16:11
  if we don't adhere to the hierarchy and the power
• 1:16:14
  structure that is legally in place here. Otherwise,
• 1:16:16
  what's the point? Well, it never been an issue,
• 1:16:18
  right? Because up until then, everybody rubber
• 1:16:20
  stamped everything for everybody else. You're
• 1:16:22
  dealing with the same thing here with the Lakeland
• 1:16:24
  School District. Up until now, everybody's rubber
• 1:16:26
  stamped everything for everybody else. And now
• 1:16:28
  that certain people aren't getting exactly what
• 1:16:31
  they want like they're used to, well, they're
• 1:16:32
  big mad. And just like children, they're going
• 1:16:35
  to throw a fit. And I'll tell you what the board,
• 1:16:38
  the The board, they're handcuffed. They can't
• 1:16:42
  actually legally say a whole lot. Right now,
• 1:16:47
  I'm sure they have an attorney representing them
• 1:16:49
  or the board and the district itself. And their
• 1:16:51
  attorney is straight up going, you can't say
• 1:16:53
  anything. You can't talk because it's a breach.
• 1:16:57
  It's a legal issue. That's why my dad and other
• 1:16:59
  trustees couldn't say anything and defend themselves
• 1:17:02
  during the NIC stuff. Because the one side could
• 1:17:07
  just say anything and everything and anything
• 1:17:09
  and everything and just Like all of these all
• 1:17:12
  of these buzzwords that mean nothing without
• 1:17:15
  something behind it You know unprofessional and
• 1:17:18
  toxic can't work with them and how toxic and
• 1:17:20
  all the stuff and it's like, okay great But give
• 1:17:22
  us some details. What does that mean? Well to
• 1:17:24
  them most the time it just means I didn't get
• 1:17:26
  what I wanted Meanwhile, the board is going we've
• 1:17:29
  been elected to do a job. We're gonna do it We
• 1:17:31
  have the authority legally to do this And this
• 1:17:34
  is what is in the best interest of the district
• 1:17:35
  according to us, the parents who voted us in
• 1:17:38
  and the students that we have in the system.
• 1:17:40
  We have a stake in the system. Yeah, but you
• 1:17:44
  didn't tell us why you fired Rusty. Well, we're
• 1:17:47
  not legally allowed. You didn't tell us why.
• 1:17:50
  Can't. Yeah, can't. You use the word uncanny.
• 1:17:54
  I guarantee you that's I mean. I don't know for
• 1:17:57
  sure, but I would wager that that's what this
• 1:17:59
  is, is they cannot, they just cannot speak. They
• 1:18:01
  are legally bound to, they can't reach. Oh, yeah.
• 1:18:04
  You don't even have to make a bet. They've said
• 1:18:06
  it repeatedly. If you dig, you can find their
• 1:18:08
  statements where they're like, we legally, exactly
• 1:18:11
  what we're saying. You legally cannot disclose
• 1:18:13
  it. And your dad said this exact thing where
• 1:18:15
  he was like, they do this on purpose. They go
• 1:18:17
  after you for non -transparency when they know
• 1:18:20
  you legally can't disclose. Correct. Okay, speaking
• 1:18:26
  of things we can't disclose. I got a scotch shots
• 1:18:29
  lined up. Oh, you do I was wondering okay? Oh,
• 1:18:32
  yeah, all right. I'm ready. I'm getting up out
• 1:18:34
  of my chair here. Yeah a stretch Okay freaking
• 1:18:41
  go Okay, yeah, you're gonna be windmilling at
• 1:18:45
  several opponents today. I got a better weight
• 1:18:48
  I got shake weights in both hands both hands
• 1:18:50
  you can picture what that looks like I love it
• 1:18:57
  My biceps and triceps are feeling it. We are
• 1:19:01
  ready. Okay. All right, Scott. Here's the question.
• 1:19:08
  How many businesses permanently closed due to
• 1:19:12
  COVID in the United States? That's easy. Zero.
• 1:19:18
  None closed due to COVID. It was government.
