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10 - Strength and Progress · NO ID

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  No ID is meant for a sane audience. No ID may
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  contain Liberty -oriented content. Pinko discretion
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  is advised. Now, here's No ID with Paul Banducci
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  and Scott Moskowitz. Word. Welcome back to No
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  ID. A hyperlocal revolution. Because every region
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  has a mainstream apparatus. What propagandizes?
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  I .R. Scott. And I'm Paul hello internet, it's
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  good to Good to be with you guys this afternoon.
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  It's snowing. It's beautiful up here. Is it snowing
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  down there with you Scott? I'm up here for castle.
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  It's probably heavier up where you are It's it's
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  like kind of misting down here. The snow has
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  been awfully awfully light this year And this
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  is no exception. I mean, it's like 37 degrees.
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  It's not really sticking You know that global
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  warming it's it's here. Yep. That's the reason
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  that's the reason everything is bad global warming
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  So give us your money And we can fix the weather.
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  If the government had more money and power, the
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  weather would be fixed. I don't know why this
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  is so complicated. Yeah, just like they fixed
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  homelessness and inflation and everything else
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  that they actually caused. But yes, also, I'm
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  so I'm such a lead man. Global warming, it's
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  global free. I mean, wait a minute. No climate
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  change. Sorry. I knew there was a different phrase
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  that they the latest one. Yes, yes. Climate emergency.
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  Because in the 60s, the 70s, in the 80s, in the
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  90s, each each Oh, what do they call those not
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  projection or prediction? Each one was so it
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  was too specific and none of them came true.
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  So now it's just a broad term. We are recording
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  this show on January 6th. And so this is the
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  eighth that this show is dropping. But we're
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  here recording on Tuesday on the 6th, which,
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  of course, I feel like we need you know, we need
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  to do is a moment of silence, because we this
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  is a obviously the the anniversary of the Dark
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  Day for Democracy in 2021, the unprecedented,
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  extremist, violent, seditious, assault, insurrection,
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  riot, breach, attack, coup on the capital of
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  democracy. And so I really do want to do a moment
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  of silence for all of the victims. So if you'll
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  join me, Paul, and just let's be quiet for a
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  moment. OK, moving on. Let's get to the stories
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  of this week in the... Our fed boys loved that.
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  Somewhere out there, your fed boy and my fed
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  boy really just loved that. Let's do a couple
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  of follow -ups before we get into this week's
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  stories. Let's do a couple of follow -ups from
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  last week's, previous week's shows. You know,
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  we closed the New Year's Eve show with the Idaho
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  potato drop and all of the, if you recall, Idaho
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  is like the gen state. There was all those different
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  ball and object dropping stories. And so there
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  was actually, I don't know if you saw, For one
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  child last night's potato drop in Boise ended
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  up with a trip to the hospital shortly after
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  midnight during the New Year's a fireworks show
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  at the Idaho State Capitol. A child was struck
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  by broken glass. According to Boise police, the
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  glass came from windows that broke during the
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  20 minute pyrotechnic show. Shortly after midnight,
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  the child was taken to a hospital with non life
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  threatening injuries. Right now, there's still
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  no word on the child's current condition or how
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  many windows were damaged. This poor little girl.
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  She was just standing next to a window that just
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  happened to, I guess, blow out. It's not clear
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  to me exactly how it happened. But this poor
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  girl got a bunch of glass to the face. So she's
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  going to have a recovery here as her eye and
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  whatever heals up. She had some she had a surgery.
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  And so I pulled this because this was covered
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  on Idaho NPR. And I want you to hear their breathless.
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  editorializing with regard to the fireworks themselves
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  eyewitness accounts and a video of a horrific
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  new year's eve blast in downtown boise have filled
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  social media for five days now that while a child
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  recovers from injuries suffered from broken glass
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  shattered from a fireworks blast at the stroke
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  of midnight okay it goes on but i just want to
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  reflect on that for a moment it was horrific
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  like that's the same word i would use to describe
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  the las vegas shooting I mean, you know, I mean,
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  if we're using that kind of language, what's
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  left? Well, it's hyperbolic and it sells. Hyperbolic
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  language sells. That's the mainstream narrative
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  for you. Everything is a 10. I do feel bad. Poor
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  little girl. Watch the potato drop and you get
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  glass in the face. That is not what you have
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  on your 2026 bingo card. Extremely unlucky. On
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  the other hand, I'm impressed with the fireworks
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  show. that is so powerful, it blows out commercial
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  glass pane windows on Main Street. Can you imagine
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  that? That's some pretty impressive sound compression.
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  Just kaboom! In the words of NPR, it was a horrific
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  blast at the stroke of midnight. Shattered from
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  a fireworks blast at the stroke of midnight.
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  The Idaho potato drop which includes pyrotechnics
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  has been going on since 2013 but this is not
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  the first time that now it will never happen
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  again. Right that's what this whole thing is
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  driving at. Here we go. The first time that potato
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  drop organizers have come under scrutiny. This
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  was in 2022. I think we collectively feel like
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  we have said hey please don't do this again a
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  lot of times. This is Boise Director of Community
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  Engagement, Maria Wigg. In previous years, city
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  officials had chastised organizers for not following
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  proper COVID precautions. COVID precautions.
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  COVID precautions. So in other words, they didn't
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  have all of the citizens in the street masked
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  up. If they had worn their masks, Scott, do you
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  think it would have protected them against flying
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  glass? Maybe in the mouth area. I mean, I've
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  heard that the Blue surgical cloth is made of
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  Kevlar, isn't it? Not having proper ADA accommodations
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  and issues regarding fireworks Okay, so they're
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  upset about not masking up not being wheelchair
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  accessible Now that here's the problem though.
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  Now they have a legit thing They're gonna campaign
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  on and I guarantee you if they do it again next
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  year. It will be severely neutered because now
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  A child has been harmed. This was in 2022. Fireworks.
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  The zone fencing was not set up as presented
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  or recommended. I think the state fire marshal
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  is going to have a lot to say about that moving
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  forward. I mean, there's a lot of really precious
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  stuff right around that capital mall area. And
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  we think all would want to make sure that we're
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  protecting that as well as the human beings that
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  are participating in the event as much as humanly
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  possible. Back in two thousand twenty two organizers
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  said they had taken the high road. I mean, that's
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  perfect. It's that's so well crafted. We just
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  care about safety. That's why we don't want this
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  anymore. Yes. The human beings were just we're
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  just looking out for Human beings that we care
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  so very much about of course mask up so we can't
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  tell one of you from the other But definitely
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  we just care so much about the human being event
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  as much as human We don't care about you individually.
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  We just care about you as a voting globe collective
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  Yes, didn't she say it earlier in the clip to
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  she was a collective collective as a collective
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  the warmth of collectivism In 2022 organizers
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  said they had addressed the outstanding issues
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  laid out by the city special events committee
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  as For this year Boise fire and police continue
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  their investigation Meanwhile the family of the
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  child injured in the blast said she had to undergo
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  nearly three hours of surgery And they have set
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  up a go fund me account to assist with specialized
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  support and therapy Well, we wish her a speedy
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  recovery that really does suck Yeah, yeah that
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  that is a bummer for them and for her and her
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  family. And it's a bummer for the potato drop
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  because it's coming to an end or it's changing
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  vastly next year because this is a lawsuit. So
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  what do you think the odds are that somebody
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  gets sued here? I think it's well over 100 percent.
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  What a time to be alive. OK, let's we have one
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  more follow up. This week, Shoshone County plans
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  to keep the sheriff's and driver's license offices
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  closed this week. Right now, they are doing repairs
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  and planning on opening up. I feel good about
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  that January 12th. At this time, police are still
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  not sure what the motive was for the shooting.
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  We do know the three people who were hurt in
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  the shooting are all recovering well. There you
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  go. So the only person who actually sustained
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  the real injuries was the shooter. I am happy
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  to hear that. And the closing of the sheriff's
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  office. Yeah, I don't mind that either. You know
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  who might never you know who might never heal
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  up is all of the people in the panhandle who
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  are apparently suffering with a world ending
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  cause of the sniffles. The US is now in the midst
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  of a particularly bad flu season and flu cases
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  are especially bad in North Idaho. The panhandle
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  Health District says flu cases are up 81 % from
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  up so that they use the percentage so you know
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  what that means. Yeah, they did. Six people with
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  the flu, and there were only four at this time
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  last year. So it's a 9 ,000 million percent increase.
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  The Panhandle Health District says flu case.
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  And the Panhandle Health District, is that the
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  same district that tried to force small businesses
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  to close, but not big box stores and tried to
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  force mask everybody indefinitely? That same
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  Panhandle Health District? Yeah, it's also the
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  district that is responsible for getting involved
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  in businesses where they don't belong. And they're
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  actually the district responsible or the organization
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  responsible for shutting down a business locally
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  here. that my daughter was working for because
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  they didn't like the plumbing. So they shut a
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  business down and put, uh, let's see one owner
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  out of business and six people out of work. Well,
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  who cares? Because they can't afford to pay $25
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  an hour for minimum wage anyway. So close them
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  up, close them up. Yep. The panhandle health
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  district says flu cases are up 81 % from previous
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  years. This is a look at the CDC's map of the
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  flu season across the country. You can see Idaho
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  is at a very high level of flu activity. Health
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  experts say it is still not too late to get a
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  flu shot. Many pharmacies and grocery stores
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  across the Inland Northwest do free or low -cost
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  flu shots, so places like Safeway, Walgreens,
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  and CVS. Oh, you mean the places that didn't
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  close during the, quote, lockdown? Got it. Let
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  me write that down. Places that didn't close.
