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  No ID is meant for a sane audience. No ID may
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  contain Liberty -oriented content. PINCO discretion
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  is advised. Now, here's No ID with Paul Banducci
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  and Scott Moskowitz. Hey y 'all, welcome back
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  to No ID. Another week, another interesting and
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  new setup for Paul and I'm Scott. And I'm Paul.
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  Hello internet. How is everybody today? I'm doing.
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  How are you Scott? Yeah, I'm good. I'm a, I've
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  debated a first day. This is North Idaho's mainstream
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  media deconstruction. If I didn't say that deconstructing
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  the mainstream presentations of all the BS. And
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  I debated how to start today's show. Paul, by
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  the way, is on his, he's using his phone, the,
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  his, our, our mic interface plugged into his
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  phone. It's been an interesting few weeks. It's
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  a, I broke a few weeks ago that Achilles rupture
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  still gonna be dealing with that for a long time
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  so no fun that sucks then my dog broke about
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  a day later came in with a busted ear full of
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  blood we had to drain it out after a couple days
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  of that horrible experience we had to take him
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  to the vet and then about two weeks later my
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  computer broke so I'm having it repaired as we
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  speak but I'm up here in the Clark Fork Castle
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  my phone attached to my hardware and Scott being
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  the handyman handy dandy man that he is helped
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  us sort out that and so yeah Here we are making
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  it work for like the third or fourth week in
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  a row. It's it's not ideal. I mean, when are
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  we ever happy? Yeah, that's a it's a timely audio
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  clip. It's it's been it has been a a I'm telling
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  you what, I think I think I'm going to read the
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  book of Job this week. I've been thinking about
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  it. I've decided it has been a perfect time in
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  my life. To revisit that wonderful book of job
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  Lots of different trials. I know the big man
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  upstairs has his plans. They don't match mine
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  never seemed to Yeah, that's all right But hey,
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  excited to be here with you, Scott. So what do
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  you got lined up for us? Likewise, yeah. And
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  I'm happy we're making it work. Paul at first
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  was like, yeah, I don't know, man. The third
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  thing in three weeks has taken a crap on me.
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  My laptop's dust. And I don't know if we can
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  do this week. And I was like, dude, we got to
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  bring the show. We have people to thank. People
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  sent money and if we don't if we don't have a
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  show to thank them Then that might be the last
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  that's ever sent to us and not just that was
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  all Scott needed to say He's like but Paul the
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  people gave us money and I perked right up, but
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  I was like Shreckles Okay, the show must go on.
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  We'll figure this out one. We will figure this
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  out Okay, let's start I debated to even bring
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  this to the show. You know, this is this is Idaho,
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  North Idaho Media deconstruction and what in
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  the world does that have to do with trouble in
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  the Middle East? Which I can't I mean if you
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  can believe it. There's trouble in the Middle
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  East. I mean, what's next? Yeah So it's I was
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  debating and the the mainstream media appears
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  sort of solved my internal debate for me by actually
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  featuring an Idahoan and as an Iranian born Idahoan
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  And so I was like, well, OK, let's do the Idaho
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  angle on it, because that's what's wall to wall
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  right now. I also have a media sort of deconstruction
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  angle to bring to it. So let's start with this
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  one. Many Iranians across the globe celebrated
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  the death of Iran's supreme leader after he was
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  killed following US and Israeli airstrikes on
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  Saturday. No celebration stretched to the Iranian
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  community here in Idaho. We're celebrating here.
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  and people in Iran are in the streets celebrating,
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  dancing, chanting. The tears are coming down,
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  but these are the tears of joy. Farnoosh Davis
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  lived in Iran for 30 years before immigrating
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  to the United States and says she's been waiting
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  for this day. For 47 years, personally, I've
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  been waiting for the moment that they say the
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  supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, is dead.
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  She says her people have been oppressed for decades
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  by the regime. Peaceful protest or negotiation
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  is not their language. So you have to speak their
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  language. I'm not sure it's ours either. It's
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  just eliminated. It doesn't appear to be. Yeah,
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  we are track record might say otherwise. After
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  multiple US and Israeli strikes on Saturday,
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  some Iranian groups around the world took to
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  the streets celebrating the Supreme Leader's
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  death. This strike is positive. We thank President
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  Trump for helping people of Iran. But the future
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  of the country is still uncertain. I'm supporting
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  the constitutional monarchy, what we had, and
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  that's because of the culture and the history
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  of... Wait, wait, wait. So they get rid of a
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  dictator but want a monarchy? Yeah, she wants
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  to go back to the Shah. Uh -huh. It makes perfect
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  sense. Let's finish the clip. Culture and the
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  history of our country, that's the best for us.
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  The word that was, did you notice what word was
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  used the most often? If you read the transcript
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  of this clip, what word would appear the most?
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  Man, now I feel like I'm a terrible listener
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  because I don't know. Supreme. Supreme. Yeah.
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  It's a fun word. I mean, it's a fun word. Say
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  it. Supreme. There's just certain words out there
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  like scuba. Scuba. Scuba. Scuba. Great word.
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  So supreme. This goes back to what we have talked
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  about here before. And as a libertarian, I'm
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  an anarchist, but one of the things that always
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  baffles us is I had like people's gravitation
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  towards being ruled and being governed. So a
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  term like supreme leader is attractive. I find
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  it to be so absurd. Words fail me. Words never
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  fail me. It's impressive when that happens. It's
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  a rarity. Supreme and OK, that's the media deconstruction
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  angle. Everybody blows my mind. They're like
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  they're so happy. I'm happy that the supreme
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  leader is dead, and now I want a constitutional
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  supreme leader. Everybody wall to wall, national,
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  local, regional, all the way down to, you know,
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  just the network affiliates in busted whistle
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  Nebraska, and the people who were for it, the
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  people who were against it, the people who like
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  the bombs, the people who like Iran, everybody
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  says supreme leader. 100 % of the time, they
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  never refer to that asshole who's by the way,
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  I bet like his beard is full of dandruff and
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  his breath stinks. The Supreme leader, like they
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  all say it. And you notice they never say it's
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  really interesting too, because it's a whole
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  group of people out there who, who do the whole
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  not my president thing. And it really doesn't
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  matter who's who's president. It just switches
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  sides every four to eight years. You know, there's
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  like not my president, but we're so happy to
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  call somebody on the other side of the world
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  who is a a truly terrible, horrible human being,
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  and an actual full -blown dictator, we will happily
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  give them the label supreme leader without batting
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  an eye. Isn't that wild? The diligence, the diligence
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  with which people apply that label without fail.
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  And not only, okay, and you notice that they
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  do it, there's very specific instances. It will
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  also be done with the Prophet Muhammad, the Prophet
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  Muhammad. You hear that constantly. You never
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  hear some talking head go, our Lord and Savior
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  Jesus Christ, they just say Jesus. You know,
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  it's very interesting when labels are applied
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  versus omitted. Yes, it is. I think it also,
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  for those of us who pay attention, it is an easy
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  way to tell what's true and what's not, because
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  people are more comfortable saying things and
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  doing things and acknowledging things that they
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  know are not uncomfortably true. It's why, as
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  humanism is spread across the West, You see almost
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  a reverence for all the other cultures that are
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  not ours all the other religions that are not
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  ours Because they know they're not true. So there's
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  nothing to be uncomfortable about you can just
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  quaintly go Oh look at these look at these other
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  cultures and they're they're just as good as
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  ours and it's like first off No, they're not
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  that's something we can unpack later Western
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  civilization rises above it always has it always
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  will it's not perfect Not even close, but it's
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  the best of the bunch But Western civilization
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  is the one that gets attacked by everybody including
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  ourselves same thing with religion Christianity
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  is the one religion that makes everybody uncomfortable
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  Why does it make everybody uncomfortable because
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  it's convicting we are not convicted by voodoo
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  We're not convicted by Islam those those don't
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  convict us because they're not true. They're
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  false So it's easy. So it's easy to acknowledge
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  those Those things it's easy to use the term.
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  So supreme leader That's a fun word to use. It
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  doesn't impact us, so we use it, right? And I
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  think secretly a lot of people desire a supreme
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  leader, even the people who just got rid of their
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  supreme leader. Or openly. They want another
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  one. It could be openly. Yeah, yeah, well, you
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  got these people who are always, not my president,
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  or recently, it's been the, no kings! And the
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  same people who say no kings are the ones who
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  are most likely to, who want the biggest government.
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  Yeah, you love kings. They're happy with all
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  other aspects of kings. They're only mad about
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  who is the king. And so is this gal, this Iranian
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  gal, as she just said, she goes, ah, I'm glad
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  he's dead. Now it's time for another king. Where's
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  the Shah? Bring the Shah back so I can worship
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  that supreme leader. Uh huh. So funny. You make
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  an interesting point. You make an interesting
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  point about people being more publicly. I never
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  quite thought of it in that way. Like there's
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  something where you are, you can publicly acknowledge
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  that which is like the false gods are easier
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  to worship in a fake way or something like that?
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  It's hard, you put it in better words than me,
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  but I'm trying to wrap my mind around the concept.
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  Think about the way we in Western civilization
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  discuss and talk about the Hinduism, Taoism,
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  although there's something to be said for Taoism
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  in some ways. Again, that's another thing to
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  unpack, but as an anarchist, there's actually
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  a lot to be said for Taoism, but we'll leave
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  that. But a lot of these other religions that
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  are somehow treated as if they're equal, or cultures
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  are treated as if they're equal. We talk about
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  them and we feel very comfortable talking about
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  it. The moment you get to Christianity, everybody
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  becomes uncomfortable. The moment you start talking
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  about Western civilization, everybody becomes
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  uncomfortable because they're the most convicting,
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  they're the best, they're the truest, they're
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  the realest. We are scared of the things that
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  convict us because they are true. You know you're
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  over the target when you start taking flack,
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  right? I'm a Chalupa man myself. I vote for Chalupa,
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  Supreme Chalupa. Well, good riddance to bad rubbish
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  to the Chicken Supreme Chalupa leader over there.
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  The dear leader of Iran. We hardly know. Yeah,
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  I can't wait to see who the next Supreme Leader
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  is going to be. Yeah, well, in the 70s, does
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  everybody forget? The US is responsible for getting
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  rid of the Shah in the first place. And then
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  Ayatollah Khomeini came in and you look at the
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  pictures of Iran from the early 70s versus like
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  the late 70s, early 80s. And in the early to
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  mid 70s, Iran looks modern. The way everybody
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  dresses, women included, the educational system
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  was modernizing, everything was modernizing.
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  And then we, being the US, we're like, you know
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  what this place needs? A coup. And then you've
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  got the ayatollahs in charge since the 70s, 50
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  years. So, yeah. Good times. You know what's
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  funny too is that you say coup, which they say,
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  you know, the term that's used all the time is
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  regime change. And it's not like regime, like
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  we're disposing of the regime. We're just changing
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  them. It's just gonna be another regime. We're
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  just swapping it out. It's like, oh, oh yeah,
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  our bad here. How about a gift exchange? Sir,
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  I'd like to, I'd like to return this regime.
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  Oh yeah, right away, sir. We can, we can do that
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  for you. Can do. Do you have a receipt? Uh, no.
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  If, uh, I wonder if we're going to try to nation
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  build them to given that given Venezuela wasn't
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  enough. Given the Trump and all of those people,
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  you know, they ran on, um, you know, more, more
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  Middle East wars, more forever wars and more
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  regime change. They campaigned on it. Oh, oh
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  wait. Wait. Yeah. Man, the midterms are shaping
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  up to be just a slaughter fest for Republicans.
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  Good job, Republicans. You didn't do anything
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  you campaigned on. Not a thing. Not a single
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  thing. In fact, it gets even better. And this
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  is why I go and identify as a Republican. And
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  I have it for eight, 10 years now. I can't. The
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  Trump administration and all the Republicans
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  in charge, you guys look a lot like the other
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  team anyways. It's almost like it's a uniparty.
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  Let's move along here to back to Idaho, even
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  though we were sort of in Idaho there, tangentially.
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  Here is a - Yeah, we found the one Iranian Idahoan.
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  That's amazing. That's amazing. Did you catch
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  her name too? I have to go back. It was like
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  Fatim Hata Davis. I noticed. Okay, let's play
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  here. Speaking of Republicans acting like authoritarians.
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  GOP representative Jordan Redmond's latest proposal
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  would be to require Idaho public school teachers
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  to read a particular book every day to their
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  students. This would create a statewide policy
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  for public school teachers to read sequential
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  passages from the Bible in their classrooms daily
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  without instruction. No way! Well, wait, it gets
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  better. Without instruction or comment. It was.
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  Without instruction or comment. Hold still and
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  shut up while we Bible at you. Without instruction
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  or comment. It was an introductory hearing, but
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  indeed there was. I have some questions about
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  the theological. Shut up! Introductory hearing.
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  I have so many questions. And favoring one faith
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  over all others. Here is GOP representative Jack
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  Nelson. People did not come to this nation as
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  immigrants to go to government sponsored religion.
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  They came here to get away from it. LDS pioneers
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  settled this country. They absolutely, if you
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  look at history, came here to worship for freedom
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  of religion. In my community, to have a bunch
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  of Catholic kids sit and have to listen to readings
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  from the Book of Mormon, I think they would get
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  pretty excited about that. So a vote to introduce
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  follow. but five Republicans join Democrats.
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  And then came a unique reminder that in the legislature,
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  a chair of a committee cannot break a tie vote.
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  So the proposal failed on a tie vote. I'm actually
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  surprised it was a tie vote. I thought for sure
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  it would be worse for Redmond's bill than a tie
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  vote. I'm surprised actually that this would
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  even be attempted. Okay, so. You have a different
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  perspective. You're going to have a similar perspective,
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  but from a different, I should say, maybe a similar
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  philosophy, but from a slightly different perspective
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  because of your heritage, Scott. But for me,
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  I am essentially the white Anglo -Saxon Protestant,
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  die -hard capitalist, love, Western civilization
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  is the best, all of those things. You're a scuba,
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  you're a scuba wasp. I mean you could talk about
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  being a discount Jew Italian all you want, but
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  you're a scuba wasp. I'm a supreme wasp, sir.
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  Supreme? Chicken supreme. And even I think this
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  is a terrible idea. It's a terrible idea and
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  not because of the, ooh, separation of church
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  and state. That's actually bullshit. The separation
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  of church and state is not codified anywhere
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  in the Declaration or the Constitution. The whole
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  concept of separation of church and state comes
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  from other writings between Madison and a few
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  other people in Jefferson. And there was, you
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  know, a small group of them, three or four or
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  five of them, who wrote in like the Federalist
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  Papers and other letters to each other. There's
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  one in particular letter between, I believe,
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  Madison and Jefferson that now it escapes me.
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  But it has its own unique name. This letter does
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  because it was a series of letters that went
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  back and forth about this concept. And that's
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  where the concept was coined. So, you know, this
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  is important. context. It's not codified anywhere
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  in our founding documents, the separation of
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  church and state, because they didn't think it
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  needed to be. They got away from the idea that
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  the Church of England was effectively the church
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  is the government and the government is the church.