• 1:19:21
  Oh, I see what you did there. Very nice. Very
• 1:19:23
  nice. Moving right along. And we're done. Yeah,
• 1:19:31
  totally. Unless like, oh, that our entire our
• 1:19:34
  entire staff died until we can't operate any
• 1:19:36
  longer, then I would have given it to you. But
• 1:19:38
  since that happened zero times. Allow me to rephrase
• 1:19:42
  how many businesses remained permanently closed
• 1:19:46
  due to government shutdowns. OK, so during the
• 1:19:51
  time of covid, are we talking internationally
• 1:19:54
  or United States or Idaho? No, in the US, in
• 1:19:57
  the US. who closed during two millennia to flatten
• 1:20:02
  the curve and never reopened. Do I have like
• 1:20:05
  a window here? Permanent closures. Yeah, I mean,
• 1:20:08
  surely I can't get it on the nose, so I'm going
• 1:20:09
  to have to just kind of get close. Well, I mean,
• 1:20:17
  this is going to kind of be... You're allowed
• 1:20:18
  to play a spread. It's okay. I don't know. I
• 1:20:21
  mean, it's going to kind of be a blind guess
• 1:20:22
  because I don't know how many... Like I wouldn't
• 1:20:27
  be able to put a number on how many businesses
• 1:20:29
  were operating, you know, in the, in January
• 1:20:32
  of 2020 and then how, like, I don't know if that's
• 1:20:34
  2 million or 20 million. Um, so it's going to
• 1:20:38
  be kind of a blind guess. I'm going to say like
• 1:20:41
  300 ,000. Whomp, whomp. I need a sound drop.
• 1:20:50
  I haven't had to actually a whomp, whomp you
• 1:20:53
  like at all. Cause you've nailed everything.
• 1:20:54
  So I don't have a sound drop for it. Now I'm
• 1:20:56
  going to have to find a sound drop cause now
• 1:20:58
  it's twice. I've got, I've got you. I got you
• 1:21:00
  twice. Yeah, I didn't I didn't feel good about
• 1:21:02
  that one. We'll just go with this for now. You
• 1:21:04
  know how much rejection I face every day. Feels
• 1:21:08
  bad, man. OK, so here's the deal. Speaking of
• 1:21:14
  what was it? Things we can't disclose. Well,
• 1:21:16
  apparently neither can the Internet. I have I'm
• 1:21:20
  staring at three different so so different answers,
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  and I thought this was going to be a really easy
• 1:21:26
  one to just type in the old Google machine. go
• 1:21:30
  to a government agency and pull the number. Nope.
• 1:21:35
  Nope. It's all over the map, dude. It's all over
• 1:21:38
  the board. So, um, according to the AI Google
• 1:21:42
  machine in 2020, and I'm kind of working off
• 1:21:45
  of 2020 cause businesses, cause that's when the
• 1:21:47
  main shutdowns were was 2020. So if it shut down
• 1:21:49
  in 2020 and then did not reopen, then it was
• 1:21:52
  a permanent closure. So apparently an average
• 1:21:56
  of 600 ,000 businesses Clothes every year in
• 1:22:01
  the US which I thought that seems like a lot
• 1:22:05
  Like a lot a lot. Yeah, and then I did a little
• 1:22:08
  more digging and according to the Keybridge Public
• 1:22:13
  Policy Economic Center who studied the kovat
• 1:22:15
  19's? Impacts on small business know that number
• 1:22:19
  is actually pretty pretty realistic about 600
• 1:22:23
  ,000 businesses per year close just regular just
• 1:22:27
  a regular all year which is kind of terrifying
• 1:22:30
  when you think about it. That's a lot. According
• 1:22:32
  to the AI Google machine, 200 ,000 more businesses
• 1:22:37
  closed permanently during the first year of the
• 1:22:42
  COVID -19 pandemic, 2020 shutdowns. Then it says,
• 1:22:46
  according to Yelp data, 60 % of the businesses
• 1:22:51
  on their platform closed permanently, 2020, never
• 1:22:55
  to reopen. And that was just over 100 ,000. Digging
• 1:22:59
  down a little further, and this is an extrapolation,
• 1:23:03
  but in New York, over 170 ,000 businesses were
• 1:23:07
  listed as closed as of August 2020. So this is
• 1:23:10
  just the middle of 2020, with almost 100 ,000
• 1:23:15
  of them being permanent closures. But this is
• 1:23:17
  only halfway through the year that this article
• 1:23:20
  was posted. And this is for New York. So I figure
• 1:23:25
  if we extrapolate out 100 ,000, New York's a
• 1:23:30
  big state a hundred thousand accounting for New
• 1:23:33
  York being one of what the biggest states So
• 1:23:35
  we'll say it averaged across all the states most
• 1:23:38
  of which aren't as big We'll say we'll knock
• 1:23:40
  it down to even will be charitable and say fifty
• 1:23:42
  thousand an average across all the states fifty
• 1:23:45
  thousand times fifty two point five million Other
• 1:23:51
  things I've seen say one point one million These
• 1:23:54
  guys in the small business the what they call
• 1:23:57
  the National Governors Association in collaboration
• 1:24:01
  with Keybridge Public Policy Economics, said
• 1:24:04
  700 ,000, then said 2 .7 million when it was
• 1:24:10
  all said and done after through 2022. So the
• 1:24:13
  point is, I thought it was going to be a lot
• 1:24:15
  easier to actually get a hard number on this.