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  This actually puts me on a rabbit trail real
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  fast, where when people rail against corporations
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  and they act as if corporations and the government
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  are different entities, they're different things,
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  and a lot of them on the right and the left,
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  but particularly the left, always opine that
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  if only the government was bigger, or if only
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  there were more regulations, and they're so upset
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  because corporations control the government,
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  but the way to fix this is to give the government
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  more power. And then you look at governments
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  and you look at corporations and corporations
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  and governments act, behave and run the same
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  way. They're structured the same way. The only
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  difference is that the government, also known
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  as the apparatus of the state, simply claims
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  a monopoly on force. So like Pepsi and Coca -Cola
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  can't put a gun to my head and force me to buy
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  their products, but they can lobby for the government
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  to put a gun to my head and force me to buy their
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  products. And they operate the same way. So corporate
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  wants you to identify the differences in the
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  that can, that can, I could play a 10 minute
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  clip. of all that stuff. And so this ties in.
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  It hurts. It's it's amazing. The only part that
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  the part that's really amazing is that just like
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  people just don't connect the dots on this stuff.
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  But OK, this ties into a which is mind blowing.
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  The dots aren't even that far apart. That's what
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  I keep trying to say. They're right next to each
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  other. So this ties into a Coeur d 'Alene Press
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  editorial that you sent me, which was yes. Was
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  it an editorial or was it like a statement from
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  the editorial board? with regard to trustworthiness.
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  Well, it was in the editorial section, so I would
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  consider it an editorial. The press wrote it
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  about themselves. I guess I didn't realize there
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  was a difference between the two. I sort of just
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  lumped them together. Whatever the press says
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  as the press is an editorial in my book. But
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  does it really matter if it's an editorial versus
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  just a PSA? No, I guess it doesn't. It's a distinction
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  without a difference. I mean, the important thing
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  is that we believe what they say, whether it's
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  an editorial or a press release. Right. Now,
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  do you have that? Do you have that article up?
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  Or should I pull it up? I do. No, I have it up.
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  What's that? What's the head? Yeah. The press
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  will keep earning your trust. And effectively,
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  the press here is patting themselves on the back
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  for being so awesome and assuring us that we
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  can trust them is trust us. We're the press.
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  You can trust us. I'll read a little bit of it
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  says. The press would like to say a few words
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  to its readers and advertisers. Thank you for
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  your support We wouldn't be here without you.
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  So they start off, you know, all nice and fluffy
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  The next paragraph is the media is often accused
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  of focusing on the negative zeroing in on the
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  sensational If it bleeds it leads is the old
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  adage not so here at the press. We take pride
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  in reporting the news Some say we have too much
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  fluff too much. Happy news. We say we would like
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  to have more of it. Oh press You're so fluffy
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  and huggable. Yes, we report on the hard news
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  because that is our gerb. We have had more than
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  our fair share of heartbreaking events to write
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  about, but we tried to do so with grace. They
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  talk about what they cover, which is city council
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  meetings, planning commission, school boards.
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  Yes, they do. They do cover all those things,
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  but the way they cover all those things is, oh,
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  so tell him. Oh, all right. Here was my favorite
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  statement of all of it. While many Local media
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  companies face significant challenges. The press
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  stands as a beacon of strength and progress.
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  Our unwavering dedication to our readers and
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  community empowers us not only to overcome obstacles,
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  whatever obstacles I guess that means, I don't
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  know, obstacles, but also to set new standards
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  of excellence. We are proud to be at the forefront,
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  proving that local content delivered to your
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  doorstep and available online remains vital and
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  cherished. Yeah, so a beacon of strength and
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  progress. That is communist leftward leaning
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  propaganda speak 101. Beacon of strength and
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  progress. Your version of progress is definitely
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  different than my version of progress. Is this
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  going to be like the... the public art thing
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  where they're like, oh, we didn't notice the
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  hammer and sickle. We didn't. That wasn't intentional.
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  Strength and progress, comrade. What comes to
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  your mind's eye when you it's like all I see
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  is the sort of red poster with the with the citizen
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  gazing skyward, you know, in the rising sun in
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  the background. I mean, isn't that the imagery
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  that sort of language conjures or is that just
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  us? Oh, one hundred percent. It's like I said,
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  it's communist. It's communist speak one on one.
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  This is what should be playing when you read.
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  A beacon of strength and progress. We are proud
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  to be at the forefront. We embrace the exciting
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  opportunities. We are confident that our passion
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  and commitment will inspire and uplift our community.
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  I was just auditorily embraced by the warmth
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  of collectivism. And I, out here in the Clark
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  Fork Castle, am freezing my butt off with the
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  frigidity of rugged individualism. But I have
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  warm tea, so we're doing good. It's not all over
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  your keyboard? No, that was my smoothie. Right
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  before we clicked the live button, Paul decided
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  to do a flying elbow drop onto his banana strawberry
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  smoothie and it just went all over the laptop
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  and presumably the walls and the floor and everything
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  else. Yeah, I lost my mind for a minute and I
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  envisioned my smoothie as the press and I...
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  Just jumped off of the wrestling square ropes
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  and right onto it You know, it's too bad if a
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  little bit of the splatter had gone on to a canvas
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  We could have got Clefira Rosales to sell it
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  to the nodler gallery for four million dollars
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  Dude, I will Andrew Pollock, the shit out of
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  my laptop if I can sell it for a million dollars.
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  Is that Jackson's retarded younger brother or
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  Jackson? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jackson. Whatever.
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  I'm not the art guy. You're the weirdo. You're
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  the art guy. You're from California. Whatever.
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  Don't you don't you talk to me about art? Tommy.
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  So I know what real art is. Here's a national
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  version of exactly what it seems like the press
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  from it's like across the board, the entire mainstream
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  media apparatus got the got a memo from central
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  to do this credibility check, because that's
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  some part of you know, the reptiles know that
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  they have lost a lot of credibility. And so they're
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  having their sort of interference stuff where
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  they're like, we're actually fantastic and trustworthy,
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  you can totally trust us and stuff. Here is this
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  a little long stick with it, because it's just
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  amazing. Here is Tony de Coppola, who is the
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  I guess new Anchor of the CBS Evening News, here
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  is his monologue from the first broadcast that
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  he's doing there in the anchor chair from a few
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  days ago. A lot has changed since the first person
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  sat in this chair. But for me, the biggest difference
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  is people do not trust us like they used to.
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  And it's not just us. It's all of legacy media.
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  And I get it. I get it because I've been hearing
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  about it from just about everybody for more than
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  20 years as I've traveled America on this assignment
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  or that. So he's saying that his entire time
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  in the mainstream media apparatus, people have
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  been talking his ear off everywhere he goes about
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  how nobody believes anything they say the entire
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  time. So now on year 21. We have sort of a problem
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  here. On year 21. He's he's now doing he's now
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  he's now reassuring us. My mom's neighbors in
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  West Virginia, my own neighbors in New York City,
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  thousands and thousands of conversations in between.
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  Sometimes people want to talk to me about our
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  coverage of NAFTA or the Iraq War. Other times,
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  it's all about Hillary Clinton's emails or Russiagate,
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  or more recently. Did you hear the way he said
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  that? So other times it's about Hillary Clinton's
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  emails, like. That's crazy talk. Like the people
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  who bring that up are crazy. Did you get that?
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  Did you hear that in his voice? Once in a while,
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  they come out from behind their tin foil to ask
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  me about Hillary Clinton's emails. Sometimes
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  people want to talk to me about our coverage
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  of NAFTA or the Iraq War. Other times, it's all
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  about Hillary Clinton's emails or Russiagate.
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  You get that? That's all you need to know about
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  that guy to know the kind of news you're going
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  to get from that guy. Sometimes people want to
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  talk to me about reasonable subjects like NAFTA.
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  and the Iraq war, which I support. Other people
• 20:18
  want to talk about these things that I don't
• 20:20
  agree with and that don't exist. Look away. Or
• 20:25
  more recently, COVID lockdowns, Hunter Biden's
• 20:28
  laptop, or the president's fitness for office.
• 20:31
  The point is, on too many stories, the press
• 20:34
  has missed the story. Because we've taken into
• 20:38
  account the perspective of advocates and not
• 20:41
  the average American. or we put too much weight
• 20:44
  in the analysis of academics or elites and not
• 20:47
  enough on you. And I know this because at certain
• 20:51
  points, I have been you. I have felt this way
• 20:55
  too. At certain points, I have been you. Once
• 20:58
  in a while, dear reader, dear listener, I have
• 21:01
  deigned to get down into the mud and be you for
• 21:07
  a day. And I gotta say, it's awful. You're all
• 21:10
  terrible. There was one time when I was flying
• 21:14
  in between New York and Miami Where I did a layover
• 21:17
  in busted whistle, South Carolina and for that
• 21:20
  45 minutes I was you I felt like what I was seeing
• 21:23
  and hearing on the news didn't reflect what I
• 21:26
  was seeing and hearing in my own life and That
• 21:29
  the most urgent questions simply weren't being
• 21:32
  asked So here's my promise to you today and every
• 21:36
  time you see me in this chair edge of my seat
• 21:38
  you come first Uh -huh. How are you spelling
• 21:41
  that, buddy? You come first. Not advertisers,
• 21:45
  not politicians, not corporate interests. Yeah.