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  They are basically the same thing. That's different
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  than state -sponsored religion. Those are different
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  things. However, neither are a good thing. Now,
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  I do believe that we are a Christian nation and
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  we should do things from the lens of Christianity.
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  But that only works if we have a Christian populace,
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  which we less and less and less and less have.
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  Hence why humanism is cropped up and why things
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  look the way they look over the last 50, 70,
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  80 years is because we were a Christian nation.
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  We no longer are. Most of the people who work
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  in government are not Christians, not even close.
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  So we have humanism is what we have. That's the
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  state -sponsored religion, if ever there was
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  one. So this is all bad, though. State -run schools
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  should not endorse or actively push a particular
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  religion. I think state -run everything, if it
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  has to exist, which it shouldn't, should be operated
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  from the lens of Christianity. But we can't do
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  that anymore because we're not a Christian nation
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  and we're not a Christian population. There is
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  an important distinction. That's a long way to
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  get there, but I needed to say it because context
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  is important and being able to make the distinctions
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  is important. And it's not And then most people
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  are going to make it about separation of church
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  and state. That's a fallacy. It's wrong. And
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  the moment you bring that up to me, I know you
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  don't know what the heck you're talking about.
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  I believe you're referring to the letter to the
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  Danbury Baptists. Correct. Thank you. I knew
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  it. I knew it. Thank you. Yes. Yeah, it's a it's
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  a it's become a sort of buzz catch phrase to
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  shut down. They just know that if you say that,
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  then that renders religion irrelevant and bad.
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  I've won the debate, separation of church and
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  state. Done. It's the same thing as the people
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  who are like, my roads, when I talk about taxation
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  and they're like, oh, well, you're an idiot.
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  How do we build the roads? And it's like, oh,
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  you got me. There's no way we could possibly
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  do anything without the government, especially
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  building the flat surface upon which we drive
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  the cars. Yep, you win, Trump card. Pull your
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  kids out of public school. So here's where this
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  could be awesome. Maybe I should maybe I do want
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  it to pass and here's why Because what it might
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  do is encourage even more people who are outside
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  of the prototypical Christian sphere to homeschool
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  or seek out alternative school. It actually will
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  it will probably help push forward school choice
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  as Secular people look for school choice. So
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  I say bring it on do it put the Bible in schools
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  because Christians who are worth their salt are
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  going to hate that anyways, because they know
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  that what they want taught is not going to be
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  taught anyways. And public school is a scam and
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  a sham. And reading the Bible in school isn't
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  going to change that. And now you're going to
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  have secular people and atheists and agnostics
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  and everybody in between who doesn't want anything
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  to do with Christianity, who also will be looking
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  for school choice. So this is a win. I see this
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  as a win. Let's do it. You know what? I changed
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  my mind. This is a great thing. And we should
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  vote it in. Well, we almost you know if it's
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  tied and it's you know, it probably will probably
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  won't be the last we've heard of it Maybe the
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  next time it will. Oh, it's coming back. It's
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  definitely coming back now I gotta ask I actually
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  I know Jordan and he's a pretty smart dude. I
• 20:54
  definitely don't agree with all of his politics
• 20:55
  or his policies. I'd say He's a Republican. He's
• 21:00
  a true Republican. And I'd say on the scale of
• 21:02
  conservative, one to 10, one being the least,
• 21:04
  10 being the most, Jordan's probably somewhere
• 21:06
  like a six and a half to a seven and a half.
• 21:07
  He's all right. Like he's not great, but he's
• 21:10
  not terrible. And he means well. But now I'm
• 21:12
  going to ask him, I'd be like, bro, are you playing
• 21:14
  chess here where everybody else is playing checkers?
• 21:15
  Is this like 5G chess? It's a public school.
• 21:20
  It's a way to discredit public schools. And he's
• 21:22
  just thinking eight moves ahead. Like what a
• 21:24
  way to tear apart further the public education
• 21:27
  system. I love it. Actually, I love it. The more
• 21:29
  I think about it, the more I love it. I'm for
• 21:31
  this, but for very different reasons than most
• 21:35
  people who are for it. Because everyone else
• 21:38
  who's against it is on account of separation
• 21:40
  of church and state. Most separation, which is
• 21:44
  hilarious because that in and of itself is a
• 21:46
  religion. Everybody is religious just by FYI.
• 21:48
  I guess it's soapbox day. For as long as my phone
• 21:51
  battery will let me, I have 83 % left on my phone,
• 21:54
  so we're doing good. Everybody is religious.
• 21:57
  Everybody has a religion. Everybody's in some
• 21:59
  version of their own cult, one way or the other.
• 22:02
  The same thing with people who trot out separation
• 22:04
  of church and state. You're just as, you're in
• 22:07
  your own cult. You are articulating maybe the
• 22:12
  biggest realization of my adult life. And, you
• 22:16
  know, 22 year old me or whatever would have said
• 22:19
  like, oh yeah, I'm an atheist. Like, even though
• 22:21
  I grew up, you know, with the god of the bible
• 22:23
  and judaism like you know as as many do got away
• 22:27
  from it in my 20s when i thought i was like you
• 22:29
  know becoming uh sort of politically and philosophically
• 22:32
  online yeah when we're in our mid 20s and we
• 22:36
  think we're enlightened right and so i just but
• 22:38
  i you know i failed to realize that that is simply
• 22:41
  a version of religion also And in point of fact,
• 22:45
  it actually seems to be one of the most virulently
• 22:49
  religious groups is the atheist. I remember Dennis
• 22:53
  Prager once, not once, he mentioned this many
• 22:56
  times that he gave speeches in public a lot outside
• 22:59
  of his radio show, and he is a conservative talk
• 23:02
  show host if you don't know who he is. He would
• 23:05
  frequently relate the story of speaking at the
• 23:08
  atheist, there's an annual convention. I don't
• 23:11
  know if it's still going on, probably. Invited
• 23:14
  him to speak a couple few years in a row and
• 23:15
  he said that he When he would speak to it isn't
• 23:19
  into their credit, you know, and He would ask
• 23:22
  when he would speak to religious groups, which
• 23:25
  he did most of the time, you know Christians
• 23:27
  and Jews he would often as a precursor to speeches
• 23:30
  go like raise your hand you know if you if you
• 23:33
  ever question your belief in God and most of
• 23:36
  the Room raises their hand because you know people
• 23:39
  struggle with all sorts of stuff that make them
• 23:40
  question their faith You know, even doesn't Jacob
• 23:43
  mean struggle with God or something thereabouts?
• 23:45
  Like it's baked in. Struggling with God is...
• 23:47
  Jobin. There you go. Whereas when he went to
• 23:52
  the atheist convention and he said, raise your
• 23:55
  hand if you ever question your atheism, nobody
• 23:57
  raises their hand. They're sure there's no God.
• 24:00
  They're much more religious than the quote religious.
• 24:04
  Well, they're so sure there's no God, they spend
• 24:06
  an inordinate amount of their time and energy
• 24:07
  trying to prove to everybody else or convince
• 24:09
  everybody else that there's no God. Yep. It's
• 24:12
  their own version of proselytizing, really. I
• 24:14
  mean, in the same way that we as people of faith
• 24:16
  are called to evangelize and proselytize and
• 24:18
  spread the word, atheists actually do it too,
• 24:21
  in their own way. And ultimately, the question
• 24:24
  that everyone individually can ask themselves,
• 24:27
  where do you place your time, your energy, your
• 24:32
  finances? What do you focus on with those things,
• 24:36
  those finite resources that you possess? Whatever
• 24:38
  the answer is, well, that is what you Most value
• 24:42
  and that is what you To get a little heavy. I
• 24:46
  suppose that's what you worship in some ways
• 24:48
  to to your point and to wrap this before we go
• 24:51
  to the next clip the crowd my pre 2020 life People's
• 24:56
  Republic greater circle was mostly this type
• 25:00
  of you know atheists or at least agnostic, but
• 25:02
  usually atheist and What did I witness them do
• 25:06
  in 2020 in the most stark? visual and spiritual
• 25:12
  terms possible, show their worship of what they
• 25:16
  worship. The state. You got some good sound clips.
• 25:20
  I love it. Nice job. There's a meme I've got,
• 25:25
  I'll have to send you, that says, you know what
• 25:27
  really grinds my gears? Atheists who worship
• 25:29
  the state with religious fervor. Which they do.
• 25:33
  They showed us. They showed us in the starkest
• 25:35
  terms. possible that they will do whatever they
• 25:38
  are told for as long as they are told, as long
• 25:41
  as their God is the one who is telling them.
• 25:44
  Correct. Although I would say, not to play defense
• 25:46
  to atheists, but it's more of a statism versus
• 25:48
  non -statism thing, is if I had my druthers,
• 25:51
  you've heard me say this before, if I had my
• 25:52
  druthers, I would rather have a neighborhood
• 25:54
  full of atheist anarchists than Christians. Because
• 25:59
  either way, whether it's a Christian who shares,
• 26:01
  supposedly shares my faith, but I don't really
• 26:02
  think you do. If you're a statist, you can't.
• 26:05
  or an atheist, again, status to non -status is
• 26:07
  really what matters because the status wants
• 26:09
  to force me to do their stuff. Take my money,
• 26:13
  threaten me with violence, threaten me with physical
• 26:15
  harm, take my house if I don't pay my property
• 26:18
  taxes, kidnap me and throw me in a cage if I
• 26:21
  don't give them a portion of the fruits of my
• 26:22
  labor. If I don't pay for their pet projects,
• 26:25
  whether it's Christian or atheist, it doesn't
• 26:27
  matter. It's basically, I'd rather live nooks
• 26:29
  to an atheist. anarchist than I would have Christian
• 26:31
  status. I agree, of course, and probably much
• 26:34
  to your non -surprise, I agree. And that's because
• 26:37
  ultimately what I truly worship is liberty. And
• 26:41
  to the extent that there is worship involved
• 26:44
  with regard to Judeo -Christian religion, it
• 26:47
  is because it is the vehicle to assuring liberty
• 26:51
  in that rights are not granted by the state or
• 26:54
  man. Rights are granted by God. They are inherent
• 26:57
  and they cannot be taken away. So, you see what
• 26:59
  I'm saying? My worship of Judeo -Christian religion
• 27:02
  serves my worship of liberty. Well, traditionally,
• 27:07
  Christianity and Judeo -Christian values, this
• 27:11
  doesn't exist anymore, but traditionally, they
• 27:14
  were religions of freedom, overall freedom in
• 27:19
  the Lord. There was a small set of rules, major
• 27:22
  pillars and tenets to which you adhered to. You
• 27:24
  did not violate, and they were biblical, and
• 27:26
  there was very good reasons for them. And then
• 27:29
  that was it. That was what there was. You know,
• 27:31
  God gave prophets, then God gave judges. I mean,
• 27:34
  like we could unpack this over two or three or
• 27:36
  five episodes. And I'd love to have my buddy
• 27:37
  Steve paying Nobel Steve or I should less less
• 27:43
  Bell Steve. Yeah, Steve, that's for you. Dave
• 27:46
  Wallace, I'd love to have them here for a roundtable,
• 27:48
  maybe a special session roundtable on this topic
• 27:50
  alone would be awesome because we don't fully
• 27:52
  agree on everything, but we agree on the main
• 27:54
  concepts. And then there's a lot of minutia in
• 27:56
  between. But the point is, As I'm an anarchist
• 28:00
  because I am a man of faith, because I believe
• 28:02
  in God and because I believe that we are free
• 28:05
  through him and saved by him. The non -aggression
• 28:10
  principle to which we adhere to as anarchists
• 28:13
  and libertarians is just that. Don't hurt people.
• 28:16
  Don't take their stuff. What was the number one
• 28:19
  commandment in the 10 commandments? Thou shall
• 28:21
  have no other God before me. Number two, don't
• 28:25
  murder. like number three, like no adultery or
• 28:29
  something like that. I'm probably botching the
• 28:31
  order, but they're like then the top five, you
• 28:33
  know, and it worked for thousands of years. God
• 28:35
  only gave the Israelites a king because they
• 28:38
  were sinful shitheads and asked and asked and
• 28:41
  asked. God finally relented, but God said no
• 28:43
  for thousands of years. And then in the first
• 28:46
  and second Kings, if you would first, second
• 28:48
  Samuel, first, second Kings, if you read first
• 28:50
  Samuel, which is when the King, the first King
• 28:53
  of Israel comes to be, they ask, God know they
• 28:58
  demand we want a king and God says no. And they
• 29:01
  say, well, we want a king and God says no. And
• 29:04
  then they ask a third time and God finally says,
• 29:06
  if I give you a king, he's going to steal your
• 29:08
  daughters for his own. He's going to steal your
• 29:10
  sons for his army. He's going to steal your income
• 29:12
  to build his palace. He's going to make war.
• 29:15
  He's going to tax you and oppress you. And they
• 29:17
  say, we don't care. We want a king like everybody
• 29:19
  else. And now also like the Iranians who just
• 29:22
  give us a supreme leader. And God said to his
• 29:27
  prophet, I think it was Isaiah, right? I think
• 29:30
  it was, was it Isaiah? Who was there? No, Samuel.
• 29:32
  I was Samuel. Sorry. Jeez. I suck at this sometimes.
• 29:35
  Uh, and Samuel, then he was like, God WTF. And
• 29:38
  God goes, they're not rejecting you. They're
• 29:40
  rejecting me. So here we are. Like I am an anarchist
• 29:47
  because God is my King. I don't give a shit about
• 29:51
  what state thinks it has authority over me. God
• 29:55
  has authority over me. If I ever was going to
• 29:57
  fly a flag, it would be the Christian flag, I
• 30:00
  guess, or something. But I'm not really into
• 30:01
  flags other than the don't tread on me flag because
• 30:03
  that flag is just straight up. It's more like
• 30:05
  a don't trespass sign. Leave me alone. So I fly
• 30:08
  that flag. Anyways, rounding it all back is that
• 30:11
  that is the Judeo -Christian tradition. And that's
• 30:15
  why Western civilization did as well as it did
• 30:17
  because there was a small period of time where
• 30:19
  Western civilization started to understand that.