• 1:24:17
  It turns out nobody knows for sure. And it depends
• 1:24:20
  on what you measure, how you measure it, when
• 1:24:21
  you measure it. But it also seems awfully convenient
• 1:24:26
  that there is really no easy way to find this
• 1:24:30
  data. At least not with, I took an hour. I took
• 1:24:33
  an hour to look for it. I'm sure there's still
• 1:24:37
  other places I can go because I only did an hour,
• 1:24:39
  but I hit an hour of this and I actually, I did
• 1:24:42
  kind of go, this is, this is stupid. I should,
• 1:24:46
  should be able to find these numbers and the
• 1:24:48
  fact that I can't find them as easily and as
• 1:24:51
  like concrete as we should be able to tells me
• 1:24:53
  everything I need to know. So I thought, ah,
• 1:24:55
  this is a perfect Scott shots. It's a yeah, it
• 1:24:58
  is a good one I was way I basically way undershot
• 1:25:00
  it and it is one of those things that is sort
• 1:25:02
  of inherently It is to some extent unmeasurable
• 1:25:05
  because you don't nobody can know like what well,
• 1:25:08
  you know X thousand X million Closed down and
• 1:25:13
  then never to reopen. Well, maybe they were running
• 1:25:15
  in the red before that, you know And maybe this
• 1:25:17
  was just the they would have called it quits,
• 1:25:19
  you know two years down the line but instead
• 1:25:21
  just 2020 was the other line instead of 2022,
• 1:25:25
  which it would have been anyway, or whatever.
• 1:25:27
  Or someone like Matt Todd, who had a business
• 1:25:30
  as a sole proprietor doing SAT prep for, you
• 1:25:33
  know, high school kids. And then he stopped doing
• 1:25:37
  that because they were all scared of the air.
• 1:25:39
  And then he that never restarted and he left
• 1:25:41
  for Idaho. Does that get counted as a business
• 1:25:43
  that ceased operations? I don't really know.
• 1:25:46
  So it's not really a measurable thing to begin
• 1:25:49
  with for a million different reasons. Yeah. I
• 1:25:53
  would agree it's tough to measure and there's
• 1:25:54
  a lot of different ways you could, you could
• 1:25:57
  use the metrics to measure these stats. And I
• 1:26:00
  imagine you can get anywhere from a couple hundred
• 1:26:02
  thousand to several million, depending on how
• 1:26:05
  you do it. But what is, what is also hard to
• 1:26:10
  measure, but we know it exists is the economic
• 1:26:14
  damage from this and the spiritual and mental
• 1:26:20
  and emotional damage from this. to lose a business,
• 1:26:24
  especially through no fault of your own, it's
• 1:26:27
  cataclysmic. It's traumatic. So you have people
• 1:26:32
  who are just absolutely damaged by it, and you
• 1:26:36
  have the economic impact of it too. It's two
• 1:26:39
  -fold, it's three -fold, it's four -fold, and
• 1:26:40
  we'll never fully know the depth and the breadth
• 1:26:43
  of it, but we know it's a lot. It's a lot. It's
• 1:26:48
  that which is seen and that which is unseen.