• 21:50
  Not advertisers. Uh -huh. Wait, please, please,
• 21:55
  please tell me you have a clip of the end of
• 21:57
  this being, like, sponsored by Pfizer. Today's
• 22:01
  countdown to the royal wedding is brought to
• 22:03
  you by Pfizer. That would be amazing. Who are
• 22:06
  they kidding? That would be just the best. Me
• 22:09
  in this chair. You come first. Not advertisers,
• 22:14
  not politicians, not corporate interests. So
• 22:17
  in other words, for the past 20 years of this
• 22:21
  guy's tenure in the mainstream media, and then
• 22:23
  obviously way before that as well, who has come
• 22:27
  first are? Not advertisers, not politicians,
• 22:31
  not corporate interests. Corporate interests.
• 22:34
  How is there any other way to interpret what
• 22:37
  he's saying? That's been the case, but it won't
• 22:39
  be any longer. Well, no, this is good. Hold on.
• 22:42
  I'm stopping you real fast. I apologize I'm gonna
• 22:44
  cross -reference the presses the Coeur d 'Alene
• 22:46
  presses statement where they talk about Who owns
• 22:51
  them it right? So right after that paragraph
• 22:53
  I read with the Commie music going which was
• 22:56
  just so fantastic Their next paragraph is it
• 22:58
  starts with ownership We're not part of a corporate
• 23:01
  chain The Hagadon family has long owned the press
• 23:04
  and it remains in their ownership to this day
• 23:07
  their deep belief in local journalism read having
• 23:10
  their own mouthpiece and the local business community,
• 23:13
  meaning read only their business and the people
• 23:15
  they like is unmatched. So that's who owns the
• 23:19
  press here is the biggest, most profitable tourism
• 23:23
  entity in the entire, like three county, five
• 23:26
  county area. And it sure is nice to have your
• 23:29
  own mouthpiece. It's amazing. That works. Oh,
• 23:31
  they also mentioned where to go. Readership is
• 23:34
  rising. I'm sure that's because of you and me
• 23:36
  and people like us who are reading them just
• 23:38
  for the lulls. Advertising is strong. Editorial
• 23:41
  coverage is second to none. And yes, that does
• 23:46
  include the corporate owners of CBS. I report
• 23:50
  for you. Oh, the corporate owners at Hagadon.
• 23:52
  We care about you. We don't know anything about
• 23:54
  you. And we're better than you and have more
• 23:56
  money than you could possibly have in 100 lifetimes.
• 23:58
  And we own everything. But it starts with you,
• 24:03
  dear reader. Make sure you mask up, double mask
• 24:07
  up. That we cannot tell. We don't want to be
• 24:11
  able to tell one of you from the other, even
• 24:13
  though obviously we really care about you. But
• 24:14
  just make sure that there's no distinguishing
• 24:16
  characteristics about you. There's just a little
• 24:20
  bit more of this, but it's too good not to play.
• 24:22
  I report for you. It is. Which means I tell you
• 24:25
  what I know, when I know it, and how I know it.
• 24:29
  And when I get it wrong, I'll tell you that too.
• 24:32
  It also means I'm going to talk to everybody
• 24:35
  and hold everyone in public life to the very
• 24:38
  same standard. After all, I became a journalist
• 24:41
  to talk to people. I love talking to people about
• 24:44
  what works in this country, what doesn't, and
• 24:47
  not only what should change, but the good ideas
• 24:50
  that should never change. I think telling the
• 24:53
  truth is one of them. I'm Tony DeCople, the anchor
• 24:58
  of the CBS Evening News. Hold me to it. That's
• 25:08
  the scene from, uh, from office space. What would
• 25:12
  you say you do here? He goes, I, I'm good with
• 25:17
  the people. I took this job to talk to people
• 25:20
  because I love talking to people. Look, cool.
• 25:22
  Companies are not good at dealing with the customer.
• 25:25
  That's my job. It's so, and what's again, amazing
• 25:29
  is that I guess there's a significant contingent
• 25:32
  of people slash boomers who are still watching
• 25:36
  that talking head and just nodding along. Oh,
• 25:39
  Tony DeCople, boy, he really cares. Oh, it definitely
• 25:43
  is a generation. There is a massive distinction
• 25:47
  in the generations when it comes to media consumption.
• 25:51
  And that's no secret. You and I, we've known
• 25:53
  that for years. People who have tracked that
• 25:55
  have known that for years. And the gap has been
• 25:56
  widening. Every year it widens further. The boomer
• 25:59
  generation, basically the silent generation and
• 26:02
  then boomers underneath them both consume what
• 26:06
  would be considered mainstream media or conventional
• 26:09
  media at a much, much, much higher rate than,
• 26:12
  than gen X or millennials. The drop -off really
• 26:15
  happens with millennials. Now I don't have the
• 26:17
  percentages, but it's, it's very, very significant.
• 26:21
  And X is kind of stuck in the middle, which makes
• 26:23
  sense because they're the generation that has
• 26:25
  been able to experience for better or for worse,
• 26:28
  the entire Start to finish and maybe not finish
• 26:31
  but the beginning of going from analog to digital
• 26:34
  So they're kind of in the middle whereas Millennials
• 26:36
  we just caught the tail end of analog and then
• 26:38
  the full brunt of digital So we consume our media
• 26:42
  mainly through alternate channels YouTube of
• 26:44
  course being the big one, but a lot of different
• 26:46
  ways Social media is and I'm that guy too social
• 26:50
  media is how I get the vast majority of my news
• 26:53
  and It's more reliable than anything you hear
• 26:56
  from Fox or CNN or anything like that even with
• 26:59
  the press. So it's fascinating listening to the
• 27:02
  press say that their readership is up. Well,
• 27:04
  if you read the press, you read it for basically
• 27:08
  one of three reasons. Number one is you're like
• 27:11
  Scott and I, and I read the press basically to
• 27:15
  drum up the mainstream narrative on, on how they
• 27:18
  report things going on in our community. Cause
• 27:20
  I know what's going on, not a hundred percent,
• 27:23
  but well enough. So it's interesting to see,
• 27:25
  interesting to see how the press reports it.
• 27:27
  The Second set of readers is mainly older folks,
• 27:32
  boomers and silent generation who've just always
• 27:34
  consumed media that way. And the third set are
• 27:37
  the in -betweeners who agree with the press and
• 27:40
  are part of the downtown cartel as it stands.
• 27:42
  Anyways, the NIR folks and the people who stand
• 27:46
  to gain from maintaining their grip on power
• 27:49
  in the panhandle. The reptiles. They all stick
• 27:52
  together. The reptiles, yes. Anyways, that was
• 27:54
  a bit of a rabbit trail, but... That's okay.
• 27:57
  As I'm sure you've gathered by now, this is episode
• 27:59
  number 10, by the way. Double digits, baby. The
• 28:02
  whole point of the show. It's all rabbit trails.
• 28:04
  It's nothing but rabbit trails. I suppose that's
• 28:07
  true. Here is another quick follow -up. I don't
• 28:11
  know if it's really a follow -up, but it was
• 28:12
  the, you know, all the rage, and to some extent
• 28:15
  it still is, going on the Nick Shirley video,
• 28:17
  the Ulto viral explosion, and how it is, I guess,
• 28:23
  some in Idaho are feeling compelled to respond
• 28:26
  to it and apply it locally. Two Idaho lawmakers
• 28:30
  are asking the State Department of Health and
• 28:32
  Welfare now to temporarily stop payments from
• 28:34
  a $14 million child care appropriation. Senator
• 28:38
  Brian Lenny and Representative Josh Tanner say
• 28:41
  the recent federal action in Minnesota have revealed
• 28:43
  vulnerabilities in child care subsidy programs
• 28:46
  in Idaho. IDHW says they want staff to review
• 28:49
  these subsidies. So it's just now occurring to
• 28:52
  them that there's vulnerabilities in these programs.
• 28:56
  Welcome to the party, pal. Hey, you know, better
• 28:59
  late than never. And I'm sure there is some,
• 29:01
  even in Idaho. If they look, they'll find some
• 29:04
  things. So they're going to meet some pretty
• 29:06
  stiff resistance. There's too many hands in the
• 29:09
  cookie jar. That's where everywhere you dig for
• 29:11
  this kind of stuff, a la Doge. And that's why
• 29:15
  Doge lasted all of like really truly lasted all
• 29:18
  of about four months and then officially called
• 29:20
  it quits, I think, in August. Everybody has their
• 29:23
  hand in the cookie jar. So it's really really
• 29:25
  hard to clean up fraud clean up corruption When
• 29:29
  everybody gets a piece or at least enough people
• 29:31
  get a piece you run into too much too much resistance
• 29:34
  and it's enshrined in the legal system as well
• 29:37
  the judges and the lawyers are all happy to Let
• 29:41
  things be the way they are too. So we'll see
• 29:42
  we'll see how it plays out in Idaho, but I'm
• 29:44
  good for them for trying Let's do one. Oh, what'd
• 29:47
  you say earlier before we started this recording
• 29:49
  you said? How interesting the phrase, it's the
• 29:52
  thought that counts is. Yes. Well, here you are,
• 29:56
  Scott. It's the thought that counts. Yes. Right
• 29:59
  before we clicked live, we were talking about
• 30:02
  that particular phrase and how it's one of the
• 30:05
  dumber aphorisms as people just sort of say it.
• 30:09
  But when is it ever true? You know, like, oh,
• 30:12
  I thought about getting you a gift, but I didn't.
• 30:15
  Oh, it's the thought that counts. No, it's actually.