• 30:22
  And unfortunately, that's all, you know. It was
• 30:24
  a small period of time. Yes, it was a brief window
• 30:27
  and the window got slammed on our fingers by,
• 30:31
  I don't know, somewhere around Woodrow Wilson
• 30:33
  era. 1913, I submit, is the worst year for American
• 30:37
  history ever. It was the year that the income
• 30:39
  tax was put in place and it was the year that
• 30:41
  the Federal Reserve was established. Now, the
• 30:42
  Federal Reserve didn't actually start operating
• 30:44
  until 1914, but 1913, worst year. Yeah. And once
• 30:49
  again, 13, rearing its ugly Achilles busting
• 30:51
  head. Are you son of a bitch? Okay, so let's
• 30:55
  you know what here this is perfect because I
• 30:57
  have some audio from the latest Kootenay County
• 31:00
  Board of Commissioners meeting behind the commissioners
• 31:03
  if you by the way value for value the modal model
• 31:06
  that this show operates on once again I'm gonna
• 31:08
  bring the value here to you guys I sat through
• 31:10
  a lot of this baloney so that you don't have
• 31:13
  to so that I could just bring you the stuff that
• 31:15
  is Interesting enough to play on the show the
• 31:17
  only thing on the wall. I think in the entire
• 31:21
  room but certainly behind the commissioners who
• 31:24
  are of course up on their, you know, at the sort
• 31:26
  of like long lectern and they're elevated, you
• 31:29
  know, above the rest of the room with their microphones
• 31:33
  on the flexible arm. Well, that by the way, Eberlein
• 31:36
  never turns his on. Like he has to be reminded
• 31:38
  every single effing time he talks to turn your
• 31:42
  mic on. I don't. OK. Actually, that's kind of
• 31:45
  smart because then you don't have any whoopsie
• 31:47
  hot mic moments. No, no. See, that's the thing.
• 31:49
  You would think that, but you're giving him too
• 31:51
  much credit. Like it's like it's a calculated
• 31:53
  move. No, he's just a dope like a lot of at least
• 31:55
  in this regard with like a lot of people are
• 31:57
  like the thing is, is you can still hear him.
• 31:59
  You just can't hear him well. So it's not like
• 32:01
  he's going to get, you know, oh, well, I was,
• 32:03
  you know, I was saying the N word over and over,
• 32:05
  but I didn't want you to hear me. Like, no, we
• 32:07
  can still hear you. We just can't hear you well.
• 32:09
  Turn your goddamn mic on. OK, but so now, excuse
• 32:11
  me with the GD, because what I was going to say
• 32:13
  is the only thing on the wall in this room is
• 32:16
  a sort of largest sign above the commissioner.
• 32:20
  So when they're on camera, it's behind them on
• 32:22
  the wall. And it says, in God, we trust the only
• 32:25
  thing on the wall that does not stop. a lot of
• 32:29
  sort of petty squabbling and these ridiculous
• 32:32
  exchanges that go on in this chamber. So I just
• 32:34
  wanted to play a little bit for you. Some of
• 32:36
  the parts I sped up because it's sort of wordy
• 32:38
  and boring, but I want you to know this is this
• 32:40
  is sort of captures the tone and tenor of a lot
• 32:44
  of these meetings and exchanges with the various
• 32:46
  people that come before the commissioners and
• 32:48
  the commissioners among themselves. Chief Deputy
• 32:51
  Treasurer, I figure this is probably representative
• 32:53
  of almost every commission, like just extrapolate
• 32:56
  this across every city council. every, every
• 32:58
  county, every, I mean, this, this is just politics
• 33:01
  in a nutshell at the local level. So, you know,
• 33:04
  there you go. Jill Smith for the record, at this
• 33:08
  time the treasurer's office continues to wait
• 33:10
  to receive a fully tested PP2 roll from the assessor's
• 33:13
  office. She's talking, this is the deputy treasurer
• 33:17
  and she's speaking about some sort of like, I
• 33:20
  don't know, software upgrade or they're going
• 33:21
  to change their backend and how they conduct
• 33:24
  their office operations and then the assessor's
• 33:27
  office is also trying to do that but they're
• 33:29
  waiting on the assessor and the assessor's waiting
• 33:31
  on the treasurer and they're like... you know,
• 33:33
  basically taking month after month after month
• 33:35
  after month to try and implement this backend
• 33:37
  or whatever, you know, whatever slack, I don't
• 33:40
  know, whatever software they're trying to implement.
• 33:42
  And neither one of them seems to be able to get
• 33:43
  their crap together. Tested PP2 role from the
• 33:46
  assessor's office. And until that process is
• 33:48
  finalized, the role cannot be delivered to us
• 33:50
  for treasurer side validation and workflow testing.
• 33:54
  Yeah, I think the challenge is the fact that...
• 33:58
  Who's this? This is Bela Kovacs. Joe! Okay, well,
• 34:02
  can you hang tight just for a minute? So that's
• 34:05
  Commissioner Bruce Mattari, and he's got Bela
• 34:08
  Kovacs, who's the CUNY County Assessor, on the
• 34:10
  phone. And I just like the part where he's like,
• 34:13
  who's speaking, like he doesn't know. Yeah, I
• 34:15
  think the challenge is... Then I like where he
• 34:17
  tells them, hey, shut up, you, I'm going to talk.
• 34:20
  Pipe down. This is... Okay, it goes on. Yeah,
• 34:23
  I think the challenge is the fact that... Commissioners?
• 34:26
  Who's this? This is Bela Kovacs. OK, well, can
• 34:31
  you hang tight just for a minute? I would like
• 34:34
  to. You bet. So I'm clarifying because it's been
• 34:37
  said that this has been fully tested since last
• 34:40
  summer and that we're delaying the implementation
• 34:42
  of this project that we've been working on for
• 34:45
  a long time. That's not the case. I'm still waiting
• 34:48
  for something that I can start testing. Bela
• 34:51
  Kovacs, Assessor for the Record. What was my
• 34:54
  understanding is we were going to address our
• 34:56
  fixes and our solutions. from the assessor side,
• 34:59
  I guess it raises the question, why did it take
• 35:02
  a whole year for the Treasurer's Office to figure
• 35:04
  out that they wanted to be a part of Simpatico?
• 35:07
  I can answer that for you. I don't have the answer.
• 35:10
  This is my agenda. Well, I don't have the answer
• 35:12
  for that. Assessor Kovacs, is there anything
• 35:15
  else you have to say? Yeah. All right. I want
• 35:19
  to remark that. as the state task commission
• 35:20
  makes more programming changes because the state
• 35:22
  laws change because the software maker makes
• 35:24
  patches, fixes, and updates. The software program
• 35:26
  is like the blue dot reading program and it costs
• 35:27
  $100 to maintain that programming until the new
• 35:29
  programming changes for the terms are completed.
• 35:30
  And that's a whole year to do. OK, thank you,
• 35:33
  Assessor Kovacs. Jill? So Assessor Kovacs, it
• 35:37
  seems to have forgotten. that when the master
• 35:40
  contract for this project was created, he sat
• 35:41
  in Steve's office. And together we discussed
• 35:43
  what the master contract should say. And it was
• 35:45
  decided that it would be a master contract because
• 35:46
  it would start with the assessor's office. And
• 35:47
  when the assessor's office was created, it would
• 35:48
  start with the treasurer's office. They couldn't
• 35:49
  start working on anything for the treasurer's
• 35:50
  office. Oh, wait. Hold on. Crap. I forgot to
• 35:53
  mute that. That's my fault. I was like, is Paul
• 35:56
  playing that in real time? I was like, oh, no,
• 35:58
  that's my clip. They couldn't start working on
• 36:01
  anything for the treasurer's office. That's all
• 36:02
  you, Boo. I can give some background on some
• 36:07
  of this, by the way. Yeah, let's let's ride this
• 36:10
  out and then then let's hear it so in February
• 36:12
  Sorry assessor Kovacs do not interrupt I'm sorry,
• 36:23
  but assessor Kovacs, it's not your turn to speak
• 36:39
  I offered them to piggyback and be a part of
• 36:42
  the master contract that I created they refused
• 36:45
  assessor Kovacs does everything have to be like
• 36:48
  this I mean at what point do us elected officials
• 36:52
  just work together okay what point at what point
• 36:56
  what point do we just work together to get the
• 36:59
  job done Does it all have to be spelled out?
• 37:01
  That's what we've been trying. I'm sorry. I'm
• 37:03
  speaking. Does it all have to be spelled out
• 37:06
  in a contract between the elected officials?
• 37:09
  Can't we just figure out how to, you know, work
• 37:11
  together? We have been working together. Well,
• 37:14
  it doesn't sound like to get some cooperation
• 37:17
  from the other side. Well, well, why? Why did
• 37:19
  this is actually true? Kovacs has had a really
• 37:23
  rough go of it now. He he has made a couple of
• 37:25
  missteps. And I think I don't think he expected
• 37:28
  the level of resistance that he got. But basically
• 37:30
  from day one that I voted for the guy and I think
• 37:33
  he's, for the most part, I think he's trying
• 37:35
  really hard to clean up what is a pretty messed
• 37:37
  up archaic situation in the Kootenai County assessor's
• 37:41
  office. He's not popular down there because,
• 37:44
  you know, pro tip, fun fact, surprise, nobody
• 37:48
  in the county tax collection agencies tend to
• 37:51
  be conservative. Weird, right? Who could have
• 37:54
  thunk it? Kovacs tends to be more on the conservative
• 37:57
  side of it. So we got in there. He saw things
• 37:58
  he didn't like. He saw things that shouldn't
• 38:00
  be. He went to make some changes. They've been
• 38:02
  trying to make changes for a couple of years.
• 38:04
  And every step of the way, the staff underneath
• 38:06
  him and a side of him or to the side of him has
• 38:10
  basically slowed things down, sabotaged. They've
• 38:13
  they've actively worked against him the entire
• 38:15
  way. And sort of like the NIC episode, what you
• 38:19
  have is underlings who have done thing a particular
• 38:22
  way for a while and like the way they've done
• 38:24
  it. threatening to set fire to the building,
• 38:27
  so to speak, because they don't want things to
• 38:29
  get cleaned up or changed. And then as Bella
• 38:31
  Kovacs has not backed down, then the refrain
• 38:34
  is that it's all his fault. Like you're doing
• 38:37
  this to us, you know, don't take another step,
• 38:39
  but we're going to burn the building down. And
• 38:41
  Kovacs is like, this is my job and I'm trying
• 38:42
  to clean things up. And then they, you know,
• 38:44
  his underlings set the building on fire and then
• 38:47
  they go, this is your fault. And then that's
• 38:48
  the refrain that has been repeated and repeated
• 38:50
  and repeated. And if you read the press, look
• 38:52
  at any of the articles of the press, you'll see
• 38:54
  that that's exactly how that's gone. So all you
• 38:56
  have to do is just see some of the articles that
• 38:58
  the press runs and then you ought to know, oh,
• 39:00
  OK, so what they're saying is actually the opposite
• 39:02
  of what's going on, just like it was with NIC.
• 39:05
  Basically, whatever the press says, just know
• 39:07
  that the opposite thing is what's happening,
• 39:10
  because that's how they covered NIC the exact
• 39:12
  same way. Now, I'm not saying Kovacs is blameless
• 39:15
  and all this. I think he overestimated some things
• 39:18
  and should have probably gone about some things
• 39:20
  a different way. But now you've got the county
• 39:23
  commission full of conservatives actively working
• 39:26
  against Kovacs as well. So congratulations to
• 39:31
  the establishment. They got what they wanted.
• 39:33
  And they've even got conservatives working against
• 39:35
  conservatives now. So that's what's going on
• 39:37
  here. Kovacs is trying to defend himself going,
• 39:40
  hey, we've been working on stuff. We've been
• 39:41
  trying to do this. You people have been undermining
• 39:44
  me the whole way. And on the other end of it,
• 39:46
  the people who have been undermining him And
• 39:48
  now the county commissioners who have been brought
• 39:51
  into the fray without really fully knowing are
• 39:53
  going act like they're taking the high road.
• 39:56
  And they're saying, why can't you just work with
• 39:58
  people, Kovacs? Why can't we all just get along?
• 40:00
  Why can't you just work with everybody? And Kovacs
• 40:02
  is over there going, I'm trying, you dildos.
• 40:06
  I'm sorry, who's speaking? The assessor. The
• 40:10
  guy in charge of assessing and collecting taxes
• 40:13
  for the county. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hold on. Hold
• 40:16
  on. Bruce Matari is like, be quiet, plebe. I'm
• 40:20
  speaking. No, I'm speaking. I like how everybody
• 40:23
  gets to interrupt except for Bella Kovacs. Like
• 40:26
  everybody else gets to speak and interrupt. But
• 40:28
  when Bella tries to defend himself, they're like,
• 40:30
  oh, shut up, you. My take on it is that both
• 40:35
  your departments own this. and that you both
• 40:38
  need to work together to get it resolved and
• 40:40
  pointing fingers and saying why hasn't someone
• 40:42
  else done something and all those things is not
• 40:45
  productive and if the board does have to get
• 40:47
  involved I can assure you that it probably won't
• 40:50
  be to your liking put your shields and swords
• 40:53
  down and sit in a room and figure out how to
• 40:55
  get this thing to work okay thanks dad that makes
• 41:01
  me think of having like I've got three kids now
• 41:04
  two of them are a little bit on the older side
• 41:05
  15 and 11 and they get along splendidly well,
• 41:09
  especially for being such different personalities
• 41:11
  and such. Four years isn't a big deal when you're,
• 41:14
  you know, my age and your age, Scott, but when
• 41:17
  you're 11 and 14 and 15, four years, it's an
• 41:20
  eternity. And, you know, older girl and a younger
• 41:23
  boy. So in most American households, that's a
• 41:26
  recipe for constant strife, but not in my household,
• 41:28
  which is really nice. I have a good family, but
• 41:30
  it does, but once in a while tension erupts.
• 41:34
  And when I'm off my game, I have a Bruce Matari
• 41:37
  moment there where I'm just like, everybody shut
• 41:40
  up. Just get along. Just do it. And both of them
• 41:44
  are trying to explain their side. It was like,
• 41:45
  I don't care. You're dumb. Just get along. There,
• 41:51
  I've solved it. Dad of the year, supreme leader
• 41:54
  dad. I prefer the term supreme father of the
• 42:00
  land. His supreme magnificence. Okay, let's do
• 42:08
  one more quick one here before we take a little
• 42:10
  mid show breather Die real quick. It's a good
• 42:14
  reminder though clips like that. I'm glad you
• 42:16
  played that It's a good reminder That humans
• 42:20
  are humans no matter where they are or what they
• 42:23
  do for a living or what position they're in so
• 42:27
  it broken down in the simplest phrase possible
• 42:31
  it is that if People are so bad that they cannot
• 42:36
  be trusted and if people are so bad that they
• 42:39
  need to be governed Well, where do you find the
• 42:43
  angels to do the governing? You can't it's impossible
• 42:46
  because wherever you go people are people So
• 42:49
  why on God's green earth would we want to give
• 42:52
  people? more power over other people He's absolutely
• 42:59
  right here is Matari and His fellow commissioner,
• 43:05
  Leslie Duncan, they have frequent sort of spats
• 43:10
  and disagreements. Here is what a typical one
• 43:13
  sounds like. You're familiar with this, right?
• 43:16
  Oh, yes, because it's like the third or fourth
• 43:18
  year in a row that I've held this event. And
• 43:21
  it doesn't even matter what it is. So just listen
• 43:23
  to it. Like the third or fourth year in a row
• 43:24
  that I've held this event. And it's the first
• 43:26
  time I've gotten these concerns from employees.
• 43:29
  And I think really the... Do we want to wash
• 43:32
  our dirty laundry out in the public? No. Oh,
• 43:35
  yeah. What I want to do is... That was Mark Everline.