• 1:26:51
  I think that is by Mises. I think that one's
• 1:26:54
  by Maisy, so it might be from Frederick Bastiat,
• 1:26:56
  one of the two, which covers, of course, it's
• 1:26:59
  easy to know what we see, the policies, you know,
• 1:27:02
  the immediate effects of policies that we see,
• 1:27:06
  but the harder part is to consider that which
• 1:27:08
  we do not see. The thing that doesn't get invented
• 1:27:13
  because A, B, and C are illegal, or the innovation
• 1:27:18
  that doesn't get created because the guy couldn't
• 1:27:22
  navigate the red tape to open up his business
• 1:27:25
  or because a business owner or an aspiring entrepreneur
• 1:27:29
  couldn't get the backing. His interest rates
• 1:27:31
  were too high because some group of people, a
• 1:27:35
  million miles above them decided to dictate monetary
• 1:27:39
  policy in a shitty way. It's pretty interesting
• 1:27:42
  to think about. I can remember having so many
• 1:27:46
  conversations as we operated a shell of our business
• 1:27:49
  in the middle and later part of 2020 where it's
• 1:27:53
  like, oh, it's to go only, and certain things
• 1:27:55
  are roped off, and just all of the general clownery
• 1:27:57
  that was going on as people became delusional,
• 1:28:00
  paranoid, hypochondriacs, and how people were
• 1:28:03
  going through their double face masks going like,
• 1:28:06
  oh, yeah, we're just on pause. We've pressed
• 1:28:11
  the pause button. And I just remember going like,
• 1:28:14
  man, everyone's just lost their ding -dang minds
• 1:28:16
  because they really truly, that was what is the
• 1:28:20
  through line through all of this is just mass
• 1:28:22
  delusion that people really convinced themselves
• 1:28:24
  and to some extent many still have, that there
• 1:28:26
  was just like, it was just a pause and then we
• 1:28:28
  hit play again. But you heard in that clip earlier
• 1:28:31
  about the craft beer week. Oh, it was just after
• 1:28:34
  was it throughout the week featured five year
• 1:28:36
  pause craft brew week drew big crowds to the
• 1:28:39
  businesses before covid but shut down for five
• 1:28:42
  years before five years. So and then now just
• 1:28:45
  a five year just a five year was just a five
• 1:28:47
  year pause. Like you said, the spiritual and
• 1:28:50
  mental damage is incalculable and it can it cannot
• 1:28:53
  be recovered from not in our lifetime. You know,
• 1:28:56
  they don't talk about is how how many Craft brews
• 1:29:01
  went out of business in between 2020 and 2025.
• 1:29:03
  Just in our area alone. There were 38 doing this
• 1:29:09
  festival this year. I'd wager there were double
• 1:29:11
  that pre -COVID. Well, if you would like to wager,
• 1:29:16
  why don't we do an Ask Paul? Here comes the question.
• 1:29:19
  Big or small? Make your guess before we call.
• 1:29:21
  The game begins. It's Ask. Brought to you by
• 1:29:25
  Pfizer. Now I cut this up a little bit to omit
• 1:29:28
  all of the the you know the parts of it that
• 1:29:32
  would give you the answer and I want it's this
• 1:29:34
  is the highest paid Idaho public employee and
• 1:29:38
  I want you to guess who he is the state's highest
• 1:29:42
  paid public employee will make 2 .1 million dollars
• 1:29:44
  this year his contract was extended this time
• 1:29:47
  last year through 2029 he gets a hundred thousand
• 1:29:50
  dollar raise each year the new extension will
• 1:29:52
  pay him two and a half million dollars in 2030
• 1:29:54
  that adds a year to his existing deal who are
• 1:29:57
  they talking about I bet it's the BSU football
• 1:30:03
  coach. Boise State says it has again extended
• 1:30:07
  the contract of head football coach Spencer Danielson.
• 1:30:09
  The state's highest paid public employee guided
• 1:30:12
  the team to three straight Mountain West Conference
• 1:30:14
  championships and now will lead the team into
• 1:30:16
  the rebuilt Pac -12. Danielson will make two
• 1:30:19
  point one million dollars this year. His contract
• 1:30:21
  was extended this time last year through twenty
• 1:30:23
  twenty nine. He gets one hundred thousand dollars
• 1:30:25
  raise each year. The new extension will pay him
• 1:30:28
  two and a half million dollars in twenty thirty.
• 1:30:30
  It's a regular person's salary raise. That's
• 1:30:33
  correct. Every single year because of football.
• 1:30:39
  It's football. That is a that is a regular person's
• 1:30:41
  annual salary. He gets it raised every year.
• 1:30:44
  That's it. That's just I'm in the wrong business.
• 1:30:47
  And it also continues turns out I should have
• 1:30:50
  studied hand egg a lot better And it also continues
• 1:30:54
  the financial penalties that are in place should
• 1:30:56
  he leave Boise State for another coaching job
• 1:30:59
  The deal announced by the sweetest hostage situation
• 1:31:03
  ever Yeah, you love your grandkids over the tax
• 1:31:07
  pay your raise the off the tax by the school
• 1:31:09
  Monday must be approved by the State Board of
• 1:31:11
  Education Which of course it will be You know,
• 1:31:14
  you don't want that to be toxic, working environment.