• 30:18
  you just didn't do anything. And I was even saying,
• 30:20
  arguably it's worse than you just not remembering
• 30:23
  at all, because if you had the thought and then
• 30:25
  you didn't actually execute any behavior, you're,
• 30:28
  I mean, so you just didn't do it even though
• 30:31
  you did think about it. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's
• 30:37
  a phrase worth spending some time on. Here is
• 30:41
  a one more before we take a mid show breather
• 30:44
  to describe our model on this program. And it's
• 30:48
  going to help us pay for our rising utility costs,
• 30:50
  hopefully. Idaho utility rates for electric and
• 30:53
  gas are going up. Troy Oppie reports on the rate
• 30:57
  hikes which have taken effect with the new year.
• 31:00
  In December's final days, the Idaho Public Utilities
• 31:02
  Commission approved rate increases. Gas rates
• 31:05
  will rise about 6%, about $2 .50 a month more
• 31:08
  for the average residential customer. Power rates
• 31:11
  will rise more than 7%, about $12 a month more
• 31:14
  for average users. But that's just over half
• 31:17
  of what the utility wanted, citing rising operational
• 31:20
  and infrastructure costs. The Commission and
• 31:22
  news releases announcing the changes say it balanced
• 31:25
  the needs for utilities to cover costs and burden
• 31:28
  some increases for customers. It's funny that
• 31:31
  you bring this up, Scott, because I just got
• 31:35
  my Avista bill today. Oh, yeah. And in it is
• 31:39
  the rate increase stuff and also Idaho property
• 31:43
  tax replacement information on House Bill 329
• 31:47
  and franchise fees. and a number of different
• 31:51
  things. It's quite the packet, quite the packet.
• 31:53
  Out here, I don't know how it is out there in
• 31:55
  Post Falls, because each district is a little
• 31:57
  different. We're Avista. You guys are probably
• 31:59
  Avista as well. Most of the area is Avista. And
• 32:02
  as far as utility companies go, Avista actually
• 32:07
  is one of the better ones. I know it's hard to
• 32:11
  believe and I'm not shilling for Avista. This
• 32:14
  podcast is not sponsored by Avista. A Vista!
• 32:20
  Pay your power bill. Or else! Do you have a family
• 32:22
  that doesn't have freezing to death? Call a Vista.
• 32:28
  Dude, that's where I love having the wood stove.
• 32:30
  They cannot freeze me out. We do not have central
• 32:34
  air of any kind. No heat, no AC, no nothing.
• 32:36
  It's wood stove heated. So as long as I have
• 32:39
  wood to burn, they cannot freeze me out. I'm
• 32:42
  very grateful for that. But what galls me about
• 32:44
  my A Vista bill... The base charge and that's
• 32:47
  before you consume anything is $20 and it makes
• 32:52
  up a solid 30 % of my Avista bill. Our Avista
• 32:56
  bill is not big because we only use electricity.
• 32:58
  Everything else is propane or wood stove or everything,
• 33:01
  you know, whatever else. Now we don't save money
• 33:03
  in the end between the wood I got to buy and
• 33:05
  then the split stack and between the propane
• 33:08
  tank that's 500 gallons that I got to fill at
• 33:10
  least once a year and et cetera, et cetera. My
• 33:12
  utility bills on average are about this, about
• 33:14
  about average for everybody we're about in between
• 33:17
  250 and 300 a month when you average it out i
• 33:20
  just am not as dependent on the grid which is
• 33:22
  super super nice so my evista bill is only the
• 33:25
  electricity that we use which is only lights
• 33:28
  and what it takes to power like the tv my laptop
• 33:32
  the dishwasher etc you know things that just
• 33:34
  require some electricity anyways this month 68
• 33:37
  dollars and 49 cents and so i'm sharing my evista
• 33:40
  bill with everybody i guess maybe that's weird
• 33:42
  Twenty dollars of that sixty eight forty nine
• 33:45
  is the basic charge just to be an account not
• 33:48
  for consuming anything Just to exist as an account
• 33:52
  To put it in a podcast audio context the noise
• 33:56
  floor on the Avista bills is very high Yes, it
• 34:00
  is just and this calls me it's on principle It
• 34:02
  calls me because it's like I if I consume it
• 34:05
  charge me for it Charging me just to exist. What
• 34:08
  are you the government? And this is another it's
• 34:15
  all relative thing, too, because for all of the
• 34:18
  political refugee set who came from places like,
• 34:21
  you know, where Pacific Gas and Electric is providing
• 34:24
  the utilities, Avista seems like a bargain. Yeah,
• 34:27
  and it is it is a better company than most utility
• 34:31
  companies go anywhere in the country or just
• 34:34
  step outside this region. Hell, even in this
• 34:36
  region, I know a lot of folks who have a Kootenai
• 34:38
  Electric co -op are not really fond of that.
• 34:42
  company at all. Now, I don't have experience
• 34:45
  with them personally, but I've heard stories,
• 34:47
  you know, so you step outside the region. Yeah.
• 34:51
  Talk to anybody in California, for example, Avista
• 34:53
  is not as bad. I will give them this. They are
• 34:56
  responsive and they fix shit fast. They do like
• 34:59
  we live in an area out here where the we lose
• 35:02
  power probably a dozen times a year or more.
• 35:06
  Just, you know, windstorms and snow or somebody
• 35:08
  plows through a power line or in december we
• 35:11
  lost power a couple times because the floods
• 35:12
  knocked stuff out so on and so forth and uh vista
• 35:16
  man they're on it they all are always on it i
• 35:18
  think we we don't we never go more than more
• 35:21
  than a day or two without power and even then
• 35:22
  it's oftentimes not even close to that so again
• 35:25
  not sponsored by a vista not yet um okay i do
• 35:30
  want to take uh our mid show breather here Speaking
• 35:34
  of not being sponsored by Avista, what's our
• 35:37
  model, Scott? Well, since we need help paying
• 35:41
  for utilities, let's be honest about it. This
• 35:44
  show runs on the value for value model. That
• 35:47
  means that if you find our program valuable,
• 35:50
  if you're enjoying what you're hearing, we ask
• 35:52
  that you contribute back to the show with value
• 35:54
  of your own, because we do not and will never
• 35:57
  have sponsors. Even, well, I don't know, if Pfizer
• 36:00
  or Avista wants to cut us a big enough check,
• 36:02
  we're listening. In the meantime, the show is
• 36:05
  a value for value. Never want to pay another
• 36:06
  Vista bill again. Well, it's going to be 20 bucks,
• 36:09
  but then there's nothing after that. Sold. So
• 36:15
  that means that, yeah, that means contributing
• 36:17
  back with value. Your time, your talent or your
• 36:19
  treasure are all equally and much appreciated.
• 36:23
  And time and talent could be telling people about
• 36:26
  the show, spreading the word. That is a huge
• 36:28
  time value add. And if you like what you hear,
• 36:31
  that is the best way. to help grow the show is
• 36:34
  to just tell people and send your mom away. Yeah.
• 36:38
  Tell your grandma, tell your mom, tell your friends.
• 36:40
  Maybe especially grandma and mom, because they're
• 36:42
  still like reading and taking seriously Tony
• 36:44
  DeCople and the Coeur d 'Alene press. Yes. Let
• 36:46
  us help them. It'll be like group therapy. We
• 36:49
  will guide them ever so gently toward the light.
• 36:52
  You speak for yourself. And boots on the ground
• 36:57
  reports, which I do have one to share in the
• 36:58
  second half of show that means that if you have
• 37:00
  inside knowledge on Anything that we either have
• 37:03
  discussed or you assume we will discuss or you
• 37:06
  think is worthy of discussing Please send us
• 37:08
  an email and let us know what you've got to contribute
• 37:10
  and You can do all that by the way at no ID show
• 37:14
  calm the contact widget there at the bottom of
• 37:16
  the webpage is how to Send us messages of any
• 37:18
  sort There are also links by which you can contribute
• 37:22
  financially to the show. That would be the treasure
• 37:24
  portion. And that is all extremely appreciated.
• 37:26
  And we do have I have a actual paper note and
• 37:30
  physical check that was sent by mail. Cool. Speaking
• 37:35
  of boomers, this is from he didn't actually say
• 37:38
  if he wanted to be anonymous or not. So I'm just
• 37:40
  going to say this is from E and E sent in a hundred
• 37:44
  bucks via a check. The envelope also included
• 37:49
  a note and he wrote in cursive. He said I need
• 37:53
  a D douching keep them common gents from e D
• 37:57
  douching is no agenda show lingo because they
• 38:01
  refer lovingly to those who listen but do not
• 38:05
  contribute as douchebags and when you do make
• 38:08
  your first contribution, you get deduced. And
• 38:11
  as this is his first contribution, he he's deducing.
• 38:14
  So officially, I don't have a sound clip for
• 38:16
  it on like no agenda, but consider yourself deduced
• 38:18
  E man. We really appreciate it a lot. Thank you
• 38:21
  very much, E. And we are happy to have provided
• 38:24
  you metaphorical feminine care products to make
• 38:28
  you feel better. All right. No, I do really appreciate
• 38:37
  your support and the note. Actually, I think
• 38:39
  that's super cool. The note is super cool. Handwritten
• 38:42
  note in cursive. Yeah, that's fantastic. Way
• 38:44
  to go. I don't know who you are, but I like you.