• 43:37
  for in case you didn't recognize his voice. Laundry
• 43:39
  out in the public. Sounds like he remembered
• 43:41
  to turn his mic on that time. That time, yeah.
• 43:43
  I think maybe he just didn't turn it off from
• 43:44
  the previous time he spoke. Laundry out in the
• 43:46
  public. No. In fact, what I want to do is I want
• 43:49
  to figure out a way where we can move this forward
• 43:52
  with respect to doing a board sanctioned event.
• 43:55
  Is this a board sanctioned event? No, it isn't.
• 43:59
  It is a private event that I use to appreciate
• 44:02
  the department heads, and I use my own funds.
• 44:05
  you know if we want to make it a board event
• 44:07
  then we can make it a board event and we can
• 44:09
  use the county staff or the you know to to organize
• 44:11
  it oh no you know and i didn't want to have to
• 44:14
  do this i mean i just i thought that we can't
• 44:16
  why do you have to do that's not true you absolutely
• 44:19
  can talk about administrative stuff it doesn't
• 44:22
  matter you love to bring these things forward
• 44:25
  to the public to misconstrued and that's act
• 44:29
  like there's some type of wrongdoing going on
• 44:32
  but I have not had a problem the last three years
• 44:36
  well then you know let's eliminate the mixed
• 44:39
  signal of having you know county staff asking
• 44:42
  for good dates and things like that no problem
• 44:47
  okay all right any other comments I guess not
• 44:52
  wait so Wait, are you noticing a theme here with
• 44:56
  how Bruce Matari operates and also how he thinks
• 44:59
  he finds resolution? He basically just tells
• 45:02
  everybody to shut up and basically is like, well,
• 45:09
  this is how it's going to go. And you're dumb
• 45:11
  and you're dumb and everybody shut up. And there
• 45:15
  we've. OK, solve the problem. No problem. That's
• 45:23
  what the heck. Okay. Those are our county county
• 45:28
  commissioners, everybody county everybody. Actually,
• 45:34
  I know, I know two of those three people personally.
• 45:37
  I know them personally, and I would consider
• 45:39
  them family friends. And the one that I don't
• 45:41
  know personally, and I don't consider a family
• 45:43
  friend is the one who's running everybody over
• 45:45
  and acting like a bad dad. So I'm inclined to
• 45:48
  take the side of anybody who's not him at this
• 45:50
  moment. Now, I don't have all the information.
• 45:52
  I don't have all the context. I just I know the
• 45:55
  players so I can make an educated guess. And
• 45:58
  as usual, nobody's perfect. And they're all in
• 46:01
  political office. And I don't respect any of
• 46:04
  that anyways, because the state is evil and terrible.
• 46:07
  So screw it all. But it sounds to me without
• 46:11
  any other background here that Leslie has been
• 46:14
  organizing an event that's like a an employee
• 46:17
  appreciation event. Yeah. for county employees
• 46:21
  out of her own pockets and something she's doing
• 46:23
  of her own volition as a private event. What
• 46:27
  is the problem here? And how I wonder if somebody
• 46:30
  didn't get invited and they got pissy about it.
• 46:32
  Or maybe the event ran afoul of somebody else's
• 46:35
  calendar or something. That sounds like sour
• 46:37
  grapes to me. But that's exactly how statists
• 46:40
  operate is they tell people to go do their own
• 46:44
  thing somewhere else. Right. Well, if you don't
• 46:45
  like it here, move to Somalia. Or if you don't
• 46:47
  like the public school system, Create your own.
• 46:50
  And we go, okay. And we do create our own system
• 46:53
  where we try to live as far outside the mainstream
• 46:56
  as we can while still getting, you know, conducting
• 46:58
  life business. So in this case, Leslie goes,
• 47:00
  I haven't, I want to, I want to make County people
• 47:02
  feel better. And maybe, maybe she just picks
• 47:04
  the County people that have been useful or helpful
• 47:07
  or the ones she likes. She's allowed to do that.
• 47:09
  It's out of her own pocket. How is this a problem?
• 47:12
  Are we eight years old and you're upset because
• 47:13
  you didn't get invited? Bummer. Grow up. You
• 47:17
  know, and I didn't want to have to do this. I
• 47:19
  mean, I just, I thought that we can't talk about
• 47:21
  these things. That's not true. You absolutely
• 47:23
  can talk about administrative stuff. So Leslie
• 47:25
  creates her own event in their own space, privately
• 47:29
  funded. He didn't want to have to do this, but
• 47:32
  here he goes. Uh huh. And I don't know anything
• 47:35
  about like what's going on in the true motivations
• 47:39
  or like the inner thoughts or... You know, is
• 47:42
  Matari a statist? Is Leslie doing something she's
• 47:44
  not supposed to be doing? Like, I don't really
• 47:45
  know. I just know what they're doing publicly.
• 47:48
  And they honestly sound like third graders. Yeah,
• 47:51
  they do. Well, and to a degree, I would say it
• 47:53
  doesn't matter. The principle of the matter is
• 47:57
  a person was doing a thing in a private way with
• 48:02
  their own money. So why does government have
• 48:06
  to get involved? It shouldn't. But Bruce Matare's
• 48:10
  inclination is to co -opt it, to commandeer it
• 48:12
  is the better answer because, or to shut it down.
• 48:15
  Did you get that? Like Bruce Matare came at this
• 48:17
  as a, we either do it my way, which is to turn
• 48:20
  it into a county sanctioned event with, oh, by
• 48:23
  the way, taxpayer money, Scott, when it was not
• 48:27
  being taxpayer funded originally, it's not. So
• 48:30
  that's a good thing. Now Bruce wants to make
• 48:33
  it a taxpayer funded thing, which is bullshit,
• 48:36
  number one, and then number two, commandeer what
• 48:38
  wasn't his to take. And your options in typical
• 48:41
  government fashion are we either take over your
• 48:44
  thing or we just eliminate it entirely. Those
• 48:47
  are your choices. And that's what sticks out
• 48:50
  to me. That's why this that's why this kind of
• 48:52
  thing matters, because it's a philosophy, it's
• 48:55
  an ideology, and it translates into how people
• 48:57
  behave. in their personal lives, which I don't
• 49:00
  care so much about, but then it translates into
• 49:02
  how they behave in their public and their political
• 49:04
  lives. And it affects and informs their politics
• 49:07
  and then how they govern other people, events,
• 49:11
  places, functions. And that is terrifying. Here
• 49:17
  is one more final government running the back
• 49:21
  end of things and things not really quite going
• 49:23
  to plan before the break. just for some comedic
• 49:27
  enjoyment. It happened in Washington, but close
• 49:30
  enough. The Washington Department of Licensing
• 49:32
  experienced a malfunction after using a new tool
• 49:35
  for Spanish speaking callers. It could be considered
• 49:39
  a cautionary tale about AI not working as it
• 49:42
  was intended. It was just a moment out of parks
• 49:45
  and rec. It was crazy. Only for Maya Edwards,
• 49:48
  the Washington Department of Licensing was the
• 49:50
  agency lost in translation. Last July, her husband
• 49:54
  called them and followed the AI generated prompts.
• 49:57
  He clicked Spanish and he was like, you have
• 49:59
  got to hear what just happened when I clicked
• 50:02
  Spanish. Here's what they heard. Thank you for
• 50:05
  calling the Department of Licensing. Yes, English
• 50:09
  with a yes accent. Except the numbers. For some
• 50:13
  reason, those were in Spanish. It's crazy. It's
• 50:23
  crazy. Maya did what any self respecting millennial
• 50:27
  would do. I reposted it on Tiktok. She also reported
• 50:30
  the problem to the DOL, but last week she discovered
• 50:34
  no one had fixed it, so she posted again. It's
• 50:37
  now half in Spanish and half in English. This
• 50:40
  time her video went by progress and the agency
• 50:43
  got the message. I don't know. I feel bad for
• 50:46
  the person who came in Monday at the DOL. In
• 50:48
  a statement, the Washington Department of Licensing
• 50:50
  noted they had fixed the glitch and apologize
• 50:53
  for the error, calling it an unfortunate byproduct
• 50:56
  of expanding services. Shout out to Washington
• 50:58
  for trying to be accessible. I really appreciate
• 51:00
  that. A show of humanity in a moment that could
• 51:04
  use more humankind. We're going to use AI to
• 51:07
  cut costs or cut corners or whatever. Have somebody
• 51:10
  real check it. If we're going to use AI to get
• 51:15
  rid of the workforce, at least retain enough
• 51:17
  of the workforce to make sure AI is working properly.
• 51:22
  Hey, do you think that the assessor's office
• 51:25
  and the Department of the Treasury in Cooney
• 51:28
  County was the ones who got contracted to work
• 51:30
  on this department of Washington Department of
• 51:32
  Licensing thing? Because it took them a year
• 51:36
  or half a year and still nothing happened. No
• 51:38
  one's fixed it. Yeah, I have the best fix of
• 51:41
  all. You want to hear it, Scott? Let's hear it.
• 51:43
  Abolish the Department of Licensing. Poof. No
• 51:47
  more problems. Boom. And boom goes the dynamite.
• 51:50
  Well, one thing we're not abolishing is the model
• 51:55
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• 52:03
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  It needs to be one or five. Right. Okay, I would
• 56:12
  like to we do have an executive producer to thank
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  and before I thank him I would like to read this
• 56:18
  message from a group text thread that are this
• 56:21
  week's executive producer Which is the spook
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  from Spokane who has donated a couple few times
• 56:25
  Spokane I want to read this message because he
• 56:30
  and Mr. Bologna and Jen with a G on this group
• 56:35
  thread, had some commentary on our coverage of
• 56:38
  the avalanche stuff and being a snow expert,
• 56:42
  if you recall. Okay, so here's the first message
• 56:47
  from Mr. Belloni. IPAC, that's the Idaho Panhandle
• 56:51
  Avalanche Center, for which the snow expert that
• 56:55
  was interviewed in that clip, that's the organization
• 56:58
  she worked for, the nonprofit that we were talking
• 57:00
  about. IPAC is awesome. Jen with the GNI did
• 57:04
  their avalanche training courses very informative
• 57:06
  practical knowledge was delivered and practice
• 57:08
  throughout the training. The organization seems
• 57:10
  well structured and provided the region with
• 57:13
  avalanche forecasts throughout the region to
• 57:15
  help backcountry skiers, sorry, backcountry users
• 57:18
  like skiers, snowboarders assess risks before
• 57:21
  they go and it's free. It's supposed to daily
• 57:23
  or like every few days. With all these avalanches
• 57:25
  in the news, I've been shocked that none of the
• 57:27
  media reports have included details about what
• 57:29
  the forecast said for the location of the avalanche.
• 57:32
  Well, not shocked. The media sucks balls at everything,
• 57:35
  especially their jobs, but still would be a nice.
• 57:37
  Right about that baloney would be a nice disclaimer
• 57:39
  to add to the stories as a public service, but
• 57:41
  that would be assuming the media is here to serve
• 57:43
  the public. It would also be assuming that he's
• 57:45
  on a roll, that they'd want people taking personal
• 57:47
  responsibility to assess and. to assess and accept
• 57:51
  risks in their lives. Instead, snow bad. Yeah.
• 57:59
  There was a bunch more. I'll just read a little
• 58:01
  bit more here because what you don't know about
• 58:02
  snow might kill you. Kill you. We're all going
• 58:06
  to die. There's a bunch more on this thread,
• 58:09
  including a bunch of pictures from Mr. Bologna
• 58:13
  and Gin with a G up doing. actual avalanche doing
• 58:17
  like, oh, your friends buried. So let's practice
• 58:19
  what is the best practices for digging them out.
• 58:22
  I mean, this was like a major all day training
• 58:24
  thing that they did. to prepare themselves for,
• 58:28
  you know, if they find themselves in this sort
• 58:29
  of situation. So just a little bit more. In the
• 58:32
  morning, up to about 3 p .m., it took place up
• 58:34
  at Schweitzer. We split into teams for practice
• 58:36
  bits. We dug test pits. There was team digging
• 58:38
  for rescue, searching debris fields for beacon
• 58:41
  practice. Instructors buried the beacon somewhere.
• 58:43
  And then they set a scene nearby with poles and
• 58:45
  skis as evidence of the location. It was truly
• 58:47
  awesome practice. Digging somebody out was shockingly
• 58:50
  difficult and exhausting. Good detail. He said,
• 58:54
  now I'm a certified snow expert. So anyway, this
• 58:56
  thread went on and there was a lot of back and
• 58:59
  forth about this training and the legitimacy
• 59:02
  and, not legitimacy, but importance of an organization
• 59:07
  like this and that they were doing good work.
• 59:10
  And the media was not, as usual, but this organization
• 59:13
  was, is. I'm glad to hear that. I don't think
• 59:16
  I did, but if I made fun of IPAC in an earlier
• 59:18
  episode, then I take it back. Well, we were just
• 59:21
  kind of, you know, being a little flip and we're
• 59:23
  really making more fun of the media than than
• 59:25
  than I pack. But yeah, we were just like, well,
• 59:27
  what's a snow expert? And we were just kind of
• 59:28
  joking around. And they this our friends here
• 59:31
  took it in the spirit in which it's intended.
• 59:32
  But I just wanted to share some of this because
• 59:34
  they had actually done the avalanche training.
• 59:37
  That's actually really cool. Well done, guys.
• 59:40
  I I learned something new today that snow expert
• 59:43
  is actually kind of maybe sort of a thing. OK,
• 59:45
  I'll give it to you guys. I'll give it to you
• 59:46
  guys. Yeah. Well done. So for sharing. One of
• 59:51
  that threads participants was is the spook from
• 59:55
  Spokane who is the executive producer for number
• 59:59
  episode number 18 this week on no ID and Yes,
• 1:00:04
  we from so can donated a row of ducks to to dot
• 1:00:07
  to to he says you guys are no snow scientists
• 1:00:12
  But you put on a good show. IPAC actually saves
• 1:00:16
  lives. So we are show scientists. We're show
• 1:00:17
  experts, not snow experts. We're not experts.
• 1:00:19
  We just play one on TV. IPAC actually saves lives,
• 1:00:23
  unlike the Idaho Health Department. For those
• 1:00:26
  snow enthusiasts, remember that terrain is the
• 1:00:29
  answer. Stay safe from the spook from Spokane.
• 1:00:33
  Stay safe. Hey, thanks spook from Spokane. We
• 1:00:36
  really appreciate that. Appreciate the consistency.
• 1:00:38
  There's been a number of you who have been...
• 1:00:40
  pretty consistent and we appreciate everything
• 1:00:43
  but particularly the consistency some of you
• 1:00:46
  guys bring so thank you i had an idea and i'm
• 1:00:48
  just going to throw it out there live and maybe
• 1:00:50
  we get feedback on it since most of our listeners
• 1:00:54
  are from the area and in the area perhaps sometime
• 1:00:59
  in the late spring when i'm out of this boot
• 1:01:01
  because i'm in this big fat stupid boot right
• 1:01:04
  now for my achilles tendon and it's no fun i
• 1:01:06
  want to be out of the boot when we do this perhaps
• 1:01:09
  we have a no id get together day of us and our
• 1:01:13
  executive producers. Maybe we meet even, if they're
• 1:01:15
  willing, meet at the lounge and have a drink
• 1:01:17
  and cigars and hang out and have ourselves a
• 1:01:21
  jolly old time. Well, I think that would be a
• 1:01:24
  full circle proposition because I know the Spook
• 1:01:28
  from Spokane and Jen with a G and Mr. Bologna
• 1:01:31
  and many others from no agenda meetups. So yes,
• 1:01:34
  a no ID meetup would be a terrific thing to do.