• 1:31:16
  Do you? No, no, because they don't have a board
• 1:31:19
  that invites chaos by not rubber stamping this
• 1:31:22
  stuff. You like sports, right? Sports ball is
• 1:31:25
  important, right? Sports ball brings in the likes
• 1:31:27
  and the clicks and the monies for this institution
• 1:31:30
  known as academia. Right. So you better, better
• 1:31:32
  be all about that. It's about the money. It's
• 1:31:34
  always, we need this money. That's actually why
• 1:31:36
  coaches. So funny. I should know that, huh? Scott,
• 1:31:40
  you want to know why I know that? You know a
• 1:31:42
  lot, but I constantly because well because it's
• 1:31:46
  counterintuitive right if you were most people
• 1:31:47
  don't know that the highest paid public employees
• 1:31:51
  in every state it's in every single state it's
• 1:31:54
  sports coaches and it's because Technically if
• 1:31:59
  you are employed by a state college, which yes,
• 1:32:02
  you is it's not a private college It's a state
• 1:32:04
  university that technically makes you as a government
• 1:32:06
  employee and coaches successful coaches make
• 1:32:10
  very good money, so I know this because I'm always,
• 1:32:13
  I always have an eye on public employee salaries
• 1:32:17
  and wages and consistently it's sports coaches
• 1:32:21
  that are at the top. Basketball coaches and football
• 1:32:23
  coaches. Well, attaboy, dude. You nailed it.
• 1:32:28
  Very, very impressive. And you're not even a
• 1:32:30
  sports sports ball. Yeah. All right. Couple more.
• 1:32:34
  Nobody move or the taxpayer gets it. Couple more
• 1:32:37
  for this week. We didn't mention this when it
• 1:32:40
  happened, because it's down in us, down in Nampa,
• 1:32:42
  when the mayor there, Hoga Boom, died suddenly,
• 1:32:48
  I believe in the middle of a meeting. Did you
• 1:32:51
  catch that when it happened? Oh, I missed this.
• 1:32:55
  I totally missed this. Rick Hoga Boom, the mayor
• 1:32:57
  of Nampa, he healed over in the middle, I believe,
• 1:33:01
  of a meeting. He had a heart attack and died
• 1:33:03
  suddenly. So then there's been chaos. as the
• 1:33:08
  board is trying to elect a new mayor. So listen
• 1:33:11
  to some of this audio. It's pretty wild stuff.
• 1:33:13
  On Monday, Nampa city council members didn't
• 1:33:15
  agree on much as they tried to fill the shoes
• 1:33:18
  of the late mayor Rick Hogeboom, who died unexpectedly
• 1:33:20
  last month. A proposal to interview potential
• 1:33:23
  candidates next week and another to appoint former
• 1:33:26
  city council member Darrell Brunner to the position
• 1:33:29
  both failed on tie votes. A third option to only
• 1:33:32
  interview Brunner and the city's current chief
• 1:33:35
  of staff, Clay Long, never even got a vote. Council
• 1:33:38
  President David Bills abruptly ended the meeting
• 1:33:41
  after Councilwoman Natalie Jangula said each
• 1:33:43
  member should be able to propose a candidate.
• 1:33:46
  I'm not OK going through a process and not allowing
• 1:33:49
  everyone equal opportunity. Oh, she's crying.
• 1:33:52
  She's weeping. Oh, yeah. Yeah, she's a council
• 1:33:55
  member and she's crying over this. Yeah. I mean,
• 1:33:58
  I don't I said it's funny. I don't mean it's
• 1:34:00
  funny. I mean, it's it's. I mean, for one, NPR
• 1:34:02
  says Lee Jang Gula said each member should be
• 1:34:05
  able to propose a candidate through her tears.
• 1:34:08
  I'm not OK going through a process and not allowing
• 1:34:12
  everyone equal opportunity. Good enough. Yeah,
• 1:34:15
  no, she can't. She's having a hard time. Equal
• 1:34:17
  opportunity. Good enough. I'll withdraw the I'll
• 1:34:19
  withdraw the motion. The meeting is adjourned.
• 1:34:22
  That was it. First off, you're wrong. It is funny
• 1:34:25
  in a haha kind of way. We should we should make
• 1:34:28
  fun of these people. Absolutely, we should. Secondly,
• 1:34:32
  unprofessional conduct. I'm thinking this is
• 1:34:34
  what we have to look forward to in our very near
• 1:34:37
  future, Scott, as boomers finally do die and
• 1:34:42
  millennials take over city councils. And I'm
• 1:34:47
  going to guess she's a millennial. She sounded
• 1:34:49
  young enough to be a millennial. And if she's
• 1:34:50
  crying at a city council meeting, she's got to
• 1:34:53
  be a millennial. I'm not okay! What's her name?
• 1:34:58
  Natalie Jangula. Let's look her up. You read
• 1:35:01
  my mind. Natalie... I don't know how to spell
• 1:35:05
  it. J -A -N -G -O -U -L -A. City Council, Nampa.