• 38:47
  We should be friends. Oh, also side story. Did
• 38:50
  you know that as of this week in Denmark, they
• 38:54
  have officially stopped doing mail service? I
• 38:58
  did not know that Danish mail service. Yeah,
• 39:00
  they hung it up. They hung it up after over 400
• 39:02
  years in operation. No more official mail service
• 39:07
  from at least a government mail service. Yeah,
• 39:09
  just happened. I just learned about it today
• 39:11
  They actually collected all of the red Public
• 39:14
  mailboxes that were all over the country collected
• 39:17
  them all and they and they sold them to collectors
• 39:20
  $300 American each and they they all sold in
• 39:24
  like a day They also say you can turn in your
• 39:27
  stamps and they will refund you for your stamps
• 39:29
  But most people aren't doing it because again
• 39:31
  collectors items And now a private company will
• 39:35
  take over the delivery of letters, mail and that
• 39:37
  sort of thing. And it will cost about three dollars
• 39:40
  and fifty cents per, because that's the only
• 39:42
  way to turn a profit. But the Danish mail service
• 39:45
  will now switch to carrying packages. It will
• 39:48
  carry packages because the package market still
• 39:50
  exists. Of course, the letter market does not.
• 39:52
  Wow. Well, you know, the United States will probably
• 39:55
  be the last country on planet Earth to get rid
• 39:56
  of the postal service, because again, there's
• 39:58
  too many hands in that pie, even though the postal
• 40:00
  service loo. What does it have now? $60 billion,
• 40:04
  I think, in debt. It's like $60 billion in the
• 40:07
  hole. It's either six or 60. It's huge. I'm pretty
• 40:09
  sure it's 60. Let me write one. How much money
• 40:13
  does the U .S. Postal Service lose annually?
• 40:18
  Fiscal year 2025, which ended September 30, net
• 40:22
  loss $9 billion. Yeah, and I'd like to apologize.
• 40:27
  My numbers were off there. Actually. In arrears
• 40:31
  about a hundred and fifty billion dollars since
• 40:33
  the early 2000s You missed up the the accumulated
• 40:38
  for the annual. Yeah How crazy is that I was
• 40:43
  only off by a couple of zeros, you know don't
• 40:48
  Postal service well, but I know now the upside
• 40:51
  is that Donor II can send us a check and a handwritten
• 40:57
  note for 35 cents What a bargain dude, when was
• 41:01
  the last time you sent a letter stamps are like
• 41:03
  67 cents, man Yeah, well that does that tells
• 41:05
  you the last time I sent a letter probably somewhere
• 41:07
  around 2000 But when your when your estimate
• 41:09
  began somewhere around 2005 35 cents, that's
• 41:12
  hilarious See, I actually have I remember I have
• 41:17
  29 I've had to I used to have to cut physical
• 41:21
  checks and mail them out stuff like that for
• 41:23
  12 years as a business owner There were still
• 41:24
  things you just did physically through the mail.
• 41:26
  You just did so yeah Stamps are 67 or 68 cents
• 41:31
  right now. That is so true. I wonder what percentage
• 41:34
  of the of the market of actual physical things
• 41:37
  being sent through the mail that is not junk
• 41:39
  mail. Because to your point, when we had with
• 41:41
  the beer bar, you basically just pay for a lot
• 41:44
  of your cost of goods with physical checks. Checks
• 41:46
  go to vendors. That's how it works. Correct.
• 41:49
  That was the bulk of my mail. Paying rent, paying
• 41:52
  vendors, sending checks, things like that, because
• 41:55
  I don't do ACH. I don't let nobody get their
• 41:57
  hands in my account because that's that's dumb.
• 42:00
  It's 80 to 85 percent. I actually have a great
• 42:03
  video from Reason TV about the privatizing. What
• 42:07
  we should do is privatize the Postal Service,
• 42:09
  but I'll send you that. In fact, I want to make
• 42:11
  myself a note right now. Pardon the blank airtime
• 42:14
  here, but. Well, that's OK. Well, you're I actually.
• 42:17
  So we're OK. Second half of show, first of all,
• 42:20
  officially. And speaking of power, OK, our retail
• 42:24
  hospitality adventures. Well, vapes and nicotine
• 42:28
  pouches in Washington just became a lot more
• 42:30
  expensive. Now, I know you did. Now, Paul did
• 42:33
  premium tobacco, which is not the same segment.
• 42:35
  But I thought the nicotine tax over in Washington
• 42:38
  because of there's definitely people in Spokane
• 42:40
  that are here in this. And so I thought it was
• 42:43
  pertinent and I thought you might have some thoughts
• 42:44
  on it. because of the state's 95 % tax on nicotine
• 42:48
  products that went into effect yesterday. This
• 42:50
  is a tax that is hurting both local smoke shops
• 42:53
  and consumers' wallets. But not everyone is upset
• 42:56
  about this tax. Madeleine Mullen takes us across
• 42:58
  the state line where businesses say this tax
• 43:00
  is making them money. Around noon each day, the
• 43:04
  parking lot of A1 Smoke Shop fills up with cars.
• 43:07
  But recently those cars have started to look
• 43:10
  different. Many of them have Washington plates.
• 43:13
  There's been an increase on customers coming
• 43:16
  in to get products that are tax higher, and that's
• 43:20
  how it's been for several smoke shops along the
• 43:22
  state line ever since Washington's tax went into
• 43:25
  effect. They don't want to buy over there because
• 43:28
  it's over twice what we've got for prices anyway.
• 43:34
  The 95 percent nicotine tax has nearly doubled
• 43:37
  the prices on certain products like vapes and
• 43:40
  pouches, so they're now taxed at the same rate
• 43:42
  as cigarettes. Now, customers are debating whether
• 43:45
  they should buy these items at all or go the
• 43:48
  extra mile to stock up. Jeff Long made the drive
• 43:51
  from Liberty Lake. Because basically you're going
• 43:53
  to end up paying double, you know, essentially
• 43:56
  what you were before. So do that or stop doing
• 43:59
  it and it's just close. And many customers have
• 44:03
  made trips much longer than Jeff's. Here at the
• 44:06
  A1 Smoke Shop, they're seeing customers drive
• 44:08
  from as far as Wenatchee to purchase items here
• 44:11
  in Idaho because they're that much cheaper. They're
• 44:14
  not very happy with Washington State. They enjoy
• 44:18
  coming in. None of us are. And the prices, they
• 44:23
  help. But these shops were anticipating this
• 44:26
  would happen, which is why they've stocked up
• 44:28
  on product. And we had a customer the other day,
• 44:31
  yesterday, buy 15 rolls because he was afraid
• 44:35
  that we were going to raise our prices. And we
• 44:37
  told them that we're not going to, but he said
• 44:40
  he'll be here every week now to buy his product.
• 44:43
  So while these stores have a revolving door,
• 44:46
  these are sales Washington smoke shops are losing
• 44:48
  out on. In Idaho. Yeah. Yeah. State line. Come
• 44:53
  the businesses its state line just outside Post
• 44:56
  Falls right next to the state line between Washington
• 44:58
  and Idaho are Printing their love and life. It's
• 45:02
  a great place to be on every town on the state
• 45:07
  line Between a high tax state and a low tax state
• 45:10
  or a high regulation state and a low regulation
• 45:12
  state It's heaven on earth for them. They benefit
• 45:14
  every time there is a similar story because I
• 45:18
  did premium tobacco, so hand premium hand -rolled
• 45:21
  cigars and premium pipe tobacco and We've got
• 45:26
  situations like that all over the country one
• 45:27
  of the highest profile ones being between Minnesota
• 45:29
  and Wisconsin There's a really well -known smoke
• 45:32
  shop on the border that was on the Wisconsin
• 45:35
  side because the taxes and the regulations were
• 45:38
  significantly Less onerous than on the Minnesota
• 45:41
  side just outside Minnesota st. Paul the st.
• 45:44
  Paul st. Minneapolis area and they crushed it
• 45:46
  man. They printed they were one of the Geez,
• 45:49
  most profitable shops in the entire tri -state
• 45:52
  region because they caught all the business from
• 45:55
  the other side of Minnesota in a large urban
• 45:58
  area. And this is just the tale as old as time.
• 46:00
  It opens up a number of economic and philosophical,
• 46:04
  not even questions really, but I guess discussions
• 46:06
  that are self -evident. Number one, when you
• 46:12
  tax things this way or when you treat things
• 46:14
  this way, people are still going to find a way
• 46:16
  to get it. So whether that's the black market
• 46:18
  or going to, you know, cross state lines to load
• 46:21
  up or what have you, the market always finds
• 46:24
  a way as it should. Number two is, and this is
• 46:29
  the one really bakes the noodle, is that if you
• 46:31
  tax things to get less of it. So for instance,
• 46:34
  in this case, it's a nicotine tax because Washington
• 46:37
  thinks it's a public health issue and we should
• 46:39
  tax it higher so people do it less. Well, then
• 46:42
  what is the income tax? What is property tax?
• 46:47
  You're taxing something to get less of something,
• 46:51
  then what's your excuse for income tax, right?
• 46:53
  You won't. So simmer on that for a minute. Number
• 46:58
  three, just pure economics, is that there's only
• 47:01
  a level so high you can tax products or goods
• 47:04
  or services before people will, again, either
• 47:06
  get them somewhere else or not get them at all.