• 1:01:37
  I'm all for it. Bitchin'. Yeah. And a lot most
• 1:01:42
  a lot of the other guys like like Kevin Killian,
• 1:01:44
  who's been super consistent and he's a dear friend.
• 1:01:46
  And I mean, I met I met him because of the industry
• 1:01:48
  I used to work in and and a fair number of other
• 1:01:51
  folks who have been in our orbit are in that
• 1:01:54
  orbit. So, yeah, I say details to be to be determined
• 1:01:58
  date to be determined with Scott and I'll foment
• 1:02:00
  some dastardly plans and then keep you all abreast
• 1:02:03
  of the situation in the near future. I think
• 1:02:06
  it'd be a lot of fun. And even without such a
• 1:02:08
  meetup, I did want to say that. If any of you
• 1:02:11
  would also like to be disproportionately mentioned,
• 1:02:13
  like my friend Steve Pegg is, all it takes is
• 1:02:16
  just becoming a good friend of mine. So hit me
• 1:02:19
  up and we'll have a meet and a drink. Usually
• 1:02:22
  I'm not drinking much anymore. Just for now,
• 1:02:24
  for now, just because health stuff. But, you
• 1:02:27
  know, a cigar and a hangout or a lunch or whatever.
• 1:02:29
  But I'm always happy to meet new and interesting
• 1:02:31
  people, especially ones who take more of a libertarian
• 1:02:34
  worldview. That's always fun. Or if you don't,
• 1:02:36
  that's OK. We'll meet up and we'll argue. And
• 1:02:38
  that'll be a great time, too. It's just that's
• 1:02:40
  a personal invitation. You're not invited Scott.
• 1:02:43
  I know we had that last week where it doesn't
• 1:02:45
  matter I'm inviting myself the the racketeer
• 1:02:48
  And which is your fault is a public institution.
• 1:02:52
  So I'm kind you can't stop me Actually, that's
• 1:02:59
  perfect the lukewarm thing we had a laugh about
• 1:03:00
  that yesterday I felt yeah poor Scott is like
• 1:03:02
  you don't even think of me ever do you and it's
• 1:03:04
  like no I don't hate you. I don't love you. I
• 1:03:06
  just forget I just forget about you till it's
• 1:03:08
  time to record Until I need your help with tech.
• 1:03:13
  It's not true. I love Scott. He's a good friend.
• 1:03:16
  Truly, you're a good friend. Go to noidshow .com
• 1:03:20
  if you'd like to become an executive producer
• 1:03:22
  of an episode of No ID. Or yes, hit the contact
• 1:03:25
  button and send us a message if you'd like to
• 1:03:28
  become. We'll start with just a regular friend
• 1:03:30
  and then maybe good friend like later, you know.
• 1:03:32
  Yeah, yeah. One step at a time. I mean, I don't
• 1:03:34
  want to scare anybody off. I'm not looking for
• 1:03:36
  marriage. I'm happily married. So, you know,
• 1:03:38
  nothing like that. You know, I'm not even looking
• 1:03:40
  for friends necessarily. I got what I need. And
• 1:03:42
  so this is so clear. This isn't a cry for help.
• 1:03:44
  This is just a Paul being friendly kind of thing.
• 1:03:46
  And it's like, yeah, people who tune in, I want
• 1:03:48
  to meet them. And with all that said, I think
• 1:03:59
  it's time for second half show. Let's start off
• 1:04:03
  with this ridiculous one, but it's sort of on
• 1:04:07
  theme from our last show. Before we do, I got
• 1:04:11
  to publicly just announce that yes, I know we've
• 1:04:14
  missed another Scott shots. I apologize. I apologize
• 1:04:17
  to you, Scott. I apologize to our executive producers.
• 1:04:21
  It is coming back. I just don't have the tech
• 1:04:23
  to pull it off. I had the last three or four
• 1:04:25
  weeks. Yeah. It's been a combination of being
• 1:04:27
  injured, not having my, my computer working,
• 1:04:30
  not having my tech with me because I've been
• 1:04:32
  traveling Scott and I have recorded, I think
• 1:04:34
  twice in the last four, twice together. And I
• 1:04:37
  haven't had my tech with me. So it's just a combination
• 1:04:39
  of bad timing injuries, stuff, not working, travel,
• 1:04:42
  yada, yada, yada. But I promise to you and everybody
• 1:04:45
  it's coming back. I can't wait till I got lots
• 1:04:50
  of them and they're pretty good. Next week is
• 1:04:53
  a maybe I my computer is out for repair. We figured
• 1:04:55
  out what's wrong with it Luckily, it is a not
• 1:04:58
  a big it's not a huge fix and it's not super
• 1:05:00
  expensive, which is nice I'm gonna be into it
• 1:05:02
  for a couple hundred bucks two three hundred
• 1:05:04
  bucks tops, which is super nice But parts we're
• 1:05:07
  waiting on parts so they might come in this week.
• 1:05:09
  They might come in next week We will see so it
• 1:05:12
  might be one more week before but on the bright
• 1:05:14
  side I met a really awesome young kid who's starting
• 1:05:17
  up a business as a computer repair guy. He's
• 1:05:19
  good is He's responsive. And the dude met me
• 1:05:23
  halfway to come get my laptop. So I live way
• 1:05:25
  out in Clark Fork. I'm an hour almost from Sandpoint.
• 1:05:29
  He lives in Sagal, which is south of Sandpoint.
• 1:05:30
  And he met me halfway. So I only had to drive
• 1:05:32
  like half an hour to hand him off my laptop.
• 1:05:35
  And then he promptly got to work on it. It's
• 1:05:37
  Sean Duffy of Organic Intelligence Computer Repair.
• 1:05:39
  I'm giving him a shout out now because he's a
• 1:05:41
  great kid. And I'm happy to have met him. That's
• 1:05:45
  awesome. Entrepreneurial. Yeah, I've never had
• 1:05:47
  a tech repair guy be like, hey i'll come to you
• 1:05:50
  and i'll help you out it was so awesome well
• 1:05:52
  he's a sole proprietor and he's he's doing what
• 1:05:54
  it takes to get business amazing how that works
• 1:05:57
  isn't it scott what do you what do you know speaking
• 1:06:01
  of doing what it takes to get business this is
• 1:06:04
  on theme as i was about to say there um for the
• 1:06:06
  last show where we were sort of illustrating
• 1:06:09
  the notion of uh you know these issues that get
• 1:06:12
  painted by media as black white or man woman
• 1:06:16
  or gay straight are almost always more left right
• 1:06:20
  they're political and this is along those same
• 1:06:23
  lines now this is out of spokane and we do have
• 1:06:27
  people in spokane of course the spook from spokane
• 1:06:29
  and others um who hear our program so i do want
• 1:06:32
  to play and i've also been this is the spokane
• 1:06:35
  indians baseball team i don't know if you ever
• 1:06:36
  been to an indians game i've been to spokane
• 1:06:39
  once never do a game you know the the city i've
• 1:06:43
  been to the town once one time yeah Maybe more
• 1:06:46
  than once. But I aim for only once. Once is all
• 1:06:49
  it takes, yeah. The Indians, yeah, are the R
• 1:06:53
  .A. Minor League Baseball Club. I've been to
• 1:06:55
  a few Indians games and I do enjoy watching me
• 1:06:57
  some live baseball, but here is the latest from
• 1:07:01
  the Spokane Indians. These Spokane Indians canceled
• 1:07:03
  their pride night this year. I knew it! Don't
• 1:07:20
  worry, we'll be gay in other ways. Well, but
• 1:07:25
  it's not just gay, dude. Remember, it's lesbian,
• 1:07:27
  it's gay, it's bisexual, it's transgender, it's
• 1:07:30
  ally, it's intersex, it's interstitial cystitis,
• 1:07:33
  it's... uh, you know, anti -disestablishment,
• 1:07:35
  tyrionism, et cetera. I mean, this is a community
• 1:07:38
  that is, I think the most narcissistic as a community
• 1:07:43
  that exists on planet earth. No other community,
• 1:07:47
  even the black community and the black community
• 1:07:49
  is pretty bad about this too, but the LGBT community,
• 1:07:53
  LGBTQ, whatever the weird, you know, the freaks
• 1:07:56
  and weirdos. are the most narcissistic bunch
• 1:07:58
  on planet Earth because only they get away with
• 1:08:02
  being upset when not everything is about them
• 1:08:04
  every time. Like, you know, this completely unrelated
• 1:08:08
  sports thing where we do for the love of the
• 1:08:10
  game. Yeah, we're not going to make a night or
• 1:08:13
  a week just about you being gay. We're just going
• 1:08:16
  to make it about baseball again. You've seen
• 1:08:18
  the shape of a baseball bat and then you have
• 1:08:20
  the baseballs. I mean, you know, My is my life
• 1:08:24
  a lie and America's greatest pastime is really
• 1:08:27
  just Symbolism for gayness. It's a that's a pretty
• 1:08:32
  deep sigh up Just saying and this is your friendly
• 1:08:36
  weekly reminder that there is no LGBT IQ a plus
• 1:08:40
  community There is no black community. Those
• 1:08:43
  are phony baloney political smoke screens what
• 1:08:46
  you're meaning to say The narcissists are the
• 1:08:50
  political lefties. In an email sent to Spokane
• 1:08:57
  Pride, the Spokane Indians clarified that Pride
• 1:08:59
  Night will not be on the schedule, citing that
• 1:09:02
  the team is constantly exploring new themes to
• 1:09:04
  engage the public, which occasionally means rotating
• 1:09:08
  certain themes out each season. Pride Night has
• 1:09:10
  been on the schedule for the last five seasons.
• 1:09:13
  Jake Schwartz, the president of Spokane Pride,
• 1:09:15
  emphasizes it's not about losing the game, but
• 1:09:18
  rather losing the opportunity for visibility
• 1:09:20
  at community events outside. the opportunity
• 1:09:24
  to proselytize. Yeah, exactly. Listen to that.
• 1:09:27
  First of all, notice that, oh, it's been on the
• 1:09:30
  schedule for the last five seasons, a .k .a.
• 1:09:32
  during the magnificent supreme fake presidency
• 1:09:36
  of Biden. So it's like, oh, don't worry. When
• 1:09:39
  a Democrat's back in office, we'll reinstitute
• 1:09:41
  pride night. Don't worry. But it's totally not
• 1:09:42
  political at all. It's about sexual orientation.
• 1:09:45
  And war will be cool again to the lefties. Oh
• 1:09:48
  right, of course. So again, I want to play that
• 1:09:50
  part again that you just mentioned because it's
• 1:09:53
  very jargonistic. It's like, what are you saying
• 1:09:56
  exactly? There would be the narcissist. And it's
• 1:10:09
  not because Jake Schwartz is gay. It's because
• 1:10:11
  Jake Schwartz is a communist. Seasons. Jake Schwartz,
• 1:10:14
  the president of Spokane Pride, emphasizes it's
• 1:10:17
  not about losing the game, but rather losing
• 1:10:19
  the opportunity for visibility at community events
• 1:10:22
  outside of the normal Pride celebration. OK,
• 1:10:25
  that's a lot of words. How are we going to get
• 1:10:27
  in front of the children? Well, they're saying
• 1:10:30
  how are we going to get in front of the children
• 1:10:31
  and the families? How are we going to evangelize?
• 1:10:35
  without gay days. They're just gonna have to
• 1:10:38
  do the old -fashioned way like the rest of us
• 1:10:40
  do. The opportunity for visibility at community
• 1:10:44
  events outside of the normal Pride celebration.
• 1:10:47
  In an environment where it feels like it's getting
• 1:10:50
  harder and harder to live out and open, it becomes
• 1:10:56
  much more difficult. These smaller events, which
• 1:10:59
  are just as important, bring that visibility
• 1:11:02
  to them too. Okay, Scott, pause this real quick.
• 1:11:06
  Again, there is a distinction here that is important
• 1:11:09
  to make. These children, because they act like
• 1:11:12
  they have the mental capacity of children apparently,
• 1:11:14
  and they behave like children, equate not having
• 1:11:18
  a day that is exclusively about them to not being
• 1:11:21
  able to live out in the open. When that is a
• 1:11:24
  completely false dichotomy, it's not true. That
• 1:11:26
  premise is completely false. It's a straw man.
• 1:11:28
  It's a red herring. It's all of the damn fallacies.
• 1:11:31
  Because for years and years and years now, vast
• 1:11:33
  majority of even political conservatives and
• 1:11:36
  even Christian conservatives, for the most part,
• 1:11:38
  have been like, yeah, no, we disagree with it.
• 1:11:40
  It's a lifestyle we don't really agree with.
• 1:11:42
  But ultimately, do you? We don't care. Just leave
• 1:11:47
  us alone. Just leave us the hell alone and we'll
• 1:11:51
  leave you alone. And that's largely been the
• 1:11:53
  philosophy on one side. Meanwhile, on Schwartz's
• 1:11:57
  side, it's basically if you don't celebrate us,
• 1:12:00
  well, then that means we're oppressed. And that's
• 1:12:03
  what he's saying. And there's a big distinction
• 1:12:05
  between tolerating something and celebrating
• 1:12:07
  something. And then forcing people to tolerate
• 1:12:10
  and celebrate things. That is exactly correct.
• 1:12:13
  And that is why the language is so important
• 1:12:16
  and why everything is a Trojan horse, basically.
• 1:12:20
  And if you allow the anti -cigarette people,
• 1:12:24
  I do not smoke cigarettes, by the way. This is
• 1:12:25
  just a comparison. allow the anti cigarette people
• 1:12:28
  like, no, you have to you you you businessman
• 1:12:32
  who wants to have your restaurant have smoking
• 1:12:34
  like, no, no, no, no, you got to go. They have
• 1:12:36
  to go to the bar area. You should have just said
• 1:12:38
  no there. You should have just said no, because
• 1:12:40
  then it's you got to go outside. And then it's
• 1:12:43
  you got to go 10 feet away from the building.
• 1:12:44
  And then it's you we're going to triple the tax
• 1:12:46
  on everything. No, no, you have to just cut them
• 1:12:48
  off at the pass. So when they start with tolerance,
• 1:12:51
  that's baloney, because then the next one is
• 1:12:53
  acceptance. And then the next one is celebration.