• 1:35:12
  Let's see how'd I do on the spelling. Oh, I almost
• 1:35:15
  nailed it. J -A -N -G -U -L -A. I added an extra
• 1:35:19
  O in there. Thank you. I went G -E -N -G -U -L
• 1:35:22
  -A. Not good. Jangula. I'm on the Nampa Idaho
• 1:35:27
  website, and she is young. She's not super young,
• 1:35:31
  but she's got to be our age. She's actually not
• 1:35:34
  bad looking. Oh, there's a link. We can email
• 1:35:36
  her here. How old are you? And how much do you
• 1:35:41
  weigh? Nothing else. What's your bra size? Are
• 1:35:45
  you a real brunette? Oh yeah, she's a decent
• 1:35:49
  looking little gal there. I'm sorry, that sounds
• 1:35:51
  so bad. Right? She's cutie. She's cutie, yeah.
• 1:35:53
  OK, yeah, no, she's got to be a millennial. She's
• 1:35:56
  absolutely a millennial. OK, well, there you
• 1:35:59
  go. The question is, is she an ugly crier? I
• 1:36:01
  mean, it's OK. I am. I mean, I don't know who
• 1:36:05
  there are dozens of us who cries in a in like
• 1:36:08
  a visually pleasant way. I don't know. I've seen
• 1:36:11
  maybe maybe it's just all the movies I watch.
• 1:36:13
  All of those people know how to cry in a way
• 1:36:16
  that's not off putting. It's irritating. I feel
• 1:36:18
  like the last good crier I saw was the Indian
• 1:36:21
  on the side of the road in the 80s commercials
• 1:36:24
  about littering, where they just zoomed in on
• 1:36:26
  his very proud face with the single tear rolling
• 1:36:29
  down his cheek. Now that was a proud crier. Going
• 1:36:35
  through a process of not allowing everyone equal
• 1:36:37
  opportunity. Good enough. I'll withdraw the motion.
• 1:36:41
  The meeting is adjourned. The group did agree
• 1:36:44
  they will not take applications for Nampa's next
• 1:36:46
  mayor. Here's Councilman Dale Reynolds. There's
• 1:36:49
  a lot of opportunists out there that would never
• 1:36:51
  run for an election and all of a sudden they
• 1:36:53
  want to be mayor and I don't understand that.
• 1:36:55
  It is unclear what steps the council will take
• 1:36:57
  next, though members say they want to fill the
• 1:36:59
  position soon. I like that. I like the naivete.
• 1:37:02
  Like, well, you know, the mayor died suddenly
• 1:37:04
  and there's these opportunists that have seen
• 1:37:07
  the power vacuum and are now vying to fill the
• 1:37:11
  spot and become the glorious burrito supreme
• 1:37:14
  leader of Nampa. And I just don't get it. I mean,
• 1:37:16
  since when are people political opportunists?
• 1:37:19
  We don't vote for opportunists. We appoint them,
• 1:37:22
  damn it. Okay, here is... This is near and dear
• 1:37:27
  to... Whoa, wait. Hold on. I have something for
• 1:37:30
  this. And you're gonna have to clip it in so
• 1:37:32
  that it's more smooth. Oh, yeah. Okay, perfect.
• 1:37:34
  I've been waiting for this for four months. Okay,
• 1:37:39
  so the mayor of Nampa dies. This is supposed
• 1:37:44
  to be a happy occasion. Let's not bicker and
• 1:37:48
  argue about who killed who. Finally he has the
• 1:37:53
  opportunity to work that one in I have been trying
• 1:37:56
  to work that one in for months This is as close
• 1:37:59
  as I may ever get Here that one was so perfect.