• 47:09
  And you will effectively punish your own people
• 47:11
  and your own businesses. So now Washington will
• 47:14
  take in less revenue while taxing something at
• 47:18
  double the rate, which also, again, works for
• 47:20
  income taxes and property taxes. The higher you
• 47:22
  tax this stuff, the less of it you get. And then,
• 47:25
  of course, there's the moral case, which is fuck
• 47:26
  off government. Stop telling us what we can and
• 47:29
  can't do with our bodies and the things we want
• 47:31
  to consume. And it's not your business. And stop
• 47:35
  scalping us. You know, the people who always
• 47:37
  talk about how it would be chaos if there was
• 47:40
  no government is chaos. Yeah. uh the gangs are
• 47:46
  raping us right now that's what this is this
• 47:48
  is this is the gang known as the state just going
• 47:52
  hey that's a nice product over there that you'd
• 47:54
  like to enjoy it'd be a shame if it were to cost
• 47:56
  double now hold still while we double mask you
• 48:00
  and inject you with experimental pharma products
• 48:02
  and remember citizen that this is all for your
• 48:05
  health we here at the all for your hair about
• 48:09
  thy health every time stuff like this happens
• 48:13
  i just think of this Whenever I'm about to do
• 48:16
  something, I think, would an idiot do that? And
• 48:19
  then we know the government. If the answer is
• 48:21
  yes, I would not do that thing. Yeah. I got something
• 48:25
  for you, Scott. I have some for you. Whoa. The
• 48:28
  shoes on the other foot. Hold on. Let me put
• 48:31
  my foot up, my feet up on my ottoman. I'm going
• 48:34
  to lean back in my chair. Go right ahead. All
• 48:38
  right. Here we go. I even have a name for it.
• 48:41
  The theme song. I have a name. Pull up the article.
• 48:51
  Alright everybody, I want to introduce you to
• 48:54
  a new segment called Scott's shots Scott Yes,
• 49:00
  sir. I have a question for you. I just recently
• 49:02
  saw an article that says the US is Dropping the
• 49:09
  number of blanks that it recommends for every
• 49:12
  child to receive. Oh, please too easy I'm sorry.
• 49:16
  I'm starting off with an easy one Let's say it
• 49:21
  again The U .S. is dropping the number of blanks
• 49:24
  it recommends for every child to receive. I would
• 49:28
  go with masks, but I always know that that's
• 49:30
  more. It should be three masks. We were definitely
• 49:32
  wrong about two. So I am going to go way, way
• 49:36
  out on a limb and say vaccines. Anderson Cooper
• 49:44
  360 brought to you by Pfizer. Yes. Good job.
• 49:50
  Yeah. I know. I know. I softballed this one,
• 49:52
  but it was perfect. So a new segment for y 'all
• 49:54
  it's called Scott's shots. And I'm going to bring
• 49:58
  up an article, every podcast about COVID stuff,
• 50:02
  because I just love how passionate Scott gets.
• 50:05
  Anytime we talk about the COVID stuff. Cause
• 50:07
  that was, that was Scott's watershed event was
• 50:10
  COVID. And I mean, I know Scott, you were, you
• 50:12
  were, you know, leaning, I think more open -minded
• 50:15
  towards liberty before that, of course, I think
• 50:18
  you were predisposed to it long before that.
• 50:20
  But as I have gleaned from our friendship and
• 50:23
  from all of our discussions, it was it was COVID
• 50:25
  that really, really opened the door completely
• 50:28
  blew the blew the hinges off the door to your
• 50:32
  understanding and love of liberty and your hatred
• 50:35
  of the state and what the state will do to you
• 50:38
  and how and all that that entails. So new segment,
• 50:42
  and I'm going to focus on COVID stuff every time.
• 50:45
  Because I just love the passion that I get out
• 50:47
  of you. So here's the deal. News bit, this is
• 50:51
  a national thing, but it affects Idaho too, because
• 50:53
  you know, the Panhandle Health District is going
• 50:54
  to have to something to say about this. Kootenay
• 50:56
  Health will have something to say about this.
• 50:57
  I'm sure they already are wringing their hands
• 50:59
  over it and whatnot. The U .S. took the unprecedented,
• 51:04
  speaking of breathless, step Monday of dropping
• 51:07
  the number of vaccines it recommends for every
• 51:09
  child, cutting protection. That's the word they
• 51:12
  use, their words, cutting protection against
• 51:14
  the half dozen diseases. Oh, they are thinking
• 51:17
  of the children, cutting protection against a
• 51:21
  half dozen diseases in a move slammed by the
• 51:24
  nation's pediatricians, you know, the ones who
• 51:26
  get paid to administer vaccines. Yes. Well, what
• 51:30
  about the pediatricians who are not on board
• 51:32
  with that? Oh, we don't hear about them. No,
• 51:35
  it doesn't even show up in the article. This
• 51:36
  is an AP article. So of course not a single pediatrician
• 51:41
  gets asked who doesn't agree with it. But as
• 51:45
  they like to do in appeal to authority, because
• 51:48
  that's one of the mainstream media's favorite
• 51:51
  things to do is appeal to authority because they
• 51:53
  are the authority and they are run and owned
• 51:56
  and bought by the authority. Dr. Sean O 'Leary
• 51:59
  of the American Academy of Pediatrics said, Countries
• 52:05
  should carefully consider vaccine recommendations
• 52:07
  based on levels of disease in their population
• 52:09
  and their health systems. Quote, you can't just
• 52:11
  copy and paste public health. And that's what
• 52:14
  they seem to be doing here, said O 'Leary. Literally
• 52:16
  children's health and children's lives are at
• 52:18
  stake, end quote. Which is weird because these
• 52:22
  are the same people who copy and paste any authoritarian
• 52:25
  style health recommendation across the board
• 52:27
  for everybody, regardless of. uniqueness or region
• 52:31
  or race or gender or age. You can't just do a
• 52:35
  one size fits all solution. Says the people who
• 52:38
  like to apply one size fits all solutions. Exactly
• 52:40
  right. Yep. So I bet you can guess like how this
• 52:44
  is how this is happening because they mentioned
• 52:46
  the Trump administration and it's and Robert
• 52:48
  Kennedy. So I bet you can kind of connect the
• 52:51
  dots. I'm going to let you see. I'm going to
• 52:52
  see if you connect the dots here. If the what's
• 52:56
  the exact question? Well with our big beef here
• 52:59
  is the Trump what the Trump administration is
• 53:01
  doing and and Robert Kennedy is involved so Effectively,
• 53:05
  it's the Health and Human Services Secretary
• 53:07
  Robert Kennedy telling the CDC Centers for Disease
• 53:11
  Control and Prevention That now the CDC must
• 53:15
  recommend only X amount of vaccines and not the
• 53:20
  25 that were being recommended now. It's only
• 53:22
  down to 11 Right. So it says the overhaul is
• 53:27
  effective immediately, meaning the CDC will now
• 53:29
  recommend vaccines against 11 diseases. What's
• 53:32
  no longer broadly recommended is protection against
• 53:35
  flu, rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and
• 53:41
  some forms of meningitis or RSV. Instead, protections.
• 53:45
  Again, they keep using the word protection, not
• 53:47
  vaccines, not immunizations, just protections
• 53:50
  as if it's a like wave your magic wand. you're
• 53:53
  protected. Instead, protections against these
• 53:56
  diseases are only recommended for certain groups
• 53:58
  deemed high risk. Wow, what a novel concept,
• 54:01
  right Scott? Or if their doctors recommend them
• 54:04
  in what's called shared decision making. This
• 54:08
  to me seems like a, what a group, actually this
• 54:10
  legitimately is a good idea. We should only issue
• 54:13
  these if you are high risk or, and, or if your
• 54:18
  doctors and the parents decide in a shared decision
• 54:22
  making process to administer them. We really
• 54:25
  don't like it when you make decisions, which
• 54:28
  is why we run articles all the time. That's like
• 54:30
  the danger of doing your own research or how
• 54:33
  much misinformation is out there. Like defer
• 54:36
  to expert opinion. And then when you ask them,
• 54:38
  how do I know which experts to listen to? My
• 54:42
  favorite are the articles. There's one or two
• 54:44
  I've seen, like with Vanity Fair. And I think
• 54:45
  it was actually in Vanity Fair or Vogue was doing
• 54:49
  your own research. is a right -wing behavior.
• 54:53
  Right, it's mega. It's fantastic. It turns out
• 54:59
  not listening to the so -called experts is a
• 55:02
  fascist position to take. And we're anti -fascist.
• 55:09
  So the best part is, I mean it really is the
• 55:11
  best part too, is as the Trump administration
• 55:12
  officials said the overhaul, which is something
• 55:15
  they've been trying to do for a while, it doesn't
• 55:17
  mean that families will not be able to access
• 55:20
  these other vaccines they will not like people
• 55:22
  will not lose access to these vaccines so you
• 55:25
  can still get them you can still request them
• 55:27
  it is and insurance will continue to pay for
• 55:31
  them so not only do you still get to have them
• 55:34
  if you want them but you you don't have to pay
• 55:36
  out of pocket well depending on your insurance
• 55:38
  plan all it does is actually give you the choice
• 55:41
  but medical experts have said the move increases
• 55:45
  confusion for parents and could increase preventable
• 55:49
  diseases. Yeah, because we're so our whittle
• 55:53
  heads are so confused. They need the agencies
• 55:56
  to continue to just to tell us what to do. Also,
• 56:00
  you'll notice the bigotry of low expectations.
• 56:03
  Exactly. Thank you, Thomas soul. Then the you'll
• 56:06
  notice to the the word access. That's mainstream
• 56:10
  news speak for you aren't being forced to do
• 56:12
  it. So the second the if mandates from the state
• 56:16
  go away, that means that, you know, low income
• 56:20
  or whoever the hell they're fill in the blank,
• 56:22
  lose access. I lose it. They don't even I can't
• 56:26
  just go out and get it. Well, no, you can. But
• 56:28
  it's just not being forced on everybody else.