• 1:12:55
  If you do not sell Celebrate me, we're coming
• 1:12:57
  after you. And then it goes from celebration
• 1:13:00
  to coercion. You know, this is documented. We
• 1:13:04
  see this. Take this principle and apply it to
• 1:13:07
  anything, really, whether it's taxes, whether
• 1:13:09
  it's laws, regulations, whether it's the gay
• 1:13:12
  agenda, whether it's affirmative action type
• 1:13:14
  stuff. It's the same across the board. It starts
• 1:13:17
  with X and it ends in Y and Z every single time.
• 1:13:21
  But they, like you said, Trojan Horse didn't
• 1:13:23
  go, well, it's just about this one thing. It's
• 1:13:25
  just about tolerance. It's just about this. You
• 1:13:28
  know, why, why would you, how could you possibly
• 1:13:30
  be against this perfectly benign thing that we're
• 1:13:32
  bringing to the table here? It's just, it's just
• 1:13:36
  medical. It's just medical marijuana and it's
• 1:13:38
  just for glaucoma sufferers. Oh, so you're for
• 1:13:41
  glaucoma sufferers having pain. Is that it? No,
• 1:13:43
  I just know what your true goals are and you're
• 1:13:45
  full of crap. Which I agree with that agenda,
• 1:13:49
  but yes, they are full of crap. It's beside the
• 1:13:52
  point. It's a, it's the tactic that we're pointing
• 1:13:54
  out. Correct. That is correct. Bring that visibility
• 1:13:59
  to them too. So to see some of that being pulled
• 1:14:02
  back. I think our community is Fairly frustrated
• 1:14:06
  see now this this guy thinks he's speaking on
• 1:14:10
  behalf of what community he thinks he's speaking
• 1:14:13
  He's the president of the gays didn't you hear
• 1:14:15
  that's what I'm saying. He he did he is the supreme
• 1:14:20
  the chicken supreme leader of the LGBTQ community
• 1:14:25
  The problem is, there is no LGBT community. I'll
• 1:14:30
  illustrate that momentarily as soon as we're
• 1:14:31
  done with this clip. Fairly frustrated. And just
• 1:14:46
  like a parent explaining his decision to his
• 1:14:50
  petulant child, Avista Stadium and the Indians
• 1:14:53
  organization must explain to these petulant children
• 1:14:56
  why they no longer get a day that's just about
• 1:15:00
  them. In both the Pride Parade and Festival this
• 1:15:04
  summer. For this year, Spokane Pride is planning
• 1:15:07
  to work with other sports teams like the Spokane
• 1:15:09
  Velocity to bring themed nights this Pride season.
• 1:15:12
  Pride season. Okay. Oh, see what they did there.
• 1:15:16
  So now that not just a day, now it's a whole
• 1:15:19
  season. Well, it was a month. It was supposed
• 1:15:21
  to be a month. and then now I guess it's a season
• 1:15:24
  which is I guess it's once a quarter and But
• 1:15:27
  you know, I guess you get the three it's it's
• 1:15:29
  pride 365. That's the next campaign in any case
• 1:15:33
  here is I Guess somebody who's supposed to be
• 1:15:37
  a member of the non -existent LGBTQ plus community
• 1:15:41
  and yet he isn't Let it be known as a black and
• 1:15:44
  queer individual, the LGBTQ community does not
• 1:15:47
  speak on my behalf or yours. I don't want to
• 1:15:50
  be in that crowd. I don't want to be associated
• 1:15:52
  with that crowd. And just because of what I do
• 1:15:53
  behind a closed door, does that mean I have to
• 1:15:55
  assimilate and be with that and hype that up?
• 1:15:58
  I want nothing to do with this at all. This is
• 1:16:01
  another reason why gays don't even like pride
• 1:16:03
  parades. It's too political. It's too political.
• 1:16:05
  What are you doing here? The Palestine people
• 1:16:07
  and the pride and it going head and head. And
• 1:16:09
  it's all gays for Palestine. Which is just crazy
• 1:16:12
  to me. That is the majority of people who are
• 1:16:14
  on the left side of the political spectrum. These
• 1:16:17
  pride parades are not very welcoming of people
• 1:16:19
  with different ideas. It's fine if they're all
• 1:16:21
  for equality and inclusion if you think like
• 1:16:23
  them. If you don't think like them and you disagree
• 1:16:25
  with them, that's when you kind of cast it out.
• 1:16:27
  Like if you're an openly gay person who also
• 1:16:29
  likes Trump and votes for Trump, oh, you get
• 1:16:31
  torn up at a pride parade. Torn up. It's ridiculous.
• 1:16:35
  Torn up. That's one of the many reasons why I
• 1:16:37
  just do not like the pride parades because it's
• 1:16:38
  very political. You're not allowed to be yourself.
• 1:16:40
  See, that's what's crazy. So, but you're born
• 1:16:42
  this way, be yourself, accept yourself for who
• 1:16:44
  you are, love, acceptance, equality, up until
• 1:16:47
  you hear my viewpoints. You don't want to hear
• 1:16:49
  from me. Now you're upset at me. What happens
• 1:16:51
  if it's inclusivity? What happens if it's positivity?
• 1:16:53
  What happens if it's equality? You don't want
• 1:16:55
  to hear my voice now because I don't think like
• 1:16:56
  you? Sure. Cool. I do appreciate this gentleman
• 1:17:00
  speaking with an extra exaggerated lisp lest
• 1:17:04
  we confuse his orientation. I was going to mention
• 1:17:06
  it. Yeah, but I didn't want to be mean, but no,
• 1:17:10
  he definitely checks. He checks a lot of the
• 1:17:12
  boxes for sure. Although, but hey, what he says
• 1:17:16
  makes sense. And, and I respect him for that
• 1:17:19
  for sure. Like clearly he's got some critical
• 1:17:22
  thinking going on there and I can appreciate
• 1:17:24
  that. And the dude, if you're being black and
• 1:17:27
  gay, clearly going against the current in some,
• 1:17:30
  in some ways. And so he's probably heard it from
• 1:17:32
  a number of different communities about how He's
• 1:17:37
  not welcome. As a media deconstruction program,
• 1:17:42
  we're just here to remind you, don't let the
• 1:17:45
  media fool you with their disingenuous, propagandistic
• 1:17:48
  presentations of what this community or that
• 1:17:51
  community thinks. There are no communities that
• 1:17:54
  they are describing. They are describing political
• 1:17:57
  and intellectual thought processes, not skin
• 1:18:00
  color or sexual orientation. Those are smoke
• 1:18:03
  screens. Okay, let's move along here, I think
• 1:18:09
  the point is made, to the KCRCC and some more
• 1:18:15
  of the protester community that gathered around
• 1:18:18
  their latest gathering. ...gathered at the Coeur
• 1:18:22
  d 'Alene Resort tonight for the Kootenay County
• 1:18:24
  Republican Central Committee's annual Lincoln
• 1:18:26
  Day Dinner. However, this year's keynote speaker
• 1:18:29
  proved to be controversial. Former Congressman
• 1:18:31
  Matt Gaetz was invited to speak at the dinner,
• 1:18:34
  which prompted protests outside the resort from
• 1:18:37
  activism group Indivisible. Gaetz was ousted
• 1:18:39
  from public... Now, did you notice once again
• 1:18:42
  what was missing from what was missing before
• 1:18:46
  the word activist? They were... Not so had it
• 1:18:51
  been people more of like my volition or even
• 1:18:54
  people who were sort of adjacent, I suppose,
• 1:18:56
  on the spectrum to my to my politics, it would
• 1:18:58
  have been far right activists. But of course,
• 1:19:02
  here it's just plain old activists with a really
• 1:19:04
  nice American name of indivisible. was invited
• 1:19:08
  to speak at the dinner, which prompted protests
• 1:19:10
  outside the resort from activism group Indivisible.
• 1:19:14
  Gates was ousted from public service in 2024
• 1:19:16
  over sexual allegations with a minor. Protesters
• 1:19:19
  said inviting Gates into the Coeur d 'Alene community
• 1:19:22
  was a disgrace. He's not accepted in his own
• 1:19:25
  party, but how does he get to be a speaker of
• 1:19:27
  some value in the Republican Party in Coeur d
• 1:19:32
  'Alene? In a Facebook post, the KCRCC defended
• 1:19:35
  their decision for Gates, explaining their choice
• 1:19:37
  was based on budget, logistics and in the interest
• 1:19:40
  of fairness. We reached out to them for comment,
• 1:19:42
  but did not hear back by news time. So I know
• 1:19:47
  that tactic. It's quite possible when the when
• 1:19:50
  they, quote unquote, reached out for comment,
• 1:19:53
  they gave them like half a day or they reached
• 1:19:55
  out, you know, at noon. And this thing goes to
• 1:19:58
  press at three. That happened a lot with my dad.
• 1:20:03
  when he was NIC trustee is they'd quote unquote,
• 1:20:06
  reach out for comment. Dad would get the email
• 1:20:08
  with, you know, just 45 minutes to spare before
• 1:20:11
  the deadline. And he'd just be like, oh, all
• 1:20:14
  right, forget it. I'm not even going to try.
• 1:20:17
  That's that is not that is disingenuous. So my
• 1:20:20
  guess would be that's what happened as far as
• 1:20:23
  the press reaching out, because the KRCC is especially
• 1:20:26
  the president or the chairman, Brent Regan. He's
• 1:20:29
  pretty prolific in his communications. in the
• 1:20:32
  press and on Facebook and whatnot. So usually
• 1:20:34
  given an opportunity and a mic or a platform
• 1:20:37
  from which to speak, Regan or a few of the other
• 1:20:40
  top dogs there, they'll say something typically.
• 1:20:43
  So that would be my guess, at least as far as
• 1:20:45
  that little bit goes. As far as the Matt Gaetz
• 1:20:47
  things goes, meh, I could take it or leave it.
• 1:20:50
  Really what it is is just an opportunity for
• 1:20:52
  people who are already big mad to just be big
• 1:20:54
  mad and pat themselves on the back and thump
• 1:20:56
  their chests and feel good about. Do these people
• 1:21:00
  have jobs? How do these people have all the time
• 1:21:02
  to protest? I don't get that. How again and again
• 1:21:06
  and again? Who are these? It's got to be just
• 1:21:08
  the same like 150 people, charlatans and carpetbaggers,
• 1:21:12
  mainly boomers who trot out their grandchildren
• 1:21:15
  when it's when they're available to line the
• 1:21:17
  streets, hold up signs and say things like no
• 1:21:20
  kings and indivisible and we're against pedos,
• 1:21:23
  even though their entire political party is built
• 1:21:25
  by a pyramid scheme of pedos. It's hilarious.
• 1:21:29
  I don't know, man. It just sounded to me like
• 1:21:31
  they were indivisible activists for the Coeur
• 1:21:34
  d 'Alene community. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm sure
• 1:21:36
  they're just normal people like you and me who
• 1:21:39
  are totally sane and have a really good grasp
• 1:21:44
  on reality and what's going on. I mean, as far
• 1:21:47
  as the Gates things goes, is he a politician
• 1:21:49
  I appreciate or respect? No. Dude's kind of a
• 1:21:52
  lunatic. He had his moment in the sun and for
• 1:21:55
  a moment was almost kind of maybe going to be.
• 1:21:57
  helpful and useful to the freedom movement and
• 1:21:59
  then wasn't because he became a big bootlicker
• 1:22:01
  for Trump and militarism and everything else
• 1:22:03
  and maybe he is a scumbag who touched kids but
• 1:22:07
  both sides of the aisle definitely do not have
• 1:22:08
  the market cornered on pedophilia so this is
• 1:22:12
  just people who have an excuse to be big mad
• 1:22:14
  when they're already big mad the thing is is
• 1:22:17
  even if they did have a leg to stand on this
• 1:22:20
  is media deconstruction i'm I'm just presenting
• 1:22:24
  the disingenuous nature of the media's presentations
• 1:22:27
  on this sort of stuff, like omitting what kind
• 1:22:29
  of activist they are in this case, or using the
• 1:22:32
  word community all the time, like the Coeur d
• 1:22:34
  'Alene community. What is the Coeur d 'Alene
• 1:22:37
  community? What are these people talking about?
• 1:22:38
  I don't blame people like your dad for, you know,
• 1:22:43
  not engaging with these people because they're
• 1:22:45
  not reaching out to people like Todd Banducci
• 1:22:47
  in good faith. They're not attempting to report
• 1:22:49
  on the situation. They're going to, even if he
• 1:22:52
  did respond, I'm sure they would misconstrue
• 1:22:54
  it or take it out of context or do whatever it
• 1:22:56
  is they have to do to present whatever narrative
• 1:22:58
  there is that they're trying to present. Yeah,
• 1:23:02
  furthermore, and more as egregious or more egregious,
• 1:23:05
  they're aiding and abetting other charlatans
• 1:23:07
  and carpet bagging organizations like North Idaho
• 1:23:09
  Republicans. So the NIR, the organization known
• 1:23:13
  as North Idaho Republicans, which, by the way,
• 1:23:15
  none of them are actually Republicans. And if
• 1:23:17
  they are, they're the worst version of the East
• 1:23:19
  Coast Republicans that look just like Democrats.
• 1:23:22
  And so the NIR here, they basically are. They
• 1:23:25
  basically are Democrats. There's very little
• 1:23:28
  to distinguish them from Democrats in the way
• 1:23:30
  they live their lives and the policies that they
• 1:23:32
  push forward and the politics that they hold
• 1:23:34
  and express the way they do everything. They
• 1:23:37
  are Democrats. They're not Republicans, but they
• 1:23:39
  want the power. They have a lot of the power
• 1:23:41
  already, but they're trying to infiltrate the
• 1:23:43
  KRCC. So they have really, really attacked the
• 1:23:48
  KCRCC. for the last few years, as they also have
• 1:23:51
  infiltrated it, they've attacked it. And as long
• 1:23:53
  as they don't hold full power over this organization,
• 1:23:55
  they will continue to attack it. The moment that
• 1:23:58
  they hold power over this organization, they
• 1:24:01
  will stop attacking it and they will be happy
• 1:24:03
  and things will quiet down. You'll see, because
• 1:24:05
  it's going to happen at some point. I'm sure
• 1:24:07
  they'll, they'll find a way to, to have enough
• 1:24:09
  precinct committee men to take charge for five
• 1:24:11
  or 10 years again. And all of a sudden everything
• 1:24:14
  will be peaceful. We all quiet on the Western
• 1:24:16
  front. but this organization makes full use of
• 1:24:19
  an event like this and has ginned up a lot of
• 1:24:22
  the drama and the trauma and the outrage, the
• 1:24:25
  mostly faux outrage, so that the mainstream media
• 1:24:29
  will get in on it and continue to whip it up
• 1:24:31
  and gin it up. And then it's a self -fulfilling
• 1:24:33
  cycle and prophecy and the outrage gets bigger
• 1:24:37
  and bigger. And, you know, and the main goal
• 1:24:40
  being to discredit the current leadership of
• 1:24:43
  the KR, the KCRCC, which by the way, I'm not
• 1:24:47
  blindly defending that organization. I don't
• 1:24:50
  agree with them on everything, and I don't agree
• 1:24:52
  with everybody in there, for sure, not even close.