• 1:38:03
  It's good. It's good close to my heart as I am
• 1:38:09
  a nice hockey player and They're adding another
• 1:38:11
  sheet over at the Frontier Ice Arena in Coeur
• 1:38:14
  d 'Alene. If you or your kids like to skate or
• 1:38:17
  play hockey year round, it's not easy to find
• 1:38:19
  a rink that's open and available. But Frontier
• 1:38:21
  Ice Arena in Coeur d 'Alene is fundraising to
• 1:38:23
  build another rink to help meet the demand of
• 1:38:25
  kids playing sports. For many parents of hockey
• 1:38:28
  players and figure skaters, participating in
• 1:38:30
  those sports can mean driving to the rink early
• 1:38:32
  in the morning or late at night. There aren't
• 1:38:35
  many ice rinks that are open and available, and
• 1:38:37
  that makes it difficult for kids to even start
• 1:38:39
  skating. in the first place. Most Saturdays we
• 1:38:42
  have to go in the little party room over there
• 1:38:44
  and like, you know, skate there. Well, not skate,
• 1:38:48
  but, you know, off ice. That's why friends. Now
• 1:38:50
  they have on the as they, you know, they're interviewing
• 1:38:52
  these two, these girls, I don't know what they
• 1:38:54
  eight, nine, 10 years old, and they were showing
• 1:38:57
  them doing what she's describing, quote, skating
• 1:39:00
  over in the like break room. They're they're
• 1:39:02
  just like twirling around on the they're like
• 1:39:05
  Bob Norris sitting in the grounded helicopter
• 1:39:06
  making helicopter noises. That's why Frontier
• 1:39:09
  Ice Arena in Coeur d 'Alene is working on building
• 1:39:12
  a second rink and it's already fundraised nearly
• 1:39:14
  two million dollars to build it. There's only
• 1:39:16
  a couple teams that I know of from here but if
• 1:39:18
  we add another rink I'm sure there's gonna be
• 1:39:20
  one more added. There's certainly a lot more
• 1:39:22
  since the Academy popped up a lot more youth
• 1:39:25
  popping into the game. I've noticed a lot more
• 1:39:28
  adults playing beer league since last year. The
• 1:39:30
  people behind this fundraising effort say adding
• 1:39:33
  a second sheet of ice here at Frontier Ice Arena
• 1:39:35
  would allow the arena to be able to host tournaments
• 1:39:38
  and competitions and that wouldn't just benefit
• 1:39:40
  the people participating in those tournaments.
• 1:39:43
  It could benefit the entire Coeur d 'Alene community.
• 1:39:46
  With another sheet of ice we can have 16 teams
• 1:39:48
  come in so that provides a lot of hotel rooms,
• 1:39:54
  restaurants, the shops. Right now, players from
• 1:39:57
  the Coeur d 'Alene Hockey Academy play in a Canadian
• 1:40:00
  league, which requires a lot of travel since
• 1:40:02
  they can't host tournaments or showcases. Many
• 1:40:05
  figure skaters in the inland Northwest also have
• 1:40:08
  to travel to competitions that are out of state.
• 1:40:10
  We currently host four events a year and then
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  the club in Spokane hosts one competitive event
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  a year. So our skaters are driving to Missoula
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  and McClellan. The group behind the project says
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  it still needs to raise around three and a half
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  million dollars to complete the project. The
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  city of Spokane Valley is also working towards
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  building an ice arena with two rinks in the next
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  couple of years. and they're like Sandpoint built
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  in an ice sheet recently and they actually did
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  the ice first and it's like an outdoor rink and
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  then as as time goes on and as they're able to
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  continue fundraising my understanding is that
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  eventually the goal is to enclose it with cinder
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  block and then make it in you know an indoor
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  arena but they started with the ice the Frontier
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  build doesn't work in the opposite way where
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  they're large sections of the exterior walls,
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  which you can see from I -90. I mean, a lot of
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  people are like, where do you play? And it's
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  like, oh, you can literally see the huge billboard
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  and these new exterior walls going up from 90
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  in between Post Falls and Coeur d 'Alene. So
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  it sounds like they're not quite halfway to their
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  fundraising goal, but they're sort of constructing
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  as they fundraise, I suppose. But what's funny
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  is I've never heard anyone or or been a player
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  personally. that played at a time outside of
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  what they're talking about. It's always four
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  o 'clock in the morning when I was a little kid.
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  My my in one of the more saintly things my parents
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  ever did wake up in the middle of the freaking
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  night to take me to, you know, a four o 'clock,
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  four thirty in the morning, you know, a little
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  six year old, seven year old on ice skates. And
• 1:41:58
  then as an adult playing beer league, rec hockey,
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  it's always ten o 'clock on a Sunday and ten
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  thirty p .m. on a Wednesday. Sometimes the games
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  are, you know, eight, nine o 'clock, but they're
• 1:42:09
  always They're always after hours or way before
• 1:42:12
  hours. And then you hear these guys talking to
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  figure skaters and the, you know, the travel
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  leagues and stuff. Everyone. No, no one's getting
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  ice time. That's at a reasonable hour. What are
• 1:42:21
  they being used for in the middle of the day?