• 56:31
  It's perfect news speak. Yep. When when in their
• 56:36
  own article, they do have to they. I'll give
• 56:38
  them credit for this. They do mention that access
• 56:41
  is not lost or revoked. Oh, well, that's a nice
• 56:45
  change of pace. Yeah, no, look, that's what I'm
• 56:47
  saying. Administration officials said the overhaul,
• 56:52
  a move long sought by HHS Secretary Robert F.
• 56:55
  Kennedy Jr. says it won't result, will not result,
• 56:59
  in families who want the vaccines losing access
• 57:01
  to them and said insurance will continue to pay.
• 57:04
  Of course, the way it's framed in this article
• 57:06
  is that It's the Trump administration saying
• 57:08
  this. It's not the writers of the article. So
• 57:11
  that's still, you know, that still matters. But
• 57:16
  anyways, the long and the short of it is HHS
• 57:17
  going on said that its comparison to 20 peer
• 57:20
  nations found that the U .S. is an outlier in
• 57:23
  both the number of vaccines that it administers
• 57:26
  to kids and the number of doses it recommends
• 57:28
  to children. So. these leftists who always like
• 57:33
  to look at all of these other developed countries,
• 57:36
  like, you know, there was like the point of Europe
• 57:37
  and whatnot, when comparing economic systems,
• 57:39
  all of a sudden, it's not so great when it comes
• 57:42
  to vaccines, or what we put in our food, or what
• 57:45
  we don't put in our food, or what a lot of them
• 57:48
  did for COVID. You'll notice, if you go back
• 57:50
  to the COVID stuff, and I know you know this,
• 57:52
  there were a number of countries that did very
• 57:54
  little in the way of COVID preventions, and their
• 57:56
  death rates per capita were significantly less
• 57:59
  than countries that Did more to quote -unquote
• 58:03
  protect their populations what Wiley while that
• 58:06
  while you're right and that You know your whole
• 58:09
  assessment about the you know blowing the door
• 58:11
  off the hinges for me is totally right and I
• 58:14
  know the point you're making is about the the
• 58:17
  commies and their love of comparing everything
• 58:18
  to Western Europe until it doesn't suit them
• 58:21
  any longer as I know that's the point you're
• 58:23
  making however I don't I just want to point out
• 58:25
  that I don't ever engage in The notion of like,
• 58:28
  oh, the death rates per capita in this place
• 58:31
  are like, well, masks work, masks don't work.
• 58:34
  I never engage in that framing because it implies
• 58:38
  that, oh, well, if the death rates per capita
• 58:40
  were X, then Y would have made sense. If masks
• 58:44
  work, then therefore they could be meant to.
• 58:46
  So you see what I'm saying? I don't actually
• 58:48
  care about any of that. I don't care if the death
• 58:50
  rate's a thousand percent, you're guaranteed
• 58:52
  to die, I don't care if masks are proved beyond
• 58:54
  the shadow of a doubt, to quote work, whatever
• 58:56
  that even means, it doesn't make any difference.
• 58:58
  I don't care, you don't have the right to tell
• 58:59
  me to cover my face, have a nice day. 100 % agree.
• 59:05
  But I know that's not the point. 100 % agree
• 59:06
  with you Scott, that's a good way. Correct. No,
• 59:09
  and that's a, I'm glad you mentioned it though.
• 59:10
  That's a, I'm very glad you mentioned it because
• 59:13
  if we do get dragged into the weeds on that topic,
• 59:16
  then then we de facto are accepting the premise
• 59:19
  that some form of control was acceptable and
• 59:22
  all it did then was depend on how bad the virus
• 59:26
  was or could have been. Correct. So, but it is,
• 59:29
  I only ever bring it up and folks like Tom Woods
• 59:32
  do a great job of bringing it up. And I think
• 59:34
  it is worth, it's worth knowing. Just because
• 59:37
  it's one of the pillars of argumentation for
• 59:40
  the control freaks who wanted to implement it
• 59:43
  all yep and so when they make these claims like
• 59:46
  you know, oh it could have been so much worse
• 59:48
  or or Whatever they want to say you can point
• 59:51
  to even a state -by -state Comparison or a country
• 59:54
  -by -country comparison and you can discuss the
• 59:56
  data all day long and those of us who are pro
• 59:59
  -liberty Still come out on top on that discussion
• 1:00:02
  as well. There is no real correlation between
• 1:00:06
  how heavy -handed or not heavy -handed a country
• 1:00:08
  or a state was and the deaths and the Those who
• 1:00:12
  contracted it so it's an argument that doesn't
• 1:00:14
  even make any sense But sometimes it's just good
• 1:00:16
  to know the data if it does come up, but I agree
• 1:00:19
  with you It's a great and to the extent that
• 1:00:20
  the data even is relevant because all the numbers
• 1:00:23
  are phony baloney and the PCR tests were phony
• 1:00:25
  baloney And they the guy gets in the motorcycle
• 1:00:27
  accident, but he has a one cell worth of whatever
• 1:00:29
  in his pinky nail And he's there for a cover.
• 1:00:31
  I mean there was so much bullcrap around it.
• 1:00:34
  Yeah, that it doesn't. Well, they actually I'll
• 1:00:37
  never forget the headline about the guy who got
• 1:00:39
  bitten, bit by a shark, bled out, died, and they
• 1:00:42
  counted it as a COVID death because he had COVID.
• 1:00:46
  I kid you not. I don't remember that one. A shark.
• 1:00:50
  Yeah, yeah, that was a thing. It came up. So
• 1:00:53
  what I'm assuming is that he wasn't like my fat
• 1:00:56
  friend in the Spokane River masked up while swimming,
• 1:00:58
  because if he was, you know, speaking of protection,
• 1:01:03
  I guess the moral of the story here is that if
• 1:01:06
  he had worn two or three masks while in the ocean,
• 1:01:09
  he would have been protected from that COVID
• 1:01:10
  shark. All right. I do want to do there's a couple
• 1:01:16
  more, but we're running a little long. So I think
• 1:01:18
  I'm going to save a couple of the big ones, which
• 1:01:21
  is the Coeur d 'Alene press ran an editorial
• 1:01:24
  ahead of our friend, Dan Gukin, assuming the
• 1:01:28
  mayoral seat, a editorial essentially. you know,
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  the advocating, I suppose, their support of him.
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  So I wanted to break that down. We also have
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  the Postfall City Council new seat and a little
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  bit of controversy regarding the appointment
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  process. Those I want to save for next week,
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  because I think A, we'll know who the new person
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  appointed was in Post Falls. And B, the gookin
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  thing is in Evergreen, because he's about to
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  assume the mayoral seat. And that's not the courtly
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  impresses. you know, advocacy for him is not
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  going to change. So I think we can save those
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  until next week. Let's close out this week with
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  the coroner story. Because I have a boots yes
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  report for it And so I wanted to bring everyone
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  up to speed on what's happening sort of a strange
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  unfolding of events Partnership that helps Kootenai
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  County with death Investigations has suddenly
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  come to an end the Spokane County medical examiner
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  abruptly terminated its contract with the Kootenai
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  County coroner for 30 years Kootenai County would
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  send people who died over to Spokane County when
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  it needed autopsies done Autopsies that it can't
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  do itself because it doesn't have a forensic
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  pathologist Each year, the Spokane County Medical
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  Examiner conducts around 70 autopsies for Kootenay
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  County. Sometimes those people were victims of
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  a crime and an autopsy helps in the investigation.
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  It's a decades -long partnership that appears
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  to have ended with an email. Really puts our
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  public safety in Kootenay County in a small little
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  situation where we have to find a transition
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  very quickly in order to not create delays on
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  the public safety side. Emails that we obtained
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  show that on December 15th, the Spokane County
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  Medical Examiner emailed the Kootenai County
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  coroner, stating that one of the deputy coroners
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  has been working closely with a disgruntled former
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  employee of the Spokane County Medical Examiner's
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  office to destabilize our office operations.
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  And because of that, she would be terminating
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  the partnership. What does that even mean? Yeah,
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  I don't know, internal politics of some sort.
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  It is a sort of, this whole thing was pretty
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  confusing. Yeah, it's definitely shrouded in
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  a cloud of mystery as far as like, what precisely
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  does that mean? Like, hey, hey, hey, hey, one
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  of your employees is cavorting with one of our
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  former employees to make life difficult for us
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  over here. How does that even work? I wonder,
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  you know, this is one of those things that wouldn't
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  surprise me if it came out later that there was
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  some sort of love triangle or something weird
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  interpersonally was happening. I have no idea,
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  obviously, but it sounds like nobody else does
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  either. Yeah, it's an interesting one. I check
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  my imagination runs rampant. Of course. It's
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  like well So what were they doing? Were they
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  like breaking in at night over there and like
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  moving the bodies switching the bodies around
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  from one Containment to the different one and
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  then like ah and here we have mr. Smith. It's
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  like no, that's actually, you know, mr. Bob Somebody
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  over there. Oh, hey who put cucumbers over the
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  eyes of this corpse? And and coins on the eyes
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  of this one That took coroner. Dr. Duke Johnson
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  by surprise, but what a name by the way Duke
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  Johnson Yeah, I imagine him like carrying a six
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  shooter six shooter on his hip as he's as he's
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  doing his duties Going about going about the
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  morgue with a six shooter on his hip. That's
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  what I imagine the cowboy hat I would imagine
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  both hips. And we did bring up Duke Nukem, I
• 1:04:46
  believe, on one of the first couple few episodes
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  we did. I'm imagining that's what Duke Johnson
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  sounds like. That took coroner Dr. Duke Johnson
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  by surprise. He denied those claims and wrote
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  back, there is no way that we are actively working
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  against your office and have never done so. With
• 1:05:09
  15 days notice, it gives us very little opportunity
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  to transition to another. medical examiner office.