• 1:24:55
  But most of the head honchos there and most of
• 1:24:58
  the candidates that they put forward are objectively
• 1:25:01
  what they are supposed to be, and that is conservative
• 1:25:05
  Republicans. So they are doing their, they are
• 1:25:07
  functioning as they're supposed to function,
• 1:25:09
  90 % at least. And the NIR, or the Idaho Republicans,
• 1:25:13
  with the help aided and abetted by the mainstream
• 1:25:15
  media, Oh, because by the way, one owns the other
• 1:25:19
  gin up outrage with events just like this. It's
• 1:25:24
  all by design. So to your point, Scott, it is
• 1:25:27
  all disingenuous. It's by design. It is all part
• 1:25:30
  of the mainstream narrative. And that is why
• 1:25:32
  we're here breaking it down and giving commentary
• 1:25:35
  on it. You do a better job of pointing it out
• 1:25:37
  than I do. So what I'm trying to do is just give
• 1:25:40
  background to kind of the players and the why
• 1:25:42
  and the what's going on behind the scenes. Let's
• 1:25:46
  do an Ask Paul. I need a jingle, I just realized,
• 1:25:50
  for the introduction to the Ask Paul segments.
• 1:25:53
  So I don't know if anyone out there has the ability
• 1:25:56
  to make one. I would love to get an Ask Paul
• 1:25:58
  jingle. I will also make one at some point here.
• 1:26:03
  This one is a doozy. How much? So that's gonna
• 1:26:11
  be the Ask Paul is how much. So let's start it
• 1:26:13
  again and I'll let it play through. dollars in
• 1:26:19
  damages after she wrongly accused a University
• 1:26:21
  of Idaho professor of being involved in the murders
• 1:26:24
  of four students. A federal jury ruled Friday
• 1:26:28
  that Ashley Gillard made false statements accusing
• 1:26:31
  Rebecca Schofield of orchestrating the killings
• 1:26:34
  and having an inappropriate relationship with
• 1:26:36
  the student. Gillard used TikTok tarred card
• 1:26:39
  readings to spread those claims, which drew millions
• 1:26:42
  of views online. How much was she ordered to
• 1:26:47
  pay? Ten million dollars. Whoa, did you read
• 1:26:55
  that one? Did you already know? No. Wow. No,
• 1:26:58
  I didn't. Did I get it? Oh my god. TikTok influencer
• 1:27:02
  has been ordered to pay ten million dollars in
• 1:27:04
  damages. Yeah! How did you do that? Are you serious?
• 1:27:08
  Yeah, no, I didn't know. I didn't know this was
• 1:27:10
  even a thing until you just brought it up. I'm
• 1:27:11
  actually, I was thinking about how I was shocked
• 1:27:14
  by the, shocked I say, by the fact that it was
• 1:27:19
  done in a TikTok video reading tarot cards so
• 1:27:22
  much. While I was thinking about the number in
• 1:27:24
  my head, my first thought was actually a question,
• 1:27:26
  which was who the hell even watches shit like
• 1:27:29
  that? People turning over tarot cards, and then
• 1:27:31
  who would take that seriously? It blows my mind.
• 1:27:35
  You had millions of views and who the hell knows
• 1:27:37
  if these numbers are real or not, but apparently
• 1:27:39
  it wasn't real enough to get on the radar. of,
• 1:27:42
  you know, people who she was speaking of. And
• 1:27:45
  then they, I guess, sued or whatever. But, yeah,
• 1:27:47
  I mean, I thought that was an insane number for
• 1:27:50
  just some individual tick talker. I mean, well,
• 1:27:53
  you know, it tipped me off on the number and
• 1:27:55
  why I kind of figured because it said it got
• 1:27:57
  millions of views. So it's now like now it's
• 1:27:59
  a federal issue. And it also said federal court.
• 1:28:02
  So federal court is a big deal. First off, it's
• 1:28:04
  expensive. So if you bring a lawsuit, you're
• 1:28:06
  already going to be asking for a big number because
• 1:28:09
  you're talking you're talking anywhere from like
• 1:28:11
  20 to 50 grand a day in lawyers fees just to
• 1:28:15
  take some shit to court at the federal level.
• 1:28:17
  It ain't cheap. So you got to make the number
• 1:28:19
  big enough for that. Secondly, millions of views.
• 1:28:23
  I'm thinking, you know, that could be two to
• 1:28:25
  five million views. And, you know, so then you
• 1:28:27
  can make it sound sensible to a judge and be
• 1:28:30
  like, yeah, we're asking for two, two dollars
• 1:28:32
  a view, five times five million views, 10 million
• 1:28:35
  dollars restitution. You know, it had national
• 1:28:38
  reach, global reach. So I don't know. It was
• 1:28:40
  a number that made sense. But true story. I didn't
• 1:28:42
  know about this until the moment you brought
• 1:28:44
  it up. Amazing. The jury awarded $5 million for
• 1:28:48
  the murder allegations and $3 .5 million for
• 1:28:52
  the relationship claims. Gillard represented
• 1:28:55
  herself throughout the trial. Interesting. Interesting
• 1:28:58
  choice. OK, which is probably sued for 10 mil
• 1:29:01
  for the max. Yeah. Yeah. Clearly not an intelligent
• 1:29:06
  individual. I mean, all signs point to not the
• 1:29:12
  best among us. What a time to be alive. You know,
• 1:29:15
  I don't know. Are you sure she's not the president
• 1:29:16
  of the tarot card reading community? It's possible.
• 1:29:21
  I'm not sure about anything anymore. Up is down,
• 1:29:23
  down is up. People watch TikToks about other
• 1:29:25
  people reading tarot cards about murder suspects.
• 1:29:28
  In the millions, yeah. Blows my ever -loving
• 1:29:32
  mind. Now, you know, you say up is down and left
• 1:29:35
  is right, but there is one thing in the universe
• 1:29:37
  that is, as ever, predictable and on schedule
• 1:29:40
  and not surprising whatsoever. Wait, I know what
• 1:29:43
  it is. You do? Government wanting your money.
• 1:29:47
  Okay, well, you're right. But this one is even
• 1:29:50
  more on the nose. The search is now on for a
• 1:29:52
  new sheriff of Shoshone County. Sheriff William
• 1:29:55
  Eddie after being appointed three and a half
• 1:29:57
  months ago. He says he is stepping down due to
• 1:30:00
  medical reasons and stress. During his time as
• 1:30:03
  sheriff, there was a deadly shooting at the public
• 1:30:05
  safety building in Wallace. That was in December.
• 1:30:08
  So there, you know, the sun is rising in the
• 1:30:10
  East, setting in the West and Shoshone needs
• 1:30:12
  a new sheriff. Two people were hurt. Shoshone
• 1:30:14
  needs a new sheriff. to county commissioners
• 1:30:18
  declaring they had no confidence in Sheriff Eddie,
• 1:30:21
  citing how he handled the shooting and his lack
• 1:30:23
  of qualifications for the administrative tasks
• 1:30:25
  of sheriff. He released a statement reading in
• 1:30:28
  part quote, serving Shoshone County in this capacity
• 1:30:31
  has been one of the greatest honors of my professional
• 1:30:33
  life. I am grateful for the support I have received
• 1:30:36
  from county leadership and the citizens of this
• 1:30:39
  community. My favorite version of that support
• 1:30:41
  was when I got the letter of no confidence from
• 1:30:43
  every sheriff within a 500 mile radius. I'll
• 1:30:47
  bet. that poor guy. I don't know anything about
• 1:30:50
  anybody over there in the silver valley really.
• 1:30:53
  I don't, but could you imagine being that poor
• 1:30:57
  dude who steps in and almost immediately has
• 1:31:00
  to deal with a Christmas time shooting and has
• 1:31:04
  to deal with, with the leftover nonsense from
• 1:31:07
  the dead hunters from a couple of months prior
• 1:31:09
  and stepping into a spot where it had already,
• 1:31:12
  the guy before him resigned. And they're dealing
• 1:31:15
  with officer troubles with underling officers
• 1:31:18
  having to like resign because they've been arrested
• 1:31:21
  for other issues. I mean, just stepping into
• 1:31:23
  that is a nightmare to begin with. Poor guy.
• 1:31:25
  I don't know if he deserved that mess or not.
• 1:31:27
  Probably not. But poor bastard. I wonder who
• 1:31:31
  they're going to pick. I wonder who they're going
• 1:31:33
  to pick to fill in now. Like what what moron
• 1:31:36
  wants that job now? I don't know if anybody would
• 1:31:38
  want that job. Anybody anybody worth the job
• 1:31:41
  might not want that job now. Be like, yeah, I
• 1:31:43
  know. That's okay. Yeah, with each one of these
• 1:31:48
  incidents, it does become seems like it would
• 1:31:51
  be a very difficult ask, big ask. Truly. Yeah.
• 1:31:55
  I mean, anybody who's paying attention or does
• 1:31:58
  their homework on this position is going to is
• 1:32:00
  first off, right off the bat, going to have to
• 1:32:02
  demand an untenable salary. There's no way anybody
• 1:32:05
  will step into it for less than I don't know.
• 1:32:07
  I don't even know what the going rate for Sashone
• 1:32:09
  Sheriff is now. I know, you know, I know you're
• 1:32:12
  past the six figures, I'm pretty sure for Kootenay
• 1:32:14
  County, of course, because it's much, much bigger
• 1:32:16
  County. But I'm sure whoever step into this will
• 1:32:20
  be asking for six figures plus platinum, Benny's
• 1:32:23
  plus a therapist, plus a full -time therapist
• 1:32:25
  in the office on retainer, just following you
• 1:32:28
  around with a new couch, one of those medical
• 1:32:31
  leather bags, like, uh, like, uh, like Hitler's
• 1:32:34
  personal physician that was shooting them up
• 1:32:35
  with amphetamine around. Yeah. So, you know,
• 1:32:42
  new sheriff rolls up to some corner of the town
• 1:32:44
  after a fresh meth shooting and he's like, Oh
• 1:32:46
  my God, it's, it looks like I picked the wrong
• 1:32:49
  day to quit amphetamines. Turns over to his,
• 1:32:51
  uh, his accountant looking handbag carrying an
• 1:32:54
  assistant. He's like, hit me. It goes, whatever
• 1:32:57
  you say, boss. Here you go. Take three. So speaking
• 1:33:00
  of, uh, that's better. You didn't know this might
• 1:33:02
  be a, a little bit of an easier position to a
• 1:33:05
  point. Um, six figure law enforcement. What do
• 1:33:09
  you call them? Candidate finalists? City of Coeur
• 1:33:10
  d 'Alene has released its short list of candidates
• 1:33:12
  for its next chief of police. And there's a familiar
• 1:33:15
  face on that list. Former Spokane police chief
• 1:33:18
  Craig Meidel is one of the finalists. He left
• 1:33:20
  SPD in 2023 and has recently been serving as
• 1:33:23
  the interim police chief in Richland. The other
• 1:33:25
  candidates include the current temporary Coeur
• 1:33:28
  d 'Alene police chief, Dave Hager. Chief Jake
• 1:33:30
  Fisher from the El Monte Police Department of
• 1:33:33
  California, and Deputy Chief Gray Yeager from
• 1:33:36
  Fort Collins, Colorado. City Minister Albrecht
• 1:33:38
  Jacobsen says selecting a police chief is one
• 1:33:41
  of the most significant decisions they can make,
• 1:33:43
  writing the chief sets the tone for accountability,
• 1:33:46
  integrity, and trust between members of the department,
• 1:33:48
  the rest of the city team, community partnerships,
• 1:33:51
  and the citizens. Yeah, the police chief is super
• 1:33:54
  important because the police chief is essentially
• 1:33:56
  the city council and the mayor's lapdog. That's
• 1:33:59
  the truth. The police chief does what they want
• 1:34:02
  and what they say, which is why Chief White,
• 1:34:05
  we're outgoing Chief White, did exactly what
• 1:34:08
  the city council wanted the whole time and basically
• 1:34:10
  went after conservatives when it was politically
• 1:34:13
  expedient and convenient and failed to go after
• 1:34:15
  anybody on the left ever for his entire tenure.
• 1:34:18
  Any time something went down that involved one
• 1:34:20
  side or the other political spectrum, it'll be
• 1:34:22
  the same thing here. And notice to your point,
• 1:34:25
  Scott, every single candidate from a blue state.
• 1:34:28
  from a blue town in a blue state. Yes. And in
• 1:34:31
  particular, Fort Collins is a particularly blue
• 1:34:34
  town. That's by design. That is 100 percent on
• 1:34:36
  purpose because it matches it matches the mayor
• 1:34:40
  and the city council and the town administrator,
• 1:34:42
  Ron Jacobson. It matches them all perfectly.
• 1:34:44
  But I love how they all still keep trying to
• 1:34:46
  say that they are Republicans or that they are
• 1:34:48
  even a smidgen of conservative. What a laugh.
• 1:34:51
  Look at what people do, not what people say.
• 1:34:54
  Yeah, we used to call the role of what police
• 1:34:57
  chiefs and largely what a lot of cops these days
• 1:35:00
  do. Anyways, we used to we had a better word
• 1:35:02
  for it. It was mercenary because it was an accurate
• 1:35:05
  word. You'd travel from place to place. You'd
• 1:35:07
  get paid to put people down, to put the peasants
• 1:35:09
  down. You got paid to do what the nobles, the
• 1:35:13
  political class told you to do. You put down
• 1:35:15
  who they told you to put down. You would stop
• 1:35:17
  and frisk and seize and harass and extort the
• 1:35:21
  peasants who couldn't fight you. Whether it was
• 1:35:23
  traffic tickets or hey, what do you got in that
• 1:35:26
  wagon over there? Are those untaxed cabbages?
• 1:35:28
  The job hasn't changed. The name has changed.
• 1:35:31
  Now we call it Police Chief, but it used to be
• 1:35:33
  Head Merc. Well, the sun is rising in the east
• 1:35:39
  and setting in the west and Shoshone needs a
• 1:35:41
  new sheriff and the Mercs are attempting to extract
• 1:35:46
  the last little bit of their budget. Where did
• 1:35:48
  I? The last you know, they can't they need they
• 1:35:51
  need over 100 % of last year's budget or else
• 1:35:54
  all will all in the world will collapse The Idaho
• 1:35:57
  Senate voted to cut the state's current year
• 1:36:00
  budget by more than 130 million dollars on Monday.
• 1:36:04
  Okay, they say by what 1 % Okay, remember media
• 1:36:09
  deconstruction. So what are they doing here?
• 1:36:12
  And that they would be doing the opposite if
• 1:36:15
  the if the percentage was high they would give,
• 1:36:19
  so they're doing the number here. 131 million
• 1:36:23
  and they're emphasizing it to make it sound like
• 1:36:25
  a lot when in point of fact what you just said
• 1:36:27
  is actually an exaggeration total state expenditures
• 1:36:29
  for Fiscal the last fiscal year for the state
• 1:36:32
  of Idaho was over 14 billion dollars We're talking
• 1:36:35
  point nine percent of the budget, but this is
• 1:36:38
  presented as if some massive amount of money
• 1:36:40
  There's some massive short the Idaho Senate voted
• 1:36:43
  to well, it is massive. Yes It is but percentage
• 1:36:46
  wise based on what Idaho spends. It's nothing.