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  I guess all public skates. I was going to my
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  question. I was actually going to ask you, I
• 1:42:27
  was gonna say, Hey, Scott, why are all these
• 1:42:29
  people struggling to get ice time? Is it just
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  because there is that much demand and everybody
• 1:42:33
  wants a piece or who, you know, who's using the
• 1:42:36
  rink if it's not hockey players and Figure skaters
• 1:42:39
  because that's pretty much all I can think of
• 1:42:41
  is who would use the rink. I suppose it's public
• 1:42:44
  skates 75 80 people skating in circles, you know
• 1:42:48
  the public skate I guess or or there's some Elite
• 1:42:53
  level, you know figure skaters hockey players
• 1:42:55
  that are using the ice in the middle of the day
• 1:42:56
  and the rinks just closed and we don't know that
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  I don't I've I Cannot remember the last time
• 1:43:01
  I was at a rink in the middle of the day. I only
• 1:43:05
  ever go in these after hours because that's when
• 1:43:08
  all of our games are scheduled. And two sheets
• 1:43:10
  doesn't, I've played in rinks where there's two
• 1:43:13
  sheets. Doesn't change anything about the times.
• 1:43:15
  It's always crazy times that these games are.
• 1:43:18
  So I don't know, maybe I'm just gonna have to
• 1:43:20
  start dropping by Frontier in the middle of the
• 1:43:21
  day on a Wednesday and just kind of peeking in
• 1:43:23
  the windows and who's in there? I don't know.
• 1:43:26
  Yeah, I don't know. Maybe like Wayne Gretzky
• 1:43:28
  and his buddies are in there. I know he's got
• 1:43:30
  a place up here. You know what I think I liked
• 1:43:34
  most about that entire segment though? Not once
• 1:43:38
  did anybody mention soaking the taxpayer for
• 1:43:41
  these projects. The state. No kidding. Didn't
• 1:43:44
  appear. It might be, it could be just donations
• 1:43:48
  and corporate donations and people self -supporting
• 1:43:52
  the leagues. I don't know. That'd be pretty sweet.
• 1:43:55
  Pretty sweet. I'd be pretty proud of you guys
• 1:43:57
  for doing that. I do think that this is a lot.
• 1:44:00
  I think it is largely if not almost exclusively
• 1:44:03
  private. And to the extent that the state is
• 1:44:05
  involved, it might just be like a tax break here
• 1:44:08
  or there. But these these goings on seem to be
• 1:44:12
  largely privately executed on every level. I'm
• 1:44:16
  for them. Good job ice skating community. Community.
• 1:44:20
  That's refreshing. It is, isn't it? I'm afraid
• 1:44:22
  we have to whatever else you may have had lined
• 1:44:25
  up. Yeah, we're done anyway. Yep. Ice. It's cool.
• 1:44:29
  Oh, all right. Yeah, you like that? I do wait.
• 1:44:33
  You're welcome. Wow. Thank you everybody for
• 1:44:39
  checking out. Oh, this is episode 25. I failed
• 1:44:41
  to mention we're a quarter century today, dude.
• 1:44:44
  All right. Heck yeah. Episode 25 of your no ID
• 1:44:48
  show. That's the silver anniversary. I believe
• 1:44:50
  that's known. This is the silver episode and
• 1:44:53
  which I suppose that's a show title. All I have
• 1:44:55
  on my list right now is droppiest drop. Man,
• 1:45:03
  I'm sorry. Usually I give you better material.
• 1:45:04
  I don't know what happened today. I thought I
• 1:45:05
  was okay. I thought I was on point, but apparently
• 1:45:08
  not. I don't know. It was all over the map, just
• 1:45:12
  like the figures for how many businesses got
• 1:45:16
  whomped out of 2020. Oh, it was popping off before
• 1:45:21
  COVID. And then what happened is there was a
• 1:45:24
  five year break and now the four remaining breweries
• 1:45:28
  are like, hey, should we start doing that again?
• 1:45:30
  Can we come out from under or from from our bunkers?
• 1:45:33
  Is the air still dangerous? We're we're back.
• 1:45:37
  Oh, man. Ever seen that movie Galaxy Quest? Yeah,
• 1:45:40
  not in a long time, but that's Tim Allen, right?
• 1:45:43
  I love that. Yeah, Tim Allen. Go with the open
• 1:45:45
  up the shuttles. Hey, you don't open that. We're
• 1:45:50
  on an alien planet. Is there air? You don't know.
• 1:45:55
  You had a point. Buzz Lightyear's dome thing.
• 1:45:59
  And he's like, I'm choking. And he's like, Oh,
• 1:46:00
  wait a minute. Everything's fine. Oh, well, everything,
• 1:46:05
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• 1:46:23
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• 1:46:26
  Scott. And I'm Paul taxation is theft. Mind your
• 1:46:35
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