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  And now Kootenay County is in the process of
• 1:05:18
  finding a place to conduct these autopsies and
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  it's prompted the commissioners to issue emergency
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  funds. We already have a facility where the coroner's
• 1:05:28
  office operates out of and so we are transitioning
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  a room that really already has the infrastructure
• 1:05:34
  in place to convert that into an autopsy lab.
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  Just in case you were not placing the voice of
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  that's that's Commissioner Bruce Matari. So this
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  came from one of the meetings I did. I pulled.
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  Yeah, they had a meeting about it with the commissioners
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  that I know. OK, well, there was more than one
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  because I pulled some I. I pulled up one where
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  Dr. Johnson was on the phone, but Commissioner
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  Mattari was not there. So there must have been
• 1:05:59
  more than one meeting where they discussed this.
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  But anyway, let's finish this clip. An autopsy
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  lab. The county commissioners say it had discussed
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  opening up its own autopsy lab for several years.
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  This sudden termination has rushed that process,
• 1:06:12
  but there is no timeline on when this new facility
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  will be ready. Spokane County confirmed the terminated
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  contract, but says the commissioners and the
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  medical examiner will meet about this tomorrow.
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  So the boots on the ground report actually comes
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  from a retired medical examiner from Western
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  Washington. I'm going to keep his name anonymous,
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  but he retired, I believe, three years ago of
• 1:06:36
  35 plus years as the county medical examiner
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  in Whatcom. over like where Bellingham is. So
• 1:06:42
  he had, I'll read his message in a moment. The
• 1:06:44
  article from the Coeur d 'Alene Press says, until
• 1:06:47
  recently, Kootenay County contracted with the
• 1:06:50
  Spokane County Medical Examiner's Office for
• 1:06:51
  these services, sending about 70 cases to Spokane
• 1:06:54
  each year at a cost of about $2 ,000 per autopsy.
• 1:06:58
  Now that's not a quote. That's just the Coeur
• 1:07:00
  d 'Alene Press's summary of it. And now if I
• 1:07:02
  pull up the message from our Dr. Boots on the
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  ground. Hold on a second. So I know Duke Johnson
• 1:07:12
  since he's been in that position has been leaning
• 1:07:16
  on the Cooting County Commissioners and pretty
• 1:07:18
  much anybody who will listen to set up our own
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  I say ours I guess because I live in the area
• 1:07:23
  but set up a I'm sure a lab I guess I'm sure
• 1:07:28
  there's another term for it, but not a coroner's
• 1:07:30
  office What would be the term for that but basically?
• 1:07:34
  Set up their own operation here in Kootenai County
• 1:07:37
  to be able to handle this sort of thing, to be
• 1:07:39
  able to handle forensic autopsies. He's been,
• 1:07:42
  I think, in the position for two and a half,
• 1:07:44
  three years, and he's been leaning hard on doing
• 1:07:47
  that because I think he and a lot of other people
• 1:07:50
  see the need. As Kootenai County grows and as
• 1:07:52
  Spokane County grows, Spokane County can't handle
• 1:07:55
  as much of other people's or other counties'
• 1:07:58
  cases as they used to because they're busy dealing
• 1:08:00
  with their own. And as Kootenai County grows,
• 1:08:03
  It would have to send more over to Spokane so
• 1:08:06
  you can have the double whammy of growth on both
• 1:08:08
  sides, making it harder to deal with. So eventually
• 1:08:10
  something's got to give and you probably got
• 1:08:12
  to get something sorted out on our end, which
• 1:08:14
  I think they are now going to try to do. It's
• 1:08:17
  just on overdrive and it has to happen very quickly
• 1:08:20
  and it will not be cheap. Well, that's where
• 1:08:23
  the boots on the ground report comes in because
• 1:08:25
  it was a again, retired medical examiner. He
• 1:08:28
  said, I'm not familiar with the exact details
• 1:08:30
  of this situation, but $2 ,000 per autopsy is
• 1:08:34
  very far below the actual cost of performing
• 1:08:36
  the service. As always, follow the money. That
• 1:08:39
  did seem cheap. So I wrote him back and I said,
• 1:08:43
  can you give me a ballpark of what the actual
• 1:08:45
  cost is? And he said, he said at least $5 ,000,
• 1:08:49
  especially if it includes investigation, transportation,
• 1:08:52
  holding, etc. So I'm I'm not sure if that means
• 1:08:57
  that it's very different, like less than half
• 1:08:59
  for those type of services in Spokane versus
• 1:09:02
  West Washington, or if it means that the Coeur
• 1:09:04
  d 'Alene press is inaccurately reporting that
• 1:09:07
  number. But in any case, it's confusing to even
• 1:09:10
  someone who worked in this, especially to someone
• 1:09:12
  who worked in this profession. It could be a
• 1:09:15
  couple of different things. Number one, things
• 1:09:17
  just cost more where your source lives. So, I
• 1:09:21
  mean, everything costs more over there by a factor
• 1:09:23
  of like 10. So that probably is a part of it.
• 1:09:27
  Also, it's a 30 year relationship with Spokane
• 1:09:29
  County. So sometimes with those kinds of relationships,
• 1:09:31
  they last a long time. You get a bit of a sweetheart
• 1:09:33
  deal. I think a lot of the growth is what's at
• 1:09:36
  play here as Spokane County didn't have enough
• 1:09:40
  casework, happy to take on more and be able to
• 1:09:44
  pay for that. with a sweetheart deal with Kootenay
• 1:09:47
  County. Kootenay County is getting a sweetheart
• 1:09:48
  deal with Spokane County because two grand did
• 1:09:50
  seem, that part did seem inexpensive. Setting
• 1:09:52
  up a coroner's office and then staffing it and
• 1:09:54
  maintaining it in Kootenay County will not be
• 1:09:57
  inexpensive. It'll turn into quite the line item.
• 1:10:00
  But if Spokane County won't take your cadavers
• 1:10:03
  and your next closest place is Missoula, which
• 1:10:07
  also said they wouldn't because I did see that
• 1:10:08
  they also reached out to Missoula and there was
• 1:10:12
  one other. Out of state and both said no they
• 1:10:15
  couldn't handle it because the casework Ada County
• 1:10:17
  has one as in the corners office where they can
• 1:10:19
  do forensic Autopsies, but Ada County is Boise.
• 1:10:23
  That's like nine -hour drive. So that's not really
• 1:10:26
  feasible So it does make sense. I don't mean
• 1:10:29
  spending the money sucks But it does make sense
• 1:10:31
  that Cooney County would have its own given the
• 1:10:32
  growth and and where it's located geographically
• 1:10:35
  So I think this was a long time coming Spokane
• 1:10:38
  County just unceremoniously pushed it along a
• 1:10:41
  lot faster because now there's no choice I wonder
• 1:10:44
  if Spokane or Kootenay has considered simply
• 1:10:48
  signing a deal with Pfizer. Sponsored by Pfizer.
• 1:10:51
  There's a vaccine for that. We'll continue to
• 1:10:55
  follow this one because it'll be interesting
• 1:10:57
  to see what comes out, who was having an affair
• 1:11:00
  with who, who was, you know, putting whoopee
• 1:11:04
  cushions on seats over there, or if maybe somebody,
• 1:11:07
  the door was ajar and there's the bucket full
• 1:11:09
  of water on the top of the door. You know, so
• 1:11:12
  whoever walks in, we'll figure out what shenanigans
• 1:11:15
  were taking place over there in between the Kootenay
• 1:11:18
  and Spokane coroners. But I'm sure it'll be entertaining.
• 1:11:21
  Yeah, I'll be curious if there is more that comes
• 1:11:23
  out because the Spokane County Coroner's Office
• 1:11:26
  gal, I think it was a gal. Yeah, it is. Jing.
• 1:11:30
  Jing. I think it was Sing something thereabouts.
• 1:11:35
  Last name Sing. Vena. Dr. Vena Sing. Vena Sing.
• 1:11:40
  So. her response to duke johnson's question was
• 1:11:43
  like which was basically what's going on and
• 1:11:45
  she said i can't say anymore until i've gone
• 1:11:47
  before the spokane county board of commissioners
• 1:11:50
  for advice on on how to handle this so we'll
• 1:11:52
  see if a they actually do have that meeting over
• 1:11:54
  there and b what comes of it it's just as possible
• 1:11:57
  that this one just sort of goes away quietly
• 1:12:00
  into the night and duke johnson and company over
• 1:12:02
  here scramble to just make things work we will
• 1:12:05
  see we will indeed and uh that means that you'll
• 1:12:09
  hopefully see next week. There is an episode
• 1:12:12
  of our homies who also do a North Idaho podcast
• 1:12:16
  we brought them up before, the guys from North
• 1:12:17
  Idaho Experience. They do a much different format
• 1:12:20
  than we do, but they're also local observers
• 1:12:23
  of the Panhandle. And I did a guest spot on their
• 1:12:26
  show back in December, and that episode dropped
• 1:12:29
  today. So check out the North Idaho Experience
• 1:12:31
  if you want to hear a different version of local
• 1:12:34
  coverage. But we'll continue ours, of course,
• 1:12:37
  as always, next week. And until then, from Post
• 1:12:39
  Falls, I am Scott. And I'm Paul. Taxation is
• 1:12:43
  theft. The unprecedented, extremist, violent,
• 1:12:48
  seditious assault, insurrection, riot, breach,
• 1:12:50
  attack, coup on the capital of democracy.