• 1:36:48
  It's nothing at all The media is a rounding error.
• 1:36:51
  Media would give the percentage if it was a very
• 1:36:55
  tiny, if they wanted to illustrate the opposite
• 1:36:57
  point to whenever they use the percentage. Correct.
• 1:36:59
  Ask yourself what the absolute number is. And
• 1:37:01
  when they use the absolute number, ask yourself
• 1:37:02
  what the percentages by more than one hundred
• 1:37:04
  percent. You know, in dollars on Monday that
• 1:37:07
  they say to head off a projected budget deficit.
• 1:37:11
  Republican lawmakers here typically like cutting
• 1:37:13
  budgets, especially in an election year. Like
• 1:37:16
  that's a bad thing. It's not and so that that
• 1:37:19
  isn't even a true statements begin of deconstructing
• 1:37:21
  because the state I've said it three times. I
• 1:37:23
  think on three different podcasts. I'm going
• 1:37:25
  to say it again. The state budget has increased
• 1:37:27
  66 % over seven years. That is massive. So that
• 1:37:34
  is a bald -faced lie to say that our legislators
• 1:37:38
  really like cutting budgets. The hell they do.
• 1:37:41
  Look at what the budget's done. I did receive,
• 1:37:44
  I wish it was written down. I have some other
• 1:37:46
  stuff that he actually wrote in, but at this
• 1:37:49
  part he actually just mentioned on the phone,
• 1:37:50
  so I'll try to reiterate what he said. This is
• 1:37:52
  from Matt Todd, the host of the Ranch podcast
• 1:37:55
  down out of the Treasure Valley. He was saying
• 1:37:58
  that there is, yes, that budget increase is huge,
• 1:38:02
  but if you account for... inflation and population
• 1:38:06
  growth, that it's actually sort of right on pace
• 1:38:09
  with both of those things. So taken in a vacuum,
• 1:38:12
  yes, it is a lot. But if you account for everything
• 1:38:14
  else that's going sort of with that, then it's
• 1:38:17
  it's like on pace and reasonable. Those are not
• 1:38:20
  his words. Like I said, I'm just sort of paraphrasing,
• 1:38:22
  you know, a version of what he told me. But that
• 1:38:25
  actually well, that's a national memo. That's
• 1:38:27
  a memo, Scott, that's been rolling around the
• 1:38:29
  state of Idaho by again by the elites. In fact,
• 1:38:32
  Jim Woodward, Senator from District 1, my district
• 1:38:36
  up here in Bonner County, the reason Woodward
• 1:38:40
  exists is because the town of Sandpoint, it's
• 1:38:43
  garbage. He's not a Republican, but there's an
• 1:38:45
  R next to his name. He put out a letter just
• 1:38:48
  two weeks ago using those exact same talking
• 1:38:50
  points, basically accusing conservatives of being
• 1:38:53
  hatchet -hat, himself and his cohorts of being
• 1:38:57
  the reasonable ones because, well, state growth...
• 1:38:59
  and inflation have made this humongous budget
• 1:39:02
  increase, but it actually then is more reasonable
• 1:39:04
  through this lens. So defending it and those
• 1:39:08
  two talking points have made the rounds through
• 1:39:10
  from up North here with Jim Woodward, all the
• 1:39:12
  way down through Boise. And they're all, they're
• 1:39:14
  all making the rounds. They're all saying the
• 1:39:15
  same shit, just like, just like the AP news.
• 1:39:18
  So it's the same memo. What's the counter to
• 1:39:21
  it. Then they circulate the same memo. The counter
• 1:39:24
  to it is that the population has not increased.
• 1:39:28
  as much as the budget has. So it's not a one
• 1:39:31
  for one. Number two is if things are being governed
• 1:39:36
  the way they say they're being governed and they're
• 1:39:38
  supposed to be governed, that population growth
• 1:39:39
  is largely supposed to pay for itself and yet
• 1:39:41
  it's not. So why is it not paying for itself?
• 1:39:44
  Who are you letting in that are not productive?
• 1:39:46
  Who are we bringing in or advertising to or who
• 1:39:49
  are we working with here who's showing up and
• 1:39:50
  then not producing? Because we do have an income
• 1:39:53
  tax here that's supposed to cover stuff, plus
• 1:39:54
  gas tax, property tax, all the tax, tax, tax,
• 1:39:57
  tax, tax. So it should be self -sustaining, and
• 1:39:59
  it's not. And the other argument is most of what
• 1:40:04
  the state of Idaho government does, it shouldn't
• 1:40:06
  be doing anyways, because it's not the role of
• 1:40:07
  government to be doing. So tough shit. Cut it.
• 1:40:10
  Get rid of it. Stop taxing us. Inflation is not
• 1:40:14
  our fault. It's your fault. That's true. For
• 1:40:16
  accepting federal funds. Yep. See, here's the
• 1:40:18
  other thing. When Medicaid got expanded, one
• 1:40:20
  of the arguments for Medicaid, why we should
• 1:40:22
  expand it here in the state of Idaho, I was against
• 1:40:25
  it, as a lot of us who understand economics were.
• 1:40:28
  was that it was gonna create budgetary shortfalls.
• 1:40:31
  Shocker, five years later, here it is, budgetary
• 1:40:33
  shortfalls. And it's almost all exclusively because
• 1:40:35
  of education, which is, I'm using that term loosely,
• 1:40:38
  state -run schools, I should say, and Medicaid.
• 1:40:41
  But the argument, one of the big ones was, well,
• 1:40:44
  the federal funding will cover that gap. Okay,
• 1:40:48
  federal funding is money that is either A, stolen
• 1:40:51
  from us anyways, or B, mostly printed out of
• 1:40:54
  thin air. Air go. adding to inflationary expenses.
• 1:40:59
  And inflation is just a tax by another name and
• 1:41:01
  a very pernicious one at that. That's what inflation
• 1:41:03
  is. It's another tax. So when states adopt programs
• 1:41:07
  and then use those programs to get more federal
• 1:41:11
  aid and money from the feds that is being printed
• 1:41:13
  out of thin air, the state of Idaho's own policies
• 1:41:15
  contributed to higher inflation. So not my fault,
• 1:41:18
  not my problem, other than the fact that we have
• 1:41:20
  to deal with inflation, spucking up our currency.
• 1:41:23
  That part's my problem on an individual level.
• 1:41:26
  But that's what I would say to these people is
• 1:41:28
  you piss off, cut this stuff. Your policies are
• 1:41:32
  the reason we're in this mess. All right, let's
• 1:41:36
  finish this clip. This one hundred and thirty
• 1:41:39
  one point three million dollar cut includes the
• 1:41:41
  governor's three percent holdbacks last year.
• 1:41:44
  But some say it goes too far. Republican Senator
• 1:41:47
  Trig Burt says the Joint Finance and Appropriations
• 1:41:50
  Committee should have been more strategic with
• 1:41:52
  their plan. It's easy to just add one percent
• 1:41:55
  onto the top and call it good. However, it's
• 1:41:57
  tough to take a scalpel and dig deep and figure
• 1:42:00
  out which budgets really need to be cut. JFAC
• 1:42:04
  members like Republican Senator Cody Galloway
• 1:42:07
  defended the bill. She says taking a, quote,
• 1:42:10
  very dramatic approach is the only way to balance
• 1:42:13
  the budget this year. There is no way that you
• 1:42:16
  can take a scalpel effectively to 100 budgets
• 1:42:18
  with 100 people that have to agree on that. Idaho
• 1:42:21
  has more than one point five billion dollars
• 1:42:24
  in its rainy day accounts. The bill now goes
• 1:42:26
  to the House. Everybody talks about how the government
• 1:42:30
  spends too much. I mean, even lefties, sometimes
• 1:42:33
  you can get them to admit at least a little bit.
• 1:42:35
  The government spends too much or, yeah, we kind
• 1:42:37
  of we kind of have a problem, either whether
• 1:42:39
  it's Idaho or the national debt, which stands
• 1:42:41
  at, you know, thirty five trillion dollars. And
• 1:42:44
  even they have to admit, yeah, that's that's
• 1:42:46
  a lot. But nobody wants their stuff cut. And
• 1:42:51
  that's why we can't, that's why nothing ever
• 1:42:53
  gets cut. Even, and Republicans and conservatives,
• 1:42:56
  what about this? Like all the, all the conservative
• 1:42:58
  boomers who are getting social security right
• 1:43:00
  now, if I were to tell them to save your grandchildren
• 1:43:04
  and your great grandchildren, would you take,
• 1:43:05
  you know, cut social security? They won't do
• 1:43:08
  it. They'll bitch and moan and they'll throw
• 1:43:10
  a bunch of noise up about how they earned it
• 1:43:11
  and they worked and all that kind of stuff. Nevermind
• 1:43:13
  the fact that in their generation and the one
• 1:43:16
  before them are the big reason why we are where
• 1:43:18
  we are now because of 50 years of bad fiscal
• 1:43:21
  and monetary policies. But they'll be like, oh,
• 1:43:25
  no, I'm not. No, don't don't you touch that.
• 1:43:27
  I earned that. I earned that. It's like, OK,
• 1:43:31
  so you basically sold your kids, your grandkids
• 1:43:34
  and your great grandkids down river so you could
• 1:43:38
  suck everything out that you could. And that's
• 1:43:41
  and that's what they're and that's human nature.
• 1:43:44
  That's where we're at. Nobody wants to cut. their
• 1:43:47
  department. Nobody wants to cut their budget.
• 1:43:49
  Nobody wants to cut their benefits. In everybody's
• 1:43:53
  mind, they deserve it. They've worked for it.
• 1:43:55
  Or even if they can't justify that they deserve
• 1:43:57
  it or work for it, they still recognize the fact
• 1:43:59
  that they are a leech on the system one way or
• 1:44:01
  the other, whether it's a bureaucrat or somebody
• 1:44:02
  collecting benefits. You are a leech. You're
• 1:44:04
  not a producer. You're a leech. They don't want
• 1:44:06
  to say it out loud, but nobody wants that gravy
• 1:44:08
  train to stop. So yeah, 0 .9 % of a budget cut
• 1:44:12
  and people are up in arms. Give me a break. Well,
• 1:44:17
  hopefully our supreme magnificent superlative
• 1:44:21
  God King leaders can figure it out I'm sure they
• 1:44:25
  will I'm sure they'll do a great job of selling
• 1:44:27
  their great -grandchildren and great -great -grandchildren
• 1:44:30
  Further down the river Yeah, and then and then
• 1:44:34
  write write articles about how they don't owe
• 1:44:37
  us crap and then and then send them to us. Yeah
• 1:44:40
  See, we don't owe you anything because so say
• 1:44:43
  someone, some other boomer wrote this article
• 1:44:46
  that I agree with. So I just want, even though
• 1:44:49
  you never said I owe you anything, I'm still
• 1:44:51
  just going to announce to you that I don't know
• 1:44:52
  your shit. The truth is, as we all know, that's
• 1:44:55
  millennials and Zennials and Gen Z and Alpha
• 1:44:58
  are just stupid and lazy. And it's all that avocado
• 1:45:00
  toast. But the reason why we can't afford housing,
• 1:45:03
  it can't be because of. regulations, zoning laws,
• 1:45:07
  NIMBYs, NIMBYs is N -I -M -B -Y, not in my backyard,
• 1:45:12
  NIMBYs who don't want building anywhere around
• 1:45:14
  them, terrible zoning laws. Because you entitled
• 1:45:17
  little, little, little, you know, you like Starbucks
• 1:45:21
  too much. Yeah, it can't be because housing policies
• 1:45:25
  at the local and state levels have basically
• 1:45:28
  made housing costs 25 % more than it should.
• 1:45:32
  And that's just a jumping off point. It can't
• 1:45:36
  be that. It can't be the fact that the non -gold
• 1:45:39
  -backed dollar now is worth less than 1 % of
• 1:45:42
  what it was in 1913, and it's worth 21 % of what
• 1:45:48
  it was worth in the year 2000. In 26 years, Scott,
• 1:45:52
  the dollar has lost 79 % of its value. So that
• 1:45:55
  can't have anything to do with it either. No,
• 1:45:58
  no, no. It never has anything to do with that.
• 1:46:01
  Yeah, or the fact that we want housing or a house
• 1:46:04
  to be an asset while not understanding that something
• 1:46:07
  can't Simultaneously serve as an asset and a
• 1:46:10
  commodity Commodities are cheap assets are supposed
• 1:46:13
  to grow One thing you got to like about Trump
• 1:46:16
  is that when he when he and he does lie a lot
• 1:46:18
  But I think he believes his lies because he's
• 1:46:20
  that much of a narcissist that he believes what
• 1:46:22
  he says I think I really do think 95 % of the
• 1:46:26
  time or more he actually believes what he's saying
• 1:46:27
  It just so happens that 75 % of the time it is
• 1:46:30
  completely detached from reality. But that 20
• 1:46:33
  to 25 percent, maybe even less than that, I'm
• 1:46:35
  being generous. But when he nails it, he really
• 1:46:39
  nails it, whether he means to or not. One of
• 1:46:41
  the times he nailed it recently about housing
• 1:46:43
  was when they straight up asked him like, what
• 1:46:46
  are you going to do about housing? And he goes,
• 1:46:47
  well, we were going to make it cheaper. We were
• 1:46:49
  going to enact some legislation. I'm paraphrasing,
• 1:46:51
  but basically we had some legislation ideas for
• 1:46:53
  how we could deregulate housing and make it less
• 1:46:55
  expensive. But then we realized that all the
• 1:46:57
  boomers like having expensive houses because
• 1:47:00
  it makes up a big part of their net worth. So
• 1:47:02
  we don't want to ruin that for the older folks
• 1:47:04
  whose net worth is tied up into their houses.
• 1:47:06
  So we can't make it cheaper. Besides, we don't
• 1:47:08
  want to make it cheaper because we want to make
• 1:47:10
  sure that people who have worked hard enough
• 1:47:11
  to afford a house can afford a house, but only
• 1:47:13
  if they've worked hard enough. At least he told
• 1:47:16
  the truth. Sure. Yeah. Hey, can we make housing
• 1:47:20
  cheaper? Yeah, we could. But that's a bad thing.
• 1:47:22
  It's a yeah. No, we need to make sure the boomers
• 1:47:25
  because they're 5000 square foot houses because
• 1:47:28
  downsizing is just we just they don't do that.
• 1:47:31
  So you'll forgive me downsizing is for poor people.
• 1:47:34
  Right. All right. Well, this is really great.
• 1:47:38
  I feel like we should end it with this. I mean,
• 1:47:40
  when are we ever happy? I've had fun. All right.
• 1:47:45
  Until our bet is over until next time from Post
• 1:47:48
  Falls. I'm Scott and I'm Paul taxation is theft.
• 1:47:56
  I'm happy that the supreme leader is dead, and
• 1:47:59
  now I want a constitutional supreme leader.